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IDEAL.
Have we not all, 'mi<l life's petty strife,
s.mte pure ideal of a noble life
limbs of trees and brush. This drift had
lodged agaiu-st the shore of a amgij «mnd
HL,,... bank and Colter dived beneath it, com-
That onco seeau .1 im^iiinc? Did we dot hear m B n P with his head among the thickest
The Hotter »f its «b>. . ml feel it near, leaved bran^^JiLafew minutes the i
And just within our re- a? It was. And yet Indians ™ " 11
Wo lost it In tilts dailN jar and fret. • '
Hat still our plaoeis k. and it will wait wamor, whom Co]
have been a clflef by the wailing of the
band over his corpse. When this ex
The night has a thousand eyes.
And the day but one; >
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the setting sun.
Heady for ns to fill it, soon or late.
No star is ever lost u e once have seen
Weahvays maybe what we might have -pression of grief was over, Colter heard
—Adelaide A. Proctor.
A RACE FOR LIFE.
The mind has a thousand eyes.
But the heart but one;
Yet the light of the whole life dies
When love is done. .
—New York Press-
he’s got to go a-bttitin ’em off my does
j ’cos he hain’t got *nnff of his own to his
back. I couldn’t never learn to sew,
I somehow. I’ll tell yer how it is—if s
this way: You take a piece o’ cloth, an
■ you clap a button ohto one side of it, an
j then you *o to work an try to navigate
" through from t’other side with a needle,
May I reach ,
That purest heaven, be to other souls
The cup of strength in some great agony.
Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love.
Beget the smiles that have no cruelty—
Be the sweet presence of a good diffused.
And in diUusion even more intense.
—. . So shall 1 join the choir invisible,
Bn 6f yon don’t stftvc th© point off cv’ry [ ‘Whose music is the gladness of the world.
their yells for vengeance, and, knowing
that if captured that a death by tho
most horrible torture awaited him, re-,
solved to drown himself rather than fall •
into their hands. They ran to the banks
j single time I’ll swaller it!
‘Old lady down to Moose island,
—George Eliot.
ONE SIDE OF A TALK. where 1 come from, last winter’s done ■
* my button sewing for two years back. J
an comes kinder rongb on me doing of ‘
JUANITO.
A windy November evening closed in it myself. Jim hed onghter to know There lived at Seville, in the fanbonrg
i wlr .mil Jiamnl 4 z — 1,1 ■ i .it i a > t nf TViona a vniitli nf crvYYiA cirfoon vaavo
dians, one of the most cruel of the west
ern tribes. Colter had accompanied
Lewis and Clark in their expedition to
ihe upper waters of the Missouri, but
forming a partnership with a man named
Potts tiie two obtained
Lewis to stop for the purpose
and hunting. Lewis
recommended them
greatest prudence and cunning in regard vo 'ees as they wailed that they
to the Indians, whom he had learned to tarrying home the body. As «oon as he
his cost to be as treacherous and as sav- thought they must be out of sight, Col
age as panthers. ter crawled out, so chilled by
The plan pursued by the partners was that he conld scarcely use his
to set their traps late in the evening, so exhausted by the loss of blood
visit them at early dawn and, after re- terrible race that lie thought
leather jacket and fishing boots dripping
lIOflTU bv tllfc WflftltllPll t.TflTITIPY. tllAY wifVi min nnd o,>U UD,
from one of his hands—oh, wonderful
miracle!—a white piece escaped and fell
with silvery ring to the stones.
He conld believe neither eyes nor ears
at first. He stooped and raised it. It
was a beautiful, new and shining fivq
peseta piece! The virgin, then, had not
of tears.
“What is it, Chata—what is it?” de-1
manded Juanito quickly; “tell me!”
“My mother,” responded she, “is ill;
for two days and nights now, 1 have I
. ,, * - , . . , neither eaten nor slept. The doctor
! fr °m » strolling veneer, and doing for a pama this mornino , an(1 orderfid
Clarke County Democrats are imthe
Saddle and Ready for the Fray.
Blazin s s
' That is the word of all words to ex-
deceivedhim! She *had toid "him the I P™ 88 condiiion of the meetiog at
truth—he conld go to the corrida on I t he Opera House last night*
Easter morning! Dcin cratio doctrine furnished the
One leap and he was down the steps 1 fuel and it was kicd!ed,at the sound of
and running with all his legs for the j Democratic eloquence.
