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THIS FRANKLIN !’ -* COUNTY GISTER
By ELLEN J. DOBTCK VOL. XL
TO31 KELLER AND IIIS
daughter NANCY.
Continued from last week.
On the evening following the in
I ter.'ievv last narrated. Dr. Stone call
[ | ed on Alisa Taylor, to hear what
barrier stcod between them, why it
[ I was, that the story of his love was
not <o be repealed He had never
| donbted ber affection for him,yet was
never so sure of her undivided love
as when they parted on the prececd
evening.
Her face bore evidences of a sleep¬
less night and a severe struggle, but
showed clearly <hat a conclusion had
[been reached, a resolution fotnied, oy
which she would ‘stand. She was
[calm and grave, and a look of stern
I resol vc was stamped upon her every
[feature.
There was reason enough for her
[altered appearance; a mighty sfrug
glehad raged in her boson, for
[ many hours. She had turned her
back upon all .the hopes -and happi¬
ness of life, and had accepted cold
stem duty instead.
“I come” said Di*. Slono “to ask
E you to take back the cruel words you
I uttered yesterday evening; there can
[be [ no sufficient reason why my hopes
should be crushed tnd my future
[blasted, I unless it is that you do not
care for mo and have placed your af¬
fections elsewhere.”
“Just icr this one time,” she ans¬
wered, “I will talk to you freely aud
fully of the pagt and future, hence¬
forth my lips are sealed. Our hopes
whatever they may hare been, are
anything more to each other than we
are now I do not mind—”
“In the name of heaven forbear,”
Dr. Stone cried, “do not utter su*h
[language, state what obstacles you
[think are in the way, but do not say
we can never be more to each other
do not rais V useless
[than wc are; 1 e ft
7
[ barrier between us by Mich strong de
I claratioiis that must be taken back.
“They will not be taken back, I
[ have decided on my course; I see my
way clearly and will do my duty,
though it may lake all the joy and
light out of my life.”
“But what higher duty have jou
lhan to follow the dictates of you)
own heart, which I know to be as
pure ahd spotless ts the virgin
snow?”
“I have a higliei duty to perform,
Oh! that I could follow where my
aitectious would, lead. This is the
last time that we ,will ever talk of
love, or of what might have been, and
I do not mind saying lor the first and
last time, that I love you with all
heart.”
“Blessyou for Hat declaration,
aud since yon love me, tell me what
imaginary barrier stands between
that I may tear it away and be
us,
’
happy.” 't bound
“It is not Imaginary; I am
by a solemn pledge to both the living
and dead. I am the promised bride
of John Gilmore. Tho last words
that my dead father ever hear l from
ray lips, were a promise thtfUlrwould
be’John’s wife. He joined'our hands
together and died while praying for s
blessing upon us.”
D*. Stone coveted his face with
his hands and groaned in anguish.
Atlciigth he looked into the sad tear¬
ful eyes of Miss Taylor, and said in
icproachful tones.
“Wbat could have iuduoed you
to make the promise? Wby did you
promise to go to him an unloving
bride; and why did yen nun my
’
life.” •
“I bad known John over since ]
could remembar, we Jmd always been
friends and he associated with me
just as you have. Ilehadoiten giv¬
en me to understand his I eehngs tos
ward toe. Several months before
my fathers death, lie asked nis
mission to solicit ivy hand in mai
risge. lie is a good and a noble
nmn and my father favored his suit.
I told him I held linn in high esteem
but could not marry him, but as my
fathet’s end drew near Ie was very
anxious to see me settled in lift, and
imp/ored me to ac cept John if there
was no obstacle in the way.
What answer :ould I make? 1 had
uo assurance of your love. You had
been settled as a physician for more
than two ycafs, had seen n e often in
that time and had spoken no words
of love. I recalled the past there was
nothing to give me any enco urage
ment. I reasoned that if you cared
for me more than a lriend, why tad
you been silent. Jonn had mace love
to me years ago, and wliy had not
you.
I felt that I had given my love un¬
sought and that it was not returned.
