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THE SUNNY SOUTH
£he jStntutj J'ontli.
ATLANTA, «A., A1«E»T 27. I»»l.
Atlanta has a college of t legrapby.
Bwhop Beckwith has a night blooming
cei eus.
J G Thrower is a possible can dilate for
m xi Mayor.
One of the literary societies of Atlanta has
a love of a Secretary.
Prof. Henry T. Mver, “electriei’.n.” has
returned from Colum us without his “boy.”
G W. Burroughs, a commercial evargelis'
for Waruer’s Health Corset, is at the Mark
ham.
Passengprs are not allowed to ride on
through freight trains oh the Georgia Rail
mad.
We regret to learn of the sickness of Cap*.
Toni J M London, conductor of the Central.
Railioad.
Walking sticks made from trees growing
on Kennesaw Mountain aie shipped to At
lanta for sale.
Mis« Pauline Pearce, of Decatur, hss ac
cepted a position in the faculty of tne Lucy
Cobb Institute at Athens.
James Maloy. recently of the Southern El
pres* C iinpany, ha, been appointed passenger
agent of the Kennesaw Route.
The young ladies and gentlemen of the
Christian church have orgamz-id a Divine
Crab, which meets semi- monthly.
The tax returns of Fulton county for this
year foot up: Real estate. $14999,204; per
sonalty, $7945576; total, $22,939,760; in
crease over 1880, $2,896 615.
At the meeting of the Comet C'ub at West
End. R >bin Adair was elected president;
Miss Fannie Sage v.ce president; Miss Aniue
Murpby, treasurer; M. F. Amorous, secre
tary.
Mrs. S. A. Echols has been in the city for
several months under medical treatment,
seeking restoration to health. Her many
friends will be pleased to learn of htr conva
lescence.
Several Northern ladies are expected to
ride bicycles at the expu-ition. O-good San
ders, Jotin L iwry. Josh h A. Carter, Biriow
Glenn and George Travis are training to ride
against them.
The Fhonogrnph says: “Ah Foo Ling, head
of a 11 ice laundry establishment, Puiladel-
|hia. w 11 establish a branch < f lus hu»ines
in A 1 .ni*i.” I am afraid, Mr. Phonograph,
you Ah Foo Ling us.
At a party where were gen'Iemen rep
resenting New York, Pennsylvania, Mary
land. Louisiana and Georgia, it was decided
that R G. Tnompson, of Atlanta, was enii-
t ed to a professorship on account of the
superior manner in which he made and serv
ed upicecieain. And so the young ladies
laid.
Charles E Harman, L'brarien of the Y
M. L A., having resigned . o accept the post of
Final ci 1 Agent of tbe Kimball House, leaves
the 1 fflee of librarian to be fi led. Tbe
friends and patronR of tbe library ursaniiiiu-
to see Ailie C. Billups, the late assistant,
placed in that position. None could till it
more satisfactorily.
Mr. W. A. Moody, soliciting freight agent
of tue Richmond ai d Danville R. R. is in the
rir.y. He is 1 be worthy successor of Col. J.
J. Griffin one of the most courteous and sm-
cessfui railroad effi dais in the Soutn. Col. J
J. Griffin, has we learn been appointed assis
tant general freight egent of the Macon &
Brunswick R. R. at Macon.
Rev. D. Shaver, pastor of the Decatur
Baptist church, preached two fine seinibus
last Sunday. ISeven members were received
by letter. W. R Webster, W. A. Wrighi
aid W. G. Whiabv were elected delegates to
tbe S one Mountain Baptist Association, c<>n
veiling at R ickdale church, two miles from
Conyers, on Saturday, September 10.
Tbe anniversary exercises of the Y. M L
A. last Friday Dightai D< Give’s were exceed
ingly interesting. President H ke Smithy
made the opening address. A. D. Bo> Iston,*
Albert Howell and A. A. Meyer declaimed
for the prize. Master B >ylsion was awarded
tbe prize and in presenting it, F H. Rich
ardson made a beautiful and telling speech.
In our last issue we called attention to the
dangerous habit of boys jumping on and off
trams in this city. esp.-c ally between the
Passenger depot and cemetery, on Siturday
evening, a colored boy, Ed Brundy eighteen
3 ears old, attempted to get 011 the switch en
gme of the Georgia R. R. near Bell street
bi idge but fulling was run over and had botu
legs mashed and mangled so that he died in
three or four hours. The practice should be
stopped.
We are indebted to Mr. A Pope, General
Passenger Agent of tbe Associated Rulway
of Virginia and tbe Carolinas, for a copy of
the handsome pamphlet, “Tne Su um«r 01
1881 Among the Health R-sons of North
Georgia and Western North Carolina.” The
illu8' rations are profuse and elegant, ond the
entire work one of interest and merit. Trav-
11-rs will find nothing omitted in the matter
of information about rates, routes ami places.
Tne work r< fleets credit upon the associated
lines, and the Aldine Press, of New York.
At the annual celebration of the DeKalh
county Sunday school association last week
the piize banner and $15 in gold for the best
singing were awarded 10 Rehoboth Sunday
9:hool, organiz-d last May near Ciarkston.
