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AN ST., BALTIMORE, MD. JA cope o th Gat Indusres ofthe rvn for two names to t suAD,i Written for Home and Farm IN MEMORIAM Of Gen. James Conner, of South Carolina, m old and beloved Sehcolmate. I. They call you "General" in the field! And mid the forum's bloodless band. The white round of your vestal sL ield Blazed in high, unfaltering hand! it. But oh! to me, thro' gathering tears Your ripened fame seems far and dim. I can but dream of schoolboy-years Which echo clearly, "Paul," and "Jim! III. I smite your shoulder, as of old, I catch your voice of glad replies, I feelyour strong arm round me fold. I drink the light of loyal eyes! IV. Yes! claim his manhood all that may Its sunset flame, its noontide joy But mine his pure, auroral day.; Keep mz the man! leave xa the boy! V. O'er his dead form, a marred with care I view a brave young Viking's grace! The sea-breeze captured in his hair, The sunrise on his mirthful face VI. Hence is it with no thought of wrong, I dare to pass before you all, And drop th is rose of morning-song To brighten his gray funeral pall! PAUL HAmLTON HAnrT. MR. SPEER'S SPEECH. TO THE GRADUATING CLASS BOYS HIGI SCHOOL OF ATLANTA. When Mr. Speer came forwar< on the stage, he was greeted wit] much applause. He was hand somely introduced by Prof. Base principal, and spoke as follows: Young Gentlemen of the Grad uating Class: Your orator thi evening is in entire sympathy wit] you. It has been such a very, ver short while since he stood up to take his diploma, as you will do tc night, that he feels quite as one o you-"one of the boys," you knoi You' will therefore have no long patronizing discourse, but simply i sociable little talk, just as one o the Seniors at College-might talk t a Freshman, if indeed a Senior wa ever so condescending as to talk t a Freshman. You~ are out of school for vact tion, and that is very pleasant fe awhile, and you will enjoy it in mensely for a while. But pleasure in this life of ours are not very pei manant. Burns, in melodious ye: sification tells us that "Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seise the flower, its bloom is shed ." And a more modern philosophe: quaint old "Uncle Remus," in hi plantation proverbs, cautions ui "Watch out when you are gettin' a] you want. Fattenin' hogs aini't i luck."' [Laughter.] You can't d better therefore with your vacatio: than to devote a little time to re fiection on the work that is befor you-whether you will enter a once on the life long duties whic fall to the lot of every useful max or whether you are to serve an aj prenticeship to science and litert ture in the work of the College c the University. That you have been studious an diligent, young gentlemen, you efforts to-night give abundant ev dence. That you "are of the stu that men are made of." your look~ your parentage, your blood, you State, your country are the guarar tors. As far as you have gone, yo have been well trained-excellen1 ly well-and in the substratum c brain and character there is we: laid the clear-cut foundation o: which you may build the sturd; and enduring structure of thoroug education, embellished, beautifiel and enlarged with liberal culture Ah, my friends, what immeasurabl advantages you have in this eki mental training. How many of u there are, with our knowledge c its importance; with our experienc of its advantages, even when glear ed on the fields which had just bee: torn by the horrors of revolutiox who would rejoice if we could tak back the years that are irrevocabl; gone, and stand as you stand, wit your opportunities, past and futuri at the gate of the curriculum; wit your hardened and well-drilled ft miliarity: with the principles c mathematics; with that thorough tt knowledge of the rudiments of the b classics, which will at once open to t< you the treasures of antiquity, and h give to you a copious and select o: mastery of your own language. it Y Would that every boy and girl in w this State of Georgia, that we love d so well and of which you have li spoken so patriotically, could pos- p sess the superior training which is h; conferred on their pupils by the t< schools of the city of Atlanta.. [Ap- m plause.] s You, my friends, are the young ", athletes, eager to contend in the more than Olympic trials, where the mind is developed, as were the bodies of the Grecian youth in that of great festival of aticient tribes. Re- w member the classical adage : "He who wears the palm must toil in w the dust of the arena." You have done much; you- have done well; but it was Napoleon who said to one of his