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*w t ■!, ami he r^n-h Hd toward the boy. ^rOdbless you, Pun),’ he said and then he slept. When he awoke he was better, and was soon able to talk to Paul without injury to hiuse/f. ‘How long have I been sick 1 ’ he asked. ‘Si* weeks. I came in the same day that yen gave me the dollar to teJl you how happy Mrs. Lee and Bessie were when I gave them your offering, and I found you upon the loor, I thought you were dead. I ran for the doctor, aud we got you upon the bod, and in ^ little while you show¬ ed sigus of life. I took care of you. and done just as the doctor told me to. .j- „ r. ‘And how is Mrs. Lee and Bessie*’ * f ‘Bessie is bettor, but Mrs, Lee’s arm * enough , .. ^ that she has not got well so can work yet,* Paul answered. ‘Who takes care of them.’ was the next inquiry. *1 told some kind ladies about them and they go two or three times a week to carry them food and help them in other ways-’ ‘I want you to earty some money right down to .Mrs Lae aud tell her that old miser Michell scut it to her. i'll not be called by H»at name again after to-day however,’ and the old man reached ft»r his pocket-book. ‘/fere is a t«n-.iol)ar bill for Mrs. Lee and tell he she shall not suffei anymore, and the old man lay back en his pi ow again. It will be a Christmas present for her,’ said Paul joyf’ Uy. if is Christ¬ mas | to mor*Hiw.’ 'i had forgotten it,* .said the sick man. When Paui returned after be hai carried the money to .Mrs* Lee. ho found another ten dollar bill upon the stand by the misers l ed. ‘It is to buy you a near suit of clothes for a Christmas preheat,’ the old man said. ‘-Vow I’ve got iuoim mony to go with the one dollar that I first gave away,’ be said to hiinss/f. ‘Soon I’ll have as largs a heap of dollars as I saw in my dream. And this money will uever Wr . i i i f with WT-l iviio needed Chrisiin hs came for all who need vw. Ji, Holt in Baptist A GAME OF POKER ON THE , MISSISSIPPI Written for the Jasper News, by W. M. J. Thirty years ago, when there was considerable more traveling than now, on the Mississippi, the steatuere flying up and down the river, were a great resort for gamblers, and men who live by their wits. Colonel Marton and a professional friend of his bought, the neat little steamer “Maid of Orleans.” This friend of the Colonel's was an ex¬ pert gambler, and had the reputation of being oue of the most successful poker playeia that traveled the river at that date. One beautiful day in May, when their beat sloped at a small landing (I forgit the tiapi^ of the a niSu of apparently thirty hive years plain¬ ly drcsied, having in his hi«n*l a car pet-fiuek. and withal a rustic looking personage, stepped on beard tlrn steatmr. we had traveled perhaps a mile or less, wood the professional part of the ownership of the steamer, Frank Osborn v by name, proposed a social game of cards with myself and the 'rus¬ tic.’ Well, we played for some time. Mr. Osborn suggested that \ve would all play for a small sum, just to make the game interesting. Well as I had a particula use tor what money I had, I deotiued the idea. After a few com¬ mon place remarks, O.born and the “rustis” sat down to a game of draw poker. The bettiug was light at first but gradually grew, and 1 could see by the twinkle of Osboras’s eyes that he considered be had a soft snap in the “fustic.” they played for an hour or iu ire, wheu the strauger de¬ clared bimseli “ broke.” I had noticed that Osborn seemed to win with out trouble. The two sat there for a few minutes, the ' rustic” seeming to feel his loss very much. He had last, I think: fifteen hundred dollars since vtay had commenced playing. Alter a little l hoard the '‘rustic” tell Orsboru that he had $5,^YT i.« his carpet sack chat had been intrusted to him by fr.cud to be deposited in a bank at New Orleans and that $1,000 of 'nem'y he lud lo.it, belonged to the . friend aiso Osborn in the hopes of w oiling the $.’>,000 kept insisting •*< the other to play, sowing that lie would have a change to rega’n tie money, which he had lost. After some pci - suasion, they rr-r lined illying, and J noticed tlmfc luck indeed had changed. Osborn was losing heavily. The stran¬ ger sat there, showing ue signs of his feelings by iiis face of the pleasure he must have felt. When Osbon had played the $2,500 >bu\k, with $3,000 besides. Osborn being broke, called on the colonel for a Joan- After get¬ ting it, he seated himself iu the chair with a look of confidence, and and the play commenced again. 1/ was pretty much as before. The stranger win¬ ning very often with ca*e. and Osborn just winning enough to keep, him en¬ couraged. The uioney borrowed by Osborn soon passed into t..e hands of the stranger, but Osborn seemed re¬ luctant to give it up, he having great confidence in himself as a player. lie then proposed to play the stranger his interest in the steamer, this being agree ded. they reunited the play again, and when the boat landed at New Or¬ leans, /lie play closed, Osborn being just $13,000 worst off besides his inter est in the steadier.. The stranger sold if ! n u 5 *° ^ lo,,e< , I afterwards found that the rustic as we supposed was not the snek i r he looked to be, but was the noto¬ rious Harry De Aut’gnae, the greatest gambler that ever visited America, ami being at the time the owner of the finest estate in England, and having won two million dollars in one night in Paris a few years before coming to this country. Like many others who live by gambling died a poor drunkard in California, a few years ago, the coun*y authorities having to bury him. A Stepfather’s Terrible Brutality. Dickson. Tenn., Feb. 15.— Bill Beard, living near this place becoming enraged at Ins four year old stepson, pulled his hair out by the roots, gouged out his eyes, threw them away, gnaw¬ ed his ears off and then threw the bleeding trunk into the fire* which wits burned to a crisp. After serbusly beating his wife and father-in-law the inhum an . fiend was fiimdly arrestod am in jail. ISAAC GRANT,/ Attoriwj at l>a^r, /aapcr, ^ . Gec(|kj Practices m ,*tf Ike court*. Lc«rt business soliairferf a*<2 frnMfc.;**K attend o d to. OB™ in ecu *1 ffoiMe. W MOULTRIE SESSIONS^ ATTORNEY A LAW. ELLIJAY, : . . . CtJt. Will practice in a’I tho c-> lnfciei n( the Blue Ridge Circuit. Promptum is his motto. i JOHN W.HENLEY ATTORNEY aT LAW, J H»per, Gu. W. T. DAY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Jasper, (»?R Practices in the Blue Ridge CiretJt* audi in the U. $• Circuit and Disk court for the NvrtLcrn l)ia(. (if Ga. <1 D mAddjjl ATTORNS? AT LAW, CANTON, GEORGIA Refers, by permission to John Sit vey and Co.,J.R. wylie and Gramlirj* Spaulding i > , all of Atlanta Ga., the Simpson & Galt Manufacturing co.Ci neinnati, Ohio. r. P. PuPIlEE, : ATTORNEY AT LAW CANTON, GEORGIA. Will practice in the Blue Ridge circuit and in Cherokee county. Offiw Court House with Ordinary. Administrations on estates. , ZJ~ collections a specialty EM w \. v >W —WHOT ESLE— . Produce,commission Merchant N> 8.) S.iath Boal ATLANTA, . . . GEORGIA. A\ e resj ectfully solicit your consig meets of Bacon, Flour, Lard, Cora. Oats, lta; f . Butt 'r, Cheese, Appl-n, po¬ tatoes, OntMfcs kg<?s, Chickens, 1’ lor id;* • r-fcits, upu sJ kinds of I’ridtirH,