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MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1871.
[The following Story, written by a gifted
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1100 00 P rizt offered by Messrs. R. A. Ifar-
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MISTRESS ELSIE.
CHAPTER X.
To me it was no matter whether
it were night or day. The sunlight
brought no joy, the starlight no
peace of iniud. The morning and
the evening made up the day, bring
ing my uncle’s plans nigher to fulfill
ment. There was no need for me
to reckon time any more.
No chance came for me to see
John again; no art of Janet availed,
for my aunt had her eyes ever upon
me, and the preparations for the
voyage went on—su< h simple ones,
that it could not take very long to fin
ish them. Unlearned maiden that I
was, 1 hardly knew where that dis
tant colony was—only 1 was cer
tain that a great sea lay betwixt
it and England. God knowelh that
I prayed some miracle might Tescue
me. He knoweth that when hope
of succor had gone from me, that 1
besought Him to let the waves en-
gulph me. Poor wretched heart! I
knew that John Gray’s prison stood
beside the river, and some feverish
idea beset my mind that when he
died his spirit would drift out to
mine.
One night my uncle came, and to
my great wonder, sat down beside
me on my couch—for a lingering fe
ver had fastened upon me, hinder
ing me from all the duties which had
fallen to my share, since I had been
in London town.
“Elsie,” said he, ’“thou art full
stubborn, and hast cost me wakeful
nights enough, God knows ; and yet,
I have it in my mind lo give thee
one more pleasure, ’ere you leave
my roof for good.”
No words came from my lips, but
I lilted up my hand in token that I
heard him and was attending to his
speech.
“This night I, myself, will carry
thee to bid farewell to him thou call-
est thy betrothed—Joho Gray—con
fined according to his misdemeanor,
in a prison on the river.”
Something like a thrill shot through
me—some vision of a coming deliv
erance, came like a ray ol God’s bless
ed sunlight into the dark despair ol
my mind; and before he knew—well
nigh before he had ceased speaking, I
had risen and kissed the hem of his
doublet; at which sight he turned and
left me, in anger 1 thought, it was so
sudden.
Janet had been sent at early dawn
upon a mission from my aunt into
the country-side, and Donnel did not
appear all day either. Ijwas alone ;
though since I knew I was to see
and speak to my dear John Gray
that night, I tried lo make my gown
look fit, and put the best rufl that 1
had upon me. The last, last time,
that 1 would ever have to please his
eye, and I would look as comely as
I could. Surely it was some good
augel which led my uncle lo do this
great kindness to tne. To let ine
tell my love, how that it was cruel
fortune—not once mine own intent
to forsake him—but strive asl might,
I could not make me look as the sor
rowless country maiden had done,
before ever an unkind word had fall
en 4 on mine ear; and I gave over
striving ere long.
My aunt was in another room; I
could hear h t as she moved about
among the piesses; and presently, 1
heard strange men come in and bear
away some box or chest, and 1 be
thought me, she was sending some
household stores to her si3tcr in Ijer
old north country home.
Just at twilight, before either Don-
nef or Janet were back—the which
I mourned, because in soothe, I could
not acquaint them of the grace done
to me—my uncle brought his horse
unto a side entrance, and himsell lift
ed me upon the pillion. There was
no pressing need to bid my aunt
farewell—since I should return not
many hours hence—hut, kpowirg
how oft she had enjoined courteous
behaviour upon my mind, I turned
to make a courtesy lo -her before 1
gat upon the horse; but she had
gone, as my uncle said “upon her
housewife duty elsewhere;” and I
lost the chance of showing off the
manners she had taught me.
Ah me, the dismal London streets
looked blithesome to mine eyes, as we
rode a-down them—and the great
bells ringing, sounded like the wed
ding bells that used to ring from out
the old stone belfry on the moor—
and to my mind, so filled with the
thought of s«*H--g John Gray in such
a little space of time, sweet sounds
arid cheerlul lights seemed to pro*
ceed from cveiy place! So full of joy
was I, that I did not marvel that the
distance seemed much greater, until
the difference ot the scenes struck
upon me. Had they moved his pris
on ?
“Dear uncle,” said I, “have we
much further to travel, before we
reach the place lie is imprisoned
in ?”
My heart took sudden frigid when
he did not answer me at all; and I
saw that we were going—whither 1
knew not—but, I gathered all ray
courage and asked again, and this
time louder, for fear he had not heard
me afore.
