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VOL. 5.
THE WEEKLY
c:arter*ville Exi»res«
Is published every _fc* 'JfcxL-! JD-A.T?",
Wording. in Oliriersville, Hartu»
l ' J o I KM
Smith & Milam,
Proprietors, at Thbik l>nll»r*, per art-
Tunn. strictly in advance ,■ Two Dollars far
Hix Months; One Dollar for Three Months.
Advertisements for one month, or less time
One Dollar per square, (of ten lines or less,)
for each insertion ; all other adverliseihehU
will be charged Fifty per cent on did prices.
lONES & MAITBIE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Cartersville, 'ISa.
Will Attend promptly li) »|l .btitt.lelS eft
trusted to their rare. V\ ill practice in
tho Courts of law, and equity in the CherokVie
Circuit. {Special attention given to the collec
tion of claims. Jan. ?y
oilii J- Jones. Maltbie.
Surgeon and
Mechanical Dentist.
PfMIE undersigned respcotfully offer his pro
, fessional services to the citizens of tar
Wsville and vicinity. He '* Prepared
do all kinds of work belonging
to Ins profession. Fall sells of
'r'.r m “ g, " J "f.m. johnso.v"
Corteravillc, Feb. 13, 1
DU. T. F. JONES,
yMyiWDBKH his professional services trt Ihe
I citizens ol KINGSTON anJ vicinity. And
Vwi poet fully solicits a portion of their patronage;
June .2. ______
JOHN W. WOffORDi
Attorney at Law,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Ai*o, FIRE INSURANCE AGENT*
...'presents liie best Northed 'Am
■Son,hern Companies. Oftrt b* found
at tlie law office of Wo fiord it l .11 roll
April 10, 1860.
TIIOS W DOIH),
Attorney at Law
And county court solicitor.
Carlersvllle. C;t.
Will give particular attention to the
volhetion of claims. (), ‘ l 26*
.1 »H 11 €. K •’»*>
ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW)
KINGSTON, GA.
rUVCTH'Es I. VW in the several eoun
li,., of the Cherokee Circuit, nl-o, Polk,
H*l r\lsoii and Floyd counties, Prompt at
tention given to business, Nov, S3, y
<„<t, *lO wnnum.J
w. H. PRITCHETT,
Attorney at tow.
CWTIRSVIIIt. MOHoIA.
I >ll \ OTIC US Law in nil the courts ol the
t’iierokeo circuit and counties adjoining
Jllll 23.
15;irtow.
JERE A. HOWARD,
attorney and counsellor at law.
CaUTERSVILL K IG\J l G\J
Lanie r M« 11 s c ?
MARIETTA, G\.,
IIY LANIER & 00335, Proprietor,
VIDIUS House s located in a few steps ofthe
J Kailroad. where the cars stop assen^ers
■t*- three meals a day here. Meals prepaid
‘ all hours. J U> y
W. ft* GOI.BSmTII,
A 1 1 orney at Law,
GKUKRIA
Atlanta
W ill practice in Fulton and adjoining counties.
Also in Bartow* Superior Court.
Office over Holbrook’s Ha! Store, Whitehall.
March 20.
JONES A MALTBIE.
REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
CARTERSVILLE GA
AVf are authorized io sell, nml and
have on hand several Houses and Lots,
und also numerous building lots in the
town of Cartersville. Also several
plantations of various sizes in Bartow
j’o. Parties desiring to buy or se
will do well to give us a call. All
communications promptly answered
July 17, 1860.
James W. Strange,
Dealer in
STOVES.
GRATES,
IRON,
HARDWARE,
PLAIN AND JAPANNED TIN WARE. &C.
Clean Linen ami Cotton Rags taken in ex
change for Goods. Repairing. Roofing ami
Guttering done with neatness ntld dispatch.
Cartcrsville, Nov. I. w 1 v
The Cartersville Hotel.
DR. THOMAS MILAM having
charge of this House. Would be JVV
pleased to accommodate a few Board- B R A R!
ora with'BOARD, with oj without BLs i Bi-A
Lodging. Call and see him at once for terms
Cartersville, Jan 17.
S. H. Pat till o,
FASHIONABLE TAILOR,
Cartersville, Ga.
