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■ nti Var sir. d v,mean;
■ ttialtliat in one tiling you ie
■Sinap of a newspaper man.
ihe parvauu s parlors
■.“ wealth to the eye is unrolled
■ mankind is put mthe balance,
■ weighed t.y the standard ol
■.'!!;!,ires of beauty and fashion,
life is a frivolous span,
if there was contusion
■Om. ii ol a newspaper man.
■thought : Are my hands red
Hrith murder ?
■ merit the signet of tain ?
■mvh 1 must he a leper -
■larked with the hideous stain .
|K there are more potent reasons
me under the bail ;
■irrand the look say I'm only
■a newspaper man,
§H un .r to use paper and scissors ?
IBrtnetoget bread by the pen
■iutelleet shine like u dinmoii
;rs never ha 1 been '!
■„ who absconds with a million
|K„ weleoiue.i hack from Japan;
H,. whose page sparkles with
H-aiity
a newspaper man.
ill V r.iak and my station
is proud ol his t h i . on -;
in every nation,
in evory zone.
|Hi. the rich and the haughty
Hit to-day, if you can—
Hn for the sake of a “uotico”
feet of a newspaper man.
s.mietimesin my sanctum,
with the wotk of tlie
By.
a right to tlie haven.
bright far away ;
who stand at the por
whoever the can,
when they see us mid wllis
t
a newspaper man."
Biiscei .lany*
B WAKEN K 1) I. OIK
B Grime* was an old bache
B* people called him an old
Hgeon, and some -ailed him
Buuk< and these tides were
Bore truthlm man naiiei--
Baci is, as the world goes—
B world goes hard enough
—Abiel Grimes was a
Bard man —hard and cold.
Bo the core, cruel when his
were at stake; apparent
Hu more feeling dian a lamp
B more charily than a tobic
B seemed ever grasping for
never giving up any-
Bvaig only for Abiel Grimes,
|Bng for nothing beyond
li« was twen'y Abiel
|B went to see a young lady
sweet young lady, every
IBlled her —and it was at last
that they were going to
lIBm) day, being caught oiv
■*<>. 9 ke allowed another
to hold au umbrella
EB 1 "kile she walked home
IB Grimes chanced to witness
ion, and became furi
■Bormiug ravmg, and tear-
Bsious to tatters.
■Hid more. He left Mary A 1
HH'ith a curse, find never vis
H r "gain
and sobbed, and
discons d>ii e tor a time,
site mat lied tbe kind
Butn who had held the urn-
her.
Rb‘ bmt luut ‘ forward nobody
■ ‘ |,i Ahiel Grimes laugh.
Kt 1,111 H ful if he'could
|Hre w io, o himself like a uir
U Uri a,el1 ’ ll "d to the world
an exterior as hard
shell.
his whole energies to
W And he made it.
I|"f lj °HKesan 1 lands which
* 0 lh * ric h and to the
m** 0 th « luckless wight
Hluln “I' Slll#rt ° n P a - V
H., a d money on mortmu/-
H
>»d
I I uw ed m*rcy,
Weekly Gwinnett Herald.
TYLKR M. PKKPLEB, 1
Kditor and Proprietor. j’
Into the streets went a sick fatli
er or mo her or serving chi'dren
if he failed to get his lawful due.
He was no liypocrtt, however ;
he was consistent with himself.
He gave nothing to churches, be
cause, as he ave<red, religion was
a sham.
He gave nothing to hospitals, be
cause people had no business *
sick
He gave nothing to chan tabu
cieties, because the poor ought, to
work for their bread.
In short, he gave nothing to
anybody, except Ab ; el Grimes.
Ami Abiel Grimes he pampered.
There was nothing too good for
Abiel Grimes.
He bought a splendid mansion,
surrounded himself with luxuries,
and kept servants who were no
better than so many slaves in his
'•egard.
His sister kepi house for him,
being a poor, quiet, timid, child
idi widow with no other home,
nor any way to live without la
bor.
Of all days iu the year, Abiel
Grimes hated Sundays and holi
days.
