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JOTTINGS AND CLIPPINGS.
You can’t draw blood from a stone,
but yoh can stone a “blood.”
It’s a long lane that has no turn, but it
sometimes runs up againht a fence.
The London Times _ „ , grumbling ^ „
is at
the lock of public parks in the great
English metropolis.
“Do yon go to the Adirondacks this
summer, my buck?” “No deer, I’ve
another roe to hoe,”
A hat poison is advertised that wiD
make rats go away to a neighbor’s house
mid die. It fiDs a long felt want.
The Derrick teDs of an OU City man
who has to turn his toes in. If he didn’t
they would hit the sides of the streets.
» f »«>*■ - onTiffi
An Irish gentleman, speaking of the
scarcity of feed in Utah, says thatthous
ands of cattle have had to be killed to
save their lives.
“Wateb always seeks its level;” and
if there is too much whisky in it, it
makes a man seek his level, too.— Nor
ristown Herald,
A new shade for silk is called “lemon
ade odor,” whatever that may mean._
New Orleans Picayune, It" means a
heavy watered silk.
Among the assets of agrooer who failed
in business in a Wisconsin town is put
down: “One liver-pad, worn six weeks
_worth fifty cents' ”
Birds begin their morning l concerts
shortly aster 3 o’clock, and it only the
early riser that can have the fufl benefit
of their sweet songs. °
vr. We ,, t why fights _ .
can see pnze arc so
very bad. The two principals get what
they deserve, and ryore or less loafers
are crippled or killed.
The men who pack the Dttle _ boxes of
figs have wonderful memories. They
never the forget to put the wormy fruit at
bottom of the box.
David Davis is not the sort of a man
to stay on tho fence long .—New Orleans
Picayune. That’s so. No fence can
stand it over half an hour.
By drinking kerosene you can cure
yourself of diphtheria, but before you try
it. consider which is preferable, d rinkin g
kerosene or having the diphtheria.
When a Kentucky paragrapher writes
a word that the printer can’t make out,
the latter sets it up as “mules,” and nine
times out of ten he gets it right. b -Boa
ton Post '
t, Business men frequently . ,, advertise , ,. for .
„ a boy to nm errands. The way boys
crawl to and from the postoffice indi
cates that ttie boy expected to run has
never been found.
The law against carrying concealed
weapons does not apply to bicycles,
They ridges, are and revolvers, but off they avoid cart
never go of themselves,
—Philadelphia Bulletin.
Reginald Bond is the name of an
aristocratic Boston banker. He writes
his name Reg. Bond “for short,” and
irreverent persons caU him Registered
Bond—but not to his face.
New York is accused of paying more
for tobacco than bread, but a man cannot
be always chewing bread, and he cer
tainly cannot smoke it, unless he is a
baker.— Commercial Advertiser.
The venerable Peter Cooper has been
in the habit of sitting on the air for so
long a time that it wffl be perfectly
natural when it comes time for him to be
anangeL —New York Commercial Ad
vertiser
A wealthy manufacturer of Connect!-
4 “ ele T t T an " i T; T- d
tek
b£a.“ ' d broW “ bnme “* ”
, It , has been discovered ,. , that , phamnus ,
frangnla is a good substitute for rakmns
catharfacus, and only will costs half as much.
Then of course it probably supply
the place of the other to a considerable
extent. Peeles Sun.
An eminent Boston preacher once said
that it was a mockery to pray at night
for sweet and refreshing sleep, without
seeing to it that the bed-room is weH
ventilated. God takes care of those
who take care of themselves.
Mrs. .George Eliot Cross wifl reside
in Cheyne the Walk, Chelsea. The marriage
of eminent authoress has caused a
great deal of hard feeling among hei
friends, who seem to know more about
her business than she does herself.
Flashing.
Every T , . familiar , ... with ... the , word ,
one is
flush, as applied to the crimsoned cheeks,
when the minute capfilanes, before m
visible, become suddenly gorged with
blood. The sudden fufl inflow is the
leading idea.
The word has for a long time been ap
plied to the cleansing of sewers by a
copious amount of water suddenly Ie
into them, and which stirs up the foul
contents and bears them before it in its
HtfE. 1 hia method of cleansing the sink and
sou-pipeg systematieaDy of our dwellings should be
An ordinary and thoroughly will flow employed. the
stream over
seonnent, and aDow it to accumulate so
f 8 -?to °d° fifl, r to and the always house. to be The send- dif
H„i^ •
CTea8e d 111 11111 sink-pipes by
^ *L aru 8neBS h' s of “d servants hits generally, in allowing to
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c^stantty ““7 down. & <iaR y
Ttisw.-l? pass
the re ‘
move .h^Tjag filled a
bucket with to 2° lu
totter tote G.a
time ouenintr the' whbtof^ tothe boiler,
oflowmc minutaf ^"2. OT thr6e
This will 4110 S' eaS
nortichw and 0f < * N a
’
The word of tote airing^of^ roonPhv a
applied to the proper
mold "likl
hum theskin—is uut
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The Watkinsville Advance.
