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THE ttAZETTE: TIFTON, GA.. FRIDA £, OCTOBER 11, 1895.
HASTE NOT, REST NOT.
Without haste! Without rest! ^
Bind the motto to thy heart,
Bear it with thee os a spell,
Storm or sunshine, guard it well!
Heed not flowers that round thoo bloom,
Bear it onward to tbo tomb I
Haste notl Let no thoughtless deed
Mar for aye the spirit's speed!
Ponder well, and know the right.
Onward, then, with all thy might! ,
Haste not! Years can ne'er utone
Por ono reckless action done.
Rest not! Lifo is sweeping by!
Go and dnro before you die.
Something mighty and subliino
Loavo behind to conquer time!
Glorious 'tis to live for aye
When these forms have passed nwny.
Baste not! Rest notl Calmly wait;
Meekly bear tho storm of fate:
Duty be thy polar guide—
Do the right whato’er betide!
Haste not! Rest not! Conllicts past,
God shall crown thy work nt last.
—Anonymous Translation From Goethe.
tears from her heavenly eyes are running
down and making pearly drops on your
budding mustache, is something better
than all of them pat together.
“And when, like Melvina, she puts
her brown, bare arms around yenr neck
and kisses back —one of those long,
clinging kisses that Ella Wheeler Wilcox
writes about—words are superfluous.
But I have often wondered, since I have
j become callousod and cynical, where
I Melviua learned to kiss. She was a rev-
1 elation to me.
• “Finally the glorious Fourth came
aroutld, and I got ready for the circus. I
might explain hero that I had brought
a suit of store clothes and a pair of shoes
from tho east with me, but I had never
worn the clothes on the farm and sel
dom wore the shoes. Everybody down iu
that section went barefooted, boys and
men, and I did ns the Romans did. This
Fourth of July morning I put on a‘tiled
shirt,’ my ‘store clothes,’ my shoes and
she asked me to hold it for her while
she fixed up her hair os tied her shoe or
something.
“Ono time, while I was holding the
muff, I lost her for a few minutes in
tho crowd, and I endured more agony
until I found her again than I did when
I got shot through the leg in the war.
We walked home in the moonlight all
right, but wo didn’t ‘hold hands,’ partly
because Melvina had her hands in the
muff and partly because I was so dod
blamed mad at her that I could have
slapped her. They made it so hot for
mo when I got home to my uncle’s with
their remarks about Melvina’s muff that
I started homo the next day. I don’t
know whatever became of Molviua
Drake, but I do know that I suffered
ono day, for her sake, tho keenest mar
tyrdom. ”—St. Louis Republic.
TURF TOPICS.
An U nparalleledOf f er!
• • • •
A T|A Y A]? Hf A "RTVTJnfinr soc ks, and I brushed and cleaned myself
- v L V/i illnili 111RU.U until I was positively uncomfortable.
Tho colonel and the young reporter
, were sipping their respective portions of
a cold bottlo of beer and listening to the
f whir of an electric fan tho other night
when tho colonel grew reminiscent.
“Away before tho war,’* remarked
the colonel musingly, "when I was just
.o sprouting my first whisker—a spiudlo
^shanked, truant playing product of the
effete east—my father sent me out into
southwest Missouri to get braced up. I
don’t know what was tho matter with
me, but I was all run down, and my
(father was convinced that a season on
. the Missouri farm of my undo would
prove beneficial alike to my mind and
body. I might say before going farther ! along to tho trysting place.
After breakfast, followed by the
good nntnrcd but cutting ’joshing’ of
my relatives, I started down the road
to meet Melvina. I had arranged with
her to walk to town, figuring on the
walk back in tho moonlight, when we
could ‘hold hands’ as we strolled along 1
tho road and slobber over each other.
My nncle wanted us to go iu tho wagon
with him and his family, bnt I was too
wise.
“It was two miles to tho Drako cabin j
and four miles to town. I was to meet i
Melvina at the turn in tho road just be
low her fathor’s house. The sun was
nbout two hours high and cast long
shadows on tho ground as I trudged
that it did.
“I bade my mother a sorrowfulTgood-
by, away back in New York city, and in
due courso of timo I lauded on tho farm
of my uncle. It was a revelation. Tho
verdure clad hills, the breezes smelling
spicy and sweet, tho cold water from
the well, wholesome food in largo quan
tities, horses to ride and a lovely pool
to go swimming in mado a now boy of
me in a woek. Barring tbo fact that I
was compelled to retire with the rest of
the family at 0 o’clock at night and get
up at an hour in tho morning when the
dew on tbo grass folt to my baro feet
like ice water, that farm was heaven. It
was two heavens when I got acquainted
with Melvina Drake.
“Melvina Drako was about tho four
teenth child of a farmer living about
two miles nearer town than my uncle.
