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SOWING.
tko-u thy erod of com and wait «wWh*.
Sec the sr.ow tailing and the ice epray gleaan
Above its hiding place. Hear the wind scr< am
And the wild tea^wet sweep o’er mile ar.d mile
sullen landscape. Watch the minckmd*
Etapt) *bov* it, and the fitful l.eain
Of sunlight thwart the field until a warn
tender green fJuxkt up to greet thy simle.
And. lo! Hod’s roiraelc is wrought once HHW
Of life from death—from low. most
gain; golden
cornfield glittera with its store
On the same land where late the storm and
Heat on the hare, brown earth. »h/ sowing
Thine hut to wait .and pray lest faith
wane!
Bow thou thy seed of love, O heart, and wait!
Though it tie hidden, though thy doubt*
fears
Whisper to thee ’ti* lost and thy sad tear*
Fall on the icebound soil of hitter fate.
Surely the aced will live; spring sets tne gate
Of life wide open. Ste, though hid for years.
Love seeks the light of love! Its tender
gladden thy sad eye* at last, though laic.
E’en hut the blade perchance and not the b.oom
Ofttimes Hod seeth that hive's flower rare
Hath no perfection this side of the tomb.
Hut needetii for its growth the purer air
his sweet paradise; after earth's gloom
Love hath it* blossoming, not here, hut there!
—Kate Mcllersh In Chambers’ Journal.
A STORY OF
TWO CIPHERS
When the Old Man Wrote HI*
Check He Oot Mixed With
Hi* Figure*.
Ey W. It. ROSE.
Obed Jarrett was a hard man. j I(?
rather gloried in his hardness. A hard
man was a man who couldn’t be fool
ed. Obed Jarrett never was fooled.
Iu his private opinion the world was
made up of a few honest men and a
great many fools and knaves. ■’ in
honest man was one who paid his way
and neither asked nor gave favors.
Fools might call him hard, and Knaves
migat suarJ because he wasn’t gullible.
Rut what eared Obed Jarrett?
The honest man sat at his desk that
June afternoon with his pen loosely
dangling In his lingers and ids cheek
book open before him. He was) in no
burry. To give away money was so
new a sensation that lie felt justified
in prolonging it—not but that he could
amply afford to give the sum he had
fixed upon: it was the principle of the
thing that held him irresolute.
He was worth close to $80,000. There
was a memorandum slip in the upper
right hand drawer that showed lids
total in round figures. lie could have
told the amount wijldn a dollar or two.
It was a gilt edged property—stocks,
mortgages, cash and a little real es¬
tate.
“If I was sold out tomorrow,” said
Obed, smiling grimly, “it would bring
every penny that I’ve totaled it at.”
lie had won tills comfortable prop
erty by shrewdness rather than hard
work. For more than L’0 years he had
bought mortgages and loaned money
and snapped up uneonsiderod finan¬
cial trifles In that same old office. He
slept in the rooms above it. and some
times for days together he didn’t leave
the building. There had been few
episodes to enliven the dullness of this
money grubbing life, but tomorrow
one of them was to take place. To¬
morrow his son, his only child, was to
be married.
Instinctively his eyes turned to the
portrait above bis desk—the portrait
of a brown haired young woman, with
smiling eyes and slightly parted lips,
As he looked upon the gentle face he
felt a little tightening about the heart.
Dead four and twenty years. Their
son was four and twenty, and he mar
ried tomorrow. Their son. Had he
tlone his duty by their sou? lie
thought so. lie had certainly given
him a good schooling. The hoy had
gone through college with credit to
himself and his father and had helped
to pay his way too. Oned had wanted
him to study law. but he had a love
for chemistry aud. in company with a
fellow student, had set up an ofilee of
his own. They started in as consult
ing chemists aud assayers and were—
from all Obed could learn—building up
a fairly remunerative business, lie
was certainly a good boy, though per
haps a little lacking in that respect
for his father which begets confidence,
It seemed but a day or two ago that
lie had come to him and said:
“Father, l am going to marry.”
