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VOLUME I
rsir Mr iorz« »aad.
S r te*ssanrtaksass > l*ms twUKklrtno—.
la tka s—kert gste ks bM bs—
ts »• ten wst gases, wttk ite Mat pan twa i.
Art I Mad te gses, tart ka msAs bo roosn;
Ofc, 1 triad, kaiha woaMaot talma:
•ot akood aad khtahad ttU tk<KTMi (raw rad,
With my fsss bant down abotra It,
WMls ka took rtj band, aa ba whiaparinf asM
■aw tba ate*** lifted taw plat awaai haad,
Ta Man to an that my lover aald I
Ok. tba otevsr ta bloom I I lova It.
In tba Slsh wal (raae went tba path to hda,
AM tba tow wet taavea hung over,
art t touM not paaa on al taw ride,
r;r t ramad myaalf, whan 1 vainly triad,
la the anu of lay stssdfasl lover.
had ha bald mo there, and be Bleed my head,
While be cloesfl the path before me;
And he looked down into my eyee and aald -
Bow the I—ns bant down from the boufha o'er
bead, •
To Metea to an that ay lover aald I
Oh, the laavaa tamtotat towly e'er me t
I un tore that bo knew, when ba held me taat.
That I moat be an nawlillnf;
Ft* I tried to go, and I would have pssesd,
Aa the alfbi waa eome with Ila dewa at bit.
And the aky with Ila atari waa mung.
Bal be deeped ate steer, whan I would have dad.
Aad be made me bear Maatory;
And tala tool name owl trom hie 11 pe and aald—
low the Man crept out when the white moon lad.
To lirian to all that nay lover Skid.
Ob, the moon aad atare ta glory 1
—r* ■
I know taiKhagraaa aad the laavaa win not 1011,
Aad fm eorw that tba triad, praeiotia rover,
Wtu carry hitattortaaaarwy aad we::
That ap being ahaU aver dlaoover
One wort o« Iba many taat rapidly fail
From the eager Upa of my lover
Aad the moon and th* man tart looked over
mall aster reveal what a falry-Hka spell
They wove round about aa that night to the dell,
la the path Brough ths daw.laden Mover;
■oreahotbewbtopera that mad* my heart owe!!
As they Ml front too Ups of my lover.
—Briton Tyoaowipk.
A MTSTERF OF THE SEA.
A tropical night on the Pacific! The
sky fa studded with stars, which arc
mirrored in the vast deep beneath.
Thera fa jnrt enough air to keep the
Dolphin moving at a quiet rate, and the
peas*'ngers are gathered on deck to en
joy the matchlerwi evening.
I bad been an invalid for years, and
was now recoverin,'; from a very severe
spell of sickneo*.
I was lazily drawing at my Havana,
no*ng tb* thin frepTwn*. rmoks teas Bly.
taonth without removing t.H cigar, and
gazirg upward at the brilliant stars ns
they slowly sailed overhead. I was in a
delimoualy-dreamy state, half asleep and
half awake, hearing only the murmur of
the voices around me aa one heard the
faint sound of a distant watt rial).
I presume I had lain thus for nearly
an hour, and my cigar had burned al
most to my mouth, while the long col
umn of ashes was still unbroken, when
something struck my ear like the sound
of a bell. It was not until I hail heard it
several tapee thqfit seemed really to af
fect my senses.
All at once I gave a start, the ashes
dropped upon my boeom, and I arose to
a sitting position and gazed around me.
The strong*,-solemn sound was re
peated at regular intervals, as if swung
by the hand of acme exhausted sufferer,
or tolled by the swell of the ocean.
The Captain by this time had ap
proached me and stood in the attitude
of attention.
*' We must be near the land ? ” I vent
ured to say, rather in the form of an in
quiry than in that of an assertion.
“No, air," responded the Captain;
“ the nearest island is a good 800 miles
•way.**
“ It’s the bell of doom I ” exclaimed
Backstay Bob, a tall, scarred sailor,
from his position at the wheel.
•’Pshaw! you’re childish,” replied
the Captain. " Whatever it is, we are
rapidly approaching it."
Such waa the case. The bell was
now heard distinctly to the south, and
’as approaching nearer every moment.