Why 1
Because he could not vex peo
ple in his business transactions on
those davs, and because poor peo
ple were idle, and seemingly hap
P.Vj and he hated to see people hap
py-
If he tould haye shat them all
up in black pits and kept them to
woik there a'l their lives for lis
gain and comfort, he would have
done so.
And of all the holidays, Abiel
Grimes hated Christm is, and its
rejoicings and fes ivities.
And in this state of mind, with
out ever having a day’s illness—
going on prosperously in worldly
gain 0-no -
Grimes reached tue age of forty
live, hale and hearty, with a sharp
lace, irou fryme, cold grey eyes,
thin hair and bald head.
Now it so happened that one
hated Christmas night Abiel
Grimes returned to his elegant
man-ion at die hour of eleven.
It was suowir.g fast and die
s'reets were m istly deserted 4
The mansion lo»ked grim and
dark, and cold, for there had been
no rejoicing there that day, and
the servants lmd all gone to bed.
Oulv the poor housekeeper wa
sitting up for her brother, to keep
the tire bright and his slippers
varm, and his water hot for his
punch, and to act as his slave and
minister to his every whim.
Abiel Grimes asseended the
high marble steps in no pleasant
tame of mind.
It had been a lQng disagreeable
lay t» him becau -e everybody had
been too happy to feel the venom
of hatu with which he regarded
them.
On the upper step he paused in
astonishment, which soom merged
into rage.
Somebody ha 1 left a basket on
hat step—a bisko' with a handle
to it ; a basket, filled with some
thing which the fas', fulling snow
had already covered wi'h a thin
pure mantle of white.
‘The infernal carelessness or im
pu Knee of some servant or beg
gar,' muttered Abiel Grimes ‘.hro
bis shut teeth, as he raised his
foot and gave she b tsket a vigor
ous kick.
He in'ended to kick it clear
from his cald. hard m trble step—
colder and harder than Ins own
tumble heart —into the middle of
the street. 13m his dedgu mis
carried.
Tue basket struik against the
iron rail, bounded back, fell over,
a id a sin dl b tnd'e rolled out.
Then from the bun lie emo a
feeble wail, a human wail, a cry of
i mocence appealing to Haaveii
a r>dnst the cruel neglect and
abuse of mankind.
Lawrenceville, 3-a. Wednesday Oct, 10 1883
' !,vin g child!' exclaimed the
astounded and somewhat horrified
Abiel Grimes. ‘and if I've killed
't there 11 be the deuce to pay.’
es, Abiel Grimes, and the
U>rd to settle widi besides.
I’or a few moments an almost
j Paralysing terror ha-* possession
iof this man of iron, while another
o'tiiul wail came uu to him from
■at living bundle at his feet.
What should he do ?
Leave the little thing to perish,
and have a murder on his con
science and a coroner at his door?
Call a policeman and have it re
moved and a ieport reach the
press in such a garbled way as :o
mix him up in a rediculous scan
dal ?
And then— s'artling thought—
what if it had already been fearful
ly injured by his brutal kick?
Might it not even at that mo
ment be dying?
It was a jold night but grea*
beads of perspiration came and
•stood out on the thin, hard face of
Abiel Grimes.
Just then a rolicking party of
yoiiQg men turned the corner of
the street and came singing, laugh
iug and shouting forwrrd.
In another moment they would
pa .s his door.
Heavens! they have already
seen him, aud what if they should
bear and see the child, and find it
dying from his brutality.
There were courts where men
were tried for murder, and Abiel
Grimes did not like even to fancy
himself standing in the felon's
dock.
Never did the trembling lingers
of that man werk faster than in ap
plying the key, turning the bolt
ar d forcing open the door of that
palatial majyauu). .»**> ilUilU AIIVI j
__Thgfttel, sprang into the marble
vestibule and shut the world out,
just as those young bloods went
singing, laughing, shouting, reel
ing and rolieking past die dark
frowning windows of his bachelor
abode.
