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VOL. XVIII.
ATLANTA, GA* TUESDAY MCHUflNG. APRIL 20. 1880.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
MR. CLIPSHAM’S CALENDAR.
By Edward Everett Hals.
[For The Constitution.]!
PAST I.
Hr. Clipsham led a curious life, but, for a
man at hie age, not an unpleaeant one. His
-profeuional duties ware not oppressive, sod lie
bad entered Into aesreerwbiehmade it almost
sure that the? would never bo oppressive. He
bad a very comfortable suit of rooms In his
Sister’s house, and always breakflutod with her
family. As will be seen, they did not often
expert him at dinner, but nieces and nephews,
Sitter Prno and her husband Wintergreon,
were all slad If ha did look In at that meal.
For the rest, Clipsham was a general favorite
in Tsui worth, where he lived, and if thero
were not a german every evening, or a pro.
gresslve euchre party on his list, why there
was the Thursday club and the Whist club and
the Chen club and the Union and the Assoc!
ation and the pretty new rooms of the Harvard
club. “At to that,” said Clipsham truly, if
you ask him how be spent his evenings, “I am
never so happy as I am with a novel or with
the newspaper at borne.” But it was to be
observed that he seldom etjoyod this acme of
bis happiness, at tho top notch of his UjTo'a
The one thing of which Clipaoam’s friends
J tuitu l VIA U1U scuuui wusmasreV) TV assets
t of the people in Tam worth generally
forgot to do. But it was also true that he did
not attend , primary meetings. And it was by
• aeries of rather curious circumstances that
the public was led to place that oonfldouco In
him which has now lifted, him so far out of
tho line of machlno-run politics. It is the
business of this story, to tell for the first time,
as Or as I know, the way those circumstances
followed on ocb other.
CUpsham was a man of Inn memory. And
this Iron was not all pig iron. One might say
steel memory, or a memory of watch springs,
if we understood better than we do, the aotlon
“ "Is I mean
lie things
that tho national debt
80,198,765,432.10 when it was at that precise
amount, but he also remembered that he had
told the washerwoman's boy to come round at
s quarter put B Friday evening, and ha would
give him a ticket to tho cirens. On inch a
combination of which I call the plg-lren mem*
cry, and what I call the watch spnng memory,
does much of the good cheer ana success of a
hsnnv life depend.
I cn a fetal day—I
If be dli It was before breakfast—when
one ought to be asked to remember anything
—not whether Semlramis It the same of an
empress or of a toad-stool. Bat he thought ho
forgot something. And so it was that he wont
down to Ur. Backup’s shop, and bought tills
calendar of which l am to tell yon the atory.
u.irsHAM pubckases a cai.eni.aii.
There it Is. He gave it to me on the day of
his Inauguration. Yonaoo it has tho days of
the week on ona eesoil and tho dayi of tho
month on another. Then yon tarn thiicog
at the beginning J)f the month and yon are
ready for thirty-one more dayi, if there he so
many. The oulydafact in thsmschine is that
yen might suppose that there ware thirty-one
dayi in February. But' as Judgs Marshall
said, ‘The court is expected to know some
thing.”
Now Clipaham is a charming public epoaker.
He tells a atory well—in partlcnlarbe tells
with great good humor a atory to hia own dis
advantage. He remember! well—that has
been said. He passes by a sudden change—
what do singers call it, modulation?—from
grave to gay or from gay to grave. Best of all,
be never aays one word about hiuiaelf. Then
bo never pretenda that ke doea not like to
apeak. A man wonld be an aas who did not
like to speak If he spoke ai well as Clipsham
does. He makes no Introduction to his speech.
When he has done he makes no “concltulon."
Bust when you are hoping ke will say more ho
aitsdown. And ho never makea a long speech.
Those are all starling qualities, and they are
not often united In one handsome, graceful,
intelligent young man of 33 yean of ago.
Bolt is that Clipsham la much Invited to
public dinners. As for that, wo all are. But
generally the Invitation la accompanied with
S on meet him so seldom ata restaurant or pub*
o table.
You would generally find him, If yon went
up stalre to the great din'
over Delmonlco, or Wot—
Young of Tamworth happenod on that day, to
entertain ‘The Soul or the Soldiery," or tho
“Brotbeis In Adversity,” or the “No Kipps
Omega,” or wliatover solidity happened to bo
bolding its annnal dinner. And If you looked
in at tho right moment, Clipsham would be
making a speech, and a very good speech, too.
Ciipsnam'slttllo niece Gertrude, is tho flrit
I'cicine of this story. And it is on her that
the plot tarns more than Elinor Hay, who la
the other heroine. Gertrudo has the run of
the house but never ought to go into her un
cle's room nnless ho asks bar.
