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1W pay of third and fourth class poet-
WsUn of the United States ranges all
tk way from SI,OOO to forty-nine cents
per jeer. The last named is the exact
amount paid a North Carolina postmastei
kst year ____________
The amount of'capital invested in pot
•sHes in this country is now $8,000,000,
and the value of last year’s product was
about the same. The growth of the in
tustry has been materially increased by
the manufacture of jars and pots for
decoration by young women with the
art craze. •
Speaking of the use of alcoholic
preparations in the treatment of cholera
and kindred diseases the British Medical
Journal says: “The superstitious value
attached to alcohol in the treatment of
disease is fast disappearing from en
lighte Jed medical circles, and the use of
alcoholics in the great London hospitals
is largely diminishing, with good re
sults.” It illustrates the sentiment by
referring to the experience of the ‘Lon •
don temperance hospital, where alcohol
has been given in only three out of three
thousand in-patient cases, with an
average annual mortality of five per cent,
during twelve years.
The Norwegians in Minnesota have in
troduced their peculiar snow shoes there.
The shoes are made of strips of hard
wood, about ten feet long and six inches
wide, slightly turned up in front. They
are fastened to the foot at about the mid
dle of the shoe. The wearer slides over
the snow, not trying to lift the shoes, and
carries a pole with which to keep his bal
ance. After the big snows of the past
winter these shoes were almost the only
means of locomotion in Dodge county.
It was not unusual to see something like
half a cord of shoes piled in front of a
store, within which their wearers were
chopping.
Every minute of the day seventy human
beings are brought into existence and
sixty-seven arc removed, says a writer.
The population of the world is steadily
increasing at the rate of three per minute,
of 4,320 per day, more than 1,500,000
per year. Just think of the yearly in
crease of man being equal to the entiro
population of the State of lowa. Where
do they all go? The home of the huamn
race, so far as we are able to learn, was
in Asia, and from there all the nations
have come. The rapid increase of popu
lation in the United States shows the
tendency of the race to scatter and seek
new fields.
“The Rebels’ Rest” is the name of a
house that stands in the wilderness of
Sao Paulo, the most southern of the
Brazilian provincas, and within a few
miles of the house are a score or so of
plantations held by men once citizens of
the United States. These colonists went
thither at the collapse of the Confeder
acy. They now number about 000 per
sons, and they still keep up their Ameri
can maiiw ers Md commercial customs.
The leader of little band - Robcrt
who was A Ci>. ' ngineer, re
cently saw Bedford Mackey, the v nl c
States consul at ftio Qruime do Sul, anß
assured him of the prosperity of the
planters, who, however, often wish they
were in North America again.
William Guyton was a brnkemau on
the Evansville and Terre Haute railway.
There was a collision in which he was
badly injured, but remembering that a
passenger train was due soou, he managed
to extricate himself from the wreck, and,
mangled and bleeding, seized a red flag
and stagg< red up the track. Twice he
fell from exhaustion, but pluckilygot up
and went on and flagged the train 500
yards from the place of danger. Then
he fainted away- and remained uncon
scious for two (fays. When he recovered
he w.s a cripple for life, lie sent the
doctor’s bill to the railroad company and
payment was refused. Then he sued for
SIO,OOO, and a jury has just awarded him
$5 ,083 damages after four years of liti
gation.
Articles of incorporation has been 1
sued at Springfield, 111., to the Trans
continental Aerial Navigation company
at Chicago to establish aerial transporta
tion lines, the capital stock being $150,-
000 and the incorporators Dr. Arthur De
Bausatt, Eugene Marquerat, and Jules
Lang. Mr. De Bausatt has lived in Chi
cago -for several years, aud has made a
study of aerial navigation for over twen
ty-two years. His ideal is to build an
air ship, the length of which will be 174
feet. Its width is to be twenty-four feet
and its height twenty-two feet. It is
expected to prove by the vacuum theory
that it is possible to navigate the air by
the laws of gravitation, by overcoming
the pressure of the atmosphere without
the use of hydrogen or any other gas.
The doctor is in receipt of a very flatter
ing letter from the Smithsonian institute
concerning his invention.
