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Watkinsville, Oconee Co., Georgia.
W. Gr. STJLLIV-AJST,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
M e are returning to our census as a
nation.
England entertains only— remember,
only—795,( 00 paupers.
Six more of the alleged Pennsylvania
bribers are to be prosecuted.
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Mrs. Hayes proposes to spend the
summer at Lake Chautauqua.
Wabhburne is the second choice of
the Iowa delegation to Chicago.
Breaker Randall thinks Congress
will not adjourn before about J une 15.
The Greenville and Columbia (South
Carolina) Railway sold for $2,963,400.
The combination wool sales of Ken
tucky, come off on the 5th, 6th and 7th
of May.
Hart, the winner of the latest walk¬
ing match, proposes to study law in
Boston.
The House has passed a bill appropri
ating $50,000 toward the HowgatePo'ar
Expedition.
In Chicago the Coroner sits on a dead
man whether he will or no. Flowers
and friends don’t save him.
Paul Boynton is devoting the pro
ceedsof his lectures in the Southern
cities to the Irish relief fund.
Returns of an election in Berlin for
member of the Reichstag, give evidence
of a marked decline of the Socialistic
movement.
A DRUNKEN couple at Saginaw,
Mich., took their little girl aged seven,
along on a spree, and finally left her in
toxicated in the street.
The damage done to timber in New
Jersey by forest fires this spring is in¬
calculable. A great number of cattle
also felt victims to the flames.
Gf.neralJ. J. Bartlett’s little four
year-old daughter, recently traveled
alone from Chicago to San Francisco.
She carried a letter adressed to the con
ductors.
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A contest over an oleomargarine
patent in the United States at Chicago
develops the astounding fact that tallow
butter has a sale in this country of 98,
000,000 pounds a year.
Junk dealers will be tickled to death
to learn that there is a prospect that
three hundred thousand copies of Com
missioner Le Due’s ideas on the beet
sugar business will be printed.
The Memphis Appeal says that Cin
cinnati, St. Louis and Chicago are all
within the “yellow fever belt,” whatever
it means by that, but suppose it means
they will get a belt from yellow fever.
The Pennsylvania stonemason who
went raving mad over the fifteen puzzle,
is reported cured. While in the asylum J
he insisted on cutting up everything, in¬
cluding physicians and attendants into
fifteen pieces.
Peck’s Sun: Congressman Springer
has been charged with receiving a letter,
and he will be investigated. We knew
Congressmen were pretty bad, but we
had no idea that they had got so they
received letters.
Boston culture will tell. There, for
instance, is Hart, the walker, who hails
from the Huh. His success shows that
in such intellectual contests as walking
matches the Modem Athens will hold
her own.
It is strange that every attempt that
has ever been made in this country on
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the life of a President proved successful
while in the old world, such attempts
have been almost as universally a fail
ure. Whyisthis?
The next annual regatta of the Mis¬
sissippi Valley Rowing Association will
be held in Moline, f llinois, on June 22d,
23d and 24th. The Moline Boat Club
have to raise $3,000 to $4,000 to defray
the necessary expenses.
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The burial of a Jewess in New York
the other day, who had, during life,
been converted to the Christian faith,
was the cause of so much turbulence
that it became necessary to call the
police to protect the remains.
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Mbs. Van Pelt, the local editor of
the Dubuque (la.) Times, is also base
bail editor of that journal. Last year
she reported more than sixty games,
She is considered the best authority in
Dubuque on the national game.
The horrible sacrifice of 700 men,
women and children at Mandalay to
stay the disease offtbe fin-drinking atonement len
rosy-stricken Kim-. m an !~ nem6nl
,i»mon4od demanded hv by find God, is 1 m- a step m . the wrong
direction of Christian civilization.
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The Navy Department has been ap
prised that coaling stations for United
States vessels have been established on
both sides of the Isthmus of Darien
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English press proposes to do about it.
The Watkinsville Advance.
VOLUME I.
Cincinnati Commercial: Is there
really any great necessity for the con
tinued existence of West Point? Army
officers appointed from civil life suc¬
ceeded during the late rebellion ajboutas
"’ell as the graduates of the Military
School.
The proposition seems to exist that
the balance of the Geneva Award now
j n the Treasury be donated to the suffer
ing of Ireland; this upon the hypothesis
that it was paid to us by the British
Government. That sort of business is
what boys used to call an “Indian
trade.”
