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gifted, Yet kot of H6pe Bereft, j
BY JOHN SI. BICHABDSON.
John Stetson winced a little. j took a glass of soda each, which
“They are toere,.. trifles,” he said< made ten cents more. This
carelessly.
cents each
time. Pooh! they would make
Just like two oaklings^ that hare grown p rec j ong little difference at the
And knit together as one tree,. . , . „
Their branches round .ack other thrown- end of the year. •
So and wife may come to be
Let, then, some blast or bolt one smite,
And hurl to earth in ruin dire;
The one that’s loft, oh, piteous sight!
All torn, dis-souled, doth slow es pire.
Near two and thirty years I spent
With my beloved, handin hand;.
When suddenly death came-she went—
And lam left alone to stand!
Ah, me! the horror and dismay.
Of that dark midnight solemn hour,
When, without notice, passed away
The life of home, its joy, its flower,
"''Time fled. A star adorned the east,
■ Ana, brightening, to the zenith earner f
Whilst field and wood,and man and beast
Bejoiced beneath its gentle flame.
A while o’erheead ’twas queenly, bright;
But, creeping down the western sky,
It paler grew as to’ards the night
It slowly went, thenjoemed to die.
'I mourned its loss.yet fell asleep,.
That twin state to its brother death,
■ A ml wote not from my slumber deep
’Til came sornb other eve’s cool breath,
.1 awoke; and from.my mimic grave
Arose, and to a placid stream ,..
Went forth and, knelt my brow to lave—
When on its waters shone a gleam
Assuring that my wept-for star
Had come once more to' bless mine ej os;
Ami as I gazed, a voice, riot far,
Called softly as from Paradise:
‘Why moumest thou? Dry now thy tears,
. And give thy. heart to hope, not. grief;
For soon will pass thy fleeting years,
E’en as thy'slumb’rous moments brief.
“Ancl she who did thy cares divide,
Thy joys increase, will come and shine>
Just as that star—a spirit bride—
Forever and forever thinei.
And in that city, large, ana fair,
■ Where Jesus is, and God is known,
The joys of those^Ie loves yo'll share,
Rejoicing ever near His throne.”
I woke; and, lolit was a dream.
And yet a glorious pr&sence near
I. constant feel, and oft I seem
Her face to see, her voice to hear.
,And so I bend me to my task,
.As when of yore she cheered me on,
Assured" that in her smile I bask,
A mi that with her I’ll be anon.
-■ •lLbrd,-.khBi>’‘nie always in the Way 1 ,
Obedient to thy truth and laws,
Submissive ever to Thy sway,
A faithful soldier in Thy cause'.
And when from toil thou giv’st release,
; And bidd’st me lay mine armor down, -
My songs of praise shall never cease
To chant the glories of Thy crown.
; And though my joy supreme will be.
To stand and worship near Thy throne,
'’Twill no displeasure be to Thee
That I still love her as my own. . |
Daingerfield, Texas, Sept. 6,1888.
SMALL SAYINGS.
BY HOBATIO ALGEK, JR.
“1 don’t see how Holmes does
.it,” said John Stetson, with a puz
zled expression.
; “Does what?” asked’ his wife,
lookin'! up from her sejjjtog..
. “Why, to save, so much mohey
from his salary, to be sure.”
“Then he does save, does he?”
“You know the half-acre lot ad-
joing his house?”
“Yes.” *■ 5 •
; “Well, he has just bought it for
A hundred dollars'; and what is
.more, paid foie it but of money
‘saved from his salary this year.”
“How does his salary cqhiphre
with yours?”
, “He has only seyen hundred
dollars a year, while I have eight.
Then ,our families are the s^me;
each of us have two children,
j “Yet. I aifi afraid yoti don’t save
near that amount.” ,, . ,
- “No, I guess not. The fact is,
jf I find myself square at the ieiid
of the year; I think myself lucky-”
,, “And yet; Jphni” said his ; wife
gravely; “it seems to me as if we
ought to lay by something.”
; , ‘/It’seaSy enough tp .. say that,
but the. question is; ‘Hoik., are we
going to do it?’ There’s Mary’s
music leSSohs.at |eh dollars a quar T
ter. That’s the only way I ,can
think dkj; and 1 shouldn’t want to
BtOp thOSpi” , ..^ .. ... : ' i- .J,
i'“Nq; tob.e sure not; lint isn’t
there any other way ?” •
“Not that that I know of.” v j -
: “Don’t you think, John, the little
incidental expenses cost more than
yon think for?”
