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Bat Pereival, more pTosaic than she-per-
haps more in love just then-looked at her.
and his eyes grew moist with tenderness and
delight as he gazed
Il don't laugh much, Sophy. dance badly.
! can't sing at all
An old. grabbed, awkward thing,r she
replied His face Is crosspatch. His step is
halt His notes were learned in a rookerv >
No, do what she win, she cannot make him
laugh. He is too much in love. and his gaze
makes her more serious, too. The twinkling
lights in her face pass of. She begins to give
him beam for beam, fun of earnest affec-
ton All the brook Is running deeper now,
and the lights fall ON it steadily.
~But the awkward boy loves little Sophia
more than all the world beside
Does he, trulyE'
More than all the world beside How old
the words are! How new and fresh each
lover can make them
And viii he go on loving-forever and
forever and forever.H
Forever and forever and forever
Then Sophia cried, spreading out her
arms, why are you standing over there,
stupid thing. Don't keep me waiting any
longer. Come and kiss me
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Glllsburg College and its Commence
menC.

EDITOR CLARION: Gillsburg is a
modest village in the extreme southern
portion of the State, in the old county
of Amite. 1t is town of recent growth,
a product of the demand on the part of
that cultured and liberal community for
superior educational facilities.
In 1862 Mr.. w. A. Gill, apublic spirit
ed citizen of Greensburg, La, moved
thither, and in the forest primeva1'
erected buildings where the young idea
might he taught to shoot. His two
charming and accomplished daughters,
Misses Ida and Ella. by their industry
and womanly tact, succeeded In building
up the school into a success.
In September. 1884, Mr.. w. X. Nettles,
a member of the senior class of Missls-
sippi College was elected to the chair of
Mathematics and in the February fol-
lowing, he was promoted to the Presi-
dency. In 1885 Mr.. j. I'll. Price, one of
the most brilliant of the alumni of
Mississippi College, whose graduates fill
so many positions of honor .land profit,
was elected to the chair of Mental and
Moral Philosophy. Co-education is q
feature of the College, and it is no long
er an experiment, but an assured fact
and success.
The two young professors being old
college ehums of the writer, he went
down to their commencement TO see how
his old friends were succeeding in their
laudable efforts, and he takes pleasure in
paving tribute to the efficiency of the
management and thoroughness of the in
struction. The address before the school
was delivered by Hon. Thos. r. Stock
dale. candidate for Congress from the
Sea. Coast District, in that able manner
which always charaeterizes the speeches
of this distinguished son of Mississippi.
The graduating class consisted of w.
| b. Nixon, Salutatorian, and b. ID. Sche-
| ling. yaledictorian Both young men
made speeches which were creditable
alike t. themselves and the school,
| largely free from the spread-eagle flap
doodleism of the average college gradu-
ate. The address of President Nettles
| in delivering diplomas to the graduating
class, was replete with sound advice and
was masterpiece of its kind.
The people of South Mississippi will
do wise thing to extend liberal pa
tronage to this institution.
Very respectfully,
]. w. ANDERSON.
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excepting a fairly neat figure, had not .
single natural gift Of appearance. Is not
this worth our thinking about-those OF US
women who care to please and are not
beauties bornl'
'Huis Tsa.-Every year a woman lives
the more pains she should take with her
dress
The dress of us elderly DANES" Sophia
said. laughing ought to be more of a science
than It is. How often one hears a woman Of
fifty say, %, my dressing days are pastP
When,r adds Sophia III she thought about
it, they have only well begun. At least, the
time has come when dress is more TO her than
ever. Remember. from forty to sixty-five is
a quarter Of eentury-the third of long
life 1t Is the I&riod through which the
majority Of grown-up people pass And yet
how little pains women take-how little
ACCOMPLISHMENTS be charming theni
And now, she went on, seeing l did not
speak, ~here comes my last rrle-as YETI
~F2tile Eleren.-In all things let a woman
ask what win please the men of, sense before
