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VOLUME XXI.
NEWNAN, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, ISS6.
NUMBER 46.
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PLBUSliED EVERT TIJB8DAT.
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■ ,, .'„:;. r „Sc“ndtda , t"s, *c„
IN RHETTA’S GARDEN,
Our lives are allmras,
...... . ritten through
" ,th K°°d or ill, with false or true.
WILLJACKSOK’S RIDE.
a u " p - pa ™ nt '■ ni'ipof An cost,
1884, darkness was bpginuing to .seek ad-
mitta.K* through t .. mam w.r.dowsof
the I).-vo , inn,” near Philadelphip, and
Its auvem was stoutly resisted bv the light
and life of Devon's stately interior, when
the eight members of the -Tavern Talkers"
ami their single guest drew their chairs
round the altar of confabulation in their
sarn tum of the Raid inn.
v\ hv, "ei.tlemeu, we are forgetting our
am me. Xeckar, where’s your
new
story!
"Tr:i.-,-sa:d the president. “.Mr. Xeckar,
and I would take the
nvrst t hat it, be a cycling one,
1 '. you in tlie brotherhood of
for
friend ■
It
was done he pave it to Rhelta
rine blushed ag,...i over it, and went
• >n talking about flowers.
•‘I wish I could pet some slips of
was only a little spot south of j UoU)ne , ,, orterV geraniums,” she
sui ; “hi hass * many kinds, and I
BY MARY L. It. BRANCH.
blossomed
out of sight; I bet he’s j -ooner there than anywhere else, { have only this little pink one. Auu ; there lmd been in his looks a
“ hehiDd '’ The ?**■: - ,nd great bursting pinks made the | lwant iirooto{(Uy lilvveryiaj(;h ; , l|s fones touches of te!lderil0>
picy while other people’s were
the *
respited fr
chair, looked
for a mom
“GentlcJi
the visitor, bower], while our
Neckar lay b:*ck in his
lie president inquiringly j faster,
<1 t.uen commenced: I t er look;
l-u, I am victimize
nt,
m 1? i ihe
sober tlie incident—a
AN oil so bo it,. Some of you, doubtl*
have heard of Will Jackson’s ride with a
railroad train out west; most of you, how
ever, have not. Mr. S — I know has not;
•so, with your permission, we will have it.’’
Go ahead, Ninon,” was the general
‘Chorus; the ore. id -nt, with an almost im
perceptible wink at the story-teller, add
ing:
“Oh, ye*
capital urn
“Wei!, gentlemen, }*ou must know that j
some snort i .m .* ago a friend of mine, a !
Mr. Jack-on, Known also to some of you
perhaps, Aeuf. west on a business trip, J
taking )v> bicycle with him, an.l out there, |
y°” know, .Mr. S , a bicycle is a great ;
rar;tv. in f.ioi, in many places where |
Mr. JttcRsoii sojourned, the people didn’t j
know what to make of the ma-hine, and |
tlie most extravagant surmises were in
dulged in by them as to its properties, etc. j
The continual questioning relative to the I
matter was annoying, and he was wishing i
for s mething out of the common to turn ;
up fuliy to proclaim the properties and j
powers of the machine, when fortune ;
eye ancaa, ana o.xKson Kept up '
\ bfteen-mile-an-hour gait behind, to
i : !.e extreme edification of a couple of
-rakeir.en, who watched him from the
j rear car. Ten more miles had been cov- {
, and, to tell the the truth, our cycling j
“Getting rather lmd, when the j, he house, but violets
engineer tang out, ‘Ha;lo, Jim! 6ee if that *
chap ain’t
a mile or
Srera^ke^tbln^ing'whifc’he ! i,,r jraop.e swore ■ d some tea-rose cuttings, and a
stretched his n«k to reconnoitre. The 'tily in bud. There were daffodils ; ,] oullle Genoese violet; a blue salvia
next minute his surprise at what greeted : i;i the grassy border, and bluebells.
v'or^^ 1 ^ 1 "^'""'! f r n , d yf ntin -nd blue spider-lilies. There svere
'■oros, as he shouted excitedly to the en- *
g.neer: i t wo rose-bushes, one cinnamon and
“ ',' Ve11 . may 1 never handle a shovel | „ ne damask, while double sweet
-illy flowers sowed themselves and
nears" came up every year along with
“The engineer threw down his pipe and mignonette and crysanthemums.
