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L XXVI—NO. 151.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 22, 1884.
nit BEST V IrE OF ALL.
h travelers u».-t in Bracder pass,
the bubbling Brawler spring;
r\ are'! ilieircake and their venison,
i tl.ey t.iikod of many a thing—
oka. of song of foreign lands,
*tmnga mid wandering lives.
■) and b>. in softer tones,
, npoke ol their home* and wives-,
n-d the Lady o* Logan Brae,**
with a lofty air;
■ ik uu in a’ the North country
i ijk- wi‘ a bettor share
; ami gear and hill and lock,
iouhom and farms to rent:
ti many a iu\u has envied m«,
1 ju more than weei content.
t day.*’
. a woman as bright e
ml traveler » aid;
I u form of perfect graco,
le lace and head.
are as Line an heaven,
ig nut-broau hair;
a lie. and. though not rich,
s wondrous fair.”
lid:
i loVl
nor fair;
r gear, nor land,
u-nrown hair;
e! and her love
every test,
good, hut, fiiends,
i is best ”
PRICE FIVE CENTS
-.1 their cops in the spring again,
ey **a*d. right heartily;
to the loving. taithful wife.
vrr her home may bel”.
i they took their tiiilerent ways,
ought in each man’s breast;
is good and gold is good;
true love is the best.”
sta r our.
It towards the end of an afternoon
ulierand Wilfred Kclieaton is
si . ong a crowd-id London street
* :h ; i'ioa turned westward. A few
uomi' i ago and he was scarcely con-
rt-ms ol where he was or where ho
to gt; he was vra'-king on me
in e heavy stupor, through
viiii-h ilit-re Btole a hautUing sense of
nand despair that tortured
n dully. And suddenly, as if by
this has vanished; he seems to
uuiM'.f io have waked irom a rnisers-
iih iL_v drtam to the buoyant con-
i ii ss of youth and hope. Tem-
v-hich are subloc! to fits of
onvy aud ciuselers depression have
heir compensations sometimes in the
lienee of the reaction which fol-
i*<; the infesting cares, as in Long-
alio v’s jioeia, “fold their tents, like
Arabs, and as silently steal away,”
l i heir retreat comes anexqul-
* : nil-ration which more equable
ia|>!ia,tu>ns can never experience.
Is due ho with Kolltsion now? He
my knows that the cloud has lifted
rniu his brain, and ilia in the clear
mi.-hii>« which bursts upon him he
ii loot, ilia sorrows in the lace, and
i iu- r. isnothiug so terrible in them
!’ i« true that he is not happy at the
■ y school which he hes just
rU. li-iv. should he 06? He is dull
ni.cd and uncouth, and know
"i well that he is a general object of
ii-liki; no one there cares to associate
ii hue, and he makes no attempt to
ii.ruoiuo their prejudices, being per -
nwaro that they are different
lini and haling them for it, but
- -if, perhaps, the most.
■agi.ali his evenings are spent
1 ti-vre is little rest for him even
i the work for the next day
m prepared, and he sits over it
• ii *, sometimes with desperate ef-
'rtv t ■ master the difficulties, but
n staring at the page before
i s that are almost wilfully
- ims been and is enough in
count lor the gloomy state
h lie had sunk. Hut—aud
iiiu ho have forgotten it?—it is
w lor Uie present.
nigh, o-i will not have to sit up
with the task which will
• nu r him with fresh disgrace on
fur a whole month he
ol l.iii.k of them, nor of the
" inch ilia hand of everyone
bnu. her the holidays have
»-<<»>■ lias been the last of the
aii-ire no teuson for joy and
"sin that? What a tool be
a I these black thoughts
i n a bold over him!
vi.-, uu re as ii it had all happen-
; i me ago insti ad ol quite re-
0 incidents of the morning
to him vivid and clear once
■ v chaps! aud the doctor’s
• u rwards the pretence ol
iu re axed discipline in the
mis, v, heu the results cl the
a: ions had been read out, with
s - f the boys who tad gained
1 ihoir remci at to the lorm
h liftd come out last of course,
• ' peeled anything else -rom
;t. had gone round the desks
iis humble total closed the list,
In i.Mi j..u.ea in it, to show them
’i - are. And then tlio class had
i: missed, and there had been
byes, arrangements for
. in company or torinoei-
a ihe holloays—for alt out
- bud gone cul atone-and the
lutikLOss had come over him
io has ouiy just recovered,
the present at ad events, he
ii completely, he is going
at .east he is not despised,
will tied a taueiury from
-icings aco impositions;
r no thinks ol this the
- sp rits rise, aud he steps
ah a kind of exaltation, uu-
, he pusses in the streets
k at him, strucK by his
"They can see how jo.ly
,” bethinks wiih a sou.e.
is lading, and the snops he
■ -ant with lights and de-
bo d» es not stop to look
“• > ■ * Lem; his'mind is busy with
w he shall employ inmseii
> toe first evening of his ltoerty,
lot so long ou which he count
uu b,s uvv u master.
.-tneaecidts to read. Is there
- b- - k he Lad begun and meant
so many days ago now that
s' .yen forgotten wnatitwasali
• - ; only retnembdis that it was
A dy-.t, he thinks he won’t read
-t, not on the very first nigntof
• vs. Quite lately, yesterday
< any beloie, his mother had spo-
1 b -n, gently bnt very seriously,
- "i t ho called the morose auu
• 1 - ii .ued temper whicn would
‘ ‘ g misery upon him it he aid not
" - m, earnestly to overcome it.
