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VOL XIII.
The Old Friends.
The old friends, the old friends,
We loved when we were young..
With sun beams on their faces,
Aud music on their tungue!
The bees are in the almond flower,
The birds renew their straiu;
But the old friends once lost to u».
Can never come again.
The old friends, the old friends!
Their brow is lined with care;
They’ve furrows in the faded cheek,
And silver in the hair;
But to me they are old friends still
In youth and bloom the same,
As when we drove the Hying ball,
Or shouted in the game.
The old men, the old men,
How slow they creep along 1
How naughtily we scoffed at them
In days when we were young!
Their prosing and their dozing,
Their prate of times gone by,
Their shiver like an aspen leaf
If but a breath went by.
But we, we are the old men now,
Our blood is faint and chili;
We cannot leap the mighty brook,
Or climb the breakneck bill.
We maunder down the shortest cuts,
We rest on stick or stile,
And the young men half ashamed to laugh
Yet pass us with a smile.
But the young men, the young men,
Their strength is fair to see;
The straight biuik and the spriugy stride,
The eye as falcon free,
The shout above the frolic wind,
As up the hill they go;
But, though so nigh above us now,
They soon shall be as low.
O weary, weary drag the years
As life draws near the end,
And sadly, sadly fall the tears
For loss of love aud friend.
But we'll not doubt there’s good about
In ail of humankind;
So here’s a health before we go,
To those we leave behind!
—[Loudon Spectator.
"MY ANSWER, PLEASE."
She was a bright little woman, with
hazel eyes, perfect teeth, wavy hair
and, when she wasn’t “worked to
death,” a delicate, rosy complexion.
. She had married very young—her
ideal—and when after a few years
later she could no longer hide from
herself what a poor, weak bit of clay
he renlly wns,tsho made no moan, but
set about the hard task of fitting the
places of both father and mother to
the three bright littlo children that
came to them.
So well did site succeed that the lit¬
tle ones thought papa was tho best and
noblest man living. Fortunately, lie
departed this life before they discov¬
ered his frailities, leaving itis wife a
multitude of debts and only his life
insurance to pay them with.
She was quite aware that creditors
could not touch the money, but being
honest she paid every bill, and ilien
deposited the balance in the savings
bank. It was such a small sum that
even with the most rigorous economy
it would scarcely give them daily
bread, let alone butter and moat occa¬
sionally, fuel, clothes, schoolbooks and
the thousand necessary things which
decency requires.
She made dainty trifles for parlors
and boudoirs, which brought her a
pretty penny, and this she augmented
by making drawings of the said trifles
and then writing the descriptions,
which she sold to a ladies’ periodical,
so that altogether her children had a
comfortable and even a charming
home.
But it was hard work. She had no
rest, no recreation whatever, aud
every day there was more need of
money, and she seemed more tired
when her old school friend, Mary
Palmer, bought the corner house.
All the good things of life seemed
to come to Mary Palmer—her marriage
had been a brilliant one. Judge
Palmer was one of earth’s best, the
possessor of great wealth, devoted to
his family and honored by all who
knew him.
Like a good husband he was in¬
terested iti all his wife’s friends, and
though he would have scorned the
idea of being a matchmaker he cer¬
tainly did bring his old comrade,
Captain Baker, to make a fourth in
a game of euchre which his wife in¬
sisted on twice a week.
Captain Baker was a large, solid
looking man. He was bald and a
little gray, a man who paid little at¬
tention to women, for in war times
he had been cruelly jilted by a gay
conquette.
The old man she married was dead,
and his widow made a practice of
calling at the bank almost every day.
for the captain of long ago was a bank
SPUING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GA. SATURDAY. JULY 22, 1893.
president now. Though she asked
advice frequently about tho disposal
of her property, and smiled her sweet¬
est on her old lover, it only disgusted
him the more.
He had been on speaking terms
with Mrs. Joyce ever since her mar¬
riage, for he and the departed Joyce
were members of the samo secret or
ganization.
But he almost forgot her existence
till he met her at tho Palmers, and
was charmed with her good sense,
originality and absence of coquetry.
One evening Mrs. Joyce was quite
surprised to have him ushered into
her little sitting room. She was not
making pretty tilings that night, liow
ever. The weekly wash had just come
home and she wns darning and patch
ing.
She was a little embarnssed, it is
true, but after shaking hands with
him, she resumed her thimble, holding
it a moment to the light so her needle
would not slip through the holes, and
while she chatted pleasantly her fingers
flow, for time was money to her.
Presently she said:
“I have a bit of new's for you, Mrs.
Joyce. I am thinking of getting
married.”
“Oh,” she said: “am I to con¬
gratulate you?”
“Not yet; I haven’t asked the mo¬
mentous question.”
“May I talk to you about marriage,
Mr. Baker?”
“I shall be delighted to hear your
views.”