officers: "Nothing is done while anything remains un- w done." t There is one thought which I P1 desire to impress to night on such m' of you as will go from your studies te here to the work of the College or ar University. The purpose of all ed- st ucation is to discipline the mind. ti( You will find in the curriculum of I your college studies a great deal of ha work that you will possibly think th of no practical use in the every-day le business of life. Do not neglect nc this work. It is useful, most use- ti( ful, to you. The pugilist who Ps strikes out by the hand right s and left at the sand bag sus- ic pended before him, forgets the bag C I when he toes the mark in the face of P i his foe; but that practice has de- st veloped his muscles, hardened his ce fist, improved his mind, given to t him the quick eye and unerring co aim, and maybe the unimportant Pr a looking sand-bag has given him the w i victory. My simile is rather in- ar r elegant, but a boy will understand tl > it. So it is with this college work, B . which may seem valueless to you. in f It is to exercise the mind. Do c not despise t:e culture, even while A , students, which comes from general P literature, but let the text books pre- hi f scribed by your instructors be your a1 > prime considc ration. Win the hon- at s ors of your c'ass, if possible. fa a These werc not always my views. SE I held to the idea once that a stu- g .dent by selecting the studies in p: r which he most excelled, and devo. it eting his time chiefly to them, would el s get the best education. I had a y -- long controversy with a class-mate b Son this subject. He upheld the s curriculum. I upheld the doctrine ti of the selection of the fittest. The II result was that he stood at the head W , of his class, and I stood-well never t s mind where I stood. ]Laughter.] S , He was right. He is a Judge now, y 1 and can fine me, and make me take is a my seat, and all that sort of thing; A r and while I have the privilege of ci a speaking to boys on this occasion, n -I see from, the papers that he en- g e joys the delightful pleasure of go- a t ing away to college commence-E a ments and making speeches to girls, ti , "the sweet girl graduates." [Laugh- ti -ter] Public speeches, I mean, of si - course.a r Now, the failure in my theory it was this. A boy cannot tell ex- ii I actly what the natural bent of his U r genius is. He may think he can, U tbut he can't. Now the curriculum e: f of studies, which are general in P , their range, is apt to quicken his si r genius somewhere, if has genius, J -and if he lhasn't got genius, they a will quicken his solid horse sensie, -which all in all is a great deal bet- w f ter than genius. Your genius is an ti 1 uncertain citizen, and is usually ti a very nearly a crank, and as "P. I1 F Pilgarlick Pigwiggen" said, is "as ti a tetchy as a skinned cat." [Laugh. a I ter and applause.] A These opinions are the result of v e observation and experience, which ti -are the best teachers after all. So, b s work hard on the text books, andl ti f when you have finished your Col- o e lege course, you will bring to ii tthe study of general literature the g a keen appreciation of its charms ti t, which belongs to the educated mind. d e I know it is said by College boys a y that intense application breaks fi a down the health, and boys say they b , don't intend to kill themselves with c a study. I -Wonder what becomes of is -all the boys who die from too much e: f study. We never see any notice of ti iem in the obituary columns. I ti flieve it was "Sam Weller" who r( ld the credulous "M. Pickwick" y< a had never seen a dead donkey m a dead post-boy, and that when ti came time for them to quit this hi orld the post-boy mounted the j ci nkey and they rode ol to spirit- te .nd together. [Laughter.] I sup- g< yse the boy who kills himself with to ird study disappears in some mys- p< rious way. Perhaps his class th ates do with him as the British la >ldiers did with Sir John Moore : af hey buried him darkly at the dead of of night, d< The sod with their bayonets turniug." Or perhaps they took the advice Max Adeler, the obituary poet, do sang : th ) bury Bartholomew out in the woods, [n a beautiful hole In the ground; Ce here the woodpecker sings and the bum- ax blebee hums, th and the straddle bugs tumble around." [Great laughter.] 