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VOLUME VIII.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
H^MNTHODIST— Douglasvtt le—First,
ftiw end fifth Sundays.
. Saat Second Sunday and
MiDWAY—Fourth Sunday and Satur
day before. W. R. Foote, Pastor.
BAPTlST—Douglasville— Fir«t and
fourth Bundays. Rev. A. B. Vaughn,
’ MASONIC.
Douglasville Lodge, No.. 289, F. A.
M. meets cn Saturday night before the
fttaf and third Bundays in each month.
.J. Carter, W. M., W. J. Camp, Seo
g COUNTY DIRECTORY.
—H. T. Cooper.
Xfterk—B. N. Dorsett,
•heriff—Henry-Ward.
Deputy Sheriff—G. M. Souter.
Tax Receiver—E. H. Camp.
Tax Collector—W. A. Bayer.
Treasurer—Samuel Shannon.
Surveyor—John M. Huey.
Coroner— F. M. Mitchell.
superior corner.
Meets on third Mondays in January and
July and holds two weeks.
Judge—Hon Samson W. Hanis.
Bpl, Genl,—Hon. Harry M. Reid.
“TjTerk—-8. N. Dorsett. ♦
Sheriff—Henry Ward.
WW COUNTY COURT.
Meets in quarterly session on fourth
Mondays in February, May?’August and
November and holds until all the cases
on ' the docket are called'. -In monthly
s*won ft meets oh the fourth Mondays
to wh month.
Judge—Hon. R. A. Massey.
Koi. Genl.—Hon. W. T. Roberts.
Bailiff-D. W. Johns.
ORDINARY'S COURT.
„ Meets for ordinary purposes on first
• Monday, and for county purposes on first
* Tuesday in each month.
|| Judge—Hon. H. T. Cooper.
justices’ courts.
,786th Dist. G. M. meets first Thursday
-in each month. J. LdFeely, J. P., W.
H. Cash, N. P., D. W. Johns and W. K.
Runt, L. C’s.
78flth Dist. G. M, meets second Satur
day. A. R. Bomar, J P., B.A. Arnold.
N. P., 8, 0. Yeager, L. C.
,784 Dist. G. M. meets fourth Saturday
Franklin Carver, J. P., C. 11. Baggett,
■ IN. P., J. 0, James and M. 8. Gore, L.
jfC’t. f ;:
i lSs9th Dist. G. M. meets third Satur
day. T. M. Hamilton, J. P., M. L.
Yates, N. P., 8. W. Biggers, L. C., 8.
Uy J, Jourdan, L. 0.
£,i 1200th Dist. G. M. meets third Satur-
N. W. Camp, J. p., W. 8. Hud-
Wm, M. JL*.. J A nnia'L. <’•
Bi meets first Satur-
ffifiey. U. C, Clinton, J. Albern
'jFed, N. I’., , I>. ( .
®??2d Dist G. M» meets '’fourth Fri-
Rlay, George W. Smith, J. p., J.
Bgßobin*on, N. P., ,L. C.
H 1278 d Dist. G. M. meets third Friday
White, J. P., A. J. Bowen, N.
BP. W. J. Harbin, E.
Il Professional Cards
ROBERT A. MASSf V. ~
»-«ttorney at law
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
*“* (Offieo lu front mom, Dorsett’s BitildhifL/
Will practice anywhere except in the (uuntj
Court of DottgUsH county.
W. A. J.WIES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Will pint ice in nil the court*, State tu
Federal. Office on Conrl Bouse Squat c,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
WK f. ROBERTS,
ATTORNEY AT i AW,
* DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
--,* ■ ' '
Will practice In Ml the Courte. All leg*
UMStnce* will receive prompt attention. Office
ia Quart House.
O. D. CAMP,
attorney at law.
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
conr,s - AUbusinea,
latrusted to him receive prow do*.
~ rt’MiiiGs;
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
WUI practice in all the courts. State and
JOHNI M JEDGE?
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
ww practice in all the oourte, and promptly
at»and k» all btuiwa entrusted to his care.
m*iEi
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA
WW grwßtine iu toe tvurte of Douglawr,
CmtoU, INnl.Hng, Cobb. Fulton aud
Kvmpt aitaittkw tfjvru
to«s Mml
j. h. McLarty,
attorney at law.
BOUGLAaVUXK GA.
Will mwe* tn all the ««rt* both Stale an (I
Fwtorel CaUMtioM a epewaity.
MHR V EDGE.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Boeeusvaxa ex
| jMHUKnm
nxaxm dons
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THE WEEKLY STAR.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
FROM ALL POINTS.
EASTERN'AND MIDDLE STATES.
Alden Goldsmith, the famous horseman
who brought out and developed the great
trotter Goldsmith Maid, died the other day
at Blooming Grove, N. Y., in his sixty
seventh year.
