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- [ >1 S EL-41 wm : i m _J ■ iEORGIA TIMES A v?. V. £ AStTFjf, f Edltor » »■* Proprietor*. BESIDE THE BABE Grandmother's knitting ha* lost its charm' Unit ceded It lies in her ample lap, ■While the smwet's crimson, soft and warm Touches the frills of her snowy cap. She is gazing on two beside the bars, Under the maple—who Utile ear* Vor the growing du-k, or the rising stars, Or the hint of frost in the autumn sir. One is a slender slip of a girl And one a man in the pride of yon'! -~ Tbe maiden pure as the purest pearl. The iover strong in his steadfast uuth. “Sweet, my own, as a rose Of Jnno,” He says fall low o'er tire golden bead. It would sound to her Uke a ijeat old tone, Could grandmother hear the soft words said' Eor it seems bnt a little while ago Since under the maple, beside the bars, She stood a girl, whUe the sunset’s glow Melted away mid the evening stars. And little you dream how fond a prayer Goes up to God through His silver stars, From the aged woman gazing there, For the two whd linger beside the bars. JIaiioarkt Sakostzs. SOMEBODY. a tsomebody crawls into mamma’s bed Just at the break of day, Snuggles up eiosa and whispers loud- “Somebody's come to stay.” Somebody rushes through the house, Never once shuts a dear; Scatters her playthings all around Over the nursery floor. Climbs on the fence, and tears her clothe«— Never a hit cares she— Swings on the gate, and makes mud pies Who can somebody be ? Somebody looks with roguish eyea Up through her tangled hair; “Somebody's me,”ahe says, “but then Somebody doesn’t care.” SUNSET AND DAWN. It had been a glorious September day, and the sun was sinking in a gorgeous pile of many-tinted clouds, when the train that was to take me cityward drew up at the little platform that was the only railway station at N—-. I had been rnstioating in that wee country village for six weeks, my first vacation in as many years. - - -wary to. _ . 1 holding a position in a public institution. My work was hard, my va¬ cations few, and I sorely needed the rest I had been taking when the train took me up at N-. As I took my place in a crowded oar, I noticed quite near me, two women, one elderly and wearing the dress of a re¬ spectable servant, the other very young, and dressed with simple elegance. There was nothing in the dress of either to attract attention, bnt apparently the younger lady had been faint, for the other had taken off her hat, and was fanning her with it. The face that rested upon the shoulder of the servant was the most beautiful as to form and feature, despairing the meet ghastly in color, the most in expression that I ever beheld. Clouds of light, golden hair moved in the cool breeze from the open window, and the eyes, fixed vacantly, were of the purest blue, the eyes of a babe in shape and color. The fair com¬ plexion was perfectly colorless, and under the large, blue eyes were heavy, purple hollows, while the lips of the perfect mouth were p«rohed and wMte, I stepped to the water-cooler, mixed a light dose of ammonia and water, and handed it to the eider woman, * “I am a physician,” I said. “Let her drink this. It cannot harm her.” “Thank you,” both said at onoe, and the dose was obediently swallowed. I returned to my seat, but as the tedious hours wore away, I noticed fre quently that beautiful, grief-strieken face. There was no sign of mourning in the quiet gray dress, but that there had been some blighting sorrow in the young life was only too plainly evident The moon rose, lighting ... the .. pleasant , . scenes whion we passed at lightning speed, and it was nearly midnight when, without warning, there was a crash, and we were thrown here and there amid the wreck and the rains of the trains which had come into collision. I found myself, as I recovered from the effects of a stannum blow upon the head, hurled agamst a fence at some distance from the trams. The moon lighted up a scene of horror and confu sion upon all sides, and tho air was full of cries of pain, groans, shrieks and a Babel of voices. ' Clear above all rose one load, com manding voioe: “If there is a surgeon unhurt, trill he assist us ?” That. Moused me, and I staggered for- { waid f reea*adn§ myself fully answered;! before I; spoke. otters had also that call, fonnd Plenty of work J for 'lauds. I was rising from the exs mi of one hopeless ease, when a and touched mo, and look i^ 188 ttng girl, who said: “the two women to our . SPRING PLACE. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. MARCH 26, 188S. house. Will you come with me to see them ?’* I followed at once. Not twenty steps awsJ we reaohed a small wooden house, the door of which opened into a small room, and there, by the light of two lamps, I saw the women who had so in terested me during the first houtsof that fearful journey. They were lying upon mattresses, evidently hurriedly spread upon the floor, and only one glance was needed to prove the sorrows, which I had felt were slowly crushing out the younger life, were over upon earth. But the elder woman still lived, and I knelt down beside her, to try to aid her. too, death had set his seal, though the pa hlre^M^bn^Rtill JSEET she ..mITt' * he y 1 fltU1 kn0lt k u » .. S, ? y h h t ? i must * go 7 toner! ^ i'. and , struggling . to rise, she caught sight of the rigid vSjw* t” ^ d d -, ’ Thank God!” iwT^'ErSSL'S’SS Tt men ^ , “You gave me the medicine on the train ” she said nresentlv “Yon said you toN^rkr were a doctor I Tell me shall I net I “D“= hesitated to sneak. to tell me” ’ she urged- dying? “you look kind-hearted If I am will yon not see that the poor child is taken to her friends ?” “T will ”T answered ovurete totinw ad’drasa ^ and ” "Her name i. Loro. F.irthoror. Too ttaLZmtzzF* ’ “I will do ss you desire,” * . „ T I said. .. I hirSrfW Hornebodv w£r ‘inTnfihnd'D 1 must nm fl ttall tell her mother «d and brother. YAn You ^ *** ° t idli and tell them»” Yes > t 1 sa1 ^. se f in * tkat * be wMns citato vm siortedng her I * 8 0,1 earth ’ 7 may tr ? t 109 ra ffl im f n nearly a year ago, but her brother knew hub for a bad man, a villain as he was, and forbade him the house. But Miss Lorna worshiped him. He was a p:o tureof a man to look at, sir, he was in deed! Well, she fretted so I could not bear to see her, and I carried the letters for the both of them, like a wicked, foolish woman, I can see now 1 But it was all for love of the child I nursed.” She broke down, sobbing, but re gained her composure after a moment. “The letters made all the preparations for a runaway match, sir, though I her Lt of he money her father left her? n bo pereuaded i her LJ1 , t - nlu away and ’ r keD , L f ° Und Bhe woa d g0 ’ 1 ran a ^ ay too She was never strong, sir, and I had nursed her all her life. Mr. lair thc$»e was none too well pleased to see me in the carnage that took Miss Lorna to Central Park to meet him, bnt he let me stay with her. So we all went to Boston. He wanted to write to Mr. Graves and demand Ms wife’s money at once, but she coaxed him to wait, telling him it was tied up until she was twenty one, and that won’t be till Christmas week, sir. She’ll nev#r claim it” “When did she leave him?” I asked. “ Ear y ln Ibh , ... ® ^otmamed , . , a week before her husband began to be ^eless of her. But the worst came ^ fore they ware a month married, when be ™ “ d ^ a forgery and r.t than tem P‘ a to year mnrder ago. * ^ Then took we P laee knew m his ^ a aame ^ not 8 Fairthorne , bnt Blake , au( j ]j een taking the name of n {rieild wbo wa8 in Europe. It is all in a tangle in my poor old head, sir, but the po Iioe carried him off. “Weil, sir, all this time Mr. Graves was patting notices in the paper, with en t names right out, but we knew who was meant, begging his sister to come Home, or write and tell them where she wft8> She meant to write, until the dis • Then flhe would , Btjt ^ not ahe 0 , nng to her hasban(l Every day she went to the prison and sat with him for honrs, and he seemed to soften and feel sorry for all that he had done, when she was with him. Every night she cried herself to sleep in my arms. She was grieving herself to death, and those who would have