Is F / a ° ce Jesuitical question be
comes daily more and more intricate, on
account of the irresolution of the Gov
eminent, which, in its anti-clerical cam¬
paign, is equally assaulted by the Re¬
actionists and the ultra Radicals. The
Cabinet will probably be destroyed by
the workings of that question,
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It will not surprise any one to hear
that the peach crop has been entirely
destroyed. It always is. There is too
much reason to fear, however, that this
time the cry of “ wolf” is genuine, and
that the late frosts, following an ex
traordinarily warm winter and spring,
have indeed killed the prematurely ex
panding buds,
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The present year promises to witness
the arrival of the largest number of
emigrants that have yet reached these
shores in twelve months. The arrival
the first three months are greater than
were ever before recorded in a correspond
in S P eld od.
King Theebaw has his imitators out
in Nevada. The Eureka Sentinel of last
week says that a number of Indians re
ceutl - v buried a warrior known as “Old
Adam,” alive. The Indians explained
that Adam was about to die anyhow,
This world is hardly yet a Sunday
school out for an airing, even if we do
live in the nineteenth century.
A herd of 23,800 cattle are being
driven from Oregon to Montana; 120
men do the driving, and the outfit in
eludes provision wagons, arms and
amunition, 800 horses and forty dogs,
The journey is made slowly, a day’s
travel not exceeding nine miles, and the
speed will be lessened when hot weather
comes on, in order not to get the beasts
into bad condition.
A baby show is to be held in Portland,
Maine, under the auspices of a Sweden
borgian society, and the advertisement
“ Portraits of the loveliest babies
of Portland to be thrown on a mammoth
screen by means of a stereopticon and
the . _ Drummond , .. h g . llt- A * ]l 860110118 of ,
city represented. Your baby may
be there.” The portraits have been ob
tailed from various photographers,
The Dundee Free Presbytery, Scot¬
land, have, by a vote of fifteen to thir¬
teen, adopted an overture to the general
assembly, recognizing the band of God
in the Ti \ y brid f disastCr ’ and a8king
the assembly , to devise means for remov
lng . tem P tatl0ns , ,» x t0 Sunday traveling and .
traffic. One speaker said that be re¬
garded the disaster as a judgment of
God upon mercantile trickery in build¬
ing a bad bridge.
From June 30, 1876, to February I,
1880, twenty-five revenue officers were
killed and forty-nine wounded in trying
to break up the illicit distillation of
spiritsin South Carolina, North Carolina,
Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia.
Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, and Ken¬
tucky. Asa result, however, 3,043 stills
were seized and 6,153 persons arrested,
and now the revenue receipts from that
district are more than doubled.
So long as the priests at Mandalay
were not com P elled 10 submit their own
carcasses as a human sacrifice to
Goi for the g°° d of the country, and
the P enalt J fel1 u P° n others’ heads,
everything seemed to be all serene, but
the other day when the astrologists an¬
nounced to King Theebaw that God
demanded that one hundred out of the
seven hundred human sacrifices should
be priests, such a scattering of white
was never before seen. They
began to get out of the country just as
fast as the Lord would let them.
The Earl of Dunmore, who owns a
property of 30,000 acres in Scotland, and
is one of the best known cattle breeders
in the United Kingdom, is on his way
to Helena, Montana, where he intends
starting a ranch on a very extensive
scale. He intends buying several thous
and head of cattle in Texas and having
them transported to his ranch during
the coming summer. It is his further
intention to import 200 or 300 bulls of
his own favorite breed, and he is san
guine of raising a stock of cattle second
to none. His ultimate plan is to ship
beef to England preserved by the re
frigerating process,
An investigation into the influence of
fo n .* l6l, in the public service of the
United t States, ,. . if pressed into oersonali
f>s, would be had. the biggest Bln there scandal this
country ever is no fear
of j U place, and when it came to
be opened the defense need only write
against the wall in large letter*: “Let
h,m wbo '• without offense cut the first
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WATKINSVILLE, GEORGIA, MAY 12, 1880.
The Young Lady M ho Didn’t Like John
Gilpin.
[From Mr. Jamos Faya's “Sham Admiration in Litera¬
ture, ” in the Nineteenth Century.]
“ Until Caldecott’s charming illustra¬
tions of it made me laugh so much,”
said a young lady to me the other day,
“ I confess—though I know it’s very
stupid of me—1 never saw much fun in
John Gilpin.” She evidently expected
a reproof, and when I whispered in her
ear, “Nor'I,” her lovely features as¬
sumed a look of positive enfranchise¬
“You ment. “But certainly am I right?" right, she inquired.
are my dear young
lady,” where said I, “not to pretend admiration
you don’t feel it; as to liking
John Gilpin, that is a matter of taste.
