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HAMILTON, GA.
J. M. M O BLE Y,
attorney at law,
HAMILTON, GA.
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11l OS. S. MITCHELL, M. J).,
Frsldcnt Pliyxifittn mi:l Surgeon,
HAMILTON GEORGIA
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HARRY'S WIFE.
|
A Good Story of Domestic Life.
A bright, sweet, sensible face, with
eye* of clear deep gray, and lips of
vivid scarlet f anted by abundant
braids of dark glossy hair, a plump,
smoothly-rounded trim shape, and
pretty little hands—these were what
Harry Markham looked at, ashelean
ed hack in the great chair and gazed
at iiis betrothed wife, Nettie Gale.
Not one of your grand beauties, too
dazzling to be found only in stories,
and very seldom good for anything
hut show when thev are found, but
cute pretty and sweet enough to
make it a pleasure to look at her, and
not too “angelic,” atid all that non
sense, to be other than she was—a
warm, living, loving, natural girl.
Harry Markham, book-keeper in
Hartley’s big establishment, with a
salary of §I,BOO, was engaged to Net
tie Gale, and loved her with all ins
great soul. Y<t, notwithstanding
this, and the fact, that their wedding
day was only four short weeks ahead,
the: e was a cloud on Harry’s tace, and
1 e idled heavily as he leaned back
t and looked at her.
“\YI at worries yott, Harry?” ask
ed Netti , smoothing hi - , coat-sleeve
with her soft fingers. “May I know ?”
Harry sighed again. “You must
know 1 suppose. But I hate to tell
you. I got a letter from mother
t- sal ay.”
“Well?” There was a little note
of inquiry in IxeUie’s voice, and her
lingers stole caressingly over Harry’s
sleeve.
“It wasn’t well,” and there’s the
rub. Mother is a good, kind soul as
ever lived, Nettie”—
‘1 am sure of that, from her pic
t tre,” intcrrnp'ed Nettie—
“l.’ii; slie Is apt to be bitter in her
' 1 - <'J I dico” —
“I >-lii it’d judge that., too,” again
[nit in Bliss Nettie.
“And unfortunately for us, she has
coneeivrd a bitter prejudice against
‘citv girls’ of ail sorts.’’
“And, the long and shot t of it is,”
said Miss Nettie, with a smile up in
face, “she doesn’t consent to our
urn; rb'.ge.”-
“Indoul, she doesn’t ! Of course
it doesn’t make any difference, l>ut T
am sorry for your sake, Nettie, dear.’’
“And lam sorry for your sake,”
said Nettie. “You have always iieen
s > tnncli to your mother, I dislike to
be the cause of disagreement between
you. Rut when we came to know
eaeli other, Harry, I will try to make
her love me.’’
“She is determined not to know
von just now,” said Harry, moodily.
“Let me see the letter, please?’’
asked Nettie.
Harry drew it from Ills pocket, and
somewhat reluctantly gave it to her.
Nettie drew it from the envelope,
opened it, and read from the stiff, old
fashioned hand:
“My Dear Son —No, I will not
come to your wedding, neither do I
invite yon to bring your wife here.
If you had come home and chosen
from the good, industrious girls here,
X would have done all I could for her
and you But I know what those
city girls are worth. Even if your
wile did stay in a store, I’ve seen the
fine, befringed and befurlowed ladies
behind the counter put on airs, and
I’ll have none of’em! I think you’ll
| find to your cost, that selling ribbons
and laces don’t learn a girl to make
bread and pies or keep a decent
: house. However, I suppose you are
! old enough to make yuurown choice,
only don’t look to me for help. And
when you find your pretty bargain
has turned worthless on your hands,
don’t b.ing her home for me to wait
on, for I’ll have none of her fine
llounci a trailing over my floors. You,
alone, will always be welcome, but I
j have no wish for any acquaintance
| w ith your fine lady wife.
This is all, at present, from your
mother. Elizabeth Markham.”
“Pretty decided,” said Nettie, a*
half-laughing, half-crying, she return
ed the letter to Harry. “I’m very
sorry, Harry, but if you think I can
withe up to you for your mother —”
laying her face lightly upon his
shoulder.