“Dear uncle, shall I see him in very
truth (his trip hi ?” but yet he made
no answer, and I knew that ho was
minded nut to speak—since none
could keep from hearing me, I spoke
so loud , and after we had gone a hit
farther, we stopped, and looking ea
gerly to catch the sight of John’s a-
bode, I saw instead, that we had in
deed reached the river-bank, but not
such place as 1 had ever been be-
fore---but nigh the mooring of a ves
sel—whose tall masts seemed stand
ing grim and bare before us, reach
ing much above our heads. Then
my uncle spoke:
“No need to raise thy voice, maid
en, or beseech augfil of tne ; we are
come to the vessel which, God grant,
may land thee safe to thy husband,
and, art as far from thy ‘shep
herd,’ as yonder star from its fel-
low!” ,
And this, then, was tny cruel fate
and bitter lot! This the trap which
merciless ones had laid lo fetch tne
without disturbance from their house.
The air must not be loaded with m3 7
sobs; no tender leave taking must
be between Janet and me, or even
kindly Donnel; they could not brook
such sights—and jet no shadow of
remorse came over my uncle and
aunt, when they seethed the kid m
its mother’s milk, and won tne by
my love, to go with willing, glad*
some feet, unto my doom! Did not
my mother, ’mongst the angels, bear
up an accusation to the Throne ? and
had not John told me, that there was
a Great Book, wherein the Lamb
hath written and sealed the record
by our woes, against a lime ut just
requital ? Aye, surely there is much
hidden, which one day those great
white pages will make manifest!
(To be continued.)
There’s a funny story going the
rounds, of an old colored man who
was left in charge of a telegraph of
fice, in New Orleans, while the op
erator went out “to see a man.” A
“call” came over the wires, and the
darkey shouted at the instrument ns
fond ns he could, “De operator is n’t
ycr !” The nois ceased instanter.
The San Francisco New Letter:
“ ‘The third city in the State’ is still
very bitter against the Census Mar
shal for enumerating the inmates of
the Stockton Asylum in the popula
tion of that city. The protest is
frivolous ; if the lunatics are not to
be counted the figures of any census
would be paltry to the points of con
temptible.”
The boys on Long Wharf, New
Haven, have a novel way of getting
molasses into their stomachs^ Fhey
take a long string, dip it into the
molasses, and: putting one end be
tween their teeth swallow the rest.
After calmly enjoying the delicious
sweetness awhile, they take hold of
the end of the string and pull it gent
ly out and repeat the operation. It
is fun, says the New Haven Palladi
um; if you do not believe it, try it
yourself,
Parlor Games.
Although the calendar tells of
spring, and the daj 7 s are percepti
bly longer, the beating snow on our
window-panes speaks loudly of win
ter and, furs and cracking fires
are as much in order as ever. Still
night follows hastily on the heels of
day, biinding the world wiih his
dusky cloak; still the b>ys and girls,
driven in early by the darkness,
cluster about the hearth with lesson
and needle, or. weary of both, yawn
loudly and demand 10 be amused.
“What shall we do, modier, what
shall we play?” perplexing question
oft times lo poor mother, who has
no frisk left in her, and wonders why
the children can’t ' be content to sit
still as older people do. Dear madam
they can’t! You might as well ask
your cider-barrel to slop working.
Their legs and arms are all a twitch
with the insatiable fermentation of
their age; their brains are electric
with growth. Let them have their
lun now at the proper season, and
they won’t be half so likely to lake
it bye and bye at the wrong.
Let them act charades, get up
tableaux, dance about, “dress up.”
Never mind il it does pull the room
to pieces; or if the comfort of an in
valid or busy person is invaded by
the noise, let them play games, of
which there are plenty neither bois
terous nor difficult. They will en
joy them all the more if you will
lay down your work for a while and
lake a part with them.
There is “piano kaleidoscope,”
for instance, which will keep a
group of little ones enchanted and
happy for a whole evening. The
lid of the piano is raised and folded
over so as to form, with the help of
the piano cover, a long, triangular
passage. The children stand at
one end of this peeping in; the other
is brightly lit by 7 a gas branch or a
couple of candles, and Mother holds
up at the opening a series of gay
objects, such as (lowers, lamp mats,
bead-baskets, which, triply reflected
in the polish wood, make a series
of beautiful effects, like those ol’a
kaleidoscope.
Or there is the “Game of Statues.”
Everybody is a statute, excepting
two who enact a showman and a
would-be purchaser. The show
man must be the “funny one” ol the
family. He describes the statues,
turn then round, gives the prices,
indicates their best points, regrets
that this one’s nose was a little in
jured in packing, and that one got
dirty on the voyage and hasn’t had
its face washed yet; the statues
meantime standing perfectly still,
with immovable faces. Any one
who moves or laughs is punished b} 7
a forfeit.
“Menagerie” is another nice game
especially if tfiere happens to be a
family gathering or a little partj r .
The older people arrange themselves
as audience, one person acts show
man, the rest are put out of the room
and enter one by one. The show
man states that he has the finest
collection of beasts ever seen;
brought together at vast expense
from every quarter of the globe; and
including every animal that went in
to Noah’s ark. What would the
gentleman (or lady) like to see?
