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A BUSCH OF WILD FLOWERS.
lavas ring through a Clover field
I cull & nosegay, wild &nd sweet,
<1f flowers, wiad-eown, at my feet—
Blooming among the m< au.iw gruss,
They nestle timid as I puss—
But gay ad any lawn could yield.
Feathery sprays of Kldor bloom, gold,
And Daisies bright pink an stars and of mold,
With Milkweed h orange
A hood of Kye, a bead of Wheat,
Some Clover blossoms, pink and s weet,
I choose to deck my study room.
In passing through this life of ours,
We find our dull© ,t days alight
With blessings hidden Uelf trom sight.
Among the wheels of toil an 1 strife
Are loving d O Is that brighten lifo,
Scattered along our path 1 ke Uuwera.
ALL IN A LIFE TIME,
by .TErriE FOBimsn hanaford.
-—
*ft!I in a life time,” whispered the maid
fcJSSK?£ a i 1 *XLfr ir, r o’,;5:. , “ a ’
i
With a worshipful - from her eyes of blue.
*Aft in a Ufe time,” the young wife sighed.
Sbe conld only weep since her husband tiled,
Afl "happiness from out of her life had gone,
Hor suu had set, while it yoc was clawn.
Happy maiden, and 001 -rowing wife.
SSl 5 SS, l &SSi£?.”.S 2 SSir.
“An la a lifo time,” continues to-morrow.
TOM
BRYSOFS CRIME.
BY “THE MAJOR."
CHAPTER XXL
death and deliverance.
That ni ht had found Randall Bel¬
mont comfortably domiciled at the
willow's cottage.
Mrs. \ au TVyck had retired, the
house had been closed, and he had
gene to his room.
lint ho knew that he could not sleep ;
instead of going to bed, he sat by
the open window. The night is mild,
as well as still; it seems to invite
thought. And he thinks—of her. He
can think of nothing else.
Long had he sat there, when lie felt
himself urged by some powerful rnoni-
tor within. A oices seemed crying in
his cars: “Fly to her! Sheisiudau-
gna!”
He hesitates; he resists. He savs to
himself, “Did sho not, with her own
lips, tell me not to come to her?” And
again and again those mysterious
promptings “Fiy seemed to fill his ear*:
to her! Uh, delay not! Sheis in
danger!”
Whatever the influence was, whether
tiie yearnings of liis own heart or an I
rYoTe i‘e=L
only Quietly leaving his the house, he waited
to bridle horse, and leaping
upon his bare back, he sped down the
roe like tbe wind. The mysterious
voiccs in lrs ears seemed to cry, “Fast-
or. faster las ter. l” rte He nhuuk enm the nm rema, reins ana anu
shouted to Ins noble steed; there was
an answering neigh, and such tremen-
-dous speed as would have unseated a
loss export rider. As he tore along the
highway, a bright glare above the
trees ui tho direction of Brysons
house met his eye. * He clung to the
horse, and increasing its pace with his
cnes, he turned into the lane, thun-
dexed through the wood, and dashed
up to the flame-wrapped house. Bry- He
leaped to the ground just as Tom
non, singed by the fire and half-blinded
by the smoke, came staggering out at
«he. front doer.
“Jessica- where is she?” Belmont
cried.
The father shook his head, and
pointed in a bewildered way up at tho
upper windows.
Frantically did Belmont dash at tho
door; but a thick volume of smoke anil
flame drove him back. With distracted
•eye he marked the window of her room;
for once he had stood in the hall above
outside her chamber, and more than
-once since had lie scanned the unsig t-
3y building, to see which window was
hers. The fire had not yet | enefcrated
beyond tho story above tbe cellar. It
wa 3 rushing out from the doors and
windows below, but could the rooms
abovo bo reached at all, it could only
be through enveloping smoke aiul fire.
“In God’s name is there no ladder
here?”Belmont cried to some of Un¬
people who had come up.
“Oh, yes; here’s one that we have
just brought around ;rom tho back of
file house,” replied one of them. “But
-it's madness to go up there now.”
