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BILL ARP
Ho is Rejuvenated by the Visit of Mr.
Davis to Georgia.
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In the Sunny South under the copyright.
We are even now and a little ahead. There’s
nobody hurt on our side, and I hope we haven’t
trod on anjbody's lots. Our brethren up north
have bad many a jubilee at our expense, and
we looked on with a sad good will and said
nothing. In fact, some of our people joined
them in paying tribute to their heroes 1
couldent do that. I reckon I lacked philosophy
or policy or something. When a rooster fights
and gels whipped and has lo inn, be is not go.
ing to crow lor lbe bird that whipped him, but
if be crows at all be will get ever ihe fence and
flap his wings and crow lor himself on the sly.
Just after Ihe war our people were terribly
backed, and went about whispering and won.
dering what was to come next. We were a used
up community for we bad lougbl out of vittels
and clothes and everything, and ha-1| o ng
to get nothing with. Our land wa: uesolate-
our women were sad and our cbilditu hungry,
and the prospect before us was glocmy, indeed,
Confiscation and expatriation and foul dcmiua.
tion brooded over us, and so one day when I
couldn’t stand it any longer, 1 ventured to crow
and wrote a letter of defiance to Artemus Ward
and told him I was just obliged to say some
thing or bust. Well, 1 felt better alter I had
given them fellows a piece of my mind, and jus 1
so the South feels better now that she has had
her jubilee, and I think we will all behave our
selves, and be calm and serene for tbe next
five years. We just wanted a chance to
flap our wings and crow once more, and we
have done it. The sight of Jeff Davis was
enough to make any old rebel crow, and tbe
sight of Miss Winnie enough lo make all tbe
young rebels crow, and so we all crowed to
gether. I thought that our old hoys had forgoi-
ten the rebel yell, but they haven’t. I never
saw as many big mouths open at one time in niy
life as I saw in Atlanta. Dr. Hlllyer told me
that the Southern boys ban bigger windpip. s
than the Northerners, and they learned to yell
from hollering at the dogs when they were
hunting coons and possums. Maybe so. Bull
do know that they can make an awful fuss when
they are excited. .. ,
These demonstratiocs come so suddeDly upon j
us that nobodv had time to think about whui
would be a becoming behavior for a subjugate d
people, and so they just let. the spirit move
them. When we heard that Mr. Davis had con
sented to go to Montgomery, we tbougbt that
there would be nothing unusual and that tbe old
rebs would weep a little as they took him by the
band or looked upon bis noble, patriotic lace,
but nobody antiepated such an ovation, such a
love feast, such a camp-meeting revival. It
swelled and expounded all along the line, and
filled the air and enthused the people every
where, and by tbe time it got to Atlanta the
magnetism was irresistible; and I say now, with
ail sincerity, that if our worst enemies at the
North bad been there they would have caught
the wild enthusiasm that was in tbe atmosphere
and opened one side of tbelr mouths if not the
otber. 1 wish that Wbltelaw Beid and Murat
Halstead had been there. Tbe patriotic scene
would have made Christians of them for that
day certain. Sometimes when X read the lies
In their papers 1 wish that 1 was away off on an
uninhabited island witb them one at a time. I
would reason and preach and exhort with bitu
about his sins and his slanders and his unbelief
for about two hours, and then if he didn’t recant
and repent 1 would, as a last resort, maul the
grace into bis unbelieving soul and send him
home a reformed man.
Well, the people of Georgia have got a great
man in their midst. They have many great men,
but Mr. Black, the orator of tbat day, has lifted
himself up higher than ever before, and stands
today tbe peerless orator, the noble Cbiistian
gentleman. How our hearts did burn within us
as we listened to bis great thoughts, his won-
deifui eloquence. li «»<* uii t-suifa, majestic
truth, and it will prevail. I rejoice that bis
great speech has gone forth to our young men,
and I have proud hope of every young man who
will sit down and read it and ponder it. No les
son equal to it has been published since the
war. Bead it young men and feel proud of your
country and the record of your people. The love
of country that dwells in tbe hearts of a homo
geneous people is a beautiful and wonderful
thing. It is to be nourished and encouraged
and never scorned. It is founded upon the love
of home, its sacredness, its shelter and its
charms. I wish everybody bad a home, not
simply a habitation, but a home. I believe that
It would be the strongest safeguard of liberty
and the bulwark of law and justice in the land.
