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VOLUME VIII.
DUBLIN, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9. 1885.
NUMBER XXV.
Professional Cards.
T. L. GRINER,
ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR
AT LAW.
Dublin - Georgia.
Will pructicc in Washington, Johnson.
Emanuel, Montgomery, Telfair, Dodge,
Pulaski, Twiggs and Wilkinson counties,
and eslewlxere by special contract,
may* 21 tf.
THOMAS B. FELDER, Jr.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Dublin. - - . Georgia.
Will practice in the courts of the Oco
nee, Ocmihgce and Middle circuits, and
the Supreme court of Georgia, and else
where by special contract.
Will negotiate loans on improved farm
ing lands.
Feb. 18th, 1885.-6m.
Dr. J. L. LINDER,
[SEX MILES NORTH OF DUBLIN.]
OFFER8 his services to the public at
large. Calls promptly attended to, day or
night. Office at residence,
aug 20, ’84 ly. -
CHARLES HICKS, M. D.,
PRACTITIONER.
Dublin, - - Georgia.
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Dublin, - Georgia.
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MARGARET’S DOOM.
Dr. Arnold had come in from his
professional rounds, and stood m
his office shaking oil the snow trotu
hisclothes. and rubbingsome warmth
into his chilled fingers. A handsome
man, tall, well-featured, aud with a
pleasant expression, genial, yet earn
est. A man nearing forty, with
full beard, dark, expressive eyes,
and the muntier of a gentleman.
There was a smile on his lips as at
last ho seated himself before his
office table, and took one letter out
from a small pile. r
The handwriting was that of Mar
garet Bacroft, Di. Arnold’s promised
wife. Sho was much youmrer than
he was, only two-and-tweiity, but a
woman in the fullest, sweetest read
ing of tho word. She had nerer
beeu girlish, as mauy are, because
from her childhood she had been the
companion of a widowed father, who
had delighted in training her intel
lect beyond that of most feminine
minds. Without any companions
of her own age, she hud grown up
amongst her father's friends, until
hot* aunt, Mrs. Preston, suddenly
pounced upon her, and introduced
her ihto society.
It was at Mrs. Preston’s that Dr.
Arnold, iu professional attendance
upon thut lady, first met Margaiet,
and mutual respect became warm
friendship, and later, deep love; anil
Margaret only waited until her firsi
year of mourning for her father
should pass to have the wodding.
Ho knew she had hcen ail winter
preparing for the marriage in tjie
spring; he knew, that strong as his
love was, it had won a full return.
There hud been no cloud upou h.is
perfect happiness on the bitter snowy
Murch evening, when, with, smiling
lips and bright eyes, he opened the
little note, that seemed, a few mo
ments] later, to have held his death-
warrant.
It was a brief note, dated:
“Clifton Square, March 3rd.
“My Darling 1 My Darling!
You will think hard of me, and 1
must bear it. 1 have heard to-ilaj
what must sopuruce you and me. 1
cannot be your wife, and I cannot
bear the agony .of a parting inter
view. I love you, with ail my heart
I love you, uud I will be faithful to
my love us long as I live. Yon will
not try to see me, dearest, because
you cannot change my 'resolution,
and it would ho torture only to both
of us. I will hot insult you or your
lovu by believing you will soon for
get me, but my sincere and earnest
prayer wilt be that in time another,
more worthy, may take in your
heart the place of
MarGauet Bancroft.”
For a time the man was simply
stunned. The blow was so - unex
pected that he was stupefied.
The first shook oVer, he determin
ed to obey strictly the appeal iu the
note, until Margaret recalled him.
She must recall him! . It was incred
ible that she really means this to be
a 8nul dismissal! Sumo girlish cap-
price, some false report had influen
ced her, and she had written under
a hasty impulse she would soon re
gret.
And then there rose before his
mental vision the grave, calm face of
his betrothed, with the deep, dark
eyes, the sweet, firmly folded lips,
the gentle, womanly expression.
Was this a woman to be governed by
girlish whim or a false report?
Every hour he had spent with her
protested agaiust such a supposi
tion.
It was well that a “call” roused
the doctor and auother followed,
thrusting his grief aid perplexity in
to the buck ground whilo his skill
and interest were given to his
work.
Days followed, full in every hour
of duty, but twice lie called at Clif
ton Square, and was informed that
the ladies were not at home. He
wrote a long eloquent protest, and
received a sad little- note—a repeti
tion of the first Ofte—imploring
l»i»n to accept tho decision as
final.
