Newspaper Page Text
THE SUNNY SOUTH.
‘.Sy/KisP
r
Ralph to Jack, as
tulle gazing on the
ack 'assented, but Sarah
chwork in the corner, said:
‘^ontmon enough.” She was
Jjins the baby for twelve years
it IJhfctfTA Cp* ve U I > her place.
YotT ^,-Ilft have known Ralph and Jack
were twins; for one was very dark, with
black eyes and hair, the other the reverse,
with hair so very blonde that he went by the
name of “Tow-head” among his schoolmates,
to his manifest disgust. They were common
place boys of fourteen, with tendencies for
good and evil, to be developed as time went
on or circumstance tempted. Sarah Ann had
fiery red hair and fierce black eyes, and what
she specially abhorred—freckles. She wasn't
a pretty child nor an agreeable one. If the
baby had waked up and seen her expression,
it would have screamed itself into fits.
The mother of the interesting family was
an honest, hard-working woman with feeble
health, who fought a hard battle with a de
termined will; the father, a man of some
property, was, as he styled himself, an >n-
ventor, and took great pride in signing him
self, John H. Jones, Inventor. Iiis chief ob
ject n as to discover and illustrate perpetual
motion, hut in this, as in all other plans, lie
failed.
They named the baby Edith, and she grew
up the prettiest thing you ever saw. She had
big brown eyes, yellow curls, a diminutive
nose and dimpled chic. Her manners were
charming except when crossed, but let one
of the big brothers who worshipped her, or
the kind father and mother, say one word un
pleasing to her, and a fearful temjier fit would
ensue, calmed only hv the application of cold
water. The sister. Sarah Ann, she hated,
named her worst doll after her, and threw it
into the cistern, to be fished out by Tom at
the peril of his life. It was touching to see
the affection the great, gawky bovs had for
their littie sister, how they fought her bat
tles, disputed the right to carry oat her nu
merous commands, and robbed themselves of
their scanty pocket-money to buy toys for
her.
Once the mother tried to subdue the stub
born will of her well-beloved child, but, in
stead of obeying her parent’s command, Miss
Edith went out on the roof, and sat there on
the scuttle till apologized to and entreated to
come down. At ten years she went to school,
there to torment inoffending teachers and
have her bwn sweet way. If she liked a les
son she learned it, if not she tore it out of her
book. Arithmetic she hated, but liked read
ing, and would read for hours aloud in the
old liam chandter lying on the fragrant hay.
She sang in a clear, sweet, natural voice, and
her father bought a piano for her and she
took music lessons. It was the same in music
as in everything else,jio teacher could make
her practice or teach where she would not be
taught. Sara Ann coaxed the instructress to
give her a lesson when willful Edith was in
tractable, and by natural application soon
mastered the rudiments, and with grim ener
gy assailed and conquered Richardson’s
Method, Czerny’s exercises, eh-., so that in a
vear or so she played the instrument very
well. It was painful to see the eagerness
with which this girl of twenty-two took up
her sister’s" despised advantages. She was
never anything but a household drudge, and
seemed to hate those who were better than
herself. It might have been different it' the
mother had loved her ever so little, but she
never thought of having any special regard
for Ann, certainly never evinced any, and
the girl, hungering for affection, grew into a
woman hard and cold.
Ralph and Jack went to sea, coming home
occasi<mallv. They were uncouth and rough,
and though Edith accepted their presents
very willingly, she took care never to !>c seen
on the street with them, fearing the ridicule
of her schoolmates. When she was-thirteen
sea a»r»" —4o - ehVn^-iV i,, 'AEL disease,
sister, then a strange feeling of numbness
came over her—a feeling as if it were a hor
rid dream.
Ann went on reading. The bitter feud be
tween the two, fostered by injudicious par
ents, had broken into open warfare; hence
forth they were strangers.
The night was dark and the wind blowing
a gale: but the girl, unmindful of the cold,
rushed bareheaded from the house. She went
to one of her schoolmates; but the girl’s moth
er was very cool and barely gave her shelter.
In the morning Edith started for Boston,
with only money enough to pay her passage.
Ann sent her clothes and what few trinkets
she possessed, and henceforth she was i.otne-
less.
In Boston she went through the varied ex
perience of a poor girl; hut with her it was
worse, never having applied herself properly
to any fixed occupation she could not do it.
A piece of work, begun beautifully, was sent
to the owner half-finished, or botched up
dreadfully. Sewing failed on this account.