looked behind, and there, sure enough, I . , , , , f, 1
'•.as the bicvcier as ia.-ge a! life, working j u was a sweet, fragrant, old-fa.sh-
awny for ail he was worth. Well, if trait | lulled little garden, which Rhetta’s
.•ant a caution: Come, Jim. slap on some i !tl0t her had tended ahd taken pleas-
more of the feed, and we’ll give him the . . ... T ,. .. .
good-bye; we’ve just got half an hoar to j uiri » now it WliS ltiiotta S.
get into Stokleyville.’ j There she worked al her spare half-
i he fireman shoveled in the coal, and j hours .sowing and watering, weed-
!'}-anci-by tnc train commenced to move. ... ..,, ,
iaster as the engineer let her out. The I * U K And transplanting, till ner
i.reman looted back; Jackson had lost a little hands were brown, and her
-oupie of car-lengths, the train m°™l Limeksiike her own cinnamon ro-
1 n few moments later tlie engm-i ...
1 behind; tlie bicycler had lost j es. Aunt Dorcas, ill the kitchen,
-lengths and v.as a: i .seal to wonder •‘how on ilirth that
heart. It seem- d like d vs and
weeks since Ralph drove away
a ilh smiliug, pretty Rise I’orbr.
\nd slie herself had b gun to think
if liim as somehow her own. That
very .oorninsr,under that very nee,
d in
ids tones touches of tenderness that
vain, if he ain’t there still! and I’ll be j
darned if he ain't agone and pulled up on
toe extreme end of the tra
“ ‘Pile on the coal, Jim, said the engin-
« er, ‘and we’ll soon own the$25.’
“Another mile went over, and the fire
man looked back once more.
“ ‘Where is he now?’ asked his con
frere.
“ ‘lie must lie round the bend,’
•■•aid the fireman; ‘yes, there
he is, just coming round now; why, we’ve
left him quarter of a mile.’
“There remained now but a four-mile
•tretch to Stokleyville, and every moment
• he train was drawing nbe<^ of trie bi
rder, who was evidently getting tired.
Deiore another mile was completed Jack-
m>m was nearly half a mile behind; an
other nike went over, a sharp curv
peared ahead, and the engineer slowed up
very complacently and good-humoredly
or his cycling antagonist was toiling
along >o:nu three-quarters of a mile in the
rear. The curve was reached, round it
went the train veg^}slowly, and then
there lay ahead the «raight track into the
town.
“ ‘Fire in some more coal,” Raid the on-
biid could be
;it in lu r pos;
Gut KbeUa ■
f lute, since
so content all alone
bed!”
v as not so often alone
they had taken a
kindly threw in his way the opportunity gineer. But before tiie firemen had time , . .. an£tttf flS|
which he wished for. Just as he was glv- to comply with the order, tfie train, which loUr5l y «bo\e bis spectacles as he
lag up all hope of such an opportunity had been traveling very slowly.cameal-
cropping up, the desired loop-bole through most suddenly to a dead stop. ‘Putr*
which be might squeez; sometliing to | went the engine, ‘whist, whist,’ went die
astonish the n .fives, laid itself so to speak : wheels; the train moved forward a little
at h;s feet, through the agency of what— | again, and then stopped again, the engine
at the time working furiously'.
“ ’What the devil is the matter now!’
said the engineer as he looked at the fire-
of whom do you think? Why, of an
gineer on one of the locomotives of the M.
& M. railway.
“Mr. .Jackson happened to be at Lyres
burg, in Missouri, and, as usual, much
interest wus taken there among the peo- j :i
mai
pie in liU bicycle. In this place the pr
vailing sentiment was that of ridicule f<
both t be machine and its rider, and the
remarxsof the engineer whom I have lie-
fore referred to were so offensive that
Jackson got quite roiled, in fact, that on
tlie engineer making some remark more
than usually strong, he there and then of-
engineer, t
That worthy’s look of blank nstonlsh-
nt did not lend to abate his surprise,
• did the lugubrious answer vouch-
I safed by the fireman of ‘guess we’re
; busted’ throw much light on the state of
j affairs.
j “‘Shutoff steam,’said the engineer as
lie jumped down on live track and passed
I round tlie engine. Everything appeared
I to lie straight. ‘Let her go,’he shouted.
