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SATURDAY, MAY 38, 1892.
To tin Atlanta Constitution : You
don’t deserve It, bat, all the «ame, we
eympatblze with you;
in
InemcaRiTT may win for a time
politics, but In the end the man who
plays In that role will come to grief.
Tna Atlanta Constitution admits
that the aotion of the State convention
on Wednesday was a surprise—to the
Constitution.
Candidate Stmvkks didn’t raise his
“pint of order" In the State Conven
tion, after all, and It Is well he didn’t.
I uf the boys were loaded for him.
They do say that a number of the
lltlclaus who wanted to go as dele*
ates to Ghloago changed sides of the
enoe after they reached Atlanta and
und that the Cleveland crowd wati
o biggest. And oven then some of
cm got left.
: Oun State Democratic Convention
was a Cleveland convention, but nn
anti-Cleveland man evidently wrote
the. platform that was adopted. It
aeems a little inconsistent for a ram
pant Cleveland convention to adopt a
platform with a free silver, coinage
plauk In It.
Uttcta Sam has lost and Mexico
gained a strip of ground averaging a
pur
-ills'In width across the southwestern
border. It came from an error In a
survey and wob not detected until af
ter the treaty had dosed the way fur
making aonrroctlon, It Is arid land
and Js not likely to be of any large
valise until the cllmnte changes or
water la poured upon it by artificial
means.
TUB PI./LTBOUttl
Adapted bl the Democracy
tin Assembled.
Is Craves-
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I’nisnn pvrnj
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-I.AW. DEATn-DBAMHG OAN.
it"
Tmk unjust and uncalled-for treat
ment that Killtur John Triplett, of
Thmnaavlllf, received at the hands of
the rampant Alllancu-Demonratlu con
vention of Thomas county, to which
reference was made in the Herald
Inst week, was iltllngly relinked by the
Statu Deiniierutlu eouventinn in the
I election of that tried ami true Demo
crat as a delegate to the National
Democratic convention.
Rkmuioi’m conventions are In mil
■last. Tile Presbyterians hold their
General Assembly at Portland, Ore.,
this year. They convened yesterday.
Great Interest, and that not entirely
denominational, 1s attached to this
general assembly of all the Preshy
terian churches of the United States.
The Important question of the pro-
* posed revision of the Westminster
Confession of Faith will come before
the Assembly.
—
The IIuhai.1) has no occuslou to feel
Jubilant over the fact that the Clove-
Iaudltes carried the day In the Statu
Detnoeratle Convention on Wednes
day. Wo do not bellevo that tho Dem
ocratic party can win with Mr. Cleve
land for Ita Presidential nominee; but
cousehowwo can’t resist a sort of satis
fied feeling over tho set-back that was
given to the crowd of pretenders who,
without waiting to consult the people
of the State, pledged Georgia to Hill
* several months ago,
Me. H.G. Morh tolls tho readers of
the New York Tribuue that "the tariff
, ia levied in the first place simply to un
able the people uf tho United States to
pay tho high wages everywhere pre
vailing In tills country." This is flat
tering to the people of the United
States in that It puts them In the
proud position of wage-pnyere. In
point of fact, the people uf the United
8tates are wage-earners; and the
wage-earners were never once con
sulted when the McKinley tariff was
in course of formulation.
In the far West they still name
newspapers in a way that suggests
- the idea of journalism as a war-to-
the-knife business. An example of
this fashion is the People's Poniard, of
Sidney, Neb., whloh was thirty-one
i old on Friday last; and an ex*
ample of the Poniard’s pointed style of
editorial paragraphing may be found
In the following quotation: “The tad
pole editor of the Telegraph is real
chipper and peart since bathing in the
puddle beh’nd the shed. If he wilt
notify our preoipltating manager,
provisions will be made for the regu
lar semi-annual ablution;”
There are several things that Chair
man Atkinson knows quite well. He
knows how to bo interviewed with a
big “Iand he knows how to make a
speech at a convention, so as to win
applause from each faction in Its
Now if he will learn the limit of
Jurisdiction, as Chairman of the
9 Executive Committee and pro-
I to confine himself to that limit,
i Democrats will be duly grate-
-Valdosta Times.
