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In Feniinine Fields. : : :
: : : FADS AND FANCIES.
The Pain of Loving.
Ah, turn your pretty eyes away!
You would not have me love again!
Love’s pleasure does not hve a day;
Immortal is Love’s pain,
1 And lam tired of pain.
I have loved once—aye, once or twice;
The pleasure died, the pain lives here;
I will not look in your sweet eves,
I will not love you, dear,
Lest you should grow too dear.
For I am weary and afraid,
Have I not seen why life was fair,
And know how good a world God made,
How sweet the blossoms were,
How dear the green fields were?
And I have found how life was gray,
A mist-hung road, a quest in vain,
Until once more Love smiled my way,
And fooled me once again,
And taught me grief again.
Now I will gather no more grief;
only ask to see the sky,
The budding flower, the budding leaf,
And put all dreaming by,
The dreams Love tortures by.
For, being wise, I love no more;
°tl, if you will, snare with those eyes
Some fool who never loved before,
And teach him to be wise!
For why should you be wise?
Rome Tribune.
The original idea of marriage indi
cated a state most ideal and happy.
That is the idea of marriage as it should
be. But it is well known among peo
ple who have attained to any degree of
worldly wisdom, that all marriages are
not what they should be, namely: a
( ) happy union of congenial souls. This
deplorable state of affairs causes many
to exchange their fresh and youthful
illusions for dry skepticism concerning
the possibilities of human happiness.
The vanishing of cherished illusions
would naturally give place to the ex
tremes of skepticism for a season, at
least. But healthy human hearts grad
ually return to a normal, that is to say,
hopeful condition, and accept things—
and men— as they find them. It is a
great pity that there should be so much
trouble and doubt concerning all this,
but it is one of the many trials laid up
on us by the process of social evolution.
We are somewhere between that first
era of natural selection when things
happened because might was right, and
there was little talk or wonderment a
bout anything; and the millennial days
>f perfect life. In the meantime
things—conditions and people, are very
uneven from various causes. In his
new book, “The Choir Invisible,”
James Lane Allen says, in the follow
ing manner, some suggestive things
rather in this line:
“Some women in marrying demand
all and give all; with good men they
are the happy; with base men they are
the heartbioken. Some demand eve
rything and give little; with weak men
they are tyrants; with strongmen they
are the divorced. Some demand lit
tle and give all; with congenial souls
they are already in heaven; with un
congenial they are soon in their graves.
Some give little and demand little;
they are heartless, and they bring
neither the joy of life nor the peace of
death.”
Commencement exercises of the girls
Normal and Industrial college at Mil
ledgeville, will begin May 28th. This
model school for Georgia girls has been
more successful this year than ever be.
fore in its history. Its continuous and
increasing popularity is proof that it is
accomplishing the purpose for which
it was nobly planned, that of educating
Georgia’s daughters. Governor and
Mrs. Atkinson will be present at com
mencement. With them the idea of
this school originated, and largely
through their agency was it brought to
its present state of mature success; and
their interest in it seems unfailing.
Miss Mary Shaw has a charming lit
tle character sketch in a recent issue of
the Sunday Tribune, in which an old
time negro, “Uncle Moses,” is the cen
tral figure. During the winter Miss
Shaw contributed a page of feminine
fancies to the Tribune. And being her
fancies, they were purely original, uni
que, and altogether delightful. It is
a matter of public regret that Miss
Shaw has not seen fit to enter journal
ism actively, since the public is al
ways greedy for the fresh and interest
ing.
A recent charming journalistic de
butante is Miss Louis Dillard Munford,
who very successfully conducts the wo
man’s department in the Cartersville
Cvurai^ American. She writes in a
bright and chatty’ manner of woman’s
interests, social and otherwise; and,
while affirming that she dabbles in ink
merely as a pleasant pastime, she
shows much interest and animation in
her work.
Random Thoughts.
“F ull many a gem of purest ray serene,
The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean
bear;
Full many a flower is born to blush un
seen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert
air.”
The above lines from the immor
tal “Elegy” contain a truth of very
far reaching significance.
