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4 HE FRANKLIN COUNTY REGISTER •
BY ELLEN J. DORTCH. VOL. XL NO. 12.
TOM KELLER AND HIS
•daughter nancy
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by her husband, tie physician was
su mrnoned and after a long struggle
she was brought hack to life and
consciousness. AV ith returning
memory came a full conviction of
tlie overh'hdfniWg' • dbfftetilties and d
sorrows that environed tier, Sh e
had loved Ruben Loraine well, but
believing him *lo have been dead for
years, she had trarsterred her affec.
tfon* to Keller, whom she almost
idolized. Two husbands to whom
sh* had tot* love,and tar jerther
of whom she w^uUl'have laid ’down
her life, had met face to face and all
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under p. roof. i U She t
wcrc ttie same
could not beai to think of a 9 ei'ara
tion from Keller. She remembered
her tenderness and love for Loraine
when her heart, beat fov him, alone
thought ot what his sorrows and s uf
ferings must have be«n during the
wearjtldaM&f hiap|fe Jn India, :
the great shock of finding a usurper
in his place, she the wif a of another
man. His pal*, haggard, pleading
face and outsfretched arms arose be
fore; 11 % ahj; a- giqpt .tide of lore
and pity for him swept through tier
bosom. She lay with closed eyes
aiyLthqught longrof, the diijic'uties
*ihat suirb waded her.' Time Va^ no
escape that she could sec hut in
death., no solution, refuge, or rest
but in the grave.
As Roller watched with his wife
his heart was rent with contend¬
ing emotions. He realized that bis
wife belonged to another, he fully
realized the suffering and pathos of
tlm; jn|ri.pjer£4ffe> ,lje realized as gov;-,
er before the worth of his wife and
his great love foi her; he had per¬
haps no-legal claim upon her, but lie
eo*ld not give her up. The t tar of
hope had once gone clown in gloom,
he had been overwhelmed with Vis
appointment and sorrow, but never
had the gloom been so impenetrable;
the night so rayles- nqr ylm hour so
dark as now,./ ’ )n\j$r bouts by
Airs. Keller’s bedside with her hands
in Lis. Bi.t few voids j isstd le
tweui them. Thcre was nothing
tha« either could say to comfort th*
other.
Loraine had been properly cared
for and soon cs the physician's pres
Air* Keller he was sent to him. Soon
a message came from the intruder
asking ro see Keller. The poor frail
excuse for humanity regarded Keller
for a long time in silence. Atlength
he held out his hand and said “For¬
give me, had I inown, I would not
have brought this great sorrow on
you.” Th* poor sufferer was emaci
r.ted ,ins eyes were unnaturally bril¬
liant and a deep flush suffuted his
e^eks. He breathed vapid! t and
was at times almost sufloeal bv
.
violent paroxisms of coughii I
was eac v to see that a few ays, or
weeks ai most, would tenm jate his
earthly exiatence. NYith mu*h dif¬
ficulty and many resting spells he
told Keller and the physician his
story, about how his *ompany had
an engagement with a band of pirat.
i*al Maylay's on an island n*ar the
coast of India, that he had fallen in
the engagement, been left for dead,
was taken away by tho Malay’s and
held ii captivity for several yearn.
That whenrtWd fan w as broken
dowuw *>»*.• lm
Calcuu*, wl*rc be with
more than a year without the use of
tongue or limbs. At Inst an opera
jtared Jr -“1-gr* his teener strength, (tod «► as
soon as his history was made known,
#3 wopr his )gje|^tiid he Arrivjing wai start
on way home. in
her brother to America. Feeling
that lie h«d brt a short time l) live,
and having a greaf longing to see his
wile cnee more, to feel her kiss on
his bps and to die with his head pil
towed oh'her liosoi**, he hastened af
tal-^.er without an hour’s deljy. “I
have unwittingly” he continued;
brought trouble upon you and) cast a
dark shadow over my wife’* sad life:
Had I, known she was married ag»in,
I would have remained in India and
died there and my story should never
have been known. I am soiiry, but
the mischief is already done, (here is
no help for it now, but I shall soon
be out of the way. I hope I (will be
permitted to see my wife.before I die,
it will do no harm to her or you, and
after all these years of separation and
sphering if is’ top (*ard to die under
the same roof where she lives ijnd not
see her again. Keller signified tha<
it should be as‘ho wislied, and that
uothing necessary for his (omfoit
should,:be Icftiindone.
It was several days before Mrs.
