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WfcittStmtllf .S-a ait With many prac
tical anti beautiful improvement* The ligbt-run-
■lM, durability, beamy and ease of operaaioa of the
WHITE at once commends it to the public, and
Boss Over all other Machines
la that it has plea
tU|WlBU4 by
mr£ltfyaaf#. B»
■tor. it Is sold upon its own mmts strtcilv.
Mild also call attention to my varied stock of
Dry Goods, Groceries, No-
lions, PUnUtion Supplies, ft*'.,
which can he houebt very low at tt»i» tiure.
1 also keep a fall and complete line of all grades
af Chittingaad Smoking ToUrooe. Cigars of every
variety, and one of the best woorfed slocks oi hoe
Whiskies, Biandies, Winca. Gins, etc, kept in (he
Mitll luRand see me. 1 will suit you In goods,
prices.etc Very respectfully,
U. 8 STEPHENS.
January 2?, iSSO-dm
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MS. H. SPENCE, JR
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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f JONES & WALTERS,
Attorneys at Law,
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Lott Warren,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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ALBANY. OA.
DOCTORS*
J.T. HOLMES.
W. M. DkMU*L
Drs. Holmes & DeMoss,
DENTISTS,
ALBANY, . « • GEORGIA,
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tf. A. STROTHER, M.D.
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THE ALBANY NEWS.
By EVANS & WARREN. 1
Devoted to tho Iuterosts ol Albany and Southwest Georgia.
{$2.00 Per AanUi
OLD SERIES—Vol. 30, No. 47. }
ALBANY, (iEOR(jIA, Tl-ll IfSDAY, JUAIUII IS 1880.
\ NEW SEHIES—Vol. 14, No. 12.
The Clement Attachment.
its cost—now oriR»T»i»—its or eat
VALUE AN*f> PROFITABLENESS.
It .con Tfl^rrapb A )
From time to time we have spoken
of that wonderful cotton ginning and
spinning contrivance, known as tlie
Clement Attachment, and continued
to watch its developments aud steady
[trogreaa in public opinion with no
ittle interest. At first, the invention
was regarded by many as unsatisfac
tory and chimerical. It was said to
be an old and disrqpled invention
which had been revamped ami
brought forward anew for specula
tive purposes. But Che curious ma
chine, in proportion as it was investi
gated and criticised, seemed to take
the faster hold upon popular atten
tion. At length it began to lie util
ized iu practice with marked sureess,
and now there is every prospect that
hundreds of these **attaelitneiils" will
soon lie at work throughout tho cot
ton region.
From many elaborate descriptions
of the mechanical construction, oper
ation and advantages ol'this machine
the most complete and succinct that
we have seen, is furnished Sy F. K.
Whitfield, Sr., of Corinth. Mississip
pi, aud may l>c found in the Iasi issue
of the Patrons of Husbandry.
We mention, in substance, some of
the leading features connected with
the cost and operation of llie Clement
attachment. The price of an entire
set of new macliinerv at the llrides-
liurg factory. Philadelphia, is ^l.ttUO.
hut if part ol the machinery, say one-
half, he second-handed the cost will
not exceed Ji'tlU or UUMI. Ureal
'are should he taken, however, to
send on an expert to select the second
hand material that may he utilized.
Four bundled spindles are requir
ed for the manufacture of the coarser
yarns and from four hundred and
iiflv to five hundred when the liner
numbers, ranging from fourteen and
upwards, are produced.
One machine will work up from
five hundred and fifty to seven hun
dred pounds of rottoii in ten hours,
and requires fourteen hundred square
feet of solid lloor, besides another
apartment or attic for feed table,
cleanser and temporary supply of
seed cotton. It may be driven by an
engine of seven or eight horse power,
or the usual water wheel. The latter
is much the least expensive.
Seven or eight operatives, all wo
men or girls, over ten years of age,
are sufficient to operate one machine.
These are distributed as follows:
One to attend cleanser ami feed ta
ble, one at the card ami drawing
frame, one at the speeder, two at the
spinning frames, and two at the reels
and thread press.
The yarn can be spun as fine as No.
200. or* finer titan ran lie procured
from ordinary ginned cotton.
A suitable building should he two
stories in height, solidly constructed
PEACE.
As flows the river.
Calm snd deep,
in silence toward tho sea.
So fiowetli ever,
Aud eeaseth never.
The love of God to me.
Wind peace He liriugrtli
To my heart,
I>cep as the soundless sea;
How sweetly singetii
The soul that elingetli.
My loving Lord, to thee!
—Congregatioualist.
JUST IN TIME!
Dr. E.W. ALFRIEND,
M Alban?aDdsarroundingeouutry. (>•*•
HOTELS
The Old Reliable
BARNES HOUSE
rite SI , .llbasf, 6a..
W. E. HILSMAN,
—WITH—
N. & A. F. TIFT & CO.
—AND DEALERS IS—
ami
General Merchandise
Plantation Supplies.
