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SPRING V
PLACE JIMPLECUTE.
J. o. HEARTSBLL, Ed. and Put>.
V (H, XIV.
Divorces are rare in Canada. In
twenty years there have been but 118
in all the province**.
Abraham Lincoln's signature has
been secured by collectors from every
paper on file in the county courts of
Illinois.
Herbert Spencer says that thirty
per cent, of the people who receive
gratuitous medical attendance at the
London hospitals and dispensaries are
able to pay their doctors.
Crime is more common in single
life than in married ; in the former,
thirty-three in every 100,000 are
guilty, while only eleven married men
of the same number have gravely
broken the laws.
An Englishman thinks that there
ought to be a closed season for bach¬
elors as well as for other sorts of
game and proposes that every woman
who contracts an engagement between
the middle of August and the 1st of
March shonld be liable to a heavy
penalty.
Such has been the growth of popu¬
lar opinion in favor of the sadden dis¬
position of the dead by heat, notes
the Chicago Herald, that there are
now in the country eighteen incor¬
porated cremation societies, and dur¬
ing the past ten years about three
thousand cremations have taken
place.
_
It is stated that United States En¬
gineer Sliunk, who conducted the sur¬
vey for the International Railway
through Mexico and South America,
regards the scheme as entirely feasi¬
ble. The estimated cost for building
roadbeds and bridges is $22,000,000,
and it would require ton years’ work
to complete the road.
The New York News thinks it must
be astonishing to Europeans to learn
that the United States can build and
launch ocean war vessels twelve hun¬
dred miles from tide water. That is
what has been accomplished at Dubu¬
que, Iowa. The torpedo; Ericsson,
has been launched there, and when
equipped will pass down the Missis¬
sippi, and through the Gulf of Mexico
to the Atlantic Ocean.
During the calendar year of 1893
the immigration to the United States
495,030. Of these arrivals 55,881
were from Austria-Hungary, 106,534
from the United Kingdom, 89,699 from
Germany, 69,269 from Italy, 52,058
from Sweden and Norway, and 45,172
from Russia. The immigration from
China was 3296, from Japan, 2283;
from Turkey, 1442; from Australia,
109G, and from the Hawaiian Islands,
1102 .
The luscious bivalve is evidently
Maryland’s oyster, concludes the New
York Advertiser. Of the 35,000,009
bushels of oysters produced in the
world each year nearly 30,000,000
bushels are natives of tho United
States, and more than 11,000,000
bushels come from Maryland waters.
The value of Maryland’s annual pro¬
duct is nearly $6,000,000, that of the
United States about $16,600,000, and
that of the rest of the world a little
more than $12,500,000.
While the regular army service does
not seem to he very popular in Great
Britain just now, the volunteer ser¬
vice, corresponding in general lines to
our national guard, seems to be es¬
pecially so. The returns for last year
show the number of enrollments to
have been greater than in any year,
with one exception, since the organiza¬
tion of the force. There were 227,741
enrollments, of which 219,111 are re¬
turned as efficients. This number of
efficients has only been exceeded three
times.
For the sake of record it is interest¬
ing to tabulate the age3 of the Prime
Ministers in the Queen’s reign, at the
time of their first and last years in
the high office:
1st year ot Lost year of
Premier- Premier¬
ship. ship.
Lord Melbourne at age of.. .55 62
Sir Robert Peel at age of .45 59
Lord John Russell at ago of.54 73
Lord Derby at age of 53 69
Lord Aberdeen at age of.. .63 71
Lord Palmerston at age of .71 81
Mr. Disraeli at age of.......63 74
Mr. Gladstone at age of. 59 84
Lord Salisbury at age of... .54 62
Lord Koseberry at age of. ..46
KI’KINi; 1’LAl I). MURRAY COUNTY, GA. SATURDAY. JUNE 30. im
AFOOT.
Comes the lure of green tilings growing,
Comes tbe call of waters flowing —
An l the wayfarer desire
Moves and wakes and would be going.
Hark the migrant hosts of June
Marching nearer noon by noon!
Hark the gossip of the grasses
Bivouacked beneath the moon !
Long the quest ami far the ending
When my wayfarer is wendiu J—
When desire is once afoot,
Boom behind and dreatu attending
In his ears the phantom chime
Of incommunicable rhyme.
