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H. H. McENTYRE,
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AND STONE WORKMAN,
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»Dd solicit the pal'onige of tho e He-
tiring work in my line. H. H. McEntyrr.
A NEW WORK SHOP,
1) W. Bridges has oponed a shop one
miir b ve Geo. Lalhem’s store. He
n.i'd- homei, mills. Bridges makes and
e| air* ail kinds of furniture, and does
i ) il.irg that can be done with wood.
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JEWELER AN D PHOTOGRAPHER,
CANTON, GEORGIA,
Can be found at his G tilery, at any
time where he is always ready to do good
work at a lew price. [JulylGtf
H. W. NS T MVN . .TNO T ATT W'Y
NEWMAN & &TTAWAY,
Attorneys at Law,
CAN ON, : : GEORGI t.
AVi .1 prfc'icr in 'lie S iper'or Court of
Or k e h> d adjoining countiefc. Prompt
at nt on iLin t.i all '.usine-s plaorJin
their hdL'ds. office in the Court jlnua-.
THE DAY OF REST.
Holy and beantifnl! Tho very bird
That pours hia wealth of mneio on the ear
Seems, to our ohaatened hearts, by worship
stirred.
To pay his tribute to the season dear.
The breeses pass us by with loitering wing
And less distinct the insects’ joyful hum;
Painter tho voices of the gurgling spring,
And all proclaims the welcome rest hath
come.
The flowers hang droopingly on pliant stem,
The pale, thin clouds float down the azurs
sea
With gentlest motion; and the heart, like
them.
Fain would go forth, sinless, and calm, and
free!
All things without do utter " holy time,”
And all within the sonl gives answering
cheer;
The burden of ali grief, and care, and crime
Is vailed from sight, it oasts no shadow
here.
Into the deep recesses of the mind,
O holy peaoe, descend and long abide!
Till a perpetual Sabbath there enshrined
Sheds guiding rays across life's ebbing
tido I —Boston Transcript.
A MORE EXCELLENT WAY.
"Here yon young rascal I drop thaf
thin minute I”
The tone was stern enough to enforce
obedience of itself, But the speaker added
emphasis by seizing tho miscrcaut by
ilie collar and giving him a thorough
shaking. It was a small boy, thin and
atarved-looking, with many patches on
his poor clothing and not a few rags
that fluttered as ho Bwuug in tho grasp
of tho strong, well-dressed youth who
hold him. But his grimy Augers uover
loosed their hold of the disputed object,
and his only oaro seemed to bo to ko6p
it from injury. His eyes blazed with
passion as he screamed:
"Let go of me, Rick Markham. It’s
,o business of yours, aud if you make
:uo break it I’ll kill you for it some time
—see if I don’t. Let go, I say. ”
It was an odd contest, and the boys
gathered round, lull of interest, to see
what wouid happen, though, of oo.irsti
they knew that the little fellow could
mt hold out long.
"Give it to him, Riok I” shouted out
nine, "shake the dirty little beggar out
J his boots.’’
"Stick to it, Toby,” oried others, to
keep up "the fun;” "flndin’s is havin’s,
if you only keep ’em.”
"Boys! Boys! What is all this dis-
urbanoe?” inquired Miss Lawrence, the
cocher, hurrying to the scene. "Haven’t
l forbidden fighting times enough.”
"Yes, ma’am,” answered Markham,
‘but this isn’t a real fight. Toby Driggs
,t< lo Ray Burgess’s toy balloon, and I
vus trying to make him give it up, but
lie won’t, and so you see I cannot take it
iway without breaking it.”
"Careful, careful,” said the teaolior,
gently; "stole is an ugly word. Do not
my it unless you are sure.”
“Well, I am sure, Miss Lawrence, for
[ saw him myself. He watched where
Ray laid it when some of the boys called
him to play tag, and went and got it and
was making off as fast as ever he could
when I caught him."
"Charles,” said Miss Lawrence, grave
ly--she never called him by that hate
ful nickname, Toby—“I thought you
wore growing to be one of my best boys,
and now you pay me in this way for
trusting you. You cannot he my friend
if you do such things. Now make it as
near right as you can. Go and give Ray
his balloon at once.”
The child’s eyes had been fixed upon
here ns though he dreaded each word as
it fell, while his face grew whiter and
more set, As she ceased a stony defi
ance settled over it. He moved not one
step.
"Charles,” she said, afteralong pause
of wonder at the stubbornness of this boy,
who had lately obeyed her every word,
and perplexity as to the best course ih
case he continued obstinate, "are you
not going to obey me ?”
"No ma’am,” replied tho boy, siowi^
"I didn’t steal it, and I won’t give it up
to him—not if you kill me."
Miss Lawrence was astounded, though
no sign of the fact appeared.
