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I) ui't forget that I am at the same old stand with a fresh
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tan, Bn Us, is!
BOOTS AND SHOES,
tlml I ;mi prepared to offer you at the very LOWEST PRICES. lam also agent
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and can supplp you an cheap as the cheapest.
Lumber and Shingles, b^o*
Thanking you for past favors and soliciting a continuance of your orders, I am
Respectfully,
RICHARD L. JONES
eb24-ly West Main Street, Cartersville, Ga.
i~ ~ i ~ Bufton, Lace and Congress Shoes. Ask your retailer for
~ - - the i.S MEANS *i-l SHOE or the JAMES
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work to discuss the merits of their shoes. The letter-. * j o -fv
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world 'I he doctor denies it, and >ay that the James. SVS ELO Ilf I LAIIO U/ KJ •
Means 84 shoe is better. Considering the needs of each, -. . . , p. *> . ,a_-_
they aru both right. I 41 Lincoln St., Boston, Mass.
Full lines of tlie above Shoes for sale in
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14 rounds Standard Granulated Sugar, $1 00
16 *• lx r'l L. Sugar, 100
10 “ O. K. Lard, 1 (X)
14 ” He.id Ru e llm
18 “ Choice Ki( e 100
50 Pearl Guts 1 00
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D. ve Ham, per pound 15
I eim ns, per Cozen 25
Orai ges, i er dozen 25
< rMibenieq per quart 15
Prunes, |er round 12>£
Cur runts, p r | omul 10
Any kind of Jelly, per pound 10
25 Pounds Oa'ini al (Scitum >k r’s) 1 I 0
50 ” Pen Hill Flour 165
2 “ Gun T. m toes 10
2 “ •* Peaches 15
50 “ Veache’s Highest Patent Flour 1 50
5) “ St Cloud Pati nt Flour 1 (So
50 “ Ncpiuue ** “ 1 60
2 “ ( aus Blackberries 10
2 *' “ R spb rr*es l‘2y x
1 “ “ Oysters, full weight Hi
3 *■ AAA Java It a-led coffee,pu e 1 (X)
2 “ M.chi “ “ •* 100
1 Gallon B sr. New Orb ans Syrup 75
1 *• ** Plantation Syi up 40
2 Pound Cans Mj.ckeral 17>£
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We ate prominent stock brokers,
And uneoree'Giiable croakers.
But we re really quite impartial in our efforts,
as all know.
Though we make it our great mission
To organize suspicion.
And to see that it s directed in the way It
ought to go.
If business yields no profit.
To say that we re glad of it
May perhaps sound rather harshly, but the
charge is not unjust.
While the news of a disaster
We take pains to hurry faster
I£ it tends to break down confidence and gen
erate distrust.
We are always in the burner
To welcome each bad rumor.
And we get them up ourselves at times and
set them on their feet;
We indulge in innuendo
• As to what the other men do.
And strive to break the market down fend ter
rify the street.
If a railroaa meets with trouble,
We proclaim it but a bubble.
That’s it s merely air and water and is very
sure to burst;
And we warn th * poor stockholder,
Before lie gets much older.
To sell his shares for what they’ll bring and
thus escape the worst.
We can judge by circumstances
Win tv 'tw II do to take the chances,
And to talk about the prospects of the roads
we would depress;
But to say that all their feeders
Will most certainly prove bleeders.
And weaken all the system, Is a pretty safe
address.
If good dividends the.'r paving
We can find a way of saying
That their earnings do not justify the divi
(lends they make;
That we've the means of knowing
That the r bonded debt is growing,
And soon Will be so very large that dividends
must break.
When we want to bo specific
We can talk of Blank Pacific
And discourse about Its prospects in words ot
darkest hue:
Or we speak of Lackawanna
In a very dubious manner,
As if there were no knowing, in the future,
what they’d do.
We have v'ews to meet all eases,
And the market shows our traces
Iu the falling off of prices when we choose to
give the cue;
For our customers are classes
That look always through our glasses,
And the spectacles we always use are very
darkly blue.
prey upon our ne'ghbors,
And in putting in our labors
We require little capital: for if we own no
snare
We can sell out Dick or Harry,
While the stock they’ve got to carry
Until we get the prices down as low as they
will bear.
It goes without our saying
That the game which we are playing
Ts a very pretty game of bluff —as we are sell
ing short —
And before the game is over,
That we have got to cover.
Or take the chance of be.ng squeezed, in
which there is no sport.
—N. Y. Evenin'} Record.
FACET TOL’ACE.
