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pieLcd expressly for you,
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thing too.
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family agree;
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and give them a good one for me;
And now you are chuck full of business,and
I won’t be tauing your time;
I’ve things of my own I must ’tend to;good
day sir, I believe I will climb.”
1 he editor sat in Ills sanctum and brought
down his fist with a thump;
“God bless that old farmer,” he muttered,
“lie’s a regular jolly old trump.”
And ’tis thus with our noble profession,and
thus it will ever be still;
There are some who appreciate its labor,
and some who, perhaps, never will.
But in the geeat time that is coming, when
Gabriel’s trumpet shall sound,
And they who have labored and rested
shall come from the qulverin ground;
When they who have striven and suffered
to teach and ennoble the race,
Shall march at the head of the cclu.tnu each
one in his God-given place;
As they march through the gates of the
city with proud and victorious tread,
The editor and his assistants wifi travel not
far from the head.
A Resolute Action.
Some men seem formed by nature
for the out-of-the-way inode of making
money. Such a one was John Dudley,
who chose the calling of diver, where
j Wr jlons situations are barely faced for
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the nuke of higher ‘emnncrttion. .. ......
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A bright, homst, and b/ave- young
man, his sense of fear seeund entirely
blunted by constant com wnionsliip
with danger, and iu any ijudertaking
of uunsua! importance oik was sure to
find that be led the van.
The adventure I am about lo narrate
took place some years ago, when a
large vessel, laden with a valuable car¬
go from a South American port, struck
ou a sunken reef off the dangerous
coast of Florida, aud was completely
wrecked, although her passengers and
crew were fortunate enough to escape
iu the boats.
The owners lived iu New York, and
wishing to secure any part of her car¬
go that the salt water had not dam¬
aged—much of it being in specie—they
fitted out a large yacht, and engaging
the services of two divers, one being
John Dudley, to whom they promised
gain only on condition of success, they
set sail for the scene of the wreck.
Dudley, with his usual adventur-
som disposition, was prompted to haz¬
ard the speculation, but another man
equally brave—or eqaully reckless—
was not soon found.
At last, however, Dick Turner, a
diver, whose bad character was fully
borne out by bis villainous person,
was induced to take the risk, sign tbe
articles aud ship himself.
He was a coarse, brutal, drunken
rascal, as great a contrast as could be
found tq Dudley’s frank, clean, honest
ualure and cool determination, aud
from themomeDt they saw each ether
an antipathy seemed to spring up be¬
tween them, causing the younger man,
Dudley, to shrink from the other’s
society as though he were some loath¬
some reptile.
This antipathy was shared by all the
yacht s crew, aud seemed justifia¬
ble in view of the physical as well as
moral repulsiveness of the subject.
This Turner had the jaw and profile
of a baboon; his eyes, peering from
under his heavy brows, seemed to look
all ways at once and twinkle with sa-
tame . wickedness, and when he laughed
his Satanic majesty himself might have
envied his ugly and cunning grin.
The voyage was fine, and the part
off tbe coast of Florida W’here the
wreck lay was soon reached. There it
could bo aimlj «*u, for down in tbe
depths of the blue sea, over which
t r 00 U p S 0 f sharks and strange “ looking
fishes , pursued , each other .
monster „ in
ARLINGTON, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1881.
luck of better prey. No pleasant
for the clivers.
Dudley faced it with his
strength and resolute will, that
no flinching in face of duty, while
other uttered that he had been swin¬
dled and would ‘pay off that other land-
shark’ when he caught him alone.
This threat certainly did Dot tend to
increase the young man’s confidence
in his companion; but, knowing there
was no help for it, he encouraged him¬
self by thinking ‘the move danger the
more money,’ and busied himself in
preparing his things for the attack on
the sunken vessel.
After about two day’s cruising, the
spot was chosen and the yacht anch-
orid, The bell was swung for the
plunge, and the the two divers went
below to dress for their descent.
Turner was in his usual evil mood,
swearing and driukiug and lunging
about with n huge knife that ho stuck
in his belt for ‘waiter-sharks, or land
ones, either, as the case may be,’ said
he, with an evil leer at his companion.
Tin's conduct caused Dudley some
suspicions tfiat all was not right; so,
providing himself with a sharp knife,
lie stuck it unobserved down his loDg
leathern boot, at the same time resolv¬
ing never for a moment to be off his
guard.
With such reflections he took bis
place in the bell, and, amidst the lnir-
rails of the crew aud the general ex-
cifement, they dipped into the sea.
