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EDITORIAL. GLIMPSES.
Arkansas plantation laborers went
on a strike and ball and powder bad
to be used to subdue them. All quiet
now. They were Knights of Labor.
The Czar.—In his warlike move
ments the Russian Czar openly and
boldly denounces the treaty of Ber-
I lin. He will find himself in a desper-
[ ate strait, if the powers shall become
partizans iof Austria in the light
[which he is so unnecessarily seeking.
Paul Hayne.—Such extensive no
tices and eulogies of Mr. Hayne and
liis works, have been made in the
papers in this State and South Caro
lina, that it is unnecessary for us to
enlarge at much length upon his his
tory, character and fame. His death
removes from our section the most
widely known poet to our people, es
pecially those of Georgia and South
Carolina, and the best known of the
men of letters, except William Gil
more Sims' of South Carolina, whose
many works in history, poetry and
novel, places him in the first ranks.
We need not allude to Mr. Hayne's
family connections further than to
say he belonged to that eminent fam
ily of Haynes, who were so distin
guished in South Carolina—among
them Governor Robert Y. Hayne who,
in the memorable days of nullifica
tion, as a Senator from South Caroli
na. measured swords with Daniel
Webster, with such distinguished elo
quence and power as to have been
deemed the victor, by some able crit
ics, in that celebrated Senatorial con
test.
Mr. Paul Hayne’s father was a Lieu
tenant in the United States Navy and
died while on duty at Pensacola. The
subject of our notice was born in
January, 1831. He was a close stu
dent and received a finished educa
tion at Charleston College. The
Charleston News & Courier, says:
“The years just preceding the war
constituted an important period in the
future poet's literary development.
In the congenial society of such men
as his fellow-poet, Timrod; the ac-
ttomplished scholar and writer, Dr.
Samuel Henry Dickson, and the vet
eran literateur, William Gilmore
Sims, the foundation was laid of that
classic taste, that love for old English
literature, that study of the Elizabeth
an writers, that wide and varied ac
quisition, that passion for the sea and
shore and sky, which is so manifest in
much of Mr. Hayne’s poetry.”'
Mr. Hayne was at one time the editor
of Russell’s Magazine. His earliest ver
ses were issued in this literary paper,
and were continued in the Southern
Literary Messenger published by Mr.
John R. Thompson at Richmond Va.
In 1854 his first volume of poems were
issued bv Ticknor & Co., when he was
his 24th year. He had a competence,
,at it was dissipated by the war, and
vhen it was over he moved to the pine
barrens in Georgia, and at a place
■ which he named Copse Hill, he
oassed the remaining years of his life.
[His health for a number of years was
lelicate but he bravely continued his
Intellectual labors.
The paper referred to says:
“In 1873 he brought out an edition
r his friend Henry Timrod's poems,
f’companied by one of the most pa-
etic memorials that the literature
our iand furnishes. Just before
is he had put to press his own fourth
Jume of poems, which met with
jer and more instant recognition
an any of his former ones. “Tim
e's Life and Remains” proyed
very popular, and speedily went
a third edition. In 1875 “The
untain of the Lovers and Other
lems” was issued, and had a more
ttering reception—especially in the
sorth—than any of his previous
vorks. This is the latest of Mr.
.ayne’s printed collections. The
larpers have in manuscript, we be-
«ve, a Life, by him of Gilmore
; mms: and a few years ago he pub-
slied in Charleston, “Memorial
sketches of Legare and Robert Y.
lavne.” Besides these, he has con
futed unceasingly to the best
Jonthliesof the day—The-Atlantic,
I he Century, Harper's, Lippincott’s,
je Bivouac and others.
Many short pieces of Mr. Hayne s
ve been published in the papers of
‘orgia and were always read with
^asure by those who saw them,
ch pieces can convey no just idea
v ,he poet’s power. The true test is
,-Vid in the reception given to bis
ngs which caused him to issue
or five volumes of his poetical
tc Mr. Hayne was a finished
ar and*a noble specimen of the
mdlofty gentleman. The Hayne
in iugusta will miss him in
feocial gatherings. But his pure
honorable race is run. It was
ly closed and with all the last
rs that affection could pay him,
s’laid away to a peaceful rest.