It has, of course, simplicity to recom¬
mend it; but in my has own case, though
I’m fond of fun, it never evoked a
smile. It has always seemed to me like
one of Mr. Joe Miller’s stories put into
tedious verse.” I really almost thought
(and hoped) that that young always’says lady would
have kissed me. “Papa it
is a free country,” she exclaimed, “but
I never felt it to be the case before this
moment.” For years this beautiful
and accomplished creature had locked
this awful secret in her innocent breast
—that she didn’t see much fun in John
she Gilpin. said, “You have given me courage,”
“to confess something else.
Mr. Caldecott has just been illustrating
in the game charming manner Gold¬
smith’s Elegy on Mad Dogs, and—I’m
very sorry—but I never laughed at that
before, either. I have pretended to
laugh, and you know” she added, times.” hastily
“I don’t apologetically, doubt it,” “hundreds of
I replied; “this is
not such a free country as your father
supposes.” nothing “But am 1 rght?” “Isay
about right,” 1 answered, “ ex¬
cept that everybody has a right to his
own think opinion. Mad For Djg my part, however, I
the better than John
Gilpin Whether only because it is shorter.”
1 was wrong or right in the
matter is of no consequence, even to my¬
self; the affection and gratitude of that
yi ung creature would more than repay
me for a much greater mistake, if mis¬
take it is. She protests that I have
emancipated since talked her from slavery. She has
to me about all sorts of au¬
thors, from Sir Philip Sidney to Wash¬
ington people’s Irving, in away that would make
some blood run cold; but it
has no such effect upon me—quite the
reverse. that his strokes Of Irving she naively remarks her
of humor seem to
to owe much of their success to the
rarity of their occurrence; the flashes
of fun are spread over pages of dullness,
which enhance them, just as a dark
night is propitious to fireworks, or the
atmosphere of the House of Commons,
or a court of law, to a joke. She is often
in error, no doubt, but how bright and
wholesome such talk is, as compared
which with the platitudes hears and all sides common places
one on in connec¬
tion with literature!
Starting a Papci.
f Dead wood Pioneer.]
One Heedless more unfortunate, of evil,
Kashi y importunate,
Gone to the devil.
sound Why any man, sane or insane, with
a body and a chance to cultivate
his neighbor’s watermelon-patch and
smokehouse after night, should ever
want to be an ediior is more than we can
tell. It is a conundrum that stumps
us as plumb as a sumac grub does a sore
toe, or as a common American sense question does
an average statesman. As
for us, give us liberty, or give us a re¬
spectable death with an undis'orted
cor pse and a good looking girl to kiss
us for our mother.
An editor! Everybody’s pecking
blocfc, Bcapegoat and sway backed pack
mule. Ten thousand times one mil¬
lionth rather let us be a boot-black,
chimney-sweep, be mud-clerk penitentiarv-bird or
congressman; on a coal
barge, gineer deck-hand one-donkey-power in a tripe factory, en¬
of a canal
boat, dairy-maid with an aged ox and
two he-goats as our stock in trade, or
servant gal in' a poor house ora n orphan
asylum; be a stock-gambler, railroad di¬
rector, vender, president charcoal-bawler, of a siusage machine,
rag governor
or thing darkey but preacher; anything, every¬
an editor.
And yet there are victims, self-doomed,
ever ready to sacrifice themselves on the
ink smearfid altar of endless and thank¬
less drudgery.
“ Man’s a vapor
Full of woe»;
Liarts a paper.
Up.he goes.”
Self-Appreciation.
The conduct of the present King of
Bavaria in excluding not only the pub¬
lic, but even a single spectator from the
performances before of operas and plays given
himself, but it has often excited com¬
ment; may not be generally
known that the example was given to
him by This Lully, illustrious the “father” of French
opera. had risen from the position musician, of who
scullion
of M’lle de Montpensier’a kitchen to
the rank of a Gentleman of the King’s
Bed-chamber, disgusted at the want of
public appreciation that of one of his finest
operas, ordered work to he per¬
formed solely before himself, on which
occasion he reversed the verdict of the
the public piece by and rapturously the performers, applauding both
whom he
afterward entertained at a sumptuous
supper XIV., prepared hearing by his own bands.
