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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY KOB2T1VO. WM. BRADFORD, Editor. TXBKB 07 BTTBSCaXPnOH: TERMS—la Aaraaca. aaarm, advertiser publishing co.. CMDiXrom, Ok Cedartown Advertiser. - $100 - M> 10.00 OLD SERIES—VOL. VI. NO. 24. CEDARTOWN, GA., AUGUST 28, 1879. NEW SERIES—VOL. I. NO. 37. LOCAL NOTICES—Ten cents per line for on9 insertion. For two or more insertions, five cen.s per line eacli insertion. MARRIAGE AND DEATH NOTICES—As mat ter or news, puoUalied tree. OBITUARY NOTICES—Charged at half rates. IK SCHOOL DAYS. Still sits the school house by the roaJ, A ragged beggar sunning ; Around it still the sumachs grow, And blackberry vines are running. Within, the master's desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official; The warping floor, the battered seats, The jack-knife^carved initiaL The charcoal-frescoee on its wall ; Its door’s worn sill, betraying The feet that, creeping flow to school. Went storming out to pitying! Long years ago, a winter's sun Shone over it at setting ; Lie up its western window panes, And low eaves’ icy fretting. It touched tbe tangled golden curls, And brown eyes fall of grieving, Of one who still her steps delayed When all the school were leaving. For near her stood the little boy Her childish favor singled ; His cap palled low upon a face Where pride and shame were mingled. Poshing with restless feet the snow To rUhtand left, he lingered ; As restlessly her tiny hands The blue-checked apron fingered. He saw her lift her eyes ; be felt The soft handVligbt caressing, And heard the tremble of her voice, As if a fault confessing. “ I’m sorry that I spelt the word ; I hate to go above you, Because”—tbe brown eyes lower fell— “ Because, you see- # I love you!” Still memory to a gray-baired man That swe't child-face is' showing. Dear fcirl! the grasses on her grave Have forty years been growing ! He lives to learn, in life's hard school, How few who pass above him Lament their triumph, and his oss Like her—because they love him. Only Flirling. “ I am only flirting with him aunt,” said Grace Burrows, lightly. “You’re not afraid of our getting married, I suppose? Pshaw! The idea is ridiculous!” “ I am not afraid or concerned for yon at all. You are very safe. Nor am I alarmed for any suffering you may inflict upon Mr. Leton, for he will richly deserve it all. I am anxious about one who is worth more than both of you together—Helen Dene, his betrothed wife.” Miss Burrows looking round quickly,and astonished. “His betrothed wife!” she repeated sharply. “I was not aware of that.” “1 knew you were not; and what honor or glory can you possibly derive from the conquest of a man who already belongs to another?” The beauty’s proud red lip curled with a scornful smile. “Another’s!” she repeated, contemptu ously. “ Why, he would throw her over for me if I gave him the least encourage ment. lie is completely infatuated.” And, with an air of snpremeindifference, Ralph could infeiifere. “ Helen, my dar- thc petted Welle and “beauty Swept m>ui iuv i wuau j^uu m. iaa»d- room—at tiie same moment that one of the ghe opened her great dark eyes and fixed window curtains was pushed aside, and a them on her lover’s. She read his peni- like an ordinary woman; she had resources. She was a writer of considerable promise, I earnest and ambitious in her pursuit of I The Governess. “It’s the new governess, sir !” Old Winifred, who had occupied the posi literary excellence and fame; doubtless she | tion of housekeeper in Mr. Garrick’s house- would be easily consoled. With something hold for at least a dozen yeafs stood before of pique and regret mingling in his exulta tion, he renewed his pursuit of Grace. He resolved to know his fate at once. So the next day he hastened hla^Yootsteps to the house. He sent *p his card io Miss Burrows’ rooms, and waited for a summons to follow it. ; To his surprise, Mrs. Warren came down to him instead. “ Grace begs to be excused to-day,” she said, very gravely. “She has company, Rupert Walton—you have heard of him— the railway millionaire. Grace has been engaged to him for six months past, and will marry him in the autumn. ” “And for this coquette I have lost Helen?” “Yes,” said Mrs. Warren coldly, “you have lost Helen. Heaven gave you a pre cious pearl, and you flung it away for a stone. I loved Helen; I can offer you no sympathy, Mr. Leton. You have merited your punishment.” And, bowing coldly, she left him. And Helen Dene—what of her ? Helen’s work in the world saved her. She had a young brother dependent upon her exertions—had no time to sink down beneath a great despair. But all the same, the sweetness had gone from life—the mo tive had been stolen from her labor. Still she toiled on, though no longer hopefully. And so three years passed on. The boy of eighteen, over whose life she had watched with almost a mother’s care, was twenty-one now, and had chosen his career, that of an artist. He had much talent, especially for por trait painting, and his exultation knew no bounds when he got a portrait of his sister placed on view at the Academy. They went to the Academy one night at an hour when they could avoid the crowd. Right in front of Ralph’s picture, and ap parently oblivious of all beside, sat a gen tleman who gazed on it with a troubled face and earnest, mournful eyes. “Reminds him of somebody be knows,I suppose,” whispered Ralph to Helen. The stranger rose as Ralph approached, and seemed about to turn away. Then,- changing his mind, he said, in an agitated voice- “A charming face, sir. I haven’t a cata logue. I wish I knew tbe lady’s name. ” “I can tell you,” said Ralph. “3Iiss Helen Dene, sir. ” An exclamation from the stranger startled him. “I was sure of it! Oh, Helen, Helen! Helen Dene still ? Not married!” Ralph glanced at his sister, and her evi dent agitation bewildered him. The gen tleman addressed him again. “Pardon me, sir—I surprise you, I know; but the sight of that face! Young man, I loved her years ago—have never ceased to love her! I have sought for her every where in vain. Help me to find her, and my deathless gratitude shall be yours I” Before Ralph could reply, there was a little sound behind them, the sound of a stifled cry—a fall. The stranger darted forward. “Helen!” he cried. “It is Helen her self!” He lifted her in his arms before lady stepped in from the balcony—a lady at sight of whom she