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VOL. XIV.
WANTEB-A MOBEL.
MY CARL BRICKETT.
The clock upon my studio mantel
chimed the hour of two* and at the
same moment a gentle tap came upon
the door. Laying down my brush, 1
arose and opened it. The long hall
was dark, but through the lat;iced
panes of the window at the father
end the sunlight entered in a broad
flood. Standing right in its glow*
which brought out in vivid effect her
marvelous beauty of face and form,
was a young girl.
“Is this Mr. Althfope, the artist?’
a voice said, sweet enough to match
l, “ fa «”
“It is—and you* I know* are the
model I have been expecting. Please
enter and lay off your liat; I am
glad you have come early* as I never
work after five o’clock,” I said;
Turning away, I busied myself
about my paints, not wishing to ern-
barrass the young lady, who, in com¬
pliance with tny request, had entered.
At last, after for the space of two
weeks 1 had almost given up in de¬
spair, and had even gone so far as to
turn to tlie wall the great canvas of
my historical painting which had been
promised for the exhibition of the
coming month* and in which, while
every detail of costome and surround-
. completed, the face of the
mgs was
‘he beautiful heroine,
was Still a blank, At last Fortune
, ia< , s,m .. 11 , upon me, for .... in the face
mv of present model I beheld the ideal
“
which had long hovered before my
mind’s eye, •' but which had so tantal-
i/ingly refused to be transferred upon
the eonvas;
“1 know of a model that will just
suit you, Althorpe,” my fellow-artist,
‘ rn htron S» had san] to me when i
had told him of my difficulty, “and 1
“ *
"'ll! ... send , . her Wliell I lier
to you see
again. She is young and very hand¬
some, and a perfect lady, it is the
old history of affluence followed bv
sudden poverty and the necessity of
turning to anything that will afford
a livelihood.”
1 agreed within myself as to the
afternoon progressed. Three o'clock,
four, and then five.
“Are you very tired?” I asked, as
I opened the studio door for my mod¬
el’s egress.-
*>
es, I am, a little,” the musical
v °ice answered, candidly. “l have
iiot be ™ : » e *eo»sto»ed jet « 0
my * employment/’ t
~
“But you wTl return to-morrow*
will you not!” I asked, anxiously,
tor although I had worked so rapid¬
ly that another sitting was by no
means ail absolute necessity, 1 was
. loth loose sight
to of the charmintr
model whose exquisite' loveliness had
f et ever J artistic pulse thrilling with-
in my beauty-loving soul.
a cat h came the reply, after ft
sli - ht hesitanc y5 “ but m .v mother is
not strong, and sometimes lam not
ahle to leave her. Good afternoon,
^-Ahhorpe. rMj afterno °"’ ^
"
bl,t lf 1 thou g ht thus to learn her
I baffled. M ith a
fnclination of 1,er g° lden
the young girl walked past me into
the hall* and a few moments latter I
beard the door at the foot of the
^ttnlio stair dose.-
As I turned back into tlie room
again, I noticed that, lying upon the
tab!® just as 1 had laid it, was the
envelope containing the remunera-
J* for th three h0urs ' si,tin It
iad 0 " , been ? forgotten. «-
But it did not matter. She would
return to-morraw; or so I thought,
How long I remained standing that
,fter,,oon befcre " , ' r alln0?t
P al,,,im -' 1 COul<1 n0t “Jl bttt OI,e
thing I am sure of—that it was
f of , my . heroine . winch . . . looked . ,
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TOCCOA. GA., JUNE 10, 1887.
at mo from the canvas which absorbed
all my attention.
“Incomparably beautiful!” I ex-
claimed, involuntarily. “Innocence*
loveliness, and purity; all three unit-
ed as I never have seen them before.
And that exquite being is poor,
Strange inconsistency of Fortune!
One would think her every gift would
be showered into the lap of one so
worthy. I must know who she is.”
My"last birthday had .narked the
thirty-eighth year upon my life’s cal-
endar; but as I left my studio the
I, aunting, sweetness of that face went
with me. It filled my dreams that
n j, r |, t . it was mv wakimr ” thouo-ht in
”
t |,e morning;
But the next afternoon wore on.
and the next* and others, and to my
keen disappointment and cha S rin,
never again did my studio door give
entrance to the lovely image whose
every beauty memory had traced in
indelible characters upon my heart.
The days passed until the one’arrived
preceeding that upon which sent* my com-
pleted picture was to be to the
Academy.
