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VOL. VI.
THE APPEAL.
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The following poetn Was years ago
found near a skeleton in the Museum
Os the Royal College of Surgeons,
Lincoln’s Inn, London, and was
sent for publication to the Morning
Chronicle. Though fifty guineas
reward was offered for the discov
ery of the author, his name lias nev
er transpired.
Lilies on a Skeleton.
Heboid this ruin ! ’Twas a skull,
Once of ethereal spirit full t
This narrow cell was life's retreat,
This spaoe was thought's mysterious scat.,
ifhat bcautious visions filled this? spot!
What dreams of pleasure long forgot!
Nor hope, nor love, nor joy, nor fear,
Have left one trace or record heie,
Beneath that mouldering canopy
Once shone the bright and bus# eye,
But start not at the dismal void ;
ll' social love that eye employed,
If with no lawless fire it gleamed.
But through the dew of kindness beamed,
That eye shall be torevor bright
When stars and suns are sunk in night.
Within this hollow cavern hung
The ready, swift and tuneful tongue,
If falsehood’s honey it disdained,
And when it could not praise was chained.
If bold in virtues cause it spoke,
Yet gentle concord never broke,
That silent tongue shall plead for thee
When time unveils eternity.
Say, did those lingers delve the mine ?
Or with its envied rubies shine ?
To hew the rock or wear the gem,
Can little now avail to them,
But if the page of truth they sought,
Or comfort to the mourner brought,
The hands u richer meed shall claim
Than all that wait on wealth or fame.
Avails it whether bare or shod
Those feet the paths of duty trod ?
If from the halls of ease they tied
To seek affliction's humble shed,
If grandeur's guilty bribe they spurned
And home to virtue's cot returned,
Those feet with angel’s ways shallvie,
And tread the palace of the sky.
The Sage’s Reproof,
Alhakem, the sage, whom all pco
pie honored for his great wisdom
and his many virtues, sat in the
market-place giving instruction. A
youth named Seyd, who had recent
ly inherited vast wealth, passed that
May, and share* 1 with the old teach
er the attention of the multitude.
“See,” cried Seyd, “how my good
fortune hath lifted me in a day to
claim a public attention which Al
hakem hath been long years in gain
ing.”
And he smiled prondly a* he
ispoke. Alhakem had heard his
words, and motioned for him to
draw near.
*‘My son,” said the sago, “let me
speak unto thee a fable. Once upon
a time a gourd wound itself around
a lofty palm, and in a few weeks
climbed to its very top
“How old mayest thou be?”
asked the gourd.
“A hundred years,” answered the
palm.
“A hundred years !” cried the
gourd, in derision “Only look ; I
have grown as tall as thou art in
fewer days than thou countest
years!”
“I know that very well,” the
palm made answer. “Every sum
mer of my life a gourd has climbed
ap aroflnd me as proud as thou art,
and as short-lived as thou wilt
be l” • .
Seyd heard, and went away with
his head lowered.
CHEAP READING.—For
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CUTHBERT 111 APPEAL.
Speech of Horace Greeley
in Portland, .lie., Aug,
14th; 1872.
Mr. Chairman and Ladies and
Gentlemen: —lt is certainly due
that throughout the course of my
life, so far as I have been connected
with public affairs, I have strug
gled with sftch capacity as God has
given me so—first, impartial and
universal liberty; second, for the
union and .greatness of otlr com
mon country; and third, and by no
means least, when the former end
was attained, for early and hearty
reconciliation and peace among our
countrymen. For these great ends
I have struggled, and I hope the
issue of the third is not doubtful.
