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8v Clem. G. iiloore.
VOL. XVI.
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.
The present is only a moment long.
The present can never ia>t; |
The past is sinking in shadow deep.
The future before us east. •
The same as it is ou a railroad train.
The track each side is loug;
While the present is only a cloud of dust
That rises, and then is gone.
Some stand on tlie platform of life's caboose
And always ure looking back, :
As if they had any possible use
For the fast receding track. j t
Thes*e are the fossilised, uiossback cranks
V^.rnrSL^nt^by.oueaa.vs
And the clory that used to be.
The pushing end hustling citir.cn rides
On the cowcatcher’s front instead;
Cares U ^Vwi nothing rS"n“aud about the receding past, |
Th e t woes
Cares He’s willing what to he ’most forget; might have been, j
not was or
But just what he may be yet.
T he past has memories sweet and sad, j
Where serious thoughts may grow: ■
But they're only the graves of the pleasures ;
had !
Or the tears wept long ago.
And the one true way to succeed in life
Each Toiler will surely find. |
Is to keep his eyes on the coining days
And seldom to look behind.
We wouldn't speak lightly of who are I
gone. !
Of the dead, who were good and true;
But ho;-**.** are gathering, now an.I here.
And there’s plenty <»t work t > do.
The present isouly ;t moment loug,
The future before r..- ea.-t;
So let u? labf>r f*»r %vhalV ahetid. :
Nor try to recall the past.
-J. B. Smiley.
FIBST LOVE.
How old could I have been at that
time?
lam unite sure 1 was oniv about
twelve or thirteen years old. Or 1
mi"ht have been fourteen Surely
I was old enouah ° to fall desneratelv
in love
If I cainot recollect when I can at
least remember how the tender pas
sion commenced As soon as my
aunt would leave the house to reiiair
to church for her evening devotions,
I was very fond of stealing into her
room and ransacking her bureau
drawers, which she always kept in
admirable order. These drawers
were like a museum to me, for I al
ways found some rare, quaint object
there and a subtile eastern perfume
satin pincushions, discolored by age:
lace mitts folded away in tissue pa
inateriah-, . rattaUe ot Woe velvet,
embroidered with beads, and a silver
and amber rosary.
All of these things and more
«».f <*•* »,■ *<■—
f aru oornwa I Httlltlkaii mil i J]h
curiously and afterward put them
back in their places.
But one day-how wdl remem
ber it I just as plainly as though it
were today-1 saw a gilt object
gleaming in the midst of some old
lace collars. I involuntarily thrust
in my hands for it (rumpling the
laces) and drew out a miniature
painted on ivoi-y, about three inches
long and inclosed in a gold case.
I was perfectly enraptured os I
gazed ttpon it. A ray of simlight
flickered through the window pane,
lighting up this charming likeness,
which seemed as though longing to
leave its dark prison house and come*
toward me. It was the picture of
a most beautiful creature, such as I
had never beheld before, excepting
in my youthful dreams. The fair
lady might be about twenty years
old. She was not a voting maiden,
not a tender bud just about to open,
but a woman in the full radiancy of
her beauty. Her face was oval, but
not very long, her lips were full and
parted 'in a smile, while her eyes
drooped languidly, and she had a
dimple in her chin, which seemed
imprinted there by Cupid’s playful
touch.
Her hair was dressed in a singular
and graceful style. It wasr gathered
in a knot, while a pyramid of puffs
surmounted her temples, and there
was a basket of braids on top of her
head. This old fashioned coiffure,
ending at the nape of her neck, re
vealed all of its rounded lines, and
also another dimple, still more shy
and soft than the one in her chin.
As for her dress, it was of some
light, gauzy material. A necklace
of pearls rested upon her snowy
bosom and upon the smooth surface
of her low cut bodice.
Her arms, which were worthy of
Juno, were fully bared, Their taper
extremities were fit models for a
sculptor. But I am not exact in say
ing "extremities." for only one of
her hands was visible. It held a
rare lace handkerchief.
