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youag, vrhfneyer any of the above
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rwjona TraYelliisj or Living In TTn.
hnsllny I.ocnlltlos, by takinj; a dose occasion
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ITon. Alexander H, fitoiiliciis. of fla.,
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Simmons User KeguUtor, and wish to give it a
lather trial.
"J any Tblnn that never fulls to
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Cr !' Adtction and Debility, but never
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5.'" : M'1"",n "n."! From actual tx
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VOL. XI.
OLD LOVE-
li'ict her; h.Mvss thin ami nhl'
1ie "loo; c 1. and trod with i0lioiinK feet
I be li;ilrwaKr.vil1Kto11c,.Wasl;0ij
rite vole.. w. hushed , ha, on,..', waa mv,.0.
U 'l- liaiuU were rii;kh,i and her eyes
K.d.bed of thCKlfii,), li:;,lf joy,
Wi'redim. I felt a sad xiirpriso
That I had l,,ved her when ahoy.
lhtlyel a soiiteihinc; In hernlr
lteslurad ,n to the vanished time
My heart irtvtr young and seeing to'wear
ThebrlKittiiessof myyo ithfiil p,lm,.
I took Iter withered hand in u,iUi
Ilatoucii recalled ,lKhosl of joy';
I kissel it ,vii a reverent lh,
Km; I had loved her v.l,.. a i,,,v.
THE LEAF cTgERANIUM.
Il lo -
0,1 "'M coirs and ulvota th. h...l
f f'Hc- run, and what sli-i.t Jar will io lu-
""" '" 'It me whole machinery and act it
i" running , elll.(.lv ,1,.,,,,, dirccli.m. It
wasateraniiim leaf that chniii;n the whole
CUM-iM! of nn life. Hut lor II, , I i. ,
ii i , iii i ieai
Ichcd up by a young ijir! In a Ihoitchlles.
mood I should nol have been blUlm; here to
day In this pleasant slluiiiK room where the aim
cume in throii-h the vine wreathed widows
aud fa, I upon I he (rei anium poais inside; urn
then tins little, fjitl would not bo upon my
tune, tmryonucr red tltcclicd maiden on' the
verandah with, youiijr Smiihcrs; and neither
would that very handsome million who ut
pusjfcd into the paiior have been in lu.r ptAf
cnt situallon.
tf you will listen an hour or fo I will lell
you my story, it, win just twenly years U!;o
litis tuaimer lhal 1 married Carrie Dena. She
was twenty em,. ,! was tweiily seven ho'h
oid eiioili lo Know what we meant, and what
we wore ab.ut-at least I was, but Carrie was
such a coquette thai I used to think she had
no mind of lmr own.
Oh, but she was, lovely I All ruse colored.
aid white aud brown livssed, pearly teeth,
Willi I lie rouiub st plumpest lletire, uml a.
graceful as a fairy in every la.ivc'tiic'nt, and
with heatiful, shapely hands that were, il con
stant delight lo Ihu eyes I was just homo
from eolletrc, mid slin was on a visit to my
slcf mother, her aunt, utid my half sister,
Lilla, and her cousin.
I had seen n Rood many girls in my seven
years at eollcuu, anil sonic, ot the belles of the
land; but I had never yet had my heart stirred
by any woman's eyes as Carrie Dean's stirred
it when my eyes mut hers in the greeting; and
the touch of her soft lingers completely set
me afloat on the sea of love.
I was her slavo from that thour not her
slave either, but her passionate lover and wor
shipper. And of coarse she knew it, and of
course being a tinisaeil coquette, she queened
it over uie right royally.
There was Kied Town, the country physi
cian, and Tom Delano, the handsome young
inner, both a badly oil as I was; and a pretty
time we had of it.
Fred and 1 old churus In former days were
itt wind's poiuls now, and li ited each oilier
plemli lly for a few wceW. And Tom 1 held
n the iilinostTonlemt, and railed ill them both
believer opportunity presented itself, foi
Carrie's eilillc.illon, atler the manlier of mctn
and was repaid by seeing her bestow Iter sweet
est smiles and glances upon them next linie we
met.