who had been addressed as auntie rose to her feet and came forward with a little cry of distress. “You have heard our conversation? Oh, Helen!” She took the Dew-comer’s hand, and led her, for she was trembling violently, to a seat; then, still tenderly holding her hand, sat down beside her. “ What can I say in excuse or apology for Grace ?” she began, anxiously; but the other stopped her gently. “ I have nothing to say to Grace in this matter, Mrs. Warren. But for him I feel contempt and scorn unutterable? I am re solved upon my course, and nothing can change me! ” That night Charley Leton led his lovely partner, flushed and panting, from the waltz, to rest awhile in the cool, green, perfumed solitude of the conservatory. She sank, with languid grace, into a seat, and Leton sank upon his knee beside her, and caught and pressed her white hands to his lips. “You know,” he murmured, low and earnestly—“you know how I love youl Oh, Grace, must it be all in vain ?” She did not answer him—eRe did not draw her hands away. In her heart the fair coquette admired this man. He had gone nearer than any other to touch her fickle, selfish heart. And he gazed upon the heaving bosom, the tearful eyes, and a thrill of triumph moved his heart. Was tnis the flirt against whom he had been warned—this soft, sweet, yielding girl ? “You could love me, Grace ? ” he whis pered ; and his arm stole round her waist. “Have you the right to ask ?” she mur mured. A faint and sudden rustling in the branches beside them—the magnolia blos soms stirred as if shaken by a summer wind, and some of their perfumed white leaves fell into the fountain’s basin—but the pair who sat there paid*no heed. “Yes!” he answered, firmly. “You, and you alone,‘possess my heart! It is true 1 thought I loved. Oh, how we may deceive ourselves! You have taught me how great was my mistake. For your sake, Gracie, I will ask her to set me free. I will implore her—” “It shall not be necessary, sir!” Again the magnolia blossoms were stirred —were pushed aside, and Helen Dene stood before them. They started to their feet in confusion. “ I am not here by accident,” said Miss Dene, with a lofty scorn. “ I saw you lead this lady to the conservatory, and deemed it my right to know what my promised husband had to say to her. Well, I have heard—and I am satisfied. Meanwhile I wish you both all happiness.” A moment they stood, amazed at the spirit and beauty that flashed upon them, and the next she had turned and passed from their sight. Grace caught at her companion’s arm. “ Follow her I ” she cried, eagerly. “Pacify her. I shall never hear the last of this from auntie.’ And she also fled, leaving Leton standing ’ there like one bewildered. He was free. But strangely contradic tory is the human heart. Never had Leton admired and valued Helen Dene so highly as in the hour in which he learned that she was lost to him. Some wild wish to return to his alle giance, some instinctive conviction that his love for her was real love, and that his heart would crave for her through all the time to come, urged him to seek her and implore her pardon. But then Grace—sweet, ten der, childish Grace—who had shown him so plainly that she loved him, too, and who had not Helen’s strength of mind or soul— could he abandon Grace? He-hesitated, and the chance was lost, for Helen left next morning. * It was all for the best, he told himself, en would not break her heart for hiig tence, his pain, and nestled to his bosom with a sob of joy. “Forgive me!” he whispered tenderly. Soft and thrilling came the gentle answer. “ I had forgiven you long ago 1” “And Miss Burrows?” asked Ralph, when the story had been told him, and they sat together discussing their new happiness. “Pray, what became of her?” The old wound, almost healed now, thrilled faintly in Helen’s heart, and even Leton’s smile was somewhat grave. “ She is a wealthy widow, ” he answered, “and gave me some flattering marks of favor only a few days ago. As great a co quette as ever, I suspect, hut let us not speak of her. To her I owe the suffering of the last thjee years—to her and to my own weakness. I am wiser now. I know my own heart at last. Long ago I found out who was my true love. Yes, Helen, before you had gone from my sight I mourned the madness that had lost you ! But I have found you again, to part no more, beloved.” “ No more till death! ” she whispered. the desk in her master’s study, plaiting the borders of her apron with nervous, wrinkled fingers, and eyeing, not without awe, the half-completed sermon upon which he was engaged. G’leve Carrick laid down his pen and looked up in some surprise. The new governess, Winny? what of her?” stiW he. “I hope she is not ill?” ‘Well, sir, ndl to say ill, exactly, ” hesi tated the old woman. “ but she aint no ap petite for her food, sir, and she pines. ” ‘I hope the boys are kind and considerate to her, Winny?” said Mr. Currick. ‘That they are, sir, bless their little hearts,’’cried the old housekeeper. “And I know she loves ’em—as, indeed, how could she help it?” ‘Then what is the trouble?” ‘That’s just what I don’t know, sir” said Winny. ‘I must inquire into it, ” said Mr. Carrick. ‘That’s just what I wish you would do, ” and with that old Winny curtsied her self out of the room. The Rev. Mr. Carrick pushed aside the heap of sermon papers, laid his pen on the rack, and went straightway into the little schoolroom, where Mary Neville was sitting poring over a child’s exercise book—a tall, pale girl, with bronze-brown hair clustering natural ripples over her forehead and great hazel eyes fringed with curling lashes She started nervously as her employer en tered. “Miss Neville. ” said the clergyman kindly ‘you are not happy here?” Mary Neville shrank back like a fawn brought to bay. “No,” she cried wildly, “ I am not!” “May I ask Why? For a second the girl was silent, while the pennons of white and red fluttered alternate ly in her cheek. ‘Are the children troublesome?” the young wtdower asked, kindly. “Is there anything that I can do to make your position here pleasanter?” Mary Neville rose to her feet and clasped her slender hands. “Yes,” she cried out, wildly; “ you cau forgive me. ” ‘ ‘Forgive you, Miss Neville! ” repeated Mr. Camck in surprise, “And for what?” “For deceiving you, ” said the governess. “ Oh Mr. Carrick, it has been on my con science ever since, especially since you have “Do not look at me so strangely,” said she ; “I have helped to nurse you through all your illness.” “Then it was no vision of my disordered brain,” cried Mr. Carrick, “but your dear face bending over me all the time ?