Corner Tine and XFaahiftfteo Sueeis, Albany, G*.
luO-ta
Imported and Domestic
CANDIES,
FRUITS,
CIGARS,
TOBACCOS,
GROCERIES.
FISH, OYSTERS, &c
A W»:K In jMiMttr. town, and
timr «#' only your ap-re in*
,*-trrrul |»a> f..r cwrjr !•«
u»»-n mike a* much M laen
'ZS7,L. 'ff. ff.w. Imi'I rooipfaln
tinea ibitawtltiffiurh a el.anre. A4*'r»-** II
lULMttT A cm, I'ortlamJ, Maine-. au,;il Jy
LIME!
LIME
I/>w*r Price than |LV» j+t Barrel. Vac it m
a Iriaiufertant.
Bricklayer*. Pljp4e-r.-r*. Whi!ewa*hert,ete.,iiho«jkl
call ob tar for tin- very le-ti article, either by teller
or in person.
I ‘ BRINSON,
JritylC AU.„r,<ia.
TEETHINA.
dimiM PtWBKKS.)
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h •
, '■? Lj+iLS
• cJpes
tf»jr '-OhSe,
SCR'.S.
ih. Allay* irrMallf an*
In Europe, too, the general custom
is for one -et of mills to spin the yarn,
ami another ilo the weaving.
To run nil the year, an eight month*
iipply of cotton should be purchased
in January, to afford material until
the new crop begins to he harvested.
It i« estimated that the net proceed*
by the u*e of the attachment is from
one to one and a half cents per pound
of s»eed cotton, and the machine* are
much more durable than the com
mon cotton gin, besides being ex
ceedingly simple. The cost per *c of
earh attachment is aud with all
the changes in the card about $375.
This does not include the royalty ol
1150. The entire fibre is removed
from the seed, thus saving six or
eight per cent, of lint obtained from
the cotton seed from ordinary gins
by oil mills.
The attachments can be made of all
sdzes, so as to suit any card from thir
ty to sixty inches, and all kinds of
cotton card, say ordinary top-feed
Helf-strippers, or the roller card 0 .
The mills are netting, Mr. Whit
field shVs, Iron* thirty-three to fifty
per cent, per annum on their invest
ment. At least, all within the scope
of his know ledge are doing so. They
may l»e found in successful operation
at Windsor, North Carolina, West
minster, North Carolina, at Mat
thew*’ llepot, Mecklenburg county.
North Carolina, Andersonville, Sontl
Carolina, Newhern, North Carolina,
Tiisctitiihia, Alabama, and many olh
era are in process of roustruelion.—
That at Senoia will begin work thi
month.
It should he home iu mind that all
the seed cotton pul aside to he treat
ed by the Clement Attachment, should
he thoroughly dried iu the sun be
fore it is packed away in hulk. Ofh-
rwise the heat will causa the seed to
sprout and stain the lint, besides re
tarding the cleansing operations.
The writer haa often seen Sea Is
land cotton dried thus, packed as
hard as a board, aud kept in perfect
order for a whole year. In
deed, the essential oil of the seed
seems to penetrate the Hut,imparling
a soft texture and rich, creamy color.
The above comprises a compcn-
diotiw rcMitme of what Mr. Whitfield
has to say of the Clement Attachment
iu the Patron of Husbandry. If the
half that is claimed for it is true, a
great revolution must he wrought in
the handling of cotton, ere the lapse
of many years. The work of our cot
ton mills will he confinBd, in a great
degree, to the manufacture of cloth
from the thread produced by tliesi
machines, and the staple will find it
way to market in a far less bulky
form than heretofore.
The gain to the farmers, too, would
he immense. It is too soon, howev
er, to calculate with certainty upon
such results. We only print the status
of this new invention from the best
available data, aud the reader can
form his own conclusions.
industry hay its reward ; practice it.
ll.tr|Kr'< Magsriit* |
Across I In' road waved tlio wiilc
lnisliv tree-tops of the great crun'li'-
rv, ami rlose l>y. on tin* right, ran till-
railway tvliirli enters Nrvv Hnvi'ii In
olil canal from tin' norlli. Where
Mary sal n front window of tin' tall
fartory near tin* scientific school, her
It'll lingers I'onlil rlnvk, aid, or rust'
tin' imit'iiiin' biToiv her, mid tin' |ior-
tions of a wall'll fornii'd themselves
with rlork-work regularity, while Iiiw
mind Iravi'li'd out ovi*r the tree* ivilli-
ont a rare for the nii'rlmniral labor
liicli was going on. Had anv one
leani'd near enough to overcome tin'
roar of Hie shop, In' might liavelii'ard
her talking tolieraelf—a habit she bail
{ot from livinyc too miii-li alone.
••No, no, no," she was savin'?; “I
rannot ask Stephen, uniter any rir-
n instances.”
