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by JOHN BLATS.
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months; 35 cents forthree months.
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a FRAGMENT.
BY MBS. J. V. H. KOOKS.
Oh, the hundreds of broken lives!
Oh, the number of weeping wives,
Ptarring, freezing in misery’s gyves
Oh, the children that hunger and cry
For bread, but receive not and die I
Oh, the sights that I see as I stand
On the outer side of the churches grand
That heavenward tower in this Christian and
Sights too sorrowful here to pen
Os wounded women and dying men,
Whow? places will soon be fined again
With squalid poverty’s boys and girls.
Whose sighs and groans and pitiful noise
Are drowned in t he solemn and musical swell
Os the dear, sweet tones of a grand church-bell'
Oh, for the coming of Christ again
Oh, for the time when women and men
Will practice the virtue He taught them when
Among the lowly and poor he trod! •
No wonder they thought Him the Son q/ God T
HILDA’S EXPERIMENT.
It was a tempestuous night in Novem
ber. The carved Dutch clock in Judge
Harrison’s study had just struck 9.
Judge Harrison himself, an austere
looking, silver-haired man, sat upright,
in his chair, gazing coldly at his guest.
“ Well,” said Dr. Hooper, pulling on
his gloves, “of course it isn’t or me or
any one else to interfere in family mat
ters. But your grandchild is left totally
unprovided for, sir. ”
"I cannot help that,” said the Judge,
frigidly. "Eight years ago I offered to
support the child, and the father, too, if
he would only consent to leave that out
landish foreign wife of his. He married
her against my will ; he clung to her
against my will. Let him abide by his
decision.”
" It’s only natural, Judge, that a mau
should cleave unto his wife," urged the
doctor.
“It is only natural, then,,that a man
should provide for the child of that
wife, Dr. Hooper. At all events, I shall
assume no further responsibility.”
“But, Judge Harrison, you are a rich
man 1”
"Granted—but, as I made my money
myself, I feel that I have a right to
spend it to suit myself,”
“ Hilda is a fine girl,” pleaded Dr.
Hooper.
“No doubt, no doubt; but. you will
pardon me if I feel no very great anxiety
to see the child of the German singing
woman who stole my son’s heart away
from me.”
Dr Hooper hesitated.
"Judge,” he said at last, in a tone ot
appealing earnestness, "you have an
other granddaughter. ”
"I have. My daughter’s child, Ma
rian Lennox, makes it her home wit 1
me.”
“And yet you would deny a similar
home to Hilda Harrison ? ”
Judge Harrison’s shaggy white brows
met in a straight, frowning line.
"Doctor,” said he, “you will fail to
make the distinction between a dutiful
child and one who has been undutiful. ”
“ Let me see Miss Lennox,” said Dr.
Hooper. “ Let me interest her in the
fact of this desolate, unknown cousin.
She has a woman’s heart in her bosom.
I am sure I can move her ! ”
Judge Harrison smiled coldly as he
touched a small gilded call-bell which
stood on the table beside him.
“Send Miss Marian here,” said he to
a servant, and the man noiselessly
obeyed.
In another minute a tall, Princess-like
girl stood in the room—a girl with hair
of pale gold, deep bine eyes, like azure
stars, and a dress of soft blue silk that
fell in picturesque folds about her, and
trailed noiselessly over the carpet as
she walked.
“Marian,” said the Judge, “this is
Dr. Hooper. He has come here to
plead the cause of your Uncle Severn’s
daughter Hilda. Severn deliberately
disobeyed me at first in marrying Hilder
garde Boehmer—he rejected the offer .
afterward marie of taking him and the
child home, if be would but leave the
siren who had blighted all his life. Now
he is dead, and has left his child unpro
vided for. I say, as he has sowed, so let
his child reap. What do you say ? ’.’
“ I think grandpapa is quite right,”
said Marian, in a soft, sweet voice.
“Grandpapa is always right! ”
“Then yon have no word to speak for
this lonely little orphan?” cried out Dr.
