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County Directory.
SUPERIOR COURT.
Hon. B. B. Bower, Judge; J. W. Walters, So¬
licitor General; J. H. (Jorum, Clerk. Spring
*— - -ii second Monday iu March.
tSHa-wHui**' -Vott.i Monday its a . -' •«» «-
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COUNTY COURT.
L G. Cartledge, Judge. Quarterly May, sessions and
4tli Mondays in Monthly February, sessions, August Itli
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3. J. Beck.
COUNTY SURVEYOR.
•. F. Horton.
COMMISSIONERS R. R.
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JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND NOTARIES
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held jgsjrrsf-ffiassjw.'as third Wednesday in each month.
1123d District—J. L. Wllkerson, J. P.. John
Hasty, N P. Court* field second Thursday in
•ach month.
830th District—J. C. Price, J. P.; H. W. Pace,
H, P. Court* held third Saturday in each
month.
1283d District—O. J. McDaniel, J. P. Court*
held first Saturday in each month.
1304th District—Morgan Bunch, J. P.; J. A,
Cordray, N. P. Courts held first Saturday in
•ach month.
18 ! 6th Distrlot—T. W. Holloway, J. P.| Ken
nedy Strickland, N. P.
Baker County Directory.
SUPERIOR COURT.
B B. Bower, Judge; J. W. Walters, Solicitor
General- B. F. Hudspeth, Monday Clerk. in May. Spring Fall
term convenes on fli st
term on flist Monday In November.
COUNTY COURT.
Tno. O. Perry, Judge. Monthly sessions
held first Mondays-Quarterly sessions.
COMMISSIONERS R . R.
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COUNTY OFFICERS.
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■ui veyor, C. D. Brown,
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND NOTARIES
PUBLIC.
871st District—S. J. Livingston, -T. P.; W. C.
Odom V, p. o ourts held 1st featurday iu each
mon tli.
800th District—G. T. Galloway, J. P.; T. H.
Caskle, N P- Courteheld 2d Saturday m each
month.
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Johnson, N. P. Cour!3 held 3d Saturday in
•aca month.
1183d District—L. J. Mathis, J. P-, R E- Mc-
Cullun N- P. Court* held 4th Saturday in
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French Fiction.
The novels of some French authors are
seductively charming to those who yield to
their spell. Yon do not care actively for
anything in the world or out of it if only the
world will let you alone for the time. This
school of novelists cannot be credited with
writing fiction for a premeditated purpose.
They reveal hidden iniquities, but it is more
lor the interest of the narrative than with
any view to illuminate them for the purpose
of reform. Its authors are not the cham¬
pions of an idea, as is Victor Hugo, nor the
avengers of social abuses. They tell the
story for the story’s sake, and with the
choice masterpieces of literature around
you, you yet find yourself wasting hours
and days lost in the dreamy fascinations of
French fiction. You become demoralized
to au extent that it is easy to conceive of
heaven as a place to lie en the sofa and
read novels, and when the demands of ac¬
tual life force you back to it again it is only
by a strong effort that you can emancipate
yourself from this enthrallment which neith¬
er your taste, judgment nor conscience ap
proves. Nothing can be more at variance
with a high" ideal of life than the motives of
these French romances. The basis of each
is one that every instinct of one’s nature
condemns. It is a motive that has no
legitimate use in romantic fiction, and yet
on it the author relies for the fascination of
his story. After a period of this excitement
of imagination ordinary life is like water
after wine; like a quiet evening alone after
a week of thrilling drama or opera; like
daylight after the ball. It requires, there¬
fore, no rigid Puritan conscience to com¬
prehend that there is moral poison, moral
danger, in this reading, if carried to any
excess. The time given is not only lost,
but time is lost in extricating one’s self
mentally, from its influence- Yet as each
life that is at all individual or distinctive in
ts aims must taste for itself the tree of good
and evil, so every reader will test for him
self this school of fiction. As the highest
form of innocence is not ignorance, but
rather that knowledge which, compremen
ding that virtue and vice exist, del iberately
.oVinnaes^irtue^ ao f . indee<> Tt rr,'uy no t be
unwise to experence for one s selt ttteintei-
leetual inertia that is the fatal result of this
class of reading, and onca knowing, forever
after,
Old Si Gives his Estimate of Kin Folks.