I thoroughly comprehend that no
personal consideration has drawn
this vast assembly" together. Oth
er higher and grander considera
tions have collected you around
me to-day. It is part of the un
written law of our country that a
candidate fur the Pretidoucf raay
net make speeches in vindication
and commendation of the measures
which his election is intended to
promote, though a candidate for
Vice President is under no such
inhibition. I not only" acquiesce in
the restriction ; I recognize and af
firm its propriety". The tempta
tion to misinterpret and misrepre
sent a candidate for the higher
posts is so great that the means of
circulating such perversions among
the people who never see a word of
their refutation, are so vast that a
candidate lias no moral right to sub
ject his friends to the perils. lie
must he brave, if not, invite by ta
king part in the canvass. Yet
there is a truth to he uttered in be
half of those who have placed me
before the American people in my
present attitude, which docs them
such honor that I claim the privi
lege of stating it here, and now
this is that No person has
ever yet made the fact known that
lie proposed to support, or actively
did support, my nomination, wheth
er at Cincinnati, at Baltimore, or in
any action which resulted in send
ing delegates to cither Convention
as the basis of a claim for office at
inv hands; no one who favored my
nomination before cither Conven
tion has sought office a f my hands,
00 for the
lent inner
to parties
cither for himself or for any one
else; nor has any one suggested to
me tl/at I might strengthen myself
as a candidate by promisisg to ap
point any one to an important office
in a very few instances less than a
dozen. lam certain some of the
smaller fry of politicians have,since
my double nomination hinted that I
might increase my chances of elec
tion by promising a Post Office or
some such place. So my volunteer
correspondents every where respec
tively. Ihaicuot usually respon-.
tlbd to these overtures, but I now
give general notice that should I be
elected I will consider the Claims of
these untimely aspirants, after those
of the more moderate and retired
shall have been fully satisfied.—
[Ap plause.] Iu two or three in
stances I have been asked to say
whether I would* or would not, if
elected, confine my appointments to
Republicans, I answer these by
pointing to the plauk in the Cincin
nati platform wherein all who con
cur in the principles therein invol
ved are cordially invited to partici
pate in their establishment and \ in.
dication. L never yet heard of a
man who asked liis neighbors to
help him raise a house aud proceed
ed to kick him out of it as soon as
the rxif was fairly over his head.—
For my own part, I recognize every
honest man who Approves and ad
heres to the the platform as my po
political brother, and a? such fully
entitled to my confidence and
friendly regard.
One other point demands £ word:
Those who are adverse to me ask
me what pledge I have given to
those lately hostile to the Union to
secure their favor aud support. I
answer that no man or woman in
all the South ever asked of me, ei
ther jlirectly or through another,
anyother pledge than is given in
all my acts and works. From the
hour of Lee’s surrender to this mo
ment, no Southern man over hinted
to me an expectation, hope or wish
that the rebel debt, whether Confed
erate or State, should be assumed
or paid by the United States Gov.
eminent, and no Southern man who
could be elected to a legislature or
made Colonel of a militia regiment
even suggested the pensioning of
all the rebel soldiers, or any of them
even as a remote possibility. All
who nominated me were perfectly
aware,that I Upheld and justified
CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1872.
Federal legislation to suppress Ku-
Klux conspiracy and outrages,"
though I had long ago insisted as
strenuously as I now do that com
plete amensty and general oblivion
of the bloody", hateful past, would
do more for the suppression and lit
ter extinction of such outrages than
all the force hills and suspension of
habeas corpus ever devised by man.
Wrong and crimer must be sup
pressed and punished. But far wi
ers and nobler is the legislation, the
policy by which they are prevented.
From those who support me in the
South I have heard hut one demand
—“Justice,” but one desire —“Rec-
onciliation.” They wish to be hear
tily re-united and at peace with the
North on any terms which do not
involve the surrender of their
manhood. They ask that they
Should be regarded and treated by
all Federal authority as eitizens and
not as culprits, so long as they obey
and uphold every law consistent
with equality and right. They do
site n rule which, alike for white
and black, shall encourage industry
th«y discourage rapacity and vil
liany; they cherish a hope in which
I fully concur, that between the sth
of November and the 4th of March
next quite a number or Governors
and other dignitaries, who, in the
absorb name of Republicanism and
loyality, have for years been piling
debts and taxes upon their war was
ted States, will follow the whole
some example of Bullock, of Geor
gia, and seek the shades of private
life. The darker and deeper those
shades, tho better for themselves
and for mankind, and it is to be
hoped that my election may hasten
the much desired liegira of theiving
carpet-baggers has reconciled them
to the necessity of supporting me
many who would otherwise have
hesitated and, probably, refused to
do SO.
