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DUBLIN, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1879.
‘TIME WILL TELL .”
Young man, are you coining health ?
Nature’s most abundant wealth ?
Time will tell I
Whether tlio ruddy cheek’s fair glow,
That becomes you- manhood so,
Comes of well-spent hours or no,
Time will tell!
As the tempter's home you pass,
Do you drain the social glass V
Time will tell!
By the wild eye’s lurid flame,
By the breath of your fair fame,
By your good or evil name, .
Time will tell 1
Do vou choose the honest way,
In your dealings day by day f
Time will tell!
Should the road be rough and long,
Thornier than the path of wrong.
Will your heart be faint or strong ?
Tjmc will tell!
Do you, wdth a nobler choice,
Listen to tlie siren’s voice ?
Time will tell!
Whether you spend in rightful sleep V
Sleep’s own hours, or orgies keep,
That would make the angels weep,
. Time will tell 1
Every seed that we have sown,
Every blossom therefrom blown,
Time will tell 1
All depends upon the,root ;
Like from like still follows suit;
Either sweet or bitter fruit,
Time will tell 1
ESTELLE’S REPENTANCE.
“Thun you refuse to giro up tint'
hateful journey, in order to accom
pany,me to the Masquerade, upon
which T have set my heart?”
“I must refuse, Estelle! This
matter is of pressing business, an en
gagement made weeks ago, and my
word is pledged to be on hand at the
appointed time. 1 am sorry 'to dis-
’ appoint you, out it can’t he avoided,’’
returned the husband, gravely.
“Cannot indeed! I. say it can!
Eugene Duval, if you go to-day, and
ami so disappoint me, you will rue it
all the days of your life. Let me as
sn re you, I shall go to that ball to
morrow night, either with you or
without you; I swear it!” returned
the-wife, crimson with passion.
“0, my darling, do not he so has
ty! I know you do not mean one
half your angry words imply; for yon
surely would not attend such a pub
lic place without tlie protection of
your husband.”
“I have said it, I go to that ball
eithei with you or without you !” '
“Then it must be without, because
I cannot remain. When 1 return
“Don’t you talk of your return,’’
interrupted the angry wife. “J. hope
from my soul, if you go I may never
behold your face again!”
“Did I hear you aright, Estelle?
Let. me bo sure that I was not mis
taken in your words!” returned the
young man, every- vestige of color
receding from his face and lips.
“You were not mistaken 1 repeat
my words to satisfy you. I .hope,
from my soul, if you go I may never
behold your face again!”
With these words .tlio angry.young
wife'passofa from the room, leaving
her husband bending over bis open
valise^ which lie had been tilling with
articles required during his absense.
A few moments later, Estelle heard
him slowly descend the, stairs, and
the closing of. The front door told
that lie hud gone. Rushing to a
window’she saw him, valise in hand,
walk to the corner, and without a
look towards the house, enter a pas
sing car, and then—she saw him no
more. '
No more, I say, for days, weeks’
months, nay, years elapsed, and the
bright, handsome face of Eugene
Duval . never greeted the longing
sight of the poor, young wife, whom
remorse for her passionate words had
rendered lonely and desolate.
Estelle had kept her vow; she at
tended the great masquerade ball
given at Hall, accompanying an
intimate friend and her husband;
but there she hod been strangely un
happy. None of the pleasures so
anticipated could reach one who had
parted from a loving, kind, and good
husband, os uukiiidly as she had
done. A vision of the pale, shocked
face, that she had seen after a second
time repeating those cruel words,
kept continually thrusting itself be
fore her, even in the midst of the
dances which usually afforded her
so much delight. She felt that the
company to her was exceedingly te
dious, that the time for her to return
to her home seemed cruelly long, and
as the moments dragged on, she
thought continually:
. “I wish I had not come!
1 had not said those angry
I .will tell Eugene as soon
comes home how wretched
been, and ask him to forgive me.”
But he never came.
