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YOL. IX,
TWO WHO FAILED.
A man failed after trying long.
And then sat down and wondered why;
Ho saw not where he had been wrong,
Nor where fair chances had slipped by.
AH tha: he did was sit and gaze
Upon the hopes strewn ’round him there
And wonder on through all his days
Why fate had markod him for despair.
.Another failed and stepped aside
And saw the causes of his woe—
He saw where efforts misapplied
Had aided chance to bring him low—
And, taking note of all the past.
And turning into newer ways,
Ha tried again and filled at last
The hopes of all his eager day3.
# MY NEW HOUSEKEEPER. )
#
# By Horace Eaton Walksb. *
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Of course I do not claim to be a mod¬
el liousekeper; but Adolphus well
knew that I was the child of aristo¬
cratic parents, and he had fair warn¬
ing, too, as my father said, on giving
me to him, that I was a good girl, an
educated young lady, and with a little
patience and perseverance could be de¬
veloped into a real helpmeet.
“I take her for better and for worse,
my dear Mr. Hartshorn,” he said, “and
I really believe that none of us will
live to regret my union with your only
child.”
Of course, we all hoped so and be¬
lieved so; for Adolphus Marston was a
fine young man, of good family, and
with habits of life above the average.
So matters were consummated, I be¬
coming his willing bride.
At first we took our meals at the
nearest restaurant, as our new cottage
was not yet fitted, to the requirements
of my fastidious new' husband. I had
resolved from the very first not to ruf
fle his temper; and while mine was not
of the sweetest, I being to some in¬
tents and purposes a spoiled child, l
Vo far**!*-* •***'«*• "Sr -
saw a growing impatience on
his part, however, and could easily see
that taking his meals at a cafe was de¬
cidedly annoying on account of the de¬
lays of orders, the muddy coffee, the
Impertinence of waiters, and other dis
agreeable etceteras.
Finally I ventured to ask him if he
was tired of taking his meals out. He
was very tired, and was now i ea :oi
business, the business of housekeeping.
“But, Dolphy, may I ask the name
•of our houseksepei.
“It is Adolphus Marston .
I simply stared for so far as I was
•aware, he knew little or nothing o le
culinary art. I patiently awaited
coming events, which were now rapid
ly casting their shadows be oie.
this _
Not long atter we were appi
ly settled in our new home; the res
tanrant was abandoned for all tune
.and our larder fi.led to repletion. Of
•course our first venture was breakfast,
.trnd I wondered at his remaining m
bed so late; as it was an excessively
■cold morning, the sitting room and
kitchen fires would both, need tending.
and he was due at the office at 8
•oclocv.
1 later awakened howevei from „
was
a light nap by hearing Adoiphus mov
ing hurriedly about the sitting room.
An intense dullness was m the atmos
phere, and there seemed to be trouble
ol: some kind.
I wondred what it was, hut I (lid not
wonder audibly. Silence seemed to be
golden at this hour. Presently I heard
Adolphus descend the kitchen stairs,
and arising, I inspected the sitting
room. It was a sight to behold. Ashes
to right of me. ashes to left of me,
ashes everywhere. I could have sat
down and cried; hut as he haa not lost
patience why should I? So, on hear
ing his returning footsteps hastily re
tired, ancl when he re-entered the
room loaded with kindling wood pa
per, shavings and a whole box of
matches, I was as unconscious as the
.seven sleepers. But poking his chilled
nose through the portieres Adolphus
announced:
“Hortense, the sitting room fire is
out.
“Indeed!”
“And the fire is . also out in . the
Jdtchen stove.”
“Can’t I help you?” ^
“Oh, no! I’m the housekeeper for one
week. At the end of that tim I shall
either commit suicide go to a lunatic
asylum or fall into a high fever.”
After more noise than a* threshing
machine, and dust, smoke and
remarks Adolphus announced to
self that the fire was going. As
as he left the room I arose and dressed,
aot to receive callers, but in my
♦To thine own self be true,and it will follow, as night the day, thou cans’tnot then be false to any man.”
LINCOLNTON, GA , THURSDAY, MAY 22. m2.
monest gown, as from present indica¬
tion I knew that the unexpected was
sure to happen, and it did. I under¬
stood very little about a broom, and
much less about a carpet sweeper, but
between them both I managed to make
the sitting room presentable. Then
a call from the kitchen.
“Hortense are you up? ”
“Yes, dear.”
“How much water do you put in bis¬
cuit flour?’
“Just a little, so it will knead, Dol
pliy, dear.”
A rattle of dishes, a noise of spoons
and moulding board, then,—
“Hortense, how much cream of tar¬
tar for a batch of biscuit?”
