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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION’. ATLANTA. GA- TUESDAY SEPTEMBER T 1880
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PR. Wl£. PERKIN NIOOIAON DEAN,
P. 6. Box 2M. constitution Building.
TURKISH LINIMENT.
Thillialmcnt la guaranteed to
SRS&KSa
Turkish liniment ha* no equal. It can ba mad for
nan m beast, and usrsr Aula to tiro aatlaCtoUan.
Mr. M. n. McCItsky. of MeNult, says: "The Tark-
lik uainunt haa dona mo nor* food than any
mefllrlno I nrr mad." Dr. 3. A. Hnnnlrau. of
Athni. tsvs: "Tbo Turklih llnlmout la tho bait
^Irttoontrhavo over scon," for tala by drui^tau
R J&HItuiJtr.CO
IRON ROOFING
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MOORE’S
Pnrlkil Book -larrjalns ami Bailout ImmI,
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fbr aeronntanuand ImuIdmm tn«n. By B. V. Moore,
Pits'! Wootc'a Duilne* Unlvurhlir. Atlanta, (to.
iejpjnjp»;prlco•i.eo. For sale At the Untronlty,
^RBINALAONLY
BRADFORD,
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to Bradford Mill Co.
IllUkkliTaaaitt. CmOUmATI,A
Varna tbla pa par. oprt-wkym a 1 * w
DARBY 1
Oca Mark January luerutog la lSrO all
Brindy caiua shivering op tba Una mooring
dismally for something to set. It bad boas
a hard winter on cattle. Our paapla had not
then learned to aava food for tha oatlla to tha
extant tbeither hare tinea, and being In kha
ttausltory atage from “rung*” mathoda to plana
bener adapted to our changed eonntrr.thn poor
creatures had to nffer whlla their masters ox-
pe rim on ted.
Old Brindy] wae the property of an Impror
Ident neighbor of rare, end had (erred her
epprentlceehlp In the milk boalnem. Her
ion had bean tUaghtartd, and her milk had
been contribeted, all fbr the npportofaome
•lx or eeren towheaded children who regard
ed Brlndy aa a aort of god mother.
One of three children threw herahandfbl
of corn ehneke, end another took aeonplaof
nubblna from the leant pile left from laet
jear’e meager harreet, and the old cow
having almoet choked hcrialf eating them,
wrnt reeling down the Une, weak from or
hautlon, bnnger and expoenre.
Tha evening oloaed and and dreary. Som.
ber elonda bong law In tba bravura, and wild
gnrta awept thedaaortad Heidi, chilling to tbo
m.rrow every living animal. Many an old
cow lay down that night tad norer mao again.
During tha night it began ileeting—not
heavily, but luatanongh to walght tha pine
boughs and form long idolm on tba low aaraa
of the farm bonaea.
Old Brlcdy came not. The alckly light of
mornleg settled down to toother somber
dsy, aid arill tba old cow that had come np so
seven winters, fsllod to appear.
noticed it, end they were very
nneesy. Vbnt on earth had happened to
Brtndy. George and Jim started far tha
wroda to mo If tiny could And her.
Down by the c,press pond where the Yen*
>n berries, aid bamboos shono in
try scarlet among tha leiolea,
Shivering with cold, tbsy pushed aside
the Ice . covered gallbeny bush*
ea, and them, on ■ little knoll
by the footpath, waa aa MU • eight as the beys
aver aaw. With her head thrown back and
all brr bony lege atlflbned and etark Uy old
Brlndly. She bad died all ulont during tho
cold, dork nf "
looked upon
"Jiao a!” ,
mistaken, then, for thatplalntl. ,
from u little sbtveriog body, half bidden In the
bushes. It was old firlodly’s calf,
thajT
Foot little orphan! Only two daya
old! Tenderly they took it In their arms, rad
tbo motborleaa calf waa brought home week
end ehlverlngt nnd, al thoogh the mother mid
It waa more trouble then profit, the boyars-
solved to taka earn of It for llrmdly’s aake.
Worm gruel was made, and n nice, cosy place
In tbo corner sras prepared and Blindly*
motherless calf eras soon snoozing content-
taly.
1 don’t know what Induced them to eall
bkn Darby. They jolt happened to llko the
nemo, and by that euphonious cognomen he
sraa known OTaraltarwuda,
The sweat green grass sprung up on tho
young born, and the birds began to sing hope
fully. Tbo dreary winter was over, and Tlo-
leta end buttercups peeped fosth and bright
ened the world with a new Joy. Flooka of
robin redbreasts chattered merrily as they
gathered tha Moo gam harries, and yellow
Wanted lark* Infested tha oat Bold* whero
Ocorga and Jim labored during tha short
apriug days.
