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About The democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1877-1881 | View Entire Issue (June 23, 1880)
The Democrat. A Live W.xkly Paper on Live issues Published Every Wednesday Morning, j » at Ctawfordydi*. ti hL Z. Andiws, RATES OF SUBSVRTPTIOX: fc#~ Advertising rates liberal. BOOK and JOB PRINTING a specialty. Prior* to suit the times. Hotel OaVds. fc________ jL- ---rrt ARNOLD’S GLOBE HOTEL, COBNER EIGHTH AND BROAD STREETS, AUGUSTA, GA. This is one of the leading first-class no¬ te!* in tlie City. It is centrally focafed and collected by Street Railway with all places ^f Interest; Banks, Telegraph Telephone and Post- with Office. Communication by *11 part* of the City. The Tffide is supplied with the best that oar home and tlie Northern markets afford, Rakes, §2.00 and $2.5*, according to loca Alan of room. FRANK ARNOLD, Proprietor. j^UUUSTA HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. Centrally located. Telecrajili office in the Uutiding. Luge, Airy Rooms. Rates §2.00 g»er day. EDWARD MURPHY, I’roprictor. ^NLINARD HOUSED CLAYTON STREET, NEAR POST-OFFICE, ATHENS, GEORGIA. Itooms all carpeted Good sample rooms .for Commercial Travelers. A. D. CLINARD, Proprietor. M APP HOUSE, GREENESBORO, GA. I have now taken charge of tlie above named venience, Hotel, already and so renowned for con¬ 1 comfort neatness, anil pledge myself to keep it up to its high reputation with the best by the keeping my affords, table attention supplied market 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.l7.1879.t-o-o L. AGREE. Railroad Notices. Oeorgia Railroad —-—AND——— BANKING Co. Superintendent's Office, |-«>MMENC1NG Augusta, SUNDAY, Ga., Mhv 21, lsso. , V the following 23d instant, _/ passenger schedule will be operated: NO. 1 WEST—DAILY. NO. 2 EAST—DAILY. 1 _ "Macon* * A™ 7.iw : »im “Athens fiiliija! SB :: A* Ar Milted®fe. =5 Ar.GTdv’ll “Athens PJdftjitjm “ Macn.j,. - •' , JVAtlanta—* fe-■ Hi- "' iCb,. *** Lv. Augusta 5:30ip m Lv. Atlanta 6:20 .pim Lv, Or'f'r’Il AtUiiU 0:S2ip m Ar. C’f’dv'H 2:01 6:20^ a,m Ar. .VOOAi^Ar. Augusta W No connection to or from Washing ton on SUNDAYS. «. Superintendent. «. It. DCteSEY; Gen. Fass'ger Agent. Ma v2.1879. Magnolitx Passenger Route. Fort Royal AbtAjSTA.GA.i & Augusta Railway, ) Oct. 4, 1879. s rpHE FOLLOWING SCHEDULE will be _L operated, on and after Oct. 6st, 1879: GOING SOUTHNuETOINgNORTH. _________Train Train No. l. No. 2. Lr Ar Ellenton Augusta s.itOpin J.v Lv P't Beaufort Roy’l 11.00pm 11.23pm 9.51 pm Af Allendale 11.23am!Ar Yemassee LOOam Ar T einas.se 1.30 am p, v Charleston 8.30 pm Lv Yemassee 2.30am Rv J’sohv’lle 5.15pm Ar Savannah b.35arn .VrSavannali 8.20am Lr ArJ'ksonv Savannah lle7.15am UlOpmGy Savannah 9.00 pm Ar Yemasse e 1.20 am Ar Charl eston 8.00 am j iV Yemassee 2.00am Lv Yemassee 2.20 am Lv Allendale 3.45am Ar Beaufort 3.43 am;Lv Ellenton 5.18 am Ar Port Royal 4.00 amAr Augusta fi.Wam GOING SOUTH.— Connections made with ■Georgia Beaufort, Railroad for Savannah, Charles¬ ton, aud Fort Koyal. Also, with Central Railroad for Charleston, Beaufort and Port Koval. NOltTn.—Connections GOING made Charlotte Columbia & Augusta Railroad for all points North, and East with Georgia Railroad for Atlanta and the West. Also, with South Carolina Railroad for Aiken and points on line of said Road. WOODRUFF SLEEPING CARS of the m*6t improved, style and elegance will he ■operated AUGUSTA by this line only, BETWEEN change. AND SAVANNAH, without tW" Baggage Through checked through. tickets for sale at Union *11 Depot principal Ticket Ticket Office, Augusta Ua., and r.t Offices. JR * R. G. FLEMING, ^ ^ .General Superintendent. General Passenger Agent oct,13,-t-f. 1,#00 MTLE TICKETS. Gf.orgia Railroad Gowpany, s Office General Passenger Agent. /NGMMENVpGl Augusta, April 5th, 1879. j this Cospaiiy will MONDAY, 7th inst, sell ONE THOUS line and branches^^aL TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS each. These tickets will be not*to firmsrend fam’i!?™combined'' eS ' bUt E. R. DORSF.Y, May9,i87t>. General Passenger Agent. 