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VOL. XXVII. NO 7
HAD TWO BIRTHDAYS.
R»ally Washington was horn
on February It, instead of Feb
ruary 22. The record in the
Washington family Bible shows
that George was born on the
lltli day of February, 1782,and
.the first known celebration of
event was February lltb
1784. when Washington was at
the height of his power and
fame.
Wby, then, do we celebrate
February 22? Under the old
method of counting time, called
♦ a - old style, tio account of leap
•fciours was made, and gradually
the calendar ran behind, so to,
•peak. When the new and cor
rect ca’endar was adoptedWash
ingtin's birthday, which was
February 11, O. S. (old style),
became February 22, new style.
Congressman Bailey of Texas
in defending himself from criti
cism because of his refusal to
wear a dress suit, and go into
the swell society of the nation
al capital, says: ‘‘The truth is
that not cue man out of overv
hundred in my district cares
anything about my clothes so
long’as they are clean and not
fantastic 1 My constituents ure
just as far from being ruffians
as they are from being dudes.
They have long since passed
that stage of civilization where
six-shooters and spurs are con
sidered personal ornaments, but
1 am g ad to say they have not
reached that other stage of civ
ilization where the men us*
perfume and wear corsets, and
the women smoke cigarettes
and wear bloomers. They are
wholesome, sensible Americans,
who care infinitely more about
what th irlb-preaentat ive thinks
than they d<> about what, lie
wears.”
A SMART TRADE.
The Philadelphia Record tells
this story of a trade war. In
ortier to boom business, an en
terprising grocer on a certain
d iv advertised several thousand
five c u nt loaves of bread lor
sile at one cent each. His
rival was in despair until a
brilliant idea came into his
head. Jh hired a small arim
of boys and girls to buy up al!
the louves at a cent each. At
2 o’clock Grocer No. 1 had sold
all his bread, and those who
came later denounced him as u
fraud, who had fooled them
with a lying advertisement
Meanwhile the foxy grocer
• round the corner, with more
it a i a thousand one cent loaves
stack'd no on hi- kitchen fl ’or,
put iut n big sign, ‘’Frost
Bread I—A 1 —A Five-Cent Loaf for
Two Cents. We Never Adver
tise What We Have Not Got ”
He thus not only discern fitted
his rival and turned the tide in
his own favor, bus made a prof
it on the bread as well.
A COIN THAT HAS DISAP
PEARED.
“Though the poniiv of 186 G, ’’
observed it numismatist, *‘wiih
issued in groat sufficiency, the
coins si oil disappeared from
circulation, and are held an
rarities. They are seldom of
fered’for sa'e, but those which
have been offered brought n
large price.
There aro several theories ex
iting among coin experts as to
the disappearance of this pen
ny, being of the older style and
large, but the most generally
accepted is that the penny was
gobbled up iii consequence of a
rumor which was started on
the authority of an employe of
the ITiited States mint where
the pennies were made This
rumor was that in making the
composition of the metals for
the coin a bar of gold was melt
ed up by mistake for a bar ol
n.ckle, and that the reason why
the p uny disappeared was in
cod sequence of its intrinsic val- |
ue
The result of this and other
stories about :be 185 b penny is
that though tlieie were just as
many coined us there were of
*64, '65 or ’67 pennies, one of
the 6(5 pennies will today bring
nearly one hundred times as
much money as »hose of the
other years mentioned. Some
numismatists have even gone sc
far as to test the composition,
They found no trace of gold.
It is one of the peculiar thing-*
about the scarcity of some
c -ius.” —Washington Star.
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Electric Bitters is the medicine
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>i by it* use Fif
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Drug Store.
British residents of Mexico
will give a series of fetes in hon
#r qf th* queen's jubilee.
The Gwinnett Herald.
THE LITTI'Ji WAWf* P‘
BY ,\f K. HARROW).
“A little child shall lead them.”
One bright Easter morning,
Gilbert Strong, with great-coat
buttoned closely about him —
for the season was early, and
the air frosty and biting—
(topped briskly along on his re
turn from church. His objec
tive point was a cozy cottage
over which presided his dear
old mother to whom he was
tenderly devoted.