‘■l think you can make tip for all
the world, and I know it!” cried
Harry, folding In r closely in his arm.
“i'll try to.” whispered Nettie.
And then she added more confident
ly, “And some time, Hairy, tie shall
HAMILTON, HARRIS CO., GA„ WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1876.
make friends with yourjmother, I fa el
sure of it."
“I hope so, Nettie. But this is a
great disappointment just now. I
Ind planned such a pleasant visit
home, to the dear old Bucks county
farm, for our wedding trip.”
“I would like very much to go
there. But as we can’t, suppose we
stay here in Philadelphia, and not go
anywhere, Harry?”
“ Wha'! w ill yon give up your wed
ding trip?”
“Yes, willingly. Indeed, Harry, I
think I should prefer it. We have
both of us been to the Niagara, and
most of the .watering places; and be
sides it is too late for them. I have
no friend we care to visit, arid I
think we might ns well just settle
down and begin life at once. You
know I have saved enough from my
own salary to furnisd onr house. Let
us rent a little bowse and go right to
housekeeping, like sensible people.”
“Just what I would rather do dar
ling! ” cried Harry, giving her a de
lightful kiss. “But I thought a w ed
ding trip was as iudipensibl.t to fem
inine human nature as a wedding
ring.”
‘"Then learn your mistake,’’ said
Nettie, smiling. “You know, Harry,
I’ve been in a boarding-house with
out a borne, ever since papa died,
and I had to earn my own living,
and I am as impatient as a child to
have a house of my own to manage.’’
“Then you shall have one, as soon
as it can be found ? ” cried the young
man, feeling much happier than he
had felt since reading his mother’s
letter.
In due time Harpy and Nettie were
quietly married, and speedily install
ed in a small, but neat and cozy bouse
on Vine street, and began to get
things arranged according to their
liking.
Nettie Gale was the only child of
wealthy parents, and for two or three
years previous to her father’s failure
and death had been the mistress of
his household.
This bad given her some experience,
and she naturally possessed a good
share of domestic talent, so that her
little establishment was well conduct
ed. One stout German girl was hired
to do the rougher w ork, and the rest
Nettie took upon herself!
The money she had saved furnished
the house simply and prettily, and
and Ilarry added a few articles as
presents to her.
From the wreck of her father’s for
tune she had kept back two or three
choice pictures and her piano. Not
having room for these in her board
ing bouse they had been stored away
iu packing boxes in a furniture house.
They were now brought forth; Net
tie’s piano was newly tuned and pro
nounced good as ever, when it filled
their rn at little parlor w ith silvery
sounds, under the magic of her fingers.
So, very happily, eped the first
two years of their wedded life Only
two clouds dimmed their sky. One,
the lightest of these, was Mrs. Mark
ham’s senior’s, continued displeasure
and estrangement. Very soon after
their marriage, Harry enclosed their
wedding card in a warm, hearty let
ter, earnestly entreating his mother
to visit them.
To thts letter no answer was ever
returned, and beyond now and then
sending her a city paper, Harry at
tempted no further communication
with his mother.
A heavier sorrow than this was the
loss of the little babe which opened
its eyes for two short months, during
he second year of their marriage,
and then flew away to Heaven.
But they had each other left, and
'O bore up bravely and cheerfully.
Meanwhile, on her tine old farm
down in Bucks county, old Mo.her
Markham lived alone, except for her
serving maids and tnen, and mourned
for her boy.
Now and then, through city friends
she heard of them, but they wrote to
her directly no more. When the
news of the birth and death of their
babe, her first grandson, reached her,
he proud old lady's heart yearned to
go to them, but she would not.
“I dare say it was that flimsy city
girl’s ignorance and mismanagement
caused its death,” she said, thus hard
ening her heart.
So another winter' still
alone in the tine old Markham home
stead. The winter set in
bitter, with a financial pressure, which
involved very many in ruin. Mother
Markham, with abundant means at
|c<iit in and, wondered how it was
1 with her boy aud his wife.