500 MILE TICKETS. OEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY j /NOMMENCING* fficf. E iistV'Marc date,’this 1^2 1 1880 ’ ) this Com V- panv will sell FIVE HUNDRED ^rnf KETB, 1 tickets;wifl DOLLARSeaeh These be issued to individuals, firms, hr families. but not to firms and families combined, E. It. DORSEY, •eneral I assenger Agent. Marchl 0,1880. t-o-o T H 1 TTVOci IRE& R °ot Beer Package, and* tiding' * a delicious spa bevemg-,— wholesome and temperate. Sold by drug- 215 Address Market CHAf^ Street, HfflTOR? Philadelphia, e ’§an«fdcftiTer) ’ Feb.ll.tan.b-D Pa. y 01. t 4. i > A GERMAN TRUST SONG. ' 1 juft as Cod loads me I will go ; ; I would not ask to choose my way ; Content with what He will bestow, Assured He will not let me stray, So as He leads, my path l make. And step by step I gladly take, A child in Him jonfiding. j ust as God leads I am content; j rest me calmly in His hands ; Xliat which He had decreed and sent. That 1 which His will for me commands, fulfill would that He should all ; That 1 should do His gracious will j j in living or in dying. j Just as God leads, I will resign ; I trust me to my Father’s will t When reason's-ways deceptive shine, j His counsel yet would 1 fulfill; That which is love ordained as right, i Before He brought me to the light, My all to Him resigning. *> * #» Just as God leads me, I abide, In faith, in hope, in suffering true ; His strength is ever by my side— Can aught my hold on him undo? 1 hold we firm in patience, knowing That God my life is still bestowing— The best kindness sending. Just as God leads, I onward go ; Oft amid thorns and briers seen, God does not His guidance show— But in the mid it shall be. seen, % How, by a laving Father's will, Faithful and true, He leads me still. • — - A Child of Darkness. The following additional particulars of the case of tlie young lady of nineteen summers who has never see i tlie light of day; has never been beyond tl.e thresh¬ old of her father’s house, and for the past four years has not been permitted to leave the room in which she sleeps, are furnished by the Post-Dixmitch of St. Louis in which city the parties re¬ side. Henry Richter and his wife were mar¬ ried in the old country about thirty years ago, and in succession they lost four children, each of whom came to tho age of two or three years and then died of something which seemed like inanition, They faded away, and the best medical talent in tlie Grand Duchy— they arc Badenese—could assign no cause for the deaths. Richter and his wife came to America and settled in St. Louis, lost two more children in the way. Shortly Wore tlie birth of present Miobaelofls^bo girl l $ hter aa stopping u,e j TUr ^ uiiTSt. w ( L*ndS at Jf time, and to him tu'd the story the blight which had fallen on his family. The baron was a member „ . of , a number , of , mystical ... sncie ties and touched by tlie tale tiff) father had told him, he cast the horoscope of the child at the .moment of its birth, carefully noting the aspects of the plan¬ ets, and making a chart for the future of the baby, which, at the moment, was crying in its nurse’s arms. The result «*»'that the parents resolved NEWER TO LET THE SUN SIITNE on their child for fear that it too would follow the others to the gravo and they have kept their resolution. A reporter investigated the case. Tlie father and mother were induced upon plausible pretexts to be elsewhere at the chosen time and the servants were duly bribed. The reporter w’as to personate a doctor who bad been sent for and was informed that the name of his patient was Mar garetha. Tlie reporter was admitted to the gas-illumined room in which tlie young lady whose name is Margaretha was immured. There were no windows in the room and the furniture was of the most costly character, but it may easily lie imagined the scribe had eyes for nothing and nobody but the pale girl at the fireside. She looked fully her age, 19, but her face was blanched and white; not a tinge of red could be made out in the cheeks, although it was evident enough in the rather full lips. Her eyes were blue almost to blackness, and her hair, which rolled off the cush ioned back of the chair and fell in masses on