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NIGHT.
Don’t go to the theatre, concert or ball,
But stay in your room to-night;
Deny yourself to the friends that call,
And a good long letter write—
Write to the sad old folks at home,
Who sit when the day is done,
Wit?. /y:.'cd hands and downcast eyes,
And taluk of the absent one.
Dou’t selfishly scribble, “Ext use my haste,
I’ve scarcely the time to write,”
Lest their wandering thoughts go brooding
back
To many a by-gone night—
When they lost their needed sleep and rest
And every breath was a prayer—
That God would leave their delicate babe
To their tender love and care.
Don’t let them feel that you’ve no more
need
Of their love or counsel wise,
For the heart grows strongly sensitive
When age has dimmed the eyes—
It might he well to let them believe
You never forgot them quite;
That you deemed it a pleasure when far
away,
Long letters home to write
Don’t think that the young and giddy
Who make your pastime gay,
Have half the anxions thought for you
That the old folks have to-day
The duty of writing do not put ofl’;
Let sleep or pleasure wait,
Lest the letter for which they looked and
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The Miller’s Will.
Bedford Row is a spot that every¬
body kuows, but no one kuows it
better than Mr. Mauby, the famous
solicitor.
People meeting him only on legal
business, consider him a dry,
man far more disposed to question
than answer or pass au opiuion; but at
his home, where I have seen him at
times, he is very different. If on a
quiet evening there are only a com for-
tablo pair, or, at, most, a trio of friends
present, Man by unbends, arid at once
becomes the most genial and frank of
hosts. He can tell many stories of
I 1 ? 8 curious experience aud difficult
cases -
“About the neatest and most curi-
ous case of fraud I ever handled,' lie
said, “was in connection with a testy
old client of mine, a miller by trade,
He had made a deal of money, and
didn’t know what to do with it. The
man’s name was Stokes—Mathew
^ to kos.
“One day he called upon me, and
said he wanted to ask my opinion upon
soma matter, but I soon fouud lie had
made up his mind what to do, and the
asking my opinion was only his way
of getting me to carry ont his ideas.
He went into his story with great
energy and bitterness. He was worth
thousands he said—that I knew .all
invested, and bis only heir was his
daughter, an only child, who had
agravated him by eloping, and marry-
iog one of liis clerks, named Moriey.
‘The clerk was one of those good
looking snappers,” the old man said,
with passion. “Never could see any-
thing iu him but impudence and talk
—a kind of cleverness that would have
helped to make him a good showman--*
but she thought him heavenly; and
after they got to love each other, as
he said, if his impudence didn’t write
to me, asking me to give him my
daughter in marriage?’ I gave Lim
his notice at once, and a fortnight’s
wages; but that didn’t, cure the silly
girl. She took to moping and melan¬
choly.
“One day I found that she had
eloped and the next, he sent me word
that they were married. I felt it aw¬
fully, I tell you, and could have killed
him if I’d met him that day, and her
too, almost. They’re miserably poor,
that’s one comfort, though he’s in a
place and does copying at night, and
they’ve some children and lots of
trouble; ’ 80 I ought to be bappy if I
amt. But . , here , s ,, the daDger. , j> m
° getting old, and my doctor says I
might be taken off suddenly, so I want
you to make my will strong and firm
as you can make it, doing her out of
the least chance of getting my money
•ut her off with a shilling, as it is
u ail Or. -----
“Seeing you have no other relations
for whom you care, do I understand
ARLINGTON, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY n, 1881.
you wish the money left to charities?’
I said, not liking my task over well,
for I had no doubt that if the poor
daughter had been there, she could
have given quite a d;ifferent look to the
love story.
‘ To charity? No, hang charity,’
he cried with a snort. ‘I want it all
given to Henry Gunson, a cousin of
mine in the city. I don’t cure two
pence for him, and know little about
him, but he onco did mo a kindness
It’s all the same to mo who gets the
money,-so as they don’t get it. See?’
“I did see perfectly, but thought I
would try to alter bis determination,
for if cue thing displeases me more
than another, it is to bo the means of
carrying dissension and hatred beyond
the gruve. Could he uot instead of
trying to crush the young man who
had married his daughter, try to lift
him up? From his own account it
appe'ued'that he was a hard-working
dilligent fellow, toiling hard for his
wife and children. What more could
a father wish for his son-in-law. In a
word, I tried to pour oil upon lire
troubled waters, but I might as well
have poured it upon tire. The fury of
the old man increased, and was even
turned upon me when I pointed ont
that in commercial circles the cousin,
Henry Gunson, of whom I 10 had
spoken, was looked upon with strong
suspicion, owing to an ugly bankrupt¬
cy case with which I had to do. He
remained unmoved.
