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WAIFS AND WHIMS.
“What is the uniform condition of sn
perior planets?” Mr. O- “They are
alw.us full.
•
A man whose whole family was sick
with lung diseases said his house was full
full of plural-pneumonia.
When some politicians are weighed
tfoer^-are fours! wanting every office in
which 'there is *
a vacancy.
An English professor of waltzing says
fthat the best rule is “ spring and glide.”
Puck advises: “ Practice on an orange
greet,”
Only one man in seventeen can step
-on a barrel hoop and not swear. He is
hit on the back of tho head by the hoop
and knocked senseless.
<4T X __, don t mean * to reflect a A on you,” „ said
rtfleet on anybody.”
B.shful lover (to his belle—“Would
that I had three kilograms of dynamite!”
—“To Belle—“Why, monsieur?” ice Bashful lover
break the between us.”
■Senior— “Yes, Ajax was the party
uvlio defied that the lightning, time but y ou should
■remember at that New Jersey
lightning was not invented.”
Two men fired at an eagle at the same
time and killed him. An Irishman ob¬
served: and “They might for have saved their
powder him.” shot, the fall would have
When you see a man take off his hat
to you it is a sign that he respects you.
But when he is seen divesting himself of
his coat you can make np your mind that
he intends yon shall respect him,
“Goodness!” said a Parisan, when the
kail for the expenses of his wife’s funeral
—a little bill of six thousand francs—
was handed to him, “I had almost rather
ithat she had not died!”
ating There is probably experience nothing so exhiler
r in the of the amateur
; gardener as when he steps upon the hoe
and the responsive handle immediately
arises to implant a fervent kiss between
liis eyes.
He had one son hanged, another
in the San Quentin Penitentiary, and his
■Mile had eloped with a chromo peddler.
‘“Have you any family?” he was asked
.of,” by a fellow-passenger. “None to speak
was the prompt retort.
Prof. Karl P. Kray, of Stephens
Institute, declares that the molecule (tho
’last analysis of matter) is about one five
■ hundred-millionth of an inch wide. It is
pleasant to have such a matter settled, so
that when one is hungry he may know
how many to order.
“Semper Pabata.” The Doctor’s
Daughter—“Janet, leave that are you never going
to off unbecoming old bon¬
I've net?” Aged it for Villager—“ Well, Miss,
vicar were I thirty be took years, and the
says may any hour.”
— Punch.
An observing five year old boy in¬
quired of his. mother recently: “Do men
love tobacco, mamma?” “I think not,”
;she replied. “Well, I thought they
ididn’t,” responded the youngster, “for
after they take a bite, I see ’em keep
trying to spit it out.”
The Sacramento people are forever
keeper poking fun at the legislators, A saloon
near the Capitol recently placed a
box of live snakes in liis window, above
which hung the reassuring placard:
“Don’t be uneasy, gentlemen. These
are real snakes. "—San Francisco Post.
“Ah! my darling wife,” said George,
the week after his marriage, “if your
husband were to die what would you do?”
“ I don’t know, I’m sure, George,” said
the wife, reflectively, “I never thought
of that I must look in my ‘Book of
Etiquette,’ and read the rules for young
widows. ”
A boy who had charge of a very stub¬
born donkey was one day beating it
when unmercifully the minister because of the it parish, would coming not go,
up, censured him for his cruelty. The
boy resented the interference, 'and ex¬
claimed, ‘'I’m sure you needn’t care,
it’s none of your congregation.”
TBS JAPANESE PAN.
There lives in the-lanrt of Japan
A very Who lugubrious sketches man,
In and with toil,
Strange water for oil, Japanese fan.
scenes the
He painta with a Chinaman’s queue,
And uses vermilion and blue;
lie delights in laige herds
Of long legged birds,
Which he makes with their bodiet aakew.
He atrivea with the noble intent
To picture each current event;
He often spends hours
Over Intricate flowets,
And receives juit the eighth of a cent.
The Executioner’s Revemre
Our Parisian . . contemporary, the
Fi
garo, has lately told a terrible story of a
headsman s revenge. Fourteen years ago
the murderer Alvmajn was condemned to
death. When, on the morning of his ex
edition, “Monsieur de Paris entered
the cell for the purpose of making his
usual scaffold, preparations the culprit for conveying received him to
the him with
an outburst of abuse, couched in the
foulest imaginable language, to which
the “exectioner of high works” listened
impassively, tion the torrent apparently of insults paving and no impre- atten
to
cations that flowed from Alvinain’g lips,
Arrived upon Hie scaffold, however, he
bound his “patient” to the plank, and
then deliberately lowered the death-deal
ing knife to within a few inches of the
murderers neck, examined its edge,
raised it again to its usual height, and
finally loosened the catch with the cus
ternary result. As the remains of the de
capitated the scaffold assassin were being removed
from one of the officials
present observed to the executioner that
lie had not performed his task as quick as
usual. “No,” replied the latter, with an
indescribable smile, “I let him wait a
little.” Experience had taught the prae
tiwd headsman bow dire is the agonv of
the last few moments preceding
dreadful passage from life to death; so,
mindful of the wrong inflicted upon him
by the doomed man's insulta, he wronged
the oittetige withhhleoits completeness Iy
•l. innc bun waits littk-.”