Seeing a notice of her musical acquaintance
It may be funny, but I’ve go rib and a
baby. Shadows departed—<> :r stews,
brandy julips, cigar boxes, hr aeks, arw
— „ , sconding shirt buttons, whist a dominoes,
in a paper, she sought Ins address and asked ,si lf idmvs present—bandboxes, jtere, lop
She could
again, “O,
>r Heaven
near, almost within arm’s length
not move a muscle, but whispere
Uod, forgive me,” loud enough
to hear.
Her eyes close and the tir<|soiii drifts
away into the unknown land!
full now, and rides over an line
? moon is
ided, star
lit heaven, throwing a silvery g mi on the
white, dead face. For the v ted life is
ended.
|Q»» I *»'»
How She Oo
OR,
How I Cii’ii 1 to be JiTiecI.
^Wnt gap w en. j gfc* Housekeeper.
R I s said that a French lady with sedde-
him to grant the favor he once had asked of | stockings, juvenile dresses, little W chain,” hikes a^iiow so lon^tei fi,ov>s which i
| cradles, pap, paregoric, hive sy soothin'* ’ on
fonneil'Theh-^eap^year* cli’ib OWa ’ ^ ave already
haf 5vl“T^C^l North , A ^ Mass.,
Mass^Ii’U C ° llege ’ afc c °Hege Hill,’
theNva y fro"! Vie.ma u“foS ail
to marry her sweetheart. th ’
When a woman promenades n, -
leading a dog, it looks as fsm co d.Wr ?
anything else on her string ul,h ' "
Jt ItZSHS* T
property of Marie Antoinette been the
and attends the royal 'family. £
Atluerfiscme
We are glad to see that some at least of our Notice to Patron* and Advl '
lady readers are interested enough in this
column to send us a few recipes, questions , Contrary to our wishes we haveXkented
manifest a similar social disposition. fraudulent will be admitted if wefuc it
airs. L. L., Newman, writes: “Now that, beforehand; but it will be itnpossUiLr as
hr,St,on. r .r . - » • lnaC to know this in ever,, instance, undZioU-
f !t our readers that we are in no * re
sponsible for what may appear in o ad
vertising columns. If adve.rtisemei.are
unobjectionable hi matter, and pay tour
, „ v „ wu , price for the space they occupy, mute
HI lie very nice with your turfcev mri i nof hiny more to do with them.
- too, w.th hot biscuit at tea. * ’ \ ■
. Pearl writes: “I am
■
-fit «■
m
i,, t ■» "“wa with one potmd of
Wsklv Ti M gur - t . h,,il °" e hour, 1 Stirring
It will te veiT 6 --' ram -” Ud Se * aHide to
good
’ Berlin,
her. He refused her coldly.
Then she sank lower and lower, and took
opium to give her peace from the restless
hunger of mind and body. Yet in all this
time she made no honest effort to retrieve
her fortunes, and it never entered her head
that she was herself to blame for her troubles.
She lived in a miserable tenement, and pawn
ed her clothes, day by day. Her face was
haggard and worii, and her hair tangled and
matted.
One afternoon she found a purse containing
a sum of money. She saw a poorly-dressed
woman drop The treasure, but with Edith’s
lost youth she had parted with honesty, She
hugged it to her breast and hurried to her
miserable attic. While she lay on her wretch
ed bedstead, wrapping the thin, old quilt
altout her,-and shivei'ing with the bitter cold
of a winter’s night, the moon came up and
threw a gleam of light on her face. It made
her think of the time she had laid in her little
bed at home, and watched it coming out from
behind dark clouds, and lighting up the heav
ers with a glorious silver light.
She had now sufficient money to carry her
home. Why not go there, and claim a share
in the house she still believed to be hers by
right’
in the morning she put her plan into execu
tion; bought herself a decent shawl and bon
net, and went to the quiet little village where
she was born.
Once in the town a strange feeling of dread
came over her. What would she do if Ann
refused her shelter? It was late in i he after
noon and the snow was falling genlty. She
stopped hesitatingly for a moment on the
broad piazza before her former home, and
looked in the window. The room had been
furnished in crimson, the carpet new, and n
pretty paper on the walls. The table was set
for supper, wit h all the pretty china, so sa
cred to the dead mother. On one side of the
bright fire which threw cheerful little gleams
on the wall and carpet, even to the snow out
side, sat Ann, looking very neat in a gray
dress with blue ribbons, rather juvenile yet
not unbecoming. On the otter side sat Law
yer Bliss, a short, fat man, very wooileny in
appearance and apoplectic in complexion.