Two weeks later ho hud put his
practice into another physician’s
hands, and was ciossitig tho ocean.
He hud spent some years of his boy
hood and early manhood abroad,
studying in Gortnau atid Fronoh col
leges, and his new misery seemed to
him unbearable in the old routine of
1 ife. Change ro igh t bri ng rest, or
new sceues briug forgetful boss of the
old. So he rushed about Europe,
never stopping long v in one place, uii-
til, returning to Paris, ho took up a
-course of surgical experiments under
an eminent specialist, and oncomore
iiis profession became his ruling
passion, and he fouud the old love
of his life-work reviving in heart
and brain.
He came home in two years aud
resumed his old place, welcom
ed gladly by his old friends. He
heard nothing of Clifton Square for
several weeks, and a dogged pride
he cherished prevented his cull-
'»g-
It was in tho early fall that he
was most unexpectedly culled upon
for help in an operation by a fellow-
practitioner. The physician who
was to have assisted Dr. G had
been taken ill, and a hurried note-
begged Dr. Arnold to take his place.
He was in Dr. G ’s carriage be
fore he knew anything of tho “case”
before thorn. Then, like a umn
nerving hiinse}f to bear whatever
might come, he listened to Dr. G-—•.
“Breust cancer—the second re
moval,” said the doctor, and des
cribed the peculiarities of the ease,
anfi then: “The patient is Miss
Margaret Bancroft. Sho came to
me two years ago laat March, and 1
told her frankly what the disease
was. She was not a woman to be
easily deceived, and when she told
me her mother and grandmother
had both died of cancer, I saw she
would know the truth.”
It seemed to Dr. Arnold as if he
saw dancing before his eyes the date
of the note of dismissal,. and the
words. “I have lieurd to-day what
must separate you ami me.”
A wild impulse to refuse to accom
pany Dr. G to plead illness, want
of time, anything, to escapo, seized
Dr. Arnold, but he was. already at
the door, and he nerved himself to
meet tliO Grdehl. '
' “It may bo better,” Dr. G
suggested, “not to toll JIIjbb. B,U1 -
orofi of any chaffge. " The nurse will
administer the ether, aud I will
speakjto-you when she is ready for
us.”
How the next hour passed Dr.
Arnold could scarcely have told, but
he know too well his duty in the
cuso to let feeling take control of
liim for one instant. Calmly,
bravely, without flinching, he took
his place, not letting the wnitu,
wasted face unnerve him for a mo
ment, stifling his agony with an iron
will until all was over and he could
re»*ro to an adjoining room. There
with liis hands over his whito, quiv
ering face, he prayed for another
hour of strength. He did not need
a ward from Dr. G or the sad
look of the nurse* to tell him that
but a little moment of time remain
ed to bid farewell for life to his dar
ling.
Ho had spoken to Mrs. Preston,
who wits sobbing in the room where
he entered it, and she had gone to
ncr niece’s room, to prepare her to
see him. It seem to him as if the
whole day must have passed away,
when Mrs. Preston quietly enter-
ed.
“She will sec you,” sho whisper
ed.
And alone lie returned to the room
where Margaret lay, white, exhaust
ed, dying.
“You know- now,” she said faint
ly. “You will forgive mo.”
“But why have you kept it from
me?” ho asked, taking her little cold
hand into hilown. “Oil, my dar
ling, who could have loved aud
tended you iu your suffering as I
won u r
“Yes,” she said, “yon would have.
been ray loving, tender nurse, and
that wus why I would not toll you.
If you had guossed the truth, you
would have married me, to destroy
all home comfort, to blight your life
with a perpetual sorrow, ,to take a
burden of care and anxiety that
would unfit you for alFelse. I could
not know, dear, that the end would
Gome so soon, and I looked forward
to years of suffering,' of sinking
gradually info the grave, after long
mon ths of misery, And I loved you
too well to let you share suoh a life.
You will believe it was all love that
guided me?”
How could he again reproach her!
Thy utter-saorifioe, the hoble, un
selfish love that had spared her, was
not u cause for bhune, and he know
his love was only deeper and strong
er in his heart, no‘w that ho under
stood Margaret’s motives.
. “Is it wioked,” she said, in a faint
low voice, “to be all yours for this
hour? I took the holy cotnmuniou
this morning; I have said farewoll to
my aunt. I thought this last hour
would be my prayer for rest, but
when I know you had been with me,
waiting to seo mo, my. love. I had
thought dead lived so strongly in my
heart, I could not send you away
Oh, my love, my love< My Heaven
ly Father is good to mo, and lets me
dio in your arms.”
