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53 N this
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's m e r u i a 1 age
\ there can be no
\\ good why T reason i 11>
. - \ u r y
HaSc, vlllago should
/ 'have been
placed so near the summit of the hill, but, so
it is, and all but n few of the farmers around
about have to toil upwards in order to reach
tho half dozen stores there and the three
churches. I’erhaps the original settlers of
western Massachusetts had an eye, or two,
for tho beautiful, for thero is not a habita¬ j
tion tn Berkshire county that commands n
more extensive or picturesque view. The
natives of Tilbury seldom montion the scou-
erv, but not many years ago It attracted tho
admiration of wealthy people from a dis¬
tance, nnd they set up their summer homes
there. It made a marked change tn tho vil¬
lage, the more because a portion of the new
comers found it .pleusureahle to remain
through the winter. It was thus that evil
entered and brought unhappiness to Heze-
kiah Martin.
My mind wanders back to that time when
ns a child I listened to his stentorian tenor
voice lending tho singing from tho choir loft
of tho ancient Congregationalist church.
There were two long services every Sunday
then, and I recall that when the new preacher
joined in the movement to abolish tho after¬
noon sermon Hexekiah was one of those who
stood hardest for tho old custom, and when
tho inevitable reform was finally accom¬
plished.' the sturdy chorister never looked
upon his minister in the game light that he
had before, lie was more faithful than ever
and sung nil the louder as if to rnako up in
fervor for lack of opportunity; but when tho
daring divine finally went his way, and an¬
other preacher took the pulpit, tho chorister
felt as if a great burden had been lifted; ns
if the parish had escaped a most dangerous
affliction.
Tho years turned steadily along and Here
kiah overcamo every difficulty that choir
leaders are subject to. He pacified tho jealous
sopranos, raised up now bassos, sung four
consecutive Sundays all alone when tbo
choir deserted him In high dudgeon because
ho refused to approve of a new anthem book,
and in many other ways demonstrated his
fitness for the work until*prosperity In the
shape of .summer visitors fell upon Tilbury. ; }
Then began a quiet, insidious trouble, as im-
perceptible at first ns the approach of old
age. that eventually overcame him.
The first manifestation of revolution canio ’
in a division of opinion in tho parish over
tbo choice of a new preacher, for old Mr.
Spooner had begun to feel that he was some¬
how in the wav, and ho resigned before the
people were fully aware that they wanted to
hear u now voice. lAtro were two leading
candidates for his place, a young aud elo¬
quent preacher and a zealous worker, and an
elderly man against whom not a word could
bo said. The newcomers in Tilbury, joining
hands with the younger members of tho
church, elected the young man, and ns the
contest hud not been long or determined,
then- w as a s-ieedy healing of differences aud
no lack < f harmony. Even then Hexekiah
felt a \uu presentiment that all would not
I* ui-:'; ■ :’-n hi in, but several months passed
In-fore he received any direct intimation that
the parish would appreciate a change in tho
choir loft. Tho first ho heard of it was in a
discussion.among his singers at a Saturday
evening ivlii-arsal. ft was not meant that
lio should hear, but ho entered tbo vestry uu-
expcctedly. Sam Hinckley, one of those
toHtfW and * high note, sung w tne
the shadow*.
Then Henridtb footed about the bweh io
of him. He picked up erne of th*u*w
book* brought tn by the quartet. He
at the cover and let It fall. Taking
lamp from it» socket be held it »o that be
see, and pramOty dnnr fort* the utt
collect ion of anthem*, every tow# tn
which lie knew by heart, *© aacred to him.
and yet so speedily btddeu away where it
should serve nobody. Ho replaced the lamp
ami turned the page* to "Coronation," the
fin* piece sun* by a choir under bis direc¬
tion more than a lifetime ago. Fondly be
looked at the familiar note* and then, hi*
chest thrown out aud his head held up, bo
sun* the grand old tune and Its magnificent
words with all the fervor and all the poster
that his voice ever hod commanded. From
beginning to eud the hytun rang through the
dcaerted gloomy church, and Dr. Wiiliam*.
driving by in husto to attend the iiis of a far
off patient, wondered that the rehearsal
should have been continued lb late. When
tiio last note hud ceased Hexekiah stood with
the book still open and his head still np, but
the tears were courstpg down his face in
steady streams. ,
At last he sank into a chair, and with a
great pang at the heart ho taw upon the
twiicb beside the volume of newfangled tunes
a littlebook of manuscript music. When he
was a young man of not more than 50 Hrse-
kiah had taken it into his head (hat he would
write music, and the several anthems that ha
had composed In pure harmony, but with
crude progressions, had been laboriously
copied into l>ooks, nnd liad been used oc¬
casionally ever since in church service.