she asks what viii please the men OF fashion"
Il by no means intend" she added, that a
woman is not to have regard TO the opinion
of men of fashion, only she should not give
IL the urSt place. she VIII carry the men or
fashion sooner by methods that please the
men of sense than men Of sense by methods
that please men of fashion And besides,
listen to the men of fashion They always
praise woman for things which begin TO
perish at twenty i've. Even the old men Of
seventy VIII talk OF a fine girl-deucedly fine
figure i wish | could give an idea OF
Sophia's slightly wicked mimicry at this
pasSagel And they viii call a woman
rather ON the decline. when, if she is on the
decline. where and what are theyi You see,
if woman lives for the commendation Of
men Of fashion she viii, if pretty. piquant,
or what not, have a reign of ten years. But
il she remembers that she has charms of
mind and character and taste well as
charms Of figure and complexion, the men of
sense viii follow her for half a century; and
in the long run the men of fashion Viii be led
by the men of sense.
And there" Sophia cried merrily, throw
ing the paper down on the rug beside her
"there are my rules for reforming our little
world of woment7
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but on the contrary, / honor and appre-
ciate the sentiment by which he has
been actuated, and under similar cir
cumstances woald have acted as he has
done"
In this affair Prentiss exhibited cour-
age, but hardly the moral courage his
eulogist claims. He would make 10 ac-
knowledgement until tie challenge was
withdrawn. He was then ready to make
any concession consistent with honor.
Had he declined the challenge, it would
have been an act of the highest moral
courage, an example potent for good
The oeclination would have brought os-
tracism in New Orleans and throughout
the South. The loftiest moral courage
would have accepted the ostracism.
The reconciliation was complete. Prem
tiss did nothing by halves. They
drank" together, and the past left no
poison"
A friend of Prentiss wrote how he
was received at home. 'On our return
to the city / was told that Mrs. Prentiss
had tainted as he left the house. II was
week of intense feeling to us all.
When | looked upon the reunion of hus-
band and wife, of parents and children,
! was myself as very child as was
present"
All this reads strangely now. The
real sufferer was the woman. And yet
it is fact that the wife and mother
would urge the husband and father to
stand as a target for a bullet to avenge
wounded honor. An aged mother in
Richmond, even since the war, made her
son fight, under the threat of being dis
owned And a Senator of the United
States met three men on the fatal field,
in obedience To his wife's command.
Had Prentiss declined, the women of the
South would have gathered up their
drapery as they passed him, lest he
might touch them. And they were de-
voted women, too. The world will not
see their equal for many year. Refin-
ed, affectionate, often their lives filled
with the piety of good deeds. Honor was
to them a sacred name God only
knows how many hearts broke as the
dead body of the loved one was brought
home. And it was this sentiment which
made it so hard for the women of the
South to forget, in the days after the
bright banner of the South was to be
known in history as "The Conquered
Banner" to be forever folded away.
In 1900 there was two Americas, with
types of character as diverse as the
poles. 1t was the end of what must be
regarded as the romance period of the
South. From 1860 to 1860 came the
heroic period, and no people ever did
grander deeds In 1865 began the real
istic period The great Iconoclast, Rev
olution, crumbled to fragments, and then
swept away form of life a century old.
The South will never have the hard
realism of New England. Out of the
past will come something better than
the past. What will it be ? The
fruitsof every nation is her men. Thus
far the new South has produced no
Prentiss. Are the prophets all dead
The supreme need of the South to day
is a man with the eye of seer, the
tongue of prophet, and the courage of
a great soul. We are awaiting his APP
pearance. Throne and sceptre are ready
JOSEPH F. MARTIN.
Grace Church, Canton, Miss.
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CHAPTER ".
THE LAST AND LEAST CHAPTER OF THE