Louis on of the occur¬
rence, immediately ordered the opera to
be produced at Versailles, saying that
the greatest composer of the period
must necessarily lie a better judge of the
value of his worx than either the critics
or the public. This decision was speed¬
ily indorsed by the Parisians, who, on a
second hearing, declared the work to be
the master-piece of Jean Baptiste de
Lully.
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“Where is your mother?” said a
worthy man to a little street miserable.
She answered diffidently, “She is dead.”
“Have you no father?” “Yes, sir; hat
he is sick.” “What ails him?” con¬
tinued the questioner. "He has got a
sore finger, sir.” “Indeed?” "Yes,
sir." “Whyi don’t he cut It off, then ? ’
bPiease, sir, he hain’t get any money to
uy a knife.”
Social Errors.
A correspondent writing in the Sunny
South, ol Atlanta, Ga., says: We press
our friends to come to see us; we en¬
treat them to remain longer, they and we are
vexed in our hearts if take us at
our word. It has become a matter of
course to invite people whom you do
not want and to beg them to stay when
you are anxious to have them go. One
should think twice before accepting
hospitality, ful and should always be care¬
not to wear out his welcome. It
seems au intuitive social law to wel¬
come the No coming host and hostess speed thelparting likes
guest. or the
visitor, however pleasant, who makes
the time of his stay linked sweetness
long people, drawn otherwise out. Yet sensible, we find who plenty commit of
this error. A few instances Come to
our pen’s end this moment. A young
lady we knew very well was visiting
some friends in town, and on leaving,
invited two of her girl companions to
accompany her homo. At the train
they were joined by two young gentle¬
men who came to say good-bye and to
see them off. In the warmth and
thoughtlessness invited of her heart, the girl
them also to pay her a visit,
and to the surprise of all, the invitation
was with accepted. the The train moved off
entire party; the young gen¬
tlemen saying tbey would return by the
next down train. One of them did;
the other stayed at the farm-house sev¬
eral cold, days. The weather few at:d was bitterly
servants were the heads
of the house were old people, one of
them an invalid. It was no great mat¬
ter of regret to any one when at last he
announced his intention of going. The
carriage was ordered to drive him the
twelve miles of miserable muddy road
that lay between the farm-house and
the station; he said good-bye and drove
away. The yonng ladies cheerfully
dressed themselves to receive other
company heard when, as they sat by the fire,
they the sound of wheels, and
presently weeks’ who should walk in but the
two bore. He came in bowing,
and blushed confusedly as h© saw the
cold, surprised looks of the young
ladies. One would think this would
have shown him he had worn out his
welcome, but be taxed the hospitality
of the farm-house another week.
More discerning and sensible was a
girl elegant friend of mine who was visiting
frieuds in the city. They were
very kind and attentive, and at the
expiration of her visit they pressed her
so warmly to remain longer that she
consented; but no sooner had she so
decided, felt then her sensitive perception
a change in the social themometer.
Hospitality fell below diminished; blood heat—the
warmth of good-will so she
quie’ly packed her trunk that night,
ordered a carriage next morning, beg¬
ged her friends not to consider her vacil¬
lating, and in spite of their protesta¬
tions, bade them au affectionate good¬
bye, and departed. The little experi¬
ence the taught her a lesson and went to
formation of a firm character.
The Way They Do in Congress.
[Detroit Free Pre»n.]
On Saturday going when “Big English”
saw that it was to be a lonesome
day for the boot-blacks, he set his head
to work to devise something to break
the monotony. About 10 o'clock be
got a number of boys into the alley be¬
tween the Postoffice and organized the
“ Forty-Fifth Congress.” of “ daily Big English ’
is a regular reader the papers,
and he is a great organizer, it took him
but fifteen minute. to get the “ House ”
and “Senate” running looked so smoothly that
lawyers and others down from
the windows with great interest.
“Who’s a liar?” yelled a white-headed
boy as he jumped up!” up. shouted Sixth Ward
“Ob, dry
Tom.
“ Put him out—he was in the rebel
army!” called a boy from Grand River
avenue.
“ Some one clubbed my dog fifteen
years ago, and I can never forgive him,”
howled Strawberry Bob.
“Git out the records and less see who
was loyal,” put in ” King’s rapped boy. his box
“ Big order, English but King Tommy on threw to
restore
up his hat and nozes.” yelled: “ I moves for the
aizes and the
“ He can’t gag me,” shouted a lathy
boy from Windsor.