“I guess a teaspoonful.”
“How much soda?”
“I gless a teaspoonful.”
“You could tell me what a quaver, a
demi-semi-quaver is in music, a bar, a
breve, a crochet, a chord, and not
guess at it. So don’t guess a tea
sponnful, but how much soda.”
“Enough to suit the taste.”
“Tastes differ.”
“So do cooks.”
A half hour passed away, I did not
dare to descend to the kitchen; the
noise there was simply overwhelming.
I could hear him hang the roller over
the moulding board, then crash! He
had dropped a dish, and I heard him
say he didn’t see how a dish could
break into so many pieces. Later I
heard the oven door snap to, a few
hasty steps, and then a deathly silence.
What could it mean? Why this still¬
ness? Had he fallen in a fit from
mental excitement? Or was he quiet¬
ly strapping his razor preparatory to
cutting his throat? The suspense was
horrible. I could not bear it! How
cruel of me not to share his morning's
troubles!
“Hortense!”
The name came with double excla¬
mations, and the voice seemed nat
ural.
“What, dear Dolphy?”
LRrep kf*-^^ LSAiU* '-ir-W -W “o
Wax a relief! I repaired the
room below; sitting in front of the
stove, his chair tilted back, his feet
elevated to a level with his breast, a
glow of culinary satisfaction over¬
spreading his face Adolphus said:
“Hortense, the new cook presents
the compliments of the morning, an
nounces his bill of fare as consisting of
hQt biscuit _ hot coffee> new creamy
butter and the complete solution of
the gervant question . Piease „e seat
^ whne j at the head of the table>
will pour the coffee, pass the butter,
tender the biscuit, and as maid of all
wQrk> carry ofl the honors of the day!”
£ wag only too o la (} to acquiesce, oftn for
j had developed somet hing appe
tite> an(] the prospective SU cces sof our
first housekeeping venture filled me
witb tbose indescribable emotions
eyery new wife must fee i.
(<I certain]y congratulate you, dear
Dolph >. x said seating myself at the
which was steaming cof
rows of plump biscuit, and, beam
Qver alI husb and’s glowing
,
, ‘
. <Horte we have settled the ser
^ quegtion forever and a day .>.
“How?”
..j £ servant faileth, and the new
wife ig not a C ook, turn immediately
tQ tbR new husband, and if possessed
ot - any brains, he will soon start sitting
r0Qm and kitohen fires, prepare hot
rol]S( gems ol . biscuit, as the case may
b(L Elireka! i may well exclaim.|
HorteriSei allow me to assist you to a
beautifuily goiden biscuit!”
‘They were golden, and no mistake.
Tho goda had not been spared, and the
, W oyen had done its work.
<« Are lhey a u right, Hortense?”
<<y ery fair, considering---”
“Considering? Do you mean to say
h}g bco)s ? Try the coffee. The aroma
j haye not beaten the cafe man out. of
, ’“ s beyond compare.”
It djd have al - 0 ma, but as coffee it
wag flat> vapid,- and altogether with
ou j. character; and the creamery but
£cr ; was tbe poore st kitchen cook
ing butter! I could not eat.
“Dolphy, let’s go down to the res
ta.m-ant, get a good square meal, return
home, sand for your mother and my
mo ther, and hold a meeting, prepara
j. ory t ak j E g 0 ur initial steps in suc
cessful housekeeping; for you cannot
CO ok, I cannot cook, and therefore
some body must come who can. Am I
unreasonable?”
“I guess not.”
“Shall we do it?”
“By all means.”
And it all resulted in the fact that
our mothers secured us a cook, a
chambermaid, a washerman, and
thqugh Adolpus has not solved the
mooted servant question, I am still
alive, and he has not committed suicide
nor made any more golden biscuit.—
Waverley Magazine.
Tile Classic Spivit in Greece.
The classic spirit still prevails in
Greece. It even pervades the common
council, or whoever has the duty of
naming the streets, for they are near¬
ly all called in honor of the ancient
gods, philosophers and poets of the
golden age. The Boulevard of the Uni¬
versity and the Boulevard of the Aca¬
demy arei the broadest and the finest
avenues in the residence portion of
the city, while the principal business
street is named in honor of Mercury.
Othei strees are called after Solon,
Aesculapius, Hippocrates, Aristotle,
Thucydides, Pericles, Sophocles, Mean
der. Aphrodite, Pan, Hebe, Apollo, Ju
piter. iheseus, Philip, Constantine j
and; most of the holy apostles One
of the principal hotels i* the Minor- j
va, and it is the fashion to christen :
shops in honor of the great men of
.
the past. !