Shortly after, the Captain took his
“Mfht-glsas, and gazed long and intently
*n that direction. When he lowered it,
be said, ” I can just discover a dark
body rising and falling on the waves,
but nothing more Backstay Bob, you
have got the best eyeuight of any one
board, see what you can make of it ”
Bob resigned his place at the wheel
to one of ths men, and came forward
*®d took the glasa. He held it to his
sye for several minutes without speak
ing, and to all appearance without even
breathing, while we awaited his word
’’th the deepest interest. Finally he
• great sigh and lowered it “ She
•Utt got tbs least mite of a boom,
▼■rd, or anything like She looks like
great hulk of a fight-bos i Hold
I see the beH They've rigged
it up to the masthead, so that it swing*
b*ck’ards and for’anta every tame the
gives a lurch to laswrit’*
" Can you see nothing aboard F*
"Not a cnstor, ttviag at dead.”
” Keep bar away a couple of points "
•’•d Uss Captain to the man at the
ffnlumtet
•‘Ay, ay, sir I"
And the ships course was altered,
so as to bring her rapidly near the myw
terious craft, toward which all eyes were
direct'd. OrdtTs were given to heave
to, and get one of the boots in readmes*.
By tlirs time the nondescript wits plainly
visible to all. It appeared to be an old
bulk, with a single mast in the center.
The bell Was sus|>euded from the mast
head, and ever and anon sent forth its
solemn tolling, as the hulk nose and
sank with the heaving of the sre
Before the ship was brought to, we
had passed the hulk some distance, so
that when we halted there were several
hundred yards intervening, and H was
only dimly discernible.
A boat was lowered, and the Captain,
having selected a crew, pulled away
toward the latter.
There was something so extraordinary
regarding the apjrearancs and action of
the hulk that the curiosity of us all was
so intense as to be painful. We strained
our gaze as the Captain and crew drew
rapidly near it.
Wo saw the distance swiftly decrease
between the two objects, until the
shadowy forms merged into one. And
then followed an impressive silence—
suddenly broken by a howl, a pistol
shot and a scream ; and, as our hearts
almost stopped beating, we saw a mo- !
ment later the boat pull off from ths
hulk, and the men rowing all their
sought back to the ship. As they came
nearer, we discerned that ths Captain
was missing.
Backstay Bob dashed towm J the lioat, '
and, shaking (his fist nt the mm, de- ,
mended furionaly, “ You cowardly dogs, !
where is Capt. Luster ? " •
The devil has got him I "
Absurd as the reply might have
seemed at any other time, it was uttered i
in solemn earnest, as the ghastly face*
of the crew attested. In reply to our
eager questions, they said the moment
they came along the craft they heard a '
low, hollow, unearthly sound, which
caused them to hesitate. The Captain I
i <«n»>rd np tow •'■reirt, de-
scended the hatchway and disapjieared
front view. Ho waif hardly out of sight,
when the noise they had heard at first
was repeated far louder and fiercer. The
next moment the re|>ort of the Captain’s
pistol was heard, fol .owed by a terrible
shriek, and then nil aa* still I
Horror-struck, they called loudly and
ro|»catedly to their commander, but, re- I
ceivuig no answer, pulled a wav from the ;
ship.
•‘You’re a purty set of cowardly
aneak*, ain’t you, to go and desert your
Captain that way, when, like enough, he
needed you to eave his life," exclaimed
Backstay Bob, forgetting, in his fury, I
that the first mate was among those
whom he denounced. ‘‘l’m going back
to that old hulk, and, if I can’t get at
the devil in any other way, I’ll put a ’
keg of powder in it anti blow it to !
blazes!”
‘‘Bob is right, if his excitement does 1
make him forget his manners," said the I
suite. "It was not my intention to de
sert Capt Luster in trouble. The men
were so frightened that I thought it Ixwt
to come bark and get a new set.”
There was some trouble m procuring ,
the requisite numls-r, and aooordtngiy i
Prescott and myself were accepted out |
of the passengers. The lioatshoved off,
and we rapidly neared the hulk, which
| had acquired a strongs interest to us
i all-
Prrecott > n addition to his revolver,
had a long Italian dagger, which I ob
served him handle, as if to assure him
self that it waa reliable. Then, aa he
' replaced it, he remarked to me, “ There’s
no telling what’s inside that mass of i
lumber, and this may !>• the weapon I
need after all.”
Arriving at the craft, after a abort
consultation it was agreed that the
four oarsmen, the mate and myself
should remain behind, while Backstay [
Bob and William Prescott should ex
plore the hulk. As it was morally cer-
I tain that some dreadful danger menaced
all who entered the cabin, and as I was
good for nothing, I needed no more urging
than did the mate to remain in my po
sition. |
Prracott waa first, holding his pistol
in one hand and a lantern in the other,
while Bob followed eloaely with his cu»- ,
i (bbb We saw them descend the hatch
way; all I beard the
,mgls exclataataon from Prreeott, “Ob,
my God I"
Thia was toUowad by a tambie roar,
' a quick surceaaion of pistol shrta. a
Berre struggle, and than all •*U I
again. Tha neat ssossent both Prsneott
sud Backstay Bob avurrgad vtaW,
■ covered trom band to tool alth Uuud.
