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VOLUME IX.
BETWEEN THE LEAVES.
BT JOSEPHINE POLLAKD.
I took * roluras, old and worn,
From off th library ehalf on* day;
The covert were defaced and torn.
And many a leaf had gone astray,
t tinned the pages slowly o’er
In *earch of some forgotten truth,
Familiar In the days of yore
As were the school books of my youth.
The mlldowed leaves, the faded print,
Seemed quite inanimate and cold,
As if they ne’er had been the mint
From which I garnered precious gold.
Bo dull and colorless the page,
I turned and turned, in hopes to find
Something that would restore to age
The freshness of the youthful mind.
As wel', indeed, might I essay
Hope’s early visions to renew,
Or give unto a dead bouqnot
Its former fragrance and its dow.
I closed the volura* with a sigh,
As if it were Joy’s entrance door--
A bit of color caught my ej'e
Just as it fluttered to tho floor.
’Twas but a maple leaf, all bjotchod
With gold and crimson, green and brown.
The edges delicately notched,
And perfect still from stem to crown;
And when I took it in my hand,
This little leaf from maple trea.
As if it were a magic wand,
Brought back a vanished youth to qta.
I lived again those Joyful days,
The old, familiar Bongs I sung,
And walked again, with sweet delays,
The paths I loved when I was young.
B’en as the hues upon the leaf,
Each scene appeared so freshly bright
That all remembrances of grief
Were lost, and faded out of sight.
A SEVERE TEST.
A Story of the Melbourne Police.
Borne years ago—a good many more,
In fact, than I care to recall now—l was
wandering very disconsolately through
one of the main thoroughfares of Mel
bourne, debating with myself the advisa
bility of walking down to the quay and
offering my services as steward to the
Captain of the first homeward-bound ves
sel on which I might see the “blue
peter ” hoisted. Things had gone very
badly with me; every enterprise to
which I had turned my attention had
either fallen through or resulted dis
astrously to myself; and, after vainly
trying my luck in the colony for over
three years, I came to the conclusion
that the sooner I reconciled myself to
the utter failure of my attempts the bet*
ter it would be both for my peaoe of
mind and my constitution.
in this dismal mood 1 was listlessly
reading orer the shipping announce
ments posted on an adjacent wall, when I
came across a notice from the Police De
portment, intimating, in tersely official
language, that a few now hands were
needed—hands who were strong, vigor
ous, healthy, shrewd, good horsemen,
and rejoicing in the possession of such
other natural advantages as would inev
itably insure their success in any lino
they chose to adopt. I was A good
horseman, healthy, and tolerably
Btroug; my shrewdness I had begun to
doubt lately ; and, as for the rest of the
desiderata —well, I suppose I was nr
well off os’" 1 ost people.
Here, possibly, was a chance for me;
st any rate, it was only a few days' delay
if nothing came of it; I would make my
application and chance it. I returned to
my diggings, wrote an official applica
tion as per directions, and, to make a
long story short, received, two days lat
er, a note desiring my attendance at the
station on the following day. Here,
after a rather stiff examination, physical
and mental, and such tests of horseman
ship as taking a five-barred gate with my
arms folded—whioh I accomplished suc
cessfully—l was told that everything
was tolerably satisfactory, and I might
expect an official notification of appoint
ment at an early date. Meanwhile, it
would be desirable, I was informed, that
I kept the matter, as far as it had gone,
quite private; a stipulation I had no dif
ficulty in conforming to, since I had not
a single friend in the city.
On the evening of the following day I
found at my quarters a second note from
Hr. Superintendent, conspicuously
marked “Private,” and conveying the
Ter 7 agreeable intelligence that I was
temporarily engaged from that day. The
letter closed with a request that I would
call at once on the Superintendent.