I- “‘Puff, puff,’ and a half a revolution of
Stokl**yvitle, fifty miles down the road, i the wheels without their gripping the
The engineer was to take a cattle train tit j track left matters in statu quo.
fifty cars over that section cf the road - on
the afternoon <»f the day on which the bet
was made, and Jackson agreed to lime
out his bicycle and race him. Now,
all along from Lyresburg to Stok-
leyvillc a cinder-path runs by the rail
road, so that Jackson’s proposed attempt
to beat the train does not appear so wild a
venture as you might at first suppose it to
be. The appointed hour came, and the
whole town turned out to see the train
and the bicycler start, anti a telegram was
sent on to Stokleyville for ail the people
there to turn out al90 and witness the
termination of tho novel race. Well, the
moment for starting arrived, tlio whistle
sounded, thy train moved, and Jackson
was just about to mount, when suddenly
he flung h:s machine into the hands of
the telegraph clerk, who formed one of the
gaping crowd, and saying. ‘By gosh, I’ve
left my saddle-bag in the oflicc!’ he
rushed into tho operator's sanctum, fol
lowed by cries of ‘Look sharp! ‘Make
hast el’ etc. He wasn’t gone any time be
fore he returned, carrying the saddle-bag.
which he flung on to the handles of his
machine, and in half a second he " as
^losing up on the last car of the train,
which was already well under way. Now,
ljie people outside the telegraph office, of
course, could not very well ^*e aware of
the fact that Jackson understood teleg
raphy. nor were they aware ; iat t he oper
ator at Stokleyville was n bosom friend of
his. The following message, received by
the Stokleyville operator while the Lvres-
burg population were engaged in watch
ing the start of the race, would have
opened wider some already wide-open
eyes an 1 explained clearly why Jackson
came to leave his saddle bag in the opera
tor’s office:
“ ‘Lyresburg.
:g Bill.—Grease the railroad
“Da i;li >
two m Jc
later.
“The above was the
caused Bill Stone’s eyes
orate manner in which
on took
f Stokleyville. See you
“•Will Jackson.’
s the telegram which
to open also to a
considerable extent as he perused the cu-
rtons‘doc .intent in his offlee at Stokley-
vi l v ’Sill Imre the reputation of never
' np> j, i:\oinl to -pet h-ft.’ as he termed
it. s,, \va. sometninR peculiarly sub-
costive in t. ,
he folded up the dispatch nmi t
an hour and a half's leave oil from \yi>r...
“Well the train got the s.art of Jack
son. but before it gained any speed, he
h-ul uu’le ! np beside the last one of the
flitv ra-< 'vhcre lie determined to sink as
.ible. Now. the*engineer was
suade l timt tlie bicycler would
f:er live miles as he was of the
:1‘ he went much faster than
■s an hour along at least thirty
: roa 1 before him he would run
We of wrecking the rra.r,. So
•’ le-n-niil'-an-honr pace, and
- -ra in hack 10 tell the 'veioct-
' .. Now, Mr. you was ;
" lilteen miles an hour is noth- j every
1 , ■ eevcler. so Jackson fed
lnc . ' ' when he found the
Sneer's’ accommodating; but to
* ? J. C T.o:t of tlie fireman to wake
'.'.‘.i.-e-ed bv inquiring if the en-
up - "" ,'..<i 0 en» The fireman went
Srwa- l'b'V-engine and told the engin-
forva _ v ilie engineer said,
SJ:„n:M"; ! ni;.Vkv'tm: teilhim to puU
" c ". “ - • . .. .,W!„ he can. for we
re miles out of
“'Weil, what in thunder does it all
mean:' he sail; then lie walked forward
and nibbed liis hand over tiie mils, and
when he took it up it was covered with
dark grease.
-By this time nil the train hands eaTTie
running tip to see what was tiie matter,
and just as tiie engineer, who had nt last
taken in the situation, was about to open
on them the vials of his wrath, a dark
shadow passed along the side of the
track.
