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1888.
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(Continued from last week.)
A SIX NOT TO BE FORGIVEN
BY LIZZIE W. CIIAMPNKY.
After- the close of service tho superin
tondent of the Sabbath school was intro
duced, and Halsey was invited to take
the Bible class. Ho found himself con
fronted by three seats full of whispering and
giggling young misses, who relapsed into ap
parently awe struck silence upon his intro
duction. Prominent among them were the
two Misses Pearce, and Halsey remarked in
considerately: “I have brought your lantern,
as you suggested. It is behind tho outer |
door.” His announcement was greeted by a
violent blush on the jiart of the older Miss
Pearce, and a giggle from her sister, which ,
started a subdued titter throughout tho en
tire class. Halsey dimly perceived that Miss
Pearce looked upon his at tendance upon her
the night before as a romantic secret, which i
! his too public return of the lantern had
• thoughtlessly divulged. After the opening ■
hymn the doctor’s niece left tho organ and
took her seat before him. The look of sur
prise and shy appreciation .which ho had
. thought he had discovered in her face tho i
I night before, had given place to a
’ puzzled doubt, a grave wonder which i
I showed that something in tho morn
j ing’s sermon had troubled her. Halsey’s
; glance fell before her earnest one—h”
I could not confront those questioning, truth.
loving eyes. The lesson of the day told of |
the early inhabitants of Canaan. As they
read tho text he asked himself what ho knew
or could tell them of the Girgashites, th' l
Amalekitcs, the Perizzites, tho Hittites, the
Amoritcs, the Hivites and the Jcbusites. Al '
the close of the reading the doctor’s niece '
asked a question: “The Bible Dicti<‘nary says
that the descendants of these tribes are the
Bedouin Arabs. Will you toll us something
of your experience among them?”
‘•Who told you that I have had any .such
experiences?” ho asked, smiling, while a fear
of detection seemed to numb all his facul
ties;
I “In your very interest ing talk at prayer
j meeting last evening you described thoJeri
' cho road, and incidentally referred to tho i
i Bedouins in away only possible to cnc who ;
had seen both.”
; Halsey breathed more freely. Jl’’
; thought he could explain al] satisfae-
i torily, though it was certainly unfortun- i
ate that he had given Mr. Beecher'.;
j description of the Jericho road in the words ;
lof an eyewitness. “My Palestine tour was i
' a very meager one,” he apologized. “It was :
i only one of Cook's vacation tickets. I cannot {
j presume to any deep knowledge of the man -j
j ners and customs of tho Orientals,” and then
’ as he had recently read Bayard Taylor's :
i “Land of the Saracen" and Warner's “Ju tho |
j Levant,” he proceeded to give interesting de-
I scriptions of imaginary adventures among
■ ! the Arabs. The superintendent’s bell sounded
i as he was describing a bazar at Damascus,
I and to his confusion ho found that he had not
touched upon the lesson, or given- any cthno-
■ logical information concerning the Jebusites
■andthe Girgashites. Nevertheless, tho fact
i remained that the class had been vastly cn-
R tertained. He had ascertained, too, by a
roundabout questioning, of which he was
heartily ashamc'l, that however conversant
tlie doctor’s niece might be with other cities,
she had never been in New York, except to
pass from the Grand Central to th-- Jersey
City depot, and had never heard any of th.-
Now York ministers.
*n the afternoon Halsey walked over
I to the parsonage, hoping to have a chat
, | with Orient. Instead of this the doctor re-
■ cciVed him in his study and talked divinity
' until Hulsey was in a cold perspiration, it
was only by the ! harpest exercise of his fac
ulties and by constant defereC c to hii
I senior's opinion® upon all pointsV dogma
. that ho escaped suspicion.
, After an hour of this ordeal Halsey issued
| from the study, feeling that he had under
*’! gnno the horrors of tho inquisition. All sport
L . . had vanished from tho situation; lie was a
guilty criminal who had bas L I his de. v
tives momentarily, I.nt who v.oul I l esur< ’.'
] dragged down sooner or later, and that with
s ; out mercy. He caught a glimp <4 his face
| in the mirror in the hail hutrack and v. :s
‘ startled by its haggard expr<> :< a. He ha I
d ; taken his walking stick, when a burst of song
c floated out from the drawing room. It was
i “Jesus, Lover of My Soul,” sung to Abt's
II sweetest of melodies. The doctor, laid a de-
i taining hand upon his arm.
! “It is our family custom to spend the Sab-
■ bath afternoon in a service of song: will you
| not join us?”
“1 do not sing.” Halsey replied, “but it
■ i would be o privilege to listen.” He took a
I seat near the door; his entrance was so noiso
' loss that tho young girl suited at the piano
; did not heed it. She sang on, hymn after
j hymn, and a great healing balm swept over
i his tortured nerves. “Flee like a bird to tho
' mountain,” brought the sharp tears to his
: eyes, for was he not “weary of sin,” weary of
this miserable subterfuge and refuge of I.is?
