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VOLUME VII.
CHEWTON ABBOT.
BY HUGH CONWAY.
Chapter I.
The Abbots of Chewton Abbot,
Gloucestershire, were county people
and, moreover, had always occupied
that covtded position. The dreaded
not the researches of the officious an¬
tiquary who pokes about in pedigrees
find finds that, three or four genera¬
tions ago, the founders of certain
families acquired their wealth by
trade. They at least were indepen¬
dent of money earning. The fact
that Chewton began to be known as
Chewton Abbot as far back as the
fifteenth century showed they were
no upstarts. Indeed, if not of the
very first rank—that rank of which
knights of the shire are chosen—the
Abbots, from the antiquity of their
family, and from the centuries that
family had owned the same estates,
wore entitled to dispute the question
of precedence with all save a very
few great magnates. They were un¬
doubtedly people of importance. The
reigning Abbot, it need scarcely be
said, was always a county magis¬
trate, and at some period of his life,
certain to act as sheriff. But for
generations the family had occupied
exactly the same position and exer¬
cised the same amount of influence
in the land. The Abbots seemed
neither to rise nor to fall. If they
added nothing to their estates, they
aleniated nothing. If they gave no
great statesmen, warriors or genius¬
es to the world, they produced spar¬
ingly highly respectable members of
society, who lived upon the family
acres and spent their revenues in a
becoming manner.
The estates were unentailed ; but
as, so far, no Abbot bad incurred his
father’s displeasure, the line of de¬
scent from father to eldest son bad
been unbroken, and appeared likely
to continue so. True, it was whis¬
pered years ago that the custom was
nearly changed when Mr. William
Abbot, the present owner of the es¬
tate, was leading a life in London
very different from the respectable
traditions of the family. But the
reports were not authenticated ; and
as, soon after his father’s death, lie
married a member of an equally
old, equally respectable and equally
proud family, all such ill-natured
gossip died a natural death ; and at
the time this tale opens William Ab¬
bot was leading the same quiet life
bis ancestors bad led before him.
It was one of the cherished fami¬
ly traditions that the family w r as not
prolific. So long as the race was
kept from disappearing, they were
contented. In this respect the pres¬
ent head of the family showed him¬
self a true Abbot. He had hut one
son, a young man who had just ta¬
ken a fair degree at Oxford, and who
was now staying at Chewton Hall
before departing on a round of polite
travel, which, according to old-world
precedent, bis parents considered
necessary to crown the educational
edifice.
Mr. and Mrs. Abbot were in the
breakfast room at Chewton Hall. Mr
Abbot was aloTle at rbe table > lazi }?
discussing his breakfast. His wife
taken that meal nearly an hour be
f 0 re. The young man being F away
out-door ■ the hus
° n some pursuit,
hand and wife had the room to them
-G , ves Mr. - r Aobot had just . pouted 3
-
out his second cup of tea, and ac
cording -• to , , his . usual , custom, , com- „
menced breaking the seals of the let
<T % beside hi, plate. Hi,
wife drew near to him.
“I am afraid that infatuated boy
has . entangled himself
in some way
w ith the J young s woman I told you J
of, , „ she . said. .,
“ What young woman ? ” asked
j Mr. Abbot, laying down his letters.
“I ?<>“ w«k he was al
! ways riding into Bristol—so often
s " re ^ was some at-
1 traction there.”
“ You did, ’ I remember. But I
j took , Ilttle , notice of , it. . Boys will
j be boys, you know.”
“ YYs ;but it is time we interfered
j I found him this morning kissing a
CONYERS, ROCKDALE CO., GA., JUNE 27, 1884.
photograph and holding a* lock of
hair in his hand. I taxed him with
his folly.”
“ My dear Helena,” said Mr. Ab¬
bot, with a shade of contempt in his
voice, “ will you forgive my saying
that in matters of this kind it is best
to leave young men alone and not to
see more than can be helped ! Leave
the boy alone—that is my advice.”
“You don’t quite understand me,
he wants to marry her,” replied the
lady.
“ Wants to do what ?” cried her
husband, now fully aware of the im¬
portance of the question.
“ He told me this morning he had
asked her to be bis wife. She would,
he knew, consent, if we would wel¬
come her as a daughter.”
“ How kind, how [.considerate !”
said Mr. Abbot, scornfully. “ Who
may she be, and where did Frank
meet her?”
“ He saved her from some incivil¬
ity at the railway statioh, and so
made her acquaintance. Who she is
he scarcely seems to know, except
that her name is Millicent Keene,
and that she lives with an aunt in
Clifton. Frank gave me the address
and begged me to call—assuring me
that I should take her to my heart
the moment I saw her.”
