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TRADE ISSUE DAILY AND WEEKLY BANNER, DECEMBER 6, 1892.
TWOWAYS OF WOOING
Stoop and pick np a handful of shells
from that broadjjath which you have
been mistakenly regarding as a gravel
walk. If you are one of the learned ones
of the earth those small fnollusks may
teach you that you are near the shores
of the Gulf of Mexico, and, for aught
that I know of such matters, may inform
you that you are on the coast of the
state of Mississippi.
Now, if you add the pursuit of litera
ture to that of science, look well around
you; for here that most valuable literary
raw materiali local color of the southern
type, has been most lavishly poured out.
Here are magnolias, oleanders and all
other southern trees and shrubs. There,
in that arch of confederate jasmine, two
mocking birds have their habitat. They
have been lighting, since daybreak with
every living thing that has approached
them; but you need not put that in your
article.
Behind you is a broad galleried, deep
roofed mansion of the most approved
antebellum architecture, and before you
is the bluest water in the world—crede
me experto who have seen the Adriatic
and the Caribbean seas. Its beauty i.-
marred by long dilapidated piers, but
you will not complain of them when the
mosquitoes swarm in from the Louisiana
marshes and drive you out into the sea
breeze.
From where you stand you can see
through the great hall of the house,
quite through to where the pine forest
stands out against the sky. It was not
many months ago that a party of three
—to me at that time a most interesting
party—made that hall their assembly
room and temple for their household'
gods. Indeed, it was often their battle
ground, for in the long leisure of sum
mer days the coating of conventionality
in talk wears rather thin, and behind
that‘coating are often concealed the
most startling beliefs in^persons of the
most unimpeached respectability. At
such times the sole male member of the
trio was apt to begin the discussion with
smooth appeals to experience, policy and
knowledge of the world, which hap
pened to be his particular divinities,
and like other priests of Baal, he some
times appealed long, loudly and in vain.
It was after one of the longest and
warmest of these debates that all three
sat ostensibly deep in their morning’s
mail. John Dunn, the lone champion of
the commonplace, tore through a small
pile of letters with an air .oF mysterious
importance, which-he tad been early
taught it was necessary to assume in or
der to attain business success. As he
bad Attained that great and noble desid
eratum. and in no small degree, he
might be fairly credited with a knowl
edge of the necessary methods. One of
his fair antagonists, Constance Alston,
who had played a heated, enthusiastic
and altogether minor part in the discus
sion, had forgotten the whole matter* in
a bulky letter addressed in a broad mas
culine hand.
Presently she looked np. “What’s to
day—the day of the month I mean?” she
asked. And then, without waiting for
an answer: “Fifteenth, sixteenth, seven
teenth. They will be here today. He
writes that he will be here tomorrow—
that is today of course; and he is going
to bring a friend with him.” She buried
herself again in the letter and emerged
with further intelligence: “His friend’s
name—I am not sure how to pronounce
it. Alice,” she said, turning to her cons
in, the last of the trio, with a mischiev
ous look, “how do you pronounce
B-e-a-l-ir
If her object was to create either sur
prise or confusion on the part of her
cousin the attempt was a flat failure, for
that young lady answered imperturb
ably:
“Bell of course. You know the name
well enough. You can hardly have for
gotten him since last winter.”
“Was he a Johns Hopkins man—a fel
low?” asked Dunn with interest.
“Yes, we knew him at Baltimore,”
answered Alice.
“Well, he’s stopped all that,” said
Dnnn, presumably referring to the pur
suit of knowledge by means of fellow
ships. “One of his rich relatives died
this spring, and he’s pretty well fixed.”
“I suppose we know all about him
now,” said Alice, a trifle wearily, and
rising she strolled out to the edge of the
wide gallery, where she stood pensively
looking out, a clear cut figure against
the blaze of light from without,
“That’s a graceful picture,” said Con
stance warmly.
