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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1890)
Goodbye1 Rive's a kind o’ chilly feelin’ in the blowio* f ‘ o’thebMe, And ahense o’ sadness stealin’ through the tresses o’ the trees; And a mist seems failin’ dreary on the mountains towerin' high, And I feel my cheeks grow teary as X bid you all goodbye! “Goodbye," the winds are sayin’; “good bye," the trees complain, A« they bend low down an’ whisper with their green leaves wet with rain; “Goodbye," the roses murmur, an’ the bendin’ lilies sigh As if they all felt sorry 1 have come—come to say goodbye. * I reckon all have said it some time or other soft And easy like, with eyes cast down, that dared not look aloft For the tears that trembled in them—fer the Ii{« that choked the sigh, When it came, a-swellin’ from the heart an’ made it beat goodbye! I didn’t think ’tWas hard to say; but stnndin’ here alone, 'With the pleasant past behind me and the future dim, unknown, A gloomin’ yonder in the dark—the tears come to my eye, And I’m weepin’ like a woman as I bid you all goodbye. The work I’ve done is with you; maybe some things went wrong, Like a note that mars the music in theswe?t flow of a song; But brethren--when you think of me, I only ask you would Say as the Master said of one: “He hath done what he could." And when you sit together in the time as yet to he, By your love-encircled firesides in the val leys fair and free, Let the sweet past come before you, and with something like a sigh, Just say: “We ain’t forgot him since the day he said ’Goodbye! i n THE TIN BOX. “ft is a very mysterious business,” mid Lawyer S mpkins, rubbing his hose, and adjusting his spectacles. “Hiram Green sent for me, tea days before lie died, and gave me his bonds and securities to draw the July interest for him. 1 put them all back in the tin box myself, and he counted aud examined them. The day he died he tried to tell mo something about Jerry and that box. ‘Jerry—tin box—all in the box—Jerry,’ was about all I could make out.” “And the tiu box was stolen,” said Tom, the lawyer’s son and partner. “Well, it has disappeared. If it wa 3 stolen, it is of precious little use to the thief. Every paper in it could be traced. Trust old Hiram Grecu to look out for that.” “What was it worth?” “To a lawful owner, about twenty 'thousand dollars.” “Then Jacob Green is so much poorer 1 I am glad of it.” “Toml Tom! Jacob Green is our client 1 ” “All rightl Ishall not proclaim my opinion on the house-top; but, between ourselves, I think ho is the meanest man I ever mot. Why. he must be a rich man, and he grudges his family the necessaries of life. Look at AUiel There is not a servant at Rye Hill who has not a better wardrobe than Alice Green! Just sol” said Lawyer Simpkins, with « twinkle in his eyes. Her husband can make that all right though. Eh Tom?” Tiicn Tom, blushing crimson, began to talk again about the tin box and old Hiram Green’s will. “Left everything to Jacob," said the lawyer; “the house, real estate, and personal effects.” “Aud Jerry?"' “Was uot even mentioned in the will. Hiram Grecu uever forgave Jerry for failing in business, declared he had no head, aud wasu’t fit to be trusted with money. “He was liis nephew, though, just as much as Jacob, aud he nursed him faithfully at the last.” “But Jeiry is a dreamer. Jacob will double every dollar the old uiau left, while Jerry would probably spend a legacy in a year or two.” It was not alone in the lawyer’s office that the subjjcfc of Hiram Green’s will •and the disappea:*jcc of the till box were topics of co creation. Every body at Rye Hill had an opinion to ex press, a theory to advance. Mrs. Jacob Green and Mrs. Jerry Green were talk ing the whole matter over on the porch of the old house where Hiram Green had died, while Jerry sat on the steps, looking moodily down the garden path. “Jacob says," said that worthy’s wife, “lhat.he will find that box', if it’s ♦boro ground.” SCHLEY COUNTY NEW3. “I wonder what he’ll do if it ain’t,* muttered Jerry, unheard by the others. “He says,” continued HA Jacob, “that it will take a heap of money to put this house in decent repair, and settle the business! Dear! Dear! He talks as if his uncle’s legacy left him poorer, instead of richer.” “I wish it did!” muttered Jerry. Aloud he said, “Maria, if you’ll get me a hammer and some nails, I’ll save Jacob twenty-five cents by fastening these steps. Sec here l” and he rattled the steps on which he was sitting, and which were wholly detached from the porch. “I wish you would,” said his sister in-law; ‘I’m in a panic ovary time I go in or out, especially if I have the baby in my arms. I’ll get the ham mer. ” “Dear me, Jerry,” whispered his wife, a little later, “you go at them stops as if you were trying to hammer the house down. Anybody would fan cy you had a spite against the nails, you give them such vicious blows. ») “Hold your tongue,” growded her husband. “1 am only making them safe!'’ He rose as he spoke, and sfraighened himself, muttering. “That,s a goott job done!” t < Come, Sally,” he said, presently, “we’ll be getting home! I only came over to see if there was any news of the tin box.” < i Not a sign to be found,’ said Mrs. Jacob, “ and I do believe Jacob will be in a lunatic asy lum il it don’t turn up soon.” Jerry tucked hi* w ife’s hand under his arm, and walked down the road to his own cottage, a small, shabby house where Sarah Green vainly strove to make old thiugs look new, and stretch a dollar to the needs of two. Siuce liis uncle’s death Jerry had been more moody and shiftless than ever. Brooding over his injuries was not the way to improve his fortunes, and Sally had hard work to make her needle supply the daily wants. It was just three days before his uncle died that Jerry learned that Hiram Green had left his entire property to Jacob, already the richest man at Rye Hill. Then the bitterness of his disap pointment seemed to literally turn liis brain, and Sally trembled for his rea son. With all his faults, if faults they were, his disregard of money and want of business capacity, Jerry Green was a man to win strong affections. And it was the fact that even Hiram Green kept up a sort of grudging affection for him that made Jerry hope he would not entirely forget him in his will. Whoa his last illness attacked the old man, it was to Jerry he turned for the affection Jacob’s harder nature could not make acceptable. It was Jerry and Sally who nursed the invalid day and night with faithful, unwearied care, and it was with a bitter sense of wrong that Jerry knew himself to be disinherited. Still the man’s gentle nature overruled his anger, and the last three days of Hiram Green’s life were as tenderly nursed as if Jerry knew himself to be his sole heir. But afterward the whole nature of the mtpi seemed changed. Knowing tho sympathy of the people about him was with him,he was never weary of telling of his wrongs; and he made no secret of his delight at tho disappearance of the tin box, and tho large slice of property it contained. A year-passed away, aud then all Rye Hill knew that Jerry Green lay ill with a fever, and the doctor had given him up. Very sick indeed he was, and Sally was heart-broken, when one day lie whispered a request to see Lawyer Simpkins alone, Seeing a lawyer seemed to poor Sally a death- warrant, though Jerry had no fortune to will away. Wondering, but ready to humor tho whim of a dying man, the lawyer an swered the summons at once. “Mr. Simpkins, will you promise to keep secret what I tell you now?” Jerry asked in a hoarse whisper. “Certainly I will; lawyers have to do that every day. “Then I will tell you where Uncle Hiram’s tin box is. You have the key.” “Yes, but—Jerry Green, don’t tell me you are the thief.” “I did not take it away, but I was half mad, I do believe, and I wanted to 6 pite Jacob. So I buried it under the porch steps. I never opened it Eveiything is there, aud I suppose Jacob might as well have it now. ’) “I’ll keep your secret, Jerry, for ^ believe you when you say you were half mad." Great was the excitement at Rre Hill when it became known that Lawyer Simpkins had had a communication from the party who had stolen the tin box, confessing tho theft, and revealing tho hiding place. There was a group of half the people of tlu-* village in fiont of Jacob Green’s porch when Jer ry’s carpenter’s work was torn away, and the earth that covered the buried treasure removed, Lawyer Simpkins took a small key from his pocket. ‘ Stop a moment,” he said, as Jacob Green was about to take the box, “as executor of Hiram Green’s estate, I must open this box and see if the con tents are all right.” Thorc was a sudden catching of breath audible as the lid