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WON BY FRAUD.
All the nineteen years of lier ltfe—
ever since she was an infant in fact—
Annette IfciymoTTd had felt a strange
antipathy lf<>r Jfr.Mjoorjc Wortley, her
father's partner in business.
There existed no tangible reason for
this feeling, and Annitte bait tried very
hard to overcome it, §ut without *uc
cess.
• y w*s a tiandsoene man,
wirtl educated, and
m favorite with the Judies.
11* as forty years of age now, and
owned the finest house, to say nothing
ifrj®'klo<*|d.*w>rscs > the elegant car
jdagus. aptl the rare cullectiou of paint
ings-
X, va previous to the time of which
I write, Annette Raymond’s father had
died, and her brother Edward had been
ntcehttji in{£ ijis glace as partner with
fi^^mTrtlPr.^
They employed a great mnny-X'lerks.
Among them, and trusted quite as
much nfi a*n>yersnn, was Lester Ar
nold, lirtrotlted lover.,
Arnold bnt his’faipily had
been c*ie of the Lest in the city, find
the voj*o£ man's iudividual taients-aud
acquirements were suffieent to make
him acceptable to a girl of Annette*
strong common sense.
-^ e > ved him well enough to be will
ing to risk The life of a poor man's
wife, and he loved her well enough to
be willing to work to make ! i-n bo --4.
jianeftC trusted Lester perfectly, anfc
feeling sure of his love, her heart ask
ed for nothing more.
In two months they were to be mar
ried, and begin the new life to which
they looked forward with eves uncloud
ed by a single apprehension.
One morning about a month before
the day set for the marriage, Annette
was nrraitging a bouquet of mignonette
and moss roses which Lester had just
brought her, when a servant brought up
Mr. George Wortley's card.
Mr. Wortley was stroking his hand
some bc.vd and leaning Isis elbow on
the mantel when she entered the room.
Ilis usual ruddy face was slightly
pale, luit Annette did not feel sufficient
interest in him to observe it.
After the casual morning greetings
he came straight to her side, and took
tier hand.
“ My dear Miss Raymond," said he,
drawing her to the sofa, “will you
please be seated ? I hare a somewhat
painful revelation to make to you."
Wondering, yet not very anxious
over any tiling that Mr. Wortley might
have to say, she took the seat he indi
cated, but be would not suffer her to
withdraw the hand he had taken.
“ Miss Raymond, before I breatli a
word of what I have to sav I must
have your promise that you will keep
it a secret. As, of course, if you value
his safety, you will be only too glad to
do."
“ Whose safety ?” she asked haugh
tily.
“ Mr. Lester Arnold’s.”
She crimsoned to the temples.
“ Will you tell me what you mean,
sir ?”
“When you have promised to be
silent.”
She bowed her head.
“I will not mention what you tell
me, Mr. Wortley.”
“ Very well, your promise is as good
as your oath. Lester Arnold lias forg
ed the name of our firm, and—”
“It is false!" she cried, indignantly,
springing to her feet, and standing be
fore him with flaming cheeks and eyes
like stars.
“ I wish it were,” he said, sadly. “I
should be five thousand pounds richer,
for he has drawn just that amount out
of my pocket. You had best listen to
me calmly, Miss Raymond, and be sat
isfied that I can prove what I say.”
And like one under the influence of
a horrible nightmare, she listened while
in his calm, business way, he told her
the story.
The evidence against Lester Arnold
was perfect.
llardasßhe tried to disbelieve the
charge, reason farced her to acknowl
edge that there was no mistake.
AVhat she felt —what she suffered I
cannot describe to you, but she was a
proud, high-spirited woman, and she
gave little outward sign of the anguish
within.
“ Well,” she said, when he had finish
ed, “ what will you do ? You will not
proceed against him ?”
“ The law must take its course, Miss
Raymond.”
