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LAFAYETTE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 21, 1881.
The Little Shoe.
Laughing ami humming an Idle air, ■
1 threw the drawers contents aside;
Trifles of ojd days I scattered there,
And papers in Imste untied.
Struck, as it were, hy a random shot,
I felt all old wound bleed anew ;
Carlesslv seeking I knew not what,
1 came on a little shoe.
Memory Hashed on me, sadly sweet
Hangout the laugh of yore;
Echoed the heat of those tiny feet
That pattered along the floor.
Cluibby round face, so demure and
[wise,
Shone out with brow so angel fair;
Dieamy reflection of hare-bell eyes.
And halo of golden hair.
Pet names, and jokes of her infant
[|day,
Struck on my hear, with a sudden
[blow,
Life in the morn of one dreadful day,
And death ere the sun was low!
Poor little relie ! brief hour of sport!
What shame to me if tears will
[fallf
Springtime of babyhood, oh, how
[short!
Tills poor little shoe—how small!
CINDERELLA.
'Really it’s quite a riddle, when
one entries to think of it,’ said Mrs.
Dale, putting the tips of her ringed
fingers meditatively together. 'Je
annette is a charming girl, with a
most taking way about her. I am
sure there can be no doubt about
her marrying satisfactorily. And
Marian’s music is an excellent card
to play. But when one comes to
Philippa— ’
‘An odd little gipsj’, isn’t she?’
said Mr. Dale. ‘Dec ! dedly imprac
ticable, I should think.’
‘Neither pretty, accomplished nor
womanly,’said Mrs. Dale gloomily.
Mrs. Darrel Dale had invited her
brother’s daughter from Hemlock
Hollow, in the Catskill Mountains,
to spend the summer at Niagara
I‘alls with her.
‘I dare say,’said she, confiden
tially to her sister-in-law, the far
mer’s wife,‘they’ll till marry well
before the season is over; and in
any event, the experience will be
worth a deal to them.’
And honest Mrs. Humphries
took all her ten year’s savings but
of the Hemlock Hollow Bank, to
equip the three girls for the sum
mer campaign.
Jeannette took to waltzing and
the German as naturally as if she
had been born to them; Marian
slipped gracefully into a musical
and literary groove; but poor little
Phillippa seemed to fit nowhere.
She was shy and silent in the bail
room, struck unaccountably mute
when she might to be talkative,and
seemed to prefer the woods, beside
the great cataract, when all the
world flicked to the ball room of
the Clitton House or the Interna
tional.
'Because Aunt Theo.’said honest
Philippa. ‘I never know what to
say to tho gentlemen when they
ask me to dance.’
‘But, my dear child,’ said Mrs.
Dale, "that’s not the way to get
into society.
‘I—I don’t think I care so much
about society, Aunt Theo,, said her
etioai Phillippa.
‘Then you’ll never get married in
the world,’said Aunt Theo. in an
accent of despair.
But even Phillippa was roused
into interest when the cards came
out for the grand fancy masquer
ade hall at the International Hotel,
and Mr. Dale gave each of his
nieces a hundred dollar bill, to en
able them to appear suitably for
the occasion.
‘I shall personate ‘Undine,’ said
| Jeannette, thinking how well she
; would look in sea green crape, crys
tal fiiuges and water lillies.
‘Arid I shall he Sapplm,’ cried
out Marian.
‘Capital!’said Mrs. Dale. ‘And
you, Phillippa ?’
‘I don’t know said Phillippa,con
trading her black eyebrows. ‘Mr.
Mortimer says 1 ought to go as a
BW-’
'Then my dear be a gi| sy by all
means. If Mr. Mortimer is good
enough to express an opinion it
shouldn’t he neglected.’
And both Marian and Jeannette
looked a little jealous, tor the Hon.
Mortimer, from Montreal,
was the lion at Niagara Falls just
then, and his gracious notice was
enough to ensure the lucky recip- j
ient a front place in the ranks of
fashion.
