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MACON, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1880.
VOLUME LV—NO. 17
FOOTSTEPS.
Sound of feet
In the lonely street,
Coming to-night—coming to me?
Perhaps (why not? the thing may be,)
My dear old friend
From the world’s end
At last,
How we shall meet,
And shout and greet,
And talk of twenty things at once,
Till the first gush and rush he past,
And smoother now the current runs;
Plenty on either side to tell—
Sharing joy and soothing pain,
A. vniPA PAn do i
As friendship’s voice can do so well.
Hush! hark!
I hear in the dark— .
Only the footsteps of the ram.
Stay! stay!—
Coming this way,
Through the dull night, perhaps to me,
Coming, coming, coming fast,
(And why may not such things be ?)
A messenger’s feet
In the lonely street,
With some wonderful news to say
At last.
•A word has been spoken,
A bad spell broken,
Men see aright,
All faces are bright,
For the world to-morrow begins anew,
And there’s twenty million of things to
- do.
Away! search, sift the countnr through,
And say at once to a certain few,
« Come, for our gain: '
We know yoir'and now we have work for
you.”
Hush! hark!
I hear in the dark—
Only the footsteps of the rain.
now, don’t put me clean through th®
blasted catechism. Let me in!”
“Next door!” were the uncompromis
ing accents of the reply, and the light van
ished with unrelenting celerity.
Next door! He might as well have
said next planet. Misgill knocked again,
more furiously, but was rewarded by no
“You’ve been a neglecting your work,
an’ leaving your ma to peg at it all
alone.”
“Much you care for ma 1” Molly began,
contemptuously, when her mother, think
ing to soften her husband by siding with
him, piped up in a whining tone:
“Yes, you hev, Molly. I’ve been hard
further parley. Finally, he made another j at it all the livelong day.” But she got
plunge into the surrounding vacancy, and, no thanks. Ballen promptly and furious-
succeeded in finding, not another shanty, ]y told her not to put in her “clack.”
as he supposed, but the very same, which “You’re only'a child,” he said, turning
stolidly withstood another assault. The I to Molly again, “an needn’t be putting on
humiliating fact is, that this process wa3 airs. If you lay yourself out for a flog-
repcated several times before Misgill, as-1 ging, you’ll git it. She’s bare thirteen,
well Cap,” he explained, looking toward Mis-
tonished that the hillside was so iri ^ .
built up, devoted all its residents to fiery gill, with some hint at an apology in his
torments, and gave up in despair. tone.
The following day he avoided Porteons I , “I’m near fourteen,” returned Molly,
as he would a plague; hut that jolly per- [ steadily, “and am bigger than sixteen.”
sonage found him at last. A watery I The Captain was thunderstruck. He
twinkle in his bloodshot eyes led Misgill could fully endorse Molly’s last assertion,
to believe that he anticipated a confes-1 She looked every day of sixteen, and fine-
sion. t ' I ly developed for that. He stared harder,
“Hallo, cap! Wher* ye hen all day? and wished he had more eyes. What a
How’d ye sleep las’night, eh?”
“Fine,” said'Misgill, laconically.
“Foun’ Ballen’s eh ?”
“Without any trouble.”
“Humph! Didn’t expect you would, j
splendid girl she was, to be sure, with her
noble curves and dauntless carriage!
There was no trace of her mother’s pinch
ed features in hers. Her hair was red,
but not her father’s color—paler, and glo-
in
Close, close
Outside the house!
Steps approaching—are these fot me ?
Coming gently, coming fast;
And O, if this can be!..
Out of the strife
Of selfish life
My love has fled of a sudden—’tis she
At last!
Here she stands,
Eyes and mouth and tender form,
True and warm;
My dreams of many a lonely year;
Stretches her hands—
No deubt or fear—
“ See, my. love, ’tis all in vain
To keep true lovers parted
If they be faithful-hearted!”
' Hush! hark!
I hear in the dark—
Only the footsteps of the rain.
A man as full as you was, Thad., couldn’t riously soft and abundant
be expected to fin’ anythin’. Well, s’pose “Weli, well; I’ll see to you by an’ by,”
the young un is jus’ what I said, eh ?” said Ballen, with a sort of deprecatory
There was always an alcoholic uncertain- growl. “This isn’t being very polite to
ty about Porteous’ consonants. “She’s a ] the Qap’n.”
splendid gal, she is.” “You should have thought of that he-
The reference to the “young un” re- fore,” cried Molly, with a saucy laugh,
awakened Misgill’s curiosity to see her. I “But I’ll see that you don’t go a-mann-
Be had rashly vowed never again to set j dering off ag’iu”
foot on Telegraph Hill; but, having to ac- The scene ended as unexpectedly as it
count to no one save himself for a broken had begun. Captain Misgill resumed his
resolution, he set out before dark to find knife and fork, finding opportunity to con-
Ballen’3. I vey secret glances of approbation across
Looking along Kearney street west- the table to Molly. ' By the dancing of
ward, to-day, the hill is so closely built her eyes she enjoyed her triumph im-
tiiat it resembles a huge stack of vari- / meusely, and she dreaded no later reckon-
sliapcd boxes; but Misgill, in climbing, I fug.
was led over open slopes, green and The Captain and Ballen lit their pipes,
soaked by heavy rains. Where he had I and took a stroll to the top of the hill to-
been wandering the night before, he could gether.
not possibly make out. He saw nothing “That gal thinkc she’s gittin’ too mueh
of the clustered houses among which he I for me,” said Molly’s father. “Td a given
had imagined himself. Here a rude tent, | her a good whacking if it hadn’t been
there a ruder shanty, was all. He. began you was strange.”
to think that he must have been very “Try it on while I’m ’round,” muttered
drunk! indeed. the doughty Captain, “an’ I’ll make lime-
Ballen’s was not easy to miss by day- dust o’ your bones.”
light. Porteous’ description enabled Mis- The bed-chamber of those days was ,a
ill to I M _ - Mi
C ATTAIN MOLLY.
