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j lull,LA US I’l-li: AXXI’.II IX AHVANl'K
AI HENS, GA. APRIL 12. 1872
VOL. XLI.—KU. 42—NEW SERIES VOL. 5. NO. 25.
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m V»" lcn ' 'l] ;ll ' llcr 1W]\r. WOOD Tii <- «<*i *«t r.
1 A ^FUTC A il"
1 f't'CS/th' . HLsccUttnj’. |woni3» than teaching in a public be induced to ga out as cooks, or la-
| { V &'A-'ATKINSON,
tr T.iaKE 1’^ ANNUM.
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*in^ortfl at One Hollar and
,7j\rti of 1 * lines, for the first, and
i - ii .»• •»*»»"
tl *».»nirvt« w
arh Milisoquent nwition,
ath. For a longer perlwl
DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF
F 'f RNITURE,
LPURXITURE REPAIRED, UP-
linl»:pri-<t nn-1 vani'tOiisl, also a !a:ye
up Out!
ACENTS WANTED.
Miss Twitfhftt.
acbo >1. j dies’ maids, or house girls. Any one
All day the “A. R, C,” which of! of these vocations might make us
Th
TJU VK TO TEN DO I 1 MiSn.lnv 1,1 ral " ( ”"»e down steadily, will.'!® 1 * little Twitc, »*« 11:111 regarded as j healthier and happier, and give us
U c4n w ma.ie t,T w iiiir; Vcn«w’i Oaier,! tut that sort of persistent energy which ac-1. . n,onotonous hammers pounding | more freedom and more time and
and Fisk
Citt« always »*n nand.
Wan-mom* on Clayton St., next In Enlst-onal
Ciiu.xli. Sej*6in. WILLIAM WOOD.
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Business Directory.
lU ronn \. s. F.ii*vin. noWBLL conn
emm, eriviv ft conn,
TTI)v E Y s A T L A W ,
Slxly-Flre rir*t Prize Itwlala Anarilni !
THE CREtT
Sonthrrn Piano
MANUFACTORY.
/j'impkiii & Jackson,
V f'MUNKVS AT LAW, will prarliee ; n tlie
Su;*rr» .r • «i
AT LAW, will practice
i I of Fi.nk Cutinty. the Supi
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Piano Fortes.
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MIESE INSTRUMENTS havt
‘ cf..rc t*»c pub!ic for nearly *hirty yimr
rrapt. Kca«l the following certificates from well- *
nand reliable p.-r.-onj whohave inttl ifieia| ColllplislieS a u TCilt deal. It slid down
v^ltroofs softly, ran along the
*“««* Slyly, the., plunge.1 precipitate-
lv flown the tin leaders that lost to the
feet s
iper-
C. B. VAIL.
Nkwti.n House, Atiif.skGz.
Man-h 14«h, 1872.
Thin fa to l-ertlfy that I Hit* (riot olie ul Mr.
Vcranee’a |a»teiit rat traps, and find it superior u>
any I hare ever won, bavin;; caught eleven nits
tli* first night, and many other, at other times
since.
A. 0. CLIN A III), Clerk.
street, whence it leaped out unexpect
edly on passers-by, with an audacious
shout and a malicious chuckle pecu
liarly exasperating to nervous persons
not foud of jokes. It seemed to have
taken out a general search warrant,
'>•>•*'» i»t* , “ *»» traip,, ami find a mi|h r; ,r t*. j and it inspected leaky routs, and drinp-
I have ewwen, having caught fourteen m * , 1 J # # 1 r
> nights and many more at other tin.i-5 ^it.<N*. j ed in on the pauper in his hovel, and
JOHN sJKl'Mm'U.
I cast reproaches on the rich man’s* fres-
1 cocs, and jiccpcd under front doors.
.|
uglit over one hundred* n*t» ill the
> l an r
Tu iV
I OM c f
r. a.
eral discount t
1. ih VLitoNKL, Athens (ia.
TOUCH,
WnRil.MAIE^nil*
A17D DUAA3IU:Y.
iourSti'A ». f’l.x.Noti luve mir ne* im-
.»!. 'i At.Kaml the l?r»Te rtehir.
