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THE INDEPENDENT.
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FIVE HEATHEN HODS.
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Cupid.
Tin' flight of time is so steady, so rapid
without commotion, that few of u are
aware of its gains ii|wm m until some
sudden turn in the road of life brink's to
our gaze h flngerjmst marked with a figure
higher than we hml anticipated, or n mile
stone showing the near approach of that
three score and ten terminus toward whi h
we are all unconsciously drifting This is
especially true of those whose little world
of life lus been compassed by narrow
limits, where the changes have all taken
place under their immediate vision or
knowledge. Seeing our friends daily, as
they grow up, atnl then down the hill of
life, with ns, we mark no change in them.
Occasionally some r ‘trospeetive thought
may lead us through the dark vista of by
gone years, and we are astonished that so
much time has flown since an occurrence
which S emed bnt’as v sterility. Even the
growth f our children, seen daily, milker
but little impression ii|mn us; lint an ab
sence from home a few months often pro
duces marked and permanent changes in
physical spiKaraliecH,
My friend Thomas Chittenden's ludi
crous blunder is an illustration of this cu
rious fact in mental philosophy. On the
outskirts of the little village of Prescott,
iu one of the New England States, there
lived, in 181 H, a thriving farmer named
Belcher, whose daughter. Kitty, was the
pride of the village. She was the ar
ku >w!ed red hauler in matteiH of fashion, nd
the <s)nrt of last resort in all questing af
fecting feminine interests where an umpire
was necessary. The old gentleman could
trace liia lineage through the ranks of the
patriot lines of the men of '7O, and back to
Plymouth Kook. Further in the darkness
lie would not prolie, for, as he said it, ,- l
disown any relative, yea. t nhomiimte any
one connected with that wholesale plun
der which gave to William the Conqueror
the power to ni ike a nation of slaves
of u conquered people." A coat of
arms was to him the emblem of ignorance
and crime—**a devil's bait iu human hands
to trap uguileless soul." lleleher was puri
tanic.
Kitty, who was his only daughter, was
almost the picture of her mother; and
when she had passed that uncomfortable
nge between youth and maturity; when
the great problem of life appears to be
wlmt to do with the hands and w ' "re to
put the feet; when one is neither gill nor
woman, bov or mull. Kitty lleleher and
her mother were often mistaken for each
other.
This peculiarity <>f hereditary rosom-!
blnneo is ever ail tiulieution of purity of
nice, and is markedly, visible among the
Gothic branch of the Caucasiari -a branch
to which the Pilgrims largely belonged.
It is of North (tcrmiiu origin. I have
seen whole ship loads of emigrants landed
at Staten Ihliittd, who but for their pecu
liar dress, might have been taken for
branches from many u Massachusetts or
Connecticut family tree.
Hard working Tom Chittenden, Hie
village blacksmith of T’resei t‘. held among
the male mem'ters of its little society much
the same position Kitty enjoyed among tin
girls, amt he looked upon her as his by a
sort of right of precedent. He had rivals
of course .What village belle t seven
teen year* him Only tin* admirer ? There
were among the "first nine 1 " on the girl’s
side several who would gladly have Ins n
blacksmith's wives had fate so ordained
it, for in Prescott in those days to lie a
mechanic was not. to he degraded in the
eyes of “onr host society,” and, when the
bell of the village meeting house proclaim-at
at sundown ou Saturday night the worldly
labors of the week were ended and the
laml’s day commenced, the grime of the
Rhop uud the leathern apron gave place to
that virtue which is next akin to godliness,
and a "bettermost"Huit. Tom was as fine
n specimen of the true man as (lie county
afforded, and. when the little choir gather
ed cheerfully in that high gallery where
■B organ or even abuse viol would have
been n desecration, and the full base of
the stilldy blacksmith resounded clear and
loud as tin- ring of his own anvil in hnrtno
nv with the rich sojdiranos, first among,
which ranked Kitty Belcher's, the tender
vocal chords seenmd landing their youth-!
ful souls ut once to heaven and to love.
Baritones and tenors laid striven w ith him
for the |s-session of that one fond heart.
Paul Wilson had from childhood been the
constant companion and friend of the
village belle. Their father's farms joined,
and their mothers were as loving as sisters.
In their school days they had climbed to
gether “the steep where fame’s proud tem
ple shim's afar,” mid, in the long, cold
winter, many were the days when Kittv
had sat upon Paul’s little home-made sled,
holding both their dinners in the fold s of
lier madder-red cloak, while In' drew lo r
Ut school over the erinkiug, frozen snow.
In the long summer vacation, after the
winter and the school master had departed,
they had many rambles together. When
the dogwood pat on its spring suit, and tlm
woods were filled with delicately tinted
blossoms, they had sought the lonelv
depths of the valleys and climbed the hill
sides, startling the timid hare or tile whir
ring partridge with their clieerv laughter,
as they wove tiny Ismqitots am) w reaths of
dowers mid leaves, and gathered the scar
let fruits of the wintergmm uud partridge
berry. They hud fished together in tin 1
floor mountain brooks, mid from many a
dark hole beneath tin' high arched roots
of the giant birches that spumed the little
streams they had d■•coved the wary trout,
and. extemporizing a string with a forked
twig of the black alder, had Uirnetheui in
triumph to the home of the little maiden.
