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“Our Ambition is to make a Yeracions Work, Reliable in its MS 1 Statements, Candid in its Concinsions, and Just in its Yiews. ”
VOL. 1.
Arbor Day i s noW observer! in the
bool 8 of twenty-six States.
lc
All seven of the Mississippi members
f Congress were Confederate soldiers.
D
A p 0 ston cheese dealer says that adul
terated cheese, when fresh and well
made, cannot be distinguished from a
good skim milk cheese. It is made
largely in Western factories, and is com
posed of stearin, oleo oil, cotton seed,
and skim milk, The cream is first ex
tracted from the milk, and then it is
sou ght to return fats of a cheaper quality.
A considerable quantity of rancid butter
is also used.
The influence of the modern passenger
elevator on rents in New York is curi
ously illustrated in some of the ten and
twelve story apartment houses uptown.
The facility which they afford for reach
ing the floors far above the ground, puts
all the apartments practically on a level
so far as the rents are concerned. Just
as big figures are asked now for the sev
enth, eighth aud ninth stories as are
asked for the apartments immediately
off the street. In fact, some people pre
fer to get away above the noise and
bustle of the neighboring thoroughfares,
and some difficulty is experienced at
times in renting the apartments below.
A curious case of citizenship is to be
decided by the Iowa courts. Jn one of
the towns of the State a Methodist
minister appeared as prosecuting witness
against a saloon-keeper. At the next
election the saloon-keeper challenged
the vote of the clergyman, on the ground
that he was an itinerant Methodist
minister, and being subject at any tune
to removal by the Bishop of the Method
ist Episcopal Church, could not, there
fore, he a citizen of any town, city,
county or State. The judges of election
overruled the challenge, but tlie plaintiff
has carried the case to the Supreme
Court of the State. The Christian Advo
cate says that, as there are more than
25,000 Methodist ministers in the United
States, it will be a decidedly interesting
(hing “for it to be declared that they
cannot be citizens. As Methodist min
isters have been Governors of States,
members of Congress, members of
Legislatures, Justices of the Peace, and
candidates for the Vice-Presidency ol
the United States, there are a few pre
cedents in their behalf.”
Demonstrating the value of the fish
eries as a training school for American
seamen, the Boston Journal says: “It is
generally estimated that from 70 to
78 per cent, of New England fishermen
are American citizens, so
it is plain that Yankees are about as
numerous on our fishing vessels as aliens
on the vessels in our merchant service.
This is not a mere surmise. It is demon
strated by figures. During 1886 of tlie
teamen shipped in ports of the United
States for foreign aud coastwise voyages
63 per cent, were foreigners and 37 per
cent. Americans. Here in the port of
Boston native seamen constituted only
15 per cent, of those reported by the
Shipping Commissioner. At Bath, where
the business done was altogether coast
wise,two-thirds of the men were foreign
ers and but one-third American. In the
regular naval service native seamen are
estimated to number from oue-fourth of
the crews of some ships to barely one
tenth of the crews of others. It appears
to be a lamentable fact that New Eng
hred fishermen are the only large class
to 01 us.” thoroughgoing Yankee sailors left
This is ‘white hat year,’ as wo call
the Presidential year,’’said a State sticet
oitter to a Chicago Herald man, “and
the manufacturers and dealers are pre
fixing for the abnormal demand—the
or.i.er by turning out immense quanti
ties of cheap white liats, and the latter
y Setting in their orders for stock early.
White hats as a political badge were first
""° m the Greeley campaign. The
tor candidate set the fashion himself,
, but his
generally rusty looking tile wasn’t
exactly imitated. The well-to-do
among his followers wore a white silk
fi ug, a good many brushing the fur the
*rong way. This hat was as expensive
as it was eccentric. It cost from §0 to
’’' ^be sale of white hats each I resi
aential year thereafter showed a steady
increase. In the last campaign cnor
a°us out three numbers were sold ' Wh\° J ’ I fitted
abS m ° nC j < ay Ti Itlsthe . „
members '
S f , organizations that
fr ed , are
™ > chiefly, who wear white hats,
R cull a good
®ot join political'clnK- manv individuals who will
~ U toi-r take tkls r ; metll0f 1 l
of show! US I . ty t0 their
a P art y. I
noti f, c that r, a big white hat trade
the faff affects
trade. AYhy? Because manv ^
15 *;^ h nt0 tlie dyer ’ s P ot and, as
blaet ° nes are made to last >
umstmas.” ... . until
GRAY, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1888.