“ Less have a salary grab’” piped a
Congress street hoy. stand,”
“Thepeepul won’t whooped
another.
“Hain’t we railing. the peepul?” demanded a
boy on the country?” asked the
“Are we one
Speaker as he rose up.
“ I are, but you hain’t!” yelled Nickty
Nick.
continued “Doesn’t the one Speaker. flag float for us all!”
“ It does about tax time,” screamed
■ cross-eyed Somebody youth kicked from Hpringwells.
the honorable
Speaker. He then struck the honorable
gentleman irom Wisconsin, smashed at
the honorable gentleman from Georgia,
and his hair stood up and coat tails
stood eut. When the row had quieted
down the honorable Speaker remarked:
“ It was pretty good for the first time,
though you didn’t abuse each other
enough.”
Indians Customs.
iToronto Mail.}
who A corrspondent that of the Ottawa Citizen,
states he has passed eighteen
years of his life among the Indian
tribes of the Northwest, contradicts the
assertion of the Globe'* Fort Walsh cor¬
of respondent slavery as *o the them, virtual prevalence
among and the practice
of Indian parents selling their daughters
to white men. He states that it is com¬
mon upon the marriage of a daughter
for the husband to give the bride’B
father a horse, not as the price of his
wife, but as a pledge confirmative of the
matrimonial obligation he assumes. The
Globe* correspondent apjtears to ha 7 e
taken a wrong view of an ancient In¬
dian custom. Still, it is open to ques¬
tion whether the white men who are
parties to these transactions regard the
matter in the same light as the Indians,
or recognize primitive ceremonial. the binding character of
the
Do-Nothing People.
[Youth’s Companion.J
Before the French Revolution the
monitors of the royal family and the
grand lords and ladies never thought of
doing anything for themselves that
others could do for them. Taine, in his
“Ancient Regime,” gives a curious il¬
lustration of the effect of this enforced
helplessness. vernation with In the course of a con
Mine, Louise, the daugh*
ter of Louis XV, who was a Carmelite
nun, if me. de Geniis said: “I should
like to know what troubled you most in
getting accustomed to your new pro¬
fession.” “You could never imagine,”
small she replied. flight of “It was the descent of a
steps alone by myself.
At first it seemed to me a dreadful prec¬
ipice, and I was obliged to sit down on
the steps and slide down in that atti¬
tude.” The Princess had never de¬
scended any staircase save the grand one
at Versailles and only that when lean¬
ing on the arm of a noble cavalier. The
steep and winding steps of the convent,
therefor seemed appalling when she had
to descend them alone. A story is told
of the Duchess of Edinburgh, the
daughter exhibits of the Czar of Russia, which
a similar training. Shortly
after her marriage with Victoria’s son,
the Duchess was entertained at a nob’e
man’s house. A party was made up to
visit the extensive greenhouses, the
Duchess leading, as was her right, the
way. In passing up the narrow aisle of
one of the houses the royal Jady came
to a closed door. The passage was too
narrow for any of her suite to pass her
ana open the door and she stood as mo
tionless as a statue.
whisper, "Oblige “by me,” said the Duke in a
to the door sending from some one around
open the other side,
for Bhe’ll not open it if she stands there
for a month.” It may excite a smile
to read such illustrations as these of
physical helplessness involved in the
etiquette fear of royal households, and we
that a training similar in kind, if
not in a degree, marks many American
families. In a recent sermon the Rev.
Washington Gladden, of Springfield,
Mass., spoke of the fact that “some
American girls are broght up to learn
nothing and do nothing. He referred
to one woman who was proud that her
daughter never did any sweeping, and
to another who never let her daughter
do any kitchen work. Such training
must foster selfishness and indolence
and a loss of respect and of true re¬
gard for others.
The C'hlncr- In Society.
[From Farin Letter. |
The evening partiesat the Chinese Em¬
bassy have the been Marquis proving attractive.
Every week de Tseng has
given a soiree, preceded by a dinner.
