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THE INDEPENDENT. SATURDAY, JULY SlO, 1873. POETRY. THE DYING WIFE. Ur the (tern upon my bottom, Let me feci her mrl warm breath; Tor a •trots* chill o'er me u*****, And I know that thin ia tloath I would treat* upon the treasure- Mooronly given ere I go— Fed her rosy dimple finger* Wander o or my cheek of anew. I am pawing through the water*, Hut a bleated abort* nppuurs; Kneel boaide me, ImalNtiid, dearest, last nn* kiaa away thy teara. ■Wreath* with thy grief, my hnalrand. Suit e from midnight until day, It may leave an angola bieaaing Whim It vaniabca away. l alt the getu reat on my boaom, Tla not long ahe can lie there; See! how to my heart aim nestles, Tla the pearl 1 love to wear. If, in after yean, Wide thee, Hit* another in my chair, Though her voice be sweeter music, Ana her face than mine* more fair— If aohartib call thee “Father 1" Far more beautiful than this, Love thy Ant-born! Oh, my hnaband! Turn not from the motherli-w! TeU her sometimes of her mother— Too may call her by my name! Shield her from the winds of sorrow; If ahe errs, oh! gently Manic. Lead her sometimes where I'm sleeping— I will answer if ahe calls, And my breath will atir her ringlets, When my voiee in blessing falls. Then her soft blue oye*a will brighten, And she'll wonder whence It came; In her heart when year* pass o'er her; She will find bur mother’s name. It ia said that overy mortal Walks between two angels here; One reoortls the- ills, hut blots if, If, before the midnight drear, Man repenteth; if uncailueUod, Then he at ala it for the skies; And the right-hand angel weepetll, Bowing low, witli veiled eyes, I will b her right-hand angel, Keating up the good for heaven; Striving Unit the midnight watches Find no misdeeds unforgivon. Vou will not forget me, husband, When I'm sleeping *neath the wall O! love the jewel to us given, Aa 1 love thee -uext to Oikl 1 WIT AND HUMOR. ‘ The rout of the week—Sunday. Cats, like quacks, mow till-latu. The middle age* - From 45 to 50. A regular upstart—The bolloouiat Military furniture—The army bureau. The greatest American "iam” is jour nalism. A ray that always lights up it woman's despair —ltaimcut. “Do yon keep accounts, Benjamin?" Yes. I reckon." An irreverent butcher styles his shop a meet ing house. Advice to persons meditating law—Keep your own oounsel. When is a clock on the stuirs danger ous? When it runs down. To become the lion ir. party.,it is not necessary to make a beast of. one’s self. A man who was asked what sort, of wine he preferred, replifed, “Other poople’s. ” A popular iuode of reasoning—Man and woman puttin g their heads together. A delicate parcel to be forwarded by *•*—A young lady wrapped up in herself. b.'etthe a mullierry tree becomes a silk gown, and u silk gown becomes u woman. The ladies say tliey are glail that “square" dances ore coming “round" ■again. A statistician reports that the nation which lias the most marriages is fasci nation. A melancholy lover says it is a great -comfort to be alone, especially when one’s sweetheart is with him. Why is a son who objects to liis moth er’* second marriage like au exhausted pe destrian? Because he can’t iro a step farther. An old sailor, who had a great aversion to life on land, said he wits like u lobster, M he never came ashore without the risk of getting in hot* water. A practical correspondent wants to know whether, considering the great utility of the ocean, poets are not wrong in calling it • “wasteof water.” “Boy, why did you take an armful of y shingles on Sunday?” "Why, sir, mother wanted ac*i_e kindling wood, and I didn't want to split wood on Sunday. ” A rich mail asked a poor neighbor if he had any idea of the advantages arising from wealth. “I believe it gives a rogue an advantage over an honest man," was the reply. "Susie, darling,” said a mother to her litUe daughter of five summers, “what ■would yon do without your mamma?” “I’d put on just such a dress os I pleased every day," was the reply. A couple of drunken vagabonds got into the gutter, and utter floundering some time, one of them mumbled, “I say, let’s go to another house, this