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HOME OF THE PAST.
BY XVaKAOBUKX.
:o:
“Mocked by the memories of home,
Yet homeless everywhere ”
Sweet cottage home among the hilla.
With saddened lips I sing thy praise !
How fondly now doth memory ti rn
To thee, thro' all time's shadowy haze.
'Twas there that Spring first spread abroad
The sweet breath es her violet* low ;
And there the earliest roses shed
There dewy sweets beside the door.
There locust* spread their graceful boughs,
And lightly clasped the sloping eaves;.
And wild-birdH came on early wing
To build and sing amid the leaves.
There sunshine touched with golden grece
The dainty faces of the flowers;
There soft rains fell, and silvery dews,
And joy and light marked all the hours
And the old garden where we walked,
Beside the corn, on Antumn eves,
To watch the moon glide np the sky,
When all was silent save the rustling
leaves;
Or the faint ory of droning insect near ;
Or mellowed cadence of a distant bell
Broke the sweet silence of the charmed
hour— •
Hours to which I've said a last farewell.
And sweetest of all the twilight time,
When from the woodland's wintry walk,
Wa gathered round the glowing hearth,
And whiled the hours with happy talk ;
O sad to one who sits alone
It ia to muse on vanished hours;
To bear life’s Bilence and its pain—
To feel the thorns and miss the flowers.
0 little home among the hills !
Sweet home I loved in days of yore :
Between me and thy cherished paths
Sad graves their dreary shadows throw.
No more among the roses oould I stray,
Nor sit where fragrant shadows fall;
Nor linger in the woodland paths I loved,
For the blight of change now darkens all.
Atlanta, May Bth, 1876.
AN OLD SONG.
You laugh as yen turn the yellow page.
Os that queer old song you sing,
And wonder how folks could ever see
A charm in the simple melody
Os such an old fashioned thing.
That yellow page was fair to view.
That quaint old type was fresh and new,
That simple strain was our delight.
When here we gathered, night by night,
Aud thought the poetry oi our day .
An endless joy to sing and play,
In our youth; long, long ago.
A joyous group, ,w« loved, to meet, ;
When hope was high and life was sweet;
When Romance shed it* golden light,
That circles in a nimbus bright,
O’er Time’s unwrinkled brow.
The lips are mute that sung these words;
The hands are still that struck these chords;
The loving heart is cold.
From out the circle, one by one,
Some dear companion there has gone ;
While others stay to find it true,
. That life has chord and discord, too,
And all of ns are old.
’Tis not aloue when music thrills,
The power of thought profound that fills
The soul. ’Tis not all art!
The old familiar tones wo hear
Die not upon the list’ning car;
They vibrate in the heart.
And now yon know the reason, dear,
Why I have kept and treasured here
This song es by gone years.
You laugh at the old fashioned strain—
It brings my childhood back again,
And fills my eyes with tears.
A KIND ACT’S KEWAUJ).
“How can I give you up, my darling?
Oh ! that I was rich ! I’d cling to you
though all the world opposed our union!
At times I am tempted to forget every
thiug but my love, forsake all but you.
What shall I do Alice ?”
“Your duty, Frank 1 If your mother
had other sons or daughters to care for
her, then you and I might think of our
own happiness. As it is, there is but
one course, and that is plain enough.
Cling to your mother. Aud I must go
on working to support mine. Oh, it is
so hard, that we are called on' to make
this dreadful sacreffce ! But I cannot
blame your mother. It is quite natural
that she is unwilling to receive a seams
tress as her daughter.” Her eyes were
filled with tears, her voice with sobs, as
she continued : “And, though a seams
tress, I am a loving and uutiful daugh
ter, and would be a true and faithful
wife—”
They were walking up and down the
platform of the station, waiting for the
cars. Frank stopped suddenly, oaught
her hand exclaiming ;
“Alice I can’t do it! I love you I I will
marry you—”
“And make everybody wretched ? No!
