HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1892-7-15, Page 3Juor 16, 1892,
YOUNG FOLKS,
In NinetY-Three•
Thie Is my 1o1rth1ay-41m 'meet n. man ;
Fixnetly eight
len growing up, says my Miele Van,
At an awful rato.
13u1 I can't know everything quit clear
Not quite, say,, ho -
Before my birtlelky eoinee rotted 0181 7001'
In leinetpThree,
THE BRUSSELS POST,
What makes the moon grow thin ami long
1.4110, paper boat?
How did Limy get 1110 0101(70 song
In his little throat
Wile hasn't the butterfly eometlfingto dot
Or why has the boo?
'What will became of SinetytT we
In Ninety -Three?
I'M aware thinking and tvendering
As hard as 1 cent
But there ls n't »inch good in euestioning
My Uncle•Van,
For ho only says, with a funny took,
I shall probably 'we-
lt 1 koop on growing and mind my book-
ie Ninety -Three.
Ws long ahead till a fellow's nine,
When hon only eight
But the days keep passing. rain or shine,
And0 can wait
For all these pumice, that seem se queer
Just now 10 110,
111 understand by another yonr,
In Ninety-Throo.
-1110. Nicholas,
A cute little smutty -nosed ptig flog,
Tho prettiest tortoise shell ear ;
Anti papa onyx, maybe, the inowdea--
len muse I don't care about that.
And mamnut Is going to lake me
To see lots of beautiful allege;
And big brother Jack and Eitte
Will give me two lovely gold rings.
And " somo day" 011 find out the reaccon
Of t hi mar 1 ea n't 'mow understand ;
And "some day " Pil have a Mg dolly
Tim!, can well: and bold on by my hand.
011. Fm tired of waiting for " some clay
1 makes mottos cross, I declare,
lee afraid, when lt really deo: got hero,
111 be a big girl and won't cure.
1Charlee10. LugrIn, in July St, Nicholas.
Sonia Old Stories of Paddy.
Our grandfathers used to /augh over the
wit•of Paddy quite as much as we do to.
day, and I em not at all sore that in the
olden time Paddy was not much brighter
than his descendants ere now. In looking
over an old volume of curious anecdotes,
published quite seventy years ago,which has
been lying upon my shelf for many a day I
find quite it number of evidences that ant
ancestors had a deal of fun provided for
thom at Paddy's expense, and of very ram
quality too.
One of these stories is told of the Irish
servant 01 11 neva porninandor, who had the
misfortune one day to let a teakettle fall
overboard. In fear and trembling he rush-
ed to his master, and cried out to him,
" Plan, yor honor, can anything, he said
to be losht whin ye know where it is?"
" Certainly not," replied the officer.
"
" hy, 11110, 781' honor, yo may link the
taykettle is losht, but it ain't, sum I know
where it is, sore. It's at the botthom of the
ocean, sore"
It would eettainly be difficult ei find fault,
with ono who made such a beautiful bull as
that just because he had lost so insigmli-
cant an article as a teakettle.
Another anecdote teaches in mirthful
guise a lesson our boys and girls cannot af-
ford to lenve unlearned, which in that trtie
politenese alwites pays. The story states
that tot Irish (Allem in the midst of a
hca letttle happening to indulge in the
ceurlesy of a bow to scone tine en the field,
a caution -ball peesed dieeetly over his head
and took off that of the soldier immediately
behind him, The bow alone saved his life,
which lie hail the wit to see (gm trent by for
turning le 11 soldier near hint, he ol,served,
sea ray 'nail, a fellow neter loses
auythieg by politeuese,"
An [deli •1 edge who wits linte't annoyed
by loud conversatien in the ientleroom
coed out.
"Silence 1 Keep silence in the court.
Here I have decided a dozen rases this
morning without Ituariug what ono of 'em
was about."
In General Moore's columned Wee an
Irieh soldier who, having been asked 11 1118
Hollanders were a hospitable people, lel-
mediately replied, "They are thee Too
much so. 01 was in the hashpital all the
toile° oi was there."
This criticise; is quite on a, par with that
of the Englishman who objected to the
French because he said the stupid idiots
couldn't understand their own language
W11811 be spoke to them.
Another good story in the collection aver
which we cm imagine our grandfathers
laughing heartily is of an Irish gentleman
who was visited one day by a friend who
found him very much vexed.
" W lett is the matter ?" asked the visitor.
" Yon seem 1811011 disturbed."
10(11," he answered. "I've jest lost it
new pair of black silk stockings out of my
room that 0081 1110 eighteen shillings."
"Have yon searched everywhere?" ask,
ed the friend.
" Yes," be said, "everywhere ; and not
finding them 1 have sent for the town-orier,
who will cry them and offer to half•erown
reward."
Tito friend expressed his eurprise that the
owner should offer so small a reward for
the recovery of stockings of silk, and of such
yam.
" That's all right," he replied, in a acm•
ficiential tone. " Nobody'll know. I order.
ea the aria to say they were worsted.
18 18 to be hoped he got thent-fliarper's
Young People.
