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EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT
Organ of the Georgia Teachers Association-
Organ of the State School Commissioner, 6. J, Orr
W.B. BUNNELL, Editor.
Public School Education.
N T 0, II.—The Public Schools Should
Not be Pauper Schools.
Panper schools have not a very savory name,
hut it is no worse than the thing itself. If one
be asked whether he advocates sneh soaools
the name often repels him, when he really fa
voistbem, by contending that public schools
are intended not for all the social grades in b
community, but for the poor alone. Who ver
contends for tie latter favors pauper schools,
because schools, intended for and including
only the poor, cannot be anything else. But if
one stop to estimate the influence of education,
in moulding and harmonizing public senti
ment, he will welcome the opportunity given by
public schools for all ranks, to unify society,
&Bd so tar as possible and proper to abolish so
cial distinctions. Errors on all subjects tend
to coalesce and to develop each other, and the
man who is forced to give up opposition to
public schools, is apt to compromise by offering
to establish schools for the poor. It is a ques
tion whether the community gains anything by
his chaDge*
raupei schools may come into existence in
two ways. They may be established as schools
txclusively for the poor. Ignorance and warn
oi experience may prompt a community to es
tablish schools, and limit them to tb< se who
cannot pay tuition fees. Jn such a case, their
hisiory and career invariably illustrate their
wretched origin, for they never do any real good,
and their indirect influence is so bad that it
would be a misfortune if they did succeed. Or.
in the second place, pauper schools may be the
result of a defective school system, badly con
ducted, unsupported by the better classes of so
ciety, and therefore lacking the relining influ
ences of cultured associations, and so, con
stantly sinking in character they fioally reach
the same wretched level of pauperism. Witt
the lack of good associations, the teaching be
comes poor, because cheap and ignorant teach
ers are employed, who are thought good enough
for schools patronized only by the poor.
In either of these ways—by design or by
mistake—a community may be cursed with !>
pauper school system, worse than no schools,
for as long as it exists it prevents theintroduc
tion of a substitute, Its very name is its con
demnation. Wherever tried, it has failed, aDd
it ought to fail, for in making this odious dis
tinction between the rich and the poor and
thus designating the scholars as paupers, it can
never barmonize with the institutions and sen
timents of a free people.
Nor is this all. This principle, as said above,
win degrade the best publio schools. To es
cape therefrom the upper classes, and those
who can afford to pay tuition fees, withdraw
their children and send them to pay schools,
thus lowering the tone by taking away all re
fined associations, while the poor, who have
pride still left, refuse public education given to
them as paupers, and prefer to grow np in ig
norance. Such a scheme intensifies the social
grades and wt akens society’s strongest bond. It
directly conflicts with one idea of a government
of all the people, for all the people, and by all
the people, and recalls the feudal notion of a
government over all the poor by the few tha
can afford to get an education.
Of course no community, enlightened enough
to feel the want of schools, is likely to design
such a system, nor be willing to establish it.
But the best system even may run into this, or
at least fail in character and efficiency, unless
it is sustained by the approval and patronage
of ail social grades, and culminates in what is
substantially the high-school course. The sen
timents ot the community must be healthy on
these two points, patronage' from all grades ol
society—rich and poor meeting alike in the
public schools—and the course of instruction
not limited to the higher education. With the
lack of either of these essentials, public schools
will sooner or later sink to a low level. At the
risk of repeating myself, I reiterate the state
ment that tne community must educate all its
social grades together, and must enlarge its ed
ucational curriculnm beyond the grammar
school course, into the studies that train and
discipline the mind, or the downward tendency
of public schools cannot be arrested*
Behold then the features of the pauper
school system! It is not an attractive sight. Pub
lic schools attended by the poor alone -poor in
instruction, because of meanly paid, and there
fore incompetent teachers—poor in character
and tone, because the scholars are coarse and
ignorant—constantly deteriorating, because un
aided by any other higher influences of society.
