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GEORGIA TEL
APH BUILDING
MACON", FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1881.
VOLUME LV-NO. 48
T11E now CALL.
“Corporal Green l" the orderly cned;
•“Here I" was the answer, loud and clear,
From the lips of the soldier who stood
near, >
And “Horel” was the word the next re
plied.
“Cyrus Drew ’."—then silence fell—
This time no answer followed the call}
Only his roar man had seen him fall—
Killed or wounded, he could not tell.
There they stood in the falling light; ■
These men of battle, with grave, dark
looks,
Ab plain to be read as open books,
Whilo slowly gathered tho shades of night.
The fern on the hillsides was splashed with
blood,
And down in tho corn where tho poppies
grow; ;
Were reddor stains than tho poppies
knew;
And crimson-dyed was tho river’s flood.
For the too had crossed from tho other
side
That day in tho face of a murderous fire,
That swept them down in its terrible ire,
And their life blood went to color the tide.
“Herbert Klino 1” At tho call thoro camo
Two stalwart soldiers into the line.
Bearing between them this Herbort
Kline,
Wounded and bleeding, to answer his
name.
and
voioe answered
“Ezra Kerri”
“Here l”
“HiramKerr!” but no man replied—
They were brothers, these two—the sad
wind sighed,
And a shudder cropt through the corn field
near.
“Ephraim Dcnne 1” then a soldier spoke;
'•Deane carried onr regiment’s colors,”
ho said,
“Where oar ensign was shot I loft him
dead.
Just after tho enemy wavered and broke.
“Close to tho roadside his body lies;
I passed a moment and gave him a
drink;
Ho murmured his mother’s name, I
think,
And death came with it, and closed his
eyes.”
’Twos a viotory, bnt it cost us dear;
For that compsny’s roll, when called at
Of n’fiaudrod
light,
Numbered but
“Here!”
men that went into tho
twenty that answered
AUNT AGATHA’S CONVERSION.
[From AU the Tear Sound ]
CHAPTER I.
“Whip ill” said my aunt.
With kerchief pinned over her well-de
veloped bust, and apron tied ronud her
figure, she was engaged in manufacturing
a batch of lemon-cheese cakes for which
the materials had been brought into her
neat little “keeping room;” and just as
with sleeves tucked up (she was rather
proud of her beautiful arms) she was im
mersed in the mysteries of rolling, and
patting, and buttering tins, and lining
them with crust, glancing out of tho win
dow, she had seen the immaculate car
riage of Miss Tipple stopping at the door,
and a gentleman banding out that spruce
aud dainty little personage.
Poor Betsy Ward, aunt Agatha’s only
servant, had likewise taken a stealthy peep,
and sbo now bustled Into the room.
“Lor*, mum,” said she; “there’s Miss
Tipple and a strange gentleman; let me
clear away the things while you go and
make yourself tidy. They can knock
again, and I’ll have them away in a min
ute.”
“No, Betsy,” said my annt, “Miss Tip
ple Knows very well that I make my own
pastry and when she comes to see mo she
must just take me as I am. There, open
the door.”
And she .complacently went on with her
Tolling and’ patting.
The fact is, aunt Agatha liad no great
opinion of Miss Tipple. Herself, though
very limited as to income, the representa
tive of one of the oldest and most respect
ed families in Hilderstock, slie did not
consider that Miss Tipple, whose father,
she remembered as a well-to-do grocer
was at all lifted to equality with her by
her wealth, aud ahe had not formed a very
exalted estimate or Miss Tipple’s si ncerity
or of her discretion, so that when she now
entered tlio room, aunt Agatha, quite un
disturbed by her rich and Irreproachable
costume, looked at her coolly, as who
should say; “I’ve taken the measuro of
you, my lady, and I don’t think much of
you."
“Tou’d belter not come too near me,
said aunt Agatha as Miss Tipple advanced,
nutting out a pretty little neatly-gloved
hand, “for, you see, I’m all over floar.
But those that fear feathers shouldn’t go
among wild fowl.”
“My dear Miss Gayfer,” said Miss Tip
ple, who always placed a strong emphasis
on her adjectives, “you are so perfectly
fresh and natural that It Is always charm
ing to see you; so nnllke the artificial
world which is made up of show. Lot
me Introduce you to Mr. Jordan, my cou
sin, our rector. I am snre you will bo de
lighted with him.”
My aunt acknowledged by a word or
two the new rector’s salutioo, took a good
look at him, and didn’t feel by any means
so sure about it.
He was a tall pale man, much marked
with small-pox, with crisp black hair, and
he spoke in a low, mellow, cooing voice,
which most women found it pleasant to
listen to.
“I trust, Miss Gayfer,” said he, “that
we shall be very good friends. I under
stand that you are a recognized power in
Ililde.-stock, and that your co-operation Is
quite essential to success here.”
“If you had said that I was pretty well
known here, where I have spent my life,”
said aunt Aeatha “you would have been
well withiiftbe mark; as to influence,
you will And that our people have, most
of ’em, got a will of_tlieir own—and it’s
generally wrong.”
“That’s a less flattering description of
my parishioners than I have had from my
cousin,” said he, with a smile.
“Ah, well, you’ll see. Tbo proof o fthe
pudding is the eating. I don’t mean to
say but what they are honest enough and
good-natured. But they are shift less and
willful, so that It’s very hard to help
them.”
“I am sure, my dear Miss Gayfer,” said
Miss Tipple, “that your example andyour
instructions have gone far to cure them of
both these faults; and I know you will
appreciate Frank, my cousin, who is the
most methodical man iu the world. He
has made an absolute conquest of the
Blackmans and the Wilkensies, and the
Wakelings."
“Aye,” said auut Agalha, with a laugh,
“new brooms sweep clean.”
“Of one thing you may be sure, Frank,"
said Miss Tipple, turning to her cousin:
“Miss Gayfer will always tell you what
ah« thinks.” t
“I certainly shan’t tell Mr. Jordan, nor
anybody else, what I don’t think,” said
aunt Agatha; “but all truths are not.to be
told.”
Presently, when the cheese cakes were
finished and the apparatus dismissed, Miss
Tipnle said:
“You really must let my cousin see your
exquisite fernery, Miss Gayfer. Toubave
such perfect taste In ' all these matters,
and manage them so admirably.”