But, in spite ol her pre-occupation!
the mouu'iit the In'll on the lower ner
In rang out a quarter past 11, the va
grant mind had telegraphed the lin
gers, the lingers had slipped a hand,
and the machine rested fora moment.
Mary looked up. with some of the
far-otrexpression still on her face,
hut expeetant. And noi withoul
muse, it would seem, for the figure
of a young man iu a straight hlaek
coat passed along the grassy raised
path under the cemetery walk, ami
when abreast of Mary's window look
ed up at it eagerly. Neither made a
sign. The young man passed on to
wards the school with heat head, a:
he had come, hut with a spring iu his
walk, as if he believed in life, while
the young girl smiled to herself as
she pulled the India rubber runner,
and set her machine going again. It
was iu spring, and the birds sang
And so they loved each other of
course. Stephen, who had just grad
uated, and was now the new tutor at
the Scientific, had lately begun to
drop any pretense to tho contrary
with himself. But Mary? Did she
like anybody—her mother even, vvilh
whom Stephen had been hoarding
for the last year? Was there anyone
in the world on whom she bestowed
more Ilian a passing thought ? both
Stephen and Mrs. Legnrdc would
sometimes ask themselves, when a
fresh whim of indifference or rebel
lion seemed to hare nullified lh<
work of weeks of mute atlcutioii.-
Pcrhaps she was like her father, the
late Legarde—inventor anil hopele
struggle!* against the ignorance of
manufacturers and the rapacity
capitalists—whom Stephen had never
seen. People called her pretty, but
dull. Stephen, who taught natural
history, knew that she was a chrysal
is containing something great, hilt
whether a great moth of night or a
butterfly, was to him an all too mo
mentons question.
“Well, I do declare, Mary,” said
Mrs Legarde that day, when her
daughter came flinging in the kitrhrn
door, and threw herself into the rock
ing-chair near the window, “if you
don’t look all tuckered out! You’ri
always a-thinking, thinking, ns i
your head would split; but what it’s
all about, the Lord only knows.—
Some say it isn’t nothing at all, for
thinking is good for people; but von
are noways helped by it, as far as I
ran see."
The truth was, a remark ofa neigh
bor, repealed lo her, rankled in Mrs.
Lcgarde's mind. She was reported
lo have said, “My little six-year-old
smaller girl than that big Mary
of the widow Legarde’s.” Bin Mary
tarted out into the little garden and
answered no word, and the mother
went on with her work as if she were
used to get no answer.
“Have you seen Mr. Churchill to
day ?”
“I rannot ijo it, mother,” said Mary,
raising her head, “fle’6 nothing to
me, hut somehow I can’t ask him.—
lie’s different. Don’t you under
stand ?”
“Lmight if—”
“Oh, I know what you are going to
say. Please!”
“Mr Churchill is a good-looking
young man, don't you think so?”
said Mrs. Legarde, after a short si
lence.
“flood looking? Xo, indeed—head
poked out like this all the lime, and
a Ihin face. He has a good expres
sion ; hill the idea of railing him
handsome.”
“Well, handsome is as handsomr
does. He isn’t looking us hearty late
ly as he used lo: hut give him a uir
little wife lo lake litre of him—”
“Now, mol her I”
“Like Susy Peek, next door, for in
stance. Slic'd give her eye-leelh to
[ft him, I can promise you. Don't
lie sil iu the parlor every afternoon
just lo how to him as he passes?”
(Hi!—Susy. Well, I don't sr
what lie ran admire iu her. Doll's
face!”
Of course von don’t; girls never
will learn. Why, don't you know
that is just what men like? Aud y
you turn lip your nose in the most
high and mighty way when a man
like Stephen Churchill lakes notice of
you.”
“I don't turn up my nose, mother,
said -Mary; “hut Stephen always
talks lo me as if he felt himself far
above me -as if I was'ajiolher kirn
of insect Dial he liked lo watch. I
believe ho would like to pul. me in a
glass ease with the rest of his spi
mens, aud look at me occasionally as
lie docs at that big imperial moth lie
made such a fuss about at one lime
Now it’s something else. That’snhoiil
how milch he likes me.”
“Well, you needn’t lie so warm
aboutiL”
“I’m not warm.”
“Well, I’m glad to hear it,” sai
her mother, dryly. “You necdn’i
have any scruples about the mom
Iu the first place, we can pay il hack
in the second, I know all about SI
plicii 1,‘hurchiirs means; there’s noth
ing he don’t tell me. You see, hr
gels twelve hundred a year whe
he is, uml lust winter, when his futli
r did, his share was jnsf nboiil I Wo . ■
thousand dollars a yciii. So von s,.
what his income is. Well, now jn i
consider wind tie spends. Not a
thousand dollars a year, for he told
me himself Hull Professor Grant had
kepi him from buying all those hooks
and science things he w as wild about,
lie's laying up his money—licit i-
what he is doing—like a sensible
oling fellow ; and perhaps its be
cause he sees the need of marrying—
somebody—that he took the advice.”