Keller was able to bear an in terview
with Loraine or to. b? carnec from
Iter room: He was 1 sinking rapidly,
aad it wasevidetit that the interview
must take place soon if at all- On
the third day she was placed on au
easy chair and carried to his /bed
side. She took his cold emaeiated
hands in her own and impri: ted a kiss
on his lips, and sobbed aloud, Keller
was overcome with emotion and the
eyes of the b/uff, kind hearted physi¬
cian were dim with tears, the poor
sufferer alone was calm. He .told
the story of l»is life from the time ,he
left England until h* broke in upon
th* pleasant scene a few evenings
bef*re. The story was eloquent with
words of love anil pathetic with
scenes of sorrow and auffering. At
iU conclusion both he and Airs. Kel¬
ler wer* cchiplet*ly •xliansted and
she was carried to her room. She
again spent an hour at bis bed »id»
in the evening, and Keller spent
much time in his room.
The physician and minister spent
the night with him, and Airs Keller
was Eummoued early in the morning
Me 'was pfoped up in the bed, and
leaning his head upon Airs Kellers
bosom he passed the short space al
jotted to him in life, Mim.K eller was
first to speak:
“Poor lad Low you must have suf
ferred, would to henren I had known
you still lived this last bitter sor
row should have been spared you.
Aly poor hoy can you forgive me be
fore—”
“Hush, hush, there is nothing -to
forgive. I would not undo the pa»(
years of your life, it is best as it is,
TWould no? hare it otherwise. *y
ing through the long bours of the
night I have thought it all over, and
will die contented. I have nothing
in my heart but fore for you
and gratitude and love for your hus¬
band. You thought me dead, youi
life was sad and lonely, I have stud.
i*d your husband, lie is a good aud
iitulc mau.”
thoughtless _ l .. ,
„But oh! how wa*
forgetting you while you lived in
captivity and your life burdened
w^thpnWeW the shame of marry
mg while »»y '* Ukimnd stilt lived.”
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CARNESVItLE.GA., TUESDAY MARGh 29, 1887
that I was alive. Yon are lawfully
married in the sight of Heaven, no
aarier what the laws of earth may
be l would give the world, if at my
disposal, that you might see as I sec,
and be content. I know that I am
right, I am too near the dark
rolling river, too near the bright,
grand world beyond, to pc mistak¬
en now. We wi 1 till ‘soon meet
where the muddles, mistakes, and
mysteries will be cleared away. For¬
give mo whatever there is in my life
to forgive. Kiss me dear once more.”
With a mighty effort he placed his
arms around her neck, their lips met
in a last kiss, and Loraine was dead.
II* was buried on a little hillock
nonh of the cottage, that Keller had
bmilt under the inspiration of loves
first delusive dream.
(C ontinueev)
THE SOLITARINESS OF DYING
It is a strange tilings to die,though
every tick of the clock punctuates a
death. The jonrney from this world
to the other is the lonliest passage
through which a sentient being ever
passes. Men may live together and
be buried together, but each man
dies unto hi-nseif. There is no lo¬
cality and no condition into which
two men cannot enter together ex¬
cept death. Men may die with
clasped hands, and a thousand may
perish side by side on a battle field
in an hour, but each sonl is as soli
taty in its departure os though death
came to one man in the Sahara, and
left his body baking in the sun for
the vu l tu re’s beak.
No iran is absolutely alone while
another man lives in the world
Alexander Selkirk and the fal/ed
Crusoe were cut off from the society
of their kind but their solitude was
sweetened by the consciousness that,
bjyond the wat*rs and the arching
sky thousands of their fellow men
still lived and laughed and sang. Bu‘
the dying go out uiiattondud. .Their
journey is an unknown passage be¬
tween the two worlds. What a
crushing loneliness must environ the
spirit when it realizes that it is out
of one World and not into another.
There is neither sense of Deling
nor sight, nor sound, nor companion
m the twilighted and voiceless val¬
ley throngh which it is passing. But
it is not so much a vahey as a sea
j n to which tho departing soul
launches—a sea upon which no sail
whitius, and out of which no form
emerges. And over this ocean ol
emmensity, the spirit must voyage in
utter solitude until it encounters the
birds that come flying and the flow
ers that come floating from the other
shore.
But there is <me class and one only
who are exempted from the horrors
of making this journey alone. These
are they who have been provident
and wise, and who have engaged the
company of Ilim who said: “When
thou goest through the river I will b“
with thee, and through the waters
they shall not overflow th*e.’ The
Christian crosses, trustingly leaning
oil the bo*om wYere John pillowed
his weajy head, and cros*cs to (he
sound of music such as was neyei
heard, while ail about and above him
shines the “light that never was on
sea; or land.”
