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GEO- B JORDAN, Lessee and Editor,
VOLUME IV.
TWILIGHT.
BY BOUEB BIOBDAM.
Women, moth*, bate, beetles, toads,
Lore the passing away of day.
The graying of all color* bodee
To them soft circumstance, fair play
For purposeless activities
And undefined sympathies.
Now one's mind is like hi* dress—
No one can its color guess;
Now one’s hoart is like the sky—
Changing, doubtful, rich;
And conscience, like the orose-roads sign
That tells not whioh is which.
1 take some vagrant scent for guide—
Hweetbrier, lilac, mignonette,
Woodbine, hawthorn, violet—
And wander far and wide,
Homeless, nameless—kith nor kin—
Nor law above me nor within.
But wayside thing# I gladly greet,
As of my blood’s moat cherished strain.
They feed me with forbidden aweet;
Though drawn apart, I’m theirs again.
I kiss the stars, I olasp the sky,
And with the clouds on hill-tops lie.
For I have d-iffed humanity,
And put a looser veßture on;
Dead things have living tongues for me,
In ueserta I am not alone.
Though outcast, rebel, renegade,
Dark Nature maketlj me amends.
Her springs tabooed yield me sweet aid,
Her creatures are my secret friends.
'Scribvti ’s Madazine.
A DINNER OF PEAS.
“ As many as we have a mind to pick,”
Jetty Wes tart said impressively, “just
think of that! ”
“I never really had as many green
peas as I wanted in my whole life,” add
ed her sister Kate.
“We never had enough of anything
to eat,” growled Jack, shying his cap at
the cat. “Or of anything else, for that
matter.”
“ We have plenty of you, at any rate,”
retorted Clare, the third sister, rushing
to the rescue of puss.
“ We’ll all go over after supper,” Jet
ty continued, too absorbed in thinking
of the peas to notice the threatened
squabble between Jack and Clare, “and
pick them. Mr. Gardner 6aid to take
just as many as we could possibly eat,
for .h fan* -y -will iuj ’.e h week, and
the peas will only spoil on the vines. ”
“I could eat a bushel, 1 know,” re
marked Jack.
“V >n won’t pick half a pint,” put fu
Clare, who felt the snubbing of Jack to
be her especial duty, “ though there’s
no doubt you’ll eat plenty when we get
them.”
‘'There, children,” interposed Jetty,
with the motherly air which she as
sumed as the head of the family.
“Don’t be always sparring. Jack, go
and get me a pail of water, and you,
Lilare, set the table. Jim, you toast the
bread. ”
It was one of the peculiarities of
family that the two older girls
each other “Jim” >g h-bred,
When Mrs. W estart.the fw)m
little widow, who had her(jel{ with
the door bydmto/ astsnccuujbud ;mJ
toil at her pen /dren al))ne in the world)
eft her f°ur s i mme( ji f e JI to spee
the nei fh e tho r their Uncle John, who
u^‘l Mwt off Ins sister when she dared to
iirry against his wishes, would come
fco their aid, or whether the poor things
would be forced to go to the poor-house.
Neither of these things happened. When
Farmer Gardner, with kindliest intent,
offered Jack a place in his family to
grow no as his own son, he was perhaps
as much surprised as he was disap
pointed when Jetty answered him, very
limply, but in a way that left no doubt
that her decision was final :
“Of course we thank von, Mr. Gard
ner, and I know how good an offer it is
for Jack; but I promised mamma I’d
keep the family together, and of course
we couldn’t let him go.”
Keep the family together ! The good
town’s people were shocked and sur
prised, and expressed their astonishment
and disapproval frankly enough to each
other. To voice them to Miss Jetty
Westart, was, however, a very different
thing, for the pale little girl-woman had
dignity enough to silence the most im
pudent of the gossips; and,however the
talk buzzed behind her back, it came
seldom to her ears. She taught the
village school, and kept the family to
gether, and it was not long before pub
lic opinion came to take sides with her
and to condemn rich John Frenant, that
he stood aloof, and continued the un
kindness, which had gone far to break
his sister’s heart, to her unoffending
children.
