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THE CHEROKEE ADVANCE.
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VOLUME VI.
CANTON. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MORNING. JULY 10. 1885
NUMBER 28.
THE CHEROKEE ADVANCE.
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Marietta & North Georgia R, R,
TIME TABLE
In Effect Sunday, April 19,1885
NUMBER 1—NORTH.
f-CAvp Marietta !) 00 am
Arrive at. Rlnchwnll'e 9 20 am
“ . Woodstock 9 4.'1 am
“ Holly Springs 10 08 am
“ .Canton 10,31am
“ Mhixm
41 Hall Ground ll ia
;; Talking Rock 12 TpS
bllijay 1 02 pm
NUMBER 2—SOUTH.
Leave Ellilay 1 2 ti pm
Arrive at Talking Itock 2 05 pm
" JA*Pf r 2 34 pm
„ a n° 5,’ 2 52 pm
Ball Ground 3 23 pm
“ Mnble
!! Canton ..’.’.'403 pm
Holly Springs 4 31pm
Woodstock 4 fig K , n
" Blackwell’s 6 20 pm
“ Marietta 5 40 pm
W. R. POWER,
G. 1\ A 1’. Agt.
BOARD!BOARD!
Students attending acliool at this place
or visitors here for health, pleasure or
recreation, can get good board and ac
commodations from the undersigned.
My house is large—situated in the lienrt
of the town near the Academy—the
rooms comfortable, and the table sup
plied with the best the market affords.
Will board reasonably cheap and guar
antee satisfaction. Transient board
solicited. For further particulars write
to or call on
JAMES M. HUTSON, Canton, Ga,
Sale and Feed
STABLE,
W. T. MAHAN,
Canton, 6a., near Railroad Depot.
Hones and Baggies at reasonable
prices.
Carriages and Horaes always ready.
Will send to any part of the country,
with careful drivers and gentle teams
All kinds of atock feed, and stock well
oared for.
Mm anil Draying Done at Low Rates.
Customers will he politely waited os
at all hours—day or night.
A Mistert.—A year and nine months
ago the disappearance of the Rev. Mer
ton Kmith excited much interest
throughout England. He was touring
in the Pyrenees with a friend, and left
his hotel for a walk. He was not seen
afterward, and the moat anxious search,
stimulated by a reward of £500, failed
to discover any trace of him. Mr.
Smith’s body has lately been discovered
among the mountains.
Had Left.—A Virginia pastor says
that he hired a buggy and drove about
18 miles to visit two of his members
who hod not been to churoh for nine
months, and when, nfter a good many
inquiries and u long search, he found
their residence, he was edified by the
announcement that they had gone to
town to attend a circus.
HOW THEY MAKE LOVE IX TEXAS
I am waiting in the meadow
Wliilo the evening shadows full;
Whllo the sunset's golden splendors
1’ade away beyond recall.
O’er the earth a dewy fragrance
Fling* a mantle, sparkling, blight,
Quivering with an untold beauty,
Flashing back tho waning light.
Meet me, darling, I am waiting
'Neath tho aighing aspen tree;
Round me winds of evo are sweeping,
Whispering to my heart of thee.
Hasten ! Oil my lipa are burning
Words 1 would to thee impart;
Truest love and hope arc beating
In my restless, throbbing heart.
Now the dark'ning world is sleeping,
Resting from all grief and care;
Now the silent slurs are gleaming
On her tranquil bosom fair;
But my heart is growing weary,
And u pang akin to woo
Steals upon me in the gloaming,
While the shadows come and go.
But I know yon will he futthful,
Well 1 know you will bo true; *
In your heart a kindred feeling,
Liko the love I hear to you.
Bo I’ll cease from all repining,
Banish every doubt and fear,
For through the fragrant gloaming
I can feel your preaenue near.
Bkahie Hiuth.
'The Sacri fice.
Frank Gordon watt lazily stretched
upon a sofa in bis sister’s luxurious sit
ting-room, and the two were discussing
a party given by Mrs. Hale tho pre
vious evening, in honor of her brother’s
recent arrival from California, after six
years’ absence.
“Lil.,” Frank said, trying to speak
indifferently, and failing most lament
ably, "I missed one face I fully expected
to see last evening—Ruth Wellford’s.”
“Ruth Wellford’s !” cried Mrs. Hale,
in accents of surprise. “Ruth at a
party! But I forget you have Iteen
away for six years. Why, Frank, she
must have been a mere child then.”
“Sixteen, and the sweetest, fairest
girl I over knew. We were always good
friends, Lily, though yre did not corre-
epond, and I have carried her face and
voioe in my heart in many a weary
hour.”