Somewhat to my dismay, I found, on
presenting myself, that my permanent
appointment was conditioned upon my
satisfactorily carrying through a special
job then on hand. It was an affair of
acme nicety ; and an old hand, from an
other station, would have been given the
work, but for being absent on other
business. The matter would admit
no delay; and it was imperatively neoes-
Barj that it was undertaken by someone
not, or seemingly not, belonging to the
Melbourne foroe, In short, I was to *r
The matter was * ,
u.. . ~ —lent papers, of high
ddddddddd
importance, had been stolen from th e
messenger to whose care they were in
trusted ; and, from information received,
ik seemed pretty certain that their pres
ent possessor—a man fast becoming
notorious in the colony—would be walk
ing toward the city next afternoon ; and
to prevent his intimate acquaintance
with the town enabling him to escape,
or any confederates attempting his re
lease, I was to wait by a bridge on tha
line of road, about ten miles out of Mel
bourne, and get the papers from him.
The man was by no means to be shot,
or if possible even hurt; but the papers
must be secured. Minute instructions
as to his appearance were followed by a
pretty plain implication that my career
in the force would very largely depend
upon my success.
I felt, as may bo easily imagined, in
anything but high spirits. The pros
pect of a single-handed enoounter with a
man of whoso resources I knew nothing,
and who might blow my brains out be
fore I bad a chanoe of attack, was not
cheering. However, there was nothing
for it; it was my last chance, and I
must embrace it without shirking.
Next day, which was Sunday, I ac
cordingly procured a horse from the sta
tion, and, taking my revolver with me,
started out to try my luck as a police
man, and about 2 o’clock in the after
noon came near the place mentioned.
I left my horse at the nearest roadside
“hotel,” sauntered to the bridge, and,
leaning over the rail with no very dis
tinct notion of how I was going to act,
waited for my man with what coolness I
could muster.
Two hours had passed ; the suu was
beginning to go down; and I was just
preparing to console myself with the
notion that the man had got wind of
our intention, and gone by another
route, when I became aware of the ap
proach of a solitary pedestrian. As he
came nearer, I ran over the description
of the man I wanted—which I had
learned by heart—and at once concluded
that this was the individual. He was a
tall, powerful, uncompromising-looking *
fellow of about five and forty, muscular
enough to have lifted me up and thrown
me over the bridge into the shining
water beneath. I commenced to walk *
over the bridge as the man approached
it—passed him slowly, and felt sure it
was the man.
After going two or three yards, I
turned back. Hearing my step, the
purloiner of state documents turned
round.
“ Well, mate, what is it ? ”
“ Can you oblige me with a pipe of
’baccy?” I asked.
11 Oh ! ye* handing me his pouch.
“ What are you doing about here ? You
don’t look over-brisk. Broke ? ”
“ Pretty nearly,” I replied.
“New arrival, I suppose?”
“Almost.”
“ Ah! there are too many carpet
knights floodiug Melbourne. Come out
expecting to make a pile, got disap
pointed, and don’t like to work for your
grub, eh ? Put a screw of tobaoco in
your pocket—you’ll find it pleasant com
pany on the road.”
I nearly emptied the pouch and
handed it back ; and, as the owner put
out his hand for it, I slipped my foot be.
hind his heel and pushed him. He
tripped and fell splendidly. I was pret
ty quick in wTestling, and I took hold of
the man’s throat with my left hand, put
my knees on his chest and with my
right hand felt in the breast-pocket of
his coat He struggled violently, but I
thought I should succeed. I got my
hand on some papers; but, as I was
drawing them from the pocket, the
ruffian got hold of my right knee-cap
with hi* left hand, and gave it such a ter
rible wrench that I believed he had dis
located the joint Then feeling my hold
relax, he suddenly hoisted himself with
his right hand, sprang up, caught hold of
my wrists, and hurried me to the bridge.
Holding me thus in an iron grip, and
glaring fiercely at me, he said:
“I see your game; there’s only one
way of dealing with the police. Dead
men tell no tales ; *o over you’re going*
youngster.”
Suiting his action to the word he re.
leased my hands, and in the same in
stant grasped me firmly and hoisted me,
My last chance seemed to lie in an
old twist I had learned at college. As
the man raised me, I placed my feet on
the brickwork of the bridge, pushed
myself back with all my strength,
jerked a little forward, lowered my
head, and then fairly twisted under my
captor’s arm from right to left. My
school experience had saved my life;
for the man let go his hold with —zr
of rate, a”* 4 - “ uiought I sprang
_Pjn him.