I summoned mv pride to ilic rescue
stifled my feelings, and trusting that
I should learn to love John .in time,
and to gratify my fathers dying wish
promised to become his wife.
Now yoa have heard my story.
I cannot go back on my promise
came to see me just b»foie I
returned home aua the wedding day
was sot with my mother’s approval.
One month hqoce and I will bo John
Gilmo're’s wife.
", “Rut my dear Rose, the premise is
better broken than kept, ybu
spoil two lives; and probably
John’s lite also.”
“No, I will not spoil Johns
He shall nevor know the bitter
glc through which I have passed. I
will be true to my promise and do
my duty, jf was cheerful and might
have j been happy in .time, if the
orushing revelation of voui love had
not come upon me. I Earned it on
the day of my leturn, from a friend
to whom you had confided the secret.
The revelation came to late, Ob!
the bitter anguish of that hour,when
I tho ug-t of what might have been,
but can be.' ’
never
Dr. Stone exhausted his logic m
trying to convince her that the sac¬
rifice she proposed, ought not to be
made, but argument was of no avail
she had decided that duty required it
and could not be swerved.
' I few days after bis last inte.i
view withMiss Taylor, his mother
died suddenly, and h.v* ing nothing
more to. bind him to his native vil
lage be removed to t/ie city of New
York befere the wedding. A year
later he heard that Mrs Taylor was
dead and that John Gilmore and his
wife had goire South, After this he
lost sight of them entirely and
thought they had passed out of his
life forever.’ Several years of close
application to his profession and ex¬
posurc in the rigorous winters of the
city, made serious inroads on h:a
health and lie decided to take up his
abode (for a time at least) in a more
genial climate.
He was soon located temporarily
in Savannah,and not many days after
his arrival as he was pass’ng through
of the most sqawlid districts of
one
the ci/y, ho saw some rough looking
ffiCnCan . yiag a woman in a miserable
hovo ]. Without aay definite pmpos*
followed them into the hut, where
bcca m . ,„f>i*c-sted in the
**
n ^ W0M dying from
CARNESVILLE. GA. f TUESDAY. MAY, 10, 1887
tion as well as disease. He m*de the
bett a it* nAraent for her comfort (list
he could anc? promised to return in
the evening. lie was struek with
something fann’iar in the appearance
of the sick woman when lie left her,
h*Lshc; was too faint to taR-find lie
learned nothing of her history. On
his return in the evening he found
her lii a raging fever, the color had
returned .to her cheeks and lips,
and if her features had not disclosed
her identity, her incoherent 1 an gage
would have revealed her as the once
beautiful and never lorgotten Rose
Taylor.
[Continued.J
AN EGYPTIAN FUNERAL.
grange Burial of the Dead in the
Couatiy of the Nile.
A funeral in Egypt is indeed u
strange sight, and the first one the
visitor sacs astonishes him veiy
iiuieb, *‘.r says the Bitoklyn
Mag asine for April, At the head
of the procession maich a corporate
of the the blind, and a certain,
number of men who proceed at a
quickstep, tinging a most jubilant
air, while swinging themselves
from right to left. Behind them
;comcs tne funeral car or
father a sort of bier, bearing a
great shawl m which the body is
:
SAt \he extreme of the bier, on a
percli, is placed the t-’iban or the
tarbauch of the .defunct. Tim men
carry this bier. They follow with
such high - spirits the movement of
head bi the “cbfUgc that ih« corpse,
rocked in every directiob, seems to
jump under the shawl that shrouds
it. The wornc* bring up the rear,
on asses, some on foot. The
some
first r ow is formed of weepers or
rather screamers, who send forth
.
toward heaven at each step the
shrillest notes. The weepers hold in
their hand*handkerchief, with which
they are not solicitous of willing
thejr.ey.es perfectly dry. but which
tlieyjmll by the two ends behind
thmr head with a gesture that would
be desperate if it wire not droll. On
arrival at the eemetery they take the
corpse from the bier lo cast it, such
as it'is, into the grace. The grand
funerals, however, take place with
much, more solemnity. An important
personage is hardly dead in Egypt
before his friends and acquaintances
hurry to the house: during one or
two day* they eat and drink at the
dead, or rattier his heirs, indulging in
the noisiest demonstrations. Whe.<
the hour of tbe interment arrives a
scene of the wildest character is pio
duecd. The slaves an 1 women of the
household throw themselves on the
and feign a determ m atien to
corps threshold.
