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DUBLIN, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1879.
NO 48.
DO NOT PART.
BY MRS. M. A. KIDDER.
Do not, oh / unhappy wife,
Sever lightly life from life,
Trust Mm yet a little longer.
Once he was a helpmeet true,
Once he thought of none but you—
Trust him ; he may yet be stronger.
You have walked for m&ny years
With him through this vale of tears,
And you got on well together,
Till that angry word was said—
Till (hat cloud appeared o’erliead
That betokened stormy w6atlicr.
When the flowers had not a thorn,
Little ones to you were born,
Till your bark seemed golden-freiglit-
edj
And the neighbors oft would say,
Looking on you day by day,
“Show me any so well mated.”
Now that you are growing gray,
And he has not long to stay,
Why, 01 why should you be parted?
Should vou break the bond and go,
He will never better grow
And you may be broken-hearted.
Do not, oh/ unhappy wife,
Lightly sever life from life,
Trust him yet a little longer.
Once he was a helpmeet-true,
Once he thought of none but you,
Trust him ; he may yet be stronger.
UNCLE JEHOItAM’S WED
DING GIFT.
“Girls! girls!” cried I, triumphant
ly, waving an old-fashioned yellow
envelope in the sunny September air,
“I’ve got a letter from uncle Jeho-
rum
“Open itl” cried Nelly Pinklnim,
who.was my first bride-maid.
“Do let us hear what ho says,”
chimed in Alice Eden, my sccoud.
So I sat down on the big traveling-
trunk, with my hair all down my
back. I had just unfastened it for
Nolly to experiment a little with the
bridal wreath, and, with the bevy of
girls clustering' iirouud me, I broke
the seal pf uncle. Jehoram's letter and
read it. aloud wit\f'irll the elocutiona
ry airs and graces thijjt l had learned
at Madame Biflitonus “Institute.”
“DEAK'-eNuscE”—it said, ifi
queer, lit|)f™cramned hand like the
characters oft a Chinese tea-chest--
“Yours of 21st iust. duly received
Am glad to hear that yon are to be
married to a worthy young man who
is able to support you. Accept my
f ood wishes. By this days express
send you a present which I hope
you may find useful—and no more
at present from your affectionate
uncle, Jehoham Johnston.
“There!” cried 1. “What do you
think of tliat'i”
Alice Eden clapped her dimpled
bauds.
“The old darling cried!”cried she.
“It’s a real cassirncre shawl, Nanny,
you may be very certain!”
“Or, perhaps a Persian rug,” said
Nelly Pinkman, “all dim blues and
greens and delic’.ous blotches of yel
low!”'*
“The deed of a house and lot!”
said Mary Moxley.
“Diamonds most likely !” interpos
ed Juliet Grey'son. “Or real Orien-
tial pearls each one as big as a tear
drop/”
“He’s very .rich isn’t he?” said
Alice.
“Of course he is,” said 1, “or at
least, I’ve always heard so.”
“And an old bachelor?”
“Yes, an old bachelor!”
“But he. doesn’t say whether or
not he’s coming to the whdding!”
“Of course he'll come!” said I.
“What is he like?” questioned
Nelly, thoughtfully.
1" burnt out laughing.
“I)o you know girls?” said I “that
I never saw him in my life!”
And then Harry came in with
delicions little boquet of rosebuds,
and, of course, that put everything
else out of their beads. For my hair
had to be twTited up in a hurry, and
Harry would insist on seeing the
wedding wreath and vail on, and an
exquisite tete-a-tete set of real pink
Sevres came in from Mrs. Montagu
Jekyll, and we never thought of un
cle Jehoram again until next day,
wheu there was a prodig* us peal at
the door-bell, just as we were all sit
ting down to a gipsy sort of tea, in
the old scliool-rooin—the parlors and
dining-room were in the hands of
the confectioner’s men—and Betty
the maid, made her appearance with
a puzzled expression of face.
“It’s a bundle ma’am!” said she:
“come by express, with Mr. Jeho
ram Johnson’s compliments on a
card.”
I jumped tip oversetting a cup of
tea and a plate of peaches and cream,
all excitement.
“Bring it in here, Betty,” cried I,
at once !”