“Rear it up—quick!” was the conn
maud; and, impelled heavy by stout ladder arms,
ihe upper end of the lny
Against tho sill of Jessica’s window.
The lover sprang up it, and burst
bodily through glass and sa*h. The
chamber was filled with smoke, and it
drove him back; but, filling lus lungs
with fresh air, he leaped in again.
Groping blindly about, his hands on
countered the water pitcher, with u
towel over it. He shook out the towel,
fAunged it in tho water, and bound it
over his face. Able to breathe now
though the floor was trembling under
his feet, he found the bed. liis hand
rcated on the maiden’s face; but she
neither spokt3 nor stirred. Taking tlie
wet towel from his own face, he tied it
over hers; and clasping her motionless
form in his arms, he made his way
------w indow; he emerged upon
• holding his dear liur-
den to itb one arm. lie came
unsteadnv ( 'round; where enger
and willing liana* ‘ ho ed him of id-
charge. Then, six.icug and sti.led,
he fell unconsc ou.->, am! was born<
avray and laid upon the _>ras-.
*,uito a crowd of people had by
£hjs time gathered, and the attention
of some of them was tume I to the re¬
suscitation of the sufferers. Bryson
had inhaled smoke enough on his wav
out ol the burning budding to bewil¬
der him so that fie knew not n-hat had
happened; but when his head and face
had been bathed in water, and some oi
it forced down his throat, he sat up
and looked about him. Tho cracki ng
flames were right before him. With a
startling scream he leaped to bis feet,
and start d to run toward the house.
Strong hands seized him and held him
back.
"Pool, where would yon go?” one
asked him. *I)o you want to throw
yourself into destruction ?*
“Let me gol It's burning up! 1
will save it!* he veiled. His eyes
glared like the eyes of a mania •, and
the strength of one seemed to possess
him. half a dozen men threw them¬
selves npon him, striving to pinion
| him down. \S lth one superhuman ®f-
fort he tore h mself loose from them
a]], un j rus hed to the house. A cry of
l»n, Ml-«l hi*. •» 1.0 disappeared
from sight through the flaming door*
Jfay. The eye of man never beheld
llini Ilgam. the
'1’iie flames swept swiftly through
house and burst Out at the roof. With
I , vol-
a great crash it fell, sending up *«■» a
r »1 •p*^ * 1 - >*■»
ly consumed, and ere morning nothin 2
but ihe foundation stones, tho stones
of tbe cellai-, and a pile of gray ashes
were left of the ohl Bryson house.
In time the spot itself was lost tc
men’s kuowlodge. The stones were
removed; new soil replaced tho the rums; place;
year after year crops covered
the people’s re oi lection of the old
house grew dim; arid now, almost sixty
years after, the exaot location of th<?
placo has passed from the memory oi
the few aged surviiors of the events
which we have been recording. the
Bnfc over and over again has
truth of the saying been proved, “Mur¬
der will out." In what way the secrets
of the old house were brought to light,
is yet to be related.
CHAPTER XXTL
HOPES AND FEUtS.
The efforts of the few women whe
| I had come to the scene of the cou agra-
tion to rev.ve Jessica met with but lit¬
tle success at the time. The cool
I breeze blowing across her face a tei
she was borne Irom the burning build-
iug and wrapped in shawls, gave her a
little consciousness, so that she was
able to understand tho meaning ot
"^hat was passing before her eyes. As
8lie reclined upon the grass, she saw
th(i I'awfu lending through the roof,
!lrjf ^ hissing Lae terpents. And she
heard one “Door of the bystanders say to an-
other « she thing, what 11 she say
w hen knows that iier poor father
u f lu ‘ ve ^ ’. -* 110 uneon-
» cl0UdUeas th at followed lasted for
4 at both Jessica and himsell
should be , conveyed to Mrs. Van Vyc.es.
lfc ^ d °° e tho sa “ e evening.