Had they been alone, he could have risen and
throwing himself upon her mercy, have con
fessed everything! bul the good doctor sat
- therOi hineficcV aiiu UiJ>Vi:;pecting; and wh-n
his niece rose at tho close of the hymn mid ro
' i gardefl him for the first time, ho could only
I thank her in a choked voice.
j ‘I am a wretch,” he said to himself, as ho
strode along the country road, a Jii ?r,
i striking vindictively nt the t\i
P : stalks with his cane. “No punishment is too
I bad for me, and I have brought upon myself
F the sharpest retribution that man cm scTe,-
r —that of turning away from the Woman
| he loves, without making an effort to win
S ' her.”
i The deacon met him at a Jittle distance
from his own gate. He had evidently walked
- out tn meet him. “You have made a tre
mendous bit,” he said, rubbing his haudfc
gleefully; “there’ll bean outpouring to-night,
such as Ramoth Gilead has never known.
The people are beginning to gather already.
Tho shed is e'en almost full of vehicles (he
pronounced the word, “ve-hic-lcs”), and moth
er, she’s anxious as can be for fear you won't
L get a good cup of tea D fore prcaohing tim<\
. i Brother Sloeumbe and I have dt-eided to call
! a business m-•«‘ting of the parish for to-mor
! row morning, so that you can have our do
cision before you go. There’s a train that
leaves in the afternoon, awl you must staj
over for that.”
“I don’t think I can,” Halsey replied, “]
had planned to leave by the early morning
I one.”
) “That won’t do at all.” replied the deacon.
“Folks are set on coming to-morrow and
• i bringing their lunches, and having a real fcl
i lowship meeting, and hearing you once again,
k ■ and you mustn’t disappoint them. There's
j- that limb of a Job Johnson ringing that bell
1 for service, and it lacks a minute and a half
* of the time, and you haven’t e’t but one
; waffle.”
' Halsey rose from tlie table, hurried to his
’ j room, and turned over his notebook. Here
j was Rev. Joseph Cook’s conversion of Ger
man metaphysics into Christian apologetics.
?’o one would understand this but the Nlisse®
i Pearce who had been to Concord. They
j would exj er-t him to wait upon them at their
t i homo after service, and discuss philosophy
with them, awl if there was one thing which
> he was mdro determined upon to escape than
another, it was this knight errantry of the
' hmolry lantern. lie turned over the leaves
* of his note books rapidly. Here were ser
mons by Chancellor Crosby and Bishop Coxc,
by the incumbent of the “Little Church
round the Corner” and by Andrew Jackson
Davis. Here was one preached b\’ Evangelist
Moody in .Madison Square Garden, and
others by young Mr. Spurgeon at the Acad-
, <my of Music, and Rabbi Gotthcil at the
synagogue. “I cannot bear to pleaso them
any further,” he said to himself. “This
I farce must end at once, and I will end it
with my own hand.” He deliberately
aelected a s -rmon by the Rev. R. Heber
Newton, which had drawn upon that gentle
man the anathemas of his brothci’ clergy
men.
“There,” he thought, “I shall now be de
ncunccd as heretical both bj’ the doctor and
I • e bad the gra< •• to cut my
own throat,” It was characteristic of the (
troubled state of his mind that he had come |
to consider his own interests at stake and had
quite forgotten how those of his friend Steele i
would be affected by his action. Tho deacon
and his wife had left. Tlie bell had ceased I
tolling, and aware that he was ]ate, Halsey ;
I hurried along the now deserted road. He i
had nearly reached the church when ho over- i
took Orient, who was walking rapidly alone, i
without a hat, but with a shawl of China |
crepe thrown over her head and shoulders in I
away that reminded him of the graceful I
draperies of the Greeks or the veils of east- '
ern Women. They were both surprised, but
she recovered first. “Unde felt ill after sup
per,” she said, “and I walked over alone.”
“I am glad I overtook you,” he replied;
“you must let mo see you home after ser
: vice.”
••It is not. far, and I am not afraid, but I'm
glad that I happened to meet you, for I have i
not had an opportunity to tell you how much |
I have enjoyed your sermon. When I think .
that you were a blacksmith's apprentice, and i
then consider what yon have made of your
' self, I cannot help admiring your genius.
Yes, you must let me call it so. That de-
■ script ion which you gave us last night of the
Jericho road was nothing less. Uncle said so
|as wo rode homo. He said it was fully equal
to some things of Mr. Beecher's, and lam
‘sure that it is a great compliment fora
young man. Then what opportunities you
have had! I was born in Smyrna, while m/
I parents were spending a year abroad, but
they brought me hflmo a baby with only mj
name as a souvenir of my Old World birth.
But I have always lM?en wild to return to
live in some one of those Eastern countries
which you have visited. I Lojxj you will tell
i us more about them to-night.”
“Orient,” said Halsey, in his despera
tion, for tlie first time venturing to use
her name, “I am a wretch, unworthy
to speak to you, and too cowardly to
confess tho whole truth, for if I did you
would spurn me, and I could not bear that.”
They had reached the church door. Orient
cotfid not reply, but she gave him her hand
with a look which said, “I believe in you, in
spite of yourself.”
Halsey hardly know what he read: ha
spoke vehemently, crushing his own heart
and taking a saY*age delight in the idea that
ihe was destroying his prospects. It was only ‘
a poor atonement, but it was something. Ho
strode down the aisle after service, hardly
recognizing those who pressed forward to
speak to him. He informed the deacon men
daciously that there was a matter upon
which it was necessary for him to speak with
‘.lie doctor that night, and brushing by tho
?I<ler Miss Pearce, who was holding her lan
tern with a meek air of expectation, he wait
ed among the young men who were grouped
by the steps for the appearance of Orient.