A* Kitty grew oll*r, she oamc to look
upon lor chilli lover us a brother. An
only child. she felt she wan given a the
future guardian and companion for her
parents, and. w hile her gentle disposition
endeared her to all. her deepest, dearest
Jove was for them. Paul, when lutrod iced
to the reader, had just returned 1. an
his third year of preparatory studies,
alid was destined for the ministry. The
vacation was fast waning, and hut a few
weeks more would elapse before he must
again betake himself to his books and his
midnight toil. He knew from the jwst,
from the expressed intent of the girl he
loved, that she was resolved upon a life
of single blessedness; "but she is young."
thought he, "and when X am a graduate
the honors of my last commencement will
rejoice lay Kitty, and when 1 am a sue
eensful expounder of the faith I can then
easily win a hand whore the heart is now
nearly won. But tay secret till then shall
lie my own." On -e when tin little choir
rehearsed “Montgomery," with its musical
scrub race, where one after another of the
four parts alternately runs, balks, walks
and canters, until the last quarter, when
all come to the pole together, and these
line* rang through file meeting house:
"So pilgrims mi the scorching sand
beneath a burning sky.
Long for a cooling stream at hand,
Act they must drink or di-.'
Paul, who curried the tenor manfully, felt
that he was that pilgrim -the se< r bing
sands of u few more years of toil and wait
ing were between him and the is>tding
stream of her love, where he must drink
or die. As he walked home that Saturday
night with the blgck-eyed contra-altowhile
the Isise and hist soprano took another
direction, I firmly Isdievethere was a slight
tinge in his heart of that green-eyed mon
ster who delights in making the human
kind uncomfortable,
CHACTBII 11.
Mammon,
Sutter had repaired ids dara. “The
shining tiling that fools admired and called
a god,” hail set men eru'/.y from Maine to
Mexico, and everywhere prospective for
tunes loomed up before hopeful youth and
mature manhood, until entire neighbor
hoods were threatened with depopulation.
Over the prairie sens the emigrant ship w ent
sailing on and on, the inmates suffering
bent and sometimes hunger, fearful of the
savage who felt tint his rights were being
wrestl'd from him, and in his red-handed
vengeance he wrecked many a vessel, mur
dered many a crew. Untold sufferings
and unheard-of indignities heaped upon
these pioneers of the West, the advance
guard of that great civilization that to-day
looks down upon and listens to the roar of
the mighty Pacific. Yet on they went,
ever increasing in numbers, ever hopeful,
ever in the umiii triumphant. Were tiny
not descendants of the men and the morta rs
who came more than three thousand miles
in a frail bark to enjoy freedom of con
science in an unbroken wilderness? And
would they be worthy descendants of that
daring handful of brave souls if. under the
isiwvrful incentive which actuated tin in,
they ilid not press on to the modern
Opliir?
Till) epidemic rage fearfully. Unlike
the cholera, the gold fever spread laterally
from the great thouronghfnres to the mean
est hamlet ou every cross road. Company
after company was fin nasi in the cities.
Smaller towns organized associations on u
mutual and relief basis. Capitalist* guar
anteed food and fuel, anil clothing, and
cure to the families of the emigrants, who
were to repay the advance with a hand
some interest out of the immense earnings
which were almost certain to leap into tile
lap of flic adventurer who presented him
self at the diggiugs and demanded of the
soil his portion of the gold. The picture
was most fancifully drawn, with sharpest
hues and brightest colors, and castles in
the air,with hope for s foundation, loomed
up in tin' bright day-dreams of the infat
uated through all the land. Alas! how few
of them were realized. Hut it is ever thus
when any of the great problem*of a nation’s
existence are to be wrought out; individual
destiny is ever delusive.
Prescott was afflicted, A public meeting
was called, and volunteers responded
nobly for the impending conflict. Old
men pledged the means, and voting men
filled the ranks. The question became
potent, “Who can we keep at home?”
rather than “Who will go?” Chittend'l!
volinm e and, and his ski-1 arid know ledge
rendered lain a valuable man for the
party.
Paul was on his last year; lint, his des
tiny was fixed, or he, too, would have
been with them. “But,” thought lie,
“once 1 am ordained, when Kitty becomes
Mrs. Wilson, who knows lmt that we may
yet visit them in their far-off Western
homes?”
During Paul’s absence Chittenden had
been unceasing in Ins attentions at the
Belcher farm-house, and laid practiced nil
those little winning ways which have
hern the resort of wooers since the first
flirtation in the garden of Kdcn. Ho hud
pressed his atilt gently,re;xprctfidly eunn st
ly, until,despite here eoushiut. refusal,
hope being Cither of the thought, Chitten
den deemed himaelt the sole proprietor of
the heart of Kitty Belcher.