Amos was looking very sad when he came
into the office.
“What’s de matter now!" asked solicitous
Old Si.
“Well, Ise bodder’ ’kase ob de human
kontraiiness ob mankinl”
“An’ what’s dat hez up-sot yo’ faith in de
univarsiniss ob onkalkerlatin’ natur’?'
“Well, yer kno’s dem fokes ob my ole
’oman?”
"i does!”
“Well, dey's bin down dar at my house
’bout two monfs, yer kno’ jess layin ’round
gittin’ ’way wid hash an’ flapjacks at de
skedjule ob three meals er day by de town
clock.” i
“I heer’d dey wuz bunkin’ on yer!” said
Old Si.
“Well, I stood dat ’bout ez long ez I’se
gwine ter, kase yisterday arter de ole man
hed draw’d two dollarB fer wurkin’ at de
’leckshun, I axed him fer ter len’ me er
quarter ter git my shoes patch’d an’ he
fused me pint blank an’ cuss’d round like
I’d tried to borrow his stummi«k works!"
“He did?”
“Fer er fack! I tell yer, now, dese kin
fokes is moughty onthankful an’ hard to git
eben wid!” lick!”
“Now you’se strikin’ de rite ex
claimed Old Si. “I’se seen dat all my bo’n
day8 an’ de onptinted scriptur ob dat speri
ence are dat I'd rudder hab er good fren
dat iz fcead-cook at er hotel dan er string
ob kin fokes ez long ez Sherman’s army!’
“Dat remark plumps de middle man!”
assented Amos, with marked enthusiam.—
Georgia Major.
Receiving a Deputation.
After the seven years’ war, the strict dis¬
cipline which Frederick II. of Prussia had
introduced into the army caused great dis¬
satisfaction among the so diers. Even in
the regiment of the Potsdam Guards a few
turbulent spirits banded themselves together
to enforce a claim to certain priveliges, to
which, however, they were not entitled.
Without reflecting on the severe penalties t.o
which they were liable under the military
laws, they went straight to Sans Souei, the
residence of the King. Frederick saw them
coming, and went out to meet them on the
terrace in front of the palace. Before the
ringleader of the malcontents could say a
single word, the King commanded: “Hail!
Attention!—Right about face!—March!”
The whole band obeyed the word of com¬
mand with the greatest precision and march¬
ed off, awed into submission by the eye and
voice of their old commander, and glad
enough to escape without punishment.—Der
Wanderer.
LEARY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1883.
A Lah-de-dah- Sort of a Chap he was, but
a Thoroughbred for All That
\
“I got badly left in forming a hasty opin¬
ion of the lab de-dah Captain of an English
iron-clad,” said Captain Ormiston of the
British steamship Effective, now lying at
this port. “During the recent war in Egypt
I took out supplies to Alexanderia. and
after discharging, received orders to go to
Berwu kport for a charter. I knew nothing
of the place, and had no chart of the north
coast aboard the steamer. NoDe of the
merchant Captains could supply me, and I
finally concluded »o apply to the Captain
of the iron-clad Invincible, that lay close
alongside of us, as a last chance. I pulled
up to the gangway, and was met by one of
the officers, who said I would have to wait
a few moments, as the crew were going to
quarters. As he spoke the boatswain’s
whistle was heard, clear and sharp, abo've
the hoarse calls of his mates. Immediately,
as if by magic, yards began to come down
and to go aloft, the blue jackets rushing to
and fro on deck, and of a sudden, bang !
off went one of the 80-ton guns fit to take
your head off. After the men were ‘piped
down’ 1 made my way up to the bridge,
when I found a little lighthaird man trot¬
ting 9 up and down. His hat was cocked
rougishly on the side of his head; he wore
long side whiskers, and an eyeglass dangled
from a gold chain about his neck. As 1
approached, he halted suddenly, whirled
about on one foot, screwed his eyeglasses
into his eyes, and, in a sweet little piping
voice, said:
“My deah fellah, what can aw do faw
you ?"