gill to recognize it at once. It was ambi- primitive affair. The Captain’s was hard-
tiously whitewashed, aqd was flanked by ly larger than his snug cabin on the Bar-
a huge hogshead, standing on end; this, nacle; and as the wind tore furiously all
haying a sort of door cut m it, served to night across the bleak hill, the cloth par-
shelter a few domestic animals, all of I tition billowed and shook like spread
which latter bad, at that time, a remarka- | sails. In his dreams Misgill was at sea;
hie value. *and waking with a start in the dead of
Announcing himself loudly at the front night, he had some difliculty, owing to
entrance, Misgill was unexpectedly waited the rocking and creaking of the rude
upon by<6omebody who darted around the fhanty, to dispel the illusion. He soon-
side of the house* lj£e a'watch-dog; an I became aware gf a'flasliing and failing of
angry man, whose fiery c&untenance was flight,’ not tmlilre'S. Beacon-fire on a windy
covered by an abundant growth of vigor- headland, but in reality a flickering can-
ous red bristles standing out straight from dle-flame in the next room,
chin, cheek—ears even—and radiating Gathering his wits together painfully,
heat and clioler from every hirsute J as if each had been on a separate
“What the. do you want, hammer- | a soft interiruCleuf SBfftltt'di
, Tbaddeus Misgill, of the good ship Bar- a man > s house down over his head?” I micel movement. The floor quivered
nacle, was braving the difficulties of land = impetuous query, put forth like a I if to unheard music. He rolled over on
navigation without a pilot. Steering for 1 ** his side, and stared hard at the frail par-
Will, one minute lie saw it ris- | * Miscill of the Barnacle. I want a tition separating liis room from the next.
A 1 J I tm cfSmnrr ttiOTA linPOll-
Telegraph Hill, one minute he saw — UIC 0
ing directly before him; the next, ithad Jand rat c |ned Ballen, c ar.d go to Whoever .jas stirring there was uncon-
disappeared, as if by enchantment. Well, vou ” growled the captain in his best I sciously giving the Cap.ain the benefit of
at anv rate, he was sure of the lamps of I nias i c -lantem representation. A shadow
Estrada’s store, behind him. He turned j «w e i] if you do want me, you needn’t 1 now elongated, now dwarfed, nowsiietnly
—they were utterly gone. como as’ if y0 u was In command of the posing, now dancing, quivered up and
Truth is, this human vessel had a heavy . . -jj roplieri the other, letting his over the cloth partition in fantastic plaj.
liquid cargo aboard. His vcira were throb- I fa!1 an ^ave. “Your Porteous’I That shape could belong to none other
bing, his head buzzing. The soberest of fnend j wpse. Expected you last night, than Molly.’ What wa3 she up to. With
captains at sea, he was the most maudlin Wa)k arou , ld the back way. We don’t a nautical oath, tremendous in quality, if
of revelers ashore. Goodheavens. Where on no airg jn tlje3e dig-gins. No lock subdued in tone, the Captain resolved to
was lie? For that matter, who was he? I the front door; so it’s barricaded. I f m d out. Crawling cautiously on all
“Me. Come out in the hall a min
ute.”
Molly’s face, still blazing from the hot
kitchen, was heightened in color effect by
a generous daub of flour across one cheek.
Her hair was still twisted up,.carelessly,
but picturesquely, off her neck. There
was aroused attention, curiosity even, in
her expression as, standing in her qoor^
way, she saw Misgill waiting with some
thing exquisitely bright and soft wrapped
loosely in his hands.
“It is for you,” be said, answering the
sparkling question in her glance; and tak
ing a step or two towards her, with a ges
ture as if throwing it away, he awkwardly
cast the shawl over the shoulder nearest
to him, instantly turning on his heel,
as if to say, “Take it. It isn’t worth
a thank-you.” v- '
How to bestow a gift gracefully is * rare
expression of tact. Whether too- great
carelessness or undue impressiveness be.
more offensive, who shall decide ? But
Molly was not critical. She stifled a
shriek of delight; and in five minutes had
worn the gay thing in every fashion, bat
that conventionally accepted. Now it
hung squarely from her shoulders—a court
train, now it produced a classic effect in
its unstudied, falls and folds; now it
shrouded her bright hair, her blue eyes
peeping through its long, silken fringes.
The Captain Mamed delight as she para
ded joyously up and down.
.“Give us the cachuclia, Molly!” he
whispered. “I saw you at it last night.”
“Did you?” she cried with sudden em
phasis.
Misgill explained hilariously.
Molly laughed a little too. < “You were
so tipsy,” she said, “that I was sure you
would sleep sound.”
“Not last night. I jvasn’t tipsy last
night. I hadn’t drank 'a drop”—so pro
tested the Captain mendaciously.
Molly ignored this. A fiery earnest
ness came into her manner:
“I’m a-going to be a play actress, that’s
what I’m argoingto be!”
, “A—kicker?” queried the Captain, il
lustrating with a foot never designed by
nature or the bootmaker's art for any
pas ,
“Well, I’m to learn to dance, t6o. But
that ain’t all. . There’S Some pantomime
people a-going to- South Ameriky soon:
Jenny Gregg knows one of the women.
I’ve most made up my mkid to run a«ay
with ’em.”
The last sentences were safely delivered
into the very porch of the listeners ear.
“On accounts of your pap, eh?”
She nodded frowningly.
“I wouldn’t a-dared stand ag’in him yes
terday, if he an’ me was alone. I tantal
ized liim'a-purpose/sO’s to have it ofit be
fore yon. ,But now I’ve begun, I’m a go-
ing.oiwwith it. I work early and late,
most days; a pity I can’t have one off now
an’ then. He’s give me as much of hard
knocks as I’ll take, has pa. I kind of
dashed him yesterday—I could see it
in his eyes.' It was an experiment. Now
L’d fjUdj*. ilia’s battles, too. it' .‘t would
under!’” ' ,
At that moment a strident voice seemed
to vault up the ladder by which the sec
ond story was gained.
