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YOL. 3.
DUBLIN, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26,1881.
NO. 30.
ONE NIGHT.
BY A NX A SHIELDS.
The shades of a winter twilight
were falling over the snow-bound hills
of Grantley, and in the gloom the
handsome house of Willis Grant, the
owner of the great Grantley facto
rics, loomed up as dark and forbid
ding as some old feudal castle. Only
one spark of light was visible against
the tall, dark walls—the night lamp
in the room where the millionaire
" lay dying.
'/Will he never come? Will lie
come too late? Yon are sure hotel
cgraphed he would be here?’’
Over and over for many weary
hours had the question of U19 arrival
of his grandson beeii reiterated in
every form, and always the answer
from the lips of the patient watcher
was one of hope and encouragement,
Yet she, too, grew doubtful as the
evening shadows grew deeper, and
the frequent trains failed to bring
the traveler. It was past nine o’clock
when the intenso stillness of the
house was broken by the loud ring
ing of the hull bell. Over the snow
the carriage wheels had come noise
lessly, and the watcher started at
the sound of the bell us violently as
if it had been unexpected, instead of
eagerly looked for.
Quick, firm, manly steps followed
across the hall, aird up the stairs,
and as they'paused for a moment at
the chamber door, the young girl,
who had listened to them with
strained attention, rose quickly and
went out to meet the new-comer.
She wasted no tirno or word in
greeting, but whispered:
“Your grandfather is dozing, but
I promised to w^rkeu him when you
cairre. But before you go in, Philip,
1 want to ask you the question that
seldom comes from a, woman’s lips—
do you love me Well enough to wish
to marry me?”
Mas it strange that ho was start-;
led, coming in the darkness and
storm to a dealh-bed, to be met by
such a question at the door of .the
room where (lie k ng of terrors al
ready hovered on the threshold?
He looked down at the pale face
that was lifted to meet his eyes.
There was no maidenly shyness there,
though only eighteen years had pass
ed over Lena Wilbur’s head. There
was no blush, no drooping of the
heavily-fringed lids over the large,
brown eyes. Pale as death, her
features set in rigid lines, her lips
half parted, she. waited.till he said,
gently and gravely:
“I do not love you, Lena, as one
who would marry you' should love
you. You are my dear sister always.”
‘ You are frank,” she said, bitterly,
“but your answer is what I expected.
Promise me, then, that you will give
your grandfather no hope you can
not realize.”
• She passed him then, going quick
ly down the long hall' to another
chamber at the end, where she enter
ed, locking the door after her.
“The old story!” the young man
sighed. , “Why do I resist? I might
learn,perhaps—Bah who ever learned
to love, against their own hearts!”
Ho entered the sick-room, as he
spoke, to find the invalid’s sleep was
broken, and that he was looking with
wide open, eager eyes at the door.
“Philip! you have come at last,”
he said, in a voice which excitement
lent strength.
“I came as fast as steam would
bring me. Your telegram followed
me to Washington.”
“ Yes —yes,; so they told me.
Philip, I am dying. You will not
refuse me now! You will marry
Lena.”
“It is impossible!”
“When have I - ever denied yon a
wish, Philip? You have been my
idol for years, and I have asked
nothing from you — nothing but
this!” -
“The sacrifice of my whole life!”
“Twice refused—twice!” the sick
man muttered. “Your father do
med me the same request, when
Lena’s mother was yoitng. I sinned!
I sinned! and I cannot make restitu
tion. Philip, you must marry Lena
or you will be a beggnrl”
“Yon forget,” Philip said, gently,
“when you mude the same threat
before I went to Uncle Arthur, and
he has given me a place in his busi
ness. I earn sufficient for comfort,
and my prospects are good. If you
are so angry as to disinherit me, I
shall not starve;”
“If it wore only tliat!” was the
reply. “If I were only angry! But
I must tell you the truth. . Death
will not coirie to mo until I have told
you. Brit oh! the shame of it!
Philip,ssj|tvr$ me! Promise me to
npm-y Lena. That will make all
right, aiid my secret can die with
me.”
“If you "have left your fortune to
Lena,” was the grave reply, “I shall
never dispute her righj; to it.”
