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fNOMMENClNQ Augusta, Ga., Mav 21, 1880. j
the following SUNDAY, 23d instant,
be Vj passenger schedule will
operated:
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I.v Augusta 9:35 TaoSiEr aim!Lv Atlanta JSfilS 7 -u, a m
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1879.
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but not to firms and families combined.
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Yol. 4.
OUR Faded bouquet.
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sweet, these faded flowers, ~
Thesl tvwfoAlwhaDDiesnieurs ;
That have flown on rapid wings.
With gentle hands we wave this token
From childhood’s free and careless track,
And the sweet spell cannot be broken
That points our memories back.
Wh£e tee ___
We printed these fair types of ours
Types ' of days forever gone.
In dreams we walk those paths of yore,
And sing the sweet songs we sung; ..
In dreams we meet and smile once more,
As we did w n we we e young.
Backward through childhood’s sunny path
We can pass with footsteps light;
1 Hear our free, our cheerful laugh
«e“eath the same clusters bright.
Where the many careless little . feet
lass to fro, free from care,
^ Grtherir^e Gathering lmre here andtlmre and there. '
one
I Where the tender heart can feel no sigh
) Among the sweet roses wild,
i We can look back with a tearless eye,
i See ourselves once more a child.
But soon we wake and end our dreams ;
j Find Soou see have our faded crossed flowers childhood's ; clear
we
streams
Into fields of toilsome hours.
Where the fondest hopes must fade and
Like pass, loved
the faces we so well,
And the brightest sun must set at last,
Where life is one short spell,
But another hope still points above,
. Where all sing of festal joy,
And flowers that bloom in fields of love
No chilling frost can destroy.
Where hope and memory will unite
In a light that never fades,
And memory will paint the old-time bright
In Heaven’s unfading shades.
—Mrs. Emma Fi.ynt.
THE RACE.
“My pet, Kitty Wells, was in daily
training, and the jockeys told me confi
dently, that she was sure to win money,
“I visited her at her stable every day,
and she was always glad to see me—
would greet me from the stall, when she
heard my voice outside. Gentlemen,
you can hardly couceive how great an
affection I had for her. To love and be
'«ved, will soften, measurably, the hard
est nature, though the object of that
love be only a.horse.
“Hear 1 hear 1” cried the President,
“hear! hear 1”
“I believe yomare correct—1 believe
y ,„, ar »,” groaned Mr. Sqm 7 /.ie.
“The race day arrived. She was en
tered against the best running stock of
Kentucky, and stood a new candidate
for honors, without a record. With her
light, muscular jockey ‘Jack’ in blue
and white, upon her back, I thought she
looked grand, while, with keen eye, she
watched the preparations. She knew
very well that it was her great day of
trial, and when I approached her she
Whinnied. She always greeted me so,
and placing her nose on my shoulder,
seemed to whisper in my ear : ‘Don’t
be uneasy, Jim, I’ll win this race or die
tryiig.’
“‘Do you know the horses entered?’
I inquired of Jack.
“ ‘Yes ;’ he replied, ‘She’s got the
best field against her I have seen on
this yer course, but I reckon she’ll win.’
“ ‘And what makes you think so ?’ I
asked.
“ ‘Well, first, I know how to ride her,’
be remarked with pardonable vanity, for
he did ride well. ‘Then she’s got good
bottom, and last, which is the biggest
card, she’ll keep cool. Why, she’s
knowd this thing was cornin’ for some
time ; but after you’d come and see her
every evenin’, she'd rest jist as easy—
onl y dreamin’ a little, and sleep as sound
as if she was winterin’ over. Do you
see that horse yonder ? That’s Light
ning—one of the fastest. He’ll be the
favorite, but he’s nervous. If you go
up and examine, you’ll find the veins
out the muscles twitching, and the
ears jumping back and forward all the
time. He didn’t sleep a wink last night,
j Kitty isn’t troublin’herself—wish you’d
just stand by her most of the time, he
fore the bell rings—rank in the field.
! jj et your bottom dollar on the field.’
