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Hamilton lil§ Visitor.
A GAME FOB LIFE Oil DEATH.
It was night in the camp of Maxi
milian’s army, and sounds of merri
ment were heard upon all sides, for
soldiers are ever wont to indulge
in pleasure, regardless of what the
morrow will bring forth.
In a tent in the inner circle of the
camp sat two officers at a rude table,
upon which was mavked with lead
pencil a chess, or checker board,
while black and white buttons served
for the “ men.”
Around the tent were stationed
gnatds, and both of the officers were
unarmed, while not a weapon of anv
description was visible in their can
vas room.
They w'ere prisoners; soldiers in
the service of Jaur.z, captured ihe
day before; but their appearance in
dicated that they were not Mexicans.
Both men were of tall, command
ing forms, and of easy, graceful ad
dress; but, where onu had dark blue
eyes, and light hair and mustache, the
other had eyes that were large and
black, with browu hair and inus-_
tacbe.
Both men were exceedingly hand
some, nnd upon their faces bore the
impress of noble souls and hearts that
knew no icar.
A love of adventure had caused
them to leave their homes in the
North, after the close of the civil
war, in which both had fought brave
ly, and east their swords with Jan rex,
to aid in driving from Mexican soil a
German emperor.
Capoul Mouteith, the blonde offi
cer, was a young man of wealth and
good family, a New Yorker, and a
pet in society.
Garnet Weston, the brunette, was
a poor man, a young lawyer in New
York, of good, though poor parent
age. Tie was possessed of superior
intelligence, and was fast winning a
name, when he crossed the path of
Mabel Mouteith, the sister of Capoul,
and a beauty and an heiress.
So deeply did Garnet love Mabel
that he was miserable when not in
her presence, and he believed site
cared for him; but his pride was
great, and he would not offer a pau
per hand to a belle and an heiress,
and so struggled hard to win fortune
and fame in his profession.
Otie day, an evil day for Garnet, a
pretended friend told him that Mabel
was his promised wife, but that their
engagement had not yet been made
public.
Like one irt a dream Garnet Wes
ton listened, and then in despair de
termined to seek some wore stirring
field, where the image of his lost
love would not be ever fyefore him.
A month la t er found him a cavalry
captain in the army of Benito Jaurez,
where, a few weeks later, he was sur
prised to be joined by Capoul Mon
teith, who had also offered his servi
ces to the Mexican President.
In an engagement two days before
they are presented to the reader in
their tent, they bad been captured
and carried into the lines of Maxi
milian.
That night in camp they were play
ing a game of checkers, pour pass le
temps, and Capoul, who was an ex
pert player, was surprised to see
how readily he was beaten by Garnet.
Suddenly a heavy tread resounded
without, the sentinc-l ebaagn-.-ed,
there was a re.-ponse, and the next
instant three of Maximilian’- officers
entered the tent, one of whom was
an American, a Republican fighting
for Imperial Mexico, against the Ke
nublic; another was a fiashy-looking
Frenchman; the third was a Mexi
can colonel.
“Gentlemen, I am sorry to dis
turb you; but news has come to-night
that Benito Jaurez has executed a
' captain of our army, and I have or
j ders to select one of you and march
I vou forth to die in retaliation,” and
the American Imperialist looked sad
over the duty he had to perform.
You cannot mean that one of us
must die for an offence against Max
rnilian by Jaurez,” 6aid Capoul Mon
teith, rising.
“Even so are my orders, sir; but I
! know not which to select, for my
duty is roost painful.”
“Let the gentlemen play a game
for (he choice—the loser to die,”
suggested the young Frenchman.
“A good idea, monsieur. Gentle
men, I observe you were playing a
! game of checkers when we entered ;
so set to work and play three games;
I the one who wins two of them to es
! cape, the other to die.”
HAMILTON, HARRIS CO., GA. T FRIDAY, DECEMBER .10, 1875.
j “When is this execution to be?”
: asked Garnet Weston.
; “ W ithin the hour, sir.”
“Very well; Capoul, I am ready
for the game of life and death.”
Capoul Monteith paced to and fro
| the tent with quick, nervous strides;
j lie was young, handsome, possessed
j of vast wealth, and fond of life, and
I he cared not to be thus shot down
like a deg; but lie was a brave man,
and thought of Garnet Weston, w hom
lie bad always admired, and half
wished to be the loser rather than to
see his friend die.