SERENADE.
Love songs are coming across the seas,
Lady of mine;
Whispered in echoes of dying breeze,
I-ady of mine.
Let the songs kiss thee sleeping,
Over thine eyelids creeping,
Where thy closed eyes are keeping
Secrets of thine.
W r ould that my lips were a whispered song,
Only for thee;
One of the chosen from out the throng,
Only for thee.
The song so sweetly swelling
Would ope those eyes to telling
The love that forth was welling
Only lor me.
—IK J. Henderson.
TAEA.
BY SABAH F. KORBIS.
lara s e.uly „ , home , was in ........ a little village
near the great city of Hyderabad, in the
Nizams Dominions. Her people were
lelugus of the cultivator caste, and her
earliest recollection was of the tinkling
bells on the necks of the flocks. She
used to lie awake at night listening to
their music, and wondering whether they
too came from the d;stant stars like
self; for her mother had told the little
girl that she had come to them from the
brightest star that was visible through
the chinks of the cottage wail.
Her brothers were named for the
things of the earth to which they be
longed, but she, the youngest and dear
est, was named for the shining place from
when* e she came lara, a star.
When she was seven years old she
questioned the Bai, her mother, one day,
about the ring which pierced her little
nose. Soondra, Why did she wear a ring, while
a neighbor’s child of her own
age, wore none. Was it because she came
from the stars?”
1 hen the J3ai explained that it was the
sign of marriage. The ceremony which
she dimly remembered was the wedding,
She was married to Lalu, who was
now far away in his own home. “Hid
she not remember standing on one side
of a led screen, while Lalu stood on the
other side, and the family friends threw
rice over them? And when the screen
was removed, and they stood free to
face, the priest of the temple tied their
clothing together, and they fed each
other with sugar, and were declared
Ah. said the Bai, “tho marriage
procession was the grandest e\er known
in our village. Lalu rode a white horse,
which was entirely covered with gold
and silver spangles and bells, while Lain
himself was almost hidden by garlands
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1 hen xi the Jong i line of carts and
palanquins, tilled with children; and
behind them the women laden with
lowers, and the men bearing torches;
while the musicians followed, beating
then tomtoms, and singing the marriage
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J]d J-r reme “ ber none °T tins? .
W Well, , it had taken , place when she was
three years old, and they had then given
her the nose-ring-the sign of a wife
and Lalu had gone back to his own
lage iu Baroda, three hundred miles
away, to await the time when his little
bride should be old enough to come to
him. ’
dime went by. Tara sang her little
song as she turned the millstone to grind
the grain,and rolled the spicy curry which
always garnished the rice at their even- ;
ing meal. The flocks were herded at
night, and their bells always made music
to Tara’s ears in the low-roofed cottage
where she slept. The seasons came and
went until Tara was eleven years old,
when Ramji, her father, announced that
the little wile must be taken to her hus
band’s house.
Limhaji, her eldest brother, was to go
with her, and on a line morning, just at
the close of the long rains, they started
on their journey across the country, car-i
rying lam's silken bridal robes and orna
ments, and the little dowry of money
which had been saved for her. 1
As they descended the winding path
leading to the public road they watched
carefully lest perchance a lizard should
cross their track, aud they be obliged to
turn back. But no lizard appearing, j
they went cheerily heartof on their the way, which ;
iay through the great city.
Gilt-spangled elephants howdahs tramped tilled
majestically along, the
with the high-born ladies of the realm,
whose laughing voices reached the ears
of the two strangers as they forced their ‘
way through the moving throng, and
anon the sparkle of the diamonds lla^hed
out, as the silken curtains of the howdahs
were displaced by the swaying motion of
the elejrhunts’ tread. 1
Passing outside the city gates, the
travelers quickened their pace, where and there were
soon in the open country, ,
was nothing to obstruct their progress.