Tne second prizrof $10 in gold for the next
best singing.was awarded to Deca'ur Union
school, hut at their request given to tne M tc-
edonia school presided over by Miss Jones, a
relative of 0. H. Jones of this ci y. Tue
banner for tbe best singing, by infant clssses
was awarded to the infant class of Decai ur
Union, taught by Miss Irene Cowley. The
judges wer* John M. Green, W. F. Parkburst
and L. B. D.vis of Fulton county. The
pi- z-s were presented by Rev. R. J. Bighani,
Pastor of E tgewood church, in a speech ol
power and beauty. The officers of tbe asso
cation were installed by W. F. Parkturst,
President of the Fulton county Sunday
school association in a speech of rare elo
quence. President Candler in a handsome
manner acknowledged the present of a Bible
from Rev. J. H. DeVoiie. Edgewood schoi 1,
one of the best in tbe South, i ffered two gold
medals for those bringing in the largest ano
next largest number of -c tolars The fir.t 1 r z -
wasnw-rded Miss hulsey, daughter of Col.
W. H Hulsey and the second to Miss Med-
1 ck. Tbe pnz-s were presented by Hon
John B. Estes of Hall county in his happiest
vein.
Death of Charles McDonald
llrow n.
After several years of grpat suffering
Charles McDonald Brown, sou of Sena'O
J. seph E Brown, died in thiscitv on Iasi Fri
day night, of consumption. Mr. Brown was
over twenty-two years of age, and grea h
beloved by all who knew him for his personal
worth and purity cf character. F >r ten
years he had r>een a member of the S-cond
Baptist church of this city, but nothing
evinced more cle irly the strength of L is Caris
nanny than the fortitude with wuicn he
bore his sufferings and tbe peaceful Calm of
bis exit from Life into Eternity. Senator
Brown with three of his sons and E.ev. A. T
Spaulding wiere in Kansas at the time but
reiurned on receipt of the telegram to this
city on Sunday in time for the funeral. The
s*-rvioes at half-past four were conducted bv
Rev. Dr. Spaulding, and the cortege that fol
lowed Charles M. Brown to Oakland ceme
tery w as one af the largest ever seen in this
c.ty.
Longing.
BY LILLIAN BOZI-LL MESSENGER.
Many spirits in sorrow and anguish.
Tlirough years that as deserts are blrak,
Areathirs’ for sweet Music’s soul ever—
Would in her deep melodies speak;
And yield brightest years of thPir being
One day in her lame to r« juice;
Bill for me - I pine for no glory—
But on■ y the sound of a voice.
The world’s great he 'rt is now throbbing
Full of every wi d longing 'tisstirred,
In hero, iu maiden, in mother—
But I’m louging lor one little word.
Many gaze on the beautiful al way.
And some for its Paradise sigh.
Or die with tneir infinite longing—
But I pine for the light of au eye I
Many battle for kingdoms of glory
And die for f >me, fortune, or art:
But I cate not for all their grim mock’ries:
I'm pining alone for thy heart.
And I wonder if ever or never
W ill pity Love's spirit control.
And if in Love s infinite heaven
1 shall yet find th-it soul of my soul!
FOR LADIES ONLY.
Styles, Marriages, Anecdotes, 'Sociables,
Slanders, and General Gossip
About the Sex.
An Illinois girl’s toast: “The young men
of America—their aims our support, our
arms their reward; fall is, men.”
Her Me jasty. Q leen Victoria has positive
ly reluseu to a. opt a barrel of Kentuiky
whisky, forwaided by an enterprising dis
tiller of the “dark and bloody ground.”
Women all over tbe country have got into
tbe habit of killing tr mps by shooting them,
If this feminine pastime is not discouraged,
we shall soou be afflicted with a “coiner” in
irainps.
Tbe most ugly woman often becomes at
the altar or shortly afterwards, tbe most
beautiful; tiepaison’s words, Lke lightning
on the magnet, easily reveise the positive
aud negative poies.
A lady who, in consequence of great re
verse ot fortune, has been working for a
fashionable milliner, says she is absolutely
ami z d to fiud to wbat an extent iu the day s
of her wealth she was swindled in her bonuets
and dresses.
Miss Susie M. Russell, editor of the Duluth
Weekly, says’ ’When things go to D. K
suw C. D they become.” The most C. ll,
thing we know of this season is the Q cumber.
Beware ot it, Suaie,or it it will W up, Watch
tor it, wait for it.
A Parisian lady asked the milliner if a
servant she had recommended was really
honest, “lam not so certain of that,” re
plied tbe m llmer; “l bav.e sent her to you
with my b>4 a m gen t-tpes, and she has nev
er yet given me me money-.’’
Richard Grant White fainted the other
day when a friend, wnose grammar he was
c irrecting, told him ot a western girl whose
companion asked her at a party, ‘ Snail i
-kin a banana for you?” “No, i thank you,”
3 tie replied, “1 have one already skun.”
A chorus of ladies to comely curate, who is
ascending tbe ladder to hang decorations:
‘ On, Mr, Sweetlow. do take caret Don’t go
npl So dan fe ero"sl Do come down! DM"
Rotor (sarcastically): ‘Really, Sweetliw,
don’t you thiuk you’d bet er let a marrie..
man uo that!”
A school of beauty has been proposed in
England in wmch tbe members pledge 1 hem-
selves to do ail they can to render themselves
attractive by natural means. Pnz-s are to
tie awarded 10 those wnj make the greaie-l
pr< fi -ienev in acquiring a well-poised,head,
perfect figure, etc.
She was our washwoman, and she is dead.
She bad much to wringer bear end soak bei
ambition. Sue bung out ; csolntoH- o n tbe
line ot duty and stood firmly upon her pins
She was not pdished, but »t :i idom ar >used
her ire’u when we did ti.e foan was transient.
Let’s ’oap she’s past safely GVvi me billows
into tbe blue waters beyond.
