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VOL. XI V.
HE LOVSS ME BEST.
BY AHBE KIXXE.
The purple shadows of evening fall,
The sunset glow fades out of the West;
The silence of niirlit is over all,
And my little baby is here on my breast.
Over bis eves of violet blue
The lids like white rose petals close,
And deep-frin>red lashes of dusky hue
Rest on cheeks like a fresh pink tree.
Ready for bed in liis little white gown,
I rock him to sleep, and the firelight gleams
Over his clustering curls of brown,
And away he goes to the lands of dreams.
Pear little boy! I rock him still,
s oT ] av away in his cradle nest,
.... \\ hat , dreams , ~ can a ', baby . , s fancy r fi 1
As it lies asleep on its mother’s breast?
I may not follow his fancy’s flight;
Mayhap he looks with wandering eyes
On beautiful fields, of heavenly light,
And play# with children of Paradise.
Or maybe it’s only his mother’s face
That makes h ; m smile in lfs slumber so.
And lie dreams in his love-warm resting-place,
Of home; and “mamma,” he whispers low.
He nestles el os 3 r, his heavy eyes.
Half opened, close with a peaceful sigh;
And O! what thoughts in my heart arise
Of changes to come as the years go by.
Youth and manhood, sweetheart and wile,
And love’s sweet joy may his portion be!
Rut 0! will he love me all his life,
And always oe my boy to me?
yv-ith a kiss on his smooth white brow, I lay
My boy in his downy cradle nest:
Let ihe future be what the future may,
To-night my baby loves me best.
POOR COUSIN BARTON.
BY AMY RANDOLPH.
[From the New York Ledger.]
“It’s quite out of the question,”
said Uncle Nathan Bangle.
He was a stout, purple-faced old
man, who sat staring into the fire, in
A very shabby suit, with boots burst-
out at the toes, cravat-ends frayed,
and coat darned iti various spots. He
had sat thus, for many a year, since
grim paralysis descended upon him,
waiting for good luck to come his
wav,—and good-luck, like many an¬
other watched-for guest, had never
eotne!
He had been a harness-maker bv
trade. Now he did nothing. But
Mrs. Bangle, commonly known as
“Aunt Belinda,” and 'their niece,
Sophy, made vests, raised poultry,
sold early strawberries, and did a lit¬
tle of everything to make both ends
meet. And whenever they were in a
particularly \ tight n financial place, r and
.
Uncle T Nathan prophesied the
poor-
house, Aunt Belinda had a comforta¬
ble way of saying:
“Now where is the use of fretting!
Providence will provide.”
“It’s as good as sacrilege to talk
so!” puffed Uncle Nathan.
“But Providence always has pro¬
vided, uncle,” said Sophy Bangle.
“Folks hadn’t ought to make light
of sacred things,” said Uncle Nathan.
“But 1 think that’s "what the Lord
means, „ urged . Q Sophy. . “ u . r I hat , . we
should take sacred things into our
every-day life, instead of keeping
t | ienl f or Sunday wear, just as we do
our h< ‘ st l,oots :iml l,, ’ n, etsr ’
“Well,” creaked Uncle Nathan,
you’ll find out, onekjof these days,
that we shall end istheC^unty House.^
“No, no!' said . , Aunt . Belinda. x-, i ■ ,
“Don’t talk that way, Nathan!”
“Ho doesn't mean it,” coaxed So-
And just at this time, when things
were at their gloomiest, a letter came
from out West, announcing the ar-
rival of a new member of the liouse-
hold.
“Barton Bangle,” said Aunt Belin-
a. “Why, that’s your uncle’s cous-
Sophy—the poor fellow that lost
he had in the oil-craze, down in
Pennsylvanv, and then West to corn-
mit suicide in one of them canyons,
hut changed ” his mind and failed in
the grocery business arterwards,
Poor fellow, he always was unlucky!”
“\Ve don t want no outside
iness grafted into this family,” said
Uncle Nathan, arimly. “We’ve
enough , of . own.’
our
Devoted to Hews, Politics, Agriculture and General Progress.
TOCCOA, GA., JAN. 1887.
“But, father, he's old and poor,”
urged Aunt Belinda, “We can't
write to him not to come.”
“No, to be sure,” said soft-hearted
Sophy.