*’ “Were you glad to see it ?” said she, with a soft radiance brightening her face. “Are you glad to see it ?” “My angel from heaven,” said he, ten derly closing his thin fingers over her hand, “if I could only keep you always,” “I have come to stay with you always” she said, kneeling at the side of his chair; “I have^come to be your wife; you asked me once, but I was a poor girl then, with shadows laynig darkly over my birth. They are all cleared away now—I am rich and independent, and my own mistress— and, oh my dearest, I have loved you all along.” The Rev. Mr. Carrick was not long in gettingwell after this. In fact old W iHifred declared that Miss Neville was the best medicine he had taken. And the clergyman’s young wife was the pride of all the parish, “An heiress,” said old Winifred. “®d a beauty; and only nineteen. Well, I rfways said as nothing in all the world coijd be oo good for Rev. Mr. Carrick.” Selling a Mine in Wall Street. Sot many months ago a man pretty well kown on the Comstock went East "to sell a mhe lying in the Pyramid District. He hi a map of the claim and its underground wfkings, all done up nicely in pink and blje ink, and it was as tine a piece of chiughting as one would wish to see. He tdk his maps, traps and samples of ore to Nw York and began to “lay for a cus- tcfier.” Presently he fell in with a wealthy Wall stpet manipulator, who got him on a string ad wanted to get him a customer on com- nfision. “Now look here, old man,” said tfe Wall Streeter. ‘*you are from Nevada, ad probably a little green in the ways of tb street. You will meet some awful sarp men here, and you must manage to be arifle sharper or you can’t do anything, lit me manage this thing, and give me all Lancet over $10,000 for the mine.” The Nevadian agreed, and the New Inker took him into a room and began to (ve him some confidential advice. he afterward put out a high lateen sail. These masts were inserted in a socket between the navigator's feet while his body corresponded to the hull of a vessel. The wind, however, was very light and this part of the exhibition was not so successful as others. Captain Boyton then showed the advantages of his dress for aquatic hunting. Taking a double-barreled, breech-loading shot gun he discharged it in various posi tions with great rapidity. He loaded and fired twelve times, the whole operation oc cupying not over a minute. Besides the tender, “Baby Mine” two other small boats were lying at anchor near the shore. Cap tain Boyton now paddled rapidly up to the first of these, a small metalic boat named “Addie.” This he towed out some distance from the shore and took from it a snow white kitten decked with a blue ribbon. Stroking it gently with his hard, wet glove, the captain swam to his raft and offered his pet the remnants of his luncheon. Leaving the trembling pussy on the raft, Captain Boynton paddled ashore and taking a rope swam several hundred feet from the shore Polonius* Advice 1 Grandfather Licksliingle started ujfrom a doze in his easy chair and remarke< “And so you never lizard the I vice that Polonius, an old chum of minegave to his son?” The family said no one had saidany- thing about Polonius, neither the u of Polonius. “Ah, very well then,” said grandiiier, “I—I’ll tell you about ’em. Yd see Polonius’ son Charley—I think hisiame was Charley—was going to Europon a little splurge. Charley had engage* pas sage en a Cunard steamer, an’ tliqwere about to pull in the gang-plank. T| boy had come back to kiss tire hired girlood- by. ‘Yet here?’ exclaimed his jher; ‘ aboard, aboard, for shame; the wii sets heavy in the shoulder of your sail,’i’ if you don’t look out you’ll get left. Jre— my ble8sin*s with you; here’s fifteecents more for pocket money, an’ these f< pro cepts in thy memory keep. Gii thy thoughts no tongue, hut alius takcold tongue yourself, when you can get itause its easy to digest an’, besides, it’s e of those things that admits of littler no , — r , „ culinary doctrin’. The friends thohast, been so kind. They told y.ou that I was a an d their adoption tried, grapple th to graduate of Mme. Lesiarde’s school, but they 1 never told you that I was brought up there as a charity pupil; that I washed dishes in the kitchea and scrubbed floors in the gar ret to earn my tuition. I was only a servant there—a drudge—and when at last Mme. Lesiarde discovered that I had a talent for music, and determined to educate me as a governess’' “Stop!” said Mr. Carrick, half smiling, “is that all?” “Oil, sir, is it not enough? I have de ceived you, I have” “Nonsense,” said Mr. Camck; “you are a refined lady in manner and education. My boys love you dearly. You have not de- thy soul with hooks of steel, for yodon’t know how soon you may want to rrow some money from ’em. Beware of trance to a quarrel, but bein’ in, an’ you b no and thought it would be a sharp thing chance to get out, then, my son^ump j take that mine in himself, thyself. If thou canst get one in thy “Now her’s the way to manage this f tUng. Of course if you have a really mod 1 P ur P°f of showing the utility of his Dine, it won’t be at ill out of the way to j ?V“! n ,? a8e of sb-pwreck. He next exhi- utake it look big. Now. take this map-it blt8d “ 8 ?- eth ? d ° f glTlns mght 81gnal8 > is a good map, but ain’t big enough. I’ll! a , nd “‘"S hls CIgar “ a slow-match, dis- get an artist to put in some extra ore bodies ! !] oc ^. ets and bo ™ bs - He —just scatter ’em through like plums in a 1 K 1C ? f . 10We ^ ^ fl° atm g powers of his suit pudding-and that’ll half sell it The buy-: bytakjng » weU-grown boy on his chest ers will be sure to discover those ore bodies! “ d “njeymg him about the pond The afterwards, all the same.” la8t featur “ ° f the exhibition was the de- Tliis don’t look to me hardly to ^ ?‘™«ion of the second of the two rafts be- square," said the Nevadian with a deep re-I f° r , e S .! C was s , lx . feet „? r ™ ore Hgious expression. “I want to sell my j en / th .® 1n »S ed “ S « e b ?f e mine on its merits. I never sold a thing in ! > mihar , n ? me °, f ‘ P ', e .' 7 my life on false representations and I’m too £ ac,n * ex ,P loslTC8 . about l !