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P SSING UNDER THE ROD.
For a long time Ebenezer Wash¬
ington had striven to 'sin the hand
and heart otr Mewilda Quig^ns. tie
.
believed he Filled her fondly, and lie
felt that life wftlifl be nuMi;% £b !mr.
but a thorny waste or a neglected
brierpatoh if he could not call her i.is
wife.
But Mewilda was in no hurry to
marry. She was Dot sure that she
loved Eoenezer sufficiently to consent
1o be his wife. She ftR that she could
retain him as a string to her bow, and
perhaps another man might yet come
along that would b tlelr fill her idea
us to what a husband ought to be.
There ee$tued, hqwever, to be but
little hope for this, Mewilda was
neither very young nor v- ry hand
Homc, and she had begun to see that
her chances were slipping away. At
last she decided that she would wait
no longer, but accept Ebenezer the
next time lie broached the subject and
spoke of matrimony.
But the next time Ebenezer came
he wasn’t , m . a very happy , frame .. ot ..
mind, ... lie was beginning . . to . see ,. that
Mewilda „, , . was simply . keeping , . mm on
'
the rack , until she , could . , see whether . .,
lucre possibility ... ot ..
was a 1 winning
another and , a wealthier , , . man
... Ebenezer, i beginning * •
you s.c, was
to ‘spunk , up , and , I . am gla > , 1 to , record i
the . tact; .. for .. when . a man courts . a
woman for , five „ years, and , the ..
woman
declines . ,. to give . .. turn a positive ... an-
swer, . but still ... , bun .
encourages to ,
continue Ins courting, it looks , i to , me
v
as it the man was sadly .. deficient , . . in .
and . spirit. . ..
snap
Ebenezer ■
But r ,. didn ., t , lack . snap on
this occasion. Said be :
‘Mewilda, unless I receive a favor¬
able answer to night, this will be my
last visit to you. I love you amaz¬
ingly and teetolally, but J am not
going to tag after you any longer and
try t<Tinduce ' you to marry me. if
you consent to night to marry me, Ill
be a happy man. You know. Mewil-
da, that f have loved you fondly for
many years, and of course I will be
happy if you consent to marry me; ’
but if you don’t say to-night that
you w ill be mine and name the day
lor our-union then this is uiy last
visit to you I will mi out into the
wilds.of the world, and endeavor to
find happiness in other climes and
under other skies.’
Mewilda, as I said before, had
made up her mind to accept Ebene¬
zer; she might wait longer and fare
worse, so she was ready to consent.
But she wanted to fool awhile.
Some women can’t help fooling
and coquetting. It seems natural for
some of them to go by contraries, and
to act entirely different from the way
they feel.
‘I suppose,’ said Mewilda, ‘I will
have to say ‘no,’ 1 A now you ate a
good man, but I fear 1 do not love
you with that great, fond earnest and
overwhelming love that a wife ought
to have for her husband.’
Mewilda supposed that Ebenezer
Mould now persuade her that she
h*vvd inin quite well enough, and that
their love would continue to grow and
become stronger after they were
united.
But Ebenezer wasn t in the proper
fYflhne ot mind to persuade anybody.
‘
VWi., \oa umbisiund t..e c:ibe.
Yon have had sufficient, time, any¬
how, to think the matter over. / have
now courted you for five long years-
Sometimes 7thought vou loved me’
At) * e'iracs I t.li C ht you didn't.
But it's a 1 over - v” 1 snail go
out i the wi.ds <>f v the world, and
away on a bleak hill top or on some
ion a barren iGe, Ravill lav me down
a d die.'
And Eb nezer heave 1 a sigh and
reached tor his hat.
Mewilda shuddered. Could it be
possible that she was going to lose
him now when slie had just made up
her mind that she would marry him.
and endeavor to be to bun a fond and
loving Wife?
Ebenezer wasi about to depart,
•Good-bye, he said, T have loved
you lor five years. Before five years
s>luvll have »X)bvd around I will be
gone whorv the woodbine twineth ’
Mewilda thought she must speaA
now, or all Would be lost.
