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tainment and development n the art of lettei-urging.) ,
“Who Will Meet HeC
nVrttten for the Young Folks* Page.)
Often in the falling twilirht.
When my evening’s work Is done.
When the woods and fields are tinged
With the last rays of the setting sun—
When gentle night comes creeping down
I’poll alt creatures here below.
It seems to me I hear th • songs
Os loved ones on the other shore.
Who will meet me fast in heaven?
In that heateous land above.
When an «ntrancc to me is given
To that golden land *«f love.
anxious eyes will watch my coming
o’er tin' cold and silent stream,
V ben I see the shining temples
In the distant city gleam?
W'-on my weary feet shall press
The l~>. % of that golden place.
W*hn lead me thi ugh the gateway (
To th • Heavenly Father’s face? ;
Wli« first >h.-»ll lead me through the city— I
Through the gl::d and happy throng?
Il- voice that first shall teach me
Sing the -wcet and glorious songs?
These are the sid and solemn thoughts
Thu often o’er my so’il come stealing,
Winn th> -ha., s ni-'ht have fallen
And no ecrthlj rare I’m feeding.
j that we have chert -10-d
And hnv-' v pt t * *.••• them d’>.
A I u.» ’linking th 're the angels
That "ill guide us tn the sky.
—XV. l». HARRIS. Benevolence, Ga.
pear (Tihiren I want to tell you some
th e of a very ••elel.ratrd horse.
«>;' o ii’— you .di know v. iio •’Stonewall
jf- -k- a” wi - if you don’t, why go right to
tr ■!: an t i.id •at about one of the bravest
r :di'-’’. i f the confederacy.
I Jack -si had many torses, and '
s of them very tine, but his favorite
b-.r.—■ ”1. tile Sorrel’* and he loved
him b of all. lie r,»l.* this faithful little
h-T'” ::: re.i.ly every battle in which he ;
v is .-.u-«»:• I *1 iring the w.«r. and he was
rt’o.o-ted « n him at the battle of Chin- •’
er i<e v. ;: .. when h«* received the wounds
v I . . < > ■ , hi d. alb. This little horse i
fi at ..ent by the nun* 1 of Yancey, but j
r. ■•rv. > Is - lily kr »wn as "Little For
r .” l l- wa- always kept fat and In good
c.-ii lit.oo »n«l never se«m?d to tire <;f the .
. in.s. It was said his gilt was gs
r . I!• :'< j .<
pi-turo of Little S rn 1 ai d M tmt some j
oi new all about him naya:
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G7- -777..»*
’’lie b:«'h ii e most lieautiful eves. large '
•nd soft like a gasclie’s, and -<» intelligent
a d ex -r -iv. ih.it fe edtil’l almost sfM-ak
W‘»h t: • n.. V.’’ ■ a the c >mm .n<* h.di.*d
for re v« ■: i lie down like ■
’ -g. >; - • m.-I'ie a greet |-t of
him, and many an a.ipie he r< crived from
th' n* Mil's* 1.1 id.
J.ittl-- S •-'<•! had really a hnppv time al! .
thr -u-.h <*..r uti’ll tile terrible battle
©f ’’h ". a--» . Then he had the great
misfortune lose his master, whom he
jnvrd so drarly. a.id f.>r time he was tost. I
t • w I f i:t. I !.j a eonfe-l. r ite .-.ldi.-r >
a'l-i "• t ii • to •t-a.-'al .1 i ks t«’s family !
!' N--rt* I’ T - i - he lived ior iil 'UV
?•- K'-’hli's: t-»> co.hl. ion may K- j
■ • , . . . tj.,,.
1-- ' ■ a lot g time ;
b - the 'i-l mlnis-
t- -b . | .» - 'f father-in-law. It
must h ■ indi. an I no
r. it- - .i i;• ii! work io’-tairv nlong
t. lb.- . . • 11' -1,.-- -ift'.r all the exeite-
r t - • -- i■ I >,i ; a eon •
inite I •' py oot>w
♦ "f his ma »ter and the
S' r • 1..-I, so devot.-! IO bitn
ti'.o .in; • . ’..i then he divert*-.! him-
' ' *•• let IlltU'-elf oul of |
F ’•• • •• he . idd 1. t down bars and I
!•'* la; -h. n. !'=s niotith hist as well as |
S» ’ <• -s. arid then he would •
r f an h
St . 1- t • ’i n.- out rnd m irch I
e ’ ■ t. like a s
lead;’ - his mi <l-1. to the green fleMs nf |
r • ■ ■ ■ ■ ' V. <<■ : ■ •
f ted. You see Old f< in •' 1
’ ' • Itoi A- all the
oth r well as to lake
• df. lb- would have thought it a
k > leave t|- m shot up while he
V f? ’-..lie'- .1 holidav.
im. I'"
e- r« with his none tintil
*' lon •:•••»';:. to tump ever.
' course he did a great deal nf mls
c .1 u ■ w.«« ?•t. i j,-f that he had bis
o" ’ w ••’ •" i«i“ir. and no one wns
o. •: di.- dto n"d *i him for hi freaks,
f . r. . : Until
over f Pty v. -'r.- old. and then
r • . tiifT-.! and
n.'-njit-d n- d ?>. ‘ .n.!< n in the library
c' | .m • |n f;i. 1. v. htre
•mn of you may i -rhapa see him.”