This season’s built of bathing oiled sRk. dresses Keep* for
ladies are to batter’ll blue clotii.
out the water
-A. V Y. V Graithic * * ; ;
“ Turr nainetl vt wrong, JV"tee; M thoughtful!j it tire
JSSEaS.; o tawks th« HyraaWI in
The Watkinsville Advance.
VOLUME I.
advice to ladies
who com D «ii«d
I. Be sure you know where you want
to go before you get on the train,
II. When you purchase your ticket
you will haveio pay for it; no use to tell
tho ticket agent to “charge it and send
the bill to your husband.” And if he
says tho price of the ticket is $2 96,
l ion t him y° u can S et one fast like
^ ^ le conductor at the other store for
$2 60; he won’t believe you, and he may
laugh at you. travel
requires “J* Never broad views, without liberal money education, It
keen discernment and profound judg
ment to travel without money. No one
can do this successfully but tramps 1 and
editors *"»•
- “■* ™“ *»
eler.
V. Don’t give a stranger your ticket
and ask him to go oat and check your
trunk. He will usually be only too glad
to do it. And what is more, he will do
it, and your trunk will be so effectually
checked that it will never catch up with
you asks again. And then when the conduc¬
tor for your ticket and you relate to
him the pleasing little allegory about the
stranger and your baggage, he will look
incredulous and smile down upon you
from half closed eyes, and say that it is a
beautiful romance, but he lias heard it
before. And then you will put up your
jewelry VI. If or disembark at the next station.
miles, don you t try are to get going off the three hundred
train every
fifteen minutes under the impression that
you are there. If you get there in
twelve hours you will be doing excel¬
lent^. Call the btakeman. “conductor;”
he has grown proud since he got his new
uniform, VIII. and it will flatter him.
Put your shawl-strap, bundle
and two paper parcels in the hat-rack;
hang that your bird-cage falls to the corner of it,
so when* it off it will drop into
the lap of the old gentleman sitting l»c
hind you; stand your four house
plants on ine window-sill; set your
lunch-basket on the seat beside you; ; fold
your shawls on top of it; carry your
pocket-book in one hand and hole d your
silver mug in the other; put your two
valises bandbox under the seat and liold your
and the rest of your things in
your baggage lap. handy, Then you will have all your
and won’t be worried or
flustrated about it when you have only
twenty-nine seconds in which to change
cars.
IX. Address the conductor every ten
minutes. It pleases him to have you
notice him. If you can’t think of any
new question to ask him, ask him the
same old one every time; Always call
him “Say,” or “Mister.”
X. Pick up all the information you
can while traveling. Open the Window
and look forward to see how fast the en¬
gine is going. Then when you get home
you can tell the children about the big
cinder you picked up with your eye, and
how nice and warm it was, and what it
tasted like.
XI. Don’t hang your parasol on the
cord that passes down the middle of the
car. It isn’t a clothes-line. It looks
like one, but it isn’t.
XII. Keep an eye on the passenger
who calls the day after Monday “ Chews
day.” len He can’t be trusted a car’s
rigth. xnx
Do not attempt to chang e a $20
bill for any one, if you have onl* y$6 25
with you; it can’t be done.
If you want a nap always lie
with your head projecting over the seat,
into the aisle. Then everybody who
goes np or down the aisle will mash your
hat, straighten out your frizzes, ‘ and
knock off your back hair. This will
keep you from sleeping so soundly that
you will be carried by your station.
— Burdette, in Burlington Hawkcge.
Protection Against Flies nnd Mosqui¬
toes.
A correspondent of Nature makes
known what he calls “an absolute pre
ventive of the bites of mosquitoes, gnats,
of green fly in the vinery, blight in the
garden, and a protection to animals from
these insect pests.” It is simply a weak
solution of quassia. He applied it to a
peach tree growing upon a wall, exposed
to blight drought and which blighted, and
was prevented. In the vinery it
succeeded equally well. Instead of lime
fly, washing the walls to get rid of the green
one watering with quassia dismissed
them in a day. His head gardener, who
had previously much experience in
nursery heard grounds, it before. wondered that he had
never of He now uses it
in all cases as a protection from flies and
blight. The dilution goes a long way;
one boiled pound of chips of quassia wood,
and reboiled in-other water until
he has eight gallons of the extract for his
garden engine. He finds it inadvisable
to use it stronger for some plants. This
boiling makes the quassia adhesive, and
leaf, being principally applied to the, under
because most blight settles there, it
is not readily washed off by rain. And
now as to gnats and mosquitoes: A young
friend of the gentleman was severely bit
ten by mosquitoes, disfigured, and for unwilling to lie
seen so sent quassia chips
and had boiling water poured dipped upon them.
