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VOLUME I.
rurnri Ht rut coait.
SittUg bj ths window,
LooAUm tar sw*j
o sweats* »■
Swwsi with ww-mow u hay,
Asd o'er ths aWnilrt apart tint
Ta th* assay aaera.
Saw I UtUa S«um
Maytag ta ths corn I
Brava sad Bun ihfcui
HoatiDf freely baek [
Utt'e bale dtecarM
Mw tbe«aU-wora U»ci.
lorebead'
Cknrer tmUi adorn—
Cbabby, <*tldu* M*rw*
PlayinT tn tba earn!
An aocbanted forwrt
'Tit tn th* tn, I seen,
With Its f>!d»a treaeo tea
Bld In shining given ;
With H* Hay p«**
Oa Its leaf rt b«& -
Brlgbt-eyed, bossy tgsraa
Maying In the conn
Sadly had I rtaan.
By cold care optimal 1.
Worn with weary walohing.
Filled with vagwe nareat.
But -<SK.pl.tMy rabtehed
Frary U.-igbi forlorn.
Watching tboae wee Ogura
May ligt tn Wo com I
What hat earth Unreal Ur
In lbs way ot bites,
Zbat ta hearty pleaeura >
Osa ccuaparv with thief
With no and foreboding •
To rwetrain or warn—
rutting, fairy Ogura.
Flaying in th. coral
MT SER EXH) Eli.
ir
"My dear eWd,” aaid a maiden lady
of an uncertain age, “you need not
blush qb T dan- My the young gentle
man who iiae just pafited the window
haa no idea of your existence."
“But he passes every day, anuL”
"Well, what of that?” returned the
lady.
“ But he looks in at the window, ” said
the young lady.
" Ah, indeed 1 ” sail her aunt
“And he wears a sprig of myrtle in
his coat, aunt, and you know that meant
4b
" Realty you amuse me, child! Any
thing more?"
“ No, aunt," wm the reply.
“Then, my dear child, you are a bit
of a goose, and ought to know better,”
•aid her aunt “ I am afraid yon are
too fond of reading idle tales when you
might be better employed. Well, well,
I suppose we cannot put an old head on
young shoulders, and yours are. very
young yet;" and she might have added
pretty ones, covered as they were with
locks of the softest and richest brown
hair in the world.
Pretty girls are so common that I
need not dcacrite pretty Rose Arnold, as
she and her sunt were sitting before the
fire in that magic hour when the glare
of day has passed, ami twilight is only
just coming ; when tenderness touches
the hardest heart; when life *fnn
more ideal, less dark,' and cold, and
dull.
“ Shall I tell you what happened to
myself, Rose?”
“Yes, do, aunt."
" Well, I will. You will see that there
Vraa once a time when your old aunt was
as silly as you are now.”
Rose laid her lieantifnl face on her
aunt’s Up, and looked up, and her aunt
began:
" Miss Silkstone kept a select estab
lishment at Brighton for a limited num
ber of young ladies, from whom the most
unexceptionable references were re
quired. She frequently advertised in
the TVmea, and always had a vacancy for
one ot two. But you know as well as I
that there never was a school for a lim
ited number that had not a vacancy for
a genteel and well-connected pupil. I
waa that, and more. Why, then, wiv. 1
•ent to Mias Bilkstone's salubrious
abode? Well, the truth is, Dr. Bolus,
our family physician, hinted that ahi ”
change of air and an occasional liath in
the aea would not be amiss. ‘1 he sys
tem requinw bracing, ma'am.’ said he to
mamma. ■We are getting,’added the
dear, fat old man, as h- contemplated
®y growing figure, ‘a little pale and
thin; our roses are not quite so red as
they might be.’ Girl a* I wm, I had
read Lord Byron's ‘Corsair,’ and In*
lines in ‘Childe Harold,’ bidding the
deep and dark-blue ocean roll on. and
had by heart Barry Cornwall's songs,
ami I loved, as girl* of 17 do love, pa*-
•wwately.
Th. «! th.—• ! th. open •**!
Th* star trash, the aw <r**l
and made no objection to the arrange
ment which for awhile transplanted me
from the paternal roof. It wm not re
luctantly. then, that I journeyed to the
scene of my future residence. Iwm no*
bad-looking, and I knew that I had •
fove <4 a Ismni-t which would wt all the
gttis wild. I had not lived at Cispham
ffolimtlita
for nothing, rou sure.
