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About Weekly Gwinnett herald. (Lawrenceville, Ga.) 1871-1885 | View Entire Issue (July 12, 1882)
The O’ W / A 7 A' E T T, tt ERALD —#•* PUBI.tSIIHD KVKP.y WEDNESDAY BY PEEPLES & BOWLES. J SUBSCRIPTION HATES: 1 copy 12 mos., $1.50 in advance. 1 copy 0 raos., .75. in advance. 1 copy 8 mos., .50 in advance. Low Enough for Everybody MISCELLANY. The Bachelor’s Supper Party ‘Oil! I say, this is too bad. Ask us b“re on such a night, and give us nothing to drink but seltzer Water.’ 'Temperance, my dear fellow. — Faulkner is a tempsrance man.’ - ‘So it suctns —temperate in punc tllality as well as in other good things. Ho asks his friends for 8, and then doesn’t keep the appoint meat himself,’ and Frank Horton kicked a huge yule log, which was j burning briskly by the firo, with some impatience, and then turned round once moie. and looked at a well spread supper table, which was laid for five, pointing with a sort of wave of contempt to the 5 bottles of temperance drink on the table —one for each guest, while at the same time he made the ob servation, ‘Who is the fifth? There are only four of us.’ Horton was a very young man —the youngest of the party ; but ho was the most fastidious on the subject of eating and drinking.— The o her two mull were ns disap pointod at Faulkner’s being con verted to the new principles as H. was ; yet they could net help eu joking his extreme discomfiture —■ The four men who, at Dick Faulk net's expense, were to sup togeth er on that especial night had been thrown out of an invitation to stay in a country house in the neigh borhood by the sudden iliness of Mr. Dent, the host. Dick Faulk tier suggested that they should ad journ to the hotel in a certain town about six miles from the house in question, and where he, being the richest, said he would stand treat to his three friends. Except the residents at the house where they had intended to spend the day, none of them had any acquaintances in the neighbor hood. It was, therefore, the more remarkable that Mr. Faulkner should be absent at the very hour when he had appointed to put the culinary powers of the hotel to the the test. “Dick always was eccentric,’ fur tlicr remarked Horton, turning a chair around from the tabic and placing himself in the vory front of the fire —'always eccentric, and I should not wonder if he plays us some devilish trick before this night is over. Ho will not pay for our suppers for nothing. He’ll bare some change out of us, or I am mistaken in nay man.’ ‘So much the better ; this isn’t the Bort of evening one wants to paas like every other evening in the year.’ ‘Temperance drink !’ muttered Horton, with horror. Tho clock struck a quarter past B—half past—and no symptom of the host. Horton’s p.atienco was quite gone, that of the other two was fast ebbing away, when suddenly they were rendered oblivious of the selfish cravings hunger prompts by a shriek—a prolonged, feminine shriek. Horton was inclined to be ro mantic, and immediately imagined that it was uttered by some exqui sitely f*ir damsel in the very dir est distress. ‘To the rescue, my brothers !’ he cried, snatching up the poker, and shouldering it forthwith. And then, followed by the other two, he pioceeded into the pas sage. It was dark. None of the party knew the geography of the house, but they tramped on brave ly in the direction of the scream. Before they had proceeded far the avant courier emphasized his search for the distressed maid by taking a header down a flight of steps.— He picked himself up again with out much damage beiDg done, but lie lost the poker. The weary exploration of an al most interminable passage was Weekly Gwinnett Herald. TYLER M. t’KKI’LES, < Editor and Proprietor. J the next venture. At the end of it, however, sharp eyes detected a door with light peeping through tue chinks. Toward this door Horton man fully directed his steps, the two others holding on by his coat tails He was about to force ingress into this room, when suddenly the door was thrown open, and Dick Faulk ner appeared, with a face of ghast ly paleness in the bright light. ‘Have you seou a ghost ?’ asked Frank, merrily, but be received no answer to his question. Dick Faulkner escaped down the length v passage, up the flight of steps into his own room cheery with a large fire, its substantial viands and its temperance drinks. The three men he had left be hind him searched in vain—there was no woman to be seen any where. Who could have uttered that scream ? Having satisfied themselves on the point of there being no one there, they prepared to return to the deserted supper table. This time Horton brought up the rear. Arrived at ihe steps, he paused for a second or two to grope for the poker, thus giving the others a good start, when a door he had not perceived in the utter darkness opened about three inches, show ing just a gleam of light, and a voice said : ‘ls he gene ? Help mo—help me to got out of this dreadful place !’ ‘Madam, I am your devoted slave, and, if you mean Faulkner, he is-— ’ ‘Faulkner I’and ihe threw the door wide open, revealing to Hor ton’s gaze a hotel sitting room of modest dimensions, but which had been rendered pretty in detail by a woman’s hand and the presence of many flowers. He, however, noted nothing ex cept the perfection of the whole. She herself, who stood before him, ?aB, as he would have expressed it, a siren—that is, a beautiful wo man, clad in a dark velvet gown, with creamy lace about her throat and wrists. What she was doing there he had no time to ask, for the lady repe ited the word ‘Faulk ner,’ and then inquired hurriedly, almost excitedly, if that were in deed his name. Horton nodded his head in ac quiescence without speaking. Ev ery sense he possessed was at that moment merged into sight, as he gazed at the unexpected vision.— She, meanwhile, heady! him not, but had coucentratedall her pow er of thought on Ihe name of Faulkner. •Have you known Mr. Faulkner long ?’ she asked. ‘About two years’ he answered, briefly, still too mi»h taken up by gazing to waste ais energy in words. ‘Two years only—then it all hap pened before ?’ It! What was i ? Bnt Frank at that particular qoment did not feel any overwhelming curiosity to ask. ‘ls he a drunkird V was the la dy’s next questifn, abruptly put. Frank though of the five bot tles of seltzer, aid shuddered. She evidently miscoistrutd his mean ing, for, sinking down on a sofa beside her. she lid her eyes with her hands, and |ave a little sob, as she said : ‘I knew it—lknew it. Ah !if you had an idea what I h ive suf fered from and to meet him here !’ ‘Faulkuer is 1 good fellow,’ put ! in Frank, a littfe hesitatingly. He was too ljyal not to try and defend his friaifl, though he was desperately inched to make love | to the lady hinmlf. ‘You men alwys hang together,’ j she said, gettinj up once more, I and pacing exitedly about the j room. •Do yin knot who I -am ?’ she asked, after awtle. Lawrenceville, &a* Wednesday, July 12, .1882 Frank shook his head. ‘I am Mrs. Fuull! ner.’ ‘lmpossible! Why, I never heard that ho was married !’ ‘Of course not, my dear, Mr.— ’ ‘Horton,’ interrupted he. ‘Of course not, my dear Mr. 11orton When was Mr. Faulkuer ever known to speak the truth. ? Will you sit down for a few min utes while I tell yon something of my history, and let me explain how it is that lam in this hotel with only my maid?’ Frank thought momentarily of ihe good supper in the room at the top of the steps ; but the mag ic power of the beauty conqnored, and be sat down with scarcely any iegr9t. She looked very bewitch ing, as she sat with the light fall ing on her face near the fire : ‘On a Christmas eve, five years ago,’ she began, ‘I was staying with my mother,Jut Mr Dent's, about six miles from here. It was there I met Mr. Faulkner. I was foolish enough to listen to him, and in less than a week I had promised to he Faulkner’s wife.— My mother objected ; but I was a headstrong.girl, as I am a self willed woman, and opposition jn ly served to make me the more positive that Faulk ter was the on ly man in whom I should ever find ray ideal. We married in the spiing. against every one’s wishes, and in a very few weeks I discov ered that my husband was a luna tic.’ ‘A lunatic ! Faulkner a lunatic! Why he is as sauo as I am,’ said Horton, in much amazement. Tt matters little whether the brain is affected from the use of al , cohol or from hereditaiy disease,’ answered ; ‘the effect is the same.’ Frank thought of the array of bottles on the supper table, and wondered whether the beautiful woman’s love for F..nlkner would be reawakened when sbo learned how entirely he had reformed ; but he made no observation, and she went on. ‘To give you an idea of Mr. Faulkner’s 3vile and disgraceful treatment of mo were impossible. Suffice it to say that his cruelty, his brutality, when he was uuder the influerceof drink, were so ex cessive that my life was in danger, and that when I had been married scarcely a year 1 fled abroad, car rying with me my little baby only a|fortnight old. There I remained in strict seclusion till about six months ago, when information reached me that my husband was dead, and I returned once more. I still, however, lived under the name of Madam Rose—my Christ ian name is Rose—fearing that I might be in some way persecuted or annoyed by my late husbands creditors, who were nvimerous. — It was only in responce to a very pressing invitation from Mrs Dent that I was induced to break through my retirement, and agreed to join, with my little daughter, her party.’ ‘Your little daughter—is she al so here ?’ asked Horton, vrhe was utterly staggered by Ihe strange ness of the story, and the surpris ing beauty of the woman. She raised a cuttain at the side of the room, and showed him a sweet lit tie piece of loveliness, of about 4 years old, fast asleep. Pretty though the child was, he looked from the mother's face to hers and back again, but could see ne re semblance. ‘She is like her father,’ ho ob served. Madam Rose lent over the child and kissed her. There were tears in her eyes when she raised her head. ‘For her sake, if not for -mine, you will save me from this man Mr. Horton. Judge of my honor when, believing in the absolute safety of my supposed widowhood I all of a sudden met my miscre ant husband here alive in this ho- tel. But yon will protoct mo from him. will you not ?’ •To the death !’ answered Frank bravely, a 3 he wondered what courso to pursue. Sho dropped the curtain which concealed the room where the child lay sleeping, and they went back onco again to the fire in the sitting room. ‘You will stay with me for a time,’ she said. ‘Yon won't leave me alone hero to my fears, for that mau is capable of anything. He may even kill mo. He looked more mad than ever as I saw him for a moment in the glass in that room (it the end of the passage, where I had gone for a book.' Poor Frank ! Beauty may be very intoxicating, but scarcely stauds in the place of a good sup per to a hungry man. Before, however, he had time to refuse to accept her invitation to stay, a knock catne at the door. She clung to him in a sort of wild terror. He pointod to the curtain behind which the baby lay, and motioned that she should remain there while ho gave audi ence to the intruder. He opened the door and went out into the passage. Faulkner was standing there with a lighted candle in his hand. l£o looked very white and aaggere 1, but perfectly sane an 1 composed ;in fact, II irton bad never known him to be otherwise, and he felt that the aceout of his bygone proceedings which he had just learned from Madame Rose needed lome explanation from him. ‘What has she told you Frank ? I must see her,’ ho said, impera tively. But Frank barred the door with one arm as ho held Faulkner oft. ‘Coward—villain ! Y» 7 onld you persecute a woman?’ he cried, with a theatrical air. ‘My dear fellow, you have known me tolerable intimately for the last two years—have yon ever pro v ed me to be otherwise than rather considerate of the weaker sex ?’ Acting—mero acting !’ vociferat ed Frank who was a little carried away by the responsible position in which Madame Rose had plac ed him. ‘Do you know who the lady is that is in that room ?’ asked Faulk ner, with quiet dignity'. ‘She is Madame Rose. ‘My dear Frank, you are lend ing yeurself, unwittingly, Iholieve to a great deception. Come away from the door and let me speak to her. Since you ha»e elocted yourself her champion you shall stand by if you like and hear what I have to say.’ There was something so very quiet and subdued iu Faulkner’s manner that it could not fail to carry with it a strong appearance of truth, added to which, Frank Horton was his friend—had been his friend for the last two years, and had dur : ng that period believ ed him to bo an honorable and be nevolent man. He dropped his arm from the door,but laid it onFaulkner’s shoul der is he looked him straight iu the eyes. ‘How long since you hnvo taken to temperance drinks ?’ he asked. Faulkner shook him off as Le would have done a troublesome fly; he was by far the stronger man of the two. ‘Mv dear Frank, this is not the moment for foolish questions. I must speak to that woman now, or the opportunity may never recur Let me through the doer, «r, by Jove! as sure as my nime’B Dick Faulkner I’ll— ’ A scream—such another scream as Frank h;t I heard before th it evening—issued from the interior of the room. The door was flung open wide, and Madame Rose, as she called herself, stood on the threshold. Had love conquered, when she heard Faulkner’s voice, the old love for the man who had usurped the first place in her heart ? Strange if it were so, after her confession to Frank ; still strang- or since sho stood looking at him with a ha.f querying, half frighten ed look on her beautiful fuco, Dick Faulkuer hold out his hand to her, a tnovemen; which the la ly’s true knight sought to inter pose; but she received the advance graciously, laying her tapered jeweled fiugeis iu tho proferod palm. Horton moved away with a geit uro of irritation. It was evident, he thought, that he was being played with, and made the vic tim of some idiotic connubial quar rel. The next words, however, that were uttered arrested his attsu tion, and made him turn around once more. •You have so far forgiven the doad as not to slmn tho living who wishes yon no ill.’ /1 was Faulkner who spoke. She answered, in very low tones. ‘I was laboring under a great mistake, but the resemblance is so very stroug.’ ‘He win my twin-brother.— Though, from my absence at the time of your marriage, I have nev er r. ot you till now, believe mo I have searched for you unceasing ly, hoping by my devotion and*so licitude to mitigate at least some portion of my brother's fault.’ ‘I heard you hid coma back, but 1 was afraid to meet yon.’ ‘Exactly ; so Mrs. Dent arranged a meeting for us tins evening. I thought you might bo in the ho tel, and I wis searching far you when —' ‘Your terrible likmcs* to the dead produced the hasty impress ion that ho must h.ivo returned to life.’ ‘Poor Jack! May ho rest in peace,’ was tho brother's pathetic word-tribute, but the widow's eyes flashed. And all this while Frank Horton stood against the wall, as though thoroughly petirified. He did not even attempt to move when Rose took her newly found brother in law in to look at the sleeping child; in fact, he did not give any evidence of rousing up till Dick Faulkner, coming once more into the passago. shook him roughly by the arm, ns he said with a laugh : ‘Having supped full of horrors, my hoy, let us to hatter cheer.’ A few seconds more and the five stranded guests wore sitting round Dick Faulkner’s festive board lie smiled on the beautiful Rose and blide her remember that he had ordered the fifth place to he laidin expectation of her coming,and that, after all tho misery she had experienced from alcohol, the tern perance drinks wore also in her honor, a remark at which the oth er men made grim faces, and, with the exception of Horton perhaps, wished that Mrs. Ro«e Faulkner had not been there. As for Frank, he was in such a state of spoouinesa that if Lo had been told that Mm price if gazing into Rose's lovely eyes was to drink water for the rest of his nat ur-il life, ho wo aid have accepted it without a demurny. But he had the pleasure of toasting her in something stronger than tern perance beverages after all. for was it not an exceptional night as she justly observed, and, as such, an exception to every rule? ‘Ba sid's,’ she added with a little mod est smile, ‘it is tho first time I have ever boon to a bachelor's sup per party’ Six moulds later, when a June sun dispersed the icicles, and all nature looked glad and bright, there was no