-burs weio ittnes, he knew,when
- as ii a demon poast s,td him
*6il -irove him to wound even those
* -■00 him and whom beloved,
hen their affection only rou-eu
» me uidevus spirit of suilen
'oniradicdoD.
‘ l! lema softened now somehow, and
cuging for the love bo has
" | harshly repulsed. He will
this sulkiness of his;
•’! begin this very evening; as
‘ L >' he gets home he will tell his
hiat ne is sorry, that he does
her really, only mat when these
i; me on him he hardly knows
- - he says or does.
Aud she wilt forgive him, only too
« Hilly; aud his rniud will be quite a.
ease again. No, not quite; there is
stih something he must do after that;
he has a vague recollection of a long
standing coolness between himself and
his younger brother, Lionel. They
never have got on very well together;
Lionel is 30 different—much cleverer
even already, for one thing; better
looking, too, and better tempered
Whatever they quarrelled about Wit
fred is very sure that he was the of
fender; Lionel never begins that kind
of thing But he will put himself in
the right at once, and ask Lionel to
make friends again; he will consent
readily enough---he at way a does
And then be has a bright idea; he
will tike his brother some little pres
ent to prove that he realty wishes to
behave decently for the future. What
shall he buy ?
He finds himse'f near a large toy
shop at the time, and in the window
are displayed seyeral regiments
brightly-colored tin warriois—the very
thing! Lionel is still young enough to
delight in them.
Keeling iu his pockets Rolleston dis
covered more loess silver than he had
thought he pos-eseed, and so he goes
into the shop and asks for one of the
boxes of soldiers. He is served by one
of the two neatly dressed female as
sistants, who stare and giggle atone
another at his first words, find ia„
odd. perhaps, that a fellow of ins age
should buy toys, as, if, he thinks i t
dlguantly, they couldn’t see that it
was not for himseif he wanted the
things.
But he goes on, feeling happier after
his purchase. They'will see now that
he is not so bad after all; it is lo:
since ha has felt such a craving to be
thought well of by someoody.
A li’.tle farther on he comes to a row
of people, mostly women and trades
men’s boys standing on the curbstone
opposite a man who is seated in a little
wooden box on wheels drawn np olo e
to the pavement. He is paralytic and
blind, with a pinched white face
framed in an old fashioned fur cap
with oar lappet-; he seems to be
preaching or reading, and R diestou
stops idiy enough to listen for a few
moments, the women making ro'm for
uim with^alacnty and the boys stating
curiously around at the new arrival
with a grin.
He hardly nays much attention to
this; he is listening 10 the poem which
the man in the box is reciting with a
nasal and metallic snuffle iu his voice.
There’s a harp and a crown,
For you tnu for me,
H 'aging on the bougns
Ol that Christmas tree.
He hears, and then hurries on again,
repeating the stanza mechanically to
himseif, without seeing anything par
ticularly ludicrous about it. Tne
words have reminded him of that
Christmas party at the Gordons , next
door. Did not Ethel Goidou ask him
particularly to come, and did he not re
fuse her sullenly? What a brute he
was to treat her like that! If she were
to ask him again, he thinks he would
not say no, though he does bate par-
lies.
Ethel is a dear girl, aud never seems
to think him good-for-nothing, as most
people do. Perhaps it is ail sham
though—no, he can’t think that when
he remembers how patiently and kind
ly she has borne with his snnssisss fits
ol temper and tried to laugh away his
gloom.
Not every girl as pretty as Ethel is
would care to nonce Lina and peisist
!u it in spite of everything; yet he iras
sulked with her of late. Wish it be
cause she had been kind to Lionel? He
is ashamed to think that this may nave
been the reason.
Never mind, that is all over now; he
will star* clear with everybody. He
will ask Ethel to forgive him. Is there
nothing he can do to please hei? Yes;
some time ago she had asked him to
draw something lor her. (He dotests
drawing lessons, but he has rather a
taste lor drawing things oat of his own
head.) He had told hor, not too civilly
that lie had work enough without do
ing drawings for girls, He wiil paint,
her something to-night as a surprise;
he will begin as soon as tes is cleared
away; it will be more sociable than
reading a book.
And then already he sees a vision of
the warm little parcelled room, an!
himself getting out his color box aud
sitting down to paint by lamp light—
lor any light does for his kind of coloi -
ing—while his mother sits opposite and
Lionel watches the picture growing un
der his hand.
What shall he draw? He gets quite
absotbed in thinking over this; hi-, own
tasles run in a gory direction, but per
haps Ethel, being a girl, may not care
lor battles or desperate duels. A com
promise strikes him; he will draw a
pirate ship; that will be first-rate, with
the blselc flag Hying on the mainmast
and the pirate captain on the poop
scouring the ocean with a big glass in
search of merchantmen; all about the
deck ai d rigging he can put the crew,
with red caps and belts stuck full of
pistols and daggers.
And on the right there shall be a bit
of the pirate’ island, with a mast and
another black flag—he knows he will
enjoy picking out the skull and cross-
boucs in thick Chinese white—and then
it there is room, he will add a oannon,
and perhaps a palm tree. A pirate
islsud always has i aim trees.
He is so lull of his pi ejected picture
of hie that he is quite surprised to find
that he is very near the square where
he lives; but here, in front of him, at
the end ol narrow lane is the public
house with the coach and four en
graved on the ground glass of the low-
r part of the window, and the bottles
full of colored water ranged above.
And here is the greengrocer’s—how
long siuce it was a barber’s? surely a
very iittle time—and there is the boot
maker’s, with its outside display ol
dangling shoes and the row of naked
gas jets blown to blue specks and
whistling red tongues by turns as a
gust I weeps across them.
