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Don’t forget that I am at the same old stand with a fresh supply of Choice Family tan, Dri Ms, Kits! BOOTS AND SHOES, that 1 nil) prepared to offer you at the very LOWEST PRICES. lam also agent for the REST BRANDS of CO JLJLS and can supplp you as cheap as the cheapest. • Cumber and Shingles Thanking you for past favors and soliciting a continuance of your orders, I am Respectfully, RICHARD L. JONES < 1.24-1 y West Main Street, Cartersville, Ga. The doctor end the letter-carrier are not talking about i • ca.e of .erloue illueae. They have .Imply etupendcd I work to discuss the merits of th* r h es. The letter carrier say 9 the James Means s.‘i Mroe is the best in the world. The doctor denies it, and says that the James Means $4 Shoe is better. Couaideriutf tU Uuudj of cuch, they are both right. I Full lines of tlie above Sh.oes for sale in Cartersville by BCHEUER BROS. JOHN T. NORRIS, Real Estate and Fire Insurance, (UPSTAIRS.) First Door South, of Howard’s Bank. leblO-Iy THE HOWARD BANK, CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. Does a General Ranking Business. Deposits received, sul ject to check. Exchange bought and sold. Collections made in all parts of the United States. Discounts desirable paper. All accom modations consistent with saieiy extended to its customers. febl7-ly THE LIVERY STABLE CRAWFORD & FIELD •Always Ready with the Handsomest Turnouts, Polite Treatment Horses and Mules kept on hand for sale, and our accommodations for drovers can not be surpassed anywhere. Thankful for the past liberal patronage and asking a continuance of the same, which we hope to merit by careful and prompt attention to business we are, Respectfully, CRAWFORD & FIELD, apl2l-tf East Side Railroad near Court House. E. H. JONES & SONS’ MANUFACTURING COMPANY, CAkTERSVILLE. ROME AND STAMP CREEK, GA. —Manufacturers of and Dealers in— BUGGIES, CARRIAGES, WAGONS & MATERIAL Oldest Carriage Factory —IN— Georgia. ALL WORK FULLY GUARANTEED. IgEagf* We can duplicate the work of any first-class manu factory in the country in Price, Quality and Finish. We acknowledge no superior in the Carriage Business. Can build any style of vehicle desired; only the very best material used. rew-iy iicmj Si Over Tea Thousand InaJ jyjr v°t Avoid the imposition of pretentious remo. Packages mailed to I 1 * 4 " for three trouble*. and oil Quocks, ■ ' tionta a large proportion Aft# JIB aim is tobleed theirvio- LMXmiE.oi wliointook u full f uToS ° SURE Rskedy tiiutiuj t-cut ond woro rostorod to health by uso of M T Torum** I s * UttED thouaand*, doe* iA intcrfi 5 PROF. OCiXIILIAI fIAOTII I EC NtVk with uiteuUon to husmees, or eaue poia Harris* otIWJNAL rAol t Q[} I°'i , .' d ®4 A Rmlical Puro for Ncrvoaa Debility Orranlo medical principle.. By direct U oaknoH. nrulPi vaicnl I>ocer in Young or U 1? * >at °{^ lsea **J l * 6 P' ,< -' lfl sHdffirifflo^ysfitft'oSESiiauL Tothobowhoauifer from the mnny obecurodiseanou TREATOEMT—Ona Month. S3. TtfO Kos.S3. ThM? f7 trooght about by Indincretioi', K->osuro, Ovar-lirnm ***** *"*•**" ” Work, ortoo treo Indulgence, wo nek that you Bond lis UADDIQ DPKIIPnV rrt lire f<uru„n 9 four imme with etntumont of your troulilo, uud Bocatw HUKKIS KblnbUT V’vJ., Plr C CHEMISISy TULA L PACK AO E FREE, with Illut'd Pamphlet .A o. 306* N. Tenth Street, ST.LOUIS, JCO. RUPTURED PERSONS can have FREE Trial of our Appliance. Ask for Ternisl J.rt.uch. lb, h ' ' Throughout ita various scenes, Who use the Smith's Bile Beans. Smith’s BILE BEANS purlf^7h<nhlol7 ,, by acting 1 olrectly and promptly oil the Liver. Skin ami KUI- The original Photograph, ateys. They consist of a vegetable combination that K* 1 ,,? 12 . 0 ' “L tht J J > J*2 U TJ! has unequal In medical science. They cure Constlpa- ‘Address 01 *° “ acainJ^BiiV I*’ 1 *’ *“^r 1>y * ,pep . , * l ?J “and are a safeguard i,il,K BEANS, J?.!* of Fevers, chillis and fever, gall stones, ett. I.ouu, Mo. £S.j“ rl £ la " ***5 ea *e* Send 4 cents postage for a sum- -* a “ d *** tt* TRUTH of what we say. Price, 2li cents per bottle, to any address, postpaid. DOSE ONE BEAN. Xoid by druggists, w. p. smith: <•> co., proprietors, st. louis, mo. Button, I.aee nnd Con etc vs Shoos. Ask your retailor for the JAMES MEANS 84 SHOE or the JAMES MEANS 58.5 SHOE, according to your needs. Positively none genuine unless our stamp appears plainly on the soles. JAMES MEANS $4 SHOE Will not weaft so long as the JAMES MEANS SS SHOE, Because it Is made for men whose occupations arc such as j ail them to call for a lighter and more drossy slo e than toe JAMES MEANS #3 SHOE. Our $3 Shoe has < -tabllshid f>r Itself a permanent reputation lor comfort and durability sin h as no other shoe has ever known in the history of the trade. Xo competitors are able lo approach it The James