‘Well, biildon'l yon see Hint would
he all the more reason? But of course
it is stutr and nonsense to suppose
that—”
The mother bent over the range,
and wailed for a continuation, Iml
none came. Mary had leaned so far
out of the window that she could not
her face.
You don't waul lo ask him,” ssid
Mrs. Legarde. “That is natural
h ; Iml w ho proposed to ? I
didn’t waul von lo. I don't want you
now. I would rather do il myself,
illhoiigh it isn’t the pleasantest Hiiiig
in the world.”
Mary said something in reply, Iml
her head was far out of the w ilidow
that it was lost. It was a childish
lcil.il.
Now il comes lo Ibis," said her
mother, standing in the middle oi lin'
floor, with her bauds against her Idps,
and speaking ill a dictatorial vo.ee.
I am going lo say lo Stephen Church
ill: ‘Let me have so a Hi lo
pay the instillments of Hint mortgage;
you ran have all Ihe security you
waul, and we will pay you as soon
as we begin lo make a little more
money.' He knows it has been a bail
_ ear; he has plenty of means, a reg
ular -alary, and by helping us a little
Hint way every mniitli, can tide us
All it needs is that he should
know il."
Alary slill said no word. Mrs. I.e-
irdc stepped lo her side and laid her
hand on her shoulder. Then llicgirl
Ircw iu her head, and her moilin'
saw Hull Ihe tears were I'liniiing over
her face. Such a lliing had not hap
peued for many a year. Mary was
me of those persons who erv in
wardly. Before she could say a word
'iml as if the girl was slung with dis
grace nl being caught in tears, Man
sprang lip with flashing eyes.
“I say you shall mil! \Yc had bel
ter starve Ilian beg, and heller die
Ilian heg of Stephen Churchill. You
arc selfish, cruel I”
Bill Mrs. 1 .eg;irile had been too
much moved hv Ihe unheard-of-sight
of Mary iu tears; the hard words
quite broke her down. “Oh, Mary.
Mary,” she cried, hiding her lace, “il
is for your sake. You are the only
one I hare iu Ihe world, and now
you say such words as those!”
The girl, who had been struggling
with her pride, and had spoken si
harshly as miirli from an impulse li
save herself from emotion as any
thing else, now gave up likewise.--
She made a motion lo throw herself
into her mother's arms, hut at that
moment a low knock came al
door. She stopped, grew rigid, and
turning, flitted out liy a door which
led to the upper part of the house.—
Stephen I 'hlirehiil, their hoarder, fol
lowed the closely; hut when
he closed the door anil turned I
speak, she was gone.
“Mary ran up slairs lo change her
dress,” said the widow, in answer to
Stephen’s inquiring frown, as she
turned away to the fire-place lo hide
the trouble on her face. “I mil lal
with slipper, I’m afraid. 1 hope the
young gentlemen are not gelling im
patient.
“Oh, no,” said Stephen, abstracted
ly, walking across the kitchen. “Do
you mind if I sit here till supper
ready?” Il is so pleasant here.”
“Perhaps il is Iu those that doesn't
have to slay iu it,” said the widow.—
Dear, dear! if poor Legarde had
only lived long' enough to inlroilii
dial patent. 1 should have a better
place to oiler you, Mr Churchill; Iml
then I told von all about that often
I guess Mary’ll he down soon
Stephen was glad lo seal himself
acre he had so oficn seen Mary’i
profile.against the window—Hie pro
file of thick, dark brows and laslie
of lender lines that melted about
inniilh and chili, and of ddieal
traight nose. When she was wrap
ped in thought, and had forgotten
the presence of every one—especially
of him, Stephen—her brown-grav
es yearned with a perplexed stare
that explained well enough what the
neighbors called her foolish look.
Singularly enough, it endeared l.cr
to him more fhnn over, for lie fancied
it meant Ihe inquiring spirit which
he was used to look for aud reward
among the pupils al his school.
In spite of his pre orcjipation Bl
plien had not failed lo note the signs
if a domestic scene in the kitchen.
He had got more than one inkling of
Ihe general slate id affairs, hut for
many reasons had done nothing. il
was dangerous ground lo tread upo
his assisting ft girl ns proud as Mar
Thus,although he had not It 1
Mrs. la-garde see that he knew o
her troubles or proposed so help her
he had made a shrewd guess al Hit
of her sadness and Mary’s al
Dipt departure a moment hefor
when lie veitllired into the kitchen.
Instead of talking somewhat volubly
as was her custom, Mrs. Legarde
tinned her work iu silence, aud Sit
plum aa silently gazed out into III
garden and over al Ihe apple hi
solus thick in the orchard of a house
beyond. The last of the sunset strut
through upon Hieui past Ihe side
Ihe house, and tinged lliciii of II
leliealc, deep-lying pink he had u<
deed in certain sea-shells—ves, ami
in Mary's cheek once or twice; nol
on the round of her cheek, Iml cur
otislv creeping up Ihe pale oliv
shaded space between cheek and c«
She was so unlike oilier girls he had
ecu, that he thought she could nol
ven color like other girls.