Hooper, deeply indignant. Marian laid
her ringed hand upon that of her grand
father and pestled close to him.
“ I always defer my judgment to that
of grandpapa,” said she—and Judge
Harrison, passing his arm around the
girl’s waist, looked with ill-concealed
triumph at the luckless special pleader.
Dr. Hoopei bowed, spoke his adieu,e
and departed.
When he returned to his own humble
residence, a dark-eyed girl met him a
the door,
The North Georgian.
A'OL. 111.
"Have you seen him, doctor—my
grandfather ? ” she cried, eagerly.
Dr. Hooper nodded,
“It’s of no use, though,” said he.
“ The old man has a heart like granite :
and that girl, your cousin, is of cast
iron.
" He will not take me ?”
No.”
Hilda Harrison set her lips together.
“Well,” said she, “then I must man
age to provide for myself. ”
“No hurry, lass ; no hurry,” said the
kindly little doctor. “Go tell the wife to
bring me a cup of hot coffee before I
start out again.”
“ Hilda,” he said, presently, as he sat
toasting his feet before the fire, with his
wife knitting opposite, and Judge Harri
son's granddaughter leaning against the
window and looking out into the stormy
darkness, “ what are you going to do ? ”
“ I don’t think I quite know, doctor.”
“ You are 16?”
“Sixteen and a half, sir.”
“And you cannot teach F*
“Oh, dear, no, sir!” Hilda shook'
her head decidedly. “ I had no chance
for much education, traveling about as I
did.”
"Nor sew?”
“Not well enough to adopt it for n
profession.”
“ Then, foe all I can see, there is
nothing left but to go into domestic
service.”
“I would take a place to-morrow,
doctor, if I could get a good home and
decent wages,” said Hilda, quickly.
" Good.” said Dr. Hooper. “ That is
the right spirit, child ! I don’t fear but
what you’ll make your way, in one di
rection or another. But I think I can
see something a little more promising
ahead for you than that.”
“ What is it, doctor?”
" I noticed the way you took care of
your poor father, Hilda, in his last ill
ness. I thought then that you would
make a good nurse—l think so now.
Thera is an opening in St. Francesca's
Hospital. A good home and $1 a day.”
“ As nurse, doctor ?”
“ As nurse.”
" And I should see you sometimes ?”
“ Frequently—twice a week at least.”
Hilda pondered a second or two, and
then came forward with glistening eyes
and red lips apart.
“ Doctor,” said she. “I will trv it.’
And so Clement Harrison’s grand
daughter donned the little muslin cap,
print dress, and white ruffled apron of
the St. Francescan corps of nurses, and
set diligently to work earning her own
living.
A year passed by, and Dr. Wallace
sent word that a nurse was wanted for a
small-pox case in the city. The Sister
Superior of the St. Francescans looked
dubiously at her women.
“ Who will go?” said she—and Hilda
Harrison stepped forward.
“ I will.” said she. “ I have no fears
of the contagion, and I want to add to
my experience.”
So little Hilda packed her bag ana
went.
The housekeeper of the great Fifth
avenue palace was wringing her hands,
LAf terrified out of her senses; the
other servants had taken precipitate
leave.
“And Miss Lennox went this morn
ing,” said she. “I should think she
might have stayed.”
“Whois Miss Lennox?” questioned
innocent Hilda.
“ The old gentleman’s granddaughter
that he had brought up and petted like
a cosset lamb,” said Mrs. Hurst. “ Oh,
the ingratitude of some folk. And if
Judge Harrison dies—”
Hilda looked up quickly from the bot
tles of carbolic acid she was unpacking.
“Is this Judge Harrison’s house? ” said
she.
“ Why, of‘course it is,” answered Mrs.
Hurst. “ Didn’t you know ? ”
“No, I did not know,” Hilda said.
“ But of course it makes no difference
whose house it is.”
“Who are yon?” Judge Harrison
asked, hoarsely, as the light foot crossed
the threshold.
