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MOUNTAINS.
“All along the mountain 1 impossi
ble !’•
“Jack, you see those deer skins ly
ing there on the ground ?’’
“That’s what I should call them
without further examination.”
“Just as distinctly as you see
those, I see footprints all along the
mountain side, and up the very
fountain bead of a little stream that
Hows down through yonder valley.”
“A woman’s foot-prints, did you
eay?"
“Yes, u woman’s, small and beau
tifully formed.”
“Some of those lowland berry girls
in search of blackberries.’’
, “That is good logic, Jack, but 1
/ don't see it in that light. In the
first place there are no blueberriess
within three miles of the mountain;
in the second, no girl, unless lost,
would venture into the dense for-
“Very strange, indeed ! ’
“To-morrow, if you have no ob
jections, I’ll go up, and we will in- j
vestigaffi this mountain nymph’s i
/pot-prints. And who knows but i
we l may catch the fairy creature by j
some of those little .cascades, her i
dainty feet buried in the white |
foam, combing down her long dark
tresses.”
“Now, Harry, to tell the truth, Id j
»ooner expect to find a meeting- .
house up there than a woman. Were I
the tracks newly made?”
“Yes; it had ruiaod very hard on- |
iy yesterday, and the swollen stream
had washed the sand over the ground
in many placet;. They were made
after the rain.”
“Now, Harry, ain’t you mistaken?
were not deer tracks?
“Perhaps; if she is as beautiful as
her foot prints she must certainly be
Homebody’s dear.
“Have it your own way, Harry,
i only give us a light tor this Havana,
and call it even.
The two speakers in the above
' conversation were Jack D inforth and
[ ! Harry Littleton, two college stu
dents spending their vacation in the
quiet town of Jjindsdale, long noted
for its wild romantic scenery, and
■ ! rich bunting grounds. The beauti
ful level surlace of the town, from a
distance, resembled a pretty green
’ foot stool for the proud old mountain
(towering above it.
i . Hany's hand s ime face of late was I
marred with ft sad expression, a look
of inquiry that none could read.
. Perhaps ho was not feeling well;
ead news from home, or likely
| enough he had repealed all he had j
seen on the mountain. Jack was
all life and jollity, ready to find or ,
j! to make fun out of eve?’'thing that
came along.
Hunting and fishing hold an end- :
lens charm f< w cun understand so
well as Lie young idiidud. just from
the school-room.
With the additional excitement
thia last excursion was doubly inter
©sting. They took an early start
next morning, with knapsacks, guns,
and three days' rations. Long ere
the aun had withdiawn its long
golden fingers that pointed in here
and there, through toe heavy tree
tops, dropping bits of gold and sap
phire over the beautiful mossy sur
face beneath, Jack was fully con
vinced o( the truthfulness of Harry’s i
statement. They even found pieces I
of fabric clinging to the underbrush :
in several places. Once where the ;
earth had been removed in search of |
ground nut© they saw distinctly the
print of a woman’s hand.
Through all the pleasant mouth oi
October, Jack and Harry fished the
fountain atreams, trapped the care- i
ifc.as bruin, shot the gentle deer, but
could never solvo the mystery of tl ©
mountain,
The last daj came, and a lovelier
one none need ever ask for. Indian
summer bad bound with a spell, and
emptied her vials of beauty del
earth and sky, blending together in
one great whole. A day when flow
ers nod and smile at every passer-by
when basting brooks te’l tales and
laugh, and all the leaf spirits silently
commune with one another, and
the heart of man is filled with j;y
and love and praise to the God of
pature for hie and all its surround
ingb.
Jack and Harry were not blind to
ail this loveliness, and concluded to
leave the mountain early in the day
and enjoy open field scenery. They
were to separate and leave the mouu
tain in two different directions. Just
befoie starting they built afire at t! e
foot of a very high ledge, ro isted
4beir fish, eat their hard biscuit,
lighted their cigars, and sprawled
out boy fashion on the ground.
The smoke soon wreathed about
their heads, curled, and rolled off
and up among the trees.
Harry gave an extra puff, raised
bis eyes to watch it mount the air,
when he caught a glimpse of the
moat beautiful face be had ever sten,
gazing down upon them from the
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VOL. X 11.
perpendicular r<ck some forty feet
directly above them.
“By Jove, Jack, look up !”
“Good heavens, Hairy, who, and
what, and where did she come
from?”
“We must know, we must find
her Nymph or maiden, that was
too fair a face for this wild place.”
The clambered up the ragged
rocks with all possible speed until
they reached the summit. No one
I:'.ere, no trace—yes, hero across a
b-t of fine damp moss are the self
s me footprints. That and no more.
A I the afternoon, until nightfall,
they traversed the mountain far and
near, all their efforts, as before, prov
ing fruitless. The next day Jack
and Harry willed their hunting ap
parel to‘the farmer’s two growing
sone, and returned to school four
weeks older, if not wiser.
Fou teen’ years previous to the
commencement of this nArrgdive, in
a quiet Quaker village in the town
of M— —, might be seen a pretty
white cottage, with plain white cur
tains, an open woik porch oyer the
front door, covered with, woodbine
<rcct Ftrartei- ntmrenr. t?rr «* rustic
seat'beneath the old elm th the ya»J,
might oftep be seen two youthful
parents conveisiag’ together and
looking very happy, while their little
fuur-year-old, blue-eyed and golden
haired, chased the butterflies oer
the green, or gathered bouciuets of
bluebells and honeysuckles, all steip
lass, and tightly pressed in dimple 1
baby hands, for papa and mamma.
