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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. One who loves life, and under- of female beauty, named her one another their of powerful stallions, and they make qualities secrets, began in hosts. In desert localities, tho funds the use of it; obliging alike at from the loveliness of her complexion alarm to hide everything away in a regular raids on the ranches and run off all hours; above hungry pests actually pitched on all, of a golden temper, “Rhodopis,” Rosy Cheeks, and as Rosy place of safety, as if they expected a the horses of the ranchmen. A horse and steadfast bone, matting, sticks, etc., and as an anchor. Cheeks she is known in history. whole phalanx of eagles were coming to once gone is gone forever, the Nevada failing in a meal, attacked and de- Rhodopis was originally a slave and a carry off their mistress’ clothes. And men say, for the wild horses are very Fabulous Serpent Women. voured each other. O.i another oc- fellow-bondswoman of JEsop, the writer no doubt they had some reason for their cunning and wary, and will not let a In the early Egyptian hieroglyphics casion 1 drove for miles along a sandy of in the house of ladmon of concern, for ancient ladies had a variety man get within rifle shot of them. The wi; find rep"Csestations of snakes’ bodies fables, tract, the wheels of the vehicle crush- and like the heroine of the of amiable little ways of producing sym- nuisance became so great that last crowned by female heads; and, indeed, Samos, ing myriads of the newly-hatched in- tale, a menial and so in their slaves when tilings went spring fifteen experienced horsemen and this class of serpents seems to have modern a. drudge, pathy sects, all crawling and creeping, with the parallel holds good from the be- wrong, and Rhodopis, sweet as she was hunters started out with the object of proved equally attractive to all nations, migratory instinct, toward the culti- ginning. Like she had to look at, was like the rest. But, killing off as many of the ‘‘boss stal- an evidence of which subtle fascination Cinderella, too, vated tracts. In India locust visits aro a fairy but a more after all, it was not a very serious mat- lions” as possible. In a ten days’ hunt is that the legends of the “snako godmother, powerful fewer between, but far more formidable, and lavish one, and her name was ter, for Rosy Cheeks had cupboards full they managed to kill just one maidens’ still live in the nursery tales horse.. owing to the overwhelming musses. Aphrodite. of sandals at home, and besides her lit- The wild horses of Nevada average of to lay, perennially young and beauti- Sometimes a series of clouds, composed This procured her liberty, ter was only round the corner, so, after about 800 pounds weight, and when ful as though their birth were not patroness of their flights, cover several miles and heaped upon her and her first astonishment and fright was caught are about the most ugly beast wrapp'd in tho mysteries of a prebis T riches; simultaneously. Fortunately, there aro alive. But if they can be thoroughly toricagj. Os this family camo Lirnia, Rhodopis, to make her name immortal over, she thought little more about it. several birds and beasts in quest’of their subdued and broken, they make the the witch of Crete, wh >s? woman’s by an offering such as had never been Now this event was in reality the bodies, and I have even seen them most serviceable and hardy horses im- heart rendered her doubly sensitive to made before, dedicated with a tenth turning point of life, for what did this salted, dried and sold in tho markets. aginable. tho degradation she suffered during her part of her property a quantity of iron mysterious bird do but fly straight I have often inspected a dish of curried in the temple of away with his over the far incarceration within her scaly prison; spits Apollo at Delphi, prey, Delta, To Ventilate a Room. locust, but could not bring a and this up the long river to and nor did she on renewing the pristine extraordinary gift was still to Memphis, The best way to ventilate a room that sufficient amount of curiosity be seen there in Herodotus's there, as if his mission ended, he glory of her human form completely time. I know of is to put a board, long to bear on the tasting ex- dropped sandal the judgment lose the essence of her serpent nature. Some also say that she b lilt one of the before enough to fit exactly in the window periment, though a prawny odor went the pyramids of seat of King Psammetichus. Hurmonia, the wife of Ca Imus, to boa Egypt, but as Herodo- frame, and about six inches high, under up with the steam. The fishes are great the companion in her husband's misfor- tus remarks, those who say so evidently The king was sitting in open air, the lower sash. If you remember the devourers of these winged visitors, for know city justice tunes, also took upon herself the ser- nothing about it, and however close to the gate, dispensing construction of window sashes you will they fall into lakes and rivers during this may if his subjects. The sun was hot and pent’s shape, but being devoid