Following Is the platfbrm of prin
ciples adopted by the Slate Democratic
Convention at Atlanta nn Wednesday:
1. Resolved, That we, the Democrats
of Georgia, In convention assembled,
reaffirm our devotion to the time-
honored principles of our historic
party. We believe that the powers
delegated hy the people should he
strictly construed; that the autonomy
of States and the rights of local self-
government and home rule should be
zealously guarded; that no money
should be taken from the people under
any pretext for other than public pur
poses; that-the strictest economy
should be exercised in all govern
mental expenditures, whether looal,
State or national; that legislation
should he confined to the legitimate
objects of the government; that public
office Is a solemn public trust.
9. We believe that the same care and
caution should be used by the govern
ment, both State and national, In the
expenditure of publio money as is
used by prudent men In their own pri
vate affairs.
i'We believe that tho right of taxa
tion was delegated to the government,
both State and national, to be used
only for absolute necessities, and any
other use of this power Is dishonest
and tyrannical.
4. A surplus revenue In the treasury
Is n glittering prize to be sought, after
by political thieves and plunderers,
r*. We are uncompromisingly op
posed to the enlargement of federal
powers; to tile usurpation by the oen-
tral government of the funotlons of
State; to bounties and subsidies in
every form; to every species of class
legislation ami government partisan
ship with' pHVAte' enterprises; to the
whole theory , and practice bf pater
nalism.
0. We, who have within n generation
seen elections opened by the tap of n
■drum, and the Judlclnl powers of the
Stnte usurped hy courts martial, and a
Legislature seized by a military clerk,
nnd the legally elected representatives
of the people turned out of office to
make by frtree a subservient majority,
Imve no desire to take any chances on
tho political future.
7. Wo consider the government con
trol of ilostofllcus ns necessary and
proper, because the seal of the letter
protects the private affairs of the citi
zen from governmental espionage, but
we protest except In the regulation of
prices against extending this aontrol
over telegraphs and telephones, and
pinring in our midst a horde of office
holders who will only he amenable to
national laws and limy at any time, by
the will of the majority, or, ns often
happens In our federal affairs, by the
will of a minority, be turned Intospius
and Informers. While wo oppose gov
erumental ownership of railroads w«
endorse our State railroad commission
laws, and demand that the powers of
the Interstate Railroad Commission be
enlarged so as to provide a "rigid, hon
est and Just aontrol’’ of railroad trans
portation.
8. We demand the free and unlimited
coinage of both silver and gold on a
parity with eaoh other to the end that
the money of the people shall be such
In quantity and quality as was origin
ally contemplated by the constitution.
9. We demand that the prohibitory
10 per cent, tax on State bank Issues be
strieken out of the national bank law,
and when this Is done, we deBire that
a uniform system of banking be pro
vided for hy the legislature of the
Stnte of Ueorgln, with a flexible ex
pansive Slate bank curronny. We
further demand that the prohibition
in the national bank law against ac
cepting renl estate as security for
loans shall be stricken, therefrom.
10. Wo demand tlint the amount of
the circulating medium be speedily
increased on the sound busts sufficient
to meet the needs of the country.
11. We demand that Congress shall
pass such laws as will effectually pre
vent the dealing in futures of all agri
cultural and mechanical productions;
providing a stringent system of pro
cedure in trials that will secure prompt
conviotlon, and imposing suoh penal
ties as sslmll secure the most perfect
compliance with the law.
12. Believing In the doctrines of
equal rights to all and special privi
leges to none, We demand—
a. That our national legislation shall
be so framed in the future as to not
build up one Industry at the expense
of another.
b. We regard as the most important
issqe before the people a reform of the
present iniquitous tariff and we de
mand a removal of the existing heavy
tax from the necessities of life, that
the poor of our land must have.
c. Wo further demand a just and
equitable system of graduated tax on
income.