• * uni.I • :ti; tiiH’i i .1 Mttention !»» our late
!»
flit'
..l he
‘ l|v
rhicli
linn nan yet
o *1.1/ wilts
* T» !»5’»»{ *i TFtlfS
i*ei»i'*nt .n ihleil t«»
••I M !.I.Oi»KoN> of
.ole.al«* and retail,
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Athens,March 11th. 1S72
tocerthy th.it 1 linvc u«ed «»ne of Mr. <*.
pe’f|»alent rat traps at the Athena Facto- , .
tin,i o ..nr «f the i«ti ever -i- si, having 1 ano came down chimneys, and extin
1 ’ ’'; guished lirrs. and looked boldly into
lUltl/.Y. . .
rgeni . ’ „r 1 bedroom windows, and stood on tiptoe
in dingy .-mil disreputable cellars. It
: paid no respect to persons, but persons
JfSW SOOSS. were bound to j4iv r°spect to it. In
W i'.Fi.'.n'ir! uni! - -' *5g*5S!- a ' Is honor, business assunusl overcoat
iii(iiiri>.iv. ttayar.1 Taylor.iiiii-traiea. t and uttibrolla and looked glum, Com-
W Oii.iers „f \rgeUtmu. Ky 1W. Scheie ae Vrre. ; . 6
|)ctciicc hiied a cab and lotjketl com
fortable, Opulence ordered out his car
■ riage and looked delimit.
„ - “ *i« J Through ii oil, Miss Twitchett
I tie Tv,, t.uar iiana—new e-litmu. SI 25. I , ‘ .... ,
liam'. r'. Mis elliiiy—einuiilele. S vu!s. green trudgCtl StC;'- 1 Ollg till llOT CVOry
•til. 5l». j
l.l la-. v,.v:|—. l..th- $2 each. I da V tllil !i - ~.M V.ilS U V.TV little WO-
*1 iviu* !{:■! t’n Novyis—.-l-.tii. «l 50 each. 1 . , . *
buna.' i* tri nd*» n.*vei>. $i r.ioirii. I man, :i!i«l uiuitT her spmulin^ urn-
1 S ""° Ko 11,1 1., rite looked like a fairy under a
^ i toadstool. She went past the ir.nli-
lu'tniicl.
n.e Lind of lienolation. By Dr. It*ac T. ILyts. j
Mr^tetL SI 50.
eii Kthinger, *
r of lilt-
• lh.hy t’hftin
nRzmuni*. j cions s|Miuts uf water, and tossed tiie
f.,r Mr,r:, rial Prept, nit tout, I turbulent gutters which tried to be
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tibi,i), Sa>
A n i >
. rlL.tu IMF.
iireal Sj.j
i-, M. !>.. Auj
her brains to death, and the a-b, ah,! strength for health culture; we don’t
which had seemed to nail the colors of I want such places ; no, indeed, not we,
’r. Kinc, Athens.
iii- HOTEL,
mil .farhmn-tl*.,
T.\. (iA.
. 1 > . •*ropy irl«r».
rivers, and couldn’t, and piekevl her
way over the soaked and treacherous
pavements, never looking to the right
nor the left, ui d wilii a cold, set face,
which indicated a disposition as jw-r-1
sistcut as tin? rain itself.
“ 1 can’t imagine whv I was spared ....
' from my last uemth’s lever, ’ she mus- h,d . ,,seH U i >,,n Uer riecv e as if it
e*i, as slit- iilaated lierii'll- leet on the
trie,
u lr.
n
never can imagine
her life to the iron mast of hard ne
cessity, went drearily on almost un
heeded by her, while the odor of the
tea-rose bore her away on its wings to
the days when she was governess to
the little Misses Talbot.
Dick.^ tfv. 'vild and reckless, but
handsome and warm-hearted Dick, had
loved her densly, had begged her to
marry him and had incurred his fath
er’s displeasure and his mother’s anger
at his low tastes. Dick she had proud
ly repulsed, not because she was un
worthy of him, but because he was un
worthy of her ; whom she loved, hut
whom she rejected, inasmuch as she
believed him iucapahle of the sound
ness of principle, the steadfast honor,
the stern virtue calculated to make a
man noble and a woman happy.
