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% i / 4 me jonrna YOL. V. RECONCILIATION. O robin, calling to your mate 0 robin, calling clear and low, (O robin, she lias bid me Roll, (0 robin, mine was all the blame), Why sing so loud and sing so late? You sing as if with flowers ablow Thu days of song were long ago. And fields ablaze the autumn came. The thrush waits till the spring has come You sing as if the dying year To sing the song he sang of yore; Had vet a year of joy to live. Chill autumn strikes his rapture dumb As if the world were never drear )0 robin, we shall meet no more). (0 robin, she will not forgive!). 0 robin, calling from the oak 0 robin, calling, calling still (O robin, she was all to nm!), ( O robin, she has smiled on mo!). Gray mists like moveless pall of smoke Trill, trill and call, and call and trill, Hide all the woodland and the lea. Fill full the air with melody. I hear the dead leaves pattering, The roses never bloomed so fair, I hear the whisper of the rain. ■lune never wore so dear a grace But most I hear the songs you sing /O robin, calling everywhere, (0 robin, I must lovo in vain!). ' Sho meets me at tlie trysting-place!). The Governor’s story. i 4 St poor,” mother Governor, were said and very “my the 1. AYe lived in a r ' little cabin on General Linton’s farm, and saw a hard time. My father had died wlien I was sixteen years old, leaving us nothing but an honest reputation, •and, although I was stout and healthy, my wages wore very low, and I had to toil late and early to provide the necessaries of life. But I suppose I would have been happy and contented enough; that is, as much as we un satisfied mortals usually are, if it had n’t been for a woman. I don’t know why it was that Helen Linton made such, an impression on me, for she had by no means those great and noble qualities by which men as a general thing are attracted toward the opposite sex. On the contrary, she was proud, arrogant and overbearing, and I was confident if she thought of me at all, it was with feelings of contempt and disdain alone. Hot on account of my personal ap pearance, it is true, for though I was rough aud uncultigated, aud my hands were hard with excessive toil, and my face browned by exposure to the sun, still I Lad wonderful strength and great agility, and my hair and eyes were as dark as midnight, find many said that I was handsome. But I was poor and she was wealthy. I was General Lin ton’s hired hand and she was General Linton’s daughter, and it was the old, old story. It must have been her be¬ wildering beauty that drew me more and more toward her, for she was a ■queenly-looking girl, with flashing ■eyes aud magnificent dark brown hair, and a form tall and stately. But, whatever it might have been, I am certain of one thing, and that is, that I learned to love her with a madden¬ ing, painful, consuming passion that seemed about to devour my whole be¬ ing. I tried very hard to smother it and to drive her image from my heart. I knew I might as well think of pluck¬ ing down the moon or the stars as to have dared to aspire to her hand. But it was all of no avail; the more T struggled the more I became en¬ tangled. In the morning, noon and might there was hut one face that I 4aw, aud hut one voice that I heard, and that was the face aud voice of Helen Linton. What was worst of *11, to me, in soma way she discovered my secret. How, I can hardly tell. They say murder will out, and the same can most assuredly be said about love. I had never spoken about it to any one—not even to my mother—and as to Helen, I had scarcely ever spoken to her on any subject. It is true that sometimes she would give me instructions in regard to the flower garden, which General Linton had se¬ lected me to manage, having, as he said, more opinion of my taste in such matters than any of the rest of his workmen, hut she never condescend¬ ed further. I worshiped her like a star from afar off, and knew the dis¬ tance between us to be as wide and as impassable. One day she came into the garden when I was at work there, and im¬ pelled by some unknown power, as it were, chpice leathered bouquet and of presented flowers; to and her a feh«fther it was from my guilty looks Bit she then discovered all, and de Pwmino.l to check me in the begin¬ ning, or whether she had already probed to the depths of my heart and thought I was presumptuous, I know not; hut certain it is she never spoke to me after that. She had been in the habit of