A few days of wearying silence
passed, and then a letter arrived,
tolling her she need not fear being
pained by a sight of his face again,
<is lie was just about leaving for a
I wish
words!
as he
I have
distant part of the world, where all
the traces of him would be entirely
lost. He advised her to sell the
house he had settled upon her at
their marriage, as he did not think
it best for her to live alone, as she
could still return to her father’s
house. lie had arranged his busi
a ss affairs, making ample provision
to her every w^uit, as he was abund
antly able to do. He gave no ad
dress, therefore she could not an
swer.
This was his last farewell!
Years rolled on, and her heart
never ceased to ache, under its deep
pressure of remorse, sorrow and un
dying love. Poor thing! she had
loved her husband, but she had nev
er curbed her violent temper,' or
cheeked her sinful love for gavety
and excitement.
When she^did learn this lesson,
when her fierce passions had been
subdued, and she could quietly bear
crosses and disapointmonts, when
excrement, and gay scenes had lost
iheir charms, and home and pure
domest ic dut ies had taken their place
in her heart, the one who would
have enjoyed the change, and rejoic
ed in the' now amiable, and kill
beautiful woman, was far away, ig
norant of her repentance, entirely
estranged.
Seven years went by, and we find
3 >
Estelle Duval still with her parents,
and only sister, now just twenty-two
the age t hat she had been when-her
eyes last rested on her husband’s
face. Friends often wondered that
Mrs. Duval never apj eared in society
with Clara, but they could not bill
admire her’d'girilied reserve while
suffering under the sting of being a
deserted wife. Mr; Malcolm, her
father, had never been a fortunate
man in business, and as times were
hard, he had-sought of late years to
mend his slender income by taking a
few select boarders. Un the morn
ing when we see them in their home,
the mother and her two daughters
were seated in Estelle’s prettily-fur
nished bed-room, discussing the up-
peurunce of a gentleman who had
just .left, after engaging board and
rooms. lie would take possession
of bis handsome apartments next
day.
“Did you like his appearance,
matmim?” asked Clara.
“I did very much; although all
conversation was carried on through
a friend lie brought with him as in
terpreter, he being a German unable
to speak our language. He is prob
ably forty-five or fifty yfcars of age,
very gentlemanly in his looks, and
had excellent references. I should
think him wealthy, as he was willing
to pay high juices for additional
privileges and oomforts.”
“I hojie lie will be a pleasant in
mate of our borne, although he must
be a silent one, as we cannot converse
with him,” remarked Estelle. In
raising her eyes while speaking, they
fell upon a likeness of her absent
husband, whose handsome, beardless
face, with its winning.smile, seemed
almost boyish-in its beauty and re
pose. Her gaze remained riveted
upon the picture, as she continued:
•T was passing through the upj>cr
hall as ho was leaving, and the tones
of his voice reminded mo of Eli
geno’s. Did ho look like him?’
“0, no! He was as I say, full
forty-five. His hair was very gray
and bushy, and so was his full heard
There may have been a look of Eu
gene’s about the large, dark eyes,
notwithstai.ding lie wore spectacles
with tinted giasses, but I did not
think of it while with him.”
Mr. Oberholtzcr provod upon fur
ther acquaintance a jierfect gonth-
mun. He seemed socially inclined
often spending his evenings in the
parlor with the family, bringing
there his books and papers, being
fond of books and study. At first
the ladies felt awkward with their
silent companion, but finally they
ceased to regard his peculiarities
and knowing that he did not under
stand them, they chattered awiiy of
their own affairs, heedless of his
presence.
Ono thing, however, became, up
parent to .Mrs. Malcolm and Clara,
and that was, that Mr. Oborholtzer
ippoared to admire exceedingly the
totally unconeious Estelle. He no
ticed her every little want at tublo,
was always ready to place a chair for
Tier when she entered the room, and
sometimes they had surprised him
in gazing with a long, impassioned
look upon her beautiful features,
when she was entirely unaware of
his admiring glances. They began
to observe this, but wisely kept it to
themselves, fearing to disjileaso, oven
by a joke, their loved and -afflicted
child and sister.