hotel leaks." \*‘May it please your Honor," exclaimed juryman, “I am deaf in one ear.” Then you may be excused, as it is necessary for * juror to hear both sidm," said the Judge. “Jerusha. I don’t see how they send let ters on them ‘ere telegraph wires without tearin’ ’em all to flinders.” “Why, Jake, you goose, they don’t send the paper, but jt send the writin' in a fluid state.” A traveling deacon, who always rode as a dead head, on being nudged with a con tribution box as he was asleep in church the other Sunday, woke up enough to say, “I have a free pass over this rood,” and then placidly went to sleep again. A drunken husband in Brooklyn mourned because he had not married a black-eyed girt. and to console himself blacked his wife’s blue eyes. It coat him fifty dollars and ten days’ imprisonment. “How hollow it sounds!" exclaimed a patient nndtT the movement euro, h*j the physician was vigorously pounding his cheat. “Oh, that’s nothing,” said the doctor; “wait until wc get to the head.” “What’s the matter, Lulu? Didn’t cither of those young fellows I saw flirting with you last evening come to the propo rtional point?” "Ye*. Will., both of them did.” Both of them! What are you crying about, then?” "Because X said *yes’ to the wrong one, ” ‘‘See here, you young dog,” said a feisty old uncle to his improvident nephew, * always out late, and spend money like a proxy man. I’ll disinherit vou. I*> no use to leave u fortune t<m man that <Wtt hasp anything.” "Softly, uncle, Mftly; I have your own word that I always ■hep lute hours. ” “Goto bed. vou ras cal P’ RUTH FOSTER’S HERO. Ruth Foster was a very pretty girl. She was a slight, brown-haired beauty, with a voice like a bird, and a pair of blue eyea that might have melted the heart of a stoic. There was not an unmarried man around Logtown—the scene of my story— who did not fuirly worship Ruth, and con sidered her the incarnation of beauty and sweetness; not one of them but would have risked his life in any perilous adventure to win a kiss from her lips. Much were the seuti rnenta of the unmarried men, and I doubt very much whether nine-tenth* of those already joined in the holy bonds of matri mony would uot have been willing to sun der the aforesaid Minds immediately, and kneel ut Ruth’s feet if by so doing they might stund on even terms with the rest of her suitors. The other ladies of Logtown failed to see anything in Ruth worthy of particular attention, and declared themselves un able to account for the infatuation of the men. Whs not her face freckled ? Did not her nose turn up ? And was not she an insufferable oonceited little thing, and not a bit better than she might be ? To these nuostions the ladies of Logtown res ponded with one voice in the affirmative. Nevertheless Ruth was not greatly dis tressed in consequence of the opinion which she knew they entertained of her. With a coquetish toss of her pretty head she remarked to herself that they only thought so liecause they were envious. When she said this she was looking in the 1 mirror, and I grieve to say that she was well aware how charming was the image she depicted in its depths. It would have seemed much better in her as the heroine of the story to have been exceedingly mod est and demure, and not ut all aware of her own attractions; unfortunately she bail been told too many times that she was handsome not to feel thoroughly convinced of it. So she went on the even tenor of her way, admired by the men and envied by the women, and flirting desperately when ever she came across any person good look ing enough to render a flirtation enter taining. But Ruth hod no intention of marrying —at least not around Logtown. She was of nn inspiring aud romantio turn of j mind anil desired t< / marry none hut a ! hero. She pictured ,to herself an indi vidual with dark lusU-ous eyes, a jet black moustache, a low thrilling voice, and plenty of money. She supposed that this ideal personage would be exceedingly strong and courageous—able to overpower a grizzly in a hund-to-hand encounter, and perfectly willing to undertake any sueli little exploit whenever she should request it. Among her many suitors