“Such as what? ’.
j “Cigars, ice cream, oysters, the
theatre^ and so on.
“You. know there is an old prov
erb, ‘Many a ’ little makes
mickle.’”^
“Pshaw! I hate old proverbs.
Besides, these little things are
really of very little ./'account. A
man doesn’t feeVtha sum lie pays
out, and if it didn’t go in one way
it would in another.”
“How many cigars do you smoke
daily?” pursued his wife.
'“-Three.’’ v. , ■ ■-
“And how much dp you pay for
them?”
“Five cents apiece.”
“That would make fifteen cents.”
“And what is fifteen cents*
“Not to.a£h t in itself, ’but multi
plied by a large number, it amounts
to something.”
“What are you ^riving at, wife?”
i; “I am going to make a proposi
tion to you.” .. ■,
“I’m all attention.”
“.Yon say you don’t mind a few.
cents a day?”
“Then I propose that a-small
box be obtained, with a slit. in the
lid, just like the children’s ; tin
savings boxes, in short, only
larger; and that for every cent you
spend for cigars, ice cream, thea
tres, nr any such little luxury, you
deposit an equal sum in the box.”
John Stetson laughed.
“Ldaresay,” . he remarked, “it
would bring . me out a .perfect
Croesus at the end of the year.”
“Do you agree?” asked his wife,
with some appearance of anxiety..
; . “Yes; I have no great objection,
if you desire it, though I aekuowl
edge it looks a little foolish aud
childish*”
“Never mind abbut that. I have
your promise, and we’ll try the ex
periment one year. If it doesn’t
amount to enough to make it au
object, then, it will be time enough
to give it up.” ■;
“You must'take all the . trouble
of it. I can’t engage tb do any
thing about it except to furnish
the money when.it is called for.*'
“That is all L shall require of
you. But I shall expect you to
give an account everjf night of all
that you have disbursed in the
ways you spoke of, and to be pre
pared with ,an equal amount of
change for deposit.”
‘‘Very well, I’ll try.”
This conversation took place at
the.breakfast table. Haying drain
ed his second cup of coffee; ■ John
Stetson put on his overcoat and
took his way to his place of busi
ness. I may as well mention, in
this connection, that he-was cash
ier in a small country bank, and,
as his duties occupied him only a
few hours in the day, he was more
likely, from the leisure he.enjoyea,
to.indulge in small expenses. •
My wife is an enthusiast,”
thought he, as he was walking
down town. “However, hbr hobby
won’t cost .touch, so I might as
well, indulge her in it.” •
He stepped, into a store and ob
tained his daily allowance, bf ci
gars. . . ... • T ' ,
t Meanwhile Mrs. Stetson pro
ceeded tb the shop of a cabinet
maker.
“I want you,” said she, “to make
me a mahogany box twelve inches
long, the other dimensions being
four inches each. In the center
of the top is to be a slit, large
enough to admit the latest silter
coin.” -. f: ... -
“A money box,” said the cabinet
maker./
. “Yes.” . . . - -
“Pretty large for that, isn’t it?”
“Bather,” < said Mrs. .. Stetson,
smiling: “but better too large than
too small.” • ’ ; ; / j? . . .
John Stetson fell in with a com
panion in the afternoon,- with
whom he had. a social, chat. As
they were walking leisurely along
they passed an .oyster saloon. Stet
sop was particularly .fond of-the
Bivalves, ;and he, proposed, that
they should go in and .take some.
To this the friend did ) not de
mur, and they accordingly enter
ed. Two plates of oysters came, to
thirty cents. Besides this, thev
- /
brought up the bill to forty cents,
which Stetson paid. /Accordingly,
adding to this fifteen cents for ci-
The box was opened, and hus
band and wife commenced count
ing. They soon reached, and pass
ed,; forty dollars. • : ,
“Blesfi my seal!”, said John
gars, he deposited fifty-five cental i^tetson, “I had no idea there was
in his wife’s hands that evening.
“I might as well make it sixty,
he said, smiling.
“No,” said she. , “Not a cent
over. I want the Savings to repre
sent exactly what you spend in
these little luxuries, andnp more.
“ The next evening he had noth
ing to deposit except the usual
amount of cigars.