As lie passed though that por
tion of the city inhabited by the
poorer class, he thought he
heard the feeble cry of a child.
His ear was quick always to
catch the appeal of the weak.
He paused a moment, and
looked about. Again the cry
came, from the cellar right at
his feet.
Finding the entrance, he ran
rapidly down the steps and ton
half-open door.
The light from which became
increased to his eyes the obscur
ity of the room, and it was some
time before he caught sight ol
any object within it. Then he
saw in a corner a heap of some
thing which proved to be a bed
of rags, upon which lay a wo
man and child The woman’s
hand rested upon the child’s
head, and she had pushed most
of the rags over its body.
Gilbert stooped and examined
them. The woman was dead;
*
the hand resting upon the
child’s head, stiff and icy.
He pulled the rags away, and!
there lay a little girl of about
three years, apparently dying.
As ho touched her, she opened
her eyes, and with a feeble wail
said:
“Mamie wants mamma.”
Gibert lifted her in his arms,
saying gently:
“Hush, little one!”
The caution was needless.
She had ngnin sunk into uncon
sciousness.
Unbuttoning bis thick mat,
he placed tho emaciated little
form inside it, and holding her
close to his great, throbbing
heart, lie run up tho steps,
sprang into a passing cab, ami
hurried to the hospital.
He took the child in, and
gave her into the hands of the
nurse who met him
Gilbert stayed long enough to
see the child made comfortable,
and then left to attend to thol
burial of the mother.
The setting Easter sun looked
down upon her grave. There
was absolutely no identification
oi' the womau. She had evi
dently. while all the world was
rejoicing in the thought of a
risen Saviour, crept into this
hole to die, and had doubtless
beeu dead all night, the child
lying beside her. Her last act
was to heap tho rags over its
halt-frozen body, and to lay her
dying hand upon its head to
hush its sobs.
The nurse, a young woman,
into whose hands the child had
faden, sat with it upou her lap,
after the careful administration
of food and stimulants had
called ha k its fleeting life.
Tears fell upou the poor little
.body as she tenderly bathed it,
tho bones almost pgitrudiug
through the skin.
The physician standing by,
discovered an eruption on the
child, which he feared might
prove coMiagious; so for fear of
infection she could not betaken
to the ward occupied by the
other little ones. The woman’s
ward was full but there was a
vacant bed in that of Ills uiwu.
LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, TU' SDAY, APRIL 27th 1897.
This bed was removed, and a
small crib, with its neat hospit
al appointments, substituted.
On one side of it stood a bed
in which lay a great, brawny,
Irish laborer, Mike O’Neal.
The night previous, in a drunk
en row, he had had his skull
broken, and had been brought
to the hospital for treatment.
Sinfto the hour he came, he had
done nothing but curse and
abuse, in the most brutal man
ner, physician, students and
nurse, whenever they came near
him. Until the fumes of the
whiskey got out of his brain,
there was no hope of controlling
.him.
On the other side of the crih
lay a patient, Mike’s complete
opposite—a slender, swarthy
young man of most quiet and
gentlemanly demeanor. The
week before, ho had attempted
'suicide by cutting his throat
'The wound was deep enough to
be fatal, and was healing. He
refused to give his name,.Raying
bitterly 1 • r>'onger had any,
and was known simply by num
ber seventy-eight. An extreme
melancholy rested upon his fea
tures, and he never spoke ex
cept to answer questions from
nurse and physician.
As the two lay in their beds,
they saw the little crih brought
in; number seventy-eight, with
apathy, Mike cursing that a
squalling brat was to be brought
among them.
Presently the nurse entered,
holding in her arms, wrapped
in a blanket, the tiny patient.
Removing the blanket, she laid
the baby, clad in the snow
white hospital gown, in the
crib. The pale ringlets hail
been brushed, and lay upon the
pillow like a golden halo around
the pinched and shrunken face.
At the sight of her, number
seventy-eight half-rose in bis
bed, and covering his eyes, fell
back with a groan.
Mike paused in his curses,
and with a sudden revulsion of
feeling as he gipsed into the pale
still face, whispered:
“Is (he baby dead?”