“Yes, she’s a very pretty young girl,”
answered Dunn indifferently. He proved
the genuineness or his indifference by
carrying on a very abstracted conversa
tion with Constance for a few moments,
and then wandering out with a careful
indefiniteness to where Alice stood. To
a sensitive man the manner in which he
was received woqld have been equiva
lent to a verbal denunciation as an un
pleasant interruption, but Mr. Dunn’s
many enemies attributed much of his
success to his seldom making such dis
coveries.
Half a day later and Constance and
her correspondent had resolved them
selves into faint splash of cars and a
murmur of voices scarcely audible from
the pier where Alice was burdened with
an embarrassing wealth of companion
ship. The whilom learned fellow was
not obtrusively apparent in a quiet
young man leisurely half reclining in
the bow of a small skiff of which Alice
held the oars. Dunn stood upon the
steps leading down to the water, look
ing despondently at a dark gap between
himself and the boat.
“I can’t bring the boat any closer on
account of these posts,” said Alice.
“You can’t drown anyhow," she added
scornfully.
The Persians, I believe, have a saying
that contempt will pierce through the
shell of a tortoise. Dunn made the at
tempt with the success which usually
attends leaps in the dark. There was a
sadden movement of the skiff, which in
his cooler moments he attributed solely I
ant suspicions, mainly due to a faint
reminiscence of something unaccount
able in that sudden slipping away of the
boat from under him. . * .
But a moment's reflection convinced
him that it was absurd to suppose that
any one should wish to be rid of his so
ciety, and even in the most improbable
event he felt sure that not even so young
a lady as Miss Alston would resort to
such an undignified, childish and alto
gether improper method. The disap
pearance of these disagreeable suspicions
was of course aided by the sincerest re
gret and sympathy, expressed in a voice
which would have made the fortune of
an orator or an actress.
“Of couree that ends our rowing,”
said Alice decidedly. “Mr. Beall can
go to the house with you, and I will row
out and find Constance and Mr. Alexan
der.”
But Dunn, now thoroughly appeased
and not over anxious for unsympathetic
male companionship in his rather ab
surd condition, demurred emphatically.
How the conclusion was reached he
never exactly understood, but somehow
after considerable argument and protes
tation he found himself damply on his
way toward the house, while Miss Al
ston and Mr. Beall had departed on what
seemed to him an utterly useless search
for the remaining members of the party.
The two rowed on in silence until the
Bound of Mr. Dunn’s creaking steps had
died away, then Beall broke the silence
by an ineffectual offer to change his seat
to the stern. .
“This seat is far enough aft to balance
the boat,” said Alice, with unconscious
technicality. “And you may upset her
moving about. We don’t want any more
accidents. I am sorry Mr. Dunn fell
over,” she added, after a slight pause.
If she smiled her face was turned away
from Beall and he could not see its ex
pression. “I like him very much," she
continued.
So do I,” said Beall, with bitter,
youthful irony. “I like his high ideals,
ard bis modest truthfulness, and his
culture—don’t you?”
“He is my guest,” responded Alice
coldly.
Beall might have replied that, consid
ering the recent occurrence, her ideas of
hospitality were extremely recent and a
trifle suspicious. But having no abso
lute proof of tlie cause of that happ*
accident he refrained, and simply aske<3
“He has another claim to your conside*
ation, hasn’t he?”
Alice disdained equivocation. “I sup
pose,” she said, “you .mean to ask
whether the report of my engagement to
him is true.”
Beall briefly assented.
“And by what right?” she asked.
“1 had the right once,” he said sadly.
“Suppose we do not talk about what
you once had,” said Alioe. “You didn’t
seem to care much about it then.”
This startling perversion of the facts
bewildered Beall too much for any at
tempt at defense. He conld only ask
once more for an answer to his question.
“And if I told you,” said Alice,
suppose you would do as you did on a
similar occasion once before—threaten
to do something desperate, and then not
do it. And I should bo so disappointed.”