there was no one who in any way approached this ideal. Bob Sykes, who she looked upon as the most desirable of those already at her feet, whs young, rather good-looking, and the owner of a rich elnith, but he was of a fearfully practical disposition, did not un derstand the urt of sentamentalizing by moonlight, and squinted slightly out of hi left eye. Ruth hod made a solemn vow, that she never would, under any cir cumstances, marry a man who squinted. She could not bear to think of ever be coming known to the world as Mrs. Bob Sykes, and it must be confessed that this application wus by no means so romantic ns the one which she hoped that her hero would bear, namely, Fitz Verde do Vere Lacy. So she waited patiently for her hero, who, in due course of time, mode his appearance. He was a man fresh from the city of New York, who was reputed to be immensely wealthy, and who came to Logtown for the purpose of examining some quarts loads, in which the company ho was acting as agent proposed to invest. He realized Ruth’s ideal in every respect, with the slight exception that his name was not Fitz Verde do Vere Lacy, but Reginald Mortimer. Ruth first Raw him at the ball given by the proprietor of the Wobbletrap Hotel, at which Logtown had gathered all its beauty and obivniry. He wus introduced to her; they danoea togethor two or three times, and’ fell in love. At the supper-table he occupied a seat direetly opposite Ruth, and while investigating the mysteries of roast turkey, mince pie, sandwitebes and pound cake, he took frequent occasions to feast his eyes upon her beauty. From the way in which he scowled at a waiter who was dilatory in responding to his request for a turkey'leg Ruth felt convinced in her in most soul that ho was a man who feared no earthly peril. When she retired that night, or rather morning, she lay awake a long time, and sighed frequently as she thought of Regi nald. Reginald also lay awoke and sighed and groaned as though he was experienc ing inteuse agony. His sighs, however, were not caused so, much by the tender passion as by the fact that while gazing abstractedly at Ruth he had consumed en tirely too much turkey and coke for a young man of a dyspeptic turn. I will not dwell upon the manuer in which their acquaintance ripened, and the mutual passions increased, but will merely state that before the expiration of two weeks matters had approached a fo cus, and a proposal was imminent. The ladies of Logtown were very much shocked, and Bob Sykes was sorely grieved tit the facility with which this stranger secured the affections of Ruth; the firmer pro nounced it soandalous, and the latter gave vent to many profane and wicked expres sions, and finally sought sympathy and consolation in the society of Fannie Myrtle -a young lady who had been endeavoring to captivate him for some time. One Saturday evening Reginald and Ruth were alone in the moonlight that il luminated the scene in the rear of the pa ternal Foster’s mansion. They were not seated among the flowers, for there were no flowers there, but upon a pine log which lay a short distance from the house. Near at hand were thick clumps of bushes, and not far away the pine forest spread its dark mantle along the hill. Reginald lmd just made known his love, and received for his answer a whispered “yes,” that sounded more sweetly to his ears than the ehime of silver bells. With arms that clasped and lips that met with thrilling touch they sat, their souls steeped in the wild ecstaoy of love’s first young dream. The night breeze swept by them with gentle caresses, the moonbeams streamed around them in silvery splendor, aud from a far-off tree a solitary owl hoot ed derisively; but engrossed with one another’s society they heard none of these things. As Reginald was assuring her for the fiftieth time tlmt he would cheerfully die for her sake. Ruth suddenly grnspetl his arm with a shriek of terror, and exclaimed: “Look there!” Gazing in the direction of her pointing finger he saw something that filled his heart with horror. From a thick clump of bushes not more than twenty yards fkun where they sat, u liu-gc animal issued and came rapidly