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“A Map of Busy Life—lts Fluctuations and its Vast Concerns.”
ELLIJAY, GA., THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1888.
Remembrances.
1 remember, I remember,
The house where I was born,
The little window, where the sun
Came peeping in at morn;
He never came a wbit too eoou,
Nor brought too long a day 5
But now I often wish the night
Had borne my breath away I
I remember, I remember,
The roses red and white,
The violets na the lilly cups—
Those flowers made of light;
The lilacs where the robins built,
And whete my brother set
The laburnum on his birthday—
The tree is living yet 1
I remember, I remember,
Where I was used to ging,
And through the air would rush as fresh
As swallows on the wing ;
My spirit flew in feathers, then,
That is so heavy now,
And summer pools could hardly cool
The feaver on my brow !
I rcmemlicr, 1 remember,
The fir tree dark and high ;
I used to think their slender spires
Were close against the sky !
I was a childish ignorance,—
But now ’Us little joy
To know lain further off from heaven
Than ylien I was a boy.
TRUE AND STEADFAST.
When George Carson was left
a destitute and friendless orphan,
the town overseers look his case
in hand and ’‘bound him out” to
farmer Pendrew. i lie farmer
was a thrifty but 'not unkindly
man, and everybody said that
the boy, in falling into such
hands, had every reason* to be
thankful—which, indeed, was but
the truth.
Still, poor George felt very
lonesome and unhappy at first.
For, while his new borne, in eve
ry comfort and surrounding, far
excelled that in which his life
had hitherto been passed, yet
everything was strange and new;
and, at times, he felt a relief to
slip off-and have a good cry by
himself. It'was on one of these
occasions lhat little Bull), the
farmer’s daughter, stole quietly
to his side, and, before he was
conscious of her presence, took
him gently by the hand.
“Don’t cry, she said softly, a$
the boy turned his weeping eyes
whilst the tears glistened in her
own ; “I know you have no papa
nor mama, but I’ll be your sister
if you’ll let me.”
It was the first healing touch
the wounded heart had felt.
George choked back a rising sob
and thanked his little comforter,
teiliug her, as well as he could,
how very much he would like to
have her lor a sister.
Then Ruth showed him about
the place. The feeliug of strange
ness gradually wore off, and
George began to feel at home.
From lhat time, in his unem
ployed moments, he aud Ruth
were much together, for children
naturally seek each other’s com
pany, and farmer Pendrew and
his wife were not the people to
look down on a boy merely be
cause he was poor and without
friends.
li was not long till it came
George's turn to -offer consola
tion. Ruth’s mother died, and
in the first outburst of her wild,
passionate grief, the child’s heart
seemed on the point of-breaking,
but when George came to tell her
how very sorry for her he feit,
she threw her arms about his
neck and cried :
“Oh 1 George 1 George 1 neither
of us has any mother now !” —and
from this boud of sympathy the
suffering, childish heart drew its
first drop of comlort.
A fine, manly lellow George
had grown by the time lie reach
ed his twenty-first year; He had
well improved the three months
schooling every winter to which
his “indentures” entitled him,
and with that and the reading he
\va= able to do of evenings there
were few belter informed young
men (ban George Carson.
As Ruth grew up into a beau
tiful and charming woman, she
and George continued as close
friends as ever, though naturally
there was something more of re
serve between them. They still
looked upon each other as broth
er and sister —at least they
thought they did. As for George,
he would have blamed himsell
severely had he detected in his
mind any secret aspirations in
connection with his master’s
daughter inconissteiil with the
different of their stations.
“George,” said Mr. Pendrew
one day, “your time will soon be
up now; but if you would like to
remain on wages—”
“You see,” resumed the farm
er, “I don’t like to be left quite
alone in my old days. There’s
Ruth, she's going to be married
soon—leastways Richard Harne
has asked me for her, and I think
she likes him well enough ; and,
to tell the truth, it’s a match I’ve
thought of more than once my
self, tor Dick’s an only son and
iiis lather’s land joins mine. Now
you’ve been so long like one of
the family, George, that Pd like
when Ruth's gone— But bless
me, boy ! what’s the matter F’
And well might the farmer ask,
for the young man’s lace was
deathly pale his whole frame
trembled.
