The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, July 16, 1884, Image 1
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~ WIXNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1884. ~~ , '
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k Fantastic Effccts of Music.
8be twankled a tune on her light guitar,
A low sweet g."Dg"e of tangled sounds.
As blurred as the voices of fairies are,
Dancine in the noondawn dal"s and do?ns; i
And the tinkling dip of thy strange re* j
frain *
Ran o'er the rim of my soul like rain.
j? The great blonde moon in the midnight skies j
Ss? Paused and poised o'er the trellis eaves. __ j
And the stars fa the light oI her upturned ;
.Sift#?C their love through tho rifted leaves? ;
Glinted and splintered in crystal mist
Dow^the glittering string that her finger
Oh, tue melody mad! Oh. the tinkle and i
Wr Of-the ecstacy of the exquisite thing!
f The red rose dropped from the window sill
And lay in a long: swoon quivering;
While thadying notes of the strain divine
Kippling in glee up my spell-bound spine. :
?J. W. Biley. t
The Open Sea.
With sails outspread, benoata tne xsoriaere ;
skies, , j
Have stal-wart men endured the stinging
. blast,
Whose freezing breath -would hold the vessel '
fast T
*Bo icy coasts; from -which are heard no cries j
* For-aid. -whiie each man heeds the mandate; i
>' "Eise!
Cut through the barriers till -we turn our J
mast
To-ward the open sea, in -which at last
, We'll anchor as our ship in safety lies."
And so, earth-bound, shall thought on j
thought aspire.
Cleaving the frozen shores that hold the t
mind
By all the links, -which in the flesh Btill bind
The troth, uniaio-vnin au xrsxtiic cesjre. i
' Btxt~white I-wait I hear the Urn* decree, f
"My ja-tes unclose toward the open sea." ;
' -. . ?Virginia G. Eiiard.
L
a TIM'S LITTLE GA^IE.
How a Valiant Champion was Con- I
qucred by Cupid.
i .Conrad Tracy rushed into the office j
of his friend, Tim Oliver, one morning, |
& and, finding that gentleman alone. |
P threw'himself in a lounging chair in all
Lthe abandon of grief.
"What is the matter now?" said Tim, J
^ as ho took his friend's hand in his.
-"I?am the most wretched, man in the
world, Tim! > What a terrible misfor- j
tune" it is to "be poor!" ^
"Poor? If I had an income equal to j
yours I would throw aside all these j
r musty law books, lock my office door, j
and never set foot within its precincts j
again- I suppose that girl Hattie Mar- !
tial has been playing the mischief with j
you once more."
"She has refused me?absolutely re- j
fused to 'be my wife, after all these j
b months of encouragement But it is j
not her fault. She loves me devotedly, :
I know, which makes it all the worse j
to bear. Her uncle, upon whom she is j
dependent, says she has an allowance !
of ?800 a year for her personal expen- ;
ses, a carriage at her command, and a {
Ealatial mansion to dwell in, and that j
e never will consent to her marriage ;
\with a man who cannot support her in
the same style. It is cruel, cruel!. And
to think how the dear girl" loves reef'
"Hattie is fooling you, Con. She is
a born jilt, and is only anxious to "be
rid of yoa that she may spin a web for
another.
"But she kissed me when we parted,
and promised eternal fidelity! Tears
were in her eyes?"
"Tears?, And did yen bdiieve in
- them? Why, Con, a woman's tears
Sk - . : her- aroncrj", cuey ouiair Tamer"
Ills. slightest summons- She can weep
+V. AVY> or*/^ nftrer "f Pol <L TlPflTt
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pang. I am a skeptic on the subject j
of woman's tears!"
"And yet yon were taken aback j
.- /wheiiMilly Norton's eyes were fulloi ;
M ~ them at the theater the other night!"
W < "Well, yes; I'll confess to that I >
^ was afraid she would go'off into a fit
of hysteria, as she does sometimes,, and;
? ^^ijjuii-morbidly sensitive about a sfeenejf.'
but as to feeling pityforher?" Words
^ failed Tim with which to express his j
contempr. nc piacea 3 uecweeii i
his lips and leaned back in his chair j
with a look of intense disdain upon his
1 countenance. *
Conrad Tracy was a good fellow, exceedingly
handsome, "well educated
and possessed of a neat little income
^ of $2,000 a year. If he had a fault it
was his great susceptibility to women's
charms. He was always in love, read?
to commit suicide for his reigning divinity?until
he saw a face that was 1
fairer. Thus it-was in the present in- j
stance. A new star arose in the hori- j
zon of Belleville, a bright, particular j
star, -whose confiscations dazzled the j
k _ eyes of all the young men in its vicini- i
ty, and while a quietus for the broken !
heart caused by Miss Hattic's deser- !
tion still stood on a little shelf iu Con j
Tracy's dressing room in the shape of i
a dose of poison, he was kneeling at
the feet of this new enchantress.
^ ' She was lovely, this Miss Lucille
j ? Cameron, and looked for all the world j
|T ^ like a- Gainsborough picture. All the j
gentlemen or tne place paxa court 10 .
. " her, but % heir attentions, after at first ;
f being graciously received, were coldly j
discouraged, and it was not long be- !
fore the fair Lucille had gained the j
reputation of being the most arrant j
coquette who had ever deigned to visit
Belleville.
Conrad Tracy was again in trouble,
- ' and a second time sought consolation
from his friend Tim. "I am more
* wretched than ever," he said. "Miss ;
Cameron has showered favors upon j
me; i iiave areamea 01 no one du& iter.
. She accompanied me to the theaters,
permitted me to lead the german with
her, and smiled upon me when I told
~-^her of my love. 'Last night, when I
asked her to marry me, she pulled my
boquet to pieces, and, With a sneer
that ill became her handsome face,
i told me my income was not sufficient
t/-? ?nTw>lir Tipr warflfobe. and that al
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though she liked me very much, 11
must never speak to ner on the subject |
again."
, Tim pitied his friend this time, when j
he saw now hard he had been hit, and
determined in his heart to avenge him.
He would seek Miss Cameron's acquaintance
and gain her affections,
fie had full confidence in his ability to
win his way to the lady's heart, and he
YVUIUU lca*o u.\J oti.cn.cgcj_u uixtiicu, ty
L do so. Then he womd reproach her
with her perfidy to his friend, and
Dh leave her.