“This is my home, my fortress, my castle,”
would be the talisman tbat would make patri
ots. But when a poor man is knocked about
from place to place and his humble wife has no
flowers or vines or fruits that she can call her
own, and tbe life of tbe family is but one monot
onous struggle from day to day and year to year
to get bread and meat and clothing, how can we
expect them to feel an interest in our country
or its laws. The government has done a great
wrong to our people. There were lands, mil
lions of acres, that would have been homes lor
the millions, but they have been squandered.
They have enriched people already rich; and
even foreigners, yes foreign nebility, have been
permitted to buy up millions of acres in the
West and now they hold them for speculation.
General Longstreet was an actor in the great
drama that has just passed. With pride and
gratification our people looked upon the old
veteran as he satlikeamartial chieftain upon his
horse. I heard many an old soldier say: “God
bless him; I wish I could take him by the hand.”
I have never ceased to honor and to love him.
We thought he had left us, but no—his heart was
all the while with his people, and it is with them
now. The watery glisten wasln his eye when I
met him at the Markham, and he said: “This
day has renewed my youth for a season, and J
feel well—exceedingly well.”
Well 1 don’t want to read anything new about
our jubilee unless a friendly pen has written it.
I want to feel calm and serene. Why, even our
neeroes had to exult aDd shout, and wave their
hats and hankerchiefs. They know who are
the friends They didn’t know—that is they
didn’t feel sure—but they do now and are happy.
1 was amused, the other day, at an old dnmy
darkey, who drove me from'Abbeville to Due
West, m South Carolina. 1 encouraged him to
talk and he talked.
He said it took him about ten years to find out
that them yankees was toolin’him about them
forty acres of land and dat mule, and dat ever
since den he hau looked to de white folks for
friendship. "No, sir.” said he. “I tell you what
boss, f will take a white man before a yankee
eberytime.” He complimented the drummers
that perambulated the country, and said he
drove ’em about and about so much he could
tell whar they come from without axing. Said
he, “Boss, if a drummer come from away up
yander he hardly ever give me a dime—mi st
gineraiy a nickle. I save one from gettiu’
drowna one time when the creek was up
and the buggy turn over and he giv me a
quarter. But dese here drummers from Souf
Calllna and Georgy dey always gives ire a
quarter aud sometimes a half a dollar. Boss
you is from Georgy, ain’t you? The old rat
knew very well that I was and was feeding me
on taffy. But he was mistaken about some of
the Northern drummers,for that verv day three
very nice and manly drummers ‘introduced
themselves to me on tbe car and said they bad
read about the poor boy at Fatrburn who want
ed a roller chair, and so they handed me three
dollars for a start. That was good, wasent it ?
One of them was from Cincinnati, and one from
South Carolina, and one from Georgia. When
I got home I found five dollars there from a
good man In Atlanta. I never felt more loving
to a stranger than I did to that Northern gen
tleman who escorted that poor woman to Dr.
Calhoun’s office In Atlanta that the The Con
stitution tola about. He was one of nature’s
noblemen, 1 don’t care where he lived.
And now the next thing on hand is to make
a governor, and I find myself in my usual di-
lemma. I wish all three of the candidates
could have Ihe office, and some of the dark
horses too. I fear there is going to be a bitter
contest that will alieniate friends, and leave a
sting behind. Paul , a id he wouldent eat meat
if it < (Tended a orother, and Sam Jones quit
^PWiug tobacco to please the Chieago women;
and just so 1 wouldent run forimvarrmrir it m
OUR NATIONAL LIBRARY.
Half a Million Books but no
Shelf-Room.
