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16 THE MYSTERY of TUBBS' MOUNTAIN. BY HOVSTOUN BICHAKDSON HARPER. Beware of thejealoaa Spanish lover, Or thou majrest rne it. —Old Poem. Sad, strange romances in the south there are, bnt this of fair Julia Reming ton could never be told until now with historical accuracy, as its cloud of mys tery has just been rolled back. ******* ‘ In the corona of foot hills which wall in the picturesque town of R in Northwest Georgia, the tallest on the east is called “Tubbs’ Mountain’’ (now Mount Saracinesoa.) Like many other' spots in the superstitious south it has its shroud of mystery. The story has been told and retold in most exaggerated hid eousness and never correctly by the darky folk. The lonely cabin on the crest stood for years like a sentinel. This hovel— [ for such it became through decay—was built when the mountain top was cleared, and planted as a peach orchard. The raising of peaches proved a losing venture, the trees went wild, the hut to rack and ruin, and was supposed to be the home of “hants” by the negroes. The ghost story started from the time of the strange disappearance of the first negro tenant who was murdered, or suicided—a deed seldom committeed by the happy blacks in the land of the possum and potato. The deserted cabin standing out boldly against the sky be came to the laborer in the cotton fields in the valley a time mark, for he could look at it and then at the heighth cf the sun, and tell the hour. Few ever visited Tubbs’ Mountain, the darkies shunning it for fear of the “hants,” and the white folks finding the exertion too severe to climb to the summit. One day no matter how many years ago the good people of the pleasant town of R were astounded at the sudden and incomprehensible disappearance of Miss Julia Remington, the belle and beauty of the place in all that it implies in the south, and her jealous lover, Dr, Cabdillo Jabez. They went for a horseback ride, on this fatal day as they had often done, and to this day have never returned. The story of the mysterious disappear ance is one of entrancing interest. Dr. Jabez was]a young physician—or medical student, would more exactly describe him—from Caracas, Venezuela, who was under the tutelage of the world renowned surgeon in this Georgia town. The great physician had known Jabez’s father in a Berlin hospital. The young man besides being strikingly handsome and highly elocated was .a descendent of a Spanish grandee, one of the mem bers of the ancient family of Dons hav ing come over with Columbus on his second trip. Miss Remington was one of those ideal types of the southern girl who occupies such a high niche in the romance and history of Dixie land. It was known that the young doctor had been attracted by the strong magnet of love; that he had been persistent, but the proud and wealthy Remingtons^were ambitious that the queenly daughter should spend at least two years abroad before deciding upon her partner for life. The stabbing of Julius Caesar did not excite the ancient city by the turbid Tiber more than did the Remington sensation and its attendent develop ments in R by the muddy Eh, Miss Remington and her Spanish cava lier were last seen near the foot of Tubbs’ Mountain, but her anxious fam ily did not become unduly alarmed about her until the second day of her departure, as she often rode over to spend the night with a family at ‘‘Barnesley’s Gardens’’ celebrated in Augusta Evans Wilson’s novel “St. Elmo. ” On the second night when she had YOU CAN FIND AT M’s Drug Store A pretty line of HOLIDAY * GOODS! Consisting of mirrors, toilet sets, perfumery, atomizers, brush wares, jewel boxes, cut glass bottles, aluminum sets, Perfumery of both imported and domestic makes: all of which will make appropriate holiday presents for young and old, and must be sold during the holiday season. My prices as low as the lowest. The place, Trevilt’s Drug Store! Above Opera House. Inot returned there was no sleep at the Remington home. Before daylight the dozen horses in the stable had been ( Mtohed to vehicles, or saddled and the ( country for many miles was scoured. I The man sent to ‘ ‘Barnesley’s Gardens” returned about nightfall without a clue. No one had seen the young lady on the roads in that direction within a week. ! Others brought in similar stories. With I that great often displayed ■ by southern gentlemen, when a woman’s j name is oonoerned, Col. Remington had I bade his family, servants and friends to preserve the utmost seoreoy about his daughter’s disappearance. Thus three days and three nights passed without a word of the missing couple appearing in a newspaper, or the story getting on the ( telegraph wires. Col. Remington him i self took up the clue of his daughter having been seen at the foot of Tubbs’ Mountain. The negro boy who while hoe ing cotton had seen them repeated his ■ story with the addition that it began to r ain, and that he ran to the house be fore he saw which way they went. In quiry at the houses beyond to ascertain if they had stopped in out of the rain, failed to give any information. Nobody else had seen tnem. Had the irresponsi ble negro boy lied? But Col. Remington determined to sift the matter through. Trusted messengers were sent on the roads to the villages of C 8 , and C—-town, distant sixteen and twenty miles respectively. The father heart sick rode along part of the way to en quire again at the nearby houses. About noon with two friends he rode back to the foot of Tubbs’ Mountain, and one of them suggested that they ride by the bridle path to the