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WatkinsWHe, 0eon«e Co. Georgia.
W. G. STTLX^IV^isr.
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NEWS GLEANINGS.
The factory at Selma, Ala., uses an.
nually about 1,500 bales of cotton.
It is reported that persons from a dis¬
tance are rapidly buying the coal lands
of Tuscaloosa county, Ala.
The Vicksburg Herald says that Yala
busha county, Miss., has imposed a tax
of $1 on each dog, except one to a fam¬
ily, in the county.
The »Tampa (Fla.) Tribune says that
sheep-sliearing in South Florida is be¬
gun, and that the wool clip this year will
be larger than ever before.
The pistol law has been signed by Gov.
Churchill, of Kansas. It imposes fine
and imprisonment for thirty days, and
allows the court no discretion.
The Brady land, in Rockbridge county,
Va., 7,000 acres of mountain land, as
sessed at ten cents per acre, has been
sold to a Pennsylvania firm for $23,000.
Petitions to the Legislature of South
Carolina are circulating in Marlboro
asking the total prohibition of the man¬
ufacture and sale of ardent spirits in the
State.
Since the inauguration of the Board
of Harbor Commissioners at Norfolk,
Va., the total amount of excavation is
1,317,898 cubic yards. The board lias
granted permits to the seaboard and
Koonoke railroad to reclaim a large por j
tion of the Portsmouth flats adjacent to
its North-street depot wharf, and to con¬
struct thereon extensive docks and piers.
The Charleston News and Courier re¬
ports that in Greenville county, S. C.,
there were recorded last year 2,340 liens,
averaging about 245 each, making an
aggregate of $105,300 in property pledged
by the farmers forsupplies. This season
thus far there have been 972 liens given,
for amounts ranging from $5 to $25 >,
averaging about $45, making a total of
$43,740.
Tlie Memphis Avalanche recalls the
fact that Randolph, an ancient and de¬
cayed post village of Tipton county,
Tenn., was once the commercial metrop¬
olis of West Tennessee. Fifty years ago
it was a place of far more importance
than Memphis. It never fully recov¬
ered from the disastrous blow struck by
the panic of 1837. It was burned finally
in 1863 by the Federals, tlie Confederate
Col. Faulkner having fired into a pass¬
ing steamer.
New Orleans Democrat: It is said
that wheat in Northern Texas is begin¬
ning to break down in just the same
manner as it did last year; what the
cause of this was no two persons seemed
to agree upon at the time, hut later it
was pretty generally conceded to be the
work of a worm. The worm has not yet
been seen on the ground, hut it may he
that it is working on the root of the
grain, and will make its appearance on
the surface later.
Anderson (S. C.) Intelligencer, March
31: The work of immigration to South
Carolina is being successfully pushed
forward by tlie Agricultural Department
of this State. Co!. A. I’. Butler, the
Commissioner of Agriculture, who is
temporarily in charge of the matter, has
introduced and settled in different parts
of South Carolina over 100 German
families since the 1st of January, and
is continuing the work in a most stu
cessful and promising manner.
Atlanta Constitution: In the Stone¬
wall Cemetery at Winchester a large
number of soldiers from Georgia lie un
buried—probably fully 500. Virginia
and Maryland, by erecting handsome
monuments, have acknowledged their
indebtedness to their own heroes, and it
is now proposed that the people of Geor¬
gia shall attest their gratitude and
regard for her dead soldiers by erecting
on the lot where to many of them sleep
a fitting monument to their memory.
Wilmington (N. C.) Star: We regard
this matter of the dairy and of sheep
husbandry as of the greatest importance
to our people. Both can be made to add
to the wealth of North Carolina many
millions of dollars annually. The other
day we copied a paragraph from tlie
Elizabeth City Carolinian, which showed
that canned, vegetables were sol$ in the
stores of NortfrVaroline that were raiwd
on the bleak lands of Maine, where it is
winter six months in the year, bucb a
fact is a blistering shame.
The largest single contribution to
public purpose ever made in Charleston
or in South Carolina was the act of one
of the most successful planters in the
Htate, Mr, Ephraim M. Baynard, who,
in 1865, seeing the need of educational
opportunities taoPfrorn honae-set asidejtUe $16S| con
siderakle hi* fort ate of
200 in securities of the city of Charles
ton as a permanent endowment fund. It
is preserved unimpaired, and is now held
in four fier Cent, city I Kind*, (tiring sta
bility to th’e collects of UhlrTe-tffti. *
New GfTe»«t PkfjrpHc: Census Bul¬
letin No. 77, just issued’ shows that the
colored population of Kansas number*
43 < 96. In 1870 there were 17,108. If
have heqn 21 , 4 'hi- We have thus, say
il,7W), te tepresenf (tie exodtw mt,ve
«u»ut f/oio the Southern State*. If {*
The Watkinsville Advance.