B ole and aat patiently waiting for
any were tha strings of wiggling little oat
Bah that they eairlad away with
them, Tba mosquitoes ware pretty
had smrsn nights whan tha horn owla hol
loaed loudest, but It wil a matter of rations
with George and Jim, and they bare all tho
annoyance of midges andmoequltoos fbr] the
gako of tceorlug enough of tha pollywog*
for a good warm break fast.
Bow about Darby? Well, ha grew and
thrived exceedingly. Ha sras never a stout
calf, but ba waa vtry tough. Early priva
tions had made him so. Ho had learned to
oat out of a bucket, and bo would suck and
Sputter and amack and trng his wsoly tali with.
enjoyment. His bright little oyos had a
yen aver dreamed of. One evening I took my
llitlo olatar, and wa went after the oort, l
driving Derby, and aha (hipping along bohlnd.
Wo got tho cart and rtartea off, she In the cart
and I walking beaido Darby and driving.
Unci# John—good old man, dud now—parted
with ns with many admonitions U£bo careful
und not get but.
About half troy to tho crock I decided that
no little dun ox conld outdo a strangling
young fellow, throe and a half feet high, like
I sraa; so I told alitor to hold tho Unco a minute,
and I would touch Dolby to lot a fellow got In
right. _
Up on to tho shaft I leaped, got half ov8t
the fore gate, one foot slipped and dug Darby
In the Hook, and Great Jemlnl! Tne little
woolly rascal stuck hit head down, and
with tall np and both hind foot kick
ing high at every leap ho began tbo wildcat
net that aver I have ridden. "Bangttyl
bsngity! bang, bang, bang!” went tba wheats,
and tbo floor of tbo eart Jolted loose, tho
ox bellowed with fur. Sister started to
drop through a hole in the floor, and
I grabbed her u I bnng luopondod in un
endurable equilibrium scroll tbo rolling and
that little villain making 2 40 plank road
time for tbo creek. There sras a path that
tbo cattle wont, to tho loft of tho rood sray,
tad n big tussock between, and tha yearling
dashed desvn that path and tumbled tbo cut
over tho tnmock, threw me in a paddle, end
loll little inter under tho Inverted curt body
with her head stack op between the plrak*.
In tbo general reversal of positions. Darby
was left with head tuned toward the cart,
where he stood eyeing tbo calamity that hod
overtook us.
Derby grow to baa most nsefal member of
tie family. Beeldu chasing Uttls sister over
n thru acre potato patch, ho got mad and
mads me got np and dost down the lane, but
we put up with llttiu eccentricities of temper
like that for tho aake of his general fidelity
and usefulness. Ah, if I bad all the com ho
hu pulled to mill I would soon bo a bloated
bolder. Tbo sweet, white oora meal,
to eat with It, and tha country bacon.
Yeancamtand wrntacd I gotaol sraa rather
lihamed to drtre Dai by by the house whore
■ay girl lived. I preferred to travel a more
circuitous path, aven if there srere logo acroao
It. I began to want a horse and to sreu boots
■with long legs to them. 1 began to cock my
bat aaaeil; on one aide of my head, aod search
In vain for the first incipient dawn of a pro-
•peotlve mtutacbo.
Then I learned to rmoko. t teamed with a
corncob pipe and some homemade tobaooo that
Uncle Sam gars me, and whan I had to drive
Darby to mill I look my comforter along. I
got awfully sick one time, and on another
occasion I act tho woods afire, and we had a
dickens of a time putting it out.
What drum* have I not dreamed white
driving that little ox along tho solitary roads.
Dreams whose realization wonld
have made me the mighty
boro of a wonderful romance,
and among them til was mixed up a pair of
nnfathohmbte bluo eyes and a wealth of
golden hair.
Sometimes tho half-wild cattle would ram
bellowing orar the ridge to pick a row with
Derby, and ha would bow bis nook and look
mad at the intruders, and I would gut light-
Wood knots to throw at them and would
finally succeed In driving thorn away. Then
I wonld fool like a great victor, ana Imagine
that 1 had all tha sire and bousing of n Na-
poleon.
Then there came a time of separation, The
did homo sraa sold.
Than they sold Darby.