The 226th anniversary of the landing of
the Pilgrim Fathers was celebrated in Boston
by the Congregational Club, the ppncipal
speakers being Governor Robinson and Hon.
James G. Blaine. Banquet# in celebration
of the day also took place in New York,
Brooklyn and other cities.
Governor Hill, of New York, has granted
a respite until February 28 to Mrs. Druse,
sentenced to be hanged for husband murder.
A New York firm has been fined SSOO for
violating the law against oleomargarine,
selling it as butter.
A tie-up on ths Brooklyn horse-car rail
roads lasted one day. during which a striker
was shot by a policeman, several strikers
were severely clubbed and others arrested.
In the evening the strikers and the compa
nies adjusted their differences.
A voi'NG man named Warner shot and
killed Mrs. Ella Lynch at Newtown, Conn.,
and a few hours later entered the house
where her body lay and committed suicide.
Warner was enamored of Mrs. Lynch, who
had separated from her husband.
One man was killed and three were badly
injured by an explosion of fifty dynamite
cartridges which they were warming at -a
railroad cut near Elizabethtown, Penn.
SOUTH AND WBST.
Vilonia, Ark., has been partly destroyed
by fire, the work of incendiaries.
Counterfeiters are flooding the North
west with bad money.
William Mussel was taken from the
Eaton (Ohio) jail by a crowd and hanged.
He had killed Darnel Christman, an aged
farmer.
A recent movement is said to have been
started in Chicago to depose General Master
Workman Powderly, of the Knights of
Labor, for declaring the recent pork packers’
strike off.
Engineer Hunter and four Chinamen
were fatally burned by au explosion < f gas
in the poal bunkers of an English ship lying
at New Orleans.
Three men in a sleigh drove up to a jew
elry store in Minneapolis, Minn., and while
one of them broke in the large plate glass
window with a stick and seized all the
watches and jewelry available, the other two
kept the crowd at bay with cocked revolvers.
After securing their booty the bold robbei-s
drove rapidly away.
INTER-STATE COMMERCE.
SENATOR IFILSOV’, SPEE.H IN
J A VOR OF THE RILE.
< •<■< njMfnRBA , Kesufiu»
Among the most
fore Congress Bls session Is ti'w
Commerce bill, which provides for the supet
vMon of railroads and freight rate** in the
various States. The bill ha* been before
Congres- several years, but its promoters
Lave been unable heretofore to secure its
I a-sage. This session the Conference Com
mittees of both Houses agreed upon a report
in its fav r, and on the last day before the
holiday recess it came up in the Senate, but
after a speech in its favor had been made by
Senator Wilson the bill went over until as-
I tar the holidnvs. Senator Cullom announcing
that he would then ask the Senate to take it
up daily, and keep U up until a vote was
reached. A Washington special said of the
bill:
While It is evi lent that the views of many
representatives have changed since the Rea
tan Inter-State bill passed the House at the
last session, it does not seem probable
that the report of ths Conferen e
Committee will be rejected. A few
extreme members complain that the
House conferees yielded too much and,
threaten to vote against the report, but it is
not likely that many of them will do so.
Bome of the Western members who were
among the most earnest supporters of the bill,
now say that they are in doubt as to whether
the measure will not injure rather than
I eueflt the farmers and stork growers of the
West, but that the sentiment iu their districts
J is so strong in favor of action by Congress
j ,that they will be constrained to vote for the
conference report.
The truth is that when the bill passed the
House not one man in three understood its
provisions or cared to.
One thing which gives many of the sup
|k rtersof the conference report considerable
ne&sinees is the suggestion that the ‘"long
haul and short baul’- provision, if enforced,
will be likeltrjedivert the transcontinental
trafic, as wafl w a large part of the grain
and meat tratHh, from the United States to
t anada. But tßfcre seems to le no reason to
expect that of the considerations
involved will riMFe weight enough to de
feat the conferenue report.
In tiie Senate today Mr. Cullom called up
the conference-report on the bill, and Mr.
Wileon, of» lowa, thereupon addressed
the Senate Ln favor of the adoption
of the report. He referred to an in
terview published in the New York
| Tribunt, In which President King, of
I the Erie, recommended five boards of com
| miseioners to examine all the questions in
i volved. That, toe said, simply meant a delay.
I The public demanded action. Nothing, said
| Mr. Wilson, had been done more todemor
alixe railroad managers, officers and agents
than l>Ools. Under the present system
osses on through business ' were
unloaded on the business of the
intermediate or local points. Thia
! practice was, in iteelf. an outrage. As the
i Pili came from the House it authorized,«by
; implication, railroad companies to charge as
| much for a short as for a long haul Bat
i not so under the conference report: because
i it provided that nothing tn the bi 1. should
I lie construed as authorizing a railroad
company to charge and receive as
| great compensation for a short as for
a long distance. The people recognised the
I healthful aid which ra lroads had given to
| the development and progress of the country;
. but they insisted on the enactment of a law
i which would aid them in the recovery of
: Xame of their lost rights. They were wtl ing
: that the railroad companies should prosper
I and should be reasonably paid for their sar-
I rices; but they did not. reoogniee them as
I their masters.