“He cut such a figure that 1 was tempted
to laugh in his face, but, controlling myself,
I stated iny errand. Immediately the little
man had all the quartermasters runnning
to find his sub'officers, and in a jiffy they
returned, and, touching their caps, they be¬
gan to report that Mr. A. was ashore on
liberty, Mr. B. had gone to Cairo, and that
Mr. C. was away in the first cutter—and so
on. He then turned to me, and rubbing
h ; s hands said:
“My deah fellah, Berwickpqrt f ^ is a very
trouble-iu fine place, getting aw jjjgjah you there
in; aw was once
myself.”
“Thinks I, what an ass this man is, and
touching my hat I was about to go, when a
big, sailor-looking officer appeared and in¬
formed the Captain that there was no chart
of the British north coast aboard the ship.
Thanking the Captain for his trouble, I
went over the side and pulled for my own
ship.
“No doubt you would have agreed with
me that the Captain was no sailor and a
fool besides, but you would have been mis¬
taken, as I was. The next night the Invin¬
cible went to sea with a man in the chains
heaving the lead. Of a sudden the breast
strap parted and away went the man ovi r-
board. The same little captain was on the
bridge. Instantly the foppish airs were gone
and the true sailor appeared. Pulling the
bells, he stopped the vessel, and just as he
stood, oilskins and all on, went overboard
to rescue his man. One of his lieutenants
and a quartermaster jumped overboard to
assist their commander. Instantly all was
incuse uproar. All hands were on deck,
All the boats were lewered, and the four
men in a few minutes were safe on board the
Invincible. The leadsman was entangled
in the line, and would certainly have drown¬
ed but for the prompt assistance of the
Captain. In addition, this was the fourth
man that same officer had rescued from
drowning. His crew swore by him. He
was a peer of the realm, and a better officer
does not walk the deck of an English ship
t.o-day. No, gentlemen, you can’t always
tell the man by the cut of his jib.”
*
Timber in The South.
The wooded lands of Mississippi com¬
prise 20,000,000 acres.
It is computed that the forests of Texas
will supply the whole country with timber
for one hundred years.
North Carolina has an acreage of grow¬
ing timber amounting to about seventy-
five per cent of her territory.
The yellow pine forest’s of Florida ex¬
tend over three fifths of the six counties of
Putnam, Marion, Sumter, Polk, Hernando
and Hillsborough.
Louisiana’s timber lands cover 15,000,000
acres. It is said that the lumber business
of Maine and Michigan wili ultimately be
transferred to Florida and Louisiana.
A great pine belt stretches across south¬
ern Georgia and Alabama to the rivers that
flow into Mobile bay. The pine forests of
Georgia aione cover an area of about 11
5000,000 acres.
There are immense tracts of cottonwood
along tbe Mississippi and its tributaries.
The cottonwood tree reaches the height of
seventy feet, and planks from four to six
feet wide are easily cut from it. It is per¬
fectly free from knots and pitch.
Bogus “Old Masters."
The artist raked around among a pile of
lumber iu a corner and drew forth a small
picture that.looked old and dirty enough to
have been the work of the court painter ol
one of the Pharaohs.
“There it is—a Madonna and child.
Doesn’t it thrill you to think that you stand
face to face with a masterpiece of the
famous old world artist ? Look closely and
tell me shat you think of it."
It was unframei, with the varnish and
brush marks showing up plainly on its
surface, while the sweet faces of the two
figures looked out of the surrounding dark¬
ness with the heavenly expression peculiar
to the great paiuter.
The reporter expressed his delight and
asked the value of the gem.
“You would hardly think that pictures
like that, with all the signs of age upon
them, could be turned out by the hundred
every week, would you ? ' asked the artist.
