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VOLUME 11.
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JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA.. FRIDAY. APRIL 7. 1882.
lkVvstAVvvvY\v
A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.
‘•Such a wedding ! No bt i lesmaids.
no music, no breakfast or reception !
I declare I should not feel as if I had
been martied!” exclaimed Marion
Willoughby, throwing herself down
upon a low fauteuil in her own ele
gantly appointed drawing room and
drawing off the delicately tinted
gloves which served as a finish to ti.e
exquisite Paiuian toilet.
There was only one other m eupant
of tiie room, a man tall find handsome,
standing with one hand nestling on
the back of her chair. She did not
glance up as she spoke, or note that
Chester Thoilqy’s face had lo t its
color.
“You aro speaking of Miss Mar
vine’s wedding U’ lie said. “There
is one essentia! to most marriages
you have not enumerated in your list
of tilings lacking. Uas love wanting,
too ?”
“ Oil, no ! I1 el eve she !o\ es him.
She certain!v must do so to an almost
absurd extent. They :i e to go to
hoiHekcoj ihg in a small Hat in an
unfashionable locality up town where
lie must be away from early moniing
until opihe !l o’clock, lie occupies
some salaried position—desk in a
hank, 1 t elieve —and she a ”b ! who
might have married anybody.”
•* Honest labor degrades no man,
Marion,” came the linn, quick an
swer. ” Even a clerkship is not, al
ways to he found, an ! I would rather
break stones in the street titan live on
money acquired dishonestly or doled
out of charity, t hough in such a case
{ would ask no woman to share my
lot.”
‘•This looks like breaking stones,
docs it not:'” she laughingly answered,
letting lie: - own jeweled fingers close
over tiie man’s hand where it rested
—a hand whose shape betokened its
aristocracy, and which was white and
soft as a woman's.
At her light touch his strong frame
quivoted. lie bent and let his lips
rest, an instant caressingly on her
hair, for the girl beside him was his
affianced wife.
“ I could break stones, though,
dear, and I don’t know but that it
would make me a better man. Sup
pose I lost my money, Marion ? Sup
pose : >t were all swept away IVom me
in an hour, and I had a position of
fered me—a position which would
enable rne to live very humbly, very
much as your IV end is going to live—
tell me what would you do ?”
“You are only talking to try me,
Chester, and I hate such questions.
In the first, place it- is entirely out of
reason ; for even were It so. j a;>a, you
| know is very rich, and our home could
| always be with him.”
; “ I have said to you, Marion, that I
would rather starve limn eat the bread
|of chanty. Therefore, putting this
j possibility :i-ide, tell me what would
| you do.”
Her tinners relaxed their gra c p up
on his hand. NY as there significance
in the action ? lie smiled bittcily as
lie saw it. 1 iis lace was very pale
now. Except that he still stood be-,
hind the chair she must have noticed
it.
“You are utterly absurd this after
noon. Chester," siio said bitterly.
“ Have I not just told you that Edith
Mar vine’s wedding was more like a
funeral than a wedding,- and though
I presume 1 shall one day have to at
tend my own funeral, it will not, I
assure you, be as a voluntary agent.
Have you nothing more agreeable you
can fiud to say to me
The man shook off a certain some
thing which seemed to envelope him
in an almost visible cloud, and h.e
answered with the old, courteous
grace which suited him so well, and
had made his power with woman al
most a proverb.
Money always seemed to belong to
him by an inherent right. It was
so natural that he slum! I be rich.
No one could have imagine 1 Chester
Thorlcy pour, lie knew so well how
to expend his wealth. He gave it so
generously, yet without ostentation,
that no man envied him.
Yvt he 1 viicw half an hour later,
when he left his farewell kiss on Ma
rion Willoughby's beautiful lips that
it was farewell to all his hopes and
happiness.
The blow had already fallen. He
was a ruined man, with scarce a dol
lar be could cull Ids own—be who
had no wish ungratified money might
procure in all his thirty years of life.
FOR THE PEOPLE,
It had fallen, too. through no fault
of his own, though there was feeble
comfort in that. There was comfort,
however, in the knowledge that he
owed no man. and that he might
start afresh in the world with no
buiden on his broad slmulders or his
conscience.
True there was a deep wt>und in Ins
heait. lie had loved Muoon so well
that to give her up was bo voluntarily
renounce God's sunlight. But ail
her life had been spent amid luxury.
It was to her a necessity. Deprived
of it she would fade and droop ; and
better any lot than to watch her
struggle, arid know that he ha 1 brought
it upon her. -C*-
Besides, she had made her choice.