“No ! You say that yon only know
of this —this—■” she hesitated over the
word—“ irregularity, and you asked me
to keep it secret. Surely you intend to
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“ You can sn\e Cm, it you like.' It
is for that I have conje to yon.”
“ X will daeill I can, in memory of
what li*s been,” she said ; outwardly a
woman of ice, but so sick and diozy
that she thought for a moment she was
<tyiwg. “ I will sacrifice my private in
cwmc; 1 will sell my jewels—anything
to sfive him.”
“And will you marry him afterward?”
he asked, eagerly.
- “ Sir, the Raymonds are an honora
ble family. I would marry no man
who could commit a crime.”
“ Spoken like a true-hearted woman !
lam glad you are sensible. But this
matter i9 entirely in my own bands;
and a million would not tempt me to
sfiftre Arnold lYom prisorr. And, if the
unso is laid before a Jury, li will get at
least twenty years. Will you save him
jroin this prison doom ?”
“ Can you ask ? Only tell me how.”
lie caught both her hands in his.
“ He my l love ysSt as lie
never loved you. Promise to be my
wife, and Lester Arnold is safe.”
“ Tour wife ?” she cried, wildly. “ 1
had rather die.”
”As you like,” he said, coldly, “I
will not urge you. In two hours I shall
have him under arrest, and nothing can
save him from the horrors of the
prison.”
She flung herself at his feet.
She wept and pleaded with him as
she would not have pleaded for her own
life, but he was stone.
Wild with grief and despair, she
rose at last, r.ud forced herself to be
calm.
“ I accept your terms,” she said. “ ]
State you ! I have hated you always.
I shall never feel any differently to
ward you. But I will save him—l will
be your wife?” *
lie caught her in his arms, and
pressed kisses on her lips.
She made him swear to keep what
lie knew secret —she made him give her
the forged papers which would convict
Lester Arnold, and she burned them
before his eyes. -
Then she wrote a note to Lester Ar
nold.
“ Mr. Arnold —I have changed ray
mind. In one week I am to become
the wife of Mr. George Wortley. If
you consult my wishes, you will never
let me look on your face again.”
“ Annktta Raymond.”
Most men would have sought an ex
planation at once, but not Lester Ar
nold.
At Poplar Hall Annette reigned a
queen.
She dressed as no other woman in
all that region dressed ; her jewels were
worth fortunes; her parties were the
talk and wonder of the city.
During the five years that this farce
of life went on, she had never spoken
to him in any tones but those of the
coldest formality, and when they
brought him home to her one day stric
ken down with paralysis, she never
grew a shade paler.
He died; but before he became
speechless, he made a confession to his
wife.
He told her the story of Arnold's
forgery was all false—it was a plot of
his to win her for his wife.
Arnold was an honest man in God’s
sight, and for five years she had been a
wretched dupe.
Even in his dying hours the man
seemed to delight in contemplating the
success of his schemes, and remember
ing that he had blighted the happiness
of her whose love he was powerless to
gain.
“ Annette, kiss me once, and say
that you forgive me.”
Rut she turned from him, and with
out word or gesture left the room.
*****
Three years later she met Lester
Arnold.
He would have avoided her, for the
wound in his heart was still fresh; but
she went to him and told her story.
She did not spare herself, and lie was
softened to tenderness by the pain in
her face, and the pathos in her voice.
Did he forgive her ?
lie did, and they were married in
less than a week, and maybe after the
cloud, the sunshine will seem to them
brighter.
H.MJittt.lttiW.n’ FEBRUARY 11, 1880.
! 81
A R<iniHiic<* lit 1 2,0 1,1 f,- of Mr.
From " A Lift QJ' TTor* rrzr&'
KnteripgjColU'jje in this 'WJ, l°¥Wl
I Stephen* was naturally expected to do
well, and he did not disappoint jyidi
| expectations, llif 4jr nr nM ruphl,
his industry indefatigable, his record
as a scholar fewer BriWiAnC?
after he had been in the college the
project which his patron* luul hrreggfj,
to his entering the rfrtfiKttt Wtf ilff!-' 1
closed to him, but feelijig
not adapted for the pulpit, ho du
el ined to enter upon religious studies.