1 here r was a week ot severe suffer-
. him ablo leave
,-f e oro ere he was to
11 s , V ed< ,,ok a, l bis after liff»
j iQ j Qse j.j ie 8( , ars tlie burns upon
disarms. When he was released trom
t 2ie doctor’s care, and was able to leavt
^ bed and walk about the house, he
thund himself weak and thin with hi*
^ieknesgj but he thought the sacrifice
a cheup one, if bv it he had preser.ed
Jessica.
was long doubtful whether his
heroic efforts and suil'erings had saved
| ler .
He begged the doctors to be allowed
to see her. He met with a peremptory
refusal.
“I will not speak,” I 10 urged. “J
only want to look at her face.”
"No,” was the firm reply. “We dare
not allow it. Her cond tion is most
critical. The least excitement might
kill her. Should she ha pen to see
your face, I know not what effect might
be produced. While her poor Luaiu is
in its present condition, u<> one but her
physicians aud Mrs. Van Wyck must
see her.”
“But she’ll live, won’t she?” the
lover asked, with white face and trem
biing vo.ee. “Doctor, save her, and
may ask me for anything ”
you in the hands of God!”
i'felie is reply. “All that skill was
the solemn our
xud experience can accomplish shait be
lone; and Mrs. Van Wyck, besides
being devoted to Miss Bryson, is the.
best nurse anywhere about here. Y'et.
I must tell you candidly, no one bn:
this poor girl’s Maker can predict the
issue. ”
Belmont had protected Jessica from
the contact of the flames, receiving in
fiiis way which Ins own injuries; but the
»moke she had inhaled in her
sleep had well-nigh killed her on the
ipot. that night
All she lay as 0110 dead,
ind it was only when tho next day had
worn on well toward noon that a faint
ligh from her lips betokened that le-r
fluttering spirit bail returned to the
.•ares aud trials of earth.
For some days after life n ng doubt¬
fully in the balance, while the good
physicians and the widow wat bed in¬
cessantly beside her. Then, when life
had again asserted itself, a fever set in,
and the ravings of her deiir urn wen-
pitiful to hear. Disjointed sentences,
unintelligible to those who heard her.
out which rea ly spoke of the sorrows
of her life, fell fast from her lips.
A ain she knelt at tho bedside of h r
dying mother, and her tear! d promise
was repeated, to be faithful and true to
ner father always, s nee there was non
other left to lore him, Again she gave
her reluctant consent to marry Edgar
an W\ ck, because her father urged
it. Then there was her appeal to an¬
other not to seek her, or her fathei
would do him harm; language which
the widow should have understood—
but the ind, anxious soul was toe
much o cupied with the dangers of tbe
sufferer to take much heed of her do
lirious words. Other broken sentences
there were, wh en no one could have
translated. When this stage of her
fever had passed she lay perfejMy_ory-
acioua of ner surroundings, and of all
that had happened, but- weak—oh, how
weak! For davs she lay thus, taking
ifctle nourishment, too feeble to move
a limb, white as a snowdrift. Plainly
•ould it be seen by the grave aspect of
the docto s that they feared that this
stout battle for a precious life had been
fought only to meet disaster at its
c )o-e. bodily health
i>ut youth and previous Time, the great
were on her side; triumphed and for her.
phvsieian, at last time when the leafage
There came a and the birds
of that -tune was all out,
were filling the woods with their meio-
dv, that -Jessica was permitted to leave
her room and go out into the sunsh ne.
Handall Belmont found her upon that
peclact moTDinB under tl» mapletroos, ol
dnnk.hg in all the „omler!ul beauty
° Bettood by the ratio WC?.Mwthfc seat, mete
,?lt hit He , ?t‘
S;) s smiled little and held out her
fcjhe a when she would
hand. He kept it
have withdrawn it. “I T
“Yon are my preserver,”she sand.
may thank yon tor your courage and
devotion, even if tho life you have saved
is a worthless one.*
“The life I have saved will be my
blessing, even unto the day of my
death, 1 od williner! Without it, my
own existence would be worthless; with
it, i have a heart for auy fa.
Bis voice, his earnest manner, im-
mrcssed her as a ways before, with
mething like a sense of fate. And
st II she struggled, and would not sub-
mit.
“It is better that it should net be so.