A charity ball was to be <nven that
very evening, in which all the elite of
the town were deeply interested. !
There he would meet" the beautiful ;
Lucille and begin his work at once.
Tim procured a ticket and dressed |
himself for conquest. He was very at- j
tractivo when he chose to use his pow- j
ers of fascination, and throughout the j
crowded rooms there was no one to
compare with him in manly grace and
urbanity. It was seldom that Tim was
| seen at aa evening entertainment, and
iiis advent was hailed with joy by all |
his acquaintances. - - The excitement
produced by his appcarancc soon drew
W the attention of "31iss Cameron, and, at I
her request, he was brought within the !
charmed circle of her coterie. His ex- j
rrroTQ ? rrrorir? CUPU i
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cess. They -were partners in the;
dance, they promenaded together. He j
accompanied her to the supper table.
In fact he was by her side the whole j
evening and, at the close of the enter- j
^smment, escortea. ner to uer
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They parted with a warm pressure of
the hand, and an understanding that
they were to see each other the next
day.
Tim was well pleased with the impression
he had made, and" did not fail
to follow up his good fortune by calling
on the lady in the morning. He
found her so beautiful in the soft light
ct tiie arawmg-room, so cnarmmgiy
interesting in her merry chat about
the pleasant evening they had spent
together, that he half repented of his
cruel design, and when at his desire
she took up her guitar and sang to him
her plaintive melody, and the passion, j
the tenderness she threw into the in- j
strument's low tones were too much
for Tim's manly heart to bear. Under j
the influence of strong excitement he j
bade Lucille adieu and, when away
from her presence, felt the full forqe of |
the. danger he hadencountered. "What ;
wonder is it," he thought, "that, poor, j
susceptible Con fell binder the spell of j
this Circe, when I, so much stronger, |
have scarcely escaped her!"
On the way to his. hotel, Tim met
his friend, who cried out to him: "You
had better look out, old fellow! It is i
dangerous to trifle with edged tools! !
I very much fear you will be the victim |
instead of the victor in.the mad game j
you are playing!"
"Never fear for me!" Tim replied, {
as he kissed his hand and passed on.
? -Tim Oliver became Miss - Cameron's :
shadow, and, truth to-tell,, he began to \
take more interest in the lady than he j
cared to own, even to himself. Lu- j
alwavs welcomed him with her i
brightest smiles, and seemed to live i
but in bis presence. t
' Under the trees in the moonlit park
one evening they had sat down to rest j
after a long ramble. Lucille was^pen- j
sively plucking the leaves from a flow- i
er, while Tim was" toying with her ;
ivory fan.
what are- you thinking, my fair
friend?" he asked, as his eyes rested
upon her beautiful countenance. >
"Of my parting from you, dear Mr.
Oliver. I grieve to think that fearful
time will be here to-morrow!"
" Will yon regret me?"
* rAii f Qcl' m ? AT3CT T ;
JV U. iwa. aaav MV < >? |
shall endure existence without you!"
Tim took her hand, pressed it'to his I
lips, and for a moment retained it in a |
lingering grasp; then he cast it from {
him as he'exclairced:
"Why, what a scene we are having !
here! What a pity such good acting i
should be lost! Can we not manage to j
have a public performance?"
As soon as this cruel speech was |
spoken Tim felt like a criminal. He j
glanced up, expecting to be annihilate J
ed with lightning from her eyes, to j
hear her utter bitter words and re- I
proach him with his baseness, but, in- j
stead of that, she looked him full in i
the face, and in the m"0onli<rht he saw !
tears gather in her eyes. Slowly they j
gathered there, and she did not wipe I
them away, but let-them fall one by
one. The" light in her brilliant eyes
softened. She gazed reproachfully at
Tim, and he?well, he fell at her feet,
implored her forgiveness, told her he
loved her, and in another moment was j
kissing her tears away and calling her..
- fan atoytiy^ ' CB "'
his wile!
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Candle Superstitions.
So far as the number is concerned,
the most numerous class of superstitions.is-comp?sed
of those which cluster
round iher^faniily. candles. The
origin of these probably dates far back
in antiquitv^wnsn tae-Tvoria was iuu
of superstitious fancies about' light in
general andfcacjUe light in particular.
When we come'down to the early'days I
of the Christian Church, however, we
find that not a few of the ordinances
of religion were accompanied by ceremonies
borrowed from paganism, in
which lighted candles played an important
r>art Candles were lighted at
birth to keep off evil spirits, at marriage
to "prevent the evil eye from
affecting the happy pair, and at death
to drive-iway the demons who were
thought to be always on the lookout
for the soul of the dying man. Natur- j
ally, ttr: i as candles played so impor- |
tant a pari in the ceremonies of religion,
men became accustomed to regard
them with something of a superstitious
eye, and to look to them for
signs and wonders which were not to be
elsewhere found. . So a peculiar: appearance
in the candle, for which no
reason could be given, was always regarded
as something indicative of j
some remarkable thing about to hap- I
pen. A collection of tallow around !
-tricl- 5c Irnrvwn !). wlnrHr*or- I
? w """ ? o I
sheet, and is believed to foretell the j
death of one of the family, while a j
bright spark'is a sign of the future re- j
ception of a letter by the person oppo^- j
site whom the spark is situated,"and |
the waving of the flame without any j
apparent cause, is-supposed to demonstrate
the presence of a spirit in the
room. Iu addition to these fanciful
notions, there are some others which
are founded on natural facts too well
known to admit of dispute, such as the
refusal of the candle to light readily,
which indicates a state of atmosphere
favorable to a comino-storm?St. Louis
GlobsrDcmocrat. ,t v
''Lost in Wall Street."
He was Treasurer of a county in
Indiana. The other night about 9
o'clock he made a call at the house of
an honest old farmer, who was on his
bond for $10,000, and after the first
greetings were over he began:
"Mr. Thomas, I have some bad news [
"Great Scott! but are any of my re- I
lashuns over in Indianapolis dead?'" I
"I don't know about that; but you i
remember that you signed my bond?""Yes,
I did."
"I am sorry to inform you that I am
$14,000 short'inmy account."
*ro!"
i< 11 t A,
" inas: ii< is nue.
"And where did the money go to?"