Plaza de Toros. It was a scene lorg to be remembered J®
Suddenly, as he turned the corner of in tbe hi , tory of the D em ccraoy of
the Calle San Pablo, he ran against a„, . „ , '
young girl of the Triana faubourg, whom Clarke - Her loyal sors were out en
he had known since childhood, and who I ni9?sc, and the Opra House was well . jg
was called La Chata. She was pale and Alhd with Democrats of every dam
sad, and her great black eyes were full snd condition and from every section of
Ws dmy to arcoimt *or Ids appM^ plained, warming, up to.» idea, tattered garments.with luminous eyesb for me too-for I will not survive ™
eintEtonnauodlrWfSThe *‘My gracious! tU, s one or two houses ‘
moving them and the game, lie hidden
all day. This course succeeded sfilen-
didly for some time, and the men grew
a little careless in removing all trace of
their presence. One morning while
rowing up the river in their canoe they
heard a heavy trampling as of many
the county.
At half past eight o’clock after mu
sic by the band, Capt. W. B. Burnett
announced the ttiction of officers of the
Young Men’s Democratic Club in order.
Mr. T. W. Heed placed the name of
for the
unanl-
Pittard \%
for vice-
president and on vote be was declared
Mr.T.W. Reed
lected secretary and treasurer. On
me so deuced on-
Jying. But courage revived | J|
time, and he started for Lisa's fort on no nearer the tire; I’ll set ri’down here thro’the rnf, in
the Yellowstone. . with - my boots, so’s not to mas yer floor, comfortable, bo stan up an p’ticler
His situation was so desperate that he up none,” hanging his sleek wet fur i them kind o’ folks is, yer can’t fetch a
dared not let his mind dwell on it, for cap on his knee to drip and to dry. ' Jtep but what yer come down on some
fear that he would lose his resolution “That plaguy dory of mine, she leaks ® r their notions. Good Lord! in some
and die of despair. The fort., the near- like thunder. Diuino how she’ll stand, °f them rixiocratic houses- yer have ter
split a bean t* eat it. Ef I want sum’n t’
feet. Colter declared it to be Indians, ® 8t I‘* rtc< ‘ where lie could hope to fall in it, laying to your wharf in this way c’
and was for abandoning the canoo and i with a white man, lay a full week’s jour-: the wind, while I set. But I guess she eat 1 druther eat ofrn the floor than be
taking to tli ' woods, but Potts, who ! n ®y fr°m him, and he was not only stark won’t damage none but what I can git' s .° awful slow and mannery. Now, I
was the older man, laughed at hiin and naked, but without a weapon with which acrost in her. ’Tain’t only a couple like to come over here, yer don’t have
pronounced the feet those of buffaloes. I jj® could kill game and so support life, o’ miles any vay.” j ter act anjdmw.
The question was soon settled by them His feet were in a fearfnl condition, cut His shaggy black hair dried in a I . H°w, Fll tell yer, did yer ever no
sending themselves by a few strokes of j b >’ t,le sharp rocks and the thorns of the tangle as he talked, smoothed down face/ (balancing his cap on one fist and
the oars right into the midst of several | cacti over which he had run his race, from time to time by a hand sent aloft: beating it arouqd and around with the
hundred Indians that lined the shore I Exposed to the heat of the sun by day • when not fidgeting with his buttons, or • other) “it’s jestthis way sometimes yer
Colter, seeing in a moment that es- ! «?<! the dews of night, and tortured the chair, or his cap. j have an awful sight better time when it
cape was impossible, olieved them when
they called him to couie ashore and
rowed close to the bank. He and Potts
were just stepping up, when an Indian
snatched Potts' rille. Colter, a power
ful man. wrested the weapon away from
the savage at once and returned it to
Potts, who seemed to lose himself com
pletely. He threw himself back into
the canoe and pushed it out into the
stream. Colter, who lioped to release
them from their position by strategy,
called to him to come back, but the
panic stricken man kept out in the cur
rent. and presently cried to Colter. “Oh,
1 am wounded!" Coiter turned* just in
time to see the Indian that had shot
i'.vts lowering jus bow from his aim,
an 1 while he looked ho saw the Indian
Tivi.p dead and heard the report of Potts'
nile.
A second after Potts' lifeless body fell
back in the canoe, pierced by a hundred
arrows. Colter was now in for it. The
Indians stripped him of his clothes and
held a consultation as to what was to be
done with him. Colter, who knew their
language slightly, gathered that some
of his amiable captors proposed,to whip
him to death, some to skin him. alive,
while others wanted to burn him at the
stake, but the chief, a burly old chap,
with some originality decided the ques
tion by declaring that if he was not too
swift a runner that he should have a
chance for his life. If he conld get away
lie might, but if lie was recaptured they
would burn him alive.
