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MONDAY.
Tlie wide river blazed with sunset
light, the air was full of the scout of
magnolias. There was no sight that
was not beautiful, no sound that was
not sweet, at Vue d’Liere.
A pink glow fell over Emma
Ilaughton’s figure as she stood on
the wide law n among the cape-myr
tles, all in pink flowers, tlie hem of
her white dress sweeping the sward.
Nothing could have been more ex
quisite than the pure curves of her
face, nothing more perfect than tlie
infantile gold of her clustering hair.
And her beauty suited the delicacy
and sweetness of her spirit.
She was waiting for her husband.
You would not have thought that she
had a husband, she was so very young,
so girlish, so flower-like. Hut she
had Le n Guy Haughton’s wife for six
months, and he was young and hand
some, and happy as she. But she
had always lived in seclusion at Vue
d’Liere. It had been her patrimony.
Guy Hanghton, who had moved in
the great world for five and twenty
years, knew more of the evil than she
had ever dreamed.
As she stood there under the rosy
branches of the cape-myrtles, a great
dog, curly chestnut coat, suddenly
bounded out of the shrubbery. He
paused at sight of her, posed with one
foot uplifted, eyeing her wistfully.
Then a young man, in his shirt
sleeves, came out of the shadows of
the trees.
“Lon,” said Mrs, Haughton,“whoso
dog is this ? ”
“ Aline,” replied Lou McKenzie,
advancing.
“He is very handsome. I did not
know you had a dog, Lon.”
The gardener—a dnr , wiry, hand
some fellow—smiled,
I went in town yesterday with Air.
ILiughton, to get an order for some
young trees. Gentleman going away
on the Liverpool steamer offered Lin:
to Air. Haughton—he gave him to
me. 1 cail liuu Monday, lur too day
I gitt him; you see.”
Mrs. Haughton smiled indulgently
“I’m very g’au you have him, Lou.
It’s lonely sometimes on the sands, is
it not ? ”
Lon crushed his straw hat uneasily.
“Yes,’’ he answered.
“How are your father and mo
ther?”
“ About the same.”
“They are very old and infirm.
You are a good son, Lon.”
Lon smiled iiis dark, brilliant smile.
The dog fawned on him, standing
half way to his shoulder.
“Down, Monday!”
“ His coat is fine and chestnut-col
ored, like the beautiful hair of a lady,”
said Airs. Haughton,
A buggy whirled up the drive.
Guy Haughton had arrived.
* * * * * *
That night, his young wife dream
ing innocent dreams, Guy Ilaughton
was arrested for forgery. The stem
arm of the law drew him from the de
lights of his home to the cell of a
prison.
It was a direful day. No light
could be seen to lift the pall of dark
ness.
A check had been presented at one
of the principal banks of the city,
sinned by a name which proved to be
fr.lsely rendered. It had been re
ceived from Mr. Haughion’s gardener,
Lon McKenzie, and Lon, on being
searched for, was discovered missing.
In the night, but a few hours pre
vious to the arrest of Air. Ilaughton,
he had loft his home, a cottage on the
sandy banks o : tile river.
But no one believed that the young
gardener was guilty.' The tr ek was
too bold, of too great magnitude, for
the work of an uneducated man, He
had been a tool of others —of that
sharp, brilliant master of liis, they
said. And with part of the notes
found in Sir. H&ughton’s office-desk,
who could doubt it?
Only, Lon had discovered his dan
ger, and run away.'
So the community said. Fiint, the
detective, knew better. lie came
and stationed himse,! on the outskirts
of the city, and did a little trading
between the freedtnen who had “truck
patches” and the shippers of South
ern fruits to the Northern market*.
By and by, he found a beautiful
quadroon girl cultivating strawber
ries. She spoke sweetly—sue could
read and write.
Flint managed to see by every day
for three weeks,
HAMILTON, HARRIS CO., GA., FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1875.
She had told him that her nanm
was Rosy. She and her mother owi *
e l the cabin and the strawberry-patch.
She was industrious, modest, inspec
ted, yet she looked sadder than most
of her class.
Professionally, she was no object of
great interest to Detect ive Flint, lie
watched her face, he listened to the
tones of he.t voice, to her very breath
ing, when lie questioned her.
She talked with him in a simple,
modest fashion. S e showed little
interest in the trouble at Vue d’Liere,
even though she had occasionally
sold strawberries to Mrs. ITauguton.
tshe had seen the missing gardener,
Lon McKenzie, onee or twice, she
said.
