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TOWN DIRECTORY.
Mayor— Thomas G. Barnett.
OoMMissioyßßs—l) R. Riv ; ns, E: I?.
Jimas, G. P. Bivins W. B. Pierce.
Ci.brk —<5- P. flivins.
Trrascrrr— W. 8. Shell.
Marshals— B. A. Melding, Marshal.
B. 11. MeKneely, Deputy.
JUDICIARY.
A. M. Spkkr, - Judtr“
K. I). Dismuick, - - Solicitor Genera!.
Butts—Seuond Mondays in March and
September
Henry—Third Mondays in January and
July.
Monroe—Fourth in February,
and August.
Newton—Third Mondays in March and
September.
Pike—First Mondays in April and Octo
ber.
Rockdale—Third Mondays in February and
a-id Aagnst.
Spalding—First Mondays in Febrnury
and Vuymt.
Upson—First Mondays in May and No
vember.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Methodist Episcopal Church, (South .l
Rnv. W*i-s lay V. Smith, Pa9tor Fourth
Sabßath ia each month. Sunday-school 3
p. a. Prayer meeting Wednq/'day evening
«• M*TMontsf‘T > ROTiisTAXT OnußCu. Firs'
Sabbath in each month. Sunday-school 9
A. M.
Cwawm* Ohhrcit,-W. S. Fears, Pastor.
H-eond Sabbath to each month.
Baptist Church, Rev. J. P. Lyon, Pas
tor. Third Sabbath i*i each month.
DOCTORS
T\R. J. CTO HNI PS RED will attend t
i*' all calls day off night. Office -i resi
druoe, Hampton, Ga.
DR. W.'jT PKOBtES ,t,reafs all dis
eases, and will attend to all calls day
and niyht. Office at the Drug Sion
Broad Oampfon, Ga.
DR.J). FT fcNCTT having permanently
located in Hampton. odors his profes
sional services to the citizens of Hampton
nnd vicinity. All orders left at Mclntosh’*
store will receive prompt attention. sp2f>
"JAR. N. T. BARNETT tenders his proles
jJ sional services to the citizens of Henry
nnd adjoining coonties. and will answer cull*
day or nighf. Treats all diseases, of what
ever nature. Office at Nipper's Drug Store.
Hampton, Ga. Night calls can be made at
rav residence, opposite Berea chorch. apr2G
JF PONDER, Dentist, has located in
t Hampton. Gn.,nnd invites the public to
call at his roon. upstairs in t|ic Bivins
House, where he will be found at all hours.
Warrants all work for twelve months.
LA IVYERB
CW. HODNKTT, Attorney and Ooun
• sellor at L*w, Jonesboro, Ga. Prompt
attention given to all business.
GEORGE P BIVINS. Attorney at Law.
Will practice in the State and Federal
Courts. Collections promptly attended to.
Office ap stairs iu the Mclntosh building,
//amptun, Ga. mail2tf
r P C. NOLAN Attorney at Law. Mc
• Donough, Georgia. Will practice in
the counties composing the Flint Circuit;
the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the
United States District Court.
WVLT. DIOKKN, Attorney at Law, Me
Donough, Ga Will practice in the
counties composing the Flint Judicial Cir
cuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the
United States District Court. (Office up
gtairs over W. C. SloanV) apr27-ly
GEO. M NOLAN, Attorney at Law.
McDonough, Ga (Office in Court house )
Will practice in Henry and adjoining conn
ties, and in Uie Supreme and District Courts
of Georgia. Prompt attention giv»n to col
lections. mch23-6m
T F. WALL. Attorney at Law, //amp
. ton.Ga Will practice in the counties
imposing the Flint Judicial Circuit, and
-the Supreme and District Courts of Georgia.
Prompt attention givec to collections. oes
TM)W\RP J. REAGAN, Attorney at
rJ law. Office np stairs in the Mclntosh
building. Hampton, Ga. Special attention
given to commerefal and other collections.
