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Jackson Sheriff’s Sales.
WILL be sold, on the first Tuesday in Novem
ber next, before the Court House door in the
town of Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga., within
the legal hours of sale, the following property,
to-wit:
flic dwelling house, lot and premises now
occupied by and in the possession of Peter Mc-
Lester, in the town of Jefferson, Jackson County,
La., bounded on the west or front side by Wash
ington street, in Jefferson, Ga., on the cast or
hack side by the back street, on the south by the
lot now occupied by W. A. Worsham, and on the
north by cross alley, and containing one acre,
more or less. Levied on as the property of Peter
McLcster, defendant in li. la., to satisfy a ii. fa.
from Jackson Superior Court, in favor of L. and
A. J. Gilleland, for use of F. M. Dailey, plaintiff,
vs. Peter McLcster, defendant. Said ii. fa. con-
troled by F. M. Dailey. Said dwelling is a good
two-story frame dwelling, newly Unished and
painted. On said lot is a good garden and small
orchard, good well of good water, good kitchen,
Ac. Written notice given to Peter McLcster,
party in possession. Property pointed out by
plaintiff.
Also, at the same time and place, will be sold,
one tract or parcel of land, situate and lying in
the 245th District. G. M., of said county, known
a* part of the Hannah place, containing fifty
acres, more or less, bounded as follows: Com
mencing on the Lawrenecville road, at the corner
of F. M. Dailey’s lot, thence along said road to
Peter McLcster’s land, known as the Rat Duke
place, thence along the line of said place to a
branch, thence down said branch to J. E. Ran
dolph’s line, thence along said Randolph's line to
a line on F. M. Dailey’s land, thence along F. M.
Dailey’s line to the beginning corner. There is
about twenty-five or thirty acres in cultivation,
the remainder in old field. Said land is suitable
for a good cotton farm, and is within a half mile
of Jefferson. Levied on by virtue of and to sat
isfy a ft. fa. issued from the Superior Court of
said county, in favor of Thomas L. Ross vs.
Peter McLester; to be sold for purchase money.
Deed filed in the Clerk’s office, as the law directs.
Notice given to Peter McLestcf, defendant in li.
fa. and tenant in possession.
Also, at the same time and place, will be sold,
one tract or parcel of land, situate and lying in
the 245th District, G. M., of said count}', lying
on the south side of the road leading from Jell’cr
eon to Lawrenecville, adjoining the church lot of
the colored people. Said parcel of land being a
part of the lot now owned by F. M. Dailey, for
merly owned by Mitchell Few, and is supposed
to contain seven acres, more or less; the same
being that portion of the said Few lot that lies on
the east side of the branch that runs through the
said Pew lot. All of said tract is in cultivation.
°n said place is a log cabin. Levied on by virtue
of and to satisfy a fi. fa. issued from the Superior
Court of said county, in favor of Thomas L. Ross
vs. \Y iley Hancock. To he sold for purchase
money. Deed filed in the Clerk's office, as the
law provides. Notice given to Willis Oliver,
tenant in possession, and Wiley Hancock, defen
dant in ti. fa., as the law directs.
oct 3 T. A. McELIIANNOX, Sh’lL
| |l)Oltiili, •lm'ktton County.
Court of Ordinary. Sitting for County Purposes.
October Ist, 1879.
Ordered, by the Court, that two and one-half
tenths of one per cent, be assessed and collected
on the taxable property of Jackson county, as per
Digest of 1879, by the Tax Collector of said coun
ty, tax for county purposes for the year ending
September Ist, ISSO, as follows:
One and live-tenths of one per cent., to
pay expenses Superior Courts, jurors,
etc., amounting to, $1,773 98
One twenty-two and one-half of one-tenth
of one per cent., to pay repair and
building bridges, amounting to 749 SO
Cue twenty-three and four-fifth of one
tenth of one per cent., to pay Jailor’s
fees, etc., amounting to 400 00
One twenty-three and four-fifth of one
tenth of one per cent., for support of
the County Poor, amounting to 400 00
One seventeen and three-fourth of one
tenth of one per cent., to pay salary of
County Treasurer, amounting to 300 00
One thirty-five and one-half of one-tenth
of one per cent., for contingent fund,
to pay any lawful claim against the
county, amounting to 000 00
Total, for current county purposes..s4,223 78
It is further ordered by the Court that an extra
O'.x of seven and one-half tenths of one per cent,
he assessed and collected on the taxable property,
per Digest of 1879. of said county, by the Tax
Collector, for the purpose of paying forthebuild
htg of the new Court (louse of said county, now
in course of erection, for furnishing the same and
paying for. improving and enclosing the lot upon
" hich said Court House is being built.
