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|!\ sAUAiI h. BOLTON.
F r**m Tie Idd^pMHU'Et
'Lliankstrivintr dinn* r was waiting
at the old fashioned house of my un
eie. The day, and especially the
dinner, was the event of the year to
us iti our qui< t home in Connecticut.
M v sißtt r and 1 always came the dav
pieviotis to see the thanksgiving
rake, perhaps twenty loaves of it.
taken out of a big brick oven, and,
with the children, enjoyed picking oil
the pieces which adhered to the quart
basins, so that we might test the
quality of the cake.
Real cake cam* only twice a year
in our family ; once in .May. called
uiection cake, and in Nov* tuber, call
ed thanksgiving* ike. Between these
times we contented ourselves with
gingerbread and rookies, and semi
oecasionailv. doughnuts.
We had helped aunt Lucy set the
table m the large west room. The
floor was very white. It had never
known a carpet, though we had a
very simple one on the spa re-room.
The great rafters were not, plastered,
only whitewashed. Big logs blazed
on tin 1 brass andirons, and a tea
kettle hung on the crane. We had
n ought out, from the corner cupboard
the blue china which grandmother
hud used since her wedding day, and
then \ve went, to watch the cooking
m t he ‘back i ooui
Here was a lireplace as large as an
ordinary chamber. Two of us otten
sat in each cornel, while long logs
burned in the center. A stuffed pig,
a turkey, and a chicken pie, baked in
a mi k pan. were being removed from
the oven. Chopped potatoes, with
cream, were cooking over the fire in
a saucepan, whose handle, nearly six
feet tong, rested between the hack
slats of a cane bottomed chair. Aunt
Lucy was willing to work hard for
our pleasure - for life had not brought
much to her. Her mind early lost
its balance through religious mat tors.
I never saw her read any books save
her Bible and a work on astrology.
Fortune telling by the lines oi the
baud formed an important part of the
latter, and used to be of great inter-,
est and mystery to me. The chairs
wore placed at the table; the family
Bible in one, for the smallest grand
child to sit upon. This was not con
sidered saereligious; for children,
being reckoned as gifts from Heaven,
were very precious. My grandmother
had ten.
Our uncle from the city had al
ready arrived with his span of horses
and his stylish wife and two pretty
daughters. CouUn Ber U . -. thec-M
e-l, Was a rtiaVviy ■■" .. With dark C\
and hair, and, having been much in
j society, made some of us afraid of
! her by her great, ease of manner.
i can’t understand why the Stan
tons don’t come.’ said Grandmother,
who sat by the window, as the people
went home from church. ‘All have
gone by; even the ark!’
This was the euphonious name ap
plied to the second hand carriage of
one of our deacons. It had been
grand in Us day, and now, by reason
of his numerous progeny, was nearly
as full as Noah's ship.
The Stantons were quite the elite
jof our neighborhood, and perhaps
would not have been intimate with
i us save that Grandmother’s family
belonged to one of the old Hartford
clergy, who used to be regarded
somewhat like royalty. Air. Stanton
was a large cultivator of tobacco.
The church did not altogether like
the business for a professing Chris
tian: but he gave generously, and
this covered a multitude of sins.
Kate Stanton was the prettiest girl
in the town; self willed like ker
father; independent like most New
England girls: buoyant in spirits,
ami the life of every circle.
Another person watched anxiously
at the window to see when the Stan
tons would come, Herbert Watson,
just home from his third year in
Yale College. He was the protege of
another uncle. Dr. Redgood, our
family physician, had brought him
to his foster-parents when he was
little more than a year old. telling
them only that the best of blood was
in his veins. He was a manly youth,
and we all looked forward with pride
to his future.
At last the thanksgiving dinner
could wait no longer, and '•ve seated
on N'-Awes at the table. In after years
1 have wom’tobod if people could not
return thanks just as heartily for
bountiful harvests atnl material pros
perity without these elaborate din
, net s, which spoil health and wear out
women's bo ’ies in their preparation.
There was a violent knock on the
, door, and Mr. Stanton's servant en
tered almost breathless.
‘Miss Kate's eloped with .Jim
Thayer, and her mother's takin' on
dreadful.'
Every knife and fork was dropped.
Two faces in that company were
blanched: Herbert's, who loved Kate
Stanton, and Cousin Bertha, who
loved Herbert. My Uncle was the
first to speak.
