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nine® JOSHUA JONES, PUBLISHER. VOL. I. Hurry-Up and By-aud.By, Hurry-up met By-and-bv Twining flowers one day; Hurry-up was very grave, By-and-by was gay, . “Wait a little, friend,” he said, “Come and share my play.” But the other did not pause, “I must work," said he; “Work until my task is done, And my mind is free.” “Work will wait,” quoth By-antl-bv “Sit down here with me. “I shall labor pretty soon When this wreath is laced, There is time enough for toil, Why this foolish haste?” Hurry-up said, walking on, “Time’s too dear to waste.” By-and-by saw Hurry-up Once again, they say; Saw him sitting at his ease In the bright noon-day; Blossoms grew about his feet. And his air was gay. • By-and-by, with brooding eyes, Looking out to the west, Hufrving down the dusty road Anxious and depressed. While beneath his nervous feet Faded flowers he pressed “Queer,” he grumbled, as he went Scowling on his way, “How luck favors Hurry-up! Fate is queer, I say.” And he does not understand “Such is pluck” alway. —Ella W. Wilcox, in Youth’s Companion. MARCELENA’S LOVERS. It was at that time of the year when the 6ky of New Mexico is as blue as the eyes of the girl you love, and the scant herbage reminds you of the Scotch heather, dry and vari-colored, but making an exquisite harmony among the huge blood-red sandstone buttes, and plains diversified by caves and canyons. And spread everywhere the wonderful cacti, with their mar¬ velous flowers, like the scarlet blos¬ soms of sin. There in peace and plenty, live a people who Avill always be picturesque, the unique and interesting Pueblos, who have lost more arts than we ever possessed; whose men are brave, peaceful and domesticated; who live n terraced houses and build difficult Ahurches,and wash themselves without overnment interference; and who do t choose for themselves Yankee sons law, but are often compelled to ac >t them as a penalty for having ildsome daughters. ’’he Pueblo girls, like girls the Id over, will marry only Avhere ’ love, and no man dare trifle with Affections of a Pueblo maiden. All of which is incidental to the cory of Marcelena Zenda, the pretti¬ est girl in New Mexico, who lived in one of the terraced houses, and had Spanish blood in her veins, and was so beautiful that her name was a charm in her tribe. Marcelena had refused a dozen Mexican senors, the Colonel of a regiment stationed at Fort Bowie, and a half dozen of her own people, Then she met a dark, melancholy man from New England, who had come there with the principal product of that country, consumption, and ex¬ pected to die. He had no right to fall in love, but he did, and what was more remarkable ,' his love was returned. Marcelena hacf lands and burros, and a tenement that was a wonder of architecture in her own right, and could have married her lover off-hand, her people all be¬ ing subservient to her slightest wish, but the New England man had a con¬ science. After winning the girl’s love he decided that it would be wicked for him to marry her, only to make her a widow. “But you will die not, Jamez”—his name was James—Baid Marcelena; “I make myself prayer to God in the thorn, that you live—I suffer; then he make you to be well.” “No, dear one, you mistake; God does not ask that you Bhall lacerate your fair body with thorns that I may THE WILL OE THE PEOPLE IS THE SUPREME LAW. FORT GAINES, GA., FRIDAY. MARCH S, 1895. recover. If any one did that it be me. Promise mo that you uever again go with the promise me, Marcelena, although may not live to know that you your promise.” So Marceleua promised, aud brought her guitar aud played to her lover, who watched her intent gaze, longing for a new lease life, that he might call her his own. Through the interference of he became an inmate of tho ment Hospital at tho fort, and im¬ proved so rapidly that ho sent Marcelena to come to him and be mar riec] by the post chaplain. No,” said Marcelena, in tho prov¬ erb of her people, “that would be the haystack going after the cow. I mary at home, or not at all. ” Pretty Marcelena controlled her¬ self as best she could, aud in a mo * rnent of loneliness consented to attend a ball with a former lover Senor Filipe who had sworn to himself that she should never marry another man. But of this tho New Mexican girl was quite unconscious. She arrayed her¬ self for the ball in an elaborate danc¬ ing skirt of gay striped stuff, embroid¬ ered in many colored beads aud silver sequin in strings down the breadth, Her dainty feet were encased in soft moccasins for this was an occasion Avhen she wore her tribal dress and she carried the castanets bequeathed to her by her Sjianish mother. So ac¬ coutred she accompanied Senor Fil¬ ipe. That night Marcelena Avas as usual the belle of