towards them with crouch ing, shambling motions, nnd giving vent meantime to fearful growls. Reginald Mortimer saw at oneo that the approaching animal was either a grizzly or the ghost of one. As ho did not be lieve in ghosts he concluded that it was a bona fid* grizzly, and when Ruth threw lier arms around his neck and exclaimed in quivering uceents, “Save me Reginald! save me!” he evinced a stronger inclina tion to save himself. Hastily unwinding her arms he departed ! from the scene of danger at a rate of speed that would have tanked the capabilities of a race-home to Hurpasn, panning not to look behind until he Lund himself un harmed iu his own room at the hotel, from which, I msv as well mention here, he took his final departure the next morn ing in the 4 o'clock stage. Almost dead with terror, Ruth saw herself thus deserted and knew that the horrible monster waa approaching nearer and nearer. Wildly, thrillingly, her shrieks ran ont upon the still night air. Hudilenly a manly form came dashing np to her rescue, brandishing an axe, ana yelling in a way which might easily have frightened a score or more of grizzlies into convulsions. There con be no doubt but that the grizzly was dismayed by the appearance of this reinforcement, for the effect produced upon him was sudden and markable in the extreme. He seemed at once to fall into several pieeea. The frame of a youth arose from the ground, and the fact was revealed that all the commotion had been caused by Ike Foster, Ruth's fourteen yesr old brother, who had possessed himself of an old bear skin, belonging to his father, with the benevolent design, os he afterwards expressed it “of having a little square fun." Ruth, however, did not become aware of this circumstance until somo time after ward, ou the arrival of the person with the axe, she exclaimed: “Saved! Oh, Bob!” and fell fainting in his arms. I suppose that many of my readers have no doubt lieen anticipating some such cat astrope as this; and have waited patiently for a moment when, Ruth and Bob should fall into another’s arms, become reconciled, the one to the fact that her hero squinted, the other to the circumstance that he had been completely “run out” by the dash ing Reginald Mortimer, and in a word to forget, forgive, get murried and be hap py. If any such supposition lias been formed it is certainly incorrect. This is not a ro mance, but a simple recital of the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and therefore, however strongly I might feel disposed to end it in a different ■ c, I must adhere strictly to the facts. 800, as I exclaimed once before, when he found himself completely vanquished by the new eomerin the contest for Ruth’s love, he took himself to Miss Fannie Myrtle. The young lady consoled him so effectively that with the inconsis tency which I grieve to say characterizes the entire male sex lie forgot all about his previous passion and eventually conducted Miss Myrtle to the hymenial altar. Ruth was evidently mistaken when she supposed thut she was fainting into the arms of her own faithful Robert, The in dividual who came so fearlessly to her res cue was not Bob Bykes but old Murtin; the wood-chopper, a blear-eyed anil nearly su perannuated Celt, who never entertained a passion for anything in his life except a whiskey bottle. When Ruth recovered, she embraced him fervently, and called him “dear Bob," and wasted a good deal of tenderness on him before she discovered her mistake; but no affair of the heart ever grew out of it; there was no wedding, aud Ruth still exists iu a state of single blessedness. HER SPRING HAT. How the Average Woman Conitracta Her Head Gear. A woman who is considering tho matter of her spring hat is an interesting subject of contemplation. First she buys u straw frame that looks as if it hail been struck by it hurricane, and then sat down ou by nn entire coroner’s jury. After that., when she rides in a street ear, she drinks in the details of every spring hut thut outers and drinkN them off by heart, and does metal sums over the cost of the ribbon, mid makes up her mind to have flowers in hers like those worn by the woman in the