At the recent convention of the Na
tional Agricultural and Dairy associa
tion in New York, a paper was read by
8. Sato, of Japan, on ‘‘The Past and
Present of the Agrarian System in Ja
pan.” Mr. Sato described the land ten
tire and agricultnre under the old feudal
system and said that lands were now held
chiefly in fee-simple by peasant proprie
tors. The average of farms in Japan
was one acre, as against 134 acres in the
United States. The method of farming
was to work a small piece of ground
carefully and always up to its fullest ca
pacity. The law of diminishing returns
Lad apparently not been carried out. The
same plot had yielded the same crop
Rf* rice for many years. Lately stock
been introduced, but ouly a few of
.he wealthiest classes ate flesh to any ex
tern. The farmers lived on the cereals
nnu fruits. Of the 37,000,000 inhabi
tant- 13,000,000 were engaged in agri
culture.
&rwm the CUnp Looser.)
BOLIVIA;
• oa,
Ml DOCTOB’E TWO LOVES.
ST THX AUTHOR OT
m The Second Mrs, Tillotson,” “Never
Forgotten,” Etc., Etc.
CHArTEIt L
AS OPES DOOB.
I think I was as nearly mad as I could
be- nearer madness, I believe, than 1 can
ersr oe again, mans uoa: xnree weecs oi
it had driven me to the very verge of des
peration. I cannot say here what had
brought me to this pass, for I do not know
into whose hands these pages may fall; bnt
I had made np my mind to persist in a cer
tain line of conduct which I firmly believed
to be right, while those who had authority
over me, and were stronger than I was,
were resolatcly bent upon making me sub
mit to their will. The conflict had been
going on, more or lees violently, for
months; now I had come very near the end
of it. Ifelt that I must either yield or go
mad. There was no chance of my dying: 1
was too strong for that There was no
other alternative than subjection or in
sanity.
It had been raining all the day long, in t
ceaseless driving torrent which had kept
the streets clear of passengers. I could see
nothing bnt wet flagstones, with little pools
of water lodging in every hollow, in which
the rain-drops splashed heavily whenever
the storm grew more in earnest. Now and
then a tradesman’s cart, ora cab, with the
drivers wrapped in mackintoshes, dashed
past; and I watched them till they were out
of my sight
It had been the dreariest of days. My
eyes had followed the course of solitary
drops rolling down the window-panes, un
til my head ached. Toward night-fall I
could distinguish a low, wailing tone,
moaning through the air; a quiet prelude to
a coming change in the weather, which was
foretold also by little rents in the thick
mantle of cloud, which had shrouded the
sky all day. The storm of rain was about
to be succeeded by a Storm of wind. Any
change would be acceptable to iue.
There was nothing within my room less
dreary than without, I was in London, but
in what part of London I did not know.
The house was one of those desirable
family residences, advertised in the Time*
as to be let furnished, and promising all
the comforts and refinements of a home. It
was situated in a highly respectable, though
not altogether fashionable, quarter; as 1
judged by the gloomy, monotonous rows
of buildings which I could see from my
window; none of which were shops, but all
private dwellings. The people who passed
up and down the streets on fine days were
all of one stamp, well-to-do persons, who
could afford to wear good and handsome
clothes; but who were infinitely less inter- j
•sting than the dear picturesque beggars of
Italian towns, or the sprightly well-dressed
peasantry of French cities. The rooms on
the third floor—my rooms, which I had not
been allowed to leave since we entered the
house, three weeks before—were very badly
furnished, indeed, with comfortless, high
horsghair-seated chairs, and a sofa of the
same uncomfortable material, cold and
slippery, on which it was impossible to
rest. The carpet was nearly threadbnre,
and (he curtains of dark red moreen were
very dingy; the mirror over the chimney
piece seemed to have been made purposely
to distort my features, anil to produce iir
me a feeling of depression. My bed-room,
which commuuicated with this agreeable
sitting-room by folding-doors, was still
smaller and gloomier; and opened upon a
dismal backyard, where a dog in a kennel
howled dejectedly from time to time, and
rattlod his chain, as if to remind me that 1
was a prisoner like himself. 1 had no
books, no work, no music. It was a dreary
place to pass a dreary time in; and my only
resource was to pace to and fro—to and fro
• —, „ ne en( j t 0 another of those wretched
ifhtnsT’ 7 £—*.- !
I hatched the day grow dusk, and then
dark. The rifts in the driving clouds ware
growing larger, and the edges were tom. 1
left off roaming up and down my room, lik
some entrapped orealnre, and sank down
on the floor hy the window, looking out for
the pale, sad blue of the sky which gleamed
now and then through the clouds, till the
night had quite set in. I did not cry, for I
am not given to overmuch weeping, and
my heart was too sore to bo healed by
tears; ncithcT did I tremble, for 1 held out
mjr hand and arm to make sure they were
steady; but still 1 felt as if 1 were sinking
down —down into an awful profound de
spondency, from which I should never
rally; it was all over with me. {had noth
ing before me but to give up, andown my
self overmatched and eonqhe"red. 1 hav6
a half-rememberance that ns I crouched
there in the darkness I sobbed once, and
crigd under my breathy “God_help me!"