Monday had been fixed upon for the de
parture of that little band whose going
would sunder many a teinfer heartstring,
open m iuy a well-spring of sorrow tint
w ould close no more until the aching heart
hail ceased to lieat.
Here were twenty-two young men, brot li
d's and sous and lovers, going with the
rising sun of Monday morning, going
where none of them limi ever been to a
land they had hardly know n hut in dreams
m the tWe of a w rj and unscrupulous
foe, many of them never hi return. To
die, w ivlaid by the skulking savage in the
waving grass or train-fixed by the silent
arrow at some river ford, to lie scalped by
some loathsome, cowardly bruve, mid con
tribute tints unwillingly to his trophies
won upon the field of carnage; to die of
u raging fever, where no water could be
obtained; to moan of home and friends,
in the wild delimni of thirst, and feel that
those friends are neglectful; to die of
hunger w hile plenty crowns the hoard and
tills the garnet of that far-off home - these
were the thought-pictures of many a silver
lmired-diime and nimble-fingered maiden
who busily plied the little wheel or swung
the heavy beam of the hand-looni, mentally
painting anticipated horrors, while the
muscles labored on more substantial fabrics
which were to tie part of the outfit of the
little hand.
Tim meeting hoa.se on that last sad Snu
day was tilled with mourners. The
It -verend Father in I.ricl who tilled the
ancient pulp.t, crowned with its old style
sounding-board,lmd perlormed the rites of
uinriiuge mid baptism, and blessed and
broke bread among that people contin
uously from the first sermon he ever
preaehi'd to the present time, tie was
bowed with years, and the weight of many
cares were up.m him and he telt that the
morrow would sunder the little family he
called his o*ine w.th a deathly wrenching
blow. He InuJlly knew whither to oiler
consolation, or where there was most need
of encouraging words. On that early
spring morning the sun was bright, hut a
shadow was over the heart of all lhoseott.
The fnnerai of the beloved minister could
hardly have cast the village into a darker
gloom.
The story of David and Absalom was
the good man's theme, and it was continued
as far us‘’Min t. -untidy and to conclude,"
Iveforc tlie rambling discourse was ended.
By request, the choir sang that terribly
doleful minor, which perhaps yon have
heard Father Kemp's Old Folks render,
"David's I, mi illation. " and as a make
weight "China” was thrown in- l don’t
mean broken cups and plates, as shoes are
sometimes tlmwn alter newly married
couples for luck, lint that ancient M.
melody, to these cheering words:
"Why <1 we mourn tlemrtintt frieutU,
Or ttlutkv at death* nlsnos t
Ti# but tlu* voht that Jm hcihlh
To call thorn to his anus.”
The off. -ct of the whole service was ex
tremely dampening to the spirit and pock
et handkerchiefs of tlie congregation, and,
as the female porfiou passed out in ad
vance of the males, lltev poured forth
like an army of Amazons with banners of
truce, save now and then one, w hose "be
ing addicted to a habit of snuff” required
the thnirishing of a yellow or red bun
dium.
As Saturday's sundown bell closed the
week and ended its weary (oil, so Sunday
night’s sett ng sun closed the holy day,
and released the w eary ones w ho had b. en
curbed and restrained for twenty-four
hours from indulging in anything like, a
lia.ur.d tt-jvv of T.. 1 spirits The
week daylalsusas w 11 as play so mm need.
Washing tubs.lsuirils amt pounding barrels
game forth from their hiding places in
dark entries and damp cellars, and pre
pared to go ou duty by "sun up" on the
morrow. A special dispensation had, how
ever, issued as by general consent on this
occasion, and for the first time iu the
memory of the oldest inhabitant, save
whi none of the three great holidays, In
dependence Way, Thanksgiving, or New
Years, fell on ,Monday, the maud weekly
preparations was disregarded.
The lust nail was driven, the earnest
wringing of honest, hands was over, tin*
last farewell hid been spoken, and the
Prescott boy* were gone.
ciiAi*n:K ni.
Hnrculttn.
We pass over that portion of the route
from Prescott to the Mississippi. At St.
I amis they exchanged sealed envelopes
with the postmaster. Cheering words
from the hoys were given for news, and
loving thoughts from their old homesteads:
from friends now doubly dear, for home
sickness had crept in a little “round the
edges like,” as one of the pioneers ex
pressed it. All in all, however, they hail
borne up noliiy for youths who had seen
more life in the past, few weeks than in
all their previous existence. Their mail
was quite extensive. Then.* were small,
white letters, addressed iu tiny, pinched,
but neat chirogruphy; a kind of 803 pen
manship, with an “Esq.” as modest and
as twisty as the tendril of a grape-vine
reaching for a foothold whereby to steady
itself. There were some w ith the address
running from corner to corner of the en
velope, like a ladder resting against a roof,
and threatening to fall wit.; the feast pro
vocation. Letters with a species of lace
collar pattern worked ou the hack of the
: envelope, and on “L. 8.” in its Centre,
something like the seal a notary places
after your name when you have signed a
legal document, and meant the same. L.