Fa
The Houghton Institute.
We are pleased to notice from the
accounts given in the Augusta papers
that this popular Institution of learn
ing in that city has more than sustain
ed its reputation in its recent exami
nation, running through nearly a
week. The Augusta Chronicle says:
“The examination of the Houghton
Institute demonstrates the thorough
training of the children that attended
that institution. The city should be
proud that it sustains a school that
teaches three hundred children with
the thoroughness that Prof. Shecut
and his corps of efficient assistants
give to their work. The standard to
which the children are brought is
simply wonderful. The short time
that The Chronicle's representative
was present he became deeply im
pressed w ith the whole school, and es
pecially with Miss Foster’s history
class. The bright little boys narrated
the events .of rhe war perfectly. Quite
an audience was present and seemed
much pleased with the most excellent
examination of all the children. The
school is one of the most thorough,
and the city has just right to feel
proud of it. The graduating class is
taught by the principal, who is assist
ed in the* other classes by Misses Eve,
Foster, Puryear, Phillips, Parmalee,
Schinuer, McDonald, Prof. Pelot, and
Miss Maggie Duffy. The calisthenic
department is presided over by Miss
Maggie Duffy, and it is wonderful the
good that this young lady lias ac
complished at the Houghton Insti
tute. We feel assured that if the
Council committee will visit that in
stitution they would pay Miss Duffy
more and would feel proud of father
ing such a competent corps of teach
ers.
At the conclusion of the exercises
the children were addressed in a hap
py style by T. R. Gibson, Esq., M. M.
Hill, William Jacobs and S. P. Weisi-
ger.
Prof. Sliecut's class is carried to a
very high standard as showed in their
examination of chemistry and phys
ics. The examinations were unusual
ly thorough.
* The calisthenic exercises conducted
by Miss Duffy delighted the entire au
dience, and were executed with a re
markable exactness.”
A little slip containing the distribu
tion of the honors became misplaced,
but we found a notice of them in that
excellent paper, the Evening News, as
follows:
In the girls’ graduating class the
first honor and Pelot scholarship was
won by Annie Piper, and the first
honor in the male department was
won by Percy Jacobs. The prize for
the second division of the high school
was won by Miss Ella Jones.
In the grammar department—girls
—Miss Jennie Garret, 1st honor ; A.
Piper, A. Newman, H. Woodberry, B.
Levy, 2nd honor; B. Thompson, E.
Sale", W. Luquire, 3d honor; boys—
J. C. McKie, 1st honor ; A. Quinn, J.
C. Schroder, Jno. W. Murray, Moise
Blum, 2d honor; Theo Oetjen, E.
Bigelow, A. S. Campbell, J. Pierson,
3d honor.
In the Intermediate School, girls—
Willie Puryear, 1st honor ; W. Camp
bell, E. Redfern, C. Vandiver, J. Hub
bard, K. Kunze, C. Youngblood, A.
Oswald, E. Thompson, M. Staples, 2d
honor; boys—J. R. Youngblood, W.
Prescott, L. C. Shecut, M. Jacobs, 1st
honor; R. Hankinsoh, W. Sommers,
2nd honor. ...
In the Primary School, girls—Dickie
Puryear, 1st honor; H. Wheeler, 2d
honor; G. Thomas, 3d; D. Malone,
4th; G. Pierson, 5th, and C. Cunning
ham, Gth honor; boys—W. Gambri!,
1st honor; B. Hightower, 2nd; C.
Stafford, 3d; A. Brooker, 4th, and J.
Campbell, 5th honor.
We must do partial justice to the
whole exhibition which the Evening
News says “is pronounced by compe
tent critics to be^the best school exhi
bition ever given in Augusta.” The
Principal, Mr. Shecut, has, for years
past, prepared original dramas exhib
ited by young amateurs of his school.