‘Perhaps Mr. Stanton was wrong
in forbidding Thayer ever to mine to
their house; but a girl takes a sword
in hei hand that cuts both ways
when she disobeys a parent. Thayer
has been spoiled by a weak mother.
He has no trade nor profession, and
his habits are none of the best.'
Herbert lose and left the table.
The mince and pumpkin pies were
scarcely touched, and the remainder
of the day was a dreary one.
The foolish young couple had taken
this day of all others to make it a
memorable one, and it became such.
Mr. Stanton searched somewhat foi*
his daughter, with no success, and,
angered by her ingratitude aud will
fulness, disinherited her. The mother
became insane, and died soon alter,
aud our village gradually forgot the
1 light hearted girl.
FORSYTH, G JORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 6, 18S3
But Herbert did not forget. He
had never told her that he loved her;
but she knew it well. lie had in
tended to enter the law; but now he
had no settled plans. ‘ls she happy?’
was ever the haunting question.
Other thanksgiving days came in
the old house; but Herbert did not
join us. Grandmother passed out of
the home; Bertha’s father died; she
and her mother and sister went
abroad, and our family circle was
broken.
Chaitek 11.
Two persons were in a small plain
r • m in the fifth story of a Chicago
t neiuent house. The walls were
tom*, save a print or two cut from a
newspaper. A poor bed. a table and
two chairs were the only pieces of
furniture. A young woman was sew
ing by the light of a small, unshaded
kerosene lamp. The other person, a
young man, had thrown himself
across tin* bf*d in sheer despair.
■lt’s no use!’ he said; ‘l’ve walked
these streets for work till my feet are
on the ground. I might as well die
now as ever.’
‘Have you tried all the stores?’
said a voice that had more the tone
of resignation than hope.
‘Yes; and nobody wants me. I
have no reference and no experience.’
“( ould you he a porter?’ she asked,
half timidly, as though the work
were unsuited to him.
‘l've asked; but they say I’m not
strong enough. There’s no use try
ing.’
‘You know you were fond of horses,
ami perhaps you might be a driver
on tIK street ears. I could get your
b teak fust at live, and then I should
have more time to sew. I earn only
ten cents for making one shirt, and
perhaps I could make two if I work
ed hours enough. We should have
more to eat then.’
‘Yes,’ lie said, bitterly. ‘We haven’t
had much for weeks. I can’t stand
it to see you getting thin and worn.’
‘lt, will be brighter by and by.’
The lids of the young woman’s
eyes drooped wearily. It was nearly
midnight, and there had been no
supper in the house.
After a long pause, he said, as
though it were a last extremity:
‘■. ould it do any good to write to
your father ?’
‘I have; but he didn’t answer.
He’ll never forgive us.’ The speaker
was Kate Stanton.
‘Our marriage was a mistake for
you, Kate.’ And he groaned audibly.
A woman takes the inevitable bet
tor than a man. When there is noth
ing before her but starvation, or
shopwork at starvation prices, she
works day and night without a mur
mur. The man becomes discouraged;
she rarely. lie is restive under re
straint; she walks patiently as in a
trea 1 mill.
'i*lt oi Che foohsa eL.pe-non’ -
; was w at might have been expected.
James Thayer and ii is young bride
came W*?st; boarded till their money
wa •spent, while lie looked for a situ
ation; and, when other resources
failed, the wife took to shop-sewing.
She had never been taught self-sup
port, What was there for her but
| this?
At last he fouud an opening as
; stret,, gar driver. The work was
constant, from half past live till half
past ten, generally; seventeen hours,
with no recreation save on Sunday
afternoons. Loss of sleep, poor food,
and exposure to storms made stimu
lants seem a necessity He lost his
place once; but his wife regained it
by her intercession.
‘For Heaven’s sake,’ said the su
perintendent of the railroad, ‘don’t
let a woman come to ask a favor
again. I can’t say no. This one
was so young and pale. I warrant
she’s seen better days.’
Thayer now held faithfully to his
work. A little child had come into
his home, and this nerved him to do
his best.
‘Things look brighter, Ivate,’ he
said, oue evening in November, as he
held the blue eyed baby on his knee.