In the meantime private sonools, with excellent
instruction and associations, take ail the better
cl&ts ol children, whose refined domestic train
ing supplements the moral and social teachings
of the school. Such is the unhappy condition of
a cit, where sohools ara established for, or have
become degraded to, the poor-alone breeding a
large and almost useless expense,to be added to
by the cost of private schools wretchedly segrega
ting society into two classes—the rich aDd the
poor—and widening, by separate education,
the division made by nature, making no effort
to blend both into one social life, aDd ignoring
the opportunity of lifting up the low to a higher
plane, at the best possible period under the
flfxible circumstances of school life! Can there
be imagined a higher'responsibility or a more
complete failure to meet and sustain it ?
My next number will discuss the cheapness
of public schools. Citizen.
Savannah, November 23, 1878.
state school commissioner orr and
THE MOFFET BELL PUNCH.
This indefatigable official and most excellent
gentleman is sanguine that the introduction into
Georgia of the bell punch system will be produc
tive of the happiest results to the cause of educa
tion without working injury to anybody save the
topers. Pending action upon the question in the
Georgia Legislature he has been industriously
engaged in collecting all the facts relating to the
matter in Virginia, and confidently believes that
he will be able to show that the measure has
greatl- increased the revenue, and is constantly
growing in favor.
We desire to have the whole subject properly
ventilated, so that intelligent action can be
taken in the premises.
Hon. W, F. Taylor, auditor of public accounts
for Virginia, gave the Commissioner the follow
ing satistic, which have b aau p 10IU t in the
Constitution:
The gross amount Collected under the law for
the year ending November 1. 1878. was $472 834-
14. The amount allowed for rebates is set down
at $09 877.14. In this special report the auditor
does not give the expenses of assessment and
collection, In this general report, however, he
sets down all expenses including advertisiug,
postage, traveling expenses, attorney’s fees in
certain legal proceedings and expenses of ass< s-
eing and collecting, at $32,190.08. Add these
last two items together and deduct from the
gross income and we obtain $340,766.02 as the
net income from the law. The 1 eport does not
cover the operations of a full year, as the regis
ters were not received in some of the counties
till the year was somewhat advanced. The
auditor recommended the repeal of the provis
ion of law authorizing rebates. This, of itself,
would increase the yield by $99,872 14. Certain
changes whereby it Is believed that the efficiency
of the law would be increased are recommended
in the report. Auditor Taylor is clearly of the
opinion that the law is a good one, and ought to
be continued in force.
Not content with this official statement, Dr.
Orr has addressed letters to many citizens of
Virginia of note, asking how the law operates,
and its effects upon those mainly affected, viz :
the liquor dealers. We select and print several
from a number of responses received. Mr. A
H. H. Stuart, an ex-member of Congress, says :
The Moffet law, which provides for the col
lection of revenue from spirits, wine and malt
liquors, by a specific tax on consumption, is, in
my judgment, a wise law. At first it met with
strong opposition, especially from liquor deale s,
who did not understand its principles or proba
bly its operation and its effects. But I think
the opposition has been greatly diminished as
people begin to understand them better, A
strong proof of this is found in the fact that,
although the law has been in operation for more
than a year, and in the meantime a loDg session
of our legislature has been held, no attempt has
been made to repeal it. It is defective in some
of its details, but when these shall be cured, it
will yield a very large revenue.
The Superintendent of Instruction, Hod.
W. H. Ruffin, writes in the same vein in a let
ter, dated, December 5th, as follows :
As to public sentiment in regard to this sys
tem, it is, in my opinion, overwhelmingly
favorable, provided the law can be made
thoroughly operative. As to the latter point
there is a difference of opinion, many regarding
the scheme as impracticable, Still, I think that
further trial will be made of it, and I hope with
success. The principle of taxing liquor at the
point of consumption is undoubtedly the wisest
and best, and will, in my judgment, become the
permanent policy of this State. Should the law
this present form be amended nntil the
object be accomplished.
The Doctor also expreeses the belief that
properly adjusted the law could be made to
yield as much as'$700,000 or $800,000.
Another correspondent, so well and favorably
known both in Macon and Atlania, Rev. E. W.
Warren, D. D - , has this to say on the subject in
a Tecent letter:
The law is subject to great and frequent-
abuses—it has been and is being abused. There
was great prejudice against it at first, very little
now, I believe from any source. It does not
fleet the liquor king materially as to quantity.
