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—-A TSIAL.'— gifted, Yet kot of H6pe Bereft, j BY JOHN SI. BICHABDSON. John Stetson winced a little. j took a glass of soda each, which “They are toere,.. trifles,” he said< made ten cents more. This carelessly. cents each time. Pooh! they would make Just like two oaklings^ that hare grown p rec j ong little difference at the And knit together as one tree,. . , . „ Their branches round .ack other thrown- end of the year. • So and wife may come to be Let, then, some blast or bolt one smite, And hurl to earth in ruin dire; The one that’s loft, oh, piteous sight! All torn, dis-souled, doth slow es pire. Near two and thirty years I spent With my beloved, handin hand;. When suddenly death came-she went— And lam left alone to stand! Ah, me! the horror and dismay. Of that dark midnight solemn hour, When, without notice, passed away The life of home, its joy, its flower, "''Time fled. A star adorned the east, ■ Ana, brightening, to the zenith earner f Whilst field and wood,and man and beast Bejoiced beneath its gentle flame. A while o’erheead ’twas queenly, bright; But, creeping down the western sky, It paler grew as to’ards the night It slowly went, thenjoemed to die. 'I mourned its loss.yet fell asleep,. That twin state to its brother death, ■ A ml wote not from my slumber deep ’Til came sornb other eve’s cool breath, .1 awoke; and from.my mimic grave Arose, and to a placid stream ,.. Went forth and, knelt my brow to lave— When on its waters shone a gleam Assuring that my wept-for star Had come once more to' bless mine ej os; Ami as I gazed, a voice, riot far, Called softly as from Paradise: ‘Why moumest thou? Dry now thy tears, . And give thy. heart to hope, not. grief; For soon will pass thy fleeting years, E’en as thy'slumb’rous moments brief. “Ancl she who did thy cares divide, Thy joys increase, will come and shine> Just as that star—a spirit bride— Forever and forever thinei. And in that city, large, ana fair, ■ Where Jesus is, and God is known, The joys of those^Ie loves yo'll share, Rejoicing ever near His throne.” I woke; and, lolit was a dream. And yet a glorious pr&sence near I. constant feel, and oft I seem Her face to see, her voice to hear. ,And so I bend me to my task, .As when of yore she cheered me on, Assured" that in her smile I bask, A mi that with her I’ll be anon. -■ •lLbrd,-.khBi>’‘nie always in the Way 1 , Obedient to thy truth and laws, Submissive ever to Thy sway, A faithful soldier in Thy cause'. And when from toil thou giv’st release, ; And bidd’st me lay mine armor down, - My songs of praise shall never cease To chant the glories of Thy crown. ; And though my joy supreme will be. To stand and worship near Thy throne, '’Twill no displeasure be to Thee That I still love her as my own. . | Daingerfield, Texas, Sept. 6,1888. SMALL SAYINGS. BY HOBATIO ALGEK, JR. “1 don’t see how Holmes does .it,” said John Stetson, with a puz zled expression. ; “Does what?” asked’ his wife, lookin'! up from her sejjjtog.. . “Why, to save, so much mohey from his salary, to be sure.” “Then he does save, does he?” “You know the half-acre lot ad- joing his house?” “Yes.” *■ 5 • ; “Well, he has just bought it for A hundred dollars'; and what is .more, paid foie it but of money ‘saved from his salary this year.” “How does his salary cqhiphre with yours?” , “He has only seyen hundred dollars a year, while I have eight. Then ,our families are the s^me; each of us have two children, j “Yet. I aifi afraid yoti don’t save near that amount.” ,, . , - “No, I guess not. The fact is, jf I find myself square at the ieiid of the year; I think myself lucky-” ,, “And yet; Jphni” said his ; wife gravely; “it seems to me as if we ought to lay by something.” ; , ‘/It’seaSy enough tp .. say that, but the. question is; ‘Hoik., are we going to do it?’ There’s Mary’s music leSSohs.at |eh dollars a quar T ter. That’s the only way I ,can think dkj; and 1 shouldn’t want to BtOp thOSpi” , ..