•Oh, Ebenezer,’ she exclaiited 'do
not go! 1 was only waiting for you
to press y on* .miu. but \ou do not
understand. Don’t go. Ebenezer;
TOCCOA NEWS
By Edw SCHAEFER* <"
i 0L. I,
love you—I love you fondty—I love
you overwhelmingly.’
The snap was none from Ebenezer
immediately, and it was safe to say
that he was the happiest man in the
United States of America.
‘M.y darling Mewilda!’ he mur¬
mured, as he opened his arms. j
‘My darling Ebenezer!' she rnur-
mured, as she tumbled in.
I think it only right and proper to
draw the curtain on this very happy
scene.
Two days passed 1 away, and a man
• • ’
* two years younger than ,
Ebenezer, came into the town. llis
name was Darius Clifford,
He was a handsome man, and wore
53 (rood clothes, and ot course he created
a sensation
Strange it . ,
ns may seem, and
'
regardless ° , ot - . the , smiles ot young and ,
handsome , ladies, he immediately , ,
sought ° an introduction . . to t Mewilda ..
Quiggins, % nr> wlio, as _ I said ... before, . was
neither young ° nor handsome,
Mewilda, , t on Ins first ^ visit . . to . , her,
was much pleased , . with . , him. , .
On the , second , visit . ., she . was in
ecstacies. He had proposed.
The bright flush of joy mantled
high on her cheek, and the future
looked brilliant and gav.
She accept el him immediately
regardless of the promise that bound
her to Ebenezer.
j his shows what a woman will do.
‘But,’she reasoned,‘why should I
il ot accept him and discard Ebenezer?
Lie is so much superior ! And then,
I never felt entirely sure that I loved
Ebenezer,.’
That night Mewilda was so happ *J
she couldn't sleep.
She word Ebenezer . »»■ - ~*
sent to to come
immediately.
-He came in, elated and happy.
But alas! he went out crushed and ^
disconsolate.
11 is star of hope had set. and the
groat, angry clouds of disappoint-
; ment had gathered o'er his sky.
Mewilda said that he might con-
sidcr the engagement between them
ae at an end. She had -learned to
love another’—a handsome, a nobl|,
a magnificent man, and they we*
already betrothed. *
Ebenezer didn’t storm, although
some strong language on that oeea-
sion would probably have been
justifiable. And he didn’t weep ; he
didn’t even tell her she was a fool.
.No, he simply reiterated his former
intention ot going out into the wilds
of the world, and dying on a bleak
hill top or on some lonely, barren
•sle.
And lie went.
But he kept clear of bleak bill tops,
and his bark never touched on a lone,
isle.
Darias Clifford departed suddenly
soon after his engagement to dcwilda
jj 0 informed no one as to where
was going, and forgot to say anything
to the hotelkeeper in regard to his
boar q b jq
Mewilda went, to bed and tried
The shock had broken her
heart (?) 8he eoul l now see that she
had‘anchored her hopes to this per-
ishing earth by the chain which tier
tenderness wove.’
Her heart was br^'Len tor three
weeks: and then it got well. She
arose and again took up the chain
bf e
Rumor said that Darius Clifford
had been told that Mewilda Quiggins
had a large amount of property, and
that became to the town for the
purpose of marrying Mewilda
securing the property. He learned,
however, that Mewilda s property
would probably amount to four hun-
dred dollars, and then he folded his
tent and silently stole away.
Ebenezer wandered, in the wilds of
the world for two years,
to selha patent churn. At the end of
this time he concluded that there was
nothing in the churn business.
He returned to the town where
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TOCCOA, GA., NOVEMBER 1 1, 1882.
Mewilda lived, and showed his usual
lack of spunk by visiting the
that had treated him so shamefully,
But Mewilda had become softened
by the flight of Darius, and Ebenezer
had become subdued by the failure of
the churn business, and both were
ready to forgive and forget . They
bad “passed under the rol.'
And tins forgiving and forgetting
and passing under the rol led on pi
love, and soon the flame burned as
brightly as before. They got married
and are now as happy as a couple
goslings on a mill pond in the month
of July.
A VESTAL VIOLATED.
McDermott, of Macon, Betrays
the Confidence of a Tender
Maiden.
Post Appeal, 3d.
On .Monday night a young man,
accompanied by a girl of about
nineteen summers, applied for lodg¬
ing at the boarding house of Mix). D.