VOLUME I.
THE UN HAPPIEST OF WOMEN.
Ao .tallam Grallnuan'i Kxperleaee la
Mimlencfro.
The life of Montenegrin women may
be epitomized in two words—work and
suffering. work In some men—in countries womeD
as muoh as others more;
but on the Black Mountain they alone do
the work of both men and beasts of bur
den. The variety and intensity of their
sufferings baffle description. that I do not
hesitate to affirm nowhere else does
the female sex live in such a wretched
condition.
Outbursts of wild joy, noise of gun
8 , hots hashing of glasses, and songs and
-
, tbe of boy m
a
“ the birth “sS' of daughter, he is to
on a sure
cut short your intended compliment by
Baying, and sometimes “I beg “’tis pardon, sir, snake.” ’tis a girl,” The
a
poor Dttle thing grows up ignored and
despised until her bodUy strength be
comes in some way a source of revenue
to the fondly. The boys monopolize aU
the affections of both mother and father.
The former frequently suffers the tor
tules of Niobe, but for fear of her hus¬
band dares not show her daughter any
tenderness. The Dttle waifs of the Mon
tene K nn .... ... hardly walk „ about ,
“ household e bouse before they are initiated into
work, and sent up Wn the mour
htins to gather dry wood. they
® 6Veni ^’ ben ^ Dg Under ^
§ ^f et 0 a few «°™ Tfl d flogging • “T and no ^ supper. ClUTy ’ ” ™ The y
flower of their youth prematurely fades
because nature has no time to shape and
develop their forms, Excessive labor
stamps their faces with precocious age
and a repulsive manliness. The body of
the woman of the Black Mountains is
Ul-shapen and most ungraceful. She is
wanting in that elasticity which is the
soul of aU form. Her carriage is heavy,
her step long, and her shoulders are
buckle-backed, like the shoulders of aU
who pass ther Dves in journeying up and
down mountainous roads with loads not
h* keeping with them physical strength,
g he walks with her head inclined on her
breast, as though she was crushed by
* e lading of her own abjection. Nc
f tv 160 ' on ^> 4 i f therefore, an ot her that father, she brothersand looks on the
^ ius , ^ )and °f on superior berngs, in whose
P* eB « nce ou flht to tremble and keep
silent No wonder that those superior
1 icings, in turn, never miss an oprpor
tunity i the to assert then 1 superiority and to
r ve t chains by which they keep her
„ submissive as a slave,
Outside of household duties the woman
of Montenegro has no opportunity to
develop her mental faculties. It is only
of late years that Dttle girls have been
permitted affords. to attend The such schools as the
country improvement,
however, cannot be very great for a long
time, as the necessities of every-day life
-absorb all them time, and the customs of
the country confine the female sex
within the narrow and brutalizing sphere
of the lowest manual labor. Long wiU
horn they be ravine doomed to climb rocks and leap
to ravine to carry home tho
needed fuel and provisions. These
women themselves strange as it may seem, pride
on the hardships they endure.
9 £r ne day, tom while path, going I met to Nicsic number by the of
e 1110,111 a
up the baggage of a party
English tourists. One was seated on
tt rook > weeping bitterly. On being
questioned concerning the cause of her
& hSthatohe J^
woffid nerabe able
The novelist ia search of plots and m
trigues would lose his time by visiting
the Black Mountain. Aside from patriot
and self-denial, there is no romance
^ the life of Montenegrin women. The
rude mountaineers have no gaUautr.
They shrink from the simplest civilities
to women, A compDment, even to the
girl he loved, would subject a Montene
grin to ridicule. Young girls traveling
alone in the heart of the region are safer
than those under escort. Woe to tlife
man, however, who dare address her an
improper word. She would have a pro
tector in every passer-by, and on reach
iug the village, with a score of young men
would vie each other for the honor
°f washing out the offense with the blood
of the offender,
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99 nn or 999 nnn Years. xr
The reason for the use of the odd term
to leases, 999 years, is given in the New
York Journal of Commerce. Lessees
^d mortgagees m possession demised of real es
te te for 100 or 1,000 years the
game a t ^ annual rental, retaining a
ygygjgjon for the last year of tho original
term.
object of this was an unwilling
negg on y,,. part of the under tenant to
tjggome bound to the performance of the
govgnants contained in the original grant;
an d also, the importance to the lessor of
reversionary interest, without which.
nndr-r the old English practice, he could
n ot recover his rent by distress.
Sometimes this reversion war only for
three days or even for one day, but us
uajly to long term* the last year was re
^ed. Out of this came the popular
no y on that the law provided this re
gtratot, and hence leases were made for
99 or 999 years, where there was no rea
mn whatever for any such odd period of
time. special
In England there was, in cases,
a restraint, on corporations or ecclesiasti
^ p erson#i prohibiting the demise ot
lands belonging to them to the intpov
erishment of their aueflessore, fur a term
ypyrmd M5 years, awl such lessee were
made for 99 years. There ie no such re
sanction ip tins State.
