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BY MRS. WILLIAM KING.
(All !• tter« to this department and The Young Folks' column must be addressed
to Mrs. Wili am King. ISO Courtland avenue, Atlanta, Ga.)
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It Might Have Bern.
A withered leaf, a s’lken thread,
Some grasses frail and sere.
Are lying desolate and dead
On latve’s fantastic bier.
But yet a ceaseless sent? they sing
Os cruel, hopeless pain:
For. in the sweetest thought they bring,
I hear the sad zefraiu:
••It might have been!”
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A rnv that dropped from finders fair,
A ring wiih rubies set,
A litt’e tress of golden hair
W.th tears of sorrow wet.
Her heart was light, so mine alone
Hath learned to love and grieve;
And so, thr ugh life’s dull monotone.
The golden tress doth weave—
•’lt might have been!”
The boat lies idly at my feet.
The «ky is blue above.
The sunlit wax-s make music sweet.
And all is fair but Love;
For in the cup that memory takes
I taste again the lees.
And one long, silent chord awakes
And wbisjw rs l<> the breese—
*Tt might have been!”
The fondest love the heart has missed
May ow again some day.
Th nigh ey- that wept and lips we’ve kissed
Have coldly turned away;
But In the love that lives apart
Through waste of weary years,
A voice will haunt the aching heart.
And murmur in its tears—
“lt might have been?
—Montreal Star.
“How to Keep n Husband.”
S me writer says: •‘There are many ways
of getting a husband and also many ways
of kt. p’.ng one. But In most cases the get
ting is much the easier part.”
I am afraid this Is on'y too true. Men
are queer creatures. They aro easily cap
tur d. and their devotion be fore marriage
is something beautiful to behold, but how
many become Indifferent, and the scene 1
changes.
Now, in this plain talk to young wives j
and girls who intend to marry, we will dis- I
cuss a few points. Young ladies are just i
as particular in their behavior during court
ship as the m-n. What girl would allow her
lover to see her untidy in appearance? And
vet how many young wives allow them
selves to fall into careless habits and be-
Ok>iue untidy in their dress. Should she not
pr-« nt a better appearance to h-r husband
n one else in the world? M
qun k to discern such things and there
•c.-y few men who are not attracted by
ward appearance of a woman. So
- thia i* one way to keep a bus-
will ofefFc.ve closely will •
a tn..’ aught differ- •
to ...in and wife. |
Now if either is *>( yielding disposition
there will be no trouble, but often this is
not the case; neither will yield the point,
and a coolness arises and they drift farther
and farther apart and very often a divorce
is the result.
There is no doubt but that a wife's in
fluence can be stronger than anything on
earth. She can had where she will and
her husband will follow her unconsciously.
Now if young wives would only give this
more serious thought there would be fewer
unhappy homes.
Home should be the happiest place on
earth for a man; he has cares and per
plexities that he Would willingly bear be
hind him and find his home a place where
be would like to rest heart, soul and body, j
but 1 have seen men who dreaded to go |
home; there was no rest for them. An un- i
tidy, complaining wife, a lot of dirty, noisy I
children and often an unpalatable, badly
cooked meal. Is it surprising that he feels
like seeking a mere congenial place.
There are many ways of keep
big a husband. We will only give our
young friends a few hints.
Be as careful al mt your personal appear
ace us when you were preparing for your
lover. Give your .ai/ iu-1 as much atten
tion as you did yo ;r lov. r. Show your love
a:.d aff-ction by the little courtesies shown
your lov«.r. Don't be jealous without
Cause, and above ail things, don t lie ex
acting. Worn n often « .\p> < t too ntueh. and j
if th- v do not re -eive nil they d maid they ■
make men s Uv< -• no erable. The whole se
er* t is love —iove first, last and always
love your husband «• -voledly and tell him
so. Men Ilk- to hear it often. Like the
thinrs he Ilk -s and make hitn your ideal.
l. ve and only love will keep a mat loyal
and tru<. and ih rs cl love will make a hap
py home.