A Fact Related in Seven Well-
Told Fables.
BY 11. E. FRAXCILLON,
AUTTTOR OF ‘‘A Glt EAT HEIRESS,” “QUIT*
At Last,” “A Real Queen,” *' Earl’s
Dive,” -etc., etc.
FABLE TIIE SIXTH.— Continued.
“What was his regiment? ’
“Ah, that’s s’.ipp id my mind. Bill
my girl knows. 1 wish 1 e could have
bee a buried by bis mother; but God’s
will be done! Churchyard or b-it'.Li-
I chi, 't's all one to him; and I’ll see
him and forgive him, and lie me, just a=
soon —”
“I am—”
“Ay; I know.” went on Farmci
Blackthorn, heeding him no longer, ex
cept as a re ic o: t':e tight where h‘s s >n
had died. “And ill tell you what—l
have.i’t a guinea about me just th'.-
m'nute; but you shall come home with
me, and have a cut of roast beef af ei
your to.ids and yo r kickshaws; and
you shall tell all about the g’or'ous
battle of Talavcra to me and my girl.
Never mind your coat, my man. My
son Dick wore a coat like that, so far as
a full Sergeant’s may be. Ay; you
sha’l tell us about the iiffht from beg li
ning to end; if you don’t mind seeing a
lass cry a bit here and there. We—
we’re men, you know; we-don’t—cry;
not we—dash it all. n>t >ve— it’s tie
pride. And we sha’n't have Marri-h
here to-day; so wo shall be by ourselves,
all alone. Ah, you won’t know, Mar
rish. though, lie’s the best farmer iu
these nait, next to me. Only one lk s
to be alone a b t with one’s girl, now
and then. I've got but one, sir, now
my boy’s gone. I wish you’d known
my boy. But—there, you'll see my
girl; and she’s terribly like him, now
and then. And one do is like to get hei
a bit all to one’s self once and again,
seeing she’s to be married s > s>on. Ay
one dead and trie other wed; but the
end of it will be com’ng some day to
one and all—one and all.”
“Married!” cried the soldier, start
ing back, as if he had received a sudden
blow.
“Ay. To Enoch Marrisli; the best
farmer in tlies-* parts, bar me. And the
richest, bar none. A line fellow; an
honest yeoman, and as good as gold.
But he won’t be here to-day! We’ll—
we 11 enjoy ourselves for once, and you
shall tell us all about the glor ous bat
tle of Talavera. where my brave boy
died. Maybe you've seen him? Ser
geant Richard Blackthorn —that was
his name —who died lighting like a
lion f>r Old England and good King
George.”
“Your—daughter-is going to be
married to Enoch Marr s’i?” asked the
soldier, in a vo ce that had become
strangely hoais • and strained.
“Ay,” gossiped < n Tom Blackthorn,
who bad not had such a crack since his
hist market day—ages and ages ago.
"Tin day afer to-morro.v, at yonder
clin ch, wl ere her mother's buried;
that’s where it’s to bo. And it seems
but t'other day I ran oil' with her—
that's her poor mother —all the way
from London town. A}-.”
“ She loves him?”
“ Young man —you’re a rum custom
er! If you hadn’t known my boy I’d
—of course she does! Why, bar me,
lie's the best farmer in all t.ie country
round. Come home along with me.”
“No.”
And he strode away, leaving old Tom
Iliackthorn in a stare.
So this is what he had come home to
find. Pitifully weakened as he was,
forgetful of a once famd ar voice and
fat* Tom Blackthorn’s wits were clear
eu nigh to know that Patience was to
be C.e wife of Enoch Marrisli in two
day;. Falsehood and error about that
there could not b\ It could not be
true unless Patien e were as —no; th >re
was nothing to liken it to: as f ilse as
hell, they say, but hell itself must
henceforth be called false ai Pat en -e
Blackthorn. There could be no mere
misun lerstandin ; here. It wa ; fact—
that th j v liaiu who had b trace l lira
had won his sweetheart, too. If Pa
tience bad b eu spir tc l silen lv away
woul 1 h : have o iked at another woman
in the world? No: while life endured.
And iu sixteen months'she could f, rget
him and be consoled—by Enoch Mar
rish, ti e rich man!
And be had come home wi h hope so
confid n! and so high. There was
om n of all good fortune in hi h iving
b e.i le t unbmie 1 when, a ter the r and V
feat, the 1 reach retired; in hi, having
boon damaged enough to be seat home
af . r six weeks in hospital at Tal ivera.
He was as cert iiu of finding Patin e
waiting as of his own life, and more.
