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Conveys to you the true confession
That, though few friendly gifts could be the cheaper
None can excel this for impression.
Oh, may the ink, this downy whiteness spotting,
Be changed toward me like wormwood never;
So, while your various missives you are blotting,
Please keep the memory of the giver.
A LADY, AFTER ALL.
* Lennox Ray sprang from the train
and hastened up the green lane to the
wide, old-fashioned farm-house, carrying
his valise in his hand.
“I wonder if Nannie got my note and
is looking for me ? Hallo !”
This last exclamation was drawn from
Ray’s lips by a cherry, which, ooming
from above, somewhere, came into sud
den contact with his nose. He looked
up, and there, jierched like a great bird
upon the limb of a huge old cherry tree,
and looking down at him with dancing
eyes and brilliant cheeks, was a young
girt
“How do, Lennox? Come up and
have some cherries ?” was her mischiev
ous greeting. w
“Nannie ! Is it possible ?” exclaimed
Lennox, severely.
; And, while Ray looked on in stern dis
approval, the young witch swung herself
lightly down.
“Now don’t look so glum, Lennox,
dear,” she said slipping her little hands
into his with a coaxing motion. “I
know it’s tomboyish to climb the cherry
trees ; but then it’s such fun I”
“Nannie, you should have been a
boy,” said Lennox.
“I wish 1 had 1 No, I don’t, either;
for then you wouldn’t have fallen in love
with me. What made you, dear ?” with
a fond glance and a caressing move
ment.
“Because you are so sweet, darling,”
answered Ray, melted in spite of him
self. “But I do wish, Nannie, you
would leave off those hoydenish ways
and be more dignified.”
“Like Miss Isham?” asked Nannie.
“Mias luKam is n very superior woiu
an, and it would not hurt you to copy
her in some respects.”
The tears sprang into Nannie's eyes at
his tone. They went into the parlor,
and Ray took a seat in a great arm-chair.
Nannie, giving her curls a toss back
ward, went and sat down.
“ I wish you would put up those fly
away curls, and dress your hair as other
young ladies do,” said Ray. “And see
here, Nannie, I want to have a talk with
you. You know I love you; but in
truth, my dear, my wife must have
something of the elegance of refined so
ciety. Your manners need polish, my
dear. I came down to tell you that my
sister Laura is making up a party to
visit the noted watering-places, and she
wishes you to be one of the number.”
“ Are you going ?” asked Nannie.
“ No; my business will not allow it;
but I shall see you several times. Will
you go ?”
“ I don’t want to go. I’d rather stay
here in the country and climb cherry
trees every day.”
“Nannie, I must insist upon more
self-control,” said he, coldly.
“But don’t send me away,” she plead
ed.
"It is for your good, Nannie, and
you must be content to go. Will you ?”
The supper-bell rang at that instant,
and Nannie hastily answered, "Yes, let
•ne go, Lennox,” and ran out r’ the
room and up stairs to her own chamber.
“ Yes, I’ll go. And I’ll teach you one
lesson, Mr. Lennox Ray, see if I don’t,”
she murmured.
It was nearly the middle of September
before Mr. Ray, heated, dusty and
weary, entered the hotel where his sis
ter's party was stopping.
" Lennox ! you here ?” said she.
“Yes. Where's Nannie?”
“She was on the piazza, talking with
a French Count, a moment ago. Ah !
there she is, by the door.”
“ Ah !” said Lennox, dropping Laura’s
hand, and making his way toward the
door.
But it was difficult, even when he
drew near, to see in the stylish, stately
lady, whose hair was put up over a mon
strous chignon, and whose lustrous
robes swept the floor for a yard, his own
little Nannie of three months ago.
Lennox strode up, with scarce a glance
at the bewildered dandy to whom she
was chatting, and held out his hand
with an eager exclamation:
“Nannie!”
She made him a sweeping curtsey, and
languidly extended the tip of her fingers,
but not a muscle moved beyond what ac
corded with well-bred indifference.
“Ah, good-evening, Mr. Bay.”