Ytil x<; t’Oi E SC’ttKKI !*PON’I»EXCK.
f.etter* of F.sehaugn Among The Consti
tution** l ittle Folk*.
Tt-.-iiif Vaxwell. Vat- !i« z. Ala.—l live in the
Sn'itb. . art ol tUluiiiiA. liftcc'U Hide* from the
> l-.' .ma river.
Uy ;-ana Ins leen taking The <
s<». -a. vritx -’i.d_ I like it ><> niudi. ««]ie<'i.dly
the V mu: I •■!.< Corner. I agree wtUi Saidee
•i .drert'Ui. luo twa think it ri-iitat all for the
prktn It.. .lout tiemg ahead of the lioys. If
Bi re .i tl ='i w- write. 1 think they 'would
tout excel tlie girls.
What has le-.-.vn • of "llnv Afraid <>f the tlirls?”
Come, write again, I like your letters.
C rrw'ia I. EQington, Robinson, Ga. —Tins is a
b- - ’ tai -abbath attern-><>n: the sky •» overcast
w ti. 't. aiuri «Imwllvts, * cool, gentle l.n-i zn is
Mowing iroiw the w. where tin- king of dav is
Mar.slll- hi- gol.len rays over the earth, ere he
VW. to carry j y amt -imMune over some other
fmrtMMi o| the great world.
I I. .re Is- •! reading two g.MMt Imm.lts today, and
I wish every ove ol the cou.-ins would read them.
Ih'-y are ••Spurgeon’* Gem-.” by that noted dl-
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¥*mvl 'Sr. for o«n*,••*•<•• <t«"*ll informal inn. iVipns n.n-t he entered brfor* Nov I*, 18M. Ik igtis
’ n... • be TtnrzwM .ri-'ieht M |>ri*at. -nle.
X" n.attrr where s hi live. ,|.>n I pa* retail price- f.»r sail paper. *''■'* make a specialty of the mail
l>lk>< T T(» IHVI Ml.d* AT FU'IBUY I’RKI*.
SPECIAL FALL PBiCESs iUSi3UWSUT*
..••.I in f.-ri' '-♦*£»*•»»• ••( our u** (all p-*t«er atwl * l» »»k f»»t? •■ltoi.M i«n«i till**,
nnnenom in iiiive mtwritigv u»il unfit al «»»»rr, .' howititf
t er’for f «H Affrut* baaiplc liouL* f /»>»». -
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Afo-r KULI rtA I Oj DEPT. 67, I3e-138 W. Madison SL, CHICAGO.
Mention The Constitution.
BY AUNT SUSIE.
vine Charles ||. Spurgeon; the other wns ••li.mgli
tersol th • Cross. I have read several books, but I
d<> not endorse novel reading al all
Some cousin suggest™.! a very instructive sub
ject : "W lilch does more toward the formation of
character, education o envir.uiincnts?”
Kow, I (Mak education does most m forming
genuine char.ict r, although amdal life, every
companion and associate has a groat influence in
the formation of character.
J. W. Anderson, bopliii* Crossroads. Tenn.—
i am very fond <d reauing the young folks’ letters,
iaim think it we all would take bo.d we could
make it mor.- attnctiv •.
I tli'nl: it wonld be a good plan if every corrc
lepnndent wmihl select some subject ot their own
and write about it.
Corres|H>ndents solicited.
1 Clatidie Thornburg, Helena. Ga.—l like to road
tin 1 VomigFolks'l orner and -.ir re Plnnkett. I en
, ,my reading Little Mr. riiupulelinger very niucli.
, I Hunk it i- the incest story of the kind lever
I i' ."1
) I always like logo the postolltec Ttlesdav, for
| that is tile .lay vget file I'< -11-tit lit ion. I like to
; re ol Mint S r-ie - h-tb'is for l.a y are so line.
I I wdl ask a I. w questions:
lio v. old was I Kristopher Columbus when he
In what yeir did George Washinglon die?
Who discovered the I‘eninsul.i ot California?
Mamie fry. C.iticird, X'. <’.— !! c ing been a rea
dernmla -il. nt idmirer ol The ('oiistitut.ion lor
some time, I u g iMTiiiissi.iii to join your happy
bali'l.
I have re 1.1 "Stopping Heavenward,” mid think
it is m very instruc-tive Ihh.U. Lmiise Aicott is one
ol my favorite authors.
I certainly do enjoy reading the story of I ittle
Mr. 1 himi.ielingcr. I am dii ty- jiiix’ous for Tues
day to come so I .-an read i be'< onslitiltioii. I al
ways turn to th'- tenth page lirst.
Wh.t is that word oi five letters of which,
when you t .k<' away t .vo, omy one remains'.'
Wi-al town is drawn ottencst’.*
Wi.al is -mailer than a« ant's moittii?
t oircs|M»mi< nts solicited, either sex. Age 15.
Llrz.ic Andbews. Granbury, Texas. I have been
! readme <h. letters lor some lime and I liml them
' very •nb't''-ling. My parents are native Geor
gians. .Iso all mi pe<.>ue lint lam a Texan and
,i . il. Papa ii" ■<i ■ ■<<' <" "I >■< s: -' ■ <‘ll
years ago. Maii.mu and I vi-lted ov.i relatives
ila-re .»i <>ut three year- .nice ; I enjoy <1 my visit
very much.