hinder it from passing the
The lugubrious tragedy is played
conscientiously; they snatch
away the coffin; they be/ay each
other with blows and the most vio¬
lent and frightful clamor isheard.At
last the procession leaves the house
and repairs to the cemetery, prece¬
ded by camels loaded with victual,
which are distributed to the poor
hurrying mcrowds along the road.
AH along the road the mourners and
friends of the family fight for the
honor cf bearing the bier for an
instant, and thus it passes .r bound
from hand to hand amid <hc most
fpglitfni disorder. The interment
CVCTy one retuvnes to the
^ thc (U *ad to recomnicnce
^ faativUios, dancing, and the mor¬
j tu>ry demonstrations,
WHAT MR. CARLISLE
Sajs of The Tariff and President
Cleveland.
AYheti in Louisville, Ky., a few
days ago, m speakiag of the tariff
Mr. Carlisle said:
“lean give you may opinion si
far as the House is concerned.”
“ I lie Senate being a reptibhe.au
body, no one can say with itecurraey
what it is likely to do. I believe
the next house will unquestionably
pass the bill to reduce materially cus¬
tom duties. Ido not,however, ex¬
pect to see the passage of such a bill
awe venue refarm Democrats would
have; Put 1 think there will be a
substantial reduction. You see we
now have armed at a point in the
tariff agitation where a reduction of
taxation is absolutely necessary. The
large and growing treasury surplus
makes it necessary. There is no pos¬
sible way to escape it. All the
methods proposed in that direction
are for the most part ah umlilns.
Thu sentiment for the reduction of
the tariff i* growing steadily, especi¬
ally in the northwest. Now coupling
this sentiment with an ab-
solute necessity for a reduction, f
think it requires little power of po¬
litical prophecy to assert with' confi¬
dence, that the reduction must
come.
Speaking of th# President he
sail:
“President Cleveland has given to
the cauntry a safe, strong, clean and
healthy affministrjition. The com
plaints that be has not Aimed out re¬
publican office holders ns ravidly as
he’“stn7iTtd"TS-ex7<g]f;,Vvt<-Tl. -M< ha*
acted as Tic Iioncslly believed for the
best interests ot the country and Jiis
paily, and you will find, upon inves¬
tigation, tha£ ha is very stiong with
the people. He has *aue us a good
president, I think he is the most in¬
dustrious man I over s,tw. He cer
taUdy works too hard, but it all
comes from Ins hones# desire to
make his administration satisfactory
to himself and tho people. Mr
Clevolanddesire* nothing more thaw
tho, approval of bis own conscience
and the just commendation of his
people, Thcso he cannot fail to
have-”
MAKING CONVERTS.
Wc do not believe that a mans
ministerial worth is to be measured
by the number of convert* he brings
into the Kingdom under his ministry
Some recieve maiw into the church
not because they arc better preach¬
ers than others, or more zealous, *r
more faithful, but because they are
less prudsnt. Some again make few
converts because their diet calling
scaurs to be to edify and instruct the
saintt.Paul seems not to Lave brought
as many into the church as Peter,
but we venturs to say, that lie was
at least as good a preacher as Peter,
and quite as good a man. Coming
down to Lome methods here in
Georgia, our own Jesse Mercer was
one of our most useful men, but as a
winner of souls he was not so dis
tinguished as sonic othei mcD . Some
who are thought to be “loing a great
deal of good,” do no good at ail; and
some who are thought to be doing
little good, are doing all the
very who
goo d that i* done. Those press
divine truth on the people’# attention
doing good, whether th*v make
ale
eon verts or not; and those wlm
seem tomak’ many convert',hut who
<lo tins by any other means than the
t.rtuh revealed in God’s holy Word
are doing nothing but harm.—Chris¬
tian Indat
MILITARY MARRIAGE IN
FRANCE
The military marriage in Franca
is a serious affair. It is -aid that
fifteen years of.peace has developed
a craving after the bouheur conjugal
among young officers, but the ridicu¬
lous obstacles and formalities sur¬
rounding the ceremony iron for¬
midable barrier lo any officer wish¬
ing to marry. Having made up his
mind on Uiemtbjeet (which, however
has vei j tittle to do with it) he
informs his colonel of bis intentions.