Avery slight sound gr ted on my ear,
and a fresh thrill of strong resentful feel
ing quivered all through me; it was th 6
hatgful click of key turning m the
lockT It gave me force enough to cany
out my defiance a little longer. Before the
dgoy jonld be opened I sprang to my feet,
and stood erect, and outwardly Very calm,
gazing through the window, with my face
turned away from the persons who were
coming in; I was so placed that I could see
them reflected in the mirror over the fire
place. A servant came first, cairying in a
tray, upon which were a lamp and my tea
such a meal as might be prepared for a
school-girl in disgrace. She came up to
me, as if to draw down the blinds and close
the shutters.
“Leave them,” I said; “I will do it my
self by-and-by."
"He's not coming home to-night.” said
a woman's voice behind me in a scoffing
tone.
I could see her, too, without turning
round. A handsome woman, with bold
black eyes, and a rouged face, which
showed coarsely in the ugly looking-glass.
She was extravagantly dressed, and wore
a profusion of ornaments—tawdry ones,
mostly, but one or two I recognized as my
own. ’ She was not many yearn older than
myself. I took no notioe whatever of her,
or her words, or l>er presence; butcon
tinueJ to gaze out steadily at the lamp-lit
streets and stormy sky. Her voice grew
hoarse with passion, and I knew well how
her face would bum and flush under the
ronge.
“ It will be no better for yon wheu he is
at home.” she said tiercel}’. “He hates you;
he swears so a hundred times a day, and he
is determined to break your proud spirit
for you. We shall force yon to knock un
der sooner or later; and I warn you it will
be best for yon to be sooner rather than
later. What friends have you got any
where to take your side? If you'd made
friends with me, my flue lady, you’d have
found it good for yourself: but you've
chosen to make me your enemy, and I’ll
make him your enemy. You krow as well
as I do, he can't bear the sight of your
long, puling face.”
Still I did not answer by word or sign. I
set my teeth together, and gave no indica
tion that 1 had heard one word of her
taunting speech. My silence only served
to fan her fury.
“Upon my soul, madam," she almost
shrieked, “you are enough to drive mo to
murder! I could beat you, standing there
bo dumb, as if 1 was not worthy to iipe.ik a
word to. Ay! and I would, but for him.
j Sc then three weeks of this hasn't broken
j you down yet? but you are only making it
I the worse for yourself; we shall try other
means to-morrow. ”
Sho lmd no idoa how nearly my spirit
was broken, for 1 gave her no reply. She
cniue up to where 1 stood, and shook her
clench, and hand iu my face—a large well
shaped hand, with bejeweled fingers, that
J could have given pie a heavy blow, llei
GEORGIA HOME JOURNAL: GREENESBORO. FRIDAY. APRIL 1C INBd.-EK.HT p a gks.
face was dark with passion; yet she wai
-iinta i r'!Lg sonle oostro! oei herself, al
though with great difficulty. She had
never struck me yet, but I trembled and
shrank from her, and was thankful when
she flang herself oat of the room, pulling
the door violently after her, and locking it
noisily,S if the harsh jarring sonnds would
be more terrifying than the tones of hei
own voice.
Left to myself I turned round to the
light, catching a fresh glimpse of my face
in the mirror—a paler anil sadder and more
forlorn face than before. I almost hated
myself in that glass. lint I was hungry,
for I was young, and my heaMfe and ap
petite were very good; and 1 sat down tc
my plain fare, and ate it heartily. I felt
stronger and in better spirits by the time 1
had finished the meal; I resolved to brave, it
out a little longer. The house was very
quiet; for at present there was no one in il
except the woman and the servant who had
been up to my room. The servant was a
poor London drudge, who was left in
charge by the owners of the house, and
who had been forbidden to speak to me.
After a while 1 heard her heavy shambling
footsteps coming slowly np the staircase,
and passing my door ou the way to the at
tics above; they sounded louder than
usual, and I turned my head found invo’-
uuturily. A thin, fine streak of light, no
thicker than a thread, shone for an instant
in the dark corner of the wall close by tht
door-post, bnt it died away almost before I
saw it. My heart stood still for a moment,
and then beat like a hammer. I stole very
softly to the door, and discovered that the
bolt had slipped beyond the hoop of the
lock—probably in the sharp bang with
which it had been closed, 'lie door was
open for me!
