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“A Map of Busy Life—lts Fluctuations and its Vast Concerns.”
ELLIJAY, GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1882.
TAKE IT BACK.
You kissed me at tbe gate last night,
And mother heard the smack :
She says it’s naughty to do so,
So please take it liack.
I cannot sec what harm there is
In sucli a thing—can you ?
But mother seems so very wroth,
Please take it back—now do.
It seems to me quite natural
For the lips to meet that way ;
But mother says it’s very wrong,
So take it back, I pray.
And, come to think of it, I’m sure
That several times ’twas done ;
So now, to make it right, be sure
To take back every one.
I wouldn’t have you think it’s me,
I do not care a mite;
But mother's so particular,
Please take the m back to-night.
TRUE TO NATURE.
She bad promised him that she
would mend the lining of his new
overcoat, if he would wear an
other and leave that one at home.
So, as be had left it, she took it
from tbe ball rack and carried ii
into her sewing room.
She was Mrs. Wilton, and she
had been married five years, and
never—never —never,during that
time, bad one unhappy moment.
Mr. Wilton bad been very kind,
very attentive, very generous,
and never made her jealous. Site
often said she was the happiest
woman living. Now, as she look
ed at the lining and compared
Hie silk with which she was about
to replace the lorn portion, she
was thinking these thoughts.
They had never had any chil
dren, but when the people are all
in all to each other, that is no
great grief. All her care was
for him —all his for her.
‘And he is just the dearest,
best, truest fellow in the world,’
said Eve Wilton to herself. Tin
not half good enough for him. I
wonder what that is in his pock
et —it bulges it out of shtpe.’
Site put her hand into the
breast pocket as she spoke and
drew out a little package, wrap
ped up in silver paper and tied
with blue ribbon.
‘Something he has bought for
me, 1 expect,’said Eve. ‘1 won
der what it is. I think I won’t
open it iill he comes home;’ then
she laid the silk across (lie hole,
cut it out, and pasted it down.
‘1 do wonder what it is.’
thought she, and hemmed the
patch down. ‘There wasn’t much
to mend after all,’ she said. ‘I
thought the task much longer,
lie caught it on a nail at the
office, I know. Now I wonder
what there is in that package.’
Eve put the coat over a chair
and look up the little parcel.
‘Tom wouldn't mind,’ she said.
I will just take a peep : 1 know
it’s for me.’
Then she undid the ribbon, un
folded the paper, and saw letters
‘Dear Tom,’she said, ‘he must
keep my old letters next his
heart, and he never told me.’
But the writing was not liers ;
she saw that at a glance.
‘His mother’s letters,’ she said,
‘he loved his mother so.’
Then she began to tremble a
little, lor the letters did not be
gin : ‘My dear son,’ or anything
like it.
She cast her eye&hJjptM 1 them.
They were love letters.
‘Tom has loved some other wo
man betore he met me,’ she said,
beginning to cry, ‘Oh, what
shall Ido ?’ Then she cried out,
•Oh, foolish creature that l am! Of
course she died, and he only
loves me now. It was all over be
fore we met. I must not mind’—
but there she paused, gave a
scream, and threw the letter from
her as though it had been a ser
pent. It was dated the past
week! It was not four days old !
‘Oh !oh ! oh!’ cried Eve. ‘Oh,
what shall I do? Oh, where
shall I go?’ At every cry a
thought pierced her breast like
an actual stall. ‘Tom ! my Tom !
What shall I do! Tom! Tom!
He to be false—Tom! Oh, I
have gone mad ! No, there they
are! They are really there—
those letters! Why can’t I die!
Do people live through such
tilings as these ?’
Then she knelt down on the
floor and gathereil uplhe letters
and read the in all steadily
through. I'iieie were len of
them. Such love letters! No
other interpretation could be put
upon them. They were absurd
love letters, sucli as are produced
in court in cases of breach of
promise. And they called him
‘Loyev Dovey’ and own ‘Sweet
ness’ and ‘Angel of my Soul, and
they were all signed ‘Your own
Nellie.’
‘lt is all true,’ cried poor Eve
wringing her hands. ‘I Irusted
him so. 1 believed in him so.
My Tom—mine !’
