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THE BLACSSHEAB NEWS.
PUBIJslTF.lt WEEKLY BY
E. Z. BYRD,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR,
BLACKSHEAR. GA.
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VOL IV.
The River Idyl.
Lucinda, dearest, hieath the bending tree,
Stooping t. > kiss the stream that laves its feet,
I’ll draw the boat: and, thinking but of thee,
Will luncheon eat.
Mark how the placid tide flows smoothly by;
Note , yonder bank aglow with g/ten
gorsc;
’Tis nature s Ugh! specie Steak, bank, ol what’s .purse. m that pier
Sip life’s sweet joy, love, * in this
cup of spot;
For thee no after-taste, noJ^ter dregs;
’Tis nectar. Bah! I’ve toliBf I cannot
Eat hard-boiled I is.
The dappled shade of w illow Jhl of ash
Sprca'ls o’i r the verdant u fcs, for tlijr sweet
sake,
And love—the salad dresai 4 gone to smash,
And soaked fee!
Wiiat ? Hang it all! ,, 1 l )eak m
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vain.
Lucinda, this is slianv -only look!
No mustard on tlie saiM dies again!
Dischargw cook!
AUNT SAB# a A'S TREASURE.
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There was 'disappointmentamong
the heirs-at WT. when Aunt Sabrina died
suddenly P he had beeu reputed rich,
but m tj light of legal investigation
her p^ Enrious had dwindled down to
a fe nonsands and the house and
b aro>d •s inherited from her father.
■
she was reputed rich it was difli
W. to sav, for she had lived simply,
ler had held herself'aloof from society,
father, Colonel Henderson, had
revolution, been a staunch but his patriot brother in time of the
Tory, and betook Boyd was a
himself to England
when the first hostile gun was fired,
where he was afterward knighted.
Strange to sav, Sabrina, who was at
that time young and beautiful, sym¬
pathized with her uncle, though some
said this was not so much from loyalty
to King George as from loyalty to one
of hia officers.
arrested Very certain for it is that and she was
giving aid comfort to
the enemy by means of secret informa
tion, and was only released out of
respect to her father, who promised to
deliver her np with his own iiapds it
she ever sinned in like manner again.
In process of time the war came to
an end, and so did Colonel Henderson
^ 1H contemporaries. The British
officer never appeared to claim his bride,
and Aunt Sabrina grew old in single
blessedness. v
And now, she too, was dead, and
another headstone of slate was added
to the row in the family lot.
As I said, there was disappointment
among the heirs, chief of whom was
Sabrina’s favorite nephew Anson, to
whom fell the house and most of the
money. He shared the general impres
sion concerning Aunt Sabrina’s wealth.
He knew that she had received
from the and Tory believed uncle, Sir Boyd, while he
lived, he had bequeathed
her something at hD death.
He moreover believed that the title
to this inheritance, if not the inhen
tance, itself, was contained in a certain
cabinet which Aunt Sabrina had always
with jealous care.
It was not known that any mortal eye
beside her own had ever looked inside
it, and he had once seen her defend it
with absolute fierceness from the in
spection of her father the colonel
The key was found tied round her
neck with a black cord after her death,
and was immediately captured ; bnt
cabmet was nowhere to be found, al
thon Kb the house was ransacked from
top to botrom.
Then, after much the usual experi
f lif Anson died and was
gathered to his fathers and his aunts.
He left a widow and a son—a second
Anson—who was at the same time the
pride and the torment of his mother’s
her pride, because he was a bright,
strong, handsome boy; her torment, be
causf ’ be was as headstrong and unman
ageable a little sprite as ever lived. What
he wanted to do, he did ; what it did
not suit him to do, he left undone.
brina’s Unfortunately, the story of Aunt Sa
lost cabinet had taken strong
hold of hie imagination, which is not
greatly to be wond.-red at, since be had
heard it repeated from his earliest in
fancy with such additions and
tions as time and tradition are sure
eff £ Ct ‘
The probability , . .. that , it . contained .
treasure became to his mind a certainty,
When be was four years old, he was one
day missed, greatly to the alarm of his
jiarents, and just as they were on the
point of summoning the town crier, a
servsnf found the child behind the great
chimueyin the garret, searching for
Aunt Sabrina’s cabinet.
By the tune he was ten, the marks of
hia little hatchet were found in every
I>art of the house where a t*oard or tim
her gave promise of Slaving a hollow
spans behind it. Am he grew older, the
oonvicuon which had so early Uken
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BLACKSHEAR, GA.. SEPT. 8, 1881.
bode fair to be the making, or thi mar
rintr, of his future life.