A. Cook, on Mitchell street, and
registered as II. A. Howard and wife,
Jonesboro. Maj. Cook assigne 1 them
a room, where they remained togeth¬
er until morning. The young m u
then went around to the notorious
bagnio on Line street, kept by Abide
Howard, and made arrangements for
sending the girl to her house at
once to complete her ruin, Before
taking the girl to this den, he thought
a proper preliminary step would be
to first procure her trunk, which was
at the Central Railroad office. Ac-
cordingly he sent a porter with the
Pillowing note .
‘Blease let bearer have my trunk
left at yoiir office last night.
(Signed) Stranofr.
The reception of this note
a check, awoke a suspicion in the
m i n d of the railroad clerk, an 1 he
telephoned to the station house for a
policeman, Officer Stroud wai de-
tailed to answer the summons, and
after putting in some good detective
work, found the girl at the above-
mentioned boarding house, but the
young man had left for parts
known. Further investigation by
this efficient officer led to the
cry of the following facts
w ith the matter:
The young lady, whose name is
Ida Burke, left her home in ( hatta-
, no oga on last Tuesday, and made for
g r itfi n , a t which place she was to
marry Mr. Andrew Derrick, a
dent of that town. She arrived there
duly, and went to the hotel, where
she registered in her proper name,
and began to loo/cout for the truant
DerricA, wno did not appear But
another man did appear, who assumed
to be a Mr. Howard, of
and requested the pleasure of takiny
her out buggy riding*. She assented,
as she felt very lone and friendless
there, and while out on this little
excursion he persuaded her to go
with him to June boro where
would sB-al a march on the tardy
Derrick and marrv her himself* She
agreed to this preposition and they
departed on the morning train for
that town Upon arrival they regis-
tered as man and wife, and here lie
accomplished her ruin. Ashe was
dilitory in proposing the performance
1 of the marriage ceremony, she became
a little alarmed, and requested him
to complete her BRss by that little
formality. He answered by propos-
ing atrip to Atlanta, which she, of
course, acquiesced in, and they ar'
rived here yesterday morning, as
above stated. The whereabouts of
: McDermott had not been ascertained
U p to midnight. Miss Ida departed,
in care of the conductor, this morning
12 :30, for her home in Chattanooga.
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Foundations are good, and paths
are. good ; but they' are not enough.
Foundations were made to build on ;
paths were made to walk in.
“IGNORE NSEC
The following article, contributed
by a valued correspondent, is
true, and so thoroughly illustrates
the matter treated, that we publish it
verbatim :
‘There is nothing so annoying to
which are brought into contact
with it as ignorense is Ignorent
P"°P^ e are unable to understand
those tilings which the average mind
should comprehend at once. Edu-
cation opens the mental vision, as it
were, and presents to the thinAing
mind a vast panoramuiy of beauty,
while to the course and vulgar ej'e of
ignorense there is nothing attractive.
<, daniel Webster oncet said that
noledge is power and his great
dictionary is adequate proof that he
was no slouch himself in the educa¬
line. I have often saw people
who became the viet ims of their
fellow men because they wore not
informed upon things of which they
should have obtained a nolledge,
while others who had obtained a
thorough education could take a
pencil or a piece of chock and add
up anything.
‘If I had a child and could give
him an education or a sheep ranch,
I would give him the education and
hen let him acquire the sheep ranch.
Lf 1 had a son and could give him a
1 large herd ofcattlPor a good educa¬
tion, / would educate him, and he
woul i get a sore-back mule and a
Texas steer and let nature take its
course
‘I know at one time a boy who a as
bent upon going to colledge although
j his {’ob>s was poor and tie persevered
for fifteen years through thick and
t hin till he came out with a diploma
j-n l-t- n,-' worm You can acquire
• collidge
at from a
( >rve »- education to a hectic flush,
ll0t j K . r y( . U ng man who I Anew first
ag a puf „. b ,v rv q mp r , applied
; {lims ,.jf his studies patiently and
int |,^ tr : uU , sly till he was a good
peil8ma!i , :i nd then he wrote a cheek
hy whk . h j, e got $2.0 >0- and eighteen
ear8 in ,. h<J penitentiary. Other boys
woU ]q , i:iY ^ Uchmi contented with ten,
b„ t was ambitious and onet said
th t lu . woul q not be satisfied with
any little fool petty-lareeny racket.
