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The Democrat.
A. Live YfeaUy Paper on Live Issues
Published Every Wednesday Morning,
at Crawfordville, Ga.
2£. Z. Andrews, Proprietor.
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION:
Single Single Copy, (one year,) . . . 3 2 00
Single Copy, Copy, (six months,) . 1 00
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Kg" Advertising rates liberal. BOOK
and JOB PRINTING a specialty. Prices
to suit the times.
Hotel Cards.
A . U ,. USTX UOT ,, ’
rrnnn.™.,, com»EU of broad a?*d .VG.,™,™ sixth STS.,
AUGUSTA GFORtii \
TelSSce Uonvpnhntiv incan* ^buUdin^ait^South 1 t h 1
BailorR-ms ern FvoreVs Co Office 0 sm%rL next Xt d T,iy t0 I10
to i n the
city. Table supplied with the best the mar
•J, a ?? rd S Also Livery Stable connected
T t
mmtwwaq.
B RUCK'S opposite HOTEL, public square.
A11BEVILLE, S. C.
This house has just been thoroughly
fitted and newly furnished, aud is conven
ient to the Depot. Good sample rooms for
Commercial Travelers.
C. E. BRUCE, Proprietor.
QHNARD HOUSE,
CLAYTON BTBEET, NEAR POST-OFFICE,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
Rooms all carpeted. Good sample rooms
for Commercial Travelers.
A. D. CL1NARD, Proprietor.
•R APP HOUSE,
GREENESBORO, GA.
I have now taken charge of the above
named Hotel, already so renowned for con¬
venience, comfort and neatness, and I
pledge myself to keep it up to its high
reputation by keeping my table supplied
with the best thfeouarket affords, attention
to the comfort of my guests, and politeness
to all. My charges will in all cases lie equal
and reasonable. By this course of conduct
I hope to merit ami i. q V e a liberal share
of the public pati ma - A trial is solicited.
Jan.17.l879.t-o o L. ACKEE.
rpiIE GLOBE HOTEL,
CORNEK ElflHTH AND BROAD STREETS,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA,
Is centrally located, and within five min¬
utes’ walk of all the principal Business
Houses, Banks, Post Office, Public Build¬
ings, Union Depot, Opera Rouse, Telegraph
Offices and Express Office.
Street cars pass the door, going to ali parts
of the city and vicinity, every live minutes
during The the day.
House is supplied with all the con¬
veniences of a a first-class Modern Hotel,
and is especially well located, and provided
with all convenient facilities lor Commer¬
cial Travelers carrying samples.
Each room connected witii the office by
. bells. Telephone , ,
attachment with the city
f nd Summerville in the office for the accom¬
modation of guests.
G, 8. ATKINSON & SONS, Prop’rs.
Foimerjy of Clemens House, Danville, Ky.
Railroad Notices.
Oeorgia Railroad
-AND
BANKING Co.
Superintendent’s Office,
/COMMENCING Augusta, SUNDAY, (Ja., July 12, 1880 .
5th instant,
\j the following passenger schedule will
be operated:
lfO. 1 WEST—DAILY. NO. 2 EAST—DAILY.
Lv. “ Macon Augusta 9:35ia|m|Lv.Atlanta 7:00 “ Athens 7:4fliaim 9:15 a!m
8:58ta!mi a in
“ “ W'sh’i’n Milledg’U 9:15,a!m Ar.Wash’g’n “ C’wf’d’ll 12:24|p 2:00;p-m m
Ar.O’f’dv’U Athens 12:201p 3:15p|m m “ “ Macon Milledg’U 4:30 p m
“ 6:30 p m
“ Atlanta 5:(in ii nr “ Augusta 3.-28|p|m
NO. 3 WEST—DAILY. NO. 4 EAST—DAILY.
Lv. Lv. CrTv’ll Augusta 5:30 9:52 p'mjLv. Ar. Atlanta Athens 6:20jp:m 7:30;aim
p ! in m|Ar. C’f’dv’ll
Lv. Athens 6:00 p 2:01a m
Ar. Atlanta 5:00 a m'At. Augusta 6:00'a m
:•»?” No connection to or from Washing¬
ton on SUNDAYS.
S. K. JOHNSON, E.R. DORSEY,
Superintendent. Gen. Pass’ger Agent.
Ma\’2,1879.
Magnolia Passenger Route.
