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DUBLIN, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16,1879.
NO 44
THE TWO LIGHTS.
“ ‘When I’m a man/’ is the poetty of youth.
‘When I was young/’ is the poetry of old
age.”’
“When I’m a man,” the stripling cries,
And strives the coming years to scon—
“Ah, then I shall be strong and wise,
When I’m a man I”
“When I was young,” the old man sighs,
“Bravely the lark and linnet sung
Their carol under sunny skies,
When I was young!”
“When I’m a man, I shall be free
To guard the right, the truth uphold.”
“When I was young I bent no knee
To power or gold.” -
“Then sltall I satisfy my soul
With yonder prize, when I’m a man.”
“Too late I found how vain the goal
To which I ran."
“When I’m a man these idle toys
Aside forever shall be flung.”
“There was no poison in-my joys
When I was young.”
The boy’s bright dream is all before,
The man’s romance lies far behind.
Had we the present and no more,
Fate were unkind.
But, brpther, tolling in the night,
Still count yourself not all unblest
If in the east there gleams a light.
Or in the west.
—Blackwood’s Magazine
“HANG THE BABY.**
“Then yon won’t go, Alice ?”
“No, Herbert—I am sorry—but
the baby !”
“Oh, hang the baby!” and Her
bert flung out of the room, slamming
the door behind him.
Alice stood at the door growing
whiter and whiter. Then she gave a
heart-breaking cry, fell ou her knees
by the cradle, and hiding her face in
her hands, sobbed bitterly.
She had .looked forward so long
to going to this particular party; It
was given by Mrs. Mountjoy, oiie of
the leaders in society, and all who
were eminent jji politics, diplomacy
or literature, as \yeif as distinguished
in the fashionable world, were sure
to bo there. 'She had been kept at
home so much sinc£ the baby had
been born, that she really felt the
need of a little variety and relaxation.
But baby had been threatened with
croup* a week before, and the fond
mother hud not yet recovered from
her fright. Baby, she admitted
was now better “but not fit,” she
declared, to be left, with only the
nurse to look after it. Nurses are so
careless, everybody had told her,
oven the best of them. So she felt
it her duty to give up the party,
She had hot asked Herbert to give
it up also, and even said there was
no reason he should stay at home;
but still, in her heart of hearts, she
hoped he would.
“He said ‘hang the baby yes he
did f darling,” she murmured, with
indignant emphasis, as she bent over
the little unconscious sleeper. “It
was your papa who,said that, and he
has gone to a brilliant party with
such thoughts of his wife and child /
Did you .come, dearest to estrange us
from each other ?”
This awful idea oalled for bitter
sighs. .
Herbert had said such beautiful
things in her trusting young maiden
hood. “Never should their lives run
iu separate channels, as those of some
married people of their acquaintance
did”—“never a joy accepted that did
not make them one—never a bar
rier could come between them.”—
And now co think that this wee little
babe, with its golden curls, this
beautiful little helpless creature
Bhould part them, as never strong
hands could !
r She pictured the gay assemblage,
and her Herbert dancing with fair
young girls, smiling on others, and
leaving her to die of heart-break.
Her imagination, always too vivid,
viewed him in his triumphs, until
her misery took almost the form of
madness.
“He dident want me to go,” she
said; “he acted as if he didn’t, and
then ho pretended to throw all the
blame on dear, helpless baby.”
Suddenly she heard the sound of
carriage-wheels outside; they stop
ped at the door ; the bell rang; and
a fairy-like figure stood on the
threshold of the room, in all the
wistfullness of expectancy, with
dimpling smiles and laughing eyes.
“Oh, Mabel!” cried Alice, start
ing to her feet, with a glad cry.
“This is indeed a surprise. I’m so
glad you’ve come. My darling sis
ter I”
Forthwith ensued a scene of rapt
u rous welcome. Then tho baby was
exhibited, and one would not have
dreamed that a tear had stained the
cheek of a fond mother. Then the
visitors trunks were ordered to' be
carried up-stairs.
“But where’s Herbert ? In the
study ?” said Mabel.
All the light went out of her sis
ter’s eyes; her hands fell.
“He’s out—out, dear.”
“Good ! Don’t be angry because
I’m glad, for we can have such a nice
little chat. Yon didn’t expect mo.”
