The Conyers weekly. (Conyers, Ga.) 18??-1888, March 28, 1884, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextH r 3 (T“j 71 HH Kj VOLUME VII. THE KING'S SHIPS. v.th many ships upon the sea! A bo that treasure, the merchantmen carry Uen-of' war ( all bannered gallantly, little fisbef boats and barks of pleasure, • this sea of time there IS not one tsailed without the glorious Name thereon. winds go up , ami down upon the sea, U some they lightly clasp, entreating I jiindly. the port where they j waft them to [j [cloud other ships they buffet, tne long great and blindly- sinking comes down on I deep, the watchers stand and i on the shore weep. tied lwth many wrecks within the sea; t it j, : I look in fear and wonder [wisdom throned above is dark to me, Ljtj |t aveet to think I-Iis cat e is be under, drawn vet the sunken treasure may his storehouse when the sea is gone. that Sail in peril on the sea. ith my beloved, whom yet the waves may 1 Lflod cover, hath more than angels’ care of me, Li ^gcr share than I in friend and lover, f weep yp so, ye watchers hollow of on His the hand. laud? | deep is but the Carl Spencer. Story of Duty. ■ 1 prom Every Other Saturday.] ;i 0 mi ddle of a dark night Joel, a ■cf L nine years old, heard his name |p. by a voice which, through his Id seemed miles away. Joel had tired enough when he went to bed, |yet |e he had not gone to at sleep the idea for lis time; his heart beat so mother being verv ill. He well lembered his father’s death, and his jther'a Is illness now revived some feel which he had almost forgotten, bed was merely some clothes eadon the floor, and covered with a ; but he did not mind that; and he lid have gone to sleep at once but for i fear that had come over him. When did sleep, his sleep was sound; so it hia mother’s feeble voice calling him imed like a call from miles away. In a minute Joel was up and wide ake, •Light the 'candle,” he could just r the voice say. le lighted the candle, and his beat ; heart seemed to stop when he saw mother’s face. He seemed hardly to pv whether it was his mother or no. ’ pall ■Call I call_?” Re nobody, my dear. Come here.” laid his cheek to hers. pofier, P you are dying,” he mur pee, N love, I am dying. It is no use “J one. These little ones, [•” Pwill lake care of them, mother.” Fcu, my child ! How'should that L PJ N-\ not?” said the boy, raising and standing at his best height, r at me, mother. I can work, I pise [is yon—” mother could not lift her hand, n e ffi oved a finger in a way which U- mm. pomise nothing that may be too ^Promise afterward,” she said. to try, then,” he said a: kitle sisters shall live at home, ntver go to the work-house. ” He 1 e g-ittered ^eerfiilly, in though the caudle the two streams of s on his cheeks. “We can go on “ere; and we shall be so—” : K- jonld desolation not do. The sense of their rushed over him in a 'moterrible to be borne. He hid ** beside her, murmuring U, ; mother! mother J” f mother found strength to move [imd i new. She stroked his head ^ *° Ambling touch, which he U; feel as long as he lived. She “ say much more. She told him Ur° * ear °* any of them. They aiien care °L She advised . ^ o awaken the little ones, who asleep on the other side of idav -*° be down himself kjjl A Y HY' and tr y t° sleep, when she d!e aS “ he last thing she said. The eu-pAA she* 8 "' ' ^ ^ 0ne bu doe * l before had it went A is * l ‘ always i]<j Iao : ler wished; but he - ! J He MY %hted Ler “ tho last tllin s , another candle !, WeEt ou *i and sat think daw a began to show wmdow. Ir>dependent in All Things. CONYERS, ROCKDALE MARCH 1884. When he called the neighbors, they were astonished at his quietness. He had taken up the children and dressed them, and made the room tidy, and lighted the fire, before he told what had happened. And when he opened the door, his little sister was in liis arms. She was two years old, and could walk, of course; but she liked being in Joel’s arms. Poor Willy was the most confounded. He stood with his pinafore at his mouth, staring at the bed, and wondering that his mother lay so still. If the neighbors were astonished at Joel that morning, they might be more so at some things they saw afterward; but they were not. Everything seemed done so naturally; and the boy evidently considered what he had to do so much a matter of course that less sensation was excited than about many smaller things. After tho funeral was over, Joel tied up all his mother’s clothes. He carried the bundle on one arm, and his sister on the other. He would not have liked to take money for what he had seen his mother wear; but he changed them away for new and strong clothes for the child. He did not seem to want any help. He went to the factory the next morning, as usual, after washing and dressing the children, and getting a breakfast of bread and milk with them. There was no fire; and he put every knife and other danger ons thin S 011 a high shelf, and gave * hem some trifl es to play with, and promised to come and play with them at dinner-time. And he did play. He played heartily with the little one, and as if he enjoyed it, every day at noon hour. Many a merry laugh the neigh l 501 ’ 3 heard from that room when the three children were together, and the laugh was often Joel’s. How he learned to manage, and espe cialI y to coob > “obody knew; and he could himself have told little more than tbat he wanted to see how people did it, and looked accordingly at every oppor tunit T- He certainly fed the children well l and himself, too. He knew that everything depended on his strength bein S ke Pt U P- His sister sat on his knee to be fed till she could feed her self * He was sorry to give it up; but he said she must learn to behave. So he smoothed her hair, and washed her face before dinner, and showed her how to fold ber hands while he said grace. He took as much pains to train her to good manners at table as if he had been a governess, teaching a little lady. While she remained a “baby” he slept in the middle of the bed, between the two that she might have room, and not be disturbed; and when she ceased to be a baby, he silently made new arrange ments. He denied