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! NAME OF WASHINGTON.
his name in the ran.
to try for,
A name to lire and die for—
The name of Washington.
Calmy his tee shall look down through the
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Sweet yet severe with a spirit of warning;
Charged with the .wisdom of saints and of
younger
yes, it
tsL
was quite suitable, quite natu-
Qukk with the light of a life-giving morn
ing.
A majesty to try for,
A name to Uve end die for—
The name of Tfashlngton.
Though faction may rack ns, or party divide
As if all this were not enough, Prof-
fesaor Mills had added his part to the
unhappy disturbance. He had journeyed
to Monisvslle with one object in view;
but he owned, at the end of a week, that
it seemed no nearer of attainment Mrs.
Witherden was bright and cordial,
friendly, with a simplicity and gracious
ness perfectly transparent, and as charm
ingly open and unsuspicious as she bad
always been. It was plain that he must
u opportunity to declare'himself—
oula be given him.
Late in the afternoon, Philip, stand-
A. R. BENNETT.
. (Near Grand Central Hotel)
WAYCBOSS, GKA-.
And bitterness break the bright links of our
down the drive-way.
strange—to go away just at the dinner-
hour. Did his mother wish to save him
pain?—his mother!
She was at his door, tapping in the
gentle way he knew so well. He let her
Sis
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Clinch—First Mondays in March and
October.
.n«^ u ” a Mondays in March
Wayne—Third Mondays in March and
October.
Pierce—Fourth Mondaya in March and
October.
Ware—First Mondays in April and
November.
Coffee—Tuesda^after second Monday
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Charlton—Tuesday after third Monday
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Camden—Fourth Mondaya in April
and November.
Glynn—Beginning the first Mon
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tinue for two weeks, or as long oaths
business may require.
live and forgive! But forget not the glory
Of him wboae bright we try for,
A name to live and die for—
The name of Washington.
Btm In h!s eyes shall be measured oar fleeting
Days, with the image of days long ended;
Still shall thorn eyes give, immortally, greet
ing
Unto the soul from his spirit descended.
we will try for,
B live and die for-
i of Washington.
i Parsons Lathrop.
Mr. Witherden’s Successor.
His death was the first act of consid
eration Mr. Witherden had ever shown
his wife. Young—scarcely yet twenty-
five—beautiful, nch, and alone, life be
gan anew for her then.
Soon afterward, Mrs. Gertrude With*
her friend, 3Irs.
In the Norths’ lovely home Gertrude
found rest and peace. They had one lit
tle lad of ten years, and her childless
heart opened wido to the brave, bright
boy. He, in return, was a very little
knight in devotion.
“If only I had such a boy of my ownl”
she said one day as he bounded away to
school.
Why don’t you adopt one?” asked
Mrs. North.
“I will, if you’ll give me, Philip.”
The long visit came to an end. The
little knight waved his handkerchief and
dashed away a tear with it, as the train
Municipal Officers.
Mayor—W. J. Smith.
Councilmeu—Warren Lott, E. P. McCall,
Geo. R. Youmans, D. A. Williams.
Treasurer—W. M. Mai I on.
Clerk of tho*Couneil—J. 8. Williams.
Tag Assessor and Collector—J. E. Butler.
Marshal—J. p. Cason.
Night Watchman—S. H. Hinnant.
the station. But the Norths were soon
to return the visit, and Gertrude opened
her house again with a new feeling of in
terest Her servants gathered gladly
about her and old ways were resumed.
The summer days sped on and one
came when the Norths set out on the
ourney westward. Fifty miles from
dorrisville, where Gertrude waited impa
tiently for them, was an iron bridge.
A freight train had just passed safely
With a fearful crash trail
went down together. A tele;
County Officers.
Clerk of the Superior Court—W. M.
- Wilson.
Ordinary-Warren Lott.
Sheriff—T. B. Henderson.
Tax Collector—J. A. - Cason.
Tax Receiver—J. J. Wilkinson.
County Treasurer—W. S. Bailey.
County Surrogate—Jasper Eunice.
Coroner—J. T. Hale.
bridge
v w n from
a strange physician summonedTGertrude
to the terrible scene. Mr. North had
killed instantly, and his wife was
dying. Philip lay lay her side with a
broken arm, bravely bearing his pain
and terror that he might not add to
his mother's distress. She looked all
her joy and relief at Gertrude’s pres
ence, and whispered with difficulty the
eager words
“Y<
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HU First Welsh Rarebit.