‘But I have not. It will all be
yours—all. I have made no will,
and you are my only heir. But the
money is not mine — it never was
mine. You must give it to Lena,
and there is only one way, unless
you disgrace my name when 1 lie in
iny grave. I should have made
will, but I hoped.you would marry
hdr, and spare me even this confess
ion. Do not interrupt mo now.
Forty years ago, when vour father
was a lad twelve years old, I was a
fisherman on the Jersey coast. We
were poor enough in those days, and
* "'us always fretting for some open
mg, some opportunity to rise above
my position. I had been a suilor
until an accident deprived mo of the
use of my left arm, and in my voy
ages I had picked up much infor
mation I felt sumlI cquld turn to
money-making account if I could
only command capital for a start. I
was not young then, nearing forty,
when,, my temptation came. You
luive hoard often the romutic story
of Lena’s mother; how she was cast,
upon the shore from a wrecked ves
sel, a baby.and I became her adopted
father and benefactor. Philip, lis
ten—the baby I saved from death
had around her little body a necklace
of diamonds worth thousands of dol
lars. No one ever know. This is
the first lime the truth ever passed
my lips. Very cautiously, very
gradually I sold the stones, till I had
a sufficient sum to enter into busi
ness. Then I left my sea-coast home
and wont to New York. Everything
I touched prospered, but the child
was the bane of my existence. She
was handsome, very Iiamlsomo, with
the temper of a fiend. She was
deceitful, vain, obstinate, a perfoet
burden of caro from her infancy.
And yet I tried to force my son to
marry her, for already the weight of
J*r stolen inheritance haunted me
constantly. My boy was resolute in
refusing me, and when I would have
tried stronger measures, Helena de
cided the matter by eloping with an
unprincipled scoundrel I had forbid
den the house. I tried to quiet my
conscience by a magnificent bridal
present in money; but James Wilbur
was a spendthrift, and my gift was
soon spent. Again and again I sent
money unpon Helena’s urgent ap
peals, until her husband died, when
I took the widow and her child into
my home again. Death had visited
me in the meantime, my wife first
leaving me, then your, parents; you
iilone were left to me. When Helena
died I agai i built my hope of resti
tution upon your* marriage with her
child.”
“Is not all you have said of her
mother true also of Lena?” Philip
asked, gravely.
But she has improved of late,
Philip. She has nursed me with a
daughter’s devotion, 'and she loves
yon.”
“Heaven forbid!”
“It is true! I know it. Under
yonr love she will develop into a
noble, good woman. I am sure of
that. Cast her off, and all the faults
she strives to overcome, for yonr
much greater valuo. Still, chough to occupy their attention in
mestly mine nor yonrs.” *disjjbns*ing probabilities as to tiie next
It mrist. bp;restored-to Cabinet, watching tlvc progress of
the various Senatorial contests, and
sake, will return in their worst form.
Philip, think! Do wo not owe her
something? Every dollar I. hold is
hers, for it was her mother's inherb
tanco upon which my fortune was
founded.”
Did you over know wUft her moth-
or was?” “Never. The necklace
was. a rough workmanship, as if
merely to hold the stones in portable
Shape, and there was no mark upon
thut of the clothing. It wasn noble
inheritance for one child, but I have
made it of much greater valuo. Still,
it is not
“True!
Lena!”
“If 3'ou could only learn to love
her,” said the old man, wistfully.
There was one moment of silence
and then Philip Grant spoke
“I will ask Lena to marry me, and
I will do my duty to her, but I can
never love her.' Love her!” ho ad
ded, with passionate emphasis. “
hate her! I saw through her du
plicity, her vanity, her fulso heart,
when she was a child. I despise and
loathe her!”
In his excitement ho did not hear
a stifled sigh in the room, nor see
a shadowy figure creep softly away.
His grandfather, satisfied that the
restitution ho had failed to make
would at last bo accomplished, lav
back on his pillows, white and ex
hausted. It was still bub little past
midnight when ho whispered faintly:
“Send for Lena. I-must have have
her promise too.”
Philip rang for a servant, but be
fore tho message was delivered the
angel of death had passed through
the room, and Philip know that Le
na would cuimriuo late.
He lmd suffered intensely in his
Short night Watch. Ills' heiirr was
not in his own keeping, although” he r
was free from any spoken word to,
bind him to the woman ho loved.
With this secret his life-ion i distrust
and dislike of his grand father’s ward
was deepened until the prospect of
marrying her seemed like a torture
to madden him.
