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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, OCTOBER 18. 1881. GUITEAITS OWN STORY. MOTIVES AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF HIS ATROCIOUS CRIME. tacjdenu of Hi. Parly Life-HlTpolitlcl Experience Hl ?? y*ri??u?? A p plio?? t i??n 1 for Office???When the Idee o. Killing Preeldent Garfield First Seised Him???Hi* Desire for a Wife. Charles **uitcan, the man who assassllht- e??l President Garfield, and who now lies in the district jail under indictment for that great and dastardly crime, lias recently narrated to a correspondent of the New York Herald what purports to lm the true story of his life. The sketch is evidently compiled from a series of interviews, the entire work being dictated by Guiu-au and containing many passages, particularly those relating to ???the removal of the president,??? in the pris oner's own language. He was bom at Free- l?????rt, HI*, September 8, 1841, and as a boy, says he knew Mr. E. li. Wushburneand Gene ral John M. Scofield, then a cadet at West Point. He went to school to Mr. Hurt-hard now director of the mint. His father had been a merchant, was clerk of the circuit court of Stevenson county, 111,, and subse quently cashier, for about twelve years, of the Second national bank at Freeport. The elder Guitcau was greatly interested in the publi- eations of John II. Noyes, the founder of the Oneida community, and was more or less under their influence during the latter part of his life; so much so that he opposed the idea of a collegiate education for his son, and finally induced the latter to join the commu nity. This was in June, 18ft'). Here young Guitcau remained until 18C5, when lie went to New York witli the idea of starting a reli gious newspaper. Failing in this he returned to Oneida for a while in November, 18fti, found himself once more in New York, hanging around the quarters of the Young Men???s Christian Association and attending Plymouth church. In 18G7 he was admitted to the bar in Chicago, got married and stayed there till 1871, when he made an unprofitable visit to California. In the meantime his do mestic relations had proved unhappy, ami a divorce had taken place, l.utcron he entered U|h>ii the practice of the law in 'New York, and in 1871 claims to have been ruined in reputation and business by a publication in the Herald which charged him with appropri ating to liis own use moneys collected fora client. He sued the Herald for libel, claim ing $100,000 damages, but nothing ever came of it. He was for many months in very re placed circumstances, living from hand to mouth, and finally got into the Tomlts on a charge of false pretenses, procuring his re lease through the agency of his brother-in- law, Mr. Scoville, who is now his counsel. In 187.'?? Guitcau conceived flic idea of becoming a great editor, and went to Chicago with the intention of buying the Inter-Ocean. This project, of course, fell through, and in the spring of 187(1 he again Duelled a law office in Chicago. About this time Ue became a convert to the . doctrines of the Second Adventists and pre pared an article on the second coining of Christ, which will bo found, with much addi tional matter of a similar character, in a book which lie afterward published called ???The Truth.??? lie also devoted himself more or less to lecturing on his new discoveries, hut his failure as a theologian was as conspicuous *as his failure in Urn law. His whole career.seems to he a record of strange vagaries, impractica ble projects and miserable disappointments. Guitcau???s expeiicnoe as a politician, he says, began soon after the nomination of Gen eral Garfield -at Chicago. He was in New York from the first of July, 1880, to March 3, 1881, and during that time around the head quarters of the national and state republican eommitteee a good deal, making the personal acquaintance of many of the leading men of the party. He invariably had with him his epeccli, entitled ???Garfield Against. Hancock,??? which, according to his own story, was never delivered hut once, and that at a colored meet ing on Twenty-fifth street otic Saturday even ing. It was afterwards printed, and copies of it were sent to a number of the gen tlemen who participated in the conference at the Fifth Avenue hotel, abqut the <>th of August. Tiiis was his first introduction to them, and "they seemed to bo highly pleas ed??? with his effort, but the objection urged to scouring ills services for the campaign was that he did not have a national reputation, such as would attract a large hearing. Guitcau says that he also sent his speech to < ieneral Ar thur, Senator Conk ling, General Logan, Sena tor Cameron, ???and all that kind of men.??? He wanted to take the stump forGcneral Garfield in August, and wrote to Mr. Itlainc and con- salted with Governor Jewell about it, but the disability mentioned above was against him, although he says that Governor Jewell was very kind to him personally. After the result was known in November, Guitcau wrote to General Garfield as follows: We have denned them nil out just as I expected. Thunk God I Very respectfully. On \ i: its G r iteau. THE AUSTRIAN MISSION. Immediately after the Indiana election Guitcau begun to think it time to look around for something. He wrote to the president elect, suggesting the Austrian mission. Early in March he went to Washington, lie says, for the purp??