^ .. ... : ' i- .J, i'“Nq; tob.e sure not; lint isn’t there any other way ?” • “Not that that I know of.” v j - : “Don’t you think, John, the little incidental expenses cost more than yon think for?” “Such as what? ’. j “Cigars, ice cream, oysters, the theatre^ and so on. “You. know there is an old prov erb, ‘Many a ’ little makes mickle.’”^ “Pshaw! I hate old proverbs. Besides, these little things are really of very little ./'account. A man doesn’t feeVtha sum lie pays out, and if it didn’t go in one way it would in another.” “How many cigars do you smoke daily?” pursued his wife. '“-Three.’’ v. , ■ ■- “And how much dp you pay for them?” “Five cents apiece.” “That would make fifteen cents.” “And what is fifteen cents* “Not to.a£h t in itself, ’but multi plied by a large number, it amounts to something.” “What are you ^riving at, wife?” i; “I am going to make a proposi tion to you.” .. ■, “I’m all attention.” “.Yon say you don’t mind a few. cents a day?” “Then I propose that a-small box be obtained, with a slit. in the lid, just like the children’s ; tin savings boxes, in short, only larger; and that for every cent you spend for cigars, ice cream, thea tres, nr any such little luxury, you deposit an equal sum in the box.” John Stetson laughed. “Ldaresay,” . he remarked, “it would bring . me out a .perfect Croesus at the end of the year.” “Do you agree?” asked his wife, with some appearance of anxiety.. ; . “Yes; I have no great objection, if you desire it, though I aekuowl edge it looks a little foolish aud childish*” “Never mind abbut that. I have your promise, and we’ll try the ex periment one year. If it doesn’t amount to enough to make it au object, then, it will be time enough to give it up.” ■; “You must'take all the . trouble of it. I can’t engage tb do any thing about it except to furnish the money when.it is called for.*' “That is all L shall require of you. But I shall expect you to give an account everjf night of all that you have disbursed in the ways you spoke of, and to be pre pared with ,an equal amount of change for deposit.” ‘‘Very well, I’ll try.” This conversation took place at the.breakfast table. Haying drain ed his second cup of coffee; ■ John Stetson put on his overcoat and took his way to his place of busi ness. I may as well mention, in this connection, that he-was cash ier in a small country bank, and, as his duties occupied him only a few hours in the day, he was more likely, from the leisure he.enjoyea, to.indulge in small expenses. • My wife is an enthusiast,” thought he, as he was walking down town. “However, hbr hobby won’t cost .touch, so I might as well, indulge her in it.” • He stepped, into a store and ob tained his daily allowance, bf ci gars. . . ... • T ' , t Meanwhile Mrs. Stetson pro ceeded tb the shop of a cabinet maker. “I want you,” said she, “to make me a mahogany box twelve inches long, the other dimensions being four inches each. In the center of the top is to be a slit, large enough to admit the latest silter coin.” -. f: ... - “A money box,” said the cabinet maker./ . “Yes.” . . . - - “Pretty large for that, isn’t it?” “Bather,” < said Mrs. .. Stetson, smiling: “but better too large than too small.” • ’ ; ; / j? . . . John Stetson fell in with a com panion in the afternoon,- with whom he had. a social, chat. As they were walking leisurely along they passed an .oyster saloon. Stet sop was particularly .fond of-the Bivalves, ;and he, proposed, that they should go in and .take some. To this the friend did ) not de mur, and they accordingly enter ed. Two plates of oysters came, to thirty cents. Besides this, thev - / brought up the bill to forty cents, which Stetson paid. /Accordingly, adding to this fifteen cents for ci- The box was opened, and hus band and wife commenced count ing. They soon reached, and pass ed,; forty dollars. • : , “Blesfi my seal!”, said John gars, he deposited fifty-five cental i^tetson, “I had no idea there was in his wife’s hands that evening. “I might as well make it sixty, he said, smiling. “No,” said she. , “Not a cent over. I want the Savings to repre sent exactly what you spend in these little luxuries, andnp more. “ The next evening he had noth ing to deposit except the usual amount of cigars. “It won’t amount up very fast at that rate,” he said Triumphantly. “Never mind,” said his .wife, don’t want you to Increase your expenditures on my account, am inclined to thin k they will Dot often b*as ; small as this.” /Sue was rigid. , The next day being Wednesday, John Stetson brought home a cou- .ple of tickets for the theate. - Mt -wtos a benefit night, and he was' anxious that his wife should go. “Certainly,” said she. “I shall be glad to gor; but you remember our compact?’ “What?” “How much did you pay for the tickets?” ■ “Fifty cents apiece.” “That will make a dollar. Please hand me that amount for ou fund.” ; Was. the theatre included? : said John, a little reluctantly. “Certainly. That was expressly mentioned.” “Oh, well, then; so let it be, Here is a silver dollar.” The dollar was at once dropped into the box; The next day in. passing a shop window Stetson noticed some very fine oranges. “Just what Mary and the chil dren would like,” thought he. “I’ll go in and, inquire the price.” .They were ..four A cents aipiece. He bought half a dozen at a -cost of a quarter, which with his cigar money, left him forty cents to de posit. ■ The succeeding day , ho spent nothing except for cigars. On Saturday he stepped into a confec tionery with a friend and had lunch. When his wife added up the daily sums, she found to her own surprise, even, that':-sb.fl had re ceived from her husband, two dol lars and sixty-two cents. He wbuld have been astonished tb hear it, but-, she thought it best not tb say anything about it. He would have alleged that it was a special case, as they did not go to the theatre every week. This was true, but then something else was sure to come of equivalent cost, such as a ride or a concert. So time slipped away. , The ne cessity, according to the compact, of giving bis wife as much as he spent for incidental -expenses, ; np doubt contributed to check him somewhat; .so that he probably idid not spend more liian two-thirds as much in this way as he had done before the. s ; agreement. Still, he np-to the average of the first week. We will now suppose the year to have glided By: John - Stetson came into the -sitting-room with a preoccupied Air. “What are yon thinking about?” asked his wife. “About the half-acre lot adjoin ing the one Holmes, bought last year:-” : . “Did you wish to purchase it?” “Yes; I should dike to; blit of so much, What was his astonishment when the total proved to -be one hundred and twenty-nine dollars and forty cents.’ " - “ “You see you can bay the lot’ . “But haven’t you swelled the amount from your own allow ance?” he asked somewhat bewil dered. v. . “Not'by a cent; and don’t you see John, that if you had refrain ed from even half the expenses we spoke of* we might have had in the-neighborhood of two' hundred dollars!” John Stetson did see, and he de termined that the lesson should be a serviceable one. The half- aci e lot was bought, and now at the end of five years, it is worth double what he paid for it. He has also laid aside two hundred dollars a year during this period, and all by small savings.—Yankee Blade. Knew What He Was About. At a side tract and ^water- tank between Greensboro and Salis/ bury, the hoar being about 9 o’clock at night, a man boarded the train and took a seat, directly ahead of me. When the • i train started the conductor came around for his fare, and as he had mo tick et,-that official asked: “Why didn’t you get a ticket at Blaukville?” “Hadn’t time.” “ \Vby didn’t you get on there?” “Hadn’t time.” “How far ire you going?” ‘■As far as this50 cents will take me.” . , “You ain’t'loose in tBe head are yOU?” ... . “Not if the court knows herself. The people of Blankville rode me on a rail, and gave me ten min utes, in.whieh, to leave the ..town. to the Home and Farm, is furnish ed us by a friend, who clipped it from that paper several years ago: “For many years the moon has been under constant observation, and but one rule has been found to %6.rk constantly, unerringly, and winthout failure, winter or summer, and it is only an approx imation.... X Vvili give the rule in a faw words, so that it. may be easi ly remembered