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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1882)
k irtt’S'E-sniK piece of i« pieces), DODOR. 1 BV H. C. 1 Stop When this baud anil begins to away. piay, | your ear* run | ! “ v ’ long enough fife fiddle love ! ‘ oo violin to mention, will, dove, v., while de-claHn'et. K'upboufe3sh strict attention?” i iioii didst triangle-ing, adored, All this dulcimer duly; TL u eastanet, threw manichord, And caught oboe—yours truly.” »• There’s spinet times when by thv sido I've th ught, viol, love, thou eyed ina - * i he calliope to make my bride Is this d ar girl beside me.’ V •' It whistle little thought but, oh’ Its harp-in ess was thrilling. but show What could hautboy do willing.” then il i-n angel lie was *• Well, lyre, resolved to guitar chance Tw pop—nay, do not mourn it; lit. , ib, bell-ieve this heart which pants And do not, precious, cornet.” *• i \ t- thought timbrii-liant,” mused the maid, " But l de-cinrion-ly Th -uht he’d banjo-king when he said, * Love! violone am lonely.’ ” j: co .oertina room Ittigan j v o hearts like one a-beat ing. i. *vveet a<*cordion' his Ann tV a tolled moments swiftly fleeting. i w nine fluttna c'ock; he stayed With his harmonica-lar h ’e'iling to the cymbal maid Hi* joy was worth a dollar. >\ w bad that young buccina-head Per-harpsichord have ended His lire*pa xylophone in offended. time and fled came iu u i'.Uat tam-hour-lne my house again And cittern close piano.* / d Isave I got tabouret when i still can shoot a men ? No! ” i ?i flute to get organ to shoot And drum had made him ravage. ** i' \ e got tabor that young gaV.ute With bullets.” He was savage. Ob. see, melod ”-ian-gry said, This gun—that plccolo-de bass-viol lead— fellow J i tiu him will of 1 Cub bugle-long,' I’ll yell, oh'.” ‘Explanation necesary: “By Ann, oh!” “Got to •ear it”____ The Victim of a Virtue. BY JAMES PAYS*. I am one of those persons, envied for ILitvr months iu the year and pitied for London. nine, who “live a little way” out of In the summer, our residence is a charming one; the garden especially is delightful and attracts troops of Lon¬ don friends. They are not only always willing to dine with us, but drop in of their own motion and stay for the last train to town. The vague observation “any fine day,” or the more evasive phrase “ some invitations', fine day.” used in com plimentuigr are then very dangerous for us to employ, for we are taken at our word, just as though we meant it. This would be very gratify¬ ing, however expensive, if it only hap¬ pened all tiie year round. But from October to June nobody comes near us. In reply to such our modest invitations we then receive expressions of tender regret as would convince the most skep¬ tical ; “a previous engagement,” born,” “in¬ disposition of our youngest “ the " 8 P, s r 1 8 ''/m-i 0 °n^ er ’ - •• • -x. rrvt £ 2 s? , , ^ SSftA'ASS w , ii- A t Which wenllieynn they mean little next Ice. summer inclement," As for by ‘° d ’i W1 t ? !i ley , mean nearer first. Sometimes at theh crdimryliow doz^n people wliolivo half a. miles , ari of ^n wm attempt to Jgiion; rho seasons anu expect us to go and dme with them just as if it was August, through four feet of snow It does reahy seem-as Jones our excellent host was saying the other day- tne very height of personal conceit. dejL'faJlmvfw deuce tor some years, we have long had hlq the conceit taken out of us ; but we have Still our feelings. Our social toes are not absolutely frost-bitten, and when thus trodden upon, we are aware of the circumstance. It grieves us to know What Jones has thought (and said) of us, s gffs find myself 2SAt2gpn4 dropping asleep be ride. I fore we have left brick and mortar be hind us, and as we cross the great com mon near our home I feel a considerable change in the temperature. It is a beautiful, breezy spot, with a lovely view in summer time; the playground bee; of the butterfly and the place of the but in the wiuter it is eoid enough. In the day-time there is nobody there stall. In the evening, pltrol. at uncertain in tervals, there is the In the old times it used to be a favorite haunt of the Knights of the Road; during whose I epoch, by-the-by, I should fancy that : those who lived in the locality found it j : even more difficult to collect their friends around them than now. It iias still a ■ bad name for tramps and vagabonds, i which makes mv wife a little nervous when the davs begia'to “draw in” and ; ‘ draw off. She insists j our visitors to npon mv going av«.