Hastening to his cwn elegant
sitting room, where his sister sat
waiting for him, Abial Grimes
fairly burst into the apartment,
white and trembling, with the liv
ing and wailing bundle in one
hand aud he basket in the other.
- Here, Griselda,’ cried he, as the
surprised sister star ed up in alarm
‘here's some beggar’s child llm
I’ve just stumbled over on my
s ep, and I want you to see if I
have killed it.’
He did not dare to say that he
had kicked it over, not even to
her.
The poor sister had a kind heart
die had been a wife and moth
er, and had lost bo h mother and
c idld—and she tenderly took the
little wad, unrolled it, examined it,
and then southed and kissed and
hugged an 1 fondled it, till ii open
ed its sweet li’tie blue eyes, and
fairly lan, f ’ied in her face.
‘Oh, y u dear little darling!’ she
cried, completely obvious iu her
absorb d delight to the presence
of her ogreish brother.
•Well,’ he snapped ou< at length
-is the child hurt ?'
‘Oh, no, she does not appear Go
be, Abiel.’
•Then throw the brat into the
tire !’ he cried, with a savage stamp
of his foot.
Of course ho did not mean to
have his sister literally obey Lis
murderous order, but only to un
derstand that the child must he
pui out of his way, and that he
would have nothing more to do
with it.
‘Oh, Abiel, brother, let me keep
it, and rear it, and call it mine,
pleaded the lone hearted sister.—
•I want some bing to love in my
declining years. Lo’ me have this
■*ee, dear Abiel, how sweet the dar
iuir looks, and how it smiles even
now, upon you-’
And t he li tie baby did at that
moment chance to thro:*. out its lit
tie hands toward the iron man,and
did seem to smile at lion.just asbi
bies have before now been known
i io smile upon their murderers.
Bah. grunted Abiel Grimes, as
lie turned away.
But lie did not escape sfathless.
A beam from that baby’s eyes
had darted in o his, and that beam
had curried a ray of God's sun
shine from that, pure innocent soul
right down itiro bis. winning cue
tiny li lie spot; and exciting one ol’
i lie stron; est sensations of hi-* life.
Abiel hurried off to beb. without
putt ng on Iks slippeis or making
his punch, leaving his sister Oris
c'.da alone wi h the child.
She fottn \ and prepared some
milk for it, and seciely avowed it
should never leave her.
/That night Abiel Grimes dream
e.l that little blue eyes were look
i»g at him, and he got up and hur
lied off the next morning, as if to
escape from the little one ard him
self.
As lie nude no funher protest,
his sister kept the child ia thc-mau
sion, but i lit, of his sight,, and told
the servants it was an unexpected
Christmas gift, which she prized
more highly than gold.
One day, seven or eight months
la'.er, Abiel Grimes n ame unexpeet
odlv into his own sitting room,and
1 *und the blight and playful little
one lied in a c hair, hammering its
little chubby fists on die cushion
before it, and talking to itself in
the unbnawn language of baby
dotn.
‘Hello!’ said Abiel Grimes, halt
ing iu front of it, -you yet.
madam ?’
‘Ja! ja! go, goo!’ answered ba
an.t .town as it - y cwfc fly - ng np
Again someth' ng sn.».
pure lit tie souJ into the dark hard
soul of Abiel Grimes.
‘Confound it,’ he muttered, ‘I be
lieve you are a witch!’
‘Ja! ja! goo! goo! ja! goo!’
laughed baby, al! full of springs.
The next moment she was up in
his strong arms, and her little vel
vet cheek wassoftlvpressed against
his lips.
•I am glad I didn’t kill you,’ lie
said.
At that moment his sister came
hurrying into the room, hut - ans
ed with fright and astonishment
on seeing her brother present and
baby in his arms.
‘Oh, Abiel, she is an angel sent
from Heaven for the comfort of -js
both !’ cried Griselda with a warm
ing enthusiasm.
The brother did not answer,
and the s.ster felt happy that he
did not storm and lave.
The secret work of heaven had
begun. From that lime on there
was a change in AbielGiimesj The
iron began to melt, the stone be
gan to sofien, the soul begin to
humanize, and the poor people
who had known Abie! Grimes for
years began to wonder.