I' led drove a splendid -p in of hays, and al
most every d ly they dashed up the avenue and
da lied o it again, with Miss Carrie's added
weight. Aud 'lun wasiui hand nearly evety
evening, and she was just as sweet to one us
the other, and just the same to me, aud that
was what maddened me.
I was tint to be satislled with a "widow's
third' by uny means, and I told her so til
last, and asked her how the mailer was going
to he settled.
''I Kin: you belter th in those brainless fops
know how lo love," I said, body, "and mm
decide between us."
t il e: had listcued to INT love confession with
hlu.-hiiu cheeks downcast eyes, but when 1
said this the I in nud il li.intiv, on me.
"They are no more f ps than yuu art,'' she
said 'i ven if they have n-t si nit seven years
In college. 1 b y are gentlemen, and I c.iu'i
say titst for evuy mau of ill)' acquaint. incc."
And here she shut the door between us with
a slam and U'l'l inc. In lily p'c iunt iniMlilalion
and half an lion.' latet 1 met her at the gale
with 1' red, going out for il ride, which was
Very u,gia-. aliii.', I mint confess.
I Ihoii'ht over my conduct that night and
C.iuclud'.d that I had been a brute, Tile el
morning I found Carrie, at Ilia dining room
window alone, uud H'U;lit her side, Sill) bad
her hand among the leaves of a snee. scenti d
geranium, and j i-t ai I approached she
plucked a leaf and tw ined it among her braids.
I remember how bright and green it lpokiil
iwnmig her dark locks,
"Carrie," 1 began. "I fear I was very rude
yesterday."
"I kno.r you were," sho said, looking indlf
fuienlly out of the wimimy.
Tu is was a bad beginning, but I went on.
' But, Carrie, I love you so, and when I see
you wlili tint Krcd-"
Hut lure Mis, Curie tinned on her lire!.
"I am not going to listen to you while you
sl.indei my fii nds. When you can speak
respectful y ef Mr. Town I will return," and
il. IV she lei I ; oi. .
I le'i Ibe ho'i.e th -ti, in, I did not return till
if'einooti I cone up lb' pi h 1 in 1
!' I lio r I ie , lie i". k' .1 nki l.f
last to e .!' . ' tin r i',' a lain,
"iiiol by ,' be sol g iiily, "I'lil C''i g
.Wj). ell ' b I- s ".il in.-. If, Mid 1 iau'1 !)
In Uie :' i"i', I hope you ,ie li" It'ippj oi e- I
do hone 111, .VI. "lie said her heat I was given
touiiivthci, and he's cither )nt or Kiel. I
hope II is yuu, nil I tl nl I'.iesS yoil I '
Here T'oin dashed aw ay an 1 left me staring
after lilin in aiuazeinent.
"lliveiNier lu irl to auotli r," 1 repealed
wilh a pain in my chest siouewli 10. "Well,
it is evident that I a n not the other, mi l that
Fred Is. I'uor V'oin-poor me ! 'he but
thing I cm do is to follow suit and loive ..
I can in ver see her I tie wife of another, nud
111 j sooner I am oil Urn belter. "
,Sj 1 went moodily up to my room nnJ
packed my satchel, mid k'nl all things In readi
uess for a speedy departure.
On in j vay up I met Carrie Just eiaergiiiK
from her room, arrayed In her Jaunty riding
habit, ami I could hear Fred's ilttep tones
shouting "Whoa !" down in the yard below.
I wutcbed ber trip down the Hairs ind out
Of sight, lhliiknitrth.nl It was the last Haiti I
should e bur for years, perhspi orerer,
Roanoke
WELDON, N.
When I had strapped tho last buckle on my
satchel and was in readiness I wont down to
) good by. to father, mother ami I.illa. I.illa
was not Indoors, and my parents looked at me
iu amazement.
"Hut, Allen, my soul," pleaded father, "I
had thought you would "ntr Into business
with ne, J'herc Is a grand opening fur you,
and I have held the position lu re
serve." "1 thank you for all that, but I want U
travel a year or two before going Into busi
ness," was all ihat 1 could answer, and my
father gave up in despair,
I.illa was still iibsent, but It was ultu dark,
and the train would leave In half an hour, so I
h fl u good-bye for her and passed out iuto the
hull.
