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VOL XIII.
Tenderness.
Not unto eve*y heart is God's good gift
Of simple tenderness allowed; we meet
With love ic many fashions when we lift
First to our lips life's waters bitter-sweet.
Lore comes upon us with restless power
Of eurbless passion, and with headstrong
will
It plays aronnd like April's breeze and
shower.
Or calmly flows a rapid stream and still.
It comes with blessedness unto the heart
That welcomes it aright, or, bitter fute!
It wrings the bosom with so fierce a smart,
That love, we cry, is crueler than hate.
And then, ah me, when love has ceased to
bless
Our broken hearts cry out for tenderness.
We long for tenderness like that which hung
About us, lying on our mother’s breast!
A selfish feeling, that no pen or touguc
Can praise aright, since silence siugs it best,
A love, as far removed from passion's beat
As from the chilluess of its dying fire;
A love to lean on when the falling feet
Begin to totter, and the eyes to tire.
In youth’s bright heydey hottest love we
seek.
The reddest rose wc grasp—but when it
dies
God grant the latter blossoms, violets meek,
May spring for us beneath life’s Autumn
skies!
God grant some loving one lie near to bless
Our weary wav with simple tenderness.
BEHIND THE CURTAIN,
BY I.. W. KING.
He wondered a« he rang the front
door bell what Sophie would be like.
He had met Belle Bradley on 23d
street that morning,, and had stopped
to speak to her at the door of a large
shop. As he lifted his liat and bade
her au revoir she said: “Oh, Sophie,
the little sister you know, is home
from school for good now. Como in
this afternoon and I will introduce
you to our ‘baby!’” She laughed,
and then ho laughed, thinking a little
girl in short frocks an odd pretense
for his calling so soon again.
Ho was a pretty good-looking fel¬
low, as men go; big and athletic, but
a trifle old; not blase youth, but really
getting on iu years.
Well, when ho rang the Bradleys’
door bell that afternoon, as I said, he
wondered what little Sophie would be
like, lie was fond of children.
! lie was shown to the well-known
parlor, where the gathering afternoon
shadows made the bright carpet and
pretty furnishings look more attractive
tliau ever. As lie glanced toward the
window ho saw seated there, busily
plying her needle and unheeding all
else, a little, slim, fair-haired girl,
with serious blue eyes and such soft,
white bauds that ho could not help
noticing them.
His first idea was to retreat; his
second to cough and await the result.
The girl started, listened and stopped
sewing. He coughed again, timidly,
and then she looked at him.
As she rose she blushed a beautiful
crimson from the pretty throat right
up to her forehead, whereon lay soft
golden curls.
“I beg pardon,” he stammered,
quite as much embarrassed as this
damsei whom he had stumbled upon,
“But I—I came to see Miss Bradley.
My name is Marley—Jack Marley 1
I’m really awfully sorry I disturbed
yon.”
liis contrition wa3 so real, and he
looked so miserable that the girl
smiled—a smile that slowly parted the
red lips and lurked in her dimples.
When she smiled like that, Jack
smiled too,and after tiiat the “mauvais
honte” of the meeting was over.
“I have heard of you,” she told him
naively, “from my sister. YYmkuow
I am—er—Sophie.”
“Really. Why, I thought,” he stam¬
mered, “I—that is—yon have got on
long dresses, haven’t you?”
She laughed merrily. “Did you
think I was a little girl? Well, I’m
not big, and I’m not very wise, but
I’m quite grown up, I assure you. Oh,
I am afraid Belle forgot you were
coming. She went out in the carriage
with mamma. Will you wait for her,
or?” —
“Thank you. I’ll wait if l may,”
he hastened to say; “if it won’t dis¬
turb you!”
“Not at all,” she assured him, as
she sank into the depths of a big
chair, where she looked smaller than
ever.
Somehow every now and then a
sense of age oppressed him in contrast
to her youth and girlishness, and made
him more uncomfortable in the
thought than he had over been before.
^LACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GA. SATURDAY. MAY 27 1893
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Afte ' 8he
5ad 'lay lhou was
f t0 nging* co r * h il 1,ad
been a set row leave the school
where she hud been very happy.
“lleally spoiled,” she said. “You
see I was so little, and they made a
pet of me,” she laughed in a bright
shy way.
There came the sound of opening
doors and women’s voices. The tetc
a-teio was interrupted. Jack Marley
rose and shook hands with Miss Brad¬
ley.
At the end of the seasou Jack had
seen a great deal of Sophie. Ho was
always a welcome visitor at her
mother’s house, and as he looked back
over the days which had passed since
their first meetiug it worried him to
think how the hours spent with her
had grown part of his life.
His friends had begun to comment
upon “Bachelor Jack’s” infatuation,
and he never even tried to hide it. To
youug Strange lie even confided his
“foolishness”—when in the mood. lie
had introduced the young man to his
diviuity and often wondered at his
lack of enthusiasm on the subject.
Ned Strange was in that period of
cynicism common to the youth and he
laughed scornfully over the fact of
“old Marley’s being in love!” What
could such a grave and reverned
scignor see in a little, simple innocent
girl. He (Strange) thought it wrong
to bring np a girl like that.