"Lost in Wall street1'
"Ob! that's it. Well, I wouldn't
worry over /that. My son Bill will
take the lantern and <?o back to town
with you, and if you'll show him Wall
street he'll find the money if it takes
him all night. Probably iost it out of
a hole in your pocket, eh?"
On fourteen sections of the Panama j
Canal work is now being pushed for- j
ward actively. roar million cubic >
meters of earth have been, removed
vrithin a few months. About 80,000,000
cubic meters in all are to be removed.
Fifteen thousand men are employed
on the work. They earn about
$la day each and spend about 20 cents
a dav for food.
? ^ I ? ? ? ..
A great many clerkships and pub- |
lie cilices now being filled with hoodlums
might with much more decency
bo held "by women. A woman employed
in an office %vould not be smoking
a cigar with her feet up on a desk
when a citizen visits the office for business
or information.?-V. 0. PicayuM.
Lazy People.
I have often been forced, much
against my notion, to look into the
sluggard's heart, says Charles H. Barlow,
in Farmers World, and I have
seen that the majority are more unfort
nnate than the driving' working class
ever gave them credit for. Men are
more like horses in their habits and
jays than we imagine. Poor drivers
and bad breaking with men as with
stock, is generally the cause of balkiiness
or laziness. Education and training
make or unmake man as well as
beast. Now and then we find a man
who works easily, sprightly and naturally.
It is a pleasure for him to lay
rmt-. V>io cf-ror>crfVi nnf? ririVA t.hA work
merrily along. He never watches the
sun nor "slouches" at his work, and it
is a pleasure to see him, for .his work
to him is what play was when a child,
because his soul is in his work. The
immortal part of his being acts like a
hi^li pressure of steam, drives his.muscuiar
powers, and he lays out his~
strength unconsciously, freely and
gladly. Such a man is a" success at
whatever he undertakes, whether it is
boot-blacking, running a farm. or ruling
a kingdom. Tho lazy man works
only with his animal powers, his spirit,
-11 hut; the animal. is dead. There is
no more perfect representation of endless
punishment in mundane afirfirs
than the lazy man at work without the
master to lead and drive him. Every
muscle in his wretched, useless
body seems to bo groaning in anguish
of spirit as he plods along; every inch
he advances increases his misery; and
as he occasionally leans on his hoe, or
looks up at the sun, or gazes wistfully
at his cumbersome shadow, ho seems
to say, "Oh, curse upon the man who
invented work. The Lord has made
me in vain." We
know that the live, willing, goahead
worker feels like work, loves
his farm and home, is wedded to it asf
to bis wife. His home. farm. crODS and
stock, are to him what poetry, or-what
the brush and canvas is to the poefr
and artist, and his work, his mission,, is
to build up a paradise on earth, and
people it -with the living flesh and blood
angels of the household; and he can no
more stop his work while he breathes than
the engine can stop with'a dangorous
head of steam and the throttle wide
open. Don't vou suppose that the
sluggard would be glad to swap the
animal emotions that torture him while
at useful work, for what that gladspirited,
work-worshipper feels while
making the wilderness blossom as a
rose.
In csverv eommunitv throughout our
land we 'see the "unlucky7' element
(constantly increasing) side by side
with the enterprising and successful,
and at last we see the cause of this
phenomenon?a poor class and a prosperous
class?a distinct line of demarkation
separating them. Perfect liberty,
such as has never before been known
in man's history, which allows and enables
man to develop to-the very highest
in his nobler instincts, and make
the greatest success, as seen in our institutions
and marvelous growth, also
allows him to settle to the opposite exStoncwail
Jackson's Daughter.
American girls in London of late
have completely eclipsed the fame of
such professional beauties as Mrs.
Langtry, Mrs. Cornwallis West and
Lady Dudley.. Having fallen at the
feet of Miss Chamberlain, Mary Anderon,
and Minnie Palmer, they are now
r\Trrk-r* +liz* /-vV? o Y?rv-> C nf .Till 10 Too l'_
VTCi bUV VA v u u>wu.
son, the daughter of Stonewall Jackson.
She must have been riding in
Rotten Row when she captured the nobility
and gentry of the United Kingdom,
.for, i? this country at least, her
beauty would hardly attract attention
in a crowd. But she is theTmost^graceful
and magnificent horsewoman that I
ever saw. I was introduced to her at
the White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, a
few years ago and rode with her frequently
over the difficult mountain
roads of the neighborhood. She seemed
born to the saddle, guided her steed
with all the ease imaginable, and chal
lenged the emulation of her male companions
by her fearlessness in galloping
along the edge of a yawning chasm
hundreds of feet deep, jumping stone
walls and leaping ditches. Her figure
is petite and willowy, but her complexion
is sallow, and the plainness of her
features is only relieved by the magnificent
lustre and sparkle of a pair of big
black eyes. She will certainly astonish
the Britishers by-her rare combina
tion of good sense and culture with an
utter freedom from conventionality.
On horseback she is every inch her father's
daughter, and by no great stretch
of imagination one could fancy her
leading a desperate charge with all the
spirit and ardor of martial inspiration.
Miss Jackson is quite young, still in
her teens, in fact Her life nas been
mostly spent in the country, and she
was hardly thrown in Northern society
nntil a few months before her departure,
when she visited Boston, was handsomely
received, and created a genuine
sensation. Her family is comparative
ly poor, having lost nearly everything
by the war. But it is to be hoped that
by the way of legitimate reprisal for
the capture of so many of our heiresses
by impecunious English lords she may
make captive some wealthy scion oI
the British nobility.
"Wouldn't Take His Advice.
One day soon after Pope's defeat at
second Bull Run and Chantilly, a private
soldier belonging to an Ohio regiment
sought an interview with his captain.
and announced-that he had ~a
plan for a military campaign which
mnst certainly result in crushing out
the rebellion. The officer very naturally
inquired for particulars, but the
soldier refused to reveal them, and
asked for a chance to lay his plans before
Pope himself. After some delay
he was given a pass to headquarters.
He did not get to sec Pope, but after
the chief of staff had coaxed and promised
and threatened for a quarter of an
hour the Buckeye stood up and replied:
"Wp.11. k5r_ mvnlan is for John Pone
and Bob Lee to swap. commands, and
if -we don't lick the South inside of sixty
days you may shoot me for a patent
hay-fork swindler?"