* cr a }' e was old to begin now.” blown to atoms, pieces being shot into ■Now don’t get Hied, old fellow. You ! hlghe r, , of th « rock f t9 are not supposed to know what I do. Give i f. 1 * rlsen ’ Ca P ? ,n . show \ ,bat me the maps and tl.e ore and let me attend j , b u J . ' , 3 , 81une method ‘orpedoes can beat- Wh'nyofx Ca,l!t be t0 ° ,rU:k -'- “ rv After a considerable persuasion, the mine owner turned over his maps and ore samples to the Wall Streeter, and that astute opera tor went on his way. He was to get an I “Freckles.' “It S,Unple %f nd £“7 8kowed - up ! “Your wife going to the'countiy ?” asked *1 ,° 00 to thc ton - This sct the New \ ork Green as he met Brown, chap thinking, and he went back to Ids Ne-I “I guess not. I offered her *50 to get vada fnend and asked him how high the ready, but she declares right up and down samples would run to the ton. ! that she won’t go ” “WeU, 1 hardly want to say,” replied i “Have you worked the ili-healtli dodge? the Nevada innocent, “I guess them sam-1 “Well, I tried to; but she has gained pies you ve got now are good for 35 or 40 thirteen pounds since last January, and dollars a ton. Of course 1 just took an never looked better than now ” average from the different parts of the mine. | “Can’t you make her believe her nerves 1 don t believe in picked samples. Such are relaxing ? That generally works pretty frauds are bound to come out sooner or j well. ” later and as I’ve got more mines to sell, I j “Can’t do it. She sleeps like a brick, concluded to act pretty square and get a j and her nerves were never stronger. ” good reputation for business on the street. | “And she doesn't want to see* her The New Yorker drew his conclusions 1 mother ?” “Her mother is dead. “Digestion good ?” ; discovery by those on the ship, and _ I claims that the rubber armor is destined '! to be an important instrument of navhl j warfare. “I’ve found a customer, old fellow,” he I “Splendid She eats pvprvthino- frnm « oppoaer s stomach I d have thee do If said, and eagerly drew a check for *10,000. 1 radish to limburger cheese and 1 can’t talk it be that thine adversary has a sort.ace,; p rofessing t0 hilve tound a customer and c , o{ dict ^ her “ ’ and hit him on it. Throwsand m lidyes, | made a neat turn on commission. “Bring, Green fell to musing and bv and bv con- and never lose an opportunity to sei Inm ] along some more mines and let me sell ’em tinued 6 ’ y Tound the legs an trip him that Inneels for you,” he added. “You see I may kick at heaven. Give eveiman thine ear, unless he he, like this onihine opposer in a quarrel, who naturall|ould have an object in biting it ofFn youiead. Costly thy habits as purse can buy,r I’m ... . ,. , , have fa- j “Mr. Brown, you have l>een a good cihties which you have not. We’ll go friend to me. ” round and fix up the deeds.” i “Well, I hope so.” Tiie Nevadian took the check, folded it i __ “Yes, you have stood by me like a up, and remarked: brother, and now I’ll do you a favor. My “Now, I hope you ve sold that mine on wife left for her mother’s, to be gone ten thc square and not got too much for it. Its weeks. I tried every dodge I could think antecedents and desire no information. I your tailor bills any more, an’ I fijotice worth *10,000 as a fair speculation.” i of, but she was bound“to^siav ~hrmT/“",U am more than pleased with tne success you j now that I will veto ’em from tUime | The two men parted for good a couple of !aM I hit it She has fr^kles ” haye lyyijy my children 8< education; and ; forth. ^ Tliis^ ab °y e _ a11 —‘° j tb “ c " \ days afterwards, and the New Yorker came ; “Ah 1 Egad ! SoTiasmine” minds forever.” | lookout for Number One, thefc it i,ii3-* )ro , H , nv i K . i, af) ^ T-! : _‘V, n country air in June , ,. . lookout for Number One, theh it uilx-.—property he had so slirewdlv acquired. Ar- will start freckles. And as Mary Neville lifted her pleading, , er as the mght the day that a man 1st riving at Pyramid he asks for the Goldj “Trae-trae Peels ’em ri-ht off graceful eyes to the clergyman s face, he he- | g C t U p tolerably early if. he would gethe R un Consolidated. i * <• a. U flt . reei , , P° m . on The Great Napoleon's Watcli. Among a number of objects belong ing to Napoleon I., which passed into the possession of Napoleon III., the most interesting was a watch, which the former always carried upon his military expeditions, and from which he was not separated until the hour of his death at St. Helena. The first Napoleon bought this -watch, which was not very valuableNind was of very ordinary appearance, at Mar seilles, when he was still a lieutenant of artillery, and although it had often need of repair, he refused to change it for a better one, even when he became First Consul and then Emperor. One day the .Emperor looked at the watch before General Berthier, and found that it had stopped several hours be fore. In response to a remark made to him upon the subject by the General, the Emperor answered smiling, “Why blame the watch? We ourselves will stop some day.” In after years the watch became the property of Napoleon III., who carried it with him upon his expeditious to Bolougne and Stras bourg. From the day he was named Prince President until the moment of his death at Chiselhurst it was with him constantly. It is related by the friends of the Imperial family that on the day that Napoleon III. quit Paris and put himself at the head of his army during the war of 1870, the watch sud denly stopped. The Emperor, who was very superstitious, saw in this in cident a passage of evil, and was much depressed during all the journey. At the death of Napoleon III. the ex-Ein- press Eugenie gave the wratch to her son, who also constantly carried it w ith him, and had expressed the wish al ways to preserve it carefully as a souv enir of his uncle. The Prince carried the watch with him upon his depart ure to the war in South Africa. The sword that the Prince carried, eap tured by the ZulnSihlso belonged to Na poleon I. The gold ring found on the body of tbe Primi? was a jewel which came to him frona^hls father, and to which was attach^* .seal which Gen eral Bonaparte bfvHn^back with him from Egypt. schlid’s personal ,000. came conscious all of a sudden that his boys’ governess was a beauty. At the end of the mouth he came once more into the school-room. “Miss Neville,” said he, “ I want to speak to you. ” Mary flushed and grew pale, after her old nervous fashion. ‘Have I done anything wrong, sir?” said she, all in a tremble. ‘Yes, ” said