8., place of the seal; a seal oil a love-letter
nr- pshaw, you've nuule them so yourself
a hundred time* at least. I don't know -
can't say to a certainty, that I should relish
one of that kind now, alter it had been
rumbled in a stage-coach boot, kicked
round the dirty bins of a distributing office
or two, shuffled and crumpled in the dust
of a baggugc-cur, and handled by a dozen
dirty-fisted post-nlHee el. iks well, 1 don’t
know; perhaps forty years ago, as far from
her wtio was then Miss Smith, I might
have felt very differently; but just now I
prefer mine fresh, from the factory. Kisses
licit have traveled so far are apt to be a
litil" dry and somewhat dusty.
The outsides of the letters Bore marks of
handling, but the contents were pure.
The little incident* of country life that go
to make up the day, the year, the century,
w ere there in ail their dull monotony. And
there were mother’s good advice, and sis
ter's loving sorrow, and father's good will
and manly counsel. There were hearts,
and darts, and flows rs, and birds, uml all
that sort of Kt. Valentine sugar-plains
. this was their mail. Hopes and promises,
; wishes and fears.
Yes, Chittenden received his quota with
the rest. Kadi had letters, and to mime
extent exchanged items of interest. Home
addressed in a broad, nervous style, the
letters n little rickety in construction,
would hear to have most of their contents
read aloud. Envelopes with a plain ad
dress, without flourish or Esq., were in nv
reticent, mid revealed tiuir cnnti tits less
generally, while their quiet pi rtlsal by the
owners, whose names they bore, incited
the reader to a damp condition, and symp
toms of a cold in the head; lmt for deep
down sighs and long breath, steady gazing
into vacancy, and biting of the trembling
lips,, tile little fit'e-htttid Jette** tank then’
ail. The littie billets, with Wiiting-muster
curls and grape-vine twists, and “tw iddle
unis” woven in mid around the letters, as
if the face of the envclitpc was a bed of
lettuce in which a name had come up
nicely, hut the bed badly needed weeding,
Out of all such envelopes there cnine lmt
very little for the general good. Chitten
den had one of that style, on the seal of
w hich was a monogram he laid seen be
fore -for he eat the die that made it. Niff
0110 sentence did he ever reveal of all that
was contained in that loving epistle until,
in extenuation of his mysterious conduct,
years after.
The journey from Ht. Louis West was
in those days a vast undertaking. As the
last spires ilianppeured from view, they felt
that they were severing the connecting
link that bound them to the homes of
childhood, and were fairly afloat beyoud
the reach of civilization, in any extremity
which tnight overtake them. Wearily,
day after day, week after week, for months
they plodded on, each night one day nearer
their new Home, one day farther from the
tried loves of former years. They endured
many hardships; they manfully fought
their ltgut with hunger and thirst, uud
the elements and brutal humanity, and
some fell sick, and some were lost, lmt the
majority of them safely weathered the
storm and landed where all was new and
w ild and straufja to them, in that fabled
land they had sought so long.
And then lmt a littie time elapsed until
the disposition to rove, to change in the
hope of better prospects, separated and
broke up the original band, until there
were scarcely more than two together.
CHurrEt! IV.
Neptune.
Chittenden laid found a congenial spirit
and friend in a young mail from an ad
joining county to that iu which Prescott
was, and they two had formed a compact ;
that, let others of tli party do as they
might, they would m the tuture stand by
eaeai otlii r. Ou umvit.g, the company
hail located near Butter’s Milt, hut they
imd scattered. None were now left hut
Chittenden and his friend Blackwell, and
they, becoming tired, sold out their little
claims, w ent to Salt Francisco and engag
ed passage for China, with the intent of
going to Japan to the entire navigable
globe, in short. t’iiey wrote detailed let
ters home ; paid toeir last itnlabiedness
by drafts ; were square w ith the world,
and started on tin ir 1 mg', long journey.
One night while they were sitting on
deck, but a tow days out, Cuitiendeu lost
his tudnuce and fell into the ocean.
Plunks were thrown after him, and the
vessel, which was beating, hove to. Boats
were lowered and every effort made to
save him, but all was of no avail. The
fruitless attempt was alsindoned at day
light. and the vessel again took her course
Itetore a ten knot breeze, which had
sprung au during the after-watches of the
night. Blackwell felt that he had parted
man his best friend on earth.
Meantime Chittenden, in the darkness
and confusion which ensued after the uo
eideut, was unable to make Ins where
abouts known. The breeze and current
together wer constantly bearing him
away from the vessel, mid he was nearly
exhausted when one of the planks drifted
to him, and he barely managed to get and
keep hold of it. Iu tho morning, when
the first streak of red like a narrow trim
tiling ribbon lit up the eastern sky, be
lay upon his pluuk, sort' and weary, with
half a mind to loose his hold and go down
forever. He was heart sick. The vessel
; was nearly hull down, and he could bare
!ly distinguish that she was making sail.