What the Library Contains and how
the Vast Literary Stores are Gath
ered- The Proposed New
Building-
Both Houses of Congress having at last passed
a bill providing for the erection ol a new build
ing for the Congressional Library, there is rea
son to believe that tbe much-needed structure
will some day materialize. For years tbe con
dition of this library has been a disgrace, the
lack of room for arranging the books rendering
many of them entirely inaccessible and useless.
It is tbe most important and valuable library on
tbe continent, and the only one approaching
completeness in certain important features. At
tbe beginning of the present year it contained,
in round numbers, (>50,000 books and 180 ooo pam
phlets. A great part of this collection is stored
away in boxes, in cellars and lofts, and piled up
wherever space could be found, because there
has been no shelf-room, nor even floor room, in
the apartments of the Capitol devoted to its use.
Mr. Spofford, the Libraiian, is a rnnarkable
man possessing an extraordinary knowledge of
books, as well as the faculty of carrying ibis
whole mass in his bead, so to speak. When any
member of Congress wants a book, or wants to
know anything about a book, he sends to Spof
ford, and the information is promptly furnished.
Probably there Is no man in America who know s
so much about tbe character, contents and
value of the book literature of the world as
Ainsworth B. Sprfford. Certainly there is not,
another man who could handle tbe great library
under his charge to such advantage, UDder the
same disadvantageous circumstances. General
Garfield was a great friend and admirer of
Sprfford, often consulting him concerning pur
chases of books, and all tbe book worms of the
Capital do the same, more or less. Mr. Spoffot rt
was a very happy man when the bill for the new
building passed the House last week. It is un
derstood tbat be has expended much care ai d
labor upon tbe plans for tbe interior of the
structure, all of which have been adopted.
The Library ol Congress, as it is named, star
ted from a foundation of small beginnings. A
the first session of the Vlth Federal Congress
at ruiladelpbia. when the act was passed pro
viaing lor the removal of the seat of Govern
ment to Washington, section five of that act
appropriated $6 oflo to purchase books and fi:
up a suitable apartment :u which to keep them ]
for the use of both Houses ofConpress. A “to: g | etery u. y ..e n
the members of the Sen:®* Committeed many of whom coo
to tbo lints r>f i-iirr-.-oil j coilutry f
was James A. BayTird, rdjtffciwaie,grandfather
of the present Secretary o?fro.e. Two years la
ter Congress provided for i Librarian at $2 00
per day when actually cm,-loved. For several
scientific, representing the transactions of most
of the learned societies of the world, in every
department of iuqulry, and in all languages.
Second, from deposits of tbe public documents
of Congress, and every State in the U ion; the
reports of Chambers of Commerce aud Boards
of Trade and tbe donations of societies and in
dividuals. Tbe works secured under ibis head
are valuable for statistical and commercial in
formation. Third, from a system of internation
al exchanges, through which fifty sets of tbe
documents of CongrAs and other government
publications areexclwnged with foreign govern
ments, whereby the library Is beiug constantly
enriched with the freshest official documents as
well as with many books dealing witb the
natural history, resources, explorations, sur
veys and commercial and financial statistics of
all the leading governments ol ihe two hemis
pheres. Fourth, Irom the expenditure cf au ap
propriation of about $14,000 per annum in the
purchase of valuable books, chiefly ptiolisbed
abroad and uselul to Congress in its labors as
well as for public reference. A great many im
portant petiodicals and other serials are kepi
including all tbe most Important reviews, mag
azines and political, literary and scientific jour
nals. Tbe vast range and value of the modern
periodical press is fully recognized in the Libra
ry of tbe United Slates, which now has 8 ooo vol-
of bound newspapers, representing ntoie man
two centuries ol time as to Europe aud a cen
tury aud a ball as to Americd.ii journals. About
one hundred daily newspapers are regularly
taken and bound, although, owing to tbe
neglect of Congress, mere is nowhere
so much as twenty feet of room where
they could be filed for examination aud
they have to be kept piled in alpha
betical heaps until the volumes are complete
for binding. Among the later large addilions
is the library of ihe Smithsonian institution re
cently incorporated with this, and the gift of Dr.
