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SUfflIM FOR LOVE.
“Mercy! Tie horrid tiling What shall
we do with him now?”
Miss Gardner andied the ten nth to a
wretched cral>, which we had discover
ed in cur peregrinations along the beach
and had succeeded after half an hunt’s
patient labor in extricating it from be
tween the huge atom s.
“1 am sure 1 don't know,’ said 1 ‘can i
wc put him into the boat?”
* 0!i dear no; he’ll crawl all around.
Resides we’ve got the boat I alf full of
shells and thing* already.”
"Well then, we’ll leave him behind.”
“No. we mustn’t. 1 want to keep him ,
I'll tell you what ; yon run up to tin
house and get a basket —that s a dear.
M ss Gardner turned her blue eyes to
ward mo in a way that was not to he
resisted' I became so exhilarated at
the sound that I immediately clapped
my hat over the unfortunate crab, told
the voting lady Jo put her toot on it, and
started away bareheaded toward the
boose at the top of my speed.
1 had run a dt zen yauls when the con
Viol inn that I was making a fool of my
self made nie stop and look back. Miss
Gardner sat on the side of the boat laugh
ing merely with the bewitching I t)tr
fmt on the rim of my hat, and waving
me on with her hand. So I dashed for
ward again.
For two months I had Leon pondering
what mysterious attraction it was drew
me toward this girl. She was very nret
ty but »i this time this was no enchant
went in try eyes. 1 was very charry of
pretty faces, and never, approached one
without a certain degree of suspicion.
My first meeting with Miss Gardener
was unpleasant. 1 felt that I almost
disliked her. She lad such grand ban
teur and seemed to feel such a serene in
difference to tny presence that my first
love was hurt. Hut at that time I was
a victim to an unbounded admiration to
my cousin Nellie a fancy which as the
summer wore on melted away with Mias
Gardener’s magnetic influence like snow
beneath the sunbeams.
t>he had come to tis in early June in
the capacity of a school teacher, when
(be meadows were green and covered
with a golden dust of dandelions. She
carried her leserve into the school room
with her too, and yet the children by a
potent spell were drawn to her at once
’VVhitburg iiad about as wild a set of
boys as any village in the country but I
don’t believe there w-as one of them who
would not have gone through fire and
water for Miss Gardener.
In consequence of this the female por
tion of the community called her “stuck
up” and little Polly l-anith whose mother
kept the post office at the Corners told me
quite confidentially one day that she
thought Miss Gardener was awfully c m
coited and put on great naira for a school
mistress.’ But when I come to know
Alias Gardener better, I found a blithe
some heart this cold exterior and
diacovered that after all she was as met*
ry a minx when occasion required as
any other girl in Whitburg So by de
press I learned to like her, aid it soon
became quite a regular thing for Nellie
to ask her to join us in our afternoon
etrole*. Ala-1 before the summer was
gone, poor Nellie herself was left out of
out calculations entirely.
I Lad a slim suspicion— I know not
b w it came, nr up n what it tested
that Mies Gardner had passed through
i the ordeals of what the French call an
| affair of the heart. About tbe middle of
: July my conviction was verrified by the
j appearance of a dark complexioned cav
alry Captain who registered his name
on the tavern books a* plain John Smith
This interloper on my rightful domain bo
sooner established himself than he com
menced courting the school mistress with
all bis military might slid ferocity. His
advent brought home to me that I had
a deeper feeling for Mias Gardener than
; mete regard. I met litem «*no moon’ight
• night returning from a drive along the
; beach; and as they rolled past a great
j throb of iny heart told me that hence
j forward there was to he a struggle for
victoiy between myself and the cavalry
captain.
Thus matters stood nt present, and 1
turned them over in niy mind as I w tided
through the clover tops and crossed the
long meadow below the house. It was
a sunny dreamy August day. The elms
along the road dropped their branches
listlessly to the lit-;:t and the sun shom
like a silver shield. The captain had
gone falling and I had taken the oppor
tunity to ask the little school-mistress
to go rowing with me. .She assented for
it was her half holiday; and so we’ row
ed loisuu-ly around the point to the
beach where we had just now found the
ciub, and where incredibly »s it may
seem she lead actually called me dear.
“Aunt Mary,” said 1 when I reached ,
the door, “I want a basket.”
“What for?” she asked.
No one ever laid down a proposition j
to Aunt Mary that she did not reply by
asking either “which” or “what, for?”— j
it was a weakness she had.
This time I laughed in her face.