gladder, brighter face to be seen for miles around than that of Rose (not Fimlkner now, but Rose Horton) as she and Frank took possession of a pretty cottage whero we will leave thorn in the enjoyment of a post nuptial existence. ■— • O • — 1 The largest license ever paid in Decatur, DoK ilb county, for the sale of liquor within the corporate limits of the town, was realized on Saturday, when J. ]\ Crochett & Go., paid to tho Town Council tho sum of SI,OOO for the privilege. It is said that the cotton worm eats $15,000,000 of the cotton crop every vear. Wonder some scientific man does not utilize this insect, indent a machine to grind him u and make oil or paper stock*out of them. —— — — - - It t ikes six years to learn a pig to understand nine words, and all those words put together won't drive him out of a garden. There were seven thousand bush els of oats made iu the corporate limits of Thomaston. {Vol. XII.-No. 17. CONSTITUTION OF THE t. M. 0. A., OF LAWRENCE VILLE, GEORGIA. ARTICLE I. The name of this Society shnll he the Young Mens’ Christian As sociation of Lawrencoville, and its object shall be to promote growth in gruco an 1 Christian fellowship among its members am l aggressivo Christian work especially, by aud for, young men. ART. 11. Sec. 1. All resident pr.Slors of evongelical churches nro entitled to membership. Sec. 2. Any person of good mor nl cl aracter may be elected a mein ber by a majority vote of the mem hers prosent, at the regular meet iug following that meeting at which the name has been proposed. Sue. 3. It shall be the duties of the members to seek out young men of Lawrencevillo and its vi cinity, and endeavor to bring them to a saving faith in Christ and .to enlist them in active service for Him. Thoy shnll also engage in such Christian work as may he de ter mined by the Association, or by the Executive Committee. ART. 111. Seo. 1. The officers shall ho a President, Vice President, Seereta rv, Treasurer and Musical Direc tor, chosen by the members at the annual meeting and to serve until their successors are elected. Sec. 2. The President, or in 1 is absence the Vice President, or in his absence a president pro tempo re, to be chosen from theinomboru prosent, shall preside at all busi ness meetings of the Association. Sec. 3. The Secretary shall keep full minutos of all meetings of the Association and of the Executive Committee, aud shall conduct the correspondence. He shall also keep a statistical rogister of all the work of the Association, including tiie dates of meetings held under its direction, ihe topics considered, the attendance, the names of lead ers, and of committeemen present immediate results, Ac. Ho shall notify all officers, members and committees of their election or ap pointmont, aud shall seo that com mittees aro organized and set at work as soon as possible after ap pointment. He shall receive and tile their written reports. Ho shall oversee the work of the Associa tion, and shall seek to enlist Ml the members in it. Sec. 4. The Treasurer shall have chargo of the funds of the Associ ation under direction of the Exec utive Committee, and shall keep a frill account of all receipts and disbursements. Sec. 5. The Musical Director shall lead in the music and bo responsible for the character of the same at all meetings of the Association. Sec. (5. The five officers shall constitute the Executive Commit tee, which shall Inure general nnvn agement of the allhirs of the Asso ciation. Sec. 7, If any vacancy oc curs in the officers of the Associa lion, it shall be filled by election at as early a day as is practicable, and in the meantime the President shall lmvt the power of appoint ing a member to fill such vacancy pro tempore. ART. IV. Sec. 1. The President shall ap point the following standing com mittees unless otherwise deter mined upon by vote of the Associ ation : (I.) A committse on devotional exercises, who shall take charge of the regular devotional meetings of the Association, under the direc tion of the President, suggesting topics for prayer and conference (2.) A visiting committee to vis it aud provide for tho sick and needy, to seek out strangers and introduce them to the privileges