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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1890)
^ An Arab Saying. ! Remember, three things come not back: i The arrow sent upon its track— Sit will not swerve, it will not stay L Its speed; it flies to wound or slay. . The spoken word, so soon forgot By thee; but it has perished not: In other hearts ’ t is living still, And doing work for good or ill. And the lost opportunity. That cometh back no more to thee. In vain thou weepest. in vain dost yearn. Those three will never more return. — Constantino. E. Brooks, in the Century. A TUftN OF THE KEY. ■ t Well! Good-by, Madge, and take care of yourself; the gig is alongside,so I suppose I must be tff; but I wish to goodness you had let me chuck th whole thing over when I spoke about it this morning; I hate leaving you all by yourself. Weil, at any rate, 1 shan’t be late.’’ So spoke Bertie Hepburn, the owner of the yacht Cormorant, as smart a schooner as ever flew the white ensign, to his wife, who was standing rather disconsolately at the door of the main cabin, where her husband struggled into a huge oil-skin overcoat, preparatory to going ashore. If was a wild night, dark as pitch, the rain was falling in torrents, and an icy wind, blowing straight from the Apennines, did not make matters more comfortable. Tne Cormorant liad been weather-bound in the harbor of Port Ercole, an unimportant town, about 80 miles north of Civita Yecchia, for nearly a week; there was absolutely nothing to be seen there; but tlio harbor was a good one, and the weather outside was decidedly “dirty.” They had been cruising for about three months in the Mediterranean, aud meant to prolong the cruise till spring. Bertie Hepburn was a man, who, happy and contented everywhere, was nev-r so happy as on board his own yacht, and he was more fortunate than many y-acht- owners in one respect, inasmuch as his wife, pretty, charming Madge Hepburn, was as devoted to a seafar¬ ing life as ho was himself. She had not even grumbled over their forced detention at Port Ercole, as so many women w r ould have done, and it was slie who had insisted on Bertie keeping his engagement to dine with the Vice-Consul. That in fortunate gentleman, whose lile, passe! —*>otjg a ppoplo with whom ho had dull routine, was delighted to welcome the owner of any stray yacht driven by stress of weatber into the snug haven of Port Ercole, and, on tho arrival of the Cormorant, had come on board in state, to bid them to a dinner at the shabby house dignified by the namo of Viec Consulate. Midge had sent an excuse, a pcifcctly true one, that a had cold pre vented her comiug ashore in such weather; but she would not hear of her husband also throwing over his engage meut. “I shall bo all right, Bertie,’’ she said. “I have no end of letters to write, and you won’t be lafe.’ There was an utter absence of j ivialty about the meal, and she got through it as quickly as possible, much to the secret joy of the steward, who had his own plans for his evening’s amusement on hand. “If you please,Mi’am,’’ said he, as he cleared tho things away, “I should like to go ashore this evening, if' you have no objection.” ‘ Oli, no, certainly you are welcome to go.” “If you plca ; e, ma'am,” said her maid five minutes afterward, “the captain says there are great doings in the cathedral tonight, aud he will take me ashore to have a look at them, if you don’t want me.” “No, you can go by all means, Dunne,’’ said her mistress; “hut I’m afraid you’ll get very wet landing.” Their departure in the dinghey five minutes after seemed to leave the yacht Wonderfully quiet. There was not a sound to be beard but the drip of the rain on deck and the moaning of the wind in the rigging. The sailors were all snug in the foc sle, but no sound of Toices cime from thence, and the good ship Cormorant might have been a derelict as far as any life on board was concerned. Madge Hepburn, who was both iin pressionable and imaginative, was im pressed by tbe stillness in spite of her self. “We must keep each other com pany, Cheviot,” said ^ to the big black and tan sheep-dl^j who lay asleep on the cabin floor, but he refused ab solutely to enter into conversation; Lis manner showed decidedly that he did not wish to be disturbed, and, as his mistress would not desist, he got up sulkily, stretched himself half a dozen times, and slowly and heavily lurched out of the cabin, and np the Companion, while a thump overhead a minute inter told Mn. Hapburn he pre ferred the co’.d an d wet on deck to her T Vn ***• THE DEMOCRAT, CRAWFORDVTLLE. GEORGIA, markable, now Cheviot had left her, and she had not noticed beforo how chilly the cabin had grown; had the steward been on board she would have had the stove relighted, but she did not care to disturb the sailors; she could settle to nothing. “Thank goodness, ” said she, “there goes four bells; there is no good sitting in this cold, gloomy cabin any longer. 