THE LAST AND LEAST CHAPTER OF THE
NOVEL
/ praise my heroine no more-sot a line,
not word Two little anecdotes l tell of
her, and with these leave her to your judg
ment, my fair readers The first anecdote,
YOU viii perceive, is in the old style, and you
win yawn over il. The second is more in our
modern habit
Percival Brent was quiet undemonstra-
tive man of science, who never shocked any
body by declaring himself against religion,
or the ~old notions But among his particu-
lar friends. ii was we'll known that he freely
accepted the most advanced and (as they are
at present consideTedl the most disintegrat
ing scientific views t"Now what is this lad
ing up to YOU, my May-hlossom student,
win ask: patinece, little one; look below and
see how near the end we arel One Of his
friends who knew his views, and could speak
TO him freely, said one day interrogatively;
lit is a matter of astonishnent to me,
Brent, that YOU, with your opinions, still keep
up your religious practices so regularly r
Let me tell you the reason" Brent
answered
Il am married to a wife whom | love, and
admire even more than love her For true
sweetness of character. liveliness, sense, and
virtue all round, l never met her equal L
have often askel myself, What is thessecret
of her characterF and | always come to the
same conclusioB'-that if her religious faith
were deducted from her she could not be
what she is, but must become a less agreeable
and not so good a woman. She has kept me
from taking the leap which reason has often
bid me take. / cannot renouuce a religion
which feel makes her what she is
A tedious anecdote, reader, however short
pattern
To Kettlewell, not so many years ago,
came a man aged forty-three He was
famed as a ladie;' man, and something in
him must have pleased women-for his success
with a certain set was quite undoubted Per
haps his consummate impudence won their
hearts. Be that as il may, he was among
them an object of no little curiosity, the
more because he was wealthy and presump-
tive heir to title. This man, satisfied with
himself and confident of his power over
women, met Mrs. Sophia Brent two or three
times. Whether he fancied her to be maid
or widow-or whether, knowing her to be
married, he meant to enshrine her in a Pla-
tonic affection / cannot tell This can tell
This, reader, did actually happen.
That this man Of the lcortd, aged forty
three, fell an loUe ,rtth Mrs. Sophia Brent,
aged tfty-thr@e, and Positirely made a
downright fool Of himself
Ladies, am your most obedient humbls
servant
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The Mississippi Normal High School.

EDITOR CLARION: | see many Com
meneement Items" in your paper, but
nothing about the Mississippi Normal
High School, situated al Troy. This
is, without doubt one Of the finest in
stitutions in your State, and should re-
ceive some recognition from the press.
Prof. Abernathy, the Principal of
this Normal, is a Mississippian, born and
reared, and after he and his wife gradu-
ated in this State, they married and went
to the Normal University of Ohio, where
they spent two years. They came back
four years ago, aud established the Mis-
sissippi Normal, and its growth is won
derful.
By his energy, and from his own pri-
vate means, he has built up this school,
and during the session Just closed he
numbered over 300 students. One thing
admire in Prof. Alternately is, that he
believes in ''home patronage" His
twelve teachers, including himself and
wife, are all Mississippians, though most
of them were educated North | made
my first visit to Troy last week, 20 attend
the commencement exercises, and was
charmed with every thing. Had the
pleasure of meeting some of the teach
eES, ana lOuuu all nlSuty CuIluIcN, duu
well trained in Normal methods. The
music teachers have had the best advan,
tages of conseryatories, and their pupils
showed they had had splendid training.
The Professor has a treasure in his Sec
retary and Librarian (so | was told by
gentleman there), and she too is Mis-
sissippian, Miss Lily johnson, a lady of
some note as writer, and her wealth of
information is wonderful in one so
young. | had the pleasure of meet
ing Miss Addie Harkreader, the Art
teacher, who from the large and beauti-
full display of pictures, must have had a
fine class. The Art Levee was held on
the afternoon of the 18th, and Miss
Harkreader read il very impressive
manner nice essay on Art.
Thursday night they had regular
opera, composed Of the school girls and
bows. Some expressed surprise that such
thing would be attempted in a small
place like Troy, but soon learned there
was nothing those Trojans would not
undertake, and succeed in it too. The
opera was a success, so was the gradual
ing class There were nineteen in this
class, and | must say. never saw a
handsomer lot of boys and girls. Their
essays were all good and we'll delivered.
Mississippi will never have csuse to
blush for any of the students that are
educated at this institution.
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A gentleman in this city told how he
saved boy who had broken through
the ice in the river. He was manfully
holding to the edge of the ice and max
ing most pitiful sight. This gentle
man was so deeply affected that he de-
termined to risk his own life in res
cne Lying Hat on the ice. he squirmed
out as near the hole as he could 90 and
reached forward light stick. which he
told the boy to hold on to. Slowly
working backward. he brought the little
fellow up on the strong ice and so to
land Once there, he told him to run
home as fast as he could. II was very
cold, and the bog was, of course, soaked
He declined TO 90. saying he would only
get licking when lac arrived Nothing
would start him along. and he stayed
there shiyering and whimpering, until
finally, in Indignation. his rescuer
turned on him and said: well. | wish
I had left you there 10 drown.
He was somewhat surprised 10 have
the little fellow answer: Il wouldn'
have drowned | was standing on the
bottom all the time. - Hartford Coas-
rant
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Revival.