of the box fell back. On the top was an open paper, and Lawyer Simpkins read aloui:— “I, Hiram Green, do give and bequeath this box and all it contains to Sarah, wife of my nephew, Jeremiah Green. I leave it to her as a token of my love for both, and because I think she will be more care ful of it than my nephew. And I do ask of my lawyer, Robert Simpkins that he do see my wish carried out, an re to Sarah his advice about investing tht money. “Hiram Green." There was one moment of intense si lence and then a cheer rent the air. Every man there -was glad that the miserly, grasping Jacob Green was dis appointed, and every man rejoiced fo* Jerry and Sally. But the sick man was humble as a child when the lawyer told him the news. He did not die, nor did anyone but Lawyer Simpkins ever guess his secret, but he was a broken, premature ly aged man, creeping humbly about and living on the income his wifo drew from the contents of the tin box, which he had hidden from spite, aud by so doing, overreached himself. “If I had died without telling,” he thought often, “Sally would never have had the money, aud Jacob might have found the box, after all.” Cats and tlio Moon. Everybody knows the superstitions pf sailors, particularly, of course, in re gard to their sailing on Friday; but they are also superstitious on other points, and from this fact we get the saying, “Rats desert a sinking ship.” Again, thoy resent tho presence of a cat on hoard, and usually that of a corpse, although as regards both of these in stances the superstition is not suffi ciently widespread to altogether pre vent the occurrence. Speaking of cats, it is well-known that they were held in such high respect by the ancient Egyp tians that their mummies are met with about as frequently as human beings, and this was from a superstitious belief in their intervention in the affairs of moti. A special goddess among the Egyptian* was rep. resented with the head of a cat, and a temple was erected to her at a town of the name she bore—Bubastis. In the Egyptian mythology Bubastis was the child Isis and Osiris and the sister of Horn*. What is not so generally known is the fact that the cat among the Egyptians symbolized the moon. As to the moon there was in ancient times many superstitions. Our word “lunacy” is derived from the Iatia name of that planet, and the disorder is st:ll believed by many to be caused by it at its full. Sailors in the tropics have beeu known to become temporari ly deranged because of sleeping with their fac:is exposed to the rays of tho full moon, while fresh fish hung up on deck under the same conditions are said to spoil in a short time. —Star -Saying*. Costly Canine Collars. “Some dogs in this town wear collars that C03t $2JO,” said a dealer in thoge articles to me yosterday. “01 course, such valuibles aro worn only by tho painperei pets of tho rich; the average owner of dogs thinks ho or sha has done well in investing $3 dollars in a collar, aud by a good many a plain leather strap, with name plate, is deemed ample for safety and identity. Of Course, a dog with a $100 or a $200 collar has got tp be watched pretty care fully, and they usually ride iu the car raige of the master or mistress. Th« existence of a good many Fif ih avenue and Madiion avenue dogs might well be envied by the poor of our city. Thoy havo all the advantages of wealth in the way of luxury and easy living, without auy of the attendant anxieties, from which even Gouldi and Yander bi.ts aro uot free .—New York Star. All Singing Birds. by singing the birds are instructed in their art elder males. They are real singing is masters. Song is not with birds, herited as popularly supposed, an innate or in Young birds, faculty; it ha 3 to be acquir d. to sing when captured, only learn tion. Consequently, correctly when placed under tui when it is desirable for a bird to learn any particular strain of some other singer, they should be placed in the same room, apart from all other sounds, as birds are so prone to imitate that, unless removed from miscellaneous sounds, they will spoil their song by introducing bad notes. A good canary, nightingale, gold finch, skylark or woodlark makes a good music master for young birds. In Thu ringia birds are selected for teachers -which, instead of noisy outbursts, descend regularly with through all notes of the octave birds in a the silvery