When he returned to camp ho was
naturally asked what success he met
with, and he ruefully replied:
"Wall, they had a plan of their
own."
What was it?"
"Why they took me out and booted
me for a mile and a half!"?Detroit
Free Fr ess. . -
It has been noticed in- Washington
that all the deaths' which have taken
place among members of the House
during the sessions since the Fortyfifth
Congress, on both the Republican*
and Democratic side, have been from
the middle or fourth row. That row,
nas, xncrexore, oeen canea "iaiauiy
Row." '(
| A CHAT WITH CABLE.
The Origin, Descent and Language 01
the Creoles.
Mr. Cable is a man possessed of a
wonderful amount of personal magnetism,
and one is unconsciously -attracted
toward him. He is of slight
figure, quite short, and was plainly attired
yesterday in a black frock coat,
dark pantaloons, and wore very little
jewelry. His beard is worn full and
pointed, and a heavy, dark mustache
shades his mouth. His thick, dark
hair is brushed carefully back from a
high forehead, and his brightgray eyes
are very expressive. In casual convert
sation his voice is soft, low and pleasant,
and he is a very fluent talker,never
at a lo&a for an expression which,
fully covers his meaning. In manner
he is modest and unassuming, "and
he is always careful to abstain, from
referring of hi? own accord to Ms literary
work. - * *PERSONAL
HISTORY.
"Were you bora in New Orleans ?"
"Yes, born and brought up in that
city." >^
"By tbe way, bow did you first happen
to strike the fruitful 'field in,
which you have been carrying on your
literary labors." . .
"Well, it was a sort of an .accident;
I was a free lance in New Orleans for.*
a time, doing work on the Picayune,
and I was called upon to write up a'
series of articles embodying the past
history and present conduct ot tne;
charitable institutions, churches and
schools of that city. You know they
are all old, and in writing these articles
I was obliged to delve-considerably'
into the old traditions of Naw Orleans. These
articles brought out ftgood deal,
about old Creole life in the city and'
they attracted a good deal of attention.
This brought to my notice the
ixcxu. Vi. rvuxxx j uu iv.
,i ,vWhat were your ' first literary
^sketches?" 1
"Those short sketches published in
-Scribner's and recently collected by
the Century Company and printed in a
volume called 'Old Creole Days.' The
first of these was 'Sieur George,'
which was printed in the old edition.
The last edition includes that little
stoi/ entitled 'Madame Delphine.'"
THE CREOLES OF TO-DAY.
"Do you find in New Orleans at the
present aay any 01 tne type you nave
individualized as Narcisse?"
"Oh, yes, indeed. Thousands of
them. You will find Narcisse in every
bank and counting-room in the city."
"Do you not find that the Northern
people" generally possess a mistaken
identity of the Creole?"
"Yes, and I find that many Northerners
believe the Creoles have negro
blood in their veins. I am always
glad to give the definition of the name
Creole. It is correctly applied to
natives or tne w est maies, tae x iuxidas,
and Louisiana, whose ancestors
came to these territories direct from
Europe, where they had descended
from the European Latins. They are
mostly white, and the pure Creole who
has a pure white complexion is very
proud. Natives of Mexico and South
America caUjthemselves Creoles JLhfir..
ui tlioy aro not recognized a.3
such by the pure Creoles. Then there
are the descendants of the European
Latins, who came to the Southern
States, after first goin^ to Nova Scotia.
These are properly called Arcadians,
and they are the small farmers
of Southern Louisiana."
"Are the Creoles patriotic?"
"Very. They will fight for their
country, but the country of a Creole
does not extend very far beyond the
range of his naked eye. In Jackson's
time the Creoles said they would
fight to defend a city, but not a State,
and they had considerable trouble with
them at the time."
OLD .ARCHITECTURE.
*'Do you find in the city any traces
of old Creole architecture?"
"Yes, quite frequently. And when
they rebuild they observe the old j
forms. I remember that I was asked j
in the East if the cathedral down there
was not a very old building, and when
I said that the old building had been
torn down and this 'new' one erected,
on its site in 1852 my questioner was
very much surprised. The French
quarter, so called, is becoming more
circumscribed, and the Creoles are settling
all over the city now.'1
CREOLE FRENCH.
"How is it that the Creole French is
so different from the pure French?"
"Well, the Creoles are indolent peo-.
pie who live in a -warm climate, and
they relax in every way?even the muscles
of the throat relax, and they talk
with a lazy drawl."
TEE AUTOGRAPH FIEND.
"Are you greatly troubled with the
autograph fiend,' Mr. Cable?"
"Well, I receive numerous requests !
for autographs, and in most cases it is !
a pleasure for me to comply, as I esteem
it an. honor; but I never like to j
see a rxvrsom send two cards, for I !
think he wants to 'swap,' and I never
care much about long letter? in which
I am told of the writer's large collection,
and assured if I could see it I
would certainly like to put my name
among the others."
A NEW WORjL
"Save you any new works in view?"
"Yes, I intend writing a novel idealizing
the.Acadians, and in the Century
safe I have a rare lot of old manur
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SUIiUlS yyllhju x w.uv;ulgu. m ncrt vtleans,
and I think that these I* shall
edit, with but very little in the way of
explanatory notes. They fit together
very well."?Chicago Tribune..
Somewhat Interested.
He passed a hundred men on Woodward
avenue ' before ho encountered a
face which seemed to hit him. Then
he stopped the owner with a gesture,
and asked:
"Mister, do you think spring, is at
hand?"
What if I do or do not?" was the
gruff answer.
"Oh, nothing, only I'd like your
opinion."
"Are you interested in knowing what
the weather will be for the next-three
weeks?"
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TY Vslly OU1UC VYli?A4* X YC w S
out of this town, and I've got to sell
my overcoat for money to travel on,
and I'm looking all over for some one
to predict a warm wave!"
He was given a favorable prediction.
Whatever may have been the failures
of Edward Payson Weston on the
sawdust ring, he deserves some sort of. j
credit for covering more ground straight
away than any other pedestrian. His
1,200-mile walk from Portland, Me., to
Chicago, was virtually the beginning
of peaestrianism in this country. Hs
has now in England successfully completed
5,000 miles in 100 days, under
t.hA 9nar>ifMOQ r\f the tom-noro-n^o nprrnlp
VA VMV WiJJ. M wt ??ll VV wvvj^?vj
who employed him to disseminate
their principles, and at the same time
to illustrate that physical endurance is
greater when stimulants are not used.