Moans 4 Shoe is lirht and -tyli-h, and it is as durable as any shoe of its weight ever manu factured. We confidently assert that in every viml re spect the .Tames Means 884 Shoe* is eipial to the 1 a ml-sowed shoes which have hitherto been retailed at s<; or $7. It has a IVcieoUitop and seamless calf vamp. It bus a perfectly smooth in inside. tits like a stockin'. ml r‘qnlr' no “ lircsiLing in/ being pcrfeetlyensy the first tune it is worn. James Alcans ami Shoes were the in t.ns country to be extensively advertised. If you have been disappointed in other advertised Shoes, your experience ought to teach you that it is safer to buy shoes tua e by the leaders of a system, ratlier than those made by the followers. These sho, s are sold by the best retailers throughout the United States, and we will place them easily within your reach, in any State or Territory, if you Will send us a postal c::ril. James Means & Cos. 41 Lincoln St., Boston, Mass. BARTOW SHERIFF’S SALES, lEII.UIU:SOI,DBF,POKE TIIEroUItT HOUSE I! door In Cartersville, Bartow County, Geor gia, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN OCTOBER, 11587, bet ween the legal hours of sale, to the highest tiidder, the foliowingr described property, to-wit: I.ot of land No. 53, lying: and being in 18th dis trict and third section of Bartow county. Ga., levied on and will be sold as the property of W. S. Huberts tc sati ifv one State and county tax fi fa for the year of 1886. Said lot containing one hundred and sixty acres, more or less, I). W. K. Peacock, transferee. Levy made by F. C. Watkins, L. C. and returned to me. $2.31. Also at the same time and (dace the undivided one-half interest in all that tract or pared of land situated, lying and being: in the 17th district and third section of Bartow county, Georgia, and consisting of whole lots Xos. 185, 186, 247 and 261, each containing forty acres, more or less: also, southeast half of lot Xo. 244. twenty acres, more or less, dividing line running northeast and southwest; The east half of lot No. 315, 20 acres more or lees; twenty-three acres, more or less, of lot No. 246, being: ail that portion of said lot ly ing north of the Etowah river; thirty acres, more or less, of lot No. 245, being: all of said lot north of said river; ten acres, more or less, of lot No. 260, all north and west of said river; thirty acres, more or less, of lot No. 316, being: all of said lot north and west of said river; five acres, more or less, of lot number 333, all north and west of said river;" thirteen acres, more or less, of lot No. 334, the same being the north part of the east half of said lot. Said lots and parts of lots containing in the aggre gate 311 acres, more or less. I.evied on ami will tie sold as the property of the defendants Pauline Dent and Stephen T. Dent to satisfy one Bar tow Superior Court mortgage fi fa in favor of Gaines 4 Lew is vs. Pauline C. Dent and Stephen T. Dent. Properly pointed out and described in said fi fa and in possession of defendants. Said fi fa proceeding for use of Richmond City Mills, transferrees. $9.36. Also, at the same time and place, eleven (11) acres, more or less, of lot of land No. 762, reserv ing one-fourth of one acre for burying ground in the fourth district and third section of Bartow county, Georgia, being the property occupied by Mrs. Sarah J. Keys at the time of her death. Levied on by virtue of one fi fa from the 1234th district G. M. of Fulton county, Georgia, in favor of W. C. Edwards vs. F. M. Shaw, admin istrator of Sarah .1. Heys, and the same will be sold as the property of Sarah J. Keys, deceased, in the hands of F. M. Shaw, administrator, to be administered. Property in possession of Mrs. Richards. Property pointed out by plaintiff's attorney. Levy made by F. C. Watkins, L. C. $4.17.' , A. M. FRANKLIN, Sheriff, J. W. WILLIAMS, Deputy Sheriff. Receiver’s Sale. STATE OF GEORGIA— Babtow County : By virtue of an order from the Superior court of said county, I will sell, as receiver of the estate of R. C. Roberts, deceased, between the legal sale hours, on the first Tuesday in October next, the following described property, to-wit: All that tract or parcel of land, consisting of one hundred and fifty one and one-half (151%) acres, of lot of land No. twenty (20), and one hundred and forty-two (142) acres of lot No. twenty-one (21), and fifty-one (51) acres of lot No eleven (11); all being in the 16th district and 3d section of Bartow county. State of Georgia, containing, in all, three hundred and forty-three and one-half (343%) acres, more or less, with all the members and appurtenances to said property in any wise belonging. This farm is situated two miles front the city of Adairsville, on the head waters of Gothcaloga creek, and in the Oothca loga valley, which is famous for its