himself a hat, which he much wanted, in order to buy a con siderable quantity of coarse dark calico, which, with his own hands he made into a curtain, and slung across a part of tbe room; thus shutting off about a third of U. Here he contrived to make up a lit tie bed for his sister; and he was not satisfied till she had a basin and a jug, and a piece of soap of her own. Here nobody but himself was to intrude upon her without leave; and, indeed, he al ways made her understand that he came only to take care of her. It was not only that Willy was not to see her un dressed. A neighbor or two now and then lifted the latch without knocking, One of these one day heard something from behind the curtain, which made her caliber husband silently to listen; and they always afterward treated Joel as if he were a man, and one whom they looked up to. He was teaching tbe child her little prayer. The earnest, sweet, devout tones by the boy, and the innocent, cheerful imitation of the little one, were beautiful to hear, the listeners said. Though so well taken care of, she was not to be pampered; there would have been no kindness in that. Aery early, indeed, she was taught, in a merry sort of way, to put things in their places, and to sweep the floor, and to wash up the crockery. She was a handy little thing, well trained and docile. One reward that Joel had for his management was, that she was early fit to go to chapel. This wa 3 a great point; as he, choosing to send Willy regularly, could not go till he could take the little girl with him. She was never known to be rest¬ less ; and Joel was quite proud of her. Willy was not neglected for the little girl’s sake. In those days children went earlier to the factory and worked longer than they do now, and by the time the sister was five years old Willy became a factory boy; and his pay put the little girl to school. When she, at seven, went to the factory too. Joel’s life was altogether an easier one. He always had maintained them all, from the day of his mother’s death. The times must have been good—work constant and wages steady—or he could not have done it. Now, when all three were earning, he put his sister to a sewing-school for two evenings in the week and the Sat¬ urday afternoons; and he and Willy attended an evening school, as they found they could afford it. He always escorted the little girl wherever she had to go; into the factory, and home again, to the school door and home again, and to the Sunday-school; yet he was him¬ self remarkably punctual at work and at worship. He was a humble, earnest, docile pupil himself at the Sunday school—quite unconscious that he was more advanced than other boys in the sublime science and practice of duty. He felt that everybody was very kind to him, but he was unaware that others felt it an honor to be kind to him. I linger on these years, when he was a fine growing lad, in a state of high content. I linger, unwilling to proceed. But the end must come; and it is soon told. He was sixteen, I think, when he was asked to become a teacher in the Sunday-school, while wholly not ceas¬ ing to be a scholar. He tried, and made a capital teacher, and he won the hearts of the children while trying to open their minds. By this he became more widely known than before. One day in the next year, a tremen¬ dous clatter and crash was heard in the factory where Joel worked. A dead si¬ lence succeeded, and then several called out that it was only an iron bar that had fallen down. This was true, but the iron bar had fallen on Joel’s head, and he was taken up dead 1 Such a funeral as his is rarely seen, There is a something that strikes on all hearts in the spectacle of a soldier’s funeral—the drum, the march of com¬ rades, and the belt and cap laid on the coffin. But there was something more solemn and more moving than all such observance in the funeral of this young soldier, who had so bravely filled his place in the conflict of life. There was the tread of comrades here, for the long est street was filled from end to end. For relics, there were his brother and sister; and for a solemn dirge, the un controllable groans of a heart-stricken multitude._________________ A Battle With an Alligator. Robert Carroll, a trapper and hunter, while trapping for otters on West Choc tawpatchie Elver, in Alabama, had a terrible fight with an alligator, so a local paper tells us. Seeing the water agitated in a hole near the river, and supposing that otters were fishing therein, he mounted a pole on a tussock just above the water’s edge. His steel traps were in a sack suspended from his neck. His only weapon was his hatchet. He sat on the pole, with a mass of vines at his back. He held his weapon ready to strike an otter, should one arise. Soon he saw a young alligator near him. He caught it up and it uttered a cry. In an instant there was a terrible splash of water, and a huge alligator with distended mouth and glittering teeth rushed for him. With little hope of escape he fell back upon the vines, and as he did so kicked the pole from under his feet. The terrible jaws closed on the pole an d crushed it. Carroll tried to inter pose the traps, but a vine bad caught them and partly held him down. gazing his hatchet he struck into the open m outh of his assailant. It closed on the weapon, and with great difficulty he saved the hatchet. Getting free from his traps, he dealt the alligator a fatal blow on the skull as it made the next charge. and such teeth He secured the skin as had not been destroyed in the fight. The length of the alligator was about nine and a half feet. The hole was its den. Alligators rarely attack human beings. “I Aiiiitrs feels sorry fur de young feller what is smart befo’ his time,” said Uncle Moee. “De flowers whut blooms de ter die. „ dc scones’ is sooncs NUMBER 3. Q t GO P t GO Fistula, Fisure and iRectal Ulcers, Dr. Taber, NO. 82 DECATUR STEET, ATLANTA, GA., MAKS A SPECIALTY OF THESE DISEASES, And lias cured cases of forty years’ standing. Cure guaranteed. If I fail to cure vou of Files I will return your money. " Address, enclosing stamp, Atlanta,Ga. F. F. 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