The lamplight was reflected from her silken
shawl, and it seemed to him with a radiance
, like that from tui angel's wing. Tho ya u hg i
men made Way for her to pass, and L. .soy i
irow her arm within his own. “I shall hear |
my condemnation from her lips,” he thought, i
and !)■' braced himself mentally to enduro it, ;
‘ with the assurance that whatever her blnma ,
it would bo less than his desert. Ho was si
lent and she did not speak until they bad 1 -ft
all companions and turned into tho. lane lead
ing to the parsonage; then she said: “I un
derstand what you said to me before church
now, and I honor the. man who has the cour
age to stand by his own conviction, even in 1
the face of certain rejection and tho ruin of j
his worldly prospects. It was grand to see
you standing there and avowing views wbi. h
could not agree wit h those of your congrega
tion. You reminded me of the young con
fessors before the Roman tribunals in the
time of the first persecutions. And I want
■ you to know t hat whatever may be the action
of the church upon the morrow, I admire
i you and respect you with all my heart.”
ILiI < ‘s heart gave a bound. This
y<mng yirl loved him; ho was sure of it, ■
I and everything else wont for nothing. I
What was the ]?art ho had ployed? *
Nothing. And before ho realized what
( he wa.-> doing be had told her that her good j
opinion Yvas more Io him than that- of all the 1
world beside; that wit h her love hecou! I facd ;
c'uituii; -ly and scorn, let it come from what- ;
, ever quarter, and it seemed to "him as he
spoke that he was really a martyr for the
j truth, ia t ad of the poltroon which he had i
. calk d himself a few momeuts before. If she
• would only respond with a like assurance he
: uoubl make a clean breast of everything. But
Orient only replied reassuringly that, there
I would be no con: nmelv, and that even if
Rainoth Giler.d did not give him a call, her
t father's opinion of him would not !<»lessened.
’ “lb' has it great deal of influence with tho
I board," she added, “and he has some nice
j ‘ appointment in view for you. Ho wanted
me to come up here on purpose to hear you
t prcr.eh, and he was very curious for me to
giv-> him my opinion of you. He. seemed tc
1 think that you were still an invalid, and ho
n will be glad to know that you are so strong.
s I suppose it yvhs your sea voyage and foreign
I travel that benefited you.*'
, ' A deadly certainty grew upon Halsey’s
? mind. He had never heard Orient’s family
name mention’but ho was sure now that
, tli’ • was Dr. (’orcor.m'sdaughter, and that he
t ha I supplanted his friend. He was not pre
pared for this, and he tried to put the convic
. j tioii from him—to believe that it was not so.
’ j “Orient," he said, as the clock struck, “can
; you believe that wo have actually been ac
quainted only twenty-five hours and about
’ j tho s uno number of minutes?'’
( “Oh, it cannot be possible,” she exclaimed;
f. “what an imprudently short acquaintance to
1 become engaged upon. But I know your
whole life from the time you were a black
x smith's boy to tho present, and all your wan
! darings in Palestine.” Halsey winced, but
j did not interrupt her. “And father knovzs
t you so thoroughly and respects you so highly,
and both he and mother have talked to mo so
. much about you. When I came back to my
■ room it was full of reminders of your pres
’ ! cnee. That explanation of the unpardonable
. 1 sin which you left on my desk was a masterly
( piece of reasoning. And all the notes which
1 yon made in my books wore interesting to
( me. though I confers that I was indignant
L ' enou‘.;h at first to think that you had read
i my silly jottings. 1 w.i; not so prim as I
seem 'd to be when 1 declined corresponding
, with you. for I was secretly pleas ’d that you
, had learned to care for me in such an odd
way. Oh! indeed 1 assure you that I would
1 never have fallen in love with you in this
j disgracefully precipitate, way without that
rr , long mental preparation.”
3 | Cicarlj- it vras no time now for Halsey to
( ' explain that he had no connection with tho
j ' past she treasured. He accepted the situa-
, ) tion recklessly, with all the advantages
( which it conferred upon him. “So the ac-
j tual does not come up to your ideal?” ho ;
I asked.
“You arc very different,” she replied, mu- :
singly, “not a bit as I had imagined you. I
You are very worldly looking. I never j
would have thought you a minister if I had
\ I met you anywhere else; but then you are
. ; handsomer than I expected, and so wonder
fully talented. I am proud to think you
should care for llttlo me. And I, no doubt, I
| am very different from what you imagined. ;
Are you greatly disappointed?” - 1
j Os course Halsey protested that he was ;
■ t 1 not,- and he parted from her at the parson- 1
r age gate with many assurances of his devo- ;
r ‘ tion; and, however false their relations to
s each other, these at least were genuine.
111.
Halsey sat thinking deeply far into tho
4 ; night. He reviewed every possible plan for :
! avoiding confession and for keeping up bis '
- i assumed character, but he saw that this was i
I impossible. Orient had told him that she
_ was to return home upon the morrow, and he
e had agreed to accompany her. On the jour
i ; ney the explanation insist lie made. Every
s moment of delay made it more difficult, and
t lie bitterly regretted that he had not Lee.i
- ; more honest, with her. However, to have
i- firmly made up his mind tothrovof? tho
. mask was something of a relief and he awoke
_ the next morning with a hopeful fc ding, and
i his usual confldeice that some way tilings
- ; would come out nght.
I i As he was not to Jay aside his rolo
during the morning, he determined to
deepen the good impression which he hr.d
made upon Orient, and to select the Sermon
which he was to preach before the fellowship
meeting solely with reference to her tastes.