oome to eomfort her did not know her sorrow, “I cannot tell yon about the law part of the trouble, sir, for I had my bauds full in court, watching the ohfld. But the end was, they sentenced Lucius Blake to twenty years in the State Prison. He was taken there this mora WWfiSHS® ing, ana I wee taking fek wifehoma If I had waited she would not have gone there, disgraced and worse than widowed. But she was stunned like, and did what ever I said.” “And have her mother and brother known nothing of her marriage?” “Not a word, sir 1 You will find her marriage certificate in her pocketiwok, and a pioture of her husband in the locket on her neck. You had better taka them now. Tell her mother I never kft her, and would have brought her home 1 But her Heavenly Father knows beet You started when I thanked Him that „j ie was deal I Is it not best so ? Think of twenty years of misery, watching and waiting, sorrowing and weeping. Bet ter she’s gone, poor lamb, than living to to by totes.” “ Bat the law W0 uld 1106 her from her husband -” 1 sai<L , “No law would take the love out of her heart, sir. Bad as fie was, a forger, a WO ald-be-murderer, she loved him! That’s the strange part of life, sir, how » pn». good woman will cling to a bad mam Bat they do, they do.. Oau you idt me a uttl °* **’ 801 oan 800 I«««■■ ■“«•“■>«'«■? that she oould rest upon my arm, and 866 tbe ,aoe deatb bad lei * misoarred and peaoefuL - <'Itislo.gsincesheresteasoqmetly, rt • i • n ,, . ,, theoldwoman] said solemnly; sleepwas ^ Wh ° W ° U m <i W “ m h V t6 "poor child!” I said softly “she sleensquietlynow slee P 3 qmeuy n » . JS StS.’S ? “ M L “ e , *time i yoa'ewry’ua r bo^b.' tb wlmu home i “Not long, I said. I returned to the wreck outside ^ bere was am P la ^ olic f° r me, and I tried with aU my skill to meet it coming to the httle house whenever I oould 8 P are a uootoent. Each time 1 fonnd m7 patient weaker ’ carefully tended by the girl who had summoned me to her side. Tender 118,138 had P re P ared 1,orna for the K rave rsrriSSI « (he end of the faithful servant’s life was very near. She smiled as I knelt beside the mattress, and put my finger upon the fast failing pulse. “The pafn is all gone, doctor,” she whispered faintly. “I shall not be long separated from my child. She would m i 8s po or Margaret, would she not? Will you carry mo home with her?” “You shall not be separated,” promised. “You have the looket and the oertifi oater • ..yes, I have both.” — death!” 8ke 8m “ ed “fl?’ ^P^lng the words l and w,th tbe smile upon her lips, her spirit joined that of the poor sorrow-strioken child she had loved so dOTOtedly . I waited beside her till she was oarried to the fiide of ber u urs liug, and promised to re turn to carry ont the mission upon wll ich she had sent me, fulfill the trust re posed in me. Tenderly, upon that fateful night, j p i a0 ed old Margaret beside her charge, aud gi v i Dg orders that they were not to be removed excepting in my care, went again to the scene outside to give what service I could to other sufferers. And as I opened the house door, hav¬ ing seen the last of the tragedy ended in the little room, the early dawn was lighting the soene outside, and the glow of sunrise was reddening the east. And I may say here that I kept my .vord and saw the dead safely under the roof they had so rashly forsaken, and told the story entrusted to me to the sorrowing mother and brother. Fine Sentiment^ to Order. A rather funny thing in connection with the suit of breaoh of promise brought by Miss Fortesone against Lord Garmoyle comes to me from across the water. When the case was brought up in court, a letter from the lady to her betrothed was read, and it expressed sentiments of snob a lofty oharaoler that a very profonnd impression was made upon everybody, even to the Judge who heard them. It raised the young lady very Mghly, in fact, in the estima¬ tion of tbe whole pnblio. But the letter is now found to have been copied verbatim from a book of correspondence, where it appears under the head of “Letters from a young lady on receipt of a valuable gift.” Everybody in Lon don is said to be laughing over the discovery. But as Miss Fortesoue has received her $50,000, she will probably not be muoh affected.