The colonel passes the word on to
the war office awl at length it is put
before the minister. The first thing
then to be done is to find out if th#
young lady concerned fulfills the
requirements of the law, which lays
down that she must have an irre¬
proachable moral character, nun a
dot worth y yearly revenue of 10,
000 francs. The unfortunate young
man’s application begins to ascend
the la Stler of officialism until it, reach
es officer •ommandiug the gendar,
mio in the oistrUt where the officer’s
fiance resides. It is tkeu passed to
a gendaimie, who is coiumisaioned
to impure i*to the yoang lady’s
moral character. He proceeds cauti.
ously ns a detective. Should lie
happen to know *1,e fatner of the
thmio'.si'lh-! uidieillod he go* , n• *< 1 seps
him; if not he culLbis infonnatjon.
from tl>e neighbors. He will even
follow lior when she foes to the
theatres or entertainments. Having
finished hi* investigations, he draws
up a report on strictly police
lines, wherein he talks of the young
lady not as mademoiselle, but as fil/r.
Off goes the document on its way
upward through the bureaus and red
tape until it gets to the war minister.
Should the conditions be fulfilled the
officer Is permitted to marry. If njt
he must renounce his intentions. If
the fiance has morality, but not mon¬
ey, it mast be raised baton- a union is
sanctioned. Officers with means fre¬
quently provide the dot secretly
themselves. It is needless to say
there is not the same rigorous inquiry
into the moral character of the officer
Referring the St, Andrew’s Bay
land swindle in Florida, the South¬
ern Lite-Stock Joursal says: A'
large number <*f parties in this sec¬
tion—-intclligsnt men and women,too
—have invosted in St. Andrew’s Buy
real estate. People of fair average
intelligence, who bite at every glaring
humbug that offers i#self, deserve to
to lose their money.
Toe Southern Baptist Conven¬
tion was ia session in Louisville, Ky.
Inst week.
The Snpiemc court of Georgia
has decided tliat parsonages and rec¬
tories are iitbjoct to taxation.
McConnell andBrc. lmvo the go,
1 0J) tobacco.
$ 1 .CO I KK YEAR IN ALVANC®
INS’TNOT AND HABIT .
How tha Instincts of Chiidlmod Bo
(omt the Iron-Round Habits
of Old Age.
Henry James in a t aiv'tola in •Sorib
Uer.s ilaga/.ino or. “Justine:.,*‘ shows
that he has given ol wj studf to the
taculty in its various forms as it
appears in man an 1 beast. After
defining t io word for die purposes «f
his discussion and showing that the
faculty is pr#irnt. i.i all living beings
he m rives at a conclusion diff'ertnt
ft am the elder writers on the subject
w'no smothered everything in a
vague wonder at the clairvoyant and
t>r«phelie power of the animals—so
superior to anything in mail -and at
the beneficence of God in endowing
tH»m with s\veil a gift. He c > nlu la
t hut every instinct is an impulse
and that ui in has as
greater variety of impulses
than any lower animal, and any one
of these impulse* is as “blind 1 * as tin
lowest instinct can be; but owing
to nitiTs memory, power of in.
flection and power of inference they
come each one to be felt by lmn in
connection with a foresight of their
results. It is obvious that every
instinct in-nuiimds with memory
must be accompanied with foresight
as to its eud, so fur tiT tout end may
have fallen under the animal's
cognizance, Thus it is plain that no
matter bow wall endowed an
ar<i«al may originally be in the
matter of instincts his actions will
be much modified if, in addition to
•mpulses, he have memories.
associations inferences on any
considei'ahla scale.