rich farming lands. There are about 175 acres cleared, the balance well timbered. The entire place is well watered, and most admirably located for a fine stock and dairy farm. The land is all suscepti ble of a high state of cultivation, and well adapt ed to growing fine clover, grasses, and all the ce reals. On one of the uncleared lots is to be found fine indications of iron ore and manganese. This lot is not exceeding one half-mile front the IV. & A. It. It. Improvements consist of a two-story frame dwelling and all necessary out-buildings, in fa r repair. There is on the place a large, cold, freestone spring, and a good brick spring house. The same will be sold for cash, payable on the confirmation of the sale by the Superior court. Douglas Wiki.e, $9.99 RecT of the estate of It. C. Roberts, dec’d. Letters of Administration. GEORGIA —Bartow County. To all whom it may concern: Mrs. Mary F. Hardin has in due form applied to the under signed for permanent letters of administration on the estate of John F. Hardin, iate of said county deceased, and I will pass upon said appli cation on the first Monday in October, 1887. This 31st August, 1887. J. A. HOWARD, $219 Ordinary. Leave to Sell Land. GEORGIA— Babtow County : To all whom it may concern : G. H. Headden, adm’r of William Headden, late of said county, deceased, has, in due form applied to the under signed for leave to sell all the lands belonging to tlie estate of said deceased, and said application will be heard on the first Monday in October next. This 29th August, 1887. $2.26. J. A. HOWARD, Ordinary. Leave to Sell Land. GEORGIA Babtow County : To all whom it may concern ; John H. Walker, adm’r of John H. Walker, Sr., deceased, has, in due form, applied to the undersigned for leave to sell the lands belonging to the estate of said de ceased, and said application will be heard on the first Monday in October next. This 29th August, 1887. J. A. HOWARD, $2.26. Ordinary. Leave to Sell Land. GEORGIA— Babtow County : To all whom it may concern ; Mrs. Marie T. Giliam, executrix of estate of William A. Gillain, deceased, lias, in due form, applied to the under signed for leave to sell a part of the lands belong ing to the estate of said deceased, and said ap plication will be heard on the first Monday in October next. This 29th August, 1887. $2.26 J. A. HOWARD, Ordinary. Leave to Sell Land. GEORGIA— Babtow County : To all whom it may concern : Joel T. Con yers, administrator of Thomas K. Sproull, de ceased, has applied to the undersigned for leave to sell the lands belonging to the estate of said deceased, and said application will be heard on the first Monday in Oetober next. This 29th August, 1887. J- A. HOWARD, $2.50. Ordinary. Careful Drivers Fetters of Guardianship. GEORGIA —Babtow County : To all whom it may concern : Jj. P. Gaines, having in due form applied to the undersigned for the guardianship of the persons and property of Marv Benson and Mattie Benson, minor chil dren of John H. Benson, late of said county, de ceased, notice is hereby given that his applica tion will be heard at my office on the first Mon day in October next. Given under my hand and official signature this 2!ith August, 1887. S2.(U J. A. HOWARD, Ordinary. GEORGIA — Bartow County ; To all whom it may concern: Whereas John, F. Sproull, executor of Martha Thurmond, de ceased, represents to the Court in his petition, July filed and entered on record, that he has ful ly administered said estate. This is therefore to cite all persons concerned to show cause, if any they can, why said executor should not be dis charged from liis executorship and receive letters of dismission on the First Monday in October 1887. This sth July, 1887. J, A. Howard, Ordinary. Notice to Debtors and Creditors. GEORGIA — Bartow County. Notice is hereby given to all persons having demands against \V. A. Gillum, late of said 1 ounty, deceased, to present them to me properly made out within the time prescribed by law, so as to show their character and amount. And all persons indebted to said deceased are hereby re quired to make immediate payment to me. This Ist August, 1887. MARIE T. GII.LAM, au4-4t f2 40 Executrix of W. A. Giilam, dec’d. Libel for Divorce. Jennie Brant 1 I.ibel for divorce in Bartow vs. | Superior Court, July Term, Harris Brant / 1887. It appearing to the court by a return of the sheriff in the above stated case, that the defend ant does not reside in said county; and it further appearing that tie does not reside In the State; it is, t hereford, ordered by the court, that service be perfected on tlie defendant by tiie publication of this order once a month for four months, be fore tee next term of this court, in tlie Coubant- AmKitiOAN, a newspaper published in Bartow Cos., Georgia,. Shelby Attaway, plaintiff's attorney. Granted