It was it long, narrow ball reaching tho
whole length of the house, and with several
moms opening Into It; but as yet It was un
lightcd ami us dark as Egypt. About half way
through It I heard the street door open and
shut, and a moment later ran full ugalnst
some One entering.
"It Is Lilla," I thought, nud reaching out mjr
uniis caught Imr bctwecu them. "Is It you,
Lilly r 1 said.
Dm she did not answer, only twined her two
anus about my neck.
"Why, little sister," I said softly, '-do yu
love mo so much 1"
l'or I.illa was not ileniunslrutivu as a usual
thing, and I was surprised ut her movement.
'Uii, better than all the world besides,
Allen" she said in a whisper.
And then, us 1 lifted Uie face lo mv line the
sweet odor of geranium perfumed the air and
my heart gave a great leap.
Il was Carrie, not Lilla, that 1 held In my
arm-.
She was Irving to discngaiie heiself now.
but I siiddealr eail'-ht her lie-lit fore in m
two stout arms, and opening the library door
1 cu rled her lute tho brilliantly lighted meat.
Her face was hot with blushes now, and her
eyes full tif tears.
You are too bad," she sobbert," "and I
hata you."
Hut just then she noticed my traveling at
tire and paused abruptly.
'Why, where are you going f" shu asked
.villi Interest.
'1 was going away, necr lo return." I an
swered, "but since you said what you did In
the hall I have clnnged my mind."
Carrie pouted.
"I wns only speaking for Lllla."
"Then I shall uo, shall I Ituvo you to marry
Fred ?"
"I delest Fred, she eried.
"Aud you lovo me hutUr than all the
world "
"Yes."
So tliu flirt was conquered al lust, aud I was
the victor.
'But how did ou know It was not Lllla!''
she askvd, as we sat together.
'By the gciaiiiuui leaf that I saw you put in
your hair this uioiuing."
'And but for thai loll would have gone
away uml not csiue buck for years 1"
' Inn we will keep this leaf always," she
said, taking it from her hair.
Aud so we have. I tiror.ued a lit tie iroldeu
box, uud there il it to-day olio of our deaiesl
treasures.
lif coarse I tiiaiiic.i Cunie, mid of course
that blooming matron is she.
Tom Delano did not dm ol a broken heart
but main ied il lovelier girl out Wist a few
mouths after his depailuru; uud Fred Town is
our family physician, and lius u pretty wife of
his own.
wasTost
Mi poor frieuit," said a minister lo a man
who bad Just beeii shot, "you cannot re
cover.
"So juii lliiuk tliu gentlemen fol his work
vn
"1 think that he has given you a distil
wound mid my advice to you is to make a free
confession and ask Ihu Lord to forgive
von."
"I baveut't got time."
' I la . e you limn btm jj very bad "
"Nc, tut! I've been s liter loose in my book
keepiu', if I had kepi the accounts balanced
I could have tooled up iu u minute and con
fes etl iu a lump, but us il Is, 1'vu got lo go
oyer the Items. '. can't go back any further
ilimi Ibis year, for my books pretlous to
1 1 .il time were destroyed by Ore, l et's itt,
last new yen's day I stulu a blanked ioiii U ib
Helium, two days alien ode 1 sola whiskey
without license, llieit 1 took a red haudkei
ehlef fnim a boy uud shot a rider peddle.
After that, I rubbed a store and pretty soon I
found a bridle rein iu my hand. Pullir.tf 1;
along 1 found t';at u i. oo y,as bitched tu the
other end of n. Will the Lord pardon me (or
all that?" ' ' ' "
Oh, ycSj s aid the ininU'ei, Jbending Jover
him.
Well, shortly ulcr tlicsii ft'Mlvities I stud-
led for tho ministry, ana secured a flock. I
became II y In the work uud assisted in many
conversions. I roped in ten slnnett here in
Arkaiisuw Unit had escaped the clutches of the
gospel In every other state."