“ Perhaps, after all, I didn’t do just
right,” she murmured, when school
was out. and she had thanked Madge,
and kissed crippled Jack, and turned
her hick once more upon the dingv
school-room and the hard life; “ |ier-
haps I didn’t do right. He said my
love would save him. I did love him,
hut I would not wed him, and he mar
ried a pretty French actress, and lost
his inheritance, after all, and went—
heaven knows where; and I—dear
me! as I said before, I can’t imagine
why I was spared from that dreadful
fever.”
Just here, a small, cold hand was
laid on little Twiteliett’s arm. It came
under her umbrella like a ghost, and
had
rigid, there. Twitchett was used to
j small hands—dirty hands, starved
a vs iioiiig I
! hands that
th
lar*
•I?
were sent to school to he
j got ri.l of—mischievous hands, or-
! phaned hands, lielligerent hands.—
, , , .; ’..' Never, though, had she seen such a
. . * m ! a; . punv, pathelie hand as this which
j , ' ->w flt;t-!ie-l her sleeve, and by its
'• '••ry -•-. :■!• ,; I: .I her wav.
at o.. le’.rrh do von want?”
yr -.nm flll.MIIMlW'IWM i'■ 'F 'M’P'ng her
so long as teaching in a primary de
partment continues to lie, as you say,
Minnette, so ‘ drefl'ul respectable.’ ”
the streets, and that dreadful jewsharp
of yours!”
“ To school, miss?”
“ Yes, school—it will only be one
more little hammer nailing the alpha
bet to my brain,”'she added, half to
herself—” only one more, and he such
a ghost!”
Then she clutched the little hand so
resolutely and marched off so detcr-
“Down the Steps.”
RKMINISCfiNCE OF AN OLD NA8HVII.LK
INN.
Miss Twitchett, in her earnestness, J mir.edly, the small minstrel could do )
had talked a pretty little color in her
cheeks, and her black eyes were spark
ling as they had not sparkled before
all day.
The old negress looked at her affec
tionately, not having understood more
than half her little boarder had said,
then exclaimed sympathizing]}*, “ T.n,
miss, never you mind. Life is full of
haps and mishaps, and the world is
cold, aad ’spcrience is a hard tax-mas
ter.” Having uttered this phrase,
which was a favorite one with her, follow.
nothing but go along. Down the street
went the two, he lending her, she shel
tering him, and down came the rain as
diligently as ever.
“ \\ hen on earth are vnu going to
stop?” at last cried poor, tired, breath
less Twichett.
“ Right here,” replied the lmv, and
darted up an alley, so narrow, so reek
ing with dump and mould and dreari
ness, that for a moment the little
woman, half daunted, hesitated to
and respected upon all occasions, Min-
nette left the room, hut returned in a
moment with a small package of news
papers, and a face of mute inquiry.
“ Here’s a package left you uiiss, by
the minister’s little son. He says
they’s done read um at his house, an’
you needn’t return um. I believe he
said they w us from Miss Lany, or some
such name.”
“ Oh yes ! I understand, a package
of miscellany. How nicely timed;
now I can read all this dreary evening.”
“ But the boy miss, in the hall ?”
“ To lie sure ;” said little Twitchett,
with a start. “Mv poor little jews-
har|>er! I had nearly forgotten him.—
Give him my supper, please, Minnette,
I am not in the least hungry; then
send him to me.”
“ But let me make you a cup of cof
fee and a thin slice of toast.”
“ No, not a mouthful for me ; you
don’t know what nice things tiie school
children brought me to-day—fruit and
flowers, just think,” and from little
Twiteliett’s expression of countenance
one would have supposed she had
“ Come on,” shouted the bov from
the gloom her eyes could not pene
trate.
And the little schoolmistress went
The following is an amusing remin
iscence connected with the history of a
famous Nashville hostlery that was
numbered among the institutions of
the past long years before the wi\r.—
The principal actors are still living :
While the old inn stood on the
square in Nashville, it- was the favorite
hotel of the traveling public. On oner
occasion, among the many guests there
assembled were Harvey II—, from
Williamson County, and John G—,
from Maury County, intimate friends,
and Ixith convivial in their tempera
ment. They had imbibed freely of
spirits, and were in that happy con
dition in which they considered (lie
world all their own, and rattier noi-v
in their demonstrations. Some of ih<
visitors complr.ined of their noise, and
the proprietor after some persuasion,
induced the gentlemen to retire to
bed.