* *O, Nannie I are you glad to see me?”
-aid Lennox, feeling that his heart was
. billed within him.
The North Georgian.
VOL. 111.
“ O, to be sure, Mr. Ray, quite glad.
Allow me to present my friend, the
Count de Beaurepaire. Mr. Ray, Mon
sieur.”
Lennox hardly deigned a bow to the
Frenchman, and offered his arm to
Nannie.
“You will walk with me a little
while? ;
“Thanks—but the music is begin
ning, and I promised to d>mce with Mr.
Blair.” W
“But afterward?” said Lennox, the
chill growing colder.
“ But I am engaged to Mr. Thornton.”
“When, then?” demanded Lennox,
with a jealous pang.
“ Really, my card is so full, I hardly
know. I will, however, try and spare
you a waltz somewhere.”
“ Good heavens! Nannie, what affec
tation is this ? ”
She favored him with a well-bred
stare.
“Pardon, Ido not understand you.”
And taking the arm of her escort, she
walked away with the air of an Empress.
Lennox sought his sister.
“Laura, how have you changed Nan
nie so ?” he demanded.
“ Yes, she is changed. Isn’t she per
fect?”
“ Perfect? Rather too perfect to suit
me,” growled Lennox. “To-morrow I
shall see more of Nannie,” he thought.
But to-morrow, and to-morrow, and
to-morrow, it was always the same, and
“that elegant Miss Irving,” as they
styled her. was always in demand, and
poor Lent ox, from the distance at which
she kept him, looked on almost heart
broken, varying between wrath, jealousy,
pride and despair.
“Nannie,” said he, one morning,
when he found her for a moment alone,
“how long is tins to last?”
“I believe you wished me to come
here to improve my manners, Mr. Ray;
to acquire the elegance of society,” she
said, coldly.
“But, Nannie—”
“ Well, if you are not pleased with the
result of your own advice, I am not to
blame. You must excuse me now, Mr.
Ray ; I am going to ride with the Count
de Beaurepaire.”
And, with a graceful gesture of adieu,
she left him sick at heart.
That afternoon Lennox walked unan
nounced into Laura’s room.
“ I thought I’d drop in and say * Good
by ’ before you went down stairs,” said
he. “I leave to-night.”
“Indeed? Where are you going?”
asked Laura.
“O, I don’t know,” was his savage
reply.
‘ • You can take a note to George for
me?”
“Yes, if you get it ready,” said he.
“Very well. I will write it now.”
Laura left the room, and Lennox stood
moodily at a window. Presently Nannie
came in and stood near him.
“Are you really going away?” she
asked.
“ Yes, I am,” was the short answer.
“ And won’t you tell us where ? ”
“I don’t know myself—neither know
nor care !” he growled.
She slipped her hand in his arm, with
the old caressing movement he remem
bered so well, and spoke gently, using
his name for the first time since he
came.
“But, Lennox, dear, if you go away
off somewhere, what shall I do ?”
He turned suddenly and caught her to
his heart.
“ Oh, Nannie, Nannie 1” he cried,
passionately, “if you would only come
back to me and love me—if I could re
cover my lost treasure, I would not go
anywhere. Oh, my lost love, is it too
late?”
She laid her face down against his
shoulder, and asked:
“Lennox, dear, tell me which yon
love best, the Nannie you used to know,
or the fashionable young lady you found
here?”
" Oh, Nannie, darling 1” he cried,
clasping her closer. “I wouldn’t give
one toss of your old brown curls for all
the fashionable young ladies in the
world.”
“ Then you will have to take your old
Nannie back again, Lennox, dear.”
And Lennox, passionately clasping her
to him, begged to be forgiven, and
vowed he would not exchange his pre
cious little wild rose for all the hot-house
flowers in Christendom.
A Bohemian in Austin county, Texas,
had been stacking hay, and after finish
ing the stack he slid down, and a pitch
fork that was leaning against the stack
stuck into his throat and penetrated to
the brain. He lived two days after the
ftocidsnt*
BELLTON, BANKS COUNTY, GA. SEPTEMBER 9, 1880.