To her a wedding meant flowers,
music, friends, ths toilet of the bride.
'Flic future, the communion of two
hearts, the solemn responsibilities
incurred, were iurt secondary consul
e' a’ ions.
“ Good-bye, my darling!” he said,
as they parted, but when she added.
•’Until to-morrow,” ho answered
neither yea nor way.
“ To-morrow.V tiie world knew that
Chester Thorlcy’s ship had gone up
on the rocks. Many of his business
associates would have held out to him
a helping hand, but firmly and kindly
he refused every offer.
lie wrote Marion a few lines, re
calling to her mind the conversation of
the day before, and releasing her from
her vows to him.
“ If any good fortune comes to me.”
lie concluded, “you shall hear of it.
If I am sili.nt, you may know it is
because my life is wrapped in silence
and shadow. Bless you, darling, for
the light you nave east upon it! It
will be like looking back to heaven.
1 dare not see you again—I tested
my strength to its full yesterday.
God grant that some better than i
may win you. To love you better is
not within his power. Nor must you
think I blame you that you shrank
from sharing the new life upon which
I enter. Flowers cannot live without
sunlight. Even as I 'spoke I knew
your answer. I only wanted to be
sure that I made no mistake in in
terpreting the best course for your
happiness.”
And then, with a few more warm,
passionate, lo\i lg words of farewell,
the letter closed.
Two years passed, and the little
world which had known , Chester
Thoriey so well knew him no mo e lie
had entirely disappeared. It were as
though the sea had opened and swal
lowed him up.
Marion Willoughby was Marion
Willoughby still, if she Suffered she
made no sigh : but those who had seen
the pledge of her engagement to Ches
ter Thoriey, noticed that she wore it
still, and others, yet more narrow
watchers, observed that always, when
she entered a crowded room, she would
take a hasty glance about although
expecting to find someone cut there.
She was as yet but twenty-two, a
belle and a beauty’’ still. The third
winter of his absence she went west
to spend several weeks with an aunt.
“ I cannot spare you,” her father
had said when the invitation came.
But she. going close to him, and
laying her head a moment on his breast,
had said :
“ I think, papa, it would be best.”
They were simple words, buthe in
terpreted them aright. The old wound
would not cease its Idee ling. She
wanted to go amid new scenes, so lie
only kissed her, and bade her remem
ber that the old father awaited her re
turn.
“You have not been through the
steel works,” someone said to her one
day. “It really is a most interesting
sight. Will you join a party if we
make up one to visit them, Miss W.l
lough by’ r
“With pleasure,” she answered J
lightly.
And her aunt, charmed with success j
at her beautiful niece, smiled a Clay
Clayton’s numerous devices to en
snare Marion's society.
lie was the great parti of the place.
She had heard something of some ear
ly disappointment in-Marion’s life. It
would be a splendid triumph thus to
obliterate it, and already she fell quite
sure that the fiat lay in the girl’s own
hands.
The morning appointed for the ex
pedition dawned beautiful and bright.
They seemed indeed like drones, in
truding upon some busy hive of work
ers, as they entered the great build
ing and looked about them. Depart
ment after department they visited,
watching with interest the delicate,
subtle machinery and its wonderful
working.
Marion's check flushed with inter
est, and Clay Clayton, noting it though'
he had never seen her look so beauti
ful.
To-day he determined he must speak
when suddenly lie heard a little cry.
and glancing tip. saw her standing
quite apart from the group, her eyes
ablaze, her lips quivering.
At a little distance from her, ad
justing some pieces of machinery’, was
a man in a workman’s blouse. Her
cry also attracted him. and fie looked
up.
Their eyes met. His face grew
deathly pale, but he gave no other
sign of recognition. Sluf went straight
toward him, oblivious af all, with hand
outstretched.
“ Chester 1” she said, in a voice
scarce louder than a whisper. “At
last!”
lie bowed low in response, and took
no notice of her hand ; but the old,
dauntless pride was in the uplifted
head and fearless glance.
“ Did you know that I was here?”
she questioned.
“ No.” he replied ; “ I am r.o longer
in your world.”
“ You will come to see me?”
“I cannot.”
Here his voice broke a little.
“ Mr. Clayton,” she said, “let me
present my friend Air. Thoriey."
(Spite of the innate breeding of the
man, some of the instructive surprise
at hearing a steel worker add.esscd
by Miss Willoughby as a fiiend. made
itself appaicnt in the manner he yet
stove to conceal. ,
Then the party passed on. lie won
dered, however, ivliv Marion lingered
a moment in the office to address ti e
superintendent some question as they
came out into the air. lie had ine’anf.
too, to ask her, on the way home, the
question which all the day and for
many days, had been trembling on
his bps, but there was anew expres
sion in her eyes and about her mouth
which instinctively told him that this
was not the time to plead the cause.