At the same time he pledged himself
to repay the money wiling
friends had expended for his education.
Subsequently he did to fhe losT
penny. -a r .
On the first Monday in August,
still a child iu ataLure,.UU*v*tb well
stored inti uhui bright ifctAsliiiiiiV'!
through vimost JWtjKxi.ui.uraU>' .briilnmt
black serin a face wFilch
had never known and would never
know the blush of health—he, gradua
ted, taking with him the highest honors
of his class, liis high standing won
him much renown in tlie college town,
and his immediate pecuniary necessi
ties—he was almost without a penny 1
in the word —were relieved by an offer
which lie received and accepted, to j
teach a high school at Madison in his
native state, lie taught for fourmontlis
—four months which he slill recalls as
the happiest and. vet the saddest period
in his-life--dour months, during which
tliere came to him a sorrow that he will
take to Ids grave.
Among his pupils waS a girfof grFat
beauty and gentleness. W ith all the
sincerity and earnestness of a passion
ate and refined nature, lie loved that
"id, but pyyr—poor almost
to penurj\ The curse of ill-health,
which had followed him from his birth,
clung to him still, lie had a great
mind, but he was puny and insignifi
cant in body, lie was assured by med
ical advisers, and lie believed that death
might come to him at any moment.
He loved with an earnestness, a loyal
ty, and unselfish devotion which few
men know —loved with a love which in
its tender intensity, was almost woman
ish. But for more than a score of
years lie kept his secret to himself.
No human being knew the cause of his
ever-present melancholy. Day by day
night b} T and night during that time at
Madison, he pondered over the affection
which he knew could bring him nothing
but sorrow, an I at last he determined to
resign his position and leave the place,
lie departed in the night, and to his
faithful journal—his only confidant—
he imparted the fact that “on that night
I drove all the way to Crawfordville, I
had a terrible headache—a most horri
ble headache.” Of his wretched heart
ache, of bis despair and misery, the
poor boy, even to his confidential jour
nal, said never a word.
Years afterward, in writing to his
brother, he krflf drew the curtain that
had concealed his sorrow, and telling
something of these days at Madison,
said further: “ I am tempted to tell
you a secret. It is the secret of ray
life, and I have never told it to any
one, but I will tell it to you, and I fear
you will not believe it, but it is true,
and if you have never suspected it,
that shows how true I have been to
myself in keeping it. The secret of
m3' life has been revenge reversed —
that is, to rise superior to the neglect
or contumely of the mean of mankind
by trying to do them good instead of
harm —a determination to war against
fate, to meet the world in all its forces,
to master evil with good, and to leave
no foe standing in m3' rear. My great
courage has been drawn from my de
spair, and the greatest eflorts of my
life have been the fruits of a determin
ation and firm resolve excited by so
slight a thing as a look. This feeling,
this principle—call it what you will—
is the mainspring of m3’ action. When
I have looked upon the world and seen
it filled with knaves and fools, and have
seen in the whole waste not one well
of water from which I could draw a
drop to slake my r thirsting, parched
soul. With all hopes blighted, when I
Jtevoted to Halt County.
ready to lie down and die
u>.'*.„-Oie weight of that grief which
is <j;|atr than all otjier griefs—
m v
w 4 “A young lissrt desolate
In the wild world—
“ '• have often had my whole soul
aroused with the fury of a 1 foil and the
on of a fc'msar by, 1 repeat, so
riip* a thing ns a look. What have I
not fluttered from a look ? \\’hat have
I no],suffered from the tone of a re
mark from a sense of neglect, from a
Jqfqosod injury, and intended injury ?