And this Gertrudo knows perfectly well.
But on this day of which I speak, some Im
pulse of Satan, as the old indictments would
tell you, and Dr. Wntts would confirm thorn,
led Grrtmdc into tho “study,” as tho room
was railed. Tho same Manlchean divinity,
where name begins with Shut shall not bo men
tioned again, led ber to take down the eaten-
uniform. Of conree they wen. For it was
the gland army of tho republic. Bat George,
who thoagbt it was tho western Kosorvc din
ner, was surprised that the college men
wanted to bring out their old bins frocks and
bright buttons. “But that was all right,” ho
said, “if they choose to.” Oddly enough his.
friend Colonel Plunkett was receiving the
guests, and Clipsham slipped into Ms hand tho
note of apology ho baa written. Plankett
slipped it into the little pocket of his uniform
coat, and found It there two years afterwards
when he dressed for the same anniversary
again. Clipaham mumbled an apology. to
Plankett, to which, almost of coarse, Plunkett
in (baking hands with half tho soldiers of the
did not hear.
Clipsham Is a bright man. and one wonld
have said that be wonld have caught the
thread of the occasion earlier than he did.
Butko did not hear one word in five that any
one raid. As for tho uniforms, all tho world
knows that five-sixths of tho college mon of
the weat served in the war. Bealdefttbey had
introduced Clipsham to Professor Bmidgrnbor,
who bad just arrived, at tho ogont from tho
CLIPSHAK SPEAKING TO THE WESTERN RESKUVE.
dtr mentioned beforehand, and to try the
screws. Bite twirled them this way. She
twirled them that Of a sadden she besrd
Kate Connor, the girl who made the bods.
Gertrudo feared dauctlon; she hang up tho
calender hastily, and fled! But alas, oho loft
M., which standi for Monday, and ten, which
stands for tho tenth day of the month, both
one notch too high. T~ W., Th., F. and tho
restall followed M., and tho engagements for
governmont of nesao-CMsel to' study west
ern education. Clipsham was Interested in
, . i pre
siding, which said, “Yon next," he knew that
nowwaahls time to apeak, without having
flat ha '
wonld, and thonsnlt was the same. Gertrudo
was called by her mother, before she had say
chance to go back again, and was made ready
for a tennis party at Mrs. Fisher’s. And now
it is,
George Cllpoham came home-to areas for
dinner. Ho stopped a moment, and took
down^thc Cyclopedia to look at tho aooount of
tho battle ol Bennington. For ho had boon
turning over a speech ho was to maksat tho
1 army'gsthering, and be remembered
Plunkett’s mother was a Stark. Ho
wanted to make a good allusion to Holly
Stark, and her widowhood, nut, aa he passed
Ms desk, ho took thla fetal calendar, which
guilty Gertrudo had not had time to hang on
its peg. Clipaham hung It up without thought,
mt did loot, to see to hia amassment that tho
K nd army dinner was dono and gono jester-
’. Tho calendar said ho was to dine with
the graduates of tho Western Itcscrvo college
today. “Ducky I did not fire tho battle of
Bennington on thorn," laid Clipaham to him
self. “lint what trill l’lnnkctsayP’
Tho truth was that CUpsham bad thla dread-
ful cold wnich you all had. And lost as you
and I declared that we would go to Florida
anotherwiutor If oar lives weto spared. Clipa
ham bad dotorminod. Handkerchiefs? Ho was
bankrupted In buying them. Hearing? He had
been none deaf all the week. He did not
cough very badly, but the “cold” was jut on
that juncture of tho pharynx with the larynx,
where It la so uncomfortable to havo it. Ho
bad itayed at home tho day before and nursed
doctor of divinity—an agent from Japan, or a
traveling English lecturer. Now, u most of
ns can buy onr modest dinner of mock turtle,
tried oysters, charlotte rnaae and coffee at any
rating bouse, oven the matt fussy, nctsyand
snowy, for less than the lowest of there prices
—onr invitations arc not ao attractive. To
I'llpabam the Invitation always cams, with a
ticket. That la qntte a different thing, and
Clinahsu, who was in a good many college
societies, was the great grandson of a Cinera
ria to s, sid grandson of • hare of Lundy’s
Lane, ton of tho man who stormed Chapnlle-
nec.aml held the block house at Gannon’s
Three Corners—Clipsham, I say, who was a
member of the United Gtild of Man of Lettora
and oftbe{Consoiidated Sodality of Lovers of
Mart—Clipaham, whore good haaaor oad good
fellowship bad related Mm to pretty much all
tho aasocMtlone m Tamworth, and, indeed, la
that whole state, found that ho was bidden to
• public dinner almost ovary day. Indeed,
sometimes, tho “bids,” u hia cMldlah>»»phtwi
* called them, overlapped each other.