VOLUME II.
probable that about double this number
went to Kansas, but finding the condi¬
tions of life somewhat different from
what was represented, fully half became
dissatiffied and came back to their old
homes.
Speaking of street improvements, the
Atlanta Constitution says: “The work
tkattlias already been done has added
heavily to the value of the property in
the neighborhood. Near old Peachtree
Mr. Gaines is assessed over $3,000 on an
investment of $900 made less than a
year ago, and Mr. Hoke Smith over
$7,000 on an investment of $1,900 made
about a year and a half ago. These are
but lucky samples of the advance that
will be recorded all along the line. The
friends of old Peachtree insist that it
will soon equal new Peachtree as a resi¬
dence street. The Whitehall improve¬
ment will bring just as decided results,
and will start a boom in West End
property as soon as it is opened and
made the thoroughfare between that de¬
lightful suburb and the city. Out near
Richardson street, a little work done by
the street force in clearing a new way
has resulted in the building of twelve
new houses within a radius of less than
200 yards, and others are going up, three
only of the twelve houses being finished.
Six of them aie built by Mr. Wad ley as
tenement houses; the others are homes.
On one new street the increase in taxa¬
ble property in one year was over $ 100 ,
000 .”
Natural Sounds.
origin Among with the which natural mythology sounds of and obscure sci
'iicc have been occupied are the rustlings
®d so-called voioes which seem to come
tom tlie aii', sometimes from the bosom
of the earth, and which have been re¬
marked upon in all ages. Autonrieth
refers them to the same class as the
noises like thunder or the firing of can¬
non, which the hearers often fail to
trace to an apparent cause. Sometimes
they seem like the trampling of horses,
or the roll of drums, or the clangor of
trumpets; voices. Ih at other times, like human
tho last case the sounds are
those wliich are common to all men, and
may be interpreted by each hearer as in
ois own language. To the Romans
they spoke Latin, to the Greeks Greek,
to the Scotch Highlanders Gaelic.
History Bible has notices of these sounds; tlie
religious descriptions attribute to them a
ferred when significance. They are re¬
to it is related that Samuel
heard the voice of Jehovah three times
iu the temple ; when Habukkuk, pro¬
nouncing the curse on Babylon, spoke
of the stones crying out in the walls ;
when the giad mountains and waves
are mentioned in the Psalms ; in the ac¬
count in John of the voice that cried out
from heaven when Jesus went into Jeru¬
salem, and the people wondered whether
it was thunder or an angel; in the story
of the conversion of St. Paul, and in
the account of the pouring out of the
Holy Spiri t 011 the day of Pentecost. The
profane voices history of antiquity also tells of
from above, and ascribes to them
a supernatural significance and an influ¬
ence over the hearts of men. Instances
in point are sounds of battle and the
clash of arms and the neighing of horses,
heard by night, according to Pausanias,
on the field of Marathon ; the address
of tho god Pan to the Athenian Ambas¬
sadors to Sparta, told of by Herodotus,
and the voices heard by both armies
after the battle of the Romans with the
sons of Turquin. Tlie Germans have
myths of marching the din made hosts, by of the the war wild god
and his
huntsman, of strange cries and of the
barking of dogs heard in the air ; and
the French have stories not unlike them.
-Exchange.
A Cool Letter from a Husband.
[London World.}
I have become accidently possessed of
the following letter, which is a correct
copy of one lately addressed by a Cor¬
poral sel of Marines to liis wife, from a ves¬
Which is at present stationed off the
west coast of Africa.
“ Wife—I was greatly surprised Captain). to I
hear from you (through my married, and to
had forgotten that I was
tell you the truth, I had entirely forgot¬
ten you. I should have thought like that would a
handsome young Woman you
have been above I applying think to have a been poor
marine for help. you
guided by your mother in this matter,
as you have in all others. Well, I should
like you to act upon my advice for
once; that is to take no notice of your
mother, do the best you married can for yourself, -It
and, if possible, get again.
might he better for you. I can assure
you that I never will trouble you as long
as I live. I am very comfortable in the
service, and there is no doubt but that I
shall stay in the service e|iailtat for the next 16
year*. MyiCaptain he would
not interfere trouble with my with pri-fhte affairs, take and
if 1 had any you to no
notice of it. I must now conclude, and
I don’t think I shall ever see you or Man¬
chester again, for I have greater attrac¬
tions in Portsmouth than any other part
of England. I remain, etc.
“
“ P. S.—I cannot return your r;jS lifter as
it«lost.” ,& of the
In this letter the aternne m war¬
rior and tlie inconstancy of the sailor aro
iuerfuJJy and wonderfully combined.
A PROYTNCUr, acrobat hesitates tiefore
a trajieze on which he is about to do a
daring feat. His manager angers.