2d. We believe that the money of the
country should be kept as much as
possible in the bands of the people,
and hence we demand that all national
and State revenue shall he limited to
the necessary expenses of the govern
ment economically and honestly ad
ministered.
14. We demand retrenchment and
reform tn'the expenditure of national
revenues and especially a correction
uf the present pension system which
rests like a mammoth war tax on our
section of the Union.
IB. We therefore, in a spirit of mu
tual concession, offer this, our plat
form, to the Democracy of Georgia,
and pray that a divine providence may
incline onr hearts to wisdom, justice
Ward McAllister Is an astonished
and somewhat irat<* father-in-law. He
has i been a • fathef-ln-lsw for
five years although Tie did nut know
It.
His son, Mr. II. H.McAUlster, whom
he has alwsys supported, became In
fatuated, about five years ago, with
Miss Janie Gorman, of Savannah, and
wished to marry her. Mr. McAllister
made no attempt to break off the mar
riage, though he advised his son to
make no woman his wife until he lisd
made a name and a fortune for him
self.
lint It seems the youth did not ant
on the wise suggestion of his father,
for, Just recently, Mrs. H. H. McAllis
ter made her appearanoe In New
York, demanding that she be given
her true position in the world as the
wife of the son of a great social leader.
The result is Mint the wedding has
been announced, but Mr. H. H. McAl
lister no longer resides st the home of
his fsther. There nre trials even ill
the life of a great soolal leader.
Three Negreee Suffocated la ■ Well.
BISTRIISTED EACH OTHER.
The Cleveland and Hill factions nt
the State Convention on Wednesday
were afraid to trust eaoh other. Each
crowd was on the lookout for trickery,
and their mutual distrust reminded
the Atlsnta Evening Herald of the
following little story:
Mr. Isaacsteln returned,jbpme very
late one night and Mrs, (eaju*stelu
asked: ‘TP
"Shskey, where you got anj -wiVt to
bacco stain on your shirt front! 1 "
"Blnylng draw boker mit three
slientlemens from New Knglanl,
Rachel I"
“Veil, couldn’t you turned your head
to one side veil you spit?”
“Not mlt dose fellers."
Kites the Early Cininty New*.
Gld Uncle Mao Morris, one uf the
most highly respected colored citizens
of our county, and two of his sous
were asphyxiated by carbonic acid
gas in a well on the farm of Elbert
Reddick, about eight miles below
Blakely, ou last Tuesday morning.
The oiroumstances of this sad occur
rence, as near as we can ascertain, are
about at follows: UnoleMac, In dig
ging a well for Reddiok, had encoun
tered a flint rook when at a depth of
thirty or thirty-five feet from the sur
face. ,
This rock proving too hard for his
It a fire
picks he biiili
around It, as he
said, to pop It out. This lire liurnl-d
all larft Fridi
fiday afternoon. On Tuesday
morning he and Ills two sons, both
nearly grown, went bnek to remove
the pieces of broken rock. One of the
boys went down, and having only
Strunk once or twice on the rock, wn’s
overcome lij the gas and fell down*
apparently dead. The other boy went
down to fasten a rope to the body of
his brother, and was himself suffo
cated. The body of the tlrst was taken
out. The father, who was some little
distance off, was made aware or what
had happened, and ns soon as possible
was lowered to bring up the
body of the seeond son. Having se*
cured the rope to the boy’s body t lie
' fifteen feef In
We don’t hear much from the Third
Partyltes in Georgia these days.
two were drawn up about
the top of the curb which extended from
the bottom up thnt distance. Finding
Mint some part uf the rope waB giving
why. the father got off on the top of
tIn* curb and told those nbove to draw
tlie body of the boy out. This they
did anil Just ns It reached the surface
they beard the old man drop, With a
heavy thud, to the bottom of the well,
lie remained there some hours when u*
rope was looped to his arm and lie was
drawn up. I.nte in the afternoon the
older bov, the one thnt first went down,
had so fnr recovered ns to be able to
walk about, butts perfectly demented.
