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THE CHATTOOGA NEWS.
VOL. 2.
WORCESTER'S
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Church Directory.
BAPTIST REV. D. T. ESPY.
Summerville- Hirst Sunday and even
; ingand Saturday before; also third Sun-
I day evening. Sardis Second Sunday
I and Saturday before. Pleasant Grove
I Third Sunday and Saturdaybefore
! Mount Harm-mv Fourth Sunday and
BAPTIST- BEV. .1.? I. SMITH.
I Raccoon .Mill First Sabbath in each
j month at 11 o'clock . Perennial Springs
i -'fhlrd Sabbath and Saturday before
Melville I’ourth Sabbath and Saturday
I before at 2:30 p. m.
METHODIST—REV. T. 11. TIMMONS.
i Oak Hill First Saturday and Sunday.
' Ami Second Saturday and Sunday;
l also Fifth Sunday evening .Brooi'n
j town Second Sunday evening, and
Fifth Sunday morning Siuitii Caro
lina-Third Saturday and Sunday
Summerville -Fourth Sunday and night. '
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I’R ES BYiE RI A N 11E V. W. A. .MIL N El!. ;
I Trion—Fvery first and fifth Sabbath. ■
.. .Summerville Uvery second Sab-1
bath Alpine livery third and fourth
■ Sabbath. ,
I PRESBYTERIAN REV. T. S. JOHNSTON.
. Walmit Grove- First Sabbath Sil
lver Creek, Floyd County Second Sab
bath .Beersheba-—Third Sabbath ..
\ LaFayctte- Fourth Sabbath.
Court Directory.
SUPERIOR COURT.
! Firs’ Monday in March and Septom
ber. John W. Maddox, Judge; G. 1). I’
1 lolli . ('lerk ; C. C. Clements, Solicitor- |
General; J. N. Kiker, Stenographer.
COUNTY COURT.
| Monthly terms, second Monday;
Quarterly terms, first Monday in Jari-
! uarv, April. Julv, and October. J. M.
| Bcllah, Judge: G'. D. Hollis, Clerk.
JUSTICES’ COURT.
| Summerville (112.5th district),John Tav- I
' lor, N. P., and J. J. P. Henry. J. F. '
I Court 3rd Friday. Lawful Constables:
■ I). A.Crumly and E. C. Smith.
| Trion (K7oth district), T. J. Simmons,
N. P., and N. 11. Coker, J. P. Court 3rd
Saturday. Last return day Friday be- i
fore the first Saturdav. F.a.wful Consta
bles: IL P. Williams.'
Teloga (9271 h district), W. F. Tapp, N.
P., and A. Johnston, J. P. Court Ist
Friday. Lawful Constables: George i
W. Carroll.
I Alpine 96Sth district), J. E. Burns, N.
I P. Court 4th Saturday. Lawful Consta- :
i hies: S. M. Baker.
I Dirtsellar (121f>th district), J. L. Huie,
I N. P.,and Hugh Richardson, J. P. Court
I 4th Saturday. Lawful Constables: John ■
i M. Rose.
I Seminole (961st'district,) A. J. Ilender-
; son, N. I’., and E. C. Adams, J. P. Court •
3rd Saturdav. Lawful Constables: Jo.s.
Glenn and F. P. Ragland.
Coldwater (Imwd district), T). B.
Franklin, N. P., and W. 'f. Herndon, J.
P. < .irt Ist Saturday. Lawful Consta
bles: N. J. Edwards and M. W. Bryant.
Dirttown (54<>th district),M. M. Wright 1
N. P., and J. P. Johnson, J. I’. Court <
I 2nd Saturday. Lawful Constables: C. !
M. M- Herndon.
Hay- ood (I3s2nd district), N. A. J; k- i .
so;’. N. P., and L. S. Scogin. L P. ’rt ;
Ith S:v irdav. Lawful (\ i:. tables: R.
C. Sai : ers nil J. J. Barho. .
Sui.i ilia (.-‘i>2nd district), R. F-nder, ’ '
N. P... nd J. ; . Jackson, .1. P. Court
. Ist Sauinia v. Lawful . oles: J. .
* M. Coats.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, APRIL 6, 1888
“yes.”
A little rain,
The sun again,
A shadow;
A summer day,
Some new mown bay,
A meadow.
A girlish face,
A matchless grace,
And beauty;
M'e spend the day
In making liny
Sweet duty.