“I suppose you know that tho ma¬
jority of marriages aro not happy ones,
and that depravity is not tho cause,
since unhappiness enters all classes of
society. In entering a partnership
men liavo an agreement, and if either
violates it the law is invoked, but Iu
life partnership everytlmig is taken
for granted. Often the young woman
who lias been wooed assiduously
scarcely receives any attention after
marriage, and as the poet wrote of
love, 4 ’Tis woman’s solo existence,and
to deprive her of it is cruelty wore
than death. A,t the altar the man on¬
flows Ins wife with all his wealth, and
too often she has to beg for every dol¬
lar and give an account of what she
spends it for, while the husband’s
cigars and clubs cost more than the
entire family expenses. Now, if you
are one of those selfish men I can’t
wish you success in breaking a
woman’s heart, Bat if you mako
your wife happy you have my best
wishes for success in wooing the
woman of your choice.”
She resumed her thimble and the
needle flew swiftly to make up for
lost time.
“I think your views aro sensible
ones, Mrs. Joyce; that is the way my
mother used to talk to us. I shall
endeavor to make my wife a happy
woman, Mrs. Joyce; will you marry
me?”
She looked up, her checks covered
with blushes. “Oh, Mr. Baker, can
you excuse me? I never supposed
you thought of me.”
He gently drew the work aside and
holding both her hands, ho said:
“My answer please?”
“Yes.”—[Womankind.
Some Hints About Driving.
Whether you drive a single horse or
a team the principles are tho same;
but in driving a pair see to it that
each horse does his sliaro of the work,
aud no more. A pair of horses,
moreover, unless well driven, are sure
to get iu the habit of wandering over
the road.
To drive well you must keep your
eye and your mind on your horse.
Watch his ears. They will be pricked
forward when he is about to shy,
droop when lie is tired, fly back jnst
before he “breaks” (into a gallop),
and before he kicks. Before kicking,
too, a horse usually tucks in his tail,
and hunches his back a little. When
you observe any of these indications,
speak to him sharply, and pull up his
head.
Y r ott must watch the road also.
Turn out for stones, so that the horse
shall not stumble nor the wheels jolt
over them; avoid the mud holes, and
places where the going is bad; let the
horse slacken speed when the road
becomes heavy, aud if you \v: 1 to
make up time, do it where the ground
slightly descends.
It is a common mistake to think
that a horse cun haul a carriage easily
“TELL THE TRUTH”
on the level. On such a l-oad ho has j
to be pulling every moment; there is j
no rest. Whereas, when the road
now rises, and now falls, the weight
is taken off him at times, and he has a
chance to recover his wind and to rest
his muscles. As between a level road
in a valley and an up-and-down read
over the hills, the latter is by far the
easier for a horse to travel. When
you come to a long level stretch let j
your horse walk a bit in the middle of
it.
Almost everybody knows that for
the first few miles, after coming out
of tho stable, a horse should be driven !
slowly, and especially if he has jnst
been fed. On a journey it is of the j
utmost Importance to observe this rule, j
Be careful, however, not to check a |
young nag too quickly when he comes
fresh out of the stable; give him his
head, talk to him soothingly, and
presently ho will come down to a
moderate pace. If yon pull him up at
once, you vex him extremely, so much
bo that ho is not unlikely to kick.—
[Harper’s Young People.
Cnriosities About Oranges.
The name “orange” is from the Lat¬
in aurum, meaning gold or of golden
color. The fruit was originally a j
small bitter berry about the size of a
common early Richmond cherry, and
very seedy. It has been cultivated in
lliiulostan from a very remoto period
and was taken from that country to
Arabia and Persia in the Eighth or
Ninth centuries. It is said to have
received little or no attention from
cultivators of fruits in either of tho
countries last mentioned above, prior
U> the beginning of tho Tenth Centu¬
ry, there being a tradition that it was
a “cursed” fruit sent by Mohammed
to destroy the unfaithful.
This reminds me that our common
tomato was formerly supposed to be
poisonous, it now being less than fifty
yean since it was ouly grown as a
garden curiosity. But to the orange:
In tho Tenth and Eleventh centuries i
the horticulturists of Oman and Syria
began the cultivation of the tree in
oarnoBt, tho fruit gtoinff ''under (he
name of “bigaradc.” By the end of
the Twelfth Century it had become
quite abundant iu all tho countries of
tho Levant, the returning Soldiers of
tho Cross (Crusaders) bringing it
with them upon their return from
Jerusalem.
It was well known, but not exten¬
sively cultivated in either Italy, Spain
or Franco before the middle of tho
Sixteenth Century, four hundred
years after its introduction into the
first named country, the hindrance
being a survival and an addition to
the old anti-Mohammedan tradition,
viz: That the use of tiie fruit would
cause the partaker to enroll himself
with the legion of Islam whether lie
desired to or no no.