Then 6he wiped her eyes, gath
ered up the letters, wrapped the
silver paper about them, lied the
blue ribbon and put them hack
in the awful breast pocket of that
dreadful overcoat, and hung it on
the hall rack again.
‘Torn shall never know,’ she
said. ‘l’ll not reproach him ; I’ll
never 6ee him again. When lie
comes home I shall be dead. I’ll
not live to bear this.
Then she sat down to think
over the best means to commit
suicide. She could hang herself
to the chandelier, but then she
would be black in the face and
look hideous. She could drown
herself, but then her body would
go floating down the river to the
sea; and drowned people looked
worse than strangled ones. Site
would lake poison.
Yes, that would be best; and
though she would never see Tom
again, lie would see her, and re
morse would sting him. Here
she made a great mistake.
A man who is coolly treacher
ous lo women never has anv re
morse. Remorse in love affairs is
a purely feminine quality, and
even the worst of the sex are not
without it. However, it is nat
ural to believe that remorse is
possible lo a man who lias here
tofore believed lo be an angel in
human form, and Eve took a lit
tle miserable comfort in the
thought that Torn would kneel
beside her coffin and burst into
passionate tears and exclamations
of regret, which she might see
from some spiritual port of ob
serration. So, having put on a
hat and thick veil,. Eve betook
herself down the street and
around the corner to the uearest
German druggist.
The druggist was an old man,a
benevolent looking one, with red
cheeks and a smiling mouth;
and when site asked for ’ooison
for rats,’ lie said : ‘So!’ and
beamed mildly upon her.
•I want it very strong,’ said
Eve.
‘So !’ said the druggist.
‘But not lo give more pain than
is necessary,’ said Eve.
‘To the rats ?’ asked the drug
gist.
‘Yes,’ said Eve, ‘of course, ‘and
it must be quick and not make
one turn black in the face.’
‘So!’said the druggist slowly.
‘Well, what I shall give you
shall not make the rats turn black
in the face.’
And with grave countenance
he compounded a powder and
handed it across the counter.
Eve look it and passed him a
few cents he asked and walked
away. Once home, she went at
once to her room, undressed her
self, and retired to bed, taking
the powders with her. Once or
twice she tasted it with the tip of
her tongue, hoping it was uol dig
agreeable. Finding it sweet she
bravely swallowed it.
‘lt’s over,’ 6he said. ‘Oh,
Heaven forgive me and forgive
Tom.’
And then she laid herself down
u<>on her pillow. Just then the
familiar sound of a latch-key in
the door below startied her. Tom
never came home at. noon—but
there he was now, no one but
Tom would walk in that cool wav,
and no? he was calling Iter.
‘Eve—Eve—Eve—where are
you ?’
Never before had she refused
to answer that voice. Why had
he come to torture her dying
momeuts! Hark—
Now he was bounciug up stairs;
he was in the room.
‘What is the matter ? Are you
ill, Eve ?’ he cried.
‘No,’ she said faintly—‘only
tired.’
‘Ah! You look tired, little one,’
he said. ‘I came home to get the
overcoat. I suppose you found
out that that one in the hall
wasn’t mine. I wore Johnson’s
home from the office last night,
by mistake, and lie is anxious
about it. He asked if any one
about the house would be apt to
meddle with papers in the pock
ets. 1 said I thought not. I hadn’t
a jealous wife—eh? What’s the
matter, Eve ?’
‘Oh, Tom,’ cried Eve, ‘say if
again. It was not your coat ? Oh,
Tom, Tom ! kiss me.’
‘Why, what iR ilie matter, Eve?’
cried Tom. ‘You must be til !’
Then Eve remembered all
‘Oil, I am a wicked womir,
Torn !’ site cried. ‘There were
letters in the pockets—love let
ters. I read them. I thought you
false to me. I—l took poison.
Tom ! 1 ant going to die, and I
long lo live so. Oh, Tom, save
me!’
‘Yes, yes!’ cried Tom. ‘Oh,
good heavens what poison ?’
‘Mr. Hoffman wiil know. 1
bought it of him. Perhaps lie
can save me 1’ cried Eve.