Os all the tragedies of our check
ered human history, there is none
more touching than that of smoth
eied genius and disappointed hope
—the tragedy of dwarfed and slrad
owed lives, upon which has fallen
the lightning touch of misfortune;
and, which, though rich in glorious
possibilities, are yet doomed,
through outward limitations to
comparative barrenness, and ulti
mate oblivion.
History furnishes us with at least
one illustration of such repressed
zeal, and defeated ambition—the
Spanish Saint Theresa, whose ar
dent nature throbbed with high as
pirations, and whose child heart
throbbed with ideal longings which
would not be satisfied with the ro
mances of chivalry, and social con
quests within her reach ; and whose
fervid energies, finding no outlet
in the national patriotism to which
she would fain have consecrated
them, expended themselves in the
reform of a religious order.
Every age, and well nigh every
community has its Saint Theresa.
There are all about us “passionate,
ideal natures,” demanding for
themselves an epic life, which are
yet hedged in by the stern realities
of poverty, and the necessary toil
for daily bread; and finding no
outward expression for the long
ings within, sink at last into un
wept and unhonored graves, with
no sacred poet to tell their story.
The tragedy of hidden gems that
lie buried in dark ocean caverns,
reflecting no sunlight, and adorn
ing no “kingly crown and of the
unseen flowers, that bloom where
no eye beholds their beauty, is be
ing evermore repeated.
There are all about us hearts,
containing in their depths an al
most illimitable wealth of affec
tion, which yet wither and die, be
cause there is no kindred heart, up
on which all this sacred treasure
can be lavished. There are faces
fairer than any that the painters
have put on c nvas; voices more
musical than the laughter of rip
pling streams; natures attuned tc
the sweetest harmonies, that find
no adequate appreciation and win
no just approval.
It is this ever-present, ever-re
current tragedy of ill-directed and
unfruitful human lives, wasting
themselves over numerous binder*
ances, despite all loving heart-beats
and sobs after ideal goodness and
usefulness, which appeals to our
sympathy with infinitely more
pathos than all the romances of
Goethe or Shakespeare.
* * *
What is more refreshing or help
ful than aspriug rain? What more
soothing to a disturbed mind or to
drooping spirits, to say nothing of
the thirsty world outside. What
life-giving energies are locked up
in the great drops, that fall gently
as night dews or evening shadows.
Yesterday the fields were parching
and rhe sickly vegetation looked
as if smitten with malarial blight.
This morning the dark clouds are
pouring out their baptism of mois
ture and fertility upon all the face
;of nature; the drooping flowers lift
up their heads again; and the glad
earth smiles back to heaven its
gratitude.
* * *
This reminds us that the spring
time of 1897 is well nigh past.
Like a bright dream, that floods a
few brief.moments of slumber with
visions of far-off joys, and fades a
way into the.night all too quickly,
it has come and gone.
One need not be a poet to love
the spring. The gentle music of
her myriad voices appeals to the
aesthetic sense, that is part of our
deepest nature, and awakens re
sponsive thrills in souls that are
strangers to the muse’s passion.
Following close upon the heels
of winter, melting the icicles, wak
ing the earth into new life with her
warm breath, and draping field
and forest in her gorgeous livery
of green and gold, she is symbolic
of all that is bright and joyous in
human life.
Each season comes to us with
its own circle of associations, its
own attendant troop of memories,
which imparts to it a distinct in
dividuality, recalling to us the
scenes and faces of the past, and
making them ours again.
Thus in the sultry heat of lazy
summer evenings, the cold and
gloom of midwinter, or the sad,
sweet melancholy of chill Novem
ber days, we live our lives over
again. So each season comes
to us charged with the hopes and
longings and emotions of other
years, repeopling the present with
swarming images of the past, and
making vibrant the passing hours,
with the music of voices that have
long been silent-
Spring is the most charming of
all the seasons. And apart from
the physical lassitude she brings to
bilious folk, she is the favorite
season of them all. The long, hot,
dreamy days of midsummer are
depressing to body and mind. One’s
energy evaporates between the ris
ing and the going down of the sun,
and the night breezes will scarcely
revive it. Autumn’s message is
that of sadness. With all her
beauty of turning leaves, and splen
dor of evening skies, she yet speaks
to us of decay and death.