the clergyman, smiling. “You have stolen my heart away. Nay, smiling Miss Neville,don’t start so guiltily; you must be aware that you have been the sunshine of this house ever since you entered it. I am not a gallant young lover, like the knights of romance, but I am not an old man yet. Tell me, Miss Neville, do you think you can learn to love me?” But Miss Neville shook her head. “You are the parish clergyman, ” said she, “ and I am only a poor girl. I am not wor thy of you, Mr. Carrick.” “Suppose you let me he judge of that?” said Mr. Carrick, smiling fondly. “1 could not let you sacrifice yourself to your own generosity,” said Miss Neville. “You refuse me then?” “I refuse you!” It was scarcely a week after this strange dialogue that a lawyer came to see Mr. Car- rick's governess, accompanied by a bronzed and bearded man of middle age, and after a long interview with these unusual visitants, Miss Neville knocked at her employer’s study door. “Mr. Carrick,” said she, with wet eye lashes and cheeks crimsoned like the ripen ed side of a nectarine, ” do you know how it is that people sometimes live like a novel in this world?” “I don’t undersand you, Miss Novi he replied. “Because,” she went hurriedly on, “I, seem to be transformed into a heroine of ro mance. My uncle has just come home from China—my uncle who has been lost to us all for twenty years, and he is rich. Oh, Mr. Carrick, it all seems like a dream!” “My child, I congratulate you,” said the clergyman, kindly pressing her hand. “I shall lose my boys’ instructress, but you will gain a newer and a broader life.” But, as she turned away, there was a certain something in her wistful eyes that made the good man rack his brains to think if he had forgotten anything that he ought to have said, and on the bright October morning when she drove away from the door in her ancle's carriage, with a little group of sympathizing friends and ac quaintances gathered around the doorstep, the same pleading look was in her eyes as her little hand lay in the good clergyman’s grasp. “Good-by, Miss Neville,” he said cor dially, “and God bless you!” And the parsonage seemed darker and more dreary than it ever had done before as he crossed its threshold and saw Mary Neville’s empty chair beside the school room desk. “God help me!” he murmured to him self. “I loved her, and she is gone 1” Perhaps it was that sickness prevailed in the parish just then, and the good man wore himself out with faithful vigils—per haps it might have been, that he missed the sweet face and gentle presence of his children’s governess; at all events, certain it was that the Rev. Mr. Carrick fell ill of brain fever, and old Winifred trembled for the result. And in the lapses of delirium he raved of Mi88 Neville night and day. In the first stages of his convalescence, when he was able to sit up, gaunt andpale, with pillows at his back and wine and nour ishing broths at his side, there came a soft tap at the door, and Miss Neville herself entered. Thc clergyman stared, with a vague fear that he was sinking once more into the fever dreams of the past. But she laid her velvet-soft palm on his i like the cool touch of a snow -flake. bulge on you. Farewell, my hlessinSth thee goes; and also be careful oyer money, and sleep with yer watch tier yer piller.’ ” Railroad Ethics. . , XT . . „ | from four to eight weeks, leaving the com- No such a mine, was the reply he got plexion as fair as a babe’s, and without in- eveiywhere. — * * • There is no relation of life in vch the natural selfishness of man ues out so strongly as in traveling. »o- ple who, when at home or among jir friends, are not only polite, cousr- ate of the comfort of others, but Bn self-sacrificing in trifles, often beie grasping, repellant, morose, wheny get on a railway train to go travel. Too often they seek their own cornt to the disregard of the rights ofotli A man will enter a train and tala whole seat and so arrange his bag<e as to cover the whole of it, so id keep any one else from occupyini part of it. He only pays for one l and he know's perfectly well*that ha no right to occupy two and yet heqs so frequently until he is forced t<rifl and then he does so with as bad ;ne as possible. l r "natter not that)rir men may be standing up iu thecs. he rarely has the grace to invite tuf them to sit by him. He sits and Ms as forbidding as possible or turcsB back and gazes out of the window as to prevent if possible anyone k requesting him for a seat beside The ladies ate in this respect no he than the men. and they are more - ftectly masters of the situation. Sis protected by her sex in her selfishs and her disregard of the the comfof her sisters. A gentleman does noti to ask her for a seat, though he ha perfect right to do so. Even ana- lady Is at a disadvantage in askingr for a Beat. A cold, haughty insit manner, and an intrenched air ofi- session usually enables her to holer double seat against all comers, e politeness of men to women rarelys in America, and it is no unusual g ior two gentlemen to rise to giveqr whole doable seat because aror lady fails to offer her a seat. N«i this case each lady secures her die seat at the price of the discomfof two fellow travelers. Wh6n it an who behaves thus the remedy Is j- paratively simple. There is even ; t oi pleasure in applying it. The \- senger who on entering the car & all the double seats octupied byii who refuse to make room for hss often tempted to pick out the mosj- clusive looking of them and gp coolly and business-like, tell hiii make room and then sit down bn in as roomy and spacious a style a sihle, and then hum or whistle slow plaintive air—kind o’ sad This inflicts agonies upon the excl traveler and gives to the newc that calm inward repose which < from the infliction of righteous ishment. Yet how much bett; would be for the ladies to make for their fellow female,travelerg a exch ange the little coortesie* brighten the journey; how much it would be ior the men to proi make room for the newcomers an into frle ndly chat by the way selfish exclusiveness in traveling not pay. One doesn’t get the mo of the voyage in that way. There are a variety of kinds of chin- chona or Peruvian bark, and in pur chasing the sulphate of its alkaloid usually culled quinine, one ought to be careful to procure it from a respectable druggist, ior, like everything else of value in the form ot either food or med ielne, it is very liable to