Life in the little Westart cottage, as
may he easily understood was not very
luxurious, and Jack’s statement thatthey
never had enough of anything, was not
so inexact. On the present occasion,
wtien Mr. Gardner had offered the spoils
pf his pea vines to Jetty, the deteruauia-
ijiuli' C otinfij (fcizcttt.
RISING FAWN, BADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1881.
tion expressed by all the family, not eTon
excepting the “little mother” herself,
as some of the neighbors called Jetty,
was to have all the peas they could pos
sibly eat. After supper tho whole fami
ly, even to the cat, who tagged along at
the heels of Clare, proceeded in a body
to Mr. Gardner’s garden, and such a
stripping as they received that night the
vines certainly never had before or aft
erward.
“ Now, Jim,” Kate said the next morn
ing, as they all sat shelling the peas,
“ for once we’ll be extravagant, and put
just as much butter on these as we want.
If we don’t have them good there’s no
fun having them at all.”
“ That’s so,” assented Jack, emphat
ically, as he dexterously dropped a pea
down Clare’s back.
“Oh, you horrid boy,” Clare cried.
“Jetty, I do wish you’d make Jack be
have; I can’t shell if he keeps scooting
peas down my neck.”
“Jack,” the head of the family said
with great dignity, “ if you don’t be
have you shall not have a single pea for
dinner, and as we shan’t have anything
else you’ll be likely to go hungry.”
“Pooh ! who could stop me,” he re
torted contemptuously, but ceasing his
tricks.
It happened to be Jetty’s holiday, and
the whole forenoon was devoted to pre
paration for that wonderful dinner of
peas. Bread and butter and peas were
to be the bill of fare ; nothing else.
The table was spread with the best
damask and china, relics of better days,
and at last came the important moment,
when Jetty, having gone through as
tumultuous uncertainties as did Mrs.
Bob Cratchit over her Christmas pud
ding, was ready to tako to the table the
big bond of steaming peas, buttered and
seasoned to a turn, and sending forth an
odor delicious enough to tempt the
King of Sybara.
“Oh, golly !” ejaculated Jack, flour
ishing his long arms, which so persis
tently grew beyond his jacket sleeves.
* ‘ How good they smell! ”
“Don’t they?” said kh<s. • Jim,
did you ever smell anything that
you so hungry ? ”
“ Hungry,” retorted Clare. ’ should
think anybody might be l^A l 'y >it i*
an hour past dinner-time
“My mouth fairly ' aterß > went on
Jack. “ I wish, Je*J y° u ’ and g et alon g
a little faster.”
“ I would, s y° u and kee P T our long
** AkTl ” r t* l6 vanit .Y °f human hopes
r md emptiness of human expecta
tir"’ * Nobody ever knew exactly how
I ..happened, but by the slipping of her
Toot or the unsteadiness of her hand, or
by some dreadful combination of both.,
Jetty let the big china bowl fall, and the
dinner of peas was deposited, a green
lmap, in the middle of the kitchen floor,
v ith the dish turned upside down in the
middle of them.
“ Oh, thunder!”
“ Oh, Jetty!”
“ Oh, Jim 1”
Exclaimed in concert Jack, Clare and
Kate. Then there was aa instant of
terrible silence, and then a low, pro
longed howl came from Dick. Clare
began to sob lustily and Kate to cry
softly, while Jetty sat staring at tho
heap of peas in stony silence, sis if she
wore transformed into marble with hor
ror.
“Oh, Jetty,” sobbed Clare; “how
could you ? Oh, it is too cruel!”
“Jim,” said Kate, trying to keep back
her tears, “ don’t look that way. It
isn’t really any matter, of course.”
“Keally any matter !” cried Jack, in
a rage. “I’d like to know what you
call any matter !”
“Oh, I’m really starving to death,”
moaned Clare. “ Oh, thoso beautiful,
beautiful peas !”
By this time the tears were streaming
down Jetty’s face, and the entire family
were gathered around the peas, seated
on the floor and lamenting in company.
“Perhaps we could scoop up the top,”
suggested Kate, hopefully. “They’ll be
clean and nice. ”
So spoons were brought and quite a
respectable portion of the heap was
restored to the dish, a state of things
which quieted Jack and Clare, and re
stored something like serenity to the en
tire party.
But fate never does a thing by halves,
and this time it was Kate who dropped
the dish she held while Jetty carefully
spooned into it such peas as she could
save from the general ruin.