A Boy's Day-Drialt
It was a bright, warm day in tho early
summer of 1761, and London wab full to
overflowing, when a boy about eleven years
old, with long dark hair hanging down his
neck, and a strange, dreamy, far -off -kind of
a look in his large gray oyes' came slowly
along one of the busiest andmost crowded
streete of the great city, so wrapped up in
his own thoughts that he hardly bolt, the
jolts and bumps which he enoeuntered in
peening his way throngh the hurrying
throng aroend him. He must have been
thinking of a battle, or a herd atingle Of
some kind, for every now and then he dart-
ed ont both anris in front of him, to the no
amall danger of the eyrie or the ribs of the
passere-by, Suddenly he was brought to a
standstill; and no wonder, tor in flourishing
his hands about he bad thrust one of them
right ieto the coat pooket of a tall Man who
Wesnit going past him.
"What I so young, and so wicked 1" mewl
the »lam turning round and seizing hilt.
"Pou little raseal 1 do you want to mak my
'nickels in broad (lnylight?"
"No, 1 don't went to pick your pookot,"
said the boy, stetting &bout him as if feat
awakened from n, dream ; "I thought I was
"Swimming I" eat= the man, with a
broad laugh, Weil, Poo hoard a crowd
milled a sea of people, bet I've never heard
of anybody fAvimming in it beta°. You're
either tolling me a lie or oleo yoe're orazy."
"Pm not, indeed," proteeteti the boy
" I was thinking of that men yam sweat
names the Hellespont -Leander, you know
-and IL seemed to me as 111 Was swimming
across it too."
" 011 ho 1" cried the stranger ! " that's it
ie it? You seem fond of reading, my
friend 1"
" I'd read all clay long if I could," an" the etreeneare and rapidly drawn on the
swered the boy earnestly, " but It's on!), oeble imaelies, up an almost perpendloular
got a few hooka and Pee read 'on all egatil inellee of more than thirteen hundred feet ;
and again," all the way entertaining grave misgivings
" Well, I'll tell yon what, 1 holone to a of over reaching the top alive. With but a
library ; and, if you like, I'll give you a elooder cord between one and destruction
ticket, of admiesion .o110 forsis menthe, and unacenstomed 01c-eight550)ne into one'smind,
then you eau reed as much as you please.
Here'a my address, and you can come for
the ticket as soon as you like," Anil the
stranger, ehuokling over this queer adven-
ture, went briskly on his way, little think -
ng that he would live to see that bay be.
come honoured by all England as one oilier
greatest poets, and would toll with pride
and self gratification to all his friends how
be had once donee landneas to Samuel Tay-
lor Coleridge.
---
A Spider'e Bridge.
There Is a great deal of clever thought in
the head of 10 spider. A naturaliet moo
caught one in Ins garden, and brought it
into the house to put its eleverness to the
test.
First he took a basin and fixed a tall stiok
in it, so as to stand uprIghteiteadily. Then
he filled the basin with water. On the top
of this tiny liagetaff he pet the spider -a
regular Robinson Crusoe stranded on a des.
ort island. Then the neturalist watched to
see if the insect would hit on 001)1101 for get-
ting away.
ho spider was very 1110011 perplexed. Ho
scampered down the polo to the water,
stuok out a foot, got it wet, shook it as a
eat does, awl ran back up to the top. A
seamul time ho wont down and made sure
that the %settee lay all round the stielr. Hav-
in g satisfied 1110)0011 011101080 way of escape lay
there, he returned to the mast.heaci. A
sudden thought seemed to strike him. Ile
held up one foot, then tinalter, and fidgeted
about for a bit. What, waS he doing? He
was feeling whether there was enotigh wind
moving in the room to float one of the
silken clues as far as the edge of the basin.
There evidently was. So he began, in
titre spider fashion, to spin the web out of
hie body, and let every breath of air float it
out further towards the mainland,
XOTTINOS r&OX THE SUNNY SOUTH
1117 411(110,
flew along, the majestie
Lookout Mcnottain Wreaked our attention,
tio it was denided to 'mend /8 day all that
historic; height. We were transferred from
BOUND WHILE HE SLEPT.
A limns Store Clerk --ita-s 110 Exciting Adven-
t 11 re With a Burglar.
A Toronto despatch says t -.Ji. McQuade,
a clerk in Mr. R. Tuthill's drug More at
330 Batheret street, had 18 curious story te
tell his employer yesterday and oue which
is thoroughly credited by the latter. It
was of an unpleasant experience which
came to him about 1 o'clock yesterday
morning and concerned a hold attempt to
bind hint and sob the store which he gnard-
ed daring the night. MoQmarle says that
ho went, to bed in a little rdom behind the
shop about 11 o'clock on Tuesday night,
and was awakened about one o'clock by
big man endeavoriog to force a knotted
handkerchief into his mouth in
AN' Tin/FAVOR TO ClAll 11 1 NI.