A spirited and fastidious Ottowa girl de-
cliu« d to be married, though the guests were
assembled and the bridegroom waiting, be
cause the train of her dress did not hang
properly. Expostulation was in vain. She
said she ban put a great amount ot thought
and money into the garment, and it would
be a life-long sorrow to her if she wore it
when conscious that it was not a success.
The wedding was postpoi ed a wetk.
She halted on the corner of ihe street,
Glanced np and down with eager, anxious
glance;
And one oou'd see her neat, impetuous feet
• oiild sc-ice resist the wild impulse m dance.
‘‘No one iu sight,’’she murmured—“none can
see—
I can’t endure this agony intense I”
Then wiih a low-breaihea, smothered “plague
the flea!”
She scratched her lovely back against tbe fence.
Queen Victoria is celebrated asainaoh-
m.ker, q l'te as oiucn so as Mrs. Hayes, who
married off all .her eligible nieces during tbe
lour years she was mis ress af tbe White
House. It used to be a current remark when
anew young lady arrived at tbe Executive
Mansion: “What y u g man has Mrs Hayes
111 view now j ’ The Q ieen is already looking
for a good match for uer grandson, the heir
to the throne after his fa> ner, the Prince of
Wales, and it is understood in court circles
that after scanning tbe entire courts of Eu
rope she has bbuut decided that tbe Princess
Clementine, the third daughter ot the King
of B -Igiuni and the sister ot tb9 fu'ure Queen
of Austria would make a suitable bude a
couple of years hence.
Agonies, new and sweet: It is quite the
dea for a young lady to drive about town in
a “village cart,” natural wood finish, with a
russet harness to match. ’Ibis signifies,
“You’ g man, I’ll hold the ribbon,’’ami is not
only utter but awful—for tbe young man to
contemplate. It is quite the idea for a young
lady to wear a broad-brimmed shade hat,
lined with black velvet and trimmed with a
white leather. This signifies, “There is a
dsik and bright side to iiie, but the light is
uppermost." How deep, how very sweet! It
is quite tbe idea for a young gentleman to
gently swing tbe hammock in which bis ’best
girl” is enjoying her siesta. This sign fie-
”R icks ahead,” and presages matrimonial
felicity. Tnis isn’t “quite,” but it is quite in
teresting.
* l don’t see bow I’d git along without Mary,
1 ohow,” Mi s Blucuer observed, pausing to
w.pe toe perspiration from her aged features
and put another iadle of soft soap into the
s earning suds, while her daughter’s voice at
me piano could be distinctly recognized,
fl la'ing out fi om the a'j lining parlor. ‘I
dou’tseehow I’d git slug without tbatga),
nohow. Al’ays ou these days, when I have
the tiringesl work, she jn-t picks out her
nicest pieces, like “Sweet R-«t By-and-By”
and “Mother’s Growing O.U,” and sings ’em
lur me af >re she goes out in tbe back yard to
play croquet wnb tbe other young folks.
’ faint evei v gal as ud be so thought ul, 1 kin
tell you. N >w, most on ’em ud j-st bang
-tway with “Jordan is a Hard R >aa to Trav
el,” or “Whoop’em up El zi Jane,’ but she
ain’t none o’that sort. Sue’s a pile o’ com
fort to me—a pile o’comfort,” and Mrs. Blu
cher fanned htr-elf vigorously with her soil
ed apron, preparatory to running the clothes
through the second water.
The Manning Literary Ciub was organized
last Thursday night at ihe rooms of tbe
Catholic Library Association by tbe election
O' J J. Lynch, piesident; H. T. Connaliy,
vice-president; Mr. A. Y. Young, secretary.
J iseph Mullin, treasurer. Tbe Manning will
be a success.
Atlanta has a Doctor of Divinity ocoupv-
ing an editors easy chair who utii zes de
funct dogs and cars by converting them in
to tomatoes etc. That accounts for his pub
lishing several catechisms and writing au ed
itorial on dogs.
Our Summer Guest.
“ Breathes thore imm with soul so dead,
Who uever to hiinsef has sod
P.ague this mosquito?”
That small, insinuating m-uiber of the live
fraternity who always carries his bai j ) with
him and never fails to present bis bill—why
was he ever created? It is a prob'em more
puxzling than the 14 15 Perhaps he was sent
to remind us tna' nr oiun lane bliss is perfect,
and to ensure our sinking with due sincerity
“ I would not live alway,”
If so, he fulfils his mis-ion. He succeeds
capitally in making one feel that “ this world
is all afl eeting show.”
What a wet blanket he throws over the
small boys’ enjoyment when upon Siturday
afternoons a party of these hare' ooted ur
chins with fishing poles aud a bucket of bait,
scamper off to tbe cretk bottom, with a long
string of fish in their imaginations. Each
boy baits his hook ami finding a muddy hole,
sits down aud waits for a bite. He hasu’t
long to wait however, for he s ton has a bite,
but not the kind be wauts. Tne black
savages are upon him, two or three
gaunt, fierce looking individuals bolder
than the rest, choose a boy to their taste,
bum a prelude in bis ear, and tbe concert bs
gins, and judging f om tbe great slipping
that follows, one might think the boys were
applauding. Tbe mosquito wins tbe day and
the urchins are compelled to beat an igno
minious retreat. /-
A pair of lovers wander out among the ro
ses in the moonlight, and seat themselves on
a rustic bench. He strikes a sentimental a’ -
titudeand looking up at the sky tay s. “Look
at yon queen of night, love, how majesties!