As an illustration of the injustice of the
present rrstem. be stated that oa the 16th of
I this month corn was selling in Western
lowa, where it had been a good crop, at from
j 20 to rents a bushel, in Chicago at dt> cent*
a bushel, end m Boutbea»t«n lowa, where
{ toe crop bad beta a fedare, at4flto42centa
■ a bushel, so that Western lowa corn was
’ being told in Chicago at from 4 to w outea
I treritel sere than in hastens lows
{
AHOTHKB BOND CALL
; the Aeer*<*rr es ttoe Tres»«ry €•»• ter
| Ton MUHmm Tteee Per Oe<».
The Secretary of the Treasury i-ued
! the «m hundmi and forty-fifth call for
the redamptimi cf bonds htt Tu*”ky,
The call te for ten million dollars of the
j rtirea per cent, loan of It mature#
, Februarr Ist. The ben«h called «m be
‘ adeemed upon prwantaUou a: option of
tbata&tr.
FAWNING to none CHARITY to all.
DC UGL AS VILLE, GEORGIA. TU ESDA Y, JANUARY 4. 1887-
THE GROWING SOUTH.
(
THE DEVELOPMENTS MADE HTTR
ING THIS YEAR.
Nearly 8130,000,000 Invested In New En
terprises Darina the Year—Alabama
Again Leads.
In its annual review of the industrial
progress of the South, the Baltimore Man
ufacturers Record says that 1886 has been
the most remarkable year in many re
spects in the history of the Southern
Slates and more has been , accomplished
for the prosperity and progress of the
whole south than ever before in any
year. This is shown in the enormous in
vestments of capital in industrial enter
prises and in the growth of confidence
among Northern and European investors
in the stability of the South’s iron and
other manufacturing interests. The •
amount of capital, including the capital
stock of incorporated companies, repre
sented by new manufacturing and mining
enterprises organized or chartered at the
South during 1886, including the enlarge
ment of old plants and the rebuilding
of mills, aggregatAsl29,229,ooo, against
$66,812,000 in 18W5, divided among the
States as follows:
States. 1886. 1885.
Alabamasl9,B4B,ooo $7,841,000
Arkansas... 15,240,000 1,220,000
Florida 1,659,000 2,019,000
Georgia 3,599,000 2,500,000
Kentucky 2,844,000 1,833.200
Louisiana 2,240 000 ,2118,500
Maryland 8,765,000 6,663.800
Mississippi' 774,000 761,500
North Carolina 3,676.000 3,230,000
South Carolina 1.208,000 856,001
Tennessee 2,124.000 2,692,000
Texas 5,694,000 8,232,000
Virginia 8,514,000 8,314400
West Virginia 8,365,000 1,205,600
T0ta155129,226 000 $66,812,000
The development, of iron manufactories
employs the bulk of this new capital.
Other interests as well as iron, however,
are being rapidly developed. Included
in the list of new enterprises organized
in the South during 1886 were 28 iron
furnaces, 50 ice factories, 68 foundries
and machine shops, many of them of
large size; 1 Bessemer steel rail mill, 26
miscellaneous iron works, including iron
pipe works, bridgq and bolt works, etc.;
8 stove foundries, 24 gas works, 34 elec
tric light companies, 11 agri cultural im
plement factories, 174 mining and quar
• tying enterprises, 16 carriage.and wagon
factories, 9 cotton mills, 28 furniture
factories, 42 water works, 58 tobacco,
factories, 92 flour mills, 448 lumber mills,
n<st counting - small portable saw mills,
including saw and planing mills, sash
and door factories, stove, handle, shingle,
ljhub and spoke, shuttle block factories,
in addition to which there w«°
ijiumher of »n**»iln.»io<»n« enterprittr*. One !
j cf the main? gratifying features of the |
I South’s industrial’progress is the wise f
.diversity of hew industries that are th |
j veWtag all through that section,
TAKEN FROM THE GUARD.
i
Tw® Nc<roe» Huspicloned of Murder in the
Hands of a Mob.
Some time ago two negroes, Robert
Beasley and Raymond Murphy, were ar
rested on suspicion of murder near
Vicksburg, Miss. As a constable Wed
nesday evening was about to board a
■ tinin with these prisoners, at Glass cross
i ing, a mob of seventy-five persons, white
' and colored, surrounded the constable
and took the prisoners from him. As the
train started off the crowd were taking
i the men to a telegraph pole to hang
them. It is said that the only testimony
! against the men was the evidence of a
i boy, aged fourteen years, who says he
held the horses of the men while they
' went to the store on the night of the
( murder.