As soon as he realized the M10110100 of his
assailant he attempted to arise and grapple
with him, and then beettme aware that his
feet Were bound together. The num jump-
ed on MeQuade to prevent his outcries, but
the latter anceeeded in striking him with
int»gled with that peculiar deeire to fly
whieh is experioneed when half way down
a very steep toboggan elide, lent, when the
cosy little hotel nestling far up on the top
of the mountain, was smelled, every feeling
save that of delight vanished. Jean
Ingelow's lines came t ividly into mind t-
'eeltose lovely hills, the trees, the sward,
They all look fresh aa If our Lord
But yeeterday had faeltioned them."
With the deep blue of heaven smiling
down upon us; the sweet songe of birds
mingled with the color -music of flowers arid
antemn foliage delighting the senses, a feel-
ing of freedom was breathed in with the
chum pure air. The accomplishment of the
ideal seemed within one's pewee there where
the great heart of nature throbbed
audibly leading on far beyond the small
prejudices and pettinem of every day life.
Far, far below, Chattanooga looked like a
miniature oity, tenanted by mannikins and
toy houses; the railwny coaches moving in
every direction, for this is a southern rail-
way centre, looked like matehboxes on
wheels; everything else was tiny in pro -
i
portion. Directly n front of us was the
"Mneeasin" formed by the curious windings
of the Tennessee river. So pet feoLly sym•
80(11.11001 10 this moccasin that one imagines
a mighty Cherokee chieftain had stepped
into the river tied left his foot gear as a
legacy to his white brethren.
The rivers here are not sparkling like our
beautiful St. Lawreoce, but muddy and
slow, flowing turbidly between the bright
red soil of the haulm (And yet very good
clear 108 15 manufactered from these waters.)
To every side of us spurs of the Blue
Ridge monutains of varyieg heights, arose
in misty gray and purple lovelinese. We
walked over the Natural Bridge, carried on
exciting conversations with the Echo Rookie
gathered many curious leaves and dainty
wild flowers and began the descent earth-
ward at five o'clock. Owing to the absenee
of twilight, the effect Wee strangely weird.
While we were descending into the shad.
owy light below, the setting sun bath-
ed the banks of clouds, in crimson
and golden glory; tinted every tiny separate
clond 1111 it; blossomed into delicate loveli-
ness ; lighted up the interlacing boughs
o '
verhead resplendent with entente foliage,
clacking tbe tops of the surrounding hills
while the creeping mists of hazy blue en-
veloped their bases.
Down, down we sped, leaving, the whis-
pering harmonies and matchless splendor
of color for the din and whirl 01 1010 city,
which now seemed humdrum and grimy by
contrast.
The Western and Atlantic railroad carried
no direetly oval the route taken by Sher -
men in his cruel march to the sea. Follow-
ing his steps we stopped at Marietta the
" Gem City of Lite South," so called partly
because of its quaintly, aeistocratic preten-
sloes in an ti-hellum times but more partic-
ularly cm 180011110 of its fine climate wild to
De eine 1 to the hest parts of Mexico, which
makes it a popular health resort for Ninth -
les feet and knecking him amass the romn, ern eta su treeing from lung (roubles. Situated
raid at the same tittle he 3e11e.1 fov help. in an oak rtigion (of whieli there are over
Mr. Reynolde, who lives over the store, 110011 by 418 kith:e) tool with an elevation of
heard tho cries, bet before 1)0 coul01 ennui over eleven heaths:a feet, it is impoesible to
down stairs the burglar had decamped, 0110 1110 aceounts of bair.bread th recoveries
litiQuatle 4011050 ntouth 1,110 binedinti 111111 ',motion there t indeed many apparentlj•
the rough usage it bre( received, pseagst I strong nom are living with but one lung, or
to quiekly elip the elethecline oil his ttet ..c-eic8 equally interesting state of
and tried 10 give chase, but the visitor litel deolvtb.n.
st.tiet mem 1110 torivE f,inr sides at the lentineas part; of
down Bathurst stteet betore he could ritisai tide eilv sueround a largo ',ark, and the
the doma The spring 101111 011 llla etreel street:, 'arc Llittled by syeatimas and button -
door had been forced in Dome way, as the wood tete& Houses, trees. 0.110 (beeches
are literally lielden lay 18 poofasion of Eng.
lish Ivy, N% Ilia limes in gratiefel festoons
from the tall tope to the ground, never
changing its green lovslinoss. The flowers
are simply indescribable, offering their
fragrance aud beeuty with genevous prod-
igality at every season, The foliage is
more waxy than 11111811 10 tho North, anci
ornemental flowerin.: shrubs on tho lawn
aro trained grotesquely oz. artistically as
fancy dietates. The jesenaniint, Inagnolia,
/fly 011(1 0011' a hundred varieties ofrosee,
impresses one with the feet that it is really
a land of flowers and sunshine.
Oak found it in workable condition when
he looked it over. A cereful extunimtion
of the promisee revealed the loss of 104 from
the till.
