The Ouachita telegraph. [volume], July 16, 1887, Image 4

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MONROE, LA., JULY 10, 1887.
A VISION I
It was just as day was dawning
In the beautiful eastern skies,
That I, watchworn and weary,
Closed my sorrowful eyes.
I did not think that I could sleep,
'I was weary withwatehing and weeping,
Ionly thought I'd rest awhile,
But before I knew I was sleeping.
And soon I fell to dreaming,
And dreamed of heavenly things;
I thought I saw an Angel,
*Wlth beautiful golden wings,
Float softly to the cradle,
Where my infant cousin lay,
And take her gently in her arms
And swiftly fly away.
I put out my hand to stay her,
But she vanished from my sight;
And all around, where she had been,
Shown with a heavenly light.
'Twas then I thought of its mother,
And wandered what she'd say,
When I'd tell her that an Angel
Had borne her child away.
At length I was awakened
By a weak:and feverish cry,
80 I knew that i'd been dreaming
And the little child would die.
Its eyes looked pleadingly in mine,
Its lips were parched and dry;
Although I had been dreaming,
I knew the child must die.
So I placed it on a pillow,
And took iton my arm,
I held it closely to me
And tried its limbs to warty.
But alas I it was:too late,
This was the chill of death,
Fainter, fainter, beat its pulse,
It slowly drew its breath.
I waked its sleeping mother,
And bade her come and see,
Her darling little baby, that
An Angel soon would be.
She came and knelt beside it,
And kissed its pallid cheek,
But not a word she uktered,
For from grief she could not speak.
Her baby now lay sleeping.
But we could not hear its breath,
In vain we tried to wake it,
For it was asleep in death.
So the Angel must have come,
And taken the child away;
And carried it up to Heaven,
Just at the break of day.
"LyssA LaBI.'
--Monroe, La., Aug., 1870.
"T'FE FARIER LASS O' PIPING PER.
WORTH," AND ITS AUTHOR.
[Macon Telegraph.]
In the July number of Lippincott's,
now before us, there is a short story
under the title "The Farrier Lass of
Piping Pebworth" that will be read
wherever the magazine circulates with
pleasure and Interest. It is a gem of
many faces, full of light and sparkles.
the work of a master hand. For South.
era readers it will have a peculiar in
terest, since the author is a Virginia
girl ; a blossom and a protest from the
heart of the old South.
Miss Amell Rives comes of distin%
guished lineage, being the daughter of
Wmi. . Rives, of Virginia, than whome
no man stood higher in the confidence
of the Southern people. Her home is
among the red hills of Albermarle,
where the family has dwelt since the
middle of the last century, and her
surroundings make her own life a ro.
mance. Trained and educated in this
home, selecting her own studies and
occupations, she has developed into an
artist and literateur. Nature to her
mental talents has added a beautiful
face and form and an energy which
speaks not alone in her works but in
her characters themselves. Her first
publication was "A Brother to Dra
goons," a short story, which made her
famous In a week.
It is our misfortune to have missed
the first work from the pen of Miss
Rives, but "The Farrier Lass of Piping
Pebworth" Is probably the best com
pensation we could have had. So
charming a tale is rarely told; one 'so
complete in all the elements that round
up a story are rarer still. The figures
therein under the marvelously deft
touch of the artist stand forth like
portraits in the gallerlee of the old
masters. Here is the "farrier lass" as
pictured by the smith, her father, as
he chats over a glass of ale in the
tavern : "Ne'er in all thy travels
bhst thou e'er seen so crack-brain a
wench as my Keren ! Lord, it set thy
head to swimming did she but enter a
room. She had no more stability o'
motioon a merry-go-round; and she was
that brown a bun looked pale i' eom
parison when shedld lilft it to be mouth
to eat it. A strapping Jade and strong
a anmy lad o'ber age i' the village. In
her seeming she took neither after her
mother nor after me, though she was
a comely wench, as wenches go--hair
as black as a January night in stonry
weather, and eyes as big and as briglht
and as yellow (o' my word)-ae yellow
as two crowd pleces. They looked out
from under her thick eyebrows like
uanllght peeping from a heavy cloud.
.Aad she was made like a lad for sup.
plemaes. Taller than her mother by a
bead and shaboulders, and within a full
Iob8 o' my torelock. By'r laykin!