111E KINGDOM’S nMtKKwOTOBICff
A UM'lpr Etrhnnge of Views Amnng
the Ladies for Themselves.
Mrs. T. I’uliiw,finml Junction, Tenn.—l am a
constant reader and great admirer <4 liic < on-ti
tntiou ..nd t <>u at I might through it* columns,
l-e tln-'ni. <nsol belpiag M.tne de-titute jwrsons
(w -iuan. gt-i or tx»yj to a twee, go.td, < hriMian
home ' * ■ ■ ■ the I.lm*-
|y, provided they be willing to <io their part.
Correspondents Sohcitc.L
••M. E. M."-The noti.-e ..ver the initials M. E-
V h»-.•V-.1.e-l »• manv r»'S|".n«»"-. i am at a 10-s
bowtoavki U.-<h« oth.rii.au tbrougu this me
tli-nu. To .-..1 «4 tu.«s« rnc|...-»in x >t .mp I have
wrnt.n ian p.-.r.a- th-' mu-t know, a stamp
|. av: : i || inn. I.iu tie l.ti.n • drmaixling
tli.i.in::.; a-• i* i »rj.e. W; >p.n: r-| nis to .11,
but I .-an toi-uioua. bHI write again when
suy lot is da ..led-
I- I*. <‘< ..ran. Holly >j.nn.'% Miss.—l see mine
oi ii u V.o'i.ai: .- hiii-.b ni •>! Th.- Atlanta
.' i.-sr. t n « »»»«•• *•• kao* aouretMag ahMt
Mi- I. ■i . -i.m , b’ll -i*e signs her name
t..r-tn u Admirer, it site hoi signed her
na .«. 4 lid iiate told hr ad aiiom Mrs. Cocu
r-n.
J. P W., Minor. H i— l have been intcr-
,- ...in ..ii in this «l< part-
m. tail we know e i.-h oti..-r in heaven?*
KH I* !•« •* y li-witl it oJier in
that a e. tor they will l>e a« on. tamiiy. But wo
nt >■ . -.-n .tines ibai the ortf ail will bo
r amt-t ..re) will jul-.ee the world: Kev. I.nions
<*44. IO •• V. 1. 1-UF-. Vi C.l. t - 3V.
1.•-«. lore. * ell hrtixisiftr tbouc wiib wlioiu
li.. \ **re «<* o lAaiitcti <>»'" cart!>•
••1 »»r, bvliM.’u, 1 create new iiiavcn* and a new
Hi ghestof ail in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report
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Powder
earth; and the former shill not be remembered,
nor come into mind.”—lsaiah, Ixv ch., 17 v.
I iiavv also noiie.-d what ha- lieen-wntten in re
gard to tin- saldKitli, its observance, etc. 1. taking
th. Bib!.. I, (I mj | M -I:et, believe that the seventh
(iiur S-ittirday), is the divinely appointed day to ixi
.observer, it lieing set apart at creation to comeni
uratc that event.
“Tor in mx days ti e Lord created the heavens
ana the earth, etc. Wherefore (for that reason)
He bles-ed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.” and
for which Sunday nor any other day can be tub
stituti d. Therefore anything lawful to do on any
secular day may be indulged iu on the day calietl
Sunday.
I would be pleased to exchange views on above
subjects.
Mrs. N. A. Culpepper, I’arrott, Ga.—l notice
that Mrs. Lula Meadows, ot Benevolence, Ga.,
asks for n remedy lor lice and fleas in poulty.
I or |-.c‘- 1 u-e sulphur and greSM, Ih m~ e.ireful
to uw only about the heads of little chicks; then
poude’ctl sulphur sprinkled promiscuously over
tbetr bodies and about the fowl house.
But for Ilea-, I use mercurial ointment: melt
and apply warm to the sections of fleas, uncLtouch
lightly about the bodies or dogs; being treated
thus will kill all 11e,.s with wlucii it comes in con
tact, and they will not accumulate again under
•ix or eight week. But to rid the premises of
them w»- undergo a general cleaning up, ami pow
■ dered sulphur freely sprinkled will be found of
i very great service iu exterminating them.