Me. Tuthill said he had passed the store
at 12. 10 es 8., when all the lighte wer e out,
11111 ,1110 small gas jet used for heating settl-
ing wax. He spoke in the highest term
of Mr. MeQuatle's integrity and places the
fullest !affiance in his story. The clerk,
who is a young men of 121 years of age, wits
prostrated yesterday, having fainted short-
ly after the atteck made ou him.
My Little Neighbour.
By bane HMV. WALTER AlereliELL.
I hare a little notghbor,
A red.chooked boy of five
With eerie of gold about his head
And every limb alive,
He 1155 11 darting Aster,
A girl of yenta twine nine,
Coon 401,050 11 OC lie meek thole feeds
The tooth of swift decline.
7 saw my little neighbor.
Jute oro the summer's elose.
Go 89and down the garden walks
With llgIlbly tripping loos.
lio Spied The at any window,
And in his gentle tone
Called me to aid him fable task,
For he Wee itit (110110.
And in his tiny fingers
Were skeine of silken thread,
TangIcel and twisted in hie }mete;
And thus my neighbor said;
"Oh, pleasio, bond clown the branches,
I am so alert, you lotow ;
Fast
ast tomtit their tiny tips
Out, of my roach they go.
"Hymn. will hold the bratiohos
For ,flea IttiSe bit,
Then 10,10 tie Lhasa threads around
Each loaf and fasten it,"
"But why, my little neighbor,
Must son the loaves tio fast 1"
Then came a quiver to his Bp,
Ms eyes wore downward oast.
"Because -because Moyne saying
That when the Ione es 0111311 11311,
My sister dear, my Clementine,
Must go and 1018180 115 all,
"7 want, to tie the loaves on
so tight and firm that eci
They cannot fall -and then, perhaps,
She will not have to go.'
Why The Bird Didn't Talk.
Mrs, Clamwhopper, an eleganbly.dressed
lady, followed by it servant in livery bear.
ing a cage in Which there was a 1)I0011 Parrot,
entered the establishment of a bird timeline,
"1 bought this bird of you six months
ago end he hasn't spoken 11 word yea
%V11011 I boughe him you told 10e 110 would
repeat every word he heard," saki the lady
indignantly.
" Well, 1 my so yet, Ho will repeat,
evory word he hears," replied the denier
ealinly,
Bet he doesn't opeak a single vord."
" Thet'a became he am% hoar a single
word, life le as deaf as a post. You forgot
to ask ino if he otaild hoar, and I forgot, to
mention it, My motto Is Honesty 80 tho
best policy.' kerning ma'am,"
Airs. Clatnwhopper loft the place suffer-
ing from rage,
But few of the old homes were spared
by Sherman these are uniformly science,
two storied flat-ronfed buildings, with pies.
zas, supported by lofty pillars on tour
sides. The leucite, drives, etc., are stately,
nnd at the rear are negro huts consisting of
ona room, usnatly 141011001 a window, and
ranging in uumber from two to two dozen.
Most of the fratne houses are built above a
space of about six feet from the ground,
probably to make them cooler. Cotton,
sweet potatoes, gubers, ete., in the fields
impresen stranger curiously. Htmdreds of
hales of uotton aro arranged in front of
store houses in the fall, drawn there by
patient oxen ; the process of ginning cot.
ton is interesting; the seeds aro. need as
food for cattle, or mixed with turpentine
for kindling. Soft ooal is used for fuel, aud
many blame it for 1 ho prevalence of weak
eyes among Soothern people.
About a mile from Marietta are extensive
inarble quareles, managed by a Boston gen.
Liman, who explained the 11010110 0101)08 of
preparation of the marble for neefel and or-
namental purposes, and showed specimens
of white, pink, green, 10010e11 and onyr
marble abundant in Georgia. Ten miles
farther is Stone Mouetain ; from it is guar. Oareful Husband,
ried a durable grey stone, of whioh the Friend (a(ter tea) -Your little wife is a
mountain is wholly formed. Itis being brilliantly handsome woman. I should
used in Atlanta for paving mill giving great think you'd be jealous 01 1,0)'.
satisfaction. The residents of Atlanta re• Host (eonfideutially)-To tell the truth,
gret having brought the stone, of Wiliell Simpkins' amt I never invite anybody
the Capitol be built, from Ohio, whee they liere that5017 Bane womem would take a,
had, so hoar at hand, a mountain of stone fg,n6y 00,
much superior to it.
_-
_Marietta nestles 01 the foot �f Kennesaw English trout appear to be getting on
liountitin which was tho seem of a deeper fairly well in Australien \vetoes, but ibis
ate Mail& between Cleyburne and Sber- admitted they are Something wanting in the
men, .A grand army In our own party, matter of flavor, and it. has occurred to the
gave os &graphic description of his last vial; Ballarat Fish Aoolitnatisation Society that
there. Oleyburee held the top, well beret- this is because they are pining for their
ended by ootton (through which hub favorite food, the Alay-fly. Unfortunately,
lets will not pass) when the Union as there are no alegalliee in the colony, it
sold'ors bogan to mareh up the sides, has not been foetid possible to indulge them
not sere whether tho =federates were with Otis dainty, hilt it has boon gravely
there a not. 111 death like stillness proposed to import and oneouragethe May.