And —s'n >e she was about to bo the
wife of another, she could never have
been true.
What m ckerv it was that he had not
truly died*. H * thought no longer of
the carter that he had meant to renew
by tight’rfjT his way up the lost, steps of
the ladder aga’n. It was no moment*
in w hich lost and hr >ken love could be
made up for by ambition, if ever it can.
It was all 1 1 mk and dark —the star that
had lighted him through the valley of
the shallow of death shone no more.
His heart see nod all at once to die —but
it was in wrath and pride.
It was well that, he had not been al
lowed to name hs namlt was well
that he had been forgotten. Patience
had forgotten him—it must be the work
of his life to forget her. She could not
have been deceived. No dec it could
have made her marry another. That,
at least, must have been of her own
fr “e will. He judged her by herself, as
all men must judge all men, and all
women, too. As for Marrish—but Mur
rish as well as another, s : nee another it
was to be. Tnc meiner toe man, the
xuore lit for a fal-e woman. So that
was why he was t) be put out of the
way- an lit had been well. Better had
been death than loss of faith; but better
loss of faith than marriage with false
hood an l Patience Bla kthorn: The
very word had not happened to him,
after all. Siic had promised him
because he was rich when she was poor.
She had thrown h m over for the lirst
man who was richer st"II. It was an
o’d story. And yet—would to He wen
lie had never been made wise, and had
gone blind to the grave.
And there on his finqer was what was
to have been her wedding-ring.
The wretched circle of the metal for
which girl’s sell themselves sparkled
with mockery in the sun. It was from
t le moment of this coming on his linger
that the tragedy ha l begun. Up to
that instant ( e hut been more than all
lie had ever hoped to be. From that in
stant it was as if he had been a mere
slave to some demon that dwelt therein.
Fancies, run riot at such moments as
these. The ring—it was the symbol of
broken faith and falsehood and all evil,
if it were not the cause. It should
curse the linger of a true lover and an
h mest man no more. With a bitter
pang he recaile 1 the triumph of lirst
putting it thereon; then, with a wrench
like the crushing of heart and brain to
gether, he tore it from the hand that
had earr ed it through despair, hope,
death, exile, and thro.v it from him far
away.
FABLE THE SEVENTH.
BUT WAR AND WEDLOCK WANTETJI TWO.
I.
“I think, Tom Blackthorn, 1 twere
about time you thought of settling that
there two hundred pound—or it’ll be a
tritlc over by now. ’
So had Farmer Marrish gently insinu
ated some raon h or so after Stephen
Ha low’s pocket-book had been re
turned.
“Two hundred poun Is? Why, I
don’t owe you a stick nor a straw.”
“That depends on the market price
of sticks and straws, I reckon. But a
man can’t afford to stay out of a stick,
these hard times.”
“But Prestons of Millport—”
“ ’Twas a 1 humbug a out Prestons
of Millport, Tom Blackthorn—all flash
and gammon, every word. I’ve writ
ten to ’em myself; and 't s because of
their answer I’m here to-day. And
there it is—just No Go.”
And certainly tli; letter Farmer Black
thorn read was curt enough—that their
former clerk, Mr. Harlow, had com
municated with them on the subject,
but that under the circumstances they
did not choose further to entertain the
matter. It was, in short, No Go.
It was a terrible blow to a sanguine
man, who fancied that everything had
been settled in a day.
“ If ever 1 catch hoi 1 of that infernal,
ungrateful vida'n, Stephen Harlow,” he
burst out, crumpling the letter in his
hand.
“So,” said Enoch Marrish, quietly
but firmly, “things are left just as they
were. You’d better have taken a plain
man's offer at. first, farmer, after all."
“Ay —I remember an uncommon
plain man offering to turn me out ot
house and home.”
“No, no—”
“But yes, yes, I say. But I deserve
it. Once, for go ng beggingto my own
father-in law; and twice, toe trusting to
a drunken blackguard’s infernal, un
grateful spawn. There, Marrish. Say
the word. When am lto go?”
“Gome, den’t be so bob farmer.
There’s no no and to fly out at a man be
cause he wants bis own. Out of house
and home! ’Twasn’t lews Croft I was
after, if you rightly mind.”
“ What then?”
“Patience Blackthorn. ’ ’
The two farmers sat and looked at
one another without speaking. And
yet there was a bargain, the outbargain,
going on between them as surely as if
they were in full market chatter. That
Enoch, the miser, should want a wife in
stead of the best farm in all the country
beat Tom Blackthorn. True, the wife
he wanted w-.vs Patience; but a wife is a
wife, and cos's something for her keep,
whoever she may be.