“ I am the nurse from St. Francesca’s.
They call me Hilda.”
“Hilda what?”
“Never mind my other name,” said
the young girl, with a gentle authority
that had come to her from months of
practice at weary sick-beds. “They
call me Hilda ; and you are not to tai
and excite yourself.”
“Do you know you are running a
great risk ? ”
“ It is my business to run risks.”
Three weeks elapsed. The crisis of
the disease was past. The old man,
weakened indeed, and sadly disfigured,
was able once more to sit up in his easy
chair ; and Hilda, who had watched over
BELLTON, BANKS COUNTY, GA. JULY 22, 1880.
him with a vigilance and tenderness
which he fully appreciated wan arrang
ing fresh flowers in a vase on the table.
“Hilda,” said he, slowly, “ where has
my grandaughter Marian been all this
time?
“She went away sir when you were
first taken ill. She was afraid of the
disease.”
“ And she left me ? ”
“ And left you, sir.”
“There was gratitude!” he muttered
hoarsely. “And when is she coming
hack?”
Hilda laid down her roses, and looked
with pathetic, feeling eyes at him.
" She will not come back at all, sir,”
she answered. “We dared not tell you
before, but—but her flight was in vain.
She died of small-pox last week.”
The old man turned away with a
smothered groan.
“ Hilda,” said he, “you will stay with
me? You will not leave me alone?
Nay, do not speak. I know who you
are. I recognized your name when you
first came. You have looked at me with
your father’s eyes many a time since.
Hilda, I think God has sent you to me.”
“Oh, grandpapa!” And Hilda knelt
weeping beside his chair, scarcely able
to believe that his loving arms were
around her neck; his tears dropped on
her brow. “Oh, dear, dear grandpapa!
I have so longed for some one to love—
for some one to love me!”
And good little Dr. Hooper was well
satisfied with the result of Hilda’s ex
periment at earning her own living.
“Heaven manages these things better
than we do,” thought he, as he remem
bered his attempt at softening Judge
Harrison’s flinty heart more than a year
before. _____________
AN UNTHIED LOT.
Ah, if romantic younglings could only
see the troubles that await them when
they cross the portal of matrimony ! As
they for the first time take possession of
their new house, and enjoy its cheering
aspect, its regularity and quiet, and its
expression of domestic peace, of joy,
they anticipate naught but bliss. In a
few years how changed I One after an
other has been added in various ways to
the company which began only with two,
until at length they find themselves
presiding over a numerous circle of
children, and relatives and domestics—
the father and mother both involved in
responsibilities, from which they would
have shrunk, had they anticipated them
at the outset. In a few years this happy
circle must be broken in upon and scat
tered. Death comes and takes sway
Abram ; a young lady with a pink bod
ice and black eyes comes in and carries
off Alexander; a third, determined to
die a sailor’s death, ships before the
mast on a canal ; a fourth, growing cov
etous, starts for California; while a fifth,
in all probability, comes to grief. At
last the father and mother are left alone;
and, after fifty years of love, trouble
and vexation, they find themselves
worse off than when they started. They
are not only alone again, but they are
alone without the hope of any more com
pany. Fortunate that matrimonial as
pirants do not foresee all this I
A KNOWING SNAKE.
A Georgia man was fishing near
a rock under which was a snake’s den,
when the reptile came gliding from a
foraging expedition, and was disappear
ing in the hole under the rock when,
with a dexterous movement, the man
seized him by the tail and threw him
twenty feet away. The snake hardly
knew what happened, and again essayed
to enter his domicile in the same man
ner. Again he was treated as before.
Never despairing, for the third time the
wily sepent came to the rock. This
time he approached deliberately, as if
contemplating the situation. For a
while he kept his defensive position,
when he carefully began to uncoil, at the
same time disappearing tail foremost
into the den, to the admiration of the
man who had been amusing himself at
his expense.
HER COURTING DATS.
