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" dliam S. Smith, late of said county, deceased,
applies for leave to sell the land belonging to the
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.liti-k*on County.
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( j-WtRkJIA, Jackson Coiinl v.
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DOROTHEA’S HEART;
OR,
The .Whaler’s Last Cruise.
BY MAJOR A. F. GRANT.
CHAPTER I.
A WOMAN WITH TWO LOVERS.
*' l have come to say good-bye, Dorothea.”
The speaker was a man who was known as
the best whaler in New Bedford, and he ut
tered his words in the presence of a handsome
girl, whose confused manner told that they
were giving her pain.
He stood near her, hat in hand, and was
looking into her flushed face with much anx
iety and fear.
“Aren’t you going to say something, girl ?”
he said, vexed witli her silence, for she stood
over thc flower pots uttering not a word in
reply to him. “Ours is going to be a long
cruise; for whales are becoming scarce. I
may not return for three years.”
“Three years!” she echoed, starting.—
“That is a long time.”
“\es ; but it might not seem long to me.
if—if— ’
•‘Pray go on, Mr. Maynard.”
“II 1 but knew that Dorothea K3*le loved
me. There, you have it at last, girl! I
knew that I must tell you before I left fertile
North.”
Again the eyes of the fair young girl fell
to the flowers, while thc sailor regarded her
with great expectancy, and ventured to lift
the delicate hands that hung at her side.
“Send me to the northern sea with a happy’
heart, if you can, Dorothea. If you do not
love me, tell me plainly, and I will cherish
you for your frankness.”
Then it was that Dorothea Kyle lifted her
head bravely, and encountered the whaler’s
gaze.
“Then go with the happy heart for which
you ask,” she said. “God forbid that I
should send such a gallant man as you to
the ice-seas with the burthen of rejected love.
No, David Maynard. I have loved you, and
here is the hand of Dorothea Kyle. You
have long possessed her heart.”
Too full for utterance, the whaler seized
the girl’s hand and covered it with kisses,
while blushes mantled to her lofty temples.
She glanced upon him, smiled with con
scious pride, and turned her head to conceal
her emotion.
But the next moment she started back with
a loud cry. Her face was quite pale.
“Mr. Maynard—David! The window!
Look ! There’s a man’s face pressed against
the pane!”
While Dorothea uttered these words, her
quivering finger pointed to thc window.
Startled by her action, the young whaler
sprang forward, but could see no face against
the pane.
“I see nothing,” he said, returning to the
girl’s side. “May you not have been mis
taken ?”
“ I could not have been, for I saw the face
distinctly,” she answered. “I saw it as
plainly as I see your face now.”
♦‘Strange,” muttered David Maynard, im
pressed by Dorothea’s words. “The eaves
dropper may be lurking without. I will see.”
So saying, ho opened the door and stepped
out into the night; but nothing rewarded his
investigation. He saw no human figure
crouched in the shadows of the trees that
grew before Dorothea’s house, and heard no
retreating footsteps.
The apparition puzzled him to no little
degree, and his face was pale and disturbed
when he entered the house.
“ Did you recognize the face, Dorothea ?”
he asked, with the uneasiness yet upon him.
It was a strange one to me. It wore a
wild, woe-be-gone expression, and the eyes
flashed like a maniac’s. I call it a dark, evil
face.”
“Perhaps it was one of our new men,” the
whaler replied. “They are strolling about
New Bedford to-night, steeping themselves
in grog, for to morrow wc sail. If the inso
lent fellow comes to the window again, he
will wish that lie never saw this whalers nest.”
“You would not know him, David?” she
said, pleadingly.
“Why, he has already frightened you.
Your face is pale as ashes. Come, girl, quit
trembling, and let us talk of the future.”
With his strong arms, the whaler drew the
yielding form of his love to him, and told her
all his plans for the future. For he had
planned just as if she had been his betrothed,
and together they reared golden palaces, and
with their gorgeous glitter decked the life
that was to come.
But at last David Maynard withdrew—
tore himself from the beaut}’ of New Bedford,
and hurried through the town towards the
shipping that dotted the pretty harbor.
lie was happy, yet sad. He was eager to
sail for the North seas, yet did not like to
leave the beautiful being who had Just prom
ised to become hi# brido, The dangers of
the whaling grounds were numerous and
f*reat: but he trusted in the “luck” which
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JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1878.
had attended his former cruises, and hoped
for the best.