One, day, dining at a neighbor’s
she heard startling news. The house
where Harry had been so long had
failed, even to complete ruin, and he
was thrown out of work or means of
suppoit, And very soon after, while
searching for employment, he met
with a severo fall in the icy street,
and was taken home with a broken
leg. The gentleman who told her
did not know how they wore getting
along since then, but as everybody
in Philadelphia felt the hard times
tnoro or less, no doubt- <hey had some
hard piuchoa to go iltr, ugh.
"Mother Markh .m carried home a
very heavy heart, and lay long awake
that night. Her boy, Uer only boy,
was sick, Buffeting, maybe in want,
with nobody to care fbr him but a
“flimsy city girl.’*
That thought was tho weightiest
otu —had she fancied him in good
hands, she would have still held out.
“Maybe site will let him die, as she
did the poor baby,’’ groaned the
proud old woinau, as she tossed rest
lessly on her bed. And by morning
she had given up tho contest, and re
solved to go on to her hoy.
IFuata vague idea that she should
find Harry destitute of the common
necessities of life, her first though
was to take a box of groceries an 1
bedclothing, but sober second thought
advised her to go first and see, and
if such tilings were needed money
would procure them in Philadelphia.
Accordingly she only supplied her
self amply with that, and carefully
putting iu her purse and address,
street and number which Harry’s
last letter had given her, she was
ready.
“ Perhaps they don’t live there
now,’’ said she, “but maybe I can
find out where they do live, anyhow.’’
Leaving tninuto instruction to her
trU'ty servants, she took tho first
train in the morning, and was iu Phil
adelphia by eleven o’clock.
She had traveled quito enough to
have her wits about her, and not to
be disturbed by tho noise and bustle
of the city depot anil the streets.
Taking a carriage, she directed the
driver to the street and number in
Harry’s address, winch was a modest
looking little brick house, with tip
inevitable white window blinds in
which Philadelphia delights.
Bidding the driver wait until site
was sure it was the tight place, she
ascended the steps; and rung the bell.
A trim little figure, in a neat calico
dress anti gingham bib apron, opened
the door.
“Is this where Ilarry Markham
lives?” she asked.
“Yes,’’ replied the lady on the in
side, pleisanly.
“Are you his wife?” questioned
the mother.
“ I am,!’ and as the lady caught
sight of the carriage and the little
trunk strapped upon it, her manner
became agitated, and she added ea
gerly, “ I am his wife, and feel sure
you are his mother.”
“Yes, I am. Let me pay the driver
and I’ll come in,” said the old lady,
curtly.
Accordingly the driver was paid,
the little trunk deposited in the hall,
and two Mrs. Markhams were inside
and the door shut.
Nettie would gladly have given
hei mother in.law a hearty welcome,
but the old lady’s exterior, albeit this
was not the person she expected to
find in her son's w ife, -V9B 100 forbid
ding ; so she only said:
“I am so glad you have come ! It
will do him so much good.”
“ I heard of his accident. llow is
he ?’’ asked the elder lady.
“ Better, much better. Getting
well nicely, but I don’t want to ex
cite him too suddenly. W ill you
wait in the parlor one moment, while
I prepare him to see you?” And
Nettie threw open the parlor door.
Old Mrs. Markham east a curious
glance alter she was left alone.
“ Humph !” was her command.
“Looks pretty tidy. Servants’ work,
I reckon. A piano! Open, too, and
scattered with music. Wonder who
lakes care of the sick husband while
she plays on it ?”
Rut before she could comment fur
tlier Nettie came back, and led the
way to a neat room up stairs, where
mother and son greeted each other
as heartily as it no long estrange
ment had existed.
To Mrs. Markham’s suppri-e, he
.. as dressed and sitting in his large
ea-y ehai. with a cane beside him.
He could walk about a little now,
hut he had bad a pretty rough tug
of it for three or four months.
“Nettie is a famous nurse, or I
should not be up now,’’ with a smile
at his wife, who had been putting
away the old Indy’s things in another
room. Just as she came in the door
bell rang.
“ I shall Imvo to leave you now
it. i- little L zzic IFiight, to take her
music lesson. But first yon. must
have a cup of lea, mother,” pro
nouneiti ; the last words hesitatingly,
as if hardly knowing how it would
bo received.
