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About The Morgan monitor. (Morgan, Ga.) 1896-???? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 3, 1898)
.*tG i A r NilTTBOX. from our hJph pegr®®. f«il»j»ed hy piinpfi’b finfifrrH, i You breathe of iikt? than “burnt rappe©.** Round >ou a memory lin^ern: Of tbofRrwild days of wine and wit, Of j/«fich. peruke and intiion, Whon uprightly Oldfield ruled tho pit And Kervey led thft faMhUm, Whf»n We'lpole trimmed the ship of state* To meet ;h Tory billow. When “jAX t Pug” lampooned tho gronfc, Wh n putt* ru’y playod Bpndillo, Whfin “ worth leu: Moll" amused the oourfc With philosophic chiitttr, When Boiiru'brokf ph*dfc*d tlcHp in port* “Tho u tho wo tor. ” Wh* n fUftBtx d the lightnings of the doan To lu'nd the ey ©m of Btoila, When f&tftug Gonjfnrre towed with nploon Th*' worm, of Gay pi unulla, Whon, f«t*ff4 with tho board's delights (F**r Gkorgi m bucks were giutTons), Tho tawn wparkfi sought tho nhades of ‘*TVhi teV Or tonal -1 the dice ut "Biittosi'A” V7hon Wt hi net a were all f ho vogno For ffcfninhio adorning, When Biddy raised hor Ur* gun . AndVlaok* d her paila at rooming. When loh^piul loud ihooontltet retted tho Macaroni A« < neb hiw diva’s canae engaged-— Faustina otf OoxMoni. DM unalR ox, ooulfi you thrill to speech, In go: . ip none wore greater, ▼Tho.*- ohronicltw* exceed the reach Of Tath or twfKjc’.ntor, Eiiv. ah, jih dumb as dead Queen Armc, You ij ■, a. ponce Unbroken, A rouiPKbt *>f the Georgian span A Han >Vi.ruaj loken | —Louis ^HoQuilland in Hatufdny Itoviow. Hlfl Two Books. A half doacn Wasbington corre- apondents were discussing literary suocesses and failures when some one of them laughed softly in rem- inisoance and mentioned the name of the late Melville Ford of Miehi gan, than whom no man ever in eon- gross was more popular with men of all classes. “I just bnppened to recall,” bo said in response to scverul inquiries, “heari n "M™ r Mel Ford tell about how di lHY!Ttl L be found it to write a book— 1 «.fact, to write two books.” "Wo didn’t know he ever wrote uny,” put iu several. “He didn’t exactly," continued tho speaker,' “but be tried to. As he said to ufd on one occasion: ‘By Jove, I have begun two books and quit on both. Tire first- one begun, “Tho ltt:40 train was tea minutes late,” gfjwith and that was as fur as I could ever it. Then I tried an- other, it began, “‘My God,’cjacu- lated Eliza,” andt I never could get ireyond that point If 1 had been able to have got past that 1 might have become a real author ’ “That was hii little ioko " con tinned tbe correspondent “and per- haps over yonder where there is everything Mel'liu* the‘heart may desire found a fitting conclusion for his two novels so vigorously bo- gun. ’’—Detroit T Free Breaa Mon Wh. tho vvi(r.<t* uo E<mnfi. There are, of dhirnc, 1 many men in bush), us pursuits who devote then;, Jv, js to single branches of trad '. just as there i-.vo men who are do'uttvl to single branches of science. A reporter who wrb seek- mg definite information concerning ni s i tain article of common use whs told that Bo-and-so knew all about it, a statement that was oontii u:ou by another man, who said of bo¬ und Umt ho WiiH “us much inter- ested" rn ins. specialty “as Hie re¬ porter was iu types.” There uio plenty of such men that the public lteiser liears of; men that | devote their lives to special lines of j goods, or it may be to ainglo arti- j ! cles, who are exports and men of I Authority iu tiioir respective busi- nesses and very probably ntou of high Mklary or considerable income; uien of energy, capacity and coq- I centration, who succeed iu what they undertake, Whose efforts make the successful business house.—New York tjun. ... vioturiw* rhotosnmiu. Tho qu.cu of Knghmd keeps all the old pnotbgruphs of her children j which have ever been taken. At ! bniidringhaip there are screens in : tho living room which are simply oovet cw with photographs of royal i relatives, friends, politicians, art-: ists— celebrities of all kinds. But ; tb.t Prince:.s iieatiiuo is the greatest j collector of all. It is told that she bus disposed something like 800 i photograph* about her rooms, to ; Buy nothing of several thousuuds I i etored away in a box. In a Maine — v ---- town there is custard j | a pic association. It originated in a j pie eating match between two farm- j ers nearly a generation ago. Since that timo it bus held an annual fes- j tival with custard pie as tho piece do resistance. The “unrivaled deli- i , cacy is washed down with cider. legion tv ^ former u, u* because the could not ' bi maneuvered save on flat, open ground, while the legion could oper- uw many kind of country 1 lu sixteenth centurv fencing the ! sword was held in the 2 right LJJ hand 3 .,.. 