This is his home, this little dingy,
old-fashioned red-Driek house at an
angle ol the square, with a small paved
space raised in before it. He pushes
open the old gate with the iron arch
at>eve, where an oil iamp used to hang,
d hurries up to the door with the
heavy Georgian porob, impatient to get
to the warmth and light which await
him within.
The bell has got out of order, for
only a faint jangia ermes from below
as he rings; he waits a little and then
pulls the handle again, more sharply
this time, and still no one oomes.
When Betty does think proper to
come up and open the door he will tell
her that it is too bad keeping a feliow
standing out here in the fog and cold
all this time. . . . She is coming at
last—no, it was fancy; it seems as if
Betty had slipped cut” lor something,
and perhaps the cook is up stairs,ana
his mother may be drzing at the fire,
as she has begun to do of late.
Losing all patience, he gropes for the
knocker, and groping in vain, begins
to hammer with bare fists on the door,
louder and louder until he is inter
rupted by a rough voi e from the rail
ings behind Mm.
Now then; what are you up to
there, eh?” says the voice, which be
longs to a burly policeman who has
stopped suspiciously on the pave
ment.
“Why,” says Rolleston, “I want to
get in, and I can’t make them hear me.
I wish you’d try what you cau do; wiil
you?”
The policeman comes slowly in to
the gate. “I dessay,” he says j neuter-
ly. “Is there anything else? Come,
suppose you move on.”
A curious kind of dread, he knows
not what, begins to creep over Wilfred
at this.
“Move on?” he cries, “why should
I move on? This is my house; don’t
you see? I live here.”
“Now look ’ere, my joker, I don’t
want a job over this/ 1 'says the con
stable stolidly. “You’ll bringaorowd
in another minute if you keep on that
’ammering.”
“Mind your own business,” says the
other with growing excitement.
~ That’s what I sbafi have to do if
you don’t look out,” was the retort,
“Will you move on before I make
you?”
“But I say,” protests Rolleston, “I’m
not joking; I give you my word I’m
not. I do live here. Way, I’ve just
come back from school, and I can’t get
in.”
“Pretty school vou coma from!”
growls the policeman; “’aDdlea on to
your books if I knows anything. ’Ere,
out you go!”
Roiiaston’s fear increases. “I won’t!
I won’t!” he cries frantically, and rush
ing back to the door hea a upon it
witdiy. On th8 other side of it are love
and shelter, and it will not open to
him. He is cold and hungry and tired
after his waik; why do they keep him
out like this?
“Mother!” he calls hoarsely. “Can’t
you hear me, mother? It’s Wilfred;
let me in!”
The other takes him—not roughly—
by fhs shoulder. “Now you take my
advi -e,” he says. “You arn’t quite
yourself; you’re making a mistake. I
don’t w. n* to gut you in trouble it you
don’t force me to it. Drop this ’ere
tomfool game and go noma quiet to
wherever it is you do live.”
“I tell vou I live here, you fool!”
shr.eks Wilfred, ta deadly terror lest
he should be forced away before the
door was opened.
“And I tell you don’t do nothing of
the sort,” says the policeman, begin
ning to lose Lis temper “No one don’t
live ’ere, nor ain’t done not since I’ve
been on the beat. Use your eyes If you
ate no: too far gone ”
For tb9 first time Rolleston se6ms to
see things plainly as they are; he
.ances round the square, tnat is just
i it always is on f. ggy wintry even
ings, with -t- ceu.ral enclosure a
hadowy blank mass against a reddish
[limmer, beyond which the lighted
windows ot the houses glow in .yellow
bars oi varying length and tint.
But this hou-e, his own, way, it is ail
shuttered and dark; some of the win
dow panes are orokeu; there is a pale
ay patch in one that locks like a
dii.gy bill; tbo knocker has been un
erased irom the door, and on its
scraped panels some one has scribbled
words and rough carricatures that were
surely not there whoa he left that
morning.
Can anything, any frightful disaster,
have come ia that short time? No, he
will not think of it; he will not let
himself beterrifitd ali for nothing.
“Now, are you goin’?” says the po
liceman, after a pause.
Rolleston putts his back against the
door and dings to the side3. “No!” he
shouts. “I don’t care what you say;
don't belie re you: they are ail in
share—they are, I teil you they are—
they are!”
Iu a second he is in the constable’s
strong grasp and being dragged, strug
gling violently, to the gate, when a soft
voice, a woman’s, intercedes for him.
What is the matter? Ob, dont, don’t
be so rough with him, poor oreature!”
It orits pitifully.
"I’m only exercisin’ my duty,
mum,” says the officer; “he wants to
create a disturbance ’ere.”
“No,” cries Wilfred, “he lies! I only
want to get into my own house, end no
one sesms to hear me. You don’t
think anything is wrong, do you?”
It is a lady who*has bben pleading
for him; as he wresia himself irom his
captor and comes forward she sees his
face, and her own grows white and
startled. “Wilfred!” she exclaims.
“Why, you know my name!” he
says. “ Then you can tell him it’s ail
right. Do I know you? You speak like
—is it Ethf.i?”
“Yes,” she says, and her voioe is low
and trembling, “I am Ethel.”
He is silent for an instant; then he
says slowly. “You are not the same;
nothing is the same; it is all changed,
changed! and oh, my God, what am I!”
Slowly the truth is borne in upon his
brain, muddied and disordered by long
excess, aud the last shred of the illu
sion which had possessed him drifts
away.
Ho knows now that his boyhood,
with such possibilities of happiness as
iu had ever held, has gone lor ever. He
has been knooking at a door which will
open for him never again; and tne
mother by whose side he had meant to
spend the evening died iong years ago.
