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JEFFERSON. JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY. MARCH 5. ISSO.
TIRED MOTHERS.
A little elbow leans upon yonr knee
Y our tired knee that has so much, to bear —
A child'll dear eyes are looking lovingly
From underneath a thatch of tangled hair.
Perhaps you do not heed the velvet touch
Of warm, moist fingers holding yours so tight,
\ ou do not prize the blessings overmuch—
\ ou almost are too tired to pray to-night.
Hut it is blessedness! A. year ago
I did not see it as I do to-day—
We are all so dull and thankless, and too slow
To catch the sunshine till it slips away.
And now it seems surpassing strange to me
1 hat while I wore the badge of motherhood
I did not kiss more oft and tenderly
The little child that brought rue only good.
And if, some night, when you sit down to rest,
You miss the elbow on your tired knee—
-1 his restless curly head from off" your breast,
This lisping tongue that chatters constantly;
If from your own the dimpled hands had slipped,
And ne’er would nestle in your palm again,
If the white feet into the grave had tripped—
I could not blame you for your heartache then.
I wonder that some mothers ever fret
At their dear children clinging to their gown ;
Or that the footprints, when the days are wet,
Are ever black enough to make them frown.
If I could find a little muddy boot,
Or cap, or jacket, on my chamber floor—
If I could kiss a rosy, restless foot
And hear it patter in my house once more;
If I xcould mend a broken cart to-day,
To-morrow make a kite to reach the sky,
There is no woman in God’s world could say
She was more blissfully content than I!
But ah ! the dainty pillow next my own
Is never rumpled by a shining head!
My singing birdling from its nest has Hown—
The little boy I used to kiss is—dead.
HIS SECOND WIFE.
These wise people—these who manage
their neighbors’ affairs in theory much better
than they do their own in practice—shook
their heads in solemn conclave when Mr.
Hepworlh married the second time; hut an
added shade of venom was in their councils
when the village paper noticed, in a paragraph.
the birth of a son and heir at the great house.
“ Poor Clarice.” the}’ said. “ has no choice
now. It was bad enough when Hepworth
married a chit of a girl, who, of course cared
for nothing but his great wealth ; but now
there is a son, there is no hope for poor Clar
ice.”
A young, fair woman, herself in the very
spring time of life, yet having already taken
the holy lies of wife aud mother into her pure
heart, knelt in one of the rooms of the great
house—knelt to bring her beautiful face
nearer to the cradle upon which rested the
soft, delicate cheek of her baby boy.
A low knock at the door aroused her, and,
rising to her feet, she answered the summons.
Upon the threshold stood a woman a few
years older than herself, who led by tho hand
an exceedingly handsome boy who had seen
two summers only.
The woman was poorly dressed in a shabby
mourning suit, but the pretty little child wore
dainty white garments.
“ Did you wish to see me ?’’ Mrs. Ilep
worth asked, smiling sweetly on the child.
“ May I come in ?” was the woman’s ques
tion in return.
“Certainly, you look tired,” said Mrs.
Hepworth.
The stranger accepted the chair offered, and
sadly looked around the room.
“ Everything is altered,” she said in a
mournful voice. “ Perhaps I had better stay
away. Mrs. Ilepworth, you have heard of
Clarice Menderson ?”
“ I have not,” was the reply. “I am almost
a stranger here. We have been traveling
ever since I married, till a few months ago.”
“ And you never heard of me 1” said the
stranger, the tears rising in her eyes. “ Then
ray errand here is indeed hopeless. If, in his
new happiness as your husband my father
never spoke my name, it is useless to hope he
will forgive me.”
“ Your father ! Mr. Ilepworth your father ?
He told me he bad lost his only daughter.”
“ Not that I was dead ; I was lost to him
by my own disobedience. You love my
father ? M
Just a smile, proud, happy and tender,
answered her.
“ Then you will understand me,” said
Clarice, " when I tell you I loved my husband
better than father, home or duty. Father
would not hear of our marriage, and sternly
forbade me to speak to Lucien Menderson,
assuring me that lie was a fortune-hunter, a
gambler, and unworthy of my love. I would
not believe this. To me be was the noblest
and the best of men, and for him I left all to
fly secretly from home and father. I have
been bitterly punished.
“ I spare you the history of the four years
of married misery’ that followed. Then my
husband and eldest child died of contageous
fever. Three months later, on the very day
this boy was born, I heard of my father’s
marriage. I returned here, hoping for pardon,
but the bouse was shut up. When you came,
I determined to make one more effort for
forgiveness, hoping that you would plead for
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me.
“ If my praying will keep you here, Clarice,
you shall not leave your father’s house again.
Mr. Hepworth is in the library, and I will
speak to him at once.”
