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n•' , >THE ATHENS GEORGIAN: JULY 17, 1877. WON AT LAST. 11Y YEI.ONA 8. Byrne Moulton leaned out of the window and listened. No sound save the steady break ol the sea broke the silence of the night. “ Strange,” she muttered. “ I would have staked my life upon the fulfillment of his promise.’’ She stepped into the light, and drawing a watch from her belt looked at it. The hands pointed to eight, ller eyes showed that there was a frown somewhere, though it was not upon her face. Nothing could have been more faultlessly beautiful than that was always. She stood a nio- meat irresolute, then stepping across the room touched the bell. A servant answered the summons i nmedia ely. “Tell Captain Dunn to bring up the skiff. I am going across the bay,’’ she said. At that instant quick st eps sounded up the walk, and a second afterward Burt Atherton appeared in the door. “ I hope yon have not incommoded youraelf,” Byrne said, haughtily. “ My horse threw me, and I lay stunned for half an hour. That is my only excuse.” He watched her face as he spoke, to see if she really cared whether he had been killed or not. The slightest perceptible change crept into it, and the haughtiness was quit e gone from her voice as she answered him: “lam very sorry. You are suf fering now, I fear. ’ You will not think of going to-night.’’ « I promised Arthur I would bring you ” “ But if it is necessary I can go alone. Indeed I bad intended to do so before you came.’’ “ Perhaps you had rather,’’ Burt said, his voice changing, as a jealous pang shot through his heart. “ It is quite immaterial to me,” she answered, coolly. She krew well that there was little danger of his remaining at home. .lust a year before, his cherished friend Arthur liilmouth had wor- sliidkd at the Stimuli throw ". dottn gladly nil \hc wealth of proud young heart at Byrne Moul ton’s feet, o ly to have it spurned from her like a worthless thing. In the agonv of his first knowledge be had cursed her most bitterly, but after a six months absence in foreign lands, he had returned, sick and dy ing, bis physicians su’d, and—love will stoop to such humiliations !—be bad begged Burt Ariherton to find her out and beseeching her forgive ness for his cruel words, ask her to come and let him look upon her face once more before he died. Burt Atherton had vowed venge ance against the woman who could so trifle with one of the noblest ol hearts, but he had forgotten that weeks ago; and, but for his promise, it is doubtful whether lie would have been the means in the slightes degree of a meeting between her and her old lover again. Not that he had much to fear from a dying man! But somehow there was a different look in her eyes that he had never seen before. Could it be that she had loved Arthur Falmouth. Ho would never believe it. The moonlight shone full upon them as they glided over the water. How radiantly beautiful Byrne look ed. Burt felt her presence like an (aspiration. He had ample time to think, for nothing was said until they had landed on the other side of the bay, find were quite at Mr. Falmouth’s door. Then Burt asked Byrne if h- should accompany her into Arthur’s room. “Certainly,” she rnawered, and they went in together. In a long room ornamented with rare paintings and costly, fragrant flowers, sitting the room and left them alone. She went up to Arthur, and lay her hand softly upon his forehead. “ Did he tell yon I begged for giveness, Byrne ?” he said, dropping his hands. “ I was hasty, but a dy ing man secs with different eyes.” “ It is I who should beg that, I did nbt know you were so ill,” Byrne answered, her eyes growing humid. ■‘Don’t look at me in that way !” He put up his hands deprecatingly. “ It is too much like the old times. I thought I could keep cool—but, O Byrne ! how I have loved you.” She put her hand in his w. : lhoul answering a word. He clutched it tightly. “Just for one moment no one shall dare to come between us.” “You may be glad you are dying,’’ she whispered. “ I wish I was as near my end.’’ “ You ! O Byrne! the world must be very beautiful to you ” “ It is not. I have found nothing hut bitterness, nothing.’’ She was weeping. “ Let me come and see you to-morrow. I will tell you, at any rate.” “ Will yon come again his eyes growing lustrous. • “I will be here to-tnorrow by nine o’clock.” She bent down and touched his forehead with her lips, and glided out of the room. Burt Atherton’s face was almost as white as the invalid’s when he came out after her. The next morning, Byrne, true to her promise, was at Mr. Falmouth’s at an early hour, but her courage almost failed her when she came into Arthur’s presence. “ I am afraid I can never tell you,' she said, trembling. Then, before he had time to answer her, she hurred on: “ You never knew anything of my early history, but”—her face was crimson—“ I was picked up when an infant in the streets of New York. When my adopted father died, he told me of my origin, and then for the firrt time I knew what my fate would l<e. But my face was bcauti- nl and my purse was full. Little , anger but the worffl would acknowl# dge tuc. 1 was *ofeul of thaL. -A ife I eoirtd ncvcf' t l)0,'Out love I nnst have; and I determined, coolly and deliberately, to win hearts and then throw them away as I did yours. What else could I do, when I might never look into any man’s eyes and say “ I love you ?” “You shall be my wife to-day,” lie broke in. “ Don’t tremble so. You are tired. I should not have told you if you had not loved me so; and if I had dared—surely there is no harm in saying it now ?—I should have loved you. Never mind now, I am glad you know the truth. We shall part happier.” “ We shall never part, Byrne.’’ The first thing Burt Atherton heard of Byrne was her marriage with Ar tur Falmouth; and in a year the man whom all had considered dying was nearly recovered. before' an open fire, was Arthur Fal mouth, the one they sought. He rose feebly aa they entered, and giv ing his'hand 'silently to (each,'sank again into his chair, and covered his face. *■> ‘ '• • * ID wjr'-r* Burt went back into the far end of The Value’of a Dollar.—A sil ver dollar represents a day’s work for the laborer. It is given to a hoy. He has no idea of what it is worth. He would be as likely to give a dollar as a dime for a top or any other toy. But if the boy has learned to earn the dimes and dollars by the sweat of his face he knows the difference. Hard work is to him a measure of values that can never be rubbed out of his mind. 1 Let him learn by experience that a hundred dollars represent a hundred weary days’ lalwr, and it seems a great sum of money ; a thou sand dollars is a fortune, and ten thou sand is almost inconceivable, for it is far tuoro than be ever expects to pos sess. When he has earned a dollar he thinks twice before lie spends it. He wants to invest it sq as to get the full value of aday’s work forit. It is a great wrong to society and to a boy to ; biing him jup to man's estate with out this knowledge. A fortune at twenty-one evithout it is almost inevk tabljr thrown away,: With it anda little capital to start on he will make his own fortune better than any one make it for'■••him.—Merchants NEWS SUMMARY. —About 700,000'tons of Bessemer steel were made in England last year, and about 525,000 tons were made in the United States in the same period. —It is stated that the loss in the valuation of the real estate of Boston, May I, 1877, compared with May 1, 1876, will lie $40,000,000. It is esti mated th-it the loss on persona! estate is about §20,000,000, nfnking a toial loss of $60,000,000, and reducing ihe whole valuations to about $670,000, exclusive of bank tax. - —The newspaper press can now apologize for all the mean things that have ever been said against Vermont. A young lady in that. "Stkte refused to marry the man she ltfyed till he subscribed for a daily paper and promised to always furnish the family with this household necessity. —In seven years 94.000,000 notes of the Bank of England have been pflid, and they are contained in 1**,- 000 boxes, which, placed side by side, would extend a distance 6f three miles. These notes are’ wot made of old rags, but of pure white linen cut tings, and their manufacture for near ly two hundred years, has been placed in the hands of the Portals, of Lav- erstoke, Hampshire. —Electricity has been applied to a strange use in the East Indies. A platinum wire, connected with the (Riles of a battery, is stretclifed around a tree, and, as it becomes immedi ately red-hot, it is gently see-sawetl, with the requisite pressure against the ttee, and rapidly burns its way .through. It is thought that a tree can be cut down, without any waste of timber, in about 15 niinytvs, that would require two hours to Yell in the ordinary way. —The divorce industry does not prosper as it might in the Western States. Since the 1st instant it is a punishable crime for lawyers in Illi- noise to advertise that t hey .will pro« cure divoiees, and the Indiana Su preme