Junes Harper, colored, was on the
streel* of Eiberton during court. Be »
the *?dest man in the county, being 97
yeara old. lit is still h..Ie *nd hearty.
His memory is good, aud the old time
humility of tins g*od cotn
mend* lum io Hie rtspeel of nil. Jim
hu* lived during th* administration* Ot
cry pr M id,mt the: UAttd h*ates has
^ j ( (j t . rrB i men lmve held
, h>t im was iwo je*r* old
.
w h„ n \Va*hiug»on wa* rieeted the
and ti m*.~< 7 ^*eu«
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INTERESTING PAR AGRAPHg
ITEMS OF IXTSRlSr TAKEN TKOM IX
. CHANGES •
The prohibitionist gained a victory
in Jackson county
The impression prevails tins over tho
state that the fruit crop been ser¬
iously injured. (
The Ocmulgceha* beemn splendid
boating condition for the past few
week*. The two boats now rut ning
are crowded with freight on their
trips each way.
There are over 600 applications for
pardon now pending before governor
Gordon. It will be itppv&iblc to give
them the consideration to which
tticy are entitled.
The grand jury of Habersham
County did not find a true bill against
John W. Sisk, charged with the mur¬
der of Parker. The evidence showed
that the killing was done inisel I defence
A young wuinan of Detroit, who
recently inherited $280, 000 , has re¬
fused thirty offers of marriage in
last two months.
The Reverend Samuels Jones and
Small, having been rejected r.s suc¬
cessors to Beecher, we proceed to
nominate Watty Hicks and Chaplain
Wil 1 18 .—Macon Telcgrapli. ors- -O.
The Prohibitionists of Mississippi
have added twelve counties io the
dry list of the past y^ar, and feel ac¬
cordingly rory much uplifted. By
petition and local option they con¬
trol two tli’rls *t the Stati, and have
designs nj>on the ofhev th’Vd.
The ConnetricuU Congregational
club have elected a naturalized Chi
Hainan as president for the ensuing
term. This is probably, the first ele¬
vation of the kind on record. Who
would have thought fifty years ago
that a disciple of Confucieus would
eves preside over the deliberations of
a Christian, religious organizntaon?
A young man named Bsrthlaump
left tho village of Terreboune, Can.,
fifteen years ago to seek bis fortune
Calafornia, inti nding io send for his
wife when his moans would permit
At tbo end of one year (he woman
received a letter informing her that
her husband was dead. In a year or
two she rearmed a prominent mer¬
chant, and they have since lived very
happily together. Tho other day
Barthlaume put in an appearance and
claimed his wife. The village cure
was appealed to for a decision, and
he decided that the. woman rou-t live
with her first husband.
AT THE BAR.
Last week iu Gwinnett Superior
Court, Mr. Nathan L. Hutdnus, Jr.
tbo talented son of Judge Hutchins,
was e xamined and found well skilled
in the Jaw, and was admitted to prac¬
tice in th* courts of this State. Judge
Marshall J. Clarke, of Allan 1 a, pre¬
sided during the examination of Mr.
Hutchins, and expressed himself as
thoroughly satisfied with it. The
examination was passed most per¬
fectly and it stamped the young law¬
yer as a student and a man of wind
If all lawyers who go to tbo Bar
prepared as he. was, the profession
would rank higher, and clients fare
Mm at it, ta-S. II » • I*-™
, «;ni“JhT,rrjr J u^“'b,.' , cL ( ,
before the Bar so well equiped w | tU
legal knowledge and »o familiar witn
the code of jiractice. VFc
our coiigratuluiioK* and best
for his < jcteD , .- WaUon> ‘ w *’ t -
A,
M» Connell ii lira, have the nicest
lino of dress goods you have {doled
#t.
PAYING FOR THE GOSPEL,
It is a fact less notorious than dis¬
graceful that the ayerage Georgia
preacher is not appreciated as he
should be. His services are not esti
inatod at their true value. This- is
due chiefly to the fact that there are
too many people in the church that
are not cnristiuus. If their hearts
were right they would be willing (o
pay a legitimate price fot the gospel.
There is ik> escape from th* pr*p*si
tion. There are m*u all over the
State of Georgia, whose names are
enrolled *n church books, who, jf
salvation were worth two dollars
per ton, would not buy a’ pound.