Her father, Solomon Drako, was tho
poorest man in tho county. Ho was
poorer than watered'buttermilk, but tho
nicest, mildest mannered old man you
ever saw. His wife was a skinny, sal
low, God forsaken looking, overworked
woman, with no pleasure in store for
her but death. Both were hardworking
and honest, but' they had' somo kind of
a hoodoo on them. They wore old resi-
dentors in that part of tho country, and
"I remember I took out my barlow
and cut a stout stick from n licdgo along
tho roadside in anticipation of a possi
ble brush with tho lion. Tho air was
heavy with the sweet smell of orchards,
ripening grain and new mown hay, and
I was tho happiest youth in Missouri. I
made up my mind I was going to spend
every cent I possessed on Melvina.
“Directly I came to where she was.
Sho had on a dress that couldn't have i
cost moro than a quarter, but she looked !
like a queen in it, although, I must con
fess, it fit her like it was cut out with a
pair of skates. A wido brimmed hat sat
jaqntily on her brown curls and hor faco
looked like a ripo peach to n hungry
man. I noticed she had no shoes on, hut
that cut no ico with me, for she lmd as
petty a foot and nuklo as anybody would
want to look at.
“I had calculated on making a hit
with Melviua with my store clothes,
and I did. I paralyzed her. She just
stood and looked at me while wave aft
er wavo of hot blushes chased lip her
whito neck nnd congregated in her face.
I stood simpering likoa prize idiot. Sho
began to cry and wouldn’t toll mo what
was tho matter with hor, and I, wiso iu
tin; iguoraneo of youth, didn't know
that, like all women, she was proud and
Azoto can beat ’em all from A to Z.
William Penn wiH change hands this
fall
Guy, Mascot nnd Flyiug Jib nro on a
‘ ‘ back seat. ’ ’
Beuzotta may not be seen auy more
on tho turf this season.
A new source of revenue to track
managers—fino tho drivors.
Klamath is gaited forward not uu-
liko the blnck gelding Guy, 2:0!);g.
California lias produced moro than
one noted “plow horse,” bnt only ono
Azote.
C. W. Williams calculates ho must
have lost about $40,000 on his big
Galesbnrg meeting.
French mutuals iu Franco puy a tax
to the stnte, and consequently a record
of the bettings is kept. Last year Paris
bet $37,800,000 in this form nlone on
horse races.
M. F. Dwyer looks none tho worso
for his English campaign and is at the
races daily. Mr. Dwyor says that iu his
opinion the English horses average bet
ter than ours.
In Philadelphia recently Joel P.
Bailey (Jrovo his black and gray road
team, carrying with him Colonel A.
Loudon Snowdon, who woigbs 225
pounds, a Kiilo over the Belmont track,
without a skip or jump, iu 2
Miss Lucy B. Griffin, an elocutionist, j
created quite a stir in Alhia, la., recent- I
Iy by appearing in full knickerbockers.
Sho ordered a saddle horso and rodo I
nstrido to tho houses of sevoral womon
friends. Somo of them Hod from her in
dismay, and none would go to tho pave- '
rnent to greet her.—Horseman.
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their ancestors had been thero beforo I ashamed to ho soon with mo because of
them, hut as far back as tho memory of
man could oxtend tho Drakes had al
ways boon poor—as my undo said,
‘pore as shucks. ’ About all tho Drakes
seemod fittod for was increasing tho
population and getting hold of horses
tbnt conldu’t draw anything but flies.
• “As I was saying, Melvina was about
the fourteenth of tho Drako brood, and
she was a dreum. I guess sho was about
16 yoars, big ijnd sweet and healthy.
Her cheeks were as rosy and clear as a
Missouri apple, and her oyos were big
and blue. And sho was so doggouo in
nocent that I liopo I may dio if it didn’t
use to embarrass mo liko thnuder.
“Consequences was, Igot ‘mashed’ on
Melvina, hard ’mashed.’ I don’t be
lieve a stronger caso of calf love ever
dovoloped in this whole stato of Mis
souri. If I saw ono of my cousins or any
other boy talking to her, I would go to
somo secluded spot and cry and butt my
soft upddlQ against a tree. At night I
used to lio awako and dream myself a
hero. I used lo imagine Melvina tear
ing down tho road on a fiery steed, with
certain death staring hor in tho fuee,
and mo coming up unexpectedly, stop
ping the liorso and rescuing hor, sustain
ing in tho operation a broken leg and
sundry other bruises. Then I’d imagine
Melvina nursing mo back to life, and
‘finally marrying tun. My head was full
of such stuff.
"Ono day, along in June, there came
out our way a wagon loaded with circus
bills, pastopots and bill stickers, and
they slathered tho countryside with
signs announcing that the great Egypto-
j tho splendor of my raiment. I jollied
! her along, told hor how nice and sweot
! sho looked, sworo she would ho tho hollo
! of tho circus and was generally so lavish
! in my prniso of her that sho consented
finally to go with mo if I’d let Iter go
! home nnd fix up a bit. Still I didu't
| know what was tho matter, bnt I let
; her go.
"I lay down in tho shadoof a tree
j on the grass to wait for her. Tho sun
j climbed higher, und wagons loaded
! with conutry peoplo rattled by on the
| way to tho circus. I had just figured
out that we would misR the parade and
1 grand freo exhibition outside tho big
i lent if Melviua didn’t hurry, whou hIio
hove in view. I looked at her a second
' and then'jumped in tho air so suddenly
I jarrod myself. If my raiment had pnr-
1 alyzed Melvina, sho got even nil right.