CHAPTER IL
TO SOUTHAMPTON.
There was not a moment to be lost.
When the servant came down-stairs again
from her room in the attic, she would be
sure to call for the tea-tray, in order to
save herself another journey; how long she
would be np-stairs was quite uncertain. If
she was gone to “clean” herself, as she
called it, the process might be a very long
one, and a good hour might be at my dis
posal; bat I could not count upon that In
the drawing-room below sat my jailer and
enemy, who might take a whim into her
head and come np to see her prisoner at
liny instant. It was necessary to be very
quiok, very decisive, aud very silent.
I had been on the alert for such a chance
ever since my imprisonment began. My
geal-skin hat and jacket lay ready to my
hand in a drawer; but I could find no
feloves; I oould not wait for gloves. Al
ready there were ominous sounds over
head, as if the servant had dispatched he;
brief business there, and was about tt
come down. 1 had not time to put or
thicker boots; and it wag perhaps essentia
to the success of my flight to sical down
the stairs in the soft velvet slippers I wat
wearing. I stepped as lightly as I could—
lightly but very swiftly, for the servant was
at the top of the upper flight, while I had
two to descend. I crept past the drawing
room door. The heavy house-door opened
with a grating of the hinges; but I stood
outside it, in the shelter of the portico—
free, but with the rain and wind of a
stormy night in October beating against
me, aud with no light save the glimmer of
!ho feeble street-lamps flickering acrosßthe
wet pavement.
I knew very well that my escape was al
most hopeless, for the success of it de
pended very much upon which road of the
three lying before me 1 should happen to
lake. I had no idea of the direction of
any of them, for I had never been out of
the house since the night I was brought to
it. The strong quick running of the serv
ant, and the passiouato fury of the woman,
would overtake me if we were to have a
long race; and if they overtook me they
would force me back.’ I had no right to
seejc freedom in this wild way- yet it was
the only way. Even while I hesitated in
the portico of the house that ought to have
been mv home, I heard the shrill scream of
the girl within when she found my door
open, and my room empty. If I did not
decide instantaneously, anil decide aright,
it would have been better for me never to
have tried this chance of escape.
But I did not linger another moment. 1 !
could almost believe an angel took me by
the jpqg npd Jgjl 1 darted straight ‘
across the muddy road. ntj Unn j
slippers wet through at once, ran for a fevj ,
yards, and then turned sharply round a 1
corner into a street, at the end of which 1 >
saw the cheery light of shop-windows, all
in a glow in spite of the rain. On I fled
breathlessly, unhindered by any passer-by,
for the ram was still falling, though more
lightly. As I drew nearer to the shop-win
dows, an omnibus-driver, seeing me run
toward him, pulled up his horses iu ex
pectation of a passenger. The conductoi
shouted some name which I did not hear,
but I sprang iu, caring very little where it
might carry me, so that I could get quickly
enough and far enough out of the reach of
my pursne'rs. There had befn ho time to
lose; and none was lost. The omnibus
drove on again quickly, and no trace of no
was left.
I sat quite still hwtbe farthest corner oi
the omnibus, hardly able to recover my
Lr th after my rapid running. I was a
little frightened at the notice the two or
three other passengers appeared to take of
me, and I did my best to seem calm and
collected. My ungloved hands gav§ rqj
some trouble, nqd ( hid them sw il I
could in the folds of my dlvs4; for there
Was something remarkable nbonl the want
of gloves in any one as well dressed as I
was. But nobody spoke to me, and one
sfter another they left the omnibus, and
fresh persons took their places, who did
not know where I had got in. I did not
stir, for I determined to go ns far ns I
could in this conveyance. But all (he
while I was wondering what I should (a
with myself, and where I coaid go, when it
reached its destination.
There was one trifling difficulty immedi
ately ahead of me. Wheu the omnibus
stopped I should have no small change for
paying my fare. There) was an Australian
sovereign fastened to my watch-cha n,
which I could take off, but it would be dif
ficult to detach it while we were jolting on.
Besides 1 dreaded to attract attention to
myself. Y’et what else could I do?
Before I had settled this question, which
occupied me so fully that I forgot other
and more serious difficulties, the omnibus
drove into a station-yard, and every pas
senger, inside and out, prepared to alight.
I lingered till the last, and sat still till I
had unfastened my gold pieoe. The
wind drove across the open space in a
strong gust as I stepped down upo i the
pavement A man had just descended from
the roof, and was paying tho conductor; s
tall, burly man, wearing a thick water-prooi
coat, and a seaman’s hat of oil-skm, with a
long flap lying over the back of his neck.