His house in the Avenue Kleber is large
and handsomely fitted, and the last recep¬
tion was particularly brilliant. His
excellency receives his guests at the
drawing-room tionlfess Chinese door, to gain which, a tno
has been passed on every
step of the staircase and a row of Chinese
children on the landing. The marquis
wore a short yellow robe; a red coral
button ornamented his cap, while two
tails protruded at the back of it. The
of marquise five, was seated, end with her little boy
at the of the salon, and was
surrounded by European ladies. She
was in black, with gay patches of color
about her dress, and wore a large amber
necklace. The child was In scarlet,
braided apparently with colors. Every
nationality was represented, but the
crush was too great to show the toilettes
in detail. There is no doubt, however,
that these Chinese receptions increase
the taste for rich Eastern brocades inter¬
woven with gold, for which a decided
partiality Chinese products has already been shown. The
are often confounded
with the Japanese, but no matter—both
add a picturesque element to a Western
toilette. Chinese silks are made up into
Louis XV. coats; the foundation or
groundwork is either silk and gold or
silk and silver: small dragons and
fantastic flowers in dark coloring
stand out in relief from the fond.
Large pockets and revers are worn on
such coats, which are fastened with
either enameled or silver niello buttons.
Chinese fringes are very popular; they
are composed with pearls of tiny tufts of floss silk
mixed and coral beads, and
likewise with gold and silver threads.
New Chinese embroideries are to replace
last year’s trimmings; they reproduce
the letters of the Chinete alphabet, and
are worked in red on an almost trans¬
parent ecru foundation; be also birds fly
mg, as are to seen on Oriental screens,
and Chinese personages exquisitely
sketched in red silk. Parasols are to be
bordered with Japanese designs. An¬
other trimming to be seen on spring
costumes consists of satin ribbon, with
gold; small Eastern for example, designs interwoven with
red and blue pines
outlined with gold on a black satin
foundation.
“Wildcat” Silver Mining.
[Boaton Transcript.)
Silver mining is as honest a business
as ever was done, and as safe. There
are as many more millions in it as have
been taken out of it. Even at Lead
ville only a few acres comparatively
have been discovered opened up, but enough has
been to warrant the state¬
ment that Lesdville alone will yield
twice as much as the Comstock lode,
which is said to have added three hun¬
dred millions to the world's stock of
silver. Indeed, it is claimed that beds
of silver equally twenty rich miles underlie wide, a strip with
of country
numerous branches extending the whole
breadth of Colorado, from Denver to
New Mexico. But mining even as
gled richly with profitable the frauds as this of can ha-ty be cupidity so min¬
that it becomes dishonest, “wildcat,'’
and dangerous, The temptation to
minin g company managers comes in this
way: The mine is hugely over capital¬
ized, dividends and in order ita stock, to nay it a few monthly
on is “gouged.
The straining stock for monthly compels dividends to
sell and a “ new gouging” brings “gouging,” col¬
ft obviously for on the speedy interest
of lapse. engaged Is in the business
those great
of developing the immense mineral
ricbei ol Colorado not to permit tLeae
" gougings” and collapses.
NUMBER 10.
Sparking on a Leg.
[Vallejo Chronicle.]
Be it known that there abideth in
good city of Vallejo a young, affable,
handsome, deserving young man
has, or rather intends to have, for his
affianced an equally handsome and ami
ble young lady of this same burg. Be
it abo known that this young lady re¬
joices in her the possesion of a brother, twe
years senior—one of those frolic¬
some, that sisters good-for-nothing sort of scamps
most do love and idolize.
Well—this young lady, one evening
last week, had a sort of gatheiing of
yonng friends at her papa’s house, at
which music, games and a general good
time were the chief features of the oc¬
casion. The - good for-nothing btother,
of course, assi-ted his sister iu doing the
honors of the evening, but owing to a
slight headache he lit a cigar, aud as
was supposed, tooka walk,excusing him¬
self from the company.
The festivities proceeded until about
twelve o’clock, when a general breaking
up occurred. The company went up
stairs to get their hats, shawls, etc., and
among them, of course, was the young
lover, who lingered about till the com¬
pany had retired below, and was pre¬
paring scended, to leave. As the last one de¬
he took his “ darling’s” hand
in his and tenderly pulled her inside of
a small room over the hall—the bed
room dilatory of a good-for-nothing good-bye had brother. As
a to be said (and
the company below knew it, too), our
hero and heroine sat on the edge of the
bed, the in total darkness, and whispered
usual soft things that lovers gener¬
ally whisper on such occasions. Tbey
had gone on in this style for some time
when the “dear one” remarked:
“Harry, they must think it strange
we stairs.” stay so long. Now let’s go down
sponded, “Only one more, my precious!” he re¬
and a scries of peculiar sounds
saluted the atmosphere.
“ Now, Harry, don’t I What will they
think down stairs?”