She always went on with her work
steadily during’these conversations.
1* lint knew that a Southern girl,
either black or while, seldom dors
that—seldom, or neve., chats and la
bors.
His watch of Rosy' grew more vig
ihmt.
lie went to the cabin one day, ma
king an excuse of wanting washing
done by Rosy’s mother.
Rosy came to the door. She wore
a white blouse, a red ribbon at the
tilt oat, and a skirt of dark worsted
stuff.
As she stood in the doorway, shad
ing tier black-lashed eyes with her
slim hand, ihe suju fell full ution her
dress.
“I suppose now you have to keep
a dog to prevent the niggers from
stealing your strawberries?” said
Flint.
“ No,” she answered, quietly, “we
keep no dog.”
“Don’t like them, petjiaps? ”
"Some dogs,” leplied Rosy, look
ng sadder ban before.
■■ What colored dogs, now?” per
sisted Flint, in a careless manner, as
he lit his pipe.
A faint crimson stained her creamy
cheek.
“ I think brown dogs are the pret
tiest,” she said thoughtfully—“ brown
and curly.”
At midnight ail was still about ilie
humble cabin.
The salt tide swelled up the river.
The white-sailed boats fliltod noise
lessly down.
The trumpet-vine stirred in the
breeze on the old sea-wall. The
hushes shod in dark clumps on the
dusky banks.
Under these bushes a man lay
smoking.
At a slight sotind he turned the
fire from his pipe down among the
dewy grasses.
A dog came running down the
shore. He leaped up the hank, sprang
past him, and scratched at Ilosy’s
cabin-door.
Ife was instantly admitted.
Half an hour and he w-as noise
lessly let out. A small basket was
hung about his neck. He trotted
down the shore.
Flint crawled ont from under the l
bushes, and followed the dog.
It was Monday!
Faithful, sagacious Monday!—he
was licking the hand of his master,
hidden in a deserted fig thicket,
when tin y came upon him —strong
officers of the law, against whom re
sistance is useless.
Detective Flint had been joined
by two other men.
Lon Mackenzie was drawn from
bi> retreat, and conducted to prison.
There be confessed to the forgery,
lie was singularly gifted with the
power of imitating penmanship. He
had implicated Mr Haughton by
placing the bill? in his desk.
He had coveted the money to ena
ble him to marry Rosy, he said.
He had made bis confession, '-'ear
ing Guy Haughton, and then —liberty
!is sweet! Love laughs at prison-bars
: —Monday came into the prison with
a tiny file hidden in his brown, curly
| coat. . •
The prisoner was missing next
| morning, and Rosy and Monday were
! tnissin:, too.
! And this time Detective Flint was
| balked.
“ llow did you find the clue be
: fore? ” he was asked.
“I saw the dog’s hair on the girl’s
dress. A peculiar color. I knew he
1 had been fawning on her. But the
i fellow is off this time, for good and
: ali. Gone over the w ater.”
So spake Detective Flint, out of
his knowledge of 'he guild.
(gf Jones’ horse is troubled with
the heaves. He heaves every one
that attempts to ride him.
A Hard Shell Sermon.
“AND UK PASSED ON TO SHUN ’KM.”
The words of mv tox’, niv hear
ers, you will find in II Kings, iv.
chapter, verse—“ And he passed on
to Slum ’em.’’
Take to Heart the lesson of our
text, and when temptations try you,
and evils he in wait to ensnare you,
“ pass on to Shun ’em.”
W lien you see men of wrath flirt
ing and breaking heads and sticks,
md hear them cursing and swearing
—mind the words of my text, and
“ pass on to Slum ’em.”
And oh ! my hearers, if yon should
come into our little town, and hoi’de!
a row of nice litilo offices with tio
signs on the doors of each, and hear
men talking of attachment a without
attention, and sequestrations without
quiet—all—and seize—yours and nev -
er theirs—ah—it will he to your in
terest to mind the words of the proph
et, and “ p iss on to Shun ’em.”
And if you go around where the
merchants are—ah—and they rush
out and shako hands with you, and
are especially anxious to learn the
condition of your wife’s health, and
the children’s, and the worms, and
the crops, and offer to sell you a little
hill of goods a good deal lower than
their cost, on account of their love
for you, and each, ah—“ pass on to
Shun ’em.”
And if you should happen to go
[ around the corner and see umn drink
ling beer, that will bring them to a
bier, and a gin sling down the strong
est, and smashers that will smash a
man’s fortune faster than commission
merchants, who advance supplies on
the last, crop—ah—oh—oh, “pass on
to Si U i ’em.”
