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1888. -O-' >-0< THE CHATTOOGA NEWS. It is now universally admitted that a Good, Live, Enter prising; Paper does more for the section in which it is printed than ALL OTHER AGENCIES COM BINED. It is tlie channel through Whip’- the natural advantages and the io cal enterprises of tho community sre niade known to the outside world. It helps the schools, encourages and booms enterprises of every kind that go to develop a county, and in short is invaluable in more ways than we have space to tell, forming a weekly medium of ADVERTISING which is so essential in these mod ern days to success in any field. TJUTFOR A PAI’E-p TO PROPERLY IV Advertise its county it must have the undivided support of the peo ple in order to enable it to do so effectually. A County Paper properly supported, will render far more service than can be had in any other way for the same money, or for that matter, for twenty times the amount. Business men and practical people everywhere recog nize and admit this to be true. On this hypothesis— Mutual Interests— Mutual Advantages— WE RESPECTFULLY' ASK A CONTINUANCE OF THE SUP PORT THE NEWS HAS RECEIVED, FOR WHICH IT RETURNS THANKS, AND AN INCREASE OF THE SAME. Let every subscriber get one new subscriber, and that new subscriber another subscriber, and so on, until THE NEWS finds its way not only into every household in this county but in adjoining counties also. CP 11F. P RIC Ei s $ 1.2 5V A Sll, or 51.50 ON TIME. at is Election Y'car and every person should keep posted as to who offer themselves for office, so they can vote in furtherance of their own interest. t*n our part we pr.muse to make the NJ-AS S just ;,s good a paper as tlie peo ple want: of course det riuining that by the encouragement wc rceluve, for no people really want a good paper that cannot h:r.. it l,v lib> : s!;; hu nt ’inlier this. I|B|B|B. (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