Joseph M. Tuner of his valuable collection ol
27 ooo volumes.
So wonderfully complete are the collections
In all departments, that it is often possible to
find nearly every book on a certain subject
printed in the English language duriDg the past
one huudred years. In some cases those seek
ing the widest information of a special matter
can have spread before them, within a sboit
time, every printed page in book or pamphlet
bearing on tbe subject, which has come from the
American, English, French and German presses
for over a century- pages dim with age or bright
and fresh from me publisher’s hands—the col
lections in ancient and rare historical works,
and in books aud pamphlets pertaining lo the
history of States, counties and towns. Among
the very rare works are two great volumes wri -
ten on vellum, issued in the mirieeulh century,
a copy ol Eliot’s Indian Bible, aud tbe various
works wruien by Cotton ana Increase Mather.
The departments of miscelloueous literature
are very full also. Many au old novel forgotten
long ago; many a poem, soug or play, dead aud
buried for two or three scoie ot years, can he
exhumed from this vast literary catecomb The
aim has bet i- always to collect every ihiug pub
lished in the United States that could be ob
tained, and as much of foreign lileiature as pos
sible. Only members of Congress and about
forty high i ffimals nave the right to take books
away from ine library, but many residents of
Washington have no difficulty in obtaining any
book they want, to take to their homes, through
orders irom some accommodating Congressman
or Senator with whom they happen lo
be acquainted. All persons over six
teen years ot age have me privilege of
freely using the books inside tbe halls, and
Hue*! wild leaders.
|. rious seciious of
THE OLD KINGSAND QUEENS.
Brief Biographical Middies with Por
traits of the Crowned Heads
of England.
ENGLISH HISTORY CONDENSED.
MOSES* TVEORO WIFE.
Concluded from, first page.
years following the exposes of the libra
ry must have been very small, as in the year
lsufi tin- sum oi $450 comprised me appropria
tion for that, purpose, and for the five succeed
ing years $1,000 was appropriated annually. At
the end of fourteen years the whole number of
books accumulated was 3.000. On the evening
of August 24th, 1814, when ihe British, tinder
General Bass. e„iered Washington and burned
the public buildings, including the Capitol, the
library was destroyed. From that time the
Congressional Library ceased to exist, until
January of The following year, when Congress
purchased, for $23 950 rlie library of President
Jefferson, contamiug c, 700 volumes. For thir
ty-six years after this rlie library continued to
iucrease in size, importance and usefulness,
until the 24m of December, 1851. when 35 000
volumes were destroyed by fire. Congress
then took the matter seriously in hand, and in
1852 appropriated $72,000 for repairing the libra
ry and $75 000 for tile purchase of new hooks.
The letter of Mr. .L-fferson. conveying to Con
gress the offer to sell his library, contained the
following characteristic paragraph, copied ver
batim-. “They may be valued by persons nam
ed by themselves, and the payment made c la
vement to the public; it may be, for instance,
in such annual installments as the laws of Con
gress has left at their disDosal. or in
stock of any of their late loans or any loan they
may Institute at this session, so as to spare the
present calls of the country, and await- its days
of peace and prosperity. They may enter, nev
ertheless. into Immediate use of it, as eighteen
or twenty waeons would place it in Washington
in a single trip of a fortnight.”
Year by year the needs and necessities of the
These literary stores In iheir research^, upon
different subjects. This library, gathered pri
marily for the use ot the legislative and judicial
branches of the Government, has now grown so
entirely beyond tbe wants of Congress that Its
use and benefits should not be confined within
the original limits. When the new building is
erected an effort will be made to have it open
every day ana every evening of the week as a
free public library.