giving me a nod of recogni¬ tion whenever she met me before this, hut after this she passed me by with¬ out even a glance; disdain within her haughty eye, and contempt upon her scornful lip. You may know that my life was as wretched as it could well be. I used to sit down by the fire in our little cabin, after my hard day’s work was done, and curse my wretch¬ ed fate, and call God unjust in what I considered the distinctions He made in the human race, hut I little knew then what the sequel would be. Crowds of company, gay ladies and gentlemen, came every summer from the city to spend the season at Linton Hall, and it so happened that one sum¬ mer came among the rest a young gen¬ tleman named Arthur St. John. He was reported to be wealthy, and hand¬ some he certainly was, and it was not very long before he commenced pay¬ ing attention to General Linton’s “To thine own self be true,and it will follow, as night the thou cans't not then be false to any man.” LINCOLNTON, GA.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 20.18118 daughter; and it was easy enough see that she was a3 infatuated as was. They used to ride by our cottage on the bright summer lags, on the Forest road, as it called, on their prancing horses, he bending fondly above ber, words of love and tenderness, and listening to them with a flush on cheek and a smile upon her lip. I member one evening that I watching them as they rode from the Wild Glen, bathed in golden halo that the gorgeous fires the sunset threw upon the scene, the summer zephyr, loaded with perfume of wild flowers, blew hack massive hair from her queenly until the scene seemed to he celestial, and she an inhabitant of celestial gious. Just then she caught sight me, as I looked at her almost cn tranced, and spoke something in a tone to her companion. What it I never knew, hut they both looked me an instant, and then the air with their laughter, and I heard say something about presumption and impudence, aud I guessed what it was. Ik "’as hard to he thus tortured simply for no other reason than because a heart aud could not control its im pulses, and when I look back on that lime it seems to me like some terrible dream. Misfortunes, they say, never come singly, and they always come, too, when we least expect them. My mother suddenly sickened and died, and I was thus left alone a wretched outcast on the earth. As I stood over her grave it seemed to me that I had buried every hope. I determined to leave that spot where I had seen so much misery. I cared very little where I went. Anywhere far away from there. General Linton paid me what little he owed me, and I struck out for the far West, llailroads and steamboats were not half as numerous then as they are now, and even if they had been I was too poor to avail myself of their ad¬ vantage I walked therefore, many a weary mile, until after several days of travel I found myself at the outskirts of a growing city. Here I stopped be¬ cause I thought Ihad gone far enough, and for the best of all reasons, because my money had given out. I had to do something. A large mansion with beautiful grounds stood before me. I applied to the owner for labor. He said he was very much in need of a gardener, hat did not like to employ me without references. After hesitating for a while, how¬ ever, he concluded to engage me for a month, and if lie liked me he would engage me permanently, he said, I found out in a short time that he was a lawyer of extensive practice,immense¬ ly wealthy, and lived at his ease. I followed out the rule I had adopted through life to he honest aud industri¬ ous under all ciieumstanees, and at the end of the aonth my employer, whose name was Parker, sent for me, he said, to pay me my month’s wages. He then surprised me by asking me if I could read and write. I told him I could, thanks to indefatigable energy and perseverance at the little cabin on General Linton’s farm, during the long winter evenings when the labors of the day were over. I had required the rudiments of a first-rate English education. My employer then told me that during the past month he had observed me closely, and that he be¬ lieved me to he an honest man. “I will tell you something more,” said he, “that I have discovered. You are a young man of extraordinary intelli¬ gence. Gardening is not your proper avocation. I am doing an extensive practice of the law-, and I need some one to stay in my office. I know of no one who is better suited than you. With your