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Volume VI.
"INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS.”
CONYERS, GEORGIA, MAY IS, 1883.
NOHA.
It was almost dusk on a January after;
noon; the last rays of the sun lit up the
rural city of L-with chilling splendor.
The old Mile Pond, as it was called, was
nearly deserted, although through the long
afternoon its bordering hills had rung with
merry voices. It was more like a rivulet
thau a pond, this skater’s resort; for«t
wound gracefully in and out for a mile ot
more, forming huge ponds in some plac s,
and only tiny streams in others; then, too,
its border of hills on either side ptoteeted it
from the biting wind; and made it altogether
desirable."
It was a lovely bit of winter . landscape
but perhaps the loveliest part of the
was the human presence that irraditated
Two girls, not beyond sweet sixteen, rested
ion their skates just within the pond’s great
est curve. One, the older, leaned against
a huge rock, her white hood loosened about
a face brilliantly colored with cold and
exercise. The other a slight, lithe little
thing, stood in front of her, the wind blowing
back her dainty blue fl mnel skirts fantasti¬
cally about bet- feet, and the skyblue hood
that circled her throat, disclosing to full
view her bright, childish face. Not pretty
perhaps, but fairand sweet, with eyes like
blue bells, and soft, curling brown hair.
This picture, and it was far indeed from
an unplea c ant one, met the view of a tall,
well formed young skater as he came rap¬
idly around the curve in the then pond. darted He |
stood transfixed for an instant,
away, to return, ere long, with two compute
ons, who skated carelessly about iu the
in the vicinity of the maidens, while the first
comer remained in the background.
“Let us go home,” maideti Number One
said, presently.
“lam ready," wis the response. "But,
Genie, I thought you had lost your key I”
‘‘So I did! Oh, brotber! why do you wear
strap skates? I wonder if those boys wear
clubs?”
‘ Ask one. I would, if I needed a key,’,
suggested the ycunger, w ckedly.
“I believe I will,” Genie answered, all in
earnest as she skated away.
"Do you wear clubs?" she asked abruptly
if the shortest ol the group, whom his com¬
panions called “Ed.”
“Yes; can 1 be of any service?"
‘U have lost my key.”
“But surely,” said Ed,insinuatingly, "ycu
wiil not remove your skates yet?"
“It's almost dark,” Genie replied.
“Won’t you try with me?”
Au inducement, truly, for his skating was
really superb.
“Whv, I don’t know; try, Nora "
you
Nora’s blue eyes were dancing with fun
she encountered Ed’s gaze.
"Will you?” holding out his band.
“Some girls will, but this girl won’tis
my motto but I’ll waive it for once,” laughed
Genie looked longingly after them, and
then skated away by herself.
But tire tall youth who saw them first look
ed more than longingly ere he turned to his i
frieud.
“I didn’t think she’d do it,” Ira,” he said,
“she seemed so sweet ar.d ladylike; I did
not think she’d skate with a fellow she nev
er saw before in her life.”
“Pshaw!” answered Ira. “Your notions
are too strict, Horace. My sisters would
skate or dance with anybody.”
“Mine would not.” Horace remarked half
angrily', digging his skates into the ice as he
turned away.
He went down to the farthest end of the
pond, encounteting Eu and Nora, who seem
ed to be enjoying the fun immensely, for
they laughed gayly.
“I hate a flirt,” muttered Horace, without
turning to even glance at the little lady who
had first attracted him jso warmly, then of
tended his sen.-e ot propriety so sorely.
Still, he could not remain long at the end
of the pond, and wheeled back, seeing first
a hopelessly confused group, for the light
was beginning to fade now; theu it separated
one slender girl skated :n his direction,
away from Ed, who had taken Genie’s hand!
it swayed and-—crash!
A huddled little heap of dark blue flannel
and pale blue hood, lay on the ice directly
in front of him fora moment; then he raised
her in his arm.. So long as he lived Ilor
ace never forgot those blue eyes raised to
his face, torqumse blue in color filled with
tears, and laughing through t al.