One day a poor man came to
plead for a littie more time in
which lo pay his ren'.
‘My little girl’s very sick,' he
said in a Voice of distress, with
tearful eyes, and Ive been oblig
ed; a lose time, and take the
money which I’d saved for yon
and buy medicine for her.
4 You owe me a month’s rent,’’
said Abiel, taking up his pen and
beginning to write.
‘And if you give me time—
• You will never pay int!’ in
terrupted Abiel, at the sane time
handing die poor fellow a recept
in full for the amount, and alive
pound note.
‘Take that and go home and
nurse your darling; and, if not
enough for yv.ur d : stress, come
back again.”
‘God bless von!’ cried die poor
man, bursting into tears.
‘He bus already!’ muttered Abb
lel to himself *He did it one
( Inis'mas night, when he sen t me
a little angel.'
•I come to tell you fha mv hits
band is dea I. and that I cuino
•ii present, satisfy t e mortgage
yotlhold, said a weeping widow
to him at another time.
Ink** the mortgage itself down
to the recorder of deeds, madam
and let him write ‘satisfy’ on it.'l
was the reply of the once hard
hearted man, as he handed the
document, kgether with an order
for sa refaction io his us'onished I
visitor.
Like the pen '-up waters of a
stream when the obsi rue ions give
Wity. so flowed forth the oh trilies
of Abiel Grilles, audall who knew
him marveled ami said, | Behold
a midacle!’
\ear i rolled on, aud a thousand
places felt tliejjsecret iliueuce of
that baby darling who had conic I
so mysteriously o that cold
( h i'i*">nas night to the then hard,
cheerless home of Abiel Grimes.
As his heart softened utidef her
geii’nl smiles, the now humanized
bitehtlor had her named Mary Al
bright in memory of his first and
only love, whom ho fancied she
resembled.
And as she grow in years, the
once gloomy mansion was made
cheerful for her sake, and every
Christinast there became a happy
day of rejoicing.
len years had pasted, and the
thin hair ot Abiel Grimes was he
coming Heeked with silver; but his
face looked fresher, and his heart
felt younger, and his soul fa> hap
pier,
Into his presence one day came
a lady in black, deeply veile I, and
to his utter ayjjzHiuMoi **«*hM.*» > *>■-
inch lc* ,
put that baby there, she
went on. ‘lt was not my child
but my daughter’s child. I marri
al; and my husband died .leaving
me adauliter. She married, and
her husband died, leaving her
a daughter. Then she died, and
the child fell to me. I was poor
and you were rich, and I hope
to interest you iu the little link.
1 did not desert the child, nor
[tut it there by eh mce, for L knew
you were coming home and 1
watched from my hiding place
till you took the li tie blessing
in.
‘Unki own to you I have had
an eye on it ever since. You
have care! for it tenderly Abiel
Grimes, and I feel that in turn it
lus cared for your soul. You
have called it Mary Albright.
Why? Well, the name is answer
enough. Yon have seen a resem
blaic-e to one you once knew and
once loved, but to whom you did
a grievous wrong!’
•I did!’ burst from the . white
lips of Abiel Grimes.
‘She forgave you then -forgives
you still—and has come to say
that you lnve her grand-Ibid for
your jwn!’
‘Ob, give me herself also!' cried
\biel Grimes with powerful emo
tion , as he seized the lady’s hand
and drew aside the veil from the
cftlaa sweet face of his old love.
Mary Albrigbd
Need we go on with die se
quel?
They were married on the next
(Jl ristmas, and have ever since
been counted among the happiest
of couples
And now, instead of curses, Abi
el Gri nes heaps blessings on ev
ery < ’haistmas, and all the poor u
rouird hasp blessings on Abiel
ibimes. and on his sweet wife,
and his good sister, and his dar
ling pet, and on all tlia'. belongs
to him and them.