“What’s he to eat?” growled Un¬
cle Nathan.
“Just what we eat ourselves,” said
Aunt Belinda. “Nobody ever yet
starved on good wholesome oatmeal
and milk, with plenty of home-grown
vegetables—”
“Who’s to hoe the vegetables?”
•‘Why, I will, to be sure,” laughed
Sophy. “1 hoed themjast year, and
1 guess I car hoe them again.”
“We haint no room to spare.”
“I can easily fit up the little room
in the garret, where we store the nuts
and pop-corn every year,” said Sophy.
“There’s a cherry-wood bed-stead
that I can mend and varnish; and al-
though the room is small, it has a
cheerful outlook over the river.”
“It’s sinful, in tny opinion,” said
Uncle Nathan, “for paupers like us
to undertake the charge of another
pauper.”
“Now, father,” remonstrated Aunt
Belinda, “don’t worry. Providence
will provide.*’
“And if Cousin Barton is old and
poor, it is clearly our duty to do
we can for him,” added Sophy.
“Of course you women-folks will
have ycur May,” grumbled Uncle
Nathan. “You always do. But just
wait and see what comes of it.”
“Providence will provide.*’ chirped
Aunt Belinda, who would have taken
in a perfect alms-houseful of poor re-
lations, if there bad been nowhere
else for them to go.
So the little bedroom in the garret
was swept, cleaned am 1 garnished:
the cherry-wood bed-stead was fur-
nished with a comfortable husk mat-
tress, manufactured by Sophy’s own
deft fingers, homespun linen
and a gorgeous patchwork coverlet,
And one blooming May afternoon,
svhen the apple-trees were tossing
their billows of pink blossoms, Sophy
drove to the station in a one-horse
wagon borrowed of Farmer Netley,
who lived on the next place, to meet
Cousin Barton Bangle.
“You don’t want them buffalo-robes.
Sophy,” said Netley.
“Oh, yes, J do, ’ said Sophy. “He’s
an old man, and used to the climate
of Southern California. He will be
chilley. Put in the cushions, too,
Mr. Netley; there s no telling how
feeble he may be.”
“Well, I declare, Sophy
chuckled the honest farmer, “you do
heat all! One would I think you had
enough feeble old folks to care for
already without takin’ iu any more-”
‘But he’s our cousin,’ said Sophy;
‘and lie s old and poor, and he has got
nowhere else to go.”
‘There's very good reasons for giv-
in’ him the cold shoulder, I should
thing,’ said Mr. Netley, who was a
logician in hi s wav.
But Sophy only laughed as she
shook old Dapple’s reins, and started
away down the road, where dande-
lions starred the grass and lilacs were
just bursting into bud.
‘It’s a beautiful world,’ meditated
sweet Sophy within herself.
pity that any one should ever grow
old and weak, like poor Cousin Bar-
ton Bangle! Well, we must try to
make it so pleasant and homelike for
him that he will never remember what
he has out-lived.’
At that lonely country station she
cheecked her progress, carefully rein-
ing up old Dapple behind the freight-
house, so that he could not take fright
at the unwonted vision of a loeonio-
tive and the sleepy looking passenger
cars, which, as Dapple had never
taken fright in his life, and was a
deal too fat and old to run away if he
had, was, perhaps, an unnecessary
precaution.
‘Just too late for the train, Miss
Sophy,’ said the station agent. ‘But
there’s a passenger asking about some
way of getting to the Bangle farm¬
house. There he is, now.’
‘An old man?’ said Sophy.
‘Well, not very old,' answered the
ticket agent.
And a tall, straight young fellow
in an elegant olive traveling ulster,
and a valise, come forward.
‘Mrs. Bangle?* said lie, with some
tiling of a puzzled air. as lie looked
at the pretty young girl sitting in the
wagon.
‘No; only her niece, Sophy,’ said
our heroine, reddening a little.
‘Where’s Cousin Barton?’
‘I am Barton Bangle.’
‘There is some mistake here,’ said
Sophy, resolutely, ‘Cousin Barton is
very old, and—and—we supposed he
was poor.’
‘Perhaps you are thinking of mv
grandfather,’ said the young man.