BLACKWELL’S ISLAND
This is the largest island in the vicin
ity of New York; it contains 200 acres.
It is long and narrow, with a deep chan
nel on either side, and is the most strik
ing feature in the East river. It was fox
more than a century in the possession of
the family whose name it bears and was
used for farming purposes. The family
eventually declined, and the place was
sold in 1823 by oneof thelastrepresenta
tives for the then enormous sum of $30,-
000. The purchaser (James Bell) was a
speculator who was unable to meet his
payments, and the property was sold
under foreclosure. This occurred in
1828, and the city determined to pur
chase it. This being known led to a
spirited competition, and the property
was run up to $52,000. It was bought
by the corporation as a place for penal
and charitable institutions. Blackwell’s
island would, if put into the market to
day, bring $10,000,000 for residences. It
is the healthiest and prettiest place ever
devoted to its present purposes, and the
convicts and paupers have the best air in
the woild—infinitely better than the
packed population of the city. Tweed,
in fact, was much healthier as a Black
well’s island convict than cooped up in
Ludlow street jail, where, indeed, he
soon died. Two years have elapsed
since he was laid in his grave in Green
wood, and how rapidly he has fallen
out of notice ! The last appearance of
his name, indeed, was in the record of a
life insurance company, which paidapol
icy of SIO,OOO on his iife. Probably that
was the only really honest money the
family had received throughhim since he
abandoned brush-making and gave him
self up to that career of knavery which
made him a convict, whose only release
was in death.
PROGRESS IN JOURNALISM.
A St. Louis correspondent says : The
other day I met here Col. George Knapp,
proprietor of the daily Republican.
He is a medium-sized, gray-haired, rud
dy-faced gentleman, not apparently over
tiO years old—quiet, interesting, pleasing
in manner. He was with his large and
genial editor-in-chief, Mr. Hyde, both
of them enjoying a mutual interview
and a lean against the iron railing along
side the magnificent architectural pile,
the “ Republican building.” Our con
versation turned on the past and pres
ent of journalism, and their contrast.
Col. Knapp indulged in this interesting
bit of retrospect:
“ Fifty-three years ago I began with
the Republican. It was a weekly then.
We hud nothing but a wooden hand
press. Our city circulation was less than
200. I delivered the papers myself. It
took two stout men several hours each
week to work off on that press our
small city and country edition. The
entire edition was only 600 or 700, Our
office was in a little old frame building
then.”
“ And what is the statistical difference
now, Colonel ? ” was asked.
“ Oh, it can hardly be stated in words.
You see this morning’s issue (opening a
copy). Well, our new press prints both
sides at once, and cuts the pages and
pastes them together and folds them up
as this is, at the rate of 30,000 copies an
hour. I have thrown up the job of de
livering our city edition, as I’ve grown
old, and concluded to let the poor boys
’tend to that. ”
■ ♦ •
A negro family near Montgomery,
Ala., were taken ill, and a voudou doc
tor was called in. He said that snakes
were the cause of the trouble, that their
eggs were in the air and water about the
place, and that he would destroy them
for SIOO. His price was deemed too
high. Then the doctor made a pass in
the air with his hand, and showed two
toy “ Egyptian snake eggs,” of the kind
familiar to the children of the North.
These had been floating imperceptibly
in the air, he said. He touched a match
to them and uttered some gibberish,
while the snakes were rapidly extend
ing themselves. This was satisfactory
proof of his knowledge and power, and
he was paid the SIOO.
A somewhat strange case came belore
an English court of law a few days since.
The Rev. E. J. Warrington, rector of
Denzil, Essex, was charged with libel
ing Miss Andrews, of Benzil Hall, by
reason of his refusing to administer to
her the holy communion. He aggra
vated the alleged offense by reading that
part of the rubric before the congrega
tion which declares against evil livers
presenting themselves to take the sacra
ment, using the feminine gender while
doing so. When Miss Andrews went to
the table the rector refused to adminis
ter the communion. Lord Penzance,
lief ore whom the case was tried, reserved
judgment.