application and in¬ dustry, within one year from now you may he admitted to the bar. You mus t consent to become my student.” I didn’t know exactly how it was, but suddenly Judge Parker and 1lie table seemed to become inverted, and the room went whirling around, aud then we all seemed flying off through the air, like Aladdin’s castle, end the next thing I knew I was sobbing, with my head upon the table. He didn’t say anything until I had regained my composure, and then I told him all. What a hard time I had had through life, and how this had been the only light that had ever "shown on my dark pathway. Tears sprang into the old/man’s eyes as I told hinf, but he spld I must never de¬ spair, and he .was certain I would come out victqnous. X went iKto Judge Parker’s office, and I studied hard, and at the end o! the year, as he predicted, I obtained my license to practice law. He then asked me what I intended doing. I told him that I intended to go oft to rf»i«S Dl*o. *n<l grow „p with it, aud if 1 ever do anything,’ said I, “remember that you are the man that matle me.” TT He said that I should ,■!■■ do no such , thing. Ho was getting old, he said, and was unable to attend properly to a gr.at tleal of kb wanted me to stay and assist lum. “You must he my partner,” said he, Again the room seemed turning around and around, but this time 1 managed to retain my feelings, and nnlv u f mini- ««iH “May heaven thank you, for 1 can’t.”. Well, it wasn’t long before the peo pie seemed to take an interest in and they elected me to the Slate Leg islatnre, and then, after a while, tc Congress, and I always continued, in the same honest, industrious course until they had made me their Gov ernor. I had heard hut very little in all teat time from Linton Hall. I had heard that General Linton had died, Arthur St. John and Helen had mar lor. Many a time, amid the thunders of applause that had surrounded me, fair hands had thrown me beautiful flowers, and ruby lips had smiled, and bright eyes had glistened when I was near; but I thought of ‘-cold, cruel, haughty Helen Linton, and bail judged them all alike and had turned T One winter • , evening, . shortly . , after .. I hacl been elected Governor, when the withm, wondering less wretch were out in that storm, to ushered in a lady. It was something unusual; but I spoke to her aspo litelyas I could, and offered her a seat, when the light fell upon her features and notwithstanding the sunken eye and hollow cheeks, to my consternation I recognized the face of Helen Linton. To -mv relief, however, I found she had failed to recognize m*. she would as soon have looked for a form from the tomb as have looked lor me at that place. fehe had come she said, on painful business. Her lather had been a very wealthy man, and left her a large property, but her husband had been thi-mi-lf'wito inwait it all 1 fiudiitg the iamilv in an unluchv "erv moment had Ld committed a foi anf tor guX wdiich he ne naa been neen tried t lea ana found oundg i v, and she had come to me to plead for his pai don. She told me all this amid sobs and tears, and nnally eluded by prostrating herself at my feet Great God! r , . ™ This . woman, who , once thought me not good enough to wipe her shoes upon, kneeling and grovel-, ing at my feet! ! I liegged her to rise and Reseated, and I then inquired her father’s name, She said it was John Linton. I then asked lier if slie remembered the old widow and her son, that Oce lived in the cabin on tho Forest road, near , Liuton Hall. She replied, with somo surprise, that she did. Then I stood up. “That boy,” said T, “wretched, homeless outcast that ho once was, now stands before you.” | She turned aslien white, arose and ■staggered toward the door. I told her to stop, I had something to say to her. “Let me go,” said _ she; “I showed no mercy to you, and I expect none.” Then my heart was touched. j “Mrs. St John,” I said, I will pardon your husband, hut on one con s w-ax -y- ?rT m' will guard them against its wicked and nefarious influences through life, aud that your husband will likewise reclaim and lead a different life.” She readily assented to my require roeiits, and in a few moments more she was on her way home, bearing the joyful tidings to her little chil d ren . The lesson that I taught her I hope may he a benefit to them through life. I She and her husband moved to a distant city, where he reformed, ami became a useful and respectable citizen, and often speaks of me, I un derstand, with profound gratitude. I am a bachelor yet, and there is but one woman to whose memory I ever drop a tear. of And that is to the memory my mother. Five Little Tisrs Sold For SllSO. That the prices of live stock are rapidly increasing in Iowa is shown & y the records of some Poland China a ig sales recently. E. M. Metzgar sold one pig to S. E. Shellenberger, of Camden, Ohio, for $883. A litter of five pigs born in February last brought $1150. Iu all forty-one pigs were sold, getting $3900.