“He’s come home,” muttered Molly,
involuntarily clinching her hands—“the
beast!” ,
The Captain did not look horrified.
Began to cry, like the child she was, on
his shoulder. > ,
“You’ve been so good to me, Cap’n. Pa
hasn’t ventured to lift a hand to me since
you’ve been in the house. There’s no
telling what be will do now; and—and I
don’t want to go with them South Amer
iky people. I want—to go with yon 1”
“Don’t, dout, mj dear. Dry them
pretty eyes. Would to the Lord, you was
my own little gal, Molly.” . ;
“Take me with you, Cap’n.”
“It can’t be. Leastwise there’s only
one mortal way, an’ I’m too old an’ you’re
too young for that 1”
“Oneway?” she echoed, seizing upon
his most hopeful words, and looking
eagerly into his faoe. “Why, you’re cry
ing, too, Cap’n Misgill!” • - ' •
“I know what it is,” said Jenny, who
had been standing by, patiently waiting
her adiep. “It> to marry the Cap’n,
Molly.-” . l is:
“To—marry the Cap's!” echoed Molly,
laughing aloud, with the tears still on her
cheeks. “Why, of course! Your mother
.was married at fourteen, Jenny.”
“But not to an old graybeard like me r
returned Misgill, putting Molly away
from him with a rough decision., “You’d
repent of it bitter enough before you was
twenty.” . .
“No, I wouldn’t,” contradicted Molly;
“I’d think of pa.” -
Mention of Ballen had brought those
evil looks and threats sharply before Mis
gill’s mind. Could he leave the dear girl,
whose every glance and every touch were
sunshine and music to him, to the dread
ful alternative of submitting Jto Ballen’s
tender mercies, or desperately running in
to heaven only knew what dangers ?
“Molly!” he said,huskily, “thinkwell
on it, my dear. Don’t make up your mind
too hasty. I’ll go and find my old friend,
Porteous. Expect me back in an hour, at
most. I must be aboard in two.”
Within the specified time he returned,
and with him Porteous, whose jolly, roll
ing eyes beamed anticipation of wedding
liquids.
“Where’s the minister?” said Molly,
looking from one to the other; “I thought
you’d bring one.”
Whereupon Porteous roared with tri
umph: “Hooray! hooray! Changed her
.mind, has she, Cap’n? Never 3een a man
so sorter tim’rous as Thad, all on a sud
den?-GParson’s waitin’ outside.”
Then he rah to wave‘-his hat ati’the
opening of thee tent; and thus conjured,
the Rev. Edward Grass—so Porteous in
troduced him—entered. For the same
reason that he had been posted without,
some suspicious black bottles had been left
in his keeping.
Porteous apologized for his incongruous
presence by telling that although he Lad
been a chaplain in the British navy, he
was just back from the American river
diggin’s—dead broke.
“But he kin tie the nuptual,” Porteous
declared, “jus’ as tight as if his. heels
kicked his coat-tails an’ his neck was
J dm iut jrorteous me "vraiuuig
Uar* r,een a dumb affair. The bride-
groom nn»n to
somethin’, cocked my pistols and picket!
out my men. I thought of Molly hacking
away at herself with the knife; I thought
of-my pistols missing fire, an’ of the big
nigger with the scar I’d made across bis
face laying bands on her—an’ there, by
the Lord! she stood—Molly!—with her
head np, an’ a light that I’d seen afore
when she was a little gal, flashing in
her eyes. As she stepped Into
the black den «J turned sick and
dizzy; I couldn’t scarce hear her,
but she was makiDg a little speech about
Parks an’ what they did. ‘But,’ says she,
*be was a bad, cruel man. Though you’ve
did a terrible deed, that you must answer
for to your God, I’ll swear to what Parks
was in sny court. Come, men, the Barna
cle’s in an awful tight place. This may
be the last trip for all of us, unless yon
git to work. Save the ship, an’ save your
selves.’ I would ’a’ opened my head to
swear that ho one should stir till they’d
4qne as I told ’em, when Molly give me a
1 ook that went went dean through me.
“The trouble all blew over for a time ;
the men turned to; bnf I was riled. I’m
tbe law an’ the devil on my deck, I am.
What I’ve once said has got to be done, if
I die for it; the big nigger, he was sulky.
I give an order sharp ” here the Cap
tain interpolated something unintelligible
save to his nautical listeners, “and the
black clod didn’t stir. The next minute
I’d flattened him out’s if a mainmast had
fell on him; it was the signal for the hull
devilish lot to drop whatever they was at'.
“I stepped forward to meet ’em, slipped
on the icy deck; my feet went from undtr
me, and there 1 lay with the spine of my
bade broke—I believed so then—at their
mercy..
“Ail got dark afore me, an’when I
came to I was stretched out ou my own
bunk, the nigger was in irons, and the
rest of ’em was obeying my wife’s orders
like clock work. It’s a mystery to me to
this day how Molly managed ’em. The
long and short of it is, I was lyingithere;
yet.when we reached Valparaiso, where
we reported the vessel badly knocked
about, the captain disabled, the first mate
murdered an’ Mrs..Holly Misgill in com
mand. She’s been Captain Molly ever
since.
“The big nigger? We took film back
to New York, where he was tried for the
murder ofParks. Molly, she went into
court and testified to Parks’ little pecoo-
liarities, and the black dog would ’a’ got
off with a light sentence, but some of the
others gave him away for hatching a plot
to seize the Barnacle and make oil'to
some one of the South Pacific Islands with
her. My hack was lame a long stretch.
That’s all. Thanks to the bravest girl
ever trod ship’s deck, here we • are
where we started from, ain’t we, Molly?”
And that was all, save a glimpse of a
heavy gold me'dal, which pras incribed:
To Captain Molly Misgill,
I17iO saved the Barnacle dnd her Cargo,
Dec. 25th, 1853.