He shall chase the fleeting camp-fires
Of the Bedouins of Time.
Farer by uncharted ways,
Bumb as death 1o plaint or praise,
Unreturning he shall journey,
Fellow to the nights and days ;
Till upon the outer bar
Staled the moaning currents are,
Till the flame achieves the zenith,
Till the moth attains the star,
Till through laughter and through tears
Fair the ilnal peace appears,
And about the watered pastures
Sink to sleep the nomad years!
—Charles G. B. Roberts, in Scribner.
A MUCH NEEDED LESSON,
BY OODP11FA’ QUOBTJ5S.
UliLf OULD Paul Will¬
iams have known
the misfortune
m *r7> f It. that was to befall
him scarcely a n
hour later, perhaps
m he would not have
i \ walked as jauntily
itm Pa the down Porter the steps House of
I and out into the
Main street of
lumber Johnsport, the
metropolis of Pennsylvania,
on that pleasant September morning
five years ago. He was dressed with
the utmost neatness, almost with fop¬
pishness, a high hat sat rakishly on
his head, his shoes were polished to
tho last degree of brightness, a large
ring glittered from one of the lingers
of his left hand, and in the other Ire
carried a small walking stick, which
he now and then twirled through the
air in a dandyish manner. Pausing
before a bookstore, something seemed
to catch his eye and he entered. From
the papers and magazines*on the coun¬
ters ho selected those which pleased
him most, and nodding to the clerk,
said carelessly:
“Just charge these.”
The person addressed did as he was
bidden, but a troubled look came into
lxis face as he wrote down the several
items, and he at last said :
“Mr. Williams your bill is getting
quite large. Can’t you settle soon?”
“Yes, sir, of course. I can. If you
don’t think me good for a few dollars,
why, I will take my trade elsewhere.”
And then before the astonished
clerk could reply he was gone. When
he had gone about a mile he turned
sharply and entered the lumber dis¬
trict of the city which extends for
several miles along the river banks. A
few moments later he paused at the
office of one of the largest mills, where
he was bookkeeper. He found all the
members of the firm, with one excep¬
tion, assembled within, but as this
was no unusual circumstance he nod¬
ded to each one, went to a cloest and
hungup his coat and hat, and swinging
himself upon a high stool was about
to commence the work of the day,
when he was interrupted by the elder
member of the firm, who, after a
slight cough, as if to clear his threat,
said:
“Mr. Williams, one moment,
piease. ”
Thinking that what he was to hear
had something to do with the busi¬
ness of the firm the young man turned
from his desk, pen in hand, and said:
“What is it, sir?”
“Mr. Williams,” with another slight
cough, “we have decided, owing to
matters of which von are probably as
well aware as we, that we will not
need you any longer. As soon as you
can secure employment elsewhere we
shall expect you to resign your posi¬
tion with us. ”
“I really don’t—don’t understand
you,” was the reply. “Have you dis¬
covered any errors in the books?”
“None at all—none at all. We
would be perfectly willing to endorse
a certificate of your honesty and pro¬
ficiency as an accountant. What I re¬
fer to is an entirely different thing.
The fact is that we have found that
you are heavily indebted in various
parts of the city, much more than we
desire any one in our employ to be.
Several firms where you have had con¬
siderable accounts standing for some
time have applied to us to seeare them.
This we cannot do, and so from pru¬
dential reasons—nothing else—we
have decided to let you go. -
“I think that this thin has—has
been exaggerated,” stammered the
young man. “But as you may have
other reasons for wishing to discharge
me, I will go at once.”
“You are wholly mistaken—wholly
mistaken. We have none hut the
kindest of feelings toward von, and
should not have taken this Step had
we not thought it best for all con¬
cerned. We had not expected you to
-
“TELL THE TRUTH.”
leave until you could find some other
position fully as good, but you can do
as you choose,” said the lumberman,
seemingly glad to get rid of a disa¬
greeable task. “Come this afternoon
and we will have a settlement,” he
continued, as the young man, who had
put on his hat and coat, was leaving
the office.
And then Paul Williams, feeling as
people always do who have met with
the penalty of their indiscretion, that
lie had been dealt with unjustly,
walked away.