“It won’t amount up very fast at
that rate,” he said Triumphantly.
“Never mind,” said his .wife,
don’t want you to Increase your
expenditures on my account,
am inclined to thin k they will Dot
often b*as ; small as this.”
/Sue was rigid. ,
The next day being Wednesday,
John Stetson brought home a cou-
.ple of tickets for the theate. - Mt
-wtos a benefit night, and he was'
anxious that his wife should go.
“Certainly,” said she. “I shall
be glad to gor; but you remember
our compact?’
“What?”
“How much did you pay for the
tickets?” ■
“Fifty cents apiece.”
“That will make a dollar. Please
hand me that amount for ou
fund.” ;
Was. the theatre included? :
said John, a little reluctantly.
“Certainly. That was expressly
mentioned.”
“Oh, well, then; so let it be,
Here is a silver dollar.”
The dollar was at once dropped
into the box;
The next day in. passing a shop
window Stetson noticed some very
fine oranges.
“Just what Mary and the chil
dren would like,” thought he. “I’ll
go in and, inquire the price.”
.They were ..four A cents aipiece.
He bought half a dozen at a -cost
of a quarter, which with his cigar
money, left him forty cents to de
posit. ■
The succeeding day , ho spent
nothing except for cigars. On
Saturday he stepped into a confec
tionery with a friend and had
lunch.
When his wife added up the
daily sums, she found to her own
surprise, even, that':-sb.fl had re
ceived from her husband, two dol
lars and sixty-two cents. He wbuld
have been astonished tb hear it,
but-, she thought it best not tb say
anything about it. He would have
alleged that it was a special case,
as they did not go to the theatre
every week. This was true, but
then something else was sure to
come of equivalent cost, such as a
ride or a concert.
So time slipped away. , The ne
cessity, according to the compact,
of giving bis wife as much as he
spent for incidental -expenses, ; np
doubt contributed to check him
somewhat; .so that he probably idid
not spend more liian two-thirds as
much in this way as he had done
before the. s ; agreement. Still, he
np-to the average of the first
week.
We will now suppose the year
to have glided By: John - Stetson
came into the -sitting-room with a
preoccupied Air.
“What are yon thinking about?”
asked his wife.
“About the half-acre lot adjoin
ing the one Holmes, bought last
year:-” : .
“Did you wish to purchase it?”
“Yes; I should dike to; blit of
so much,
What was
his
astonishment
when the total proved to -be one
hundred and twenty-nine dollars
and forty cents.’ " - “
“You see you can bay the lot’
. “But haven’t you swelled the
amount from your own allow
ance?” he asked somewhat bewil
dered. v.
. “Not'by a cent; and don’t you
see John, that if you had refrain
ed from even half the expenses we
spoke of* we might have had in
the-neighborhood of two' hundred
dollars!”
John Stetson did see, and he de
termined that the lesson should
be a serviceable one. The half-
aci e lot was bought, and now at
the end of five years, it is worth
double what he paid for it. He
has also laid aside two hundred
dollars a year during this period,
and all by small savings.—Yankee
Blade.
Knew What He Was About.
At a side tract and ^water- tank
between Greensboro and Salis/
bury, the hoar being about 9
o’clock at night, a man boarded
the train and took a seat, directly
ahead of me. When the • i train
started the conductor came around
for his fare, and as he had mo tick
et,-that official asked:
“Why didn’t you get a ticket at
Blaukville?”
“Hadn’t time.”
“ \Vby didn’t you get on there?”
“Hadn’t time.”
“How far ire you going?”
‘■As far as this50 cents will take
me.” . ,
“You ain’t'loose in tBe head are
yOU?” ... .
“Not if the court knows herself.
The people of Blankville rode me
on a rail, and gave me ten min
utes, in.whieh, to leave the ..town.
to the Home and Farm, is furnish
ed us by a friend, who clipped it
from that paper several years ago:
“For many years the moon has
been under constant observation,
and but one rule has been found
to %6.rk constantly, unerringly,
and winthout failure, winter or
summer, and it is only an approx
imation.... X Vvili give the rule in a
faw words, so that it. may be easi
ly remembered and readily quoted,
and then I will give a few applica
tions of it. .