Mastering himself by a power
ful effort, Geotge managed to re
main his composure and to
change the conversation before
Mr. Pendrew had time to sus
pect—what he had himself now
first discovered —that it was not
brother’s love he felt for Ruth.
At length the day came when
George Carson was “his own
man.” He had some time belore
thanked farmer Pendrew for his
offer to continue him on wages,
which, however, he declined, de
claring it to be his purpose to go
and seek his home ill the distant
West. And on the very morning
his time was out, with the fifty
dollars which the farmer paid
him according to the “articles,'’
he started on his travels, after an
earnest but hasty farewell to the
farmer and his daughter. There
was a downcast, sorrowful look
in Ruth’s lace, and a tear trem
bled in her eye as they parted,
but George thought it was only
because they had so long beeu
brother and sister to each other.
Nearly seven years passed, and
after many ups and downs George
Carson found his way to the min
ing country. Here fortune took
a turn. She fairly rained down
her favors, and in an incredibly
short space George was a rich
man.
“If it had only happened years
ago!’’ he sighed—“but to what
purpose is it now ?” he added
moodily —remembering bitterly a
rumor which had reached him
long ago of Ruth’s marriage to
Rtchard Hattie.
After a while a strange longing
catne oyer George to visit the
old scenes which were constantly j
rising before his fancy.
“Surely nobody would recog
nize me now,” he said, “with Litis
bushy beard and burly form. I
might even steal a glance at Ruth
without her knowing it.”
And acting promptly on the
thought, as was his habit, he was
sobu rapidly retracing the jour
ney on which he had entered
more than seven years before..
It was getting night when, after
• many weary davs of travel, the
train set him down at a little sta
tion six miles from farmer Pen
drew’s house. But George wasn’t
afraid of a good walk. So he re
solved to go on at once, for some;-
how his impatience to see his old
friends increased as the distance
shortened. Besides, he was sure
of a hospitable reception, for
farmer Pendrew’s door was al
ways open to a stranger. He
would pretend to be a traveler
slopping tor a few days’ rest, and
in lhat way he might see Ruth
and assure himself that her life
was as happy as he had always
prayed it might be
As he briskly walked along,
busied with these thoughts, a i
man sprang suddenly out of some
bushes at the wayside. From a
glimpse of his face which George
caught by the moonlight, he re
cognized the features of Richard
Harue. But the next instant a
heavy blow of a bludgeon stretch
ed him senseless on the ground-
If the assailant's purpose was
robbery, he had no time to ac
complish it, for the sound of ap
proaching steps compelled him
to instant flight.
When George Carson returned
to consciousness, he found him
self in bed, and a sweet, gentle
face bending over him. At the
first glance he started with an
exclamation of surprise. The
faee was Ruth’s.
It disappered quickly and that
of the doctor took its place.
“Tell lier to come back!” ap
pealed George, pitiously.
“Calm yourself, my dear sir,”
urged the doctor; “you’ve had a
sparp battle for life these three
days past, and it’s hardly won
yet.”
“But 1 must see her!” George
pleaded.
“And you shall, but not till yon
are in a fit condition,” returned
the other; and administering a
few drops of an ouiate to his pa
tient the latter soon dropped
aoleep.
When he awoke his first thought
was of Ruth.
“She must never know her bus
band's crime,” he said to himself;
“it would quite break her heart.”
“I think he may safely see her
now,” muttered the doctor, step
ping out, and the next moment
Ruth enlered.
“You don’t know how glad I
am to see you better,. George.”
she said, taking his hand in the
old sisterly way.
“So you know me, then?”
“I knew you at the first glance/
she answered.
‘•Mrs.—Mrs. Harne—” he be
gan.
Her face flushed deeply.
“Why do you call me by that
name ?” she asked.