The past, blotted out completely for
an hour by some freak of the memory,
comes Dack to him, and be sees his sul
len, morbid boyhood, changing into
something worse still, until by slow
degiees he became what he now is,
dissipated, degraded, lost.
At first the shock, the awful loneli-
ne-ss he awakes to, and Uia shame of
being found thus by the woman for
whom he had felt the nn>v pure love
he had known, overwhelm him utterly,
and he bows his head upon his arms as
he clutches the railings, and sons with
a grief that is terrible in his abandon
ment.
The very policeman is stient and
awed by what be feels to be a scone
from the tragedy of Life, thougu he
may not be able to describe it to him
self by any more suitable phrase than
“a mm start.”
“You can go now, policeman,” says
the lady, putting money in his hand.
"You S6e I know this—this gentleman.
Leave him to me; ho will give yon no
trouble new.”
And the constable goes, taking eare,
however, to keep an eye occasionally
on the corner where this has taken
place. He has not goDe long before
Rolleston raises his It -lid with a husky
laugh; his manner has changed now;
he is no longer ths boy in thought and
expression that he was a short time be
fore, and speaks as might be expected
from his appearance.
“I remember it all now,” he says.
You are Ethel Gordon, of course you
are. aud you wouldn’t have nothing to
do with me, and quite right too, and
then, you married my broihar Lionel
You see I am as clear as a bell again
now. So you came up and found me
hat-eringac the door, eh? Do you know,
I got the fancy I was a boy again and
coming home to—bah, what does all
that matter to you? Odd sort of fancy,
though, wasn’t it? Drink is always
play.og me some cursed trick now. A
pretty fool I must have made of my-
self!”
She says nothing and he thrusts his
bands deep in his ragged pockets.
“Halle! what’s this I’ve got!” he says,
as he fesis something at the bottom of
one of them, and bringing out the box
of soldiers he had bjught half an hour
before he holds it np with a harsh
laugh which has the ring cf despair in
it.
“Do you see this!” he says to her.
“YuU’li laugh when I tell vou it’s a
toy I bought just now for—guess
whom—for your dear husband! Must
have been pretty bad, musn’t I? Shall
I give it to you to take to him—nc!
Well, perhaps he has outgrown these
things now, so here g- es;” aDd he
tosset the bex over the radiags aud it
fil s with a oniver of broken glass as
the pieces of painted tin rattle out up
on the flag stones.
“And new I’ll wish you good even
ing,” he says, sweeping off Ms battered
hat with mock courtesy.
She tries to keep Mm back. “No,
Wiltred, no; you must not go like that
We live here still, Lionel and I, in the
same old house,” aud she indicates the
house nextdooi; “be will be home very
soon. W til you” (she cannot help a
iittle shudder at the thought of sucu a
guest)—“will you come in and wait
for him?”
“Throw mvself into his arms, eh?”
he savs. “How delighted be womd
be! I’m jast the sort of brother to be a
credit to a highly respectable young
barrister like him. You really think
he'd like it? No; it’s all right, E.ne);
doo’t be alarmed; I was only joking. I
shall never come iu your way, I prom
ise you. I’m just going to take myself
off.”
“Don’t say that,” she says (in spite
of neraeil she feels relieved); “tell me
—is there nothing we can do—no help
we can give?”
“Nothing,” ho answers fiercely; “I
don’t wan’t your pity. Do you think
I can’t see that you wouldn’t touoh me
with the tongs if you could help it?
It’s too late to snivel over me now,
and I’m well enough as I sun You
leave me alone to go to the devil my
own way: it’s ail I ask of vou. Good
bve. It’s Christmas, isn’t ii? I haven’t
dreamed that at all evenls. Well, I
wish you and Lionel as merry
Christmas as I mean to have. I can’t
say more than that in the way of en
loyment,”
He turns on his bee! at the last words
and slouches off down the narrow iane
bv which he bed come. Ethel R files-
ton stands for a white, looking after
his receding form till the fog closes
round it and she can see It no more.
She feels as If she had seen a ghost and
for her at least the enclosure before the
deserted house next dior will be
haunted ever more—haunted by a for
lorn and homeless figure sobbing there
by the railings.
As for the man, he goes on his way
until ha finds a door whiohis not
olosed against him,—Longman’s Mag -
azine.
LOViS AND HAGSiTlSM.
I can designate Mm only by Ms ini
tials, H. de P. He was a tali,
thin and pale young man, with salient
cheek bones and a delicate black mus
tache, who concealed with infinite art
his nervous agitation beneath a show
of eoldne-js altogether Britannic.
“The story I am about to tell you,”
said he to me, “dates from 1878, the
year of the great Troeadero exposition,
In consequence of a long and sad
youthiul romance, I found myself in
a physioal condition more or less de
plorable; my nervous system was ex
cited to che highest point, and I often
sank into a state of prostration well
calculated to cause uneasiness.
“OaeeveniDgI was returning after
having dined with my friend, the
Comte de H , whose hotel was situ
ated in the Rue de Greneile, and was
crossing the esplanade of the Iuvalides
to reach home, You know I lived in
the Rue Raynouard, at Passv. I wish
to state—and you will soon understand
the importance of this statement—that
I had dined very moderately. As
approached the G tal d’Orsav my head
grew heavy and I began to stagger like
a drunken man. Then I felt that atro
cious contraction of the chest that pre
ceded my accustomed attacks, and my
uppieisloa became such tnat I was
forced to seat myself as quickly
possible upon one of the benches of
the esplanade.