Fcllo v citizens, tike deposed and
partially excited Tammany Ring
lias stolen 30,000,000 dollars from
tlie City c-f New York. That was
a most gigantic and it hurled its
Contrivers and abettors from pow
er and splendor to infamy, but
theiving edrpet-baggers have stolen
three times that amount. Stolen it
from people already impoverished
and needy, nndthey still flaunt their
properous villainy in the highest
places of the land, and are address
ed as Honorable and Excellency.—
[Applase.] I think I hear a voice
from the honest people of all the
States declaring that their iniquity
shall be gainful and insolvent no
longer, at the farthest, than the 4th
of March next. By that time a na
tional verdict will be pronounced
that will cause them to fold their
tents like tlie Arabs and as silently
steal away, and that I trust will be
an end of their stealing at the cost
of the good name of our country
and the well beingof her people.
At the conclusion of liis speech,
Mr. Greeley" sat down amidst a
storm of cheers.
Be Your Own Right Hand
Man. —People who have been bol
stered up all their lives are seldom
good for anything in a crisis.—
When misfortune comes, they’ look
around for somebody to ding to oi
lcan upon. If the prop is not there
down they go. Once down they
are as helpless as a capsized turtle,
and they cannot find their feet
again without assistance. Sufch
persons no more resemble men who
have fought their way to position,
making difficulties their steppijig
stones and deriving determination
from their defeat, than vines resem
ble oaks, or spluttering rush lights
the stars of Hoaven. Efforts per
sisted into achievements train a
man to self-reliance, and when lie
has proven it the world will trust
him. One of the best lessons a fath
er can give his son is this ; Work ;
strengthen your moral aud mental
faculties, as you would your tnus
cles by vigorous exercise. Learn
to conquer circumstances; yon
are then independent of fortune. —
The men of athletic minds, who
left their mark on the years in
which they lived, were all trained
in a rough school. They did not
mount to their high position by the
help of leverage ; they leaped the
chasm, grappled with the opposing
rocks, avoided avalanches, and when
the goal was reached, felt that, but
for the toil that strengthened them
as they strove, it could never have
been obtained.
—An Irishman being in church
where the collecting .apparatus re
sembled election boxes, on its being
brought to him, lie whispered iu the
carrier’s ear that lie was not natu
ralized, aud consequently could not
vote.
Vexations ofa Front Yard.
BV BOGGS.
We have recently moved into a
house that has a front yard. We
have always lived in houses whose
front yard was the street. Chil
dren will play in the yard whether
there is a street running through it
or not. After two or three of them
had barely escaped being run over
by the teams that insisted in run
ning through our front yard, wife
said she must rent a house that
hadn’t any street in it. So we di.d.
But lord ! the children don’t "make
any account of it. They arc in the
street as much as ever, accumula
ting their daily supply of narrow
escapes.
Wife said the yard looked baVe
without shrubs, and flowers, and
vines. I hinted that a little grass
Would help it, too. She asked me
if I knew where I could get some
and I told her I knew a little grass
widow on the next street, if she
Would do. I retreated, followed by
the rolling pin.
One morning as I was going
away, wife asked me to bring her a
few “ annuals” when I came back.