We turned our tacos to El Dorado, whore we
hoped to mend our fortunes. Tho bluo oyos
and golden hair wars left behind. Only their
a rcious memory wars hidden away la a boy-
i heart, never to fade or perish.
ax with tha fielthftal and rath
ayes, like a second Roslnanto, wore sop-
anted from their diminutive Quixote.
Monlrean rams and went. Varied 1 doled-
tudeo overtook the boy who flaally dovolopod
Into a very ordinary man. Soanes of pias
tres mingled with rain. Tho oddltlseand
Strange happenings of tho lifo of n wanderer.
From Tampa’s silvery atiaad to whero the
bold peaks of Konnosaw loom against tho
misty horiton. Up and down tha wanderer
Wearily rambled.
At last I was constrained to visit the scenes
to memory most dear, the old (familiar paths
by boyish fact oo often trod. I looked ones
more in tho unfathenable eyes, oil that was
look In them, tor tha llttlo Mow seemed norer 1 loft of my early loro. The golden hair of
to recover from tha eflfaeta of that 11 ret dread- d»kar hue sow grown, caught not tha.suu-
full night when bis mother dted. light’s softer sheen as In daya of yoro. But
Tho boys rambodand brushed his’.shaggy
aider, bat they norer could make Darby took
alotk Ilka a more fortunate calf. His
hair waa dark undarn oath and reddish brown
on tbo surface, and he looked kinder varia-
S ated. Ho was a real funuylooktog calf, but
to boy a became wonderfully attached to him.
By and by whan summer came, Darby waa
given tho run of tha fields Jnst Ilka > grown
up row, and the cockle buns got In hiahalr
and George and Jim had to carry him regu
larly. But, although his sturdy logs grew
round ho never would look sluuk,
wavs the same little ftrxsy Darby.
irga first inggettod it, for Georgs was fa
•TADICER’8 aurantk
HtomfotgagDreasWta nwsSIJOssrksim
<k. f, BTADtCER, rvpmwfa I
•onto*. Jim seconded it, howsvfar, and dur
ing tho worm evenings In Indian aummar tha
boysbutitla Ughtoraod hast fire under a
giant red oak tree, and with a doll hatchet, a
broktn aaw and an sugar with
somo rusty nails they ceutractod a
block wagon. You know u block
wagon la mada with wheals sawn off a black
gum log, fastened to a wide axle. Tha boys
bad little time, for they had to nick cotton
end scratch ground peas in tho any nnd tho
Workshop was run of nights.
Alter ins wagon they constructed a yoke. It
waa a real little yoke for a single steer, sad tt
Was destined for Darby. Whan all was find
tha Utils ox waa anrptlaad on a Sunday whan
tbs keys hsmmad him np In > fsnea (am and
put u rope around tho llttia nuke where horns
ware to romatalttrtrard. Tho llttlo brawn oyos
wtre wide open, but the llttlo (fallow oeomol
to realise that hta playfellows meant him no
barm, and to a Ifaw weeks Darby would sot his
Sturdy logo wide opart and pull llko n real
old itaer at the bard placaa, whlla tho minia
ture Oregon wheels crooked beneath a tend of
ligbtwoad knot*.
The boys wore vtry proud of Darby, nnd
whan spring time came and two little page of
hems appeared, they srere carefully trimmed,
and the front wheals of an old baggy wore
iubsiitated for the block Oregon,
Other boys came to play with tho Brown
hoys. George conld ploy on a act or “qnllls,"
mada of six reads cut tho right tenths, n real
nice tune na eoetd rondo, "Games Oint
yon llellcr, 'Votton-Kye-Joe,” "Happy Hand,’’
and, "I am Dying, ■othar,' r ta beautiful stylo.
I sat s great admirer of George. Ho taught
■to to p ay o« this crude aort of flute, and are
toad to aaad tha maltew echoes (far away
among tha plae ridges, wken the light to tha
western hcarana hi read down to (dull red
glow and twtllght'a baby hour hovered above
tha dear plantation home. I llkfal Darby. 1
had never owned a real lire ox, and I
bargained and bartered end lay awake nights
trying ftr study out a plan fora trade. Attest
I grew so wrought np that I offered him tws
bogs, one was a brood sow that Uncle John
fats me, two grata, unfortunately of tha aaaaa
U ore plea lah inf lex, sad a huckhora handle
Pocket knife, und lima become tho proud poo-
are so r oi tbo little dun ax.
no was three yean old when I bought him,
but be wsi quite small to Ml an. Hu Uttta
herns bad coma o«t nteely, White Upped mod
jolly black at thahsse.
