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NOCRA.
Noera, when sad fall
llfu* grayed the fallow;
Leaf c ramped the wood brook'* brawl '
In pool and shallow;
Whoa mbor wood wall:* all
Straiuw ahadowa hallow;
X«K*ra, when gold
And golden tfrajr
The- era kliiv. hollows fold
i.y c- rv v*i»y,
Thee .‘'hall these eyes behold.
Dear bit of May?
When woha are erihs of dew.
Anti wis*mers,
l<on* sfr wvks of siiver blue;
When silcneo stirs
One d'vul leaf's rnntling line
Among eriap burs.
>oern, in the wood
(>r in Id the grain,
TU**e, with the lioiilen mood.
Os wind and rain
Fre*h in thy sunny blood.
Sweetheart, again?
Neera, when the corn
Reai'ed on the field* '
I;« ep aster stars odorn
With purple shields.
Defying the forlorn
Decay death wields.
Nocriv, haply then.
Thou o. !?v* with me,
r.ach ruined greenwood glen
Will hud and be
Spring’* with the spring again.
The spring in thee.
Thou o t t lk; breezy tread.
Feet of the breeze;
Thou of the sunbeam head.
Heart like a beoY;
Fare like a woodland bred
A nemo no's.
Thou to death
An April part
Bring, while she taketh breath
Against dc ; YcUrl:
Noera, one who hath
v Made mine a ho:, rt.
Come with our golden year.
Come as its gold;
With thy same laughing, clear,
W Ix>ved voice of old;
In thy cool hair one dear,
Wild marigold.
—Madison Julius Cawein.
The Man Who Held the Fort.
It -was Gen. Corse's bravery which led
to the origin of Sankev’s famous hymn, j
“Hold the Fort.” He was on Sher
man's staff, was one of his fire-eaters in
daring and won an affection from old
Teeomseh that lasted till death. You,
perhaps, have heard the story of his de
fence of Allatoona Pass; how with a
mere handful! of men lie held the place
most stubbornly against tremendous
, odds; how he persisted, even after every
commanding officer was wounded and
he himself thrown senseless for an hour
by a ritle bullet in the face; how the
signal finally waved from Shenuan to
“hold the fort,” and how (lie plucky
Corse replied in language more em
phatic than religions that lie would do
so, and how he lived up to his word.
They could not put the soldier’s lan
guage into the hymn, but they em
bodied his sentiments there. Tt is, by
the way, somewhat of a coincidence
that the signal officer who waved that
. historical message from Corse to Sher
man passed away a few days before the
great figure in the story.- Boston Let
ter.
Iceland's Hot Springs.
The hot springs in lleykjadal, though
*not the most magnificent, are perhaps
the most curious among the numerous
phenomena of this sort in Iceland. On
entering the valley you see colmnus of
vapor ascending from different parts of
it. There are a number of apertures
in a sort of platform of rock. The
water is 212 Fahrenheit, and it rises
two or three feet into the air. A river
flows through the valley, in the midst
of which a jet of boiling water issues
with violence from a rock raised but a
few feet above the ice cold water of the
river.
Not far from this is the grotto or
cave of Surt, which is so large that no
one has penetrated to its inner end.—
Murray's Magazine.
Tattooing Among Women Ktwjuimaux.
Some of the girls have their ears
pierced just back of the lobe, where it
is thinnest. They wear ivory earrings,
some of which are carved with plain
figures, while others have a sett ing of
turquoise. Some of them have a string
of beads extending from one earring to
the other, suspended under the throat.
Tattooing the chin among the wom
en is general, and it is kept up, so they
say. because it has always been the
custom. At the age of six one narrow,
' perpendicular line is drawn down the
center of the chin, powdered charcoal
being used in coloring. At about twelve
years of age the line is broadened to
lialf an inch, and a narrow line drawn
parallel to it on each side.—Washing
ton Letter.
Afraid of Mis Half.
In tlie early part of his career the late
Baron Huddleston shared a clerk with
a barrister of whom he rented a room,
and an amusing story is told of a visit
Bodkin once paid the deceased judge
in his humble quarters. Bodkin strong
ly advised the future baron to compel
the youthful clerk to be cleaner in his
appearance.
“I do not much like to interfere,’’
was his reply. “He looks upon T
os liis master, and, at the utmost, 1
can't claim more than half of him.”
But Bodkin was not satisfied.
“At any rate,” he said, ”1 would
make him wash my half of his face'”—
London Tit-Bits.
A Cheap Anaesthetic.
Husband —Getting that tooth pulled
hurt pretty badly, didn't it?
Wife—No. I just thought of all the
mean tilings you had ever said to me,
and it made me so mail I forgot ail
about the tooth.—Good News.