“ Never mind what they think, dear¬
est. Tell me, Mollie, do you really love
me?” and he clasped, or was supposed
to waist. clasp, her affectionately about the
“ Evpr so much, Harry, and you know
it. Gome, we must go down.”
“ Bime bv, bime by, dear. You know
how much 1 love to hear you tell me
those sweet words. Do you mean it,
Mollie?”
“ What can I say, Harry, to coriVince
you? know You that know all my thoughts, aud
you you alone possess my
heart.”
“ Oh, sweet, delicious words. I am
fairly intoxicated with joy, Mollie
dear.”
“I believe you, my boy; but when
you get through with that d—d non¬
sense, Ihope you'll this, gel off oj my leg and
clear out of ’catue 1 want to go to
tleep ! '
The brother had spoken 1 The young
rascal had been in tied for an hour, and
the lovers had actually been sitting on
his love. leg making the most desperate sort
of The twain precipitately de¬
scended, looking alioutas sheepish as two
mortals could. The next morning the
young table. lady did No not appear at divine the break
ast one could the
reason but the good-for-nothing brother,
but he held his peace till dinner time,
when he broke out with—
“ Sis, the next time you get sparking
ieg vour feller, do just select some other man's
to it upon, if you please, for mine
isn’t through aching yet!”
He submitted to several good-natured
thumps, but he assured his sister that
hereafter, whenever “ her Harry ” came
to see her, he would see that his bedroom
was locked.
Writing Materials.
| London Mince Jinny.]
The materials used for writing have
varied in different ages and nations.
A mong the Egyptians slices of limestone,
leather, linen and papyrus—especially
the last—were universally employed.
The Greeks used bronze and stone for
dums, public monuments, wax for memoran¬
and papyrus for the ordinary
transactions of life. The kings of Per
other gamus nations adopted of parchment, and the
the ancient world
chiefly depended on the paper of Egypt.
But the Assyrians and Babylonians em¬
ployed their historical for their public documents,
annals, and even for
their title deeds and bills of exchange,
tablets, cylinders and hexagonal prisms
of still terra cotta. Home of these cylinders, records of
extant, contain valuable
ancient history. To this indestructible
material, in and happy idea of employing is in¬
it this manner, the present age
debted for a detailed history of the As¬
syrian monarchy; while the decades of
Livy, the plays of Leander and the laws
of Anacreon, confided to a more perish¬
able material, have either wholly the wrecks or par¬ o‘f
tially disappeared among
empires.
Talk at Home.
Endeavor always to talk your best be¬
fore your children. They hunger per¬
petually for new ideas. They learn
with pleasure they dream from is the drudgery lips of parents learn
what to
from books, and, even if they have to be
deprived of many educational advant¬
ages, they will grow up intelligent if
they enjoy in chiiuhood the privilege of
listening intelligent daily to the conversation of
who people. We life sometimes see
parents, are the of every com¬
pany which they enter, dull, silent, and
dren. uninteresting If they at home among their chil¬
have not mental stores
enough for both, let them first use what
they have for their own households. A
silent home is a dull place for young
people, if a they place from which much they useful will
escape can. How
information, on the other hand, is often
given in pleasant conversation; and
what unconscious, but excellent, mental
training is lively social argument! Cul¬
tivate to the utmost the graces of con¬
versation.
One thousand five hundred families
are going to take up land in Marylard
Peninsula. The farms will range from
ten to one hundred acres and the
farmer will have from ten to one hun¬
dred years to pay for them. Go East,
young man, go East.
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I.IIli'.R % I. T till VIM FOR MORE ft i» k
PASSING SMILES.
The latest agony—toothache at three
a. ra.
A miisfitting coat is a lie out of the
whole cloth.
How long does a widower mourn for
his wife? For a second.
The hen knows the man who robs her
nest. She is always laying for him.
A dog which won’t run from an ele¬
phant from will break liia back to get away
an oyster can.
Lovers who never quarrel and de¬
mand “ them letters and photographs ”
back are not taking real solid comfort.
A queer old hen declined an invita¬
tion to a gander party recently, for the
reason that the ganders did not belong
to her set.
“ Now, this is what I call business,”
remarked a Brooklyn undertaker, as an
unfortunate gentleman stepped into his
store and died.
An exchange speaks of the “ reboom
itizatioa.” The tine for shooting the
English language full of holes has got
to be increased.
Trying to do business without adver¬
dark. tising is like winking at a girl in the
You may know what you are
doing, but nobody else does.