Ti e father and the younger son how
ever, showed no signs of resuscitntlon.
Sarah's Buflalo Hunt.
“You know that during Sarah Bern
hardt's recent tour through the south
' she had a mania for huniiug," said Phil
Groonwall, of Fort Worth. Tex., at the
Lindell. "She played in my house at
Fort Worth. Slio got into town on Sun
day morning, and os she laid nothing to
do until Monday night 1 suggested that
•he take her gun and go out in the coun
try for a spin. The suggestion delighted
her, but the only kind of game she
wanted was buffalo. I told George Lov
ing, a cattleman, of the actress' thirst
for bnifalo blood, and thongh of course
there are none within 1,000 miles of Fort
Worth, Loving declared that he would
improvise a buffalo fyr tbe divine Sarah's
benefit. I accompanied her and Abbey
to a prairie twelve miles west of town,
whore, by Appointment, I was to meet
Loving and the buffalo.
“Loving had scared np a little woolly
bull with short crumpled horns, and
when tho Frenchwoman saw the hid
eous animal, which bad been whipped
into fury by Loving's quirt when he
saw us coming. I thought she would
go wild. Tho bull bellowed, pawed tho
earth, and throwing his tail straight
into tlie air turned from ns and fled.
Abboy stood transfixed und Bernhardt
was screaming like a maniac.
"Finally she recovered herself suffi
ciently to tuko aim and blaze away at
tho supposed hullulo. Tlie bull fell to
his Imuuches with u lmllet through his
carcass, and then wo all took a shot ut
him until he was dead. Some member
af the company was Incan enough to
tell Mine. Bernhardt bow we had fooled
her with the common bull, that there
were no buffalo in Texas ut all, and she
was so di;appointed that slio hurst into
a flood of fears. We all felt so bad
about it that we didn't allow tho papers
to writo it np. but it is too good to keep
longer."—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Union of Norik nnd Mouth.
Could “Bali," who frequently writes
Itl^Pliiladelpiila and Washington pa
pers such enthusiastic praises of our
Southern girls, know of the following,
she would probably nod her head and
say, “So fnr, so good.”
There stopped over In Albany this
morning a Mr. ntld Mrs. 8. B. Ingram
en route from Ockoloeknee.Uii., to Kal
amazoo, MlnlicS
Mr. Ingram is n Northern traveling
gentleman. Mrs. Ingrain was Miss
Anna Belle Bullock^of Ockolooknee,
Gn., and the happy couple were tiinr-
ried nt the bride's home Inst Wednes
day. i
They are now bound for the State f
the Big Lakes, and the Hkhai.d’h ho# t
wishes go with them.
“Bob" says she prays three times
each day thnt her son*, will wed a
Southern girl, and could she know of
this occurrence, she would probably
think it one step In the right direc
tion.
As
To Ming In Ike llnpllsl Choir.
Arrangements were completed Sat4 A
nt “
urday for the permanent* engagement
of the services of Mr. Goode Price as ,*
bass singer lq the Baptist oholr. i
Mr. Price formed one of the choir '*
the Inst two Sundays, and the pleasure
that the congregation derived from
bis singing has resulted in this
arrangement.
Mr. Julian Price was, several weeks
ago, engaged to sing in the Episcopal
choir.
Albany ohuroh-goers are much de
lighted on account of the arrange
ments. The Messrs. Price are a valu-ta
able acquisition to the musicians of >
the olty, both gentlemen having rloh,
full base voices, of a sympathetic qual
ity that goes straight to one's heart
The two churches ore to be congrat
ulated,
TvroniuPUiUAt. errors will ooour
even in the best regulated newspa-
1
Democrats of the Second Congres
sional district nre beginning to real
ize what real effect the Alliance
mid-winter convention and early
nomination promises to have upon the
Democratic party, nnd a reaction In
favor of the time-honored principles
nnd customs of the party Is coming.