She was not dead, but the
poor little life flickered for days,
as if with every breath it would
go out.
A great calm lay upon the
ward. Mike never uttered an
other oath, but submitted pa
tiently to whatever treatment
| the doctor and nurses accorded
j him. Number seventy-eight
assumed n position in which he
could always look into the lit
tle face, eager for some change
for the better. Uncle Peteri
| the black man, who lay with a
broken leg, ceased entirely bis
merry plantation songs, and
all queruhmsuess and complain
ing died out in the presence of
the baby’s suffering.
One day it seemed the little
life was fast ebbing out in spite
‘of every effort to hold it back.
The physician, with two stu
dents, the nurse and Gilbert,
who came every day to visit the
little one, stood watching the
labored breathing, tears in
every eye. The physician was
himself*: tV’er, the students
not yot iujuicd to scenes of suf
fering, while the nurse loved
the baby as if it were her own.
Gilbert felt in his heart a re
| solve, a* yet unspoken, slipping
\ away with the child’s life.
Mike was crying like a baby,
bis hands clasped tight in the
effort to keep back the solm
which shook the bed with their
violence, his warm, Irish heart
heart half- broken with sympa
thy.
Number seventy-eight lay
with avertod eyes. The first
prayer that had passed his lips
for many day*, was breathed
from tliPin.
“0 God, restore the child, so
like my little Alice at home, to
life, and help me, a ruined,
broken wretch, to again have
trust in thee,”
While they watched aud while
they prayed, a great peace over*
spread the baby's face, her
bieathing grew soft and slow,
aud amid the tearful smiles of
the watohiuu group, she fell
into a deep sleep. It lasted all
through the night. A hush as
of death pervaded the room,
lest by s-ime sudden jar the
buttle thread of life should he
broken. The close of that sleep
would bo life or death. It was
life
With the morning she awoke,
lifted the blue eyes from under
the fringed lids, and looked so
a moment about her. She hu\
the nurse’s loving face ben:
over her, and whispered with
faint little smile:
“Mamie’s mammal”
She had gone back to tie
moment she lost conscionsnos;
beside her dead mother.
She fell asleep again, clasp
ing the nurse’s hand, while
Gilbert, who had just come in,
looked on in rapture
Mike fairly had hystericr
and became so uproarious i
his joy that he to l»o threatens
with the doctor,
Number seventy-eight. la\
with a solemn determination ii
his heart, Since God had an
Swered his prayer for the child
he would answer the one so:
himself. With his return to
health, ho would go to his wife
and child, and begin again hi
broken life, consecrating it to
trust, and usefulness.
Later, he told to Mary Bar
ton, the nurse’s confiding eai.
his story.
He w as from the South .where
he had left his wife and child
with relatives. He had come
to a northern city, hoping to
recruit his ruined fortunes and
send for them. Disappointed
at every step, destitute and
hopeless, ho had attempted to
take the life he thought useless
to others and a disgrace to him
self. The Imiul was too weak
ened by starvation to fully do
the deed, and he had been found
and saved.
“Nothing,” ho concluded,
“but the presence of t-liat little
child would have ever softened
my bitterness. 1 am going
homo to be a man again. ” And
the pledge made by th biby’s
bedside was fully kept.
After little Mamie grow well
enough to be out of her bed,
she became the pet and delight
'of the ward, flittering from bed
to he'd, with her winsome ways
and innocent prattle, beguiling
one from his sorrow, another
from his pain. Mike worsliipi d
her as an angel descended from
heaven. Number seventy ejght
held her in his arms and told
her stories of his own little girl
at home, while Uncle Peter's
face grew radiant whenever
“Little Missis” came near liis
beil. She called Mary Barton
always “mamma,” and never
knew the difference between
her and her mother.
Gilbert Strong came dailv
with gifts to delight and amuse
her. She had learned his step]
upon the stair, and ran to meet
him. Next to the nurse, she
loved him best..
It was a long time before lit
tle Mamie wan acknowledged to
be entirely well, for that meant j
going away, since this was a
hospital for the sick only Gil
bert strong settled t bequest inn
One morning he came in a
carriage, and with tho tearful
farewells of her hospital friends'
he carried her away
So the cozy cottage home,the
old mother’s heart and his own
were all brightened by the pres
ence of his adopted daughter,
the little hospitul waif.