“The pools opened. I didn’t have
much money ; but for every jive with
which I backed the field, there were
forty for Lightning and Flyaway, " first
and second choice.
. “My friends told me to go in heavy,
and they would see me through. Well
the polls closed for the first heat, the
| i bell They rang, and wonderfully the horses gathered,
were excited—some
- stood quivering, with eyes full of fiery
! impatience. Six of them gathered for
the start. I could see Jack patting Kit
i tt on th e neck and talking soothingly to
lier - ‘Now, quiet, Kitty, stand still.’
One car was bent back to catch his
| tones, and the other forward on the
track.
“The flag dropped, and they galloped
forward to the send-off. ‘Quiet, Kitty,’
I heard Jack say, as he reined her up.
There were several lagging, while one
i of the favorites anxious for the lead,
dashed away foi a hundred yards before
he could be checked, and returned much
excited. Jack rode Kitty up to me,
and I rubbed her nose, and she went
back to the stand as cool as at first,
There were two false starts, to which I
felt sure Jack contributed ; but when
the send-off came, the hones passed the
hne m a bunch, and the race began.
6y rea, - ! 'f 1 second quar
ter, there was a wide gap between three
in front and three behind, and I saw
through Lightning my glass that Kitty was leading
^ about by a behind headwind Flyaway was
a neck the latter. .Jack
was leaning forward in the saddle: he
didn’t touch the seat; he used neither
'vhip nor spur, but just patted her on
the neck nowana then, and 1 knew he
^a® ur 8 | Dg “®r only with the words,
; Now, Kitty.
The Democrat
CRAWFORD'VILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1880.
“Gentlemen, perhaps none of you
have ever known what it is to be in love
with a horse, and can hardly appreciate
m 5' feelings when I saw her on the lead
at the third quarter, untouched by whip
or spur. I felt that she knew who was
waiting to caress and feel proud of her
when she came in. I was compelled to
gulp down my emotion aud shade my
eyes as I hastened from the stand and
went beyond it to greet her. I heard
the people talking and caught the ex
pressions,‘Good mare ! ’ ‘Best rider on
the course 1’ ‘Who owns her ?’ ‘What’s
her name!’ Then a knowing fellow
said, ‘Ah, Lightning and Flyaway are
just knocking the bottom out of her.
while they put her up in the pools for
the greens to lose on.’ Then I saw
f>' em straining on the homestretch,
The excited crowds were hushed into
silence—the race was so close.
“I saw Kitty with a yard the advan
f«ge, her neck stretched out and her
nostrils aflame—twenty yards to
and heard Jack say louder and stronger
than common. ‘Now,. Kitty 1’ I saw
Lightning’s rider strike him with the
whip. But Kitty sprang forward at his
word with new energy, and passed the
line by a half length atiead amid deafen
ing cheers of the assembled thousands.
‘Quiet, Kitty,’ said Jack, as she passed
where I stood with water and blanket,
She came to me with her neck stretched
out, her panting sides and swollen and veins.
I sponged her face and mouth put
on her blankets, and as she walked about
with me she put her nose on my shoul
der again. She might as well have said,
‘How does that suit you, Jim ?’ I so
understood her.
“ ‘Jack,’ said I, ‘were they only press
ing her for bets ?’
“He asked the time, and when I had
informed him lie said ‘Flyaway was up
to his best time and was running to
win.’
“ .‘Pressing her ?’ said Jack contempt
uously ‘Site’s the best bottom on the
fl«ld. ’ -
lhe first beat had the effect of send
mg’up che field to par with the favorite,
and second choice found few takers.
Kitty had astonished them, and they
hardly knew how to bet On the second
heat there was two false starts again,
and each time .Tack rode Kitty up tome,
and I patted and talked to her. Ihett
away they daited again and at the Hist
quarter Llyaway and Lightning were
neek-and-neck and Kitty half a length
behind. They ve finished the mare,
said a man near me,-and it’s between
them !’ 1 watched them’ nervously. At
tbe second garter the people shouted^
lhc male creeps ahe.u . I hen I saw
her nose just peering past the favorites.