Common life had passed away, aDd
beneath the blue wave a new life aud
fresh scene, ever changing and novel,
opened to (he two men. The coral-
reefs, like grand architectural struct-
ures covered with beautiful weeds,
and various and gorgeous shells of ev~
ery possible variety of color clinging to
them, rose on every side, while fish,
great and small, of curious shapes,
flew at the approach of the sharks—
those monsters of the deep, who seem
ed to grin with their long cisaE jaws at the'
,
Down, down, down, till the light
was dim and uncertain, and then they
struck the wreck. Ai med with crow
bars, sharp at one end to repulse the
sharks, the two men quitted the bell
and separated.
Turner burst open the cabin door,
while Dudley went in another direc-
tion, though never losing sight of his
companion for a monent. And so they
spent their first journey, tlie and, after
lading the bell, gave signal and
were hauled ou deck.
The sailors crowded around and va-
lions things were discussed and gloat
edover; many having been attached to
ropes were hauled up afterward, and
the success was so good that all were
exultant over the posisble money prize
to each, the master dreaming of a
nrineelv Zl7?r„Z indenendence
Scvtial da.vjj pa. s d Jove, over, ,„d and tb. tbe
greater part of the cargo, unin ured by
Ealt water, bad hauled on deck,
till the schooner was pretty heavily
laden. The last day "of working ar-
rived, and the two divers Were down
in the wreck for the last time. Tur-
ner again wended his way toward the
cabin, and Dudley—although by this
time his suspicion .regarding the
evil intentions of his companion were
quieted—still kept him in view. About
half an hour’s groping about and then
Dudley plainly saw the other shuffling
something beneath his diver’s clothes,
which he guessed to be a bag of money.
He quietly asked Turner what it was.
‘What is it? Why,.nothin’! What in
the deuce have ye to do with it, any
way?’growled the thief.
‘Well,’ remarked Dudley, keeping
himself as quiet as possible, ‘You must
tell me what it is!’
‘The deuce I wi ll’ shouted Turner,
savagely.
‘Then you shall be forced to when
we get on deck,’ replied the other,
resolutely,
‘Ha! ba! Forced, did you say?’
sneered the villian, as, with a cunning
wicked look, he drew his long knife,
Quick as thought Dudley’s was out
of his boot, and he stood on the defen-
sive.
The othe' scowled heavily, but,
nothing daunted, answered Dudley’s
quiet, ‘Now you must tell me what it
is!’with a ‘I’ll see yon dead first!’
The young man recognized the
mighty strength aDd desperate reck¬
lessness of his antagonist, but he relied
on his-sense of what was right iu face
of all danger, and thought if worse
came to worse, he was the more skillful
and agile of the two.
Presently Turner said iu a confiden¬
tial, wheeling way, his whole demeanor
changing ‘Say, mate, this ’ere is a
buy of gold I found iu yon cabin, and
if ye’ll hold yer jaw I shall gieye one-
third o’ it.’
‘Never!’ answered Dudley, rosolnte-
ly. ‘You’ll never tempt me to be dis¬
honest.’
Let the reader imagine the scene,
in a bell fathoms deep under the
where it would take at least twenty
minutes to pull up. A tierce fight
might ensue in death. Suspicion
could be averted by flinging the body
to the ravenous sharks, and the mur¬
dered get off scot free.
But the young man never flinched.
The two stood eyeing each other, the
one for attack, the other for resistance,
Once Dudley offered to pull the alarm
bell, but Turner clutched it from him.
After a pause, which seemed a cen-
tury to Dudley, the other said:
‘Will ye go shares?’
‘Never!’ was the firm reply.
‘Perhaps it’s not largo enough. I’ll
gie ye half. ’
‘The whole of it is too small.’
‘Ye won’t give in?’
'Not an inch.’
‘Then to death-!’ screamed
Turner, springing at his courageous
adversary.
Quick us thought Dudley caught at
the upturned am, poised in the air for
a shot, at the same moment making
« lunge at the other, his blood boiling
with indignation at the fiendish at-
tempt on his life;
The lunge was parried by Turner
and caught on his shoulder, the foam
bursting from his bloodless lips and
his face black with evil passions.
Amid oaths and curses he attempted
to free his arm, held as in a vise by
the younger man; but ha criuld not.
And sc, they 'caki* wrenched am^way^d,
each inner, u 1U( ,i.
and no sound save the muttered cur-
ses of the one and the panting of both,
as their excited chests heaved and
swelled with deadly intent.