TWO NEGROES HOI.I) l I*
FIVE WHITE MEN.
One of (be boldest highway
robberies on record is reported
to us from Climax, Ga., a small
town on the 8. F. & W. rail
road, about eight miles from
Bainbridge.
About 8 80 o’clock last Thurs
day night, while Mr. D B. En
glish, Dr. Carter, and thice
young men were engaged in con
versation at English’s store,
two negroes, hearing a pistol in
each hand, stepped into the
jstore, and ordered the white
I men to turn their faces to tie
wall, aud hold up their hands.
This they proceeded to do at
once, while the negroes went
through their pockets, taking
what money they had. bqt no
jewelry. English was then or
dered to open his sale, and
i while one negro went through
the contents of the safe, pocket
ing all the cash and tearing 'o
shreds all the private pap-rs,
tho other one, pistol in eiicji
hand, kept the white men lined
up against the wall. They ».*•
cured about JH6 in cash, some
shoe*_and a hat. They an
nouneotj that, they would stay
on tho outside until the eleven j
o'clock train passed, and if any ,
one attempted to leave tile
store, he was a dead limn.
Being unarmed, the men hud
to submit, while the robbers
made good their esoa pe. Blood
hounds are on the trail.—Mon
roe Messenger.
Ulgsus Tabuiwt cure bail i»r«*Ui.
WHY JACK DID NOT RUN
FORA CLAIM.
BY FRANCKS BII.OERBAf'K.
It will open the twenty-first.
That’s the day,” called Jack
Bowen to his wife as he stopped
his team before his cabin door.
Mary had been watching some
time for him to return from
town, not because she was un
easy about him in the least, for
lack had been a sober boy and
wue a sober man, but the love,
vbich a few short years before,
'lad led her to leave her father’s
humble dwelling, had grown
with her years and Jack was al
ways sure of a warm welcome.
They had struggled through
hardships, for Jack was poor,
but his heart was brave and his
’tody was strong and his willing
lands made their rmie log cab
in comfoGable, Jack had rented
i field near by, wh *n> he daily
toiled to earn a living for his
family. They wore happy here,
but ambition entered their Bim
ole lives anil when a tract ol
Indian land, known on the map
is the Cherokee Outlet, but gen
■rally called “The Strip” was
to be opened to white settlers.
Jack and Mary watched eagerly
for the president’s proclama
tion, naming the day when they
might join in a race for a farm
if their own, where their baby
boy, Grata, and their little Es
ther could grow to manhood anil
womanhood without the evil in
lluences of a floating popula
tion.
They had longed for a day
when Jack could mount his fa
vorite horse on the boundary
line of the land of promise and,
as the signal rang from the
musket of the United States
oliHers, speed away into wild,
trackless region stretching be
fore him, and having found n
farm where meadow grasses
wave and sparkling springs feed
the creek that winds among the
trees he would rest his tired
steed and give him food and
drink.
But the time for dreaming
was over; the reality was at
hand. Jack and Mary began
making preparation for camp
ing as the they thought it would
be best to go the boundary line
and camp whero Mary and the
children could remain while
Jack made the race. In this
way they would bo near and j
could go immediately to the
claim when Jack had staked it,
thereby insuring its settlement
ami preventing others from
claiming the same land. In a
few days all was ready and with
merry hearts they bade adieu to
their home. As they journey
ed, filled with hopeful anticipa
tions, little did they dream how
soon they would return with
hearts aching with life’s first
great sorrow, that, time only
could heal.