and readily quoted, and then I will give a few applica tions of it. . , “The weather always takes its shape in the seven days batwean the first quarter and the new moon, and whatever it is in that time, that it will be the next three quarters, or until the last, quartor of the next moon, when the weath er will hold its own or change. I will now apply the rule. Get your almanac for 18S6 and turn to Feb ruary^ last quarter, February 25th, new moon March 5th, last quarter March 27th. Now, whatever tha general state of the . weather ie ?E<sDi .February 25th until March 5th, that it will be until March 27th. Should it ba dry and windy or wet and cold, we may look for that all the way. And then from March 25th until April 4th will be a sign until April 26th. Thus it has gonii and, will go until the- world shAll end. . “I have several times in fife given valuable advice • to .my -friends, based upon this grand principle, and it has brought them great advantage. In June,. 1881, there was as fioe a prospect lor. .born in this country as I ever saw. It had been very dry uinlil the last quarter entered. It went through clear and dry and the new moon passed without rain. I told sever al. friend^ who .were hoping - for rain of my reasons that there would be-none. They took me at my Word-, bought corn at 50 cents a bushel, and cut down their corn while it was green and nice, and stacked it with care. There was CHEAPEST OF TJIEM ALL. Apply to BATTS & FELBSK, June 14—tf. PEBKY, GA. ©s-i-W. ©. 193 Cotton Avenue, MApON, - - - GEORGIA, Treats Diseases f le Eye, 1§, Throat and Nosei • I got out iu.five. That shows a level head, doesn’t it? I want 5,0 no corn made that year, and corn cents worth more of distance as | went to ifl per bushel,, and the £ast,a,s I can get it.”—Detroit Free, bulk of the crops that might-have Press. “It is not generally known,” says the London Life, “that New York has now a larger Jewish pop ulation than/London, or Paris, or Berlin, or Rome, or Constantino ple, or Jerusalem. Yet such has become the case during the recent years of persecution, to the He brews in Russia and Germany— for mos’t of them are Poles and Germans—which happily has been lately discountenanced by the heads of both these empires. About the same time that the Kaiser of Germany made known his opposition to anti-Jewish ; agi tation in Germany, persecution of the children of the Iraelites was also forbidden in the Czar’s do minions. Testimony in a recent suit Brought by Harris of Philadelphia, to obtainVvages due him, revealed the fact that lie had been employ ed to make trousers at 90 cents a dozen, or 7J cents a pair. O listen! if within your hflirigi Some gentle one is fading,; - Take warning, ’ere a snmmcns cortie, A Tour happiness invading. For all the suffering she endures , 'Is heedless, did you know it: The “Favorite-Prescription” cures— " ... Unceasing praises showit.,/ Truly “a household blessing”ids course I can’t, not having the mon- i the » marvelous specific —Dr: e y- -Jii .ii ■ i I Pierce’S favorite Prescription- How much do tfiej. ask fbr it?” [f 0 r the illAdf .woman/* Who that Holmes paid one hundred dol- j sees a dear fsfee growing each day lars for his. is, on some; ac^j'toore etherealBut r Will , rejoice to counta^.prpfefAble; anil they hold‘learn that, the- wife ror daughter it at otiqhundred and twenty-five j pay yet be saved,, and tliq family dollars.” -■»:,! j circle preserved unbroken? . Don't Perhaps you could /raiSft the despair, bat try it; even if the iioc- motiey, John,” said his wife, quiht- ; tors say “there is no cure.’’ .It is iy- i.. - . i i . )} j:.i | the only toedieine sold by drng- By borrowingt I sHonldn't ^ gists^: for woman’s- peculiar weak- want to do that., . , ; , . ■ jfiesses and ailments, under a.-pcsi- ’ “Lou remember our fund?” ; itive guarantee.from the mauurac- “Pshaw ! That.pay, ijoesibly kmoUnt turera' that-it will give satisfaction to some thirty or. forty dollars.” / ; in every ease, or money will be re-' , o. Suppo8e-^e :i ppun£ it, as the : funded. Bead guarantee on bottle year is up to-day.” been valuable forage dried up in tbs field .and was lost. • “If hay is ready to tout and the last quarter is wet, let it albhe; if dry, cut it.