He conducted them to their
room,
on, though her feet were groping in i *'*" 1 saw them safely lodged in 1ml,
the darkness, and her heart quailed at ; " aitc<1 patiently until they slept, and
the gloom. j then drew the bed, which, as was then
Suddenly a door was thrown oj*en— ; to some extent fashionable, wasattaeh-
a gleam of light illuminated the form ed to the ceiling by cords, up nearly
of little Twitchett on the threshold.— to t,1<? raising them some nine
A man’s form upon a low couch in the
midst of a hare room seemed to leap
upright.
“Mon Dieu!” cried Miss Twitchett,
tottering forward ; “ Dick, can this be
you ?”
“ Hagar!” he answered ; “ mv little
or ten feet from the floor. Every
thing passed off quietly, the gentlemen*
sleeping soundly until 1 or 2 o’clock
in the morning, when John G—, who
was sleeping behind, called out to his
friend: “Harvy, get me the water;
the pitcher is on the talle there in the
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i'A.WY GOODS,
n.\:: ijiiox/ks.
AN!) S 1'AIT A K Y.
U t::i VVE \ FULLCiiRi*
if lUIjajiB.T. Jewellers \ jngravers
m ut'udhrr main/ f'itir t,uit Jx
• i n - in I ,ir • |.r.-|* ir- 1 t.i t il.!. AM
■' . s.f ..r «..rk
mMlilMS FOR FAIRS!
irapreved St ck For Sols.
umbrella just enough-to see the small,
of h i’inni; v that bur.*
A re you hungry, my
iviiat in the world do
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( -itt!r—anil their (irmle .
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Albert ami Hack Herk*hirt\*.
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the Lv
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AIR
itf»* the
iKST ASSORTEMNT,
UK FINEST GOODS,
THE LOWEST PRICKS,
AND THE BEST WORK.
SH VUPA FLOYD.
Uliitrihill Stmt, Atlanta.
i i your DM Furniture to
TOGO’S
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\’-r! t, t ie K:i
,-tl I'harel,,aml hare it
I*;. S. KNGLAND eV CO.,
^ Ri. NOW RECEIYINGTIIEIR
i W FALL STOCK;
Sheep—Spaitixh Merino.-,.
a ri- I'ri-,. frnm ml ml .nulfiin, an-'
nil*, wln u *m—ii| nialii- a titjt i
u»|»ro\«‘in**ut ”ii il»«f nalivt* tt.n-ks.
•Iii itiiity ami quality of the w.ml.
C-nA,mere Angora float*.
mv ’.M-nlitir* tJirv lime provud to
«■ \V <i*.i< «-r •>«•* 1 with thu nati 1
i:. ei.ov.
sTEI'.I,. ;
NAIL-.
MILL SAWS, ro t TON DINS,
And General Hardware and fuller} 1 , nt
Wliolesiile nnd Retail.
SI MVKr A M'W 7 (>.'
<tliens ( tin., April 14tU. tf So. 6 Rroa.i Nt.
GUANO.
I liev ar**
Ik* very
K’.al«,
iir.it-
l*in«*
villi Driars
r.l is in loinauil at from
i ut tloguc furni-lietl on
Rif HARD PETERS,
Atlanta La.
W. W. SUMMERS,
•icutt l-’ann, }Se/lf,rrd ('aunty, Tenn.,
Ii r nslibrcd short horned
t tirltam Cattlu,
!Ki;Ksr.inui:i.s ami fiiLT u T ;» shkek i
1 AM BREEDING ENTIRELY
PURE PERUVIAN, of direct in-
_1_ |*ortatlon, at <ioverniiM*nt d icM.
2.240 pounds to the ton It. *•.
Agt-iit for Consign* -
Jan. lSIm, Savi
LAY..
PENDLETON’S
Suano Compound.
JPOH SALE BY
(It.