“Well,’’ she said snappishly, “the only
one I know of that ain't in use Uncle j
llezkiah’s has got down to the cove I
chimin. That one's in use tew .”
1 turned away and rumaged success
ively the barn the coni crib in the fruit j
less search for something that would an- j
swer my purpose.
1 had offended Aunt Mary by not an
swering her question and she would give
me no assistance. Finally after nearly
an hour’s delay as a last resort I seized
the water pail and started down to the
beach.
When 1 arrived at the spot I- bad leftl
looked up and down the shore but I
could see nothing but my hat, which, pro j
pelled by some unseen power, was slow
ly and laboriously traveling up the bench j
The boat was gone. 1 recovered my
tile and in so doing liberated our ugly
captive, on whose account I bad already
been put to so much tr mble. But where
was Miss Garde nei? Was she playing:
a trick? Ilai.’ ti e cavalry captain made j
a coup d'etat in my- absence and carried ;
her off. Neither ofthesc things seemed
likely hut where was she?
I ran along the sand and mounted a ;
great roc-k which jutted out into the wa
ter. In a great deal of distress I shaded
my eyes with my hand and gazed earn - (
eslly !ar and neat over the sleepy shin,
ing sea. Ah 1 could that* he her? the i
black spot upon the watei ? Yes for :n ,
n moment more I could distinguish tl e
waving of the handkerchief. There ]
could be no one with her and it needed
hut little reflection to convince me that
the school mistress was alone in the.
boat and was drifting out to tea.
Still I was pnzzeled to know if it was
that she had let herself float hopelessly
away from the shore without an effort to
save herseif; for I knew that Miss Gard
tier was almost as good a sailor as I.
However there she was at all events;
and I ran up and down the shores sever
a! times in a state of semi distraction. I
There was not another boat within miles'
and every second of delay separated un
fa rther from my life. At that moment:
I knew how much I loved her.
At last in utter desperation I threw
off my coat and boots and waded into ,
the water. I had been an excellent
swimmer fiom boyhood and withso 1
smooth a sea and the tide running out 1 .
felt hopeful of gaining the boat.
I swum steadily on uutil I was tired,
and then turned over on my back toj
rest. It seemed an age before I reach
ed the school mi-tress and I became so.
tnoronglily exhausted was several i
times on the point of letting myself down
in despair. Then the thought of sharks
came over me and I became seized with
a wild panic arid I swam as though swim
ruing for my life as at last I really was.
I had gone so far from shore that to re
. tu:n was impossible and I ku- w (hat (be
HESE SHALL THE MESS THE PEOPLE'S EI3HTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY FSA3 AND UNESIBED BY GAIN.
QUITMAN, GEO., MAY 28. 1809.
only chance for my own salvation was
to reach the boat.
As I neared it I saw the poor little
schoolmistress in the agony of supplica
tion. By my direction she retired to i In
farther side while 1 climbed in then fell
suddenly down at my feet sobbing bit
terly.
"There,” said I, “you are quite safe
now.”
“Alas, no,” she said. “You will be
one more. YVbat hope is there for eith
er of us.”
I looked around the boat and tny heart
sank within'roe. Not a thing did it con
tain besides ourselves. The oars had
bceu left on shore.
! “There is hope w here life is," 1 re
■ plied.
: 4 The flood tide will surely carry os
back again.”
\Ve could do nothing hut sit still and
1 wait its turning. I tried to lead Alias
f Gardners attention a way from our fear
ful situation and with lint end in view,
I. talked of other things 1 told her
stories. 1 quoted poetry; we criticised
the last books we had r,ad; we discuss
ed botany, geology, and philosophy; we
sang song together and when tired of
all these tilings we made puns at each j
other, and laughed till tears rolled down
our cheeks. The sun descended into the !
sea a scarlet fiery ball and the stars
caine out in countless myriads and we!
saw the glittering armies form together j
ad ake up their march through spate :
Under the glorious dome of night wc
drifted out upon the darkening sea.
I was wet and cold, and so tlu; little
school mistress modestly removed one j
of her skirts and insisted on wrapping it.
abont my shoulders. I told her that we I
would divide the night into watches, and
that mine should be the first ; but she J
stoutly declared thal we would watch ’
together. Before long however, her eye-j
lids began to droop dcteimination gave
way to nature and Miss Gardener leaned
her head against me and fell fast asleep j
For the first time in my life I clasped j
her tightly in my arms. We were alone]
beneath the stars, drifting helplessly out
upon an unknown sea, but I would not ;
have exchanged those precious moments
for the happiest one I had ever passed
on shore, nor would I fora kingdom lose
my repentance of them now.