“ Cheer up, Clarice,” said the lady, bravely;
“ what !b your little boy’s name V'
“ Stephen. It was the name of my brother
who died. My first child was called after
father.”
‘'Stephen,” said Mrs. Hepworth, opening
her arm 9, “ come here, darling, and kiss your
grandmother.”
The child sprang at once to the lovely
grandmother, kissing her over and over
again.
Putting him into his mother’s arms, the
young wife lifted her own babe from the
cradle and left the room.
In the darkly-furnished library, Mr.
Hepworth was leaning back in his easy chair.
A light step aroused him from his reverie,
and his wife stood before him.
Her husband opened his arms to caress
her, and laughed as he said:
“ Oh, these mothers 1 Do you suppose,
madam, that babies are admitted Into the
sanctums of legal gentlemen T*
“ I do,” said the mother, “if the legal
gentlemen have the additional honor of being
their papas.”
“Did you know, Harold,” said Meta, her
lips quivering slightly as she felt the deep
import of her words, “ that this is my birth
day, and you have given me no present ?”
“ You are impatient, little wife,” he
answered, thinking of the costly bauble that
was to come without fail by noon.
“ But I would like to choose my own gift,”
she persisted.
“ What can I give my rosebnd that she
has not already ?”
Does not your office include the power
of pardon V* she asked, her bright, sweet face
paling with earnestness.
“In a limited degree it does,” he replied :
“ but, dear one. I shouldn’t like it to be known
that I show clemency to a criminal upon your
solicitations. Yon would bo constantly an
noyed by the loving relatives of scamps trying
to move ine to pity through your interces
sion.”
“ But this is not a case of roguery, Harold
—only a true penitent; one who erred in
extreme youth, was led from a path of duty
hj’ a love as true as our own, but mistaken ;
oh, dear husband, do you not know for whom
I would plead ? Cannot you guess for whom
I would beg ?”
“ Clarice ?” he asked hoarsel}-; “ who has
toll you of her ?”
“ She has come herself to seek your for-
giveness.”
“ She is here ?”
“ Yes. Y'ou will forgive her ? For the
sake of our own boy, Harold, let this be a
home for her and Stephen.”
“Stephen?” he cried, starting.
“ Her son. Her husband i9 dead. Sho is
widowed, poor and lonely. Let her return to
you home and your love, Harold.”
There was a moment of silence, and the
mother softly carried the strong right hand of
her husband in her own until it rested upon
the bead of the babe in her arms.
He looked down and said :
“ I grant your birthday wish, Meta. Take
me to Clarice.”
With a tender, loving kiss upon the hand
that still rested upon the child’s head, Meta
led the way back to her own pretty sitting
room, where the daughter awaited the result
of the errand.
As she heard the steps coming across the
wide hall toward the room where she was
seated, her agitation became too great for
patient waiting, and she stood up, bolding
her child by the hand, her breath coming in
quick, panting sobs, her eyes dilated with
suspense, and her whole figure quivering with
emotion.
It was this eager face that met the father’s
eyes as he opened the door—tho face of the
child to whom he had given the strength of
love of 3 r ears.
There was a cry of:
“ Father, dear, dear father.”
And they were folded fast in each other’s
arms, while Meta drew wondering Stephen
into an inner room and closed the door.
The gossips are divided in their opinions
as to the amount of hatred and jealousy
existing between the young widowed daughter
and the young wife at the great house, but
it would be quite beyond the power of their
narrow minds to understand the true sisterly
love that exists between Clarice Menderson
and Mr. Hepworth’s second wife.
The Cotton Crop.
A New Orleans telegram to the World says
the cotton receipts are falling off in compari
son with those of the same time last 3 r ear,
and the prevailing opinion now is that the
crop will be about 5,000,000 bales, distributed
among the States as follows : Florida, 75,-
000; Georgia, 750,000; Alabama, 725,000 ;
Mississippi, 975,000; Louisiana, 600,000 ;
Texas, 900,000; South Carolina. 350,000 ;
Tennessee, 225,000; Arkansas, 350,000; Vir
ginia, Missouri, Illinois, etc., 50,000. This
cotton will probably average to the producers
and middle-men, in round numbers, about
$275,000,000. Of this vast sum about $200,-
000,000 will be put to the credit of our ex
change account with foreign countries.
f Causes of Insanity.
A table in the last report ot tho Utica State
Insane Asylum, giving the occupations of
the patients, shows by far the largest number
(282 in a total of 410) whose occupation was
known were farmers’ housekeepers, meaning,
we suppose, farmers’ wives, laborers and do
raestic servants. This illustrates that a
monotonous and toilsome life, with little or
no relaxation or recreation, is more liable to
unsettle the mind aud destroy the reason than
a life of greater mental and social activity.