Traveling in their prairie
schooner (the name commonly
given to the ordinary farm wag
on with a canvass cover) they
reached Orlando, a small town
on the Santa Fo Kail road just
whero it enters Oklahoma prop
er from the north. Near by
they pitched their tout in the
temporary canvas city peopled
with twenty-eight thousand per
s in ou the same errand as
themselves. It was here they
la gan to realize that the chance
they sought to gum u homo de
manded much physical endur
ance. Those days of camping
w« re uncomfortable. The wind,
which prevailed in that section
of the country, blew with great
violence and the loose soil dis
turbed by the tread of man and
beast, tilled the air. It was
scarcely possible to breathe and
goggles to protect tho eyes were
a necessity. Care was required
to pr*i»rve the small &t«>re of
| fond in wholesome condition,
1 lor the resources of the villiage
could barely supply tho demand
Every well in the place was
drawn dry each dav aud the wa
ter was sold at five cents a drink
or ton eoi ts a bucketful. Wa- >
ter wagons were used, not to \
sprinkle the streets, hut to
bring from a distance the nec
essary supply.
Jack must register and to do j
this lie must full in lino behind i
hundreds of men who were tie
fore him ut the booths; still he
was in advance of thousands of
others who were yet to upply.
As newcomers took their places
they wero numbered in compa
nies of sis and if any one lost
his place lie had to begin at the
rear again, so Jack stook or sat
on the around all day in the
dust and heat with short inter
missions for his meals and took
his turn at night rolling up in
a blanket to sleep on the ground
Mary watched and protected the
tittle ones as they slept in their
tent not far away while her
wakeful hours were spent in
listening to the rumble of wag
ons, the cry of children and the
report of the six-shooter as it
added its sound so the various
noises that, wo]t» the nightly
echoes. *
Three days and nights passed
anil Jack had registered. Now
twenty-four hours and the test
would he rm.tle, but Grats,
whom the mother had noticed
was ailing, suddenly went into
a spasm. For a time it seemed
that they could do nothing for
him, but by diligent inquiry the
lather found a iloi’ti»r who re
lieved the child but the relief
was of short juration. At eve
ning another spasm came on.
When the doctor entered the
tent a second time a sad.
thoughtful expression came to
his face. He sat with the fam
ily half the night. Some wo
men from the neighboring tents
came to tak» turns in mistering
to the needs of the little one
to simpathizo with the grief
stricken father and mother. At
dawn, each of these helpers, ac
quaintances of a single night,
went where duty called them
and at noon many horsemen
stood ready to respond to the
signal of the soldier’s musket,
but Jack did not hear the re
port as he bent above the life
less form of baby Grats.
A week later they were back
in their old home with the
nismory of a mound of earth
marking their darling’s resting
place and in their submission
they said, “Let frugality build
for us a homo. We have had
enough of chance."
A TAME LEOPARD.
Of all the cat tribe, leopards
are the easiest to tame and
touch, if they are captured
while young. When they are
old, their savage habits have be
come fixed and it is almost im
possible iheu to tame them.
Thirty years ago a curious
and well known sight on the
streets of B*rliii was Yon dor
Muilliern with his tame leopard.
Baron von der Maitliern, when
a voting man, was for several
years German consul in Egypt.
While there an Arab friend
presented him with a young
leopard. It was only a few
days oid, it eyes not open yet.
The young baron determined to
make a pet of the leopard and
train and treat it like a dog.
The leopards was never con
fined in a cage, but was always
allowed full liberty and was
well fed nnd petted. He slept
on a comfortable rug in his
master's room, and if the night
was cold crept upon his mas
ter’s bed and shared it with
him. Through the day
and out, hs followed Yon ih-r
Madliern about like a faithful
dog and displayed a dog’s affec
tion for his master.
He grew t>y ami by into n
handsome creature, 0110 of the
laigont of I)in species ami finely
marked. When he had been
in Von der Madliern’s posses
sion about two years, the baron
was recalled to Berlin and took
the animal hack with him. In
Berlin the leopard occupied the
sahie place in bis master’s hou.o
that be lmd done before ami
followed the baron about the
streets in the same way.
At first the sight of the crea
ture stalking solemnly along
beside the man created quite u
sensation in the city, and peo
ple crowed to see them pass.
But it drew to be an everyday
matter, which only attracted
occasional notice from strangers
or children.
The animal lived to he about
In years old and died much la
mi nted by all who knew it. Ills
story scorns to prove that the
wildness of such animals is on
ly slightly inherited, and that
their better nature may usually
be brought out bv proper treat*
mont. —Our Animul Friends.
