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7 - E CHOOSING.
Laura will not le "milady,** in her silks and
satins fine.
And the great but wait to wonder, and their
dreams «,f love r »ign,
Though they offer gold and jewels, all that vainer
women crave,
Laura’ll be no rich man’s darling; Laura’ll be the
poor man’s slave!
“Out, you dreamer!" quoth the mother, old in
*Wilf years, but sorrow tried;
you walk the world’s way, weeping, when
the footman bids you ride?
W ill you hide you in a hovel—go a beggar to the
grave? Who would be
Out upon (lie poor man’s wooing!
the poor man's slave?
“Heed you. lass, the words of wisdom; bet but
pov. rty appear flieth out the
r« the door and love, affrighted,
window, dear!
Would you welcome thorns for roses, so to cry
when none can .save?
Bitter bread the poor man brings you. Out upon
the poor man’s slave!”
Itoes she listen? Tear drops glisten, but she
heeds no golden gleam,
In tiie green heart of the meadows weighs her
duti and her dream.
Tramples ail their gold and jewels, all that vainer
women cr:ive
Arms around the weeping mother ‘Let m ■ be
the poor man’s slave!”
- Atlanta Constitution.
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: THE PROFESSOR !
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There was a hint of autumn in the
woodland tints, where the colors shad¬
ed front softest gray green through
russet tones to deepest red and brown,
and the breeze that swept over the up¬
lands was suggestive of chilly Octo¬
ber, but tlte golden spell of Indian
summer lay on tin* valley, touching the
ripe peaches with an added bloom and
wooing tin* late rust's to unfold their
fragrant hearts before it was too hate
to give their sweetness to the dying
sumnler.
In iln* eetory orchard, under the
shadows of the fruit laden trees, village
lads and lasses hid and sought, and
out in the meadow the children laugh¬
ed and played and danced to the music
©f their own voices.
The professor stood at tiie outer
edge of a circle of infant revelers. Ids
spectacles pushed up on his broad
forehead, ins soft Ilotnbarg halt tilted
forward to shield his eyes from tin*
sun.
Gray eyes they were, with a keen¬
ness In them that was reileetive and
that lent them a clearer vision for
that time had set at a distance
than for present realities.
The Iron gray hair was brushed back
and outlined features that were not Un¬
handsome, though their sternness gave
liim a semblance of severity until in*
smiled.
When the professor smiled children
understood that the tall figure with its
inclination to stoop was not likely to
prove aggressive, anu that the learning
contained in that massive frame could
be put aside with the spectacles; also
that the professor might have been
young once, before the weight of a
laurel wreath had puckered his brows
and powdered liis hair \with the frost
that comes before winter.
He was smiling now and looking
with appreciative interest at the game
In progress.
”i>o you hear what they are sing
big?" he asked the rector’s wife.
Mrs. Krrington detached herself
from the tea urn to answer carelessly,
“‘Nuts and May.’ isn't it?”
"The delightful irrelevance of child
hood.” pursued the professor, “the
sublime faith in the impossible. ’Here
we come gathering nuts and May—so
early Hit the morning!’ Not content
with demanding their autumn and
their spring at tin* same time, they
must have it early in the morning, too;
all the world at their feet, with youth
make them enjoy it. They have faith
er nigh to remove mountains, but 1 am
afraid the days of miracles are past."
Mrs. Errington's glance lingered on
him for a moment, and then he travel
ed to where a girl in a Avliite dress
stood under the trees that bordered
the rc. dory garden.
"There is Evadne.” she said: “how
fresh and cool and SAveet she looks,
Don’t you think so. professor?”
lie adjusted his spectacles to give a
conscientious ansAver.
“Miss Evadne is always pleasant to
look at,” he said, as lie gazed Avith a
painstaking air in her direction: "at
this distance 1 do not see her so plainly
. I could , . , ,,
as aa is.i.
"And she is always pleasant to talk
to.” added Mrs. Errington: “go and
ask her if she would like some tea, pro
lessor.”
lie Avent obediently, and tlie Avliite
figure moved to meet him. while the
echo of Jlie words "cool and fresh and
sweet” floated still in his ears.
"I am sent to ask you if you Avill
have some tea.” he said.
“Is that meant for an excuse or an
apology?” asked Evadne demurely.
"Does my errand need either?” lie
questioned in return, Avith liis usual
gravity.
"You seemed to consider so,” said
she, "in which, if you Avili jut think
me conceited. I Avill confess you arc
unusual. There are people,” she con¬
tinued. noting his. puzzled air. “Avho
come and talk to me without any er¬
rand at all—merely for the pleasure of
tlu? thing.”
A little smile was playing round her
mo; *'i, and through her curved eye
las!; : the sparkle of ltd eyes meant
nils; kief.