"Are you hurt, he asked coldly, and Nlo
ra felt little shivers pass over her as the
handsome brown eyes looked anxiously at
'^"Not at all," she said at length, in a fab
But he did not really leave her again ;
kh , imea he took her hand and skated
them; otfier times he skated behind
“Just like a guardian -angel Mls Mi „ ® ^ora No „
avowed to Ira, iu a w lopeiquieau i e 0
Horace .
Sometimes he talked with them but often
er remained silent, hsteu.ng to the chafer
°f wh0 had re C0Vered the 8p,n 18 ' 08 ‘
by her fall, and was fl flirting desperately J i with
“ The sun is really ova, remar ea ora,
suddenly, ha fdismaye .
" And leaves the world to darkness and to
me.” Horace, dreamly.
I he maiden laughed outright; laughed
anti! the tears ran down her pretty cheeks,
i "So poetical I” she cried at last ’You
looked it, anyway. I said to Genie, when
ycu first, that you qnoted poetry. It
we saw
is in your face 1”
, Horace bowed slightly^ not
but it wasthe last poetry he ever quoted in
uncongenial company.
“I wish Genie’d come,” the young lady
proceeded, "though to be sure, she is not as
fond of poetry as I am. Look—there are
two figures."
"Yes, there "Ed ! Ed 1 ’ he
so are.
shouted.
Genie and Ed came swift'y up, and the
boys assisted the merry maidpns to take off
their skates, Ed’s key being brougut into
requisition for Genie's,
‘Tome, are you ready. Nora ?’’ asked the
elder, rising lo her feet, and holding out
her mittened h ind for her skate®.
‘‘Good-right 1 ’ Nora called merrily
“But sureiy,” interrupted - Ed, "these
yonnK ladies muat not K0 hom e alone.”
And reacbing Genie ' a aide , he otfere d his
j arm w ;,h a n v h e assumption of dignity
! w hi c h youl h s of eighteen oiten affect,
Horace and Ira walked on either side oi
Nora, the former a little in the background.
He scarcely spoke, though he raieed his ha
politely as Ed and Genie turned the corner
to that young lady’s residence.
Nora’s home was but little further; a tiny
white cottage, dimly seen in the uncertain
light. At the gate, Ira said good-niglu,
lifted his hat, and walked on a. little.
Horace stood still J" he saw the flannel
skirts flutter about the pretty little feet, the
blue hood b'own b ick as it was when first
he saw 1 er, and he caught the gleam of fun
in the turquoise eyes
“Good night. I Lope we may meet again,”
ha said lingeringly, and lilted his hat.
That was the last he saw of N ra
»***
“Who is she 1 lieally, you ass too much 1
Do you know, Maud ?" Aud Carrie Latimer
dropped her eye giass, and turned to the
elegant 3 oung lady b. side ber, who opened
her eyes to their widest extent as she gazed
after the retreating form.
“Only an old maid school-teacher;” she
replied conttmptuoiwly, “Why ? '
"My brother asked," Miss Latimer an¬
swered.
“She must be a very young “1 Id maid,"
said Mr. Latimer. “Are you acquainted
with her.”
“I? Oh, no! She teaches in a public
school in L—, where I live, you remember,
f have seen her frequently, and have heard
her spoken of as an excellent teacher.
However, I know nothing about her,” re¬
plied Maud Cuyler, shrugging her shoulders
expressively.
“Then you know her name?” continued
ihe gentleman, flinging a lovely red rose tar
from him.
“Miss Stanton,” Maud suid coldly, viewing
thcrose with anxious eyes.
“Horace, h >w importunate you are I ex¬
claimed Carrie, testily. “And you threw
away that rose you just begged from
Maudie !’’
“I beg a thousand pard. ns!”
“But I cannot see what interest you have
that little thing,” proceeded Ids sister "Oh,
Horace, did I tell you that M. udie’s friend
Mrs. Maynard, whose husband is president
of a Brooklyn bank, is coming soon?”
“Yes, it is quite true, ’ her friend an¬
swered. “We are very intimate friends.