“Miserable man, you have no courage!”
“Miserable yourself,” answers tho trap
eziat; “you promised me six dollars, and
you now wish to give me only five.”
“What then?" “Well, a fellow wifi
risk his lift ter six dollars, hut not for
five!”
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WATKINSVILLE, GEORGIA, APRIL 19, 1881.
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My letters? written In my earnest lioyliood
To on, 1 who left Us but the-atlier day.
And I am sitting bore, Her. tiy to read them
Tears Through tears I do not cere to biuah much sway—
lor my friend: and tears—ah! man
bitter!—
For him, myself, tho self thnt is dead
As lie'to whom theac faded* things were written
Ere youth and trust had from my living lied..
It was myself, remember that, who wrote.iitera;
Head them once more, and note the noble life,
The vast endeavor, and the desperate struggle
To rise above tire grovelers in the st.rifo;
The sacrifice of self for good of others;
The passion at the sufferings of the poor;
The angry tight, ’gainst pride, and sin, and riches I*
The looking onward when the prize was sure.
Ours, too, the hands to ease the overladen,
Ours tho strong voice whoso sweet words of
truth
Should e’er compel n hearing from the people
W lio now but scoffed at our impetuous youth.
The world, awakened, boon would grow much bet
Soon sin and sorrow, dying in the dust,
W ould vanish fr. m the earth before the sunlight
Flashed from our swords, whose blades should
never rust.
Yet he is dead, and I am old and tired.
1 do liutetro ii all the world bo sin;
I listen daily to my sons’ loud vauntings
Of that bright future they are sure to win.
Ah! burn the letters As they fail to ashes
Methiuks they re like our fading mortal dreams,
Wouls upon words, and little of fulfilment
Of all was promised by our youth’s briglitdrearasl
—Ail the War Hound .
Jennie’s Graduation Dress.
“Now, go on with your study, Jennie.
It's useless to discuss the matter.”
“But mother, I don't see—”
“Of course you don’t see, dear - , but
when your father has decided, he has
decided, you know. Don't think any
more about it. Come, I can’t sparo you
but fifteen minutes more. You must
help me on Johnny’s jacket—just the
buttonholes, my eyes are so poor.”
“Why don't you get Miss Stitchson to
make the buttonholes?”
“Don’t ask me. Wliat did your
father say yesterday noon, and again
just now at supper time? If you will
make them I can get the jacket finished
to-night. He needs it enough.”
“Now, mother Mayberry, it’s too bad!
rom’s suit is shabby, but I don’t believe
he cares. One day more won’t make
much difference, any way; and I will
help 011 the buttonholes to-morrow after¬
noon if Prudy don’t come for me to
practice that duet for her.”
“No, my dear. ‘Never put off till to¬
morrow what can be done to-day’—
Grandma's motto, you know, I wish you
'vould bear it iu mind more than you do.
L’licre—now you mustn't say another
word-keep I shan’t speak yom thraigbfson your lesson.
for fifteen minutes.”
At this Jennie resumed studying, for
she was as desirous as her mother was for
tier to be correct in recitations. She has
been dreading this last review in history,
which was to determine her rank in
scholarship. After her father was anx
ions ,, that , she , should , ,, stand , ... high at grad
nation—only had three weeks lienee-he
even taken pains to go over withlior
all tho battles oi the rebellion and the
events of the Franco-German war, dates
were such'trouble to her; and taught her
un old method of his own for memoriz
uig such things accurately.
bhe went on patiently with tho words
of the book. But l am sowy to say her
thoughts wandered to Prudence Winn’s
new dress, and to a small package in
ici pocket which she had not yet had
the courage—opportunity, she would
have said to show her mother; yet which
she must see tins very evening if her
outf cheiisued hopes were to beful
a Lttnii L i ^ . ,
S2BtTSt hastily snatched at it ’StShjZ belore <5*
floor, there itfall tot e
and was a confused uru droop ,VP C of J
lici’iiiiivt.i’intrnvi.i.Meiii’ Not“ X 1 w!wd
questioning glance. extejed was
said, hut -Mis Mayberry her
hand, and Jennie dare not i * more the
unspoken request.
• “Wlmt does this mean, daughter?
Jordan & Marsh’s shop bilWblack eilk
as she unfolded the little package.
• I wanted to know what it would
cost, came the reluctant words, as the
girl s nervous hngers turned and re
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’
n *i • ,v
itS II i!i,t l cf u W /Iff 00
to Mr.
wholuul been busy over anhour h tlie
barn looking is after the comfort of
«r ss* all ihe ^ °Iu
roan right, and everything Datey. alett we premiss
e
ssrtJuSt&a he said: “I’ve been thinking Hfeal it all
over feci
Jennie. I can’t bear to have you
use of our piano—you audpfedte
can play well enough for anybody who
w ill he there. Ho* do ymt Mtiethat?