At last Dudley succeeded in loosing
the other’s grasp and stabbing him in
^nd. The villian’s knife fell, but
with a he S ras P ed the yonnger
man in his gigantic clasp, aud, strug-
glmg and shifting against tho bars of
wood ’ the y 8 avo > vvh,le lockcd in !1
deadly grip, the two divers plunged
mto tho sea beneath.
Dowd, down! they sank, no effort
bell) 8 made b ? e,ther to looseu tbe
bold on the other. Tighter and tighter
the y « rl PP ed > tlU the J fel1 on a coral
reefl
Death seemed but a trifle where pas-
sion and bate were the consumation
of both benrtajimd, under tbe influence
of the demoniacal demoniacal strusele stinggle the the _.ngth
«? * He,c„.ee »«,
sl<te '
But the waut of air began to make
itself felt. Dudley heard a roaring
and surging as of a mighty cataract in
bis ears; fires flashed before his eyes;
the disk of unconciousness crept over
him; and, as his antagonist loosened
his hold, his nerveless fingers also un-
clasped themselves, and he had but
one thought that of reaching tho
surface.
With a dying effort he struck out,
beiDg a splendid swimmer. lie was
choking stifling, strangling.
The water whizzed past him. and
reaching the surface, he gasped in the
revivifying air, and,shrieking; ‘Help!
help!’’fainted away.
It was reveral days before he regain-
ed conciousness, after being rescued
and tenderly cared for by bis com-
panions aboard the yacht; then he
askad f° r Turner.
He bad been drawn up iu the bell
but too far gone to resuscitute. He
was found lying against its bars, grasp-
ing the bag of gold in both hands-
the ill-gotten wealth that had been
the cause of his death.
* * * * " *
John Dudley was handsomely paid
for his honest toil, and further re-
munerated and commended for his
honest resistance; but he never forgot
the deadly struggle that so nearly
cost . him his life beneath the ,, blue
waves of the coral formed shores of
Florida.
NEWS ITEMS
cuppings from OUU EXCHANGES.
Atlanta is to have a new paper, lie-
publican iu politics.
South Carolina’s two Senators are
both woodeo-legged.
There are eleven post offices in the
United States named ‘Atlanta.’
Ex-Gov. Bullock, of Atlanta, is
spoken of in connection with acabinet
position.
Sixty.five thousand dollars worth of
mules have been sold iu Hawkinsvillo
the present season.
A number of citizens in Elbert coun¬
ty are putting their capitol together
to build n cotton factory.
Robert Lincoln, a sou of ex-Presi-
dent Lincoln is spoken of in conuec-
tion with Geu. Garfield’s cabinet.
^ bu legislature of Arknansas has
D0W declared thafc tho wimo o!
Stato 18 P rououuced “Arkansaw.”
It, is believed at Washington that
tlie apportionment bill will finally pass
w3t31 t3i0 number of representatives
fixed at 307.
Macon’s bid bos been accepted and
the state fair will be held there the pres-
eutyear. It is tho pleasantest and most
available place in the state for that
purpose.
The Methodist population of the
United States is estimated at 23,400,-
000, There are 19 living Bishops,
12 in tho Northern aud 0 in the South-
era States.
Xho Va ldosta Times says some of
the fftrmers in that ueighborhood have
abandoned cotton entirely aud are
devoting their lands aud labor to veg-
e tuble farming
The Nor xr ; thera Electnc . Ligl*t # t , Corn-
any have made * proportion to light
,e ca P J 0 an 16 ^ y 0 asnng-
a j" a V 0S .™ UC1 If 88 wn n ° w P a >tf
,. 16 01
1 ^
Louisville and 'VashviUe Aad,
U''v’U!i>-o;tilsjr; i eui and jven-
wr.w-.t.-
ant the Caroiihas have adopted
le '<- 0| gm rates of faic, which is
three cents per mile,
James Franklin’s tfld printing press,
at which his brother Benjamin work-
ed as an apprentice, is on exhibition
at the old South Church, Boston. It
is now the property of the Mussachu-
setts Charitable Mechanic Association.
The Putnam county (Fla.) Herald
says that an agent of the Italian Gov-
eroment has just returned to Italy,
He advocates Florida as a homo for
bis countrymen, and a large immigra-
tion to that State may be expected,
Arrangements arc being perfected
with tbe Oriental Steamship Compa-
ny for their passage,
i ’* * ~
Saymg. „ About _ Women.
We should choose for a wife only j
,
’
Men lose their hoarts through their
e ycs, women through their cars,
Of all the paths leading to a woman’s
heart, pity is tho struightest.—Beau-
mont.
