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J.W. VgVrWWBW. WH«* « PwUi.h.r JWHH A. MItSBS, rrwprlMar. VOLUME I. m mm-iutxi. vfLl wwcmatm. fl X ITSCTI »?XW UWC. W*r* «ber» •■* oo*»M SMkas; A»4 !•• u>to By <rtM teT, White •‘•TBJ ressoa I M> M, m ataad Woe. iMraUui W« “ Th* Mt-taD Is 11* awa nnrS! ’ *-* ) Nfteltf tea* Yst, white I Ate ForeskssoS pt*, wy fslth te Unu ruin* r But wtea ay tsaeyW rsaaia* wild, AM I’M by a*«v tea oateoarad, I pro *ll to wtnaa, man and ohild: "Th* Mo-ban teltaowa rawardl" *" I *** ■alted op sssUul a door as *hattar; Tbaßtttebcy j u ,t jump* with joy To tea yoa ssrved with Brill *»d butter. Qhl <»Wt I Ui tayoad th* sss, tty Afttfetenteri (tri*adorad, f w*Md ba I **Tba Ssb-bsll I* Ito owp reward I" „ < ■ ;p i - ’Tapbulood; * Yon nmjtftJßa ted tod taurt; Wbaa ton ed wttb » hown>- n«r- ’>! wtasriuiMwiAtaai and fray, jMEaklititoa i awntl* rtatety teorad, th* wsrid as 4 **y: WMmMWit* own iwvwtl* njflEfaV z-Sfr <WmI « Wt 9TQXY. •-■ 4 1- ... '■ . 1. * >•«<■•. inurc libie, story j*CTVM**«xper> -- o<r my owe At 4‘- Ajjuht in w 1 wAds. Tm xi i'k- *b OT J -Te Migiiaw, accna- t •'w*SjiM&W-'^ B dA-oP I r> ■ ’ to tWRAfr m f ring My father wm a good man, i»ervjag GcJ after dia own supple faehion, seeiug Run tßdtewtotWw-r, Ha wmvs*. J hate heardffikrf |oldjflrth on the nrovi dent wsf# ST tie bestahr. <• Whytrthe little cntter’d starve in the cold season if it hadn't used its little flat tail so? bondin' ita house, ■ftl g.Fith j food iii time !* I hare heard turn tell of the carriboq : “ Look at that, too,” Ua would any, “ and at the moose. Now, Ihtefeftgwti offer. a matter <jf rtrditffitauiM fartiwAiauMay footie's w dainty ‘tin, and only estx the long gray moea that hangs from the trees ; ao God gave him snow-shoes, good as an Injun could make ’em, to skim over the ice crust—while the big, heavy moose there stnkf mght in, Ilia dinner ia close al haad. He could live for months on an acre lot,” He could speak the loon, and ito adaptation in every way to its watery home—always ending such talk with : •'Atf’GdW wftks are ‘pon honor ; ' half-way with Him.” ykwjfr* only one left of ten children. My father, when” mourning over and missing the others, wonld never com plain but only aa#/ « Tbcrc’re better off. Why, if we can’t truxt the little chil dren that kno«tti>e*aainiig <d sin, th<w chance k>r U|t men T And so be lived his quiet life—his heart beating done to nature's heart, and his seeking and finding My mother must have been benntifnl in her youth. She was a lortttr Pana- ' diernin, and her bright French spirits ! . Asrrieyw' ftavly over many hard trials in hex hie Jfprjvatiyi.. One »oq-jw of her hfe j was the unaccountable disappearance of 1 her little year-old daughter, her only : beautiful child—the one in her own im- ; whfga-from the first aba loved with , • Hijulisg fcmdermwa. Tie child had bean left addon in hrs i little bireh-bark cnb for a aliort half hour, wtfh« wdher was busy at thr •pnng, a mile from home, in the midst •f tk» UDoda. i, adittle g- year-old. was > *be dav before. Father and I had a ’ *l He fui*d flHte> --Tq,*lwaya did whpn we •ere we ay tnigtlirr—and, o* canoe full tew "wefe <W>m®<; gayly home * ow “ t 'i evening, when a odd chiH fell 00 our bappioeM.'tad any *jP F "' r, 't e Wi » strange thrill as I read a »• ,t knew. His quick ear hail -v W mother's voice, and, sftev.a lu.MLal, could hear a hope- - ■*• swain. -te«wrM«teto.u WeajWMraMMber kneeling on ! >.f W Oil 'W* ' v " wwt bmm>. ffolumbia Admti.w. by thu lake, whars this last sorrow hai come upon her, and we went to Mon treal. There we liveJ quietly for yean dur. tag tba wißtar tea,, -n ia nnn , the 1 great Convent of the Gray Bistan took charge of my education Mother and I had neat little rooms in the French quarter, went off moose, hunting for weary months; but the summer tuna we always spent wttli lam. He would chooes loveig sjxiU tar eur suinmer encampment*, never «n the site of the log cabin deserted after the baby's loee, until the summer of my ]9t| year. Then a great AMre took poaeeaaion of my mother to go once more to the old home. She had been very delicate that winter, and Merest, rough father de nied her noiKltg. I shudder when I think ot that beautiful, direful place now—it seems >« though our evil fate