4 No, my dear boys, as much as ni love you, we are willing for you u incur the risk of too much ap- p ication. Now, don't make the al istake of thinking that the mas ry of the college studies, which Bi e simply the keys to the under anding, are the object of educa n. They are nothing of the sort. have known men who after they Ad left college had become so oroughly imbued with their col ge 4tudies, that they thought >thing more worthy of their atten )n than to construe some difficult ce issage in the classics or to solve G me abtruse problem of mathemat- of s. Take the advice of Dr. Mc- m )sh, the old Scotch President of to inceton College, "Make your w adies" first circumferential, then co ntrical. Travel diligently around w e curriculum in college, and then ca encentrate your energies on the PC ofession or the occupation by .ich you will make your bread y rd butter. And now, young gen- to amen, let me give you what the cl iliff in Kerry Gow calls "a word Sc sayson." Don't smoke. Don't aY iew. Don't bet on any thing. o nd above all, don't drink. [Ap- to ause.] You are going away from h( >me for the first time. Parental It ithority will be left behind; but vE i, how the anxiety of the manly w ther, who maybe is denying him- sc lf and the rest of the family, to u ve his boy, of whom he is so w -od, a college education, how will go out to you; and the pray- is . of that dear mother, who nursed p > when you were a little mewling u aby, and whose life is a long con- ai crated sacrifice to you, how [ tey will follow you. Have the anhood to say no. "My son, d< hen sinners entice thee, consent e ou not." This is the wisdom of h comon. Avoid a bar-room as a > would the small-pox. Smoking,, not so bad, but it is bad enough. A' .boy don't have to smoke to be- TI >me a man. I see little fellows >t much taller than a quart pot, ying about smoking cigarettes, c3 yd befouling the pure air of 0o eaven with their cheap abomina- w ons. [Laughter.] Ridiculous lit- la e creatures. The bare exertion of ai iction keeps the diminutive smoker tr Sthin as a batter cake. Tobacco fc very hurtful to youth, especially I the form of cigarettes. If you as ust smoke, wait until you are o en, and then if you are unlucky iough to get a tempestuous com- k< union for life, you can smoke while ie storms, and you can say with* c npiter "Juno, try the weed." [Laughter.] t This last thought reminds me hile you are in college y,our spare g me had best be devoted largely to te society of nice young ladies. ;will do you good, and unless e rey have changed very recently, it ill do them good. [Laughter.] ti .nd besides the prescription is ery pleasant-Do ill effect unless sken in too large quantities. The est boys I ever knew were fond of d te girls, and the best men are fond the ladies. A young gentleman fa 'ho associates habitually with the yod girls, is not likely to do any y ting very mean. The boys who athe meanness are those who sit cound on the dry goods boxes, in ont of the stores, and laugh at the ays who go with the girls. Of e< arse you will fall in love, but that bi not dangerous. It is usually na idemic in this climate, and while n4 e symptoms are sometimes bi reatening the patient generally covers. [Laughter.] I dare say >u don't need much - encourage. ent in this direction. Most boys ink that if they are not in a great irry to get engaged, the whole op of girls will be exhaus d, and there won't be enough to round. I think this is a mis ke. When you get to studying - >litical economy, you will find at the supply is generally regu ted by the demand, and you can rord to wait at least till you get E tt of the Freshman class. But 6 n't neglect your studies for the I rls. Cynics may say what they l ease, but take my word for it, a od girl who is worth having, F inks more of a man if he is suc ssful in what he undertakes, t Ld if he does his duty, far more an she does of a little languish- I g dude who hangs around her, 1 hing like a furnace, and pen ng a sonnet to his mistress's ye brow." And they are right. 1 irenthetically, I remark they are ways right. What would this t )rld be without them, says Robbie t rns: 'There's nought but care on ev'ry han'. I' every hour that passes, O Vhat signifes the life o' man, Ln' 'twere na for the lasses, 0? Luid Nature swears the lovely dears, c Her noblest work she classes, 0! ler 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, 0!" There is no telling the benefi nt influence on the young of rorgia bestowed by the gooI girls our college towns. There are C trons perhaps in this audience .night-very young matrons io have done more to inspire the llegians of post bellum times th noble a"prations than all other uses put to*ether. They are the ople who saved the State. And n6w, ladies and gentlemen, trust you will pardon me for this rig talk. I am sure the graduating ass of 1883 of the Boys' High 