He was fifteen when his father died,
bequeathing him the estate which: father, after
the English fashion, he, the
wished to keep in the Henderson £ame,
the estate being chargeable, of irse,
witl , the widow’s support,
Snon it became necessary that.Toson
should leave home to pnrs ehie educa¬
tion, and the widow improved the op¬
portunity to go among her own friends.
So, for a season, the old house had «
■est.
When a house is shut up, von know
how quickly ii takes on a look of neglect
and decay, and so the Henderson house,
which seemed a cheerful enough resi
deuce whe the family were in it. soon
began to look goggle-eyed and high
shouldered and mysterious, and Aunt
Sabrina’s “ghost” was reported to be
frequently seen looking out the tall,
narrow windows. ,J «
When the heir was twenty-one, he
came back to claim his own, bringing
with him an article whichliis guardians
aud other discreet persons deemed bu
perfluons; namely, a wife. •
ll.it Anson was frde now—free in law
aU( * * he had done with books
teachers, guardians and advisers;
shook them all off as Samson did the
hands of the Philistines.
£5His hnd course .he now was plainliefore _ him;
lost treasure and live like a
gentleman.
His wife (Mary Flaxbam bad been her
name,) was a blooming, merry-hearted
young creature, who fitted about the
ohl house like a butterfly, and who
y<-emingly took as little though; for tlm
morrow. )
M by should she take thought when
s * i e had a husband to tiiink for her? A
husband whom she revered and trusted
as every good wife should, unless she
can show reason to the contrary.
Meanwhile, the place was running
down, and Anson did nothing to reclaim
it. He neither sowed nor reaped.
So several years went by ; then or.e
day, as Mary was sitting in her chamber
holding the little Anson third ifi, her
Mb her husband came in and sat Howii
beside her with the air of one who has
something to disclose, as indeed hA had.
He did not even speak lo the boy as
usual, but struck into, the midst of
things at, onoe,
“Mary,” said he, “I can’t stand it any
longer. I’ve been thinking of it a good
while, and now I’ve made up my mind.”
“To what ?” asked Mary
“To find Aunt Sabrina’s money.”
said “There’s nothing very new in that,”
Mary, laughing gaily ; “at least, in
trying to find it.”
“No, but there is in the way of doing
it,” said he.
“Is there? What can it be V asked
she.
“To pull the house down,”said he.
“Oh, AnsonT’ cried Mory, “but you’re
joking—ol course you’re joking.”
“Not a bit of it—never was more in
earnest in my.H#e. You see that cabi
net is somewhere in the house; there
is no doubt aliout that. Aunt Sabrina
was seen to have it the day before she
had her stroke, and she never left the
house afterwards, till sho was carried
0ut -”
“So I u have always heard,” said Mary. vr
“Then the cabinet must be here—
unless she took it into the next world
with her—as no doubt she would if she
could,” said Anson.
“But is it certain that it contained a
treasure?” “Certain? asked Mary.
As certain as anything is.
You’re the first person that ever ques
tioned it. My father believed it—every
body believed it; if there was proof
enough therel to satisfy her contemporaries, L.
proof enough to satisfy But
what’s the use of aTgning a question
that was settled before you and I
born ?”
“Not much, to be sure,” said Mary.
“I should say so. There’s nothing so
very strange, either, in a miserly old
woman hiding her money—tluy’re al
ways doing it—and nothing so strange
in my looking for it, that yon should
make such an adp about it. Think of
the Captain folks Kidd’s that have been bunting after
treasure ever since he
tucked it away somewhere a hundred
years ago Or more.”
“Has anybody ever found it?” asked
Mary.
“No; but they would if there was
nothing Anson, but pne old house in honse#yonr the way.”
“Oh, spare the bid
father meant it to srand in the Hen
derson name- he Ateatff It as a home for
you, ainl for Mother Head, rson, and
for this dear child—though he never
s«w him,” and she kissed the boV on
knee. “He tlionght you would love it
for ^j» sake, aa I do, Anson. And 1
lov# it foy i'self, too. There isn’t a
nc»c4 nor a comer in it that I don’t love,
T|w?-e quaint old wimlow-aeat*. Ibese
great chi mi teya, this oak wainscoting,
how charming I thty all seemed to ne
when *a me here um flour wife, and how
charming they are* still! And such
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ays, and en all the people who have
lived and died here I 1 would no more
disturb one brick, or one clapboard,
than I would disturb th«ir graves !”