Jy she rides over the—thunder and light,
ningl (What a pest theee mo.-quitos are!)
blue sea above shedding—(these confounded
mosquitos;) and she looks up with an ang<lie
smile on her face and says with a sigh, “Yes
tbe beauty of a night like this al ways thrills
me with—(shoo! oh shoo! ‘Oh my wbat an
awful big mosquito!) exquisite pleasure, i
love to giz son tne countless stars, and (Goof-
ness gracious! let’s go in tne bouse, I can’t
stand these mosquito.-) ”
In the sweet sunset hour we seat ourself by
the window with our favorite author and
perhaps are just in the midst of a sublime pas
sage when tue prime “dusso” of this opera
troupe gives a warning note and we are
obliged to close our book and brace up for
the fray.
They come to us with the June roses, (we
woul-1 prefer the Juue roses minus their
company) and they boa id witn us until ihe
frost nips the said roses; and even ttien,
when we take down Ihe soiled rou-qmto bars
and trustfully say as we demolisU with a
slap some feebly tuneful specimen:
“ Tis the last mosquito of summer ”
We find our hopes betrayed and are waked
from our first nap by the familiar note
whose burden is, “biood, lago blood I ”
Sphinx.
Why Women Love to Talk.
It has bee. me proverbial that women love
to talk more than men.
You see 1 discard “lady” and“ gentleman,”
for when one bears one’s groom and washer
women—colored—and all other servants
called “ladies and gentlemen,” one becomes
disgusted with tbe misapplied use of tbe
words. I for one prefer “men and women.’,
N "v I propose to tell why I thiuk women
love t > talk better or more 1 han men.
First, the average woman during girlhood
has nothing to do, or rather will do nothing
but tiy to make herself as pretty as possible
—and talk A ter sbe has as-utned and
shaken out her multitudinous ruffi s, arrang
ed her bangs, curled or otherwise, put plenty
of powder ou ber face to hide the freckles
and other blemishes she is prepared for con
quest and 10become fascinating by—talking:
-ease or nonsense accruing to cali
bre.
After marriage when the mffl's tv come
much less, tbe bangs are brusned plainly
back and the powder invisible, what has sbe
to do then but talk—and laik shed >es, about
a thousand things that she did not know or
have to do “befoi e marriage.”
Men—oh! how much they have to do to
“kill time” without tbe use of their tongue.
First of all they can h< gin when mere boys
to experiment on 1 he delicious effects of rico-
tine by smoking cigaiets and learning bow to
etiew. Af er tl ev are grown they can then
venture on tbe stronger and more aromatic
pipe, cigar or merscnaum.
Wbat a pleasure it seems to some men to
go to church and make the air vocal wit
their musical “pitoo, pitoo I” It draws one’s
attention from tbe sermon, and no matter
bow 1 >ng it is, one can pass the time so agree
ably iu noting tbe diff -rent cadences of those
many, many “pittxms.” (Tuis is especially
noticed at night service.
Then they have tbe rare amusement of
drinking. What a dreamy expression lights
up their countenances as they hold their
glasses up 10 tbe light aud study the “color’
of the mixture tnei em.
Then there is“pool”—do I spell {rightly’—
and—and—thousands of other “things” which
consume men’s time and so do awayiua
measure with the pleasure of woman’s life—
talking.
But—let it be gravely spoken—I have seen
some men who liked 10 talk. Busy Bee.
Hell County, Texas.
It seems impossible to conceive of a finer
farming country iban is embraced within
tne limits of Bell c< unty. Stretching for
miles in a 1 directions are fields covered with
cotton, corn and smaller grains. The oats,
which have been harvested and now exposed
on the fields where they grtw, show that the
yield was simply immense, and m spite of
the drouth tbe co ton is growing luxuriantly
Innoiounty in this Sta e «re tue farmeis
more iurehanded than in tuis.
Many lauds in this couuiy will produce
two crops annually, if prop- rly cultivated
This is often done. As great Variety of
products can be secured in this county as
anywhere else in Texas and in as great abun
dance. Thousands of acres can yet he bought
here lor from three to six dollars per acn ,
which will prove as productive as any now
under cultivation, as the couutry has as yet
only about 25,000 inhabi'ants.
LABORERS.
What this country most needs is laboreis
There are but very few negroes in "Bell couu-
ty and white labor is very scarce, so much so
that improved farms can be rented all over
the county, and sin. le men can here get from
fifteen to ewemy dollars a mouth me year
round. Hence, any industrious, able-bodied
young man can by working for wages, sav
three years, earn enough to purchase a small
farm, fence it and buy himself a learn aud
the necessary agricultural implements. Sev
eral hundred young men can find employ
ment at those figures in this county alone.
BELTON.
Belton, the county seat of Bell county. : s
lo-ated at the ge''graphical center of the
c untv, on Nolan's river, a low 1/ dear
scream which empties into Leou river, j isi
east of the town. Tbe town is deligbttiilly
si uattd. and contains nearly three thousand
inhub tants, Tue G. C and S. F. railway
depot is oue m le trorn the public -q lare.
The other iowos <>n this railroad are Tempi-.
Heidenheim r, Bulks and K gers. T. er
are several other tine villages iu the county.
Salado, situated eight miles south of Belton
is a beautiful town, and has an excellent
high echo 1, and gushing springs, which
empty into ,h“ Salado river.
MANUFACTORIES
Bell county wi 1 ship over bo 000 bales of
cotton, ‘l here are iu this couuty over 31,000
sheep, and mu-b attention is given t. the
improvement of stock. All of 1 he r ,e farm
ers and many of the smaller oues u-e Im
proved agricultural implements, more so,
perhaps, tuan in any other couuty in the
State.