CALHOUN PRAISED IN MAS¬
SACHUSETTS.
It would be n good thing if Mr.
Lamar's address should lead to a study
of the woiks of Calhoun, wh > was u li¬
dciiiably one of the greatest hit- fleets
this country Bn* produced the peer
of Webster ami the superior of Clay
and iri mor.V character higher and
stronger than either. Ilis writings and
speeches arc «ot entirely our date but
contain much thirt may profitably be
studiud.--Boston Ex.
The State of Georgia gives aim tal¬
ly to a a eg o college in Atlanta,
where social equality is taught and
practiced, $8,000. Tho Gwinnett
Herald refet-ing to the capture of a
iesperato criminal in that section
says; “Wimberly is a graduate of
the colored collage in Atlanta, and
has given Georgia and her sister
Siote, South Carolina, considerable
troubl* since he procured Lis sheep
skin.
The bilf legalizing and cieating a
Saturday lmlf holiday lias passed
both Houses of the New York Leg¬
islature and gone to the Governor for
bis signature. It has taken a tremend
ous pull for the free white employee
in the North to get what the Souheru
negro takes without asking.
j For tfce best sewing machine on
the market address, F. A. Mabry at
Toccoa, Ga.
lWutifu! opera slippera un.l low
cut shoe* at McConnell & Bro.
a LA D.> TON S' ON A M EttlOA.
Mr GlathiUme, replying b> ; a tmt
said mio ig Other dungs “The in,
4
stituCioiw aiid progress of the United
States h ive always been subjects *■# :
great interest to me ever since, very ,
many years ago I s udiel the life of
Washington, I boeamo aware then
of the magnitude of t*« destiny re¬
serve! for Aineiqcniw' and rtteutod of
the fuel til it die perjo 1 if fhe birth
of the Amerie.au Suites was of more
in'evust than any other it was pojihle
ti) Whenever a youth desir
„ (U a [ studying p dhieil life consults
me respecting the course of Dudy in
the field of liistoiy, I always refer
him to the early history <>f America.
Hod Almighty nude Englishmen and
Americans kinsmen, and they* ought
to h we affections for ona anothor. If
they had not. humanity would cry
shame upon them I rejoice that th 1
clouds which one a obscured our mu
tual visions have ahno«t vanished
fmn t ur political sky. nu l that the
future iaa bright and protui-iug as
the warmest-hearted n nung ns could
deiira,”
“Womca of the South are gener
ally s tudents, and pass more credit
, lWc CXi uwinattons than Northern
vvotm;1 , 5 ” gays civil service Commis
sioner Obeli y, “and the highest fig¬
ure that Boston has to her credit on
register at prerant is seventy-three,
while army Southard Statas can go
twenty better.
LADIES OF THE WULT E
HOUSE.
have found that tneir sometimes ex
cessive duties produce a low. weak
tired and tiemulous state of tho sys¬
tem, and that iron restores jicJmes
and color to the blood, calisaya bark
a natural healthful to.ie to th » ligji
live organ, and phosphorous mildly
stimulates the brain,—all combined
n Hirier’sjiiou Tonic.
Two le i I.irs of tin iffv.itio.i ir
my were tried before the Mayor,
and found guilty of disorderly con
duct in Macon last week.
We will sell the trade oIj'j, sag i
nee. molasses »yrup and flour at
ower prices than you pay elsewhere
1 McConnell <fc Bro,
JYin Mvrymui & Oa Ammonia
el dissolved bonejs the most reliable
guano on the market. For sale at
Avalon and Martin by K D YoW
C)„
Fresh country cam uiral always
on han l atW.C.A-J. B. McEatirc’s
Go to Me Council & Bro. for b'*i*
gains m clothing, dress goods’ hats
shoes, tobacco or anything ol«3 ^ >ilt
you need.
» . t #» j ■
If you Want a good chaw of to*
bacco call on W C. A J. B. McEn
tire for B«u Frauklia*
.Striped lawns, checked !au ns
plain lawns and cheup lawns at Me*.
Conn ell a Bro,