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FAYETTEVILLE, GA„ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1889.
NO. 8.
A Summer Scene.
' The panting cattle seek the shade,
The lazy swine the mine.
Along the hedge the sheap fixe laid
Like sacrifices for the blade
And hazy altar-fire.
The meadow-lark, with open bill
And weakened vtfng«nd tone,
lake one who’s lost ht£ Stores of will,
Is languid, drooping, sitting still,
Disheartened, aimless, lone.
The tender germs of fkadden seeds,
Unseen beneath the crufit
Of the burnt earth and wilted'weeds,
Wait for the coming rain that feeds
The life within the<dust.
Now from behind tfhe ■eastern M's,
Like dusky sails unfurled,
Dark clouds arise, the thunder thrills:
(Hound like the grinding of the mills
j That feed the hungry world.
j O glorious bow in splendor rolled
Through the vast realm’above 1
\ Glowing in colors manifold—
’ Blue, crimso i, violet, and gold;
In heaven a siga<ef love.
In sunlight, as the mist moves fey *,
Where the dim clouds wereaiven, 7
Upon the blue waU<©£ the aky f
A premiss and a prophesy f
In sacmd scrip*!*! igiven. .
God wields with mercy arid vjiih m aght
The (f ashisg bolt—His rod.
Behold thsfhiulliantccreh of light!
Thecriorefi bowtthat greets our si ght
Is tbeiautograph at God.
—(Saarffo ‘W. iBumgay in FraeJc Iieslie'i
T
A SUMMER HITTING.
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You never-saw medook-eo well in any f
life®* IReaBy, I .liaven’t felt as well (ford
years, .and it’s ;.all rawing tomysssm-'i
oner's -outing—II egaisnd Jtenjpounds imc. ■
month.
Wherd did ILgd? lSIot>tK» Saratoga,
cb nor theWhito 3Iouni
Out.* ilf (,mu.st-kno w, I didn't gov
three uniles ifromiliome.
I hove always wvorked : hard, for you.
know.there.is.always.-enough to do in;L
family of childs.’ep,.atnd coubLn’t
affoed-much hired. ..help. 1 Etzery year If
have ffclt h h a t Howosygrowtip.-j old £aet,
but IwrasisKrrer so-scnsible.eif it as last
■spring.
Soiurihosy, il bad I Install, attk-ition .*5
well 8C:«tremjth. iEwytJjiflgr ww ai
burden-to me, ■ eveyy„metle-luE. of wodk
looked ;Uko.iaimountom. . Ii bad mo ap-;
to me % tt*d in the morning I i&nk edJoha
if he ‘waviTd’-ffet a team and’Cmri y me up,
to/As widow Smith’s. ' Sbe 1 ivea on A j
bul^n tbe ; WDrth part ofthc town, Olid,
I h»fi !1 h9tt | d :i that'®he was ifilr'ir ig up <her:
hetasa ttt-teke summer botrd «ts. It is
just suchwi place as city pi Ksple like,
tmezyaud sightly, and teie re are ple&s-
wut, rtttnf'mtic walks aud'dlr rves in every
’'direction. ’Somehow it v (as home ‘on
tryon^k e that it wss juil 1 die place '.for
i»e. knew she had«otj boarders this
yeitr.i-Jbut was' preparing to take some
i*eit^3ummcr. How her eyes ifuirly
stodd out when 1 laskCil her if she ’wetrld
takfifme as a bowdar for a month.
"**Why< certainly, Shire. Crispin,”’ stxej
staid hesifcafcingHjy aiad. then I rexjplainod
the matter.
'*“1 watnt te fbenpi'et and rest, and-ibc
♦Waited on just ‘the stomp .-as though -I
e*ne from .a thoretand nrilee away. I.
■‘dt n’t vnant’owcn to take-cam of ‘my owe,
«om."