*I e an count over among my own
nc' S a hundred I should
oa eklelate who had as good opportu.
a j tiu8 to acquire a prominent position
j n ]jfe as I did, but they would druth-
er 0 -^ c h cat-fish and curse their
f u t„ re vv -,th igno>*ense and vise. Had
' thoy appiicwUhemselves while young,
they m ;ght as well have been in the
Legislature T as 1 for they possessed
th( same natu *al heaven born genius
that I did if they had improved it as
1
they ort.
IF hen 1 was voung I tackled the
more difficult branches with
ardor and before / was nineteen ears
C()U ia reduce fractions to a com-
mon denominator readily with one
p an q t i c d behind me.
qj () no ^ despise learning. Men
stant j in Congress to day as the result
of thorough and studious labor in
'school who otherwise would perhaps
be unknown, unhonored and un-
-
sprung m Tney worked , hard at school
while other boys were out at recess,
They toiled on at noon eating their
bread and cold beef with one hand
'
w hii e with the other they worked
their sums in algebrav.
* if George Washington had ne-
elected his studies in his youth,
where would he have been to
He would have filled an unknown
grav c instead of resting in a ston*
milk house at Mount Vemyn with
hundreds of Americans coming there
day after day to shed the sealding
we ep over him. Adams &
Forepangh, Alexander the Great,
Jesse Janies & Queen Victoria
ail a j ike poor boys, but they acquired
a « ollod ge of the spelling book and
t,bey * *** &J U °
; ^ are well is’"mightier heeled
‘The pen than the
1 TERMS—$1 50 A YEAR,
NO 1 8 *
soard and a thorough knowledge
grammar is better than a farrow cow
in fly time. If it was the last words
could utter I would say: Get
wealth if you can, but if you can t,
get an education and marry rich.’ —
Nye’s Boomerang.
mm
AN IRISHMAN’S DREAM.
Two Irishmen traveling, came to
a poorly supplied inn.
'What canyon give ns for supper?’
said they to the lean and shivering
landlord.
‘I have naugnt in the house but
one pigeon,’ replied he,‘so you must
make the most of it between ye.'
‘All right,’ replied the shrewder of
the two ; ’bring usyoui bird and we’ll
divide him.’
The dish accordingly produced,
when Baddy, turning to his compan¬
ion, said: ‘Now, Mike, I’ve been
thenking this goost of tossing up for
it in this way: ‘We’ll go to bed,
and to morrow morning whoever has
had the finest dream shall have the
pigeon for his breakfast.
The proposal was accepted, and
next morning when the fellow trav
eiers met, Baddy took the word and
inquired of hi3 companion, how he
had slept and what he had dreamed.
•Bedad,’ replied MiAc, ‘arid did 1
not just dratne, and wasn’t it a drame
that’ll bate hollow every other that
was iver dreamed. 'There was 1 in
the very midst of the sivinth heaven ;
with all the powers of glory around
j me, and clouds of angels and arch¬
S angels and a bewilderment of saints
i
j and patriarchs all making much of
| me, hoisting me up, and up, till I
couldn’t go anv higher, and thin 1
woke up.’
‘Oeh, well,’ said the other, it’s a
stlirange thing, but I had exactly the
self-same drame myself, and I know
what you say is true, for I saw ye
flying up and up, and 1 says to
ineestlf, says I; Sure, now, Mike’s
got so high as that, he’ll never be
such a fool as to come down any
; more, so I got up and ate the pigeon.
BUSINESS WAS TOO DULL TO
BE RELIGIOUS.
‘I vas shusfc dal king to Philip
Friedlander a leetle vile ago, Misder
Hoffenstein,’ said Herman as lie
j entered the store, rnnd he dells me
i dot his fader vants to know vy you
don’t come anymore around to
i synagogue.’
