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CLEVELAND, GA„ SATURDAY MORNING, JAN., 2L 1881.
Johnny’s Own.
Two little urchins
In night-gowns white,
Kneeling softened to pray light
In the
Of the shaded lamp,
Make the loving eyes
Of tbo mother damp
With a swoet surprise
As she catches the words—
On Johnny's tonguo
So musical soft,
Whether said or suBg
Shu hardly knew;
But their melody rang
In her treasuring ear
For many a year
Aftor Johnny grow
Through boyhood and youth
Pure generous, true.
They murmured “I lay me,”
And “Hoar Lord bless,”
Then silence fell—
And thoughtfulness,
And Elsie, the baby,
Almost asleep,
C ® iA ba. ely creep
To her pillow soft,
But Johnny aloft
His fine eyes raisod
la a ehildlike faith,
As if bo gazed
In the human face
Of the child’s friend,
Divinely sweet
As it used to bend,
With the blessing hand
On tho ourly bead.
“Dear Lord,” said bo,
Elsie, my sister,
And Johnny, that’s mo
We want two big red apples,
As big as can be!
We want them to-morrow.
Please send them down hero,
Thebiggostto sissy,
fibs’* suob a little dear!”
A fervent "Amen”
In a confident tone,
And Johnny’s "own prayer”
Was presently done.
It doesn’t do men any good to live
apart from women ami children. 1
nevoj- know a hoy’s school in which
there was not a tendency to rowdyism.
And lumbermen, sailors, fishermen and
all other men who live only with men.
are proverbially a half-bear sort of
people. Frontiersmen soften down
when women and children come—but I
forget myself; it is tbo story yon want.
Burton and Jones lived in a shanty
by themselves Jones was a married
man, but, finding it hard to support his
wife in a down East village, he had
emigrated to Northern Minnesota, leav¬
ing his wife under hor father’s roof until
he should bo able to make a start. He
and Burton had gone into partnership,
and had ‘pre ernted a town site of 320
acres.
There wore, perhaps, twenty families
scattered over this town site at the
time my story begins and onds, for it
ends iu tbo same week iu which it be¬
gins. had disagreed,
The partners quar¬
reled, aud divided their interests. Tho
laud was all shared between them ex¬
cept one valuable forty acre piece.
Each of them claimed that pioco of
laud, and the quarrel had grown so high
between them that tiio neighbors ex¬
pected them ‘to shoot on sight.’ In
fact, it was understood that Burton was
on the forty-acre piece, determined to
shoot Jones if he came, and Jones had
sworn to go out there and shoot Burtion,
when the light was postponed by the
unexpected arrival of Jones' wife and
child.
Jones’ shanty was not finished, and
he was forced to forego this luxury of
fighting his old partner in his exertions
to make wife and baby comfortable for
the night. For the winter auu was sur¬
rounded by ‘sun dogs.' Instead of one
sun there were four, an occurrence not
uncommon in this latitude, but one
which always boded a terrible storm.
In his endd*H(f6 to caro for his wife
and child, Jones wa3 moiifiod a little,
and half regretted be had boon so vio^
lent about the piece of land. But ho
was determined not to be hacked down,
and ho certainly would have to Bhoot
Barton or be shot himself.
When thought of the chance of being
killed by his old partner, tho prospect
was not pleasant. He looked wistfully
at Kitty, ftis 2-year-old child, and dread¬
ed that she would be left fatherless.
Nevertheless he wocldn’t be backed
down. He would shoot or be shot.
While the father was busy cutting
wood, and the mother was buisy other¬
wise, little Kitty managed to get the
shanty doer open. There was no latch
as jet, and her prying little hands ea¬
sily swung it back. A gust of cold air
almost took awny her breath, but she
caught sight of the brown grass without,
aud the naw world seemed so big that
the little feet were fain to try and ex¬
plore it. the
She pushed out through door,
caught her breath again, and started
away down the path bordered by mvo
grass and tho dead stalks of tLo wild
sunflower.