At night, after washing, she her
hand* into the quassia water and left it to
tlry on her face This was a perfect pro
tection, and continued approach to be so of whenever
applied. when At and the into houses winter, and
flies gnats get
sometimes bite venomously, a grandchild The
eighteen months old was attacked. weak solution
nurse was given some of a his face,
of quassia to be left to dry on
and he was not bitten again. It is in
tection nocuous to children, and it may be a pro
also against bed insects. But
this has not been tried. When the solu
tion of quassia is strong it is well known
to be an active fly-poison, and is mixed
with sugar to attract flies, but this is not
strong enough to kill at once.
T * ' ...........
“tv HE** , have you . been, I‘*t,
dressed up so smart?"
I’ve been to a marriage in
In high . ... life, indade; - * , was f- it among
the quality ve were.'” .
' I wan, the bride leery’s and groom got as
drunk aa Mr*. 0 oow, an if that
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WATKINSVILLE, (iEORGIA, JULY 7. 1880.
TBS woun OF THE kino.
"V MANY H. KKOUV.
The King soit! “ Nay:”
The reapers sang among fneemn,
Tho crapes turned purple on the tItr
And w lien the fruitful fluids were slvr. t
Tlieie was no dearth • f bread or wine.
The His old wife man l»eside bv his him fireside and drertrtlodj ninth:
sit
Across the shining waters gleamed
The ted Mils in the setting sun.
They who had plighted troths were wed;
The babe untroubled, smiled or wept
Ul*»u its mother's breast; the dead
t/ere buried where their kindred slept.
The city’s crowded s‘r eta weie filled
With busy throngs that came and went,
Tho nation’s heart with joy was thrilled.
And songi with ah its praters were blent.
The King said * Yon:”
And war stretched iorth its vengeful band;
The fields with the unburied sl-dn
Wore strewn; in all the prosperous land
Were desolation, woe aud pain.
Where peace had been, went, nwerd and fire.
Id ruin town and rity abared}
The wife* the walling l>abr t the fite
Together died and none apafa t- d
- Kbkomo th nmn.
A t.OVKR’A Qt'ARSVIL
* could not hear all that they must hate attld;
But as f sat beside the Ifttte stream
I watched them part with just one angry wor»u
She passed me qu> kly, with a down drooped ht*&
Ked cheeks, eyes flashing with a k ornful gleam,
A hasty step, aa by deep pasdon Stirife **
She did not turn, nor look back where he stood,
But vanished quickly in the thick greed Wood.
1 Watched hiiil sigh, then noted how he gated
At her retreating form; he whisUrd low
And softly to himself; in deepest thought
He whispertJdj '* Is she Vexed '/’’-—then was amazed
That ' twas, in truth, she really meant to sv
He looked once more, as 1! indeed he sought
To bring her baek, but on she went that,day—
Then he went too—but ’twan the other way.
They The never met again; but oft I see
And girl, a woman grown, come by this seat,
gaze into the stream with tear worn eye*!
And then I wonder why such things should be!
If she had turned her head, or Btayed her feet,
Life would have altered, love’s bright sunny ski«r
Shone o’er her forever! ’Tis but things like th*
That form our lives, and make our woe or
- All the Tear Row*t
DOLLY AND DAN.
Miss “ Dorothy—Dorothy Lorinda Cross Waldo!” screamed
and by nature,” (“cross by name
and cross the children—yes,
many of the grown-ups—of the
neighborhood declare her), as she
pounced upon the huge loaf of bread
which she hail taken from the oven and
put into titering stone crock only half an
hour ago, just before she turned her
straight-up-and-down kitchen, stalk back on the
to to the garret after “that
idle hussy, Molly”—the maid-of-all
work—“who had been twice as long as
she ought to have been making the beds
I said the huge loaf. I should have
said half the huge loaf, for only that
proportion mained. of the newly baked bread re¬
Miss “ Dor-o-thy Wal-do!” again screamed
Cross,.in an ascending scale, with
an ominous tremolo on the last note.
“Yes, aunt,” replied a sweet, fresh
young voice; and a pretty young girl
came in from the garden, with a basket
of A cherry-rod tiny thing currants in her hand.
she was, with round dim¬
pled, rosy face, innocent child-like blue
gray eyes, and fair hair, some short
tresses of which had escaped from the
braid into which they had been bound,
and were making a delightful use of their
freedom by curling in Uto most charming
manner about the low frank brow and
little pink-tipped ears.
About “sweet sixteen,” a stranger
would have pronounced her; but Dolly,
as her youthful companions, much to the
disgust of her aunt Lorinda, called her,
was older than that by a year and a
half.