This was tho rereea why hodtood JO seldom
•Mg hie litem.
Ob the other hand it wu the reason why
To toll the whole truth, hia lister Prne had
bad pea-soup and salt codfish for dinner yes-
terdsy, and the children had been very noisy.
Clipsbmn had determined to change the acene.
So no had determined to dine with the grand-
army today, and now the calendar laid the
grand army dinner wu “done and gene.”
“Well,” said Clipsham to himself, “I conld
not havo spoken aloud anyway. And I should
not have heard a word they mid. Western re
serve, it is today. Lucky I looked!’’ And
ho went on with bis droning, and thought
over somo old Harvard stories which would
do to toil the Western reserve graduates.
As he went out furred, and oven veiled,
and with those horrid Arctics on. which
bXBTBCDK CHANGES TOE CALKEDAB.
made him limp with pain, Prne met him at
the doer.
“Hear George, you are not going oat with
that dreadful eongh. Why, I sere sure of yon.
I have asked lire. OUphant and the Bryces to
meet you, and l have rack a lovely pair of
rm tiTf-harki M
■George intimated that ho did not hoar her.
Prno shouted her bill of fere, physical and
metaphysical. Into hia oar.
George was aorvy. But ha was all ready.
Aad to tho hotel dinner ho went, and left
there eanvM*haeks behind. Proofs wonld be
warm, alas! Aad at tbs Hotel JWfereoa-thut
seas more donbtfol.
The waiters el! know Georg* to a mao, and
bo was ehewa to th* acoeptloa parlor In-
oteatly. Tba reader understands what George
did not—why a third of the guests were in
lean soldier, oi
would havo been had Cll
truth, that he
post. Instead
feeling, on the
had been laid before
b'idorWdmuT^
’oily Stark, as there
ism understood the
wu speaking to a grand army
of this he spoke, with sorlous
work which educated men can
render In any community. What he had boon
saying to the German he now uid aloud.
There is tho secret of a good (pooch. Ho
spoke to tho men before him u If they wore
all rcholan, all men of conscience, and all
leaden In tho villages or towns where they
lived. He told some good stories, he msdo
some good Jokes, but hia speech was not la the
least commonplace, and it ended with a very
serious pledge u to the duty they wonld all do
for the country.
It wu received rapturously—yes, wildly.
Indeed, u the reader will understand, it wu
better received than It would havo boon by
the graduates, whom Clipsham thought ho
wu addressing. Every one of these good fol
low! wu pleased that one of the moat accom-
E llshrd men of letters In Tamworth spoke to
Im aa an equal with equals. They had only
too much or soldier talk, and were glad to
hear something rang or uid to another tune.
Cllpoham bad gone deeper down than tho
average and commonplace u ho wu apt to do.
Now yon would uy that before be loft the
hotel ho wonld havo found hia mistake, or
that, at all events, he wonld hare understood
it bom tho nesrapapon tho noxt morning.
But there yon are quite wrong. In the first
place, he only stayed “to listen to taro more
speeches,” ns he aid. For It did not seem
courteous to go away tho moment ho bad him-
•elf apoken. In fact, ho did not bear one word
of either of them. Aa for the newspapers,
Clipaham generally looked at them, though
not always. Ho never looked, howovor, at
what tho reporters called thoir ''sketches” of
Ms speeches. “Why should ! make myself
miserable?" uid Clipaham. “Nobody olso
reada the things and why should I?” If ho
bad stayed long at Ms office the next morning,
or had looked in at the club, ho might have
found that hia calendar wu all wrong, but
Instead of this, he took Dr. Bmldgraber to ex
amine the High school, ao he remained quite
ante that bo had spoken to therellego men tho
night before, and that tonight ho wu to opuk
to the carriage builders. In feet, as the read
er knows, bo would moot tho collage men
and the carrltgo builders’ night sronld not
come till tomorrow.
And all happened just as before, u it says in
the Arabian Nights and in Orimm'a fairy
lain. Only this timo Clipaham aat at tho
crou-Uhlc, because ho wu to respond for Har
vard, and wu among tho more distinguished
guests, lint little did the poor fellow know
what he wu to respond for. Ho did know
lhat tho carriage bnlldan' association of the
country brings together a remarkable body of
men. lie baa dined with them s year or two
before. Their tmslneu requires an Interest in
design, a knowledge of the physical structure
of the world, an acquaintance with all aorta
and conditions pf men, all combined with
great tact and promptneaa. Observe that car
riage builders, like railroad men, are always
lying to annihilate time, or to give no more
iflt, which la the adme thing. “Ye shall bo-
one like gods, transcendent fete."
