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Still Waters.
Here, dreamily, with soft deceits,
The pool repeats
A summer sky; bright clouds that pass
On this brown glass.
Here imaged is the phantom moon
Of afternoon
And a sw ift bird that dips its wing,
Home hastening.
Soon, yonder, where the path is laid
In hush of shade,
A glimmering gown, a dusky tress,
My sight will bless;
I’ll lean above an olive cheek,
Ho cool and slick,
And eyes where veiled reflections shine
Of love in mine.
—I. C. Cook in Harper’s Bazar.
Little Heroine-Cat.
BY LEANDER S. KEYSER.
They were " thrashing ” over at
Neighbor Shanewalter’s that after
noon. The Hhauewalters lived only
half a mile from the Bensons as the
crow or the bee flies; but around by
the road, as men walk or ride, it was
more than three-quarters of a mile.
As Katie Benson stood on the por¬
tico, looking across the intervening
valley along the crow-and-bee line, she
could see the straw carrier of the
thrashing machine pointing obliquely
upward out of the back door of the
barn, while the straw floated in rag¬
ged-edge clouds of yellow from its
upper end and then dropped airily
upon the great round stack where three
or four men were laboriously trudging
about to trample down the straw.
Now and then a cloud of dust and
chaff would pour out of the door,
driven by the fresh breeze, and com¬
pletely enveloped the workmen on tin*
stack. At intervals the hum of the
machine would reach Katie’s ears. One
of the men was her father—lie was
building the stack—-arid she wished
that she w as over there herself, jump¬
ing about on the springy straw.
But it was Katie’s duty to stay at
home that afternoon with her sister
Liza, two years older than she, and
Neddie, the “baby” of the family, 4
years of age. Shortly after dinner
Mrs. Benson had said:
“Now, girls, I must go over and
help Mrs. Bhanewalter to cook supper
for the thrashing hands. Btay close
to the house all the afternoon. Don’t
go away for anything. And take good
care of Neddie.”
“Y’ca, of course, you can play any¬
where about the house.”
••.“And mayn't we haul Neddie in his
little Liza. wagon out in the road?” persisted
• ‘Alf yon promise not to go more than
a few rods from the gate.”
“Oh, we promise, don’t we, Katie?”
Katie nodded her promise readily
enough, but there was a strained ex¬
pression on her pale little face as if she
were trying to suppress some agitating
emotion.
t “JVhat’s the matter, Katie? ” her
mother queried. “You're not afraid
to stav ay with Liza and Neddie, are
you t
A littU* r«*»l rose-1 md suddenly Vilos
Homed out. on earh of Katie’s pale
cheeks and her eyes scrutinized a erev
ice in the floor into which she was try
mg to thrust her Imre little toes.
“No [guess not just a little,” she
stammered, in a self-contradictory wav.
“You needn’t he afraid at all,
Katie,” said Mrs. Benson, putting all
the a- suranee she could into her tones.
“There isn’t anything to harm you.
“ Oh, Katie itch a ’fraidy-cat,”
scoffed Liza, “ She’d he scared at a
mouse's shadow, so she would, if she
was alone. The other day she saw a
little snake in the yard, two rods away
from Her, aud w hat do you think she
did ? She just stood in her tracks an’
screamed as loud as ever she could,
till 1 got a stick an’ killed the snake.
Pooh ! It wouldn’t have hurt her.”
“ I can’t help being afraid of
things,” Katie sobbed.
“ What's the use to be afraid !”
boasted Liza. “ I'm not at all afraid
of anything. T wouldn’t be such a
’fraidi cat as Katie is ! I’d have more
spunk!” lofty of putting her
Liza's way own
heroism in contrast with Katie’s tint
iditv stung her little sister to the quick,
bringing hot tears to her eyes. She
knew she was a “ 'fruidy cat,” and
that was just wlint made her sensitive
to her sister’s jibes. had
For awhile after her mother
gone Katie could not revive her
eoura. She stood on the portico.
and gazed lougiip \ aert the vallev
at the thrashers. Every sound about
the house and* barn startled her. and
she had visions of trumps and robbers
galore, if not of wild and savage
he ist-pouncing dow n upon the uu
protected children left alone in charge
of the large, rambling farm-house,
1.1 a gnvod her for awhile, making her
w, Uni ( p Mill more
presently a game of hide and
seek in the large, bushy card drove all
lhe little “ 'fluid v cat’s"* fears out of
her mind. V jolly afternoon thev
w ere si mime. uuetimes putting
Neddie into his small wagon pm
ling him back and forth i lone ft road
in front of the house. The %' jon was
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box note < :<''
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il n a# feUvi b«i uiu*k*iO| *»*•
rlonbt pleased the children fully as
well as the trig express-wagona of k>
day please our ovrt» boys and 'girls.