Baby Lottie, as she was called, was
a child of great prom se, aid the pet
of the village. .Every Sunday found
Baby Lottie seated with her parents
ut. church, dressed in her little plain
drab gown and tiny Quaker bonnet.
In the seat just back sat another
family with a black-eyed rogui-h lit
tle feiiow, two years older than Lot
tie, who often grieved his parents
and jarred equilibrium of those si
lent meetings by reaching his foot
through under the seat in front and
kicking the little slipper shod foot
just peeping in sight, causing the
little Quaker bonnet to bob around,
and reproachful, glances from beneath
bonnets eta larger size.
Nevertheless the Sundays came
and went, with them Willie Land
seer and Lottie Danvers, to the old
brown church and home again. The
months gathered fend numbered
The years were tilled and counted
oft, while tho little Quaker maid,
slowly and sweetly blossomed into
womanhood. William was a hand
some, promising young man, with
the exception of one great phreno
logical firmness failing, a lack of
firmness, which often put all his,
good resolutions to rout, and left!
him to drift down the stream help
less and alone He often wish ’d to
break from the restraint that held
him withip the lines of the calm and
peaceful Quaker .di. cipline. From
hie childhood he had loved the fair
Charlotte and now that they were
betrothed, she was dearer to him
than ever. He would leave his home
for her, the Lome of hjs childhood,
and seek his fortune. Ha would go j
to Vermont, purchase a large£ Ira.ct
of unclean land, fell the heavy tim ,
ocr, build a long cabin, tbeu return
to his native State, and claim his
beautiful bride.
With these resolutions be repassed
to the heme of Charlotte, where he
found her singing and spinning,
seated at the little flax wheel out us *
del the old elm. It was nigh the
close of day. The rays of the setting
sun tinged with gold the soft brown
tresses that fell in heavy ringlets
over shoulders oi lily whiteness;
‘ •ne small slippered foot worked the
busy wheel, while the silken flax
yielded to the magic toucn of fairy
ling, rs and filled the flyers with
shining thread.
“Lottie, I’ve been thinking of thee
all day.”
“Well, William, what were thy
thoughts? surely good ones, if from
thine heart.”
‘ I will leave that for thee to say,
Lottie I have been thinking, a year
will soon pass away, when our wed
ding day will find us without a home
--a little home of our own, I mean.
Brother John, up in Vermont, writes
mo to come and purchase a lot oi
land beside him, and settle on it.
What does thee say to th «t, dear
est ?’’
“William, I believe thee will do
what is right and for the best. If
thou dost, it will be well with us.”
They bade each other farewell.
William came to Vermont, bought
his farm and prepared his home for
the little Quaker maid,
I would nave the remainder of this
life picture foievtr veiled. But no,
it must be held up as an awful warn
ing a proof that “the way of the
transgressor is bard. Within six
months Charlotte received a letter
informing her of h< r false lover’s
marriage.
No word of mine can express the
anguish of that poor broken heart
No word of complaint, no bitter
thoughts escaped her lips, she only
said:
: “I hope William will be pros
' pered, but I know he never will?
After the lapse of a few weeks,
: Charlotte one day came to her moth
i er and said, “Mother my heart aches
I to-day. I wvb thee c uid spare me
■ from Lome a we kor two; 1 would
, like t > go oyer the mount dn and vis
; it at Uncle John’s.
i “Ws, child, thee can go. Thy
I cousins will welcome thee gladly,
but hadn’t thee belter allow thy
father to take old Banc, and carry
thee ov r? Thou art not- feeling en
ceedmgly stt 'Bg, child, and ten
i miles walk over such a mountain
i may weary thee over much.
1 “Take no thought for me, dear
mother, I will return to thee in two
weeks, our Father willing.
Two weeks passed, three and four,
still Charlotte came not.
“Father, thee must saddle ole
Banu, and go for cur daughter. 1
i have a strange foreboding that ail is
nut well.’
The father w-nt, only to learn the
- startling news, that she never hud
I reached there. Search was imme
diately made, bat no trace of her
GAINESVILLE. GA.. FRIDA r sfuRAINOCTOBER 10, 1879
could be found.
The pleasant autumn passed by
and the chilling snows of winter
came, and found the grief stricken
parents still childless.
The long winter woie slowly
away, leaving the earth bare and
cheerless for the younger, fresher
hands to array again in robes of
beauty.
One day in May there came to this
saddened home a young man faint
and weary, begging a morsel of
bread and a night’s lodging, wliica
was most willingly granted. The
morrow found him wild, and unable
to rise from his bed. A physician
was immediately called, who pro
nounc-d it brain fever. His name
and residence were unknown; but
those kind-hearted, hospitable peo
ple said, “This young man must
have care. If the good Lord has
directed his footsteps to our door,
he must remain We will be father
and mother to him in the hour of
need.’’ After long weeks of severd
illness nature 'and kind atfcudaoce
restored the waqderjng mind to rea
son, He gave bis nam< -.is Hairy
and ssSfil the Lai. -he re-
J AID bored he left, his stpdy room,
with & <evere pain in bis head, and
directed his footsteps toward his
boarding house some twenty miles
from this place, quite a long walk to
take before breakfast. His host and
hostess bade him remain with them
Until he was fully recovered and able
t'o return to bis studies, which kind
ness he accepted with tears
and a thankful heart. As soon ns
ho became strong enough to con
verse freely, the kind matron in
qu red if he remembered any of his
strange conversation while ill. He
had no remembrance, and requested
her to repeat some of it. She told
him he had talked incessantly of the
mountain’s mysterious footprints,
beautiful faces, and so on, Me then
related to her the strange story of
tho previous autumn, and said it was
no idle fancy; that he could bring
his churn Jack Danforth, who would
affirm his assertions. When Im had
finished the staid Quaker turned to
his wife and said:
“Wife thy thoughts are my
thoughts. I will go.”