There is little doubt that the President will
sign the House bill, and that work upon the new
siructure will be speedily begim. The building
is to be located on Capitol Hill, just east of the
Capitol. The material will probably he stone,
it is to be in modified Gothic style of architec
ture. 450 by 300 feet, two stories high, with two
central spires and corner pavilions and numer
ous arched windows in the facade. It will have
an alcove capacity of 3 554.700 volumes, exclu
sive of newspaper files, music in sheets, un
bound pamphlets, etc., for all of which ample
provisions are made, together with circular
reading rooms loo feet in diameter, and exhibit
halls lor “Washingtoniana,” tbe graphic fine
arts, etc-, in the second story. The illustration
given above is from a photograph of the archi
tect’s drawings as originally submitted, and
only conveys anideaofthe genera! contour of
the structure. The other illustrations give some
idea of the cramped quarters in which the libra
ry is now located.
For comparison with the other large libraries
of the world, the following statistics are com
piled Irom the latest, attainable sources: Tbe
largest library in the world is that of the
French, at Paris, which contains today upward
of 2 000 00O printed books and too 000 manu
scripts. Between the Imperial Library at, St.
Petersburg and the British Museum it is diffi
cult to say which is the larger. Neither will
vary much irom 1 100,000 volumes. The Koval
Library of Munich lias now something over
900,000, but this includes SOO.OOo pamphlets; the
Koyal Library at Berlin contains 700 ooo; the li
brary at Copenhagen 510 000; tbe hhrarv at
Dresden 500 000; library at Vienna 400 000; Uni-
versary Library at Gottingen. Germany, 400 -
ooo. The Vatican Library at Borne has about
110 000 printed books, and commenced in 1378
there are about sixty other libraries in Europe
larger than the Vatican Library. The National
Library of Paris Is one of the very oldest in Eu-
rnpe, bavin-- been founded In 1350, although the
University Library ar Prague is ret orted found
ml the same year. Tue British Museum dates
its commencement about four huudred years
later—1753. O' the large libraries in the United
States tne Boston Public Librnrv comes next
to the Congressional, wiili about 325 ooo (includ
ing the duplicates in its seven branches), the
Harvard University collection comes next, with
about 210 000; the Astor and Mercantile, of New
York, li-iv,- each about 150 000; Yale College has
about 115,000; Dartmouth about 54 000; Cornell
UnivosUA, with 42.000; the University of Vir
ginia, 42,000; Bowooiu, with 38 000: the Univer
sity of South Carolina, win, 30 000; Michigan
State, 40 ooo Amherst, 44 50o ; Princeton, 45 000;
Pennsylvania Mercantile. 120,000 and Columbia
University, South Carolina, 32,000. It will thus
WILMIM II (Rulus).
The Conqueror left by will bis Dukedom
of Normandy to his oldest son Robert, while
he direceted that his seoond son William
should be crowned King of England. This
jitter prince possessed as much ambition
as mnoh vigor and as little sornple as his
father, and he permitted no delay to inter,
fere with the oarryiug out of his parents’
wishes. He harried over to England, made
some promises of more lenient treatment to
the English (which, however, he forgot to
perform), aud by their assistance soon put
to utter rout those who attempted to dispute
his authority. Having established himself
on the throne, he passed the strait and at-
tached his brother in his dukedom. That
pnnoe was not deficient in bravery, but
tacked energy and enterprise. He was no
match for the king in arms or in diplomacy,
and it is likely that he would have been
driven from his territories had not the Bar
ons on both sides interfered and brought
abont a treaty of peace. They then united
and rednoed their brother Henry to great
straits. William was at war either with bis
rebellions subjects or with some foreign
power daring almost tbe whole of his reign.
Being like his father, ornel and tyrannical,
without his father’s policy, he was all the
time maddening some one to the point of
rebellion. This alertness, vigor and skill,
however, forbade them to rebel with suc
cess. It was daring this reign, that Peter
Hermit began to preach the first crusade.
Thousands and teDS of thousands of men of
all ranks enlisted under the banner of the
cross snd marched away to rescue Jerusa
lem from the hands of Mohammedans.
William, who lay under the imputation of
infidelity and who certainly treated the
ohnroh with little reverence, did not become
infected by this enthusiasm. He was ready
enough, however, to take advantage of it in
others. His brother Robert determined to
engage in tbe crusade ; and so anxious was
he to eqyip a fine troop foe that service.
that be proffered* to selftiis Duchy to the
King of England for ten thousand marks.