the floor, was black as night, There was not a feature or a tint to gest German origin in her face or lithe forth, and she looked rather sweet and amiable than pretty, although tier feat tires were regular enough. . She was attired in a lac* and frilled white Scrap, gathered about the waist by tbe strings of an old-fashioned Ron tag of white only bit of color in ber dress I | bejng a blue silk handkerchief wrapped ne(fljgenfly about ber throat. On the whole she resembled nothing but a cray | on pictureltrougbt to life. She seemed all black and white. *** did not know 7°" were coming to day, doctor,” she said, smiling languidly. “Papa is so thoughtless, and Cathie (the servant girl) here never opened her anything. Won’t you sit d° wn ?” and she indicated a sofa which almost touched tbe chair upon which she was sitting. “Thanks,” sententiously remarked , the suppositipirs physician, and. taking the thin white wrist in his hand, the reporter marked the fluttering pulse of the imprisoned lady. She was either feverish or she excited, probably a little of both, and after a few seconds be put down the wrist and seated him- *1*# The 1 )emo(*ral. * CRAWFORD YILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE-23, 1880. self beside her. “Let me sec your tongue, please,” continued he, going through all that he could remember of the leach's mummery, and the tongue was obediently exhibited and closely scanned. “Ah,” sagely observed he at last, “I see.” ! “Am I going to be sick ?” “Oh, no, my dear, L think not; we. will have you all right in a day or two. I'll have a prescription made up at the drug store and sent round. Rut you 1 ought to have exercise. You never leave this room ?” LONGING FOR IIKLKASE. “Never, and I will not until after I am 21. Then I can go out In the sun light like everybody else. Oh, dear; sometimes I think I never will be 21. “But why then and ndt now ?” “I don’t know. It is in tlie paper that papa reads all the time that after I am 21 there will be no more danger fmi mo. t don’t exactly understand it, but papa and mamma both tell mo if I once stand in the beams of the sunlight I will die surely within a year. 1 don’t care, though : I would just as soon die, and I tried to get out. It is four years ago now, and since then they have me locked up in my room, sy that I can’t. “Have you neyer had any conipan ions ?” “Nothing but books, and I’m tirod of books—I’m tired of myself—I wishjJL could quit living, Indeed, indeed I’d rather.” “How do you pass the time ?” *! “Oh! I sleep and I read and I eat, and then for hours and hours I walk around this room and wonder wh»t is beyond. Are there many whom the sun light hurts? I never heard of any, ex cept in the old stories, who are cooped up as I am.” “You poor child—” “Tell mo what is beyond these 7,'ajd walls, just near, you know, where I could go if they would ouiy let me.” The reporter told the girl as nearly as he could just what was outside of her own house, ai.d in her eager quatipning it was easy to see liow Die bold recital nmulo he/ syirit3 flutter for freedom. “And there are trees in ilie park,’? she said, “hut they are not green now. No ! This is yet winter and the leaves do not come until later. I know that, I know that,” and so she prattled on, telling her singular ideas of what-the great world was, and how people lived, and a queer melange it was. Fairyland and Rome and Greece jostled the loco motive and telephone in her bewildered mind, and her artless talk made the bigoted superstition which chained her in the darkness more revolting than it ' vol| ld otherwise have been. Nearly an * IHur I ,assc ‘* in conversation, most of wll ' cI '" a f on reporter’s part, tlie or K‘*l rather, for she was only a 11 in ever V ll| ing but age, [ k lan en K al, in d 8 anxiously u t’ on every demanding word that new was facts, spo- 11 was on ' y w,|pn prudence absolutely tler " un * le d liis departure that tho re P° rter to °k his le ave. _ One of the “Jiners.” slle was about f or ty. fiV e years old, weU dressed> ha(1 black liair> rather thin, and tinged with gray, and eyes in wltich gte . vnied the fire8 of a determina tion not to