‘We'll have a turkey for thanksgiving
dinner; the first we’ve ever had. I
was promoted to day: forty dollars a
month. You won’t have to sew any
more; only to care for the baby and
me. He shall have anew dress and
new shoes.’ And he kissed him
again and again.
Thanksgiving morning came, dull
ami gray, with a slight fall of snow.
‘l've got two hours off for nooning,
Kate; good-bye!’ he said, cheerily,
as h <‘ft the tenement house, in the
dim, gi ay morning light. The bain*
was ,■ —<s neatly and the turkey
was ready: but James Thayer never
came to eat it. Perhaps his hand
was a 'tittle too nervous that day and
comm j ideated its feeling to the
hersesi for they took fright, ran, and
threw him out on the frozen ground.
He ue er spoke afterward.
Chapter 111.
Foi years had made Herbert a
ha . me, strongly built man, a
trifle ndifferent to women from his
boy - disappointment, a lover of
n ' . a fine oarsman, and a bril
liaut s lar. The good blood in his
v ins, v .eh Dr. Redgood prized so
h.guly, showed itself in well poised
manner and ability to lead. I think
my no .c was surprised that; he
sh< ■* 1 . huose the ministry for his
1 an; but Herbert, in asking
him'< “How can I have the most
influence for good in life ? had de
cide*’: in favor of the pulpit.
A trip to Europe would refresh
him, .'ter his years of study, and
give : m more vigor for his work.
II ;id write to cousin Bertha of
Is , .as. and meet the family in
early June in Geneva, if agreeable.
He w ndered if Bertha had changed
mud; in the four years. She. in
turn, could not conceal from herself
the : t that she was excited at his
cone: :>iie must not let him see
that was aught to her but an old
friend: an adopted cousin in fact.
Perhaps he was already engaged.
The Paths train was late: but, at
last, it came rushing in with its hosts
of pleasure seekers for beautiful
Switzerland. Annette, the sister,
could not restrain her enthusiasm
‘How handsome you have grown.
Herbert. I thought if you were
going to be a minister you’d be dole
ful and awfully good.’
Tie’ll be shocked at your English,
after years of foreign travel,’ said
Bertha.
If Annette was surprised at
changes, Herbert was even more so.
Both sisters had greatly improved,
and Uousin Bertha, especially, seem
ed more charming thr~\ ever. Her
genial courtesy, her large brown eyes,
that could light up wonderfully, and,
withal, her perfect self-command
iraye her influence everywhere. The
hidden consciousness of power is one
ol the strongest elements of power.
Mastery of self gives mastery over
otliers.
What need to tell of that summer,
T vitli tlie visit to ( 'liaiuouny, lyin°‘ £it
the foot of magnificent Alt Blanc,
15,000 feet high, whose snow-covered
summit seems lost in Heaven; of the
Mer de-Glace, with its dive miles of
frozen, billowy sea; of wild .nioun
tain rides on the Tete Noire, amid
overhanging rocks and deep preci
pices; ot passes like the Genomi,
wliere lor two miles one climbs a
spiral stair-case, cut in the solid
rock: of quaint Interlaken, with its
ruined castles lying beneath the
classic Jungfrail; of Lake Lucerne,
the loveliest place un earth—a silver
cross in emerald setting at the foot
of the Rigi—and Mount Pilatus.
Herbert and the family remained
here for some days, at Pension Fels
berg, a delightful home overlooking
the lake. Every day was rich in ex
perience. Now they lingered in the
Hofkirche at sunset, to hear the
strains of that famous organ, some
times imitating a thunderstorm,
sometimes human voices; now they
sat in that exquisite grotto, over
grown with vines, where Thorvvald
s-n’s Lion, in the agonies of death,
commemorates the slaughter of the
800 Swiss guards in defense of the
beautiful Marie Antoinette; now the;*
climb the Rigi and see one of God’s
most wonderful pictures, thirteen
lakes set in green meadows, threaded
together by silver streams, all shut
in by snow-covered mountains,
which, in the sunlight, seem masses
of diamonds.
The time drew near when Herbert
must leave the party for a hurried
trip to Palestine. He and Bertha
had strolled out upon the hillside,
under the great trees above the Fels
berg. The moon shone full upon the
lake, making a silver track and
bringing out the verdure of Rigi and
tiie*craggy sides of Pilatus. I’ltoss
weeks had shown Herbert that Be i
was very dear to him. Their t ’stes
v ere similar, ami she would h’b
imp ui hi*- work. He had not ft
gotten Kate. It is Human nature not
t/> forget the things beyond om
rfeach. The unattainable we are al
ways groping after; but she belong
ed to another, and he should never
see her again. Bertha was not the
buoyant, impetuous, childlike Kate;
but a stronger, more helpful woman.