A man who offered for $5 to put any
one on the track of a paying investment
seated an applicant, between the rails of
the Boston and Albany Railroad.
C'OMi? here, loving wife of mi in*,
Kit on my knee, my dear,
Ami how t.kiin collar-button on
Before l bust your ear.
Three days after a baby is born every¬
body digs says, “ Ketehetty, ketchetty,”
and its ribs with a forefinger.
Hence the prevalence of ill-temper in
adults.
A Michigan boy committed suicide
because his mother scolded him for
smoking. that there It’s cheerful to remember
is another world where every¬
body smokes.
Worth makes the man, but it takes a
wheelwright intack Republican. to make the felloe.— Hack
tleman. How proud Spoke in wife like a gen¬ be
your must
of her “ hub!”
Jubt bear this truth in mind boys,
and ponder at your will: It’s better to
owe your tailor forever than beat him
out of his bill. And that’s what the
boys are doing.
“PHAT will ye do, Dennis, avic, when
the Chinase go? Will ye wurrak7”
“ Wurrak, is it? The divil a wurrak,
when I can getenufi omadhauns to pay
me for howling.”
A German traveler in Africa char
acterizes a people he came across as “in¬
tensely tyrhine, black, dolichocephalic, dichotomatic and pla- and
dolichodoctylic.” prognathous,
Keenness of taHte is a great thing . A
Buflitlo man who drank a glass of
whisky in Albany said he thought there
was no trouble with the liquor, but that
there had been water in the tumbler.
It’h easy! By reversing a dog, we
make a god 1 By reversing a rat, we
make a tar! Ry reversing a pot, we
make a top 1 But, show us the man who
does not get mad when there is a dam to
be reversed.
A junior was heard to remark on a
recent Sunday, after Professor-had
preached splendid an eloquent sermon: “That
was a sermon. Gad) A hun¬
dred and eight single gestures and thir¬
teen double!”
“ Annetta, I am going to ha ve corn^
pan v,” says a belle of the Rue Breda to
ner maid, “and 1 want you to go to the
fish market aud get some fish, some of
the them best.” from ma—-she’ll “Yes’m.” swindle “Only don’t you.” buy
Mother, in my chignon perfect?
Johnny’s Kbape my coming punier—fix my gloaming, nanh—
in the
And 1 want to make u mash.
—Ottawa Jtupubllca n.
Hr fiat beside her on an old eofa, and
one of the wire coils shot up through
the covering, punctured his garments,
and went in among the nerves and
things. insane when She he thought jumped he six was feet becoming into the
invisible ether Jove!” and yelled “ the spring
has come, by
A young actress urges her friend,
Count X., to give her a mind splendid brace,
let she had long set her upon pos¬
sessing. “ I’ll give it to you,” says the
Count, finally, “ but online condition—
you must never wear it on the stage.
My wife might see it if you did.” “Oh,
I see—and raise a row?” “No; make
me buy her one like it.”
It is queer how folks dream. The
other night a man dreamed he stood at
the gate of heaven and asked Peter if
the souls of the rich ever got in there.
“ Yes,” was the reply. “ It is rich supposed people
that the souls of a great many
have got in here. Many of them are so
small we have not been able to invent
any way to keep them out.”
Newspaper Libel Suits.
The 8t. Louis Poit-Dispatch referring
to the dismissal of the 125,000 suit in¬
stituted against it by Madame Csrlotta
Patti, for alleged defamation of char¬
acter, Now truthfully that the suit says: is ended, and the
course of this paper is vindicated to the
uttermost, acknowledge the Poit-Dispatch, that the original is willing publi¬
to
cation of the article, from the Leaven¬
worth Time* was a mistake, and had
Madame Patti, instead of rushing into
useless litigation, requested a correction,
it would have been made at once. She
chose, however, to seek redress else¬
where, and forced a fight upon this
paper which was taken up most unwil¬
lingly. Strictly and on/y as a measure
of self-defence were the Leavenworth
deposition taken, and the facts pioved ft to
be as published. No reputab news
paper done to will permit in an its columns, injustice and to be if
anyone who find themselves
the persons ag¬
grieved would state their wrongs frankly
to the newspaper which they imagine is
trying reparation to injure them, would the invariablv utmost pos¬ be
sible dam¬
made. In a majority of cases the
age suits for libel have degenerated into
legalized blackmail; and those who im¬
agine will find themselves injured by a off, newspaper both in
themselves better
honor and money, if they accept a vol un¬
tary correction before they rush to the
courts for vindication,