BF. McCOtLUM, At torney and Cmm
• selior at Lw, Hampton, Ga. "’ill
practice in Henry, Clayton, Fayette, Coweta
Pike, Meriwalker, Spalding and Butts Supe
rior Courts, and in the Supreme and United
States Courts Collecting claims a specialty
Office un stairs in the Mclntosh Boildicg.
A FOREBODING.
I do not dieod tin nlteied heart,
Or that long line of land or sea
Shou-’d separate my love from me.
I dremi that drifting plow a par—
Ali unresisted, unrestrained
Which comes to some when they hove
gained
The dear endeavor of the soul.
As two light skiffs that sailed together,
Through days and nights of tranquil wenther,
Adown some inland ptreum uvght be,
Diifted asunder, each from each ;
When floating with the tide, they reach
The hoped-for end, the promised goal,
'The sudden glory of the sea.
■ —Violet Fane.
The Dear, Dead Face.
AN INCIDENT ( F WAR.
The war I refer to was not one of those
which we have lately had npon our own
hands, but that which a lew years ago
rnged so long, ro fiercely, between the
Northern and Southern States of America.
It was mv foi tune to serve on the medical
staff with a portion of the Northern army
during most of that terrible struggle; and
it is needless to say that many personal inci
dents catne under my noticp, which will nev->
er have my memory. Not one ef them,
however, made no painful an impression up
on me as that which 1 am aboat to de
scribe.
Toward noon on the day after one of the
fiercest fights of all the war. a young soldier
was brought in from the battle-fn Id, where,
by some mirchanee, he had been overlook'd
and abandoned, while comrades of his, far
less grievously wounded than be, had been
sheltered and tend'd before nightfall. The
poor fellow had Inin nil night, and during
the long, scorching hours cf the morning,
amid heaps of dead, both men and horses,
suffering from the loss of an arm, and other
wounds. An aimy surgeon is not, as a mle,
a man prone to undue sentiment or to femi
nine softness at the sight of physical stiff r
iug, arid I »itu not eonscii ns of any weakness
that makes me an exception in this p rtieu-'
lar. Thi re was, however, in this youth’s
expression of countenance something which
si ruck me irresistibly, and with the strong
glauce of his large, bright eye fixed my at
tention and tiwukentd my eager interest.
Me was a slender youth, tall, yet gracefully
made, with a head which, as the novelists
phrase it, would bring ecstacy to the soul of
the sculptor, and every feature molded to
'.he true type of manly beanty. A single
glance gave me this summary outline of my
patient beipre I had time to ascertain the
nature or ex tout of bis injuries. A vety
brief examination soon told me that the life
whiinTOr hours had been ebbing so painful
ly away was wdlnigh spent; and he must
h ive read the awful trath in my face, for he
whi'pered to me, family end sadly, as 1
rose :
“Is there, then, no hope ?”
Alas I there was no hope ; but I had not
speech to tell him so, for something was ris
ing into my throat and choking me, aud a
moisture in my eyes was blinding me; and
the oniy reply I could give him was a shake
of my bead. The brave spirit which had
nerved him through the fight had kept him
up till now, but now, when the dirnal truth
had .broken upon him, there passed over his
pallid face a look ofm ngled disappointment
and resignation which it was painful beyond
expression to witness. I lost no time in
giving bim such surgical aid as his desperate
condition called for and his waning strength
could bear. I bad hardly done so when an
unexpected voice addressed him :
“My own dear boy I my biave, heroic
boy!”
The tone was one of cht ery encouragement,
yet feebly disguising the woe of a breaking
heart; for it was his mother’s voice that
spoke, and her lips that kissed his fevered
brow. Gently she turned back his disorder
ed and blood-stained locks, dissembling with
evident effort the mother’s anguish, lest she
should add another sorrow to the pangs of his
dying hour.