Ho hesitated some time between “Buddha
and hi.s Philosophy of Despair,” a di. course
of Dr. Newman's, and “Tho Parable.-, of tho
Talmud,” by the Rev. Charles Eaton, but
finally settled upon the first as more compli
mentary to her intellect. He was a lit’.’. • dis
; turbed to notice, on taking his place in the
pulpit, that Orient was not in the ch« :r, the
eldest Miss Pearce occupying her place nt
the organ. All through tho sermon b kept
his eyes fixed upon the door, hoping to see
her enter, but only to lx? disappointed. Ho
knew, too, from tho strong stare with which
his hearers confronted him, that his audience
did not care a penny for Buddha or the re
ligion of India. Only Miss Pearce scorned in
I in the least interested, for she had just read
i “Mr. Isaacs,” and had, liesido, her reputation
as a philosopher at stake. The business meet-
I ing was called immediately after tho s rmon,
and Halsey, l<*aving it to its deliberate n ■ ns
to his eligibility, hurried over to the parson
age. He was informed by the servant that
Miss Corcoran had left town on the noon
train. He was struck with sudden apprehen
sion.
“I understood that she was going on the af
ternoon train.”
The servant believed that she did intend to
do so, but had changed her mind. Iblsey
next asked after tho doctor. He had driven
hi.s niece over to the station and had not yet
returned; ho would come soon; would j.”t the
gentleman wait? Halsey concluded tb.it he
would do so and was shown into the •! >ctor’.s
study. A volume of sermons by Henry Ward
Beecher lay upon the desk, oikh to the very
one which he had abridged for his • rnyer
meeting talk. The doctor had evidently
looked it up from a haunting suspicion that
its resemblance to Beecher’s style was :;ot en
tirely accidental. Orient's sudden leave tak
ing was explained; she had found this, nnd il
was enough. She did not wish to sec bin?
again. He rose quickly and left the hous •. not
caring to face the doctor now. He w.dked
across the fields to the deacon’s hoi;lt
was deserted, for the discussion over l.b rasa
has very warm and tho meeting m t yei
over. He sat down and wrote an impas
, sioned lotte” to Orient, making a clean breast
of everything and begging her mercy. As
’he sealed it he. noticed that the congregation
were di. porsing, and the deacon soon after
eut,ere<l the room.
“I'm powerful sorry,” ho said, “but there
was a good deal of feelin’, and the motion t<’
give you a call was lost. You see your ser
mon yesterday evenin’ wasn’t con: idered
quite orthodox.”
Halsey wrote the doctor an explanation
for the sake of bis friend’s good n'amo. but lie
did not feel obliged to confess to the deacoiij
who conveyed him to the station, and was
■ profuse in hi.s regret over the vote of the
■ church. At the station ho mailed hi.s letter
j to Orient, ami returned to his friend Steele,
j whom he found in a much more h<>peful
I state. The fever had been broken, but he
| was very weak. “You must help us keep
i his mind in a cheerful, calm com’.!tion,”
tho local doctor said to Halsey,
before lie went up to his room. When An
drew Steele inquired about his friend’s ex
perience at Ramoth Gilead, Halsey told him
i that he had explained the state of affairs to
i the pastor and had simply read three scr
-1 mens; that of course under tho circumstances
there could be no call to the pastorate, nor
did he see how hi.s interests could bo affected
very much even though Dr. Corcoran must
understand that his health was not in so favor
able a state as he could wish.
“I niad’e the best of every thing, ” w Hal
sey assured his friend; “it is only a little
longer waiting, and they Will be V.illing
enough to do that.”
“Thank you,” Andrew Steele murmured,
and clo-ing his eyes he slept as peaceful as a
| cli 11. When he awoke his mother handed
him a 1 *t.ter. “You look as if you were able
to r ad if,” she said, “and I suspect it is from
yor.r friends, tho Corcorans.”
I It was from Orient; the young man recog
hi?.‘‘d the graceful script at once, though ho
had only received one letter from her. He
i opened it with trembling eagerness. But what
I did it mean? She had always imagined him
! th” solo of honor. She had loved him !<>r his
I goodiu-ss ami unworldliness; it was hard
to give up her ideal of him, but now every
thing was changed. No explanation on
either side was necessary, he must under
stand, ami she could not forgive.
“Believe me,” she wrote, “that my own un
happiness is greater than any you can stiffen
To have cherished an ideal as I have done,
and allowing to cluster about it all that was
holy‘st and temlerest in my thought is not a
sligiit thing. The discovery that I have been
utterly mistaken has given me a shock from
which I shall never recover. I have been in
a dream ami the awakening has been cruel.
I only hojH 1 that I shall never hear of you
again as o:-.‘iv:yuig tho sacred desk. For mo
at least and against love you have committed
the unpjwdonable sin.”
Andrew “teele lay. dazed. Hi.s mind was in
too weak a co’2dit ion for him to connect his
friend's readoi/s at Ramoth Gilead with this
letter. It was as if he had received a heavy
blow upon the head. He lay stunned a
time, but when H ilsey came in he had arisen
from his bed and was preaching wildly to
an imaginary congregation on the sin that
hath never forgiveness. Halsey led him
to his bed and compelled him to lie
down. Then he noticed the letter, read
i and eor.ee.;]‘tl it. He saw that it was
rqr.iled from away station and hud lieen
. j written o:i the train, and therefore before
Orient ha I received hi.s letter of confession.