Mrs. A. K. Phillips, Greensboro, N. C. —I would
say to those who have written me, that lam con
lined to the bed with fever. Goii in his great wis
dom took a dear sister from us July nub,and 1
want every i hri-ti. ii who reads tiu-se lines to
pray that He will spare the re t, and will give us
grace to say “Thy will lie done.”
Au Others See Is.
The above headed an excellent article
I read recently. An Englishman criticises
the way American women hold themselves.
He said In walking an American woman
gave the impression of flushing aer stom
ach before her. If any one will take & stand
< n some public street and notice th way
women walk, they will understand this
criticism. Most women are hollow in the
Lack and their dress should be cut shorter
behind than b fore. There are very few
dressmakers who understand cutting a skirl
properly and the dipfdng of a skirt often
j gives the woman an appearance of having
< a bad figure. Then, again, it is the way
I a woman holds hers.lf, or how she stands.
A writer on this subject teiis us:
“It is a great deal easier when you get
) used to it to stand in the way that nature
I intended than to stand with your w ight
resting on your heels, your backbone bent
all out of shape and your chin stuck out at
an angle of 15 degrees. That is a great f art
of the battle, to k ep your chin buck. That
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She Hold* Herself Correctly.
rebellious chin thrown forward brings your
whole body in an awkward position. Prac
tice before your looking glass, stand in
your usual way and see where a straight
lln» drawn from your head down would
come.
•’lt ought to go through the ball of the
foot. Then the stomach will retire into
proper perspective, the chest will come out
j properly, and the back will take car -of it
i self. It will not take many trials to con
vince you of the advantages of this man
ner of standing, and a little observation of
others will show you what you need.”
fi
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But she Not.
K’.'oryboly knows that Queen Hctjria is
dumpy, short and plain. But vet she holds
h> is-If y.iii. so much dignity that the locks
like a queen. How would she look if she
leauedd on her spine as if it were the back
TTTE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA. GA, MONDAY. AUGUST 13, 1894.
of a rocking chair, a.s many cf us do?
American women have much to learn frem
their tight-laced, flat-backed, high-headed
English sisters.
A Request.
There comes a request from an invalid
for reading matter—one who Bus for twelve
years been almost all the time confined to
bed. We cannot realize now much good
we can do by sending to those who are
not able to take papers those we have
finished reading. If any one has books or
papers (especially our A'eekly) that they
can spare they will ue thankfully received
If sent to the address of .Mrs. Dacia Del
linger, Harden, N. C.
t:xcnAX(;i: list.
Mrs. F. Hall, Attalla, Ala., nas a pair of
«old bracelets and recipe for cold cream to
exelange lor forty yards of white linen;
also novels and Howers to exchange.
Miss M. L. Jones, Eastabuchle, Miss., has
a felt tidy, worked with silk arrasin., to
exchange for plush photograph album.
Write first.
Mrs. C. A. Walters, Gray’s Port, Miss.,
has Baptist Hyinnul with notes, to ex
change for zephyr; also •■l'Tlumphal
Hymns," with notes, for "Duval's History
of Mississippi,” or good Look for children.
Write b foie exchanging.
J. M. Carroll, West Palm Beach, Fla.,
box 22, sea shells for words of "After the
Ball,” • Nellie Gray, "Nora, Darling,” and
others.
Miss Georgia Crafton, Morgana. S.
wishes to < xehange "Sketches by Boz,” for
Washington Irving's “Skitch Book,” < r any
es E. I*. Roe's works, except ”A Face Il
lumined.” Write for particulars.
Mrs. T. E. Polhill, Hodges, S. will ex
change "Memoirs of Jeff rson Davis," writ
ten by his wife, for a copy of the "Life and
Speeches of Henry W. Grady.’ Write first.
Mrs. Willie Brett, Glenn, Ga., will ex
chang ■ fiower cuttings for silk, velvet and
worsted scraps. Send stamps to send How
ers.