Bay no more, Frank, or you will make
me so weak and miserable, I shall be
nnable to bear up. I hear the cars. Go
home—do your duty, and trust the fu
ture to God’s loving care.”
The tram came dashing alongside
them. Her hand was in his, her lips
raised to receive his kiss,' for the last
time; perhaps, and with “God bless
you” from both, in Borrowing tones,
they parted.
The oars were much crowded, every
seat on the river-Bide taken ; but Alice’s
sweet face won her the offer of more than
one before she had advanced half way
down the car. She turned her head, after
thanking the gentleman for his kindness,
toward the window, not to enjoy the
beautiful scenery, but to conceal the
tears which continually filled her eyes,
as over and over her mind wandered
back to the many happy hours with
THOMSON, feMAT 17, 1876.
Frank, when both hearts were so full of
hope ; and now this was the end of it.
She was won from her sad thoughts
by the entrance of several passengers at
a station, when to accommodate an old
lady, ahe coaxed a little four-year old
girl who occupied part of the next seat
to come and ait in her lap. Before they
reached the next station Alice noticed
the old lady draw her slight wrapper
more closely about hej, and turn from
the window with a visible shiver. The
old gentleman sitting next lowered the
glass with a countenance not expressive
of great satisfaction, his neighbor
shivered on. Alice unfolded her shswl
and wrapped it about the thin, shaking
form. Everybody seemeA either so much
interested in the grandeur of the view
just along there, or in ft and
book, save by Alice old gentle
men, who, when he saw how really ill
she was, handed to Alice a pocket-flask,
suggesting the beneficiebt effect its con
tents might have, at the [same time tak
ing the little child and resigning his seat
that Alioe might better care for the old
lady.
Long before they reached New York
the fever hod come on, and increased so
violently that Alice, becoming very anx
ions, called the oonduotor, and asked :
“What shall I do ?’.’
“Who is she ? Where are her friends?”
were the questions in answer, not only
from the oonduotor, but passengers near,
who had at length become interested.
But Alioe knew, nothing of her. No
one near knew e reu her name. She was
then delirious and unable to tell. The
conductor suggested tlj&Jiqfipital. If
Alice had decided thus‘to l.jave relieved
.her embarrassment, she would have been
deterred wheu the hot, which
lay in hers, with a convulsive moment
clasped her wrist, while th;< eyes, wild
aud frightened, were gazing into hers.
"I eaunot desert her. Shu seems to
be pleading with me,” Alice said.
They hud arrived at Fprty-second
street. The passengers were leaving the
cars. A few lingered n montent to in*
quire about the sufferer.
“Your mother ?” asked some. And the
good girl shook her head and answered:
“I never saw her before to-day.”
And to “What will you do ?l' she re
turned ; 1"- -
“The best I oan.”
Yes, and spe meant juatj* SbeyhaAi
been tempted to lea’ *crfse ‘entirely
to the conductor’s disposal. "I have
enough sorrow of my own, without bur
dening myself with other persons,” she
thought. But in a little while her gen
tle heart, so tender and unselfish, tri
umphed ; and slio determined, as she
had said, to do the best she oould for the
sufferer.
The conductor procured a carriage and
assisted Alioe with her charge into it.
To her boarding house tbs poor little
seamstress directed the driver, aud then
sat down to look the case square in the
face. For the board, her landlady would
wait payment she knew ) but for the
physician’s fees, medicine, and whatever
else would be heeded, money must be
had. How could she raise it ? Her in
come was barely ’ suflicient’+e defray her
own expenses, and support her widowed
mother and invalid sister in the most
humble way.
Poor Alice 1 She had one article, and
only one, that she could dispose of, and
realize a sufficient sum to be of any help
in this emergency. It wax a pearl ring—
a very handsome one, sad Alice’s sole
vanity. It was given her by Miss—-,
who was very much impressed, not
only with her skill and faithfulness, but
likewise her gentle, refined manners.