“ ‘Tlie bicycler! 1 shouted the whole
crowd. ‘The bicycler did it: hold liitn!
stop him!’ It was too late, however; they
might as well have tried to overtake a
limited express train going at full speed as
10 endeavor to catch onr friend dackson.
who had shot by them like a flash, for he
well knew that, though tlie engineer
could have nothing more than suspicions
as to who had played the trick, still lie
might, fancy that those suspicious would
justify liis taking out his revenge on his
cycling competitor. So, with a wild
whoop of triumph, Jackson shot by the
troop of train hands at a pace which de-
! tied any. pursuit which might lie attempted
on jfbtber Nature’s appliances for ioci.-
“lt would be futile to attempt to depict
the chagrin of the engineer, or the comic
ally nonplussed appearance of his compan
ions. After the first moment of surprise
had vanished, he and the fireman made a
rush for rite sand-box. but. as in the case of
01,1 Mother Hubbard and her cupboard,
when they got there tlie sand-box was
bare—thanks to the foresight of Jackson
and then, to finish up in rhyme, didn’t
they swear? Half an hour after leaving
the happy crowd Jackson rode intoStok-
ieyville, and tiie train steadied into tlie
town shortly after, amidst the hootiugs
and jibing* of tlie whole population, the
engineer and train hands being half dead
fronrthe effects of a prolonged explore,
tion fora sand-pit, and from their exer
tions in doctoring the fixed-up rails with
tiie i>oor apology for sand which they were
fortunate enough' to discover. And so.
gentlemen, most satisfactorily closed Will
Jackson’s ride."
“Thank yon, Mr. Xeckar." said the presi
dent; “and, gentlemen, before we ndjourn
I just wish to remark that otiournex:
meeting night we may, perhaps, have the
pleasure of Mr. Chris. Wheeler’s com
istny, when we must have Something from
him*"—Ninon Neckar in London Society
Boarder. Ralph Callender tound
imi tiie pleasantest path to the
m use lay tiir.,ug’i Lie IMl- flower-
garden, and when his jobs i.ftony-
iug'taiied to occupy his time, n. t.at
‘.ulii be more natural than to u.-e
ids leisure heit ing tiie blushing
ganinerV It its he who carried
away all tlie weeds, divided the
while peony roots and reset them,
and dug more thorough.y than
Rhetta ever could around tho dear
old rose-bushes. Over theii work
they fell talking, as young people
will, and already Rhetta’s father
began 10 watch them a Jilt
unx-
ml filled her heart with subtle
a; pines*. Bu! now it was
too, and— Oh, Mr. Callender, look!; vertin nil instant she had lost him.
There is Rose Porter row driving j RosePorter had taken him a way,
up the street in her p ray phaeton , tnd though he might come hack,he
Isn’t she lovely'?” | .nul l never, never be too same
As the jaunty basket phaeton 1 Ralph again. She felt a girlish eer-
moved slowly by, a bright, pretty I utility of that. The little bright
face glanced from if, smiling cor-i ‘ream was over,
t’ialiy at Rhetta, and then was over-j At first stie did not blame Rose,
spread by a look of sudden reeogni- Wry probably she had invert him
tion and pleased surprise ul sight of
Ralph Callender, who took his hat
off respectfully.
t wo years ago, and had b.-en influ
enced to give him up on account ol
is poverty, and now regretting the
“Why, do you know her?” asked -tep, had come to reclaim him.
Rhetta amazed. j “Well, I can take my turn, and
“I find I do. She and my sister j give him up too,” thought Rhetta,
Sally became great friends two j with great hot tears springing to
years ago at Newport—or was it j her eyes. “Only I can never drive
Nahant? And Miss Porter spent I after him and bring him back in a
trie holidays at our house the next: phaeton.”
winter. I thought it rau-the she, I And at that she threw liersell up-
wtieu you described her.” !on tlie dewy grass and wept un-
ltalph Callender paused and gaz- j restrainedly. She was too young to
ed reflectively at tnc ground, j be capable of the terrible, tearless
recalling that gay holiday season ] sorrow with which an older woman
when Rose Porter and his sister | may meet bereavement and heart-
were the bellesof their set. He j break. She only knew that eveiy-
, ould have counted liis friends tin n ' t diig had changed since morning,
By the hundred, and now—“P«v*- r- j t sal Ralph had gone away, th ;! she
iy does make a difference,” he j .vas very, very wretched, and that
thought, bitterly. Ail who had it • no one must know of it.
n their power to aid him had turn-! The tire-flies flashed in the grass,
ed the cold shoulder. He was situ-; the flowers were heavy witn dew,
ply a. poor man seeking employ-j t ie air was full of the fragiance of
ment, and he felt at odds with th> mignonette, heliotrope and rose
cause night is Hn- list t.me, and
they will get the <i. w."