But oh !my hearers I If von should
go down to New York—that modern
Sodom and Gomorrah—alt—and when
gas lights are fladi’ng and glimmer
ing, and cabs are dashing along the
streets —and obliging drivers are of
fering to carry you where only steam
boat captains and the first gentlemen
!.'o--ah — onl Broad way is on a rip
and a roar—;m —an-i *sk uras* T>:mu
are crashing pausi|Hf , om tbo balco
nies—anti men in*Uittle holes are
ready to sell you tickets to go and
see the B’ack Crook dance with noth
ing to wear—and make spectacles of
themselves —ah—oh, my friends,“pass
on to Shun ’em.”
And oh ! if later in the evening,
with :t ve ry particular friend, you go
up stairs into :t most splendidly fur
nished room—till—and see the sup
per-table spread with delicacies from
every cotiti'ry — arid tea, ducks and
snipe, yaller legged pheasants, and all
that fish, flesh and fowl ci: afford
and champagne, ami Burgundy an 1
Chateau Latitte, older than Waterloo
—and nothing to pay, and all free—
and a nice gentleman with rings on
liis fingers, and a diamond breast pin,
playing with little spotted pasteboards
and another turning a machine and
dropping in a little ball that rolls
round and roifnd and stops on tin.
eagle bird and oftetier don’t—and
where the players generally put down
more than they take up—and men
sometimes win, but mostly don’t—
ah —oh, “pa s on to Shun ’em.”
And in conclusion, my friends,
wliS* the world, the flesh, and the
devil —ah —lie in wail for you, “pass
on to Shun ’em.”
Irt/" Here is a gentleman’s letter to
his sou in college:
“ M v Dear' Son.— i write to eat 1 (
you two pair of my old breech* ,
that you may have anew coat made
out of them. Also some new socks,
which your mother has juft knit, 1
cutting down some of mine. Y 1
mother sends you two pounds, win '■
out my knowledge, and for tear
may not'use it wisely, I have kept
back half, and only send you one
your mother and I arc well, except
that your sister has got the measles,
which we think would spread among
the other girls, ii 'J oin bad not had it
before, and he is the ot ly one left.
I hope you will do honor to my
teachings; if not you are an ass, and
vour mother and rnysed
Y’ot ii Affectionate Parents.”
TNI" An up-country darkey thus
delivered himself the other day.
“ Foali de grashus, I sorry I didn’t
svisit dat Mexliubug Teucentinel last
week, but if nothin’ don't happen,
an’ I’m sparred, Ise gw ine to de nc-x
one.”
i ■
Why is a young lady depend
ent upon the letter Y ? Because
without it she would be a iad.
A Mississippi Scene.
The Natchez "Weekly Democrat
has the following satire on the con
duct of the farmers of the State of
Misdssipi, which •• e think can he
read with profit. ’ v those of Louisi
ana, and, in fact, all the South-wes
tern States:
“ Hallo, stranger, you seem to be
going to market?”
“ Yes, sir, I am.”
“ What are you carrying that plow
along for ? ”
•‘Going to send it to Fittsbnrg.”
“To Pittsburg, in Pennsylvania*?”
“You’re mighty right, 1 am.”
“ What are you going to send it
•!'up-.i f •?”
•To get it sharpened.”
“'All the way to l’ittshnig to get
it sharpened ? ”
“You bet! We’ve starved our
blacksmith out; lie pulled up stakes
the other day and went to Texas.”
“ Well, tliaiV. rather a novel idea,
my ii aid —sending a plow so far to
get it sharpened.”
“Not so novel as you heard it was.
A e do our milling at St. Louis.”
“Is that’so ? ”
“You’re right it is. We used to
h tvo a mill on Punkinvine Creek, but
the owner got too poor to keep it up,
and so we turned to getting our
grinding done at St. Louis.”
“You don’t mean.to say you send
your grist ail the way to St. Louis by
rail ? ”
“ I didn’t say nothing ’bout gris—
we hain’t got no gria to send. But
we get our flour and meal from St.
Louis."
“i see you have a hido on your
wagon.”
“ Yes; our old cow died last week.
March wind Mowed the life ont of
her. Sendin’ her hide to Boston to
get it tanned.”
“Ail the way to Boston? Is not
that rather expensive my friend ? The
freights will eat the hide up.”