His face was brown and weather-beaten,
but he had kindly looking eyes, which
glanced at ms as 1 stood waiting to pay my
fare.
"Going down to Southampton?’’ said the
conductor to him.
“Ay. and beyond Southampton," ho an
swered.
“You’ll have a rough night of it,” said
the conductor. “Sixpence, if you please,
ini-SB.”
I offered him my Australian sovereign,
which he turned over curiously, asking me
if I had no smaller change. He grumbled
when I answered no, and the stranger, who
had not pnssed on, but was listening to
what was said, turned pleasantly to me.
“You have no change, mam’zelle?" he
osked, speaking rather slowly, as if En
glish was not his ordinary speech. “Very
well! are you going to Southampton?”
“Yes. by the next trnin," I answered, de
ciding upon thut course without hesitation.
“So am I, mnm'zelle,” he said, raising his
hand to his oil-skin cap; “I will pay thie
sixpence, and you can give it me again,
when yon buy your ticket iu the office.”
1 smiled quickly, gladly; and he smiled
back on me, but gravely, us if his face wm
uot used to a suiiTo. I passed on into the
station, where n train was standing, and
people hurrying about the platfoim choos
ing their carriages. At tue ticket office
they ensngea my Australian goia piece
without a word, end I sought out my sea
tnsn friend to return the sixpence be had
paid for me. He had done me a greater
kindness than he could ever know, and I
thanked him heartily. His honest, deep
set, blue eyes glistened under their shaggy
eyebrows sis they looked down upon me.
“Can Ido nothing more for you. mam’-
zelle?” he asked. “Shall I look after your
luggage?”
“Oh! that will be all right, thank you," I
replied; “bnt is this the train for South
ampton, and how sonn will it start?”
I was watching anxiously the stream oi
people going to and fro, lest I should see
some person who knew me. Yet who was
there in London who could know me?
“It will be off m five minutes," answered
the seaman. “jShall I look ont for a car
riage for yon?”
He was somewhat careful in making his
selection; finally he put me into a com
partment where there were only two ladies,
and he stood in front of the door, bnt with
his bock turned toward it, until the train
was ready to start. Then he touched his
hat again with a gesture of farewell, and
ran away to a second-class carriage.
I sighed with satisfaction as the train
rushed swiftly through the dimly lighted
suburbs of Loudon and entered upon
open country. A wan, watery line of light*
lay nnder the brooding clouds in the west,
linged with a lurid hue, and all the great
Held of sky stretching above the level land
scape was overcast with storm-wrack, flee
ing swiftly before the wind. At times the
tram seemed to shake with the blast when
it was passing over any emlmnkment more
than ordinarily exposed; but it sped across
the country almost as rapidly as the clouds
across the sky. No one in the carriage
spoke. Then came over me that weird
feeling familiar to travelers, that one has
been doomed to travel thus through many
years, and has not accomplished the
time. I felt as if I had been fleeing from
my home and those who should have been
my friends for a long aud weary while; yet
it was scarcely an hour since I had mad?
my escape.
In abont two hours or more—but exactly
what time I did not know, for my watch
had stopped—my fellow-passengers, who
had scarcely condescended to glance at me,
llighted at a large, half-deserted station,
where only a few lamps were burning.
Through the window I could see that very
I few other persons were leaving the train,
uni I concluded we had not yet.reached the
terminus. A porter came up to me as I
leaned my head through the window.
“Going on, miss?" he asked.
“Oh, yes!” I answered, shrinking back
into my comer seat. He remained upon
the step, with his arm over the window
frame, while the train moved on at a slack
ened pace for a few minutes, and then
pulled up, but at no station. Before me
lay a dim, dark, indistinct scene, with little
sivecks of light twinkling here and there in
the night, but whether on sea or shore I
could not tell. Immediately opposite the
train stood the black hulls and masts of
two steamers, with a glimmer of lanterns
on their decks and up and down their
shrouds. The porter opened the door for
me.
“You’ve only to go on board, miss," he
said; “your baggage will be seen to all
right ” And he hurried away to open the:
doors of other carriages.