‘When did he say that ,puss?’ dt
mantled Jeannette, jerking out the
ribbons of her sash.
‘Oh, yesterday, when we were
ever on Goat Island.’
‘Did lie walk with you ?’
‘A little way.'
‘1 hope you made youself agreea
ble said Msirinn t.irtlv.
‘I don’t know whether I did or
not, said Phillippa. 'And now, j
Aunt Theo, if you’lil give me that
bundle of work, I’ll take it to Elsie
Dupre. There will he just time he
fwe tea for us to walk there mid
hack.’
‘But the band will play presently
and’—
‘Thank you, Aunt,’said Phillippa
‘but I don’t care for the hand.’
Elsie Dupre was asl : m, consump
tive looking girl, who lived among
spruces and tamaracks on the Can
adian side, and took what sew
ing, embroidery andjlace mending
she was lucky enough to get —a
girl in whom Phillippa had become
somewhat interested, perhaps be
cause she was so friendless, and
sha lowy, and foreign.
But instead ol being singing at
aer work, Phillippa found poor
Elsie sobbing at the window, while
her grandmother, a hooked-nose
saffron skinned old crone, sat rock
ing herself back and forth liy the
fireless hearth.
The girl put her brown warm
■hand on Eisie’s slionldr.
‘Elsie,’ said she. ‘stop crying.
Tell me what is the matter ?’
‘Don’t touch me, mademoiselle,’
wailed poor Elsie. ‘They are com
ing to carry me to prison to-night.’
And then in answer to Phillippa’a
startled eyes of enquiry, she told
her how Mrs. St. George had sent a
moire dress there to he relrirntried
with costlv Spanish blonde—Mrs.
St. George of tho Clifton House,
whose pearls anil diamonds, and
splendid V ilet were Ihe marvel of
the place—and how hy some acci
dent the old grandmother had con
trived to upset a kerosene lamp
upon it.
‘lt is mined, of course,’ said El
sie, clasping her hands;‘and I cun'
not pay for it —so I am to he ar
rested for the money it is worth.’
‘She must he an old hag!’ said
Phillippa, impulsively.
‘She is a cold, hard woman, mad
emoiselle,’ sighed Elsie,‘who knows
not the meaning of the word mer
cy. Arid if they put me in prison,
my old grandmother will starve.
‘They si.all not put you in pris
on!’said Phillippa. ‘How much
Was the dress worth ?’
‘A deal of money, Mademoiselle,
a hundred dollars!’ wailed Elsie.
I’aillippu Humphries put her
hand into "er pocket, where the
hundred dollar hill that Uncle D-de j
had given her lay inside the folds
of a tiny blue velvet pnrtmonaie.
‘There is the money’ said she ‘gdve
it to the odious old harpy, and do
not cry any more, for your eyes are
swelled twice their nsual size al
ready.’
Elsie looked incredulously at the
little brown slip of paper.
‘But, mademoiselle, you are sure
ly not in earnest,’ she said. ‘You
cannot he!’
‘Yes, I am,’ said Phillippa, shaking
back the jetty rings of hair from
tier solemn black eyes. ‘Take that
money, pay Mrs. St. George and
don’t talk any more about it.’
* * * * # *
‘VVjII, Phillippa,’ said Mrs. Dale,
when her niece came hack again,
‘have vou decided upon your char
acter yet ?’
‘Yes,’said Phillippa, quietly. ‘I
will he Cindere'lii !'
‘Who?’ said Mrs. Dale with her
hand behind her ear.
‘Don’t you remember Aunt Then?
The little brown skinned girl who
stayed at home while her sisters
went to the prince’s hall.’
‘Whata very odd choice!’ said
Mrs. Dale.
‘ls it?’said Phillippa. ‘Weil 1
always did like to he different Irotri
other people, Aunt Theo.’