As soon as Hairy was strong
enough to travel ho guided the sor
i owing father to tho Ipdge where he
saw the beautiful face, and there
within a few rods of the rock, beside
the roots of $n upturned tree, lay
bleaching a little heap of bones, a
few shreds of checked linen, pieces
of the very dress she wore away or.
that fatal day. That was all that
was left on earth of poor Charlotte
Whether she was killed by the
wolyes or lest her way und died from
starvation will foreyef x*.ezjxain a mys
tery.
Jack and Harry saw the footprints
and thought they saw a face, which
proved to be a guide to the remains
of the once beautiful Charlotte. Whal
of ths faithless William? He labored
early and late on his farm beside his
brother, and, true as the words of
the sweet Quader maid, he could not
bo prospered. While his brother be
came rich and happy, ho grew poor
and miserable. At last his farm was
mortgaged and sold, his family scat
tered f and after a long and miserable
life he died alone in ft small log hnt
in a distant State.
A Substitute for Boilers.
The beauty of steam yacht and all
small pleasure steamboats, says the
New Haven Palladiurn , has always
been marred by the cumbrous boiler
an engine necessary to furnish the
propelling power, while small steam
boats could never be made practical
for business purposes, owing to the
large amount of room occupied by
the same apparatus. An invention,
recently perfe ited, and which is in
control of two New Haven gentle
men, both of whom have occupied
the position of adjutant general of
Connecticut, viz: Hon. Collin M. In
gereol and Prof. Wm.P. Trowbridge,
has proved a complete success, and
undoubtedly will completely super
sede ths boiler in all steamboats re
quiring a comparatively small degree
of power. A little cylinder contain
ing a coil of piye, in which the steam
is generated, takes the place of the
boiler. The fuel is poured into th*?
cylinder at the top, and the entire
affair is very similar to a base burn
ing stove. It is necessary to carry
very little water to feed the boiler,
four or live gallons being sufficient,
the waste water running back to the
tank and being utilized, and a small
pump feeding the coiled pipe. A
very small engine is sufficient to
give power. One of the West pat
ent, an English invention was used
in the boat in which the owners of
the right made a trial trip last Sat
urday in the harbor, and similar en
gines will hereafter be made at the
Colt armory in Harford. The yacht
is of very graceful model, is made a
life boat by means of air chambers,
and weighs little more than three
quarters of a ton.
A l.»O Pound Ghost.
G-. o. Tomes and frit nd from Pitts
burg named F. A. Tremain, went to
see a spiruiu d seance in a w< 11 f ur
mshed brown stone house in Chica
go the other evening. They paid
$1 e ich far entrance. Tomes rel ties
his experience as follows: “When
the spirit Mary came out into the
room about eight feet from the cabi
net, the passage was clear in front of
me, and I went for her like a streak
of lightning and threw my arms
around her. She screamed and
Aruggltd and several of the men ran
t » her assistance. My friend started
to he p me but he fell over the seats,
and the spirit got away from me
The ghost weighed 150 pounds if she
weighed an ounce, and I fully identi
i tied her as the medium. A woman
who had been sitting behind where I
stood cried out, you nearly killed my
daughter, and you ought to be shot
w th a pistol; and I’ve a good mind
to shoot you for treating a spirit in
i that way. The spirit had very little
clothes on, and her face was whiten
ed to give her a ghastly look."
u The Rock of Ages.”
From Frank Leslie’s Sunday Magazine
The Southern coast of England hat
been the birthplace of the grandest
hymns in our language. Within that
belt of land, sacred to devout poesy
Charles Wesley caught the inspira
tion of bis hymns; and there we be
lieve, he composed that delicious
love-lay of the heart.
“Jesus :over of tny soul.”
Oil the shores of Hampshire mused
and sang good Isaac Watts; and iu
the same county the modest Anne
Steel breathed forth her tender songs
.of consolation. In old Kent lived
Edward Peironett, who struck that
thrilling note,
“All luil the power of Jgsub’ name !”
In beautiful Devonshire the Bev.
Henry L. Lyte chanted his last swept
melody,
“AEido with me; fast fails he eventide."
A few miles from him dwelt Char
lotte Elliot, the sLter of a clergyman,
who wen| about doing good; but the
grandest work God ever put into her
hxuds. was to write.
“Just as I am, without «ne plea.”