Left alone to herself, after the whaler’s
departure, Dorothea Kyle, after a few mo
ments of happy reflection, was about to retire
from the parlor, when a rap startled her.
With the words “Who can it be ?” on her
lips, she hastened to open the door. The
next moment, with an exclamation, she start
ed from the person who stood on the step,
with the lamplight upon his wild, revengeful
face
“Miss Kyle, I believe?” he said, crossing
the threshold unbidden, at the same time
doffing his sailor hat.
“Yes, sir,” said Dorothea, scarcely know
ing what she was saying. “To whom am I
indebted for this late visit ?”
“Late, eh? M} f name is Cyrus Parton.
As you have just dismissed a fellow, I supposed
that I might call.”
The speaker’s words and inso
lent, and the fair girl regretted that she had
opened thc door before learning his identity.
And then what added to her fears was that
she had seen his face lately pressed against
the window pane !
“You will favor me b}’ making known
your errand,” she said, wishing to get rid of
her unceremonious visitor as soon as jiossible.
“Certainly, and as I wish to broach a deli
cate subject, I trust I shall have your undi
vided attention. Dorothea Kyle, you have
long been the object of my affection. For
many months—”
Dorothea lifted her hands for him to desist.
“I cannot listen to a declaration of love,”
she said, gently, yet with a firmness which
must have irritated her visitor.
“Because you have already listened to one,
to-night,” was the rejoinder.
The girl blushed, but her eyes brightened.
“That is one of the reasons,” she said.
“I have never met you before,”
“Your memory serves you poorly; but
then it was nothing more than an introduc
tion. You were at New York last season,
and there you met Captain Parton, of the
Zenith. lam that man.”
“I recall that meeting now, and I must
say that you have changed since then.”
“Perhaps I have,” he said, with a light
laagh 1 “ But will you not listen to what I
was going to say ?”
“It would avail you nothing, sir.”
“But it would be a satisfaction to me. A
man feels better after declaring his passion,
even though the woman rejects it. lam the
strongest, and I could force 3*oll to listen to
anything l might say, but I do not intend to
resort to harsh measures to secure an audi
ence.”
Dorothea’s eyes thanked him silently, and
he continued :
“I was an eavesdropper a while ago, and
heard everything that passed between David
Maynard and yourself. So you really love
him ?”
“I do.”
“Well, that may be right, but it doesn't
suit me,” the man said, going towards the
door.
“ But what are you going to do about it ?”
asked Dorothea.
“I shall try to win you,” he replied.
The girl’s face paled again, for there was a
mad light in the man’s eye.
“If you harm him, woman as I am, I will
have vengeance !” the girl said, following him
up. “Were we to live a thousand years, I
could never learn to love you. Where I have
given my heart, there it must abide. You
make a bitter enemy if you attempt to injure
him in your disappointment.”
Grandly beautiful she looked, standing
erect before Cyrus Parton, and threatening
him with a woman’s vengeance if lie attempt
ed foul play with David Maynard.
For a moment he looked upon the beaute
ous girl, then, with a bitter and derisive
laugh on his lips, he opened the door, and
passed out with a bow of mock politeness.
The next moment Dorothea shut the door
and walked, faint and sick, to the sofa on the
farther side of the room.
Then she buried her face in her hands, and
trembled like the aspen, convulsed by the
storm of her own fears; but her face sud
denly brightened, and she looked up.
“Thank heaven, the Plover sails to-morrow
at day-break, and the winds will carry David
far from the bold, bad man.”
Thus thought the young girl, and the clouds
left her face; but she did not dream that
Cyrus Parton had also shipped on the Pluver,
and that he would sail in her to the northern
seas.
But such was the case, as the reader will
presently sec.
CHAPTER 11.
a madman’s iiarpoon.
David Maynard, the accepted suitor for
the hand of Dorothea Kyle, was the second
mate of the Plover, a trim vessel famed for
successful whaling voyages. He was a man
who could be trusted amid the dangers that
infest the whaling grounds, and his harpoon
never missed its mark.
Muoh of his life had been spent among the
icebergs ; he was familiar with their strange
floating, and knew when to sail past one and
when to keep his distance. Good service
entitled him to promotion ; but he had stead
ily refused it, preferring to remain the Plo
ver's second mate.
The first gleams of day were flushing the
east and silvering the waters of New Bedford’s
b&3% when the Plover, with sails well trim
med, sailed slowly eastward. There was a
lively commotion on her decks, for many of
her crew were leaving families behind, and
they wanted a last, longing look at the
“whaler’s nest,” as the old place was called.