“For a brief space, two or three sec
onds at most, I e.osed my eyes and
when I reopened them, without look
ing closely at my surroundings, I waf
greatly astonished to S6e pass me on
horseback a soldier clad in a close fil
ling uniform of light blue with yel
low braidi, a uniiorm that did not ex
ist in the French army. I recollected,
however, mat a oertalu number of for
eign military gentlemen had coma to
Paris to attend the exposition, au ! my
surprise ceased. But when I arose and
strove to walk such dizziness seizad
upon me that I plunged straight ahead
as if in a dionu.
“At length I realized that I was in a
small, deserioi s rest, that I supposed
belonged to tue laoyrinth of Granelle
quarter. I advanced at hazard and
nailed in stupefaction before an im
mense avenue, planted with tree3,
splendidly lighted with gas lamps aud
bordered with sumptuous habitations
For an instant I believed myself in the
Champs Eiysees, and Hiked myself
how I passed the bridge without no
ticing it; but it was not the Champs
Eiysees. It was a semicircular aveuue
of a foreign character, Italian, per
haps, traversed by a lew persons and
carriages ol a heavier and more solemn
aspect than Parisian vehicles
“Instinctively 1 directed my steps 1
toward a magnificent palace,in front of
which was stationed a long Me of cal-
ecnes. A mysterious and irresistible
iorce drew me on. I ascended a grand
marble stairway, and suddenly found
myselt in a concert hall full of people
aud decorated in the most beautiful
Louis XYI style. No one noticed me.
I lived hi a dream, and, nevertheless,
I certainly was not dreaming. It was
only confustdly and as if through a
cloud that I saw the people who sur
rounded me.
“Many ladies in bright hued dresses,
with fresh and smiling visages; men
britliant uniforms decked with em
broidery; then, here aud there, men in
black cos ts, nearly all cf them stand
ing, lluitering about among the multi
color-d toilets like sombre butterflies
around a basket of flowers. An at
once there was oompieie silence. Eve
rybody was motionless. At the ex
tremity of the hall, upon a stage, a wo
man all in white appeared, and I recog
nized her!” Here M. H. de P
paused an instant, grew paler and
smiled sadly. Then he continued:
“I spare youths recital of my pain
ful romance You knew the woman,
and it is useless for mo to name her.
I loved her with all the strength of my
soul. I loved her for her beauty so
feminine and for her marvelous tal
ents as a cantatrioe. How and why I
suffered so much because of that love
you know or can guess, and it is use
less for me to dwell upon that point
Suffice it to say that when I proposed
marriage to her she laughed in my face
One day, yielding to the advice ot my
lriends, I resolved to give her up. I
informed her of my resolution frankly
like a man of honor.
“ ‘So be it,’ said she, looking at me
with a strange fixedness; ‘yon abandon
me and it is probable that from this
time forwa- d I sbail love you madly. I
know the firmness of your heart snd
the greatness ol yon r pride. You give
me up; but take care, you will suffer
more from adopting that couise tuan
yon have sutfared from my cotdness,
real or apparent. My image wiil haunt
you and yonrs wiil not quit
me Without seeing each other, we
can do each other h great deal of harm ’
She spoke to me in a tone absolulely
thrilling, but I took that lor a trick and
persisted in my strange resolution. She
had spoken the truth. Often, always,
her image beset me. In dreams or
awake, I saw her constantly present,
fascinating me, tearing my heart aud
bewildering my brain.
“But this time it was not the mere
evocation of a dear and cruel souvenir;
it was she herself I saw, and with
alarming distinctness Everything
surrounding her grew more and more
vague. She, the dear torturer of my
soul, stood out in the full light, with
her long hair spark ing with golden
bangles, her opal complexion, her bi-
zirreaod superb eyes, bordered with
thick black lashes, eyes of metallic
gray, eyes with giariDg pupils, adora
ble eyes that caused fear. His bosom
heaved with a spasmodic movement,
and it seemed to me that I saw ihe
beating of her heart through her cor
sage oi white faille.
“She sang; I know not what she
sang—it was in Italian—an air of an
tique character, a charming air, and at
once melancholy atd expressive of a
tender and loving sentiment. There
was a pause. I heard a piano that 1st
loose a tempest of arpeggios. She
strove to resume her soDg, but her pal
lor grew deathly, and she pressed her
contracted hands to her breast, utter
ing a heart-rending cry.
“A great commotion took place
around her. People rushed upon the
stage, whither I followed with the
crowd. Then her eyes, her steel-color
ed eyes plunged into mine and she
pronounced my name three times,after
which her face became convulsed and
she fell backwards a corpse. I felt a
very accute pain in the breast toward
the heart, and after a violent and rack
ing effort to regain my respiration—”
‘‘You awoke,” said I.
‘Pardon,” resumed H. de P
with a faint smile. “I found myseif
still upon the bench with my head
heavy and my eyes obscured by a red
vapor.
“I did not believe it was a dream
and I imagined that I was threatened
with maaness For two days I dare
not mention this hallucination to any
one. Finally, devoured bv uneasiness,
I went to the house of Dr. N , who
nail already attended me.
“He listened to my recital a little ab
sently at first, then with excited aiten
tion,
“ ‘Is ail that true?’ he asked, sudden
ly. when I finished
“ ‘Have I the air of joking?’
“ ‘Have you been to Vienna?’
•“Never. Why do you ask me that?’
“ ‘Did not Mile. X sing in Aub
fria quite recently?’,
“I do not know. A month ago she
was in St. Petersburg,’
“ ‘You hayenot heard any one speak
of her for a iong white?'
“ ‘Not for a long while. My friends
avoid mentioning her name in my
presence.
“The doctor was silent for a moment,
then opened upon an easel a large al
bum of photographs
“ ‘Look,’ said he, pointing out to me
avtewof the Ring; ‘do you recognize
tha!?’