- j IVhy had he delayed making it when ho was
wi:h her? All regret was useless now. He
laid his hand on his friend's pulse. II” had
j I no f ami hi.s hopes rose, but he was wildly
■ de: r * < and incoherent, and the mother
. seri'ius!. k'.kirmed by this new turn in her
, son’s eo’/lit ion, which had been pronounced
: as •. rv < •;< ouraging when the physician last
i called. “I think we had better summon Dr.
j Cor-.-oran,” she said at length; “he irider
• stands Andrew’s case and cured him once be
| fore.”
Halsey telegraphed at once, and anxiously
r 1 awaited the doctor’s coming at the country
i I station. The train paused and two p-.ssen
j| gers alighted. That portly gentleman with
I tlie gray whiskers he knew must Ixj Dr. Cor
. 1 coran, and —Orient had come with him. Ho
t j stepp'd up qnickly, a great delight showing
; thnUigh the humiliation which crimsoned his
fa -e, but Orient forestalled any explanation.
' “So,” she exclaimed, a fine fire flashing
from her indignant eyes, “this was a
pie<-e of deception like the rest, and you
are not ill with brain fever. I might
have suspected as much.” She wheeled
about ami was walking rapidly from him
when her father laid his hand upon her ami.
i “Orient,” he said, “I thought it was An
j drew Steele who was ill.”
“Who, then, is this impostor?’’ she nslzcd,
scornfully.
“Did you not receive my letter?” II .Isey
asked, humbly. “It is true that*you havo
I b'*en deceived, but not by Andrew Steelo.”
And once more he made his miserable confes
sion.
Orient regarded him with keen, merciless
1 eyes. “I do not see why you should tell me
this if it is not true,” she said; “it cert .-inly
is not complimentary to yourself.” She did
not speak to him again on their way t > the
' house, and they all entered Andrew St< cle’s
room together.
He was reading from an open Bible, and
looked up vacantly, repeating: “Lest by any
means when I have preached to others I my
self should be a castaway.”
! Orient stepped firmly to his side, and tak
ing Andrew’ Steele's hands in both of hers,
she said simply: “I have made a great mis
take. I have learned that I bad no can >• to
write you the letter which paintxl you. lam
Orient Corcoran. Can you forgive me:”
Andrew Steele regarded her with an un
co.upseh aiding, expressionless stare.
Dr. C reoron started violently, and leading
Mrs. Steele aside, said to her: “This is worse
th ia 1 had imagined. It is not brain fever or
uervous prostration; it is insanity,”
Tho poor woman uttered a sharp cry. “And
he cannot be cured ?”
"1 did not say say so. Wo will talk it
over.” And he called'his daughter into an
other room for a consultation.
“They will stay all night,” said Mrs. Steele
to Halsey. “May I ask you to take your
things to' neighbor Brown’s so that I can ar
range your room for the young lady?"
“Yes,” he replied, “if I can be of no assist
ance.” He felt that he was set aside ns a use
less thing, and crushed and indignant he re
moved ills effects. “I will see her in the
morning,” he said to himself; “ami make one
more appeal for myself,” for now Orient was
busy with his friend talking with him, gently
nnd patiently trying to lead him back to the
actual. Sore of heart and utterly miserable,
he retired to his new room spending the
greater part of the night in framing excuses
nnd arguments which might recommend him
to mercy. At last., completely worried out,
ho fell asleep, and, tired nature asserting her
right, it was late the following morning
when he awoke and saw that a traveling
wagon stood before the Steeles’ door, an.l
that “his friend” was being helped into it.
He hurried across the fields and saw that Dr.
Corcoran held the reins while Andrew Steele,
propp'd with cushions, occupied the back
seat. Orient was bidding farewell to Mrs.
Steele at the door of the house. He joined
her, mid taking her bag walked with her tc
the gate. It was only a short space, but it
was his last op[>ortuiiity, for they were tak
ing bis friend to their own homo, intending
to drive all the way by easy stages.
“Orient—Miss Coccoran,” he said des
perately, the words tumbling over each other
in their eager utterance. “I beg of yon not
to walk so fast, and to listen to one word.
We have heard a great deal lately about, the
unpardonable sin; tell mo in mercy has mine f
been that ?”
She looked up at him with eyes that were
full of hope and happiness. “Father is sure
that we will save him,” she said; “he is con
fident that when we get him back to my
little room, with everything arranged just as
it was during his first visit, his mind will go
back to that time; his life will start, afresh
from that, point, and all this sad interim be
as nothing.”
They were just behind the lilac bush now,
which shielded them from the view of the oc
cupants of the carriage. “Os course I am
glad to hear that there is hope for my friend,”
Halsey said, “but you cannot expect me to
be indifferent to my own interests. Is there
no space of repentance! Shall you always
despise me, always think of me with detesta
tion!”
“Oh, no,” Orient replied, forcing herself
to think of him for a moment, for, indeed,
all her thoughts were centered on her pa
tient. “Do not imagine for a moment that
I shall cherish resentment, or remember
what has happened very long, for I shall
probably never meet yetti again; and what
do I know of you? Not oven you!' name!
You were only connected with my life by
this distressing experience of Mr. Steele's.
You are nothing to me.”
As Halsey saw the train start he was filled
with bitter remorse. Ho thought ho should
always consider himself a murderer if his
friend Steele should not recover bis reason.