Soin'* fading flowers,
S um* happy hours,
lint fleeting;
Aw( ok of rain,
An I tb.en again,
A meeting.
Onc.pii'-k, shy look,
.v ripplii.g brook,
A sky of gold,
The story old,
A fair, sweet maid,
A short wo’ d said ;
What is it?
J try my fate,
And no! too late
* The years have gone,
And still loves on
That lover;
1 le loves always,
As days ami days
Pass over.
A loving wife,
A long, long life
Together,
Have made him bless
That shy sweet “Yes”
Forever.
Chamber’s Journal.
Facts, Opinions and Inferences.
In 1651, Obadiah Holmes was
“publicly whipped” in Boston, “for
denying infant baptism.”
“For teaching the prevalent Pres-,
byterian views on infant baptism,” I
Francis Doughty was driven out of |
New England in 1639.
“According to Mr. Ward’s ac-1
count, the modern Mennonites plead
the authority of Menno for the use
of pouring and sprinkling as bap
tism. But in reality it is a wide
departure from the views of Menno,
who says: ‘After we have searched
ever so diligently, we shall find no
other baptism but dipping in water, j
which is acceptable.to God and ap-1
proved in his word.” “They reject*
infant baptism, and refuse to com-1
mime at the Lord’s table with any
who administer the ordinance to
children, unless re-sprinkled.”
The French Huguenots, thou
sands and tens of thousands of
whom suffered for conscience sake, (
in the sixteenth century, were Pres-,
byterians and did not deny infant
baptism.
A Baptist account of the Wai- (
(lenses is as follows: “Their church
officers, Heinerins says, were lush- .
ops, elders and deacons; but the ,
distinction between their bishops
and oilier elders seem to have been (
only that their former were theofll- ,
cial pastors of the churches.
That they understood and prae- .
ticed immersion as baptism is evi- (
dent; but whether they generally ,
practiced infant baptism has long
pieen a matter of dispute. The .
words of Reinerins seem to imply |
that in his time—l2so—they were I
of different opinions on this point. I
The modern Waldenses in the val
leys of Piedmont do practice it;
but they have so changed in many .
points since their amalgamation
| with the Calvinists at the Reforma
tion, having also received their pas- .
•tors from them since 1603, that
| nothing decisive can be hence, in- .
ferred. Dr. Murdock thinks that
the followers of Peter Waldo uni- .
versally practiced infant baptism
but he has given no authority for ,
this opinion. The only one of their .
ancient writings which sanctions i;
it is the Scriptural Calender, but |
this, if genuine, is of doubtful date. [ (
On the contrary, ail their other ,
writings, from the Noble Lesson, in ,
1100, down to their Confession of
Faith in 1655, Dr. Gill affirms to j j
be in favor of the baptism of he-1 1
lievers only. It appears certain 1 2
that the Cathari, the Paterines, the!
Bereagarians, the Arnoldists, Pe-; ]
trobrusians, and Ilenricians, i. e., j,
the earlier Waldenses, as far as his- j
tory testifies, vehemently opposed
infant baptism.” 5
In his account of “Baptisteries” j -
Brown says: “About the middle of ' f
the third century, baptisteries be- j j
gan to be built; but there were A
none within the churches until tiie
sixth century; and it is remarkable
that though there were many <_
churches in one citv, vet, (with a a
few exceptions) there was but. one i s
baptistry.” In his description of a* e
! baptistery of the fourth century,
Brown tells us: “In the middle of
the great hall was an octagon bath
which strictly speaking, was tl c ■
liaptistery, and from which the
whole building received its name.
Some had been natural rivulets be
fore the buildings -were erected over
them, and the pool was contrived
to retain water sufficient for dip
ping, and to discharge the rest.”
Pelagius, whose theological
opinions were condemned by the
Council of Ephesus, and who, with
his followers, was banished from
Rome by the emperor Honorious in
418, said : “Men slander me as if I
denied.the sacrament of Baptism
to infants.” “I never heard of any
not even the most impious heretic, I
who denied baptism to infants.”
Tcrtullian, who lived in the third
century, “believed that sin commit
ted after baptism was unpardona
ble,” and opposed both infant bap
tism and adult, insisting that in
both cases baptism should be defer
red to the dying hour. His idea was
to avoid the consequences of unpar
donable sins, i. e., sins committed
after baptism.
1. “One baptistery” used by
“many churches” unquestionably
points to the Unity of the visible
church before the rise of Popery.