So Cllpoham knew he wu to speak to a
bright act In point of feet, he did speak to
the triennial gathering of the graduates of
tho Western Reserve college, one of the
oldest and breast of the western snivarsltiu.
And he told them tiling! which it wuvery
good for thorn to hear, bat which people did
not often tell them at thus awotinga. Ho told
them that aaanb man, bsoaaae ha can control
Matter by spirit—that thla show* that he la a
child of Mod, He told them that the child
of God works with God, and that bore to the
difference between work and labor, that Work
elevates man, while Labor fatigues man. He
charged them to see that the men whom they
ployed should not bo mare iaborera, hot
old became fellow-workmen with God. He
■aid they might cease from their labors, but
that their work would always follow &om.
And he uid very aerioasly that this was no
natter of book-learning, that they would not
find it In Seneca or Aristotle, bat that they
wonld find it la proportion u they were moo
of honor and of troth, u they forgot thorn-
■elves and consecrated their workshops Into
Then be aat down, and just as It wu the
night before, the speech wu reeoirod with
ebcers. The truth is, that at any aacb college
gathering in America, tba men are only play-
ingot being men of lot tors. Every man of us
isswotksnan.oronghttobouhamod if ho b
not. Aa for poor Clipaham, tho nervona ox-
C’tfimfatofbbi speaking brought on a fit of
roughing and ho had toexenso himself and go
homo.
lfoaoakedhls feet in liot water with mui-
lard, put a porous plutet on hia chest and
went to bed with a lump of sagar t
on which ho bod dropped Ayer's (
I oral. But ho alrpt all night and did not need
tha sugar.
Four days went on in this way with four
different dinners. Nobody told Clipaham ho
wu all wrong, because nobody knew. On tho
other hand, every one thought bo wu all
right, and said ha had never made aaoh good
speeches in hit life. Tho next night he really
went to tho carriogo builders' dinner. But ho
thought ho wu at tho annnal mooting of the
Cbantauquan Literary circlo. Thetis to aay,
ke thought he was speaking tea largo company
of people who, in tho midst of every sort of
daily occupation, read regularly In a system
atic course. So. in fact, ho was. And tho car
riage builders liked hia speech all the hotter,
that he made no pretence, u they uid. any
other lawyer would have dono,to a knowledge
of thalr business. Ho uid nothing about var
nish, o* the strength of ash. of which he know
nolkinr, and be did not ones allude to tho
l.ub of tho universe, th* wheel of timo, tho
ehaiist of tho sun, or Dr. Holmes's “Ode-
hone Shay.” which bad been worked to death
at their catohretlODS.
(To ho continued.)
MtOlTING SAT.VATIONISTd.
They Follow tho Two Boms and A ttack Chi
rago Strongholds of Bin.
Front foe Chicago Herald. -
TWo hundred men wearing red Jerseys and
blue raps will patent leather visors and nearly
luo score women In blaek drown tad at
nets marched Into tho main entrance of
go avenue church at eight o'clock last evening.
They were bleod-wuhed warrlors-roMlen In the
Balvaliun army—and they rang, rattled tambour
ines and spanked their hands as thoy marched,
A pate-lkccd man, with whlto hair, walked In ad-
vonefc ortho procession. An American flag was
wrapped around his neck. In Ms right hand he
held the emblem of iho army—a blue and tod flag
silt's yellow orator.' Tho staff was surmouuled
ly a iolfieh eagle with outstretched wings and a
rapacious mouth. The warriors marched down
the left aisle of tho chnrch and then upon tho
platform, where several battle songs, setto rol-
Ill-king mnsle, were sung to the aeoom panlment of
a dosen chattering tambourines. At this the aged
color bearer dropped Ms banner and a young
woman with a union jack tied around her neck
ran her fingers over the six strings of a guitar and
in a tweet, blrdllko voice sang “When We Ride U|
Chariot tn tho Morn." Before she hat
9 the third verse Marshal narrintton Booth,
alio, son of the ramous general
salvation army. and Com
Frank Bmllb, command
aloud. During Iho supplication aniens and halle
lujahs chased oach other around tho auditorium
and darted into the baloony. Marshal Booth then
sat upon a stool and played a piano u ho sang
“Jesus, We’ll Carry You Through.” When ho
•ran Horn tho instrument Commissioner Hmllh
read Iho twenty-third psalm. When ho reached
the 11ns. "n* maketh mt to lie down In green
pastures,” the reader paused a moment and then
uid: "The devil makes you lie down lit the gut
ter, hut Ood makes yon lie down In green pastures
among the fcallolnlah buttercups and daisies."