“My mother !" he cried, with almost fran
tic delight. “Ir it you, motherT How came
you here T Is it you, or am I dreaming t”
and as he spoke he tbiew his only remaining
arm around her neck and kissed her with all
the rapture of a child ‘‘Thank God !’’he
continue.! in sratches, as bis failing strength
allowed him ; ‘'thank God for this blessed
joy—that 1 see yoar lace once more, ray
tno'ber. AII last night, as 1 lay amid the
dreadful sights around me, I prayed one
prayer io all my pain, ami only one. I
prayed that I m ght look once more upon
your face, my sweetest mother—once more
hear your voice. I seemed to pray in vain,
yet 9till I prayed.”
‘ My poor, poor boy,” ebe said ; “a curse
HAMPTON, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1880.
npon the hand that has brought yon to
this 1” and her tears at length broke from
her control.
'To the amrz« ment of all, there appeared
to be someth’ng in this exclamation of hi*
mother that stimulated the dying youth to a
final effort of speech and motion. lie half
raised hinmell from his bed, and with that
unaccountable energy which sometimes mark’s
the closing moments of life he said :
‘‘No, r,n ; don’t say that! Don’t sny ac
cursed. You know not the words yon are
speaking. Oh I” he cried, after a moment’s
pause, “how shall I tell her the horrible tale?
How can I smile her down with such a
blow, at such an hour?” and he fell back
exhausted upon his pillow. 'The effort had
been too much for him, o“d for some m*
ments we doubted if the spirit had not fled.
It was only a passing weakness, however,
and belore long he rallied again. Again be
spoke, bat with a kind of dreamy half con
sciousness—ut one moment gaz ng into Lis
mother’s eyes, at another seemingly forget
ful of her presence.
“Truly it was a bloody fight,” he said. "I
hud been in several hr .-fought fightß be
lore, Lot they were ull children’s pastime
compared to that of yesterday. No sooner
had we come in sight of the enemy than the
ringing voice of the General wa* heard :
“ ‘At them my boys, and do your duty !’
‘‘What happened after that, I know not.
Know not. do. I say ? Ob, would it were
true that l know not! Begrimed with
dust, cich man was confronted with his
own individual foe, and if there be fighting
among finds, then surely did our fighting re
semble theirs. I was myself wounded when
a lair haired mnn bore down upon me from
the opposing line—if line it could then be
culled-and I received his headlong onset
with a torrffie bayonet thru*t, and ns he fell
I tbought of Gain, and of the deed whirh
has made the nimn of Gain a malediction
forever. 1 know not why, but 1 felt raysyll
compelled to halt in the midst of the’ melee
to kneel beside that fair- haired man and
look at him I turned him over aud looked
upon his face—his dear, dead face. Ah I
mother, it was—it was—it my brother’s
face, and my own arm Itad slain him I” 1
The scene at that moment it would not
be easy to describe. In an instant the weep
ing piojhyVs tears were dry, nnd her face
became passionless as marble. My own
emu!ion, which I have alreudy acknowl
edged, 1 took no pains to conceal. Rough, #
hard-favored soldiers standing by liateued
with batrd breath to this more than tragic
narrative, while big tear-drops welled from
their eyes unchecked and undisguised.
“Yes,” he continued, soliloquizing, “my
own arm had slain him. Dqar, darling hrqih
er Fred 1 I laid my fucq upon his, and it wa*
cold—th»t face in our boyhood seemed but
'be mirror of my own; ever hear me—at
home, at school, at meat, at play—whigh
laughed when I was glad and wept when I
was sorrowful. Oh, would we both had died
in those fresh blight days of innooeoc' ! I
kissed his pallid lip a ; I looked into Itiseyes ;
but in them wae no responsive glance. He
was dead. I bad slain ,liiin! The very
thought was a burning madness in my brain.
