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Railways in Georgia.


Some of the railways down this way
are still little shaky The old Jerk
water line is espec ally loose in the
Joints. A commercial traveller who
came in yesterday relates little experi-
enee while bounding over that road.
I'VE were whooping along" he said,
lat the rate of about seven miles an
hour and the old train was weaving ter
ribIy. | expected every minute to see
my bones protruding through my skin.
Passengers were rolling from one end of
the car to the other. | held on like
grim death to the arms of my seat.
Presently We settled down to quiet run
ning-at least could keep my hat on
and my teeth didn't chatter. The con-
ductor was in hail ng distance. / look
ed up with ghastly smile. wishing to
appear cheerful, and said: We are go
ing little smoother. see. Yes, said
the conductor, were off the track
now. 0glethorpe (Ga.) CastaSet.
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The Last DAYS of slavery.

Recurring to the landing of the Wan
derer, the last American slave-ship, at
Jekyll's Island on our coast in 1854,
Judge Henry Tompkins says: Il met
an old negro in Chatham county.
where was holding court, who was
brought over on the Wanderer. He
said TO me: Dee got us wild lasses. Dee
Glib us lasses, we lick um up. Dee spill
um on plank-we Grail up ee plank and
lick um lasses lack ee toll hog with
CON- Which goes to show that even in
its primitive shape taffy is very taking"
Judge Tompkins, continuing the
casual conversation. said: IT would be
interesting to know if any southern
slaves We're spirited away over to Cuba
at the close of the war or thereabOut
and sold in Cuban markets There was
some talk of it at the time. \ few deter
mined men might have easily punched
a hundred negroes on the Florida coast
and shipped over in sailing vessels to
where each slave would have brought
good prices in gold.
Il know man" he went on to say,
''who actually saw a few years since the
slaves in the possession of Tiger-Tail,
the Seminole Chief, who lives in the
Florida swamps. 1t was Judge Faulk-
ner of New York. He and a party of
friends were in an unexplored lake one
day, when they saw a long dugout,
holding four Indians and three negroes,
issue from an inlet and skirt along the
lake. The negroes were rowing, and
the Indians lying lazily on skins, which
they were carrying to market. They
accosted the chief, who told them frank
ly they were his 'niggers. He was told
with particularly the story of emanci-
patton. He replied:
Ugh, Injnn nigger no freen and,
motioning to his slaves, they bended to
the oars, and the dugout glided into an
other inlet and was lost to view.
Tiger-Taii seems 10 BE- quite an origi-
nal old Seminole. A sewing-machine
agent drifted into his dominion one day
and SET up machine III Figer-Tail 5
tent The old chief, wlh great deliber-
alton. watched him put il through its
PAGES. He then aroS., brushed the agent
one side, and seating himself. adjusted
his feet in the II adIe. He started the
wheel and found ths,t lie could make it
go. He sewed up on. piece OF cloth and
down another and then gravely and
critically examined h;- work. At last
he appeared to bp II i~li"d that il was
all right. He then turned quietly to
his wives. who had Watched theproeeed-
ings with interest. and kicked them,
one after the other. out Of his tent. -
atlanta (Gd.) Constitution.
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A False Economy.