But tho elder lady only said :
“No, no. Don’t take the trouble
to get mo anything lill dinner time,”
“Yes, I will,” said Nettie; “since
Harry’s illness wo have only been
having two meals these short days,
and it’s a good while till dinner. I’ll
bo back iu a moment.”
She went out and soon returned
with a tray, neatly covered with a
napkin, bearing a ctt,> of fragrant tea,
some fresh rolls, and dainty slices of
pink, boiled bam.
The old lady really began to feel
hungry after her journey, so the odor
was most appetising, and sho began
her repast readily.
“ These are excellent rolls for ba
ker’s rolls,” she she said as she broke
one.
“ They nro home-made,” said Net
tie.
“Yon must have a good cook, then.
Nettie answered nothing, but Har
ry said :
“ We have a first rate cook,”
“ Now I must go down to Lizzie.
She is waiting for her lesson. I will
leave you and Harry to chat to
gether till 1 come back.”
“ What does sl.o mean about les
sons ?” asked Mrs. Markham, alter
she was gone.
“ Hef music lc-sotis. Didn’t you
notice the piano down stairs? It
was Nettie’s before we were married
and as soon as I got out ol work,
she hunted up eight or ten pupils,
and went lo giving lessons lo help
along.”
•'Olt 1” observed the mother, “yon
keep help, I suppose.’’
“Not now. Nettie dismissed her
girl as soon as I could sit up. Site
lias nursed me, dc’o all her own
work, and given her lessons besides,
for two months back.
Old Airs. arkhnm began to feel
verrv stiango, but she would not
say nothing as yet, so they talked as
easily as they could until Nettie came
uj>.
“ Now,” she said, smiling brightly
ashe fixed the lire. “I don’t have
any more scholars to-day. I’m going
down to get my dinner, and after
that we can make ourselves cozy.”
Mother Markham first thought to
offer her help, but she concluded to
wait a little longer. “ I want to see
how she does,’’ was her mental com
ment.
So she stayed with Harry, while
Nettie went down to her work. It
wan not long till she came up again
and invited them down to dinner.
“Now, sir, joui cane and my
shoulder, and down we go I” she said
as she offered Ilarry both the sup
ports shu named.
It was slow work getting him down
stairs, but he was safely down at last
and Nettie led the way to the kitch
en.
“ I thought I would not make any
changes,” she said to Mother Mark
ham, “and since the cold weather we
have been eating here, to save ex ra
aiepsand fire in the diningroom.”
Mother Markham gave a glance
around the neat, spotless kitchen and
over the table, with its snowy wlii'e
cloth and napkin*, shining glasH and
silver, and fragrant, nicely cooked
food, and then she turned around and
taking Nettie in her motherly arms,
gave her a hearty kiss.
“ Nettie Markham, I’m an old fool,
and I’m well paid for my folly. 11 >r
ry has got a better w ife than he ha*
a mother. Do you think you can
forgive me, and learn to like me for
llariy’s sake ?”
“ I am sure I shall love you for
your own sake, and I want vou t<>
like me because I have no other
mother,’’ said Nettie, as she returned
both the kiss and the embrace. Then
Hairy had to j an the trio, and the
dinner was neiry cold before any
body remembered what they c.'iue
down for.
The very next <ay a' Mother
Markham's imperative command, Bar
ua a, the German go'!, was shu.iii
ed hack to the kitchen. Rut Nettie
would not give up her scholars until
in the spring, wl.cn Mother Marl.hain
returned home, and took both IXauv
and Nettie with, her for the whole
summer.
And it wa nl 1 be difficult to tc'l
which was <!(,.rest to her, Harry,
Harry's w ife, or the little bltie’ey ed
grand daughter, who came in the
summer to be the pet r.nd darling of
all the three.
The Ays uml the Violinist.
WitMu the fluids, one rummer day,
A -tr ns# beg in to bray ;
The uplands e In., t bark bis voice;
To bear it made his heart reioice.
“Ah, what n pity 1 ’ cried the it; s
“That l should longer teed on gen ;
Jty lungs are strong, my Voice is loud ;
At corns No 1 might draw- a i-Otvj,
.List tomyinusiol how it tills
•Hie vnln ys sloe, lot; 1 inr.ng tho i.i.lt;
*T s sweet, I I. now, for 1 eilc! s>u wli.il
Cheat ...us lor music 1 have not ’’
A great liiUfl isn heard the din,
Wh le pis iug with hi.-, vio.in ;
lie stepped awhile upon tli • way,
And Liudo the old n s ec.u e to bray.