It was nearly midnight when she un
closed her eyes and looked up into my
face.
“Where are we?” she asked.
“We’re afloat, we’re afloat,” I said, !
and cheerily tried to strike up “A life on j
the Ocean Wave.”
She smiled faintly, but lay iu my
arms quite still.
"Has the tide turned yet?”
“1 eipect it lias; but it don’t seem to
make much difference to us.”
“Is there nothing before us, then?”
“I see nothing hut watei,’ said I, look
ing room.-
“And death.”
"And death!” I repeated. "But death
with you will be sweet. Forme life a
lone is nothing.
I bent down over her more closely.—
She made no reply; but her little hand
stole gently and softly into mine.
“For all time?” I asked.
"For all time?” she said, ’whether we !
live or die.”
Now might the witpls and waves do
their worst. Now might the heavens
fall on the earth and stand still- Wiiat
would it matter to me.
We were floating, liiating silently on,
but ia the depth of my joy I cared n >t
It was intoxicating—delirium. Had 1
the means, I would not have returned.
So I sat still, holding Lei closly to mo,
and showering kisses on heriips.
The night tad seemed scaioe begun
before morning had painted her first:
gray streaksacioss the east. By our!
united exertions, we succeeded in teat
iug off one of the long cleats from the :
side of the boat, and after an hour's la- '
bor, succeed ng in raising ii m the bow
with tbe skirt stretched across it for a >
sail which, after all, was not so much \
of a sail as a signal of distress. I now
began to feel the tumires of a raging
thirs'; but nty companion was so sjli l
and uncomplaining, I felt ashamed to
say anything of my misery.
Slowly,step by step, tire sun mounted .
the stairs of day, aud the sea became I
hot aud burned our eyes. The land had !
Vanished iu the night aud we were alone I
upon the barren waste of waters.
At last toward neon, I spied far upon
the horizon a tiny white speck, aLd we i
‘sat vratch'ng breathlessly ns it earns
nearer and nearer. In an hour my
j straining eyes detected the white wings
j of a yacht, and the little school-mistress
, plied me with a hundred eager ques
j til Q '.
Did 1 think they would see us ? Was
cinr sail big enough or our mast high
enough ? Would they not he likely to
puss by and leave us? How far off were
they? How loug would it tuke them to
reach us?
Our fears Were soon put to rest for the
yacht suddenly altered her course a little
and bore straight down upon us. The
wind was very light and it seemed a
year before it came within bailing dis
i lance. On the deck stood a tall man j
j whom I recognized at once as the c-aval- !
:ty captain. Strange as it may seem the i
| old feeling came back to me in a quick I
J hot flush and I wished him aud his yacht,
■ at the bottom of tile sea.
; “Hallo tnv buy! Take this line,” he i
shouted cheerily, throwing a coil of rope i
across to me, while the vessel luffed up :
into the wind.
I made him no reply, but sat motion-I
less.
“Zounds, man !” he continued, “arc
you deaf? What’s the matter with you?*
; The boats drifted together, *nd he
reached down and made fast to us with
a boat hook. Then he lifted my school
: mistress up over the side, and to my ut
; ter astonishment she immediately threw
: her arms around his neck and burst into I
!tears.
“lie's my brother,” she said laughing
and crying together, and with this ex
planation 1 was satisfied.
1 was so stiff with salt water and ex- j
posure that 1 c u lei searcly move. The ]
captain helped me tcudeily into the cuh-|
in and put me to bed, while I resigned i
my companion to his care wit i a couti- !
deuce as sudden as it was implicit,
It is nearly three years since I made
my memorable voyage with the school j
mistress.
We live together now in a little cut- !
(age overlooking the bench where she
first called me dear; and the incidents ol
that eventful afternoon and the follow
ing night have today been vividly
brought back to my remembrance, by
the reception of two neatly engraved
wedding cards, whereon was inscribed I
the name of the calvary captain and my I
cousin Nellie.
A wounded soldier was riding, a short -
time siueo, in one of the Third Avenue j
cats, New York, where ho was comfor- i
lahly seated. A lady entered the ear,
and as the seats were all fit:l the soldier
gave her his seat, After tiding sortie
distance the lady got up to go out, when
a gentleman standing by remarked that
she lud forgotten something. .She res
pondi and that she was not aware of hav
ing done so when the gentleman remark
ed that she had forgotten to thank- the
wounded soldier for giving her his seat.