Alter Commander Smith had-flitltbsd reading
Marshal Booth railed for testlaunlti. Tho pale-
faced man with Uto flag stood np and in a tram-
bling voice declared that, altboogn he had boon a
drunkard fifty yean, he had bean aaved by tho
Battalion army. A hymn, aat to th* music of
■TloktTtok! That's the Way Uto Bell Goes.” wu
hen sung, after which a man with gray mmischa
and imperial Informed the Alteon hundred pimple
pictcnt tbot ho bad bam a very bad man la his
day. no said that he had been trained fur a prise-
fighter by Heenan; that ho had run for alderman
and county commissioner, and that he wu Inti
mately asaodated with Paddy Ryan. "But, glory
to God,’’ ho cried, as hia right hand hit tho baunor
with the yellow center, "Iho aatvation army hu
mt.lo ray home a poradire and saved mo front
hell.” Captain Dean, who, In an evil hour many
j eats ago attempted to drown his wife in thec
and ftd bis family on liver in order that ho n _
have mousy to buy whisky, told bow the salvation
army bad brought him to Iho foot of Josui.
Martha! Booth then stepped forward and spoke
at great length on the program of Ilia worn la Aus
tralia. Re raid that ho eoold not tell why paoplo
became frightened when they saw a salvation
soldier. The warriors were preaching tba doctrine
of Wesley and Calvin, and auroly thorn wu
nothing in that fact to alarm anybody. He
declared lhat the salvation army wu tha Implsca-
hie foe of strong drink and tobacco. Ills soldiers
a uc not saiUlled with chopping off tho branch,-,
tint they brought Iho sharp edge of the gospel ax to
bear on Iho roota of sin. Tito salvation soldier.
»iro sweeping on wllh a mighty hand, dipped In
the blood ot Jesus Christ, and he declared that
they would continue to sweep on until sin wu
swept off the face or the eattli. The story that tho
salvation srmy was going down war false. It wu
suing up. He represented -IV oflleers In the coin-
nits, testing accommodation for 190,900 people,
und a newspaper with a circulation of 393,000.
lie was also glad to say that hu represent-
rd it; stations and 1TO outpost*, and
t list his work In the colonics had boon Indoraea ny
i.ll H e governor!, premier* sod mint of the chief
ircrctsiles. To *how tho nature of the Work tho
r.tmr was performing In Australia Mr. Booth uid
that 2 3T.! criminals bad been met at the gates of
the colonial prisons and eared for by the prison
t.rigsdcc. (if thla number all had recured employ-
mint through the agency of lire army. Tblrtypcr
rent were doing extraordinarily well, and 70 per
cent were remaining firm. The female rescue
brigades had walked through the streets during
the devil's noonday rescuing fallen women
Item dens of vice. One thousand and throe
hundred poor creature* had been cared for
nr relumed to their parent*. The drunkard*'
brigades had rescued 4,009 men. 900 or wham were
confirmed and chronic drinkers. A oorps had Men
formed In New booth Wales with a Chinos* captain
and seven or eight Chinese soldiers. “It weald
mak* tears start from youroyea.” uid thcmanbal,
“were you to bear this little bond of Chinamen
singing:
'Weytngyouylang
* Tin Lung Bone TvUft'"
The weak in th* United States wu described aa
being phenomenal. Ona hundred and rixty-llvs
stations and thirty ontpcaU had boon organised
within two years, and tha number of soldiers
actively coaxed was animated at 10,000. in con-
elution Ur. Booth said that tba fiacofth* salva-
llon army wared to thlrtaaa eenntriao. and Ural the
(jnerrs wearing tha bine and Iho red apok* sixteen
different laneuagee.
Secretary Manning-* Condition.
Washington, April 17.-Dr. Hamilton said
today that there wu a steady Improvement in
Wetetaty Meaning'* roadltioa. Its ails up for
i event boon every day and hu noovend H>*
nee me ofhto limb*, lie to tmdoally gaining
strength and will soon b* able to walk. Its to
also venrehaarfidia spirit aad tteqataily chau
and lobes with hia attendant..
Don’t tend out neat week’s paper. You Will
wait to keep it- Get pour bormwisg friend (osnle
BILL ARP.
HE KEEPS VERY BUSY AND DOBS
VERY LITTLE.
