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BLACKSHEAR, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 1879.
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.
Bloom.
The sudden sun shone through the pane,
And lighted both their faces—
A prettier sight just after rain
Ne’er fell in pleasant places.
Two girls. One held a vase of glass,
And one, a ball unsightly,
Ragged and soiled. And this, the lass
Upon the vase laid lightly.
“ What lovely flowers we’ll have!” said they,
“After it starts a-gjbwing.” ~
The sun delighted slipped away, v
And down the west went glowing.
—Bessie Hill, in St. Nicholas.
A Don's Memory.
There is a well-known story of a mur¬
derer being discovered by a dog flying
at his throat and bearing him to the
ground, when he confessed that he had
murdered the animal’s master. The
story ts matched by one told in Land
and Water of Nelson, a black spaniel.
One night tho dog was missing from
his favorite corner, and nothing for sev¬
eral weeks could bo heard of him, not¬
withstanding the most searching in¬
quiries. Alter the fainily had retired to
rest, one miserable winter night, the
well-known bark of old Nelson was
heard at the door.
He was soon admitted to his cozy
quarters, supplied with food, which he
ate with many a grateful wag of his
tail, and looked a mere bag of bones in
comparison with his former self, besides
being very lame.
A neighbor came in and inquired if
Nslsoo had arrived, as he met him 02
the previous day at Macclesfield, eigh¬
teen miles from Manchester. The driver
of the mail-cart had also seen him at
Derby, and gave him a feed of milk and
oat-cake, but could not induce Nelson to
remain with him or with the hostler of
the inn where he baited.
Some time after the dog came home,
the owner of Nelson called at a public
house in the neighborhood, having with
him his four-footed and faithful friend
and oompanion.
the A bar, sturdy, surly-looking man stood at
and to the surprise and alarm
of everybody, Nelson sprang at the
throat of the stranger, striking his teeth
through the waistcoat, and holding on
with the utmost tenacity.
With a strong effort, Nelson’s owner
released the man, who confessed
there and then that the cause of
the dog’s anger arose from the
fact that “ he was the man who stole
him, took him to London by the canal
boat, where he sold him and left him.”
The dog must, therefore, have traveled
from London to Manchester.
Nothin* to Do.
Kit had taken a slight cold, and so
she did not have to go to school. Al¬
though glad enough to stay at home,
she could think of nothing in particu¬
lar to do, and after breakfast she wan¬
dered around the house aimlessly for
awhile. She finally strayed into her
father's study. No one was there. On
the table was the unfinished sermon,
just where her father had left it. Kit
glanced over the neatly-written pages
but did not attempt to read them. Then
she went into the sitting-room; but her
mother was not there, for she had gone
out also. Kit returned to the study,
feeling a trifle lonesome, and for lack
of better enjoyment she built a large
fire on the hearth. She placed the
back-log and fore-log in their places;
and this done she sat down in a big
chair to enjoy the blaze. She had not
sat long there, when she heard a queer
rustle, and turning toward the door,
she saw enter a half-dozen crash towels.
They were 6ighing at a tremendous rate;
and plainly finally one of them said quite
:
day “ She promised she’d hem us the first
she could; and she hasn’t thought
of usonce.”
Kit’s conscience reproached her. She
was just going to excuse herself, when
a shuffled pair of thick-soled walking boots
in.
“ Seven buttons off !” they groaned
dismally; them “ and she declared she would
sew on the first day she had
time.”
Kit felt much ashamed; but she
could think of nothing to say, so she
sat very still, blushing, however, a
good deal, for the crash towels and
unpleasantly. walking-boots were staring at her most
The silence was growing oppressive.
The towels and shoes stared and stared,
until poor Kit felt very much like cry¬
ing ; and she would have done so had
not her attention been attracted by n
funny scraping noise in the hall. The
towels bent their heads forward to look,
and the shoes turned themselves
squarely Kit’s around to look, as there entered
upper bureau drawer. Such a
looking thing as it was! It was
crammed full with ribbons, pins, bits of
jewelry, collars, cuffs, morsels of very
sticky taffy candy, fancy work, chest
nut shells, handkerchiefs, gloves, some
little apples, notes from the schoolgirls—a
of everything in fact; and it
seemed as though Kit had stirred them
all together like a pudding. The crash
towels laughed disagreeably, and
boots squeaked in disdain.
“ She was going to put me in order as
oon as she had time,” said the knob of
he drawer, meaningly. Bang I From
off the top shelf dropped a fat history
of the United States, and as it landed
on the floor, it leaves opened at the ac¬
count of the settlement of New York by
&e Dutch in 1610.