All along the Salado river there is an im
mense water power. There are on ihtt
stream already seven water privileges on
which flooring mills are. running. On the
Lampasas river there are three such mills in
constant operation.
Clerical Anecdotes.
BY DELL DARE.
Eviry one has heard of “ Father Taylor,”
who died a few years ago, who though a Vir-
g nian by birth, was called a Boston preach
er, aud devoted most of his ife with extra-
<>r linary z-al and tact to missionary work
am >ng sailors, oue of the most neglected and
interesting classes of men. Wnen preaching
to them he spoke the sailor vernacular, and
they fully appreciated and loved the dear old
man.
At one time, just before his departure to
Europe, he asked, pathetically:
‘ Who will feed my lambs while I am
gone? ’ Turn looking around, he cried, “The
great God who takrs care of the whale, giv-
n g him a cart load of herrings for breakfast;
H- will feed my limbs.”
On auotUer occision we bear that “while
maeiug the dust fly from the pulpi<- cushions,
he noticed au old salt whose weatherbeaten
face was a good fac simile of an old fashion
ed door plate, seated uear tne altar, and who
gave expression to his conviction of sin by
loud, prolonged groans. Ac every renewed
blast from the pulpit tbe groaus became
louder, when Fither Taylor fixrd him, with
his eye, aud called out, “Luff, brother, luff;
luff while she bretzss, aud you'll weather
hell yet with the lee leeches of your top sails
-rnoking;” which neatly expressed tbe n ar-
est touch and go possible, and gave solid com
fort to Jack.”
But Father Taylor often preached to a more
cultured audience thau his much-loved sailor
friends, and ou an occasion of this kind, in
one of his most passionate bursts of oraioi y,
he bad added one gorgeous digression to an
other, until he was uuable to find tbe original
current of bis sentence. He paused a moment
in embarrassment, and theu came out with,
“Halleluj-ib, my brethren! my verb has lost
sight of its nominative, but 1 am bound for
1 be kingdom ot beavenl’
As his mind failed fiom age and brain-
softening. he now and then flashed out with
his old brilliancy. A you ig laily relative
who was spending some time in the family,
found it necess iry to tell Mrs. Taylor of
something -he had seen in the childish old
man that needed checking* He overheard
ber, and was much txasperated, though he
said nothing. It happened the 11* xc niornii g
that Father Taylor aud ihis young lady were
the only persons at the breakfast table. The
old geutlemin was angry, aud did not, as
usaal, say grace before meat. His niece sat
waiting, w tole be sulkily stirred his coffee.
“Uncle Edward, do ask a blessing,” she
pleaded.
Without closing his eyes, or ceasing to stir
his coffee, he sa d:
“O Lord! save us from deceit, conceit, and
tat' ling ”
One of Father Taylor’s daughters had this
un que “blessing” illumiuaied anil hung
wiore it would always be in sight, a perpet
ual admonition and reminder.
A WILD RIDE.
The author of the singular novel, ‘His
Majesty My self,’ has written another book—a
wild romance of ihe intense sort—the scene of
which is the trading-post of an Indian reser
vation— O iklawahaw, built along the crumb
ling edge of a bluff overhanging a great river.
“Into this settlement,” says a review in the
American, “rode one day the fa her of the
hero of this strange story—an adventurer, a
genius, an unprincipled schemer. He lays
his plans to marry Mirchabuna, tbe daughter
of 'be rich old half breed miser, John Ross
Mifcbahuna had a complexion of pomegran
ate-brown and crimson, white eeth and red
lips. Khe shut with bow aud r fl-\ swam in
the river, and ‘rode at a gall -p the uncur-
ried, unshod mustangs, dispensing with sad
dle or blanket, her > l«ck hair fl. ing upon the
wind.’ When old R >ss dies, them image
rakes place. R-iss Urwoldt-, the fruit of Mil-
marriage, inherits tue dark and splendid pas
sions and wild, defiant energy of nis parents
Be is the central fi <ure on the canvass, pow
ei folly painted—a Western Hamlet or Man
fied * While a r college, he grapples wi'h the
old en’gma of G"d and tbe s> ul. Inapari x
\ sm of pas-aonate fury, he rushes upon the
Isis veil of Nrture, detei mined to p n-etrate
the great my ster» : as he falls back, wounded
and bleeding from the vain attrmpt, a stony
despair and atheism take possession of his
heart; like a tiger foiled in its fi'St leap, he
strives no more. He tells his college class
mate that he then nnd there dispatched with
<>ne blow his belief in his owu soul aud in
God, to illustrate which he tells a story He
was hunt" g one dav, when an antlen d stag
passed quite near him: “As it passed, and iu
sheer deviltry, never ihinking 1 could do it,
I sprang for its antlers fr.-m behind, for 1
was all muse eand sinew and foolhardiness in
those days. To my own astonishment, I got
a grip upon tbe hase of tbe an lers with my
right hand, and 1 held on until I could get
another with my left. I was dragged along
dreadfully until ibe buck stumbled and fell,
when I contrived to get mvself astride its
neck, locking my feet together underneath.