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ikfos, Itrol from my prl-
all Jarkson, l»v imp. Duke of
«*r ihe2d.hr Ued Hover the
icti in»m 2,VK) to.1,000 lh«.
s. native and importe«* Mock,
notetl jireiiiiuiu hars, Dick John*
Mv premium Uian* and w*s
i*. nmi llw. My POTS WOLD
e pure, mv premium book wci^liiu);
I «hi*ar«»l • >»* ) «r 1!.*.
s -e ofi-l ?o one for size,color, heau’r
i :he Unite! "ti.t**, having made aU
i;s in I ii in airl reeding for this r
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Add tvv< in** ;.t Wartrare, Bed lord
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RSON & WELLS,
Atlanta, dm. •
P. il. BE1IN A C J.,
Sirannah, da.
Du. E. M. PENDLETON,
S/mrta, da.
I'ain|i<i!t-t, containing many testimonials, with
practical hints on cotton culture, amt the applica
tion of fertilizers*, may be obtained from any of
the ubose axcit... i*° 1
WILKKKrilBCK liaKIKL. A. WELLBOUS III- .
DANIEL & HILL,
/ -OTTuN FACTOR^, Ag...m Cut-
* Ion Kind tiuano. No. 3 Warren lllot k, oppo
site (. 1..I>- II .tel, Augusta, U
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«. entrusted t«» them will have •trlci
rw.nal attention. Oidera for Bagging. Ties and
iniily ,>**ppl»es prompiiy filled, liou*mission 1*4
r e,l, ‘ t:.H.—Judge John P. Kin , President
•: Hoad, Pie«»;d-nt Natior s u •* .f z\»»-
\it:iisi.« Fai’tory. J 1 *» k!.;.nkk,
♦ n; .lie-.Son Fetlil . Pres-
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OGLMAMS LU AL V/ORLDj
| i ' :XLY Agricultural Journ i!
' . \ 1. n published twe.ily-’hree year--
• } • vjng he Largest Coru'n i» n ,»ud
. 1 4 -is of any ‘
I . . the valley of th
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Bellows, Anvils,!-.-™ EY ^ XEWT ^ )X -
hammers, .Stink and Carriage, Buggy & Wagon
< mv m.i c * c
A LARGE and well selected assort-
-lV\. ment, for sale by
UIIILDB, NICKERSON & CO.
1 UIIILHS, NiCKUllSON A CO.
I I A V E YOUR PRINTING done
'• *..Tn Hannee.u.h 1 »rb-.
Mi* esippif
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TKAUHEK OF MUSIC.
FKICE coni-r of L.impoin
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liv.ng *»ut *i t”
Pianos, Organs & Sheet Music
.U!
i,.r *ale. on the most r* a-onaUe t*.r.i
m^andSd‘"nwrumenuukeuin t*r|^;“'
il in good endition. 1011 “
loci '27-tf
OB PRINTING neatly and quickly
executed at the Banner Omcu.
it deg- it::
ithout r.i
ni:i'im< wit'notit i liiiutt*. Now, bad 1
i but died when 1 was so ill, some one of
the two dozen worn m who are always
j strnugliug l ir a place in ihe -primary
' il-ip irtment’ could have had mine.—
| Wages, fifty dollars a month ; hoard,
i with .lodging under the shingles, tliir-
| or? •
: tv dollars ; washing, and clothes, and
j a pew in church—well, whatever one
j ran make it—twenty dollars remain
! for such expenditure? ; Imt one mustn’t
wear out too many shoes, nor lie dain
ty as to gloves, and never, never buy
a book to read, ami, above all, never
fall sick, and never care tor society,
and never indulge in the luxury of
dimes for the contribution l»ox.
“ But, after all,” went on little Miss
Twitchett, “ bard as my life is I know
plenty who envy me. It is a bad spot,
indeed, in this life that has no worse;
and really, bad I given up my princi
ples and married Dick Talbot for love
1 believe I myself would have been
,v* r?e. offto-dav. I loved him, but that
saying of Grace Aguilar always clung
to iny memory : ‘Izet no woman wed
herself to vice with the hope of trans
forming it to virtu* 1 .’ Writers should
lie e-ref-1 •’ at they say, for they can
vi- i :i:na;e she weight or want of
v. -i:*v! ..I' their sayings. I shall al
ways intii.k Grace Aguilar lor that
sentence, for 1 believe it saved me from
a far worse fate than that of being a
school-ma’am in ‘ the primary depart
ment.’ Still I cannot see why I we-
spared from that dreadful fever. Su<
a lonely, <lesolate. little old maid as 1
anti here Miss Twitchett’* umbrella
seemed to leak again, anti she shut it
up with a snap, anil wi]>ed her fact-
anil faced her daily duties.