“That's a fact—cleaner than the
buzzaids did that old critter’s car
cass. But what’s the use bein’ taxed
to build railroads ’tluiwt you get the
<r>. "t eta t Used to have a ian
: and over at Lickskillet, and a shoe
maker too. But they’ve kerflum
uxod.”
“ Ket flummoxed —what’s that ?”
“It means, gone up the spout—and
twixtyou and me, that’s mighty nigh
the case vvitli our State.”
“ When do you expect to get your
leather 1 ”
“ Don’t expect to git no leather at
all—expect to get shoes, some day,
made at Boston or thereabouts.”
“ Rather a misfortune to lose a milk
i cow, my friend.”
“Not so much a misfortune as you
bard it was. Monstrous sight of
trouble shuckin’ and nubl/nin’ a cow
and milkin’ her night and morning,
and getting only about three quarts a
day.”
‘AVhat are you going to do for milk?’
“ Send North for it.”
“Send North for your injlk?”
“Yes; concentrated milk and Go
| shell butter.”
“ On ! I see the point,”
“Mighty handy things, these rail
roads—make them Yankcv fellers do
! II our jobs for us now—do our smilli-
I in’, and grindin’, and tannin’, and
milkin’, and churnin’.”
I * I see you have a bale of cotton.*
J ‘Yes; wo go our bottom nickel on
! cotton. Sending it up to Massachu
| settß to get it carded, spun and wove.
! Time’ll come when we’ll send it tbar
! to be ginned, and then we’ll he hap--
i py. Monstrous sight of trouble ruu
-1 ning these gins.’
‘That would be rat her <sx pensive, 1
i sending cotton in seed.’
A ‘No more so than them Western .
fcfeUers pay when they send corn East i
j uid get a dollar a bushel and pay six !
fits freight. Besides, as I auid.wlialN !
he use of paying for railroads ’thout
| w e use the toads ? ’
‘ You sc in to- appreciate the ad
j vantages of railroads very much.’
‘ I think we ought to appreciate
; -Jo in—we pay enough for ’em.’
‘ I reckon you fatten your pork.’
‘ Well, you reckon wrong stranger.
I pel them Eilinoy fellers "to do that
for me. It’s mighty convenient, too;
| monstrous sight of trouble totin’ a
i bit 1 laeket of corn three times u day
to hogs in a pen—especially when
; you b'dn’t got no hog to tote it to.’
‘ j should rather think it was.’
‘ 'uiore’s one thing lacking though,
to iD'ike business complete.’
‘ i id wiittt is that V ’
4 r I, ty ought to send them hogs
ready cooked. Cookin’, and prepar-
in’ cookin’ takes up a heap
of time That, ought, by rights, to be
employed in the cotton patch. I was
saying to my old woman tho other
day, if Mississippi folks got our cook
in’ and washin’ done up North and
sent, hy express we’d ho as happy as
office-holders.’’
‘Your horse in the lead there seems
to be lame.’
‘ Yes, needs shoeing. If he wasn’t
the only horse I’ve got, and I can’t
sparo him, I’d send him up where
they made the horse shoes ami nails,
and get him shod? Can’t get such a
thing done in our parts. Perhaps I
can get him shod at the depot.’
‘JIow do you manage to live in
your parts, my old friend ?’
‘ Why, we raise cotton. My road
turns off bore, stranger. Gee, Ball,
hack Brandy. I’m glad I seed you (
stranger.’
WIT aud HUMOR.
The fiddler of a minstrel company
ran away the other day in debt to;
ihe manager, at which the manager’
facetiously declffled that lie hud en
gaged the fellow for a fiddler, but ho
had taken the part of a base violonist.
An eccentric old fellow, who lives
alongside of a graveyard, was asked
if it was not an unpleasant location.
‘ No,’ said lie, ‘ I never jined places in
my life with a set of neighbors thati
minded their own business as Bteady
as they do.’
A schoolmaster attempted to flog a
ltacine girl the other day, but she
just ripped off half a dozen ribs of
her hoop-skirt, and slashed him around
until he couldn’t spell Constantinople
if he hud to be hung for it.
A deaf and dumb man put bis hand
into his pocket for a pencil the other
day, and m a flash the other fellow
sot him, on the tapposition that he
wots reaching for a ifislol. Need it
bo saitl that this occurred iu Texas?
The Detroit Free Press says : ‘lt
costs ono thousand dollars, they say,
to educate a girl at Vassal- College,
but when she gets her diploma she
can hang on the trapeze head down
... i ~~ ■, j, ( fttnip ' fence
or crow a saucy chap off the sidewalk,
and tbo money is not wasted.’
