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DUBLIN, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21,1S78;
NO. 10.
LOVE IN ABSENCE.
BY MICHEAL SCANtAN.
You left us when the woods were green,
And through the fields the bees were
humming.
And now the great sea rolls between,
I you have no intention of encouraging | one else half so'well ”
Major Dukchart?” said Miriam’s Tho major leaped to his foot, with
| mother, as that young lady was .Iress- a cry of rapture, and would have
mg for Mrs. Groover’s party. “Hois caught her id his breast, but sho
a haudsomo, agreeable person, I’ll drew back.
admit, but so very wild, and fond of “No, no,” sho said, “you must
„ lus g lass -> too > I’ve been told. His hear me out. I lovo you, ns I have
While here I wait and watch your com- attentions are becoming quite marked said, but I cannot, consent to become
his old. club companions clustering j
about him. And all this camo about!
through tho influonco of one bravo
woman.
ing.
Oh, but to hear your pleasant song,
And feel my arms once more about you!
Ah, love, why do you stay so long,
And life so lonely hero without you?
I’ve watched the woods grow green and
brown
So many times since you departed;
The light has left the lonesome town,
Which seems, like me, so weary-hearted.
All day I dream old dreams of love,
I wear the night in sighs about you;
Nor green beneath nor blue above
Can fill the void of life without you.
I do not care to spin or play;
I hate the sound of lover’sdaughtcr!
Is love, then, but a summer day,
And then a life of sorrow after?
Oil, but to hear your pleasant song,
And feel my arms once more about you! j
Oh, love, how can you stay eo long,
And I so lonely here without you?
A WOMAN’S INFLUENCE,
BY EMMA G. JONES. , „ 4nd W(Ws hlfluenco SQ
>i, i .strong. You must not forget that,
• So you to allowed yourself to be m „tl le r,-1 said Miriam.”
switched bv that, littln sivon TUiw_ I ... ... ^ #
of late. My dear child, pray take I your wife unless you join my order,
my advice, and discourage him at and sho touched the blue knot upon
on ®®‘ I her shoulder. “I believe in the
iliss Tolbert wont to her mother’s temperance reform, and I intend to
c mil and kissed her. / labor to promoto it as long ns I live.
“Hon t worry, mamma, lovo,” she A husband and wife, to bo truly
said, in her soft sweet voice; “I shall happy, must bo Of one heart and
do nothiug wrong. Perhaps .X- may mind, I cannot' cofne ever to your
bo able to win Major Dukchart over way, major,.so if you really aro in
to my way of thinking.” earnost, you must como over to
“I’m afraid not, Miriam; the safest mino.”
way will be to let him alone.” The young man was a little star
A lustful look crossed tho girl’s tied at this firm stand on the port of
beautiful face. such a yielding, tender, .womanly
I cannot agree with you, mamma,” little creature,
sho replied. “When wo hop influ- “I am not a drunkard,” ho began,
cnee, it is surely our duty to use it stammering and embarrassed; “there
for the good of others. But do not is no need of all this ”
distress yourself; you may trust me.” “Perhaps not,” said Miriam, hor
“Yes, my pet,” said tho mother, | clasping hand on his arm, “but wo
bewitched by that little siren, Miri
am Tolberb, I’m told, Dukchart?”
“I’m afraid I can’t contradict the
report,” said the major.
His companion laughed, and shrug
ged his shoulders. The}’’ were hav
ing a charming little dinner at the
club, with some half-dozen other
convivial souls.
“See'here, now, old fellow,” ho
continued, as he uncorked a second
bottle of old Port, and filled the ma
jor’s glass to the brim, “you’re fond
of your glass, I think, as well as the
“Miss Tolbert, won’t you drink a
philopena with me?”
It was Major Dukchart who asked
tho question, laying one hand on
Miriam’s arm, while he held in the
other a little crystal goblet filled with
sparkling wine.
Miriam turned and looked up at
him, and her dove eyes lit. Tho
handsome, pleusant face of tho tall
soldier was growing very dear to her
girlish heart, and the touch of his
your name, wnon your
friends hear that Major Dnkehart
has joined tho good cause of temiior
anco and Christianity, they will bo
influenced to do likewise.”
“They will laugh at me for a fool,”
thought Dukchart, and the girl’s
bright eyes read the thoughts in his
irrosoluto face.
She came closer to him, so close
that her perfumed hair rippled across
his shoulder.