I heeded not the carnage 'around me. t I
thought not of my own wound. I even knew
not when my arm was gone. Oh, the arm
that bad done such a deed deserved to per
ish Forgive me, O my brother! How
gladly would 1 give my li'e to bring thine
back again ! Slay, friend*; do not shut out
the blessed light. Let in the light. 1 can
not see my mother. Fred, sweet brother,
pui up your sword, and let us play with
flowers once more upon this pleasant grass.”
And so he pass'd away—to join his broth
er, let ns in a land wheie blooms the
flowe>B that never fade, where strifes and
wars are unknown and where the mysteries
and misunderstandings of our present state
are disp- lied by the light thut never diet.
Reverence for the childless mother's grief,
as well as the many voiced call ol duty, pet
vented my makiog at that moment the inqai
ries which crowded my mind, both as to
tire history of his strangely sorrowtfmitten
family and the means by which the poor
mother had come to know her son’s coali
tion aD'l whereabouts. I have often since
tried to trace her, but the search has always
been fruitless. They certainly beloijed It
the better class of society, and I think it
likewise certain that they were Southerners.
The young brother—which I took bim to be
—whose sad narrative is here given, bad prob
ably resided lot some time io the North,
and, becoming imbued with the sentiment
and opinions which charged the atmosphere
around bim, found himself eventually in U»e
ranks. In a word, I look upon the whole
episode as one of those awful coiocidences of
fact which are generally thought to take
place only in the pages of romaoce. but
which a wide experience has taught me to
believe are by no means unfrequ**nt among
the unrecorded realities of lile.
A Man of Ability.
John Fnrres’er wa« very correctly named,
for, until a few days ago, he had spent hit*
life in the wood*. Several days ago h>-
threw aside his maul, came to the city, and
now hand'es the somewhat lighter rock ham
mer. The story of John’s downfall shall be
bri«fly related. Shortly after arriving in the
city he was attracted by a sign bearing the
inscription, “Moa's at all Hours.” Enter
ing the place and meeting the proprietor, lie
said :
“You keep a tavern hera, don’t you ?”
“No. I keep a restaurant!”
“I don’t know inneli about ynilr new
namps ; but you feed folks here, don't you ?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Well, I wnrit to board here three days,
or I reckon until I get a job of Rome kind,
f see your sign says ‘meals at »I 1 hour*,’
Yon don’t mean that, do you ?’’
“Certainly l mean it. I’ll board you three
days for 83.”
“And give me my meals at all hours ?”
* Yes, sit
“Here, t»ke the 83. I never set myself
np as a regular eater, but l’|| buck agin you
for tho next three days; I think that I can
stand h'T nbont that long. It’s 11 o’clock.
Give me something to eat."
A meal was brought out and quickly dis
patched ; and remarking that he would be
hack on time, Mr. Forrester left. At 12
o'clock lie came back and ate again. “You
needn’t stare at me,” he raid to one of the
waiters.
“You are a regular boarder, are you ?”
“The regularest one you’ve pot. 1 don’t
intend to miss a meal. I've got a chanco
now to git even lor bein’ hongry many a
lime.”
At 1 o’clock John c«rr.e back and re
marked as he hung np his hat: ‘Tea on
time. It’s 1 o’clock. Fetch me sntliin to
ent." The waiter went aw iy muttering, and
brought In a rather slim meal.
“Look a here,” said John, “don’t try to
go buck on your contract. I reckon you
did rather underrate tny ability, but I’m a
m«n.”
At 2 o’c'oek John came brick and took a
seat. The proprietor came in and asked him
what he wanted.
"I want my dinner, supper or breakfast,
just as yon are a mind to call it."
“You have already eaten here three times
to day.”
“I know that."
“Why do you come again?”
"Because it’# 2 o’clock.”
“It is not supper time.”
“No, but it’s 2 o'clock time.”
you mean ?”
“Your understanding may have b“en in
jured by my surprising ability. I came here
' with the understanding thut I was to have
my m*als at all hours.”