adulteration In debility of the system, either chronic or following long illness, quinine is a most valuable touic. It is also called an anti-periodic—a word discriptive of its power of checking those ailments that are apt to recur at stated intervals For this purpose it must be given in the stage of intermission, that is, between the attacks; hence it is invaluable in cases of ague, and that painful com plaint, periodical neuralgia. To those who believe more in the bark itself than in its essential part, quinine, I would recommend its use in doses of about fifteen grains twice or thrice a day, taken either in a little port-wine or in half a glass of good stout. On some stomachs, however, neither the crude bark nor quinine itself lies ■easily; in such cases try the following: Get fifteen ounces of the infusion of yellow bark and one ounce of the com pound tincture, mix them and filter them through strong hlotting«paper. It will now be perfectly clear, and the dose is a tiny wine-glassful twice a day. From one to two grains of quinine itself made into a pill with confection of roses, is an excellent tonic; and there are many elegant preparations of this drug sold in the shops—such, for in stance, as the tincture of quinine, and quinine wine, and the citrate ot qui nine and iron. And this leads me to say a word or two about iron itself as a tonic. The preparations of iron, then when administered for some time, are very highly beneficial in cases of weak ness of the muscular system, especially that form of debility characterized by a pale, bloodless condition of the body, for iron enriches the blood and invig orates the system. It is, however, lia ble to produce constipation; verbumsap. It should not, on the other hand, he given in too large doses, or over excite ment may be the result; and in no case should it be administered, except un der medical advice, when there is the slightest determination of blood to the head. Equal portions of the aromatic mixture .of iron and the compound aloe- tic mixture make not a very pretty remedy, as far as color goes, but, in my opinion, it can hardly be too high ly extolled. The dose is an ounce and a half twice a day. In cases where the digestive orgtns are somewhat weak, but where iron is indicated, two or three grains twice or thrice a day of the powder of iron (pulris ferri), *n the form of a pill, make a very handy and very excellent tonic. Again, we have in the granulated carbonate of iron of the shops a most valuable tonic, especially for ar^emic females, or in deed for the delicate of either sex. If the digestive powers are pretty good, I should also recommend a trial of the green iron mixture; dose, one to two M&rlc Twain’s Musket. .... „ , | jury to the most delicate eye-brows.” . Great Cajsar! I ve bought the claim and i “You see ” paid $10,000 for it.” j “Mr. Green, I see it all. I shall never . ‘•a io , 8Ure " it tt . . .. 1 forget your kindness. In less than a week ! ounces twice a dkv’ A man showed me<a map. Here it is,” j my freckled wife will be in Berrien county, 0UULe8 tw,te a llay ’ ™ tb « New y ork< -r pulled out the map and you and I will stay out till two o’clock which he had received from the seller. A in the morning, and then go to my house ^hed uproZsly” ^ “ d j and 8l “P- > b e bed with our boots on! Yon see, the old man was ttying to learn "That’fr01d°Sawyer’s work. Oh, he’s Ume you w-an°- a flZ /ouVaytu mfu£ “““ ^ blaCkbirds “ d , 'i* 8 ' 8 that a smart one ” 1 Qt m A y ay rout me U P j up the young corn and such things, so that JuTZold Sawyer, the foremost eiti- nudal g ht a ° d command!" ! could be of some use about thef^m, be- zen of the district, and as innocent an old 4 * Allen* a Lead.” I cau8€ * was . n 1 enough to do much. My mine-owner as the coast ever DroducetL I. - „ r . _ gun was a single barreled shot gun, and the came un aod bolted ovTthe man ^ 1 ^ y °T S men . ! ravebD S m Eu ‘ old man carried an old Queen Anne musket “It ahi’t «irreet old boss ” he* said ad- 1 among them a citizen of our great that weighed a ton, made a report like a dressing the New Yorker. “Too manv ore I Wh ,Z was 80 th '?, rou £ hly P atn ° tlc thunder clap and kicked like a mule. The bodies put ini” ’ A b ®t he could see no excellence in anything old man wanted me to shoot the old mus- “But there’s no shaft no maehinerv no 1 ° rld 83 com P ar '‘ d i ''’ ub bis own | ket sometimes, but 1 was afraid. One day, mine !" roared the man from Wall street i “ )untr - v ’ yIountams , watt ‘ l r , fa a - cbu f cht ' fi , though, I got her down and took her to "Well ” replied Old Sawyer reflectively D l on ' lnlen i ts ' “enep’, anti all, other objects the hired man and asked him to load her “I don't see how you can scour The f<d I c! “ terest werei inferior to what the Ended : up because it was out in the field. Hiram i non t set now you can scour, the fet- States could show His companions be- I said- lows who bought it are the ones to ktek. ' came somewhat tired of his overweening lou got a handsome commission, you . boastfulness, and determined to “take him BRIEFS. —Out of 436 missionaries in China 310 of them are women. —FI rida has produced 6 0,000 bar rels more oranges than last season. —There are thirty-five million pounds of bullion in the bank of England. —Prince Leopold has become presi dent of the London Musical Society. —There are 10,000,000 barrels of lag er beer brewed in America annually. —The t«x on each Parisian per an num is $33.72, —Thirty-eigh t ladies have received degrees in France as doctors and bache lors of arc. —The last vistige of Temple Bar, in London, wa9 removed by the contrac tors on the 13th of June/ —The Arnold print works at North Adams, Mass., now make 125,000 yards of prints a day. —The receipts of the English rail ways have been rapidly declining for six months. —The sugar crop of Cuba is larger than that of last year by a hundred housand pounds. —In twenty-eight vears New York has sent 48,000 friendless children to the West and found homes for them. —The fleece ot the common sheep will average les9 than one-half in weight to that of a Merlnoor Cotswold. —Compulsory education is suggested for Wisconsin. Nearly one-third of the school population went untaught last year. —The new City Directory of Boston for 1S79 ha9 just been published. It contains 134,971 names, against 93,000 in 1870. —The United States’ imports of Cu ban productions are upward of $70,000,- 000 