11. W. BELL. Ord’y.
A true extract from minutes of said Court.
11. W. BELL.
Get. Ist. Ex-Officio Clerk Court Ordinary.
| J EOttUll, Jackson Count}.
Whereas, upon the petition of certain citizens,
asking that the public road recently established,
commencing at the rear of lane near Dr. DeLa
perrierc’s, and ending at the Jefferson and Mon
roe road, near Jack llanic’s residence, be discon
tinued. Reviewers were appointed, and having
made their report to me that said road is one of
public utility, and recommending said road
to be continued, it is ordered, that if no good
cause be shown to the contrary, an order will be
passed dismissing said application on the sth day
ot November next.
Liven under my official signature.
out 3 11, W, BELL, Ord’y.
LIGHT JOB WOBK,
Exeeui-ed promptly* at this office.
THE FOREST NEWS.
1 lie People tlieir own ltulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
Administrator’s Sale.
By virtue of an order of the Court of Ordinary
of Jackson County, granted in terms of law, will
be sold, to the highest and best bidder, on the Ist
Tuesday in November next, between the lawful
hours of sale, at the Court House door of said
county, in Jefferson, the following lands, to-wit:
One lot or parcel containing two hundred and
thirty-six acres, more or less, lying in the County
of Jackson, on the waters of Beech Creek, adjoin
ing lands of Jermimo Lay, lands of the Chandler
estate, lands of Harp Arnold and lands of Green
Bowman. On said lot there is twenty-five acres
in cultivation of bottom land, and about thirty
acres upland in cultivation; balance old field and
forest. On said lot comfortable cabin and out
buildings. One parcel containing one hundred
acres, more or less, adjoining lands of T. L. Day,
A. D. Walls, and the above described tract. On
said lot there is about thirty-five acres in cultiva
tion, all upland except three acres. On said lot
comfortable cabin and out-buildings. One fifteen
acre lot bounded by the above described lots,
mostly upland and in a state of cultivation. One
lot containing sixty-two acres, more or less,
bounded by the Dower of Mary McDonald and
the two first described lots. On said lot there is
about five acres of bottom land in cultivation,
and ten or twelve acres of upland in cultivation,
balance in old field and forest. All of said lands
lying in the 240th Dist., G. M. Sold as the prop
erty belonging to the estate of William McDonald,
deceased, lor the benefit of heirs and creditors.
Terms of sale cash.
J. s. ay. McDonald,
t. n. McDonald,
Administrators.
Administrator’s Sale.
WILL be sold, agreeably to an order of the
Court of Ordinary of Jackson County, be
fore the Court House door, in Jefferson, on the
first Tuesday in November next, the following
property, to-wit: A tract of land lying in said
county, adjoining lands of AYalls, Chandler and
others, containing forty acres, more or less ; about
12 or 15 acres in cultivation, balance in woods
and old fields. Said land sold as the property of
William AVilson, deceased, for the purpose of
paying the debts of said deceased. Terms cash.
SARAH WILSON,
Administratrix AY. AVilson, deceased.
oct 3
O.FiOICCaIA, JarkMui County.
Court of Ordinary. Sitting for County Purposes.
September 20th, 1879.
Ordered by the that the offices of the
Ordinary and Clerk of the Superior Court and
Sheriff of Jackson county, after this date, be and
the same arc hereby removed from the roomS
respectively occupied by each in the old Court
House building in Jefferson. The Ordinary’s
and Sheriff’s office to be removed and kept over
the store-room of F. M. Bailey, in Jefferson, and
the Clerk Superior Court office to be removed
and kept in the store-room formerly occupied by
Stanley & Pinson, in Jefferson.
