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FAREWELL TO PARIS. Henry Watterson's Fond Adieu To Paris Town-He Goes Away Regretfully. Louisville Courier-Journal A truce to moralizing. I must leave Faris a little rarier than I intended on account of some London engage ments made in a moment of pique, and I am ho'lnd to say, if I am to speak the truth, as I generally try to do, that I shall go away regretfully. ''hus, sometimes to our disadvantage, we quarrel with those we love. I must give up Champoux's and Boeuf a la Mode. and the little old h,le-in-the wall in the Rue Duphot, as the early fruitage is becoming abundant. I must quit :he Champs Elysees and the Place de la Concorde whilst they bloom like a garden of the gods in nonor t the gciant Kinglet of Spain. The sights were scarcely finer when the grande arnee came back from italy. And as we whirl along the bril lian:ly lighted streets on our way to the Gare du Nord. the music of the regimental bands tilling the summer air. I may .tand uncov. -ed in my car riage and I may say. -ot without a certain fal:e; in my heart, looking the while through the splendors of the night into the vista of ts''gs past and gone, I may say: "Old''irl, I have known you as a man and boy consid erably more years than I care to write down in black and white and print in a newspaper. I have known you in rain and shine, in laughter and tears, n sorrow and shame. I have known you when you were no better than you should have been, and when, bowed down with misfortune and grief, you were a very heroine in rags. I hav e seen you wreathed with flowers. All wicked wiles and wanton smiles, Hebe and Circe, combined, and I have seen you disheveled. wild-eyed, and begrimed, Eike the barefoot maiden in the ballard. Between you and me, Old Girl, it is t-o late for crimination and recriminaton. You- have at last left me the weapos, n,-w mainly for defense, given me by God and nature and my original vehicles of locomo tion, and enough to get away with. and, truth to say. I am ioath to go. It is too bad. I wisi: I could renain forever young and charming-you ar, getting along in years yourself. you know-I wish!-Never mind Big Sis, or Li:tle Sis. They are at the dress maker's, anyhow! They, at least, have never had any reason to shed any tears. and <-ne of them, in case of at tack, I might, on a pinch, call to the witness stand, thoug'h if she be satis fied, who else and, as Chimmey Fad den observed, 'What t'l?' Good-by, Old Girl! I won't say take care of yourself-the stars that hung over thy cradle still shine for thee!--if they had not thou had'st reac'hed the bot t.m of the bottomless pit long, long ago!" John Ha-'s Poetry. The late Secretary Hay was a man of marked literary accomplishments. In addition to considerable prose work-among others a novel. "The Bread winners." which appeared in 1893 and made omewwhat of a sensa tion-he vr *"te poet - i decided Snis. P B't h ch hei best known wa~ gwarsutin out: the flippancy wh e g uished them: hut they w&re. nceerthless, as has been said. popular. and many who have seen them and then lost sight of them will no doubt be glad to see them again. As Mr. Hay a:taine dage and distinction he grew ies and less 'proudr of t>:ev. anzd :issaid that lat, Werig he had becomf'e esi: ashame~d of them. For th i,ene.: of 'cch per sons as may ben nteresed i them thley are appended: "JIM itL U DSO WVal!. nn'.: .'"o tel1 t. nha h That yo haven't heard folks tell How Jimmy Bludso pa=sed in his checks The night of the Prairie Belle? He weren't no saint-them engineers Is all pretty much alike One wife in Natchez-under-the-Hill. And another one 'here, in Pike; A keerless man in his talk was Jim. And an awkward hand in a row, But he never flunked. and he never lied I reckon he never knowed how. And this was all the religion he had To treat his engine well; Never be passed on the river; To mind the pilot's bell; And if ever the Prairie Belle took fire A thousand times he swore. He'd hold her nozzle again ihe bank Till the last soul got ashore. All boats has their day on the Missis Sip, And her day come at last The .Movastar was a better bcat. But the Belle she wouldn't he pass ed. And so The come tearin' along that night The oldest craft on the line With a nigger squat on her safety valve. And her furnace crammed, rosin and pine. The fire hurst out as she clared the bar. t And burnt a hole in the night, And quick as a flasih she turned, and made For that willer-bank on the right. There was runnin', and cursin'. but Jim yelled out Over all the infernal roar. "I'll hold her nozzle again the bank 'Till the last galoot's ashore." Through the hot black breath of the c burnin' boat t Jim Bludso's voice was heard. And ther all had trust in his cussed ness, And knowed he would keep his word. And, sure's you're born, they all got off Afore the smoke-stacks fell And Bludso's ghost went up a,one Tn the smoke of the Prairie Belie. He weren't no saint: but a: jedgment I'd run my chance with Jim. 