“It runs In the blood,” said my annt,
not Insensible to the flattery. “My father
was very fond of his garden, and she that
comes of a hen must, scrape. But I’ve
scarcely any pleasure to go into my gar
den now, since Miss Payne has stuck up
that abominable red brick wall at the end
of it. It scorches my eyes to look upon
it. Its not mncli after all,” she said, turn
ing to Mr. JordaD, “but such as itls, come
and see it.”
She led the way up the steps which
climbed Into the garden from the back
door, between the dwarf yews and mag-
nificcut trees of blush roses, old-lasbioued
but sweet as the odors of a dream, and
turning down to a little dell where dwarf
ivy and periwinkle climbed over artfully
disposed rocks, presented her pretty little
fernery, lush and delicate in its verdure
and delicious in its coolness.
Mr. Jordan examined it with a critical
eye.
“Excellent, Miss Gayfer,” said he, stoop,
ing down as he spoke to examine the soil.
“But these scolo-pcndriums would do
better if you would give them some saudv
loam mixed with leaf mould.”
“The man has got a grain of gumption
In him, after all,” said my aunt’s sotto
voice, but not so low as to be inaudiblo to
a littltffnephow whose band she held, aud
who, having a sense of humor, very per
fectly succeeded in stifling.a laugh, as he
caught Miss Tipple’s eye fixed on him.
There was an awkward hush for a second
or two, and in the pause the sound of
shears was distinctly visible.
My aunt gathered up her skirls with in
imitable speed, and proceeded to investi
gate, followed more le&surely by the cou
sins, who seemed to be exchanging confi
dences iu a complacent and affectionate
manner, till they were startled by tho in
dignant tones of my aunt’s voice exclaim
ing:
“Hi! youroan, wliat'are you doing there?
How dare you?”
On the opposite side of the garden rose
the hideous red brick building which had
excited my aunt’s righteous indignation.
Just strangling up to reach this had been
a magnificent crop of ivy, but the place
thereof knew it no more, for a inau who
stood there open-mouthed, with bis shears
in bis hand, and with the spoils of his
labor all round him, bad sheared and
trimmed ft till the wall was as bare as
billiard ball.
My aunt had followed up her exclama
tion by rushing across tho garden, seizing
the intruder by the collar of his jacket,
and shaking him till his teeth chattered in
his bead.
“Come away, Frank, come away!” said
Miss Tipple, plucking the new rector’s
sleeve. “The woman must be mad.”
But Mr. Jordan, without heeding the
injunction, with a smile on his face, strode
to tiie scene of centlicl, just as my aunt,
fairly out of breath, released poor Jobson
iu a condition of extremejpbysicalexhaus
tion and mental bewilderment.
“Ob, its you, Jobson, is it?” she said, as
soon as she had sufficiently recovered
breath. “How dare you come trespassing
here, and destroying my garden? You
touch another leaf of that ivy, sir, and I'll
make you smart for it, or my name is uot
Agatha Gayfer.”-
- There was scarcely a leaf left for him
to touch; he bad done bis work com
pletely.
“Well,” she continued impatiently,
“what do you stand there for, with your
mouth open, like a drivelling idiot? Have
you got nothing to say for yourself?”
“Why, lord, Miss Gayfer,” said Jobson,
“you right down skeer me, that you do; I
han’t bad aicli a jouncing not sin’ I was
tossed in a blanket. I never knowed 1
was doin’ any harm. M'S3 Payne, she
said the ivy made her walls damp, and I
was to come over an’ cut 1L She towld
me, and I thought it was altWgbt. I never
knowed I wa3 doing any barm. Why, lor,
there—”
“And you are such a horn fool, then, as
to go and do whatever Miss Payne tells
you? Don’t yon know I could have you
prosecuted for trespass aud willful dam
age? and I don’t know but what I shall,
too. He that will needs blow In tho dust
must look to fill his eyes with iu Now
you go and tell Miss Payne, that if she has
anything to say by way of excuse, she had
tetter say it at once, or it may be too late.”
“Bakes! Miss Gayfer,” begau Jobson, “I
never—”
“Don’t stand there, man, but go and do
at I tell you.”
The unhappy Jobson gathered up his
tools, climbed the short ladder by which
he had made his decent, drew it after him,
and disappeared.
“Its a most vexatious incident,” said the
new rector.
“Vexatious!” Interrupted my aunt with
perfectly recovered composure, “its mad
dening.”
There was a curious contrast between
the words and the tone lu which they
were uttered, and the rector smiled as he
said:
“I hope, after the first natural ebulli
tion of feeling, you will be able to accom
modate your difference with this Miss
Payne amicably.”
“Oh, fiddle-de-dee?”said my aunt. “But
there now, good-by. I shall see yon—on
Sunday.”
“My dear Miss Gayfer,” said Miss Tip
ple, “your energy of character quite aston
ishes me! I could no more have done
what you did than I could write Frank’s
sermon for him.”
“Its just as well the world bolds a few
people who have some control over them
selves,” said my aunt with a langb.
“That’s a remarkable woman,” said Mr.
Jordan as he drove away with Miss Tipple.
“A remarkably disagreeable woman,”
said the lady with a little shudder.
“Do yon think so?” said the new rector,
and bom lapsed into silence.
“Those people mean to make a match
of it,” said my annt as she waited for Miss
Payne. “Love and a cough, they say,
can’t be hid, and any one can see she has
made npherinind to marry him. A pretty
dance she’ll lead him, too, poor fellow.”
Miss Payne was a lady of ponderous
bnild, bnt short in proportion to her bulk,
with a complexion like an nncooked muf
fin, and eyes In a chronic state of moisture,
apt to overflow on slight provocation. She
was elephantine In her movements, wheezy
and faint in her voice, and lachrymose in
her general views. Aunt Agalha, who
had been chirping merrily, straightened
herself in her chair as the click of the front
gate announced the approach of this ob
noxious personage.
“Well!” exclaimed my aunt as she wad
dled into the room.
“Oh-h-hl" sobbed Miss Payne, sinking
uninvited into a chair.