2. After the rise of popery, with
its spacious and imposing “baptis
teries,” its immersion, and other
innovations upon the simplicity of
the primative church, men began
to reason about religious duties;
' and diversities of opinion resulted
in strife, and persecution.
I 3. Two centuries after the leven
of formalism had begun to work,
* when “heretics” began to feel the
iron heel of eclesiastical tyranny,
the denial of baptism to infants
had not yet been heard of.
That and a good many other
novelties have been heard of since, i
4. When reason, enlightened by
the Word and Spirit of God, shall
i have emancipated herself from .all
I the errors of popery, there will be
I one church and— %*
Essay on Man.
Man that is born of woman is
small potatoes and few in a hill.
He riseth up to-day and flourish
eth like a rag weed, and tomorrow
or the day after the undertaker hath
him in the ice box. !
He goeth forth in the morning 1
warbling like a lark, and is knocked 1
out in one round and two seconds. 1
In the midst of life he is in debt, ; 1
and the tax collector pursuetll him J
wherever he goeth.
The banister of life is full of (
splinters, and he slideth down it J
with considerable rapidity.
He walketh forth in the bright! l
sunlight to absorb oxone, and meet- | 1
eth the bank teller with a sight 1
draft for $219.15. 1
He cornetli home at, eventide and , 1
meeteth the wheelbarrow in his | ■
path, and the wheelbarrow riseth up |
and smiteth him to the earth, and |
falleth upon him and runeth one !
leg in his ear.
In the gentle spring time he put
teth on his summer clothes and a ‘
blizzard stricketh him far away '
from home, and lilleth him with woe 1
and rheumatism. I
He layeth up riches in the bank, ■ 1
and the president thereof specula- j ‘
teth in margins, and goeth to Can
ada for his health.
In the winter he pulleth on his ' (
winter trousers, and a wasp that I ’
abideth in them filleth him full of
intense excitement.
He starteth down cellar with an . *
oleander, and goeth first backward, I 1
and the oleander cometh after him | 1
and sitteth upon him.
He buyeth a watch dog, and when I '
he cometh home late from the lodge 1
the watch dog treeth him until the ’
rosy dawn.
He goeth to the horse trot, and j 1
betteth his money on the brown j'
mare, and the bay gelding with a ‘
blaze face winneth. i 1
He marrieth a red headed heiress ! 1
with a wart on her nose, and the ! *
next day her parental ancestor go-! '
eth under with few assets and many I £
liabilities, and cometh home to live I c
with his beloved son-in-law.—Ex. !
—— i
There is an old cabin near Win-! r
Chester, Va., which tradition relates ! r
was built by George Washington j c
and once occupied by him during a s
surveying expedition. 1 v
I “A Skeleton in Every House.”
It is said that this saying origi
nated as follows: A young student
of Naples, believing himself dying,
and fearing that the news of his
death would break the heart of his
widowed mother, who passionately
loved him, after much reflection
adopted the following device: lie
wrote to his mother, telling her that
he was ill, and that a soothsayer
had foretold that he could not re
cover until he had worn a shirt
made by a woman who had no trou
ble—in fact, was perfectly happy
and contented. The widow, in her
simplicity, thought that attaining
such a garment was an easy task,
but, after inquiries among her
friends, found that each had a secret
care. At last, she heard from sev
eral sources of a lady surrounded
by every comfort, and possessing a
husband who seemed to think of
nothing but making her happy. The
old lady hastened to her, and made
known her wish. The lady made
no reply, but took her visitor into
an adjoining closet, where she was
horror-struck at beholding a skele
ton suspended from a beam. “For
twenty years have I been married,”
said the lady. “I was forced to
marry my husband while loving
another. Shortly after my wedding
my former lover came one evening
to bid me farewell forever. My I
husband surprised us while togeth
er, and instantly stabbed him,whom
he unjustly suspected, to the heart.
He then caused the skeleton to be
preserved ; every day he makes me
visit it!” The widow concluded
that no one was without trouble,
and, as her son had desired, she
became reconciled to the idea of his
loss. Every one has his troubles—
“there is a skeleton in every house !”
Previous Efforts Eclipsed.
Professor Elisha Gray, of High
land Park, has just completed an
invention scarcely less wonderful
and valuable than the telephone,
of which he was also the inventor,
but of which he waS defrauded.