-r- the house before retiring “rtof 'to resf everv nieht and making “All’s well.” Being myself cot much over five Ceet liigb in my boots, j and considerably less in my slippers . in ! which I am wont to make these pere- j grinations), it has often suggested itself j to my mind that it would be more judi cions to leave the burglars to do .heir | worst, as regards the plate and things, and not risk what is Ho me) much more valuable. Of course I could “ hold the j livesof half adozenmen mmyhand author —a quotation from my favonte , -by merely armmg myadf with a loaded revolver; but toe simple fact is, I am so un. .te-le , of any weapon ch)that_I xx... a--. > - > - ^ can be called m, just as likely to p^pn with shooting number one (that is mjseit) as numoei L if ,S' b S“”o“ in the force the other hand, as I believe of imagination, I always carry, on these i expeditions, in the pocket of my dress ing gown, a child’s pistol—belonging to pur Se infant, Edward 'John-which looks a red one, and would I am per- sonal peril. “Miserable ruffians,” I had made up my mind to say when coming upon the gang, “ your lives are in my power,” (here I exhibit the pistol’s butt), “but out of perhaps a mistaken elem ency I will only shoot one of you, the one that is the iast to leave my house, t shall count six,” (or sixteen, according to the number of the gang), “ and then five” Upon which they would, I cal ciliated, all skedaddle helterpelter to the door they got in at, which I should lock and double-lock after them. You may ask, “why double-lock?’ but you will get no satisfactory reply. I know no more what to “ double-look” means than you do. but my favorite novelist— a sensational one—always uses it, and I conclude he ought to know. of misty Goto It was the beginning had fallen a off early, ber, when the leaves and our friends had followed their ex ample, and I had been sitting up alone favorite end—lm chief tliird volume, wherein all the characters (except the comic ones) are slain, save one who is left sound in wind’and limb, commit but with suicide. an hereditary Some disposition to wliat depressed by its perusal and ex ceedingly sleepy, I went about my usual task of seeing all was right in a some what careless and apparently perfunctory in the manner. dining All was right right in the drawing all room, all room, right certainly in the study (where I had myself been sitting) and all right— no, not quite all right in our little black hall or vestibule, where, upon the round table the very largest and thickest pair of navvy’s boots I ever saw were stand ing between my wife’s neat little urn brellaand a pair of her gardening gloves, Even in that awful moment I remember tbe sense of contrast and incongruity struok me almost boots as themselves, forcibly as and the pres- they ence ot the astonished me as much as the sight of the famous footprints did Robinson Crusoe, and tor precisely the same rea son. The boot and the print were noth ing in themselves, but my intelligence, now fully awakened, at once flew to the conclusion that somebody must have been there to leave them, and was prolia blyinthe neighborhood, and, indeed, under my roof at that very moment. II vou give Prof. Owen a foot of any eroa ture (just as of less scientific persons we say : Give them an inch, they will take an ell), lie will build up the whole ani mal out of his own mind; and something of the Professor’s marvelous instinct was on this occasion mine. I pictured to myself (and as it turned out, cor¬ rectly) a monster more than six feet high, broad in the shoulders, heavy balus¬ in the jowl, with legs like stone trades, and hands, but too often clenched, of the size of pumpkins. The vestibule led into the pantry, where, no half doubt, this giant, with his one idea, or a one, would conclude the chief part of our plate to be, whereas it was lying— unless he had already taken it—a terri¬ ble thought that flashed through my mind, followed by a cluster of others, like a comet with its tail—under our bed. 0f conrse j