William very eagerly olosed the bargain,
and employed little articles in forcing his
snbjects to raise him the desired sum of
money. By this means he became possess
ed of all the territory of which his father
had been sovereign. A little later he ar
ranged to famish the Earl of Foiters and
Goinne with funds to go upon aorueade, for
a mortgage, which he doubtless would have
made a sale, to those provinces. Before this
arrangement was fully completed, however,
an accident befell him which terminated
both his schemes of ambition and his life.
On the 2ad day of August, 1100, he, with a
party of gentlemen, was in new forest en
gaged in hunting—an amusement of whioh
he was very fond. One of the attendants,
Walter Tyrrel, eager to display his skill in
archery, let fly his arrow at a stag, which,
striking a tree, glanced and entered the
King’s breast, killing him instantly. He
was in the fortieth year of his age, and had
worn the crown for nearly thirteen years.
He had never been solioitous to win the fa
vor of the priesthood, and they repaid him
for his lack of attention by transmitting to
posterity a very unfavorable picture of his
life and character. There can be no doubt,
however, that he was a man of high order of
ability, whioh brought upon hie connlry
rather injury than benefit beoanse accompa
nied by a cruel, tyrannical aud nnsorupu
Ions disposition. * „
THE PROPOSED NEW LIBRARY BUILDING.
[From the Architect’s Drawing.]
- , , wouldent run for governor if it was
h 1 K et ,Y P fu3sln « and fighting among
friends. Gentlemen, one and all. let us resolve
to attend to our business In a kind and consid-
or ourstlves. nd brlDg no shanie upon curtate
Nearly twenty thousand widows of the
rans of 1812 are still drawing pensions from the
viiYfH 11 although their husbands have
been dead for possible generations. The Deo-
ple who are looking around for the sprmS,
which are said to contain the waters of eternal
n . eedn 1 Prosecute their search much fur
ther. Apparently the widows have found it.
library have increased its expenses, and its
rapid growth has outstripped all otber institu
tions of the kind in the world, as wli be readily
seen when it is remembered that in 1852 there
was but twenty thousand volumes to srart with,
and that now there are over 550 000 volumes.
And its value and quality is commensurate with
its rapid growth. Like all great government
libraries its law of increase can no longer be
governed by the requirements of the National
Legislature. It has come to be tbe represen
tative and custodian of the entire literature of
the country. Through the operations of the
copyright law it receives and preserves copies
of all tne books, periodicals, maps, charts, and
works of art, for which exclusive right of pub
lication is secured to to the authors or publish
ers. These entries number about 20 000 a year.
In addition to this source of increase, which
costs the Government nothing and brings in ev
ery book of any value produced in the country,
tbe library is largely recruited from tbe follow
ing sources: First, from the annual deposits of
books by the Smithsonian Institution, whose li
brary was incorporated with the Congressional
Library in 1866. These books are most wholly
be seen that our National Library, as it should
be called, exceeds all but eieht, or possibly
nine, of tbe ancient libraries of Europe, and all
in America.
An ext-aordlnary effort is being made to se
cure the pardon of James D. Fish, the presi
dents tbe broken Marine Bank, of New York,
and the partner of Ferdinand Ward, who Is now
f rowing old and fat in the Auburn penitentiary.
he ground on which the pardon Is asked is
that he was deceived by Ward. If Fish gets out
will not an effort then be made to secure Ward’s
pardon?
The Texas cattle barons say they will not pay
more than four cents per acre rental for tbe
public school lands of that State. It is proba
ble that they will have to come to the terms de
manded or move their wire fences.
I grant that nature all poets onght to study;
but then, this also undeniably follows, that these
things which delight all ages mast have been
an Imitation ef nature.—Dryden.
PRIZE PAPERS.