Port Royal & Augusta Railway, 1
Augusta, Ga., July 17, lsso. <
rpiIE JL FOLLOWING SCHEDULE will be
operated, on a nd af ter July Ik, i,s80:
GOING SOUTH. GOING NORTH.
Train No. 1. Train No. 2.
___ __ _
Lv Augusta 10.05 pm Lv P’t Roy T 11.15 pm
ArKilenton 11.49 pm Ly Beaufort 11.33pm
Ar Allendale 1.36am Ar Ycmassee 1.15am
JkT_Yenias.se 3.3.> am Lv Charleston 9.oopm
Lv Yemassee 4.00am Lv J'sonvTIe 5 30 ; mi
Ar Savannah 7.50 am Ar Savannah 9.00 . am
Lv Savannah ^?. lie7..'iOam| 4..»0 pm j jV Savannah 10.00 pm
T i y r Yemassee 2.00am
Ar Charleston «.40 am j A - Yemassee 2.15 am
Lv Yemassee 4.15 am Lv Allendale 4.15am
Ar Beaufort 5.48 am Lv Ellenton 6.01am
Ar Port Royal 6.05 am Ar Augusta 7.17 am
GOING SOUTH.—Connections made with
Georgia Railroad for Savannah, Charles¬
ton, Beaufort, and Port Royal, Also, with
Central Railroad for Charleston, Beaufort
and GOING Port Royal. NORTH.—Connections
made with
Charlotte Columbia & Augusta Railroad
for Railroad all points for North, and East the with Georgia
Atlanta and West. Also,
with South Carolina Railroad for Aiken
and points on line of said Road.
WOODRUFF SLEEPING CARS of the
most improved this style line and elegance will be
operated AUGUSTA by AND B AVANNAH, only, BETWEEN
without
change.
Baggage check- t 1 ngb.
I-?: r Through - for sale at Union
Depot Ticket Off: A msta, Ga,, and at
all principal Ticket t /’ices.
K. G. FLEMING,
General Superintendent.
J S. DA VA NT,
General Passenger Agent oct.l3,-t-f.
1,000 MILE TICKETS.
Georgia Railroad Company,
Office General Passenger A gent. /
Augusta, MONDAY, April 5th, 1879. )
/COMMENCING t this Company will sell ONE 7th inst.,
AND MILE TICKETS, good over main
line and branches, at
DOLLARS each. These tickets will
K^^miSXS! ,e8>
E. K. DORSEY,
May 9 ,l 879 . General Passenger Agent.
Sf)() a , . ln 5’ 0ur own , town. _ ,
w w ' v 55 outfit free. Address II.
A Co., Portland. Maine. novl4,’7‘J-j-y
Yol. 4.
THE P1EO HI 1»1CK OH llAMCMN.
1.
, Hamelin towiVtadp Brunswick,
Th/- °iv Ha ^ £ cit ;
The nyer Weser, <n l >«nd a wide.
Washes its wall on th v t,t hem side ’ •
A. pleasanter spot yo« lit*, <mtV spied;
But ’ w,H ‘ n «>y
Almost five HuiiOr.-a years ago>A.v.
80
e . was a pity.
9
, "zSMXdSt
; And ate the cheeses out of the vats,
And licked the soup from the cook’s own
I " d ‘« s >.
^ » a ini ... a t e 0 i > w s spoiled t m s | t i;f? n p f n i?L tpd H ! y.ri, ta .’ ’
a even the womens chats * ’
Bv drowniug I heir speaking
AVith shrieking and squeaking
In fifty different sharps aud flats.
3.
> t last the people in a body
To the Town Hall came nocking :
= ’Tis clear,” cried they, “ourMayor’s a
And noddy ;
as for our Corporation—shocking
To think we buy gowns lined with ermine
For dolts that can’t or won’t determine
What’s best to rid us of this vermin !
Rouse up, sirs ! Give your brains a racking
To find the remedy we’re lacking.
Or, sure as fate, wo’it send you packing t "
At this the Mayor and Corporation
Quaked with a uiiglity consternation.
4.
An hour they sat in council—
At length the Mayor broke silence :
“For a gilder I’d my ermine gown sell;
I wish 1 were a mile hence!
It’s easy to hid one rack one’s brain—
I’m sure my poor head aches again,
I’ve scratched it so, and ail in vain ;—
Oh, for a trap, a trap, a trap ! ”
5.
