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Life's journey lies;
Wot shade, i
Nor sunset’s Bng*rin* light forewill
To-morrow's skies.
In ways of joy and paths oC pain.
Where shadows fall end lift again.
Life’s Journey lies;
Hot scenes we love to linear o'er.
Hot hope, nor sorrow may restore
Theyester skies.
Beyond earth's darkly shadow’d strand,
Across the tide of Edenland,
Life's Journey lies;
Where nevermore to fret or try,
The cloods will all have drifted by-
Bey ood the skies.
—George Waldo Browne, in Current.
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A USB OF MEMORY.
Why should It
Of dreary, dragging clouds of gray.
When I have seen them floating light.
Snow mountains blazing sol^and bright,
Of flimsy feathers faint and white,
On many a by-gone day!
Why should I think of sighing winds,
Of sighing winds that shake the rain,
When Fve felt breezes fresh and clear
That sing forever past my ear.
And breaths of summer drifting near.
O'er clover Helds and grain?
Why should I think of days like this,
Of days like this, all dark and wet,
When Fve known days so grandly bright,
So full of freedom and delight,
That, though all after-life were night,
I never can forget?
—Woman's Journal
In the Southern States during 1880,
Kentucky led in new manufacturing and
mining enterprises with $28,401,000;
Tennessee came next, with $21,240,000,
nn<l Alabama third, with $1 ",818,000.
The proportion of increase was largest in
Arkansas, the amount of capital invested
in new enterprises being $15,240,00?,
against $1,2:10,000 in 1885.
The Village Schoolmistress.
BY AMANDA LIVES AT.
Allie Arden stood at the window ol
her cosy little room gazing dreamily out
at the broken train of passers by. It was
fit. Valentine's day. Now a rough, good
natured, laboring man dashed by,
crumpling a comical caricature in his
brawny hands, and followed by a bevy
of teasing, chuckling boys; then a dude
strolled languidly along, rapturously
perusing some sentimental verses his
lady love had sent him; and lastly come
a group of merry maidens laughing and
Jer the receipt of a promis-
An Iowa punster is to be punished on
account of a legal complication with
his word play. The punster’s name
is Steers and he owns a farm iu Iowa. A
few days ago he obtained a loan of»$l00,
and gave as security a mortgage upon
“five white Steers on his farm.” Then he
went to Kansas, and when the holder of
the mortgage went to the farm to look at
the five white Steers Mrs. Steers showed
him her five children. The outraged
mortgage-holder has secured a requisi
tion from the Governor, and the old
Steer will be brought back to Iowa and
punished.
The phylloxera is impartial between
France and Germany. After having
wrought ruin in the vineyards of tho
former country it hot recently attackod
those along the Rhine. Commercial
Agent J. H. Smith, of Mayencc, reports
to the State Department that a careful
investigation of the Rhine and Moselle
vineyards has been made by the govern
ment with a view to the extirpation of
the pest. Aa a result tho infected regions
have been ascertained and$he ravages of
the insect materially lessened.- In 1835,
2,713 diseased vines were discovered; in
1886, but 275.
One of the strangest of religious sects
it that which calls itsolf the New and
Latter House of Israel. Its headquarters
are in Chatham, England, in which town
its devotees are building an immense
temple which will cost $250,005. They
believe that they will not die, and that
they are tho remnant of true Israelites
who will reign with Christ for a thou
sand years. Their founder was a man
named Jezriel, who is now dead. HU
* death was a great shock to the be
lievers, bnt his wife claimed that it was
an accident, and declared herself to be
his successor.
plcted anticipation and pleasure.
Even Biddy, the house-maid at the
private dwelling where Mbs Arden
boarded, had been the recipient of a
token of remembrance on this particular
saint’s day, when people take delight in
paying their respects to one another.
Miss Arden, the village schoolmistress,
alone seemed to be neglected on this oc
casion.