— Boston Herald, - ffISTEB AMONG THE WOODSMFN. Hard W IJT Day and Jolly Time* at N * Abe lartiu of Maine. past Despit^fco in thflittober unprofitable business, year just havegfene the woods men in swarms^from Bangor, as usual, As winter, to cat spruce and pine on tM upper Penobscot One in duoementpjthe lorijjtooat lumbermen to operate is the of provisions, it being possible centj| Mfboard a brew of men 20 to 25 per cheaper than a year Ago. Labor alstt.i» low, as the Prince Edward Island bowihave poured into Bangor by the hundrK this season looking for cm ploy men Vfeid they have put wages down and kept them there. Think of a stout you% man swinging an ax all winter for&O to $15 a month and his board - aro the w «gea accepted by f jfiierp tbe PrblC0 Edward Island loggers, was a time in the days of big piteSS nap by, when a woodsman was lesrned looked trade.! iftijp as a man who had a loggers Many live peoj&%o in thmwooda. queer ideas They of build how if there is hot cme and are sewom more than a '“e* day about The » simply a log house, with low sides and steep-pitched roof, The ohinfe: of the walls are filled In with mnd , moss.and leaves', and a high bank ing o{ S a- lh or 6110W rea0 , ie8 almo3t to eaves, outside. The entrance is inone ^| eti|> ( and tho only window is in ° P P ^ The cook andhis as S off “ t “‘“f at t the|wmdow . a ®° rt of end, 5»W and there loIlea are side of ^#ntranoe. The remapider of b " W ‘®‘“ r “ f*”*’'. and ploi!|^s, On ihe on which the side men sleep in a opposite is a Imig table, madeof small logs, hewn smooth 0 n top, on ^ioh the food is served. Id fron t of it is a big log hewn out for a settee, and called the deacon seat. The men « whep,;done eating, have only to turn arealte in their seat to toast their ahins at a big fire of logs, which glows like a smal vooauol in the midst of all, tsx but wholesome and substantial Pork and beans, bread and molasses, and p 0r k fat, the latter nsed for butter, moke up a breakfast at sunrise. Then the crew goto work, and, if near by the camp, they oome back at 12 o’clock for diuner, which is beans and pork, with perksoraps and doughnuts. Thenien work until it is too dark to tell a hem look from a spruce, and then come back to eat a supper of the same viands, varied with dried apple-sauce. Fish is sewed once or twice a week. Thebev erage is cheap tea. Evening, sad Brad.?,u» PjMd in tellmg wonderful yarns, singing ear splitting songs, and smoking. In some camps toe men play cards, and gamble for tobacco, clothing, and even wages. The -roods beans are the ^est of all baked beans, and put Boston in the shade. They are oooked in an iron pot placed in a pit surrounded by live cools and oovered tightly with earth over night. In the morning they are done toa turn. No range oan oompete with the bean hole of the woods. The woodsmen range in age from 16 to 65, dress in heavy woolen or knit un derwear, cheap ready-made clothes, cloth or knitted caps, moccasins, and many socks and mittens. They work on an average fonr months, come out as fat as bean, and with from $50 to $150 due them. They speifid the money, and then are ready to work on the river or go driving. Every Day.—A n old broken-down gambler of Puis may be seen daily promenading in tbe shabbiest attire, with a magnificent white oamelia in his button-hole. Some years ago he won a great deal of money and determined to make sure that he should always be sup¬ plied with his favorite flowar. He there¬ fore paid a large sum in cash to his florist who agreed to supply jiim with a white oamelia every day for the rest of his life. And now the deoayed old sport struts up and down the boulevards with a comelia worth more than the coat which it adorns. Cost Too Muoh. —A lady of refine¬ ment and well dressed entered one of onr principal grocery stores a few days ago and ordered a quantity of sugar of such quality as had been advertised at very l9 w figures. She said that she had bought