Just as lie said this, what should hap
At tlio chamber door but a gentle tap ?
“ Bless us,” cried the Mayor, “ what’s
that?”
Anything “ Only a scraping like the of stioes on the mat?
sound of a rat
Makes tny heart go pit-a-pat! ”
“ Come in ! ” the Mayor cried, looking big¬
ger ;
And in did come the strangest figure.
6 .
Ilia queer long coat from heel to head
Was half of yellow and Half of red ;
And he himself was tail and thin,
With sharp, blue eyes, each like a pin,
And light, loose hair, yet swarthy chin. skin,
No tuft on cheek, nor beard on
But lips where smiles went out and in—
There was no guessing his kith and kin!
Tlie And nobody could his enough admire attire.
tall man and quaint
Quoth one, “It’s the as Trump ray great-grandsire, of
Starting up at painted Doom’s tomb tone,
Had walked t!e» way from his
stone. ”
7.
He advanced to the council tabic
And, “ I'lcase your honors,” said he, “ I'm
able, secret charm,to draw
By means of a
All cieatures living beneath the sun,
That creep, or swim, or fly, or run,
After me so as you never saw !
And 1 chiefly use my do charm harm,—
On creatures that people
The mole, and toad, aud newt, and viper;
And people eall me the Pied Piper.”
8.
(And here they noticed round his neck
A scarf of red and yellow stripe, self
To match with the coat of the same
And cheek, the scarf’s end hung pipe
at a ;
And his fingers, they noticed, were over
impatient straying be playing
As if to
Upon this pipe, as low it dangled
Over his vesture so old-fangled.)
9.
“Yet,” said he, “poor piper as I am,
In Tartary 1 freed tlie Cham,
Lust -Juiie. from his huge swarms of gnats;
I eased in Asia the Nizam
Of a monstrous brood of vampire-bats bewilders— ;
And, us for what your brain
If I can rid your town of rats.
Will you give me a thousand gilders ? ”
“One?—fifty thousand!" was the excla¬
mation
Of the astonished Mayor and Corporation.
10 .
Into tlie street the Piper stepped,
Smiling first a little smile,
As it he knew what magic slept
In his quiet pipe the while ;
Then like a musical adept,
To blow the pipe his lips he wrinkled.
And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled,
Like a candle flame where salt is sprinkled ;
And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered,
Y’ou hsard as if an army muttered ;
And the muttering grew to a grumbling mighty ;
And the grumbling grew to a rum¬
bling ;
And out of the houses the rats came tum¬
bling.
11 .
Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny
Brown rats, black rats,
rats, gray rats, tawny
rats,
Grave Fathers, old plodders, mothers, gay uncles, young cousins, friskers,
Cocking Families tails ami pricking and dozens. whiskers,
Brothers, by tens husbands, wives,—
Followed sisters,
From the Piper for he their piped lives. advancing.
street to street
Until And step for step they followed Weser dancing,
Wherein they cane to the river perished.
all plunged and
PART SECOND.
X.
You should have heard the Hameiin people
Ringing the bells till they rocked the stee
I’ 1 *: I
“Go,’ „ cried the .. Mayor, x , “and , get . long ,
Poke out wmi the’nests and an'Tbu.’hh ston un the holes ' '
Omsult carpentm, rs
And leave in our town not even a trace
Of the rats!”—when suddenly, up the face
Of the Piper perked in the market place,
Witli a First, If you please, my thousand
r
A thousand ” e-iiders ’ Tho Mavor ' looked
blue -.
So did the Corporation too :
To pay this sum to a wandering fellow
With a gipsy coat of red and yellow !
z -
i “ Besides,” quoth the Mayor, with a know
“Our business^was done at the river’s
! We brink;
i saw w ith our eyes the vermin sink,
And what’s dead can’t come to life, 1 think,
gf )> friend, we’re not the folk-, to shrink
From the duty of giving you something
j drink,
The Democrat
CRAH'FORDYILLE, GEORGIA, WEDXfeDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1880.
SK S&USBgX&SB * 1
°‘ ““W? >“ "*
Besides our losses have made us thrifty ;
A thousand gilders! Come, take fifty 1 ”
3 o '
£he ** tM N " Piper's trifling face ! 1 can fell t and wait he beside, cried.
nSISSd^“L “the Cook's , 3rtl!li ,, * 4,me *
Of Head nottage, all he’s rich in,
w or having left, in the Caliph’s kitchen,
'
kav * find me ‘nil *' *o another fashion ’ ”
“ How?” cried the Mavoi ‘ ’ “ d ye think
I’ll brook ‘
Being worse treated than a cook ? ».