I
A LIBERAL BEQUEST TO HARVARD.
i Harvard College receives some S4OO,
i 000 from the will of J. Q. A. Will-liauis,
' which has been filed in the Suffolk coun-
> *y Probate Court. The estate is left in
i trust, and after the bequest of several
legacies,when the rest shall have reached
$400,0x 0, it is to be given to the presi-
1 dent and fellowr of Harvard College.
The sum of $200,000 is to be set ;;part
and known, as the Abraham 'Williams
fund, in memory of the testator’s father
‘ and grandfather, the latter being a niem
i Ixt of the class of 1844. A fund of s4!‘,-
000 is to be used in aiding needy and
meritorious students,who are to consider
such aid as debts of honor, and also for
the library of the college. In case the
college refused to accept the trurt, the
estate is to go to the society for old men
in Boston and the society for old females
in Newburyport.
BURNED TO DEATH.
1 A Lady Falla Down Htaira With a l.l«li:rd
Which Explodea.
Monday evening Mrs. John Burke, of
1 Scranton, Pa., while going up stairs with
a lighted lamp, fell to the iKHtom and
was stunned. Tne lamp exploded a d
> set her clothing on fire. Before she
could be rescued she whs burned al»r<>-
to a crisp. Her husband, who is blind,
was unable to render assist*n e, but hi*
cries brought help to the house w hieb,
however, arrived too late,
CLUVKRIUSFB EFFORTS FOR LIFR.
Cluveriua, the condemned murderer of
Fannie LiUixn Madison, has sent out cir
culars to members of the general assem
bly for the purpose of getting them to
sign a petition asking the governor to
> grant him a reprieve until they meet.
When the legislature meets, Cluverins
J hopes that they will recommend the gov
i ernor to commute his sentence to life im
prisonment. Unless the governoi calls
an extra session, which, however, it is
probable that he will do for the consid
eration of important state matters, the
legislature will not meet until it MMsn»
bles in regular session in December,
1887.
A RAILROAD DEPOT BURNED
The depot at Akron, Ala., on the A
G. &. R. R , was burned by incendiaries
Tuesday right. This is the second time
within two months A large quantity of
merehandss.c was destroyed, amounting
to over $3,900.
VANITA3.
When after long battle the prize has been
gained,
When after long searching the jewel is
found,
When after long climbing the peak is at
tained,
When after long sowing the harvest is
bound, v
Then we halt;
And we fret ’neath the burden of
For we feel that tUe victory’s not worth
the strife.
To fail in the heat of the on-rushing ra®e;
To love and receive for our recompense
hate;
To worship and find that our idol is base;
To trust and awake to deception too late;
Isour lot—
Each a sign on the pathway of iife,
Pointing out that the victory’s not worth
the strife.
Our joys never seem the same pleasures we
thought;
Our hopes never come to their fruitage un
marred;
Our future ne’er brings us the grandeur we
sought;
Our past to our vision appears but ill
starred;
Such is fate;
But it darkens the glory of life
Thus to find that the victory’-not worth
the strife.
Over sights that are beauty, dull clouds
grimly sail;
Over days that are H jhtsome, "aresblight
inglyfall;
Over fond-cberisbed gardens, Wows Boreas’s
gale;
Over plans full of promise drop* failure's
black pall;
» So they go;
But the memories cumber ou> life ,
With the tale that the victorj s not worth
.the strife. £
«
But we look to a land where th skitd never
dull,
Where the flowers fade, where the
lights never dim,
Where the hopes never ebb, where the joys
never lull, ■
Where no failures are found to its utter
most rim.
Happy land!
Where we’ll feel through an unending life
That the victory the’-o is well worth all
the strife. t - '
—Chas. M. Harger, in Detroit Free Press.
WHAT HE BELOVED IN.
“That’s a great ndte I do
think, marrying a
■rsay she reaches a i
f too, and has a faae ~s.>
i a half-WgM#
“Khtfl;—Jem Kaigit— hAs lA marriewi
a
good wiosm, aod him one of the f
t*ke-it-ciisy-and do cusses ■
between here and
“That’sthe talk.” " A
“Great Jee-nisalem! a sw<W.time he’ll
hav*. Jest fancy her makinahim slick
up to the music of slow cffarch bells
Sunday mornings and marching him off,
’stead of having a good time at the gar
dens, to a straight-backed pew to listen
to Gospel mush I”
Thus *poke a couple of Jem Knight’s
familiar chums, amid a knot of the same
ilk, who were seated in the enjoyment
of their customary beer and cigars in
Bottler's popular saloon. Tom Winter,
a third one of the party, seemed to be
particularly impressed by the conversa
tion. He was a sharp-eyed young chap
of twenty-three or thereabouts, who was
noted for the almost re kless manner in
which he went in for “having a good
time.” Not that there was anything
really vicious about him. He was
straightforward, manly and honest, but !