The chief approached the prisoner and
asked if he was a good runner. Colter
replied that he was a very poor one.
while in reality' he kne\j himself to he
one of the swiftest" foot racers on the
border. His answer was hailed with de
light by the Indian^ who were promis
ing themselves great diversion with the
white man. The 600 Indians were sta
tioned at one point and Colter given a
start of 200 hundred yards, that the
I'lKirt might not be too quickly ended.
With a whoop from the Indians the race
began.
Like an arrow from the bow the pris
oner shot forward, and the duped Black-
feet saw that it would put them to all
they knew to overtake their human
prey, or even to approach him near
enough to shoot him. They had one
great advantage over the white man.
however, and they counted largely on
this to give them the victory. Their
feet were protected by moccasins, while
those of the trapper were naked and ex
posed to the sandbnrs and cacti, with
which the plain was thickly set. These
pierced Colter’s feet terribly, but he
could not pause for such trifles. He had
run three of the six miles that lay be
tween him and the Jefferson fork of the
Missouri, for which he had made before
he dared to look back. When he did he
saw that be had. with one exception,
left all his pursuers far behind. One
warrior alone still held out, and with
his spear held aloft came on with the
sliced of a greyhound.
He was within a hundred yards of the
white man when Colter, resolved to save
himself if it lay in human power, put
forth a tremendous effort and tore on
with all his speed. The blood burst
from his nose and a slight hemorrhage
also filled his mouth, but he pushed on,
frantic at the idea of being retaken after
his superhuman efforts. He had nearly
reached the river when he looked back
once more, and to his dismay he saw
that his pursuer was not thirty feet be
hind him and was just in the act of
hurling his spear. With incredible ce
lerity he whirled about, and before the
savage could check his rapid course ran
right into the Indian's arms.
Colter's unexpected action and tis
bloody appearance so startled the Black-
foot that he stumbled, and the lance,
thrown ten feet, stuck ix the ground
and broke off. While the redskin tried
to recover his equilibrium, Colter picked
np the piece of spear that retained the
head and drove it through the body of
the Indian, pinning him to the ground a
dead man. But fearing that the rest of
the band would presently appear, the
trapper stopped only long enough to
cure the dead man’s weapons and then
"an on, reaching the river more dead
limself than alive.
After a rest of a
plunged into the
and she makes things hum—an so’s her
children. Terrible nice children.
‘I’ve ben places where I'd git rid of
often by hunger and thirst, the trapper , “1 dnnno bow my man Fridayll get ‘ don’t cost nothin than ye do when it
still pushed on, determined to live along-wliile I’m gone. He’s kinder scat j does. That’s what’s the matter. Now
through it all. j o’ that leetle tower o’ mine, an don't he ! I’d tell yer. I sot out to go to Yarmouth
He subsisted for days on the wild hate wnss’n pi son bavin me gone! By i on a Sunday to see my cousin, Maria
plant known as sheep sorel, and the few thunder! But ef be ain’t old ernuf ter I Collins, an so I staid over till Monday,
weeds and grasses peculiar to the wild stayalone nights awhile Fll tell him he’d * Well, I’ll be blamed ef I ever hed a bet-
stretch of country over which his way . better be get tin him another job. Lord! *® r time in my life; an do ye believe, the
lay. One day he found the hole of a. he's forty-one, an me goin on twenty-five! whole thing didn't cost fifteen cents,
rabbit, in which was a litter of yonng. ! An I ain’t scat. Oh. he’s a big fool! Nor I couldn’t tell ter save me what I
Having no way of cooking, and too fain- It’B his watch till 12 tonight, anyway, ■ done, only set roun an laffed, an I dunno
ished to wait to do it if ho had had, Col-! an he can make the old gal go well what-1 was lafFn at. Maria’s a tearer
ter seized the little creatures and hastily enough if he’s a mind to an don’t go ter
killing them with a sharp stone that i dickerin with the machinery.”
served him for a knife, devoured their | There was a shade of anxiety in his
still palpitating bodies, tearing off their
skins with his naked hands. On another
occasion Colter attacked a wildcat with
O! >y his stone weapon and killed it.
si . ing the blood and eating it to the
vtr; entrails.