“ How it does remind me of my
courting days ! ” exclaimed Mrs. Good
ington, remarking the blush that the
delicately-turned compliment of Ara
minta’s young man had brought to the
girl’s cheek. “In those halliard days,
when I was young and perceptible, how
frustrated I used to feel when Daniel
paid me a condiment, as he always was
doing ! Yes,” she continued, stopping
to brush off the tear that trembled at
the tip of her attenuated nose. “ Daniel
was one of a thousand. And he never
changed during all of our years of patri
monv. ”
A quarter of a potato is just as good
as a whole one for planting.
JOSH BILLINGS* PHILOSOPHT.
Cunning iz a very cheap edishun ov
wisdum ; it develops among the animals,
and I hav even seen idiots who had it.
A yung sloven ends bi being a filthy
old man.
However mizerly a woman may be
she seldom shows it in her bonnett
It allwußs bothers the devil to kno on
whitch side to attak a bizzy man.
We see in others the virtues and vices
we have got ourselfs, but we see the
vices the plainest.
There are but few tilings judged by
their merits, but rather by the way they
affect our opinions or interests.
The uien who have the strongest in
telects have the weakest memorys, they
trust more to invention than memory.
Where thare is one man who knows
how to do a thing, and does it, thare are
three who are satisfied by telling how
it ought to be done.
The top ov the ladder iz a ticklish
spot, yer are liable to fall enny time,
and kan’t pik out the spot yer are a go
ing to strike.
Menny a man who haz made a fust
rate konstable haz spilt biz milk bi be
ing made a Deputy Sheriff.
The man who haz no luv of applauze
iz either an angel or an idiot, probably
the latter.
The grate ov mankind liv just az the
birds do, from hand to mouth.
A man better have no creed at all
than to have one he is always anxious to
fight for.
Jealousy sleeps withone eye open and
the other ajar.
Hope iz the half-way house between
fear and fruition.
It iz difficult to define our happiness
without making it look suspicious.
The man who iz original in manner
iz generally more or less so in thought.
NO HOMES ON THE PACIFIC COAST.
The saddest phase of this coast—prob
ably of all gold and silver mining re
gions—is the absence of homes. We
met i real homes, whose founder laid the
first hearthstone and made the first
clea 1 ing with the thought that on that
spot he was to do his life’s work, and
tirere atlaat, amid familiar scenes, sink
into that sleep that is final. The ab
sence of this disposition has made nom
ads of the men of this coast. They came
here originally with the thought that in
a little while they would return and
make the home of their future in the
lands of their birth. Could the air
castles which have been erected in
thought by men on this coast while ly
ing in bnnks in rude cabins, or in blank
ets around camp-fires, be woven into a
picture, what a city it would make I But
the years have stolen by; except in iso
lated cases, the bewitching dreams have
never been realized, and, while the
hoped-for homes were never builded
back in the lands of childhoods, neither,
alas, have they been builded here. We
do not mean to say that there are not
plenty of families living in what they
call homes. But those who have homes
which were created with the expectation
that they would be permanent, that in
and about them was to be hoarded the
gathered treasures of a life-time, are
very few. This might, perhaps, be ex
pected here in the desert, but the same
is true of California, especially in the
country. As a rule, the farm-houses of
California and their surroundings are a
perpetual sign of " For sale.” On many
of these farms men and families have
lived for a quarter of a century, and still
it has never been home in any rightful
sense of the word. There has never
been a time that the husband and father
has not intended to sell out in the course
of a few months, and never a time that
the family has not hoped he would.—
Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise.
TARDT PEOPLE.
An enthusiastic statistician has ascer
tained the number of tardy passengers
at. railway depots to rate at ten per day.
Os every hundred there were twenty
nine men and seventy-one Women. The
statistician was not surprised that the
male sex should show to advantage, but
the disproportion astonished him when
he reflected that many men are delayed
by the fault of their wives, while the
contrary seldom occurs. More people
miss local trains than express trains—
the proportion being as three to one.
