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THE ATHENS GEORIGAN: MAY 15, 1877. -3>. H333 Song. BY RICHARD IIKNBY ST'DDARD. Why are rod roses red ? For roses once were white. Because the loviiij* nightingales Sang; on their tliorns nil ni^ht,— Sang till the blood they shed Had dyed the roses red ! Why are white roses white I For roses once were red. Beeansethe sorrowing nightingales. Wopt.when the night was fled,— Wept till the tears of light Had washed tho roses white ! Why are the roses sweet! For ones they had no seen*. Because one day the Queen of Love Who to Adonis went, Brushed them with heavenly feet— That made the roses sweet. Scribner'e Monthly. DAISY’S COURTSHIP. The old-fashioned kitchen door stood wide open, and the strong, sweet west wind poured through the f sand-floored room, swaying in slow, graceful waves the blue muslin skirts of Daisy May’s morning wrapper as :she stood beside the table arranging • • • ° a pile of stemless flowers in a shallow glass dish. “ Indeed, I’ll never marry a farmer, awmie. I love the count! v well enough—here, at home, where noth' »ng but the poetry of it falls to me — gathering flowers, drinking creamy •milk, sketching shady' spots, driving "wherever I want to, and always sent luscious tilings to eat—and in winter, rides and sleighing, and plenty of books and my* music.” “Ami John Maurice.” Her aunt tacked the name very tersely at the end of the long list of attrnct : ons, then watched to see the effect on Daisy ’s taco. The pretty lips pouted charmingly. “ Maurice! Oh, John’s goad enough, of course ; but—” “It’s a good thing you have got over your foolish attachment to him, Daisy, for he’s going to he married soon. Engaged to one of the pret tiest girls you ever saw—a Miss Winchester, visiting at Ca*tledeans.” Daisy ’s eyes . grew a little darkey, and then she elevated her eyobrftjrs coldly. “ He’s engaged, is he? Oh, well, that’s perfectly natural, I am sure. I suppose Miss—Miss Winchester, did yon say ?—I suppose she is a decided blonde, and petite ?" Daisy didn’t say that Maurice had often sworn that there was no other style of beauty for him but Daisy’s own. “ Oh, bless you, no! Miss Win chester is tall, almost as tall ns John, and very stately, and a lovely bru nette. Everybody thinks John a lucky fellow’.” Daisy rose and took dow’n her garden hat. “I dare say he is—only I never could see what there was about those tail, dark women to captivate any body. I’m going over to Minnie Castludean’s awhile—may I ?” Mary watched the petite, graceful figure in the navy bine foulard cam bric and white tarletan shade hat, lied over the clustering, floating curls, and nodded her head wisely and smiled serenely. “You darling—you perfect darling, to come to us. Daisy, I’ve been just dying to sec you at home again. We’re going to have the most jolly time this summer, you know. Thu bouse is full, and there is Nellie Winchester especially I want you to know, and the hand somest young officer on leave—Gus brought him up—Colonel G'rcssiugton; and we’ve impressed John Maurice— yon remember Join. He’s the handsomest fellow—beats the Colos mcl, I tell you, and Nellie’s just be witched after him.” And Daisy laughed and assented, and declared she half remembered John Maurice, and was dying to see Miss Winchester, and intended inau gurating a flirtation at once with the military gentleman. Minnie rattled on, as seventeen- year old girls have a way of doing. “ It’s too bad ! Nell’s gone down he city to-day to buy ribbons for tho picnic—oh, you’ll surely be here next Tuesday lor our picnic at r, ’s Head, Daisy ? I suppose John Mam ice will take Nellie, and I am sure Colonel Cressington will be delighted to be your escort.” “ Colonel Cressington will be hap pier than ever before in bis lin% if he may have tjiat honor, Miss Minnie.” When her morning call was over, Colonel Cressington insisted on walk ing home witll her, and Daisy per mitted it—not because he was so handsome and so entertuiniug, or she so pleased with him, but because— well, she felt a little provoked at hearing so many praises of the lady to whom John Maurice was engaged; and somehow, it made her feel better to flirt a little. And, as if the very fates themselves were propitious, who should she and her gallant cavalier meet, face to face for the first time in three years to Daisy, but John Maurice! John Maurice—so perfectly splen did in bis clear, dark, manly beauty, his stylish clothes—everything just ns it should be. This John Maurice—and—and en gaged to Nellie Winchester! Daisy’s heart gave a bound as he extended a hand which she saw bad a plain gold ring on the little finger. And then she crushed all the joy she had felt seeing him, and gave him her hand with .a cool, graceful little bow. “Daisy May! is it possible ? Why, yon are prettier than ever, and—I declare, Daisy, I am awfully glad you’re home again.” lie was so easily familiar, so frank— and engaged to her ? Daisy smiled. “Thank you, Mr. Maurice, for yonr good will. I ant glad to see you.” It was very proper, very lady like, but a shadow came over John’s handsome face. “ I hope I shall see you often, Daisy. You’ll be at the picnic on Tuesday ? Cressington, keep that sunshade over her head. Good bye till I see yon again.’’ His horse was prancing restlessly, and he was < if :ike a dart and out of sight when Daisy bowed good-bye to her uniformed'gallant at the gate. $ . $ * * * * “ What a handsome fellow John Maurice has grown to be, han’t he uncle ?” Dayisy was sipping her coffee slow ly that Tuesday morning—a cloudless June day, that the gods had arragned for the Castledean party’s ph-nie, and Daisy, her lovely golden hair brushed off her forehead in loose burnished waves, and caught at the hack of the head with pale blue ribbons, was impatiently trying to get through her toilet. Her uncle buttered a slice of home made bread with keen relish. “ You might travel a seven years’ journey an not come across his equal. And lie’s lucky, too. He sold his interest in that railroad for ten times what he gave, enough to buy him the prettiest farm in the country— Edge Wire, and its stocked first-class, I can tell you. He’s bound to make a fortune, and they say that Win chester girl’ll bring him considerable.’’ “ He’ll never think ot her moneys. He’s not that kind of a man at all.” Aunt Mary stole a glance at the girl’s face, “John’s a splendid fellow and his wife’ll be the happiest woman going. I do say, Daisy, nothing would have pleased yonr uncle and I better if John had taken a notion to you.” “ You should have said if I had taken a notion to John. But you see—1 haven’t.” She threw a kiss coquettishly, and vanished through the door to have a foolish cry tip in her room before she dressed herself. Ami when Colonel Cressington drove up in his two horse phseton, lie thought he never had seen such a perfect picture of girlish beauty and happiness in all his life. And Maurice dashed by in his chaise with Nellie Winchester, radi ant in white muslin and rose hued ribbons, in time to get a bow and gleaming smile from Daisy, and to think, with another of those shadows on his face that Daisy had seen before, that Colonel Cressington and Daisy were good—very good friends. The long summer day had crept pleasantly along, and the lengthened shadows were Wart^pg tim gay pic nickers it was time tojpj wpauiig to return. 5 3 jP ColftnelV Crcssmytqgf Btl N^Iie * WinchgsteHiad «tn|Ufed 1 if aifi arm an Jiour before, and Slinnie’Cas- tledean nffed" a dozen o'.hers were lounging on the soft sward, gossiping, laughing and enjoying a dolce far niente generally, while Maurice was walking about unobserved, mhfcmom- bered by the others, with his head bent down as if in search for something lost—his ring that had until several minutes "iieforc he had not missed, and missing, had at once commenced to hunt for it. Not that it was attainable. But a pained white look on his face that had been there at intervals all day intensified as he thought how dear that simple band was to him and why. ' ““ lie went on and on, separating further and further from the party, a until sobs, low, indistinct, as if u. suc cessfully suppressed, but unmistaka ble, attracted his .attention, and a second’s continuance in the direction he was going brought him in full view of Dtisy May, with her bead bowed oil her bands and her frame convulsed with violent weeping, and glistening on her fair finger the cir clet of gold for wliiclT'he was search ing- ^ Seeing him she sprung to her feet, and dashing the tears from her eves said: “I found your- ring Mr. Mau rice.” She drew it off her finger and handed it to him, calling all the pow ers of an unhappy, foolish little head to ai I her to make her strong and in different—who had been sitting there kissing rnd crying over John’s en gagement ring. John took the ring, and holding it between his fingers am| thumb, looked in her face, with his own pale and eager. v i “ Daisy, tell mo -yS^f^tflBfcrying because yon love if}. Is it so? Daisy, mv only,'my own darling. I almost dread to have your answer, for I fear it will be no. But —do yen love me, my darling?” A sudden glory flashed over her face, her very soul looking out of bri eves. Then