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“THE CANDIDATE."
“Father, who travels the road so late ."
“Hush, my child, ’tis the candidate;
Fit example of human woe—
Early he comes and late he goes.
He greets the woman with courtly grace,
He kisses the baby's dirty face,
He calls to the fence the farmer at work.
He bores the merchant, he bores the clerk,
The blacksmith, while his anvil rings.
He greets, and this is the song he sings:
"Howdy, howdy, howdy-do?
How is your wife, and how are you?
Ah! it fits my fist as no other can.
The horny hand of the working man.”
"Husband, who is that inamat the gate?"
“Hush, my love, 'tis the candidate.”
“Husband, why can't he work like you?
“Hashe nothing at home to do?”
•My dear, whenever a man is down.
No cash at home, no credit in town,
Too stupid to preach and too proud to beg,
Too timid to rob and too lazy to dig.
Then over his horse his leg he tlings
And to the dear people this song he sings:
"Howdy, howdy, howdy-do?
How is your wife, and how are you?
Ah! it fits my fist as* no other can.
The horny hand of the working man.”
Brothers, who labor early and late,
Ask these things of ths candidate;
What's his record? How does he stand
At home; no matter about his hand.
Be it hard or soft, so it be not prone
To close over money not his own.
Has he in view no thieving plan ?
Is he honest and capable? he is our man.
Cheer such an one till the welkin rings,
Join in the chorus when thus he sings:
“Howdy, howdy, howdy-do?
How is your wife* and how are}' ou!
Ah I it fit s my fist as no other can,
The horny hand of the working man.”
THE STONE-CUTTER'S STORY.
He was whistling over his work, care
less, fro-, long custom, of the solemn
significance of the letters he was cutting
in the white marble. The June .-un was
nearly at the end of the day’s journey,
sinking slowly to rest upon the bosom of
the broad Atlantic, whose waves washed
the shores of the little seaport town of
Monkton. A stranger, handsomely dress
ed in gray, with large lustrous brown eyes,
came to the fence that, was around the
yatd where the stone-cutter worked, and
read the lettering, almost completed, on
the tombstone:
HIRAM GOLDBY,
Aged .‘ls.
LOST AT SEA, JANUARY, 1860.
The last six was uearly completed. A
I strange pallor gathered for a moment
upon the stranger’s face, and then lie
drew a long, deep breath and said:
“Is not ten years a long time to be
cutting lettcrs ou a tombstone, friend? ’
"Eh, sir?’’
The stone cutter looked, shaded his
eyes with his brown hand, as he turned
his face to the setting sun.
"This is 1870,” was the grave reply,
“and Hiram Gold by has been ten years
under the waves."
“Well, sir, that’s the question—is he
there?”
"Is he there? Your stone tells us he
is, and has been for ten years.”
"Yes, sir, so it does—so it does. And
yet she has ordered it. Bhe came over
a week or so back with a worried look
upon her sweet face that l have never
seen anything but patience in the ten long
years, and she said to me: ‘You may cut
a stone, Davy,’ she says, ‘and put it up
in the churchyard, and I don’t, want to
see it. I’ll pay you whatever you choose
to ask, Davy,’ she says, ‘hut he's not
i dead, and don’t want a tombstone.’
‘Lor, mum,’ says I, ’he’d a’ turned up
! all these years it’ he was not dead.’ But
| she shook her pretty head, the prettiest
| I ever seen, sir, and said she: ‘My heart
| never told me that he was dead, Davy,
j and I’ll never believe it till iny heart tells
I 1 >
| M3(i SO.
“His sweetheart?’’ questioned the
! stranger.
j. "Hit wife, sir—his loving, faithful wife,
j that had poverty, and loneliness, arid
misery, her full share, and might ha’
bettered herself?’’
"How was that?"
“Mr. Miles, sir, the richest shopowner
hereabouts, he waited patiently for seven
long years, trying to win her. Then lie
said she was free, even if Hiram came
; hack.”
“Enoch Arden,” muttered the stran
ger.
“What did you say, sir?"
“Nothing, nothing. What answer did
I the widdow make Mr. Miles?”