THE SPIDER.
The intelligence and power evinced
by the spider in securing its prey has
often attracted attention ; but we havp
seldom heard of so remarkable a display
ol these faculties as we Witnessed a short
tine since. A small-sized spider had
made his web on. the under side of a
table. Early one morning, a cockroach
was noticed oh the floor, directly under
t]je web, and, on approaching to take it
a jay, it was found that the spider had
thrown a line around one of its legs, and.
e the observer was looking at it, the
spider came down and lassoed the oppo
site leg of the cockroach. The spider
then went up to his web, but instantly
cime down and fastened a line to anoih
er leg, and continued for several minutes
dieting down and fastening lines to
different parts of the body of his victim.
Tie struggles of the cockroach (though
a full-grown one) were unavailing to
effect his escape—he could not break his
bqids, and his efforts seemed only to
citangle him the more. As his strug
ghs became more and more feeble, the
spider threw his lines more thickly
aivund him; and when he had become
netrly exhausted the spider proceeded
to raise him from the floor. He at first
railed the head and forward part of the
bciy nearly half an inch; then raised
the other end; and so continued to work,
till the cockroach was elevated five or
sixinches from the floor. Thus, “hung
in chains,” the victim was left to die.
Ths spider was, as before remarked, a
small one, and could not have been more
thin a tenth of the weight of his prey.
Spiders crawling more abundantly and
conspicuously than usual upon the in
door walls of our houses foretell the
ne»r approach of rain ; but the follow
ing anecdote intimates that some of
thiir habits are equally the certain in
dication of fiost being at hand. Quat
rener Disjonval, seeking to beguile the
tedum of his prison hours at Utrecht,
hid studied attentively the habits of the
spiier : and eight years of imprison-
iiad giv<n -hinrhnsare to’iin weh
versed with its ways. In the December
of J 194, the French army, on whose suc
cess his restoration to liberty depended,
was in Holland, and victory seemed cer
tain if the frost, then of unprecedented
severity, continued. The Dutch envoys
ha< failed to negotiate a peace, and
Holand was despairing, when the frost
sudlenly broke up. The Dutch were
now exulting, and the French Generals
prepared to retreat; but the spider
forewarned Disjonval that the thaw
wodd be of short duration, and he
knew that his weather monitor never
deerived. He contrived to communicate
with the army of his countrymen; and
iti Generals, who duly estimated his
claracter, relied upon his assurance
that within a few days the waters would
be again passable by troops. They de
layed their retreat; within twelve days
the frost had returned the French
aimy triumphed, Disjonval was liber
ated, and a spider had brought down
ruin on the Dutch nation.
WHAT CHILDREN SHOULD READ.
she greatest trouble which ensues
Iran placing sensational literature in the
hands of children is the false idea of life
wlich it produces. Many children ev
er? year, after reading those thrilling
adventures and glowing descriptions of
the “golden West,” have become dis
satisfied with the tame and seemingly
uneventful school life and have left their
homes to seek their fortunes and follow
tutor hero. Most of these deluded fort
une hunters find their mistake and like
the prodigal return, but with the taste
for good reading impaired. Such litera
ture should not be placed within the
reach of children. There are plenty of
goad, useful books of moral tone that
are suitable, pleasing ana at the same
time instructive. History is now gotten
up in such a pleasant style that it is a
source of amusement as well as in
structive to read it If novels must be
read—and none ean deny that a good
novel occasionally does no harm—his
torical are preferable to those whose
chief merit seems to be the excitement
they may produce and the false ideas of
life they may create. Every piece a
child reads should contain a grain of
truth, either moral, philosophical, po
litical or historical, that it may spring
up and bear some fruit of usefulness. It
is quite important, too, that the youth
should be conversant with the topics of
the day, which may be found in the
leading papers. No one can be consid
ered well read who knows nothing of the
literature of the times.
President Hayes visited recently the
house in Branford, Ct., built by his
great-grandfather, Ezekiel, 150 years
ago.
NO. 36.
