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Passenger Rates on Coosa River,
Rome to Cedar Bluff $2 00
Rome to Center j
Rome to Gadsden 4 JO
Passenger Rates on Oostanaula
" and Coosawattee Rivers.
Rome to Reeves’ Station $1 00
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Rome to ltesaca.
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Bmigi’ants.
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NORTHWARD. No. 1.
Leavo Atlanta 4-10 v.m
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“ Dalton 3.24 “
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No. 3
I.eave Atlanta * A-W
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“ Cartcrsville 3.12 “
“ Atlanta 10.15
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An ive Dalton
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“ Cartcrsville 0.42 44
Atlanta 42 OG **.m
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T a\c Dalton 10 ° A - >!
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Leaves Rome daily at. a. m.
Keturn to Rome at 4 2 m.
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Return to Rome at 9:00 p. m.
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North and South, and at Kingston with W.
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CALHOUN, GA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25,1876.
Been to the Races.
Friday night about ha’f an hour be
fore midnight, a very De
troiter, living on Duffield street* was
heard feeling all over the front door to
find the knob. His wife suddenly pull
ed the door open, confronted him and
in a fife like voice inquired :
‘•lsn’t this an ee state of affairs—
you not been home since this morn
ing !”
Softly, darling, softly,” he replied in
a whisper, ‘ I’ve zhust got back from
the races.”
“What races r'uhe demanded.
“H-o-r-s-e races,” he slowly replied.
Had a big time and made five hun’red
dollars. Goin’ to git you fourteen silk
dresses.”
Well,you should have sent me word,”
she replied, as she hung up his hat.
The promise of the dresses acted like
magic on her imagination.
“Y’es, but didn’t have time,” he re
plied. “Feller come Tong in buggy,’noff
I went. Ju ever see a horse race Ma>-
ry ?”
“ No I never did.”
“ Well, she’s big thing, tell you.—
Never seen such magniferous sight in
my life. Now jus’r ’magine, am a
h-o~r s-e, and you are the string.”
“I won’t do it —l’m no string,” she
exclaimed.
“All right. S’posen both of us are
horses, then.”
“I wont do that either. I never saw
you look and talk as you do to night. 1
belie-e you have been drinking.”
“oah’s so,Mary drank sixty four glass
es lemonade. Well, all the horses go
away in fine style. Noble sight, I tell
you. I bet five hundred ollars on the
head horse.”
“That was sharp in you,” she replied,
mentally planning to have four blue,
five brown,and five green silks.
“Yon bet it was,” he went on. “Well
the head horse kept ahead an’ I won
five hundred dollars on that same head
horse.”
“Half of which my ducky,you intend
to give to me.”
“Noz hardly, my dear.”
“Why ?”
“\ou don’t understand cr rules of cr
race course, my darling,” he replied
“Er rule if you win five hundred dol
lars on the first race, you lost * it all
and two hundreds more on the next
race.’
“And do you mean that you are two
hundred out of p.cket?” she squeak
ed.
“Thai is what I mean my darl
ing.”
“Don’t darling me, you old drunk
ard !” she howled and the policeman
across the way says that the hat rack
went over, the door kicked sfiut, and.
amid the growls and howls, ho could
hear a voice crying out:
“Lez up on me, darling; lez my hair !
I gave the fe'r my note for the two
hun’der’d dollars and he can’t get a
cent!”
&
Withdrawing Leisurely.
The Elko (Nev.) Independent tells
the following:
“While traveling '.hrough Arizona in
1849 with an exploring party, we made
our camp one evening near a canyon,
the bottom of which was covered with
fine sand that had drifted from the
neighboring plains. While employed
in arranging our camp,the botanist of
the expedition, Dr. 8., wandered some
distance in pursuit of plants. He re
turned shorily and reported that there
were Indians near at hand. He was as
cool as a cucumber, and didn’t show a
sign of anxiety or alarm. In answer to
our hasty inquiries, he replied that
while he was engaged in examining a
fossil specimen he heard a grunt behiud
him, ard on looking around discovered
an Indian who had siezed his gun,
vhich had been placed against a rock.