“ ‘lf Hiram's dead,’ said she,‘l’m his
j faithful wife. ’ Maybe you are from the
! city, sir, arid have heard the story of our
Pearl?”
“ What story is that?”
“Well, sir, it’s been told many times,
more particularly in the last year, but
you’re welcome to what I know of it.
There, that six is dona, and I'll leave the
SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17. 1878.
Scripture text till morning. If you’ll
come to the gateway and take a seat on
some of the stones, I’ll tell you, that is,
if you care to hear it.”
“I do care,” was the grave reply; “I
want very much to hear the story.”
“Maybe you're son e kin to the Pearl
of Monkton —that's what they cali Mrs.
Goldby hereabouts. It’s a matter of
thirty- three years hack, sir, that there was
a wreck off Monkton rocks, that you can
see from here, sir, now tide’s down. Cruel
rocks they arc, and many a wreck they've
seen, the more the pity. You see them,
sir?”
“I see them."
"Well, sir, with this one wreck, thirty
three years ago, there was nothing washed
ashore hut a bit •fa girl-haby three or
four years old, with a si in like a lily leaf,
and great black eyes. Hiram Goldby
found heron the rocks, lie was a boy of
twelve years, strong and tall, and he car
ried the child in his arms to his mother.
You may see the cottage, sir, the second
white one on (beside of the hill.”
“I see it.”
“Well, Hiram took 'he baby there, and
Mrs. Goldby was the same as a mother to
it—a good woman, God bless her soul
the Widow Goldby.”
“Is she dead, then?”
"Aye, sir, six years a gone. The baby
I was telling you of, sir, talked a foreign
lingo, and was dressed beautiful in rich
clothes, that must have cost a power of
money. But never would Hiram or the
widow sell them, putting them up care
fully in ease the child was ever looked for.
She was that, pretty, sir, and that dainty,
that everybody called her Pearl, though
she was not like our girls, but afraid,
always deadly afraid of the sea. I have
seen her clench her mite of a hand and
strike at it, for she had a bit of temper
in her, though nothing to harm.
“When llirain made his first voyage,
for they were all seafaring men here
abouts, and there was nothing for a lad to
do but ship, the Pearl was just a little
washed-out lilly, a fretting until he came
home again. And it was so whenever he
went, for they were sweethearts from the
first time she nostled her baby face on his
breast, when he yiaked her up from the
wreck. She was sixteen when they were
married, as near as we could guess;
Hiram was a man of twenty-four. She
prayed him to stay at home then, and he
stayed a year, but he fretted for the sea,
and he wont again, thinking, i s’pose,
that his wife would got used to it, as well
as all wives hereabouts must do. But
she never did —never. 11 was just pitiable
to see her go about, white as a corpse,
when lliraui went away, never looking at
the sea without a shudder like a death
chili. All through the war it was just,
awful, for lliram enlisted ou hoard a maii
o'-war, and Pearl was just a shadow when
he came home the last time.”
"After the war?”
“Yes, sir; but ha made no money of any
account, and so wont away again, after
staying at home a long spell. Well, he
never came back, "f wasn’t no manner of
use telling Pearl he was lost; she’d just
shake her pretty head and say: ‘lie’ll
come back.’ Not a mite of mourning
would she wear, even after his own mother
gave him up and went in Hack; for, sir,
it stands to reason lie’s dead years ago.”
“Ii looks so.”
“Of course it, does; dobody else doubts
it hut Mrs. Goldby. Old Mrs. Goldby’s
la-c words were —-'l’m going to nn et
Hiram,’ and they say tiio dying know.
But even then that didn't make Pearl
think so. She wore mourning for her
who had been the only mother she k nowed
of, but not weeds. Weeds was for widows,
she said, and she wasn’t a widow."
“But the stone."
“Well sir, I’m corning to that, A year
ago sir, a fine gentleman from France
came here hunting for a child lost on this
coast. He’d heard of Pearl by happen
chances, if there is such, and came here.
When he saw the clothes, he just fainted
like a woman.”
“She was related, then?”
The stranger's voice was husky, but the
sea air was growing chill.
“Her father, sir.”
“He took her away?”