The visitor is pretty sure lo choose
some out-of-the-way creature like a
crocodile or gorrilta in hopes of pos
ing the showman, who prolongs the
conversation a little, and manages
to extract a sketch of the animal
and his ways. After which he
draws aside the curtain, behind
which a loooking glass is hidden,
and Tom, who has demanded the
“chimpanzee—a troublesome crea
ture, always in mischief, a dread
ful glutton; nails—of course they’re
dirty—he never cleans them,”—he
sees his own face! And Flora, who
has asked for the porcupine, as a
“cross, sulky creature, good for
nothing but to make pincushions,”
is scandalized by a similar reflec
tion! Well managed, this game can
be made very amusing.
“Musical fright” is noisier. A row
of chairs—one less in number than
the persons playing—is ranged down
the middle of the room. Some one
plays the piano, while the chitdien
dance in a circle. Suddenly the
music stops and the plaj T ers run for
the chairs. One person of course
fails to secure any, and is counted
out of the game. Alter each chair
is withdrawn till only one chair and
two players are left; the one who
gets that is declared winner.
“Russian scandal” is played in
this wise. One person takes an
other out of lhe room and tells him
a story. Player No. 2 calls out No.
3 and repeats the same story. No.
3 tells No. 4. and so on till all have
heard it, when the last told rehearses
the story aloud lo all the others, the
version b’eing generally widely dif
ferent from the original, each per
son having unconsciously added and
left out something.
In “Black Art” there must always
be two confederates who know the
secret. < >nc goes out of the room
while the rest choose some object to
be guessed. The person out then
re-enters and is a-ked ; “Is it this ?”
“Is it that?” till finally the right ar
ticle is named, and immediately to
the"sUrprise of ail he answers “yes.”
The apparent witch craft lies in the
fact that confi derate No. 2 names
first some black object and then the
thing chosen.
“Cliarade.” Three or four per
sons in the secret go into a room
by themselves. The rest of the
company enter one bj r one. The
word- ol the charade is “Mimic.”—
No one speaks, but everything done
by 1 he new-comer the rest imitate
exactly till he guesses the word ;
after which he takes his place among
the actors, and the next comes in.
“The Reviewers.”—This is a
game for older boys and girls.—
Each is furnished with pencil and
paper, and begins by writing the
name of an imaginary book on the
lop line, filding it once, and passing
it to the next player, who adds a
second name and an “or,” aud
hands it on, Each then write the
au'hor’s name, a motto, an “opin
ion of the press,” and a second
“opinion of the press.*’ The papers
arc then opened and read- -thecon-
leuls ruuning something in this wise:
Ddiy Ducker ;
or,
The Fiend of the Hills.
By
Penelope Perry.
Motto :
“I heard a little lamb cry 7 , ‘Bah !! ”
“Sweet—soothing—satisfactory.”
Home Register.
“A book calenlaled lo make the
American eagle screech proudly and
flap his wings.”—Kennebunk Argus.
“Word and question,” is also
played with pencil and paper.—
Eeach player writes a word and a
question on two difierent slips of
paper, folds them, and lays them in
two baskets provided for the pur
pose. They are then distributed
hap-hazard, and every person writes
a rhyming answer to the question
lie draws, in which the word is in
troduced. This game gives great
opportunity for clever people to
show their cleverness. We con
clude with a list of amusing forfeits:
The forfeit-payer asks everybody in tlie
room to do her a lavor.
She must answer tlireo questions without
smiling. •
His eyes are baudaged, and he guesses who
feeds him with spoonfuls of water.
To put your sister or friend '‘through the
keyhole. 77 (This is done by writing the names
on paper and passing them through.)
Answer ‘‘no” to twenty questions.
Walk round the room and kiss your own
shadow without laughing.
Two persons from opposite sides of the room
are to meet and shake hands blindfold.
To imitate a donkey to the best of your pow
ers.
To be put up to euction and bid for. When
the forfeit-holder thinks the price sufficient,
he restores the forfeit.
Answer fire questions without saying “yes”
or “no.” ''
Spsaking Slightly of Women’
At a recent dinner in New York,
at which no ladies were present, a
man in responding to a toast, “Wo
men,” dwelt almost solely on the
frailty of the sex, claiming that the
bast among them were little belter
than the worst, the chief difference
being their surroundings. At the
conclusion of the speech, a gentle
man present rose to his feet and
said :
“I trust the gentleman in the ap
plication of his remarks, refers to
his own. mother aud sisters, not ours."
The effect of this most just and
timely rebuke was overwhelming ;
and the maligner of women was
covered with confusion and shame.
This incident serves an excellent
purpose in prefacing a few words on
this subject.