At about half-past three they were
playing with the wagon in the road,
Katie began to feel a little tired with
her vigorous romping, and presently
’
die said to Liza :
“ I’m going to-sit on our post and
rest awhile.' 1
She opened the gate and stepped
into the yard, and then followed a
little path‘winding through and a stalks thick
clump of rose bushes berry
to one corner of the yard, where a
couple of steps enabled her to climb to
the top of a large fence-post. This
was a favorite perch for the children
when wearied with their play. I he
tall, sharp pickets prevented their
climbing down on the outside into the
road, but made a convenient support
for a tired hack. Perched on top of
the post, Katie watched Liza and
Neddie playing in the road, her cheery
langh often ringing out at the roly
poly little fellow’s comical looks and
But suddenly there seemed to be a
change in all their surroundings. A
strange obscurity was falling over the
landscape, wrapping everything ‘ in
gloom. cried Liza, “it’s get
“ Oh ! oh 1”
ting dark ■”
Such real I v seemed to be the case,
A kind of flickering twilight enveloped
tne earth, filling the children’s hearts
with dismay. The chickens began to
fly up into the trees, intending to go
to roost, as if they thought the even
ing had come. Brindle and Spot, the
two gentle milk-cows standing at the
bars of their pasture-field, began to
]„w.
“ Look, look at the sun!” screamed
Liza, growing pale with terror.
Hure enough, the sun had turned
almost red, and—oh ! oil 1—a huge
black sphere was slowly creeping over
its disk and blotting out its light,
The children had often read and
talked about the end of the world and
the Judgment Day, and such thoughts
had always filled them with awe and
terror.
“The w orld’s coming to an end! The
world’s—coming—to an end!” cried
Liza. “Oh! oh! o-o-h! Come, come,
Katie, let’s run over to Shanewalter’s
and find papa and mamma.”
Panic-stricken, Liza seized the
pole of the wagon, in the box of which
sat Neddie too much frightened to cry,
and then she run, as fast as her nimble
feet could carry her, dowu the road in
the direction of the neighboring farm.
She did not wait for her little sister
perched on the fence-post. paralyzed with
Katie was almost
fright as the darkness gathered about and
hgr, She could dimly s -e Liza
Neddie and the Wagon speeding down
the slope, hut the high palings, sharp
ened at the top, made it impossible for
her to climb over into the road. By
tbe time she had clambered from her
perch into the yard, and had should
-. rc.'l her way through the bushes, her
brave little sister was scumpering far
away. dash out of
Her first impulse was to her
the gate and follow; but, with all
cowardice, Katie was an obedient child,
and even in her intense agitation she
remembered that her mother had bid
den her and Liza in no case to leave
the house.
How she wished she were a brave
girl- brave and fearless like Liza, and
not such a “fraidy-cat!” Still, she
would do us her mother had bidden
hi-r, and if the great Judge came, he
would find her at her post, ns the
preacher had said last Sunday in his
sermon. This resolve infused new
courage into her palpitating heart, and
slipping hack from the gate, she found
n cosy hiding-place among the bushes,
where she sat and tremblingly kept
watch in the shadows. She lisped a
prayer to God to make her brave aud
forgive all her wrong-doings. she
“I believe its getting lighter,”
whispered to herself a few moments
later.
Looking up, she saw that the shadow
on the sun w as gradually moving across
it, exposing a part of its red disk. A
few more moments of breathless wait
ing. and then the twilight was
ce ded by sunlight almost as radiant
as it had been before the eclipse came.
For, of course, it was only an eclipse
of the sun, although Katie did not
know at the time what the strange
phenomenon meant.
“Maybe it w asn’t the Judgment Day,
for all,” she thought. “Well, if
’twasn’t, I'm glad I stayed at home, the
any w ay. and didn't run away from
’ glad I obeyed mamma.”
house. I’m
The chickens began to crane their
necks in wonder, and. finding that
daylight had come again, they flew
down to the ground, and resumed
their picking and scratching. Katie
was bravely recovering from her fright,
when she saw something that almost
iade her pulse stop heating. A rough
looking man in seedy clothing came
stealthily through the front gate, and
looking suspiciously this way and that,
walked along tlie‘ path to the front
door. Through the aperture in the
! screening bushes Katie saw him glance
around narrowly, then turn the door-
1 knob, aud slip into the house, closing
the door quietly behind him.