*c of getting an office. He had nothing to do in New York except solicit for some insurance companies. He says: ???1 ad dressed a letter to President Garfield and to Secretary Blaine sonic time in March. I should sav, calling their attention to my services (hiring the canvass, and to my early sugges tion touching the Austrian mission. I heard nothing about it until I noticed that William Walter l???helps had been given the mission, and of course that ended it. I then sought the Paris consulship. 1 spoke to Logan about it and he said lie would speak to General Gar- . li???.j.i ;lJ ,d with Mr. Blaine. He tohl me that he 1 did speak to General Garfield, and that Genera. ' Garfield agreed to leave it with Mr. Blaine. 1 Law Mr. Biaino about it several times during tlic deadlock in the senate, and Mr. Blaine >aid that they had not got to that yet. Ho was very clever at that time. 1 stood well with him and with General Garfield, and 1 had every reason to expect that they intended, as soon as they got to it, to give it to me. Mr. Walker the present consul, was front New York and had been appointed by Mr. Haves two years ago, ami I did not feel that Mr. Walker hart any claim for the office, as the men who did the business during the canvass ought to be remembered. I have an impres sion that General Garfield and Mr. Blaine felt ???is 1 did. Well, I called at the white house to Leo General Garfield about it, hut I was unable to see the president. I only called the presi dent???s attention to the matter once, and that w ts within two or three days after I reached ???^Washington. 1 gave the president my speech ???inil marked at tlic head of it: 'ParisConsuL s j,i??? > i n pencil, and then drew a line down to 'in v* name, so that the president would retnem- lier what I wanted. This was the only time I had any personal conversation with the presi dent on the Paris consulship. He took the speech and I left him in the act of reading it. . 1 there saw Mr. Morton, minister of France, General Tvner and two or three other gentle- men Thev knew me and I was cleverly re ceived, especially by Mr. Morton. He asked me about rav health, how I was getting along, etc. This interview occurred about the 7th or 8th of March. hETTKItS TO MR. BLAINE. ??????After Mr. Blaine was appointed secretary of state, I bad not much expectation that I was to get the Austrian mission, because I expec ted that it was to be given to one of the Blaine men; but I did think and feel that 1 had a ??? r j???ht to press mv application for the Paris con e ulsliip. 'During the deadlock in the sen ate I wrote Mr. Blaine several notes. 1 called at the state department several times, but he was generally busy, so I slid what I iiad to by a brief note. I always addressed him familiarly as ???Secretary Blaine??? or ???Mr. Blaine.??? After the deadlock broke 1 saw Mr. Blaine at the state department one day, and lie said he did not think that the president would remove Mr. Walker. Tiiis was tiie first intimation that tiiey did not intend to give me the Paris con sulship. I was surprised, and I said to Mr. Blaine: ???I am going to seethe president and try an;l induce him to remove Mr. Walker and give me the Paris consulship.??? ???Well, if you can, do so.??? said Mr. Blaine. I have not spoken to him on any subject since. A few days after I saw Mr.??? Blaine I called at the white house to get the president???s final answer. I sent in my card and the doorkeep er came back in a moment and said: 'Mr. Guitcau. the president says it will be im possible for him to see you to-day.??? I there fore sent him a little note and told him aliout the Paris consulship. I never had a personal interview with the president on the Paris con sulship except once, and that was when I 1 lauded him my speech, and told him that I would like it. ft was about the middle of the week after his inauguration. The time that 1 was pre.'.-ing the Paris consulship terminated, I should say, about the last of April. 1 have never had any final answer either from the president or from Mr Blaine. It did not have the slightest influence one way or the other in reference to my removing the president. CONCEPTION OF THE ASSASSINATION. "My conception of the idea of removing the president was this: Mr. Conkling resigned on Monday. May i(i, 1881. On the following Wednesday I was in bed. 1 think I retired about 8 o???clock. I felt depressed and per plexed on account of the political situation, and I retired much earlier than usual. 