* Senator Sumner called uL the While
House to see the President last work, but
j Mr. Dent, the chief usher, having carried
■ up liis card returned with the remark
that he would have to wait fifteen min
uti s. Mr. Sumner said he would not
wait fifteen minutes for Napoleon, Vtc
to iaor any one else, and that when Air.
j Grant wanted to see niru he could send
j for him. With that he withdrew in a
j rage and told a friend that the White
House was nothing but a military camp
j The animal kin.wn us a “fast boy" i.-
; thus apostrophized: Smart youth! You
arc going it with a great rush—you
' are outnumbering you. years. You have!
slipped your collar, wild colt, broken j
! ’oose from all parential restraint. You :
: determined not to tarry in Jericho till
your beard be grown; and so you dash 1
i into the world as if yon had been through ;
it a dozen times and knew every crook ]
and turn from one end to the other. II
you can drink rum, chew tobacco and;
swear like a trooper, while just entering ,
upon your teens I hardly know what you I
will be best qualified for when you get !
into ilie middle of your tjtiea. V’erily j
you will probably go either to Congress
or the State Prison—and it mat ers but |
little wh ch, so far as your own good is
concerned. Solicitous f itherl—auxi -ns
mother, io k np >u that b’boy aud weep !
Progress.
Madam, at what pi ice per yard do von
sell this broadcloth?’ asked William Pen
I nington of a fair Miss.
“Five dollars sir ”
I ‘ You are a little dear.”
“Yes replied the blushing mtiden, so
all the yoong men tell me.”
Savannah Houses.
W. J. WALSH,
WHOLESALE DEALER IN
DRUGS, MEDICINES,
CHEMICALS,
Patent Medicines,
Perfumery, Fancy Goods,
SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS, :
TItr.MSES,
I PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES,
Io o Stuffs, Garden Seeds, Ac.
FINE WINES AND LIQUORS,
SOUTHEAST CORNER BROUGHTON AND
BARNARD STREETS,
Savannah, Georgia.
February 19. 18U9. 6 ly
Edoar L. Gi'kkaito. Edwird L. Hoi.Cesuja.
MRIRD & HOLMBii,
FACTORS,
General Commission & Shipping
KERCHANTS,
No. 5 Stoddard’s Lowur Raage, Hay St.
SA VANN AH GEORGIA.
AGENTS FOR THE
Best Fertilizers in Use.
8. 8. STRICKLAND, A**nt
February 19. ISflfl. ly
! SAVANNAH - MACHINE WORKS.
S. W. GLEASON,
I Suprar Mil's, Sugar Pans, Gin Gear. Shafting, Pul
j leys, Iron Railing, Iron and Brass Castings. 1
1 Portable and Stationary Steam Engines, and Ma
chinery of all kinds.
St. Juliitn Street,
S A VAN NAIT G EORGIA. !
February 19, 1889. 5-ly
D. FALVEY.
DKaI.KR IX
EVERT VARIETY
, (,f
’’L? *■<«*«* m
a Ml •ifM i8 i
153 Broughton St.,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. ■
nAS IN T STORE a large and varied assort--
meat of 3 I
MAHOGANY, WALNUT, ,
CHESTNUT AN I) ENAMELED
psb ■33 Ta H| ni’ , *a 9
Tables Sc Bureaus,
Os Every Style and Pattern
_CHAIRS,
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, dC., dC.
I Fflbraary i9. 18U9. 6ni
i! (I III; It TV & TILIJIN,
Commission Merchants,
! North aide. Bay St., 2nd door West of Exchange,
SAVANNAH, CA.
| Hiram Rokkrt.s, Savannah, Jorkhi Tim man *
i I>. L. Robkkts, “ Madison co., Fla.
oct 10-14168 30-1 j
CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED
OF EARLY*
SPEIS6 tITSEB. SIHS. 4?.
For Bale here, or shipment North, on which
IA I 15 K K AL A DVANCES
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Also solicits shipments of
MIM/W.1.V1) H’OOL,
I For which the Highest Market Price will be paid,
and no commissions charged.
E. TV. Wt CM HON'D & TiRO..
Commission Merchants, lot liuy st. i
| Savannah. April 9,1869. fnl
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JUST FROM CUBA!
O, FOB. OOEMCHEII
THAT QUESTION SETTLED. \
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V_> Buy your Cheap Sugars, pay your Green
backs freely, and he will show you
110 RACE GREELEY.
you mind !! Call agaio at!
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oN WHITAKER STREET, SAVANNAH, GA.,!
Where tho Cars will stop and take vo » in.
April 9, 1869. 12-lra
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JOH\ ESTE.t COOK’B HEW HOVEL.