A North Georgia man who
moved to Montana a few years
ago started back a short time
since, and left the following
farewell hot ice on tlio wall of
bis shack, “Four miles fromu
neighbor, lb miles from a post
ollice, 25 miles from a railroad,
11 miles from a church, 180
miles from timber, bull a mile
from water, u quurter of a mile
from hell, the same distance
trom a blood-thirsty half-breed.
God Bless Our Home! Gone
back to Noitli Georgia which is
God's country to get u fresh
Sturt.
—I n ——w»» —— -
Klpan* Tubules cure dyspepsia.
1.00 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE
HURLING ANATHEMAS.
Tn his speech in the House of
Representatives on the tariff
bill, the Hop. Champ Clark of
Missouri thus addressed the re
publican side!
“You will be brought to your
senses when the people get a
allot, at you in the year of our
Lord and Master 1808.
“Then you will he in the con
dition of the man out of whom
the devil was cast, and after
his soul was swept and garnish
ed the devil returned, bringing
with him seven other devils.
The Bible says that the last
state of that man was worse
than the first.
“By the eye of faith, I can
see a million bicycles, with
pneumatic tires, rjding down
protection liars because yon are
putting up the price of bicycles
85 per cent.
“The women of the land—
God bless ’em!—will make
husbands, sons, brothers and
sweetheart* vote against you,
because under the Dingley bill
they can have only one dress
where they had two under the
Wilson-Garman bill,
“Seven million farmers will
dig you up with their hoes, plow
you up with their plows, beat
you with their mauls, hackle
you with their harrows, hammer
you with their sledges, rake you
witii their curry-combs, pulver
ize you with their disks, cut
you down with their axes, split
you to pieces with their frees,
ride you on their barbed wire
fences, toss you with their pitch
forks, smite you with their pile
drivers, grind you through their
sausage mills, mow you down
with their reapers, t»ind you up
*n great bundles, run you thro'
their threshing machines am!
scatter you as worthless chaff,
because yon are raising the price
of all farming implements by
15 per cent.
“Every patient forced"to en
dure a surgical operation will
loathe you, because you hav<
increased the tax on anaesthet
ics. Every lover of learning
will detest you, because you
have laid a prohibitive tariff on
books, thereby shutting thi
gates of knowledge so fur as
was in your power. Every child
that dies of Uiptheria will pass
away pronouncing on you its
lasting curse, because you have
put up the price of antitoxin
You are arraying against you
eyery right-thinking man and
woman in the land.
“ ‘Since he, miscalled the Morn
ing Star,
Nor man nor fiend hath fallen
so far’—
ns yon will fall when the people
of the United States find out
the numerous monstrosities con
tained in the bill.”
CONDENSED TESTIMOMY.
Chas. B. Hood, Broker and
Manufacturer’s Agent, Colum
bus, Ohio, certifies that Dr
King’s New Discovery has no
equal as a Cough remedy.
J. I). Brown, Prop. Sr. James
Hotel, Ft. Wayne, Did., testi
fies that he was cured of aCough
of two years standing, caused
Gy La Grippe, by Dr. King’s
New Discovery.
B. F. Merrill, Baldwinsville,
Mass., savs that he bus used
and recommended it and never
knew it to fail and would rather
havo it than any doctor, be
ywpise it always cures.
Mrs. Hemming, 222 E. 25th
St., Chicago, always keeps it
at bund and has no fear ol
Croup, because it instantly re
lieves.
Free trial bottles at Winn &
\ Son’s Drug Store.
BEASTS, b7rDs"aND EISH.
Each salmon produces about
] 20,000,000 eggs.
It is said that the Greenland
while sometimes uttains tin,
age of 400 years.
In (aimed, Kan., not only
the life of an unlicensed dog is
i forfeited, but its owner must
' pay a fine.
An acre of good fishing ground
in the sea will yield more foot!
in a week than mi acre of the
| best land will do in a year.
The horse, when browsing, is
iguided entirely by the nostrils
|in the choice of proper food,
anil ‘blind horses are never
known to make mistakes in
diet.