“It is ft masterpiece?” my brother
artists one and all declared. And I
ha, 1 Armstrong to thank for it, and I
told him so,, and that if he wanted to
add to my obligation infinitely
would tell me the name and where to
find the model who had come to me
through his means. As 1 spoke A rm-
strong listened in genuine suprise.
“\\ hy* Althrope* I never savv that
face before in my life, Oh, I remem-
her. I see now what you mean.
That was not the model of whom 1
spoke to you. She was handsome,
but not like that,” pointin.r to mv
picture. “Besides, 1 did no"t see her
again to send her to you, as I prom—
ised, for T started on a sketching tour
soon after i met you. and when 1 re-
turned she had left the city.”
And so the hope to which I had
clung—that from mv fellow-artist I
could learn the desired information
that would lead me to the'queen who
held my heart in thrall—was dashed
to the Ground
In an apartment in one of the city’s
palatial hotels; seated at the table,
discussing the tempting viands before
them, and conversing animatedly b e-
tween whiles, are two gentlemen.
“Well, Ralph, does it not seem
good to be in America again?” Mark
Durnard, the elder of the two,
“ Grood?’ It is mor) than good ;
it is a heartfelt delight!” his cam-
panion, Ralph Hall, replies. “And
the dear old city! Do you know that
nowhere can be found its equal ?
Neither Paris, Loudon t?or Berlin,
with all their united attractions, can
compare to our queen metropolis.”
“You're right there,” Mark says*
heartily. “No more coffee? Cannot
I persuade you? Well, I have finish-
ed also* and as my watch savs quar-
ter of eight, we will just ha™ time to
run in and look at the pictures at the
Academy. It exhibition night, and
interest about
the b ''©-thousand dollar prize that one
of pur phillanthropic citizens has of-
fered toencourage home talent. What
say you—shall \ve g..>?”
‘‘To be sure,” Ralph answers, with
alacrity* as he rises from the table.
“Do you suppose that your mother
and sister would enjoy it?” Mr. Du-
rand asks. “I have four tickets, and
we can drive over for them, and be
m ample time.-”
“Elsie might like to go,- hnt mv
mother aeMom ventnws out at night,
\ ou know it was for the benefit of
her health that we have spent so
many years abroad.” .
“That reminds me, Ralph; if I had
known your mother and sister were
in the ci, V ’ 1 should have called >°"R
.
hut I supposed of vx course course that mat
they . . . Chicago,
xvere witu you m where
J our letter to me was dated."
“Oh! they will think nothing' of
that. They have only been in the
cit J a mcmth * They remained here
after tlie vessel landed, while I hast-
ene d to Chicago to attend to some
property concerning which my agent
had been expecting defficulty. But,
- iark! ^ is striking eight now. If
call for Elsie we must hasten. ’
A half-hour later, a o-roup of
threaded their *ay slowly through
the throng that tilled to overflowing
the Academy saloon. More than one
admiring glance followed the lovely
S lrl " ho leal,l ' d >‘P°» the younger
gentleman’s arm.
“Hart, Cropsey, Smith, Le Grand,
AUhorpn- Hal that must be my
friend! If so, he must have made
I ,rett .V rapid progress up the ladder
lame to have his name written
here. He was but just starting in
his career when I last saw him.”
,
S ° SayS Ral P h ’ llis e J es flxed so
tentl J u P on tllis catalogue as he
& P ea ^' s * ie does not notice tlie slight
start which his com P anion L rives i llor
t^ ie deepening of the color that tinges
her fair cheeks.
“Do you know Althorpe?” Mr.
D,, ™ ard asks > "ith interest. “He’s
<|uUe the llon art circ,es J ust no "’-
say‘hat it is his picture that is
3hnostSl ‘ retot “ ketl ' e FHe from all
other competitors.”
“Do I know him? I should think
| so! A fellow wouldn’t be very apt to
forget one who saved his life at the
risk of his own. Thereby hangs an
interesting tale* and some time I will
j te11 ittu yob, and make you acquaint
ed with the hero of it. 1 was on my
call upon '"m this afternoon
when J’ 0 " wa y lai,i »"<1 me
in to sup with you. Let us find his
, ^ ?
P ,c uro *
1 13ut th ® P ail,,i, ’S ’-''O' “ek is at
' t]n fartl,er eml " f the ™ st
^ ^ is «*
that,regarJful of his sisters’s comfort
“ ,1 safet >> Ral P k does not endeayor
P ress through it; and thus they
! eaV ® the exlnbltlon without having
i seen the work of art to which a few
hours later, with the sanction of the
public - approval* the judges assign
tbe prize of superior merit,
“Ralph,” IClsie says, the next eve¬
ning, as the three— her mother, broth¬
er, and herself—chat together about
the evening lamp, “tell me again that
story of your soldier days. You know
which I mean—that about the battle
of Antietam—when you so nearly
lost your life. Now 1 am expecting
to meet this Mr. Althorpe, I should
Eke to hear it.”