But every such pang was a friction that
brought out latent fires. My spirit of
ww.mivr against the world, however,
nevjj*. held in it anything of a desire
to crush or trample on those who did
wrong; no/ only a desire to get
Jlbufvr them —to excel them ;to enjoy
the gratification of seeing them feel
that they were wrong ; to compel their
admiration —this is the extent of my
aniJhjXion ; this the length, breadth and
dip, .1 of my revenge.”
Old UuTkC&hocs.
“ I saw a funny sight in the street just
now,” said Mr f*atterson to his friend,
MroJoknson, in the Fifth Avenue hotd
barber simp,-Now York, recently. ‘‘l
met up elegantly dressed lady carrying
in her hand an old horseshoe covered
with mud, T presume she had just
fturo4 it and was carrying it home for
good luck.” “ Good luck 1” replied Mr.
Johnson ; ‘‘don’t talk to me about old
horsc|hocs and good luck. About, a
month ngo. my wife and I were return
ing from church one Sunday, when, in
front 6f the new Roman Catholic church
in fiftieth street, a horse was being
driveg at a lively gait, threw a shoe,
and it went ringing along the pavement.
‘ Go get that shoe,’said my wife, ‘and
we will keep it for good ltick.’ 1 picked
it up, utterly ruining one of my gloves
■i4i t'o4#<r so, a* ii was covered witW-urud.
This I was going to wipe off on the
curb, but my wife cried out, ‘Oh, don't
do that, for if you do you will wipeout
all our luck.’ So I lugged the old
thing all the way home, and over the
door we hung it, mud and all. In the
morning I went down to the store won
dering what my first streak of good
luck would lie. Before night I had a
misunderstanding with my employer—
with whom I have been for several
years—we both got hot, and the result
was that he gave me notice that after
the Ist of January, he would dispense
with my services. A few days after
ward my wife went to do a little shop
ping, and lost her pocket-book contain
ing all the money we had been saving
for a long time to spend for holiday
presents and amusements. In fact, for
about two weeks, everything seemed to
go against me, and I was in hot water
all the time. Finally, 1 said to my wife
one day, that I believed it was the con
founded old horseshoe that was to blame
for it all, and that I was bound to take
it down and put it back in the street
just where I found it, and so did. Hie
very next morning my employer sent
for me to come to see him in his private
office. lie said lie had been mistaken
in the matter about which we differed,
apoligized for what he had said, hoped
there would he no hard feelings about
it, and wound up by engaging me for
another year at an increased salary. I
went home that night feeling better Ma
tured than I had for weeks. I told my
wife of my good luck, and then she
took from her pocket a letter which she
had that day received from her father
notifying her that he was going to send
her a check for SSOO for a Christmas
present. In fact I have had only good
luck since I threw away that old horse
shoe. They may bring luck to some
folks, hut my wife and I don't want any
more horseshoes in ours, you bet.”
Why we Don’t (Jet Rich,
Waco {Texas) Izamirur.
Recause we buy from other States :
Apples, green and dried, canned
peaches, pears, blackberries, raspber
ries, plums, canned beans, peas, corn,
tomatoes, canned beef, ham, tongue,
canned everything; cucumber pickles,
tomato pickles, mixed pickles, chow
chow, Mexican hot, picadily, pickled
ghirkins, saurkraut, potatoes, turnips,
carrots, celery, dried beans, dried peas,
grits, hominy, oatmeal, Graham flour.
$1.50 Per Annum.