1 felt wearied in mind and body, and was in bed about 9 o???clock and thinking over the politi cal situation, and the idea flashed through my brain that if the president was out of the way everything would go on better. At first this was a mere impression. It startled me, but the next morning it came to me with re newed force, and I begun to read the papers with my eye on the possibility that the president would have to go. and the more I read, the more I saw the complication of public affairs, the more was I impressed with the necessity. This continued alsnit two weeks. I kept reading the papers and kept being impressed, and tiie idea kept bearing and bearing and hearing down iqioii me that the only way to unite t lie two factions of the republican party and save the republic from going into the hands of tlic rebels and democrats was to quietly remove the president. ???Two weeks after I conceived tiie idea my mind was thoroughly settled on the intention. I then prepared myself. I sent to Boston for a copy of my book, 'Tiie Truth,??? and I spent a week in preparing that. I put some new ideas in it and 1 neatly improved it. 1 knew it would probably huvea large sale on account of the notoriety that tiie act of removing the president would give me, and I wished the book to go out to tiie public in proper shape. Another preparation was to buy a revolver and to prepare myself for executing the idea. Tiiis required some two or three weeks. I never mentioned tlic conception to a living soul. I did most of my thinking in tiie park and on tiie street, ami I used to go to the Arlington and Biggs house daily to read the papers. WATCHING AN OPPORTUNITY. ???After I had made up my mind to remove him the idea when 1 should remove him pressed me, and I was somewhat confused on that. I knew it would not do to go to tiie white house and attempt it, because there were too many of his employes about, and I looked around for several days to try and get a good chance at him. One Sunday (the Sun day before he went to Long Brandi) 1 went to his church in the morning, and stood there at the door a moment. 1 was a little late. I noticed the president sitting near an open window about three feet from the ground, and I thought to myself: 'That would be a good chance to get him.??? I intended to shoot him through the back of the ltead and let the hall pass through the ceiling, in order that no one else should he injured; and there eould not possibly he a better place to remove a man than at his devotions. I had my re volver in my possession when I first went to tiie church. During that whole week I read the papers carefully I thought it all over in detail. I thought just what people would talk and what an excitement it would create, and I kept thinking about it all the week. I made up my mind tiiat the next Sunday I would certainly shoot him if he was in church and I got a good chance at him. Thursday of the same week I noticed in the paper lie was going to Long Branch, and on tiie following .Saturday lie did go to the Branch for Mrs. Gar field's health. I went to the depot all prepared to remove him. 1 had the revolver witti me. I had all my papers nieely prepared. I spoke to a man about a carriage to take me, as I told him, over near the congressional ceme tery. He said that lie would take me over for two dollars, and seemed to he a very clever fellow and glad to get the, job. 1 got to the depot about!??o???clock and waited tiiere until tiie president's white house carriage drove up. About twenty-five. minutes after nine the president and his carriage came up. He got out of liis carriage. I stood in the ladies??? room, about the middle of theroom, watching him. Mrs. Garfield got out, and the pres ence of Mrs. Garfield deterred me from tiring on him. Mrs. Garfield looked so thin and clung so tenderly to the president???s arm that 1 did not have the heart to fire on him. He jiassed right through tiie ladies??? reception room, through the main entrance, and took the ears. 1 waited a few moments. I went outside the lejvot and walked up town toward the Biggs house and Arlington and tiie (Kirk. I think I went to the park and sat there an hour or two thinking about it, and I went to my lunch as usual, and after my lunch I went to thclibra- iv of the treasury * department and read the papers as usual, and think I stayed there until ;5 o'clock on Saturday, and then went out. AN ASSASSIN IN AMBUSH. ???I noticed it? the papers, ??? Guitea:. rnr.tir ?es, "that the president would be baek the first of the week; he did not conic baek that week, hut on the following Monday- It was a terri bly hot. sultry dav. I remember I suffered greatly from the heat, but prepared myself again and went to the depot with my revolver and my papers, but did not feel like firing on him. I simply went to the depot. I sat in the ladies??? waiting room. I got there ten or fifteen minutes before