hovered about ik All the anguish I ever knew centen there. We passed one peaceful month to gether, disturbed only by distant ru mors M diphtheria, a scourge which seemed to be striding from village to village, first on the river, then nearer us on the greet lake; but we never thought of ita tonoiiing ua until one mieeralde mght, when father came home, languid and feverwh, from one of his numerous expeditions, and wo read in his face that tne gtiaaU wtingt-r of the scourge had set its mark upon him. After the second day of anxiety about father all strength seemed 'to fiul my delicate little mother. From the first she had despaired alxiut him, and now I saw that, if father's life were takes, I ahbnld have ko part with them both Her life would did wlth Ids. far soriew forges •Wronger bonds dykt ’tfirtn jfiv' and they ha<f xuffi’reJ’ai nJttcrf U>g#ttiJr, hw tote elwfcyeauppdktitig her, that he had become life of he# h(H ) BMs Wilt! not Ml<! ftfono. I struggled hand A&ihWkiid sick at heart against «h:irrW!p» be an in exorable fate. and. on the al term on of the eighth day, I found myself alone aitl almost cUwpoiowvg. *av» 4»«* ta*pj4- - iieee of the two I had loved beat in the world. The sunset came, as I sat by the lake side, flooding By desuhrio world wittli a heavenly glory, like a sign from theft to me of their new-found joy. The stars had oome out, before I ven tured to return to the worse than deserted house. I could not hope for help from any ueighlxir until I sought it out myself the and I had to look forward to a night, how horrible. I did not fore see or I could not have endured it. What followed I could scarcely credit” myself, if I did not bear oo my baud a tangible proof in a well-defined scar; and, even now, I could not l*ar to write of that night's hail not my children's laughter, and my loving Inis' - band's care long since banished all un natural gloom from my life. While I hail liven sitting alone on the lake shore, toward the evening. I hail hea*d a distant shot; it scarcity ronsed me. A sportsman, I thought, h»<l wan dered from liia eucampmcuf ou tjif ojx jxwite almre, and seen some ganje ia our wildwoods, killed it, and hi* > auoe had long auioe carried him away. In the I gathering darkness I gr<q*«l my way I back throngh the familiar little path, | ami rwaeiitel my utu* diair, —LjUptie I should ptow the Utacglrold'ix Um future , I their les t were still • the boMPfieet that hail toiled for me, followed me, and liad | been ever near me ! I was to go on my ■ rugged path alone ! Heartsick and over i come, 1 stopped at tins door, and, Jean mg my h'Swl against it, a drbed in un- ■ oobfrolktaede*]uiir. Tire.l sirfwtlength, I had grown quiet, ami was alout to lift * the latch, when a faint moan, as of an I animal in pain, and clone to me, startk-d me ; thee a roigmxl. I knew I had been mistaken I felt * thkt I p-jffet myself the 1 poor croduro m diAtreie i* very gAU *« wtriwnr* to knoMtb* 4>nw m* needs you to strong. M>'locg4r 1 hesitating I homed unto the Uulc caldn, struck a light and went in the dirucUou - L-.-yaaa had ** r ' MwTffpvt -V-4 .£#l£phi«ft< I» ■ja jr—Wi p-yible a floor wounderi deaftf lyttg busbea. Yea, I | now ita sktajunmittakably a (awn —spotted WWF- M*yf a»* »tt B— to3*- been its dying Sasp wv T “w- quite ettaAfV it, veoed (wm nad, ppraiyivi with horror, saw ■4’tacrtter • **ee, only voting and . vary. 11 ■ ißtffn' A <»•« mgjtbayp Jitok<d 1 when » g£t Uvittay *"sbe lav—taatted hair all about her face/ ( aad etoshed in diae-nkw- Jn*4.l**n nbe ( fore Ute thought' that this betat what- DevoUd-Uie Interests of Columbia County and the State of Georgia. HARLEM. GEORGIA. TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1881 ever, whoever aha wen, might be saved tobie. I dragged her the few steps into the bouse, laid her on my hamlook hnegha, untouched by mo atooe the atetomm we lted ua. Then I found a wound in the poor creature's ride and bound it Up, bathed her head, and, in the quiet, novi again I felt startled at seeing my moth er’s image, young and fair, before me, and, when at length her great eyas opened, I felt it must be that slater tost to mo till now, and sent back tn this sad hour to take my mother's place, I leaned forwfird, in an aooeea ot taader neas, to welcome her. when