be easily balked, the walked into Major 1Iu se ’3 office, and requested a privatfc iute r V iew, and having obtained it< arul Batia(ied hei . self that tho , aw stude nts were cot listening at a key hole, said slowly, solemnly and impress j ve ] v . i.j want; a d ; V01ce n “What for ? I supposed you had one of t |,e best of husbands,” said the Major. “I s’pese that’s what everybody thinks, but if they knew what I’ve fered in ten years they’d wonder i had’nt scalded him long ago. I ought j to, hut for the sake of the young ones I’ve borne it and said nothing. I’ve toid him, though, what lie might de j pend on, and now the time’s come. I j won’t stand it, young ones or no young ■ ones ; I’ll have a divorce, and if the neighbors want to blah themselves hoarse about it they can, for I won’t stand it another day.” “But what’s the matter? Don’t your husband provide for you? Isn’t I he true to you? Don’t he treat you kindly ?” pursued the lawyer. “We get victuals enough, and I don’t know but he’s as true and kind as men in general, and lie’s never knocked none of us down. I wish he had, then I’d get him into jail and know where he was nights,” retorted the woman. “Then what’s your complaint him ?” “Well, if you must know, he's one of them ptaguey jiners.” “A whatj?” “A jiner—one of them pesky fools that’s always jining something. There can’t nothing come along that’s dark and sly and hidden, but lie'll jine it. If anybody should get up a society to burn Ids bouse down, he’d jine it just as soon ns he could get in, he’d go all the sud-i de^er. We hadn’t been married inore'n t we months before he jined the Know | Nothings. We lived on a farm then, 5 fed eveyv Saturday night he'd come! t«Hn in before supper, grab a fistful of nyt-cakes, and go off gnawin’ ’em, and that’# the last I’d see of him till morn ; ins J Ami every other night he’d roll tumble in his sleep, and holler, put none,but Americans on guard— George Washington and on rainy fhel’s he’d go out into the corn barn 'j jab at a picture of the Pope with LV^ild bagnet that was there. I ought 1./ put my foot down then; but he f> Jed me so . wilji his lies about tlie JLpe’B coming to make all Yankee girl# warty Irishmen, and to cat up all tlie babies that warn’L born with a eross on 'I’lfjt < qrehuads, 1 let him go on, and encouraged TOn in it. “Then he jined the Masons. P’raps you know what them be, but I don’t ’cept they think they’re the same kind of critters that built Solomon’s Temple, | and took care of liia .concubines; and of all the darned nonsense and gab about j worshipful mas and squares and com passes and sich, that we had in the j house for the next six months, you never see £he beat. And lie’s never outgrowed it nuther. What do you think of a man, Squire, that’ll dress hlaself in a white apron, ’bout big enough for a i monkt-y's bib, and go marching up and j dqwn. and making motions and talking the foolishest lingo at a picture of = (hBorge Washington in a green jacket, and a truss on his stomach? Ain’t lie alocmytick? Well, that’s my Sam, an’ I’ve stood itnslong as I’m goin’ to. “The next lunge the *1 fool made was int"/ho QjJJ Fellows. made it j for jje'd him when jined them lie tame but homo Tie kinder and told me , yac j ifled me by telling me that they lmd a j sort of branch show that took, in women. ,,nd e’d get me in as soon as he found j C oi«y’* ut i-mv to do it. Well, one night he 1 C h^ne and said I’d heenypropotwd, j and somebody, hail bldflk-bairftl me. ]>;,) • * uisaelf, of course. Didn’t waat ' nie /ymnd knowing to ills goings on. of course he didn’t, and I told him sd. , j “The,, lie jined tlie Sons of Malteh Didn’t say nothing to me about it, but sneaked off one night, pretendin’ he'd got to set up with a sick Odd Fellow ; a ,„i ivi never found it out, only he came home looking like a man that had been through a threshing machine, and [wouldn’t do a tiling for him till lie owned up. And so it’s gone from bad to w us, and from wus to wusser, jiltin' this and that and t’other, till lie’s Wor ship Minister of the Masons, and God dess of Hope of the Odd Fellows, and SwonLSwallower of the Finnigans, and Virgin