An orphan at the age of twelve, she
had been left to the care of the only re
lative she knew, her motner’s elder sister
—a woman hard of speech and manners,
and anything but soft in heart. This
maiden lady soured irrevocably on her
twenty-fourth have birthday, which should
also been her wedding day; but at
the ver Y moment she was fastening the
orange blossoms in her hair, had come
the nows that her betrothed had eloped
*“ e girl-friend she bad chosen for
h e r hndesntaiil. Lorinda tore the bridal
into fragments, and scattered il
to the winds; never mentioned the false
P an “ om that hour, banished forever all
the womanly grace and tenderness she
ever possessed (truth to tell, she had
P ev ? r Possessed much), and became the
hardest worker of her sex that ever
worked upon a farm. In a man’s boots,
coat, and hat, early ami late, hot or cold,
or dry, with set mouth, lowering
T?I ide W with ’ her sturdy ^ ‘Ts. old she lather, toiled until^ side the by
®ay he was struck down by the pitiless
sun, and died a few hours after—died
just in time to be saved the pang of hear
mg that his youngest and favorite dangh
ter was lying at the point of death,
widowed and friendless, in a far-away
cl h>’- Lorinda buried her father—if she
wept for him, none saw her—-promoted a
man who had been long in his employ
mcrjt Hie position she used herself to
and started for her sister’s lied
When she returned to Femville
again, she brought dear little fair-haired,
reft-eyed ^er Dorothy with her, and some
neighbors fancied that since that
J »-ut ime if "he she bad W been been, a shade it less slight stem;
was so a
shade that it was almost impossible less to
perceive it. True, she did out-of
door work, and devoted part of the tame
thus saved to teaching her niece to sew
and cook and churn, and other like ac
complishmenta ; but never were the lea
sons kindly accompanied by an approving loving amilfl
or Even word, much less tt kiss.
to the gentle, winningchild, Lorinda
Cross remained a oold stem woman. But
I Dorothy the was so and sunny in disposition that
stern ways dark face of her aunt
could not cloud her young life. And
though shut heart, out she from that inflexible
womans found the doors of
all other hearts aide ojKtn to her. The
dogs, the cats, the hens, the chicken*,
“ie horses, regarded the cows. Hie calves, the
very geese, her with adoration,
The farm laborers blessed her pretty
faro whenever she came among them;
and aa for Molly-poor hard-worked
ground Molly!—she little would feet trod have kissed
the noon.
What wonder, aurieyor, then, that Dan Howell,
the young who liv*l half a
mile away, ; ‘he old stone cottage, and
whom site hail known from tire very first
^ W -rival in Femville (when he,
then a tall, bright-faced boy of fifteen,
passing her aunt’s gate, and seeing the
sad-looking standing little girl, in her black dress,
prettiest white by it, silently site offered her the
rabbit had over neen
—n rabbit ho had been coaxing Abner
Brown for a month past to sell him, and
Which now he patted with, without an
othet thought, at. sight of those lovely
tearful eyes aud that sweet wistful faro)
—what wonder, I say, that he “ thought
of her by day, and dreamed of her to¬
night?”
But to go back. Dorothy catno smil
ing into the kitchen, her lips.aM cheeks
as red as the currants she carried ; but
the smile faded away when she met her
aunt’s irate gaze.
“Did you cut this loaf, and then leave
it here in this hot room to iky to a chip ?”
demanded Miss Cross; aud then she
added, emphatically, without waiting for
ftn answer; “But of course you did.
No One else would have dared' to do it.
And hoW dated woo, knowing that I
never allow bread to be cut, in my house
until it, is at least a day old?"
“I am sorry, aunt,” began Dolly;
“but he looked so hungry!”
her “‘He!’,” with look screamed her aunt, regarding
itaWa^-, a of horror. “You gave
thefi! Aud to ft ‘lie!’ A tramp,
I ve no doubt, who Will cofile back sonic
niplit, to rob the house, and Jnurder ns
girl, "c “ tease, don’t aunt,” be entreated tho young
so angry, He wasn’t a
tramp; indeed he wasn’t; but a hand¬
some young fellow with long golden
hair—
“ A wig,” snarled Miss Cross.
“And the most beautiful blue eyes,”
life. Dolly went on, “lever saw in all my
And he wasn’t near tho house.
And he didn’t ask for anything. Oh, do
listen, I aunt, while I toll ybu all about it,
was on my knees in tho path, picking
up some currants I had let fall, when I
saw Brownie’s 1dm, through the hole in the hedge
calf made the other day, com
mg slowly tt had tip the lane—’’ looking
" kou beeh at what, yofi
were doing, you Wouldn’t have seen
him,” said net griin listener.
“He did’t see me, of course,” said
Dolly, “ or I shouldn’t have looked at
him so intently. And, oh, Aunt Lorinda,
it was just looking at a picture!”
“ Stuff!” said Miss Cross.
r He was so handsome, and so dusty,
an Pi so shabby, poor fellow! And he sat
down under the old tree, took a crust of
bread out of his pocket, and began to eat
it as though ho was very, very hungry
That went, to my heart.”
Rubbish!” said her aunt.
And I got up softly and ran into the
house, and cut a slice-—”
“ A dice I Great grief!” interrupted
Aunt Lorinda. “A piece big enough
for the breakfast of a whole family.”
“And I buttered it.”
“You buttered it.”
“Yes aunt; I only took the butter that
was left hi the dish.?’
“ Half a pound! You ■ go without
butter for a week. ”
“And I ran out again, and into the
lane, as fast as I could,” continued Do
rotliy, threat, apparently undismayed by this
“for fear I might lose courage;
and stopping suddenly before him, I put
the bread in his hand, and said, ‘ I am so
sorry for you!’and turned to runaway,
when he seized my hand and kissed it,”
(Miss Lorinda Cross became rigid as
kind marble) “ and said, * These are the first
words I’ve heard since I came to
this beastly country. Tell mo your name
little one.’ ‘Dorothy Waldo,’ said I.