The Atlanta Constitution ought to
either learn something about the cam
paign In the Second Congressional
district and the real causes of our
troubles, which It seems to concern It
self so much about, or let our district
uffnlrs alone.
an illustration of the rapidity
with which the work if erecting the
Exposition buildings is being pushed
at Jnoksun Park, it may be stilted Mint
on March 1 sketches were made for a
building to serve as permanent accom
modations for the Construction Ilu
roau, the Columbian guards,emergency
hospital, central fire-alarm service,
etc. Tho contract was let nn April ‘J.
nnd on April 80 the building was fin
ished and occupied. The structure
measures 200 by 800 feet.
The Grady Hospital In Atlanta has
been finally completed, nnd will be
formally opened In a few days.
and moderation.
The platform adopted by tlie Georgia
Democratic Convention on Wednes
day doesn't appenr to be an all-round
tit for Grover Cleveland.
President Hakkison* is quoted as
saying that he Is sure of a renomina-
tion,
The Calhoun County Courier keeps
right In the middle of the straight
Democratic road.
Speaker Crisp has given It outthat
lie wants the House to get ready toad*
Journ by July Bth.
The Brunswick Times continues to
advise Judge Atkinson to quit the raoe
for Congress, but the Judge Is not
taking any advice from Editor Me
Cook now.
The first number of the Weekly Ob
server, a new paper at Blakely, has
reached our table. Mr. W. H. Robin
son is the editor and business man*
ager, and he is a forcible writer. We
welcome the Observer to our exchange
list.
Captain Hobbs was in attimduncc at tbe
State Convention, and his fine Italian hand tvne
sought to bo impressed on its work, but when
tbe genial Captain came into contact with men
not actueled by tho same special causes ns him
self, he found that ho could not control them as
he did tbo flexible committee under his charge
in his own district.—Thoinnsville News.
Capt. Hobbs has nothing to com
plain of in what was done at the
State Democratic Convention so far
as any part of the convention pro
ceedings is concerned. In some of the
juggling nnd Copping with which he
came In contact In the district caucus,
however, he was rather out-done by
‘ways that are dark and tricks that
are vain.” Notwithstanding all this
and the strange opposition of Thomas
county, Capt. Hobbs’s friend, Capt.
Triplett, a brother veteran and Demo
crat tried and true, “got there,” all the
same.
The Atlanta Constitution and Chair
man Atkinson, of the State Demo
cratic Executive Committee, have been
meddling with tho affail's over in the
Eleventh district, too, it seems; but
Chairman Pendleton, of the Demo
cratic Executive Committee of the
Eleventh, is nnother Hobbs when it
comes to firmness and uncompro
mising adherence to the old Slinon-
Coluinhus Was Nut tin* First.
It was at Lisbon that.Columbus first
planned bis voyage. But long before,
wbun Lisbon was a flourishing Arab
city, intelligent and splendid, Edrisi re
lates tlmt un expedition was sent out
from its port to expiate tlie dark and
unknown ocean. Tho commanders were
brothers known as tho Ahnngrarins, or
tho Wandering brothers. Tliej 1 must
have set Bail before tho year 1130. They
crossed tlie Atlantic, it is said, visited
unknown islands and discovered new
lands. After a weary voyage of many
months they returned in safety. A
streot was named after them in Moorish
Lisbon, called the street of the Alma-
grurins.
Possibly the attempt might hare been j
renowed, and a Moorish city might have 1
sprung np in Cuba or Hispaniola, at
Philadelphia or New York. But soon
the conquering Christians took Lisbon
and chocked its advance in knowledge.
For many centuries it was given up to
war and chivalry. At length it revived
the Moorish instincts of trade and com
merce. Lisbon became the center of
discovery, and Columbus learned in its
traditions perhaps tho story of the Al-
magrurins.—Eugene Lawrence in Har
per’s. .
pers, but you will find as few of them
In the Herald as in any daily paper
in the country. Our present force of
compositors is without a “chump,”
The people out West are getting all
sorts of weather along with their an
nual spring floods. Blinding snow
storms In Wisconsin and a regular
January blizzard In Iowa nre among
the freaks or the season in that seo-
’tion, and the end Is not yet. The flood
waters have not yet reached their ut
most limit, and notable additions may
yet be made to the tale of disaster.