"Very well,” she remarked, quietly,
looking at her watch, "we have no more
time to spend with this affair now. Go
into the school-room, all of you, aud
take your seats. I will attend to it after
the session. Charles need have no rec
itations. He oan take his time to
think.”
*******
The sunbeams stole in through the
school-room window, marking, as they
moved from desk to desk, the passage
of the hours. Pleasant summer hours
they were. Bees hummed through them,
birds sang, and sleepy windlets swung in
leafy branches, but two hearts in that
room were too heavy to heed,
Charles Driggs sat stolid and deter
mined, watohing the door furtively, and
calculating his chances of esenpo, for to
this plan his "thinking" had evidently
b: ‘light him. But too muny eyes were
Ui nn him, aud, spite of the teacher’s
efforts to prevent, many fingers were
pointed nt him and many cruel little
toi guos whispered "Thief I"
Ah 1 what a wild beast iustinot it is—
th it so common one, to hunt the sus-
p«- ted or uufortunato, eithor of human
m dumb creatures, the very ones that
should rouse the Christ-like yearning to
spelter them.
Misc Lawrence watched anxiously.
Sl:o felt that there was something unac
countable in the boy's sudden stubboni-
ni hr and in tho value ho seemed to set
upon a simple toy. She had found him.
at her entrance into tho sohool, idle,
willful, and disorderly, as neglected
children so often are, but ho had been
easily won and had tried earnestly
aud constantly to improve. This out-
break wns puzzling, discouraging, like
so many of the coses teachers have to
dfnl with. Sometimes they find the
key to the mystery; oftoner it is entirely
mt of their reach, and they have to
blunder along blindly, doing whnt cir
cumstances compel, felling that, after
ali, it is not tho right way, though the
only one possible to them.
What a weary afternoon; would it
never end ? At last the stmlight slipped
-iff the threshold. The pupik soon fol
lowed it. For a moment she slackened her
wiilch, while the larger ones, being in
spelling-class with their hacks to the
Ivor, could not see. In that moment
Charles slid round. He was almost gone
—not quite, though.
Miss Lawrence turned just in timo to
neize him and threw him, kioking aud
struggling, into the nearest seat. She
was thoroughly augry nt his persistent
wickedness, and flung the boy down
with the feeling that he was entitlod to
no further consideration from hej.
“ Bit there !” she exclaimed, "anil we
will have you fastened like any other
tlief.”
Cruel wordB they were—regretted as
-;on oh spoken—but the boy did not
sfcciu to Jiuiu them. Hie eyes were Aped
witli a glare of terror npon tho balloon;
which was slowly shrinking away,
pierced by some pin-point. As it shriv
- led up into an unsightly rag he flung
himself, with a despairing seream, upon
ihe floor beside it, and lay there moan
ing and grieving like a dog beside some
u ticle once worn by its dead master.
As for Miss Lawrence, Bhe was rathei
glad of this unlooked-for esoape from her
difficulty.
"Ray,” she said, "I will got you a
new balloon, since this one was destroyed
partly through my fault The school
is dismissed. Charles will remain.”
Tho boy sat quiet, uuheeiling the jeers
or tho contemptuous glances of the
others as they passed out, and staring
blankly straight ahead of him, like one
who had just seen a last hope go out.
The teaoher watched his face, so stony,
so unchildlike, long after the last young
footstep had pattered out of hearing. At
lost she said;
" Charles, I did not suppose you cared
so much for playthings that you would
take those which did not belong to you.”
" I don’t,” answered the boy, dogged
ly. " Why don’t yo let me go now?
There aint nothin’ to stay for. You’vo
smashed it, and that’s the very worst
thing ye could do to me. ”
" You may go presently; but why do
you speak so to me ? I did not keep
you here for a punishment. Yon forget
that I have the toy to pay for, unless
you can help me.”
" Well, I can’t then,” he rejoined,
desperately. “ 1 haven’t got a penny in
the world. If I had had or could a
earned one do you think I’d a touched
liis old balloon 1”
"But why should you, any way?”
urged Miss Lawrence. " It wasn’t any
thing you needed.”
" Wasn’t it ?” ho cried, furiously. ‘ ’ I
uever needed anything so much in all
my life, and if there’s another to he
prigged in this town to-night I’m the fel
low that does it, and you may help your-
solr. ”
"Why Charles!” exclaimed the as
tonished lady; "are you crazy ? What
is the matter ? Tell me all about it,
she added, coaxingly, almost terrified by
the strange conduct of the boy.
" What’s the use?” ho muttered, with
a sullen, suspicious glance. "You
couldn’t help, and if you could, you
wouldn’t. Nobody cares for poor folks
like us. What if we do get sick and
die? It’s no matter. And as for feelin s,
who ever thought of our havin’ any ?