The cries of sea birds, espe
cially sea gulls, ore very valu
able as fog signals. The birds
cluster on the cliffs and coast,
anil their cries warn boatmen
that they are near the land.
The most valuable fur is that
of the sea otter. Ouc thousand
doPurs lias l>een paid for a sin
gle skin of this animal not more
than two yards long by three
quarters of a yard wide.—Balti
more American.
“That,” said the wa»tor to
the lonely mtpi who was taking
his dinner at a cheap restau
rant, “that is real genuine conn
try-bred mutton, sir.”
“Yea.” returned the guest,
thoughtfully, “it’s even what
you might call died-iu-the-
I tjfool.”
ft®,
rill
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
Celebrated for its great Itavening
sarength and healthfulness. As
sures the food against alum and all
forms of adulteration common to
the cheap brands. Uoyai. Rakixo
Powder <omi>aj;y, Nkw York.
ANOTiD RIDDL&*
Tlie Boston Transtript has re
eently published and old riddle,
which is said to have appeared
years ago in an English period
ical Within a few years the
same riddle was brougt up in a
certain circle of a large New
England town, with the result
that the rhymes for a time were
on every one’s tongue. So tar
as known, no one ever guessed
the answer. Here it is:
Come ui.ri commiserate
One who was blind.
Homeless and desolate,
Void of a mind;
Guileless, deceiving,
Through unbelieving,
Free front all sin;
By mortals adored,
Still 1 ignored
The world I was in.
King Ptolemy’s, Cemar’s,
And Tigloth I’ileser's
Birthdays are shown;
Wise men, astrologers,
All are acknowledgers,
Mine is unknown,
l ne’er had a father #
Or mother; or rather,
If I had either,
Then they were neither
Alive at my birth;
Lodged in a palace,
Hunted by malice,
l did not inherit
By lin.age or merit* •'
A spot on the earth.
Nursed among pagans,
No one baptized me,
A sponsor I had
Who ne’er catechised me;
She gave me the name
To her heart was the dearest,
She gave me the ph-ce
To her bosom was nearest,J
But one look of kinduess
She cast on me never,
Nor a word in my blindness
I heard from her ever.
Compassed by dangers,
Nothing could harm me;
By foeinen ami strangers.
Naught could alarm me;
I saved, I destroyed;
I blessed, I annoyed;
Kept a crown for a Prince,
But had none of mv own;
Filled the place of a King,
But ne’er sal on a throne;
Rescued a warrior; baffled a plot;
Was what 1 seemed not,
Seemed what I was not;
Devdted to slaughter,
A price on my head,
A King’s lovely dnughter
Watched by my bed;
Though gently she dressed me,
Fainting with fear,
She never caressed me
Nor wiped oil a tear.
Never moistened my lips,
Though parching and dry,
(What marvel a blight
Should pursue till she diel)
’Twas royalty nursed me,
Wretched and poor;
'Twas royalty cursed me,
In secret, I’m sure.
I live not, I die not;
But tell you I must
That ages have passed
Since 1 first turned to dust.
This paradox whence?
This squalor! This spleudor!
Say! was 1 a King,
Or a silly pretender?
Fathom the mystery,
Deep in my history!
Was I a man?
An angel supernal?
A demon infernal?
; Solve it who can f
A Polecat, who was traveling
lor pleasure, <ame upon an In
sect who was traveling for bus.
mess.
“Ah, there, little one I” the
Polecat affably said, “can I be
of any assistance to you ?”
“No, thank you,” said the
Insect, at the same time reach
ing for his handkerchief, “I
am doing very well, thanks.”
“But 1 should lie able to help
you. You must observe that 1
am much larger than you are.”
“Yes, I know, I know,” re
sponded the Insect, anxiously
looking for a means of escape, ”
“but 1 smell so much the bet
ter.”
Moral: Metropolitan papers
are much larger than those of
the interior.—Fresno ltepubli
can.
Only 50 Cents !
In addiuon to our cluhltiiig rate*
with the Constitution, Journal, N.
Y. World amt Southern Cultivator,
in or<)er to give the people of the
county their isututy paper fora low
price, we will send the Hxm*i.i>
from now until January the first
for Fifty Cents. Send iu your
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