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WELL-BRED' CHILDREN.
It is delightful to see well-behaved
. children in these days, when young
America rides rampant over all estab
lished laws of etiquette. One meets too
many little people who act as if they
tnought it of no consequence how they
behave at -Rome. They talk loud, are
boisterous “When they enter a room, race
up arid down stairs, and call with loud f
voices from one story to another, siati
ining every door after them until the
npisq |s hke the a
gnrfllesS of the great annoyance andfiri
com/ort they inflict upon all in the
house. A visitor at a house where
such behavior in children is tolerated
would scarcely recognize them if he met
them away from home,, they can ’b6 ho
quiet and unobtrusive. But that is? not
being yefined and polished. True po
liteness and good manners cannot be
taken on or put off at pleasure. They
must be home-made, instilled into the
minds-of the children from the cradle,
tri be the pure article. But if it is nef
—to be sure, even a spurious article is
bettor than none. At least it will be
some relief to those who must witness
the boorishness of their home manners.
But if a child can be taught how to‘con
duct himself properly in a friend’s hriiise,
surely he must know that rude conduct
at home is offensive and reprehensible
to the last degree, and in no wise to be
tolerated. Parents can train their
cliildreri to be polite at home as Well as
abroad, and they are guilty of a great
wrong if they do not accomplish it. The
first and most important element of
good breeding is consideration for the
feelings of others.
—— *- W, » - f .
PLAIN FOOD.
If plain food is well and carefully
eopkpd, it is as palatable as richer diet,
mid much more wholesome. Take as
simple a dish as “hasty pudding”—when
properly made, it is a dish “ fit for a
King,” but, when half cooked or sea
soned, it is fit only for pigs and chickens.
,<lo"kiiig is just as trifle a chemi«d pro
cess as any result secured in a labora
tory. And, as in chemistry, the least
deviation from proper proportions in a
given compound will give a result en
tirely different from the one sought, so
it is largely in cooking. In the country,
tiai little attention is paid to diet How
few farmers have a good bed of aspara
gus, so desirable in early spring between
‘ ‘ hay and grass, ” when the whole system
cries out for fresh vegetables, and yet
such a bed is easily started, and will last
for fifty years. Some farmers do not
“feel able” to afford their families any
kind of meat but salt pork, summer and
winter, and yet they can buy good, fresh
beef from the butcher’s cart for less than
what they would sell their everlasting
pork for, and by “boiling down” in the
kettle, with a few light dumplings, you
cun have a fresh-meat dinner that will
be eaten almost as heartily as roast
turkey. Health largely depends upon
the food we eat.
A man threw a gun across his shoulder
at Pineville, Indian Territory, and said
he was going hunting. His way led
past a neighbor’s house, on the porch of
which some children were playing. He
took quick aim at a little girl and fired,
killing her instantly. The only explana
tion he can give for the deed is that he
felt an irresistible impulse to do it
GUILD EATEN BY AN ALLIGATOR.
Mr. John Owens, who lives two miles
this side of Florida Town, on the eastern
shore of Escambia bay, related to one of
our citizens recently a most horrifying
affair. His statement was—and he gave
it as a positive fact—that while a party
numbering some three or four were taking
a sea bath, their attention was directed
to a little 10 or 12-year-old boy whom
they had left on a reef in shoal water
near the beach, the men having ventured
into deeper water. On looking in the
direction of the child they realized the
awful fact that the boy was being swal
lowed by an alligator, fully half the vic
tim’s body still being visible, and then
suddenly disappearing in the frightful
jaws of the monster, whose trmeendous
mouth was plainly seen by each one
present. They at once returned to the
shore, but not a trace of the unfortu
nate lad could be discovered, save the
blood which floated on the water.—
Pensacola (Fla.} Advance.
He was saying, as he scratched a Tucr
fer on the side of the house, “ I like
those houses with sanded paint; nice
when you want to strike a match, you
know.” “ Is that so,” she asked demure
ly; "I wish I lived in a house with
sanded paint”—and then she looked
things unutterable. If he had asked
“ What for?” she would have hated him.
