Georgia Historic Newspapers

    The Democrat.
A Live Weakly Paper on Live Issues
Published Every Wednesday Morning,
•t Crawford rille, Ga.
M. 2. Andrews, Proprietor.
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Hotel Cards.
^RNOLD’S G 1.0HE HOTEL,
CORNER EIGHTH AND BROAD STREETS,
AUGUSTA, GA.
This is onp of the leading first-class Ho¬
tels in the City. It is centrally located, and
connected by Street Railway with all places
Offl^ r Co^i^n^tionty Tekphinc wUh
all parts of the supplied City.
Tne Table is with the best that
r Jur home and the Northern markets afford.
tion Rates, §2.00 and §2.50, according to loca¬
of room.
FRANK ARNOLD, Proprietor.
j^UGUSTA HOTEL,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
building. Centrally located. Telegraph office in the
dav. Large, Airy Rooms. Rates $2.00
per EDWARD
MURPHY, Proprietor.
QLINAKD HOUSE,
CI.AVTOS STREET, NEAR POST-OFFICE,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
Rooms all carpeted. Good sample rooms
for Commercial Travelers.
A. D. CL1NAUD, Proprietor.
jyjAI’P HOUSE,
GIIEEXESBORO, GA. .
1 have now taken charge of the above
zsrsir nr ss
with the best the market affords, attention
to the comfort of my guests, and politeness
to all. My charges will in all cases be equal
and reasonable. By this course of conduct
I hope to merit and receive a liberal share
of the public patronage. A trial is solicited.
Jan.17.ls7t*.t-o-o L. AGREE.
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Railroad Notices.
Cweorgia Railroad
■——A >' I> - .....
BANKING Co.
Superintendent's Office, )
/COMMENCING Augusta,Ga., SUNDAY, May 21, 1880 . <
V.' the following Kid instant,
be passenger schedule will
operated:
no. 1 west—daTlt. NO. 2 EAST— DAII.V.
Lt. a *» "»w|i»|ui: uMiitiwiivu I il Ill
s 7:00 S:58alm: a m “ Athens 9:15 a| in
“ C’wf'd'll 12:34 p m
“ W'sh’i’n 9:J5,a;m Ar.Wash'g’u 2:00 p ui
Ar.O'f’dv’ll “ Athens 12:20!pin 3:13piu “ Macon Milledg'ULOoVni
“ «:30 p in
" Atlanta 5:00 p ‘m “ Augusta 3:28
pm
NO. 3 WEST—DAILY. NO. 4 KAST—DAII.V.
Lv. Augusta 5:.!0 p in Lv. Atlanta 0:20 p m
Ar. Lt. Cr Atlanta t'v’U 9:52qi'ni mjAr. Ar. C'f'dv'U 2:01 a m
SiOO'a Augusta 0:2()a in
j#' No connection to or from Washing¬
ton on SUNDAYS.
S. K. JOHNSON, E.R.DORSBY,
Superintendent. Mav2.tS79. Gen. Fass'ger Agent.
Magnolia Passenger Route.
Fort I!otal & AiiorsTV^RAnAVAV, j
MilIF, -L FOLLOW 1 NO SCHEDULE will be
operated, on an d afte r Oct. 6st. 1*79:
GOING SOUTH, j GOING NORTH.
Lv Augus t a - 8.00 | l m ! Lv r't RovTn:00 p,n
ArEUenton 9.51 pm Lv Beaufort 11.23pm
Ar Allendale 11.23ami Ar Yemassee 1 . 00 am
Ar Yemasse £
ArUks^not.wSml^VvVmSssee Ar Savannah « am G Savannah 8 20am
AFCh^ffistaradoi 1 HSin
hi rw Yeniassee- aaiosni
Lv Yemassee 2.20 am Lv Allendale 3.45 am
Ar Beaufort 3.43 ain'Lv Ellenton 5.18am
^N(T^#H^Coirnilo4Wk^
Georgia Railroad for Savannah, Charles
ton, Beaufort, and Fort Royal. Also, with
and Fort Royal.
GOING NORTH.—Connections made with
for^H!°poi Railroad for nts Atlanta N ortdp and Easdwhh West. “gla
and the Also,
“me ^ A ‘ ke “
and points on of said Road.