Tne consumption is about what it was before
the adoption of the law. The revenue ought to
be, and would be. were the law faithfully
administered, as much at least as $600,090.
Senator Withers, in a letter dated tne 7th
instant, makes the following emphatic response :
Your favor of the 24 instant, just received.
In response to the inquiries therein contained,
I answer seriatim:
1st. The Mofiet law is, I presume, acceptable
to the people, as the Legislature has made do
attempt to repeal it.
2d. Many dealers who at first opposed it,
now approve and sustain it, thongh others still
oppose and resist it, failing to register the
liquors sold.
3J. It has realized at. more than any other
system of taxation hitherto devised, thongh the
receipts have not equaled the expectations of its
fries ds.
4th. I should suppose that the project you
propose, viz : devoting tie revenues arising
from the law to tho support of free schools,
would make the law popular and secure its more
faithful execution.
From Mr. Eaton the government Commis
sioner of Education, Dr. Orr also received the
following valuable information with regard to
the liquor trade in the respective States of
Georgia and Virginia, as furnished by the de
partment of internal revenue.
Georgia,—Number of wholesale liquor deal
ers, 70; number of retail liquors, 2 271; deal
ers in malt liquors, 44 ; total, 2,385.
Virginia.—Number of wholesale liquor deal
ers. GO ; number of retailers, 2 379 ; dealers in
malt liquors, 15 ; total 2,454.
Population of Georgia in 1870. 1,225,1C6.
Commissioner Orr is rtsoived to push this
matter before the people and the Legislature,
and will spare no pains to enlighten public
Jean’s Winter
in the City.
BY STEPHEN BBENT.
CHAPTER XI.
‘Sarah, open the window. This room is too
dark.’
The woman pushed open the blinds and threw
up the sash, letting in a flood of warm, yellow
snnlight. Miss Rivers walked across the room,
her dead black garments trailing noiselessly
over the velvet carpet. She leaned against the
casement and looked ont, the soft wind fanning
her face.
Two weeks had passed since that sunny April
afternoon when Jean came and told her there
would be no weddiDg on the morrow, her bride
groom was dead. For the first time in her life
she had fainted. The news was so awful, so
unexpected. She had never loved him, but
nevertheless his sudden death was a terrible
shock to her. The wedding garments were laid
away and black was put on, while across the
broad Atlantic they carried her lover fo his Eng
lish home and laid him with his kindred, there
to sleep until the resurrection morn.
Everybody was shocked and many a cheek
paled at the thought feat they, too, might be
taken away just es quick. Scarcely anyone pit
ied Della.
‘She didn’t love him, so, of course, it will not
hurt her much,’ they said with a shrug.
It was partly the truth. She could not mourn
for one she had never loved, so in the end it
would not hurt her to a great extent. Some one
tapped on the closed door.
‘Come in,’ she said without turning her head,
her eyes intent on the fleecy clouds sailing like
ships across the blue spring skies. Jean en
tered dressed for the street, her young face a
little paler than it was two weeks before. Della
turned around.
‘Is it you, Jean ?’
‘Cortainly, are yon blind ?' with a faint smile.
‘Not quite. Come here, I want to talk some.’
Jean glanced at the clock and then sat down
by her cousiD.
‘I can’t stay long.’
‘Why ? Where are you going ?’
‘To take my last lesson in drawing.’
‘You are determined to go home then ?’
•Yes, I must go.’
‘I wish you would stay and go with ns to
Switzerland. Please, do, Jean. I know you
would like to see the Alps.’
‘I should like it very much, bat I must go
back to aunt Debby.’
•She would not object.’
‘No, she is too unselfish to object to anything
that would give me pleasure.’
•But I want you Jean. I want you to stay and
be my sister.’
Jean took the slender white hand in a tender
caressing clasp, her dark eyes fall of tears.
‘Dear cousin, I wish I could slay, but my duty
is elsewhere. Aunt Debby has been the only
mother I ever knew and she is old and lonely
and I must go back to her. Dear aunty 1 how
lonely she must have been this winter.’