HI take it to the school-house and back,
>oleri*d ".feittie dill ffPcSSimPn, «wt m**<* fif#hadre
from »h^ GMunTer
sickly smile showed that
stood his suggestion. Slea—don’t think
mother?” "A good he added, with you little cbir- so,
a
ruppy swlred laugh, which Mrs. MayheiTv an
with another-but W» was
forced and JtoBow. ’
Toramy saw the samples 6 f silk, still
in his mother’a hand. “Something for
my rov new new jacket jacket trimmings, trimmintfs is it'” it. he to
“Oh, no; Jenny, you might as well
tell your father about jt," was the re
ft!M»us& in low Bflfl turn*. •’ -
Jenny btffan to cry.
i ‘Hi’hi!” said her father, MWitMD-IMR#!
•UU wout W\vJ flki MImt» far « U!»? I d'Pi’t Mri
vbmio
anvttdijg to cry ‘■temtYonrii petting
iie’rvou.* ‘ "w mute studv, i'
sh., wien 1 n ,
afraid 1 shall 0 glad you get
thrr ugh !hw temhto l«t term. Bui
j gout well that* not the
l »p ? LG's run over the
agtuu« iu oil to lot ante of tbem."
And he took up the book which she had
pushed aside.
Mm. Mayberry laid the strips of silk
upon the book. “What do you think oi
those?” she asked, gently.
“Those?” £££ ho asked “Wliv S?”^ wlmt *" ,„•«
they? How by
“la it beet for Jennie to have » gnul
uation suit like either of them?”
“Our Jennie? Good grandmother of
Methuselah! Our Jennie rigged out
like a fifty-year-old? J You’re joking. i K
wfe!” '
Jennie had ceased crying and now
looked up anxiously.
“Never was I more in earnest, John.”
“Well, I don’t pretend to know about
these tilings. But you don’t really want
it, Why, do you, child? ought Such to have a gloomy "thing.
bright you and cheerful then, something
it seemt?
to mo.”
“It would be very serviceable,” said
Jennie, meekly.
“Serviceable—liow?” queried her fath¬
er. “Your mother’s dresses are always
serviceable—and they are not silk. And
then look at the cost of it. Whew I
Ten —fifteen dollars, I suppose.”
“More than double that,” returned
. Mrs. “That Mayberry. settles the question.
No, it
will not be serviceable for my daughtei
—not at that price.”
“But if I get the school at Stapleton?”
asked Jennie.
“Ah! If! Time enough to talk about
silk dresses when you’ve money that you
don’t know what to do with. If you do
teach, you shan’t begin for over our’ a year.”
“More than half the girls in class
will have silks for graduation, Pruey
says, and—”
“I suppose she will; she looks like that
kind of a girl. And, as usual, her father
is going to borrow my mowing machine
next summer, and the new plow I must
buy in April. No, no daughter—no
black silk for you yet. However—let me
see. I have it now! One of my happy
thoughts—just in the nick of time, I de¬
clare!” J
He its drew out his pocket-book, hank and
from folds took several bills.
“Mr. Shnonds paid for his hay this aft¬
just ernoon. I’m right glad to get the money
now—was intending it for a certain
purpose, a plan your mother and I made
a while ago. But I’ve changed my
mind within an hour, and, Jennie, if you
will W'car the same dress you have on
now—the neat gray flannel with the
pretty pink neck-tie—at tho graduation,
you shall have every cent he paid mo—
to spend as yon choose. ”
Jennie looked troubled.
“I’ll be there to see,” ho added.
“Moreover and likewise,” he continued
merrily, trees “Tommy and I will get as many
spruce and as much evergreen to
trim the school-room as you will accept,
And mother’ll lend all her plants, every
flower-pot, I’ve no doubt. ”
Mrs. •‘Certainly, Mayberry, with pleasure," responded
rather—for “The'graduation, or commencement,
then .you will really begin
yonrlife as a lie woman,” say Mr. Mayberry,
“ought to a joyful occasion. And
yet a serious and thoughtful oUe, as you
(hen lay aside childish things and take
the first stop toward tho sober Realities
of life. And I want you to know, Jem
nie, that tho first, step will have much to
do in determining your future course,
Don’t begin with show and extravagance
then-oven if you that is, I -can afford
it; it would not bo right or becoming.
“Mike Urady hasn't any overcoat.
a now
• K< T\° U f$»v.S ‘ ,xl,eMH0 ° f
ton,’ said his mother.
Well, IpnjmoHe there aro others ‘in
" T «« T V'f« 1 i ^ e H”-esses 1,0
n ’i ° 4 " V if T
m*,n e*h« expected, next month; his two
b-ps ji ^ool expenses aro se great tins
f j,„ ; SS/'SlSSint - • . ... . , IS
.... u in ft trembling voice.