The difference between having a
tooth properly drawn by a dentist,
ami having it knocked oul by a fall
on the pavement, is only a slighl dis
tinction—ouo is dental and the other
accidental.
A gentleman advertises his wil
lingness to exchange a cork leg for a
revolver. This is the nearest ap
proach to the old law of retaliation
we have seen for a long time. It is
not an eye for an eye —but it’s a leg
for an arm.
An Atchison, Kansas, girl ate four
pounds of wedding cake in order
that site might dream of her future
husband. Ami now she says that
money wouldn’t hire her to marry
the man site saw in that dream.
Why does a duck go under the
water? For diver’s reasons. Why
does she go on laud? For sun-dry
reasons.
The Wisconsin farmer who left a
candle burning in the barn so as to
scare thieves away has no barn to
watch now.
In one part of Norway the longest
day is three months, What a splen
did chance for a lazy man to start a
daily paper.
On a recent trial in Wales to test
the validity of a will, it was proved
that in IfCD the testator became im
paired in intellect to such an extent
; that ho went to the post-office with a
I postage stamp on his forehead, and
I requested to bo sent to a place he
mentioned.
Indiana burglars carry on their
business in a spirit of enterprise. A
lew days since some of the craft sent
a family in Mishawaka several com
plimentary tickets to a circus. The
family availed themselves —every one
of them —of this generosity from an
unknown source, but in the end were
heavy losers. When they returned
they found their dwelling broken
open and rifled of everything valua
ble.
A candidate for office in Miswis-
I sippi informs his fellow-citizens that,
j ‘ At the earnest solicitation of my wife
j and daughters, I have consented to
: become a candidate for county treas-
I urer.’
A Covington man died and they
put hitu on tee, but lie awoke in the
night and yelled out: “ Why don’t
you pul tout* more wood in that
stove! ”
Strange Sights. —A
ent of tho Covyigton Enterprise says:
In Crawford I saw aratriesnafe*
was two feet long and had two sepa
rate and distinct heads, well formed.'
Where the tail of the reptile should
be, a perfect head, as large as a man’s
two thumbs, could bo Been. Tko
snake also possessed two feet and two
legs, exactly resembling those of a
frog. Those who doubt the truth
fulness of this snake story can see the
original by calling at the office of Dr.'
Willingham, where it has been pre
served in alcohol. The snake was
killed on Town creek, at Brook’a
mill, recently. I also saw a negro
man, now fifty years of age, who
never had any eye. His face, wheru
tin eyes should be, is as smooth as a
peeled onion. The man does act
walk, but goes in a regular pace, feel,
ing his way with a stick. I also saw
a cow milked which gave five gallons
of milk at a milking. The owner of
this animal lias refused four hundred
dollars for her.
A Remarkable Man. —The Cutli
bert Appeal publishes the following:
We have a man in Cuthbert, six'tj
four years old, who lias not taken a
drink of ardent spirits in over a quar
ter of. a century, never drank a cup
of coffee in his life, or ate a pound of
meat of any kind. A few days since,
in reading a paper, he saw mi adver
tisement where it was proposed to
furnish a recipe for five dollars, which
would teach a man how to live on
thirty-seven cents per week. At this
proposition he became indignant, and
said that it was sheer extravagante
for u man to spend that amount, as
serting that his provisions were not
wor th $lO per year. He subsists en
tirely upon bread and pure water—
declaring that he would not exchange
his diet for that of a prince os’ king,
lie has no recollection of ever taking
a dose of medicine or consulting a
physician for any ailment whatever.
lie can walk fifteen or twenty miles
as quick and with as much ease as
any young man in the county, and
would do so beforo paying a railroad
a thrip for the privilege of riding.
Ilis clothing costs him about eight
dollars per annum, lie is a man of
family, and we dare say is as healthy
and vigorous as any. man of his age
to be found in Georgia.
s©“ “ Sain, have you drove in 'eru
ar geese ? ”
“ Yes, sir.”
“ Did you oouut am ? ”
“ Y es, sir,"
“llow many am ther?”
“ One.”
“All Tight; shut the gate.”
ty*Alcohol is the “living” of
those who sell it, and the death of
those who use it.
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iAL“ Thompson is not going to.
ask any more conundrums. He ie
cently asked his wife the ditl>. renctJ
between his head and a btig’s head,
and ?Ue replied that there was none.
He says that that is not the right am
swer.
YVhy is the capital ol Turkey
like a whimsical patient?
it’s constant-to-no-pill.