“Why, are you not Richard
Harne’s wife ?—l’m sure i heard
so.”
“What you heard was false,
then. lam still Ruth Pendrew
as you left me so many long,
long years ago.”
“Thank God 1” George ejacula
ted.
Not then, but when he was
strong enough to listen to it all.
George heard from Ruth of her
rejection of Richard Harne’s offer,
also of her father’s death, and
how she was now mistress of the
old home, where she was living
with a maiden aunt, and whither
George had been carried by those
who found hitn where he had
been stricken down? and how
Richard Harne had squandered
all his patrimony and become an
outcast, and many other thiugs
not needful now to mention.
George Carson’s recovery was
speedy and complete; aud it was
not long till he and Ruth entered
into a closer relationship than
that of brother and sister.
Richard Harne was never heard
of afterwards.
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Naming Streets.
Why it was done we cannot
say, but quite a number of the
streets of Austin have been
named after females. Such
names as Emma, Laura. Isabella,
stare at you m large letters from
almost every corner. The An-
VOL. VIII. .NO. 13.
tin people, or some of them at
least, have become tolerbly fa
miliar with Maria, Susan, Jane
and all the rest, bnt strangers are
liable to become bewildered by
this singular nomenclalune.
A gentleman front Dallas,
who bad only a few hoars to
spend in our city, wished to take
a good look at the new capitol,
and not knowing where it waa he
make inquiry of the first man be
met.
“Can you tell me how to find
the new temporary capitol.”
“That’s easy enough. Are you
familiar with Emma Street?”
“1 am not. 1 have no arquint
ance with any lady of that
name. There is a family by that
name in Dallas, but I am not ac
quainted with them. Does Em
ma Street live near the caoitol?”
The Austin man stared at the
stranger a moment, aud then
pointiug down Magnolia avenue,
said:
“You see where Maria comes
into the avenue?”
The Dallas man looked in the
direction pointed out and preced
ing a fat old negro woman with
a big basket on her arm, nodded
iiis head in accent.
“Well you must take Maria un
til you gel to the corner of Eliza
beth, and until Peggy aud Sarah
come together, and then you will
be all right,”
“Look here, my friend, if you
think I am of that kind because
I come from Dallas you are most
confoundedly uff. 1 want you to
understand that I am a gentle
man.”
‘‘Y'oudo ! gasted idiot!” retorted
the Austin man, “if I was as bad
off lor brains as you are I would
bore in my empty skull and hire
a mgg r to pour in ten cents
wort it of cheap oleomargarine.”
The Dallas man snook his fist
at the native ajd said :
I,ve always heard that the
State lunatic asylum was too
small to accommodate all the lu
natics, but now 1 know it,” and he
moved off toward Esmaraida,
while the other leaned up against
the corner of Ann and Matilda
and glared after him as he disap
peared in the direction of Martha.
—Texas Siftings.
Brave Women.
A life-saving crew off the coast
ol Wales recently had their boat
smashed by beiug dashed against
the Dark they went out to rescue.
The coxswaiu succeeded in gain
ing the shore, and turning saw
two men struggling in the surf,
lie implored three soulders stand
ing by to help the men. They
gave no assistance and he cried
to them: “Save the men; for
shame! Don’t let the men drown
before your eyes.” But two brave
women rushed forward—the
daughters of Mr. Ace, the light
house-keeper. “Come back!
Come back t You’ll lose your
lives 1” shouted Ace. “Pll lose
my lire before I’ll let these men
drown,” was Maggie’s answer;
and tearing off their shawls the
womeu knotted them together,
and wading into the furious surf
until the swell of the surges
rose to the height of their
and one holding bravely
to the other to support themselves
against the tearing recoil of the
sweeping water, they drew the
eftd of their shawls toward the
outstretched arms of the perishing
men and dragging them both on
to the rocks. The men saved were
about three yards from the shore.
The' soldiers threw something
into the water resembling a
clothesline, but they did not go
near euough to allow the line to
reach to the men. Military brav
ery is not the only kind of cour
age.