“ Arrived at school, I did as the rest
On Sunday we went to church. Now the
ehnreb service is rattier long ; and, how
ever pirns and proper one mav lie dis
posed fc> be, one cannot lie always look
ing at the minister or at one’s prayer
lsx>k. Ju one of my occasional piieps at
tha Oougregatxwi I found the cyca of a
yonng man intently fixed on me. It wm
evident to me and all the r.-st of the girls
"Sttiat his aidcut gaze was directed to uo
other than myself. Tin. next Sunday
the same F !:?nomenon was witnessed;
the next, it was the same. I was pleased,
yet annoyed. Miss Bilkstone gave ms
many a private lecture in her own apart
ments. Mademoiselle, as we were taught
to call our French governess, was de
lighted ; the girts all laughed ; and, to
make assurance doubly sure, 1 had been
informed that one of the maids had been
asked by a gentleman the name of the
new girl, whom he declared to be a * regu
lar stunner. ’
" Nowit was clear to me and all the
rest of us that this inquiry could have
come from uo other than from the gentle
man whose optics had been so regularly,
and, as it seemed, irreststibly exercised
on myself. Presently another symptom
of his admiration wm manifested. Every
evening at a certain hour, under the walls
of our gardm, were Lean! the dulcet
sounds of an accordion ; all said it was
my church admirer thu* renewing on
weekdays tlic homage that he had offered
me at church ou Mondays. I thought
what every one said must be true, and
listemxl with )>eculiar pleasure to ‘Annie
Lauric,’ and ’ My Beautiful Star,’ awl
Jeannette and Jeannot,' and ’ I Dreamt
that I Dwelt in Marble Halls,’ and other
popular airs, all of which I had heard,
it is true, played la-fore, but never, so it
seemed to me, with such jiatlios and
power as under the present circumstan
ces. What a delicate way of being
courted! Os course I was not in l-
but, girl-like, I was glad to think that
some one was in love with me.
“Just at thia tiniu I had to leave
school for a few ifirys ; at the same time,
by a strange coincidence, the serenad
ing ceased, and my admirer was absent
from his pew in church. Burely, then,
1 was right in thinking that I was the
object of al! these delicate attentions.
The more I thought alsiut it, the more
certain I felt. Suspicion was banished ;
doubt now gave plaea Uioertainty The
mystery was cleared up—the sereniuli
was for me, and the lerennder was he
whom I had seen at church. I must
say, when I bad conn- to this couclnsiou,
I liecAme impatient of tins aen-nsiliiig,
and wished either to change it wto
something of a more satisfactory char
acter, or for it U> cease altogether. Mad
emoiselle and myself, without w' iiig a
word to the other girls, resoiveil to bring
matters to a crisis. For this pnr|M«-u
we resolved to secure the first opportu
nity ; nor was it long before one pre-
I tented itself.
I "One dark night, when the usual
J serenading was going on, and Mi-» Silk
stone hap,wined to be particularly en
gaged with tin friend* of a new- pupil
who hail come to tea, we ha»tdy put on
an old shawl and bonnet apiece ; slipp-d
out of the house forthwith, quits- ni|« r
ceivcd; rushed down to the end of tie
gardeu, and somehow or other found
our way to the top of the wall. Die
night, a. I have said, wrw dark ; we
could see no one, and the unknown was
vigorously going through his ai-'-ns
torued musical jx-rfonnance. I fauci. .1
I could see th" graceful outline of my
admirer as he swi-pt Ids fingers over hr
I lieloved instrument, and told to the colil,
1 dark uiglit slid th- suit silent stars
all the love and hope and pur,xr»- of hi*
heart. J listened with an inler.-st that
thrilled my whole f{ame. There he
was, languishing for me ; dreaming that
I was smiling on his love. Tnera eoul.l
scarcely U-imy d«ub’. that I was the
Annie Laune for whom he would -sy
him down and die ! I was his ' Beautiful
Star, up in heaven so high, no !•*» cer
i tainly. What wm I to do? Di>l not
such touching love deserve some gr.we
ful recognition? Was he to realize tlie
mournful fat*’of which he sang? Mm
I, so voting, to lie * cruel murderer,
and all through life to have my heart
bowed down with s mum of the fearful
' shock of such a crime ’ Yet would it
not be imprudent to .ul-iress a gentle
man to whom I had never’ l*en intro
duoed? I was m a frightful state of
agitation ; I could feel my cheek* get
ting red, aod my hear! jumped right up
U, the top of my throat Whst should
Ido?