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A* indignant tenant and a rather neg
huent landlord were overboard in the
l2ndterd~,‘ ‘#hs(&~ it .moke?”
Tenant (more indignantly>-“lt smokes
"-Danbury News.
WATKINSVILLE, GEORGIA, JULY 14, 1880.
“ OH ffMr 1 OF
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Ob, why fhoukl the spirit ot mortal he prowl?
L'ke a swift-fleeting meteor. & fast-flying cloud*
A flash of the lightning, ft fcresk of the ware.
He passeth from life to hit rest la the grave.
The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade,
Be scattered around and together be laid;
And the young and the old, and the lo' w and the
Shall moid'e r to dust and together shall lie.
l'he Infant a mother attended and loved,
The mother that infant’s affection who proTed,
The husband that mother ami infant who blessed.
Each, all, are away to their dwellings of rest.
The hand of the King that the scepter hath borne,
The brow of the priest that the miter hath worn,
The eve ol the sage and the heart of the brave, {
A I v hidden and lost in the depths of the grave.
The peasant, whose lot was to sow and to reap,
The herdsman, who climbed with his goata to the
The beggar, steep, who
wandered in search of his bread,
Have faded away like the grass that we tread.
8o the multitude goes, like the flower or the weed
That withers’away to lit others succeed;
8o the multitude comes, even those we behold,
To repeat every tale that has often been told.
For we are the same our fathers have been;
We see the same sights our fathers have seen-^
We drink the same stream and view the same sun—
And rnn the same course our fathers have run.
The thouf»hta we are thinking our fathors would
From the death we are shrinking our fathers would
To the shrink; life dinging
But it speed* we from are all, like they bird also would cling,
us a on the wing.
They They loved, but the story we cannot unfold;
cold; scorned, but the heart of the haughty is
They grieved, but no wail from their slumber will
come;
They dumb. ioyed, but the tongue of their gladness is
They died!—aye, they died; we things that are
That now,
walk on the turf that lies over their brow,
And make in their dwellings a transient abode.
Meet the things that they met on their pilgrimage
road.
Tea! hop* and despondency, pleasure and pain,
We mingle together in sunshine and rain;
And the smile and the tear, the song and the dirge,
Still follow each other, like surge upon surge.
’Tis the wink of an eye, ’tis the draught of a
From breath,
the blossom of health to the paleness ol
From death. the gilded saloon
to the bier and the shroud:
Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud 7
$100,000,
And the Throe Marriages Caused toerdfe,.
“My mind is made up, mother,” said
young Dr. Delaucey, “so let ns enjoy
our breakfast and not spoil our digestion
by could thinking of the old his curmudgeon who
not even let eccentricity die
with him, but must dispose of his fortune
in this idiotic manner. ”
“But, my dear Arthur,” remonstrated
Mrs. Delancey, “one hundred thousand
dollars Is too large a sum to refuse with¬
out much consideration.”
“I know that, mother mine, but still I
refuse it, or rather refuse to accept it
with the conditions attached to it. I
prefer “Is to ohoose my own wife.”
there no alternative?”
“None.”
“What are the exact words of the let
ter?’
“These,” answered Arthur, taking up
a ponderous letter winch had been lying
on the table, and reading from it:
“My Beab Sib i—N ow that tho estate of the
iate Tobias Queerby is eettiod, it becomes my
duty dition to inform his you bequest that he had imposed a con¬
upon to you. Be bequeaths
to you property to the value of one hundred
thousand dollars, on condition that von marry
Miss Fidelia Fairfax within two years after his
death. Tho same amount is bequeathed to Miss
Fairfax, the and I have this day notified her that
same condition is attached to her store of
the estate. This condition was not mentioned
in the will, as it wonld not have been roeogr.ized
as valid by the courts. You need not obey his
remain request unless you wish, and your legacy will
unaffected, upright but he honorable,'not charges von and her,
as you are and to enjoy
his hard-earned wealth unless you do as he de¬
sires. I enclose a copy of the letter to me ask¬
ing me to acquaint you with hiH desires, by
which you will see to what charitable societies
he wished you to give the money he left you in
case you do not yield to the conditions imposed,
and in cane you decide to act a« a n:au of nonor.
I am, sir, yours, etc.,
G RKF-NFI F.LII KeHT,
Att’y for the estate of Tobias Queerby."
terrible “ There,” cried Arthur, “in not that a
condition to impose? Of course
I am a man of honor and I must—yes,
must give up this fortune. ”
“But one hundred thousand dollars,
Arthur, is—”
“Is one hundred thousand dollars, I
know. But marriage to one I do not
care for would be misery for a life time.