The sun rose clear and bright, and its rays
poured down until ho seemed stiffing with
the heated fumes of an iron furnace. But
oh ! the pangs of that terrible thirst! His
system of course ulmorVd some water,
but liis mouth became parched ami swol
len. The sun was everywhere; there was
no shade on that broad expanse of ocean,
and tlie [johshed sea sent bock a flood of
reflected light and heat that dazed and
scalded until that scorching sun went
down in the burning ocean. Hunger, too,
oppr. ssed him, and the disposition to
sleep was almost unbearable. He feared
to close his eyes for an instant, lest in an
unguarded tnonieiit lie might slip from
lira plunk and la- unable to reuch it again.
He prayed for rain and night, that he
might wet his fevered, bloated tongue, or
at least iie free from the sun's red-hot
glare ; and when night curne it was even
more lonely tlian day.
During tile second night a fish, either
to escape from some enemy in the water,
or frightened by the curious floating ob
ject above it. made a leap as if to go over
iiim. and dropped into tin- bosom of his
jacket. This lie ate greedily enough, and
years afterward lie told me he could not
forget flow sweet and pleasant that cold,
raw fish was to his scorched, hungry sys
tem.
The third night he watched, but no fish
came, and hunger, terrible consuming
hunger, set in. The sun, too, had lies ted
his brain, and rendered him delirious.
All pain was gone, mid he was ogee more
at home, with friends. He sung again
as in former times, by the side of her lie
loved, and was happy. Tucu the stars
became sparks from the fire iu his own
little shop, but another was beating out
the cluiiu links that were to bind him in
a place of torment forever, and the sea’s
phosphorescent glimmer betrayed the ex
istence of a lake of tire into which he had
lieen thrust, from whence there was no
possibility of the least relief ; where the
tortures would be increased indefinitely ;
the mind gave way entirely, and all was a
blank, from which he was awakened by a
sudden blow from a drifting log against
which his frail siqqairt struck,
Daylight rapidly apprtsiching, he was
discovered ami rescued by the liutives of
one of the small, unfrequented Polynesian
inlands, to which he hud drifted, where,
after a long period of sicknem: he at last
recovered, and made the best of the poor
society into which lie was thus thrown.
His life in the island was a repetition of
that of Melville, Toby (Ircen and others
who have been east away, or have willing
ly jumped out of the frying-pan of a whale
c quant's tyranny into one of these islands
as the least of two evils, and there vagu
! Is aided a miserable, Hinder i life for a few
short years, until death or all accidental
visit iroin some seinvy-aeimrged or thirsty
vessel lias relieved and returned them to
the civilized world.
For three long years Chittenden sighed
for Home and led tile dale* fur nieate life
of a Boiith sea islander. He swaui in the
surf and slept away the miiiuy hours in tnc
darkest forest shade, and lived upon a
gem rons nature that furnished an aimu
i dual table for the asking. An occasional
display of the skill ami ingenuity which
I were part of his trade kept uiui in good
! social standing with the natives and made
him a tuvorite with the rude, nude royal
!ty of tint island. Tueii, after three sad
l years of exile, three long years of waiting
and watching and piayiug, relief came,
ami, regretted !• his uncivilized lint
■ friendly companions, he shipped on board
a British whaler outward bound—which
j accidentally "made the island-."-—and was
! a way lor lurcc more years before he could
' return home ; for, with no money, the
| captain utterly refused to take him from
; toe island except us a sailor for the cruise.
CHAl'TffB v.
Blackwell had mourned Chittenden as
dead and communicated a detailed account
of the uuiortuuate occurrence to hi* fiieud.-
ut Prescott.
It was a sad and dn ary day at the Bel
cher residence when the sorrowful Missive
arrived. Paul laid just graduated with the
highest liouois mid received his license as
| a minister of the gospel. He Inal preached
mi occasional sermon uud accepted a mi -
stuff to ludiit as his regular ti Id of labor.
On that sad afternoon he was sitting by the
side of her who had been the guiding-star
and companion of his youth, and the past
! years bait been freely uud fully canvassed:
The delicate tie which he lieiieved to exist
: between Kitty and Chittenden forbade his
mentioning his own feelings, and ite was
in doubt whether he would be right in
| possibly sacrificing one so young uud
: lovely iu a lr off, inhospitable clime.
M il' ll the letter containing the terrible
news was handed to Kitty, her emotions
overcame her, and but for the timely aid
of friends she would have fallen to the
lloor. Sue was conveyed to her room, and
her recovery was long delayed. 1 puss
over the interim of ..ukucss. Suffice i to
say she eventually recovered, and that
umoug her many friends there was noue
more attentive than Paul Wilson. In due
course of time Kitty was married. That
same good, btfiveu-dowu mull who had
baptized both he groom and the bride
join '-.l their hands in holy matrimony, and
Paul wended his lonely way to the mission
station at Bombay us much of a bachelor
as ever.
