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“A Map of Busy Life—lts Fluctuations and its Vast Concerns."
KLLUAY, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE I, 1882.
PARTED.
[W’averley Magazie.]
Once we were friends. This life’s weird
song
Was fumed alike unto each mind ;
To all good gift* our eyes were oped,
To all strange things out eyes were blind.
We walked adown the world’s highway
Hand clasping hand, heart meeting heart
And little thought the day would come
When hands would loosen, hearts would
part
You spoke the first unpleasant words
Which struck like arrows to my soul ;
Y<mr careless fingers rent in twain
Wiiat I had fondly dteamed a whole.
And when we came to that strange place
Where mauy earthly roads divide,
Vou made your choice: and when I turned,
Vou wete no longer at my side.
Oh, preciou- friend, still loved, though
false,
My heart will hunger after you :
And plead that if I’d been more kind,
Perhaps you would have been more true.
Aud when I think of all the years
Which have slipped by like some fair
dream,
Of all we’ve hoped and planned and
wrought,
The harder docs this parting seem.
You chose your way,and plead your cause
in your most tender, touching tone,
Then tuned your voice to other lyres,
And left me to sing alone.
And I still sing. We cannot pause
Right in the middle of life's song ;
The measure we must carry out,
Be its sad cadence short or long.
And I am getting used tj pain ;
We do, you know, after a while ;
And learn to bathe our blending wounds
With the soft oiutment of a smile.
And tiiougb 1 will not cast one shade
Of blame on womanhood's estate.
I feei the space betwixt us two,
Has grown immeasurably great!
And' I have learned to pity you.
Yes, pity is the word to use ;
Aud you can sheer at it or not,
Accept or slight it, as you choose.
I pity you for your hard heart,
I pity you for your false ways,
I pity you for your untruths,
1 pity you for haunted days.
But if the time should ever c..me
When you will loug to see my face,
Aud claim within my loving arms
The old, familiar, oft sought place,
You need not fear to meet a frown,
Or find my tender words untrue ;
You shall be welcome for the sake
Of what once passed between us two.
And now farewell, dearly beloved,
Our ways are sep’rate, but our plans
Are folded closely as of old
Within the hollow of God’s hands.
And if we Dever meet again
Throughout this world of shame and sin,
There’ll stand between your soul aud mine,
The inem’ry of “what might have been.
THE STOLEN WATCH.
CHAPTER V
( Conclusion .)
A slight young man stood in
the Jargest saloon of which the
mining camp could boast and
slowly finished his story.
“Three years ago, and more
since he left home, and we have
never traced him to a certainty.
The man who was killed three
years ago to-night, when resist
ing the robbers a half-dozen
miles east of your camp, may
have been my father. The de
scription is fairly accurate. But
I never expect to know certainly
whether it were he or not.”
Every newcomer was expected
to tell something of his story,
and young Johnson had told bis
with simple directness, ending
as stated above.
An old man, with sad look and
snow white hair, but straight and
strong yet, entered the room,
walked to the bar, drank, took a
large old-fashioned watch from
his pocket, looked at the time,
and walked over to the stove,
“Any errands over to the sta
tion this afternoou ?” he asked.
“1 am going over on horseback
for some light supplies.”
The saloon man answered in
the negative, and the old man
walked out.
Johnson turned towards the
barkeeper with a face like mar-
b!e ami eyes like fire, but asked
a couple of very simple questions
nevertheless.
‘Was that (lie Miguel Gordon
I’ve heard so much about f’
“ Y es.”
“Is there any stage in or out
to-night
“Yes; the stage from Ihe East
should be in at nine o’clock.”
A half-hour later Miguel Gor
don rode away towards the south
A half-hour after that young
Johnson stood in the centre oi
the saloon with an excited crowc
around him.
One man said: “We’ve tried
to caleh Ihe3e robbers often
enough, and have failed. If the
youngster is wrong it is only* one
failure more. The stages have
been s'opped about once a month
for tne last three years. There
is one chance in thirty by the
theory of probabilities.”