After a few days, however, he plucked np
courage to call on Mrs. Steeid. She received
him l-’iudly-, nnd lifted a little of the load
from his heart by telling hint that her son
bad shown marked improvement since he
arrived at Dr. Corcoran’s.
Upon Halsey’s r-titrn to the city he hcr.nl
from his friend's mother from time to time,
and at last, to his infinite relief, learned that
Steele had entirely recovered his reason, and
his health was otherwise much improved.
About n year afterward appeared the an
nouncement of the marriage of Steele and
Miss Corcoran, and shortly after this they
sailed as missionaries to the east. Nd notice
of the marriage, however, was sent to Hal
sey. He was simply ignored. But ho felt
that his punishment was far less than he de
‘ served.—American Magazine.
DISCOVERY OF ALCOHOL.
The Distillation of Strong t.itjnors a Com
paratively Modern Invention/
Strong liquors are a modern invention.
Tiie ancients knew of nothing more pow
erful than light fermented wines, and
have left warnings enough of tho abuse
of them. Alcohol was not discovered
till the Seventh century, although an
older story exists of a monk, Marcus,
who collected and condensed in wool the
steam of heated white wine,- find thcii
pressed out from the Wool ti balsam which
he applied to the wounds of those who j
fell at the siege of Rheims, in the reign of
Clovis I. He also mixed this balsam
with honey, and produced a cordial which
brought the moribund back to life.
Clovis, however, did not wait for tho ap
proach of death before claiming hisshare
of the cordial.
According to Dr. Stanford Chaille, the
distillation of spirits from wine was not
discovered till the Twelfth century, and
spirits did not Come into common use as
drink until the fifteenth. Sixteenth nnd
Seventeenth centuries. Professor Ar
noldus de Villanova, in the Fourteenth
century, made a panacea of the water of
life, which gave sweet breath, and forti
fied the memory, besides being good for
sore eyes, the toothache and the gout,
and having other wonderful properties.
Distilled spirits came into use in London
in 1-150, and had to be prohibited in 1-19-1.
Michael Savonarola produced a treatise
on making the water of life in the
Fifteenth century, which became a stand
ard authority on tho subject, and was
followed by the work of Matthioli de
Sienna. These books gave the start to
brandy making in Italy, whence the trade
extended to France.
About 1520 the Irish usquebaugh be
gan to acquire reputation in England.
Before 1001 “brand wine” had begun to
be distilled in tho low countries from ap
ples, pears and malt; and in that year an
ordinance was passed at Tournay forbid
ding the sale of the liquor except by
apothecaries, partly because of the dear
ness of corn, and partly because of the
drunkenness which tiiis cheap brand wine
caused, “to the great prejudice not alone
of homes and lives, but to tho extreme
danger of the souls of the drinkers, many
of whom had died without confession.”
The art of extracting alcohol from
other substances was gradually discov
ered, and liquors of various names came
into use. The trade grew great, and the.
present century has seen a new develop
ment of it in the general application of
the art of “doctoring liquors.”—Popular
Science Monthly.
At a recent sale ot autographs tn Bos
ton one of Isaac Allerton, who came here
in the Mayflower, fetched S2B: an auto
graph poem of William Cullen Bryant.
$7; a letter of Robert Drowning, f-2.25;
of Henry Ward Beecher, $1.25; < f Jeff
Davis, $1.75, and of Gen. Garfield, 75
cents. Three pages of manuscript signed
by Henry W. Longfellow were sold for
$3.25; one page of James RusselhLowell,
$1.85; two pages of Harriet Martineau,
$1.37; two pages of Christine Nilsson,
$2.12. and two pages of Wendell Phillips,
37 1-2 cents. —New York Sun.
Missionaries Forget How Luxuries Look.
Some idea of the luxury in which mis
sionaries -arc supposed to live mav be
gathered from the following: A mission
ary lady has been making up a package
of articles in this city to send to her
brother in the Chinese field, and a friend
asked her what lie might add that would
be acceptable as a gift. “Get him a
sealed can of ginger snaps.” said she.
“Yon Lave no idea how they will l.e ap
preciated out there.”—Springfield Union.
FROM BRONCO.
Miss Nannie Parker is very ill
with fever.
Gentle spring is here again, bring
ing jov ami gladness, and the sing
ing birdsj but I refrain, supposing
you don't want a “spring poem.”
Miss Alice Brewer, one of Wood
Station’s handsome young ladies, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. W. S.
Parker.
The Indian who showed at the
Chattooga academy last fall was
here again a few nights ago.
We are glad to note that Mr.
Baylor Jackson, whose iliness we
chronicled, is convalescing.
Miss Josie Kay. near Cra.vlish
Spring, who has been visiting
.-CT-..,. - ———— —"
TM Ml Bal Ett Cl.
YOV want to sell Real Estate
of anv kind? Place in our hands and we I
will advertise it. No sale, no pay, and
then onlv a small commission.
i
YOU want to buy? Bead the ;
following descriptions of Property we <
have for sale, on time to good parties.
Eighty acres, 1U miles from Sunimer
\ ille; 12 acres open, balance well timber
ed with White- dak. Hickory, Pino, etc.
Good spring on it: good for farming pur- .
poses. lU mile from church and school.
Ninetv Four acres,about 50 acres open,
in good condition. 20 acres first class (
bottom on Chattooga river, U level, re- (
mainder broken. Well watered, good |
dwelling with two tenant houses and
good out houses, orchard of choice peach
and apple trees. 0 miles from Summer
ville, l.b miles from church and schools.