Beall took this rather aggravating re
mark rather good naturedly, “No; I’ve
learned something since then,” he said.
“I wished to know about this simply be
cause if you are not engaged to Mr,
Dunn I have an important piece of news
to tell you.”
“I suppose you will pardon my saying
that I don’t take as much interest as
most persons in important pieces of
news,” said Alice. “But it is due to Mr.
Dunn for me to tell you that the report
isn’t true.”
“Then,” replied Beall, “I can tell you
my news. But if you don’t mind 1
would rather not tell it to the back of
your head.” So saying he calmly took
possession of half of the rowing seat.
“What I wished to tell you,” he contin
ued, “is that I am gojpg to be married
in a few months.”
Alice started. “You are! And to
whom?”
“That’s just the difficulty,” he said
contemplatively. ‘Tve arranged every
thing else satisfactorily. My business
affairs are all right—right enough for
me to marry seven or eight girls if the
law permitted. I’ve thought of every
thing else. I haven’t spoken to the. dif
ferent people, but I suppose there will
be no trouble. The only problem is, as
you suggest, about the bride. So I came
over mainly to ask you to occupy that
position.”
Alice turned suddenly. “Mr. Beall,"
she said, “this is a most unpleasant form
of jolc8 # M
“It isn’t a Joke at all,” he answered
placidly. “You laughed at my vehe
mence and romance about such things
once before, so I thought I would try a
style you would like. But, on my honor,
I never was more in earnest in my
life.”
Alice drew the blade of her oar slowly
through the water for a moment. There
was every reason in the world why she
should refuse a proposal made in this
cool, confident and irritating manner.
So, being a woman, she answered finally,
“Well, I suppose it would be a pity to
break up all your arrangements.”
As Beall sat late that night in Mr.
Alexander’s room enjoying to the ut
most the bitter end of a long black
cigar, he said charitably, "Now there’s
Dunn—I don’t think he’s such a bad sort
of fellow after all."
Alexander looked up in humorous sur
prise from the valise he was packing.
“Why,” he exclaimed, “you said this
morning on the train that you had spent
long days in wondering how. Dunn had
escaped the penitentiary."
“Oh, this morning,” answered BealL
“To teB you the truth, old man, I wasn’t
feeling very well this morning. ”—Har
per’s Weekly.
PROTECTING HOTBEDS.
Directions for Making Straw Mats, Which
Afford a Safe Covering.
During cold nights in many sections
the manure hotbeds will need additional
protection. This is provided by our mar
ket gardeners in the form of board shut-
FRAME FOR MAKING STRAW MATS,
ters or straw mats. The shutters are
made of J^-inch stuff and of the size of
the sash. The straw mats, which are
preferred by many to the board shut
ter#, can be made by the most unskilled
person from long rye straw, tied with a
tarred Btring. Here is an illustrated de
scription from T. Greiner’s “How to
Make the Garden Pay,” which renders
their manufacture a simple thing in
deed.
Make a frame 7 by 4 feet, as seen in en
graving, and tightly stretch four or five
parallel stout tarred strings, ten to twelve
inches apart, from top to bottom. Have
as many balls of lighter tarred string,
and fasten one end to each upright
string next the bottom, leaving the balls
in front of the frame. Now lay a whisk
of straw, cut sides out, in the junction
of the strings at the bottom, and fasten
it there by twisting each of the smaller
strings once around the straw and the
upright string. Next put on another
whisk of straw, and continue until frame
is fnll and the mat finished. The whole
expense connected with these handy con
veniences and effective means of pro
tecting early tender plants in frames is
a quantity of nice, clean, bright, rye
straw and some tarrod string. The labor
required in making them does not count
for much, as the work can be done in a
“convenient outbuilding or under a shed
during rainy days at leisure. In tlie
course of a season a large supply of such
mats may be made. They can be rolled
np, stored and handled conveniently,
and give the very best of protection
against cold.