His features were working and his
lips quivering from chagrin and dis¬
appointment. Almost unconsciously
he bent his steps toward a distant hill,
whereon lay the city cemetery, and
half an hour later he was walking up
the hill with long, sweeping strides,
totally indifferent to the fact that the
diut of the road was destroying the
polish of his shapely shoes wuieh that
very morning he had put on with so
much care. Flinging himself upon the
first bench he came to, he tried for a
time to control his slings, but at
last he burst into tears.
Paul Williams was a man of five
and twenty, and for four years he
had held the position from which he
had now been so suddenly dismissed,
He was the son of a widow, who had
been able-to give him a good eduoa
tion, and who, dying, left him a small
legacy. Though he had no habits
which conld have been called really
had, he unfortunately possessed traits
of character which kept him from sue
eeediug as his friends had just reason
to expect. He was one of the mem
bers of a band of youug men who,
though not really dissipated, had
formed the dangerous habit of spend
iug money as fast or faster than they
earned it. His pride had again laid a
trap for him, and always wishing not
to appear small, he spent his money
freely on the most trivial things.
Home two years before the time of
which we write ho had begun to pay
his attentions to a young lady who
was now his betrothed; and wishing
most of all not to appear mean in the
eyes of the woman he loved, he had
often made her presents and spent
money upon her when sho would have
respected him just as much, perhat
more, if he had kept his purse closed
But though in this way he had spent
nearly all of the legacy left him by his
mother, the young man might not
have came t.o grief lui(! it not been IV;’’
another habit more seductivo and in
finitely more dangerous than all the
others—the practice of running into
debt heedlessly and without thought,
It had always been a failing with him,
lint within a year it had grown strong
or than ever. His credit, borrowing
the common phrase, was good, and
when anything in shop or store caught
his fancy he would order it dono up,
and telling them to charge it, would
take it aw ay with him. In this man¬
ner he had made bills which, could he
have known-their proportions, would
have made him tremble.
All these things presented themselves
to Paul Williams in their true light
for the first time, as he sat alone in
the silent cemetery. After a time he
came to feel that the action of his em¬
ployers, hafsh as it might seem, was
not without cause; and then, though
what he was to do in the future
seemed a blank, he began to lay plans
to extricate himself from a bad matter
with an independence and self-reliance
at which he himself was surprised.
First of all he would draw what money
he had in bank, and as far as possible
pay what he owed; and then he
would go away from Johnsport
and try to find something to do
which would enable him to pay the
rest. Acting upon this resolve he
drew out his note book and noted the
names of his creditors; the list was a
long one, and with each succeeding
name his face grew graver. But when
his task was finished he shut the book
with a determined air, and thrusting
it into his pocket arose from his seat
and walked rapidly away. Two hours
later Paul Williams sat in his room
with a package of bills, on each of
which was the ominous letters “Dr.”
on one hand and on the other a roll of
bank notes. All told he was in debt
seven hundred dollars! Three times
he went over the figures in a bewil¬
dered way, only to find each time that
he had made no mistake. Then he
turned and counted the bills before
him; there was less than four hun¬
dred dollars, a little more than half
what he owed. But he felt resolved
to do the best he could and act the
part of a man. So, after a hasty din¬
ner, he once more sallied out on the
street, and visiting each of his
creditors paid what he owed them un¬
til not a dollar remained in his poc¬
ket. Three things now remained for
him to do: to see his late employers
and obtain a settlement; to call upon
his betrothed and tell her all that had
happened and all that might happen;
and then to leave Johnsport and go he
knew not where, On visiting the office
of Dodge & Co, he found but one
member of the firm in, a son of the
man with whom he talked in the
morning, not present at that time.
“Paul,” he said, as he handed him a
check, “I am sorry about this thing.
It’s a wretched business from begin¬
ning to end, and if .£ could have had
my way about it, old boy, it would
not have happened. As soon as I
learned the steps the governor had
taken. I wired a friend up in Wiscon-
sin, who wrote me some time since
that he wanted a good bookkeeper,
that if the place was not already filled
I could find a capital man for him. I
have just received an answer which
says: ‘Let him come at once. ’ So if
yon want to go you are not out all
around. What say you?”