WOODRUFF SLEEPING CARS of the
^ate3 >I w‘1hU y, iTn^nG e8 BETWEEN
AUGUSTA AND SAVANNAH, without
...... .
Depot Tickvt Ofhco, Augusta, sa Ga., 'r- at and T: r n
alt principal Ticket Offices. 4 i-j
R. G. FLEMING,
T DAVANT en P em,tendeat
/ S Fass’enger
General Agent qct.l3,-t-f.
1 00<ri[TT UUjlj F Tir 1 it FT^
Georgia Railroad Company, )
•OFFICE General Passenger Agent
COMMENCING Ty Com MOJwSay. ONE VthHit.,
this pan v will sell THOUS
DOLLARS mmjKt
each. These tickets will be
■SS£ Sr.»£"HSb!S!”' “
E p’ *■ D<W *i EV '
xr MXV9.18.9. o pro /' General , Passenger Agent, f
500 MILE TICKETS.
GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY
Office Gener’l Passenger Agt’,
Augusta, March 2, 1880.
c OMMENCING pany will sell FIVE this date, HUNDRED this Com¬
MILE TICKETS, THIRTEEN good over main line
and branches, at 75-100
DOLLARS each. These tickets will be
issued to individuals, firms, or families,
but not to firms and families combined.
£. E. DORSEY.
General Passenger Agent.
March 10,1880. t-o-o
HIRES delicious^and’-sparing^beverage,— I ra f’ rove ^ R°°t Beer Package,
a
whoiesome and temperate. Sold by drug
Address^ CHAf£ lUHIRES^Lukcforer'
215 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Feb ll,i**).b-m
Vol. 4.
THHEE SCORE V> 11 TEN.
Our age to seventy years is set
’T was so the sacred lyrist sung.
I've crossed that boundary, and yet
My inner being seemeth young.
1 feel no wrinkles on the heart,
Time has not chilled the social elow,
Music and chastened mirth impart
Their pleasing spell of long ago.
TtotoJ*«? r ,e ^ s that at through at >J ie clover swarm,
^•2? . hil(Iren playing , the lawn, ,
‘ on
* or me iavc ost no ear, i' charm.
Science, invention, art and song.
The life and progress of the age,
The warfare with the false and wrong
That patriots and Christians wage,
All that promotes the weal of men
Or helps them on their upward way,
Attracts me at three scare and ten
As under life’s meridian ray.
And though my eye is doubly begins dim,
And natural strength to wane—
I^ss stroug of arm and lithe of limb—
Still thought and memory remain.
But early friends of whom I dream
And Are if growing I linger fewer I shall year by year,
seem
A lone belated stranger here.
The From friendly de.terence I meet and far,
younger travelers near
When crossing o’er the crowded street,
Or stepping from the halted car,
fajss me that kHt the Aliiine lir snow
1
„ b , tells „ me that ...... the hour , is ____ near,
though in love deferred so long,
b hen 1 from earth shall disappear
And mingle with the silent tlnong.
Rot will . and
earth smile as gay green,
And heaven still shine in gold and blue,
When 1 iiave vanished from the scene,
And friends will soon their calm renew.
How little good can we achieve
Willi all the foils encountered here !
Then it were weak and vain to grieve
When passing to a purer sphere.
New ranks will rush with deed and thought
To bear the moral standard high ;
And the small good that 1 Iiave wrought
Has taken root and cannot die.
And on this truth I rest my heart ;
Since all to future life aspire,
He who implanted will not thwart
This inborn, deathless, pure desire.
As the long-voyaging Genoese
To the new world he sought drew near,
The balm of flowers borne on the breeze
Came fr m he land liis faith to cheer.
So when we near the Eden shore,
Before its hills of light aro seen.
The fragrance of its peace comes o'er
The narrowing sea that flows between.
—Christian Leader.
fre-Adamites.