btrk wheat flour, wheat flour, coin
iiiual, garden seeds, llmur seeds, onion
sets, flower bulbs, nursery trees, ever
greens, linking powder, patent medicine,
rat traps, steel traps, rat poisons,smoked
hams, side meat, pieklud 1 pigs’ feet, but
ter, cheese, prepared spices, etc.; pic
ture hooks, magazines, illustrated pa
pers, juinping-jaeks, pop-guns, checker
boards, dice boxes, plaving cards, hobby
horses, Noah’s arks, tin trumpets, .Jews
harps, fiddles, guitars, granite and mar
ble tombstones, hair brushes, tooth
brushes, nail brushes, clothes brushes,
brooms, hair restoratives, hair pins,
cranberries, oysters, salt, fish, dried beef,
plows, harrows, threshing machines,
buggies, steam engines, grind stones,
cradles, reapers, mowing machines, gang
plows, nails, hoes, shoe nails, spades,
rakes, pick axes, anvils wrought iron,
iron bridges, railroad iron, stoves, ket
tles, dipppers, buckets, etc., etc., ad in
finitum, ad disgustun ; calico, skirting,
sheeting, do lainc, pique, thread, buttons,
ready-made clothing, boots, leatlwr,
hats, caps, needles, pins, pocket knives
chairs, tables, bead&tcuds wash stands,
bowls, pitchers, shaving mugs, jHigs,
plates, spoons, window glus, patent
blinds, patent window fasteners, patent
locks, patent hinges, soap, toilet soap,
wheel harrows, newspaper, note pnper.
shoo blacking, stove polish, black ink,
red ink, printing ink, pens, pencils,
slates, black-boards, school desks, ears,
church scats, biblcs, prayer books, hymn
books, pulpits, lamps, lamp chimneys,
saws, hatchets, street cars, wash tubs,
scrubbing brushes, rope, paper, cutters,
walking canes, flower pots', shot-guns,
pistols, breech loaders, manufactured to
bacco, cigars, pipes, snuffs, millions of
manufactured cotton goods, whiskies,
brandies, wines, fish-hooks, mill stones,
belting, popcorn, candles, spectacles,
philosophic apparatus, printing presses,
u ugun covers, sacks, colbyp,
harness, trace chains, log chains, etc.,
etc., and we pause to take breath in this
somewhat long sentence, which, if it
were to embrace all, would spin out
over columns. This is why we don't
get rich.
Spanish Cigars.
Not the least among the curiosities of
Seville is the tobacco manufactory. To
bacco is one of the royal monopolies,
and it is manufactured in a palace. A
very cursory glance at this singular es
tablishment will afford some idea of the
value of this monopoly. It is a noble
and stately edifice, of a quadrangular
form, six hundred feet in length by four
hundred and eighty broad. It is sur
rounded by a moat, and approached by
a drawbridge, like a regular fortifica
tion. Soldiers are continually on duty
at tbe entrance and in the courts —all
the work people are carefully searched
every night on leaving the establish
ment—and no cloaks are admitted with
in its precincts —all precautions against
the abstraction of this precious weed.
It employs no fewer than five thousand
hands. Of these, three thousand are
women —almost all of whom are cm-
ployed in twisting cigars. Of the two
thousand men, a great portion are simi
larly occupied; while a considerable
number arc employed in the manufac
ture of the different articles and imple
ments which are required in the estab
lishment. Women are preferred for
the manufacture of cigars, as lightness
and delicacy of touch are of importance
in this branch of the business. Two
immense halls arc set apart for the cigar
twisters —one for the men and the other
for the women. The largest of these, in
which three thousand women are seated,
busily engaged in rolliug up the fragrant
leaf, each with a little basket of bread
and fruit beside her for dinner, presents
a very extraordinary spectacle. The
work is performed with amazing rapid
ity, and a single individual will roll up
from five hundred to six hundred per
day.
The fields of the farmer need culti
vation to produce a crop, lie should
in leisure hours cultivate his mind to
produce a crop of thoughts. Rank
weeds will grow up in the field and the
mind unless cultivated.
Good work and not good luck makes
good crops. Drains and hands com
bined good luck.
WHOLE NO. 180.
THE RAFO UAH).
'nin|tel in tin' Moiiiitnltt licSfS
Atlanta Vuiittituticm, 4th iiutant.