Therefore, made as I said before, my mind is
up. What! Did he think simply
because he was the friend in youth of
fattier and this Mr. Fairfax, he can force
their children, who have never seen each
other, to marry whether they love or
hate ? No. Father has left you well
provided for, mother, and I wifl soon
(tot the a practice, and so I snap my fingers
at old fellow’s matrimonial schemes
and will make happy a half dozen orphan
asylums, who, to say nothing of Miss Fairfax,
detest though she has never seen me,
must me as she reads her letter
this morning.”
“ She may be a very nioe young lady,
Arthur,” “When mildly suggested Mrs. Delan
<*y- often your father was alive he
fax spoke of the pretty girl Mr. Fair
semhie married, and daughters generally rc
their mothers, you know.”
lady, “Undoubtedly mother, she is a nice young
dare she as rattle society ladies are. I
say can off the first oon
jugation in French, recite Tennyson by
the yard, lead a German, tefl just which
comer of her card to turn down for a
call of condolence, or a party caU, rave
about majolica and tho art decorative,
give the points of a pun, yawn interest
mgly mawkish behind a fan, extol the opera,
write poems, each one with an
Envoi and, in short, be a credit to her
family and the seminary where she was
graduated. I can see her now,” contin
ued Arthur, shaking his yellow curls and
laughing. “She considers me as her
property, but hates me because she feels
°f me_ ‘Yes.’ she says to her con
sajssjviaiRfflr “Nob-, Arthrlr, you are not just: 10
neither are vou kind to spea^ *o of a giri
Uneou^y, “Ikwr. on id*./
“What is it, my son?” asked the
lady. "I by tliis letter,” explained the
see
lives vonnfj physician, “that Miss Fairfax
in Metroville. Now, a train leave*
here at eleven and reaches there at two.
Jack Metroville, Merton, my I'll college chum, lives in
and go there, see him,
and try to see Miss Fidelia Fairfax with¬
out being seen by her. If I like her
looks I’ll introduce myself, if not I’D
come settle home, down bid farewell to the fortune
and to b&chelordom and
physio.” You forgot that
“ your cousin Uriah
comes to-day here.” and may be offended'if yon
are not urged the widow.
“Mother,” returned Arthur, mock
earnestly, from “if anything could dri yo me
away this comfortable home with
more speed than my curiosity to see
Miss Fairfax it would bo the knowledge
that that dry old book-worn, Cousin
Uriah, was coining here to bore mo with
his learning and his praises of that blue¬
stocking, hand his idol Araminta, for whose
he is too bashful to propose. He’s
a nioe young feUow, but, oh, such a
bore. That decides me; I go at eleven
o’clock.”
And in the smoking train that left
Opoliston at eleven o'clock bound for
Metrovdie sat Dr. Arthur Delanoey puff¬
ing “Father, a cigar gravely. said Miss Fairfax, while
presiding over a conning little breakfast
table in a cosy little dining-room in the
most comfortable little house in the little
city of Metroville, “my mind is made up.
I cannot take the money—I cannot
marry a man at the order of another even
if that other does offer me one hundred
thousand doUors to do so.”
“ WeU, my dear Fidelia,” returned Mr.
Fairfax, “Ido not feel oompotent to ad¬
vise you further than bid you foDow the
dictates of your own heart. StiU, my love,
I would oounsel you not to be busty, if
your dear mother were alive she would
toll you in a moment what to do—I must
say, though, Fidelia, that one hundred
thousand doUars is—”
“ Yes, pa, I know, one hundred thous¬
and dollars is a great deal of money, but
even that sum cannot tempt me to marry
a man I do not love—have never seen in
fact. Was a girl ever placed in such a
humiliating position? I wish the eccen¬
tric old Mr. Tobias Queerby had been
content to keep his eccentricity to him¬
self. The ideal If the friendship that
existed between you and Mr. Delanoey
and him gave him the right to dispose of
the hands and hearts of his friends’ chil¬
dren.”
“But you needn’t marry him, you
know, I my deal,” said Mr. Fairfax. “If
had not been so unfortunate the past
few years I would say at once give up this
fortune; but I cannot leave you much,
my love, and I know what a comforting
“ But I can’t marry him, pa.”
“WeU, Mr. Greenland Kent, the
attorney, says the condition is not legal.
“But oh, pa, Mr. Queerby relied on
my honor not to take the money without
accepting the condition, and my honor
makes the condition binding if the law
does not,” said Miss Fairfax, decidedly.
“ True, my dear,” replied the gentle¬
man, “yet this I must say. Fidelia, i
have often heard your poor mother speak
of Mr. Delaucey, and always in terms ol
the highest praise, and, you know that
as a general rule sons are like their
fathers. I have no doubt he ia a most
estimable young man.”
