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About Haralson banner. (Buchanan, Ga.) 1884-1891 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1890)
% Godbye ! ¥ There's &ki m’mn' in the blowix' m'mdm stealin’ through the sses 0’ the trees; And a mist seems fallin’ dreary on the . mountains towerin’ high, Axnd I feel my cheeks grow teary as I bid ~ you all goodbye! : “Goodbye,” the winds are sayin’; “good . bye” the trees complain, As they bend low down an’ whisper with their green leaves wet with rain; “Goodbye,” the roses murmur, an’ the ‘bendin’ lilies sigh - As if they all felt sorry I have come—come : to say.geodbye. I reckon all have said it some time or other m Wik And casy like, with eyes cas down, that dared not look aloft ) For the tears that trambled in them—f¥r the lips that choked the sigh, When it came a-swellin’ from the heart an’ made it beat goodbye! I didn't think 'twas hard to say; but « standin’ here alone, With the pleasant past behind we and the future dim, unknown, A gloomin’ yonder in the dark—the tears come to my eye, And I'm weepin’ like a woman as I bid you all goodbye. The work I've done is with you; maybe some things went wrong, Like a note that mars the music in the swest flow of a song; But brethren—when you think of me, lonly ask you would Say as the Master said of one: ‘“He hath done what he could.” And when you sit together in the time as vet to be, | By your love-encircled firesides in the val- 1 leys fair and free, Let the sweet past come before you, and with something like a sigh, Just say: “We ain't forgot him since the day he said 'Goodbye!” e THE TIN BOX. ¢ltis a very mysterious business,’’ taid Lawyer Smpkins, rubbing his tose, and adjusting his spectacles. “Hiram Green sent for me, ten days before he died, and gave me his bonds and securities to draw the July interest for him. Iput them all back in the tin box myself, and he counted and | examined them. The day he died he tried to teil me something about Jerry and that bex. Jerry —tin box—all in the box—Jerry,” was about all I could make out.” ‘‘And the tin box was stolen,” said Tom, the lawyer's son and partner. ‘‘Well, it has disappeared. If it ~was stolen, it is of precious little use to the thief. Every paper in it could be traced. Trust old Hiram Green to look out for that."” ¢*What was it worth?” “‘To a lawful owner, about twenty thousand dollars.” “Then Jacob Green is so much poorer! lam glad of jt.” “Tom! Tom! Jacob Green is our client " © “All right! Ishall not proclaim my opinion on the house-top; but, between ourselves, I think he is the meanest man lever met. Why, he must be a rich man, and he grudges his family the necessaries of life. TLook at Allie! There is not a servant at Rye Hill who has not a better wardrobe than Alice Green! Just so!” said Lawyer Simpkins, with a twinkle in his eyes. Her husband can make that all rght though. Eh Tom?” Then Tom, blushing crimson, began to ta'k again about the tin box and old Hiram Green's will. “‘Left everything to Jacob,” said the lawyer; ¢‘the house, recal estate, and personal cffects.” ¢¢And Jerry?”’ “Was not even meuntioned in the will. Hiram Green ncver forgave Jerry for failing in business, declared he had no head, and wasn’t fit to be trusted with moncy. “He was his nephew, though, just as much as Jacob, and he nursed him faithfully at «he last.” “But Je:ry is a dreamer. Jacob will double every dollar the old wman left, while Jerry would probably spend a legacy in a yeur or two.” . It was not alone in the lawyer's office .that the subject of Hiram Green's will ‘sad the disappeamgyce of the tin box ~were topics of co. ‘crsation. Every ‘body at Rye Hill had an opinion to ex press, a theory to advance. Mrs. Jacob Green and Mrs. Jorry Green were talk ing the whole matter over on the porch of the old howse where Hiram Greon s E e e “1 wonder what he'll do if it ain’t,” muttered Jerry, unheard by the others. *‘He says,” continued Mrs. Jacob, “that it will take & heap of money to put this house in decent repair, and settle the business! Dear! Dear! He talks as if his uncle’s legacy left him poorer, instead of richer.” ¢ wish it did!” muttered Jerry. Aloud he said, “Maria, if you'll get me & hammer and some nails, I'll save Jacob twenty-five cents by fastening these steps. See here!’” and he rattled the steps on which he was sitting, and which were wholly detached from the porch. ] wish you would,” said his sister in-law; 4 T'm ina panic every time I go in or out, especially if I have the baby in my arms. I'll get the ham mer.” “Dear me, Jerry,”” whispered his wife, a little later, ‘you go at them steps as if you were trying to hammer the house dowi. Anybody would fan cy you had a spite against the nails, you give them such vicious blows.”’ “lold your tongue,” growled her husband. “lam only - making them safe!"” He roze as he spoke, and straighened himself, muttering. “That,s a good job done!” “Come, Sally,” he said, presently, “we'll be getting home! 1 only came over to see if there was any news of the tin box.” ““Not a sign to be found,” said Mrs. Jacob, ¢ and Ido believe Jacob will | be in a lunatic asylum if it don't turn up - soon.”’ | Jerry tucked his wife’s hand under ' his atm, and walked down the road to his own cottage, asmall, shabby house ‘where Sarah Green vainly strove to make old things look new, and stretch a dollar to the needs of two. Smce his uncle’s death Jerry had been, more moody and shiftless than ‘ ever. Brooding over his injuries was not the way to improve - his fortunes, and Sally had hard work to make her needle supply the daily waats. It was just three days before his uucle dicd that Jorry loarnad that Hiram Green had left his entire property to Jacob, already the richest man at Rye Hill. Then the bitterness of his disap pointment scemed to literally turn his brain, and Sally trembled for his rea son. With all his faults, if faults they were, his disregard of money and want of business capacity, Jerry Green was a man to win strong affections. And it was the fact that even Hiram Green kept up a sort of grudging affection for him that made Jerry hope he would not entirely forget him in his will. : When his last illness attacked the old man, it was to Jerry he turned for the affection Jacob’s harder nature could not make acceptable. It was Jerry and Sally who nursed the invalid day and night with faithful, unwearied care,and it was with a bitter sense of wrong that | Jerry knew himself to be disinherited. Still the man’s gentle nature overruled his anger, and the last three days of Hiram Green's life were as tenderly nursed as if Jerry knew himself to be his sole heir. : But afterward the whole nature of the man seemed changed. Knowing the sympathy of the people about him was with him, he was never weary of telling of his wrongs; and he made no secret of his delight at the disappearance of the tin box, and the large slice of property it contained. A year passed away, and then all Rye Hilt knew that Jerry Green lay ill with a fever, and the doctor had given him up. Very sick indeed he was, and Sally was heart-broken, when one day he whispered a request to see Lawyer Simpkins alone. Seeing a lawyer seemed to poor Sally a death- warrant, though Jerry had no fortune to will away. Wondering, but ready to humor the whim of a dying man, the lawyer an swered the summons at once. “Mr. Simpkins, will you promise to keep secret what I tell you now?” Jerry asked im a hoarse whisper, “Certainly I will; lawyers have to do that every day. “Then I will tell you where TUncle Hiram’s tin box i You have the key." o e T ; ' “Yes, but—Jerry Green, don't tell me you arethe thief.” . alf thads %0 Doliers o O Wit “11l kesy your secret, Jerry, for ‘ believe you when you say you were balf mad.” Great was the excitement at Rye Hill when it became known that Lawyer Simpkins had had a communication from the party who had stolen the tin box, confessing the theft, and revealing the hiding place, There was a group of half the people of the village in fiont of Jacob Green's porch when Jer ry's carpenter’s work was torn away, and the earth that covered the buried treasure removed. Lawyer Simpkins took a small key from his pocket. ¢‘Stop a moment,"” he said, as Jacob Green was about to take the box, *‘as executor of Hiram Green's estate, 1 must open this box and sec if the con tents are all right,” There was a sudden catching of breath audible as the lid of the box fell buck. Onthe top was an open paper, and Lawyer Simpkins read aloul:— “I, Hiram Green, do give and bequeath this box and all it contains to Sarah, wife of my nephew, Jeremiah Green. I leave it to hérasa token of my love for both, and because I