You threaten us, fellow? Do your wo. 1 !
Blow your pipe there till you burst! ”
5. .
Once more he stepped into the street
And to his lips again
Laid his long pipe of smooth, straight
Ami cage II blew ; three notes (such sweet
ere
Soft notes as yet musician’s cunning
Never gave the enraptured air).
There was a rustling that seemed like a bus¬
Of tling crowds jostling
Small merry feet and hustling,
clattering, were pattering, wooden shoes
And like fowls in the barnyard when bar¬
Out ley is scattering.
came the children running.
All tho little boys and girls.
With rosy cheeks and llaxen curls,
And sparkling eyes, and teeth like pearls,
Tripping The and skipping, ran merrily after
wonderful man with shouting and
laughter.
6 .
The Mayor was. dumb, and the Council
stood
As If they were changed Into blocks of
Unable wood,
to move a step, or cry
To tlie children merrily skipping by,
And could only follow with the eye
That joyous crowd at the Piper’s back.
But how the Mayor was on the rack,
A nd the wretched Council's bosoms beat,
As the Piper turned from the lli^h Street
To where the Weser rolled its waters
Right in the way of their sons and daugh
ters.
7.
However, he turned from south to west,
And to Koppelberg Hill his steps addressed,
And after him the children pressed ;
Great was the joy in every breast.
“ He never can cross that mighty top 1
lle’sjorced shall to let the children piping drop, !”
And we see our stop
When, io side, 1 as they reached the mountain's
A wondrous portal opened wide,
As if a cavern was suddenly hollowed ;
And the followed, Piper advance , and the children
And when ail were in to the very last,
The door in the mountain side shut fast.
8.
Alas, alas for Hawelin !
There came into tunny a burgher’s pate
A tuxt which says that Heaven’s Gate
Opes to tlie l each at as easy rate
As tlie needle's eye takes the camel In !
The Mayor sent east, west, north and south,
To Wherever offer the Piper by word to of find mouth, him,
it was men’s lot
Silver and gold to his heart’s he content.
If he’d only return the way went.
And bring the children behind him.
Hut when they saw dancers ’twas a lost endeavor,
And Piper and were gone forever,
They made a decree that lawyers never
Should think their records dated duly,
If, after the month and year,
These words did not as well appear :
“ And, Twenty-second so long after what of July, happened here
On tlie
Thirteen hundred and severity-six
9.
A nd, the better in memory to fix
The place of the children’s last retreat,
They called it the Pied Piper’s street—
Where any oue playing on pipe or tabor
Was sure for the future to lose his labor.
Nor suffered they hostelry or tavern
To .shock with mirth a street so solemn ;
But opposite the place of the cavern
They wrote the story on a column,
An l on the great C’lmrch window painted
The same, to make tlie world acquainted
How their children were stolen away ;
And there it stands to this very day.
10 .
A nd I must not omit to say
That in Transylvania that ascribe there is a tribe
Of alien outlandish people and
The ways dress
On which their neighbors lay such stress risen
To their fathers and mothers having
Out of some subterranean prison
Into which they in were mighty trepanned band
Long time Hameiin ago, a Brunswick land,
Out of town in
But how or why, they don’t understand.
11.
So, Willy, let you and me be wipers
Of scores out with ail men, especially pipers;
And, whether they pipe us free from lats’or
from mice,
If we’ve promised them aught, let us keep
our promise. —Robert Browning.
During the last political campaign in
Michigan, a well-known lawyer of that
State was addressing an audience com¬
posed principally of farmers, in Gratiot
county. In order to win the confidence
of his hearers, he said : “ My friends,
my sympathies have been always with
the tillers of the soil. My father was a
practical farmer, and so was my grand
father before him. I was myself reared
G u a farm, and was, so to speak, born
between two strdks of corn.” Here the
8peaUer wa8 rU(le i y interrupted by some
one in the audience, who exclaimed, “A
pumpkin, by Jingo!”