‘Dorothy Waldo,’he it;’ repeated; ‘ I shnll
never forget and he raised his hat and
wont away. Dear aunt, had you been in
did?" my place, would you not have done as I
“ I ?” cried Aunt Lorinda—“ I carry
meals to Btrange men on the public ltigh
way? I let a foreigner who called my
country hand? No, ‘ a beastly indeed; country ’ kiss my
he never would
kissed my hand.”
“Perhaps not,” said Dolly, with a
momentary twinkle in her eyes, and then
she added, pleadingly, “But, don’t he
other angry loaf any longer, aunt. I’ll make an
of bread right away.”
‘‘But that won't bring back what you
have wasted,” said her inflexible rela
tive. “ A pretty wife you’d be (o r a man
who hasn’t a dollar to call his own, giv
ing the away bread the loaf and butter by
pound ” (Miss Cross had retained at
least one womanly trait—a slight tenden
cy to exaggeration) “to all the thieves
and tramps who happen to come along. ”
“Oh, aunt!” exclaimed her niece;
“ lie looked like a prince.”
“A prince !”—with is’ a snort of scorn.
“Your head turned by that trashy
poetry you read. A prince! A likely
story—in shabby clothes and nibbling a
crust! ion. But Adisgui8edburglar,inmyopin- burglar
continued, it or no burglar ” she
must be confessed with
some irrelevancy, who hasn’t “ you shall never mar
ry a man a dollar to call his
own, with my consent, and if ever you
marry without my consent you make a
liar of your mother in her grave ”
“Aunt, T have tr,te vr.„ „„.i
atrain ” said Dorothv Ay fim'.lv { l„,t * m
'
.. t ri( . v ., r r ,
gotten mv^mother’s hist commands” "
«-m ' don’t
be eneniinurinWWf toA
iel p^TrdifvC Howell to meet von everv
wa ii/ fr orr , r .} mr ,.V v ,./ wJSS *, J
—there’* Arthur *iimwn and ' *'
thousand dollars in the ' hank V, ”
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and he a^wav so much th.’muh thut « ‘ ‘
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„ dt ° ’ mr his t , feel- \
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deed! - When, would he get it? The
h y>-'* f . irg t . Daniel . , Howell .. and
sooner humel Howell puts you out
,m .Vi Theresiio nrod "» for to talk
, “K “"* *1'® ''Jl” yon so
“" , * t 8 K»l, indig
.
Dorothy receive looked around, just in time to
a farewell bow from Daniel
Howell as he turned from the door.
“ He heard me.” said Miss Cross, “I’m
glad he did; ’twill save trouble.”
“Dh. Aunt Lorinda, how con you he
no (Tuel?" said )>oor Dolly, bursting into
tears.
A year and a half passed away, during
ttliich, owing to his frequent absence
aud Miss Borindu’s watchful care, Dolly
and her lover had met but three or four
times. “It’s hard,” said the young
man, on the last, of these occasions, “to
know that. I can not ask your aunt for
your hand because I have not a thous¬
and dollars of my own, when I know
that, there is plenty of room and love and
everything tage. for Dolly, von at tho old stone cot¬
this Oh, I’d malic you my wife
moment !”
t “Dan,” interrupted the girl, with
fle.wy Hint eyes, “it isn’t her anger—-though I
▼el it would be most ungrateful in
tne illother to provoke it—but the promise deathbed. my
made for me on her
And if it had not been for that promise,
Dan, been you must remember, 1 should have
the inmale of an orphan asylum,
and we would never have met.” Adding,
the sunshine coming hack again, “Don’t
you see how much worse things could
have been?”
“Vou are tight, my darling, as you
always are,” said Dan; “but think—it
may be years before t have ‘the bond.”’
“ I can wait, Dan. Yes”—with a mis¬
chievous little laugh “l can wait until
I am as old as Aunt Lorinda. ”
“God forbid, love!” he said, catching
her lips. in his “And arms and lushing her sweet
now good-1 tye; 1 am going
away tell again to-morrow, to be gone I can
not yon how long. Oh, Dolly,
heaven speed the time when a little wife
shall be waiting with the old father and
mother at, the stone cottage to welcome
file home!”
She raised herself on tiptoe, clasped
his face between her two tiny hands,
derness gazed into liis eyes with a wealth of ten¬
in her own, and said, “Who
knows? Good foil,fine may at this very
moment be on its way to ilS.”
And the very next day, January 3d,
thrown 1880, as Dorothy, with a crimson shawl
over her head, was out in the
garden scattering crumbs on the snow
for the sparrows, she heard Hie jingling
of sleigh-bells, and Farmer Beers came
down the lane with a sled-load of wood.
he “Mornin’, reined Miss Dorothy,” he called, as
up at the back gate. “Hero’s
a letter for you. They thought it might
be important, at the office, and so, know
In’ how keelful I be, and that I was
cornin’ this way, they asked me to fetch
j letter *t to you.” Anil the old man tossed tho
over the hedge, into the girl's out
stretched hands, and drove off.