think she will be more care ful of 1t than my nephew. And Ido ask of my lawyer, Robert Simplkins that he do see my wish carried out, an ve to Sarah his advice about investing ths .noney. “‘HiraM GREEN.” There was one moment of intense si lence and then a cheer reat the air. Every man there was glad that the ‘miserly, grasping Jacob Green was dis appointed, and every man rejoiced fox Jerry and Sally. i But the sick man was humble as a‘ child when the lawyer told him the | news. He did not die, nor did anyone but Lawyer Simpkins ever guess his secret, but he was a broken, premature ly aged man, creeping humbly about and living on the income his wife drew from the contents of the tin box, which he had hidden from spite, and by so doing, overrcached himself. «If Thad died without telling,” he thought often, ¢Sally would never have had the money, and Jacob might have found the box, after all.” — e e Cats and the Moon. Everybody knows the sunarstitions as sailors, particularly, of course, in re gard to their sailing on Friday; but they are also superstitious on other points, and from this fact we get the saying, “Rats desert a sinking ship.” Again, they resent the presence of a cat on board, and usually that of a corpse, although as regards both of these in stances the superstition is not suffi ciently widespread to altogether pre vent the occurrence. Speaking of cats, it is well-known that they were held in such high respect by the ancient Egyp tians that their mummies are met with about as frequently as human beings, and this was from a superstitious belief in their intervention in the affairs of men. A special goddess among the Ezyptians was rep resented with the head of a cat, and a temple was erected to her at a town of the name she bore—Bubastis. In the Egyptian mythology Bubastis was the child Isis and Osiris and the sister of Horus. What is mnot so generally known is the fact that the cat among the Egyptians symbolized the moon. As to the moon there was in ancient times many superstitions. Our word ‘“lunacy’’ is derived from the latin name of that planet, and the disorder is still believed by many to be caused by it at its full. Bailors in the tropics have been known to become temporari ly deranged because of sleeping with their faces exposed to the rays of the full moon, while fresh fish hung up on deck under the same conditions are said to spoil in a short time. —Star -Sayinga. e Costly Canine Collars. *Some dogs in this town wear collars that cost $200,” said a decaler in those articles to me yesterday. +of course, such valuables are worn only by the pamperel pets of the rich; the average owner of dogs thinks he or she has done well in investing $3 dollars in a collar, and by a good many a plain leather strap, with name plate, i decmed ample for safety and identity. Of Course, a dog with a SIOO or a S2OO collar has got to be watched pretty care fully, and they usually ride in the car raige of the master or mistress, The existence of a good many Fifth avenue and Madizon avenue dogs might well be povied by the ook of our clty, Hdlte Way of eL e R e B A e . ALLIANCE NOTES. WHAT THE ORDER AND ITS MEMBERS ARE DOING. ITEMS OF INTEREST T 0 THE FARMER, GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS OF THE COUNTRY. It is asserted by the foreman on the larm of the late {lon. Primus Jones, that the first bale of cotton this year will come from that farm. He says the examples and methods of Colonel Jones are being strictly followed on that farm. * * The County Alliance of Gwinnett county, Ga., favors the holding of pri maries in the different militia districts to nominate candidates for the general as sembly, and for delegates to thenext con gressional convention and for governor, »* * ok The cotton bagging factory for Ameri cus, (a., is an enterprise already assured for that wide awake city. Itis an Alli ance necessity, and the thirteen adjoining counties invited to take stock in the en terprise should respond with alacrity. % "k A grand reunion of the Alliance of that section of Georgin, and the old soldiers will be held jointly at Flat Reck camp iround, Heard county, July 24th. Col’s. ivingston and Northern will address the Alliance, and Gov. Gordon, and Gen. Phil Cook will talk to the soldiers. A big time is anticipated. * * ook If the farmers Alliance continues to in crease for a year or two more at the rate at which it has been gaining during the, last twelve months it will soon be the largest organization ever known in this or any other country; and if it sticks to gether and properly exercises its great power it will be easily ableto accomplish such a revolution in the legislation of the country as will result in giving the far mer, not only his rights as a citizen, but after breaking up the trusts and combines which now rob him of.much of his earn ings, will also place the farmer in posi tion to become a legislator in the inter ests of his county and his claims.