The impression made by this last one,
“The Seaside Mystery,” was so well
received that, by request, it was to
be repeated Thursday afternoon, at a
matinee with, also, the calisthenic ex
ercises. If Mr. Shecut should contin
ue the preparation of his beautiful
dramas for a few years more they
would make an interesting collection
for publication in book form, that
would find a ready sale and be a
source of profit to him. He deserves
great credit for undergoing the intel
lectual labor to -which their prepara
tion subjects him. The authorities
know too, well the value of his ser
vices and those of his able and accom
plished assistants to permit them to
retire.
As the country grows older the de
mand for nuts steadily increases, while
the supply grows less. In some pla
ces groves of chesnut and hickory left
by chance have proved the most prof
itable portion of the farm, from the
mnual nut crop. It is entirely practi
cable to plant treeslor the nuts where
land is not very expensive and is suited
to them. The "vvoodof chestnut and
second growth hickory is very valua
ble. Under proper care chestnut trees
will begin to bear almost as soon as
apple trees.
The best time to kill a weed is as
soon as it appears above the surface.
A slight brush with a garden rake or
in the field with a smoothing harrow
will destroy weeds at this early stage;
but if allowed to grow a few days,
heavier implements must be used.
Volume LVII. ,>-t Milledgeville, Ga., July 20, 1886.
THE Mil & REAMS,
Published Weekly iu Milledgeville,Ga.,
BY BARNES & MOORE.
Number 2.
Personal and General.
Congressman Crisp has' received
more than enough delegates pledged
to Ills support to insure his re-elec
tion.
The people, of the Tenth Congres
sional District, seem to be unanimous
for the Hon. George T. Barnes. No
man could be more faithful to their
interests.
Vetoing Pensions.—Mr. Cleveland
is right. He investigates the claims
of the pensioners and vetoes such as
are Iraudulent. The people North
and South will sustain him.
We hope the Tubman bequest will
not, in an issue between the City
Council and Richmond Academy trus
tees, be absorbed in lawyers' fees. It
looks that way.—Augusta Chronicle.
Mr. Gladstone is Defeated.—
We had no reason to expect a differ
ent result with the continuous reports
of tlie success of his opponents. He
remained steadfast in purpose to do
justice to Ireland and we have no
doubt that the policy indicated by him
will triumph sooner or later.
Fitz John Porter.—Since his ac
quittal the President has approved the
action of congress, and nominated
him to be Colonel in the army of the
United States, to rank as such from
May 14, 1861, that being the grade in
rank held by him at tlie time of his
dismissal from the army.
Mr. Paul H. Hayne.—Mr. Hayne
lived long enough to enroll his name
on the scroll of fame as a poetical
writer. The people among whom he
lived admired him for his many vir
tues as well as his poetical talents,
and are conferring every honor upon
him, now that he is called away in the
meridian of his fame.
Mr. R. A. Odom who resides near
Dublin, says the Gazette, is success
fully growing the tea plant. Some
seed were sent by Hon. Jas. H.
Blount to the county some years ago,
from which Mr. Odom secured the
plants. The plants this year bore
seed, and he will divide them with
those desiring to enter upon the cul
ture. Mr. Odom uses the tea on his
table and it is said it cannot be told
from the imported tea. Why may not
this be made a profitable crop for the
farmers of this section?
The Augusta Chronicle says : It has
been so hot in the Northwest that
people in one Iowa town took to their
cellars and let their tongues hang out.
Washington Solons may look out for
that wave.
What a climate! Hot enough to
make the tongue hang out in sum
mer, and cold enough for a Scandina
vian “Shed” in winter. Quit it and
come South, where we never have the
“onhorridest” feather that freezes or
melts them up there. At Washington
Senator Butler, it is said, has been so
struck by the hot wave, as to lose all
fastidiousness. Larner, of the Balti
more Sun, says he now enters the
Senate in a long, flowing linen duster.
The State and Public Schools.