"Now you are redeeming yourself," ts'.d the
minister,
"Will, and niter this," continued the man,
"one of my de icons mine. I the tepuUtiau of
young 1 1 ly uud I lioipic.d him out of His
chin It, bit ailow d Hie youag women lo re
1 1:1 ''
I tl' II oilr s I'll Is lol,'' ili'li'inlillv replied
the minis! r. I'll.' I. '. l llo s na u," .11 you, and
)otl ale gone."
IT WALKED
AlHAOIC Si'KNR IN AN AHK1SSAS nOARDINO-
UOI'SK.
That butter came from llio north," said the
I iinlltiily of an Arkansaw boarding hense, "I
d iii't use the cotnmon tiiilter of I lilt pounlry
in niv table. All of my butter coinrs fro so a
d stance."
"Do 'S It walk ?" usked a boarder.
"Whit did you my, sir?"
"I tisk does your biilter walk In mailing the
Journey ?'
"No, sir," said the lady with a ewciit, sad
Smile, "but I hope that you can walk;," (nd she
opened the door.
'Why, madam, I have paid you three weekt
In advance,"
"It makes no difference. No man who In
lulls my hitler can remain uuder toy roof.
Tou flirted with ioj daughter and abused niy
husband, Dd I took lull In good part; but,
CM THURSDAY,
sir, as you have passed the limit of my endu
nce, leave this place 1"
"Madam, feeling that I am outnumbered.
I'll leave. It is not in your power to put me
out, and but for the fact that you might call
yourmascullue friend," pointing to the butter.
"I'd coutest the matter, hut as It is, I surren
der. Oood day."
MORE ABOUT THAT BAD BOY-
I DITOR I'Klk'S INIMITABLE SKKIKSCOV
TIM lil).
"What was the health officer doing over to
your house this morning?" snld the grocer to
the bad boy, as the youth was firing frozen po
tatoes at the aan who collects garbage In the
alley. "O, they ire searching for sewer tas
and such things, uud they bare got plumbers
and other society experts till you ctiti't rest,
anil I have enme wy for fear they would find
the sewer gas and wurni my Jacket. Say, do
thing It is l ight, when anything smells awfully,
to always lay It to u boy?" "Well, In nine
cases out of ten they would hit It light, but
what d you think is the trouble over to your
house, honest ?" "8-h h ! Now don't breathe
ii word of It to u living soul or I am a dead
boy. You see I was over to the dairy fair at
the exposition building Saturday night, and
when they were breaking up, me aud iny chum
helped lo curry
iioxrs or CUE MIS
and firkins of butter, nnd a cheese man gave
each of us a piece ol limbcrger cheese, wrapped
up'ln tin foil. Sunday orniug I opened my
piece, and it made me tired. (I, Ii wns the
olliilest smell 1 ever heard of, except the smell
when they found a trump who hung himself lu
the woods on the Whltelhl! Hay road, mid had
been dead three weeks. It was just like a old
back number funeral, l'a and ma were just
getting ready to go church, and I cut olT a
piece of cheese atiat put II iu llio inside pocket
of pa's vest, tied 1 put another In tliu lining of
ma's uiuft, and Ihey went to church. I went
to church, too, and sat on ti back seat with my
chum, looking Just us pious us though I. wns
teklng up a collection. The church wua pretty
warm, aud by tho lime they got up to sing the
lltst hymu pa's cheese
tlKOAN to si.r,
a match agnlnst Sha'a cheese, l'a held one side
of the hymn book, and ma held the ;othor,atid
pa he always sings for all that is out, aud when
he braced himself and sung 'Just as I am,' ma
thought pa's voice was tinctured with bilious-
Less and sho looked ut him, and hunt bed him
and tuld hhn to stop singing ana breathe
through his nose, cause his bresth was enough
to stop a clock. l'a stopped singing and turned
around kind of cross towards me, and then he
smel led ma's cheese, and he turned his head
the oilier way and said, 'whew,' and they didn't
sing ay more, but they looked at each oilier as
though ihey sinellcd frowy. When they sat
dowu they nit as fur upatt us they could get,
and pa sat next lo a woman who used to be a