Of all the evils prevalent among
men, we know of none more blight
ing in its moral effect than the tend
ency to speak slightly of the virtue of
woman. Nor is there anything in
which young men are 60 thoroughly
mistaken as in the low estimate they
form of the integrity of women—
not their own mothers and sisters,
thank God, but of others, who, they
forget, are somebody else’s mothers
and sisters.
Plain words should be spoken on
ibis point, for the evil is a general
one, deep rooted. If j 7 oung men are
sometimes thrown in the society of
lewd women, they have no more
right to measure all other women by
what they see of these than they
would have to estimate the charac
ter of honest and respectable citizens
by the developments of crime in our
Police courts.
Let, young men remember that
their chief happiness in life depends
upon their faith in women. No
worldly wisdom, misanthropic phi
losophy, no generalization can cover
or weaken this fundamental truth.
It stands like the record of God
himself—for it is nothing less than
this—and should put an everlasting
seal upon lips that are wont to speak
slightly of women.
Number 15.
The Dessert.
—Grocers should remember that
honest tea is the best policy.
An affecting sight—To behold at
a wedding the sorrow-strickon air of
the parent as he “gives the bride a-
way,” when you know for the last
ten years he has been trying lo
her off his hands.
—“Ah! 1 '’ said a Sunday school
teacher, “Caroline Jones, what do
you think you would have been with
out your g«®d father and mother?”
“I suppose, mum,” said Caroline,
“I suppose as 1 should ha’ been a
horphan.”
—A Boston woman refused lo
permit her husband to go on a fish
ing excursion, “because he was very
apt to get drowned when he went
upon the water, and, moreover, did
not know how to swim any more
than a goose.”
—An apprentice sailor fell from
the “round top” to the deck, stunn
ed, but little hurt. The captain
exclaimed in surprise, “Why where
did you come from?” “From the
north of Ireland, yer honor!” was
the prompt reply, as the poor fellow
gatiiered himself up.
—A married lady who was in the
habit of spending most ol her.time in
the society of her neighbors, hap
pened one daj 7 to be taken ill, and
sent het husband in great haste for a
physician. The husband ran a short
distance, and then returned,exclaim
ing, “My dear, where shall I find
you when I come back?”
—A Boston grocer, who excited
the ire of one of his customers by
presenting at his house his bill for
goods rendered, was wailed upon
soon alter by a daughter of the debt
or, who said; ‘ I wish you wouldn’t
come with that bill when father’s at
home—it makes him nervous to be
dunned,” The grocer apologized.
—Figaro represents two married
ladies chatting about their husbands.
“What,” sa)s one of them, “j 7 ou
permit your husband to smoke in
your rooms?” “Certainly I do, but
he spends his evenings with me,”
replied the other. “Yes, at that
price!” “My dear friend, a shrewd
wife avails herself of her husband’s
faults lo repress his vices.”
—There is a little railroad near
Bayou Sara, La, that runs to Wood-
viile on a very uncertain schedule.
A stranger came in the other day
and inquired how often that steam
car made trips to the country. The
party interrogated said “tri-weekly.”
“What do you mean by tri-weekly? ”
The answer was, “It goes up one
week and tries to come down the
next.’" 1
—An elderly 7 lady who was hand
ling a pair of artificial plates in a
dental office and admiring the fluency
with which the dentist described
them, asked him: “Can a body eat
with these things?” “My dear mad
am, mastication can be performed
with a facility scarcely equaled by
nature herself,” responded the den
tist. “Yes, I know, but can a body
eat with them?”
—A darkey was boasting to a
grocerofthe cheapnecs often pounds
of sugar he had bought at a rival
shop. “Let me weigh the package,”
said the grocer. The darkey assent
ed, and it was two pounds short.
The “colored gentleman” looked
perplexed for a moment and then
said : “Guess he didn’t cheat dis
chile much, for while lie wa3 gettin’
de sugar I stole two pair of shoes.”
—A very smart boy 7 on his return
from college, attempted to prove that
two were equal to three. Pointing
to a roasted chicken on the table,
he said : “Is not that one?” and then
pointing to another: “Is not that
two ? and do not one and two make
three?” Whereupon his father sa.d:
“Wife, you take one and I’ll take
the other., and our smart boy can have
the third for his dinner.”
Oaths are the weapons a coward
wields.
A Firm friend—An obstinate
Quaker.
Thk pitable plea of the delendant
in a breach of promise case in Iowa
is that he “was in earnest about
marrying the girl until he got that
rheumatism.”
Mr. Jones told his wife, the other
day, that if she did not take care, he
should lose his temper with her; she
replied, she was glad to hear ol it,
and only hoped he would never find
it again-
As old Van Shroomps was giving his
youngest, who was inclined lo be la
zy, a good cowbiding, the young boy
cried out: “Oh! don’t, {"adder, it
makes me smart !” “Dat’s shooost
vat I vants,” seid the old man, as he
whacked away with renewed vigor.
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