"•Whv, speak to him, of course,’
' au.l M-wiemou-lle, who wm getting
very cold, ‘or be sill be laid up with
ufluauM for a mouth.
Devoted the Interests of Columbia County and the State of Georgia.
HARLEM. GEORGIA. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 26, 1881.
" ‘ Oh, dear,* Mid I, • I wish he would
not come playing here. ’
"* Oh, nonsense f * said she. ’Bpeak
to him ; it will be capital fun.'
"‘No, no; anything but that,’ ex
claitnisl T in au agony of fmr.
" ’ Well, if you won’t speak,’ said she,
‘ send him a tokeu.'
“‘A token I’ Ah, that wm a capital
idea ! There could be no harm in that
He was just beneath me. I
few ’eave* aud let them fall.”
" Hush !’’ said MiuliimoiM>lle.
"The accordion went on m usual.
The leaves evidently had produced no
effect.
" 'Try again,’ said she.
“ I did so. Wo listened—no acknowl
edgment. The accordion went ou vig
orously hh ever.
“'Lot ns go,’ said I, not c little
trighu-ned.
‘Nq, no,’ aaid he, ' try again.*
“I did so. The music stopped, the
serenoder changed his position, but in a
moment recommenced his amorous
strain. I grew quite frightened.
" ‘ Oh 1 do let ns go,’ I whispered.
" ‘ No, no,' said Mademoiselle ; ' try
once more, ’
"Again fell th-s leaves, again we list
ened, again the accordion ceased. There
w.n a pause, then a cough, then another
cough, iviif the serenoder was impatient,
aud exjiected to bs addressed. We
strained our eyes, aud just saw the dim
outline of a figure.
" 'Come ! none of that 'ere !' »n» his
exclamation.
" I could scarce Ixdii-ve my ears. My
refined lover indulging in such vulgar
and commonplace language ! I scarce
knew whether to laugh or cry. How
ever, 1 did neither, l<ut said, m calmly
«s my uxeited feelings would allow me :
“ ‘ Wlmt did you say!'
“ ' Why, none o' that 'ere, to be sure I
Pitching lot* o’ dirt ou to a poor fellow.
What do you mean ?'
“There was some ternWe mi-take.
My friend came to my rescue. Sum
moning up her dignity and jiecriug over
tlie wall, she said, severely :
" ‘Young man, who are you?’
" * Me, marm ? Why, Joe, thcbutch
er's boy, to be sure 1'
“‘Oh, indeed f said Mademoiselle.
’And what do you hen 1 ?'
" ‘Yousee.’ he replied, ‘I haiu’t got
no place at home te practice in ; so I
come every night here, 'cause the walls
keep tlie wind off ; and now it’s blue ter
me to be off.’
“And away ho went oil whistling,
leaving mo disenchanted of my love. 1
may only mid that I endured an addi
tional pang when, a short time after•
ward, 1 found that the eyes that always
glared at me at church squinted. Hince
then I have not la-en quite so hasty in
jumping ut conclusion.*.
“And now, Rone, d- nr, we hod bettex
get to work ; ring for Ellen to buug in
lights, and uow draw the curtain*.”
Rose got up to do so. As she ap
proached the window, tlm individual
with the myrtle passed. Rose thought
nothing of it, and it wa* well she did
not. M later in life she knew him well as
n married man and a friend of her hus
lamd and her own.
rA DiNo tsir.
Any one who would try to make ths
task of getting out of a parlor more
difficult than it is must expect to be
criticised.
Ln " Lothair” Disraeli makes one of
his characters say tliatnoone should ever
say "good-by," but in departing should
fade away like a summer cloud. That is
sweet, isn’t it? and practical too. Imag
ine a man who weiglis 230 pound* when
he is “right tliin" trying to fade out of
a morning call like a summer cloud. Ho
would fiule, wouldn't he ? Eqs-cudly if
he hap|*‘n«*l to collide with a rocking
chair m lie was fading.