train time, and waited and thought it all overandmade up my mind that 1 would not tire on bin that day. Tiie train came and he came, and th; president and his friends drove up in his white house carriage, and then Janies and Hunt went, and then I went. 1 got in a ear ami went up toward the Biggs house. VIGIL OF A MURDERER. "Well. I was wsitching for the president all that week. 1 got up one morning at 5:.kl, thinking I might get the president when lie was out horse-ba ek riding, but he did not go out; so 1 went back to my room, took break fast. and let the matter drop until night. In the evening I went up to my room and got my revolver out. and carried it in my pocket. This was either Wednesday or Thursday???I think it was Thursday night. He went out riding that* night. 1 was in La Fayette park watching for him, and about 0:30 the carriage drove up to tiie white bouse, and the presi dent and some gentleman, and a young man eighteen qj twenty years old, whom I pre sume was the president's son, got into the carriage. The young man sat with his back to the driver, and the president and his friend sat on the back seat. They drove out the entrance nearest the treasury building and passed along the east side" of LaFay- ette square toward the Arlington and out on Vermont avenue. I walked out of the park pretty rapidly and I saw them from the comer of the park. 1 hung around the park about half an hour or so, and they did not return and I concluded to let the matter drop for that night, so 1 went as usual to my home and went to bed. I went to the Biggs house and took a room in the afternoon of Thursday, and the event mentioned in this preceding talk happened, I am quite certain, on Thurs day night. On Friday night after I got my dinner at the Riggs house I went up to my room and I took out my revolver and I put it in my hip pocket, and I had my papers with me, and 1 thought I possibly might get a chance at him Friday night. * I went into Lafayette square and sat there, opposite the white house. IN TltF. SHADOW OF DEATH. ???1 had not been there a minute before I saw the president walk out of the white house. ???Now,???I thought to myself, ???I have got a splendid chance at him; he is all alone; tiiere isn???t any one around him.??? He walked along the ea.st side of the square and down H street. T followed him. He went to Mr. Blaine???s house, on Fifteenth street, and when he got on the sidewalk opposite Blaine???s house lie looked up, as if lie did not know the place exactly, and then walked in. I was about half way between H street and Mr. Blaine???s house, "i went into the allay in the rear of Mr. Morton???s house and got out my revolver and wiped it off and put it back in my pock et, 1 went over to the II street stoop, at Wonnlcy???s, and waited there half an hour,??? 1 should say, for the president to come out. He came out and Mr. Blaine with him, and I waited at M'ormley???s until they passed by on tiie opposite side. They walked down II street on tne east side of La- fai\.t:e square and into the white house. Blaine's right arm was looped in the presi dent???s left arm, and they were engaged in tiie most earnest conversation. Blaine was strik ing the air every few moments, and the president was drinking it all in; and occasionally tiie president would strike out his hand, thereby giving assent to what Mr. Blaine was saying. This scene made a striking impression on me; it confirmed what I had felt fora long time, that the president was en tirely under Mr. Blaine???s influence. 1 went down to the Biggs house. 1 woke up about 4 o???clock Saturday morning and felt well in mind and body. My mind was perfectly clear in .egard to removing the president; I had not the slightest doubt about my duty to the Lord and to the American iieople in trying to re move him, and 1 want to say here, as emphat ically as words can make it, that, from the moment when 1 fully decided to remove tiie president, my purpose 1ms been just as clearand just as determined as any tiling eould be. I believed 1 was acting under a special Divine authority, and this Divine pressure was upon me until 1 actually shot him. It was only by nerving myself to the utmost that I did itat all, and I never had the slight est doubt as to the Divine inspiration of the act, and that it was for the best interest of the American people. . NEARING THE END. ???Having hoard on Friday, thatthe president was going to Long Branch Saturday morning, I resolved to remove him at the depot. I took my breakfast at the Biggs house about 8 o???clock. 1 went into Lafayette square after breakfast, waiting for 9 o'clock to come, and then went to the depot. I rode in a 'bob- tailed???ear. I left the ear, walked up to a boot black, got lay boots blacked, and in quired fora man named John Taylor, whom, two weeks before, I had spoken to aliout tak ing me out toward Congressional cemetery. They told me that Taylor???s carriage was not there, and finally I noticed a colored man, and said to him: * ???What will you take me out to the Congressional cemetery for?' He says, ???well, I will take you out there for $2.??? 