I stood still, utterly bewildered, for a
minute or two, with the wind tossing my
hair about, and the rain beating in sharp
stinging drops like hailstones upon my face
aud hands. It must have been close upon
midnight, and there was no light but the
dim glow-worm glimmer of the lanterns ou
deck. Every one was hurrying past me. I
began almost to repent of the desperate
step I had taken; but I had learned already
(hat there is no possibility of retracing
one’s steps. At the gangways of the two
vessels there were men shouting hoars dy,
‘This way for the Channel Islands!” “Th'is
way for Havre and Paris!” To which boat
should I trust myself afliTflW fate? There
was notnmg to guide me. ret once more
that night the moment had come when I
was compelled to make a prompt, decisive,
urgent choice. It was almost a question of
life and death to me—a leap in the dark
that must be taken. My great terror was
lest my place of refuge should be discov
ered, and Ibe forced back again. Where
was J,tQ £o—to Paris, or to the Channel
islands?
AFTER 111.
A rough night at sea.
A mere accident decided it. Near the j
fore part of the train I saw the broad, tall ;
figure of my new friend, the seaman, junk
ing his way across to the boat for the Clran- |
nel Islands, and almost involuntarily I j
made up my mind to go on beard the sums I
steamer, for I had an instinctive feeling
that he would prove a rail friend if I had !
need of one. He did not see me follow- |
ing; no doubt he supposed I had left the
train at Southampton, haring only take:;
my ticket so far, though how I had rnisse t '
Southampton I could not tell. The deck '
was wet and slippery, and the confusion '
upon it was very great. I was too much al !
home on a steamer to need any direclions, '
11 vyent doyvp immediately intg the la- 1
dies’ cabin, which was almost empty, and
chose a berth for myself in the darkest
corner. It was not far from tho door, and i
presently two other ladies came down, with
a gentleman and the captain, and held an
anxious parley close tome. I listen and ab
sently and mechanically, as indifferent tc
JJjg subject ns if it could be of no conse
quence to me.
“Is there any danger?” asked one of the
ladies.
“Well. I cannot say positively there will
be no danger," answered the captun;
“there’s not danger enough to keep me and
the crew in port, but it will be a verv dir.y
night in the Channel. If there’s no actual
necessity for crossing to-night, I should
tidvisc you to wait and see how it will bo
to-morrow. Of course we shall use extra
caution, and all that sort of thing. No; I
cannot say I expect any great danger. ”
"But it will be awfully rough?” said the
gentleman.
The captain answered only by a sound
between a groan and a whistle, as if he
could not trust himself to think of words
that would describe the roughness. There
could be no doubt of his meaning. The
ladies hastily determined to drive back to
their hotel, and gathered up their small
packages and wrappings quickly. I fan
cied they were regarding me somewhat cu
riously, but I kept my face away from them
carefully. They could only see m.v seal
skin jac iet and hat and my rough hair, and
they did not speak to me.
“You are going to venture, m'ss?” said
the captain, stepping into the cabin as the
ladies retreated up the steps.
“Oh, yes,” I answered, *1 am obliged to
go, and I am not iu tho least afraid.”
“You needn’t be," he replied, iu a hearty
voice. “We shall do our best, for our own
s ikes, and yon would be our first care if
there was any mishap. Women and chil
dren first always. I will send the steward
ess to you: she goes, of course.”
. I sat down on one of the couches, listen
ing for a few minutes to the noises about
me. The masts were groaning, and the
planks creaking under the heavy tramp of
the sailors as they got ready to start, with
shrill cries to one another. Then the steam
engine began to throb like a pulse through
*ll the vessel from stem to stem. Pres
ently the stewardess came down, and rec
ommended me to lie down in my berth at
once, which I did Tery obediently, but
silently, for I did uot wish to enter into any
conversation with the woman, who seemed
nclined to be talkative. She covered me
ip well with several blankets, nud there I
lay, with my face turned from the light of
;he swinging lamp, nnd scarcely moved
hand or foot throughout the dismal and
stormy night.
For it was very stormy and dismal as
soon aa we were out of Southampton
Water and iu the rush and swirl of the
Channel. I did not fall asleep for an in
stant. I do uot suppose I should have
llept had the Channel been, as it is some
times, smooth as a mill-pond, aud there
had been no clamorous biasing aud boom'
ing of waves against the frail planks, which
1 could touch with my band. I could see
PoUiinv of Die strrm tut 1 could hear it,
and thf boat se, med tossed, like a mm v
cockle-shell, to and fro upon the re*.
It did not alarm me so much ft
ii acted my thoughts and ke£ (ham from
and veiling upon possibilities f ar more peril
ous to me than the danger of deuth bv
ihipwreck. A shork'suffering such a dea h
would be.