As I think now of my feelings at
that time I am amazed at the strik
ing effect which the contemplation
of that miniature produced ujs.n me.
Indeed 1 was so earned away by
my feelings that I held my breath,
whUe I fairly devoured the picture
with my eyes.
I had seen portraits of beautiful
women in the illustrated papers, in
the shop windows, and also in the
mvthologieal pictures in my father's
dining room. A beautiful curve, a
harmonious and elegant outline,
would always captivate my gaze,
which was prematurely artistic; but
the portrait which l had found in
my aunt's drawer, aside from its
great beauty, seemed to be animated
bv a subtle vitality. One could see
that it was not an artist's ideal, hut
the likeness of a real person of flesh
and blood. The luxuriant tone of
coloring seemed to reveal, under the
pearly flesh tints, the rich, mantling
blood*, while the lip appearei eagei
to display the pearly teeth. To com-
§'he Crar.ifortorilU m democrat S3
plete the illusion there was a lock of
real, silky, chestnut hair braided
around tire frame—hair which had
once undoubtedly surmounted that
snowy brow.
As 1 have said tiefore. the portrait
seemed 11101 X 1 Eke fitisll and blood,
from which only a glass ease sepa
rated me, than a copy of the Ol'igi-
1
‘ ‘
I touched , , it with . , lliv . liailu; , 1 ,
wanned it with U:Y BlVatll. It even
appeared to me that the warmth of
that mysterious divinity com mum
cated itself to my lips and circulated
through 1T1Y viens.
I was engaged in this occupation
one Sunday when 1 heard foots, ps
in the hall. They were those of my
aunt, returning from her devotions.
I T heard , . her . asthmatic ', cough . and , her ,
gJ ow ° ty f ootsteps 1 , \ had hardy
*
time . to replace the . picture . its
111 case,
close it and station myself at the
window before my aunt entered. 1
assumed an easy and indifferent at¬
titude. As she came in she blew her
nose vigorously, for the church htid
been chilly and she had added a
slight cold to her chronic catarrh.
When she saw me her little red
rimmed eyes twinkled merrily. Kind
ly patting tee on the hetni ivith lee 1
withered hand, sh- inquired whether
I had Ikh-ii upsetting lit.- boxes as
usual while she had been gone. Emil
ing roguishly, she added;
"Wait, wait! I am going to give
you something to make you smack
your lips." from
So saying, she brought out
tho depths of her pockets two or
three flattened gumdrops, stuck to
gether in such a manner as to be
anything but inviting. My aunt's
appearance was not appetizing
enough to cause one to open his
mouth and devour such sweets.
Her great age; her ugly teeth; her
blear y eyes; her sunken mouth; the
parting of her hair, which was three
inches broad; the scanty gray locks
fluttering around her temples: her
as ttab, 'y and «« «“ cxutea
roosters crest-fa ugh!
of courso 1 cou W not manage to
swallow the gunn’rops.
A feeling of ini agnation, oi manly
^ “I don’t want them! I don t want f
HI
“You doo t wont (hem, I-nv
golar!' y<«> who are as loud ot good
things as a pussy .art.’
“I am cot a child! 1 etui. sv.eU
f SSifSRs; sri-au r“
My ftni.f wk. d .it i.u U .l.i u ex
*y- r^nam Slim to Llhfg £
of met nmtr. t uiocli i l caused 1 her,
fhe lost all restraint ami burst out
laughing, thereby revealing the cav
ernous depths of her mouth.
From that moment onward I could
not get the immature out ot my
tnoug ts.
whenever my aunt wont out I
would skip up into her room, open
the case, take out the picture and be
come absorbed in looking at it. ti
to fancy that the drooping t-J ‘
my.dol glancmg through their thick
shade of lashes, fixed themselves on
mine and that her bosom heaved
with quickened feeling. I was even
ashamed to kiss her, fearing that my
,.„d„, y .«■ so.
only pressed her to my heart or
placed my cheek close to hers. All
of my thoughts and acts bore some
relation to the fair dame hidden in
the golden case.