How often »ho had longed to escape
from restraint and paddle out Jnlo tho
world. So out into the world io went,
rejoicing in hor liberty, in tbo blue sky
above and the rusty prairie beneath.
She would find out where tho p^tlvwi-nt
to, and what there was at tho end of
the world. What did she cafe if hor
nose was blue with cold and her chubby
ham.s red as beets? Now and then she
paused to turn her head away from the
rude blast, a forerunner of the storm;
but having gasped a moment, she quick¬
ly renewed her brave march in search
of tho great unknown
The mother missed her, and suppos¬
ed that Jones, who could not get enough
of the child’s society had taken the lit¬
tle one out with him.
Joues, poor fellow, sure that-the dar¬
ling waa safe within, chopped’away un¬
til that awful storm broke upon him,
and at last drove him, half smothered
by snow and half frozen by cold, into
the house. When there was nothing
left but retreat he had seized'an armful
of wood and carried it into tho house'
with him, to make sure of having
onough to keep his wife and Kitty from
. freezing in the coming awfulness of the
whictfiuow settled devas upon the
and snow-blinded world.
It was the beginning of that horrible
storrn frozen in to which death, so and many Jones jjeople had were lied
none too soon.
When once the wood way.stacked by
the stove, Jones hooked around for Kit •
ty. Ho had not more than^nquirod for
her when lather and mother each read
iu the other's face the fact that she
was lost iu this wild, dashing storm of
suow.
So fast did tho snow fall, and so dark
was the night, that Jones could not see
threo feet ahead of him. Flo endeav¬
ored to follow the path which lie thought
Kitty might have taken, but it was
hurried in snowdrifts and he soon lost
himself.
He stumbled through tho drifts, call¬
ing out to Kitty iu his dist but not
kuowiug whither she »y.g. . '.fter an
hour of despairing, wamiei'iug and
shouting, ho earno upon a house, and
having rapped on tho door he found
himself face to faeo with his wife.
He had returned co his own housa iu
his bewilderment.
When we remember that Jones had
not slept for tho two nights proceeding
thin one, ou account of his mortal quar-i
rel with Burton, and ho had now been
beating against an Arctic hurricane and
tramping through treacherous billows
of snow for an hour, we cannot wonder
that he fell over ffs own threshold iu a
state of extreme exhaustion.
Happy for him that he did not fall
bewildered on the prairie, as many an
other poor wayfarer did on that fatal
night!
As it was, his wife must deeds give
up tho vain little searches she had been
making in tho neighborhood of the
shanty. She had now a sick husband,
with frozen hands aud feet aud, face to
care for. Every minutejthe thermomes
ter fell lower and lower, and all the
heat tho little cook stove in Jones's
shanty could give would hardly keep
them from freezing.
Burton had stayed upon that forty
acre lot all day, wai iug for a chance to
sboet his old partner, Jones, lie had
not heard of the arrival of Jones' wife,
and so he concluded that his enemy had
proved a coward and had left him in
possession or else that lie meant to pi ay
him some treacherous trick oh his way
komo.
So Burton resolv d to keep a sharp
lookout. But he soon found that in
possible, for the storm was upon him
iu all its iury. He tried to follow the
path, but he could not find it.
Had ho been less of a frontiersman
he must have perished there, house. within But a
furlong of his own in
endeavoring to keep the direction ot the
path he heard a smothered cry, and then
saw something rise up covered with
snow and fall down again. lie raised
his gun to shoot it, when the creature
uttered another wailing cry so human
that lie put down his gun aud
cautiously forward.
It was a child.
Ho did Dot remember that there was
such a child among all tbe set¬
tlers iu Newton. But he did not stop
to ask questions, lie must, without
delay, get himself and the child, too,
to a place of safety, or both would he
frozen.
So he took ihe little tiling in his arms
and started through tho diilts. Aud
the child put us little icy no,; -to- on
Burton’s rough neck and muttered
‘papa/’ And Burton- held h<-r closer,
aud fought the snow more o igeously
than ever.