coula have gone int o the pantry at once, but I felt averse to be precipitate ; perhaps this (upon finding would noth- fuel ing to st-al) poor wreteli remorse tor wliat lie had done and go r * «. «»'<','»»<° te ™k'me tlmt might not be a thief after all, but only a cousin (considerably “removed”) have been very^S^Thwto have’S , R K-h I knew were in the late or. Such gtate ^heu&ble, of thi j r ,: peat would have , but I most sineerelv hopea £ that it had occurred. A elaudcs ti attachment, ^ however misplaced, ^il,!e is , . tb 1)Ur fc lar ^ with 4l po vio Jence _ Cougllin g r ther ] 0 lv , to give the gentleman notice that I was about, aafl to suggest ate that he had better take ” , ; lf “ themZ^tomdrios t ,. r wc nt to V attlc to “ ake “W 1 ™ 8 - A 11 concerning" the^xcesrnAo f 8 i on 01 coiKernmg tiie excessive som somno no . ^ n b er of the Seven Sleep r rfcr ,."' r ho "f jf? their attention, and it took me another wj 1( je) thatotwas !!!, fH notoive I, V 6 ‘ '* IMt * Lad I “ v, . , ..a , ? Klrn “ - they + tben ' were b « ds scarcely - ®f be . less ved excited upon b this and point, put - out b Y, tbe communication I was com pelled . to make to them though con veyed the utmost delicacy and re nnement 1 asked them of which^language whether by any is capable. accident one oi them chanced to have a male rel ative w.io wore exceptionally thick high Ip'^ Tliei^all n Vi a !LVhJtver^i^nin^ renlied l i-i iiulwnnnt hxaV-i'ni cIhc-iih ,, , , nomr _.iiv which tliev meant the «mr. b ■ bn * x b ,,. ^ . .. t x x x vpr hiehlows ’ beinc ° all fe n-ithmit execution tiii^faud Satisfied as^^to greatly disap pointed) [ 1 felt that it was now incum t UMf m meto and’pistol pursue mv researches Oaudle iu hand in pocke* iy I ^eat relief S? it was tofeThS empty departed Was it ?^H pos *e he had gone without lus highlows, table for t h eT stood on the vestibule as large as life, and, from the necessity of the case, a size or two larger. Their build and bulk, indeed, impressed me more tl , an ever . Wa8 it possible that one burglar had come in those boots? j entered tb% kitch en ; not a mouse stirring; ^ on the other hand, there a Je Sway of blacU beetles, which sputtled in all directions except one . They avoided the dresser—beneath which lav the gentleman I was looking curled up in a space much too gmall for b im, but affecting previously to be I i Indeed though leb T I j. I felt at once a is was giv me the id^ of the slumber that Mto honest toil. I knew . i P -> that he was going to and exhausted, he had taken shelter , un der my roof, with no other object (how- rest, of which he stocu n irgent need. “ Don’t shoot, sir,” he t. Edward id, for I took eare to let the handle of John’s pistol protrude but from honest my dressing-gown. I only “I am poor, j, came m here for the warmth .id to have a snooze.” sternly. “How dig you got in?” I inquired, “I just prized up the wash “-and us will- laid dor,” was his plaintive reply, down’ere,” Then, ^ put out boots . the “ you your in back hall to be cleaned in tho morning, I suppose?” this lie grinned dreadful It At a pin. seemed to say, “As you have the whip hand of me, you may be aA^njnorous as you please; but if it was ntu for that pistol, my fine friend, you .would be laughing on the other sidef if your mouth, I reckon.” “ Come, march.” said I Put Oil "Tie got^up and as slouched a wild beast before Ases from into liis lair, me the hall. . Though grateful lie looked him exceedingly for going wicked, I felt to so peace ably, and was moved to compassion. “Were you really m want that you came here?” I said, “Are vmt hun gry? “Not lie answered th leer, now, w a Of course he was intimatinf that, he i lac i supped thought at my it expense, frank of 1 i yl at the time I m to ac knowledge it. If I lmd kuoa i then, as I learned afterward, that he h 1 eaten a grouse and a half, and the 1 iole con tents of a large jar of I svonshire cream winch we had just res- ~ed as a present, I should have though father it mere impudence. I did think hesfi.nl it im pu den.t when he said,, had as for at the his front door which I open m exit: - “Won’t you give me liali i crown, ness?” sir, to put, But, me in nevertheless, an honest wa.,-of tl;inking b U si- it better to part good friends, fgave him what-lie asked