Devoted the Interests of Columbia County and the State of Georgia.
HARLEM, GEORGIA. TUESDAY, AUGUST 2. 1881.
"Come aboard,” said they; “ the dan
ger is over.”
The next instant we were on deck. I
rushed to the hold and gazed down.
By the dim light of the lantern we
saw the nuuiglod body of Capt. Luster.
The head and one of the limbs were
gone, and there waa scarcely a sem
blance of humanity in the remains Im
fore us. Near him was the gaunt, tet
rible form of a Bengal tager, killed by
the bullets, cutlass and dagger of Prva
cott and Buckstay Bob-
The two latter, on entering the cabin
first, saw the mutilated botty of Capt.
Luster. A low growl warned them of
danger, and, aa Preecott turned to gaia,
ho saw the tiger crouching and in tito
very act of springing. Dropping (is
lantern, he tired hia revolve-, and,,a*
the tembla animal boro him to th*
floor, he drew his dagger and staliterl
him again and again. The no-Jte
pouited instrument reached his he*t,
which, united with the slashing
of Backstay Bob, killed him befora&o
could do any material injury.
We made u critical examination of the
place. A numlier of human ix«es
strewed the floor, and several articfA of
wearing apparel, which seemed to lidi
eate that the place had been teuAfaed
| by two human beings of the opdiAfto
‘ sexes.
!Rie brute had a cluunto hw t«ck,
und had been confined to ono cornet of
the room by a delicate iron ring, which
had lieen broken. Over the centrt of
i the room wna written eotuething it In
■ duin dialect, which was by
' the mate (who hud ajx'Ut several jvvurs
iin India) to read : "I have sough—l
I have found that which 1 sought v|oge
i ance.”
Carefully removing the hotly of the
: Captain to the little boat, we scuttled
I the mysterious craft and saw it sink.
I Shortly after the Captain, wrapped in
| his winding sheet, followed the hulk to
I the depths of the ocean.
rtrr: rorrnu
"Attention, children !" anitl the ]>riu
rfjial, entering the eloss-iriom, followed
‘by a stranger ; “this gentlemen will n*k
you a few questions m arithmetic. He
is the Su(>ermtendcut of Schools at
Mule Gulch, Nevada, that great Western
dtate of which you have so often heard."
"Which hia name are Dodd —Shorty
Dodd,” said the visitor, and, mounting
the platform, he drew a Itowie-kuifu irviu
his boot-leg Mid tapped for attention on
the desk. “We will now proceed to do
a sum in simple edition. A gentleman
who had a Lead on him from last night
met another gentleman in Dew-Drop
Inn, who put a head on him. How
many head* did that gentleman have
on him?" “Three I” " Now you’re talking.
We will next proceed to substruction.
Wall-eyed Bob had five fingers on his
left hand (including his thumb), when be
injudiciously called Buckskin doe a
limping mule. Buckskin Joe drawed
liis eleven-inch toothpick, and the bar
keeper snlmequently swept up two fin
ger*. How many fingers hail Wall-eyed
Bob left?" “Throe!" "You're right, and
I've J3OO hero in this little pocket-book
that say a you are.”
" We generally do thcae sums tn ap
ples and other domestic fruit," said the
principal, timidly.
"Quito right, quite right," said the
gentleman from the far West, "but my
plan is universally admitted to be more
national —more patriotic. It waa criti
cia«'d some at our last convention at
Gallows Forks, but a majority favored
tt and the geuthmau who opposed it
walks with a crutch yet. Now, tlieu,
kids, hump yourselves fcr a problem in
multiplication and edition. A gentle
man held a full at a social game ot poker
—three nine* and two sevens. How
many spots waa on his cards?” “ Forty
one ! " “Hurely I Mister, your class « no
•touch of a class at .'rithmatic. I will
just give the kids one more-—an easy
one. Five hosa thieve* had ojieruted
for five day* before the Vigilantes bung
them, and had stolen twenty-eight head
of stock. How many bosses a day did
each hoes-thief steal?” " One and three
twenty-flftha of a hose!" " Right, “d if
any man says yon ain't, don't’taks it
from "mm, if he’s as big as a graiu-eisvx
tor Now, mister man, trot ent your
class m moral philosophy !