Tho llrowns toil Sts MtntiJ find Darby w*«
all they left. For a yearafterthaytefttleorgh
toad to write aa to a acrawllag, keyttb band,
and aril after hia pefc I never saw him more.
Mat years afterward I hoard Ural ha had grown
to bo a skilled mechanic lu his new homo.
Bat Darby sraa a treasure. I was mlUboy.
and for u long while I had
no out. Urole John had one |utt shoot small
enough, and I used to go over thsre-only a
* mile—borrow Us sort and drive homo to
Stole. Darby weald aat allowiBo to get I ala
SRj’u.*asiaa , “"““
the eyes, ah 1 they ware there.
Sixteen years I And there woo Darby, too.
Not the little dun ox of tho olden time, but
an old iron grey steer that a poor widow
woman inado a crop with this very year.
And now, what do you think of Darby?
M. M. Folsom,
routing Wa Own Most,
front the h'sfhvillo Union.
The undent adsga about tho filthy bird
nhloh besmirched lu own habitation finds loo
many applications In human existence. The
world ts full of msn-chronia grumblers or Doubt
ing Thomases—who And all things outside or iholr
own abiding places braullfol and attractive, and
who loss no opportunity for disparaging or oven
slandering the city, town and community In which
ibey lire. As u ruin this sort or people coaflne
Ihclr fault finding to too circle of their immediate
gel Into the newspapers, end than there Is u very
lively circus over tho aflktr. This hu Just hop*
pened down In Atlanta, where a Ur. Clayton, who
was engaged In tho lluuor business prior to the
postage or the prohibitum bill, put osn to pepor
and sent to a friend in Now York the following
bo put down as a
utting each other's
pbbls up Atlanta's
i done to a larga ax-
boom, tve hern r.ro occodylng u
rirlic over prohibition and ti»i
here In nil lUcs ir nl n rtati)
hourcs vacant: real citatcdepreclIKWWBBSB
or real estate increased to raise revenue: taxaa t
<we«rewhmjr»rto^hmt»^sij^arWtlfccj
throats our nclgbVIMRRHMMBI
trade, which hub nlreedy hecn done to «
tym.whifh she Will never regain, foe ■■
Ural while Atlanta gvowa wester nctgSBHBT
dries are growiag stronger. Birmingham hat
gained over MW In popolsUoa end Chattanooga
nearly aa much In the tan I waive months, frost
Altana, and it is estimated that our population
hat decreased 10,COO la the last sU or right
The friend to whom the letter wasaddrsossd
gave it to the Evening Dost, who primed It to Itt
editorial columns as o (Milan warning to ttimm
who hail an Ides lhat prohiblUoa wa- a good |
VhoJbsper reached Atlanta tn due limn ami
Mr. clay loo’s I Mo became t burden to himnPH
manta enough lot lck to the Mnllmema expressed
Ufe'dnSM'ira &S&S.*S
nthey were right. Tut CoxonTtfriorc
' sasnl and It took them lust ouo ley
arecrtlou atad* hr Mr.Clajtou
-U s Kith-the leading mcrohsuu
■MMw was good and Improving. A
dtuigcnt scarab revealed that there was iSrctbsn
two Hundred and flfty amply bouse- lu Atlanta,
andftwreamtaainad that the population haa not
tfacrearcd a particle. A rssunK-1 visitor from At*
fouls .who made active use of Uieopoortuuttyio
bntommmfomnnforiramfaraeflSectt of problb uton
JEAN PEGOLAN.
From Temple Car.
I.
lb* people n!U visit them tod lost* their
change wtth tea aocapaatt, but ri tt for
wmreblct for their own and thrir family^a sub-
< T^intaot < Mr Clayton, of Atlanta, thrall bo a
artrore srarwing toorery oue of the same sort of
evrrirsvs Tha truth rWrysotdom hurts. If At*
lama's eondlUon bad barn Ibtt pictured by Hr.
tsuyron, tba wwrld would toon have discovered It
without his assistance: nut when there was te
actual foundation for tha report outside of Mr.
(layscn't isnndlcrd brain. to k dnar mlnnte tbs
Ifalithrad etas tosh an injury to ths city where ha
bad tod, a good deal ef taaaay sssd a reder-loa
on bfonwtt ebarersar Ore brassvy and imeevilyof
pprposo that fas will dad it dlffiruHtoerererau.
'Tl'su dirty bird that fonts ttt own natt.''
Why has Softool
Baresre the OUpla Dcntlfrica of America? 81a-
ply bacaasa it la Impoatlbla te um It, cron for
a week, without perceiving Ho fay-clonic
upon tho teeth, tho gaw SnJ lis'broalh..