nurse lu a hospital, and when she imelled pa's
cheese she looked at him us though she
thought
III! HAD TUB SM U.I. I'OX
and sho held her handkerchief to her nose,
''he man in the other end of the pew, I but ma
sat near, be was a stranger from Kaelnc, who
belongs to our church, and he lonkul at mil
son of queer, aud after 1 tie minister prayed,
and they got up to sing ogaiu, llic man took
his hal and went'out, and when he came by
mo he suid something in a whisper about u
f, male glue factory. Well, sir, before the ser
uioii was over everybody in that pari of Un
church had llieir aamlkoreb i, fs to their noses,
and Ihey looked ut pa uud ma scandalous, and
the two ushers Ihey come around in the pews
looking for a dog, and when the minister got
over his sermon and wipod the pcrsplrulioii
from his face, he said be would like to have
the trustees of the church stay after meeting,
as there was some business of Importance tu
ti ansae!, lie said the question of proucr veil-
illation and sewerage for the church
won. ii us uiiut niir 1 1
ind thai he presumed the congregation had
uoliccd, tkia morning that the church was unu
sually full of sewer gan. lie said he had spo
ken of the mailer before, ami expected It would
he attended to before this. He said lie was a
meek and humble f illower of the Lamb, and
tns willing to cast his lot wherever the M ister
decided, but he would be blessed If L.e would
preach uny longer ill a.'.h,un:li Unit snli'llcd like
a bono bolliuK establishment. Ho said religion
was a good thing, but uo person could enjoy
religion as well la a fattening establishment as
he could iu a llower garden, aud us far us he
was concerned ho had got enomrli. F.vcnbodv
ked at even hotly else, ami pn looked nl nia
us though he ku-iv wdy ru, Uie ecwer g is cam
f.oin, mid ma looketl at pa real mad, and mo
and my chum lil out, end I went home and dis
tributed my cheese nil around. I put a slice
t'rawer, down under her underclothes, and a
piece u the spur mom, under the bed, and a
piece In the bath-room, lu the soap dish, and u
slice In the album on the parlor table, and a
piece In the library iu n hook, and I went to the
dining room and put some under the table,, and
dropped a piece iimlcr the range lu the
kitclicu. I tell you the house was loaded for
bear. Ma came home from chtiich. flrst, and
wlie i I usKcd wine pa was, the euld she hoped
he had, siuiiu io walk around a block to air hls
lelf. l'a came home to dinner, and whcti he
got u sine I of the house, ho opened all tip.
doors, no. I mi pin a comfortable around her
slionl !'T it"l 'old pt hi w.i4 a ii terrace to riv-
l!i ioa. She tiled lo ge'. pi lo dilnlt some
catholic acid, l'a lltullv Qui,! iiieod ma. thai II
was Hot linn, iiinl men tlii y ileclUed thai It was
ihu house Hi h t einellcd so, is Well lis the
church, and all Stiuday afternoon l lie-y went
visiting, .nanus inoiungp.t iyenluwnt
rut health orrici
and got the inspector of nuisances tn come up
to the house, aud wheu he smelled around t
spell lie said there was dead rate lu the main
sewer pipe, aud they sent for plumbers, and
ma went out to a neighbor's to borry somo
frvsh sir, and when the plumbere begun to dig
uo the Door in the basement I came over here.
If tli. y llm'. niy of thai llinbcig cheese It will
go hard with mo. The hired girls have both
quit, and m says she II ;oh,ig to, brake up
keeping house tud board. 1'hul Is just Into my
hand. I want to hoaid at a hol' l, where you
can have a blll-uf fare and tonth-plcks, and
billiards, and everything. Well, I gill's I will
go over to the heuse and stand In Ilia back
door and listen lo the mocking bird. If you
see me come flying out of the alley with my
eost tail full of boon you can act they h ive dis
covered tbeiewergas."
New
JANUARY 18, 1888.
A MEADOW IDYL
WHY BOB bi'kii:tte w ants a farm.
TBS EltKATIC WANDEH1NG3 OP A CKoOKKD
MTTI.I STREAM A BKAl'TlFTl. MOKUCAU OP
SATl'KB.