You will not believe me; but. 1 tell you
that you will be happier without me.
Go your way; for :et me, while I pray
tor the richest blossiugs of life to be
witii you.” spoke against the swelling
Sho
pro nptiugs of her heart; tears that she
could not hide filled her eyes.
< nee more the music of Kandall Bel¬
mont’s voice, the elo juence of his
words, were exerted upon her. Again
ho drew a glowing picture of tho fu¬
ture that awaited her as his wife; of
the beautiful city home, and all the at¬
tractions that surrounded it. He im¬
plored her, now that every possible ob¬
stacle had been removed by tho death
of tier father, no longer to thwart the
happiness of both of them.
Ho had taken both her hands; she
trembled; she was irresolute; her eyes
avoided his; she would have tied from
him. but be held her there.
“I am weak yet,” she said, “You
overcome me; I know not what to say.
Let me go back to my room. ”
“But an answer I must have.”
“You shall have it.”
“w hen?”
She was silent. Watching her
with intense anxiety, J 10 saw shg
struggling with an intense
powerful enough to Btitle hex h \ H
Was olio abuub t idd ? lilt
His hopoo Bo»rod juj-oualy on
yielded untarily her restore hands, them. that she rnigljj
He was cruelly disappointed. y<^i,
“You shall know—I will tell
she murmured.
“But when?”
“To-morrow. *
l HAFTER XXIIL
FA EE WEILL!
She did not leave her room again
that day. Kandall wished to talk with
her again, but she refused to see him.
In tho afternoon he sent np a note to
her room, asking to be admitted, and
promising to say nothing upon a for¬
bidden subject. Her sole reply, pen¬
ciled upon the same paper, was: “You
must wait till to-morrow.”
By this time the sympathetic affairs, widow
had begun to see the drift of
ud ofleied somo advice to the anxious
lover.
“Don’t trouble her any more to-day,
Mr. Belmont,” she said. “You men
are so headstrong and impetuous! It
i3 just as she told you; she hasn’t any
strength yet, and she don’t want any
love-making at present.”
“It is not that,” he said. “She gives
me no hope; she At never the lias. I can’t
understand her. same time, I
know she loves me.”
“she’ll feel differently, after a good
night’s rest. You must wait till to¬
morrow.”
At ten o’clock the w dow softly came
into her chamber with a lamp. The
girl Jay motionless, with her eyes
closed
“Poor dear!’’said the former, as she
went to her own room; “I hope she j
will rest so all night.*'
But oOssica was not asleep. Sho had 1
not been. i
She waited an hour longer. Then '
sho rose and lighted a lamp. She
dressed h. rself, mado up a small
bundle, piaced aud hand putting the on her bonnet, j j
her on door-knob.
Theu came a moment of irresolution, i
She stood for a moment in deep and
anxious She thought. back and down. Her j
went sat
reflections were deep and distressful. J
he had thought, upon lying down
that evening, that she had settled !
everything in her own mind, a id that
her course was perfectly clear. But
now a new aud troublesome suggestion
came—now at the last moment.
18he dal not find it easy to decide.
But at last her resolution was taken. j
“He has a right to know the reason,"
she thought. “It will be painful; but
it is ody one more pang. He must
not thins me ungrateful. And it is the
onlywayto keep him from pursuing
There were writing ... materials t in . a |
drawer of the bureau She n^eed
th T,r i ! 1 1
: e a :‘V U1 ‘ lte ’
'
r0 >tra!D e<J b 3f deep J
agita n ion she at hrst f wrote, . but as
she proceeded her pen moved rapidly, ,
and sheet after sheet was Cf>rergd with
pression of her lips showed that the
task was indeed painful; but she perse-
-yered until it was finished,
she gathered up the pages, placed
them in order, folded them, and wrote
G n the outside, “Per Mr. Belmont,
Then she placed the package in a con-
spicuous place on the bureau,
j The hour was past twelve.
j ]essly bhe went extinguished out into the the hall, light, descend- noise-
the stairs, and let herself out at the
front d or.