And always ready to gratify hrs
P et sister, Ralph complies, It is an
°^ d story oft told by him, and yet one
which ever brings with it the same
_
thrill; and as he speaks, Ralph’s voice
grows ^ eloqerrt.
“And at last I am to meet and
know the man who saved my broth-
e'r’s life,” Elsie exclaims, “who bore
his wounded form in his own arms,
on foot, through the rain of the dead-
ly bullets, out of peril into safety—-
who counted his own life as nothing
unless he could rescue his friend,
R?lph,-I have always longed to see
him, to clasp his hand and tbank him,
and shmv hiuf that the mother arrd sis-
ter of the man whose life he save(J
appreciate his heroism, and have not
forgotten even though many years
have eksped, and the one was but an
unheeding child when it happened.
A crimson, deep as that in the
heart of a rose, glows urion Elsie’s
beantifnl face as she speaks, and her
brother regards her admiringly, while
her mother smiles as she savs, softly
' "
_“Little enthusiast ” •
“Dear Althorpe: I arrived in
town a couple of days ago, and was
prevented from seeking vou at once,
as Was mj Wish. n... Latl . tou not . call ..
this evening? We are at the Albe-
NO. 44.
marie. Mj mother arid sister, as
soon as they learned that you resided
^ or ^’ ©spiffed * desire to
lTT\var-'lo vs'hav‘m Interest ^ -Iku !i raTlv
given them a, very * warm in
you.
“Be sure and come. I should have
called and asked you in person this
] on ^ tcTshake you'by thtTTiand^once
more. I shall wait this evening with
impatience.
Yo " r frie ” d °* *•»« U» R £n«,*
Al 1 11 ^ AI I ^
* ‘ ”
Such an invitation exacted but one
an8wer ’ anJ 1 " c '" t ’ 8 la<1 >“ tlie
' f meetln f' <>'>“ again the
friend whose frank, brotherly corn-
pan'Otship was so delightful in the
ays gone by when we were soldier
lads to " ether ’ sharing each other’s
pleasure and privations.
“Mother—Elsie, this is my friend,
Mr. Althorpe. Paul, my mother and
sister.”
Like one in a dream, I acknowl¬
edged the above introduction, scarce
k no wing what I did or said. My
brain, usually calm enough, was in a
wild whirl. Before me, by the side
of the gentle-faced, middle-aged lady
—Ralph’s mother—with a radiant,
welemmng smile’ upon her blushing
'*, Ce ’, L 16 ' '" e ,llr "" bo *"
"ho had come, conquered and van-
» mystenously Was I
dreaming. No, my Waking fftate.
Ho "b then, could it be accounted for
that the model whose beauteous coun-
tenance in my painting bad won for
it the coveted prize, and Rftlph Hall’s
only sister, nurtured in the lap of
luxury, and shielded from every
nreatli of want, could be one and the
same?
It was explained, bat not then; for
when, at the close of a few blissful,
winged hours, l held* at parting, Miss
Hall’s soft fingers for o’ne moment in
|- v r a5 F» 1 Kas «* “ muoh » of
as' ever. But
as 1 have sa.d, all „ was made
clear ' S "™' after her arr.val .be
" ul ° Posing, one afternoon,
> e studio building, she had seen and
reco £ mzed m y name over the dbor as
t!iat tbe Liend of whom she h«d so
often heard her brother speak, arid to
whom she considered that she owed
the preservation of that idolized
brother’s life. Obeying an impulse,
she had entered, intending to make
herself known, amd to extend to me
an invitation to call upon her mother
and herself.
The humor of the mistake that
followed had appealed irresistably to
her fun-loving spirit; but afterwards
fearing lest her mother should disa p-
prove and chide" her, she had kept the
occurrence to herself.
One item more: The renunteratiou
which I owed to my model for her
services ’ and for which > t0 my sur-'
P Tlse a: the tltr *h she neglected to re-
tuftt ’ the reader ma .? be a «sured I
g ave WIth interest in the shape of
U P 0 ” tl f sweefc that 6welve
bhort months later » upon our wedding-
da }^ cadedme hy the sacred name,
lus,, ‘ l,j d.