Will attend promptly to the Cut
ting, Repairing and Making Boys’ and
Mens’ Clothing. Office in the back
room Blair <s■ Bradshaw’s store .
THE CARTERSVILLE EXPRESS.
Li very Stable
J. J. JONES, JR.
CARTERSVILIE. GA.
T $ prepared, at all ‘imes. to furnish the
L traveling public with conveyance through
the country. Also to feed aftd shelter stotk
at reasonable rates of hoard. My vehicles and
stock are kept in good condition. Melt. 15.
X&F" Having got my stock nnrt V*.bic'ea In /nod °r_
der, I earnestly sol'clt the public Rer.erSMy to call sn '
give me a fair trial. Hates will be as liberal as can a
afforded. jr.be
ECLIPSE) UJS&*
J. G. Stocks,
jßates of Hire i
Hack and Horses, per day, . IfOO
Horse, Buggy and Driver, AOO
Horse and Bagiy, ... *•**’
“ Imlfdiyor leefy
Saddle Horse, per day, L’M
M “ half day or le«s «*>
Hates of Board t
n rse, per month, $20,00
“ week,
“ day, I,o®
“ Single feed, .. 4 ®
Tj KBt'KOTFtJLLV notify the Public generally that
IV he has j ->st openbe.i bis New and Commodi
ous I.IVKHY AND SALE STABLE; and hag it atock
e.l w:th good horses, bugviea, Ac., and is prepared to
furnish those traveling Into and across the c, untry
with any kind of private conveyance. He is also
prepared to B ard Stock In any q uantity with comfort*
ble quarters and bountiful feed at reasonable rates.
Stock bought and sold at his stables. His stock all
being fresh and equipage row he Hatter himself with
the nelief that he can furi t h his customers with as
nett and Complete an out-ti' as any like establishment
in Upper Georgia. All he asks to establish this fact is
a tiial CAKTEESVILLE. GA.,March 22, lb-07.
.A. 3ST ID
Rolling Mill Cos.,
Atlanta, Ga.
MANUFACTURERS OF
RAIL ROAD SPIKES, CHAIRS,
BRIDGE BOLTS, BAR IRON,
NAIL ROD, AND HORSESHOE IRON,
Castings, ol all descriiuions, in
liras, nr Iron, including
RAIL-ROAD CAR WHEELS. BOXES. PEDESTALS.
FRONTS,COLUMNS. AND VERANDAHS.
Mill Gearing and Machinery of all kinds.
JOHN D. GRAY, President.
October 6.tf
AMERICAN HOTEL
Alabama Street,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
Opposite the Passenger Depot.
WHITE So WHITLOCK, Proprietors.
rpHB public are respectfully informed that
JC this House has been remodelled and re
fitted, and re-opened for the accommodction
of the travelling public. Much time, lat’our
and expense has been expended in making it
worthy of patronage. Modern improvements
have been added, and the public Can tc V ox. .s
being equal to uny in Southern cities
WHITE & WHITLOCK, Proprietors.
BRYSON & WYLEY, Clerks,
uv (24.
CUA-SIHS A. IST J 3
CASKETS.
By Erwin & Jones.
ASSORTED sizes kept on hand. Also
WOOD COFFINS made to order. \
good HEARSE r ady at all hours.
CARTERSVILLE. Feb I, 1867. wly
THOMAS W. MILNER,
Attorney at Law,
CARTERSVILLE. GEORG
M ill attend promptly to business entrus
to his care. Oct. 6 wly
Dross Tailor.
<«AA IS prepared to execute all kinds -Jfl
of work in the Fashionable Tail
—XL. ing line with neatness and indu-«JjL
rable style. Over J. Elsas A Co’s store.
If you want a good fitting Coat, go
to S. O’shield*, up stairs at J ELSAS.
Cartersville, jan 25.
. n. MOIXTCASTLE,
PyJ Jeweller sittd YYafch and
vt' Clock Repairer.
In the Front of A. A. Skinner & Co’s storv
Cartersville jan 25.
CARTERSVILLE GA. APRIL 19, 1867.
Burned Out !
Hut not Consumed!!
New Goods.