“Of course I didn’t.”
“Well I didn’t think of coming,
as you know for a month yet. But
I thought it would be so nice to stir
prise you.”
“Oh ! I’m so glad.”
“And then Paul is coming,” she
said, blushing, “next week to stay a
month ; he has business here and ho
wanted me so badly to be hero, too.
I declare,” she said, laughing, “I’ll
have to marry him soon to got rid of
him.”
“Oh, Mabel, don’t marry him un
less you’re certain you’ll be happy !”
cried Alice, hysterically. “Bo sure
first, he won’t go to parties aud lo
ave you a—lone with ba—by,” she
sobbed. .
“What! Is Herbert at a party ?”
queried Mabel, quite subdued.
“Yes, he is, and wliori I told him
I couldn’t go on the account of the
baby, he said, ‘hang ba—by /’ Yes,
you little angel, your own father said
those awful words—and then he si—
slammed the door.”
“He’s a viper 1” exclaimed Mabel,
with sudden vehemence. “A nice
way to treat a wife like you—a baby
like that! But why couldn’t you
leave the baby ?”
“Because he was threatened with
croup last week.”
•‘But lie’s well enough now—sleeps
deliciously. He’ll not wake all night
perhaps. And tho nurse would have
taken good care of him.”
“I should have been thinking of
fire and all that.”
“Oh, nonsense ! You ought to
have gone. But Herbert had no
right to behave as he did ; and he
must bo punished,”and Mabel threw
her wraps on tho bed, and took her
seat by the glowing fire. “It won’t
do to let him get the upper hand.
Ah ! I have it. I’ve .thought of a
splendid pjan. A charming, delight
ful little plot,” and she clapped her
hands m glee.
“Oh, Mabel, what is it ?” and Al
ice slid down at her sister’s feet, gaz
ing in her face with expectant smiles.
‘What are you going to do ?”
“Pm not going to do it. I shall
stay here and watch baby. You are
going to tho party.”
“Mabel! * Impossible ?”
“Quite possible, in fact it must bo
done. You m nst let Herbert see that
you are as pretty as any body, and
quite as much admired. It is decid
ed. Yon are to go to the party and
play a part. Let me arrunge the
programme.”
“But, Mabel, I havn’t. a dress pre
pared—or anything. I gave up go
ing a week ago, when baby was
threatened with the croup.”
“Pshaw! You shall wear one of
mine,—one of the most bewitching,
bewildering of dresses, bought. from
my last allowance from Uncle Curtis.
•Only to see it will throw you into
ecstasies. Worth nqyer composed
anything more lovely. I want t<• see
it on you. Come, come, call your
maid; I am all impatience. Wo’ll
shame our bad husband into good
behavior, see if we don’t. No irres-
?i*>
olution, pretty sister mino. I’ll stay
at home and fancy myself mistress
here, and count your pictures, vases,
and pretty things, and catalogue
them, so as to make mamma happy
with a letter tp-morrow. Order the
coachman to get a carriage—if that’s
impossible send for a cab.”
In less than a half an hour Mabel
led her sister to the great French
mirrof, and laughingly introduced
her to the loveliest and best dressed
woman she had almost over seen.
Alice trembled when she fouud
herself actually on the way to Mrs.
Mountjoy’s; her sister’s urgent will
had conquered, and her heart was
hardened by Herbert’s omphatic ex
pression concerning the baby. She
was reassured, howover, by Mrs.
Mountjoy’s hearty welcome;
“So glad you have come, my dear,”
she said. “Your husband said he
feared ‘baby’ would keep you at home;
but I told him it was all nonsense.
You did right to reconsider the mat
ter.”
Herbert like many haudsome so
ciety men* was a little spoiled and
selfish without knowing it. He lov
ed Alice devotedly; but he was not
unwilling to receive the sweet smiles
and honeyed words of others ; while,
with a man’s inconsistency, lie was
pot desirous that his wife should play
the part of a married belle.
It was while he was dancing with
one of tlio most noted and beautiful
women of the metropolis, who was
more than willing to listen to his
nonsense, that Herbert, looking up
from the face leaning against his-
shoulder, .while tho dreamy wultz
“thrilled hearts sensitive to sadness
as to joy,” encountered the sparkling
face .of his wife, and .saw her arrayed
in the freshest and most graceful
costume in the room. She was mov
iiig quietly along with an escort in
uniform.