False words of hope were vain und
Di. Arnold did not mock Marguret
by speaking them. She was sinking
fast. Broken words of prayer, of
lovo, passed her lips, and she smiled
when tho dootor put stimulants in
her mouth, or uttered her position.
It was but a brief watch. The faint
pulse grew Blower and weaker, the
broken Words less frequent, the fail
ing breath shorter, till she fixed
her eyes upon her lover’s face in a
long gaze, and tho Juttering.breath
ceased.
Gently ho put her down and left
her, meeting no one us lie- left the
house, and finding his way by blind,
dumb instinct to his own room.
In his wide' practice, his uuiviorsul
benevolence, his life ofuctivo, self-
sacrificing duty, Dr. Arnold stands
high in iho love and respect of all
who know him. Devoted to his
profession his services are given free
ly to thoso who can never offer any
compensation, and his money finds
unrny'srvOTmgg of usef it I ness.
But he lives alone. No other face
will ever smile where lie 'Tiiid hopod
Margaret’s would welcome him home
ho other lips will ever greet.him ,«s
Margaret’s would have done hod she
been his wife. The one love of his
life will be strong till death, and his
heart lies buried under tho marble
cross, marked “Margaret,” in the
cemetery.—-Anna Shields, in N, Y.
Ledger. . • 7
They Quit* Wluklitg.
Among the passengers who board
ed the Eastboimd train at Holly, the
other day, were a bride and groom of
tho regular tiolly-hock order. Al
though the cur was full of oassehgers
the pair begafi Tolqeeeze hands and
hug as soon rs they wero seated,
This of course 1 attracted attention,
und pretty soon everybody was nod
ding and winking, a.id several per
sons so far forgot themselves as to
laugh outright. By-and-by the broad-
shouldered and red-handed groom
became aware of the fact that he was
being ridiculed, and he unlinked
himself to the height of six feet,
looked up and dowu tho aisle, and
suid: .?/
“Thero seems to bo considerable
nodding and Winking arouud here
because I am hugging the girl who
was married to me at seven o’clock
this morning. If the Miles of this
railroad forbid a man from Ituggiug
his wife after tie's paid full fare,then
I’m going to qiiit; but if the rules
don’t, and tiift winking and blinking
isn’t bitten short off when we pass
the next mile post, I’m going to be
gin on the trout seats and create a
rising market for false teeth and
crutches!”
Is there were any more wipks And-
blinks in that car, the groom didn’t
catch ’em at ic.
Tho Outlet of Oeuius.
CulcAgo Curreut.
If we shonld ask an Amercan to
name a product of wood or woolen,
cotton or iron, steal or meuil, that
is not in urgeut need of a market,
he would be far more puzzled than
if called on to invent a new pleas*
uro.
The growth of genus in this era
is so rapid that it stands as a rival
of all ages—peerless and aloue. In
comparison with any other era we
ore all giants, musters, and million
aires. it is for this very reason that
genius outruns and outreaoheB the de
mand for its produotB.
Had uo one invented the improved
methods of weaving, that" bratioh
ulone would consume labor. If the
shoes wo weur wero made by tho old
slow process, there would be another
opening A>r thousands unemployed.
Had the steel meu remained inaotivo,
hand labor would bo hammering a-
way at wliat tho forges now make as
by instinct. The planers have stolen
the trade of the carpenters. The
turning lathes liuvo driven out the
hand laborors. The teams are less
needed since steam does the most
hauling. Harvest bauds are at a
discount, and tho wood ohopper’s
oeou putioh is su rely gono.
The mystery and middle problem
that now'turns to genius for solution
is: Where is the outlot for oar
ready-made articles? Where is the
market for wagons, oarriuges and
implements? Where is the purchaser
for surplus olothes and grain? The
man that oan answer those ques
tions is a benefactor. If we turn
our eyes oust ward there is a crowded
wharf from Liverpool, London, Glas
gow and every foroign port. Not
even the recent war furnishes the
hope plan outlet. If we look to the
west the povory of early settlers—
many of them fresh • from other
shores—prevents their becoming
ready consumers, and tho only di
reotjon that looks at all promising
is south und southwost, with a hope
that in good time—or restored con
fidence, which is the sumo difference,
which is the same, differently stat
ed—will increase the circulation of
monoy and employ enough men to
earn it, for they are the men who
spend most liberally and consume
most generously. If a single glance
will cover it, aud a single sentence
express it, there is an oarly day
coming with no outlet to genius
save through the mutual interchange
of products in onr own county, and
un educated belief that the wants of
the laboring classes—long delayed
by unsettled business—will demand
tho greater portion of all surplus
products. It is not by decrying cor
porations, nor promoting strikes, not
by talking dynatnito. nor denounc
ing imaginary wrongs,, but by one
grand union of plans and purposes
under a high resolve to restore con
fidence, promote friendship with
Mexico, Peru und the only hulf-
buiit-up and half-supplied districts
of tho Bontii and Southwest, thut
the gonius of the North will find an
outlet. J. W. Donovan.