J. L ERWIN SCO.,
AftE now receiving and opening ,’r. the
OLD STORE, opposite the old stand of
J. a. & s. erwin*
a spfehtlid stock of
FALL AND WINTER
GOODS,
Comprisiug every variety adapted 4 jto the
wants of the country.
They invite all buyers to
CALL AND EXAMINE.
The terms
being
CASH !
They Will sell at small profits.
J. A. ERWIN & CO.
Cartersvi'ile, Oct 25, 1806.
TTllallEr“
Dealers It*
INGUSH AND AMERICAN
hardware cutlery Gan. Pistols
—ALSO—
Iron, Slcel> Nalla>
Bellows, Anvils. ViceS;
Corn Shelters, Straw Cutters, <ShoVellt>
Plows, Hoes, Chains,
Locks, Hinges, Screws,
H ainmers} Hatchets, Axes-, Sec.
And all other goods usually kept in the Hard
ware line. Also Agents for Furrbanks Platform
and Counter Scales, which we will sell at Fac
tory prices, freight added. At their old stand.
Corner ol Peach Tree and Line Street,
Atlanta, Ga.
F. M. RICHARDSON,
Manufacturer and Wholesale Dealer in
Abb KINDS OF
Tin and Sheet Iron
WAM.
.House Furnishing Goods, Gen
erally.
COOK, COAL, WOOD AND WROUGHT
IRON
STOVES.
done with neatness and
dispatch. Whitehall Street,
JLTXj-A.IZ’TJL- GhA.4
Eeb. 15,
Dennis* Sarsaparilla,
A substitute for Calomel, Blue Pills,
Castor Git, Jiheubarb, Aloes, 1 5pc.
IF you h„ve symptoms of a disordered Liver,
TRY IT, and cect if it does not produce a
free action of the bowels, and make you feel
| better alter you haVe taken it.
i TRY IT in your families. If yoU have a
daughter of a bilious temperament, who takes
: it when necessary, watch the expressions of
i her mother, and see if she does not say it haS
improved her complexion and general health.
I TRY it ill any disease in which calomel is
considered the best remedy, ahd sec if it does
not produce an evacuation of the morbid bite
j aud improve the complexion and spiriis quick
er than is usu i for other medieiuesto produce
I Some families prefer calorrte .blue pills, &e,
i see if they do not have more sickness, much
larger bills to pay for medicines, and more phy*
Slcians’ visits than you do in yours.
‘ Ask those who use it in their families at the
first symptoms of disease, if it does them any
good, and see if they do not generally say
“they do not know, for they have but little or
no sickness.’’
i Ask those who have taken the imported or
J stronger medicines and then tried this Sarsap
i arilla, and sec if they do say this did them
J much more goed ( and Why 1 Because it is
1 the most natural medicine for the Liver and
Bowels, and the Blood, that can beta Ken, and
with it but little medicines, of any kind, will
be needed.
Prepared by DR- D. DENNIS, Augusta,
Oa.. ami for sale in (Jartersville by W- L
KIRKPATRICK & CO., Druggists; also
DENNIS’ PAIN-KILLER or Stimulating
Liniment. jan 3fiw2m
I Vs. L. Kirkpatrick & Cos., Druggists,
CARTERSVILLE, ga.
WILL keep constant on hand a wc
seeded stock of pure
i DRUGS AND MEDICINES.
>ttiti,mt,
Fatent Medicines &c.
Jones’ Carriage Repository,
I Jar. 17,
WESTERN £ ATLANTIC
id.
ON and after JANUARY 27, 1867, Pas
senger Trains will run aa follows .•
Going! sT©rttl, Leacing Atlanta,
8.50 A* M.' Daily (except Sundays) Grea
Northern Mail.—Arrive at Patton at 2.40
pm. connecting with the E T and Ga R R
trains for Knoxvilic, Lynchburg, Wash r.gton,
Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York.—
Arrive at Chattanooga 5.25 p m.. connecting
with trains of Nashville and Chattanooga R.
R. for Nashville, Louisville, and the West, and
trains of Memphis and Charleston R R. for
Memphis, New Orleans. &c.
2.50, P. m. Daily (except Sundays) Dalto
Accommodation.—Ar ive ill Marietta 4 4
p. m., Cartersville 6.45 pnt Kingston Bj} m
Dalton 11.45 p. m.