Winter in all his moods of storm
and darkness, throws over extended
nature a sort of cheerless gloOm,
that chills and depresses. The
spring, with her sunshine, and
songs of birds, and fragrance of
flower-beds, evermore symbolizes
the youth time of life, when hope
is strong, and the clouds above us
are big with promise.
* * *
She has her message too, to the
hearts of men. Hers is not simply
the external beauty that charms
the eye, and stirs the fire of poetic
imagery in the heart of youthful
literateur, until he dreams dreams
and sees visions; but the very sym
bolism of purity, and soul of di
vine harmony, that lead the
thoughts of men to better and no
bler things.
It is through the bursting bud,
and waving fields, and soft evening
skies, that we catch glimpses of
that larger life that beckons to us
from the unseen realms. And
through all this outward world,
where nature hrfs her dwelling
place, and where the Divine Fath
er hath put somewhat of Himself;
through gorgeous sunsets, and pur
ple clouds, through blooming fields
and rolling floods, we catch vis
ions of the Infinite.
* * *
Last, but not least, spring is na
ture’s mating time. But for her
useful mini-str}’ in this behalf, the
race of living things would doubt
less become extinct. Not only the
birds and butterflies, but we mor
tals of loftier pretensions, bend our
selves to nature’s unchanging laws
in this regard.
What are flowering excursions,
lawn parties, picnics and such like,
but nature’s instrumentalities for
the furtherance of her ends! It is
upon such occasions, that nature as
serts her authority, youth and beau
ty come together, engagements are
formed, life-time alliances are en
tered into.
Then comes the wedding cards
and—the rest- Thus nature’s ends
are accomplished, and the face of
the earth is replenished.
In all this nature is heartless.
Little recks she of the small heart
aches, and petty jealousies involv
ed, so she lends all to her invinci
ble laws. A. B. Pope.
HE WAS A SHARPER.
Deceived a Lotof People and
Then Decamped.
Valley Head, Ala-, May 13.—E. S.
Webb has disappeared owing many
debts here and 831 at Sulphur Springs.
He is a new comer, having come here
a little over a year ago. He was not
here long until he married Miss Mat
tie Jennings, daughter of H. C. Jen
nings, a notary public of this place.
When he first came here he said his
name was Smith and that he was from
Ohio, and afterwards he said his name
was Webb and that he was from Con
necticut. When he left his wife he
told her he was going to Chattanooga
and would be back Sunday, but after
he got on the train he sent her word
that he was not coming back and she
would never see him again. A while
before he ran off he sold his farm and
things for a good deal leas than he
gave for them and took his money to
Chattanooga and put it in a bank. His
creditors are after him.
TALIAFERO, GA.
The health of our community is
very good.
We are sorry to regret the sick
ness of Mr. Charley Eilenburg He
has been very sick for some time.
Miss Lula Strange has been very
sick we are sorry to say.
Mr. Fremau of Sulphur Springs,
Ala., was in our community a few
days ago, selling fruit trees.
Miss Nona Stephenson went to
Summerville Saturday.
Quite a number of our young peo
ple attended the foot washing at
Lyerly, Sunday. Ha: boys you
didn’t get left this time.
Miss Annie Sparks, and her
mother was in Summerville Mon
day shopping.
Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Crawford, and
Vise Rosa Logan c.f Dirttown vis
ited relatives here Sunday.
A School Girl.
From the Walker County
Messenger.
Rev. J. G. Hunt reached LaFayette
Wednesday on his return from the
Baptist Convention.
Miss Sallie Hackney, W’ho has been
doing successful work in Florida in
the school room, came home Satur
day.
Mrs. J. G. Hunt, while her husband
has been in attendance on the Baptist
Convention at Wilmington, has been
the guest of her mother, Mrs. E. Far
iss.