This is the title of a work just, pub¬
lished, written by Alexander Winchell,
LL.D. The Savannah News, in review¬
ing the work, comments on it in the fol¬
lowing terms:
“ It has been Dr. Winchell’s purpose
in the important book under notice to
demonstrate, by appeals both to modern
science and biblical history, that Adam
fc not the common ancestor of tlio hu
ma „ Ulat he was not the first man ,
and that the black races are by structure
and descent radically and irredeemably
inferior to the white Caucasian. In the
prosecution of this task the author is ied
to devote much study to the human
races ’ whom l,e claims to have been in
« tetenc0 for centuries before the crea
Won of Adam, and lie sets forth in all
the light that can be derived from mod
ern research their condition, antiquity,
social aflinities and progressive disper
sion over the earth. It appears from his
preface that Dr. Winchell has been much
misunderstood and misrepresented by his
critics ' It may therefore be as well to
let him define in his own words the scope
alld intest of his investigations and con
elusions.
“ ‘ 1 * laVC T1ot ’’ he says ’ ‘ assumed a
position hostile to the Bible ; it would
have been irrational to do so, since it is
f'e assertion of the Bible which deterrn
ines what we are to understand by Adam,
IIad .. , the ,. ,,,, Bible aflntned ... . - explicitly .. that
? progemtor ’ 1 sbould Bun ‘
T ^ hlSt decl j* rtC0 red the t8nt facts Wltil ot the the
°7 1 “ 81s
ation as the f facts of , science would also
be ' I hav e now devoted a chapter to the
proof that pre-Adamitism is ncKhcr in
“ n8istea ‘ w,Ul the or wlt ‘‘ the or ‘
thodoxy of approved divines. More par
«->* ‘."r? •* «**» f,r*
creation of Adam even m maintaining
*“*•
; kind b T e i but A have liaPa,re<1 removed ‘u the mcredibdity y iri"
of that doctrine as grounded in the de
scent of Negroes and Australians from
Noah and Adam. 1
and a ms we hope none of our readers
wili attribute to him other opinions than
those which he avows. A work of this
charater and range cannot be adequately
reviewed within the brief space permit
ted by the exigencies of a daily pai>er.
No more is possible than to suggest the
most salient of his conclusions. He does
not undertake to solve the problem of
man s origin, but regards it as certain
tiiat the hu man race descended from a
common 3tock. The theory that the in
ferior races hare degenerated by reason
The Democrat
CRAFFORDYILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1G, 1880.
of climatic influences he rejects without
reserve, holding that from the appear
aiice of the first human being until now,
the growth of man has been uuiformly
upward. Traces of primeval man, little
changed by tlie lapse of centuries, are,
lie thinks, to be found in the Asiatic
Arctipelago, in Australia and in south
eru Africa. Adam, to his thinking was
founder—not of the human family,
but only of the Caucasian race. But as
lie gives Adam a father and mother, why
that patriarch should have so radically
varied from his ancestry is allowed to
remain a mystery- Dr. Winchell thinks
that the cradle of humanity is to be
looked for under the waters of the Iml
inn Ocean, his theory being that the eon
tineut is now submerged Upon which hu
inanity first entered upon the stage of
life. The author is able to make out a
strong case in support of Iris theory from
tiie Biblical text. Cain’s complaint that
anyone finding him would kill him ; his
marriage in the land ot Nod ; his build¬
ing of a city—these are facts which are
cited to show that there must have been
other people on the earth at that time
than they of Adam’s blood, and the in¬
ference is certainly exceedingly strong.
The common inference is that Cain mar¬
ried liis sister. But he djil not take a
wife until he was in exile, and Dr. Win¬
chell pertinently asks why should a wom¬
an leave her father’s family and join her¬
self in a foreign land to the convicted
and sentenced murderer of her brother ?
I hen Cain built a city. The author
wants to know whether lie did this sin
gle handed, or whether his wife and baby
lie![ied him. Then tliero was Enoch,
Cain’s son, who also found a wife, Ac
cording to the conventional view lie must
have mated either with his sister or his
aunt. Again, there is the familiar pass
age which has always puzzled the com
mentators, about the sons of God who
saw that the daughters of men were fair.