■‘ily long-an and friend,” the fiddler s ui,
This neighborhood must wish y at dead;
For woi sc than any sound m; bra a
Is your eou'sa braying, Mr. A>s ;
If you wl.-h music, ceue your din,
And listcu to my viohu."
He rubbed the rosin on his ho w ;
Ha tiled the notes both liijjh and low;
Making a stone do for a chair,
He played a grand, soul slim g air.
Ere lie hod cetuod his tuna to play,
'1 be ass beg n tig ,in to In ay;
Nor i iolin, nor son , r o! bird.
Could lor a mome.it then be board.
At last the old am dropped hi heal,
And to tho old musician sail:
“Music is sound, my lii.si l, you see
Therefore all round must mu-ic he ;
Of mine tho world .will he tho pro.idist,
Because, my friend, it is the loudest.”
Wlut move could (ho musician ray?
What further do hut let him hi ay t
Ho wandered off through twilight dim ;
Ass whdoni w.n too much for him.
MORAL.
How many men wu daily pass
Who reason like this braying ass!
They grow to men, from braggart boy?,
And think tlmt brains must m ike a noise;
They gain high seats in synagogues ;
No mystery their vision fogs ;
Whene'er they lack lor mgmnent.
They rive their store ol gas a vent;
And wis ■ men whisper as they puss,
Tlieie goes u soL-coni sited ass.
The Centennial.
LETTER FROM PHILADEL
PHIA.
What the Camnilttco ttro Doing.
l uii.AiiEi ’mua, Pa., |
April 271 h, it'7o. j
En. Journal: At 8 i>. si., I have
just arrived from the Cent Minin'
grounds. Seven hours there have
enabled me to see ncm !y everything
that is to he seen, particularly as I
have the advantage of riding from
one building to the other. No car
riages are admitted inside the gate
but tho e of the Commissioners.—
Fortunately, I ha I an acquaintance
wiih some of tl|o gentlemen bolding
that position, and accompanied them.
Two or throe days, in fact one day
changes the appearance of every
thing inside the fence that bounds
the grounds, almost as rupi lly as if
the slaves of Aladdin’s lamp were
working for the Commi-sioncrs. —
In fact, Alladin’s lamp was but a
synonwn for the power of mo ey, and
tho Commissioners have money, or
what the same thing ce lit, and thou --
nnds of busy hands, using the bc*t. <>l
modem iuvo itious for saving labor,
produce almost, in igicsil changes,every
twen-ty-four hours. Win re ye-t- relay
stood an unfinished hou o, to-day I
found rooms carpet! ed and fitted up in
the best style of modern art. Where
two weeks Alice was an unsightly
kno 1, to-day fl >w> s arc hlo mine.
W lore a week ago the - tin shone on
a mass of rubbish, to-day the trees
are budding over gre mi sod. An 1
so in every tiling. “ Many hands
make light work,” says the adage;
and when them many hands never
cease during the twenty.lour hours
of day mid nigh:, thei progre > is
st ill more marked. There is nodmbl
that most of the b iddings will b<-
ready by the 10.li of '.Jay, w hen the
opening ceremonies ue to take place,
and in every instance where exhile.i
tors have done their duty by prompt
ly fol'W r li t ear '• r ' ' ' '
q, 1, i
It is aiu alter o rerun k Unit or
$2.00 A .SEAR
eign natinna have been more prompt
in. this iv-p'vi t inn our own people*
ami lint Executive Coin mi t tee express
regret tfiat lb' :: - fi* - qnrrtt nppcif*
upon ibis siil,]'of liuvn it ;t mot with
Ihn prompt c jinp'.i vtice that WA.- so
closiruble. Tim Commissioner* met.