her lips quivered pite ously. “Oh ! John, how can you talk to me so ? Nellie Winchester—’’ He pressed her suddenly close to bitn and pushed her head down on his shoulder. * •‘Look up, little one. Nellie Winchester is nothing to me,although rumor has said so. You are all the world to me, darling. Ain I so to you? Will yoa take the ring I bought when I heard you were com ing home, and determined to secure yon for ray own as soon as I saw yon? Daisy, I have been engaged to you since I can remember. Will you rat ify it ?” And with all her soul in the kiss she gave him, Daisy knew her heart was all rest in John Maurice’s love* * * » * » That night it was announced in the Castledeau’s parlor privately, of course, that the picnic had been a great success. Colonel Cressington had pro|>osed to Nellie Winchester ami had been accepted, and Minnie confidentially whispered to Daisy: “ Wasn’t it cunning? for Nell car- lied on with John Maurice just to try to make the Colonel piqued, so that he uould propose. That’s the way I mean to do; don’t you ?’’ And Daisy smiled and blushed, and stole a glance at Jolin’e happy face, and thought how good every thing was. [For the Georgian.] Letter From EllyYacieT ■* I) ALTOx, Geo non &EO HOT AN—Spring, Bsevetetnce, lias fit lers of bold winter tly Ways instel Tradition says that years ago when the headwaters of the Chesapeake swarmed with wild fowl, the hands employed at an iron forge at Havre de Grace once upon a time refused to work because they were fed on canvas back ducks instead of bacon. dp . air is soflMwl balmy, the tretfflh shrubs have donned their fresh attire, the birds warble blithely as they flit! among the trees, and the zephyrs sing sweet carols accompanied by leafy harpp swept by unseen lingers. May lias come like a beautiful lovely flowers iu her bright tresses, with springing step trailing her green robe over the bare earth, and everywhere scattering sunlight and joy. The sun shines s > brightly, the grass looks so green, the woods so inviting, that one feels like going a “Maying.” Our: college girls went out picnie- ing last Tuesday, the 1st. to Dug Gap and the mineral springs. It was merry party that left Dalton that morning. President R. and one of the lady teachers led the way, the girls followed in several wagons filled to their greatest capacity. Six daring knights of Crawford College, seated on three horses, ostensibly on a hunting expedition, ventured to bring up the rear, and although the ever-vigilant President was on duty to ward oft' all such intruders, they managed to keep in sight of the girls, content to fea.-t their eyes,! though not permitted to speak to I them. The girls seeing and appre- j dating their gallantry, rewarded | them by sending them a portion of ! the good things to satisfy the inner Athens has eleven churches. man. The day was bright and pleas ant, and the young ladies enjoyed it as school girls only etui, and returned declaring they had had a “ splendid time,” “ perfectly delighted,” etc., and wished holidays would come oftenev. Marriages are again in order in our midst. The last was that of Prof. Sclmeller and Miss Minnie Myriek. j Tl|fj I*i’ofe§sor tins .charge of the j musical department in the Dalton j Female College, and was regarded i as a confirmed bachelor. The bride | is the daughter of a former pastor of i the Methodist Episcopal Church in this place, and well known in musical circles. She is young, pretty, and the possessor of rare and varied talents. She has been under the Professor’s training several years. We wish j them much joy and happiness, and hope their lives will ever blend as harmoniously as do their united com- |M>sitions. Our citizens are already looking forward to and making preparations for Commencement. It •.routes off the first work in July. The young ladies of the college are busy pre paring for the final examination and commencement exercises. There are ten or twelve very intelligent young ladies in the Senior Class. The honors have been awarded as follows: First honor shared by Misses Alice Moore and Florence Humphreys, of Dalton, and the second by Miss Ella Harlan, of Gordon county. Commencement at the Dalton Fe male College and at Crawford Col lege the following week is a gay season in Dalton, and a pleasant time for our low country friends to visit our city. We have delightful summers in Dalton. Our picturesque scenery, pure atmosphere, good water, health- giving mountain breezes, and only a few hours’ ride from both the Catoosa and Colmtta springs, all combine to make onr city a very pleasant summer resort. Visitors are beginning to appreciate these advantages, and we welcome others to our midst. X IOW.