• I enjoy reading very tiit.eh. but. like most ot
f ariu. : s dan rhters have to «<•;>.. -<» I try to»|«eiid
allot my spare time I Ii ive iu leading go-'d liooks.
I. f enjoy horseback tiding and have a nice pony
w mcii 1 rt>l« often.
W<ll. :l>e piei.i.-s and protracted imn ting- are
alnm-t over lor thi- sca-oti and school will sih.ii
Ih'';iii. 1 will I<• y,!id tor I like to go to Behool.
Tin- iriut and melons have ;s;eii very good here
t In- war.
! wish Kulie Lee. ol Pho-nix. Arizain*, would
■ write again; I liked her letter so w-dl.
■ ■
Ail! r.'V Koss. Troy. Ala.—l see so many of the
coi silis want tic Ih.v.» to write more, thoiiglil I
won <{ wute and an-w. r -mm- questions, tlieu ask
Ihe Ii: -I cotton gill was invented by Eli Wllit
n« y.
i lie l‘a< ii<e o-'eaii wa* dis. overed by Balboa.
« oliiu:t<us made four vrn'age* t<« tlcii w world.
Til'.- lir-t vie '-presidem u is John Adams.
Tlie founder <J Kii ale Island wa* Roger Wil
liam-.
Xaunie Brv m Howl - It you mean what nation
I lias it ■Mr -iige-t unlit try lore it i* Vuu rlci.
W I o «t.i>- v.i-i liiit. ti u<»vciuorot x ■ w \<>rk?
W ii did tin I rgiisli compior Xew V ofk?
Vi i.ere did sum <>t Hie Punt ms go when they
1« ft England?
Hu who*e laml was fold titst discovered?
V<• lon.i Ii 11* >'"t-. *.ii dy Bottom, X’. I am
pi.. •i : i.it •• i« •■ii'.intlu p ri- improv in,;
-O much. I like the Idea oi discus*mg different
subjects, and I do enjoy leading the inscriptive
letters.
'•l.ittle Granger.” write again. "Etil.e law,”
p m nit ami tell <i- m<.io ot Arizona and the
| |H <>ple Wlm 111 :• there.
I agree with tin- cousin about riding horseback.
It I- my ridel pie .sure. Vesterday, my broth-r
and I. rode up in Hie monntain- M.ier- it is cool
ami |i'. a-..t t and the Maier almost like lee. Most
ot our rid* iv ■* .'.ong tn.' I rvneh P.ioa.l river. W<•
p*B'.*<i several -m.ill islands, and one place an
aiei.ijic ..go. Along lh" way we saw several farms
•>. luriiati corn growing from tltteeu to twenty
kill. >om< time I will wute and tell you ail about
the moiinu’ii'* es Xorth < .ii'oli*i:i.
I wtl core by <i.-ik'i ing Uu cousins'questions:
i Vax o i; »l<.»i discovered the Paeilic oee.ui
from Hie -llli.mil "I t lie ■» Il les, Septenili. l 2G. 1513.
I'tie E'lglibii na.y is regarded Hie strongest in
tl.- woiid.
■ ■
Mary Bird, Magnolia, I la. \s I have never no
ticed a letter ir-.m tin- par’ <>! Hie -t.ite, with your
jH-rniissioii I will l e it- represent*'" though I lie a
very IHH.rolie. Most ot l!.v coil-ms have liiva it
• i me; th.'V have sceneries to dcser.tie, while
I only have a c-miitry larm, l.nt I appreciate the
honor ot iH'iiez a l.'.ru.er - .laiiginer . they have a
great many advantage-ovei people ol otlier busi
ne- the most ol lite's luxuries are prodiu ed
oi. the laim.
V. <■ have Ih'cii taking Tin' t'onstitutlon but the
p -t y cat,’'Ut i’ !i *s proven to In? mu o! our most
v.i lc tin- Visitors; it comes on Wednesday, and 1
| am u 'iii.y always lir-t to get it.
I ti.id .put' a miree . t pleasure in reading the
delight' ol la" ■ •.•-:rmn the cousins ami Jlr,
i l.itth I'liiml.i. linger'- s'ories.
Mell. I wtl .<o-e by telling you of my pot coon ;
: I *ad li.m Zip; l>«' is ju-t as cunning as can !>«■.
I <l. tiuit >u-ie, I would Ire glad to amuse you ior a
! While Willi hi-od.l w..y-.
< <>rr< -poioisuts solicited. .
Iteynolils liar Ti'.ino, Va.- Will yon mini it
al.'ts' • i.c .• : ■ :i< iHi" vour Ii <|>| y baud. I
live :--vo mi.es fn.in llie little village loam* in
.laliie-< ity Colli.ty. It u*eil to Im' called Burnt
<.h*tuiary .Is'eause th*' ordinary or tafern was
l.ui'.i during the revolutionary war. I live eigh
tcrii mile- f. "in . "a -t'. vii, ivn -re tiietir.t per
!• anrlll 1.:.. <• ■■ V " UH nl Ml is twel e
mil*-in.m \v illtamsi'Urg, the capital ol Virginia
In'iorv it uas removed : . Richhiond. ami twenty
four mile- to Yorktown, where t'orn walks su'r
rviidcnd to W i-lio gton.