Ho found the shanty at last, and roll¬
ed Hie child in a buffalo robe while he
made a lire. Then, when he got t.h
room a little warm, be took the hi de
tiling upon bis knee, dipped her aching
lingers m cold water, and asked hor
what her name was.
‘Kitty,’she said.
‘Kitty,’ he said, ‘and what else A
‘Kitty,’ sho answered, nor could lie
Had out any more.
‘Whose Kitty are you ?’
‘Your Kitty, she said. For she had
known her father but that one day, nod
now sin believed that Burton was ho.
Burton sat up all night and stuffed
wood into his irapotant little stove to
keep the baby from freezing to death.
Never having had to do with children,
he firmly believed that Kitty, sleeping
snugly under blankets and buffalo
would freeze if ho should let the fire
subside in the least
fury As tho storm prevailed willrunabufced
tho next day, and as he dared
neither to take Kitty out nor to leave
her alone, he stayed by her all dav aud
stuffed the stove with wood, and laugh
ed at her droll baby talk, and fod
on biscuit and fried bacon and coffee.
On the morning of tho second ( j ay
the storm had abated. It was forty
degrees cold, but, knowing that .
budy must he mourning Kitty fur dead,
ho wrapped her in skins, and with much
difficulty reached tho noarost neighbor’s
house, suffering only a l'rost-bite ou his
nose by tho way.
That child,’ said the woman to whose
house he had come, ‘is Jones's, I d
’em take hor out of tho wagon day be¬
fore yesterday.’
Burton looked at Kitty in perplexity;
then he rolled her up again and started
out. ‘Traveling like mad,’ the woman
said as she watched him.
When ho reached Jones’s ho
Joues and his wife sitting In
wretchedness by the tiro. They were
both sick from grief, and unable to
move out of the hou~e. Kitty they had
given up for buried alive under some
snow-mound. They would find hor
when spring should come and melt the
suow covering off.
When the exhausted Burton came in
with ghis bundle of buffalo-skins they
looked at him with amazement. But
w hen he opened it and let out the little
Kitry and said;
•Here, Jones, is this yer Kitty?’ Mr;
Joues coujdn t think of anything better
than to sefroam.
And Jones got up and took his old
partner's hand and said: ‘Burton
ole fellow'' and then choked up am
sat down, and cried helplessly.
And Burton said: ‘Jones, ole fallow, _
you may have that forty-acre
It came mighty nigh makin’ mo the
murderer of that little Kitty’s father.’
‘No/ you shall take it yourself 1
cried Joues, ‘if I have to go to law to
make you.
And Jones actually deeded his inter
est in toe lorty-acres to Burton. Buo
Burton transferred it all to Kitty.
That is.why this part ol Newton
called to day Kt^ s forty.
TKLEGIUl’lIlU 1HS PATCHES.
Telegraph nml Messenger.
Cley i-ii.Axn, January 12. - James B
Deveaux of Georgia, and Samuel E • -.
i). A. Strakor, Robert B. Eiliott,
George W. I'rince, Jr., and George L
Malison, of North Carolina all colored
men arrived here this evening. In an
into! view, they said they were forerun¬
ners of a representation of colored meu
of the South who aro expected to meet
boro to-morrow and confer. After
wards, probably on Friday, they intend
to go to Mentor in a body, and await
upon General|GariieUi. Being asked lor
what purposo they had traveled so far
to.aeo him they declined to say anything
in advance of the conference, except
that they wished to represent to bun
tho c mdiliou of the colored peopie
the South as they know it. In reply to
a question as to why they took
pains at this particular time and in this
manner, they asked to be excused from
, answering at present but disclaimed
| any intention of presenting the claims
j of Senator Bruce, J. M. Langston
j any other man for a cabinet position,
j j or lor an office of any kind.
l!n A Man.—F oolish spending is tho
father of. poverty. Do not be ashamed
of hard work. Work and work for half
price rather than bu idle. Bo your
own master, and do not lot society or
fashion swallow you up individually—
hat coat and boots. Do not eat up or
wear out all you can earn. Compel
your selfish body to spare something
for proflits saved. Bo stingy to your
own a jpotite, but merciful tor others'
necessities. Help others, and ask n- -
fur yourselves. See that you are p md
too. Let your pride be of tho rig Sr
kind. Be too proud to bo lazy too proud
to give up without conquering every
difficulty too proud to be in company
that you cannot keep up with to expen¬
ses too proud to be sciogy.