Miss Perkins. in her breach-of- promise
case with Lucky Baldwin, testified that
he paid her $50 for single kiss. This
recalls a circumstance in Mr.. Baldwin 5
career that shows how a false economy.
brought so much trouble on his expert
enced head.
About the time Baldwin got into his
Perkins trouble the advertising agentiof
the APpeal called upon him al The TAI
lac House. Lake Tahoe, and solicited
the advertisement of the summer-resort.
Mr. Baldwin was anxious to insert the
advertisement, for which the agent
asked $50. Mr.. Baldwin refused 10 give
more than 50, and thus negotiations
were discontinued and the advertisement
not accepted.
In few days the old fellow went
down to Los Angeles and offered this
woman $50 for a kiss. Meanwhile his
business was neglected at the hotel, and
it was known by reason Of an INSULT
ency Of advertising, and. sick of the
business, he leased it TO another party.
There is no doubt that Mr.. Baldwin
has paid out Il great many $50 for kiss
es, and, had he spent the same amount
IN advertising the merits of his business
and hedged on the rosy lips of the girls,
his hotel would have been a household
word wherever the English language is
spoken.
We do not claim that man must
eschew the fair sex entirely and stop
kissing pretty girls Far from it; but,
if Baldwin had divided the thing up
and paid 50 for the kisses and SIS for
the advertising. he would doubtless
have secured about as much kissing,
and also laid up vast amount of ad-
vertising for 4 rainy day.
A man who is well advertised does
not have to pay out much money for
kisses, for everybody knows that women
flock about a well-known man like flies
around nolaSses barrel. while an OBJ
scure individual is compelled to break
himself to get any recognition.
We hate to see man practicing this
ridiculous, false economy with women
and newspapers. Ii Baldwin had spent
more on the press and less on that Per-
kins woman she would not have the
money to attack him in the courts, and
the press would have been defending
his character from calumny.
1t is indeed sad, sad world when a
man gets to be as old as Lucky Bald
win and pays out money to designing
women that ought to go into the shan-
nels of newspaper enterprise and assist
in building up the growing and mighty
west - Carson Np9. \ JlDeOy
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the lady had not made any statement ~ her
age with which she could be confronted Nor
did his preparation ef impending aheurCiits
stop here Fully resolved &c tad been to
propose TO TIE widow an, ed as he had
felt that she both knew hiS in-ention and fay-
orabsy regarded it. he quite fcrgot IN his
hurry of mind that be bad never addrsssed
her in the way of marriage So he actually
came before her in the posture of a betrayed
suitor and. as viii be seen. he us.sd language
proper only to that particular part in the hu
man comedy.
But this Is leaping from chapter 10 chapter.
As we close this one let uS simply mark our
paTson stepping out of his carriage at MrS
Barbara Temples door. His breath Is hGr
riesi. his face Is rel, his manner Is disordered
And we may be sure that these outward
marks Of confusion and annoyance convey
only very inadequate picture of the state of
his reasoning faculties These were. indeed
in that STATE OF riot and darkness which in
most casss Is the Acknowledged preliminary
To bedlaEn
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CHAPTER Ill
THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY.