It had been suspected that this
man iiad once been a scholar and
a leacher. He was called “the
Professor” yet.
Another man objected : “We
don’t know ibis boy. It would
be lucky if it. all ended in only
failure. How do we know it isn’t
all a trap lor us ?”
“Likely lo be that, isn’t it, with
the boy along ? He’d scarcely
try that,” said a third.
“We’ve never gone without
Gordon before,” said mother;
“whatever will he think of us if
we go now without him?”
“It can't be helped this time,”
said the barkeeper, “and 1 vole
we go.”
And it was so decided.
Johnson’s proposition had
been a strange one. It was that,
starting at three o’clock, they
should ride hard and meet the
stage from the East as far as to
the east as possible ; that the
women and children should be
left behind, together with any
male passengers who might show
a lack of pluck; and that as many
of them as tiie stage would hold,
fully armed and ready for the at
tack, should ride into the little
mining town that night. He ot
tered no reason, but simply said
that there would be an atlempl
ed robbery.
The moon had been up an hour.
The night was silent and calm,
and would have seemed lonely
enough to the driver of the stage
but for the strange load he car
ried that night. The stage was
crowded with mem armed with
heavy navy revolvers —and men
who knew how lo use them.
The “Professor” was half-doz
ing in his corner, and muttering
something about infinity and ze
ro ; the man who had distrusted
the boy Johnson, was so lar
asleep that he might have been
trapped or betrayed. The stage
turned a curve in the road and
slopped just where it had three
years before.
“Hold up your hands, gentle
men, and be lively ; we have no
time to lose,” came the quick,
nervous command.
The driver’s heart might al
most have been heard to beat in
the silence for one long moment,
and the next there was a volley
Iron) the well aimed arms of those
within the stage, and with a
cheer that might have been
heard for miles, the miners
sprang down to meet the robbers
who had puzzled and defied them
for years.
The wild shot? of the astonish
ed outlaws did uo harm but they
went down under Ihe fierce on
slaught of the miners like grain
before the reaper.
In five minutes the avengers
were in a position to solve the
mystery fully. Of the half dozen
dead men only one was known
to the miners ; the rest were
strangers. The puzzle was un
solved still. But, no, a dozen
rods away young Johnson, stood
revolver in hand, over the robber
chief who had fallen over when
the last ball had been fired. In
bis har.d was a watch which he
had taken from the dying bandit.
“It wa3 my lather’s,” said John
son, with a sob.
“It has been an everlasting
curse to me,” groaned the pros
trate mao with his last breath.
The watch would never run
again, for the ball that carried
death to the one who stole it had
lestroyed the watch as well.
A miner snatched a mask from
ihe robber’s lace, and the reason
why the attempts to capture the
• lie villains had always failed
was no longer a mystery. For
framed in with the well known
face, and the dead eyes which
stared up at him glared from be
neath the ashen brow of Miguel
Gordon.
Green Manuring,
After all lhat may be done in
the way of saving and utilizing
stable manure, codon seed and
oilier similar fertilizing materials
—supulenieuted bv the purchase
of acid nhosphale and potash, we
must reply upou the lar cheaper
process of green manuring to
bring up oui soils and keep them
up lo a high degree of fertility.
The proper saving and applica
tion of the home manure above
alluded to is nothing more than
an act of simple justice to the
otherwise overworked soil. We
may as reasonably expect our
work animals to do lull work
without supplying them with
necessary food, as lo expect the
soil to yield abundant annual
• rops without manure. Even the
very richest soils will in liiu.efail
to remunerate the labor of til
lage if denied the benefit of ma
nure of some k nd.