Classic names are also retained in
baptizing children. You frequently 1
hear of Hermes, Alcibiades and Hom¬
er, and ir ydu will look into the di¬
rectory you will be reminded of ilV
muster roll of the army of Agamem¬
non, which you will find in the early
part of Homer. Achilles, Ajax, Mene
laus, Miltiades, Leonidas, Themisto
cles and other names equally familiar
to students of Greek, are in daily use
among the people.—Chicago Record
Herald.
Tnrqnoifces Tpra Bi'een.
About one woman in three cannot
wear turquoises, the fashionable stone
of the day, without turningthem green.
Some turquoises will turn green after
being worn by any woman. Jewelers
of the first class guarantee to replace
turquoises if tfosv turn grezn, .and the
annual cost ,of is siu
ployes go' round with dozens of tur-1
quoises strapped next to their skin to ;
try to detect the green ones, but even,
when they have passed this test some
ol them will be brought back to custo¬
mers having turned a hideou3 green.
No reason is known for the chang
ing of color.
Fashion decrees that every woman
must have a turquoise. Earrings, hav¬
ing come again, the turquoises are set
either plain or with one dianond above
them, or in a circle of small diamonds.
You san spend $500 for a very simple
turquoise ornament. The fashionable
pearl, earring or pendant, is set one
pearl, with a diamond above it. You
can get the sort of pearl hat a fash¬
ionable woman calls presmtable for
$1,500.—New York Press.
Fresh-Water Fishes in a Salt Bay.
According to residents in the vicin
ity of Bay Farm Island liridge a re¬
markable discovery which may ac¬
count for the famous “sink” on the
narrow guage which has cist the rail¬
road company so dear has-been made
by Charles Raddits, an oysterman,
known as “Deaf Charlie.”
Raddits in his fishing discovered
tbbv m akins a cast of ;he fine in a
cel -tain spot he caught trort. The
f . water fl sb W ere o! a peculiar
spec j es and 0 f a deliciois flavor. A
natural arte sian well gushed fo h in
f emptied its waters into
^ ' Fnm om i , un .
. th t hi
b«u c blind ’ hart’ found exit into the
bay w _ 1 f * , “ . h •
™ the ch °Pe volume m ns, tfla confined , Y , p by „ Te the , . ,, s d .
1 " g sa!t water - 1 ‘shing within a -
dlus of ten feet P rotlll £ed trout, w n
a little distance oft there were re--,
! cod or perch. Raddits - caught sn .
i water flsh on one slde ot thereat and
| fresh Chronicle, on the other.—San Francisco
j
Mere Opinion.
It. is no disgrace to he poor, but it
is often inconvenient.
. few touches of nature h
j A smc'
many a wrinkled skin.
i Experience is school. It is als
a
trying, at times.
Absence of your wife’s relatives
makes the heart grow fonder.
The sweetest me is not always in
the largest nut. A great pedigree may
contain little virtue -Chicago Record
Herald.
Tlie Trench Region of Honor.
The largest order ot merit in the
world is the French Legion of Honor,
which now has reached half a million
members.
The Port of London.
Prom Australia come hides, the
pelts of sheep, and bales of wool;
there are iron-bound cotton bales
from America, sacks of almonds from
Spain, and of nigger-toes from Brazil;
there are pipes of wine from Madeira
and Oporto. The wharves that line
the docks are redolent of the tropics
and of the Orient. Here is a shed
covering acres, in the lofty twilight
of which are piled huge roughly
squared logs of mahogany from the
West Indies, and logs of teakwood
from the East Indies, to be used in
the building c-t iron-clads. In the
spacious dusk of the warehouse be
yon d, gunny-sacks of half-refined
sugar from Jamaica rise symmetri
C ally to the very rafters, wafting a
faintj rich pe rfume, while in the cel
j ars beneath brown sugar from New
o r i eans jjes j n hogsheads, oozing
treacIe that gathers in b!ack lfl
on the sticky floor . There are mats
o£ dates figs alld pruIwUes , hogsheads
of pruneg( baIes of cinnamon, cloves,
and allspice. The sky overhead is
sodden and gray, perhaps, and a film
of mist swims upon the water, but un
der the spell of this riot of incense the
loitering red-sailed barges are like
Venetian galleys.—Scribner’s.
S BED HOT BUIS
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*0 Shoes &
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Shoes than e was
It. G. TARVER, Manager. Before.
2 ur One Dollar Brogan is better. Our One Dollar and Twenty-live
Cents Brogan beats the world;
Our One Dollar and Ditty Cents Shoes are simply superb. Dollar acd
Our Two Dollar Vici Kid Shoes a big value. Our Two
Fifty Certs Hand-sewed Shoes are the best on the market.