When she hail stood her u nhrella
in the corner, where it could iiiiium 1
t-clf by dripping all day, and hat!
hung up her waterproof cloak and set
aside her gum .d ues, she went valiant
ly to her platt’orui and sat down by
her t! -.-k. Ti.er:* .-.crc t .ret* violets
on it. from crippled Jack, >he knew,
who alw ays came to s»-hool on crutches,
ami there was an orange, which sle-
knew M-itlgt: Tinilt p- had given her
from h- r own luu.-iicou ; ami here,
with tl.-. s’ein tarn** in the keyhote,
ami i.u.k-ng a il tin- i.itsiuess of its lin-
was to bloom in tif in wholes of’i»ooi
school-ma’ams’ tie.-K was a tea-rose,
so fresh, so fragrant, it sent a thri'l
down into the little old maid’s heart,
and made her tacitly acknowledge
there were possibly harder fates for
i. o play you a tunc, miss.”
1 A tune? And where am I to go,
•iii.l want am I to pay ?”
‘ Oh, don’t go anywhere, miss, anti
and school- .i' 1 " 1 * l >:, y "hat you like,” was the an- can allude to no one else. Dear, dear!
Hagar; what, in Heaven’s name, j cor!5er -” Harvy demurred a little,
brought you here?” :but finally yielding to earnest solicita
“ I did!” said the small minstrel in j tioK *. >* threw himself out of lied, in
tones of triumph, seeing with a child's i pitch darkness of the room, to the
quick instinct that something wonder-1 ^®° r beneath. He was unprepared
ftil hail been brought about through 1 ' 0 *'icap, and the shock of the fall
his instrumentality. “ I did, father. ! 8Ur prised him.
I found her in the street; that is. she! Distantly he conjectured that he
toiiml me, ami I took her home and ate ' had fallen down stairs, perhaps through
up her supper, and there’s half of it ^ a lr:1 P l i° or i s<» 1 ** got down on hi.-
| for you ; and then she just tucked me hands and knees and commenced grop-
feasted from the abundance of kings, j under her cloak, and brought me here : ln S alwut to find some means of a-cent
and was not recalling the memory
one little orange and a few violets, ami
a tea-rose.
To tha w :if in the hall, then, ve nt
the school-ma’am’s supper, and the
rain came gushingly down, and Miss
Twitchett read her papers by Min-
net te’s parlor fire.
“ Upon my word,” she said, sudden
ly, “ I do believe this is the Talbot I
once knew. ‘ Riehard Talbot, who
left his home—Marlbrook—only son,'
etc., etc. This advertisemect surely
swer, nnd out of a side pocket the child
flashed a jewsharp, nnd placing it be
tween his lips, essayed a tune.
“ Well, of all things !” ejaculated
little Twitchett. “ I’ve been annoyed
with fiddlers, and harper-, and tatn-
borine girl? over and ov;: a^ain, hut
you are the first public performer on
the jewsharp I ever met. I)o stop!
Here’s money for you and hush ; I say
hush!”
Unheeding the little woman’s en
treaties, the fore finger continued to
stroke the antennae of the small steel
insect he called his “ instrument,” and
half vexed, half amused, Miss Twitch
ett pulled the boy under her umbrella,
nnd hade him put up that burr-ing
thing and come along home with her
and get his dinner.
She knocked at the door of a sn:al :
house, and an old colored woman,
neatly attired, and with her head in a
calico turban opened the door.