11. AY. BELL. Ord’y.
A true extract from minutes of said Court.
11. NY. BELL,
oct 3 Ex-Officio Clerk C. (). J. C.
QEOKtiEI, Jackson C'oimty.
AYhcreas, /. T. Suddeth, Administrator of S.
Cowan, late of said county, deceased, represents
to the Court, by his petition duly filed, that he
has fully administered the estate of said deceased,
and is entitled to a discharge—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any they can, on the first
Monday in December, 1870, at the regular term of
the Court of Ordinary of said county, why Letters
of Dismission should not be granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this August
20th, 1879. 11. AY. BELL, Ord’y.
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SELECT MISCELLANY.
DICK.
[concluded.]
“But one day, along in August, it was
all-killin’ hot, and I got to goin’, and was
full afore I knew it, and the boys took me
home at night drunk as the devil! Oh, my
God, stranger! it don’t seem as though it
could be true, but it is : I was just beastly
drunk—mad drunk. I yelled, and cursed,
and tore ’round gen’ally. But Dick just got
the boys off that had brought me home as
quick a9 she could, and then she got my feet
into hot water, and bathed my head, and
bound it up with cold cloths, as tender as
though I’d been a baby. After a while she
got me quiet, and I went to sleep, and slept
like a log, till morning.
“AVhen I woke up, about four o’clock, I
was lyin’ on the front side o’ the bed, with my
face to the back. There was a lamp burn in’,
and soon as ever I opened my eyes, I saw
Dick lyin' there lookin’ right at me, and she
says, ‘George, do you want anything?’ just
as though I was the weakest and sickest man
in the world, and she just dyin’ with pity for
me. My head felt as though it was about as
big as the moon, and my throat was as dry
and hot as the road to hell. So I told her
I’d like a drink o’ water but that I’d get up
and get it. But afore I could stir, she’d
bounced out over the foot o’ the bed, and had
it fur me. It was the first time Dick had ever
seen me drunk, or anything but just as kind
and gentle as I knew how to he; but she
never said a cross word to me. She never
cried and took on, the way some women
does; but was just as kind and lovin’ tome,
as though I was the best man in the whole
business. Oh, 1 tell you, Dick’s a woman,
she is!
“But, stranger, you can’t have much notion
o’ how I felt, about that time. You see if a
woman snarls ’round, and cries, and snuffles,
and calls in the preacher to pray with you.
and talks to the neighbors about such things,
why, then, it kind o’ gives a feller some
excuse for goin* to the devil; but to have her
do as Dick did, —never say one word o’
blame, —why, then, you see, it don’t give a
feller anything to go on, and it just cut me
up worse’n anything ever I struck afore in
my life.
“AA'ell, we got up and got some breakfast,
and then we went into the little parlor we
had, and I took Dick on my lap, and pulled
her head down on my shoulder, and put both
arms around her, and then I couldn’t stand
it any longer ; and I just broke right out,
‘Oh, Dick !’ but that was as far as I got, for
then we both broke down and cried. Lord,
stranger !—to think o’ Dick doin’ that, and
my makin’ her do it.
“After a while I said, ‘Dick, by the ever
livin’ God, this shall never happen again !’
but she put her band over my mouth, and
says she, ‘Hush, George. Don’t say such
an awful thing.’ You see Dick’s religions,
and she couldn’t bear to hear me say such a
fearful oath. ’Don’t say so,’ she says, ‘for
if 3*oll can't keep such a vow, don’t make it,
and break it, for that will only make a bad
matter worse.’ And then says she, ‘George,
you know it will just about kill me to have
you drink so, but I don’t care for that; it’ll
kill you, too. So, if you can quit, do, and
I’ll do everything in the world for 3*011.’
And then she hid her face again, and cried.
Oh, it seemed as I should go wild ! I sat
there and held her, as she sobbed, and cursed
myself, to myself, for a heartless devil. I
couldn’t find curses bad enough for me ; but
the more I cursed myself, the worse I seemed.
And pretty* soon Dick looked up, and she
says, ‘George, am I to blame for this?