At the gate she turned and looked
j As one who throws her past life all
j behind her, but turns for a farewell
glance at familiar scenes and places
! which shall never be seen again, did
baok at the oott ge .
, 0nly tUo 8t ,. 0DgM t, sternest resoln-
: «<>■> her through that moment
I “K’best,- gaining she whispered, rob, she walked
I ■ And the
away. fTO mVTTvrrRTV 1
TVS!
j
! Lincoln’s Youngest Boys.
•
the admims . . .
During the first year ol
tration the house was m:u 0 _>ve y c
of Mr. Lincolns _ two
t games and children, pranks William and Thomas;
younger the eldest, away at Harvard,
Robert, was for short vacations,
only coming home
The two little boys, aged eight and ten and
with their Western independence in j
enterprise, kept the house an uproar. »
They drove their tutor wild with their |
good-natured disobedience; they organ-
! ized a minstrel show in the attic; they
made acquaintance with the officc-seek-
ers and became the hot champions of the
distressed. died in Febru-
William sickened and
ary, 1862. His father was profoundly
moved by his death, though ho gave no
outward sign of his trouble, but kept
about his work the same as ever. His
bereaved heart seemed afterwards to
pour out its fullness on his youngest
child. “Tad” was a merry, warm-
blooded, kindly little boy, perfectly and inven¬ law¬
less, and full of odd fancies
tions, the “chartered libertine” of the
Executive Mansion.
He ran continually in and out cf his
father’s cabinet, interrupting with fiis his bright, gravest
labors and conversations
rapid, and very imperfect speech—for made his he
had an impediment which ar¬
ticulation almost unintelligible until he
was nearly grown. lie would perch
upon his father’s knee, and sometimes
even on his shoulder, while the most
weighty conferences were the going domestic on.
Sometimes escaping from
authorities, he would take refuge in that
sanctuary, for tlie whole evening, drop¬
ping to sleep at last on the floor, when
President would pick him up and
yjrv him tinlerlv to bed.—[Colonel
J in the Century.
.
U??™ ^orkFruit Ve^P.rs.
micro- profits made by the Italian fruit
in with the push carts which we
v.^fWthe streets, are great enough to
go fortunes were the business only
on extensively enough. Upon
investigating I found that $3 is paid for
a barrel of apples. This contaius about
fifty which are marked five cents each,
teventy-nvo to eighty at two and for five
cents, one hundred at a cent about
another hundred for half a cent. The
return therefore is $G on an expenditure
of $3. As stock is renewed once m two
days if the man have luck, he makes
fifty per cent, a day on his investment of
capital. On the other hand he is subject
to many-petty thefts and liis life is one
continual moving on to avoid the police.
The approach of one of the blue-coated
guardians of in the peace along Park when row the
at the hour the afternoon
pedlers most do congregate in that
thoroughfare, is the signal for a general
scurry, and reminds one of nothing when so
much as the flurry in the barnyard
tlie hawk circles overhead. To return
to tho profits, however, while the per¬
centage is high each the amount is little of enough money
averaged by remembered man the
when it is that majority
of them support families. Yet they save
money and in time get one of the street
corner fruit stands which in their hands
are said to be perfect mints.—[New York
Telegram.
Who Votes in London.
London's new government rests upon
a franchise so popular that practically
nobody who would care to vote is ex-
eluded. In the first place, all house-
holders are enfranchised; and this in¬
cludes every man who rents a place for
his family, even if it be ouly a small
room in the garret or the cellar of a tene-
mcnt bouse. It also includes those who
live within fifteen miles of the metropo-
,is ’ b!it own or occupy metropolitan
queers, for any purpose, worth a cer-
uin very limited rental. Ownerso* prop-
*‘ rt . v ia London, no matter where they
iive < ^ British subjects, are entitled to
vote. Widows and unmarried women
wb o are householders, occupiers authorized or
owners of property, arc also
to vote for county councilors,
The principal basis of the franchise is
the household; and the chief disqualifi-
cations are receipt of public alms and
failure to pay rates that have fallen due.