At nightfall on the tenth day of their
journey’ they entered a little village in
Kattiawar, where lived Jairam, a friend
of Limbaji’s. They halted at the door ;
of this friend's house, and asked if they ;
might enter and rest their wearied
limbs. j
Jairam and his wife greeted them with
q r(le Eastern hospitality,begging them to
shake off the dust of travel, aud eat of
their salt. They said: “I he house and
a11 tlial we llave *‘ s y°urs. Come in and
partake of your own, while we bring
water for your feet; and tarry with us,
we pray you, until you are quite rested
from your long journey.” sister consented
the brother and to
stop a week with these good friends,
w pe n they would start again on their
Baroda. "
journey toward
Three or four days after this a
messenger came in great haste from
S J d“'»7'£b“mS !££i
once to perform the funeral ceremonies.
Then arose the question: “What
ahould be done with Tara meanwhile?”
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Lirnbaji could not take her back, as he
must make all possible speed. He would
be obliged to feed the crows for a cer
tain cumber of days, until he could be
sure whether his father’s spirit had en
tered a crow; and he must make several
feasts for the Brahmins, and distribute
alms among the poor of the village. All
this would require so much time, it
would be fully three weeks before he
could continue the journey with Tara.
Tara I'inally his it was decided that he leave
with friends, and return as soon
as the customs of his caste would permit,
So he sped away on the messenger's
swift horse, quite satisfied that he had
made the best arrangement for the little
The following week .Tairam, who was
. the employ of of the Kattiawar
m one
chiefs, was ordered to a distant part of
the province. Then a very serious ques
tion presented itself, for Jairam must
take his family with htm—“What would
they do with Tara?” They could not
take her along, and they dared not leave
her behind alone.
While they sat in Alio doorway dis
cussing the matter in very loud tones.
two strange women came along, and
hearing and inquired the loud voices, they stopped
what was the matter. Jai
said; “Here we have this girl on
our with hands, and we know not what to do
her. Her brother was taking her
to her husband in Baroda, when he was
ca’led back to Hyderabad by the death
of his father. We promised to keep her
safely until his return, but we are or
derod away, and there is no one to look
after the child.”
The women said: “Why, we are on
our best way to Hyderabad now, and your
plan will be to put her in our charge;
and we will take her back to her brother,
then after the funeral ceremonies are
over, he can start again with Tara.”
this Thesimple good minded Jairam thought
a very solution to the prob
lem, and at once gave the giri into their
keeping, with her silken garments, jew
dry, and money.
The women led her along quietly until
they came to a wild, desolate part of the
country, when they tore oft her gar
ments, seized her bridal robes, jewelry
and money, and tying her hands and
feet, prepared to kill her. Tara had no
suspicion of tlieir purpose until they
commenced tying her, when she screamed
lustily.
the Fortunately a cartman was passing on
other side of the hedge, who rushed
to her rescue, and reported the women
to Die district police. They were ar
rested and brought before the English
magistrate, tout who was making his annual
in that neighborhood; Tara’s prop
erty was .recovered, and the women were
seat to prison.
Then Tara was left on the magistrate’s
hands, and he placed aer under the care
or’ ins butlers wife, expecting that her
friends would claim her as soon as he
could communicate with them. Lut
l ust at this time tlie magistrate was
transferred to the Ahmedpore district,
which lies one hundres miles nearer
Dyaerabiia
A disi net magistrate lives in . liis . tents,
and moves trough the districts with much
tent furniture and a large retinue of
servants and camp followers; so with tho
butler s family went little Tara. As soon
as they reached the city the magistrate
inquired for a place of refuge where the
S kl f could remain until her frinds should
claim her. He was told that a “Madam
Same had a school where girls of Tara s
age were cared for, and to the “Sahib s”
bungalow the magistrate hastened at
once.
Tne “Madam Sahib” was very willing
to receive Tara into her school, but
thought it would not be well for her to
enter would the destroy boarding department, as that
the child’s caste, and
make much trouble for her after her re
turn to her friends.
So a Teluga woman of Tara’s own
caste was found, who promised to feed
and otherwise care for her, and she en
tered the school as a day scholar.
And now began a new life for Tara,
Until slie was brought before the magis
trate, a few days before, she had never
even seen a white person. New she was
wakened each morning by the bugle call,
and she saw troops of Highlanders and
other uniformed soldiers marching in
and around the grand old fort, with
colors flying and bagpipes playing. city,
She was now in a large, bustling
and there was nothing to remind her of
her old home except the tinkling of the
bells as the herds were driven outside
the gates in the morning and brought
back at night.