‘I wonder,’ said Bertha, half mus
ingly, ‘if life will be like that moonlit
path on the lake, or like rugged Pi
latus '?’
‘Aline would be like the former, if
you shared it with me,’ was the quiet
response.
‘Are you quite sure ?’ she said, as
though half afraid to be glad. We
fear to be certain about the things
we most long for.
‘Quite, Bertha. I know that I love
you better than all else in the world.’
They talked of the future, with its
labors; and both grew stronger for
them, with her promise to be his wife.
‘I begin my work in the
church the first of December. Can
we not be married on thanksgiving
day ? It is nearly four months
hence.’
‘As you wish, Herbert. We sail
soon to look after some land in Chi
cago, left by my father. Alotker and
Annette must remain there foi the
present, and we cau be married
ifiere.’
An exquisite peace stole into Ber
tha's life. The flowers were sweeter,
the skies bluer. She was satisfied.
What a full, beautiful word that is!
I know of no sweeter verse in tfie
Bible than: ‘I shall be satisfied when
I awake in thy likeness.’ Human
love, at its best, lias close kinship
, with the divine love.
Chaptef. IV.
The little fifth-story room in the
Chicago tenement house was darker
than ever. A year bad passed since
James Thayer died. The shop-sew
.ng had kept soul and body together
for the young wife. The small kero
sene lamp cast a dim light over the
tare walls, as Mrs Benjamin, a good
woman who lived on the first floor,
and Kate bent over a beautiful child
in the cradle.
•Do you think he'll die, Mrs. Ben
jamin v’
•Yes. poor dear He can’t live the
r ight out.'
•Oh, I can't give him up! He's all
3 have! Nobody cares for me. now,
except you; and I must have some
thing to love!’
•But. you know, he'll be safe up in
Heaven. It’s so hard for us poor
folks to care tor 'em that I sometimes
think it’s a deal better to have Him
keep 'em for us till we come.' Before
morning she was childless.
Mrs. Benjamin was the wife of a
Dayman. She took in washing that
lt-r oldest girl might attend the high
school and lit herself for teaching.
Very heroic is such a life, that strug
gles against odds that its children
nay not walk the hard road of the
parents. The only boy sold papers,
rising at four o’clock, when other
beys were asleep, often breaking his
paths in the snow by moonlight.
His mother had carefully saved his
one white dress in which had been
, baptized, a prettily embroidered one,
to pay for which she had done many
:
a L- washing. ‘But couldn't I
ai*U she said, ‘when I was ofier
, ins - Ii <o the Lord.’ To what bet
ter U- could she put it now than to
robe > little one for its burial ?
T .'t quite know what we’ll do
a ui .ie funeral.’ said Airs. Benja
min. The minister of our little
cliun has gone away. Oh! I re
metnf r now; one oi' the ladies 1
wash >r. a nice lady too, just home
f m urope, has a minister visiting l
her. , I hey say she’s going to marry
him. T know he’d come, and she too.’
Tlf little room was made as decent
*‘ ! p< -Able Airs. Benjamin bought
: v, white rose-buds, to lay in the
; r* :,t boy’s hand; not many; thev
were'too expensive. A few persons
in the tenement house came in. be
en us all respected Airs. Thayer, and
th Tit. wTi the street-car superin
ten Mt. that she had seen better
da;, <- The young minister, who was
i;( ither than Herbert Watson, was
up the long flights of stairs
Benjamin.
'■ needs kind words, sir, the
o’ anything,’ she said, as she
tend him first to the little coffin and
they to the pale mother. As he held
out is hand, both faces grew pale
as * hath. To Cousin Bertha, stand
ing £>y. it was something more than
a surprise; it was the revelation that
Hi, oert still loved Kate.
The words said at that simple
funeral were beautiful, because of the
heart back of them. No child, save
h 1 own flesh and blood, could be
d* .vr than this. He went home
confused and benumbed. It was joy
to'meet the person who had been the
hooo of his youth; but the happiness
of another was in his hands.