, “The weather always takes its
shape in the seven days batwean
the first quarter and the new
moon, and whatever it is in that
time, that it will be the next three
quarters, or until the last, quartor
of the next moon, when the weath
er will hold its own or change. I
will now apply the rule. Get your
almanac for 18S6 and turn to Feb
ruary^ last quarter, February 25th,
new moon March 5th, last quarter
March 27th. Now, whatever tha
general state of the . weather ie
?E<sDi .February 25th until March
5th, that it will be until March
27th. Should it ba dry and windy
or wet and cold, we may look for
that all the way. And then from
March 25th until April 4th will be
a sign until April 26th. Thus it
has gonii and, will go until the-
world shAll end. .
“I have several times in fife
given valuable advice • to .my
-friends, based upon this grand
principle, and it has brought them
great advantage. In June,. 1881,
there was as fioe a prospect lor.
.born in this country as I ever saw.
It had been very dry uinlil the last
quarter entered. It went through
clear and dry and the new moon
passed without rain. I told sever
al. friend^ who .were hoping - for
rain of my reasons that there would
be-none. They took me at my
Word-, bought corn at 50 cents
a bushel, and cut down their corn
while it was green and nice, and
stacked it with care. There was
CHEAPEST OF TJIEM ALL.
Apply to
BATTS & FELBSK,
June 14—tf. PEBKY, GA.
©s-i-W. ©.
193 Cotton Avenue,
MApON, - - - GEORGIA,
Treats Diseases f le Eye,
1§, Throat and Nosei •
I got out iu.five. That shows a
level head, doesn’t it? I want 5,0 no corn made that year, and corn
cents worth more of distance as | went to ifl per bushel,, and the
£ast,a,s I can get it.”—Detroit Free, bulk of the crops that might-have
Press.
“It is not generally known,”
says the London Life, “that New
York has now a larger Jewish pop
ulation than/London, or Paris, or
Berlin, or Rome, or Constantino
ple, or Jerusalem. Yet such has
become the case during the recent
years of persecution, to the He
brews in Russia and Germany—
for mos’t of them are Poles and
Germans—which happily has been
lately discountenanced by the
heads of both these empires.
About the same time that the
Kaiser of Germany made known
his opposition to anti-Jewish ; agi
tation in Germany, persecution of
the children of the Iraelites was
also forbidden in the Czar’s do
minions.
Testimony in a recent suit
Brought by Harris of Philadelphia,
to obtainVvages due him, revealed
the fact that lie had been employ
ed to make trousers at 90 cents a
dozen, or 7J cents a pair.
O listen! if within your hflirigi
Some gentle one is fading,; -
Take warning, ’ere a snmmcns cortie,
A Tour happiness invading.
For all the suffering she endures
, 'Is heedless, did you know it:
The “Favorite-Prescription” cures—
" ... Unceasing praises showit.,/
Truly “a household blessing”ids
course I can’t, not having the mon- i the » marvelous specific —Dr:
e y- -Jii .ii ■ i I Pierce’S favorite Prescription-
How much do tfiej. ask fbr it?” [f 0 r the illAdf .woman/* Who that
Holmes paid one hundred dol- j sees a dear fsfee growing each day
lars for his. is, on some; ac^j'toore etherealBut r Will , rejoice to
counta^.prpfefAble; anil they hold‘learn that, the- wife ror daughter
it at otiqhundred and twenty-five j pay yet be saved,, and tliq family
dollars.” -■»:,! j circle preserved unbroken? . Don't
Perhaps you could /raiSft the despair, bat try it; even if the iioc-
motiey, John,” said his wife, quiht- ; tors say “there is no cure.’’ .It is
iy- i.. - . i i . )} j:.i | the only toedieine sold by drng-
By borrowingt I sHonldn't ^ gists^: for woman’s- peculiar weak-
want to do that., . , ; , . ■ jfiesses and ailments, under a.-pcsi-
’ “Lou remember our fund?” ; itive guarantee.from the mauurac-
“Pshaw ! That.pay, ijoesibly kmoUnt turera' that-it will give satisfaction
to some thirty or. forty dollars.” / ; in every ease, or money will be re-'
, o. Suppo8e-^e :i ppun£ it, as the : funded. Bead guarantee on bottle
year is up to-day.”
been valuable forage dried up in
tbs field .and was lost. •
“If hay is ready to tout and the
last quarter is wet, let it albhe; if
dry, cut it.- If you do not, in
either case you will loose heavily.