But the spires soon disappeared, and the
Plover found her real journey inaugurated.
The uorlh seas were her destination, and the
breezes seemed eager to bear her thither.
Without accident the Plover reached the
whaling grounds, and the prey, discovered in
great numbers, betokened a short stay there.
At the beginning of the hunt, one of the
best harpooners was taken sick, and the
captain feared that his place could not be
supplied. But at that moment, C3TUB Parton
offered to fill the vacancy, and, through the
second mate’s entreaties, he was selected.
David Maynard and his rival had not been
on terms of familiarity with each other during
the voyage ; but be was prompt to note that
Parton was a good whaler and an adept with
the harpoon.
lie did not dream that the new sailor was
his rival; but he had earty decided that he
was not an honest man.
The situation craved by Parton was thus
obtained through the man hated b3* him from
the bottom of his heart, and it caused him*
much delight.
“ If you but knew me, David Maynard, you
would have kept poor Gosnold’s harpoon
from m v hands!” Parton muttered, after
receiving the appointment. “I did not ship
in the Plover for the purpose of striking the
whale. No ! lam going to strike Dorothea
Kyle’s heart., even in the northern waters.
And the blow shall put an end to ti e disap.
pointments of one mad wild life.”
It was on the afternoon of a cold clear day
when the lookout sighted a monster sperm
whale off thc starboard bow. As it was sup
posed to be the giant which had latety eluded
the Plover’s boats, the excitement speedity
became intense, and the best harpooners were
commissioned to give the fidi battle.
Tlie.se men were David Ma3*nard and Cyrus
Parton.
Each in a strong whale boat, well manned,
they put off in pursuit of the leviathan. But
the whale became furious, and forced the
mate’s boat to leave a harpoon in his blub
ber, wliile the rope ivas cut to save the crew.
In his anger the monster lashed the sea into
foam, and threatened to destroy the boats.
But the rivals determined to win the contest.
At a critical moment, the whale found him
self between the boats, which rapidly and
fearlessly advanced to the charge. The liar
pooners stood erect, and the sturdy tars
believed that the coup tie tjrace was about to
be given.
David Maynard cast his harpoon with his
usual precision, and the rope attached to it
was hidden by the foam. But he knew that
he had struck the whale in a vital part.
The next moment, as a wave lifted his boat
upon its white crest, he saw Cyrus Parton
with a liarpoon poised in his hand. The
man's face was stamped with a dark villain
ous expression, and his flashing eyes seemed
to be regarding him. and not the whale.
A moment later the harpoon left the ras
cal’s hands. Like an arrow it flew over the
whale’s back, and, struck by the keen point,
David Maynard staggered back with a shriek,
and fell into the arms of his men.
“Secure the whale!” he gasped, but a
hatchet severed the ropes, and the fish dived
into the sea tinged with his blood.
Both boats pulled rapidly towards the ship,
and the stricken mate was lifted gently over
the side.
Cyrus Parton declared that a sudden lurch
of the boat had caused him to miss the whale,
and strike the man.
But the sailors shook their heads at this,
and began to talk in whispers among them
selves.
An examination of the mate’s wound
showed that it was serious, and in their love
for him the sailors refused to further pursue
the whales. The}’ clustered everywhere in
groups, and discussed the situation.
Many wished that the second mate was
back in New Bedford, for they knew that a
certain woman there would love to nurse him
back to health and strength. But hundreds
of miles intervened between the Plover and
her native harbor, and many months must
elapse before she could anchor therein again.
“I missed my mark, and he is getting
well. I will not fail the next time!”
These words fell from Cyrus Parton’s lips
one night, as he stood in a spot on the Plo
ver’s deck, which he believed was not ten
anted by any one save himself. But he was
speedily undeceived.
“ What did you say ?”
He started at the sound of the voice, and
confronted the speaker.
A burly sailor, his superior in strength,
stood before him.
“We thought you did it on purpose,” the
old salt continued. “ Now we will see if a
man can commit crime on the whaling ground
O O
and go unpunished.”
It was in vain that the man protested his
innocence. He was placed on trial for at
tempted murder, and his own words convicted
him. A jury of exasperated whalers found
him guilty, aud banished him to a long stretch
of dreary coast.