IlmU no doubt it Would encourage her
if She could .hear my voice and know
that I witnessed her performance.
then she did know. And now came the
fearful home-stretch. I could see that
the rider thrust liis spurs into the favor
ite’s flanks, and slashed him with bis
whip. Then I beard Jack, in the quiet
that precedes the final outcome of so
close a race, calling in louder tones of
entreaty, ‘Now Kitty! Nbw!’ Her
ears hogged her neck, Jack said, and
sbe brought him six inches nearer the
ground, as she made her final springs
and passed under the line winner of the
heat and race by a neck. How the peo
l’lo cheered ! I ran toward tier with’
water and blanket. She saw me, and
blown as she was, walked forward to
meet mfe—yes, I gentlemen, caressed her, to meet me,
and while the tears
coursed down my cheeks. Since I have
been a man, I never remember shedding
them but twice, and this was the first
occasion. When she had been sponged
and blanketed, and had somewhat re
covered her breath, she thrust her nose
over my shoulder, and I laid my cheeks
against hers. I was standing thus,
when a Kentucky vender asked my price
h«c. 1 ™red “g* SUte of
Kentucky , she had won for me eight
thousand, six hundred, and the stakes.’
The gentleman smilingly replied, that I
didn’t want to sell very bad, and, after
examining her flanks, said to Jack,
‘Did she do it without spur ?’ ‘I only
wear her,’replied these for ornaments, jockey, when I rides
the and, winding
my arms about her head, I said to Kitty,
“ ‘I’d like tosee the man who’ddareto
put a spur into your flesh, pet.’
“After five years had elapsed, and my
thoroughbred had won many purses, she
ran her last race, on a Southern course,
where she was a favorite. Onthatocca
sion, a six-year-old, very like in her ai>
pearance, called Revenge, was entered
by a woman—one Madame Descartes,
Madame was young—not more than
twenty-four, and su|ierintended, person
ally, all the arrangements regarding her
animal. She went heavily into the
pools, by her agent, against the favorite,
whom I backed strongly, of course,
During field most of the time she was on the
in a close carriage, and just before
the race began, drove down to the track
and Revenge beckoned to her rider," who brought
up to where she stood. Her
back was toward me, as I watched her
through my glass. I saw her rnare
throw her head up and down, and Jack
told me afterwards, that Madame had
said: ‘You will win this race, won’t
y° u i Revenge?’ and the animal had
nodded at a wave of her hand. Then I
saw her take tlie animal’s nose in her
1 delicate palms, and lay her veiled cheek
! against its face. Then when the bell
rang, she patted its neck and it went off
! quietly to its place.
“There was a send-off the first trial,
and at the first quarter, Kitty was lead
ing by half a length, with Revenge press
ing her hard. Away rolled madarne’s
carriage to a point midway in the last
quarter, bhe got out and stood on the
edge of the track I could see Kitty
about a neck ahead as they passed the
last quarter pole ; hut just when they
were opposite madam. Jack said she
shouted‘Revenge.’ The animal strained
eyery muscle at her voice, and there
was the novel sight of two thorough
breds coming in on the home stretch
without whip or spur. Their noses
broke the line so nearly at the same in
stent, that the judge pronounced it a
tie. Away went snadam’s carriage
.
down the track, pud I could see her
groom caressed sponging the and blanketing, while
she animal. Then, while
the groom walked her about a circuit.
madame sat m her carriage, and each
time the anitaal came round, it thrust
its head in at the open door for white
hands to ruj> its face.
“This horse made me feel uneasy,
Its disposi ion was too like Kitty’s,
Jack share* nty shout’on fears, ‘You had better
give Kitty .a the home,’ he
said, ‘I'm ifral' she’s beaten, if that
mare has as good bottom as Kitty had
her age.’ ^Accordingly, in the next
; heat, I took my place behind Madame,
The horses, were passing us neck-and
neck, and wvk now (allowed my shout ‘Now, Kitty!