This was at first, but by the time
Sophie had made her debut, creating
quite a furor with her charming face,
young Strange silently succumbed,
and, though ho never admitted it, in
his heart he was one of Sophie’s
lovers.
One day Strange was sitting in the
Bradley’s parlor waiting, when Marley
came in. His grave face and a rest¬
lessness in his manner told that some¬
thing was “up.” He filing himself
down on the sofa and began at once.
“Ned, you and I have always been
friends, have we not? I did you a
nervloo uii v . , Z vvivai otiitiutmuj,
you in return.” lie laughed some
what constrainedly. “You’ve known
from the first that 1 loved Sophie
Bradley. I told you when I brought
you here, old man. Yes, I know Pm
too old and serious, but it’s just this—
I love her so that I must know my
fate. Whatever she decides I shall
accept without a word. If she should
care only Heaven knows what it would
mean to ino! If not—well, God help
me! Nod, will you—tell her for me?
I’m a coward, man, when 1 think of
this,” and he ran a hand to bis gray
hairs. “I have no right to ask her,
but—Oil, you can plead my cause.
Tell her no younger man could love
her as—I—do. Ned, will you do
this?”
The younger man had grown livid.
He did not look up, but he muttered
hoarsoly, “Yes.”
Just then they heard Sophie singing
as she came in from the hall. Jack
escaped into the back room.
“How do you do, Mr. Strange?”
she said, and there was such a pretty
flush in her cheeks, and such an odd
light in her blue eyes. She sat down
near the window and seemed to be
waiting for something.
He crossed the room to her side,
lie noticed how quickly she drew her
breath.
“Sophie, I have something to tell
you, may I?”
“Surely,” she said,her eyes fastened
on her fingers playing nervously with
the folds of her dress.
“Dear, I want to talk of love—a
man’s love that has been growing
until now it is too strong for silence.
Since that night when you wore my
flowers to your first ball I have
thought only of you.”
He did not notice how her fingers
grew still and the red faded out of
her cheeks as she shrank away from
him.
“Sophie, do you love me, and will
you be my wife?”
Silence for a minute, and he could
not understand the way she looked at
him. Then, ns she turned away and
covered her face with her hands, he
thought it joy and lost all fear of a
refusal.
“Sophie”
“1 think,” she interrupted, heeitat
ingly, “that—there—is some one
else”
“Oh, you mean old Marley?” he
laughed. “I always suspected it, but
I don’t suppose he ever means to tell
von so.”
“TELL THE TRUTH.”
“One moment,” she said suddenly,
going to the door of that back room.
Gently, but imperatively, she called
“Mr. Marley!” and before she had
got back to Strange’s side Jack ap¬
peared in the doorway.
Ned grew white and clenched his
hands. Then the girl spoke in a clear
voice:
“Mr. Marley, I wish you to hear,
This—gentleman—has just asked me
to many him himself do you un
deist and? ’
Strange tried to stop her, and his
c/es fell before one contemptuous
look in Marley’s.
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“This is my answer, Mr.—Strange.
You have done me an honor which it
is impossible for me to accept—
since I am going to—marry—some
one else.”
Both men started. At length Strange
laughed sneeringlv.
“So, you’ve tricked us both? May
we know the successful rival?”
She blushed then,hut bravely lookefi
at them boili and went bravely over tc
the man at the door.
“Jack, if he wili have me,” she said
simply, slipping her band into liis.
“Sophie”—
“Yes, Jack. I was there behind the
curtain. I heard you—and you’re not
a bit old; you’re—well, just the dear*
est man in the worldl”
When she reappeared from the em¬
brace of those big, strong arms,
Strange was gone.— [New York Re¬
corder.
Hawaiian Names.
The following names of our pro
posed now citizens were to be found a
few years ago on the taxpayers’ list at
Honolulu:
M. Scissors, The Thief, the Wan¬
dering Ghost, The Fool, The Man
Who Washes IPs Dimples, Mrs.
Oyster, The Tired Lizard, The Hus¬
band of Kaneia (a male deity), The
Great Kettle, The First Nose, Tiro
Atlantic Ocean, The Stomach, Poor
Pussy, Mrs. Turkey, The ’iv.i.iii
lhc _ bestowed , .
same names are in*
discnmmately ,, . . males , and . fe- .
upon
males. , A . man .. living . upon liertama i, , ,
street, i. ’.lied Tl.o Pretty
Woman (Walinie Maikai); male .
\ a
fant . was lately , christened , Mrs. lomp- i
, kins; . one little ..... girl is named , ,, Samsou
b i
(IvaincKona^, another the Mtui Susnn ,,
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(Kukena) is a boy, so are Polly
Sarah, Jane Peter, and Henry Ann. A
pretty little maid has been named by
her fond parents The Pig Sty (Hale
Pna). A relative hints at luxury in
the diet of the coining man, calling the j
boy The ltat Eater (ICamea Oii Ole).