“It’s all right, old fellow, take the
papers and read them.”
Oeu tHI to inrfifetriaJ Infant, tlift Biffn-ion ol Truth, tiw Establishmeat f Justice, and the Pmirratw* of a People’s Giveriffleiit.
INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA.
But in the mad excitement of the mo
ment, and remembering my mission, I
thought this surrender was only a ruse
on the part of the ruffian. He sat down
on the road in the most undignified fash
ion and handed me the papers. The first
one that met my gaze was a headed piece
of police-office paper, on which was
written : “This is your test for entering
the force;” and was signed by the Sujier
intendent.
“ Well, young man,’’said mine enemy,
“ you have passed the last exam,—with
honors. You have nearly broken my
wrist. But my horse is at tho first road
side hotel. If you’ll come with me I’ll
have a drink with you, and get some cold
lotion for this sprain. I believe it will
be a case of splints and sick leave ; but
you have done your work well. Bother
the arm—how it aches I” (So did my
knee.)
The report was satisfactory, and 1 was
appointed permanently. Mr. Superin
tendent’s test caused me to be sent on
various duties which led me into many
rough experiences; but I never believed
myself to be so near death as when I was
deciding my future with my superior
officer.— Chambers' Journal.
CHRIST’S SENTENCE.
The Alleged Copy of the Most Memorable
Judicial Sentence Ever Pronounced.
The following is a copy of the most
memorable judicial sentence which has
ever been pronounced in tho annals of
tho world, namely, that of death against
the Savior, with the remarks which the
Journal Le Droit has collected and the
knowledge of which must be interesting
in the highest degree to every Christian.
It is word for word as follows :
Sentence pronounced by Pontius Pil
ate, intondanfof the Lower Province of
Galilee, that Jesus of Nazareth shall
suffer death by the cross.
In the seventh year of the reign of the
Emperor Tiberius, and on the 24th day
of the month of March, in the most holy
city of Jerusalem, during the pontificate
of Annas and Ciphas.
Pontius Pilate, intendant of the prov
ince of Lower Galilee, sitting in judg
ment of the presidential seat of the
Praetors, sentences Jesus of Nazareth
to death on a cross between two robbers,
as the numerous and notorious testimoni
als of the people prove :
1. Jesus is a misleader.
2. He has excited the people to sedi
tion.
3. He is an enemy to the law.
4. He called himself the Son of God.
6. He calls himself, falsely, the King
of Israel.
6. Ho went into the temple followed
by a multitude carrying palms in their
hands.
Orders from tho First Centurion Qui
rillis Cornelius to bring him to the place
of execution forbid all persons, rich or
poor, to prevent the execution of Jesus.
The witnesses who have signed the
execution of Jesus are :
1. Daniel Robani, Pharisee.
2. John Zorababel.
3. Raphael Robani.
A Capet.
Jesus to be taken oat of Jei usalem
through the gates of Tournes.
The sentence is engraved on a plate of
brass in the Hebrew language, and on
its sides are the following words: “A
similar plate has been sent to each
tribe.” It was discovered in the year
1280, in the city of Aquilla, in the King,
dom of Naples, by a search made for
Roman antiquities, and it remained
there until it was found by the Commis
sion of Arts in the French army in
Italy. Up to the time of the campaign
in Southern Italy it was preserved in
the sacristy of the Carthusians, near Na
ples, where it was kept in a box of eb
ony. Since then the relic has been kept
in the chapel of Casert. The Carthu
sians obtained the privilege, by their
petitions, that the plate might be kept
by them, which was an acknowledg
ment of the sacrifice which they made
for the French army. The French
translation was made literally by the
members of the Commission on Arts.