On the ninth day after he had escaped
from the Blackfeet a party of two traders ; know half the time which side his bread'
and a trapper named McLellan set out. buttered,
from Lisa’s fort for the south, and when
about six miles on their journey caino
across an object lying on the plain with ! depths of his trousers pocket
several buzzards hovering over it. Tak- j wrapped in newspaper. ! went to another party since. An just
ing it for the carcass of a calf or deer! “I come over to see if I conld borry a see what 1 la’d out, now, compared to
the travelers were about to pass it at a postage stamp,” he said; then suddenly ; Maria’s, an didn't get no lastin satisfac-
distance of twenty or thirty yards, when , laughed aloud at his thoughts. . tiont
McLellan. happened to see it make a ! “Jim’s so scat I didn't say a darned • ‘I gaess Fll - be goin now. Jim he’ll
gesture, as if to fight off a buzzard that' word how 1 was comin off after supper. I becussin an jawin’ an lookin out the
had alighted near it. The movement jest set him washin dishes, and that : door ev’ry little while t’ see ef I’m corn-
excited the hunter’s curiosity and he; takes all the mind he's got, an 1 snack in, but soon ez I heave in sight under
rode nearer the object. i out an let the dory fly; an when she < them tower steps, he’ll in and slam the
tone; he rose and tiptoed heavily to tiie 1 fifteen dollars an wisht all the whole
window, peering out to catch a glimpse j time I hadn’t went. There’s lots o'
of his faraway light. * I things yon pay for that’s poor invest-
“There she goes,” he said. “She’s all ment®, I say—'speeially parties and
right. Red, ten; white, five; oh, I gness presents. Now I’ll tell yer. I went to
the old boy knows what lie’s about, but i a party down to Moose Neck, an me an
he’s such an old fool, really, he don’t! nother feller we laid out five dollars for
know half the time which side his bread’s : the two of us, an blamed if it warn’t a
| clean fizzle. My boots was too small,
He was blistered from head to foot by j out from the tower, an the wind a blow- Hope to see you over to my house,'some
the sun's tierce heat, and had had nothing ■ in—I says, ‘Goodby, Jim,’ says I, *I’m o these nice nights. Well, I made
to eat fur over two days and no water i goin ter leave yer now;’ an my Lord! ho ^is»t, hain’t 1, this time! Ef ye stan up
for twenty-four hours. With all possi-! stomped int’ the entry and slammed s a ca H> an J' e set down it’s a visit,
ble care he was taken back to the fort j the door to. Choking mad, he was. My ! ^ e H> I guess 111 be goin. Good night!
and there regained his health and ! Lord! gness he hain’t got over a-cussin ! —Boston Transcript,
strength. With his sufferings in mind ‘ yet! Alius says when 1 do somethin oat :
Colter became an Indian scout, and is ; o’ common, says he, ‘Deuced tomfool-A Fortunate Greenhorn,
said to have killed with his own hand a : ery,’ says he;” and Crusoe buffeted his ^ “When I came to this country,” said a
hundred Blackfeet. He wore a belt to . cap in a tumult of boyith glee. merchant recently. “I was a lad fresh
Judge George C. Thomas the jC
was empowered to appoint a $
from each
president
endless freedom, and crazy abont bull I fjjend
* .... I “Take it, nina mia,” said he; “take I tr ^'
But, alas! the mornrng of the holy this money . it came to we from the Vir _ President Burnett’s Addr
fw 1 !! W si® d ® la Esperanza, and the bonita President Burnett then addressed the
Passion week the theaters had of couSe | “^thv motTe^’ ^ ^ lt . t ° elo 1 aent “ d ‘“P^ned
cure thy motlie . ..... manner, expounding the soundest Dem«
La Chata was so overjoyed that she
did not stop for a word of thanks, but I ^ erat,C ^ l
ran without turning to the druggist's l ar d© audienos with his easy de very
shop. end forcible argument. At another
Truly it was written that Morenito I time ths speech of Capt. Burnett will
go to the Easter bull course, appear in the columns of the Basmbb.
But as there are always compensations Then Came the Speak | n(r ,
in this world he did not on that account „ . .. . . ...
pass a less gay Sunday. j Hr- T. W. Reed was the first speaker
On that day Chata's mother was bet-1 the occasion. He dealt mainly with
ter, and the young girl came to the po-1 the great importance of keeping fcha
sada court to find and thank him for the ! Southern Democracy united, and the
been closed, and he, in consequence un
able to continue his business of pro
gramme selling, did not at the moment
possess a cnorto in his pocket.