“I have no doubt he is, pa. I daresay
that he can interlard lus conversation
with yards of Latin that he don’t half un¬
derstand, can write sonnets and triolets
in a lady’s album, can teU the best time
of all the oarsmen and race horses, can
play polo, con teU what kind of a coat
ought to be -worn on each day of the
week, can say ‘Very olevah, bai Jove,’ as
if he were a thorough man of the world,
can teU what new play is going to be a
success, can flirt with everybody and vow
aU the girls are breaking their poor
hearts for him, can tefl college yarns aU
night short, and laugh loudest at his own wit,
in prove himself an honor to society
and Harvard College. I can see him now
talking pals to his pal (there are no more class¬
mates; and college slang murdered
them long ago) and saying: ‘Oh, bai
Jnpitah, know, but old feUow, it’s a dooccd bore, yo
the poor little girl will break
her heart if I don’t many her, and I su mp
pose I wDl have to, bai Jove, yaas,’ w lule
all the time he hate* me like poison. ”
“Now, now, now, Leslie, my love!”
cried Mr. Fairfax, “this is not right,”
yet he could not refrain from laughing.
“You are unjust, unkind—you d
not seen/’ speak “Oh, so papa!” of one exclaimed you have Fidelia, never
suddenly black clasping curls, her hands and shak¬
ing her merrily.
“What, my dear!” asked the father.
“I have an idea. The lawyer’s letter
says Mr. Fairfax lives in Opoliston.
Now, Rena Lester lives there, and she’*
my schoolmate and she’s been begging
me to call on her. There’s a train leave*
at eleven and Ill go to-day. I'D con¬
trive to see Mr. Arthur Delaucey with¬
out being seen, and Ill judge by his
looks whether I’D ask him. to be intro¬
duced. If I don’t like him Ill throw the
fortune to the hospitals and become an
old maid, and make tea forever for my
dear, stupid, loving, darling pa. So make
haste, pa, I most prepare tor my jour
ney. “But not going to-day,
you are my
dear,” complained Mr. Fairfax, “yon
forget that your cousin Araminta is com¬
ing offended to-day to stop with us, and she might
be if you were not here to re¬
ceive her.”
“Fa, if anything would be could drive me from
the house it the thought that I
would have to listen to the dissertations
of the learned Araminta and hear her
praises | of that modest, unassuming
Uriah. , whoever he is. Araminta is a
good enough That body, decides pa, but she does
weary me so. me. I go
to-day.” In the drawing-room
car of the train
that left Metroville at eleven o’clock
bound for Opoliston, sat Mire Fidelia
Fairfax reading the latest noval.
his “Jack,” said Arthur Delancey, towing
hat on the table in Jack Merten
room, and throwing himself on the
lounge, “are Miss you quite *ure you were
right shout Fairfax’s house being
the seventh from here?"
“Of coarse I am. I’ve often been
there to eee kte sad h» daughter,” sn
•wered Jerk.
“All, his daughter! I think I saw
her at the window as I passed. ”
all “Undoubtedly day.” you did; she sits there
black “Lively hair girl she must bo. Has she
and eyes?”
“Yes.”
“ And she is—well, not pretty.”
" There you are wrong, Bho is
pretty.” “.Tack,
old fellow, you always had
queer looks like ideas of school female beautv. is she Why she
the cultured, a clever maitn. one of
sort?”
“She is, eh. Then I’ve seen her, no
doubt. ”
‘ ‘That must have been her in the win¬
dow, house. tliero is no other lady in tho
”
“Oh,” muttered Arthur, “1’U run
to the telegraph office, Jack, if you’ll ex
cuse we’ll me, and then I'll be at your service
and have a jolly night of it.”
That afternoon Mrs. Delanoey received
a telegraph dispatch on the following
words:
Have seen tho “ condition.” Good-bye for¬
tune. I wouldn’t have hor for a million. I
leave at eleven to-morrow morning.
Ahthur.
“ Rena, she my love,” said Fidelia Fair¬
fax, as came into Miss Rena Lester’s
boudoir after a Ions: walk; “I am not
sorry you oould not como out with me
for I kept walking up and down one
street which, though it pleased me by
its pretty houses, would have wearied you
who know it so well. ”
‘‘What street was it?” asked Mibs
L ester.
“The street on which yon said Mi's.
Delanoey lived. By the way, who was
the gentleman I saw sitting on the
porch?” “Oh, that
must have txien Arthur.
AD the girls arc in love with him. ”
“I don’t admire their taste.”
“ Oh, Fidelia; why he’s so handsome.”
“ Then I did not see him.”
“ Oh, it must have been he; he is the
only man he in the house.”
“ Has Uglit hair?”
“Yes, very light.”
“ And a book-wormy look?”
“ For shame, Fidelia. He’s very, very
clever; lint he’s handsome, too.”
“ I don’t doubt ho is the one I saw.
WeU, the Opoliston girls are welcome to
him. Suppose we stroD to the telegraph
office, Rena; I want to send a messago to
pa.
That afternoon Mr. Fairfax received •
telegraph message as foUows:
I have soon tho hundred thousand dollar
prize. the A million would bo too littlo. 1 tak«
eleven o’clock train to-morrow morning.
PmHi.u.