Never in all his married life had An
son heard his wife make so long a
speech before. Never had ho heard
her in any way question or oppose his
judgment, and now it seemed to him
much as it would if_ Mary’s canary had
undertaken to advise the barn-yard
fowls about their domestic affairs.
He looked at her a moment iu a iton
ishroent, and then said,-—
“All very lino and romantic, but,
nevertheless, the old house must come
to an end.” .
“And so much else with it!” said
Mary.
Mother Henderson took a more prac
tical view of the matter. “Where are
asked. we going to live meanwhile?” shq
*
“In the porter’s lodge,” said Anson,
“I can tit it up nicely, and it won’t, be
so very bad ai a temporary retreat.”
“Look out you don’t have to stay
there the rest of your days!” said she.
“No foar of that,” said Anson. “I
mean to build tho finest house in the
country when 1 get Aunt Sabrina’s
money.”
two
the lmsh,” said his mother.
Hut warnings and counsels w’ere alike
thrown away <m Anson. To the porter’s
the lodge he moved '.is family, and soon
masons and enrp<-nter w- to busy
pulling kept the old l.oust lest to pieces. Strict
watch Atison any secret hiding
place should escape him, or another
should find tho treasure and not him
self.
Eor days there was nothing to reward
his vigilance, but how shall I describe
his emotions when one of the workmen
cried out,—
“Hurrah, I’ve found it!”
A closet within a closet— that was
a child’s hand could have moved the
slide—but, the eye of a l’aris detective
would not have discovered it,.. Both
closets were within a chimney, and
hence the apace taken tip by tho interior
one did not betray its presence. It
might as well have been the flue.
When Anson first saw the cabinet
which he had so often hoard described
■“■it was ebony bound with siJver and
iuJaid with mother-of-pearl—a faintness
“( ll€ OVf 'C him, and he leant against the
chimney Recovering for support.
hs . place himself, he drew it from
hiding with trembling handH.
^' u ^> although ho had the key in his
P°°het, it is to his credit that ho would
n /^ "°uld open share it his by himself ; no, Mary
fi They joy three and triumph,
were all in the lodge—
pother Henderson, Mary and Anson
third.
“Look!” was the only word he ut
as he placed the cabinet on the
table.
“Aunt Sabrina s cabinet!” exclaimed
Mother Henderson.
He took the key from his pocket and
j^ed it in ™*y the lock. after It its turned long repose, hard,
»w« ‘bd turn—the cabinet was opened.
Sabrina’s eyes, so many years ago
n J I>if lts < intents iY last. '?*'° ’ hiltl lookM ' 1
It seemed to be filled with papers—
Anson drew them forth eagerly—pack
age after package—and threw them
aside They were only letters.
a * bottom there was some
tl,in ^ .® lse T 1 t 1jf> “.
seized it and touched . the spring The
™ v * r ffiwback and disclosed the pnr*
of a British officer. A folded pa
P«r c '! rita ' r ‘ ln 8 a lock of hair, and the
TeCf *ra, Moy/r <,oversale; 17,1781.* killed «t the
^ Aunt Sabrinas lover, exclaimed
M “ber flendrason.
What a handsome man 1 Poor Aunt
Babrina !” exclaimed Mary.
“A portrait and a box of love-letters!”
or ‘® a AnH “/ have ‘brown
f/ay mv life; for this I have excliknged
ho “e of my ancestors for the por
ter a lodge.— i outkn Compctt.vm.
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“Jin lemanly Ladies.”
In a railroad car the seats were all
full except one, which was occupied by
a pleasant-looking Irishman,and atone
of the stations a couple of evidently
well-bred and intelligent young Miw
came in to procure sea's. Seeing none
vacant they were about to go into the
next car, when Patrick a roK: hastily
and offered them his seat with evident
pleasure. •
“ But you will have no scat for your
“elf,” resjunded one of flu- yodng ladiof
with a m»i1o. hmiutmg, with trUo pA.
liteness, to accept it.
“Nivermind tba»,” said the gallant
Hibernian; “I’d ride upon a (Mawuatchcr
to New York any rime f..r u smile from
inch jiutlemauiy ladies.”
Afxi he rerirud into the r.ext car aroil
the cheers ofhU f< ilow -passengers.
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hhot or changusbte nmU naH are agaiu
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Kaiser and Empress.