All the more was he sensible of his I
poverty, as on Easter morning a superb "l
corrida of bulls, with Mazzantini and |
Frascuelo as spadas, was to be held in
Seville; and now, seeing the emptiness I
of his purse, he was going to be deprived [
of his favorite spectacle.
But may be after all it was not too I
fo^d iJthe st^teTf the city! Hope 6 f™ e he had done them. She had importance of speedyand efftotiva or-
returned with the thought, and with a and w ith the restof the Ble'ssed Vd^n’s S anizfltion throughout Georgia,
murmured prayer to the Virgin de la m bought two Wood red roses for J,ld S 9 Geor * 9 C ’ J homaa
Esperanza, to whom he was greatly de- her raven tressc8i and tben sbe and Mo _ next speaker *ho in his own inimita-
voted, Moremto shook the rim of straw | renitohadgonetostroUalon g theGuad b i eway ur|) , e) | tbe gentlemen tore-
alqniver under the flowering orange I im mber the principles for which their
trees of the Alameda. fat lit rs fought and stand with the party
Spring had put I know not what flame | tbat ba8 ever been their friend,
in Chata's black eyes, and perhaps, too.
a tender sentiment had lent its aid to
this illumination. I only know that
when they found themselves in a se
cluded corner formed by the myrtle
thickets, the yonng girl brusquely threw
her arms around Morenito’s neck with a
frank
“1 love thee, comradel’
And that while the bells rang out tho
that alone remained upon his curly locks,
and hurried from the stable in which
for the night he had made his bed upon
a heap of fodder.
The morning was magnificent. Against
a blue, sparkling sky the slender rose
tower of the Giralda stood oat with the
clearness of a delicate cameo; the streets
already were full of people arriving
from tho country to view the proces
sions of the Confradias, and already,
too, on the square of the Toros, a long
tail of purchasers eagerly besieged, the
The band v played “Dixie” and tho
very roof of the Opera House was al
most lifted oy the lusty oheejJj'g.
The Commander m-Chtef;
President Burnett tben arose and In-
I troduoed to the audience tbe Hon. Wil
liam Y. Atkinson, of Newnan, com-
„„„ ^ „„„ mander-in-ebief of the armies and na-
office of location —a sight that, yon I caro ig f or j be Easter service, the lips of I vies of the Demoeraoy of Georgia, tbe
may readily believe, did not lessen the tbese twQ children tasted thoir kiss ' ^
bitterness of his keen regret of iove.-Translated from the French of
For'torn- long, weary bourn Juanito Andre Tbeurie t by Mrs. E. C. Waggener
beat the pavement of the Rue de la for Sbort Stol . ie8 .
Sierpes, sniffing the odor of the fritters
and cinnamon cakes spnttering and | guvo Him plenty of itoom*
browning in the boiling oil, or following | Americans haven’t much reputation I lusion to the fact tbat that hare in Ath—
mittee.
Chairman Atklnsoni’s speech was
brim full of sound Democratic doctrine.
| He introduced bis remarks with *u al-
m
ymt
in the wake of the toreadors slowly f 0 r veneration and in the general 1 ens he spent his college days, here ha
promenading and strutting the flagging scramble are not noted for courtesy to wooe d and won the sweetheart of bi»
before the cafe doors, molded as if they I one another, but one day recently, when „. llr „ the wife of 'hisbosom
had been melted and poured into their the mercury suddenly fell off Wy I ™
ing an honest means of gaining the nec-1 jjj spots, there was witnessed a scene on I • He spike of the danger of splitting
essary pesetas, vainly sought to affiliate I crowded Broadway near the postoffice I the Democratic ranks in Georg r a and Of
himself with the venders that cried the reve rs.ed all of this. An honest, the necessity of organizing in'every
nain^ m oT e the differenrbrothe a rh^ e 6ob « r - n P ri S ht workman passed along. county intbe state,
names of the aifferentbrotherhooUs. and tbe courtesy with which he was TTa _ nva the ttu dipnce the true in-
All the places were filled in advance; treated on all sides suoke volumes for H gave 10 Cne Bual ® nce f a
they rebuffed him everywhere. American politeness waiducss and motives of tbe Third par- > t; v
At last, unable to stand it longer, his No matter how r o ng hly the icy wind and ur<ted an »&g r ®“ iv « buS coucill- 2,^
stomach empty, his back broiled by the layed with the mobi tbe j ndividnal atory tight against it.