I often felt singular scruples in re¬
gard to her, and before I would en
ter my aunts room to look at the
coveted miniature I would dress my
self in my very best, as I observed
that young men did when they went
to see then sweethearts I often
met boys of my age who l ad sweeb
hearts and would eagerly display
their love letters, pictures and tokens
to me, asking me at the same why I
did not find some one like them with
whom I might correspond. An in
explicable feeling of delicacy tied my
tongue, but when they asked my
I opinion about tlieir lady loves I
would shrug my shoulders and char
; acteroe them as ugly frights.
One day I went to see sonic cousins
of mine who were very pretty little
girls. The eldest was not yet fifteen.
j We when were suddenly looking the at youngest a stereoscope, girl,
; about twelve years old, slyly seized
! hold of my hand. Turning as red as
' a_ peony,_she whispered in my ear,
Take this.
the time I felt , .
: At same
; soft and cool in my hand, and saw
j that it wasa rosebud with green
, leaves. The little maid went off rum
rung, but looking back at me out of
the movement, con:, r cpial of her to eye. the Vyth chaste acoj Jo-
1 n, < ' 1!i .5 Unl d ,i' ’
. at the same Mae throwing the rose
bud in her mce. In consequent of
this slight she would not look at me
again, and spent the whole afternoon
weeping. Even now, though she is
married and has three children, she
j has not forgiven me. look
As the time which I found to
at the miniature seemed far too
shirt, I resolved to keep it in my
! pocket. Thus all day long I went
around, hiding myself from people as
though I had committed a theft I
' fancied that the picture, shut up in
its case, could see all of my move
ments. If I felt like scratching my
self, or had to tie up my stocking
do anything not in keeping with
j exquisite delicacy of my ideal love
*
“DEVOTED TO THE PEOPLE GENEKA1.I.Y.
CRAWFORDVlLlXGEOIUtf A, FRIDAY, JULY L, 1SU2.
would take out the miniature first,
deposit it in a safe place and would
then feel free to do whatever I want¬
ed to.
In fact, after I had stolen it 1 was
beside myself with jov. I would
, lade . it under my pillow . at night and
would go to sleep rt»ady to defend it.
I would turn the picture to the wall,
and would myself f.ce outward.
awakening numberless times during
the night with a wild fear in mj
heart that somebody might snatch
il;y treasure from me. At last 1
I took it out from under my pillow
and slipped it m my breast, and ou
the following day the imprints of the
embossed frame could still be seen
on my flesh,
Tlie contact of that cherished miu
iature produced the most delightful
dreams. Tlie fair dame, not her ef
fig.v, but her own dear self, would
come toward me' to carry me off in a
chariot to her palace. \\ ith a sweet,
commanding air she would bid me
sit on a cushion at her feet, and
would puss her t;iir liquid c<uessingly
over my brow and my tumbled hair.
I would read to her in a large missal,
or would play on the harp, while she
would deign to .smile and thank me
for the pleasuiemy leading and sing
ing afforded her. In fact these ro
mantic ideas completely filled m y
brain, and 1 was ready to personate
either a ftage or a troubadour for the
sake of my beloved.
With the working of my disordered
fancy I grew thin. My father and
my aunt observed my emaciation
with great anAfe#.
; “At this critical and dangorotis
stage of development everything is
alarming stud my father, who
woitld read medical works, and then
anxiously study the dark circles un
d f r my eyes, my pallid lips
above Ml, my total lack of appeUte.
“Uo and play, my boy, be would
say to me while I would answer de
Jeetemy* l don t reel like it.