7.00 P. Hi, Daily (Express Passenger), Ar
rive at Chattanooga 4.00 am, making close
connections with trains >f Nashville and
Chattanooga R R. for Nashvihe, Louisville,
and the West.
Coming South, Jmtie at Atlanta.
1.35. A. m. Daily Great Southern Mail.—
Leaving Chattanooga 4.30, p m., connect
ing with trains of Nashville and Chattanooga
and Memphis and Charleston Railroads, and
Dalton at 7.50, p m., connecting with Pains of
E. Ten. and Ga. Railroads,
9.60, A- HI. Daily (except Sundays) Dalton
Accommodation.—T.ea’e Dalton *1.26 am.,
Kingston 4.30, Carterzville 5.i5, Marietta
8.00.
1.15 P. nil Daily (except Sundays) Express
Passenger.—Leave Chattanooga 4.50, a m.
making close connections with trains of the
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad.
Pullman's Fatent Sleeping Coaches
in all night Trains. JOHN B. PEOK,
dec,2 Master Traortation
Family Groceries,
CONFECTIONERIES. iC.
fff-ji iii-vKirs
4.4. mnn 4 eo.
At Moore 4 Co’s old stand— west side Public
square, CARTERSVILLE, GA.
JUST received, and for sale, at reduced
market prices, a very large lot of
New Bacon and Lard;
VIRGINIA SALT
SUGAR,
COFFEE,
SYRUP,
FLOUR,
MEAL,
RICE,
CHEESE.
MACKEREL,
SUGAR CURED HAMS.
Garden Seeds, a fall supply.
Onion Setts and Buttons.
Tobacco, Chewing and Smoking.
Pot U-are, of the finest quality;
Confectioneries, a No, t lot, fresh.
Powder and Shot,
NailS, assrtfsed sizesi
Wooden-ware,
Washing Soap, titisUrpassud.
To all of which, and much more, we invite
the attention of the public. Feb; I.
paces.
IASS HOB2CS.
MY OHO. FRIFNDB AXf> OUSTOMKRS Witt please remember, that, after having been twice burned out, I have re
sumed the PttUO BUSIKEBB with Messrs. T. J. A M. ii. SWANSON, under the style of
BASSE'S. IWAllil 4 ۩.,
AT ROARK’S CORNER, NEXT DOOR TO W. H. BROTHERTON, ATLANTA, EA.
I will bo pteau-d to meet all mjr old friends at our new place of business, where I tra. prepared to show them a large
and welt assorted stock of
purposes, and at very low figures.
R. J. MASSEY, late
Massev and Herty.
feb 1 ATLANTA, GA.
[From Cassell*!* (London) Family Paper.]
THE FIRST LOVE AXD TUU
Last.
It is an old story 1 am about to lei! j
that story which, thank heaven ! people
never tire of listening to, any more
than we do of seeing the buds swell
and the leaves unfolding, ant! the world
made young again by the coming of
spring—the story, to which, as we
listen, our own youth comes back, and
Once more the flowers bloom; and the
skies are bine, am! our hearts are beat'
ing joyously, and it is May*
1 am noi young now, neither is the
day on which I am writing this little
record of a long past period, a balmy
one of spring, or anything like it J ahd
yet May comes freshly back to me as I
recall the day of which I am going to
speak.
A lark was singing far up in the blue
sky, a few sheep were pasturing in the
green distance; and-i tall figure dress
ed in gray, with a gun on his arm, and
one or two dogs (risking around it, was
coming leisurely along the sea-wall. I
had been Lilly intent for the minute
before upon the sketches of an old boat
I was making; but now 1 felt but the
beating .»( my fieart, and saw nothing
but Mark Southeiland coming along
the sea-wall, with his dogs playing
around him.
The little picture Was never finish
ed, for at the instant that I became
conscious of the advancing figure, I
dropped my brush, and hopelessly
ruined my distance by a great smear
of Vandyke brown, h was never fin
ished, no—but I have it yet, and I
mean it shall be laid beside me in my
coffin.
He was a long Way off when I first
saw' him, and yet it seemed almost the
next instant that lie was standing be
side me, speaking. My heart-had not
left off beating, and I could feel the
color hot in my face as I looked up,
but iny fiery little terrier took excep
tions to his dogs, and flew at them
with tumultuous disapproval, taking
his attention off’ me lor the moment.