Town property 5 acres In the sub- ,
urbs of Summerville. Level; a most i
desirable site for residence; good small |
dwelling with out houses, well and
spring affording an abundance ol the
best water; good voting orchard of choice
fruit trees: also a’large number of choice
grape vines.
Eighty acres lying partly within the
town of Summerville; 40 acres chaired,
remainder well timbered; 25 acres level,
balance broken; good clay foundation;
in good fix. Fine for farming purposes
and also well located f<>r residences; also
contains large quantities ot iron ore.
Town propertv 3 lots 60x120,2 front
ing on Main street, one fronting on
Cimr-h f-tn-et. Level; good wagon ami
blacksmith shop on corner lot. Most
suitable place in ‘.own for business
house; also desirable mcalily tordwell
ing.
Best farm in th- county for its inches
and price. 200 acres: l(Hi open, other well ■
timbered with pine, oak, walnut, etc., on I
Chattooga riv. r. 50acrea foSd class hot
tom; well watered and th every wav
suitable for stock farm: about ' :i h v( 1.l
th-other rolling; -day foundation mid in |
good fi x. Two comfortable small el’- •
ings. .3 tenant houses, with good out ■
houses: also large qur.ntit ies of rich iron |
o-c on portions of it. Eight miles from
S-’inmerville.
Farm 192 acres; 50 acres fine creek
bottom. I’pland tine for cotton and
A heat, and in high state of cultivation,
tn everv wav suitable for stock farm.
Two good new framed dwellings; free
stone water in abundance; chuia ht».
schools and post oHk’C near.
Farm ICO acres; rod and gray .“ml, 20 I,
acres first class branch bottom. 70 acres
cleared!- well fenced ami in good state ol
cultivation. P. dance heavily timbered.
Thousands of line tan bark; 3 springs, I
well, 2 framed houses and 3 tenant
houses, all in good fix. Select orchard
and vim yard. S miles from Summer
ville; 2 miles from postollice,schools and
churches.
Town property I lots 60x120 : 2 front
ing on Main street; 2 rear lots, level; I
good small dwelling, framed, new, 2
good brick chimm ys, good garden,patch
etc. Also one of the most suitable sites
for business houses in Summerville
Terms easy ami exceedingly low price.
Farm 110 acres red loam and gra\
soil: 60 acres open,well fenced. Remain
der well timbered and well watered.
Good 5 room dwelling, with good barn,
etc., on LaFayette and Blue Pond road,
I mile from Alpine, Ga.
Farm IIS acres, just across the Ala.,
line, red and gray soil; v. < 11 watered, 65
acres open, other covered with finest
quality of timber, affording great quan
tities of tanbark, iucxhaustable lime
quarry ;>.!*(' : opposed qnaliti -s of other
xalmible minerals. Good orchard,grapes
etc: good 6 room dwelling, tenant house,
barns, etc, being near Lookout is suita-j
hie and convenient for stock raising. J
mile fix rn Menlo, Ga.
Farm 160 acres, red, gray and sandy '
soil; line siock farm: well watered; SO,
■ acres clean'd., 20 acres first class creek
i bottom; large quantities of fine timber; '
good Iroom log dwelling,2 tenant houses,
stables, etc.. 1 mile from Foster’s Store.
Farm of 160 acres in Floyd county 11
miles from Rome, 2 miles from R. A' D.
! i R. R.: red and gray soil, well watered;
»iS acres cleared; contains thousand ol
fine timber,also rich deposits ot iron ore
Town property, about two .acres, in
suburbs of Summerville, good small
framed d welling, with two rooms and
. kitchen; good garden, patcb.es, etc.
Farm of l(i0 acres on Sand mountain,
two and a half miles from K.artah. 65
; open and in high state of cultivation.
• balance heavilv timbered. Adapted to
■ growing anything raised in this county
. > i specially fruits, etc, good dwelling, -
I tenant houses, out houses, etc. Improx c-
• ircnts new and in good condition; .
. i good orchards, 2 good springs ol free
stone water; churches, schools, and
postoriice convenient.
’ -_N. Town propiTty H’« Acres on sub-
urbs, of Sniiiincrvble, level, vre.l icnecd
and in good state ot cultivation, good
. voung orchard apple ami peach, go<K
. framed six roomed dwelling not quit,
complete, prettiest location in Summei -
’ ■ villc for residences.
J ‘ ; ‘*l- Town property lot 1 in block I(»
l " with good well upon it. Healthy and
1 1 desirable location for dwelling.
j i 30 For sale or rent, farm of -1.-’-O acres,
4 mill s from Summerville: 200 ?*ci< s
’ i cleared, :f»acres good creek bottom; well
’ I watered, good dwelling, out Imuses, etc.
• I Will sei- all or a portion as d< sired.
Misses Dora and Ludie Blackwell
at Bronco, with those charming y
young ladies, paid Miss Eula Boss
a short visit since my Inst.
Has “Willie,” the genial corres- <
pondent at Bronco, won 4ier idol'
and retired from the staff of cor- ’
respondents of the News?
Cousin Buck can’t you come out
and shake hands with us again?
We’il make a polite bow and bid
you welcome.
We cannot write regularly, be-
■ ’ cause it ‘■akesseveral weeks for any-
thing to happen in this place.- Wc
■ would not have the reader to infer
’ from the foregoing that this is a
slow place, but our people are too
honest to have sensations and scan-
; dais. Bill Smith.