“/s these anything wrong in
kissing?’’ he asked her, as they
stood together at the gate. “Cer
lainly there is,” she replied, “or
i here wouldn't tie any fun in i>.”
jVol XIII.—No. 2 9
<*«<»»• <«untr> Nrlioul
Lie • none but live, educated
mm ditrectors.
Have good school bouses, t eat
‘.V built and well veutilu ed. and
thoroughly supplied with good fur
nil tire and apparatus.
Employ none l»nt trained teach
•■ix, or those qualified to lead, rath I
ev than to mislead the young.
Ket.iin the same teacher through
put 'heyear. I
I‘av iniil teacher enough 'o ena I
ltle In in io live aid have a little
money to spen 1 for fitting him
■folf for higher usefulness in his
c tiling.
Let parent«, officials, and others
vii-i* the schcols I'reqneufJy, no to
Hod fault, but to encourage both
teacher and pupil.
D ui I b ; afr it] tin* your schools
arc costing too much." Your chil
di'oti, parents, me more valuable
than your horses and cattle, the
theory of many scho 1 pa 1 rons to i
the contrary notwi hstanding.
% Word IO Hoys mid GlrVt.
A boy who is polite to his fath
er and mother is lik fiy to be po
lite to every one else a boy lack
ing politeness to h> parents may
have tue seiublauoj of courtesy in
society, but it. ii never truly in
spun, and is in danger As lie be
comes older of be raying bis r«ai
wain of courtesy, coveting the
good opinior of those who are in
s use a part of themselves, and
w io will sou ti tine to huh ain and
be interested in us, nofiviths and
ing these defects in deportment
and character. We ,-aty io every
boy and girl, cultiva o the habit of
couriesy and propriety at home
in the sitting room and kitchen as
in the parlor, and you will be sure
i t other places o deport yourself
in a becoming and attractive man
ner. W.ien one has pleasant
smiles and graceful demeanor, it
is a satisfaction tc know that these
we not put on, but that they be
long to the character, and are man
ilesi at all Limes ami under tillcir
-cumstanees.
the Hon, George A. Halsey, of
V’owark, die other day, “how the
postal card—by which half the bus
mess of the country is carried on
-came to be a m tioiml institu
tion. You remeiub r Mr. Fied
Lundy, of Morristown, the news
paper writer, and a‘ one time edi
or and owner of one of the M i n
tiwn papers. 1) rm ,m- of i i
summer vacatd i’ <• w ir up b
Momreal, Qmbtc an I other pin
i-es of merest in t’.uii la Tli
oetiny post was in the >1 -million
feature of the govermnen pelt
service. When heciraa hack m
•amo to me with a Canadian pos
tal card in iii-s hand.
“Wh .t lo you think of tba’ 1
at- asked as he showed it to me.
That wool I be a grand thing I r
his coll ; I Jy."
“I agreed with him. A fen
lavs Inter John Hill came to me
w th the sa no card.
“•1 know where yotig >t tha,’ 1
sai i to Hd l .
•* ‘Where V he asked
“‘From Fred Lundy,’ l said,
ill’. Hill adini ted i . He .raid to
said he was going to bring it out
in this country, lie drew or had
drawn a bill incorporating' u in
t tie Federal postal service. The
lull became ~ law, and s* the p>s
talcard was introduced here
It wasj 'Hi a Wes'em railroad
Tiie conductor had been Ins
rounds an 1 taken a seat beside a
verv quie. and tiuassumming pas
sengei.
“Pie ty full train,” finally oh
:e' ved he passenger.
“Yes.”
“Uotd seems to be doing a
good business. ’
“Oh the road makes plenty of
money, bui ’
“lint wha !'' asked the passen
ger, us the ether hesitated.
“Had management. It is the
worst managed line in the, whole
country
“is th it so?”
“That’s so, The hoard of offi
cials might know how to run «
side show to a circus, but they
can't tackle u railroad.”
“Who is the biggist fool of the
lot?,
“Well, the superintendent.”
“I m glad of that,” said the pas
sengcr, as his face lighted up.
“1 was afraid you would say it
was die p-esident.’’
“Suppose Iliad?”