--^ -
A few days ago an inmate of the jail
at (; er „, v ,. Hi., managed to open two or
three doubly-locked doors, and relieve
*-he jailor of a watch and other valuables,
which he proceeded to conceal in his cell,
locking all the doors behind him. It is
supposed that he remained in the jail in
order to liberates friend who was ex
pected to arrive there a prisoner soon.
1 The jailor did not susjiect that the man
who robbed him was one of his prisoners
U1 S Property m the cell. How the job
was done is still a mystery .—Chicago
i limes.
The most clrarming bridal veils are of
illusion.
W ' 0NDEEF ^1 SHOOT1NG
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S' 01- *-
On ^ Saturday . . . afternoon twenty ,
of
assenV.led thirty gentlemen and a few ladies were
around an oddly-attired, sal
low-ftoed man in the Brooklyn him driving hi
Park. They listened to as A
scried .he mysteries of rifle and
shoot! n ,of which he was about to give
pistol akh which most of the shooting
wiue, afts on the Pacific slope L)r
Ruth, m his general appearance, is
not Y'dike Doctor Carver, and he
seems !> be as accurate a shot. His
>isars a resolute expression, and
tliocgh lie is a Californian, his tawny
and- goatee make him look
like kjpj’‘ Englander. He wore a
black '’’•M’tumBfer f ,jacktt, of trophies and on his breast
hair won with
his i. oaraiB. His wife st >od behind
him, imd he told the spectators that she
would assist him in tfit> exhibition he
was about to give. He said she was
nearly ;is accurate a shot with rifle and
pistol as himself, and added :
“ Most of you have seen Dr. Carver
and admired his shooting ; well, I pro¬
pose to "oy if L and my wife together
can not equal him. lie is a good shot,
but he went to Europe because he knew
he lied no equal there ; but here he
feared he might meet his match. I am
betlei.supported t and although than he was he has when been lie
shot ere,
married since then, his wife can’t shoot
at all/'’
Mre? Ruth took the pistol as soon as
her husband had stopped speaking and
leveled it at a glass ball stuffed with
feathers, that hung from a crossbar by
a pie:e of string, some twenty yards
from her. Tho attendant had set the
ball In motion, and as it swung to and
fro the weapon in Mrs. Ruth’s hand
vibrated correspondingly for a few sec¬
onds.— Then tho. report rang out, the
broken glass flew from the string, and a
cloud of feathers fluttered into the air.
This feat was repeated several times,
and the lady then fired at a stationary
ball. JJut here a certain unsteadiness
of less thefiand cccsful, was although observed; the and shooting she was in
s
this way was, on the whole, good. She
said she had been practicing in the sun¬
shine all the morning, and heat and
fatigue had unstrung her nerves. Lay¬
ing af.de the pistol, she took up the
light %'fte, and with this she shattered
ten o t t of fifteen glass balls thrown
fifttiVA^Wids into 'be air by a man standing about
from her. The balls were
not thrown well, some of them descend¬
ing in such a way that had she hit them
the glass must have fallen upon her
face. Several times she lowered her
rifle without bo firing, and careful. requested She her
thrower to more fired
at stationary balls, holding the pistol
with the lock toward the ground, and
closed the first portion of Iter share of
the exhibition by shattering several
balls in succession with a bullet from
the small rifle, while she stood with her
back to the mark and took aim with the
aid of a looking-glass, which she held
on her arm. When she missed, her hus¬
band hastened to explain how it had
happened, and on the much more fre¬
quent occasions of her bullet striking
the balls he took no pains to conceal his
pleasure. He said she could use the
large Winchester rifle better than the
smaller one, but that it was a loar¬
range weapon, and lie feared that, fired
at point-blank range, it might send a
bullet through the wooden fence four
hundred yards away, and endanger the
lives of persons passing along the road.
When Mrs. Ruth laid aside the rifle her
face was blackened with powder
It was then Dr. Ruth’s turn to show
his skill. Leveling his pistol at a sta¬
tionary ball, he held the weapon so stead¬
ily that the keenest failed to note a vi¬
bration, and so surely as a bullet sped,
just so surely was a glass ball shattered
and tlie feathers scattered into the air.
Then the attendant held a ball between
his thumb and initial linger, and the
Doctor piereed it so accurately in the
center that it fell to the ground without
any scattering of the broken glass.