I wondered what she wanted of an
nuals as I rode down town in the
street-car, but I am accustomed to
a blind obedience to lier requests,
so when I went home at night I
brought her gome annuals. There
were “Dr. Jayne’s Medical Alma
nac,” I remember, and “ The Odd
Fellows’ Annual Offering,” and a
“ New Year’s Addiess” for 1872,
and the “ BirtlU Day Gift,”
and numerous annual addresses be
fore agricultural associations that
had accumulated on my hands.
* Good gracious’’ exclaimed Mrs.
Boggs (she never swears like that
unless under great excitement,)
“ what have you brought me ?”
“ Annuals, Mrs. Boggs,” said I.
“ You said you wanted some annu
als, and here they wo.”
Then Mrs. Boggs burst out laugh
ing and cried, “ Why, you t>!d fool
you (we have been married twenty
years, but Mrs. Boggs, calls me
pet names yet,) the annuals I meant
are flowers, such, as verbenas, pan
sies t daisies, morning glories, mig
nonette and the like, to 6et out in
cur liont yard.” Then she took all
the annuals I had been at so much
pains to collect and set them out iu
the back yard among other rubbish.
The next morning she asked me
if I thought 1 could get her some
roses for the front -yard. Told her
I knew a man who had got a lot of
early rose potatoes, but it wasn’t
the right time a year for setting
them out. (I have an idea that the
ground is much better employed
than in raising a flower, unless it be a
barrel offlawer.) Wife said I hadn’t
a bit of taste. She then gave me a
memoranda of roses she wanted. I
was busy all day, but just as I was
about taking a car for home, I
thought of the roses. I referred to
the memoranda, and found the fol
lowing :
“ Get a few geraniums, luchias,
heliotrope, roses, bourbon, running
rose, ‘ Prairie Queen,’ go’dt-n tea
plant, vines, English ivy, Wander
ing Jew, seeds, etc.”
I studied it hard, but it was
slightly incomprehensible. She iiad
evidently got things mixed up.—
However, I went td a florist’s and
told him what I wanted. Said I—
“ Give me a few geraniums and a
few she’s, and —”
“ A few What ? asked the flower
man, looking very puzzled,”
“ A few she’s,” said I, turning
very red, I know, for I couldn’t tell
for the life of roe what my wife
wanted of a Jew she’s about tho
place, as she neVfci could lire in the
same house with another woman.
As the florist looked more stag
gered than ever, I handed him the
memoranda, when he burs'ted iuto
a loud laugh.
“ Why, man,” he cried, “its"/7/-
chias , she wants!” and then he
roared again.
“ Well, whatever it is, give me a
couple of yards of it, anyhow, front
and back yard, too.”
You see I was mad.
I got the things the memoranda
seemed to call for at various places,
and went home. “ Here, Mrs.
Boggs,” said I, testily,” “ are the
things for your front yard.”
“ Why, what is this?” she cried,
as I thrust a two-gallon jug upon
her among other things.
“ Bourbon, my dear, I found it
on the memoranda. • Pretty thing
to set out in the front yard, though,
llow long do you s’pose it’ll stay
there with the neighbors we’ve got? ”
“ Boggs, you are an infernal ;
that memorandum was a ‘Bourbon
Rose.’ Bui what is this nasty little
book ?” holding up a dime novel
with a highly colored title-page,
representing a gorgeous squaw on
a fiery and untamed mustang.
“That? -Why you ordered it,
didn’t you? # That is ‘Running
Rose ; or the Prairie Queen,’ one of
Beadle’s, you know.”
My wife carried it at arms’length
and threw it into the stove. Then
she took the jug of Boutbou and
emptied it into the back gutter.—
While she was gone I concealed
Alexander Dumas’ “Wandering
Jew,” which I also had purchased,
for I began to see that I had made
a terrible blunder m filling that
order. (I have since ascertained
that 11 Wandering Jew” is the
name of a vine, but how was I ex
peeled to know all about it?) — L'at
Contributor's Saturday Might.