Any resident of the metropolis or vicin-
ity who is entitled to vote is eligible to
election. Furthermore, any British sub-
jeet who owns land in London, or who
»spossessed of a limited amount of prop-
orty. no matter where he lives, maybe
chosen a councilor . f the county of Lon-
<h>u. The fact of residence in one dis- |
tnct does not disqualify either in law or
in the popular judment, for candidacy m
another district.-[Cent ury.
mbs. Euzabeth Hollevbkck of Los ha^
Angeles, Cal., widow of Joe Hollenbeck
deeded in trust about$75,000 worth of prop-
erty to a fund for a home for indigent wo-
meu homeless children.
CHEAP MONEY.
I am prepared to negotiate loans at ml* si,
or eight per cent interest, as parties
desire. Money can he repaid at anv ti '
R- D. Smith. 6
ALLIANCE DIRECTORY.
COUNTY ALLIANCE.
Rev. Gr. TV. White, president.
R. H. Culverhouse, vice-president.
S. B. Causey, secretary.
L C. Futrell, treasurer.
Jeff D. McGee, lecturer.
Frank Danielly, assistant lecturer.
J. TV. Hammock, sentinel.
Meets first Thursday in January, ApriL
and October. ’
July
KNOXVILLE ALLIANCE.
R. H. Culverhouse, president.
M. F. Perry, vice-president.
B. F. Causey, secretary.
J. S. Sandifer, treasurer.
J. D. McGee, lecturer.
C. G. Power, assistant lecturer.
Jeff Wright, sentinel.
G. S. Bryant, assistant sentinel.
Meets first and third Saturdays in each
month. tf
Pi&TSCE.
Copartnership.
We have formed a cop irtnership un¬
der the name of the George TV. Greene
Company, for the purpose of carryingon
a retail dry goods business in Triangular
block, Macou, Georgia.
J. H. Timbekuakb.
George N. W. TV Greene,
Homer right,
Dan Coi/fey,
George W. Coates.
4t
GLARE!! II. CGVM
General Honse Furnisher.
572 CHERRY STREET, MACON, GA,
CROCKERY,
GLASSWARE,
STOVES & RANGES.
Every article warranted. Call and se«
me.
ATLANTA i FLORIDA R R.
TI3IE TABLE.
S UTH BOUND Erar.
NO. 5 NO. 1 . NO. 2 . NO. 6 .
.
8 00a 3 00p Lv... Atlanta... Ar 10 20a 5 40f>
12 27p 5 03p ....Williamson ... 8 15a 2 2op
12$ 23p .....Cnlloden..... ......T» peka..... G* 55 ii Ha
3 6 h
‘4 .....M u«ll*...... i037»
17p G 53p .... Knoxvillr..... 6 24S
.....Gaiffaril....,
.... Live Oak.....
5 40p 7 30r» Ar. Fori V alley. I a 5 45a 8 HO*
Trains No. 1 and 2 run daily. Going north
Nos. 5 an I 6 run trl-woek y.
Tuesdavs, Thursdays and Saturday*, and gffins
south on Mondays, Wednesdays an 1 Fridays.
T. W. GARRETT,
Superintendent. p. Howard,
M. H. Carnes, Gto.
Agent Knoxville. F. andP, Agent.
IT WILL PAY
Every Man Woman and Child
in Crawford and Adjoining
Counties To Buy
CLOTHING, HATS
AND SHIRTS
From the Live Clothing Store of
REDDING 4
368 2ND STREET,
Macon, Ca.
iy.
You are ia a Bad Fix
But we will cure you if von will pay
uf!> Men who are weak frotij 'nervous and
debilitated, suffering nervous de-
b ji ity> seminal weakness habits’ and all the
effects of ear y evil to’premature or la-er in-
discretion*, which lead de-
cay, consumption or insanity should send
lor and read the ‘ Book of Life Sent’ ” yivina
particulars of a home cure. (sealed)
Are, by addressing Dr. Parker’s Medical
aUt * Sm'-ricM In-titute, 151 North Spruce
street, Nashville, Ten 11 . Thev guarantee
a cure or no pay .—The Sunday Morning.