Presently Hie widow sighed or
her work, with a long sigh of a per
son who has forgotten the presene
a stranger. Stephen heard it.
“After all,” he said lo himself,
few sighs more or less will not mat
ter. 11 will leach her Ihe vulm
money, as my lather used lo sa
when he kept me on such a short al
lowanre; and next year—next y
all will he well. I shall have sell led
her lilllc debt, and perhaps—perhaps
— Ah, well, the is only a child.” And
here Stephen sighed also.
He had drifted oil' into tho ol.l
groove again, and saw, with Ihe
lover's eyes, Ihe old Hush Dial
Mary's lading from Ihe apple
when a solid form interposed reality
between him ami Ihe nearestapproaei
The | ei'son was a heavily Infill man
III u ilh square Jaws ami double
n, ami a thick, Itenl nose. He was
il ii'tahly, perhaps richly dressed
o .null I.nil. carried a gold-headed
c Hu.i wore a tall, white hat. He
..I. vvilh his feel well apart, eur-
mg Ihe little domain with the air
an owner ol litany acres, and this
11. iilin- acre among them.
‘Well, sir?” said Stephen, seeing
it his face was a strange one, and
Iready beginning lo net ns if he had
ighttolhe position of master of
the household.
The innu faced about, and looked
lUizzicallv al him. “All right, thank
ii. And how is your health?” said
the in-w-comer.
This sort of an answer did not
please the young tutor al all, aa his
probably showed, for the man
stoned to assure him he meant no
flense.
•me round here lo find the vviil-
w Legarde, aud was just admiring
ir little garden. She keeps il very
.1 here, now don’t she?”
By Iilin time Mrs Legarde had wip-
I her hands and jo the kitchen
or. “Why, I declare, if it isn’t you,
Mr. Tuttle. Who would haveIhouglil
Do come iu. Mr. Tiilllc, this is
Mr. Churchill, professor up to the
iciililie.”
"Glad lo see you, sir,’’ said Mr.
I'nHie, shaking Stephen's fingers vig-
■nsly with a cold soft hand, while
Mrs. Legarde hustled about nervous
ly lo find a seal.
Not professor, Mrs. Legarde,”
protested Stephen ; “only a tutor.”
“Well, I thought you looked kinder
tiling like," said Mr. Tultle, meusiir-
Slephen erilicallv.
Slepheu bowed coldly and arose
“Supper is nearly ready, and I
hink I'll go in. 1 suppose you and
Mr. Tiillle have business lolalk."
"Oh, you need not go, Mr. Ghiirch-
II, really," cried the widow.
No. no. 1 ilid conic on liusiiiess,”
aid the person called Tutlle, “hilt as
•ee you are a triend of Mrs. Legal'
's there is no objection to your
airing all there is to say.”
Bui Stephen would not hear of in-
rrupting them, aud withdrew
pile of all Mrs. Lcgarde's entreaties.
Mr. Tuttle's business would
have been easy to dispulch, for
lien supper was ready, a few mo
ments afterward, lie followed Mrs.
garde into the small dining-room
• in (lie kitchen, ami took his seat
her bidding. Two young fresh
men, to whom he was introduced, lie
arded with a fatherly benevolence
Iml did not raise him in their cs-
em ; lull as they never talked, ex-
pt to each other, and at table pre-
rved an absolute silence, the im-
iression made by Mr. Tutl|e cannot
pul on record. He was the only
penker, and threw hitusell' into the
tisiiicas with the same hearty zest he
bowed in devouring his supper.—
He had reached a period in a dis-
ourse about education—of which he
nied having had much, but seemed
know-all about—when Stephen
noticed one of the silent Frenchmen
nudge Ihe other vvilh his elbow, and,
ui-uing his eyes to Ihe door, saw Ma-
vvilh her ga/e fixed on Mr. Tuttle,
lie was while, and Ihe shadows about
•reyes looked darker Ilian ever,
bile these blazed angrily on the
new-rome
“Mr. Tultle, this is my daughter
Mary,” said Mrs. Legarde. “She has
■own some since you saw her.
Mr. Tultle looked up with his be
nevolent face, aud was evidently star
tled at Mary’s appearance. Startled
would hardly he the term for the fix-
Incss of regard which he exhibited .
t was evident he had not expected
anything much in a child of Ihe vvid
ovv Lcgarile. Presently, as Mary was
liding into her seat, lie rose heavily
ind insisted on shaking her by the
hand.