full of desire to enjoy life in its freest-1
going aspects, and especially liberal in
his views touching the observance of
Sunday as a religious ordinance. No one
had ever heard of his going to church, or
that he cared a button, either one way or
the other about church-going or any of
its straight-laced arrangements. Hence
it was with more than common .'■urprise
that his chums heard him say:
“Well, I don't undertake to know,
gents. If Jem's wife i# the right woman
otherwise, I should saybe'd made a good j
•trike, getting one who goes to church.
I don’t go much on churches myself. I i
used to go with the old folks when I was
a little shaver about knee-high to a duck.
But that was when I had to. It’s a good
many years n«w since I was inside of
one. As I said. I don't go mtuh on it
myself. It’s too slow for my taste. At
the samqtime, I believe in a’woman go- •
ing to church. I’ve noticed the women I
that go to ihurek are generally the be t
sort. A man can depend oa ’em. They
keep things straight at home and bring
the children upright. A mau can feel
safe when he’s away haYieg his own fun.
that they won’t be running into any of
the blamed and beer-g.ird- n
foolishness that winds up so often in dis
grace to ama t’s home. Oh, you boys
may sneer. I allow it may be all humbug,
and too alow for men like u% But it’s
dead sure; the women who go to church
are the steadiest sort a man can tie to.
1 don't care how much. you laugh and
Coke fun. I've seen too’many wrecked
omce and ruined lives grow out of pick
ing wives from free dances and Sunday
picnics. There’s too much nonsense in
it for me. If I every marry I sha’l do as
Jem has done- pick a wife that goes to
church.”
And he did. To the increa-eti surprise
and astonishment of his chums, the jovial,
rollicking, devii-may-care To n, who had
all his life gone in for every species «f
free-and easy enjoyment; made fun of
parsons and what he called long faced, >
tnilk-sops. more recklessly
than any of them, actually married a
member of the Ker. Mr. Gracely’s church,
a woman who was noted for the solidly
serious aspect of her face and strict ob- s
•erv&nce of the Sabbath.
A nice-looking woman, to be sure, and
steady, with not a bit of nonsense about
her. A rare good housekeeper, too, who
kept herself and all things about her in
the very best of “app’e-pie order.” That
mu h was conceded; only, as one of the ’
boys putit, • too thundering orderly! A
nice time (o r Torrt H have now. We
•hall see hitu creei»iug about with a taoe
a* tougasatidd e,”
4ms proved » mistake. So far as outer
appearance wm concerned, To® lost
none of hia old-time jollity of speech and
demeanor, and he seemed to retain all
his old pleasure-loviqgdisposition. When
ever he met the boys he was as keen, as
ever to have a good time; neither did he
fall into going to church. On the latter
point he remarked once in strict confi
dence that it was all right, and a mighty
good thing for a woman to go to church,
but too slow and hum-drum,for a man's
enjoyment.
Still, it came to be noted after awhile
that he was not exactly the old Tom. As
the y< ars rolled by and three handsome
children began to accompany their
mother to Sunday-school, and who were
so neatly clothed and well-behaved as to
call forth the admiring comments of all
who saw them, their father grew a trifle
more staid and dignified, as one begin
ning to be somewhat impressed with the
more serious aspects of life; to feel that
a man was made for something more 1
serious than an endless round of careless i
frolic. It was seen, too, that he was
more careful not to let the good times he
indulged in come within the scope of his
home surroundings. This much at least,
his wife’s influence had accomplished.
“I don’t go to church,” he said apolo
getically to a friend one day, “but it
wouldn’t be tfle right thing to let those
boys of mine get to know their father’s
free didos. It’s all right enough so far
as I am concerned, because I know
when I’ve gone far enough. But it's
best to let the children come up sort of
straight; the way their mother wants,”
A most admirable woman this same
mother had turned out to be, as Tom i
very well knew, and no little he was
proud of her. Yet not half proud enough.
Indeed, it was not yet in his apprehen
sion to appreciate her full value. It did
not enter his conception that the respect
which had fallen to himself in connection
with his excellently-ordered home was
entirely' due to his church-going wife.
An especially sensible woman, too. i,
Albeit it had grieved her more than
words can express that her husband
could find enjoyment in pleasures which i
at best were empty and frivolous, if not
positively wrong, by not the slightest :
petulant complaint had she ever up
braided him or striven by aught save the
gentlest suggestions to lead him to her ’
own better way of fife.