One cold, winter’s morning, the
German gentleman sat in the shadow
of the lace ami Crimson curtains,
deeply absorbed by tiro contents of
his paper, when the sisters entered.
Thoy perceived him, but, secure of
his not understanding their conver
sation, they continued it.
“Do go this once, Estelle,” jrlcad-
ed Clara. “It will be such u’sfplon-
vlid entertainment, and the music
wiUJic so fine.
“No, dear, do not urge me; you
know I have lost all taste for parties
since Eugene left me. If you could
realize how much I have suffered for
that tearful love of pleasure, you
would never urge me to renew it.
Only think,” added slip, while tears
tilled her eyes, and her voice trem
bled with sorrow, “had it not been
fur that fatal ball 1 should never had
said those cruel, untrue words that
drove him from tire, even while in
heart I loved him better than any
one on earth. No, dear sister, I have
shuddered whenever I think of go
ing into society, since that fatal day,
and I shall go no more,”
The sisters turned away as they
spoke, not seeing that Mr. Oberholt
zcr had arisen from his chair and had
hurriedly turned to apjrroach them.
That afternoon Mr. Malcolm
came home from business earlier
than usual, and calling Estelle into
the parlor, he hastened to tell her
some important news, regardless of
the presence of their silent boarder
who stood with folded arms ucar the
window.
“Estelle, darling, I hurried home
to tell you that Dr. Maxwell, our
family physician, called at my office
this morning and greatly delighted
me by asking permission to speak
with yon on the subject of marriage.”
“0, father!” exclaimed Estelle, in
accents of deep su rprise and sorrow.
“Liston to me, my child. Dr.
Mu* well loves you devotedly. He
knows your sad story, knows that,
you have not heard from Eugene in
seven years, knows also that a di
vorce for abandonment can easily be
obtained, and wishes me to urge his
suit. My dear will you not listen to
him?”
“Never, father, never! A divorce
from Eugene, whom I still love, I
will never ask. I respect Dr. Max
well—he is a good man; hut none
but my absent Eugene shall ever call
mo wife.”
“But Estelle he may be and prob
ably is, dead.”
“So am I dead to all other
mon. I had a good husband—
living
I lov
ed him, but I could not make him
happy,” was the firm reply.
“My child'you are different now.”
“l am; 1 have repented from the
depths of my heart for my former
conduct, but I shall over cling to my
lost husband. Toll * Dr. Maxwell
that I cannot listen to his proposal
—-that I will never consent to bo di
vorced from one who still possesses
my whole affections.”
“Very well, my child, I will not.
press'tlio matter, although 1 like Dr,
Maxwell so very much,” sighed tlio
father, ns he loft the room to seek
his wife.
Estelle sat motionless a fow mo
ments ufto»‘ Mr. Malcolm had gone,
then dashing off an unhidden tear,
she was rising, when a gentlo touch
fell upon her arm, and a low agita
ted voice whispered :
“Estelle?”
She looked up, surjirisod to see
Mr. Oborholtzer standidg beside her,
with a face full of emotion. Before
she could articulate, beingso strange
ly startled, he murmured :
“Eorgivo me, but I would speak
of your husband.”
Sir! can you - speak English? Did
you know t he jicrson you mentioned ?’
she exclaimed, with a face from
which all color had lied.
I can sjieak English. Forgive
mo for deceiving you in regard to
that matter, and surely you will
when I tell you I come from Eu
gene?”
“Oh! Mr. Oberholtzcr, then ho
lives, he lives! Bless you for those
words. But cjoos ho love mo yet—
can he forgive his broken-hearted
wife?”
“lie can, and thus entreats you
to forgive him also. Look up Es
telle my own darling, and see who
stands beside you. .......
A thick, gray wig and board lay
upon the Hour,*tlio tinted spectacles
rested beside them, and there, with
open, anus and his own smiling face,
stood Eugene Duval, waiting to fold
her to his bosom.
With one glad cry she sprang to
meet him, and winding her arms
around his nock, burst into joyful
tears.