"The contrnct has been adhered to ; you
have come irregularly.”
“No, sir; I’ve come hero regular. It was
the agreement that I was to have a meal
every hour, and I am going to stand up to it
if it packs my stomach as tight as a green
watermelon. You are trying to Impose on
me because I’m from the country. I have
made arrangements with a boy to wake me
up every hour to-night, and I'm coming
here to eat. That’s iny business now, and
I’ll act fair with yon and eat every time.
Give me an oyster cun of coffee and some
ball sassage.”
The proprietor handed tho man 83 and
requested him to leove. A fight ensued, and
John was led away by the police. When
he cnmplel|B his rock pile engagement he
will sne the restaurant for d.images. — Lillie
Rock Gazelle.
Am ambitions but mUgaided woman in
Ijons street. New York, went into a dr ss
maker’s establishment tire other day and bod
hrr drew‘fi'trd’until one of her rib* was
broken. The same amount of pressure
•pread over two Sunday nights wonld have
done the unfortunate woman more good and
made some yonog mao happy.
It makes a mother’s heart revert to her
younger days when she come* into the par
lor next morning after her daughter’s beau
bus been around, arid finds only one chair in
Iront of the fireplace, and the others sitting
along the wall a* if they hadn’t been touched
for three year*.
I
A Task** woman recently married a
Chinese laundrymaa, and in three days
thereafter the happy'Celoatial appealed at
a barber 1 * *hop aod ordered bis pigtail to be
cwt off saying, io explanation : “ilellee I To
osuebee Yank."
Mbs Parvixotom —Weil l declare 1 Here’s
an ingenious young man who hoe inverted
an arrangement by which the deaf can see
and the blind talk. Huch talons as his
should be teorguuixed by a statue.
It Excited his Curiosity.
"Deadwood," said the stranger, putting
down his hslf-eaten slice of lemon pie and
hiking a long pull •at the milk ; “I went
there when the first rush was made for the
hill". Rather a rough crowd the first lot,
you bet ; more wholesome now. When 1
got there I was dead-broke—didn’t have a
dollar, didn’t have u revolver, which a man’ll
often need out there worse’n a meal's vittle*.
1 was prob'ly the only man In the Mils who
didn't carry a firearm, an’ I was lonesome, 1
tell yon The oWy*lt'capon I had—l’m a
hlaek*niitb—w»« a rasp—a heavy file, yon
know—'bout eighteen inches long, which 1
carried down my back, handle in easy reach
just below my coat collar. Understand?
L'ks the Arkansas mnn carries his bowie
knife I'm not exactly a temperance man.
I just don’t drink an' don’t meddle with any
other man’s drlnkin'—that’s nil. One day—
I hedn’t been in Deadwood mnr’n a week—l
was siltin’ in a s’lonn—the only plact* a man
kin set to see society—when a feller eoine
in, a reg'lar hustler, with his ran full and a
quart oYer. He'd a revolver on each side of
Ids bolt, and looked visions No'hiti’menn
ahoot him. thongh. Ask’t mo to drink
‘Not any, thank von,’ sez I. ‘Not drink
wiihme! Mel Bill FeathergilH When I
a*k a tenderfoot to drink I expect him to
prance right up an’ uo monkeyiu’! You
h-e-a r me!’
•Well, when his hand went down for hi*
revolver, I whipped out mv old fi>* qutcker’u
fire 'ad scorch a feather an’ swiped him one
right acrost the face. When ho fell 1
thought I'd killed him, an’ the s’loon fillin’
op with bummers, I sorter skinned out. not
knowing what might happen. Purty soon a
chap in a red shirt cuine op to me. Sea he
‘You be the man sskarved Bill Fenfhcrgill?