The World’s Fair Committee should
make an exhibition of the “Chicago
tire” next winter. It would take the
heat of two or three such blazes ns that
to keep warm a Southerner who
chanced to find himself stranded in
such a climate as Chicago has in mid
winter.
There wus snow
Thursday.
in Wisconsin on
A Clever Ilooeter.
_ ..... . . , Gcorgo Eliot once wrote that slio know
pure nemiHiratlo-principles and meth- no 8U ch. medicine for. tirnl nerve* u a
odfl. Ocala plntformiam tins been j watching the movements of a flock of
pretty well snowed under in the ducks. Chickens nre just as entertain-
Eleventh hy Congressman Turner, 1 bog if they are observed, and if tho oc-
wlio stood hotfooted on the Democratic enpution seems trivial it may With jus-
platform mid met III" issue squarely tico anil propriety be dignified os tho
Mtiiflv' nr iifitiirnl ustnrv. (!nink’nn<*
throughout the distrlet, nnd there is
plenty of time yet for lhe same good
work In the old Second.
Taking the recent lynching 111 Hab
ersham county for a text, Governor
Nort lieu Issues a proclamation of
considerable length to the people of
Georgia. The proclamation Is a strong
Judge
C.
and timely
•Lynch anil mpb violence in all its a ,.
forms. It. is a sort of law and order she missed her footing and fell prone,
sermon to the people, and the adillonl
study of natural history. Chickens
hare as marked individuality as humans.
Captuin Jinks was the son of Ids mother
and she a widow. He early developed
spurs thut were a terror to the chicken
yard. His amusement was to go about
kicking ont^ sideward and sticking the
•ldns of the other chickens und particu
larly at feeding time.
For this reason the Indy who thohghl
•lie coutrollAl Ibis chicken yard used to
stand guard nnd keep him off. Once
Thkiie are some very strong indica
tions of a decided reaction against tho
Alliance metnqd of forestalling the
action of the Democratic party in tho
Second Congressional district, and.
Candidate Stevens will find the home
stretch the hardest part of his race.
He lias already had some trials and
tribulations, but there are others to
come.
The Teachers' lamltute.
The Inst Institute of the school year
was held at the Academy oil Saturday.
The attendance was small, although
the meeting was an interesting and a
profitable one.
Papers were rend by Prof. Fjtz-
patrick on the subject of “Percent
age,” by Prof. Hutson on “Penman
ship,”, and by Mrs. Fitzpatrick, on
“English Grammar.”
Other Interesting papers were rend
by Misses Louella Gilbert and Clifford
Taylor.
The gathering of the teachers nt
regular intervals fur the discussion of
topics pertaining to their work, has
been of value in giving them new
ideas a9 to teaching certain subjects
nnd in arousing greater interest In
the work.
. The Institutes will be held reg
ularly through the next school year.
4
tiun is accompanied hy official notice
thnt 'the Governor is determined to
maintain the supremney of the law in
Georgia, and that! the officers of the
Stnte will be upheld by the strung arm
of the State Government in suppress
ing violence and resisting all lawless
demonstrations. All good citizens of
of the State will say “amen” to the
Governor's proclamation, and will up
hold him in the firm and manly stand
that he has taken for the supremacy of
the crime or
law. It matters not what
provocation may be, the moral effect
of n legal hanging is worth more and
will do more to suppress crime than
half a dozen lynchlngs.
The Herald gives prominence to
day to an article from Capt. R. Hobbs
on the status of affairs political in this
Congressional district. Capt. Ilobbs
has been roundly abused by the Ste
vens and Third Party organs of the
district ever since tbe Democratic Ex
ecutive Committee, of which he is
Chairman, met in this city nn the 21st
of April and promulgated its address
to tbe Democratic pardy of the dis
trict. He takes but little notice of
this abuse, but, in reply to one of Can
didate Stevens’s helpful articles in the
Atlanta Constitution, brings out a few
facts and ideas which should be read
by every Democrat in this district.