“For tlie Etui ,-akes!” ejaculated
Yarn Dore-s. “Don't ye want the
intern?” _ •
“Oh, the moon is as bright as
i.v.’s.ii.i Rail-!:, AS he paused to
c'.o so a |.l :ee fra line blue sal- j
via.
“Weil! well!” the obi la :y ex
claimed; and then, us if she dimly
e ir.prehecded !hat s-omeihing in
the glamour of youth and romance
right make ita thing to hetiesired
• ■ dig in gardens at unusual hour?,
»he said no more, but went
quietly into the house.— Ihirper\*
jiazar.
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WOOD AND METALLIC BDEIAL CASES
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GENERAL NEWS-
Ion tr as pcs’
as fully pvr
give up ’■
fact tiist
twou.y mill
miles of i'- u ‘
a .-vat chat
he : at; « a
sea: :he •"
ri‘*>' r ' 'f. *”*
knmv .s”t
sat on the porch, while one of tlie
neighbors had remaiked privately
io Aunt Dorcas that it was a pitj
young Callender was not a man of
fortune as well as of family.
In truth, riches had taken unto
themselves wings and flown away
from theOailanders a year before,
-,!> that Ralph, instead of becoming
junior partner in an old and pros
perous business, saw nothing before
him but what his two hands could
earn, and being totally unprepared
for such a prospect, he had to lake
a little time t( get used to it, and
to find out which way to turn.
Meanwhile he had drifted to this
suburban town, and waiting to find
a situation tis clerk or accouutanl,
did coppying to support himseil,
and boarded at Rhetta’s.
It was the day they had been
transplanting touch-me-nots, and
Ralph had thrown himself down un
der the plum tree for a respite,
while Rhelta pulled the faded blos
soms from a primrose. He might
have been misanthropic enough at
that moment if lie had chosen, for
he last line of copying lay upon
Bis table finished, with not so much
as a hint of au order for any more.
Worse (ban that, a clerk’s place he
hud been hoping r or hart that, very
norning been given to another If
ie iuul got it, he could have spoken
to Rhetta nt once.
owe i her as she
I) nt ovi r tier plan!?,her garden bon
net dropping hack Irom her bright
brown hair, and his fingers sought
instinctively a :ililering ti nt hid in
his vest pocket. Tin old Callender
pride had come to this, tluil* he only
waited for the barest chance of be
anie te earn a living before he
offeted heart and hand to pretty
Rhetta Wood, whose bonnie face
was all her dowry.
But he could not help letting love
olor his words a little when lie
aid, presently, to Rhetta, as he
watched her: “When I make my
ortune, you shall have greenhous
es and hot b; ds, and gardens laid
out on terraces.”
“Like Colonel Porter’s?” laughed
Rhetta, blushing over her trowel.
Oh! have you ever seen his plate,
Mr. Callendir? It’s over on the
west side.”
“I think I have passed it,” at.-
Tlio Man AY ho Makes Tootnpicks. -
Yes sir I have n„d>toothpick nearly Uered the young man, indifferent
■II my life, and I reckon I have made j ly. “Big trees, three terraces, nb-
oreot them by hand than any ! Bon beds,and a peacock on the lawn;
is that the place
world.