Miss Nettie Davis, Armuchee, Ga., has
rooted l» gonias, geraniums, fuchsias and
other flowers and novels to exchange for
two yards of plain pink llir n.
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FOUND IN PERSIA.
An Ancient Life of t'hriat Found in an Old
Thibi't Monnstery.
A new life of Jesus Christ has been dis
covered in a monastery of Thibet by a
Russian traveler, and has just been trans
lated into French. This book of Jesus Christ,
reports The London Daily News, is held in
no less reverence by certain Buddliistt
than the Blg-Veda by tile Hrahmins. Il is
in the eyes of the Lamas a canonical book,
.d, Nicholas Nonovitch, traveling in Thibet,
heard in a monastery that the Buddhists
knew and honored the prophet Issa. Certain
particulars of the life ot Issa forced upon
him the conviutiun that this prophet was
Jesus Christ. He inquired of the Lamas
where a history of his life, was to be f\>uud.
It was to be round in liianuscript pieserxed
us sacred books in Hie monasteries of Ladak.
M. Notovitch worn over the Ladak coun
try, viited the city ot Leh, and at length
stopped ut a convent culled llemis. There
he commenced negotiations fur the manu
script. He sent presents to the l.ama —a
watch, a thermometer, an alarm -but all
to no purpus’e. Bw.rul days later an ac
cident brought him what his diplomacy had
fialed io achieve. Riding in front of H tnis
he broke his leg. He was received iu the
couvi in and uurs<-d there.
O.ie- duy Uv Lauiu e -me into i... <- Om
with two large vului ics bound in ii.iste
lioaril, the leaves being turned yellow by
lap-e of time. It w;.- the life of Issa, wnt
teu in the Pali language. The Dim a read
it out verse by verse, Al. Notovitch taking
down his mterpretii's teansialion. The fol
lowing is a brief summary of this transla
tion:
Issa was born in Israel. Ills parents
were pui-r people, belonging by birth "to a
family of exalted piety which forgot its
former greatness on earth to magnify the
Creator and thank Him fur the misfortunes
with which lie was pleased to try them.”
From his childhood he preached the one
God. On coming of ago at thirteen, in
stead ot marrying, according to custom, ho
fled from iiis father's house and Went with
merchants to Sindh. At fourteen lie was
living among the Aryas. He visited Jug
gernaut, Rejagriha an.l Be;.arcs, where lie
learned to read and understand the Vedas.
But one day he broke away from the
Brahmins. He denied the divine origin of
the Vedas and the incarnation of Pari
Brahma. In Vishnia the white priests
threatened his life, lie took refuge with
Hie Guwtamides, learned Pali, and in six
months was initiated into the mysteries of
pure Buddhism. Then lie went westward,
preaching against idols. In Persia he op
posed the religion of Zoroaster, but lie was
p< rsecuted by magicians, and fled, lie was
twenty-nine years of age when he returned
to Judea.
lie at unco began to preach, but his pop
ularity alarniei Pontius Pilate. The latter
summoned priests and learned men to try
Issa. This tribunal examined Issa. a.id
pronounced l.itn tn be innocent Issa con
tinued to speak to the people, fnctil ■■ iting
obedience to Caesar and respect for woman
kind. but spies which Piiaje had set to
watch him sent disquiet ing reports on the
enthusiasm of the multitude, and the gov
ernor. fearing a mutiny, caused Issa to be
imio isoned, tortured and tried bi lore the
sanhedrin with two thieves. False wit
nesses were bribed this time.
The governor then called the witness who
at tue bidding of his master, Pilate, had
betrayed Issa. Tills man came, and, speak
ing to Issa, said: "Did you not claim to be
the king of Israel, when you said that the
Lord of Imaven had sent you to prepare
Hi - people?” And Issa, having blessed hint,
said: "You shall be forgiven, because what
yon say does not come from your heart.”