’ “It’a.jjust the 1 thing,” rheatad. “I
‘Want Doran; *nd Mary Ann to ’ have
some sort’d?iprata ice so S&eyoan wait on
-fl’I^ity hoarders -genteelly and il kmowyou
svouMri’.tmciindlx' they wane adittle.awk-
ward at ifLruti ”
So me avrangoi it ml a few ‘minutes.
I wae ito hsrc a targe, ■6imnyijqu:et
chant her, writfcxhe liberty of (the whole
house ;anii 'promises, and i*ne or the
other‘Of vthe ‘young peoiple to tribe -the
team :and.carry me to ride 'whenever I
wished, eull Ifor three dollars a week.
Awdll'vruo to^ctme the very mext day.
EBfchwnsfaiort time to get asadjr i£cr.a
moiath’-smuting, you might .fifcink, ’but it
was alll II needed. No now dresses to
make .or any thing,—it was costful just
to think.of it! I packed a -small -trunk
irM|.0.o^jhi{ '.even put
an apron' Of any sort,'lest at -shonld
remind ime-ob work, and tb*t I manted
.to forgat. In the very feottom of the
trunk I put alia w pieces .of fancy-work
that I Jiad <bogun at Turiouis times in
years paai; and never had itnae :to ifinish,
though any; lingers had .e/ten .fairly
atchcd tie get hold of them as a ariijf
from artaresoiTM monotony .«£ patching
-and damning. Lately I had lost all,am-
•‘bition, .even, Star them, but I hoped I
i might fieri differently after f was rested.
. .Nextuhnvelhein I put ia hooks that
loiad bee* in ths house for y.eais and I
petite, land.thvughdiLwasajired aQ the
time, I cGouldd’t sle^p..at.*ll well nights. . never hadrfime to read, also went
I was se meivoiis that e» cry than gwor T
; ried me. middn. Johdls sshipp Acnass the
street, the ringing of , the,.anvil that I
used to t!:hink so musical, teamed to
best every .stroke on my, bR*'n.
People ufloclite tell bw, “jY!qu -nought
to go away siudaest, ” Umtiit isn’t easy
for <fc.o moliher df a family to deave sjx
childr en between the ages of three .viad
thirteen, whian icivery par.ny .Jins . to be
counted twice before you aise .it.
AuBt.DrusitCii,cnsn3 to .-sec .us.ui ’the
last ofv illy.
“Nowr, Almira (Crispin,’ w -she said:be
fore shet’lhd been ia the bnauae ten .xnin-
(■utes, “L.didn’t come to nuke you any
.work, ll-ve heard how poorly yo,ui
i was, andf, must say you do look epind
.lin’ enough; but I've come to help yon
iJ’rn agoin'’iAq keep house and afnd yo.u
•Off somewheres.”
John seconded the idea, but whore
.should I go?
“Go out to (Ohio and visit your sis
ter,” ho suggested. “You nevor went.,
niul you’ve always wanted to go.”
haven’t the money nor strength
to got ready, nor Ao go if I was ready,”
laaid. ‘‘Moreover I don't feel like
visiting anybody.”
“That’s wliat you .don’t,” said Aunt
DrusilJa. “I know just how it is.
You fool a .good deal more like ecj&wlin’
into a liole, and then draw in’ the hole
in after yci”
I acknowledged I did. “Even if I
had all the money I wanted to uso, I
shouldn’t feel like going to any placo
where I had to make an oilort of any
kind in tho way of dress or con
versation.”
The talk drifted on to something
else, hu‘ that very night an idea came
.■ever to the (village library am (I selected
■C number more .that I especially wanted,
il 3ent to Boston a month's tubscriptaon
-fer a daily | ippper, resolved, if I .did
nncthing else to get read up on the events
•at the day. Itijnakes a woman feel w®
\ftlEy i xusty to .havo so many bright
yonag minds gmowing up around her
and asking questions which she cannot
answer, from sheer.lack of time to in-
f«isi(r herself.