—Many sections of Georgia appreci
ate the benefits of an effective public
school system. The people in these
sections—notably in some of the more
progressive cities and towns—have
taken the matter in hand under the
provisions of our school laws, and
have done what should be done in
every county of the State—they have
taxed themselves to maintain first-
class public schools for at least nine
months in the vear.
This is a good time for this subject
to be discussed. There is nothing that
is needed so much as a thorough pub
lic school system, and as most of the
counties seem to feel a delicacy in
taxing themselves to maintain such a
system the State should step in and
increase the public school term imme
diately on the assembling of the Gen
eral Assembly to at least six months
in the year, and levy a tax sufficient
to pay the additional expense.
There is no tax that can be so easily
paid as a school tax, and there is
none that would tend so much to ben
efit the people, develop the resources,
and extend the influence of the State.
Ignorance is no longer considered to
be bliss, but is esteemed a misfortune
of near akin to crime, for it leads al
most inevitably to degradation and
crime. The educational wants of
Georgia are now not only very great
but peculiarly pressing. The peace
and safety of society and the security
of the commonwealth in the future
can onlv be assured by the thorough
education of the children of the rising
generation. The people would hard
ly feel a tax of one mill on the dollar,
but such a tax would go far towards
giving Georgia a creditable public
school system.—Sav. News.
At three feet apart each way there
are 4,890 hills on- aq acre. Potatoes
yielding only one bushel to every thir
ty hills would give upwards of 160
bushels per acre. That this is much
above the average crop even in good
years shows how great are the possi
bilities for improvement in potato
growing. _
JDeleefalave Purifies the Ureath.
•A fetid breath is greatly to be de
plored; almost every one shrinks from
a near approach to one thus affected.
The habitual use of Deleetalave pur
ifies the breath, heals the gums, pre
vents the accumulation of tartar on
the teeth, and makes the mouth
sweet and clean.
For sale in Milledgeville, by C. L.
Case,Druggist.
Washington Letter,
From Onr Regular Correspondent.
Washington, July 12, 1886.
The Republicans in Congress are
trying very hard to make political
capital against the President on ac
count of his pension vetoes. But the
vetoes are too well supported by facts
and common sense to furnish materi
al for partisan appeals. It was to be
expected however, that the private
pension gift Senators and Representa-
tatives would grow Vvrathy as the kind
of work they were engaged in was
brought to light. The failure of their
little schemes together with their ex
posure incited them to a reckless
pitch of determination to secure the
adoption of these bills anyhow,
though there is little prospect of their
success.
The Democratic leaders are resolv
ed to stay here all summer, as one of
them said, before abandoning their
position in the matter. But the Re
publicans have proposed a compro
mise which will probably be accepted.
Under its terms two hours will bq al
lowed for debate upon such of the ve
toed bills as may be selected, and at
the expiration of the time an aye and
nay vote will be taken the result of
which is to be regarded final as to the
other vetoes.
The report of the Senate Pension
Committee upon the vetoed bills, was
little more than a long and ill-con
cealed howl of baffled rage. It even
accused the President of casting a
slur upon the chastity of a woman
and of sneering at wounds received in
the service of the country. But so
many of these private measures are
obviously without merit, and mere
attempts to bestow gratuities upon
favored persons who have no real
claim upon the bounty of the Gov
ernment, that the President’s action
will be more applauded the more at
tention is called to the grounds upon
which it is based.
The Republicans of the House of
Representatives made speeches upon
this issue that were intended to be
very severe upon the President, but
they were more plainly bids for polit
ical support than evidence of patrio
tism. They proceeded upon the as*
sumption that the vetoes of private
pension bills are unpopular and will
not be sustained by public sentiment.