‘“Yes’ answered I, ‘it is the avenue
I saw in my hallucination ’
“ ‘And yon have never been to Vien
ut?’
Never, I have never even seen
a pic.ure of the Ring. This is a very
strange affair.’
Much stranger than you think,’ re
sumed the doctor, and he handed me a
copy of a paper of that morning,
“ 'Read that,’ said he, placing his fin
ger upon a musical item.
“I read as follows:
“ ‘Sad news reaches ns from Vienna.
Mile. X , the emi tent eaula.riee
who recently scored suoh grts eu-cess
at the opera in St, Petersburg, sang
yesterday at the Gaiczinski Pa.ace
Suddenly she was observed to turn
pale; she exclaimed three times Henri!
Henri! aud fell dead. Doctor Gesling
who was present, declared that the un
fortunate artiste had succumbed to an
attack of heart disease. For some days
Mlie. X had seemed a prey to
3umbre malouchcly, but there was
ui.thing calculated to loreshadow this
tragic aec'dent.’
“The doctor and I remained for an
instant without uttering a word.
“’Wnatdo you think of all thit?’ I
demanded of Mm at last.
“ ‘And yon?’
*• ‘I don’t know what to thick. It is
incredible.’
“‘Why sc?’3aid the doctor, a trifle
brusquely. ‘Go to La Saltpetriei ,
there you will see women fail asleep
aud transport themselves a thousand
leagues from Paris at the order of a
mere student, a pupil of M. Charcot.
You experienced the influence oi Mlie
X — ; that’s the whole matter in a
utsheij; and she probably died from
the mental tension, the effects of which
you felt. Ws are ofien witnesses o
similar phenomena, and are feign to
Mound them with the other natural
pnenomena. Formerly the tendency
was to see tb8 marvelous in the sim*
pleat manilestaiions of nature; to-day
the tendency is to ascribe evurything
to pi ysiology. To give expUna.ions
wou d te more difficult. From ihence
unes ihe mysterious aud discreet air
often assumed by the sa-. ants who ilve
in contact with people subject to mag-
ce ic influences ’
•‘This was what Dr. N said to
me, aud we have never spoken of the
matter since.”
Qt7K.nr, - Victoria.—Queen Victoria
has just attaiued her cixty-fif-h year,
an age which has been exceeded by
nine only of the sovereigns of Eng
land, dating from the Norman con
quest, viz: Henry I and Eiw«rd I,
who both attained 67 vears; Queen
Elizabeth, who lived iu 63 yeais.J anas
II .63 years; George I,, 67 year-; George
11., 77 * «ar»; Gaorge III., 82 years;
George IV ,6S years, and William IV.,
72 years On June 26 she will have
reigned over the daltod Kingdom tor
lerty-seven years, a length of time
which has been exceeded by three of
the kings of England only, viz: Henry
111., who reigned fifty-six years; Ed
Ward III., w nose reign reached fifty
years, aud George III., whose reign
lasted nearly sixty years. Victoria is
also the oldest European mot arch with
three exceptioiis— the emperor of Ger
many, who is 87 years of age; the king
of the Netherlands 67, and the king of
Denmark 6S.
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FOR PAIN.
Believes aad cares
RHEUMATISM,
Neuralgia,
Sciatica, Lumbago*
BACKACHE,
HEADACHE, TOOTHACHE
SORE THROAT*
QUiSbY, SWELLING^
SPRAINS,
Sonnets, Cals, Bruise^
FROSTBITES,
BURNS, SCALDS,
And all other bodily achea
GARRETT & SONS
i iu 11
FIFTY CESTS A BOTTLE.
Sold by all Drutfclst
iTcalors, Jj
languages.
Tie Clurlaa iTogelsr Co.
(Successor to A. Vogsler A Co.)
Baltimore, EiL, L'. 8. A.
SIS ENGINES.
I v TO BCILBE
REQUIRED.
No TrcDltie fill tel, Asta,
[Fmoke, water, or constant attendance.
nsro
No Extra Insurance.
Expens* Ceasss the Moment the Engine is Stopped
WE are prepared to furnish estimates of cost
and running expenses of these engines, from U to
25 liorso power.
OLUXBUS GAS LIGHT 10
-MANUFACTURERS OF-
GEO. KENNEY,
Has Just received a fine lot of
im <D>3$r TTifcs: :hi ssr
Oi Beautiful Design and Flnlch at hJs
Marble Works
A.LL GRADES
FINE CIGARS
rCI AflTAL FKIIE *70,000.-fc*
Ticket, only *3. Mbkrea in proportla
Louisiana btate Lottery Comp’y.
“ We do hereby certify Oust we supervise the
arrangements for all the Monthly and 8emu
A tnual Drawings of The Louisiana Stale
iAttlery Company, and in person manage and
control the. Lrauhngs themselves, and that the
same are conducted with honesty, fairness, arid
in good faith torvard all parties, and we au
thorize the Cwnpany to use this certificate,
with facsimile* of our signatures attached, in
its o.uvsrtisements,* 1
THE PRINCIPAL BRAND* ARE
arr
irei
On Upper Broad St
ALSO,
SaiiisgSi Cofias, Baris! Case# ;
John Black cur. (x. ifmihy Jordan
JORDAN & BLACKSAE,
FIRE,
CYCLONE,
TORNADO
AN9 WIND STORM
A Sage's Advice. —A young man
who was just 8t«riiugont in life went
to a Noted Sage aad inquired:
“How snail I gaiu the Friendship of
the Worla?”
“By Speaking well of all men,” was
the reply.”