There are no lobsters on the Paciilc
coast, and the efforts so far made to
them across the continent for
transplantation have failed, chiefly be
cause the creatures have died od the
way. |
HOW SOME MEN PROPOSE.
SVortt > from One I'rnmn Who Is InteiiM*-
ly IntnTtiUHl in the Subjt'ft.
“I am a crunk," said the club man.
“on the subject of proposals. I would
rather hear a story of how a man :iskod
the woman lie loved to marry him than
to take a trip to Europe. I don’t
know why I take so strong an interest
in this, unless it is that 1 had such a
hard time to get my wife to accept mo.
I had been in love for years. 1 had
proposed to her seven times and she
refused me every time. Finally 1 went
to her in despair and said; ‘Well, Mol
lie, I've asked you to marry me seven
times, and you have declined my name.
I’m going to ask you once more, and if
you don't marry mo 1 shall go out west
and stay there.’
“ ‘Well, Jack,’ she said, ‘if you feel
that way about it I'll marry you.' To
this day she cannot tell me why she re
fused me so often to marry mo .after
all.
“There's my friend, Congresman
X . lie was a poor young man,
and one day he went to a young wom
an whom lie had known for a long
t i • no.
“ ‘Nell,’ he said, ‘I have been waiting
till I had enough money to get mar
ried. My salary was raised yesterday.
Will you marry me next week?’
“ ‘Wait, until next month,’ she said.
“ ‘No, next week,’ and they were
married next week.
“Brown, the lawyer, was a careless
young fellow. The woman whom he
loved would not marry him.
“ ‘You an; the most reckless man in
the world,’she said, ‘about money af
fairs. When you get {3,O'JO in the bank
I may marry you—if you still want mo.’
“lb 1 went away and saved $5,000.
She married him, and today he’s a rich
man. He learned economy while win
ning his wife.
“Mv friend Col. II enlisted at
the outbreak of the war.
“Joe,’ lie said to the girl he wanted
to marry, ‘I am going down south to
fight. Will you marry me now or wait
tiil I come back?’
“ ‘Right now, Sam,’ she said, and
that afternoon he marched away.
“My brother proposed in a cool way.
Ho hadn’t been able to make up his
mind what he was going to do in life,
and one day the woman who is now
his wife said:
“ ‘Charley (they were second cousins),
what in the world are you going to
make out of yourself?’
“ ‘Just whatever you make out of
me,’ he said; ‘you’ve got lots more
sense than I have, Miune.’
“Has any one here any stories to tell
about proposals, ’’ continued the story
teller. “I don’t know of a single case
where a man went down on his knees.
I would like to hear of one. No one
will tell one, eh? Well, I’m sorry. I
like to hear about proposals.”—New
York Tribune.
lltime unci Home.
“The two Humes” of whom Smollett
wrote were unquestionably David
Hume and John Home, the author of
“Douglas,” as both of them were often
in his society in Edinburgh. It is said
that the only approaches to a disagree
ment in the long and intimate friend
ship existing between these “two
Humes” were regarding the relative
merits of claret and port, and in rela
tion to the spelling of their name, the
philosopher in early life having adopted
the orthography indicated by the pro
nunciation, the poet and preacher al
ways clinging to the old and invariable
custom of his family.
David carried the discussion so far
that on his deathbed he added a codi
cil to his will, written with Ills own
hand, to tliis effect: “I leave to my
friend, Mr. John Home, of Kilduff, ten
dozen of my old claret at his choice,
and one other bottle of that liquor
called port. I also leave him six dozen
of port, provided that he attests, under
his band, signed John “Hume,” that he
has himself alone finished that bottle
at a sitting. By tliis concession he will
at once terminate the only difference
that ever arose between us concerning
temporal matters.”—Laurence Hutton
in Harper's
A Man's Handkerchief.
In tlie problems to which thu hand
kerchief lias given rise man lies hut in
directly shared. There have been
epoclis when it has been a conspicuous
part of his attire and one of liis pet
vanities, and even now it has some
slight pretense to ornament in tlie form
of embroidered initial, fancy hem or
foreign color, but with the male being
the riose wiper has adhered more or
less closely to its traditional use. If tt
is allowed to peep in a suggestive way
from tlie side pocket of his coat it is,
theoretically, of course, that he may
not be obliged to fumble about in ail
his pockets, but may be able easily to
grasp and apply it in case of a sadden
sneeze or any unexpected emanation
caused by the influenza. The vanity is
consequently harmless. —San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Photographic Timer.
The photo engraver has long felt the
want of a means of automatically tak
ing care of the exposures of the photo
graphic apparatus, especially iri a gal
lery containing several cameras. An
invention has now been brought into
requisition which automatically opens
and shuts the leas tubes of the camera
and gives such a length of exposure to
the plates as is determined by the set
ting of a movable contact piece upon
the periphery of a clock dial at a num
ber corresponding to the number of
seconds required for the exposure.—
New York Telegram.
