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“A Map of Busy Life--lts Fluctuations and its Vast Concerns.”
ELLIJAY, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1882.
’TISSWEET.
’ I'is sweet tw be remembered
In the turmoil of tbis'life;
While toiling up its pathway, J
While mingling in its strife,
While wandering o’er earth’s bordprs
Or sailing o’er its sea,
’Tis sweet to be remembered,
" berever we may be.
What though our path be rugged,
Though clowded be our sky,
And none we love and chtrish,
No friendly one is nigii,
To cheer us in our sorrow
Or share with us onr lot;
’Tis sweet to be remembeied.
To know we’re not forgot.
THE MORTAR-BED,
I see a great many things from
my window. It overlooks a very
quiet sheet, but ever since I
have been kept from going about
bv Ibis wretched spruin in my
ankle I have found much to in
terest me in the street in front.
Ever since they began llie build
ing just across the way I have
been absorbed in watching its
progress to the neglect of my
needle-work, and even the new
books wlfich Tom brought me to
read, i have taken- such, delight.,
in the laying of the brick wall,
of seeing it grow day by day till
it reached, its height and was
crowned by a cornice. It sug
gested to me many ideas about
life which perhaps would be
laughed at as the faucies of an
old woman.
I have been anxious from the
fir:t that the houses might be a
success, for Tom Neal was the
architect,and Tom is my favorite
nephew and the finest fellow
that ever cheered an old woman.
His father has been so skeptical
about Tom’s success as an archi
tect that he hesitated about us
ing plans for the new row he was
to build ; but lie finally decided
to give (he boy a chance, and in
my opinion the result is satis
factory. One of the houses is
Tom’s, and he goes over it with
great interest every morning just
before paying me his daily visit.
Tom is a thoughtful boy and does
not neglect me.
One day when they had begun
l lie plastering, I Yvatched the
men all day as they worked
Some were sifting the sand
which was dumped there by
some little carls that were back
ed up and unjointed and then
driven away for another load.
The lime had seethed and bub
bled in a long white box, spat
tering far over the sides, aud
after this was all over they lifted
(he little gate in the end of the
box and the while stream ran
into a bed of clean, cool sand,
then the men look their shovels
and covered this solt little lake
with a thick layer of soft sand till
it might have passed itself off for
a solid bank of the real article,
and the day’s work being done,
the men took their dinner pails
and went home.
By the time I had finished my
tea and taken my seat by the
window again it was quite dark,
though 1 could see the figures of
the passers-bv in the dim light.
My attention was suddenly at
tracted by the figure of a woman
on the other side the street. She
was in evident IkislO. fiie walk
was entirely blockaded by the
building materials, and as the
street was covered with mad I
watched her with idle curiosity
to see what she would do. She
hesitated for a moment and then
placed oue foot cautiously on one
of (lie sand ‘banks that flanked
th a treacherous bed, and find
ing it firm, hurried forward. A
few steps and she slipped aud
went down in the slimy miss.
As she fell her arm struck
against the board on which a
lantern hung. Its lignt gave to
me a glimpse of her 'ace, It was
haggard but siill young. She
caught the board as she struck it
and regainad her footing. I
threw up my window, calling at
tHe same time to Jane to go to
• lie girl’s assistance; but seeing
that she was observed, tlie stran
ger plunged into the muddv
road and was soon lost in the
darkness.
The next morning when Tom
came in I saw lie was quite ex
cited, and without waiting lor
any greeting he at once showed
me a bracelet he had just found.
Where did 1 suppose he found it?
In the mortar. ATfer the hod
carriers had emptied their hods
he himself happened to be there,
saw something shitting and fish
ed this bracelet out of the mass.
I examined it curiously. It was
an old put tern Two heavy wires
of unpolished gold,’ twisted to
gether, lheendß bent into a hook
and eye, and on llie inside a
small letter L was engraved.
It did not occur to me at first
to eonuect this bracelet with the
little incident of the night before
but in a few minutes it flashed
upon me, and with strange per
vewiffy*.*
'Wflfl , *fl!<P , ii<f
to wedve some romance about
the affair, and I was not frorng To
give Irirt -material for any such
nonsense; so [ advised him to
advertise it. ~ He finally consent
ed, though I could that he
had some wild idea of finding t e
owner without such aid. A
week’s advertising brought mi
response, and at the end ol that
time Tom took me down to the
neafest point on the coast to get
a breath of sea air. We had not
been there twenty-four houis
when he rushed into my room,
shouting rather ambitiously,“l
have seen her; I have seen her. 1
‘•Then whom?’’ I demanded
seeing his excitement.