A Temperance Lecture.
Ltary CourUr.
A .Culljpuu county man, tho other
day, wus moving from the upper
edge of this county to Baker, and
one of his mule* had been attacked
with colio. The man was pretty full
of “bug juice,” and in a maudlin
Way endeavored to relieve tho mule’s
sufferings. He hicthed up and start
ed on his way, but before he got out
of town the team came to a hault,
and the old raultf laid down and died.
Tho mun went to sleep in tho wagon,
and was not aware of his loss tin Ml
he hod awakened from his nap. lie
was accompanied by his little son
and an idiotic negro, and with one
mule dead and the man drank, it
was a helpless and interesting group.
The Deadly Body Coat.
Though the physioal vigor of Mr.
Hendricks had been giving away be
fore the advance of years, and ho
was subject to frequent attacks of
more or less severity, it would appear
that tho shock which hastened his
death may bo directly charged to
what is known as a body coat, or
more familiarly a claw hammer or
swallow tail.
He had put off heavy clothing for
a dress suit to attend an evening re
ception. The ohange gave him a
cold and preoipitated his death.
Many men who have passed the
meridian of life contribute to their
deaths in a similar way. A young
and vigorous man may doff a
heavy suit for a light one, spend the
night in dancing and feasting and
escape with a slight cold, or, at
worst, a sharp attack of influenza,
but old mon cannot afford to take
such chances. Now and then a man
comes along like Hannibal Hamlin,
who can afford to treat snoh comforts
aa socks, undershirts and overcoats
with disdain, but the instances are
rare.
The demands of Washington so
ciety are dangerous to our statesmen
of advanced years. The winter
climate of Washington is simply
abominable. ^Vlien an old Congress
man has sat in a close and unhealthy
hall during the day, and then arrays
himself in the garmonts of a young
beau, and goes to the theater or re
ception, he is taking very short
ohances upon his life.
Last winter so many men died
from eolds contracted by standing
uncovered at funerals in a freezing
atmosphere, that it attracted atten
tion and discussion.
The death of Mr. Hondricks ought
to help to abolish the body coat or
to make it of suoh muteriul as would
offer warmth and protection.
At forty-Bix tho constitution of
the average mitn begins to deterior
ate. After tlmt period lio can not af
ford to trifle 1 With his Imhits or
health.
The latter may bo preserved for
yours by Keeping the body, especially
the vital portionsof it, warm and
well promoted from, draughts and
olimatio changes.
Muoh of fatal pleurisy aud pneu
monia may bo justly charged to the
account of the body coat.
Tlie itonmuce of a Pauper.
In Berlin for- many years past an
old man with a noblo face and a
snowy board has been consptoious
around tho studios of all the well-
known artist. Everybody knows the
old man. He is a professional model.
The most famous painters of the
age have painted his face and form
hundreds of times. ’
A short timo ago tho old man mar
ried, and tho marringo was one of
the maddest und most romantio on
record. Although a pauper, this
artist’s:model wus nobleman. He
came from Hungary, and had a right
to bear the title and namo of tho
Baron de Petofy. A beautiful and
wealthy young woman of tho middlo
class found him out. She wanted to
be a baroness, it was un easy matter
to strike a bargain with the old man.
Ho was to. marry the .young woman,
give her his aristocratic name, uud
then lived apurt from her and novor
claimed her us his wife. In return
!he was to receive three pairs of boots
a year, and two pounds of coffee und
four pounds of sugar a month. The
contract was signed, the wedding
took place, and iho pauper shuffled
off to his garret with liis boots, coffee
and: sugar, while the huroness drovu
away in her glittering carriage.
Tbo Baroness Petofy now reigns
as a social slur in the European cap
itals. People believed her to be a
widow. The buion still |>oaos for tho
Berlin artist. Whether he is proud
of his beautiful wife or nor, nobody
knows. For it chapter of every day
life, this beatB the wildest fancies
of the novelists. It is difflcult to
believe tlmt it happened in Berlin.
It is too Frenohy for anything.—Con*
stiiution.