So volt S' *' I hare very historic -nrrotilidiligs. |
ha wlmen to Jamestown and Williamsburg. In
my next letter I will describe my visit to Jamcs
to"zn.
M- father is a d.H/’or ami farmer. <Quantities <4
watermelon-, muskmelons, Irish potatoes ami
winter cal.bage are grown around ll*Te.
I woii d hkv for some «l the *'ousius to semi me
a rattlesnske’.-lattl*'. tor Whli'li 1 wili semi tea
lori-igii -tamp*: hr one o.ar eight years old I Will
send liitven stamps.
I impv thi* is not too long.
<'orrvsjM.udeiit* sol:cite*l- Age thirteen.
John M. Graham, f'oiiiier, Fla.—l quite agree
with >. Ila Xcsoiii. it.at V.lilt Siisiedeservvs ereill’.
forth** "teat improvinviit tiiat has t iken place in
the Voting I'olk-' Corner.
i Would like to tell Joanna Clark that I have
read "Joi n Halltax, "Gentleman,” and like it
very much.
I wa- glad to **'<• a letter ill the last Constitution
from <trace Roberts; would like to correspond
with li* r.
A- I live near Silver Spring, I will give a short
de-cripti.ui <d it ler the young piopbithal have
n* v* r **'cii it. Steamers run every day during the
want -r an.l part of Hl - spring carry lug touri*.*
up and down from Silv* r Spnims to Palatka.
You get «»n one of I lit*-te nner-at Silver Spring*
and start down at ih*- lo ad of th* - -prings; it is
aln.iitone Imndreil yards wide ami from iw'iitv
to seventy fwt <l'*'p, with -w imp on either h <ud
but Hie riv.-r gradii .By narrows th • farther dovvu
y.ui go.
Three or lour miles down tiio swamp gives way
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONt ATLANTA. GA.. MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 17, 1894.
to large prairies, and you can see a mile or two
down. A greener strip winding here and there
shows where the stream runs, while on the prai
rie* are flocks ot ducks, curlews, white cranes,
linikins, water turkeys, coots ami swtral otlier
kinds of water bird*.
The spring run is nine miles long, from thirty
five to lifty feet wide, ami twenty to seventy feet
deep. The water is of a slight t.liie color when
viewed Iron, the steamer's deck, but dear as crys
tal when dipped up, and the bottom c.ll aiong )<><>kh
like silver. Fishes and turtles of all <les< riptions
can be seen in the water, while occasionally an
alligator can he seen in the edge of t lie swamp.
I believe that it is the most lx*aiitii til stream on
the earth. There is an old Indian legend t h it. says
it is the fountain of perpetual youth which was
so diligently sought for py Ponce De Leon.
“TriXie,” Tuckerman, Ark.—Cousins, what do
you all tldlik about tob icco? I hear a great deal
said against liquor, but not. very much agam.-t to
bacco. Ithink tobacco is a great curse to maiikiml.
1 do not suppose there is any one that hates tobac
co any worse than I do. I put. tobacco users and
whisky drinkers in the same class; f would as
soon'lie a slave to the one r.s the other.
“ Chewing in the parlor.
Smoking in the street,
Choking with cigar smoke,
Every one you meet;
Spitting on the pavement,
Spitting on the floor—
Is there such enslavement?
Is there such a bore?”
Cousins did you ever think about what, is spent,
annually for two <>f the woild's greatest curses'.'
It is estimated that there is spent, every y< ar tor
tobacco .*<;imi.ih:o,o Hi; amt tor liquor s'.hk'.O'H'.'HHi,
making a total ol c*l,s(H\uOu,OOO, in the United
States alone.
Just think of it! One and a half billion dollars
spent.ever year tor tobacco and liquor Ami it
don’t do the people one bit ol good in the world.
On t he contrary, does them more harm than good.
<'h“mists, boianisfs ami physicians, unite m
pronouncing tobacco one of the most deailly poi
son* known. Ami that no other poison, with the
exi'eption of prussic acid, will cause death so
quickly; only three or tour minutes being re
quired tor a fata! dose to produce its full etlect.
It is e-iitnateil that a pound of tobacco contains
on an average, !.-*» grains of deadly poison, of
winch oue-tcuth of a grain will kill a dog in ten
minutes.
But as this is iny lir-t letter to the Young Folks
Corner, 1 goes* I belter not make it too .ong' lor
fear of that dreadful waste ba-k. t.
With best wishes 1< r Aunt busie, 1 bill you adieu.
"Lillie and Sallie,” Ingleton, Ala.—Allow two
jolly girls in your fascinating eir<'l<* tor a while,
unit we will fry t<> behave ourselves, nolwitli
standing the fact tint there is no dignity about us.
Eiilio Lev, we liked your m, <• letter. Write
often. J< nine la-e I’ainngcr, w« Plunk we would
like you because we are extl'cnjcly loud of read
ing.
1, Lillie, have read Julius <' esar and Romeo
ami Juliet, but don’t like Sli*kc-peate much. 1
am readtniiig Loiigtellow's poems now. Evange
line is so pretty.