Tii is feat he performed several times,
and then he took tho short rifle. A
hall was thown into the air, and after
it hail left the attendant’s hand the
Doctor whirled his weapon around be¬
hind his hack, recovered it, brought it,
with wonderful precision and quickness,
to his shoulder, and broke the I tall be¬
fore it reached the earth. He per¬
formed the same feat after turning com¬
pletely around while the ball was in the
air; but in shooting the flying balls
with the pistol he was less successful,
breaking only four out of thirteen.
Then the Doctor took up the Win¬
chester rifle and began to load it. He
is very cautious in handling this act weap¬ of
on and at all times, when not in
taking aim, holds his rifle with the muz¬
zle elevated. This precaution probably
saved the attendant from getting into
his head the bullet intended for another
mark, for the hammer slipped from Dr.
Ruth’s fingers, and, exploding the car¬
tridge, sent the bullet whistling not a
great many feet above the thrower’s
hat.
“ * nftvcr hurt anybody, said the
marksman coolly ms he replaced the
cartridge that had been discharged.
“ Acccidents of this kind will occur
occasionally ; but holding my rifle as I
do, no harm can come of them.”
A remarkable exhibition of quickness
ofshootmgandofmanipulating tbe re
peating rifle was then given. A glass
ball was placed on the ground, and Dr.
Hath fired, a bullet into the earth a
inches from it. The concussion
sent the ball about eighteen inches into
the air. and before it again touched the
grass, tii# marksman bad removed the
exploded shell, allowed a full one to lie
pressed into the space thus made va
cant, and broke tlie ball. This feat lie
accomplished twice out of four at
tempts, and earned a round of hearty
applause.
No. 39.
| JE. li„„t .'tail 1 j
u„ i„a, „.id
j which her husband, standing about
! twenty yards away, held in his lingers
at J, arnw’ IpdbH) ti»*» 1 enu ked, and
i ),ec ® , shivered intoa small
mT J° f m 1 D 0C ^ r s ,mnd *
r he " 1,p heW ,lls * teeth a piece
. ^bttard , not much larger than the
turning LA*?. \\ itn his J u side '^^ toward l ' br 1 0, ^f> Ills wife, ll !' (i
* I f vush -J»! yon ' could 11 manage to . , hold ,,
1 «*'d
pointing doivu a little more,
,^i V-i 4,Wi,y *
Anaidas t .'i? directe*!, 1 ,1 ; lst 1 lly amlhis^wifi) 1< ) nv * , y*' li , j-' 1 *) cut paste- , a
P i ece out of it with the nlle bub
1
caiefnl she is, said „ the ,, T>OC»
!, 0 oY She . iu lilt , l *Y ,l i tho 1 i^ ^’ part as . U 1 furthest ^ U J’ from , cav, tuy b j i
b0 irn‘ t I
The feat i was repeated twice, and then I
any one who desired to do so was in
vited to fire at glass balls hurled into
the air. A few of the spectators, in* I
cluding Charles A. Wingate, availef j
themselves of this permission with hi<
different Bruce, the success; famous and marksman then who OnpUifl')
up*
held tho honor of the American rifle
team at Creodmoor, took the weapon to
fire at the flying balls. The New York
Sun says he shot ten times, and made
tho following remarkable score:
0000 0 0000 0—Total 0.
An Unwelcome Arrival.
When the young King of Spain, in dot
erettce imported, to the at wishes large expense, of Ins counselors, valuable |
a a
German wife, it was with the express
understanding that Spain should he fur
liishtd with an heir to the throne. That
unhappy country Intd suffered for so ma
uy years under the rule of a woman that
public only opinion imperatively demanded of
not a present King, but a series
future Kings. If Alfouso lmd remained
a widower until the next attempt to as
sassinate him, lie would have been sac
ceedcd by Ids sister, who, although she
is an estimable young person, is conced
ed to be a woman It was, therefore,
plainly his duty to provide Spain with a
male heir to his throne, and he there
upon sent to Vienna for an Archduchess
of conspicuous merit.