Wliat had they been doing with his music?
Was it not enough that they should discard
him in his old age, and bis ways and his
llooks, without hunting up his feeble hut
earnest compositions to laugh at them I That
could not lie forgiven! With melancholy
fingers be turned the leave* His inspection
stopped nt nn anthem for Christmas, com¬
posed on words taken literally from the
Bcriptures. There it was, with Its introduc¬
tory recitative for baas, and a double fugue,
as ho called it, when the angels’ chorus was
reached. His wife had sung the treble be¬
fore the left tiio choir, and when with patient
resignation ho bad laid her in the grave, hi*
daughter had ]>erformed her part, and since
she married ami moved away the anthem
had not been sung. With wbat grand emo¬
tion he had heanl the voices begin the first
fugal movement:
Clo - ry to God tn the high • • •
And how sweetly tbo second movement
followed) and how they worked in together)
(Slo-rj to Odd In tb*
Ole- n *e 0<4 U I*.kiifcwt.
Aud now it was all held up for tbo smiles of
a modern quartet!
The old chorister's head sank upon the
boncli, anil bis tears blurred the notes on the
ancient page.
“Gracious mossy! Uezekiab, wake upl
wake up'Kiah; you’ll ketch your death of
cold? Come!”
It was Peter Stone, the sexton, dam-
founded by surprise, shaking tho old chor¬
ister violently by the shoulder. Painfully
Hexekiah raised ids head.
“Merry Chri-tmas, Peter; I’d rather stay
here,” he said feebly when be saw where he
was.
Peter laughed almost hysterically and
tngged away persistently at the old man’s
shouldeix
“Coinu down to the firo,” ho exclaimed;
“the choir will bo here right aw ay to re¬
hearse for the service.”
“Yes, I’ll go,” answered Hexekiah, aud
with great difficulty h« dragged his stiffened
limbs down the staire Into the vestry, where
the furnace was already roaring with a
freshly made fire. He submitted to be
rubbed and slapped by Peter to induce a
quicker circulation of tits blood, hut he gave
no clear answer to tho wondering inquiries
as to how lie cnine to bo locked into the
church over night.
Presently the organ upstairs Ix-gan to
sound. Hezeklah shivered anil Peter rubbed
him the harder. Then tho voice of tho bass
in the new quartet was heard reciting: *
“And there were shepherds abiding in tho
field.”
Tho old chorister listened with staring
eyes. Could it be? The long recitative came
to an end, nnd then all tho voices took up in
proper order tho angels’ chorus.
“VYliat does that mean, Peter?” exclaimed
Hexekiah, starting up.
“Why, In ’tw,-v.i meant as a Christmas sur¬
prise your honor. 1' icy’re goin’ to sing
your piece.”
The old chorister broke away from tho
sextoii and Yhe hobbled up the "stairs. When be
reached organ loft they were singing
“And on earth peace, good will to men.”
Hexekiah waited until they were done, and
then in a low, grave tone that startled the
gingers. h«said:
“I wish you all a merry Christmas, neigh¬
bors. I’ve had bard feelings against you,
aud 1 pray that God will forgive me and
cause you not to took unkindly on an old
man. This is more than I deserve.”
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Severe Cases ef Blood Poison.
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J. O.Gibson. Meridian, Mis*., write*: “Far
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from blood poison. Several prominent phy¬
sicians did ms little if any good. I began to
use B B. B. with very little faith,lint, to my
utter surprise it has made me a wsl] anil
hearts person.'’
Z. T. Hallerton, Macon.Ga., writes. “I con
traded blood poiaou. I first triad physioUns
and then went to Hot Bpring#. I returned
home t ruined naan physically. Nothing
aeemsd to do me any good. My mother per¬
suaded me to try B. B.B. To my utter as.
t< nishment every ulcer quickly heeled.”
Braj. Morris, Atlanta, tin . writes: “I suf¬
fered years trum syphilitic blood poison
whieh refused to be cured by *1 treatment.
Physicians bad no appetite,t pronounced had pains It a in hopeless hip* and cat* joints I
and uy kidneys were diseased. My throat
was ulcerated and my breast s mass of ran.
sin* sores. In this condition I eommsnoed
icse of B B. B. I healed every ulcer and
sore and anred me completely within two
months.” desl&lnt
answer to ms last expression, --i snow just
how you feci. You want to please the smart
folks on the hill, and 1 haven't got a wore! to
say against them, ccpt it does seism’s if they
needn’t come to Tilbury and expect to run
things in city style. They want a quartet,
now, don’t they t and they want to interdueo
new music, don't they fund not let the congre¬
gation join in, ’eept on one hymn, don’t they I
and they’re gom’ to try to make Hexekiah
step down on account of bis age, and ho been
chorister for fifty yean, don’t they? aiut
they, l should say !”