Denon had a fac simile of the plate en
graved, which was bought by Lord
Howard on the sale of his cabinet
for 2,890 francs. There seems to be no
historical donbt as to the authenticity of
this plate. The reasons of the sentence
correspond exactly with those of the
ffoaoeL
Old gent—“ Well, my good man, I
could never buy a horse with legs like
that” Gyps/’dealer—“ Wot ! Legs 1
\r>, i thought yer wanted a fast one,
and you’ll never see ’is legs when ’e cits
a trottin’ 1”
The telephone tells its own story, and
it’s a sound one at that,
ORIGIN OF THE CAMP-MEETING.
There are those who trace the origin
of the oamp-meeting to Old Testament
times, and refer to many passages from
Genesis to the days of John the Baptist
for proofs. We will, however, consider
its rise as strictly American, and make
no other mention of the Bible references
than are suggested in the opening para
graph.
The first camp-meeting in the United
States was held in tho year 1799, on the
banks of the Red river in Kentucky,
The way it came about was somewhat
peculiar. Two brothers named McGee,
one a Methodist and the other a Presby
terian, were on a religious tour from
Tennessee to a place called in those days
the “Barrens.” They stopped at a set
tlement to attend % sacramental occasion
with a Presbyterian minister, tho Rev.
Mr. McGreely by name. John McGee,
tho Methodist, preached on invitation,
and his services are described as having
been marked “with great liberty and
power.” McGee’s brother and the Rev.
Mr. Hoge followed with sermons, and
their effects were remarkable, as they
produced “tears of contrition and shouts
of joy.”
The several Presbyterian ministers,
the Rev. Messrs. McGreel/, Hoge and
Rankins, left the house, but the McCieos
were too powerfully affected to depart.
John was expected to preach again, but
when the time came he arose and in
formed the people that the overpower
ing nature of his feelings would not al
low of his preaohing, and he exhorted
them to surrender their hearts to God.
The excitement is said to have been in
describable. The reports of these won
derful services were heard by the people
in the country round, and many rushed
to the place to see the preachers and
witness the unusual religious exercises,
the meeting house was overflowed, and
an altar was erected to the Lord in the
forest.
This added new interest to the move
ment, and people assembled from far
.near, with provisions and other nec
essaries for camping out, and remained
several days, living in tents. For the
time denominational divisions seemed to
be forgotten, and the services were con
ducted by Presbyterians, Methodists
and Baptists.
The results were so wonderful that
another meeting of the same sort was
suggested, and was held on the Muddy
river, and still another was held on what
was called the Ridge, both having been
attended by great crowds who came for
many miles around. These services were
continued and extended with similar re
sults, the Presbyterians and Methodists
directing and conducting them. It is
stated that at one of these meetings in
Kentucky there were present at least
20,000 persons.
The Presbyterian* gradually retired
from the field, while tho Methodists
carried the meetings to all parts of the
country. Since then other denomina
tions have adopted them, and they have
continued with more or less efficacy up
to the present time.— Chicago Inter
Ocean.
PROFITABLE LITIGATION.
Lawyer—“ Hurrah, let me congratu
late you. You are the luckiest of mor
tals. Embrace me.”
They embrace, and the client ventures
to ask the cause of so much emotion.
“Thanks to my skill,” replied the
lawyer, “I have obtained a judgment in
your favor in the Supreme Court. ”
“After nine long years.”
“ But, my dear fellow, better late than
never.”
How much do I get ?” asks the cli
ent, anxiously.
“ The court decrees that you shall re
ceive $2,000. The costs and my fee will
only amount to $3,600, so all you will
have to pay me is $1,500.”
“ Merciful heaven, and I must lose my
money beside ?”
“ Of course you lose your money, but
console yourself ; you have gained your
case. You can’t expect to gain every
thing.”
“ Then I will go back to the plowing.
The work is not near so hard, and pays
better,” said the boy.
A few days ago a little child gave ex*,
pression to an old story in the follow
ing terse manner: It seems that the lit
tle fellow had discovered a bee crawling
up his hand. Finally, the bee stopped
for a moment, and after remaining sta
tionary for an instant stung the little
fellow. When the cry of pain was over
the little child said. o his mamma that
he didn’t care about the bee’s walking
about on him, but he didn’t like his sit
ting down on him, — Dayton Journal.
THE UNITER STATES CAPITOL.