Allie Arden was not what would be
termed a pretty woman. Her features
were irregular but expressive, her eyes
were dark and loving, and her heavy
black hair was ever a model of taste, as
was also her entire personal appearance.
Her chief attraction was her gentle and
courteous manner. Every one found in
her an appreciative and sympathetic
friend. She had seen perhaps thirty
summers, and was alone in the world.
Some eight or nine years before, she had
corns to F , and shortly after se
cured a position as principal of tho pub
lic school, which she had successfully
held ever since. What her life had been
E rior to her arrival in the Tillage, very
ttle was known, save that on the death
of her uncle, her only known relative,
and with whom she made her home, she
hod come hither to seek employment,
and meeting with general satis-
id remained. Although
noted for her loving
ed. •'She did
not look like that when I called on her
vowed Rosa WiUon. But
their wonder and curiosity knew no
bounds when at the close of school that
afternoon, the handsome stranger was
waiting at the stile for the school-mis-
“ They met with a fervent hand
md a long, searching glace that
restored a mutual undestanding between
them. Mr. Moore was the first to break
the happy silence. *’Allie,” he said,
‘•you have forgiven me?”
“Yea, freely,” she murmured. “In
deed, Rupert, I have thought all along
that it was my fanlt that we quarreled
and parted.”
However, Mr. Moore insisted upon
shouldering all the blame himself.
As they walked home together, the
entente gently pelting them with snow
flakes, tender words of love again passed
between the long severed lovers. Ru
pert told her how, after he had gone
abroad, he wandered aimlessly about
seeking diversion in vain foragthe course
of a year, when he returned to America
and settled down to business. He bad
written to her repeatedly: but receiving
no reply, attributed her silence to indif
ference, and even tortured himself with
the hateful thought that perhaps she
hod married. At lost growing weary
with his lonely lot, he resolved to know
the worst of his fate, and returned to
their native city, to learn that years be
fore she hod left for F . Hither he
followed her to ask once more her hand
marriage, for life without her had
no charms for him.
The villagers were in a fever of excite
ment when ths news spread that “the
stronger” had walked home with the
“school mistress.” And when they
learned that he had come to carry Miss
Arden away with him, there was a great
deal of lamentation, for the villagers de
clared that they would never find her
like to teach their school again. But
then, reasoned some, Miss Arden de
served a better life than the “tiresome
lot of teaching all the time.’-’ And the
betrothed couple were made the victims
of a “surprise” that evening by a goodly
crowd who came to congratulate them
and wish them “many, many happy re
turns of St. Valentine’s day.”—St. Louis
Magazine.
The Capital of Bohemia.
A general view of Prague, writes a
correspondent of the Son Francisco
Chronicle, gives an impression decidedly
OrientoL Some of its church towers
seem like the minarets of a mosque.
Others have a By/antine iook. Iu no
other city of Europe are massive build
ings large enough to be called palaces
more numerous. One of the old palaces
the station where you arrive in
lg from Dresden has been trans-
id into a powder magazine. The
old palace of the Kings of Bohemia close
by is now a barrack. In the old por
tions of the city, on the right bank,
there is still some of the strong aspect of
the Hradschin, but commerce is gradu
ally softening it. New streets ore being
mode that are filled with handsome
MONEY TALKS AT WAYCROSS!
faction.
and responsive heart, yet she had reso
lutely held sailors at bay, until the yil
lagers had long ago banished all idea of
her ever marrying. Yet Miss Arden had
had her dream of love. It was of this
she was thinking as she gazed into the
snow-clad street. Ah, how the day and
its scenes reminded her of her firot sweet
Valentino! She was but a school-girl
then, and Rupert Moore, one of her
schoolmates, had attested his preference
for her by seudiog her the prettiest little
valentine imaginable. Later on their
friendship ripened into love and they be
came betrothed. But alas, some misun
derstanding arose between them; they
quarreled and parted, Rupert Moore go
ing abroad, fc carcely a year later Allie’s
uncle died and she leit the place that was
fraught with so many sad experiences;
Ros i Wilson, a pupil of Miss Arden’s,
broko in upon her rejections, to exhibit
her receipts of the day, and especially a
E cularly beautiful valentine she had
received, which she declared was
ted in an ‘mnknown chtrography.
