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■ ev iJeut simplicity and truth.
jB he was twelve years old. There
■ .brother, a little older, who
B been sent to school. At iiret
■epine.lforher brother; but
Kn she become aacustomed to
Kiel Lawns, grew familiar with
ainl learned to love the gar
she seemed contented. My
ft and housekeeper. Mrs.
■ woll ld have had a governess
■ovided for the child, but when I
■w bow aniiously the child’s
■own eyes watched my face while
■c matter was under discussion, I
■cided in favor of teaching her
Hvsell, and had her eome to me
H‘,|v iu the study. So docile and
feel tempered a child I had nev
B known. She was like a beauti
f 1 flower set in the house.
■ / wut' lie I her 114 onth by month,
B 1 year by year, growing into
lew graces, is it any wonder that
■ trembled at the thought ot Us
■o her ? It made me almost, cry
■it withp iin to think that a young
Iruud I*ett«r man would sum*
lime take her from me. Wight
lears before, with a sore heart, I
lad retire 1 from the world, to live
lin mg my hooks and flowers at
Linnet Lawns. If I was not hap
ly, I had attained a state in which
■here was no positive suffering.—
Kut the child, Luure, with her eyes
wrowu and bright as a bird’s,smote
■lie rock of my heart, and living
Iw.iters guahed forth. Mis. Sib
lley stared to hear me jest and
laugh again.
I bought a sidesaddle, that Lau
i'c might ride Sylvie ; I played
with her at eroqaet and graceboops
on the lawns; I went botanizing
with her; I enslalled her my aiaan
iieiwia. We talked aud read and
vr ilked together. In short, she
was all the world to me. Ou her
sixteenth birthday her brother,
Leon, was expected at Linnet
Lawns. For four years the brotk
er and sistei had not met, a»d
Lame was full of anticipation.
lam so glad, for Leon's sake,
List it is so beautiful here, guar-
Liure, slipping her hand
tinder mv arm to detain me, as 1
scrolled, for a m sue it, on the pi
azza where she was sitting. *1
have written hiun about ti e gar
deu, and that you will g > hunting
"dh him. You will uow, won’t
Jon, gardy V
■Lm say 1 w j||.’
you most always do what
1 wauiyou to.'
Littlo pun -a! bad she foun d that
out’
* wt i.’ieu a carriage canae rapid
) >ip the drive. Two young men
“b ted -one, a youth of twenty ;
' a " ei ’ four or live years older
wa * 80 ®ewhat in doubt which to
as Leon Hassin town, when
illl| e decided the matter by fly
-I‘o past mo and throwing herself
JM die arms of the younger.
.. " l,n o Bassintown presented
U|J companion, Mordant Stein.
f '°lv the liberty of bringing
d tiiend on account of the gun
y°« know,' aaid this modest
lad.
fc iug wealthy, and uearly un-
the boy was annoying
Weekly Gwinnett Herald.
TYLKR M PEKPLEB,)
Editor akd Propriktor. j
ly imperious and consequential,
bat I found him generous and man
ly in spirit, aud forgave him this.
Though his friend, Stein. 1 did not
like. His well favored face bore
an expression of crafty cunniug,
and he had not been in the house
three days before Iha l privately
pronounced him an incipient scoun
drel. Yet he was my guest, and
as such, I treated the fellow cour
teously.
At night came up by the
stage with the young men's hunt
ing dogs and guns. Yonng Bas
sintown had a string of handsome
hounds, but Stein’s dogs consist -
ed of a pair of ill-tempered point
ers. The poor beasts had been
punished so much that they were
unnaturally surly, and growled at
the friendliest hand. To Stein
they cringed fearfully.
•Dant,’ said Leon, what ails
Jim V
The animal had already attract
ed my notice by hie peculiar rest
leslness—lying down, then rising,
to change his posi'ion every min
ute.
Mordant Stein dragged the dog
by his collar toward him, ami ex
amined his head, where was a
..slight wound.
•He got bitten yesterday. I
don’t know whether anythiug was
the matter or not with the dog
which attacted him.’