Winchell explains this by saying that the
sons of God were pre-Adamites, while
the women were of tho seed of Adam,
This seems to be the most rational theo
ry. 1 he old idea was that the black
races are descendants of Ham, who was
eursed by his father Noah upon an occa
sion that will be remembered. This the
ory is examined at length, and^isdiscred
ited. We cannot follow the author at
lerigth through the arguments which he
tnarshals. They arc strongly persuasive,
and lead to the conclusion that the ne
groes are the descendants of pre-Adam
ite races. I his theory compels the as
sumption that the flood was only a par
tial one, destroying only the Adamic
family. But as the idea of its universal
ity has generally been abandoned this is
scarcely an objection to Dr. Winchell’s
deductions. Enough lias been said to in
dicate the tenor of tho work. The tmok
is a remark able one, and will, repay the
study.
An Important Discovery.
A discovery destined, in the opinion
c f General LeDue, to be of more value
to the South than anything that has
been previously done by the Agncultu
ral Department, has been made in rela
tion to the planting of cotton. A ques
tion having arisen as to the situation of
the oil cells in cotton seed, the matter
was referred to a microHcopist, I’l'ofeNs
or Thomas Taylor. He found a series
of oil cells near tho outer surface, and
another row immediately surrounding
the chit or germinating point, evidenc
ing the complete protection which the
latter received. This fact led Professor
Taylor to experiment, with a view to
ascertaining the amount of resistance
offered to the attacks of agents goner
ally supposed to be ofadestructivena
tine to all organic life. In trying sul
phuric acid, which had been previously previously
used in a diluted form to agglutinate
the cotton adhering to the seeds, s3 as to
faeilitafo the expression of the oil, he
; 1( strength ; un,t ^ completely u,t ; f 1 removed of tias eonuneveial tb* with
out vis.Wy affoetu.g the outer brown
shell. To test the actual effect on the
germinating property, he handed some
of the seed thus treated and afterward
: r.“*°^ To the surprise of every ohe exSept Mr. »■
w* “ <«««
tUb ?T ^ 'f, ’I"" 1,18
seed up at least five days catKer
than Wat in ite natural state. To oxter
. ain . w ... le ier tlfct ... might ... not , he
owing
results followed, showing the action of
I.e ac.d in removing the adherent
ton to have been the same as performed
by nature, viz. : the conversion of
amylaceous glucfce. or starchy cellulose into
Professor Taylor’s theory as
to the action of the corrosive acid being
arrested .temporarily on contact with
the ligneous cellulose of the shell,
proved to have been correct. The ad
vantage to planters in having five or six
days start can scarcely be overestimated,
whether availed of in avoiding early
frosts or rising early cotton, for which
premlums,ire offered by several cotton
boards in ,he South. But this is not
said fenced to by la; tie the discovery. principal Hitherto benefit con- cot- j
ton planting has had to be done by
and the sled sown broadcast, owing to
Uie adherent totton preventing the seed
being used in he planters used for corn
and other clej seed. After preparation
the seed ca u*tsed in any planter, and
by the regir'Wy of growth resulting,
the subdeqiji’n cultivation greatly faeil
itated. THe mode of preparing the seed,
which it Understood will be patented.
is as felloesThe seed is placed in an
eartber r*'i r’ vessel, and ordinary
sulphu > ,eU poured over so as to com
pietely cor-v Aiell it. It is then stirred untii
the brown is left free from cotton,
Th* acid is>nired off to lie used again,
and the seed washed until all acidity
disappears .from the water, and dried.
A liirge quantity is to be thus ;prepared
and distributed among cotton planters
for next season. The acid, after it has
become saturated or exhausted, is to lie
experiment'd with to ascertain whether
the glucose cannot lie recovered. Exper¬
iments are also to be instituted with a
view to ustatain the practicability of
the processjs applied to seeds slow of
germination, such as that if the palm,
which takes three years to sprout,—
Washington Dost.
Dalioious “Exercise.”