a took of fright, an animal-like wild terror, took poeaesaion of her face, and a tow sort of anai 1 broke from her human lipa. The start she gave caused a fresh flow of blood; dimness passed over her eyes. Again I stanched the wound and pre pared nounaliment in case she waked. Too busied in these ways for further speculation, only with a strange weight at my heart and wearinaas ot body, sud denly I felt the gleam of eyea watching me. Buch atrange eyea I No human expression about thorn; a stealthy took in them now. Gently as I could I ap proached her side. She trembled and tried to hide her head when I offered her my carefully-preparedfood. I moved away and studiously avoided any ap pearance of watching her. Yet I was intensely conscious of her every move ment. I could see her” eying, with a wretched, famished look, a raw venison steak that had been forgotten and lay on the table close beeije her. Stealthi ly, like-e teeust of prey 1 , her feeble baud stole toward it, and in a mosnsut ahe bad torn it in piouca aui 1 roared -ito Horror filled my heart. Could th» creature l>e hqmau ? . f sat still in fnk corner,‘where, myself unseen, I oould watch and flStnCTn her if necessary, and i fioon -weakness overcoming her after fhi* lari effort—she lay tossing in un easy sleep. Oh I wm bo weary auA so very lonely 1 dreadful night was almost 41 oxi mdU ■ v i Went to her side, threw ' WWWBrW lisgiiis f ln«Y, amt-pnl tuy arm* alxnit her neck. Again he» wonderful eyes opened full in my face. I fixed them with tuy own. I careeaed I 4iqr, 'wUixl her tlw> uodtjanng names 1 <>f md. I liesought her to lie gentle and to love me. I told her she was my own, the only creature left for me to love and care for I Ono short second it seemed ua if a soul looked out of her glorious, doer eyea, then, with a groan as if she gave the struggle over, and with that tow, fearful growl again, she fastened her white teeth in my hand. Shrieking with pain, I fainted. When I came to nryself, dnwn was struggling in at the window; leaf-shadows flickered on the floor. Fearful pain in my hand roused me at length, and a consuming I tturet drove me Wto the woods towaivi the spring to allay it I struggled through the underbrush, . and there, close to the water, discerned a confused mass. There lay my poor sister, dead, her head pillowed on s j wiki cat of the woods, shot by the same hand, prolxbly, that had wounded her fatally. TKLl.tlfa TH tri tit. It is vmy luijxjrtant, said Coleridge, that truth ebwiM lx> put into ita proba ble Xhape in orTer tlist it may be be lieved. lam often accused of being a Quaker, liecauac I seldom give a direct I answer to sundry questions ; but that ' arises from the incomplete manner m ' which they am put to me. lam also soxn>'Uuies charged with exaggerating tacts; but my accusers seem to be ig- I mgsut that truth is like an actor ou the alaw . who requires a kttle rouge to | make him look natural by gaalight I The same rule applies to everything, said the dear old sophist. If you aim at s target you have to calculate the dis- I tance anil elevate you/ arrow to a err- ' Um angle, otherwise it falls below the . , j'-'te Ln Like m>uw r orator, who j Sriahek to convince,' must color his re cital to of tax hearers. Au mti'lligafit preacher' should, therefore, accommodate his dmeotirM to his con- I uias be dwtists insteml of i convuseea. tVhen Whitefield tout a I fashionable congregalxm, ia swie of his sermons, that there were infants in hes. mA a span tong, they ahadderod and . tokwrou. At ail events, they received tfie horrible snnrtanmaeßt m silence But when he preached the same dnetnne to the 1-egnmed cofhers of Newcastle, their human nature rose against it, and 1 they petted htaseaVwf tore wxtk enala. And yet ft is evident ths thing was as • true one day as another. FLXJtSAJTTMKa. Tn Bughah sparrow—" Have I firiv * all the other turds Irutu town f Well, I should twitterw tUro the General to Uie Iff sjor, " What ia your rank, air f' 1 and the Major re plied, ** I am a Major, General. ” Wav Boom tor Mm- SM daughter* Sv*, On teWitew* *u**te w* and ten, dnd Uwy wn*r “ OM Ortjua*'* ooaX,” AU buttonad Saws tehlad “ Bow mn mo to eat T " Traisp— "Yee'm. Bnt I don't want co xqaail 'cause it's been awful hard with ’em this winter, and