August Ist, 1887. J. C. FAIN, J. S. C. C. C. A true extract from the minutes of Bartow Superior Court. F. M. Durham, Clerk. ESTABLISHED —BY— R, H. Jones —IN— -1853. GEORGIA— Bartow County. Whereas, John W. Stubbs, administrator of Lemuel Dillard, deceased, represents to the Court in his petition, duly filed and entered on record, that he has have fully administered said Lemuel Dillard’s estate. This is therefore to cite all per sons concerned, kindred and creditors, to show cause, if any they can, why said administrator should not be discharged from his administra tion, and receive letters of dismission on the first Monday in December, 1887. seps-3m J. A. HOWARD, Ordinary. GEORGIA — Bartow County. Wh. teas. E. E Field, administn tor of E M. Fihld, deceased, represents i the Court in his petition, duly tiled and enterec in r. coni, that he has lully a 1 min stored said E M. Field’s e-t ite. This is therefore to cite all persons concerned, kinured anil creditors, to show c u?e, if any they ran, whv s lid miminisir tor should not be dis charged from tiis administration and receive Let tar- of Dismission on ilie First Monday 111 De eemb r, 1887. This Sept. 6'ii, 1887. sepß-3m. J. A. HOWARD. Ordinary. GEORGIA—Bartow County. To all whom it may concern: The commis sioners appointed to set apart a twelve months support to Marie T. Giilam, widow of \V. A. Gll lam, deceased, and her five minor children having made their report, and the same is now on tile in my oft ce. All persons are hereby notified that if no good cause be shown to the contrary, same will be allowed and made the judgment of the Court on the first Monday in October, 1887. This 11th August, 'B7. J. A. HOWARD, Ordinary. We are making extra reductions ou everything iu our line, especially ou Clocks and Musical Instruments. Turner & Baker. NOTICE YOUR DATE. Our county subscribers have the time to which hey hare paid up to printed opposite their ad dress We do this for their convenience, so they can tell when their subscription expires. We are next to the Postoffice, anil when in town and is convenient it is requested that they drop in and settle their subscriptions. Remember our terms are cash in advance. WORTH REPRINTING. A Aped for Are to the Sextant of the Old Erick Meetiuouae. BY A GABPKR. Tho following lines, which originally ap peared in the Detroit Trilmt*, were published over thirty years ago, but the philosophy they contain is just as gissl and applicable now as then. While the writer was seemingly rather a poor speller, he was evidently in earnest and iKissc-ssed a keen wit: O sextant of the meetinouse, which sweeps And dusts, or is supposed too! and makes tiers. And iites the gas and sumtiines leaves a screw in which ease it smells orful —worse thin lamp le; And w rings the Bel and toles it when men dyes to the grief of survivin pardners, and sweeps pathos; And for the servasos g ts sl<Dper annum, AVich thorn that thiuks deer, lei era try it; Gettiu up beioarstar-lite in aR we Alters and Kindlin tires when the wether is as cold As zero, and like as not greeu wood for kin dlers: I wouldn't be hired to do it for no some— But o sextant! there are 1 kermoddity Wich's more than gold, wieh doanccost nothin. Worth more than anything exsep the Solo of Man i mean newer Are. sextant, i mean pewer Are! O it is plenty out o dores, so plenty it doant no What ou airth to dew with itself, but fiys about Seaterin leaves and bloin men’s hatts; in short, jest “fre as are" out dores. But o sextant, in our church its scarce as piety. scarce as bank bills won agints beg for mischuns, Wich some say purty often (taint nothin to me, Wat I give aint nothin to nobody) but o sex tant u shot 50J mens wimtnen and children, Speslially the latter, up in a tite place. Some has bad breths, none uiut 2 swete. Some is fevery, some is scrofllus, some has bad teeth, And some ha.nt none, and some aint over clean; But every 1 on om breetlies in & out and out and in. Say 50 times a mi nit, or 1 million and a half breths an hour, Now how long will a church ful of are last at that rate, I ask you, say 15 niinits, and then wats to be did? Why then they must brethe it all over ag n. And then agin, and so ou, till each has took it i down, At least 10 times, and !et It up agin, and wats ) more The same iiulividible don't have the privilege of brethe n his own are, and no one's else; Each one mus take whatever comes to him. O sextant, doant you know our lungs is bellusses, To bio the tier of life, and keep it from goin out; aud how cau bellussos bio without wind. And aint wind nret i put It to your conscens. Are is the same to us as m lk to bab es. Or water is to fish, or pendlums to clox— Or roots & airbs unto an injuu Doctor, Or little pils unto an omepath. Or boys to gurls. Are is for us to breethe. Wat signities