All that night Bertha wrestled
with herself. She must and would
give him up; but human nature lets
g> ; idols with such unwilling
ha inis that it generally tea s the
hands in pieces. ‘My life centers in
hi,n’ she said. ‘I love his work.
Sh;dl I let him decide the question ?
N>; for his honor will make him
keep his pledge. Is Kate fitted for
hnn ? That is - not for me to say.
11 loves her.’
W ien morning came she had coil
i.ered, and his happiness was more
than her own. She met him calmly
at breakfast.
T have decided for you, Herbert-
This matter lias been no fault of
yours You are free. Kate loves
you and she needs you.’
Her face was white; but she seem
ed more lovely than ever.
‘You are noble, Bertha. But you
fire all ready to be married. No. I
will not desert you.’
‘But I cannot wrong you nor Kate.’
‘I cannot decide now. My head
throbs, and I shall be ill if I stay.
MV will postpone the marriage. Will
ft* not?’
!’he leave taken was an atiectionate
with K-rtha. and ver\ tender
with Kate, though no words of love
were spoken. Some money was left
to make her comfortable till her
father could be seen.
Air. Stanton’s heart melted as he
heard how she had struggled while
he had enough and to spare.
‘I have been cruel,’ he said. She
must come home at once.’
Time heals wounds for us all and
maxes hard matters easier. If it
were not so, life would be a burden
to most ot us. A year had passed
and Bertha had learned to thinx
calmly of Herbert as rightfully be
longing to another. He had seen
much of Kate, as he was settled near
her home, and the ties had grown
stronger. Cheer and hope had come
bacK to her.
TiiatiKsgiving day came again; a
mild, beautiful day, lixe those of our
Indian summer. A quiet wedding
made Kate and Herbert one.
‘I thinx I shall be a better wife for
all the struggle I have had,’ said
Kate.
‘We have both been made ready
by discipline for a noble work, I
hope,’ was the response.
Dr. Eedgood, our xind physician,
called one evening. “I’ve come to
bring you a box. a very precious
box,’ he said, “which I have Kept all
these years for you.’ As Herbert
opened it and found a iocx of brown
hail - and a beautiful diamond ring,
he said: ‘These were your mother’s,
Herbert. Perhaps it has seemed
strange to you that I have never
married. When I was about your
age, I loved a lady, who, while she
esteemed me highly, loved and mar
ried another. He was a noble man.
He died first, and soon after, at her
! death, she gave me her boy, because
; she had no near relatives and no one
s could love him better than I. I
■ could not properly care for him my
self, and gave him to my best friend,
your adopted father. I have never
i told him that you were the son of the
only woman I ever loved. I have
! only said you had good blood, and
'so you have. The ring will fit Kate’s
finger. You are both verj- clear to
me.'
Years after, when Cousin Bertha,
wearied in body from too constant
Christian wont, came to her child
hood-s home to see Kate and Her
bert. was it strange that Dr. Red
good's sympathy for her grew into
affection, and that it was recipro
cated '? He was older than she. but
hearts cannot always be judged in
years.
Cleveland. O.
The winter scenery about the falls
of Niagara is now most attractive.
T be outbuildings are so covered with
ice and snow that they resemble Ice
lander's huts. The trees in Prospect
Pane and Goat Island have all as
sumed their winter dress. The ice
mounds at the foot of the Horseshoe
and American Falls are frozen solid
to a great heighth. The bank edges
of both falls are frozen over for some
distance with beautiful stalactites of
enormous weight, changing the whole
appearance of the fails to a wintry
| fairyland. The sleighing is unusu
ally good, and the season promises in
■very way to be a lively one.
d'or the ffltmtolvlfitl,
Evil is wrought by want of thought.
More than by want of heart.
Over and * ve.* Again
Over and over again
No matter which way I turu,
I always find in the Book of Life
Some lesson 1 have to learn.
I must take my turn at the mill,
I must grind out the golden grain,
1 must work at my task with a resolute will,
Over and over again.
We cannot measure the need
Of even the tiniest flo.ver.
Nor check the flow of the golden sands
That runs through a single hour;
But the morning dews must fall.
The sun and the summer rain
Must do their part, and perform it all
Over and over again.
Over and over again,
The brook through the meadow flow’s.
And over and over again
The ponderous mill-wheel goes,
Once doing will not suffice.