WALKER COUNTY MESSENGER—JULY 21, I*o2.
ANOTHJ-R PROVERB EXPLODED.
If Ot-alli laivi'N a Slitnlit" Mark lit’ Octi
t*nill> Taki’t Wry I'twir Aim.
They luv 1 N*’ii discussing tlit> death
of a prominent member of the bur, and
the lawyer remarked with a sigh:
“Well, ‘Death loves azhininginark.’" ;
“Nonsense,” retorted the doctor, j
“There is about as much truth in that ‘
saying as in ‘Death is no respecter of
persons.’
“Study your history and you’ll find ;
that if Death loves a shining mark he ]
is one of tht> worst marksmen in the
w rM. Look up statistics and you’ll j
tint I that l<e gives the rich every favor.
‘There's tfladstone, Hism-'n k and |
l’lahic. What a trio to slim . i if he I
had t“>y coniidcncc in his marksman
ship’ All throe have lieen shining |
m irks for years, and he has never even i
winged them. And what's the matter!
with Von Moitke, Pope l.t'o and Queen
Victoria? They're all old, hut death
Ims hardly touched them. And Han
nibal Hamlin! As hale and hearty as
a mail of his years can is l . If you stop
and think a moment you can add n
score of names to those I have given.
“Then go into history. How about
William II of Germany? And George
Washington? And l)r. Johnson? And
Hen Franklin? And Darwin? True,
death got them in the end, os he gets
all, but if lie loves a shining mark lie
must have wasted an awful lot of am
munition. lie must have missed Dan
croft a number of times.
“The saying is an absurd one every
way you look at it. The shining marks
have generally lived long, because the
average mortal has to live long to tie
come a shining mark. Fully nine
tenths of the shining marks have lived
to a good old age, and death never hit
the majority of them until they were
ready to drop from feebleness.
“Os course he occasionally hits a
shining mark, but you will generally
find that he had his man wounded be
fore lie became such a shining mark.
The late Emperor Frederick of Ger
many was hit before ho became em
peror.
“And the other, ‘Death is no re
specter of persons.’ Just look it up.
Measles arc ten times as fatal among
the poor as among the rich, typhoid
fever twice as fatal, scarlet fever throw
times, pneumonia twice, and so on to
the end of the list. Convulsions are
nearly thirteen times as fatal to the
babies of the poor.
“By tlio way, how old was your
friend?” t
“About seventy-six, I think.”—Chi
cago Tribune.
Value of Honor in a < hil«l.
When you come to consider all good
qualities you find them summed up in
and contained in honor. I constantly
hold it before my lads as the all in all.
Do you wish them to be truthful? If
they have the instict of honor they will
be truthful. Do you wish them to be
pure? If honor is clear and bright
then they are pure. I will tell you
what birthday present 1 have just hung
about tlio neck of my oldest boy—a
gold locket with the word honor en
graved inside. I wisti him to wear it
forever. Honor is the sun of the soul.
I do not care for my boy’s creed or for
his politins.
If he have unsullied honor lie is sure
to have unsullied religion and citizen
ship. This I advise them, That more
stress be laid on simple, common hon
esty as a principle. Do not for the
world be misled or beguiled to seek
for your child honors, but honor. If
he lias a disposition above reproach all
else will come as it should. Can you
tell me what one other thing can match
the glorious joy of owning a child whose
soul breathes only the honorable? —
Mary E. Spencer in St. Louis Globe-
Democrat.
“Thuii«l«*r Mouth.**
Two years ago George Hein, of So
noma, Cal., enlisted in the United
States army as a musician in the First
regiment band. The regiment was or
dered to Dakota to take part in the In
dian war. A few days after the arrival
of the regiment and the band at the
scene of the Indian troubles the band
serenaded General Miles at the Pine
Itidge agency in the presence of the
troops and a large number of friendly
Indians.
It was the llrst time in their lives that
the Indians bad heard martial music,
iiid their amazement knew no bounds.
Dut what took their eyes arid attention
most of all was the young fellow who
tie big brass horn. Iv> was a
most wonderful personage in thi.reyes,
and it was not very long before they
gave him a characteristic name. George
Hein, of Sonoma, is now known among
(lie Indians, both hostile and friendly,
in and around Pine Ridge agency, as
“Thunder Mouth.”—Boston Transcript.