Site had never thought of learning _ fo
read. None of her family or neighbors
could read or write, and there had never
been any necessity for such
ments.
When one of them wished to send a
letter, he called in the village scribe to
write it for him. and also to read the
answer when it came. Why should they
learn to read? Their fathers and grand
fathers before them had never learned.
and the ways of their fathers were good
enough for them.”
Now here was Tara learning to read
and write and sing and embroider. It
was delightful for her- infinitely better
than the Sassu’s house, wliere she wouid
he obliged to work and so hard,
The magistrate and Lessib Sahib wrote
to Hyderabad Tara Baroda, could give butno answer
came. Little no direc
tions for writing. She only knew that
her brother’s name was Lirnbaji, son of
Ramji, but there were many Limbajis
and Ramjis in reached Hyderabad, and the let
ters never the I.imbaji for
for whom they were intended. Her
husband’s name was J alu, and he lived
j a Baroda, but more she could not tell,
and Lalu received no letter. BoTarare
mained in the school, and as she was
diligent and studious, she made good
Hyderabad or Baroda, a id the time had
CO me when Tara’s class was to graduate
from the school. It was a great day for
those young girls. The hall was crowd
ed with the native gentry of the city,
font was still a novel sight to sec girls
reading it happened, and writing,
As a native chief was just
had spending been a little time in the city. He
of Benares, on and a pilgrimage to the holy city
was on his way back to
his province Hearing in the South Marathi coun
try. that all the best people
would be at the school, he too came to
see what it was like. He was immensely
pleased scarcely find with words the exercises and could
to express his appro-
dazzling The girls were arrayed in their most
garments and jewelry, but Tara
outshone all the vest, for her wedding
robes and jewelry had been kept for this
very occasion, and very pretty she
looked, so the younw chief thought °over and
as soon as the exercises were lie
came forward and asked if he mbrirt
make the bright-eyed girl’s acquaint.
ance. lie was eliyly greeted by the
young girl, and it was noticed that they
siient oiher.° a lone time in conversation with
each
The next day the chief made a formal
application to the Sahib for Tara’s hand
aua gieat was his dismay when he learned
that she had been married in infancy.
He ruled a large district and occupied a
grand palace, and was in receipt of a
good revenue from liis subiects.
He had hum been looking for a
wife who could grace Iris’ stately
home, but until this time, he had seen no
one who suited him. Tara was lovely
and accomplished, and she could direct
his large retinue of servants with beeom
iug married dignity; dozen yet because she had been
a years before to an oh
scure lad whom she could not remember,
he was to be forever debarred from woo
ingher. Mqdes Hindoo law is like the laws of
the and Persians,and the marriage
of an infant is binding for life, unless
the husband chooses toturn her out and
divorce her.
The Sahib tried to comfort the chief
with the hope that Tara might already
be a widow and free to marry him. Noth
ing had and been they heard themselves from Lain for devise live
years, set to
a plan for discovering whether he still
lived. They decided to send a proela
mation iuto every village in Kattiawar,
calling upon Jairam hoped to come find forward, Tara’s
Through him they to
brother, and then news of her husband.
Accordingly a printed circular was and sent in
to the h< adman of every village,
a few days Jairam was found. Then
Limbai ,' the brother, was communicated
I with, intention r,nd he take soon came, her declaring his
to Tara to
house at once.
The poor girl begged him to spare her.
She had been happy all these years, and
did not wish to go to the stranger whom
s ] l0 could not remember. But Lirnbaji
wa s inexorable. It was a disgrace to the
family that she had been kept from her
husband so long, and every day she re
ma } ued only added to friends the disgrace. Ahmed- So
she was torn from her at
p orC| and again they started on their
journey to Baroda.
when they reached Lalu’s house they
learne;d that he wa3 in the Mahara jah’s
arm7 and wa3 thcn fightill g a rebellions
Bnftribe. He had taken another wife
who was then livin , r with tho Sassu w h otn
Tara had so much dreaded in her child
houd
And now commenced a hard life for
tj u . pp 0r girl. The Sassu and the other
xvife were unsparing in their abuse of her.
had disgraced the family, and had
broken her caste, and they cried out,
“Unclean! unclean 1” whenever she ap
proached tossed them. food like bone
They her to her darkest a
to a dog, as she crouched in tho
aud dampest corner of the house. She
was compelled to do all the household
drudgery—grind and the grain and pound The
the rice carry the water.
few books she had brought from Alimed
pore were torn in pieces and scattered to
the four winds, while her knitting
and embroidery materials were cremated
before her eyes. Her only comfort was
an occasional salaam from the Telugu
woman who cared for her in Ahmedpore.
