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) i A M11/rON. GEORGIA,
March j, 1888.
Kor the Hamilton Journal.
SEA COAST.
BY M. HUNT.
“Safe in the arms ol Jesus,
Safe on llis gentle breast,
There by His love o’er-shaded
Sweetly my soul shall rest.”
Bert Odom rose from his lazy po¬
sition in the boat as he floated idly
around the cliffs to listen to the
sweet-voiced singer. Never before
had he heard a voice like that. Soft
and smooth, it sounded like the low
distant chime of musical bells, yet
making him feel like the sad plaintive
cry of the whippoorwill does when
heard late at night over the woods
and water.
As he rounded the cliff he came
jn sight of the singer, She was lean
ing against a rock and looked as
beautiful as her voice had sounded.
H<*r dark hair and eyes looked mag¬
nificent, set off by the dainty pink
dress. As Bert came in sight she
sauntered slowly off and he floated
idly on.
Nina, the orphan child of Mr.
Adair, certainly was beautiful and
had been rich; but her father’s busi¬
ness had been gradually declining
since her mother’s death. He had,
in hopes of regaining his former
wealth, made a mad speculation only
a few weeks before his death, by
which he lost everything. When the
crisis came Nina Adair had been
obliged to seek refuge in the seaside
cottage of an old friend, And it
was there our hero had fuund her.
Gradually Bert and Nina had be
come acquainted. First he meets
her, speaks, and passes on; then they
stop to have a little chat, and finally
he joins her in her daily walks and
rambles among the cliffs. As time
flies on a new sweet life arises within
him, and he knows he has fallen
hopelessly in love with this beautiful
girl. Nina seems to recognize this
change and is more s! y and sweet
than ever. So things go on till he
can stand it no lunger, and at last
one evening as they watch the gor
geoir. sunset he tells her his love, his
longing for her. A sweet blush suf
fuses her cheeks, but with her eyes
trustfully to his face, she an
swered his questions to the satisfac
tion of both.
Some gentlemen and ladies, Bert
and Nina among them, are going to
the island to have a picnic. • When
they land all the boats are left on the
east side of the island, except one
small bateau. The morning is spent
in gathering mosses, ferns and wild
flowers. After dinner the ladies sit
down to rest while the men stroll
away for a smoke, The roll of dis
tant thunder calls them together
again. The cloud is fast rising when
some one misses Nina. They begin
to search for her, but nowhere on
the island can she be found. At last
one of them sees her far out on the
west side of the island, struggling
bravely with the fast rising waves.
And alas! they are powerless to assist
her, for they have left the boats on
the other side of the island and be
fore they can reach her any boat
would be powerless to struggle againt
the incoming waves. As they stand,
horror-stricken, on the shore they
hear her voice, like a chime of fairy
bells, rise clear and distinct over the
roar of the waves. She is singing:
“Safe in the arms ol Jesus,
Safe on His gentle breast,
There by His love o’er-shaded
Sweetly my soul shall rest.”
Those on the shore see the boat
sink from sight, and Bert Odom
knows that something has gone from
him. The words of that song were
the first he had ever heard her utter,
Ah! would they be the last?
Two years have passed away, and
we .again find handsome Bert Odom
floating lazily along. But this time
it is not arounu the cliffs of America,
but on the smooth coast of England,
Carelessly fastening his boat, he steps
ashore and starts down the country
road,
Everything is fresh. The tall trees
wave with a gentle rustle in the
wind , and , the , , large flowers
spring
n °d pleasantly while the smaller ones
peep shyly from behind the grasses
and clumps of bushes as he passes
by.
What is that fle hears? Ts it bells?
No; it is someone singing. As the
last line falls on Bert’s ear his brain
is in a whirl. He has recognized
Nina in the voice of the singer.Hard-
ly knowing what he is doing, he
turns in the direction of the voice
and in a few minutes he is close to a
small, unpretending,vine-clad cottage,
j j In the door he sees the girl he has
never forgotten since the evening she
had disappeared in the boat from the
island.