Devonshire' nF ct : Mainlv bonore'J
bbcvd ftirrhe Yhiies < Britain, for on
that poetic soil Augustus TdpUdiy
gave birth to the most giorioips'hymu
of modern times—-the ‘Rock of Ages ’
—The ‘D es Ifte’ is the king of me li
evat hymns; but of modern songs of
Zion, the ‘Rock of Ages’ wears the
crown
T is a curious fact that the spirit
ual birthplace of the heart which
fashioned the hymn was a barn! Au
gustus Topladly was the son a Brit
ish officer, After Major Topladly’s
death, his widow took the lad Augus
tus on a .visit to Ireland. While at
Colmian, the boy of sixtee n found his
way into a barn, inhere an earnest
but uneducated layman was preach
ing on the text, “Ye, who sometimes
were afar off, are made nigh by the
blood of CJrrist.” The homespun
preacher “b'ud<h‘d better than he
knew,” for bis sermon converted the
soul which gave to tho Church of
God the ‘Rock of Ages.’ Probably
that obscure iriah preacher hag over
heard ten thousand echoes of hi.i
simple sermon in the heavenly world.
Topladly was ordained to the min
istry m 1762, and began to preach on
the banks of the Otter. His career
was a short one, for he died at the
age thirty-eight'. He worked hard.
James Hamilton says of him, that
“like a race horse, all nerve and fire,
his life v/ftS tiptoe, and hia delig.L
was to get oyer tjio ground.” Ho
composed in lot haste. Certainly
some of his sharp eontroyeisiftl pa
pers were thrown off as from a fur
nace, for they scorched terribly.
Even when he wrote his magnifi
cent masterpiece, the ‘Rock of Agee,’
he could not Resist the temptation to
given thrust at those who he said
were believers in ‘Perfection.’ So he
entitled his hymu, when he printed
it, “a living and dying prayer of the
holiest believer in the world.” This
is as much as if he had said: “The
most sanctified soul in the world
must come down on his knees, and
cons ss, ‘Nothing in my hands I
bring,’ and, ‘Vile Ito this fountain
4y- ; ”
Glorious child of song I he has
gone where tfie strife of tongiies has
ceased and controversies are for ever ;
bushed, perhaps he and Wesley
have sung each other’s hymns in gio- .
ry, and been puzzled to find out how
it was they ever seemed to disagree. ,
Tophtdly’s hymn is as universally
popular as the sunshine or the ver
nal flowers. It has bepu translated
into almost every tongue. Dr. Pom
eroy went into a church in Constan
tinople, where a cupipapy of Ameri
cans wore singing a hymn which so
moved them that the tears were trick
ling down their cheeks. He inquir
ed what they were singing. A man
present translated the words, and 10l
they were the dear old lines of “Kock
of Ages !” When Prince Albert was
dying, wo are told, hjs lips feebly
murmured the sweet words of To
piadly’s hymn. And so it came
about that the dying Prince laid hold
of those precious thoughts which had
their original root in the rude dis
course oi an obscure layman in an
Irish barn I
We do not dare io attempt any
critical analysis of Topladly’s won
derful hymn. Just as soon would we
pull a rose to pieces to find ou
where the delicious odor was lurking.
The hymn itself is absolute perfec
tion. Os all it lines, wo think the
two finest are these !
“Nothing in my hands I bring,
Simply to tby cross I cling/’
No other words can express more
beautifully the entire empty-handed
ness with which a poor, weak, sinful
soul comes to grasp the Divine Re
deemer is its only hope. The es
sence of the Gospel is in this match
loss couplet. It has wrought itself
•nto ten thousand prayers for par
don pit has been the ‘confession of
‘faith for ten thousand penitents.
Two slight changes have Lem
made to Topladly’s hymn. The v.ord
‘tracts’ has been superseded by
‘words’ in the last verse. In the
same verse the author also wrote:
“When my eye-strings break in death.’’
Perhaps he had learned the medi
cal fact that, at the moment of disso
lution, a delicate tendon near the eye
sometimes break, and causes a flow
of tears. But the allusion was more
anatomical than poetic, and the
word “heart string” is substituted in
our common version.
This glorious hymn yet waits for a
tuuc worthy of it. The one in ordi
nary use is by no means of the high
est order. Some master of music
ought to compose an ‘air’ which
shall describe the climax. The whole
hymn is a fervent outcry of a broken
heart to Jesus. It begins in the
plaintive confession;
“Not the labor of my hands.
Then the suppliant owns that he is
naked, empty-handed, and helpless
and vile, and calls, out imploringly:
“Wash me, Savior or I die !”
Then his bursting heart begins to
yearn and stretch onward. It reach
es on to the dread hour when the
i heartstrings snap at the touch of
I death. It sweeps oul into eternity—
lit soars to the judgment sea 1 .. It be-
'olds the great white throne! And
casing itself down before that
throne, it pours forth its last pierc
ing but triumphant cry:
“Bock of ages, cleft for me.
I Let me hide myself in Thee!”
Not Smith’s Cmv.
v is i: certain m.»a in Water
ford w :on> —e will c 11 R, whois
quite a man for practical jokes. He
pa his cow together with sever
al of Lis neighbors, in a pasture
about half a mile above his house.
There is a man we will call Smith, a
namo perhaps familiar to all, who
about a quarter of a mile below
who pastures his cow there. R’s
and Smith’s cow resemble each other
very much both being red and about
the same size. One day last June
ab ut six o’clock, R. went up and
i-or his cow, and it beingrather early
bi -et her feed a little in front of the
hcHase. Pretty soon Smith came by,
and seeing his cow, as he supposed,
standing in front of the house, he
said, “Isn't that cow intruding a
littlifc neighbor ?” “Oh, no,” said R.