Most of the patients were native Americans,
and married. Their age3 in the main were
from twenty to forty ; very few wero illiterate ;
but very few also had more that a common
school education. In 427 cases bnt 122 In
herited any taint of insanity ; 263 patients
remained not over six months, and 141 nut
over two months, showing that the malady
was not severe. Intemperance was a minor
cause—eleven per cent. Female disorders
caused about twelve per cent., while the
prime cause iu the larger number of cases
was ill-health, stimulated by overwork, grief,
anxiety and sleeplessness. To tho causes
cited above which encourage mental dis
turbances we would add dyspepsia, due to
poor or ill-cooked food. In this connection
we would refer to the admirable paper on
health of Massachusetts farmers, by Dr. J. F.
Adams, of Pittsfiold, in the report of the
Massachusetts State Board of 1874. in which
a large amount of interesting data is given,
regarding the ill-health of the farmers, and
especially of their wives and daughters. Over
work, exposure, poor food, unsanitary dwel
lings, impure water, unventilated bedrooms
and insufficient recreation, are all mentioned
as the chief causes of sickness among this
class. It is denied that fanners are spocially
liable to insanity, yet it is added that causes
of insanity are not altogether wanting, as
shown by the eighty-one farmers admitted to
asylums the year before. The farmer lives
amid more natural conditions than the artisan,
business or professional man. But. while he
escapes intellectual strain, he labors too inces
santly and joylessly, and frets and worries
about his crops, his stock and his mortgages.
The remedy is more recreation and less
work. Then tho farmer may lost; his reputation
for chronic grumbling. —Sanitary Engineer.
Alexander Dumas.
Some years ago a merchant of Lyons was
returning from Paris to his natal city. In
the same compartment with him sat a tall
fellow, lively, talkative, ami full of gascon
nade, but on the whole, the best and most
amusing traveling companion one could wish
for.
On alighting at Lyons, the merchant,
charmed by the talking manner, and by the
gaiety of his neighbor, exclaimed :
“By Jove, sir, I am glad to have made
your acquaintance ! You arc a good fellow
—a charming fellow ! Can’t you talk though 1
Come, let us make a trade, will you ?”
“ Well, what kind of a trade ?”
“Comeand dine with me; at the dessert
we will speak about it. I have an idea—will
you come ?”
“Very well—but I will pay my share; I
insist upon it.”
“As you please ; what an amazing fellow
he is I Ah, but I like you !”
they took dinner together,
during which the merchant offered the tall
fellow a position as commercial traveler for
his house ; that was his idea.
“You have just the qualities roquired,”
said he ; “ you will make your way.”
“But, my dear sir—“
“ Come now ; how do you live ?”
“ Pooh, on very little !”
“ Well, how much do you make a year in
your branch ?”
“ From 20 to 80,000 francs.”
“ Goodness sakes alive ! hut what do you
do ?” asked the other, disappointed.
“ Oh, I scribble on sheets of paper with a
pen !”
“ Ah, bah—you are joking again, yon
rogue ! But what is your name ?”
“ Alexander Dumas 1”
Tableau.
Hottest Spot on Earth.
One of the hottest regions on the earth is
along the Persian Gulf, where little or no rain
falls. At Bahrin the arid shore has no fresh
water, yet a comparatively numerous popula
tion contrive to live there, thanks to the co
pious springs which break forth from the bot
tom of the sea. The fresh water is got by
diving. The diver, sitting in his boat, winds
a great goatskin bag around his left arm, the
hand grasping its mouth ; then takes in his
right hand a heavy stone to which is attached
a strong line, and thus equipped be plunges
in and quickly reaches the bottom. Instant
ly opening the bag over the strong jet of fresh
water, he springs up the ascending current,
at the same time closing the bag, and is
helped aboard. The stone is then hauled up,
and the diver, after taking breath, plunges
again. The source of the copious sub-marine
springs is thought to be in the green hills of
Osman, some five or six hundred miles dis
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A Significant Incident.
In one of battles of tbe late war, jeMf
Doctor D—, then a volunteer captain in tin
Union Army, led his men up to a
hand fight with a Confederate regiment.
“ I never,” said the captain, •* had killed *
man before. It was a mass of men I fonght-r—.
an idea, the whole South—not tbe individ
ual.
“ When I found myself, therefore, slasfe
ing away at a stout, fellow, whs*
might be some woman's husband, and soma
child’s father, I confess my courege gav*
way. 1 actually shut my eyes os I hacked
desperately at him with my sword. His trta
fell helplessly, and lie dropped fronjk hie
horse. * •
" An hour later, I saw ldm in the surgooiCe
tent. The arm had been amputated and lay
upon the floor. As the man was carried
away I saw on one of the Angers a ring car*
ved out of cannel coal. It looked to me lit**
a child's work, and I drew it off and followed
the wounded soidier, determining to restore
it. But in the confusion of the battle-field |
lost sight of him.”