Holding her still in Ins fond em
brace, Eugene gently soothed her
with kisses and tender words, and
then, when she became more calm,
he told of bis long wanderings in
foreign lands, of bis accumulated
and great, wealth, which brought no
hajipiness because unshared by her,
of his longings to see her once more,
of his fear that she would not receive
him kindly, and of his sudden re
solve, well carried out, to seek her
home as a foreigner not understand
ing English, thus mingling in the
home circle, and so judging wheth
er she wished his return.
0, Eugene, my own husband,
you fully forgive me now, and will
never forsake mo more?” exclaimed
Estelle.
“Never, my precious wife. My
wanderings are over, and deatli alone
shall part us, Dr. Maxwell to the
contrary notwithstanding. Bless
you, my darling, for not listening to
his lys t iug.flppuilll” .
I need not say, that joy and sur
prise Were felt by the family when
Mr.^Gberholtzer turned out to be
j.he long lost husband of Estelle, und
the pleasure with which they greeted
him, could not but convince the
poor fellow that ho was truly wel
come.
The pretty house they seven years
before had called their homo, was
repurchased and rofurnished, and a
more devotedly domestic couple than
again took possession of it, could
rarely be found.
An ancient writer once said, “La
mentation is the only musician that,
alwuys, like a screech-owl, alights
and sits on the roof of an angry per
son “
hor life, she was ablo to put in prac
tico the power a well-governed torn
jier, remembering—
“What you keep by you, you
change and mend,
But words once spoken can never be
recalled.’!
and this motto had been fully
impressed on the mind of Estelle
during the seven years of her lone-
line.^, so that in tho added years of
The Now J ury Law.
Our Jury lists wore revised last
New Year’s duy in. accordance with
tho new law on that subject. Tho
following explanation of that law
from tho Atlanta Constitution will
be read with interest:
“In our columns yesterday wo pub*
lisliod the now law providing for the
selection of juries, ns passed by the
legislature, in order to moot tho re
quirements of tho new constitution.
This now law is clear and explicit in
its directions, and the requirements
necessary to constitute grand and
petit jurovs are fully sot out in the
constitution and rojioated in this
later act.
As the timp fixed for the first, re
vision of the jury list is near at
hand, being now year’s day, the offi
cers charged with tlio preliminary
matters connected therewith should
go promptly and energetically about,
their work. The judiciary and the
press should at once call the atten
tion of all-concerned to tho pressing
exigencies in this regard.
In tho first, place it is required
that, a close and carotid discrimina
tion fixed by the constitution, shall
be made between grand and petit
jurors. The grand jurors must, be
tho most experienced, intelligent
and upright men” among tho tax
payers of the county; the jiet it jurors
are required only to be “upright, and
intelligent, men.” The badge of a
grand juror is that ho is one of “the
most cxporienccdT^mon upon the
tax-rolls, To inaffe so delicate a dis
crimination is not an affair of a day
or the labor of a fow desultory hours.
Tho duty of niuking this discrimina
tion is absolute, and we warn tlie
officers that the time for executing
that duty is surely brief enough.
Jn the second jilace, wo doubt if,
in a dozen ei/unties of tho state, the
threo jury commissioners required
by this law to ho appointed by the
presiding judge -of the superior
court have yet been up] win ted, Tho
law was only ajiprovod on the 10th
list., and it is possible that few of
the judges are even aware of its jiro-
visions. The .contemplations, of t he
law is that these commissioners, act-
ng with the ordinaries ami superior
court clerks of their respective coun
ties, shall constitute tlie board of
jury ooinniias-ioners and shall make
their first revision on the first
Wednesday in Junbary, 1870, which
is the first day of the month. That
tlie day for general election
of comity offices throughout file
state, and it is more than probable
that many of the present officials
will find t lionise 1vos tempted to post
pone or neglect the rigid compliance
with this law which its terms and
the most vital interests of tho pub
lic demand.
It is to be hoped that the salutury
reform inaugurated by tho constitu
tion, and sought to be made opera
tive in our jury system by this
law, will not be neglected or estab
lished in a'casual or slovenly man
ner. It snould be the pleasure of
every official und commissioner to
see the jirovisions of this act fully
carried out on the first day of Jan
miry, elections to tho contrary not
withstanding.”