Mr. Sip, Lika the Ctowalnthe Cl reus, Dees a Orest
Baal of Oruntleg. Wills Otoe* Kan Da hllths
Work—It* Carries wo Muoh Ombampoos-
-Mr. Darla's visit to Atlanta.
I don't work very much n:r very hard nor
very long at a time, bnt It aeema to mo that I
am klwaya busy, My neighbors call pis a
gentleman former, but somehow I can't catch
up wllh what to to do. Every day that oonua£I
promise myaelf somo timo to road and answer
letters, but tho time cover comas nowadays
for I discharged my darkey the
lint day of the month and now
have to take hia place and cut stovewood and
help Carl to feed and milk and tote water
and work In tha garden, and grease the buggy
aad harness, the horses and tha like,
thought that today would bo an easy day, but
I got a hint that somo bine gnus cod wu
wanted on the south sldoof thohouao, and
was told whom I could find it, and so I had
jaat finished that when Cul told mo that Tom
Moore, ona of my tenants, wonld swap work
and toy off my com rows If wo wottld drop
corn for him, and sows went at that anil got
through by dinner, and I wai ao tired I conlil
hardly dreg one leg after thootbar. I carry
too much omboagpong to walk much now.
Jnst aa I bad straightened oat
on the sofa In n horrlzontal
attitude tho girla canto In and uid tho boos
w*re swarming and had settled on a pqadh
tree. Well,'I am afraid of boos, bnt ntfll I
like to monkey with them, and I don’t llke'for
then! to go off, for Coho asyi when yon low ft
•warm of Iteea Its a sign of bad lack to come..
Of course I don't believe It, but still I don’t
like to lmo them any more than I like to ace
the new moon over my loft ahotlldor, and
ao I got tho Mvo ready and
nibbed It inalde with peach leaves and put a
tabic right under the (warm and tut old quilt
on the table and the hive on tho qnllt aud
then sprinkled them with some sweetened cra
ter and began to'bmsh them down gently,
when ntddonly one of the little varmlntc pop
ped me on the back of tho nook. I workod
mighty fest with my hands and struck every
way for ftnnday and I killed him,
lint ho drew the first blood,
and it hurt and the children stood np and
cackled liko It was aplcndld. fttn. But I got
them barmonlecd In doo time and Jnataa they
began to occupy their now quarters I heard
another humming and bnxrlng In tho air over
mo and anro enough there wu nnotlior swarm
jnst out. They circled around and around
Vwbite^n^hra^riAl^e^nuotlioc^^^Mroe
I got popped agnin on tho hang down part of
my ear and It accntod to mo that wu tho worst
•ting I ever did have. I put somo wet soda on
it aud kept on with my business and got them
nil housed by the mlddlo of tho afternoon. It
to voty ooon for bees to swarm up in thla
conntiy, and they say tho sooner the hotter.
An April swarm of bees
A swarm
la wurtli a pewter spoon.
That is on old yankto thyme that 1 have
hoard nty father repeat. Boon after 1 got
through with the Imu Carl came up frost the
branch and uid thero wore two whopping big
moceuins roosting on a huh that hung over
tha water, and ao 1 had Mm to load np the
gnn, and want with him to we what kind of a
suako killer be wu. U* got thorn both In
range and biased sway and killed tbs Mir
at one shot, and ho wu ao nrond ho awaited
out and stretched up smartly. Wo then
•lipped along the branch quietly and In half
an boor bad shot seven, 1 sorer saw so msny
m ut on dress nor
I wonder If Ilet _
conscientious scruples abont
That la one commandmont in Hcrlptnr* that I
always obey: “Us shall brutes thy hend.”
Noxt wo had to run an old row oat of tho
meadow. Blto got in atths water gate, bnt aha
wonldent go out there, dogs or no dogs, and
so wo bad to dtivo bar ont at tha front
gate. By this timo the sun
was most down and I finished up the day with
water and patting a hen and her
tokens in tho coop. Tho peafowls are
a lhat we have to pat all the hone
that have little chickens In coops to keep th*
to record a alander In hia book against Mr.