That week everybody called upon the Tenn
pies. The universal impression was favor
able, and we all rejoiced over so vivacious an
addition to our society, and already the ques-
ton was flying from lip to lip among the
lacsies: Whom will the Misses Temple
ton and education the new comers would
stand high amongst us was not doubted for a
moment, while their easy fortune was pro
claimed by their dress, the furniture of th eir
house and their manner of life generally
Each successive visitor had something new to
tell. One remarked how finely the furniture
and ornaments were fancied Another
marked the glories of the harp and the piano.
"1he pictures are lovely said third; mot a
poor one on the wallis" And carpets, and oil
cloths and the coloring of the walls came in for
commentator in due course. All of us were
delighted with the lively conversation of the
girls, and we maryeled unanimously at Mrs.
Temples wide knowledge of the world and
the briskness with which she uttered it. Nor
was one of these praises undeserved. The
drawing room of the Temples was a charm
ing contrast TO most of those around. Ease,
cultivation. livelineSs. whatever is choicest III
social intercourse, seemed to pervade the very
air and you felt as you entered the room that
you had passed into region where refine
unent reigned supreme. The Temples were,
somehow, above us all We felt it, and with
increasing diffidence, as we realize- our in
feriority, was the question asked, HWhom
will the Misses Temple marryTr
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But old Sparkling, who was our shrewdest
head by long way. hearing this question
asked at Miss Whiffin's house one afternoon,
remarked, with a comieal face to fix our at
tenfion, that we had not disposed of the
mother yet. Surprising that 80 natural a
thought had not suggested itself before. Mrs
Temple, as we understood, had been married
very early, and our most competent female
critics declared that she could not be more
than forty-fve, or, rather, should say, they
put it that she could not be less. We had
several widows and spinsters of ripe years,
and these agreed that forty five was still a
marrying age; indeed, some Of the ladies de
ciared that ii was the best time of all
an opinion in which Sparkling con-
CURED with much vehemence and solem-
nifty, only the old fellow was caught
winking slyly at . confidential friend
Immediately after, which aroused some sus-
picion. That Mrs. Barbara Temple might be
mxrried before any Of her daughters, that
sic was yet an attractive and marrying
-soman, we all admitted There was that in
ner manner with men which told that she had
not yet abandoned either the hope or the
methods Of conquest; and It was plain to Us
all that less likely women are married every
day Of the year Besides, the fortune was
herEa absolutely-as We had discovered ON
undoubted testimony, and since the fortune
could not be less than three thousands year,
h-<Ar m that for the uresant Il was
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@Ah, Mrs. Temple, he said one day, wnen
he was getting hot, as the children say In
their hide-and-s7ek game. Il have but one
child-a son, dear good fellow, away in
Australia ] always longed for daughters.
Whereupon Mrs. Barbara Temple turned
fun upon him one Of her keen looks which
said: 4 understand bat good hurnored
look all the time; and then she broke into
little bland laugh and made herself more
comfortable IN her seat, for they were driv-
ing. The rector was Just going to propose
then and there; but il happened that the car
riage, speeding down the dusty road, met the
ourate, who was footing it home from some
remote part Of the parish, where be had been
visiting a sick old woman. He signaled the
carriage 70 stop and addressed the rector:
odd SpearInan is dying he said.
Poor Hannah SpearInanl- the rector rs
piled, shaking his head 4 have known her
many years Poor Hannah Spearman.r
Polly" the curate reularked-~Polly
Spearnan."
~Of course, it Is Polly the rector rejoined
IN visiting about a parish like lnine'-he
turned to Mrs. Temple-"one's head gets so
fun Of Pollies and SallieS and Billies that one
is apt to take the name that comes first.
am sorry for poor Han-Polly But what
can you do in e case of natural decav~
1t IS not natural decay the curate
answered, with waggish dryness in his
manner. ~She fell down stairs
~To be sure she fell down stairs" little Mr.
Brent cried, reproving his faulty memory by
a gesture of his gloved hand. How came
TO confo1Ind the two-com pIGiafsf7
Perhaps because you are suffering from a
third, reto Tted the curate. He loved a joke
and had before this broken q Jest on his own
bishop. And our rector was a tempting OBJ
ject. being not apt To take ofFense, and not
one TO inspire great respect or fear.
The carriage drove on; but for once little
Mr.. Brent was downright angry,
Rather an unpertinent speech, he said,
glancing difiidently at Mrs Temple.
~Impertinent,' cried easy-humored Mrs
Temple Nothing of the sort
~Milhgan has no sense Of propriety."
She gave little laugh.
Il ike Mr. AIiligan.
At this Mr. Brent took heart, changed his
view of the matter, reddened with pleasure,
and gave himself up to laughter, which lasted
until the tears We're chasing each other down
his rosy checks. But somehow the proposal
was not made that day.
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Mrs. Temple, not her daughters, who was
likely TO be the prize IN our next matrimonial
race. So having settled this in our minds
we proceeded Ike rational beings TO choose a
husband for the animated widow: and with
Ecarcelv a diSSentient opinion. we came to
the conclusion that our rector the Rev An
thony Brent, would be the happy man. We
We're not altogether wrong in thiS conjecture,
as my story shall disclose. But Mr. Brent
does not emerge on our historic page at
present.
Let me tell you here that, IN the course of a
long life. have never met a woman who
could match Mrs. Barbara Temple. Cleverer
women, handsomer women, wittier women
have met in scores; but the secret Of Mrs.
Barbara Temple was her utter and hearty
1--we of this present world OF this present
world she was | believe, the sincerest and
most unquestioning worshiper that ever lived
She put no strain upon herself TO become what
she was; she quenched no aspiration and re
pressed no misgiving. Worldliness was the
simple honest expression OF her natural dis
position and her Judgment on affairs Never
religious degotee was 50 completely inclosed
in creed as she. For, indeed. it was creed,
and life, too, and Mrs. Barbara Temple
loved the world Just as a flower loves sunlight;
she obeyed law of her own nature. But the
unquestioning faith in the power of the
world to satisfy every want; the absence Of
suspicion that there could be any higher
motive in life, or, indeed, any other motive
at ALL aad the cheerfulness and slacrity with
which she followed out her convictions
made her of necessity vigorous and original
character. All that makes what such people
call "the world" she longed for and priced.
Accomplishments, money, taste, health, the
good opinion of society, these and a thous-
and kindred matters, she regarded as sever
ally constituents of happiness, to be sought
with the utmost solicitude every hour Of the
day. She was grateful to the world for
being what it was TO her-an ever-running
fountain of desire or pleasure.
Have L sufficiently sketched her fgurel
VIII a few strokes more make her a clearer
image in your minds eve! She was short, as
/ have said, trinity built, perhaps a trifie too
stout, but that might be disputed Her nose
was rather large, but finely cut, like her sec
ond daughters, and she dressed her brown
hair in short ringlets, which well suited the
style of her face. Her color was good and
high enough to make people ask questions,
and her eyebrows were not free from slls-
picious traces of making up. Her dress was
always rich and admirably suited to her
figure and years; for she was careful to look
full forty-five She avoided all absurd affec-
tation of youth, and although a kind Of
sprightly dancing step, which she often feb
into, might have seemed rather fault in this
direction, most Of us considered this gait Moth
ing but surplus vitality acting on a frame so
light and plump that it seemed made to skip,
or bound like g ball.
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LET Us STAND