Wires a boy walks with a girl as
though he were afraid soma one would
soe him, the girl is his sister If he
walks »o ctoao to her aa to nearly crowd
her against tba sanes, she is ths suter of
some one alas.
CoWSTi'VTTVOW’-F tas 45 000 J«w» and
thirty Mi Miuagoguea Nes’lr 40,0>W
ar* of tipaio.b wigu.
RUKiRAFUICAE.
Jay Gould waa bom at Htratton’s Falla,
! Delaware county. Naw York, in the year
I 1836. When 16 years of agv, be made
his first move ui fife, aud liccaiu* clerk
to a "Squire Burhaan,” at Roxbury, two
mill's from the falls, who kept a small
store, remarkable for the variety, origi
nal character: and infinitesimal quanta
tire of its stock. Here hia auditory
nerve became M susceptible that his em
plryer thought it altogether too acnaitivs
for so small au establishment hb
••i 1
Durham ha<l managed to olitatn intelli- i
genco that a very- desirable piece of laud ’
was for public sale, cheap, in Allstny, |
and determined to purchase it. Thia he
cautiously whispered to some parties in
the presence of hia ysung employe. Ou '
pro>"eeding to put his design into execu
tion, however, ha found that, in the in- 1
terim, his clerk had become posaesse<l of
the projierty, having availed himself of
the MtuteuoM of hia hearing.
The genius of Jay must have lieen of
no ordinary character, for before he waa .
20 years of age he ap)>earod suddenly a
full-blown civil engineer, and mails a
survey of Delaware county.
When Mr. Gould bad* farewell to !
home of his youth, hu went to Pennsyl- j
Vttiun with 001. Zadock Pratt, and start
ed * tannery in conjunction with that
gentleman, nt a place named Gouldaboro. i
bi 18511, Mr. Gould began to s(>eeutato
in Wall street, in railroad stock ; and, :
it U said, as a cisrlxitoue broker. At '
that periixl his means were limited, and
hia quartets in New York mo*t unpreten
tious, From the very first, however, be
1 uni the reputation of being a most suc
cessful man ; and this waa of itself an
■ mount of capital uot easily estimated.
He neither smoked, drank nor gambled,
and waa always on the qui vive for buai
neaa. During the war he profited large
ly by the sale of gold and of stocks, aud |
took advantage of every defeat or siu-ceM
of the Union army. Long before the
eloee of the struggle he was said to be a
millionaire.
A k.ihk talk mt.
The faculty of drawing out of |>ersona
with whom one ia conversing the beet ■
there is in them—brighter things even i
than they suppose themselves oapabis '
of—is the rare gift with which nature
has endowed some women. Georgs 1
Eliot was a most charming person in !
conversation, though she was a woman |
of few words, liecause of her intuitive •
insight mto the thoughts of others. A '
few words would put her into posMm- :
aion, not of what they said, but of what '
they would fain have said, aud she would !
so improve u|>on it that ordinary people I
went away charmed with her who had |
made them for once, at least, feel them
wlvea to lie wise. Long afterward, per
haps, she would recall to their remem
brance the wise or witty things which
they could hardly believe themaelvee to
have said, and which they assuredly
never would have said but for her quick
ening influence.
"90 AHKAD KIT TOOK niKtttt.',
A doctor received a call from a couple
who bail not teen in this country over a
year, aud who had decided to checkmate
any danger from small-pox by vaccina,
tion. The husband bared his left arm
mid the operation was soon completed.
He then roiled up his other sleeve and
held out his right arm.
"One arm ia enough," replied the
doctor.
" But I gnees I takes two of ’em.” was
the reply,
•• What for r
" Why, dis one is tor ms, aad der
odder one for my frow. It tab
tetter dot I cotchre all der small-pox
myself. Go ahead mit your stabbing !**
Tbs doctor did not succeed m eon
nnctng them that one could sei bo ▼■»
r-iuated tor both, and the woman suites 1
Jy refaaed to tot tbs taaret touch her
m>.
A VALVABLK iKtIT.
It to related es Franklin that, from
the window of his office ia Philadelphia
he noticed a mechanic, among a number
of others, at work on a house which waa
being erected aloes by, who al way* ap
peared to lie in a merry humor, aud who
had a kind and cheerful smile for every
one bo Boat. Let tbs day bo ever so
cold, gloomy or suuleos, the happy smile
danced like a sunbeam on hu ohoerful
countenance. Meeting him ono day,
Franklin requested to know the secret
al hia constant happy flow of spirits.