they have had to feed on all sorts of piaen berries." i ] A wtan father to his eon—“ Now, John, I do not object to your being » fool and an idiot Be a fool and i n idiot if you want to, but what I do not wish you to do ia to let everybody know It, ” A oxs-csav atemp lor • terculaln, A <n»-ce*i vteap tot » mwajtepair*, A Ihrw-rwat teamp for * *Mted loltelr*. All HcA*d oa IS* rtttl vnnialn Uak. bnXßm Uek, Ite* with o*lr«, Oa Um rl(hl-h*od nd*, aol avwywbalre, Unite* you vast th* P.wtm**teir» To m*ke thing* hoi and cum and swair*. “With neatness," ho remurke.l, as ho shot down hill on a bob-sled, '‘ and dis patoh," he groaned the next day, point ing to a 15-cent strip at court-piaster ou his nasal appendage and classical fore head. A yovmo lady and her fattier were looking at a druggist, who was very nicely Ixlaacing the debcate little seates on which the prescnptioo was being weighed. “ How precise I how fine I haw little I" said the girl, “jfea," said the fattier, " but he will not do so with the bill." 1« ttw «prUf Um maidffn • fancy Tumm Io (bought* of Qsatirif hay— i| WiUi a MMtrUuofikUi «w* 4* ’ Fdrtftlb nuoU and playa croqaat; •nt tha ycnißf man d-na uot luuibM, ▲ad, with aMnwiary <W», Ua conaiOaja ktalU a cbatpar To pay board for ona tuan two. “Mr love for you is like that glow ingfire," said Adolphus, as he bknkod attoe burning anthracite and then at thfeobject of his sffccUuna. “ What a grate fun,” she murmured, and the spark got quite warm trying to think how she spelled the sentence. I lx the Beuato Chamber jtt 1 I ton, the Cha|dsifl offered the- f<rd a prayer. When he bad finished, Daol mey leaned over to Joaonby, and ret marked: “ H« stole that prayer, and I’ll bet a * boodle ' on it, for I hoard the samo ideas expramed in Eureka at a fu neral over two years ago.” A Uctcmmax in Alliany went out to his milkman in the street with a dish in each hand, instead of one as ui«aL Ths dispenser of attenuated milk asked him if he wished to fill both vessels 7 The Dutchman replied, suiting the action to the word, “Dis is for de milfiik, and dis for de water—and I will mix dem so as ' to almte mine self." ' * “Yas,” said the witness, “I remen> i ber the defendant's mother crying on the <x-caaioß referred to. She was weeping I with her left eye—the only one she has —and the tear were running down her right cheek.” “ What !" ex<daun<xl the Judge, “ how oould that be?” “ Please, your Honor," said the witness, ** she was awfullv^cn sta-erud." anacDOTK or hkhivkhkk thcth. Honfe years ago, when Mr*. Child was preeiiling at an anti-slavery meeting at which the African “sibyl ” was present, a clergyman asked permission to speak. It lieing granted, ha mounted the plat form six I poured forth the following tirade : “ I am an orthodox minister of the gospel. I rntne here thia after noon to hear some ot the eloquence and wit which I understand were so abun dant at these ftretings ; bat, instead ot that, I have thus tar listened to little but insults heaped upon the clergy. It ’ is the first time I eves thrust my pres ence among you ; it will be the Last, I can find a better use tor my leisure hours than atten<lane»' upon gatherings where the only speakers are woman and jack asses. *' He paused. There Wks fi dasri silence for a moment through the ball. Thee Sojourner Trufe suddenly arose from one of the rear seats, and addrasecd the chair : “ Thugontieman tells ua ho is s di fnistaeteff thJgoa jM ’’tebo eaifl? ‘ and oo be,probably knows what's in'ths scripture. There was another minister, a long Ums ago, named Balaam. He got i mighty mad, too, at an assthatspoke. But, Missus Chmmaff, I'd like to secund the gentleman that it was the ass, and not the minister 2 b »‘ *“• the angaL" A axmeiow which does not sefitos to govern and eontroi ■ m»a mil never suffice to eave him. That which does not disttag«Mh him 'rom a winked world wxil never distinguish him from a pertsb -1 tag wofld. 