sonorous voice. Many wild state imitate their fel lows till it is difficult to recognize their natural song. As a rule, most birds nat urally be sing like their parents, aud have to separated when quite babies to pre vent it. The smallest circular saw in practical use anywhere in the world is that whieh is us 3 d in pen-making establishments for cutting is the slits in gold pens. This pen saw a tiny hard steel disc about the size of a shilling, audit is no thicker than a sheet of ordinary paper. When in use it is made to revolve about four thousand times per minute. Oh. how can a fair maiden smile anil be gay. Be lovely and loving and dear, As sweet as a rose and as bright as the May When her liver is all out of gear ? She can’t. It is impossible. But if she will only take Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discov ery, it will cleanse and stimulate her disor dered liver, purify her blood, make her com plexion soft and rosy, her breath wholesome, her spirits cheerful and her temper sweet. Ali druggists. Don J, hawk, hawk, blow, spit, and disgust body with your offensive breath, but use Dr. every Sage ’s Catarrh Re medy and end it. Don’t he too severe on the man who scolds his wife in public. Pefhaps that is the only tirne he dares do so. I>r. John Hull’s Sarsaparilla. Our druggists tell us they are selling a great deal of Dr. John Bull’s Sarsaparilla. It has not been advertised much in this vicinity, and we take it that the large demand for it is at tributed merely to its extraordinary merit as a blood purifier and strengthening alterative. W e know of several instances where it has put sick men and women on their feet after physi cians had exhausted their skill. It is a medi cine that certainly goes right to the spot, the very first dose seeming to do good. The blood is the life and wo believe there is no other medicine made so powerful as a blood purifier as this remedy. And it does look as if when the blood is made pu re a person naturally gets well.. are ailing We and advise feel any sick of from our subscribers who to Dr. Bull’s any cause what ever iate trial give .—Covington Express. Sarsaparilla an immed The great secret of popularity is to make everyone satisfied with himself first, and af terwards satisfied with you. I know of a man who was cured of a forty year old sore on his leg by Bull’s Sarsaparilla', also a lady that it cured of erysipelas which doctors failed to benefit.- John £>. Andrews, Mitchell Co., Ga. it Why is a debt like coffee ? Because the sooner is settled the less grounds there are for com plaint. _ HALL’S CATARRH CURE is aliquid and is taken internally, and acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. Sold by Druggists, (5c. F. J. CHENEY <fc CO., Proprs., Toledo, 6. There is an organ-grinder who is so suspici ous that he compels his monkey to carry a bell-punch. ______ Ask for Dr. Bull’s Worm Destroyers. Don’t let your druggist sell you some other kind of worm medicine. None other arc so safe and yet so sure.___ The great art to love your enemy consists in never losing sight of man in him. FITS stopped free by Dr. Kline’S Great Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first day’s use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and $2 trial bottle free. Dr. Kline, 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa If a fflicted with sore eyes use Dr.Isaac Thomp son's Eye-Water.Druggists sell at 25c per bottle. A pocket Punch” match-safe free to smokers of “Transill’s 5c:. cigar. Don’t Get Caught This spring, as you may have beeu before, with your blood full of impurities, your digestion im paired, appetite poor, kidneys and liver torpid, and whole system liable to be prostrated by disease—but get yourself Into good condition and ready for the changing and warmer weather, by taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla. It stands unequalcd for purifying the blood, giving an appetite, and for a spring medicine. Hood’s Sarsaparilla “For five years I was sick every spring, but last year began in February to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla. I used flvo bottles and have not seen a sick day since,”—G. W Sloan, Milton, Mass. ‘‘My son was afflicted with the worst type of scrofula, and on the recommendation of my drug gist I gave him Hood’s Sarsaparilla. 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