Cerus of the Grange, and Grand Mogul of the Sons of Indolence, and Two-Edged Tomahawk of tho United Order of Black Men, and Tale-Bearer of the Merciful Manikins, and Skipper of the Guild of Carabine Columbus, and Big Wizard of the Arnbian Nights, and Pledge-Passer of the Reform Club, and Chief Bulger of the Irish Machinists, “ nd P " rse ’^ ecper of t ‘ ,e °, f Clt, ,lt ; Conscience, and Double-Barreled , 1 j ^ R. ,rcles ,Ct ‘ ltor a,ld of tllR stan<l:u,i 1}w ° *"; f r tlie of Bnu U,<! “ ’ ' I Koyal A ' cba ' ,g, ‘ ls ’ a " d buW,me lorte ° f the 9 nion Leag,,r ’ a,ld «mni»icima d °‘ the Celest,al C,,enlbp > aud 1 ' uisiiant Potentate of the IVtnlled Fig-Stickers, a,ld the Lord 0,d >' k,l0WS what , lse - 1>v e ^-rne it and borne it, hopin’ he'd get ’em all jined after a while, but ’tain’t no use ; and when he’d got into i \ new 0,Hi > and beel ‘ ,lia ' le Gra,,d Guide of tl ‘e Nights of Horror, I told him I’d j quitand I will. ” ; Here the Major mterrupted^saying: J “WeH,yourliusbandisprettyweIlin itiated, # that’s a fact; hut the Court w, b hardly call that good cause for a divorce. The most of the societies you mention are composed of honorable men , and have excellent reputations. Many of them, though called lodges, are relief associations and mutual in¬ surance companies, which, if your hus¬ band should die, would take care of you, and would not see you suffer if you were sick.” “See the suffer when I’m sick 1 Take care of me when he’s dead' Well, i guess not. I can take c ire of myself when he’s dead, and, if I can’t, I can j get another. There’s plenty of ’em. And they needn’t bother themselves when l’m sick, either. If I wan’t to be j sick and especially suffer it’s none of their I’ve i ness, after the suffering had when I ain’t sick because of carryin’s on. And you needn’t try and j make me b lleve it’s all right, either. I know what it is to live with a man that 1 jines so many lodges that he don’t never lodge at home, and signs his name, ‘Yours, truly, Him Smith, M. M., 1. O, O. F., K. O. B., K. of P., P. of JI., It. . A. H. I. I. !’.. K. of X. ■ X. 0., L. E. , T , 11. K. It., It. I. P., X . Y. Z., etc.' ” No. 25. “Oh, that’s harmless amusement,” remarked Mr. lluse. She looked him square in the eye and said: “I believe you are a jiner your self.” He admitted that he was to a certain extent, and she rose and said, “I wouldn’t have thought it. A man like you, chairman of a Sabbath School nnd Superintendent of the Republicans ! It’s enough to make a woman take pisen. But I don’t want anything to do of you. I want a lawyer that don’t belong tea nobody nor nothin.’ ” And she bolted out of the office. Poverty of Public Men. Of the Southern Senators * now in Washington only Beck, of Kentucky, and Davis, of West Virginia, it is said# are possessed of a competency. All the rest arc poor and mainly dependent on jtheir salaries for support. Mr. Gordon . Inis just . , resigned, . , . . gtwng as a reason* that he could not afford to serve longer, Ho has gone home lo engage In busi¬ ness which will increase his income and enable liim to save something for his family. Mi. Lamar is said to be jioor, Hampton lias hard work to make ends meet. Public service does not seem to improve their finances. The times have certainly changed. Prior to the war several Southern gen¬ tlemen who now occupy seats in Con¬ gress lived altogether ill Washington during (lie season. The pay was not greater then than now ; hut tlie cost <f living in Washington lias increased. Washington was then a ramshackle town, with fair hotel accommodations and no end of boarding-houses, whose prices were graduated to suit the purses of patrons. Not very many Senators and Representatives owned houses then as compared with tho number to-day. A family cannot maintain such state in a hotel, and the physiology of tlie average boarding-house is not favorable to aris¬ tocratic style. It is 16 be inferred that persons in moderate circumstances find themselves at a disadvantage us mat¬ ters are now arranged in Washington. But it is possible for a family to live quite comfortable on the salary of a (joii gressmkn, even id the capital of :the country. It ail depends on the moral courage to live within income—which not too many jieopie possess, and which the average .Southerner is not so apt to possess as the homelier sort of folk who go to Congress from the north and west. General Gordon is to ho commended in his act of resignation. What tlie Mouth needs for twenty years to come is not politic*, hut men of energy, who are to tlie manner born, and can wield great influence by setting the example of en¬ gaging in busiiie. 