Who wa* the boy who said girls were no ac
count? we would to shake hull. I'. G. Tender,
thunks toy. ti lo> coming so bravely to our rescac.
We will answer a l'"v questions:
Beef wa.- highest when the co.v jinnpcdover
the moon.
Eli V. hitney invented the cotton gin in 1793.
Balboa dis.-overed the I’.iclfie ocean.
t'olunibiis made lour subsequent voyages to the
new world.
Roger Williams founded Rhode Island.
John Adams was th. first vice president.
X’oah tint not want any middling meat in the
ark bee iii-c he was surrounded by beasts, thus
Ix'ing in Hie miihll*' ot meat
The iirst limiting press was set up in
'l'lie Boston .Xews J.et.t.'i' was tiic first paper,
published in 1701.
Now. we will let some one else answer awhile.
II Aunt Susie does not .object, we think it would
Im- interesting to drop history questions for
awhile ami dt-ens-some good subject.
W.'m.ti*'*'the same questions are ofb'ii asked
ami an-wered *" > r.
I n. lv Will, write ns a story.
AV here are King ami Clayton these days?
"Lively \ ouiig'iin, ’ you' nave a funny name.
Onr name* are "Lillie ami bailie.’’
Long live Thu f 'onsi itvtioii.
M imi S. Robert*, Gretna, I.a.- A* niv sister sub
si-ribv-lor I'iie < onstltution, ami there ire so
many interesting letters by tlie little folks, 1
thought I would write one too.
I live ill <.retn i, a very nice little town. We
have only to eros- the river to be in Hie < tty ot
Xew i trie <ns. W<* have a large bouse ami every
thing V* iv eon il ort < hie. A e have also a cow that
give* four gallons ot milk, ami I can milk her,
1 prefer tlie little vtllayc. Gridn.i, to <he large
city of X.'M Orleans. In Gretna everything is so
pretty; the vine, and tlowvr* aro all gre 'ii, ami
the birds are singing tlieir sweet notes all the d iy
long.
I have no pets except my little baby brother,
am! I.e i* tin- grciitest pet ol all.
I was thirteen year- old July 3ir.t, and we had a
hltie p.i"ty. It was a little l.bailv party, lor I had
no one el-e except my cousins.
We have three Sunday schools: Lutheran, Meth
odist amt Presbyterian"; I ami my sisters attend
the lat ter. There are a gre it many' more I'at holies
than Protestants, ami they have a nice, large
church.
Menza B. Grace. Citronelle. Fla. -We live .town
Here in the orange Uelt, but we have not a very
large grove nor very large ti'.vs yet. We live in
th' eoiit;:-. of ('lll'll-, twelve and a. half Hilles
from the Gulf ol Mexico. We live half a inileea-t
o! a little village vailed Citronelle. We live two
miles west of a very large scrub, in which there
ai-' a good many deer and a lew turkeys.
We nave a puolie scii jol, one church and saw
mill, d q«*t amt i -lor> amt a postolii :
1 will answer Ida Hodge'- qrte-llo.i:
In the battle ol Brandywine, Vermont.
I will also an-wer Win. T. Durham's question:
"It was called Thomas Jefferson.”
I Mill a-k a question: Wlio sent back the dis
patch, "We have met the enemy ami they are
o'iis." and to whom was it sent?
1 would like correspondents.
J tear Cousins: I write to the correspond
em-e for the first time, although 1 have*
written f'>r towr.il prizes.
\Ve live in the country about nine miles
from Wa -!iing’on, on alarm.
1 am going to i' ll yon all something that
hapjMriied one day tins week ilenry Itinns
an<l myself wtiii in .some large woods in
front of our house to get some flowers. I
nev«r thou ht of going when vre lirst left
f'oine. It was getting kit", for (he sun
wasn't over an hour and it half high when
we start. <l. We walk' d up and down a
branch, about a mile 1 suppose, hunting for
terns and other wild Howers when 1 discov
er'd it was dripping lain. I was so confi
dent that I knew the way home I never no
lit ed the way war came. Before w had
gone tiny distance, scarcely, n commenced
raining very hal’d. After we had gone some
distance, I knew we were lost. I couldn’t see
any sun to fell me wiiieih was north, east,
smith or west. 1 had to walk very slow on
Henry’s account, lie is abo.tt ten years of
age ami has a very sore loot, lie is first
cousin of mine. We walked on and on un
til we came aeries a path and road. We
didn’t know which to take, but our two
dogs were with us amt they followed the
path ami so <ll*l we, but we soon lost it.
All this time it v..is pouring down rain
ami we were vet to the skin, but I knew it
Would never do to stop, for 1 didn't want
to stay in the woods ail night. 1 don't know
what I woitl'i have done if it hadn’t Im-* n
for tlie <logs’ I'oinp'iny. if not to help us
liml the way home, but they did help. Fin
ally it quit ruining and the clouds wore
clearing off. We had better hope after
that. XII of a smhien we saw some houses
not far off. Henry was a little ways be
hind me an<l I had to wait for him. XX'e
hurried on as fast as possible. I thought
I would go to the house we saw and get
some one to carry us home. I saw a large
oak tree, tall, r than tin l others, an<l thought
it was familiar, but wasn’t certain. We
soon found out it was home, and you can
imagine our joy. I felt like 1 never wanted
to leave imine again. We hail to tell them
all about it at home. They laughed about
it a great ileal. After we had put on dry
clothes and had suptwr we felt Iwtter. I
never forgot the 'hers, if they were hounds,
for I generally dislike them.