“I am ready,” he at length said,
and the two friends, strangers in a
strange land, sat down to play the
g:ime,for life or death.
Capoul Monteith played with the
utmost caution, for “if one mw-t die,
I have as good a right to struggle for
life as has Garnet,” he thought.
Garnet Weston played with indif
ference, a quiet, sad smile upon his
face, and around them stood the
three officers, and the platoon that
were to he the executioners of the
losing one.
Ten minutes passed, twenty, and
the game was won by Capoul Mon
teitli, whose face flushed crimson and
then paled again.
Garnet Weston’s face never changed
an e.\ session, for the same smile
rested there.
The second game passed quickly,
Garnet making his moves the instant
Capoul had raised his hand, and sur
prising all hv his reckless indiffer
ence, but cool manner.
Five minutes passed, and the sec
ond game wan won by Capoul Mon
lei li.
“ My God 1 Garnet, old fellow, T
feel for you from my heart,” cried
the winner, the tears starting to his
tyes.
Garnet pressed his friend’s hand,
the same smile upon his face as he
said, quietly:
“I was ever a poor, unlucky dog,
Capoul: but, tny friend, when I am
dead, look into my saddle-roll, hang
ing there, and the papers yon find
please deliver to the proper address,
arid—and—Capoul, say to —to Miss
Mabel, I left a farewell for her.
i“ Gentlemen, I am ready.”
“ Curses on your Imperial human
ity ! Will you slay a man as though
he were a hound ?” cried Capoul, an
grily turning toward the officers, for
it cut him to the heart to thus part
with his friend.
“ I yield to the fortunes of war,
Capoul, and these gentlemen but do
their duty,”
“ Come, let it be over, replied Gar
net, and shaking the hand of his friend
warmly, he was marched away.
Half-distracted with grief, Capoul
Monteith paced his tent, his thoughts
whirling and his brain on fire, as lie
gazed at the stool where a short while
before poor Garnet had sat.
An hour passed, and the Ameri
can officer of the Imperial army stood
before him.
“ Well ? ” said Capoul, hardly dar
ing to ask the question,
“ lie is dead."
“God have mercy upon him,”
groaned tlio sorrowing friend.
“Yes, Captain Monteith, he is
dead, and though I have seen many
men die, I never saw one face death
with such perfectly calm indifference,
as did your friend.
“ He gave the order to the platoon
to fire, and fell instantly; hut, ere he
died, he wrote this note to you,” and
the American Imperialist handed a i
slip of paper to Capoul, and turning, ;
left the tent.
In Garnet’s bold hand was written:
I
“Capoul:—
“ I gave my life away to save you, j
for 1 loved Mabel too dearly ever to
let her brother die where I could be
sacrificed instead.
“ I dare tell you this now, for I
stand on the brink of my open grave.
“Farewell! ’Gak.net.”
A bitter night of sorrow passed
Capoul Mouteith in that lonely tent,
for well he knew his friend had spo
ken the truth, and when months af
ter the star of Maximilian’s crown
had set in gloom, and he resigned
front the army of the successful Jau
rez, he wended his way homeward
with a heavy heart, for he Could not
forget that Mexican soil covered the
noble man who had fallen a sacrifice
to save his life.
Three years passed away after the
game for life or death, and one pleas
ant evening toward the sunset-hour,
a horseman was riding along
a highway traversing u fertile valley
of a SvuUdvwicra gale,
Three years had added more dig
nity to the face, and pet Imps sad
dened it; hut otherwise no change
had ever como over Capoul Mon
leit.ii’s line features.
U poll his right, hand, setting hack
from the road, was a pretty little farm
house, surrounded by fertile fields,
and the sight promising well for a
night’s lodging “ for man and beast,”
Capoul turned in at the white gate
way, and rode up to the front door,
and dismounted.
The owner of the mansion de
scended the sums to greet him, and
Capoul Monteith sU>od face to face
with Garnet llfeafcwt.
“My God! has the grave given
up its dead?” cried Capoul, in dis
may.
“ No, old fellow ; yon find me flesh
and blood, ready and willing to give
you a hearty welcome to this, my
home, left, me by an old bachelor un
cle, a few months since. But come
in; I will tell you all.”