In winter the number of these unfortu
nates is least, and in the warm months
of July and August it is greatest
The Hereford herd of cattle is attract
ing much attention at the West, and
numerous sales have been made of late
from some of the finest herds in Illinois
and other States. They seem well adapt
ed for the use of the great stock-raisers
of Colorado and Texaa,
NO. 29.
FORFEITS FOR fCX.
A list of amusing forfeits, which will
make the company laugh and not offend
the person called upon to pay them, are
herewith given:
1. Put a newspaper upon the floor in
such away that two persons can stand
on it and not be able to touch each other
with their hands. By putting the paper
in the doorway, one-half inside and the
other half outside of the room, and clos
ing the door over it, the two persons can
easily stand upon it and still be beyond
each other’s reach.
2. To go out of the room with two
legs, and come in with six. Not difficult,
if one thinks to bring a chair along on
the return.
8. To act the dumb servant The per
son who has the forfeit to pay must act
out the answers to the questions put by
the master of the ceremonies; as “How
do you make bread ?” “ How do you eat
soup?” etc. This forfeit will cause much
merriment, if proper questions are put.
4. Put one hand where the other can
not touch it. One can get out of this
difficulty by putting one hand on the
elbow of the other arm.
5. Place a pencil on the floor so that
one cannot jump over it. May be done
by putting it close to the wall of the
room.
6. Put a question that no one can an
swer with a “no!” This is not hard if
one thinks to ask, “What does y-e-s
spell ?”
7. Push a chair through a finger ring.
This forfeit is made by putting the ring
on the finger and pushing the chair—any
other object will do as well—with the
finger.
8. Put yourself through a keyhole.
This was a great puzzle to us for a while,
but when a piece of paper was taken with
the word “yourself” written upon it,
and pushed through the hole, it was all
clear.
DANGER FROM A PHOSPHORUS BURN.
The Medical Times and Gazette men
tions the case of a young man who,
while traveling from Paris to Lyons, lit
a match by scratching it with his thumb
nail, and a piece of the incandescent
phosphorus penetrated under the nail
and made a slight burn, to which he
paid no attention. But after an hour
the pain became intense, the thumb
swelled, then the hand, and next the
forearm. He was obliged to alight at
a station on the journey and send for a
medical man, who declared that imme
ate amputation of the arm was neces
sary. The patient insisted on postpon
ing the operation for a few hours until
the arrival of his father, for whom he
had telegraphed. Before the latter,
however, could reach his son it was too
late ; the poisonous matter had gained
the arm, then the shoulder, and any
operation became impossible. He died
in great agony in only twenty-seven
hours after the burn. The case shows
the danger of handling phosphorus in
the manner described.
A MARRIAGE SERVICE A. D. 14SO.
Matrymonye was ordeyned of God for
two causes. Fyrst, pryncypally into of
fyee to bryng forth children to Goddes
Hcrvyce, also into remedye to flee forny
ciicyon and lecherye. For the first
cause it was ordeyned in paradyse before”
Adam’s synne ; for the seconds cause it
was ordeyned out of paradyse after
Adam’s synne. Thre good things be
pryncypally in matrymonye. The fyrst
is fayth that eche of theym keps truly
his body to other and medle fleshely
with none other. The seconde is bring
yth forth and nonryshynge of children
to the worshyp of God and to Goddes
servyce. The thyrd is the sacrament of
unyte and the endless lone bytwene
Cryste and holy chirche. And the
faythful loue that out to be bytwene
huslamds and wyfe betokeneth the loue
that ought to be bytwene Cryste and
holy chirche. — Notes and Queries.
INDIAN VENGEANCE.
Some wood-choppers working near
Secret canon, Nev., being attracted by
screams and groans in a gulch close by
the trail in wliich they were going to
work, came to where a squaw was found
securely tied to a tree. Upon closer ex
amination they found a dead papoose
strapped to her back. Upon untying
the ropes that bound her, the squaw ex
plained that the Indians charged her
with killing her papoose to get rid of it,
and had tied her, with the dead baby
on her back, to the tree, where she
would hare been left to die had it not
been for the arrival of the white men.