Be nice as von can. Mary, do,”
aid Ihe mother in a whisper, as she
leaned over lo lake her daughter's
plate. But Mary could not at once
time a pleasant face directly upon
lie scowl that had distorted her sweet
features when she first caught sight
of Mr. Tuttle. Nothing was said for
sometime, and presently the silent
freshmen, who had looked furtively
it the young woman from time to
time, nodded to each other and with
drew; their short exclamations iin
mediately after, penetrating through
Hie closed lattice, told that they had
become absorbed in n little training
of piicli-hall against some coming
match.
understand she's to work at the
watch factory," said Mr. Tuttle, slid
lily, addressing Mrs. Legarde,
ivvkvvardly enough,and giving a noil
of his head iu the direction of Mary
•Yes, I am,” said Mary.
‘Well, now, I suppose you find it
pretty hard work and poor pay?"
mid in*, in a relieved voice, Ilirning
o Mary. “Things are pretty had this
year, anyway.”
I suppose they lire. How does
your business gel on ?’’ said the girl
trying lo follow her mother's admit
nltioii.
Oh, middling, middling. Mv
husiness is always pretty good, you
see. And, if llicy can't get anything
Ise, people will liny pies. Why,
end out Ivvcnly-fire earls every day
against twenty last year. You sec,
Hie city is opening lip iu every di
lion, and the demand is fine. But
(lien, everything costs so! Flour
one up, feed for horses loo, ami the
stabling generally is mighty oxpen
n, you see. I'm hampered
in other ways, real estate, and so on
I don'l want you (o think I'm a-go-
!o he pci'Homil, Iml my mortgage
most of Ihcm a loss, sooner or la
ter."
Mary gave an appealing look nl lie
mother, Iml Ihe laller refused lo see
t.
“Thai, brings iih rigid, where w
were before supper, Mr. Tuttle,’’said
Ihe widow, courageously. “Then ’
no one Iml friends here, and we may
as well hare oar lalk
“Very good, ma’am,” said Tuttle
uiii'IiioiisIv ; "Imsim'SH, and Ihe hooii
or finished the heller."
Mr. (!liurchill,”said Mary, rising
“lei us go into Ihe other room,
have a book lo show you that Susy
lent me. She asked particularly
know your opinion aliniil il.*
Stephen lose quietly, mid follnivc
her from the room before Mrs. Is
garde and the stranger eoiilit demit
I luce outside, tier cool self-possession
left Mary suddenly, while from Hie
pale rose she turned while, mid held
lo Ihe table lor snpporl. She llli'iicd
u Slepheu mid hung h
wnlched her in an agony, hoping she
• Uhl fall, llial lie might have anex-
euse for putting Ids arms about her.
Blit she men'll sank down on Ihe
atiirhorse-h.iii sola, while her fool
tupped the floor angrily.
Miss Mary,”said lo-, awkwardly.
If you an in any trouble, I hope
you will consoler me a friend—at
least a friend,” said poor Stephen,
little suspecting Hull these were the
very words Mm-y would least like to
hear.
“Oh, certainly, Mr. Churchill,”said
tho girl, coldly. “It is very kind of
you, I am sure. This person in Ihe
other room is very disagreeable to
me; that iH all, and I have the had
manners to show it.”
Again Mary looked out at the win
dow, and a long pause ensued. Ste
phen took a seat on (lie sofa, aud
'azeil at her with a rising cry of love
Ida heart. She was so courageous
Hint so beautiful, he thought, so fresh,
aud vet al times so wise, a person
with aiicli magnificent possibilities of
womanhood. How could he liopa
Unit he would ever he able lo fill ihe
niche iu her mind, which doubtless
mlaiued some lender, chivalrous
. large of limb, ami dauntless iu
the tighl ? Could Ihal Wonderful
masterpiece of humanity, he thought,
ter he brought lo put IiAi- arms
mid Hie neck ofa pale bent stu
dent like him ? Lei people talk of
lisliuctions, us they would, was he,
ilh a profession mid means, a fair
mate lor the daughler of a poor
ding-house keeper, a girl who
orked in a factory ? His lover’s hu
mility answered no.
•‘Mary,” said Stephen.
The girl turned her head with the
intention to look surprised at the lili-
I V taken by a mm. to whom she had
long ago tauglil the quick revolutions
of her pride, but her eyes did not
aril him before she Inhered. She
mild not get her eyes to his face, hut
turned away with a poor atienipl at
haughtiness.
You know I am your friend,” con
tinued Stephen, iu a trembling voice,
mid reaching forward look the hand
nearest him. But the girl snatched it
from him and sprang up.
Do not talk to me iu that tone,”
she burst out. “I cannot stand it,
ami wont have it;” then she paused.
Her mother’s voice fell into the si
lence, calling her. She darted to the
door, and stood irresolute on the sill.
Please forgive me,” she said, peni
tently, without looking at Stephen :
bnt somehow I couldn’t bearthetonc
on used.” Then she slipped away.