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troville Midway between OpoUston and Mo
was a junotion of three railroads.
Tracks crossed anil carved around each
other till the ground appeared to bo cov¬
ered with an iron network.
How it happened no one ever learned,
but two switches luul been left misplaced,
and as the train bound from Opoliston to
Matrovflle came thundering along, it
shot off In the wrong direction, then
seemed to stand stiD for a moment, then
seemed to shiver all over, and tho next
second tho engine lay on its side, under
two coaches, its driving wheel revolving
BO that no spokes could be seen, flinging
earth and stones and ashes like a volcano.
Then, ere any warning oould be given,
on rushed the train from Opoliston bound
for Metrovifle. A shriek from the
whistle, and engines, cars, baggage,
railroad ties and tracks became one un¬
sightly mass, half-hidden by escaping
steam.
In five minutes tho discovery was made
that no onp had been killed and very few
injured, There's and those hut slightly.
“ a young lady lying on tho
depot leg is platform broken,” who says she thinks her
said an old gentleman to
a group who were nesisting the ladies.
“Is there?” saida young gentleman
who was wrapping a bandage around an
old lady’s wrist. “Ah, now, that’s done
nicely, 1 ’ he continued, oddresshig the
lady. old gentleman, “Now,” he added, turning to the
“if you will conduct mo
to the young lady I will go with you. I
am a surgeon. ”
The surgeon was Arthur Delanoey,
and his conductor presented him to a
very ing pretty young lady who was reclin¬
on a rough She couch extemporized of
mail bags. had very pretty black
eyes and black curls. She did not appear
to lie in muoh pain, and smiled archly at
Arthur.
“If Miss Fairfax was only like hor I"
was Arthur’s first thought.
ankle, Her and injury laughing proved to lie but a sprained
fears she accepted the merrily at her formor
arm of tho physi¬
cian and permitted him to almost carry
her to ttie hotel.
He supported her to the hotel parlor
and insisted on giving the black-eyed
patient his personal attention, a compD¬
ment she did not seem loth to accept.
Some time was lost in sending for medi¬
cine, and over an hour had passed before
the surgeon had bandaged the patient’s
foot. He was. standing leaning ou the
mantel-piece black under the influence of the
eves, and she seemed content to
say nothing hut quietly admire ttie doc¬
tor,s when golden curls and frank blue eyes,
the hall-boy, who had received
several large gratuities from tho doctor
for having run for medicines, and who
into was, therefore, his friend for life, rushed
the parlor, saying:
“Some one sent telegrams to Opolis¬
ton and MetroviDe, saying there’ll l>een
a fearful accident, and saying nothing
about Dves being lost, f-vo two trains
have come in, one frefta each place, full
of people looking after relatives, and
there are visitors for both of you.”
tho Scarcely broad doorway had he finished when through
of tho parlor ran four
people. of Ther were Mrs. Delanoey, on
the arm a lair-haired Dttle man. and
Mr, Fairfax black-haired dragging in a very tall and
very and angular young
‘^Fidelia Fairfax, by Jove!” cried Ar¬
thur, m he *aw the young lady.
“Oh, my, Mr. Delanoeyr •creamed
the bl«ck-eycd patient, m sue saw the
fair-haired little man.’'
bmomg “My son!” th« doctor cried Mrs. Delancey, em
“Fidelia, Fidelia, my daughter!”
roared Mr. Fairfax, em I (racing Urn block
tie nt
tJrish! * softly murmured th*
sngular Isdy, croreiug to th# little men.
NUMBER 19.
little “Oh, Miss Araminta!” squeaked the
man and he shook hands feebly
with the angular lady.
“And you are really Miss Fairfax! s
said Arthur to his blue re
“I'm so glad.”
. , -
And you , re Mr. Delanoey,” said Fide
ti“ lia;^ "I My m ,^^‘ so glad,” Faid and then ^” die blushed, Arthur,
1 11 ^ may hlUldrea I hope that we
dXraF’ ° Ur thoUBand
"bn rnn m»im i. „;n i * 0n0r .. >.
she asked, blushing again. ’
slmoTof/i destroy * •.i’ »he n calculations VV W0U H of that ?
aa ho wished m to?”
“Ask pa, doctor,” said black-eyes.
“ Araminta,” said Uriah, “this meet
ing is auspicious. I—I—will you—will
you_”
“I understand you, Uriah. Take me,”
returned the angular one, and tliey again
shook hands feebly.
Two months later, at Mr. Fairfax’s cosy
littlo house, tire guests were assembled to
witness tire wedding ceremonies of two
couples. and Uriah They wero Arthirr and Fidelia
and Armenia.
After they had Ireetr happUy unitod
and congratulated, Mr. Fairfax, who was
consoling Mrs. Delanoey for the loss of
her son, sard: “My dear Mrs. Delanoey,
you are a comfortable sort of a woman
mid I am a comfortable sort of a man. I
have been mode to-night a father to your
son Do and you know a of mother to my (laughter.
pedimont you the auy just cause and im
m way of our becoming,
ahem—”
It appeared that she did not, the ser¬
vices of the minister was again put in
requisition, the least and the old folks were not
happy of the party.