8. General Gordon can do a great deal more for the South as a man of business than lie could do as a Senator. And the same may he said of many others from that region who are said to 1st poor and to need more than their salaries for support and provision for their families. The South needs to awake from its dream of civil distinction and go to work. It can nev¬ er again wield the political power it trad liefore (lie rebellion until it successfully competes with the North and West in production. Audit must have a varied industry. It must manufacture cotton, iron, agricultural implements, and in fact everything that goes to furnish work for idle hands. Seats in Congress may be very pleasant, hut a well-established prosperity goes further and pays better in the long run.— Philadelphia Forth Amer¬ ican. The Griffin News of Saturday has been informed by Hr. Iluoten, of Iiollonville, Pike county, that a very violent and damaging hail storm raged near his place on Thursday about six o’clock in the afternoon. The hail belt was about a mile wide, and fora short time the storm was terrible, It swept oyer the places of several planters in that section and cut up tMe corn, aud literally blew down J a large area of cotton. The bail was very destructive while it raged, but for¬ tunately for the fanners generally it covered , hut , , a narrow territory , and , was soon spent. “These bail storms,” says tho News, “arc of late years becoming more frequent and more destructive in this county.” Athens Danner: We were shown Tuesday by Cain Jones, colored, of this oily, an elegant clingstone peach, fully j ripe, and raised in bis garden, it was a fine specimen of fruit, though we did not learn the variety, and goes to prove j that with a little painstaking we might hare fruit in this latitude as early, most, as any where in Georgia, The sale in New York and Europe the first barrel of flour from wheat has realized sffid. The money goes to the Episcopal Church in Atneri cus. ft sold for live pounds in pool, Many of the farmers in Emanuel county have planted corn and cotton in their wheat and oat fields since their .mall grain has been gathered. The Democrat. ADVERTISING B ATHS 5 One Square, first in-*ettit>n $ r/t < Jne Squa re, each subsequent insertion. 25 One Square, three moot lis 4 <0 One Square, twelve months* a no Quarter Column, twelve months . . 18 so Half Column twelve months 4o on One Column twelve months . til os W One Inch or Less considered as a square. We have no fractions of a square, all fraetions of squares will lie counted as squares, Liberal deductions made on Con¬ tract Advertising. for the Ladies. SHE WON'T COME. "Come while the dew on, the meadow gilt- - tors, Come where the starlight smiles uu the lake.” w "Not much.” she said, “for 1 don’t like hitters, And the dew and miasma compel me to take Quinine Whisky and and whisky, doj-fennel tea. Dogwood quassia, whisky, quantum suf., and w hisky free. Quinine straight, and all sn'eh stuff. —Jiurtinyton Hawk Hy,. Sqys a French critic : “ I like a girl before she gets womanish, and a woman before'she gets girlish.” In some respects, tlie gentler sex far 'deliver , surpass us. No man, for instance, can a lecture with a dozen pins in his month. Professor iii moral philosophy :—“Mr. #L, what end has a mother in view when the punislns her child ? ’’ Air. K. blush¬ es and sits down. ,A Wisconsin girl broke off her engage , incut because her lover had no romance. sho wanted to be married on stilts, and he would not agree. Taken together all the beauties of art and nature do hot begin to interest tlie inquisitive female so much as tlie view sho gets through a key