My aunt eyed her with profound con
tempt, but gave her time to recover breath
before she asked:
•'Well, Miss Payne, have you anything
to say why I should not put this matter
in the bands of a lawyer, and take pro
ceeding against you for your abominable
trespass.”
“Miss Agatha!” gasped the offender, “I
declare you frighten me, and my heart is
that bad—"
“Stuff!” said aunt Agatha promptly.
“Only think, Miss Agatha, what’s the
use of going to law with me—”
“I know/’ broke in my aunt, “that
whether you boll snow or pound it, you
get only water; but t^put up with such
an abominable outrage as this it to Invite
injury. Those that make themselves
sheep have no cause to complain if the
wolf eats them.”
“My dear Miss Agatha,”, pleaded Miss
Payne.
“Don’t ‘dear Miss Agatha’ me, woman,”
said my aunt; “it makes ms sick.”
“I declare, Miss Agatha, I’m more vexed
than you can thiuk. You know damp '
makes me so miserable.”
“I don’t know,” said my aunt abruptly.
“It really does, and the ivy did make
the wall damp.”
“Then you should have told me about
it, and not send people trespassing in my
garden.”
“I never thonght, Mis3 Agatha, Jobson
was going to do so much. I told him just
to trim the ivy so that it didn't make the
wall damp.”
“I don’t believe it,” said my aunt. “I
know Jobson very well, and you told him
to cut it down or he wouldn’t have done
so, and you made him believe I knew all
about it.”
“I didn’t really. Miss Agatha, no, really,
I didn’t. When I saw wbat he’d done,
you might have knocked me downwith
feather. I am so sorry you were aunoy-
ed—”
“Annoyed!” said my aunt with vehe
mence. “Miss Payne, I could have skin
ned you.”
Poor Miss Payne gave a start of such
unmistakable alarm that my aunt’s sense
of the comic over-mastered hor indigna
tion, and she broke into laughter after
which she felt that it was quite hopeless
to prolong the interview, aud she accor
dingly brought it to an abrupt close, say
ing:
“Well, Miss Payne, it’s no nse crjing
over spilt milk. I don’t forgive you yet,
and it’s no use pretending I do, but I will
not say anything more about this affair.
But if you ever do sucli a thing again, I
won’t spare you, mind that.”
“Ah, now, Miss Agatha,” said the old
lady, gathering spirit with this promise,
“dou’t half do the thing whilo you are
about it. Let us be friendly and neigh
borly.”
“We may come to that in time,” was
the reply. “He’s a. fool that asks much;
and lie’s more fool that grants it. I feel
very sore about this matter. I shall tell
you, ami I shall take a week and a day to
get over it. And now the less that’s said
about it the more likely I shall be to for
get, so good-by.”
Miss Payne gasped, heaved her deepest
sigh, shook her underdone head and wad
dled off.
CHAPTER II.
Aunt Agatha pronounced Mr. Jordan’s
first sermon “ ery sensible.” and wonder
ed what such a man could tea in that
'mincing affected little hi: of goods, Miss
Tipple.”
But as the weeks went by she did not
hear of him quite in tho way she liked iu
the cottages where she visited, and she
heard of Turn a good deal more than she
liked in a parson at the parish, at garden
parties, archery-meetings, and social gath
crings of various kinds. Not that he fail
ed to visit among the humbler inhabitants
oi Hilderstock, but while she beard of him
as smoking his pipe with them, talking
about their gardens, or their pigs anti
their poultry, and otherwise rendering
himself very popular, he never seemed to
spea* to them of religion, or about purely
professional topics.
This was very different from the prac
tice of the late rector, a zealous evangeli
cal, whose dutiful disciple aunt Agatha
had been, though in her sturdy independ
ence she had sometimes ventured to ex
press her doubt as to tho wisdom of pro
longed exhortions in houses where the
struggle for existence was hard and ex
acting, for, as she would say, “you can’t
make a windmill go with a pair of bel
lows.”
Something between tbe prolixity of his
predecessor and tbe too purely mundaue
converse of Mr. Jordan would have been
her idea of the happy man.
“I have just been telling Mrs. Grimp-
son,” said he one day when he encounter
ed her at tho door of a cottage, “that if
she wauls her hens to lay she must vary
their food a little.”
‘Don’t you think thore are some things
more important than hen’s eggs you might
peak to Nanny Gimpson about?” asked
my aunt, lookiug him full in the face.
“I’m afraid she is dreadfully ignorant,
and they say parsons and souls’ waggoners.”
“Do you know, Miss Gayfer,"he an
swered, “ibal when 1 see that cheerful,
active old lady, stricken with pain and
with years, making the thinnest of liveil
hood by unremitting care yet always con
tented, I feel that it is forme to leant aud
be silent; she is the teacher.”
My aunt was silent for a second of
two, and them answered: “There is a
great deal in what you say, but it is a way
of looking at things that ia now to me. If
it is the right way, I think I have wasted
a good deal of time.”
“Assuredly not,” said ho, “you have
carried brightness aud order into many
homes, and wherever I go I find you have
bec-n an influence for good. Sympathy Is
the true ‘open sesame’ to a hnman heart,
and in power for sympathy wo men lag
far behind women.”
From that time a gradual change was
observed in aunt Agatha’s dealings with
the poor folks whom she visited. It would
have beeu difficult to say exactly wbat it
was. A more frequent touch of tender
ness, a greater readiness to make allow
ances for the circumstances and difficul
ties of each. A greater readiness to help
there could not be, but there was less read
iness to scold.
Sometbimes, in the course of her inde
fatigable rounds, she would meet with
and have pleasant conversations with the
rector, and would come home quite radiant
with pleasure. At other times ahe only
heard of him as having been the life and
soul of some party, rowing Miss Tipple
and her friends down the river, organizing
picnics, and othor frivolities on which
auut Agatha looked with scant toleration,
“That mau,” she remarked one day,
“might put new life in the whole pansb,
and he’s becoming a mere butterfly. Its
bad enough now; but wbat will it be after
he gets married to that shallow, worldly-
minded woman, Heaven only knows.”
One day in early autnmn, as auut
Agatha was moving softly among her as
ters and chrysanthemums, musing prob
ably of theso matters, a harsh crashing
noise and a shock as of an earthquake
rudely broke the current of herrefleetions.