When this little fracas was quieted,
he put his gun on the bank, made his
retrievers lie beside it, and sat down
himself by me.
“Have you had good sport?” I ask
ed, by way of saying something—
anything.
“No,” lie answered, “but I don’t
complain. I didn’t expect any. I
came out here because I thought I
should see you, and I wanted to tell
you a piece of news and U6k you a
question.”
“News is a precious commodity,
indeed, in these wikis; but please re
member my .Scotch blood, in expecting
an answer to the question.”
He did not seem to be attending to
What I said ; he had taken up one of
my sable brushes and was absently
playing with it. but he threw it down
the next minute, and said softly :
“Hester. I have got an appointment
that I have been trying for, and I sliail
leave for India next month ; that’s my
news.”
My heart, that had bet n boating So
wildly, seemed to stand suddenly still,
and drop down—down. The water
anti the green marsh rocket!, blended
hazily into each other and the sky, and
then a voice that sounded dim anti lai
off, but Was my own, too; said *-lt is
good news, I suppose.’*
“Good news ! Well, yes, I hope
„ 9 9
SO.
He stnppcd a minute here. llis
voice was a very deep one, for he was
a large, broad-chested man ; but when
he spoke again, it had a soft undertone
in it that used to ring in my ears alter'
vVahl—it does iloW.
“I thought it good news this morn--
ing, for without it I could not think of
a wife, 'l'hat troubled me little enough
till lately —till, an! till I knew you,
Hester, My dear, I think you have
guessed my question.”
“Guessed it! All, yes. But rtiy
face was down upon my hands; he
couid not hear the cry that was stifling
tnv heart, and he went on gently, piti
lessly t
“But I shall not get an answer to it
so. Will you go wnh me to India?”
I did not answer—l could not. Ah !
those w ho have had deliberation to kill
their own happiness, to raise up, them
selves, the barrier that shuts them out
from hope, and love, and life, will
know how hard it is—will pity me.
“Will you be n»y wife, and go with
me to India ? ”
••I cannot.” And no xvonder that
he made a sudden movement of sur
prise i for I myself wondered to hear
the hoarse passion of my own voice.
Drugs,
i
Medicines,
Chemicals,
Pat. Med.,
Pair.ts, Oil,
Glass,
Putty,
Fancy and
Toil. Art.,
0
Soaps, Per
fumery,
Brushes a
variety,
Wines,
Brandies,
4’C., 4*o.
“You cannot! What a fool 1 have
been then. I hopcJ —I hoped-—Hes
ter, is it possible tiiat you have not
known what l have been thinking of
all this time ?”
Knowing what he had been think
ing about! Ah, the light, and life, and
joy of those moments when I had
dared to hope that I did. Ah ! the
anguish of feeling now that they had
been in vain !
“Look at me, Hester. I don’t think
I understand you, my dear,” he said,
patient!) and gently. “YiU say you
cannot be my wife; and yet tell me
you cannot love me, and I am answer
ed at once j
He put his arm over my shoulder as
I leatted forward with my face buried
in my lap, and whispered—
“l think vmi love me, Hester?”
“Oh, I do. Mark, I do!” 1 cried;
lifting iny head ; “but 1 cannot marry
you. I shall have to give you up.”
“Give me up, my dear love?” and
he held me Closer.
“I cannot go to India.”
“Why not?” and he looked half
amazed, half-amused.
I could not bear the glance of his
kind, dark eyes. I shrank away from
his arm; and said t
“1 cannot IbaVß Milly!*’
To our own thinking, I had pro
nounced our doom now; but Mark
Southerland could laugh, and said r
“Well, then, you shall not; Miss
Milly shall go too.”
“Ah ! if that could only be; but Milly
would die in India. We dame home
because the climate was killing her.”
“And you will not leave her ?”
“1 promised mamma, before she
died, I never would ; that if married it
should not separate us; that my home
should be Milly’s till she did not need
it,” answered I. faltering under some
thing ill the look of his face that was
new to me. Up to this time I had
been thinking of myself; now I was
reminded that I was giving pain to hum
lie was silent two or three minutes,
looking away into the distance. He
had taken I.is hand from my shoulder.
