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Poetry.
H egret.
If I had known, oh loyal heart,
When, hand to hand, we said farewell, *
How for all time our paths would part,
What shadow o'er Q«r friendship fell,
I should have clasped your bana so close
In the warm pressure of my awn,
That memory still would keep its grasp,,
If 1 had known. ''
If I had known, when far and wide,
We loitered through the summer land.
What Presence wandered by our side,"
And o'er you stretched its awful hand,
I should nave hushed my pareleas speech,
TQ listen, dear, to every tone '
That from your lips fell low and sweet,
If 1 had known.
If I had known wlicn youj; kind eyes
Met mine in parting true and sad-
Eyes gravely tender, geutly wise,
Aud earnest, rather, more than glad—
How soon t&e lids would lie above,
Ae coid and white as sculptured stone.
I should have treasured every glance,
If I had known.
If I had known bow, from the strife
Of fears, hopes, passions, here below,
Uuto a purer, higher life
That you were called, oh, friend, to gq,
I should have stayed my foolish tears
AL d hushed each idle sigh and moan
To bid you a latt, long Godspeed,
If I had known.
If I had known to what stcangq place,
What mystic, distant, silent shore,
Tou calmly turned jour steadfast face,
What tiaie your footsteps left my door,
7 should havefo'ged a go.'den link "
To bihd the heart so constant grown,
And kept it constant ever'there,
" If J had known.
Jf I had known that urtlli death
Shall with his fLigisr toufeb ray brrw
And still the quickeniag'of the breath
That stirs with life's full meaning now,
' So long nry feet must t read the way
Of our accustomed paths alone . ,
I should have prizpd your presence more.
If I had known.
If I had known how soon for .you
Drew near the ending of the fight,
And on yo«r vision, fair aud Deft,
Eternal peace dawned into steht,
I should have begged, as love's last gift,
That you, before God's great white tnrone,
Would pray for your poor friend on earth,
If 1 hud known.
• Held.
THE STAtJi piVtfK'S YfIYU.
Four bay horses dashed in fine style
MP to the door ot the inn, pulling behind
I them (lie gorgeous red stage, which
swayed and reeled and rocked iu a
| fashion that made the tnore nervous pats
sengers wince and shiver.
Hollister threw b}B ipitrs to the stable
boy and went into the house. He was a
bluff-listed fellow—rather rough looking
iu his wolf Bkiu overcoat and brotfd*
visoi'ed cap. Nobody ever doubted the
kindnessoflieart under Jfyp unpolished
exteHor, however.
Now, af he tramped through the big
hall, ou hi« way to the har room, he
paused at the sight of a female figure in
one dim corner, with her face dropped
iuto both hands, and her who*e attitude
one ot sorrow and despair. The figufe
was slender aud young, olad in a wells
vtoi n gray suit, and the hands on which
the brown wa? bowpd yyere white
and dclicatp.
'I beg your pardon, ma'am, A''e you
|in trouble ? Can I be of service lo yofj?'
Then the girl looked up, and Ilollis*
ter recognized the daughter ot a mau
who had baeu at the inn lor some yyeeks
—a man whom the driver had no hesita
tion iu classing ae an adventurer and a
blackleg.
lie had pitied the gi>-l on tbgt night
when he had first seen Jier— when he bad
fought then) out "from the city/ for she
seemed a ladv, with fyer quiet ways and
her wistful eyes, and not at all fitted for a
life ol Bohemiauism, such as it was evi
dent her father was leading her.
She looked up, I say, and mebtiug the
oppression ot houesi kindliness in )Trauk
liollister's clear gray eyes, she struggled
a moment tor §eif control aud then burst
jn'tfleiri,
squared hi# broad shoulders be
fore her in order to screen her from the
curious gaze of any who might pass
through the ball, and waited iu silence.
Presently the gjrl raised her head once
more, looked at him with teaixstaiued
eyes aud said with quivering lips:
'1 am iu trouble, sir. Yours are the
first trieudly words I have beard to«day.
My father,' here a crimson flush dijed her
fair "brow—;'my father has Jeft me;
where be has gone Ido n*t know. lam
absolutely alone atpoug strangers,
our bill here is uupaid.
For one iue£ant Frank looked at her
doubtfully, and then with a sudden rush
of telf-shawe and chivalry, his babd
went down into his and
drew therefrom a big leather pockets
boQk.
The girl made a Jittle indignant
gesture, and locked at hhn with
opened, haughty eye#.