who preoches if i cant breothe? Wats Pol? Wats Follus? to sin tiers who are ded? Ded for want of breth? why sextant, when we die Its onlv coz we cant brethe no more—that’s all. And now, O sextant, let me beg of you ~ let a little are into our church. (Fewer are is sertin proper for the pews) And do it weak days and Sundays tew— It aint much trouble—only make a hole And the are will cum in of itself; (It luvs to cum in whare it can git warm;) And o how it will rouse the people up And sperrit up the {Teacher, and stop garpa, And yawns and tiggits as eitectooal As wind ou the dry' Boans the Profit tolls of. FACE TO FACE. A Fact Related in Seven- Well Told Fablea. Bt It. E. FRANCILLON, Author or *‘A Great Heiress,” “Quit* At Last," “ A Heal Queen,” “ Raul s Dive,” etc., etc. FABLE THE SEVENTH,— Continued. Assuredly lie had a right (o triumph, if ever a man had in this world. Plain, almost old, awkward, and almost with out a single grace, ignorant (till quite of late) of women, and starting tco late, he had, in no very long time, distanced a rival who had every advantage in which he was lacking, and in such wise that there was no fear of future trouble, lie was no murderer, and yet near eno lgh to satisfy his conscience by being none. As for the rest, everything is fair in love, war and money. As to the lirst, the only unfair thing was that it should have cost him so much to win. Patience, he hr.d noticed, did not eat much, aud no doubt he would be able to make her see the advantages of water gruol as a diet before long. Nor, so he noticed, did she care much about new clothes; she would really be a model wife, even if he had gone out to choose one otherwise than by liking. But still it would take a good long t ine to save up, in dressmakers’ and butchers’ bills, his estimated losses by neglecting his own affairs for a neighbor's, and by two journeys from home. And then there would be the foes to the clerk anil parson to set against the absence of a wedding-breakfast and all the common tomfoolery; and then he supposed he would have to keep Tom Blackthorn in grog aud tobacco for the rest of his days. “But I'll cut the old fool dowu to one pipe and one tumbler, and one can get brandy cheap at Hunches ter, if one goes the right way. Or shall 1 let him have as much as he wants, so that he’ll want no more the sooner? I'll figure it out as soon as I get home.” Under all tlic.s ; circumstances, there fore, Enoch Marrish had intentionally postponed buying the ring until the very latest possible moment; for, since he could hardly give less than a guinea, three weeks’ interest on twen ty-one shillings at live per cent is near ly three farthings; that is to sttv, three times as much as a man who means to die rich ever allows himself to lose without cause. His last journey had cost him a guinea; and now there was another to go. “What tomfoolery it all is, to be sure!” grumbled he, as he walked towards Huuehester. “As if a woman couldn't be just as much a wife without a ring on her finger—or as if, anyhow, a bit of brass wire wouldn’t do as we’.l.” Thus musing, in as near approach to happiness as his natal stars allowed, he plodded on, with his eyes just in ad vance of his toes, when he was caught by something sparkling just under the hedgerow. Nine people out of eleven would not have seen the gleam; and the tenth would have passed it by. But between the rneta’s and Enoch Marrish was a stale of perfect sympathy. Even old brass has its uses—it does to add to a score of scraps, and may serve to make up a pound. It was really gelling needful to pick up everything; his pockets were beginning to bulge with ends of string, and his coat to bristle with pins. So he stooped for the piece of glitter; and lo —a plain gold ring! “Now, that is mighty queer!” ex claimed he, glancing round, as pickers do who mean to be keepers. And so it was; for people in that parish were not likely to go about ring-dropping. “And gold it is—eighteen carat, I shou’d say. It’s mighty queer I should be going to speud a guinea on the very thing, and come across it lying for nothing, under my very nose. That looks like luck, somehow; and if it don't lit Faience it can be made to: though I think it w.ll. It strikes me if I don’t save the price of that last journey I shall be a fool. And save boot-wear, too, and * time. It wants rubbing up a bit, that’s all; and that’s easy done. Lucky nobody came this way before me—it might have srot stolen.’