In a lew months the young man re
turned and cried out:
“Oh, Sage! You have wrought my
Ruin! Bsi ause I spoke well of all men
the World soon Discovered that I did
not Realize the Difierence between the
Good and the Bai and I am called an
Idiot!”
MORAL.
It is well enough lo make a distino
tion between tne man who returns
your ios Wallet and t ie chap who
steals your Coat and All.
Sick Chambers.—imdragaation of
the atmosphere of a sick chamber
when the patient is ill of diphtheria,
measles, scarlet lever, or of any allied
disease, with the odor of a mixture of
fquai parts of turpentine and carbol
ic acid is recommended by Dr. Vi-
landt. Half a teaspoonful of the mix
ture will be enough at a time, if it is
put into a kettle of wi-ter kept near
the boiling point, The odor coneraliv
gives some relief lo the suffn-er, and
te Jds to preveat tbo spread cf the mal-
adv.
Disfiguring
HUMORS,
Itching and
Burning Tor
tores, Humil
iating Erup
tions, such os
QALT BTIEUM Eczema, Psoriaai*!. Scald Hoad.
^ Infantile or f3iith Humors, »nd every firm of
Itching, Scaly. Pimply. Scrofulous. Iuh*»rited Con
tagious. and Copper Colored Diseases of the Blood.
Skin <*nd Scale, with los of Hair are positively
cured by theCUTICURA REilEDIES.
C ntlmra Rmolvent the new blood purifier,
cleanses ne blood and p"rsp«retion of impurities
and poisonous elements, and thus removes the
cause.
Caflcurtft. the great Skin Cure, indantly allays
Itchiog and Inflammation, clears the Skin and
Scalp, heals Ulcers and Sores, and restores the Hair.
r uiicora ^osp,
exquisite Skin B°autifier
indispensable i i treating Skin Diseases Baby Hu
mors, skin Blemishes, Rough, Chapped, or Oily
Skin.
Catl^nra Remedies are absolutely pu>e. and
the only real Blood Pnrifiors aad Skin Beautifiers’
free from mercury, arsenic, lead, zinc, or any other
mineral or vegetable poison whatever.
It would require thi ( entire paper to do justice
to a description of the cu^es performed by the Ucri-
ctra Bksolvknt internally, and Cuticura and Uu-
ticuba fcOAP externally.
Eczema of the palms of the hands and of the
ends of the fingers, very difficult to treat anu usual
ly Gon,ideied incurable, small patches ot ? t tter and
salt rheum on the ears, nose, anu sides of the lace.
I'cblng, burning, and scaly tortures, that
baffied even reliel from ordinary remedies, soothed
and healed as by magic.
discharging wounds, each and all o: which have
been speedily, permanently and economically cured
by the Cuticura Remedies.
Sold everywhere. Price: CrricuRA. 50 cts.
Resolvent, f I; Soap, 25 eta. Potter Drug asd
Chemical Co., Boston, Maas,
head lor Us Cure Skin DUeaaes. *’
OOLUMBU3, -
GEORGIA
OFFICiE t
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For Two Premlnms we Insure Three Years,
and for Three we give r Five-year Poiloy.
Best American an'" English Companies
tuikd ».|jr||
A POSIT!VE CUSE FOR
xm.
GOLDEN SPECIFIC?.
It can be given ia a cup of coffee or tea without
the knowledge of the person taking it, affectipg
a speedy and permanent cure, whether the
patient is a moderate drinker or an alcoholic
wreck. Thousands of drunkards have been made
temperate men who have takvn the Golden Srecific
in their coffee without their knowledge, and to-day
believe they quit drinking of their own free will
No harmful effects result from its administration.
It pnrifles and enriches the blood, allays nervous
ness and iocites to healthful action all the organs
of digestion. Prepared by the.
Golden Fpeeific Co., 1S5 Eace St,, finneinnati, 0
for sale by
M. D. HOOD & CO.,
COLUniiUS. GA,
‘GARRETT & SONS’ NO. 11,”
OTTIR, jBTEIRrM.
‘Garrett & Sons’ 100 Per Gent.”
The above brands we can cheerfully recommend to
the trade, and the smoker will find them to possess the
delicious flayor and aroma for which the Vue!to Abaio
Tobacco Is famous
Ws can furnish jobbers with their Individual brands
on Cigars at such ciose prices that will defy competi
tion. Address ali orders to
GABEETT & SONS,
Proprietors Shields Cigar Factory,
94 to IIO Attorney street, New York;
Post Station B ;
Or 121 Broad stroot, r'olumbu**- Ca
in 1868 for 25 years by the Legislatni*
for Educational andCharitablepurpGsee—witha cap-
ital of to which a reserve fund of over
•550.1KM' has since been added.
By an overwhelming popular vote its franchise
as made a part of the present fitate Constitution,
ib*nted December 2d. A. l#7y.
The only holtmi ever voted on an>l entlorxed hy the
P* "l‘U o/uuyttale.
It NkverSgalksor Postpones.
lt» Gr»n*S Nlnrle Number Drawiaga
late place 91onthly.
A NPLKNDID OPPOBTFMITY TO WIN
FOKTUNK. hEVKNTH GfiAND DRAWING.
CLASS «, IN THE ACADEMY OK MUSIC, N EW
ORLEANS. TUESDAY. July 15, IHSft—lTOit*
Mouthly Drawing.
CAPITAL PRIZE $75,000.
100.000 Tirtcete «f IFire Dollarn
Fraeftons in JFifthm in wrovortion.
I.18T OF P&ISSti.