1 hool will confer honor on Atlanta Ld Georgia, as they have done themselves and their teachers. -night. They may not all win C >nors. Some will be defeated. is inevitable, and it is not a ry bad thing for a young fellow ao does his best to be defeated me times.. [Great applause.] s ;weet are the uses of adversity," f hich, "like the toad ugly and ve- t >mous wears yet a precious jewel his crown," or in more homely rase, as "Uncle Remus" says: 'rouble is seasoning. Simmons n't good till dey er frostbit." ~aughter and applause.] We send you forth not with ubt but with confidence. BeI nie to your parentage, to your >me, to your names, and aboveI lo thine own selftbe true, id it must follow, as the night the day, I Lou canst not then be false to any man." [Prolonged applause.] I congratulate you on 'your ex llence. I congratulate the board education on the magnificent crk they are doing. I congratu te you on your speeches to-night, id especially on that-spirit of pa otism wherein they breathe a love r our whole country, and for the hole more than for a part. These e sentiments worthy of the youth Georgia. WINGED THREE OF THDE.-A Da >ta schoolmistress sued three mng men for breach of promise. ounsel for one of the defendants oved for a nonsuit on the ground it she was too promiscuous he court seemed disposed to ant the motion, whereupon the aintiff asked: "Judge, did you ever go duck ooting?" His honor's eye lighted up with epride of asportsman as he an-1 vered : "Well, I should say so ; and any's the time that rve brougLt >wn a dozen at a shot." "I knew it," eagerly added the ir plaintiff; "that's just the case ith me, judge. These fellows sieged meandlwinged three of em." The motion for a nonsuit as denied. A Georgia colored mother dream-4 he was beating up cornmeal for 'sad, and when she awoke in the orning she found her baby dead, early every bone inits body being PILLS INSTEAD OF BULLETS ROMANTIC AND FATAL'DUEL AT OLI NEW ORLEANS. A duel, fatal to one of the princi >als and yet novel in nature, is de ailed by a writer in the Nei )rleans Times-Democrat. It was be ween two young men of Cresceni ity, and occurred over forty year go. The young men were Henr )elagrave and Alphonse Riviere ,nd the cause of the duel was the uccess of the former in wooin Ime. Celestin. Riviere sought ou )elagrave and found him in a ambling saloon. Riviere was very ale as he approached the group of ien around the table. What witt he yellow light shining througi he curtains and his bloodless ap earance, he seemed rather a ghast y corpse than a living body, but here was motion and a voice in im which soon dispelled such an lusion. As he neared Delagrave the lat er turned to confront him, when iviere, with a voice that seemed a come from behind the door of a )mb, said, "Delagrave, we cannot ve on this globe together; it is ot large enough." Delagrave, quietly puffing hie garette, in a cold and impressive ne replied. "Yes;you annoy me, b would be better ifyou were dead.? Riviere's fade flushed, and reach ig forwards he laid the back of hie and gently against Delagrave'e heek. The game was at once in .rrupted. The slap, which was sc ght it did not even crimson the oung man's cheek, was enough tc all for blood, and leaving the house e sought an intimate friend; tc im he opened his heart: "It mus e a battle to the death." Such wam Lie enmity between himself ana iviere ouly a life couldvwpe it up 'he old Doctor who had grown up might be said, on the fleld, shrug ed his shoulders and remonstrated at at last acquiesced and said: Very well, then; it shall be to the leath." Few people knew what sorl >f a party it was driving down the hell road bordering Bayou St rohn. Two carriages stopped jus in the bridge leading to the islanc ormed there by the bifurcation o: he bayou, and four gentlemel lighted. Savalle, a well kow haracter here forty years ago, ac ompanied Riviere and old Dr ocquet was with Delagrave, Th< econds had met previously ani rranged everything. Delagrave a he stepped from the carriage ooked furtively around for thi ases of pistols, but, seeing none te. was a little disconcerted.' After ralking about 100 yards from the arriages the party stopped and he Doctor motioned them to ap roach closer. When they -hat one so, he called them by nam< nd said: "Gentlemen, we have iscussed this matter nearly all oj ast night, and both Mr. Savall ud myself feel satisfied that there s no solution to the difference be ween you but the death of one lhe world is so formed that botl annot live in it at the same time. Che two nodded. "Therefore," thi )octor went on, "we agreed ti