Jean Pegoten, former of Eyovottoo, Is In g
good humor this evening. Around btm tho
wind fo sighing among tho loaves of tha treeo
the melancholy song of antnmn, white tho low
son It sending its rod, level rays throngs tho
branches; tho sky Is dark blue, tho ieont—pen
otrotlog and spicy—of tho fallen loavog fills tha
fores*, und Joan Fagotto, moved half-unran-
sclouriy by the rips, mallow beau ty of nil around
him, touches bio good grey mare with hio whip
lightly to hurry her on her homeward way,
H te true that tha German army Is marching
on Paris; tons tbst the Prasotena have pillaged
s village here, burned a farmhouse there, and
Sven that they have shot corns Inoffentlre
peasants now snd then; but, after fall, what Is
that to Jean Pegoten?
Hlo horses, his cattle, his fields have not suf
fered from the marauders.
In the town where he boo Just sold bis crops
ho tow somo Prasrisno—und rosily they wore
not such monsters—but men like ounol vra
Just u he turns at tho Greix-Voite, the rib
logo with its high ehnreh tower, the wauthor*
rack on tbo top, turned to burning, molten
gold by the nys of tho tatting aun, moots his
eye.
At that sight Jean Psgolan smiles, already ha
tattoo In Imagination tho good soup smoking
on tho table in expectation of his arrival, snd
hia mouth waters.
“Alloons! Hue te Grlse.”
But te Grits stop* ssnddenly. A Gorman
ald-de-camp has ridden np, snd forced to drew
rein by tho narrownooo of tho road, and Jean
Pegoten, being rather alow In turning out for
him, thooffloerrefoea his whip snd tho lash cuts
across the former’s foco from ear to ear. Cer
tainly the farmer of Eyovottoo has a moat pro
found respect for tha conquerors of bio native
land, but at this Mow rur‘ *" " ” * —
Standing np In .his cart, 1
Interest.
Tke heavy wooden soot comes crashing down
upon the head or tho Prussian, who
off his bis hons with s broken skull.
In tho forest tho treeo are tall, 1110000 broods
over all, tho moon te tiring slowly shove tho
horizon from behind a veil of light, transpa
rent clouds.
Pegoten, his rage gone a* quickly ss it came,
gtencas fearfully shout him.
Tho Presslan has tumbled head foremost
Into a dry ditch, bio bools high in ths air, his
fare burled in tho mud at the bottom. There
In small fear of hia returning to relate this
adventure to his brothers to arms.
"Allonsl Hue 1s Grira!" And the mare
bounds under tho lash and rata off for homo
st gallop.
n.
They hare all bean driven like a flock of
sheop Into tho ohuroh—the peasant* of tbo
ntlguberhood.
They are huddled together In tho nave of
the bnildlng—rams very rale, others very rod
—thethroate of all choked wtth foot. Through
tbo tell, unpainted window! of tho church*
credo light folio, catting Urge bleak squares
upon tbo redo blouses snd lighting up cruelly
those faces, of which terror hat drown ths lips
and pinched the nostrils. Above tbs alter, be
tween two unllghtod wax tapers, hugs a groat
plaster lmaze of tbo crucified Saviour; its out
stretched aims soomed to bo blessing those be
low. From tbs graveyard surrounding tha
ehnreh como ths heavy, pungent odors of
tho dying leaves, mingled with tha shattering
ofUio sparrows quarrelling among ths tomb.
Tbo evening before a Gorman patrol had
‘ at the crossroads of tho Croix-Vorto
Uypoao-
ditch—murdered by on* of tho cowl
ante without doubt.
At dawn a battalion of Saxon chasseare hu
marched into Kyerettea, and, by order of tha
commander, all the man round about have boon
driven Into and ahnt np in the ehnreh. Thoy
have been given till noon to discover and do-
liver up thoafotasin to Jostles. That time past,
»t found, tho village with
and tbo murderer not
Itaoutlylngforms will booet on fire.
Half put oloven hu jut boon tolled from
tbo olock tower. Oh, If they, tho peanuts,
only know who this assassin, this murderer,
this bandit was, who hod brought them Into
this predicament, how gladly wonld thoy do-
liver him up. If necessary, they would hug
him with their own hands. But, alu,'thoy do
nteo,'thoy do
lo who conld
free hit neighbors am
embarrassment, who ranld sty to thorn with
truth: "Tho murderer, tho assassin, tbo bsniit
—It la I—behold Mm!” ho it very oaroful not
touttaraword. Seated to tha shadow of one of
the confessionals, his cap drawn down tightly
over his eyes, riek with fosr, Jean l’ogoten
thinks of hit wife—so young ud enticing;. of
bis raws ruminating peace fully in ths meadow;
of hte hay hoisting through the windows of
his granary; and no tolls himself that to die
now la to leave all thoso good gifts of Provi
dence for ever.