The professor pushed his spectacles
up attain; when people were close to
him he could see better without assist*
anr*(*.
“Then* are people/* lie said, “who
might venture to come to you on their
own merits. Miss Eva. I am not one
of those fortunate few.”
“No?” she queried. lifting her eye¬
brows, “yet your merits are by no
menus insignificant. They’ are public
property, professor, and we art* very
proud of them down here. I have
even”—she looked away from him—
"felt a little .alarmed at the thought of
them sometimes and wondered wheth¬
er we all seemed very stupid and dull
to so learned a person its you.”
“Stupid and dull.” lie echoed the
words involuntarily, while he was
thinking what a dainty outline the con¬
tour of ln*r cheek and chin made—like?
a pink scasliell, and what a singularly
sweet intonation she had!
“You agree that wo arc so,” she said
after an instant's offended silence.
“You add candor to your other merits,
professor. I see. Well, the school treat
is over. I think 1 must be going home¬
ward. Good evening.”
She stretched out a small white hand.
lie took it and eonsi lered it for :i mo¬
ment.
"Do you go across the fields,” ho
said, “or round by the road?”
“Across the fields—when I have some
one with me.”
“Should I count as some one, or am
I too”—
“Too what—too candid?”
“Too old.” he said thoughtfully.
Site looked him up and down.
“I suppose that you are twice my
age."
“More than that, I am sure.”
“Has any one ever called you any
tiling hut professor?”
“My mother calls me John.”
“Any one else?"
“No one. since 1 was a boy.”
They were crossing the meadow now.
In tlte distance Mrs. Evrington waved
a goodby to them. The}’ had forgotten
her.
“Which would you rather be—your¬
self at your age and with your knowl¬
or an ignorant young person like
She had taken off her hat and was
it by a ribbon from her arm.
Iler hair was all ruffled, and one little
with a glint of gold in it. kissed
cheek lovingly.
'They had reached the stile, and he
stopped to help her over it before he
Then he said:
“Miss Eva, do you think it is possible
any one to gather nuts and May at
same time?”
“Yes, if they get tip early enough in
the morning.”
“What difference does that make?”
“The difference of not leaving tilings
they are too late.”
lie was still holding her hand. She
gave it to him at the stile, and up
parcutly he had not remembered to
gh-e it back. Her eyes were like stars,
and there was a rose flush like day
on her cheeks.
“How is one to know whether it is
late or not?”
••I thought you knew everything,
professor. And you called me stupid
dull just now. so my opinion can't
be worth having.”
“I called you stupid and dull? Do
you know what 1 think you?”
: You think me a vain, frivolous girl.”
: I think you the most perfect thing
on God’s earth.”
“Professor”—
: I have another name. Evadne.”
r When you have quite done with my
hand”—
*T shall never have quite done wit li
it. 1 want it for my own.”
“Such a useless, silly little hand?”
“Such a ping and white little hand,
like a May blossom.”
He lifted it to his lips, and they were
silent for a moment,
“Evadne. is a miracle possible?”
“What Avould be a miracle?” she
said softly,
tie (IreAV her Avith gentle insistence
into his arms, and she raised hers and
clasped them around his neck.
’• litis is one,” he ansAvered; "it is the
Impossible come true.”
“It aaiis never impossible,” she mur
mured, "only—you Avere asleep and
dreaming. John, and uoav— you are
awake, and it is early in the morning.”
—Chicago ‘ Herald.
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Senator H lyvnint Mru-ken.
Omaha, Aug. 16. —It is reported here
t h a t Senator Hay ~i ward has been stricken
with , apoplexy i and is ■ dangerously a , ill at
Brown Hill. He Avas delivering an ad¬
dress at a Ur. A. R. reunion.
l)< Avcy Is ''till Indisposed.
Leghorn, Italy, Aug. 15—Admiral
Dewey - is still indispased. - Various offi
visited the Olympia * . today. Ihe
eiais
admiral’s departure for Florence lias
been postponed.
Eminent Physician Dead.
New Orleans, Aug. 15. —Dr. Ed¬
ward Taylor Shepard, one of the most
eminent physicians of Noay Orleans and
the south, died at his home in this city
this morning at the age of 55 years.
EARTH'S PLEASANT VOICES.
Thore is no solitude on earth—
“In rv. tv leaf there is a tongue**—
In every glen a voie • of mirth-
From el cry hill a liyrnn i-* nung,
Anti every wihl arvl InMJen dell,
Where human f-.iotsteps movr trod,
lb wafting songs of jov, which tell
The praises of tiu-ir Maker—-Clod.
Each mountain gives an altar hirth
And hay a shrin • to worship given.