The chief had sent this woman to
Baroda to give Tara aid and comfort as
often as opportunity offered. But the
opportunities were few, for Tara was
sedulously watched by the Sassu,
she should make her escape.
Sometimes the woman disguised
self as a bangle-seller, and succeeded in
secretly conveying food to the poor girl,
who was made to fast until she was al
most starved. She shed bitter tears
over the life she had left behind, and
thought which the regretfully of the grand home tho
chief had ofleied her in
far-away Marathi country.
Why Why had she been married in infancy?
should she not have a voice in the
matter of her life’s companion? She
asked herself these questions
less times, but no answer came. .She
had been horn a Hindoo, and she must
submit to Hindoo customs.
Time passed drearily enough, until
one day word came that Lalu had been
slain in battle. Then the house was
filled with wailmg. The mother heat
her .— breast ----------------- and clutched her ..... hair, <le- —
claring that vile, polluted Tara was the
guilty cause of vi. «*». all this. lum. She 1 ;uu was nao uu uoi.
into the street, and told never to darken
tlieir doors again.
Now u
(unity, and was she the Telugu Tara's woman’s oppor
came to rescue, as
the „------’ cartman had done ’ years ’ before. "
At early dawn they were on their way
to Ahmedpore. the There was no traveling
across country on foot now, hut with
the swiftest speed of the iron horse; and
in twenty-four hours Tara was in the
midst of her friends in Ahmedpore again,
and the news was flashed to the young
chief in his southern home.
In a few weeks there was a grand wed
ding iu Ahmedpore—the giandest since
the time of the old Mohammedan kings,
The bride was lovely in her white
silken robes atid diamonds, and the chief
was handsome in his full durbar cos
tume, with his jewel-hilted sword at his
side. His garments were embroidered
with seed-pearls, and the diamonds com
posing the aigrette of his turbau would
have bought up a hundred villages likil
the one in which Tara had in childhood
listened to the tinkling bellsof the flocks
as ■ she lay under the cottage roof and
thought of the distant stars from whence
she came.________
A \ critahle Rock fortress.
For the first time for number of .
a
years the Sigiri Rock in Ceylon lias been
scaled by a European, the feat on this
occasion being performed by General
Lennox, who commands the troops in
tiie islikud - 11 is said, indeed, that on iy
one European, Mr. Creasy, ever succeeded
>" reaching the summit. The rock
cylindrical in shape, and .difficult the bulging and
sides render the ascont Very
dangerous. There are galleries all round,
» groove about four inches deep being
cut in the solid rock. This rises spiral ly,
mid in it are fitted the foundation bricks,
which support a platform about six feet
broad, with a chunuin coated wall about
nine feet high. The whole structure
follows the curves and contours of Hie
solid rock, and is cunningly constructed
80 M t0 make the most of any natural
support the formation can afford. In
some places the gallery has fallen com
lately away, hut it still exhibits flights
of ^ ne marble steps. High up on the
rock are several figureB of Buddha; but
*t' s a mystery how the artist got there,
or How, being there, he was able to carry
on bis work. The fortifications consist
ot platforms, one above tho other, sup
ported by massive retaining walls each
commanding the other. Owing to the
tailing away of the gallery, made the ascent
in parts had to be up a perpen
dicular face of the cliff,and General do hen- the
nox and four natives were left to
latter part of the ascont alone. The top
they found to be a plateau about an acre
in extent, in which were two square
tanks with in sdcs 80 yards and of lb the loot Bolid re
spectively length, believed cut out
ruck. A palace is to have ex
> st(, d on the summit at onetime; al
though time, weather, and the jungle
; have obliterated all traces of it.
Die descent the first comer had to guide
the foot of the next to a safe fissure; but
all reached the bottom safely in about
two and a half hours.— St. James Gazette.
Touching Pica for the Owl.
