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Insect Plague She Gnvcin nn li (Tribune. Published by the Tsrsuim Publishtac Oo.) I f 1.25 Per Annnm; 76 cents for Six Months; > J. H. DKVKAUX. Maksax* < 60 cents Three Months; Single Copies ( 6 cents' -In Advanco. VOL. 111. SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY, APRIL 7.1888. NO. 25. Coming Home. and unseen from the busy river, and him. It was an answer from the gods PEARLS OF THOUGHT. Adieu! is uttered with a sigh; where her girls unmade her toilet. Now to the wishes he had just been indulging INSECT PLAGUE. Farewell! we speak in pain; the banks of the Father of rivers are in—he had planned a here was a We ever part with tearful eye; castle, A good word is easy, and not to hard in places—a mixture of and may not meet again; sand mistress for it. “Let search be made,” speak illonly requires We clay baked The Terrible Onset of an Army silence. there is a blissful word, in the scorching sun, and cried he, “forher who owns this sandal, But, oh, Hungry Justice is a virtue that gives every When breathed by those who roam, rough to delicate feet. So Rhodopis and by these signs shall you know her; of Locusts. man his own, by even portions. Which thrills with joy whenever heard, did not quit her sandals until the mo- Whosoever the shoo fits, and who has If ’Tis coming, coming home! ment when she stepped down into the the fellow shoe, and who can explain Repelling Their Visits—Utilizing you always live with those who are ’Tis sad to take the parting gaza still, cool water. the symbol on the sole, she is the right them for Food. lame you willyourself learn to limp. For long, long weary years, There, half-swimming, she played ful owner; bring her to mo that I may To presume in one’s duty and be si- onward through the gathering haze As and frolicked, happy in the pure joy of make her my queen.” To hear was to lent, is tho best answer to calumny. The gallant bark careers. A writer in tho English Mechanic living like the gay butterflies that flut- obey, and the But joy untold the bosom swells, messenger started on his says that an army of locusts is a won- Dost thou love life I Then do not squan- tered about the rushes. She gathered search. When o’er the dashing foam Many days he travelled down derful and an interesting sight to the der time; for that is the stuff life ia handfuls of lotuses, and threw them the We mark the whitening sail that tells Nile, making proclamations of the traveler who does not own a yard of made of. loved coming away again, and then, in a lazy fit, she will The are home! of Psammetichus as he wont, bear- soil, and is a rnero onlooker at their One good act done today is worth a floated on her back, and gave herself up sandal We love to hear from those who pin" ing the on a cushion. And frightful devastation. It is Attila and thousand in contemplation for some to thoughts on things in general and on ho Upon a foreign strand; wherever camo through the wholo his innumerable horses rushing over tha ft tire time. I* There is a pleasure in each line herself in particular. But to return to land of Egypt there was a routing out of vegetable world. To-day tho wide Education is the leading of human Traced by the well-known hand; her sandals, which she had kicked off cupboards and a hunting up of left-off But oh, the of that hour, plains are shining green with denso souls to what is best, and making what rapture on the river’s brink. shoes, in case by chance there might be When those beloved who roam foliage; to-morrow, nothing but brown is best out of them. They lay as she had left them, a pair found among them a match for the Have breathed those words of magic power; twigs and bare branches, when the le- of dainty shoes fit for such dainty feet. wonderful but to The bread of life is love; the salt of I’m coming, coming home! sandal; none camo gions move off on their combined mis- —[Oliver They were embroidered in gold and light and tho life is work; the sweetness of life, poe- Dyer, in Farm and Fireside. maidens were left forlorn. sion. As they arrive, the dense, dark brilliant colors with a pattern At last he try. Tho water of life, faith. quaint came to Naucratis, and clouds moving up from the horizon, and and with the lotus and, when the As and favor forsake EGYPT; ever-present proclamation reached the ears often obscuring tho sun’s rays, proclaim riches a man, we CINDERELLA IN curious the discover to boa most of all, upper