8nn, he turned asid^ mto the Plaza de member of the latter bowed right and I He arra ? gned the Republican party $$$5
la Constitucion, where the processions I j e f t to this honest workman. He was I as tbe author of all iniquitous and bur-
would nrobablv come to a stand, and 1 i i j m, 1 . . ..
b of boyi&U glee. merchant recently, “I was a lad fresh | would nrobablv come to a stand, and 1 . , , \ a8 tnB auulor ”
which dangled the scalps of thatnnmber I “When 1 git back he’ll be awful glad, from old Ireland. My first home was finding under one of the portals of the Jther but^t him den80me k K lglat,0D ’ and Bho J ed ho ^
of that tribe.—Philadelphia Times. ! but he ain’t a-goin ter let on, mind; he with friends in Cambridge. In one of j Audiencia a corner full of shadow, he 3 0SI1 . e eacn oca er, out not mm. ^r or no I tbe Democracy bad-ever stood by the
| thinks I hain’t got hue half an eye, any- my walks, before I had been here a | dec ided to l-est there while awaiting the | -1“®'~ I people in their fight for relief.
Hatties in the Sen. | how, an ain’t never up to his tricks, week, 1 came across a queer, old fash-
The prince of Monaco had upward of; But I know him, sit—mnrm, likeabook! ioned house thjvt interested meimmense-
1,670 large bottles, incased in a thin ‘ He’ll let me haul the old dory up single ly. I described it to my friends, and
copper covering, thrown into the sea at handed an think he’s takin his spite out learned that it was the home of the poet
different points of the ocean between ; that way, but, good Lordl 1 kin run all Longfellow. That increased my inter-
Europo and America, and of these 226 j ’round him, as fur as tricks goes. Why, est.
have been returned to him by the gov-j it don’t take more mind than I’ve got in “The next day I went again to the
ernuients of the various countries to tho ‘ my collar button to git ’roun ole Friday, queer house and stood gawkily looking
shores of which they had drifted, and ; Don’t mean no reel harm, nor I don’t at it and at an old gentleman sitting in
their progress has been noted with suf-: never reely hurt him, but he is sich an the yard. I stared so long that the old
ficient accuracy to lead to the convic- ’ c i d fed 1 like to hector him some. Ef gentleman noticed it, and coining to the
tion that the movement of the upper ( it blows a haf a puff o’ wind he’s scat er fence asked me what I was looking at.
part of the water is circular, the center the tower tumblin down. I told him that I wanted to see the man
being to the west of the Azores. The j “That uight it blowed so—it’s-two who lived there, because 1 had read his
tide of the Atlantic thus descends the . weeks come next Monday—I tell yer tli - works in the schools of Ireland,
coast of Africa, and. running in a wes- • 0 j d g a j 8hook, an that's a fack. But, in/ “The old gentleman asked me what 1
m
tner® while awaiting the 5 fe ® t T And the wind oc- ■ - , ,
pa^ge of the Confradias. casionally caught it and shied it, shining Mr. Atkinson was vigorously ap-
“He that sleeps well dines well,” says ^ ahifting in the sunshine, to one side I plauded throughout his entire speech,
the Spanish proverb, and Morenito, in I and ^ be 0 t ber> and sent its nervous bear-1 and when he took his seat the applauw -
defanlt* of breakfast treated himself to er 8wing around in tbe vicioua eddie8> wa8 dea fening.
good, thick slice of dozing. Soon he | gi bng fija eyes with dust, as if intent Col. T. S- Mell next addressed the**-
S, “Z*. »!»» «»* breads
terly direction, flows on toward Ber
muda, and then tarns eastward.
The speed at which the bottles trav
eled is estimated at an average of four
gracious! she’s as tight as the hair on knew about Longfellow’s writings, and
yer head, an don't scare me none. Buc I told him I-knew enough about one
when we was to sapper, an the seas was poem to repeat every word of it.
a-bangin an a-bnstiu on her, and the “When he heard that he asked me to
miles in twenty-fonr hoars, thongh at j dishes a-rattlin, I jest hit the table leg a come into the house and recite the poem
some points they attained a rate of six I cb p an solemn ter Jim, 1 says, ‘Jim, to him. I went in andrepeated ‘The Vil-
miles. It was in the western half of the. we're a goner!’ an he up an down a-pray-. lage Blacksmith’ without making a mia?
circle thus described that the rapidity fc,. «oh, what'll we do?* says he. An I take. That pleased my listener, and put-
was greatest. One bottle had drifted j aay8i ‘Jim,’ says I, ‘mc-bbe she’ll fall to ting on his hat he asked me to walk with
about for upward of five years.—Pall • landward,’ I says, an by gosh! wasn’t. him. He said that I should have some?