She turned in the direction from which
the sound bad come, and there, where
Miss Tayne’s flaunting eyesore of red
brick upper story had been, was a cloud
of dust, momently thinning, and leaving
tbe clear blue of a bright October sky.
“A good riddance of bad mbbisb,” was
aunt Agatba’s brief exclamation; but then,
the possibilities involved suddenly flashed
upon her mind, and slie added: “Heaven
forgive me! Why, the woman and that
poorjiittle half-starved LucyJChalk may be
juried iu those ruins!”
In an instant she was rushing out of the
garden, bonnet flying after her, quite un-
cousclous of the amazed look of tbo butch
er over tbe way, the group of milliners at
Miss FIrmin’s, and the portly landlord of
tbe Bed Lion, who, Ignorant as they were
of wbat had transpired at the rear of aunt
Agatba’s dwelling, were half amused and
half curions about her deshabille and her
haste.
“Herel.bi!” she called to two men who
were passing. “Jobson, Tvlcr, come with
me to Miss Tayne’s directly. There has
been on accident there; the new story has
fallen in.”
Hastening with them round*tbe corner
of Horn Lane, she came upon Miss Tipple
escorted by the rector, with whom she
was gaily conversing.
“My dear Miss Gayfer!” said Miss Tip
ple, advancing with hereverlaatlDg wintry
smile.
“Wbat Is tbe matter, Miss Gavier?” ask
ed Mr. Jordan. “Can I help you?”
Just then a small boy came running by,
and thinking be might be nseful to run
errands, aunt Agatha impounded him by
clutching the collar of his jacket, a piece
of his ear, and a handful of his hair, hold
ing him in a firm grasp while she explain
ed to tho rector briefly wbat bad hap
pened.
“You may as well ccme,” she added,
“though I don’t know you can do any
thing. Better a lame foot than none.”
And without parley she hurried on.
Miss Tippie, who clung to the rector’s
arm, and with a soft Invincibility declined
either to hurry her steps or to be left be
hind, so impeded his motion that aunt
Agatha, with her fo’lowers, were out of
sight in no time. When at last be caste
up, half dragging the shrinking and reluc-
taut Miss Tipple, whose strong objection
to imperiling either her person or her mil-
lucry quite overmastered her curiosity,
sbo heard aunt Agatha’s voice ringing out
from tho dusty confusion with anything
but compUmentry exhortations to her re
cruits, who were pausing irresolute at the
entrance.
“Don’t you go In, Miss Agatha—now
don’t you,” shouted one of tbe men
“That ain't safe, really.”
“You cowardly loons,” said my aunt,
“would you let the woman die without
help.”
“Don’t go, Frank,” said Miss Tipple,
“You hoar it is not safe, and you’ll get
your coat all over dust.”
Mr. Jordan firmly but not ungontlj re
moved her grasp.
“Where there i3 danger aud distress
there is the parson’s place,” he said, and
in another moment lie had followed a’unt
Agatha, the mon timidly imitating his ex
ample, and toaving Miss Tipple alone
with little Job Chalk, of whom she did
not condescend to take any notice.
The rickety building was a mere heap
of ruins. Some village wiseacre bad su
perimposed on a lath aud plaster base
ment a brick upper story. This angle of
tho building had fallen !n, and in its fall
had dragged with it older portions of the
house, so that now the timbers were slop
ing in all directions, aud what had not
actually fallen seemed tottering to its fall.
Among those dangerous debris aunt Agatha
was making her way, when some of the
boldest of those who were following her
started bacK with a shout of alarm. A
thin bluo ami k:, followed by a bubgry,
vicious-looking longue of fiaure, was ; ap-
pareut, and even Mr. Jordan and aunt 1
Agalha, who were now side by side, paus'
ed for an instant on seeing these evidences
ol peril. Tho hesitation, which was but
momentary, did not survive tho styled
sound of moauing that broke upon ’the
ear.
But auut Agatha was no longer allow,
ed to ts_m tbe command. The soft cooing
voice to which she bad at times listenei
with something akin to contempt could
assurno the tone of command, and, strong
as she was, and ‘masterful’ ts alj tho' vil
lage folks said, aiint Agatha was woman
lu her heart] leaning with gladness Sod
submission on a stronger will than her
own.
“You wait here,” said Mr. Jordan, “for
a few moments. I will call you if you
can be of help;”'and then with a keen
rapid glauco sweeping those who • were
present, lie singled out a. robust young
man, and in a voice that might have led
soldiers on to battle, said: “Howard you
come with me.”
Tho young fellow olreyod as a matter
of course, aud then ensued a short pause
of painful suspense, Presently Howard
reappeared with a flushed aod /tightened
expression, but evidently putting a strong
restraint upon himself. ' •
“Stallybrass aud Ward, you bo to come
with me. Miss Agatha, you be to waif.”
But Boh Howard’s voice had not the
magic of Mr. Jordan’s, and she would
wait no ionger. Pushing her way
through the ruins and smoko with those
who had been summoned into what had
been Miss Payne’s littlo parlor, she
pressed her lips lightly together, and the
color fled from her face as she saw the
motionless form of her old enemy
stretched on a conch there, and standing
by the side of It the rector, blood stream
ing from a wound on his head, his coat
torn, and one arm hanging listlessly by
his side.' Some falling bricks and Umber
had struck him and had disabled tbe arm,
aud lest his appearance should excite
aiarm, he bad sent Bob Howard with the
message for help and a strict injunction
to say nothing beyond what he had been
told.
In a few seconds Miss Payne, moro
frightened than hurt, was moved beyond
the reach of peril, and was conveyed to
Aunt Agatha’s cottage, accompanied by
the wounded rector. Auut Agatha’s fore
sight had already summoned good Dr.
Holmes to the place; and hurrying as fast
as his lame foot would permit, he reached
the cottage almost at tbe same time as the
cavalcade. Miss Tipple, indignant that
her cousin should liavo deserted her for
“that woman,” had uot awaited tbe Issue
of tbe investigations.
Dr. Holmes pronounced Mias Payne to
hAve sustained a very severe shock from
fright, but to be free from boldly damage.
The rector’s arm was broken, hut the
wound on tho head was only skin deep,
and not much more serious than the tom
coat.