,It was quite a scone when I came to
start rthe next morning. I had never
left cqy family for a week, before that,
and the idea of my keinggone a month,
even if jl wasn’t going out of town,
seemed as startling to them as if I were
going to Europe. Truth to tel!, it
ceqmod almost the saene to me, and I
said to Aunt Drusilla:
“You m»ist send for *nedf any of the
ehtldrcu are sick, you know."
Aunt Dreisilla is a boun,nurse and
knows more than half the doctors. She
Quly.iaughod sad said:
“Net much! You’re goiu’ away to
■rust, not to have the care and worriment
•oi your family on your mind. But one
thing remember—if I do send for
you., git homo as quick as you can., for
you may be fare I consider ’em pretty
awful sick.”
The Smith family received me with as
much deference as if I had been a lady
from Boston, whom they had never
seen beforo, and I drifted quite natural
ly into my now life. Ear tho first week
I slept about half tho time.- It was so
quiet in tho mornings up tlioro, my
room being too far away to hear the
family noiso, and if I woke it was so
restful to think that I ncod not got
up till I pleased, that I would just lio
wn4 doze and dream till I was thorough*
'lyres teA.
Whom T went down %o breakfast^ my
daily pnper always lay by my plats
^Hordes "Went to the postuffico early and
got it for me), so I me ad/that as I sipped
my’oafteo and ate any breakfast, with
Mdry Ann waiting on me, handy and
■quhft. I ate my dinner and supper with
the family, but everything was served
with such nicety that it was appetizing;
and only a women who has had the care
of all her meals for’fifteen years knows
'•That a relish it imparts to food not to
“know in the least what you are to hava
till you sit down at the table.
I gathered ‘fir-bulsam for pillows,
made thistle balls aad bouquets of
■ whiteeverlasting. Y skeletonized leaves,
pressed flowers and ferns, gathered cones
lichens,, evergreens, and gray moss, and
did >a great many happy, idle things.
Iu the evenings I read till I war
sleepy, then ! went to bed early, and
after tbe' first few nights, slept soundly
until morning. So day after day passed,
aDd I found myself really feeling better,
and all without a particle of medicine.
After breakfast I used to lie in the
hammock and read awhile, and when
the dew was off, I would sometimes
stroll away, in the fields or woods gath
ering flowers, and sauntering as slowly
and idly . as I pleased. The open air
proved a very good tonic for me, and I
would .have a fine appetite for dinner.
After dinner I took a long nap on my
bed. It used . to seem at first as if I
eould never sleep enough, but towards
the last of my stay, I felt so rested and
well that I gave up my day-time naps.
After the heat of the day had passed,
Horace or Mary Ann would late the
team and eiirry me t* ride off .through
the spicy woods, or on to some breezy
hill-top where the view was grand and
inspiring. I never rode near the village,
and never went in sight of home, nor
did auv of the family eome to see me..
But the know.edge that I could go
home at any time in half an hour kept
mo easy and contented.
.The last week of my stay I began to
think of the fancy-work.in the bottom
of my trunk. 1 unearthed tt, and found
it really looked goo 1 to mo, so I passed
many pleasant hours that week sitting
on tho porch, putting fancy stitches
into the crazy-quilt, and crocheting
doylies. At my request Mrs. Smith sat
„with me when she was at liberty, and
we had many pleasant visits together.
I found time;and strength that week
to -write many letters to long absent
friends whom I had perforce neglect
ed, and to piny croquet with tho
young ipeople.; and J made up my mind
11 would play with the children «^hen
I got home. I would never so busy
myself in work again.
iHomo never looked so good to me as
it did when I came back to it, rested
and refreshed. I felt equal to doing
anything.