Iter father interrupted ' her, ’ pteeing 1 h the
hll , )k her hll (1
“Think it over to-night, dear. Yon
.yoor UiHteii; have had rnstny hai)i>y liouw
in the old school-toom; will wish to look
it is yours now—in a way that will give
yon .«‘ 6 mf fc f t Rightful J f ™ <lr recollection.” "P the ^
^ * Uio
«M|*» on
button-holes, dear?” she added, quietly
Jw.niegave her ahnghtamile gathered
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at ? r stito .iCH, ^Bo Dirmw a jacket
* r,d hf> w f f
hil.ave ft ready to wear reeaarkib^y the next day.
w** fair
ml . ff ’, r wMli ^ rc A Uie 1- parents Ahaaolmol-rojim aiid friemls ww* crowd- of the
tious B'Hdte. <*%#<** Everybody andfknrsring admired the decora- plants,
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* t tlMn
I lL IH< ' K
fffttST?*** t i i *
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i ,ow ut
7 ™^ Wofe iifcSRT among tliog<n- J ,
ttemen vteitora immlred who tliat hand
S ^" MS K ,rl ,M W** r easy,
^ SLTbffi" SwJffi'
.te '(•},„ , l|lw je only jenny
[^>1wtli . ,« tt j mutuiM (fiat by perateMt ihe j.np'ihi - was
ft nw<u$ ut
—.....-»r y , —wy
f, ’° hist song brought its repetition, :
during tergepaekaga, Which Mr, Mayberry, barring a*
Massed slowly up one of
tlu> crowded aisles to tho teachers' plri
form, When tho singing ceased, all
eves turned in expectation toward him as
" «*»*» a large picture from
p
Itwasa flno engraving, a portrait of
Abraham Lincoln, m a beautiful frame.
My dR »K > lt «. 8 fi‘ t to the school, m
*® mo ry l? 1 ”'*' 111 *
passed, , , said Mr. Mayberry to the pnu
■T- complete surprise was this, ami
everybody gift. soemod In few astonished words nt Mr. tho May* gen¬
erous ft
berry Then it told hung the story tho of waU its back purchase. of tho
was on
teacher’s desk.
And that, is the way that the eh an go itl
the graduation exercises of tho High
School at Mayberry Point was brouglit
about., and why the pupils wear their
every-day dresses, and furnish their owii
music, and make the decorations them¬
selves for that occasion. Tho reason,
too, that there is always such a large
class to graduate, and that there is less
love of dress and tinerv anioug tlie young
people in of the place, and such g<Kxt books
its the school bool-room library, walls, and so and many those pictures
on b two
Rogers’ groups iu corners. New Eng¬
land Fanner.
How a Millionaire Got a Cheap Will
[Cincinnati Gn«*$u*.l
A millionaire who lived and died it
the vicinity of this city, as he fell hi*
last days drawing nigh, summoned a
since distinguished neiglibor and lawyer, who
has occupied ono of the liiglust
positions the in the gift of representative ^ of
people, to prepare a last will and tes¬
tament. When the will was drawn, 1 o
dying man said: and “ I propose to ma eyou bond
my from executor, Write I that shall also.” require The o
iudge you. complied, liking dim e v -
after tlia liis t,
and promised to execute the will to U.e
best of his ability.
“What is your bill for drawing up
my will?” asked the millionaire.
“Oh, under tho circumstances,. of
course f shall charge you nothing,” was
the answer.
“But,” said the other, “thnt is not
my way of doing business. Make out
and leccipt a hill for your services and 1
will pay you now.”
“ well, since you insist, I will make
out a hill for a nominal sum—say $25.”
A nd this member of tho bar, who seldom
draws breath without charging some ono
for the respiration, made out and re¬
circumstances ceipted for $25 a hill which under other
would have licen ISO”.
The good man died and was buried.
When tho will was read it wns found
that the name of his son had been in¬
serted in place of that of the distin¬
guished lawyer. The ruling passion was
strong in death. The man who knew
how to accumulate wealth understood
the value of a tightly drawn will and tne
difference between twenty-five dollars
and $500. Ho had merely copied the
words in the order they were written by
his legal friend and thus had obtained
xn irrefragable will at a small cost, an**
kn executor of liis own choosing.
A Harrow Escape.