“Why, I’m the man! ’
d tub of butter weighs eighty
four p* muds
AN—
dnArirertlming Mt flfnn,
Thf HERALD is by
remon ot ,■it aienaiv, rirc/odon ,Z
r rvutrktthl,, low rate a. Hvmte»r men
nhoula rmiemher this.
Bl AMKS BLANKS! BLANK
(AM. kindr nicatly printkd)
for SALE AT T HE
UK HALO JOB OKKif'K
CleMeral \eww.
They have no fences in China,
Hie senate came within an ac e
of enactiug a general dog.
(’apt. Lilly has jusi gold a rich
"fiver mine near Ga.nesville
They are selling five boxes of
matches in Gainesville f,,j n nick
I Ihe Ihitiiel \\ ebs er monument
I was defaced by vand ils or relic
I hunters.
' Boston man who killed awo
umn suicided because he was haunt
wi by lior Rpiri*.
A negro, for a trivial offense,
was shiit diti 1 by his employer,
/''!• B ( * Slimier, at f-evington.
Ivy.
A (. Janes, of Lo.iry, ivceni'y
ktlled a Wildcat weighing eighteen
p mods.
Mui Wilkes county tax rate this
year is 237 10 cm the*' kimbred dol
lars.
I here are three negro women
m Cobb county jail, charged with
murder.
Iu one of Atlanta’s cracker fac
tories seventy live barrels of 110 ir
I are made up daily.
The Governor has si med the
bill “requiring physicians to serve
is jurors iu lunacy cases.'’
The Governor has pardoned Lu
cions Joiner, who was convicted
»f rape in Jones coun'y in 187 s.
A hi wing society, composed of
both young l adies and gentlemen,
has li >en organized in Eastman.
■lohii L Fliun, of Thominville,
claims that he owns a gelding
which is closely related to Jay
Kye See, who haw just, m »de \
mile in 2:10J at live yaarw of
age.
at the burial of a colored man
recently, in Catoosa county, there
appeared at his grave as mourn
ers his ted father, and hit uiou/aiJi
a strange case ih under Inal in
t'hila lelphia, in which a landlady
keeps possession of L' o body- of a
dead boarder until a lull dm- for
board is paid.
IFtiiio i lie young people were hav
ing a quiet par yat an old far
mers tiouse, in Green county lasi
Saturday night, some malicious
p rson turned the young mei. s
mrses lo se and robbed the chick
II I'O IS .
.Stolen Uil.
No im- ever herd flirti sialk.
N i h “ c*t ha clielor cm look at
a baby c ini ige without c noli m.
The las' mem fling at Ith ide
Island is tha*. u coinotive whis
lc is heard all over the state.
Y'oting ladies should not forget
that Goliath died from the effects
of a bang en his forehead.
a Nebriakalown is calls 1 B iso
biil. That’s the reason travelers
make such short stops there.
,\ Hawaiian school git-1 wants
to know if a grass widow is one
whose husband died from bay
fever.
a school boy remarks that when
his teacher undertakes to • show
him whui is what,” he only finds
out which is switch.
Mat r.mouy is said to be a lot
tery, but up Lo ihehour of going
to press no law has been enac ed
prohibiting the use of tiie males.
Tlie following is extracted from
a small boy’s composition on
“Jiabies.” “The mother’s heart
gives 4th jay at the baby’s Ist
2th. ’
Nothing makes a bald headed
man feel sick sooner dia„ to read
a. paragraph announcing that Mo
hair can he purchase I for twenty
•snts a yard'
A litde girl at Newport seeing
the willow’phffi'ons for tie first
time exclaimed: “Why, mipnma,
everybody rides out in their
clothes baskets here!”
‘Good morning, John,’said one
of ;he leading pusiors in Scranton
Penn., a' a young friend whom he
met on the street th ; first warm
day of the season. “How does
your father stand tbe heat?” The
young man made no rep v, but
went his way with a clouded brow
And when the good paster learn
ed that the young man’s father
ha l died only a week before he uu
dsrstood why his cordial greeting
was met so coldly.