There is not a man in the .State who is
able to make a living that could hot
if he would, pay hispastoi ten dollars
per year. Yet, there are numerous
iustnnccs o* record whore churches
with sev*nty-five or more members
pay their pasters hardly one hundred
dollars a year. Tho aWe bodied Chris¬
tian that can not contribute at least
live dollars a year to the support of
the pastor need entertain no hope of
squeezing through tin gate of 11 saven
even though he should claim recog¬
nition on the terms^of free
Such a soul would corrupt the
ty of Heaven.
The church needs revolutionizing;
There are too many dead heads within
its pale. Men are apt to appreciate
that most which cost them something
and they should contribute generous¬
ly to the support of the gospel. In
doing ^ they „, m elcva<e its 8la nlrtrd
and incivasu its power foi accomplish ' 1
ing good.-—Warrenton Clipper.
A STRONG MAN.
There is a man ot; Duson River
below Dayton; named Ange'a Cor
deili; who claims to be the strongest
inau m tho world. He is an Italian
aged twenty-eight and stands five
ten inches, weighing ISIS pounds,
llis strength was born with h;n>, for
he had no athletic training. He diff¬
ers from other men chiefly Ui the
osseo* structure. Although not of
uausual size., his spinal column is
much beyond the ordinary width,and
his bones and join s arc made in a
similar largo proportion, He has
lifted a man of two huldud
pounds with l :e middle finger of his
left hand. The man stood with one
foot on tha floor, h is anus on stretch
ed, has hands grasped by two per
-on to balance his body. Corde.la
then stooped and jilaccd tho third
fing»r of his right hand under tire
man’s foot, and, with scarcely any
perceptible effort, raised him o the
height of four feet and deposited
him on a tab’c near at hand, Onec
two powerful men w.ijlaid Ci-rdella
with intent to thrash him, but he
seized one in each hand and ham¬
mered than together until the life
was nearly knocked out of them- -V a
Footiigln,
\V» I’earu from the Banner-VVatcii
man 11 ,at a movement is already on foot
for t!;c defeat of ft. H. Carlton two
years heuce. This is surely a mistake
““V the movement wi'l certainiy'
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J)M ^ sticking qualUE*. #u* prtdiet
oe hi»ow*i successor
cra j teruiB.
Itch, I’ruirie M*nge, and Kcratch
*no{ every kind cured iu oO uiiWtes
hy Wooflord'* ^unitary Lotion,
Use no other. This never finis,
Sold by Dr. J- It. Tucker Drugteri
Carawvillt Os,
$ 1.0 0 rat ' * l i f year •U: in ) ,* J advance <’ * */' " I
• it * < 11 *.
Il 6 \V TO MAlvE Al()is K Y.
. ,i. U; ici.i... ■ , . ,R r. -> ..I;
Mr, L P Ttbbals, of, 820 Broad
•vay, is pretty generally known by a
great many children in this city,
lie has sold toys and taught Sun¬
day-school u good many yeatu, and
he Ls still v vigorous young mau,
full of good works. Mr, Tibbals has
formulated u very ingenious rule,
showing the profit a family may
derive from a single whisky-drink¬
ing memboi, as follows:
One gallon of whisky costs 1 about
$3, and contains on the average Ob
ten cent drinks. Now, if you must
drink whisky, buys gallon and make
your wife the burkeoper; then, when
you are dry, give lertou cents for a
drink. When the whisky is gone,
she wji have, after paying for it, %3,
50 left, and every gallon thereafter
will yield the same profit. This
money she should put away in the
savings batik sj that w hen you liaye
become an inebriate, unable to sup¬
port yourself; and shinnied and de¬
spised by every respectable
your wife may have money enough
to keen you until your timo oomes to
fill a drunkard’s grave.-rr,Scientific
American,
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DOES IT RAY?
liocs dairy farming pay? Docs
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ar.yllung but cotton growing pay?
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Since tho first d'yof January 1887
Mr. W. J. Northern has sold 700
pouuds of Jersey butter and foul
hundred and fifteen (415) dollars'
worth of sfock.
Now let soma man who holds that
the only ready-money crop of thi*
county is cotton, that cotton grow¬
ing offers die surest g iirant >e of
money• making, take his pencil and
see if he can figure such profits i ut
of a year of toil and anxiety in the
cotton field. Bj that as it may, it
does look as if Mr, Northern wer*
nuking His J.;i\i»y« pay. If this bt
true of him why may not others suc¬
ceed in the same business?
Cotton has been king, but kings
are sometimes desposod. And it n
not always a wise subject that sidet
with the king in the days of revolu¬
tion .—Sparta Ishmpel’te.