“I am sorry.”
“Why? You speak as if something
dreadful had occurred to her. She is
not dead nor have I heard of her mar
riage. What is it, then, that makes
you cry out with amazement nt the sug
gestion of her presence at your party ?”
“It is a long story, Frank.”
“Yon have all the morning to toll it.”
“When you went away Ruth’s undo
was still alivo. ”
“Certainly.”
“Ho died in that same year. You
sav you remember Ruth. Then you re
member that she was not only pretty,
modest and refined, but one of tho most
generous girls in onr whole cirelo of
friends. She hndfa handsome allowance
from her uncle, and she spent it freely,
dressing exquisitely and giving in
charity or friendly gifts frequently.”
“Woll?” said Frank, impatiently, as
his sister paused.
“Her uncle died, and left her tho
house ho had lived in for years, and n
clear income of $3,000.”
Again Mrs. Hale paused, and then
said suddenly:
“Well, Frank, since she beoamo rich
in her own right, Ruth has become tho
slave of money, a thorough miser I”
“Impossible 1”
“It is true. The first thing she did
was to rent the old house, furnitnre and
all, to the Whitings, who were glad
enough to get it, for stylish houses,
with such grounds as that one has arc
scarce here. She moved herself to that
miserable little cottage where old Mer
cer lived so long, and there she lives
with one servant, an old woman, who
was with her mother from her girlhood,
they say. You know Mr. Wellford was
very reticent about Ruth, and there is
little known of her life before she came
here, a child of five years old. But she
lives with Martha, the old servant, in
that tiny cottage, furnished from the
old house with the poorest of the furni
ture. She wears the cheapest, plainest
clothing, and does every stitch of her
own sewing. She seldom goes out, lmt
invariably walks, the carriage and horses
giving rented with the house. Living
on the meanest fare, she actually sells
the extra vegetable* from the garden,
egg* and poultry.
“But why, Lil. ? What is the expla-:
lation of such a change?” 1
W hat osn it he but pure avarice?
She has not a relative in the world, and
she must be hoarding up the money
somewhere. ”
“It is very string# ! I suppose I may
call.”
“I cannot tell yon that. Since she
prefers to dress and live like a pauper
her old friends have ceased to call upon
her or invite her to their receptions
She will be a catch some day for a for
tune-hunter if she continues to live a
miser’s life, lint I imagine you would
profern less sordid soul, even if its pos
sessor had not one dollar to call hor
own.”
“You are right 1 I am rioli enough to
care nothing for a wife’s dower, but I
cannot realize little Ruth sordid, miserly'
and grnsping. I must call onoc, Lilly 1
Ferhaps the dream of six long years
may he shattered by tho reality of snob
,\ change, but it will be a bitter wak
ing.”
“Did you love her so mnoh, Frank ?”
“So much that I naked her uncle to
lot me hope to win hor love in rotnrn.
He told me she was such a mere child
he did not wish her studies interrupted
or hor mind disturbed then, but that if
I loved her on my return, he would not
oppose my wooing. I was not a rich
man then, Lil., only posseesing what
was an easy income for 0 single man, so
I acquiesced in his decision. But the
fortune I have made was made for her,
and the hopo of six years has beeu that
on coming home to find her freo, and my
little, loving Ruth. She did love me,
Lily, though she scarcoly know whnt
love meant. Well," and ho sighed
henvily, “I had hotter have stayed here I
I kept my secret, thinking she would bo
here last night to give mo woleome
home; but you know now why my heart
was not at your party, Lil., though I
was so glad to meet old friends.”
Mrs. Halo had no word to express her
deep sympathy. She pressed her lips
softly upon the handsome faoe,
shadowed by hor Htory, and Frank, re
turning the mute caress, rose and loft
tho room. It was agony to wait now.
Better to have tho final wrench and go
on his way again without tho lost hope,
no nerved himsolf to see a slatternly
woman in a squalid house, and by the
timo he readied the cottage to whioh
Lily directed him, he would have
scarcely boon surprised if he had met
Ruth in rags, selling matches or beg
ging peuniott.
But the little oottage before which he
paused, at last, though a sufficiently
stMniTcohlraSt to'Th# Weltfoftr place
where he had last seen Ruth, looked
cozy aud homelike. Tho garden was'
neatly kept and well filled with late fall
flowers. An old woman answered his
knock, And ushered him into a tiny par
lor, whoro the plain furniture, cheap
carpets aud inexpensive ornaments were
in exquisite order, and whore a little
cottage piano stood open in ono corner.