Tim <’nnstitullon Jr. is very interesting-T
think, ami I hope all the rest of you think
the same Huth Barrett.
Why Is Dr. Price’s Baking Powder the
most economical? Because Its superior
leavening strength expedites cooking and
saves lime and money.
Jetlge AAiixein’s Proverb*.
From The Detroit Free Press.
“In God we trust” is the only safe trust
a. stat* anan kin hav ennything to do with.
When a statesman wunst gits started
rung he seams to forgit the way back.
V* r<’her is its oan reward, but sum con
gressmen don't se'im to keer much auuut
claimin the reward.
The tairiff <s a good deel uv a pig in a
poke.
Es thar wiiz a pennalty on law makin as
that’ is on l.iw brakln it might be better for
the country.
Libi.crty is sweet but it ain’t sweetened
with shiiger.
Fr< dom uv speach oughtent to incan an
arky uv languidgc.
One drop uv corrupshun will spile a buck
etful uv pollitlcks.
This great ami glorytts republick uv ourn
halnt got no use fer partisan pollitlcks after
a campane is over.
It WtiN Xol the Huron.
Berlin, September 11.- It was M. X’ietor
Erlanger, a. brother of Baron Erlanger, the
great hanker of Paris ami Frankfort, who
died in Vienna, and not the baron, as staled
yesterday.
TWO DAYS IN THE LIFE OF PICCINO
BY FRANCIS HODGSON BURNETT.
(Copyright, IS9I, by the Author.)
CHAPTER I.
Ts ho lived a hundred years—to be as old
as Gufseppe, who was little Roberto’s great
grandfather, and could only move when
he was helped and sat in the sun and played
with bits of string— if he lived to be as old'
as that, he couM never forget them, those
two strange and dreadful days.
Wh*’n sometimes he spoke of them to such
of his playmates as were older than himself,
especially to Carlo, who tended sheep and
was afraid of nothing, even making jokes
about the forestieri—they said they thought
he had been very foolish—that as !t seemed
that if the people had been ready to give
him anything it could not have been so bad,
but one could have tried to bear it. though
they till agreed that it was dreadful about
the water.
It is true, too, that as he grew older him
self, after his mother died ami his father
married again, tlie big Paula, who tlewr into
such rages and beat him; mid when he had
to tend sheep and goats himself ami stay
out on the hills all day in such ragged
jackets and with so little food because
Paula said he had not earned his salt, and
she had her own children to feed, then he
longed for some of the food he would not
eat during those two days and wondered if
he would do quite the same thing again
under the same cireumstancs. But this was
only when lie was very hungry and the
mistral was blowing and the Mediterranean
looked gray instead ot blue.
He was such a tiny fellow when it hap
pened. He was not yet six years old, and
win n a child is under six he has not reach
ed the age when human er "attires have be
gun to face life for themselves altogether,
and even a little Italian peasant who tum
bles about among sheep ami donkeys which
form part of his domestic circle is still
in a measure a sort of baby, whose mother
or brother or sister has to keep an occa
sional eye on him to see that he does not
kill himself. And then, also, Piccino had
been regarded by his family as a sort of
capital, and had consequently had more at
tention paid to him than he would have had
under ordinal v circumstances.
It vas like this. He was so pretty—*o
wonderfully pretty. Bis brothers anti sis
ters wore not beauties, but he was a beauty
from his first day, ami with every day that
passed he grew prettier. When he was so
tiny that he was packed about like a bundle
wound up in unattractive looking bandages
tor '
,7; 17 77 77;
I
Ho Went ami Showeed Them to the Donkey.
he ha<l alr' iuly begun to show what his .
<-y ( '.s wet*' .going Io b- his inimeps.' sott j
black eyes with lashes which promised to be '
velvet fringes. And as soon as ills hair
began to show itself it was lovely silk,
which lay in rings one over the other on his
beautiful ll'fq round head. Then his soft
cheeks an i <’ tn were of exquisite rouml
inss. and j. each In had a deep dimple
wni'ii came'and went as he laughed.
lie was always being looked at ami prais
ed. A “Gesu Bambino,” tlie peasant wo
men called him. That was what they al
ways said when a child had wonderful
beauty - the idea of supreme child lov<di
ness being tounded on the pictures ami
waxen, richly dressed figures they saw in
the churches.
But it was the fores’ticri who admired him
nio-t, ami that was why he was so valuable.