It was announced some timo ago that
the desired heir would soon make hisap
pearance. There was immense excite
meat throughout Spain, and especially
in Madrid. That tlie anticipated baby
was to be a ITi nee was universally uu
(lerstobd, and the etiquette of the’Rpifli- 1
ish Court forbade any ono to intimate in
tile most distant manner tho possibility
that it would be a Princess. Loug dis
cussions were held as to the name of the
little stranger. The King insisted that
the heir should be named after all Ills re
latives, the proposed names amounting
in tlie aggregate to thirty-seven. The
Queen consented, but on the condition
that the ITiuce should also he called
Rudolph, Albrecht, Franz, Wilhelm, Jo
sef, Karl, and eighteen other assorted
German names. For a long time it
seemed probable that a permanent do
mestic quarrel would lie the result of
this discussion, for the King maintained,
with much Whow of justice, that no
Spaniard could ever pronounce tho Ger
man names of the Prince, and that his
loyal Ministers would probably be atrau
gled on the attempt to prod
Fiuallv a compromise was aj, , l
a selection of forty-five Spanish names
was decided upon and duly entered in
tho King’s memorandum book,
In the meantime the loyal Spaniards
were making elaborate preparations for
the reception of the I'rince. Eighty
seven members of tlie Cortes handed in
pin-cushions with the device, “Wei
come, little stranger,” though, of course,
tlie motto was couched iri tlie best Cas
tilia.ii. The Prime Minister gave a bicy
ele, the Minister of Foreign Affairs sent
:n a pair of skates, and the commandant
of the Madrid garrison cave a beautiful
ly ornamented baseball club. All tin
Spanish ladies of any eminence sat lip all
night week after week to embroider ju
veuile shirts, Dowsers, and jackets, and
every shoemaker of any enterprise made
a special pair of boots for the Prince,
and then put over his door a sign hear
ing tlie legend, “ Bool maker to lib
Royal Highness the Prince of the As
turias. ”lt is estimated that seventy-live
thousand dollars’ worth of presents of a
distinctively masculine type have been
scut to the Palace since tlie 1st of June
last, and these presents were received by
the King and the Queen with the great
est gratitude and enthusiasm.
The eventful day at last arrived. The
Prime Minister, who had been sleeping
for a week in the hack kitchen, so as to
be handy in case of an emergency, was
aroused at 2::i0 A. M„ and, mounting his
horse, rode at a terrific pace to summon
the doctor. Sixty-four Cabinet Minis¬
ters and eminent grandees were sum¬
moned by the District Telegraph mes¬
sengers, and rushed to the Palace in hot
haste, and they were assembled in tlie
front parlor, where they were supplied
with gingerbread and lemonade and
passed six consecutive and very tedious
hours, etiquette forbidding them to read
newspapers or to employ their time in
any way except by looking at the family
photograph alburn and the Spanish Pat¬
ent Office reports. At length a joyful
blast on the cornet—which was played
by the Queen’s private chaplain—an¬
nounced that tlie happy moment had ar¬
rived, and that Spain had an heir to the
throne of the Bourbons.
Twenty minutes later the gold King platter en¬
tered the room, carrying a
iri his hands, on which was laid the new
Prince, carefully wrapped up in an af
ghan made for the purtmse by hisgraml
mother Isabella. The sixty-four Cabinet
Ministers and grandees sprang up,
Lowed in that courtly manner with
which the artists of the opera bouffc
have familiarized us, and shouted with
| I one accord, “Long live the Prince.”
They then crowded around the platter
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same of mouth as the
late Charles V., and that, ' on A the whole 7
ht was „.... just such a 1 rn;ceas . they had . ex
peeled. Wiiat w.*»s their dismay when
J he Kin ^ *ith many Hushes and much
hesitation, managed to say, “ Thank you
very much, but it’s a girl yarn know.”
lawful silence fell on the assembly.
One by one they solemnly climbed nut of
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)omo - 1 ll,! news spread rapidly, and
as the Spaniards learned that the ex
pectcd Prince was a girl, their disepn
tent fouml expression in loml murmurs,
ami halt a dozen leading assassins went
home to clean their guns and make
ready to relievo their feelings by a shot
at the King.
it has eertamly been a most unfortu
nate affair. True, it ia a mistake which
can be remedied at n comparatively ear
ly date, but tlio |>eoi>le are disappointed.
Hereafter they eannot place their trust
in princes. And now the melancholy
portion conies in: What is to lie done
with all the presents that are of a nms
online nature ? The King cannot with
propriety sell them or give them away,
To be sure ho can keep them for a future
contingency, lumbering tint palace sit present they are
up the and discommo¬
ding tho royal household ,--New York
Tunes.
Old Men in Politics.