‘ ‘ She had placed a cheap ri bbon aronud
hor neck and spoiled tho beauty of it
and had covorod her pretty feet with a
pair of shapeless, hard, heavy, cowhide
shoes, Between tho tops of her shoes and
the bottom of her dross appeared oecu-
■ sional glimpses of a pair of stockings of
! the variety known as barber pole. They
were striped red and yellow, and the
stripes were wide. But she had sonio-
I tiling else on that knocked mo speech
less.
“Years and years had this crowning
feature of Melvina’s attire boon in tho
i Drako family. It was an heirloom, I
i guess, and tho only piece of finery the
; family possessed. Melvina, blushing
and simpering, hardly knowing whether
I would sufficiently admire it or not,
was wearing it regulation fashion. It
was an old fashioned mull’, of some
and as big as g bass
^fricano Circus and Menagcri.es was to
show in town cn tho Fourth of July.
When 1 left home, my father gave mo ; heavy black far
$10, and I had most of it left, I made drum,
np my mind that I would take Melvina , ‘‘Perspiration broke oat of every port
to tho circus, and directly my dreams at in my body. Tho idea of mo, togged out
night took tho form of w monster lion j in‘storeclothes’and looking likoa dude,
rushing at her with open mouth and me going to a circus on tho Fonrth of July
engaging tho lion just ns ho was about
to grab her, and choking him to death
with one hand.
“thd next time I.saw Melvina—I
used to poo her every day; in fact, I
catoe pretty near being with her all tho
time—I asked her if she’d go to the cir
cus. I (bought she’d faint Her eyes
opened wide, and so did her mouth, and
astonishment was engraved on every
A fit of anger is ns fatal to dignity as
udosoof arsenic to life.—J. G. Holland.
Labor rids us of three great evils—
; irksompnoss, vice and poverty.—Vol-
\ taire.
Live as long as you may, tho first 20
' yoars nro tho longest half of your life.
—Southey.
When tho fight begins within him-
Belf, a man’s worth something. Tho
soul wakes and grows.—Browning.
The Useful Clock.
I “How timo goes!” ho said as the
clock struck 11,
“It’s tho only thing that does go,"
sbq answered wearily, and Jio took the
i hint.—Detroit Free Press.
CUTTING AND CUBING KODMtn ClTit.-i.
Question 15.— Ploaso toll mo how to
cut and euro fodder corn.
Answer 15.—From tho Farmer and
Fruit Grower wo take the following
excedlcut method;
■ 'Cut whou it bogiiiB to silk and tassel.
Do thin oarly in the morning, if tavor-
ablo, and let it wilt in tbo sun till
' noon. If it threatens to rain, shook up
| and bind tightly around tho top with
corn stalks. If favorablo weather,
turn the fodder and lot it lio till lato in >
the afternoon and (then shock, and bo'
sure to bind tho top, or, hotter, if you j
1 have good shoRor, whore yon can stand j
it up and lot it euro, do bo. As littlo as 1
tho refusostuff at tho sawmills will I
cost, it will pay anybody to, and any- j
body can, malco ono. With a proporly
prepared rack, an immense amount can j of Southwest Georgia, ii 'KlH't’gN
bo hauled at ono load. In cutting, do ( , .
not cut moro than you can easily tako Grit and Greenbacks, can accomplish il
care of each day.”
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tion of Georgia, and to this, all other questions must
vg
with a girl carrying a muff that must
have warmed an icehouse was madden
ing. But Melviua looked so thoroughly
self satisfied that I hadn’t the heart to
tell her that the sweet simplicity of
dress sho wore when she first met mo
was moro becoming by far than the big
cowhide boots and tho muff. Ho I made
the best of it aud let it go.
“I am on old man now, but the mem-
line of her countenance. She was so i ory of tho attention I created in that lit-
• overcome with joy that she just sat tie country tijwn that day is as vivid in
down and cried. I sat down, too, ami my mind as is tho fact that I just paid
that was she first timo I ever kissed her. for the last drink. Tho circus wasn’t in
“Young man, that kiss is a sacred
memory with me. I have experienced a
good many sensations iu my time, but
the siseation of kissing a handsome,
' buxom southwest Missouri girl right
aduare on the soft, sweet lips, while the
iiiB
just unit teatedY
it. A number of times I was tempted
to run away, miles and miles, bnt Mel
vina was having such a good time that
I looked pleasant and stood it. Sho never
took her hands out of that muff all day,
oblv to eat and drink, aud several times
cret of the wealth and happiness of our people.
Second to Nothing,
it proposes to give the news, and ali. the news, ot
this section of the State.
Address.all orders to:
Crown-nnd Bridge Work’and Oral Surg
ery Specialties.
Teeth Extracted Without Pain
llv me of “Tamliim," whirl) ponltlwly i!c»troy«
nfi sense of pain, awl does not pm you to sleep.
Six-ctal redaction when aovcrel teeth arc ex
tracted, or plate made to replace them.
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