It was like a blow to Obed.
“Well, well.” he presently said in his
testy way. “since it's all settled, why
do you come to me?”
“Because I think you should know
about it," said Arthur stoutly.
"Y~ou didn't think to consult me be
fore you took this step.” sain the old
man grimly.
“You couldn’t expect that, father,"
said the son. “I—I am no longer a
boy. Besides! you can’t help but ap¬
prove of her. tshe’s the dearest girl.
Her name is Alma Truman, and her fa¬
ther is chief accountant with Fanelier
A Co. She’s the eldest of six. and
they’re awfully broken up at the idea
of her going. That’s the kind of girl
to marry, father—the kind that is miss
ed at home. But you must see her.”
“How do you expect to support her?”
Inquired Obed dryly.
“With these two hands and the ex¬
cellent education you have given me,”
replied Arthur.
The boy had taken him around to
the Trumans’ house cine evening but
*
.
then* were so many Trumans, and It
•was only a short call, and he had
scarcely caught a glimpse of the girl.
And -now the hoy was going to marry
and leave him. he felt, forever.
Their 1>oy! Had he always remem-t
brrod that Arthur was their boy?
Would things have been different If
she luid lived? Would he himself have
the dry. old. money making
machine he was? God only knew.
How happy they had been that brief
year. How ambitious lie was for her
How he 'toiled and planned.
And he reinembered how she would
come to him and lay her soft, cool
j^nnis on his and draw the pen away
and turn him round in his chair and
him to rest, Was she srnil
lag down on him now as she had smil¬
ed down upon him then and as she al¬
most seemed to smile upon him from
the lifeless canvas?
Four aud twenty years, and here he
t>at, an old man. preparing a wedding
gift for their son who was to lie mar¬
ried tomorrow. A gilt for their sou!
Yes, yes. It was a custom—foolish per¬
haps. He would give him :a check for
$100. It was a tidy sum and pretty
nearly as much cash as the boj’’s fa¬
ther had when he married. A hundred
dollars! Surely a liberal gift for—for
their boy. Their boy!
He bent forward suddenly and dip¬
ped his pen In the ink. It was strange
how dim the lines on the cheek seem
ea. Ile wrote the date. Four and
twenty years ago. Why. the room
seemed full of her! Was she leaning
over his shoulder again? lie slowly
made the figure “1” and the two ci
pners. Their boy! Was that ttie toucii
of her soft, cool hands ou his? Was—
was site guitliiig Ins pen? The lines
were dim indeed ns he slowly wrote.
q-], ( , n i 1( . paused and stared down at
[q s WO rk aud carefully added his sig
nature.
lie dropped back iu his chair and
brushed his hand across his eyes aud
moment was very still. When he
looked up again at the portrait, he
smiled. Then he briskly tore out the
check, pushed back the book, shut
down the desk and. seizing his hat.
was off.
Ten minutes later he confronted tin*
serious faced teller of the Sixth Na
tional aud thrust the cheek at him
across his plate glass shelf.
“Certify that, please," he said in liis
crisp way.
The teller picked up the slip of pa
per in Ids preoccupied manner and
glanced tit it. Then his face suddenly
beamed.
“Why, that’s fine!" he cried and cer¬
tified it iu a hurry.
Obed said nothing.
It was a quiet little home wedding.
Only the relatives were present, but
there was sr.cli a lot of them on the
Truman side. It was a nice wedding
if it was quiet. The house was beau
tided with flowers and vines and rib
lions under the supervision of the sis
ter who was in the school of art, anil
everybody looked quite happy, ineluil
ing flu* younger Trumans, who were
bearing up bravely,
Arthur took his father with him to
the house and then left him in the hall
in charge of an usher.
“There is usually. I think." said
Obed to tin* usher, “a place set aside
for the gifts to the—the happy pair.
Am I right?”
“You are.” said the smiling usher.
“This way." And lie led him up stairs
to the little room where the modest
gifts were displayed. Fortunately for
Obed there was nobody in the apart
ment at the moment, and when the
usher's back was turned lie slipped the
check from his pocket aud laid it un
dor tin* edge of a plaque on the table.