Ingenious Escape of Nihilists.
When it is remernlrercd that tho prisons
of Russia are crowded with twice ss many
inmates as they are constructed for, and
hZZSLIELZ barely suineumt to keep oy Z them tax(v from } war starva- t ra “
v" ' rOUK r,T H u’ on:un,alH
mavb y V^
lmv « >,
out the flight of somebody or other from
Iris cell. Jtn the case of ordinary convicts
not much surprise in commonly expressed
in hinders Russia, it is but kuown in regard to polifical of
that tire preoantions
taken are so rigorous that tho evasion of
any nine Nihilist days’ wonder. always The furnishes matter for
Governor-Gen
oral of Kioff, General Tchortkoff, derived
much of tho ill-fame with which his
name is invested from an order he issued
some time ago that all prisoners attempt
ing to escape were to Ire shot down by
tho sentries, without any effort being
made to induoo them to surrender,
atitutdon-of However, neither this order, nor tho sub
usnal mode solitary caging confinement the Nihilists fo? the in
of
guards, has had auy appreciable effect in
(liiuinislring Fomin, tho number of escapes,
the Khorkoff lender, created
some sensation in 1878 by escaping
tlrrough a chimney, and the seventy
criminals confined in the same room with
him would doubtless have got clear also
had not the tenth—a very stout man
stuck at the top or the shaft, and so
blocked tho way for tho rest. To prevent
a similar occurrence, the Governor of
Slootek Prison, m Mmsk, placed Terenti
Tcherentseff and Ivon Bovantaeff in
separate eeUs depriving both of thou
bed hnen and superfluous clothing for
toar they should try and lower themselves
from their third-story windows to the
ground. hard The Nihilists, however, had
the Governor, ly bee n m pmon morning, a fortnight found to when his
one liadHown.
chagrin that the birds Aided
by a pocket-knife takeh they bod made a ladder
capable of being celi topic** from the
wooden fl<K>r of their and the iron
work of their bedsteads, and at rc*Sn« night,
tliey having 7,ad picked the locks of both basement;
descended to the
emerged and, through fixing a trap on the court
yard, wall, had their ladder against the
clambe-rodorer, and successfully *
effected their escape .—London Times.
Newly Married Couples.
It is tho happiest and most virtuous
state and wife of society in which tho make husband their
set out together, perfect
pr<n>orty together, and with sym
pathy of soul, graduate all their cx
penses, with plans, calculations and desires
reference to their present moans
and to their future and common in
terest.
Nothing the delights littlo man more than of the to
enter neat tenement
young three people who, without within perhaps two
or years, any resources
but their own knowledge of industry,
have joined heart anil hand, and engaged
to share together the responsibilities,
duties, interests, trials and pleasures of
of life. The industrious wife is cheer
fully employing putting her hands in domestic
duties, her house in order or
mending her husband’s clothes, or pi e
paring dinner, while perhaps the little
darling site prattling on the floor or lies
sleeping in the cradle, and everything
seems of husbands preparing and to the welcome best of fathers the happiest when
he slial] come home from his toil to en
joy the sweets of Ids little paradise.
This is true domestic pleasure.
Health, contentment, love,
and bright prospects ore all here.
it has liee-ome a prevalent sentiment that
a man must acquire his fortune before
marries; that the wife must have no sym
pathy nor share with him in the pursuit
of truly it—in consists—and which most of the pleasure
the young married
people expensive must set out with aa large and
an establishment as is beoom
mg those who have been wedded for
twenty fills the years. Tliis is very unhappy; it
community with bachelors, who
are waiting to make their fortunes, en
dangering tSh virtue, i promoting vice; dAlgn it de
stw y ron economy >nd of
the domestic institution, and it protnotaa
sssev jaussively sustained with
any care or con
corn on their part, and thus many a wife
becomes, "helpmate,” as a gentleman once "helpbeat. remarked,
not a but a —
(Mdtu\ Ag«.
under Vstiver, dog in slwsys tho flgnt, sympathise bat they with bet their tho
money ou the other animal.
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Watk'nsville, Oconeb Co., Georgia.
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A Chicago girl tried to run away with
a base-ball catcher. Her father became
a short-stop.
A milkman at a ball, wearing a pair of
pumps, is too much for the good nature
of society.
Holmes says that the years atfii^t
pelt with the girls with roses, and after a while
snow-balls.
Not one American woman in one hnn
Sf>ph l g‘SeSi? e8_U “ le88 ** ** °“
Home is the dearest place on earth—
wh eu the wife strives to keep a head of
'ttpr*** Why lfl ft * a< v 8 nair .1... like tho latest w.i
aeW8? WI J S 11,1(1 „ 5 e it ° anao m papers, “ tbo morning wo al
ilU! spots on the aim do not begm to
create me disturbance produced by the
£r,,ckJos ou tlu > daughter,
year-old Connkmaugii, Pa., boasts of a twelve
bl girl who is a mother, yet the
K > B not proud and positively refuses to
lecture.