Presented by Many Ship Owners.
me
bride was silent froinWense excitement;
Jenny awed, and the Reverend Edward
unconscionably stupid. Porteous leered
very tenderly at Jepny, and whispered.
“Le’s us stan’ up, too; I’m a widower this
twenty year.” And the ceremony over,
in -view of Molly’s shining eyes and
He wished he mtebt fully express his feel- J in -view of Molly s snimng eyes au
iL toward Ballen. He: considered that he
, n nTif n fi ion me iront uuui > c
The sudden disappearance of expected ^y omen f olkg « 3 keery.'
fours to the partition, liis vision was
land marks aroused disturbing queries as j^ nd ra kbits were “skeery” too. One [- cheated by a^spreading whiteness, through
to his own identity. People in their right here, another started there, at the I which the candle glowed like the flame In
minds, finding themselves in um ™ n “ d I Captain’s approach, making wi'.h lon^, j an 0 pal. In an agony of caution. Misgill
minds, finding themselves in unwonreu Cantairis approach, making with Iona, a n opal. In an agony or caution, rnisgu
plight, have been upset in some such fash- I j- or the sheltering hogshead, possessed himself of his jack-kmfe,
ion! The old woman, of childish memo- Thjg „ a , 1 ningi they turned to investigate, an d with it punctured a small hole to
ry, awaking from her roadside nap, to with wonder stricken ears and tremulous 1 whicli he fastened an investigating eye.
discover, with Saul, that her skirts have Molly, sure enough—in white night-gear,
been curtailed, cries out in bewilder- . Ballen excited Misgill’s profound with a large red bandanna fastened around,
ment: . T | astonishment. “What. a spare rib she her waist, and_ straggling; odds and ends
“Laws a-mercy on me, this can t be I. j 16) chuckling. “Blast me if 1 0 f color fantastically knotted
There are not wanting happy strokes ot • thj ° k lier staya would pinch my there; her bright hair flying lik
human nature in contemned nursery | * 1 __ Kn> Toflpet inn which he afterward | mane, and her graceful ankles
rh;
contemned
thumb!” Ca reflection which he afterward mane, and her graceful
_ _ * % Da mUllAVAfl O I V — *Ta«v* ftl* A 1 AaV OT
here and
like a shining
:les’white and
ly 3haven’t th.nkedyou forth* heau- ™ ££ £3j,
-Srsrvasf sasswtt
and van-! lit.Mn steam-tug Molly* Drink hearty.” -
£hed. M ° lly ’ Wlth a SQUeeZe> aDd VaU ‘I“NodSS^fibS^ffiprty
• I UUUUb A Wiwvvw ' * - " •
. . . , I V pan Fifty would have been nearer the
Like one In a dream he stood, feehn. ? | 5^^ ' jjut lie 3et the example of drink-
her warm breath against his j™ deeft and looked to see if the Captain
.cheek for full;fivemmutes after._ Thenfi^j. th0 same- Assuredly the.Uap-
Cpees ior iuii mcuiuuiM 1 hail done the same. Assure _ _
shook himself roughly, muftenng: “You had done t y . but) t0 teH the
old gray ship-rat, you! I bheTC y° ud ^ utlMo tiy had slyly poured its contents
snivel lor the moon! I 11 * « Tvnc?v*r»d
w „ , , , i out on the floor, her new-made husband
Week alter week the Barnacle lay In kly eventing thereto,
nrt. waitihe for a-crew. Hands used to I ... ,
ivmes. , „ repeated to Porteous). So withered a bare. Now she took an attitude of mock port, waiting for a-crew. Hands used to Jenny having thoughtfully provided a
The Captain’s wandering steps, for the e ^as she, indeed, that her schriv- supplication now ofcommand,now ofscorn r0I>es ] ia d taken to pick and .■*** f indispensable changes of rahnent
. *_n ctomnpd asome- ’ i aAma vm-ctnr. I “ M oA.tiv. naw Rank down on Airnaf nf Tils r»wn vessel, such delays com- ^ ^ n tA» ^ fhA v»rW«_
ensuing “two’’minutes, stamped a some- ^dappearance seemed ’in some myster- —now polkaed so.tly, now sank down on own er of his own I from heTownscanty store for the bride,
iu the eica appear* ^ her hus h an d’s one knee, as in “cachuca,” waving imagi- m? nly made the-Captain anything but I irom uer * . * -
what Intricate braiding pattern in tne | hold toward her hushand’s I 0 ne knee, as in “cachuca,” waving imagi- I m only made the-Uaptein isnyining uui, i had n0 sooner brought them out in a
mud. His indecision which way to turn, ; ® da ^ n f a bi e temper the relation of effect nar y castanets over her head. So child- m iid-mannered. But P e J°? d a e * nea t bundle than Molly screamed with
“nd his inability, to | S^Se.
j - The
— - . . m _ i sions For wrinkles, the poor soul’s conn-I palms touched to applaud. Suddenly I astonishedjnohody mord than the Captain c you m i n d, dear,” said Misgill.
at him as if they had never blinked. The WM a marvel; her close-drawn Molly steps, light as they were, stepping himself. He wa3 convinced, althpugh a- jp.Wj here git ’em and keep ’em.”
castaway laughed aloud. Nothing ^p lc ^ king exac tly as if worked round in 0 n an ill fitting hoard,made a small earth- U a d word did slip out now and-then, t^t ®wo girb shed some tears at part-
S was the matter with him. Those e stitd y VThat scanty gray quak e, and a preliminary grant anuouuccd he W as turning , J iue The two men gripped each other*?