I wish I owned a farm just a feiv
niilsa wot f Cadi, junction. I don't
care a cent, l'or tliu farm, but tliero
runs through it the cinnki'dost little
brook you ever saw. The Star Route
business is straight as the golden title
in comparison with it. Crooked? It
goes wandering through tho green
meadow as though all the year were
June aud it had nothing else lo do but
kill lime and loiter about iu shady
nooks and sunny beaehws. Crooked '!
Not a gilveriditted shiner that Hashes
bi glittering scales iu the sunlight
down iu the liniid ripple can tell
whether he is going up stream or
down. The purple plttined iron weed
and th benilitig golden rod, bowing
to each other with htutrly grace across
ihe singing brook, don't know whether
they are on opposite aides, or il tlmy
a io on the seine nide which siilti it is.
All the way across that meadow it
plays hide and seek with itself, boxing
th compass in its erratic wanderings
every hundred feet. It came into the
meadow, 1 think, when the wind ane
mones were blooming in the lee of the
hills that fringe, the' farm. "01:, iny
beautiful datlitigis," it said, "1 will
stay hero near you," But the wind
(lowers passed away and the violets
opened lliuir blue eyes and tho butter
cups shone in the grasses of the
meadow. "I lost iny sweetheart!,"
said lickle little brook, "but tho
meadow is beautiful siiu:e you came
into it, aud 1 will stay here until you
are gone." And it turned again and
loitered lo the north where the wind
llowers died, and eddied to the cast,
where a bank of violets looked shyly
down at him with their great purple
blue eyes, and he strolled to the sotillt
where th buttercups, none abashed,
laughed merrily in the golden sunlight,
and he launttred ,to tho west, where
wild rose, shivering a little, was try
ing on her ntw spring dress, which
wasn't long enough to cover her rniitnl,
wine red arms. And by the by tho vio
lets closetl (hair clear bltit! yes,anil the
buttercups laded, and the poor little
brook who had got back nicely to the
place where ho ran under tho' fence to
get into the meadow when he first saw
the llowers, rippled slowly over to llie
wild rose again, who was now in lull
dress and wearing tiiu lovely pink
bonnet, and had eJusters of buds al
Ihe way from her throat and shoulders
down to her waist. "Ah mo," he mur
mured, "my friends are gone, and I
ant so lonesome, I was just going lo
run down to the sea aiid dtowu mv
self. Hot yuu are so bc.nuilnl I waul
lo stay here where I may see you "
And so Violet and liiiiteivnp were
laid away with pour little 1'doo.li-oot
and Sailor's lirooohcs, and by this lime
Iii tie brook had o many playmates
Hint Wild IvOso and S.veet. liiier only
saw him when he eaine round to the
corner of ihe meadow, lie ran about
all time, singing down lillle runs with
the most inimitable trills, babbling
with a family of great bard headed
rock lliat had sdiied on tho edgo o a
pool and gout! into the muss business,
whispering to ihe blue Hags clustered
under tho low bank, playing wilh ihu
tail reeds thai liuigc the still pnoU,
and lingei ing a long lime wilh the
groups ol colt's bmi where the waters
were shallow. There were M many
things tn see and so mneb to say in
this meadow nu wonder the lillle
liriioli rati ;ib. nit iu it all summer b'
foi'n at last, when the wild rose lud
thrown away the pretty pink bonnet
and put on tho lillle red, winter hood,
and tho rushes were brown and th"
colt's foot withered, a,:iil the golden
rod was gray and the purple iron
wood was plumed vfitli tufts of feath
ery blown, it turned to the lower end
of ihe meadow, ind orueping under the
fence wont hniiyiug away lo the
Muakingtim, to yet down to the Ohio
and lower Mississippi before ihu win
ter o aught it and fastened it to tho
meadow for the next live months.
-- - -
Dr. Iluwks, an eloquent and popular New
Yo.k divine, tmch asked the vestrymen of Ills
church to Increase his, salary becuuso of his in
ereuscd (uiti y expense.
Uoii uruiitno yoniai'ir," si Id ihe vestry
man, "Ilia I.uid bus suid He will cue for the
young ravens when they cry."
'I know thai," said toe, clergyajun, "but
nothing Is said about the young Hawks.
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