1 a.w,to,h„ blows. ! The fisheries of the Ignited King¬ dom are worth #‘.>2,600,000; those iff England alone, *21,250,000. English coin was first made a legal fonder in 1216. Before this rents had beau paid in produce. TOLD BY THE CIRCUS MAN. Tin Klg G!raff«: Cutclif* ft Cold, WhiHb attics I.i lt« Keek. “Scorns to me I told you once,” said tho old circus man, "about the giraffe haring a sdre throat? It is it serious matter for any giraffe to hare a sort) throat, bad for the gi- raffi; and bad for the owner. When you come to take an 18 foot giraffe like ours, a sore throat meant large expense and a large amount of trou- hie, and the big fellow hadn’t rnore’n got over this before something else happened to him that gave uh oven more trouble. He caught cold, and the cold settled in his throat. I sup¬ pose he was still sensitive there, and it gave him a stiff neck, so that he Couldn’t bend his neck at all. “You aan’t have any idea what a stiff neck means until you see a gi¬ raffe afflicted in that way. We’d had all sorts of trouble with ani- rnals in one way and another, but for, real bother this beat ’em all. We discovered it one day on tho road. The giraffe always ducked his bead under the branches that hung down, sort of Lko a swan or a goose does, but this day, carrying his Lead right up straight in the air, he brought up against a branch that was at least 15 feet above the ground. That was such an amazing thing tlintwe knew something must bo tho matter, and when the gi¬ raffe’s keeper come up and spoke to . . , ,, . ^ , ..... 1,en<1 bis llm ’ a * e l! "’ as nose down and look down, why, wo a ;‘ w he c ° uldu 4 bend hie neck, and then we knew what was tho matter. “Well, of course, the first thing we did was to set a man to march alongside of him with a tent polo, with a crutch iu tho end of it to lift the branches for him. Most of the time—almost all the time, in fact— we could steer him clear of over¬ hanging branches, and of course lots of the way there wus long stretches where there wasn't any trees at all, and then we’d oome to places wnero the man would have to lift a branch to let the big giraffe go under, and a great pity it was, too, to see him compelled to go about in that man¬ ner! ,, He tI went . tha .. . way for . about . ten . used we to P ut bis feed foi him on top of uu unirnal cnge ‘ 80 that he w " al, ln’t have to bend down more than eight or ten but he couldn’t do that now. Bo w « sot a rlhg iu tbe center polo 18 feel from tho ground, and wo used to r MV ° u vo ' ,e trough that and ^akeoneend , fast to the bucket ™ ith ua food or tlrink lu 11 «•»' hoist it up and , lot him tat there, On the road we used to throw that r0 I lfl over ,! ‘e crotch of a tree at a suitable height. For his entry into tbo 8 reilt tent at show time we had to cut a grout slit in tho canvas, but we regret that because it was n niiglity impressivo thing to see him march in in that way. It made ^ inl look 3,i f * 5nt instead of 18. “Twice a day a man used to go up on a ladder and put a strap around his bowl, and we’d hook on a fall with a bo’sun’s chair, and a man would ride down his neck and rub in liniment. He used to like that very much, and it helped liimgreat- Ub too, and one morning when tho went out to givp him the usual rub the y were delighted to see the oltl clln P with his head down pretty neur to tlu ’ ” oof of the grizzly bear ou S e - which stood next to him, w liicli showed that his neck was coming around all right, and also Indicated that he’d take his break- fast thlB looming in tho old way, if you please.”—Now York Sun. ----" Canaiou rictures. The celluloid films used in tho veriscope and vitascopo may be the source of danger if not carefully guarded. Celluloid is extremely ex- plosive and inflammable and a spark may setit off with most terrific re- suits. It would seem that some other materia) should be chosou tor all purposes where intense light and heat are employed. Even the harm- less looking dressing comb may en- danger liie if, while my lady is making her toilet, she brings it too near to the light. In many bourns celluloid articles aro strictly probib- ited for this reason. Especially should this be noted where there m o children who cannot understand the necessity for extreme prudence.— Now York Ledger, strictly practical, “What’s dat you all is study in I" inquired Mr. Erastus Pinkney, “RiAuotick," tepliad “Hffmetiok,” quoted tho boy flu- | j ostljj, “is do science obnumbets.” “ NV,!! ' las’night 1 dream oh cr bowlegged buzzard an or chickeu w.f or glass eye.” ; "Spos’u.joh didl" “'Veil, I'zc gwintcr »•«.