“I will go at once, to-night,” was
the prompt reply. During the next
hour the two ihen sat and talked over
the particulars of tkeplace in question,
yopng Dodge imparting to his friend
that the man’s Earns was Reade, that
he was a native of Pennsylvania, “a
ro|al ful'business fellow’, man.” and a deucedly After success¬
which Paul
arose, and grasping his friend’s hand,
thanked him in a husky voice for the
kind turn he had given him when he
most needed friends,
‘Don’t mention it; that’s nothing,
old fellow. Just brace up and face
the music, and all will come out right,
Keep fro!'; a stiff upper lip, and let me hear
you now and then.”
Paul’s hardest task still lay before
him, to see his intended wife, and to
tell her all. The young man told his
story openly and frankly, omitting
nobbing and concealing nothing. He
tola her of the opportunities that lay
be fire him and of the sacrifices hie
we- determined to make until he had
pa; j every cent; but fchero would be a
stain upon his name, and if she wished
she was free to break the engagement
be; thought veeu them at once. But if he had
that she would take such a
ste he was destined to be happily dis
appointed, for her reply was:
“Paul, although I have feared for a
long time that something like this was
going to happen, I don’t want to he
free from you, because' because I
love you. Go away, do the best you
can, and come what may, know that
tb co is one who trusts you and is
wk ding for you.”
-v hen the evening train for the West
pulled out of Johnsport it was with
mingled feelings of sorrow, remorse
and hope that Paul gazed upon the
lights of the town as they steadily
faued' from sight. The events of the
day had followed each other so swiftly
that ‘ it all seemed a dream. As the
iron horse put mile after mile behind
aim the consequences which wore
ceraiu to follower his hasty departure
came up blackly before him, and he
half regretted that he had not re
me,nod. By and by, however, his
spirits began to revive, his plans for
the future took distinct form in his
mind, and it was with a comparatively
light heart that ho stepped into the
streets of the young and growing
town of the Northwest, Much to his
surprise he found his future employer,
Mr, Reade, waiting at the depot to
welcome him, and as ho grasped the
hand extended him, and looking into
the frank, open face, he felt that he
was to have dealings with a just and
generous man.
“Dodge telegraphed me when to ex¬
pect yon,” said Mr. Reade, noting the
young man’s embarrassment. “My
business is such that I will want you
to make your home with me, and both
my wife and I will do all in our power
to make you welcome. ”
The next morning, with a deter¬
mination to please and to speedily win
the confidence of his employer, Paul
entered upon his new duties.
In a few days there came a letter
from Annie Hummel, urging him to
persevere in the course he had under¬
taken, and not to mind what others
said. He did persevere, and in a short
time won the respect and confidence
of his employer. His salary was not
as large as it had been formerly, but
every month nearly all of it went to
pay the debts he had left behind him
in the East. When a year had passed
he had paid everything and was be¬
ginning to save. Besides, he had
dropped all of his foppish airs and
habits, and become in every way more
manly and independent. One day
near the close of his second year the
young bookkeeper and his employer
were talking together, when the latter
said:
“Paul, I am thinking of taking in a
partner. My business is growing so
fast that it needs two to attend to it,
and I want some one that thoroughly
understands it. Have you been able
to save much since you came out here?
You must, for you haven’t any expen¬
sive habits. ”
At first the young man blushed and
seemed slightly confused, but recover¬
ing himself he told his employer in a
few words how he had come to leave
Johnsport, and in what way the most
of his money had been spent since that
time.
‘ ‘This is a surprise to me, ” was the
reply; “yet I am not sorry to hear it,
for it shows that you have the right
stuff in you.”
A long talk followed, at the end of
which the two men had come to a
better understanding and were stronger
friends than before. Not long after
it was made known that Mr. Reade
had found a partner, and the new firm
bore the name of Reade & Williams.
During tho next two years they were
strikingly the successful, and this fact, at
end of the time mentioned, led the
junior member of the firm to take a
Hying trip to Johnsport, where the
object of his visit was made evident
by the announcement of hi-s mar
riage.
Paul Williams is now the master of
a pleasant home and far on the road
to wealth; but he has not forgotten
Sl.OO a Year In.' Advance.
the bitter experience of the past, and
often affirms that never, never again
will he be the debtor of any cue.
WORDS OF WfSDOSI.
A man will tuPffpver half a library
to make one book. —.Tohusop,
This way of the world* ik to make
laws but follow customs. —Montaigne.