“Put they can and they would impose upon
good judges, too. Look at the back. It
has that peculiar old look that only belongs
to canvas upon whose front paint has been
deposited. But look at the sides.” The
gentleman showed that the bent down edges
on the sides of the stretcher were of white
painted canvas that would have been cov¬
ered up in a frame, and the fraud was
apparent. The painted canvas was cover¬
ed on the front of the picture, and the op¬
eration evidently was to get a canvas
painted on one side with some neutral gray
tint, and then to print upon it,
fashion, the painting intended to be forged.
Then a fifth-rate artist had been employed,
as soon as the chromo painting was dry, to
go over it, with a brush, pick out the high
lights and emphasize the shadows with his
brush. A thick coat of varnish was the
next thing, and the genuine Raphael was
ready for the market.— Pittsburgh Dis¬
patch.
What is Work ?
I may perhaps be allowed to put the
opening questiou, What is work? The
H lv is, “Any pursuit hr which a
man yarns or attempts to earn a ii/eiiuood
and to accumulate wealth ” This definition
is thy more to be regretted ne jause u cher¬
ishes, or iather begets, the vulgar error that
all persons who do not aim at the accumu¬
lation of wealth are “idlers." In point of
fact such men may be doing far greater
services to the world than the most diligent
and successful votary of a trade or a pro¬
fession. . Darwin, having a competency, was
therewith content. To him, and to others
of kindred minds, the opportnnity of devot¬
ing his whole life to the search after scien¬
tific truth was a boon immeasurably higher
than any conceivable amount of wealth.
Shall we call him an idler? Nor is
science the only field which opens splendid
prospects to men of independent means.
Art, literature philanthrophy, have all their
departments, unremuuerative in a commer¬
cial point of view, or at least not. directly
remunerative, and for all these cultivators
are wanted. Therefore reversing the advice
given by routine moralists, 1 would say to
wealthy young men of ability: “Do not
take up any trade, business, or profession,
but do some of the world’s unpaid work
Leave money making ro those who have
no other option, and be searchers for
truth and beauty.” Every one who follows
this advice will contribute something to
show the world that the race for wealth is
not the only pursuit worthy of a rational
being. I should define work as the con
scious systematic application of mind or
body to any definite purpose.
A copy of Moody and Sankey’s volume
of hymns lately reached one of the Turkish
posioffices in Armenia to the address of an
American missionary. Of late the imperial
restrictions on the importation of foreign
literature, as well as on the printing press,
have become more stringent than ever, so,
as a matter of course, Moody and Sankey
must pass under the eagle eye of Bukb
sheesh Effendi, the Governor General’s fac¬
totum, who knows a few words of
English. He was ail the sharper on
this occasion because he had very
recently passed by inadvertence a book
consisting of letters from one of the
New York papers, the author of which
roundly denounced the misgovernment he
had witnessed in Armenia during the cam¬
paign of 1877. And this volume was ad¬
dressed to the same quarter as the present
hymn book. “Dogs,” exclaimed Bukhs-
heesh Effendi, as he turned over the leaves.
“Hold the fort! What fort ? Treachery, as
I live! May satan seize them 1” They were
patriotic songs for the u-.e of the Armenians,
those hymns, and the musical notation
proved it; and that particular song, “Hold
the Fort,” must have refereuce to an inten¬
ded insurrection. So “Hold the Fort*’ was
cut out by order of Bukbsheesh, and the
expurgated volumes sent to its destination.
Rejecting Books for Various Reasons.