“ Oh, Jim!”
“Oh, Jim !”
“ Oh, Kate !”
“ Dam it I Thunder 1 Cuss it!
Blast it! There !” shouted Jack, defi
antly.
The awful profanity of this speech
“ Faithful to the Right, Fearless Against the Wrong.”
startled And shocked the girls beyond
measure.
“John Frenant Westart 1” Jetty said,
rising to her feet with a white face, and
speaking in a voice whose sternness car
ried terror to the heart of the culprit,
“What would mother sav if she could
hear you swear ? Go up-stairs this min
ute, and don’t show your face again un
til you can talk like a gentleman.”
Without a word, Jack left the room,
secretly frightened and shocked at his
own behavior, but holding his head high
and inflexible.
“For my part,” said a cool, deep
voice, “I don’t blame the boy very
much.”
The three girL turned like a flash,
and there, leaning over the low window
sill and looking in at there, was their
uncle, John Frenant, of whom they were
one and all thoroughly afraid.
“ What in the world is all this fuss
about ? ” pursued Mr. Frenant, scowl
ing his thick eye-brows, but not with*
out a gleam cl amusement in his eyes.
“ Kate,” said Jetty, with her most
dignified air, “ will you please clear up
these peas ? If you will go round to the
door, sir ” —turning toward the window
again—“ I will let you in.”
“Thank you," the intruder said,
coolly stepping over the window ledge
into the room. “ You are your mother
over again. I’d like to talk with yon a
little on business.”
Jetty’s heart quailed a little at that
awful word, yet she didn’t show a
quiver, but led tho way to the parlor
with as regal an air as if she had been a
Queen granting an interview extra
ordinary, or whatever it would be called,
to an Ambassador equally extraordinary.
It is not necessary to relate all that
was said between these two, or how at
last Jetty broke down and cried on her
uncle s shoulder, while he divided his
attention between comforting her and
clearing tire mist from his own eyes.
It seems that in his heart of hearts John
Frenant had long had a desire to be
reconciled with his sister’s family, and
only the night before had been looking
over some souvenirs of childhood, which
> opcnea xoj'g-:jt ai a f. .mtraus.
love. It was from this cause, 1 suppose,
it came about that he went out of his
usual way home to walk by the Westart
cottage; and the sound of weeping and
wailing had brought him to the window.
I cannot pretend that their uncle
I proved always the pleasantest and most
flexible of men to get on with, but at
least there was no more worry about
poverty in the little cottage, and, when
matters between Jack and his uncle got
tumultuous, as they occasionally did,
Jetty always contrived somehow to bring
things out smooth again.
So that altogether a worse misfortune
might have overtaken the four orphans
than even the loss of their so-much-an
ticipated dinner of peas .—Boston
Courier.
FETEIt PARLErs GRAVE.
The parents of our young readers re
member “Peter Parley’s Magazine,”
“Robert Merry’s Museum” that suc
ceeded it, which was finally absorbed in
the Youth's Companion. The genial
old author of these once-popular publi
cations, once the delight of thousands
of children, now sleeps without a mon
ument—save in the good name and the
loved and useful record he left to tho
world.
His grave lies almost unmarked on
the Connecticut hillside. Once, while
he was traveling in the West, a wealthy
l.dy, at a festival in St. Louis given in
hie honor, complimented him as a bene
factor of his race, and promised to erect
a monument to hie memory. That me
morial has never been built. The good
mao’s monument ie in the loving hearts
that, forty years ago, were his delighted
readers and pupils.
It is well to remind the young of the
present day where his ashes rest. At a
very short distance from the “ Goodrich
Place,” at Southberry, Gt., is a rural
graveyard. Here and there, scattered
in among the long grass, are mounds, ‘
where lie buried the forgotten dead.
Now and then some modern shaft tells
of those lately mourned, and once in a
while some fine monument attracts the
visitor’s eye.
Within this inclosure is a small plot,
fenced in with stern simplicity. Two
costly but plain slabs of marble stand
within. On one is a name and two
dates, and the emblem is an open book
with two or three dog-eared leaves.