The stranger who remains a short
time in Germany cannot fail to be 1m
pressed with the fact that the venerable
kaiser is dearly beloved by his while, people ;
so also is the crown prince; on
the other hand, the empress and crown
princess are unpopular. The to^Wm emperor
must, of course, lie familiar at
home, through Iris pictures, as a really
haudsunie man. He is certainly well
preserved for one of his years—eighty
four last, March. Humors begin to re
port that, though the kaiser appears
spr y ttl ,d fresh in public, yet when free
from restraint in the privacy of his own
apartments ho shows his age plnsicaliy plainly,
and that both mentally aud
he is failing. The emperor has always
been moderate in habits, which doubt
less has had much to do toward preserv
j n g his health. He sleeps on a hard
mattress, which rests on a simple brass
bedstead, and his covering is a soldier’s
blanket. It is said that this simple bed
is taken along wherever his majesty
travels. And the story runs that upon
one of tho emperor’s visits to St. Peters
burg his servant of the bed-chamber
found in the apartments aasigned to his
majesty an elegant luxuriously bed, canopied and
j„ a ll n peels as comfort
able as the inosi pampered monarch
could desire. “What is that bed for?"
exclaimed the servant, questiouii.gly.
“For hi: majesty tin* emperor of Qer
many,” was the reply. “Take it right
away then,” ordered the servant; “the
emperor brings his own bed with him.”
And the plain little bedstead was put
in the place of the magnificent one
which bad been intended for his majesty.
The kaiser is said to be inordinately
fond of lobater aalml. But, as it did not
agree with the royal stomach any better
than with many a humble fellow’s, his
physician forbade his free indulgence
in it manv years ago, telling him that,
if he did not eat it, he might live to be
eighty. Therefore, of course, the em¬
purer has lived to reach the age of
i eighty-four. When his eightieth birth¬
day arrived he called bid medical ad
visor to him and said : “There, my dear
doctor, I have lived to be eighty, and
now to-day I am going to eat as much
lobster salad as I want." A men a of
i otto of the dinners given daring the re
cent royal wedding festivities hangs in
the show window of an engraver in
(Jhurlotten strasse, and from that it is to
be inferred that the lobster-salad-loving
kaiser once again rati the risks of in
digestion and a sleepless night. But,
, if distressed, he must nave been ashamed
of his weakness and kept bis sufferings
| to himself, for the daily papers made no
j mention of the important fact.
Another weakness of the abstemious
old monarch is the ballet, and, in conse¬
quence, that of the imperial theater here
is of unrivaled beauty and splendor; it
is not even surpassed by tlie ballet in
the Bussian or Austrian capitals. The
crown prince—“Our Fritz,” as he is
often called—is titty years old, has a
, soldier-like carriage and a kind
amia.bl e expression appuaran’ce and real Iv makes a
t j laD( j aonu distingfushed . Lore Like his father
| j b( ,i , ih . intellectual for soldierly
«.Jj, fluidities everybody As
: man Raj(1 tome . knows
he did not invent gunpowder (the eqniv
alent for ‘He will never set the Thames
| . y, ut j )e j M a thorough soldier )
j am j j ie root out HOme 0
*he vices S* that ThtokttSLai the amiable refere^to old kai K ei
t u 0 notoriously corrupt manaireniAnt
and the immoralitv of the royal theater
ani i oneru, of which I will speak at an
otlim- time. Compared to that of some
members of hia fatheFa family—notabiv
}jiH twQ nn ci 08i PHnce Carl and the la e
Jb p f jnce Albrecht_the qffiS&SSft private ebariutor
p r0a( -h. Still, he is accredited with a
peccadilloes whose absence in roy
a u y oxcites more wonder than u,..; T
presence.
Just why the empress ^Lfaction is so unnonnlar ascertain
j cannot my •
}jut; it seemh tJbe in a measure because
8bft ifJ not very a ymu»thetic toward the
kaiser, and is' exceedingly iealons al
though I believe with reason. Certain
it j s that the imperial pair are not clos
ing their more than fifty years of wedded
liie in matrimonial bliss. Not that we
hear of familv jars; they only evince
their iiucongeniality by never being seen
Uigether. Each drives in state alone
and promenades in the park in majestic
solitude. Whether this is more betlt
ting to royal dignity or whether it
shows a decided preference on the part
of each for the uninterrupted enjoyment
of his or her own society, I leave others
to determine. As was stated in a pre¬
letter, the apiiearance of the em
press in public during the wedding fes
tivitiwi oilier grandson occasioned no en
th^iasnt whno that whatever kaiser in greeW*l the populace, vocifvr
wax
ouxly. Upon that oemrion hi r hair t»re
H*:nteil such a xtriking oontraxt in hue
to that exp eti d from a lady of eighty
summons *m Ur be Uruuglt ang geetire of
iom« patent unn.ji.j toua hair dye. - Jim-