Though doing it be not in vain ;
And a blessing failing us once or twice
May come if we try again.
The path that has once been trod
Is never so rough to the feet;
And the lesson wo once have learned
Is never so hard to repeat.
Though sorrowful tears may fall,
And the heart to its depth be driven
By the storm and tempest, w - e need them all
To render us meat for heaven.
Somethin;; about Taxes.
[Cor. Houston Home Journal. 1
l,t never seems easy to pay taxes- We
always need the money for something else
that seems a more urgent demand. Taxes
ae never low —always high and higher.
Whether from extravagance of officials,
necessary public works, or straight-out
steals, the public funds are always more
easily spent than collected. Everybody
chronically complains about paying taxes.
One of the richest men w - e know of is rare
ly possessed of sufficient cash in hand to
settle his annual indebtedness to the state
and count}*. No, not indebtedness —it is a
'pecies of robbery, or blackmail—in bis
estimation, and not a payment of bis pro
rata for the protection of property and pre
servation of society and the necessary pub
lic improvements.
Taxes bear unequally. Most men of any
standing in the community are allowed to
value their own property —of course nnder
oath, “as a matter of form.” Men are gen
eraily very conscientious about such mat
ters, and scrupulous—not to overvalue their
property. Besides, properly always goes
down about the Ist of April, on which day
assessments are supposed to be made. That
is “all fools’ day.” but nobody is fool
enough to sell their property at wliat they
honestly swear is its market alue. Land
that rents for a dollar and a naif an acre
on the Ist tA January, is only worth from
tw o to three for the purpose of taxation on
the Ist of April. According to modern
ideas the biggest April fool is the man who
gives in his property at its true value. The
difference of opinion about values, every
man being judge and juror in bis own case,
makes taxes bear unequally. We know a
man in Alabama worth four thousand dol
lars who pays forty dollars a year taxes.
Another who owns twenty thousand pays
less than fifty. There is a poor widow
woman with six childien in an adjoining
county, who pays ten do Jars a year on a
farm not worth a thousand. Her next
door neighbor owns a larger and a better
place, and pays only eight dollars. There
is a piece of property in a county in north
western Texas for which the owner refused
sixty thousand dollars, yet he gives it in
for taxation at twenty-five thousand.
The time will soon be here for the return
of taxable property for 1883. If every one
would give in at a correct value, or was so
assessed, taxes would be lower and better
borne, and more cheerfully paid by the
poor.
11l Reports.
Keep clear of personalities in general con
versation. Talk of things, objects and
thoughts. The smallest minds occupy
themselves with personalities. Personal
ities must sometimes be talked beeafase we
have to learn and find out men’s character
istics for legitimate object; but it is to De
with confidential persons. Do not need
lessly report ill of others. There are tirnts
when we are compelled to say, “I do not
think Bouncer a true and honest man.”
But when there is no need to express an
opinion, let poor Bouncer swagger away.
Others will take his measure, no doubt,
and save you this trouble of analyzing him
and instructing them: and as far as possi
ble dwell on the good sid of human beings.
There are family boar where a constant
process of depreciatiL*. assigning moiivts,
and cutting up character goes forward.
One who is healthy does not wish to diue
at a dissecting table. Theie is evil enough
in man God knows ! But it is not the mis
sion of every man and woman to detail and
report it all. Keep the atmosphere as pure
as possible, and fragrant with gentleness
and charity.
Trite Heroism.
In one of our Sleeping cars there was an
old bachelor who was annoyed by thecon
-1 tinued crying of a child, and the ineffectual
: attempts ef the father to quiet it. Palling
I aside the curtain, and putting out his head
lie said: ‘‘Where is the motherof that child?
Why doesn’t she stop that nuisance ?” The
father said very quietly: “The mother is in
the baggage car in her coffin; I am travel
i ing home with the baby. This is the sec
i ond nighi I have been with the child, and
; the .ittle creature is wearying for its moth-
er. lam sorry if its plaintive cries disturb
any one in this ear.” “Wait a minute”
said the old bachelor. The old man got
up and dressed himself and compelled the
father to he down and sleep while he took
the baby himself. That cid bachelor still
ing the cry of the baby ail night was a hero.
And the man who, for the sake of others,
gives up a lawful gratification in his own
house, or in the social circle, is as great a
hero as though he stood upon the battle
field.