Ami, turning to the governor, Issa said:
“Why humble your pride and teach jour
inferiors to live in falsehood, since even
without that jou are able to condemn an
innocent man?” At these words the gov
ernor fell into a rage and ordered the death
of Issa, while he discharged the two thieves.
Tile judges, having deliberated, sai 1 to
Pilato; "We will not take upon ourselves
tin- great sin of condemning an innocent
man and of absolving two thieves, a thing
contrary to our laws. Do, therefore, as you
please. Having tlius spoken, the priests
and wise men went out and washed their
inirids in <t holy vessel, sxiyinjj'Z “We «ire
''" a th of a just man.” Issa
and tile two thieves were crucified, but the
tntrd day Issa's sepulchre was found open
and empty.
AV lint n Mun Would Do.
AY hat would a man do, I won ler, if things
went so irretrievably wrong with Idm as
they do* with some of us women? V' ny,
take to drink, of course. That is ; . sovereign
consolation, I am told, for many ilia. A wo
man has no equivalent for whisky, the
must needs clinch her hands and ret her
teeth an<l bear her Jot. And you teli us a
man in the stronger!
1 tell you, my dear, I know a. dozen wo
men who could discount any soldier that
ever fought in the Crimean wars lor down
right heroism and pluck. Where co you
find a man who is willing to wear shabby
clothes and old boots and a seedy ..at that
his boys may go fine as fiddles? v *• <re do
you find a man who will get up cohl morn
ings and make the lire, train?) to work
through snow, pick his way througn it fil
ing rain, weather northeast blasts and go
hungry and cold, that he may keep the chil
dren together which a bad and wayward
mother has deserted? First thing a man
would do in such a case would i e to beard
the children out with convenient relatives
while he looked around for a divorce ai d
another wife!
How long would a man brace up under
the servant question? How long would he
endure the insolence and the flings of < i uel
and covert enemies because the children
needed all he could give them, and only along
the thorny road of continual harassment
ami trial might he attain the earnings need
ed to render them happy and comfortable?
If a man is insulted he settles the insult
with a blow straight from the shoulder,
and that is the end of it; he would never
be able to endure, as some women do, a
never-ending round of persecution that
would whiten the hairs on a scHlekin Jacket.
MARTHA E. HOLDEN.
ARP IS ONE OF THEM.
HE HAS KEEN KEAHINO MISS JCVTH
EIIEORH ’S “AM EK ICAK A UTH OKS."
From Literature the Major Falls Into a
Meditation on What the English
Think of This Country.
Coincidences are sometimes very sur
prising, mysterious, and bordering on tne
supernatural. I suppose that almost every
one has at times been confronted with some
reality that had long before appeared in a
dream or a vision, or in some perplexing
way. On yesterday Miss Rutherford s last
book, “American Authors,” was before me.
I had just finished reading her pleasant
sketch of my old friend, Richard Malcolm
Johnston, and was looking at his picture—■
the genial, kindly race that neither age nor
wrinkles nor crows’ feet can deprive of its
charm —when it occurred to tne that it
had been more than a year since we hau
exchanged letters. While 1 gazed anu
pondered on the picture the morning s
mail was laid upon my table and tne
topmost letter was from Dick, it seemed
to come as a matter of course. It was the
right thing to happen and it happened.
Dear old Dick! How much pleasure ne
has given us all! How many southern noys
has he taught, beginning at the university
and then at Kockby and tor twenty
years past at Fen Lucy, near Baltimore.
How many characters has he molded? How
many sincere friends lie has made wno
love him in life and will mourn him when
dead, if anybody deserves a monument,
it is the successful, conscientious teacher
who has made it his life work. And tins
reminds me that Dick is a Roman Catholic
and so is my good friend Raudaii, wno
wrote "My Alaryland,” that thrilling war
lyric that Oliver Wendell Hulmes said
was the best poem produced on either side
during the late war. But the American
Protective Association will retire them
to poverty it they can. Anil Father Ryan,
who wrote the "Conquered Banner. was
a Roman Catholic priest. Miss Rutherford
says of him: "He was honored by l rotest
ants—loved by native Ainerle ins and out
side of race and creed was respected by
all for lis true manhood.” The American
Protective Association cannot harm nim
now. When the chaplain of the state
prison lied from the pestilence in ia'w.