For the timid girl this was the oli
max. What iii the world should sht?
T man was, no doubt, a rol>
He might steal methinff valu
best
( BiuUi Ue±
jspoons just bought a week ago or her
! father’s gold watch, which she had
i heard him say he would leave at home
lest it might be broken at the rough
work of the afternoon.
Should she run over to neighbor
! Shanewalter’s and give the alarm? Be-
1 fore she could do that, she reflected,
; the thief would have ransacked the
j house. Couldn’t she—her pulses beat
quickly at the thought—in someway his
prevent him from carrying out
thieving purpose? It frightened her
half to death to think of it; and yet if
.
| she could not foil him in some way, no
one else could. Everything depended
on her coolness and courage. She
knew that.
She half started to her feet, then
dropped behind the bushes again, the
prey of the most terrible panic, her
heart leaping into her throat. But
presently she rallied her courage, for
great, heroic resolve had taken posses
sion of her frail frame. She would be
a “fraidy-cat no longer. She would
prove herself a heroine. Now was her
On her hands and knees she crept
along the edge of the bushes, keeping
herself well screened, until she reached
the kitchen door.’ Slipping through
it, she stood still and listened breath
lessly, but could hear no sound. Evi
(lently the robber was in a distant part
of the house.
With trembling hands she pushed
open the door leading into the sitting
room, and then stood still again, lis
tening intently. A moment later she
almost screamed out with terror, for
she could hear the muffled sound of a
footstep in the next room, which was
the spare bedroom, and then the creak
of an opening drafter reached her ear.
“He’s getting at the bureau,” she
thought. “Papa’s watch is in one (f
the drawers, I think. The roblx r
musn’t find it; I’ll not let him!” si i
added, a wave of heroism sweeping
through her bosom.
She hesitated no longer. Her whole
being was mastered by one supreme
purpose—to save her father’s gold
watch. Swiftly and noiselessly she
glided into the hallway, on the wall
of which hung her father’s shot-gun on
two stout wooden hooks. She knew
that it was loaded. Under the cir
cumstances she felt justified in touch
ing it, although she had never dared
to touch it before. She sprang upon a
chair standing beneath the weapon,
whose muzzle pointed directly over
the top of the door of the room in
which burglar was plying his business,
Yes, she could reach the gun. It
took but a moment to cock the ham
mer, as she had often seen her father
do; then, bracing her nerves by a su
preme mental effort, she placed her
slender forefingerragainat the trigger,
her closed might. her eyes, There and followed pressed with deafen- all
a
ing explosion and a blinding flash, and
the load of shot was buried in the op
posite wall. The concussion almost
stunned the girl, but she had self
possession enough to spring from the
chair and dodge into a dark corner for
safety, should the robber come into
the hall,
A moment of silence ensued, and
then she heard a few heavy foot-falls
in the next room, followed by a loud
crash of broken glass, and she knew
that the terror-stricken robber had
leaped through the window and made
his escape. Her plan, which had been
simply to frighten him away, had suc
reeded, and her heart bounded with
exultation.
Through one of the windows she
saw the bold robber scampering across
the meadow toward a tract of woods,
Then she rushed out of the front door
and dived in among the bushes, where
she lay trembling with excitement aud
fright for half*-art hour. Then Neddie her
father, mother, Liza and little
returned, her parents having become
uneasy about her.
“Oli, papa! mamma!” she cried,
laughing and crying hysterically, “I as
she sprang from her hiding-place,
scared him away! I scared him away!”
j “What do you mean, Katie?” they
asked in surprise.
“I scared the robber away,” and she
quickly sketched her adventure,
Her father hastened into the house,
and examined the dismantled bureau,
! “You dear, brave girl!” he said,
pressing her to his bosom; “you
frightened the rascal away just iu
time. He had almost found the watch,
i See, it was under the pile of clothes
that he was tumbling aside when you
scared him by firing off the old gun.
You’re a genuiie heroine, Katie.”
Her mother, too, had to kiss and hug
her.
“And nobody'll call me ’fraidy-cat
a ny more, will they?” she asked de
j murely. indeed,” * declared her father,
“No,
his face beaming with smiles. “You're
a soldier—as brave a soldier as ever
fought on • battlefield; and, more than
that, you know how to obey orders
when—when ether people run from
the post of duty.” slyly Liza.
As he spoke he looked at
—Detroit Free Press.