Pray don’t stumble,” said his
partner, petulantly, for*from that
moment tho grand repose of his man
ner was gone, and the lady on his arm
might have been made of wax, or any
other ductile material, for all he car
ed now.
“How the dickens came she hero?”
he muttered to himself, as lie led his
partnor, absently, to a seat, deaf to
all her pretty words, blind to her fas
creations. “It certainly is Alice—
but the dress—tho prettiest thing
hero ! and IJoft her quite determined
not to come. I don’t understand it.
Dancing with that military puppy,
Guinnett, too. She knows I hate
him.” v
With these Amiable thoughts, ho
laid himself out to gain the attention
of his wife and make her explain.
It was some time before ho had tho
chance, so he was obliged to content
himself with following her graceful
motions, angry with himself and
with her.
‘Alice ! can I believe my eyes,”
he said, at last, in the pause of the
dance.
“I should think you might, rath
er,” was tho nonchalant reply.
“Pray, how did you come ?”
“Pray, how did you come ? I rode.
Did you walk P”
“Well, but—”
“Excuse me. I'm engaged four
deep already ; and Herbert was forc-
to move aside, as a pompous
acquaintance claimed her hand.
I’d like to knock that follow
down,” he muttered, angry in earn
est. .
Another pause, another tete a-tete.
No satisfaction given. Herbert had
hardly the grace to redeem his danc
ing engagements. .
“About tho baby, Alice ?” ho ask
ed, anxiously.
She put her rosy lips to his ear,
and in a subdued voice, exclaimed ;
“Hang the baby!”
Herbert started, and changed col
or. To be sure ho had used tho same
language ; but from her it w'as too
exasperating. How ho got through
the evening ho could hardly tell,
When, at last, they were together in
tho carriage, driving homo, there
might have been an open rupture,
buit for the determined ’oalureoss of
Alice, who took everything as a mut
ter of course.
One glance in tho beautiful nurso-
ry uusculcd his eyes. There by tho
fire, sul Mabel, in nil the abandon of
a neglige toilet, her luxuriant tresses
falling in glossy freedom over her
shoulders, while the little fellow on
her lap, clutching at one long, shin
ing. 'ourl, crowed and laughed, as well
as lie could for “auntie’s” smothering
kisses.
A sudden revulsion of feeling came
fo the father’s heart at the sight of
this sweet home-picture.
J “Aha ! I know who contrived this
plot,” ho said. “But I am glad to
see you, Mabel, nevertheless. ”
“Wasn’t she the hollo of tho ball?”
Answered Mabel, saucily.
“There’s no doubt of that. At
any rate, I didn’t got a ohaiiQe to
dance with her.”
“Of course. Who over heard in
society of dancing with one’s wife ?”
she said, sarcastically. “I see that
she followed my directions implicitly.
You must learn sir,-that a household
divided against itself cannot stand—
that is, if one half is flirting at a par-
*y, and tho other half at homo crying
her eyes out.”
| “Oh, Alice—wore yon realty P”
f “I should think she whs. I can
■assure you that I myself saw half tho
house dissolved in tears, and so
wretched that— ”
“Mabel, IiubIi 1” said Alice, im
ploringly.
BILL AltP’S SUNDAY CHAT.
His Family Preparing to Receive
an I nflux of Country Cousins.
Atlanta Constitution.
Its a thrillin time when a country
family have invited their city cousins
to visit, ’em, and are lixin up to re
ceive ’em in a hospitable manner.
My wife, Mrs. Arp, she wore not. at
homo ahcr so tho girls took matters
in charge, and for several days thb
exciting episode went. on. It was
like clearing the deck of a man of
war for a light. The house lias been
scoured, and senibed, and sand pa
ltered. Everything in it has been
taken down and put up again, and
moved to a now plaoo, and I can’t
find anything now when I want it.
The old faded carpets have been
taken- up and bouton, and patched
all ovor, and ourtailod aud put down
‘Traitor, do you turn on mo ?”
exclaimed Mubel, with mock dis
pleasure.