“Within a few days,” said the
professor, “I shall give a private
test of my new telaugraph, an in
vention which will largely supplant
the telephone. I have already tested
it to my satisfaction, over and over
again, and on Saturday I shall give
an exhibition to some gentlemen
from the east. I have just taken
it to pieces to make some slight
alterations, or 1 would show it to
you now.
“By this invention you can sit
down at your office in Chicago, take
a pencil in your hand, write a mes
sage to me, and as your pencil mov
es a pencil here in your laboratory
moves simultaneously and forms
the same letters and words in the
same way. What you wire in Chi
cago is instantly reproduced here in
sac-simile.
You may write in any language;
write in short-hand if you like, use
a code of cipher, no matter a fac
simile is produced here. If you
wish to draw a picture it is the
same—the picture is reproduced
here. The artist of your paper
can, by this devi :e, telegraph h's
pictures of a railway’ wreck or oth
er occurance, just as a reporter tel
egraphs his description in words.
The two pencils move synchronous
ly, and there is no reason why a
circuit of 500 miles cannot be work
ed as easily as ten miles.
“There will be no trouble in
catching words or sylables, letters
or figures. No misunderstanding
will result. Besides, it leaves a
record at both ends of the wire, and
there can be no dispute about what
v’iis said. For all commercial trans
actions this would be an invaluable
feature. In ordering goods, or in
transmitting names or addresses
its superiority over the telephone is
obvious. For desultory conversa
tion, it is true, it would not be so
rapid working, for the reason that
one cannot write as fast as he can
talk, but, on the other hand, it
would save many of the delays and
annoyances incident to telephonic
communication.
“When one person wishes to com
municate with another by the tel
autograph he pushes a button, which
rings an annunciator in the ex
change, or in the office of the per
son with whom he' wishes to con
verse. Then the first party takes
his writing pencil from its holder
—and this may be pen or pencil—
and writes his message upon a roll
’ of paper. As he writes so writes
the pencil at the other end of the
wire. Fini-hing his message he
adds a cross, or any other simple to
ken that he has finished, when the
second party takes down his pencil
and writes a reply. Thus a conver
sation can be carried on and when
it is finished another simple word—
say the number “30”—will indicate
' the end. Both paries have a full
record of the conversation and each
possesses the other’s autograph.—
Chicago Herald.
PUBLIC ROADS.
I see some questions propounded
and some suggestions made in re
gard to ourroads in the News. I
first thought I would not say any
. thing in reply, but have changed my
notion. First, 1 will ask, if there is
any good to be accomplished by
such communications? Does it ele
vate the moral status of our coun
ty? or does it elevate the one who
writes them? Does it speak well
for our county at home or abroad?
Can any good grow out of it? Last,
but not least, does it work any of
the roads? I would say not. Os
course, we all know how the roads
are. We know something must be
i done; but lets have wise and prac
tical suggestions. We will always
be willing and anxious to receive
such.
The idea of some one standing on
the road side, waiting for some one
to come along with an empty wag
on, to employ such to haul gravel!
Men on the road with empty wagons
are not often in a mood to haul
rock; and, then the idea of Hernan
do, as my good friend calls him,
letting as small a. thing* as the
roads of Chattooga upset him ion
making as .rm... t a discoverv a* the
Mississippi river. Os course
friand, when a man has brains ,
enough to attempt to make large
discoveries he’d never let little
things stand confronting him. Now
then, dear friends ■of Chattooga
county, lets set aside all abuse and
newspaper reflection, ami apply the
proper remedy : do more work and
less talk, and when we want to write
on the road question tell us some
plan of fixing the bail places that
will come within our means. By so
d >ing you will help move the good
cause upward. Don’t tell us some
thing which you know we can’t do.
Everybody ought to use their influ
e ice with contractors especially
when we see a better plan of work-
■
i ig than he, and never put ourselves
in print so that we can’t advise
with them. They are generally
good men, and willing to exchange
ideas if approached in the righ’t
way. Sly experience is that those
Complain most are not every
tir/e the best friends to the roads. ■
Can’t get them to work any nor pay
if they can get out of it. They want
good roads, but sit back on their
dignity and say go it or we will i
blister you in the newspapers.
Well, that tiriy be a good spirit,
but I shall never believe it. As for
my part 1 have not left a stone
unturned that I could get over,
neither do I expect to slop. I ami
determined to d > all I can with the \
small means that I have, and I be- i
lieve the majority of my contractors :
will do all they can, ami those that -I
fail wili find us close after them. Wei
can’t pay a large debt of 1881 and '
do as we would like to do. I did !
not know when I was elected that
we would be cut short of the “ad
valorem” tax, but have to submit to
it. I never heard anything last!
year of bad roads—it must be that
we have the wrong man in the lead.