1 told him privately that if 1 wanted his services I would let him know in a few minutes. 1 then went into tiie depot and took my private papers which I intended for the press (incln- dinga revised edition of my book, ???The Truth, a Companion to the Bible,??????)and stepped up to the news stand and asked the young man in charge it' I could leave those papers with him a few moments, and lie took them. This was about twenty minutes after 9, and I went into tiie ladies' waiting room and looked around, saw that tiiere were quite a good many people there, but did not see the presi dent \s carriage. I examined my revolver to see if it was all right,and took off'tiie paper that I had wrapped around it to keep the moisture off. I waited five or six minutes longer, sat down on a scat in tlic ladies??? room, and very soon the president drove up. He was in com pany with a gentleman who, I understand was*Mr. Blaine, although I did not recognize him. I am satisfied it was Mr. Blaine, be cause it was tlic same gentleman that I saw with tlic president the night before, and I know positively that that gentleman was Mr. Blaine. They drove up in a plain sin gle-seated carriage with one horse; this gentleman. I think, was driving. Tiie pres ident seemed to be in a very earnest and private conversation with Mr .Blaine. They satin the carriage I should say some two minutes when they reached the depot, and finished their conver sation. The president got out on the pavement side and Mr Blaine oil the other side. They entered the ladies'room; I stood there watching the president aud they passed by me. Before they reached the depot I had been promenading up and down the ladies??? room between tiie ticket ollioe door aud the news-stand door, a space of some ten or twelve feet. I walked up and down there, I should say, two or three times working myself up, as 1 knew the hour was at hand. Tiie president and Mr Blaine came into the ladies??? room and walked right by me. HOW THE PRESIDENT FELL. ???There was quite a crowd a:ound, and the presi dent was passing from the ladies??? room into the main entrance through the door. I should say he was about four or five feet from tiie door nearest the ticket office. He was about three or four feet from the door. I stood five or six feet behind him, right in the middle of the room, and us he was in the act of walking away from me I pulled out the revolver and fired. He straightened up and threw his head baek, and seemed to be perfectly bewildered. He did not seem to know what struck him. 1 looked at him: he did not drop; 1 thereupon pulled again. He dropped his head, seemed to reel, and fell over. I do not know where the first shot hit; aimed atthe icular . _ in his he would certainly go. I was in a diagonal direction from the president, to the northwest, and supposed both shots struck. THE ARREST. ???I was putting my revolver hack into my pocket when the depot policeman seized me and said: ???You shot the president of the United States.??? He was terribly excited; he hardly knew his head from bis feet, and I said,???Keepquiet, my frieud; keep quiet, my friend. I want to go to jail.??? Another gentleman???an older man, and less robust???seized me by the right arm. At this moment the ticket agent and a great crowd of people rushed around me, and the ticket agent said,'That???s him: that's himaud he pushed out liis aim to seize me around the neck, and I says, ???Keep quiet, my friends: I want to go to jail;???and the officers, one on each side of me, rushed me right off to the police head quarters. i said. ???I have'got some papers which will explain the whole matter.??? They let go of me and went through me, took away my revolver and what little change I had, my comb and toothpick, all my papers, and I gave them my letter to the white house; told them that X wished they would scud that letter to the white house at once and the officer began to read it, and in this envelope containing my letter to the white house was my speeeh, 'Garfield against Hancock.' I was telling him about sending it at once to the white house to explain the matter, and he said,???We will put you In the white house.??? So I said nothing after that. They put me into a cell: locked the door and went off. and 1 did not see any one for ton minutes, and then one or two parties came and took a look at me: they were policemen and detectives and said, 'X don't know him; 1 don't know that man; never saw him before.??? "I waited a few moments longer and a gentleman came???a detective, who proved to be Mr McElfresh ???and he was very polite and attentive. I told him who I was and why 1 did it; that I had some papers at the news stand; that I wished hfm to get those papers and take them up to Byron An drews and his co-joumalists; that