They beganito invent amusements
“ e an i! a'wfme t0 take folmvmffk 1116 t0 Vf
my ,n v studies stmlies .,nd ml gave mt to. my milk
th.'v they Ihx-nc’^d diene hed me me ii‘°^M in cold ' shower sln^rtT
mv «».' fa t athel theri^ 8 reoii room to to bid but turn iilid good
. Sia'tdmt.TowW
"to
“ “ y detem.i««i
mcue rau.ei wan comets S
L««,»i
mY ^ fanTiTys' 2 watcWn! T7f7v
^ ft STin j Sr h witl , Illv Tar- p t ,
to get
er to her, I took off the cold gin*
^UM coycictl t e ivorv nory . I w. ties
fX ** ('Ldne ^ so mu
trttW ,,3^ eseritim
WiiUc inv « mv “ved^lT hns to Ure
framrane'e Mtt
of the lock of hair I
f e ven still more than tiefore
it was a living person over
, vbora mv trembling hands pass.M,
Lis f giddy Overcome by my ted
sank
Dressing “L { the ca^ miniature fmyseWsaTmy to mv heart
^ m Xr and II all anxious
ly leaning over me. Amazement and
fright were depicted on tlieir faces,
, . ,
pulse beats very feebly and seen;
about to stop. ”
My aunt, with her hooked fingers,
was trying to get the picture away
from me, while 1 mechanically en
deavored to hide and keep it from
her. S?
, „ B ^ pLn ^ let of it " e x
'
. . t you see that you
a spoiling ’ * it-? I shall have to scold
L , in(] rll ,. how it
you as many times as you - want b
^ it lmt , lon - t s , )()ilit! u , t go
j ^ for vou .‘‘ are iniurintr it.”
8 j" V( t - si y my " mother.
.. T j ^jl poor child is sick ”
.. ’ th"*’s L ‘ cool ” replied the
^ , old ma .. u . t hhn have it .
who w )| , jrt nnotllt , r „ ne likt .
’ 8s , w)jfj will ev<jr mo
‘ L ‘miniatures I uw-d to be then? Nobrxly
a ts nowadays. That
is all ended ‘ ’2-r and I am ended tod, b<8' for
j alI1 “' n () ] ()U * what "J I used to j.,
T . t 4 r
w‘ ia atnazern ent Mv hands let
j‘„w ^ ^ miniature” I hardlv
I manam-d to stammer .■ “Youi'S?
^ ininuttiu-c ‘look
“Don't I 5? as h; idsome as thr'
my Ah. fifty yt«i-s
makea a vast difference in one’s looks
t Dovi;rli I don't remember exactly
bow long ago it was—for I have
kept track < f time- but any way, no
cau takt; thow . y&u ., away
from rn „
My head fell forward on my breast
and j faintell aKain . M y fatte r teok
me 111 his arms, put me in my
^ ^ afterWiira n ,, (i „ rn „ toke
8<;TW . al h - 1KXjn f ui , ; of port wine
I soon became convalescent, but
my passion for the jxrtrait had dis
apjieared. I never cared to enter my
aunt's room agair.—Translated from
the Spanish of Emilia Pardo for Ro
mance by Marx- Springer.
The Amcfhjst Aiiion^ the Roman*.
The amethyst, so called from the
Greek amethustos. meaning “not
drunk." was a favorife stone among
^e Roman ladies Its principal vir- of
tue was to draw away the vapors
inebriety from the tea in It also
drove away • and at
tracted to i'r • -scr the favors of
princes. ■ : Figaro.
THE PREACHER SLIFPtO HIS HOLD.
Hanged tf He SHdn’t Believe He llad
Drowned the P«i4‘ 01*1 Saul.
A Newton county local Methodist
preacher, who works for himself
during the week and labors for the
Uml on s nu , l:lyBi w .-, s called,upon to
baptize an old best'’to i;ulv bv * immersion.
He trie(1 his get Brother
Bridges and other preachers to do
(lie work, but failed, s<> he went forth
in search of a good place, and found
a washed out hole of calm water in a
spring branch, but was forced to
cross a shallow rati of tho river in
0lxler to „ et to (h( , bnuneh. Tho main
run of the river wa < too swift for
baptismal purposes. because the ,>U1
lady was too heavy and ( lumsy to
bold against the current.