I have sometimes been struck with the
curious ehuntn'l of the love plot in an opera
or a play. The gruff bass is uncustomed
to win during the first act. In the second
they usually run neck and neck, hut before
the culminating point of the play is
reached the tenor gets him convicted of
some terrible crime or circumvents him
stiutcgie.U’y * id comes in on the home
stretch with fTviiig colors, after poor bass
has either i! ovn the track or broken
down. It is sometimes so in every-d.. v
life.
Chittumlen, having pane tlirongli all
tlu; routiue of island life uuil Is'ionie a
sailor, sat upon tin' liatoliway ami fell—no,
not into the sea—into a reverie. “Here
am 1,” thought lie, “drowned iu Prescott
-they have it all long ago- -a vagabond iu
the Pacific—that they must not know—and
now shipped as a hunter of blubber in the
iee tloes of the North Polar ocean. Bite
for whom l would give the world, if I had
one to give, has either forgotten her
Thomas and married someone else, or
will, long before I can return. I shall not
trust particulars to mails. Let her think
I am drowned till I can see how the land
lies, when 1 get home,” and then he did
what a sailor off’ watch always does when
puzzled with mental labor—went below
and tumbled in.
Too much of a man to desert his ship,
or too well w atched and hampered to es
cape, he remained on the Siam until her
voyage was euded, was paid off, discharged,
and sailed for home. Iu New Orleans he
acehl. •**tally met with an old Prescott
friend, from whom lie learned that Kitty
had married a minister, name forgotten or
not known; “didn’t remember or care
much about it a-.yiiow, at tne tim ; mid
couldn't say if it was Wilson or Webster—
married to a W.. sure.” To him Chitten
den related the story of his life, after ex
acting the most solemn promise of sscrcey.
Subsequently the two wandered together
to Central America, and from thence to
nearly every point ou the navigable globe,
'.ml. after twelve years more of this sort
of romantic life, Chittenden hid adieu to
his friend ut New Orleans ami ascended
tiie Mississippi on his way back to the
home of hi* childhood.
Kcgistering his name at the Burnet
House, iu Cincinnati, where lie arrived on
Saturday evening, his attention was riveted
by Beard'* immense nd life-like painting
of “The Last Man,” *hkb hung upon the
wall of the office, and could not resist the
comparison between himself and the de
spondent mortal in the painting. The
litter helplessness and hopelessness of the
situation—the perfect despair of the hus
band, whose drowned wife’s body is just
floating from Ids reuch, the rising waters
with their moaning notes of certain and
rapid doom, licking and foaming like, a
beast of prey at the foot of the rock where
sit* despair iu human form, resigned to
fate; the last hope on earth gone, brooding
over the unalterable destiny which so cer
tainly awaits and so rapidly approaches
him. Such is the picture.
His perfect abstraction had attracted the
attention of the grnuts of the hotel, but
he saw it not. The picture to him was a
reproduction of his own experience, so
lifelike and perfect that he was transfixed
to the spot and lost to the surroundings.
He gu/.e 1 upon t .e pic up• a- iu a g'.a.is.
where he saw reproduced the sufferings of
those terrible hours in the Pacific ocean.
As he turned, with an expression of in
tense mental agony depicted upon his ns
b trm il count nance, lie was accosted by a
gentleman in black, evidently of the minis
terial profession, who had mistaken the
cause of the intense commotion tile picture
hml produced iu Chittenden’s mind. Tills
gentleman was no other than the Rev.
Paul Wilson, and a few moments conver
sation revealed the faet that they were
known to each other.
“Wlmt a miracle do I behold !" ex
claimed the lb vernal Paul; “the dead an
risen, indeed. Come,” he continued,
"you must go at once to mv wife. Kitty
will lie delighted to nee you,” and he hur
ried him, without delay, to the lady’s
room, and ushered him into her presence
witli
“My denr Kitty, here is poor, lost Chit
teieleii ! Mr. Cmitteudcn, my"
“My dear girl,” exclaimed Tom, “1
claim the promise iu your last letter.” and
with a Ihmiwl, rather than a step, lie seized
her ala mt the waist before she was aware
of his intent, and a* he afterward expressed
it lo me, “imrpooucd her with a dozen
kisses despite of iter flurry.”
The reverend gentleman stood aghast.
An intense excitement followed the sad -
den demonstration; then came, in their
order, apology and explanation. "The
same features, (lie same name,” said Chit
tenden— "tmt hang me if I hadn’t forgot
myself; Kitty Belcher, why she must be
old enough—”
"Just old enough to la' my mother, sir,”
remarked the lady, laughing; “and I see
my family features have deceived you.