Among the excited crowd that visited
the office of tho Helena (Mont.) Inde¬
pendent for news concerning the Ute out¬
break, there- stood a tall, handsome
youth of twenty-three of whose hair years, became the strange
whiteness at once
a matter of comment. Thisyoung man
was hired John himself Laefarr, who harl not long
ago as a ranchman with
Charles D. Hart, three miles out of He¬
dependent lena. Laefarr was importuned tell “ the by an In¬ of
his topknot.” reporter to He, story
gray at the age of
nineteen years, was one of the sevr ji
packers ride wi who th General left Fort Lincoln in 1875,
to Custer along tho
Little Big Horn. When the fight of that
opened, bright, hut Laefarr, disastrous with summer his morning
happened to he three miles companions, from
the command. In few away after
a moments
the sound of the combat readied him, a
band of Bioux sprang from the grass
within a few feet or them. Laefarr
noosed a rope, placed it in the mouth of
the nearest horse, and, leaping up the
animal's back, plunged his spurs into the
flank. As he htigged his horse lie saw
his six companions go down, one after
the other. One bullet out of the hun¬
dred that followed him tore through liis
neck, cheek, another cut a deep furrow across
his a third imbedded itself in his
thigh, and a fourth killed his horse. The
desperate dian and boy shot an approaching In¬
ran for a belt of timber half a
mile distant. Barefooted, weak and
faint from the loss of blood, ho outrun
his pursuers and reached tlie woods,
where he bid for tbtoe days. Ho was at
last found by three • friendly Grow In¬
dians and taken by them to Fort Liri
eoip 'I wlierc lie told of tho massacre. It
wits not until hrf had reached k lie fort
that he knew of the change in liis hair,
which, black before bis terrible suffering, was
as as a raven’s wing. Lnafarr tins
since been living nt various points on
the Sftory plains. He docs not like to go
tlie of bis wonderful adventure.
An Empress Who Makes Her Toilet I,
a SLahle.
A re0,:nt loU, ' r UiW “bout the
Austrian Empress: hearing that “One their MajeMieS day th
Couutoaa, ridden into the stablea, hnrrtol
bad to
the stalls to receive tliein. Alas! TOiza
heth was ehnn^ng her habit in the staff
beside her horse, and Franz lost If Jn.d
to act as seroen to thi* impromptu ..toilet
The Conn tone i»v«fr told .xi«:lly
, v t,at they did and said, bill her imt.d
gathered euongh next diJperaU. day to deserdm it
$***** c. The
»often
(llmuged her dress in tl.is wav m,pi« 4 r
(in( . G to peoin^ itifo Ui* she bo*k*i
d“nger of taking cold,’ says, and to
l *» l f dared dispute the imjariai *1|).
Hh*n fusea all rein shnitnl* xiwrit » glass
Of Wtter.during l.<-r II v.Ht, ttpd,out of
the groomt carries a ttto square |»mk»
tissue pafsw, Otle«: tor aohstamio ti... iuparud Fijie Judy
rinve/nw* t#iy b>
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Queen.
NUMBER 7.
Wanted—Good Story Writer*.
Tho lack of good American story
writers is something which must have
impressed every reader of fiction. As
long human ns the spirit of romance lives read in tho
beast, stories will be more
than any other sort of literature. The
monthly magazines, the innumerable
weekly papers, furnish a gigantic mill
for*tlio consumption of stories, particu¬
larly few short columns ones. long, Vivid, dramatic lie tales read
of a that can
at a single sitting, aro those most in de¬
mand.
The editors of the story papers in this
country have infinite trouble their to supply
tho want. They rack resources
Their continually to find only lively indifferent short with stories. all
success is
their efforts. It is not that they do not
have material enough to choose from,
such us it is. Bushelsof manuscript aro
sent listening them daily. lecture More physiology dreary than is
to a ou
(In' task of rending them. As the hap¬
less reader of tho pack of trash sits down
beside his barrel of manuscript, more or
less, ho is apt to mournfully ask himself
what sin he has committed that this
should be his punishment. Most have
carefully prepared directions aeoompy- he pub¬
ing them, telling him, iu ease
lishes the story, he may leave out the
word “gracefully,” in such a place, or
omit line thirty-four on page 5i'2, etc.
lie knows beforehand what the result
will be. From all theehalf he will rarely
be able to silt but one gulden grain.
Our American stories lack an inde¬
pendent basis and standing of their own.
There seems to be nothing, somehow,
about, which they enn build the up fault a sub¬
stantial being. Whether is in
tho country or in tho writers, one can
not say. Such stories as Americans essay
usually arc stiff and artificial, with no
easy and natural movement about them.