•‘Well, Hestei,” said he presently,
gravely, not unkiudl) —but Ah! as it
seemed to me, very coldly—“you have
simply to choose between yodr sister
and myself. You are best able to
judge of your sister’s claims upon you;
of my own, l will only say that 1 love
you. I never thought or cared much
abdbl Women till I saw you, ao I am
not likely to change my likeing Or to
forget it; and if you had married me—
but I will not try to plead my cause
against your sister’s. It is for you to
decide, and for me to decide by your
decision.”
1 looked desperalely tip to the smil“
ing blue heavens, at the caint stream
flowing on its tranquil path to the sea,
at alt the siiii'baskiiig peace etroiind
me, and prayed, with a prayer so paS r
sionate tiiat it seemed iike a loud de
mand, that t might not be farced into
slaying with iny own hands the young
happiness ol my life. “I cannot and
will not do 4 I said in ray heart;
yet knowing at the same time that I
must and could.
Then Mark spoke agaiii.
“Would you like a little lime
to consider the matter ? I need not
leave the Hollies till to-monow eve
ning, or, perhaps, the next day.”
“No,” I answered—With or wilhbttl
rriy own will, i never knew. “I know
what I mu-st do. I cannot leave Mil"
ly.”
“And Milly cafitiot |o. That de
cides it, then. Well, 1 have nothing
to say. lam the last man in the
world to try and persuade any one
against their judgement.”
He rose deliberately, but did not
go, for I sat still. “Are you going
home ?” he asked, after a minute.
“Hester, don’t look so sad, you are
feeling for me—don’t do that. I should
like to think us you, when I am over
the seas, as hippy as I would have
tried to have made you. Think ol me
sometimes as a friend. I don’t expect
to forget you, Hester. Good by,”
His hand, as he held it out, shook
ever so lightly, but it held rtlille in a
firm pressure for an instant. Then he
let it drop, stooped and picked Up his
gun, whistled his dogs around him, and
strode away again along the sea wall,
without once turning to look back,
Milly and 1 were both orphans. Our
father and mother had both died in
India, and we were sent home to the
care of our sole relative, my father’s
only sister, 311 elderly maiden lady,
living in a kind of lady-like poverty at
a dull little village at Kent. Aunt
Dolly died When I was seventeen and
;\lilly twelve, leaving to us the little
cottage that had been her home and
ours, with everything it contained; no
very valuable beejne-t. but all the poor
soul ha I to leave ; and here Milly and
I—not heiresses, no, but not destitute
neither —continued to live with the
dear old servant who had been our
aunt’s laitful c impanion and our kind,
affectionate nurse ever eince, fatherless
and motherless, we hau been sent to
England.
'l'here were not many people to
visit at Hiilstead—the rector, the doc
tor, and the family at the Hollies com*
prised them. 1 think we were the
most intimate at the Hollies I for the
children there w*r« Milly’s contempo
raries and her sworn admirers and
friends. 1 first saw Mark Southerland
at the H j..iesi he was Mr. Souther*
land’s cousin, and I heard of him often
before I saw him. He had led a wild,
adventurous kind of life, wandering all
over the world for his simple pleasure,
I suppose, since I never heard that he
had any other object in doing so. 1
had formed my idea of him; to be sure
the reali'y was not in the least like it.
No, quite otherwise; and yet, after the
first five minutes, I would not have
changed the real man for the ideal, for
worlds.
Do not suppose that I speculate
much upon Mark’s character in these
NO, 41.
days; such as he Was 1 loved him,
dearly loved him—ah ! he would never
know how dearly, for 1 had not giveil
him up?
As bile in a dream. 1 went horrie; as
one in a dream, I crawled slowly np
the steep winding lawn to our cottage ;
saw Milly on iliegarden gate watching
rdf me ; saw her come flying out into
the lawn to meet me. all her golden
hair streaming straight out behind her;
heard my own voice answered ; saw
and heard all the familiar sights and
sounds of every clay life* as we do
sometimes in dreams, all made strange
and perplexing by sottte dreadlul senrffe
of pain and trouble.