Then lie softly stole down stairs,
After the ceremony he came slowly
forward, following the others wiio had
offered their congratulations, aud took
his sou's hand and pressed it warmly,
Then he turned to his new daughter,
surprised at a look that passed be
tween the happy pair and wondering
what it meant,
“Father Jarrett,” said Alma as she
raised her face and the old man quite
without forethought stooped and kiss
ed her; “Father Jarrett, you know
that nobody can refuse a bride’s re
quest. And Arthur and 1 want you to
promise to come and live with us just
as soon as we are settled in our lint.”
“No. no!" said the astonished Obed.
“I—I should be in your way.”
“That’s no answer.” said Alma. “Say
at least that you will come and try it.”
The old man hesitated. She certain
ly was a dear girl.
“I will promise to try ii.” he smil¬
ingly said, and somehow his heart felt
lighter than it had for many years,
“And to think.” he muttered to him¬
self as he stepped back, “that she in¬
vited me without knowing a blessed
tb.ug about that'check!”
A few moments later his son called
to him.
“Father.” he said, “come up with 11 s
and look at the presents. It’s a good
time. Everybody is busy talking, ami
Alma wants you to see how uiee aud
kind her friends have been.”
So they went up to the little room.
and there Alma began her rapid his
tory of the gifts and their donors.,
Suddenly they were interrupted by a
cry from Arthur. He had discovered
the cheek.
“What’s this!” lie stammered. “Par
to the order £f Arthur Jarrett $10,000?
C- urch’s
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A ■A
IS THE PLACE
Where you can Find Everything; you
Want, and at Prices that cannot
be Equaled by Others.
Below wc Quote a Few Prices,
And it will Pay yon to take Advan¬
tage of them While they are Going.
Georgia Cane Syrup, 20c per gallon.
Apple Vinegar, 20 cents per gallon.
Brooms, 15, 20 and 25 cents each.
Arbuckie’s Coffee, II cents a package.
Granulated Sugar, 17 pounds for $1.00.
Good Green Coffee, 12 pounds for $1.00.
Best grits, 2c a lb. Kerosene oil, 16c a gallon.
Rail rod Mills and “Fair Play” Snuff, 45c a pound.
A good Chewing Tobaceo, 7 cents a plug.
Heinz’s Pickling Vinegar, 30 cents a gallon.
HSS
A full line of Shoes in the latest styles and at prices to suit the hard times.
I am closing out my Siraw and Crash Hats below cost. Come and get you one be¬
fore they are gone, Coats Cotton, all sizes.
A Full stock of Dress Goods, from iOc to $f a Yard.
C. C. ftuficirs Cash Store,
E-A.sTivnjAnsr g-eoi^gia.
Why, father!”
Somehow the hoy’s note of profound
surprise Jarred a little on the father’s
heart.
“Oh. oh! Now we can have a home
of our own!” cried the delighted girl,
who was looking over Arthur's shoul
der. “But you know. Father Jarrett,
that you would have been just as wel
corue at the fiat.”
“Yes, yes. I know." he answered.
Then he added a little brokenly: “1
want to be perfectly honest about this
money. One hundred dollars is from
me and the rest from Arthur’s moth
er.”
They looked at him wonderingly, and
ho turned suddenly away.
When he looked around, he said with
his grim old smile: “Slip it in your
pocket, my hoy. The money will be
there when you get back.”
But after Alma and Artdiur had
started on their two weeks’ wedding
journey anil the old man was walking
back to his lonely rooms lie suddenly
straightened i:p and said to himself
half aloud:
“It will only be two weeks.”—Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
TO THE DEAF.—A rich lady.cured
of her Deafness and Noises in tlie
Head by Dr. Nicholson's Artificial Ear
Drums, gave $10,000 to his Institute, so !
that deaf people, unable to procure the
Ear Drums, may have . them - Dee. Ad- ,
11(> G , 9e Institute, <b0
Eigtuli Avenue, Aeu ioik.