Cos, if so be ns yon are, If yon don't want
every mnn in the hills to climb you, don’t
yoo try to hide yoursol—the boys is askin’
fur you now. 1
“It struck me thut my friend had the idee,
so I waltzed back and went np and down
beforo that s’loon for nigh three hours. I'd
found out Bill wasn’t dead, an' was bud
medicine, but it wouldn't do to k‘t down.
Purty soon I see my man s-headiug for me.
His face had been patched np till it looked
like tbo closing out display of a retail dry
goods store There was so lit tlu countenance
exposed that I couldn’t guess what be was a
aiming at, so I brought my hand buck of
my collar an’ grabbed my file.
“ ‘Hold <»n there ; bold on,’ tz be, ‘gimme
y’r hand; I’m friendly. I’ve got nothin’
agin you. not a thing, but—you’ll pardon
my curiosity—what sort of a d d weapon
was that, stranger ?’ ” Hartford Couranl.
The Moor.
In person, the Moor is tall and straight,
of a commanding figure and posse*sing
m 3 culnrity of form, with dark eyes, white
teeth, beard like Jet and handsome features
full of grave expiession. His general cast
of countenance is Roman; and his lofty dig
nity of manner is such, that whoa you see
him enveloped in the folds of his Bnow-whito
hayk, which falls gracefully over bis shoul
der, yon might almost imagine a senator of
ancient Rome stood before you. How dif
ferent in ollior respects urc Ihe two charac
ter*! II the character of the Moor be ex
amined, it will be found to consist of a com
pound of everything that is worthless and
contemptible, nnd the few goes! qualities
he possesses are quite lost in the dark shade
thrown around them. Utterly destitute of
faith, bis vows and promises are made at the
same time with such a resem'daaoo of sin
cerity as rarely to fail of deceiving his vic
tim ; truth is an utter stranger to his lips
and falsehood so familiar with bim, that de
pendenee can rarely be placed oq anything
that he says. In his disposition he is cruel,
merciless, overbearing and tyrannical, and
benevolence and humanity are strangers to
bis breast. Proud, arrogant and haughty
aa bis general demeanor is, particularly to
bis inferiors, he is fawning and cringing to
those above him. and the veriest slave imag
inable when io contact with those who**
power be has reason to be afraid of. Bus
p'cions, prrkaps as much from the general
anccrtaioty of life and property io Morocco
as from hia own natural disposition, there is
do tie of faith or friendship which is oot ca
pallia of being dissolved whu anything is
likely to be obtained; to aoomplish which
be will deeecud to the lowest flattery, and
the most servile act* of cunning wheedling.
Liberality aud generosity are unkuowo to
bim ; or if be displays these qualities, it is
done from a ceriaibty that lie shall be well
repaid for the exercise of them.
Wkstirn papers are discu-*mg the ques
tiou,“Bball atari ied women work ?” Unless
they do, we supjtose a good in my biutMiui*
ol the period will sUrvtj to dtjaih.
Trials of ais Rngafrd Girl.
After all, (he yoke of marriage hi an ap
piratns that should sit on two pairs of shout
der* ; and there i* nothing very seemly in
seeing a girl wait to wear her own part of It
until it Ims been nice!/ podded with quilted
satin Linking at the matter from a less
elevated point of view, long engagements aro
rather tiresome in restricting the liherty of
girl* Mis* Jenny, who i* going to marry
Mr. Himpson as soon as that hopeful young
man gets a living, is obliged in the mean
while to deny herself many pleasure*, teat
Simpson should take ofl-noe Hhe mn«t
eschew ball* ; she imM take care that no
body makes love to her } and for thi* pur
pose she is obliged to let nil chance comer*
be spe-dity informed of her engagement.