She is most charming lady, and has two
beautiful boys, twins four years old. You
will be fond of them, 1 know, Mr. Lati¬
mer.”
“I am fond of all children. Carrie, will
not Miss Maud and you go down to the fails?
The shade there is delightful "
sj
Maud, with a smiling acquiesce, ce, arose
and languidly mounted the stairs lor her
hat aud sunshade; but Carrie lingered.
"Isn’t she the sweetest girl you ever
knew? Horace, I think I’ll stay here, so
you can be alone with Maudie."
“You will come with us, if you please,
Carrie,”
“Oh, pshaw ! Wny don’t yqu propose ?”
“Is your hat up stairs?”
"No, only in the hall. Won’t it be
charming to know Mrs. Maynard ? Maud
knows her well.”
“Yea; and now get your hat,” said Hor.
ace, coolly, turning away to where Mr. Gra¬
ham, the geuii ho3t, stood, talkiug to the
little “old maid.”
She was a fair-faced, brown haired woman
of twenty four, but not looking a day over
|lineteen in ber BO ft, gray lawn dress, with
ornament save a tiny gold piu-a skull,
and ou it perched aB ow! , with ghuering
diamond eyes.
“Miss S'anton, this,s Mr L itimer, said
, be ho8t turnlns . There, I musfleave you
Excaae me ;>
Horrace rourmered something, th( n
t*£Sth fT^ot
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Do you like mountains, Miss Stanton .
he a-ked, pleasantly.
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| ..jj ive -, ou seen the falls yet?” he asked.
„ N • i carae only last nigh., you tee
wfdyou p ardon th me uVmy JBU h alter ave J( ,ur
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Miss Stanton in with with os us. ” be he an an
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“unced
; he drew Miss S anton s hand through the
j other.
Maud and Came were nvl much , nV p.ea -„. .*>. d
but as t e ter w s P d
natured, an -e.-tnor ‘
refin. d and Wy-hke to
and interested
them without any apparent effort, and
before dinner had almost won Carrie Lati¬
mer's heart.
Horace Latimer was a professor of
languages in a Brooklyn academy; his
.-alary was large; he was handsome and
“taking,” yet, to Carrie’s unutterable dis¬
may, he had reached the age of twenty
eight, unmarried
Maud Cuyler she^had met the previous
winter, and the two became very intimate,
especially as Maud had determined to win
Carrie’s eligible brother. With this end in
view, Maud and an old aunt of hers, who
acted as chaperon, ’went, to the beautiful
resort in the Catskill Mountains where the
Latimers always spent a part or the whol
of their summers.
And there, too, came Eleanor Stanton,
"only an old maid school teacher,” yet
younger than Maud herself, and, as that
young lady learned in one short hour, likely
to prove a formidable rival.
It is amazing how living in the'same
house. will ripen an acquaintance into
friendship. In three weeks Horace felt at
if he had known Miss Stanton twice thas
number of years. Again and again the flash
of laughter in her eyes of torqnoise bine
brought him back somewhere, but where he
could not tell.
“Are you alone, Miss Stanton ?’’ inquired
Maud Cuyler, satirically, one morning, as
they all sat together under the shady' trees
“Why, yes,” Eleanor answered, the rose
tint deepening on her girlish cheeks. “You
see papa has known Mr, Graham for mauy
years, so I am iu his charge. 1 expect d a
friend to meet me, however, the week after
I arrived but I was disappointed."
“That reminds me," Baid Maud, with
languid eagerness. '‘Carrie did f tell you
mama sent me word that Mrs. May nard’s
little boy was ill, and it was that which de¬
tained her ?
“No. Too bad, was it not?" Which one
is ill?"
“Eddie. He only had th< croup ,but she
s so very careful of him. She is fonder of
him than of Ira everybody knows."
“Eddie and Ira," exclaimed Horace.
"Those are the names of the dearest friends
I ever had 1 ”
"Oh 1"
Eleanor gave a sharp cry, and he turned
anxiously toward her.
"Nothing,” she ausw- red his query, smil¬
ing, although her cheeks were quite white.