The surprised and delighted Capoul
w illingly accepted, and around a well
spread tea table that evening he heard
how Garnet had been carried forth
to ho most bungliiigly executed; but
a squadron of Jaurez cavalry had ap
peared and fright,' ned off' his execu
tioners, ere the first platoon had re-,
tired, and that a watchful ranchenv
had se’zed him and borne him to his
ranclte, where, through months of
suffering, he recovered, and was able
to depart from the house of his good
friend.
But it vas long ere he could gain
strength enough to reach Galveston,
Texas, and there he met nil old uncle
who In and carried him to his comfort
able hoi.io with him.
The kind old bachelor was one day
thrown from his horse, and night and
day Garnet had watched by his bed
side, until death relieved him of his
sufferings, and iho young man found
that his uncle had left him all his
wealth.
“But. old fellow, why did you not
write to let me know, for you know
not how I have mourned for you ? ”
asked Capoul.
“1 did write to my old law partner
in New York, and he said you bad
moved away, none knew whither.”
“True; poor Mabel failed in her
health, and I carried her to Europe,
but we soon returned, and to effect a
change in scene and air I purchased
a fine farm, about two days’ journey
from here, and there we now live.
Mabel is contented, it not happy.”
“ She married ”
. “ She married ? Fiddlesticks 1 No,
she never had any idea of marrying
any man excepting yourself, and you
went oft'to Mexico and nearly broke
her heart.”
“God, I thank Thee,” cried Gar
net, and he buried his face in his
hands and wept like a very child.
Three months passed, and the bach
elor home of Garnet Weston had a
mistress to preside over it—a queenly
looking woman of twenty-two, per
haps, with dreamy, sad eyes, and a
face of wondrous beauty.
The woman was once the heiress
and belle of New Y r ork—Mabel Mon
teith—who had, after long years,
married her first aud only love,
through that game of life and death,
in the gulf washed land of Mexico.
Money Wasted in War. — Give
me the money that has been spent in
war and 1 w ill purchase every foot
of land upon the globe; I will clothe
every man, Woman and child iri an
attire that kings might be proud of;
I will build a school house upon
every bill side and in every valley
over the whole habitable earth, and
will supply that school house with
a competent teacher; I will build an
academy in every town and endow it,
a college in every State and fill it
with able professors; I will crown
every hill w ith a church consecrated
to the promulgation of the go-pel of
peace; I will support in its pulpit an
able teacher of righteousness, so that
on every Sabbath morning the chime
on one hill should answer to the
chime on another round the earth’s
broad circumference, and the voice
of prayer and the song of praise
should ascend like an universal holo
caust to heaven. — Dr. Stebbins.
The aggregate length of the
I railroads in operation in Brazil is 830
miles, or about forty miles less than
the little State of Connecticut.
List The stamp duty on patent
medicines manufactured in Great Bri
tain last year amounted to over
f 571,010,
llow Messages are Sent by tlio
Ocoais Cable.
The ocean telegraph operator taps
the “key” ns in a land telegraph,
on'v it is -i double key. It lias two
- * *
levers and knobs instead of one. The
alphabet used m substantially the
same as the Morse alphabet—that is,
the different loiter* are represented
by a combination of dashes and dots.
For instance, suppose you w ant to
write the word “boy.” If. would
read like this: “ —... .
—ll is one dash and three dots;
O, three dashes; nnd Y, one dash,
one dot, and three dashes. Now, in
the land telegraph, the dashes and
dots would appear on the strip vt
piper at, the other end of the in.,
which is unwound from n cylinder, j
and perforated by a pin at the end ot
the bar or armature. If the operate
could read by sound, we would di—
pui-ewitli the strip of paper, aud ■
read the message hy the “click” of|
the armature ns it is pulled down and
let go l>v the electric magnet.
The cable operator, however, has
neither of those advantages. There
is no paper to’perforate, no click of
the armature, nnd no armature to
click. The message is read by moans
of a moving flash of light upon a pol
ished sonlojprodnced by’’the deflec
tion of a very small mirror, which is
placed " iihiu’a “ mit'ror.galvanome
ter,” which is a very small brass cyl
inder two or three inches in diameter,
shaped like a spool or bobbin, com
posed of several hundred turns of
small wire wound with silk to keep
the metal from coming in contact.