The banks of h. 1 1 earns ivere
lined with people, ..mi as the mourn
ful melody of a 'Mark from the
tomb" song wont < f.r hill and dale
the preachet pfou’dl.' led the happy
sisler to the water's •■*?;*■*, and as her
feet cam a in rontaot ^lith the wann
river wuter she exclik^|ieil, ‘‘Oh, how
n p. (; this sweet filler feels.” "1
thought to myselC* said the preaeli
,, |% J) lady , when you strike that
j u e u , (Pe spring! '!• branch you’ll
cliauge your t uno whtl/the And report
ga j () g p e ( p ( p f or cold water
j began to close aroiuHl ai’OU! her her she she wont wont
^ j,j RceSi !ls we»r,*for her form
• trembled
and liev tcetb chattered,
1 while the preacher -showed that he
; W!l8 freezing abotit heEJit -JjJ body, no mat
p t . r p lj!A . W arm [Kji’ifhis around the
, heart. At this Of foot struck
| a log in the hole, tEdi h» “got on it
with both feet.” h er to have a
’ Average, and so as to |T io the old lady
| down bring hei safely, while
brother.stood by her side to aid
j noceB ^ay. ; 4
| mfadgter’began, Everything was ready and the
“tU'Jnitixe thtiel”and
: botll £eet flew out ifom under him,
j | ns sister the and p,,, was preacher roi ., t| (Isappearad and slick, and
un
| the W ater, tho W£d@came kg diving them;
| but in a moment up and
««> brother wuiglit Ue sister by the
hallcl !ia d led her g/i#y to d the bank,
whilotl )‘' preilcJ *®t <1 » K » tho Wll,( ' r
p 1 . ola bis eyes and huh with a red
down the .ranch Ur^ Mutt hr II:.
,. T", onw 1 „f tlie old W|Pin. As be b
| . I«»JM* fc
Wh ° thou adminwte^m « ht 1:1,1 1; " 1
been wdnig to the
custom of the h, ^Ue raised
-.te tei
I didn ptn’Th.d t bt Ucve ve for f.S ti| time iwrepwug heh tr that L,
thedear 1 hud drowned old soul."-Umngton iny'jad of baptized Enter
pme '__ 4
•• __
way ^ n«ne.i n. n«<t.
In all crustaceans, as. indeed, in
almost everything in nature, there
is a certain per cent, of iron. Upon
boiling, tlie lolister is oxidized ; the
effect is largely due also to tho per
centage of muriatic acid which exists
naturally in tho shell. The chemi
cal change which takes place hero h
almost similar to that whk* occurs
in tho burning of a brick. In boil
1 ing a lobster its coat ceases to bo a
living substance, ahd to a certain ex¬
tent it takes a new character.
It is as a brick would be after burn¬
ing. This effect cau also lie products!
by the sun, but necessarily not so
rapidly, as the heat of' that luminary,
although more intense, is not eon
contented tufiicieutly to produce the
result. The sun also exercises a
bleaching influence which consumes
the oxide almost as fast as it is
i ! formed, leaving the shell white, or
nearly pure lime.-Gloucester Times
I 1
A Vitlliable CaratHH.
A poor peasant in a village of tho
l Odenwalil fell into such reduced cir
! «Mnstan«es that Hf he resolved to sell
j his only cow. took the wretched
i 031,1 Least Vo the butcher of
j the village, who said he could not
j give him more than sixty marks inl¬
! it. So the peasant determined to
I slan K ht er the beast himself, and try
I u > Bcl1 the mentamong his neighbors,
In tlie stomach of the cow he found
'seven gold coins of twenty marks
; each, too silver thalers and two small
i kf 'F 8 ' The tllUK brought him
double the sum which the butcher
| ba d offered swallowed fw h<>r. a The purse cow at some must
i 1>1»» or other, but where or when
‘ h er owner could not guess.—London
i tit Bits.
j Bro«l i|*lou0 Hi-nwerti.