bole, Nothing will please a girl so much as the information that a rival, who is try¬ ing to rob her of hor best fellow, lias got a pimple coining on lier nose. He took her pretty hand in his Ami pressed it to his lips ami said : " My A-fuolmg ownest own, have you not been with an onion-bed?" When a good-looking girl 1ms the measles it always follows that from seven to fifteen of th • young men in the neigh¬ borhood are soon taken down with tho same disease. The gill puzzle Is tho latest. It con¬ sists in putting an average girl in front of the ribbon OtmnGw of a drv goods store and having her find the particular color sho is after, The be.utiful young lady graduate may. in subsequent years, forget tho title of her essay, but she will always remenilier how her sweet white dress was made and trimmed A young lady of New York, who is partly deaf, is in the habit of answering 'yes’ tb everything when a gentleman is talking to her for fear lie might propose to her and she not hear it. Missouri women uro frail creatures. One of them peppered two tramps with a shot-gun and knocked downvthe third with a hatchet, and then fainted dead HWsy,— Detroit Free Press, All the girls who can afford it now wave #7.) painted fans, and it (s utterly useless, even when tlie thermometer registers only sixty, to persuade them that it is quite cool and comfortable. Only a woman’s hair, Only limiting the now to the past, Too a frail single to thread last. . Only a woman’s hair Only Threading a tear and a nigh, a woman’s hair Found to-day In the pic. An English paper declares that Amer¬ ican ladies wear an imitation of the old slouch Imt worn hy Edison, ami it m called tlie Menlo Park bonnet. Fashion writers oyer this side have not yet dis¬ covered them, however. Pretty flat white silk fans, of small size, in Japanese shapes, are made very dressy, with frills of lace or muslin covering the greater part of tho face, while, the reverse side is decorate 1 with a painting in water colors. Yassar girls went on an excursion down tlie Hudson on Saturday and had a regular lark, singing “Here’s to Vas sar College, Drink it Down;” “Balm ' of Gilead, we won’t go to tlie pond any more,” and other jolly airs. Man’s lot is not a happy one. No sooner is lie free from his motlici’s apron strings and slipper than lie In¬ comes the slave of some tyrant in pink aud white aud marring. 11 is wife then bosses him until a baby conies along, and then the baby bosses tin; whole family. When the courting at midnight is ended, And he stand* with his hid in his fist, While she lovingly lingers beside him, To hid him “ta, fa,” awl he kissed. How busy the thoughts of the future— You le t you his thoughts he don't speak— lie is wondering how they can manage To live on six dollars a week. “Jennie June,” the brilliant corre¬ spondent, and the wife of .Mr. I). G On¬ ly, iloes her own housework. Home )ieo ple will he inclined to praise her for this, and other and more evil disjaised people will ihquire if Mr. Croly keeps a good looking cook. This is a cruel and sus¬ picious world. It takes a while to get used to a wo¬ man’s ways. When a young husband steals up behind his wife, while she stands at her dressing table, and sud¬ denly bends forward and prints an un l expected kiss on her lips, he gains Urn knowledge that a woman holds about 197 pins in her mouth while she is dressing, “Well, I’m glad my house cleaning is over,” said Mrs. Brown with a sigh of thankfulness* “It must be a relief,” observed Mrs. Smith, who was calling. “But, then, how soon vou will need to go through it all again.” If she hadn’t I'siked around in soeh a critical manner wiil'iicver ijcieturnei <a!1 THE TWO BRIDES. I saw two maids at the kirk, And both were fair and sweet; One in her wedding robe, And one in her winding dieet. The i boristers sang the hymn, 'I he sacred rites were read, A tut oil*: lor life to Lit*: i Ami one to Death was wed. • . They were home to their bridal beds, Jn loveliness anil bloom, One in a merry castle, And one in a solemn tomb. Guo on tlie morrow wok** In a world of sin and pain. But th** other was happier fur, And never awoke a. a n. Henry Hioddard.