“lie tried to. He told her of a splen
did home he had in New York, for he’d
1 followed his wife and child, sir, to the
city they had never reached. He was
rich and lonely. He begged his child to
go, but she would not. ‘Hiram will come
here for me,’ she said, ‘and he must find
1 me where he left me.”
“On what has she lived?”
“Sewing, sir, mostly. The cottage
was old Mrs. Goldby’s, and bless you,
Pearl did not eat much more than a
bird, and her dresses cost next to nothing.
But there is no denying she was very poor
—very, r.nd yet the grand home and big
fortune never tempted her. So her father
came off and on to see her, until April.
And he died, sir, and left our Pearl all
his fortune, and the grand house in New
York. But she’ll not go, sir; she’ll die
here, waiting for Hiram, who’ll never
come.”
The stranger lifted his face that had
been half hidden in his hand and said:
“There was a shipwreck in the Pacific
Ocean, Davy, years and years ago, and
one man only was saved —saved, Davy, by 1
savages who made him a slave, the worst
of slaves! But one day this sailor saved
the life of the chief's (laughter, who was
in the coils of a huge snake, and the chief
released him. More than that, he gave
him choice spices and win ds, and sent
him aboard the first passing ship. So the
sailor landed in a great city, sold his
presents and p,.t the gold in s fie keeping.
Then he traveled (ill he reached the sea
port town where he was horn, and coming
there at sunset, heard the story of his
life from the lips of a man cutting his
tombstone.”
Not a word spoke Davy, Standing
erect, he seized an immense sledge ham
mer, and with powerin' blows from “trong,
uplifted arms, dashed the marble into
fragments. Then, panting with exertion,
he held out his brawny hand to the stran
ger —a stranger no longer.
“I've done no better work in my life,
than I've dona in the last five minutes,
Hiram. Go home, man, and make Pearl's
heart glad. She don’t need it, Hiram—-
she don’t need it. You asked mo about
the stone. The neighbors drove her to
ordering it, twitting her that now she
was rich, she grudged the stone to her
husband’s memory. So she told me to
cut it, but says, ‘Don’t put dead upon it,
Davy—put lost at sea; lor Hiram’s lost,
but he’ll he found and couie back to mo.’
She never looked at it, Hiram, never.
And there's not an hour, nor hasn’t been
for ten year-, that she hasn’t boenjooking
for you to come hack. Go to her, man,
und tiie Lord's blessings he upon both of
you.”
So, grasping the hard, brown hand,
Iliiam Goldby took the path to the little
white cottage where he had been born
forty-five years before. The sun had set
and the darkness was gathering, but a
gleam of light, streamed from the window
of his cottage. He drew near softly, and
standing on the seat of the porch, looked
over the hall curtain into the neat but
poor sitting-room.
It was not the grand house, Pearl’s
heritage in New York, hut Pearl herself
was there. A slender woman, with a
pale, sweet face, and black hair smoothly
handed and gathered into rich braids at
the hack of her shapely head. Her dress
was a plain dark one, with white ruffles,
cuffs and an apron.
She had been sowing, but, her work was
laid aside, and presently she came to the
open window and drew aside the enrta n.
She did not sec the tall figure drawn
closely against the wall in the narrow
porch, but her dark eyes looked mournfully
toward the sea, glimmering in the half
light.
“My darling!” she whispered, “areyou
dead, and has your spirit c ine to take
mine where we shall part no more?”
Only the wash of the waves below
answered her. Sighing softly, she said:
“Is my darling coming? I feel him
so near to mo, I. could almost grasp
him.”
She stretched out her arms over the
low window-sill, and a low voice answered
her: ‘' 1 'curl! Pearl!”
The arms that had so long grasped only
empty air, were fi led then, as iltram
stood under the low window.
“Da not move, love,” she whispered,
pressing her soft lips to his: “I always
wake when you move.”
“But now,” he said, “you are already
awake. Sec, Pearl, your trust was
heaveri-given, It is myself, your fond,
true husband, little one, who will never
leave you again.”
“It is true! You have come!” she
cried at last, bursting into a torrent of
happy tears. “I knew you were riot dead.