Then the frivolous girl went on to give
“** enthusiastic description of a “hand-
" b gentteman of strauge nppearam
i“ J ‘ ~ - • on the village
' The Cultivator thinks it is very evi
dent that the cattle-ranch business has
been overdone, especially in those spec
ulative enterprise« which did their prin
cipal business on paper and in tho bank
ing houses of the East. Vast sums of
money have been lost ia Europe, as well
as in this country, in these inflated
schemes We know of one firm in this
city that has charged off to profit and
loss account upward of $1,009,000 sunk
in a most promising cmttio-ranch invest
ment Of course, there is money in le
gitimate cattle raising, bnt the specula
tive enterprises stimulated by a few suc
cesses have proved the ruin of many, and
entailed serious lo »es upon a still greater
number.
Spain, which is not usually reckoned
among the first of European nations in
naval matters, at present possesses the
fastest steamer in the world. The name
of this smart vessel is El Destructor, and
she is a torpedo cruiser which can steam,
with her full armament on board, at the
rate or twenty-three knots, that is, al
most twenty-seven miles an hoar. Among
her other accomplishments she is able
to tu n quite round 'in a space of four
or five times her own length while going
at full speed. Tho Spaniard can run
709 miles at full speed without requiring
fresh coal supply. This formidable racer
was not built in Spain, but on the Clyde.
She is only the first of a fleet of similar
cruisers ordered for Soain.
she had met that morning ou o _
square. She wished her teacher’s opin
ion of the matter. Miss Arden’s pupils
always enme to her with all their joys as
well as their sorrows. Did Miss Arden
think it likely that the stranger had re
membered her, and taken enoug
eat In her to learn her name and i
the valentine? Rosa really he
He was such a capital catch and -:
be so roman tib!
Miss Arden was so sorry to disappoint
the wayward girl, but she readily as
cribed the disguised handwriting to one
of the school-boys. Anyway the fickle
girl was pleased over it, and presently
the betook herself triumphantly away
with her prized trophies.
And Mis» Arden put #11 thoughts of
the past from her, and mechanically
turned her attention to the practical
present. She had already dined and was
standing in the hall, donning her fur
cloak and pretty hat with its gray
, preparatory to going back to
when Biddy, who had spent most
day raying visits.to the post
same in and handed her a packet
tbes
Hardware, Tinware, Agricultural
Implements.
Heavy Wagons and Harness.
For Mills and Turpentine Distilleries,
Buggies and Bugy Harness Ranges,
Stoves, and House-Furnish
ing Goods, Guns,
Pocket and Table Cutlery, Powder, Shot, &c.
Blackshear & Mitchell,
W. M. WILSON,
WAYCROSS,
GBORG-I A.
Wholesale Dealers and Manufacture r
jai»10-l2m-vogo
set with trees, and there are some
kept porks and public gardens. The
public buildings, aside from the palaces,
are not remarkable for beauty, though
there are exceptions. The City Hall,
which in the German-speaking countries
of Europe is called the Rathouse (Rat-
haus) is curious architecturally, and re
markable for its astronomical clock,
which excites the attention of every
tourist. It is a full curriculum in the
study of the service of astronomy. Near
by is a church which contains the tomb
of Tycho Brahe, the Danish astronomer,
who came here at the invitation of the
Emperor Rudolph II. Prague, like
other European capitals, has its Academy
of Fine Arts, and is well provided with
charitable institutions. Its public
monuments in the way of fountains and
statues, though not as numerous, are in
suffleieut number to shame the poverty
iu works of art in the metropolis of
America.
A Horst’s Ear For Mnsic.
The following story is told by Fred
Grant as a proof of the faculty possessed
by horses by which they distinguish
different tunes. In his last year at West
Point he held the position of Captain of
Artillery. One day the visiting officer,
who happened to be his father, Gen.