'Sir 11 scarcely expected an insult I'
Wbercupon Frank began a hurried and
iuifguant repudiation ot
lie insult a woman! tie who had the
dearest mother aud (be sweeiest litfle :
sister iu tbe jrorld,
GRAJIA.M, N. C., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1882.
Eastern statu?, praying lor him!
'JVraps | aiti'l so daituy in my choice
of words as I might blfc lady. I'm a
rough fellow at best; Uuu I'm dreadful
so{t-hcarled where a woman is concerns
ed; If you choose to look 9,0 mo as a
frleud and & strange man—one never
goes back on his word, you shan't bo
disappointed. Now, then, hew shall ],
serve you?'
The big pocket-book had disappeared,
and the girl's face softened at his rough
gallantry. She extotiflod one little baud
franfciy.
(Forgive we, sir; I know that you aye
all that you seem. I cannot accept any
pccuuiary aid from you or any one. The
landlord has offered me a situation as
table girl. 1 shall accept it, and iii that
way can pay our indebtedness* Thanks
for your kiudness. I shall not forget it.'
With a little flitting smile she slipped
pa6t him and went swiftly up the dark
stairnay, while the driver proceeded to
I the bar-room, where the men were talk*,
ing, laughing, smoking, aiid drinking.
Here Holiister listened to a detailed)
account of the disappearance of Colonel
Pjessy, Interspersed with various com.
meutg concerning him aud his daughter
Cora.
J'ressy was stigmatised as a cheat, a
Villain and a sponge—anything aud
everything, they called him, but an
honest miyi. Thefts were Borne express
Bions of sympathy lor the girl, but it was
to see that she was uot liked. Miss
fiessjr. bad hpld herself too far aloof
from every one in the house to win the
approval ol thjs froo-aud-easy western
community.
Que loutish looking felldty, leaulug
aealnst the bar.rail, repwrfepd, with a
sneering grin: *
'That gal's a mighty siuck-np little
critter—reckon she wou't put on any
more airs with me!' and lie 6eut a stream
of tobacco juice in a very skillful manner
straigut into the motjlh of 4 fpjttoqp
which occupied tlip penter of thproqiq.
Holiister, who had been a sileut listen
er until now, crossed leisurely to tliip
extraordinary marksman, aud, striking
him a light blow upon the shqulder, said
evenly and dfctjnctly:
'Look here, Jerry, you don't want to
talk any moro like that aboijt Miss
Pressy,'
'Goin'(o marry her, frank?'
'I expect to,' replied Frank, coolly, as
be turned to select a cigar froip the case.
There were r.o liifjinjations
against Cqra J'ressy in his hearing. The
daughter of an unknown adventurer, no
matter how thorough a lady she might
6eem, and the sweetheart of the jolly,
keeu-eyed, strong-armed stage-driver,
were two different persons, and when
the lonely girl entered upon lier new
duties the next day, she was surprised
at the kindness and cpusideretion ot all
aboql her.
Frank did not try to weakon the im
pression which his words had made. He
knew that it wopld be lipr surest protect
tio'u; aud lie felt an intense desire to pro
tect and to help her—she was so delicate
and sorrowful, so absolutely alone, now
thatljpr unnatural parqut had deserted
her.
Two or three uneventful wont
by, Cora filling her situation with satis
factory promptness. Every night, on
the arrival of Holhstcr's rtage she was
left to wait upon him iu tjie dining
ream.
She felt an instinctive confidence iu
this big, bluff, sun-burned fellow. There
was a bond of sympathy growing be
tween them which she had no desire to
break.
One day, twenty miles down his route,
Frank heard a bit of news which worked
him into a fever of impatienco. Ncfer
had th) whip curled 90 sharply oyer the
, flanks of his sturdy horses; never had
he made better time than on that day,
when it seemed to him but a snail's pace.
At last, however, the stage drew up
before the inn whose roof sheltered the
girl who, in a few short days, bad grown
inexpressibly dear to Ibe driver
-Jl# held a hurried consultation wifb
the hostler, wbi#b resulted in tho latter
agreeing to drive the stage on to its des
tination for a certain sum Qf money.
Then Frank weut into the Jong dining?
room, and seating himself ft ope of the
ymall tables in a secluded corner, ho
wailed for Cora Pressy. 1
He flushed to the roots of his crispy '
curling brown hair as he smiled at her.
She noticed it, and Wondering silently,
thinking, meanwhile, that be wa£, not
half a bad looking fellow, with hip broad
brown honest eyes and firm lips.