Rhetta, grown suddenly shy, pull
ed away the dead leaves from a
pink root and said nothing. New
port ! Nahant! And people like the
Porters for intimate friends! Jl
seemed to remove Ralph from her
quiet, even life, and to set nim
where she had no part.
but Rhetta uid not heeti them. She
only felt that night was kind to
make suen darkness and solitude in
the garden that no one could set
ie-r or hear her,poor miserable little
Rhelta Wood,caring fora lest hap
j.iness that had never really bee!,
iiers. And now it seemed to he-
| that Ro-e was cruel, Irom tiie midst
The basket phaeton was now s en i <>f her wealth, her luxury, ami liei
returning down the street with its j dozens of lovers, to come swooping
pretty occupant, who stopped Iter'down upon this one elia ce of bliss
ponies opposite the c ttuge with i m a lifetime. For Rhetta was sure
.-.uch an evident intention to speak j that in all the years to come she
to Ralph Callender that he at once Uhou id never, never marry. Thai
went out ot the garden and stood in j was all over from this rime f6rth.~
the road at her side. Rhetta sttw j The crickets hummed about her,
them shake hands in tne most j the nightiuoths brushed by her
friendly manner,heard Rose’s musi
cal laughter and sweet voice, though
she could not distinguish the word
unhee .ed; the moon rose, but she
should live ail her life long in the
little old house. After awhile her
iind in a few moments more, to aunt Dorcas would die, and she
her surprise, Ralph stepped into tlie
phaeton, sal down by Rose, toon tbe
reins in liis hands and drove rapid
ly away, with a backward glance
arid smile, which to Rhe’ta seemed
to say: “She is an old friend, you
see!”
But when he did not come home
lo dinner she thought it strange.
Her father and Aunt Dorcas made
no comment, lor Ralph had often
been absent at the hour when seek
ing for employment. Rhetta did
not mention that he drove away
■ ith Rose Porter, but a neighbor,
who had watched them, came in
during tho af erno.ui and spoke
of it with great interest. Aunt
Dorcas at once felt a great interest
teo, and Rhetta found ilso trying to
listen to their remarks and surmis
es that she slipped out of the house
to her garden, and did hard weed
ing in her tiowei beds lor two hums
without sparing heiself. But si e
heard every step that passed by on
ould be left alone with her father.
Then after a while he too wouh
die, and she would live on there,
an old, lonely woman.
From tiiis reverie she was arous
ed by tiie stopping of wheels, and
cheerlul voices at the gate.
“Rhetta! Rhetta!” shouted souie-
Body in joyous, manly tones.
She rose to her feet in the moon
light, bewildered aijd uncertain.
Was she dreaming, or was it really
Ralph calling her?
“Rhetta, is that you under the
pluiutree? Come here for a mo
ment to the gate.”
“Yes, that was Ralph calling her.
W'ih girlish celerity she smoothed
Back her disordered hair,
and ran to the gate. There iie
stood, his arms titled with flowers,
which he loaded upon her, while
Colonel Porter’s coachman, who
had brought him home, was almost
staggering under tne weight
of an immense basket, full
the sidewalk, and knew that Ralph | (1 f bloom and fragrance, winch tu
up an-: ■•••"
will Bid in™
Stokle;. vili--.
“Th- ’ - ’
son. win.
engine’' 1
want .t •
the e:» v
laugh-
and to :
a sltg’
Over
mau.
behii: "
• ve the message to Jack-
iso back and tell the
wind,’ for he would
the race was up. When
1 Eiis second message he
.o-vn. to have a smoke
n the prospect of being
;in : ._T the next station.
then the fire
man. I make them out of fine-grained
\ .-»r.ng hickory and they just like ivory
u. ver use any other kind, and I have no;
• ot a decayed tooth in my head. I com
menced making these toothpicks when i
was a boy and have furnished them to
•dent for the inaugural dinner
, v m Andrew Jackson i i :he way down
io Grover Cleveland. Globe-Democrat In
ter wiew.
The Revised Version Is Superior.
The king of Siam has christened liis
t w-fcorn son George "V\ ashingt - v n. A re
vis on of the old answer to the question
■Who is George Washington? will run.
-The first in war. first in peace and firs
in the hearts of » he Siamese. " The re
,i<ed version wilil >e found superior u.
the old owing to tl; riynie it makes.-
New Y’ork World. ;
A messing j J IDC 1
The picnic is a* «ucient institution.
but i t has reached its full-blown maturity
on American soil. With 11 big bugs
und little bugs and red Lugs and hum-
it comes to us like water m a thirsty
ids&yjoo^
fit : . • Cs.:d the engineer,
■and don’t look behind again fort:.-- mxt “Lrit^lt *1 a
Yes; Isn’t it splendid!” exclaim
ed Rhetta. “I always go that way
when I takes walk by myself; and
oh! how I do iotig sometimes for
things I see the gardner throwing
away—slips and cuttings and roots
that he thins out. Perfectly lovely
things!”