From that time, for many months, Aunt
Agatha’s house became Miss Payne’s
heme, and her hostess tended her with
all tbe solicitudo of a daughter. A great
poet has told us that “the learned eye is
still the loving one,” and it so happened
that iu this unwearied tendance and min
istration Aunt Agatha discovered not a
lew unsuspected virtues in tbe fat,
wheezy, puffy old soul, and something
like eenuino attachment sprung up be
tween them.
A very constant attendant was the Rev.
Frank Jordan. Even when his arm was
still very painful, and he might well have
been excused had fie abstained from visi
ting a parishioner who was lu no immi
nent danger, his solicitude about Miss
Payne was remarkable. In spite of the
severity of winter snows and frosts, his
arm secared by splints and bandages, he
would come, and sit for a whole ten min
utes with Miss Payne, and for whole
hours talking with Aunt Agatha—proba
bly about the patient’s symptoms.
But tbe snow molted on tbe high bills,
and the brooks, swollen with their muddy
tribute, chattered noisily down tbe
slopes, and snowdrops andjcrocoses, daffo
dils aud violets bloomed again, and iu due
course tbe breath of tbe blush roses In the
garden was wafted into the cottage.
And then people in the village said, and
laughed at each other as they said it, that
Miss Tipple was going to give up Barham
House and to leave Hilderstock. She had
indiscreetly spoken to some bosom friends
of her approaching marriage with the
rector, and before he chrysanthemums
had opened out their ragged beauties to
the next autnmn sun it became known
that Mr. Jordan’s consent had never been
asked for this arrangement, and that tbe
parson had, with good success, asked that
“remarkably disagreeable woman” tb be
his bride.
Miss Tipple reflected, however, with
some complacency that the living was a
very poor one, and that Miss Gayfer’s
fortune, for all her ridiculous pride, was
barely enough for her to live on In decen
cy. But even in this she fell Into her be
setting sin of premature talk; ior when
x>or Miss Psyoe died a year or so later,
t was found that be bad left tbe whole of
her not inconsiderable fortune to Frank
Jordan, In recognition of the great kind
nesses aud services that she had received
from her dear friend Agatha, bis wife.
:r— ■;——:
THE HUPHEJKB COVBT.
Decisions Readend October 11, last
Concluded.
Abridged for the Telegraph and Meeeenger bp
MM ft Morris, Attorney at Law, Mae on
Oeorula.
White vs. Moss. Complaint for land
from Harris.
Crawford, J.—Neither a legal nor an
equitable amendment which sets out a
new cause of action and requires new par
ties can be made to au action of law.
(a) An action of complaint for land
cannot bo amended by alleging that tbe
land belonged to an estate of which the
plaintiff was a distributee; that the ad
ministrator sold it in £1804, and bad it
bought in for himself; that the present
holder claims under the administrator,
and knew of this sale, that the adminis
trator obtained a final receipt from the
plaintiff by fraudulent statements—with
a prayer to set aside the sale and cancel
the deeds under it. i. .
(J>) A purchase by an administrator at
his own sale is violabL, not void.
2. Where suit was brought iu 1880, on
a cause of action which appeared by
amendment to have arisen prior to June
1,1805, it must appear that the plaintiff
was under some disability,.or came with,
in some exception to the act of 1800} and
brought suit within proper time after the
same was removed.
(a) Fraud in which the defendant to
aft action,on its face barred by the statute,
was in no way coucemed .will not operate
as a relief from such bars. Judgment
affirmed.
Blanchard, Williams ft Co. vs. Paschal
Homestead, from Talbot.
Crawford, J.—L A partner may
have an exemption set apart out of part
nership property. The assets of a part-
nership belong to the individuals compos
ing the firm. The partnership is not s
separate eulity whose debts must be paid
before the members have title to tbe
property.
(a). That a severance of the partner
ship property was made after levy by a
creditor of the firm, and one memberthen
applied for an exemption out of the part
taken by him, did not affect his right to
an exemption.
2. That all the partners iu a firm had
drawn their capital did not, ip»o facto,
cake away tbe right of one of them to a
homestead. Fraud must enter into the
transaction to effect that result.
3,4. One oi the issues ou an applica
tion for homestead being whether the ap
plicant had made a full and fair disclo
sure of all his property, and it appearing
that a firm of which he. was a member,
and from whose assets he sought to have
the exemption made, llad shortly before
been in possession of a large amount of
property or 'money, tha’ J burden was on
the applicant to account for it. Judg
ment affirmed. »
Wood vs. Pierce. Equity, from Muscogee.
Speer, J.—1. In 1855 a siave could not
acquire title in Georgia by descent or otb
erwise, nor could a valid trust be created
In bis favor. M _
2. The actof 18U>, W|#eh provided that
free persons of colorf'dBuld acquire aud
hold real estate In Georgia, except tn cer
tain cities, and that tbe same should re
main in the owner or bis or her descend
ants after death, contemplated that such
descendants would be free persons of col
or. Therefore, where a tree person of
color died in 1855 leaving an estate and
no heir save a slave, the title did not vest
in him; nor did it subsequently vest upon
his emancipation. Judgment affirmed
Cook vs. Winter et'al. Ejectment from
Muscogee.
Speer, J.—Where deeds purported to
convey certain lands in Alabama, and also
“the buildings, outhouses, water courses,
water privileges and advantages to said
land belonging, or which tbe said Rock
Island Company may have acquired from
the State of Georgia;” and where it ap
peared from tbe parol testimony that lor
three years the Rock Island Company had
been in possession of the Alabama Iandso
conveyed, which extended into the Chat
tahoochee river between Georgia and Ala
bama, aud also of tbe dam extending from
the western bank of the nrer to the fac
tory, and were manufacturing -.paper
thereat. Such deeds were at least admis
sible as color of title, though the mill
itself was in the river, and most of tbe
property in Georgia.
Moses, trustee, vs. Eagle and Phenlx
Manufacturing Company. Motion to
enter judgment, from Muscogee.
(Crawford, J., did not preside in this
case.)
Speer, J.—Where distinct parcels of
property are levied on underone levy, and
all claimed by tbe same claimant, the
whole tried under one issue, and a ver
dict rendered finding certain particular
larcels of the property subject, the legal
nteudment of such a verdict would be
that tbe balance was not subject.