It was a sore trial, but Alice decided
the ring must go.
Immediately after putting u«.r charge
into her own bed, she sought her landla
dy and told her story. The good woman,
although she chided her fer having taken
this additional burden, called her a dear
good girl, aud said : j,
“God will reward you, surely, and I
will help' you what % can.”
Alice had but a very xhort time to de
vote to the sufferer. She hurried out,
disposed of her ring, obtained the service
of a physician, and returned with him
to take the prescription, and have it put
up.
Poor girl ! she had had no moment to
spare to her own sorrow ; indeed, it was
comforted very much, if not entirely
forgotten, by her efforts to soothe and
care for the sick stranger, her heart felt
lighter than she ever thought it could
again.
Alioe had a plenty of work from tlie
best class of patrons, and received liber
al pay. But she was suddenly summoned
to her mother, who was extremely ill.
This separated her from her charge. But
the old lady was convalescing ' rapidly,
and the kind hostess promised to take
good care of her. When Alice offered
to shale with her the reward O.f her labor,
Aunt Margaret, as she had asked to be
called, said :
“I have a little money with me, and I
have friends whom I can ask to send me
sufficient to pay my.board.”
She parted with the sweet girl, who
she declared had saved her life, with
many blessings and many tears.
Alise found her mother “dying,” all
said, and, kneeling beside her, she re
solved Dever to leave her side again.
But her mother did uot die ; yet a long
time elapsed before she was restored to
health, and nearly all of Alice's money
was spent. The winter was on them ;
there was no provision for it. Their
little Btook was very nearly exhausted.
This was the gloomiest period of Alice's
life. Oue after another attempt to earn’
a support failed.
Her little sister Lilly was- very ill. At
last the darkest day came. Not a dollar
was left. The last flour was in the oven;
the last tea in the pot. And the poor
girl sat with her head buried in her
hands, praying for strength and guid
ance.
She was aroused by a feeble voios,
calling ; •
“Allie ! Allie 11 am so cold !"
She arose, and taking the pale, sickly
little one in her arms, wrapped her shawl
about her and said, with a quivering lip;
“Put that wood in the stove, mother.
Lilly is shivering.”
“It is the last, child,” the mother be
gan Baying.
But Alice urged her;
“Mother, Lilly ie too cold. We must
warm her now, and trust to our Father
for more.”
“Are you so veryoold, my darling ?”
the loving girl asked, pressing the little
form closer to her own, and looking
down into the pale, wan face to see how
plainly it told of poor and insufficient
food. ®
“Yes, cold, and so hungry too,” whis
pered tho little one, piteously.
"Oh, Father in Mercy, help ms!”
Alice criod. “Father of the Fatherless,
hear my prayer 1”
She placed the ohild in a chair closer
to the stove, and was turning to prepare
her frugal supper, when a loud knock
caused Iter to turn and open the door.
A business-like looking individual,
without further biddiug, walked in.
Presenting a chair to Alice, and seating
himself, he said :
“Miss Kent, I believe—Miss Alice
Kent ?"
Alice bowed her head in answer, her
face expressing much wonder and a little
anxiety,
“Miss Kent, I have tho honor and
pleasure of informing you that by the
lxst will and testament of Margaret
Browuton, you are the sole heir to her
estate.”
k shook her, head, with a aigji of
regret escaping her lips,
“Yon are mistaken. I am not the
Alice Kent. I never knew any such per
son.”
Tho lawyer, laughing, said ;
“My dear young lady, you can’t escape
the burden that has been cast upon you.
But if you will trust me as your deceased
friend did for many years, I will try to
make the burden as light os possible. In
other words, I should be pleased to serve
, you in any way connected with my pro
; session. I was Miss Brownton’s legal
' advisor, and wrote her will. You are
| the young lady who nursed her through
, her illness in New York ?”