Now !’ in Madame’s clear,
riugmg V « wr«‘Now for Revenge 1’
There w - sometumg familiar in Mad
. ante's toi •»>. I hardly knew why I
thought We, o- her for whom she was named,
Kitty s. It was only for an instant.
The race was absorbing—Kittie was
beaten by a head. I felt that the race
was lost. Kit*$r Kitty 1 would be discouraged.
Poor Gentlemen, I felt more for
her, at that moment, than for my an
financial ticipated loss of money—the prospect of
ruin.
“I had bet more heavily upon her
than before. Again the veiled woman
stood by the home stretch. The horses
came ‘Now, sweeping Kittie 1 jiast 1’ neck by neck,
Now I shouted once
more. Dne ear went back at my voice,
‘Once inore for Revenge 1’ shouted
Madame, and followed it with a clear,
ringing but laugh. The voice so familiar
again, the face was hidden. ‘A
very close race Madame,’ I remarked,
with as much composure as I could as
sume, while I watched the horses near
the line,
i, i Yes, sir,’ sho replied, as she
stepped into the carriage, ‘but Revenge
has won.’
“Yes, she had, by a head, and my pet
"' a3 Beaten. Before I readied where
sne 8 ‘ 1 naught a glimpse of Mad
nec jj ^ and the bystanders said she kissed
her the face. But poor Kitty. She
8too d for a moment, very still, and then, ’
„ r aool . oachpd shuddered ., n ,i at „
£ gered toward me. I caught her by the
ridle ’ ag ghe . h er knees Then
her m usc i e3 rc i a xed and her body came
trirned heayily to the ground. Her dull eyes
upon me for an instant, as l sat
,i gT 0 \vn on the turf with- her head on niv
She seemed to : ‘L have doi.e
n)y best, Jim, Kitty'was L (lie trying.’ Another
shudder and dead
The tears, gentlemen, flowed fast. 1
baV e never wept so freely sinoa-1 never
expect t.6 again. Kitty was d’ead—my
, ny lover V'i Mv losses were
r d i,i n » think of
’ '* , f
tj 1 I- , 1 ; my companion. If Her p r
- ’
frioinls - and mine gathered around us
with sad faces, and the quiet that reigns
about the dead body of a human.
Among them stood the woman with the
veiled face. I looked up, when she said,
in musical tones and marked emphasis,
‘I’m sorry. I didn’t moan my Revenge
should kill Kitty Wells.’
“I looked up—I saw, and knew hot*,
Madame Descartes was Kitty Wells,
and I thought of the words that she ut¬
tered years before : ‘You’ll rue it, if I
live.’ But she was gone in an instant.
I saw her enter her carriage and drive
rapidly away. Then I got up, and one
of.my friends said: ‘Gentlemen, the
truest mare that ever passed under a
line is dead, and if to he kind and gentle,
and to do her whole duty always are
Christian virtues, and if to know more
than some folk, entitles her to respect,
we’ll bury her respectfully.’
than “The suggestion’was no sooner made
its execution was proceeded with.
Permission was granted to bury her In
the middle of the course, on which she
had made many a splendid score.— Front
J. W Shaw's New Novel, “Solomon’s
Story." ’
Gradually Fading Out.
A prominent resident of Washington
calls attention to the fact, in connection
with the presentation and acceptance of
the Jefferson desk, upon which the
Declaration of Independence was writ
ten, that the instrument itself, now in
the State Department, is gradually
fading out, uncfpherable. so that its contents will soon
become The same gentle
man, in 1876, when the Declaration was
deposited in the patent office, called the
attention of Congress to the fact that
the immortal document was becoming
illegible, and succeeded in having the
following law passed, wbicli was ap
proved August 3, 1870 :
Resolved, That a commission, con
sisting of the Secretary of the Interior,
the Secretary of the Smithsonian Insti
tution aud the librarian of Congress, be
j ! empowered to have resort to such means
as will most effectually restore the
writing of the original manuscript of
the Declaration of Independence with
the signatures appended thereto, now in
the United States patent office.