“ A letter for me!” said Dolly, in tones
of great amazement. “ Why, I never re
ocived a letter before in all my life!”
Then site turned it about, and inspected
it curiously. The envelope was a com
printed raol ‘ large yellow one, and bore the
address of a law firm in an ,id
joining city, as well as Iter own address,
written in a plain legal hand. “Who
can it bo from? ” wondered Dolly; and
then opened it, to find her question but
partly answered. A sheet of blue paper
and a smaller envelope were enclosed,
The paper contained, in the same hand
which addressed the letter, these lines:
“ Mins Dorothy Waldo ;
“ Dear Madam—Wo sent! you tho aooom
jiiiuing check in compliance with order* re¬
ceiving to that effect from a client in Europe
whose interest* in this country wo represent,
l’lcnse acknowledge recoipt.
“ Your obedient servants,
“ Find a Trove.
“ January I, 1880.’
witlest Dolly’s lovely eyes opened to their
extent. “A check!” she "x
claimed, and with trembling fingers toro
open the seeimd envelope, which was
also addressed to her, but in a different,
more there elegant hand; and sure enough
was a check —a cheek for a thous¬
and dollars, payable to the order of
Miss Dorothy Waldo. And on a slip of
paper which had kept its company were
these words: "In payment for a slice—a
And very large slice.....of broSt.1 and butter.”
that’s all the young girl ever knew
about it.
For one moment she stood dazed with
joy thought and astonishment. The next she
of Dan. Perhaps he lind not
started yet. How could she get to him
through tho deep snow? Hleigh-bells
again. the Farmer Beers Corning back with¬
out wood. She ran out into the lane.
“Oh, do take me with yon!” site cried, to
the great surprise of the honest old fel¬
low, “ I must see Dan—Mr. Howell, I
mean. I must see him tie soon as possi¬ 1
ble.”
“Jump right in, ray dear,” said tho
old man, “and I’ll liave you at the stone
cottage Away in a jiffy.” went,
ing they the gray mare mak¬
excellent time for her; aud as they
neared the house, Dolly caught sight
of Dan just, leaving it.
“Dan! Dan!” she called, her clear
young voice ringing on Hie cold air, and
madly Dan waved turned, her crimson bright shawl. flag and
saw the
her sweet fact! below it, and canto 1 found¬
ing over the snow in time to receive her
in his arms as she jumped from the
sled.
“You couldn’t—no, not if you guessed
forever,” sht! said, half crying and half
laughing — “you eouldn't morning.” gues* what
brought rne here this
“Whatever it was, heaven bless it a
thousand times!” said the lover.
“It is—leap-year you know, Dan.”
“Yes, now I think of it, it is. But it
can’t be possible me?” you have come here to
projtoso to
"Very [tonsildo indeed,” answered
Dolly, slowly and deliberately, “Mr
Daniel Howell, will you marry me?”
Mr. Daniel Howell’s only reply was
to fold lu-r ili so close an embrace thut,
being the tiniest of maidens, she almost
disaj it toured from Miss view.
**Aud lias Cross- ” he began,
when the pretty blushing faro, all
'litiqiled ' witli smiles, was raised against
, •
,. No, v . she lias not," interrupted Dolly,
“BL- kn«*wH aotL't'K a»jv*ut it. But iU
«!l H right. Utui, carefully tucking some
thing I|1( j,| f with W1UI m her I1( , r into dainty ll( , IIlly left U!ll breast hand Jlluul Dan ,, |U1
j over.^t ( , rl t C. tfie ^n pocket of
Ids ‘• may
AlJ|(t M ’
y j. i. t. '
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NUMBER 18.
BATTLING WITH LIONS.
BxfltliiK Encounter With Mont In tho
Janeiro of Africa.
Mr. F. Fsilkncr Carter, in charge of
tho Belgian elephants expedition attached to Africa, the Royal
into gives
the following exciting account of a sud¬
den encounter which he had with lions
at Kerima, Central Africa, at which hun¬
place he and his caravan of one
dred and eighty men had arrived. In
a letter received from him by the Inst
mail, dated from that station, he men¬
tions the difficulties he had experienced
in procuring animal food for his men.
“Our only food,” he says, “ consists of
Indian corn, pounded between two
stones, with with a good share of sand, and
only salt this, but still, it. It is accustomed well to have all
even meu
their lives to good animal food cannot
live on such poor fair, and so 1 go out
every second or third day with my gun
and Kill a zebra, eland, water-buck, etc.
•One of any of these enables us to live in
clover for a single day. A recent ex¬
pedition of this life. kind, I felt however, that I nearly
Cost me my must go
in search of food, as there was not at
the time a morsel In camp, nnd so forth 1
sallied. My first shot was at a giralle,
into which I put two bullets, and then
followed him over hill and dale until
noon, when heat, thirst and want, ol
food obliged smoking me to give and up tskitig the chase.