But we will excuse the rudeness for the
compliment to her who is m xt in my
heart lo mv good Poll." * * * *
There are those still living iu Cincin
nati who W( H reiueui'iHT tin- Rev. Mr.
Wilson’s sermon on the following morning.
How lie worked up his hearers to a pitch
of the most intense excitement by Ids nar
ration of the fact 1 have used in this
story, and the thrill which pervaded the
congregation when, on closing his Bible
s.l p liming to Chittenden, who sat be
-ide the minister's wife, tie exclaimed,
"There is death, indeed, swallowed up iu
victory 1”
MIS< 'EI. LA X EO VS.
G2EECH & NSWSQII,
DEALERS IN
I) II Y G 0 0 I) S,
Col i*< 1 EH,
Uijnors, Flour, Uiicon, etc.,
QITTMAN, GA.
mavlO-tf
SALE AND LIV2RY STABLE
Quitinnn, Ga.
mm UNDUiWIGNED KEEP OS EAS’D
SADDLE HORSES,
HARNESSHORSES,
RUGGIES, CAItKIAGES,
Elct., etc., etc.,
For the Accommodation if the Public.
THEY ALSO KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND
A GOOD SUPPLY OF
HORSES m MULES
For Stile,
SELECTED BY OXE OF THE FIRM,
And Always Purchased on Such Terns as
to Enable Them to Sell at the
LOWEST PRICES.
PERSONS DESIRING TO PURCHASE
SADDLE OR HARNESS HORSES
Can be 3i pplied upon Short Notice.
If not on hand, if a description of the stock
; wanted is left at the blablu the order will be hilen
, ia a few days.
CECIL & THRASHER.
rar.yTT-tf
QUITMAU FACTORY! QUITMAN FACTORY!
o
MANUFACTURER OF COTTON AND WGOL.
o-
OFFER TO TIIE rUDLIC OCR YARNS, WHICH WE ARE MANUFACTUING, OF THE
I* KS T <1 UgV LIT Y,
EITHER BY WHOLESALE OR IN SMALL QUANTITIES,
TO SUIT THE CONVENIENCE OF PURCHASERS,
Out- Orttinburgs are Equal ii Quality'
TO ANY MANUFACTURED AT THE NORTH,
AND WILL BE SOLD IN LARGE OR SMALL LOTS
TO SUIT rt-f.aU.SERS.
Will also Fill Orders for HEAVY SHEETINGS, Either 3-4 or 4-4 Wide.
—O
With oar Improved t effing Machine we are prepared to Card
Wool in the Best Style.
\Yc veils al-o Spin Wool cither on S5 ait>. sr ftr
Spec ail t ext tract* rut) he made w ith the President-
Cotton nought either for Cash or taken in exchange for Yanis o;'
Osnabiirf*.
PRICES.
Wool Cttrclfng per pound. , IG ct~.
DR. HENRY BRIGGS,
P' t- *i- f
'ihe Uiiistian lihlp.y.
v ATLANTA, C,\.
jj-tnAN OF L... BUli-a; I) h MINATION.
i ,fcv. D. BHAVFR, L). I)., Editor.
AUKOCiATE EDITOR*:
Rev. D. E. BUTLER. Dr. J. 8. LAWTON.
COBLERPOMnNO EDITORS.
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which it i* freighted weekly, a chaste selection
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over 250,(XW n teJUgent sulwtantial Chiistiai. t-eiv
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pa JH.T s and perioilkal* in the United States, The
interests of the friends remitting us will he care
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Send for apoci.utm copie*, circulars, etc.
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Ji,L Piiiiting office in the South—known a*
The Franklin Sttam Printing House,
at which cverv style of Book, Mercantile, Legal
and Railway Printing i* executed. In excellency
of manner, promptness and cheapness, we defy
competition.
Our Blank Book Man ufactory is likewise well
appointed. Orders solicited for every’ grade of
w\rk in this department. County orotnds will
find it to their interests to consult us ns to Legal
Form Book* Records, Minutes, Blanks, etc.
Book*, News vrs, Hheet Music and Pernniicalß,
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CITY HOTEL,
QUITMAN, GEORGIA.
The Proprietor Oflets , V isitorx
l NSCHPASSED INDI CEMENTS.
ROCKS LARGE, WELL FURNISHED,
—AN D
- VENTILATED.
TABLE SUPPLIED WITH
THE REST THE HA RKETAFFORDS.
Polite and Obliging Servants.
HOUSE SITUATED CONVENIENT TO Till
Eeput and tie Bastnes- Portion of .I*. 1 o’z-
D. U. McNEAL, Proprietor.
najf ' f .
A FAMILY ARTICLE.
Aged* make 112 aO per day, ?75 per week.
AN NEW
SEWING MACHINE
Put' t ,
ONLY FIVE DOLLARS
WitL the New Patent
BUTTON l>OLl; WOItKLIt.
Patented June 27th, iB7l.