We do not meau to say that
turning under green crops will
ot itself restore to the soil atl the
elements of fertility that are an
nually abstracted from it by the
crops, and that tiiis process may
be made independent of oilier
efforts at improvement. The ab
sohile quantity of phosphoric
acid, lime, potash and other
inorganic elements of the soil
are not one whit increased by
turning under a crop grown on
the soil. But Ilia proportion of
these valuable elements avail
able for the want of a succeed
ing crop is greatly increased by
growing a crop of clover or pea
vines. The quantity of the inor
ganic elements just mentioned,
is sufficient; in a fertile soil, to
produce thirty, forty or one
hundred crops of corn, cotton,
etc., if these elements were in a
soluble, available form. But
such is not the case, and it is the
business of the scientific farmer
to render them soluble. This is
done by deep plowing, liming
and green manuring. But there
are other elements just as im
portant to good crops as those
mentioned, and which may be
supplied entirely by lurmng un
der green crops. There are am
monia and carbonic acid, which
are abstracted from the air and
stored up in the roots, stems and
leaves of the renovating plants,
and by the decay of the latter
are left just where wauted by
the succeeding crop of grain or
cotton. Ammonia and carbonic
acid not only serve as food for
the next crop, bat also assist
greatly in reducing the insoluble
phosphates, and silicates of the
soil to soluble forms by chemical
reactions which occur during de
com potion.
When we add stable manure,
superphosphates, cotton seed and
other more or less concentrated
matters to the soil, we supply the
soil with food elements in a state
almost ready for absorptiou ; and
usually the quantity applied is
VOL VII. 80. 16.
too small to generate any exten
sive changes in the soil by de
composition and chemical action.
But when a heavy crop of peas,
[ clover or other similar plant is
grown and turned under, adding
tons of fermenting material to
each acre, the mass acts as a
most efficient leaven—so to speak’
—not onlv adding large quanti-*
ties of ammonia] and carbonic
acid gathered from the air, bat
breaking up insoluble forms of
plant food and making Ihetn
available to t!ie next crop. The
natural laboiatory of the soil is
thus supplied with more abun
dant re agents and fuel, to do the
work of preparing food for fu
lure crops.— Southern Cultiva
tor.
A Word of Adrice to Young Men.
Gov. Jervis, of North Carolina,
gives the following excellent ad
vice to young men which they
would do well to consider. Says
he:
“There is too great a tendency
I fear, among our young men to
leave the farms and work-shops
of the country ; some for employ
ment in what they think the
more honorable vocations in cit
ies and towns ; others, more am
bitious, for ihe supposed ease
and glory of professional life.
Public opinion is not altogether
blameless for this mistake, and
should hasten to correct it for it
often leads these young men in
to failures, and laiiures into
vices. The successful farmer or
mechanic is none the less honor
able and useful than the success
ful lawyer or doctor; and how
incomparably greater is he in
either than he who fails in ihe
profession. I cannot forbear, in
this connection, to refer to the
example of a young friend of
mine as worthy of imitatiou, aud
to ask young men to study it.
Although a son of a distinguish
ed ex Supreme Court Judge and
a nephew of oue of the State’s
most susefnl Governor, he weut
into a work-shop as a boy, work*
ed at his trade, and is now the
master machinist of a railroad
company. The example of such
men :s valable in any communi
ty, and will give to labor the
dignity and respect it deserves.”
Warts on Horses.
These fungous growths appear
iu the horse most frequently
about the mouth, nose and lips,
but they are occasionally found
upon other parts of the body.
They are sometimes found in
large numbers about the lips of
colts, and are generally rubbed
off, or drop off. If, however, they
grow large and become deeply
rooted, they may be cut off by
passing a needle through the cen
ter, armed with double thread
and tied tightly around the neck
on each side. This prevents the
possibility of the ligatures being
rubbed off. Or they may be
painted over with the perman
ganate of potash, a fe w applica
tions of which will entirely de
stroy warts of a large size, or they
may be removed with a knife.—
Jennings.
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** Value of Milk.
Every gallon of milk has a
food value equal to two and a
half pounds of boneless beef, aud
it is the poorest economy
can practice to sell a gallon of
milk for 10 or 15 cents, and buy
the same amount of nutrition in
the form of beef, at a cost of 35
or 50 cents. If our American
people had any just conception of
the value of milk as an article of
food, the quantity used would be
doubled within the next five
years, aud the health of our fami
lies would be largely increased