How it all comes back to me, that old
time. And he married that pretty
actress, and went to ruin, disregarded
and disowned by the old people after
all. How strange it all is ! The fath
er who so despised me is dead ; the
son who so loved me, is lost. The lit
tle girls whom I taught, I remember,
died soon after their proud and haugh
ty mother. A whole family gone,
save the sou, who cannot be found !—
Of all that house, only I, poor little
woman that I am ! and Dick, an out
cast, left. Both wanderers, unknown
to one another—unknown, it seems to
me, to everybody on the face of the
earth. And to think of my living
through that dreadful fever, to go on
being desolate, and lonely, and forlorn,
when so many rich and lieautiful and
happy-hearted persons, for whom life
was sweet and love was plenty, had to
die!”
Honey,” said old Minnette, thrust
“ La! Mi s Twitchett,” she cried, | ing her shining face in at the door.
“ he this you ? Ain’t you half drown
ed, honey?”
“ Indeed I am, my good Minnette.
My feet are wet, nty cloak is drenched,
my heart aches and my hands are half
frozen. I am very glad to get home
to your kind care. It isn’t every poor
school-ma’am that can count on such
sympathy and comfort as you provide
for me.”
“ La, miss! it isn’t much that I
hies,” said the old woman, meanwhile
Irawing the willow chair close to the
ire anti placing a footstool for little
Miss Twitchett. “ I knows as how it’s
hard work, this teaehin’,” she contin
ued, as she bust let! about the room ;
*■ hut then, you know, miss, it’s drefful
respectable.”
Li.tie Twitchett buret out laughing.
“Yes. Minnette,” ,?he replied, “and
its ‘dreadful respectability,’ I verily be
lieve, has killed more women than you
and I ever knew. For its sake they
toil up into the topmost stories of
houses to sleep, or content themselves
wants me tc go to
to the room above. The delay occsi-
isioucd by these movements \\a? to
H-t
to tell you she
school.” . .. ,z - - , ....
This ratter . ineohenuit* explanation ! t “ re John; who was parched up
caused Hagar’s tears to flow softly but; "O' 1 thirst. So he called out in ls*n-
eopiously, and Dick still held her ; gm»ge more profane than polite, “Ilar-
hand, with his own eyes full of unshed! v ‘-y • what are you doing?” The an-
tears. , swer came from the depths below :
A long story followed, broken In* i “ John ! I fell down stairs, anti can’t
many sobs, and interrupted bv many : 1,11(1 the steps to get up again.” “ Well,
choking silences, such as onlv over-; niust I come down there to show you
flowing hearts create. The young, the way up?” “I wish you would,
beautiful, dissolute actress died vears ! John, for I can’t find the steps.” John,
ago ; the lonely, reckless, never wholly j thoroughly vexed at the stupidity of
bad, hut always self-indulgent and j 1,ls friend, sprang out of bed, when lo!
improvident husband was left with j 1,e > too, went whirling through the air
his one child to care for nnd support. } ln to the distance below, and soon found
Proud and penniless, and all unused to ! himself sprawling on the floor beside
labor, he had striven to do for! his companion. “ Harvey, I fell down
those dependent on him with poor sue-! 9tairs myself,” was the first exclatna-
cess. Discarded by his father, he had ■ tion.
been stung to every exertion, but ali! Then the two commenced a aeurch
things failed—he was dying in want; j 1>or the staircase, a ladder, anything to
he must leave his child a heggard or- i enable them to get out of this deep
phan ! abyss. Round and round they went.
Suddenly little Twitchett remember-! upon their hands and knees. They
ed the advertisement—with eager lips j found a table, upon which they diseov-
she told Dick of it. “ Now, ail will' ered a pitcher of water. Quenching
yet be right, you will come into your ! their thirst, they resumed their 1 search,
property, you will get well and educate I Tlieir clothing had been deposited on
your boy, and he will be a great, good ! llie foot of toe bed, so this was beyon l
“ this yere boy says he must be gwine
home.”
“ Yes, of course,” cried little Twitch
ett, hastily brushing a few bright drops
from her checks, “ and I will tike him
home.”
“ La, now, honey, don’t. It’s rain
in’ yet.”
“ Just the reason why I must put
my umbrella over him. Don’t worry,”
she added, seeing the old negress look
ing troubled. “ I shall come back all
safe, and I want to know more of this
ghostly little chap, who l as taken up
the origiuul idea that there’s an honest
living to be gotten out of a jewsharp.”