the papers would explain all about the matter. I also told him that I wished to go to the jail at once, and he came in and put the handcuffs on to me. And he and his brother officers took me down the stairs and into a carriage, and he and three other policemen drove me rapidly to the jail. I met Mr Russ, the deputy warden. McElfresh told him that I had shot the president of the United .States, and he assigned me to cell Xo 2, and I have been there ever since, except when I have been to the wardens' room to be inter viewed. PURCHASE OF THE REVOLVER. Guitcau bought the revolver before the president went to Long Branch. ???I called at O'Meara???s, cor ner of Fifteenth and F streets, opposite the treasury, about two or three weeks before the removal. I stepped up to the show-case and said: ???Let me look at that.??? I saw it was a large bore, and he pulled it it oat. I saw it was marked 'British Bull Bog.' and saw that it was an unusual revolver, and he said, ???That will kill a horse,??? or something to that effect. There were two alike, except one had an ivory handle for $10, and the other a plain wooden handle for SO: I got the best one for $10. I was very timid in holding it. I knew nothing abont weapons at all; I snapped it, aud said ???that will make a good noLe,??? and kc said, ???oh, yes. that will kill a horse:' he said, 'I never want a bullet like that in me.??? I said, 'Perhaps I may get that some of these (lavs.??? Three or four days afterward I stepped " in and selected the revolver with the ivory handle and got a box of cartridges and a iitile penknife, and he said he would give me the ntire purchase for$10. I did not have the money hen I first went in; l got it from a gentleman In "he interim. He loaded the revolver, and said: Put that right into your pocket,??? Said I, '1?? tiiere any law here against carrying a revolver???? He said, hollow of his back; I did not aim for any particular place, but I knew if I got those two bullets in ' " back In the aourse of two or three days 1 went down about 7 o'clock in the evening ana shot off ton cart ridges. At tiie first shot I was aliout ten feet from a sapling three inches in diameter, that was stuck in to the raud. and I pulled and struck the sapling, and it trembled like a leaf, and it made a fearful hollow; I was terribly excited at the noise and power of the weapon: thought I, ???That is a terribh! weapon;??? it hollowed like a little cannon; it start led me. I fired teu shots, and thev went off with tremendous effect every time; it made a terrible noise. One or two men came around, hearing the report, and on the way baek I noticed a colored woman and several other iieople. 'Hid you hear that noise?' They said, 'On, yes; it made a terrible noise.??? ???I went dowu again the Saturday morning that I intcuded to remove the president when he went to Long Branch, and Mrs Curtield deterred me. I got up aliout 4:30 and went down to the same place. It was a splendid morning, 1 remember, and I shot it off twice, using ten cartridges. ??? It made a terrible noise, as usual. These are the only times that I have practiced with a revolver. I then took it to the house and wiped it nieely and took the cartridges and rubbed them off, and I loaded it and put it Into my drawer in my room, audit was in that condi tion when I used it on the president. I took great pains; put it in my coat and wrapped it up nicely, so that no moisture could get to the powder, in or der that it would be in a nice condition when I wanted to use it. 1 took it out several times and carried it in my hip pocket; but it was not fired off after that until 1 used it on the president on Satur day meriting, July 2. LOOKING FOR A WIFE. In bringing his autobiography to an end he says: ???And now 1 speak of two matters strictly personal. First???I am lookiug for a wife and see no objection to mentioning it here. I want an elegant Christian lady of wealth, under thirty, belonging to a first class family. Any such lady can address me in the utmost confidence. Mymother died when I was only seven, and 1 have always felt it a great privation to have no mother. If my mother nad lived 1 never should have got into the Oneida community, and my life, no doubt, would have been happier every way*. Nearly three years after I left the community I was unfortunately married. At last I made up my mind that I would sever the bonds, and 1 was di vorced in 1874. X am fond of female society, and I judge the ladies are of me, and I should be delighted to find my mate.??? PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRATIONS. ???The second" subjeet in which he desires to take the public into his confidence refers to the presi dency. ???For twenty years,??? he writes, ???I have had an idea that I should be president. I had the idea when I lived in the Oneida community, and it has never left me. When 1 left Boston for New York, in June, 1880.1 remember distinctly I felt that 