“You are a soldier, and a bravo
man,” sho said, hor dove eyes flash
ing. “Do not' fear the ridicule of
those whom you should labor to save.
&
Si
It is a little thing I ask you to give
rest of us—your old port, yoiu* spark-1 ]jound° and 1 fiuttcr ma<i0 ilC1 1H ^ S0S U1> f 01 * Sal< °’ 1 would ea01 ’^ CG
ling champagne, your brandy, old “I would in-* L ir • „ , muG1 more to please you. Do yon
UOlrimrciomeim wL S f Arc wo to walk
7 ! X ¥ r s ™ cf ” iside Mstd^ ftiKl'idmud in hand^
but there is a matter of right and the rest of our lives? Then you
wrong involved, you see, and I am must decide now and for all coming
very sure you would not desire nm I 4*v,,« nn. !.i. *n •
to do wrong, Major Dukchart?”
•Dear me, Miss Tolbert,” began
i , i 1,1, , i the major, feeling sure of winning
knowledge! that you oi-o bewitched? | his wngcr . but tll “ t(rach o( Jj.
it SO?”
“Cdnldn’t do without them. My I
dear fellow, what arc you driving
at?” said Dukchart, tossing off his
glass.
“I’ll toll you, major. You
KUNNEIi KEABNEY.
Kearney mado a speech in Fanuiol
Ilf
Horrors of tlio Heatocl Term in
Arkansas.
When tho hot wave struck Arlcan
sa8, it brought this sdd yourning la-
ment out of a man by tho name of
Cdlonel i)ouan:
“0 for a chunk of the world’s cold
, _ Ib I charities to slip in our soothing bosom
<jpc ung, ho eulogized Butler, of boforo our gizzard is totally cooked,
whom ho spoko as lesser than Mao- 0 for tli'o bleak winds of adversity to
both, yot greater—“that fiory and in- fan our blistorsing brow. And 0 for a
comparable Rupert of debate, the chanoo to dip our tohgUo of parched
chivalrous and whito-plnmcd Nav- and crackling loathor into the dark,
urro of Rostrum.” Ho hoped Butler chill waters of tho dreaded Jordan
would “receive the. reward from tho O for tho frost of yoars and tho snows
^ Ma8Saclra sbtts ho s6 | of old ago. 0 for tho touch of an icy
hand, or the freezing glance of a
u in Boston on the 6th inst.
<(P®ki»g, ho eulogized
justly merits.”
Getting warmed up,Kearney took haughty damsel’s oyo. 0 for u flow
•off lus coat, loosened his cravat and or garden of Polar hor
■ 1 — 8 ,u 'don of Polar bears, and a sun-
contmmng, siud^I am sorry, fnonds less grove of Alaska iqohorgs. 0 for
wo arc not able to hire Bcechor to acavoin Kamtselmtka, a ond lum-
viioek the bottom out of hell. What drod and sixty aoro homestead of
means this outpouring of tho people? Spitsbergen frigidity, an ioiclo-gom-
What means tins grand .tidal wave? mend grotto in tho busemont story of
\\ luit is tho matter with tlm country the Aurora Borealis. 0 for a blue
tliat tho workingmen are rising from noso and a pair of frost-bitton bools.
N°vth to South, from west to east, Every thormomotor from Capo Cod to
to do what? Corpus Christ! lias kicked tho top
J o take charge of their own affairs, out and boiled over, likeYho Burmese
(Applause.) I-Iore upon tho altar of | monarch who took twclvo white and
liberty, hero whore tho sun first
dawned upon tho infant brow of lib
erty; hero where free mon and free
women have spoken, hero in tho soc-
twolvo bluoseidlitz powdors separate
ly. Fat old ladies are daily dipped
up in ladles on all our city thorough
fares, and borno away in tubs to
oqd century of tho indopondenco of adjacont ico cream saloons, to bo
America we find a natural and pop- remodelled and frozon over. Boots
ular uprising of tho people. This aro of ton found in our stroots filled
vast uprising of tlio people, what, does wi th rancid grouse, and a hroivd-
r ask 7°”’ docs lfc not mGftM brimmed hat resting on tlio straps,
qcath to the railroad robber and the tho owner just thawed away. Cut-
i.roachcrons, th ieving bondholder fish, oels and tadpoles are-running all
^ applause), and does it not moan po-1 over tho country with tin cups in
tlicir mouths, asking every body
they meet to give them a drink of
water,”
The Convict Syftfom Illustrated.