“not'at all-Het her eat. Sit down |
-hod NG I ’/ '. you Lhimi' i
el< elfpu.” Smnd sat down and'
quite a while, then he
started to go, but R wouldn’t hear
of it, and made him talk on, and so
lie kept him until about dark. Soon
Smifli jumped up and said hu must
go, and started, driving tho cow d wn
the street. He got her down a few
ro 's, when she dodged him and back
she came. Smith swore a little at
hir and again headed her down the
sti< ei. This time he got her down a
little way further, 'when she again
wheeled past him and came lushing
back to the house. Again ho came
back, pretty mad this time, and by
be help of a club and some well
assorted profanity, got her consider
ably further toward home; but in an
unguarded moment sffe got past him
and camo prancing back. This time
Smith was in a white heat, and as
he reached the house almost in tears,
R , who had been calmly wit king
his operations, stopped him and said
he had a civil question io ask him, '
which was this: “What in thunder *
are you trying to do with my cow?” (
Smith took in the situation at once,
and handed out tho cigars, borrowed '
a lantern and went up to the pasture
after his own beast, which had been ‘
patiently waiting at the ban. for two
hours or more. If you want to see i
bitu get on hiu muscle, just aek 1 im ,
if he wasn't the mm who tried to
steal R’s cow.
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A DeligHti'snl SjegcMd.
There is a beautiful legend connec
ted with the site on which the Tem
ple of Solomon was erected. It G
said to have been occupied in com
mon by two brothers, one of whom 1
had a family, but ths other had none.
On the opot was a fi -ld of wheat. On
the evening succeeding the harvest,
the whedt having be.-n gathered in
shocka, the ekUr brother said to his
wife,
“Aly younger brother is unable to
bear the burden and heat of the day.
I will rise, take off my shocks, and
place th- m with his, without his
knowledge.”
The - younger brother being actua
ted by the same benevolent motive,
said to himself, -
“Aly elder brother has a family
and I have none. I will contribute
to their support. I will arise take
off my shocks, and place them with
his without his knowledge?
Judge of their astonishment when
on the following morning they found
that their respective shocks were un
diminished. This course of events
transpired for several nights, when
each resolved in his own mind to
stand guard, and if possible solve the
mystery. They did so, and on the
following night they met each other
half way between their respective
shocks with their arms full.
Upon ground hallowed by such
associations as this, was the Temple
of Solomon built —so spacious, so
magnificent, the wonder and admira
tion of the world. Alas I in these
days how many would sooner steal
their brother’s whole shock than add
to it a single sheaf!
A Site Gambler.
Educated, pretiy and fashionably
uressed women were not common hi
Nevada city, Cal, in 1851. Therefore
the arrival of Madame Dumont in
that mining town caused! considerable
excitement, for she was attractive in
the three mentioned particulars.
Besides she was not more than twen
ty years old. She at- once hired a
corner in a large saloon and opened
a faro game. The noie’ty of awo
man dealing the cards drew many
gamblers to her table, and her suc
cess was so gaeatthat she soon open
ed a large establishment, where a
dezen games were k , t going night
and day. She gained the reputation
of dealing honestly, was always
smilingly polite, and the miners liked
her—even held her in considerable
respect. But tier luck changed
from good to bad, and she lost all oi
her money. - She spent a few years
in other business in San Francisco,
but could not rec >v. r into prosperity
A few weeks ago she borrowed five
hundred dollars from an old friend
and started for the mining region ol
Nevada, contempt sting a new career
as a gambler, She opened a faro
game in Bodie; but it lasted only a
few hours, when the bank wrs broken
She paid her losses in the old smiling
manner, retired to an ante-room,
swallowed poison and died.
An h veiling Struggle.
Visitors to the Scarborough aqua
riums were treated to a struggle be
tween a man and a large devilfish.
The keeper, while cleaning cut the
tank occupied by the octopods, was
seized by the largest of the creatures,
which fastened four tentacles round
the leg of his Loot, and with the
other four held firmly on to the rocks
forming the back of the tank. A
struggle took place, during which
the man found that he could not dis
engage himself without killing the
animal, and finally hit upon the ex
pedient of slipping his leg out, leav
ing the boot in the water.
l A rilll I LIANG STORY.
I
iiow a Kuna way Locomotive was Stop
ped in Hit Nick of Time.
After all, we way station telegraph
opsrators are not without our little
; bit of romance occasionally, and I
; think I can show that we are not eu-
Itirely without a certain responsibilty
but it is seldom if ever recognized
unless one of our number by careless
ness suddi nly plunges a train to de
struction by failing .o deliver or un
derstand orders. The time of which
I speak was one pleasant afternoon
in autumn, the 22d day of September
1876, and as the occurrence has made
a deep impression on my mind, I
cannot forget the day, which was
Friday. At that time I had been an
agent and operator on the
railroad a little while over two
months. The line was directly
through parts of Indiana and Illinois
and some of the stations had no tele
graph office consequently the order
distance was somewhat lengthy, and
there warn but one office between
! mine and Cdwans twelve miles west
! day I wasjqnietly puffing my
bpip-' in the little oayVTindow of my
office, and wishing for something to
relieve the monotony, when the ope
rator at Cowans called the train dis
patcher and said an engine had
sprung her throttle with 140 pounds
of steam and gone east while the
fireman Lad gone to dinner and the
engineer who was oiling around had
no time to get on. All was still as 1
death for a minute when they began
to call G , the only office be
tween mine and Cowans; for full five 1
minutes he called him, using the
signal 23 which means death, but I
still no answer, and still the mnodto- t
nous click of the armature; present- I
ly he answered in a dazed hurried i
manner, and when asked about the
engine, said it hid passed there at a
fearful rate of speed at 4:14 with no j
person vi able. It was only six miles
more to mo, and an excursion was ,
on its way west with a heavy load oi
tired picnieeifl, and has actually lefi
a station only eight miles east of me, I
the first telegraph office, at two min- i
utes past four. The dispatcher call- t
ed me furiously, and being at hand 1
and expectant, J answered him im- 1
mediately, when he said, “Turn
your switch and wreck engine No. II |
going esst wild,” I replied quickly, |
“1 caning, without indemnity orders”
ami after a hasty consultation with ’
tiiG superintendent, as I afterwards |
learned, he went fthead with an order
whose unusual form and wording
aroused many a lazj “brass sounder” e
from Lie doze. It was worded like i
this: i
To <.per...tor: Wreck wild engine 1
No 11 at jvqr eqsteiq switch gate to 1
save collision. Company will defend
and uphold you. D B. R.