'
‘Velfi vv don’t you say dot pfsiness
vas too dull. How caul be
ious, you know, ven I don’t make
any profit und lose money? Leon
' Blooenburg, vat borrows von dousand
dollars from me, goes last veek and
| dies mit de measels, und 1 von’t get
anyding back ry time I lend
money to a man. Lie les right away
! j on my hands. Dere vas Max
Hornberger, across de street, vat is
selling dose doe skin jeans bants at
‘ seventy five cents, dey cost
ven
j von dollar laid at de depot down. He
vas daking alL my trade avay, und I
can't vaste any time, you
Herman, at de synagogue. My
gracious, dis vould be a nice vorirt it
you vouldn’t alvays baf someding
] daking blace vat gifs you drouble. If
dere is any truth in dis pisiness
aboud de dransmigration uf souls,
! den I vants to go into a billy
ven /die.’
1 ‘Vy, Misder Hoffenstein?’
‘Because, Herman, a billy
leads de most cconomiealist un 1
! happiest life uf any animal in
vorld. Heddn’t hafanydingto do
but eat baper und butt My old
] Bill Jackson, vat used to lit’
Vicksburg, said dot veil nc died he
j vanted to be a mule, und haf
chance to kic& de stuffiing oud
soulc beoplc vot he knows. If 1 va3
a mu fo a fd er 1 die, den Herman, you
! can shust bet / vill fix Max Horn-
’ berber.’—N. O, Times Democrat.
WANTED MACHINERY.
When the Arizona diamond excite-
ment was at its hight certain parties
in Denver formed the ‘Arizona Dia,
mond Company,’ capital $1,000,000,
and issued shares at five dollars
each. Hundreds of thousands of
these shares were taken without any
questions being asked, but when the
wind began to blow cold a certain
Eastern man, who had invested about
$5,000 and was hanging around for
dividends, dropped into the 7x9 office
of the company and inquired :
‘What are shares worth to-day? !
•About 90, I believe.’
•Has a dividend been declared yet?’
‘Not yet. We are just getting in
good shape to realize, however -4s
soon as we get our machinery we
shall have returns.’
‘Machinery? What do you want
of machinery? I thought the dia-
nmonds were picked up by hand?*
‘So they are. That is the old way
of doing business, but this company
can’t fool around picking up diamonds
by the handful. We have sent for
machinery which loads a wagon in
eleven minutes by the watch, and if
the cussed mules don't baulk we'll
have the first twenty four wagon loads
here early in June. Fine weather—
good-day, sir. Next!’—Wall Street
News.
HE DIDN’T BARK.
Courier Journal.
John Henry, the masher, stood on
the corner with another one of his
kind watching for a girl to come
along whom he might crush. At last
a thin young woman from the rural
districts came by, and John Henry
thought he had found her. As she
passed, he said something about her
being bony, but lie went after her,
and catching up, lie said : ‘Cfood
evening, Miss.'
‘Good evening,’ she replied, look¬
ing at him so suspiciously that he
hesitated.
‘Ahem, Miss, ahem, a—'
‘Well,’ she put in, ‘why don’t you
bark?’
‘Bark?—bark? What do you mean?
I don’t quite understand.’
'Oh you don’t? Why, in our coun¬
try a puppy that has any decent
training always barks when he finds
a bone.’
John Henry.didn't have any more
to say, and to this day he is a
changed man.
Mrs. Hunter was carrying two
bundles aboard the day boat for
Albany, in New Y'ork, when Mr.
Snyder kindly relieved her of half
the burden. On decF they sat down
together, and as they sailed np the
Hudson they rapidly grew well
acquainted though previously total
strangers. lie was a widower, aged
sixty one, and an Ulster county
farmer, she was a widow, aged thirty-
five, and a seamstress in New York,
He asked her to marry him. She
was surprised, but not offended. She
asked for time to think the matter
Certainly—he would give her
until the boat reached Newburg.
Then she must go ashore with him
get married or stay on board and
remain single. Just as the plank
was about to be hauled in at
Newburg, she said ‘ p £u the
con K cr C5
A justice performed the ceremony,
and Mr. and Mrs. gnyder traveled oq
by rail.
>»»
Mr. R. I. Kite,of Sumter county,
made with four mules forty bales of
cotton, eight hundred bushels of corn,
eight or nine barrels of syrup, four
hundred bushels of sweet potatoes,
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trowed to the front.
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Never consider a person unfeeling
or hard-hearted b?es««e he refuses
what he cannot <rrant.