Would he not therefore be very stapid to
confers'.' After oil, ha did not moan to kill tho
Prussian; ho had no Idea ho struck so hard.
And'srith these arguments ho qnlote hte eon-
•draco.
If the lot to die falls on an innocent man,
why, to much ths worse for tha poor wretch—
yet, everybody for himself in this tolflth
world.
Ding, dong, ding. Elovon und threu-qusr.
ten ring out from the ohuroh steeple.
Only u quarter of an hour left thorn to miko
up thtlr minds.
Tha vibration! of tbo boll die slowly away,
ud silence llko u grout dark bird folia down
upon tho vaulted room. Then tho regular,
heavy tread of a company of soldlare te heard
outside—a harsh voice calte “Halt!” und tha
butts of tha muskote foil with a hollow clang,
tog sound on the ground. Dssldodty Jt 1a time
for tha prisonors to tha ohuroh to discover the
murderer.
Now one among thorn whispers a name. K
it only • whisper, yot somehow every on* hso
, y, quickly thorn about who
hare no desire to ba shot or to mod out of
house und homo taka tt np—it resounds hem
every old*.
Jcu Pegoten draws a gnat breath af roltot
It is aa* hi* name that ha hears. It is that of
•poor wretch, half woodcutter, half psacher—
a ’’red” who voted non at tha ptoMadto. Tha
miserable aara hat a sickly wife and three
•mall children, of whom the oldest one hu
jut bemn to run about atone.
Tho death of tho fathor will leave hte family
to die of hunter. But it h* did not absolutely
kill the Brutiiu, he la copsblo of doing it.
Then, too, ho is u beggar—u thief—snd the
others are rich formers, honest tiUtrs of tho
ttm.
Yes, justice before morvy.
In vein thounhoppy wretch protests hte inno
cence of ths crime, affirming that on tho dsy
ud evening of the murder ho did not leave
his hut. Ho bad hurt himself ths dsy before
in felling s tree. AH dsy loog be ley on hte
bed; they era send for his wife, aha will boar
witnrto that ha is tailing tha truth. In vatu ha
drags himself on bb knee* from this one to
tho other, preying tn n voice snlfoiatod with
agony for merey, for pity, not tor himself, but
for his sickly wife, hte children of ouch a ten
der age. Silence, stern, inexorable, replies to
hte pro vers.
From his corner, bathed in sweet, Jean Page-
Ian listens to the condemned men's pleading,
dreading that tha pro yen of the unhappy
wretch may succeed to meltleg hte hearers'
bud hearts, and ho may sbtalu the mercy for
which ha implores—a useless fear on PegoUu's
part. Tbo peasants an only loo rolls rod te
bars at last found stray rat of thair difficulty.
They are sDxisusto bavodeoo with the mutter,,
to bo rid of the right af thin stun, who Ira aria
there touring hte hair and shrieking ont corses
on them for their tolfithntm ud cruelty. And
tbo great white Imago of Christ bends nvar
them al<; hte giacieas head crowned by tha
ctirl thorns.
Now Ike porta’s af the rfanrvh door era sud
denly thrown srida open, showing the lattare
outside bristling with bayoaata. Ia tha door
way appeals ths platoon of execution, thrir
gtmsifai«t«tMrWitft. ditty nthtwWeh
falls down from Shove. Twelve o'clokrlng*
out from tho belfry. ... , . • •
A volley of mnsketiy rings out, followed by
o short, panting shriek, sod tho corpse of the
beggar lies there in tho dusty road, hie blood
gleaming in the sunlight stains the solos or
the shoes of the soldiers as they wheel shout;
while tho mounted Gorman officers look
dowu scorn
body of thi
tog like a i
III.
Jean Psgolan Is returning to bis farm,
Baprieti, how pleasant it it to be home again.
The hons are comfortably scratching to the
barnyard, the pigeons cooing on the roof, tho
ducks lazily swimming up rad down tho
**Frem the outhouses, which have fortunately
escaped the depredations of tho Prussians,
comes tho grve lowing of the miloh raws, to
which tho strident neighing of La Griao re
sponds. Tho sheave- of wheat'upon ths gra
nary fleor fill the inclosnre with a warm, yel
low light, above tho ptled-up hay threaten to
burst through ths low window*.