Unhappily. the symbolism ef rings is nlwny*
di«ri*gmded, else the chance Comers might
discover the fact for theni«rlves hy looking
at the second finger of Mis* Jenny's left
hand. If Jenny lias no sisters to talk of h-r
betrothal, and if her mother does not accept
timely hints to mention it on every necessary
occasion, or the engagement is not announced
in the Home Journal, the girl is rather em
barra-ssd for words in which to convey the
news delic»te|y to si rangers, Hhe cannot
ill lode to Mr. Simpson aa “Johnny”—that
would be too familiar; she cannot speak of
him ns “Simpson,” for ibis would sound
strange ; hut if she refers to him frequently
as “Mr. Simpson,"efrangers might draw nn
desirable inferences from her apparent fura l*
iarlty with a person thus coldly specified.
Then the engag-d girl ha* to pot up with a
great deal of chaff, which is Only pleasing
for awhile, and afterwards becomes intoler
able. I Ilf tllal* Of matrimony mra frM]»-lly
commanded to her impatient attention by
way of mnternui rebuke: “Ah, iwy dear,
you will find om lhat I was right when you
arc a w ife yourself!” and so forth ;or a
snub is pui upon her too linsty wish to con
sider herself free by the reminder that she ia
not married yet, nnd that there is many a slip
between cup and lip. Sometimes Himnson
i* actually held up tq her as a bogey : “My
dear, 1 don't think Mr. Himpson would quit*
approve of you wearing that cherry ribbon j"
“J.'nny, d*ar, 1 think Mr. Simpson would
bo sadly grieved if he heard yon express
those opinions;" or,‘Jenny, I am sure Mr.
Simpson would not think it proper that you
should play croquet with Cap'ain Mallet ”
There is encugli in all this t* make a girl
sit down and scream. —Home Journal.
Taking Advantage of Leap
Year.
This being leap year, a yonng lady on tbe
west side received to avail herself of the
privilege afforded the gentle sex and ascer
tain tho exaot intentions of an apparently
devoted admirer who hag been sparring
around for two season* without miking a
direct offer of bis enruewhit extenniyo hand.
Ho the other evening, us he was holding
down one ood of the pirlor sofa io bia nsnal
reliable manner, the fair creature, at the '
other extremity of that ireful article ol fur
niture suddenly naked if he knew this was
leap year. She didn’t stammer or blish
over tho matter ei'her, but viewed her in
tended victim with a oold, piercing look,
while his bead drooped like a lily in the
burning snn and Mushe* chasod •’•ch other
across Ids ample cheek like rippling wavel*t»
on the calm surface of Lake Como. Finally
he assented to her chronological statement
in a low voice, while his heart throbbed
wildly and a heaving shirt-front indicated
tyia emotion. “And if I ware to tell you
that I loved yon,” she continued, “you would
believe me ?” A slight tremor of his Pic
cadilly collar showed that Indde of b be had
nodded assent. “Then I do say so, my idol,’*
enclnimed the y nng Isdy in tragic tones, as
her off knee hit the carpet; and -he seised
his unresisting hand ai d covered it with hers.
Bat the young man was rqasl to the occa
sion. Rising to his feet, his beautiful eyes
suffused with tsars, be esc aimed :' “1 can,
never bo your hostler— groom, ! mean. I
appreciate your love, and know that yon are
good, and true, and oobie. Bat I am gay
and frivolous —a petted fashion plate of
Wah»«h arenas. The humble home that
you offer me would no! satisfy my taste,
lieaveo help me I We must part,” and
making a break for the front hall, he seised
hie lint, and wus gone. Once free from
danger (be unnatural strength that bail
borne him guve way ami he Baok.*ltW»t u °-
conscions into the nearest, cfolt,— CAtaigo,
Tnbuiit.
I'm LitJruese DfinoittM: reiaark* that
there are aeveriU successful' eases of nose,
grading ; but if surgical *o«*ice will dis
cover some way. to, graft a man's nose on to
bts own bUrOuaMwexuiuatvely, it will call it n
scheme. **
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'•‘Tba way to be an aogef trarep
is to sun a ti e wdawketuwM* lamp.” _
NO. 43