“It was a thorn ; these roses are quite
treacherous. You were speaking of your
friends, Mr. L.timer."
She carelessly brushed the pink bud from
her lap as she spoke; and Horace, answer¬
ing. stooped to pick up the discarded flower.
"Yes. Ed,..dear old Ed, is in California;
ill fortune followed him persistently; and
Ira—well, Miss Cuyler, ym know him, and
you, Miss Stanton, may see him this su rn
mer. Do you think so, Carrie ?” he asked
bis sister, laughingly.
"Don’t tease, Horace I” she answered, her
face growing rosy with confusion.
“Miss Maud,' and Horace fumed to her
"I beard that the coachman was ordered to
meet Mrs. Maynard at the station at live
o’clock "
“How d lighlful 1" cried Maud, enthusi¬
astically.
As the carriage came slowly up the hil
that evening, Horace arid Carrie stood
leaning over t' e balcony railing; Maud,
half way down the broad steps, leaned
graeeful’y against an enormous urn, while
Eleanor, looking very fair and sweet in her
white dress, sat in a low locker, apart from
the rest, reading.
The carriage stepped. Two chubby befys,
in kilts a id with long light hair, were hand¬
ed out, and then a ladv; she was a stately
lady, handsomely dressed, and her eyes,
very large and blue, were proud almost to
haughtiness.
Mr. Graham advanced to meet them.
Maud, dire illy in the way, stretched out
both hands with a smile of welcome. But
Mrs Maynard saw neither of them.
"Eleanor, my dearest,” she cried, all her
dignity leaving her as she clasped her iu her
arms.
Eddie and Ira hung on both sides of Miss
Stanton, calling her "auntie," and begging
for r\ I gg
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. dearest fnend, and 1 have
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Mr Grabam'of e'onrseT'buI will / you intro
^ me (o him an(J thft otherB
W-anor laughingly complied, and when
^ came to Miss Cuyler recognition
Mrs. Maynard’s looks belied her, for she
zxzzt**- “■***
‘ How sly Miss Stanton was I” Maud said
, , 0 Horace and Carry. "I mention- I
e d Mrs. Maynard often, just to see if she
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marry her brother, Harry Allen.
The shot, intended as it was for Horace,
,ook in8tar,eous effect > a»d gloomy and
(ie P resaed ' b « retired ‘o ' 1 secluded part of
' the garden, win re for the rest of the evening
1 he amok, d, not in peace.
Tho fact that Eleanor Stanton, whom he
>-f only known three weeks, was the one
woman he would ever make his wife, at first
startled him. Then it grew wonderouely
sweet to him. But b.tter as
! * g all wag the thought that she w*s Hurry
^ betrothed ,
' breakfast in his next:
He took own room
^ ^ , elllBg Carrje that he .
no t a!ay ; n that wretched place anoth-!
er day, be sauntered off still very far from
, H[I , !abl ,. .
! But nothing interested him , the tall, gray
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mountains seemed to echo Eleanor’s name;
the dancing rills and tiny lakes to
her sweet image in its frame of soft brown
hair.
"Eleanor 1" he groaned, raising his face to
the sky, whose blue brightness seemed to
mock him with the memory of her eyes.
He retraced his steps. Not far from the
house was a lovely summer house, two sides
of which were formed of solid roek, and the
whole overhung with vines. In the doorway
of this he espied a girlish form in a bine
flannel mountain dress, with a scarf of
airy, sky blue material thrown loosely
about her neck and shoulders. It was Miss
Stanton; but the picture carried him farther
back thau the three weeks he, had known
heA
"You have been out early, Mr. Latimer,"
she said, with a laughing gleam in her
eyes.
“Yes, rather,” he acknowledged, with the
best intentions of moving on, but at the
same time remaining stationary.
"Miss Latimer and Miss Cuyler were
playiug tennis,” continued Eleanor. "Do
you like it ? ’
"Yes, very much, but winter sports are
best,” he returned. “Do you skate, Miss
Stanton ?"
Eleanor blushed.
“I am exceedingly fond of it,. In truth, I
never tire of it.”