Had that follow inside, who bowed
so like a gentleman, been other than
a workman, he might have suspected
him as in some way responsible. It
was quite singular enough as it was
that Miss Willoughby should lur e ad
dressed him as a fiiend. Doubtless
'miie man who had seen better days,
and for whom she felt a womanly sym
pathy.
“ Can I sec Sir. Thoriey ?”
The mistress of the humble little
cottage in one of Chicago's suburbs
looke 1 up. amazed, at the beautiful
young lady who asked the question.
“Indeed, 1 suppose yon may. lit
has gone up to his room, whore he
spends all his evenings, and not a bit.
of supper to-night i.us he touched.
Shall I cal! him down?” “No; let
me go to him.”
“ it’s the first room to the right of
the stairs, miss. lie’s tiie only lodg
er I have, and you’re his first visitor.”
But the girl heeded not the words.
A strange vision she surely was us
she stood an instant outside his door,
clad in costly velvet and rich furs ;
then she softly turned the handle and
entered.
lie did not hear her. lie had t! rown
himself upon his sofa and buried his
head in its cushions. lie was so still,
so motionless, she thought he must be
sleeping.
She swiftly crossed the room, and
laying her hand gently upon bis shoul
der, called bis name.
“My God!” he cried, and would
have started to his feet but that she
held him b. ek, fa 1 ng on her knees
beside him.
“Chester,” she pleaded, “you would
not come to me. My pride is less
than yours—my love greater. I have
come to you. Did you think my heart
uttered the unworthy words for which
you have punished me all t hese years ?
I have tried so long to find you—so
long and so hopelessly !”
And she bowed her beautiful head
and sobbed outright.
“Hush, dear, hush! Yon should
not have come here, Marion. It might
compromise you.”
“Compromise me with try future
husband? See, Chester!” and she
held up tl'.e hand on which gleamed
the ring, “I have never accepted my
freedom.”
•• My own brave gi;k” lie said, his
voice softening even while he girded
himself up to the strength of which he
stood in such need. “ But the heaven
you open to me cannot be. I am
foreman in the works where you saw
me to-day, Marion. My knowledge
and love of machinery stood rne in
good stead. I heard of this npeniiw
“ l CZ>
am! secure*! it. To dav I was a.jlist
ing some and alien It piece •:' wo: k l dared
not trust to an\ workm.n. i am in
receipt of a liberal sa'ary. which lain
laying aside, dear, living as poorly as
i can, hoping one day to buy an inter
est in the business. One or two im
provements I have made are rapidly
attaining me this goal ; but it is still
far on. I cannot ask you to wait, nor
to forget the years of labor which have
helped me to reach it.”
“ i have waited already too long,
Chester,” she whispered. lam ready
now to become your wife.”
Ilis face grew deadly white.
Do not tempi me.” he said hoarse
iy
“ Ob, Chester,” she said. When I
have so much money, why are you so
cruel and so pioud ?”
“ I cannot g<< hack to a 1 fe of - am
and dependence,” lie answered —‘.even
with you, dear love, to brighten it.
Bless you for coming to me, Marion !
Bless you for showing me all that a
noble woman can be ! The memory
of this hour will lighten all future
years.”
“ Chester, do you not understand
me.” she persisted. “ I ask you to
return to no life of dependence. I
will forget that l have a single dollar
in the world except what you give me.
I will share whatever home you offer
me—oven this. For better, for worse,
darbng. we pledge ourselves as sa
*redi\ :* though a.t\ aly wc ic.d ‘ood
before God's altar. In God's sight i
am vour wife. I claim my right to
share your dark days as well as those
on which the sun of prosperity may
shine!”
lie strove to answer her, but his
voice broke. She had conquered ; but,
womanlike, she gave him the glory of
her victor)' as she sobbed out her hap
piness upon his heart.
A month later there was a quiet
wedding at which wete neither flowers,
nor bridesmaids, nor music ; but Ma
rion Willoughby missed nothing. It
was only after the ceremony had been
performed that Chester showed her
the document which had been his wed
ding gift from the firm he had served
so fa t ifuFy, and which admitted liin
a j a junior paitner from that date.
But she smiled sadly as she looked at
■ t tl r nigh a mist o 'tea’s.
“ ou said once, dear.” she whisper
ed, “that flowers to live nerd sunlight.
My darling, I ha! not then made the
wonderful discovery that love makes
•uulight everywhere ! With your heart
ny home, be outward adornments
what they v\ ill, I envy no king Ids pal
ace, no queen her throne !”