Soon after the passage of this act the
late Prof, Henry, then Secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution, had an inform
a! Conversation with the Secretary of
the Interior in regard to the best method
of restoration, but nothing was done,
! and there the matter rested. He calls
the attention of the officers charged
with the execution of this law to its pro
visions and to the well-known fact that
the manuscripts in the British Museum
are there constantly being restored, so that
need be no difficulty as to
ticability of the design.
—
To Our Girls.
Now that you are being courted, well you
think, of course, it is all very and
it will b« nicer when you get married.
But it won’t. He thinks he’s going to
keep on this high pitch of love all the
time. But he won’t. He doesn’t know
himself and you don’t know him.
can’t last It must cool down When
he wa^T sees you atd as many ma^ times a day “ w^e^ as he
to more he
sees your head done up regularly every
morning in curl papers and the bloom is
all off the rye; when your home con
tains a good deal of wash tub, cradle and
No, 23.
cook stoves, he won't stand for one hour
in front of the house out In the cold
watching your light iu your window.
He’ll be thinking rather of getting out
of the house. Young woman, protract
this courtship as long as you can. Let
well enough alone. A courtship in
hand is worth two marriages in the
bush. Don’t marry till Christmas after
next .—Auyusta Netcs.
A “N. York Orfun.”
One of the little lambs nicked up in
the streets of New York by Whitelaw
Reid and sent West to find a home, was
adopted by a Detroit family about two
months ago, and ere this is published Mr.
Reid lias receiyed a big postal card an¬
nouncing that his dear lamb has gone
west to fight Indians and that lie needn't
mind about sending on ajmther to take
his place.
This New Y’ork lamb was thirteen
years old. He said so at the depot on
his arrival, and half an hour later ho
reiterated the statemeut at the house,
and added : “And if you don’t believe
it, then call me a liar I That’s the sort
of spring-gun I am, and don’t you for¬
get it.!” They didn't forget it. lie
gave them no chance to. lie ate with
liis fingers, wiped his mouth on his
sleeve, and gave the family to under¬
stand before supper was over that he
didn’t come west to have his hair coinbed
or his face washed as a regular business.
On hfs first evening he slipped out, had
three fights and stole a dog, and when
hunted up he was about to take his beer
in a saloon. The family expected to
wrestle with the boy for a while and
they didn’t sit down on him until it be¬
came iuminful necessity. During liis first
week lro stole 95 in money, h gold chain,
a revolver and a pair of ear-rings, and
he got drunk twice, When reasoned
with and asked to do better lie took a
fresh chew of plug tobacco and replied:
“Oh ! you Michigan folks are too soft I
If a feller can't have a good time what’s
the use of being an orphan ?”
On Monday the second week be sold
the family dog to a stranger for a quar¬
ter, throw tiie saw and ax Into the alley
and when locked up in a closet he tore
a Sunday coat to pieces. It was thought
best to have a policeman talk to him,
and one was called in. lie put on his
fiercest look and lectured the lamb for
15 minutes, but as soon as lie stopped
for breath the young sinner replied:
“Now see here, old Duttons, you are
wasting tithe! I know my little gait, I
do, and if you think I’ve come to a vil¬
lage like this to bo bluffed by anybody,
you’ve missed your train 1” # IIe was ta¬
ken to Sunday-school by the hand, Hu
hadn’t been there half an hour when ho
was taken out by the collar. He seetn
Mimxious boy to punch the head of every
good little within half a mile of him,
unit he told the teacher of his class that
when she could stuff Moses in the bul¬
rushes down him it would lie after she
him had bleached Sunday out school her freckles. They gave
a book to fit hit)
case, but be iitted it to a crack in the
sidewalk oil his way home.