top of the peak. What we never anticipate is that which always happens! In the fireplace of the lonely cabin one of Col. Remington’s friends no ticed a piece of cloth bordered with fur. It was recognized as a piece of Julia Remington’s cloak! Then a lot of bones—human or not —they could not say. Deep under the ashes was found a ring—an opal surrounded with diamonds—inscribed “Julia from Father.” That settled it. The news papers all published the “Mystery of Tubbs’ Mountain” the next day. Could anyone have ever conceived such a Spanish devilas Dr. Jabez, dis sector and Incinerator? ******* The mystery was never unravelled until a few months ago. The gossips of R heard it with amazement. Mrs. Remington, the mother of the fair Julia grieved herself to death in a few months. The stern and stately colonel died about two years later. Their handsome son, a thoroughly dissipated fellow, while attending Yale college was killed in a drunken brawl during a trip from New Haven to New York city- The fine old Remington mansion near town fell to decay and ruin and departed glory. The return of a member ©f the United States embassy from Caracas, Venezuela, a native R , but at the time of his appointment a resident of Atlanta, explained the unknown. He made some inquiries about Dr. Cabdillo Jabez in Caracas. A member of his family stated that the young surgeon had returned rather unexpectedly from th e United States, arriving on a cheap tramp steamer from Mobile, Ala,, and bring ing with him the dead body of a beauti ful young woman whom he said was his wife. In Jess than a month his father died and he committed suicide on the grave of his wife. Young Jabez never told how in drying Miss Remington’s cloak it bad been burned; how she had dropped her ring; how be bad persuaded her to fiee to South America with him and how they had sailed from Mobile before Col. Remington gave the alarm. This was found in a letter Miss Remington had written her mother and left among the ef fects of Dr. Jabez. Who would not believe that ghosts and divers evil spirits haunted the lonely hut, after the series of tragedies are known as one unfolded in this the first authentic relation of “the Mystery of Tubb’s Mountain?” THE COURT JESTER. A Practical Joke That Will Sommen Played on Cardinal Wolsey. Amelia Wofford tells of “The Cour’ Jesters of England” in St. Nicholas. The following is related of King Henry VlH’s jester: Sommers, like Scogan, liked a prac tical joke, and one that he played on Cardinal Wolsey is thus quaintly told by Armin: “Os a time appointed the king dined at Windsor, in the chappel yard at Car dinal! Wolsey’s at the same time when he was building that admirable work of his tom be, at whose gate stood a number of poore people, to be served with alms when dinner was done with in, and as Will passed by they saluted him, taking him for a worthy person age, which pleased him. In he comes, and finding the king at dinner and the cardinall by attending, to disgrace him that hi never loved. Harry, sayes heq THE ROME TRIBUNE. SUNDAY. DECEMBER 19. 1897. lend me £lO. Vvilat to doe? saies tnc king. To pay three or foure of the car dinall’s creditors, quoth hee, to whom my word is past, and they are now come for the money. That thou shalt, Will, quoth hee. Creditors of mine? saies the cardinall. He give your grace my head if any man can justly aske me a penny. No, saies Will. Lend me £lO. If I pay it not where thou owest it. lie give thee £3O for it. Doe so, saies the king. That I will, my liege, saies thee cardinall, though I owe none. With that he lends Will £lO. Will goes to the gate, dis tributes it to the poore and brought the empty bag. There is thy bag againe, saies hee. Thy creditors are satisfied, and my word out of danger. Who re ceived, saies the king, the brewer or the baker? Neyther, Harry, saies Will Sommers. But, cardinall, answer me in one thing, to whom dost thou owe thy soule? To God, quoth hee. To whom thy wealth? To the poore, saies hee. Take thy forfeit, Harry, saies the foole. Open confession, open pennance. Hit head is thine, for to the poore at the gate I paid his debt, which hee yields is due, or if thy stony heart will not yield it so, save thy head by denying thy word and lend it mee. Thou know est I am poore and have neyther wealth nor wit, and what thou lendest to the poore God will pay thee tenfold. * * * The king laught at the jest, and so did the cardinall for a shew, but it grieved him to jest away £lO so.” How to Prevent Pnenmonia. At this time of the year a cold is very easily contracted, and if left to run its course without the aid of some reliable cough medicine is liable to result in that dread disease, pneumonia. We know of no better remedy to cure a cough or cold than Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. We have used it quite extensively and it has always given entire satisfaction. —Olagah, Ind. Ter. Chief. This is the only remedy that is known to be a certain preventive of pneumonia. Among the many thousands who have used it for colds and la grippe, we have never yet learned of a single case having resulted in pneumonia. Persons who have weak lungs or have reason to fear an attack of pneumonia, should keep the remedy at hand. The 25 and 50 cent sizes for sale by Curry-Arrington Co. About Lightning Rods. Rods, although they may not entirely protect a building, may preserve it from being seriously damaged. The Jefferson physical laboratory of Harvard univer sity is protected in the following man ner : Each of the chimneys is provided with rods which are connected with conductors