“You’ll take my girl without a pen
ny?” he asked, at last.
“Ay; anil have the best of the bar
gain.”
“No doubt; if you was a young man.
You’d look to come in for Leys Croft
after l m gone; but I’m a ten times
heartier man than you ever were.”
“Mayn’t a chap be in love, Tom
Blackthorn? Didn’t such a thing ever
happen to you?”
“Ay. Such a thing has happened to
me. Well—love does play tricks;
though I’d have thought he'd sooner
play tricks on a hurdle post than on
you.”
“The (lay I marry Patience,” said
Marrish, “that mortgage goes into the
lire; ay, and I’ll let you have a thou
sand without interest, and no better se
curity than your own word.”
Harder and harder Fa mor Black
thorn stared. But there sat the other
rugged and uncouth, indeed, but utte -
ly in earnest —anybody with eyes and
e .r.s could see that, though ho v mu eh
in earnest none coul l h tve seen. But
something else tugged at Tom Black
thorn’s heart-strings. She was not to
h m what his only son would h.ve
been; but she was his only girl. “No,
no. neighbor,” said he. “You’re kind
at ih ; core, and I’m sorry if you care
for the bus—but, no, no, it won’t do.”
A glow came in'o Enoch’s eyes.
“You don’t mean to tell me she s still
frett n ' about that —”
‘ That infernal, ungratef and viper?
What do you main? Patience Black
thorn fretting aft r the spawn of a
drunken blacksmith? But I beg \our
pa-don, Mar.ish. ’Tisa’t likely you'd
un lerstan l the Black horn ] ride.”
No sting touched the man who ha 1
but two ideas—whit lie wanted, and
how to gi t it, late or soon.
“Then,” said he, “if Patience says
ay, \ou won’t say pay? ’
“Ah, but she won't say ay.”
“But if? Oniy if— that’s' all?”
“If she says ay—well, neighbor, all
my notions of womankind would be
turned upside down.”
Tom B ackthorn was p irfeePv sin
cere in believing h in e f t i be suieere-
Hc did think that a girl must have a
pretty large throat before she could
contrive to swallow old Enoch Ma risli,
even with all his moaev-bags to send
him down. But if she* only could it
would be a great tiling. For, thanks
(as he held) to the treachery of Stephen
Har’.ovv, ruin stared him full in the face
again.
“Patience,” said he, after supper,
when ho usually chatted for a h ilf an
hour or so over the events of the day
and a tumbler, “Enoch MarrD.i lias
been over."
“Yes, father?” she aske 1. feigning
more interest than she could f el. If
he h ;d said t ie Prince of Wales had
been at Leys Croft it would have been
the same.
“Marrish isn't a bad fellow. Pa
tience. lie's rough to lo >k at, but he’s
stanch and sound. And he s really au
uncommonly line young man for Ins
age.”
He thought lie was leading up to
things with the most delicate tact in
the world: and he also thought he was
making no attempt to bias her. But
she only thought he was jesting; and
that was a good thing, for his jests had
of late been rare.
“Patience,” he went on, “I've been
thinking a good bit; and tis about
you/’ . ,
“About mo, father? Oh, never mind
me. I'm all right—”
For if she had that Blackthorn pride
which a Marrish could not do sup
posed to understand, she had her own.
“ No. You're not all right. You're
pot right at all. I'm a selfish old
brute to keep you here, through the
best of your days—”
“Father? What do you mean?
Where else should l bo, but with you?”
“You’re a good girl, Patienc *. 1
know that. But a good and ugh'or is
but waste if she don’t become a go and
wife and a good mother all in good
time. I say, what should you say if a
young fellow, or he needn’t b* so very
young was to be wanting to take you
away to be mistress of a farm of > oar
own —”
“Oh, hush, father!” said she, with
alarm. “ You’re only want ng to try
me. There’s nobo ly wants me but
you; and if there was—oh, don’t you
know what I should say? 1 should say
No: if he was ti e King.”
And so clear did her heart show itself
through her eyes that her father could
only say:
“Give me a kiss, my lass. So you
do care for your old father more than
all the world? 1 ’
“Not more-only!” said she.
He should have let well alone. But
then he would no have been Tom
Blackthorn. “And if anybody,” h •
said, “says you’re fretfng after that
viper, St phen Harlow, L may knock
him down for a liar—eh?”