[Avgusta Evening Nines,]
Fivo of tho nogro convicts who
ac-1
time. Which will you give up, the
wine-cup, or the hand of tlio woman
who loves you?”
“I t U givo up tho whole world for
Very well, now, do yon know «■* W*
She let him hold her thus a min
utc, let him feel tho soft pressuro of
arms, then sho drew
yonr pretty .iron | s f'i I Bet his heart .to thumping like a trip-
“01 course I do. She’s the prot- hammer ' 1
.tiest woman in Boynton ” «Lefc mo toko tho glass,” she said
, n”? 1 ?' , ,Ut sllt 3 something persuasively; “wo will not drink the
else.BuUhart, my poor follow, she's Lison which has driven so many
a reformer, an out and out temper- noble souls to ruin, and lias broken
anoo advocate. Bid- you ever notice L ra0U y fona women’s hearts. I
that coquettish little blue ribbon she I will throw it out of tho window, and
wears just above her heart? Well,
that’s the badgo of her order. She’s
a temperance reformer, old fellow,
and if you marry her, she’ll reform
yon, just as. sure as your name is Tom
Dukchart.”
The major laughed, and all his
comrades joined him. Ho was the
leading spirit of tho club, a wild,
dashing, handsome young fellow,
rich, gay, and just tho least bit too
fond of his glass.
“Have your laugh out, hoys,” ho
„said, pleasantly; “but it all amounts
to nothing. I’m bewitched, I’ll
confess,- but not to the extent yon
imagine. If pretty Miss Tolbert has
a fancy fof. tho, blue ribbon crusade,
well and good; hut she won’t catch
me in her trap. I’m too old a bird
to peck at that sort of chaff, you
know.”
“Ah, hut wo don’t know,” cried
Easthafn, “do we boys? I’ll lay a
wager of almost any amount that in
less than a montlr yoUv sport a blue
ribbon in your buttonhole, and roll
up youroyosin holy horror ftt the
sight of a demijohn.”
“Done,” cried the major, pushing
forward his empty glass; “put up
your stakes, comrades. And I lay a
wager that I make my pretty charm
er haul down hor colors before she’s
u week older. What do you say?”
“Done! done!” cried half a dozen
voices in chorus, and then the stakes
were put up, and thq glasses clinked
merrily, and the laughter bccamo
uproarious.
******
“My dear Miriam, I really hojic
then we will eat as many philoponas
us you please. I’vo a pocket full of
almonds, and you’ll find them much
nicer than this. Major Dukchart,
may I take the glass?”
Tho major let her take it. It
seemed to him tlmt Jio could not
have refused her, if his life had de
pended on it.
She turned to the open window
aud tossed out tlio sparkling wine,
'“There now,” sho said. Oh, how
1 * t n C ° UlcI tllc wllol ° I tho blue ribbon in his button-holo.
world of tho curse, a* 1 havo'emptied | “Dukchart, old fellow, wlrnt docs
hor carossing
back, and disengaged the hi no knot
from her shoulder.
“May I fasten it on your breast?”
she asked, looking up at him with
quivering lips and tear-filled eyes.
Ho stooped down and kissed her.
You’ve conquered mo,” ho said.
“Yes, fasten it on.”
And with shining eyes, and hands
whose lightest touch was a caress,
sho set it on his breast.
* * * * *
“By Jupiter! boys, look at Dukc
hart, will you! Ho wears tlio blue
badge of tho order!”
(Every mail in the club-room leaped
to hjs feet as the major entered with
this glass! Now, major,” linking
ono white hand in his arm, aud put
ting the other in her poekot, “I’m
ready for tho philoponu. Sco what
largo; almonds; every shell contains a
double nut.”
Jibe major ato the philopena, and
lost his heart irretrievably at one and
the same timo. She was so fair, so
sweet, so womanly and winning, he
had no power, and indeed no incli
nation to resist hor. And that pretty
blue ribbon on tho slioujdcr of her
white dress was so becoming.
Major Dukchart forgot the club,
forgot his boon companions, forgot
his wagor, forgot everything hut the
dovc-cycs and smiling, girlish face
beside him, and boforo tho evening
was over ho “popped the question.”
Miriam, sitting under tho trailing
vines, with the moonlight on her
fair young face, listened to his ar
dent words with’downcast eyes and
blushing cheeks.