I immediately returned my 13 or
understanding, received my correct
at 4:18 p. m , and turned to look for
the engme, when although the con
versation between myself and the
dispatcher had consumed but four
minutes I saw hey coming at the
greatest rate of speed I ever witness
ed, and snatching my order I ran t
the switch gate, about 150 feet, and
when I had unlocked and thrown
the rail, the roaring monster was on
ly about 100 feet away. I had mj
watch in my baud and stepped
quickly back out of harms way, she
went over, and such an unearthly
crash I hope I may never see or hear
again. The dirt and stones flew fifty
feet in the air, the engine turned
clear over and stopped on her side;
pushing a splinter of the cab on the
whistle valve, and there she lay a
seething, hissing, screeching mass of
rubbish. But above thudin and rat
tle I heard one wild, despairing
shriek for help, and when 1 could
get close enough to sec anything 1
found what, had it not been for the
face, would never have been recog ni
zed as a man in the crushed and
bleeding mass of flesh that lay under
one huge driver; but the face was
without a scar and by that was re
cognized as an escaped madman,
who, it seems had climbed on the
engine at Cowans unobserved, and
puding the throttle open bad started
on a wild, awful ride to the gates of
death. When the excursion train
came up ten minutes later they said
they found me standing by the en
gine gazing alternately at the bloody
driver and my written order, still
tightly clasped in my hand. I was
conscious of everything save the fact
that I had obeyed orders, and had
thereby taken a life.
They say 1 fainted, but I knew
nothing from the instant I discovered
that white, bloodless face until four
days after, when I awakened appa
rently out of a ?raam. My first
question was, “Did the excursion get
in safely ?” The coion r held an in
quest as soon as I could be examined
and the verdict was: “We the jury
find that Albert Long came to his
death by being crushed beneath a
locomotive which was wrecked by J
L. 8., an operator on the rail-
road according to the order of D. R.
8., his superintendent and superior
officer. And we find further that no
blame can be attached to said J. L
B, D. R. 8., or the said railroad
company, as the engine was wrecked
to save a heavily loaded excursion,
and said Albert Long being a mad
man was on the engine in direct op
position to the company’s orders.”
1 have tnat order and a copy of the
verdict side by side in my diary where
they shall always remain.
Chien in my dreams I see an unre
cognizable mass of quivering flesh
and broken bines beneath the Luge
driver, and a white unscarred face
presents itself to my gaze. A sud
den shriek will almost craze me, and
I am tempted to go where railroads
are unknown, where the hissing and
screeching cannot reach me.
A colored man appeared before a
magistrate, charged with some trivial
offense. The latter said to the man:
“You can go now; but let me warn
you never to appear here again?
The man replied, with a broad grin:
•‘I wouldn’t be here this time, only de
onslable fotch me.”
SMALL BITS
Os Vo. lous Kiiuli l tirelessly throw 11 To.
gether.
The children of God have much in
hand, ami more in hope.
Man wants but little here below,
and he can get that quickest by ad
vertising.
The Princess Louise will sail fron
Quebec for England on the 18th oi
October by the steamship Sarmatian.
Anton Lamotti, of Chicago, hanged
himself on Monday night, and James
T. Hankinson, of the same place,
took morphine and died.
Henry A. Hall, a well known rub
ber manufacturer, committed suicide
at Bridgewater, Ct., Tuesday, cutting
his throat in a bath tub.
A man was hit in the leg while on
his knees in a prayer meeting at
Boyd Station, Ky., by a stray bullet
from the pistol of a drunken rowdy.
Kansas school teacher—“ When
does our grain go to ?” “Into th
hopper.’- hopper Gri*-.
hopper,” :Y.outud the sm'air U i
Umphantly.
,In New York, Tuesday morning,
Geo. Smith, under arrest for drunk
enn.ss ami disorderly conduct, com
mi e suicide by hanging himself with
a handkerchief in bis cell.
. C uno to think of it, George Fran
cis Train is not only still alive, ba
bas again embarked in the newspa
per business. He is, however, , ’>ndei
control and perfectly harmless.
If Christians must contend, let i;
be like the olive and the vine, which
shall boar most and best fruit; not
like the aspen and elm, which shal'
make the most noise in the wind.
We should act with as much ener
gy as those who expect everythin®
from themselves; and wo should pray
with as much earnestness as those
who expect everything from God.