Have I been a kind of poor, weak wife to
you, instead of the good, noble woman 3*oll
deserve, and so you’ve bcon disappointed,
and gone to drinking on account of it ? Oh,
if I have
“I didn’t hardly mean to tell you that
last, stranger; but 3*oll see I’m at it, and I
might as well tell it all. Did you ever hear
anything like it in all your life?—to have
her blame herself for my drinkin’, when I’d
been at it for more’n ten years, and wa’n’tfit
to be thought of in the same year with her!
But that’s just like Dick. Oh, she’s a woman,
she is ! I can’t tell 3*oll anything about it,
stranger. But anyhow, I just promised Dick
by all that was holy, that this should be the
last time, and I’d quit forever. And I meant
to keep my promise, when I made it. I did,
so help me God !
“Well, we sat there, and by and by Dick
felt better, and she said just the best things
to me, —didn’t say one word against me, you
know, and kind o’ kept talkin’ quiet-like
about other things, till we both got to feelin’
happy again, almost as though nothin’ had
gone wrong. And then, just afore I had to
go, Dick says, ‘George, I want to say a
little prayer.’ And so we kneeled down
together, and she put both her hands in mine
and hid her face on m3* neck, and she prayed.
She says, ‘Oh, Father in heaven, help George
to he what he really is, the best man in the
world ; and help me to be to him the best
wife that ever lived. Amen.’ Stranger,
there aipt wauy words in that prayer; but
if the best preacher that ever went to glory
had ’a’ prayed a month, he couldn’t ’a’ said
anything better’n that. “And then we stood
up, and Dick kissed me, and I went out and
started down to head-quarters.
“Now, it may seetn strange to you, aud
almost out o’ reason, stranger; but as sure
as you live, after all that, prayin’ and all, I
stopped and got a drink afore I got down
town! It’s a fact! Not fifteen minutes
after Dick had said that little prayer, and I’d
swore I’d never touch another drop, I’d
swallowed a glass o' whisky straight. That
seems awful, don’t it? AA’ell, it was; but it
didn’t seem so to me then. 1 didn’t mean to
be such a confounded liar and sneak as I
really was. You see, I made myself think
it was the best thing to do. As Joe Jefferson
says in ‘liip,’ I thought I wouldn’t count
that time. (I tell you lie can play that enough
to raise a feller’s hair, that knows what’s
what. You see, I was all unstrung in my
nerves from my spree the day afore, and
Dick gettin’ hold o’ me the way she did
unstrung me all the worse ; and I thought I’d
take just one glass for medicine—just to
brace up, you know, and steady my nerves.
That’s the way l reasoned to myself. But it
was all a fraud—just a hellish fraud, and
nothing else. AY hat I really wanted was
straight whisky, and that’s the way with all
these fellers that quit only just for medicine,
and take hitters, and blackberry cordial, and
tincture o’ rliuburb, and all that kind o’ truck.
Oil, I know how the} 7 do, for I’ve been there,
and lied it out with the best of ’era.”
The train stopped at a station and my
companion stepped out upon the platform to
banter the hoys who were braking a down
freight. Returning, lie went on :
“I tell you, stranger, man’s a curious
animal, lie’ll not only lie to others about
whisky, but lie'll lie to himself. He’ll lie
just as fast as lie can talk, about anything
connected with his drinkin’. That’s a pretty
rough thing to say, but it’s so, and there’s
millions o’ men’d tell you so, if they’d be
honest, but they wont be, that’s what’s the
matter with ’em. You see, what a man wants
is somebody that he can go to, and just know
that they know him from head to foot, —
know how infernally weak, and sneakin', and
lyin’, and mean he is, on this whisky business,
and then give himself up and tell ’em the
whole thing, just as it is, keep nothin’ back,
and then have ’em keep track of him. I
don’t mean in any sneakin’ kind of a way,
as thongh they kind o’ felt above him, and
looked down on him, as though he was a
poor devil that they had to be bored by
lookin’ after; not that, but look after him as
a mother would after her baby that was weak,
and sick, and couldn’t go alone, and had to
be helped. I tell you that's wlmt a feller
wants when he gets to goin’ on whisky!
But, Lord, just signin’ a pledge don’t amount
to much, to a real old soaker, if lie haint sot
some friend to back him up.