>-«/»»™» tost yer cduca- «»', yoh ter 1 tell me whut numbers dem is de signs ob"—Washington Star. It* Motnlug. Little Elmer—Pa, what does "re- quioseat iu pace” meant Professor Broadliead — "Pleaee stay dead" is near enough.—Loudon Tit Bits. . DRAMA AND LITERATURE. Tht It ni.sU»«itioof and the Knlatioa fcf the One to the Other. The painters ha ve long protested against any judgment of their work in accordance with the principles of another art, and at last they have succeeded in convincing the more open minded of us that what is of prime importance in a picture is the way in which it is painted and that its merely literary merit is quite secondary. They are not unreason¬ able when they insist that the chief duty of a picture is to represent the visible world, not to point a moral or adorn a tale, and that in the ap¬ preciation of a picture we must weigh first of all its pictorial beauty. Nor are the sculptors asking too much when in a statue they want us to consider chiefly its plastic beauty. Now, the orator and tho dramatist ask for themselves What has been granted tho painter and the sculptor —they request that an oration or a drama shall be judged not as litera¬ ture only, but also in accordance with the principles of its own art, and here the literary critic is even less willing to yield. He may ac¬ knowledge his own ignorance of perspective and of pigments, of composition and of modeling; he may confess that here the painter and tho sculptor have him at a dis¬ advantage, but he is not ready to admit that he is not to apply his own standards to the works of the orator and of the dramatist On the contrary, he maintains that the speech and the play, if they belong to literature at all, are, by that very fact, absolutely within the province of the literary critic. He cannot see why that which the ora¬ tor and the dramatist may write is not to bo rend and criticised exactly ns that which is written by the nov¬ elist and the essayist and the poet. Indeed it is almost a misrepresenta¬ tion of the literary critic's attitude to suggest that he has need to main¬ tain this position, for it is rarely even hinted to him that he is not fully justified in employing the same tes<8 in every department of literature. Yet nothing ought to be clearer than the distinction between the written word and the spoken, be¬ tween tho literature which is ad- dressed to the eye alone and that which is intended primarily for the ear and only secondarily for the eye It is the difference between words written once for all and words first spoken and then written, or at least written bo that.they may bo spoken. When this distiffetton is seized, it follows that oral discourse is not necessarily to bo measured on the same scale as written discourse, It follows also that the speech and the play may be very good indeed, each to its kind, although tlioy may fail to attain the standard of strictly literary merit which wa should de¬ niand in an essay, a story or a poena.—Professor Brander Mat¬ thews in Forum, Th© daily ii Aired Juror* I _. I. . not . generally ,, known is that j there is a well defined prejudice against curly haired men when it cornea to choosing a jury to try criminal cases. The prejudice, when it is manifested, comes from the do- tense. When asked to explain tho objection to early , . haired , . men, a pi eminent practitioner said: “When I was just starting, my legal mentor ( inculcated that idea in me. Ho said r“ at cu Ui’ haired men had almost j invariably been tha pampered dar- i lings of their parents, and m their j youth nad been so used to saving. thoir own way that they had come to believe that everybody on earth 1 was wrong except themselves. Iu ‘ this way the seeds of opposition were sown, and when they grow older they make it a point to ilisa- groe with everybody and every- thing. If everybody else on the jury votes for acquittal, they vote for conviction us u matter of course, They live on combat and are as stub-; born as the days are long. A curly 1 ha.retl man never gets on the jury j whoa 1 am defending a man if I oan soo him in time. New Orleans Times-Democrat. What She Coat* w eliding a OCC methodical ;f°r TtH English 3 ,; f ! hus- den . band figured up from his carefully kept accounts what his wife had cost him. He had an assured income 5SS ‘JZ went, cost him *600. Her share of ; the household expenses was #636 a j i year. Her clothing and linen cost #250 yearly. Presents, medical at- tendance, amusements and summer I excursions amounted for her share | to #150 annually. He therefore spout «<*h«rto M ms* - a ut«.»n» Trad^. Miss Wabash—Your friend who has just loft us is something of a pessimist, I imagina Miss Halstead—Indeed he isn’t He’s an optician, and he has the cream of tbe west side trade.