Dio Lewis, who has been supposed
to be m tne Sandwich Islands bv
most people, is to no farther away
than Washington, but, he is wonder
fully quiet on the subject u s cheap
If I have not a broken and contrite
heart, God’s mercy will never be mine;
but if God had not manifested his
mercy in Christ, infinite and free 1
could never have a broken, contrik
heart.
luat California shooting cast
seems to gpropoand :he quen;’ ‘ls
it any worse to insult a man’s mother
in print than iiis fathe r?” When this
is settled they can begin shooting
again.
A mud-turtle Can neither fly, sing,
gallop, laugh, cry or g o blackberry
ing, and yet it they are let alone they
get along just as well as the young
man who tries lo be funny at a lawn
party.
Man proposes but a mob disposes.
A tramp who threatened to burn the
1 own of Chi rry Valley, Idaho, was
never more “off* in his life. In
twenty minutes he was plumb uu and
down from a limb.
When great big watermelons sell
in New York for ten cents each the
restaurants charge fifteen cents for a
slice comprising one tenth of the
melon. Ban Kers and druggists dont
pocket all the profits.
A Boston druggist sold an ounce
of laudanum io a boy who brought a
written order for tincture of rhubarb,
and the widow of the man killed bi
i he blunder has obtained a verdict ol
$5,208 dollars damages.
About toe lime that peaches are
the ripest and cheapest and merchant
'ailors are cutting into each other
along comes a solemn-faced old cur
mudgeon and solemnly exclaims:
“The end of all is death.”
It was in the sixteenth century
that woodyard men first discovered
how to pile the slicks crossways in
the box, and larrup a customer out
of one eight on every cord. Don’t
look upon it us a new thing.
A man who has the cheek to put
up bitters containing ninety parts
cheap whisky and the remainder dog
button, and then, advertise the stuff
as “friend of temptrance,” would
think nothing of stealing a red-hot
lime kiln.
The tusk sent by Cetawayo toLmd
Chelmsford to intimate his wish for
peace, is now at the Colonial office.
It is seven feet in length and about
half a yard thick at the broadest
part. It is pronounced the finest
ever seen in England.
Malt AV hitman writes from the
Rocky Mountains that he absorbs
the grandest scenery in the world,
feasts on antelope and mountain
trout, fraternizes wth emigrant ■
camps, miners and cowboys, an.i
stands the travel pretty well for a
half paralytic.
A new temserance movement has
been organized in Great Britain. It
takes the form of a joint stock com
pany, with a capital of $5,000,000 in
shares of $5 each. It proposes to
open temperauc i houses ail over the
kingdom. The Archbishop of Can
terbury heads the list in the prospec
tus of the enterprise.
An English professor and a young
lady from Baltimore were recently
wrecked in a rocky cave near Mt.
Desert at nightfall, t hey had gone
into the cavo in a small boat and
were sitting on the rocks talking
about mineralogy. Suddenly a big
wave broke into the cavern and the
boat was swamped. The English
man plunged into the boiling surf
endeavoring wi'h the frenzy of de
spair to collect the remnants of the
frail bark. Useless for the purposes
of navigation, the shattered craft
might serve for fuel, for the cave was
cool and night was coming on. The
prefessor built a fire and there they
remained until morning, when some
[fishermen ventured in to the rescue
of the imprisoned couple, and with
the aid of ropes drew them from
their perilous position.
Let ltis A-iliiO ti 11C.111.1 i i ,
Hosse aud Lot ou Sninmit street, 11 acre
land, 4 rooms, youne; orchard, stable, crib
buggy house and wash honse. Apply \
B C Dorsey A Co, Real Es ate Agents.
Vacant lot containing 2 acres, Athens
street; uiee building lots. Apply to \B (!
Dorsey <t Co, Real Estate Agents.
Vacant lot on Spring street, corner lot
fronting 110 feet and running back 150 f, et ;
beautiful building lot and n.-.v-the pub.ie
square. Apply to AB C Dorsey Ai’>, Ral
Estate Agents.
Six v -acres, partly iu :m t partly out of
city limits; good dwelling and <>nt-h >
about ball in cultivation; chc-ico inf i tr. s
—apples, peaches, pears, pliuas.orapes, etc;
as pretty a place as any in Nortiieas Geor
gia. Apply to ABO Dc-r.sey A (1», Real
Estate Agents.
F-mr and a half acre-lot, just outside city
linm in good stale of cultivation; lionse
eontaming 3 rooms,with upstairs -aulinishvd
Apply to A B (.’• Dorsey ,t Co, R al Estat j
Agents.
A ;;Gt acre farm, about 6 mil ’s from
jainesville; 126 acr s of bottom ■au l, with
>ver 5,000 young apple trees, ..11 b ung
iuit, with house and 5 settleaiei ts on the
NO. 40
• place. This is a place that lor a fiiime iu-
I vestment cannot be excelled. Apply to A
B C Dorsey <fc Co, Real Eitate Agents.
i
1 building lot on west side of Alain street,
fronting 22 feet by 100 back. Willbe .s .l l
cheap tor cash by ABC Dorsey and Co.
25 or 50 seres of land just outside of the
oity limits, enclosed; beautiful place for
building; 10 or 12 acres woodland, S or 10
I’.eres branch bottom; balance in old field,
and lies well; fine view of the mountains.
For sale by ABC Dorsey & Co.
1 wool carder, double cylinder, one break
er, .] burr machines; been us-d e,ght year.;.