One answer made by Representative
Matson to some of their complaints
was interesting. * He called attention
to the fact that many of the cases re
jected by Mr. Cleveland had already
been vetoed by a Republican Com
missioner of Pensions. The rejection
by the Senate of Mr. Goode to be
Solicitor-General was the subject of
much discussion at the Capitol on
Saturday. The unanimous verdict
was that the opposition all centered
in Senator Mahone, and the vote of
the Republican Senators was their
way of helping the thwarted, schem
ing little politician to assert himself
in Virginia. As no Democrat oppos
ed the nomination, many Congress
men think the proper thing for the
President to do would be to renominate
Mr. Goode. He might have done this
if the Senate had merely neglected to
confirm, but since the Senate had re
jected, he will not be likely to renom
inate.
The Senators were determined to
have Mr. ; Goode’s case all to them
selves, for when it came up they held
a strictly Star Chamber Session last
ing six hours. The Sergeant at Arms
visited the floor on which the galler-
leries, the document and a large num
ber of Committee rooms are located,
and ordered the employes and visitors
to vacate These rooms were locked
and then the correspondents, tele
graph operators, and representatives
of the Associated Press were driven
out of their portion of the building.
Deep and loud complaints were heard
on all sides at being so summarily or
dered away from posts of duty, and
much inconvenience was experienced
by the sudden ejectment, but all had
to go. Sentinels were placed at the
stairways and doors leading to the
galleries which had to be left open in
order to prevent the Senators from
suffocating.
The new broom of this Administra
tion is sweeping clean everywhere.
The expenditures of the Government
Departments here have been found
to be $22,500,000 less during the fiscal
year just past than in the one preced
ing it, and better results may be ex
pected for the fiscal year which has
begun.
By the persistencv of several Demo
crats in the House of Representatives,
the latest attempted Salary grab has
just been averted. I allude to the
gratuity to House and Senate em
ployes who are paid liberal salaries
for easy work on less than half time.
It had .been agreed to give them a
month’s extra pay because they would
like to have it, but Representatives
Reagan of Texas, Price of Wis.,
Hemphill of S. C., McAdoo of N.* J.,
Holman of Ind. and others emphasiz
ed their disapproval of the theft in
such a manner as to defeat it. The
scheme would have extorted at least
$200,000 from the taxpayers to be giv
en as a gratuity to men who were al
ready receiving liigh salaries.
The manager of the Fort Wayne,
Ind., Gazette, Mr. B. M. Holman,
says he has often read of the wonder
ful cures affected by St. Jacobs Oil.
Recently he sprained his ankle and
invested in a cane and a bottle of St.
Jacobs Oil. The latter proved tlie
better investment, as it entirely cur
ed his ankle.
Written tor the Courier-Journal.
THE BARD OF MOBILE BAY
BY HETTIE A. KAKRAR.
In orange groves the birds will pour
A sweet enchanting straip,
And poets sing, as oft before,
The old yet sad refrain.
A million hearts will throb to-night
Beneath a southern sky,
And tears will glisten strangely bright
In many a patriot’s eye;
For Mobile’s bard will sweep no more
His lyre so pure and free,
Whose silver chords vibrated o'er
‘•The Sword of Robert Lee.”
He'll furl no more the “stars and bars"—
So more will see them wave,
Like them he rests beneath the stars
Within a cherished grave.
The white rose, round his tomb will cling
And bloom above £is head.
Which taught liis poet soul to sing
The blest, the early dead.
Its dewv leaves in memory's urn
Will blossom many a year.
And many a poet’s spirit turn'
To find on it a tear.
The hand which woke the silent lute
Will sweep its strings no more;
The lips which praised in song are mute
On Mobile's lovely shore.
But o'er its placid water's gleam
The light of bv-goue years.
While drifting now o’er memory’s stream
We reach the lake of tears.
In dreams upon its shores unfurled
We see “that banner” wave,
While forms from oat the spirit world
ray tribute to his grave.
Marshalling there in bright array
Departed heroes come;
We fanev those who wore the gray
Now hear their beatiDg drum.
And in the line of ghostly forms
A noble face we see,
Which everv Southern spirit warms,
Tlie face of General Lee.
While echoes of a far-off strain •
Upon the waters play;
It is the old, the sweet refrain
Of the Bard of Mobile Bay.