If the love of God seta us at work, the
God of love will find us wages.
NUMBER 2.
pisffllmmis.
How Lout; the l>ell Will Last.
A month ago it w is thought that the re
duction of the national debt tor Deeembtr
would not l:o more than $8,000,000, but
the treasury department reports lhat it is
more than $15,000,000- The reduction
during the first six months of the present
fiscal year exceeds $81,000,000, while the
reduction during the whole of the fiscal
year which eud.-d with June 3t>, 1882, was
$151,000 000 Tiie total debt is now sl,-
920,461,603 31. At the rate of last year’s
reduction the debt would be extinguished
in about 12 years It is not expected that
the payment will continue to be as rapid
as it has been, but it is not improbable that
the burden which reached the maximum
in August, 1860, when the national debt
was $2,844,049.626, will he obliterated sev
enteen years hence, when the year 1900 is \
ushered in on us. The crop failures and
panics may retard the payment aud changes
in the tariff may reduce the income of the
government from the $410,000,000 esti
mated as the receipts of the present fiscal
year, but economy may effect a correspond
mg reduction in the $395,000,000 expendi
tures of the government, estimated as the
cost of the national establishment for the J
year ending with June 30, 1883, so that the j
end of the >uh!ic debt may precede the end j
of the century.
Tlie World’** Anil Heap*.
“A $90,000,000 Ash-heap,” is the striking ;
heading of the Commercial Bulletin’s sum
maty oi the fires of 18'2 Even more strik
ing ate the figures for the whole world as j
presented by a correspondent in the col- 1
umns of the London Times for a year not j
specified, but presumably 1880. According
to him the losses by fire in this country j
surpass those anywhere else. He puts them ■
at $110,000,000, some five millions more
than in Russia, which conies next The
English losses are estimated at forty-five
millions, the German at thirty, the French
at fifteen. The estimate for the United
States, at least, is grossly excessive. It is j
twenty millions above the figures cf the |
careful Bulletin, which includes the Cana- j
dian loss s. while Canada is down in the j
tables of the correspondent for twenty mil i
lions more. The total for the United I
States, according to the review of the year I
recently publ shed in the New York Times !
was $70,000,000-
Flon g'lon's Pedigree.
Most readers will recs-gnize in Prince
Napoleon, Pion Plon, as he is nicknamed,
who figures itt the news from France, the
son of King Jerome and Catherine, his sec
ond wife. He is a cousin of the late em
peror, and was horn ill 1822. lie received
his military education at Ludwigburg, and
has led a not uneventful life, llis military
career won him no honor, aud his political
career has been regarded as insincere and i
erratic. His vd/e, the Princess Ciotilde, is
the daughter of Victor Emmanuil, late;
King of Italy, am.his republicanism has
always been much doubted tie was ex
pelled from France in 1872, and is likely 1
now to find himself with no home on the 1
soil of France.— St. Louis Rt nibliran.
A Chilli -,llth l ii. ee Tongues.
Arkansas comes to the front with a nat
ural curiosity that can’t be beat in the
shape of a girl two years old, who is pos
sessed of three tongues. She is the daugh
ter of Mr. James W. Blackwell, a native of
Alabama- The child is a fine, healthy one,
and with the exception of the three ton*-
gues aforesaid, is like unto other children
of the same age, except that she has a birth
matk of a snake running from her shoul
der blade nearly to the left elbow. Your
correspondent made a close examination
of the babe, and distinctly saw three sepa
rate divisions in the child’s tongue — Helena,
Aik-, ape,dal.
At Governor Cornell S Saturday recep
tion, in New York, strawberries which cost
sl(Eper quart were exhibited and ate inju
dicious platefulls. They were hot-house
berries from New Jersey. Twenty-five
cents was the cost of each berry, or $320 a
bushel. The dealer who supplied them
now offers peaches at $3 each and finds a
limited number of customers.
“What's the crowd about ? ’ queried the
stranger, as lie noticed t stream of visitors
going into a fashionable tesidence. “It’s a
silver weddin’,” obligingly replied his in
fonnant. “What’s a silver weddin’?”
“Why, a chap’s been married twenty-five
times, and he’s a celebratin’ of it.”