“Met, 1 * said Milly, as we sat at iea»
“you’re not eating any thing, you look
pale and glum,VOu’ve sat out in those
horrible marshes till the sun has made
you sick. I shall not allow you to go
out there again, mind that.”
It pleased Milly to play the elder
sister, and I was always content that
tilt: little one should do what pleased her.
She was my darling, the one thing that
my solitary life gave me to love till I
saw Mark; I had set my idol long ago,
but it cost hte dear. 1 remember that
the child was in more than usually high
spirits on that evening, that she teased
me to talk to her, sing to her, and
finally (lew up to bed in a child'liko
fit of anger, because I could do neither
one nor the other. At any other time
I should have gone alter her, coaxed
and caff eased her into good temper,but
now, with a feeling <>f relief that she
was gone, 1 sal at the window staring
out into the dark, scented nitrht, and
counted the cost of the sacrefice.—
Long, long I sat there, long alter the
moon had risen* had set* and the stars
began to grow dark before the streak ol
gray light In the east. I thought or
Mark; of what I had done, of what t
had given up, until 1 was nearly mad ;
for when 1 stood tip and closed the
window before going up to my room*
1 had said to myself that 1 would write
to Mark Southerland when morning
came, and tell him that 1 had chosen
onCe more between the two 1 loved, and
Chosen differently. Therefore 1 hoped
that 1 was mad; but I went Up stairs
quite resolved and quiet j 1 understood
without eve once giattcing toward the
bed where my little sister lay ; l meant
to lie down on my pillow without do
ing so ; but oh ! 1 could not say my
prayers and leave Milly without the
kiss I always gtiVe her before I slept,
9o I went to the bed, and, drawing
back the curtain, looked down upon
what had for years been my sole
earthly treasure. 'The child looked
pale in the cold gray down, her golden
hair was tossed wildly back from her
face* and Covered the pillow | and While
I stood atid gazed my madness dying
aWay, my old self Coming back, she
Stirred in her sleep, two great tears
Welled out from the closed eyes, and;
with a heavy Sob, she murmured;
“Hester.”
Then I knelt down in the gray dawri*
Ingi and thanked t*od that my madness
had passed, and prayed that, as lie had
given me strength to make the sacrifice*
so He would help me never to regret it j
I did not see Mark Sutherland again ;
but the next time that Milly went tip to
the Hollies, she told me, on her returil;
•‘that he had left the Hollies, gone atvajr
to that dreadful India, and was never
corning back again.” My heart echoed
the words; but I drew Milly to nieahd
kissed her* and tried to be patient arid
forget.
I could not forget; my nature was
tenacious of what had once taken hold
upon it, and the course of our lives waft
too uniform and monotonous to give
change and variety their usual influ
ence. I scarcely knew, after Mark
went away, how the days and years
glided away, their course Was So un-i
marked and everything seemed so
unchanged. At first I used to shrink
and shiver at the chance mention of
Mark .Sutherland’s name at the Hoi*
lies; that passed, and I pined to hear
ol him with a weary, anxious longing*
seldom satisfied. They ceased to
of him alter awhile, as people do after
a long absent friend, and bv degrees it
seemed aS if be Was only remembered
in one poor woman’s bear;, who almost
came to tfftnk of him as if he had been
removed by death. So that one day
Milly came back from’the Hollies, and
said, as she untied her hat and threw
it down, “Hester, guess; Who in the
world do yOU think came to the Hollies
last night?” Not even my thoughts
suggested the right person.
‘•No, no,” said Milly, as I named one
or two, “no; who but cousin Mark,
who went away to India years ago! I
was a mere Child at that time, but I
remembered him instantly—a coinpli*
me lit he did not retrun. by the by t
though, when he found who I was, he
asked after you.”
Years ago, was it, SinCe Mark went
away ? Ah !as Milly spoke, it seemed
only yesterday ; the joy, the sorrow,
the ofd plans, so freshly remembered
now, were throbbing so vrildly once
more in my heart. He had not quite
forgotten me, then? but did he remem
ber me as I remembered him ?
‘•I do not believe you have forgotten
all about him,” Milly went on ; “and,
iet me tell you I wonder at that, for I
renoember be used to be so fond o.
talking to yon, Hetty, and he is th .*