There lies “ Peter Tarley,” world-known
and world-loved ; how few can tell where
are shrined his mortal remains! Yet
this was his choice. With the modesty
of great minds, he shrunk from praise
or publicity, and unsung, though not
unh'inored, he lies in a country grave
yard,—Philadelphia Saturday Night,
PLEA SA NTRIEB.
A niYFB is always down in the mouth.
A ciDER-rßNss is sappiest when it is
at work.
It is no nse to attempt to put on styla
unless you have a good gait.
The real risne at stake in all Govern
ments is the issue of bonds.
“I am dressed to kill,” as the recruit
said when ho had donned his uniform.
If Prometheus had been up to snufl
he would? -have used a liver pad and
fooled the vulture.
“Does it pay to keep chickens?”
asks a correspondent. Of course not,
you lunatic ; it pays to sell ’em.
Why may a tipsy man fall into the
liver with impunity? Because he won’t
drown as long as his head swims.
President Arthur was once a school
master. Some of the officeholders are
anxious to know whether they are to be
‘' kept in. ”
“ Riches have wings,”and they need
them to keep up with the man who has
started a daily paper to fill a long felt
want. And without their wings he gen
erally gets clear out of sight of them.
A newly-married couple, riding in a
carriage, were overturned, whereupon a
atanderby said it was “A shocking
sight.” “Yes,” said the gentleman,
“to *ee those just wedded fall out so
soon.”
At the medical examination : “How
should you detect prussic acid among
other substanoes?” “By breathing it,”
answers the candidate. “If I died im
mediately, I should know prussic acid
was present.”
Eve wasn’t unhappy in the Garden of
Eden because she had nothing to wear,
• j accuse," she'said, “what’s the good
At nice clothes, when there are no oth
er women to envy yon ? ” That’s what
•ailed Eve.
The gentleman who came to this
office to talk on the necessity of reform
p, ;d ohsent-mindfdly carried off a black
l tsAjfti-.vrV-yafcV. nair+ake for a hbie
j gingham one, will please call and oorreot
the error, —Philadelphia Neijtp
A husband “My wife,
Maria, has strayed or been stolen. Who
ever returns her will get his head broke.
As to trusting her, anybody can do so il
they see f£; for, as I never pay my own
debts, it’s not likely I’ll pay her’n.”
Dicky had been silent during his
Thanksgiving inner, but finally he
rested his fat endows on the table, with
kniie and fork upright in either hand,
and gave and said, “ I wish
turkeys be made double-breasted.”
“Ah,” said an Englishman the othei
day, “I belong to a country upon which
the sun never sets.” “And J,” said a
Yankee, “belong to a country of which
there can be no correct map—it grows
so fast that surveyors can’t keep up
with it”
X., with his wife and a friend, is
seated on the beach, when a passing
gentleman bows to the friend. “That
is Monsieur R.,” he says, “the eminent
divorc* lawyer, who has never lost a
case.” “Ah ! ” cried X. and his wife in
the same breath, “ present us ! ”
- r. . -
No one can contemplate the statistics
which reveal the wholesale slaughter
of railroad brakemen in this country
while they are engaged in the
duty of coupling cars without being
shocked into the conviction that some
means for preventing it ought to be en
forced. A law compelling the use of
safety-couplers was introduced in tht
Coup sUcut Legislature during the last
session and laid over for a year to afford
the Railroad Commissioners of the State
time to consider the subject. They are
instructed to report at the coming ses
sion.
We flit through the dreamy hours o)
summer like swift-winged bumble-bees
amid the honeysuckle and pumpkin
blossoms, storing away perhaps a little
glucose hoaey and buckwheat pancakes
for the future, but all at once, like a
newspaper thief in the night, the King
of frost and ripe, mellw chilblains is
upon us, and we crouch beneath the
wintry blast and hump our spinal col
umn into the crisp air like a Texas steer
that has thoughtlessly swallowed a raw
cactus. —Laramie City Boomerang.
A critical genius out West wants a
new term lor the thing called an “eleva
tor.’ He says the word is a misnomer,
or a hftlfnomer, as the machine takes us
do vn as w ell as up. He thinks it ab-
Pil'd, when a man is at the top of a tive
stti'y building, to ask him if he will "go
down in the elevator,’’ A new word
u*Mt le coined.
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NUMBER 8.
SI’BSC RIFT IOS HAIRS.