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of Jefferson street, _ Tope
Residents
ka. Kan., have been victims of a
trained or perverted aud dog, took which them stole
their newspapers to its
master.
In Binghampton Countr. Ind., about
i 40.000 rabbits were killed during the
winter—somethin*! like I|000 tia: Jits
1uiAufeUitA- 4 ^
THROUGH GEORGIA.
The annual meeting of the Woman t s
Foreign Missionary Society, of the
South Georgia conference, will hoid
its annual mooting in Macon, begin
ning Friday evening, June 11th, and
continuing through the following
Wednesday night.
...
Henry Ingraham, of the wholesale
grocery house of Ingraham Bros., of
Columbus, Ga., committed suicide in
his room at the Pulaski house at Sc
vannah bv cutting his throat from ear
to ear with a penknife. The cause is
nnkuown
...
It is deflnitelv announced that the
Georgia Export and Import company, j
the new company chartered at Savan- .
nah last fall for the securing purpose of char
tering ships and Savannah
lower ocean rates on cotton to foreign ,
ports, will go into business with the
x ; D of lhe cotton se ason.
,
A Washington dispatch says: The
Georgia republican contingent is very
much at sea w ith regard to appoint- ;
ments. Since Colonel Buck left there
has been nothing done to change the
status of things. The internal reve
uue collectorship and the Augusta j
postoffice continue to be the only j
offices in which there is more than J
passing interest. j
The board of * directors * * of the farm- !
c, ' s ’ warehouse at Griffin, met a (lay or ,
^ w0 a g° I 01 ’ the purpose of closing up ;
this year’s business and electing offi- ■
cers for the ensuing year, 'ihemana- j
g el ’ s made a report showing the busi
ness to be in a flourishing condition. ;
The dividend for next year will be
only 5 cents per bale as rent will be
charged on both houses,
* * * j
“The doors of the. State University
will be thrown open to the special
committee of investigation from the
house.” This was the expression of J
Colonel N. J. Hammond, president of ,
the board of university trustees of the
University of Georgia. He referred !
to the report that the university would j
oppose the investigation upon the
ground that the house committee was
without authority.
Judge Butt was called upon at
Columbus last Saturday to settle a dif¬
ference existing between the sheriff
and the county commissioners of Har¬
ris county. The sheriff wanted a turn¬
key’s fee every time he took a prisoner
from the jail throughout his trial, and
the commissioners thought he was en¬
titled to but one fee for it all. The
sheriff instituted the proceedings
which were heard before Judge Butt.
The commissioners were sustained.
It is given out at Rome on undoubt¬
ed authority that the Chattanooga,
Rome and Columbus railroad will most
positively be reorganized at an early
date, probably within the next thirty
days or less. Mr. C. B. Wilburn, the
present general superintendent, will
be made general manager under the
l eorganization and Mr. E. E. Jones,
the present receiver, will locate in
New York, where he may be employed
in the general offices. Mr. Jones says
that he will spend some time in Eng
land beforo he locates in New York.
The Sons of Confederate \ eterans
have decided to attend the reunion of
the United Confederate Y eterans,
which takes place in Nashville June
2 ‘ 2 d, and they have made arrangements
for a great trip. There is a large num
her of the sons in Georgia, and they
will make an excellent showing at
Nashville. They will go in a special
train which will be provided and hv noth- the
Western and Atlantic road,
ing that tends to make them comforta
hie will be left undone,
A new courthouse is being erected
in McDonough, the seat of Henry
county. The new building is to take
the place of the old Henry county
courthouse, one of the oldest and most
historic courthouses in the state. The
old courthouse was built when Henry
county comprised all that part of
Georgia which has since been divided
: into Fulton,Newton,Rockdale,Fayette counties,and
and parts of several other
with its destruction w ill pass away one
of the old landmarks of the section.
John Tyler Cooper, ex-mayor of
Atlanta, at one time a member of the
board of health, once an alderman
and for many years clerk to the board
of commissioners of roads and reven
ues of the county, was placed on trial
j n the city criminal court the past
week on the charge of having embez
z l e ,p the funds of the county. The
jury returned a verdict of gnilty but
asked mercy of the court, recommend
ing the sentence be for misdemeanor.
The verdict was rendered Saturday, but
at the request of Solicitor Hill the sen
ten ee was withheld until Monday, at
which tiule j ut l ge Candler fined Mr.
Cooper $500 and sentenced him to a
t#rm of t!lree mon ths in jail. The at
of Mr Cooper announced that
thev would anneal the case
Beforo the end of this year every
vne of 1 "A town? in Connecticut
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