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THE WEEKLY.
VOLUME VI.
IffflNOS TSAT ABE 1 NOT”
(dreamed a dream of Love,
1 she was holy, pure, and true,
That give delight on earth,
i friend to
i voice to bid man look above,
Her con stancy her only worth,
jias! like this she cornea to very few.
I beard her $acred name
A ,Hdv pleasure-seeking dame,
Whose vanity is her disgrace,
Whose summer friendship fades before
the cold.
Is love timn but a dream,
‘ fancy know?
Th H A sweetest man can
Or she broken earthly bars
ir.A fed. with her celestial gleam.
To shine aloft among the stars
And look with scorn upon the cloud,
below?
When Faith and Hope are dead,
When life has for its only aim
To seek the passing moment’s bliss,
To find sufficiency of bread,
Man soon his highest joys will miss,
And seeking Love will find her but u
name.
HE LOVERS’ QUARREL,
while I -. live,” said .. Miss Bash- ^ ,
.•‘Sever,
■igb, “never while I live, will I see your
|S 5 C meant it when she said it;land as
ft spoke, she threw her betrothal ring
ft, <3 her lover, w o la t> en e er.
I It ^sed him and rolled down upon
r lina ^ closet oor aml one over of ' : | hose ie 81 old-fashioned , ? ,
losets that used to stand on either side
f ^ ie mantel-piece.
She did not notice where it rolled; he
lid though; and after she had left the
ram, he turned to pick it up. The ring
be had worn would always be precious
turn.
| Hiss Rashleigh went straight to her
bum room, as miserable a girl as ever
lived, and a moment later Grandmother
Rashleigh hustled into the drawing-room,
pushed the open closet door to, picked
up the fallen magazine, set the annuals
■nd books of poetry straight on the
[table, eliairs pulled down the shades, arranged
Ike mathematically against the
[wall, | and bustled out again.
“I’ve had these things fifty years,” she
said fo herself, “and there’s Cornelia and
pr bean with no more respect for them
pan if they were so much lumber.”
I Then she closed the door behind her,
■nd went away to her own room up
ihirs, where a fine silk patchwork quilt
ftas ftmelia. in the frame, a surprise for said
I Grandmother Rashleigh gave every
■cuag person of the family something, of
Ber own manufacture on his or her wed
■ing I day.
‘Now,’- the old lady had said a dozen
pmes ber; to Tripheny King, who was help
Pg “I rather think Cornelia will
pwe the best thing I’ve done; and
i ere s a bit in it of every handsome
f !k ^re’s ever been in the family, and
f‘ ker Other’s and grandfather’s wed
pog les vests.’’
m, it’s a real memorial quilt,”
Nd Tripheny. “it takes you, miun, to
plan Tie such quilt things. ”
: afteinoon, was finished and bound that
and Tripheny’s job of qnilt
“ g beiD g over she went home. But she
® yarned ® was about the all village the news that
sure was over between Miss
fsWeigh 0rrieba and Mr. Spear. She’d heard
Psndma, spying something to her
and the old lady was furious.”
fie would never have done that if he
Corn^ 6 ^ ^° r me you inow grandma,”
* »
„ a , _ saying at that moment.
staff and nonesense ! He loves the
f ? onad °ti 1> you walk on!” said the old lady.
never get such another, Cor
aeliaj
never marry at all; I hate
“ I Cornelia answered.
4115 411611 ber grandmother made the
,
otYV°? 0 her bot mother's, to hold her, and she went
her usual course
fell out with grandma.
•three days passed. At the end of the
If- 1 Pratt stepped in at Mrs.
S T y0QDg Mrs - Rhsbleigh, as
- b
e,) er though she was nearly
ffi'tTr ,
° T ?Tandma va s old Mrs. Rash
leigh
“i exin- you’ll feel when Ite
v 0ll fh „ upset
bav e { Cornelia,” she said. “Yo
he; n-U J , T< C Y Y PGar 0rUeI ha this ’ n!t been time—he, heard he, of
aim* be was at your house. His mother
-ays hr over to explain and make
Independent in All Things
CONYERS, ROCKDALE CO., GA., MARCH 7, 1884.
up, and he never came back—he, he!