Dkvisland uys that “Davisuid to a speech at
LaGrange, Hiss., that ho wonld agree to drink
all tho blood that wonld bo shod, for the north
twenty-five years on Yancey and Toombs and
Judge Underwood, and first onoand then
another, and now Grant hu got It on
Hr. Davis. That rattles It, I reckon. Thors
are some slanders anil soma deeds that havo
got to he repented of before onr people can
either forgive or forget. Uy good friend,
George Hlllyer, rant me tho other day,
Gnlaot’a history of France, and I read that
when Napoleon returned from Moscow With
tho miserable remnant of hia once grand
army, ho uid lie could have conquered
Bunin without firing a gun If ha had laid
uido hia humanity, for he conld have,set
all the serfs freo by a proc
lamation, and thoy were ready
for it and wai log for it, and If bsckod
by tho near pretence of Ms army would havo
men up ana turned on the sxtoeos and nobles
and landlords and bntehetad them all without
ceremony but the contemplation of such a
horrible massacre shocked him and ho refowd.
Hr. Lincoln did not refow although we ware
of the ume blood with tbs north and all-ws
asked was a separation. Thoy contemplated
tit* rlw of tho oouthern slaves and waited im
patiently for the butchery to .login.
And now wo are uked to
veto a million or ao for monnmonts to their
lllnitrlons dead, and onr members voto for It
every time. Why, u long u they abusouaso,
I would voto “no” with a defiance thoy
coaid not mUundontand and keep my own
wlf nepootlf I kept nothing dee. We have
patriotic heroes as nobia and tree u their's,
and they are now actually arraigning u t for
inviting Hr, Davis to Montgomery and At
lanta. I never try to feel friend
ly and kind and forgiving, 'but
what tome of their Infernal papers write
np aomethtog to make me hate them again. I
can't keep cola and aereno a whole week at n
Uma to aove my life. But I tell yon what Is
a fact: Whenever one of thoir notable men
Uowa.^ymltM^odcn.ughto
lifted t
oot boldly aud oar good words for us l am
upi^ " *
ling Mm
^ KUUn reach.
I wonder if Buell and lloaenerans, will tome
to Montgomery. I wonder If.they will. That
wonld be a love feut rare enough, for thoy
ore two generate who refused to play tba bnt to
'ton fighting-us, aad aothdr atan went down
i Sherman’s went up. Bhorman, the mod-
t American dukeofAlva. Lot hlmfoatthls
Jut finished on* book, a good book,
a book that will plaaao anybody who lorn to
read travels. Hr. Goraun bu boon around
the world three times, and ought to know
bow to wrilo a book of travels. I
used to onjoy ltepard Taylor’s trevste,
but Hr. Gorman bu written a batter book than
Taylor over did.
Ilia "Around the World to 84 ” la Just splen
did. I know the old world now
nearly u wall u If I bad soon
It. This book bu taught mo • gnat deal that
I did not know, and hu sntergod my could,
oration for other nations. Now lot friend
Gorman rattle down and mate with tbs p. g. to
G. if he can. It will bo u fitting flute to hia
useful life. If tba p. g. in G. won’t have him,
lot Mm try the next nrettleat, and so on until
he succeeds. Thero is h nice old girl for him
somewhere!
oiag down to Atlanta on the Slat,
not miss th* oeoulon for anything,
I with to honor and feel honored. It will be
a doublo pleunra to so* Mr. HUI commemo
rated and Mr. Davla lending his presence ani
hit voice to the nobis work. Tha peoeteof
Georgia lova them both. I wish that all tb*
soldiers conld bo there. There are thousands
who wonld go If they coaid. I didnotknow
that I would ever aco Mr. Davis again, and I
rejoice that tho opportunity is so nurnt
' I never think of Mm without feeling a
rcnUtuhum. I love to love lllm whether
hero wonblp or Idolatry, 1 care not,
neither do I care wbu his foes uy or think of
onr chieftain, onr boat man, onr country’s
friend. Notruerpatriot sv*r lived. No man
more pore to all lb* rotation* of life. lot tb*
north have their idol* aad worship them—
Grant, Bborman, Kitcrldan, Beware, all of
them. Wc bavo on* whore urns and whoro
feme is untarnished and grew* brighter with
Mango, lls oareraonght tho office lhat ha
igfiiged. W* threat It noon Mm. If tokiog
tb* lead In rare rat* a and dteaalon wu tnawn
than there were hundred* ot geod men
all over tb* south who wore more
ty than Mr. Devi*. I rejoice that the timo
come when Mr. DavUenn feel at liberty to
« before the reothrrn people at their re-
quest aad gire them words of counsel and eon-
relation. I rctetee that Atteoto bu eallad
Mm, and dared tooall Mm, and I pray that
be assy lire long, long onooghto aeoMatrn-
dnrets all dead or silent and uhamed. What
Brakes tba northern pram ao venomnoa against
Mr. Davla? Why didn’t thoy poor thalr
of wrath upon Yasesy and Toombs
* Brown and Cobb and Floyd and
and Thompson muLUra other leaden.