On learning these faces 1 insist
ed that the auimal be tied up for a
season.
Mordant Stein was well read,
v. ell traveled, and very witty.—
Though I did not respect his char
acter, I could not help being minis
ed by him,
We were at breakfast one msrn
ing, the glass doors opened into
the garden, when there arose a ter
fible shouting and hubbub upon
the lawns Before we could be
gin to understand it a foaming dog
closely pursued by a man, darted
iu at one door and rushed out at
another. Laure and Mrs. Sibley
shrieked in terror, but I snatched
my pistol and ran out, closely fol
lowed by the young men. The
poor, mud creature, Stein's poin
ter, had been struck down by a
servant’s club when / shot him.—
Everybody was ready to faint with
relief.
•He gnawed h : s rope in two and
got into the stables,’ said Leon
Bassintoans groom. ‘I chaßed
him out of there, and then he made
for the house. 1 shouted ‘mad
dog’, as hard as I could; but Lord!
I thought some of yer ud be bit
afoiv I could get at him.’
That evening Laure came ir to
the study to show mo some superb
laurel which the young moil had
b'ought her from the hills.
•Leon says that Mr Stein climb*
ed up the steep face of a rock, for
|y feet high, to get it for me. He
was very good ; wasn t he, guar
dy V
‘Mr. Stein was polite; but the
young min is not a favorite wdth
me, Laure.’
She looked siartled. Then a
burning blush crept up to her
brown hair, as she turned away.
I uoticerrl about that time, that
L iure seemed singularly beauti
ful and brilliant An 1 reproach
ing mysel f that I bad allowed her
to lack society, since she evidently
enjoyed it, I iuvited other
young people to the house in ex
temporaneous gatherings. There
might have been a dozen young
girll and men at my house one
evening, when Mrs Sibley came to
my aide.
‘Where is Laurel she whis
pered
‘I do not know. Is she not
here V / a lswered.
‘Nowhere to be found, Howard.
Something is wrong
‘Nonsense! Why, how long has
she been gone ?
Nearly an hour. I tell you.
Howard Aluwiek. that all is not
Lawrenceville, 3a. Wednesday August, 22 1883
right. Mordant Stein has gone,
too. and Sylvie from the stable
‘They are riding bv moonlight
on the lawn,’ said T ; but, with a
beating heart, I started in search.
The party had been playing ero
quet under the trees by moonlight
but all were within doors now,
gathered around the piano. The
night without was blue and lone
some. I went silently to the sta
ble. Only a man’s saddle was
gone.
1 don’t know what I thought,
but I bitted a horse, jumped b ue
back upon him, and started for
the station, live miles distant. I
remembered that the down train
was due in fifteen minutes. The
great animal stretched away under
me as 1 shook rein at the gate.
We galloped like the wind down
the road.
The first two miles I must have
done in six minutes, I remember
hearing the village clocks strike
nine as we rushed madly on. If
the train were delayed five min
utes, as it often was, I should be
then in time.
We thundered over a bridge.
Just then I caught sight of them
—the white horse, Sylvie, ridden
by Mordant Stein, and with th e
small figure of Laure iu the sad
dle before him. W ith her incon
parable lope, Sylvie was flying like
the wind.
W ith a shout, I t hundered down
upon them. It maddened me yet
more to see Stein beating my deli
cate horse. The wind bore his
curses back to me as he discover
ed that, with his double burden,
he was not gaining, and must he
overtaken.
Suddenly lifted his arm, he let
Laure fall from the saddle. Stic
lay among the dust.
As I drew rein. I expected to
see the villain flying away, but
Sylvie stopped, staggered under
the whip for a few paces, then
fell in the road. There lay my
beautiful pet, when I could go to
her, struggling in the agonies of
hydrophobia, and Stein ivaH crush
ed dead beneath her.
Laure clung to me silently as I
bore her home. I carried her in
to the deserted, moonlit parlor.
‘My child, what madness has
possessed you?’
‘Oh, it was —it was madness,’
she sobbed, ‘for I thought I loved
him. But when I saw his raging
face, aud heard his fearful oaths.