“Yes, I lovo you,” sho answered
frankly, when he had finished. “I
am sure that I shall never love any
it mean? Didn’t I tell you how it
Wftuld turn out? I said Miss Tolbert
would reform you. You are under
petticoat government at last. You
have lost your wager.”
Tho young man smiled in his old,
good-humored fashion, os these ex
clamations, mingled with uproarious
laughtor, assailed him.
“Yes, boys, I have lost my wager,”
lie said, “Eastlmm’s words -have
come true! The woman I lovo has
reformed mo; sho would not como
over to mo, and I had to go ovor to
her. And now, comrades,” he added,
his fine eyes growing misty with ten
der feeling, “how is it to be with us?
We’vo spent many a pleasant hour
together, hut. wo’vo come to a park
in tho road of life just bore. Will
you como along with me, or must we
shuko hands and part?”
They laughed at him, and ho shook
hands with them and went his way.
A month later he mado Miriam his
wife. A year later found iiim an el
oquent and energetic leader in the
good cause of teni]>cr<fnoe, with all
litical oblivion to tlio rancorous, vil
lainous political hummer?” (Ap
plause.)
Tho speaker then paid his respects
to the prossf saying: From tho onr
liest days of printing, newspapers
had been, more in the interest of cut-
I were at work, o U . the
ifliifmidniglrt' hsstisains. (Gyilnt lip- N®U4» And Grooufrood raihWd yoster-
plauso and laughter). For the rc- ( Any fell exhausted by tho boat.' Two
porters of tho press ho had groat rc- of them arc dead; tlio others will
spcct, a3 tlioy wore workingmen. I probably recover. Two more lmye
After assailing tlio press in his char- given up work this morning. Within
aeteristic manner, Kearney said tllG List two weeks, or since the
newspaper mon wore a villainous, I Aoatcd term commenced, four have
thieving, infamous band of scalawags died of sunstroke, and sovoral otliors
tlmt aro aiming to control public i' a VO boon prostrated by it, and this
opinion. If tho workingmen of tlio ° ,l tof about 530 or 88 bunds employed.
United States possessed within their This is outrageous, and is in itself a*
breasts a single spark from which a
flume of freedom could bo fanned,
they would not pormit such monsters
to live in their midst. They would
control those telegraphs, they w»iild
hurl those infernal, lying scalawags
from power and elect honest men to
transmit plain, unvarnished nows.
As to ungrammatical sentences, and
ungrammatical speeches, ho said
“For two dollars and fifty cents. I can
always hire ji man to write a gram
matical speech; but it takes millions
to buy an honest man, bo ho over so
ungrammatical. (Applause.)
Lot mo state that the country is
boing run to perdition by a hand of
classic thieves and legal pirates.
What workingmen want is common
honesty and common sense—-bettor
guides than classic attainments.” He
detailed at length tho qrigin and
growth -of-thoj weak ingfncn’s move
ment in Colifornitt, and advised tho
workingmen of Massachusetts to pool
all their issuos into one pot, and in
November tlioy could announce a
victory. Tho hall was jammed.
Atlanta Constitution.
A life insurance agent at Cincinnati
exhausted his eloquence upon a vic-
tirp who finally threatened to kick
Kifcuflofm stairs. The agent prompt
ly replied that if tho victim really
meant to attempt that sort of thing
there was another reason why ho
should get his life insured, hut the
victim didn’t take a policy.
Marriage is becoming fashionable
omong.tho Catholic priests of Ger
many, the civic law protecting thorn.
The daughter of Queen. Victoria is
coming to rosido in Canada, and will
govern hor husband, tlio Murquis of
Doruo, and ho will govern the Cana
dians.
sufficient commentary upon tho pros
^mt system of leasing tho convicts.
Wo do not olitim that tlioy should bo
provided with iced loniomido and
palm loaf fans, but wo do claim tlmt
tiio fact that tlioy aro convicts, does
not put them boyond tho pale of hu
manity; and their dying in tho ratio
•given aiiovo is littlo short of murdor,
with the sanctions of law, and that
such things aro allowed is a crimo
against the laws of humanity and
God. Many of thoso men are con
doomed for comparatively light
crimoB, and though tlioy were all
murderers, it is wrong that tlioy
should bo ilono to dcuth in this man
nor. Better,, a thousand times hotter
tho whipping post than this mode
of punishmont.
Itecognitlon Extraordinary.
[G/lietfyo mm.]