When moral suasion had no effect on
the wicked youth his guardian tried the
rod. He was bigger but than the boy, aud
lie walloped bnn, within three
hours two of the nuts we re taken off bis
buggy and thrown away. There was a
second fore seance in the woodshed, and be¬
dark a window-glass worth #8 was
broken. That orphan was faithfully and
duly and j<ei»i»tently wrestled with,
lie was coaxed and flattered. He was
licked and reasoned with. Ambition,
gratitude, fear add avarice were alike
appealed to in turn, but as he was the
first day ho he was the last. A few days
ago he was told that fie would be sent
to the Reform School at Lansing if there
was any further trouble with him That
night he stole $o of the cook, a butcher
knife from the pantry, a pie from the
sideboard and departed the house, leav¬
ing lows on Ins bed a note reading as fol¬
: “This town ar’ no place fur a N.
York orfun. I’m goin’ out on the planes
to fite injuns. It will be yuseiess to toi¬
ler me, fur I can’t be took Alive 1 Z)e
troit Free Press.
The Bureted Bureau.
Under tne heading I He H united inl¬
f<»u, urn Atlanta constitution says :
’The recent gold discoveries in North
east Georgia and the increased activity
in the older fields of the State has ex
cited general interest among prospectors
and capitalists in the North and Last,
as well as at home, that there is an
abundance of gold in our Mate, no one
doubts, best look but for its it, exact location, not where
to etc., are tilings
generally known and cannot well be
ascertain by the unscientific. A large
number of letters received by State and
county officials, by newspapers and by
prominent citizens, concerning this gold
area in Georgia and asking for definite
information, demonstrates how useful
and necessary in the development of the
mineral resources of the State was the
geological bureau. It was stricken
down by the last legislature through
its refusal to appropriate the small sum
necessary to keep the bureau in opera
t ion and the geological survey in pro
K re83 i The bureau was just reaching a
position to be of invaluable service to
R |e State, and that our interests have
suffered from its overthrow is beyond
question. As it is, the records, speci
mens, maps, etc., already accumulated
the bureau are almost valueless for
i reference, without great labor on the
; r ,art otthe searcher. We believe it
be wise economy, at least, to put
them in shape for use, even should the
j op^tW^Om rainera^fiSS. ail 7le
^nw^WjStLB^stfturewiU and sr me « c h bureau there is a
' wSnthisregard tfimthe UaTone to
1 J 1 regard than the last one. ”
, * rau ! 1 ^ill out. . The „„ fellow who
c ‘ a)rns tJie frieat African giant,
1 has a foot over nlneteen inches !on »
Wflsh him and see if he is not a Chicago
man, blacked up.
| “Ab, yes! Time flies!” said he, gaz
ing on the thief running off with his
i watch.
Tlie Democrat.
ADVKHTIS1NC KATfcS I
One Square, first Insertion . f 1 0$
One Square, each subsequent insertion, T«
One Square, three months . . 10 OU
One Square, twelve months . . 16 00
Quarter Column, twelve months . . » 09
Half Column twelvemonths . . 60 00
One Column twelve months . . 100 00
One Inch or Less considered as a
square. Wo have ho fractions of a square,
all fractions of squares wilt be counted aa
squares. Liberal deductions made on Con¬
tract Advertising.
Gossip for the Ladies.
A pair of lovers idljr strolled
Adown an avenue j
Said he, " Now tel) me what it !•
That yon would like to do I"
She tossed a chip into the brook
Beneath the cooling stiade, *
And said, “I’d like to shed shoes ,
An’ git in thar an’ wade." my
Woman’s writes—postscripts.
All the rage with the girls—marriage.
A young man in pressing his own suit
frequently wrinkles the girl’s.
In our country’s cologne-ial days eve¬
rybody had plenty of common scents.
It is said that an Athens girl feels big
when she can make use of seventy-ore
hair-pins at once.
When you say that a girl’s hair is black
as coal, it is just ns well to specify that
you dou’t mean a red-hot coal.
—Supiwso a sweetheart makes a pres¬
ent to her adored. Iu this case she gives
the lover and ho loves the giver.
While atari upon the emerald lea
Now softly lieam,
Meek Dora with her gallant he
Devours ice cream.