" ~
up save rs age or weakness excuses us.
Seated in au easy pew we cannot do this
duty half so well as when, upright, we
throw our whole body Into it. Let our
song be like an acelamation OF victory.
You have right to sing Do not sur
render your prerogatlve.
We want TO rouse all our families upon
this subject. We want each family of
our congregation to be q singing school.
Childish petulance, obduracy and intract
ability would be soothed if we had more
singing in the household, and then our
little ones wo I'D be prepared for the
great congregation on Sabbath day.
their voices uniting with our voices in
the praises of the Lord. After a shower
there are sc )res OF streams that come
down the mountain side with voices
ripping ana silvery, pouring into one
river, and then rolling in united strength
to the sea. 81 | would have all the
families in my church send forth the
voice of prayer and praise, pouring il
into the great tide of public worship
that rolls on and on to empty into the
great, wide heart of God. Never can
We have our church sing as it ought
until our families sing as they ought.
There will be great revolution on
this subject in all our churches. God
will come down by his spirit and rouse
up the old hymns and tunes that have
uoG been more than bali awake since the
time of our grandfathers. The silent
pews in the church will break forth into
music, and when the conductor takes
his place on the Sabbath day, there will
A 4 -
the harmony. Ny Christian friends, if
we have no taste for this service on
earth, what will we do in heaven where
they all sing aud sing foreverf Let me
prophecy in regard to any one here who
has no delight ia the worship of heaven,
If you do not sing the praises of God on
earth I do not believe you will ever sing
them in glory. / would that our singing
today might be
LIKE rHE SATURDAY. NIGHT RsHEAR-
SAL
and might begin now by the strength
and by the help OF God, to dis
charge duty which none OF Us have
fully performed.
/ .. Let those refuse TO sig
Who never knew our God.
Bat children az the Heavenly King
should speak their joys abroad
The hill Of Zion yields
| A thousand saeres sweets.
4 Before We reach re heavealy he'is
4 Orwask the golden streets
| Then let our songs abound,
Aud every tar De dry;
w-'re marching through In manueIss greand,
10 fairer worlds on high
| Come now, clear your throats, aud gel
ready for this duty or you will nevel
hear the end of this. never shall for
get hearing Frenchman singing ths
4 Narseilies Hymn on the Champs Ei iysees
Paris, Just before the battle Of Sedan
never saw such enthusiasm before O
since, as he sang that national sir. Oh
!, how the Frenchman shouted Hav,
/ yon ever, in an English assemblage
| heard band play God save II,
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Queen?' If you have you know some
thing about the enthusiasm of a national
air. Now, tell you that these songs We
sing Sabbath by Sabbath are the Dation-
al airs Of Jesus Christ and Of the King
dom Of heaven. When CromwelPs army
went into battle, he stood at the head Of
them one day and gave out the long
metre doxology to the tune of "Old
Hundred, F" and that great host, company
by company, regiment by regiment, bat
talon by battalion, joined in the dox-
ology:
'' Praise God from whoa all blessings h0w.
Pa 81 Him ali creatures her bsiow;
Praise Him a-ove ye Heavenly host
Praise Father son and Holy Chest
And while they sung they marched.
and while they marched they fought,
and while they-fought they got the vic
tory o, men aud women If Jesus
Christ, let US g into all our conflicts
singing the praise of God, and then in
stead Of falling back, as we often do,
from defeat 70 defeat, We will be march
ing on from victory to victory
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A Virginia Lady orthe oIden Time.