for. He spit upon the coin “ for luck,” as ho perhapsias was gooW enough sub to explain, for thanks, and also since he omitted a to stitute give me any, and slouched gale. down the gravel sweep and out of the It was 3 o’clock; the mist U'd begun. to clear, and the moon and liars were shining. A sort of holy calmlbegan to pervade me. I felt that I hold done a good action and also got rid of a very dangerous individual, and thiit to it was high time that I should go bed in peace with all men. My mfe, however, who had been roused by the;servants, was on the tiptoe of expectation to hear a ll that had taken place, and of course I had to tell her. I described each thrill ing incident with such dramatic force that she averred that nothing would ever induce her in my absence to sleep in the house again. This was perhaps but the just punishment for a trifle of exaggera tion in the narrative with which I had here and unfortunate. there indulged Now myself, and then but it I was very myself detained in after dining find town, at the club, by circumstances over which I have no control (such as a r.te.ber at wlust, which will sometimes stretch like india-rubber), and hitherto I i;ad only had to telegraph in the afternoon to ex press my regret that there was a p -*' bility of my'non-return. Here wa end to all this, unless I could reas her. I therefore began to dwell upon the unlikeliliood of a second which burglar I ever visiting the house, made com pared with that famous hole of by a cannon ball, said to be a place secu¬ rity from cannon balls for evermore. . : ‘Oh, don’t tell me,” cried my wife, with just a trace of impaf ni '’' SsS’^ref ntatton in her what voice.. that “ Has'i comafphg i *,, <6,,, the is 1 mad?” iffin 6n She thought .... it . burglar . . . was a norse back . jhereas, if I may so « xprass it it borsepatrol ' vas thei very contrary-name^, toe , . _ 11,,8lst .“ Kaook at tI,e wln( ? ow i h,m cal U“ flhe u ,n ’ u P on vour 8ee,n K > ex ' - claimed. I had no alternative, since Bhe 8aK J “ insl8t " ( a8a,, Y mar f i ¥ tnlu '. wi11 understand), ( but to accede to patrol her ifishee; 80 1 wo,,t ont an<1 told ,J *e what had happened. • “How he inquired. long ago was the fellow here, “ More than an hour. It is quite out of the fi nostlon Y 011 can overtake) him. SiAT ' t,m 10 : “ “ You do, do you ?” raid the patrol in il,at sort ot compassionate tone of \toice in which the visitor of a lunatic asJlum addresses an inmate warranted harmless, iver „ We „ , [S j am here , I’ll just go is) tbft house and make sure there no more o{ them It not impossible, pal behjind Yon see he ma y have left a \ iim »» bootU,” j | “There was only one pair of sa id I confidently“ J ; of that lam et*r- ! tain> „ • Nevertheless, as l felt it would'-b* ijis a | satisfaction to my wife, I acceded to request. He tied his horse to the scrap- aid ) er, and came in with his lantern, looked about hall, him. There for was I had nobody just j in the front of course, | cornel' noboi irougli it; in the drawing- rooih thl .in the vestibule nobodv—best j on table whore they had stood beforfe ; stooA »pair of gigantic navvy’s wliisperm^ boots. ! ! “What patrol, d’ye pointing think of that?” them. j i,l ‘- to one f of ^ I “They’re the same,” answered hushed amazement, “they’re tLm the amongl very , ‘ •-«. I could swear to \\ thousand. What can it mean?” “Well, it means that the gentleman t; who was going to lead a new We, lie i answered dryly, lias thought better of it and lias come back again. I And so he had. place We under found the lnm dresser, lying ji in the very same -V awaiting, “O Lor 1 ! suppose, is that you, events. Mr. Policeman ?” j . he said, cornplainingly. »Then, it’s all up.” ./ t If he had had to deal , . with me alone, i heexpected, perhaps, toluive got another half-mown out of mo. But the great > probability was, he hml doubtless argued i that all suspicion ot burglars, for that j a 2 S?Jsas 2 £rLflia 25 S 1 ^ on jjg 8 j^ e j i hetoed to fasten a strong ^attached strap to his wrhd which was already to ' ’ “And now” that tog of «* the horse patrol’s 1 ba, J ™* w m go g and ^ i... that operation accomplished by him jtay bur glar, for the second time saw walk oft though on this occasion a captive to his mounted companion. I did not wish, as