The Spaniards finally attempted and
Biicceded in cultivating it in their West
Indian colonies, and from there it
found its way into Florida, Central
America, Mexico and California, al¬
ways improving in size and flavor un¬
til it became what it is to-day, one'of
the most pe;-fect of fruits.
A Hint for Vegetarians.
Next month the vegetarians of tho
world aro coming here to demon¬
strate that it is wholly unnecessary to
maintain stock yards. The congress
they will hold will be under the direc¬
tion of the Bread and Food League of
London. If prices of beef and mut¬
ton go tip a little higher, and bacon is
made uiipir'&hasablc as a luxury, as
now seems 1 itv 1 y, this congress will
be uncommonly Welcomed during the
World’s Fair if it be as convincing
about vegetables as butchers’ bills j
have already become about meats,
•‘Corn Bread Murphy ought to ho on j
hand to give the vegetarians the most
delicious article within their own
menu they have ever eaten. The or¬
dinary vegetarian knows nothing
about the esculent properties of j
American maize.— [Chicago Herald.
For the sake of Argument. i
“Now, supposing I borrowed five ;
dollars from you; that would repre¬
sent capital, wouldn’t it?” i
“ Yes.” I
<, But, supposing, after a while, j
you wanted to get it back—”
“That would represent labor.” !
—[Life.
France and Austria aro away bo- !
hind iu the number of letters writtgu. |
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SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
A man was cured of a severe attack
of hiccoughs in Paris recently by
hypnotism.
A Brooklyn man has invented an
electrical apparatus for automatically
winding a clock.
The Imperial Health Officer of
Berlin says that the juice of both the
oran - c a,ul the lcmon is fatal to tho
cholera bacillus in a few hours.
Doctor Schott of Germany lias been
making some interesting investigation,
of ocean currents, the height of waves
and the rapidity of their progress. Ho
explodes the idea of waves “mountain
high” and says that in tho worst
storms they do not rise higher than
from thirty-six to forty feet,
At a recent meeting of the Physio¬
logical society of Berlin a paper on a
scries of observations made on tho
fasting man, Cetti, was read and dis.
cussed. From this it appears that
during his fast Cetti developed a con
slant amount of heat from the fat and
proteids of his constitution which
were consumed.
The longest balloon ride on record
is described by M. Maurice Mallet in
L’Aeronauto. It was from La Vil
letie, Paris, to Wnhlen, in Central
Germany, and occupied twenty-six
hours and ten minutes, from October
23 to the morning of October 25, 1892.
During one of its desconts the baloon,
as is characteristic of the border land,
was stopped and examined by a Prus¬
sian guard, who liad galloped after it
for a considerable distanco.
A communication was lately mado
to the Paris Geographical Society on
the strength of a statement in a Rus¬
sian newspaper describing a curious
mountain in Podolia. This is said to
rise abruptly from the plain with a
grandly ragged crest composed of a
broken circular rim surrounding a
crater-like depression. Tho whole
mass is composed of limestone, in
which fossil corals abound, and the
inference drawn is that this is, iu fact,
a .full-sized fossil tertiary atoll. Tho
name of tho mountain is given as
Miodoborski, but it is called Toltra
by tho natives,
It is believed, according to P. L.
Sinnnonds, F. L. S., that there aro
five times as many insects as there are
species of all other living things put
together. The oak alone supports 450
species of insects, and 200 kinds make
their home in the pine. Forty years
ago Humboldt estimated that the num¬
ber of species preserved in collections
was between 150,000 and 170,000, but
scientific men now say that there
must bo more than 750,000, without
taking into account the parasite crea¬
tures. Of the 35,000 species in Eu¬
rope, however, not more than 8,500
are noxious or destructive. There
are more than 100,000 kinds of beetles.
An Intelligent Cow.
Col. I. D. McDonald of Columbia
City, Ind., tells a good story of
animal intelligence. He had bought a
lot of stock, including a cow and her
calf, which ho was driving home.
The cow’s affection for its offspring
had attracted attention more than
once.
At length a river was reached,
which being uubridged the cattle had
to ford. The water was deep, and as
the cattle plunged in they were swept
off their feet, the mother cow among
tho rest.
The calf, meantime, was taken by
the current several rods down the
stream, and when the poor cow re¬
gained her footing and discerned this
her distress was apparent. Instead of
ma king for the opposite shore as the
other animals had done she swam
down the stream below her calf. The
current drove tho young creaturo
against tho protecting bulk of the
mother.
The cow, satisfied at this state of
affairs, started for the shore, the calf
swimming alongside of her. About
midway of the river, tho swift current
striking the calf in the fore-quarter,
swept it behind the cow and again it
floundered down stream.
Once more the mother went to the
rescue. She had to swim around to
the oilier side of tho calf, and this
done, she had to steady herself in the
stream until the calf was against her
side. Her efforts were this time suc
cessful, and cow and calf swam safely
to shore.— [Iudianopolis News.
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