surface of of Rhodopis she remembered the theft tho approach of the widely dreaded hijn fool; but nobody the sole on which her foot rested bore of her sandal could find it out in his and know herself tho one scourge. The alarmed villagers con- prosperity. A BEAUTIFUL STORY OF THE ORIGIN OF the of a captive with bound arms, figure sought for by the king. Tho Ambassa- gregate on the expected lino of march, If you would bo pungent, be brief; THE GLASS SLIPPER. on one sandal an the Egyptian, on other a dor was admitted to her presence, and beating drums and brass pots, shouting or it is with words ns with sunbeams, Greek—a fanciful way of suggesting the then at last the shoo fitted. ‘‘Andhere,’' and lighting bonfires and making all tho more they aro condensed tho deeper We may find sermons in but dominion of their owner over hearts stones, the cried Rhodopis, ‘‘is the follow shoo,and kinds of hideous noises. On ono occa- they burn. \vho would look for fairytales in a sand of two nations. this is why I wear these symbols on the sion, in South Africa, I drove off tho A monarchy is a man-of-war, stanch, heap? it Now chanced that just above, sail- soles—as Greece is captive to my beau- enemy from a friend’s garden by iron-ribbed and resistless when under Nevertheless, in the lost tomb of the ing round in his vast mere circle, a ty, so shall Egypt be, and Egypt’s mas- making four heaps of damp rubbish—- full sail; yet a single hidden rock sends last king of the twenty -sixth dynasty speck in the r dancing blue sky, w as ter.” And then she went with him to one at each corner, in preparation, and her to the bottom. lies buried the original story of Cinder- an eagle, and as the sandals by and the whoso glittered Memphis, when king, then lighting them at the piopor ella her Tho sun should not set upon our an- and slipper. the water’s edge they caught his eye. heart was sick with waiting, saw her, we moment, dispersed tho advanco ger, neither should it rise upon our con- There is, indeed, only one variation of Now, whether he thought they were he at onco succumbed to tho charm of guard,our columns of thick smoke being fidence. We should forgive freely, any consequence between the two ver- good to eat or whether he was a bird of her loveliness; he did as he had prom- but carried by the wind upon the main forget rarely. Seek not to be revenged; sions and the ancient one is certainly cultivated taste, I know but ised and made her his queen. And the not, body which altered its route. Horses this the more romantic. Cinderella’s prince- straightway rosy-cheeked you owo to an enemy. he swooped and seized Greek slave sat beside and oxen, their heads and nostrils tor- ly admirer finds in her lost shoe a clew Let it bo borne in mind tint tho cords one. Psammetichus on tho throne of Pharaoh. mented by the clinging limbs of tho to his vanished enchantress but King Rhodopis, roused from her reverie by —[London Graphic. of love, which bind hearts so closely to- ' swarms were bolting away to tho woods, Psammetichus falls over head and cars in the rush of wings, caught sight of the gather that neither life nor death kicking and plunging in their hasty nor love with he knows not wfliom, from great bird as it flew off, and frightened, A Plague of Wild Horses, lime nor eternity can sever them, aro flight. A hissing, crackling sound only seeing her sandal. set to screaming and then ducked. By Nevada horse raisers and ranchmen woven of threa Is no bigger than a arose on all sides, the whole air seemed The ancient Cinderella beauti- the time she had recovered herself and on the Piocho and White Pine ranges spider’s web. was a to be occupied by the falling and flying ful Greek; Sappho calls her taken in what had happened, the eagle are complaining of the wild horses of 'Die most agreeable of Doricha, imps of mischief. Tho “locust birds” nil companions and that was most likely her and her sandal were in the next parish. that region. In the Shellback moun- is a proper (a kind of crane) hovered in small simple, frank man, without any name, but the Greek people with whom Os course, directly it was all over, tains arc bands of from 150 to 200 of high pretensions to an parties on their flanks, and subsisted on oppressive great- fairness of skin was one of the highest her girls, who had been busy telling these horses, each under tho leadership a very small percentage of the insect ness.
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