Nothing wiser has been said TO Mr..
Cleveland since he was elected than the
words of Col. Mcclure, the veteran and
accomplished editor of the Philadelphia
Times. III there be no revival of busi-
ness during your administration , said Nc
Clure to Cleveland in an interview not
long after the election, "then your admins
tration will be a failure, and the Demo-
cratic party will be beaten in the election
of 1888. But if there is a speedy and
iourishing revival of business under your
administration, then you viii be success
full and the Democratic party VIII succeed
in 1857,
A large portion of Mr.. Cleveland's term
of Office has already passed away, and
there is no revival of business as yet, noi
any clear prospect thereof.
The cause of this evil is the maintenance
of the gold standard of money. There can
be no revival of business under CON
tracing standard This is principle which
Mr. Cleveland would do well to lay te
heart and ponder late and early.-N. Y
Sun.
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Capt. Boycott. who win live As an ac-
tive verb in the English language long
after lie will be forgotten as an Irish
land agent has sold his property at
Iangi, Mask, Ireland. and will re-
move 10 England. where he is ap-
noiuted agent of the Flixton Hall estates
pf Lord Wavenes Capt. Boycott has
been for many years patron Of the
irish fnlf. and kept SOM, famous racers
He was agent for ths. estates OF the EAT
~ Erne in Ireland. and his harshness
and cruelty helped 10 precipitafe the r.
cent Irish land war. Since ne was pos-
colfed. ps,ii, six years ago. he has lived ~
neaee with the tenantry. aud has gIom@ gs's.'.
IS nearly popular As aa IRISH iana as'''-
can hope to be. -
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BEAUTY'SSE
By ALAN MUIR.

Author Of Vanity Hardour., Golden
Girls," Etc.
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MINOR MENTION.
fance.

THE'strike among the servant girls in New
York suburb seems to be regarded as novel and
unprecedented occurrence by the commentators
of the press, whereas. as q matter of fact, serv-
ant girls have practiced this custom for many
years 1t may be said. indeed, that they orig
mated the strike as the employees method of
showing independence. It is true that the young
women who deign to perform household.tasks for
humbly grateful community OF householders
do not. as rule, desert their respective employ
ess in body but their method is practically
the same. with some additional exasperating feat
ures When the cook. or the maid-of-all
work feels called upon to quit work. she 10 ac-
customed to do so without the trifing prelimi-
nary of weeks. or even days, notice. She
simply s'gces ont" and leaves her mistress to
her own devices. II cannot DO said that she re-
CARDS neither times nor seasons whom moved to
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BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