The owl is not a handsome bird, nor
j s it a tuneful one In the pools of beauty
the owl would sell in the field, and no
| buyer would invest a nickel on him in a
one-hundred-dollar pool meadow” as imainst the
California linnet or lark as a
simmer While not a beauty however,
j the owl has a broad, benevolent, Beecher open
face—a sort of Henry Ward or
- Daniel Webster physiognomy, and we
would underground never accuse him chamber of putting job up
an or a star on
his fellow-birds on the eve of a conven
tion. The ground owl of California hi
in no way related to the Eastern owl,
who makes night dismal with his
screeching, and besides between is painfully
ignorant of the difference ineuni
et tuum, or, in other words, he is a thief.
Honesty is plainly written on our owl’s
face. He is not, as a rule, aggressive or
combative, never even resenting a slur
as to his lack of beauty or vocal aceom
plishment. Mice and snakes arc his
natural enemies, and the carcasses of I Imsc
worse than nuisances around his modest
quarters bear testimony to the fact that
when he goes for the saake or the mouse
he is in the campaign for business pur
poses. A protest is here entered against
the small boy wiio either with muzzle or
bieecli-loader wantonly turns loose and
slaughters tho owl—as tho young sports
man (?) frequently does. The recent
rabbit drives have lessened the number
of jack rabbits hereabouts, but these
rodents of prey—score one, reader, for
not inflicting “pests” on you—arc still
painfully numerous, and the
marksman might profitably employ a few
hours’ relaxation from attending school
or playing hooky, by practicing on the
worst of the farmers’foes .—Freeno {Cal.)
Expositor.
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Largest Regimental Less in the War.
qq lc official casualty lists of 1 tie Con
federate force are not so trustworthy as
those of tho Union side because they
have not liad the same careful revision
since the war eio.cd, but the tables now
accessible, eoual'ly show that the Northern aim
was true, and that the Northern
nerve wa3 e inally steady. The Twenty
sixth North Carolina I'ettbmsw’s
J Ileth’s Division____lost at Getty
|, ur g;jj !lrll | 503 wounded: total
58 K notindudin" ahont"'i'-0. tlu: missing (The'official of whom
qjjere were re
port states that the regiment “went in
j u j v j ovcr (.ipp j ne n.”) Jn one
con inanv 84 stron"-, tlie every man and
od ; cer wa3 hit; ;UK 1 orderly sergeant with
v ,-ho made out the list did it a
i JU jj e t through each leg. This is by far
durin<Ahe t} j e i ar „ e8 t regimental loss on cither side
0 war._ Genlur 11 Magazine.
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Love Ivmg 01 llie inline li.i.-K.
j As the full Springtime comes on the
; number -------- of - these short - chants is greatly „ „
| increased, while without their prolongations number, and _ and
j variations are — — ..........— soon
it becomes evident 1.-1 to the most 1 casual 1
observer that the love fires are kind
diing and that each musician ..... is striving
(o the utmost of h;s powers to surpass all
rivals aud win the lady lark of his choice,
On one occasion, _ larks as I lay skimming in ... hiding near
j a fence, three came o>. er
I the plain; they alighted within a few
yards of me and two of them burst into
song, sometimes singing together the third and
1 sometimes alternately, but flew I was
silent. When at last they up no
tired that the '.iient one und one of the
singers kept too ther. I had been wit
ness to a musical tournament, and tlie
victor had won his bride ,—American
Magazine
Ncver trust much to a new friend or
an old enemy.
NO. 85.
FACE TO FACE
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tf ray face could only promise that its color
would remain,
if my heart wore only certain it would hide
tho moment’s pain,
t wou pi meet you and would greet you In the
old fmlliliar tone<
And s i, ou jd ever show youths wrong
that you have dona
If my trembling hand wera stoady, if my
smiles had not all tied,
If my eyes spoke not so plainly of the tears
they often shed,
[ would meet you and would greet you at the
old sweet trysting place,
And perc i U nec yo u’d deem me happy if you
meet me face to face.
If the melody of springtide awoke no wild
refrain,
if the autumn’s goldon burden awoke no
living pain,
i would meet thee, and would greet thee, as
years ago we met,
Before our hearts wero shipwrecked, on tho
ocean of regret.
If my woman’s soul were stronger, if iny
heart were not so true,
I shoukUoug have ceased remembering . tho
love I had for you;
But I duro not meet or greet thee, in the old
familiar way,
Until we meet in heaven, when tears have
passed away, —Temple Bar.