A new style of round dancing is intro
duct'd for every summer, and the one
f (>r is8i) is ,fo\v being taught by the mas
ters. I aiqj,taming it of an expert, li
is a waltz with the familiar waltz time
and step fora bUsis, but with certain
characteristics that make it remarkable,
Last year the innovation was a sliding
step that was a sore trial to short legs,
and very difficult to do gracefully, 11
was a modification of the much-abused
“Boston dip,” which iij turn was a de
parture from tfie steady-circling 'waltz
previously in vogue. Thus dancers have
been steadily abandoning the quiet ways
() f former years, and now we have what
must in rea* be acceptel as the culmi
nation. Pro iety can no further go in
the direction of the ballet. It has
dish. that I hare heard, it
is danced by luAin strength allied to agil
ity, and grace is a secondary conshlcra
ij 0 u. Many do dauco it gracefully, but
that is owing to.their own natural ease
() f movement. I have broken three cor¬
^t steels in two evenings’ practice, but
!lln getting on.
in its perfection this dance may be
described as follows : The man is tall,
muscular and agile; the woman is slen
der, willowy and wholly subjective to the
movements of her partner, lie encircles
ber with his right arm, not around her
waist, but just below her shoulders,
With his left hand he clasps her right
and holds it on his left hip. This brings
her exceedingly close to him, and she is
kept snugly in that position: not only
because he likes it, but because if he
docs not have a strong hold on her he
cannot lake her safely through the
dance. The dancing must begin in
stantly on the couple coming togeth
cr, and a false stop at the start is a
heinous terpsichorean offense. The steps
are those of an ordinary waltz, elongat¬
ed to a surprising extent, and accompa¬
nied by a swaying movement from side to
side, and frequent reversals, all to rairid
music. This carries the couple here and
there, now this way and now that, with
swiftness. Their course about the room
is erratic, and their bodies sway in accord,
giving theta in connection w itli the long
quick steps, an appearance of reckless
abandon never before seen in social danc
, A dozen pairs thus engaged are a
ren iarkable i exhibit. ... , A , , few years ago,
wh en hoops were worn, modestly such a dance
would not hate been possible.
Yielding her person implicitly to the
guulance of tl)e fltalwart the wo
j man JS a ung romK , round, her feet
|jar , |y to „ c] , if , r Uu . Moor T lie violence
| of the exerci8e i8 excessiv(i , aI)d for a
| I su , mn(!l . dance this one wlll 1)rovfc d<;cid .
„n v «/t “« the woin-
1
j mr
witll ,... r (I; . . hin „ ,,.. r
waist will lie melted, and she will gasp
for brtath . If ]ithc , undulating
dance this waltz in Jerseys-the
tight costumes that are coming in—the
experienced it ; but it must not lie
p08ed that it will be always or even
era ]jy danced in tb it w- -
Walking on tho Water.
We are informed, of course we
nothing of the facts of our own
edg«?, that there is considerable
ment existing in the community
Strickland’s ferry on the big Satilla
er. It seems that the ferryman,
Strickland, a Primitive Baptist
er, was putting one Mr. Highsmith
Na 24.
across the river in a flat which sunk 1 e-'
fore reaching the opposite shore where
the water was known to be about twen- !
ty feet deep. Mr. Ilighsmith could not
swim, consequently leaving him in a ‘
perilous condition and praying for help j
to save him from a watery grave. Third j
time he ro.se up he exclaimed “save me,”
and Mr. Strickland, who wrec$ could not swim
was yet upon the cried out,
“Have faith and rise aiul walk out,”
which was obeyed, and the
man reached the bank with safety, and
was not even strangled._ JihuJcihmr
New*.
Cotton Mills and the Attachment.
Georgia is setting all of the Southern
States an excellent example. It easily I
leads all of its sister States of the South !
in the race of prosperity and enterprise !
Already ahead of all of them in cotton |
manufacturing by very large odds, it is
to have a new factory at Augusta with
a capital already subscribed of $000,000.
When it has been found by the actual
test of fifteen years’ experience that
Georgia mills earn auiiually from eight
to twenty per cent., why should business
men and capitalists hesitate to try this
form of investment ? In North Caroli¬
na there are some fifty mills, but as
they are run by private individuals,
witli hut few exceptions, their earnings
are not known. It is known, however,
that some of tho owners have grown
steadily rich.