a barrel of the same grade a short time ago, but as it had cost her was now asked she had Con¬ eluded to wait until the price advanced before using it. She had an eye open to economy, but hardly knew where to commence. VOL. V. New Series. No. 7. TWO BRA YE YOUNG GIRLS. . Row They Kepnlecd a Cane of Bnr«la>» until Frieudd Came to tlie Rescue. Two young ladies, the Misses Idalie and Jeanne Guthrie, living a few miles east of Erie, Pa., had a thrilling experi enoe with a band of masked burglars, The sisters had been left in charge of their home, their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elisha Guthrie, having been decoyed to Jamestown, N. Y., by a spurious dis patch, and soon after dark fonr masked men knocked at the door and demaudod admittance. The house being strong and well secured owing to its lonely sit nation, the girls resolved to stand the siege. They barricaded the doors and windows with furniture, a precaution al m06t unnecesssrv owing to the strength of the looks, bolts, and bars with which the lower part of the house was secured. The burglars tried every horrible threat that suggested itself to induce the young ladies to surrender, but the heroic girls held out resolutely. The men com menced to file away the staples or bars of a lower window, which had the effect of ^ greatly terrifying though W not of sub y ™ 8 . er brother, Henry, was absent at the home of a schoolmate named Higgins, between whose house and the Guthrie home was telegraphic connection, tho two boys having fixed the wires and batteries {or the parpose of stu had^also dying telegraphy. Miss Jeanne, who acquired a knowledge of telegraphy, rushed to her brother’s room and frantically called him U P- « the hope of transmitting intelli # *genoe of their danger and obtaining help from Uio Higgins folks. M*** dismay there was no response to their ^ “ d He "rJ “f him part of the way. In the meantime, partially the burglars had succeeded in cutting away the fastenings, and the ghrle began to lose all hope. In the dis ' tance they could see the light of their young brother’s lantern, as he come across the fields, a circumstance that in tehsified their terror, believing the vil % ins would kill him. In their telegraph varites they had practiced signaling or tion and in making known their peril, The boy hastened back for help, and two of the ruffians were captured, one of whom has confessed that the scheme to rob the house was planned by the nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Guthrie, one Ed Camper, who had manufactured the, daeoy telegram, Alleged Penitentiary Abuses. CHARGES OF INHUMANITY WHICH HAVE CAUSED A SENSATION IN TENNESSEE. A few days ago the Nashville Banner published a report of Dr. E. D. Sim, chairman of the Committee on Prisons and State Board of Health of Tennessee, making a severe criticism on the present penitentiary system. The Banner in¬ dulged in some strong editorial com¬ ments upon tbe system as represented in Sim’s report and was sued for $60,000 for an alleged libel, and two of its pro¬ prietors indieted by the Grand Jury. The Banner insists that its assertions can be snstained by proof, and publishes an interview with Dr, J. W. Reed, rep¬ resentative from Campbell county. Dr. Beed said tho convicte at the coal mines have been ornelly treated; that he and Drs. Smith and Britton bad dis¬ sected the body of a convict fonr honrs after death; that it was customary to furnish physicians with dead convicts, and that he never knew the body of a convict to be buried. He also says the convicts are whipped unmercifully. Sick or well, if any fail to complete the task set for them they are whipped. He continued: “I have known some to be so Biok that they could not com¬ plete their task, and others have volun¬ teered having to help them ont to keep them from the lash applied to them. I remember that not long ago the bank boss forced some convicts to go into a mine when it was suspected to be on fire. He refused to go himself, but pushed the convicts in and two of them were killed. One was blown seventy yards and crushed to death. There has not been a single charge brought against the penitentiary system that cannot be Droved.” Doesn’t Know.