The only thing that reconciles me to
being a wonau, is the fact that I won’t
k av0 marr y one _
p m no j. (joying that women are
foolish. God Almighty made them to
match tho men.—George Eliot,
Women always givo more than they
promise; men less
^ ^ ifJ thfl coun .
t ’L wljerc 8 j )0 ] ove s.-Dumas,
eu women , xgin . 4 o , eo , you i
aud their beauty
a ’°' u t they count it a sort
of duty
Io let nothing else slip away unse-
cured
Which, while these lasted, might once
have procured.
Men are so featful of wounding a
woman’s vanity that they rarely re¬
member she may by some possibility
possess a grain or two of common
sense. Miss Lraddon.
There is a tide in the affairs of women
Which taken at the floods, leads—
God only knows where !—Byron.
-*'•'*-
M f- Stephens has served longer in
the house than any other member,
The fourth of next month will bring
the total time of his service to twenty-
four errs.
Vol. II. No. 18.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
Something to be sneezed at—snuff.
The greatest truths are the simplest;
so are the greatest men.
When is a doctor most annoyed ?—
V hen he is out of patients.
W hat word may bo pronounced
quicker by adding a syllable to it?—
Quick.
Don’t judge a man by his failure in
life, for many a man fails because ho
is too honest to succeed.
We are sorry, but wo are obliged to
classify painting a pretty girl’s "cheek
its ‘ ‘fraudulent coloring of sugar.’’
Why is a fool in high station like a
man in a balloon ? Because everybody
a PP ear s little to him, and he appears
to everybody,
young mau sent sixty cents to a
linn that advertised a recipe to pre-
ventUbad dreams. lie received alslip
of paper on which was written, ‘Don’t
go to sleep.’
The angel of midnight—the woman
who opens the street door for her hus¬
band when he is trying to unlock the
bell knob, and then lets him sleep on
tile hall floor.
‘1 ou do not appear to bojvery busy
at your store,’remarked a salesman
to a lriend. ‘No, thank Heaven, the
boss has stopped! advertising, and wo
are having a lively time'of it.’
A man wliojwas running for office
resigned hurriedly when lie discover¬
ed his mother in-law was making a
scrap-hook of all the hard, things the
opposition papers were saying of him.
A.young lady was careasing a pretty
spaniel an murmuring: “I do love a
dog !’ ‘Ah,’ sighed a |dandy standing
near, ‘I would I were a dug.’ 'Never*
mind,’ retorted the young lady, sharp¬
ly, ‘you’ll grow.’
When a man ins to go down MIL,
he flfrds**' •^, A ^ v Va80»I for the*
i<\ •;» if.oa
m \.A ■
mmm
,
‘A GaJvcsto w uboi i. to
ry her fifth hut i- Her pastor re
her for Co jtetepkting matri¬
mony so soon again. ‘Well, I jnst
want you to understand, if the Lord
on taking them ljwill too,’ was
spirited reply.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, in his
at the New York Press Club
dinner, said: “I think that if tho city
of New York were built of glass, SO
that everybody could see what every¬
body else was doing, the morality of
city the would rise fifty per cent, in
one year.
A family is like an equippage: First
tho father’s a draught horse ; the boys
are tho wheels, for they are always
running around; then the girls, they
are surrounded by fellows; tho babies
occupy the lapboard; and the mother
—well, what’s a wagon without a
tongue, anyhow ?
‘How are you and your wife coming
on ?’ asked a Galveston man of a col¬
ored man. She has run me off, boss.’
‘What’s the matter ?’ ‘I is to blame,
boss. I gave her a splendid white
silk dress, and don she got so proud
she had no use for me. She ’lowed I
was too dark to match de dress.’
A gentleman traveling in a railway
carriage was endeavoring with con¬
siderable earnestness, to impress some
argument on a fellow-passenger who
was seated opposite to him, and who
appeared rather dull at comprehension
At length, oeiug slightl> irritated, he
exclaimed in a louder tone: ‘Why, sir,
it’s as plain as A B C !’ ‘That may
be ?’ replied the other, ‘but I’m
D E F.’
When a band serenades Gen. Grant
it is the best policy for tbe members
to choose the easiest tune. The Gen¬
eral does not know one tune from an¬
other. The other evening, while a
band was playing ‘The Last Rose of
Summer,’ he said, ‘I always did like
‘Home, Sweet Home,’ especially that
part which refers to the oaken buck¬
et.’ The band began another air,
‘Yankee Doodle,’aod General Grant
said, ‘I always did like that tune of
‘Home, Sweet Home.’ That refrain
about ‘Away down upon the Swanee
River’ always struck me as being very
sentimental. ’