After a pipe some
rest I was off again; got a shot at a
zebra, but missed him. The zebra, I
Should mention, is the best meat in
Africa. Rather disheartened, and griev
itlg for the poor hollow-eyed fellows I
should meet on my return, for whom I
had nothing toward in the shape anil of food, J
turned camp, just at 3:3(
p. m. a line boar dashed past me. I sent
a bullet through him at oner, hut on he
went. I knew, however, hundred we should find
him dead a few yards ahead
by the quantity l followed, of blood but in the long
grass; so just then
gie’s sighted trail three and zehras off -so dropped and slallt pig
went to try
the zebras, in about ten minutes aftei
I heard a fearful row, and my two gun
hearers saltl it was a rhinoceros. I laid
hold of my No. 10 bore, handing my
‘express’ the to my bearer, the telling smooth-boro him and
man carrying to
keep through close to me. I glided six feet silently high,
the grass, over
until close to the spot; then I knew that
if it were a rhinoceros be was lying
down, as I could not see a sign of him;
so 1 decided it must b6 two wild boars
fightings. could make Homcthing told horrible me they
not such a noise,
which actually nnd rend Heemed to shake the
ground the very air around
me. Btrange to say, it never struck tne
that the noise might have proceeded
from lionH, although the place is full ol
them, so 1 advanced boldly, dividing
the grass with my rifle. I then discoV
cred three lions devouring the pig 1 had
shot, and in that short time had finished
half of it. The two nearest were within
two feet of me, and the furthest
anti a half feet. The brutes’
chests and claws were covered with
blood. Though startled at first, I
certain perfectly that cool, I and bo yet killed, felt perfectly
must as even a
tame lion is savago when eating his
food. The lion curled opposite his lips, caught lashed sight of
me at once, his
sides with his tail, hut what the others
were in doing I cannot say, as my friend
was the act of springing, ami I tlare
not take my eye off him for a second.
At last he crouched for the spring, and I
letdrive. in his face, retreating a step
give me a chance with the other
at one of the remaining two,
to sell my life dearly, but, to my
delight these two sprang over the
in opposite directions. I gave a sort
sigh of relief, looked around for
gun yards hearers, and there they fear were, and
off, trembling with
with fright. The rascals had run
and I had no gun to fall baek upon. 1
returned to p ck up my dead lion,
found he harl crept followed away with a bullet
through him. I his trail
the jungle got too thick, and it
nearly dark.—London Slumlord
A Wisconsin Ilermlt.
One Ole Nelson, who now resiedes
near Bturgeon Bay, Wis., in several the northern
part of that county, was years
ago quite well to do, but he got mixed
up in several law suits, which caused a
sternly he drain reduced ttfton his pocket-book, until
was then to the most his abject j>ov
erty. He went to present place
of at * sic, built himself a rude hut, iso¬
lated from any neighbors, where lie lives
alone in dirt and filth. He never works,
but picks up his food in the woods in the
summer, out of which he leaves enough
to last him through the winter. He
never changes his clothing until they
actually his rot from him. into He will not even
cut, fire-wood stove length, but
takes long sticks as he finds them, puts
one end into the, stove, and as fast as it
burns off shoves it in further. Recently
some of his neighbors kindly volun¬
teered to clean out his hut, -which is said
to lie as filthy as a hog-pen, but he iNtsi
particle tively refused in that to allow them to Rapids help a
Eagle. respect.—Grand
Picture*.
('untile soap and water can be used on
oil paintings without danger, care being
taken, of course, not to wet the hack, or
let water through cracks.
For ordinary dusting of pictures a silk
handkerchief should lie used.
oil Heuvy gilt frames are •appropriate for
paintings.
An engraving would lie made to apjiear
cold by a bright or heavy gilt frame,
though sometimes a plain, imhurumhed
one links well. Of course a margin of
white j»t)s-r is needed lietween the
printed surface and the frame, so as not
tti make the contrast or brilliancy too
violent.
For hanging, use cornier or silver wire.
Mofbs cat out the inside of the cord.
Water in w hich onions have been lmiletl,
rubbed lightly over the frames, will keep
insects away from them.
An agricultural paper comes to us
with an article on “ t’uring fruit by
cold.” We don't care u tent (or that,
hut if the bucolic editor could only in
vent some method of *' curing cold* by
him fruit,” a grateful people would build
a monument Ur protnjiie to.
IMiimM e Julratue.
4 WEEKI.r r4rER, rCBLtSlIKD 4T
Watklnsville, Oconee Co., Georgia.
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Ono • rqunre, one month............. •42 60
»quare, t» ree months......... .6 00
»>n« square, nix months............ to
Oil* fqwa-e one year................ J0 00
On«!-f„urih onlumn, on« month!.................... - cm.
Out-tour h loluran, three months. J5.
Out-', nrth column, six months.......J ...„ IS 1
Oop-foiirth column, on* year.............. \,*3t .51
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J0T1TNHS AND CJ
r
George Augustus Bala afltefn
conic of somctliing more than $10,000 HP
year.
“I am in favor of the elevation of the
human race,” as the hangman remarked
just before springing tho trap.
Tnr. Irish are expected to the fall in love
with the beautiful wife of new Lord
Lieutenant.
The Elmira Free Press says that
bicycle riding is very healthy—for those
who view it from a safe distance.