—T here is a young man in Allentown, Pa., the Register sayB, who is quite a ladies’ man, knows all the steps in dancing, and is up in the fashions, and is otherwise accom¬ plished, who, when asked to name the President’s Cabinet, could not name a single member, nor conld he say who were the Senators from Pennsylvania. We are afraid there are lots like him here and elsewhere. STRAY BITS OF RUMOR FOUND JN THE UPWOKOUN COLUMNS OF OUft EXCUANUK8. Not tea Fresb-^Vlhere Interest Ceneed-A Seller Indian—The »tel*h Belle-On * Car, Ete. SOT TO BE OUTDONE. At Potftluma, a small milk-can station on tbe Napa road, a fervent appeal was made last Sunday by the pastor of the proposed church there for funds to build said edifice. Not a cow-punoher moved. The entire congregation of teat-squeezer* seemed wrapped in slumber. As the minister gazed mournfully around a hen suddenly flew out of the old plug hat used as a contribution box, making • terrific oaokling. The pastor approached the hat and beheld a new-laid egg. Holding up the hen fruit, heexalaimed sarcastically: “She has contributed her alL Will you allow yourselves to be outdone by a hen?” The effect was electrical I In less than twenty minutes there was over forty-five cents in the pooh —Sat Francisco Post. THE SLEIGH BELLS. T.Ho sleigh bells tinkle merrily, The moon shines cold and bright. And Clariboll’s laugh shesrily Rings out upon the night. The grind and crackle of tho snow Is music to her ear, She only thinks “How fast ws go P’ Nor has she care nor fear; Happy behind the flying spaa She sits beside her Will, ■Who thinks “I wonder if I can Get trusted for the bill V” —Boston Post SO STMPTOMS. Mother—Are you quite sure, dear, that yonng Featheriy is not fond of you? He certainly seemed very de¬ voted las t night when he buttoned your glove. Daughter—Ah, yes, mother; but his hand nev;r trembled. A MATTER OF INTEREST. “Oh, Mr. Smith,” said a young lady at a churoh fair, “I want your help for t moment.” \ “Certainly,” replied Mr. Smith. ISHiHJRMvs what percentage that is.” me “A transaction of that kind, my deal Miss B.,” Baid Mr. Smith, who is a law¬ yer, “gets out ef percentage and into larceny. "—Drake's Magazine. A FOLLOWER. An American strolled into a fashion¬ able churoh just before the aervieeB be¬ gan. The sexton followed him up, src tapping him on tjie shoulder, and point . ing to a small ear that had followed him into the saered edifioo, sauU “Dogs are not admitted.” “That’s not my dog,” replied th« • visitor. “But he follows you,” “Well, so do you.” The sexton growled, end removed th. dog with unnecessary violence, a black am “Johnnie, have yon been fighting?* gravely inquired Mrs. Muggins, “No, ma’am,” promptly answered the heir of the Mugginses. “John Muggins; how dare you tell me an untiuth!” exolaimed his mother. “Where did you get that black eye,sir?” “I traded another boy two front teeth and a broken nose for it,” replied John¬ nie as he crossed the woodpile .—St Louis Post, THE INDIAN WAS SOBER. The other day a rather fresh tourist got off the oars at a way station on the Atchison, Topeka, ancl Santa h'e. Seated on ft.stone, with a dirty blanket wrapped around him, was an aborigine. He had on moccasins and wore a soalp look, and was just such a wild Indian as tbe imag¬ inative tourist desired to meet The latter danced before him, waved an im¬ palpable tomahawk in the air, gave a whoop and yelled: “Big Injun? Great chief? Wahl” The buck granted. “Killum heap 1 Heap so&lp ?” shouted die tourist Again the buck grunted and looked surprised. “Where’s wigwam ? Love pale faoe ?” “What in ....... thunder are yon talking About?” said the buck. “Are you drunk ?”—Pittsburg Chronicle. DAVE WAS ELECTED. “Well, Dave, you got elected, aftei all, didn’t you?” “Yes, I did.” “It was a mighty tight squeeze, though, wasn’t it ?” “It was, for a foot.” “Took a heap of hard work, didn't it?” “No, not such an awful sight, but it took just oceans of behaving. ’’— Chicago Ledger.