A YEAR
NO. 2
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oJen ( oft.
Jt ! " 11IC :t v - ; " I-vce t - have others
Matu r him.
A __ man oat in K bracks.died Hie other
day while blew. ; n *!)«. It was a.
fatal h’-i ..
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to J make Y- 'n mmit 1 l ' ' ' ‘
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The bank sgei. knows bo i<- r .
when fee wipee hi8l'-or on a door ■■ ,
• iu vvbsch the word 1 W elcomo” is woven.
Gut in tho r.r.acs they shoot a man
who refuses to drink his soup straight
; from tho plate,
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! abu . v disfigured , man fbos . , , du-i, , of course,
, u t he mg marked for life; but when
; 10 •'* marked Icr death he must feel
W(J tse.
1 Aa exduuge says: * Streams all over
; thfe C0QJtry aro funn j D; . (jl -,. - This is
j cauard . vVhen a stream is dry it
i can’t run.
When Brutus and Cassius were boy'
the girls used to say that Brute was
uoh a nice fellow, l>nt they preferred
Cash, Tho girl's havne’t changed one
bit.
Mistress— ‘ Mary, this venerable
goo3o is tough enough to break one's
j j tteth.’ tell Maid—“Yes’m; that diddn’t you
me, ma’am, you wanted it
for a [deco do resistance V
Of a nrserly man who died of soften¬
ing of tho brain, a local paper said:
"iiis head gave way, but his baud never
did, Uia brain softened but hi3 heart
couldn't.’
A witness under cross examination.
, who ba t . btmi tortured by a lawer for
j several hours, at last asked for a glass
of water. ‘Tnere,’ said cho Judge, ‘I
think you’d bettor let tbo witness go
now, as yon have pumped him dry.’
t
j Native Alaskan ladies of fashion
j wear entire suits made oi sealskin,
( j i ink whiskey and eat whale’s blubbess
i and they are not a bit stuck up about
! it , either. There is a moral concealed
| in the business end of this paragraph,
j
Tho Into Rev. Dr, Symington, not
Wtt!l 01 , 0 Smidiiy , ljoru i u ,, S(li(l
1 1() p,., t a ea.dle, who was a‘character;"
‘Man Robert, I wish you would *\ preach
U) ..„ ty _. , callM do hiU .
j ( promptly ibr'you.’ replied Robert, ‘hut I often
pi ay
t»'d woman, how do you sail boorsT
ask-, i a loafer ol an old vegetable wo¬
rn,to in the market, and she replied:
‘I just toll 'em I’ll trust 'em, and then
giro’em tuff that looks ail right and
aiut good tor nothing. They don't like
the sell either-'
“Jiiotiny you mist never use tobacco,"
aid .i fond mother; - "oven tbe hogs
don't do that.’ “I know they don’t,
mamma, and hogs don’t go to heaven
(udifei, „ud Johnny went out soon
ufti-i and bid two cigar stumps under
tho door-stop.
A candidate asked a man, who was
working against him, if there was not;
something the matter witn bis uose.
‘Not that i known of.’ was the reply.
‘Dn't your nose paralyzed V
•Why, no; what makes you think so?'
n-spon-.. ! the other, feeling his nasal
organ.
‘Nothin,', ex-topt that my opponeut
has boon leading > u about by tbe nose
! tor the last four or IT o years, and you
don’i some to know it, a-» I thought you
cuff'd not have much feeling in it.
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