ACKNOWLEDGES A COURTESY
The Hon, Jeffcison Davil was
recently presontad by soma citizens
of Na-, vilfe w th a cook c/mtabling
a eom ; etc and authentic history ot
the tci * ices sen acred by Tennessee¬
ans in urn Confedai itc in my during
the late war. In acknowledging the
receipt ol the book, Air. Davis
ivr.tos: “Accept my uianas tortne
beautiful volume, being u history ot
(lie services rendered by Tennessee
ans in the war ba’/we«u the States.
The illustrations will serve, 'n con¬
nection with the lext, to preserve the
memory of those who, with iidel’ty
and gallantry, strove to maintain the
principles of the con»titntional Un
ion was framed to secure. The work
must he a valab’o instrument in k ep
ing alive in the minds of our children
and children’s children, th* sacred
cause of self government aud State
sovereignty, While wc continue
to sorrow over tho past, let us seek to
cherish bright hopes for Ihv future,
and confiding in the eternity of
*«*. •«* *»*"*»*•«
the mhemance our revolutionary fatb
cr# left us will be the unquestioned
poesxeion of th. ir posterity.”
For the best sewing uiacbine on
he market address, i. A, Mahr« at
Toecoa, Os.
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'■ UteECilERS SUtfCRHSOR'H
i till >ifi
A telegram from New York to the
Philadelphia Press says: 'flic ques¬
tion of w'ho is to’guccecd 1 'AfflHdcehcr
in the Plymouth pulpit! lias already
obtruded itself upon the minds of
the congregation, and in many in¬
stances given rise to «onjeclure as
upon tbo ultimate selection of the
tvust«cs. The major preleronce at
present seems to he the Rev. Dr.
Joseph Parker of London. Dr Par
kcr was a friend and admirer of Mr.
Beecher, and for yours there was the
strongest bond of sympathy bet ween
the two,,who in many ways resem
bled eneli other! During his visit to
Europe, Mr. Beecher was the guest
of Dr. Parker, and preached in his
church, the city Temple, in llolborn.
Four years ago Dr. Parker came
over to this country and delivered a
few of his sermons in Plymouth.
Thosewho heard hint wore much im¬
pressed by his brilliant oratovy.—Es
change.
COLLY Kit UN BEECIIER.
“.Since the d*ath of Lutlm 1 BO mau
iu the sacred office has so touched the
hearts of nations. Though h* was
74 years of age, no one locked upon
him as old. He was the great /eadci
uf the American pulpit, and no one in
this age, save the grand old man iu
England, had so much enthusiasm,
coura and for the *• ork he
had to do. HSi theology svaibroad as
/the world itself. J-t *was. nota lh««l
'ogy bound with au iron baud, such
as riiey would bind at ^Princeton well
and Audoyor. That jS all
enough for peop’.o who love such
bondage. Because BSeclUi-w ii not
cn,uu.l with bonds ma le by man and
became of hi* noble work foithuman
ity all these years, I thank God that
lie was not a system vrio iheofagist
hut just the great free reasoner we
.ill knew him tele. He needed the
whole republic first fo r his growth;
then riie wuote planet for his ripen.
mg- He w»s not of fiowor-pot
growth. He was a giant in the great
woods. As well might they beck to
to confine Niagara in afiower-pot.
lie was wot a slave to system but
(rod’s free mn» v Greenwood is now
is saare I as it» rif Vernotr
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ITEMS OF I ’fTERES T.
Rev. John White, a colored preceb
or of Greenwood, Ark., who will be
102 years old in July bus tak*n out a
license to marry Mrs Eddie Smith
vim is a giddy girl of 65 summers*
fbo Rev. John, has been married
tw : ce.
A commission appointed by the
California Legislature reports that
2.005 convict* arc in.the State pri¬
sons, which » one to every 130 white
voters. This is a fearful sbowiug,
The commission finds thy priucipl m m
•ources of crime to be intemperance,
ignorance, looseness of the marriage
tie, opium and want or any trade o'
calling- The number of young crim¬
inals is very large, aud we are (old
that in 1881, with a e imputsory edu¬
iaw, fully 5 ( 1 ,G 00 childm* bv
tweeu the ago of 5 and 1.7 failed
attend school.
Kentucky, m a r<zi
Uudet the laws ot
grant, named Henry Dodson, who
has been iu jail at Angusfa, Ky., was S/B
sold to tb* highest bidder for 75 days.
Tho jailor bought b’*in for 15 and im¬
mediately i ijiied biut loose, #
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BuUt Gardeti «
Ffeemans..