- If you do not, in either case you will loose heavily. If wheat or oats are ready to har- veit and the last quarter!is wet, it will pay to hire several sets of hands to save it. If meat is ready ijp kill and the last quarter is warm, do not bei deceived by a little cold snap on the n‘4w toooa and kill the hogs, as you stand-the best chance to it spoil, or, at least taint. If you are cutting wheat in the last quarter and it is dry, you had bet ter put in plows right behind j the binder or .you . may neyer get that stubble turned. In fact; the whole year’s work can be forecasted a ponth, which is vast advantage. I will.say emphatically that there is ho other sigh that is reliable. “I had an. old Tennessee neigh bor once who urged the “old tv^plve days” as signs of the,weath er for twelve months-, t have watched - that for, >a number Iff yegra and have never known it to correspond or to “hit,” as they say. I think it has about as much con nection" as a comet of 50d • years’ revolution- has. Another popular superstition is, that .if the new moon.lies on the back it will turn oyer .and spill the water out; but if it stands op the point it is already rained oat and will be dry. Many of the ivettest times. and greatest floods have followed such Poods, while dronths; ;have as often! followed tha modii - on; -its back. The point or back is-governed by the-augle of the moon, earth, and sun, by which- a certian portion of the.illuminated surface is reflect ed to the earth.” Specially! A- C- KILEY, Attorney at Law, ; FORT VALLEY, GA. ’^(Office,’ oyer Dow Law, Bariik.) Practice in Hie counties of tfie Macos; CirdHt; in Macon and Taylor counties, and in the Federal Courts. A PHYSICIAN'S WARNING! One of the Standard Brands, which” will sell at the lowest prices, tion with all other goods. ■ i FLODh. OF from thS. best to a common cheap as the cheapest- -- : : PLOW. CASTINGS,of every naine and - : number, SEWING i: MA CHINE FIXTURES and NEE DLES of Ail-Kinds., . '■ . : !! DON’T fail to give .me-a call,, and, I will certainly try to please yon. Respectfully, "c. II. MOORE, JPesy, Ga. Of all tiie terrible, soul offlightening curses that afflict all classes of humanity, nothing in all ages has ever approached comparison to the ravages of that slow, insa BLOOD. POISON tiate destroyer of flesh-and life. Alas! Kow often just such an affliction loves to affect a noble life with its poisonous taint. It strikes with destructive aim the most , • notable, sparing neither SCROFULA kins nor statesmen. , Even unto the third generation are the sins of the father made manifest. .What a'ferarful"heritage to Wqbeaih an innocent child! Ah! t^e horrible ravages of this affliction! To its activity is due sore throat SORES sore liver.yare kidneys,sore lungs,! sore-skin,^-gfeat'’ulcers,'internal, ex ternal and eternal unless proper treatment is applied- The best remedy is a prescription used extensively in private practice by an old Atlanta physician. It is now prepared a thousand gallons at a time, and is sold in large bottles at ’Only ^one dollar-per bottle. Ut'is called Ba B. & or Bo-5 tanic Blood Baini. Under its peculiar influence the ‘ blood poison first Becomes passive, then divided, and lastly is exuded through the liver, through the kidneys, and through the poies of the skin. It is dearly the duty of every one who suspects the least trace of syphilitic or scrofulous poison in their blood,whether recently from contagion or from inheritance, to get it Out offtheir system thoroughly P AIN t ** e 1136 t '*‘ s SJeat remedy so PIMPLES that pimples, sores, aches, pains, weak kidneys ana- other symptoms will not be transmit ted to innocent posterity. Demand it of youf.flrnggist and take no substi tute. -Testimonials from those who have used it may be found in the illustrated “ Book of Wonders’) sent free to any address by the Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. (3) GEORGIA—Hocsroj: Coustx: K. Taylor and Mrs. G. A. 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