the Judges say when (ho was on ticket-of-leave, and presently got five years’ penal servitude), but I could not help saying: “ I flunk you ought to have been con tent with your supper and balf-a-crown, ; and not come here again, at all events i in search of plunder. ” i This weight argument, with it seemed, had no sort i | of him ; gratitude was nn known to civilized that savage breast. Like | tributed many more his individuals, he at- i misfortunes to his own I virtue. scornfully. “No, sir, it ain’t that,” he answered j “I’m the wictim of perse¬ verance.” Sllts an<1 Cockroaches ou Board of Ship, The natural history of a voyage would Be incomplete, however, without some reference to those old nautical mess mates, rats and cockroaches. Rats fre quentlv ascend tho rigging, and when discovered aloft the word is given, and the unhappy rodent has to run the gauntlet hands ot below. marlmgspikes Ihavonoticed held by will mg several cases of apparent suicide by the niton these occasons ; it seemed to spring overboard from tho rigging when it bad descended almost to the shrouds, where enemies were stationed and cut off its escape. I have also when seen pursued it apparently spring overboard by my dog, the action appearing of a voluntary Italian greyhound, nature. My dog w£g a of small arid the last animal presumably pure breed, that could bo consul ered “ good for rats. ” However, such was case am* a few of tlmse trapped rodents m afi empty beef cask provided little always and a moment unlikely-looking of excitement for this explanation I take be dog. The to this : It is a oustom to cross blaek-and-tan-terriers with the Italian greyhound to increase the length of the nose, and this has gone on for some time, especially in breeding the so-called “ toy ” terriers. My little greyhound \Jood. and bitch inherited probably had terrier “ instinct.” Bats seom to increase in temerity with the length of the voyage, and their presence in time becomes less objectionable. Be fore the voyage was fiuiuished I quite lost the repugnance I at first felt when they sometimes ran across my bed at night. As regards the ubiquitous cock roaches {lilatta sp.) 1 learned to forget their depredations in admiration of their tenacity of life. Bennett records these insects ns drinking the ink, and, as far a8 my experience goos, nothing comes amiss to them. Certainly, when they were found eating my arsenical soap, and apparently with immunity I gave np all attempts at extirpating them from my cabin. At intervals tho cock roaches would flv about during the night, and this I considered more disagreeable than the visits of rats. Tliev, howevei only / took wing at rare intervals and l lla e met with no explanation of that habit. Dr. Seeman, in bis “A Mission to Viti,” states that at Fiji cockroaches so swarm in some vessels that they have • • .ymW the water to free them id. The Purpose of Reading. Every reader should know the pur¬ pose for which he reads. Usually this purpose is either rest, amusement, or what may he called improvement. A boy or girl, takes tired Hawthorne's by work in the shop or house, up “Wonder Fretted Book,”—that marks is reading school, for rest. becomes by low in at Family one Robinson”— ab¬ sorbed “Swiss that is reading for amusement. Eager to instruct the mind, you rend Ban¬ croft’s “History of the United States”— that is reading three for improvement. combined. The purposes arc frequently One may find in rending Macaulay’s “Essay on Bacon,” rest, amusement, and improvement. Of these purposes that of improve¬ ment of mind and heart is most impor¬ tant. Ill all reading whose immediate aim is either recreation or pleasure, the remote aim,should be the formation of a noble character. No one should read a book without right rest lying to he aided by it in every ond< aver. The purpose for which one reads de¬ termines the choice ot the book. If you arc indoubt what to read, form a clear idea of the reason of your reading, and the selection of a proper book is made easy .