AWARDLD IHE llKhi lBOillM AT THE
AMKBH AN INB i 111 1 £
AND MARYLAND INhl HI TE FAIRS, 1871.
A most wonderful and elegantly constructed
Skwino Machine for Family Work. Conipkte iu
ail it* l’ait*, Use* the Btiaight, F.yt ]’(it 'tii A>r
; dtp, Self liiKEAPii-o, diiect uj light Posniv*
: MoTlu.v. Nt w Tel sion, 8< li i ted and Cloth Guidtr.
| Opeiare* by V\ hei.l anu on a Table. Light hnn
’ ht/ g. Hmooth and lidhieit ss, likt: all gtn,d high -
priced machine*. Hes Check to pr* ■ .t
--the whet Itn ing turned the wrong way. I *e* the
thread direct from the spool. Make* the Ei-artio
Lock Stitch, (linest ai.u stft i gest stitch known);
firm, durable. cio*e aid ia,- ut. Will do ail kii and
of work,jr.c atidW!H’. fr.<n. CAttßfcjo to heavy
Cloth or Leather, and uses all description* of
thread. 1 hi* Machine is heavily coNBThCCTKD
to give it STHKNGTH; ail the parts of each Ma
chine bei.ig runde alike by tnaeftit>ery, ai.d heaii
tiiully finished and ornamented. It i very easy
to leant. JLy iiL Smooth aid Silent in oj erstion.
Reliable at fc l- times, and a Pkactical, Sctebtioc,
ill! iiAMCAJ. 1 yvn st!>.>,5t!>.>, at (ireaUy Imbued trice.
A Good, Cheap, Faii.iiy b* wing Machine at last.
The first and only success in pnducing a valua-
Me, substantial aiid reliable low-priced Sewing
Mai bine. Its extreme low price reaches all con
ditions. Its simplicity and strength adapts it to
aii capacities, while its many merits make it a
universal favorite wherever used, and creates a
rapid demand.
II 18 AI.I. IT IS RFC OMMENDED.
I can diet rfuily and ctn.intently recommend it*
use to those wLu are wa.-tu.g a rearly good bew
ing Machine, at a lev uric*.
Mku. H. B. JAMESON,
i tttlo) e. Will county, 111.
Price of each Machine. “Ulass A.” “One,"
'warranted ftu live years by special certificate,)
w ith all the torture* atid rrtruth u<g complete he
ioLgu.g to it, including Self 1 hhkading No dle,
packed in a strong woouen box, ai.d delivercu to
any part of the country, by t xji < free of fur
ther clrsrgea, on recept of prit e, only Five I ol
laus. Haft delivery guaranteed. With each Ma
chine we will send, on receipt of 11 extra, the new
patent
BUTTON HOLE WORKER,
One of the most important and m ful invention*
of the age. So simple and certain, that a child
: can work the finest button hide with regularity
and ease. Strong and beautiful.
SpecialTeiimh, and Extra inducement* to Mal*
a: and Female Agents. Store Keepers, he., who will
i establish agencies through the country and keep
our New Machines on Exhibition and Sale .
County Riohts given to smart age: ts fbf.e.
Agent’s complete outfit furbished withoui any ex
tra csiajuik. Kamjles ,t tetri’ y, dcsciiptive cir
cuiairi containing 7*#, Testmioniais, Eugr&v
ings, Ac,. Ac., sent fi.ee. We also supply
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
Latest Patents am* Impr. vtments for the Farm
a; and Carden, Mowers, Reapers. Cultivators, Feed
Cutters, Harrows, Farm Mid*, l’lanters, Harvest
ers, Thresh r* acd all articles needed for Farm
work. Ib.if Seed* in large variety. All Money
sent ir. Post Oilict jh in y Ordei s, Bank Drafts, tr
bv Express, v.ill he at our risk, and are perfectly
secure. Safe delivery ot ail our good* guaran
teed.
“Ar old and rc*p*"Bible firm that t best
good* at tin lovvesi price, and can rel * • 1 1 <t by
oni reader*.’ —Fanners Journal, Fee jo A.
Sot Responsible ter P.tg istcrea Letters.
Addled Oio>ei’.s
JERL3IE B. nn)> ux Ai i O.
Corner Greei.wkh and Cortlandt Streets, N.V.
st ptUT-Om
NEW STOCK.
rsun; undersigned having purchaked
1 in pciaua ia the Eagt.ru Cities, a large aaii
well a snorted stork of
CKiie.al Mercltandisf,
is in w prepared to oiler peculiar inducements to
ais customers and tlie public generally.
His stock embraces a complete vara ty of
Dry Goods, lii ady Nlade Clotuing,
Hats, ceps, boots and Shnc-p,
Hunl" are, Tirwrre,
Cic-cki rv and Glass ware,
All kinds of V'oodware and
A COUTnETE AUSOKTHE-Tr OF
FAMILY GKOCKRIES,
all of wliieli lie offers ou the most rcnsonabln
terms. D. U. CIiEEOH.
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