Feelin’s is for folks that dress in silks
and satins off o’ the money they cheat
us out of. ”
“Charles,” observed Miss Lawrence,
gently, "I am sure I don’t know what
makes you talk so strangely, bnt I am
very sorry for you, and il yon tel)
me what all this moans I will help you,
if l can. Isn’t that fair?”
"Yoh, ma’am,” replied tho hoy, slowly,
after a loug, wistful gaze into the trou
bled and gentle eyes of tho teacher; "I'll
tell yo, though thoro's nothin’ you chu
<lo, us I know on. Yon see, my little
brother Leu lias been sick a loug lime
mil gettiu’ thinner aihI thinner, till Iio’h
iest as poor and palo ns a ghost. It’s
mostly the poor food lie has and tho hard
times, the Doctor said, and he finally
told mother there wasn't no use of his
cornin’ any longer; so lie don’t, and poor
little Len has got no wenk he can’t sit
up any more, hut just has to lie still all
day long, with nothin’ to pass tho time
away or make tho timo any easier, only
when some of us hold him np to the
window n few minutes nt a time. He
can’t hear it long, hut it seems to please
him. Well, the other day, as I wns
loin' so, n hoy enmo along with ono of
them things, an’ it took tho poor littlo
fellow’s eye, so it seemed he must have
mu. But mother told him she couldn’t
get it, ’cause she hadn't a tut of money,
mid then lie didn’t say another word, hut
just turned his poor head over on the
pillow, when ho thought nobody was
lookin’, and cried all to himself.
"I’ve boon tryin’ ever siuco to get
somethin' to do, so I could buy liini one,
but nobody would give ino any work.
Ho was so bad this mornin’, mother
said hIio wns afraid lie wouldn’t last but
a day or two. He’s out of his mind a
good deal, and then he talks mostly
about the pretty red moon, aud says he
is going to climb up into the sky and get
it. I thought maybe he'd die cosier to
have it, and when I saw Ray Burgess
with one in his hand I mndo up my
imind to get it if I oonld. It wasn't
■■ml, downright stealing for mo totnko it
from him; really it wasn’t, Miss Law*
renoe. Only just taking a littlo of what
belongs to ns—for father spendo ’most
every cent he earns at Mr. Burgess's
drink shop, though mother has begged
Mr. Burgess on her knees not to sell to
him. We’d bo oomfortublo and decent
as anyliody if we oonld only have fath
er’s wages; bnt they all go to help build
Mr. Burgess’s grand house, and put flno
clothes on liis wife aud buy uioo things
ion his children, wlo^ onr poor Leu
can’t have ono littiv ,,.. v ... and lie
inlying of slow starvation. That’s what
iiother sayH it is.”
And the boy broke down with n sob at
thought of his pet brother’s wrongs.
Miss Lawreuce hiul not the heart to
irguo with him. She was poor herself,
ut no misery like this had ever crossed
icr path.
"Yon may go, now, Charles, she
iid; "but let tho lad loon rest for to-
ight, and don’t give up; your brother
miy not be so ill as you think."
He departed, n littlo comforted.
The teaoher wont strnight to the one
- >y-shop of tho village and purchased its
ist remaining toy balloon. Then a
icw sign, "Theodore Gray, M.D.,"
oaroely noticed la*fore, arrested her at-
ention, and soon she was on her way to
lie house of want, accompanied by i
oiing physician who was not too well
RtahliHhed and successful to attend tin
ooor.
Littlo Len lay on his bed of suffering
—liis thin, drawn face so white that lie
nuked already dead, and one felt almost
Un tied to see the blue eyes unclose.
Charles sat gazing at liim in despair.
A fruitless fight against want and mis-
ry showed everywhere.
While the Doctor examined his pa-
ient, Miss Lawrenoe sought tho heart-
ii oken mother.
■‘We have come to help you, if you
vill let us,” she said, simply.
So the two—poor themselves—set to
.oik to relievo those so much poorer
i-id more unhappy.
Littlo Len’s sunkon eyes brightened
ii sight of tho red balloon, and after a
nipper of warm broth he fell asleep
with his hand on the string and the
bright globe nestled against his wan
cheek.
No; he did not die.
Richard Markham heard the story
next day and went to see him. To his
credit be it said, he was not ashamed to
hike Charlie by the hand, and say:
"Forgive me, lad. I was more to blame
than you. I ought to have found out all
about it before trying to make a public
example of you, when I had never
known yon to do anything like that
before.”
I don’t blame you,’’replied the other.
*< it was the first timo, and it shall be
the last. But, of course, there are plenty
who won’t believe mo.”