But what is the Virginia lady doing
all this time? II is not hard to see.
when one thinks of the great house. the
many servants. the hospitality shown to
strangers, and the absence of towns.
She is housekeeping body. She has
to provide for her household, and as she
can not go shopping to town, she must
keep abundant store of everything she
needs. Often she must teach her chill
dren, for very likely there is no school
near, to which she can send them She
must oversee and train her servants.
and set one to spinning, and another TO
sewing; but she does not find it so easy
to have nice work done; her black slaves
are seldom skilled. and she has TO send
to England for her finer garments.
There is no doctor near at hand, and
she must tr, her hand at prescribing for
the sick on the plantation, and must
nurse white and black. In truth, the
the Virgins. lady saves the Old Domin-
ion.--Sf. Nicholas.
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There are several kinda of roots favor
able for milk producers. The English
use turnips almost exclusively. while
the Hollanders raise beets and carrots.
A judicious admixture would contribute
to healthfulness.
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BEAUTY'SSECRET
By ALAN MUIB.
BOOK ONE.

A,stAor Of a'Taaits Hardwars. Golden
Girls" Etc
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out when in the sweet words of Charles
Wesley or John Newton or Toplady, the
love of Jesus Christ was sung 10 your
s,ui, then you surrendered, as armed
castle that could not be taken by host,
sens its window to listen TO harp's
till.
Taere was a Scotch soldier dying in
New Orleans, and a Scotch minister
came in to give him the consultations Of
the Gospel The mar turned over on
his pillow and said DON'T talk to me
about religion" Then the Scotch minis
leg began to sing familiar hymn Of
Scotland that was composed by David
Dickinson, beginning with the words:
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Ry DELEGATION.

Churches have said: ..Oh, what an easy
lima We shall have. The minister will
Az the preaching and the choir will do
tha singing. AMI W. will have nothing 70
5nu And you kapw as we'll as that
~ ara are great multitude of churches
IN ali through this land where the psople
ore noi expected to sing. The whole
. wark Is done by delegation Of four or
ts;x or ten persons aud the audience are
s;ianf. In such church in Syracuse an
old elder persisted in singing, and so the
choir appointed committee 70 90 and
ssw the squire IL he would not stop.
| yon know that in great multitude OF
cb,rshes the choir are expected and de
III III The singing, and the great mass p!
~ ia people are expected to be silent, and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-11-10
Murderous Mexicans.

San ANTONIO, Texas, November O.
Hewitt Griner, one Of the most exien-
sive Tanchmen in Western Texas, was
killed last night, at Los Vicos,
Mexico, just across the river from
Delrie, Texas. Griner lived with his
family at Uralde, and rad gone over
into Mexico with several employees, 10
see about the condition OF the stock On
the ranch he owns there. Some time
ago, he had q difficulty with some
Mexicans living adjoining his hacienda,
and the natives al that time threatened
TO kill him If he again appeared in
their midst. Yesterday, the Americans
were attacked by the Mexicans and q
pitched battle ensued. GrineT'S body
was riddled with bullets and one of mis-
men was also killed. B. p. McAahon.
who was one of Griner's party, sue
ceedeJ in killing one OF the Mexicans
and the surviving Americans made
their escape TO this side under a volley
of bullets from the Winchesters of the
Mexicans. The Americans along the
border are greatly incenseG and declare
they will have vengeance.
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Areher,s untImsIy End.

LONDON, November 9-The news
papers all publish articles deploring the
untimely end Of Archer.
The Times says: "Ris pitiful death
will cause a shock of pain even to the
most callous among the multitude in
whom il is TO be feared the gambling
passion has almost eItinguished feel
ing"
The Sporting Life says: Words fail
to express our deep regret at the death
of the world-famed jockey, Archer.
We are certainithat this feeling will find
an echo in the hearts Of myriads Of
men, not only in this country, but also
in others. where his name is q house
hold word. Wherever the English
tongue is spoken Archer is q familiar
word"
The Prince Of Wales has sent tele-
gram Of coincidence to the dead jockeys
sister.