The dome is the most impressive feat
ure of the new Capitol at Washington.
It was designed by Walters, to replace
the smaller one removed in 1866, and
ranks fifth in height snd size among the
notable domes of the world. It is, in
fact, 360 feet high above the west gate
of the park at the foot of the hill on
which it stands. Its diameter is 138$
feet, and it is praised as one of the most
symmetrical, graceful structures in the
whole world.
Its octagonal or stylobate base rises
93 feet above the basement floor of the
Capitol. As it leaves the top line of tho
building it consists of a peristyle 124
feet in diameter, of 86 iron-fluted col
umns, 27 feet high. Each of these col
umns weighs six tons. Above them is a
balustrade. Above the balustrade be
gins the dome, which converges upward
to an apex, surmounted by a lantern 16
feet in diameter and 60 feet high, whioh
is surrounded by a peristyle and crowned
by the bronze statue of Freedom, de
signed by Crawford.
On Dec. 12, 1863, the statue was
raised and placed in its present position
at the apex of the dome. Thousands of
citizens and soldiers were assembled.
A national salute of thirty-five guns was
fired from a field-battery in the East
Park, and this was followed by a rever
berating salute by the shotted, heavy
guns of the whole, chain of forts sur
rounding the Capitol. Few who were
present*on that day will forget the
mighty acclaim from the people which
almost obliterated for a moment tho
noise of artillery.
The lantern on the dome of the Cap
itol contains three rows of powerful gas
jets, and is very much frequented by
strangers, particularly young married
couples. The view therefrom in the day
time is magnificent, and even at night,
notwithstanding the glare of the gas jets,
one may obtain weird views by shading
the eyes with the hands and pressing the
face close to the glass.
The eastward view looks out on the
plain of Capitol Hill toward a back
ground of hills beyond the Anaoostia.
To the north there is a view, beyond a
broad intervening valley, of encircling
hills ; to the south lie the low ground
and sparsely settled parts of Washing
ton ; and to the west lies the city with
its Botanical Garden, the Mall, the
wooded summits of University Square,
the unfinished Washington monument,
the dome of the Observatory, the glit
tering stream of tho Potomac, and Ar
lington Heights beyond. No finer view
can be liad from any capitol. Yet the
picture thus viewed is scarcely more en
chanting than that of the Capitol itself
seen from any point of vantage. —Sunday
Magazine.
THE ELDER BOOTH.
Upon fetes eider Booth’s acting Mrs.
.’iarke'* moat significant remark is that
i i vras always in the soul of the charac
and never resembled Boileau’s writ
er, who, * ‘ inspired by self-love, forms
all his heroes like himself.” We shall
not here attempt a summary of this ex
inordinary being in his transfiguration
-ft an actor. The fact which seems to
suggest, if not to define, him is that he
<s heedless and imperfect as an artist,
but electrical and fascinating as a hu
..nu being. He would, for example
when acting Macbeth deliberately go to
he wing and get a broadsword with
.y 1, ich to fight the final battle, and would
io this in full view of the audience—just
as Ristori, when acting Lady Macbeth,
would carry her husband’s letter to the
Aide and throw it away. He was not
oarticular, when acting Richard, wheth
er he wore an old dressing gown or a
oy&l robe, and he cared very little
where other persons entered or stood,
that they got on and were somewhere.
His acting had no touch of the finish of
Macready. But the soul that he poured
i/ito it was awful and terrible ; the face,
the hands, the pose, the movement, all
was incarnate eloquence; and when the
lightning of the bine-gray eyes flashed
tnd Lhe magnificent voice gave out its
deep thunder-roll or pealed forth its so
norous trumpet-notes, the hearts of his
h oarers were swept away on the wings
of <i tempest. Each tone and each ac
tion was then absolutely right. Even
bis marvelous elocution, which brought
jufe the subtle meaning of every sound
iu every syllable, seemed inspired, such
und *o great was the vitality which a
imagination thoroughly aroused
•on!d strike out of a deep and passion
.te fceait. —New York Tribune.
Taxation for education provides less
that $1 for each pupil of the public
schools of Georgia.