those bravo mon went, directly under fire, fly 1.0 i»orease and multiply in Autitralicz,
atialggling with the terror that oomes with With the ultimate view of making the linear
lineettainty. .As the silo:too continued the of Australian trout &Wake:dory to commis.
horror geew more and more intense ; up, sours. A correspondence on the eubjece hos
up they climbed praying for anything to taken place between tho Agent General and
brook the drond suepense, until they 1,013011- tho English Inspeotors of Fisheries, who
ea the top. Then Clleybdrne gave tho have Melted Mr, William Senior and Me.
n
40101180 00 he reached a familiar bend, There THE POETS' CORNER
he had dropped a halter and leaving his
eompanionit to regain it, he ettine face to
face with it Inottetted confederate soldier, Overworked.
11001 dre.w 1,ein .and .hkared aghast at Ilia I 11) with die lard. in the early Morning-
enelny 1 both feit. the tint in peril very dear. elle de esti tap glom; like a preeloue gem;
Then the Southerner hazarded the remark Beton
.fittlMite:in thrZe °slcy are dawniinte.
"elay, Yank, we two can't settle this ).2U,1V111,VH1:rgt,i4All,,b%Ittt ,
Let's out." To whieli his antagonist heart-
y aglow , and the two brave warriors
turned etil and galloped off,
A 'possum tient is a very interesting
81)11011 111 the Hoed'. A gay party of about,
fifty young people mat, to the womb three
She must not linger, elle meet not wait ;
For words they are sharp and looks they are
Aro what the inert glve when the 1(10010 aro
lute.
surly,
Oh glorlotie colon: the 0181815 010 turning
1 g
11 1 ea aWay one 101 ight moonlight night on a ci.gweaoruoldbol look twee hills and tree ;
Minting.expedition, Two of the piety being tl diehee, and there is the Mere-
noviees In the saddle, Wel'o 1)17e11 Ds a result. Thrkee things a'wurs meet yield to those,
of thew importunities for gent horst 8, two The world to 1111011 4000? the wine or beauty,
of the Meet remarkable equine specimens 13,12f.'tilgintvionc4i1,311e.
00.75, 1l4(0141,11 tor (0111'—
extant. Long-neeked anti shaggy, with NegleeZed work is committed tan. .
bodies that looked as though they had been
sitretched over barrel-hoope, and with a The day grows hot, and her bands grow weary
eardonie cast of countenance, they eer. h,„,o,u„,i; 0„0,0„) )iso hund,
- ,,i,„„„,,
taints/ did not inspire their timid riders 1.(gi,Z;
with confidence, Once mounted, however, it The 111)07 180(1 in the Itay-llold working,
was impossible to doubt their quietnem. If they taw her sit Ling with idle hand,
They prOcceded at the roar of the party a tvou,,Id dank her lazy, and call her shirking,
dreary procession of two, moving at It re- Arto silo never could melte 1.1(010 1111001'
Mend,
4101181y slow rate, and frequently
etood, with quiet dignity, in the Thee do not know that the heart within hee
road buried in utmost meditation. Trungere for belle 84' and things sublime.
The idiots too seemed to have a deep reLounlyelorwdtkiat they want their dinner,
seated yearning to rub their riders 01)131081
oonvenle»t fences along the way. Finally
their destination was reached but the hopes
that some one would mistake the matchless
steeds for thc 'poesonts and shoot them were
itot realized. The bright moonlight and
the blazing pine torches lighting up the
the bright costumes and fair girlish faces,
the serenity of the still forestand the black
faces of the servants in the bask -ground,
formed a picture long to be remembered.
Well, we didn't catch any 'possoms you
know, but we gathered oh 1 loads of
81111800119, 1800111(180, bezel nuts, pecans aud chinqua-
pins, and bad a charming time the coun-
try -house of our hostess.
It was rumored that 'possoms hung by
their tails, in great numbers, from the trees,
but they evidently had other engagements
that night. We enjoyed eating their favor-
ite food, however,-persialtnons-whieh
grow wild in great qeantities, are about the
eize of orab-apples and quite as sweet as
honey. A Penalty.
PBESONAL,
11. 10 not generally known that Edison re,
calved in One instance a fee of $10,006 for ale
qpielon 180 131) electrical 0101)0) 1, He wee em-
ployed by the company organized to bore
the Niagara power Mattel to examine the
lrolai
ground, Btunion lYbane, byaAnnci
i‘ean
praotioability of the work. He reeeived the
foe named. Other expo ts from verbena
parts 0( 010 world were oleo consulted, and
there was concentrated upon tho plane an
amount, of expert knowledge much De hal
rarely been ineolicel for any one undertak-
ing,
Mr. James Nal toils of a lady in Come
whohas bequeathed her hole fortune to the
editor of an Italian newspaper, " the
perusal of whieh has given her many heppy
hours." Mr. Payn who in not, the editor of,
arty newapaper, is yet generoas enough to'
say that, he hopes this latly's example will
be followed. It is now reported, huvrovor,,
that the Italian editor has refused Ix, avail
himself 01 0180 windfall, mini has distribut-
ed the legacy among varisme eloctitable in-
stitutions. It isnow Mr. Payn'm Nee, and
he ecmes forward to say 1 hat he dam noti
believe in this report ebout the ivied um of
the Italian editor.