Mall Gazette. he mail when he ketched on! ' thing that many people had asked for
I “1 ben washin today. Did yer see my and tried in vain to get.
Somewhat Qualified. ] washin out? Washed and ironed same “He stopped under a big tree and said:
or two he
Ibort distance to a
m
Little Girl—Did you ever see a ghost! lny ab i rt? Ain’t it clean? ‘This is the tree under which that poem
Little Boy—No. j Can’t I wash good?” he asked brightly, you recited was written. The village
“Didn’t you ever, really?” j standing np and throwing open his smithy was under this tree.’
“No.” I jacket, beating his breast, as if we, too, ’ “Then the aged poet inarched np and
“That’s qneer. Everybody has seen might C ome forward if we would and with his own hand broke off a branch of
ghosts.” j smite upon his manly shirt front. that famous tree and gave it to me.”—
“Everybody?” ... I A fine deep red surged up in his Boston Herald.
“Well, I don’t mean that exactly, hut weather.beaten cheeks in .pride of per-
nearly everybody has known people who formance. “We git done terrible quick, Ca P > L ’*® d by Tl
has heard of people who has seen ghosts.” '
—Good News.
Tax ten.
we do. Shove the table up longside the . The teacups used by tea merchants in
gtove an let her go. Hain’t got but one tasting tea are made especially for the
flatiron, so 1 drive her awhile, an then purpose of tbe finest French china and
Jim, when she’s hot agin. But don’t have no handles or saucers. The teas
—: - Jim’ make a kick, thought My Lord! are carefully weighed out and placed in
lies along tbe northern border of Miune- j good enough ef he folds ’em the cups, when boiling water is poured
A Paradioe for Thermometer Fiends,
The coldest region in the United States
lu 1040 me .—-— t •
istered from 56 to 60 below.-St. Louis
Republic.
"n,,ie«t*i hn, | an sets on 'em awuw, dui i uon s want on them. Tea tasters nowadays de-
Lake of the Woods and the Dakota bor- »» man j^m me that don’t lion his pend more upon the odor than the taste
der. The temperatnre along that ime j ^ aQ j keep bim at it> an w hile of teas and some of the most expert do
often falls as low as 50 degs. belo^ Mro. « ^ ^ leeward an lay not taste them at all, but rely entirely
In 1870 the instruments at Pembina reg- qnie ^ u v npon smelting them. - Philadelphia
“I’m a terrible good washer an ironer Ledger,
myself, but it’s mendin gits me. I’ve got
a hole in the heel o’ this sock Fve got on
now, an kills me to wear a hole. An
blamed ef I kin sew it.np. An buttons
off—can’t go that neither; Pve got three
nts I’ve got on, but I can’t
You bust your buttons off,
gin on that ole dory o’
down ev’ry time yer
What a d*bi of sratiimle the wwld owes
in-such men »s Dis. Ay< r S' d J-;m»»r th-
latur for the ureal ilncoveiyoi vnccinatmn
-.nd the former for his Ex'ract of Sarsapa
rilla-tin- best of blood-pur;fi>n! wbo
au e-timaie how mocli these disco *1168
»d the ruxl
E : B<- f as »!'•“ voung lady *ho
• j sl cai ;e ff ihelmnors fioma f.,-h-
i . Hide ho dunr seh>K*l said, fh«-r>
mi-^l ievousbertU swallow il Hi ep>
fu! or Dr Bull’- Oqu «* Svrup.
Thunks t- the n-ro? i ctio. of Salvat-on
O r. oi r onng b cj cleis uead not fear a
m
faith! but he was handsome sleeping | I dieuce in a brief but interesting
thus; stretched full length on the broad, I The^ polite crowd parted before him ner * His speech, strong and vigorous,
white stones, one ana doubled under uke tbe billowy sea ^f ore a cnnarder, but interspersed with rare and raey an
tes black cnrly head, the long biack then fell together gurgling in his wake ecdotes, was enjoyed very much b/
lashes sweeping the brown of the cheeks, to ttmMe at what m ; g ht have hap- those present.
over^eethaa Isrttiteas*almo^dteLd^ pened : “ ia doubtful ! f , a workingman Ex-Mayor Edward T. Brown nsxt MA
“ w „ I ever before cut so wide a swath on | 8Doke . He stated that last July he had
tou^te^hx^tThJZomen^you^g f road . way :. lt was I ^iyered a speech on the campusto tbe W.