-S 8UMMABY. —The blockade of the Black Sea ports will be maintained by twenty Turkish vessels. V . Vg s ~The French officiah(of Pans) mrnal pyblish^s a neutrality decree ndwi oflieinl notification of. the" '° MCea blockade. " ^ J i he govi^ment of Germany and Austria are in negotiation with respect to a proclamation of neutrality to be issued. The two governments arc desirous of acting in concert.” —The latest sensation in Phila delphia is, another, case of mysterious- abduction of st > oliildi* jit is another Charley Ross case; but litis time it is a girl—Mary Mastcrson, aged seven. —Californii* miners ,anl iantfcfis are arrived against «mh other in a e wnmnge aornr to inrms by stuff from mines washed down by streams. \ii\ . - ? —The warden of the Connecticut State prison combats the idea that most of the crime is caused by in temperance. He says that not more [ than t>ne-fonrth of the convicts have [ been drunkards. j —Oregon has a new expedient for keeping her citizens sober. Every man who drinks is obliged to take ont a license costing $5. It is a pen al offence for any liquor dealer to sell a drink to at# unlicensed person. —Horse thieves out West build hollow haystacks provided with a bidden door, into which the animal is driven. Much space in Ohio papers is ocennied by advertisements offer ing rewards for horse thieves. —A telegram from Bucharest says:—“The open town, Reni, at the confluence of the Prutli and the Danube, was bombarded on Friday by Turkish monitors for three hours. All the inhabitants of Reni, Ibrail and Olleuitza have fled.” PLAIN ID FANCY 6REAT REDUCTION m prices. A much esteemed Paris practitioner. Dr. Cintrat, has fallen a victim to duty. Attending a child for croup, he found ac incision in the throat insuffi cient to save its life without sucking ont the infected matter. In the evening he felt symptoms of quinsy, devised an excuse for sending his wife and three children to the country to prevent infection, and procured the best medical aid, but died after five days’ suffering. —An overflow meeting was held at Trafalgar square to-night, at which counter resolutions were proposed expressing confidence in the govern ment and in Mr.t Gladestone. It is impossible to say which were car ried. —Professor of Chemistry—“Sup pose you were called to a patient who had swallowed a heavy dcse of oxalic acid, what would you administer?” Jones, who is preparing for the pul pit, and who only takes chemistry because it is obligatory—“ I would administer the sacrament. —“A New Hampshire paper re lates that at Newton, in that State, a mad dog, after having been wounded, took refuge in a barn, where some of the hay became soaked with his blood. The hay was fed to a horse, which: went mad. —The arrival of the English squad ron at Grete is announced. Shell from the Turkish gunboats were falling around the Ihrall railway sta tion at the time of the arrival there of the Gram! Duke Nicholas. The Central News Agency is informed that the government has ordered 500 Whitehead torpedoes at $2,500 each. —The Standard's Pestli dispatch says that Austria has notified Russia and the Porte that the intrruption of the free navigation of the Danube can only be temjiorary. Navigation must, after the war, be restored to its full force in accordance with the Treaty of Paris. —Cairo advices state that the King of Abyssinia has again declared war against the Khedive for violating the frontier. The rebellion in Darfur is also increasing. The Egyptians there must capitulate. The Khedive, in consequence of these events, has refused to further assist the Porte. —In order not to afford an occa sion for Austria to depart Irom neu trality the Russ : an commanders have received orders not to cross the Danube near Kalafat nor join any where with tee Servian army. For the same reason the Czar has notified Montenegro that she must remain on the defensive. Servia intends to res voke the order for mobilizing her militia, because such a step would be likely to provoke Austria, Havinb Secured the Services of -A. PIRST-CLASS JOB PRINTER, Wo are enabled to tnrr out as good work as can be done IN THE STATE. We call the attention of all our citi zens to the following Price List: Bill Heads, per Thousand, Assorted, $5. Canary Colored Envelops, Furnished to Merchants and Business Men, with their cards printed on them, At $3 PER THOUSAND. LETTER HEADS, $4 50 to $5 Per Thousand. Common 75cper Hundred, —AND- $4 50 to $5 per Thousand. ligher. 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