Or, think of s man trying to “ tele”
out of a j>arlor like a smmer cloud, with
hi* hostess’ meanest poodle •napping at
hi* leg". Just Uiink how he would
" fade.” Aud fancy a young man "fad
ing" away in the evening, when he
wanted to get out of the hall before pa
could reach the trout porch, and the
chilling tones of his footsteps already
crunching on the gravel— Norrittown
Herald.
a ruH-FBopaosTnia company of ladi
lomui i* expt nmeuUng with a frog farm.
N<-w Brunswick furnished the material
to start with, 130 frogs being sent from
then' pack'*! in fresh moas in • box ph .-
totally rupph'-d with |a-rforatioiui forth
a>.mission of air. Th iuom was fre
quently moistened ou the way. Ou the
arrival of the box at its destination only
110 frog* were found, and of thea* ten
were dead. It is supposed that ti»e
eightwn that were missing had lx*n < at
. i. during the journey by llwir co.-.p*
mas iu oouhnemont
a rHotrno*Kf>CKxr ctr.
They had a bllin* old tune at the West
End recently. Mr. Monkey's boy took
I lie family cat and rubbed phosphorus
all over him. It wm alxmt nightfall
when he completed his job ami let the
rat go. The Inxxloo lx*gan right away.
Tlie cat got into a liarrvl and liegan to
yowl, aud that attracted ,ho attention of
a bull-dog, and he came along and
<lauc<*l alxnit and barked and got terri
bly excited. It was a ease ot "dog in
tlie light, cat in tlie ahadder, dog full
of fight, oat growing imvUlsr." Pretty
soou the dog upaet the barrel and went
in after the cat. Bns it was a surprise
party for him. The phosphorus glowed
in the darkness, and ha teheld a cat of
fire. He came out of that barrel and
went off howling m though a jiolmemsn
had Ntejqxxl on him. Than the cat went
up on the roofs, where other eats do
cottgregate, aud tried to chum round
with 'em. But it wax no go. They fled
troll him m if ho were a Ixxrtjack. He
diim’t understand it aud gave chaae,
and, as there wm about forty cate on
those roofs, and m they ware all scared
and fled from him, howling dismally,
the Moise wm something fearful, so that
folks in the vicinity who heard it were
scared and liad cold sweats. The cate
continued to tear around and yell so
tliat it couldn't be endured. Mr. Mon
key and others got uj> and went npoo
the rpote with elute. And at first tlie
right of the fiery cat frightened them,
and one lady who naw it screaim*! aud
fell through a skylight and nearly killed
a man sleeping lieneat it, aud made him
think Mother Bhipton was right.
Finally, Mr. Monkey and hia friends
made a deajx'rute charge on the fiery
cn< and the poor cat took a flying leap
to ftie street. He hit on a policeman,
saving his life, but m arly scaring the
officer out of hia, as he thought he was
struck by lightning. The cat jumped
to the ground, and an Mtrouomer camo
along and took him for an aerolite and
tried to pick him up. To bis amazement
the waukteran. Then he wm scared, too.
Finally, tho cat got info a haymow and
someliody thought the barn waa afire,
and they called out the engines aud got
wven streams turned on him. He
fought well, but they fixeil him. And
then investigations showed-no fire, but
only a dead cat And they told the
.-.tableman he wa* a croaa-eyi*l fool te
mialake a eat’a eyes for a tire, and so
they left him. And all tho West End is
talking of the mysterious fiery cat, and
only young Monkey understands ths
tuvstery.— Uottou
ZKVatit or thk
Mark Twain mourns over the dimin
iriied length of the MiMiasippi in this
strain : Therefore, tho Mississippi, l«'-
tween Cairo and New Orleans, wm 1,216
mill’s long 170 years ago. It was 1,180
after tho cut-off of 1722. It wm 1,040
after the American Bend cut-off, wsne
years ago. It Um bait sixty-seven miles
since. Consequently, its length is tally
073 miles at present Now, if I wanted
te ba one of thoao ponderous scientitis
people, and to prove what liad oix'urred
in the long pMt by what hail occurred
in a given time in the recent jwst, or
what will occur in the far future.by what
haa occurred in late years, what an op
portunity is here. Geology never hail
such a chance, nor such exact data to
argue from I Nor development of sj>«-
ciea, either. Glacial epochs are great
tilings, but they are vague—vague.