” And oh, Edward,” said the girl he
was going to leave behind him, “ at eve¬
ry stopping place be sure you write, then
go ahead.”
and Notwithstanding Joe Brown’s Gordon’s resignation
States appointment as United
Senator, Athens girls chew gum
just the same.
Foreign ladies presented to the queen
do not kiss her hand, but merely courte¬
sy and move off sidewise so as not to
turn their backs upon royalty.
“ God bless our homo ” worked in dif¬
ferent colored silks on cardboard would
be a good motto to hang over the desk of
the judge of the divorce courts.
A pretty actress settled her advertising
bill with a Little Rock newspaper last
week by kissing the editor. Arkansas
editors don’t get very rich, but they have
a heap of fun.
When the professors at Yassar College
desire the young ladies to be good, and
prepare to become angels, they tell them
that all female angels are permitted to
slide down on sunbeams.
When the young and tender school-girl Isn't
thinking, Isn’t thinking,
Of the tlmo when she will be allowed to
vote, 'Lowed
to vote,
Tjio chances are that she H coyly blinking,
At In Coyly blinking.
some young man a zebra overcoat,
Overcoat.
At a church sociable at. Augusta, Me.,
five young ladies were sold by auction,
bringing prices dollars, that ranged from thirty
cents to two and they db say that
things are dearer at auction than any¬
where clso.
A woman had almost won the prize at
a mum sociable, when sumo one hap¬
pened to remark that her baby was cross¬
eyed and hail a very big mouth. It was
a mean advantage to take of her, but the
villain bad bis reward.
What is the woman who trusts to her
paint aud patches and other patent arti¬
fices to increase her attractions or con¬
ceal the ravages of time but the incarna¬
tion of foolishness, seeing that It Is she
alone who is deceived ?
A young man in Maryland started out
with horse and lance and battle-ax to
champion damsels in distress. He had
not gone live miles when a red-lieadcd
school-ma’am pulled him off his steed
and rolled him in the mud.
Maud Mary Jane ntkington Flier,
White-skirted marvel of duty:
The wide world can never beguile her.
My gold-hcadud, blue-belted beauty.
An old gentleman with several mar¬
riageable daghters was heard to remark
the other day with considerable truth,
that the trouble with too many young
men is that they want reserved seats ev¬
erywhere except in the family circle.
Women can keep secrets. A Worces¬
ter girl, on a friend’s solemnly promising
not to tell, told that she was going to
have four new dresses costing six dollars
each. The friend religiously kept her
promise not to tell %nd the first men¬
tioned young lady doesn’t speak to her
now.
Miss-, of the-, dramatic com¬
pany, cast aside an old corset at a hotel
in-> and had been away from that
town a week before she recalled the fact
that 8250 in greenbacks was stitched In¬
to that article of apparel. When she re¬
membered this a member of the compa¬
ny was dispatched post haste to-, and
was lucky enough, after digging over a
lot of rubbish in the hotel yard, to find
the corset anil cash all right. Moral :
Women should never change the time
honored place of deixisit—tlie stocking—
for such an irresponsible institution as a
corset.
CLOTHED IN WHITE.
Clothed In white—a happjr child at play,
Her face all radiant with the nue* of
morning—
With fairy step she trod:
A creature lovely as the flowers of May,
Who could bewitch us with her chilalili
scorning,
Or rule us with a nod.
Clothed In white—with blossoms In her hair,
A maiden whom to love appeared a duty—
A spell around her hung ;
A sense of all that Nature makes most fair,
That filled with awe all who watched her
beauty, Or heard
her silver tongue.
Clothed in-white—she heard the wedding
chime,
Blushing beneath her crown of orange
flowers, soft
As her answer flows
Like music, with no prescience of the time
Wiien o’er her life, which love so fondly
dowers,
The shadowy grave will close.
Clothed in white—her form we seem to see
Shine in the glory of a new existence,
And from Defying all time and night,
earth-born memories set free;
While we, like travelers toiling in the dis¬
tance,
Yearn for the coming light.
—Joseph Vebet.