If wheat or oats are ready to har-
veit and the last quarter!is wet, it
will pay to hire several sets of
hands to save it. If meat is ready
ijp kill and the last quarter is warm,
do not bei deceived by a little cold
snap on the n‘4w toooa and kill the
hogs, as you stand-the best chance
to it spoil, or, at least taint. If
you are cutting wheat in the last
quarter and it is dry, you had bet
ter put in plows right behind j the
binder or .you . may neyer get that
stubble turned. In fact; the whole
year’s work can be forecasted a
ponth, which is vast advantage. I
will.say emphatically that there is
ho other sigh that is reliable.
“I had an. old Tennessee neigh
bor once who urged the “old
tv^plve days” as signs of the,weath
er for twelve months-, t have
watched - that for, >a number Iff
yegra and have never known it to
correspond or to “hit,” as they say.
I think it has about as much con
nection" as a comet of 50d • years’
revolution- has. Another popular
superstition is, that .if the new
moon.lies on the back it will turn
oyer .and spill the water out; but if
it stands op the point it is already
rained oat and will be dry. Many
of the ivettest times. and greatest
floods have followed such Poods,
while dronths; ;have as often!
followed tha modii - on; -its back.
The point or back is-governed by
the-augle of the moon, earth, and
sun, by which- a certian portion of
the.illuminated surface is reflect
ed to the earth.”
Specially!
A- C- KILEY,
Attorney at Law,
; FORT VALLEY, GA.
’^(Office,’ oyer Dow Law, Bariik.)
Practice in Hie counties of tfie Macos;
CirdHt; in Macon and Taylor counties,
and in the Federal Courts.
A PHYSICIAN'S
WARNING!
One of the Standard Brands, which”
will sell at the lowest prices,
tion with all other goods.
■ i
FLODh.
OF
from thS. best to a common
cheap as the cheapest- -- : :
PLOW. CASTINGS,of every naine
and - : number, SEWING i: MA
CHINE FIXTURES and NEE
DLES of Ail-Kinds., . '■ . : !!
DON’T fail to give .me-a
call,, and, I will certainly try to
please yon. Respectfully,
"c. II. MOORE,
JPesy, Ga.
Of all tiie terrible, soul offlightening curses that
afflict all classes of humanity, nothing in all ages
has ever approached comparison to the ravages of
that slow, insa
BLOOD. POISON tiate destroyer
of flesh-and life. Alas! Kow often just such an
affliction loves to affect a noble life with its poisonous
taint. It strikes with destructive aim the most
, • notable, sparing neither
SCROFULA kins nor statesmen.
, Even unto the third
generation are the sins of the father made manifest.
.What a'ferarful"heritage to Wqbeaih an innocent
child! Ah! t^e horrible ravages of this affliction!
To its activity is due sore throat
SORES sore liver.yare kidneys,sore lungs,!
sore-skin,^-gfeat'’ulcers,'internal, ex
ternal and eternal unless proper treatment is applied-
The best remedy is a prescription used extensively
in private practice by an old Atlanta physician. It
is now prepared a thousand gallons at a time, and
is sold in large bottles at
’Only ^one dollar-per bottle.
Ut'is called Ba B. & or Bo-5
tanic Blood Baini. Under its peculiar influence the ‘
blood poison first Becomes passive, then divided,
and lastly is exuded through the liver, through the
kidneys, and through the poies of the skin.
It is dearly the duty of every one who suspects
the least trace of syphilitic or scrofulous poison in
their blood,whether recently from contagion or from
inheritance, to get it Out offtheir system thoroughly
P AIN t ** e 1136 t '*‘ s SJeat remedy so
PIMPLES
that pimples, sores, aches, pains, weak
kidneys ana- other symptoms will not be transmit
ted to innocent posterity.
Demand it of youf.flrnggist and take no substi
tute. -Testimonials from those who have used it
may be found in the illustrated “ Book of Wonders’)
sent free to any address by the Blood Balm Co.,
Atlanta, Ga. (3)
GEORGIA—Hocsroj: Coustx:
K. Taylor and Mrs. G. A. Taylor, ad
ministrators of tlie estate of BryantBai*-
-man, deceased, liave applied for diimit-
dfemission from said trust: .
This is therefore to cite all persons con
cerned to appear at the . May term,
1889, of the court-of Ordinary of said coun
try, and show cause, if any they have, why-
said application should not he granted.'
Witness my official signature this Jan.
31,1889. J. H. HOUSER,
4w. j > •Ordinary,
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