“I tell you it’s all tho same to me
who gets it,’ he persisted. It’s noth-
ing 10 me whether tho man’s good or
bad. Disobedience in children must
be punished,‘and I cau’t do better
than enrich my own cousin.’
“Finding him so firmly resolved, I
promised to have a draft of his will
prepared, aud to send it to him for
by my confidential clerk,
which was doue the following week,
The witnesses were clerks of my own.
When signed I was about to place it
with the other papers connected with
bis bnri.ne8s J ..Lufc the .old, man snap-
pj s hly told me that he meant to
i £eep that himself, and accordingly it
waa handed to him.
“Two or Hire years passed, during
which time I made large and frequeDt
investments for him, but no further
mention was made of his will. One
morning I received a -note from his
houskeeper, telling of his somewhat
sudden death, and shortly after read-
i ug the note I was called upon by the
cousin, Henry Gunson.
“i am a g00 <i j u( ]g e of faces and
disliked the man the moment I saw
h im. He was not sham" a hypocrite, and
no a u ow of grief at the
death 0 f bjs relative; on hie contrary ,
be smiled, and appeared perfectly ju-
bilanl at the stroke of good fortune,
“You have heard,' he said. ‘I bo-
Iieve , 0 f my cousin’s death' and I
Ciime here because he once told me
that, three or four years since, you
had drawn up a will iu my favor.’
. “^11 ttiig was natural enough,
but there was something in the man’s
manner that made me study his face
closely. It seemed to me that under
appeorance of simplicity he was
playing a deep game. Yet what game
C ould he bo playing? I was forced
to dismisg the thought, and turn
my attention to business.
“It is true that Mr. Stokes did in¬
struct me to draw up such a will, but
he did not intrust the keeping of the
document to me,’ I answered. ‘I have
the draft of it, and that is all’
“The man looked startled, but the
look was not one of genuine surprise,
and only made me suspect him more
strongly than ever.
“Where in the world cap the will be,
then?’ ‘Perhaps you could go out
with me and take charge of things,and
see if it can be found?’
“This was said with a curious look
into my face, as if he had been sayiug
to himself,. ‘ I wonder if he suspects
me?’ and, contrary to my usual prac¬
tice, I resolved to go in person instead
of sending a clerk.
“A cab which he had kept in waiting
took us to the house, in which we
found the nurse who had attended the
old man in his last illness, and an
elderly woman who had acted as his
housekeeper. The nurse was not so
stupid as many old fashioned nurses
and took occasion, during a momenta¬
ry absence of Gunson, to draw me
aside and say, ‘I hope the old man's
money won’t go to that man. He
was here ever so often before Mr.
Stokes died, and ley quarrelled hot,
I can tell you.
‘‘What did the quarrel about?’I
asked with much •* ten sfc.
“I think that av*i asked for money,
for I heard him sa^: ‘I shall be min¬
ed if I cannot pay.-’ I .did not hear all
that was said, but it was bitter while it
lasted, aud the old man had mo iu
with a fearful riug of the bell, and told
me a to show that viliiau out,’
“I saw minder iu his eye he said,
‘and nor a penny of my money shall
he ever finger. I wish I knew where
my poor girl lives Then he ordered
me out of the room, aud I heard him
bhuffle across to the fire, and when I
came back I could see be bad burned
something in the fireplace—which I,
believe, sir, was the will.
“No doubt the old man’s days Lad
been shortened by the excitement
from these frequent quarrels. When
a man of no moral principles, like Gnu-
son is given an interest in another’s
death it is uot at all unlikely that he
will try to hasten the removal of all
that stands between him and a fortune
—especially when he thinks it can bo
done without danger of discovery. I
felt however, as tho man rejoined me
a thorough repugnance to him and
was very near telling him not to
trouble to look for the will as I badren-
son to believe that it had been destroy-
ed but I conquered the feeling well as I
could; and, indeed, Iliad no evidence
to prove that riie will hud been destroy
ed.
The housekeeper then showed us a
trunk iu which old Blokes had kept all
his papers. I opened it, aud at the
top 1 fouud a little packet of letters
from his daughter. I glanced at one;
it was full of sorrow and tenderness, ask¬
ing so earnestly if she might show him
their boy. The letter went on. ‘We
call him Mathew, father; and wheD
we were without bread the little fellow
said lie Would oouie ’iu you and ask foil-
some for mother. He was sure you
would not say no; but now my dear
husband has woik, aud although it
would not be to beg we should come,
yet I do want dear father, to see you
once more.” Over the next few words
the ink had run, or the paper bad got
so wet that I Could not read them.