15-ere Estrada’s lamps, and he was M.sgill, ™had was twisted into atight little that old Ballen wa3 waking. Jnstantly lca d e d his yoifog friend with iuotley ug. ^ j «an and do. The Bar-
_ . C? -A... ^OA-Iiiairsnenau candle went out and the play was gifts—shells, a Spanish guitar,^ dress- nana as that v^y afternoon,
oxthe Barnacle. The mysterioiis disap: about her household duties the
pearanecs were due to a natural plienome- I ^ (!^ ase icss activity, she reemed like I ended. .. .* I length of smutted English sil^, bright nacle sa^ S’ no more 0 f Molly
p - ” * 1.AAT* ** Vip.tpfi hv I Witn a ccascic?* » - I The following afternoon Misgill climbed en ough to gladden any girl’s heart, a sil- | auuDau
lion—log. Had lie not been so heated by
internal fires, ho would have felt it?
piercing chill.
“Git out
this
’ere mud-hoM| turn!
your back ou them lamps, au’ go ahead.
You’re all right, old chap.”
i exact
ently rewarded by finding himself going
UP Inreality, the stratum of vapor was not
■ But a little fog may do a vast
deal ofmischief with poor”dwellers upon
Sntly, and C. Ballefi silent; “but that S is posal of these dyspeptic centnvan^ bles . I re’her hilband totSl tow she
•sour ” a3Mis"ili also rcmariced with pro- 11 0 a miners’ restaurant, was the family s g ke shared all the good tilings with csty, left it
*nt would show nothing to won h. .
•r, fearing to lose them. “’Twasoff the Horn, in the blackest
rejoiced secretly In her kind of weather,” so Misgill wot^d begin,
~~~ Porteous I resicnation, waited their turn m tne oven, I- Assurina the giver that she I w ith a beaming glance m - ms wiles ai-
came in swinging a calico I wliSce issued spicy odors of bubbling in- ld every precious one off to rection, “that the worst crew »P<>or devil
had referred .a Ltr+mei vriiile they sides and deliftitely browning tarots. I? ^ ^b her—at mention of 0 f a cap’n ever pr.t up with, showed signs
sun bonnet, by ^ ' ^ ect a ; r of uu^ Huge earthen howls of dried apples and ®° licll possible journey MisgUl’rTtfclish 0 f mutiny. Half on f 11
were at table. A pe Captain’s peaches—fresh fruit was out. ofrthe ques- j d j iea ^ would Sink down untold 'foth- 0 ne way or ’notherf an all was vicious
L A Sfrewd observer, it struck Son, then, for such purples—&d another nc had been introdu.ced into J dogs. My first mate, though, *
luck to see. A shrewdreDserver, n, airuuk uo , , ^ awned n ear, the latter 1 areirra-^onlv a1«rlifvba?d customer.” Here he would
rtf -&&&& SS-sssS stesris i «—
of the ’. Greggs—only al pretty haJd customer.
iimIa tent it was,; _on Clay wink, aS if to imply that he was
sugar and j
meet the palate with « 1 ruue
en apple.
■■■■■■■■ ly’s eyes, the Captain
Now and again, Misgill looked around to Then Mwgm luvoiuma u The k!tc h C n was hot as a fur- Jnn gpr ; ad there with unheard of luxn- ders Parks would play tenj«ns with^em,
make sure that the bacons gleamed in Ballen, and found himself prompuy^ ^ nacg he pcrepircd pr of u? ely, hut still “K^ded by the Captain. Then, too, bowling ’em down, so ’twas a mortal
their places. As he went higher they ing hack the culls of. , ® ^ ,,„ al ^ke seemed bent on studying pie-making pro h p da stolen visit to theBama- wonder any ever got up agam. §ome
S ^wpfand lower-seeming to roll | wasn’t going to jit by and^see aJjai«« | see^ Pcrhap3t h e rolling and,vat fit- | ™ tn ° over sand-rifts and didn i t . We’d had two funereh. two rac-
sank lower and lower—seeming to roll wasn t goiDo re J ence —“’twas agin cesses. Perliaps the rolling and nest nt-j . and ano ther: over sand-rifts and j didn’t. We-—-
glances, *? u ; *.n?.u.■ *ii at i.mued in the same strain! imuujr » -not nat. nf 1 enuren. - . 1 c... A«»ioi«nni
to wife s^*3^3!«J5SaS
SSjT5SVbSTS*'b«»ine ’ — | cut like • P>U oro 1 S75aTO.lt*>>««„„
She
whose'sole^attractions were reflected from [ tnegin-L“was“as*qui& i« he.’With I poised the plate in air to cuiawi
the wife and danghter he had “fetched i place. But si ’ inst which she the surplus drapery of dough, had
frem riie “States.” The California ot like some chann ^afliar to the moment.
iblrtv vears a2o was not rich in wives and I flungherse , . /. • *> 1 Preparations for din
could cajc’late oar course
Well, she said that if I
stop to Parks’ brutalities, she
best he dared mthfkiiclxL ^ I “One night, when Parks was on.dcck,
- harsh voice issuing from the. kitchen, 1 ® s c ome on ’em, got i:p and made
thirty years ago was not rich in wives and j . j oefcd^e^i^eral ^ja^^g^Mi^l^'irent J e ’jj!^ri n ^ 0 hasSy^g^h-1 lShrfhim^WFen 1 ! l^«keS
AJT I9TCIBENT.
.Unarmed and unattended walks the Czar,
Through Moscow’s busy street one win
ter’s day,
The crowd uncover as his face they see—
“God greet the Czarl” they say.
Along his path there moved a funeral,
Gray spectacle of poverty and woe,
A wretched sledge, dragged by one weary
man,
Slowly across the snow. VT
And on the sledge, blown by the win
ter wind,
Lay a poor coffin, very rude and bare,
And he who drew it bent before his load,
With dull and sullen air.
The Emperor stopped and beckoned to the
man;
“Who is it thou bearest to the grave?!’
he said,
“Only a soldier, Sire!” the short reply,
•Only a soldier dead.”
“Only a soldier!” musifig, said the Czar;
“Onif a Russian, who was poor and
brave,
Move on. I follow. Such goes not
Unhonored to his grave.”