Stephen got up and walked slovviy
out through the lines of lio\- into the
shady tri-angle, where the quiet of
tho evening might bring some order
to his troubled mind. Mr. Tuttle’s
heavy walk on the gravel roused him
from a long fit of abstraction, and be
fore he could avoid hint, that worthy
had taken a seat on the bench beside
him.
“Your pardon, young gentleman,”
said he, perceiving Stephen's instinc
tive motion, “but I have a word to
say along of the Widow Legarde over
there.”
Stephen gazed at M r.Tuttle's thick
soft knees, aud thought, in his pro
fessional way, of how »reat natural
ists compose a whole unknown ani
mal from a single bone discovered.—
Mr. Tuttle’s knees sccuied lo his pre
judiced view exact symbols of the
to poetry he had yet been guilty of'I head. When she swayed a little, he
man.
“I’m a plain man,” said Mr. Tuttle,
“and the fact is, I’ve got a mortgage
on this little place of the widow's,
and from being behind hand, she’s got
worse and worse. Now, from the
way she speaks of you, 1 suppose you
arc her friend, anti perhaps might
like to help her out.”
“I suppose I could,” stuttered the
_ omig tutor, confused hy many other
things besides the aversion Tuttle in
spired in Dim ; “but I do not see any
particular reason why I should. Y’ou
must know that I never knew her be
fore last year.”
Ha! ha !” laughed the other. “If
you don’t see a reason, any other man
in your place, would. I should say
that girl of the widow’s would make
a very particular reason. Sort of
quccn-likc. She’s no common stuff,
she ain’t.”
‘Sir!” cried Stephen, forgetting
himself, rising, and his lingers cure
ing with a desire to catch at Tuttle’!
thick neck.
“Oh, no offence! no offence!” cried
Tuttle, gelling up and backing two
or three steps.
A-a-all right.” stammered Stoph
en, recollecting the folly of his posi
lion. “Perhaps I can do something
Don’t act till you hear from me;” and
he hurried into Hie house.
At the door he met a hoy with a
telegraphic message, which read as
follows:
New York, May 23tli.
Agents gone with securities and (Kqiers.
Come on at once. Bring all mcnioi-niid-
unis you bai
lie had just time enough to catch
the train. From the station he sent
word to Mrs. Legarde nol lo expect
him for some days, aud took his seat
full of foreboding of the wretched
ness which might be store for him in
the future.
I wouldn’t have thought it ofSte
plien Churchill,” raid Mrs, Legarde
uhoiil a week after. “I did think he
•ared enough for its to ask how w
were.”
Perhaps lie’s sick,” said Mary,
little indistinctly.
No, he ain't; for 1 met young Ml'
lloliiusoii not all hour ago, and asked
him how Mr. Churchill was getting
on, aud he called out, “Oh, lie’s all
right.’ ”
Mary made no answer, hul set he
teeth hard. They were in a small
limine far out on Hie eastern ed
Ihe town—a house of Mr. Tuttle’i
which lie had kindly offered them
low rent when he was forced In fo
close (lie mortgage on their ovv
place a few days before. This was
not his only kindness; every day he
sent them some little present, tvliie
began to tell sensibly on Mis. Legal-
de h feelings.
“II appears to me, Mary," said she
coming lo her daughter's side at. the
open door, “Hint you act very strange
to Mr. Tuttle. At one time I did him
wrong in my mind. I saw he was
all struck ofa heap hy you the first
time he laid eyes on von, and after
ward 1 did Hunk he was gelling fa
milial' like. Bui, Lord! you’re so
high and mighty you frighten even
me sometimes. Now yon must see
what il all means; he minus marry.
Did you never notice how he looks at
you ?"
“Yes,” said Mary, between her shut
teelli, gazing fixedly over the mead
ows nl East ltock. Tho windows of
-OUR-
ENTIRE STOCK
a lonely house on Hie summit blazed
like fiery eyes and mocked her agony
ns she compared his way with the
wistful homage of .Stephen’s eyes.
Now, I don’t sec how you could
lo better. Mr. Tuttle is a good, kind
iiihii ; not very young, hut not old
'liter, lie’s formal, and knows his
own mind, and he’s a first-rate btisi-
is iiinn. It’s a dog’s life keeping’
hoarders, and never did and never
will pay.”
“Yes,” said Mary, bitterly, “it’s a
>g’s life you have been leading, and
on my account, too ” She stroked
her mother's hair, not unkindly, but
llterr was more despair than affection
the motion. The tide of rebellion
against her lot in life was over
whelming her. She thought how
oilier girls could go on improving
themselves in comfortable homes
where the mother was not compelled
lo the unending daily household
drudgery.
Mary,” Whispered Mrs. Legarde,
suddenly breaking offa roll of words
I hat had been issuing from her lips,
here comes Mr. Tutlle, curlier by an
•ur, in his best buggy. Como iu.—
Now do not look bo gloomy, please,
ml remember there’s others iu the
orhl beside yourself.”