But he didn’t. He took the hint, and
i the match was struck then and thsn.
Published Thursday at
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In faith and hope, the world will disagree,
But all mankind’s concern is charity.—Pope.
It is right to be contented with what we
have, never with what w-e are.—Mackin
tosh.
He that pryeth into every cloud may
be stricken with a thunderbolt— Joseph
A 'Cook. ' f
No Boofcaaresolegible as the lives of
men;, no characters so plain as their mor
al QQnduct
a ’ EvzNiSMe notin our power; butitab
ways ,is to make a good use of even the
wbrst.—BCT'kdfey.
' I ON&B kfiew a man who had advanced
to such' a pitch of self-esteem that h$
never mentfoned lAmself without taking
[o|T his hat—
Be not divifloff-frem y6ur duty by any
idle reflections the sflfy world may make
upon yott, for their censhres are not in
your pdwer, and pprist/quently should
not be any part of ydur concerns.—
Epictetus.
To find recreation in - - amusement is
not happiness; for this (joy comes from
without, and is, therriforb, dependent on
accidents, which often cause inevitable
affliction; but the happiness that is
found in the wml itself is abiding. ,
Some people when they meet a loss sit
down despondent; others go to work all
the harder and make a gain that more
than covers the loss. There is a good
moral to the following: 'At the battle of
Shiloh an officer rushed tip to Grant and
said: “Geneial,Swartz’s battery is took.”
“Well, sir,” said Grant, i“you spiked the
guns before they were itaken?" “Vatl
Schpike dem new guns ? No, Sheneral,
it would schpoil ’em.” “Well, then,
what did you do ? ” “Do ? Vy, we went
right in and took ’em back agan.”
AIDS FOR THE DEAF.
Dr. 0. H. Thomas, of Philadelphia,
has been making a careful study of audi- .
phones, dentiphones and other devices
for
that all these instruments depend for
their action upon the principle of acous
tics that solids—in this case in the form
of thin plates—vibrate in unison with
the sound waves produced in the air
near them. In these instruments the
sound vibrations are of sufficient force
to be audible when conveyed to the in
ternal ear through the medium of the
teeth and cranial bones, independently
of the ordinary channel of hearing.
Various materials were experimented
with, and the best was found to be
fuller’s board, or press-board, when
treated with shellac varnish and thor
oughly dried, and is an improvement
over metal or hard rubber. The sim
plest instrument, and one which excels
all others yet made, is a small rod of
hard wood about two feet long and a
quarter of an inch thick. One end is
placed against the teeth of the speaker
and the other resting against or between
the teeth of the person hard of hearing.
If the speaker now articulates in a nat
ural tone of voice, the vocal vibrations
will be transmitted in great volume
through the teeth and thence to the ears
of the deaf person, and later observa
tions show that it will still convey the
voice if held against the forehead or
other portions of the skull of the hearer.
A STRANGE FACT.
The thinker finds various things to
speculate about while passing through
life. It is singular that man, the biped,
is the only animal that requires amuse
ment. No other animal on the face of
the earth is driven to the base expedients
to which man is compelled to resort for
diversion. Man, the pleasure-loving
biped, must needs kill time ; and, if the
criminal law were to select out of the
murderers those who commit crime for
the sake of something to do, it would be
found that a vast number of innocent
victims were used as mere wax dolls or
dummies, and that the actual and pur
posed victim was poor old Time. Why
the time of these human beings should
be created and given into their hands
merely for them to kill is a thing which
the Creator thereof can alone explain.
NERVOUSNESS.
Tea and coffee-drinking does not
strengthen the nerves by any means,
though they temporarily stimulate them.
In fact the nervousness and peevishness
of our times are chiefly attributed to tea
and coffee. The digestive organs of con
firmed coffee drinkers are in a state of
chronic derangement, producing fretful
and lachrymose moods. Cocoa and
chocolate are neutral in their psychic
effects and are really the most harmless
of our fashionable drinks.
A partrddoe nest with 200 eggs in it
was found ili Lexington, Ga.