Arabi Pash ja the famous and unfortunate
And after the sweeping and cluirning and bak" leader of the Egyptian insurrection 01 IRS.
And dinner
dl' -hes aro all mit by, sinee 1882 an exile in the island of Ceylon,.
Silo 0010 81111 ..ows, though 1150 1108(0 is trollies, is to come into public 11,15 again soon as'
1111 time for supeer and "chores" draw nigh. i an advertisement of a brand of teon ffe ig
Men bole; at willed meet look like others, allowed to do pretty much as he likee ho
Sho "nye es she patches their frocks and
:(1110:1:10hen'o. 4einore then hcce her neighbor;
Por the world is entek to eenanre mothers
For the least neglect of their eldldron's
Ber hesitant] tames from the field of lithor,
11' give; no praisewn
to hi; en, wife
Shire ;
"fis the Int of ell in country life
But after the strife and weary tussle
1Vhon life is done, anti she lies at rest.
The nation's brain rind heart and mimeo-
Bersone and daughters -shall call her blest.
And I think the eweerest (01711( 1(01800,
The rarest bliss of eternal life,
And tile fairest crown of all will be given
'Unto the wayworn.farmer's wife.
BMA Witsreunt Witeo1c.
Imo great problem which the South has
to solve is, of mune, the Raee Question,
and n mighty one it is. The feeliug be-
tween the North and South regarding the
Negroes still exists, and will probably con-
tinue to for generations. The difference in
their attitude seems to be that the North
has little patience with the individual, but
seeks to elevate 010 11800, vrhile the South
feels kindly toward the individual bet de-
spises the race. Northern philanthropists
havo established colored schools in Atlanta,
and other large cities, very superior to the
common schools, owing to the fact that the
Georgia teachers have not tha benefit of
normal schools. Naturelly, the war left
the South in such a depleted condition
finanaielly that all its energies have boeu
spent in recuperating. Thus the colored
population has not received that attention
which tho North rather unjustly cousiders
requisite. Cleverness among the Negroes
is the exception rather than the rule and
few "Toussaint L'Overtnre's" exist. Up to
a certain age their progress hi school is
g ad but thew physical growth far out die.
tames their mental developtiniut. Many con-
tend diet ednoation is ruining the Negroes,
and in many instances this seems true
though this transition period uould only be
expected from their condition d uri ag slavery
and war. When acquisition of personal prop-
erty 4005 resteleted, can they lm other than
shiftlees ; when for generations, immorality
wee epuouraged, or et beet impueished, can
their ideas of virtue he anything 1,110 hazy 7
If schools were established for tile purr.se
of teaching them cleauliness, ethics and
thorongliness ill dotnes tic economy, and the
stioceeding generations permitted hteraty
education they will protably develop into 10
sturdy, honest, relieblepopnlation thatoen
be looked for only in the yraret to come,
" The proper study of 111041k11141 ill 1111111 "
hes ct deeper significance than we sometimes
voltage, end 'certainly ono becomes 115115017
into, este(' in these people though 11111011 of
the rtenance Wes away through constant
intercourse with them. There is a ludicrous
aolemnity about their shining faces and
tender oyes which is entirely upsetting to
one's gravity. At times they remind une
of sphynxs, they look so 101138 and say noth-
ing. Their stales are never'like Hamlet's
false friends " tient for," but overspread
their foams with amazing broadness upon
the slightest provocation. Topsy's naivette
and cutenees is frequently met with,
while her proclivities for pilfering are
the most general oharaoteristios, as a sadly
depleted wardrobe usually testifies to
those unwary enough to leave germents
or ornaments unlocked. The height
of a colored girl's ambition is to have
straight hair. For this purpose elle divides
her hear into tiey squares and braids each
separate wisp of wool intuit wee tail. When
these braids are unloosed the hair stands
ont, fearfully and wonderfully, but the
look of supreme satiefaction on the owner's
face, assures the observer that to some, at
least, life 10 40001!) living.
They are at, thnes intensely religions and
occasionally give rather astoniehing versione
of Bible stories. Not long since it negro
preacher told his people that "De man
Moses was de chosen nistrumental ob de
Lad," A friend one day encouraged him
to continuo his preaching faithfully, by
quoting the text "God is no respecter of
persons," The black faee lighted up with
the ready smile he answered, "Dat's jos'
whet I'm allus took outhi dot, tex'-dat
God on a 'speetable pusson."