" It’s no secret, doctor," ths man re
pbed. " I've got one of the beat of
wives, and when I go to work she always
gives me a iuud went of oucouragemeui
aud ■ blessing with ter parting kiss ;
' aud when I go boms she is rare to meet
ms with a smile and s kire of welcome;
and then taa is sure to bo ready; and, as
we chat in the oveniug, I find she has
been doing so many little things through
the day to please me that I cannot find
jit in my. heart to speak su unkind word
or give on unkind look to anybody.”
Aud Franklin adds
.*' What au influence, thru, hath wom
an over the heart of man, to soften it,
and make it the fouutain of cheerful and
I pure emotions. Hpcak gently, then ; a
happy smile and a kind word of greet
ing after the toils of the day are over
oost nothing, aud go far toward making
horns happy andjpeaoeful "
A JAPAMAM* TVNIHIIHKMT.
Aii English resident in Japan records
tbs horror which he felt when, imme
‘ distely alter laudtug, hu met a wretched
criminal walking ateut Jl'okio, in mid
winter, naked, with hi* 'iair tied luck
so tightly to a team o! '«d laid itcroas
his shoulders, to whi hia anus were
•strapped, that, no ms now far back
he straiued his head, * hair was al-
I most torn from bis sei On inquiry,
he found that thq torture was intiicUil
on the criminal to indicate thu abhor
rence with wbioh the law regarded the
robbery of tbs scanty earnings ot the
; helpless poor. Thu miscreant had
picked tb<> pockci of n blind cripple.
UK A UTT Atrn "KKItATTOK.
I do not think tliat a high degree of
besnty is necea*ary to create a strong
passion. 1 remember teing deejwiratelv
in love with a lady who ha<l a freckled
fact*. I was cured of my paaatou, uot
by discovering her lack of beauty, but
tecatiso I once saw her stand up on a
chair to look over the beads of a crowd;
the action appeared so tinfomiuine thut
I disliked her from that moment.— lmtcl
tiyron.
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NUMBER 33
COKKCCIVA AJT» TUB MnOMUf.
The Ohinsss are supposed to tons
shout one-third of the populatton es the
world, and there is some ground tar be
lieving that for the last 4,0*0 years they
have held much the same numerical
proportion to the entire hnmae race.
Yet it may be said Uiat there u but one
Chinamau who has earned a world-wide
reputation—one individual who has bees
large enough to lift himself above the
millions of unknown, unrecorded liras,
and force himself oa the regard of the
Western World. Ho wsa not a conqueror
■tamping bls name on the terror-struck
imagination of surrounding tribes. Ho
was uot au inventor whoso memory is
kept green by the gratitude of those who
daily enjoy the fruit of his genius. Ho
waa not a poet uttering men's beet
j thoughta and deepest feelings for them
lu wut.ls more expreoeive than their own.
He was uot even a philosopher, or, if a
philosopher, hia philosophy was on the
' level of that of Benjamin Franklin. In
short, uo ordinary avenue to fame seem
to have been open to him; aud yet, if
niimters go for anything, what fame
rivals that of the mau who, for twenty
' three centuries, has been wonhipad as
all but divine by nearly ouo-half of the
aorld, and whose words are regarded aa
canonical by a people compared to whoso
exeluaive jealousy the Jewish ezalttaivo
Hua* ia latitudiuarian ? The secret of hi*
fuius is rnaiuly this that he was the
Chinaman of the Chuiamen, the most
eouservativo and ancestor-worshiping in
dividual of the most conservative ami
ancestor- worshiping race. It waa by hi*
work that the national tendencies aud
(xipular instincts were recognised and
definitely fixed. It waa ho who forme
latod the relations of ruler and subject
It was he who gave utterance to thoM
maxima of personal conduct which the
(’hiueseare justly proud *f, though they
: do not scrupulously obeervo them
hbpecially it waa he who gathered into
Ghiuese canon all the wisdom whiah had
Im»«ui tested by preview* gruerattona, sod
■o set the seal of oomplotensM on Cbi
noeo life aud customs, so tar as this can
bs duns by miy man or hr say books.
Mit* Amslia Lswis aaaerta tn Food
I and Hr al th that nearly $16,000,000 is
in rested in oleomargarine factories, and
, that they have ailded nearly *4 to tba
value of every ox killed.
Anvios to the milkmen : Don't cry
i over spilt milk, but carefully fill up th*
can with just enough water so the milk
will color it, and continue peddling.