“Once she is my wife I will settle
this accursed money upon her, and
leave tho country,” ho thought. ‘.‘I
can earn earn enough to live upon,
and since I can never marry the wo
man I love I do not care for wealth.”
Mr. Philip,” said a low voice
near him, “Miss Lena is not in her
room. She left this cn her table.”
As she spoke tho servant held out
letter, directed to “Mr. Philip
Grant,” and sealed. He gave direc
tions for the chamber of death., and
leaving the servant, went to the li
brary, where he opened the letter.
It was very short.
and with his wife to aid lurn, his
children to cheer him, hopes to for
got tho memories of tho ono bitter
night that threw so tragic a shadow
upon his whole life.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
[Prom our regular Correspondent.]
Wasiiingtox, J;(x. 23, 1881.
While tho business of Congress is
progressing steadily and quietly tho
politicians aiid gossips havo hud
;i to occupy their attention in
Senatorial contests, and
gathering in the'developments of the
Christiancy scandal, Perhaps the
chief interest bus centered in tho
Sorintorship struggles. It is a notice
able fact, however, that politicians
here have, hs usual, lmd unbounded
cofidcnce in the ultimate triumph of
tho machine in Now York, Pennsyl
vania, and all other States where
machines and “ Bosses” hav«a heal-
tiiy existence. The most amusing,
if not tho mosG surprising, result
was tho selection of Conger in Mich
igan. Conger may bo a man of some
ability—he certainly must possess
some skill iii manipulation, but in
the llouso of Representative ho has
out a most ridiculous figure. Any
ono who has watched him from the
gallery for a single day would never
suspect that such a man could obtain
a .Sonatonal seat. But they may
refrigorato him in that dignified
body. It is an advantage t<> the
peace and progress of tho'Houce that
ho has been taken out of its deliber
ations. . •
Concerning the Cabinet there is
oi|d o{ speculation, but tho only
r,.i;,. 1 hat seems to bo., definitely
r Ts-’-trimt--o-f—fseervoxary of
•Stiite, .which is assignod to Mr. Wa
it is assumed that Conkling
other $50,000, tho total to come out
of tho Republican party of the North,
as an experiment, and this with the
morul certainty that his own white
Democratic troops would break if ho
hoisted the enemy’s llag.” Yet Ma-
hono may vote for Gorham as a mat
ter of personal friendship.
During tlio oxteemo cold weather
of tho past month much suffering
has existed among tho poor of this
city,where unexpected sorvority is
not so well provided against as in
communities where it is looked for.
And we have a large class of poor
hero, not only consisting of tlio lower
elements, but embracing many who
have known bettor times and possess
a degree of culture and prido. To a
call ot the authorities for means of
relief thoro was a most gonerons ro-
sponso, anil within five days from
tho tlmo it was issued not a case of
distress was to bo found in fclio city.
Wealthy citizens, public officials,and
tho people generally gavo liborally
arid moil the British minister, Sir
turo, and tho othor is to grow p «
of tho nioro muscular breeds, or i..«
select breeding stock from those of
any breed which give evidence of
more development in this diroct.ou
than of fat. *
It is singular what follies fanners,
who should bo tho most sensibl. of
peoplo, will pursue. They have l»«—,i
daft so long on pug-nose and 1 •
chocked pigs that they have nea
expelled the pork barrel from eve
tnan,s ccller, and ono of tho inn i;
profitable animals from the fur o.
Northern farmers, under tho d>- •-
sion of pug noses and fat cheek
havo ridiculed tho “rail splitters” of
tho South, whereas the truth is the
Southern planter had more sagacity
and practical sefise than tho admirer
of improved stock, for tho former
has well nigh bred himself out oi .»
staple article of food, and a stup e
source of profitable income, while thr
latter has kept tho reputation of Ins
bacon. Wo want more pig pastures
"rid fewer pig pons. Growing pi as
Edward Thornton, a most nollo man, I should Imvo more range,'so tliat tl:••
me.
. “You despise and hate me, Philip; and
it will not change your feelings to kuow
that I crept in your grandfather's room
through the dressing-room,and heard every
word of the? confession. But I—I love
you! I will go away now, and I have
friends who will not let mo want; but I
will never marry you, nor touch the mon
ey that the law will give you. No one
need ever know wliat we two know, and
the money is yours since I give it to you
Luna.”