The Indian dre v a bead on him,and in
retaliation lie drew his revolver and
sighted the Indian, retreating at the
same time towaid the canyon,
which was close at hand. Neither fired.
On reaching the canyon,he walked leis„
urely into the camp. A party imme
diately set out to determine the possi
bility of danger and discovered two
Indians and a squaw. After capturing
them they examined the vicinity ia
which the doctor had met with this re
markable adventure. They found his
foot-prints which signified a cautious
retreat to the canyon, But alas! for
the frailty of human nature; his foot.,
prints in the canyon were eight feet
apart by measurement, and not exactly
indicative of the leisuiely manner in
which he had approached the ca'"p.
The doctor acknowledged the corn, and
remarked that that was about as leis
urely rs he ever wished to walk under
similar circumstances. ’
The Memphis Appeal says : “G.W.
App of this city has just finished a
remarkable pair of shoes for a negro
man who lives in Arkansas. The shoes
were ordered by S. H. Cowan & Cos. of
Marvel, Arkansas, and for size Lave no
equal. The length of the shoe is sev
enteen and three quarter inches across
the sole. The negro’s foot according to
measurement, is fourteen inches around
the ball, while the instep is nineteen
inches. The man is over seven feet
in height, weighs four hundred pounds
and is not morejtban twentysix years of
age. He has not worn a pair of boots
for years, and this pair is intended for
Suuday, they, wit 1 * the last on which
they were made, costing sl6. This big
footed negro is a preacher.”
•‘Truth Conquers All Things.”
THEY MET AXD PARTED.
A Correspondence Results in a
Marriage License and a Disap
pointment.
During the past year a regular cor
respondence bus been carried on between
a gay youth of seventy'five summers,who
lives in this city,and a fair maiden aged
who has lived in a distant
fitate. The subject of the said corres
pondence—neither party having seen
the other—was at fiist of a formal na
ture, but soon the Lou# of eaefa pia|le
changed 1 * so mutflt formality to
friendship that betore"*They knew it
each was pouring out to the other on
paper the sweetest tidings of mutual
love. Aoout three weeks ago the young
gallant hied himself to the Probate
Court, and did then and there procure
a marriage license, for which he paid
the requisite sum in cash. Thus
armed with the stong power of the law,
he indited a final epistle to his perhaps
supposed , young maiden, who was to
be “an old man’s pet,” insisting on her
immediate appearance in this locality in
order to end all trouble by getting
“spliced ” She having from the tone of
former missives arrived at the conclu
sion that she was on the puint of catch
ing a young and handsome protector,
whom she colnd pat on the cheek and
love as she would a baby,at once replied
with the request to “come West,” and
and within a few days she could have
been seen about our streets inquiring for
(he number of the house occupied by
her supposed rich young lover. They
met. The feelings experienced were
perhaps mutual—to a certain extent
She, after taking a long look at the pro*
posed groom, santc helplessly against
the back of the chair and murmured :
“Is this the young man I was to
meet ?” He rubbed his nose a moment
and wanted to know if she was the
young woman he had been making love
to. After glaring at each other awhile
she became indignant, and he consider
ed himselt duped,but being in for it, he
proposed that as matters had gone so
far it would be better to go on with the
business and get married. She, how.
ever wouldn’t listen to bis love pleading
and demanded from him enough money
to pay her expenses back to her home,
lie reluctantly complied, and handed
over about thirty dollars, the amount
necessary. Then, to reimburse him
self as nearly as possible, he called on
the Judge of the I’robate Court and
tried to get the amount of his license
fees refunded. This he failpd to ac
complish. — Levvcnworth Times.
How a Man Takes Care of a Baby.
First, he must have one to take care
of. It isn’t every man who is lucky
enough to have one ; and when he does
his wife is always wanting to run over
to the neighbor’s “just five minutes,”
aud he has to tend the baby. She hard •
ly irets out of sight before that baby
emits a yell which causes the cat to
bounce out of the door as if something
had stung it. You give the cherub a
piece of sugar. He spits it out and
tries to put his foot in his meuth. You
give him a shake and he stops a sec
ond. You try another, ad he sets up
such a scream that the passers-by look
up in astonishment, llis eyes roll in
their sockets, and be stretches out as if
a red hot poker was laid on his spine.