For sale by A B C Dorsey A Co.
House and lot corner Spring and Syca
more streets; 7 rooms, good baseui-ut, well
arranged . and convenient; also a small
house atljoining, with 4 rooms F-»r "file
Lji ’. B C Dorsey A (.3.
- o of land,-"i-ie-half outside the city
limits; a new three-room house, stables, etc.
inside the city limits; nil the land cleared
and fenced, and in cultivation. For sale by
ABC Dorsey A Co.
464 acres of land at Lula, 50 acres having
been laid off into business and building
lots, each alternate lot of the 50 acres be-
to the Noithcnstern Railroad: the
Air -Line Railroad runs for one mile through
the above tract jof land; the Northeastern
Railroad abiut three-fourths of a mile; the
right of way of both roads off the 461 acres;
the traces of land lies well; 60 acres of old
field; 15 acres of branch bottom, not cleared
plenty of wood anti good timber. This is
the place lor you to make your money on,
as we will sell with the tract of land the
business and building lots; all goes together
A B C Dorsey A Co.
These, with other city property end farms,
are in our hands for sale. VZe also rent
property, and will look after wild lands, or
sell lands anywhere. We adv- rti.e at our
own expense —no sale, no charge. Ail
letters promptly answered when stamp : s
enclosed.
A. B. BRUMBY’S
School for Boys,
Prince Avenue, - Alliens. Ga.
RE-OPENS MONDAY, SEPT. 1, 1879.
Tuition $1 to $6 per month, according to
age, grade, etc. Board $lO a month, in ad
vance.
“ref. W. H. Waddeii writes: “I do not
hesitate to recommend Dr. Brumby as tli >
most successful teacher > mong those who.
during my professorship of twenty yea: ■’
duration, prepared students lor tho Univer
sity of Georgia.”
For further information send for circular
to or confer with
A B. BRUMBY, A. M.. Al. D.
se2G P. O. Drawer 287, Athens, Ga.
WALTER I. MCARTHUR. JOHN W. GRIFFIN.
McArthur <fc Griffin,
DEALERS IN
Lind and Ileal Estate
HASTM 1 V, G MOIIGIA.
Offer for sale or lease in lots to suit parch t
sers, some of the choices’ Timber and Tur
pentine Lan Is in the Sauthern Stat- s.
UKf.’Klt BY PKIi iISSIOX TO
I. C. PL ANT, Prest First National Bank of
Macon, Ga.
Capt. JOHN AIcMAIION, Vice Prest. Sou
thern Bank of the State of Ga. Savannah,
Ba. sep26-tf
Lucy J Dover I Libel for Divorce in Daw
vs V son Superior Court, April
Eari W Dover. ) Terms, 18H9.
It appearing to the court by the return of
the Sheriff in this case that the defendant'
Earl W Dover, does not reside in said coun
ty, aud it further appealing that he floes
not reside in the State of Georgia; it is or
dered by the court that said defendant ap
pear and answer said case at the next term
of the court, aud in default plaintiff be al
lowed to proceed. Aud it is further ordered
that service be perfected on the oefendant
in said case by the publication of this rule
in the Gainesvlllk Eagle, a public gazette «.
ol this State, once a mouth for font’ months
before the next term of this court.
April 21, 1879. Geo. N. Lester,
J. S. C., ii. R. C.
Georgia, Dawson Cub-m.
1 hereby eertily shat the above tnd fore
going is a true extract from tin; minut -s of
Dawson Superior court, April T am, 1579.
This April 30,1879. John W Hug us,
m .y 9-4 m o. 8. C,
Alfred J Batson | Libel for divorce in Union
vs. > Superior Court, Alay
Lizzie Batson. J term, 1879.
Rule to perfect service, etc. It appearing
to the Court by the return ot the sheriff that
the defendant does not reside in this county,
and it fuither appearing that she docs not
reside in this State, it is on motion of C J
Wellborn, counsel for plaintiff, ordered by
the court that said defendant appear and
answer at the next term of this courr, else
that the case be considered in default and
the plaintiff allowed to proceed.
It is further ordered that tais rule be pub
lished in the Gainesville Eagle once a month
for lour months.
GEO. N. LESTER, I S C.
A true extract from the minutes of Union
Superior Court, This May 29th, 1879.
jnl4-4m C E FOSTER, CSC.
Rare Business Chance.
On account of continued ill health and a
desire superinduced thereby to retire from
busings, the undersigned offers, on most
Advantageous Terms
HIS ENTIRE
STOCK of MERCHANDISE
now approximating $2,500, at and below
first cost. He will al o rent to the purciias
er a
FIRST-CLASS STOREROOM
•
with basement and sleeping room attached,
most eligibly located ou the public square
in the citv ot Gainesville, and will rent a
residence on College avenue iusfidcity,
containing six rooms at’' a garret, pleasant
ly located, on most advantageous terms.
As I am forced by the cause above n lined
to close out business, a cash pureh.is r who
means business can get a barxaia by calling
s on or addressing A. WHELCHEL,
( sepl2-3t Gainesville Ga.
i
, Cheap for l ash.
r Twenty acres of iand one-half inside city
J limits, a new threa-room cottage well flu
j ished, and good outbuildings; one hundred
young fruit trees of choice varieties; good
well of wat r, etc. All the land cleared and
1 under good fence. For further portion ars
apply at tbit office. se!9.