“No, no. That person was poor, vary
poor,” Alice interrupted him, saying.
But at length she was convinced. With
her heart overflowing with joy and grat
itude, notwithstanding the presence of a
stranger, she caught Lilly to her breast
saying ;
“God has answered my prayer! My
darling, you shqll grow well and strong
now. Only try to keep up a little longer,
and Alice will never let you be cold or
hungry any more.”
The keen eye of the lawyer wandering
over the scene, perceived, before Alice’s
■words explained, tidings. Tak ng from
his pocket book a hundred dollars, he
handed it to Alice, saying :
“Miss Kent, it is necessary you should
come to the city at your earliest conve
nience. Allow me to advance a trifle for
your use until then.”
“A trifle ! Why, this is a fortune. It
is life to those so dear.” Alice exclaimed
thanking the kindhearted, aa she bade
him good bye.
Scarcely had he gotten out of sight,
ere Alice ran down to the village store.
Lilly was warmed and well fed that
night; yes, and won to smiles by the
bright piotures Alice painted for her of
the happy futnre. Gleeful as a child
was the dear girl as she laid her plans to
make so many happy.
Os course the news flew swiftly
enough ; and those who had treated so
ooldly the poor little seamstress, smiled
pleasantly enough on the wealthy heiress.
Weeks grew into months, but the one
for whom her heart waited came not. At
length, wearied with vain watching, Al
ice said :
“Dear Frank, I know his heart yearns
to oome, but bis mind leads him astray.
Ob, be does not kuow me. Well, it is
full time I were looking to my own hap
piness and then, like a sensible girl,
she sat down and wrote to Frank to
come.
Ee lost no time in doing it, you may
be sure ; yet there was much embarrass
ment in bis manner until Alioe, putting
her hand in bis, said :■
“Talk to me as you did a year ago,
Frank.”
‘ 'Can I forget the changes since then,
Alice !” be asked.
“I am not changed, Frank. Now, as
then, I am yonr promised wife,” she
•aid, her eyes full of love, looking into
NO. 20
Ilia.
•‘Call you mean it, darling ? How cai
yon forgive the past—my mother’s nn
kindneta ?”
“Frank, I love you,” washer auswer
as she nestled herself closer within hi*
encircling arm, and then tx-gau weaving
plana for tbeir future, in the happiness
of which hia mother a as to share as hers.
“Just to think,” she said, “of the lit
tle act of kindness bringing such reward
—such happiness 1”
[tors.NAi> tuiiii sruAiiLAvuj
PIN ANC'IKS.
m
Harlem. Ga., May 12, 1876,
Messrs. F.imoiis :
Please allow me space in yonr paper
for a few remarks on the subject of the
Panic; not that I presume to do it jus
tice, however.
By most, writers King Cotton i« charg
ed with most of our woes ; and 1 must
admit that, we have been governed to a
considerable extent by the high price of
cottou ; but, according to my humble
opinion, ouly a small proportion of our
troubles are attributable to the over
production of cotton, the opinion of
Gen. Toombs and Bishop Pierce to the
contrary, notwithstanding. The first and
greatest sufferers are the land holder*
and laborers, mostly through their own
fault.
A 'Jext.
I went by the field of the slothful, and
by the vineyard of the man void of un
derstatfding;
And, 10, it was all grown over with .
thorns, and nettles had covered the face
thereof, and the stone wall thereof was
broken down.
Theu I saw and considered it well: I!
looked upon it, and received instruction. ■
— Prov. , XXIV, 30—32.
So has our poverty come. Who has I
controlled the most of the farms since I
the war, but “the man void of under- ;
standing?” And the most of the farms I
conducted "by this class have the walls
broken down. As long as we trust this
class we have but little nse for fences, as
the stock has passed away with the
fences, and will continue to remain us
long as the hewers of wood and drawers
of water have control of the farms.