Kit's dbefckr '►edSer yet. Hhe
had promised her father to read that
sometime when she had nothing else to
do; and here she had dawdled away
nearly a whole morning in trying to
amuse herself. She looked sadly at the
nnhemmed towels, the grinning shoes,
the disordered bureau drawer, and the
history; and they looked at her in such
a hands disagreeable way that Kit put her
up before her face and began to
sob. and began Straightway kick the shoes hopped up
slapped her to her, the crash towel
flung face, the bureau drawer
climbed apples at her, and the fat history
up on top of her head and began
to push her in the fire. With a great
effort Kit tried to get away; and at last
she succeeded in rolling off her chair to
the floor. Then she woke up. She
moved her eyes and stared around the
quiet room; and after a second she re¬
alized that she had been dreaming.
Straightway she rose and went to her
own room, took the six crash towels out
of the basket, and hemmed them till
dinner-time.— Independent.
Filthy Habits of Afghans.
The Afghans are not a cleanly people;
in this they present a striking contrast
to the Hindoos, who are, perhaps, the
most climate cleanly race on the earth. The
of Afghanistan is cold in winter,
and perhaps the wild life which is so
much the fate of all may have some¬
thing abhorrence to do with it. They have such an
of water that they never
bring it in contact with their bodies.
Being Mohammedans they are bound to
do certain ablutions by their faith, but
they find substitutes which are allowed
instead of the water. There is one
tribe who are said to get three new
garments only in their lifetime, the
garment The first being in each case a blanket.
is given at birth, the second
when they are married and the third
when they die. Each blanket is under¬
stood to have been ceaselessly worn till
events entitle the wearer to a new one.
Clean clothes and the washing of them
are not entirely unknown in Afghanistan,
for they have a term by which they im¬
ply a gentleman, and it is characteristic.
They call him a “Suffaid Posh," which
means white, or in this case clean dress
A pair of ears that go on a head of
civilization—Pioneers and frontiers,
. NO. 2,
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Hard times—The iron age. J
A checkered career—A convict’s. »
A man of pluck—The fowl-stripper, 1
To asoertain the age of a tree—Axe it.
The advance guard—A betrothal ring.
Flags are employed for signaling at
sea.
cake. Every baker’s shop has the stomach
William Tell was an arrow-minded
man. i
A shot tower is usually about 180 feet
high.
Thore are about 600 newspapers in
Russia.
The only thing which is constant—
Change.
A man of push—The wheelbarrow
trundler.
Tho latest thing out—Oats on the
back shed.
A capital letter—One containing a
remittance.
The Bank of England has a capital of
$ 72 , 766 , 000 .
There is a small community of Mor¬
mons in Paris.
The Scientific Monthly says snoring
is an acquired habit.
loo is a cowardly thing. If the sun
merely looks at it, it runs.
about Steamships for Europe usually carry
30,000 letters each trip.
Whioh is the beet of the four seasons
for arithmetic f The summer.
, Q^odsoufr t 9l a singing bge^l'flna,
fltim, there's Tlo place like comb.”
half Long sentences don't tire a reader
as much as they do a criminal.
In the year 1828 there were but three
miles of railroad in the whole United
States.
What is the need of being told to rise
with the lark ? The lark ris es abou
3,000 feet. *
It is safe enough to tickle a wasp un
der his wing, if you do it with a very
long straw.
The river Ynken, in Alaska, never has
been surveyed, but has been navigated
for 2,000 miles.
looks Nothing does so much for people’s
as a little interchange of the
small coin of benevolence.
“ That’s the long and short of it, : as
the street Arab remarked oh he a
tall wife and a little husband.
A somnambulist in Fountain City,
Wia, ent off his finger with ail ait.
while asleep, a felon being the incite¬
ment.
Electricity is found to be a delicate
test for purity of oils, which are judged
of by the resistance they offer to the
enrrent.
The Frenoh are acquiring a more
stable government every year. Paris
alone consumed 11,219 horses for food
last year.
“ You ought to husband your coal
more,” said the charity woman. “I
always pick does. I make him sift ashes and
the cinders.”
Have you ever observed how mad it
makes a man with a sore throat because
he can't swallow about 260 times every*
four or five minutes ?
One hundred and three boys between
the ages of fourteen and nineteen are
now confined in the California Btate
prison, at San Quentin.
Beware of prejudices, they are like
rats, and men’s minds are like traps.
Prejudices creep in easily, but it is
doubtful if they ever get out.
To know a man, observe how he wins
his object, rather than how he loses it;
for when we fall our pride supports ub
— when we succeed it betrays us.
Pile tier, the French chemist, discov¬
ered quinine, the active principle of
Peruvian bark, about sixty years ago,
and was awarded a prize of $2,000.