—Ex. sk * Our farmers are taking more real inter est in their farms this year than we ever have known before; there are more ter races, and the soil is better prepared than at the same time any previous year in the history of Georgia. At least, this is our opinion after a careful observation. We believe further that this state of things is due mainly to the Alliance movement. Then let the movement that has brought such a result go on in its proper sphere until the ¢red old hills” of Georgia are made to blossom as the rose, every farm is free from mortgage, and the inmates of every home contented and happy.—South ern Alliance Farmer. K * ok The Southern Alliance Farmer (Atlan ta, Ga.,) has the following to say regard ing one of the dangers that confronts the Alliance: If all Alliancemen will be true to the cause and withhold their votes from men who are not, and have never been, in sympathy with the struggling masses, and will support only those whose past records, not only in officc but at home, show plainly that their hearts are with the people, and that they are of pure character and worthy of confidence, our success is assured. Our danger lies in division. Alliancemen have their per sonal friends among the politicians, and may be induced to vote for them when they know they are not in full sympathy with us. Sectional, county, or town pride should be left out of the question. Men who are true to our interest are the men to support. Aswe have said before, simple ability will not do, for if it was turned gainst us it would do great harm. The heart must be right. We can no more afford to turn our legislation over to men who serve the money powers than we can afford to leave our children’s inheritance in the hands of a faro dealer. Being a farmer or an Allianceman only, does not fit a man for office, but being in full sympathy with the people, and having the will and ability to work to‘their inter- | est, does make a man worthy of support. Where will you find such men? The time when a few politicians in each county, district or state, can meet to gether and apportion out the different offices is at an end. The peoplewill take a hand in this business and have deter mined to have representation. 1 » 1 In Col. Polk’s argument before the senate committee on agricultureat Wash ington, on Tuesday, ne sketched the de- | cline in agricultural values in the . face of the marvelous progress and development of their industries and interests during the passed dccade, and insisted that something should be done for the farmers. He charged the fault upon the financial system of the government, which had re sulted in high-priced products. The remedy, Colonel Polk suggested, was three-fold—first, restore silver to its dig nity and place as money metal with all rights of coinage and a.!the qualities of legal tenderwhich gold possesses; second, issue sufficient amounts of currency direct: to the people, at a low rate of interest, to meet the legitimate demands of busi ness of the country, and which shall be legal tender for all debts, public and grivate; third, secure to such issue equal ignity with money metals, by basing it on real tangible, substantial values. Mr. Polk was followed by Dr. W. C. McCune, chairman of the national com mittee on legislation of the Alliance, who MBI IOIITE Bt a 8 eMI e where the Grangers’ bank, 1n 1879, loaned. $3,000,000 on certificates issued to the farmers on wheat deposited in warchouses owned and controlled by them. CURRENT NEWS. CONDENSED FROM THE TELE GRAPH AND CABLE. THINGS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAY TO DAY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. The Pittsburg Commission comgnny, the e%reatest bucket shop in Pittsburg, failed