1 ■ 11 tb* rjMJrcx ttrroLuriotr, Th* following appear* in M Taino's volume on the first French Revolution: “The revolt had triumphed, the Tuil snos had lieeu sacked, the army had made friends with ths people, the Duke of Brunswick ha<l issued his insolent proclamation, Louis XVI. had been do posed, and the days of BeptStaiier and th* Terror were earning. Ij*t ua pause to .x>ntemplato tor a moment the great city and ita new Kings. From afar I‘ar.s seems to be a club of '700,000 political orators, who about and del>at» in the public squares. Viewed closely, we find jnst the ixiutrary to lie the naer. It is a city whose inhabitants were just like we are—governed, busy and bent on amuse ment For tlio greater part of them, even at a perhxl of revolution, the press and complexity of private life leave* but little time for public affairs. . " The olerk is at his desk, the work man in his workroom, the mechanic! in his shop, Uie merchant in his store, tlio professional man fumble* among hie pa pers, and ths official i* at hi* pmt, Altov* all, they attend to their daily busineea. • * ♦ If they turn away from it, it is only for a quarter of an hour, and ont of curiosity. They ap plaud or hiss, as they would a drama, bnt do not theuisclvo* go on the stag*. ‘The declaration that the country is in ilanger,' says mure than owe eye-witness, ' has not at all changed thu physiognomy of I’ans. There are the same amuse meats, the aamo pleasure* as ever. The theaters ere as full as usual, the drink ing saloons and places of amusement are crowded with the National Guard ami with *<ddters, and the bran montU goes off on pleasure parties ' “Buch is the coldness or lukewarm ness of the great bulk of the people. It ia egotistical, elsewhere engaged, and always passive under any Government, allowing it to do what it pleases, pro vided it in turn'lio permitted to brotrw. 1 end frisk like a herd in pea-x- and qtdeU A* to the brave men who lose ueir country, they aro atill lea* of an olsttaic turn, tor they Lava goo* away, or :*e* going Away, sometime* at the rate of a thousand a day. By the departure of tlm brave, and its thu inaction of tli* r Pent is tfi-Hie itamia of the f«nut u-edrakf mob *M’* theetsne-cutoffea,’ wrote the patriot I‘alloy, Hl's the dregs md -wwfciiZfenf Rsristhuihai a conquered tin so-called well-todo people. 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Three o'clock ih 'the afternoon found them close up under the eaves of the house, and sixty-five feet from the ground. They had juM *fin ished the surface within reach, and had stnrtod to lower the scaffold a • tnar feet. When the required diatanoe had been reached, Bixgeu called to hie jiartiMv to bang ou to the rope until be CpJagm) tied hia own, when he would come over and jierfortn a like service for lym. Hisgen had just completed Ilia oWfi'ltiot, ■when Koehler cried out : ’*Ootne over quick; I can't hold it,* Hiagafi, ae quickly as possible, started acrqac’the serial bridge, bnt had not gone two steps when he saw the man let go hia Hold, and felt the ladder give way beneath his feet. As he l>egan the fall, in the of desperation hr, with both hhhds, grasped the alnioet-smooth top of the fourth-story window cornice and there hung in ilia air, a distanee es -ataig <eet from the pavement. He then gave asi exhibition of nerve that terrified eyery one who saw it Flackug the toe ei on* IxKit against the window frame be gave liia body a slight pendulam motion gsray from tiie bouse. A second push gave him a better impetus, and as ho swung ou the return toward the window he re leased Ins hold and went twpahing through the glass safely to the floor of the fourth-story room, from whence he immediately looked mt throngh ths sjiertnre heliml made to eee what t had become of hia companion. Koehler liad not bean quite so fortunate. As ho went shooting through the air he caught the hanging rope with Vofh hands and less ened Id* s|ie<«l all the wsy doww at the exjicnse of all the cuticle ot hia palms, . whioh was bunmd off by the friction He landed in a sitting jxisture on ths ' wiiluwslk, nnd wsa taken to the ftotpital with a pair of very aore hips. 'T‘ fi. -*.«», , jh.n * Thw qnradiott what degree of bast is necessary to destroy trichinss tfoxhis of impiMlMiog, AGfopan ex pert says that if puj uttoa pot to btf I uro largy, tri< hinsn in the mUldlo aro not certain to Ko killed by snob de gree of coffki off M they aro uaOally sulx jected to. As tong as meek Mtahto the |fink «>lor known a* “ rare ", lkhqo>e«ii uupiflitueiiLly cu9|k<xl to iitwtroy the per uxite*. Hmokyig and picklingfiio meat ! aro of no use vrhktever. "'