—Morgantown /‘res*. A Novelist’s “Pointer.” Mr. James Payn, the novelist, tells us that when he was a very young map and had very little experience, lie was . ead ing on acoach-box an account of som e gi gan lie trees. One of them was doscr died sound outside ; but within for many feet, amass of rottenness and decay, “H a boy should climb up, bird-nesting, into the fork of it, thought I, he might go down feet first, and never be heard of again.” “Then,” he adds, “ it struck me what an appropriate end it would be for a character of a novel. Before i had left the coach-box, f had thought out ‘LostBir Massingberd. bncli a pro cess lastea for a shorter time with Mr. P«yn than with the majority of nov- ! >»ts ; witn many the little wed might have ^nmnated for w lietore it , oronght iortli for to tniit. eh ret .ui. amlcolnuBncy J. .e j is r<*- ! markab f an,ess ot las plots ; they alnav-i hang togetlmi, and have a subs tan n . packixme. ; < b sieinU ' " • | On the subject of domestic manage roent I may quote a recipe for avoiding j family quarrels, wbmli I think may fairly I claim credit for good sense, ft was | |given me bv an old man as invent, d and f’ P^ced Z’t°Z by ! a £'■ coujfie whom he used to . ! \ i,rtl b0e i wr ; m J - 8illJ **,. 1 b ‘ Y C <* n - 4 J<e * > -•< n ';’ ( Vl 8 “ <1 ‘ 1 W home he a little «»ntra.ry and out d>f temper voie In, hat on the b.atk ^ ht» head,, and then she never said a “ a,1 ““ , “ 1 ) If similarly wise danger signals could pretty largely collisions used, how many avoided, un necessary would be an d how many a long train of evil con sequences would be safely agiin. shunted till the line was clear - Leisure GOSSIP FOIT^THE LADIE ft - tlnei Uonimasct rt wa " Co, “ in Jsck " id 80 m ' ’ '~ t W( , ,, n tlle tor tiio av*' 11 ^ waB warra ! The went of the im* rteia» crept up from the *‘"qnite ir tha a»rk, save the flre-mes’ <n wae just c..« 8 m J«i, and eo-what , vn the 1 “ rl “ .i whirring broke the A , li \ 1 K*im f m t ho hedce up, ; fodlsh elerm. He >»>■', as I Bhirteil in 4ud l,^’n“? UB °’ ! " ' JL ’ w»n tim -skauvr rutm-m, m The Century. WoitiHti’w U it. A woman’s advice is generally in trouble, worth having; so, if you are any tell your mother, or your wife, or vour | sister all about it. Be assured that light will flash upon your darkness. Women are too commonly judged verdant in ail but purely womanish affairs. No philo Kophicul students of the sex thus judge them. Their intuitions or insight are most subtle, and if they cannot see a cat | in the rueal there is no cat there. I ;ul- ! J ■ * ‘ ,,, nf i,s. aff a„ , j i{ jjanv a home has been save d and many a fortune retrieved by a man - H confidence in his wife. Woman is fnv more a seer and a prophet than a umn jf s h c be given a fair clmuce Asa general rule the wives confide the minut o{ thelv plau8 an q thoughts to their husbands " Why not reciprocate if but {or (lu , pleasure of meeting confidence w itli confidence ? The men who succeed best in life are those who make contl ( i in q s 0 f their wives, j [ _____ Follower* or iicautv I • Tt • * , . j , id. intelligent men Hko witl. | V' ^ “ 1. uiino 1 | . f j rVi,,! ..Ton an q ; J n ..nil Hons I ZTTwowT 7, t , T i . . 11.- ! ?! ’■“‘caning , ' , . ’ oi r “ tlus w " 1 8,10 , ,. tl at 1,1,1,08 " ore foncl . t receiving attentions, ami so , lo ng as they got them the^ were not so trom B ar “ 0Ui 'Jf,, ^ 031ll 118 . *' °* i ) „ ,e ;. ? ou 8 r°f i0 , ^ owevor oame , ’ excellent . I men ut sense are as husbands, , tlle y maae very nuunerent lieaux ; tney are 80 ( “ cni '™iy in earnest m wliatthev ®'\y. or( h ) > al ''‘ overpower you so with “ lt ' u ' sense, tlmtit lsa positive relict to | ,n .™ J ^ oro a “ U8ln 8 I!’,?' 11,18 ... 0 . *l , j, ‘ a,iat 8 ?? lou a 11 ltt,ie nmse Ue is . ,.,J , 80 apimmmtod, teach j me to talk “°“ sc “, 8 |'* t ,‘ at 1 ,ai ! ,° ” lyso ^i m,,ro “6 reeal)le M 1 Y 0 , ' 1 ua a 8aiu 8|10 - > > Y 011 ft p <lom K < Ia d very weH already seriously, added she, the great sensible men, next to m number, w that the 7 prefer to be the slavcs ot their own ^lmns ra her than of ours. A man of 8ell8 ° entll ^ on ® 8 000 amon g n « “ 11,0 <l aeell of iaa afioctious, and restrieta his attentions . to her alone, while every one ? the 'tbS loyal subject o^T^ ot at hast a a Z’T dozen, who > “»'™yfb »over permit him to ap P **’ roac IU1< ^ then 0 bear throne away but t lc,r to oomman bow before ^ 8, A Ufllimil'a Wliiiiim, The Empress Josephine had 600,000 francs for her personal expenses, but this sum was not sufficient, and her debts