Perhaps if the miller "had been alive he
could liavo told us how this happened.
“I folded up the letter, and turning
suddenly to Gunson, who had been
looking over me, I saw a sardonic
smile on his face, which didn’t improve
my opinion of him. We went over all
the papers but could not find the will.
“Just as I was about to close the
truuk, Gunson said: “We have not
looked in the pocket inside the lid.’’
I did so, and to my surprise came
upon a folded paper, which appeared
to be the will, or so exact a copy of it
that I was not prepared to deny its
identity. It was written on a kind of
paper that I have used for that pur¬
pose for half a lifetime, aud the writ¬
ing was unmistakably that of a clerk of
mine named Peter Chipps. The sig¬
nature too, were all right, so far as I
could see, but yet I had a doubt. 1
caught myself taking the valuable
paper ont of my pocket and scanning
it closely when Gunson was not by, as
if half expecting the senseless paper
to reveal some subtile treachery. I
got back to my office as soon as possi¬
ble and read the will carefully through
then I hunted up the orignal draft,
and fouud that it agreed perfectly.
“For some two or three days the
matter stood over, for I was called out
of town on urgent business, but the
morning of my return I was told that
an old woman—the nurse to Matthew
Stokes-bad called to see me during
my absence. She would not ieave aDy
message, but said she would call when
I returned to town. That day as I
was leaving the office the nurse came
full of apology, and hoping I should
not think any the worse of her for what
she had to tell me. “You know,’ she
said ‘I told you that I believed Mr.
Stokes burnt his will and my reason
for thinking so is this. When he was
asleep I picked out two little bits of
paper from the ashes and I kept them
in my pocket ever since, and here they
are.
“Hastily taking them fiom her I
cou’d see from these scraps that it must
have been the will that Mathew Stokes
destroyed, for they read:
“My real and personal__
Henry Ounson__________
the testator in
---Pis presence and in.’’
“I compared the scraps of paper
with the copy found iu tho trunk, and
it was without doubt in tho same
bandwriting. I would have turned to
the clerk, whose name stood first as a
witness but I 10 was dead; or to the one
who had written and witnessed the
original will, and who, at this
I felt suro must know something of
this fraud but lie had gone to drink a
year or two before, and I had been
reluctantly compelled to part with him.
I asked if anyone had his address and
by a strange coincidence a letter had
come from him that very day to one
of my clerks, asking him to call, for
he was very ill. Tho moment I got
that I started oil for Peter’s lodgings
iu a cab. I found him iubed, eviden¬
tly iu a rapid consumption and had
only to hold up tho forged will and
say significantly. ‘How on earth did
you come to do this,’ to make the
blood leave his face. IIo would not
confess, however, until I gave him a
pledge that be would not be punished
for bis share in the forgery, and that,
was more than I could take upon me
to promise, so I left him and made my
way to the miserable home of the
Motleys in Golden lane. By miser¬
able I don’t mean unhappy but poor.
When I was admitted to the house I
io it’d they occupied two rooms on the
second floor. The heiress of Stokes,
large fortune was busy on her knees
before tho fire (casting bread for
her husband’s tea, and her own rosy
cheeks at tho same time and Moriey
himself seated in a corner of tho room
writing with a swift hand at tho law
papers he spent his evenings in copy¬
ing. Mrs. Moriey was quite a young
thing, and so good looking that I could
scarcely believo her the daughter of
my deceased client. j>—
“When I told them of the death of
ol 1 Mathew Stokes anyone would have
thought they had lost their kindest
friend. His daughter was overcomo
with grief. I assured her that from
what I had heard her father had for¬
given her, and that if ho bad known
their address he certainly would have
sent to them. Both listened breath¬
lessly to my story, and then when I
gave my opinion that nothing now
could stand iu tho way of her inheri
ting her father’s wealth, she simply
went up to her husband clasped him
in her arms and kissed him, and burst
into tears. But when I spoke of
prosecuting her father’s cousin she,
with the true tenderness and tact of a
woman, said; ‘No; my poor father
would not have disgraced a relative,
even though he deserved it. Perhaps
if you write to him telling him what
you have discovered he will trouble
us no more.
“It was hard to lot the ra cal slip,
but I wrote to Gunson accordingly and
if my pen had been dipped in acid, I
could not have written stronger. Ho
needed no second dose. Without
even having the politeness to reply, he
was off to America by the quickest
route fearing every inch of tho way, I
expect that the police were in his wake.