.ow she coulda sing, too I She would
bialthe ba ditty I' the' voice o' a six
ot etripplU g, but, for a' that, as
hit a, blm s hr away on a still noon
IS smeaistide."
flig _Etlty of oxpressloa and aptness
of ditl smees boundless. Here is
eeissue from the reaper's field,
Wh h frOis g ihase a sickle to show
[ t kt be~brea rival:
"The wind blew down her thick
locks about her so that she was wrap
ped in a mantle worthy any queen;
while with every sweep o' her strong
brown ariams the tumbling grain did
fall like gold about her; so that she
seemed to be trampling upon her treas
ores in a manner truly royal. Also a
red glow came into her shadowy cheeks
like aP though a scarlet flower tossed
into a clear, brown stream should rise
slowly upward beneath thelimpid sar
face and shine a-through." Only an
artist and a poet could have painted
this so vividly. But there is a not less
striking picture, Keren over the cradle
of her old-time lovers babe, she having
forced him to keep his vows plighted
to another maid. "There kneels she,
and Ruth's red shawl o'er her head to
please the child-there kneels she, I
say, beside the cradle, and kitties him
with her nimble fingers, and digs him
i' th' ribs after a fashion that would
sure a' run me crazy (though it hath
ne'er yet been proven what a young
babe cannot endure at the hands of
women), and punches and pokes and
worries him for all tit' world like a
kitten worrying a flower. And he,
lying on his back, winds all his hands
and babies and makes merry, after the
fashion o' a spring stream among many
stones. But at last up gets she to her
knees and takes him fiercely in her
strong hands, and holds him off at
arms' length, looking at him, and she
saith in a deep voice, saith she. 'For
that thou art not mine, saith she, 'I
hate thee; but-' and here comes a
change all over face and voice and
manner like as when April doth sud,
denly wake in the midst o' a wintry
iday in springtldo--'but,' sath she, "foi
that thou art his, I love thee.' And
she took nimn to her bosom and bowed
down her head over him so that he
was hidden all in her long hair." The
story is full of such vivid picturese
none more glowing, however, than
when this ferrier lass, having learned
her father's trade when his arm was
broken, is shown standing at the forge
"as though Dame Venus had taken
away her hammer from her good man
Vulcan to do his work for him." But
variety and swift changes are striking
features of Miss Rives' style. A noe
humor breaks these passages and
through all runs a keen wit. A few
Illustrations only are possible here.
Keren is brewing some sack for the
fond father, when up comes ",Mister
Peter Mouldy with his knitting and
grins at her across the caldron after the
fashion of a horse eating briars. She
not noticing him, quoth he :
"Good morning, sweet Mistraes
Lemon."
Saith she, notlooking at him:
"rhou liest I"
"-low, mistress ?" saith he, with
his mouth as wide as a church door on
a Sunday.
"Why, for calling a lemon sweet,"
salth she, "when all the world doth
know that it is sour."
Thereat he fell a grinning again.
",Sweet, sweet Mistress Lemon, 'tie
thee I praise and not thy name. And
I will wager that thou art not sour,
Mistress Kerea." ",How wilt thou find
out, either to lose or win thy wager,"
quoth she.
"Thus," quoth he. And o' my word,
the homespun got his arms about her,
knitting and all, (though I would a'
laid two cows and a lamb they couldn't
a' reached about her pretty waist) and
smacked right heartily full on her red
mouth. Well, comrade, that some
thing would happn I knew full well,
but when she did up with him ony the
seat 'o his breeches and the collar o' his
jerkin and did souse him head first in
to the pot o' sack, me thought I would
a' burst asunder, like Judas Iscariot
(meaning no blasphemy).
"And when he was clumbed out,
spluttering and white with terror, she
did fish out his hat with his big kniot
ting-needles, and did set it upon his
head, and did thrust him outside, and
did shut the door in his face."
There is a little glimmer of humor
in this passage from. the old farrier's
chat :
"Well, for all's fine talk Master
Hacket went no more to hell than do
any other men that marry-an' less
than some, seeing as how he did not
marry a scold, which (God forgive me,
or her, or both o' us) I have done.
Yea, comrade, I will commemorate
this our first meeting In eight years by
confessing to thee that my wife (in thy
ear, comrade), that my wife is a scold.
Sometimes I do verily think as how
women, like Mistress Lemon, be sent
unto men to keep 'em from pojnndering
too heavily concerning the absence o'
marriage in heaven. By cock and pye,
man, as I live, 1 do honestly believe
that I would rather be a bachelor in
hell than the husband o' Mistress
Lemon In heaven."
The story is strong in love and self
sacrifice, womanly devotion, sell-help
and heroic self-denial, a beautiful leaflet
that seems to have blown out of some
scrap book near a nook where Shakes
peare's manuscripts nestle, high in its
aim and true in its development. One
turns from it elated; and we know of
no higher test when to Its reading is
brought high appreciation for all these.