“The owner of the bracelet.
She was silling on the porch
cioolieting, and or. her arm was
lhe exact.mate to the one I had
lound. hhe was talking with the
Gilberts, and I strolled up to
Harry and he at once introduced
me. Her name is Carey. Did
you ever hear of them ? Gilbert
sa> s they don’t live lar from, us.’’
“1 do not. believe it belongs to
to her,” I answered, impatiently ;
tor I was tired of Tom’s conject
ures about the owner of the
bracelet. I had heard little else
for a week.
“If you are sure it is hers, why
don’t you go and restore it to
her.”
Tom was hurt at my lack of.in
terest, and went dowu to look at
the register to find if her iuitials
agreed with those on the brace
le t. He returned somewhat
crtslfallen. The names were
registered, “Mrs. John Carey,”
‘ Miss Helen U. Carey.” Though
he w'as puzzled he was not con
viuced.
Now, I am an old woman, and
ought to be past any romantic
follies, hut 1 determined to hob
ble out ou the poreh aud see this
young woman for myself. In
view of what occurred the night
before the bracelet was lound, I
felt eonfidettfcMfof -being abte to
t*Hglance it Miss Helen H.
Gamy was th&yomig-woiaan who
had felloe into Tom’s mortar-bed
about two weeks before,and then
lost the grtrete which had caused
Tom so much speculation ; so I
Void him that I would like to see
her. The following afternoon 1
went out, supported by his strong
arm. The young ladj and her
mother were there, silling a lit
tle apart from the others, and I
saw at once tLat she was very
pretty, with eyes and hair of the
same shade of hazel and a fresh
piuk color in her face ; but I also
saw at once that she was not the
girl that had fallen into the mor
tar, and consequently the brace
let was not bers, although its un
deniable counterpart on her
arm. My curiosity was not quite
satisfied w'hen I turned away;
and after that day I made many
visits to the porch when every
thing was so bright and pleasant,
and I noticed that a sadness hung .
over the Carej’s—a gloom that
they did not seem able to dispel.
They were unnaturally quiet, es
pecially Helen, and I longed to
see her enjoying herself with the
other young folks, but Bhe sel
dom left her mothers side, and
they both seemed oppressed by
some sorrow. Now and then He
len chatted with Tom, an 1 once
or twice had gone down to the
beech with him when 1 saw talk
ng with her mother. During one
of these strolls Tom had spoken
in a careless way of the odd
bracelet she wore. "It is some
thing quite out of the usual line,”
lie had said, and she had explain
ed that it was one of a pair tlial
was made- from~-gold that her
mother, now dead, had brought
from tie mines.
‘Have you lost the otherJ”
Tom had blurled out :u kts eager
ness, and she had flushed and
trembled and haif askldliiin to
take her to the house and 1 made
. ■ .'nr
him no answer at all. f was
much perplexed when Tom told
me this, and I feared that this
m . |5 *-.•*
gul was involved in some pain
lul mystery, and as I was afraid
Tom was getting too much inter
ested fn the girl, I told him that
lie ought to show her the brace
let and’asb her if it was hers. He
assented, but did not like to ask
her before her mother or all those
people oil the porch ; so I, like a
deceit!ul old woman, agreed lot
entice her into my room. She
had several turns slopped and
chatted with me, and the next
afternoon as she passed my door
I called to her to come in. She
was not unwilling, and alter a
few moments Tom Neal cauie
whistling along the hail and stop
ped at my door. ,
“Why ! Didn’t you go sailing ?'*
I asked, Heceilfylly.
“Too calm,” answered Tom as
he lounged in and closed the door
after him.
The way in which we two con
spirators managed to bring about
a discussion of jewelry was really
diplomatic.
“Will you let Auut Marcy see
that bracelet you wear? It is
much a curious one,” said Tom to
Helen Carey.
“Why !” I exclaimed in fraudu
lent surprise, “it is exactly like
the one you fouud ; Tom, let me
see it.”