.'Miss Cora,' he said, rather awkward
ly, 'I would like to have you rido with
me thfs evening, H you will. I have
something of importance to tell you,' he
added, hurriedly, growing redder thap
ever with eiul>arra*snuent
Cora looked at him wistfully. Was }t
something about her fadicr? But
dared not put the thought into word*—7
there were too many about. 80 she
merely wed her head in acccptanQp of
his invitation, am) weu| away.
Half an hour later she was tucked into
a trim little outter beside him, dashing
along over the white moonlit road, and
waiting anxiously for hiin to reveal the
matterpf impqrtqucQ at wUich he had
hinted.
But Frank was curiously for a 1
long while. It seemed to Cora that he
would never speak. At lipt, with a 6ud»
den efifort, he sai(|:
'Misa Cora, you've known IQO only a
few days, but you'vq seen enough of me
to kuow that I api a blunt spokcu lellow,
so I bope you won't be upset by what
I'm going tossaty t I'm uot much ot
fine genlleman, but I haven't any very
bad and make a fair living) aud—
aud—well, 1 want a wlte, little gal, aud
I love yon. M you'll have me, I'll do my
prettiest to make you tbe happiest wopa
an in the country.'
Cora smiled up at him. through tears
filled oyes, and this gave hiin courage tp
slip one Arm over the back ot tbe cutter
end draw her closer to his side,
BUg murmured something about being
almost a stranger to him/ but Frank)
grown wonderfully bold, pressed with
his lips the lids over the girl's dark eyes,
and queried {
'I)o you love any other mau?'
_ 'No,'she answered, honestly enough;
*1 believe you are tbe best man I ever
kuew.'
Whereupon Frank k{sqed her again,
qpo|) the lips this time, aud made a sec
ond proposition, to which at first she
would not i|step. But the will and tbe
gnergy ot her earnest wooer
carried the dayj aud the result was a call
upou a justjep ot the peace; aud when
tliey re-enterf|d thq jun nigljt the
girl was Corti Pressy no longer, but Cora
Uollister, and F>°auk's' lace was radiant
and (liunip^nt,
In the dingy wailing r rQO(p an excited
eppwd was gathered.
endeavored to burry bis wile
past the doorway., but ber quick glance
had caught a glimpse of a familiar
figure.
•Fatberl'she cried, and stppppd into
tbe roqm.
Yes, there be was, liaggered and diss
shoveled, wi»h blood-shet oyps and un«
shaven lace. lie might have been flue*
looking once. There was just the ghobt
ot a debonair about hiin still despite his
wretchedness. An officer guarded him
ou either tide.
'What has be done?'cried Cora, witb
pallid lips.
Some one iu the crowd answered bru>
tally enough;
'Killed a brother gambler twputy
miles back. They're takjug liim through
the city,.'
Then the poor iittle bride went iuto a
dead faiut in bpr husband's arms, aud be
carried her up-stairs with bis brqwn
cheek against her white one.
night he watched beside her wbilp
the went from one deadly swoon into
another. At last in the gray inoruiug
she smiled sadly iuto t)er husband's
eyes, and whispered: 4* -
'Do not be trqubjied. J will go away.'
.'Not if 1 can help it,' answered Frauk,
witb a grim set of bis under-lip.
Then all at once he put bis (ace down
011 the pillow beside her and began to
cry like a two«-year o)d baby.
With her slender hand* she stroked
the man'ji big curly bead, and talked to
him in a sweet, weary way that went
straight to his warm heart.
'Dear frieud,' she said, '1 know how
unfelfish you are, but I will not allow
you to make such a sacrifice. You shall
BOt share my shatpe.'
'L,ook bore, li'tle woman, I knew all
about this aflair yesterday morning;
that's why I was in such a hurry to get
married. I knew they would bring Col
onel Pressy through here, and 1 knew if
I did not make sure of you then, that I
neyer should get yon. My litfle dtrlin'
wife,' he went on, kissing her hair, and
eyes, and lips/ 'tnauk God nothing cau
separate us—nothing but death.'
And looking iuto her husband's eyes
Cora knew that here was her safe home
and shelter evermore.
Mv reader, vvoujd set me down as an
nnsa'iisfactQry story teller were I to omit
the sequel.
Colonel Pressy committed sqioide a
month later in his prison cell.
Frank took his little wile away to his
eastern home, where sbe lives a content*
ed little matron, proipd aud bappy in her
husband's love, and the possession ot a
cooing, brignufaced baby.
THE HIGHEST RANK.—Made irom
harmless materials, and adapted to tbe
needs of fading and tailing hair, Parker's
Hair Balsam has taken the highest rank
as an elegant aud reliable bair restora
tive.'
Off-Hand Talks,
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BY SUM JUf.
V 9 Youaq Men.