Grandfather Lickshinglc ami Deacon
Radspiiiiier, two patriarchs in this colu¬
mn nil y, were walking down tho street
together yesterday. It was remarked
that two such venerable men were not
often seen together, and people raised
their hats to them as they passed along
and spoke to them reverently,
“ There’s entirely too much bitterness
in this campaign, Deacon,” said Mr.
Liekshingle, “ and I regret it exceeding
ly. Now, when wo wuss voung men and
took an interest in politicks, wo had
none of this ’eie everlastin’cat liaul
in’.”
“Indeed we hadn’t,” acquiesced Doa
con Kadspitiner. “ Take Jackson’s«aiu
paign, for instance. There wuz alive
ly interest taken by both parties, but
there wuz none ol' yer bullyraggin’ like
we see now-a-days.” fact’
“That's a Deacon,” said old
Lickshingle, I “ but between me an’ you
never thought much of Jackson.”
“lie was a mighty good man, Liek
shingle.” He
“ was small potatoes to sonic men
wo have now, Deacon.”
“Who d’ye mean V” demanded tho
Deacon.
“ Well, there’s Garfield,” said Lick
shingle.
“Garfield lm flanged. You know
mighty have well, Lickshingle, lie couldn’t
been ’lectcd hog-rive in a hill town
in Jackson’s day.”
“He’s a darn sight better man than
Hancock.”
“ Go slow, Lickshingle,go slow 1” said
the Deacon, somewhat agitated
“Oh, I know what I’m trlkiii’about,”
retorted Lickshingle, as he stabbed the
pavement spitefully with his hickory
cane. ” Hancock’s a stougliten bottle,
that’s what he is.”
“ An’ what’s Garfield ? Great guns
what’s Garfield Y Didn’t he lay a cheap
John sort of a pavement around the mill- cap
ito) and charged tho government a
ion dollars for it Y- and the Deacon’s
eyes blazed with indignation.
“See here, Deacon, look at your inau
Hancock’s letter to Sherman. Didn’t
he try to Mow up Washington with gly
cerine? Say, didn’t he V on, I read
the papers, old man, nu’ know wliat’s
goin’ on.”
“ Hanco :k’sagood, pure man. Didn’t
|,„ fight like a bull dog lu the war of the
rebellion '{ Where was Garfield skulkin’
j„ the time of disaster ? In Canada, by
thunder, in Canada.”
“What wur Hancock doin’ with a
stllitto in ids hoot tlie night Lincoln
was murdered ? Answer me that ’( If
Wilkes Booth had failed, this Hancock
was ready p> finish the job. Don’t talk
nie ! Don’t talk to me!”
“ It’s a lie,” howled the Deacon, as
| 1() whirled around and faced Lickshingle
on the street.
“it’s as tine as holy writ, .7 an’ any
man’s a liar that says so, retorted
Lickshingle, too much wrought up to be
particular as to hi! phraseology,
“You’re a bald-headed old scouu
drel,” yelled the eon.
“ You’re an old leper, an’ I can wipe
the ground with you,” howled Licksliin
g]r, i gj ipping Ids cane and and advancing,
, hauls jump d in the iwo furi
ous old men were dragged away in op*
polite directions. The Deacon .squirmed
around in the :oms of his captors, shook
his cane at Lie! shingle, and hissed ;
“ Your man Ga) .Did ivouid never have
gone into the army if lie hadn’t been
drafted, and lie wouldn’t went then on¬
ly lie thought ho would be able to de¬
sert the ouery son of a gun !”— 1‘elroU
mn World.
“ Thrashing by steam,” murmured a
fond mother, as she glanced at an ar¬
ticle in an ngikillin'ul paper. “ What
git up- they have to have now a-days.
If I’d had one of those steam thrashers
for my four boys my arms wouldn't
have been so achy and rheumaticky as
they are to-day,” and she dreamiugly
thought of tlie past as it might have
been.
I 'pon the marriage of her daught er tho
other day, a Philadelphia mother re¬
marked that she was sure she would
quarrel with her son-in-law. “ Hut it
is all right,” slid said, “ ho and I have
agreed to liaye no mudslinging i i the
campaign.”
“Clothe mo in dreams,” says Miss
Fanny Driscoll in a recently published
poem. Now, Fanny, isn’t this rather
thin apparel for fall wear ?
When a Mormon ninnies Ids wife’s
sister he chuckles to think that lie has
contrived to get only one niothei ■ in law,
to two wives.