increased to an appalling degree. Notwithstanding could the position of her husband, she never submit to either order or etiquette in her private life. She rose at 9 o’clock. Her toilet consumed much time, and she lavished Unwearied efforts on the preservation and embellishment of her person. Bhe changed her linen three times a day, and never wore any stockings that were not new. Huge baskets were brought to her containing different dresses, shawls and hats. From these she selected her costume for the day. Bhe possessed always between 300 in and the 400 morning, shawls, and woro one which unequalcd she draped about Bhe her purchased shoulders with grace. all that were brought The to her, no matter at wliat price. evening toilet was as careful as that of tho morning; then she appeared with flowers, pearls or precious stones in her hair. The smallest assembly order was always an occasion . for of her the te anew costume, m spite liourds of dresses in the various palaces, Bonaparte was irritated by these passion, ex penditures ; lie would fly intoa and his wife wonld weep and promise to be more prudent, after which she would go on in the same way. It is almost in credible that this passion for dress should never have exhausted itself, After the divorce she arrayed herself with the same care, even when she saw no one. Bhe died covered with ribbons and pale rose-colored satin. Miall Women l*rii< li«'i* ’leclieiiie ? The most serious obstacles to be en¬ countered are not always the mo t real ones. In this, as in everything that women do, the question of capacity is often outranked by the qinst it ,n of taste*. 'Whether woman, with all h< r organic imjierfectionK on her head, can be theo retically supposed capable of the whether, study a nd practice of medicine ; which is quite a different question, there actually whose capacity exis* in any this number direction of lias women been fairly tested an I demonstrated-these ar iuter^tinc crnWy subidcts affirmatiie of iaquirv. But th-most answer to Knch inqniry might s >i!i leave unset tied a question of much more import anw conditions ‘.f*.* 1 'large and actions chm of people under whose the ar* permanent domination of their tastes. These ask not, “ Is she capable ?” but, “Is this fearfully capable person nice ?” wi]1 sllf> npsftt our ideal of woman hood, and maidenhood, and the social r e latio ns of her sex? Can a woman physician be lovable? can ghe marry v can 8 he have children? will she take care of them ? If she can wha t is she? “ </.■ ',*r■ yCuue . n „ a French journalist in this , . . . . . practice medicine. Hence tiie infer ence that piety, if nothing else, de manded the exclusion of women from the Massachusetts Medical Society. It is from tie* peculiarity of the conditions involved that the handful of women now ^ bo considered in any way to effect or en danger existing Thousands arrangements or social ideals. of women, from manifold canses quite extraneous to medicine, remain celibates all their 2S4T--5»ur “STJS mo ther. Thousands of women earn their living by non-domestic labor; one profession, that of public teachingj prac tical7y thrown open to women only during the last half century f is already thronged by them. Yet no one feels that the foundations of so¬ ciety are therefore liable to be over¬ thrown. Wliat is it in the profes¬ sion of medicine which excites at present such a different iceling and such bitter prejudice? In the first There are sev- the eral things. place, sub profession of medicine has been jected to popular misconceptions, and h ,e odmni due to these is necessarily shared by the women who aspire to be physicians. Again, by a usual social employ- fiction, ls assumed that the men } 8 ao ' v sought by women are to be filled by them only while waiting for marriage, or as a resource in widow¬ hood or desertion. Even such profes¬ sional work as teaching is expected and there to be laid aside after a few years, is much, at least in the primary grades of teaching, to make such interrup I tions rather desirable. But the pro i | fession of medicine must be chosen de i hberately, and not at haphazard, from a strong and genuine tftsto, { lu il not from \ ,be mert S pressure of economic necessity; lt ‘Mist bo seriously prepared for in - ' youth must bo entered at the at which ; upon age at present many women marry; does not yield its best returns until full [maturity has been reached; must lie ! time. adopted, Henco therefore, if at all, for a life I is required either an acci tlental celibacy or deliberate renuncia tion of marriage for tho sake of medi ; | cine, such as is not dreamed of in regard to any other work, or else such an ad ; justment of domestic claims as shall 1 ren der them Mid the practice of medi- 1 cine by married women mutually com¬ , patible .