His punishment was stern, but not unde
served ; and it is safe to say that the revenge
ful sailor had made his last cruise.
David Maynard recovered after a long
illness, and at last anchored within sight of
the spires of New Bedford. To Dorothea
K3’le his return was a source ofmucbjoy, and
not long thereafter he retired from the sea
and made her his wife.
The Plover has made several vo3*ages to
the boreal seas since the eventful one of
which we have written ; but no trace has
been found of the guilty exile.
Silver Kings.
THE THREE KICIIEST MEN IN AMERICA.
Several years ago there were two Irishmen
in the city of San Francisco keeping a drink
ing bar of very modest pretentions, close to
one of the principal business thoroughfares.
Their customers were of all kinds, but chiefly
commercial men and clerks. Among them
was an unusually large proportion of stock
and share dealers, mining brokers and the
like, who, in the intervals of speculation,
rushed out of the neighboring Exchange five
or six times a day for drinks. Whisky being
the religion of California, and the two little
bar-keepers being careful not to sell none but
the best article, their bar soon became a
place of popular resort. And, as no true
Californian could ever swallow a drink of
whisky under any circumstances without talk
ing about silver or gold mines or shares in
mines, it soon fell out that, next to the Stock
Exchange itself, there was no place in San
h raneiseo where there was as much mining
talk went on as in the saloon of Messrs.
Flood & O’Brien, which were the names of
the two. Keeping their ears wide open, and
sifting the mass of gossip that they listened
to every day, these two gentlemen picked up
a good many crumbs of useful information,
besides getting now and then a direct confiden
tial tip ; and they turned some of them to such
good account in a few quiet speculations that
they shortly had a comfortable sum of monej r
lying at their banker's. Instead ofthrowing
it away headlong in wild extravagant vent
ures, which was the joyous custom of the
average Californian in those daj's, they let it
lie where it was, waiting, with commendable
prudence, till they knew of something good
to put it into. They soon heard of something
good enough. On Fair’s advice they bought
shares in a mine called the Hale and Nor
cross, and were speedily taking out of it £15,-
000 a month in dividends. This mine was
the propert3* of a com pa 03% and, though it had
at one time paid large and continuous divi
dends, it was now supposed to be worked out
and worthless. Mr. Fair, however, held a
different opinion ; and, when he came to ex
amine it closcty, he found what he expected
to find—a large deposit of silver ore. There
upon he and Flood and O'Brien together
bought up all the shares they could lay their
hands upon, and obtained complete control
of the mine.
Besides being a clever and experienced
miner, Mr. Fair entertained the belief that
by patient examination into the holes and
corners of the mine that he would discover a
gigantic vein of silver-bearing ore. He dis
covered the vein, the estimate value which
was £120,000,000.
In the excitement caused by this astound
ing discovery it is scarcely more than the
hard truth to say that San Francisco went
raving mad. The vein in which the Bonanza
was found was known to run straight through
the consolidated Virginia and California
mines, dipping down as it went, and could
not be traced any further. But that fact was
nothing to people who were bent on having
mining stock ; and, vein or no vien, the stock
they would have. Consequently, they bought
into every mine in the neighborhood—good
and bad alike—sending prices up to unheard
of limits, and invested millions in worthless
properties that have never yielded a shilling
in dividends, and never will. When Flood
had bought a large quantity of the Bonanza
stock, and had assured to himself and his
partners the controling interest in the mines,
he recommended all his friends to buy a lit
tle, and O’Brien did the same. Those who
took the advice are now drawing their pro
portionate shares of dividends, amounting to
about £500,000 a month. The majority of
those who bought into other mines are, in
Californian parlance, “busted.” What these
three men and their latest partner, Mackey,
are going to do with their money is a curious
problem, the solution of which will be watched
with great interest in a 3 r ear or two to come.
The money they hold now is yielding them
returns so enormous that their madest ex
travagance could make no impression on the
amount.
Note.—Since the above was written, one of this
famous quartet of rich men, W. S. O’Brien, has
passed from earth, leaving an estate valued at
$20,000,000.
S TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM.
} SI.OO For Six Months.
The Gold-Fish Trick.
Several of the magicians who perform in
public, do what they call “the gold-fish trick.”
The juggler stands upon the stage, throws a
handkerchief over his extended arm, and
produces, in succession, three or four shallow
glass dishes filled to the brim with water, in
which live gold-fish are swimming. Of course
the dishes are concealed somehow upon the
person of the performer.