The reel: is veined with gold, and the 'diver
shin oe,
And the name of the coal aro black in the
nether mines,
And the capper gleams like a kindled fit rnace
spark,
And
00 110107 load Is dull and cold 00(0 dark;
Yet for all the black 5( 0110 coal and the gloom
of the lead,
Do they weep to bo copper or silver or gold. in-
stead/
'rho tenet reek ho a garden fair and tall,
And the daisies creep in the grass at the foot
of all,
And the yellow sunflower stares at the yellow
sun,
But the trains; yellow trefoils earthward
run ;
Yet for 011 1110 Mlles are high and the daisies
aro low,
None of them crleth, "Why hest Thou made
me so?"
Like flowers of air 1110 kingbirde flash and fly,
They have dipt their wings in tho blue of tho
summer sky,
But tho dusky lark that made oarthy nest
Most carry away its eolor upon her breaet ;
Yet (01 0)1 tho fenthers are brawn or tho bath -
ere are bright,
None of them 01,11,, "Clad (loth not, work
aright."
And men spring up in their place, and a golden
crown
Metes a royal head, for king and clown
Rhos and paee through ilfe their eoveral ware
And this shall be born for toll and this for
praise:
Yet of every soul in every clOViallS 10,
There 0.14011" content, theta is none 111181 8(01)"
muse .ten.
MmenM
on agaelne.
Why D oBoys Throw Stones?
AS soon as a boy ie old enough to be
trusted out ef doors by himself he begins
to throw stones.
He takes to it as natively as a cluck
takes to water,
lie throws them lit anything and every-
thing which oilers though, of course, he
has his preferences,
mm
Broad fee, and shade trees, and pumps,
and telegraph poles will do when there is
nothing better ; but ho dotes on eats, and
lame clogs, and horses turned out on the
common to eat gran and die ; and school-
houses, and unoccupied buildings of any
description, are his especial delight.
He likes to break panes ef glass, and to
knock thu insulators off the telegraph poles,
and to make that white horse of old Robin.
son's go on three legs ; and if he can bit the
weathercock on anybody's barn he is in
ecstasy .And sehy ? We think nobody
anows.
Girls never throw stones. We have
watebed scores of them together, and we
11318011 SW one of them throw 18 stone. Boys
say it is ftin to do so, end it it is fun for
them, telly is ituot fun tor the girls ?
In the country, where space is plentior
than anything else, throwing stones is the
principal amusement which offers itself to
our young masculine friends. Everything
animate and inanimate, has to suffer. Mine
trees and flower beds -Ilene, pigs, cows,
horses, sheep, eats, dogs, birds and birds'
nests, all come in for their share. We
/levee yet 5010 a boy attempt to drive a oolv
anywhere without stoning her, and We
110000 expect to, iVe have given up the
fond hope,
And we do believe most of the young
reseals would seine their own grandinether
if nothing better offered and they were sure
it would never be found out.
We have asked it good many youngsters of
our acquaintance the question whit))) heads
this netiole, and nine -tenths of them have
very satisfactorily assumed, "1 demo 1"
while the remainder have told us "It was
melt fun I"
When a boy is going to throw a atone,
considerable preparation is neeessary. He
selects his missile as carefully as Wean told
did David in that little duel of his tvith
Goliath, and having satisfied himself that it
is just what he requires -he sets his hat
well back on his head, braces himself -left
leg forward like the pitcher of a base ball
elmb-dropsbis under jaw- flings his right
hand well behind hie back and throws I
When 111 18 wen done yon will notice that
the little fellow ahnost turns his jacket
Made out, ho is se a.nimated, and the very
buttons on his trousers, and the strings to
hie shoes, seem to brietle with excitement.
If he has made a shot he slaps his knee
and eltucklesi end maybe throws up hisha.t ;
told if he sees his Stluday•schtMl 1.06011000M -
int! about that time ho picks up his slate,
and tries to whistle a mild tune, and his
00111104 schoolboy fam looke so intiooent
and so guileless that you refrain from ask•
ing him who throw the stone that heel:a
that pone of glass in your oilloo window -
fooling thatibm tvould bo an insult to his
moral rectitud'
e and that it ?night wound
ardor and 111103' they WN Oshot (town by hundrAdrews to give them the benefit of their
eds. his sensitive spirit.-fgete Thorn,
Bet in the cud Sherman was suet:wistful and advice. Mr, 1 ryor, however, confesses to
ore long tho famous signiii " Rola the mmt." 11011610 whether the essentially ephemeral
needled With fiery dietinetness to the Union tenure o' the "feast " afforded by 4.11e ris. When yon see a, women meekly obey her
troops 00 Ahem Heights, eight miles die. hoz a the May•fly. " enn have any lasting hashand yea can bo sore of ono or two
tank elites oil the Omit Limc cool fiat or of tbe things -she is either afraid 01 111111 or is
An amusing recollection canto to the whioli partake of it, working hint 101 11 now bonnet,
Ceylon, and he recently accepted en offer
of $5,000 0 yciar stlary to talco nominal
charge of a tea garden in the ishiptl. Arabi
k»ows nothing of tea grewing, and
it is fully understood that his p et is to be
a sinecure, but t he owner of the plantation
00190,110 0,, map great prohts In Egypt emel
England and elsewhere feaM the sale of
genuine warranted Arabi Pasha -grown tea.