Fe was from the country and had
oome to take in the sights, the cyclo-
rama and tho new Begley fountain. The
rest of the party sat down on the steps
of the City Hall and ate gingerbread
with a keen relish, bnt he thongnt he
would put on little more style, and so
sauntering down Woodworth avenue a—
while he struck a high-toned restaurant.
Following the crowd in he took his seat
at one of the lunch tables. Presently
his turn' came. There Was the usual
steak and chops, bat the waiter said
MWoUR He ordered it—he
“Welsh rarebit!
could
and
“rabbit’
1 get common food like pork chops
steaks at home, so htfd try the
bit” if it warf Welsh, although he
that
After a few minutes the order was set
before him. He waited awhile and then
ate the bit of cheese and toast, wonder
ing why they melted up the cheeae in
that way. Customers came and went,
bnt he sat waiting. Finally one of the
waiters asked if he would have anything
“Anything mare I” exclaimed the
stranger. “Why I’ve had nothing yet.’
Fifteen more minutes paused when tb
waiter again asked “if he wished any
thing else.”
“Yes, sir. I am waiting for myrabbit.
I’ve waited now long enough for yon to
cook it, too.”
“Bnt you’ve had you’re order, sir, 1
said the waiter.
“That’s a lie. I haven’t seen the first
bit of a rabbit yet. All I’ve had was a
bit of cheese ana bread, which TU pay
for when I get the rabbit.”
It took just thirty minutes standard
time to convince that “tourist” that the
“rarebit” of cheesj and bread was his
order.—Detroit TrPn op ,
“Seed Vm a Doing It»
It 4 almost impossible for country
people! to recognize the dense ignorance
as to all matters agricultural and rural
from which the children of the Lon
don poor suffer. A day or two ago the
parson of a London parish asked r»no of
the children who had been boarded out
under the new poor law regulations
how he enjoyed the change of air and
■oenery. “Please, Sir," said* fiie nr
chin, 'fldon’t like it at:all; instead
7 squeezes it out of a nasty cow—I
1 ’em a doing itl”
She went straight to his lounging-
chair, and sitting down held out her
hand to him. It was always her way
when she had something important to
tell him. He dropped on the floor be
side her, as he had often done before,
resting one elbow on the arm of tho
chair, and his chin on his hand.
Philip,” she said, with sorrow in her
tone, “I have made poor, dear Professor
Mills very unhappy. He asked me to be
bis wife, and I could not say yes.
They remained in silence a moment,
and then Philip broke it.
“Tm very sorry for Professor Mills,
but Fm glad”—he checked himself. She
hastened to complete the sentence.
“That I want only my big, tall boy.”
He looked up. She thought he had
never been more like an own son than
now, and he read the thought i
conscious mother-eyes.
In the days that followed, if she had
been less occupied she could not have
failed to notice 'an unusual gravity that
often possessed* her son, an indefinable
something that pervaded his air toward
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menading up and down the long parlors
and through the hall and library. Out
ride, the rain fell in torrents. It was
their first quiet day together since Pro
fessor Mills went away. Philip had been
narrating a peculiarly sad incident con
nected with a recent law suit, and for
some minutes neither had spoken. As
they paced slowly through the parlors,
Phillip watched their reflection in the
mirror between the windows. When
they reached the end of the room in
stead of turning again he halted. His
‘You’ll take Philip lor your own?”
‘With all my heart—for my own boy
always,” was the fervent pledge.
Now indeed began Gertrude’s life
earnest Its direction was to be shaped
by this fine, loving boy, whose soul was
knit to hers, in the days of bis sudden
orphanage and weary illness, with a
fervor that nothing would ever chill. All
into full flower, and
gave willing allegiance.
She was a wise mother. That which
him to be she
she could have given to her husband
and to children of her own she gave
mother looked ~up and met his eyes ii
A playful
the glass. A playful reproof for his
vanity sprang to her lips but he spoke
before she could frame the words.
“What an old fellow I am, and how
young you look!” He was about to add,
what was quite tnxe, that a stranger
would never dream of the difference iu
their ages, when her laughing answer
;a,
“I ought to be very elderly with such
a venerable son.. I did begin once to
ow old in sober earnest, but a certain
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little boy beguiled me the other way.
think he will always keep me ‘untouched-j
with any shade of years.’ ”
Philip’a secret was perilously near ex
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at night, and haunted him continually.