1 shad be off to bed.’’ Her cabin was, indeed, a pretty nest for such a pretty bird; on its fluted hangings, twined roses and for-get-me nots, while laughing cupids peeped from among the flowers; all was dainty and del icate, but somehow tonight it did not seem cheerful; the lamp was uot burning so dirightly as usual, and, once safe in her pretty berth, Madge could not see to read as she had in¬ tended. She tries to sleep, but never felt more wide awake, and now six bells are struck, and she reflects with joy that in an hour at latest her husband will he hick. All is wrapped in stillness. No sound falls on her ear but the “wash of the wave’’ on the yacht’s side at her head, and tho drip, drip, of the rain on deck. But stay 1 that surely is a louder sound than tire water that ripples so close to her. It is too mufll :d to bo oars; all the sarai there is a distinct splash, and a sort of jar on the ship’s side. Madge sits up to listen, and her sense of hearing seems to become pre ternaturally sharpened; she hears a footstep, soft as velvet, on the deck, right overhead. That is not the way Ilertia would coine on board, let alone the parly who, headed by the captain, had gone ashore. Now she hears more footsteps, an l then—oh! what is it that is going on? —there conies a low, deep growl from Cheviot,—a growl that ends in an odd kind of gurgle, aud a noise of some¬ thing heavy falling. Light steps seem to cross the dock and come down the companion, and through the keyhole of her door shinei the faintest glimmer of light; in one she is out of her berth and at her door—alas! it has no key, aud those in the yacht, whoever they are, have got her at their mercy. For a few minutes the poor child feels utterly confused, and then all of a sudden her senses return to her; she rolls herself in a long, dark boat-cloak that is hanging on a hook, puts out her light, and cautiously—for her life de s '-m U-—ifad. do|I;s ou*. There is a little bit of pasiago be¬ tween her and the main cabin, from which comes a dim light; a faint clash of metal can be heard, but neither voice nor sound. The companion-ladder is between the two cabins and tho passage is nearly pitcli dark, while there is always the friendly shelter of one or two unused cabin doors. Shull she wait in her cabin, perhaps to he caught like a rat in a trap; or shall she crawl along tho pa-sage, make a dash for the companion, aud -g:t on deck somehow to give the alarm to the sailors? She elects to attempt the latter. Three steps and she is crouching a‘ the foot of the stai-, and can see into the saloon. On the floor, with his back to the door, one man kneels, and she sees him filling an empty bag with all the yacht’s silver. Tae door of Bertie's (lie sing room is open, aud^ another bee le-browed and brawny Italian ruf. fian l:as his han Is on a heap of sover eign 13 , the broken cash-box being o i the floor at his feet. A third man is in the main cabin. He is standing be- j side an open drawer, li;s head partly turned away froua the door, but Madge feels he is the greatest danger, and that at an y moment he may look round. As she stands there her eye f ills on the strong kez that is in the lock of the main cabin door. She can almost touch it. I- she did but just reach it, could she lock them in would before they the could key turn! stop j her? Above all, S'.ie knows nothing about its locking powers, and it might easily be rusty. But Madge Hepburn is no coward and the fighting blood of a wild border ^ , strain runs hotly in her veins. As she , run Ie up her mind, she acted. Concealment was now of no uie; she praDg a* the door, and as she did so the thir d man turned and saw her. I wo steps and ho was across tho room, but one second had sufficed for Madge. The door banged to; tbe key was Etiff indeed, but terror gave her fingers a strength she did not know they pcs sessed, and bsfose the burglar actuady touched tho door handle the bolt shot home. A volume of Italian oaths, and a blow which all but knocked a pane! out of the door followed, but 3Iadge seemed as if she had wingi to her feet. She flew on deck, and cow? What ia that wh ch falls 0 n her cars but tne F* «ei sound of oar^? But a'.as! Whs*. ;s