MStevdav, nml 1 orly-one states ami
tcrritoiies wore represented- Tho
Kxo. u'ive Conmii’tee con-i-ts of thir
teen members npp untod by the Com
mij-i'Uiers with cerium powers con
ferred on tin in. There is a feeling
Here that tli s Gommiitee has in some
th tigs exceeded it authority. For
instance, it has appointed all the of.
l! ■-r itiebv'. n ' the oneltutHirodj i
>nri. who :<■'■ !•> m i!. ' the awards;
and-1 In r i 'd that the Conyui -
sinters mwei gave the power to and >
ibis, and if they bad, they did not
expect tint the app iiiilm'mtß would
he confined to one section xjf tho
count! y," ignoring nil other portions.
In fact, there is complaint that n AW
position is manif sled by a lew men
“to v tithe CYntfitnial.’* In answer
to n.y ie.-tirtt lo day, Mr. M >rrell, • "
lYinisvlv nin, <no of the Executive
Oommi t , said “ that w henever tlmt
Committee had made appointments
and had notified the party appointed
of the fan , it did not expect, the Com
missioners to revise its worlci Such
talk does not suit a majority of tho
C immin-i'net s. They say —and very
justly—that they are held responsi
ble for the succom; or failure of the
celebration, and tli t they must havo
the rich' tocl'O re their subordinates -
The appointment of jurors gives
great dis ii '.faction, and this morning
the Oommistiionere decided by a vote
of 25 to 15 to sit duii ig tho entire
time of the Celebration, and requested
the Committee to report at the eve
ning sesrion, the appointments made.
At tlm*time I atn writing this, an
animated Uiticu sion is going on in
the secret ses-ion on this subject. As
tho session is h Id m parlor C of the
Continental hotel, and I occupy a
room above the parlor on the next
floor, I hear most of w hat is said; and
strong erpre-sions of disapprobation
to the action ol tiie Comniitteo aru
being made.
Anotli r subject upon’which tho
Ooniuussiouers (’eel .aggrieved i , that
no aee m,modal ions bavn been pro
vid for them—no room in which tiny
can meet, and generally that they have
been ignored by committees of their
own creation. It is very evident,
however, that n *w they are here, tl e
Gommissioncra intend to own llio
concern. They are not of the class
of men who are made tools of; and
they will revise the action of their
committees and see to it tint the
Centennial celebration is made a
National one in every sense of the
word, and not merely a local show,
in the in)crest* of certain localities.
In doing this they will only discharge
their dutie -and rebuke the improper
assumptions of certain self-sufiiciout
gent lemen who have assumed lo rep
resent the whole country.
Mark.
Profanity.
We are emphatically in the age of profm
jty, and it seems to . s that we are on the
topmost current. One cannot go on the
streeto anywhere without having his ears
offended with the vilest of words, and his
reverence shocked by the most profane use
of i acred names. Nor does it come from the
old or middle-aged alone, for it is a fact, as
alarming as true, that the younger portion
of the community are most proficient in the
degrading language. Hoys have an idea it
is smart to swear; that it makes them
manly ; hut there never was a greater mis
take in the world. Men, even tiers; who
swear themselves, arc disgusted with profan
ity in a young man, bemuse they know how,
of all had habits, this clings the most closely,
and increases with years. It is the most
insidious of habits, growing on so invisibly
that almost Indore one is aware he becomes
in accomplished cursor.
I’at had been engaged to kill a tur
tle for it neighbor, and proceeded im
mediately to cut fT bis head, lk.f'i
attention unsea led to the fact that,
the turtle sti 1 crawled about, though
it bud b ‘cm decapi ated, and he ex
plained: “ Sure tho bantu is entirely
dead, on y he is not yet conscious of
it.”
A CoMi’i.’OMis: — A f- low in Ken
tucky ran away with a hum. r's
daughter aud loose, and was hotiy
10f sue 1. The fiiOUer got wit higi
i sc range, and floe -s-d a revolv
er. “jUoui ■ ho- t, for i e.ivcii’s - ke, ’
,| lu .ncil i!>- !• ver. “I won’t,” was
lb: topic, “csftsu 1 *ot (‘fair'd l’,l his
I, , i,Vs. .1,1 ' lyuv : awl
i;.k< . v irji i,” T'-e c oops otni-0 was
i. ;■ .id hi ill vII sulk-, who
t . ... ..chef's house,
tile hither riding home on lis ho. te.