Della did not make one of her sarcastic
speeches, but sighed.
‘Well, I see it is of no use to ask you again,
but I am sadly disappointed.’
‘I am sorry, cousin. I wish it could be other
wise.’
Della turned her face .to the window for a few
minutes, then in a 1c»y< quiet voice said:
‘I want to tell yonjfc'tiai 'a teacher yon have
hcen, Jean, I, the worldly-wise
worshipper cf wealth and position, have learned
from yen.’
Jean started to speak, but a soft white hand
was laid over her month.
‘No, don’t interrupt me. I see that yon have
read me aright and I am glad of it. I think it
was a vague longing after something nobler and
better, mat made me so bitter, so heartless. I
knew how true, how pur6 and innocent yon
were and I laughed and sneered at you ana
would have been glad ifyouhad changed, grown
worldly-minded. I have changed since—’ she
broke off with a shudder.
‘Della, please don’t distress yourself so.’
‘But I must—I will, since sir Angus Lynn
died. I would have married him, sold myself
for the title and position he could have given
me and lived in splendid misery all my life. I
sentiment on the subject. He will, when his j know now what a sin it would have been. I
investigations are completed, issue a circular ] never gave myself time to think then. Poor
direct to all the county beards of education in J mamma ! I do not blame her, but if my educa-
the State, and also to each member of the ] tion had only been different, like yours, Jean, I
General Assembly, giving a succinct statement
of all the information he has gathered on the
subject.
If the Virginia law can be amended in such a
manner as not to bear so heavily upon liquor
dealers, and the tax be brought down squarely
upon those who drink at retail establishments,
thns covering thousands of non-residents, and
almost the entire population who pay no other
tax, it might prove benefioial to the State and
the cause of public education. The chief diffi
culty is in the enforcement of the tax when
there is collusion between the parties, and the
amount of fraud and demoralization consequent
upon any lig’siation which cannot be made
effective in practice. We trust the whole sub
ject will be calmly and impartially reviewed
when the General Assembly meets again in
July, and be passed npon on its legitimate
merits. Dr. Orr’s report from Virginia cer
tainly conflicts with many conntei statements
which have been going the rounds of the press.
We have still farther private information
from the Commissioner, who is very enthusi-
astiion his advocacy of some similar bill, but
the above will suffice to bring the matter before
the public. It is impossible now to say what
aotion will be taken upon the question by our
legislators. It is certain, however, that the
Virginia law must be amended in many essen
tial points to go down in Georgia.
TWO NOTABLE WEDDINGS.
Of the different weddings which took place
last Sunday, several have aroused the attention
of aur Jewish society circles in an unusual man
ner. Conspicuous among these affairs was Miss
Lena Bonkofsky to Mr. David Sternberg, which
was celebrated at tbe residence of the brides,
parents, No. 1607 Post Street. The following
acted as bridesmaids and groomsmen: Rose Bon
kofsky, HattieShnmar, Eva Jacobs, Minnie Getz
Minnie Beoker, Selina Wolff, Jos. Rothschild,
Achille Roob, Sig Simon, H.Kohn, J. H. Hirsh-
feld, Jacob Wolff. The bride, who is well
known for her handsome personage, was very
elegantly attired in white tarlatan and white sat
in dress, embellished with orange blossoms and
lillies of the valley, and excited unanimous ad
miration by her beautiful appearance. Numer
ous and costly presents were received by the
happy couple, in whose honoi a bountiful re
past was spread, whioh was enlivened by speech
es* toasts, the reading of congratulatory tele
grams and other happy incidents.
Miss Fanny Rich and Mr. Julius Leszynsky,
joined in wedlock by Rev, Dr. Cohn. The hap
py event was of course made the occasion of a
grand fete, whose recherche character was thor
oughly enjoyed by a large number of invited
guests.
would not have to weep over past follies. If you
would only stay with me, child, there might be
a little hope for me.’
“ Dear cousin, there is a higher power that
will help you,” said Jean gently.
*; Yes, I know, but can I reach it ?”
“ Yes, any one can that will try.”
“ Then I will try. There, the clock is strik
ing, and I will not detain you any longer.”
