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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.