Court has ruled that a decree of divorce issued iu Utah between pers ns neither of whom i^vresident -of the Territory is live. A /statute -of 4 that win*-* • t— a di* rorce, if the Court is saiWfled that the applicant is a resident of {Tic Ter ritory or “ wishes to become one,’’ the Court may grant a divorce. The Supreme Court of Indiana hold that this statute was ultra vires and void, and that a Court of Utah cannot thus obtain jurisdiction of non-residents. —J. M. Lewis, of King William County, Va., plants his tomato seed in February in hot beds made of rich earth. He seldom waters, as they will stand drought better and bear transplanting more successfully if not so succulent. The early plants arc* set out in five-foot squares, from the 20th of April to the 1st of May, each square receiving a good supply of manure. Fora late crop the seed are planted in these squares^furrows having been five feet apart each way. The greatest enemy to the plant is the tobacco worm, but he grows large droves of turkeys, which act as great scavengers in this respect. Ho is preparing next spring to plant 700 acres in tomatoes, and has now seed planted in hot beds covered by 600 sashes, containing 17,000 panes*of 8 by 10 glass.—Southern Planter. —That marriage is a lottery is a common-place that most (ieople utter without believing. A little reflection usually shows the lhllacy of the pro verbs which pass current as solid ingots of wisdom among persons too thoughtless to note their own conclu sions. That it is not really recog nized as a lottery is. shown by the deep disgust felt by all but vulgar people at the effort of a Missouri newspaper, published in Kansas City, to make it one in deed ns well as name. This concern invited young women on its subscription.list to offer themselves, with 1 their own recom mendations, as premiums to sub scribers ; and receiving- several hun dred * names of candidates, raffled them ofl^ as fiw as tim? wotiid go, to one thousand young m$iv—who will, it is expected,- retain" the* impetus given by this jaurnaUatfc jpsUderer till lit exhausts ; itself Rtthe' altar; There danke-no doubt that" many of them — ” ’ * * brol nLuftage seed be considered anything PLAIN AND FANCY JOB WORK. IN PRICES. Having Secured ire Services or A FIRST-CLASS JOB PRINTER, We are enabled to turr out as good work as can be done IN THE STATE. We call the attention of all our cit zens to the following Price List: Bill Heads, per Thousand, s Assorted, §5. -- p —r - - } The ouest Boo Canary Colored Envelops, THE GEO RDM FOE 1877. With increased facilities for carrying on the publication of our paper for the New Year, the Georgian will be found, as heretofore, Strictly Democratic, And will endeavor to supply its readers with the most careful, com plete and trustworthy accounts of current events: It will remain its usual size, eight pages, and has More Readina Matter In Its Columns Than any two weekly papers in the State. We have the largest bona fide subscription list iu Northeast Georgia, and we intend to make it, as heretofore, an interesting FIRESIDE COMPANION. Connected with our newspaper, we have a Cottrell & Babcock Press, Furnished to Merchants and Business Men, with their cards printed on them, At #3 PER THOUSAND. LETTER HEADS, $4 50 to $5 Per Thousand. Ca RD JS, Common 75c per Hundred, ' — AND— and Job Press, together with the best selection of Job Type, all new, and ordered within the ’last six month.-, and are prepared to do all kinds of Magazine.. " ’-‘A — more than an experiment. • . • * i odid j'tjfjjrft IIA jU bsJ'*TJ vst lo ft- ' fc.(4* WH wsft! tr $4 50 to $5 per Thousand, Fancy Work Proportionately Higher. VISITING GAUSS, BLANKS, NOTES, Paters, Circulars, . • * • ■ >■ Handbills, Pamphlets, etc., Printed in any color desired, and as | cheap as can be done m the State. GIVE US YOUR ORDERS SAVE MONEY, > ; ;to:!#»»&•'. i : , And get good work, and sustain a mf: f: a l-:!a lU-ho **“>'* rri wili Ttake ~^VMt^e "of thii home institution. Call at the ATR. ikerage, ! for'^herfeitiiw raatrimoni- " AJ ; ‘ J1 ENS GEORGIAN oflee, .Broad street, Athens,Ga. K tilf ; ^ . * With « new supply of Kuies and Figures, wo are prepared ,„ rll out all and every kind ol Railroad Blanks,Abstracts, Tags, WAY BILLS, ETC., TOGETHER’ WITH G**«•. *£a»4«- SPpaUrm, 1SH$3 SX*«4a. ***** &**4*» • * • ~ As Cheap as they can be done iu any city in the South. The Work- nei; iu our Job Department cannot be surpassed in Kxoellenoe and. Wnisn. ive u? a .call at our old stand, Broad street, Athens, Ga. 5,4 **