(а) . While it might have been more
regular to have reqnired the jury to have
found explicitly, as to all the lota before
receiving the verdict, yet where the ver
dict has been returned and a judgment
rendered ordering the fi. fa.,, to proceed
against the parcels found subject, the
[udgment could subsequently be amended
by declaring the true intendment of the
verdict and adjudging accordingly.
(б) . That a judgment has been before
the Supreme Court for review and has
been affirmed will cot prevent a subse
quent amendment so as to more certainly
declare the effect of the verdict. Judg
ment affirmed.
Slade & Etheredge vs. Paschal, et’al.
Complaint, from Talbot.
Speer, J.—l.IfN. furnished mouey to
■ to conduct business, and the latter was
to let him have goods at coot prices, and
nothing was said as to interest or profits
and losses, this would amount to a loan,
aud would not constitute N. aud P. part
ners.
2. IfP. represented toH. that he was a
partner toN. and so told N. of such repre
sentations, and the latter acquiesced lu
them by silence or otherwise, N. would
be liable as a partner, and his liability
would date from the making or such rep
resentations or the first credit given there
under. Judgment reversed.
DECISIONS RENDERED OCTOBER 18, 1881.
McDonald vs. Eagle and Phenlx Manu
facturing Company. Case, from Mus
cogee.
Jackson, J.—1. To entitle the widow
of a servant to recover against a principal
for the negligence of a fellow servant of
that principal for the homicide of the hus
band which resulted from such negligence,
it must appear that the homicide amount
ed to a crime iu said neglectful servant,
either murder or manslaughter oi some
grade.
2. A principal ia not liable for tbe neg
ligence of a fellow servant in the same
Ion, unless the principal himself was neg-
igent iu not using ordinary diligence In
selecting the fellow servant, or in retain
ing him after knowledge of incompetency
or negligence. Nor will the* bare fact
that the servant afterwards became negli
gent show—without more—negligence in
tbe principal in selecting.
3. One may waive tbs special contract
and sue m tort for breach of duty, U there
were such special contract, and the con
tract might warrant the competency and
care of the fellow servant, and be then in
voked to change the legal principle on
'on which the liability of the principal
would turn out for the tort; but. no special
contract is set out In this declaration so
as to vary that general legal principle.
4. A workman engaged in the same job
with two or three others, aud having the
direction of it, is not a general superin
tendent oi a corporation so as to bind it
as such, but stands on the footing of a
mere fellow servant. Judgment affirmed
Boyd vs. Flournoy, McGebee A Co., at
al. Exceptions to auditor’s report, from
Marion.
Jackson, C. J.—On a bill to marshal
assets and settle an estate, a note given
by Use intestate in his life time for ad
vances to conduct his farm will take
precedence of a debt by open account con
tracted by tbe widow in connection with
tbe same farm pending an application for
administration which was never granted
to her. J udgment affirmed.
Clayton vs. May. Mortgago, from Mus
cogee.
Jackson, C. J. —1. The courts of Geor-
ia will take judicial cognizauce of the
fact that tbe city ol Columbus, Ga., is iu
Muscogee county; and therefore au affida
vit to foreclose a chattel mortgage which
alleged the residence of thedelendantand
the location of the goods to be lu the city
of Columbus, Ga., sufficiently stated the
venue.
2. One partner sold his interest in tbe
firm to the otber, and took three notes
therefor. These were secured by a chat
tel mortgage, the condition of which was,
in substance, that if the purchaser should
pay the notes or ahouid pay off the claims
against the firm (stating them) by the day
specified in the notes, said notes being
based on these claims, then tbe mortgage
should be void; otherwise of full force
and effect. The affidavit to foreclose this
mortgage, which was made after tbe
notes fell dus, stated, in effect, that
neither mode of payment had been com
plied with; that certain claims (specifying
them) were due aud outstanding against
the firm, and the amount of them due on
the notes. It prayed foreclosure to make'
tho amount of such claims, aud save the
mortgagee from loss:
Held, that the allegations as to an in
debtedness on the notes and the amount
thereof were sufficient. Judgment re
versed.
. Commissioner Rsom’a Keport.
Washington, November 21).—Com
missioner Baum, of tho Internal Revenue
Department, to-day submitted his annual
report to the Secretary of the Treasury lor
the fiscal year ending June 30,1881. The
report shows that the receipts from in
terns! revenue in round numbers for the
fiscal year 1870 were $113,000,000;for 1S80,
$124,000,000 aud for 1881 $135/100,000.
The receipts for the hrst lour mouths of
the present fiscal year have been $51,000,-
000 , aud if this increase should be main
tained during the remaining eight months
of : tbe fiscal year, the receipts for 1882
will Jbe fully $157,000,000. Respecting
the reduction of the internal revenue
taxes, Commissioner Baum says a large
increase in-the receipts of the government
and a great redaction in the principal and
interest of the public debt are causing a
discussion as to the proprietary reducing
the income of the government by lowering
some of tbe taxes and dropping others al
together.) : vio-
He then calls attention to the recent ac
tion of tbe National Distillers’ Associa
tion iu favor or a reduction of the tax on
distilled spirits, and says: “Whenever the
wants of the government will allow a re
duction of the internal taxation, my opin
ion is that it will be wise to confine these
taxes to distilled spirits, malt liquors, to
bacco and its products, and to special
taxes upon manufacturers and dealers in
these articles, and to fix taxes at such
rates as will yield the amount of reveuue
necessary to be raised from these sources.”
On tbe subject of the enforcement of the
lews, the commissioner reports tbst iu the
collection districts where frauds iu the
manufacture and sale of tobacco aud spir
its have been rife and where resistance to
authority has prevailed there has beeu
manifest improvement in public senti
ment. He says that while there have
been 850 illicit distilleries seized and 1,-
510 illicit distillers arrested during the
last sixteen months, Illicit distilling has
jy the active operations of the past five
yean been reduced to a minimum, and.
the illicit manufacture of tobacco bas for
the most part been abandoned.