“Now, 3*ou sec how it was with me. I
promised, just as sacredly* as I could, never
to drink again, and I meant to do as I said,
and yet I’ve told you just what I did. You
see, I (jot off alone and jot beat by a jood
excuse. Well, I took one drink and it stead
ied me down, and made me feel so good, that
pretty soon I took another. You see, I
thought then I’d kinder taper off, and it
would be easier. That’s another good ex
cuse, yon see. And that night I went home
and spoke up as cheerful to Dick as though
it was all right, and I’d kept mv word, and
she let on as though she thought I had. And
that's where we both missed it! You see,
Dick’knew I’d been drinkin’, but she loved
me so she couldn't bear to let me know she
did, and I thought I’d drunk once, and she
didn’t find me out, and so I could again.
But the thing run along, and every day I’d
drink more or less, and just aeussin’ myself
for it ever3* time, too, but still keepin’ at it,
till one day about a month after my first
spree I got to goin’ again, and it was the
same old story right over, only worse.
Stranger, there aint nobody but what’s been
through something o’ the kind that knows
anything about it.
“Well, I was brought home again drunk
er’n ever. But Dick was just the same. She
never said, *1 told you so,’ or an3*thing like
that, but got right to work to get me through,
as sho did afore, only gentler and better, if
such a thing could be.
“It’s no use tellin’ you about gettin’ over
that time. It was just about as it was afore,
only I was more discouraged, and D ck better
and braver’n ever.
“I wanted to promise her again, that this
should be the last time, but she said no, as
she did afore. But I promised, anyhow, and
Dick prayed God to help me to keep my
promise, and I meant to, then, more’n ever
before; but inside of a week. I was at it
again, on the sly. I didn’t let even the hoys
know o ray drinkin’. And I tell you, stran
ger, when it comes to that, a fellow’s got
about as low down as he can get.
“So 1 kep’ on till about the first o’ Novem
ber, lyin’ to get my* liquor, lyin’ about drink
in’ it, and all the while thinkin’ L’d stop.
But one day I got on a slide again, and I
don't believe 1 ever di<4 fcjet so full afore. I
was fightin’ drunk, and that night the boys
carried me home on a shutter. Oh, I was
used up bad. But Dick begun on me just
as before, without a word. 1 don’t hardly
know whether to tell you all o’ this or not,
stranger.—Yes. I will—you wont know all
o’ what a woman Dick is, if I don’t.
“AA'ell, after the boys went away, and
Dick was workin’ over me, I got wild. 1
raved, and tore ’round the house, broke the
furniture, drove the nigger woman out o’ the
house, and worse’n all, I—l struck Dick!
\ es, I did, stranger,—struck her right over
the head, with the round of a chair, and cut
a gash two inches long, just over her left
eye. She carries the mark o’ that blow to
tins day.
“The blow knocked her down for a minute,
but she got up and never minded herself, but
just ’tended to me, and the blood a-runnin’
all down her face—Dick’s face, you under
stand. AA’ell, when I see the blood on her
face it kind o’ scared me, aud after a while
Dick got me quiet and off to sleep, and then
she went out and got the surgeon, and had
her forehead sewed lip, and then come back
home and sat up with me all night. Oh, you
don’t begin to know yet what kind of a wo
man Dick is ! That’s what she did, stranger.
There aint one woman in a million that would
’a* done it, but she did, and would ’a’ done
it again, if slic’d had to, God bless her.
“AA hen I woke up in the morning, Dick
was movin’ 'round the room tryin’ to get a
little breakfast. You see the nigger didn't
come back after I drove her out, and I don’t
blame her. I rolled over and got out o’ bed,
pulled on ray clothes, and chucked my feet
into an old pair o’ slippers, and shuffled
toward the door. Dick says, ‘AAHierc are
you goin’, George?’ ‘l’m goin’ out to get a
drink,’ says I, as harsh as I could speak.
(I never spoke to her like that when I was
sober, afore or since.) 4 I’m gone to the devil
any how, and I might as well make a clean
job of it while I’m at it. I’ve been drinkin’
right along ever since I promised you to quit,
and I can’t stop, so I might as well go fast,
while I’m goin’,’ and I started out. Then
Dick says, ‘George, you needn't to go, I’ve
got some whisky here.’ And she went to
the closet and took out a quart flask, full,
and give it to me! She did, for a fact,
stranger ! She'd gone out in the night and got
that bottle filled for me to drink!