“V y don't you ask him fur
the- . ’
. i n?” and Rhetta caught
,.e: : .. ai .i at the very Men of her
doing so audacious a tiling. “Why.
I wouldn’t dare.”
“Don’t you know them? —the fan.
ily. 1 mean.”
No; how could I? Rose Porter
Callender did not come.
The afternoon waned restlessly
tiway. He would surely come back
oy suppertime; and Rhetta, in
• fresh gown, with pansies at her
bsii, hummed little songs as she
moved about, setting tlie table for
Aunt Dorcas.
“I wouldn’t put on that dish of
honey,” said Aunt Dorcas—“not
till you see whether he’s coming.”
“Oh, he’ll come,” said Rhetta; but
she stopped singing.
Mr. Wood came in, washed his
face and hands at the sink and sat
down in his place at tlie table.
Aunt Dorcas passed him a cup of
tea.
“Where’s Callender?” he asked,
looking around.
“Why, haven't you heard?.” Said
Aunt Dorcas. “He drove off with
Rose Porter, and we haven’t caught
sight of him since.”
“The Porters are old friends of
his,” said Rhetta, flushing up.
“Hum! hum!” muttered her fa
ther, as he drank his tea from tlx<-
saucer. ip which he had cooled it.
Aunt 1‘oressnow questioned the
girl its ti»all she knew about this old
f iendship, and at tile close said,
with tlie air of one wiio .■•tea t
to do ln-r duty by ail, no matter In w
mercilessly: “Well, like as ie*t
they’d make a match of it. Birds
of a feather flock together.”
Supper was over, cleared awa; ,
and al! the dishes-washed, hut sti.i
Ralph Callender did not e
and I went to the same school, and
when she rides by and sees me she jit grew dark, Mr. Wood strolled
hows and smiles; but that isn’t be- j ro chat with the neighbors, a.i-i
ihg acquainted- She is as beautiful! Aunt Dorcas, puting on her bonm t
as a princess. It is the time tor her! and black silk shawl, went to th
ro be at home now; she has been in j weekly prayer me-jting. Rhett. ,
Washington all the spring.” left free from comment, west up in-
Ralph Callender made no answer. | to her litile garden, and leaned
He was busy weaving a true-love I against the plum tree, with a
knot of grass blades, and when it i strange dull pain gnawing at her
made haste to deposit on the garden
walk.
“Everything is here,” said Ralph,
irayly—“the geraniums, the day lii-
lies, the tea-rose bushes, and the
double violets. Roots, slips, cut
tings, all you wanted, you have
i hem now, and I’ll set them every
one out for you.”
“Oh, how beautiful! how beauti
ful!” murmured Rhetta, very softly
and gently. She was wholly over
come by this strange ending of her
passionate grief.
The c-iaehman departed, leaving
the two lovers alone in tiie moonlit
garden. Lovers they were, for
Ralph drew Rhetta to his heart,
a bile he placed upon her finger the
ring that had waited hidden in ids
pocket.
Yt-ukuow what this means, dar
ling?” he said fervently. “My
way is clear before me now. Colw-
ne! Porter has given me a chano
,n his business, beyond anything J
arid to hope. You don’t know
how hard it has been for i<>
-,i ait tilt 1 had a right to ask y .u to
1; y i.'Wii little Rhetta always —
always!”
Happy Rhetta! The moon ought
t.i have 1 tughc d right out to sa
lt w h r face changed, it was
ail n.iw of smiles and blushes.
Aunt Dorcas hurrying home an
hour 1;-ter, eager to e.vpi; i:i how
shehitdjjone to sit awhile with poor
old Mrs. Davis, who had sciatica,
was taken all aback byhearing :nt :-
ry voices nnder the plumtree, and
timin g Ralph and Rhetta ther'
.it work with trowels setting out
r ,cts and tying up plants.
