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We need a person in b every town to take subscrip¬ tions for the largest, cheapest and best Illustrated family publication in the world. Any one can become a successful agent. Six elegant works of art given free to subscribers. The price is so low that almost everybody subscribes. One agent reports taking 120 subscribres in a day. A lady agent reports making over $200 clear profit in ten days. All who engage make money fast. You can devote all your time to the business, or only your spare time. You need not be away from home over night. You can do it as well as others. Full directions and terms free, dress at once it costs nothing to try the business. No one who engages fails to make great pay. Adrress George Stinson & Co., Portland Maine, A MODEL SUBSCRIBER. “Good morning Mr. Editor; liow are all the folKs to-day ? I owe you for next year’s paper—I thought I’d come and pay. And Jones is going to take it, and this is his money here; I shut down lcndin’ it to him and coaxed him to try it a year. “And here’s a few little items that hap¬ pened last week In our town; I thought they’d look good for the paper,so I just dotted ’em down; And here’s a basket of peaches my wife pieLcd expressly for you, And a small bunch of flowers from Jennie —she thought she must send some¬ thing too. “You’re doing the politics finely, as all our family agree; Just keep your old goose quill a flapping, 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 -■ the nuke of higher ‘emnncrttion. .. ...... 1 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. ’