cor ner, and luce like that gaudy looking crea ture iu the middle. And when she walks down the streets and studies all the hats that come along, and when u woman passes her with one on, she twists her neck around to see how it looks behind, and is disgust ed to see that the woman is also dislocat ing her neck to see how alio trims her hat. When she arrives in front of a milliner}' store she lingers until she lias analyzed all the spring hats in the window, and she de termines to trim hers nineteen different ways, aud decides not to have flowers like the woman who sat in the eorner. Then she shoots into the store and asks to see hats with the air of a person who lias a whole female seminary to rig out with eighty dollar head-gear. She examines every hat in the establishment, overhauls ton bushels of flowers, gets about twenty dollars worth of work out of the sales woman, and then says she will look farther. Then she goes homo with her mind fixed on thirty-eight or nine different styles in which she wants to trim her hut. After awhile she begins to think she ought to have a feather in it, and she passes two or three sleepless nights trying to decide whether to put one on or not. At lust she resolves she will. Then she lies awake for two more nights endeavoring to determine whether it shall be red or blue. She fixes on blue. She buys the trimming and sews it ou in seventy successive positions, her mind filled with the deepest anxiety as to whether the feather should go on the right side, the left side, or on top. She puts it on the right side, but just then Mrs. Brown posses the front window with a feather on the left side of hcr’s and so she changes it. Tho next morning Min. Fer guson calls, and her feather is on the right side, and then another change is mode. At church the next day Mrs. Smith had feathers an both sides, and Mrs. Johnson lias one on top. Then more sleepless nights and more painful uncertainty. At last, iu utter despair, she takes the'hat to a milliner and pays ten dollars to have it trimmed. When it. comes home she pro nounces it "hateful,” and picks it all to pieces, and broods over it, and worries and frets, and loses her appetite, and feels life to be a burden for a week or two longer, until suddenly she hit* the right thing, and beoomes once more serene and happy, and puts the hat on and goes ont to make a million of other women miserable, be cause. their hats are not trimmed exactly like hers. Asa wife, woman is a blessing; as a mother, she is irn inestimable boon; as an organizer of spring hats, she is sim ply an object of compassion. A student who secretly droppud a piece of pa per, on which tin* word “moukey" was written in largo letters, iu the cap of a professor against whom he had a spite, told the joke to all his class mates. Tho next day the professor said to the class, in Hand and polite tones, “Gentlemen I have to thank one of votir number for the eoortcav of dropping his card in my tap yesterday.” that student was called monkey ever after. Marriage has conic to be looked upon in In diana. says a paper published iu that State. as snob a temporary arrrangement that justicea' fees for the ceremony have been redued to twenty-five cents for steady customers. A sure way to turn good people l * heads is to j go late to Church, An old lady think* that tbs Government Bonds must be a family of very strong religious tenden cies. aa she is all the time hearing about some of them having lawn just oonverted- PROFESSIONAL C ARDS. JAS.H. HUNTER, ATTORNF. Y AT LAW, QUITMAN, BROOKS COUNTY, GEORGIA. o—— Will practice in the Counties of the Hon than Circuit Echols and Clinch of the Brunswick, and Mitchell of the Albany. n*"Otoe at *h Court House. *a* junsZfi-tf W. B. BCNOETT. . 1. KIKOHBZIUOr. BENNETT ft KINGBBERRY, AttorneyH at Law, Q UITMA N, Brook* County, - - - Georgia* EDWARD R. HARDEN, Attorney at Law, QUITMAN, BROOKS COUNTY, • • GEORGIA. —— Late an Associate Justice Hopreme Court, V. H. for Utah and Nebraska Territories; now Judge County Court, Brooks County, Ga. m*y24-12mo Misi p.u.tNema ADVBRTisununrs. BALE AND LIVERY STABLE, Quitman, Gn. 