“RosePorter sent me all these!’
xc'mimed Rhetta, triumphantly—
The Pennsylvania Democrats
nominated Chau ucey F. Black tor
Governor.
Seay-, Democrat, is elected Gover
nor of Alabama by a hundred
thousand majority.
Robert L. Taylor, Democratic*
nominee for Governor of Tennessee,
called on Secretary Lamar Satur
day and tendered his resignation
as Pension Agent at Knoxville.
The Board of Directors have fix
ed the price of admission to the
coming Louisville Exposition at fifty
cents, except on Saturdays, tth. n
ii will bu twenty-five cents. Season
ti
Fred Yeager a miser, living at
Mauckport. Ind., put $3,600 in a tin
can and hid it in an ice hutiae. Mr.
Yeager is now •$3,000 short and dont
know where it has gone.
The Louisville Exposition opened
Saturday.
Democratic speakers desiring
s me g.iiMi ammunition should
elite for ihe C;:uip;>i.u it ’ ik io
Ch .irman John E. K'nmi, i H
tr. et. Washing!! n, enchising t
• h.I r to p.iy ior it.
The President of U- agu ;y w
shot in the cheek Tuesday cvenit g
is h.- entered a theater m Monte-
c its in. Tha crowd at once fell up
on the would-be. assas-.in and be
labored him so fiercely t hat he soon
lied.
Crop reports from Arkansas are
uf an encouraging nature. Cot-
ton picking has begun, though i' is
not expected to become ganerai be
fore September 15. The yield prom
ises to lie greater than for ten years
past. The Corn crop is generally
good.
The new silver certificates au
thorized at the last session of Con
gress will not be ready for issue be
fore November 1. The $1 certificate
contains a vignette of Martha
Washington; the $2 of Gen Han
cock in full uniform and the $10 ol
Vice President Hendricks. Either
Gen. Grant or Gen. McClellan will
adorn the $5 certificate.
The Hon. Rabbit Bunch has been
nominated tor Principal Chief of
the Cherokee Nation, defeating
Chief Bushy-head, the present in
cumbent, whose followers contem
plate a bolt and an independent
race for their favorite. Joel May
ers is the nominee oi the Downing
faction anil is a man of education
and ability. The election occurs in
August, 18S7.
Exclusive of tlie damage to lum-
lier interests,the forest fires in Wis
consin are said to have dain-
ajert property worth $1,16-1,01)0. l it
number of homeless families is es
timated at 700 representing 3,500
people. The loss to the cranberry-
interest is put at $200,000. Cattle
and horses perished by the hundred
cither from thirst or suffocation. It
Joes not appear that any human
lives were lost.
A disastrous wind storm visited
Victoria, Texas, Aug. 20, leaving
destruction and desolation in iD
traek. Tlie wind blew a perfect
hurricane. About 7 o’clock tlie
East bound passenger train, whit h
was standing at the passenger de
pot,was blown over on the platforn .
Several passengers were on the
train,but all of their, escaped unir -
jured. The freight depot am! tie
Masoni Hail, two large imiMin.
r*- to ”' e
co lure! s •- c i i • i- ..u.«,-t
literally s.«cpt trom Hieo ar th. ] U0
church steeples were hi -.vn do-.v n
aud two chnrcoes unroofed ' i
High school building arid the jai
were considerably damaged; • if
gether there were ao.vn ~r, .
completely demolished and '
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more er less dan
ings escaped ;
most of tiie -!
were blown o.
were ti i—1 « i >
was entirely - ;?
i- r> mally i sum
citizens say th
terrible storm e-
toria.
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The great stern, it. i> xa?appears
to Be one "f the Ac - !.i.i., t . r j.
canes which very Irequ.-nsiy reach
our coasts in the Ir 1. r i-sif ii
August. r J't-e wo d '»u. i in do sr
irio-i, d-itii: re o eetiy us By piling
up the wat'-rs ot the gulf in br'oa:-
shallow h: ’s. The seaport it wri-
suffered fr in this cause, houses h-
ing undor nined or thrown dov ;
. , ?yth free of the waves. A goo
•‘sll this great basket/ul o! lovel -Lnanv conditions besides wind
=s and luxury, and we must set j foren are required toman u rjon
them every one out to-night, be- SJOv.iruetive as this has been.
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