'Longside some pious gentlemen r That wouldn't shook hands with him. He seen his duty-a dead sure thing And went for it t'har and then: And Christ ain't a-going to be too hard On a man that died for men. Of the same order of literature with the foregoing is the other poem re-I ferred to "Little Breeches." I don't go mtuch on religion, I never ain't had no s.how; But I've got a middlin' tight grip, sir, 2 On the handful o' things I know. I don't pan out on the prophets. And free-will, and that sort of thing But I believe in God and the angels, Ever since one night last sprin~g. I come@to town wit:h some turnips. And my little Gabe come along No four-yea.r-old in the county' C''uld heat him for pretty and ~trang. Peatrt and chiipper and 5assy. a:n! lei:..he.:am..t.:he.....r The .-lE' aredu at 5someItin andl ; s tart I heard one litle qull,L And hell-to-split over the prairie A Went team. Little Breeches and all. - Hell-to-split ov\er the prairie: I was ahnest froze with 4eer: Thu. ic rous:ed up s.ome W6rchee Andi~ -earchedi for 'er ini and I . \t las we ekik hosses ane* .nage.n Sn'on,'" under a soft whl'te mound. 1imotd ead beat-hnb of lttl Gabe N- hide nor hai ~aa found li ti. h -orhe wa1 lyd e t -And e an Isru Par men afffo sme Parroa hep fold That he said was somewhar thar. We found it at last, and a little shed Where they shut up the lambs at night. We 1-,ked in and seen them huddled thar, So warm and sleepy and white; And thar sot Little Breec'hes and chirped. As peart as ever you see, I want a chaw of terbacker. And that's what's the matter of me." How did he git thar? Angels. He could never have walked in that storm: They jest scooped down and toted him To whar i: was safe and warm. \nd I think that saving a little child, And futching him to his own, a derned sight better business Than loafing around,the Throne. It makes a woman knit her brows vhen her husband tells the children arns. BARBECUE. We will give a barbecue in the rove at the rseidence of Mr. Jno. A. romer on Wednesday, July 19. ;peaker's on the issues of the day will e on hand. A good dinner and a leasant time. Everybody invited. D. A. Kleckley, T. H. Cromer. Southern Railway Excursions. The Southern railway will sell *ound trip tickets to the following >oints for special occasions: Athens, Ga., Summer School, June 7 to July 28, 19o5. Rate: one first lass fare plus 25 cents for round rip. Denver, Col., Account International pworth League convention. Rate -ery low, and will be given on appli :ation. Knoxville, Tenn., Summe::- School, une 20 to July 28, 1905. Rate: one are plus 25 cents for round trip. Nashville. Tern., Peabody Summer school and Vanderbilt Bibical In ti:ute, June 14 to August 9, 1905. ate: one fare plus 25 cents for round rip. Baltimore, Md., Account of the Jnited Society of Christian Endeavor nter-national convention, 'uly 5-10, Asbury Park, N. J., Account of Na onal Educational association, July -7. Rate very low and will be given m application. Week End Rates, C., N. & L. Commencing June 3rd, and continu ng' until and including September nd, 1905, the following week-end ates will be oni sale to the following soints, via the Columbia, Newberry nd Laurens, railroad to Isle of Palms,$55 Sullivans Island 5-15 Charleston 51 Wilmington 5-15 Waterloo 2.00 Cross Hill 2.00 Glenn Springs 2.10 Spartanburg 2.10 Greenville 2.1o White Stone 2.1o Tickets to the above points wvill be old on aSt'rdays good to return on :be :clowin~g Tuesdays, for schedules ad :rzher inferrnation telephone or Jo W. Daily- Agnt V. N.ewberry ... .. .1 F0 i3 i- l. r. L. arens..........---. i p.m No. 2. Daily. v. Laurens........... ... .50 p. mi. r. Greenwood ... ......... 2.46 p. mi. .r. Augusta.......... . .. --- 5.20p. mI. .r. Anderson ............. 7.20 p. mn. N. 42. Daily. r. Aulgndal.......... ............-- . 4 30 p. m. . tairfax...... .. ........ ------4- p. mn. .r. charleston ........................... 740 p. m1. .F( uf c21....... .... ... ........ . . . . . .3i . mf r. I c:i 1 )I i ..- -. ----... ... .... .40 2. m Lr. Savannah................. .. 6.45 P. U,. ir. w a .cros .... ... ....... 10.00 p. m2. r. Jac -sonville... --.......----. --.--.-----. v. LaR,en1%......... .....-.--------... 2.L7 p.m Tr2ong I ullmnan car Ser-:ice between Au p:sta and. Jacksionville, Fla. H . G ASQ Ur, Agt., Laurens. S. C. EO. T. IIRYA.N. Gei'I Apt., Greenville S. C. R N.s T W ILL JA M ,Ge'n'lPass. A gt Augusa. M. 1 Y)1. e(a'.s n .cIVi r cTe. C a. 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