Jean kissed her in silence, and left. She was
unspeakably tbanktul for the change in her
cousin. She was so beautiful that bitter sar
castic speeches, and bard worldly mindedness,
was utterly out of place. Jean had always
known that under tne vanebring of careless
selfishness, were depths of womanly goodness,
that had never been touched. Sir Augus
Lym’s death seemed so like a jnst retribuiion
on herself, that she was forced to stop and
think. The thinking had brought much sname,
humbling her spirit into dust. Out of the
dead ail-self, there rose a new spirit, better and
nobler. There was something else to live tor
besides the world, and at last Miss Rivers had
realized tbe fact,
Jean walked down the crowded thoroughfare,
her thoughts rambling and disconnected.
First came her &i36in. She could foresee the
end. Lenno Holmes <bad sailed for the East,
but he would not stop there always, and then
both older and wiser, her cousin and hi
would marry. A very natural ending to all
their trouble. Next she tried to count up the
loss, and gains of her winter in the city. She
had gained a great deal, and lost her aower of
woman’s love. She could no longer hold it a
royal gift, to be bestowed on some worthy
intor who would ask for it, as a priceless treas
ure. It had gone from her into the keeping
of a man, who had only been her friend. Daily
her woman's pride fretted at the thought of her
folly, struggling to subdue the wilful heart,
and cast out the new power, that controlled it ;
but it was all in vain. Mrs. Wilton’s carriage
came rolling along the Btreet, and Mrs. Wilton
herself reclined on the luxurious cushions
fair and Belt-confident, and at peace with the
world. A keen thrill of pain quivered through
Jean, making a deeper shaaow in her eye6.
Thai fair, yellow haired woman, was Gordon
Palmer’s affianced wife once, and it was possi
ble, that the old love remained. Jean tried to
put all thought of the subject from her, but
when she went slowly up the stairs to the
studio, her face was white enough for a Snow
Maiden’s.
•* And you think of leaving the city, said
M. Ferrial as Jean commenced work.
"In three days this will be my last after
noon.”
" I am grieved at losing yon Mademoiselle ;
but such sad things will come to pass " with a
respectiul Bigh.” •* I am going back to France.”
"Are you ?” asked Jean in surprise. " Why I.
understand you to say, you thought of re
maining in America.’’
" So I did intend, but Madame S. returns to
Paris next week, and she has requested me to
paint her some pictures. I could not refuse,
what she asked, indeed I did not wish to, so I
will go back this summer.”
One by one, Jean felt that her friends were
melting away with the winter snows. After
shaking hands with her drawing master, she
glanced around the grand room. It was a fare
well look, and she whispered a blessing on the
room, where she had spent so many pleasant
hours. From the studio she went on a last
visit to Meg.
The girl's sorrowful face brightened at the
sight of Jeans, its patient sadness breaking up
into almost a smile.
Cecile’s chair stood in the oorner, her crutches
leaning against il, speaking painfully of he r
loss.
“ I am going away, Meg,” said Jean after the
first greetings were over.
Meg’s face fell.
“ Oh, Miss Jean, I am so sorry, so sorry !
Yon have been such a friend to us.”
"But I hope to take you and your little
brother with me, if you will go- My aunt is
ready and willing to receive you.”
For an instant, the temptation was almost too
strong to be resisted. The poor ohild, thought
of the green woods, warm sunshine, aDd the
freedom from dusty garrets and narrow alleys.
The country would be a paradise to her ; but
the temptation passed, leaving [her determined
te walk in the path that duty marked ont.
•Miss Jean, I do not know how to thank you
for your kind invitation,but I cannot accept it.’
•Why ?’
‘Because I must stay with my father. I prom
ised mother that I would, and—and I promised
Cecils,’ her voice faltering. ‘You are not angry
with me?’
‘Angry! no, liow could I be angry with you?
Your strong, brave spirit shames my weakness.
I wish you could go with me, but I will not
urge you.’
‘No, please don’t, I cannot go.’
When Jean rose to go she Dent down and kiss
ed the grave face.