But with us mingles also the pleasure
of prophecy, for the hand that has laId
this tribute at the feet of our olte
mother, will lay finuer laurels there in
days to come. And so shouldt it be, for
gifts like these spring Irom previous
condition antd not from scclient. Not
as a prodigy, but as a development oe
her own people shall weregardt as Miss
Amelie Rives.
"VERY AMERICAN."
Sly Roae tlizabeth Cleveland.
I think the best thing that can be
said to American girls the year round,
but especially in July, is to beg them
to be more and more American, and,
when they have become just as Amen
can as they can possibly be, to keep
so.
There can be no need of my explain
ing to any American girl who reads
Sunshine why she should be a little
more American in July than In any
other month in the year; or, if she
should not be more American in July
than at anjy other time in the year,
why she may taldk and act a little more
American now then at other times.
The kind of girl I am thinking of and
talking to will be In no more danger of
forgetting her country's birth-month
than she will be in danger of forgetting
her own birth-month, or her mother's.
The month that has a birtllday in it
will never be forgotten; there are too
many teasons for remembering birth
days.
But I may say a word or two, per
haps, in explanation of what I 'mean
by advising American girls to be
American; for some clever girl who
reads what I am writing nmight ask
how an American girl can help being
American ?
I will Imagine that this question is
asked, for it will help ane to make
very clear how an American girl can
be truly American by showing how
she can not be American.
American girls can help being
American very easily; they can be
very un-American without half try
ing. I shall not try to speak of all the
ways by which this very undesirable
reputation can be deserved; but there
are two ways which are so much to
the point I wish to make, that I will
speak of them, and leave you to enu
merate others for yourself.
In the first place, then, you can be
very un-.Ameatian indeed, and becolme
more and more so, and when you have
become just as un-American as you can
be, you can keep so by simply being
and remaining ignorant about your
country.
It is a good rule about good things
that if you wish to feel very little in
terest in them you must know very
little about them; and if you wish to
have no interest at all, you must know
nothing. This rule holds particularly
good about the thing we call America.
The girl who wants to be un-Amer!can
must know nothing about her country;
she can then feel no Interest in it, and
if she has no interest she will have no
pride, no love, no Americanism. This
is the first way to be un-American.
In the second place, you can be very
un-American, indeed, by being very
something else-very French, very
Italian, very German, or, alas ! "very
English." There is no better way in
the world to alienate yourself from an
old friend or benefactor than to be dis.
loyal to that person. The very best
way In the world for a shallow girl to
lose admiration for ene friend is to
compare that friend with another who
is more admired by every one else:
who is "the fashion." And, even if
she be not shallow, it is a dangerous
experiment, if she wishes to retain her
own self-respect and sense of loyalty,
for any girl to expose a dear friend to
too much comparison with others; and
to hear too much criticism from others.
It is a good thing not to permit one's
self to do this at all. If your old
friend, your brother, your sister, your
mother, your lather, is not so much
admired for surface qualities by people
in general, as is soame new friend, that
is not your affair; he or she is, after
all yours and yours to keep yours, first
and best, always and forever.
A very good way indeed to be
thought to be un-American, andl to
really become so, is to compare your
country with other countries, witih a
constant willingness to believe the crit
icism of other people Which makes
America come out of the comparison
second best. Anti then to imiti+te, as
much as possible, the mansners and
customs of European countries; to
catch up all the foreign expressions and
'airs" you can; in short, to be just as
French or just as English as you possi
bly can be. You will lose your sense
of loyalty toward your own land in
this way, and then you will find it
very easy to dislike America, just as
we poor sinners find it very easy, al
ways, to dislike everybody and every
thing which is a reproach to us.
To be a truly American American
girl, is to be a truly country-loving
girl; that is to be truly patriotic; and
that Is to love and honor andt be ready
to serve her country at all times and in
all places. Plenty of times and plenty
of places will be foundtl if one is looking
for them.
No Atnmericant girl can piossibly lhelp
loving andl honoring Iher gralnd country
if she knows anything abolt it. The
long thrilling story of its making from
first to last, froil its tbeginting way
back in the hearts of mene, to its pren
ont growth and greatness, will silnk
deeper and deeper into lahe heads end
hearts of all who studly it, atlnd mean
more and more, as time goes on. Iearn
all you can, girls, of every country;
you can never study hiatory too mnuch.
B3ut tirst and last and in the mniddle,
learn all you can of your own conlltry.
You can never in a whole long life
time learn all there, is l, learn. The
story can tat-ver grow stale, if ,rilhtly/
srtuliaed; anll never grows tiresoma.
