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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o be repealed He had never | donbted ber affection for him,yet was never so sure of her undivided love as when they parted on the prececd evening.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,