“There is much that is wonderful
to be told about seaweeds," said a
nat uralLst.. "Some of them are giants
in risse . o U(: common in the
North sea, frequently grows to the
\ length of thirty or forty feet, devel
oping Liut in the shape of a long cord
a the size of a quill, attached at
i one end to the bottom and the r<*st
supported by the water. Thin in
nothing, however, to the prodigious
‘rnacrocystis,’which attain l,5fX) fe».-t
m length. Another variety found in
the tropics reaches a length of twenty
five or thirty fe-et. with a trunk ai
thick as a mans thigh.”—-Washing
ton Star.
Thumb Kiiif?* In Queen Anne'H Tim#-.
In the days of Queen Anne the
feminine thumb ring was the badge
of widowhood, and women tired of
single blessedness were wont to don
it, and as “jolly widows" achieve
conquests denied to them as spin
sters.—Irish Times.
Iwnpiiit; flu* SllIU
One popular myth of the South
Sea islander* expresses the very poet¬
ical belief that the Island of Tonga
rova was tislual out of the bottom of
the sea by u god. who used for the
purpose the tail of the constellation
Scorpio, baiting this remarkable
book with a star. Another divinity
aecomplished a work of great benefi¬
cence by regulating the sun. The
orb of day used to have a trick of
setting almost as soon as it bad
risen, so that it was impossible to get
through any work. Even an oven
of food could not be prepared and
cooked before darkness eaiuo on, So
the deity Maui carefully plaited six
great ropes of strong eocoanut fiber,
making nooses in them, and with
these ho sought the hole at the edge
of the sky through which the sun
climbs up from the nether world
each morning.
At this point of exit from the land
of ghosts into the heavens the six
nooses wore placed. They entrapped
the sun, and that luminary was glad
to agree to bo in future more Jobber
ate in his movements, so as to enable
the inhabitants of tho earth to get
through their employments. Ex
change.
; Greek ami i.atin.
' 1 afraid that tradition is likely
alii
to be too strong for us, and that the
old story will go on for a lung time
to come; that Latin and (I reek will
still be the stapto of cskieaticm, and
that t,lio making of ljutin and tlvwk
verses will be the intellectual ex'er
cise of the boys of the future as it
has been of the boys of the past. 1
do not fora moment deny that there
are lmistevpieees of bemii.iul inn
hi old litei'iiture. To deny it would
be absurd. 1 should be very sorry,
for my part, to give up the kmnvi
edge I have of these languag.-H, and
I remember what an era it was in
the expansion of my own thought
when first I was set to work on tin
Republic of Phi to.
But when we sp<>ak of tlm-k and
Latin literature. I HUppot. ,t is lik
English and French literature in this
ri ' s l ,( '!'t. that it contains ......., had
and indifferent. It is a great tuts
wrote m (.r.-k wrote I........... or
that every work composed in Latin
•toilUcA'p-VM.™.-.. •{*' h,, A,, mM*..
Thon ‘ 8HM -.
.
...... sma.wc
It is in be feared that even in tho
sometimes ignorantyf
many simple and iischff tl,i,,;.-s: mn
"'hat shall be said of the stale of edu
ration m «’1mm?
it i» exiwedmgly common to find
men who have sp'Dit more years in
Ht udy 11.ni. thev can remember, wl.o
yet cannot read tho simplest collo
quial Iks*, nor repeat apageof wl.at
they have sfuduxl.
A few months ago the writer met
in a dispcimury a man who seemed
to be examining bis tally curd with a
minute attention which indicated
that ho recognized tho characii nr
Tho latter wore few umj simple,
merely indicating bis surimiiio arid
number, "Wang, Number HUS."
Ou being asked if lie know tbe
characters by siglit, lie replied that
lie recognized "about half of them.”
“And have you studied at school?”
“Oh, yes.”
“How long have you studied?”
"Twelve years.” ‘Tlnnese Char
acteristics. ”
Ill'll «*r Thttii I’’ I .v t i’ll |>N.
Pet chameleons in Capetlolony are
Utilized as domestic fly catchers. A
lady of my acquaintance one day
took the trouble to count thonuiahci
of tikis her tame chameleon caught
wbilo it was resting on her band.