I got the whole details of the plot out
of Peter Chipps, from which it ap¬
pealed that Gunson no sooner discov¬
ered that his cousin had really burned
the will formerly executed in his favor
than I 10 sought out my late eierk as a
fitting tool to product: a duplicate from
the draft. The price given was a
mere trfle—some £5 or £(!; but Peter
had resolved to bleed his employer
without mercy the moment he got
possession of the old man’s money,
by tho names of the forged document.
was dying when ho made tho
confession, but Mrs. Moriey was at
his honse next day and took the poor
fellow’s breath away by telling him
she would see that his wife and chil¬
dren were well cared for. The strick¬
en man stared at her some moments
in dead silence, then he feebly snatched
at her haud and burst into tears. He
couldn’t speak, but the simple gesture
said more than a thousand words could
have conveyed. spoiled
“Mrs. Moriey has not been
by her good fortune. She is the
same loving and generous hearted
woman that she was in poverty. She
declares to this day that sin is not a
whit more happy the in her grand back house;
than she was in two-pair iu
(golden lane. And I believe she speaks
truth.’’
Vol. II. No. 15.
Intemperance.
BY CSAULES S.'UtATJGE.
This subject viewed in a national
light, presents a fearful political as-
pent, The ruinous consequences of
wide spread imtemperance to a people
governing themselves can hardly bo
over-estimated. If there bo on earth
one nation more than another whose
institutions must draw their life-blood
from the individual purity of its citi¬
zens, that nation is our own. Where
the many enjoy little or no power, it
were trick of policy to wink at those
vices and follies which would rob them
of both the ability and inclination to
improve their condition. But in oui
country, where almost every man,
however humble, bears to the omnipo¬
tent ballot box his full portion of
sovereignty, and where in short;
public sentiment is the absolute lever,
the public world, tho purity of tho
people is tho only rock of their politi¬
cal safety. We boast, if we please, of
our exalted piivileges, and fondly
imagine that they will bo eternal—but
whenever those vices shall abound
which undeniably tend to abasement,
steeping the poor and ignorant still
lower in poverty and ignorance,
thereby destroying that wholesome
mental equality which cun alone sus¬
tain a self-ruled people—it will be fouud
by woful experience, that our happy
system of government, tho best ever
devised for tho intelligent and good,
is the very worst to bo entrusted to tho
degraded and vicious. The tremen¬
dous power of tho sightless Sampson,
so far from being their protection, will
but sc-rve to pull down upon their heads
the temple their ancestors reared for
them. National greatness may for a
limo survive—spleuded talents and
brilliant victories may fling their de-
lusivo luster abroad—these can illu¬
mine the darkness that hang round the
throuo of a despot—but their light will
bo like tho baleful flame that hovers
over decaying mortality, end tells of
the corruption that festers beneath.
The immortal spirit of American free¬
dom will be gone; and A mg our
shores, and among our lulls—mndo
sacred by tho bones of tho pilgrims
and the tombs of tho patriots—even
hese in the ears of their degraded des¬
cendants, shall ring tho last knell of
departed liberty.
With the exception of this hateful
vice, which is spreading far and wide,
we may proudly challenge a compari¬
son with the dominions of tho earth.
This gross and besetting sin, tbo parent
of so many others, is a national blot;
and if it shows the darker on our es¬
cutcheon, that it pollutes so fair a
surface it becomes more imperiously
the duty of every patriotic citizen to
assist in removing it.
• -*
Peculiar circumstances attended tho
deatli of a man in Lewiston a few days
ago. The man was Mr. Lawrence
Eclee, a native of England, who lost
his voice over a year ago, and who did
not speak a word until the night pre¬
vious to his death. He awoke liis wife
before morning, shouiing and laugh¬
ing. When it became light he made
Ids friends put him on a sofa and
wheel him into a sitting room. ‘Now,
I want you to put me before the look¬
ing-glass io I can see myself die,” he
aaid. His friends pooh Hood at tlio
idea, bat had to comply with the re¬
quest. He foldid his hands before
bis breast, turned his face toward the
mirror, arid in a few moments was
dead —Bangor (Me.) Wh%tj.
There is too much morality which
resembles that of an Irishman, who
said witli great pride that he didn’t
want to bo a thief, and- then added
that the whisky of liis friend and iiis
own whisky was in the same bottle,
but that his own was at the bottom,
and that lie was compelled to drink
off the top in order to get at it.
A Bay City (Mich.) philosopher
tried to stop a runaway horse by tak¬
ing hold of a wheel of the carriage.
When he stopped revolving he wasn’t
any better looking than he was before (
but he knew more.
A Philadelphia miser, wanting a
dog to guard his property, selected a
bob-tailed one, his theory being that
the exertion of wagging a long tail
would increase a dog’s appetite.