Before Minnette could expostulate
further the little old maid had taken
the diminutive minstrel and his dimin
utive instrument under her own cloak
and umbrella, and gone out once more
in the rain.
“ Now, then,” said little Twitchett,
briskly, “ show me the way, and I will
take you home."
“ Please don't, ” he remonstrated,
with tiny back gallery rooms. The | looking piteously out from the corner
dreary treadmill «f ‘A. IJ. C.,’ and 1 0 f the Cloak she was sharing with him,
‘John's a noun,’ and ‘twice one arc “please don’t—I have three nickles
two,’ liiey walk with sore feet and diz- that I’ve earned, ami I’ve saved half
tiie supjier you gave me, and father is
sick and don’t like strangers, and—
man yet, Dick.”
He shook his head radly. “ My davs
are numlicred,” he said. “ I have
but a little while longer to live—the
doctors told me that ten days ago.”
“ Well, at least, you must he moved
from these quarters,” said little Twitch
ett,” “ and I shall attend to it at once.”
She was good as her word. Unto
old Minnette was told the whole sad
story, who heard its end with upraised
hands and her favorite comment,
“ Well, well, life is full of haps and
mishaps, and the world is ccld, ’s|ier>
ence is a hard taskma ter.” Then
she took into her care and keeping the
sick man and his poor little boy, and
nursod and cared for them as her ex
perienced hands so well could do.
Lawyers were sent for. Dick proved
himself the lost heir, and was put in
possession of his property.
The Spring blossoms were scenting
the air when Dick closed his eyes for
ever upon all earth held for him.—
Little Twitchett laid the fragrant
blooms upon the coffin of him she hnd
loved with her first love and her last.
By Dick’s will sho found herself
made, as she said, rich, and to her
care he had bequeathe*! his hoy.
Faithfully did she fulfill her trust,
and warmly did he return herjunfail-
ing affection, ever, till the years of
manhood lmd made them change
places—giving him the right to pro
tect, her the need to lie protected.
their reach, and the we ither was
tensely cold. They must keep mov
ing or freeze. The weary round was
kept up until the gray dawn began to
streak the east, when they ascertained
their true condition. Stealthily they
lowered the bed, hastily donned their
clothing, and only remair.ed long
enough to pay their bill to the night
clerk, when, mounting their horse. 1 ,
they made tracks for home.
brains, patiently wearing the yoke
monotony until its weight wears
•t
them out, and they find rest where
tho\- will never tire any more. Ah
me! when the school-ma’ams die. we
mght to have a spelling-book for a
headstone and the alphabet for an epi
taph. Still, yon know, we couldn’t
anil
“ There, hush ! you poor little hum
bug,” said Twitchett kindly. “ If you
have a home I am going to take you
to it. I want to sec about your com
ing to school, and being saved from
Honest Ixdustky.—If there is a
man who can eat his bread at peace
with God and man, it is that man who
has brought that bread out of the earth
by his own honest industry. It is can
kered by no fraud—it is wet by no
tears—it is stained by no blood.
Rich for a Moment.—The British
ship Britannia was wrecked off the
coast of Brazil, and had on board a
large consignment of Spanish dollars.
In the horc of saving some of them, a
number of barrels were brought on
deck, but the vessel went to pieces so
fast that the only hope for life was by
taking at once to the bpats. The lost
boat was about to push off, when a
young midshipman went back to ste if
any one was still on board. To his
surprise there sat a man on deck with
a hatchet in his hand, with which he
had broken open several of the casks,
the contents of which he wrs now heap
ing up about him.
“ What are you doing there ?” shout
ed the youth. “ Don’t you know tho
ship is fast going to pieces?”
“ The ship may go,” said the man :
“ I have lived a poor wretch all my
life, and I am determined to die rich.”
His remonstrances were answered
only by another flourish of tiie hatchet,
and he was left to his fate.
We should count such a person a
madman, but he has too many imita
tors. Men seem determined to die
rich at all hazards. Least of all risk i
do they count the chance of losing tho
«oul in the struggle.—Sunday School
limes.
Nobody is more like an honest man
than a thorough rogue.
A bit of soap rubbed on the hinges
of doors will prevent their creaking.