1 once picked out a handsome assort¬
ment for a customer about to refurnish his
house. He had no acquaintance with books,
but he looked over the titles, and made some
rather interesting expurgations. He told
meto put all the standard 'thorities, anyway,
and he would attend to the rest. He threw
out “In the Meshes,"—which he supposed
to be a book on fishing—because he was
"no angler." Boswell’s “Life of Johnson”
was rejected because he didn't want political
campaign works, and wouldn’t have the
biographies of the Presidents, they all lied
so. His wife discarded “The Sparrowgrass
Papers’’ on the ground that they did no
want any books about, vegetables, and “The
Law and the Prophets" was not wanted be
cause the old gentleman had given up busi¬
ness altogether. The man who once pur¬
chased “The Mill on the Floss,’’ believing
it ‘.o be an account of a prize fight, was a
tolerably well-informed man compared with
this customer, who said that “Beauties of
the British Dramatists” was a sell, because
the work “did not contain a picture of one
of them." He expected to find it full of
portraits of actresses. The man even held
up a fine edition of “Plutarch,” and asked
how many lives a man was supposed to
have. He had not once thought ol opening
the work. These men do not bother us
ranch, for they are easily satisfied; but what
do you think of a gentleman who refuses to
puy his bill because you have “left out the
dictionary—the most important work of
all”—from a complete edition of “old Dan¬
iel Webster’s works." This mixing up of
the Websters seems to be a chronic disease
with a certain sort sf buyers.
The Seminole Indians and Their Happy
Condition.
-
They are small in statue, pure copper
color, with more regularly formed features
.i than .i them sturdier . j* . brethren of the XT North. ,
, J ru he dress , of , . brave is a breech clout and
a
an ordinary calico or checked , , , shirt. ,. Their .
hea , , wonderfully picturesque. A .
gear is
brightly colored shawl is carefu ly folded
and pressed out fl t, and then coiled into a
'Hfcaf^rmoreiu diameter. Fancy
feathers ami ornaments are p'aceu m tm ■
turban, which is worn like a Turks. Its
bright colons and curious shade suggest a
coincidence in taste with Mexican and Pe-
ruvian Indians. The squaws are excep-
tionally pretty and petite. They are lig ter
in color than the braves, and are very coy
and modest in the presence of a white man,
probably because they seldom seo them.
They wear two garments, a short calico
skirt and a very contracted jacket.
They wear all sorts of ornaments, alliga¬
tor teeth, curious bones, wild tiogs’ teeth,
and cheap jewelry, which the brave pur¬
chases in the town before he begins drink¬
ing. Like all Indian women they do nearly
all the drudge-y, but the braves are gene
ally kind to them. The children are deli-
cate-looking little things, but the pappooses
are really beautiful babies. These Indians
go from place to place in a cypress dug out,
which is wider than the regular Indian ca¬
noe, and which they usually row instead of
pole, owing to the fact that the water in this
country is deep. They are very expert in
using the oar. They do not do away with
the pole entirely, however. An Indian in
the bow of the boat rows one oar, and
another sits in the stern with a pole, with
which he rows and steers. The sharply cut
dug out glides quietly through the water, the
speed being quite wonderful. The boats go
300 miles into Lake Okeechobee, and a
Florida Indian is as happy in one as he is
on shore.
The Squire’s Lecture.
Five honest Virginia farmers were once
convened as an examining court. The sub¬
ject of their examination was a boy who
had been arrested upon a grave charge, and
the question was, should he be held for trial
at the circuit court.
The honest farmers knew little of law, but
they were kind-hearted and not without that
mental quality which is known as “horse
sense.”
They listened to the evidence; it was con¬
clusive against the prisoner. But he was
very young, and might reform if given
another chance. Should he be seat up for
trial, he would be sent to prison and be
ruined.
So the kind-hearted justices agreed that
the eldest among them, old Squire H., should
give the youth a severe lecture, and then
discharge him.
The squire, impressed with his seiious
duty, arose, ordered the prisoner to stand
up, looked fiercely at him, and talking
through his nose, said:—
“Youug man! it’s awfql—awful, I saj!
Clear out of sight,-you scampi 1 '
my oruary
And he did, amid the roars of laughter
from the spectators, while the squire red¬
dened with indignation that such a solemn
lecture should be received with ill-timed
mirth.
Yol. I. No. 43.
SCIENCE AND ART.
In Breslau, Germany, a chimney fifty feet
high, has been erected of pape pulp chem-
ieally prepared to resist combustion.
The Scientific American says that a non¬
conductor of electricity has yet to be found.
Tjie best conductor known at present is
silver, and the worst solid paraphine.
A new industry in Japan is said to be
that of lacquering plaster so as to resemble
marble. On a basis of clay this-lacquer
work is especially novel and effective.