1 CAPITAL. PRIZE 875,UOO
1 do do - 25,1* >0
1 do do 10.U00
2 PRIZES OF SUOOO 12,000
5 do 2000 10,000
10 do 1000 10.010
20 do 500 10,000
100 do 200 20,000
200 do 100 80.000
500 do 50 25,000
1000 do 25 25,000
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
9 Approxim at Ion Prl ses« of 8750........ 8,750
9 Approximation Primes of 500„.... 4.5UU
S Approximation Prlxas of 250—. 2,250
1967 Priaafl, amounting to.........- „y265.5t;6
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to tha Office of the Company in New Orleans.
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address. Make P, O. Money Orders payable and
address Registered Letters to
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or 51. A. D AUPHW,
607 Neveoth Washington, D.C.
jelrt wei^esw-tw
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DAVE C. JOHNSTON,
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my28 wed,fri,Fe«fewly
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BE OPENED JUNE loth, with
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pleasure seekers. The extension of the u <S
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lei If Proprie
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COLUMBIA BICYCLES,
ACHE BIC YCLES,
S UNS HADES for open vehicles.
ROAD CARTS by Erazicr&Co,
Beautiful DOG CARTS,
DUMP CARTS.
DR A I IS, TA RPA UI INS,
COLLARS, BLANKETS,
S URCINGLES,
HORSE BLANKETS,
JOCKEY WHIPS,
And everything as low or lower than ever before sold. Will sell
on oradit to parties giving-good s-senrity. Dome e-r.d soe whet a
sight I can Bhow you.
J. A. Wallxer,
NFXT TO RANKIN HOUSE OFFICE.
OPIUM
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CURED
WITHOUT PAIN OR DE
; T&NTION FROM BUSINESS
Cure guaranteed,
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confidential. For pamphlet* aud
j certificate* address
GEO. A. BRADFORD,
GEORGIA STEM & G1S FIFE CO.
38 RANDOLPH STREET, COt-UiyiSOS. CA,,
Mr*,5IaryI>. Welch, Teacher of Doan-
lie Economy aft the Iowa Ntale
Agricultural College, ftayn
“I can debesltating.-y commend the
Charter Oak Range, wiih the wenderfu
wire g-iuse oven door, made by the Ex
eelsier Man a factoring Co., of St. Louis,
and invented by Mr Giles F Fllley, as the
best cooking apparatus within my knowl
edge, and one that will not fail in any re
spect to give the fullest satisfaction to all
who may nseiL’*
For F. Hf*AUnLE'& CO.
ap25 eod&wly
DR.RSCE,
37 Court Place, LOUISVILLE, KY.:
Lures all forms of PRIVATE.
CHRONIC and SEXUAL .DIS
EASES.
Spermatorrhea and Impotency.
-DEALERSIN-
coilljAi
COLLEGE,"
MACON. GA.
A First-class
lisiness School.
Equal to an f No r th orS»wi
ad for Circuhn 8, tree
We cordially recom
mend your Cl as the best
remedy known to us for
Gonorrhoea and Gleet.
We have sofd consider*
able, anU. in every case
it has givtn satisfaction.
ALCOTTtt Link,
Hudson, N a * V,
DR. BLANCHARD.
OFFICE over Abbott <i Coopsr’f, Come
Broad and 8t, Cl airstreets.
RESDIENOE corner Oglethorpe a nd
Steam, Gas and Plumbers’ Supplies
Backus Water factor,
DEANE STEAM PUMP,
BERKYMAJS.FEED WATEKtHKATEK
AND.PURIFIER,
HAWES’ STEAM TRAPS,
WATER WHEELS, ENSIlVES
AND BOILERS, LOTZE’S KA,NGEH,,Sc„ So,
ESTIMATES MADE ON DWELUNGS FOR WATER & GAS
ADd Practical 'Plumbers furnished at r-s«*onable!rsf«F.
Fountains, Lawn Sprinklers, Ku'etatr Hose. ' i:Ac„ As
TERRA COTTA PIPE KEPT IN. STOCK.
Backus'’ Water Motor, most economical Power fcDown for driving Light M&ohlnsry,
Elevators, Sewing Machines. Ac.
2t#r~Automatic Fire’Extinguishers and Steanu, Gas and Water Piping; for
miiiH a specialty.
je Painting anti Benairing.
H AVING Secured the service* of C H HERRING, formerly of the firm of England <fe
HerrjQtr. one amouu the be«t Carriage kq i B .vgy I**lnter#> south or north. D D
G^^Ti-ErrFJ, formerly oi the firm oi RarTiette Ci Herring, well known in this city as a
FIRST CLASS CARRIAGE TRIMMER,
Will have charge of the Trimming HepartiuenL This in addition to my
BLACKSMITH AND SHOEING SHOP,
I am prepared to do Carriage and Buggy work f a all the branches. Your custom solicited
DANIFJL R. BIZE,
JelSsetll Janl wit
PROi'SIEToti.
SYPHILIS i-
Cures Guaranteed in
nndertnhen.
■ it El PCTRIO
l-.\V Trial TO
who arc sufTcr-
J,ost V'itai.itt.
Wastin
Pers<
OTHtili Cil s' -. S; •**••«
restoration to Hi m.ti
Guakantefd. s-'M'i a
Pamphlet fr«-e. Addresi ■
VOLTAIC BELT CO., Marshall, Mich,
for Illustrated
FOR SALE.
O N’K-FOURTH ACRE LOT, north half
oi Nob m obi JM1 block, north ol the
Had kin residence, known as part of the
Ba’den place, the mo»t eligible and hand-
some building lota in the cilv.
F G WILKINS,
Anctioneer and Real Estate Agtnt,
Jel&dtf