:
Bicycles Civ ex Away: I am !
offering one new high grade bicy¬ I
cle in every county in Georgia for
:l little pleasant work. Xo one I
has taken up the work in Dodge
countv nor m the adjoining coun
ties. Auv hoy or girl, lady or
geutleman, can easily do the work,
Write at once. J. E £uiith, Mou
ticelio, Fin.
Citation.
OF GEORGIA Dodge County.
To all whom it may concern, Axom :
Phillips, Administrator of Nancy E. !
has in due form applied j
to the undersigned for leave to sell the i
land belonging to the estate of said
and said application will be
heard on the first Monday in October
next. This-4th day of September 1899.
Jim, w, Bohannon, Ordinary, j
----------- 4 ----
Sheriff’s Sale for October.
County.
Will be sold before the court house
in the town of Eastman, Ga., on
1st Tuesday in October 1899, within I
legal hours of sale, to the highest |
... t for cash - the .. e following described
tj-w if: Lot ot laud number j
(Mi) in the twentieth iLOtli)
of Dodge county, Ga. contain
u 1 or ’’ e ' ut ‘
on ami wt 1 he sold , as the property of ,
\\. I Holder to satisfy .wo county
li fas issued from the county court!
Dodge county, Ga., in favor of Mrs. i
Victoria MoAithur. Sept. 7. 1899.
J. C. Rogers, Sheriff L>. C.
Farm to Rent
Dodge County. To whom
may concern : On the first Tuesday
October next, at 10 o'clock a. in..be
the court house uoor in the town
Eastman, Ga.. I will rent for the
year 1900, for fanning purposes to the
highest bidder the home place of the
late Judge John J. Rozar, about, one
mjl<l ( .. iSt of rhet own of Eastman,
Renter to g}ve i, is note for the rent
with good security to he approved by
me payable on or before the 1st day of
September 1900. A good six-room
house, out houses and three
tenant houses on farm.
Florence T. Rogers, Guardian for Jim
mie Rozar, minor.
Every indication points to a
shortage in this year’s
crop.
Send us your orders for Job
Work cf all kinds.
Citation.
OF GEORGIA—Dodge County
To all whom it may concern, G. M.
having applied for guardianship
the person and property of Luther
Rogers,John James Rogers and C. Wil
Rogers minor children of John J.
late of said county, deceased,
is given that said application o’clock
will be heard at my office at 10
in., on the first Monday in October
next. This 5tli day of September 18 >9.
J no. W. Bohannon.
Ordinary and ex-olticio clerk, G. O.
Citation.
OF GEORGIA—Dodge
II. G. Neuman administrator upon
, fR Newman late of
-
tq,’. ,w e ased £ havin- iPod his
. ( j isuhar e> This i-to cite
concerned to show cause
regular ? term of the court of
i(1 ( . <mnt to he h()](1 on the
A December 1899. This 3th
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‘ *
* Ordinary. Oruinarv.
Juo. !\ .Bohannon,
Tax Levy for 1899.
Court of Ordinary, Dodge
Georgia, sitting for County pmt
Eastman, Ga., Augnst 28th. lsyy •
It being necessary for public use. >
is hereby ordered by said Conit 1 '- l '
tax ot <i.39 mills on each dollai o .a
aide property in said county . accoiu
to the '1 ax Digest ot said county <*•
Ihc year 1899 be and the same is ieu o
levied for County purposes for the fi~
cal year 1899, as follows;
For court and jury fund. 1.3 in $
“ j;»‘i fund •75
“ Pauper fund I.
•• Budge
*‘ Public Building fund 2364 . 07 . 3
“ Coroner fund
“ incidental fund * -45-°7- s
Tnf.lt - - * * .< 1 e. 07 n.Q 5 . 3
Total for all purposses, 6.39 mills.
Given under my hand and official
nature, this fistb dav of August.
Jxo. W. Bohansox.
Ordinary. D. C.
State Levy for ls99is 5.36 tnilE.