The masquerade hall w.is a brill
iant success. ‘Undine,’ in silver
green crape and water lillies, was I
as lively as a dream. 'Sappho’ was
tall and pale, and delightfully clas
sic; but there was one drop lacking
»—!.»-i iiiwii ii ■m'M- -nmKT v.'n
I iii tin* cup of happiness.’ Morti
mer, for whose benefit half the
‘ belles of Niagara F ill had dressed
that evening was not. there.
‘So provoking of Phillippa,’ said
: Aunt Theo, ‘to go and throw away
that money.’
‘A good deed is never thrown
I away mv dear, and really thalCin
| derrella idea of the little girl was
not so had, Ha, ha, Im I she did
stay at home when her sisters went
to the bull,’
‘She will never hum wisdom,’
said Mrs. Dale with some asperity.
It is so strange she don’t cure lor
! such things.’
But as it happened she did care
j for such things. And on that iden
tical moment she was standinglon
one ot the starliglited verdadnhs
with a pink Shetland shawl around
her shoulders, peeping surreptitnus
ly through the windjws at the
waltzers.
‘Miss Phillippa!’
She started guiltily.
‘Oh Mr. Mortimer! I am not do
ing wrong, am I ?’
He smiled, as he drew, her arm
through bis.
•But why are you not dancing in
side?’
‘I—I preferred not to-night.’
‘Little Phillippa,’ said Mortimer,
standing under the shadow of a
■ drooping elm, ‘yo.i are equivocating
now. And as it happens, I know
i the truth.’
‘I don’t understand you,’ said
Phillippa.
‘My valet is in love with Elsie
Dupre. She has told hitn all about
your deed of kindly charity and lie
' has told me.’
‘Yes,’ said Phillippa, in a low
1 tone, 'my uncle gave me money lor
; a dress bat I preferred helping El
sie to going to the ball.’
‘You told your Aunt you were
going as Citiderrella.’
‘How do yon tumv? But that is
not strictly Urn ,’lau d eti Phillippa
‘1 was to he Oinderrella. And
’ so 1 am I’
‘Ttien Phillippa, if you are Cin
j derrella, will you let mu be the
Prince?’
‘Mr. Mortimer !’
‘Sweetest, I have been looking nil
| my life for jost such a noble Itear
! led girl,’said Morlitner. ‘And now
1 that 1 have found her, I shall not
1 willingly let her go.’
'Do you mean, —’
‘I mean, love, that I want you
for my wife.’
Mr. Dale could hardly credit his
own ears, the next (lav, when Hugh
Mortimer formally requested nf
him tlie hand of his youngest niece
in marriage. And Mrs. Dale lifted
her hands to the ceiling.
‘To think that it should be Phil
lippa after all !' said she.
i As for ‘Undine’ and ‘Sappho,’
! they swallowed their mortification
[ and congratulated the little brown
1 gipsy as cordially as possible.
‘After all,’ said shrewd Uncle
Dale.‘Phillippa invested her him
dretl d liars the best nfany of you.’
A Trap for Seven.
Catch a rat in a Irap and he will
fight. Trap a man and —well, you
can’t rely on him. It is according
to the trap. In the heavy stage
roach, as we roll out of Leadviile,
are seven men. One is an army
officer, who has half a dozen scars
to prove his bravery. Cut, off from
Ins command on '.lie plains last
summer, hy a score of Indians, he
intrenched himself, and fought the
hand off until help arrived. Two
of them are deepr redoes, who have
killed their men. Three of the
others are stalwart tnineis, each
armed with two revolvers, and they
look as if they would prove ugly
customers in a row.
The seventh man might do some ;
shooting on n pinch, hut he hopes
there won’t lie any pinch. In the j
crowd are ten revolvers, two dcr- j
ringers, three repeating rifle's, and
four or five bowie knives, and there
is perfect, gone! feeding as the stage
i rolls along. It is tacitly understood ’
that the army oiptain is to assume j
■ command in case the coach is at-j
tacked, and that all are to keep co< J
and fire to kill.
It is 10 o'clock in the morning.