We can give vou Ladies Shoes at 75c, but the Shoes we want to eel 1
rou are $1.00 ancl $1.25 Ladies every day Shoes and our $1.25 and $1.50
Ladies Dress Shoes. They are BED HOT BARGAINS and don’t you
forget it. Now our $2.00 Ladies Shoes are as good as anybody’s $3.00
Shoes. of Shoes thia
We never forget the Children and Babies and this line
leason is better than ever before.
HATS! HATS! HATS!
Our prices in Hats are simply Tornado Swept. We give you Boys
Hats 10c, a real good Hat 25c. Men's Felt Hats 65c, Men’s Extra Good
Felt Hats $1.00, and so on to the end. within mile of this in
We don’t expect any one to come a us season
Price and Quality. When in the city be sure to Call and Examine and be
Convinced.
GREAT
907 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
The Empress of japm.
In the matter of the emancipation of
Japanese women it is not generally
known that the lady who has done
more than anybody else for her sex in
the land of the chrysanthemum is the
present Japanese Empres-s. Her influ
ence has been exerted in small things
as in large. She has entirely revolu
tionized the educ ation of girls, and
the cOrner -st 0ne will be put on the sys
tem garly next year by the opening of
& unlvergity for women in Tokio. It
waa she who, in the early seventies,
^ y hgr example> put an e nd to the old
, ustom of marr i e d women blackening
heir teeth. From the western point
t view the most commendable inno
ition for which her majesty has
1 sen responsible is the introduction of
E ropean dress in place of the fault
le s costume of Japan. Still, there is
ev n a reason for this, the contention
xag that a Japanese lady is treated
I! 0-6 respectfully by her husband
red she is in European dress than
- ns retaining her national costume.
Expressed His Gratitude.
g Edward recently presented a
me- •• to James Haylett of the English
life-t ng corps in recognition, of halS
a cem rfs service. “I,hope you will
live to Le a hundred, and then go to
heaven,” said Haylett. Whereat his
majesty laughed heartily.
NO, 51.
Firearm Lore
The caiber of a firearm is the diame¬
ter of the barrel; that is, the hole
through which the charge is projected.
Rifles are measured by caliber and
shotguns by gauge, says the Buffalo
Express. The term bore is frequently
used Interchangeably, though in its
most general use it refers to large
weapons of special make. The ele¬
phant guns of African travel tales are
always referred to as having bore.
But hereabouts caliber and gauge are
the terms most used.
A 1-caliber rifle would be a rifle with
an inside barrel diameter of one inch.
Thus a 50-caliber weapon would have
an inside barrel diameter of half a»
inch, and the 32-caliber arm would
carry a ball sized for a barrel .32 oi
an inch in diameter.
Rifle and revolver measurements ara
made on a scale of their own. One
might think they would follow tha
theory of cents, dimes, quarters and
halves, so long as they are reckoned by
decimals, hut they don’t. The small¬
est caliber, unless a special size, is .22.
From that rifles and revolvers ara
built in recognized sizes up to 50-cali¬
ber. Beginning with the 22-caliber,
the standard American sizes are as fol.
lows: .22, .30, .32, .38, .44, ,45, .50.
Sir Boyle Koche’a “Bulls.”
He was the father of “bulls.” It
was he that asserted that “the best
way to avoid danger is to meet it
plump.” At another time in extending
a warm invitation to a friend, he re¬
marked: “I hope, my lord, if you ever
come within a mile of my nouse, that
you’ll stay there all night.”
He may have been the fool of the
Grattan parliament, but there was a
good deal of native shrewdness hidden
away behind all his foolishness. To
Curran, when the latter once exclaimed
in the midst of a debate that he need¬
ed aid from no one, and could be “the
guardian of his own honor,” Sir Boyle
instantly interjected his sarcastic con¬
gratulations to the member on his pos¬
session of a sinecure. But possibly
the gem of his rhetoric was the pic¬
ture which he conjured up on one oc¬
casion to bring home to his hearers
the excesses of the French revolution¬
ary mob:
“Here, perhaps, sir, the murderous
Marshall Law Men (Marseillois) would
break in, cut us to mincemeat, and
throw our bleSding heads on that ta¬
ble to stare us in the face.”
Mrs. Flynn—"An* phwat's yer sou
Moike doin’ now, Mrs. Casey?” Mrs.
Casey—"Skure, Moike ain’ doin’ anny
hing, Mrs. Flynn. He’s got a govern¬
ment job.”*-—Loslifl’s Weekly.