Mr. Tutlle was nut the only person
hose faces weie set towards the di-
pidated little bouse in the suburbs.
Stephen Churchill had arrived that
day, and finding his boarding house
losed. and Mr. Tuttle, to whom he
had written on business, not to be
found at his shop, had set out to find
Mary by such meagre directions as
he could produce. The sight of Mr.
Tuttle passing in holiday attire at a
tine rate of speed had not quieted his
mind, but at least gave him the di
rection in vrhicli to search. The fla
ming windows of the house on East
ltock seemed, however, a good omen :
it pleased him to think them a bonfire
of happy augury, until the sight of
Tuttle’s wagon before a small cottage
gave the upper hand once more to
sad and angry thoughts. As he ap-
iioached a disagreeable voice was
til'd through Lite closed shutters; so,
hesitating to go in, he passed to the
'. lit around the house. On that side,
in a narrow sill of a miniature bay-
ivindow projecting a few feet from
the wail, sat Mary, with her back to
him, and pressed out from the room,
as if to get away as far as pos-ihii-
from the speakers. Stephen stepped
noiselessly forward until he ito-xl
within arm’s length of the figure al
ways present to Dis mind, and leaned
against the house. As she snt he
might have stirred her hair by bend
ing forward and breathing hard.
“There is men in my position would
hesitate before they asked a factory
;irl to marry them,” said Mr. Tuttle,
n a loud voice; “but I am a plain
man, and what I say I mean, Mrs. Le
garde. That there daughler of yours
shall dress like the best of them—as
good as anybody up to Hillliouse av
enue. It’s true I’m no boy; but we
know, Mrs Legarde, wliat comes of
two green young things a-marrying.
All very well as long as the money
lasts for the honeymoon; but when
that’s spent the fighting begins. What
lo you say, little Mary?”
Mary laid her clinched fist against
the upright of Hie wiudow.and press
ed hard, but answered no word. She
leuued out and looked around the
iipi-iglit at the moon, between half
and quarter, which burned tike a
deady candle flame high in the sky
Tliei-e was nothing mocking in the
yellow flame, as there had been in the
reflected sun ; it was pure and benig
nant, and seemed to pity Mary so ten
derly that tears came to the girl’s
eyes.
Mary,” said her mother, and she
drew in her head, ashamed that she
should have been pitying herself, and
resolved to do what was her duty—
“Mary, I suppose yon have heard
what Mr. Tutlle has said. What have
you got to say ?”
“Nothing,” said Mary, iu a tired
voice.
“Nothing? What do you mean?—
Is tliat the way to talk before a gen
tleman?”
Mary found sonic difficulty in get
ting her words out. “Mr. Tuttle is
very good to ask me, mother, but he
doesn’t know something I will tell
him. I lore some one else.”
Oil,” said Mr. Tuttle, with a com
placent voice, “Is that all ? Pshaw!
pshaw! that is merely greenness. If
tliat is the only thing to hinder, don't
you botiicr yourself about that.—
When we get married you’ll find that
all right. It's nothing but moonshine
—nothing but moonshine.”
Mary had leaned out again, and
looked' at the pure moon saiiiug above
But there was an evil smile on her
lips ns she heard Mr. Tuttle’s remark
a disdainful smile. “Moonshine is
Hie only real tliiug in life, I believe,”
she muttered. “All else is villaiuy or
hard work. What difference does it
make ?—mother will be happy."
Come, Mary, give Mr. Tuttle an
answer,” said her mother. “Do have
some regard- for your good mother,
who has slaved for you so long.”
“What was it Mr. Tuttle asked ?”
said Mary, haughtily, for she had
made up her mind, and felt like play
ing with her own misery.
“Why, to be my wifo, Mary, my
dear,” cried Mr. Tuttle, with an effort
to be lover-like.
Mary quaked at the coarse tone
that was meant for love, and turned
again for strength to the brilliant
lamp of light; but a pair of warm,
trembling hands were laid about her
shoulders, and a longed-for voice
pleaded, scarcely above a breath:
"Mary, Mary, for God’s sake don’t
marry that maul You uccd not
marry mo if I am not worth it, but
do not wreck your happiness with
him. Give me a chance. I cannot
live without you.”
Willi no more surprise than one
I'ecls in Hie changes ofa dream, Mary
turned half around, aud saw the pure
liglit in Stephen's eyes, felt his warm
breath.
“It was too horrible!’’ she whisper
ed, as her arms stole about his neck
aud she nestled against him. “I knew
you must come at Hie last moment—
before it was too late.”
Mr. Tuttle was alarmed at tho long
silence, which was uot a silence. lie
struggled to Dis feet, anil stepped to
tho tiav-wimlow. There lie saw
something that made him gasp out
an oath, seize his liat, and leave the
house. Another moment, anil the
wheels ol Dis wagon was heard no
more. But the half-moon, like the
flame of a great candle, burned stead
ily overhead.
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