There came a sad day, alaA I for him, (
and still more, alas 1 for the three beauti
ful children. The good wife and mother !
was called away from them, and they j
were left desolate indeed. The blow was
a hard one. What now was the be- ;
reaved husband to do? So far as worldly I
goods were concerned he was amply pro- I
vided. He had abundance; but not all
the wealth in the universe could have J
made up the loss they had sustained, j
; Even his old roystering companions con- j
’ fessed to each other that it was “awful
I rough, yoiijcnow”; that in his case there
j could be ntedqubt that Toni had ‘ ‘struck
t it rich” wiun”he*got the wife who went
[' ,'Mhat would he do? A year later he
tßosom friend th./t he must secure
om mother for his children.
4 *You will marry one that goes to
: church?”
“More resolved on that than ever.”
“But you don't go yourself f”
“No. The fact is, it's too slow for me.
I like to enjoy myself with things more
lively; and when I’ve got one at home
who pulls steady in the traces, as these
church-going women do, I can feel safe
and comfortable.”
He found the woman he thought would
suit. A lady who had been somewhat
intimate with his wife, a member of the
same church, and altogether after the
same right-going pattern. In fact, a
steady, clear-headed woman, who knew
when things were right, and was prompt
and decisive to have them so.
• “True,” as Tom whispered to himself,
“I expect she’ll try to pull me short up .
into straight strings, a good deal tighter
than Emily did. She is not as soft and
yielding as I’d like. But she’ll be all
right for the children. I can trust her. ;
When it comes to a question of what’s
I best to be done, there ain’t a bit of non-
i senseabout her. So I’ll take her.”
To his great surprise, however, he
' found that the second church-going wo
man was not prepared to accept his offer
with the pleased alacrity he hud ex- ,
pected. Knowing that she was in rather
straightened circumstances, entirely de
pendent on her own exertions for a livli- ■
hood, he had felt sure that his own well
appointed home would prove a tempta-
I tion the lady would not dream to refuse.
But, instead of the gratefully expressed
“yes” he had looked for, she replied: I
“May I ask why you have given me
the preference, Mr. Winter?”
“Because 1 want a mother for those
children who goes to church. I married
Emily on that account, and she managed
so well that 1 determined to choose one
of the same good sort.”
“I commend the wisdom of your de
cision. But you do not attend church
yourself?”
“O, it don’t matter about me, you
know. So long as the mother is all right
to keep things straight at home it don’t
make a bit of difference whether a man
goes to church or not. ”
“In his own estimation, perhaps. But
have you thought, Mr. Winter, that your j
chur. h-going wife may be just as anxious
to have a husband whose integrity of
principle may be under the saving in- ,
fluence of church attendance aa you are
in regard to the lady of your choice? If
you desire to feel at rest touching your
wife’s conduct at home is it not equally '
desirable that yout wife’s mind should i
be at rest touching your honesty of con
duct when Out of I.er sight ”’
Here was a new a-pect, and at first he
thought it was a very foolish aspect, not
to sav ridiculous. He could not under
stand the idea of a m n being amenable
to the same rules of moral conduct that (
are required in a woman. And he sa <1
so. But to all his arguments and plead
ings the lady turned a deaf ear. She
would not marry a man who did not go <
to church; that much of the
clean life of the man she would accept
must be given in return for her own
wholesome purity and unblemished prin
ciples.
At first Tom voweii to himself that he
would not tie himself down to any such
unmanly giving way to a woman’s foolish
whim. As he more and more observed,
howevei, that the lady was possessed of
precisely the excellent qualities he espe
cially desired in a mother for his chil
dren, he finally gave the requisite pledge
that be would accompany his wife to
church at least once each Sabbath-day.
•‘Poor chap!” said hi* old chums,
“now he is *horn of his liberty, tied to
the apron-fttings of a hard-faced,church
-1 w
going fanatic. He’ll be in a lunatic asy
lum in less than six months.”
They were mistaken. Certainly, a
great change came over him. That was
apparent to the least observant. He was
no longer the roystering, free-and-easy
Tom. The old card-playing, dice-throw
ing, time-wasting haunts lost his pres
ence. No more was ha seen in the
noisy, brawling, tippling beer-gardens
on Sunday. He now sought rest and
peaceful quiet from the cares of the
week’s business within the blessed safe
guards of his own fireside. And when,
with wife and children, he walked to
church, no more beautiful picture could
anywhere be seen. Aud, as time sped
on, and he found that the influence of
the church going he had always seen to
be so good for a woman equally refining
and excellent in its effects on a man, he
blessed the impulse that led his'second
wife to impel him into the path of life’s
truest enjoyment; and, albeit, here were
those of his old chums who still won
dered that he could have been “led by
the noseby a woman,” most of them were
free to confess that, after all, he was
more of a man, a better man, in fact,
than he had ever been before.