“Bless your heart, Miss,” said
Betty, “it’ud-take four men to lift
it! ' The expressman he swore awful
when he lifted it up the steps, and
said it ought to be pfcid double-
rates !” ‘ „
We looked at each other in a sort
of delightful bewilderment.
“It must ho somoting very valua
ble,” said. Juliet breathlessly.
“A sewing machine perhaps?” sug
gested Harry.
“Nonsense !” cried Alice. “As if
a rich old uncle would send anything
as pokey and commonplace as that?'
“Well, perhaps it might help to
solve the riddle somewhat,” said
Harry, gravely, “if we were to go out
and look at it/”
And at this suggestion we all rush
ed out en masse.
There in the middle of the marble-
paved hall stood a huge, oblong bun
dle, some three feet high, and wide
in proportion.
‘No wonder the expressman
swore!” said Harry with a shrug of
the shoulders. “It’s carpeting?”*
“Oli, the dear old creature!” cried
Nelly. “A real Ahusson from Paris
Oh, do opeiyit, somebody!”
Harry slowly produced from his
vest pocket a tortoise-shcll-luindlod
knife, and ripped the coarse burlaps
Covering which enveloped the parcel.
We all started back.
“A rag carpet!” exclaimed my
husband-elect.
“A common coarse, thing only fit
for a dustman’s kitchen!” cried Nel
ly Pinkham; while Alice Eden, who
had worked- herself up into a high
state of nervous expectation, burst
into tears.
“Who over heard of such a thing!”
said Juliet Grey son. disdainfully.
“The horrid, mean old miser!”
“Girls!” cried I; recovering myself
as best I could, “you must not talk
so. Uncle Jehoram meant it all in
kindness. I dare say he thought 1
could muke it useful—and I mean to
accept it in the spirit in which it was
offered.”
Harry stooped down-and gave me
a kiss.
“Yoii’ro a dexr, sensible little
thing,” said he; “and uncle Jehoram
has a right to be proud of his niece.”
“Bnt you’ll never put it on exhi
bition with the other presents?” said
Al : ce, incredulously.
“Of course I shall,” said I.
And I did. And the girls never
never knew of the little private “cry”
I had all by myself when they thought
I was selecting the prettiest flowers
to decorate, the big bride-cake, for
had expected something very niece
from the rich old bachelor tiuclo
whom I had never seen, and some
how the bundle of striped rug car
peting was a disappointment.
Bnt the eventful day came, with
its white Batin bows, and odor of
hot-house flowers, and rustle of silks
and luces, and uncle Jehoram’s rag
carpet occupied a place of honor
among the silver teupots, and china
serv-ces, ‘and embroidered sofa-pil
lows, and countless pretty gimcracks
that burden the “present-table.”
We had been married for about
lialffan hour, and I was stauding be
side Harry under the great floral
bell, receiving the congratulations of
my friends, when a queer, little
brown-faced man, in a faded wig,
and a suit of clothes that exactly
matched his complexion, walked up
to me, bowing slowly.
“Wish you much joy, Mrs. Mon
teith,” said he.
“Thank you, sir,” snid I, trying
to remember who he was, and failing
altogether. Bu11 made up my mind
that he must -be the eccentric little
Methodist minister who lived around
the corner, and who was in the habit,
of going where lie pleased, whether
he was invited or not.
“I’ve been looking at your wed
ding presents,” said he. “Curious
thing, that bundle of rag carpet/”
pointing at it with his nobby walking
stick. “Shouldn’t have supposed
yon’d have put that among your pret
ty gimcracks.”
‘Well, it is rather a strange gift,”
said my husband, “particularly as it
came from it rich old curmudgeon,
who—”
But I checked Harry wTtli a look.
“From a dear relative of mino,”
said I, “whoso kind remembrance
gratifies me beyond expression!”
“Oh l” said the little brown man,
looking from Harry to mo with keen,
bright eyes like those of a bird.
“You’re pleased with it, then?”
“More pleased than I can op
press!” I answered earnestly.
“Hump!” commented the little
old man. “Would you object to
having it lifted down and unrolled ?
I’ve some curiosity to look at the
pattern ?”