“Wh it is Stephen Harlow to me?”
she said, with a tremble in her voice
that would have told sharper ears that,
whether in love or hate, he was a great
deal. “Oh, father! I thought I
t' ought—we were never to speak of
him again. For oh, you know—l did
care for him—”
“There —there —t'iat’ll do,” said Tom
Blackthorn, hastily, w.th a dread of
woman’s t ars; which, however, showed
no sign of coming. “There—there.
But if you don’t care for him, like my
own proud las - , there's naught to pre
vent you caring for a better man?”
“Never for any, better or worse, but,
one—and that's you. Father,pronuse me
one thing. Never speak of my marry
ing again; neither joking nor not jok
ing. You want me and I want you,
and naught else; and we'll be o’d man
and old ma and together. So that’s set
tled, father. If any man’s been asking
for me you just tell him I’m married to
you.”
He could not help being pleased, and
the more a-, instead of the tears he
dreade 1, she had tipped her own little
jest with a real smile. But devotion of
that sort, however pleasant for the mo
ment, would not keep Leys Croft, as he
felt when he had slept off the comfort
,of the night, when the day is done and
nothing more can come to harm, an 1
was face to face with next moru'ng and
a mortgaged fai m.
He dreaded every foots'ep he heard,
lest it should be Enoch Marrish come to
claim either his daughter or his l oud.
But the creditor had far too much of
the wisdom of the serpent to appear too
soon or too suddenly upon toe scene.
He was not a man of tact; but he had
what can dispense with tact, and is bet
ter than all the tact in the world for
winn ng—a straight line between him
self and a sing’e en 1, and feet to follow
it, whether they led him through foul
marsh or open plain. He h. il not eve i
tin weakness on which some men
split, of preferring crooked ways to
straight ones. But if the croaked were
the sure 4 and quickest, then they were
the ones to use. As for turning back,
it was not in hm. lie had seen other
people do it, and had only wondered
how it was done.
Enoch fully understood, as if it had
been signed and sealed, that if lie* could
get the daughter’s ay lie need not fe r
tiic father’s nay. So. Laving found out
that maidens are queer catt e, he went
to work warily. Not a word did he say
thenceforth to Tom or Patience about
the hold lie had over Leys Croft (of
which, indeed, Patience otherwise knew
nothing). Not even by a lent did lie
disparage her lost lover, though lie
hated him as we can hate those alone
to whom we have done wrong. But,
to show how much in earnest he was,
lie spent time, which to him meant its
full weight in money. He even let his
own affairs slide a bit (though never
past being able to pull them up again)
in order to attend to Leys (’ro t i*mi
lighten Tom Blackthorn s shoulders.
He did not make love in any common
place way, because lie did not kn ;w
how, and, indeed, it would have b en
ridiculous in so elderly a lover. But he
made Patience feel grateful to Him for
her father’s sake, and even a little for
her own—though that was the same
thing.
She ha l an unconquerable dislike to
enter the village, or even to go on the
rarest errands to levs familiar Hun
chester. And, whether he perceived
this dislike or not, Enoch never went
anywhere without un k rtak ng her
business as well av his own. Then her
father was beginning to want more
company, nosv that h ; worki and
less than ever, if that could bo; and
Enoch, atter such expedit ons, or in t ie
long Sunday afternoons, would drop in
and listen while her father dil itod ou
the glories of the hou-o of Blacklh rn.
And never a quick or impat eat word,
though often he had to put up w th
one, did he say. For if a creditor chose
to forget, or seem to forget, a debt,
Tom Blackthorn was not the man to
keep it in his memory.
But at last, when this sort of thing
had gone on for what Enoch regarded
as a reaso lablo time, ho made a jour
ney to Loudon, with the result that ho
was missed, and was welcome back
again. And this tim *he and and not make
his original mistake of seeing the father
first and the girl second. It was no
doubt more by good luck .than by good
management that he found h *r clone in
the best parlor, where she sat seldom;
but then fortune has two favorites
tho e who trust her altogether and
those who tru-t her never at a 1. Ln> h
Marrish was one of tho latter kind.
“Miss Patience,” said lie, “I’ve Lear'
some ill news.”
She could not help her heart beating:
absurd as it was 1 1 think she would
ever hoar news, good or ill, of Stcj bn
again.
“You know your father is in money
trouble? No? Hois, then. Don’t you
remembor that debt which was to have
bee i paid off? Well—”
“That was settled!”
“Ah—l wish it were. It wam't, you
pee. And the mortgagee, he’s to
foreclose.”
She shook her hral, but looked
alarmed. “Foreclose?”
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