“Well, I drank about half the bottle
without ever takin’ it from my lip, and be,
tween then and eight o’clock I drank the
balance. That steadied me a little, and I
eat a little breakfast, and then I went and
sat down on the bed Uy Dick, I didn’t say
a word, AYhat could I say ? I just set down
and took hold of her hand. Oh, my God,
stranger! It makes me almost faint now to
think o’ that morniiT.
“ Dick was pale, her hea<l was bandaged
up. and she’d been siltin’ up with me all
night. But she let me take her hand, and
hold it, too. And she never said one word
against me for drinkin’, oj breakin* up the
furniture, or strikin’ her, or anything. And
we set there, that way, for about five minutes,
not sayin’ a word, but just lookin’ down on
the floor and thin kin*. And then Dick says,
quiet like, * George, you can't last long at this
rate. I’ve kno wed all the time since you
come home that first night, that in spite of all
your promises, you was drinkin’ all the time,
and I did wrong not to let you know I know
ed it, but I didn’t think it would ever be so
bad as this. But, George, even if 30U have
got so in the habit of drinkin’ that you can’t
stop, can’t you do this ?—get your liquor and
bring it home and drink it Imre, and not try
to deceive me, or have those awful men bring
you home so off from the street.’
“ I tell you, stranger, that let daylight
through me. I saw then that Dick knew me
through and through,—that she knew what a
lyin’ devil I’d been, and had knowed it all
the time, Pretty soon she put her arms
around nu r neck, and said, 4 George, you
know I’d die in a minute to save you. I
promised, when I married you, that I’d stand
by you. and be a true wife to you, as long as
I lived, and I’ll do it; for in your heart of
hearts you’re tho best man in the world, and
I can t bear to have you away from me when
you’re wild with liquor. Oh. George, George !
you must not get away from me. I know it
all. You are a noble man, but the fiends
have got hold of you, and made you whatj ou
never shall be; for you and I together will
beat them, with God's help and blessing.
You must tell me everything after this, and
I’ll do the same to you. If vou must drink,
drink here at home with me, and never try
to deceive me ; but love me,* and trust me,
and I will you, and then we’ll win, for God
will bless our honesty and love,’ That’s what
she said, stranger. * Yon needn’t promise
me that you wont drink,’ she says, ‘only, if
you do drink, come and tell me all about it.
and just how you broke down, and we’ll try
again to make that weak place strong. If
you can help it, don't ever drink without ask
in' my advice about it, Dun’t make excuses
why you should drink, without tellin' me
about them, and together we can do what we
never do apart.’
“ Well, stranger, that got me ! You see,
S TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM.
} SI.OO For Six Months.
there wa 111 nobody, nor nothin’, in heaven
or on earth, that cotrld ’a* dpnc for mo what
Dick did. An<F she just said another one o'
them little prayers o’ liers, and then I kissed
her and prayed, the first real prayer I ever
; prayed in my fife,—jifst prayin’ God to bless
I her, —amt then I went out to my work. And
afore God, stranger, from that day to this,
I vc never put a drop o’ liquor between my
lips, and I never will ! As soon as I seo
that Dick knowed it all, and made up my
mind to go to her when 1 couldn’t go alone
then I was all right.
“And so I quit, and all hell couldn't mako
me begin again, and Dick knows it. She
never says anything to me about it, never
asks me about it, or suspects me ; but we just
understand each other in a quiet wmy, and
that s enough. I’ve learned to distrust my.
self and to trust Dick. Oh, Dick’s a woman,
she is!
“ We’ve had a. lot o’ trouble sinoe then, but
we’ve been mighty happy, and Dick’s always
try in to comfort me and help me, and keeps
up wonderful herself.
*’ lately she’s been beggin’ me to leave tho
road. She s lonesome. I'm away so much,
and I vc been thinkin' for a good while I’d
quit, and now I’ve made up my mind to, any
how. 1 lie last trip but one that I made, one
of the boys that was brakin' on the freight
just ahead o’ ours, fell off between the cant
somehow, and was all cut up. Well, Dick
found out about it, and it nearly set her wild,
for she said I’d be brought home that way
sometime, and then she’d be left all alone.