That was all! Ilow or where
could the girl have gone.in the dark
ness of night, through the storm?
Tne whole household was astir when
Philip sent men out to try to track
the fugitive, but it was dawn when
two came back, carrying a rigid
burden.
“She must a’ walked in her sleep
an’ froze to death,” tho servants
whispered, as the fair white corpse
was put for the last time in the room
Lena had occupied from childhood.
“She was fairly worn out with nurs
ing tho old gentleman.”
But Philip, bendingover the rigid
face, asked himself if his passionate
protest had not driven her to despair
and suicide.
It was many a long month, before
lie could shake off the burden of his
remorse and regret, but he was
young, and he loved, so in time the
weight grew less. In the old house
now the mastor reigns over the
strange inheritance Unit came to
him so laden with bitter pain; but
he strives, by dcods of charity and
gcuerosity, to atone for tjie past*
personally, and some of the otlior fel
lows of the Grant crowd, will not
like this,and that they will lmvo to bo
violctly conciliated before things can
run smoothly. It was asserted with
great cotifideco, at one time, that
Gpvenor Foster, of Ohio, would be
made either Secretary of the Interior
or Ppstmaster-Geiicral. That would
be a good scheme for tho few remain
ing male residents of Ohio, The
President has provided for all tho
big fish out there by putting them
in good places, and tho Secretary of
tlio Treasury has satisfied tho inter
mediate grade with special ageiieics
and other berths. Now if the Post
Office.Department could only take
in the smaller fry for clerks and roflto
agents, Ohio might struggle along
very well.
Senator-elect Malione, of Virginia,
is an object of great interest,and lie
is shrewd enongh to enjoy tlio situa
tion. The Republicans are especially
solioitious concerning Mahonc's proa-
bio course in the Somite, and there
are evidences of strenuous efforts to
win him to their sido by promises of
aid in tlio coming struggle in his
8 hite* The .National ‘Jlepubliean,
,'Cj. QoHittin, a
caiidi(fats for Secretary of the Somite,
openly urges tfic Republicans of Vir
ginia to join the Re-adjusters, and
in return it is understood Gorlmm
expects Mahonc’s vote for the secre
taryship. But tho best informed
Virginia politicians say that Muliono
can not offord to uffiliato with the
Republicans and ho knows it; that
his power would fail and his following
disappear. A prominont Virginian
said to your correspondent to-day;
“Muliono could not hold his own
forces, nor ono-third of thorn, in line
on any ticket for state control by a
fusion with tho Radical colored vote,
and ho knows that perfectly well,
becauso ho saw how they scattered
last campaign,when ‘ regular Demo
cracy’ was held over thorn in earnest.
His strength as a leader,and nil of it
there can bo, mrirt come from his
positon as an independent Democrat.
Another thing; tho negroes can’t
vote without paying their poll-tax.
This item amounts to $30,000, mid
responded to the cry. The President
of the United States, however, who
receives a salary of $50,000 por year
from the public, of which ho has
hoarded $150,000 in four years, gave
not ono cont. If Mr. Hayes had
any national pride, any respect for
tho office ho holds, any appreciation
>f wliat arc known as “ tlio proprio*
tios ” ini his grdht office, or any sym
pathy with or anxiety about the sick
and lowly, ho would blusll with
shame when ho * contoinplutos tlio
ignominious fact that tho ropresen-
fativos of foreign countries gave lib
erally. tortho suffering--poor oi! tho
Gap it a i city,while the President of
the groat country kopfc his hundreds
of thousands'of dollars closely but
toned within his miserly pockets.
But Mr. Hayes lliiiiks of nothing
but himself. Phono.
may bo a perfect development of
body, bone and muscle. Tlioy waul,
less concentrate*! food and more oi a
light nature,such as grass and loots,
to keep them growing; but not f„ ,
A continuous system of touring
and feeding in this manner winini
produce broods of liogB not so heavy,
perhaps, in weight, but more doJ.-
tible.
N<#long ago Senator Hamlin, of
Mai no* and Postmaster-General M » v-
riurd whore talking of tho misiit
factory life a public man loads. }'
Maynard complained that ho Ini
been a miiirter of a con W ry iii pul
life, and was poorer than whom!,
entered. ; “Well,’ ’replied Ham!i
“I am not. I had nothing win .