—North American Review. , . kiiglisli ., .... Itohln i at ,, Home, \ gentleman wan standing in one o! the shadowy nrcadc^f the Coliseum at where he wa^omewhat brnsqely j !Us tled by n passing figure. With a ,j,,iik instiuct lie clapped his hand to Jus watch jioeket. His watch was gone ! He darted after the thief, who turned 8 i lrtl j,iy round, at the same time clutch ing , 4 -G ive me that watch 1” A dash !—the stolen property was ro¬ covered The startled roblier disap ,, oal vd, and the gentleman went home t o boast of liis adventure and hisprow ess . what, was Ids consternation, on on tering bis bedroom, to find his own vvatc j 1 which he had forgotten to put on> him in the face from the mantelpiece! He had been the thief d the other wretched man hud stum b!oil ovel . bim in stopped the dark, and merely when “vm-tukeu and was c ] a t,.hing his own watch, which lie had not Uu , to re8CU0 train the tourist, That tourist is now known to a wide and admiring circle of friends as the “Ban dit of the Coliseum ."—London Truth. Ton Ti on, Too Troo. Man that is married to woman is o! many days and full of trouble. Iu the morning lie draws his salary, and in the evening behold it is all gouo. it is a tale that is told, it vanislieth, and no one knoweth whither it gooth. Ho risetli up clothed in tho chilly garments of night and seeketh the somnolent pare gorie wherewith his offspring. to heal Ho the iinitatetli colicky bowels of | the horse or ox, and draweth the chariot ; of his posterity. He spendeth his shekels i in the purchase of fine linen and purjile, ( to cover the bosom of his family, yet he himself is seen at the gatei of the city with one suspender. lie eometh forth as a flower, and is cut down. There is hope of a tree when it is cut down tlmt the tender roots thereof will sprout again, but man goeth to his homo, and what is he then ? Yea, he is altogether wretched. A Forest of Petrified Trees. From twenty to thirty-five miles from |, llV0 ,. t between Oln rrv Creek and Ren¬ llirig Creek, the Denver and New Or i,; ; u-, I J; til road forces struck an unusual obstruction, it being nothing less than a buried forest. The trees are all petri tied and agatized, are of all sizes, and lie buried at various depths, from ten to twenty-five feet, which is as deep as any excavations were made by the workmen, They came upon these relics of n by gone age in at least half a dozen locaii ties, and have met with not a little diffi¬ culty on their account. The trees are very perfect whole and could be taken out nearly if suitable machinery were employed. tiie grain The trees show the bark and very perfectly. Above flies;* buried representatives of a once mammoth forest grow the [tines of the present generation. — Greeley {Col.) t 'hro/ttcle. A Successful Bluff Game. A srn ak-thief grabbed the carcass of a lamb tlmt . hung . on a ...... hook m front of a market, and, on hndmgdie was pur -u-d, i an into an cle-y nearby, threw his b ‘ hl,il1 a P bo ol 1)UX< ®. and boldly k * HlS 1,ur8UWB met lum at 11 \ / , 11 n i o»» i i i W1,at iamb ' mnocentl Y ‘he ... . ..V V | lv the one von r-.r, A.,.'who r ,teth u minute turo ’ exnkined tho Icul taker ‘ ho’dof ‘ the strnmror 5. ,, t t . y In - . ■ t lji-i . ’ ’ --K “ver shoflderl ti,, n,w cor? hte He turned that just two minutes ago.” “ He’s our man,” exclaimed both, and off they started, tearing the real thief to di-appear hastily down the street. The men found the stolen meat, but did not catch the thief .-Detroit Free Preu. „ . . Since 1860 Memphis, S&S7S2&S in spite of the war an d three epidemics, lias grown from, 23,000 to 47,000, while Nashville has erupt up from 17, OOOpopulation to 75,000. and The growth of Chattanooga, Knoxrille, other towns, has been at proper,