You could not he dead and my heart not
tell me.” It was long before they could
think of anything but the happiness of
reunion after the many years of separa
tion, hut tit last, drawing Pearl,closer,
1 liraui whispered—“l walked from J ,
love, and am enormously hungry.”
And Pearl’s merry laugh chased the
last shadows from her happy face, and she
bustled about the loom preparing supper.
“Supper for two!” she cried, gleefully.
The grand house in Now Y jrk is ten
anted by its owners, and Hiram goes to
sea no more; but in the summer time two
happy people come for a quiet month to
the little white cottage at Mi nkton, ami
have always to listen to D ivy’s tale of the
evening when he was cutting Hiram
Goldby s tombstone, and ended by smash
ing it into atoms.
“For,” is the invariable ending of the
tale, “Pearl was right, and we were
wrong, all of tis; for lliram Goldby was
lost at son, sure enough, but ho was not
dead, and he came to his faithful love as
she always said he would.
HAIIKI AGE 01<’ GREAT MEN.
Robert Burns married a farm girl, with
whom he 101 lin love while they worked
together in a plowed field. Ho was
irregular in his life, and committed the
most serious mistakes in conducting his
domestic atlairs.
Milton married the daughter of a coun
try squire, and lived with her but a time,
lie was an austere literary recluse, while
she was a rosy, romping country lass, who
could not endure the restraint imposed
upon her; so they separated. Subse
quently, however, she returned, and they
lived tolerably happy.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert wore
cousins, and about the only example in the
long line of English monarehs wherein the
marital vows wore sacredly observed, and
sincere affi ction existed.
Shakespeare loved and wedded a farm
er's dang liter. She was faithful toiler
vows, hut ive could hardly say the same of
the hard himself Like most of the great
poets, he showed too little discrimination
in bestowing hia affections on the other
sex.
Washington married a woman with two
children. It is enough to say she was
worthy of him and they lived as nurnei!
people should live —in perfe h:trii:m.,\
vitli each other.
John Adams married the d.i i i,t- • ol
Presbyterian clergyman, li t fitli-i i
jeeted on account of John’: lawyer.
Ho had a had opinion of tho morals of
the profession.
John I Inward, the great pin i '.rdiropist.
married his nurse. . She w: altogether
beneath him in social life anti intelluCual
capacity, and besides this, wa fifty-two
years old, while he was but tv - tity-five.
He wouldn’t take “No” for an answer,
and they were married and lived happily
until she died, which occurred two years
afterwards.
Peter the Great, of Russia, married a
peasant. Bhe made an excellent wife and
a-sagacious Empress.
Ilumbolt married a poor girl because he
loved her. Of course they were happy.
It is not generally known that Jackson
married a lady whose husband was still
living. Site was an uneducated but
amiable woman, and was most devotedly
attached to the old warrior and statesman.
Jonn (J. Calhoun married his cousin,
and their children, fortunately, were
neither diseased nor idiotic; but they did
not evince the talent of the great State’s
rights’ advocate. — Ex.
A SAG ROMANCE.
A L rndon eorresp' ridcrit writing to the
Dublin Times relates the following:
The inquest held te-day on Miss Ella
Hanbury, who died from exhaustion con
sequent on long immersion in the Thames,
and shock from the Princess Alice col
lision. is the closing chapter of a touching
romance. Miss Hanbury was an Ameri
can girl of nineteen, only child of a weal by
New York merchant. She was on a visit
here, and went for a run on the river, in
company with her engaged husband, Mr.
Harrison, a member of the American far.
When the crash eauie Harrison em
braced htrand bade her good-bye, saying
they would meet in heaven. She saw no
more of him. They wore parted on the
instant, and she found herself in the water.
Partly swimming, partly supported by a
plank, she floated lor two hours and a
half, and was then picked up apparently
none the worse, for she was about next
week.
She then learned, however, the loss of
her lover, and since then has altered and
pined till she took two day - ago to the
bed, from which her body iva this day
borne t > the grave. Miss llanbury was a
very rich I- ire;s, and what makes the
fatality still sadder is that while the in
quest was in progress a telegram an
nouncing the death of Iter father was
handed to the coroner.