Grant, held on inspection and drill. Af
ter the cadets had assembled on the
parade-ground it was decided to give
the commands by bugle call. The offi
cers would then deliver them by word of
mouth to the men. ' Fred Grant had
notoriously bad ear for music. He had
never been able to master a single tune,
and, worst still, had no idea of time.
When the announcement of the mode of
giving the orders was made he rushed up
to a comrade and said: “Great good ness 1
What shall I do? I can’t tell the differ
ence between the ‘charge’ and the ‘re
treat.’ ”
His friend advised him to change his
horse for Mazeppa, a horse of ono of the
Sergeants. She would safely carry him
out of the dilemma. He hastily did so and
watched every movement of his animal
daring the ensuing evolutions. When
the bugle rounded ‘‘ForwardI” the
knowing animal advanced and the com
mand was soon given to the men. When
the call of “Halt!” came Mazeppa stood
like a rock, and the proper order was
issued by the officer. Iu this way the
hone, by its ear for music, made known
to its rider the orders of the day and
carried him proudly through the compli
cated movements to the drill.
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MILLINERY, NOTIONS
AND
GENERAL MERCHANDISE.
C. C. VARNEDOE,
VALDOSTA, GEORGIA,
Is headquarters for Millinery and Dress Goods in this section of Georgia. H
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r —DEALER IN
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WAYCROSS, GEORGIA.
My Stock is complete, and embraces everything usually kept in a first-clas
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iperscription of “Miss Allie
Arden.” _ Instantly she recognized the
the familiar chirography of Rupert
Moore; and the astonished girl had never
seen the schoolmistress, whom every
body considered so quiet and passion-
visibly affected
Miss Arden stepped back into the lit
tle parlor, and with eager, agitated
fingers broke the seal of her valentine.
It was an exquisite littlejaffsir of pure
white blossoms-and myrtle that con
veyed a happy significance to her heart,
and there were also lovely versos of pencc
offering. She blushed a rosy red, and—
yes, she actually pressed the street valen
tine to her- lips—while dewy tears
started to the loving eyes.
Biddy darted away to tell her “news’
jost as Miss Arden left the room with
her precious packet safely ensconced in
her pocket, and wended her way to
school with a happy heart. All the
scholars wondered what had brought
the roses to * the teacher's’’ cheeks and
I that happy smile to her lips, and why
Logan and the Children.
“Senator Logan was very fond of
playing with the children,” said a lady
who has for many years been a frequenter
of the Logan household. “The Senator
used to get so absorbed when he was
playing with the little ones that he cared
nothing for what was going on around
him. He was very fond of t is grandson,
Lient. Tucker’s boy, about six vears old.
member that just one day before he
taken ill he was playing marbles in
a room with the boy. The game was
latched and the General
tit. While the game was
le servant brought in a
card to Sum. It was that of a prominent
Senator. The General, who washdown
on his knees at the time, and about to
shoot his marble, took the card, looked
at it a moment, then said to the servant:
“ Tell the Senator to take a seat and
Til be there in five minutes. I want to
finish this game, for the boy is ahead of
me now.*”—Washington Letter.
An Ancient Belief
There was a belief among the people
of the olden time that if you built a new
house and finished it the owner would
not live long; but if you left any
thereof uncompleted you would
until it was done. Governor Wilson
Lumpkin is said to have had this super
stition, and when he constructed the
rock house ou the hill overlooking the
cemetery he left one window unfinished,
and it so remains until to day. We learn
that this is not the only old house in
Athens whose owner had this belief.—
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and customers are willing to pay the cash when thdvnarks'src so low,
and this is the reason why my goods are always so fresh
and new. I have now, and am receiving
by every arriving train
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For ladies' Misses, Boys and Gents, besides, a heavy stock
Of Family Groceries, Crockeryware,
Stoves, Hardware, Cutlery,
inchaverything else in the Dry Goods and Grocery business.
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