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ELLIJAY, GA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1882.
Gentleness.
If thou hast ciushcd a flower,
The root may not be blighted ;
If thou has quenched a lamp,
Once more it may be lighted ;
But on thy heart or on thy lute,
The string which thou bast broken,
Shad never in sweet sound again
Give to thy toucu a token.
If thou hast loosed a bird,
Whose voice of song could cheer thec j
Sill, slid he may be wou
Frem the sk ! es to warble! nea • tbee ;
But if upon the troubled sea
Thou bast Grown a gem unheeded,
Hope not that the wind or the wave
shall b -: ng
The freasuee back when needed.
If thou hast braised a yine,
The summer’s breath is healing,
And its clusters yet may grow
Thro’ the leaves their bloom leveal'ng;
But it thou bast a cup o’ertb'own
With a bright draught filled—oh,never
Shall the earth give back that lavish
wealth
To cool thy parched Kps’ fever !
The heart is like that cup,
If thou waste the love it bore thee,
And Pke the jewel gone.
Which the deep will not restore thee:
And like that sl'iok of harp or lute
Whence the sweet sound,is scattered—
Gently, oh gently, touch the chords,
So soon forever shattered !
ROSA’S REVENGE.
■‘But do you really mean it, Ml.
Brabazon ?”
Rosa Dale was standing in the
illuminated archway of the hu
tumn woods, her bright braid? of
hair pierced by one or two wan
dering sunbeams, ber dimpled
child face framed in, as it were,
by sprays of red-veined autumn
leaves, whiie her apron was lull
of (he glistening brown c esinuts
which she had picked up.
John Brabazon leaned against
the tall, smooth trunk of the
tall, smooth birch tree and look
ed at her with a lazy, luxurious
sense of artistic beauty entering
into his mind as lie gazed.
“Of course I mean it,” said he.
‘But lam only twelve years
old.” cried Rosa, flinging back
the sunny tendrils of h..ir that
hung over her forehead.
‘‘You are exactly twelve times
as lovely as any of the city belles
that congregate hereabouts,” said
Mr. Brabazon, striving to conceal
a yawn. “And if they think lam
engaged —don’t you see? —there
will be some probability of then
leaving off persecuting me.”
“Well!” said Roso, every dim
ple coming shyly out on lip aud
ciieek as she stood there.
“It is to be compact, ell j” said
Mr. Brabazon.
Rosa nodded her fair little
head.
“But,” she questioned, rather
dubiously, “where is the ring ?”
“The—what?”
“The angagemenl ring,Mr. Bra
bazon,” exclaimed Rosa, re
proachfully. “Don’t you know
there’s always a ring in the nov
els? And most generally it’s a
diamond.”
“If you’ll believe me,” said Mr.
Brabazon, tragically, “I never
thought of the ring. But here’s
a little opal thal used to be my
mother’s, hanging, on my watch
chain. Wou’t that do ? ’
Rosa held out her brown fiinger
while he fitted it ou.
“You—you haven’t kissed me
yet !’’ she said, when this ceremo
ny was complete. “Lovers al
ways kiss their fiances!”
Mr. Brabazon laughed.
“Gome,” said he, “this is get
ting serious. But here’s the kiss,
before the rest of the chestnut
party get back. Aud, amid, this
is to be a profound secret between
you and me.”
Rosa rail back homo with a
vague seusation of mysterious
delight, and thought how nice
Mr. Brabazon looked, all the time
she was munching her roasted
chestnuts; and Mr. Brabazon
himself took advantage of the
little joke to proclaim himself an
engaged man. Nor is it an ex
ageration to say that the young
adies were genuinely disappoint
'd-. ,
“It must he a recent thing,”
aid Kate Kennedy, tossing her
ead.
‘*Oli. quite rece.it,” acknwl
ndged Mi*. Biai rz'-n.
“Love at first sight?” asked
Miss Day.
“N-no, not exactly,” said Bra
bazon. “In fact, I may say that
1 have admired the young lady
since her Infancy.”
“What a delightful enigma!”
said Belle Yen ion. looking any
thing lsujt deliglued. “But of
course, Mr. Brabazon, you’ll tell
us her name ?”
“I am pledged to secrecy,” Aaid
the engaged man, solemn la.