Merchants do not buy Crockery, Wood,
Tinware, Show Cases, Looking Glasses,
Lamps, Fruit Jars, Fruil Driers, Fly Fans,
etc., before von get Mcßride’s prices f
Qcimbey perceived one morning that
tiie milk he was pouring into his coffee cup
was none of the richest. On this lie said
to his hostess: “Haven’t you any milk that
is more cheerful than this?” “What do
you mean by that?” asked she. “Why,
this milk seems to have the blues,” was
the ready retort.
-
Mary F Small. Savannah, Ga, says:
“Brown’s Iron Bitters cured me of indiges
tion and a burning in my stomach-”
The mania for adulteration is so great
that you can’t buy a quart of Band and be
i sure that it is not half sugar.
**—
A Household W ord.
■ Ni uralgir.e is now recognized as the only
; remedy for Neuraigtne and Headache. It
! never fails. Try it. Sold by ali druggists.
China and Japan buy our dried apples
] freely. Thus does American industry b<-'.p
to swell the population of the Orient
A World Startled.
Many astonishing cures of Neuralgia and
Headache have taken p*ace in Monroe
county from the use of the unfailing rem
edy Ncura'gine Sold by ail druggists
Secretary —“ Here, old man, is your
witness fee.” Old man—“ Thank you very
much. As lam an Old man, with few op
portunities of earning a penny, I hope you
will Cali upon me again when you need a
witness.”
Someihisig New.
A iinimei.. that by its aeti-. e absorption
ana penetration goes right to the seat of
trouble, relieving all pain and effecting a
cure in a harmless manner. Such is Haui
-1 burg Liniment. It has no superior.
JOB PR IN T ‘ >
BnineM Men
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NOTF HEADS.
LETTER H:-:u .
Cards.
ENVELOPES.
DODGERS,
PROOF.
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Or any other kind of Job Print! v
the office of the Monroe Advert i*
have it done and cheaply. I
iarjje stock of Papers. Good Job i'\
Plain Cards, etc., of the latest ;
to do all work well and on short 1. t.
guaranteed. Pleas*- civc me you
prill 8
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We Have It. We Have It.
HAVE WHAT
Why a tip-top PAULOI; mu. \v 1
We have boen three year* tr r.
pan. and have had uuiulx vi
Organs offered us hv miini!a<:i:
but we could see no merit 1.
declined to push the.r i 1 t.--
py to *tite that we have the nati
we aro confident will fill the -
COST Ut T A
LITTLE MO A KY
and a year's time ar that. TANARUS! ‘ . -
BAY STVTE
is the iiaiue of our GEM o: V
Cheap Organ, and there ■< no ex
one who desires one of these i:.o •
Appliances, not haring the susoe.'
••What else hsvo they '.-" y.m
mind. Well, we merely represent •
nient- in the world, and we thirl. \ •
with us. when we say that cur lire
Chickering, Mathushek. :
rihl Bicli. Arion pj:
AND THK
Mason & Hamlin and ' Ley.
th perfections of Parlor Or mu '
the BELL CHIME ORGAN, aud t
PACKARD. If you can find a bet:
house South we will give yoa dir
polio man, or something else :xq:i
Rat up u* the prosant time a ■ hat
duce ourselves, so ciUzeus if Mon. ■
it is
The Music House of Georgia.
E. D. IRVINE i
Mulberry Street, Macon, G
and wo would be delighted to no. i
ance either in oerson or by letter, •
renthesis, let us whisper to j
quarters for Sheet Music >nd Musi,
you wilt probably conclude, wh n
are selling Music retailed els wh-r.-.-i
75c, at the uniform price of
TE3XT CHEZ2
and make a libera! discount on :i:i
and Ministers of the Gospel.
TIIE MARVELOUS ORGUIANN
music by turning a crank.:- ana
and one good feature about it is thm
make the music. Besides we have a .
ness of Violins, Aecordeout, Danj. i- j.
small coods at a correct price.
Uemembr tint Prof. Guttenb: r ;. r
of tiie Music Department, being ap; ,■: . :
inesa, aud his past experience as a ti , r
him capable of knowledge the want . <
loving people. Don't lail to solicitor
copy of the GEORGIA MUSICAL E" Li
will be delighted with it.
twc-gMiwnwr a an liegq;;?
'IK EM ass
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supplies to teachers
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X \ ' E are prepared to negol
t t farm iamis on bett-r.-n
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