Before ho had waited a moment a little
figure in a print dress nnd linen collar,
with short glossy curls, and a fair sweet
ftico, came into the room.
Ho forgot his sister, the painful story,
everything but the fact that Ruth
was there. A graver, paler Ruth than
tho pito lio had left, but the one woman
in the world who could stir his heart to
its core.
“Ruth I” he oried, springing forward,
and then drawing back, for therowasno
welcome in the face he loved, only a
look of suppressed pain.
“Ruth, are you not glad to see me ?”
he cried.
“Glad !” she murmured, and then tho
forced calmness broke down aud the
tears rained down her cheeks. “Glad 1”
she cried again. “Oh, Frank, I have
lost every friend, and you will go, too,
when you know all !”
“I have heard ” he began.
“You liavo heard of my stinginess,
my miserly habits—yes, I see you have,
and yet you are here ?”
“Because I am sure you have 'some
good reason for your conduct. Tell me
you are not changed, Ruth !”
“I—I scarcely know.”
“When we parted,” he said, “you
knew the hope in my heart, Ruth. Tell
me now if the love you promised me is
mine ?”
“It is all yours, Frank, but ” and
she drew back from the embrace he
would have given—"you may throw it
away when you hoar my secret. I have
hidden it from every one but you, but
to-day I am freed from a bondage of six
long years, and you have a right to hear
what I shall confide to no one else. You
will not betray my sorrowful secret,
Frank ?”
“Whatever trust you put in me shall
be sacred, Ruth,” he answered, gravely,
awed by a solemnity upon her face and
in her voice.
There was silence in the little parlor
for some moments before tho low, sweet
voioe was heard again. Then steadily,
without faltering, Ruth told her story:
“When yon left me, Frank, a careless,
happy child, the shadow of what I must
tell you now had not fallen across my
life. I knaw that I was an orphan, and
that my mother died away from her
home and friends. But I was still a
mere baby when Uncle Wellford came
for me and took me home. They called
me Ruth Wellford, and I never thought
of my right to the name till my uncle
died. Upon his death bed ho told mo
the story of my mother's life. She was
married ngainat tho wishes of her family
to a man whoso only crime tlieu was
poverty. Her father refused to own
her, and her brothor. many years her
senior, was stem nnd hitter iu his ro-
sentment,
“They were proud of their name,
their position nnd thoir wenlth; and
they never forgave this only daughter
and sister thnt she left thorn for a man
of pbscuro parentage and without
meajts to support her as thoy had
donfc. My father, at that timo, was
clerk in a dry-goods house iu Now York,
with a small salary.
“| would not wrong my mother; but
my uncle said she grow peevish and
soured by tho contact with poverty, and
constantly fretted for tho luxuries she
had voluntarily resigned. My father
worshiped her. It might have boon his
lovipg desire to gratify her, or a sudden
greed for wealth, I canuot tell; but he
forged his employer’s check for twenty
thousand dollars. Mother was too little
acquainted with business to question
the* sudden influx of money; but the
crime was dotectod, my father nrrostod,
tried, convicted and sent to the State’s
prikon for a term of years. Ho died
tlicrfe in six mouths; but my mother
had already preceded him to the grave.
‘♦Tier last wish, hor lost appeal, was to
my grandfather aud uncle, begging
them to pny tho money and clear my
father's name. They refused. After
she died thoy took mo homo, and I
never knew a want; hut they ignored
and repudiated my father, though my
unoi^i believed he died a truly penitent
mam
my uncle’s desk, after ho died, 1
fofflid the papers relatiug to the forgory
and^ my poor mother's passionnto
appeals to him to pay the money so
wrongfully taken. Hhe took all blame
np4i herself, refuting, when too late,
heoiepibing and disooutent, and her
eStaavogant expenditure of the stolen
mAy. *
■ ‘My first impulse was to yield to her
prayer* even after so many yean, and
ps at once the amount of the forged
cbdoR still fn flic hands of the firm who soeWmHng hies to fifteen months’ in-
employed my father, but my uncle prob
ably know what I would desire, for be
so willed his money to me that I can
never touch the principal. Frank, with
my mother’s letters before me, I vowed
never to spend one dollar in any luxury
—one cent more than the merest neces
sities required—until the debt was paid
that haunted her doathbod. For six
years I liavo saved all my income, add
ing to it a portion of the rent of tho
house my uncle left me. I have fared
poorly, dressed plainly, and added little
by little to my hoard by olosest economy
aud care.”
“Poor child! What a life !”
“I was not unhappy. Martha knew
nil, and was far more friend than servant,
and when my friends gave me up, I
thought of my mother, and was com
forted.”