—New York Sun. IF. If ftli all our lives were one broad glare Of sunlight, clear, unclouded; If all our paths wore smooth and fair, ’S.jjXtlXSj* By no deep gloom enshrouded And pray, perhaps, for storms and showers To break tho constant gladness. if none were slek and none were sad, What service could we render? I think if we were always glad Wo hardly could be tender, Did our beloved never need ,ad« a . its finest consolation. If sorrow never smote the heart And life be disenchanted, And if in heaven is no more night, In heaven is no more sorrow, Such unimagined, pure delight Fresh worth from pain would borrow. PITH AND POINT. There are people who think that if a girl has studied in Europe she can sing—Washington Democrat, The Missionary—“My friend, what would you do if you expected the end of the world in ten days?” The Tramp — “Wait for it.”—Puck. Geraldine—“I wouldn’t marry you if you lived to he a hundred year old. ” (Jerald—“Well, you’ve got sixty years to change your m .d.”—Truth. ^ m f «P ; ” Gentleman (gallantly) (fc 1 tow J 011 ’ Jailing. >-tan ™ rd " Class in natural history-“Name « anirnHs note 1 especially for their ferocity. Two oats tied acrost a elo’ea line, ma’am.’’—Chicago Tn bune. “Thev ?•iv that the to' Italian count she she mauied mamed turned tmnml out out to be oe an an or or gan-gruu or. e a-auyiae, e IjnLi’r “ ° Etliel (aged sis)—“I -wonilar from.” .km ill the clergymen come choir-hoysigrow up into mmnners. — Harper’s Bazar. “L, e mau dat won’ he saterfy wif auffiu hut a sof’ snap,’ said Uncle 1-jben, “is ginerally de one dat does de caos’ talkin’ ’bout halul times.”— Washington Star. Raggs—“I wouder why a dog at Sliafl8 ar0U art three times before dffwn?” Jaggs—“Probably he ttlinka that one good turn deserves ino ther.”—Chicago News. Flora (who has aspirations)—“Don’t thiak wolnen can do a great deal elevats the stase? » Ed.—“It woulda>t be necessary if they’d ?. lower ^ hats .^Harper’s BaZa Belle-“What makes that Miss Sprocket so proud?” Bertha-“Why, didn’t you hear? She advertised her bicycle for sale, and they got it in this «ay,„A - v beautiful beantuul ladv’s lady bicycle bicycle for ■ Mr. Blmkins- Ion know tne old proverb, Tne host is tne cheapest? Mrs. Blinking—'“Oh, you are mistaken! g* The best test is is the U ^dealest dearest ^ I know, for L 'Ve^Kij. . d “ pn ° eS- ' “The fact is,” said Dawson, “I mar ried because I was lonely. To put it tersely, I married for sympathy. ’ “Well, old man,” replied his friend Haley, you certainly have mine/’— Chicago News. “It hardly seems meet,” said the Cornfed Philosopher, “yet it is un loubtedly true, that many with a young her woman is willing to trust butchers heart a young man that no will trust for a pound of liver.”—In dianapolis Journal. “H ow old are you?” was asked of a | itt j Q English girl who is visiting in Allegheny. “I am six.” And liow old j S y0 ur cousin?” “He is six, too, but he has been so longer than I.” The f was a few months the older.— Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. E nthusiast-“The game of golf iu tting ^ the halls over the ^ s a!lesfc possib l e num w •• The F Queer Tilings in the City of Jle xii-o. Donkeys are a largo part of the qity’s capital. ’With their drivers they i„re everywhere. They will take yoa across a muchly street for a small fee, or take your bundles home or take you home. The flowers are wonder i'ul Marguerite and plumbago bushes grow ifito trees. So do many other small flowering shrubs of our hot houses. The City of Mexico has the most wonderful gardens in the world, It has the most wonderful gambling place in the world—Tacubayj, a sub urb. At Monte Carlo the player can " bet ' only ■ $1300. — At ‘ 1 Tacubaya r " •----**— there is absolutely no limit. One dollar or $50,000 is all the same to the impas sivelgpler. In the cemeteries the dead of the wealthiest families have iron monuments. A Mexican will point with uncontrollable pride to a huge, ugly, rusted slab lying over the hones of his grandfather. Iron Iron is is the the most expensive thing they can buy Beautiful marbles and wonderful onyxes are too cheap.