And when he left the moun
tain notch iu the late autumn
and forgot all about the wild lit
tle woodland sprite who climbed
drees and pelted him with chest
nuts, waded with brown, dim
pled feel in the foamy waters of
the glen torrent, and conducted
him so mysteriously to the barn
chambers to show him her empty
birds’nest, butterfly wings aud
diamond bright Debbies, how was
he to know that she remembered
Iho episode under the yellow
leaved chestnut trees as a ltd
letter day iu her calendar?
“He ought to write to me,”
•aid Rasa, gloomily, as the weeks
and mouths glided by, and no
epistle came. ‘1 do hope he
isn’t going to turnout false, like
the wicked cavaliers in story
books.”
Aud wh e n Mr. Brebazon
bought a huge wax doll, with its
miniature Saratoga trunk and
complete outfit ot eiegantly
made dresses, at Curistmas, Rnsa
flew into a passion.
“As if I were a baby!” said she.
“A doll indeed, and I twelve
years old in-October! I wonder
if he takes me for a child ? Who
ever heard of a ger.l letnan send
ing a doll to the young lady lie
was engaged to ?”
“My dear Rosa,” said her moth
er, half vexed, half amused,
“what nonsense you aie talking. ’
‘•We are engaged !’* said Rosa.
“See the ring ? ’
And she shyly pulled It- out
from the bosom of her dress,
„It was only a joke,” said Mrs.
Dale.
“It was sober earnest ! ’ flashed
out Rosa.
“My dear,” said Mrs. Dale,
“haven’t you heard ? Mr. Bra
bazon is to be married to Lady
Helen Hartford, Mrs Failletor.’s
English niece, next month. The
cards are already out.’
“What f’ cried Rosa, her sap
phire-blue eyes blazing, her rosy
lips apart. “To be married—aud
be engaged to me ! ’
And then Rosa rushed away
.into the barn-chamber and bid
herself for lull two hours, to sob
out the curreut of her childish
grief;
Mrs. Dale smiled and sighed.
“Who would think Jthe child
would have attached so much
importance to a piece of nonsense
like that ?” said she. “Really 1
am afraid I have made a mistake
in allowing her to read novels.
But she was always an impetuous
little creature.”
Rosa wrote several harrowing
letters to Mr. Brabazon, all of
which she filially tore up, and
when she saw the marriage pro
claimed in* the papery she gave
the big wax doll to a liflle girl
who was only eleven years and
six nVonfhs old.
“Sue won’t have any associa
tions connected with it ! ’ sighed
Rosa,
At gbqul that time she was
promoted to a higher grade in
school, began lessona on the
guitar, and put her unhappy love
affair out of her mind.
It could not have been more
than eight years subsequently
I hat the collison occurred on the
grand canal at Venice, in which
one of the gondolas capsized and
a beautiful young American lady,
niece of the United States consul,
received an iiivoluutarv ducking.
Perhaps the romantically dress
ed gondoliers were intoxicated ;
perhaps Miss Barony had, as they
asserted, risen hastily to point
out something, and destroyed
the balance of the. moldy, black
velvet lined old conveyance. At
all eveiils Miss Barony was up
set, directly in front of the Palaz
zo di Silvia, where Mr. Brabazou
occupied the first floor, a marble
paved desolation or old pictures,
broken nosed statues |and orange
trees in tubs.
Of course, Mr. Brabazon sent
out his valet to offer Ins services.
Of course, they carried Miss Ba
rony in, and laid her ou a sofa
(draped with tapestry which
somebody said Lurretia Borgia
had helped to embroider), and
made much of her.
“But how rediculous all this
is!” said Miss B.irony, with mer
riment gleaming in her beautiful,
dark-blue eyes. “I am a little
wet, to be sure, but otherwise l
am entirely unharmed. Why
didn’t they put me in the gondo
la again and send me back to my
uncle’s palazzo?”
Mr. Brabazon, however, was
far too hospitable for that. His
capped and spectacled old house
keeper was ready with spiced
drinks and great baskets of grapes
and cake, and lie himself was all
politeness and chivalrous courte
sy.
Miss Barony gazed curiously
around. How angelically beau
tiful she looked,'wrapped in the
violet velvet cloak edeed with
ermine, her cheeks flushed with
softest rose, her eyes sparkling,
her hair hanging a friuge ot dark
gold over her forehead.
“Where is Lady Helen Braba
zon ?” she asked, abruptly.
Mr. Brabazon winced.
“She has been dead for a year,”
he said. ‘lam a widower. You
were acquainted with my late
wife ?”
“Oh, no, not at all!” said Miss
Barony. “Only, of course, all the
world had heard of her. She was
a famous beauty, wasn’t she ?”