The ofie exclusive sign of a thorough
knowledge is the power of teaqhing.—
Aristotle.
A great thing is a great book, but
greater than all is the talk of a great
man.—Disraeli.
For where we love is home, home
that our feet may leave, but not our
hearts.—Jean Iagelow.
In character, in manner, in style,
in all things, the supreme excellence
is simplicity.—Longfellow.
The pure and benign light of reve
Iatiou has had ameliorating influence
on mankind.—Washington.
Keep your hearts warm by feeling
for others, and your powers aotive by
work done in earnest.—Hall.
As we must render an account of
every idle word, so must we likewise
of our idle silence. —Cranmer.
What is the true end and aim of
science hut the discovery of the ulti¬
mate power ?—W. H. Furness.
The most modest little pond can re¬
flect a picture of the sun, if it is ab¬
solutely at rest in itself.—Carlyle.
Do but your duty, and do not
trouble yourself whether it is in the
cold or by a good fire. —Marcus Au¬
relius.
Every evil to which we do not suc¬
cumb is a benefactor. We gain the
strength of the temptation we resist.
—Emerson.
What must be, shall be; and that
which is necessity to him that strug¬
gles is little more than a choice to him
that is willing.—-Seneca.
A father who loves his child wishes
to keep that child forever; he who can
see without pain his daughter pass un¬
der the domination of another, is not
a real man. —Balzac.
Every man deems that he has pre¬
cisely tho trials and temptations which
are the hardest of all for him to bear;
but they are so, because tbey are the
very ones he needs. --Riohter.
The “Portuguese Man-o’-War. w
Some effective but eccentric modes
of locomotion in tow life were de¬
scribed by Professor Stewart at tho
Royal Institution. He instanced,
among others, the Portuguese man
of-war, which is not, contrary to a
common notion, the nautilus, and
showed a beautiful specimen. The
Portuguese man-of-war is a sort of
colony, with one great central stom¬
ach which nourishes all the com¬
munity. Its members aro fitted for
curiously modified uses. The main
body of the creature contains a large
hollow which is filled with gas and
enables it to float. Then oertain of
the dangling arms, whioh help to make
it such a pretty objeot, serve as fish¬
ing lines, armed with powerful stings,
which will even give the careless man
who handles it pause; other arms
serve as digesters, others carry the
oggs by whichstho species is perpetu¬
ated. It is one of the loveliest forms
of life in the sea, its mantle ftnd arms
being one mass of brilliant and di¬
versified coloring.
Another of the zoophytes had taken
on itself the form of a raft surrounded
by small chambers full of gas—not
air—and having across the centre a
vertical ridge whioh serves as a sail.
In this also the idea of the community
was conveyed by the lecturer, the
various organs each being modified to
special uses. He also mentioned a sea
anemone which was free in motion. A
jelly-like being c«mmoa about Eng¬
lish estuaries and such places as
Whitstable Bay is not unlike a fair¬
sized gooseberry, and this effects mo¬
tions by the use of the filaments which
cross its body in bands, much the
same as a steamer’s paddles. These
filaments act when the “gooseberry”
is alive as a refraction agent, and the
effeot in the sunshine is very fine.
Professor Stewart described some of
the medusas which swim by the ejec¬
tion of a stream of water, and said
that among the mollusks tbe escallop
used this means of locomotion with
rather comical effects, the bivalve
turning over and over, first one way,
then another, in its progress.—-West¬
minster Gazette.
Result ol an Artistic Conceit.
About a year ago a olever artist, in
mere oaprioe, made an ingenious pic¬
ture of a oanal boat beiug propelled
by the trolley. He received a few
dollars for the picture, and, so far as
he was concerned, that was the end of
it. Some scheming fellow up in Al¬
bany saw the illustration and at once
had a bill passed appropriating $20,
000 for experimenting. The results
have proved successful and that politi
cian is now on the highway toward be
coming a millionaire. That artist is
still making pictures. As this sort of
power on canal boats is likely to be
come permanent, it is just as well to
tell everybody the name of the poor,
struggling some measure artist of so justice. tiiat he His may name get is ]
J. F, Burns.—Detroit Tribune.
NO. IT.
hush-a-by baby.