Each breeze which rises from the earth
Is loaded with a song of heaven,*
Each wave that leaps along the main
Sends Solemn music on the air.
And winds that sweep o’er ocean’s plain
Eear off their voice of grateful prayer.
—Whittier.
Gnstromunte Anareliy,
They say the art of cooking is dying
out in France. Cooks and public agree
in this, but they charge each other
with the cause.
“The French public is degenerate.”
say the cooks, "it no longer knows a
good sauce from a bad one.”
“Qu'est-ce que vous voulez?” retali
ates the public. “The cooks may still
be artists, but they are no longer
cooks.”
“If you want the matter demonstrat¬
ed,” says it Parisian who may be con¬
sidered to represent the public, "look at
the so called culinary exhibitions given
in Paris every year. These exhibitions
do not ask the judgment of the palate
They ask the judgment of the eye.
They ask you to criticise Swiss chalets
made in butter and Louis XV furniture
made in cake. They wish to imitate
sen time! it a by uisposed in "pal/ bowers
and canvases, with foregrounds of
string beans, and sunsets of tomato
catchup. It is the last word in impres¬
sionism. if yon like, but it is not cook
ery—it is anarchy.—Sketch.
ItlrilH 'I’Jiut FIulit Eagles.
Iii Fouia. one of the Shetland islands,
the natives make a business of rearing
skim gulls i*i order to rid the island of
the eagles that congregate there and
commit many depredations. The mag¬
nificent red sandstone cliffs that skirt
the northwestern coast became a fa¬
vorite haunt of the eagles, and in this
inaccessible spot they increased so
rapidly that they became a terror to
the farmers and fisnernien who dwell
on this isolated spot. The skau gulls
are also strong and fierce and the in¬
veterate foe of the eagle. In battle
the gulls are nearly always victorious,
and so the inhabitants of Fouia hit
upon tin* novel plan of feeding and ear¬
ing for the skau gulls, which, though
formidable to their feathered enemies,
are very peaceful and docile when
brought in contact with man.
Wonderful Xninher 4 .
There are 4 cardinal points, 4 winds.
4 quarters of the moon. 4 seasons. 4
figures in the quadrille, 4 rules of
arithmetic, 4 suits of cards, 4 quarters
to the hour. 4 legs for furniture, most
animals go on 4 legs. We have 4 in¬
cisor and 4 canine teeth, and our forks
have 4 prongs. All animals, when
butchered, are cut into 4 quarters. The
violin, greatest of musical instruments,
has but 4 strings. There are 4 great
continents. Every great railway has
4 tracks. When we grow old. Ave have
4 eyes. Every room has 4 corners and
4 sides. Every question has 4 sides—
the inside, the outside, tin* right side
and the wrong side.—Cincinnati Com¬
mercial-Tribune.
Women's slioi's mid Their Heels.
It certainly is a pity that women,
with all their neatness and correctness
of dress, should be so dreadfully lax
about the heels of their shoes. If it is
not clearly understood what is meant
by this, .iust take a look at the heels of
the next woman passing. As she
raises her skirt daintily to cross the
street, there is a sA^ish of silken dra¬
peries, a Avee bit of bright luted ruffle
displayed, and. alas, tAVo Avoefully
downtrodden heels.
The run doAvn heel is a characteristic
of almost every woman—the athletic
girl not excepted. They are exceeding
ly remiss in this direction. When a
man's shoes begin to get run down, he
immediately bundles them off to the
shoemaker, Avho speedily makes them
presentable. Women should take les¬
sons on this score from their brothers,
ami attend to the “sloppj” shoes Avith
out delay.— St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Kfntrws Copper Mine Sold.
Gkkf.xsboro, N. C., Aug. 11._The
Fentress copper mine, paid’large located in this
county, which dividends
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prior to the civil . M war and was among
the first southern mining slocks tore
celve attention on Wall street, has been
sold to Herbert Oari and others of New
York l ' itv Mining operations will be
commenced at once.
Vimng<*st ft’oiitederiit<* Deiid. .
Mobile, „ Aug. , lo.—James T t 1. Palmer, P t
the youngest enlisted man on the con
federate side, died here last night. He
was P owa e r monkey 0,1 tb ® confederate
steamer Morgan, - t commanded by Gap
tain Fry of Virginias fame, and served
in the terrific action off Fort Blakely,
Mobile bay, ISfio, being then 0 years old
Lightning ivitls a Woman.
Theodqre,'A la., Aug. 15.—During a
storm here yesterday afternoon light
uia S struck the residence of A. P. Wil¬
lard, and bis sister. Miss Susie Willard,
Avas distantly killed. Other members
of tiie family were severely shocked.
Eastman
Real Estate Agency.
L. M. CURRY Manager. E. T. GENTRY, Sec. andTreas.
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