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it *** $8= — VpLUME IX Professional Cards. Di\.T. F. WILLIAMS, B^*OfHce at His Residence.ojgfl Simms’ Building. First' door below the Court House. apr21.’86,ly. Dr. J.P.HOLMES, PRAcTITIOHER, , CONDOR, - - GEORGIA. C ALLS' ATTENDED TO AT ALt hours. Qbsterics a specialty. Office Residence. meh24, 7m. Dr. T. A. IFx- all my own, I could woo and win th 9 sudden death of my poor broth C 1ALL8 ATTENDED TO. AT ALL J hours. Obsterics a specialty. Office Residence. mch24, tf. . Dr. P. M. JOHNSON PRACTITIONER, Lovett. - .'x- Georgia. C rtAILS ATTENDED TO AT J houfs, Day and Night. mcli85 tf. light. at Dr. JT. L. LENDER, [SIX MIL B NORTH OF DUBLIN.] OFFERS his services to the public at large. Calls promptly attended to, day or uight. Office at residence. :l , aug 20, '84 ly. CHARLES HICKS, M. D., PRACTITIONER. , Dublin, • Georgia. je20, ly DR. G. PRAO Dublin, a —i. DUBLIN. GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 22. 1886. NUMBER XIII. THE LOST RECEIPT. “BeROLD It JS OAST INTO THE FlRE fob Fuel.” My name is Arthur Maitland, and office—I was a doctor—the sum of one thousand dollars. I rejoiced in every coin, iu every crumpled bank note, in every bit of silver—not with a miser’s greed, but with the satis faction with which one acl lieveji am| object. I was anxious to be rid of it, too, for bv work and saving and anxiety about money, foreign to my nature, I had been able to pay off the mortgage on my father’s old homestead. It had been left to, me mortgaged down to its full value. This'was my Jast payment. With this old place Rose Baldwiu, whom I loved dearly; &ftfrhere‘iiii$ nfdW'lbegan life anew* The money was to be paid at the old twin brothers, whom 1 never knew apart, t}hd who had a reputa tion of being hard and grasping, which they merited. Ouly one of the.truth ***** in the 4 OT OTo-i io, t if,* Co.” ' Robjii is chair at his desk. I fancied him the same persbn I h sent He to me looked to “This has been mistakp,” I said. 'it>-(] a “No mistake,” he said. “I paid the monoy,” I said. , “Then you have the papers show/’ he replied. *" “A ieccipt,” I said. “The other papers* were to be sent me-*-by your late brother, I presume.” It had been a sort of joko that did not kuow them apart. I did not like to repeat it under the present circumstances. “Unbusinesa like,” ho said, “but worse for myself by crying out: Never had it! Never Had it! Why, I see it now—every dollar—every bi person I had spoken to ;a few days of silver! {(tee th* Receipt before before. I placed thd’ legaf papbr my eyes—prbk, pale^ ||i|ik f signed>R. before him. Grace,’ and abot'c; it; these words; men should iy nidst teirl j u is er has.upset us. The sufficient, of course. He made no record!of the payment. , Perhaps he office of the brother Gray—-mise'rly time permitted" him. Ybu have the reoeipt.” I had searched ma4.ly font all.Mle morning. I was obliged to tell him j , I . iioid uiiuam, VI i IU9K it) ed; lie was talking to a lady, ahd j safff. “Are .you surp I did not pay, . _ ^ia^|hatrb^I|^k^r disappoin ’or my failure to tiring this mou 'would have thro\ynavaluable hip- of property into the hands : fjm: di m. The Grace Brothers held the, mortgage themselves; and as ed for him, I turned the leaves of a wok that lay oh the. table near me. lb proved to be a small bible, with a piuk book-marker in it, kept there, perhaps, to offer to people who were called upon to lake an oath in regard to any matter; peril _ . the brothers. Georgia. . "'t ALLS o ATTENDED TO AT ALL A^hours. Obstetrics a specialty. Office Residence. ' T. L, CRINER, ATTORiTEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW,. Dublin - Georgia. may 21 tf» ■ . SANDERS FELDER » ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Dublin,^ : ‘V Georgia. Will practice in the courts of the Oco nee, Oemulgee and Middle circuits, and eme c the Supreme court of Georgia. and else- by special-contract. where oy special-contract. >&i Will negotiate loans on improved farm ing lands. A \ Feb. 18th, 1885.