“But you say you are freo, Ruth.”
“I am free. I sent the money to the
firm last week, and to-day, only to-day,
I have received nnd destroyed the check,
the Inst proof of my father's crime. Tite
gentleman wrote mo snch a letter,
Frank, that I am sure they will always
respect my soeret,”
“Oh, if I had only been here, Ruth,
to give you a homo and protection, to
make your life happy by my love, while
you saved your own means for your
holy purpose.”
“It could not liavo been, Frank. I
would have never burdened yonr life
with my duty to tho dead.”
“But now, Ruth? You are free now,
and you will be mine ! Mine to cherish
and protect! Mine to guard from all
want and all sorrow in the future.”
“Frank! Frank! you forget!” Ruth
cried, her face deathly pale, her largo,
dark eyes dilated with pain.
“Forget 1”
“I am not the happy child you left.
I am called a miser, an avaricious, hard
woman, whose sordid soul looks for
nothing beyond money. I am thrust
out of society for my mean dress, and
my old friends pass me by.”
“A good reason for one to hold you
fast,”
“I am not even Rath Wellford, Frank,
but Ruth Mayburn, the child of a de
tected forger, who died in the Htate
prison.”
For answer he took her into his arms,
folding hor close, and looking into her
earnest eyes with very loving, tender
ones.
“You are Bath,” he said, “truly not
the careless child I left, but a woman to
be honored for the noble sacrifice of six
long years. Y’ou are the Ruth whom I
love, and whose love I hold to be tho
crowning blessing of my life. Tako all
other names out of yonr poor, bruised
heart, love, and let me print ore there
in their place, calling you Ruth, my
wife.”
There was no explanation given even
to Lily of tho snerifieo of Ruth’s young
life, but before Christmas there was a
wedding, and in Wellford place old
friends once more gathered round tho
bride. Never could she entirely forgot
tho long years of sorrow, but in her hus
band’s love she finds her compensation
for her snorilioe.
An Extraordinary Case.
An extraordinary case of persecution
has just been disposed of by the Central
Criminal Conrt iu London. Tho per
secutor was a man cnllod Helmore; the
persecuted a youug lady named Grier
son. As long ago ns 1874, when Miss
Grierson was a mere child and Helmore
a youth of twonty, lie began his perse
cution by trying to mako her acquaint
ance. For cloven years he forced hia
unwelcome attentions upon her, followed
her from placo to place, watched her
movements, dogged her steps, wrote her
letters, sent hor presents nnd resorted
to every means and device to obtrude
himsolf into her sooioty. Ho patrolod
in front of her house for hours at a
time, followed her to school, kneeled
near her iu churoh, tracked her to Paris
and other plncoa. Iu somo of his
letters he addrossed hor as “Dearest,
darling wife," and signed himself “Kind
nnd faithful husband;” in others he
threatened her and himself. Hhe nover
gave him any onoouragement, and her
friends wore aotivo in their efforts to
put an end to the annoyanoo.
The strangest aspoot of the affair in
that tho persecution could have been
kept up no long without lieiug stopped
by the courts. Onco or twioo he was
arraigned in tho polioe court aud houud
over to keep tho ponce. But I10 did not
keep it. Then Miss Grierson was made
a ward iu ehanoery, nnd chancery pro
ceedings were resorted to for her pro
tection. But thoao proved ineffective.
Finally Helmore was indicted for threat
ening her life in a letter. The defence
waa that he was in love and that “love
is a species of madness.” This plea,
however, did not prevent the jury from
oonviottng him or Justice Hawkins from
About two months ago a young
woman was taken to Bellevue Hospital,
New York City, suffering from severe
burns on hor right arm. The usual
treatment did no good, and the muscles
of the arm gradually wasted away. The
patient was unable to move her hand or
forearm, and it was thought thnt tho
arm might have to bo nmputated.
Ono of the physicinus concluded to
graft in tho wounded arm some healthy
muscular tissuofrom a dog. The young
woman was put under the influenoe of
either, and a piece of muscle out from
tho leg of a live dog wus neatly inserted
in her nrm. It is thought thnt a union
of the muscular tissues is Inking place,
but it will not he known for several
weeks whether the operation will be a
success or not.
The patient does not know that an
effort has been made to graft the muscle
to her arm. An acoouut of the ease
will be published in a medical journal
os soon as the result of tho operation is
known. Tho operation had never been
tried in this country before. There is a
record of one foreign case in whioh the
experiment was successful.
Liberia.
D rofesslonal and Bualnesa
Cards.