To one who asked him how he ever
came to let himself be tied to a woman’s
apron-strings, he said:
“If the chief bulk of married men
could be tied to the apron-strings of
wives who are anchored oa a foundation
of church-going principle?, we should
have a far greater number of happy
homes aud vastly more peace and happi
• ness in the world at large.”— Cleveland
Leader.
The Lion Hunter’s Pet
The story is told of Gerard, the great
lion-hunter, that he captured a whelp in
the mountains of Jebel-Mezours, Algiers,
named it “Hubert,” and brought it up
as heVoulfl bring up a dog from puppy
hood. After some time, his huge pet
becoming too dangerous to go at large,
Gerard made a present of the animal to
his friend, the Due d’Aumale, and Hu
bert traveled to Paris in a big cage, be
moaning his separation from his old
master. The next year Gerard himself
visited Paris on leave of absence from
the army, and went at ome to the Jardin
des Plantes to see his exiled favorite. He
describes the interview as follows:
Hubert was lying down, half asleep,
regarding at intervals with half shut
eyes the persons who were passing and
repassing before him. All of a-sudden
he raised his head, his tail moved, his
eyes dilated, a nervous motion con
tracted under the muscles of his face.
He had seen the uniform of the Spahis,
but had not yet recognized his friend. I
drew nearer aqd nearer, and no longer
able to restrain my emotion I sketched
my hand out to him through the bars.
Without oeasing his earnest gaze he
applied his nose to my drew in
knowledge with > breath. At each
inhalation his StcaJaemore noble,
his look more' -
; nder the unf
dear to him he the
ti i-nd. of his hoarlv
I felt that It dnglewi.rS
ro dissipate all douht^^^^.--'
"Hubert!” I said, hand
on him —“my old soldierT*®?
Not another word. With a furious
bound and a note of welcome’ he spfang
against the iron bars, that bent ana
trembled with the blow. My friends
fled in terror, calling on mo to do the
same. Noble animal 1 Y’ou made the
world tremble even in your ecstacy of
pleasure.
Hubert was standing with his cheek
against the grating, attempting to break
down the obstacle that separated us,
magnificent to behold as he shook the
walls of the building with his roars of
joy and anger. His enormous tongue
licked the hand that I abandoned to his
caresses, while with his paws ho gently
tried to draw mo to him, If any one
tried to come near me he fell into frenzies
of rage, and when the visitors fell back
to a distance he bc< ame calm and caress
ing as before, handling me with his huge
paws, rubbing against the bars, and
licking my hand, while every gesture
and moan and look told of his joy and
his love.
When I turned to leave him he shook
the gallery with his heart-rending roars;
and it was not till I had gone back to
him twenty times, and tried to make him
understand that I would come again,
that I succeeded in quitting the place.
After that I came to see my liiend
daily, sometimes spending several hours
with him in his cage. But afteßa while
I noticed that he became ead and dispir
ited, and when the keepers alluded to
his furious agitation and excitement
every time I left him, and attributed his
worn-out and changed appearance to this
cause, I took their advice and made my
visits as seldom as possible. One day,
some four months from the time of my
first meeting with him in Paris, I ens
tend the garden, and one of the keeper:
came forward, saluting, and said
“ Don’t come any more, sir. Hubert is
dead.” ~
A Paragraph “Going the Rounds.”
I.
Joseph Marcel was trying to set a game
hen at Point au Prince, when the game
cock flew m his face and pecked him
severely on the left eyelid.
11.
A Canuck farmer had his eye pecked
oet by a game cock the other day “ It
served him right for trying to set the
hen on china eggs.
in.
The ferocity of the game cock at cer
tain seasons of the year wa« strikingly
illustrated st Point a i Prince recently,
when a Canadian farmer had to kill one
of those noble bird ? in ’ self-defense.
« IV-
A Canadian farmer was killefl the
other day by his favorite game cock. A
man never knows when he is safe from
harm.
V.
Due of the most brutal exhibitions on
record was the fight at Point an Prince,
Canada, a few days ago, between a
brawny farmer, with his hands tied, and
a ferocious game cOfek. The bird, had
been trained to fly at a man’s eyes, and
in the fifth round pecked hi* left orb
into giblets. After thirty-nine bloody
rounds the human brute caught his
feathered adversary between his teeth
and bit off its head— otn aha Bee.
Thou mnyest well dispense with •
pleasure if at the same time thou over
comest grief.
NUMBER 48.
• TWO OLD PEOPLE.
j Once he was twenty and she only ten,
She was a child, he scarcely in his prime;
Youth seemed so long, and age so distant**
then,
And noon came not, as now, ere morning •
time. . '
But later on. they chanced again to meet,
Aud he was thirty and she twenty now;
“Why, he is old,” exclaimed the maiden
sweet,
Aud passed with careless heart and cloud
less brow.
Ten years (a weary ronnd) roll on again.