He bent his head, and silent raised his
cap,
The Czar of all the Russians, pacing
slow,
Following the coffin, as again it went,
Slowly across the snow.
The passers of the street, all wondering,
Looked on that sight, then followed si-
' lently;.
Peasant ana prince, and artisan and
clerk,
All in one company.
Still, as they went, the crowd grew ever
more,
Till thousands stood around the friend
less grave,
Led by that princely heart, who, royal,
true,
Honored the poor and brave. _ i
—Spectator.
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.
EDITED BY
Gesebal Wm.~M. BROWNE,. .
Professor of History and Agriculture in the
University of Georgia.
yjjigreishiitone state executioner Iq"tSe
malefactor named nardoned
good old pre-Nihilist days, when the abo-
ition of capital punishment was still
maintained in Muscovy, committed three
murders', and was condemned to penal
servitude for life. When, however, revo
lutionary successes rendered the services
cf ail imperial hangman-indispensable to
the Ministry of Justice, Froloffvolun-
terred for the office on condition that an
amnesty for his past misdeeds should he
granted to him. His offer was accepted,
and for some time past, ho has been a
busy man. For every “function” he re
ceives forty silver roubles—about
£6 sterling—from the Russian Exchequer
but that official fee by no meaus repre
sents the total emolument he derives from
the practice of his gruesome handicraft,
for he is permitted to trade upon the su
perstition still current in Russian socie
ty respecting the -lack -conferred upon
gamesters by the possession # a morsel of
the rope with which a human'being has
been strangled, either by the hand of jus
tice- or by his own. Immediately after
young Mladetzky had been hanged, only
the other day, Froloff was surrounded by
members of the Russian jcuncsse doree,
eager to purchase scraps of the fatal noose;
and he disposed of several dozen such tal
ismans at from three to five roubles apiece,
observing, with cynical complacency, when
he had sold off his last remnant, that “he
hoped the Nihilists would yet bring him
in plenty of money.” There is, indeed,
every prospect, if the Melikoff regime only
lasts long enough, that Froloff will speedily
become a wealthy man.—London Tele-
graph-sin-' “
Steam vs. Sails’.—The rapidity with
which steam 1 supplants’sails in the carry
ing trade of the world,' is illustrated in
the statistics of the mercantile marine of
SOIL TEST AT TUB EXPERIMENTAL FABM
OF TOE STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICUL
TURE AT ATHENS.
We have just finished putting in the fer
tilizers on a ten acre field which we se
lected ior a soil-test of eighteen different
standard commercial manures, namely:
1,'Etiwan guano; 2, Patapsco guano; 3,
Bliwan crop, food; 4, Mastodon guano;
Bradley’s ammoniated dissolved bone;
Grange mixture; 7, Baldwin’s ammo
niated dissolved bone; 8, Monarch guana;
, Georgia State Grange fertilizer; 10,
Lowe’s formula; 11. Cumberland super-
DeLeon’s cotton fertilizer;’14; YufeShfiZ;
15,. Gossypium phosphate; 16, Pomona
£*•* "‘•“ d w ”“ u " ■
Great Britain. In 1860 the total tonnage
of sailing vessi'- s belonging to the United
Kingdom was 4;«T7,275 tons, while in 1879
it had sunk to 3,018,676' tons, a decrease
of 785,509 tons, or nearly 17 per cent. On
the other hand, the total , tonnage of the
steam vessels’ employed in 1879 had risen
to 2,331,157, a growth of 1,291, 188
tons, more than ' 124 per rent. In
this connection the London Economist
notes that “ip I860 the total number o,
British vessels, both sailing, and steamf
was 21,881, while in 1879 it had fallen to
20,029. Keeping in view the concurrent
increase of aggregate tonnage, it -is thus
cTear that there has been a gradual in
crease in the size of the vessels employed,
and one result ot this has been an econo
my of labor. Thus, while tbe tonnage
of steam vessels was more thau doubled,
between 1870 and 1S79, the total of the
men employed ro3e only from 58,703 to
78,781, or about 84 per rent
The Presidential Election Finan
cially Considered.—A classical Phil
adelphian, writing to the New York Na
tion in regard to the fact that the expen
ses of the general election in Great Bri
tain, estimated at $10,000,000,- hare hail
the .effect to depress the price of consols,
says “that-such an. effect of electioneering
expenditures upon the money market is
: no Dew thing in history. Cicero, in one
of. bis letters to Atticus, remarks that
electioneering was then going om with
great activity in Rome. In proof of his
assertion fie states that on tho 15th of
July previous the rate of interest in the
money market had gone up from four to
eight per centum per annum. Our recent
American experience,” add* this learned
writer, “is different. Since the currency
A fact worth remembering.
The farmer who gathers from a field
imperfectly prepared and fertilized eight
buslieh of corn, when by good prepara-
tign and adequate manuring, he might
have gathered twenty, is selling his time
and labor at considerably less than half
price,
A.great many people suppose that in or
der to ascertain what fertilizers to apply
to a soil, it must first be analyzed that we
may know exactly what it lacks,
and therefore what to apply to
it to supply the deficiency
Thi? is a greatterror. No two soils show
exactly the same deficiencies. Were we
to take a dozen or more samples of soil
from the same field, and submit them to
the most able chemist, he would find them
vary almost as much as the same num
ber of samples of. soils from distant pla
ces.
The only effective way to analyze soil
is simple, and costs very little. Find out
the elements existing in the forest, and
then ascertain those which the crops havo
abstracted, the difference is that which
will restore the soil to its original fertili
ty. This shows the value.of nitrogen and.
phosphoric acid as fertilizers.
Although farmers, as a class, largely
outnumber any other, whenever any pub
lic matter arises which specially interests
them or affects their business, they, al
most invariably, are obliged to go to some
other class or profession to bring tbe mat
ter before the Legislature. Why are not
farmers, who certainly must know "their
own wants and circumstances and inter
ests better than lawyers and doctors, qual
ified to attend to tbeir business them
selves ? Their calling is certainly, equal
in dignity to any other, and if it does not
exert its legitimate influence in civii and
political afiairs, the fault must be with the
farmers themselves.