The perspiration oozes out of every
pore; your hair stands on end. and the
thoaglil comes you, what if the baby
should have a fit ? You walk the floor
till your knees feel shaky, and try baby
talk ; but “ itty bitty lamby ” don’t see
the fun, and refuses to be consoled.—
You fear he will burst a blood vessel,
and frantically pull out your watch and
thrust it into his hands, which are try
ing to pull your hair out. lie stops
crying to look at the watch, and you
thankfully find an ensy chair, and pre
pare to rest your aching limbs, when
that demented laby drops that five hun
dred dollar watch on the floor, and sets
up a louder roar than ever, just as the
happy woman known as your wife comes
rushing in, and snatching the Eng-suf
fering child from your arms, sits down
and stills it as if by magic, while you
mournfully gaze on the remains of your
watch, and vow never to take care of a
baby again—until the next time.
Where He Came Fro.y.—As the
train stopped for ten minutes, and that
individual goes along tapping the wheels
with his hammer was passing r apidlv by
the smoking car,one of the windows was
hoisted and a tmient of tobacco spit
was ejected which completely deluged
him. The maclianisc paused for a mo
ment, aud, wiping some of the streams
from his person, said to the offender :
“Mister, what part of the country
did you come from ?”
“ Me !” said the spitter, puckering
his lips for another expectorant,“l come
from Kansas.”
“ I thought so,” said the machinist,
“ For ifyouhad lived in Massachusetts
or Connecticut they would have had a
water wheel in your mouth long ago.”
Agriculture, said Socrates, is an em
ployment the most worthy to the appli*
cation of men; the most ancieut and the
most suitable to his nature. It is the
commou uurse of ail persons in every
age and condition of life ; it is the source
of health, strength, plenty.and richness
and of a thousand sober delights ani
honost pleasure.. It is the mistress and
school of sobriety, temperance, justice,
religion, and. in shoit. of all virtues,
civil and military.
A Great Pigeon Boost. - ■..
The Southland (Mo.) Rustic says :
“Pigeons have come into this part of
the country by millions. Of evenings
the sky is daikened With them in the
neighborhood of Dr. Dodson's on the
Auglaize. They have made Dodson’s
farm their headquarters, and at nights
the trees and underbrush ate loaded
down with multitudes. As this roost
; s but a short distance from our house,
we have had ample opportunity to watch
their manoeuvres and to hear.the inces
sane rmkre they make. A little before
sundown largo armies of pigeons are
seen ooming from different points of
the compass, but each army passes on
ward as if they intended to change
their roosting place. After awhile they
return and settle on the trees around
the roost, not many of them nearer
than a mile of the place. They make
sudden flights from these trees, and the
sound or their wings is like that of a
great storm. There is a constant roar
ing in the air as myriads of the birds
fly to aud fro. About dark they fly to°
wards the roost and for a longtime they
fly round and round, and have the ap
pearance of bees swarming, i.lthough
the vast number and the tornado-l'ke
roaring they make surpasses anything
in the power of man to describe. After
awhile they alight on the trees and
bushes, and the limbs are bent downi.
ward, often are broken off.
“ The pigeons keep uo a constant
chattering, which cun be heard for
miles away. They are never still du
ring the night. So far as sleep is con
cerned, snch a thing is out of the ques
tion with a pigeon. They arc disturbed
by themselves—such throngs assembling
in a spot that none can be still for a
moment and the incessant discharging
of fire-arms among them causes them
to change their location alnnst con*'
stantly. This roost is visited every
night by crowds of men, some with
guns and others with poles, which they
use in threshing down the p "eons that
happen to be at the point struck. Hun
deeds are killed every night ; but when
light appears the vast armies again go
forth with apparently as much vig r as
ever. Imagine millions of these birds
all on the wing at the same time, over a
scope of country not more than two
miles square, and a faint idea of the
ncise may be obtained. But no one
can ever fully imagine what a pigeon
roost is, or how much noise they make,
until one is seen and heard.
“ Thtre is an abundance of mast
here now, and we suppose the pigeons
will remain here until it is all gone. —
One curious circumstance is that in the
neighborhood of this pigeon roost we
never see a pigeon from the time they
leave of mornings until they return of
evenings. They are not eating the
mast here at all, but somewhere they
are all feasting luxuriously for they are
all fat.”