It whs the grandest rife 1 ever took; an un
broken mu-tang I knew all about; but 1 hat
was tame to this. It I was to hear any one
else tell tbe story, i wouln believe it no more
rhan you are believing me now; but it is a
fact. I do not know how 1 contrived to keep
ray hold as we tore along through tbe under
crowfb, almost dragged off by ihe vines a
d< z-n times. B it 1 tied my legs in a lighter
knot about its throat, until I succeeded in
forcing i s nose down at last among tbe
leaves an 1 mud. Then I got my knife ou'
with my left hand, for I have learned to use
either, while I held on with my right, and
stuck through a white spot between the
shoulders 10 ihe heart. After 1 bad done it,
I lay, my legs s>ill about iis neck and deluged
with hlood, for 1 dou’t know bow long, and
almost as dead as it was. 1 would not try to
do it- again, hut was glad I was fool enough
to attempt it then. This illustrates what, I
was saying” (ibnut tbe soul and God ) This
Bvronic youth is rele ised from his Cestle of
Despair bv L >ve. in the person of Persis
Paige. His nearly successful at'empr to
commit suic'de on ber account breaks down
tbe last barrier between them. In nquired
love he finds one blessed certainty 111 life,
and is thereby led to believe in the last great
certainty, t. e., that the heart of the universe
is love.
Sleeping; In Church.
While all feel complimented by being
styled a “Pillar of tbe Church.”few esteem it
a c-impliment to becilled a “Sleeper of the
Couich.” The idea of Caristianiiy carries
with it that of being live, wide awake and
progressive. Yet, how many sleep in church
and sleep soundly and snoringly. In ante
helium times Atlanta possessed a lawyer
( low dead) the fatner of a distinguished col-
ege president in G-sirgia, who was known lor
his solid hones y and massive integrity. He
was all backbone I As a member of the
church he was prompt, energetic and wide
awake. He often reiooved the brethren tor
sleeping in church. Upon one occasion (ind
one ouR ) he was seen to nod through a ser
mon, His brethren chided him t >r it. He
accepted their comments meekly but said.
“1 warrant 1 can tell more about the sermon
than you can." And be presented the >ei«
mon with all its P'-ints, which they could not
d", and they eck mwledged it by saying:
‘ We must confess that you can hear Letter
asleep than we can awake. The tiu'h was
he had heard the sermon before! W.G. W.
Every baby knows bye instinct that its
mouth was intended to p it its big oe iu; the
only difficulty is howto get it there. The in
f int mind perceives instinctively that the
c-rcle is 1 he perfection of form, and striv s
to realize its ideal externally, 111 its own bod
ily shape. Adam, poor fellow! aud good
mother Eve are the only human beings n ho
have not enjoyed t iis luxury. It’s a great
consolation in this hard world to fetl ih*t,
during one p-riod of life at least, you are
able to make both ends meet.
HUMOROSITIES.
Tbe Old Lady and tbe Tramp.
Mrs. Det con Grover, ag. d 60, was seated
mending her son’s stockings m the town of
Hoisebeads, New Yolk, last week, when a
tramp enteied and asked for something to
eat. The old lady went to the cel ar and
when she came back her gold rimmed specta
cles were gone. Sue said to the train":
“You’ve got my specs.” He denied it, and,
quieLly laying down ihe plate, she went to a
uureau, took a revolvei therefrom, pointed
it at the tramp and told him if he didn’t lay
those specs ou the table she would shoot him
where he stood.
The tramp took the spectacles from his
pocket and mildly laid them down. “Now,”
said she, “eat what I have brought Tor y ou
aud get out.” Wfaeu ber son Augustus ap
peared tbe old lady, again taking the revol
ver from the bureau, said to him:
“Augustus, how do you cock this weapon?”
That Little Hatchet*
“Come heah, George Wash ngton, you
black ape,” exclaimed R-v. Amiuiiab B ed-
soe, of tue Austin Blue Light Colored Taber
nacle, to a Sunday-school scholar who had
just removed a big wad of something or other
trom his mouth. The boy’s trembnug limbs
carried him into the immediate presence of
tbe irate shepherd.
“Yer was chawin’ terbacker in de house ob
de Lawd.”
"I owns right up, parson. I was chawin’
terbacker, but 1 won’t do so no moah.”
* George Washington, ebawiu’ terbacker
am bad enough, Ltwd knows; but when yer
has got so shameless y er don t eben try ter
lie out ob it, hit am time ter take yer iu
hand, so you won’t grow up and disgrace de
fodder of his couutry. L-an ober uat. knee.
George." And for about ten minutes people
living several blocks off imagined ibe.r
neighbors were preparing tougn beefsteak
for dinner with an axe.
“Sorter Sloopin.”
An old-fashioned prairie schooner, with a
broad siretcb of tarpaulin, rolled into St.
L mis last week and came to a stand in front
of a small hotel. The sight was »o novel that
a reporter bailed tne bronzed driver, asking
where in the world be was bound. 'Ai kau-
saw,” was the reply; “we'reail the way fr’m
Kane county, llliuoy, aud we’re headin’ t’r
tue Red river kentry.” At that moment cer
tain menagerie-like sounds issuing from tbe
depths of tbe wagon led the reporter to glance
in. As he d d so, a wom-m's face went blush
ingly back under the c«ver and several chil
dren bobbed their beads up inquiringly.
“You see ;- to have a good deal ol family,”
said the scribe. “Yaas, in fact I’ve got two
families.” “Two families?” ' Uai-hum,” he
giuuted affirmatively. “You see, Simantby
tuere’s got nine young ones and I’ve got sev
en, and they niu't quite snook togither yit.
Way back in Kane county we’d knowed each
other for some time, S imantby there ber
husband wau’t no count; he got to hog steal-
iu’ and then be got into tbe pen at Joliet,and
my wife war poor and sickly, aud so I
shipped her on to tbe folks in Indiaua anil
S.maul y nils'artel for Arkinsaw. As
we Rem ov Juliet she went and saw her old
man, Hi z Ward, an’ hegev his consent.”
*’So you’re eloping?”
“Weil, we’re sorter slopin’.”
