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The Girls of Loug Ago,
Tha Delta K ;v.> Epsilon Fra
-1 ornity of He.. Hiiui Collvr.;\; fqrmal
ly opened. tLvir ;k \v chapter h u*.
A. ;Aoi (ho yieers, was A. Minor
i Hiswold, ’A), who responded to
ths toast. ‘-Tho girl wo left be
hind us,” in the following strain:
Mr; President and Brother l)v~
].. : Tho toast you have assigned
no is oho that touches a very Icu
<1■ chord in my heart. I havo al-
ways felt sorry for the girls wo loft
1) 'hind us. Ii *c<cind cruel at the
but how could wa help it?
Circumstances wows such that we
couldn't possibly Ako them along;
wa hsd to !c-.ive tht-ui behind us,
1 think X proud. Tth no or tour to
, . k i spring
or earl.; uutuvia, hut I was too bu
r for sev.Tul years to attend to it,
ami a-' r that—well, I was afraid
my wife would not like it, I met
(j f tha giils .ve left behind us
in t. !■? street to day. That is, 1
ikon: 'it I did. The Same soft brown
eyas, tho oama sweat sunny smile.
“Is it possible,” [ said, “that I
behol 1 Miss Sally Jones';”
“That was my mo then’s nama,”
she replied, “before she. was mar
ried. i am married now, and I
have navi'.ed my baby alter her.
Great Heaven; '. The girl I left
behind me was a grand mother!
I told the young lady who I was,
an*i she said she had often heard
her mother speatc of mo as one she
used to know a great many years
a-o. Then I asked about the girls
t used to know, and what had be
come of thorn. I found that some,
:vlas, ware road Others, who were
iaa wiad. wished they wore dead.
Some, who were widows, had lov
ers seeking fortlieirhandu Others,
not yet widows, were seeking for
divorces.
Oh, those seminary girls of long
a g3_.Ahow we did regret leaving
thorn behind u- —except ©no poor
fellow who eloped with oqo of
tlit ni. Ho has regretted all his life
that ho didn’t leave her behind
with tho refit of them.
But had to go and leave thorn.
Fate.- ’ coned us on. And, in some
case ;, the faculty urged us to go,
W ere wo to blame, then, for tem
porarily forgetting the debts—l
moan the girls wo left behind us?
Why, some of us had to leave our
trunks!
A rare collection ef girls they
were, as I recall them
nox7, r.-!l, willowy girls; short,
plump girls; black ey*cl girls that
made us blue, and blue-eyed girls
that v.’c were ready to a blacii
eye for any time; fair complsxien
ed girls, brown girls, Smith girls,
girls with auburn hair, and girls
who, not being ablet© match their
own hair in Auburn, were com
pelled te match it in Utica orSyra
cu3. In fact, the re was about ev
ery kind of a girl that there is new
except the tailor made girl, wno
seems to be altogether a modem
creation. Still the Istter ha* points
ia her favor, Whils the girl I so
t®ndarly recall posssesed virtue,
beauty, iutellisenea and msay en
gaging xx svs, i must admit lust
sho somehow lacked the gc*. up in
tket, she hadn’t the bustle of the
girl of to-day.
No, brothers of the olden times,
we must confess that in comparis
on with th<i tailor-made girl of to
day, ti <• girl we left behind us had
very little left behind her.
Still wo remember her with ten
derness and respoct, and Ist us ail
join in a bumper to tho girls of
long ago.
Cotton Burnirfgs on Shipboard. *
The report of the special commit
tee of tho Charleston, S. o.,‘Ex- '
change, shows plainly that there is
no evidence of the existence of a
ring f >r the purpose of purchasing
cation burnt etcumships, at
im iroj’ov price; that there is no ev
idence that Urn cotton tires at that
port were dua to incendiarism; that
no ring oxirts whose interest is to
causa cotton fires, because its mem
bars obtain a share of tho plunder;
and. finally, that there is no proof
that insurance companies aro do
frauded at that port, or that th@
harges there are greater than the
charges elsowhore. The committee
show plainly that tho existing laws
permit the collusion of shipmasters
with outside persons, in case of fire
or disaster. Te oi&stor of a burning
steamship hie solo and complete cn
troi of ike cargo, and in Idm the pow
er in vested of making contineiH for
bandliffg i r - aa ha may elect. There is
temptation to him, therefore, to ra*ke
bargains with ontsidm who will pay
him liberally for a preference. There
h a Bred cf improvement in particular
directions, and it is especially requis
ite that a ekaage be mads in the pow
ers ot shipmasters in case of hie.
icy Facts.
It wo had plenty of wheat the
coming crop, we may be able to
teach Russia a mild lesson as to our
supremacy as a merjhantila na
tion who:; we have goods to mar
ket, and we hopo w© will. Mean
while, wo can furnish her with the
motive power to perfect her meth
ods of marketing her vast surplus,
and- if wo can’t buy her slaves, can
furnish them with clothing, as do
es our mother country in a world
noar tbs sun. Our corn trade is not
dead nor yet sleeping, and demon
strates possibilities of plenty, well
handled. Railroad companies ara
not always blessings, and foreign
stockholders are frequently the bet
tar off. Eastern capital built our
roads; Eastern education supplies
ths craftsmen who run their shops
and direct their management, but
the Yv T 66t continues to make the
rates, which has placed wheat, still
places flour, and may next threat
en to placa corn in foreign ports a
less tariff than covers its transpor
tation to the seaboard. Wo will
either wind up in Eastern Europe
or Western Africa, with a wide
waste between.