I prayed him to let me go. He
dropped me under Sylvie’s very
feet. She nearly trod on me. Oh,
—covering her face with her
hands—‘it seems like some horrid,
horrid dream.’
‘I was silent ; too grieved and
hurt by what slie had done to
speak to her.
•Gu irdy, guardv. don’t say you
are going to send me away from
you ; tli t would kill me,’ she
moaned kueeling at my feet. Oh,
the soblnd, w idly, kissing my
hands *tf you only knew how 1
love! If yon cast me oft I shall
ueyer tin 1 any one so good agair.
Oh, for heaven’s sake, speak to
me i*—in agonized totes.
Laure, lam uot going to cast
vou oft', i love yon too well for
that.’
No further words were spoken
but I felt she knew, as I drew her
to my heart, how I loved her. I
gave her the kiss of forgiveness
before / left her, to summon aid
in returning to the scene of disas
ter.
Sylvie had writhed off’ Stein’s
dead body, ami was yet strug
gling faintly ly the roadside. I
drew my knife across her throat,
thus mercifully ending her suffer
ing"-
Thus I lost one of my treasures
hut I gained—my wife.
Self love is at once the most del
icate and the most tenacious of
onvsentiments ; mere nothing wdl
wound it, hut nothing ou earth
will kill H.
A War Nlor|.
Among all the sturdy heroes of
the war who were mentioned in
speech aud song at the late reun
ion of the Gh-ind Army, all men
tion of Edwin M Stauto. Lincoln's
Secretary of War, was omitted by
orators and writers. As an evi
dence of the high esteem in which
he was held by the President it is
related that during t lie «arly part'
of the war the Western men, as
they were then called, had a poor
opiniou if the fighting qualities of
the men of the East, and, headed
by Owen Lovejoy, of Illinois, de
vised a selieme which they tnought
would prove this theory and be at
the sametimeof of immense serv
ice to the army in the east. Anu
ed with all the details of the plan
a committee headed by Lovejoy
proceeded to Washington, and,
calling upon Piesident Lincoln,
unfolded to him the wonderful
scheme of transferring 50,000
eastern troops to the army of the
west,•and supplying their places
with nn equal number Of western
men. Their eloquence and plausi
ble arguments convinced the Presi
dent to the extent that he gave
them an order to Secretary Stan
ton to carry out the details of the
plan as proposed. On entering
Stanton s office, he was found bus
ily engaged in writing, and with
out looking up he desired to know
the object of their visit.
Lovejoy explained the scheme
as he had before done to th 6 Pres
ident, but was met with a flat re
fusal by the Secretary.
‘But we have the Pflssident’s or
der, sir,’ said Lovejoy.
•Did Lincoln give you au order
of that kind?’ quoth Stantou.
‘He did, sir.’
‘Then he is a fool,’ said the
irate Secret ary.
‘Do you mean to say the Presi
dent is a d—d fool?’ asked Love
joy in amazement.
‘Yes, sir; if he gave you such an
order as that.’
The bewildered Illinoisan be
took himself at once to the Presi
dent and related the result of his
conference.
•Did St; aan say I was a d—d
fool?’asked Lincolu at the close
of the recital. %
‘He did, sir ; and repeated it.’
With that oeeufiar far away
lock for which the (’resident was
noted, he looked up after a mo
ment s pause and said:
‘lf Stanton said / was a d—d
fool then I must be one, for he is
nearly always right and generally
oays what he means. I will step
over and see him.’
This he proceeded to do, and
Stanton convinced him in a very
few moments that the plan propos
ed would be taken as an insult by
the whole east. Her soldiers
would Btop enlisting and her capi
talists withhold the solid assist
ance they ha 1 been previously fur
nishiug the North, thus adding
largely to the confidence which
the President had previously re
posed iu him.
Business Habile.
An up town Professor lost the
Oriental bit of scipt given him by
a Chinese laundryman, and was
without it when he went for his
shirts. The Chinaman said, ‘gim
me tickee.’
‘Lost it,’ said the Professor.