And away went Tom, white a6
death, to the druggist’s around
tiie corner, He hurst into the
shop like a whirlwind,
‘The lady,’ he gasped. ‘The
lady who bought poison here an
hour ago! She took it by mis
take ! Can you save her? Have
an antidote ? She is dying!’
“No, no!' said the old German
‘Becalm! be at rest! No, no!
she can not die of dat When a
lady asks me for poison dat will
not turn a rat black in ilie lace, I
say to myself so: *1 smells some
thing;’ and I gives her in de pa
per shusl a little sugar and some
things. She could lake a pound.
Go home and tell her so. I never
sells poison to women do not visit
de rat to become black in the
lace. So he cairn.’
So r J'om flew home again, and
Eve rejoiced ; and heariug that
Johnson was a single man, who
admitted himself lo be engaged,
she did not rip the patch of his
coat as she first intended.
What Our Children Bead.
There is no question of greater
import with the parent than
“What our children read.” Again
and again the press has called at
tention to the widespead circula
tion of sensational, immoral, pu
rient literature, that fills the
land. It is paraded in the face
of our school children, and on
every public highway, it glares
from the windows on the side
walks, and is met with in almost
every thoroughfare. This miser
able trash is illustrated with gild*
ed immoralits or blood-curdling
heroics, exciting the minds of the
young with an unconquerable
thirst to do something desperate,
while at the same time it unset
tles them for study or for the re
ception of proper influences from
VOL. VII. NO. 44.
school or home. There has not
been such a public display of this
pernicious literature for some
mouths back, but the approach of
the holidays has brought it to the
front again. It may have been
just as assiduously distributed,
but it has been done in a more
quiet way.
Parents and school teachers
ought to keep an eye open upon
this miserable trash, for the good
of the children, the happiness of
the household, and the peace of
the community. How the circu
lation ot ihis pernicious stuff can
meet the approval of any one
who has unv claims to respecta
bility or honorable business deal
ing is hard to determine. —Macon
Graghic.
Repeal the Internal Revenue Laws
The Philadelphia American
call upon Congress to repeal the
whole of the internal revenue
system and gives tbe following
reasons :
The expectation that the war
taxes will now be repealed is
general. The excessive collec
tion of revenues has been so se
rious and so manifest a source of
evil that the defenders of the in
ternal revenue system have be
come comparatively few. But
there is a feeling and one that is
entirely natural and reasonable,
that while, by any authority, ua
! tional or State, any taxation is
laid upon the people, there can
be no more appropriate object of
tax than the manufacture ot liq
uor. it the revenues are exces
sive, it is lelt that other things
should be released, rather than
this. Responding to such a pub
lic opinion, it is at once evideut
I that revenue front tli s source can
only be collected by the United
Slates. The Stales themselves
cannot do it; for one to lay such
a tax, while its neighbor did not,
would not be to send over into
the latters’s territory the busi
ness of manufacturing, while the
former would have no manufact
ure and no revenue. The whole
question, therefore, reduces itself
to a very small compass; the
need for the internal revenue
taxation being substantially end
ed, on the part of the general
government, it should now cease;
but, by the establishment of a
new and appropriate system, that
part of it which refers to the pro
duction of liquors should be
maintained lot the relief of the
people from their present bur
dens of State taxation, maintain
ing ai once the credit of the
States,aud the efficiency of their
public schools.
Southern Cultivator: Every
body should plan to have pleas
ant conversation at the table just
as they have good food. A little
story telling, a iittle reading, it
may be of humorous things ; an
ecdotes will often stimulate the
joyous element of the mind and
cause it to act vigorously. Try
to avoid going to.the table all
tired out. Let all troublesome
topics be avoided. Thins and
say something pleasant. Culti
vate mirth, and laugh when any
thing witty is said. If possible,
never eat alone. Invite a friend
of whom you are fond, and try to
have a good time. Friendship
and friendly intercourse at the
table whet the appetite and pro
mote the flow of auinial sprints
A Difficult Problem Solved.
Ihe desire for stimulents is be
coming a monstrous evil aud how
to overcome it is a serious ques
tion with reformers. Parker’s
(dinger Tonic fairly solves the
difficult problem. It invigorates
body and mind without inlnxicat
ing,'and has brought health and
happiness to many desolate
homes — Enquirer. See other
column.