Bill Arp.
[The Atlanta Constitution.!
Nipped in the bud. It looks like
there is no security from anything.
Ours was no second-hand orchard ; we
planted it and the blooms have for
three years looken so sweet and promis
ing, and now this is the third year the
fruit has been killed. I suppose we
could have built iillle fires all about,
but wl o knows when to build 'em. Ii
is poor comfort to build 'em when there
0 no danger, and it is hard to tell when
there is danger. Reckon we will just
have to keep the orchard forlhejfiowe s.
like we do a crab apple Bee. for they
are m ighty pretty. One of my nabors
lives right under the western slope of
a mountain and his fruit is never killed,
lie had plenty last year but the sun
don't rise at his house till its about
two hours high and that wouldn't suit
my folks at all. Well, it might suit
tlse folks but it wouldn’t suit mv husi
ness. It would be dinner time before
breakfast. The peach crop is very
uncertain among these Cherokee hills,
blit most everybody can have a few
trees around the house where they are
protected. We can’t expect to have
all the good things in our place. My
Irish potatoes were killed down the
other morning and that hurt my feel
ings for I was a little proud that I
was ahead of my nabors. But they
will come out again and so there is
some comfort left and a good deal of
hope. Hope says the peaches tire not
all killed for a man can’t examine all
the blooms and maybe there will be
enough for the chi! Iren. That is the
main thing after all; enough for Ike
children is what the world is working
for; enough pleasure and happiness.
How we do love ’em and worry over
’em by night and by day. If we had
no children I think 1 would just quit
work and toil right suddenly and—go
x fishing. But there is not much time
to frolic on a farm at this season of the
year, for my almanac says, “About
this time plant corn,” and we are doing
it all around these parts. I can sit on
my pazzer and. look into five farms
and see the darkeys and the rnules
and hear era, too, and its gee and haw,
and git along Fete, and wltar von
gwin.e Nell, come round dar, I tell you ;
and theres no end to this kind of
affectionate, one-sided discourse until
the horn blows for dinner, and then
the most knowing mules give a biay
all round. Its astonishing how much
they do know and can ho made to un
derstand. I had a big mule who would
never give but one pull at a root unless
the dardey who plowed him hollered
out, “ Rotten root, I tell you!” ami
then he would break that root or some
thing else, for he had confidence in the
nigger. It. always did seem like there
was a kind of confidential relation
between niggers and mules, a sort of
a treaty of peace and equality, for
there is no other animal can stand the
darkey and there’s no other human
can get along in peace with a mule.
When they are alone together in a big
field with long rows the darkey talks
!.o him all along the line and the mule
listens in respectful silence but if two
darkies are plow ing together they talk
to one another and the mules are
snubbed. There is a | ower of corn
being planted this spring and not much
more than half a crop of cotton so far
as my observation goes. I hope we
will make enough food for the country
for we can do with less clothing better
than be stinted in vittels. There is a
power of folks dependent upon the
farmers and a great responsibility
upon in. Politics raises a mighty
rumpus and takes up a sight of room
in the newspapers, but when you com-
pare it with farming it all seems sorter
like a monkey show that is going on
for amusement, and the farmers feel
like doing like Judge Stewart’s Texan
Ranger, who went to see an amateur
musical performance in Rome one
night during the war. lie was a rough
specimen about six feetand two inches,
and a hat like an umbrella and boots
like stove pipes, and spurs that jingled
like trace chain**, an<J a couple of navy
pistols to set orf his beard, and be paid
his half a dollar and took a stand be
hind an empty bench in the rear and
looked on w ith a lofty contempt and
whenever the performers closed apiece
and the cheering began the ranger
rattled the old bench most alarmingly
and exclaimed, “ souy, Sony, sou)’,”
like he was driving hogs—and he kept
it up until he monopolized the show
and had it all to himself. These
premat lire candidates for governor and
so forth remined me of Judge
Lochranc’s story of the Irishman who
thought he had a fast horse and so he
put him in the races and bet on him.
He run pretty well, but seemed to run
better behind than before and the
Irishman clapped his hands with
delight and exclaimed, “faith aud St.
< TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM.
t SI.OO for Siz Months.