And stlandI up ftr Ameri:ca wherever
you are. D)on't imitate any foreign
styles or mannors. 1 iln ithe, dlepthts of
your good, trnue, cotuntry-lovitag haIarts
you are conltPelle tto athlait that your
country has a fault, as every gRrtat na
tion has, why, go to work to firet coll
ceat and then c-rue,' thatt fautlt; anaiaai lt
it be your glory tllat, as American
girls, it is your maission to tlaako evary
thing Atlerinttn s.t goalt atal so baaat i
ful, that not lonig llelaaw it shall be
more fashalloathle to lie 'very Arilt-ni
can" iIthan very anlythinig a-sl,; eveal,
"very E',,glish."''-- ',-a,,,, -t-r,'hioe, AM"
July.
TatE TFLERAnpH : One dollar pier
y ear.
MONROE ADVERTISEMENTS.
-A FULL AND ELEGANT LINE OF
Spring and Summer Novelties
-AT LOWEST PRICES AT
Mrs. M. Staples Blees' Fashionable Millinery,
No. 26 Grand Street, Monroe, La.
Dresses artistically made in the latest fashion at lowest
figures.
..I. T°. BE 1TOIT
-MANUFACTURER OF
__LI8 Hv.i t Et _
ene Posts, Boards & Pickets.l.
Curbing for Side-walks Put in Position at Reasonable Rates.
DPRICE(Of All IHeart Shingles, best quality, delivered any where in ii4 .. .
......the City, or at Railroad Depolt and Steamboat Landing...... ( D V.fJO
S'- Special Rates on Large Orders. -t_.
P'rices of other work given on application or written request. Orders by mail given
special and prompt attenti'on. Ctall on or address
H. T. BENOIT, Monroe, La.
All ordars loft with E. FUI)ICIKAI will receive prompt attention,
READ THIS!
HSADIl AIN IIlRNESS rPIC fIIST
-TO CASI- PUIRCHIIASERS.
GRAIND NTRI EEr - - - - MONO, LA.
(Opposi/e the (. buri/house,)
Buggy Jlarnless, $7 50 to $18 00. (oIumlllnol Saddles, $1 75, $2 50, $3 00, $4 50 cand ~ 00.
ITexas Saddles, $5 00 . 7 50. $10 00, $12 00 and $15 00. Side Saddles, $4 001to 5r 00.
Plow tlla..mes, 2 35,. :., 50e,. Good 'Tl'aml Collars, 75C. to $1 00 each.
Cheek Lines, ; $; 25, $1 50l, 1 i:ch $1 73. Good Shiping 1Ialter, 15c. tog~ c. onch.
Team Bridlos, .>ic. to $1 2S o:cht. I(olntnon Saddle (lirts, Jl c. to 25c.
Wood Stirups, 10C. tO 50. per pair. Buggy VWhips 25 c. to : 0O0.
Bridle Bits, all style, 10to. to 50c. Cow Boy Saddloe, $20 00 to $21; 00.
SIi. Jacobs P'istol HIolsters, $2 00 each.
.. E -. PEJ -.-r.. -S,
O-razdc1 ilt.rootx . " ,,-- --- ~-o-ma-noo, Ln..
FURNITURE, SASH AND DOORS, WINDOW SHADES,
Childrens' Carriages, Wagons and Velocipedes.
t-AND I)EALIER IN
Coffins, Cofin Trimmings and Metalic Burial Cases.
--ALSO ISAIEIt IN -
The American Sewing MVIachine.
The : Old: Reliable: Corner."
J. M. BREARD,
Corner - Gran - and - BeSiard - Streets.
Vl O lfT I ::: , T-  T .. AQ'.
S% ChIeapº (hood.s, IHontcst II(t <ul .?I r ( EtiP JBe(srle
And : don't : you : Jo,/ etl : il.
MONIROE BAKERY,
l. U. MILLEIR, i'roprietolr.
I)1eSIAltI) S'T'IEEJ'T, MONil It)E, lA.,
Families supplied wvith bread made of the best flour. ('tates of
every kind kept for sdale or made to order.
Fancy Groceries, Tobacco, Cigcars.
Fruits, Confections, etc,
Kept ill stock and will be sold at tho lowest market price.
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THE TELEGRAPH:
MONROE, LA.,
C. Z.. TRO rrD-C7DBLE-.
Editor aind Publibher.
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I't)MIl'1' LY IN ADVANCE.
A I)D PVtERIE ' Nl'
will be inserted at olne ldollar per squlLre
(,,n iochll of space or leoss) for the first and
till. t s c1ts fur eacuh tsubseqluntL il.nsertion,
for ity pirioid (of timlie utler floe imnuiith.
