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JACKSON CO. PUB. COM’Y,) Proprietors. C VOLUME Y. 5% ■ ♦ i.— PUBLISHED EVEItY FItIDAY. ROBERT S. HOWARD, Editor and Publisher, JEFFERSON, JACKS OX CO ., GA. JFFICE, N. E. COR. PUBLIC SQUARE, UP-STAIRS. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Oue copy 12 months $1.50 " “ “ 1.00 “ “ 3 “ 50 •QT*For every Club of Ten subscribers, an ex tra copy of the paper will be given. RATES OF ADVERTISING. One Dollar per square (often lines or less) for-the first insertion, and SEVENTY-FIVE Cents for each subsequent insertion. B*£rA square is a space of one inch, measured up and down the column. ®ajr A 11 Advertisements sent without specifica tion of the number of insertions marked thereon, will he published TILL FORBID, and charged accordingly. aSP Business or Professional (’arils, of six lines er leas, Seven Dollars per annum; and where they do not exceed ten lines, Ten Dollars. £rgaf JWuertisciueuts. 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. Stoves ! Stoves ! Larger Stock than Ever! Prices as Low as the Lowest! The improved iron kixG IS THE ACKNOWLEDGED Monarch of all Cooking Stoves! All that l ask is a careful inspection of its me rits, which cannot fail to convince any one in want of a FIRST-CLASS COOK STOVE, BEAU TIFULLY FINISHED AND SUBSTANTIALLY MADE, that the Iron King has no Superior! I have now on hand the largest assortment of Cooking and Heating Stoves in Northeast Geor gia. Examine my stock and prices, and be con vinced. J. C. WILKINS, Broad Street, Athens, G-a. sept 26 \44 K.VFS WANTED For the Best and Fastest- Set tin;/ Pictorial Books and Bibles. Prices re duced 33 per cent. National Publishing Cos.. Phil adelphia, Pa.. Atlanta. Ga., or St. Louis, Mo. Uj i i'W'WA returns in 30 days on as IDO invest- Y/vJ cd. Official Reports and informa tion tree. Like profits weekly on Stock options of $lO to SSO. Address, J POTTER WIGHT & CO. Bankers, 35 W all St., N. Y. -Pr- A AUCPC WANTED.*.vo I C nVn CEI V lo MIOO r I*l-114 Nltl.Vril during Fall & Winter. For full particulars Address J. C. McCLRDA & CO.. Philadelphia, Pa. BAND TNSTRtnmTT CATALOGUE. Oar nctc catalogue of Band n Tyo/j Instrumt-uts,Music,Suit*, jJ ..j* Caps, Belts,l’ouc he*,Pom- \ pons, Drum Majors’ Staff?JT* ifil and Hats, JEpauleis, ix formation for musicians. X-YOX & HEALY, 162 State St., Chicago. lIL IDF*, SANFORD’S Liver inyigoratoß is a Standard Family Remedy for diseases of the Liver. Stomach and Bowels.—lt is Purely Vege table.—lt never Debilitates. —it is Cathartic and Tonic. It has been used in my practice and by the public for more than 33 years with unprece dented results. Send for Circular. S. T. W. SANFORI), M. D„ 162 Broadway, New York City. A> r Druggist, will tell you its Reputatiou. JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY. OCTOBER 31.1579. 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.