of evil be, Rhodopis was not so to know that this consequent raising of changes of wind and weather. Besides simple as our own and de- intent, never, it is said, shunned, but Cinderella, she was, the imaginations of plaintiff the lower one will leave spaces between fires made of green rubbish at top, I all rather sought man's presence. Perhaps ’ at events, more lucky, and, if her fendant equally inventive and inex- the glass and the woodwork, found gunpowder explosions very useful through it f . coachman and horses and chariots is but another form of the classic were haustible, so Psammetichus was bored; which fresh air can obtain a gradual in scaring thorn away from the vicinity -really rats and mice and and he Harmonia which his become familiar to pumpkins, they his thoughts wandered far away, entrance into the room. Its course is of my garden. When several successive never resumed their us under the name of the fairy Gentilla, proper shape, and fell to building castles in the air. Now made somewhat tortuous and all draught hordes alighted on my grass land I clock who, in an adder's shape, sought refuge no disenchanting sent her hurry- no Oriental could ever build a castle in thereby prevented. When it reaches loaded my gun with dust shot, and, with Prince L .an lcr from tho ing back to her scullery, one shoe off the air or otherwise without giving it a stooping low on the vengeance the inside it has an upward direction, ground, discharged * one shoe on. Midnight so he himself by of the irate gardeners, but at the end of .and never mistress; pleased too, and is not likely to come in contact the contents of both barrels into their struck for her, and she lost her shoe in for his ideal palace an ideal several days droppe 1 her scaly mantle, imagining with tender craniums. It is important, midst. Having done so several times, I way. and, arrayed in supernatural charms, quite another beauty. in using this kind of ventilation, that enjoyed the welcome sight of seeing At the time 1 speak of she was said He her with the eyes of the munificently rewar led her protector.--" to pictured the board fit accurately under the j them rising into the air and going else- be the most beautiful woman in the voice of the [North American Review. Egypt gazelle, nightingale, window, so that no little spaces be left where. I have no doubt a.small cannon and she lived at Naucratis, a port on the the of the panther, the tread of on such heavily litheness ¦ for the air to blow through.—[New occasions, loaded with A Petrified Snake. Canotic branch of the Nile, founded in a goddess, and as his thoughts dwelt would hasten their I York World. sharp sand, flight. While some workmen were making the preceding reign by colonists from still on the dainty toes that hardly nil excavation at Pcublo, Col., recently, Miletus, and though a born Greek, living pressed the ground they rested on, the Two Souls With But a Single Thought, Strength of Woods. they came upon a petrified snake,totally in a Greek city, it pleased her now and sandal fell from heaven plump at his “Ihave to tha ik you for a pleasant In a paper on the strength of differ- different from any known species f%m,d then to play the Egyptian and to adopt royal feet. Astonished out of all dig- evening, Miss Bilderback," said young ent kinds of wood for building pur- i j that part of the country at prcs4M|f| the manners and fashions of her new nity, he jumped up, stared up into the Pcckingpaugh at 11.30 o’clock as he poses, Prof. Johnson calls attention to It was found eight feet from the silt; country. And so it came about that one sky, and down at the slipper, and then rose to “Ihave scarcely felt as if I the fact, as now demonstrated, that go. face, Fr >m its appearance it would morning, before the sun was yet high, stooped and picked it up —for no one were an acquaintance until this evening; many cheaper kinds of timber may i ¦cem th- the snake had been caught she went down, just as did Pharaoh's had dared to touch it. Was it a god- but now it almost seems as if I had prove more valuable for structures than ¦ let ween two rocks by the tail ages daughter, with her maidens to bathe in dess’ No; it was a lovely little shoe, known you for years.” more ex|>cnsive varieties which have ago, its peculiar position eloquentlyex- the Nile. but certainly an earthly one, with the j “Iwas about to make the same re been supposed to be stronger, and pressiu ; its agony. Instead of decom- H At a short from the bank she print of five little earthly toes distinctly the young lady with therefore, more desirable. Thus, pine distance mark,” murmured posing, the body dried out so perfectly left her litter, and sought a secluded marked on it—the very little toes he her eyes on clock. “It docs, in- supports or pillars have been found tho that t o taxidermist hope to equal just been in could creek, where, screened by the feather- had dreaming of. deed, seem a long time.”-[Chicago stronger than Luk ones, when tested nature's work, even tLo eyes being per- ing papyrus, she would br undisturbed Then of a sudden it became plain to Tribune. , large samples.—[New York Sun. feck