There aro more young men this year
than last.
Aud all ol them ai*i a little older, and
most of them about agvvorihlesfi.
I would be worthless myself if all my
debts h ere paid.
But I expect to pay them this year any
how. ' * v-
As so does every honest man.
But that is always Ihe way.
Men live and grow old and die expect
in? all the while to do some good dued.
My neighbor Staulpy always iiitendpd
to put him up a better house.
But he's dead now aud the houso Is uot
built. •
Evety man lives in the future,
Uulcss lie is in jail.
No one ihinks upon the fact that the
preseut is all he cau call his
owp.
And that is gone before ha can call it. 1
But upxt year lip intends to do inauy '
wonderful tidngs.
lie will build him a new barn, ne
will plant more graiu and less cotton.
H« will make his own fertilisers. He
will raise his own inc&(,- He will not go
In debt for lie will not bor
row from bis neighbors. He will ioin
the church and quit all his bad habits.
He will qujt' drinking and smoking and
cursing, &c.
But you may set it right down as a fact
that lie will uot do a single 0110 of these
things,
On the contrary he will be further
from doing them than he is (his year, for
the man who pats off the execution of a
good deed is sur'p, in nine eases out qf ten,
never to do it.
There-is only orie good and sgfp rule
1 in (lieso matters, apd that i* to do thppa
immediately. ,
If not sooner.
Sooner If you ean; hut at all events
don't put them ofi till the uest year
Young men are worse than old men iu
this particular.
And several other particular*.
They are always expecting something
to turn pp for their benefit.
They dou't P|oposp tp turn Utyp them
selves. .
•' Not'much if ijpy.
It i« fatiguing.
And 110 young gentlemen cares to bp
fatigued with work.
Ho must go lo the city aud put ou airs.
And how he lives wheu he gets there
Is a question which we would like to
have the thousand of idle, lounging aud
puffed-up young men qf cur cities
|wer.
They wear good clothes, aud look as
though they get plenty to eat, 'but
tliey foil not neither dp they spin,'
Boarding-house keepers "could probes
blv 'a (ale unlpid'on the eating point.
.Bat there js one amusing fact about
people who don't like to work, and that
is that they go through with raorq reftl
hard labor, montal anguish aud physical
deprivations to keep from it than steady,
earnest work coulfl pyer bring uppn
them.
Tboqs*nd* of yepng men will jump at
an agency for a jewshprp or a barlo\y
knife or millionsof things equally worths
less, and walk themselves to death trying
to sell tbem for a small commission.
A city gent who is too proud and lazy
to work will labor diligently all day
around a billiard tablp or in rolling ball;
upon a ten pin alley.
If the keeper of a ten pin alley should
offer a dollar a day tor young men to roll
those heavy balls they would soon com
plain that it was terrible hard jrork *»d
very small pay.
It is all Important for f.qoh fellows to
look up girls who have money; aud I
would advise them to seek diligently.
But I would likewise adyise the girls
to seek also.
For a broomstick or a rolling-pin to
settle their hash will}.
Bettor be an old maid and (urn iuto a
bottle of vinegar, if need be, theq to put
yourself iu such liands.
A True Home.
Many of ouryoung housekeepers faint
apd fall by tho way after a few months
trial, relinquishing their brightest
chtnces for securing a true home, and
seek release from all resitansiblljty iu a 1
boarding house. And why? For the
most because their mothers have been
cruelly kind and indulgent. They per
mit their daughter*' girlhood to slip by
without acc'istoming them to any care
or responsibility. They forget (hat to
make their children useful and helpful in
youth will lay the foundation ot more
true happiness aud enjoyment than can
be tound In a life of indolence and sej
fishnets. They foiget that there are
homo lessons each day tjmt should have
equal thought and atteuiiou -villi those
which are enforced at schools, if they
would fit their daughters for cheerful
home makers. If our girls grow up
with no higher ambition than to pass
through their school education with only
that amount of knowledge which will be
deemed respectable in fushiouabje circles,
devoting all their lime out ot school to
street walking und silly gossip, with not
one nioiiieur domestic dnties,
who can wondenPiat they make un.
reasonable indolent, incompetent house
keepers? Now and thcu we find one
whose natural good senser has not been
entirely destroyed or perverted by the
indulgence or carelessness of the mother.
If such e one marries,, and truly loves
her husband, site will throw off the fet
teis aud have courage to stqdy the art of
house keeping uVitil she becomes an ex
port iu tbe business. It she would do
this, by quick observation and thorough
ly systematic management, she will build
up a delighttul home, where husband
and children will rise up and call her
blessed.
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