This is considered a heinous offense
among the Indians, and the killing of a
boy papoose was what caused this pun
ishment to be inflicted on the squaw.
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APHORISMS.
To live long it is necessary to live
slowly.
Give neither counsel nor salt until
asked for it.
There are calumnies against which
even innocence loses courage.
He who commits injustice is ever made
more wretched than he who suffers it.
A man should make it a part of his re
ligion to see that his country is well gov
erned.
Those who give not till they die, show
that they would not then if they could
keep it longer.
He who is false to the present duty
breaks a thread in the loom, and will
see the effect when the weaving of a life
time is unraveled.
Be then like the bird perched upon
some frail thing, who, although he feels
the branch bending beneath him, shows
that he has wings.
A fretful disposition takes the fra
grance out of one’s life and leaves only
weeds, where a cheerful disposition
would cause flowers to bloom.
The office of religion is, not to drive
us back upon ourselves in anxious self
criticism, but to take us out of ourselves
and unite us to the whole, in loving self
abandonment.
Three-fourths of all the Baptist
churches in the country are in the
South. The membership of this denom
ination in the Southern States is 1,500,-
000. _____
DISEASED PORK.
Thorough cooking effectually prevents
any danger from eating trichinized pork.
Dr. Dietzsch, chemist to the Industrial
Museum of Zurich, states that so far as
boiled or roast meat has a reddish color
or emits a reddish juioe when cut, the
trichinae, if present, will be living. The
use of smoke in curing hams will not
kill trichinae or serve as a substitute for
cooking. If enough salt be added to
meat to kill these parasites, the meat
will be unfit for human food. But, if
people will take their meat raw, or
“rare,” as they call it, they would do
well to examine it under the micro
scope. Cut thin portions of the flesh,
not larger than a pin’s head, with a
sharp razor in a direction parallel with
the fibers. Take the specimens, and,
after placing them on slips of glass,
tease them out a little with the needle,
moisten them with a little glycerine or
water, and examine them with a mag
nifying power of from 50 to 100 diame
ters. If at first no trichinse are visible,
wet the specimens with a single drop
a solution of one part of potassa and fif
teen parts of water, when the muscular
fiber becomes transparent, and the
trichinae, if present, are brought into
full view. The portions of the animal
most affected by trichinte are the sinewy
ends of the muscles.
FOOD EOK REFLECTION*
If a man has love in his heart he
may talk in broken language, but it will
be eloquence to those who listen.
Like many other virtues, hospitality
is practiced in its perfection by the poor.
If the rich did their share how would
the woes of this world be lightened.
So quickly sometimes has the wheel
of fortune turned round that many a
man has lived to enjoy the benefit of
that charity which his own piety pro
jected.
At 30 we are all trying to carve our
names in big letters upon the walls of
this tenement of life ; twenty years later
we have carved it, or shut up our jack
knife.
Ovbb the triple doorways of an
Italian cathedral there are three in
scriptions spanning the splendid arches.
Over one is carved a beautiful wreath of
roses, and underneath the legend : “All
that pleases is but for a moment” Over
the other is sculptured a cross, and
there are the words : “ All that troubles
is but for a moment. ” But underneath
the main aisle is the inscription : “ That
only is important which is eternal. ”
A WEAKNESS.
Lever, the novelist, noticing that the
hand of a woman, who was bringing
him some tea at a small country hotel,
shook tremulously, kindly said to her,
“lam sorry to see, Biddy, that you have
a weakness in your hand. ” “Oh ! your
Honor,” she replied, with a glance of in
describable humor, “the weakness is
not in me hand, but inside the tay-pot.”
Earl Cowper, the new Viceroy ol
Ireland, is the lineal descendant and
I sir-general of one of the ablest Lord
Lieutenants Ireland ever had—James,
Duke of Ormonde, the Cavalier states
man and commander.