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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. 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Hoof IHs eases, Foot Hot, Screw Worm, Scab, Bellow Horn, Scratches, XTlnd- Balls.8 alls. Spavin, Thrush, Ringbone, Id Seres, Poll Evil, Film upon the Sight and every other ailment to which the occupants of the Stable and Stock Yard are liable. The Mexican Mustang Liniment always cures and never disappoints; aad it is, positively, THE BEST OF ALL LINIMENTS FOB NAN OB BEAST. It is said that opium-smoking is rap idly on the increase among American men and women, a low estimate gi\ ing 6,000 white persons who indulge habitu ally in this practice. One writer states that he is personally acquainted with nearly 100 in New York alone. Each white habitue consumes daily about 100 grains. Multiply this by the days in the yaar and the number of smokers, and we arrive at the conclusion that Americans annually consume 23,762 pounds of opium iu this, manner. Last year the amount of opium imported was 77,1*7 pounds, valued at $773.7*6. 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,