C. J. Huntington A C 0.,!
459 Broom St., New-York,
Have in Press, to he readv in October,]
IVSOHUN:
Or, Tho LAST DAY3 OP LEE aad HIS PALADINS
By J. EsTty Cook.
Author of ‘ Surry of Eagles’Nest.’
Os “Surry.” of which Mohun is a Sequel, Ton j
thousand copies wore almost immediately soi l. •
Tho i \ow work is still more intensely inutroalkig. I
Pi' nto I on flue toned paper, and rich I v bound in
cloth, with upwards of 500 p>.ges, it has for its j
frontispiece a find steel medallion bead of Gen j
| Lee, and four beautiful illustrations ic Homer’*
! best style. Either book, is sent by aaii. post
free, na receipt of tho price. $2.25. For sale by
j ail Booksellers sad ssJws ,# n town and
country. m er*?
[53.00 per Annum
NO. 19
P.H.BEHN,
Cotton Factor,
—AND—
j GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANT;
Fir it door West of Exchange.
Bat Strrkt, I 'ava*xah, Gl#,
j octlti-’6B 36-ly*
! wa. u. tmo.v. wm. w. <k>kpo».
TISOX & GORDON,
Cotton Factors
AND
! (Central Commission Ulcrrjranfs,
9G Ray J'treet, Savannah, Gko.
Bagging, Rope or Iron Ties advanced oa crops.
Liberal advances made oa conaigaiuvaM
of Cotton.
Grateful for liberal patronage in the past,
ry effort will he made to continue w merit pafc
lic confidence.
October 2. 1868. Cm
S. S. MILLER,
BEIT.gR IS'l P
if_Jl A 110 Ct SI ¥, VUICT AJD Plltjg
F UK N ITU RE,
TRENCH AND COTTAGE
| BUD SniDUOBUK
MattraKßCri made to order.
No. 157 Broughton Stmet,
i SAVANNAH, GEORGIA,
! a)>l4 Iv
M. M. SULLIVAN~
DEALER IN*
Siia<L and all kinds of Fish*
In their Season,
Oysters, Game, etc.,
.Vo. 1 Hi Buy Lane,
SAVANNAH, GEO.
motto is : Justice to all.
j £.-o**Orders from the country will be proujpi
■ ly and carefully filled. ’ nov22-u
J. BERRIEN OLIVER,
i Central Commission itlcuhnf,
No. 97 Bay Struct, (over Wilcox, Gibbs A Cos.
SAVA NA Nil, GEORGIA.
December 4, 1868. I v
FDRffITUBE HOUSE.
JOHN M. WITT,
Caliiiicl Milker sUiulcrtakiT,
QUITMAN, CA.
fIT.AKES pleasure in notifying tho
jL citizens of Brooks and adjoining paaßsflS'
i Counties, that he bus eHtabl'u bed
1 Quiiman. a regular i-i»i titi*o Mn ti«
uliietory, and is prepared to put up te
! order—
! BUREAUX, BEDSTEADS, SECRETA
RIES, SIDEBOARDS, TABLES,
WARDROBES,
: and everything needed in the Furniture Pfftr, aa«f
in any «f) k» required.
An experience of many years. justifies him in
assuring the public that his work will! give saii»-
faction in every respect; and prices will com
pare favorably with those of Savannah or «l*e
vvliere, with this.important advantage to the pur
chaser : every piece ol Furniture leaving hie e#*-
tttblishnient will be wamuited.
Hepuiring done with neataea*
j and dispatch.
IJißlißTllrslslim
In connection with the Furniture btodncaa, Lo
is also conducting that of UNDHtt PAKHIt. and
will put up, on very short notice, any descrip
tion ofGOFFIN Plain or Ornamented, ueaily
trimmed, and mounted, if desired.
A general assortment of Coffins always kept
on hand.
fl&r Prices as moderate as possible.
WANTED.
T am in need of ;i large quantity of SEA*
SONED LUMBER, smViw Red j£y,
limit. < berry Maple, iilaew Walnut, Ac., As.,
for which a liberal price will he paid.
JOHN M. WITT.
Qnilinan, Ga.. .fan 22, LSU9. Its
Dll. D. L. ricks,
OF THK ORIGINAL JfIRM OF ,«B.
DJENTISTS,
WRIGHT & KICKS,
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[Aow K«i>i(lriit of i '/ e f ->
eisasiAs-
I ecif«ll|r tolicite the patronage »>f the citizens of Southwest Georgia and Florida.
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