Explanation of a Curious
Matter.
Washington Capital.
A personal friend of Senator Hill,
and citizen of Georgia, gnvo us the
following as the true condition of
affairs between Governor Colquitt
and the Senator:
Erionds of Senator Hill state that
ho has never been antagonistic to
Governor Colquitt, of Georgia, and
that tho sensational stories telegraph
ed from Atlanta to tho Now York
Herald, ami other northorn papers,
to tho offeet that ho had boon mak
ing clmvgos against tho governor to
members of the Georgia legislature,
arc absolutely “also.
It is doubtful whotlior Messrs.
Toombs and Stephens would havo
made the reputations which they'
huvouohiovcd had it not beon for
the snrvoillanco which Mr. Hill at
all times kept over their political
movements. Now that, he has laid
aside his immense law practice and
entered the United States senate, ho
still finds time to look aftor tho local
interests of (loorgia; for whon ho
learned, a few months since, that a
dishonest executive clerk at Atlanta
had beon uoeejiting an $8,000 bribo
from tho president of tho Atlanta
rolling mill, ho at once demanded of
Governor Oolquit that tho said olork
bo removed. But for ftonio reason, ’
slrungo to say, tho clerk was not re
moved, although heudmittedon oath
before a legislative oommittoo that
lie bad accepted tho bribe above re
ferred to. Mr. Hill regards this
clerk's retention in position as a
menatieo to good government and a
peril to the integrity of Georgia.
An investigating committeo has
made a report upon the matter,
which lie deems unwarranted by the
facts in tho ease; and ho will at an
early day, address a letter to a mem
ber ef tlie Georgia legislature, setting
forJi the necessity of purging tho
state administration of the prcsonco
of so disreputable a character ns tho
clerk in question, who was unjjrinci-
jiled enough to toll the parties from
whom he goi the $8,000, that a
portion of that sum would be given
to tlio governor, as ail inducement
to have him sign oertaiu northeast
ern bonds. .
Thu senator’s sole rnotivo in tho
matter has beon to protoot tho gov
ernor from tlio damaging consequen
ces, sure to ensue, from the retention •
of a dishonest man in an imjiortaiit
clerical position connected with tho
executive dejiurtmoiit of Goorgia.
“Bretheren, before we sing the
next verse of ‘John Brown’s body
lies mouldy iu the grave,’ lot us
take a look into tho gruvo und sec
that it is there. Jn these days of
Ohio medicul colleges a cemetery
isn’t any safer than a savings bunk,
and it may be political glee clubs,
who have been singing the song quo
ted above, have bccii*chuntirig a
rythmic lie for the past fifteen
yen rs. ”— lIn wkeye.
What tlie .South Should J>o Next
Your.
Memphis Appeal.
There tiro two requisites that
should not be lost sight of in that
portion of tlie union known as tho
cotton belt—one in the cities, the
other in the country. Cities should
aim to establish cotton factories, with
a view to export yarn and cloth in-
styad of tlio raw material. To fur
ther this, they should seek from
congress such a modification of our
tariff laws as will facilitate the ex-
portation of manufactured cotton
goods. The country should grow
their own sujiplios—not cotton alono
— in this way tho monoy for tlio
feeding of their households and la
borers is kept at home instead of
being sent away. Our country press,
we are glad to see, are awakening
more and more to tlio importance of
the grow-food-at-home polioy. The
Diirduncllc Arkaiisiitn remarks on
this subject: “Wo believe the low
price of cotton will do the country
good in the end. It will bo tho
means of causing our southern farm
ers to stoji ami think, und the result
will be they will turn their attention
more to such crojts as will enable
them to live within themselves.”
Turkeys uro selling for from 35 to
50 cents a pair at Quebec; fowls are
25 cunts a pair, mutton is 4 cents a
jiound und butter is from 10 to 15
const.
Mr, Morton McMiclieal, of Phila
delphia, is tlie last mini* suggested
for the Berlin mission.