Mistress and Maid’s Work,
Strikes and lockouts are vital issues and a e
the absorbing topics In the clut-rooms, in coi u
cils and upon the street. They furnish the
foundation for editorials and are the pith of the
telegraphic news, while political leaders and
able literary men studv the cause and effect
Froiniuent among articles hearing upon the
remedy for such evils are a series of papers
written by Mrs. E. J. Gurley, of Waco, Texas,
in which the won. sirike does not occur. The
subj ct is “Mistress aud Maid’s Work—Which
is Mistress’ and Which is Servants’?” The pa
pers won a two hundred dollar prize and are
now being published in the "Good Housekeep-
ing ’ magazine, at Holyoke, Mass. The Hue is
hackneyed, yet the thought is vastly different
from other contributions in that line, and in fol
lowing tbe writer one realizes tbe extent and
purpose of home arbitration and woman is
brought to appreciate her own influence as the
element which moulds in turn exalted or deplor
able conditions in the business as well as tbe
social world. Genuine surprise greets one upon
seeing the logic with which home rule is treated,
while the author lias the advantage of being ex
perienced as well as gifted. Her philosophy is
thoroughly practical and is based upon reason
aud not theory as is ususually the case when
men discuss home topics. B.
From such dealings of the Lord with mankind
we learn that it is not beauty or uncomeliness of
body; It is not physical characteristics, pecu
liarities, defects or perfectness; it is not wealth
or worldly renown; but it Is the inner nature,
“the thoughts and intents of the heart” that de
termines man’s real standing—his dignity or
unwortbtness in the sight of the Lord.
Several practical lessons might be drawn from
the incidents recorded In the twelfth of Num
bers. but we have no time to pursue the subject,
and have written to relieve this chapter of some
of the obscurity with which au imperfect under
standing of Its history has invested it. and ar the
same time to present some of the reasons which
may have led Dr. Talmage tosav that Moses had
married “a black womau from Ethii pi ..”
Laurenburg, N. C. J. J. Herndon,
MIC-A-BRaC.
A Widow’s Wail.
1 show hy my distressful tone
And hy my doleful features
H »w i* uoh I miss ihe Rev. Jones,
That best of modern presch^s.
When hi» Chicago work whs done
He paused no* - ro consider
V hat *rief Ihe p rilng brought upon
One lorn uiid loue'y widde..
I used to wer.d my way each i ight
i’o revel in his t acniugs:
My burnened soul grew airy light
neoea’h his 8iry preachings.
I occupied a seat reserved
For stiugg lug young beginners.
And hung Uv»on the bhn 6 he served
To unrepentant siui.ers.
F-trewell t> those deiicioae tiaies
Of silent adoration:
My idol st et-tis u> other climes
To ply his hwu t voca ion.
Oh! i hat h< might foig t her not
Who boldly makes aster ion
That from heriouely, widowed lot
fcihe hankers for conve:siol !
If He had His Choice would Rather be
a Female Baby.
[Louisville Courier-Journal.]
“It was at the battle of Gettysburg,” said
the colonel, “when tbe ballets were falling
like hail and the shells were shrieking and
bnrsting over our heads in a way to make the
bravest heart tremble, a private dropped ont
of the ranks and sku.ked back to tne rear.
He was well nuder way, when, unfortunate
ly for him, he was' met by General Sloaum
coining to the front.
“What are yon doing here? Get back to
yonr post,” the general shouted.
The poor fellow stopped still and trem
bled like a leaf, but made no reply.
“Get baok to your post, you miserable
ooward ; aren’t yon ashamed of yourself to
be skulking back here when you should be
in the front with yonr brave oomraaes?”
Still the man made no reply, but com
menced to ory like a year old infant.
“You infamous, sneaking ooward,” shout
ed tne infuriated general, “get back to yonr
post; I’ll ride you down like a dog. Why,
yon are nothing bat a baby.”
I-I-I’U t-t-t-tell yon what, g-g-general,”
said the blabbering fellow, “I’d g-g give
anything just u-n now if I was a b-baby,
and i-i-if I had my oh oh-ohoioe I’d r-r-rath
er be a female b b-b-baby.”
The Boundary.
BY CARLOTTA PERRY.
Who can sing us a song of sorrow
That fitly shall echo a soul’s despair?
Who from the kingdom oi words nifty borrow
A crown that is fitting for love to wear.