SUBSCRIPTION-$1.51.
NUMBER 43.
DILATORY LOTERB.
The impatienoe of the parents of the*
young lady over the long and fruitless
visits of the chronio caller was pictured
in comic colors some years ago by a
funny writer. It seems that it was mid
night. The young man had farewelled
himself out, and Emeline had locked the
door and was untying her shoe when her
mother came down-stairs with a bed
quiit around her, and said :
“ Wanted to creep up stairs without
my hearing you, eh? Didn’t think I
knew it was an hour after midnight, did
you ? ”
The giri made no reply, and the
mother continued:
“ Did he propose this time ?”
“ Why, mother I ” exclaimed the
daughter.
“ You can ‘ why, mother,’ all you want
to, but don’t I know that you’ve burned
up at least four tons of coal courting
around here ? ”
The girl got her shoes off, and the
mother stood in the stair door and
asked :
“Emeline, have you got any grit?’*
“ I guess so.”
“I guess you haven’t. I just wish that
fellow with false teeth and a mole on his
chin would come sparking me. Do you
know what would happen, Emeline ?’*
“No.”
“Well, I’ll tell you. He’d come to
time in sixty days or he’d get out of this
mansion like a goat jumping for sun
flower seeds.”
And Emeline went to bed hugging this
thought to her bosom.
Occasionally such visits become so
burdensome that the young lady taJks
to the young man herself. At least they
had such a girl out in Colorado. She had
been receiving the attentions of a young
man for about a year, but, becoming im
patient at his failure to bring matters to
a crisis, she resolved to ascertain his in
tentions. When he next called she took
him gently by the ear, led him to a seat
and said:
“ Nobby, you’ve been foolin’ ’round
this claim fur mighty near a year, an*
hev never yit shot off your mouth on the
marryin’ biz. I’ve cottoned to yer on
the square clear through, an’ hev stood
off every other galoot that has tried to
chip in; an’ now I want yer tu come
down to business or leave the ranch. Ef
you’re on the marry and want a pard
that’ll stick right to ye till ye pass in
your checks an’ the good Lord calls ye
over the range, just squeal, an’ we’ll
hitch; but ef that ain’t yer game, draw
out an’ give some other feller a show fur
his pile. Now, sing yer song or skip
out.”
He sang.
MEXICAN JAILS.
In the department of jails there is a
deficiency. As at present arranged they
can present but moderate terrors to evil
doers. The really-fine penitentiary at
Guadalajara is the only one in which
modern ideas of penal discipline are fol
lowed. There is by law no death pen
alty. The number of the most-nefarious
criminals is kept down by semi-official
lynchings—as the shooting of certain
kinds of offenders on capture—into
which nobody ever inquires, and by
transportation to Yucatan; but there
still remain sufficient to make one look
with uneasiness on the slightness of the
means of restraint employed. The bolts
and bars are only lattices of wood much
more often than iron. At the great
central prison of Belen, where some
2,000 persons are confined, it seemed to
me that a very large portion of them
were more comfortable than they could
have been in their own squalid homes.
They make a strange spectacle indeed as
one looks down upon them in large
courts, of what again has once been an
old convent, where, of all ages, and for
sentences of ail durations, they eat,
sleep and work at various light occupa
tions together. No attempt is made to
prevent their communicating with one
another, or staring about. They have
good air, light and food, and are paid a
part of their earnings. They take their
siestas at noon, play at checkers, gossip
and even bathe luxuriously in a central
tank.— W. H. Bishop , in Harper's
Magazine.
MISSIONARY AVERAGES.
* It is said that the percentage of mis
sionaries who have gone from various
theological seminaries is as follows:
Oberlin (Congregational), 19 per cent.;
Andover (Congregational), 10 per cent.;
Hamilton (Baptist), 10 per cent.; Union
(Presbyterian), 9.5 er cent.; Newton
(Baptist), 7.8 per cent; Virginia (Epis
copal), 8 per cent.; Rochester (Baptist),
7.8 per cent.; Princeton (Presbyterian),
6.2 per cent.