It was a strange request, but we
scarcely knew how-to lefuse it; and
presently the gay stripes of the rag
carpet were unrolled on the floor be
fore' the astounded eyes of our wed
ding guests, yard upon yard, back
wards and forwards, until, from the
very heart of tho tightly-packed cyl
inder, out fell a small, bluek, leather
box!”
“Eli!” said the little brown man,
pouncing on it more like a bird than
over."- ‘AWJiat’sG this,?. Not — clip,
month?" .....
Diamonds in good truth. The
sbiuti Uniting blaze of a necklace 1 ^—
the glitter of solitaire ear-drops that
nearly dazzled onr eyes’!
“Uncle Jehoram! It.is uncle Je
horam!” cried I, the scales suddenly
falling from my mental vision.
“Niece!” said the little.man, as he
ceremoniously hung tho sparkling
chain around my nock, “if you had
scornfully rejected tho old man’s
homely present* .and sent it back to
him, as some young women would
have done, you never would have
discovered the secret of the old fitmi
ly diamonds. Niece, yon arc a sen
sible girl, and I congratulate your
husband on tho possession of a treas
ure more precious than rubies !”
And on this undo Jehoram John
son made a curious little bow, like a
jack-kuifc shutting itself up, and
disappeared among the crowd. And
from that moment to this I have
nevor seen him, although he writes
me a kind letter every year, declin
ing all invitations to visit us.
“I am but myself,” ho writes
“When I die, you will find that
I have not forgotten you. Un
til then, letTne live on, like the soli
tary old oyster that I have taught
myself to bo!”
And the rag carpet covers the floor
of our second guest-chamber, which
is furnished after a substtincial stylo,
and the diamonds arc the envy and
admiration of all my female friends!
Memphis Appeal: What tho South
most -needs just now is colonies of
Northern or European immigrants,
who will take up large tracts of land,
divide them into small farms, and
subject them to intelligent and thor
ough cultivation. Colonics ranging
iu number from ten families to a
hundred could settle and divide up
from a thousand to ten thousand
acres of land. Land is plentiful
und can be purchased at prices rang
ing from twenty-five cents to five
and ten dollars per acre, on easy
terms.
The sugar cane crop of Lousianu
will amount this season to 225,000
bogheads, or 250,000,000 pounds,
worth $14,025,000, and the yield of
molasses to 300,000 barrels, worth
$3,000,000. Last year the nroduc
tion of sugar was less than 150,000,
000 pounds, and that of molasses in
proportion.
A TOOTHACHE SAINT.
How Sufferers of Old Sought Re
lief 1 Vo m Torture.
In the Botnan Calondar the patron
saiut of fchpso afflicted with toothache
is found in St. Appolonin. She is
specially invoked by racKod sufforers,
according to Bishop Jowel; and tho
“Fantussio of Idolatrie,” printed in
Fore’s “Aots and Monuments,” bus:
"To Saynt Sytli for my purse;
Saint Loyo sauc my liorso :
For my teeth to Saynt Apolyno."
In tho ltoyul Library at Stockholm
is preserved a numusonpt chm m for
toothache, consisting of a Latin
prayer to this saint. At Bonn-oi»
the-Rhino a tooth, said to have boon
ope of hers, is shown in a glass case
in the church on the saint's day, und
is devoutly kissed—jjf e., tho oase
containing tho tooth, not tho prooious
relic itself—by people of both sexos,
as a preventive against toothache.
One of the most popular charms
against the complaint consists in
carrying the following form of words
somewhere about tho person: “Ass
Sant Peter sat. at the gents of Jcrn-
sultn our Blessed Lord and Savour
Jesus Christ piu-sod bv and saod,
What Eleth thee lice sued Lord my
Teeth ecketh ho sued arise ane follow
mo and * thy Teeth shall nover Eako
Eny moor. Flat t Eiat t Eiat.”
This is a transcript of a Lancashire
version, and should bo worn inside
tho vest or slays over tho left breast.
Under slightly differing forms this
charm is very # eommon throughout
England, Scotland and Ireland. Two
copies arc preserved in tho Edinburgh
Museum which were worn as late as
1855 aucl 1869., Another form of
written charm was given up by a
young woman at Chelsea to tlie late
1 cardinal* Weld. It was carefully
scaled, tho penalty for opening it
be&g a return of the. toothache, and
consisted of tho wo.rds:
"Good ilovil, cure her,
And take her for your pains.”