With all the hue and cry of over-pro
duction of cottou, the crops do not
exceed the crops previous to tho war,
with all other crops far in the rear
Again : The credit system. The most
experienced farther cannot succeed if he
undertakes to ran a farm on credit, pay
ing from 150 to 100 per cent, per annum,
and how much more if he nndertakeß to
run to the ignorant tenant. Now the
question arises, who is to blame for this
extra charge on credit—the merchant or
farmer ? Certainly the farmer for em
ploying the man void of understanding
to run hit jarm, also the framers of the
Constitution for enacting a clause provi
ding for the Homestead Law.
Repeal this law and let one be enacted
to punish usury on credit goods its on
money loaned, and I warrant Success if
all the Anglo Saxon race, men, women,
boys and girls will go to work, then we
will have fewer cross-roads merchants
and one-horso town lawy : rs. By your
permission moro on the subject.
60 Yeabß.
Eiolt Years Without Eating.—
There is a young woman named Mary
Fancher, residing at the corner of Gates
avenue and Downing street, Brooklyn,
who has, it is asserted by her physician,
Dr. S. F. Spier, taken uo food for eight
Tears. She is twenty-five years of age,
bright and intelligent. Asa girl she
was a close applicant to her studies, and
was wout to abandon her meals to pon
der over her books until the strain upon
her intellectual and physical strength
overcame her. She also sustained inju
ries by being thrown from a horse.
Subsequently she fell off a Fulton ave
nue car, and was dragged along the
street for a distance of forty feet by her
crinoline catching in the car.
She was then afflicted by absolute ner
vous prostration, and has since been con
fined to her room. Her legs are twisted
aud her hands are drawn up behind her
head. She sleeps but little, and is said
to be endowed with clairvoyant faculties.
She works embroidery iu colors with
great facility, and has made slippers aud
smoking caps with initials worked iu
them. The doctor is positive that there
is no deception in the case, aud has used
everV effort possible to deteot any sign
of imposition, but to no purpose. The
cose has baffled the skill of hundreds of
physicians, who have examined it. —New
York Herald, 23 d.
There ia probably no city in the world
that turns oat such a variety of manu
factures in a week as Birmingham, Eng
land. Iu a week she makes, among oth
or things, 14,000,000 pens, 6,000 bed
steads, 7,000 gnus, 300,000,000 cut nails,
100,000,000 buttons, 1000 saddles, 6,000,-
000 ooppet or bronze coins,"2o,ooo pairs
of spectacles, 6 tons of papier mache
wares, more than £30,000 worth of jew
elry, 4,000 miles of iron and steel wire,
10 tons of pins, 6 tons of hair pins and
hooks and eyes, 130,000 gross of wood
screws, 500 tons of nuts and screw bolts
and spikes, 60 tons of wrought iron
hinges, 360 miles’ length - of wat for
matches, 40 tons of German silver, 100
dozen of fenders. 8,500 bellows' and 800
tons of braes and oopper wares.
AdwertlMtng Rates.
•us square, flftu insertion..l erf
Koah subsequent in5erti0n............ 75
'hie square three months... 10 Ofl'
iJus square six m0nth5..,.....-.- 1* 00
One square twelve months 40 00
Quarter column twelve months 40 00
Half column six months 60 00
Half coluxm twslvo months 74 00
Ono column twelve months 125 <*f
■W Ten lines or less considered t square'
All fractions of squares are Counted as fail
squares:
Religion of our Presidents.
IVa-diington was a vestryman in thsT
Episcopal church.
Adams was a member of the parish ia
braintree. His attendance at worship'
was not very constant.
effefsuu Was an avowed skeptic, and
a devout follower of Dr. Priestly.
Madison and Monroe were moderate
churchmen:
John Quincy Adams was a Unitarian.
Jackaoh joined the Presbyterian church
after he left offie. He paid close etteu
.ion lo the sermon, and made a profound
bow td the pillpit as he rtstifed.