When she saw a fly on the wall or
table slio field “ohainrny’' near it,
when out flew the tongue and the fly
disappeared.
HIio had the patience to count loo
and thought that was enough fir
for one day and n toi 8 f\y
catcher to its cage. Schoolboys
make bets with each other to si-e
whose chameleon will most quickly
catch, say, twenty or fifty flies, as
may l»c. Ho chameleons in hot wiun
tries wh'i'c irmm’lH atiounrl am not
without their use. Oil*. Forest an l
Stream.
The llookah In India
Tlie hookah is smoked as a refresh
ment and sign of fellowship by the
natives of India, and not merely as
a luxury. When a group of natives
are seated together and, as is the cn ,
torn, the hookah is passed around I/
each in turn, it is considered very bad
manners for any one to decline to
have a few puffs II the hookah i,
thus refused in a friend’s house, or
while one is the guest of another, it
is regarded as an insult. If for any
reason a native is put out of caste
the fact is strictly marked by his for
iner caste fellows’refusal to smoke
with him, and any one who eats,
drinks or smokes with an outcaste is
himself outcasted. Charnlsus’ Jour
aal.
U'hfit •funtire will Com**.
A correspondent tells a tme story
of an Irishman who was complaining
the other day that he and other cam¬
paigners bail lost a case in the courts.
He ignored the fact that the evidence
went against him and his friends.
“When William get- in"—of course
there is only one William—“he will
do away with the pilice and the law
courts—’tis then we ll have justice!”
- London Spectator
FRIENDS - AND FRIENDSHIP.
Unco on u time -perhni.M two* when
Htirounal Hu.-ohul rm< <i two men
Greeted i .u li other al the gain
Of Bagdad, fa tiled throughout tho stall*.
**()h, friend,” iho first cxclulu: ••!, "now, say
Why gleam\otiV cy« sso hr iii today.
While mine arc tilled with icur-*. that run
To lose themselves my beard among?’'
“Know then, I have a friend most dear
In Kandahar this many a year,
Who now l.:;> .-oiHo my 1 : - hv.
My thoughts, my house, mv k, my
fare!”
“All;” cried the tirst, "uiy ii lend lias gone.
Whose fare I’ve daily looked up*m.
Forever from my sight he’s i i set l
Across Arabia’s desert v c t “
Just then they hoard the mm* 'in's call,
“Come, come to prayer!” from turret tali.
And each, with closed ears and bowed head. 1
“Allah il Allah! Kismet!” said.
Then parted; otic with fly ing feet.
Ilia thoughts oil intercourse most sweet;
The other, slow, with stilled groan.
To muse upon Ids friend, alone.
When some ten years had pa < <t away
The two men met again, one day; j
Tho solitary man seemed glad;
Tho other, downcast, find and sad.
“Oh, friend," the Hist one cried, ”1 tear
You’ve lost the one you hold > * dear!
What else couhl chance your Joy tonmi
In him, who came Irom Kandahar?’
“A Iasi" the other cried, “we st ill
Abide together und fill till
The treadmill round of dally life;
There is no bickering nor strife.
All’s courteous, civil, decent yet
I fotd, deep down, a keen regret;
He shares my house, my work, my fare
But in my I bought** ho doesn't share!
You're glad today-your friend's letm
From o'er the desert'?” “Nay. I yearn
To > him; hilt 1 might not see;
Yet well l knew his love for mu
And would not shame that love.
To live as though he stood beside
To warn, to comfort, and to id ess;
tSo grows our friendship more, not h
The other answered with a sigh.
Just then, from out a turret high,
The muez'/in’s voice rose clear and loud,
“Conic, cornu to prayer!” Kach head
bow ed;
And as the sun dot, round ami rod,
“Allah il Allah! Kismet!” said.