She thought maybe he’d stepped over to
his brother’s, but he hadn’t—he, he l I
reckon he’s drowned himself 1”
“I don’t know why the whole town
should talk over my affairs and every
meddling old maid giggle about them 1”
cried Cornelia.
Piety jumped to her feet, seized her
pan««Undtad toward the door.
“Good afternoon, Miss Cornelia and
Mrs. Rashleigh,” she said, with a con
temptuous courtesy. “I'll remember
my manners, if other folks forget theirs,
Only there’s other folks aa likely to be
old maids as me, and I fancy it’s Mrs.
Spear’s affair now if anything has hap*
pened to her boy 1”
Away flounced Miss Pratt.
“You’ve put Piety into a rage, Cor¬
nelia,” said Mrs. Rashleigh. “That’s a
pity; shehas a long tongue.”
But Cornelia was crying.
“Oh, mother, dear,” she sobbed, “it
isn’t true, is it? Orville did feel dread
fully. Won’t you see, mother ?”
But at this moment Sally, the little
servant girl from Gradma Eashleigh’s
came flying into the room, without any
more warning thau if she had been shot
from ^
old missus says you are to come
over at once, both you ladies !” she cried,
standing before Mrg Rashleigh, and re¬
ating her lesgon like aparrot. “There’s
Bome thing J of importance, and you’re
’ eded womt „
ne
“Get your bonnet, Cornelia,” said her
mothep< “m jast put on i his sun-hat.
Wilat ^ it> g a]ly . do you krow ?”
<<j know it’s something di ?adful. Mis
sug j s a j mos t wild, and there’s lots of
t " 0 jk 8 there. Something about Mr.
gp ear> »*
'
The two i adies S aid no more. They
hurried away together, and entering
grandma’s parlor, found there assembled
more of the members of the Spear family
and a friend or two besides.
Orville had indeed disappeared. He
had never been home since his visit to
Cornelia, and now the alarmed relatives
were anxious to get all the information
they could regarding the interview be¬
tween Orville and Cornelia.
“I had reason to be angry, Mrs
Spear,” said Cornelia, proudly; “good
reason, and I took off my ring and gave
it back and went out of the room. I
don’t know when he went or where. I
—I thought he wouldn’t mind so much.
I believed he had stopped caring about
me.”
“He ought to now, at all events,” said
grandma
“My boy is dead, I’m sure. I shall
have the pond dragged!” said Mrs.
Spear, amidst her tears, “He left all
his money at borne. He wouldn’t have
gone traveling without a change o
clothes. Oh, you wicked girl ?”
“I hope,” cried the eldest Miss Spear,
“that he’ll haunt vou 1"
“I could kill you, you hateful thing !’’
now; but when her two friends turned
upon her thus, she gave a little scream,
and fell over on the sofa. She was in a
dead swoon, and the water they sprin
kled in her face did not bring her to.
Grandma grew frightened.
“I hope it isn’t an attack of heart dis
ease ” she said. “Poor child ! she looks
as if’ she were dead ”
“Oh, don’t say that!” cried th
mother.
They gathered around Cornelia ar
did all they could for her, and soon si
recovered and sat up, but all her prit’
was gone, dear!” she sobbed,
“Oh, dear! oh,
“I wish I had died! I wish I had never
eome to! Oh, Orville ! Orville! what
has become of you ?”
“Oh ! oh !” moaned the mother.
“Oh ! oh!" moaned the sisters.
And Cornelia’s head fell back again.
“Emma, get the lavender out of the
china-closet," said grandma to her
daughter. “Quick! It’s on the corner
shelf!”
Mrs. Rashleigh rushed to the closet,
“locks as it shuts. Here u the key.