PleMe ol <serve. In the space of 176
years the Lower MiMiasippl Um short
ened itself 242 milea. That is an aver
age of a trifle over one mile and a third
per year. Therefore, any ealm person,
who is not blind or idiotic, can sue in the
old Oolrtic Biiunan period, just 1,000,
000 year* ago, next Nove tn ter, the
Iziwer Mississippi river wm upward of
1,300,000 miles long, and stuck out over
the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing rod.
And by tiie same taken, any person oan
■M that 742 yean from now tbs Miaais-
Hippi will te only a mile and a quarter
long, and Cairo and New Orleans will
have joined their street* together ; and
te plotting comfortably along under a
single Mayor and a mutual Board of
Aldermen. Tters is •omathing faacmat
ing about science. One gets such whole
sale returns of conjecture out of such a
trifiinu investment ot fact
Tut Russian Government has per
fected a si-hcme for locating 4O,teM> iam
ib'-» in the Ampor country on the Pacific
coasts. Tlie land is ru-fi, the climate
pleaMut, aud such inducements «d! te
offered as will take colonists in swarms
te the locality. The Russian theory is
thst a strong colony of Ku**i*n» in ttel
district will te the l«st protection
agsiu-4 auy moti-uieut Cluu > may make
te twouqiM.! tea nob valley.
raw raKsavar or wind.
In a paper before the American So.
oiety of Civil Engineers, Mr. 0. Shrier
Smith gives the results of many years ,
olmervationa of wind pressure and its
sfiecta. H« bad personally visited tha
tracks of destructive storms, sa soou aa
possible after their occurrence, for the
purjxiee of determining the maximum
force and the width of the path of the
storm in every instance. Tho moat vio
lent storm in Mr. Sunth’s records was at
East BL Louis, in 1871, whim tha wind
overturned a hxxmiotive, the maximum
force devetojxxl in so doing being uo
less than ninety-throe pound* per square
fisit. At 8t Cliarlea, in 1877, a jail waa
destroyed, the wind force requireii being
eighty-soar aud three-tenths pounds per
square foot At Marshfield, Mo., in
1880, a brick mansion wm leveled, tlie
force required being fiftv-eight pounds
j>er square foot. Below these extraor
dinary pressures there were sundry
case* of trains blown off rail*, and
bridges, etc., blown down by gates of
wind of from twenty-four pounds to
tlurty-one pound* ]>er square toot. Mr.
Bmith observe* that in all his examples
he hM taken the minimum force re
quired to do the observed damage, and
haa oonsidared tin* as tlie maximum
force of the wind, although, of course,
it may have been much higher. Homo
of tlie hurricanes were very destructive,
the one at Marshfield having out down
everything along a path forty-six uules
long and 1,800 foot wide, killing 260 peo
ple. Mr. Bmith has formed tha oou
c I union that, notwithstanding these ex
amples, thirty pounds per square foot in
* efficient wind pressure to allow for in a
working specification. As reason* for
thia conclusion, Mr. Bmith express*-*
doubts m to whether a direct wind or
gale ever exceeds thia pressure. Whirl- *
winds may exceed it, but the width oT
the pa Hi way of maximum effort ta these
I* usually vary narrow. Mr. Bmith Inis
only found one example, already quoted,
wharem the path of pressures over thirty
pownd*pereqnaratootaxoeededsixty feet
wtlA Tide yri it- ia -ta very
unusual,and, refernug more pirtfoularly
to railway bridges, it is staled that a 1
loaded paaeeuger t<aiu wdl laavo tho
rails at thia pressure of wind, ami cuum*-
quentiy not much oould be gained by
making tho bridge strong enough to re
sist a storm which would blow a train off
it—AbistaUlo A foericaiv.
atANuouo Attn hki.ioiok.