The Chinamar went to the rear
of his den and came back shrug
ging his shoulders.
He said, smilling, ‘Solly. ’
‘Why are y<*a sorry?’ said the
Professor.
•Me lost shirts, said the China
man.
The Professor got a lawyer
and returned to bulldoze the Chi
naman.
‘Give this man his shirts,' yelled
the lawyer, fiercely.
‘Solly.’ said the Chinaman, as
he rolled up a damp garment, ‘He
lost tickee ; I lost-shirts ’
Parleying did BO good. The
Professor retired without his
shirts. On the next return of his
wash from the same laundry the
Chinese rnessen -er gave him a
trade dollar in change. It proved
to he as light ns a feather. Go
ing to the laundry the neit day,
after discovering that the coin
was worthless, he told the China
rain there tha‘. his man had given
him that counterfeit. The China
mao tossed it on the counter,
weighed it and smiled.
‘Hadee,’ he said.
•Your Chinaman gave it to me,"
said the Professor.
‘Bade*. Chinaman. ' I sent him
way yesterday.’ And the Proprie
tor smiled again. The Professor
concluded to try another Monge
ban. —New York Sun.
Strang* H«|»pruiu|i.
A girl six years of age said she
had no home aud neither father
nbr mother, aud did not know i.er
name, was reeentlv found in the
streets of Buffalo drunk.
A root es a pinou tree found by
Edward Austin in New Mexico is
knotedand twisted so that it for ns
a perfect reseiublaace to two human
beings standings face to face, with
hands c.asped at.d anus extended
At the Children's Home iu Ciu
cinuatti a boy five yes rs of age fell
info a well forty five feet deep, at
the bottom of which a iusu was
digging. The boy alighted ou the
back of the well—digger, but nei
ther were hurt.
A Chiuaman made a bet of $3
with oqe of his fellows that he
could swim across the Sacramento
river at Ledding and return. As
he failed and went under hiß up
ponent dapped his hands in great
glee and quietly pocketed the
stakes.
In spitting a log of black oak
Benjaman Marvin, of Watertown,
Cm.i., i w on emoothgrain in the
heart of the tree a perfect picture
of a clump of treee,with trunks aud
branches and twigsvGearly definite
The picture is about four iuchei
square.
Two Mexicans living near ttalado
Texas, killed, each other
with the same knife. One stabbed
the other near the heart, leaving
the knife sticking in the wound.
The wounded man jerked out the
knife and flung it into his advert,a
ry’s heart, and both fell dead.
Aid lor the Mtrikere.
New York, August, l*i.— V meet
ing of the representatives of the
several trades unions of this city
and vicinity was held this after
noon for the purpose of adopting
measures to aid the telegraphers
and linemen in their strike, and it
was resolved that they should
be supported to the end. A num
her of unions have already voted
weekly sums of m >ney to he paid
to the strikers, and it wa« promis
ed that similar aid will be given
by other uuioua. It was reso ved
to circulate subscription lists
among all the ; workingmen, and
the Brotberhod 1 was assured that
at least SIOO,OOO will be raised in
its aid within a few days.
A meeting of the joint commit
tee of the Brotherhood and repre
sentatives of the trades unions
was held this evening and prepnr
ed subscription lists and uppuint
ed committees to circulate them
The members of the Brotherhood
express fullest confidence in their
success and say that they have no
fear of being obliged to yield thro’
lack of support.
• o » »
Uray Mild Blue I'nat I'rivuilw.
Sprinofieij), Mo , August 11
The exeraises of the reunion at
Wilson’s Creek battleground took
place yesterday. Fiom 11,000 to
20,000 persons were present. Gov
ernor Campbell, Acting Governor
of Missour’, delivered the address
of welcome, which was responded
tobv Gov Berry, of Arkansas;
Col Merritt, of lowa, and others
Union and Confederate soldiers
united in auplauding. The battle
field is about ten miles from this
city, and long before daylight
crowds began to arrive there.