Corsicana, Tex.
BILL ARP.
He and Mrs. Arp Celebrate their
Birthdays.
THE CHILDREN AND NEIGHBORS JOIN
IN AND PLEASANT MEMORIES ARE
RECALLED—MR. ARP IS NOT
TOO OLD TO STRUT AROUND
AND PUT ON AIRS—MR.
ARP IN A STATE OP
“SWEET HUMILITY”.
We are having some birthdays now
for Mrs. Arp and I are both June
bugs. That is to say I am a bug and
she is a butterfly I reckon. I won’t
call her a bug though she does june
around sometimes when things go
wrong. She had a birthday last week,
and I would tell how old she is if I
was sure she would never be a wid
ow. She thinks I would marry again
at the drop of a hat, but declares she
wouldn’t and says something about a
burnt child dreading the fire. But she
don’t mean that I know, and the hon
est reason is that she is afraid she nev
er could find another man like me. It
would take her a long time to train
another feller and get him up to my
standard of uxorial docility. A young
man will train, but one over thirty
won’t train worth a cent, and that is
the reason, why it is so dangerous for
a girl of ambition to marrv an old
young man or a widower. The train
ing is on the other side then, and she
had just as well surrender to the inev
itable.
We had the birthday and gathered
all the children but one. There were
nine of them, here, and some grand
children and some friends, and we
had a good time. I saluted Mrs. Arp
on her cheek soon in the morning.
She always turns her cheek to me now,
but she didn’t use to by no means. I
made up her bed for her, and swept
the room and flew around amazing.
We had music and played cards and
went a fishing and eat spring chickens
and huckleberry pie and talked, and
the boys said smart things and told of
exploits and escapes, and their moth
er and sisters thought they were the
smartest boys in the world. If a boy
sneezes his mother thinks it smart.
Mrs. Arp thinks her boys are an im
provement on the old mat, but my
ambition is for the girls to be as smart
as their mother. There is no room
for improvement on that line. Not
long ago I went off and was gone a
month. When I came back I had a
warm welcome and everything was
calm and serene. I played king and
autocrat for two or three days, and
strutted around with the same conse
quential airs I had worn aver in Caro
lina. But they don’t last long at my
house, and now I am in my normal
state of sweet humility. A man must
f o away from home to put on airs,
n fact it is a good idea for the wo
man to go too sometimes just for a
change. Folks get sorter common to
one another from continuous pres
ence. Absence may conquer young
love, but it refreshes the old. I know
a lady whose husband is a surgeon in
tne navy, and he is generally gone
two years and stays at home two
montns, when he comes. “How do
you stand it,” said L *“I would just
as leave have no husband at all.”
“Oh,” said she, “I think it is just
splendid. I am so glad to see him
when he comes, and I look forward to
it with so much pleasure. I don’t see
what those wives whose husbands are
always with them have tdthink about
and hope for. I am sure I would get
awful tired of having a man hang
around home all the year round. It
would be so monotonous. Two months
in two years is just about right, and
besides you know the doctor sends me
plenty of money and that makes up
for his absence.”
Well, it does help a good deal—
money does—I’ve noticed that. When
I have money to spare I feel better
and more like a gentleman, and it
sheds its benign influence on all
around me. A close observerjean tell
when I’m in funds by perusing the
family. I can tell by my feelings,
my appetite, my hilarity. A man
ought to keep a dollaror two in his
pocket all the time, just like he keeps
a buckeye or a rabbit foot.
It is fruit time now. * There are
cherries and dewberries and huckle
berries, and raspberries, and mulber
ries, and the sugar just flies all the
time. Every morning before break;
fast, while Carl is milking and Jessie
is practicing her music, I pick the
raspberries and fill a tumbler for each
of them to take to school, and I
sprinkle them all over with sugar. 1*
go with them as far as the foot-log
oyer the creek, and in the evening 1
go to meet them, and we come by the
dewberry patch and have a good time.