Father Ryan took his place and ministered
day and night to the sulfcring.
This book of Miss Rutherfords is a
treasure in the house. It deals Kindly and
truthfully with the living and the oeau.
Not even George W. Cable nor Mrs. Stowe
can justly complain of her gentle criti
cisms. Her galaxy of southern witteis
cannot be found so extensive and so starry
in any other book. She says truthtuiaj
that prior to the late war there were as
many gifted writers at the south as at
tile north, but there were no publismng
houses for books and but tew nteiaiy
magazines to encourage talent. Hut me
south has always excelled in scholarship,
in statesmanship, in oratory. H*t dead
poets did not live long enough to write
many books, but the quality ot tneir
po'ins was unsurpassed save by three or
four northern writers. Lord Byron deciai
ed that “My Life Is Like n Summer
Rose” was the finest poem ot tne cent
ury. We owe it to John Forsythe mat
this poem was ever publish 'd. \ ictor Hugo
said that Foe was the prince of American
literature. What Hayne and Tlmrod anu
Lanier ami Ryan xvonhi have written
had they lived to the allotted age. we can
only surmise from their youthtul ettorts.
Poor, timid, womanly T:mrod. 1 Knew
him well *n college. He was like a stat tied
fawn. Many a time have 1 seen him m
the early morn
“Brushing the dew frem off the upland
lawn,”
er slitting the glades around Athens in
search flowers. What a struggling nte
he lived and how pitifully pocr tn died.
Miss Rutherford’s bo >k is instructive, en
tertaining and refining. It should be in
every family as a ready book ot reference.
Most of our people are too poor to attord
encyclopedias, and if we were not. we
would not find any work from the north
that is faithful to southern writers, ine
publishers may be ever so kindly disposed,
but they do not know us. Some ot them 1
know who would put you in 11 you win
pay for your picture- say s.>o—and iu some
of these ponderous volumes scores are
omitted who could not pay and hundreds
inserted who could and did and whose
names will go own to posterity
“Vnwept, unhonored and unknown.
The south has not many friends any
where, and it becomes us to treasure those
we have. It Is amazing how we survive
the slanders of our foes and prosper un
der oppression.
I have a son and a son-in-law in England,
who were called there on business, and now
they are kept hot In defending the south
fr >m the Ida W' lls slanders. They feel like
they are held responsible and 'ire under the
ban of public opinion. The English people
are shamefully ignorant of our manners
and customs and are a ? ; full of prejudices
as our northern frineds were before the
war. At a dining one evening a lad of ten
years asked my son if he had any boys in
America. “Yes,” said he, “J have lour.
"Are they black?” said the boy. A negro is
a rare sight in London, and hence there
is no colored line neithe r in cars nor hotels
nor churches and the English people c.imi >t
understand why there should be any dis
tinction here. Negro men intermarry with
white servant girls over there and noth
ing is said < thought about it. but white
m -n do not marry negro girls. But it is im
fi.>-sii>le for any of the people
to understand the social situation until
tiny are brought face to face with it. Take
a quiet, unpretending village of 3,’"W inhabi
tants up north and suddenly pour into It
1.000 or 1,500 negroes and see how soon
they would draw the color line. They wont
even stand a small percentage of Chinese —
a people who commit no outrages and are
inuustriouM and cleanly in their habits. It
looks like our English neighbors are hunt
ing for excuses to belittle and abuse cur
nation and our government. My sun en
closes me a chapter from a late issue of
The London Echo, and it reads us bad
as seme of the utterances of Herr Most and
other anarchists.