Thr >ughout the reunion the most
cordial feeling has existed between
the old Union and Confederate
soldiers, and the most corteous
and generous sentiments have
been expressed. Not a single un
pleasant word has been uttered to
mar the harmony and enthusiasm.
The men have camped together
an though there had never been a
difference between them. Au or
ganization to be known as the Sur
viving Soldier’s Union League was
formed on the bat le giound. It
will embrace soldiers of both arm
ies, and the officers enlisted were
chosen from both Federal and
Confederate soldiers.
A poor woman in Lawrence was
visited by a female missionary, who,
in the conversation, asked her it
she intended to bring her boy up
to any trade. ‘Well,’ said the pir
ty addressed, ‘wid respects to yer,
I think I shall bring him up to be
an Odd Fellow.’
McKee Rankin is said to be the
daddy of the word ‘•masher.” He
said to Thorne, alluding to the ap
plause given Thorne by the ladies,
‘Charley. I’m nowhere in this ‘rig’
(alluding to his costume) I only
touch their hearts, but by the gods,
you mash ’em !’
|Vol. XIII.—No. 22
Ueueritl Ke«».
England but* 1,000,000 p.opera
Memphis has had a $200,000
tire
Gaim sville want* a match facto
»’J-
The President has arrived atCape
May.
Ex Gov. Swann, of Maryland, is
dead,
All four of President Arthur'a
sisters are baptists.
The rebellion in the state of Ta
luanhas, Mexi co, is gainiug
strength.
A murderer at Harlan, lowa,was
taken from the jail and hanged.
An Alabama man has a child
with three tongue* Of course, it s
a girl.
Cedartowu is exercised over the
discovery of a supposed alum well
Mr W T Golding reports the
first open cotton in brooks conn
ty
'l'lie Oxford University of Miss
issippi is free to women from all
states.
Caterpihars in immense num
hers are reported in Quitman e mn
ty-
Incoming vessels report the pass
ing of large icebergs in the Al lan
tic.
A large amount of lead ore is
said to exist in the vicinity ofGreen
ville, Via.
Dr (I. W. Chilsou, of (Jedartown
lias a canteen used in the Revolu
tionary war.
A negro was assassinated near
Jonesliora by a white man named
George Kirk
The books of the late Treasurer
of Jefferson county are undergoing
investigation.
Mineral lands are selling in the
oasteru part of Marion Uo., Ala at.
$1 an acre.
Maud S., Vanderbilt’s yet, tins a
stable built on ground worth a
thousand dollars per foot.
Thos. Tuck shot Wm. Hudson,
near Forney, Tex. for resenting an
insult to 1 is wife.
A young man named Ountz, of
Edgefield, S. C., accidently killed
himself while hunting.
The striking brick miisonu in
China), o have carried their point.
The rolling mill men are still idle.
There was a row at a negro mil
in Savannah, during which a po
'.ictman .vas severcrely wounded.
Forsyth county lias a population
of 11.0000, and has 18 physicians
t> lawyers and twenty seven met
chants.
Ed. Calvin, fireman on the Con
tral road, was killed by jumping
from his engine during a s/iglit ac
cident.
A runyway horse, which was
olind, dashed over the bluff’ at Po
lu in bus Friday, and falling 50 orOO
feet, was killed.
At Quito, the only city in the
wo Id on the lino of the equator,
the suuse‘s and rises at l» o’clock
the year round.
A man failed in trying to com
mit suicide, at Mansfield, Mush.,
and next day a railroad train run
over him accidentally.
One’s awe of Her Majesty. Vic
toria, is lessened when informed
that she is but four leel eight in
chvs in height, and dumpty at
that.
More than f 72,000 was foe ml
lately in the room of a man n Par
is who had for twenty live years
lived miserably, and who died in a
charity hospital,
Mrs John Williams, of Chicago,
fonnd her husband, known as'Coal
oil Johnny,’ occupying a room with
another woman and shot him
dead.
And now comes a heartless dis
covery with the announcement
that Andrew Jackson, twice I’resi
dent of the ( nited States, wa->
boro in Ireland, instead ot inNortli
Carolina.