Adolphe de la, Bouemontere, a Royalist.
left two million franca to a nephew and
cousin, passing over his 80 -year-old brother
because he was a Republican. Soon after
the legatees took posseeeion a 11040 11111 un-
impeachable in orthography, was distioverea
leaving all the money to the brother. Thin
effected a transfer of the properly. This
will had been brought to the broil er Itsc a,
notary named Guyard, who obtained a prom-
ise that he should receive half the for-
tune. It had been forged by a lithographer
named Charpontier, who from a rams oE
Boussioniere's letters had mime all notices-
ary words and transposed the writing open
a new paper. Nothing would have been
discovered had not Guyard, being greedy
for some more money, begun to write
anonymous blaok-mailing letters to the
brother, who innocently showed them to the
police. 'The case wag inveetiguted and the
will discove:ed to be 18 forgery. The two
(ninth:as were senteneed to meson kw toe
years, and the brother, who Wag'in faea,
wholly guiltless, was tterely forced Eh%
the property batik to its rightful owners,
Queen Victoria is now seventy-three
years old anti has reigned fifty-five years.
Her excellent, 1( 1100 robust, 'health givers
every promise chat aha will roun11 out the
century as Q,neen and Empress. The story
of the scene when the news war, brought her
01 110)' accession to the throne is interest-
ing. The King died at Wilidecir, and mes-
sengers were at once destine:lied to Ken-
sington to info, (0 her of the event. It was
midnight, when the sleeping Queen was
awakened, and she came at once into the
room to meet the messengers attired, a,
white nigbt.gown,with a shltWI 11110411(1 11)18011'
her shoulders, her night-cap off, arid her
feet in slippers. She was then 14 slezitims
girl, pale but pretty. Two years leter she
became the bride of Prince Albert,
William H. Vanderbilt, who died butt
mouth, 4100 (1(11 t blest ecia of Cornellae Vey-
derbilt, and Mid bet recently cencpteteci
his twenty-first year. At Yale Ctelege„,
where lie was a sande:it 21, Ifgh eten
anti where he would have gradnated in MIX,
Ice had won a deserved Isspalatity. Hearti-
ly intereated in college ethic M, hie work
in rowing and on the polo 1.1 v Wet/ •
k1104011, Alla ill hie 801111a111A 1,1' he bad:
given $5000 towards the equip:teal of the
new gynmasiurn at, Yale, lie woo the
favorite grandson of the first !tug B.
Vanderbilt, who lab him a legacy of $1,-
000,000, to be paid to him upon the o10t91e.'
tion of his thirtieth year, 11010 1110 interne of
which ho was to receive after attaining hie
majority.
ODDS A,ND ENDS,
--
.A. ton of gold is worth $1100,000:
Music, type was invented in 1502.
New York has 1,157 millionaires.
Thiele Sam pays the railroads 13:32,000,000
a year for carrying the mails.
Eight hundred negroes have been lynch-
ocl in the South in the last tea years.
Since the Franno-Prussian war teermany
has opent $2,200,000,000 on Ler army aria
navy.
The hardest known wood is coons wood.
It turns the edge of any ax, however well
t(TmhPe"c7(1.
11glish letter -carrier hires a cal>
when he finds more than thirty•five pounda
on his route.
Au Afrieen missionary reports that he
has been able to make almost all his jour-
neyings on his blayole.
Lightning flashed into an eastern Fever
sylvemin. mina the other day and sheekeit
acno.
11811 wbelow the 4000 1,200 feet belothe sur-
faThe necktie is to be added to the manta,
Con outfit of the American soldier 311
to be of black silk, and about 20,000 :will
be ordered at the start.
18 10 said that the Eskimo alphabet line
only five characters ; that the language Rea
is not very difficult, but 18, 18 the ouly 0.1411
the Eskimo ever learns,
It is postible to beoome a. prime in Italy
by the payment of $1:3,000 In fees and other
costs. The title of duke may be had for
$10,000 and that of baron for $4,000.
The latoat fad in the line of collecting. ler.
that of colored posters -the bills tail wino)»
the enterprising poster adorns bone& artff
faeces and dead walls about town.
In India there are 11a0,000 acres under tea
oultivation, only 11,000 acres of whiell mae
within the tropics, the renminder being in
medium India. There are 260,000 emit
'bolted to tea in Ceylon.
Not so very. long ago a poverty..strieken.
old matt died in a wretched 1,1,111 nt Atria,
Ile lutd once been wealthy, but around MIA
at the last was bob a mighty heap of corke,,
each inscribed with the dete of its draeviegt
Relies ail, reckless by.gone ; wrooks„ of a
squandered fortune.
Tho Queen of Italy, came one of the most,
beautiful girls in the kingdom, is now onset
llre 11011(140M/3SL W0111011. She is bright and
witty in conversation, and learned, with a
leaning toward bluestookingistn, but with..
out podan t ry. She is universally :cantina
and loved by her subjects, and the attach-
ment /Ling Humbert hon foe her is a rare,
example of oonjugal devotion in 0 royal
household,