“Indeed, I can appreciate your feelings,’’
Horace sa-d warmly, his dark eyes full of
“Look—there they are," his companion
irreleva’ently; and, not many rods off,
saw Carrie and Maud, Mrs. Maynard, and
twins approaching.
"Let’s hide," Eleanor said niischivously,
into the summer house, where
Horace followed her; and they watched the
comers through the chinks in the lat,
work.
“I hope they’ll go past,” she went on
"We can spring out and startle
Just then a clear, sweet v iice rang out
the still, cool air; a voice whose ring
treble notes were far too sweet to be ever
"Nora I Nora!” it rang out. "Where
you, Eleanor ? Nora I No-ral”
Horace clenched his fingers. He under¬
and the surprise overcame him for a
“Nora,” he gasped, and then looked
into the laughing turquoise eyes.
laughter died out, and in their half
depths be read that—well, that if
Allen existed, he was nothing to
lie took her hand, raising it tenderly to
lips.
“Nora!” he said, “I have never forgotten
My Nora."
And he told this delightful little falsehood
even blushing.
You all know the rest. Ira Laurence
to the mountains the following week,
had the bad grace to recognize Genie
Nora almost immediately.
There were two weddings in the fall—
and Carrie—Horace and Eleanor. 1
Maud, as bridesmaid, quite ciptivatcd Ed,
returned Californian But llarty Allen
not present, for Mrs. Maynard never
a brother.
Bees and Wasps.
Probably tho most careful and interest¬
investigation oi the habits of insects are
by Sir John Lublock, wbo has just
to the Linnean Society ar, account ol
observations during the past year. To
the hea’ing of bees he trained some ol
to find 1 oney p'aced on a music box
was kept going several hours a day
for a fortt ighton a lawn close to a window
The music box was then taken into the
house and si t close beside th6 window,
though out of sight. The bees could not find
it, though when it had been shown to them
they went to it readily enough. As regards
the industy of wasps, Sir John timed a bee
and a wasp, for each of which he provided
a store of honey, and be found that the wasp
began early in the morning and worked on
later in the day. He did not, however,
quote this as proving greater industry on
the part of the wasp, as it may be that
wasps are less sensitive to cold, Moreover
though the bee's proboscis is admirably
adapted to abstract honey from tubular I
flowers, when the honey is exposed, as in
this case, the wasp' appears able to swallow
it more rapidly. This particular wasp be j
gan work in the morning and went on with-;
out any intermission or rest till a quarter j
to eight in the evcu'ng, during which time j
she visited the store of honey one hundred
and sixteen times. j
How lo Succeed. !
Mo8tof -- '° Ur de8lre . . . . . ,
things. He who would be a good mechanic j
m ust obtain general information, cultivate
fcab itt of observation, know something of
other trades besid is his own, and no more
atlow hia mlnd t0 grow rusty than his too s.
lJe who would be a fi r8t late lawyer must |
not "l limit bia atudy ^ t0 technical law. The
a t ^ 8 ff 0 ignore mathematics,
nor t h e merchant to lose interest in reading
p’ ver y employment thrives best in the hands
of , how ffho unite a fair, general knowl^ge
ofotber (hi J „g, with a specially excellent j
knowMge thejr own . So wfaen aet ;
oore? l.ea strenuously to accomplish »nj !
^ we need not only perae verence j
t0 stick t o it, but ability to leave it at prrp
er seasons and to turn the mind into proper
channelgi or the work itself will be less
perfectly and less speedily performed.
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GENERAL NEWS.
Cattle are still being shipped from Panola
county to the Indian Teritory,
Three fifths of the 2,200 convicts in the
Texas penitentiary are negroes and Mexi¬
cans,
The Yocona Mills, from January 1 st fo
April 22J, turned out 95,000 pounds of
yarn,
It is said the railways in Tennessee wi'l
comply with the law regulating, and if the
Commissioners do likewise there will be no
trouble.
Theie are now 191 cotton factories in
operation or in course of erection in tho
southern states.
There are now 600 men at work on the
Jacksonville, Tampa and bey West Rail
roa l and 200 on the International.