Tho disjiarity of the acves in ehnrehes
i* placed by Xiwi’« Herald at two to
one in favor of the women, audthe aame
paper also make* the following rather
startling statement: "If wo were to
take tho churches right through the
country we should probably find that
not more than one-tentii ot their num
bers are men in tlie prime of life.. The
other nine-tentiia are mon who have
psaseil their meridian, and youtlis who
have not reached their maturity. It io
also to te olmarved that in almost every
community tho majority of the ener
getic, enterprising buiuneM men are not
avowed and active Christians, and if they
are identified witli the church at all, it is
usually only in the moat superffmal !
way."
Thkrk are 111,387 illiterate persons
in Maryland. Os this nuniter 90,172
are colored. The Htate haa 2,(F20 ele
mentary school*, and 390 school* for
colored children; the*’school* are eon
ducted by 2,692 white teachers and 3Hf»
colored ones. Tlie average salary paid
u (31.89, and tlie average numter of
months during which the teacher* are
employed I* 8.12.
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NUMBER 45.
rLEANA.VTKnr*
A wax is known by the company ha
keepa out of.
Wwsx he cams home tipsy he told his
wife he hsd been out sherrynading.
To mass a succeaaful ran for office a
man must imitate snow. Ha must ooms
down occasionally.
"I wish I was a pudding, mamma ”
" Why I” •' Cause I would have a lot
of »ugar put into me. ”
" It is only after long reflection that I
go to an entertanissant with any young
mau," aaid tlie maiden to her mirror.
Whsn a woman loaves a man who hM
not earned hia salt for years, ha immedi
ately advertises that he will pay no debts
of her contracting.
A cbhtain gentleman must have lieen
very prond of hia wife whan he des
cribed her m " lieautifu), dutiful, youth
ful, and an armful."
Ei.t Psakixs says Tex** is tba largest
Blate ta the Union. Now the Btata will
have to be surveyed all over again to
ascertain if that is 00.-w7lgaeas Si/tingi.
"This is a sad commentary on our
Im Mated civilization," a tramp daapond
mgly observed, when lie discovered that
the hum he had taken from the front ot
a shop wm a wooden one.
A PKRrKcr jam i* made of plum, and
yet ii perfect jamb is never out ot plumb.
"Thinw of it," says the Emigrant Gaul,
“and yet Frenchmen are expected to
write good English just tlie same.”
*' A 0000 husband makes a good wife,”
•ay* a pniloMiptatr, but be stops there,
and don't ssy wiiat bs makes her do.
i'tobubly build the tire for him ta tba
morning aud ait np late for him at night.
" What kind of a mark is that ? *' said
Mngrady to hia friend Tsltborps, point
ing to a scar on his face. " It’s a quea
tion mark,” replied tna other “got it
for askiug s man *if it wm hot enough
for him.’”— Puck.
Hcsxx ; bride! rception. Several of
tlie guest*, after shaking hands with tba
brule, aud all •peaking at the same time :
"Where is the bridegroom?" Bride
naively: “Oh, he's up stairs watching
tlie weildmg presents.”
“ I hay, when uihm Uns Irani leave? *’
"What are you Mkiug me for? Goto
tlx' oomluctor ; I'm the engineer." “ I
know you're the engineer; but yon
might give* mau a civil answer." " Yes,
but I 'm uo civil engineer."
Relation -nirs era rather far-fetohed
sometimes, both ta Ireland and Boot
land. "Do you know Tom Duffy,
I'st?" "Know him, is it?” aays Pat,
"sure he’s a near relation of mine ; he
mice wanted to marry my sister, Kate.”
Tub following lacoufo correspoud
enco is reported in a Maine paper:
M. Y.—" Do me tha favor to lend ma a
dollar to get my cow out of tlie pound.”
GA. D.—"l would, but I paid my last
dollar to tha boy* to take tha oow to tha
jxuind."
A vovxo couple have just begun
housekeeping end wish to engage a
tn aid-ofai I-work. Josephine present*
herself. After detailing the duties re
quired, the lady of tba house remark* ;
"Well, my good girl, I think you will
te suited; the work is light, aud wa
have uo children," Josephine (with a
gracion* smirk) —"Oh, madam, do not
put yourself out ou my account, I beg.
I adore then).”
Amsiiica haa for years Ixien sending
negro miustrelx to England. A retalia
tion is slxxit to be made by Haul Hague's
company, ot Liverjxsil, who will make a
lour of Hu* country next winter