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VOLUME VII.
an&ERT’S LATEST.
new comic opera, ‘‘The Prince*
sosa.
give y our attention, I will tell yon
jj yon 1
Wh&t' B-Di philanthropist—all • other kind,
y^gttuine
arc and each social
, wil trttio fault of temper
Id my 'erring fellow creatures I endeavor to
To alUheir little weaknesses I open people’s
eyes, to snab the self-sufficient I
iud little plans
demo; I do all the good
I low my fellow-creatures,
(can, such disagreeable
Jet everybody says Ten a
man! why!
And I can’t think
To compliments inflated I’ve a withering
reply, best to mortify—
jiiil vanity I always do my
U charitable action I can skillfully dissect,
L] interested motives I’m delighted to
detect—
know everybody's income and what every
body earns,
ad J carefully compare it with the income
tax returns ;
ht to benefit humanity, however much
plan, disagreeable
|« everybody says I'm such a
man!
And I can't think why I
fjj Bute I’m no ascetic. I’m as pleasant as
i can be;
It’ll always find me ready with a crushing
repartee;
he an irritating chuckle. I’ve a celebrated
sneer;
be an entertaining snigger. I've a fascinating
leer;
Ik everybody’s prejudice 1 know a thing or
two;
p car tell a woman's age in half a minute—
and I do.
Bn, although 1 try to make myself as pleasai t
I as I can,
[lit everybody man! says I'm such a disagreeable
And I can't think why !
Small Debts.
| Mr, Herriot waa sitting in his office
[one day, when a lad entered and handed
biffi a mil all slip of paper. It was a bill
tor Ilya dollars, due to his shoemaker,
* poor man who lived in the next
pare.
“Tell Mr. Grant that I will settle this
mi; it isn’t just convenient to-day.”
Tm boy retired.
7 W ^ Herriot had a five-dollar bill
Mis pocket, but he felt as if he couldn’t
Nit with it—he didn’t like to be entirely
Wo) moDe y- So, acting from this im
he had sent the boy awav. Very
^ Mr. Herriot for the next five
.
iiratei; yet his thoughts were busy,
lews not altogether satisfied with him-
1 ’ shoemaker
V waa a poor man
needed his money as soon as earned
J ! w 7 Bot unadvised of this fact.
« wish I had sent him the five
EV* F stiiiibly, “He ^ r - Herriot, at length,
wants it worse than
Jjninnedstill 0 is,” he further. length
at exclaimed,
'' n P> “H’ 8 Grant’s money, not
- e > and, what is he shall
We it.” more,
" paying, -bo office. Herriot took up his hat and
‘■hill yonge * fhe money, Charles ?”
iidf. j , as his boy entered
, the shop.
3 ^ ea l of earnestness in
•^maker’s ie sh replied tones.
the lad,
>'l Mr. bat Herriot he in?"
to-dav.” said it wasn’t con
0 dear! ”
Waiter .7"’^ in 80 " 7! Came from the
« » j depressed voice.
4 t'nYE ” ^ing
L 35 8 in Grant’s shop
ier . •°° k JMMsy*'- of disappointment on the - counter; now
■ was in her
h® Mrs- Lee,” said
him 8Ure °* gettin S the money
w 8 Qever Appointed
■W, r ii me
S1 as well as
Cefjthl ^depart-^P' , ° W U 8he tamed away
A few minutes after
err iot .
>a !e - »or£ of * f?* Q . 087 came aid in his and, bill. after
and ’ P
^ f oraie” biU changed “to
~ < said the shoemaker to his
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Independent in All Things-
CONYERS. ROCKDALE CO., GA., APRIL 4, 1884.
boy, the moment his customer had de¬
parted.
“Now,” said he, as soon as the silver
was placed in his hands, “take two dol¬
lars to Mrs. Lee and three to Mr.
Weaver, across the street. Tell Mr.
Weaver that I am obliged to him for
having loaned it to me this morning and
sorry that I hadn’t as much in the house
when he sent for it an hour ago.”
*******
“I wish I had it, Mrs. Elden, but I
assure you that I have not," said Mr.
Weaver, the tailor. “I paid out the last
dollar just before you came in. But call
in to-morrow and you shall have the
money, to a certainty.”
“But what am I to do to-day ? I have
not a cent to bless myself with, and I
owe so much at the grocer’s where I deal
that he won t trust me for anything
more.”
The tailor looked troubled, and the
woman lingered. Just at this moment
the shoemaker’s boy entered.
“Here are the three dollars Mr. Grant
borrowed of you this morning,” said the
lad. “He sava he’s sorry he hadn’t the
money when you sent for it awhile
ago.”
How the faces of the tailor and his
needlewoman brightened instantly, as if
a gleam of sunshine had penetrated the
room.
“Here is just the money I owe you,”
said the former, in a cheerful voice, and
he handed the woman the three dollars
he had received, A moment after and
he was alone, but with the glad face of
the poor woman, whose need he had
been able to supply, distinct before him.
Of the three dollars received by the
needlewoman, two went to the grocer,
on account of her debt to him, half a
dollar was paid to an old and needy
colored woman who had earned it by
scrubbing, and who was waiting for Mrs.
Weaver’s return from the tailor’s to get
her due, and thus be able to provide an
evening and morning’s meal for herself
and children. The other half-dollar was
paid to the baker when he called toward
evening to leave the accustomed loaf.
Thus, the poor needlewoman had been
able to discharge three debts, and at the
same time re-establish her credit with
the grocer and baker, from whom came
the largest portion of the food consumed
in her little family.