1 was on my way to the white house. I had this feel ing all through the canvass last fall in New York, although I mentioned it to only two persons. My idea is that I shall be uominated and elected as Lincoln and Garfield were???that is, by the act oi God. If I were president I should seek to give the nation a tirst-elass administration in every respect. I want nothing sectional or crooked around me. My object would be to unify the entire American people and make them happy, prosperous and God fearing.??? TWO WOMEN. A grandma sits in her great arm chair; Balmy sweet is the soft spring air. Through the latticed, lilac-sliadowcd pane .She looks to the orchard beyond the lane. And she patches the gleam of a woman???s dress, As it flutters about in tlic wind's caress. ???That chilli is glad as the day is long??? Her lover is eoming, her life???s a song!??? Up from the orchard???s flowery bloom Floats fragrance faint to the dark???iiing room Where grandma dreams, till a teudergracc And a softer light steals into her face. For once again she is vonng and fair, And twining roses in her hair. Once again, blithe as the lark above, She is only a girl, and a girl in love! The years drop from her their weary pain; She is clasped in her lover???s arms again! The last faint glimmers of daylight die; Stars tremble out of the purple sky Ere Dorn flits up the garileu path, Sadly afraid of grandma???s wrath. With rosc-i\ d cheeks and flying hair i down by the old arm chair. '???Grandma, Pick says, may we???may???I?????? ???The faltering voice grows strangely shy, But grandma presses the littld hand: <???Yes, my dearie, I understand! ???He may have you, darling!??? Not all in vain Did grandma dream she was a gill again! She gently twists a shining curl: ???Ah, tne! the philosophy of a girl! ???Take the world???s treasures???it???s noblest, best??? And love will outweigh all the rest!??? And through the casement the moonlight cold Streams on two heads???one gray, one gold. TROPIC FRUIT LAXATIVE. Prepared front fruits tropical aud plants. A Delicious and Re freshing Fruit * Lozenge, Wliicli Serves the Purpose of Pills and Dis agreeable Purgative Medicines. TROPIC-rmjTT LIXATITE is the best preparation in the ?????orM for Constipation, Bili ousness, He idjche, Piles. and all kindred Com plaints. It acts gently, effectively, and is deli cious to take. Cleansnig ??lie system thoroughly, it imparts vigor to mind end l??ody. and dispels Melancholy. Hvpnchoi.rtrH, ??Co. One trial con vinces. Packed in bronzed tin boxen only. PRICE 25 and 60 CTS. SOLD BY ILL DRUGGISTS. feblO???dAwly thur satjtues nxrd mat HOSTETTER???S BITTERS. ROSIltfElli FERRY DAVIS??? PAIN KILLER. r _ -r. 1 -.VSSW-vitffLUW iii'inriM iiinq???i FcrlHWWmdEXfflmEusc. ncciLsi Bar i tBSTKScarjaam/matrieaciiit:. 1 I -T-CT.^ . * ???g PERRY DAVIS??? PAIN KILLER IS A PURELY VEGETABLE REMEDY FDR INTERNAL AfJD EXTERNAL USE. < f" d Sipeedv Curs for Sere Throat, Coughs, Colds, Diphtheria, Chills. Diarrhea, Dyoen.ery, Cramps. Caolcra, Summer Compiaint, 'nek headache, Neuralgia, Cuts, Lapses, Spra*n>:, Rhsumc.l.:m, ci2. ???7 ???-r.fxterwnr. and certain to cffo-J relief. No family can .tn. ru to r?? v.1 ??? ??? p q ,??? ?????? --???: ,t.; at Stic., 50c. and &1.00 a bot< >. "??????Tf "???'??? .???O < ??? " I. 5???d.twly erdember October whole next read mat TEXAS A healthful, genial climate ??? nn exceedingly productive poll, where, with common Industry ami prudence, u sure anu certain competence can be hath The South-Western Immigration Co. Will mail on application, free of cost, postage prepaid, books with maps, giving authentic and reliable in- fom.atkm, in detail, ot the State of Texas, Arkansas, or Western Louisiana. We desire to confer with those wishing to better their condition and are meditating a change to a new count!v. Address B. O. DUVAL, Secreiary, Austin, Texas. J. N. \ It TOR. Eastern Manager. 24.1 Broadway, New York. Foreign Office:???WM. W. LANG, President. Loadenhall House, angfl wim???omitlm???tn rdro Unidenhall st??? Uindcn. K. C.. Fnglan -. WHITE & MILLER Fitters DIMINISHED VIGOR Is reimbursed in great measure, to those troubled with weak kidneys, by a judicious use of Hostetter???s Stomaeh Bitters, which invigorates and stimulates without exciting the urinary organs. In conjunc tion with its influence upon them, it corrects acidi ty, improves appetite, and is in every way condu cive tonealth and nerve repose. Another marked quality is its control ever fever and ague, and its power'of preventing it. For sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally. Genlcra Agents for C & G Cooper's PLAIN, PORTABLE, TRACTION ??? AND STATIONARY ENGINES, SAW MILLS, GRIST MILLS, SMUT MACHINES, F.TC. Also for the Hamilton Stationary and Monarch . Portable, Traction and Road Engine. These latter guaranteed to draw 4,??K) feet of lumber, or 20 v 000 pounds of freight over ordinary roads. Also the ??? Eclipse and Merchant Saw Mills, manufactured at these works. The machinery of these two houses lias no superior in the United states. In stock and for sale: Circular Saws, solid and planer tooth; the celebrated Gilpin Sulky Plows, walking Cultiva tors, and a general assortment of Steel Plows and Cultivators, manufactured by Deere, Mansur At Co. Call and see the Moline Elliptic Spring Stalk Cutter, for cleaning cotton and com fields. Send for illustrated catalogues or call on WHITE it MILLER, Cor Broad and Hunter sts, Atlanta, Ua. oct2???