I cmnmoncod and I have noth;..,
now.”
The Atlatn Daily-Post-Aijyjir'il
says(Imt .Senator Conkling says tl.
Our Pigs Too Put | if tlio Democrats will let him ah.
rpi,„ f „ , in the social scandal mattor, lie n...
j 0 * W P 0W *- rom Now ^ ork form a Republican syndi-Kuto to heri»
tribune is very much to the point: edii-Kuto and v ill di-Kate the people
Mere blubber is not desirublo food l * ie Houisli. llo oxpoots to th.s
In our climate. As pigs are now S u ? , ’S n ^hutrodlohd oxtrl-
y „ to now I Kllt0 tho Soil thorn Statos from RaL
. |JM persecution. It is enough to
than unlimited lard. Evory body has suffo.Kute us to- think of shell a
boon trying for years to see how fat | syndi-Kuto
tlioy could make their pigs, and how
much they could make tbmn woigli
in the shortest possiblo time. This
universal system of stuffing has re
sulted in breeding out muscle (loan
moat) and thickening up tho fatty
portion's. Pigs are confined in dose
quarters, and are stuffed to tho very
vorgo of breaking down of thoir di
gestive functions, and often beyond
it. In the latter case they arifspcod-
lly slaughtered before tlioy run down.
Usually, pigs are confined in foul
pons; where they arc obliged to lie
in their filth and breathe air poison
ous with tho fumes of decay. The
whole system is wrong, resulting in
distasteful, if not unwholesome,food.
Tho effect of this has been to oliunge
tho nature, or rather the physical
construdidn of the dhiniql, from a
muscular to a blubberous conditon.
Exorcise Hind sloiFgrbw'tli dondiico to
muscular development, ns mucles are
found whore and when required, by
simply allowing the animal to roam
at will in a field during its growth.
Tlio pig thus allowed to roam
A Vermont pig ato Paris green i i
some vegetable waste and was tukV<t
sick. He was doctored to save It, -i
life. Then ho had a curious spell.
The animal, naturally whito, begin
to turn black at the Up of his m« .
Gradually tho blackness spread until
its back and sides were as black »h
ink. He remained in this conditio ,
for about three days, then began to
recover, and commencing at the U;»
of hisnoso, as before, the pigtUjrnd
whito again. Ho was sick about a
week altogether. ^ "
Tub Telepjio.vb.—• The Cincin
nati Directors of tho Pooplo’s Tele
phone Company have just learneil
that their electrician has succeeded
in solving a most difficult question.
By a now invention u circuit auto
matic repeating system for tlie tran.;-
mlsslori of messages to any distance
has been provided. By its means, u ■
ascertained by experiments curried
on in New York and Philadelphi a
tho vibrations of the articulato voie..
cun bo convoyed from New Yoik
would, when fattened, possess double I to .Sanfrnncisco with tho same on a
tho amount of muscle (lean moat)
ovor one kept in a closed pen. Tho
recognition of this principle*put in
practical uso can in timo change the
character of pigs so as to make thorn
more palatable.
Everybody complains nowuduys of
pork being too fat. Pig meat is nat
urally healthy food, nud adupted to
tlje wants of laboring people, as it
furnislios plenty of nutrition, which
they require. Tho modern improve
ments in breeding have resulted in
making heavy weights in a short
lime, and in rounding and thickening
the bodies, but tho so-called improve
ment has reduced tho demand and
tho value of pigs for food. There are
two ways to remedy this evil; one is
Ihe campaign expense will make an-.I to enlarge the pig-pen to a pig-pas-1
with which they are now conveyed
from one part of Cincinnati to a ..
other. Tho proper means have bee »*
taken to secure tho legitimate resul ,»
of lijs new attempt to annihilate dl—
tance, and for practical purposes to
outstrip tlio telegraph.
Boston is going into tho tower of
Babel bind ness on a smaller scale.
A company Has been formed.to
build a tower 325 foot high,or eigh ,
feet higher than tho Bunker hid
monument, near tho Boston an I
Providence railroud station, to ri
nsed by visitors and tourists as a look
out ovor the surrounding countr .
Tho tower will bo built of boili*.-
iron, mid be of cruciform simp.-,
Tho observatory at the lop will « •.-
commodate about 150 people, ami
will Gi* reached by foii.i elevate/.,
with safety attachments.