Jndge HoU'n Baby.
A lady living ou Van N<ss avenue arrived
from a country trip about eleven o’clock the
otner evening, accompanied by a nurse, baby
aud the usual infinitude of fn x s bags and
bundles in such cises made and provided.
On aiighi ing frum the back at her residence
the lady suppo-ed, in th- darkness, that tbe
maid was carrying tbe infant, while the girl
made tbe same mistake regarding tbe mother.
Tne result was that tbe < ff.-prmg in question
was carried back to ihe s aud slumber
ing sweet y on the front cushion. Here eud-
etb the fir-t chapter.
About 2 AM. Judge Botts stumbled down
tbe steps of tne Uui< n Club, where be had
ju«t been bereft of bis bottom dollar by a
judicious intermingling of poker and punch,
anil with the friendly sssistauce of the lamp
posts, fire plugs and su - h other aids to navi
gate mi, tacked along to the carnaige stand
referred to and tumbled ii to tbe same back,
fortunately depositing his two bundled and
forty pounds of judicial avoirdupois on the
opposite seat from the small slumberer. As
the vehicle pulled up at 908 S-idiuore street,
where the j idge lives, the joit rolled the baby
off on to tue fl jor, where it began screaming
lustily.
“Snay, driver,” hiccoughed the inebriated
old owl, “this your baby ?’’
“No. sir,” said the hackman; “must be
yours.”
“I sh’pose must,” mu'tered theohfusticat-
ed jurist. “S ngler, ver’ singler. Never had
a btby before,” and be carried tbe infant in
to the house and bung it ou the bat-rack with
his u'ster. After that be felt upstairs into
tbe b riroom, the baby meanwhile letting off
war whoops calculated to make Buffalo Bill
lie low in tbe bigh grass and bold his breath,
could he bnve beard them.
Tbe j udge found Mrs. Botts sitting up in
bed, resting bee chin on her knees, so as to
have it as fiesh as pussibie when the concert
began.
• Archibald," she said, while ber eyes be
gan to snap blue sparks, “what is that horri
ble m i-ie down stairs?”
My darlin’,” said Judge Botts, steadying
himself against tbe wasbstand, “I’m ’shamed
ter snay it’s a bahy. Yer musn’t be too (hu )
too hard on me, my dear—it’s ther (uic) iirst
time I ever had one in this bouse, yer (uic)
know.”
But we draw a veil over the horrid scene
that followed. Suffice it to say that Mrs.
Botts is now suing for a divorce; and that the
judge has been arrested by the mother of the
baby for kidnapping it.
American Manners.
In relation to American manners—if the
conduct of people at public gatherings cad
called manners—it is no longer a question
of “whither are we drifting” for we have
drifted into evil ways. It is a source of deep
regret to tbe n fleeting mind that whether it
is an assembly of tbe hoodlums or street ga
mins, or of tnose moving in circles of refine
ment and culture—whether it be a political
discu-sion, a college commencement, a camp
meeting, or a Sunday-school celebration, the
conduct of tbe people is that of a mob! In
tbe political discu-sion partisan intolerance
drowns out all ibe finer feelings of ihe gen
tleman and nobler aspirations of tbe patrio’;
in the others, a i-piric of irreverence the re
sult of thougnfless indifference and involun
tary selfishness, causes men and women to
forget w bat 1 h-y owe to the occasion and to
themselves. A modern assemblage with all
the tongues in “rapid transit” may be con
sidered a fit ty pe of that day when there was
a “confusion of tongues” at the tower of
B*hel. It is fair to presume that at these
public gatherings no one goes with the fixed
intent of preven ing others from bearing or
being heard, for we believe the instincts of
the true gentleman or lady world revolt at
such an 'dea. But each individual, isolating
himself 1r> m the bsltnce, imagines that bis
\oi e would not disturb tbe harmony of tl e
oecieion by annoying the speaker and the
audience; yet the aggregation of the voices
of all who thus think and ac r produces a re
sult uh eh threa’ens to breek up these assem
blages, impairing their usefulness as it dees
and raising 1 h- question, does it pay to bold
thpm as long as audiences disregard the pro
priety or solemnity of the occasion.
Tne remedy is easily applied.
L-t all who feel no interest in the object of
the meeting and who will not consent to “re
main silent” that they may bear, stay at
home. Those who are interested will most
assuredly keep silent.
Let all go with the fixed purpose of being
benefited.
The grace of attentive listening should be
more generally ml ivated. A good listener
is a rarity. A ipeaker is cheered, assisted
and stimulated by intelligent and attentive
listeners. _ .
Give all questions a fair and calm hearing.
D i these, and the mobocretic tendency of
public assemblages will be obliterated.
W. G. W. 1
Answers to Correspondents.
Marcus C , Jicks-onville, Florlla. “What
in tbe world is the meauing of the phrases
“too too" and “u'terly u ter” wmch I
meet in the newspapers? “lam u'terlv utter”
in the dark ttbout their special significance.”
They are applied in caricature of a class in
England c.lleii se-thetes—a sort of sickly
parisitic growth upon bealr.hv literary and
art development. These muhetes are de
scribed as “sad visaged, long wais'ed maids,
and sallow angular youths who pass ibeir
time in raptuous dalliance with a peacock’s
feather or in esta’ie contemplation of a lilv. ”
Of one of them, Oscar Wilde, who has just
published a volume of poems,-it is said,
that be lets his hair grow very long and
wears strangely shaped garments, carries a
lily in his hand and when hooted by the pop-
ulace c.linly remarks, “ I am glad to afford
amusement to the lower classes.” He gives
afternoon “ teas ’’ in bis room which is rose-
colored and kept iu twilight darkuess, talks
in high flown fashion aud piofesses that bis
mission is to elevate bis brother mun and
sister-woman by teaching them tbe wor
ship of beau'y—in such fashion as this:
“And her sweet red lips, on these lips of mine
Burned like the runy fire set
In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine,
Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate,
Or the hurt of the lotus drenched and wet
Witn the spilt out biood of the rose-red wine."