My hasty escape had been so unexpected,
so unhoped for, that it had bewildered me.
tod it was almost a pleasure to lie still and
listen to tho din and uproar of the stu, and
lbs swoop of the wind rushing down upon
it. Was I myself or no? Was this nothir
more than a very coherent, very vivid
dream, from which I should awake by-and
* v to find myself a prisoner still, a treat iro
wretched and friendless as any that the
•treets of London contained? My flight
had been too extraordinary a success, so
far, for my mind to be able to dwell upon
it calmly.
I watched the dawn break through a little
1 orthole opening upon my berth, which had
been washed and beaten by the water all
the night long. The level light shone across
the troubled and leaden-colored surface of
•he sea, which seemed to grow a little
mieter under its touch. I had fancied
luring the night that the waves were run
ning mountains high; bnt, now I could see
them, they only rolled to aud fro in ronnd,
- welling hillocks, dull green against the
eastern sky, with deep, sullen troughs of a
livid purple between. But the fury of the
storm had spent itself, that was evident,
and the steamer was now steadily making
way.
TO BE CONTINUED.]
la the “Hornet’s Nest” at Shiloh.
From Col. Lockett’s article accom
panying General Buell’* account of Shi
loha, in the Century we take the follow
ing; “I witnessed the various bloody
and unsuccessful attacks on the 'hornets’
nest. During one of the dreadful re
pulses of our forces, General Bragg
directed me to ride forward to the central
regiment of a brigade of troops that
was recoiling across an open field, to take
its colors ana carry them forward. ‘The
flag must not go back again,’ he said.
Obeying the order, I dashed through
the line of battle, seized the colors from
the color-bearer, and said to him, ‘Gen
eral Bragg says these colors must not go
to the rear.' While talking to him the
color-sergeant was shot down. A mo
ment or two afterwards I was almost
atone on horseback in open field between
die two lines of battle. An olficer
came up to me with a bullet-hole in each
cheek, the blood streaming from bis
mouth, aud asked, ‘What are you
doing with my colors, sir ?’ ‘I am obey
ing General Bragg’s orders, sir, to hold
l hem where they are,’ was my reply.
Let me have them,’ he said. ‘lf any
man but my color-bearer carries
these colors, lam the man. Tell General
Bragg I will see that these colors are in
the right place. But he must attack
this position in flank; we can never carry
it alone from the front.' It was Col
onel Allen, afterwards Governor Allen of
Louisiana. I returned, miraculously
preserved, to General Bragg, and report
ed Colonel Allen’s words. I then carried
nn order to the same troops, giv
ing the order I think to General Gibson,
to fall back to the fence in the rear and
reorganize. This was done, and then
General Bragg dispatched me to the
right, and Colonel Frank Gardner (after
ward Major General) to t’ e left, to in
form the brigade and division command
ers on either side that a combined move
ment would be made on front and flanks
of that position. The movements were
made, and the Prentiss was captured.”
C'urious Facts About Flowers.
Within the antarctic circle there has
never a flowering plant been found. In
the arctic region there are seven hundred
and sixty-two kinds of flowers ; fifty of
these are confined to the arctic region.
They are really polar flowers. The colors
of these polar flowers are not as bright
and varied as are our own, most of them
being white or yellow, as if borrowing
these hardy hues from their snowy bergs
and golden stars.
Perhaps the most beautiful of all our
everlasting, that longest defy the
autumn frosts and most brighten our
winter bouquets, are white and yellow
varieties. The rose of Florida, the most
beautiful of flowers, has no perfume.
The cypress of Greece, the finest of trees,
bears no fruit. The bird of paradise, the
most beautiful of birds, gives no song ;
and some of the loveliest of human forms
have the least soul.
The Dorosid® family of flowers,
Ruskin tells us, including the five great
orders—lilies, asphodels; amarylids,
irids, and rushes—have more varied and
beautiful influence on man than any
other tribe of flowers. Nature seems to
have made flowers as types of character
and emblems of women. So we name
our children after them, and always in
tuitively compare a lovely, beautiful
child to a flower; we say the timid snow
drop, the modest yiolet, the languid
primrose, the coy lily, the flaunting
marigold, the lowly, blushing daisy, the
proud foxglove, the deadly night-shade,
sleepy poppv, and the sweet, solitary
eglantine - these are all types.
A Back Yard Hint.
Plots of ground even aa small as ten
feet square, says a writer in Outing, are
exquisitely beautified by Japanese meth
ndg, so much do these people admire
gardens aud garden effects. There is
truth in the suggestion that too many
American “back yards” are given over
to coal ashes, tin cans and the garbage
barrel, which by simple means and a lit
tle taste might be rendered charming to
the eye. Such waste places in Japan
would be made neat and cleanly to begin
with; a few evergreen shrubs and one
or two clusters of flowers would be
planted; there would be a rustic fence
projecting from the side of the house,
and here and there a quaintly shaped
flowor-pot containing a few choice
plants. In gardens of more pretense
there would a little pond or sheet of
water of irregular outline, and if so situ
ated that a Brook can be turned to run
through it a great charm is attained.