Who can render the marvellous 9iory.
As the dawn brinks over the world s fair rim?
And one hatu voic^i for the tu^set’s glory.
Ur the twilight.- solemn, and duett, and dim?
Though the chrism strange to his lips is given,
Though nevsr a discoid his music maie,
Who, .in > he face of the miduight heaven,
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Though speech Bhou d bloom like a garden
blossom.
Royal aud ender, and glad and sweet,
'Tit shamed by the rose on a maiden's bosom—
Aye, by the clover teneath her feet.
Though the poet 8( er to the heights supernal.
Though his strain be never so grand and strong.
Still with silence, supreme, eternal.
Abides the essence of perfect Song,
The Indrodnction was Mutual.
[Cincinnati Sun.]
Rev. Dr. Felton’s Opinion of Baltimore.
The Rev. Dr. Felton recently gave a lively pic
ture of Baltimore in a sermon delivered in St.
Louis. Dr. Felton said that Baltimore was di
vided into three classes of society—tbe aristo
cratic, middle and lower. The aristocrats had
come from Lord Baltimore, and had mixed in
their descent with the Bonapartes. He had al
ways heard that when blood remained unmixed
in one family for a long time it ran out, and
when he saw the women of the aristocratic
classes of Baltimore be believed it, for they were
the ugliest women he bad ever seen in his life.
People of the middle classes could not get into
their society. They would not mingle, and he
hoped they never would, for the reproduction
of such people would do no good to any commu
nity. The doctor then gave an interesting ac
count of the educational Institutions of Balti
more, together with the art collections and hos
pitals, and said that tbe wonderful opportuni
ties offered by the former two was oue of tbe
inducements offered to wealthy aud cultivated
people to make it their home. He praises the
excellent markets and culinary arrangements
and said tbat it was the greatest place in the
world for good eating. He enjoyed a good din
ner as much as any one, and his only regret was
that there was a limit to his capacity. One
thing in which Baltimore surpassed St. Louis
was the peacefulness and quietness ol Sunday.
No baseball games go on or beer gardens were
open on that day, and tbe most pmrfect calm pre
vailed Irom morning until night. *
This story ib told of a prominent lady wbo
is sometimes a little overbearing to tho-e
she considers her inferiors. She lives in a
fashionable West End looality and seldom
takes the street oars. But she did the other
day. On approaching the street near the
house she said to the conductor:
“Stop on this side ot the street.”
The conductor rang the bell, but it was
too late and the oar kept on to the opposite
oortter. She was very indignant and put
her indignation into warm words, winding
np with:
“I am Mrs. Blank.”
The oonduotor, nothing abashed, replied :
“Glad to make yonr acquaintance, Mrs.
Blank. I’m Tom Jackson.' 1
Roughest Road in the Whole World.
[Wall Street News.]
“Isn’t this road one of the roughest in the
whole world?” asked a traveler over a Mis
souri railroad of a oonduotor.
“No, I don’t think so,” was the oompla-
oent reply.
But—great heavens—good lands—what
do you call this?” shouted the passenger, as
he hang to the seat.
“The hind trucks are off the rail, sir, noth
ing more. You can’t expeofc to run on the
ties without some unpleasantness, although
the engineer will do his best to reduce it to
the minimum.”
She Had Missed Her Man-
A teacher in one of the Indian Softools re
lates the following incident of an Indian
boy’s quick thought. He had asked the
meaning of the word miss. “To miss,” I
told him, “is the same as to fail. Yon shoot
at a bird or at a mark and do not hit it; you
miss it. Yon go to a tailor’s for a ooat, and
yonr ooat fits badly; it is a miss-fit. Yen hope
to enter the middle class next year, but you
oannot pass the examination, and so you
miss the promotion.”
His faoe wore a puzzled air and he shook
his head.
“Then,” said I, “there is anoth- r mean-
of miss. We call a married woman mad
am, but an unmarried woman, miss.”
His faoe brightened. He smiled and
nodded.
“Ah, I see,” said he, “she has missed her
man.”
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