The edible fi.-h on the north/. esfert!
coasts of Europe are threatened -viili
extinction by the rapacious ii or )i-h, a
species of shark, a sensibo diminution
having hci-.n already rmtii 1 in i entifie
men are endeavoring to find an - ffectivo
method of destroying ii. ;
NUMBER 42.
KVir.S OK Cl. ASS f. EG IST. ATI ON.
It has hoi n ono of the most fruitful
sources of tri ulde in this country for years
past, over since the Republican party
came into power, that wo have had to
suffer so much in the way of class legisla
tion- As n result of this, the National
Legislature has become to he looked on
naturally as only a medium for advancing
the ends and aims of individuals, instead
of the interests of the people at large.
When a person like Tom Scott desires to
build a railroad his, first idea in these days
is to rush to Congress to obtain a huge
subsidy for his special benefit; tho bond
holder looks to Congress to make tho
bonds which he has purchased in de
preciated greenbacks, payable in gold
alone, and to tax tho people heavily for
that purpose; the Eartern manufacturer
and the Western iron man expect Con
gress to give them a high protective tariff
so they may grow rich at the expense of
all other classes of their fellow men; and
so the game goes on- Nearly every man,
or sot of men in the countiy, having any
special object in view which could bo ad
vanced by legislative action, has of late
years been educated to regard Congress as
only a body organized for iheir special
benefit, regardless wholly of the rights of
others whose interests are entirely differ
ent from their own.
To this example of olass legislation so
generally established throughout the land
by the Radical party, are to be attributed
all the agitations and troubles which to
day afflict and threaten the country.
With the exception of’ tho low laboring
men so fortunate as to bo employed in
protected industries, that class has had to
bear a large share ol the public burdens
imposed on the whole community for the
benefit of a few, without any compensa
tion whatever. Hence, though they do
not seem to realize this —inasmuch as in
ai! their resolutions and platforms, they
declare in favor of protection—they are
beginning to feel its effects, and tire in
clined to demand relief of some sort, and
in some way, and to think that it is time
for Congress to be doing something for
their individual advantage. Hence, also,
have naturally sprung up Kearneyism, and
a revolutionary spirit, which seeks to dis
turb the existing order of things, and, if
relief can come in no other way, to bring
it about through a general upheaval of
society. The cause of this evil, heretofore
j unknown in Republican America, is
therefore directly traceable to the policy
ol c'ass legislation initiated in tho land,
and steadily and constantly followed by
the Radical party while it was in almost
absolute power.
It if noedh -s to say that this whole
system ul' clans legislation is directly at
variance with our republican plan oi gov
ernment, and being a prolilic source of
evil should be hereafter most emphati
cally discountenanced. A contemporary
writing on this subject very truthfully and
tersely says as follows: “What success we
have had in the century has been ever on
the opposite theory of confining the
sphere of government to those things
which neither individual nor associated
effort could relievo, and of leaving ah oth
ers to private management. Nay, moro,
these nations in Western Europe which
have prospered most have been those
which have stuck most to general, not to
special laws. At this crisis it is important
to have it understood that class legisla
tion, besides being unjust to the whole,
does harm to the community at large.
Thu commerce and transportation of the
I nited Slates have ben, of all things, the
most successfully expanded and conducted
under this policy of ‘letting alone.’ Now,
instead of mi ddling with the relations of
traders or with il e transporting railroads
and their customers, the Congress can do
a better thing by confining its attention to
needed general laws affecting all classes of
persons alike.” —Savannah Kerfs.
'flic work of revising the New Tesra
mont, which is now going on in England,
approaches completion. The scheme of
preparing anew version of the Bible
which should retain the pure and vigorous
English of the translation in common use,
and at the same time show an improve
ment in point of clearness and accuiacy,
was strongly urged by Dean Alford. In
1870 the convocation of Canterbury ap
pointed a committee to rnako the rovi-ion.
Somoofthe mosteminent Biblical scholars
m England have engaged directly or in
directly in the work, which, us far as the
New Testumcntis concerned, is now nearly
finished It is expected that this part of
the Bible, in its revised form, will be
presented to the convocation next year.
Anew version i, also in course of prepara
tion on this side of the water by the
American Bibio Union. —SVjc. News.