There is iu Turin, Italy, a boat made
from a single pearl and weighing less than
halt an ounce. Its sail is of beaten gold,
studded with diamonds, and the binnacle
light at its prow is a perfect ruby, Its
rudder is an emerald ; and its stand, a slab
of i/ory. It is valued at five thousand
dollars.
The shape of the new British man of-war
Mars is so peculiar that her keel cannot be
laid in any of the usual building slips, and
the vessel must be constructed in one of the
docks. Great care is taken to prevent
strangers having any opportunity of making
any examination of the model and draw¬
ings.
A new article of manufacture in theshap
of an ink paste has been recently intro¬
duced to the stationery trade. The ink is
put up in packages of sheets of the compo¬
sition, divided into squares, each of which,
when immersed in about two thimblefuls
of water, produces, it is said, a brilliant
fluid-flowing ink.
'J he following is the prescription of a
Chinese doctor for chills and fever: Dried
snskes, pulverized, loz.; wasps and their
ne8ts > * - oz -1 centipedes, 3 oz.; scorpions
® 02 > ai ‘d toads, 10.; oz. These choice i’
gredierits are ground into powder, mix
up with honey and made into pills.
Mr. ,, n G. r> R. T Howell, r „ New „ „ York, , in .
paper , before r the ., Albany ., Institute
the open Polar Sea theory for the
, 1. ... Water „ fowl „ ,
reasons. Greenl go regu
Hpi ,„g northward from
. As tho , w 7
1(:e oam „ r ,
, ^ C() , d foAibifd {Q L
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, n a r! r \
0PcurrfLnce 0 f w *vr m w nde ft fir'eum-
polar „ eiK i onS| a8 ver5fied £ y / rftr8 in
h{gh ktitudeg . 3 xhe occnrre ce 0 f f n -
^ ^ durjng the loug ftrclie winterB ,
wou ld be unaccountable ifthereigion
for ten degr „ e8 around the po | e were
cold afJ the zone of tfae ice _ barrler
thwefore a9 calm aa the equatorial be
Odd Thoughts.
Stern wrote: “Were I in a condition
stipulate with death, I should certainly dt
dare against submitting to it before m;
friends, and therefore I never seriousl.
thi ik upon the mode and mannsr of thi»
grjat catastrophe, but I constantly draw
me curtain across it with this wish, that
the Disposer of all things may so order it
that it happen not to me in my house, but
rather in some decent inn.”
Otway said: “In all other uneasy chances
of a man’s life, there's an immediate re¬
course to smoke kind of succor; in want
we apply to our friends; in sickness to
physicians; but love, the sum total of all
misfortunes, must be endured in silence
uo f riend so dear to trust with such a secret
nor remedy in art so powerful to remove
its anguish,”
Samuel Johnson wrote: “In a man’s
letters his soul is naked—whatever passes
within him is there shown undisguised:
nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, but
to make a letter Without affection, without
wisdom, without gayety, without news, and
without a secret is, doubtless, the great
epistolic art.”
Tr
He Would Be a Gentleman.
The other day Miggs came down town
and jubilantly announced that there had
arrived an heir to the “goods, chattels and
choses an action" of the firm of Miggs and
his wife.
“What is it?” inquired one of the sympa¬
thizing friends.
“Girl, by gum 1” joyfully remarked
Miggs.
“Aw 1” said several of the crowd con¬
temptuously, and then ihey berated Miggs,
“as men will do,” for not starting his family
with a boy, who would tie tin cans to dogs’
tails and grow up to be a president.
Tbe rallying of his friends made Miggs
feel like he had committed a crime.
Just then old Major De Baligethy drew-
Miggs aside and said:
“Mine freudt, ven dry meek zo mooeh
fun mit you like dot, I dell you vot you do.
You dell dem dot ven ycur poy he dp coom!
he wiil pe a sbentlemans, ladiespassfust,!^' vor he ha^h stood
aside and let dt
Then Miggs rejoined the crowd and drank
beer at the expense of some other fellow &U
day.—Georgia Major,