Nina looked up and saw Bert. In
a moment she was in his arms.
When she could speax: coherently
she told him that two days after her
disappearance she was picked up, un¬
conscious, in her little boat by some
trading vessels. Soon after landing
in England she was employed in the
family of a very kind lady as govern¬
ess. But she moved away in about
a year, and Nina had been with the
kind owner of ihe cottage, helping
her gather and carry her vegetaoles
to market not far distant,ever since.
“But,” she added, “I never could
make enough money to sail for home,
and so you have come to me.”
And so he had
CHAT WITH MY BETTER-HALF
Mr. Editor: —I have just had a
conversation with my better-half on
the subject of grangers and the i .r
mers’ alliance. His *.o#3ns are that
cause they are advocating is a
g00( j one if t h e y p ] ant their compass
and point their needie the right di
lection, but he says if some point one
way and others point another they
will never agree, and a house divided
cannot stand. He says he has been
watching the grangers from their in¬
fancy and they spiang up rapidly un¬
til they could nearly walk, when they
became sick—very sick—came near
dying, but there wts enough life left
in them by the nice nursing of a good
physician, Mr. T. H. Kimbrough, (by
the way a very nice man). He has
restored them to life again by pre
scribing the right remedy (as ali good
physicians do) which is perseverance
and confidence in each other. He
says that a great many joined with
the expectation that die merchants
would volunteer to come down on
the price of his goods, but the mer
chant is the last one to do business
that way. They know that the far-;
mers are not self sustaining and have
to buy their goods on time, giving a
mortgage on everything they possess,
with a waive note and the farmer has
to pay for recording of the same and
pay lawyer’s fee and twenty five per
cent over the cash price. As long
as Cail play tlllS game on the
farmers the) will never reduce their
! prices on provisions, and right here
is where the grangers began to get
| sick.
j He says now conies the Farmers’
Alliance to the front. Well, they say
they cannot stand the high prices any
longer, that the merchants have to
sell us goods cheaper. Well, the plan
they have settled upon and the reso¬
lutions they have formed are good
if they will'carry them out. He says
the farmers have wealth enough to
operate with if they just had confi¬
dence in each other, but when it
comes to putting their mites together
and toting the helpless farmers along
I am fearful they will flinch,and what
good will that do the needy, although
he is a hard-working, honest man
that has marked his way through all
this extortion and been forced to pay
twentyfive pei cent on all he eats and
cultivates, rented land and has to pay
the rent in cotton, and when he pays
for weighing and commission on his
cotton he has nothing left. If the
alliance can and will relieve this class
of suffering humanity they will ac¬
complish more than law-making pow¬
er has done with the constitution be
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fore their eyes that they cannot charge
usury direct or indirect, but it is done
and nothing said until they get a poor
fell ° vv 1IJ a li g ht -
Good night, Mr. Editor. You can
do as you like with this, but if it is
seen in print you shall hear from me
a S a * n l ^ e sweet bye and-bye.
Farmer s \\ ife,
A Few Tons Left.
The demand for the famous Gos
sipium Guano and Acid Phosphate
has be^n beyond precedent this sea¬
son. No fertilizers gave better satis¬
faction last season and the justly
earned reputation of the goods we
handle will be maintained, The
product of our factofy, the best in
America, has been larger than ever
before; but not larger than the de¬
mand. I have a few tons on hand
at Chipley, Hamilton, Cataula and
stations on the Georgia Midland
which can be had of my representa¬
tives at these places or by addressing
me at Columbus. If you would get
the begt yalue in ferti i izers use the
Gossipium Pnospho Guano.
T. J. Hunt.
p > r\ A Month can be
rnr\ made working for
|\ u \y us. ferred Agents who pre¬ can
furnish their own horses and give their who ! 6
time to employed the business.Spare moments mar be pfof
itablv also. A few vacancies intiwns
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