1
The Song of the Brown Thrush.
We may be able to account, in part
at least, for the disappointment which
an inexperionced observer meets with
when, fresh from the perusal of (for example)
the thirteenth chapter of Darwin's
Desnent of Man. he oyjus into the
woods to lock about for himself. He
expects to find here and there two or
three songsters, each in turn doing his
utmost to surpass the brilliancy and
power of the other's music; while a
feminine auditor sits in full view, preparing
to render her verdict, and reward
the successful competitor with
. her own precious self. This would be
; a pretty picture. Unfortunately, it is
! looked for in vain. The two or three
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j btrt the female, if she be indeed within
i hearing, is modestly hiding away some>
where in. the bushes, and our student
J is^none the wiser. Let him watch as
{_long as he please, he will hardly jseo
the prize awarded.
Nevertheless he need not feel that
V&qs. time has been wasted. He certain-.
Iv will not, if he. be one who loves music;
for birds like all true artists, can
tio their best only on great occasions.
I Our brown thrush, for instance, is a
j magnificent singer, albeit ho is not of
! the best school, being too "sensational"
I cnit. tViA most GT'u-.nno" ease. His
son^ is a grea*. improvisation: a good
f deal jumbled, to be sure, and without
any reqognizabl* form or theme; and
yet, like a Liszt rhapsody, it perfectly
"answers its purpose,?that is, it gives
the performer full scope to show what
-he can do with his instrument You
imay laugh a little if you like, at an
^occasional grotesque or overwrought
"passage, but unless you are well used
to it you Will surely bo astonished.
Such power and range of voice; such
: startling transitions; such endless variety!
And withal^bch boundless enthusiasm
and incredible endurance!,
Considered as pure music, one strain of
tBe hermit thrush is to my mind'worth
j Xiie wnoie.oi it;.just as a smgie movement
of Beethoven's is better than a
world of Liszt transcriptions. But in
its own way it is unsurpassable.
Still, though this is a meagre and
quite unexaggerated account of the ordinary
song of the brown thrush, I.
have discovered that even he can be
outdone?by himself. One morning in
early May I came upon three birds of
this species, all singing at once, in a
ikind of jealous frenzy. As fchey sang
they continually shifted from tree to
tree, and one in particular (the one
that was nearest to where I stood)
?ould hardly be quiet a moment.
Once he sang with full power while on
_ the ground (or close to it, for ho was
just then behind a low bush), after
which he mounted to the very tip of a
tall pine, which bent beneath his
weight In the midst of the hurly-burly
one of the trio suddenly sounded the
whip-poor-will's call twice,?an abso
JLUltsAjr j^/wivvu A.vuuv
The significance of all this .sound and
fury; what the prize was, if any, and
who obtained it,?this another can conjecture
as well as myself. I know, no
more than old Kaspar.-? .
" Why that I can not ttiV saW. he,
?But t was a famops victory,' ' *
As I turned to come away, ".the contest
all at once ceased, and the silence
of the woods, or what seemed like silence,
was really impressive! The
chewinks and field sparrows were sing
ing, but it was like tne music ot a village
singer after Patti; or, to make the
comparison less unjust, like the Pastoral
Symphony of Handel after a
Warner tempest?Bradford Torrey in
April Atlantic.
A Choir Anecdote.
In the April Century, the Key. Chas,
i S, Robinson continues his discussion of
the annoyances and humors of the musical
service in churches, and relates
this anecdote:" "Glorious Easter was
at hand and great preparations were
made in the rural parish for its celebration;
boughs were twined in the
arches of the building; flowers swung. (
in wreaths overhead and shone \ fin
beautiful baskets ..among the aisles;
children had been rehearsing car<?ls.
All the town came in on that notable
morning. Ii was a scene never to be j
forgotten. The minister was radiant;
his eyes beamed with delight. But a
thought struck him: this audience, so
happy, so generous, so enthusiastic? j
would they not hear him a moment for
a stroke of business? After the invocation
and the first song, he surprised
them with a proposition .to bring
paster onerings' now as once to vxuu. a
altar, and lift the dear old church out
of debt: oh, then there would be a resurrection!
The congregation would
come up fr<wn under its great stone
into a new life, if they would roll it
away! Then the plates went their
course, and hearts were touched, and
purses were emptied, and the heaps of
money lay before the moistened eyes
of the relieved pastor as he tremulously
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manKea a guuu uuu. iur u?t> jjcvjjic o i
fidelity ia response. 'The money is
here, I am sure it is,' he exclaimed. 'If
thera be a little in arrears, it can be
made up in a day, and now we are
ready heartily to go on with the worship
of our risen Lord.' So the fixed
programme proceeded- ' A little German
had been procured from the metropolis
for an annex to the tenor; his
solo came in at this exact crisis of
grateful emotion; he rendered it with
a fresh aplomb, though the consonants
were aw&ward: 'An' de det sail be
raised?de det sail be raised?an' de
del?an' de det?sail be raised?sail be
raised?in de twinkling of an ay-eeP
*ff"VT/vrrr if l'c rmifA oqfo -f/% CflTT tTiat.
after the congregation went home, the
theme of the day was dissipated, and
the two events uppermost in everybody's
mind were the surprise which
the eager minister had sprung upon the
people and the ridiculous appropriateness
of the declamatory solo which followed
it. On general principles, we
have no objection to the collection of
money to discharge religious obligation,
evenrn divine service; but it does
seem a pity that a humorous episode
should be the chief reminiscence of
snoh a solemn occasion."
"Is this a singing doll?" asked she
of tho clerk. "Yes, Mademoiselle."
"How do you make it sing?" "Just as
you would any other young lady."
"How is that?" "By pressing it." "0!"
The "Sweet_Singer of Michigan" has
made "(Jscar wnae" rnyme witn *ioster
child." This is a little mcR creditable
than her attempt to rhyme "consanguinity"
with "laws a'massy," but
not much.