P. P. DuPREE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CANTON, GEORGIA.
Will practice in the Blue Ridge cir
cuit and in Cherokee countv. Office in
tho Court House with the Ordinary.
|iay*Admiuistrnti(ins on estntoe and
Collections a specialty.jggg
’ W. ». & G. I. TtASLEY,
AttorneyH o.t Law,
CANTON, GEORGIA.
Will givo prompt intention to all busi
ness intrusted to thorn. Will practice in
all tho courts of tho county and in the
Htiperior Courts of the Blue Ridgo cir
cuit. * -
c. dTmaddoxT^
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CANTON, GEORGIA
Refers by permission to John Silvev A
Co., Tho#. M. Clnrko A Co., James R,
Wylie and Gramling, Spalding A Co., all
of Atlanta, Ga •
H. W. N1WWAS.
ISO. D. ATT*WAT.
prisonmont with hard labor.
Repaired With Bog’s Flesh.
ICaprrlinrnl on n Vnuna Women's
Wneted Arm nt llellrvur.
“Liberia is on the west coast of Afri
ca,” snys tho Atlanta VonnlUution. “It
contains about 110,000square miles. The
soil is productive and tho climate better
than anywhero on the coast. The Gov
ernment is republican, und owes its
origin to tho American Colonization So
ciety, which in 1820 sent over some
negro colonists. In 1847 the declara
tion of independence was made and a
constitution adopted. The President
holds office two years. The republic
has passed through nothing but discord
since it was eutablished. It borrowed
$500,000 from England in 1871, and
has paid no interest since 1874, the
Government being bankrupt. In 1880
the republic annexed the kingdom of
Medina, a very rich country. Tho
population is composed of about 18,000
civilized and 700,000 uncivilized negroes.
The country is not prosperous. ”
A Life Preserver.—It ought to be
generally known that a man's hat will
serve in mosL cases as a temporary life
preserver to those in danger of drown
ing. When a person finds himself in the
water he shonld lay hold of his hat be
tween his hands, keeping the crowD
close nnder his chin and the mouth of
tho hat under water. The quantity of
ttir contained in tho cavity of the hat
will keep the head above water for a
long timo—sometimes for several hours
NEWMAN & ATTAWAY,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CANTON, - - - GEORGIA.
Will practice in the Hunerior Courts
•f Cherokee and adjoining counties.
Prompt attention given to all business
placed in their hands. Office in the
Court House.
BEN. F. PERRY,
AGENT—
FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE 00.
Office with C11 r.itonp.k AnvaNow.
L‘. NEWMAN,
HOUSE & CARRIAGE PAINTER,
Paper Hanging and t alsomining.
All Work Guaranteed.
J. M. 11 ADDIN.
House, Sign, Carriage
—AND—
ORNAMENTAL FAINTER,
fmm AID SCENIC ARTIST ALSO.
Oriental and Grecian painting. Mczo
Tin tin/, Oarbo-Ttnting, painting in Ke
pt? i and India Ink.
Twenty-five per cent saved by apply-
ng to me before contracting with others.
Material furnished at bottom prices.
Satisfaction given or no charges made.
See or address, J. M. HARDIN,
fjan8-’ Canton, Georgia.
BRICK, PLASTERING
—AND—
STONE WORKMAN.
Oa-nton,
Ga.
I am folly prepared to do any kind of
Maaonry or Plastering at the lowest pos
sible rates, and solicit the patronage el
those desiring work in my line.
II. H McENTYRE.
THOS. W. HOCAN,
DENTIST,
Canton.
Ga.
Tenders his professional services to the
citizens of Canton and surrounding coun
try, and guarantees satisfaction in work
and prices.
Office—Over W. M. Fills' store.
0-0 TO —
J. It. CHASTAIN & ID.,
To get yonr old harness made new, yonr
shoes and boots repaired, or saddles and
bridles made or repaired. Ladies' and Gen
tlemen's tine shoes made to order. Have for
sale a tine lot of leather and general shoe find
ings at rock bottom prices for cash. Don't
tail to come and see its when in town. Shop
in cellar of Scott, Keith A Bro.
J. B. CHASTAIN & CO.
McAFEE HOUSE,
CANTON. OA.
Under an entirely new management, is now
open for the accommodation of those seeking
» healthy and pleasant locality. Accommoda
tions first-class and prices low. Splendid
Sample Rooms for drummers. Special rates to
families.
In connection with the Honse are splendid
stables, where horaes, buggies, etc., will re
ceive prompt attention, and at moderate rates.
All jnrors apd citizens of the county having
business in court, will be charged less than
regular rates. For further particulars call on
or address
COL. H. C. KELLOCC,
Canton, Georgia.