that black form that at the same moment she os frfr r'^ tV deck End what is the dark stream that stains its surface? She does not know. II -r eyes are dim; her senses fail her; and when Bertie Hep¬ burn jumps on board tho first thing he secs is his pretty Madge in a deal faint at his feet lying across the lifeless body of poor C.ieviot. Tho noise the three ruffians make in the cabin so on gives him the clew to what has happened and before poor Madge has recovered her senses a free fight has taken place, and if tho Italian gentlemen were a good deal knocked about by the sailors, they deserved double as much as they got aud the vice-consul made it his business to sco they got it in the long run. In some mysterious manner these sea robbers had discovered that tho owner and a good many of the crew of the Cormorant had gone ashore, and they thought they would have it all their own way on board. The last thing they' looked for was that a mere girl should “up and bar the door” in tliei’ faces. — '1 he Queen. Bravery of the Russian Soldier. The Russian soldier, says a Russian general in Harper's Ah a tzine, dies at his post. I have seen him in winter on sentry duty on tho heights of Shipka die standing, surrounded by snow, and transformed literally into a statue of ice; I have seen him die on tho march, striding over tho saidy desert, and yielding up his last breath with his last siep; I have seen him die of his wou .di on the battle-field or in the hospital, at a distance of three thousand miles from his native village—and in those supreme momenta I have always found tho Rus¬ sian soldier sublime. Although a child of the plain, where his eye rarely descries the most modest hill, we see him boldly scale the topmost summits of the Caucasus, and climb the rocks and glacieri of the Tuian-Slia i, fighting all tho time. lie feels at home everywhere, whether in the steppes of the father-land, in tho tundra: of Siberia, or the mountains and deserts of Ciutral Asia, lie has an exceptional faculty of putting himself at his case wherever he may ho, even in places where others would die of hun¬ ger and thirst. 1 have seen tho Russian soldier at home in time of peace, or during truces in the enemy’s country, rocking tho peasant’s child m the village where ha was stationed; I havo seen him biv¬ ouacking in tho d • ert, with his tongue i»‘i i. ■ of a quarter of a litre of salt-wau..; x havo seen him in heat and in cold, in hunger and in thirst, in peace and in war—and I have always found in him the same desire to oblige, the same ab¬ negation ( f self for the sake of tho safety and the good of others. These special characteristic! of the Russian soldiei—his self-denial, his simple and natural self-sacrifice—give him peculiar powers as a warrior. Climbing Stair; and Hills. doctors tell m that a lrt i lorato climbing of s*nirs and hills is benefit cial. It stimulates the action of the heart, and where this organ is sluggish in its movement it is w ill to accelerate it by walking slowly up any ordinary ascent. It is, indeed, becoming a noticeable habit to avoid everything in the way of second or third stories, and those conservative persons who cling to their upper offices aud havo no eleva¬ tor are let alone by idle visitors at least, and by nearly all wlio can satisfy their demands as well in more easily arcos- 1,1 ■ places. Indolence, like appetite, grows by indulgence, and it is only oc C asionally that the well-protected gar c ] en where our vanities and foibles are cultivated is invaded by a disturbing i jrC3Ze . When wo hear, for instance, 0 f the old women who act as general servants in the apartment houses of p ar j 3 an d with the case with which they mourl t six or so via fi g'lti of stairs mar ,y times daily, we are willing tocon j css t0 a Rule of both companion aud e.nvy. But wc need mt go so far away from Rome. O.0I7 last week a woman who sat down breathlessly at the head of two long fl gii s of stairs,an 1 summoned [j Cr q r4 [ words to utter a complaint, re ccived fr-wn the friend who offered her sympathy tills unintentional reproof: “Wc should ail here spend more lim: ; n giving uttera .<:e to vixed worii were it not that Mr. Blank, who is 89 years of age, comes here every day to attend tn j liS business, and never says a word a jjo U t the stairs, or seems to think of fatigue.” Perhaps the elevator will be notan undisgus.d blessing alter all.— Herald. After the Proposal. “Before I go, ’ he said, in broker. tones, “f have one last request to make of y'.u.” “Ye*, 3D. 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