J. S. Doster, i
There have been seven Chief Jus
tices of the Supreme Court of the.
United States. John Mar-hall ser
ved thirty-four years; John Jay,
six years; John Rutledge, less than .'
one year; Oliver Ellsworth, five l
years; Roger B. Taney, twenty-1
eight years; Salmon I’. Chase, nine i
years, and M. 11. Waite fourteen
years.
Eels filled and wedged themselves |
in the turbine wheel at the Roswell i
factory recently so as to stop : he:
entire machinery. The ,’ had to be i
cut out with knives-and hatchets
before the machinery could be’
started again.—Marietta Journal.
NO. 10.
Take a Smile?
It’s the little things that tell—
i especially the little brothers and
■ sisters.
This world is but a fleeting show,
■ and to most of us all the good seats
' are taken.
To stand well in the eyes of the
ladies it is only necessary to give
1 them your seat in a street-car.
The average woman is considered
. too delicate to shoulder a musket,
but nobody questions her right to
bare arms.
A Bradford woman was heard
informing a neighbor that last
night’s storm frightened her so that
she “shook like an ashpan.”
I
Daughtei—“Ma, why does Uncle
John say, ‘Er—er—’ so much when
he talks?” Mother—“To err is hu
man, my child.”
. Coming home at two o’clock a.
m., he found his wife dressed in
deep black, and inquired the reason.
“Mourning for my late husband,”
, she replied.
“Money is round, and made to
roll,” said a spendthrift to a, raiser.
, “That’s your way of looking at it,”
replied the latter. “I say that
money is flat, and made to pile up.”
It is beautiful to behold at a
' wedding the sorrow-stricken air of
the parent, as he “gives the bride
; away,” when you know that for the
' last ten years he has been trying to
get her off his hands.
This was written on the fly-leaf
of a book on moral science : “If
there should be another flood, for
refuge hither fly; though all the
world should be submerged, this
book would still be dry.”
Old Bachelor Patient—“ Doctor
I feel miserable in mind and body.
What shall I take?” Doctor (gruf
fly )—“Take a wife.”
Tlie jury brouirht in a verdict of
-Not ■■ \ . His honor said, ad
monish!. fly. to the prisoner: “After
I this you ought to keep away
bad company.” “Yes, your hono ’
you will not see me here again in a
hurry.’
An old parish clerk was courte
ously thanking a church dignitary
for kind'y taking, on emergency, a
village service. “A worse preacher
would have done us, sir,” he said
“if we only knew where to find
him !”
She was mad on the subject of
music. A gentleman knocked at
her door and asked: “Does Mr.
Smith live here?” “No, sir; his
room is an octave higher—in the
next flat.” she replied in a pianissi
mo andante tone of voice.
“Doctor,” said the grateful pa
tient. seizing the physician's hand,
“I shall never forget that to you I
owe my life.” “You exaggerate,”
said the doctor, mildly; “you only
owe me for fifteen visits; that is
the point which I hope you will not
fail to remember.”
“Did you pick up in weight by
going to the seaside last year,
Smithley?” “I did, indeed, Brown
ley—gained one hundred and twen
ty-live pounds.” ‘‘Pshaw ! Impossi
ble!” “Fact, my dear fellow. Come
up to the house, and I’ll introduce
you to her. We were married last
month.”
“How did it happen that the
church was so crowded today?”
••Well, I’ll tell you. You sec the
professor of theology preached, and
on his account all the students
came, on their account all the girls,
on their account all the young men,
on their account all the widows,
and on theirs all the widowers.”
An editor “out West” has occa
sioned the wildest speculation to
account for a bachelorhood pro
tracted into the “sere and yellow
leaf.” It is now explained that a
postcript to a matrimonial offer did
the business, and relegated the
aforesaid editor to a further period
of single blessedness: This seems
to have been the substance of the
correspondence: “Dearest," I hate
carefully analyzed the feeling I en
: tertain for you, and the result is
substantially as follows: I adore
you! Will you be mine? Answer!'
: Then, after a moment, in a dreamy
: absent way, he added : “Write only
on one side of the paper. V> rite
plainly and give real name, not nec
essarily for publication, ' but as a
guarantee of good faith.