THE latest novelty announced is Bible print.
ed in shorthand and illustrated
A sIx-YEAR-oLD Pittsburg child. being asked
"What is roper replied, IA fat string"
TRINITY episcopal CHURCH. of New Haven,
Conn, has had but four rectors in one hundred
and eighteen years.
Mr.. GRADY editor of the Atlanta Constitu-
ton. has been elected president of the National
Poultry Breeders Association.
A DRAWING by Messonier was sold the Other
day at the Hotel Drouot, Paris, for six francs
1t was hasty sketch of pair of legs.
THE Hartford Courant suggests that the next
thing in order will be a strike of the Sunday
school scholars for more lemons in their picnic
lemonade
IF you want to be very nice abou. it, you must
say Ference List, Franz being an incorrect
rendering of the Christian name and an abomi-
nation in Hungarian ears.
LIszT has spent money about as fast as he has
earned it. He has now no means save what he
gets from his pupils, the 81, 500 year granted to
him by the Grand Duke Of Baden, and royalties
on his works
SEED oysters are being exported from Bridge
port. Conn. to England, at the rate of from $50
to 200 barrels day They will be planted in
the TIMBER. south of London, and at CARING
ford, in Ireland.
M. CHENNEvIEREs French author regards
'qui" and "que" as the ''tyrants and vermin" of
his native language, and has written book
called "Contes Sans Qui on Que" in which
neither word, whether as relative or conjunction.
is used at ALL
PRINCE BIsMAHcK has received legacy Of
$1,000 from rich Warsaw merchant, lately de-
ceased who emigrated from Prussia about fifty
years ago. with a request that it be spent for
some piece of plate or work of art that would
cause him to keep the testator in mind
QUEEN VICTORIA has placed in John Browns
bedroom at Windsor Castle large brass tablet
inscribed with the legend of his death In that
room his many virtues and the Queens grief at
his loss. But Wales is so 6blivicus of the good
mans memory that he is said to have dropped
his old formula of praying for the Queen, John
Brown land the rest of the royal family"
LADY WoLsELEY's ''scrap cart."a device for
alternating distress among the poor calls through
out Mayfair at the houses of such residents as
agree to receive it, and takes away scraps Of
meat and bones, vegetables, lin fact all the
Crumbs that fall from the rich mans tables
These are sold at the lowest price ut the Burdett
Arms Coffee Tavern. Rochester Row.
CONCERNING the candidates for the post of a.
sistant bishop tP. e. of Philadelphia. it is re-
marked that DR.. Davies is supported by the high
church people and Mr.. Mcconnell BY tho moro
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Washington Letter.
J. w. Foster, late Minister to Mexico and Spain
Foster was not so long ago country editor in
Indiana, not over rich. but shrewd. Mr.. Hayes
found him out and sent him to Mexico. Later,
President Arthur promoted him to Madrid,
whore he negotiated the Spanish treaty, that
leaked ont and was so nipped in the bud Now
he Is doing nothing, though he went to Mexico
this spring, as / am told in the interest Of some
of our ill-fated railroad companies in that coun-
try. But he lives well here, owns handsome
house in the same block with Chief Justice
Waite. entertains . good deal and is altogether q
different kind Of person than the Indiana ed
itor Of few years since. He had two very
charming daughters. one of whom this spring
was married to rich young clergyman named
Dalles from Detroit The other is Just about
leaving school. and is certainly among the most
attractive Of the young bellies Of the city.
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others Of so much vaster magnitude that She
attention of the clergy might well be FIRST di-
rected toward them rather than the mote they
imagine they are by reason of the publication
of paper on the Sabbath day.
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TAIMAGE.

TAI.MAGE
To the Editor of tho Indianapolis journal:
OF what denomination is DR.. Talmage?
CUBA, Ind JOURNAL READER
He is a Presbyterian.
THE HOOKING VALLEY.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
Where is the Hooking valleyi READER.
PLEAsANTvILLE Ind.
In Fairfield, Hooking and Athens counties,
LITERARY PRODUCTIONS.
70 the Editor OF the indianapolis Jou rna1
Please give the address of reliable bureau
whose business it is to negotiate the sale of lit
erary productions. NJ
Cry.
S. S. Mcclure, Nassau street, New York
MAX o'RELL-DEcoRATIoN DAY.
TO the Editor OF the indianapolis Jonrnal:
Ill What is the name of Max O'Rell9 III Is
Decoration Day legal holiday? ct. s.
WEsTFIELD.
III Monsieur Blouet. a Frenchman, who for
several years has been teaching in London, Eng.
CANCER PLANT.
To tho Editor Of the indianapolis Journal:
Where can l find medicine called Cancer
Plant READER
SMITHS VALLEY, Ind.
We do no. know. Such remedies are usually
michievous frauds. to delude and swindle the
suffering.
ROYAL FAMILY NAMES
TO the Editor Of the Indianapolis Journal:
Il Do kings and queens have family or sur
namesl (2l II 90, what IL Queen Victoria's SUR
name. and what was her family name before she
married. q In addressing q lsttes TO . firm.
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An Early Reasixation Of Life.

Boston Record
That some boys at an early age appreciate the
responsibilities Of life is shown By the twelve
year-old who wrote in q composition:
Colonel Ellswcrth was engaged to Be mar.
ried. and this was more solemn than his death
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QUERIES AND ANSWERS.

All proper questions of general interest will be adj
mitted to this column, and answered if possible If
the answers cannot be given the questions will be
printed to invite replies from the outside. The col.
umn is for the mutual pleasure and profit of our
readers.
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1T is not three weeks since 1t showed all day
incessantly in this city: The weather for the
past week has been that Of middle June
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bly, the lady of the house. whom this young
woman deigns to serve, would not lose half so
valuable an outfit were all her trunks to be
stolen.
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but marriage in that State is very like church
fair. Everybody knows how that works.