He resolved to go away and work out the
problem by himself. He announced his
decision on
one morning as he started for
the office. His mother had gone to the
door for her usual parting word. Before
he gave it he said;
“I am going to New York to-morrow,
and”—the first time he had ever proposed
and went hurriedly away.
However strange she thought it—lus
wishing to take such a trip without her
—she did not betray her feeling. She
rightly divined that there was a special
reason for his absence, and she knew it
would all be confided to her some time.
She told him she was £2, that he was
to thfo boy. How happily the years went
chool days in *
going, that he needed change and rest,
and that he should come back five years
on! There were school days in the towft
academy, delicious wanderings in sum
mer vacations, music and reading at
home—and in everything his mother
■hared. Then came college days, and
younger.
cause bis i
and strong,
her side to new scenes. How lonely the
was without him, how it bright-
whenever he came home, how he
was still her loyal knight, her kingly
When his college course v
ley went away fo
foreign lands. It
s completed,
vacation in
pride and
son constantly at her side
again. It often astonished fellow tour
ists to hear him address the very youth-
many a curious glance followed them,
changing to a long look of interest in
the evident and ardent attachment exist-
they came home again Philip
upon the study of law. In three
years he was once more in Morrisville,
established in an office of his own, and
the ardor of hit boyhood. She
would often playfully remind him that
he must not slight the yonng. ladies of
He had always one answer:
“There is no one so young as yru ar
She let herself enjoy his thoughtful
tentious to the full, eften saying to her
self:
“I shall not have him always—it can-
woman in all the world.
Philip came home ohe day to find an
unexpected guest within the hospitable
doors. It was Professor Mills, a most
agreeable companion in the Rhineland
journeying*. He had remained in Ger
many to study, and the memory of a
desolated home had prolonged hxs stay.
w As he parted from her she
minded him:
‘If anything troubles you, Philip, yot.
know I’m right here.”
His first letter told her all.
Iu the bewildering hours and days that
succeeded, she realized how wisely he
bad gone away, and how grateful now
u the solitude of the lonely house.
She had lost her son—that was at first
her only clear thought. Around it swept
a current of other and conflicting emo
tions. Memory held up many things
that took on new meaning in the light of
this revelation. She remembered that
when ProfessoT Mills asked heT to be bis
wife, she had replied that she cared for
no one but Philip—she was content to
give him all her love. Professor Mills
had answered: “But that is a mother’s
love for a son; I ask you for something
very different.” It had not seemed so
different to her—she could not tell why.
She only knew that the wealth of her
affection was for Philip, and that she
was satisfied to have it so. And now—
should she ever find safe shore again?
Philip had written: “I shall not re
turn until you bid me come.” He set
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himself a long
heart was likes prophet to his heart.
A month draggea its slow days by; a
week halted through long hours, and
then the summons came:
~ "Thy fate and mine ure sealed.
I strove against the stream and nil in ▼ain;
Let tiw great river take me to tha main.”
tire land had brought
strong desire to meet Mrs. Witherden
once more bad led his feet to Morrisville.
The three met most cordially, and went
merrily over again those foreign ways
that good comradeship had rendered
Professor Mills had announced that he
was on his way to Chicago, but beseemed
in no baste to continue bis pilgrimage.
Suddenly Philip's eyes were opened as
by a flash of lightning out of dear aides.
He was sitting at his desk when tha
double revelation came. A strange agi
tation possessed him. He stumbled to
his feet and paced the floor In unsteady
haste. His thoughts wereiu wild tumult,
driven hither aud thither like snow on
winter winds. Through it all the shad
owy presence slowly and dearly revealed
its face. Then he sank into his chair,
and bowing his head, groaned aloud.
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soon discovered it, and they swarmed
about in large numbers. Tie breeze
keep the lake in such a ripple, however,
that they could not keep a foothold on
body of the ’gator, as it turned and
floated with every wave. The Florida
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ever gained credit for. Baffled by the
wind and wave, and hungry from fruit
less efforts to anchor the ’gator, the birds
held a consultation. As a result two of
them flew at the ’gator, and fastening
their talons on the body they spread
their wings sail-fashion, and piloted the
Gradually ms thoughts assumed definite
^He was her sou, her love for him v
love, she could never make it
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