—Chi- i 1*1 L 3IUC.NI SISTER^. Xtrer n Wt»rd Ii Spoken la This Gloomy Fr«n< ii Convent Near Biarritz. Near Biarritz—happy, brilliant Biarritz—stands the lone, yew em- bordered convent of the silent worn- ! en, the sceurs silencieuses. Hero, not far from the sounding waters of the bay of Biscay, 67 la¬ dies of birth and breeding havo seen fit to immure themselves in what is nothing less than a living tomb. Woman’s tongue has, justly or un¬ justly, been a centuried byword, yet the scours silencieuses voluntarily resign their right to speak and sen¬ tence themselves for the rest of their natural lives to absolute, un¬ broken silence. The convent, which is modeled on that for men at La Trappe, was founded many years ago by a lady of the French oourt who, in. com¬ pany with some friends, sought this solitude and gave her life to God. Who she was, her very identity, is in dispute. Indeed it was hor own wish that the authorities of the Catholic church should preserve her name a secret, and all the women who have followed her into seclu¬ sion here have likewise endeavored to sink their identity. A league from Biarritz, in the di¬ rection of the^Pyrenees, one turns aside from the direct road and en¬ ters a narrow ravine stretching to¬ ward Mauleon. Through woods of beech and wild olive an ill kept, deeply rutted lane leads to a high walled inclosure. Over the walls there is a glimpse of yew trees, and if the visitor be a man that is all he oan see of the silent sisters’ home. Even women travelers are rarely admitted past the heavy wooden gates, with their lunettes for lay sisters to peer through. The convent walk is laid out in long, straight walks, planted on each side by yew trees. Each nun has a walk to herself. It is allotted hor when she enters, and she paces it until her death. Up and down the walk she goes, with silent tread, never raising her eyes, sav6 in prayer, and neverexchanging a syl¬ lable with mortal being. A recent visitor to the convent thus describes what she saws “The lay eister who received us (lay sisters do all the household and garden work and are allowed to talk) would not allow us to ap¬ proach near enough to the nuns to get even a glimpse of their down¬ cast faces. We saw, however, that they wore long black oowls, with great white crosses between the shoulder's and reaching to tho hem of the gown. Save for the crosses, they wore arrayed wholly in black, and black veils draped their faces. "As we watched the chapel bell tolled out, and the scours silencieuses moved toward its open door. We were admitted to the ganery and saw them kneeling in the half light below us. A man’s voice was read¬ ing prayers, but no man could we .see. Afterward we learned that he spoke from behind a screen. He was admitted to the convent chapel by an underground passageway leading beyond tho walls, “At present the chaplain is a rev- erend abbe of nearly 80 years of ng0i who en j oys n reputation for ascetic sanctity throughout Na- V arm The only time tho nun 3 soe i S when ho celebrates mass. "In chapel they bend almost to tho floor, their hands crossed upon their breasts. They eat only vege- tables and drink only water. In the entire history of the order, it is fia ],p there was but one nun who failed; to obey the rules of silence iin j svibuiission. The poor women t h e j r own g raveS) aE( j w fc en they are buried, no marks'their cro«s or monu- ment.of any kind rest- lug place. ik “It very wholesome for tho gav belles of Biarritz and Pan to virdt the scours silenrionses and thoir con vent occasionally Our party could not get the remembrance out of their heads for weeks after. Itpur- guC( j U8 a haunting horror, "Last season some of the Catholio ladie6 at Pau aFkeci leav0 to make what & caHed a ‘hotroat’ at the con- V ent. They received a brief note from tbe mother superior, which read, ‘My children, when you join ns, it must be for life. ’ The idea of the‘retreat’ whs quickly ubaudon- od .-^Boston Globe, Master of a Trade. . mu___i „, . anTso^anvsmier rr transformed p th ^ j im fortanc 0 of” thisTdoa _1 nl , , 1 . asex ' ‘ l5 ns e\ r was, smi- , ,■ IT- ArS economic cuuaitioua — Lhnstian v>oik. I>onk»'j* In IH.ilw, - Donkoys are a large part of the City of Mexico’s capital. 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