"Is your mother in?" asked a visitor
of a little Mormon boy, who opened
the door. "No, ma'am," the little boy
replied, with tears in his eyes (he had
just been spanked,) "but my brother's
mother is in."
Mr. George W. Childs, the owner
and editor of the Philadelphia Ledger,
jias jus omce, nse most vuivi cuii^xs,
away back, up stairs, where be is not
easily found- But it is a curiosity shop,
filled with bric-a-brac.
Girls' Letters.
Who nowadays writes letters? We
all dash off hasty notes, or hurriedly
scribble a postal card, under pressure
of immediate necessity, but the "epistolary
art," so dear to our grandmothers,
is becoming extinct
It was not long ago that postage was
so high that letters were a luxury rather
than the necessity they are now. The
arrival of one was looked upon as a
great event, and to destroy was little
short of sacrilege. It was worth while
to spend some time and pains on a letter
which would be read and re-read,
and perhaps handed down, for the benefit
of posterity..
The disjointed productions that jpass
lor leuers in tnese degenerate znuueru
days would have shocked an educated
girl of the last century. There is noreason
why ^irls who can speak French
and German should not be able to
write English. Many young ladies
who have a smattering of recondite
science, and who have dipped into the
grammars of one or more, of the ancient
and half a dozen of the modern
languages, are still unable to write a
letter in their o arn tongue, that in arrangement
and choice of words might
not disgrace a-properly taught child of
twelve. Especially the distinction between
the third and first person is
often so hazy that a formal note begun
in one is finished in the other!
-- A good correspondent begins her
letter by writing her address and the
fall date plainly at the top of the page.
Letters are so often, referred to as evidence
in trifling or important matters
Vil&U MliB m VYUltil 1C11XOJJU WL JJL
they should happen to be kept for any
length of tim? the date would add
materially to their interest.
Many persons seem to think it an
J insult to the intelligence of their
i friends to write straightforward from
page to page in the natural manner,
and that the more their letters resem-.
ble a puzzle the more piquantly interesting
they will be. It is hard to tell
why a sentence commenced at the bot
torn of one page should not be continued
at the top of the next, instead of
rushing wildly off at a tangent, and be
found at last written crosswise,- in the
very last place a person would look
forty.
The girl who really answers a letter
is no common correspondent. We have
all groaned with mild exasperation
oyer a letter supposed to be a reply to
one of our own, but which took not
the smallest notice of oiirxaodest communication,
even in the cursory men.
tion of its arrival, left all our questions
unanswered, and, with curious ingenuity,
omitted every scrap of infonnafi/irt
nn fVii? cnViipota tlmt mfist: inter
-estedus. :
The best time to answer a letter,
when it is possible, is immediately after
first reading it So many things rush
into one's mind that cannot be recalled
afterward. Very few people have the
requisite leisure to do this, as in ordinary
cases it involves a brisk correspondence;
but it should not be put off
longer than necessary.
People who are traveling abroad are
very apt to make their homes letters
toe much like guide bccks. Dcscrip
Sions oi scenery ana lamous places are
usually tedious. It is the little things
that are entertaining; a droll adventure,
a peculiarity in dress or speech,
anything which especially strikes the
writer, will be certain to be given
vividly, and will add color and interest
to her letter;"
The full name should be signed, so
that should the letter miscarry, it may
be returned through the Dead-Letter
Office, which would be impossible if
the only clue were "Lulu" or "Katie."
?The School Supplement.
On a Cuban Railway.
Presently an angular mummified negro,
who has been frequently passing
through the .train and making himself
generally conspicuous, rings a dinnerbell
which he holds in his hand, and
: this is the-Signal to leave. , Tou might
have imagined that this bell-man was
connected with the station, and not a
part of the apparatus; "but that is an
error?and at every station thereafter,
urVion fVi/^inn^r_Violl ronnr rtn +.V10 nl"5t_
form at the rear end of tke train, the
engineer always obeyed the signal
The train carries three classes of
passengers, the third class in front and
the first class in the rear. The only
difference is in the seating of the car,
there being no cushions on -the second
and third class, and no backs on the
seats of the latter.
. The road is a narrow guage, but it
moves rapidly enough, and there are
no vexatious delays. Many of the stations
are fenced in with barbed wire,
so that any one wishing to defraud the
railroad comuanv, passes out at the
wrong station^ or having purchased a
ticket for a certain place to which there
is cheap fare, tries to get off where the
faro is dear, he can * be certainly detected
The regulation of the rates
depends perhaps upon the opposition
the road may have, and the rates are
strangely unjust. It is cheaper, for
instance' to buy a ticket through to
r Havana, than it is to purchase one to a
certain point not-"quite half-way. It
may be possible, too, that the road discriminates
against certain points, as
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O UUU Ck UU.XXL?^ 6*0 UiiUU K/\*1>sJJL " ""H "
even in the States.? Havana Cor. PittsPosi
"How to Make Home Happy.1'
He was a book agent. He rung a
door-bell, and a woman who had been
sweeping opened the door so suddenly
that he fell off the step and nearly lost
his equilibrium. But he was a book
agent, and he recovered his momentum
and said-fluently:
"I am agent for the most celebrated
book ever offered to the public since
Uncle Tom's Cabin was written, and
filled with useful hints of things that
dunnnt Via fnnnA nntsif?A t.hft rvwp/rs nf
any other book, and with recipes for
cooking and family prayers, and how
to keep moths out of furs, and some
fine poems by well known and popular
writers, and you can give me your or'der
to-day and needn't pay for it till
next June, or on the installment ylan,
which is cheaper than going without,
and the name of it is 'Three Million
Hints, or Inquire Within How to Make
nome nappy.
"Ob, yes," said the woman, smiling
sweetly, "'How to Make Home Happy, ,
I have one already," and she looked at
the broom in her hand with dreamy'
eyes.
He fell off the doorstep again, an?fr
t!ma Vio rf>/>r>VHT till tTiprn
was a block between them.?Detroit
Free Press.
Mr. Henley, the artist, now in Washington,
once painted Daniel Webster.
When the portrait had been finished
Mr. Webster took a good look at it, and
then said, in his deep, cheery voice: "I
think that is a face which I have often I
shaved."
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The Marriage Relation.