. The picturesque features of such a
streamlet are brought out with the aid
of rock fragments and even rounded
bowlders; rustic bridges of stone or
wood are made to span it, even the
smallest pond having a bridge of some
kind thrown across; hummocks and
miniature mountains six or eight feet
high, over or aboutwhich the path runs,
are always present. In gardens of larger
size the mountain grows to twenty and
even forty feet high, and upon the sum
mit a little rustic look-out with thatched
roof is made. In still larger gardens
several hundred feet square, “the ponds
and bridges, small hills and meandering
paths, with shrubs trimmed in round
balls of -arious sizes and grotesquely
shaped pines,with long tortuous branch
es running near the ground, are all com
bined in such a way by the skilful land
scape gardeners that the area seems,
without exaggeration of statement, ten
times as vast/’—Chicago Ledger.
The Chinese language is made up of
words of one syllable, the stove pipe not
having as vet been introduced into the
Flowery Kingdom.
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THE BOSS OF CRUSHERS
THE FARMERS KEY TO SUCCESS!
W Farmers say it is just what they have lieen looking for ever since the war.
!’ —] By which farmers can make their own ferm
izers, grind steamed bone, phosphate and
! plaster, rock, mark cotton seed, dry stable
• ‘rtjH’ZT j oure, corn and .b for stock food, or
Any tiling: That is Or Ridable.
11 will make g°d corn meal when you can’t
■_ j do any better. By its use the fanner will „‘
ncher. instead of poorer all the time
.
a*d 1 ' neLoa° if y° u
MAZE GOOD meat,
_ _ i Address:
A * A< DeLOACH tfc BR.O.
__ ATLANTA, GA.
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at
FACTORY PRICES FOR NINETY DAYS J
NOW 18 THE TIME TO BUY FOR ALL WHO WANT FURNITURE AT THE
OLD ESTABLISHED HOUSE OF
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' AnVot&S'ioUSE ° hC * Per
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FOR THE NEXT 60 DAYS!
AT GOODYEAR’S
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WILL BE SOLD THE LARGEST AND MOST
BBSiBABLS ASSORTMENT
OF OPEN AND TOP BUGGIES ever brought to this market, at lower prices than ever
before offered. These goods are First Class, with steel axles and tires’, thoroughly paint
ed, full leather trimmed, and warranted for twelve months. .Just received another
shipment of those fine
Mil Mil®, PHAETONS 4 HUBS
OPEN and TOP BUGGIES, made upon uncial orders, by the best Msnufttciurcrs
North and East. Nothing being used in the construction of these vehicles but the best
materials, and in Quality, Style and Finish are uttetK]nailed by anv others now in the
market. In stock a full line of
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Which I will offer at LOWER PRICES than have ever Indore been known In the
history of the business. MILBURN, STUDEBAKER and STANDARD PLANTATION
WAGONS, all siz-s. Oak and Hemlock Sole Leather, Calf Skins, Shoe Findings,
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Scale Beams, Grind Stones, Rakes, Padlocks, Carpenter Tools, Files, Hinges. Window
Sash, Doors and Blinds, Farm and Church Bens, which I am offering at LOWEST CASH
PRICES.
A. R. GOODYEAR, Ascent,
(Successor to It. H. MAT & CO. )
At the Old Stand, Opposite Georgia ailroad Rank, 704 Broad St.,' AUGUSTA, CA.
NAVASSA COMPANY
WILMINGTON, N. C.
STMIABI Finniilß
POPE cfc FLEMING,
AGENTS, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
We are General Agents for the goods made by the above company. Their FERTILIZ
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We ask for the patronage of the public. Write to us for terms and full particulars.
DPope Sz Fleming;, General -A.gren.ts.
SsTR. TAPP AN, Local Agent, White Plains, Ga. feb. 19, ’BS.
D. R. Wright, President. J. T. Newbeby, Cashier.
PLANTERS’ LOAN
AND
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ur <&• DRAFTS ON ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD FOR SALE. j
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DIRECTORS: D. R. Wright, W. H. Howard, G. R. Lombard, W. E. Benson, W. M.
Jordan, Z. McCord and D. H. Van Buren. AUGUSTA, GA.
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