“ He must be mad!” exclaimed Mr
Abbot, rising and pacing the room.
“ Mad ! utterly mad ! Does be think
we are going to let him—an Abbot—
marry the first nameless young lady
who strikes bis fancy ? I wilL talk
to him and soon bring him to his
senses. The estates are unentailed,
thank goodness ! so I have some hold
over him yet.”
Mrs. Abbot’s lip just curled with
scorn when she heard her husband’s
direct commonplace plan for restor¬
ing her son’s wandering senses. She
knew that such parental thunder¬
bolts were apt to do more barm than
good.
“I would not threaten just yet,”
she said. “Frank is very self-willed
and may give us trouble. For my
part I intend to drive into Clifton
this morning and see the girl.”
“What folly ! To give the affair
your apparent sanction?”
“No. To show her how absurd it
is to fancy we shall ever allow Frank
to take a wife out of his proper
sphere; and to hint that if he mar¬
ries against our will her husband will
be a beggar. The fact of her with¬
holding her consent to marry him
until we approve of her shows me
she is quite able to look after her
own interests.”
Mr. Abbot, who knew his wife’s
skill in social diplomacy, offered no
valid objections; so the horses were
ordered and Mrs. Abbot drove to
Clifton.
The mistress of Chewton Hall was
a woman of about 55; tall and state¬
ly, noticeably but not attractively
handsome. Rising in intellect fat
above the level of the family into
which she had married, she had star¬
ted by endeavoring to mould her
husband’s mind to the capacities of
her own. In the early days of their
married life she had urged him un¬
ceasingly to drive for a higher posi¬
tion in the world than that of a mere
country gentleman. She wished him
to enter the political arena; to con¬
test a borough; in fact, to change his |
way of living entirely. But she
found the task a hopeless one, A
docile husband in most things, noth
ing could move William Abbot from
the easy groove in which his fore
fathers had always placidly slidden
The husband and wife were of very
different natures. Perhaps the only :
ground between them was i
common
their family pride and the sense of i
their importance. Y r et while the
gentleman was quite contented with j j
the latter as it now stood, and always
had stood, the lady was ambitious j |
and wished to augment it. But her
efforts were of no avail; so at last, |
with a feeling touching dangerously aL j
near to contempt, she gave up |
tempting to sw&y ber husband in this '
direction and centred all her hopes j
in her only son, on whom she flatter- j
ed herself she had bestowed some of
u her play superior • intellect. • . „ . in tt He this should world. 1 |
an important part 1
At the first opportunity he should
enter Parliament, become a distin¬
guished member of society and so
far as possible, satisfy her ambition.
Of course lie must marry, but his
marriage should be one to strengthen
his hands both by wealth and con¬
nections. Now that he was on the
threshold of man’s estate, she had
turned her serious attention to this
subject, and had for some time.'been
considering what heiresses she knew
who were worthy of picking up the
handkerchief which she meant to let
fall on his behalf. She had post¬
poned her decision until his return
from the contemplated tour. Then
she would broach the subject of an
advantageous matrimonial ailiance
to him. By broaching the subject
Mrs. Abbot meant laying her com¬
mands upon her son to wed the lady
she had chosen for him.
As she drove the twelve miles of
road to Clifton and reflected on all
these things, is it any wonder that
Iter frame of mind was an unpleasant
one; that her eyes grew hard and she
felt little disposed to be merciful to
the owner of that pretty face which
threatened to come between her and
the cherished schemes of years?
The carriage stopped at the ad¬
dress given her by her son—a quiet
little house in a quiet little street,
where the arrival of so grand an
equipage and so fine a pair of horses
was an event of sufficient varity to
make many windows open, and maid
servants, even mistresses, crane out
and wonder what it meant. Mrs.
Abbot, having ascertained that Miss
Keene was at home, and having made
known her wish to see her, was shown
into a room plainly but not untaste
fully furnished. A piano, an unfin¬
ished drawing, some dainty embroi¬
dery, gave evidence of more refine¬
ment than Mrs. Abbot expected, or
to tell the truth, hoped to find in Iter
enemy’s surroundings. A bunch of
flowers, artistically arranged, was in
a glass vase on the table; and the
visitor felt more angry and bitter
than before as she recognized many’'
a choice orchid, and knew by this
token that the Chewton hot-houses
had been robbed for Miss Keene’s
sake. Mrs. Abbot tapped Iter- foot
impatiently as she awaited the mo¬
ment when her youthful enemy
should appear and be satisfactorily
crushed.