Judge Jameson concludes an article
in the April North Americafl Review
entitled "Shall our Civilization be Preserved"
as follows:
A word, now, as to the perils which
threaten us in connection with the
marriage relation. The evil referred
to is only one of a multitude that flow
from the same source,?a general letting
down of public sentiment in regard
to the sanctity of marriage.
While the Protestant view, that marriage
is a civil contract and not a sacrament,
has doubtless a basis of truth,
it is not the whole truth. * Marriage is
a civil contract and a great deal more;
it is.the. creation of a status the most
j sacred and the. most important known
| to the law or to human, life. Regarded
| merely as a contract, it is natural to
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cunuiuue iiiiiu lb may uc xiguuj iuasolved;
and, in fact, from preciselysuch
a conclusion flows the. disastrous
flood of divorces that is overwhelming
our Protestant communities. Far "better
than this would it he if the inflexible
rule of the Koman Church were
adopted and enforced^ And one hazards
little in predicting that, for the
salvation of society, sucn must be the
result, unless there shall be restored to
the status of marriage something of the
solemnity and sacredness imputed to it
by that church. It is needless to multiply
words. Our divorce and marriage
laws must be revised, made uniform
and more strict, and be rigidly enforc
eci, or uie aisorgaaizauoii 01 eociety
novy threatened by the increased loosening
of the marital ties will become
complete. So long as marriage is regarded
as a mere civil contract, its
higher, purpose, the rearing of offspring,
will be overlooked; its baser
use's alone will bo esteemed until,
finally, whatever stands in the way of
these will, at any cost, be removed-" It
must be admitted, however, that while
the law, if -amended and more strictly
enforced, will do- something, it cannot
alone reach the inmost seat of the eviL
in the perverted sentiment of the publie
in regard to marriage. Since this
sentiment rests not so much upon errors
in reasoning as upon corrupt inclinations,
logic or legal interdict can do
little to correct it To that, perhaps,
religion alone is equal. And we cannot
better close than by stating our conviction,
that for the saving of civilization
from the destruction threatening
it, as well from the prevalence of
crime and social immorality as from
the thickening dangers of industrial
discontent an<T conlfict, religion is the
most effective instrumentality; not the
religion that' builds temples from
. which it excludes the poor; not the religion
which shoots philosophical treatises
from Its pulpits over the heads of
thdSe who most need its consolations
in the condition of social contempt and
proscription in.. which they are held;
but the religion which reaches its hand
to the plain men and women who form
the bulk of our race and do Its work;
wJtuch "wins,.instead or repelling tnem,
and which shows itself the friend and
minister of the toiling millions rather
than of the millionaires who build its
palaces.
-3 i ?The
Cowboy o? Florida.
Visiting the stores for the sake of
provisioning the craft, the principal
business of Tort Myers was at once discernible
from the array of saddles and
bridles exhibited. Around this point,
and from many a prairie and jungle in
the neighborhood, cattle are brought
in for shipment to Punta Bassa, to be
sent from thence to Key.West and
Cuba. A good many gaunt lads,
lounging around in high boots, with
jingling spurs, showed' the peculiarities
of their calling, for they were the
cowboys of this region. I doubt
whether the cowboy 01 the west-is recruited
entirely from- the country
wnere ne neras or anves rns came, uu^
the Floridian cowboy is indigenous to
the soiL 'Hard work and plenty of it,
at times with poor food; a debilitating
climate and many- mosquitoes have
made them. fleshless. Driving cattle
in the west is certainly no child's play,
but in this portion of Florida the task
must be a particularly difficult one
from the nature of the country. To
scamper at full speed across the country
in quest of a "bunch" of cattle
must endanger their necks- Through
the palmetto cabbages, through toe
thick tangle of vines, across , the boggy
flats, driving into the pine thickets, the
soil burrowed by gophers, the cattlehunter
spurs his horse. Perhaps it is j
the mount which ou^ht to be nitied as
much as any of the animals, the horse,
the boy, or the bull Western horses
barely stand the hard work, -and are !
used up in a season. Anj*thing li-C r.
high-legged animal comes to grief in
very short order. The horse wanted
for the work is the small scrubby animal
born and bred in Florida. He
seems to be capable of withstanding
any amount of hard service. Certainly,
the-Florida cattle of this section are
the poorest specimens of the bovine
race known. They present, save about
their legs, few traces of merit Having
not much weight to carry, their speed
is, for a short burst, enough to blow a
horse. Fancy cattle whose live, weight
will average 3o0 pounds!?Fort Myers,
(Fla.) Cor. K Y. World.
Ail Accomplished Negro Butler.
One day last fall a handsome mulatto
boy came to the door of a friend of
nine, asking for work. He was a good
butler, he explained, despite his years;
he had been carefully trained and
could do many things outside of his
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Dbl'lVslJ 11UC VI UUOJ. ?*-* *? J vuvu
to need just such a serving man, and
accepted him very imprudently on his
face, which was good, without asking
particularly for his recommendations
which were bad. He was a most accomplished
servant He knew all
about the dining room; he knew all
about the front door; he was willing
and ready and quiet, and a great success
in everv wav. He was an ex
tremely polite boy, thoroughly gentle
and kincU and he soon worked his way
into the good graces of the family.
One day when one of the young ladies
was playing the piano, he was discovered
listening. The next day he was
found listening again. His devotion to
music was remarked upon. Finally he
plucked up courage to ask if he could
not sit down to the piano at odd moments
when the ladies were otherwise
engaged. They said he could. He did
at the first opportunity, and for a mu
latto serving'man lie played exquis- i
itely. Of course the ladles heard him, |
and were pleased. They felt they had
a jewel. They did not have him "long. :
One day, after he had won the hearts i
of the whcle family, he quietly stepped
out with all the jewelry he could lay i
his delicate hands 011. " On Tuesday he i
was arraigned at the bar of the police i
court, charged with haying swindled a i
dozen families in the same way. He 1
pleaded guilty in his dulcet tones to j
eacix charge, ana was neia in neavy j
bail for triaL?Washington Cor. Phii* j
adelphia Becord. I
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WIT AND HTJ3IOR. . ?<
An old yellow dog in Cologne ' -5
Ean away with an old woman's bogne;
But the wrathful old crogne
;x Hit him twice with a bogne,
i And it was dreadful to hear the dog groga^
! She pressed her hand en her hair, . *>i
j And her cheeks as red as a rose, ** ; <
] And drew it over her forehead fair,
fl.au iuj i_*u nun uer vrrvciau liusc.
| And no smite on sunny wing,
| Its flight o'er ter features took,
! Because on her dazziing-engagement ring
Her sisters wouldn't look.