The Philadelphia Chronicle impart fears that
tho New Jersey tires will a
smoky flavor to the coming watermelons.
A New York undertaker eloped with
the wife of the man who dug his graves.
It was a case of the ruling passion strong
in death.
Farmers do not hoar the corstalk.
Neitner do men who wear tight which hoots.
But there are somo things speak
louder titan words.
King Thebbau has a great hankering
after Ameriean canoed green coni, and
he eats it at every meal .—Free Press.
Serves the brute right.
“Beer sent bv telephone 'Los a sign
on an up-town saloon. Too tOTch taken
in that way would probably cause a man
to get oil liis ear .—Boston Poet.
“Mercy! ” exclaimed an old lady upon
first seeing an engraving of the passage
of the Red Bea by the children of Israel;
"Mercy! what a family tho man had!”
Colonel Ingersoll’s lectures are min¬
ing the brio-a-brao market; a collection
of gods was sold at auction yesterday for
next to nothing .—New York Ifcrald.
An old angler says a fish does not suf¬
fer much pain It’s from the being hooked. Of
course not. thought that of liow his
weight will be lied about causes him
anguish.
Alexander Dumas’ fortune is esti¬
mated at $500,000, out side of his art
collection, worth nearly as much. Every
penny of it he has derived from his lit¬
erary Jaliors.
Donn Piat has practiced boxing ever
since he was knocked down, ami he now
Rplits a door-panel with a left-hander and
aches for somo other Congressman to hop
at him.
A Western church society is wrestl¬
ing with the question: “Cart a man who
smokes bo a Christian?” Well, that
depends. If he smokes in the next world
he can’t — Philadelphia Chronicle
Herald.
A dish washing machine has been in¬
vented that is said to be able to take the
place of a servant Nothing girl at that business.
Don’t be! ieve it. but an ugly
man with an ax could break so many
tea cups per minute as the average hand¬
maiden can.
1’bof. Karl F. Kray, of Stephens In¬
stitute, declares that the molecule (the
last analysis of matter) is about one-five
hundroth-millionth of an inch wide. It
is pleasant to have such a matter settled,
so that when one is hungry he may know
how many to order.
Times have changed in Europe. A
nobleman has just bean arrested for
stealing three dollars. There was a day
when most noblemen considered it the
proper thing to live by robltery and when
nobody dared to object. -^New York
Herald.
A farmer, living near Watervliet, N.
Y., litul not been to church in fifteen
years. Last Sunday he went, and was
pleased with the service. When he en¬
tered liis house a surprise awaited him.
Thieves had broken in and stolen his
watch and his money. He says it will
be thirty years before he goes to church
again.
From a preliminary notice, just issued,
of the second annual exhibition by the
Philadelphia the following: Society of “Tho Artists, second we ex¬
tract an¬
nual exhibition of the Philadelphia So¬
ciety of Artists will open on November 1
and continue five weeks. The Pennsyl¬
vania Academy of fine arts has been
engaged for the purpose. Everything this exhibi¬
has been arranged to make
tion more attractive exhibition and important tho Society, than
the first, annual of
held last fall, which was the most suc¬
cessful of any ever held exceeded in Philadelphia, held
and, in point of sales, any
in the country during tho year 1879.
Mr. Edward Brown, of New York, the
well-known art salesman, will have
charge of the sides, and no effort will be
simred to make them satisfactory to all
contributors.” It is stated that eighty
pictures are promised for this exhibition
from Ameriean artists residing abroad,
and we doubt not that New York
will contribute a goodly number.
A Distinction Wit,'lout a Difference.
Several days ago a white man was ar¬
raigned the before a colored Justice, down
in country, on charges of killing a
man and stealings mule.
“ Wall,” said the Justice, “de facka
in dis case shell be weighed wid karful
ness, an’ ef I hangs yer, taint no fault
oh mine.”
only “Judge, examine you me.” have no jurisdiction
to
“ Dat sorter work dongs ter de raigu
lar Justice, but yer tee I se been put on
as a special. A special deSupteme itez de right ter
make a .nouf at Court ef he
chusscs ter.”
“ Do the best forme you can, Judge. ’
“ Dat s what I’se gwtne ter do. I so
got two kinds oh law in dis court—do
Arkansas ail’ de Texas law 1 generally
gins a mart de right to cliuse for hissef.
Now what law does yer want—de Texas
or de Arkansaw? ’
“ I believe I’ll Alike the Arkansas.”
“ Wall, in dat case i’ll dismiss you for
stealing “Thankyou, de mule—’’ Judge.”
“An’hang yer fur killin’ de man ”
“ I believe, Judge, that I’ll t ke the
Texas ”
“Wall, in dat case l will dismiss you
for killin’ de man—”
“ You* have a good heart, Judge.”
I’ll “An’hang yer fur steal in de mule.
dat jist de take only tho difference 'casipn lieah ter remark de
’tween two
laws iz in do way yer state do case.”
—irttit Rock (iau Hr.
setting There is one reason ought at least why typ L*
machines to become verv
(or popular with editor*. 'They eauuot yel 1
copy.