He w as eighty when he died, two
years ago, at Los Angeles, I am the
only Barton Bangle there is. And
least so far as this world’s goods
go—I am not poor. But 1 had a
great curiosity to see some one who
was akin to me, so l came East. lt
is a dreadful feeling to be alone.’
Sophy held out her hand.
‘We are glad to see you,’ said she.
‘But how astonished Uncle Nathan
and Aunt Belinda will be!’
‘Astonished! Why?’
‘Because, to tell the truth,’ admit-
ted Sophy, with a roguish twinkle in
her bright blue eyes, ‘we were going
to take you into our family ro —to
save you from the poor-house.’
And then she told him the story of
the garret chamber, the husk mattress,
and the cherry bed-stead,
He listened, while a thrill of eino-
tion quivered all through his frame,
Sophy was driving as she talked, and
Dapple was trotting leisurely under
the blooming arch of apple boughs
that fringed the road with beauty and
fragrance,
‘1 think I shall like my Eastern re¬
lations,’he said in a low tone,
‘But now,’ she hesitated, ‘I do not
know how you will like your primi¬
tive accommodations.’
‘They will be pleasanter to roe than
the palace-rooms of the largest hotel
i n New York,’ said Causin Barton.
Uncle Nathan was duly amazed at
this unexpected edition of ‘PoorCous-
[ n Barton.’ Aunt Belinda only smiled
and said, in her cheery, cosy way:
‘Didn’t I tell you that Providence
would provide?’
For Barton Bangle, the younger,
was a rich man. Real estate in Los
Angeles had proved a better invest-
ment for his grandfather than the oil
wells of Northern Pennslyvania, and
whatever the old man touched had
see med to turn to gold, And that
gold was now inherited by hisgrand-
son.
Of course he fell in love with So-
phi v. It was only right and proper
that he should do so. It was also
only natural, considering Sophy’s dim-
pl es and the lovely pink and white
that nestled in her complexion. Who
cou ld blame him?
‘And now,’ said Aunt Belinda, on
the eve of Sophy’s wedding-day, ‘only
suppose, Nathan, that we had written
to Cousin Barton and told him not to
come!’
And Uncle Nathan had no answer
to make.
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anxious, hea\y-laden humanity.
through weakness that we must
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NO. 24.
The Strange Realization of Murder-
ers Dream.
[Ashvilie Cor. Charleston News and Courier.!
There is in town a roonstrositj-
which has just emerged from the ob-
scurity of the mountains west of here
A man thirty^fivc years of ago, six
feet four inches in height and without
a single hair on his body—such is
Terry Shelton, a native of Cherokee
county. Ten years ago he had a
heavy beard and long black hair of
which he was especiall proud. In the
autumn of 1877 lie \vus tried for rour-
der at Murphv, the county seat of
Cherokcce. Frovn Col. A, T. David¬
son, the nestor of the bar of Western
North Carolina; and of the most
prominent members of his profession
are gleaned some of the facts of this
unfortunate man's sad st ry. Col.
Davidson was of counsel for Shelton
who was charged with the [murder of
his brother.
The prisoner, one morning before
tuial came on, sent for his counsel
and told them of a remarkable dream
he had just had the nighUbcfore. lie
said his dead brother had appeared to
hitn and told him that he would be
aqquited, but tnat shortly afterwards
lie would lose his hair and beard as a
mark sent upon him for his crime
Suggestions to ihe prisoner were made
to being as quite and free from ex-
as possible, and forgetting
the vision the attorneys returned to
the court room.
When a day or two since Col. Da-
vidson saw the unfortunate man
without a hair upon his person,
he saw the terrible realization of that
dream in the jail ten years ago.
Soon after Shelton's trial and acquit¬
tal his hair began to drop out, and
continued without pain to do so until
his hair and beard were all gone. His
skin is soft and smooth as an infants.
His general health seems excellent,
and lie shows no indisposition to
show himself and pose as the modern
Cain. He is of the firm belief that it
is a punishment sent on him for the
slaying of his brother.