‘Good-bye and God keep you,’ she said with
a farewell glance at tbe empty cheir and two
little crutches. She called at Mrs. Carroll’s be
fore going home, and while there told her friend
the hisiory of the three children, of Cecile’i
death and Meg's sacrifice.
‘She i3 of the stuff that heroes are made of,
she said, in conclusion.
‘You are also. Jean, you are even better thaD
I thought yon were.’
Jean laughed a ring of the old merriment in
her voice.
‘I thank you for your high opinion, and only
wish that it was deserved.’
‘It is. I promise you, my dear child, that
these children shall not suffer.’
‘Thank you,’ said the young girl, gratefully
‘I know you will not forget your promise.’
It was nearly twilight when she opened the
great front door and passed up the stairs to her
cousin’s room.
‘You are late,’ said Miss Rivers, turning from
the window as Jean entered.
‘Yes; I called on Mrs. Carroll,’
•Did you see Mrs. Dunleath ?’
‘No, she was out.’2
‘Mr. Palmer called to see you. 4 He said he
would come again this evening.’
Miss Rivers was bending over a vase of flow
ers, but she saw the sudden rush of color to
Jean’s face, and wondered if the ohild’s heart
was safe. Ah—she would not allow herself to
think that it could be otherwise.
‘Papa had an engagement, so we could not
wait for you to eat dinner.’
‘It makes no difference, as I do not care about
dinner.
‘But I told Sarah to bring itjup here, and you
must eat s>mc.’
A small table was daintily spread,"but Jean’s
healthy young appetite was gone. She drank a
cup of strong black tea and pushed her plate
away,
‘Well, I begin to think it will be the best for
you to go back to the country. You are getting
too etheie.l to eat.’
Jean smiled.
‘I do not look ethereal do I ?'
‘You are entirely too pale and sad. I never
hear you langh as you did at first.’
The shadow deepened in th3 girl’s eyes, but
she turned her cousin's words into a jest.
‘I have learned so much since those first days
that I think ot becoming a philosopher, and
you know wisdom forbids mirth. Why, our
faith in the proverbial wisdom of the owl would
die if he was to look merry.’
She changed her dress, putting on a plain
black silk, with only a simple fall of lace at the
throat and wrists. She had just finished her
toilet when a servant brought up Mr. Palmer's
card.
‘Stay„Jean, ‘ Della looked critically at her.
•Your dress is too sober; let me fasten this rose
in your hair.
She broke eff a fragrant crimson rose, half an
closed, with green leaves, and placed it in the
black-brown hair.
‘There, you need no other ornament.'
Jean schooled her face into cold composure,
and went down stairs.
‘The gentleman is in the library,' said the
footman.
The room was flooded with a soft, m ellow
light, gilding the pictures and books, and touch
ing the statuary with a softened life-like beanty.
A small fire burned in the grate, for the night
was chilly, and Mr. Palmer was standing on the
rug. He did not go forward to meet Jean, but
stood still admiring the grace of the slender
young figure as she came down the length of
tne room to him.
‘So the wanderer has returned,* holding out
his band with a rare smile breaking up the grav
ity of his face.
‘I am not sure that I understand you,' said
Jean, her own face relaxing into tha shadow of
a smile. ‘Who has been wandering?'
‘I supposed that yon were wandering. Not
over arid deserts or snow-clad mountains, bat
up and down Broadway, possibly to Stewart's.
I called to-day and was informed that yon were
out.*
‘Yes, I went to Monsear Ferrial's studio for
the last lime, * she laid, her hand on a ehair.
‘Mr. Palmer, will yon take this chair, or do yoa
prefer standing ?'
‘Thank you, I prefer standing for the brief
time I shall detain yon. ‘
Jean eat down, her face gleaming from the
dark back ground of the chair, pale as the sculp
tured marble in the corner. The precious mo
ments flew by, and she would not see him but
one more time, before going away.
His next words crushed out even that com
fort
‘I suppose yon think strange of my persist
ence in calling, bat to-night is my only chance
of sayiDg good bye, as I leave the eity for a few
days.’
Jean steadied her voice and quietly said :
‘I had not thought of it. Certainly to-night
is a convenient time to bid me God speed
heme.’