[to be continued.]
LIBERTY HALL.
At the recont sale of the home¬
stead of the late Gov. A, II. Steph¬
ens, the property was bid in for the
Stephens Memorial Association lor
$2,500, hy Mr. Joseph Myers, of Au¬
gusta, one ot the directors. Mr.
Mj’ers will visit the leading cities
Georgia asking aid to establish a
school and build a monument in
memory of the great commoner, and
says : “After which I shall visit New
York and Washington for the pui -
pose of soliciting subscriptions.”
Upon this sentence Dr. W. H. Pot¬
ter, of the Wesleyan Advocate makes
the following sensible comment:
All of which seems eminently pro
per except the going to New York
and Washington tor the purpose of
soliciting subscriptions.” This seems
to us a needless humiliation—to
honor a Georgia statesman with the
money solicited from New Y"ork.
New York and Washington might as
weI1 ask the Privilege of making a
contribution towards the erection of
a monument to such a man an! there
would ho nothin S humiliating tn acs
ce P tin g is i bl,t tbe lessoQ ot the his
toric place would be more sugges
tive of hercic virtUQ to tll<! >' OUD S
mea of the future, if seen shaded with
its aative oaks and carpeted with
Bermuda grass, than it would be
transformed under the hand ot a
landscape painter, hy the solicited
Parity of New York. We honor
g reatJ y those who help us, but we
belie ™ fhi * f nd,n S off for
help is damaging to the tiouth#
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NUMBER 16.
A TRUE ROMANCE.
A LOVELY YOUNG GIRL OP ATHENS
DIE.a WITH A BROKEN HEART.
From the Athens, Ga., Banner.
It will be remembered that a few
weeks eiro Johnnie Clayton, a young
man of Athens was killed while bath¬
ing in the Oconee rivet. He was for
sometime connected with. Mr. J. B.
Toorner. and had made runny friends
in this section by his pleasant and
obliging manner. Young t luytoo, at
the time of bir dr-ath, was engaged
to Miss Ootavia Kenney, a beautiful
young girl formerly unployed in the
tailoring department of the Messrs.
Cohen, and the devotion of tie youth¬
ful couple to each other was as sin-,
cere as it was pleasing to the friends
of each. They were both the picture
of health and happiness, and while
in the humbler walks of life, were in¬
dustrious and prudent, and a bright
future seemed to await theta. But
alas! In the midst of life we are in
death, in the zenith of iife and hap¬
piness Jchnnie Clayton, without a
moment’s warning, was gathered by
the dread Reaper. Among the sor¬
rowing relatives and fiiencts who
stood a’ound the bier of this young
man, the grief of uune was so keen
and deep as the fair young girl who
saw her heart’s idol laid to rest, Upton
her return home Miss Octavia began
at once to pine and dioop, and her
friends tried in vain to cneer her.
She continued at her daily toil, but
her thoughts seemed far away, and
from one of the gayest and brightest
of her sex n pall of gloom and des¬
pair seetneu to hover over her young
life, and earth had no longer charms
for her. Her despondency at last
settled into sickness, and site rapidly
drooped away until death, too, claim¬
ed her as its own. On Wednesday
last she breathed her last, and Thurs¬
day was laid to rest hesida tlm rips
pliug waters of the Oconee, where her
lover had preceded her by only « few
short days. That Miss Kenney died
ot a broken heart, there is no doubt,
and the sad story of this young
couple will bring lears to the eyes of
all whose heart is not ofadament.
Miss Kenney was a moat worthy
young gill who deserves great credit.
She was adopted by Mr. Richard
Boggs when a child, and by her mo¬
dest deportment nDd industry earn¬
ed the respect of ad. It is pleasant
to know, however, that these two
loving hearts arc now united in the
world above, where pain and partings
is unknown.
BILL NYE.
In nty opinion every professional
man should keep a chest of carpen¬
ter’s tools in his barn or shop, and
busy himself at odd hours with
them in constructing the varied arti¬
cles that are always needed about
the house. There is a great deal of
pleasure in feeling your own inde¬
pendence of other traders, and more
especially of the carpenter. Every
now and then your wife will want a
bracket put up in some corner or
other, and with your new bright saw
and glittering hammer you can put
U p 0 ne upon which she can haDg a
east iron horse -blanket lambrequin,
with inflexible water Hides sewed in
it.
A man will, if he tries, readily
learn a great many things, and his
wife will brag *n him to other ladies,
and they will make invidious com
parisons between their husbands,
who can't do anything of that kind
whatever, and you are “so handy.”