Two-thirds of them are imitations of
Charles Dickens. They come in floods,
especially dreamed about of Christinas the mischief time. lie “Buz”
never was
working when he wrote, “Mnrley was
dead to begin with—dead os a door¬
nail,”
Tho worst faults of tho American at
tempts at story-writing arts two- first
Those thoy arc artificial, next they fere crude.
that do not pattern after Dickens
go still further back. Tho favorite blood
and thunder tales of certain well known
weeklies are the exceedingly degenerate,
descendants of the tragedy and fiction of
half a century ago. All are alike repro¬
ductions of something the writer lias
read before, feebly strained through a
Yankee sieve. Tho fiction dabblers in
this country who have made most money
out of the business are those who have
carried imagination beyond sea, and
written about the loves and romances of
high life in Europe, slung in lords and
countesses by the omnibus loud, when
neither they nor their readers had ever
seen a real Lord iu their lives. Tliei
literary style at times goes on stilts and
ut times falls into the vulgarcst common¬
place. Advanced thinkers have by
we the
hundred thousand in tho United Hfat.es,
enough to blow up the country. A gun
could not bo fired off at random without
bitting one. But of unaffected, men or women who
enn write a simple, entertain¬
ing story three columns long, wo have
scarcely half a dozen. That, too, when
our country is so whole big that, os wo of ate fond
of saying, the Empire Austria
could be lifted up and set down in a sin¬
gle Hfulo, Texas, and have room around
the edges for a potatoe patch for the
whole Nation.
It is certain we are enormous readers
of novels. Why can wo not write thorn?
Wo never have had a story-writer of
the first-class in this country, scarcely
indeed a clever writer of fiction of any
sort .—Cincinnati Commercial.
Stoker’s Brass Band.
Stn V(»rk Him ,|
Old Blokcr got married last week, and
lie went to his wife a day or two ago and
told her he was going to ir.ake her a
present. “ Is it silk dress?” she huskily
a new
inquired, while her eyes sparkled like
the optics of a half-famislicd bloodhound.
“ No, it ain’t smile. a dress!” caroled old
Sinker, with a is
“ Well, what it? Tell mo and put
me out I of going misery.” buy brass
“ am to you a hand.”
“ 1 don’t want one.”
“O, yes you do, do,” and persisted just Slokor;
“ you know you 1 am going
to get vVlio it for you.” lot of Dutchmen
“ wants a around
beginning the place?” form sighed iu Mia her pensive Sloker, tears
to eyes.
, Blokcr, “Thereain’tnoDutchnien,"explained ho rolled the floor
as on and
almost destroyed himself with laughter.
“There ain’t 110 Dutchmen; this hand is
a bracelet.”
Then Mrs. Sloker dried away her
mental dewdrops Kissed and by smiled dawn. as sweet as
a summer rose
A Tragedian at Dinner.
The Cincinnati Times says that the
following scene House, ensued a that few day* city, ago
at the Burnet in be
wicn the celebrated and tragedian Law
ence Barret, a waiter:
Knter obacqieua waiter. lUttlea dish** and
h sots Will of lore at tiie great histriua in tbs
VSSr.«S*» t»n*t ftLspion^Ay, hdnjt it "«•■>•» t i
m, u
Ami hilt like('"to WiM IBM
Ja a i-ytlOiiyinlirrsfur" depth* modicum of
Anil then baste proeurs for ins a
beef.'
Waiter - ltare or well done? hue
0. IC -hot not the Itros It* earmine
too much embrown, blood (rsely
Hor from it l«i iIm bright red too
Now.
.Tuat done enough, my fi*tntepleases bsst.
tiring, too, tho jmeolent eniksrsd t» sons of
Apd 1th crashed Hibernia, of jbrtsadem sUMvd,
f« w it, Afiples that tho vulgar
And Henson street hurries/’
name as beans
And wbeu thou hart iliia charge inyiterien* toIftttol, thing
bring pis for tlVuort that
That Wlnrao puteted txuntrrd England'# hisn could King ne'er 1 surmise
Just bn* too upptuin 1 tie Ji,ugh was put.
Then let liis tihvo a dark ilecuettcn'
(ft that'brown fcsrlv tint toe Arab lore*.
•how, uonM hirciu g, h.«t« lit* th/ log Ur which ‘y lieihs,
t ot hwoto.toU mu (, and ores my
lfu«t swii b« i*!)' <, Unfit*-tut,A
T« Mi «ta « ttou ««a«ate
thn luted and way b* overcome; the
prejudice* of *om#n emanate from the
are impregnahla.— ffArgr.n$,
Wm minamUt
a m •t rjowm, pviusim at
WatktnavDfa, Oconee Co./ Georgia.
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HUMORS OF THE DAY.
The soft corn is hard enough to beat.
Domestic dispatch—Johnny with th#
hot buckwheat
Tits greatest mashers usually turn out
the smallest potatoes.
“You will love only me, George, dar¬
ling?” “Sometimes,” he says.
When' a Now York young man pops
the question ho says : “ Lot’s consoli¬
date.”
The Now York News declares that “it
was telescope.” a farseeiug chap who invented the
The “Ironclad Ontk” is when a fallow
reclines on the zenith end of a tack with
his bare foot.
In New England thoy aro making rum
from old shoes. One drink of it starts
the (low of solo.
Ip wo were a girl, wo would solect a
lovor from among tailors—for thoy ull
know how to press a suit.