"Git up, there, Jiir, g’loug with ye!” ex¬
claimed Mr. Davis. “Youbo putty sharp,
Marthy; ef you was to look through the holo
in one of my millstone** and see the other a
grindln’ you’d think you saw clean through
both, wouldn’t ye? hay? but I don’t think
you’d mnkp much of a hand to run a church,
Marthy. Hay?”
And »o, with good-natured obstinacy the
discussion was continued until Mr. Davie
helped his wife out and led the horse into the
bdTn to unhitch.
Now that the chorister knew that there
was a feeling that his services were not re¬
quired, tho parish committee hoped that ho
would reliove them of discomfort by resign¬
ing voluntarily; but weeks passed and Hexe¬
kiah retained his place without a word. So
at last it was determined that he must bo
approached in a Christian, neighborly spirit,
and induced to consider tho matter in the
right light. As the oldest member of the
committee, Philander Davis was deputed to
do tho talking, but though he had accepted
the appointment with a cheerful sense of lta
importance, his confidence failed him when
ho faced tho old chorister one October even¬
ing in Hezekiah’s little parlor. The other
members of tho committee sat looking at
their bats while Mr. Davis coughed awk¬
wardly and began:
“Peelin’ tolerable well these days,’Kiah?
Hay?”
“I’ve been enjoyin’ good health all turn-
mot, Mr. Davis,” responded Hexekiah with
dignified asperity.
“Wall,” said Mr. Davis, after a wretched
pause aud another cough, “we’ve como up to
talk about the music.”
Mr. Davis waited for the chorister to lead
tho way to what must follow, but Hexekiah
kept silent So tho spokesman continued:
"You see, ’Kiah, the parish thinks th6y\l
ought to be something of a change.”
Hexekiah could bold out no longer.
“Neighbors,” he said with a trembling
voice, “I can't make no change. I’ve stood
up in tho loft there more’n fifty years and
haven't missed but two Sundays I've sung
the good old music that you and I, Philander,
was brought up on, and 1 can't sing much
else. I’ve kept the choir together for you,
and if tho money stood in the way (Hexekiah
received $50 a year) I’d keop it up for noth¬
ing. No, don’t say ’taint money; I know
that; I know you want a high toned quartet
mid that you’re willing to pay. But—I’ve
dono my lest, neighbors.”
Tho old chorister bowed his head upon hia
hands, nnd tlie parish committeemen wished
they bnd not come. Mr. DaVis nibbed the
back of his head and his colleagues looked
sternly nt him.
“Wo liato worse’n thunder to hurt your
feoliu’s, 'Kiah, hayf” ho began again, when
the chorister stood up aud interrupted him.
“I know," ho said; “you don’t want to tell
me I’m too old. But, praise the Lord! I’ll
not stand in the way of the parish’s good. I
resign right here.”
But the committee was not wholly lacking
in humau sympathy, and it was ngreed that
Hexekiah should sing until the cud of the
year, and tho chorister consented, though
with less appreciation of tho favor extended
to him than most of the committee had ex¬
pected.
“Blessed if I didn't feel sorry fur the old
man,” said young Deacon Ooodsjieed, speak¬
ing of the matter several days later. Ho did
a good many others, but os the cud of tho
J’ear approached the sympathy lost Its keen¬
ness, and in tho same degree tho ambition of
tho younger members Increased, so that
eventually tho desire tobavo a big display of
music on Christmas led to another call on
Hexekiah, tho result of which was that tho
old chorister yielded his place at once w ith¬
out a word of protest.
The celebration of the kindly festival be¬
gan with a musical aervico on Christmas ove.
The new quartet was in placo and Hexekiah
sat with tho audience. In deference to old
time custom some of the hymns w ere sung by
tho entire congregation. The old chorister
tried to sing with the others, but after a few
bars tho tears somehow got entangled in hia
voice, aud, ns he could not sing and weep
too, ho stopped tinging- When it was all
over several of hi# neighbors approached him
to say that they didn't think ther#'d been
any improvement, and Ilecekiab Bbook each
one by the band and answered nothing.
The last gossiping couple bad left tbo
church, the sexton had blown out the lights'
and locked the heavy doors behind him.