-6m. . ..a.-Jhu HAVE YOU TAKEN THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION FOR 1886? If not. lay this paper down and send for It right now, If you want it every day, send for, the Daily, which costs $10.00 a year! or $6.00 for six months or $2.50 for three months If you want it every week, send .for $ Great Weekly, which costs $1,5 or $5,00 for Clubs pf Five. tbs ayear THE WEEKLY CON STITUTION •If-., .) ,-*;.7// S is the Cheapest! Biggest and Best Paper Printed in America! It has 12 pages chock full of news, gos sip and sketches every week. It prints mere romance than the story papers, more farm-news than the agricultural papers, more fun than the humorous papeife—-be- * sides all the neWs,'and ' \ Bill Arp's and Betsy Hamilton's Letters, Uncle Remus’s Sketch es! —AND— talmage;s sermons. Css 2 Cents a Week/ t comes once week—tak^s- a whole week o read itl You can’t well farm or keep house wiffi- out il! :*ib yai Write your name on a postal card, ad- mess it to us, and wc will send you Spoci- r,:!i Copy Frkk! d Address THE CONSTITUTOIN. My whole plantation, containing 210 Acres of land one Dweliiug, two tenament houses, and good Barn and Stables, also good well of wator. Terms tuj. Apply to VV. T. Smith, „ Dublin, Ga. May 10, 80 If, for pious At all events, I glanced down the columns, finding new beauties there, US one always must, until ifiQijj _ bowed the old lady out and came to mo. Ho-tiOkrtJrjtl.W.ej.lomonu.d as was his usual way, the hard ti tnes and finallyrgave memy receipt.. Then, as 1 was abbtf chiHHiuiIv Atillnfl nut G, left clothibg, jjy ; office f»«naure* f^jpy ut “wa ihftrWyl ait,’ with the culled out prospectus of a new company, in which a desirabje .investment cduld bo uot'interest the much. Ihaduo de sire forspeeulaiion. To. pgfc my -little doctors sign on -the door of niy lifljhse=^any'the woman-Ij^bved, and strive to make money and fame U “‘j 1 ^o^ssibh*jwhs my ambition. I wanted the'tnoney to spend—not to save^-to be haphy with. It was sjgiple, hanpleg greed; not a mis- ” ,nidai A j happy. The next moruing'g: paper : brought me uncx- pooled news.- Mr. B,clm-d Groee had beep found dead m his chair m offltos/oh tl^IirdHbiia afternoon. I had never . known the brothers apart, as I have said—and I asked myself if the man I had spoken to, conld have been so near death with- “ nj : ^ ^ pi cian? I felt in my pocket for the receipt, to see if it woro Richard or Robin Grace who had signed it. The receipt was not there; it is never pleasant thing to lose an important paper. -jsKii'ui'".u*u*3e*i %* I knew the Grace Brothers to be far from worthy men. i had paid the money without witnesses. My receipt was all £ had to depend on. The only consolation I bad was that Um-1ou was not known by any one jbut myself; and I waited for certain legal papers which were to bo seiit to me when drawn out. They did hot come. I appreciated the fact that th a sharp business man one can not be too particular, when a notice wap served on me, to the effect that legal proceedings wou[d be taken, if the money—oue thousand dollars— W Ml it to yoitlW'f A twinkle in his pale blue eye seomed/^o. be that whioh I had seen ih the eye of Richard Grace whibli he: handed me the prospectus. That r *‘ _J safe enough iu my pocket ’T'Rotnu suspicious glance. to TO «!f No, sjr,” he said, sternly. “No, sir; yoin ’diil-uot. If you paid either of us, you paid my pool hrotiier. You viyiil do well to find that receipt* We shall exp^t tltj.itrec^t. s ^ir, You 1 aye : been moat uttbusinesstUke at besi^^c^jDah I believe’ mv brother so forgetful as not to coni pleto the affair. We-, S li„ll_cl<mi W d ^H^qceipfetW'juj.:a ,riU) He struck bis thin, 'little, blue- hand^athetable^andijcmik • v«s o porifoliea',' thy ' ibooks. I had t)]e ashes in the collar sifted, and re in- i lost paper, I picked the stijl warm coals from my grate pun, hdpifig tO find at least its searched remna>n be neath them, bnrut my fingers, jump ed up hastily, struck my head, y>o lently. against.the mantel • piece, and knew nothingthore fordays—lioiliihg but the receipt, which danceci be/oiu my eyqs in all its piiik cVispness, will “Brollm-s Grace” at h» lt«J, ant just over it these words: “Be,told, it iaebaffinto the fire As 1 grew better I began io wonder why tpese words assoc u H ecl dlhem- selves with tiie receipt.’ 1 • % attendant physician was the father ; of the girl I loved. I spoke to him of this. lu You were fencing it was buiot hen you struck yourself;” he said. That explains it.” “Don’t be sure of auythnig until the sirs. you ai^B uomci, up oaiu. •{; But I was sure. Mt' iyri* a clew held out to me, I knew, but I ot^jd .not giasp it; * ; ;■-* :>* T >- {. -ft i I was told that Mr. Grace had boon very considerate, but the; end dime all th<j same. The mortgage was foreclosed; the property- -my dear old homestead-^was gone. There had been an attempt to prove me a ft^kster.' My betrothed fife’s fath er, Dr. Baldwin, had savwl me from that; bqt hoyr? He gave it as his opinion that anxiety on the subject had upset my mind; that my visit to the office was a delusion of miue. I painter was at workalteri etters on tho window pane, they should mad,- no one into my confidence as to mj small economies, my priva. tions, the old job* of copying, e»o., ad bit by bit added to-iny little. Dr. Baldwin gave it as his that I only fancied that I money. Only fancied that i! And l had made matters race/ anu above •fft;;| ’Behold, it is cast into tho fire for fuel/ Y ' There are ti be silent, if to out their tougnes. I No one thought mu an impostor. No one thought me mad enough to bo locked up; but I had been “straiigo.” ••• Great Heaven! a blow against that marble would have made any oue strange for a while. My. patients left me. I earned nothing. I grew shabby. I lmd no kinsfolk, would not appeal to friends. I al most starved in tpe desolate office, from whien I sold‘'everything by slow degrees. ■1 'Fiually I left it. I conld have had several good positions but for the taint upon my name—Mad, mad, It h f0^0wed me everywherer that accusation un^ ,L was jjopt, hollow cheeked, shabby. wretcho<(. Oiio day, as I sat miserably in thO g'arret ^hichj kftph $s v sly}ltej, by, some ooppying ^dwft iljjook’jpleii I week old newspaper. At the head of the column of marriages I saw these words:: “On the —, Robin Grace, to Rose, only'daughter of Dr. Escola Pius Baldwin.” * I had liot seeni the girl I loved for mahy months, but she had then seetiif ed true to me. I had cheHslied libp'e Without knowing it. I qould not believe It trite. Rose—my Rose— ittaiTied t^JMy' eiierpyjla^oljd mniirlop.wiihout ( u plinrin ubout him. Gonldfhe be so;morconary? I wrote tdifny THend. ^his was “My J^ear Boy; It is daughterhe t der tlic dif-cii rridtadbes; oh would, I. am sure, be willing to give lier up. : to time; and take good care df yourself. 7 /f l ourf^ fi help yon, eoih4 Vo me without hesitation, Your El B. X tore the napor in two, and the next morning took service a mon sailor. It* was a good step. amendentBBIfr MV capmin w.is a man of warm* heart and confidence io his own opinion. I told him my story ;jhe lw«s, i njdignmi t. T|ii-<»i;gh his influence I became the physioian fir the 1 ocean steamer p.ver whioh he reigned. ^Whfhiyself phee thdre/ I passed through the dark waters, but 1 was myself. And wo took .