Green Woodle, one of the largest frui
growers iu Warren, Tenn , thinks he will
make 20,000 bushels of apples this year.
Strangers are pouring into Union City,
Tenn , and real estate in that place has
increased 20 per cent, iu value within two
months.
A prosperous moving village of about 400
inhabitants follows the end of the track of
the Northern Pacific railroai as it crawls
westward across M ontana.
There are now in operation within a
radius of five miles of Clanton, Ala,, eight
lumber mills, all of which are said to be
doing an excellent business.
The R igersvifle and Manchester Railroad
has bflen incorpora'ed. The road is to run
from Rogersvilie, Tenncsse, through Cum¬
berland Gap to Manchester, Ky.
Memphis Avalanche: The steady rise
in real estate values in a sure surface indic
mtioii of the substantial basis for theealeu*
lations of a boom on these bluffs.
In Columbia, Tenn , a comp my has been
formed for the manufacture of hosiery and
net goods, which will employ about thirty
young girls. The machinery has been pur¬
chased and the factory will soon be in
opeation.
On Wednesday the Mayor of Jacksonville
reprimanded the minister of the A. M ,E,
Church for holding night, services in viola¬
tion of the rules of the Board ol Health, and
notified him that in case-ofa repetition heV
would be fined $50.
As soon as a guaranty can be given that
the people will furnish them a sufficient
amount of fruit and vegetables, a Chicago
grocery firm will put, up a canning estab¬
lishment iu Milan, Tenn., capable ol em¬
ploying from 100 to 500 people.
Twenty more divorces were granted by
the supreme court at Springfield, Mas,, ou
Thursday, making 31) in two days. 0 them
all only one was contested, and that was n
colored couples where the husbiu at
tempted to swear away the character of his
wife.
A sporting gentleman, speaking of poker
says it is a "popular notion that members of
the house and senate in Washington play a
great di al. They do, but the stakes are not
high. They haven’t the money, at least not
until they have served more thau one
term, most of them ”
The Farnham type-setting machine has
been on public exhibition in the Coo iwin
block on Haynes street, Hartford, Conn.,
and attracted immense crowds. It both
sets and distributes type, and it claimed, can
lo the work of five compositors. A syndi¬
cate of Connecticut capitalists have pur¬
chased the patent, and will soon take
measures to bring the machine into p-icti
cal use.
Some of the best English jockeys are w
men; daughter of farmers, or of country
squires, who have lost their fortunes They
have be n accustomed to ride the bounds
Irora their childhood, are perfectly fearless
and their right weight in the saddle makes
them desirable as jockeys. Charles King¬
sley's poem of "L trains Loree” has one of
these women jockeys for his heroine.
It is announced iu Turkish journals that
the porte l ai granted to a Syrian syndicate
a concession authorizing the carrying of
line of railway from the port of Acre to the
Joroan, just below the sea of Galilee, and
thence to Damascus, and that the necessary
WO rks are to be undertaken at o.ice. The
J ew i h World of Londun remarks that the
line runs through the finest agricultural
district that could he selected, and when
opened up Uy the line of inlt-rcommunica
(jou with Damascus will offer unrivaDd
advantages to settlers as well as advantage
ous sites for industrial undertakings and
manufacturers.
Air Bubbles.
I have described, when writing of the
anatomy of the guillemot, the wonderful
bubbles of air that invariably follow that
bird when under water, and I havefxptain
"d how the air is stored underneath the
leathers, and given out when he bird is
diving In the otter a somewhat sim.lar
phenomenon can be observed. Ashe
swims along under water be m followed by
a fr ain of the most ovey air a es, w xc^
appear exactly like ta s o quit- si ver.
The origin of this air I cannot quite make
cut A targe proportion of H comes d.rect
ly from the lungs 1 his is important; the
otter evidently has some difficulty in sinking
in the water-he therefore lets out toe a.r
to enable him to go down, hut at the same
time a g >od deal of air comes from under*
neatb the fur. When the seal dives, noai,
to come from underneath hts coat.