"The signs of the times indicate that
before the sun rises on the Ist of January,
lU'JU, liic great American nation will groan
and writhe hi an agony of revolution and
the streets of all her great cities will be
.slippery with blood—a hundred drops of
blood for each gem that flashes on the
necks of rich and purpered women and ten
drops of blood for each tear tiiat bus
washed the faces of the poor, in me r.urth
every election is carried by boodle; in the
soutn every election is carried be buckshot.
(Wno saiu that?) Politics is so rotten that
it stinks. Everybody knows it and nobody
cares. America is no lunger a republic. It
is a plutocracy. The president is imiely
the creation of bank direc'ors, railrt ad
kings and coal barons, and it is the same
witn the governors ot the states. The peor
whine about tneir poverty and gnaw their
crusts ot bread, out cun always be counted
on to vote for the ricn, and mne-t niiis of
tiii'in would shoulder tneir muskets anu lay
down their lives in defense cl tne right of
the rich to rub them. A nation such as this,
in wnich one million plutocrats tyrannize
over sixty millions slaves will be cither
overthrown by a foreign toe or drowned in
its own blood or die of gangrene. Tne va
rious labor organizations neither think
together, vote together nor work together,
and they have no money to luy votes,
law makers and judges. Soldiers and police
shoot down laboring people ami are cheered
on in their bloody work by monopolists and
editors and the clergy. But the day will
soon come when there will be a horrible
dam e of death lighted up by burning houses
and to the music of cries and groans and
dynamite bombs. Rich idlers amuse them
selves at New port and Tuxedo; poor workers
toil ceaselessly in the darkness of the mine
and the din of the mill. Young men and
woman dawdle over iced champagne and
oyster patties; old men and women pick
rotten food out of garbage cans. dogs
are driven through Central park to take the
air; children die of overwork in 111:hy gar
rets. Piety in the white house enjoying
the fruits of bribery—infidelity in the ten
ement house enduring the punishment of
uprightness. These are the signs of the
times in America today—signs that point to
calamities too dreadful to imagine, but
which nothing can avert.”
No, and the accursed fiend who wrote all
that does not want it averted. He is feed
ing his readers on venom and malice
and hate because it pays. May the good
Lord deliver us front ail such citizens.
Such stuff as that ought not to be allowed
to be printed in a civilized country that we
are at peace w ith. But maybe it will scare
their paupers and vagrants so bad they
will quit coining. Maybe so.
BILL ARP.
St. Simon.
St. Simon! on thy sandy beach my fancy
loves to roam
To hear thy wild sea billows swell ani
watch their fleecy foam;
To see the mellow moon uplift her search
light to the sea.
Ard throw around old ocean’s breast her
golden drapery.
Loved Island of the azure deep! how rich
thy soft perfume!
Hispania of our Georgia coast! how bright
thy varied bloom!
How grand ths music of thy waves within
the sandy bars,
How sweet the song of love they sing be
neath the listening stars'.
In dreams tonight I scale the tower that
watches by the sea,
The moon is full and on the deep unfolus
her majesty;
The paler stars, amid the gloom, unveil
their softer glow
And every wave reflects a gem upon its
crest below.
What soft enchantment, oh my soul, per
vades the stilly night
As, giving to e<-eh fairy cloud a golden
fringe of light.
The tide’s Elizabeth looks out upon her
vast domain
And pours upon the boundless deep the
splendor of her reign.
Oh mellow moon! beneath thy glow how
oft have lovers strayed,
And whispered of the sweet regard their
silent looks betrayed;
What fund adventures of the heart; en
dearments each to each
Hava kindled here, amid the sands that
glitter on thy beech.
Th« winding paths which melt away amici
the island’s shade;
The dismal ruins which through the years
have silently decayed;
The ancient glory of the isle which through
the mass is traced—
All print their splendors on my soul; nor
can they be effaced.
The light which falls along the shore and
floods the shimmering sea
Shall ever, to my thoughts, unfold thy
haunts of memory;
Nor shall thy magic charms, sweet isle,
this dreaming soul forsake.
Till, on the seashore of the years, life’s
tidu shall cease to break!
—L. L. KNIGHT.
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