Van Bnren was trained in the Reforms
ed Dutch school, attended the Episcopal
church when ho attended any;
Harrison cared very little lot religion*
matters.
Tyler wrs loose in regard to Sunday
and vor hip,
Polk, though not a professed Christian,
was a regular attendant at public vo: •
ship in the Presbyterian church. He
occupied the pew opposite the one Jack
son sat in.
Gen. Taylor seldom went to church.
Fillmore, more than any other of the
Presidents, was an open and decided
Unitarian. He gave his influence and
support to that seek
Pierce attended the Bresbytefiad
church every Sunday morning.
Buchnann attended the Presbyterian.
He walked to oliurch ; went up the aisle
iu a shuffling gate; dodged into bis pew ;
and, seated in the comer, seemed wrap
ped iu his own thoughts, paying no
attention appearantly to the service.
Lincoln attended the Presbyteriuf
church once a day.
Grant ia a trustee in the Methodist
church.
Resisting the F.vll One.— Ata camp
meeting, not long ago, a man in a thin
liuen suit seated himsel! on one of the
rickety benches beside a fat man who oo<>
cupied full one-third of ths concern.
When the services Were ended the fat
man arose, and the gentleman in thin
liuen suddenly begun twisting about in a!
surprising manner, while his counteuaao*
wan significant of mortal anguish.
His actions attracted the attention of
some of the brethren, and.one of them,
a solemn visaged individual, who looked
ns though he had just swallowed a pill,
approached the writhing body, and laid
his hand on the man’s shoulder and
said—
“Brother, if you are resisting the
promptings of the Evil One, strive man
fully, and yon will triumph at last. Re
member, Jacob wrestled with the angel,
and—”
“I dunno but he did,” interrupted the
agonized man: “but if Jaoob bad the
seat of his trowsers and a little of his
meat caught in a condemned crack he
wouldn’t feel like rasliu with an angel or
any other critter!”
A Trunk which Gets ’Em. —.Saturday
morning there came over the Great Wes
tern road, on its way west, a trunk which
made the hair of the baggage-master
stand right up. It was thirty-four inches
long, three feet wide, and was tr?a<te of
solid boilor-irou, an eighth of an inch
thick. The handles were iron, riveted
on with great bolts, and the lfd fastened
down with an immense padlock. On one
end of the trunk was painted the Words i
“She can stand it I” and on the other >’
“More coming!” The railroad men
groaned aloud as they walked around
“them trunk” and viewed it ffoffi every"
angle, aud two omnibus men, who
thought the owner was going to stop
over, mode tracks out of the depot.—
troit Free Pre*».
A paper company in Holyoke, Mass.,-
has manufactured an immense ream of
paper for the Centennial. The sheet*
are six by eighteen feet, the ream weighs
about a ton, the value of the 480 sheets
is $1,500, and if cut into ordinary sheet*
of note paper they wotxkl make 600' 1 000‘
sheets.-
m ~
A terrible story is told in the MosdoW
Gazette of a party who we#e traveling on
sledges, not very far from the oily of
Moscow. A troop of wolves attacked
them, and one person out of twefity-fotfr
succeeded in making bis escape, all the
rest being torn to pieces,
Mr. Roach, an aged citizen of GHlfUer
county, a revenue prisoner on a frivolous
charge, whom the United States Marshal
offered to relieve for' $f 00, died » the
Atlanta jail Friday night.
There or* 14,000 tame ostriches a<
Cape Town Africa’, and during 1575
there were sold at Port Elizabeth alone
$600,000 worth of Ostrich feather*:
France intends to have an Internation
al Exhibition in 1878, and $24,000,000
have been already voted for the pre
liminaries.-
A gentleman near Palatka, Fla., has
an orange grove of 6,000 trees, which
last year yielded SBO,OOO worth of
orange*.
Under the new time table, - the rtfri
by rail between New Orleans and MeHf
York' is reduced to sixty-two berate.