The methods that Mr. Stevens is em
ploying to invite and provoke a split
in the Democratic .party of this dis
trict are well calculated to deceive
and mislead many good wen and loyal
Democrats, but they will bring him to
grief before the campaign Is over.
Nobody but him and his Atlanta or
gan has ever predicted or expressed
any fears of “two nominating conven
tions” in this district, and it is very
apparent that he is only paving the
way to such disruption of the party in
the event of his failure to control the
convention that has been duly called
by the Executive Committee.
dish in hand. Before she could recovoi
herself Captain Jinks ran up in front of
her prostrate face and crowed in tri
umph. When tiie hour cuwe for liis
mother’s egg laying he always went to
nest with her. nnd when the deed was
accomplished crowed us lustily as if it
had been hia net.—New York Evening
Sun.
I
April showers, deferred until late
In May, are all tlie more welcome
when they come.
The union depot, at the time of the O
arrival uf afternoon trains, presents a '
very busy scene, ^
The boys who are left in town
ought to improve their opportunities
while the Guards nre away.
A definition of Poetry*
Whether sung, spoken or written, po
etry is still the vital form of human ex
pression. Ono who essays to analyze
Its constituents is an explorer undertak
ing a quest in which many have failed.
Doubtless he, too, may fail, but he sets
forth in the simplicity of a good knight,
who docs not fear his fato too much,
whether his desert be great or small.
In this mood, seeking a definition of
thnt poetic utterance which is or may
become a record—a definition both de
fensible and inclusive, yet compressed
into a single phrase—I have pnt together
the following statement:
Poetry is rhythmical, imaginative
language, expressing the invention,
taste, thought, passion and insight of
the human sonl.—Edmund C. Steadman
in Century.
Vh of Colored Glass.
There bos been no more interesting
development in modern architecture
than that which has taken place in the
manufacture and use of colored glass
windows. Although perhaps fewer
stained glass windows are used than
formerly their quality has greatly Im
proved. There is a distinct movement
toward the softer colon and more quiet
forms. Designs of flowers prevail in
domestic architecture, while figures are
principally displayed in church win
dows. Painted glass windows, instead
of the lead sash, are in much demand,
as well as the drawn glass windows.—
New York Telegram.
Proof.
Auctioneer—This valuable antique
article of furniture is a Queen Anne
chair.
Gentleman—It doesn't look like it
Auctioneer (angrily)—If you doubt my
word I can produce tbe man who made
tt.—Exchange.
—lie wins unworthily who wins by
chance.
—Thimbles made of lava are exten
sively used in Naples.
—John L. Sullivan is going to write
book. The critics will probably
handle it with boxing gloves.
-“Are you havingany trouble learn
ing to cook, dear?” Mrs, Lakeshorer
“No, indeed! Harry says I get the
water done to a turn every time."
—Young Lady: “How are bathing
suits this season?” Clerk (smiling):
“Pretty high, miss.” Young Lady: “I
—I meant the price?” Clerk: “So
did I.”
—“Why, Tommie Jones, shame on
you; you didn’t say half your prayer.”
“Papa said I might leave out about our
daily bread while mamma went to
cooking school.”
—Tbe scientific discovery that the
contact of lips in the dark evolves a
visible spark gives a literal value to
the word “sparking” undreamed of by
good old Noah Webster.
Bc«ich Pr«TcrW.
Birth’s good, but breeding’s better.
A glide word is as soon said as an III,
He is worth no weal that can hide no
woe.
Every man at 40 Is a fool or a physi
cian.
Be the same thing that ye would be
called.
Take a pint and gree; the law’s
costly.
Far sought and dear bought is good
for ladies.
A dog winna growl if ye fell him
wi’ a bone.
He that winna when he may, shanna
when he wad;
Fiddlers’ dogs and fleas come to a
feast uncalled.
Fair words break never a bone, foul
words many a one.
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