His family lived near a strange little old
city in tlie hius which spread out behind
one ot tlie fashionable seaside towns on the
Italian Riviera. Tile strange little old city
which was a relic or centuries gone by was
one of the places the rich foreigners made
excursions to see. It was a two or three
hours’ drive from tlie fashionable resort,
and these gay rich people who seem*'d to
do nothing but enjoy themselves, used to
form parlies and drive in carriages up tlie
road which wound its way up from the
shore through tile olive vi.’i' yards and ba- k
into the hills. It. was their habit to bring •
servant.-' with them and hampers of wonder- *
ful things to cal which would be unpacked
by tlie servants and spread on white, cloths ■
oil tin* grass in some spot shaded by tlie i
trees. Tiien they would eat ami mink wine I
and laugh and afterwards wander about •
and explore tin- old city of Ceriani ami se tn j
to find the queer houses and the inhabi- |
tants ami everything about it interesting. I
To tlie children of Ceriani ami its out- :
skirts, these excursion parties were de- ,
lightful festivities. When they heard of ■
the approach of one they gathered thetn- ;
selves together and went forth to search ‘
for its encampment. XX hen they had found |
it they calmly seated thi'tnselves in rows ;
quite near and watched it as if it were ;
a kind of theatrical entertah ment to which j
they had paid admission. They were all
accomplished in tlie art of begging, and i
they knew, that tlie forestieri always had i
plenty of small change and would give. I
either through goo.l nature or to avoid 1
b- ing annoyed. Then they knew from ex
perience that the tilings that were not
eaten were never repacked into the hampers
if there was some one to ask for them.
So they kept their places quite cheerfully
anu looked on at the festivities and talked
to each other and showed their while teeth,
quite amiably, sure of reaping a pleasant
harvest before the callages drove back
again down tlie winding road ending at
tlie sea and San Remo and tile white many
ba h onied hotels.
And it was through these excursion par
ties that I’iceiuo‘s market value was dis
covered. Wlien he was a b by and lilt
sister Maria, who was ills nurse, being
detcruiined not to be left behind by her
coinraaes, tolled after trie rest or the
children with her little burden in 11* r
arms or over her shoulder, it was observed
that tile forestieri always saw the pr tty
round black baby head and big, soft dark
eyes before they saw anything else, and
tl.eir attention, once attracted by Ficclno,
very pleasant things were often the re
sult. The whole party got more cakes an I
sandwiches and legs of chickens ami backs
of little birds, ami when bits of silver
were given to Marla for l*iccino. Mailt
herself sometimes even had whole francs
given to her because it was she who was
his sister ami took care of him. And then
having begun giving, tlie good-natured ones
among the party of ladies ami gentlemen
did not like to quite neglect the other chil
dren, ami so scattered soldi among them,
so that sometimes they all returned to
('criani feeling that they had done a good
day’s work. Their idea of a good day s
work was one when they had not run
after carriages for nothing or had heads
shaken at them when they held out their
hands and called imploringly: ”Uno, soldi
no. bella signora—b. Ila signora!” ricein i
had been born of one of the class which
in its childhood and often even later never
fails in flic belief that the English and
Americans who come to the beautiful
Riviera come there to be begged from or
in seme way beguiled out of their small
coin.
Maria was a sharp child. Fhe had not
lugged her little brothers and sisters about
all through the working time of her twelve
years without learning a few things. She
very soon found out what it was that
brought in the soldi and the nice scraps
from the hampers.
"It is Piccino they give things to —Ecco,”
she said, "They see his eyes and they want
to look at him and touch his cheeks. They
like to see the dimples come when he
laughs. The)- would look at me like that
—or at you, Cartncla. They would not come
near us.”
This was quite true. The row of little
spectators watching the picnics, might be
picturesque but It was exceedingly dirty
and not made up of the material it is quite
safe to conic near. It was a belief current
among the parties who drove up from San
Remo that soap lied never been heard of
in the vicinity of Ceriani. and that water
was avoided as a poisonous element, and
this belief was not founded upon mere
nothings.
“They ate as dirty as they are cheerful
and impudent,” some one hail said, “ami
that is saying a great deal. I wonder what
would hapjien if one of them were caught
and washed all over.”
Nobody could have been dirtier than Pic
cino was. Pretty as he look"d there were
days when the most enthusiastic of the
ladies dare not have taken him in her arms.
In fact, there were very few days when
any one would have liked to go quite that
• far- or any further, indeed, than looking at
his velvet eyes and throwing him soldi and
cakes, and the older he grew the more he
gained, so that not only Maria and her com
panions, but his mother herself began to
look upon him as a source of revenue.
"If he can only sing when he grows a
little ol<ler,” his mother said, "he can fill
his pockets full by going and singing before
the hotels and in the gardens of the vil
las. Every one will give him something.
They tire a queer lot, these foreigners, who
are willing to give good money to a child
because he has long eyelashes. His are
long enough, thanks to tlie Virgin. Some
times 1 winder they are not in his way.”
His mother was the poorest of tlie poor.
She had seven children ami a mere hovel to
put them in and nothing to feed and clothe
them with. Iler husband was a good-for
nothing who never worked if he could help
it and who, if lie earned a few soldi, got rid
of them at one- before they could be scold
ed out of him and spent on such extrava
gances as food and tire. If Piccino had
m.t been a little Italian peasant lie would
mi doubt hav * starved to death er di.' l «>f
cold long before his adventure; but on the
Riviera tlie sun shines and tlie air is soft,
ami people se> ci but n with a sort of guy
carelessness of most things tiiat trouble tile
serious world.