Horning.
llow many times has my heart
boen gladdened by the risiug. of the
sun over the hills of tho old home
stead, where the corn and olover
sparkled with the dew, and the
newly headed wheat nodded lazily"
to and fro in the enchanting breezo,
as spring and summer joined hands
for the coming harvest. I looked
upon the broad fields with a proud
eye then, for I thought every spec*
kled conn-tassel and budding kernel
gave promise of much happiness.
But as the brightest morning may
be darkened by the clouds that
seemed so beautiful when faraway,
so our lives may be shadowed by the
approach of that which was wont
to dazzle our eyes with its decep
tive glory. But ■ however darkly
the gloom may gather, we know
there is always “sunshine above the
mist. ”
It is natural for us to look back
upon our childhood and liken it to
the morning ; because the’ horizon
of our life has never since seemad
so blight, nor music of the birds by
the wayside so sweet, nor the breath
of the flowers so fragrant; and our
friends, unmasked of our childish
confidence by the noonday sun, have
never since proved so true.
There is always a charm hover
ing over the morning; and its mag
ical presence lends beauty to every
thing we see or bear. Would you
listen to music t It may be grand
at night--it is sublime in the mor
ning. Would you know a friend ?
Meet him in the morning. Yon will
then find him more as God made
him than after the enchanted hour
has passed. Would yon look upon
Niagara, or some old silvery-browed
mountain. Go while yet the
darkness lingers near, and see how
they smile upon the morning.
Glorious morning 1 We can al
most imagine heaven nearer as you
approach ; for in heaven ii is al
ways morning.
Editing A Paper,
Editing a paper is a very pleasant
business.
If it contains too much politicial
matter, the people don’t believe
it.
If the type are too small, people
won’t read it.
If the type are too large, it don’t
contain enough reading matter.
If we publish telegraph reports
people say" they are lies.
If we omit them, they say we
have no enterprise, or suppress them
for political effect.
.If we have a few jokes, people
say we are a rattle head.
If we omit them, they say we are
an old fogg.
If we publish original matter,
they damn us for not giving sclec
tiens-
If we publish selections, men say
we are lazy for not writing more
and giving them what they have
not read in some other paper.
If we give a man a complemen
tary’ notice, we are censured for be
ing partial.
If we do not, all hands say we are
a greedy hog.
If we insert an article that pleases
the ladies, men become jealous.
If we do not eater td their wishes
his paper is not fit to have in the
house.
If we remain in the office and at
tend to business, folks say" we are
too proud to mingle with our fel
lows.
If we go out, they say we never
attend to business.
If we publish poetry", we affect
sentimentalism.
If we do not, we have no literary
polish or taste.
If we condern any evil practice
or criminality, or make any sugges
gestions for the public good, they
say we are a u —arned sight too
meddlesome.
If we do not notice them, they
say we are a darn—damage to the
community".
A Very Strict Judge.
Old Ostego County boasts a jus
tice of the peace who flashes out in
tlie annals Os local frtrrte as arraign
ing himself for a delinquency. The
justice of the peace refered to (no
matter about his name or where he
belongs) possesses the excellent at
tributes of integrity and worth, but
on one occasion he forgot liis mag
isterial Integrity. He let down in
a weak moment the judicial bars
which should hedge him in and
roamed into the fields of Bacchus.
In short, on a recent occasion lie
imbibed too much strong drink, and
in consequence awoke with a rea*
lizmg sense of that fact the next
morning. Nowhere was a pretty"
go: A justice of the peace on a
bender, or a part of one. A man
who was appointed to swing the
flail of justice over the beads of poor
unfortunate fellows wandering over
into tho. wrong pasture himself.
But there it was. He felt remind
ers of it in the occasional throbs of
headache. But what was to be
done.? The mofc he viewed it tlie
more lie become disgusted with
himself. ITo made up his mind,
lie would attend his case. He
would vindicate the outraged law.