A cure the girl would probably dis
like ut tho cost. Bishop. Hall, in
his character of Virtues and Vices,
says of the superstitious man: “Ho
wears Punicolsian characters for the
toothache.”
Printers and Printing.
Many who condescond to illumi
mile this dark world with the fire
of their genius through tho columns
of u"nowspapor little think of tho Inf.
of -tho printer, who sits up at mid
night to correct their false grammar
and orthography und worse punotuu-
tion. Wo have seen the arguments
of lawyers, in high repute as scholars,
sent to the printer in their own hand
writing, ninny words — especially
technical and foroign terms—abbre
viated, words misspelled and fow or
no points, and these few, if any, cor
tftinly in tho wrong places. Wo have
seen the Bormons of oininont ‘divines’
sent to the press without points or
capitals to designate the divisions of
the sentences; also tho letters of tho
political and scientific correspond
ents. Suppose all those had been so
printed—the printer would have boon
treated with scorn and contempt.
No one would have believed that
such gross and palpablo faults Wore
owing t:> the ignorance or carelessness
of tho author ; and no one but the
practical printer knows how many
hours the compositor, and after hint
tho proof reader, is compelled to
spend in roduoilier to readable condi
tion manuscript that often writers
thomselves would be puzzled to read.
—Ex.
last and Boggs’ opponent Bcoopod in
tho oonstublcship by a two thirds
vote.
The anti-Boggs party swept their
candidate into office on the tidal
wavo of popularity, aud poor' Boggs-
was left perched high up on tho*
spike-mounted picket-fence cvff de
spair.
Boggs will never run for office
again, not oven for President.
Ho says it is too groat u strain'oiu
character.
If lie can regain the esteem of bis
neighbors by grubbing along in the
old way, lie intends to do it, and
leavo office-seeking to people of cast
iron reputation.
Boggs is just coming to his souses.
Boggs was as peaceable a man as
ever lived.
Ho was sober, honest and respect
ed.
He bad never pounded his wife.
Never taken any interest, in a dog
fight.
v: Hud. never, been known to pawn
somebody olse's.wntob.
, And never had attempted to steal
a saw mill.
character was above re
Bible Errol's.
Herb is a bit of information which
will do for that conventional Borup-
book which ia tho property of every
well-regulated household. Many edi
tions of the Biblo have been published
during the last 300 yours, and into
not a few of them some peculiar
errors have crept. What, is known
as tho “Breeches Biblo” (Geneva,
1560) was so called becauso Genesis
iii., 7, was translated : “They sewed
fig leaves together and made them
selves breeches,” insfead of “aprons,”
as in tho English version now used.
In the “Trcaclo Bible (1568) Jere
miah viii., 22, was made to read:. “Is
there no treacle in Gilead,” etc.,
ir.stead of “balm,” and in 1609 the
word was changed to “rosin;” ‘balm’
was first used in 1011. Tho “Vine
gar Bible,” printed in Oxford in
1717, by John Basket, derives its
pame from the heading of Luke xx.,
which was niude to read: “Tho par
able of the vinegar.” The book bad
many other errors, from which it
has also been called, after tho print
er’s mime, “A basket of errors.” In
1631 a Bible was printed in England,
and in 7732 another appeared iu Ger
many, both of which made the
seventh commandment read: “Thou
shalt commit adultery,” the word
“not” being omitted. It has been
very appropriately called tho “Wick
ed Bible.” __
Boston Post: “It is extremely
funny to read in tho Republican
papers of the period iialicized and
small-capped typographical shrieks
of R-r-r-evolution, und along in par
allel columns stiff puffs of Secretary
Sherman’s refunding success, which
could nevor be unless the country
was as peaceful as a lamb in grassy
How Boggs Ran l'or Office.
lie was a shining light iu society.
All Boggtfvillo looked up- to and
honorod him.
But a change camo, a fearful, cliro-
ful cliungo.
In an evil hour Boggs accepted
the nomination for tonstable of his
native village.
Alas ! poor Boggs !
Little did ho understand the deceit
and treachery of the wicked world.