“My'child,” she went on, tossing
the crowing cherub, ‘.‘toll your selfish
papa that he also has some obliga
tions, and that had kiiqmjp,
were to bo. tlio bone of contention in
this family,-you’d have staid in the
garden of angels, where' you wore
wanted.”
Herbert was strongly affected by
this audacious Qutburst, but it hud
tho effoct of leadjug him to sec his
duty in a new light. It taught him
to reflect; opened his eyes to his
selfishness ; arid inado him from that
evening, a bettor aiid more consider
ate husband.
Six montiis from that lime Aliee
was dressed for another party. But
this time the party was given at her
own house, iu honor of Mabol’s mar
riage. Even the bride did not look
lovoljer ; for nothing now occurred
to mar Alice’s happiness; and happi
ness, after all is the best preservative
of beauty.
“Ah 1 how charming you look,”
whispered Mabel, with an arch glance
as they passed each other in the
dance. “Prettier, even, and it is
saying a greut deal, than when X cur
ed your husband, by sending you to
Mrs. Mouutjoy’8 party.”
A Wonderful Work in a Day.
Wo are compelled this morning to
again print a quintuple sheet of the
Herald to meet tho demands of
advertisers, who occupy sixty-eight
columns of our space, Apart from
the great amount of extra labor
required to set tho immense quantity
of type required by this increase of
size, the single item of stereotyping
reaohes extraordinary dimensions.
As fourteen -plates are made of each
page of tho Herald our issue of to-day
calls for two hundred and eighty
plates, each of these weighs about
fifty pounds, or seven tons of metal-
from which to print this single edi
tion. In round numbers about three
millions of pieces of typo have been
picked np, one at a time, by compos
itors to prepare the pages for the
stereotypers, aud more than a hun
dred and fifty men were required to
set the type, make the plates aud
print tho paper. These figures will
give our readers some idea, though
only an imperfectono, of tho amount
of work necessary to tho printing of
a single copy of tho Herald.—[N. Y.
Herald.
’em out without taking cold. Tho
furniture bus been freshly varnished
with kerosene oil; tho window glass
washed on both sides, and the knives
and forks, water buckets, wash pans
and shovel mid tongs brightened up.
The hearths lmvo been painted with
Spanish brown, tho soiled plastering
whitewashed, the family portraits
dusted, and tho pewter teapot and
plated castors and spoons and napkin
rings polished as fine as a jewelry
store,
I surveyed tho operations from
day to day with affectionate interest
for it does mo good to soo young
people work diligently in a merito
rious cause; nevertheless my routine
of daily life appears to bo somewhat
demoralized. On the first day our
humble dinner was dispensed with
and mo ^d ,! W: boi« iwitpa .talljtwl.
on bread and.sorghum at a sido table.
The next day wo wore allowed to
lunch in tho back piazzor for fear we
would inoss up tlio dining-room and
the next wo were eon fined to tlio
water-shed to keep us from messing
up the piazzer and after that I ineolc
ly prepared myself to bo showed out
doors on a plank, but we wasent.
Ivo beon doing some more work on
tho front yard to surprise Mrs. ArjJ
when she comes, but they’ve locked
tho front door to keep us from
trampin through tho hall and we
have to go round about a hundred
yards for a drink of wuter. This is
all correct I reckon for tlioros no
malice in it and tlioy praise up our
torraco so gushingly Ivo a mind to
keep *on with em down into the
public road and cascade that to the
branch.
Delicate hints have beon given
that it ain’t polite to sot down to
dinner with one’s coat off, or to drink
coffee out of a saucer, or oat hominy
with a knife, or smoko in the parlor.
Tho wash bowl has been turned up
side down to keep us from using it
With this side up it holds about a
pint and a half, and as I was a wash
ing my face with tho tips of my
fingers tlioy surveyed me with looks
of unutterable despair. Whoil - I
raise my workin boots On the banister
rail for an evening rest, they wipe it
off with a wot fag as soon as I leave.
I musent step on tho purty rod hearth
to make up *a fire or to put a back
log on that weighs 00 pounds.
Thoyvo put pillows oh my bed about
half its big as a bale of cotton and
fringed all round like.a petticoat.