_ h.Tc'ase ^
*
He H »tt *
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A stranger was writing a letter at
She des1t in the tfor ' rirt ^ oftihepOst-
°^ ce w ^ lcn a womaD a postal
card ln on€ ijand and the other tied
H * Ilandkcrcbief Came walking
UP ^ Gyed him ' ia a wistful raan ~
nLT *
Ah ' V °° lo write » card
“ ; bi*' ,
4 don’t " ei ’°' can s,r • - 1 ,lave
Cincinati.'andTwa^ a lptte f to'let hTJ'Vnow
1 got it.’
*1 see. Give me the carl. His
name is —V
■Peter Junes, s,r.’
‘Exactly. Peter Jones, Esq , Cin-
einnati, O Now, then.’
He turned the card over and rap-
idly wrote :
TOCCOA NEWS
JOB OFFICE
ars Prepared to Print
LETTER HEADS, '
BILL HEADS,
NOTE HEADS,
STATEMENTS
LAND DEEDS,
MORTGAGE NOTES;
MARRIAGE LICENSE, &C.
‘Mr. Jones—Your letter, the fir&fc
for three weeks, is at hattd, and the
bill has been noted; t ftfn half-
s} cM>ut of wood amt provisions, and
t,red lying to the landlord; Either
come home and attend to business or
change your Same to No dob’d and
never dare to address me again. I
am ’ ® ir > ^ oQ P a * ,eilt * determined
v '^°*
lie read It to her in ft well-modu-
lated vo.ee , and She held ap Ur hand
am extlaimci .
'Oh. thanks. That s beantif.il.-
C °“' "
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JLi’ortbe within Smi’le a
offlee * all
-—
A Dakota Man’s Mistake;
A man from Illinois got off thei
Northwestern train at Kstellme thd
other day* and idet an old friend now
living in Dakota.
“How’s old Jim Stanford prosper¬
ing oftt her?” asked the Illifrois nfian;
“Jim’s gettin’ ’long poorly. You
see, Jim made a mistake, and it setr
him back, lie set his house off the’
ground with no underpinning tinder
it.”
“Well, s’posin’ he did; I don’t
see ft hat hurt it WCftrld do.”
“Of course you don’t—you live ini
Ill'noise. Why, hang it pardher,*
this Dakota sile is so’ darned fertil’
that the house t .took root and growed!”
“it did?” Well, ftdmittin’ it’s so,»
I should think it woffld hav v ff beerl
better he’d had a bigger house.”
“Yes, that’s what Jim ’lowed at
first. He had a nice two-story house,*
then a three-story offe* and pretty
soon a five-story offe.”
“I don’t see anything. batJ about
that.”
“No; of course not; but when it
got up there, instead 6f headin’ out
with a French robf and a lightnin’
rod, the blamed house took to branch-
in’ out with bay winders and piazzers,*
and pretty soffff 1 the' whole thing
blewed over and killed a yolk of
brindle oxen for Jim. I tell you, yoi t
can’t build houses iff Dakota without
nuderpinnin’.”
Girls’Meed ofQourage.
There is r.ot one virtue in the eaK
endar which girls deed so much
courage. If a boy is afraid of anj r -
•Jiing he is pretty soon shamed oub
of it. But, oddly enough, his sister
is sheltered and caressed tfhen 9he'
shows some silly lift/e alarm er oth¬
er. And in consequence of this timid
mind growing np without help and
discipline it is MoMy , alas V oftener
than Jack, who will sit quietly at her
desk in school and let another mis¬
chief maker, no more guilty, Stand up'
and face the blame. It iS' rtff true
bravciy to seek 6dt dangef i but when
a risk comes, and a cool beaded chili?
makes the best of it, whjq that is to*
much gold capital m the expedience
of life.
When we see so fetf worocft really
sound and steady we cannot help’
thinking that it is beC3USe thffy never
learned ; as girls, to command their
and to be anything in this'
#orkf soffner tliffn shin kefs or tremb-
lers.- A “brave grrl” its certain ter
have the right Streak- Of honor and
truth in her, amt the gentleness which
goes with force' Of character, and a-
firm body to match her firtnheart.*
We alflOVe such a One, and, Ob, how
seldom w-e com* across he#!
But for a miserable little coward
who screams and runs for a mouse,
o8a cow* or a kind, big dog prancing
by, or who - hesitates to “own up’ ia
the face of unpleasant, consequences/
this contributor at least has the Very
shabbiest Jsort of respect.—Louis -
Imogen Guiney in Wide Awake.
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