It is wound or coiled exactly like a
bundle'of now rope, a Finall hole be
ing left in the middle about tho size
of a common wooden pencil. In the.
centre of this is suspended a kernel
of corn, with a correspondingly small
magnet rigidly attached to the hack
of it. The whole weight is but a lit
tle more than a grain, and is suspen
ded hy a single fibre of silk, much
smaller than a human hair, and almost
invisible. A narrow horizontal scale
is placed within a darkened box two
or three feet in front of the mirror, a
narrow slit'being cut in the centre of
the scale to allow a ray of light to
shiue upon the mirror from a lamp
placed behind said scale, the little
mirror in turn reflecting the light
back upon the scale. This spot of
light upon the scale,is tho index hy
which all messages are read. The
angle through which the ray moves
is double that traversed hy the mirror
itself; and it is, thereforo, really
equivalent to an index four or six feet
in length, without weight.
To tho casual observer there is
nothing hut a thin ray of light, dart
ing to the right and left with irregu
lar rapidity; but to the trained eye
of the operator every flash is replete
with intelligence. Thus tho word
“boy,” already alluded to, would be
read in this way: Olio flash to tho
right and three to the left is B.
Three flashes to tho right is <>. One j
to the left, arid two more to the tight
is Y, and so on. Long arid constant:
practice makes the operators wonder
fully expert in their profession, and
enables them to read from the mir
ror as readily and as accurately as
from a newspaper.— Boston Herald.
Destruction ok Like nr War.—
Another source of pecuniary losr is
fohnd in the waste of life by war. It
takes men at the very age when their
labor would be most productive, and
shortens their lives more than twenty
years in war, and some ten or fifteen
in peace. The statistics of mortality
among men devoted to this work of
blood are truly startling. Soldiers,
though generally young and vigorous,
live on an average only about three
years in war, and die even in peace
twice as fast as galley slaves, nnd
more rapidly than men ordinarily do
at fifty and sixty.
What a loss of property is here.
Let us suppose it costs on an avorago
SSOO to raise a soldier, and reckon
his labor for say U-tryears of his life
shortened by war at $l5O a year.
'l’he standing armies of Europe num
ber about 5,000,000 of men, so that
she sustains at this rate a loas of
|2,500,000,000 fi>r their training,
j $750,000,000 a year for labor, or
$7,050,000,000 in ten years, and tbc
sarno amount for. shortening fhctir
lives ten years, making $17,500,0CKV
000, or $1,750,000,000 yearly, even
in time of pcaoe.
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[jT Castor oil is the best and most
durable lubricator < 9 r tu @b7 axlcm
Written for the Visitor.
Not AH :i Croak.
11l 0. B. 1.l HATH.
" “
] Miry, my wife, the times nro bard; I know
not whftt to do.
The crop* me short, tnv debts unpaid, and
w intur's comiiiK too.
Your shawl is thin, my hoofs are worn, the
children's feet nro lime -
My hop—i are fi and, I iu out of heart, and sic k
with anxious care.
I've toiled from early dawn till dark, through
nil the weary year.
Hut s'-imt rot urns for labor done, make all
tin* future drear;
Aud now. to crown misfortune's list, the
railroad's fulled, they say, *’ " “
'.lid ev'vv dollar we've put in is simply
thrown away.
iio- world's got wmnir, it's off the track,
i he eHsrhieer’H away;
l or iliouyli wo work, poor blundering; rinds,
onr labor doesn't pay.
lust i. ok at that larirn new-ground field,
planted in “extra" corn;
The drouth has cut it off to liuif, ns sure as
you arc born.
You say you've cut my |wr,ts too short and
ruined that new goods?
I’ll have to move away from town, nnd live
out in the woods.
Well, that’s the "way; iust let a man get
started down the hill.
And everything in reach of him then pushes
v ith n will.
T see no light through all the gloom; the fu
ture’s overcast
With darksome clouds whose front proclaims:
“ flaunt Vamhio’s coming fast.”
Aud when I think that you, my wife, may
want for daily bread,
My spirit quails; my liraln Is fired; I wish
that I was dead.
Yes, yes! I know. It’s very wrong, and
seems a foolish thing
To doubt that And oYrshudows all with His
protecting wing;
Rut then 1 know some men in town—men
with families, too
That have no uimuis tlioy’re out of food
aud can’t find work to do.
Don’t tell me that the Matter hcara the rav
ens when they cry I
What good to them, tho’ cries are heard, if
ttiey are left to die ?
There's widow Rett -poor, helpless soul! X
know she's pious too—
With tier six brats, nnd food all gone—now
what is she to do f
The Master hears her cries through me mid
other friends, vou my?