31. Farm 213 acres 2’ 2 ' miles frru.W
Summerville, Ga.; 50 acres red mulatto
balance gray. 125 cJeared and well |
fenced, in state of cultivation, v
splendid framed house with six rooms,
5 good tenant houses, ami good barns
and othm-out houses; healthy location;
contains largo deposits of iron ores, with
largo quantities of various and fine
timbers.
32. Farm 26 acres, well improved,
first-class bottom on (’hattooga river, 1
mile from Summerville; good l-room
house, stables, etc; well, orchard, etc.
33. - Farm KO acres 2 miles from Sum
merville; red mulatto soil, level, GO acres
open; well fenced and in high state of
cultivation, balance heavily timbered,
good substantia! improvements; 5-rooni
house, barn, stables, orchard etc.
31.—For sale or sent, splendid tanyard
fed directly from a spring: all necessary
fixtures an’d tools for tanning; good twd
-1 story tan shop; about ten acres good
1 level land (i acres cleared. Very cheap
and terms easy.
35.—Farm, 160 acres, gray and red mu
latto soil; 50 acre's open, balance heavily
timbered. Good dwelling, tenant house
stables, well, etc. (’heap, and on ex
ceedingly easy terms.
.36. Farm, 500 acres, red mulatto ami
gray soil; 125 open and in high state of
bultivathm, balance heavily timbered;
about 60 acres first-class bottom on (’hat
tooga river, well wate'red and in every
way suitable to stock raising. Four
good dwelling with good ami convenieirt
I urns out houses, etc. Supposed to conf
tain large deposits of iron and other val
uable minerals. 3 miles from Summer- ,
villi', Ga.
37. Town property, 12’a lots, 4 lots
00x150, balanci’soxl2(>, all in one body;
in the healthiest and most desirable
part of Summerville, (’an be divided
I into several beautiful building
Good two story building, six rooms,
I neatly ami comfortly finished; a good
' barn and good water. Price low and
. terms easy.
3S. One half interest in a corn grist
I mill on Tcloga creek. 6 miles from Sum
merville, < hi., 7 1-2 foot fall, giving an
average* of 12 horse power. S acres of
land, good mill ami gin house, good four
room dwelling and out houses, in good
neighborhood, convenient to schools,
ecL Price low and terms easy.
Farm l(«0 acres, 30 acres open, the
remainder covered with finest timber
tin* connty affords, consisting of pine
and all varieties of oak,especially moun-
I tain oak; good tenant house, stable, etc;
• good well: also contains large deposits
of the richest quality of magnetic iron
ore. 4 miles from Summerville: conve
nient to churches and schools.
2S acres, mostly level, just outside the
corporate limits of Summerville; 17 open
and in high state of cultivation, other
wi ll timbered. Red ami grav soil; good
spring. Fine farming laud and well
adapted to fruit raising, etc.
Best vineyard in the county, 4,000
select bearing vines, in good condition;
also first class orchard of select apple
and peach. 1 mile east of Trion Factory.
KO acres, 40 open ami well fenced,balance
well timbered: about half level; all suit
able for agricultural purposes, and es
pecially for fruit growing. Good spring
and fine freestone well. 2 good small
houses. Also contains large deposits of
rich iron orc. Cheapest farm North Ga.
Farm 100 acres, mostlv broken, 15
cleared, balance well timbered, /.ray
ami red soil; good five-room framed
dwelling with outhouses. School and
churches convenient.
Farm -2(H) acres, 100 op(*n; well fenced B
and in good state of cultivation. ell
watered. 3>5 acres fine creek bottom, red
'mud irrav soil, good dwelling, 4 rooms, .
Uuu. fish-pond, orchard, etc. Situated
. cast of Taylor’s Ridge.
' Farm—B2 acres, 76 open, well fenced,
and in high state of cultivation; 60 fine
creek bottom, wed 1 watered; good dwell
ing, 5 rooms, stable, etc; also good gin
house, and tenant house.’ Located in
Dirttown valley.
1 Farm. 3(h) acres, mostly level, 115 open;
in good state of •cultivation; remainder
very heavily timbered. Dark mulatto
ami gray soil; well improved; good 8
room dwelling, 2 tenement houses, barn,
j stables, etc. Well watered; 4 miles from
Summerville. , j
Town property for sale or rent. Good I
framed 4 room* dwelling. Situated in ■
tb.e healthiest, most desirable locality in ■
Sv.mmertille. Ample garden, etc.
Town property for sale or rent. Neat ■
framed store-house, ample and well B
’ furnished, fronting on main street. J
»I Stock farm—3l9 acres, 130 open in good S
- ■ (-ultivation and well fenced. Contains a fl
• : irreat quantitv of timber of all varieties,
' dark gray and red mulatto soil, running
j water on all parts of thv place; fine
peach am! apple orchard that never fails
to hit; house* and other improvements ■
! Fann, 21 acres, 1 mile from Summer
ville, mostly level, red mulatto soil,
about half first class creek bottom, well fl
watered, 12 acres cleared and fenced, ■
balance well timbered; good building fl
sites. , ’
Farm 150 acres; 106 first-class river 1
I bottom, 65 open, balance well timbered. I
<.-, i 3-room framed dwelling, good
stables, etc.
s For further particulars as to descrip
i tion and terms, < all upon or address
( 'h attooga Bsai. Estate Co.,
>’Unmcrville, Ga