As for i’iccinu, he was as li.ippy as a soft
little rabbit or a young bird *.r a baby
fawn. When he was old enough lo tun
about he had the most beautiful days Uiey
s.-eined to him to b • mad*- up of warm sun
shine and warm grass, Howers loaning at
him as he toddled around, light llternig
through vines and the branch's of olive
trees, nice bla -K bread ami tigs, w i.cli lie
lay on his back and munched delightedly,
and days when Maria dragged him along
Hie road to soine green place where g.aml
p< ople sat and ate good things, end who
afterward gave him cakes anil delicious
little uoi.es and soldi, saying over an I over
again to eacii oi'n r that iie was the pret
tiest little boy they had ever seen ami bad
tlie must beautiful eyes, and, oil, a s eye
lashes!
"Look at his eyelashes’” tney would ex
claim; ’ tliey are as *ni. k as rushes around
a pool, ami tliey must >e half an it on long."
Sometimes Fiv ino t.ot :ai i-.t tired cf his
eyelashes and wore a resigned expression;
but li.- Mas little Italian enough to feel tiiat
tliey must 1>" rather a good tiling, as they
brought some luck. Once, indeed, a man
came all by himself to Ceriani ami persuad
ed his mother to make him sit on a stone
while lie put him in a picture, and when it
was over lie gave his mother several francs,
ami she was delighted; bitt Piccino was
not so pleased, because he had thought it
rather tiresome to sit so long on oinv stone.
Tills was tiie year before the dreadful two
days came.
When they came lie bid been put into
queer littie trousers which were much too
big for him. Otm of his brothers laid out
grown them and given t.'iein good wear.
They were, in fact, as ragged .is they were
big and as dirty as tliey were ragged; but
Piccino was very proud of them. He went
and showed them to the donkey wtiiose
tumble-down sic fiing apartment was next
to his cwr. and «i-i was ins favorite play
mate ami companion. It was s*i.'h a little
donkey but such a good one. it could carry
a burden alim.st as big as its :'» ibl", riid It
had soft, furry ears am! soft, .terr sides,
ami eyes ami eyelashes as pretty for a ecn
key as Piccino’s w. re fur a hoy. it was
nearly always at work, but when it was at
liome Piccino was nearly always with it.
On wet ami cold days he stayed with it in
its tiny broken stable, playing ami talking
to it, and many a day lie had fallen asleep
with his curly head on its warm iittie fuzzy
side. XYh-'n it was tine they strolled about
together and were companions, the donkey
cropping the grass ami Piccino pretending
it was a little flock of sheep and that lie
was big enough to be a shepherd. In the
middle of the night he use I to like to waken
ami hear it move and make little sounds.
It was so close to him that he felt as if
they slept together.
So he went to show It h's trousers, of
course.
"Now I am a man.” he said; and he stood
close by its head, and the two pairs of lus
trous eyes looked affectionately into each
Other.
After that they sauntered out together
into Hie beautiful early morning. When
Piccino was with the donkey lus mother
ami Maria knew he was quite safe, and so
was the donkey; so they were allowed to
ramble about. Tlmy never went far. it Is
true. Piccino was too little, and. besides,
tivre W' re such nice little ramnles quite
near. This time was *h" loveliest of -ill the
year. Tile sun was sweetly warm, but not
h>>*. an I there were moinones and flaming
wild tulips in the grass.
Piccino did not know how long 'they were
out together before Maria came to find
them. The donkey had •• beautiful break
fast, ami Piccino ate 'his piece of black
bread without anything to add to its flavor,
because his mother was at the time in
great trouble and v*-ry poor, and there was
scarcely th* l broad itself to eat. Pieclno
todfll I along quite peacefully, however,
ami when ho cnnie upon a space where
there were red and yellow tulips swaying
in Hie air he ! roke off a fine handful,
ami when tlie donkey lay down he sat bv it
ami began to stick the lieautifiil. flaring
things round his hr t as he had seen Maria,
stick things round hers. It was a torn, soft
felt hat. with a pointed crown and a broad
rim. ami when he put It on again with its
adornrient of red and yellow flowers stick
ing up and down and falling on his soft,
thick curls, he was a strangely beautiful
little tiling to see and so like a picture that
he scarcely seemed like a real child at all.
but like a lovely, fantastic little being some
artist had arranged to put on canvas.
He was sitting tn this way, looking out to
where he could see a bit of blue sea through
a break in the hills, when Maria came run
ning toward him.
"The donkey!” she cried; "the donkey!”
She had been crying and looked excited
and took him by the hand, dragging him
toward home. His legs were so short and
he was so little that it always seemed as
if she dragged him. She was an excitable
child and always went fast when she hati
an object in view. Piccino was used to ex
ctt“mcnt. The all shouted and screamed
and gesticulated at each other wii-n any
trifling thing happened. His mother and
her neighbors were given to tears and crie.s
and loud ejaculations upon the slightest
provocations, as ail Italian peasants are;
so he saw nothing unu-'jal in Maria’s com
in-' upon him like a whirlwind and ex
claiming disjointedly with tears He won
fl* red, however, what the donk« could
have to do with it; and, evidently, the don
key wondered, too. for she got up and trot
ted after them flown tno road.
But when they reached the house It was
very plAin that th« thing which# had oc
curred was not a trifle or usual.
(To be Continued.)
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Meridian, Miss., September 14.—(SneclaJ.)
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made his escape, surrendered yesterday to
Sheriff Dorah, of Macon, Miss. He was
brought to this city last night and placed
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