Well, may he so; she must notVarve—send
her some stores to-day;
A id Clod, who elollies the lilies fair, and
notes the uparrow's full,
AVi 11 shoe our iroys, will pny’my debts, and
furnish you a shawl.
Had rather have a set of Airs?, [tVou'll want
a Rrussols soon—
And then, what next ?^Why,|'" Husband,
dear, just thank you for the m00r,.”
O, leasing, are you? Well, l'in glad you're
not in earnest, donr,
And that you’ll do your heat to help me
through tiiis trying year.
1 think I’ve heard it bus been said that Lady
Wisdom’s owl
Advised us nil to hear our Ills—to grin, and
not to growl.
We’ll trust the I/ird, who world,
and who Is All in All,
And thank Him too for health and strength,
e'e",though He keeps the shawl.
$2.00 A YEAR.
WIT and HUMOR.
An Irish doctor recently Mat his
hill to n lady as follows: “To oaring
your husband till lie died.”
Why is coal the most contradictory
article known to eomnieroe? Be
cause when purchased it goe* to the
cellar.
What, is the diff.-renco between a
belle and a burglar? The belle car
ries false locks, and the burglar false
keys.
Iu the State of New York (ho man
who ties his horse or team under a
shade tree, also lies him uuder a pen
alty often dollars.
Spanish women arc great S’norns.
“Bailee” call a groat many people
to church.
What’s in a name ? D. Seaver
drivo-r a St. Louis milk wagon.
Why is the job-stone liko
hom? Because it’s often imposed
upon.
Why does an omnibus conductor
always try a four penny piece with
his teoth ? To prove that it’s a four
penny-bit.
A Leeds paper says that a yojing
widow in that city, who writes well,
is training lierselffor an editor. Who
is the editor ?
Is there u country editor in the
world who can speak favorably of a
new paper, nnd not wish it success, or
say, “ Here’s our ? ”
A popular writer, speaking of the
ocean telegraph, wonders whether
the news transmitted through the
salt w ater w ill he fresh.
Gathering autumn loaves was form
erly a fashionable amusement, but
since the eruption of the pinch-back
dress tho gathering has been coufiued
to boys.
A retired schoolmaster excuses Ins
passion for angling by saying that,
from constant habit, be never feels
quite himself unless he’s handling the
rod.
Iu the caso of a man who died of
having had all his teeth knocked out
with a hatchet, an Alabama jury ren
dered a verdict of " death from axe
dental causes.”
Oxford University has just issued
“the smallest Bible in the world.”
One as small as a three-cent piece
would ba too cumbersome for soma
men to carry around.
A Duluth assessor says it is posi
tively amazing how cheap property
becomes as ho passes up or down a
street. It Tails seven percent when
ever he enters a house.
A Milwankeo editor has had re
turned to hiinabook borrowed twen
ty-seven years ago, uud begins to
have hopes of humanity after all.
Considerate father : “You should
eat Graham bread, my sou; it makes
bone.’’ Responsive youth: “Jl’ml
I'm about all bones now.”
“Oh, dear!” exclaimed a young
school-girl, when she first beheld u
cucumber —“I always thought they
grew in slices I’’
Tho most sseadfast followers of
our fortunes—our creditors.
Take caro of the poor Indian and
he’ll tako hair of the white man.
A lady put her watch under her
pillow the other night, but couldn’t,
keep it there because it distilibed her
(deep. Aud there, all the time, was
her bed-ticking right underneath her,
and she nev Although of that at ait.
A milkman was awoke by a wag
in the night with the announcement
that his best cow was choking. He
forthwith jumped up to save the life
of his animal, when, lot he found a
turnip stuck in the mouth of tho
pump.
“ 'Die prisoner at tho liar seems to
have a vey smooth face,” esid a
spectator to the jailor. “Yes,” re
plied the jailor; “he was ironed just
before he was brought in.”
vVliat is the difference between
stabb’ng a man and killing a hog?
One is assaulting with intent to kili,''
and the other is killing with intent
to salt.
What is the difference between an
auction and sea-sickness ? The one
is the sale of effects, and the other
the effects of a sail
What is the difference between a
hill and a pill? One is hard to get
up, aud the other is bard to gist
down.
Tailor measuring fat oustorae*—
M Would you hold the end, air, w hile
i go around ? h
Men w ho are used to going it pint ij
fast— the losoinwive engineers.