(lfim sun thursitwCm COTTON gins: 262 febll???dly sun wed fri &wky ly. I HAVE ON HAND AND ON WAY, FRESH FROM THE Factory, an inlmense stock of COTTON GINS, ENGINES etc., of various first-class makes. I Sell Gins at $2.25 per Saw Snperio r toothers selling at $3.00 to SJ-.VLper saw. I can save you money on Engines, Cotton Gins, Feeders, Condensers, Presses, Saw Mills, Shingle Machines Saws, etc. Give mea* trial is all I ask to convince you. All my Ma chines are fresh???no old stock. S. F. PERKINS, 32 and 34 W. MITCHELL STREET. ??? HEGE???S IMPROVED CIRCULAR SAW MILLS, WITH UNITORSJVL LOG BEAM, Rectilinear Simultaneous Set Works and Double ECCENTRIC FRICTION FEED. Manufactured by the Salem Iron Works, SALEM, X. C. J. H. ANDERSON General Agent for Georgia and Florida HEGE???S IMPROVED SAW MILLS junelG???d&w6m wed thur sat tues 00 BROAD STREET, ATLANTA, GA. Our Price-List for the Fall of 1881 is now ready, ^ ^???nd will be sent free to any address. We carry S. sell all kinds of goods, in any quantity, _, aiithefoi- at wholesale prices. Send lor or the farm o7good S ? C an?V PriCe ' LI ' t ??? ^ SCe h ?? V/ ???ryThing many others: Dry Well We Can Supply cheaper than you ~ II J S can buy at home. It Hosiery, Cloves, No- X. all yOUr Wants. S costs nothing to try us. lions, Clothing, Hoots, ~V -f Wo occupy tlio entire Shoes, Kits, Caps,Under- I _ I buildings,' 227 and 229 wear, Clocks, Watches, i K_|i ap 19 rial I Wabash Avenue, four sto- Aevrelry, Silverware, Sew- I PRlgl f RJftB I rh s and basement, filled ing Machines, Crockery, I * ???* | with the choicest articles. Musical Instruments, >, TT " . . Dealing with us, you can Hardware, Tinware, \V C are the OHgl- select from an endless *ic??? ? * KeTifeVs, a Vnators of the systenN^SSSS^ .erie^^nd^V^?? f direCt V ???f th theN^^t ?? goo^ in fact ev- consumer at wholesale prices, Experience enables us to avoid errors/S^ piv- 18 / No obligation to buy. MONTGOMERY WARD & CO,-,227 and 2OTabasli A?e. jCMcago,UL DR. HARTERS??? IRON TONIC. 'Endorsed and recom>% mended by tHemeal-\ cal profession, form Dyspepsia, General I Debility, Female Dim-1 eases, IVunt of Vital- ??? ity, Xervotes Frostra- ??? tion, and Convales-W ncefromFevers,d:c.f ral debility to such an extent that my ialior was exceedingly bur- ^mo. ??. .mwuu Id not give mo much relief, bat on the contrary# was followed by increased prostration and sinking chills. At this time I began the use of your Iron Tonic, from which I re alized almost immediate and wonderful reeults. Theold energy returned and I found that my natural force was not permanently abated, I bare used three bottles of the Tonic. Since U6ing it I hpvo done twice the la bor that I ever did in the same time during my illness, and with double the case. With the tranquil nerve and vi^or of body, has come also a clearness of thought never before enipyed. If the Tonic has not done the work,! know not what. I give it the credit. J. P. Watson. Pastor Christian Church, Troy, O. E Tfie Iron Tonic is a 'partition of Fro- tde of Iron, I*ern- vian Dark, and Fit os- phates, associated tcitk the Vegetable Aromatics. It serves purpose tchere it Tonic is neeessary,i MAXUFaCTUREB - THE DR. HARTER MEDICINE CO.. 10.213 NORTH MAIN STREET, ST. lOOIS. in ire????dly tuc.s thur sat 2rt or 4thp not on 3rt Awlv??? /mm/c. COLUMBIA BICYCLE. A permanent, pmclicel road ve hicle. with which a person can ride three miles as easily as he could walk one. The exercise promotes health and strength. Send 3c stamn for 24 page catalogue, with pricelistami full information, THE POPE M???F???G CO., No. 300 Washing- too .iicct, lioston. Mass. febla???wkyly , WANTED! -| AA MEN AND WOMEN TO _L \ /' / . v/' J V/ make $3,000 to $0,000 yearly, wholesaling and retailing the best and fastest sell ing goods ever offered ;????? Agents. Address at once for particulars, or to save time enclose one dollar for valuable sample, to - ERIE AGENTS SUPPLY CO, sep27???w2t Lock Box 77, Erie Penn. RUPERTUS??? Celebrated * Sugle EresckLcadi; ~ Shot Cuns at $12 ay .t $20 up. MuzzlenmlBrcerh-IxmiiingGuns,Itiflea nnri rlstow r y mflZ En<jU*h ami Asitricax mat:*. All kimlM of Sporting Implements anil aniolm required by Sportsmen and Ganniakers. ('wit???s New Hrcecb-Loailin* Double Guns at 830 up. JOS.C.GltUBB ifc CO., T12 Market St. SeaJ far Eriee-Lut. Philadelphia, Fa. sepC???wkvtf In OftP??r day ?? home. Sample worth $5 ftw. VO lO VZU A<1<Jrt " ST, -''??>.x4ro.. Ponlaud, Maine.