Peter Lamb, the 3'oung fellow who lives
near me, discovered how the trick was done,
and he offered to do it the other night at
Magruder’s party, for the entertainment of
the company. JSo the folks all gathered in
one end of the parlor, and in a few moments
Lamb entered the door at the other end. 11c
said :
“Ladies and gentlemen, 3*oll will perceive
tffat I have nothing about me, except my
ordinary clothing, and yet I shall produce
presently two dishes filled with water and
living fish. Please watch me narrowly.”
Then Peter flung the handkerchief over his
hand and arm, and we could see that he was
working away vigorously at something be
neath it. He continued for some moments,
and still the gold-fish did not appear. Then
he began to grow very rod in the face, and
we saw that something was the matter. Then
the perspiration began to stand in beads upon
Peter’s forehead, and Mr. Magriulcr asked
him if he was well. Then the company
laughed, and the magician grew redder. But
he kept on fumbling beneath that handker
chief, and tr3*ing to reach around
under his coat-tails. Then wc heard some
thing snap, and the next moment a quart of
water ran down the wizard’s left leg and
spread out over the carpet. By this time he
looked as if the grave would be a welcome
refuge. But still lie continued to feel around
under the handkerchief. At last another
snap was heard, and another quart of water
plunged down the trouser of right leg
and formed a pool about his shoe. Then the
necromancer hurriedly said tlmt the experi
ment had failed, somehow, and he darted
into the dining-room. I followed him, and
found him sitting on the sofa, trying to
remove his pantaloons. He exclaimed :
“Oh, Gosh ! Come here, quick, and pull
these off! They’re soakin' wet, and I’ve got
fifteen live gold-fish inside in}’ drawers flip
pin’ around, and raspin’ the skin with their
fins enough to set a man craz}*. Ouch ! Oil,
Moses! 11 urr\ f that shoe off, and grab that
fish there at my left knee, or I’ll have to howl
right out!’’
Then wc undressed him and picked the
fish out of his clothes, and I discovered that
lie had two dishes full of water and covered
with India-rubber tops strapped inside his
trousers behind. In his struggles to get at
them he had torn the covers to rags. We
fixed him up in a pair of Magruder’s trousers,
which were six inches too short for him, and
then he climbed over the back fence and
went homo, lie says, now, that the next
time he gives exhibitions in public, lie intends
to confine himself to ventriloquism.
How the Size of the Earth is Determined.
Its size has been determined within a very
few miles, in what appears to us now a very
simple manner. Tn the first place, everj r sec
tion of the earth is bounded approximatelv
by a circle, and mathematicians divide ail
circles into 360 degrees. Hence, if we can
measure accurately the l-3Coth part of this
great circle, and if, when we have got the
measure of it into miles, we multiply it by
360, we get the circumference of the earth,
that is to say the whole distance around it.
Then by dividing this result by something a
a little over 3 (3-1416, the ratio of the cir
cumference of the circle to its diameter.) wo
find out how far it is from one side of the
earth to the other. This gives the diameter
of the earth.
Asa result of a long series of observation s,
it has been found that a degree measures 69|
miles. It can be stated in inches, but it is
near enough for us to give as a first state
ment of result that it is about miles ; and
if we take the trouble to multiply 69. J miles,
the average length of one degree, by 360
degrees, the number of degrees that there
arc all round the earth, you will find that the
circumference is something like 25.000 miles,
and, therefore, that the diameter of the earth
is something like 8,000 miles. Mark well
the words, “on the average.” In truth, the
earth is flattened at the poles, so that the
length of the degree varies from the pole to
the equator, and hence the diameter in the
equatorial plane is in excess of the diameter
from pole to pole. These two diameters, ex
pressed in feet, are as follows : Equatorial,
41.848,380; solar, 41,708,710.
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one of the most intelligent papers in the
whole country, in speaking of country news
papers, has this to say : One of the traits
of a truly good citizen, is to aid as far as he
can in supporting his county paper, tor that
paper can do more to promote the moral,
intellectual and material interests of his
county than any or all agencies. Show us a
county which supports a good news
paper, and we will show you a county whoso
people are intelligent, enterprising and pros
perous. A good newspaper flourishes only
where the people are known abroad for their
intelligence and prosperity in the pursuits of
life. About the best county to move from is
one which does not support, or supports but
indifferently, its newspaper. Alxmt the best
county to move into is one which does sup
port liberally, its newspaper.
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