'pitF. UKDEKSIGNIdi KEEP O’/. -I AND SADDLE HORSES, HARNESSHORSES, BUGGIES, CARRIAGES, Etc., etc., etc., For the Accommodation of the Public. THEY ALSO KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A GOOD SUPPLY OF HORSES AND MULES For Sale, SELECTED S T ORE OF THE FIRM, And AJway* Purchased on Shea Terms se to Enable Them to Sell at the LOWEST PRICES. PERSONS DESIRING TO PURCHASE SADDLE OR HARNESS HORSES Can be (applied ape* Short Hotter If not on hind, if a description of the stock wonted is left at the Stable the order will be filled in a few days. CECIL K THRASHER. msvl7-tf CITY HOTEL, QUITMAN, GEORGIA. The Proprietor OlJen to Vizi ton UNSURPASSED IN DU CEMENTS. ROOMS LARGE, WELL FURNISHED. —ANX>— THOROUGHLY VENTILATED. TABLE SUPPLIED WITH THE BEST THE MARKET AFFORDS. Polite and Obliging Servant*. HOUSE SITUATED CONVENIENT TO THE Depot and the Buaine** Portion of the Town. D„ l*. lIcN'EAL Proprietor, nyl7-tf ADVERTISEMENTS—MISCELLANEOUS. SOUTHER! DRUfi HOUSE, KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE. i - CHAMBERLAIN & ALBERS, . i Importers, Manufacturer* and Wholesale Dealers in DRUGS, CHEMICALS PAINTS, OILS, PATENT MEDICINES, WINDOW GJkJiS, WALL PAPER, PERFUMERIES, STATIONERIES am* NOTIONS. ALSO SOLE PROPRIETORS OF DR HARTS GREAT RELIEF, SYMPHIX, DAMON’S STOCK POWDERS, SANFORD’S PURE OOD LIVER OIL, ALBER S EXTRACT OF BUCHC. m DR HARTS VEGETABLE PULLS, HARTS BITTERS and I X L STOMACH BITTERS. Being direct Importer* and Manufacturer* of the above Article*, we are therefor* enabled to offer 1 inducement* to Kouthorn Dniggiav* and all Merchant* dealing in Drug*. All order* will receive prompt attention. maylO-tf 0D1TIU! FACTORTI QUITMAN FACTORY! ' O MANUFACTURES OF GUTTON AND WOOL o OFFKB TO THI PUBLIC OVB YARNS, WHICH WE ABS MAXCFACTUING, OF THE BEST QUALITY, EITHER BY WHOLESALE OR IN SMALL QUANTITIES, TO SUIT THE CONVENIENCE OF PURCHASERS. —o Our* OanuburgH are Equal in Quality TO ANY MANUFACTURED AT THE NORTH, AND WILL BE SOLD IN LARGE OR SMALL LOTS TO SUIT rt'BCHASEBS. Will aiao Fill Orders for HEAVY SHEETINGS, Either 5-4 or 4-4 Wide. ■■-■O' ■■ ■ With aw Improved Carding Machine we arc prepared to Caret Waal in the B*t Style. We will aloa Spin Waal either an Share* or (or Caih. Special Contract* may he made with the Preddent Cotton Bemghht either for Caah or taken in exchange for Yarn* or Omtahncgm PRICES. Waal Camlfng per ponnd 10 ct*. DR. HENRY BRIGGS, President. mayXMf ADVERTISEMENTS. SEND US YOUR ALSSSM And we will mall you, free of charge, aipecimaa copy of the HOITHEHN MUSICAL JOURNAL, containing On* Dollar’s worth of edtadM amt. together with our catalogue of Hhatt Maris ead Books, Illustrated Catalogue* and reduced pUtti of Piano*; also Mason 4 Hamlins Orgta*; ptjee lists of Violins, Guitars, Accordion*, Hiring*, ad Imported Musical Merchandise, and circular* of the Novelty Printing Presses. LfDocx dk (And, Southern Music House, Savannah, Ga. JOHN H. COOPER A CS. Havannali, Ga., WHOLESALE AND SET AIL DEALERS IN BOOKS 111 STITIIIMt Seep couatAatly os hand a large areort- Mtnt of MISCELLANEOUS, STANDARD AND SCHOOL BOOKS* Sunday School Libraries furnished on the most liberal terms with the latest and best English Publications. BIBLES, Pocket, Family and Pulpit, In Great Variety. PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS, SCRAP >OOXI. Any hooka rent by mail on receipt of pr>. meyH-tf D. W. PRICE, ■E&CHIRT TAILOR, QUITMAN, GA., Would inform the citizens of Quitman and *ur rounding country, that he has Just opened a FIRST CLASS MERCHANT ANO TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT IN QUITMAN, AND HAS OX HAND A FINR LOT OF CLOTHS JJfD CASSIMERXf, SUITABLE FOB MAKING ORIBB AND BUSINESS SUITS. He hai also on Hand & Select Stock of READY MADE CLOTHING. CUTTING, CLEANING —AND— REPAIRING DOKX ON (HOST NOTICE. W&~ PRICES MODERATE. JAMES CONNER’S SONS, UNITED STATES TYPE —Amp— ELECTROTYPE FOUNDRY —AFD— PRINTERS’ WAREHOUSE, Rot. 88, 30 and 32, Centre Street, New- York. LABGE STOCK OF EHGLISH AUD GERMAH JACKS, Both Plain and Ornamental, KEPT ON HAND. Every article necessary for a PERFECT PRINTING OFFICE famished. The type on which this paper is printed is from the above Foundry. maylOtf