Two hundred young ladies iir Boston
should are learning to play tiro violin. They
appear in the nowoperaof “Bow
oatchio.”
One of tho leading American exports
to Zanzibar are “domestics.” Thank
heaven! but do they take their kerosene
cans with ’em .—New /raven Register.
What is tho difference between a styl
«h young lady’s cranium and a burn
moc k? One is a banged head and the
other is a hanged bed. (All rights re
served ’ )
An Foo Woo fs a Boston Ohinaman.
His name sounds like the shivering of a
woman when sire gels out of bed on a
winter morning and steps her bare feet
on the oil-cloth.
inlhTt^t^wh“ ‘Sntivel ’eif
nmining quired: a oust in a window, eagerly in*
“And who was this Terra Cotta
anyway?”
At a recent Philadelphia picnic, when
it WM discovered that tire wicked croquet arches
luul been supplying forgotten, a girl Ivith sug
gested their places the
* <* » month wont to amamed
^ , ,/JJ 111 of ^ 11 V"*** <* * Jf 7*» oxn ® n a ■«* I ’° ^°°^ “Xj, s
*
Nevermind, sard the other, “he . is only
“*g nouns. Wait until ho reaches
a(1 J (5Ctlves -
When a Boston girl’s soul reaches out
the infinite after an idea and grasps
it, Hb<1 realizes how base and ignoble is
b, o conventionality that obliges a being
thus endowed to wrestle with a paper
bustlo.
About this time expect to see her walk
into the parlor to say: “Av ye pluze,
mum, I thought I’d be going down to the
bache to .the hotel, an’ me cousin’s gone
already, mum, and I’ll be going to
morrow.”
Kentucky, girls average one hundred
and twenty-Bix pounds .—Boston Post.
A very comfortable Lap full.—Were
Haven Register. See here, young fel
low, tho thermometer is fooling around
tiro eighties.
Judging from back apnoarances:
Hmali )>oy (rushing in front of young
lady and wearing staring rather her large poke bonnet, faceV-1
full in tire
“You’ve lost yer bet, Charlie; I told yer
jt wa rn’t an old woman ”
.. WmtN j Slers , a-shorming,” said an
tM lady .. r asks for what 1 wants,
and if they Inclined have it, and it is suitable
tt nd I feel to buy it, and it b
ch and -can’t be got for less, I most
( j 1( . r „ take it, without clappcring aU day
about it like some people do.”
®%«i . * . W™*’ T ^ . dirm arre84 ™ tm3 .. ^ Philadelohm . . ,
18 uu r
( or has three living 1 IXUh
o{ shftb “?
4wo When asked why she had
« h « ^
good fellows, and they coaxod me to.”
A Boston young lady, who has trained
. “notch
“ er tomer to come uito the par
* or at ten o clock on Sunday evenings
? nd bark at ber geutlempn friends, has
been reported to tho police for keeping
an unlicensed dog, and the dog-catcher
u faking for the stomal.
The murriago of Mile. Collette Dumas,
the daughter of tho novelist, is certainly
a romantic one. Her father took her to
a fancy ball, her costume being in tho
future quaiut fashion of the Directory. Her
pressed bridegroom at first sight was so that deeply im
ujion occasion
that the noxt day he demanded her hand
from her family._______
. . „
A irl-.nuii.
At the Grand Central Theater in this
city is a freak of nature. The name of
Gus Mills is pretty well known among
variety stage frequenters, but the world
has never been told that Gus is a phe
nomcnon. From early boyhood girls, he like has
exhibited a passion, not for
other boys, but to be a girl liimself.
This desire became a mania, till at the
present time Gus is more girl than girl man. and
He dresses as a girl, dances as a
flirte with the girls. His female ward
robe is probably the most extensive in
Leadville, and every article made and
every stitch taken was by Mills’ own
hand. He makes liis own striped exquisite stock
ings and paints his face with
xkiiL —Leadville Democrat.
The inference that the telephone
would probably is work best when the
membrane slanted toward the source
of sound, law been drawn from the fact
that the drum of the human ear is in
dined at a considerable angle to the axis
of the outer ear passage. Nature men
turns an instance in which this notion
was justified by actual experiment on the
part of a gentleman who found “that
his telephone worked best when he spoki
to it in a slanting direction.’'
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geological probability explorations have shown
that Russia contains
^ (>f li me 0 f sufficient
sa*-'*
. »- --
One of tho inexplicable phenomena of
nature is tho effect the emptying of a pan
of aahos has in suddenly reversing the
direction of tho wind.
"dll BU 8 ,U ' buildings at Franklin,
«<“*■. be very extensive and they
wiU eoewr am an acre of ground.