The sequel to this story is a9 follows >
In the summer of 1878, when the yellow fe
ver was raging in,the South, Dr. D— was one
of the Northern physicians who answered
the call for aid.
He went to Memphis and laborod foo
weeks among the sick and dying. Among
the patients brought to the hospital was
Colonel C—, a man with but one arm.
Something familiar in the man’s hones%
face troubled our doctor. He gave his con
stant care to him, both nursed and
for him, and finally saw him recover.
two men became warmly attached;
One evening, when the Colonel was able,
to leave his bed, they took supper together.
Dr. D— suddenly drow from his pocket %
black ring and laid it on the table.
Why, this is mine 1” exclaimed the Cofi..
onel. “My boy Dick out that fof me thfcK
teen years ago.”
" Then it was I who put off- your
said D—,
The men arose and faced- each other el*,
lently a moment, and then their hands, raefc
in a hearty clasp. The.strife was over, an<fc
the true men were true brothers again.
A Slap that Was Paid fop.
Rude fun ought to cost the. maker, some*
thing—and it generally does. In this caao,
the offender gets off easier than he had any right
to expect, after his inexcusable assault. Says,
the Cape Ann. Advertiser:
Not many months ago a party of Bostoft
gentlemen came to this city and went on *
fishing party. Some of them got pretty Jolly,
one in particular, who, seizing one of tho,
codfish which they had caught, walked np the
wharf. He soon espied a veteran fisherman,
who was sawing wood, and under the ina*
pulse of the moment fetched him a whack,
across the face with the codfish.
In a moment he was sobered, The gen
erous impulse of a noble heart throbbed in hie
josom. He felt that bo had done t mean,
ungeutlcinanly act, and he meant to atna*
for it then and there.
Taking out a ten-dollar bill, he profeted fjt
to the,veteran, saying:
“Accept this, and let it wipe out any
loctions of the cowardly blow I straok yoo,
as I did not mean to do it, and am very aorvw'
for it.”
The veteran took the bill, his faoe beam
ing with mingled astonishment and delight,
and making a bow, remarked:
“See here, stranger, you can wipe me over,
the face all day long with a codfish, at ton
dollars a lick ! I don’t bear you a mite
ill-will, I don’t. I rather like your style.
When are you coming again?”
And that settled it. Ijt was luoky for the.
gav joker that his victim was of thick mate
rial enough to take money for an insult.
Cutting Oranges and Apples.
To cut the orange, make two parallel outs,
through the skin only, leaving a continuous’
band about an inch wide round the body cf
the orange. Remove the rest of the peel*
Cut through the divisions, and gently foro*
the whole open, and out, leaving each too-'
tion detached from the others, but .still fast
to the band of peel.
The apple is cut by setting the blade of ft
narrow, sharp-pointed knife in the oblique
position of the intended cut, and pushing it,
poiut first, directly to the core. When
the cuts arc so made, tho apple will come
apart in a very pretty manner. Care must
be taken not to let the knife slip through'
the apple, into tho hand.
Here is a good though not anew way to
cut an apple so that it will look whole anc{
unmarked while in tho dish, but, when pared,'
will fall to pieces without being cut with a
knife:
Take a fine noodle and a thin, gtrsag
thread ; insert the needle at the stem of tb6
apple in such a way that the poiut will oomo
out again away from tlie stem and a short
distance from the first insertion ; pall tbf
needle and thread through very carefully,
as not to break the skin or enlarge the holes.'
leaving a few inches of thread hanging as
the stem. Then put the needle back into
the second hole, thrust it in the same direc
tion as before, bringing out the point still
farther from the stem, and again pull the
thread through. Go on in this way straight
around the apple, and, when the thread comes
out at the stem, pull it by both ends very
carefully, until it lias cut entirely through,
and comes out of tlm apple. If pared now,
the fruit would fall in halves; but, by work*
ing the thread round under the skin as befoiet
at right angles to the first cut, and agatai
pulling the thread quite through at the stem l
the apple will fall into quarters.
After a little practice, tbo cutting can ha
(lone so skillful that only a very keen ey*
will he able to find out how it was accom
plished.
The recent session of the State Agf'.cul*
tural Society decided to hold no fair this*
fall, as the presidential election will be fch#
absorbing question this year. The society
will hold its fall session at Hartwell, on 4o|
10th of August. —Sorik Georgian.
NUMBER 39.