* 8 It is hardly too much to say that the winning of Patience Blackthorn had given him no greater happiness than the finding of a ring to many her with for nothing. It appealed to his very in most soul, to which little else could ex* ( tcnd; and it was the best of omens be* •ides. Only to Fortune’s choicest f%* vontes do such chances as these ever occur. He looked at the ring all oyer once more, then put it into his waist coat pocket, and went back whistling, in the lightness of his heart, some thing meant to be a tuntx ii. It is all very well to plan a quiet wed ding; but though it is quite as possible to be as stingy in country as in town, it is not so easy to insure quietness there by. Everybody knew Enoch Marrish; everybody knew Patience Blackthorn; and, above all, everybody knew old Tom. It was not a romantic match, considering the bridegroom's looks and age; but against its reasonableness no body could say a word. “Old Enoch’s money-bags is just the manure for Leys Croft,” was the universal comment; and they thought that Patience Black thorn nad done a decideJly clever thing. And so, if marrying for money is as clever as the world pretends not to think it, she had done a clever thing. It is true she would rather have starved had she been all alone, and considered herself a widow for the re-t of her days. As things were, she would not make any pretenses to hers If or dignify what she wtts doing with the name of duty. However, it was hard to go through the ordeal of the village stares. When, dressed as plainly as she dared, and taking her father’s arm (he had taken hers along the meadow-path) she reached the corpse-gate of the church yard, she found quite a crowd to scrape and oourt 3y in ner honor. It was quite as if none of them had ever refused to do a day’s work for them at a pinch— not that she remembered anything of that kind then, unless it were as anoth er incentive tor carrying her task through. What she eould not forget was tnat this was the very church where she was to have become the wife of Ste phen Harlow, who had tied fr m Ins wedding 1 ke a coward, to die in Spain like a decently brave man, Howe er, she had been schooling herself against memory ever since she had risen that morning. There was nothing but the village stares for which she was unpre pared; and they were not the hardest things she had to bear. Never did bride come to the altar with a fuller resolve to keep all the vows she was about to make, save only the 6hief of them. She did honor Enoch Marrish, with all his faults. The very fact that he, being what he was, had never scrupled to give his time, his Tabor, his money, for friendship’s sake, showed what a friend he knew how to be. The very fact that, being what he was, he was about to marry a penniless girl, showed that gold was not his ruling passion, after all. And she would obey him, not only with a good will, but with an eager desire; his life should be hers, and to sweeten it a little for him ought not to be hard. As to the love—well, she had warned him honestly, and he should not miss the want of more than needs mint be. Then, as the broken old man leaned more and more heavily upon her through the fields, now chatting gayly and now falling iuto a reverie, she grad ually rose into than exalted mood wherein sacrifice becomes always a joy and self sinks lower and lower beneath the rising wings till it becomes unseen. He had nothing left but her —she, nothing left but him. Could she fail him at his need? Why, if this were a marriage of hate instead of a marriage of duty, still it must be made. And then, after to-day, she would think of Stephen—save as one who had been dear to her and was dead —never again. In a very different spirit did the bridegroom prepare for his wedding morning. He was really in love; though it is but fair to suspect that love alone would not have been enough to make Enoch Marrish marry a girl without a penny. Where his further interest might lie. he alone eould tell; but then he was his own sole confidant, and was not likely to take another at his time of day. But, whatever it was, a first passion had given it a zest, and victory over a rival a more intense llavor still. He dressed himself in the suit of clothes he had had made at Hunchester five and-twenty years ago to attend the funeral of an uncle who had made a will; and, as he had never put them on since, they' were as good as new, and their being somewhat out of fashion was no matter at all. It was true the moth had attackel them, but tlie mis chief had not gone fatally far. Then, feeling himself so tine, he could not help being the least bt nervous, and added to his water-giuel as much brandy as might fill an acorn-cup, to make it go down. He went round the house to see that all was ready for the new mistress’ home-coming, armed with a duster and a broom. Some of his thoughts are best not set down. But business was never far away from the deepest of them. “No,” said he to himself, half aloud, according to the way of men who live too much alone, “no; that miserable old idiot, Tom Blackthorn, can’t last long now. He’ll drink himself to death in no time, when Bat ence