And she begged me so hard that l told her
I’d quit.
“ So after I got into Chioago tills mornin*,
I took the passenger back to Miohigan City,
to meet tho pay-car there, and get my dis
charge, I can get something to do, I know,
and Diek says if I oan't she’s got a sewin’,
machine and two wash.tubs, and she’ll take
in sewin’ and washin* rather’n have me on
the road. But I don’t think I see her doin'
that, just yet,—not while I’m alive,
“ It’ll be two o’clock to-night when I get*
home, but Dick knows I’m cornin’. I tele,
graphed her this evenin’, and she’ll be up,
and have the coziest little fire and the nicest;
cup o’ coffee, and a little supper made up,
that ever was in all the world. And shell
hear me come a crumpin’ along on tho side,
walk, and she’ll open the door and tho light'll
shine out—=~-oh, say, stranger, you couldn’t
stop over one train and come up and seo
Diok, oould you ? Oh. well, that's so, ‘busi
ness is business,’ and if 3’ou can't, why it's,
all right; only I’d like to have you know
Dick, that’s all. For she's the best woman
the hord over made, and, in spite of all our
troubles, she's one o’ the happiest women
that lives, and l reckon that man don’t
breathe that’s any happier or proudoFn J[ bo,.
I don’t, stranger, for a fact.
“Well, here we are, all safe as a dollar,.
I thought Jack ’u’d take her through all
right, ’Taint every feller that could ’a’ done
it though, yuu want to know, Good.night,
I’ve talked a goad deal to you, but then I’vo
had something good to talk about, that's one
thing sure. Good night! God bless you 1.
“Oh! I say, stranger, Jack has pulled het
down a little further’n common to-night*
The brakes didn’t hold, I guess, and if it,
was daylight, I could show you the houses
where we live, right from here. It's up on
the hill, right up to the hea l o’ this street*
I’ll tel! you, though ; the train’ll stand hero
ten minutes, while they change engines, and*
if you was to keep watch, may be you’d seo
the light shine out when Dick opens the*
door! Good-night. Good-night, stranger !”•
lie stopped briskly out along the walk*
swinging his lantern as he wont, 1 stood aud
watched the swaying spark far up the street*
following it, as on another morning, and iq
another land, a hand of hopeful hearts follow*
ed the light that led them to the place where.
Love Divine had made its home. It grew
fainter and fainter in the distance, but ever
swung to and fro, till, like the star of old, it.
came to the place where Love was, and there*
like that, it stood,
Suddenly a broad gleam of golden light
flashed out into the darkness, it glimmered
for a moment and was gone. The door had
closed upon George and Dick, shutting them
into the sacred radiance of their home, and
into ray heart forever, Monthly
Majwiiue,
“ The Kind of a Democrat Ben Is.’ 1,
What is Democracy ? The right of tho
people to govern themselves, to have their
own ballots and make their own buys ; to hava
the equal protection of those laws everywhere
on earth. Is there any belter Demncrftcy
than that? Do you know of any bettor [A
voice-=.“Appose,] Democrat? Why t
l can answer to every shibboleth of Demo
cracy. I was a Democrat when Frank Bird
was a conscious Whig, [Daughter and
applause.] I was a Derooornt when J. G,
Abbot was a coalition Free Soiler. [Applause
and laughter.] I was a Democrat when J. (*.
Abbott was a Know Nothing Judge. [Long
and loud applause.] J was a Democrat when
John Quincy Adams was a Beacon street
Whig. [Laughter and applause.] I wag iy
Democrat when the order wout forth froiq
State street to Lowell to put up a placard that
any man who voted the Ben Butler ten-hour
ticket would be turned out of employment.
[A voice—“ Good boy,” Applause. An
other voice—“ A r e you a Democrat now?M
Cries of 44 Put him out.”] A better Democrat
and an older one than yon were before yoq
were born.” [ Applause and laughter.] — From
his Recent Fane nil Hall Speech.
NUMBER 21.