An old servant iu Dr. Wright’s
family, at Kohala, caused her grand¬
child to be baptized in the church The
Doctor (Kanka). This, as is the case
with all the other names here men
Honed, is the only designation. By
way of compliment to the early phy- i
sicians, many children were named
after their drugs, as Joseph Squills,
Miss Rhubarb, The Emetic. Names
of uncomplimentary purport are wil
lingly borne by their owners, while
others convey a pleasing and graceful
sentiment, among the latter The Arch
of Heaven (Ka Pia Laid), The Itiver
of Twilight (Ka Wia Liula), The
Delicate Wreath (Ka Lei ma ka Lil.)
The Rev. Dr. Coan of Hawaii pos¬
sesses tho love of liis flock. One
morning a child was presented for
baptism, whose name was given by
the parents, Mikia. The ceremony
finished, the parents assured the doc
lor that they had named the baby for
him. “But my name is not Michael,”
said the doctor, supposing Mikia to be
aimed thereat. “We always hear your
wife call you mikia,” answered the
mother. She had mistaken Mrs.Coan’s
familiar “my dear” for her husband’s
proper appellation.— [Boston Gazette.
A Good Long Rest.
Little Girl—1 wish there wasn’t go¬
ing to be any Columbian Exposition at
Chicago.
Little Boy—Why?
Little Girl—’Cause the teachers keep
talking about wliat it’s for, and keep
us studyin’ ’bout Columbus till I’m
jus’ tired an’ sick of him.
Little Boy—It won’t last very long,
and we won’t have to study about him
again for four hundred years.— [Good
News.
More Paraees committed suicide iu
Bombay, India, last year tliau mem¬
bers of any other religious sect.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
The European locomotives have no
headlights.
Lieutenant Peary says that he saw
hnttci flies and bumblebee? in the north
°*Greenland,
The electric light promotes the for.
matiou of chlorophyll in all kinds of
plants, both wood aiid herbaceous,
A hypodermic syringe that can be
thoroughly sterilized after use is a re
cent invention of two English physi
At a meeting of the Ornithological
Society in Berlin Dr. Reichenow com.
municated some particulars of the find¬
ing of remarkable remains of gigantic
birds in the Argentine Republic
double the height of the ostrich.
The wind blows because the air is
colder and therefore heavier in one
region than in another; the cold,
heavy air flows along the surface of
the earth, creeping under the warm¬
er, lighter air; the flowing air is
wind.
The Chinese make what is called
“chi-wa-hi,” or grass cloth, from the
fibre of the common nettle. It is said
to make a splendid cloth for touts,
awnings, etc. When made into belt¬
ing for .machinery it is said to have
twice the strength of leather.
A novel lathe is the invention of a
New York man. It is automatic iu
its action, as it self-centres, self-dogs
and seif-releases the stick to be turned.
Almost any shape can be made on the
machine, round, square, oval, octa¬
gonal or any number of sides.
Professor Bailey found that many
plants which arc injured by the direct
rays of light are actually benefited
when the light is passed through
clear glass globes or through a glass
roof. The light, has the effect of ac¬
celerating growth without changing
its normal periodicity.
A singular practice has been found
Belgium. “Vaccination” is performed
with . . needle charged . by insertion
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into . t mistules found - ■, on pigeons . in . sum* _
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“° r ’ I.u.tnlo. . , , 1tang . „,i„,o,od by
Hie peasants to he those of smallpox,
but ... being really due to mosquito , bites, ..
The scars can hardly be distinguished . . ,
from those of true vaccination. .
A French cavalry officer has in¬
vented what lie dubs a “hippometer,”
for measuring the distance covered by
a horse. It is very much like an
ordinary pedometer, and its strapped
to the horse in front of the saddle.
Like the pedometer, it works by the
stepping of the animal. It is expected
to be specially adapted to the require¬
ments of hunters, travelers, and mili¬
tary men.
He Was ail Expert.
“The dexterity that telegraphers
sometimes acquire is simply wonder*
ful,” said an old operator who has
now climbed to managerial heights.
<<i was working in a Chicago office
a few years ago when there drifted in
a trampisb looking old follow who
wanted a position. Said he was a
first-class operator. His appearance
wasn’t in his favor and the ‘boss’ bc
gan to chaff him.
“First-class man, eh? Good as they
make’em? Just what can you do?”
he asked, as he winded at the boys.
“Work anything from a buzz saw
to a duplex,” returned the old man.
“Can, eh?”
“Yes, and both sides of a duplex if
I have it to do."
“Well, say, just come in here and
let’s see you work both ends of a
duplex.”
We all watched him as he sat down.
give you my word, that old chap
could send witli his right hand and
write with his left. Just imagine a
mau keeping one car, one side of his
brain and one hand receiving,translat¬
ing and writing a message, and the
other car half of his brain and bis
other hand sending another message.”
— [Washington Nows.
Wanted >’o Extremes.
Employment Agent—What was the
matter with your last place?
Domestic—The couple had only been
married a month, an’ I didn’t stand
tli’ love maltin’.
Agent—Well, here’s a chance in a
house where the couple have been
married ten years.
Domestic—That’s too long. I
peace an’ quiet.—[New York Weekly.
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