Rye cut before the grain has formed
makes the best material for mats, and
the gardener in need of them will find
it a good plan to have a piece of rye
grown and cut at the period named for
this very purpose.
The Temperature of Bee Cellars.
On the important matter of regulating
the temperature of the bee cellar The
Farmers’ Review offers this advice:
As it requires a low temperature com
paratively for hibernation it is necessary
that from the 1st of November the cel
lar be gradually cooled off. The bees
will begin to sink into a torpor at 50
degs., and their sleep will become sounder
as the temperature sinks to 40 degs. If
a man have a good number of hives it
will pay him to watch the hives closely
and also his cellar. All apertures in the
cellar that connect with the open air or
with the house above should be under
complete control so that the temperature
may be regulated. A thermometer
should be kept in the cellar, as the guess
ing of the manipulator is a very uncer
tain standard. If a gas or gasoline or
some other kind of a stove be kept in the
cellar a few cents spent in fuel during a
cold “snap” may save many dollars’
worth of bees. After the end of Novem
ber keep the temperature at 41 degs. as
near as possible till the 1st of February,
when the natural heat of the earth in
the cellar may be allowed to raise the
temperature, so that the bees will not be
restricted in their operations. Of course
as the spring advances the activity of
the bees will increase in accordance with
the increase of heat.
How to Pull a Foncepost.
In getting ready for winter many
fences will be removed. In this work
much hard labor in taking up the old
posts may be saved if the following plan
is used. Of this plan a correspondent
who sends the accompanying sketch to
The Farm, Field and Stockman says:
Have a piece of plank very nearly as
Jong aa the post above ground, or ’ any
stick that will not sink into the ground;
cut notch in one end, fasten end of ^hain
Drag; Store Coffee.
Customer (at soda fountain)—Have
you any coffee flavor?
Clerk (briskly)—Yes, sir.
“Does it taste like coffee?”
to his awkwardness. For aa he stood a 1 "Um—er—n-o, but it looks like coffee
moment later dripping and wrathful' ~~P e ** ect picture of it, sir.”—New York
the steps, he had sundry unpleas- Weekly-
PULLING A FENCEPOST.
on post half way to the gronnd, the other
end to whiffletrees; place plank as in cut,
not too far from post, paw chain over
end of plank, then go ahead with team,
and as post draws up back up team, let
chain slip down on post, then go ahead
again.
I sharpen all my posts and drive them,
as it idfmuch, quicker done than to dig
holes; then frost is not so liable to heave
them out, and every spring, if it is neces
sary, a man can go along with a maul
and redrive very easily. I use cedar
posts and sharpen small end, as I think
they do not rot so quick; then, again, if
you wish to take them np they pnll easier.
—A.T—
HADAWAY’S
OLD STAND,
CLAYTON STREET,
Athens, Ga.,
Yob Can Get BARGAINS
—in’—
Harness,
Saddles,
Bridles,
Whips,
Collars,
Blankets,
These goods are
ma.ked down below
regular prices and
must sell.
REPAIR WORK
Done in best manner on
short notice.
Mrs. S. C. HADAWAY.
The funeral Of Willis Bill, whose
execution occurred at Macon Tuesday,
was preached Wednesday morulDga*. 11
o’clock at Union villa. An immense
concourse of colored people were present
atnouuting probably to about 2 000
The dead boy is looked upon by the ne
groes as a sort of m*rt\r, and feeling
j continues to run high.
Last Thursday night Robert Medlock,
who lives n**ar Norcros* on the od
McAfee plac- ,had his biro destroyed bv
fire. One horse and ail his wint-r
forage was destroyed. It is b Lev d
that the fire was the work of an incen
diarv, as th^re ha i been no fire about
cbe builuit.g for some time. The loss is
a total one, as he had no insurance.
Sss&raa
inherited scr 0Pij , \
«%psl sags-
BWtrjaaagate
cured him, and fffi&sl * fc* t'A,***
tha disease rea»i| BM8 ^ T n J
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