Oh, heed I he moral well, I prayl
A friend may go and I’rlentlhliip May
()r (Muue and frlendslilp fly away, j
“Allah il Allah! KlMtiei!'* • ay. •
—Arthur ChaHihei’lulu in HoNton « '.hli d.i
wealth. i
1’hotogi'Upltiiig a Ifollot |
Au apparatus for pin >t< • ..> j
bullets m flight consist- of
lined Smtograpliic with black doth, in v.-’-i, ; ■'
.-LdL,,,' ph.te is exp a ,f < til |
H ,,ser r ', .t \>h;U
)>f ul „ m( „ . , „ . M
8ni . lllor ,ser. in tb- on ,1
, . ... .... . ...
kn „,« to give th.-Hpe k-.vld.-l '! iron
tho „,'uVtl,n- shadow of the bull. t. >■<< IL ,
U.k, I**,*.. rhi
......
two holes covered will. {a, p;.|, r t. , <
eh..... the light, and in the
plate the bullet touches the terminal;
. *»» «*«■ r' 1 ,J V"
wire, thus , artinlh .-on.pi- ■ •»
cuvue. *
A 'small
amuller eot.d. • g knot - I
Hash to pass botwocn the
tl.o plate coudcnHe. inside tb
and this flash, lasti.r let flmn n
millionth of a socoml.takes tb pno
t.igmpl. of flnibullet.no leu bei.n I
employed. New York Wo. I:| |
1
II,. ,,ml III-, Wil.
Wife I need ft lift h* mm cm )U(
H usband it in only 1 \ J I
since
Wife Now, sen hero I I \ yen
to understand tlad; I wouldn’t - k '• i
money il I didn't, need it, n id I d.. I
intend to be i 'minded I hut. O’- "id,'
two days sinco you gave mu sonn- i
am not a cnild, not a niei ml. in r i
slave, to ho treafed like an In-oopon
siblo being, and 1 just want you to
know that I won’t stand it either so
there now! I’ve got just as much
right to your money as you have, so j
there now, you - J
Husband My dear, 1 was merely
going to remark that it i>. idy ! ’
days since 1 dn- •/ toy Halnr.y, and OB
could have all you wanted N> ■
York Weekly
< ,tvlyli5*
Cnriylo to mnko fho imm 1
proi.nl English fwlmim'il of thi*irg
tility, n; j |»r*BLU>ility ami riiBBL-'h !
Ho taught that work was nohlo, i«ll<* |
iiohh ntiuna’iUl; that ladii’sami yti I
tU'.nuMi wtio livo to pIcjiK** f hcinni*!v<*: i i
livo tho liffi'of a HojikI/- of tin; |>ooHi |
their Boarth that fluty. ‘
()ii nij/; n*4
pleasure, was “our being ' end and i
aim;” that realitios were better than J
shams. But to make lb“ ' pi“i'
middle cla -<■- swallow all 3*
wan oBli^isl to flihgtiinfs tho mi d\ci
nal truth, riot exnctly in imetar But
i/i a Bootf’h THirtidf'G rnntwf(if*tvf'< <l
for tho purpo j:. n not ;h! mini' o
}ijh own.— Lilo and Lutlurs of Sam
Uol Painter
Tli« f'o»i v
a school board inspector I
huiuII pupil of what the r >f I
the i-arth consists, and was pn m|
answered, Land and water,
varied the question slightly (L •! f
fact might be impressed ou the ■ >-.y
mind, and asked
"What, tic u. do land and .van l
make?’ ■
To which came the imm tat :o 1 •>
Spouse, •Mud. London T: ji
Wl»y B|tlliMl<Hj>ltlft f.r*
W’li'-n anybody wants a 1
in Philadelphia he gc-s ed 07
where and gets a vacant
builds bis new house on tIre .-1
one ever thinks of tearing T> u
old house to put up a new ••
things are too sacred.
York Sun.
Fifty S»r;#*
Bea serp r its are all easi!
ni»*l by t ^ u- oar sh.q ■ I.
flattened tail. Twenty
spe-ies ar known m Inomn
there aroubout fifty sp': All
Quarterly Review.
Terms: $1.25.
NO. 27
GEORGIA RAILROAD
Stone vd Mountain Ro ut e.
(;koI!i;i \ railroad company. >
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