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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 longed Be a day or an hour too late. For the sad old folks at home, With locks fast turning white, Are longing to hear from the absent one— Write them a letter to-night, 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.