THE JURUSALEM ARTICHOKE.
Persons who have tried it say that the
Jerusalem artichoke, (Helianthus tubero-
sus,) is a most valuable food for animals,
that it can be raised on any soil and with
little cultivation; that it yields largely,
and that the tubers are fully equal in nu
tritive nature to the hiore expensive and
troublesome root crops.
The Reception with Which an At*
lanta Crowd Met at Red Oak.
Then I went to the cabin
iMfegbad^pitilegy llmumgSSSKM*-
snuffed out the few scattered lights. The ^ too-that the Cap- [garments. ^»rtW by
resoive into execution, wuw* | mA Mnllv Ballen!” The man lainj i ,
slipped from ^ under him, and he went 5’®^ a8t0 „ lsh ment and rage... I
dowurdown.down; until wmethln|surt^ | Vdaring you. I’m a-protertlng
belligerently out _of.toe nWjr, I to^’sSl. 0 sudden
right in his way. -It was the siae wau oi j resolution—'“I’ll do that so
a house, and Misgill beat on it funouslv. fecess of herj resomu
a rlndlfl flickered famtly long as I drew breatn i
At length a candle
through a small window over his head
^\Vho 9 down there, and what do you
riant ?” said a voice.
“It s Misgill, of the Bamalec. If you re
Jim Ballen, Porteous sent me. Come,
“Yoh’ve been off, nobody knows where,
since morning.”
. good-bye,
“What, Cap’n t a-going aW»y 7
“Good Lord, Molly! how long would
you have me ” ' *
“Forever," Molly broke in, promptly
~He listened “awhile. No sound of furJ SS? »*y* I.
Sa£Sft*s>*“ as su«£5S£E
was made of, you see. Did
.. Not Molly. She did tuns
white, but looked stiddy at the
t7 “I*'walked inter the foksl with a pistol
in each hand and two more In my pock
et*. Six on ’em was there, with their
laid together. ‘Now, my
I, ‘them that’s been
‘‘Fvervbodv ken know where, if they “Molly! —s
,wa£TR?£» ?o Jenny Gregg’s. If you I No answer.;
don’t believe me, ask her.’
shawl where it lay in a careless heap.
Another sigh gave him the sympathetic j
impulse needed.
“Molly l”—softly. ‘
“Is that you, Cap’n?”
tbe first, this’ll be the last, time.
She waited no u *
arms around his m
Nathan Cook, of Terrell county, is
102 years old, and still earns his daily
bread. He has ten children, the youngest
of whom is forty years old. He has lived
-VPS; I .“La^Ma^n creeping of'the hull lot in the same yard that now incloses bis
has been controlled and regulated at, —- nWnhate
Washington the effect of the Presidential monia and 3.62 of phosphate
electious has been to make the money-
market easier ‘ than it would otherwise
have been. Which system is to be pre
ferred?” We do not propose to answer
the conundrum, though repelling the no
tion tbatthe state of the money market is
the only barometer by which to determine
the fitness of things in politics and morals.
If it were, however, it would he a good
thing to have a Presidential election every
few months, and to get Secretary Sher
man to announce himself early and often,
especially if each time he alleged himself
to bsa candidate he would buy $5,000,000
of bonds for the sinking-fund, instead of
‘limiting himself, as he'declaredhe would
do, to purchases of $2,600,000 a week.
thoroughly plowed and cross-plowed, and
is in as good order as it could possibly be
made. The soil isTtolform in texture, has
a southern exposure, and thpugh'tlnn,
contains a good, amount of humus. We
applied the fertilizers at the rate of 200
pounds per acre, with a Dow-Law plant
er, which does the work with almost per
fect accuracy. Between the sets of ferti
lized rows are sets of rows of the natural
soil, and as there is no previous artificial
fertilization to influence the result, and as
the antecedents of the soil are similar
throughout, we hope that tho test will
prove of real value.
BUST IN WHEAT.
We regret to see so many and wide
spread complaints of rust in wheat. It
would be of very great value to the agri
cultural.interests if those whose crop has
been injured by rust, would state ^whether
or not they sowed seed procured from a
distance, or seed raised on their own or
neighboring farms. We have been in
clined to believe that where the seed is
imported from the North—the farther
North the better—there is little or no
danger of rust. Our own wheat pate*,
sown with six different kinds of wheat ob
tained from Canada, New York, Mary
land, and Tennessee, has not a trace of
rust up to this time, but we fear that the
severe frost of Sunday night, April lltb,
has injured it materially, as it was fully
“booted,” and was beginning to head.
We would esteem it a great lavor if some
of those who have suffered from' rust
would inform us what seed they used
A CORN PLANTER, p
We have seen and tried several ma
chines which their inventors claimed
would open the row, drop the com at reg
ular intervals, and cover it i* the most
approved manner. Until new we have
never found one which practically was
mu&1 to ft negro witti ft forked stick ftnd ft
pocket of com “dropping” the proper-num
ber of grains as he moved slowly up and
down the rows. But we h%ve found one
at last which does the work perfectly. If
opens the row, drops three or four groins,
aud at any distance apart, from fourteen
to thirty-six inches, as may be desired.
It runs lightly, cannot be easily put out of
order or disabled, and does all that it
professes to do. It"is tho “Eureka Com
Planter.’! It doss the work of three men
and two horses with one man and one
home, and gets over more ground than
could possibly be covered in a day In the
old way. i
THE C0MP06T HEAP.
There is no “institution” connected
with the farm that merits more care and
attention, or pays better than the com
post heap—the home supply of fertilizers
Carefully conducted experiments have
"demonstrated that a single cow, of average
size, will make over ten tons of manure iu
a year. Were this manure mixed with
swamp muck in tbe proportion of one load
of manure to three of muck, a most val
uable fertilizer would be the result. 1 he
I’quid manure, too, Is fully as valuable as
the solid. Were this carefully saved by ab
sorbents—occasionally sprinkled with
gypsum and kept under shelter, the pile
could be doubled, and amount in quantity
to over twenty tons.