So, at the usual hour, he entered
his office. He formally opened court
and then he called his own name as
defendant in a suit' in which* “the
people” charged him with an of.
fence against the law, went over
the circumstances in detail so far
as he could remember them, read
“the statute in such cases made and
provided,” and then asked “tlie
prisoner what lie had to say.” In
the role of prisoner he pleaded
guilty to the offence, said it was a
Bliatne fora man of his years and po
sition, bilt hoped “the Court would
not be too severe on him, as he was
determined to ‘reform.’ ”
“The prisoner will stand up,”
said the stern old justice. The
prisoner arose. “Now,’ said the jus
tice, “I m very sorry you have been
brought into this court on a charge
which so seriously" effects your good
name and standing in society t you
have set a bad axample, and if you
go on at this rate you will bring sor
row and disgrace on y'oursclf and
family. • I sentence you to pay" a
fine of $lO and cost, or to thirty
days’ imprisonment in the county
jail.” The “prisoner” said lie would
prefer to pay tlie fine—and then
the court closed. Ho walked over
to the poormaster of tlie town and
paid the $lO. — Utica Observer
A Two IHinutc Sermon
to Girl*.
“Ladies—caged birds of beauti
ful plumage but sickly’ looks—pale
pets of the parlor, who vegetate in
an unhealthy" atmosphere like the
potato germinating in a dark cellar
why do you not go out into the open
air and warm sunshine; and add
lusture to your eyes, bloom to your
cheeks, and elasticity to your steps
and vigor to your frames ? Take
exercise; run up the hill on a Wager
and down again for fun; roam the
fields climb the fences, leap the
ditches, wade the brooks, and after
a day of exhilarating exercise and
unrestrained liberty, go homo with
an appetite acquired by healthy en
joyment. The beautiful and bloom
ing young lady—rosy cheeked an!
bright-eyed—who can darn a stock
ing, mend her own frocks, command
a regiment of pdts and kettles, feed
the pigs, milk the cows, and be a
lady when required, is the girl that
young men are in quest of for a wife
But you, pining, screwed up wasp
waisted, doll-dressed, consumption
mortgaged, music murdering, and
flovel-devouringdaugh ters of fashion
and idleness—y'ou are no more fit
for matrimony than a pullot is to
look after a brood of fourteen chick
ens. The truth is, my clear girls,
you want less fashionable restraint
and more liberty of action; more
kitclieu and less parlor ; more leg
exercise and less sofa; mo’re pud
ding and less piano ; more frankness
and less mock modesty. Loosen
your waist strings and breathe pure
atmosphere, and become something
as good and beautiful as nature de
signed.”
Popular EurokS.—That editors
keep public reading rooms. That
they are delighted to get anything
to till up the paper with. That
they are always pleased to have as
sistance in selecting copy for the pa
per. That every mein’s Own private
act is a ’matter of public interest.’ —
That it doesn’t make very much
difference whether copy be written
on both sides. That editors return
rejected manuscript. That any
other time will do to pay for your
subscriptions.
A Model t.ove Eetter.
My Dear Mrs. M.—Every time
I think df you my heart flops up
and down like a churndasher. Sen
sations of unuterable joy caper over
it like young goats on a stable roofj
and thrill through it like SptlniSli
needles through a pair of tow linen
tfiotvsefs. Asa gdsling swimmeth
with delight in a inud puddle, so
swim lin a sea of glory. Visions
of ecstatic raptiii'b thicker than the
hairs of a blacking brush; and brigh
ter than the hues of it htlttlmitig
bird’s pinions, visit me in niy slum
bers and borne on their invisible
wirgs, your image stands bo
fore me, and I rtiach out td grasp it
like a pointer snapping at a blue
bottle fly'. When I first beheld
your angelic perfections I was be
wildered, and my brain whirled
around like a bumble-bee under a
glass tumbler. My eyes stood open
like cellar doors in a country town
and I lifted tip my ears td catch the
silvery accents of your voice. My
tongue refused to wag, and in si
lent adoration I "drank iu the sweet
infection of love as a thirsty man
swallowcth a tumblar of hot whis
key punch.