81eep is a mystio river no mortal eye hath
seen; , ■
With poppy flowers are nodding the banks it
flows between;
It finds its source in silence where stars to¬
j gether sing 7 *
1 ind down to weary mortals the message
hastes to bring.
The boats upon its bosom, that float an idle
throng, ,
Are dreams that to the rainbow, or to the
moon, belong
They’re drifting toward the harbor outride
the port of day
Where morning light will scatter each vision
barque away.
—William S. Lord.
PITH AND POINT.
Nobody has less to be proud of than
a vain man.—Galveston News.
Some people make two or three mis¬
takes of a lifetime every day.—Galves¬
ton News.
If a woman looks cool on a hot day
she doesn’t mind being warm.—Atchi¬
son Globe.
York To. be struck by a trolley car in New
is not considered a natural death,
-r Omalia World-Herald.
The tongue is mightier than the
sword when it comes to cutting re¬
marks.—Galveston News.
When a man makes a prediction,
and it comes true, it tickles him almost
to death.—Atchison Globe.
The umpire has his troubles
As he engineers the ball,
But the life insurance agent
L „ sn’t bother him at all.
—Washington star.
“Ah, Mr. Grumpsey, I hope I se6
you well?” Grumpsey-—“If you don’t,
you had better consult an oculist.’’—
Tit-Bits.
“Were you a bull or a bear?” asked
an “Neither,” acquaintance of a speculator.
he replied; “I was an
ass. ”—Tit-Bits.
He madly loved a lass, alas!
Who was to him averse,
Because there was a lack, alac»,
Of money in his purse.
—Kansas City Journal.
We don’t resent high-sounding im¬
putations ; the man who will smile al
being called an egotist will fight it
called ji chump.—Kate Field’s Wash¬
ington.
Tho fellows who write the sweetest
songs about “old oaken buckets” never
had to draw water for the plow horses
on a July morning. —Atlanta Consti¬
tution.
A great-deal of time and money is
spent in making girls poor singers, -
when it would require less to make
them good conversationalists.—Achi
son Globe.
lie glibly descants on the duties of Ufa
Till those who are negligent quail.
While he’s carrying around the letters his
wife
A week ago gave him to mail.
—New York Tress.
His Hardest Feat: The stranded ath¬
lete called the pawnbroker to one side.
“I have come,” he said, smothering a
6ob, “to put up my biggest dumb¬
bells!”—Chicago Tribune.
Howitt—“Who is that girl that
mumbles so frightfully to whom you
introduced me?” Hewitt—“That’s
Miss Hankinson, the teaoher of voice
culture.”—New York World.
It you’fl bo happy all the day,
Never have wrinkles, never grow gray,
Feel like your work was nothing blit play,
Bo sure that comfort had come to stay,
Just let the women have their way.
Just let the women have their say.
—Betroit Free Press.
“Miss Grimley has a wonderful
amount of self-control.” “What now?”
Littleno—“Why, when I told her I
was going abroad to be gone a year,
she actually smiled. ”—Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Aurelia (anxiously)—“Have you
seen George this evening, papa? He
promised to call.” Papa—“Yes. He
did call, and I entertained him for an
hour before you came down stairs.”
Aurelia—“You entertained him,
papa?” Papa—“Yes, I gave him a
list of all the new dresses you had last
year, and the cost of each. I never
saw a man more interested, yet he left
very hurriedly. ”—Tit-Bits.
An Aquatic Bicycle.
The bicycle-boat is said to be a new
invention, but has been talked of for
years by persons who are fond of boat¬
ing. The new models are miniature
propellers, the screw being worked by
a contrivance arranged on the princi
pie of the bicycle. The idea is, how¬
ever, merely in its infancy, but is sus¬
ceptible of great improvement. A
twin-screw bicycle-boat, long, light,
narrow and with the propellers set far
forward on either side, is the plan for
a boat that is expected to distance all
smaller craft on any water.—New
York Ledger.
Dangers ot Celluloid.
A clergyman writing to the London
Standard comments upon the dangers
of the highly glazed, washable cellu
loid collars, which have come into
such general use of late. In the par
ticular case mentioned by the clergy
man, a boy’s collar became ignited by
a spark, and, burning with the almost
explosive violence characteristic of di
nitro-cellulose in the open air, so in
jured the lad that he soon died.