That cotton spinning is profitable in
North Carolina there can lie no doubt,
and it is to bo hoped that each year will
witness the starting of new cotton mills
in our State. That the Clement attach¬
ment, about which so much was said
some months since, has merit we cannot
doubt. Tho evidence is sulficient to
show that under proper circumstances
it is a very good and profitable inven¬
tion. Our readers are familiar with the
Westminster mill in South Carolina
and its large profits. We will give what
Mr. C. T. Harden, manager of the mill
at Windsor, N. C., has to say about the
Clement attachment. On May 10th he
wrote to Mr. J B. Adams, of Mont¬
gomery, Ale., as follows:
“We started last June, and have been
ru ining smoothly ever since. We are
pleased with onr mill and liaKro already
enlarged it, and are going to enlarge it
to double the size it is in the fall. We
are now running two attachments, 1112
spindles. Our mill cost $11,000 as it
now stands. We are averaging three
hundred pounds of first-class yarn pel
day. Our mill is paying 35 per cent, on
the investment, and we expect to make
it pay 45 per cent, as soon as our hands
become expert. Wo have not got a
hand that ever saw a mill before. We
have met witii no reverse, and bad no
mishap to slop the mill a day since
starting. There is an unlimited demand
for our yarns. We get the highest mar¬
ket price for our goods. ”
Here are two mills, one 111 each of
the CarolHiaa, and botli are very remu¬
nerative and both use the attachment.
We note these matters because one of
the true means of recujteration and
prosperity is to be found in the multi¬
plication of cotton mills, with or with¬
out the Clement attachment. As to
the use of the latter, it would he well
for a number of large cotton planters
in a township to form a manufacturing
company and use the attachment. By
this means the necessary facilities will
be secured and success guaranteed.—
Wilminrjt/m Star.
Fashion Notes.
Tlie long ten-button lisle thread
gloves are more stylish than those with
lace tops.
Ladies now who have a fashionable
wardrobe have fans to correspond with
each dress.
The new fans are formed entirely of
flowers; those made of violets, pansies
or daisies are tho prettiest.
■Scotch ginghams aro as much worn
this season as last. They eotno in more
than usual variety and of excellent
quality,
Marechale Noil is th« name of one of
tho finest perfumes out, which leaves
the true delicious odor of tlie roselcaf
lingering in the folds of the dress for
hours after.
The flower bonnets of last summer are
j seen, but are likely to be supernedcd by
customs of <Jt.ee,i Anne and are adopt
ing the habit of keeping monkeys for
house pets. A London lady's paper
announces a consignment of marmoset
monkeys for pets.
Spring Place Times:, Mr. W. B. King,
while meaudering about his premises
near King’s Mill, Monday last, discov
ered four guinea’s nests, one containing
75 eggs, another 62, another 46 and
other 16, making a total of 201 eggs in
the four nests.
The Democrat.
A Lit EKTISIkC l«ATK!» 1
One Square, first insertion . ! I 09
One Square, each subsequent insertion. 7U
One Square, three waive months . , 10 00
One Square, Column, t twelve mouths months . 15 OO
Quarter Half Column . . 20 W
twelvemonths . 50 00
One Column twelve months . too UO
Itf” One lueli or Less considered as a
square. We have no fractions of a square,
all fractions of squares will be counted >4
squares. Liberal deductions made on Con¬
tract Advertising.
Gossip for the Ladies.
Ami u*nher iid«j g in'derition. h^T,’rt
tun»«l
As we stole hut a glance at her feet,
mrl h^*il"« “V Kr^nchlkiiS? 14 **”*
Who’d have thought that her father sold ’ta
tors ?
And w ho dares to say that he did ?
lr . , .. , .. .
puiiihhiiii‘ht,es|>eei:illy when you're hang*
ing on some good-looking girl's arm.
There are three million single men in
this country, and there is no telling how
U1 ‘ WI ? married men wish they were of the
m,,nber -
When it gill is twenty she feels very
easy on that score. It is only when she
scores another that she begins to wonder
who invented wrinkles.
It is only the female mosquito that
bites, but when a man gets a chance to
belt , one with a towel lie’s going to do it,
without stopping to inquire its gender.
Ladies who are now preserving berries
should not get frightened at the bees
which swarm about; the little creatures
are after the sweets, not the women.