And now let us follow Mrs. Lee. On
her arrival at home, empty handed, from
her visit to the shoemaker, who owed
her two dollars for work, she found a
young girl, in whose pale face were many
marks of suffering and care, awaiting her
return.
The girl’s countenance brightened as
she came in; but there was no answering
brightness in the countenance of Mrs.
Lee, who immediately said:
“I’m very sorry, Harriet, but Mr.
Grant put me off until to-morrow. He
said he hadn’t a dollar in the house.”
The girl’s disappointment was very
great, for the smile she had forced into
life instantly faded, and was succeeded
by a look of deep distress.
“Do you want the money very bad¬
ly ?” asked Mrs. Lee, in a low, half
choked voice, for the sudden change in
the girl’s manner had affected her
“Oh, yes, ma’am, very badly. I left
Mary wrapped up in my thick shawl,
and a blanket wound all around her feet
to keep them warm; but she was cough¬
ing dreadfully from the cold air of the
room.”
“Haven’t you a fire?” asked Mrs.
Lee, in a quick, surprised tone. buy
“We have no coal. It was to
coal that I wanted the money.”
Mrs. Lee struck her hands together,
and an exclamation of pain was about
passing her lips, when the door of the
room opened, and the shoemaker s boy
came in.
“Here are two dollars. Mr. Grant
sent them.”
“God bless Mr. Grant!” The ex¬
clamation from Mrs. Lee was involun
tary.
On the part of Harriet, to whom one
dollar was due, a gush of silent tears
marked the effect this timely supply of
money produced, She received her
portion, and, without trusting her voice
with words, hurried away to supply
the pressing want at home.
A few doors from the residence of
Mrs, Lee lived a man who, some few
months before, had become involved in
trouble with an evil disposed person,
and been forced to defend himself by
means of the law. He had employed
Mr. Herriot to do what was requisite in
the case, for which service the charge
was five dollars. The bill had been ren¬
dered a few days before, and the man,
who was poor, felt very anxious to pay
it. He had the money all made up tc
within a dollar. That dollar Mrs. Lee
owed him, and she had promised to
give it to him during this day. For
hours he had waited, expecting her to
come in; but now had nearly given her
up. Thera was another little bill of
three dollars. which had been sent in to
him, and he had just concluded to go
and pay that, when Mrs. Lee called
^ the balaace of tha money, one
dollar, which she had received from the
shoemaker, Grant.
Half an hour later, and the pocket
book of Mr. Herriot was no longer
empty. His client had called and paid
his bill. The five dollars had come
back to him._ T. S. Arthur,
(hired of Nostalgia
The Washington correspondent oi cne
Philadelphia Record tells this one : “Do
you know how many soldiers died of
homesickness during the late war ?” said
an ex-Federal, colonel. “Yes, sir; they
call it nostalgia—that’s the medical
term for homesickness. Men died ap¬
parently without a cause—not from
fright; homesickness was the cause in
nine cases out of ten. I remember at
one time I was iu charge of a depot at
Louisville, Ky., where 16,000 convales¬
cents were waiting for strength to go to
the front. I noticed that many of them
grew worse, instead of better. It puz¬
zled the surgeons. It was not due to A
relapse; it was not the old disease at
all. It did not seem to be a new dis¬
ease. I looked into it fjittle, and then
I told the surgeon that I thought it was
nothing but nostalgia. I had a chance
to prove that I was right. Oue of these
sick well meu came to me the next day.
‘Colonel,’he said. ‘I want leave of ab¬
sence for a day or two. I want to go
home and see my folks, I am pining
away for a sight of my old home. I be¬
lieve I shall die if I don’t go.’
“On inquiring I found that his home
was right across in Indiana, and that he
had an idea that he couid see the smoke
rising from its chimney. He had not
been home for several years, and he was
fretting away in sight of that smoke. I
was not supposed to let any of my con¬
valescents go anywhere except to the
front, but I determined to try an experi¬
ment with this sallow, pale-faced young
man. ‘Well, sir,’ I said, ‘how long will
you be goner’ ‘This is Friday,’ he re¬
plied; ‘I will be back on Monday.’ ‘No,
I said, ‘you can stay until Friday of next
week.’ ‘All right,’ he said looking bet¬
ter already. On the next Friday he re¬
turned a new man. ‘I’m all right again,
colonel,’ he half shouted when he saw
me; ‘I’m ready to go to the front at once.
I went home, saw my mother and father
and sisters and brothers, had some good
home food and some good home sleep,
and fought all my battles over again down
at the village store. That was all I
wanted.’ It was a fact. He had beeD
nred of nostalgia.’
The Standard Boat Captain.
Says an old lake captain: “There is one
standard for mates and another for cap¬
tains. For instance, a mate may shout
‘Is your line clear ?’ and not feel it neces¬
sary to Ireeze the souls of passengers
aboard, but the captain views it in a differ¬
ent light. When he utters an order or
shouts an inquiry he expects to see
splinters fly from every warehouse. Why,
sir, when the captain of a first-class pro¬
peller cries out to go ahead or back her
he expects to paralyze everything for a
mile around.”
“And he needs a voice ?”
“Av, sir, he must have a voice as heavy
0 ~ the roaring sea lion. When he has the
voice he must study pose. When he has
the pose he must practice facial expres¬
sion. To be a successful captain he must
have a voice like McCullough, a pose like
Barrett and a dignity of look which
might belong to an o Tended lion. ^
A whiter says bocts and shoes may
lie rendered water proof by soaking
them for some hours in thick soap
water.
NUMBER 4.
DTT H S! PILES
Fistula, Fisure and Rectal Ulcers.
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NO. 82 DECATUR STEET, ATLANTA. GA.,
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DEALER IN
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