per annum, while her exports to that island amount to but $15,000,000, —The average consumption of wheat for each individual of the population of Great Britain is eight bushels per an num. —Between 1874 and 1878, both years inclusive, 3.86J,000 persons were em ployed in British mines, and 9058 of them lost their lives. —The recent State census 9hows that the population of Nebraska is about 3S6,- 400, or uoarly 100 times greater than it was 25 years ago. —New towns are laid out in the oil region of McKean county. Fa., almost every week. No less than five were urveyed in the month of June. —The total contributions to the relief of the wives and children of the Glou cester, Mass., lost fisherman amounts to $28,0l>3. —The excess of exports over imports for the year ending May 31, 1879, was $269,709,876, and for the year ending May 31, 1878, $241,859,939. know. ‘But the samples run up to $1,500! ‘Salted.” ‘I’m swindled!” “Don’t you know you said a man couldn’t “Do you see those marks on the stock— , ' an X and V, on each side of the queen’s down a peg. The party Spent a winter in j crown ? Well, that means ten balls and Rome; and one evening, having all things i five slugs—that’s her load.” prepared, they induced their \ ankee friend j “But how much powder? ” to join a drinking bout, and so managed “Oh," he says, “it don’t matter; put , . . .-. . „ i that they kept sober while he got gloriously i in three or four handfuls ” be too tricky m selling a mine on Wall drunk Thereunon thev look him into tul rn iTk a street ?” inquired OM Sawyer, and only a ; cSmbs Kta <*refuhv down whh ‘ J, her ? P K tb f way ’ and true Christian such as are reared in Pvra- i caiac ° 1 f u>s \ nun carefully down, *ith > an aw ful charge—I had sense enough to mid district can understand the feelings ' ^. c f n< ^ e w,tbl f 1 reach, and retired a short j see that—and started out. I leveled her mia aistnct. can understand the feelings ; distance out of sight to wait for the devel- on a cood manv blackbirds, but everv time of pious elation which Brother Sawyer ex- oDments After^a while their friend mn«ed t . „ y oiac . M,irus j f vei T llme perienced as the gentleman from Wall Z off j 1 pufl the tHgger I shut my eyes Street acromnHined hv his eYnerto drove : P ’ P f anmKen 8tu P" and winked. I was afraid of her kick, street, accompanied Dy ins experts, drove or, and, :n a state of some astonishment ~ furiously off for Reno, blasting the blossom ing sagebrush along the route with their fiery language. In the Water. Captain Boyton recently gave an exhibi tion of his skill in the water near Portland, Maine. The captain is a strong, well-built ; his face is darkly tanned, and is tinged with red beneath the eyes, which are nearly closed while he is swimming. His paddle is a strong‘instrument with a round handle in the center and stiff blades on either end. At his usual rate of working j , . > t Towards sundown I fetched up to the began endeavoring to locate himself,-at the house, and there was the old man waiting same time muttering: “Well—hie—this’s ! on the porch. little strange. Wonner—hie—where I am, anyway.” He got out his match, lignted his candle, and began to study his surround ings. On each side were shelves piled with grinning skulls and niches filled with skel etons, while all about were piled legs, arms, ribs, and vertebrae—a ghastiy array and al together new to him. He nodded to the skulls on one side with a drunken “How de do—hie?” and on the other with “How d’ye feel—anyway?” took a look at his watch, and once more at his surroundings, in still water he makes f'-ur miles an hour, °. D f ee *» took off his hat, and hold ing it above his head, remarked, loud enough for his friends to hear: “’S all right; ’9—hie—all right. Morning of resur rection, by jingo!—hie. First man on theground— rahfor the United States / Alter8 ahead, 'll ah for me specially/” Peculiar People. and seems to accomplish this with very lit tle effort. After giving a short exhibition of the various methods of swimming with or without a paddle, the captain commenced to collect scattered beams and boards which were floating on the water, and in an incredi bly short time had constructed a sutfetantial raft. He was attended by his little tender, “Baby Mine,” a boat made of metal, with Most people, whatever their condition or a close-fitting lid. Clambering upon his race, are so homogeneous now-a-days, raft, he illustrated his methods of through long exposure to the same influen- signalling with a flag, torch, rocket and ces, that it is enlivening to hear of a people, horn. He then commenced his prepara- j even though they be savages, altogether tions for lunch. Hauling his tender along-1 different from the common. The natives of side, he took from it a fire-pot, shavings, I Botel-Tobago, an island in the China Sea, bellows and matches, and having n—de : are curious and peculiar in most respects, kindling wood of some stray pieces of j They excited the wonder of a number of boards soon had a brisk fire going. He j American naval officers, who recently visit- then poured water from a canteen into a 1 ed them while surveying a rock east of the basin, which he placed over the fire. Wflile ' South Cape of Formosa. These aboriginals, this was boiling, he took his pole and went j who are of Malay stock, knew nothing of fishing for something for his meal. Lean-1 money, and could not be made to understand ing quietly on his paddle he waited patient-! the object of its use. They had never tasted ly for a bite. Soon he felt a nibble and in ' tobacco or rum, nor had they any substi- a moment hauled out a full-sized perch. ' tutes for these. Nevertheless, the females Taking this to his raft he stood alongside liked anything and everything of an orna- and proceeded to dress it. Having finished j mental or decorative character. They ad- this operation he placed it over the fire and j mired brass buttons, tin vessels or anything washing" off his raft proceeded to spread his bright; freely gave goats or pigs for them, table, not even omitting a tiny call-bell. He then set forth his desert, consisting of oranges and watermelons. When every thing had been arranged to his satisfaction, and his fish was nicely browned, he com menced his repast and enjoyed his meal re clining at his ease. After dinner he lit a cigar, and spreading a parachute over his head; produced a newspaper and a fan. Having taken his ease in this way for a few minutes, he laid aside his umbrella and and could not get enough for their delecta tion. Any shining object they were eager to obtain, and they would dive lor a button or a coin if thrown into the water, and often seize it while it was sinking. They played in the canoes % about the ship for hours, watching for tht opportunity to dive for the (to them) precious trifles. The natives are as primitive as they can be. They wear only breach-clouts; they live on taro and yams; they have no other implements than cigar and proceeded to exhibit his sailing axes, spears and knives, made of common apparatus. 