In this connection tbe report says: “By
maintaining a careful supervision over
those districts where frauds bsva hitherto
]>revailed, having them regularly policed
>y deputy collectors, I believe that a re
lapse into the former condition of fraud,
lawlessness and bloodshed will be pre
vented.” Commissioner Raom again
recommends additional legislation for the
protection of tbe lives and persons of
officers of the United States from tbe un
lawful assaults of those who res'st their
authority. He is of the opinion that there
should be a law for the trial and punish
ment in the courts of the United States of
persons who kill or make assaults with
the intent to kill officers of the United
States while engaged in the performance
of their lawful duties. *■»
There has, the commissioner says, been
already ascertained to be due tbe sum of
$722,705 from seventy banks in the cities
of Chicago, New Fork, Baltimore, Bos
ton and Philadelphia, a considerable por
tion of which lias been collected and paid
into tho treasury. O'faer collectors have
been instructed to examine the banks oi
their respective districts in regard to tbeir
liability for additional taxes. Tbe com
missioner says be is satisfied that large
additional sums are due the government
from ibis source.
The total amount of collections from
tobacco for tbe year was $42,854,001. which
is about $4,000,000 more than tbe receipts
from the same sources last year. This
amount includes taxes imposed upon im
ported manufactured tobacco, snuff and
cigars and special taxes paid by manufac
turers.
The IMS oi Arcadia.
From the Courier Journal.
Readers of telegraphic news perhaps
noticed during last week an occasional
line referring to a disturbance at the
Michigan Agricultural College. From
these meager details we gather that sever
al of the students entered a watermelon
patch, near tbe college, and appropriated
some of the fruit of the earth found there
in ; that tbs owner next day manifested
his disapproval of such proceedings in a
very emphatic manner; that one of tbe
young marauders appeased him by paying
himforhiamissing melons; that there
upon the other students, to the number
or 100, felt themselves so outraged that
they compelled tbe mercenary melon man
to refund tbe money; and that tbe faculty
then asserted its authority, and ordered
that tbe money should at once be return
ed to the disconsolate fanner. Tbe stu
dents reftued; twenty-five of them were
suspended; the remainder then held an
indignation meeting, and, eigbty-five
strong, resolved to rebel and leave the col
lege in a body, unless their fellows were
taken back. The war raged for over a
week, bnt a day or two ago a dispatch an
nounced that peace had 'been declared,
and that all the students bad beeu re
stored to tbe college roll.
No one who bas ever been a boy can
read oi this affair without interest. Ar
cadia is now bat a dream of tbe poets.
Tbe days are long sines dead when Fan
piped to the Slleni and Syivans and
Fauns; when the heart was fresh, and tbs
World was lair, and its fruits were free;
wljenthe year was a summer,and life was
an-tdyl, and the soul was a song; when
between the amorous 1’bllemou aud the
tender Phyllis it was all "coo” and no
“bill"—neither ior opera, nor ice, nor
breach of promise; a lien the gods trod the
earth, and faith tilled men,aud plenty tbe
land,and picket fences were net; and when
the careless Corydou, coming or going,
could feast himself whenever be listed
upon the crimson crispness oi tbe luscious
melon, without having to hustle and
hump himself to get out of the way of the
watchful bull-dog, or to protect his rear
from the flying bird-shot.
It may be but a fancy, hut we some
times think that of these days there are
but two remnants left- 'they are the wa-
termelou and the boy, hampered, of
course, by the laws and conditions of a
Juggernaut system of society, but still
recognizable relics of the vanished Age of
Gold.
There -is something about tbe water
melon, lawless rover that it is, that ap
peals at once to a responsive, element in
man, which, though hedged about by the
social restrictions of his own construction,
can never be wholly eradicated. Bril
liant in crimson, and green as “grow the
rashes, 01” its very colors are those of
the great commune and the renewing
yonth of nature, while to the taste it
brings a refreshing sweetness that is like
a breeze from Pel ion and a draught
from Feneus—a subtle flavor that is as
a memory of Tempo’s vale and
“The bees on the bells of thyme.”
People msy net give theso sentiments
definite form in their thoughts, but they
are governed, by them nevertheless. Is
there a man who was ever young, be he
learned scholar, solid merchant or pious
preacher, who can count the number of
watermelons he has enjoyed without the
consent of tbeir owners? And is there a
mau among them all, however much he
may have mended his wsys, who, away
down In hia heart, has ever repented of
theso delights of bis boyhood, or- ever
thought that there, was anything to repent
about? When he gets to a watermelon
patch every mm is a freebooter, or ugl t
to be, If the turmoil of the world bas not
made him callous to every reminiscence of
the days when “you were Bill and I was
Joe.” We have even known good church
members, during a camp-meeting
to go on a secret scout into
the elder’s melon patch while
he was praying. If there is any pnblic
sentiment which demands tbe punishment
of a melon raider, it is a poor article of
public sentiment, and decidedly too d.vs-
jeptlc to thrive in this latitude. Who ever
aeard of any one being punished for steal
ing a watermelon ? It was tried once in
Tennessee, three or four years ago. Good
old Judge Frazier, of the Davidson and
Rutherford circuit, was presiding; au un
lucky negro was the prisoner; a very
young lawyer was defending him;; twelve
good men and true were iu the box.
There was no doubt that the prisoner
had stolen tbe melons; the proof against
him was as dear as noonday.
Tho attorney called no witnesses
whatever, but simply arose and said
‘May it please your Honor and gentle
of tbe jury, my client is charged
A pension at present is very frequently
what a grateful country gives a patriot for
keeping ont of gunshot daring the war, and
thus saving valuable life.
Rsnan has rbenmatism. He is, neverthe
less, busy, and tells the Itftlians that tha
anti-clerical clubs have in their bands tha
problem of tbe nineteenth century.
The strikes have broken ont in Franoe
A reward is offered for tbe best essay on
the subject of how to stop such proceedings
by the academy of political science.
Whatxveb else may bo said about tha
judiciary of the country it must be admit
ted that Judge Lynch ia getting in about as
much work as any other man on tbe benoh
“Jnt” Keene, the stock broker, was onoe
a stationery peddler in Sac Francisco. Ha
saved a little money and put it in the Savage
mine just as it was being “pooled,” and ha
thereby cleared nearly $1,000,000.