—Chicago Iimes Herald.__ The wheat crop of New South Wales was estimated at 9,343,000 bushels. WATCH YOUR WORDS. Keep watch on your - words, my darling*. For words are wonderful things; They are sweet, like bees’ fresh honey— Like bees, they have terrible stings, They can bless. Tike tho warm, glad sun¬ shine. And brighten a lonely life; They can cut in the hitter contest, Like an open, two-edged knife. Let them pass through the lips unchal¬ lenged, If their errand is true and kind— If they come to support the weary, To comfort and help tho blind; If a bitter, revengeful spirit Prompt the words, let them he unsaid; They may Hash through a brain like light¬ ning Or fall on a heart like lead. Keep them back if they’re cold or cruel, Under bar and lock and seal; The wounds they make, my durlings, May Are always slow to heal. peace guard your lives, and ever Front tho time of your early youth, Hay the words that you daily utter lie tho words of beautiful truth. HUMOROUS. The closer money is the harder it ii to get hold of it. It is easy to find fault, hut it’s hard to tell what to do with it. “How does your new belt suit you, Jane?” “Oh, middling.” ' No wouder the ocean waves get an g ry when the wind is continually blowing them up. The average man never fully real izes at midnigllt how very s i e e p y bs i s going to be at 7 o’clock the next mornin „ Miss Miss Charmvno-e Lharmjng© Don’t Don t von you think tilin' T 1 was meant for business woman? a j ac ) t Hustler—No, I don’t. I think yon were me ant for a business man. ‘ ‘Isabel k» n,v„ k. in threatened “{> with it once, “V»i but a *>■« bottle ' Did know that tr English -■ , colonial , - , you women many more titled Englishmen ga* W J»“en <lo.- ^ " o.oym explain tt. I \hmk they must bidhighei. . “Dees your wife object to your stay ing out, so late of nights.- A. little; hut wlmt really raises her wrath is tor to c °“ e home so quietly that she doesn t know when I got in. Husband—I’ve some had news for yon, my dear; that old bachelor broth w of mine has failed—lost his entire fortune. Wife—Oh, John, how dread full And just as we had named the baby after him. “At no time,” said the cornfed philosopher, “is a man so willing to take the burden from the weak shoul dors of frail woman as when she is harassed with the care of a large and property.” “The trorble with thvsician vonr wife Mr bpudds, sa d the physician ‘is m lack lack ot exercise.” “What can I do for it?” “I would J put in a telephone, and then ^ delivering mes sages o for the neighborhood.” & “Mrs Toddler doesn t trust her husband to wheel the baby buggy any more. Why not ‘He s one of those scorchers, and the other night lie nearly killed the baby trying to keep up with a man on a bicycle, Air.Dearborn—How are you getting along with your new wife? Mr. Wa bash—Oh, there’s trouble already, “What’s wrong?” “Why, she insists on having a new wheel, and I think the one my last wife had is good enough.” “I’m not going to that female hat her shop again." There’s a deuced rudh girl there, don’t you know?” “What did she say?” “Why, she looked at my mustawsh and asked me if I would have it sponged off or rubbed in.” “Yes, I always let people know that my wife is a Republican and I’m a Democrat. It saves me lots of ex planations. “In what way? “Why, when people hear us raising merry turmoil, they thiak, of course, it is only a party dispute. Sympathetic Citizen—You ^ are not going to arrest that boy for stealing a few apples, are you? Remember you were a hoy yourself, once. Store keeper Yes, I remembei it, ana that s jiist why I m going to anest him. They pulled me m a dozen times when I was a kid. First Western Farmer (at railroad station)—You’re a farmer, too, eh? Second Western Farmer—Yes; been farmin’ a good many years. First Farmer—That so? Glad to meet ye. Where is your farm located—in the flood district, the drought section, the regi n, or the cyclone Unit? belt? Tlie Tree Clock. A Glasgow man has in his garden what he calls a “tree clock.” Fir trees are planted in such positions that one of them will shade a portion of the house at every hour of sunlight, For example,at i) o’clock in the morn ing the “9 o’clock tree” shades the dining room r while, as the sunlight changes, th © “10 o’clock tree” shades the room above or the room adjoining - it, and so on through the day. On n ‘ sunny day this “tree clock” insares