In tho opinion of General Butler,
tho best thing to do with Grant is to
make him field inarshul at.825,000 a
yoar. Ilis groat services entitle him
to some such recognition os that, the
“Essex Statesman” thinks; but upon
tho samo principle overy oflicor—and
ovory soldier, for that matter—who
voluntarily left after tho fighting
through the war, would bo entitled
to proportionate “recognition”—
which would ho amazingly expensive,
it thcro was no other objection to it.
General Grant was once nt tho head
of tiro army, whore lie might have
remained for life, if ho chose. Ho
preferred tho presidency, and had it
two terms; and with tlmt ho and his
friends should ho content. Tlio
country had more than enough of
him ns chief magistrate—a position
in which ho won no distinctions savo
tlnft of chief of tho most corrupt
administration in the history of the
republic.
liases* Guilty Complicity.
A member of the Ppttor Oohimitte*
recently summarized the facts proved
by Burke’s testimony, by saying that
ho looked upon the evidence adduced
ns already showing (and Buiko’s tes
timony is as yet by no means all ir!)
that a couforonco was hold botwoen
representatives of Ilaycs 'and tlio t\yo
Democratic States govoVmcnts iil
South Carolina and Louisiana, at
which it was agreed tlmt. tho qoimt,
should proceed, and Hayes should {&;
doclavod President. This agi’oomcn't
was nftorwai’ds enlarged to includo
tlio election of two Republican Sen
ators from Louisiana, and was rat
ified by’Hayes in an intor viow March
4th with Burke and Randall Gibson,
and was completed and executed by
the MacVengh commission. This
conversation concluded with this
pregnant’uttOranoo from the mem
ber: .
“If this ho not a corrupt bargain
and sale, it is difficult to understand
wlrnt would constitute such a thing.
It is the opinion of tlio ablest law
yers with whom I lmvo conversed,
tlmt if proof of this bargain is con>
plotet, tho Houso of Representatives
will ho forood by public sentiment
to presoirt articles of impeaclimont
against Hayes, and that the Senate
as now constituted oven would almost
unanimously find him guilty and
remove him from office. This, of
courso, would open tho way for Mr.
Whoelor to step into tlio Presidential
clmir, hut proof which would ho suf
ficient to romovo Hayes on impoucli-
mont would show that Mr. AVheeloi 1 ,’
as well as Huycs, was corruptly bar-'
gained for and counted in, and tlmt
in tho light of public ’sentiment at
such a timo it is not bolioved tlmt
Mr. Wheeler would or. could accept
tho place. This would require a pres
ident j)vq tempore to. lio inagurinted
ns president ad interim until anoijior
olootiou could tako place, which
could not ho midor tlio Constitution
and laws prior to November, 1879;
ovon if convictions should bo had at
tho next session of Oongross. But
tlio probabilities aro, tlmt in case of
impeachment tlio trial will take place
after the 4th of March, when the
Seimto would ho pouvoned in extra
ordinary session for that purpose;
Tho Scnato would thon he Dem
ocratic, and tho president pro tem
pore, who would bo inagnruted id
caso of convictions of Hayes, would
ho a Democrat.’’—Savannah News.
Europe will next year ho divided
among fivo groat powers—Germany,
Austria, Great Britain, Russia an.l
Franco; four of medium importance—
Sweden, Spain, Italy, and Turkey;
thirteen small states—Norway, Den
mark, Holland, Belgium,* Switzerland
Portugal, Greece, Rouinania, Servia,
Bulgaria, Montenegro, Eastern Ron:
molru and probably Western Roumclia
besides throe minuto states—Monaco,
Sau Marino, and Andorra. If no one
olso rejoices at tho ontcomo of the
congress; tho diplomatic sorvico. will.
If yon nra full of affoctation and
protohso, your voice proclaims it. If
you are full of honest strength, and
purpose, your voico proclaims it. U
you are cold and calm and firm and
persistent, or fickle and foolish and *
deceptive, your voico will ho equally
truth-tolling. You cannot chungo'
your voico from a natural to an un
natural tone without its boing known
tlmt you are so doing.— Waif,
Queen Victoria 1ms given her othor
garter to Lord Salisbury. If this
does not heal tho political differences
in England, sho might distribute a
few lmjrpins among the remaining '
malcontents.
•So many places claimed Ilomor as
a resident and a citizen tlmt wo in
cline to the oinipon tlmt ho was a
Methodist preaclier.r—-Burlinylon,
Hawkeye.
Tho Georgia stato Fair is to open’
at Macon on tlio 38th day of Oclolcf
and continue one week;