-many voyages toge.her;and 1 wasa middle- MS the:passengers these namos, “Robiu Gijieei Esq., lady and maid.” ;- J ; “So I should aee 'them again; should see her again. ^ They came.on board. She was still pretty, but a trifle pinched and and faded. Tie a skeleton of an. old m^n. more like a Mexican mummy than a hRiing The maid was a prim-looking per son. of middle-age. It was not an attractive party. * vi no; If that woman had loved me and •een d ue to me> donbtiesathe changes in ber.facb' would have touched me. Asit was,/ think I. was glad to see them. She blushed when she passed nothing hut contempt for her. Old RobmjGraoe had, I was told, been ordered abroad for his health. la mid-ocean, in the dead of night, some one oarne to call me. “Dootor,” said the messenger, “that old Mr. Graco is trken very bad.” /hurried on my dollies. The man was “bad,” indeed, as we look at things. Ho wus dying. I told his wife »o. She gasped and turned faint, “/ought to do something,” she sighed, “What ought 7 do? Ho <Wght to think of something else, if teaoher of .|ior favprite pupil. < “/ijun't explain whet it is, but khow it all the sami^Y ' ’.?« “Givejpe an example of hypoc- v<; m “When a/ellow says he loves his Sunday sohool teaoher. That’s hypocrisy,”- -Texas Su< lugs, he’s going besides his money.” “Read the Bible to hies, ma’am,” id the maid. ‘Yes, yes,” gasped the frightened man. “/brought the littlo offico Bible,” said the hiaid. “/t went beat int6 •mi portmanteau. I would’t bo at sea without a Bible with a pink book mirker. • - As she handed it to the lady, it slipped between their shaking hands and fell to. the floor, s j r / stooped to pick it up. It had jallen open. A cross the page Tdy a piece of pink paper, made to adhere by long pres sure. /t lay direotly below the. words of Ezekiel, ohap. xv., 4th verso: «: “Behold it is cast into the fire for Tho devil is never as black as ho is painted, and a woman is never, as iunbeont as she appears. . di q : If you want to koep a womans love, keep up a slight but steady flirtation with her must hated ri- viil. t'irni fco-tid tl'u)4 Ja When a woman gives you:her love don’t lay it away on; ice . foi ; . safe * -kcoping. • Btter keep it in the warm est corner of your heart, so if she calls for it any time yon can return it in the condition she gave it to you. He Found the Place. It happened yesterday. On Od6an' street is u sign which sways in the ' And tho paper bore these words: “Received from Arthur Maitland, the anm of $1,000,” eto., etc. It was the lest receipt. I had placed it there in a fit of abstraction, With ipy own bands; ( How wo come to do such things, who cun tollP But i. know now what my memory of those words, “Behold, it is oast into the fire for fuel,” meant, i hud read them over the top of that reoeipt; and had shut the cover on them when Mr. Grace brought liie tlio prospectus to look ut. i remembered ull now. Too late— too late—too late! Youth, lovoj' amlitioh, htid bben '“oast into the fire for fuel,” and were gone.~iltary Kyle Wide, in AT. T. Ledger. ft; j I. i ' ’ i 'M—i ! •‘Now, littlo boy, wha.t is the meunihgof the word hypocrisy?!’ asked an Austin Sunday school morning breeze and the sign reids; “Woman’sExchange.” 