of tiro Association, and in v> ting all to the various church and Associa tion meetings, and to distribute such reading matter as the Exec utive Committee may provide or approve. (3) A committee to provide suit able entertainments as directed by the Association. Sec. 2. Special committees for other purposes may be providod for and their work defined by vote of the Association nt any regular meeting. They shall be appoint ed in saino way as standing com mittees. Sec 3. Unless otherwise ordor ed, all conun ttees shall consist of threu'meiubers each They shall AS An Arlrti lit^iv f/ iJ Udivtn The HERALD ix itne>/Unlnl by reaxon of it* extensive cirrnlufiin and r< markabl) tom rates. Easiness men xh'Jdld remember this. BLANKS? BLANKS! ELANKS (am. KINDS NKATI.Y PRINTED) FOR SALE AT THE /1 ERA LI) JOB OFFICE act in accordance with the general pan of work instituted by the Executive Committee. Sec. 4. The -President and Sec ratary shall bo ex offi io members Of all committees. ART. V. Sec. 1. A n annual meeting nuy be held OU the 2nd Sunday in May of each year, at which the Seereta ly and Treasurer severally shall present full reports ; the Secretary presenting a full report of the gen eral work of the Association, the Treasurer of the tiuancial opera tious of the same, • Sec. 2. The Association shall hold quarterly meetings, to which the people generally are invited to attend and participate in the devo tional exercises and witness the proceeding* of the Association. Sec 3. The regular meetings shall ho hold as provided by the Executive Coniraitteo or by resolu tion of the Association. Sec. 4. Special meetings maybe called by the President or at the written request of three members. Sec. 5. Five members shall con stitute a quorum. ART. VI. Sk<j 1 No debt shall bo incurr od by this Association. ART. VII. Sf.o. 1. Amendments to this Constitution shall require for their adoption, notice at the previous meeting and a two thirds Vote of tlio members present. ART. VIII. • Sfir. 1. The President for the time being at each meeting shall appointone member to conduct the devotional exercises of the next meeting, and in the absenco of the conducting member the President shall perform his duty, or hsie power to designate some • one else to do so. ORDER OF EXERCISES. 1. Opening song announced by Conducting Member. 2 Prayer, lead by C. M. 3. Reading of the scriptures and comments by C. M. 4. Song, 5. Prayer by member designa ted by C. M. (5. Song. 7. Remarks by any member or visitor. 8. Song. 1). Prayer by member design »- tod by C M. [ Conduct in'/ Member Vacates in favor of the 1‘ resident.] 1 President culls Association to business. 2 Roll call. 3 Reading and approval of min utes of last meeting. 4 Reports of standing commit tees. 5 Reports of special committees (5 Unfinished business. 7 Proposals for membership. 8 New business. 9 Song. 10 A ppointment of C M. 11 Closing prayer by the Pres ident. S. J. WINN, Presidint. C 11. Bit and, Secretary. The Champion Swimmer of America. Captain Mith«w Webb, tbo champion swimmer of England, nnd George 11. Wade, of Brook lyn, who has heretofore claimed to be the champion ocean swim mer of America, swam a match yesterday for the championship of America, nnd si,oo'Jin ny nev,start ing from Brighton Beach. The course wasjone mile out to sea from the bathing pavillion and ro turn John Y. Fitcheet acted as referee G II Richey as stakehol - derand Frank Ogden and Wil liam Smart as umpires. At 6.10 a. m. Webb and Wude dropped in to the water. Wade immediately taking the lead. At the turning point, which Was designated by a row boat, Wade was fu'ly 200 yards in advance, but showed plainly tliar, he was fast losing his breath by repeated efforts to swim with one arm. After turning the bout Webb rapidly reduced the lead of Waila and succeeding in complet ely closing the gap when within half a niie of the shore. For near ly qmrtor of a mile the two swim mere were side by side, but Webb gradually forged ahead, winning about fifty feet Webbs time was lh. 7m., for the two miler, Wade about thirty seconds be hind him. Both wsimmers claim that in all they covered four miles, being carried out of their course by the tide.