“I never saw the beat of it,” said
Aunt Brasilia. “You look like a new
woman. Jest to think what a little
nay (twelve dollars would go towards
riggin’ up an invalid for a journey, or
carryin’ ’em along, or how few doctor’s
bills it would pay, and then see what
it has done for you by spendin’ it sensi
bly. I s’pose some folks would call you
‘mortal queer’ for doin’ it, but what of
that? Dear-bought and far-fetched isn’t
always the best in the long ran.”
Audi endorse Aunt Drusilla. — Tht
Housewife.
To Extirpate Mosquitoes.
Mr. Robert H. Lamborn is a Now
York philanthropist, and he proposes to
*id tho world of the buzzing, biting
mosquitoes. If his plans for extermi
nating th« in sect can be carried out sue
cessfclly tho residents of the tide-water
sections of <he eastern shore and of
oditc localities should erect a monument i
fio'his genius. Baltimore, too, would !
foe >duly grateful. Mr. Lamborn’s phil
anthropic scheme is to propagate dragon
flies, which will prey upon mosquitoes
*9 the hawk does upon sparrows. He
looks at the problem in this way: If
‘millions of healthy .fish can ire produced
■in a fewik.boratory boxes, if silk-worms
•oon be propagated by scores of millions
tficom ‘eggs carried half around the
world to (Italy, and tf foreign humble
4>ees can-Ibe bred in .Australasia to fertil
ize thcixad clover, then dragon flic? can
fee artificially produced by millions,
scatter*!! over the -country and set to
thetr task of gobbling up the mosqui
toes. .iEr. Lamboon doe? not say
•whether the dragon flies would not be
come «ipest like the English sparrows.
Like thee j birds they might find more
toothsome morsels than bony and lank
mosquitoes, and human beings and ani
mals might be the sufferers, as tender
buds instead of caterpillars have suffered
through the English sparrows. But Mr.
Xambornjss not dabbling with possibili
ties. He is dealing with cold facts,
.and it is sufficient for him to know that
the dragon By dotes on mosquitoes.
Mr. Lamborn is fond of outing?, and
■ one summer, while camping in the
woods of Miuncsota, he observed dragon
flies gathering in scores to feed on the
pestiferous insecls which were buzzing
around his earn. The flies possess vora
cious appetites, which mosquitoes in
great abundance fail to satisfy, and in
hustling after th.ir meals they have
been known to gobble a dozen or more
house flies. Here would be auother
field of usefulness for them. Mr. Lam-
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Words are but wind bubblei.
Virtue embraces vice by pointing it
out.
There is no influence superior to the
individual sense.
A man ccasc3 to be wise when he bo- ■
gins to feel wise.
The growth of man depends upon hrs
courage to go ahead. <
The liberty of man depends upon his
courage to defend it.
! The man who is not ignorant is ‘“ust
j too sweet for anything.’’
The reason why people are so easily
i influenced is because they arc tirs-it «’)
i ■*- «*- 7
; The element of conceit in man will
| develop without the least cultivation.
Honest people are the respectable
| ones, regardless of their dre35 or man-
i ncr3.
The spirit nature of man is more ac-
| five while it is surrounded with ma
terial.
Unhappy people arc those who sell
their birthright and embrace the shad
ow of popularity. —*
Character the Key to Sutcess-
Two fundamental psychological elc=-
ments to be always studied among any,’
people are character aad intelligence-
character is infinitely more important to
the success of an individual or a race
than intelligence. Rome, in her de
cline, certainly possessed more superior
minds than the Rome of the earlier ages
of the republic. Brilliant artisfs, elo-,
quent rhetoricians, and graceful writers,
appeared then by the hundred. Rat;
she was lacklc^sp^en of manly and-
energetic charl-A'A-Aw,-^o may perhaps
have been careless of the refinements of
art, but were very careful of the power
of the city whose grandeur they had
founded. When it hid lost all there,
bom believes sincerely in his theory of ^ 0lne ^ a d to give way to people much
exterminating mosquitoes, and has
placed ia the hands of Morris A. Jesup,
President of the American Museum of
Natural Ilislory of New York, tho sum
of $200 to be paid as priz.s for essays
cn methods of producing dragon flics in
sufficient quantities to swallow all the
moEquitocs in the world.