His eyes wore spoil opened, how
ever.
In less than a week after he was
nominated tho opposition had fully
established the following damaging
ehurgos against his character :
1. That ho was a free lover and an
infidel.
2. That- ho had fed his neighbor’s
liens on poisoned corn.
3. That heJiad brokenhis mothor-
jn-law’s jaw with an iron boot jack.
4. That lie on one occasion gave a
wagon load of green watermelons to
an orphan asylum.
5. That he had served a term in
tho State Prison for horsestealing.
6. That ho had set fire to his next
neighbors barn, merely because ho
refused to.lond him a hoe.
7. That because he had found a
button off his shirt, he tied his wife
to the bed post und mushed iu three
of her ribs with tho stove poker.
8. That hip chief Sunday amuse
ments were cock-fighting und card
playing.
9. That ho sold his vote oycrv
year regularly to tho highest bidder.
10. That lie wasn’t tit for the
place anyhow.
These charges, though without the
slightest foundation, were religiously
believed by a majority of tho voters
of Boggsville.
And Boggs’ political goose was
cooked.
His chances for being elected were
not worth three cents on tho dollar.
When Boggs passed along the
street, his neighbors looked at him
witli suspicion und crossed over on
the other side.
Boggs wa9 a miserable being.
Tho clay of town-meeting came at
A Duel in the Dark.
Bravery, or born insensibility to
fear, is unlike courage, which sees
and fools danger, but overcomes any
sense of .rtppi'ohpnsion by pride, reso
lution and force of will. Bravery is
naturally much rarer than courage,
and, being rather physical than mor
al, is not sojtigh a quality. There
are those wl*o oontond that bravery,
in its full, ideal significance, does not
exist; that it is always influenced by
sonic ox tornal oirciimstunco or de
pendent on something bolides itsolf.
■This story illustrates tho opinion:
At a dinner party in Paris, forty odd
years ago, woro prosont a number of
the veterans of tho Napoleonic : wars
and younger officers of tho linny.
I’lie conversation having turned up
on bmverv, the venerable Goiioral
Kxoolsnmn, who luul bo distinguished
himself i,t Ausloriitz and in the dis
astrous Russian oampaign and had
emnma’uiled ii calvary corps at
Waterloo, startled the young officers
by declaring t hat all men were cow
ards in the dark, and told this anec
dote to sustain Ills position : A
youthful nontenant in the omporor’s
service, burning for distinction, and
having no opportunity to gain it at
Iho time, chose to construe the re
marks of an older and suporior officer
into an affront, and challenged him.
The latter, waving all difference of
rank accepted, the strangojKjnns be
ing that they should moot at night in
a dark room, the seconds retiring
with the candles after placing tho
weapons in their adversaries’ hands,
giving tho word from tho .outside,
and entering after each report. Tho
principals woro put in opposito cor
ners, the' youngor having won £fbo
first fire. As soon as his p’stol had
boon heard, tho seconds rushed in
and found the elder officer upright,
with a bullet-hole so near his head
that his cscupo seemed well nigh mi
raculous. It whs now his turn.
Tho candles wore again removed,
uud tho next discharge brought the
seconds again in tho room. The
young officer lay prostrate.. They
thought ho had been mortally hurt,
and, hurrying to his side, found to
thoir amazement ho had not lieon
touched. Ho was overwhelmed with
confusion, uud tho seconds begun
abusing him (or his polfrooiwvy in
lying down to avoid his antagonist’s
ball, which would coftiiiny have kill
ed him lmd ho stood up. Tlisjr wore
interrupted by the older officer witli
these words: “Not so fast, my
friends. Don’t censure tho young
man. Where do you think I was at
the first fire? On my hands and
knees in the'corner; bnt was up
quicker tlmn ho.. His agility, not
his courage, is to bo called in ques
tion. By my faith, gentlemen, wo
are all cowards in the dark.” It was
afterward whispered through tho
compuny that tho anecdote was
strictly true, and tho principal of
it was no other than Kxcelsman him
self, who had shown prodigies of
valor i.t Eylau, Fried land and Boro
dino.
No woman bus over yet been found
wild run walk past a tli nisuiid mil:-
iicry stores in a thousand consecutive
hours.