a j succession of shady places around th* houso, NO. 33. GEORGIA RAILROAD, —A. iv r>~ Connections. For Information as to Routes, Soiled —ules and Rates, Both— Passenger and Freight Write to either of tho undersigned. You will receive prompt reply reliable information. JOE. W. WHITE, A. G-. JACKSON. t. r. a. a r. a. gViiHfiistn^ (fa. 3. W. WILKES, H. K. NICHOLSON, F C. P. & P. A. G. A. Atlanta. Athens W. W. HARDWICK, S. E. MAGILE, S. A. C. F. A. Macon. Macon. M. R. HUDSON, F. W. COFFIN, S. F. A. S. F. & P- A. Miliedgeville. Augusts. CHILDREN AND WHEELS. Danger that the Violently. Young Will Exercise f Too It is a curious fact that of all sports men bicyclers seem to be the most sen tltive to criticism from a hygienic point view. This is possibly because they p* ainly with the ST1 !^ crl full !™ of : warning air so * nd admonition, adults may n mostly to their own discretion.^ And ret ’ *" tIie face ° f llle se0l ’ c lel s leranation, we must summon our coui * and in the interest of the very, , roim<r "if „ ss< , tt tlnt tUe „ rest . n t recfcless JSert aess not checked will result in a e ^ '^ 5”°«|'S‘£maw Ind „ q nrlv ho cou v those -once f^d in it by the young should be about “ 0 * with " many / precautions. ‘ , t bat) , v as beneticial to children as, to their elders, ^ ^ ^ m>odf|lU sincc the young. especially bovs seldom suffer for, glviusd want of oxe rcise. their outdoor games as a r ' u lf, all Uiey need.. agi ,,., f ,......... ... . ln tbe , vhc(i , urisil ^w, ■„. . ness of children to compete with —to ride too long, too fast and too far. Wheeling resembles stair-climbing !*; its nature and effects. No mother would allow- her child to run up the steps of the Washington monument two or times a day. yet she will let him take); his bicycle and race over country roadaff for miles, his little heart pumping on*.; hundred and fifty or two hundred times a minute and fondly thinks it is do.ng . him good. the It is just here strained, that overstrained; the danger ^ it isi heart Is dilated and then enlarged; it work* eoi unu °usiy «> “S ra* u 1 suengin , ,,, ., xviri ■ aI * force, and by t l> , 011 res °rvc - ■ child has become a man the hear « permanently tired and may uose.hr stop short some day without warning, ChiMren need not be forbidden the use of the pi e y C i e> i nlt parents should see to ft that they have properly con s t ruc t e d saddles, and that they do not *« scorc i lf ” C u m b steep hills, ride against • high winds, or ride at all more than a f ew mi i es at a stretch. Unfortunately p j s tliese very feats that they are often incited by their elders to perform, There are few more piteous sights, to 0Jle w - ho has seen the consequences of fcuch folly, than that of a tiny child, on ft tiny wheel, struggling up a hill after ft six-foot father and a seasoned mo-th er. Much surprise hns been expressed that while tho prlco of first-class bi¬ cycles has fallen from $100 to $05 ot $75 tho prlco of typewriters remain} the same. In first hands a $100 type¬ writer still costs $100. The quesflos possesses practical Interest, because there 0 ht t0 be a corresponding de crease ln tUe prlce of articles rnffuff f ueturec ] uu( j er similar circumstances Actually the same machinery Is used ) s producing a large portion of th« i frameivork, the wire parts and some ot 1 the movements of both machines Within a year or two typewriter man ufaeturies have been turned Into hi , cycle factories with but little expense^ the bicycle demand fell off and tht j j typewriter tones demand changed increased back to the the origi. fao were nal plan. The same might be said ot ; the price of watch movements, tht | cost of which constitutes the principal j cost of a watch. The be adapted machinery little in s 1 watch factory can at cost to the manufacture of either bh cycles or typewriters. The cost ot j Watch movements has decreased m that one of the best of watches can b« bought now for one-half what it wouli| have cost ten years ago. An intelll. gent person explains why the price ot j the writing machines is as high now as ever, if not higher, as to equal grades. It is the everlasting trust and combination of interests among nianu> 1 faeturers that keeps up the price of typewriters. TIie trust markets all th« standard machines and controls tht ' trade. The trust must pay dividends. That is why the cost 4 typewriters Is maintained at tho to m . : notch of prices, notwithstanding th I great reduction in the cost of man ‘ facture. ™