Since the light ot your face fell
upon my life, I sometimes feel as if
I could lift myself up by my boot
straps to the top of the churCli stce
pie; and p'llll the bell-rope for sing
ing school. Day and night you are
in my thoughts. When Aurora,
blushing like a bride, rises from
her saffron colored doflch j when the
jay bird pipes his tuneful lay in thb
apple tree by the springhouse;
when the chanticleer’s shrill clarion
heralds the coming morn; when
the awaking pig ariseth from Ills
bed and gruntelh, and goeth forth
for his morning’s refreshments;
when tho drowsy beetle wheels to
droning flight at sultry noon tide ;
and when the lowing herds come
home at milking time, I think of
thee; and like a piece of gum elas
tic, my heart seems stretched clear
across my bosom. Your hair is
like tho mane of a sorrel horse pow
dered with gold; and the brass
pins skewered through your water
fall fills me with unbounded awe. —
Your forehead is smoother than ihe
elbow of an old coat; your eyes arc
glorious to behold. In their 'iquid
depths I see legions of little cupids
bathing, like a cohort of ants in an
old army cracker. When their tire
hit me upon my manly breast, it
penetrated my whole anatomy, as a
load of bird-shot through a rotton
apple. Your nose is from a chunk
of Parian marble, and your mouth
is puckered with sweetness. Nec
tar lingers on your lips, like lio'nby
on a bear’s paw; and myriads of
unfledged kisses are there, ready to
fly out and light somewhere, like
blue birds out of their parent’s Hosts
Your laugh rings in my ears like
the wind harp’s strain, or the bleat
of a stray lamb on a bleak hill-side.
The dimples on your cheeks are
like bowers on beds of roses, hol
lows in cakes of home-made sit
gar.
I am dying to fly to thy presence
and pour out the burning eloquence
of my love, as thrifty house-keep
er pour out hot coffee. Away from
you I am melancholy as a sick rat;
Sometimes I can hear the June
bugs of despondency buzzing in my"
ears, and feel the cold lizards of
despair crawling down my back.—
Uncouth fears, like a thousand min
nows, nibble at my" spirits; and my
soul is peirced with doubts, as an
old cheese is bored with skippers.
My love for you is stronger than
the smell of Coffey’s patent butter
or the kick of a young cow, and
more unselfish than a kitten’s first
caterwaul. Asa song bird hank
ers for the light of day, the cau
tious mouse tor the fresh bacon in
tlie trap, as a mean pup hankers af
ter new milk, so I long for tHtie:
You are fairer -than a apeckcld
pullet, sweeter than a Yankee
doughnut fried in sorghum molas
ses; brighter than a topknot plu
mage on a muscovy duck. You
are candy, kisses, raisins, pound
cake and sweetened toddy altogeth
er.
If these remarks will enable you
to see the inside of my soul, and me
to win your affections, I shall be as
happy as a woodpecker on a cherry
tree, or a stage horse in a green pas
ture. If you cannot reciprocate my
thrilling passion, i will pine away
like a poisened bedbug and fall away
from a flourishing vine of life, an un
timely branch ; and in the coming
years, when the shadows grow from
the hills, and the philosophical frog
sings his cheerful evening hymns,
you, happy in another’s loVe; can
come and drop a tear and catcli a
cold upon the last resting place of
Yours affectionately,
ID
NO 35.
A Novel Duel:
Amongst the reminisinces told of
the Franco-Prussian war is the ac.
count ofa curious duel between hVo
subordinate officers of the FrehClt
army: “Toil intend to fight a duel
eh !” askbtl thb’ bdnlmdrltiiittti
“Yes, Colonel. Words have jtffS*
sed which can only" be wiped out
with blood: We don’t want to pats
for coiViirds.”