‘She was very lovely,” said the
widower.
When Miss Barony was carried
away in a newly summoned gon
dola, whose picturesque oarsmen
were more to be relied upon than
their predecessors, Mr. Brabazon
asked permission to cal! at the
consulate, to inquire how she was,
in the course ot a day or two ;
and Miss Barony accorded the
permission as a young queen
might have done.
Miss B irony was young, beau
tiful ami piquant ; Mr. Brabazon,
whose life had been nearly bad
gered out ol him by the caprices,
exactions and varying temper of
the lale Lady Helen, was charm
ed by her sunny brilliance ; and
at a month’s end he came to Mr.
Barony, the United States consul,
to ask permission to press his
suit with his niece.
Mr. Barony looked conscious.
“Didn’t you know f” sail he.
“She is engaged.”
“Engaged!” repeated Mr. Bra
bazon, his heart seeming to turn!
to a lump of ice wilhin him.
“Quite an old affair, I believe,’*
said the consul. Rill perhaps you
had better see my niece herself
about it. i’ll give her your mas
sage. She can decide to suit her
self,” .
Miss Barony was prettier than
ever, iu her cool musliu dress aud
VOL. VII. SO. 42.
pale-blue ribbons, as ate* sat
among the jessamines and nome
granates of tbe consulate reeep**
lion-room tbe next day to reeeijt*'
Mr. Brabazon. He bad a speech
carefully prepared, wherein all
the nominatives and
were carefully balanced and
exact words stationed in their
exact places ; but he forgot it &L
at the fair vision of her pgrfijfijt
loveliness, and could only standi
helplessly belore her aud say :
“Miss B irony, I love you !”
' “Bo you have been driven to
confess it at last,” said Miss B-‘
rony, “after all These a ears-P
“I don’t understand you,” said
Mr. Brabazon. - I
“You have forgotten me,” said
Rosa. ‘
“That would be impossible.”
asseverated Sfr. Brabazon.
“But it’s the fact,” said she. “I
am little Rosa Dale who was en
gaged to you under the chestnut
trees at Amber Hill uearly nine
years ago, and here is tbe en
gagement ring,” holding up a
slender golden hoop with an opal
glimmering in its center. “No,
l*m not at all surprised you didn’t
recognize me. I was a child then
—I am a woman now. And after
my parent’s death,, when Uncle
Barony adopted me, I took his
name instead of my own. But I
never have quite gotten over the
pang of bitter jealosy that pierced
my baby-heart when yon were
married to Lady Helen Hartford.”
“But dare I hope,” began Mr.
Brabazon, “that you still care a
little for me? I know it seems
like presumption, but—”
“Yes, you mar hope,” whisper
ed Rosa, half-laughing, half-cry
ing. “1 do care for you—more
than a little.”
The cousul gave them his
blessing.
“It was she herself that told me
to say she was engaged,” said he,
patting Rosa’s head, “Little puss !
she is always lull of her mischief.”
“I wanted to be revenged,”said
Rosa. “But I have quite forgiveu
my false love at last.”
HUMOROUS.
A St. Louis horse chews tobac*
co. We have often seeu a fast
driven horse smoke.
Some tramps refuse to eat
chons because they are so sug
gestive of the woodpile.
Ii is the young girl of engaging
j manners who ualurally becomes
I engaged first.
Young people write genuine
love letters, and-as a matter of
course they are correspondingly
happy. .
When the plasterer is at work
ttpou a coiling, it may be said
that he understands his business.
Hindoo girls are taught to
think of marriage as soon as they
can talk. American girls are
not. They don,l require teach
ing-
It is not good to take tea in the
middle of the day. The man who
tried it,m an Austin grocery store
when he thought the clerk was
not looking, is our authority.
Bumbleton had a severe strain
on his conscience the other day.
He aims to be the most honest of
critics, and on being asked by
the father of an animated fog
horn how he liked his daughter’s
j voice, he replied: “She sings
like a Patti-(under his breath)-
goniau 1”
General Terry says that those
Indians who have been placed t
I upon farms and gi vencowa to tend it i
are perfectly wrapped up in kb air
occupation, and show no disposi
tion to go on the war path. Hat- ,
urallv. The mart who has three
or four cows’to seep track of has t
all he wants to do going
scalp hunting; aod beeides, after
an experience in circumventing
the cussedneae of a cow, Indian
fighting must be a. might; fame
and uninteresting business.