Tho farmor of Eyovottes gives himsolf a
shake; he fools that his shirt is still damp upon
bl* back. Ho enters his house. A woman—
It la bis wife—Is kneeling, weeping by tha
bed-side. She raiser at tbo sound of tho
opening door. „ ,
“Whit, hove they not ohotyon?” oho ex
claims. “It was you," oho continue*, ‘ who
kiUe'd the Pruirian at tho Croix-Verte. After
von were gone I fonod^he blouse you wore—
there was blood on it.”
“Keep quiet, hoop quiet. It Is quite true.
But you will not betray mo?”
“Hove no fear; bat you,’’ returned hlo wife,
with a Shudder, "you—you let another man
bo shot to your place?”
“It sras not myfault. It was tbs malrle who
Dido the choice.”
“Joan Pcgolan, you wretch; you wicked
coward, adieu."
Pcgolan hie fallen Into* chair. Deep down
in his heut there stirs a fooling akin to re*
morse. And os the curt drive* off, carrying
away with it hia wife, wno lias left him to
return to her parents, he remains huddled up
in bis chair. Evening draws on. TheStxon
battalion marches away to tho sounds of fife
snd drum.
The wife and children of the murdered man
are left ts die of hunger. But by this time
Jean Pegolw had recovered hia serenity.
After all, those bandits of Prussians did not
bum hte farm.
THE YELLOW FEVER.
Excitement Created by tha Appearand of
tliq Favor at Biloxi,
Mobile, Ala., September 1.—Health Officer
Scales, of Mobile, and President Holt, of tbo board
of health of Louisiana, have tonight certified that
the sum or evidence Avon the yellow lever as
causing two deaths to Biloxi, Miss., Sunday, and
that then are eight cases now there. Mobile au-
thortliao nave declared a quaretlne, placed in-
-pectin* officers on trains, and all communication
is shot off. BUoxl Is for tho present discontinued
as o railroad station,
Moxtoovxey, Al*, September 1.—[Special]
Tonight Mayor Been Issued a quarantine procla
mation against Biloxi, ud detectivesaro ratio
protect avanura of approach to the oily.
New Orleans, September 2.—Great excite
ment was crested today all along tholoko
•boro, when it became known that Dr*. Holt,
Solomon and Rcalo had declared tho caws of
fever at Biloxi to bo yellow fever. At Biloxi
a psnlo prevailed, ud hundreds of persons
ctme to this city by train to night. Thoy say
thoy do not fror yellow fever, but are not will-
tog to suffer tha inconvenience of quarantine.
Ocean Spring* ud Bay St. Louis have alrasd?
established a quarantine against Bi
loxi. Than Is • wide difference
of opinion, even among physicians,
u to tho ohoreeter of tbo fever prevailing to
Biloxi. Yeetcidsy a circular wa* dtetrlbotea to
Biloxi, eopic* of whioh were nut to tbil city,
declaring that the fever prevailing there WAS
not yellow fever. Thl* circular wfo signed oy
two well known and reputeblo physicians of
hts c By, now there, one of whom sent n dls*
rich to th o I’crayunc, In Whioh ho says:
Uy request of On. Lemon and Mayhln, attending
physicians, I visited today feveral oases of fever at
Point Cadet Near tbs shrimp lactory I found up
and about nine persons—five adults ud four chil
dren—who were presumed to have bad yellow
— sgod four years, wot taken slok
... nmufamiof ordinarymalirtal
fercr. rtonoof the nine ooQvaiMoenta presented
ny marked lynptr— -* —- - *-—
littaso lasted from •!
jatlents recoverlni
one woman recorti— ...
were two deaths last Hunday, occurring la doll-
symptoms of yellow ferer. Tha
> pinion of tha attending physicians that tha
la malarial fever, and believe that a qusr-
anUre^ajsJnst Biloxi would ba ridiculous sad
New Orlearh, September 3.—Tha health
least, landed there
away by a rammiuci
tbs road between New
established official quarantine against BUoxl, ox-
—- Mississippi City.
outgo si ery, Ala., September 2.—[Spe
cial.]—Dr. J. B. Gaston received n telegram
this afternoon, from Dr. Kstchum, pres
ident of the Mobile board of health, stating
that tbo disease now reging at BUoxl,1s beyond
queition, yellow fevir. A telegram was alto
received from Biloxi, stating that tbo pooplo
were dstorting th* plica, and that k regular
at-mpede waa ooeurrtog.