Firstly, you buy a set of amateur
carpenter tools. You Deed not say
that you are an amateur. The dealer
wi n find that out when you ask him
for an easy running broad axe or a
gre en gage plumb line. He will sell
you a set of amateur’s tools that will
he made of old sheet iron with bass
handles, and .he saws
(foul le up like a piece of stove pipe
After you have nailed a hoard on
the fence successfully^ wiii very
aatundi v de8ire to d ® 90 / net
-
muctj setter, more diiliemt. ^ou
will probably try to erect a parlor ta
hfi. b.c or or a a rustic rustic setfoe se^c..
I made a very .tandsome ^ brecke,
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Wkkkly, Conyers, Ga.
last week* and I was naturally proud
of it. In fastening ifc together, if I
hadn’t inadvertently nailed it to the
bare floor I guess I could have used
it very well, but in tearing it loose
from the barn, so that the two could
be used separately, I ruined a brack¬
et that was intended to serve as the
base, as it. were, ol ^lambrequin that
cost nine dollars, aside irom the time
expended on it.
During the month of March I built
an iso chest for the summer. It was
not handsome, but it was roomy, and
would be very nice for me season of
1884, I thought. It worked pretty
well through March and April, but
as the weather begins to warm up
that ice chest is about the warmest
place around the house. There is
actually a glow of heat around that
chest that 1 don’t notice elsewhere.
I’ve shown it to several personal
friends. They seem to think that it
is not built tight enough for an ice
chest. My brother looked at it yes¬
terday, and said that his idea of an
ice chest was that it ought to be
tight enough at least to hold larger
chunks of ice so that they would not
escape thiough the pores of the ice
box. He says he never built one,but
that it stood to reason that a refrig-,
orator like that ought to be con¬
structed so that it would keep the
cows out of it. You don’t wan’t to
have a refrigerator that the cattle
can get through the cracks and eat
up your strawberries on ice, he says.
A neighbor of mine who once
built a hen lesort of laths, and now
wears a thick thumb nail that looks
like a Brazil nut as a memento of
that pullet corral, says iny ice chest
is all right enough, only that its not
suited to this climate. He thinks
that along Bcheriug’s strait, during*
the holidays, my ice chest would
work like a charm. And even here,
he though 1 , if I could keep the fever
out of my chest, theie would be less
pain.
I have made several other little are
tides of virtue this spring to the con¬
struction of which I have contributed
a good deal of time and two finger
nails. I have also sawed into my leg
1 wo or three times. The leg, of
course, will get well but the panta¬
loons will not. Parties wishing to
meet me in my studio during the
morning hour will turn into the alley
between Eighth and Ninth streets,
enter the thi-d stable door on the
left, pass’around my Gothic house
and give the countersign and three
kicks on the door in any ordinary
voice.—Bill Nye in the Denver Opin¬
ion.
George Bn Hoc , of Mariou county,
firs just harvested 100 bushels of
oats from one and one-eigth aere3 of
land. The oats were sown in Feb¬
ruary. The same land is now being
planted in cotton and Mr. Bullock
expects it to make one bsie.
SOUTH’RN SANITARIUM
THIS INSTITU LION, tomiely
known as the Atlanta Health Institute
“Water Cure," is universally acknowl¬
edged to he the most complete and
thoroughly rational and scientific es¬
tablishment <or the treatment ot the
sick in the southern states. The fol¬
lowing area few otlhe man'’ remedial
agencies employed in addition to
the usual approved remedies: The
celebrated Moliere-Thermo Eleortio
Bath, Improved Turkish, Full Electric
Russian Roman, Electro-Vapor, aud
some twenty different kinds ot
ELECTRIC water baths.
ALSO Swedish Movement by ma¬
chinery, and manua operation by
fciained manipulators, Massage treare
ment, etc., etc. the
Special anention given percnliar to
tareotment of Diseases to
Invalid Ladies; also Dyspepsia, Neus
talgia. Rheumatism, Diseases ot the
Kulnevs, Liver and Bowels, Eye, Ear.
Nose, Throat and Lunas. Chortiic
diseases are readily aud permanently Aodress
cured at thisiruuifcution.
U. O RO BERTSO N. M. D.
134 McDonough street, Atluata
Liver, Kidney or Stomach Trouble.
lDipnre Wood, costive
bowels, irregnla’- appetite, sour belching
£*« J™? ci^coG
gtools, bud breath, no desire for
, 0 °*^di’^nSh.’dtey^MJ.Vith/iVu!) loss of f-i
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sight- are a sure For these cure. trouh Bo*, « (,0 “Sw-if. piHs), by KlhJ m. i)
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