He took tire trinket from his
pocket and then I looked at He
ien Carey. She had grown white
to her lips, and when she saw the
bracelet on Tom’s hand, she gave
a wild scream aud leli dowu on
the floor.
******
Well, I trope this excitement is
about over. Here I am iu my
bed again, with a good prospect
ot staying a month or mom, and
my nerves ail unstrung. It serves
me right for trying to bumor
fifiytbfiigeHfi ffill h AmiaMt
last 1 inn* 4 rswMabeiuwUfi
ankle turned again wo*4bo* tom
was leaning over Helen? Uarey
calling her every emkiwwaring
term that bis silly brain ceuki in
vent, white his poor old wont, un
noticed and uneared for, wan
fainting from pain 4 would never
have believed it ot TV>m% and l
told him so when he came iu to
explain it all to me.
It seems that it wasn't Helen’s
bracelet alter all, but belonged
to her sister, who has been insane
ever since last winter, when her
VOL. VII NO. 22.
lover was drowned, and who es
caped from the asylum over a
month ago and had not been
traced. She had worp this brace
let at the Lime of her escape was
no doubt the young woman whom
I saw deliberately walk into the
mortar bed. I thought she was
crazy al the time- I told Tom all
about it this morning, aud that I
| knew all the time that the brace
let wasu’t Helen’s and he left me
to eooi off bis indignation. They
have since been in my room ask
ing so many questions about the
girl, which way she went, and
how she looked, that I am nearly
► crazy myself. Tom has been
seudutg telegrams to Mrs. Carey’s
husband all the morning and you
would think be was one of the
family.
******
I thought I should never take
up this subject again, but I must
express my surprise ; Tom and
Helen Carey are actually engag
ed 1 They fouud her sister t hip ugh
the finding of her brecelet, they
said- Much help that would have
been ii I hadn’t been sitting at
this very window to see the whole
thing. I was the only person who
h*niiahayfact.
By aft means ’.el the girls learn
how to cook. What right has a
girl to marry and go in to a house
of her qwi\ unless §be knows how
to superintend every branch of
housekeeping, and she cannot
uroperly superintend unless she
has some practical knowledge
herself. Most men marry with
out thinkiug whether the woman
of his choice is capable of cook
ing him a meal, and it is a pity
he is so short-sighted, as his
be ikli. his cheerfulness, and in
deed his sueress in hie depends
in a very great degree upon the
kind of food he eats ; in tact the
whole household is influenced by
their diet. Feed them on fried
cakes, fried meats, hot bread and
other indigestible viands, day af
ter day, and they will need med
icine to make them well. A man
Yvill lake alcohol to counteract
the evil effects of such food, and
the wife and children are phys
icked.
Let all the girls have a share
in the housekeeping at home be
fore they marry; let each super
intend some department, by turns.
It need not occupy half the time
to see that the house has been
properly swept, dusted and put
iu order, or to prepare puddings
and make dishes, that many
youg-ladies spend in reading nov
els that enervate both mind and
body aud unfit them lor every
day life. Women do uot as a
general rule get pale faces’by
doing house-work. These sed
entary habits in overheated
rooms, combined with ill-chosen
food, are to blame for bad health.
Uur mothers used to pride them
selves on their housekeeping and
fine needlework. ¥fhy should
not we *—Bu [timbre Sun.
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Xne Now I’oyk Court of Ap
peals has repqutly passed upon
the questioi| whether druuken
ness can be pleaded as * defense
to a charge of murder. It was
claimed by the counsel for a
condemned murderer that his
cihsut was the victim of an appe
tite for driuk wineh amounted 10
1 1 J j ~
Jpo#|r4iul renqereJTum legally
ilie BSfte of
idfaHKNp!* A%ei#trftf! wasThere
iore ashed, because the court be
kivi charge thvjury that
Hie apmsed W
Tr the crime Baa been committed
! when M of such
dieooke or if committed while he
?ao<4Ajmfc The dew I of Appeals
refuses toarecogumndruakeuness
as any excuse fifcprma. It holds
that nof bifly frenzy or mental
alienation caused by drink can
exempt 0 person accused ot mur
der from criminal responsibility.
If a man voluntarily geU <|runk
and commits a crime whije iu
that condition, he must answer
I for the consequences of his icts.