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A W1S2S&Y PAPBS, —AY— WatkinsWHe, 0eon«e Co. Georgia. W. G. STTLX^IV^isr. ■OtTOE ASH PBOPBUTOS TERMS fc - -----|t M —---a* 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!” : 1 f fit «> KOAIML j ’* good t»*nbr » twd spew *l» la ib# Lagiflftturv; " Th* teeda at* not t rjMUlbi#, jf*t (vm *l! «ruai 4 if»*H Aft 4 wijq '***»•" Mtt tltolft MV AW4 WATKINSVILLE, GEORGIA, APRIL 19, 1881. »ini.*mRx 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 * 7 / j e ' bam i 8 ■ „ • x r ’ 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$»v.S ‘ ,xl,eMH0 ° f ton,’ said his mother. Well, IpnjmoHe there aro others ‘in " T «« T V'f« 1 i ^ e H”-esses 1,0 n ’i ° 4 " V if T m*,n e*h« expected, next month; his two b-ps ji ^ool expenses aro se great tins f j,„ ; SS/'SlSSint - • . ... . , IS .... u in ft trembling voice. Iter father interrupted ' her, ’ pteeing 1 h the hll , )k her hll (1 “Think it over to-night, dear. Yon .yoor UiHteii; have had rnstny hai)i>y liouw in the old school-toom; will wish to look it is yours now—in a way that will give yon .«‘ 6 mf fc f t Rightful J f ™ <lr recollection.” "P the ^ ^ * Uio «M|*» on button-holes, dear?” she added, quietly Jw.niegave her ahnghtamile gathered '•*«*►! % Z, - fn ?»•*' fn 4 , 1 . , *«™ ™ ' * ** * ~ them ’ ‘ A y ‘. m i ' av ? oucceeded Add an , .^T/^ r Ztj . Juation W. P !tey S 52 Or ,!H ‘V *, r,'tomtomaa’.haaHt t ^liaviug clapaed Ur ."»° t fvffir ^’ cko 1 ”?*, B " d tl Ii^hJ 'f. * er Bkll!f « q , at ? r stito .iCH, ^Bo Dirmw a jacket * r,d hf> w f f hil.ave ft ready to wear reeaarkib^y the next day. w** fair ml . ff ’, r wMli ^ rc A Uie 1- parents Ahaaolmol-rojim aiid friemls ww* crowd- of the tious B'Hdte. <*%#<** Everybody andfknrsring admired the decora- plants, v f L ue _” J1 H , ,^.i ; mm „ * t tlMn I lL IH< ' K fffttST?*** t i i * ® r i ,ow ut 7 ™^ Wofe iifcSRT among tliog<n- J , ttemen vteitora immlred who tliat hand S ^" MS K ,rl ,M W** r easy, ^ SLTbffi" SwJffi' .te '(•},„ , l|lw je only jenny [^>1wtli . ,« tt j mutuiM (fiat by perateMt ihe j.np'ihi - was ft nw<u$ 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> ^ Ilr'SMMW ht wa tWa cur. Win Wh«t? G, y«#. »hy i» atemi dog id. » 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. FATE* OF AOVERTI 9 INQ: On» square, lirai insertion.............. ----« M Each tubeequeat kaertsaa ............ 5* One square, »a« oi»-!lb.................. J SO Ouo Kjuar*, tl roe i.ionili*............... 00 Out) (quart, l 1 1 month*....™.......... r no l),io tqira-a ene year................. ID tO Ono-tmu-ik ooiuiua, on* month______ * 00 Oao-four b (alamo, three month*...... : oj Oo*-{< nrth eoiaaaa, *tx month* it at One-fourth ev.luaao, on * M Half eolmsta, i m H» f ee.umn, thro* norths...... ______U M Half aoluaen, aix aronth*......... ------3t « Ha f Minna, ooa rwr____________ --------IS 03 ti twu rta atai aptoi 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