9i» first set of sails was sloop- j iron; but the females employ shells and thc rigged with a mast some six feet high and. beards of goats for ornament. “ Been out hunting, have ye ? ” “Yes, sir,” says I. “ What did you kill ?” “Didn’t kill anything, sir—didn’t shoot her off; was afraid she'd kick”—I knew blamed well she would. “Gimme that gun!” the old man said,as mad as sin. And he took aim at a sapling on the other side of the road, and I began to drop back out of danger, and the next moment I heard the earthquake and saw the Queen Anne whirling end over end in the air, and the old man spinning around on one heel, with one leg up and both hands on his jaw, and the bark flying from the old sapling like there was a hail storm. The old man’s shoulder was set back three inches, his jaw turned black and blue, and he had to lay up for a week. Cholera or nothing else can scare me the way I was scared that time. To Determine the Speed of a Train. Travelers on railroads are olten de sirous of knowing the speed at which they are moving, and, as a general thing, are not aware that w ith the aid of a watch they may readily find out, even when the mile posts are not placed along tl^e track. This may be done, says the Scientific Press, by simply counting the number of rails which are passed over in any one given min ute. On the best railroads the Hammer ing sound made by the wheels in pass ing from one rail to another is quite audible, and may be easily noted on whichever side of the car the observer may be sitting. All the rails are either twenty-four or thirty leet long—the length may be easily ascertained by pacing or measuring with a pocket rule at any station where the train stops. Then by counting the number ot rails passed in thirty to sixty seconds, the speed of travel may be calculated by any passenger. When a train moves 14.67 feet a second, it is traveling at the at the rate of ten miles an hour, or a mile in six minutes. * —Henry King, colored, aged 73 years, residing at Salisbury, Md., claims the paternity ot 41 children. The oldest is 50 and the youngest is two weeks old. —Lumber shipmeuts are gradually increasing at Lock Haven, Fa. The Republican says that, up to June 25th, they weie 440,000 feet greater than at this time last year. —The Department of Agriculture re ports that the losses to sneep owners by the ravages of dogs reach one mil lion dollars annually in the mutton and ^-..ni urtuallv destroyed. —The first two days of the sale of the late Mme. Musard’s jewels at Paris, produced about $180,000. The sensa tion lot was a necklace of seven rows of pearls which brought $34,000. —The blossoms of the ailantcus tree are said to be poisen to young fowls. Recently Mrs Jane Taylor, of Cecil county, Maryland, lost sixty-one small ducks, it Is believed from this cause. —Mr. Henry, Inventor of the Martin i-Henry rifle barrel and ammunition is vainly seeking for adequate remun eration from the British War Office for the use of his patents by that Govern ment. —Mrs. Judith Mitchell, a sprightly old woman in Ohio county, Ky., born in 1786, has six children, 54 grand children, 116 great-grandchildren, and 10 great-great-grandchildren. All are living. —A statue of Marshal Von Moltke is to be erected in-Cologne, the city of his birth, and the First Burgomaster has offered three prizes, of 1500, 10b0 and 500 marks respectively, for the best models. —The King of Denmark is suffering much from ill health. He has felt deeply the loss of iiis last daughter, Thyra, Duchess of Cumberland, and the incorporation by Prussia of North Schleswig was also a trouble to him. —Gardener E. Sisson undertook late ly In Providence, R. I.. to make 100 pairs of India rubber boots in 100 con secutive hours, or forfeit $5,000. He performed his task four miuutes before tbe expiration of his time. —Mechanics get $60 a day. and com mon laborers $15 a day, in Buenos Ayres. Bookkeepers get$20.000a year, and extra zeal as a manager brings $75,000. The paper dollar is worth three cents in gold. A loaf of bread costs $3. —A bar shot, supposed to have been thrown from one of the English frigates which came up the Penobscot river in 1814, has been found on the premises of Jonathan Pitcher, iu Bangor, Maine, some three feet below the surface of the ground. —Miss Elizabeth Leibesberger, of Berks county, Pa., aged 92, is one of the wealthiest maiden ladies in that State. She owns several large farms. She has silvery gaay hair, is neat and trim in appearance, and, considering her great age, is quite active and alert A wooden doll which William Penn brought over from England as a pre sent to one of his daughters is still cherished by a Washington family. It Is known as Letitia Penn, the name of the great Quaker’s daughter, and is a faded beauty, twelve inches high, with out a joint in its body. —There is an eccentric tramp in Litchfield county, Conn., known as “the leatberman.” He lives in a cave in Roxbury during the wiuter, and at other seasons wanders from town to town begging his way. Iiis entire dress, hat included, consists of old boot legs tied together with leather strings, —France is a large importer of for eign stock. In 1877 she imported 185,- 000 biack cattle, 1,500,000 sheep, and 120,000 pigs, all of which are examined iu the frontier custom bouses by veter inary surgeons. To maintain the nec essary staff of veterinary officialis the expense being 125.000 francs yearly, a small tax is exacted per head of stock. —During the six months ending June 30th, 366 failures were reported in New York city, with total liabilities of $11,582,656, and total assets of $5,990,- 347. In the corresponding six months of 1878 there were 514 failures, with liabilities of $39,030,795, and assets of $11,012,662. The failures this year have been mainly confined to the small tra ders.