For a while all Richard’s spending-
rnoney went to the Driggs family. Others
too, in time joined to help them, so that,
though always poor and struggling—as
hov' could they be otherwise ?—they did
not again reach suoh a depth of want.
The father did not reform, for the dram
shop still stood open and his earnings
dropped mostly into its till, But work
was furnished his family—so they man
age-1 to live.
Miss Lawrence hns never ceased to
practice tho " more excellent way,” aud
ninny lips call down blessings npon her.
She does not teach the village school
now, hut a lady sometimes stands at a
wind-iw over tho now sign —now no longer
new—who looks much like her.
I think you will find, too, that the
Doctor is soon to take a student who
signs himself Charles Driggs.—Arthtie's
AtagaxUw.
nil AND*WISDOM.
Tub vrby bust thing for you to do is
to do the very host thing you know how.
This is a hard rule to follow, hut a safe
ane.
It is the eniscst thing in tho world foi
a father to give his daughter a ohock for
810,000 on her wedding day; hut it io the
hardest thing in the world for tho bride
or any other person to got it onsbod.
Tun remains of a man, with his hand
in the pocket of the remains of another
man, have just boon discovered in the
ruins of Pompeii. He is believed to have
been a pickpocket.
A man who named liis horse "Drutn-
iii' r" in hope that ho would boat time,
was booh taught tho error of Li., ways by
another who named his horse "Tramp”
so itH to place him in a position to beat
anything ho came in sight of.
"You ought to see my new dog," said
V to B. "He’s ono of the best Gordon
setters I ever Haw.” "I’ve got a settei
that will lay over him," rejoined B.
"Bet you a V yon haven’t” "Taken,”
said B. Tho bet is still undecided is -
cause B trotted out a lien.
"What is that with au Apron?"
"That, my son, is a Woman.” "What
is she trying to Do?” "She is trying to
drive Ton pullots ami n Gentleman Hen
out of Iho Garden,” "Will sho do it?’
"No, my son, hut sho will Hjxril tho Gar
den.”—/lurlinr/fon Free Press.
Tills Czar of Russia once mot by neci-
li ut Colonel Guletsiu in a state of in-
ehriety. "Look here, sir,” said the
Czar, "what would you do if you met a
Colonel of the Guard in the condition in
vliieli I find you ?” Tho Colonel drew
limsolf up, gave tho military salute and
, < plied with gr at gravity, ",1 we
oudesceud to say a word to the brute."
ilis wit saved him his commission.
A IjADY whose husband had been elect
d to Congress ami who was much dis-
'iii bod by the stories she had read of the
milarious atmosphere of the capital,
isked ono of his constituents if b<
bought it was safe for her husband t •
lie in Washington, "Safe?” lie re
joined, "well, I should say so. It’s
Tout tho only place in the country
where a man can steal with positively
io risk of being Bent to State Prison for
it.”
Inquikbr—You wish to set Mr. Snagg.i
nid his next-door neighbor to fighting.
Kiisy enough. Homo dark night just
take a load of ashes and old oyster cans
tml dump them in Huaggs’s hack yard.
He’ll lay it to his neighbor and sling ’em
over the fence. 'I ho ncighlior’ll tieniud-
dor than a candidate for office boaton by
jno vote, and will sling’em hack. Then
tilings will hum; lawsuits, pulled noses
mil bloody heads will lie tho result and
you can sit bock and sec tho fun.—Pos
ton Post
Gambling In the Army.
The Washington Republican says:—
•Said an old army correspondent re
garding the revelations of gambling
among army officers at Washington: " It
is not to be wondered at that idle army
officers should gamble when it is a fact
thut the vice was a common one during
the most active campaigns of the late
war. I have seen men spend the even
ing between two days of a battle in
playing cards for stakes. It wasn’t ex
actly gambling under fire, but it was the
next thing to it. There was hardly an
officer's mess, regimental or staff, that
was not a poker club, and thousands of
dollars changed hands after each visit of
the paymaster. Freeze-out poker, tho
winner to maintain the mess until the
next pay-day, was a common form of
gambling among the officers. Many of
the private soldiers were lively gamblers,
and hardly a company wau without its
‘ poker sharp’—usually a cool, quiet,
1 goody-goody’ sort of chap from some
country district. Early in the war pro
fessional gamblers haunted every depot
of supplies and pressed upon commis
sioners, quartermasters, and paymasters.
Ono or two paymasters lost fabulous
mms to these sharks; then defaulted,
were sent to prison, and the gamblers
tied to Canada until the storm was over.
The vice is as common and as fashionable
in the army among officers and privates
as it ever was—the Only difference is that
Ihe army is not quite as large as it was.”
In reply to "I don’t want your paper
any longer,” the editor wrote : "I would
not make it so if you did. It would in-
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