A burglar who has climed up
to a garret wind >w o.i a la Ider is
arested by a voice shouting, “Hal
10, there, what do yon want?’’
‘ May I ask you for a glass of fresh
water?”
A few m'-meats sometimes
makes a great ch uige. A man
with blue eyes wai seen going in
a beer saloon yesterday, and when
he came out a little while later he
hod black eyes.
—AS—
An Advertising Medium
The HhJHALD it nneeftteded
reason of its ej tensive circulation and
remar lea h/if lotv rates. Businessmen
should rtmember this.
BLANKS! BLANKS!BLANK
(am. KINDS NVATI.r PRINTED)
FOR SALE ATT, HE
UKIiA l.r> JOB OFFICE
The Deadly Parasol.
Why does the young lady hug
her sunshade so affectionately?
She is in the employ‘Of £ tur
geon.
In the employ of a surgaon?
What do you mean ?
Do you not see the crutch of
her sunshade now protruding
from her left shoulder?
Oh. yes. 1 see tint quite plain
ly.
There, did you see her gouge
out that gentleman’s eye?
It was neatly done.
Very ; that is probably the twen
tioth eye she has obliterated du •
vim* her walk. The surgeon will
pay her for her kindness n> him.
Does she coniine tier operations
to optics 1
No ; some! iuies she destroys a
nose, and occasionally slashes a
cheek. She is very versatile. She
is more tenable tliau an army with
banners.
But do not the gentlemen hate
her 1
Oil, no, they love and admire
her; but they detest and despise
her parasol.
The Denver Republican uses a
confident tone in regard to early
disappearance of Mormooism.
This result it attributes to coa
tact with Christian civilization.
The women born in Utah almost
unanimously decline to marry po
lygamous liusbans while t he.young
men appreciate the evils of the
system and repudiate its teachings
and practice. Hence there is
little or no increase to the Her
mon church from its own eonamu
nities. its own communities! its
chief accessions being from assis
ted immigrants, representing the
'owcat, most ignorant and debased
classes of Europe. If the legisla
tion which prevents the poor Irish
from landing on our shores were
directed to this class it would be
more humane and insult, in more
good to the country.
Our good Bishop Beckwith has
been giving a Chicago newspaper
a talk on the evils of whisky drink
ing He says;
“Liquor is the great curse to
civilization everywhere. I believe
in c mtroling it by a system of
high taxation. It is the best plan
in the world 1 1 control the traffio.
I have studied the queston for
jtars, and I ain convinced that you
cunuot stop men from drinking
liquor who want to drink it, by
prohibitory legislation. This has
been proved.”
The bishop is tight, Prohibit
oiy legislation dosu’t stop (he
liquor ti;ir!lic. 1 n States where re
prohibitory laws there is as much
drunkeunoHd as there wai before
the laws were enacted.
A mother can call “Connie it's
time to get up,” for three hours
without milking any impression,
but when the old man steps to the
foot of the stairs and shouts
“John!” Johnnie takes his break
fast with tho rest of the family.
‘Pan jou tell ine,’ asked Twis
;< n, ‘the difference between my
c >k. this morning, and a passen
ger on a new railroad ? One was
Inkin’shad and the other shaken
bad.
Paper is now employed for the
const ruetiod of domes for observe
tories. It has also for a long time
been utalized in the manufacture
of Western mining claims and
township speculations.
A Brooklin girl is much worried
since the first of May. Her lover
has moved next door and she ia
afraid he will see her putting out
the washing, and expect her to do
it after aims married,
A West Point, girl says it is un
kind of the Oovermnent to allow
only men in the army. Blie says
women would do just as well, or
better, as they like to dress up
and strut about for inspection and
admiration
A Scotch person said somewhat
sarcastically of a hard drinker,
that he put an enemy in hisinouth
to steal away his brains, but that
the enemy, after a thorough and
protracted search, returned with
out anything.
A Teamste* in Maine conquers
i balky horses by taking them out
of the shafts and making them go
round in a circle. This is the on
! ly method of producing dizziness
,in Maine, which is a prohibition
I Stats.