“How do you get along with your
Dutch lessons, old man?”
“Pretty well. Since I taught this
cold ia my head my teacher says r:y
pronunciation ha* improved rapidly."
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“Trains ds luxe" is a utb cow ?p !
plied to rich acd comfortable means of j
ti&velleg devired by ear aiauufactnrers. j
~
[ Paul Br-edel, the furrier cl daueaa,
Alaska, has just completed a beau'i
fol robs. It is made of the breasts of
the Alatkan eagle.
The Biggest Ma iu Coma.
Frank G. Carpenter nays that Vice
roy Li flung Chany, whoso picture we
give below, is; by all odds t ha grM<e<
man i the Chines* Empire. He w.o
ea’lel by Qon. Grant tb-j Birmarck ?
China, and in statesmanship ha raaks
with tho greatest minds ol Ibo Euro
pean nations. He is practically tba
Premier of the impo.ial aovercmeiit,
ia the Chief Secretary of Foreign Af
fairs, and during the past few yours
fans been the medium of crmnraimii
tiou between foreign cations aud the
Cale*tiala. It was bn who was com
mander in-cfcisf of the I nponat forces
daring the great Taiping rebel-im.
which cost China 10,000,C0,' lives and
which re-rultfc'l in the overt hr v of the
rebels, it was ha who tattled the dif
ficoiti©* with Massia in 1881. ar.d it is
ho v,i>v is called in to advise the Era
jv-.ror when any crisis lakes place ia
the affsiis of the nation.
Li llitr-g Cbang carried on all the
negotiations with Miltivwez cad grant
ed tba charter t> the Wharton Barker
syndiaato, which fell through by rea
son of Mitkisvficz’a indiscretion and
bad character. It was be who iatro
doco 1 ika telegraph into China about
seve r years age, tui it is he who is
now doing all ia Lis power to have
China adept railroads and develop its
natural resources. Li Hung Cbang ie
tho Viceroy of Chili, the northern
province of China, which includes Be
kir.g and Tientsin, sr.d which ha* a
population of 25.000,000, er nearly as
ia:-;ny as meat Button. Over tkeec
people tho v ieer®y has more power
than baa the Queen of England. Ho
h cSvo superintendent ot ffc-j northera
trade of China, and it is eaid that tho
money he receives yearly amounts to
over §3,000,000.
A Boomerang.
A wonderful event baa occurred in
(Jrah that will give Mormon leaders
something to talk over and med'ta e
a out. Ihe municipal election oatsarr
ed recently at Ogden, a city of some
12,000 inhabitants at and nest it. size to
Balt Lake. The increase of the G.-.u
iie populatieu duiinjitie last tow
year* had beets a source of anxiety to
tfao Mormon Ruins, and various arfi
ike* were employed to reader their in
(iuencoof ho effect at tha polls, so fia
ally on eleation lay order* wore istuid
to the police (all Mormons,) to arrest
a number of the Gentiles and keep
item as prisoners until election wi
over. This was frustrated’ley the ap
pearance ot a cotap lay of federal
troops nmier iha marshal, who said
that every voter should he allowed to
offer bis ballot. Tito resale v;ar, most
gratifying to the Gentiles, who elected
thsir entire ticket.
Whenever you sea a bey or pe -
sou seeking tbo conversation and
association of Ins superiors, then
and there he is making k ; s life
long character. Th association
may be changed from immoral to
moral —this will solely depend up
©a the trait of the seekers; while j
they are always on the siert tor
older heads, they are seeking infor
m atien. The sdult can never be
more careful in directing his con
versation than when boys are
around, et, bo must command
the reaped of his younger associate
in * gentle, quiet and msec way,
if he would have a hairing influ
ence with him.
No caa be made in apply
' iag ashes te fiuit tresa. It wll guard
against cut worm*.
How Millinery Store?
James T. Corner,
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With a New Stock of Hats from New York and BuiCtao-o of lie
styles, from the finest to the cheapest ABo tine Dots Gn.:>-, a _
Laces Kid Gloves, Embroideries, Comt tf nil lint'.*. Ia '.art a C'uapM-*
cock of fancy uotious. Show, Mats and Clothing. TAbaaoo. uaoie h.vU
iiud Harness &ud Lur. 01
Drugs and Patent Medicines,
COMER’S GUARANTEE CHICKEN CHOLERA CURE.*
Standard nd Pacific Keroeete. Machioo and Ca tor Oils.'by ' " hoti!" n
oialU-Q. Agent for Athcm Factory goods, and masy more. A i). *
Georgia Teat and Acid Work’s Fore Bona. Fetiaaa’n sYu-. • L ‘ '
ietil Guano. The best line of guanos iu the united rtitle\ •■■■a* ■ ' ,i ' f
the cheapest. Breeder of fifteen varieties ot fancy Docks, Chifk-jn.;
Eggs for aalo.
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defy competinoQ in - P do we w i,± to accumulate their fortunes.
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