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PITH AN 1) POINT.
Noted down —Eider.
To the point—A wasp's sting,
Faithful to the end—Adog’stail.
«<How ’s the earth ‘ divided?” “Bye
-.. rt)lnimkp 1 , ma - ».
‘ ‘ ’’ '' '
to It better to , , bo f a. .
young men. is
asleep than fast awake,
On tho road to recovery—overtaking watch.
the thief who borrowed your
j If a young man feels that his life is a
! blank, ho should try to fill it out aud
have it sworn to.
“T will and devise \ ”savs the millionaire
. . . g deat ftn( j his hoir3 dcv iso
ways to circumvent his will.
A Sam is always a him, but a hymn i 3
not always a psalm. This ought Sunday to help
while away the Tc Deuiu of a
afternoon. —Neto York Sun.
Social Stranger (offering a Bridgeport
^ ictornv)—‘ . Have a cigar, friend?”
Churlish Stranger--- Thanks, no; I
never disinfect. --Jid-lhU.
| "Wife- “Hid you know, my dear, that
there is sex in fruiti” Husband, who
feels surly—“Well, if that’s so, then
' persimmon must be a female.
Unshod is the conversation's sound
Of sages anil silence of gawks. deep, profound,
And there is
W hen money talks.
—Boston Courier.
An old lady, with several unmarried
“S i r] t lr ... r ed , the n on fish diet, bo
i t r ich in nhosnhorus, and phos
„),orus is llie essential thing for making
_ Commercial Advertiser.
Laid .,, the watchman when wheti ahout about dusk auuc
lie was invited to drink a cup oi oonee,
‘“n't you; coffee kee].s me . waae
f 11 1 hc " he bil ' v 8
lookcu embarrassed, aaa . tricu io
very „
explain, but it was no use. houses
“A good many new business
are going nj» on Broadway, 1 re
marked a stranger to his neighbor ies, in a
Broadway car tho other day.
said the other with a sigh, “ours wont
up the other day.”— Sijtinys.
There was a sign upon a fence
The sign was “Raint."
Ami .;vnp-y body that went ny,
Putiout a linger, touched the fence
Anil onward sped, -d their finger tips
And as they wip
“ it is,” they said,
~~ ‘ 10 orc u '„
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Miss Greatbrain (of Boston)—
brother George^ has got marriedf
Omaha Man—“lies; it wasan elopement;
that is probably why the family were
not notified.” “Jshis wile a woman of
intellect?” “No, indeed; pretty as a
picture and sweet as a-peach .”—Omaha
bV/d. /
... uncu.m. Unearthed
The , excavations of Athens i have re
suited iu bringing to light the head of a
mun ot heroic si/e, carved in porous
Kl0IU! - **- Wlls Diiiml on the Acropolis,
at the southeast angle of the 1 artlienon.
The hair and beard are (as usual) painted
blue and the face red. What is remark
however, Il0fc olli is that peinted the pupils in, but of also the
c v(: s ar0 v
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delineated . with the cliisel. This head,
which forms one of the most ancient
sculptures ever found upon the Acropolis,
will attract considerable attention lioth
from the style of workmanship and the
material of which it is made. It appears
to * K! lc W' a< ’ °* 11 tnton, the rest of
thcbo(ly,inthcformofaseri)ent,end- the , fish, having been
ing in tail of a
found a few days before near the same
place.— Brooklyn. Eagle.
The Best Celery in the World.
“Where i 3 the best celery raised?” rc
marked a Washington Market man the
other day to a New York Mail and Ex
* )Vem reporter. “In Kalemazoo. It is
not yet certain why it is so, but it has
been definitely determined raised that by is experience
that no celery is as good as
the celery „ of Kalamazoo. the It brings u a
better price in market than other
celery, aud moreover avast quantity of it
is raised there. Over 8000 acres of swamp
] a nd are said to have been ‘reclaimed’
and devoted to the culture of this tooth
some esculent alone. The business is a
lucrative one, and numerous Kalamazoo
HMg have grown rich at it. It is in fact
the cording leading tho industry of the place, ac
to statements of the West
«>rii papers.”
If law-breakers were choosers magis
trates would be men of few words and
short sentences.