The lazy hoy fears that if ho once be¬
gins to oaru liis own living ho will be al¬
ways expected to do it.
The original poem read by Bjorn
stcrue his lecture Bjournson, just before no begins
is “ Tuiggwasson.” That’s
Olof it.
phors, Ounjoi.T.AiiD, remarks: most candid of Philoso
“Would that I had ton
thousand a year,” “To do what?” “To
do nothing.
has A his man’s rcsidenoe, in law, is where he
washing doin'. We pity Detroit
men. l’oor devils, to have no homes.—
Boston Post.
Hhout courting: “Rachel, the Lord
hath sent me to marry thee,” said the
suitor. “The Lord’s will be done,” was
the submissive reply.
Policeman — 1 “Now, then, move on!
There’s nothing the matter hero.”
Barcas tie Boy—“Of course there isn’t.
If there was you wouldn’t bo here.”
A London wife cannot blow up her
husband without tho people in the next
house rushing out to inform tho authori¬
ties that they have discovered a Fenian
plot.
The Baltimore Custom-house officials
claim that they can tell a smuggler in
six different ways. After ho has been
told in one way, what good do tho other
live do?
Hxs text was, “What doest thou here,
Elijah?” “First, He brethren,” divided it said into lie, two “lot heads.
consider my what us
Elijah did hear; and,
Hoooudly, what ho didu’t hear.”
Notwithstanding tho fact (and per¬
haps in consequence of it) thnt the clergy all
and justices of tho peace are so busy
tho timo making two people one, the
population continues to increase.
They catch rats with baited fishhooks
in New York. We suppose it is an art
ist-hook-rat-ic amusement. (Last lot of
this kind, and going off like smoke at a
dollar a dozon. Orders by mail promptly
attended to .)—Burlington Huwkeye.
At a restaurant—Gentleman to waiter
pnasing—“ Will you kindly tell me the
hour?” “Excuse me, I am not waiting
upon you; please replies, ask the waiter of your
section,” “Tell lie this and seeing the same,
says;: what time it is. ” gentleman, John,
A gentleman was complaining on
Change that ho had invested a rather
large sutn of money in Wall street and
lost it all. A sympathizing friend asked
him whether he had been a “bull” or
“bear," to which he replied: “Neither;
I was a jackass .”—Chicago Tribune.
“UnhapfHiY married? I should think
I was!” cried the burlesque actross.
“Why, he doesn’t beat me, doesn’t come
home drunk, doesn’t squander my earn¬
ings I I haven’t the slightest excuse for
gutting a divorce, and I’m afraid I shall
never make a name in tho world.”
looking “Hay, boy! say,” exclaimed a hot
man with i* valise, “what is the
quickest yelled way boy; to get to the cars I” ‘ Run,”
the and the hot-looking man
whs so pleased have with the information that
if he could got near enough to the
boy ho would have given him something.
A celebrated preacher, who married a
President’s daughter, once upon a time,
not so long 'ago, came to informed our editorial that
rooms once, and when I
“wrote up” all the religious politely news, lec¬
tures, amusements, etc., re¬
quested me to speak well of a lecture he
was going to deliver. The lecture was a
mere rehash of what had been written
for a score of years. 1 wish you could
have read my report of the same. It
must have appeared puffed touching minister, to him. fill¬
For two years l a
ing his church for him unday after
Sunday. 1 do not say this boastingly or
egotistically, but state influential it as a fact. I
was on the most paper in
that city, and I need not present proofs
of the power of the press. lie never did
said anything that if special he could for me, hut time frequently he would
at any
willingly do so. Hometime after, when
very badly small pressed loan from for money, him, and 1 re¬ he
quested said he hud a tho although
not money, get¬
ting about 15.000 a year from a church
whose pulpit he obtained chiefly through
the complimentary notices which orig¬
inated in my brain. It is almost need¬
less to say here that at the time I re¬
quested this small loan of him I was not
in a position to advance hit interests.
Had I asked for it at the proper time,
doubtless it would have been forth¬
coming.
All Hint I have written above is true.
The reader can reflect and ponder over
then; facts at his leisure. I could say
more, butt it would he mere repetition.
to “All the above' j^potgold aged adage that glitters.” i want And add
to
an original line, wbieh l have j apt had
copy A U righted not at great who expense: preach.* ’
are pious
Allis, AUuoms had boon reading in
tlm iiowBpajxTK of a man who died
leaving a young and att*activn widow,
to whom he deviaod hut entire wealth.
“ Now, that* whatl eaii true platen
thropy, Utile* she and remarked, removing bur
>-1 me "he looking ai at her husband oa
•1 aa tw a tl a - k» lot contradicted.
1 Wky HP Is, »ho, hn “hejaft aWy naked. hlk, " Be
In sutu a way that tnipie other jHgpertv tunn will
t»| (tanwHffQftn amt ■fail rm