isn’t at his elbow; and ho shan’t cost much—an old fool like that must put up with what lean afford. The only thing to look after is that he don’t lose the few wits he’s got left be fore he makes his will—it’ll be rather awkward if he dies without that, and the young fool turns up again. Not that Leys Croft’s worth having—it’ll co-t more to get in order now than would pay me back in twenty years. Still, land’s land, and would sell. And Patience—bless my soul; eleven o’clock! I mustn’t keep the bride waiting; that would never do.” Nor did he; for he was in the church, and in full gossip with the sexton, a good twenty minutes before t e bride arrived. By and by a few other per sons strolled in to see the show, instead of waiting in the churchyard; for, to many minds, the bridegroom was much more interesting than the bride. He, no more than Patience, liked the ordeal of stares, as if he were an object at a waxwork or a wild-beast show, if it were only that stares were meant to lie paid for by a joyful bridegroom on his wedding-day. However, he would dis appoint them there —why, because one man was married, should other men want to drink beer? He began to wish he had settled to be married at Hun- Chester instead of here. And he felt certain, too, thaP tho comments being whispered about him were not compli ments. But iu this he was wrong. For, thanks to his mouey, there was scarce a f man there who would not have stood in his boots, or woman who would not gladly have stood in those of his wife to be. Then came the parson—not the rec tor, who lived at Oxford, and edited Greek plays, and held six other livings, of which he had once or twice visited one or two—but a very young and very nervous lad from Hunchester, whom nobody knew, and who knew nobody at Mcrlham. It was a sort of relief to Pa tience to see a stranger behind the altar rails. She walked up the aisle, pale, indeed, but more composed than it is held fitting for a bride to be. Bride groom. and even person, were the more nervous of the three. If the foreign curate had been more used to his work he must have seen at once that wliat he was going to celebrate was no true marriage at all. As for old Tom Blackthorn, lie looked round him proudly, as if he were mas ter of all, and was already feeling in his pockets, for half-crowns to give to the parish at large. Thev were not there at present, but no doubt, a-i soon as Patience became Mrs. Marrish, thej would come. “Dearly beloved, w* are gathered to gether here—” Patience Blackthorn would soon be Fatieoce Marrish cow; for better for -worse, for richer for poorer—for richer and lor worse, for choice out of the two pair of chances. Nobody answered to the charge that any iinjsd meat should be confessed at that eleventh, or, rather, twelfth hour. Enoch Marrish. so that everything shouid go smoothly, and that the clerk should have no claim to an extra shilling on the score of looking after him without occasion, got ready the magic ring from 1 : - waistcoat pocket while the parson was asking him whether, forsaking ail other. ho would keep with Patience Blackthorn as long as they- both should live. But, if he wished to dispense with the clerk’s olli ees, he should nave read up the c lerk’s duties; and, seeing the bride s finger* move-for she could not keep them still —he, naturally- enough for a man without practice, took this to be the moment for the ring. “I will!” said he, and reached out his hand for hers. But plain gold rings, from their shape, material and size, are slipjxiry things in themselves, though they hold people so t ghtly. Not for the first fcime in the history’ of marriage the ring, as if inspired with an “I will” of its own, jumped out of his anxious fin gers and danced merrily over the Hour. Perhaps a ring bought and paid for would have be iaved bet!er. But a ring one picks up by’ the wayside may be ex pected to have a grain or two of vaga bond in its gold. Every’ gem, ewel and piece of metal work, sueh as a ring, or a horseshoe, or so forth, and moree pecially every ring, has its occult spirit, which may be angel or may be demon. So muc i every student knows; though how he knows it would take too long to tell. It must, however, have been neither angel nor devil, but an imp of mi chief, that inspired this particular ring to plague ami bailie its ovVner for the time being. The parson, not being used fo such in terruptions, stopped short at: “Patience, wilt thou have this man—” And the clerk made a dash with his foot at the dancing imp, which, how ever, eluded him, and went roll ng on. “Let’n go,” said the blacksmith's wife. “I’ve seed that trick afor *. Here, Master Marrish; 1 11 lend y e mine. ’Tis a bit biggish; but, Lord, I’ve known ’em properly married with a brass cur tain-ring be:ore now.” It seemed the best thing to he