Sue went bravely through it. Her pride rose
at the thought, that he was waiting to see her
falter. She seemed so coldly s< Ifpossessed,
and composed, that Palmer was doubtful
whether she even cared in a friendly way.
'Has yonr winter in the city proved as pleas
ant as you expected ?’
‘Not quite what I expected, but then nothing
is ever exactly what we imagine it to be.’
‘TLere is no rose without a thorn, and speak
ing of roses, will you give me the lovely one in
your hair ?'
Jean took it out, and silently laid it in his
hand.
‘Thank you. I distinctly remember a day,
when you refused to give me a withered rose,
preftring to tear it up.’
•I offered you a fresh one.”
•Which I did not want. Will you tell me how
yon have been disappointed in your visit.’
She shook her head.
•I think not. You would laugh at me.’
‘I pass my word that I will not even smile.’
‘No, I was disappointed only in trifles.’
‘Well, what do you think of New York ?’
‘That it is a very large city.’
‘Nothing else ?’
‘That the life among the rich is very brilliant
and changeful, but is full of too much feverish
excitement and that it is full of bitter suffering
to the poor.’
‘Ah yes, you are thinking of little Cecile.’
The brown eyes were raised to his full of
surprise.
‘Did you know little Cecile ?’
‘Certainly. I went first to see if they were
worthy of your kinuness, and then again, be
cause it was such a rare case. So you have
proved that people can go through the fire
without getting burned.’
‘I was not aware that I had been through a
fire,’ in a perplexed voice.
‘Which shows that you have much to learn
yet.’ He glanced at the clock.
‘I would like to stay longer, but J cannot.’
Jean rose slowly, her face very white, and
calm. Palmer folded her cold hands in his,
bending^own until his lips almost touched her
hair.
‘Jean my little one, my white snow flower,
do you regret going back to your country home ?’
‘1 do not regret goiDg, but I am sorry to lose
my friends.’ She felt her voice quiver and
break in a passion of bitter woe.
‘God bless and keep yon my darling, nntil
we meet again.’
‘Which will be in heaven,’ thought the young
girl.
His lips touched her brow, and with a last
look in the wistful eyes he turned away, going
swiftly ont of the room, lest the temptation to
spare himself the torture of waiting, would
overcome his strange will. He longed for the
blessed assurance, that she was his, to love, to
cherish, as something dearer, than all other
earthly things.
TO BE CONTINUED.
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GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY, )
Superintendent's Office, >
Augusta, Oa., January 17th, 1878. )
COMMENCING SUNDAY, 10th inst. 6:00 p. m„ the fol
lowing Passenger Schedule will be operated:
No. 2 East Dailt. No. 1 West Daily.
L've Augusta 9 45 a m
“ Macon 710 a ni
“ Mil ed’v’e 9 08am
“ Camak 11 41 a m
“ Washington 10 45 a m
“ Athens 9 15 a m
Ar. Atlanta 5 00 pm
No connection to or from Washington on Su~ days, £
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[Daily—Except Sundays ]
L’ve Atlanta 5 30 p m | Lv. Covington.... 5 25 p m
Covington 8 00 p m ' Ar. Atlanta 7 40 a m
Lv’e Atlanta
7 45 a m
Ar. Athens
3 30 p m
“ Washington.
2 00 p m
** Comtek,
“ Milied’ev’e..
. 3 ! 0 p m
Ar. Macon
5 20 p m
" Augusta
3 18 p m
No. 4 East DAilt.
No. 3 West Daily.
L've Augusta., 5 30 p m
Ar. Atlanta 5 30 a in.
L’ve Atlanta G 00 p m
Ar. Augusta 6 25 a m
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Connects at Augusta for ail points Eaet arid bouth-Eaat-
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IKrOnly one change Atlanta to New York ._^J
S K. Johnson, E. R. Dorsey,
Superintendent, Gen’l Passenger Agi.
SEDUCTION OF
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GEORGIA” RAIL ROAD
—IS SELLING—
STRAIGHT & EXCURSION
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Between all Stations on its Main Line and Branches
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Exclusion Tickets will be good to Reiurn Ten Days
from and ircludiDg the date of issne. no Lay-over priv
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