1 * i<>\ Ho was a Duval ebunty farmer, * and as he left the Bur bridge gro cery store he looked up the street and saw tho sign swinging m ^V ao ^ ci usually does. - ; ! -o •• Long aud earnestly did ho stare, and with a 1 grttnt Tie” tuMdd «««!» —. mked: •^kioP 9l}J lo o^boj ngor M >di Anjlnshman somewhat dlsgu<sed in liquor was shouting ut Edinburgh, “Three cheers for home rule.” whbro upon a Sooi ohnmn, probably a sup portor of Mr,. Gosoht-n, shot)ted reply “Throe cheers for hrr-l.” ||||rpu are right,” said the Irish man; “every man should stick up for fits own oountry.” in There are haul times,” Buid tho png debt collcoior. “Every place wetit to to-day I was requested to call ugaiu, but one, ahd Hmt was when / dropped in to see. my, girl, ’ Whpt was that great racket/beard in your WJpd-shod after you got bflUlU from: fishing lust night?” asked one Estelline small boy ot another.! “/t was mo swinging tho buggy Whip forp” the other replied. ^ ; eoraotod J' around, too?” “On, that was pa seeing if he oould Jump over the wash-boiler I two tubs.” ‘Bht wbo was it thhnderf* W-w. a 1 i* Why, every Jime tra higli./ump he would holler kinder n fun, you know.” so M II8X- mi' - A OU8. Bailies and Parleys. handsome woman , is danger- A woman has neither love nor res- ;jeot for the man she oaii rule. One bad woman esn keep u whole neighboVhopd in hot water. A woman who is not jealqm of her husband is not in lovo with nm.; ! *; • ; 1 .■ : ■ [ ;;' 43322^! This world iu full of beautiful wo men, but a truly good woman is a rarity. ’.// |^r/T Y’j: Two things always trained for ac tion—a woman’s tongue and a mule’s iceis. Nino oasos out of ten when a wo man says sho hates is in lovo with Mat*-- * Woman i* tho sweetest aud bitter- e.it ^ift of Go-1 10 mull. A woman will confess to almost anything but to the fact that she i« growing old aud ugly. passer-by and re mu “We i, sir, 1 have diskivered ifc, J “-‘What?” asked astonishnibiit. “\Vliy, that ’ore place.” . MWimt place?” “That Woman’s Exciinn_„ . .. “Weil^ wiiat about {!?” ) f u3 **■ Wlmt about it? Til bo gol darh-^ nd.if | don’t bring tho old 'woda'a^ 1 ,^ , right up tlmr and uwap her right away. I hev been jest looking for such a place, I toll ypu stranger *7 ! this ere town is jest whoopin’ thiugs and don’t you forgot it, neither.” ' And then ho started up for the ex change, but the stranger Btoppol him. ; - , ” ■ . ‘ * *. . . lit iua No one who has faith and isnaSlrn fliyiiG Ting tb work for satisfactory results • Io ban sum life up >ns a failure. add effort have mude more ■-in a than one man stieot eommiMionor or u constable. awre »r. ; people ItViriR » * , Bluo lvidgo, ot Bit con tn.loo obovo Dahlonegu, G«., who never saw negro! A , v< A wonmn rcc.nlly .mvod in Wjfc bind, Oregon, f,cm Montcm, wI,obo entire wealth consisted of ton chil dren, tho oldest 10 years old. Thero wpsone sot of triplots, two sets of .twins and throe “singleiB,” ,‘ s ' f , V ^ A. philosopher wen? thpt fhe rpa,- son why ladies .teeth decay sooner , ;;il than tho gentlemen’s is because pf . the friction of the tongue .nd atvoflte ne^Sjof thetrUpN- i« fc l>pi01J “I don’t , t) A candid lawyer: v ‘ **Dp ydii I’ll get justice done me?” “I think you will,” repliod tho other; “for i sbp two mbn on fche ! jnry who ,vut! are opposed to hanging.” A throe-year old girl discovered a riCighhor’s hen soralching in the garden, in a most indignant tone she reported to, hert^mothor that the hen next door was “wiping her feet on our grass.” ml Someone Ima said that nothing was lost by politonoka. How about a seat in the street car. Afi^r ; all, there are but few mo i who can go into the loafing business and make a success of The beat way to make a name is to have an him. ,* ■ Our belief or disbelief of a does not altar the nature thing. ? f emmi-HHyl mUi thing of a httftp ledi need A wise' man should have moucy in hia head, and not in his heart. For sixteen dollars J. M. Smith will sell you a three ounce coin silvor double case, Waltham or Elgin wacth with a warrantee for five years. Thoso watches are fine time-keepers and are as good as any watch made. TJijt order will only last thirty days. Send in your order at once and get a watch that will lust you youi lifo time. ! »-iJ«tb' « l xi«w