Mrs. W. A. Milner of Summerville
was the guest of the Misses Steele
Monday night. All regret that she did
not stay longer in LaFayette where
she is such a general favorite.
Wednesday night of last week Miss
Addie Batts, popular and gifted, was
elected by the trustees assistant teach
er at the academy to succeed Miss
Dora Suttle now Mrs. David Tittle.
The C. R. &. C., under the direction
of the efficient Road Master, Aleck
Bonnyman, has fenced in about fifteen
miles of its track at points where it
was most needed. The number of
stock killed has been reduced fifty per
cent.
The Cherokee Presbytery held a ses
sion here last Thursday at the Presby
terian church. Rev. G. T. Bourne,
Moderator, and W. F. Hollingsworth,
Secretary. Revs. J. W. Baker and J.
11. Hatton were also present in the
session. Messrs Wilson and Meggin
son, of Summerville, and Rusk, of
Hickory Flat, stood a creditable exami
nation as candidates for the’ ministry.
They preached their trial seitnons at
night to a large congregation. They
exhibited talent of a high order and
were complimented upon the excellence
and ability of their sermons. They
were licensed to preach and go forth
to do the Master’s work with the au
thority of the Presbytery. Rev. Mr.
Megginson goes to West Texas to be
gin his work. The Presbytery ad
journed to meet at Euharlee at a sta
ted time.—Marrietta Journal.
The value of the present strawberry
crop in the section adjacent to Chat
tanooga is estimated at 8200,000. That
is a very strong reason why farmers in
this county, with suitable lands for
berry culture, ought to investigate the
matter, and find out if a greater diver
sity of crops will not pay better than
the all cotton system.
Attorney C. L. Odell and Dr. T. S.
Brown went to Rome Friday.
Judge C. G. Janes is in Douglas
ville to hold a three weeks term of
Douglas Superior Court.—Cedartown
Standard.
An Echo Join Shiloh
COUNTY TREASURER UTTERBACK RECALLS HIS
EXPERIENCE ON THE BATTLEFIELD.
Has bean Afflicted for Thirty Years with
Army Diarrhea.
A REMEDY FOUiW AT LAST.
From the Nonpareil, Council Bl tiffs. lowa.
County Treasurer A. Utterback, of Glen
wood, la., has long been one of the leading
citizens of Mills County, and since the
days of his service for the Union cause
has labored industriously at his home in
Rawls township, with the result that he
has not only surrounded himself with almost
all the comforts heart could wish, but has
grown into the esteem of his fellow men.
His popularity and standing, therefore,
made his election to the County Treasurer
ship easy. His work as County Treasurer
however, was confining. Coming as he did
from an active outdoor life on tne farm to
the close and confining duties of the treas
urer’s office, he quickly began to run down
in health and to visibly fail in strength and
energy. The Deputy Treasurer, Mr. Lon
Sawyer, is a great believer in the efficacy of
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. His constant
advise to his employer, Mr. Utter back, was
to the effect that he should use these
pills. Finally Mr. Utterback consented,
and now after having used several boxes he
is able to mat" the following statement to
your correspondent:
“Have I used Pink Pills? Yes, sir, and
[ shall continue to use them just so long as
they benefit me as they do now. It is rarely
that I use proprietary medicines, but my
deputy was so enthusiastic over this particu
lar medicine that I consented to try it, and
1 can assure you the benefit has been great.
“I was a member of Company F, 15th
lowa Infantry, and saw my first day’s ser
vice in the battle of Shiloh. The campaign
before Corinth and later the Siege of Vicks
burg were important events in the service as
seen by our company, and as you can readily
imagine we were greatly exposed and ict
times but poorly cared for during those awful
days. In my case, army diarrhoea was the
result. It has been the burden of my life
for over thirty years, but at last I have found
something to conquer it. The Pink Pills
are a success in my case, as I have no doubt
they will be with all who will use them.”
The reporter afterwards called upon
Win. Skillicorn, the popular druggist, and
from hitn "ained the information that Dr.