Pensacola, Fla., August 30.—The baric
less, front Aspluwall, for Philadelphia, wa*
Off the entrance to this port. She had lrat on*
of her crew with favor on paougo and hu
•oven more down with It. She woo seeking
attUUno*. A board of health offloora ordered
a steam tug to tow tho vessel to Ship Island
quarantine.
Every Woman Knows Them,
The human body la muon like a good elock
or watch In Its movements; If one goo* too
•low or too fast, so follow all tha others, and
bud time results; If on* organ or sot of organa
works imperfectly, perversion of faucriosal
effort of all thoorgrailararetofoUow. Haora
It la that tha numerous ailments which mtke
woman’s life mlsorablo are the direct - issue of
the abnormal action of the uto to* system,
For all that numerous eluss of symptom*—and
every woman knows them—there te oa* on-
failing remedy. Dr. Pierce’s “Favorite Pre
scription,” tho favorite of the sex.
“Yoc sit on your horse like a butcher,” said
a per t young German officer, who happened to b*
of royal blood to a veteran general who wot some
what bent from sge. "It D highly probable," re-
•ponded tho old warrior with a grim smlla: -'It U
i.r psuro all ■' Hie I've bran leading crivts to tho
•teughter.”
Palpitation of tho heart, norvouraeaa, trem
blings, neivous headache, cold hand! and [rat,’;
pern to tho back, and other forms of woakoeai,
are relieved by Carter's Iron Pills, made’
epecially for tho blrod, nerves rad complex-.
Ion, r*
BrwATWt Mawone, playing billiards tha'
other cveniog before o number or bb elraircrs,
tried a difficult shot and Just missed malting U. Ho
looted disgusted. "Tbst was magnificent oven If
It didn't count, general," said a friend. “No. sir,"
raid the little mtu sagely, “nothing ts magnificent
the, misses.”
Men, woman and children take Dr. Bully
Cough Syrup and quickly gat wall. 23 cents.
Oumov?”
Coney Is
•How did you find tba water?” "Find the water?
Why, you can’t miss It. It’s rilaiuuird the tstend.”'
—Trass lutings.
I.KMON ELIXIR.
Front tha Land of laiamt.
An f*d etttasa of my town trod u old drufgttt,
•rid to mu today tbst ho bad long bean looking fee
a liver medicine that would take the place ol
calomel, acnductngall It* goad affitcla and none at
Its bad. Injurious corutflutloual effects. After a
thrroegh trial he bad grand it In Dr. Mostar*
Lemon Elixir. I haveeord, asyoukuow, large .lots
rf th* Elixir store last agriag, ami sever sold s
lint -
“1 All GOING-TD THEFBONT."
Doath rtf General Frank Cheatham fat Na*S.
Nashville. Tcnn., Soptcmbfr 4 —[Sosclal 1
Ginorri B. F. Cheatham, postmaster, diel
TatliM?suddenly fat half.prut one o’dock thte
Nashville, Tenn., September 4.—[Son.,
tel.]—No man In Tennessee was more loved
than General Frank Cheatham, and hte death,
which occurred at an early hoar this moraine*
bis caused most general sorrow. Hoottogso?
almost every business Interest hove been bold
to express regret. A Urge cttlionV
was held at the merchants’ exchange to-
to porfect arrangements for ths ,bidv
lying in state until Monday, and for tbo
funeral obsequies that day. Tho funeral pra-
cession will probably bo tho largest ovbr then
in the city. General Cheatham's death wso
that of a ooldlcr. Ho was lotting to hte
chair, having Just colled hlo wife to hte iMsl
A parsing vehlclo on the street made a In mb-
lfo sound. HI* eye* opened ud ho reused hte
head:
“There go tbo troops,” ho arid. “Bring mo
roy horse; I am golngio the front.” '
Hlo head fell and ths veteran h*d goho to
to ths front. . ,
The mooting tonight adopted resolution* ox-
pressing the sentiments of the pooplo, Ona
resolution asks that General Cheatham'* widow
be appointed hte onoooaoor in tho pooMBoo,
This resolution oxpromo* ths sense of ths
whole state.
Tiro Negroes Hanged.
Memphis, Toon., September 3.—Jtmso
Simpson rad Patterson Bell, negroes, wore htngod
today st Station, Crittenden county, Arkansas,
Thoy both declared their Innocence, although they
confessed. Tbo drop was sprung at ins) p. uL, and
to i” minutes both were pronounced dead, their
necks having bran broken.
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