aake the arbitrament as, fair as i s possible and let fate decide." H< ook out a black morocco case an< rom it produced a pill box contain ng four pellets. "One of these, said he, "contains a positively fata lose of prussic acid, the other thre< ire harmless. We have agreed dat each shall swallow two of th pills, and let destiny decide. savalle inclined his head, and said as the representative of Riviere, h< greed. The two men were pale, almos loodless, but not a nerve tremble< r muscle contracted. "Gentlemen,"said the doctor, "wi ill toss for the first pill." Savall< ried out "tails," as the glittering ~old piece revolved ini the air. I ~ell in abunch of grass, the blade f which, being separated, showed he coin with the reversed head c he Godness of Liberty uppermost 'Mr. Delagrave, you have the firn ~hoice," said the doctor. Reposing in the little box, th our little globes seemed the cour erpart of each other. The closes rutiny would not develop th seihet difrerence. Nature akmx< I J Y ABTEITISING :ATwa insered at as ae etL 31.00(os. i)foreimmeraos* ad en for each subuequZt Ilron. Doble colmadverd. s* pe- cet on above. Nodes of meeiag obitsaIid of rspect, Same mes per aquasae tui !.uy adverUemaas. Specal Notces in LocaleobInis'demt per line. Adver am sotmarked wA.ftmI ber e inros wfibe kept Oai,behi and chargtsecorllagl. Speealeoat ade with arer damer. with liberal dednctions oa ;asie JOB FRI DON- WITH NATUIS A D A * TERMS CASH. I. through the physiological al of the human stomach, can their properties. In one there the: pall of eternity, the for breath, the failing of sight, the panorama of years rushing in ausl stant through the mind, the si1L and peace of sleep -forevermore, the cerements, the burial case, the solemn cortege, and the- elrse noisome atmosphere of the gr~ All these were contained in one. these little pellets. Delagraw1 having won the first choice, sip. " ped forward and took a pLH. With a calmness which was fgId he placed it on his tongue, and w cup of claret, handed him by Doctor washed it down. "And now, Mr. Riviere,"" said Doctor. Rivere extended his and took a pill. c Like his opponent, he it. - The two men stood looklng. another in the face. There not a qui er to the eyelid, i-ot twitch of a muscle. Each thinking of himselfaswellas ing his adversary. One UnS passed. Two minutes puus t4 Three. Four. Five. "Now, g tlemen." Y This was the fatal choice. men were ready for the casL of tiZ die. Savalle tossed the gold t pe aloft and the Doctor cried ai# "heads." "Heads" it was, ad . agrave took a pill fromth be leaving only one. 'Now," said the Doctor, " Riviere, the remaining one you. You will please aw i : toether." The two men raised thef at the sam ihe and the pilison their tosgneeraud draught of claret. one se6orpasseda -God? P in n vie,hl> round to the left, raised his above his head am!dshrieked akI~ wild shriek that belated traveh ers evenutoftis day say they hear on the shell road near the-islast. He fell prone to the earthan, save a nervous contraciiion ot~ muscles of the face, there ma - movement.4 Delagrave took him by the h4 as he fay on the damp grams Isaid in a tender voice: "I i'itgret but it was to be." / The funeral was one o largest ever seen in Nlew Sand for weeks the cafes were ,with the story of the. dueLThk beautiful widow, horriftod at affair, would never see Dlga -afterward, and Is now a grandmere on Bayou Ifue~ having married a wealthy 1a Itwo years after the fatal evenL' -Delagrave, weighed adown wi [the trials of an unhappy life, , wrinkled and tottering, strolls aleeg Canal street of warm afternos Sassisted by anegro servant, Ha ing a bare competency, he has^new er actually suffered from want; iA -he shows evidence of great eta Sanguish. .The sight of a pill boa 1 makes him shudder and the taste ot c laret will give him convuient. SNEr Taie 'TO IT.-"lanl't tha ~ Spretty steep?" replied a man was asking for arairoadt tiet to1 Lansing yesterday morning. : "Usual rate sir." 'But don't you sometimes mae e a discount?" "Sometimes-to clergymeug Are' you a clergymn?" "Well not exactly," slowly replied the man as he eerstched his . "but I reckon I'm the nest ilg toit. I'veoband been Sdogsall chawed up and never want ed to lick the owner of the other animaL" He paid full fare.-Detroit Pmr tAs arulelemsattetionl is g*een' Sthe pig-pen than the stabl e md Sthe swine which are kept 11Iy in confined quarters are .more liable to become Swhen neglected than ay oIbh l stock. Clean-quarters for$va a well repay their ownm t When the mate of a wild goose B dies it never takes another. n~ ~man wdows areot such g