on Saturday. It is rumored that there are serious dis sensions in the French ministry, and an early collapse of the cabinet isr{eared. The strike of lasters at Brockton, Mass., ended Thum}ny, the firm agreeing to pay one-quarter of a cent advance in wa%les. The striking carpenters of Chica%o ave sent a memorial to Secretary Blaine, stating their grievances against the con tractors, Employes of the various railways in London have been warned that they will be dismissed if they absent themselves from duty on May Ist for the purpose of taking part in the demonstration which ghe workingmen propose to hold on that ay. A dispatch from the City of Mexico says: On Wednesday forces, under Gen eral Hernandez, attacked the Yaqui In dians at Los Canons de Jubsiba and Laconia, and after several hours of fight ing routed them. The Mexican forces lost one officer and two soldiers, and five soldiers were wounded. Five sisters, named Comovieroff, the youngest 19 years old, committed suicide at Moscow, Russia, on Thursday. Ashes found in their apartments showed that they had burned a number of papers be fore taking their lives. It is believed that fear of arrest as nihilists led to the commission of the deed. Exports of specie from New York last week amounted to $271,040, of which $202,5687 was gold and $68,453 silver. Of the total exports $6,681 gold and all 1 the silver went to Europe, and $195,946 gold to South America. Imports of specie last week amounted to $58,640, of which $10,525 was gold and $48,115 silver. A Vicnna, Austria, dispatch of Thurs day says: Serious anti-Semite demenstra tions have occurred at Baillia, forty-three miles southwest, of Carow. About 400 persons made an attack upen the Jewish quarters and wrecked & number of dwell ings and shops. The troops were called out to disperse the rioters, but did not succeed in restoring order before eleven of the men were killed and many injured. An explosion of dynamite in H. R. Doan’s drug store at Delevan, Wisconsin, Thursday afternoon completely wrecked the building, breaking windows in stores a block away, ‘and knocking the cupola off a school house two blocks distant. The roof of the drug store was blown into the air, and of four men in the build ing two were rescued, badly hurt, and two perished in the flames. The Inman line steamship ¢‘City of Boston” unloaded a part of her cargo at her dock at New York, Monday morning, without having entered the custom house, In consequence the custom house author ities stopped the work of unloading and seized the vessel. Notice was sent the Inman line officials calling for an expla nation, In defanlt of this, confiscation is threatened. -The mill of the Anthony Pcwder com pany, at Negaunee, Mich., caught fire Wednesday evening and blew up, shocl | ing the whole of Marquette county. Twenty minutes later there was another heavy explosion of powder thrown out by the first. The shock in Marquette, eleven miles distant, was severe, while in Ne gaunee store fronts were blown in. There was no one in the building at the time. The loss cannot be estimated, but it will "be heavy. . THE IMMIGRATIONBUEREAU ORGANIZES A BRANCH IN JACKSONVILLE, FLA.~—AN EXPOSITION TO BE HELD. W. W. Pemble, commissioner of the organization of the Southern Interstate Immigration bureau, arrived in Jackson ville, Fla., Wednesday, and in ‘a very few hours organized the first branch in Florida for porfecting the union. A great southern interstate exposition and permanent traveling exhibits is to be held in onc of the large northern cities in 1891. Branches will be formed in every large city and town in Florida. Boston or Chicago will probably be the city chosen for the exposition. A BOILER EXPLODES. INSTANTLY KILLING SIX MEN AND SERI OUSLY INJURING OTHERS, A special from Newecastle, Pa., says: An explosion occurred at Etna mills Wednesday morning, three'men being killed and six badly injured; two wifi' : probably die. The flue end of a bigboiler collapsed, and in a moment the place was drenched with scorching steam, Full an hour was lost before tfie injurned men could be rescued, and the last dead body recovered. R DROWNS HIS CHILDREN AND ATTEMPTS SUICIDE—HORRIBLE CRIME - | OF AN INSANE FATHER, wg{ A well-to-do farmer numed Morsison, liviog two miles from Shelburae, Ont., siter drowning three of bis children in & s Soned brigipl
