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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 The Uaktyyell Sun. - •- iIM 1 -I* .■ i • By BENSON & McGILL. vm,,-lv-ro;-it. save bite't- * - l ■ 4 “ 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.