-
The Roman Catholic Church in
England and America —ln refer*
imcc to the growth of the Roman Cath
olic Church in America, it is slated
that a hundred y ars ago there were not
more than 25 priests iu the United
States in 1800 there were supposed to be
40; in 1830 the number had risen to 232
and in 1848 to 900. In ten years,from
1802 to 1872, the number of priests
had more than doubled, having grown
from 2,317 to 4,809. In 1875,accord
ing to the official statistics of the vari
ous dioceses, there were 5,077 priests,
1,234 ecclesiastical students and G,518
churches or chapels of the Roman
Catholic rite within the territory of
the republic. There were also, in the
same years, 34 theological semina
ries, 57 colleges, 567 academies and
select schools, 1645 parocchial schools,
214 asylums, and 100 hospitals un"
der the authority and control of the
Roman Catholic clergy of the United
States.
Suggestive as are these figures, the
Church of.Rome can point to others
almost equally suggestive in England
contemporary history. Thus, iu sixteen
years, the number of Catholic chaj els
in Great Britain was more than doubled
—there having been 570 in 1851, and
1,283 in 1867. —Fall Mall Gazette.
Pretty Women.
Of all the beauties of nature nothing
is half so pretty as a face and
human form. We often hear it said in
speaking of a lady, that she is as beau
tiful as a picture. In all the improve
ments in the art uf painting, we have
never yet been able to fi and one that
possessed a small per. cent, of the at
traction of a prettv wjman. The per
fection of art, coupled with a faultless
taste, never will be able to paint the
blush of uuidesty or the eyes sparkling
intelligence. No artist has yet been
able to paint the soul that speaks in the
pretty woman’s face or the impulse of
the heaving bosom. Wben the soul is
filled with holy emotion, and the whole
department clothed with innate and
spontaneous modesty, a beauty is felt
far beyond the power of the easel, pa
lette and brush. No power less than
angel’s could approach such a picture.
A true woman has a mind of beauty
from which the sparkling diamonds of
the soul, flash forth their beauty in eve
ry feature. The true woman is only
a little lower than the angels, for the
reason that angels are not subject to
f .de and die, and the true woman must
pass away.
There is a cross eyed type-setter in
Buffalo who is the fastest “comp.” in
the city. While he is picking up one
type his blinuer is looking for anoth
er.
In Advance.
Self-Reliance.
Fight your own battles. Iloe your
own row. Ask no favors of any one,
and you will succeed tire thousand times
better than one who is always beseech 1 '
in" some one’s patrjnagc. No one will
ever help you as you help yourself, be
cause no one will be so heartily interes
ted in your affairs. The first stop will
not be such a long one, perhaps; but.
carving your own way up the mountain,
you make each one lead to another, and
stand film in that while you chop still
another out. Men who have fortunes
are not those who hflVe five thousand
dollars given them to start with, but
started fair with a welLearned dollar or
two. Men who have by their own ex
ertions acquired fame, have not been
thrust into popularity by puffs begged or
paid for, or given in fiiendly spirit
They have toutstreched their hands and
touched the public heait. Men who
win love do their own wooing, and 1
never knew a man to fail so signally as
one who hod induced his affectionate
grandmamma to speak a word for him
Whether you work for fame,for love, for
money, or anything else,work with your
hands, heart and brain. Say : T will !”.
and some day you will conquer. Never
let any man have it to say, ‘ I have drag
ged you up.” Too many friends hurt
a man more than none at all.— Guice
Greenwood .
Give Your Child a Paper.
A child beginning to read is delight'
ed with a newspaper, because he reads
of names and things familiar, and he
will progress accordingly. A newspa.
per is in one year worth a quarter school
ing to a child. Every father must con
sider that information is connected with
advancement. The mother of a family,
being one of its heads and having a
more immediate charge of children,
should herself be instructed. A mind
occupied becomes fortified the
ills of life, and is braced for emergency.