running along the eaves. From the corners of the roof conductors are led to the ground and are connected underground with a conductor which entirely surrounds the building and which is connected to a permanent wa ter supply at least ten feet below the surface of the ground. Iron pipes are driven to reach this water supply. Tins is as near an approach to a cage as cir cumstances would permit. A trolley car has a lightning rod in its trolley, which is connected through its motor with the rails and the ground. It is not beyond possibility, however, that a discharge descending the trolley arm should refuse to go through the mo tor and should seek a quicker oscillating path through the car. This is not likely to happen often, for the network of the trolley wire and the telegraph lines of a town or city, together with the electric light wires, separate and divert into many channels the electrical disturb ance. The great increase of wires in our cities serves to protect from great dam age by lightning, for many paths are offered to the discharges, which are tln.s orokon up into more or less harm less sparks.—Professor John Trowbridge in Chautauquan. After hearing some friends contin ually praising Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, Curtis Fleck, of Anaheim, California, pur chased a bottle of it for his own use and is now as enthusiastic over its wonder ful work as anyone can be. The 25 and 50 cent sizes for sale by Curry-Arring ton Co. ♦ • A Lucky Find. Two men walking on Campbell street toward Twelfth one night were accosted by a negro woman who was excited. “Kin either one of you mens give me a match?” she said. “What for?” “I lost a quahtah down there, an I want to hunt fur it. ” She was given several matches and ran ahead and began striking matches and looking along the sidewalk. When the two men came up, she had stopped hunting and had apparently found the coin. “Well, did you find it?” inquired one of the men. "No, but I done find this horseshoe, an that’s better'n two quahtabs, ” she said. —Kansas City Star. BEAUTIFUL SKIN Soft, White Hands with Shapely Nails, Luxu riant Hair with Clean, Wholesome Scalp, pro duced by Cuticuba Soap, the most effective skin purifying and beautifying soap in the world, as well as purest and sweetest, for toilet, bath, and nursery. The only preventive of inflammation and clogging of the Fobes. (yticura Soap is sold throughout the world. Pottrr Drug aitd Chum. Corp., Bole Props., Boston, U. B. A. “ How to Purify and Beautify the Skin, Scalp, and Hair,” mailed free. DARY I4IIMRDQ Itching and scaly, Instantly re- DHDI nUITIUnO llered ay Cuticura Rrmrdibs. GENERAL HENDERSON’S LEG Hm Been Seven Times Under the Knife Since the Original Amputation. General Henderson of lowa has come back to Washington for the session of congress rejuvenated. Having had his leg amputated again, he seems quite re freshed. His leg has been under the knife seven times since the original Imputation during the war. The first Imputation was a little above the foot. The last was above the knee. General Henderson is now chairman of the house judiciary committee. Everybody in congress calls him Dave Henderson. Everybody likes him be cause he is so amiable and jolly. Most members fear him as an antagonist in debate because he is suoh an unconscion able fighter. In 20 years there have been but three or four men in congress with lung power to equal him, and there is an energy and eloquence about his ad dress which is apt to drive an antago nist off his bearings. Most men get more or less ill natured when they suffer greatly, but with him it is almost the reverse. If possible, he is better natured under pain. It is a most remarkable thing the way he and that piece of a leg of his have contended for mastery. In the first place, the bones of his ankle were shiv ered by a shot. He was young and thought he could stand it if the foot oould, and he held out against amputa tion for several months. During the ■U |l(|] \wn& J GENERAL D. B. HENDERSON. seven times his leg has been under the knife since then he has taken gas but twice. He is a most energetic worker, one of the most active men in congress. Dur ing the last session of the Fifty-fourth congress and the extra session of this congress he was a great sufferer, as he has been at intervals before, as a pre monition of another amputation. It pulled something off his flesh, but never contracted or modified the amiability of the smile with which he met all classes of people. When he saw that the leg was getting the best of him, he decided to have apothem piece taken off. This was the most serious operation he had been compelled to endure, as it had to come off above the knee. He neglected his correspondence for just nine days on account of the operation. Four days before the operation was performed the doctor ordered him to Atlantic City to take a complete rest, so that he could de termine whether the amputation would be necessary. During that time he did no work. Again when the operation was performed he had to give his stenogra pher a holiday, but on the fourth day he was dictating letters. The second day after the amputation he was play ing whist.~r Washington Star. . Santa Claus Is With Us And Recommends Opera glasses worth $7.50, at $2,50. Solid gold rings at $1 and up. Sewing machines at $6 and up. An oak suit of furniture at $25. A bicycle at sls, cost S6O. A rifle or two, a pistol or two.J Bedsteads, at $2 and up. Chairs. A baby carriage at $2.50, and so on. Come to see us. M. N. West & Co. 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