“Very well; you shall fight; bttt
it must be in this way: Tithe yotlt 1
Carbines, place yotit-selvcs on a line
facing the mansion wher.e the ene
my is. You will march upon their
garrison with equal step. When
sufficiently fleuf their posts you will
fire upon thenl. The Prussians
will reply. Yoil Continue to ad
vance and fire. When one falls tho
other may tiiHl upon his heels, and
his i'ctrCat shall be covered by one
of my companies.”
“In this way,” concluded the com
mandant, “the blood which you
both demand will be spilled with
profit and glory, and he who coins*
back will do so without regret,
without the remorse of having kill*
cd or wounded, with his own hands
a Frenchman, at a time when
France needs all her defenders, and
all her children. If you both fill!
who shall vay that yOu affe Cowards?
I rnay also add that I tliiis give you
an excellent CJjfpUfttlnUy for putting
a couple of Germans out of the way
a service that will procure for you
a good recommendation for reward
find prdrtlotion.”
The matter waft arratlgtd as thb
commandant had flictatcdi At
twenty paces from the walls of Mai*
maison, one of the adversaries was
WOunded, stagered and fell. Tlie
other rrln to him, raised Hint Up, and
bore him away on his shoulders anlid
a regular hailstorm of balls—both;
thenceforth, entitled to life greatest
honor and respect ffotll thb whole
regiment:
Beauty of women.—A New Turk
contemporary draws a parallel be
tween American and English wo
men, and by a very easy’ line of
argument makes out iHff former
to be by far the most bedtltifiil. Os
course the standard df female beau*
ty varies Sd With CcHtiitries and ell*
mate that cdcli nationality con
ceives beauty according to its own
fashions. The Africans, of course
figure beauty as black or bronte;
with swollen lips; and td ntake the
lower lip rriore beautiful some tribes
render it pendiildtls by attaching
heavy jewels or weights td it through
artificial holes. In Perii the lon.
gest ecifs afe considered thb hand
somest, and a great mark df Beatify
in the females. Sdrtfe pbdplb stain
their teeth blabk and Soitfe rbdj and
in Basqitb thb Wdirlen dd fidt con*
aider tHeniselves fit fdf* brides until
they" have shaved their head closb
to tlui skin.
The Mexican Women rejoifce • iff
low foreheads urtd vef"j" thick heffdfl
of hair; the bhickei" thb better aud
the coarser it is the higher the ap
preciations while the Italians ven
erate red, golden and light hair.
The Spaniards fancy light, slender
figures in tlieif women; the ltd*
bans, dti the cdlitrary; are fond of
full developnlbtlts df limb arid fig
ure. The Oriental and Wes
terns are also at cdirtplefcc antipodes
as td tlie hiannef" in, \fcHich thsy
interpret beauty and What re
lates to it. Tlie Eastern women use
yellow cosmetics; While the French
dud English clrad that tinge in their
complexions; The Asiatic, wheth
er of China or Siam, is delighted
with the olive skin and high cheek
bones of thb Mongolian wonted:
Physical Training. —Thb ritotb
ment inaugurated in Germany by
l redrich Jahn for developing man
hdod by physical training has taken
ground in France, tfhc city of Vab
ence has just founded a large pnb ;
I*° gymnasium; wHibh it is expec
ted will prove a model td be fol
lowed by all other Cities thtoughoftt
the country. It Wa3 only Opened
last June, and already has lOOpupils
paying two francs per month, and
100 others who receive instruction
gratuitously. Tlie counto df in
struction' comprises lessons in fen-
C * C S* gymuastics and shooting;
Which are now regularly followed
and it is intended soon td add in
struction in swimming and -in
horsemanship. From time to
time there will be public exhi
bition?; iir Which the pupils will
contend for special prizes. Childrert
of bath eeics, from the age of five
to ted years form a separate divis
ion attached to the school. It is
said that tlie city of lloucn is about
to follow the good example of Vab
ence immediately.