the ball. It was not at all surprising that she should accept the homage showered upon her, but her heart Avas not in it, and at midnight she stepped to the open door of the dancing hall and looked far over the shining plain, and thought of her lover lying in the ward of the hospital perhaps dying under the sarme glorious moonlight. Bianca her friend had taken the last dance for her, and she stepped out to breathe the welcome tonic of the night air. Some one was singing “ElBorrachi to,” giving the refrain in English, badly broken: “And a passion for a woman caused it all,” The Borrachito—“the man who is a little drunk”—was the caA'alier Filipe, who had brought Marcelena to the ball, and Avho was now ready to take her home, swung to the same saddle, a mode of convenience not only proper, but pojHilar among the Pueblos. Ho was looking into her eyes with that dashing daring audacity which Avas her meed of homage. She curled her red lips just a little at his too ardent gaze, but he was accustomed to that—only there was that in his mind to-night of which she knew nothing. The rest of the company Avere out watching the pair on the fleet Mexican horse. “Some day,” says one of the reject¬ ed, “he will run away with her!” “That fiery Filipe—no. She is too tame. He knows she Avill maz - ry the Yankee schoolmaster — poor little one.” The flash of silver on the girl’s dress dazzled their eyes in the moon¬ light. Her handsome arms clasped tho cav¬ alier Filipe, but not too closely, she was in a hurry to get some one to pray for her “Jamez. ” They dashed into the moonlight and across the plaza, through the plain be¬ yond, over fields of cactus, startling the jack rabbits and the piping quail, and away like the wind, but in an op¬ posite direction to the home of Mar¬ celena. At first the girl did not notice it, but Filipe, flushed and fearless, called out: “To Acoma, gazelle, to the country of Filipe, and you will never see your puny American again!” There was a wild cry of despair, as the girl tried to throw herself the flying horse, but could not herself for a moment from the sionato grasp of tho Mexican. “I’ll kill you!” she said between her teeth. i < Kill away, my pretty one, but yon shall bo my wife first.” On aud on, with the speed of tho wind, went the fleet horse, nud they were nearing tho little cemetery in tho valley when Marcelena’s arms relaxed, and her head drooped on the shoulder of Filipe. He believed she lmd fainted, and attempted to chango his position, when like a flash of lightning, tho steel poinnrd in his belt cleft tho air and descended—not in his treacherous heart, but in tho soft breast of the beautiful and desperate Marcelena. At that moment a company of United States soldiers came pouring out of an ambulance which was slowly passing on its way to Fort Bowie. They captured tho cavalier Filipe, and took tho apparently lifeless girl to the hospital, a temporary building then in use. Marcelena was not dead, not even fatally wounded. But she was a long time in tho ward of the Government Hospital before she could bo removed to her home, and thoro was a pretty ceremony performed there when she was able to sit up as a convalescent. It was her marriage to “Jamez,”,as she called him ; the Yankee schoolmas¬ ter, who, in the generous climate of New Mexico, had grown so robust that he snapped his fingers at the spectre which had been a family ban¬ shee for many generations. They talk of the hospital romance to this day, and the professor, as tho schoolmaster is now called, lives just across the valley from Senor Filipe, who married Blanca, and made a model husband. —Detroit Free Press. A Peculiarity of Eggs. “I like my eggs boiled just four minutes,” said Mr. Goslington, “and I used to wonder why Avitk that simplo direction to bo followed I couldn’t get them always the same, Sometimes they Avere too hard, sometimes too soft; though it was always said that they had been boiled ‘exactly four minutes.’ But the mystery has been cleared up. A neighbor tells us that it is quite possible that the eggs should vary, even though they were all cooked for exactly the same time. She says that Avhile an egg one day old would require four minutes’ boiling to attain a certain degree of hardness, an older egg might attain the same degree in two minutes; or else it’s jnst the other Avay, the new egg cooks quickest, I don’t remember which. But that is a matter of detail, the main fact is that some eggs take longer to cook than others, and it is a satisfaction to know this.