They will think about that walk to
school as long as they live, and it will
always be a pleasant memory. They
hunt liens' .nests and guinea nests
when they are at home, and come to
the house with their hats full of eggs.
We will begin to cut oats tomorrow,
and they will find some partridge eggs
and be happy. School will be out
next week, and then for blackberries
to make jam ana jelly. They can pick
all day and scratch all night, and
keep fat and healthy. This country
life is just splendid for children. Mix
it up with school and with work and
it will make men and women for a
state to be proud of. But you send a
boy to School ail liis young life, anil
then to college, and he won’t befit for
hardly anything above an office seek
er, He will be wanting to go to the
legislature before he is twenty-five.
I’ve known fellers to run for the leg
islature who didn’t know whether a
cow that was lying down got up be
hind or before, or how to drive a nail
in a plank to keep it from, splitting,
or whether it w r a the east wind or the
west wind that brought fair weather,
or whether it was this year’s wood or
last year’s wood that produced peach
es and grapes. But still they can
make laws to govern the'people. Old
age may not bring wisdom' but it
brings knowledge, und so I was a lit
tle proud that three score years had
passed over my head. I thought that
surely I was gaining sende, but a
good lawyer told me today that I was
now on the decline, for our supreme
court had decided that a man over
sixty was incompetent as a juror; so 1
am not fit to try a case, I suppose. I
know that a man over sixty could not
be compelled to serve on a jury, but
the^ court says he shall not serve, for
he is incompetent. Well, if that is so
the supreme court ought to resign, for
they are over sixty. I reckon that
some of these juvenile members of the
legislature made that law. Country
life has a charm for town folks and
they look forward to the time When
they can retire from work and settle
down on a farm. My friend Judge
Branham came to see us yesterday
and took‘off his coat and hung it on a
nail in the piazza and stuck his feet
on the railing and rested—rested—
that’s the word. We talked over the
good old days and We paid'tribute to
the dead—the friends who had left us,
and we discussed the living, and we
talked a little politics and we wander
ed over the farm and along the creek
and branches and watched the miu-
nows dodging around and he said in
a whisper: “I almost wish I was a
boy . again.” If Judge Bleckley had
been along I think we all three would*
have gone in swimming. Judge Bran
ham said he knew every hole in the
the baptizing branch, as it was called,
down in Putnam. He could go right
now and catch a cat in one hole and a
perch in another—the lineal descend
ents of the same fish he used to catch
in the long ago. He knew the very
spot where he pulled out an eel, the
first one lie ever caught and he
thought it was a snake and threw
down the pole and. ran for his life.
“Those were good times” said he,
“and these are good times too; let us
apologize for the bad and enjoy all
the good that we can. Love, "pity,
and contentment will make anybody
happy.”
What a gentle, genial comfort it is
to be visited by an old friend. Not a
formal caH but a good, honest, lov
ing visit—a visit that pays double,
for it pays him that gives and him
that doth receive—it is twice blessed
and for a season renews our youth
and leaves a sweet odor after it has
passed. . • Bill Arp.
A Young Journalist has a Big Scoop.
Among those who were fortunate
enough to win a prize in the last draw
ing of The Louisiana State Lottery
was W. E. Seymour, the son of the
well-known journalist, W. J. Sey
mour, of the New Orleans States. He
purchased one-tenth of ticket No. 23*.-
$50,000. The Bank o£ Commerce of.
408 which drew the 2nd capital prize of
Memphis, Tenn., also held for collec
tion one-fifth of said ticket. One-
tenth of same ticket was held and col
lected by the People’s Bank of this
citv.—New* Orfean Times-Democrat,
June 19th, 1886.
After a season cf egg production
through the summer, ahen is naturally
exhausted and wants a rest. Good
feeding at this time is more important
than at any other, and there is little
or no danger that it will cause the
fowl to lay on fat. Even corn will not
fatten a moulting hen. So soon as
she begins to get new feathers, feed
liberally with corn and wheat mixed,
and egg production will speedily re
commence.