Cutting is not the only party who
ha9 his eyes fixed on Mexico. A
colony to settle in the state of
Sinaloa is being organized in the
New England States, with headquar¬
ters at Portland, Me. Some persons
have already started for the scene of
operations. Agriculture is not the
prime object, but manufacturing is to
be chiefly looked after, and with this
in view a city is to be built and main-
ly peopled by the colonists who arc
to be skilled } workers. A dispatch
from Portland says the directors of
the company and Publisher Lowell,
of New York, are to go on with the
colonists to manage the business of
the new city, which is to consist
mainly’of manufacturing cotton goods,
sugar, glass and paper. The paper
is to be made from a shrub found on
every hand in that country. The di¬
rectors have $000,000 with which to
commence operations. Mr. Lowell
will look especially after the paper
industry. By openingjthirty six miles
oi new railroad the colonists will
strike a new timber belt, which will
supply k all their requirements. Other
cities will be formed as soon as the
road is done. The Mexican govern¬
ment has granted every request of
the colonists, and will purchase all
their products. The land ceded to
them will support 5 000,000 people.
Virtue consists in making desire
subordinate to duty, passion to princi¬
ple. The piilars of character are
moderation, temperance, chastity, si ‘ m ’
plicity, self-control; its method is
self-denial.
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no pay repuired. It is guaranteed to
give perfect satisfaction, or money
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LEGAL BRIEFS.
[From the Southern Trade Gazett.]
Libel suits will not keep a man
warm in cold weather.—Norwich Bul-
et in.
Lawyers dress pretty well, notwith¬
standing the fact that they occasion**
ally lose a suit.
Lawyers know all about the moral
law, but there is very use for it in
criminal practice.
A correshondcnt asks : ‘Is it wrong
to cheat a lawyer?’ First cheat the
lawyer, and we will answer the conun-
drum.
A lawyer who w as under examina¬
tion as a witness, in a case related by
the Buffalo Courier, had stated ap¬
proximately the time at which some
thing occurred, f.nd being admonished
sharply by the examining attornew to
he more definite, ‘paralyzed’ him with
the reply : ‘You ongnt to know. It
was about the time you collected my
cost in that suit and kept the money.'
Note Signed on Sunday.—Deliv¬
ered on Monday. —A promisary note
signed on Sunday but r.ot intended to
be delivered till Monday, and not in
fact delivered til! that day, is not sub¬
ject to the objection that it is a Suu-
day contract, according to the dccis-
ion of the Supreme Court of Iowa m
the case of Bell vs. Mahin et ah, de¬
cided October 5, and reported to the
Chicago Legal News. The court based
its decision on the principle that a
promisary note becomes a contract at
the time of its delivery.
“Gentlemen of the jury, charging a
jury is a new business to me. as this
is my first case. You have heard all
the evidence in the case, as well as
myself; you have also heard what
the learned counsel have said. If
you believe what the plaintiff has told
you, your verdict will be for the plain¬
tiff; but, if, on the other hand, you
believe what the defendant’s counsel
has told you, then you will give a
verdict for the defendant. But if you
are like me, and don’t believe what
either of them has said, then I’ll bo
d-d if I know what you will do.
Constable , take charge of the jury.
The fine legal distinction an inge*
nious lawyer is capable of drawing is
well illustrated by a horse case re¬
cently decided in New Hampshire.
The defendant in the suit was the
owner of a horse which ‘had a vicious
disposition and a constant inclination
to insure mankind.’ In short, it was
a 'notorious kicker,’ On one occa¬
sion, when the plaintiff was passing
in front of of it, the beast “reared,
squealed, struck forward with Ins
fore feet, hit the plaintiff on the knee
and did the injury complained of to
the joint.” For this injury an action
for damages was brought. It is a
well-known general principle that the
owner is liable for injuries done by a
vicious animal which he knows to be
vicious. The defendant in this case
did not deny thah he knew his horse
to be a lively kicker, but he pleaded
ignorant of the animals propensity to
indulge in such demonstrations with
liis fore feet. Theieupon his lawyer
advanced his theory that while his
client might be liable for any kicking
done by the horse with his hind feet,
he could not be held responsible for
the injur}* caused in this instance un¬
less it could be shown that he knew
the animal would “kick with its for¬
ward feet in a manner similar to that
in which the plaintiff wa3 struck. The
question thus raised was taken to
Supreme Court of the State, which
promptly swept away the subtle dis¬
tinction by declaring that ‘the law
recognised no such absurdity.’—N. Y.
Herald.
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