Children amused by reading or study,
are, of course,more considerate and ea
sily governed. How many thoughtless
young men have spent their earnings in
a tavern or grog_shop, who ought to
have been at home reading ! How many
parents who have not spent twonty dol
lars for books or papers for their fami
lies, would have given thousands to re
claim a son or daughter who had igno
rantly, thoughtlessly,fallen into tempta
tion from want of wise council, or from
lack of something to occupy the mind.
E-
Why 0 and Si wouldn’t subscribe to
the church is told as follows by the
Sunday Herald :
They presented the church subscrip - >
tion list to O'd Si yesterday.
“Go on wid dat papah ; I’se sitied
de las’ ob dem ’skription for do pre
sint!”
“Aint jou gwine ter help ’sport
de church dis ’mount?” asked the col
lector.
“I’se got no rejections ter do church
mine dat, but l’se got no munny fer dem
’vangiliers dat dey got ’round dar !’’
“ Why is dat '{”
“ Kase I’se bin raised up in tie good
’pinion ob ’ligion an’ I rudder tinks dat
I kno’s h t when I heah s hit!”
“ Well, den ?”
“ When dey gits d< r Dulled parson
’round dar dat ’.“pounds de gospil ob de
Lawd an’ bounces out dem white ’van
gullers dat teks dere taxes fum de ’pub
likan nusepapahs an’ de imports of Kon
gress on de kuklux, jes fetch roun’ de
papah—fetch her roun’ an’ I’ll rite on
her in big figgers, but nary time till
den.”
And be didn’t give a cent.
Got Off at tiib Wrong Station
—The death of one of the oldest citi"
zens of Brookfield recalls an incident in
her career which happened some fifteen
years ago.
She was going to Stamford to visit
a daughter, and took her seat in the
cars lor the first and only time in her
life. During the ride an accident oc
curred whereby the car in vvhicii she
was seated was thrown down an embank
ment and demolished. Crawling out
from beneath the debris she spied a
man who was held down in a sit
ting posture by his legs being fasten
ed.
“Is this Stamford ?” she inquir
ed.
The man was from Boston, T ie was
in considerable pain, buthedid not lose
fight of the fact that he was from Bos
ton ; so he said :
“No, this is a catastrophe.”
“Oh ! Then l hadn’t oughter got off
here.”
This was so evident as to make a re
ply unnecessary. — Danbury News.
An Old Fashioned Mother.—*
Thank God some of us have old fash
ioned mothers—not a woman of the
period enameled and painted, with her
great chignon, her curls bottines, whose
whi\e jewelled hands have never felt
the clasp of baby fingers, but a dear,
old-fashioned, sweet voiced mother, with
eyes in whose depth the love-light shone
and brown hair, threaded with silver,
lying smoothly upon her faded cheek
Those dear hands worn with toil, which
guided our tottering steps in childhood
and smoothed our pillow in sickness.—
Blessed is the memory of an old-fish
ioned mother. It floats to us now like
the beautiful perfume of woodland
blossoms. The music of other voices
may be'lojt, but the entrancing memory
of hers will echo in our souk forever.
Other faces will fade away aud be for
gotten but hers will shine on until the
liht from heaven’s portals shall glorify
ureg own-
a i:\ts.
Advertisements will be charged at the
rate of One Dollar per square for the first
ins erticn, end fifty cents for each ful se
quent insertion. Ten lines of this type
make a square.
Local notices,fiffeen cents per line for (lie
first insc.tion, and ten cents for each sub
sequent insertion.
Special contracts will be mode with par
ties lesiring to advertise lcgulnriy.
Bills for advertising arc tine any timo
after firsf insci tion, unless olhciwdso ar
ranged by contract.
NO. 14.
The Hampton Family in South
Carolina.
The old General, grandfather f the
present General Wade Hang ton a Gen
eral in the Revolutionary war, as in the
war of 1812—was one of the wealthi
est planters in all the South, having
sugar plantations in Louisiana and cut
ton plantations in South Carolina
Rut jo was also a man of str tig pas
sions and intense prejudices. His oulv
surviving son by a first marriage was
Col. Wade Hampit n, who had mar
ned a wealthy lady., ar*d was the father
of a large family, of which the present
Genera 1 Wade H • mpton was one. A
disagreement occurred between o’d Gen.