Any On** ('an Makn a
The difficulty is to get some one to
read it. I have never yet met a man
who has not been bom a great journal
ist, arid I have listened to so much ad
vice and admonition on the subject
tliat sometimes I am tempted to think
in a moment of vain glorious enthusi
asm that even from this source alone I
may have learned a little about it ail
myself. But then I meet another man
—who perhaps does something iri the
line of canned asparagus for a living—
and he instantly convinces me that I
am complacently wallowing in a sea of
vast and fathomless ignorance,—New
York Truth.
CaaM for Than lea.
Mrs. Slimdiet—Have you lost your
appetite, Mr. De Boarder?
Do Boarder—Yen, thank houven.—
Good News,
made or aoLD, tiLVCN ano oVrio »ci!t * W,l »
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If you wish Health, address DR. C. H. JUPP. 74 W. Congress Street. Detroit. Midi.
ELECTRIC BELT
0u g Free .Medical Advice and Treatment during the six months’ trial. My
Month*" I '"' improved Electric Belts arc Batteries mul holts combined; general■ •
*5. I *1 sufficient Electricity to produce a shock. In ordering, give price ol Belts
I rial »(■,_ io, *l6), wiust measure, aud full particulars Agents wanted.
HvttfCm, Must., Jan. lit, lHtw Within tholast, eighteen immtlis we have taken in over
*I,OOO fm Judd's Kleetno I tells ami Truaaes, ami have never had a single enniidapit, hut have
had many compliments paused upon them. b. M. MAN HHO IMll li CO.
OR- C B. JUDD, Detroit, Mien.
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On 1 >o( h Sides
Not in politics, but of Montgomery Avenue,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
ON TI I PKOUTI l SI 1 )K
Wo cany everything (‘ailed for in the GROCERY LINK, which our
many patrous can endoise as to quality autl price.
(>N TI I 1C NOUTI I SI I)K,
At our big establishment we can supply in any quantity everything
kept in a feed store.
£Jjp'GIYK US A TRIAL AND \YK WILL TRY TO PLEASE..** J
Glenn 13 rot lie ns.
M. 11. WARD, President. W. 11. HALL. Vice President, T. U. I’ItKSI’ON, I'ashier
South Chattanooga Savings Bank,
Con. Market Street and Montgomery Aye., Chattanooga, I’f.nn.
PAID IN CAPITAL, §50,000. SURPLUS, SO,OOO.
MTAccou its Solicited. Interest Paid on Time Deposits.,*!]
Directors. —D. Giles, Jno. Thompson, M. 11. \\ ard, A. Tepoupaw,
Prosper Lazard, I). N. Miller, C. C. Howard, \\. It. Hall, lI.C. Ab
ercrombie, J. It. Henderson, A. A. btoug, J. A. Ward law, I. It.
Preston. (tnarlT-ly)
HAFLEY’S MUSIC HOUSE.
The Cheapest House in the South!
jar We wish to call the attention of the farmers of Walker county
that i buy DIRECT and can knock the bottom out of prices. I’m the
only music man that deals on the square with the people. (I mean 15
Market Square.) “Es ye don’t believe it call and see fur yerself.”
All kinds of Music Rooks—round and shape notes. Address,
-\KT. O. Hafley
-816 GEOR<; IA AVII- ('ll ATTAN<XX> A, TENN
FORBIDDEN FRUIT “
If it is your neighbor’s it may be. But have
your own. Then get
APPLES, PEARS, QUINCES, PEACHES, PLUMS,
From the best nursery in the South,
G.H. MILLER & SONS., ROME, GEORGIA.
They liayo anything and everything you want. Their agents will
be glad to take your order.
SOTTEIDTTXUir]
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CHATTANOOGA SOUTHERN R. R.
“ Pigeon Mountain I ioute.”
In effect May Bth, 1892.
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traveled, „ „ . „
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lieceiver and Mau’g’r. Gon’l Pass. Agt. Superintendent.
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WEEK’S snumnu
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SI*KIM.; POE.II.
When a gentleman's clothes are faded
and soiled,
With cleanin'', repairing or dyeing,
They can he made to look quite new,
The closest inspection defying.
To throw your ribbons and dresses
away
Because they are faded, ’tis a pity;
.My steam cylinder, used for pressing
dress goods,
, Is the only one in the city.
If your hat is faded and shaped like a
rag'.
Just listen to sound, good reason,
Have, it cleaned or redyed at Wiser’s
Works,
And shaped to suit the season.
WISER’S STEAM WORKS.
—: The Pioneer
P. O. Box 201. 520 Market street.
Chattanooga, Tennessee,
Express charges will be paid one way
on $2.00, and both ways on 10.00 worth
of work.
Thomas Wiser,
Proprietor.
WM. M. BOWRON,
Analytical Chemist.
Civil ani> Mining Engineer,
37 KEYSTONE BLOCK.
CUATTANOOUA, TIN!*
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