Colorado has began to rednoe native
iron ore by tho nse of native coal, and tha
prospect is that before long all kinds of
iron manufactures will be established in
the shadow of the Rocky mountains. -
Manx of the stockholders of theFacifio
National Bank, of Boston, have oxpresseda
desire to subscribe in doe proportion to
meet the present indebtedness and re-es-
tablish the bank on a firm basis.
Sixteen tons of fish were seized last
month at Billingsgate market, London, as
unfit for hnman food. The figure looks
large. The whole amount of fish delivered
at the market was not less than 9,GG7 tons.
Wnu the Panama canal it is taming -cut
as it did with the Panama railroad, tho
men engaged in digging it are, many of
them, digging their own graves, so deadly
is the region and the soil in which they
work.
Because Chicago was built on a swamp
some of its people call it the American
Yenioe, jnst as Milwaukee has been called
the Amorican Naples, Boston the Modem
Athens and Cincinnati the Paris ot Amer-
wlth stealing a watermeloa. He does not
deny it. Bat this is a new crime lor our
courts. I have stolen watermelons. my
self; the chances are that your Honor has
stolen watermelons; and, gentlemen, I’ll
agree to set ’em np if there is a man on
that jury who hasn’t stolen a watermel
on I”- The: judge jerked np his head,
took off his spectacles, and looked with a
startled but smiling stare upon the young
scamp; the jurors nudged each other and
snickered; the spectators guffawed; but it
is needless to say that tbe-brief argument
for the defendant was a successful one
with the honest jurymen.
And so our sympathies have been with
the boys in tbeir recent battle in Michi
gan'. There is little enough of Arcadia
left in these grinding times of ours. Let
us stand by wbat little we have. Let us
stand by our watermelon and its tradi
tions; let us stand by our youth and its
memories.'
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BUIasbMTarkqrfMk.
Atashaille American.
The name of Conkiing has not been
mentioned for about three weeks. We are
quite sure we have not eeen it or beard it
for at leaet that time. Blaine’s old tarkey
code is wondering even now whether the
boys are going to forget him. We can see
him, in the mind’s eye, now standing like
that same noble fowl of a rainy day, with
tail drooping and feathers hanging, reflect
ing upon the singular absence of us name
from among the sounds which fill the air.
Oh, for denunciation, anything} but terri
ble oblivion. . -
Th» high price of provisions in Canada
an driving very many French Canadian
families to the New England States. They
seek manufacturing towns.
Tbe London Truth says that the Popa
has by no means played his last card, and
that he bothers his adversaries by never
showing his hand. That paper says that
the clericals are going more and more into
politics.
It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.
Enterprising English gentlemon hate jnst
gathered thirty tons ot hnman bones from
the battli field of Plovna, iu Turkey, to be
shipped to England and ground into fer
tilizers. *' ‘
Logo John Wsstwobth enlivens the Chi
cago Tribune with reminiscences in which
it appears that he is probably the only sur
vivor of the battle of the Thames, fonght
October 5,1813, in which the famous In
dian chief Tecumseh was killed.
Mil C. M. Coax says in the Kentucky
lave Stock Record that the finest carriage
horses he ever saw are the Russian Orlofls.
They are heavier than English And Ameri
can horses and are blacks and grays. Mr.
Clay advises breeders to import that stock.
Tax Confederate bond scheme has col
lapsed in England. The leading operators
there say they hope to secure the repeal of
the constitutional amendment against tbe
payment of the Confederate debt, so that
the Southern States may be allowed to
settle it. • •:*•!■- ,
Some Russian patriot is putting about the
story that St. Petersburg is “the unheal th
irst city in the world.” t No doubt it is for
emperors and military governors. But aa
a pest-house ior tbe people, New York,
thanks to the rule of the bosses, proudly
defies ail competition.
Sexatos Davis, of West Virgins, will not
be a candidate for rejection, his time and
attention being occupied, extensively with
tho railroad and mining operations in which
he is engaged. Ex-Governor Matthews and
Mr. Hereford will probably be aspirants
for the position.
Baltexobe ia beginning to learn that it
should perfect iu connections with subur
ban towne. Within ten miles; of that city
land is still sold at farm prices. Practical
and enterprising mein would like to mclnde
the county within the city limits, but the
farmers wish to save tolls and prevent im
provements. ->v ...
In Chicago there ia what is called a phil
osophical society. The lady members have
been discussing the American novel, and
they have agreed that there wiU be no suc
cess until the ideal American heroine has
been created. When she is created she will
probably not be found bn the platform of
so-called philosophical aocieties.
Ton Princess Beatrice is for the first
time in her yonng life tasting'the pleasure
of giving away her own earnings. She has
just bestowed out of the proceeds of her
“Birthday Book” $2,000 upon a childs’ hos
pital in London. That this sum should be
only a part of her receipts implies a large
sale among the loyal Britons.
Tsacxkbax’s house in Kensington Palace
Gardens, London,; has just been sold. It
was not only lived in but was built by the
novelist, who, as befitted the limner of
Queen Anne manners, reared it in red
brick in the style named after that mon
arch. Until lately it waq occupied by Mr
Joseph Bravo, the father of the victim of
the not yet forgotten Botham tragedy.
Owe can get some idea of the wealth of
the mines on theFacifio ooast from the
fact that in 1877 there was $76,000,000 bn
deposit in tbe savings banks of California
Thia is tbs largest amount of money ever
held by the banks of the State at one time,
and its accumulation was the result of the
mining prosperity that had prevailed for
some time previous.
The Ohio River and Lake Erie Railroad
Company, ohartered the other day, has won
tbe belt for energy of movement. The
lOid is sixty miles in length, and within
thirty-sir boors of the issue of the charter
a preliminary survey was completed along
the entire line. Poor companies of engin
eers were stationed at intervals along the
tine, and when information of the incor^
pomtion was telegraphed they began work
simultaneously. That company will suc
ceed.
the Fewoes!—The New York
Sun of last Monday in an editorial on thia
subject, says: Somebody bas made a cal
culation showing that the noney invested
in fsnoes in the United States amounts in
the aggregate to more than the national
debt. These fences, moreover, moat be re
newed on the average onoe in every ten
years. They are growing more expensive
with the scarcity of timber and the increas
ing demand for lumber for more impor
tant purposes. Some substitute must be
found- Wire is extensively used, bnt there
are serious objections to it in ail its forma
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