COTTON SEED CAKE.
Large quantities of cotton seed cake are
ifced in England as a fertilizer, and if
ranks as one of the must valuable ma
nures known. Professor H. E. Colton
states that it contains 10 per cent, of am
monia and 3.62 of phosphate of lime. It is
estimated, how correctly we cannot say,
that in the cotton year just dosed, 5,000,-
000 bales of cotton, 600 pounds to tbe bale,
were produced. At 1,000 pounds of seed
to each bale, tbat.would give 2,500,000
tons of seed. Were only half of this
amount turned into cake, allowing for the
loss of hull, etc., we should have upwards
of 600,000 tons, worth, at presentpsicaa,
from 1J to 2 cents per pound. TJmaxn*
genous value of cotton seed cake is esti
mated at half that of the best Peruvian
guano. ,
Dr. Land, late State Chemist, made
the following analysis of col ton seed
meal: . . . ., ,
Insoluble Phosphoric Acid; . . l.W
Reduced “ “ • •
Potash, • ■ • ^
Dr. Pratt, the present htate Chemist,
has also analyzed cotton seed meal, and
he reports that It contains “nitrogen equiv-
1 alent to ammonia 8.75 per cent.”
One day last, week a party of young
gentlemen iu Atlanta bound themselves
together for the purpose of making a raid
on the moonshiners and thereby confiscat
ing to the government some good old com
juice. The party was composed of repre
sentative young men of the city, and no
thought of failure • entered their minds
when they took up their line of march to
the illicit distillery neighborhood known
as Red Oak, about forty miles from At
lanta.-* ~ '
On their route they “pressed into ser
vice” as a guide a negro who professed,
thorough acquaintance with the country
and commanded-him under penalty of
death to conduct them to the house of a
actuated'byTe'ar, _ compii6a-wiv'Eha T negro,
mands, and irom the top of* hill pointed',
but the house of the wanted distiller be-
Afl^ the~fip£e”W ®f d S.3S- d the
made his appearance in front of the hous e
aud gave the agreed signal. The raiders,
who doubtless had spent weeks in study
ing “Sherman’s march through the South,”
approached the residence of the boss
moonshiner, doubtless congratulating
themselves on their success, aud having
surrounded the house, were about to force
an.entrance when they discovered that
they themselves were environed by armed
men,-who demanded their unconditional
surrender. Not having studied the tac
tics of a standing fire as well as the raid
ing element of warfare, they quietly gave
up their arms and wept at the ignoble de
feat with' which they had met.
As soon as a complete surrender of the
arms had been effected, the big mogul
among the moonshiners said “march,” and
the line took up its march to the house
which the raiders intended to invest.
When once within, the doora were closed,
sentries placed on all sides of the
building, and all erftra baggage laid aside,
and then it was that the fun began, and
the Atlanta boys showed themselves to
the best advantage:
The “big Ike” among the moonshiners
instructed a big six-foot mountaineer to
bring forth his fiddle and “tune her np.”
The order was complied with, and when
the horse-hair touched the cat-gut, har
monious sounds resounded through that
old building.
Turning to the raiders the moonshin
er said, “Get your pards ior the next
quadrille.” The boys looked around, but
no blooming lassies were present. See
ing that his order was not thoroughly un
derstood he approached and explained.
Said he: “You’re come all the way from
Atlanter fer fun, and dam me if you ain’t
going to have it. Two on youris git out
there together and the others over here,
and when Jake plays that fiddle you
dance. Don’t fool about it, but dance
likeh—.” ...
At first the boys hesitated, but seeing
that biz was biz, and that it took money
even in that county to buy whisky, they
proceeded to mix toes lively. When once
the set began the moepshinere “joined
hands all around,” and kept them faith
fully at work for an lnur, when a rest was*
had. They then brought out a jug and
passed it around among the raiders with
instructions to drink aud be merry.
Nothing loth they complied with the first
injunction any how. •
“Now," said the moonshiner, “that’s
the first part of the programme for this
evening’s entertainment; let’s see how you.
fellows can pat, and mind, no foolen.”
Atlanta arranged herself up in a line,
and began lotting, and such patting, why
Cal Wagner was no where. After patting
come more whisky, then singing, then
whisky, then praying, then whisky, etc.,
through all the varied accomplishments
which the boys knew.
When the night had about spent itself
they took one of the boys to the door and
said, “Do you see that gray horse tied to
tbe fence?” “Yes,” was the reply. “Well,
who rode him here?” “I did,” said At-
lanta.“ Well, now,” said the moonshiner,
“you just climb up on that horse and get,
and git fast, too, and don’t you come back
any more, and take good care to tell the
revenue officers how well we treated you.-
and ’tis useless to add that he got.
One by one, with half an hour inter
vening, they were dismissed, and strange
to say when they got back to Atlanta
yesterday, they were yet each half an hour
6J The bojs express themselves as highly
pleased with their entertainment in the
mountains.—Atlanta H&osk
A Royal M. D.—Charles Theodor of
Bavaria, the royal prince who has just
been regularly admitted to practice as a
physician, is a Specialist of some renown
fa eye diseases. \ He has practiced for
several years, wltn considerable success,
and has been at the hospital of his many
patients at *11 hours of the night and any.
He is * ngsiwi as well as a wealthy
man. andtohis poorer patients gives not
n I’Sdrice, but substantial help.
Ufeuo wou&rthat Ms tenants upon his
r^scHt¢ estate of Tegorusee will have
notaher doctor.^The pnnee is th*
brother of tbe Empress ofAasto*,th«
Queen of Naples ana the Duchess of
AlencoH, and, upon his elder brother*,
death, will be the head of the Bavarian,
ducal line.
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