The .Itabun county revenue rn'idor-—-
■v force of thirty-five men. sixteen sent
nut hv Collector Hark, throe by Mar
dial Fitziinuums, and sixteen by Collec
tor Gillsou, of South Carolina-- dis
banded hu t Thursday, and returned to
thoir respective homes. Fourteen days*
wore sp'nt in Rabun, and tho county
was raided from center to circumference
j Twelve distilleries were destroyed, and a
few persons brought out to answer to a
charge of violation of the revenue laws,
The raid was olio of thrilling adven
ture nml exhilarating excitement. The
first detachment of raiders outered tha
county by night, galloping from the ex
treme southwestern to the extreme north
western' portion of Rabun county, cross
ing over a ridge of mountains into
Townes county, nml returning to camp
in the center of Rahuii u little after tho
dawn of day. Four distiller!', with
stands of mush and beer overturned and
stills chopped into a thousand fragments
marked the course of the night's ride
through the - mountains. The distillers
were exasperated at the destruction of
their stilis, and following the raiders to
their camp, all the following afternoon
and night harrnssed them with desultory
shots from behind the rocks and trees
mi the mountain side. The revenue of
ficers, however, suffered no injury, but
one of tin? distillers was carried by his
friends out of the mountains that night
with a miiinic ball through his head, and
a few days later hv was laid in nil eter
nal sleep in a grave near his mountain
home. On the following morningtha
revenue squad broke up camp and a
ten miles’ gallop brought them to ('lay
ton, henceforth to bo the headquarters
from which the raids were to radiate.
After the first night’s rnitlasid follow
ing night’s encounter affairs assumed a
different aspect around the illicit distil
leries of Rabun county. No telegraph
wires or mails had told the distillers that
the revenue men were upon them, but
the word had flown from community to
community 01 the wings of the wind*
and it was known in c\ory defile and
nvine of Rnhun county that there were
strangers in Clayton, and what they
were there for. The distillers now
udopied im* evasive policy iusleud of de
fensive. They tore their copper stills
from the furnaces and concealed them
in tho mountains; they carried their
stock of whisky into the woods; and
men whose con cienivs told them thero
wus a warrant out for them concealed
themselves no less carefully than they
had stowed away their ccnfircable
property. The revenue men were des.
lined to clamber over almost precipi
tous mountains and penetrate almost in-,
accessible ravines only to find the little
1 ighutdi.-t’lleries deserted, the furnaces
c ild, the stills gone, and the stands of
mash and beer spoiling from age. For
tunately, however, a vigorous search of
the mountain sides surrounding the dis
tilleries in almost every instance re
vealed the hidden still lying under
some brush heap or hanging in some
tree. Only in a few instances did tbe
distillers not adopt this evasive policy.
One organization of moonshiners re
ported to he running; several illicit dis
tilleries at a place called “The Forks,, ’
jocosely sent a message to the revenue
officers at Clayton, tendering them an
invitation to visit “ The Forks.” They
selfishly marred the apparent hospi
tality of the invitation, however, by ad
ding that they wanted the “revenue
horses to ride to mill,” and hinted a
disposition of tho riders tiiat was
gloomily inhospitable. In the “Moc
casin settlement,” also, the distillers
fearlessly continued the manufacture
of “ mountain dew,” boasting that
Redman, the famous South Carolina
outlaw, was among them with seven
followers and that the raid into “ Moc
casin” would be disastrous to the
health of the raiders. This policy of
attempting to scare the revenue men
off was unsuccesstiy ; two distillers in
Moccasin to-day are temporarily
at least, ont of the distilling business ;
they went out, too, at a great sacrifice,
losing two fine copper stills, a barrel
of whisky, and several stands of mash
and beer. The revenue officers prose
cuted their work steadily, regardless of
all difficulties that the distillers at-
tempted to interspose and it is now
thought that the enforcement of the
revenue laws will be attended in Rabun
county with little ditliculty and no
danger.
A cow that is milked at 5 in
the morning, 1 in the afternoon and
5 at night, will yield from 10 to 25 per
cent more milk and more cream than if
milked twice a day.