Whose days and weeks, so like each other,
pass,
That, when they meet, ’tls he, with sudden
pain.
Who cries, in turn, “Why, she is old, alas!"
But often on those tender April eyes,
When hearts beat time to hidden
“Why was I never loved?’ he asks—ana
grieves.
“Why did I never love?” she asks—and
sigha » ’
And now, opprest with vain regret, they
say,
As years wear on in ever-deepening gloom;
“Children, enjoy the sunshine while you
may,
And pluck the floww in its morning
bloom.”
; j Aler. Hayes in Argosy.
■ PITH AND POINT.
Moves in the best society.—A fan.
The first woman in the land—the first
woman who was born— Siftings.
“What is it that we can’t bear in sum
mer and yet are very fond of in winter?”
Heat.
Lawyers dress pretty well, notwith
standing the fact that they occasionally
lose a suit.
“I really believe my work is telling,*’
remarked the society reporter.—Burling
ton, Free Press.
“Mark my words,” said the public
speaker, and the stenographer marked
them. — Boston Transcript.
Who is rich? And who is happy!
Who could be content with less?
Let us see—his name is—name is—
Pshaw, we’ve lost the man’s address!
—Washington Critic,
“This way, gen tiemen, to the American
dwarf, to be seen only through a hun
dredfold magnifying glass; totally in
visible to the naked eye.”— Fliegends
Blaetter.
He (with a view toward further ac
quaintance with owner): “What a
pretty little dog!. He wouldn’t bitq.me,
would he?” She; “Oh, no, we give
salt food only.”— Tid-Bits.
“AVell, what do you think of the new
j neighbors who have moved in next door,
; Mrs. Pryeri” “I haven’t, had a chance
to form an opinion. They haven’t had
Awashing hnng out yet.”— Boston
A jmatt boy surprised hi- teacher at
one of the grammar schools yesterday by
asking her how far a procession of the
Presidents of the United States would
reach if they were placed in a row. On
her expressing her ignorance he calmly
announced: “From Washington to Cleve
land.”— Springfield Bepublican.
ONLY. A BARBER.
The maidens saw him at the beach;
They thought he was a lord,
So handsome and so debonnair—
By all he was adored.
He’s shaving bearded chins again,
And also cutting hair,
While chinning to his customers,
Behind the barber’s chair.
—Boston Courier.
The Smallest Kingdom.
On the northeast coast of the island
of Sardinia lies the much smaller island
of Tavolara, five miles long and one
broad. Its possession and, absolute sov
ereignty were formally granted by King
Chai les Albert, of Sardinia, to theßarto
leoni family, and for more than half a
century Paul 1., King of Tavolara,
reigned over it in peace. On the 30th of
May last King Paul was compelled to go
to the mainland to seek treatment for
heart disease. Finding that science was
powerless in Ms case the King returned
to his island to die in the midst of his
subjects, who are forty in number-. He
died sitting in his chair, like the Em
peror Vespasian, vainly endeavoring to
write a will.
He was seventy-eight years old. The
forty subjects of Re Paolo,as they called
him, lost in him a benevolent and indus
trious monarch; his family lost a kind fa
ther, and the wild goats of the island,
more numerous than his subjects, lost—
we will not say they mourn the loss of—
an intrepid hunter. . .
Tavolara is a smaller State than even
the Republic of San Marino, lying east
of Itally, which has twenty two square
miles and 8,090 people; the principality
of Monaco, on the French coast of the
Mediterranean near the Italian frontier,
which has eight and one-half square
miles and 8,500 inhabitants; or the Re
public of Andorra, lying between France
and Spain, wh'ch is 600 square miles iu
extent and has 7,000 people. Youth's
Companion.
Dancing Sand-Hill Cranes.
The last time I went hunting I wit
nes-ed a scene which I had often heard of
but never seen. It was the dance of the
sand-hill crane. My companion was a
well-known hunter, and, though he is a
physician, finds much time—he lives in
Northern lowa—to ctudy the ways and
haunts of wildfowl. "Now,” said he,
“I will show you within an hour the fa
mous dance of the sand-hill cranes,” We
swept over the prairie in away which I
shall never forget, the two ponies seem
ing to enjoy the outdoor sport. At last
we came in sight of a crowd whose noise
had saluted our ears for an hour. They
were on a slope which came down near
to a lake. All at once two st .pped out
from the crowd, faced each otn r and
i began clapping their wings, jumping up
and down as Indians do for a war dance.
, Ail this time they were uttering crie»
which boys would understand very soon
to be crie, of merriment. Their com
panions greeted them with shouts of
seeming laughter, and the one ju ..ping
highest and longe t wa-i acknowledged
champion of the day. When these two
berime exhausted, two others went
through the some performance. We
watched them for about aa hour. — Chi*
cage Advance. ,