—New York Sun. Why He Quit the Law. One of Milwaukee’s big brewers was a law student in Judge Hubbell’s office many years ago. Horatio Sey¬ mour came into the office one day and said to the youth as he sat reading: “Keeji at it, my boy; read and study, study and read—that’s the only way to become a lawyer. I read and studied 'aw seventeen years before I felt com petent to try a case.” “Well, that settles it,” said the youthful student. “If it took you seventeen years to learn the business, Governor Seymour, I’ll quit right now, before I waste anymore time.” —Philadelphia Press. A Soft Answer. They had quarreled. She was mad. “You’re not everybody,” she sneered. “No,” he rejoined softly; “but I am pretty near everybody. ” She darted a quick, searching glance into his mobile face and made no ob¬ jection when he moved nearer still.— Detroit Tribune. Huston's Blind Architect. The architect who designed the plans for tho library ami natural history building, tho Howe building,and a number of tenements belonging to tho Perkins institution, ami tho Massachu¬ setts school for tho blind, Boston, is himself a pupil of tho school and totally blind. He also designed tho plans for tho kiiulorgarden for tho blind. His name is Dennis Heard on. Mi'. Reardon saw as well as anyone till ho was nine years of ago. Then his sight failed partially. Ho attended tho school and recovered it in a meas¬ ure, but, when twenty-nine years of age, ho lost it entirely. Ho is now a middle-aged man, pleasant faced, a singular pleasing manuor a. 1 an inter¬ esting, well-informed conversation¬ alist. “First I got tlio idea of what I want in my head,” ho said, speaking of his Avorlc to a Boston Post reporter. “Then I draw tho plan in raised lines. I do not get tho correct measurement, but the plan I have assists mo iu ex¬ plaining to a draughtsman. I give him the figures and then ho draws tho plan with tho correct measurements. ” Ho showed tho reporter a plan for tenement houses. Running his finger lightly over tho raised linos, ho ex¬ plained where tho hay window avus, Loav far it Avas to project, the folding doors, closets. Sometimes, instead of raised linos, ho uses pins and a string in a pin cushion. Ho says he does not read as rapidly as those who liavo been educated to it from childhood. Adults seldom groAV so proficient as children Avho have grown up in tho school. Mr. Reardon is also foreman in the printing room which furnishes all the books and reading material for the blind in the institution and also tho books conlainod in tho public li¬ brary in Boston, Fall River, Provi¬ dence, Portland, aud many other New England cities. Tho only charges made are those for transportation. Their large printing business has outgrown their room and an addition is needed badly. They are trying to save enough to enlarge their quarters, aud no doubt, with a little aid from tho friends of tho .institution, it could soon be occomplished. His next work will bo the plan for tho annex,—Chi¬ cago Herald. Tenement Population of New York. Out of a total population iu New York city of 1,891,000, 70.40 per centorl, 338,000,live in 39,138 tenement houses. Apartment houses of the better class arc not included in among tenement houses. It is a soruCAvhat remarkable fact that the lowest death rate in tho city is in one of its most thickly settled tenement house districts, occupied by some of the poorest people, in the wards where the Hebrew population is the densest. The death rate among the crowded Hebrews Avas in 1891 only 18.73 to each thousand, and in 1893 only 17.14. The comparatively cleanly habits of these Hebrew, their observ¬ ance of Mosaic law about food, and their abstinence from alcoholic liquors are given as explanations of this low death rate. In the Italian districts the death rate is double wbat it is among the Hebrews, and tho popula tion not so dense; and even in the wards occupied by wealthy people, the death rate is greater than among the Hebrews. The 4th, 14th and 8th are the Italian wards, and the death rate in 1893 was 33.78, 35.12 and 21.98 re¬ spectively.—Springfield Republican. --• The Distinction. Sitanchin—Your wife seems to have a thorough understanding of the mother tongue. Saidso—Ye-es but she has rather less of it than her mother. Outside the large stock farms very few mares were bred in New York State last season. ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM- NO. 9. SERVED IN THE WAR, TDK GRIP ALMOST WON WHERE THl UU1.I.KT FAILED. Our Sympathies Alway* Enllited In th# Infirmities of (he Veteran. (From the Herald, Woodstock, Va .) There Is an old soldier In Woodstock, Va., who served in tho war with Moxico and la tho war of the rebellion, Mr. Lovi Melnturff. He passed through both these wars without a serious wound. -The hardships; however, told seriously on him, for when the grip at taoked him four years ago it nearly killed him. Who can look upon tho infirmities of a veteran without a feeling of the deepest sympathy? Ifis townspeople saw him con lined to his house so prostrated with great nervousness that he could not hold a knife and fork at the table, scarcely able to walk, too, aud ns ho attempted it, ho often stum¬ bled and fell. They saw him treated by the best talent to bo had—but still he suffered on for four years, and gave-up Anally in despair. One day, howovor, ho was struck by tho ac¬ count of a cure which had been affected by tho use of Dr. Williams’ I’lnk Pills. He im¬ mediately ordered a box and commenced tak¬ ing thorn. He says he was greatly relieved within three days’ time. The blood found its way to his lingers, and his hands, which had been palsiod, assumed a natural color, and he was soon enabled to use his knife and fork at tho table. He lias recovered his strength to such an extent that ho is able to chop about wood, shook his homo. corn and do his regular ho work He now says can not only walk to Woodstock, but can walk across tho mountains. Ho is ablo to lift up a fifty two pound weight with ono hand and says he does not know what Dr. Williunis’ Pink Pills have done for others, but knows that they have dono a groat work for him. Ho was loud in town in his lost praise Monday, of court medicine day, nud was tho that had givon him so great relief. He pur¬ chased another box and took it homo with him. Mr. Mclnturff is willing to mako affi¬ davit to these facts.' Tho proprietors of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills state that they are not a patent modlcine, but a prescription used for many years by an om inent practitioner, who produced th e most wonderful results with thorn, curing all forms of weakness arising from a watery condition of the blood or shattered nerves, two fruitful causes of almost every ill to which flesh is heir. The pills are also a spoeiflo for tho trouble peculiar to females, such as suppres¬ sions, all bearing forms of down weakness, chronic and consti¬ pation, of will give speody pains, relief etc., and in effect the case men a permanent cure in all cases arising from mental worry, overwork or excesses of what ever uaturo. They arc entirely harmless and con be givon to weak and sickly children with the greatest good and without the slightest danger. Pink Pills ore sold by all dealers, price (60c. or will box be sent six postpaid boxes for on $2.50 nscoipt they of a or — are never sold in bulk or by the 100) by ad¬ dressing Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company, Bolionectady, N. Y. Five Miles Upward the Limit. Aeronauts cannot rise much above five miles vertically on account ol the increasing rarity of tho air, but double that height has been attained by self-registering balloons, which tell us that some 90 degrees of frost prevail up there. llol of All To cleanse the system in a gentle and truly beneficial manner,when the Springtime comes, use the true and perfect remedy, Syrup of Figs. One bottle will answer for all the family arul costs only 60 cents, the large size $1. Try it and he pleased. Manufactured by t lie Califor¬ nia Fig Syrup Co. only. A naturally bad man, if thrown out at one door, will force himself In at another opening. Dr. Kilmer’s h w a m p-Root cure all Kidney and Bladder troubles. Pamphlet and Consultation frw. Laboratory Binghamton. N. Y. Act well vour part to-day, so that you may recall it with pleasure in the days to come. Deafness Cannot bo Cured by local applications, as they cannot roach the diseased portion of the ear. that There Is is only one way to cure Deafness, and by constitu¬ tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in¬ flamed condition of the mucous lining of tho Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets in¬ flamed you have a rumbling sound or impei fect hearing, and wnen it is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the inflam¬ mation can bs taken out and this tube re¬ stored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; which nine is cases nothing out but ten are caused by catarrh, an in¬ flamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can¬ not be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Bend for circulars, free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. |3!rSold by Druggists, 75c. Notice I want every man and woman in the United State* interested in the Opium and Whi-ky habits to have my book on tbe«e disease. Add res- B. M. Woolley, Atlanta, Ga., Box 381, and one will be sent you tree. The Average Alan who suffers from headaches and biliousness needs a medicine to keep his stomach and liv- r in good working order. For such people Ripans Tabules fill the bill. One tabule gives relief. _ Piso’s Cure cured me of a Throat and lung trouble of three lnd., years’ Nov. 12,1894. standing.—E. Cap* Huntington, Karl’s Clover Root, the grea* ’ gives freshness and clean'' Ion and cures conation-' teetfin«r M*>. Win*' tion. Tfi. eon i