Brea General Gnat hard to go ont of hit way 1
THE HKD-FAOED MtlllDKIlMIlS. .
ie» on IU Way to
TtfSHAUvniB, Ain , April Ui.--Mroolft1.-dL
ipnBrat tar paasddlhtwiKti licro, bearing rem
nants of Gcrdnlmo’a bund, lately captured by .
General Crook, near Tomhstono,Arisons, Thoy
numbcKd in all about eighty-six nten, womou
and children, twenty-two of whom were young
braves. The wife and children of Ueronlmo
wore among the prisonora. They were tint
first real ravages that many of our people hsd
over raen, and were objects of much totomt
during the few minutes the oar stoppod at tho
depot, where a large number of cltlxens had
gathered toiee them pass. They ware under
a strong guard of United His tea troops. Thoy
loft Arisons last Wednesday, and wore hound
forNt. Aagutlne, where thoy will bo lodged to
Fort Marlon.
In tho first coach wu .a confused
pilo of blankets, dirty rags, cqok-
tng utensil*. firewood, squaws, pap-
twooa, burk-lndiau and general piclnnaque
filth and savage finery.
eclmcnoran
r Vflw f/Jtht ■ _
Incus and blood-thirsty wretch of the entire
Apaehe, Mojavo or Comsnobo nations. His
wrinkled fraturea wete perfectly emutiunlesa,
when the officer abruptly addressed him and
•aid “rbiklxln,” or “brother.” It wu hia
fingers that twined themselves to the beau-
llful golden locks of Mia. Charles
Akera, of Aker’s rancho, Art-
sour, who wu foully murdered by
Nana and four hoetllo bucks to 1881, after tits
longues of her babes hsd been cut out of thalr
beads while the children were atlll alive. It
was this cunning old cblof who led the revolt
In ’81 and who is believed to be over ninety
years old, yet who hu the blood of somo ha-
man beings on bit soul to answer for, for each
year of his life.
TbacMehsreCblbnahns, tho most crafty
untsldc Nans, yet who was decidedly the but
looking as well u beat dressed. He were a
bright rad aad blue Mojave blanket, a. pair of
red flannel pants that Kt tight to bin limbs,
and a Mac shirt wllh a dads colter. It wu s
picturesque “mike-up,” and the old follow
teemed rather Inclined to the vanity that
men and soldier* in the test
foray through Arizona and Mexico. Ha has
aa little regard for a greaser as ho hufor
deg. Cltihnahna had two squaws with him,
one being a blushing bride who hu only slid
ber neck Into tho Apacho nuptial t
al weeks. Thoy were tho but dressed u well
aa the cleanest of nil the eqtuws. The two
squawaseem to dwell in peace and amity.
One bad fuhlonabla bongs, bnt Instead of
curling at each side of the forehead by the
• an, they ran clear around her head, .giving
her a greatly "banged" appearance. Chlhna-
hut is about ID yean of age, and ha snorts
that Nana it 1ST yean old. One of the officers
said of CMhmbna, “He’d go in that car now
and kill his own brother for tfO. The
brother of this Chin la Josona, not u noted
for deeds of reorder u Chlhttahu or Nana,
I tit ho hu hold bis own u the mid on the
Mexican miners at Camp Gila, where Jcmna
murdered five men, testifies. Cathany, n
young chief, contra next in importance. It
wu this filthy, dirty redskin, with a fees that
haunts one in dreams, and tho muscular de
velopment of any athlete living, who killed
Jndgs BfcComas and family, scalping tho
judge before death ended his life, aud then
dunlng out the brains of hia little girl, by
picking hemp and beating her head agalut
the corner of n abed. Cathanay had a sulky
look. Ho hu traveled on foot over one hun
dred miles a day, timo and again, and doea not
know what fetlgus la. Cathanay hu tho feco
of n murderer.
Feasting on a Goat Steak.
From Uto Htoeavtlte, Ot., Gazette.
T’other, day the materfemllias where no
stay fixed up » nico dish of goat steak for us
and the rest of tho children. We ato
onr share. Thero la nothing remarka
ble In thla. “Gentle reader, "when
yon havo followed tho newspaper basi
net! aa long u wo have, yon will be willing to
cat anything—provided you can get It—front
a broiled ox ton stewed gopher. It wu tho
first week to April; and rams of tho brrited
willism goat wu tent over to a neighbor with
enlnnalryutofate fondness for Tool. This
neighbor who wonld sootier eat a piece of tn
alligator than a piece of kid, ato the supposed
veal with a relish, aad sacked tho boat*. Wa
kept the fence between us when wo nude ox-
phutionr.
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