I’aragraphers generally have a good
deal of fun at the expense of the wom¬
en ; but they don’t have a bit more than
women do at the expense of the men.
A man may mash the stove, and things.
And black a loud wife's eye ;
Ami she may pound lum with a club.
Hut true love cau never die.
l’aper is too high for bustles ; it can
only be afforded for colktis.— New Or¬
sliouldoretfbustle leans Pkaminc. Must be a very round
that is higher tlmif a
collar,— Amntlins.
It is estimated that there are four
millions unmarried women m this emiri
try. Every ana of them looks under tho
lied previous to retiring, however, and
hopes to find n man some time.
it is statistically announced that of six
Hundred and twelve young ladies who
fainted last year more than half of them
fell into the arms of gentlemen. Only
three had the misfortune to fall on the
floor.
When a father fears that his daughter
is going to miss a good catch lie just no¬
tifies the young man to keep away from
her, and in less than no time the youth
is moving heaven and earth to get tlm
girl and lie gets her too.
A married man excused himself from
a church meeting because the baby was
sick, and tlran went to a dance. A broth¬
er memlier meeting the wife next day,
asked about the baby and the scheme
was exploded. Bo was ttic Imsbami.
An authoress says that “ kisses on hor
brow are the richest diadem a woman’s
soul asplres-to. ” /And yet, a fellow who
kisses a pretty girl on her brow while bar
rosy lips are making motions like an ac
corueon bellows, is not the man for the
position.
When ladies meet
They always greet
With ki re< heard ae.rusa the street.
But men. more mild,
Don't get so wild -
They meet, and part when both have
•‘smiled.’’
That was a characteristic Albanian
who, while Mary Anderson was looking
and acting her iniml (switching, said to
a friend, in tlie height of liis enthusiasm,
“ I would rather lm the accepted lover of
that girl than be tlie census enumera¬
tor.”
John Buskin says, “ No man ever lived
a right life who hail not, Iwen chastened
by a woman’s love, strengthened by her
Courage, and guided by her discretion.”
This is pretty good for a man whose wife
procured a divorce from him and mar¬
ried a pro-Raphaelite. lie got chastened,
poor man, with a vengeance.
Marriage is like a brilliant taper’s light,
Placed in a window on a summer night,
Attracting all the insects of the alf
To come and singe their pretty wlriglels
there.
Those who are out Initt heads against the
pane.
And those within butt to get out again.
The Warienton Cliiipcr says: “Oh,
these shame, faced feminines on the street
with them masculine hats on 1 ” ex
elaimed an old lady from the country as
she turned a prominent corner yesterday
afternoon. “It jest looks ex though
they all wanted to la: kissed by the boys,
for that was a sign when I was a gal.”
“ Is there a letter here in a scented
envelope for my wife V” he asked the
postmaster, while the green fire from his
eyes made the office look like a leafy for¬
est. “ Yes, sir,” answered tlie |<oalinu 3 -
ler, as he handed it out. The jealous
man tore it open at once, when lo and
behold ! it was the milliner’s Dili for 950.
No succeeding chapter^.
“ No man shall ever kiss me exeepl my
future husband,” she said as he. was
aliout leaving her at flic gate. “Sup¬
pose I agree, to lie your future-”
“ why, then I’ll agree to kiss you,” sho
replied, caguily ; and she did. Her moth¬
er was inloi med that lie had proposed,
and the old lady went around next day
to fasten matters.
A WOMAN’S REASON.
Why should I stake uty happy youth.
Upon My days of spring.
a 1 ) 1 ) 11 )’* untested truth
And proffered ring ?
You praise me for my golden liair,
But changeo’erlekes My eyes of blue,
the fairest fair,
Then what of you /
When all fan praise has suffered wrong,
A mi I am old,
Will love that did to youth belong
My age unfold '!
Since you but prize my smiling eyes
And blushing check,
Then breathe no more your tender sighs ;
’The things you seek
Are but the shadow of a shade.
Will vanish fast,
Mirage, That of mists of morning made,
cannot last,
'T is he who seeks a woman's soul
Who wins her beart.
One reaches not Love's final goal
i With shallow art.
-Lotist Chandler ^Wltitn