- In New Orleans the sand-bag is used
i to stop gaps in the levee; in Chicago to
| make gaps in society^
The proper question to ask a young
I woman who is about to'elope is,
i "Does your mother know yourroute?"
A young man with -a pair of handpainted
suspenders generally finds a
room too warm to work in with his coat
on. .
"* *' ** ? i
i lNew Mexico as eiaiea .oyer me autj
covery of a mountain of alxnn in the
) western part of the territory. The people
should prepare to .pucker.
Grace: "I am going to see Clara today.
Have you any message?" Dora:
"I wonder how you can visit that "
dreadful girl!: Give her my love."
In Armenia girls are married when
12 years old. In this country at that
age they are too, busy_ buying candy
and makingfaces at the boys to think
of inatrimony.
One young man said to another: "It ,
is a long way from this world to the
Tip-rfc.'' "Oli.' never mind, mv dear fel
low,?' said "the.other; you'll have It all
down ML"
Another-Waterloo veteran is dead.
We are notrsure ho wc. many Waterloo
veterans still live,. but if Napoleon had
Half of them in Ms army he would have
won the fight * "
An article containing a dozen hints
on how to take care of a horse is going
the rotmds of - the. press,- but there is
not one hint as to how to **et the horse
?Norristovm Eerdld. . ::
The human is supposed "to be far
(more intelligent than the brute creation,
and yet ordinarily the street-car
horse answers the bell much quicker
than the servant-girl wilL
"Shall I take your love'to your dear
: mother?" .said a lady visitor who was
goin<* to see the mother in question to ^
a little child of 3 years. "She "has my
love," was the quaint reply.
/ "Yes," said Mrs. Liberal, "I hate
those Sir alters, thev are so awfullv
bigoted; butthey needn't be so stacS:
np abont their religion. The liberal faith
is gaining last, and it won't be
many years, I guess, before we can bo *
as bigoted as.they are."
The old/tramp who was a "Michigan
fire sufferer" last summer will go on
. the road this spring as an "Ohio floodsufferer."
He thought once he would
have to appear as a 4Ja?a earth-quakecTrffoTviT
" hni- +V10 frvrfrm fttA? '
iy rendered this rather far-fetched excuse'unnecessary
, -
New Yorker (who has been "stuck"
more than an hour with intellectual . . *t
young lady from Boston): **You say that
you despiise Hew York men.
Ihen why do you come to New York, ?
and why do you go to 2STew .York parties?"
"Young lady from Boston: "For,
a complete intellectual rest."
"Pa," said a little boy to Ms father
an orvir?l .Qf T atma
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know people in. this city had wings."
"Wings? Certainly not," replied the
father. "Then what are those things
that stick np so high?" "Hush, my
boy," said the father in an undertone;
"you mustn't speak so loud. Those
are ears."
. "Remember, sir,, that yon owe some*
thing to your constituents," said one
member'of our city council to another.
"Humph!" said the othe^^if you owe
anything to your constituents, all I've
got to say is that you're lucky- Why,
there are not a half-dozen voters in mv
ward feat have not borrowed money '
from me."
- A contemporary asks: "How shall wojnen
carry their purses. to. frustrate the
thieves?"" Why, cany them empty.
Nothing frustrates a thief more than
to snatch a lady's purse, after following
her half a mile, and then find that
it contains nothing but a . , recipe for
spiced peaches and a faded photograph
of her grandmother.
- ' "Come, .sorrow, smooth my brow * .
and kiss my lips and lay '.thy: gentle
hand upon "my heart," sings; the poet
The courting of such a dismal maid
betrays a bad case of dyspepsia or a
woeful lack of invigorating exercise.
A poet with a sound body would find
joy a more cheerful and attractive maid.
Rochester Democrat.
How Gerstcr views it: Reporter?I
suppose you heard' about that kissing
affair between Governor Crittenden ana
Patti? Gerster?I heard that the gov- ?^
ernor kissed Patti before she had time
to resist, but I don't see anything in
that to create so much talk. Eeoorter
?You don't? Gerster?Certainly not.
There is nothing wrong in a man'3
jassmg a woman uiu enougu to do tua
mother. o: * -5 I,
A Carlisle girl has a record' of-having
eaten thirty-five griddle cakes on
a. wager recently. This, cf course, oc- > curred
sin ce Matthew Arnold's declaration
that the women of America are
delicate, spirituelle creatures. It is
very doubtful if the apostle of "sweetness
and light" himself, with all his
intelligence and deep poetic feeling,
could put himself outside of thirty-fiyB
<vj.lrr>s in nne innfnc.?
town Herald.
"Is your sister at home?" asked a
St. Louis young*" gentleman of the little
brother who answered the belL "Yes,
she's home," said the boy; "we're going
to havt cocoanut pies for dinner
to-morrow, and she's out in the kitchen
helpin* mother make 'em." "Indeed,"
replied the young man, evidently very
much pleased, "and what nart of the
pie does your sister make?" "She
cracks the cocoanuts with her teeth." <
"Sir," sharply remarked a pretty .. ^
Boston girl, moving away from a young
Jfew Yorker, who was seated on the
same sofa with her and exhibited a disposition
to abridge the distance between
them, "sir, the radius vector of
your orbit is getting too short" The?
young mau turned pale, felt around
lor ins legs m a stupenea sort 01 way,
seemed to recover some confidence
on discovering that they were still
there, arose :md fled.
! A deaf old fellow, charged with stealing
a hog, yas arraigned before a
court. The jury, without leaving the
box, returned a verdict of guilty. "Old
man," said his lawyer, "the jury says
you are guilty." "Hay?" "The jury
says you are guilty," shouting in his
ear. "In what degree? "There are
no degrees in a stealing case." "Hay?",
"There are no degrees." "Guilty all . -I'":
over, am I?" "Yes," "Hay?" "Yes,"'. - V'i
yelling at the top of his voice. "Well,
that's what I told you at first, but you!
said you could clear me. Wish now!
that I had got the judge to defend me.
Will get him next time."?Arkansaw