Tlioy are to stay on in day-time and
be taken off at night. When Im
tired and feel thq need of a midday
nap tliat bed wus a comfort, but the
best I can. do.now is to sit up in a
chair and nod. The dogs don’t un
derstand tho now system at all. Old
Bows lias been coining in tlio house
to the fire or-lying in the piazzor for
14 years, and it does seem impossible
to break him of it in a sudden though
dogmatic manner. Broom-hundles
and fishing-poles move em out at
one door, but tlioy slip in at another.
Thoyll enter an appeal when Mrs.
Arp comes homo. Im waiting pa
tiently for her advent myself, but
og»;in. 'L'haygotBmulloriind HtnuHor, „ ollra
jvluoh tlicy suy m a good way to wow, , turfcll ull tu tol#ow with blu(>
am going to conform to the new
order just as long as l can in reason.
She’d lake cafe of me and restore my
privileges. She never would allow
anybody to regulate me but herself,
company or no company. She’s
overstayed her time two days trying
to decide what to buy with two
dollars and a half. Poor thing! 1
wish she bad u hundred. Id follow
her about from store to store all the
day long. Then sho wouldn’t buy
nothing for herself but a pair 'of
specks, and she’d buy them on the
sly, for she dent want it generally
understood she has to use era. I
woke up one night about midnight
and discovered hor sitting by the
fire with my glasses on a reading
Molly Brown, Pin revelin now at
her delight, when she sees all the
improvements, that wo havo made in
bo* long! absence for it seems like
she litis boon off to Europo, or Jeru
salem, or tho Suoz Canal. We’ve
grass sod^ They run round iir tho
form of a snake with two crooks in
him but which our poetic girls speuk
of as Mr. Hogarth’S liue of beauty.
Wb’vo leveled off anothor.yard for a
orokay ground; she loves to play
sometimes, and it does me good to
soe her throw the mallet after the
ball when it misses, the wicket two
or throe times in succession. She’s
a coinin’. Tho llowors are waiting
for hor, and the chickens and colts,
and the dogs and cats, and the chil
dren and mo. Wfs’ro all u .waiting.
i. Bill Aiip.
Senator Hampton.
CliurlcHtou News i.nd Coupler.
Senator Hampton is improving
steadily, I>ut tlie.physieians in atten
dance upon him agree in the opinion
that it would be exceedingly impru
dent in him to go, at this time, to
Washington. Tlio journey would be
fatiguing, at least, to one in his
Condition, aud bin physicians earnest
ly advise against iL This is the
reason why Sonator Hampton is not
in his scat in tho senate. We are
informed that Senator Hampton is
in constant communication with
Senator Butler and other democratic
loaders. Those sec no present neces
sity for Senator Hampton to run any
risk of retarding his cnmpleto recov
ery by premature exertion* Relying
on their judgment Jio reconciles him
self as best ho may to his temporary
withdrawal from uctivo participation
in public uffuirs. We are authorized
td say, however, that in case any
emergency should arise calling, for
thd voice or vole of Senator Hamp
ton, he will, whatever tlio cost to
himself, go instantly to Washington
and be sworn in. So long us. bis
absence ,from the senate does not
affect injuriously tho momentous
interests represented by the demo
cratic party, Senator Hampton will
consent, under the udvico of his
physicians, to remain in South Car
olina. \\ benever thoso into rusts
shall, in the remotest degree, bo
placed in jeopardy by his absenoe,
lie will, with his constitutional de
votion to duty, hasten to the front
and stay there until all duiiger 4 is
past. We sincerely hope, novortho-
less, that- it will not be considered
indispensable that ho shall uttond
the extra. session, A low weeks
more of (lie repose and recreation bo
now hi* will restore him, it is believ
ed, to his usual vigorous'health.
V.
An Awful Pile,
Philadelphia Chronicle,'
It in believed that if all the pistols
carried in the south were collected
together, it would make a pile high
enough to knock a hole clean through
the sky and frighten all tho nervous
little angels into convulsions.
‘‘The foolish man,” truthfully
rcniarketh an exchange, “foldejfch
his hands, and saith: ‘There is ho
trade; why should I advortise?’ But
tho wiso man is not so. Ho whoopeth
it np in tho newspapers, and verily
he druwoth customers from af
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