For lonlger periods special rates will be
Ititdli .
]Editorial businoss notices will be madie,
free of lchargo, o(f al1 advert iSeients ordered
in the paper; thr other editorial Inoti(ce a
charge of 25 cents per line will be Iutale lo
the first 11tld 15 centsH per line for each sub
seqoluntl. isoertion. This rule will not be
' \·..jrd( Ifroms in anv intallce.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
SUCCESSION SAI.E.
THli STATE OF LOUISrANA. PA I11s11
OF OLUAC'II'TA, FIF'iI DiIS'ITICT
COUR IT.
SUCCESSION OF MARION COWAN.
b)Y VXiI I,1 OF AN OtrDIIEl (ll' SAIKE
I to rto directed by lho Judge of the Fifith
)Dist'rict Court lfor the parishi of O(nachila. I
will proeod to soiell at public ailietionl, at the
court h'lluse door, ill the city of Monroe,
'lluesday, td day of August. 1887,
at 12 o'clock. the following describod prop
erly, belonging to said succession, to-wit:
The north % of southwest %, mad south
. of northwest %, Sec. 32, T. 17. north of
range 2 oast, 160 acres more or less, with
all the imlnrovolements thereon. One lnule,
4 head of catltle, 1 horse (blind), 5 head of
hogs. Lot of household and kitchoen fur
IitturO.
Termsll of sale, cash, at appraised value.
. 1. I Mct;llERl Shneril*
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
Frai/lkin Garrett,
ATTORNEY .&( COUNSELLOR AT LAWV,
20 JWood .%l., Mlonroe, La.
|OLIN It. b't'UNm, W--wI o MI. MURPtJHy
MIonroe, La. Tallulnh, Iax.
Stone & Murnphy,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
WVill pr:actico in the Federal and Slate
Courts.
Otlices: Monrllloe aind Tallulnlh La.
O. o. IOAT'NIIR. J. K. IIOATN Kial.
C. J. aC J.. U oatner,
A'TTORNEYS AND COUNSElOlIRS AT
Law, Monroe, La. will practice in all
the Parishes of North Louisiana, in the
Supreme Court at Monroe, the Federal
Courts, and in the Land Offlico Department
of the Genoral Government.
Oflice fronting northeast corner of public
squanre. July 17, S-;.-ly
w. . ILLSAr. D. i. Siiil.Att.
llillsaps &d Jholars,
ATTORNEYS & COUNSELORS AT LA W,
MONROE, LOUISIANA,
7ilil practiCO in the courts of tho Fifth
)istriot, Supreto Court, andl Federal
onrluts. Vill take claims for collection in
all the parishes of North Loulisiana, with
privilego of nmanaginlg saenIo in connoction
wiLh residenlt attorneys.
Ollico in STUIBn's BUILrDINO, on Wood
street. July 17, ISIi.-ly
t.1. J. MAMSEN(ILL. (. 11. JOiHNSION.
Massengii &. Johnaslln,
.) l*r'Ioc, 1ETLS'1"T,
Monroe, - p I- - Louisiagna.
Ofhice upstairs. Ilernhardt's tildine.
MONROE ADVERTISEMENTS.
CENTRAL HOUSE.
Mrs. Kate Morris, Proprietress,
MONROE, I.A.
IBOAtI) AND LOI)tING: (20 PElt lIONT'iII.
FARE: TIE BEST TIlE MAlRKET
AFFORDS.
A faii saharo of patrongeo .olieited.
ALEX MUNCH,
Blacksmith and Wheelwright
-AND
STOVE REPAIRE hR,
ST. JOHN STREET,
Ilatwoeot (Iranmn t atnl a Vood Stf reots,
.AIONIZOE, 1,A.
'PatItienlar attolltionl paid to till lthsi1stes
lltlllu sted to hi.lll
cIA , I IGE', 1UA,SNONrAB iLE.
J. W. a-OSS,
)ceSiard Street, - - - Monroe, .a.
- 1I)tAt,.ttt IN -
Groceries & Country Produce,
OYSTERS, VISII, GIAME, ETC.
MEALS SERVED AT 25 CENTS
A. 13E1i" (.r,,
Carpenter and Builder,
:; )n:S.Ml) STREET, MONIROE', LA.
ALL KINDS OF
JOB3 WOI7IC
NEATLY EXECUTED).
BUSINESS CARDS.
N1I, Illi , I ' 11 .N ~i Il)RlY', ..
'TI11:o. M.\r.N
I)REYFUS, MARX & CO.,
:3:11 Alain treet, M mci 1il. Ten' n.,
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