The windows are down and the
passengers are smoking, and talking I
and seeking for comfortable ptisi
-1 lioi.s. The coach has just reached 1
tho ton of a hill,' when eVtry horse j
is suddenly pulled up.
‘lf it’s a h’ar, we’ll have some
fun,’ growled one of the miner-', as
lie put IPs head out of the coach
window.
‘lf it’s n robber, gin me the fust j
pop at him!’ whispered one of the j
desperadoes.
No one could say what the j
trouble was, when a wiry little j
chap about five feet, six incites tall, }
wit h black hair and eyes, clean face j
and thill lips, appeared at the left
hand door with a cocked pistol in j
either hand, and said:
‘Gents. I’m sorry to disturb you.
but I’ve got to make a raise tnis |
morning. Please leave your shoot
ers and climb down here, ore at, a
time!’
It was sudden. Is was so sudden
that it took ten seconds to under- J
stand the drift of his remarks.
Then every eye turned to tiie right
hand door, and the two revolvers
held hv a second robber was seen
at the open window. It was trap.
The rats were caught, and would
they light?
‘Gents, I’m growing a leetle im
patient,’ continued the first robber,
‘and I want to see the procession
begin to movt!'
Let's see? The captain was to
lead us. and we were to he cool and
fire to kill. , But the captain was
growing white around the mouth,
an.! nobody had a weapon in hand.
The rats were not going to fight.
One of the miners opened the door
and descended, and tho other six
humbly followed. The seven were
drawn up in n line across the road,
and while the robber held hi“
shooter on the line be coolly ob
served to his partner:
“William, you remove the weap
ons from the coach and then search
the gentlemen.
As William obeyed every victim
was ordered to liobl his hands over
his bead, and whatever plunder
was taken from bis pockets was
dropped into William’s hat. Four
gold watches, two diamond pins, a
telescope, a diamond ring, a gold
badge and 81,200 in cash changed
hands in ten minutes. Not a mao
bad a word to say. The driver of
the coaeh did not leave his sent and
was not interfered with. When the
last map had teen plundered the
genteel Dick Turpin kindly oh
served;
‘You are the most decent set of
men I ever robbed, and if times
weren't so blasted hard, I’d make
you a present of sloapiece. Now.
climb hack, and the coach will go
Oil.’
Not a weapon, or si time piece or
a dollar had been saved. Seven
well armed men li.'.d been cleaned
out by two and not a shot fired.
Each man took his seat without a
word. Mile after mile was passed
in silence, and finally the seventh
man, the mini who might light on
a pinch, hut didn’t, plaintively sug
gested.'
‘Can’t some of you think of a
few remarks which would he appro
pos to the nccasiur ?’
No one roiild and the silence was
renewed. — Detroi Fire Press.
Many years ago there lived at
.Salem, Connccticutt. an eccentric
man named Ainasa Kilbnrn, about
whom numberless stmies are told
to this flay. On one occasion in
summer he had a five-acre lot of
choice grass, cut and spread out to
dry. In the afternoon a shower
came up and drenched it. The next
day the hay was spread to dry.
Anothershower carnennd redretichd
it. On the third day tileprogninme
was repeated' On the fourth day,
after the hay had been properly j
dried and raked into windrows, a
cloud pillar moved up over the
western horizon, and a distant
growl of thunder echoed from the j
hills. Kilborn was mad. lie looked
at tin. hay and looked at the cloud, j
“Run up to the house, hoy," said j
he. in a voice trembling with
resentment, “and bring down I
bring down a fire-brand, quick,'
now!" The boy asked no questions, t
He came back with a blazing torch,
and Kilborn touched oil each wind- '
row. “There,” said lie, “i’ll sec if j
this bay will get wet again!” '
NO. 30.
Afraid »f Being ('heated.
The uneducated mind does not
see through those forms by which
business is transacted. There is n
well known story of two honest
Dutch neighbors. One of them
Hens, borrowed twenty dollars
from the other, J icob.