Abuse of the Eye.
The abuse of the eyo is the crime of
tho age. 1 am prepared to demonstrate
that at least nine-tenths of the prevail
ing sleeplessness of which we hear so much
is due to nervousness directly traceable
to the optic nerve. We are wearing
our eyes over books and desks and
types, and the effect shows itself not |
only in the appearance of the organ it- i
self, but in its retrospective effect on !
nerve and brain. I have discovered a 1
remedy for sleeplessness, and for the
reason that I have never known it to
less intelligent but more energetic. The
conquest of the ancient, refined, and
; lettered Graeco-Latin world by tribes of
j semi-barbarous Arabs constitutes another
j example of the same kind. History ia
; full of SUch,
—*■ ’ ^ ’
Ambition of a Muscovite,
i Among the most original of the
i foreigners now iu Paris must be mcn-
j tioned a Muscovite magnate who has
i been in the exhibition everv dav since
] ‘ ts opening, and whose special mania is
j t0 last c every cosmopolitan dish that is.
I prepared on or near the Champ dc Mars.
i Ho has eaten everything, iuciudinf* the
j unsavory messes of the Annamites, and
j intends to go on with his gastrouomical
experiences until he has exhausted all
the international menus.—London Tele
graph.
Lassoed a Bear.
The Globe, Arizona, Silrer Belt savs:
fail I am fortified in my opinion that Renteria, while riding the range out
the wholo trouble arises from overstrain : four miles from McMdlen, ran across a
of the oyes. Take a small cloth—say a ' big bear, and before bruin knew what
piece of napped towel—and fold iu it | was up Renteria's lariat was fast about
two small pieces of ice at a proper dis- - his neck and he was gasping for wind,
tance apart to exactly cover the eyes j The bear was a tough customer to
when tho cloth is laid across them.
Then lie down, adjust tho cloth with
the ice over the closed eyes, and you
will bo asleep in a very short while.
handle, weighing about 330 pounds,
but Renteria pluckity stayed with him
and finally succeeded iu choking bruin
to death and dragging him into camp,
A Customary Amusement.
Depot Official—I regret to say, mad
am, that you havo missed connections
mid there will be no train north for six
hours.
Lady* Traveler—Very well. If you
will direct me to tho nearest large dry
goods establishment I will buy some
thing and spoud the tirno waiting for
my change.
If tho social problem was settled
there would be no food for society to
exist upon.
Antiquity of Libraries and Schools.
1 iie existence ot libraries and schools
1 before tho exodus was shown by a report
at a recent meeting of the Victoria In-
; stitnte i:i London. Professor Saver, by
! personal investigation of ancient tablets
I and inscriptions, found that ii^ the
| fifteenth century before our era active
literary intercourse was going on
| throughout tire civilized world of wos-
I tern Asia, between Bibylou and Egypt
and the smaller states of Palestine, of
Syria, of Mesopotamia, aud even of
eastern Cappadocia. This intercourse
was carried on by moans of the Baby
lonian language and the complicated
Babylonian script.
Block.
•V- ur mother
of you as stio
A Stumbling
Rev. Ibimro-e —
doesn't seem as foatl
might be.”
I.ittlc Johnnie — “N\ sir. Sire sars
if it hadn't been for me -he'd have had
sister married years ago.' — Harper's
linear.
Bananas nr the Tropics.
Bananas in Arc tropics are eaten r:nv
or with sugar and cream.or nine oraugo
i juice. Cooked when green cr ripe they
I are fried alone or iu butter, baked with
, the skin; on or made i;to puddings or
I pics. They are made into a paste which
j is the staple food of manv M xicaa
j tribes.