done. Had not Enoch himself wished for bra s instead of gold? He was, indeed, for tune’s favorite; his slightest wish seemed to fu till itse f now. And. of course, the gold thing would be found hereafter, withs arching. Not oven a church-mouse can eat gold, for all it* poverty. “And forsaking all other, keep thee only unto him —” “By jingo,” cried out a voice from a dark pew, with too much impulse in it to respect times and places, “that poor devil of a sergeant couldn’t have kicked the bucket after all! Why—it’s Am ring!” The nervous curate dropped his book with a bang. The clerk was petrified where he stood; Enoch boiled with rage at this scandalous interruption. Even Patience started, though she had schooled herself against any r surprise, and, in spite of herself, turned round. The voice she would have known, if it had not been for her eyes. For what she saw was not any possible owner of the voice from the dark pew. It was in another shadow that she saw a form dressed in ragged n gimeutals; and be fore their wearer could avoid her glance, and shrink farther back into the shade— Patience the bride, and Stephen the corpse, were face to face once more. He had not been able to return to Spain without seeing her once more, though it was only to watch her becom ing the wife of a villain and a traitor. So for a whole moment they stood, none heeding them i’ll the greater scandal. He read in her face such sudd >n de spair, she in his such a heartbreak, that they cou'd hardly bear to see. Ti e church vanished from their sight; they were face to face, alone. pro UK CONTINUED.] A LOST MINE. The Romance Which h Religiously Be lieved ia Napa County, Cal. Juan Romero, an Indian upward of uxty years of age, now living in the upper part of this valley, is a member of one of the many tribes of aborigines that in his boyhood days called this valley their home. At that date many of the Indians were in the service of and were well cared for by the Spanish padres. Romero, then a young boy, with the older members of his tribe, ac cording to his story, which he to-day stoutly asserts to be true, says a gold mine had been found and opened under the direction of the pr'ests, iu the range of hills bordering the valley on the east, and situated, as uear as lie can recol lect, about eight or ten miles north and east of the site of Napa City. He is of the opinion that it is not far from Soda Springs canyon, or between that point and the tall peak to the north. A tun nel ha I been run into the mountain side for some distance and good ore fouud in reasonable quautity. The mine was worked in a crude way, the manag us having few of the conveniences used by the miner of the present day, yet they prolited by their observations in Old Spain, where now exist the mines that were old when the Spaniards built the first mission in this State. It was a ! x>ut the year 1820 that the Mexican author ities, becoming aware that the m'ssio is in California had acquired a vast amount of property, decided to tax each and arf of L em. No levies had been made upon them up to that time. Not satisfied with this slow process of ac quiring the wealth they so much covet ed, they afterwards contiseatod the mis sion property bv the wholesale. This procedure, verified by history, accounts in great part for the rapid deterioration of the California missions after 1820-25. While the Indians were toiling iu tho gold mines in our Eastern h llsides, news came that the Mexicans were on their way to the valley to make repris als. Romero was then live or six years of age, a chore boy of the mines. He says that upon receipt of the news work was immediately stopped, the mouth of the drift blocked up and every indica tion of the existence of a mine left de stroyed, in order that the M x'eans should never find the source of the cov e!od treasures. The seoret of tl e exact locat on of the mines has been yvell kept. The ludian minors, frightened away by the Mexicans, sought for other localities. They have long s nee | assed away to their happy hunting places. Romero has lived in* the valley all the intervening years, much of his life hav ing been spent iu tho seivice of the whites, who long ago came into tl.o possession of the lands and homes of his forefathers. In our eastern hillsides undiscovered mineral wealth awaits the fortunate prospector. Coal has been found in several place-, silver lu re and there, and traces of gold in the beds of brooks that head in the mountains. What the Indian atlirms may yet prove to be a fact; then additional glory will attach to the far-spread fame of Nupa Valley. —Napa (t \il.) Register. —The magicians of Constantinople, whose studios can be seen iu mai.y a street, have been found of the gr atest benefit to that city. 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