'Mustn’t I give you a writing for
dis, Jacob?’said honest Hans, us
lie pocketed his money.
'Yah, Hat is what dey do. I
dinks.’
Hans scrawled some thing which
meant that he had borrowed twen
ty dollars iron) Jacob, and would
repay him a j soon as he could. J'e
handed it to Jacob.
'No. I don’t, keep this,’ nnfwered
Jacob, scratching Ids head as if in
doubt. ‘You must keep chit so you
will know vou owe me de money.’
A similar perplextiiy us ton writ
ten promise to pay once sent an
bmp st hut ignorant hoosier out of
a court room, in hot haste, lest he
should hb cheated In the early
days of Indiana, the lawyer used
ttf follow the courts in the differ
ent counties. ‘Riding the circuit,’
it wts called, and demanded horses
that could s'.rugglo through the
mmldv roads and swim over deep,
rapid streams.
During a court session, a lawyer
bargained for a pony for twenty
five dollars, on a credit of six
months' The next day the owner
brought the pony, hut required se
curity for the payment of the price.
The lawyer drew a note at the top
of a sheet of fools cap. arid signed
it. llis brother luwpers, some twen
ty in number, signed it, and then
the court— three judges—wrote
down their names.
The lawyer presented the
thoroughly signed note to the man
and was surprised to hear him
say : “D > you think I am fool, to
let you get the court and all the
lawyers sin your side? I see you
mgiin to cheat me out of my pony.’
Up jumped the alarmed man,
ran out of court, mounted the pony
and galloped for home us fast as
the horse could carry him.
So Letter for Burch.
A in.'in from Brunch County, (Ids
Stale, being in Custer City soon af.er
a postofliee was es uhliili 'il there, went
to the shanty one day with intent to
impure for mail matter. A man from
Missouri was just alien i of him ami in
quired if there was any letter there for
Zaeliai'iiili liiireh,
“lie you the fellerf*’ queried the
postmaster.
"I Hill.”
“Named Zjiclmriali, are ye?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Too Infernal long for this country.
You’d better chop it in two.”
“I axe l if there was a letter here fer
Zaehaiiah Burch,” said the Missour
ian, with a bad gleam in Ids eyes.
“And I beard ye, and there ain’t
nothing of the sort here.”
“Kinder seems to me there is.”
“Then I'm a liar.”
The pair looked each other for a
minute, and then I'lireh remaiked :
“Jlehhe you are!”
Uiiele Sum’s otilehil hopped out of
den anil went for Zaeliai iah Burch. It
was a piety even muteh for ten minutes
and l lien Ihe Post master got Ids favor
ite hold. Soon after that event Mr,
liui'ch observed:
“Stranger, I reckon its no use pro
longin’ Mil* sorrowful affair.”
“I reckon not, hut ye inquired for a
letter for Burch,”
“Yes.”
“And you give it to me purty strong
that sich a Mter had arriv.”
“Yes, I did,” replied Burch as lie
felt nf his left ear to gee what portion
was left for future tights, “but I’ve bin
tiiinkiu’ powerful hard in tiie last ten
ininits, mill I guess the ole woman
hack in Missouri lias put otf writin’
till next Sunday! Let's gn out and
take sunthiii to tiring tears to our eyes.’
Mr. Maguire of a Kansas town,
was elected constable, and the lu
rid paper which opposed him said:
“Mr. Maguire will wash himself
before lie assumes the idlice of con
stable.” The notice maddened
Maguire and he called on the edi
tor to complain. “You object to
that statement?” asked ihe editor.
“I do.” replied Maguire. “Very
well, I’ll retract it,” said the editer
and then he tint in his paper the
statement that lie wislio ' to retract
his announcement that Mr. Ma
guire would wash himself before
assuming otlice, as Mr. Maguire de
nied the statement and even that
retraction didn’t satisfy Maguire,
but increased his wrath. Some
men are hard to satisfy.