Williams’ Pink Pills have reached a most
surprising sale in this community. “ But
of all the cures,” said the pharmacist, “that
of Treasurer Utterback is the most remark
able and, at the same time, the most gratify
ing.”
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People
are now given to the public as an unfailing
blood builder and nerve restorer, curing all
forms of weakness arising from a watery
condition of the blood or shattered nerves.
The pills are sold by all dealers, or will be
sent post paid on receipt of price, 50 cents a
box or six boxes for $2.50 (they are never
sold in bulk or by the 100), by addressing
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company, Schenec
tady, N. Y.
It was learned that the preparation finds
many customers in the western part of the
county, where a wide stretch of bottom land
lies between the Missouri River and the foot
hills of the east. The natural dampness of
this section brings on many kinds of sick
ness, and the residents find Dr. Williams’
remedy a source of great relief to them.
W. H. GREEN OF ALEXANDRIA,
OHIO, HAS AN UNENVIABLE
EXPERIENCE.
From the American, Newark, Ohio.
If an has the endorsement of all
classes of people, it must have merit.
The merchant, the housewife, the farmer, 1
are all loud in their praises of Dr. Williams’ <
Pink Pills for Pale People.
Mr. W. IT. Green, who lives near Alex- \
endrin. Ohio, in St. Albans township, is 1
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Mr. Gieen was in the American office re
cently and was enthusiastic in his praise of
these pills. His story told in his own woi'da
is about as follows :
“About six years ago I suffered from an
attack of grip which resulted in locomotor
I ataxia. From this I suffered a living death.
I was for a long time unable to help mysell
and was a constant burden to my family.
One day 1 read in the IPccZZy American
about Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale
. People and I concluded that as it had helped
I others similarly afflicted it might help me.
I went to R. W. Smith, our druggist at
Alexandria, and bought a box of the pills.
The first results were promising and I
purchased several more boxes. They had a
wonderfully reviving influence on my sys
tem. From a helpless invalid not able to
dress myself, I have increased in strength
and health and now do my ordinary work
about the farm, and walk to Alexandria,
i which is about a half mile away, every day.
1 I tell you those pills have done me a won
derful amount of good, and I am willing to
take my oath of that.”
State of Ohio, 1
Licking Co. j ss -
Personally appeared before me, a Notary
Public in and for said county, Mr. W. H.
Green, of St. Albans township, who being
first duly sworn, says that he was a great
sufferer from locomotor ataxia, and that lie
received great relief from that disease by
the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale
People. W. H. Green.
Sworn to and subscribed before me by the
said W. IT. Green this 14th day of July, 1896.
Jas. R. Fitzgibbon, Notary Public.
Sir. Green, whose venerable appearance,
with his long, silvery beard and benevolent
countenance adds conviction to his words,
has lived in St. Albans township for nearly
sixty years, and his word can be absolutely
depended upon. He was deeply in earnest
while talking of his cure by Dr. Williams’
Pink Pills for Pale People.
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People
have an enormous sale. An analysis of
their properties shows that they contain, in
a condensed form, all the elements necessary
to give new life and richness to the blood
and restore shattered nerves. They are an
unfailing specific for such diseases as loco
motor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus’
dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nerv
ous headache, the after effect of la grippe,
palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow
complexions, that tired feeling resulting
from nervous prostration; all diseases re
sulting from vitiated humors in the blood,
such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc.
They are also a specific for troubles peculiar
to females, such as suppressions, irregulari
ties and all forms of weakness. They build
up the blood, and restore the glow of’health
to pale and sallow cheeks. In men they
effect a radical cure in all cases arising from
mental worry, overwork or excesses of what
ever nature. There are i o ill effects follow
ing the use of this wonderful medicine, and it
can be given to children with perfect safety.
These pills are manufactured by the Dr.
Williams’ Medicine Company Schenectady,
N. Y., and are sold only in boxes bearing
the firm’s trade mark and wrapper, at 50
cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, and are
nover sold in bulk. They may_.be had of
all druggists or direct by mail’ from Dr.
Williams’ Medicine Company. The price at
which these pills are sold makes a course of
treatment inexpensive as compared with other
remedies.