And Mrs. Rashleigh flew back to the
door, opened it aud uttered a shriek.
There on the floor, huddled up under
the shelf lay }>oor Orville Spear.
He was white and limp - the fl
stared at . him . .
Cornelia sat and in
most awful way. She thought him
dead, but the more experienced matron
saw that he was yet living,
Sally was sent post-haste for the doc¬
tor; and there, in Mrs. Rashleigh’s
drawing-room, he found Cornelia and Or¬
ville lying quite unconscious, like
Borneo and Juliet in the scene at the
tomb, and the rest of the party in a
state of bewilderment and terror past
description.
At last, however, both were conscious
and seated in arm-chairs, regarded each
other, while the observers kept silence,
and Mr. Orville Spear uttered the first
words.
“Of all confounded fools--”
“Who, dear?” asked his mother.
“Me,” said Orville, regardless of
grammar. “Who shut me in ?”
“What were yon in the closet for?”
asked grandma, with a guilty con¬
science.
“To pick something up that rolled
there,” said Orville.
“The ring?” asked Cornelia, fran¬
tically.
“Yes, the ring,” said Mr. Spear.
“More fool I! Some one banged the
door to. I shouted and howled and
kicked, and no one heard me.”
“Oh, oh, oh, oh I” shrieked Cornelia.
“I believe you hid there to kill me, for
no other purpose than out of revenge.”
“You banged the door on me,” said
Mr. Spear. “A jealous woman would
do anything,”
“I banged the door, Orville!” said
old Mrs. Rashleigh. "I! You’d left
everything flying. I just pushed it as I
passed, and you ought to bless your
stars that yon are alive, for people don’t
go into the drawing-room, sometimes for
a fortnight in this small family. We
use the parlor much more, and I am
deaf, and so is old Hepsiba, and yon
might have died there. Yes, and you’d
have killed him, Cornelia,” added the
old lady, “throwing his pretty diamond
ring on the floor I” .
“Oh!” moaned Cornelia. “Oh!”
“It wasn’t her fault. I was a con
founded fool all through !” cried Orville.
“I knew that closet had a spring-lock.
No; don’t blame Cornelia."
“I shall always blame myself f”
sighed Cornelia. “Oh, how pale yon
axe!”
"And how pale you are, Cornelia!’
sighed Orville. “Bid you really care
when you thought I was dead ?”
“Ladies,” said Grandma Rashleigh,
“now that Orville is getting on, let us
go mto the otner room and leave these
two young folks to talk things over to¬
gether.”
She led the way; the others followed.
When the tea-bell rang Boon after,
Orville and Cornelia came out of the
drawing-room arm-in-arm, and the wed¬
ding-day was fixed.
A Battle field.
lading »• —»' was visited *1 r by a ue correspondent 01 “
of the Gall > °L Peo ” a ’ 1 ’
that fanners still gather , lead and iron in
the field, and that one merchant shipped
over three thousand pounds of old bnl
lets ^ ^ ^fhe other day a child
iormd a shell that exploded after it had
been bnned twenty-one years. Of the
3,500 soldiers whose remains lie in the
cemetery, 2,361 were unrecognized. Two
large iron cannons serve as columns at
the gate of the cemetery. The grave
nearest them is that of the “Drummer
Boy of Shiloh.” Albert Sidney John
son died under a large tree that stood
near by; but of the tree there is only
the stomp remaining, and the spot is
marked by a young evergreen.
Very Charitable. —A lady in one of
the flourishing towns of Vermont had
been in New York, and ou her return
was describing to her husband the chief
features of the metropolitan life which
rad impressed thems6iv«i np^he*
“which more good than
ottr j ar£e cities. On nearly all
‘ frequent intervals, I
etjg ^ Terj . reading, ‘Free
• g ver the doors
- I could not help
1 ,— . Free Lunch.’
th inklne as I walked along, what a
blessed work the relief societies in Ned
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