The Advocate-Democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1893-current, June 11, 1897, Image 6
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 iii. noun itb box note < :<'' h, M 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. ’ 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. 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