And yet in spiie of bis tricks and manner
isms, Oscar is capable of true poetry, as you
may see from the poem “ Silent L >ve ”
which appears in another column of this pa
per. But having no definite aim and no real
earnestness of nature he has, as he laments,
allowed himself
“To drift with every passion till mv soul
Is a stringed lute ou which all winds may play.”
Donald Me. says: “A friend tells me
fbat the devil fiih as described by
Victor Hugo in bis ingenious s'ory
“Tollers of the S^a,” has no existence
in reality—is thissol” Tue creature des crib-
ed by Victor Hugo is a combination of the
octopus or giant squid and the devil fish-
two altogether different species of sea creat-
tures. Tne devil fish belongs to tbe lay or sea
vampire family, is found of immense size aud
is fieice aud dangerous when attacked. It has
a cartilaginous, wing-like projection on each
side, with which it beats tne water and
paruly z^s and draws to it the small fry that
constitutes its food. It has also two horn
like projections on the bead, and a strong,
tapering, formidable tail, armed with a row
of saw-like points on each side. One caught
in Delaware bay measured seventeen and a
half feet in length and eighteen in breadth,
anil required three yoke of oxen to haul it.
The oc 1 pus or g ant squid is a species of
sta spidtr, has eight aru.s and large daik. hu
•nan-like eyes. It is not tierce like tbe devil
fish, but is au awkward creature to encounter
iu i s native element.
Rev. B. F : No; Mr. Augustus Brooke,
formerly the Q leen’s elm plain, and the must
eloquent aud popular divine iu England, was
no atheist. He left the ministiy and the
church last f >11 because he bad ceased to be
lieve in tbe divine nature of Christ, but he
disiiDcly avowed that though he was una
ble 10 believe in the miracle of incarnation,
and had ceased to consider Christ as ai s dule
God, yet he did truly believe that ihe D.vine
idea was specially revealed in Christ, and
that in Jesus of Nnzireth was embodied tbe
type of human excellence. “Christ,” be
saV“, “was the bead representative of mau-
kiLd.”
A. W. R : You are right. We felt the
injustice ot the omission i f Southern writers
iu ihe article in question, and offset it in
“ Random Talks," wbicn was, however,
crowded out ot last paper, and appears in
this. Mrs. Tardy’s book, “Southland Wri
ters.” was published, we think, by R-msen &
Hseffeltiuger. Will not your Ci arlestou
book dealers order it for you, since, as yu
sav, you cannot find it at their stores? We
will gladly republish Paul Hayne’s poem,
“The Signing of tbe Pines,” it he or any
one wifi semfito a copy.
A. B., asks will you tell me throngh your
Correspondence column something of Auro
ra Leigh i Also, how Savonarola is pro*
uouuced ? ”
Auiora L°igh is the best work of Mrs.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the English
poetess. It is a novel in blank verse—deep
ly interesting as a story but Btill more beauti
ful as a poem. A bigb moral purpose runs
through it, without being brought forward
with didactic effect, Savunaroli is pronoun
ced as if written Sa von-a-ro-lL
Mrs. M. L. D. asks, “Is not diphtheria
caused by a fungus growing in the throat!”
N't exactly. A false membrane of a white
color forms in the tnroat and the spores of a
fungus are detected growing upon this mem
brane. The fal.-e membrane sometimes forms
in the nose and upon other mucous mem
brane portions of the body. A had condi
tion of the blood caused by impure air and
water is the cause.
Mrs. J. W. The reply to your question
concerning Dr. Wilson was inadvertently
put beneath tbe initials of another q lerist.
Your best course will be to send stamp co Dr.
Wllson himself, when he will no doubt mail
you his pamphlet giving the required inform
ation.
W. R. M., of R is well, Ga.. says that he is
confident of having -een the p >em beginning,
“Tnere is no death,” in the second volume of
Duyckinch & Bro’s American Literature,
given there as written by T. Buchanan
Reid. How is this ?
Boarding bouses are plenty, but good
wholesome cooking is rare. At the newly
opened “Exposition Hnu-e,” 39)£ Whitehall
street, oue can find real Creole coffee, bis
cuit that melt on tbe tongue and wsffl s
t let will remind vou < f 3 our gnndmi t iei ’ ,
Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Simmons know how to
keep a boarding bouse.
Ayer’s Ague Cuie has saved thousands ot
lives in the malarial districts of this and
other countries. It is warranted a certain
and speedy remedy, free from all harmful
ingredients.
“1 believe the jury have been inocu'ated
for siupidiiy,” said the testy lawyer. ’ That
may be,” replied his opponent, “but the bar
and the court are of the opinion that you had
it in the natural wav."
“I am weary of this world,” said an indo
lent fellow who never did a day’s work in his
life. “Aren’t vou mistaken?” queried an in
dustrious mechanic?’ “Isn’t it the world
that’s weary of you?”
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female weakness that they ever heard of, for
it gives univer-a! sa'isfaction. Send to Mrs.
Lydia E. Pinkham, 223 Western avenue,
Lynn, Mass., for pamphlets.
In 1880, forty-five persons died in Charles
ton, S. C , over 80 years of age.
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