He was a widower, and had been looking for
a partner for the last five years. Edith smiled
bitterly. He had been one of her admirers,
and the laughing stock of her girl friends.
8he gently opened the outside door, and with
noiseless step entered the cheerful room.
“Ann,” she said, with a strong impulse to
throw herself on her knees, “Ann, dear sis
ter, let me come home, let me once.”
Tl e elder woman rose with a scornful face.
“How dare you come here after what has
passed, and your wild life in Boston? How
dare you speak to a virtuous woman? You
shall never come here. Never! If yon doubt-
it, ask Mr. Bliss: he is a lawyer, and he can
tell you.”
“Why should I get nothing from my fath
er?” cried Edith, her eyes wild with excite
ment, her voice shrill with passion.” I was
bis daughter, your sister. IVhy have you
the hon.e, niv father’s own Louse, and I an
outcast?”
Ann turned to the man, who had remained
speechless.
TfmaiT^ nfi the Peiplexed orw r5V‘ s I ri ~
i syrup, sew n, squills and doctor
Shad- r , At the grand Oak On
for ids wife
your
"eam-
and
knot-hole I could not iook at on ^enough.
Well, my sister. Lib, gave srfcy one
night, and I stayed away from ; because
I was too bashful to face tli-
around the house, whistling
or,” dancing to keep my fee
watching the heads boh up
the window cm tains, am wisil
dering party would break U]
to my room. I smok* d up a l
and as it was getting late and
fortab'.e, I concluded to shin a]
No sooner said than done, and 1
myself snug in btil.
‘‘Now,” s-iys I. “let her rij
wind gives out!” and eudi
quilts. Morpheus grabbed me. its
i g of soft-shell crabs, and steiti’i]
having a good time, when somkk
at the door and waked me u tiiped’
again. “Rap, rap, rap.”
Then I heard a whispering^! ytneiv
there was a whole raft of girls
“Rap, rap!”
Then Lib sings out:
“Jack, are you in there?”
es,’s-ys I.
Then came a roar of laughte
“Let us in.” says she.
“I won’t,” says I; “can’t y etpliow
alone?”
“Are you abed?” says she.
“1 am,” says I.
“Get up,” says she.
“I won't,” say T s I.
Then came another laugh. tpr! I
began to get riled.
“Get out, you female searac
“Can’t you get a beau without
low out of b- d? I won’t go lie
I won’t, so you may clear out !
Then, throwing a boot at th 1
bettcr. But presently, oh, mo 1
heard a st ill, small voice, very pi- sis
ter Lib’s, and it said:
“Jack, you'll have to get tfie
girls’ things are in here.” j
Oh, Lord, what a pickle! tw in
bed, all covered up with siia\i tapou-
nets and cloaks, and twenty, jlside
waiting to get in. If I had st.s'Unk,
I would have fainted on tlie. fiNwas
[ rolled out among the bo' >ej$jrih-
bons in a hurry. fifi-fifi fit
“Smash!” went the ml
recticiii. I had to dress iy
caps to hang- on the Chri!Lla s'tree “tWs^
^toheirc-mst? 116 foivloek - 1,:,t ««<‘V won’t
tied 1 1 miy after ^ey are mar-
, , * v^Jy:—
tjH . nutmeg’ flavoriii< r -—
meenmamon was better, and
The Zulu I
her nose. A
adv
1
wears her wedding ring in f bu.
■' - •nW'i purpo-eis thus served Bv
. - hscourages promiscuous kissing, and she first-rate
in htllc uunger of losing her Hue She
always nose where it is. °' j Dolly says; “I know
A \ unkee wimian recent],- .. /,j ■
.w v.-ciluunni pur(H>ses, trim
•v-it!,' ,‘ v “lug ilt . prices t-iat cannot bo compete
with elsewhere in the South.
Any article we sell will be
HAS IMGH1L V E Mi St A VED,
Free of Charge,
«isr Row 113n«trate)i Ciitalogim
5S5i«j J’r'Jci’-S.isS
ent to any address upon application for
the same.
SAVE fai
-uccrat rice-pud,ling as a JI very nom. a , ffet:t to
icta was gliding down Whitehall street
the other afternoon with a Derhv hot,,,,
carrying her hards in the pSekett of h -Nonf
be all right, wouldn’t yerfi^ 1 ’ U ° W ’ y ° U ’ <l 1,e
presented with a bonqtiet conmosid^f
gold, and inlaid with,mn^.,'’al„S fi ? naa I
on tnt
LEJIOXS AXD BEAUTY.
One of the very prettiest
STEVKW &
!H Whitehall Street,
*~ tf ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
CASH WINS.