Patrick, just look how ho drives ’em.”
i>ut its a!! right. I'm glad to see the
waking up. Its all for
he good of the people and will keep
lie old democracy on its good behavior,
L'hee’s nothing idee having sentinels
>:i tiie watch towers. Sometimes the
>atty goes too fast, and, these indepen*
1 cuts act like a balance wheel, a
regulator, a brake—sorter like Tinny
Rucker’s ycarlin, for they say when
Pinny was a hoy he tried tor an hour
o drive a yearlin out of the pasture
uid finally he got him by the tail and
hey. run and run and bellowed and
run until somebody hollowed to him
and said: “Tinny, you can’t hold
hat yearlin ; are you trying to
do?” “I know I can’t hold him,”
sa'd Tinny, “ but I can make him uo
slow.”
Jesso. That is all these indepen
dents are after. They don’t expect
otlice. but they have more abounding
patriotism than anybody, and are
holding on to the tail of the concern
just to make it go slow. Some of’em
I reckon are a little disappointed lie
cause the train went off and left ’em,
an 1 it don't do any good to laugh at
’em no matter whether they dident run
fast enough or started too late. Let’s
he tender with ’em, for maybe their
turn will come after while and they
will be tender with us. Thebe are a
power of ups and downs in this world,
and in politics they are mostly downs
—especially down south.
Dill Arp.
Grateful Women.
None receive so much benefit, and
none arc so profoundly grateful and
show such an interest in recommend
ing Hop Bitters as women. It is the
only remedy peculiarly adapted to the
many ills the sex is almost universally
subject to. Chills and fever, indiges
tion or deranged liver, constant or
■periodical .sick headaches, weakness
in the back or kidneys, pain in the
shoulders and different parts of the
body, a feeling of lassitude and de
spondency, are all readily removed by’
these Bitters.— Courunt.
Elastic Herr Haag.
DOCTORS TUGGING AND WONDERING AT
Ills INDIA RUBBER CUTICLE
The “India Rubber Man,” who has
been a source of astonishment to med
ical men in Germany and England,
arrived here on Tuesday, and was yes
terday afternoon the subject of an ex
amination by physicians and surgeons
at the Ashland House, where he is
stopping. Mr. G. A. Far ini, to whose
care the “Gummi-Menscli” was con
signed, acted as his introducer and
interpreter, for Herr Heinrich Haag,
the curiosity in question, who is a na
tive of Nuremberg, is a simple minded
upholsterer, innocent of any other
language than German.
Herr Haag is a lightly built Ger
man with reddish brown hair, sandy
moustache and whiskers, and blue
eyes, and weighs only 130 lbs. The
most critical observer, seeing him in
a state of repose, would fail to find
anything queer about him. But all
the medical men gasped when, seizing
the skin of his throat, he hauled it up
so far as to completely mask his face
up to the eyebrows. Then he drew
the skin over each eye so as to lap
over on the cheek, pulled the skin at
the point of his nose down to his chin,
clutched the skin of his breast and
hauled it out a good seven inches* from
his body, reactied over his shoulders
and dragged up flaps of skin that
looked from the front as if lie was
pulling an India rubber blanket over
.his back and seizing tße skin of his
knee, drew it out so far that lie twist
ed it up in a knot as one might a wet
towel. Whenever the skin was let go
it glided back smoothly into place
without a wrinkle, and looked like
a ybody else’s skin.
The doctors crowded around the
India-rubber-skinned man.lugging his
cuticle in all directions, held lights
behind the broad, loose flaps of it, and
slightly scorched it in their eagerness
to sec tiie circulation of the blood in
the delicate blood vessels of the skin.,
Mr. Ilaag showed a large scar on
iis right atm. where Prof. Leube, of
Erlangen cut out a piece of skin to
get at the bottom facts about it. The
scar has not grown fast to the flesh
underneath, but pulls six inches awav,
as if it was merely a patched or darn
ed spot in a loose garment. Prof.
Leube found that there was no sub
cutaneous fat, that there was a strange
lack of tissue between the skin and.
the flesh, and that the porous process
es fixing the skin to the deep fascia
are loose and long.
Mr. Ilaag is to be made the subject
of a lecture to the students in tlie
University Medical College on Tues
day next at 1 P. M., when a calcium
or electric light will be employed to
show the circulation of the blood in
his skin. The doctors agreed that his
is a surprising case of dermatolysis,
or “slippery skin.”
Gumming Clarion: “ There is a ne
gro in this county who makes imitation .
persimmons out of wood, which he be
smears with persimmon beer, having
other ingredients which he will nut
tell what they are. He takes twenty
of these, fastens a string to one side
of them and a bearded hook to the
other and hangs to bushes along fence
rows just before a big frost aud on tiie
wane of the moon’s first quarter. The
morning after the first full moon lie
visits the bushes and finds that lie has
twenty opossumsou each bush, lie
has been known to catch four hundred i
in one night.”
NUMBER 7.