I to watch his progress and to specteate fftrmer8 Q( N F orthea8t Georgia and "that f
people and doubtlessi newly mamed-at ^ bow ma ny thousand fragments a farmers of Northeast Georgia
any rate, a couple of loyers-one knew Bin le misstep might cause the glass to he desired to reiterate every word,and
it by the way they held each others ^ Prided. All the business world Utind upon that platform. But hwwa*
■tood Btill for a minute to see him pass, satisfied that the men who advocated
th0 „ princ ,„,„...Id «r.v.
second to contemplate the sleeper; what I Managing a Boy Baby. error if they went out of the Democrat-
a picture he would make—that pose par- Tired Woman (in a railway car)— ic raDk? * Hia 8 P® ech ™ a Btron *J >ne *
ticularly; that open, outstretched hand, pi ea se, sir, will you hold my baby awhile? U was full of logio. It was convinc-
as if waiting for alms to fall from He’s crying so I can do nothing with him. ing that the white man’s government fmk
heaven. See it!” | Male Passenger—Um—what is he cry-1 should rule in the South and that it
“From heaven, yes,” said the young I f or ?
wife, smiling; “but a better surprise “Nothing at all, sir.”
still, Fernande—the alms, give it your
self, some money in his hand that he’ll
find when-he wakens/
Lovers are always generous. It was
a five franc piece that the young man
drew from his purse-and tightly laid
npon the open palm, which mechanical
ly half closed itself at the contact of the be u ye j]
Well—er—what good will it do for
me to take him?*’
“Then he’ll have something to cry
about.”
Oh, he will?”
'Yes, sir., He’ll be crying for me then,
and tho longer you hold him the louder
cold metal; then, smiting at each Other,
the couple passed on their way.
Bat Morenito continued to sleep, and
while sleeping to dream. He dreamed
that by a ladder the color of heaven’s
own canopy, the pure Virgin of la Es
peranza descended to him from the
skies. On her head was a crown of
‘I presume so.’
‘Yes, sir. Then, when he is real sure
it is only me he is crying for,-I’ll tak© | read ^ for the fray
him and he'll stop.”—Good News.
can alone be preserved in tha ao*
lidity of the Democratic party.
Hon. R. B. Rnsaell was the last speak-
r. On aoc^untof the lateness of the
hour he cut hiB remarks short hut
while he spoke he made every word
tell. *
The meeting was a grand success. It
demonstrated the fact that the Demo
cracy of Clarke is in the saddle and
Afraid of Thirteen.
There is not a player in the land today
who will not - think twice before signing
lilies, in her fingers lilies and roses, and I with a company whose total
she said to him in a voice sweeter far | actors will be jost thirteen.
DYSPEPSIA ANP LIVER COM
PLAINT.
Is it not worth the small price of 75c
than honey dew-
“Juanito, thou hast never forgotten
one single ti ne to pray to me each morn
and evening. In recognition of thy
piety, and in honor of the resurrection
of myson. 1 wish to reward thee. Thy
number of 40 free Y 3ar3e,f of every symptom of
rffTLn thfss distressing complaints, if yoa
it la con- (1)5nk SQ cal , at our 8tore and
sidered by all that not only will the get a f ,f sttiloh’a Vitalizer, «v-
eompany fail, but one of the thirteen | ry bottle has a printed guarantee on it r
Who start out will come back a corpse, use accordingly and if it does you n« MB
-Chicago Herald. » good it will cost you nothing. Sold by
City Drug Store. B. C. Oir, Manager.
The Handsomest Lady in Athens,
desire is granted, thou shalt go US the Remarked to a friend the other day that Those who wish to see a pretty sight
corrida Snndayl” she knew Kemp’s Balsam for the Throat 8b0u i d go to the Children’s Easter
At the same time the virgin shook and Lungs was asupfrior remedy, ss it Hunt next Mondny, April 18th. BUMH
ioto Morenito'. pata <fc.*d.«l* ' a r,'SL''ia2!!Sf .-21 .5*.
; dresses, i
rn.es and roses, Ve°.«S.y^£
each leaf, mto a piece of money, and , merit any drr .ggi s t will give you a Sams I buat
which caused him such-joy that he n i a Bottle Free. Lirze size 50c and SI. *