Hampton and his second wife the moth
er of three children, and in his anger
he left them homeless and unprovided
for, and went to Louisiana. Col. Wade
Hampton, not having the fear of
his father’s wrath before him—
as most sons might have had—at once
resolved upon the course to which his
instincts p tinted. He purchased for
his yrep mother and half-sisters the fi
nest dwelling in Columbia furnished tl c
establishment with servants equipage
and every luxury, and through twelve
years maintained them in every con -
tort to which they had beenaccustouier 3 .
At the death of the old General it was
discovered that he had devised lis
whole estate amounting to more than
$1,600,000 to his son alone, but, with
the unbounded generosity of that son’s
nature, he divided his inheritance share
and share alike equally with his stej *
mother aud sisters, and would consent
to reserve for himself only such a pc *
tion as the others received Nor was
Mr?. Hampton undeserving or unminc''
ful of her step-sons devoted sacrifices.—
On at. occasion in 1838, while Col.
Hampton was absent in Louisiana, the
notes of a friend for whom he was in
dorser at the bank, were protested at
$42,000. So as soon as word of this
reached her she promptly sent a check
to the bank for the full amount, accom
panied by only the simple directions
that Col. Hampton should be spared all
knowledge of the annoying circumstan
ces. — ‘L' in the New York Sun.
Wool in New South Wales.—
The following is from the Hay Stand
ard :
“ There will be shorn in New South
Wales this year (1876' upwards of 25,
000,000 sheep yielding approximately
above 125,000,000 pounds of wool,
equal in value, at Is. per pound, to £9,-
250,000 sterling. £9,500,000 sterling
every year is a good nest egg even for
a wealthy dependency of Great Britiau.
The cost of shearing this vast lot of
sheep at 20s. per hundred (about the
average price) would be £125,000
The cost of transmit! ing the wool to the
seapjrt for exportation might le set
down at about the same figure. With
out going into any more miuute details
if we estimate the value of the wool
clip of New South Wales for 1860 at
£7,250,000, and set down twenty-five
per cent, of that as expense incurred
by the wool grower from the time the
sheep enters the wool shed to be shorn
—this is the estimated cost in the work
ing of a wool station—until the net pro
ceeds arc in the wool grower’s bank,
there will be disbursed £1.502,700. —
This sum would go in shearing,carriage
to port and to London, commission,
brokerage, etc.”
Valuabblf Receipts —To make a
nice jam— lay your head under dc*
cending pile driver.
To see if a man is your friend—make
love to hi- wife.
To get frost out of your fingers—
put them in boiling water.
To keep yourself warm in bed—set
your bed on fire.
To be ahead of time—carry your
watch behind you.
To see how hard a man strikes tei
hm ho lies.
To keep your poor relatives from
troubling you —commit suicide.
To keep from being dry—stand out
in the rain.
To dj away with spectacles—put
your eyes ou".
To see if a girl loves you —ask her
like a man.
To tell you love a girl- have some
tallow beaded chap to go and see her.
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The Laud of the Hissing.
In one of William Black’s novo’s ho
makes one of his people vaguely do •
scribes a land which lay across the sea,
to which all baa fled who were num
bered among the missing, wiio there
lived untramuieled bv follies or misfor
tunes of the past. But the land ot the
missing does not always care for its
children. Sad wrecks go down in the
surging seas which surround it. Ouj
case saddest of all in the compass of
memory presents itself. A boy au on -
ly child, the idol of wealthy and cul
tured parents started r or school one
morniDg with his mother’s goodbye ki>s
warm up.n his lips,was only eight yiars
old, was as handsome as a cherub, aud
was known everywhere among his ac
quaintances as a good bey. He was eff
eminate in nature and never, ordinarily
ventured upon boyish escapades. 110
was to have a rabbit for dinner, and
heap of gravy. The dinner was prepar
ed.bui he never came to eat it. There
had been nothing to make him dissuth
tied with his surroundings, and encour
age the idea that hr,had run away. Six
teen years later his father and iuiother
met him on a Mississippi river steam
boat a bloated,druuken,profane,gambler.
Death would have hitu a beautiful
anu lovable child; but the land of the
missing sent hiu back a ruined soul.