One Year, in advance $1 00
Six Months. “ 7h
Three Months, “ 4*
If not strictly in advance 1 W
GENERAL DIRECTORY.
CHURCHES:
Preaching by the Circuit preacher, on
the 3rd Sunday in each mouth, at li
o’clock a. m. and at the Furnace at 5
o’clock p. m.
Preaching by the Missionary Baptiet
at the Furnace on the first Sunday and
Saturday night before, in each month,
by the pastor.
MASONIC:
The regular meeting of Rising Fawn
Lodge No. 293, F. & A. M., tho Ist and
3rd Saturday nights iu each month. T.
J. Lumpkin, W. M., J. W. Russey, See
rectary.
?! Trenton Lodge No. 179, F. & A. M.,
meetß on the 2nd and 4th Friday night*
iu each month. H. A. Russell, W. M ,
J. A. Bennett, Secretary.
Trenton Royal Arch Chapter meet*
on the 3rd Wednesday in each month.
M. A. B. Tatum, H. P.; W. U. Jico
way, Secretary.
COURTS:
Court of Ordinary meets on the firs
Monday in each months. O. M. Crab
ree, Ordinary.
The Justice Court for the Rising
Fawn district, on the 3rd Saturday in
each month.
EDUCATION AI
The county Board of Education meet*
on the call of the chairman. W. N.
Jacoway, County School Commissioner.
froeessional cards.
T. J. LUMPKIN,) j H. P. LUMPKIN,
Rising Fawn. ( ( Lafayette.
rp J. LUMPKIN & BRO.,
Attorneys at Law,
Rising Fawn & Lafayette, Or.
Wiil nay promi* attention to the col
lection of claims and all business en
trusted to their care, in the several
courts of the comities of Dade, Walker,
Chattooga and Catoosa. 1-tf
ilataa Great Saotlieni Railroal
TIME €4RI>.
Taking effect February 20th, 1831.
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 1 Mail.
Arrives. Leave*.
Chattanooga, 8 00 a. ni
Wauhatchie. 815a. m. 816
MorgansviLle, 834 “ 834 “
Trenton, 851 “ 8 i'2 "
Ris J ng Fawn, 914 “ 915 “
Sulphur Springs, 930 “ 932 “
Valley Head, 955 “ 955 “
Fort Payne, 10 21 “ 10 22 *
Brandon, 10 26 “ 10 38 “
Portersville, 10 50 “ 10 50 “
Collinsville. 11 02 “ 11 03 “
Greenwood, 11 36 “ 11 25 “
A Italia, 11 50 •' 12 11 p.m.
Whitney, 12 58 p. u. 12 57
Springville, 131 “ 133
TiUßSville, 207 “ 308
Birmingham, 243 “ 248
Woodstock, 402 “ 403
Coaling, 434 “ 43*
Cottondaie, 452 “ 463
Tuscaloosa, 512 “ 515
Eutaw, | 6 1* 7 OS
Miller, 740 ” 7
Enes, 7 SI 7 52
Livingston, 814 “ Bl#
York, 840 “ *4l
Meridian, 950 “
Chas. B. Wallace, L. B. Mobri#w,
Superintendent. Gen'l Pan*. A<4.
The census compels a reconstruction
of tables giving the a,‘eas of the various
States. It is a curious fact that nobody
knows just the number of square miles
in the Union, the accepted statistics be
ing more or lees approximate. An at
tempt has been made to distinguish
between land and water areas, the latter
including not only coast waters a?u{
lakes, but also the surfaces of rivers and
smaller streams. Published statistic*
show that not one State or Territory ha*
exactly the area ascribed to it in 187'I
and recorded in almanacs and hand,
books for the last ten years. The small
est discrepancy is in New Hampshire,
which is now given 9,305 square miles •
a gain of 25. Rhode Island has 51
miles shorn from its narrow limits,
Texas loses 8,500 miles, and drops t >
265,780. Ou the other hand, Louisian l
gains 7,400, the Virginias 6,000, Mi *
souri 4,000, and other States less. The* •
does not seem to be much change in tl •
total for the country. The census < f
1890 will doubtless show different r>.
suits still, for many of the compilatioi a
are baaed on map measurements, ’ 4
are not actual calculations from survey j,