Weigh bells jingled faintly away out of bear¬
ing, and the slow footsteps of the sexton
crunching on the half trodden snow mingled
with the tones of the clock in the high tower
striking ten. Then a door inside the vestry
opened, and out of a closet w here brooms
and dust pans were kept an old man came
hesitatingly. He mode bis way very slowly
up the broad stairs to the main meeting
room. At the door leading to the ehoir loft
ho paused a moment. His band was on the
knob, but he turned it not More slowly than
before he went down the aisle and dropped
into a pew. He sat there in the darkness a
long time, bis head sunk forward on his
breast A half hour, may be, passed, before he
rose and inarched with determined step to the
choir door, and up the stairs to the
familiar loft H# found a match in his
pocket and lit the lamp that bung
near the bench, where Hexekiah for more
than fifty years hod song God’s praises and
carried the voices and spirits of the congrega¬
tion with him. The dim yellow ray threw
gloomy shadows of the pew backs Into relie
Just disclosed the pulpit st the further end of
the chursh, gave faint hints of evergreen fes¬
toont on the walls, apd here end there the
laurel worked words “Emanuel,” “Glory to
God iq the bighset," and »o on, thst bad been
placed there with great toil by the young
men end women of the parish in honor of the
day so near at hand; but hod yon been thswe
you would have semi only the potrhsrch'aJ
farm of the chorister with a sadly bitter look
on his fsce gastttg at the gloom about thn
pulpit Was bo thinking bow often be bnd
stood solemnly thus while the minister waa
preying? Pcvhs** so. few tremuiony,"Aa»mr" after n mexnm tf
hi#-Uss Darted, and a
With It* intent# Itching, dry, fe»t skin.
ful power ovor this disease, It
blood and expel*
hMi* without asm
log A Co, many polheeaw ■Uttnwi
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10 sores > h.j 1*. d innl.e c-orpo ate iirr.it*
The « un wood wtrtSM will v*im nearly iirnn; jwf pay for iv»r It,and it,atm then kite tl»<
land is worth or r price atked for It.
»<-rc», 100 in woreU part in side ptgfity
lie. Sd Mtw iasitlecity limit#.: : .tphtri
side.it) it. to 10 .lt-, inside ».li. city g(io4h«W.#>tBl HhH< .
acres frufo. afP^r?! '•
out it II'MIUV, l.oiiac-, barns, inti dm, I
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(«. '. UNMMJHAJI
Re d K.Ufe Agent
»IO ■HOADWAV,
INDERCORN8
ifr fcwrCt
Farm and House and Lot For Salt
A 2023# acre farm is " miitu of Griff!u, Ga
80 acres In woods, 120 In splendid slate of
cultivation, *d for improved cleared farm of stumps and rooks, Machin¬ fix-
stock, and fodder machinery. will be sold with
ery, farm If corn
wanted. All ready for business anoth¬
er year. lot In Also, Griffin, a large roomy For house and two ad¬
acre Griffin, (la. particulars
dress me at (id., car# Clark Cl-A&fo * Son.
septlUcUwHm THAU
Executor’s Sale
By 'virtue of an order granted by the Court
of Ordinary highest of Spalding County, I will sell to
door tho in Griffin, bidder, before the court hoade-
during the legal hour* lt<j>, m
sale, on the first Tuesday in January,
the following property tielonging to the
estate of Blinds II Doe, late of said eottflff,
deceased, for the purpose of distrlbutim.
imong the heirs, to-wlt; Two city lot# in
(iriflin, descrilmd ns follow*: one two room
house and lot in the comer of 15th and Pop-
la-* streets, one fonrth acre; and one four
room house and lot on Taylor street, ope
acrj-. Term* of sale, oashoada^ of sale, i
Administrator’s Sale.
WATCHESJ
DINNER ★ JEWELRY, ★ |j
AND TEA SETS!
DECORATE!) LUSTRE AMO PUUt WHITE
ENGLISH GRANITE WARE.
DECORATED AND FLAW CHINA PLATE
SETS, GLASS, TlN AND WOODEN WARE.
KENTUCKY COOKING AND HEATING
STOVES. SEE THEM AND PRICES.
NOVELTY CO.
BOOTS, SHOES AND LEATHER
Hill Stliuanyl IlM Ulilll' UWJIV Hfl
Home-made Shoes and Leather a Specialty,
CST’ We warrant alt work an<] shall make it a point io misrepresent noth
infj. Jos? (Vir-iTed a large shipment of Gents, Ladies and Hisses fine goods
and school shoes for Children.
A. S. MURRAY
(MU* your attention to hia
COMPLETE SUITS 08 SINGLE PIECES.
Suits of 9 Pieces from S20 to $ 100, Mies, Cl
Bedsteads, Spring Beds. Wardrobes. Etc
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To Pure]
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Bri.v eopaieat Ball,
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