JOHN D.-^TOCKER,
wholesale and retail
Furniture Dealer,
85 ami 93 A 94 Broad sj.
with a conipJeximrin,;;^:,,,^^,^,, Atl :? ,lta > I I HAVEthe ^rgest and best
z%< tr
th m lenion juu-e is an anti-scorbutic £
ise and wi”
acitic coast.
Worth, the Paris ma
vents the di
exceile- t de
tllfifill (l.qiltr lirifL I.., r
celle-t dentist suggested to me to'rub niv
3).
Below Chamberlin, Boynton A Co.
NOTICE. ~
” 1,1 u b fhe “arts man-milliner has a for.,
woman called Miss Marv, who is ainui w
widely known, local!/, ms himself She Is -m
English brunette, withli.a.t ,.... e ’ ‘ n
brunette, with a light and very-race-
rs with the air of a
fid figure, and takes ordei
queen. She
warts from her hands. So vou tr L? 1 '
is a valuable toilet adjunct ' ‘ t a lern
l.juncf.
fekxs as table ornaments
1 he simplest, -dal a t the same hm. ti
most fashionable,ftable orn in, ‘ t e k
ent pioment con
into
then! in
i iupon a.
rnon | .SESSION <ltF |S79—1S80.
1 VI ?J: AU ' TKR.M of this
v'hool will <'om-
pteinber 1st, with a
■ - , cac-hers. Music and
1 I d attention. The Music I)e
urection of Prof. John
tory of
ol the
menee on .Monday
f' neiV? S - of t 'V In !’ < lc,lt t(
,,' rt ro ‘ V '' T rh: a«cnti
Mininentis umJer the
Ivoerber, srnuln ivwtf h . V, ‘ lM V‘ 01
Music. Mauieh H-n-.!-! . Coiiscrvat
Augusta Fcaiah* sm 1 " , m ” rl - v «>
E;r Circular. anpiy't,; tl ^S?« ; i V! ‘‘
-Mbs. j. w’. Ballard,
_NpmPeachfree. St., Atlanta, tia.
rrwtnifll Palis 'V > — —
Hi John B. Brooks
Homo
_
refused 1
cut her
family 1
F'® ! ™ fifli
«as a l] ^m U<,e,i he '' *Pir t E,,V, /T scho °l- C!i,(iie *
sen ' r'5 ht - Ralph was h felt ‘hat it of the,
^oughia^hAJn/' ^ he '' *<• I * y **
bei-sclf"; nottu °S to the’idle
hot springs,
•fjintliic n
ARKANSAS.
have v out: old pict [jrks
s opied and enlarged by the
Saumern bop|i/)g Comnanv,
...
The*
come bv
' K * fiBEOOKT,
« " rk ~" t STOm _. » K « 1ST.
Tth C. a °J
*° ride in thfo BeiY ^’ in which Edith I* 8 Un,
mounter! i f caiT iage with J-wL-\' h 1 l efu -^d I night,
sat down i n e t | U, ‘f tl to th,i silent ho!T l£e ’ tlle I ot fvo i
their father’s- !? e f ar ^ ened room from**’ I ° ver 1
‘Did hi hixiy ha,l j Ust ;Z* ,ol “. which I a fear:
Sa2fg,fi'Jht;
Jk‘ «■«. «a« T -
isir w.n-,
re?” a
5 ra,, &; I W 'hl BeasfeJTT*
faVBT’SSJf .w» ««..... I u£sr
N
r-,-'
ru i hed
MSM9Ssimmm^
IOOk ° at for siA2te«« Ws Whin be- tur^gh/hj.^ 8 rapidly I was about
Je yfc” the ra-iA^imS^ e ? tray ? gance
«>,25 2 a iSeb flo W T
S* 31 *™* wta 1 "
A-G-Git '' ARKANSAS.
V TH YSELF.
■ 1 i !'»,
ni“i,Vm!n,d fG a»er"''”
this- assertion sh,’ai],; V ! u>
the new mchv’i bun
fished by f 1 '™ p t
NEDICAL V r l{ Ol>
^Boston, emitled ■lu Vr>
- . -.„.J I or I,it;.’. * s
is I ami pliysi'-m *U'hHitv- E o r , “‘m 1 ,”' 1 v ! l »Iitv, *riena
sprinkle a
e upon it;
and the
and exr
P .A;
3 II BRI i Georgia.
idence tfirenl
habit
yr my book ou
riTm*. .andCure. Free
*60)., *Porf
land.Jtte£“ ,free -