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Dcrotrd lo the Trotectfon of Home and the Interests of the County.
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Vol. II.
Miimmmin -iriirin
"Vln t Is I-'jnno'.
Fume! Th ltd o Vlf.lt Kiiro'po, -
Htuily iirl'lt while in Hume,
J'nlnt., ierhiip.'t, u dozen iilctures,
(Jc-'l your iminc up mat come home; .
Then lo l;iivi"t1i(i iiei;tUors ask you
AVhcn they see your iiiM''T)ic'c,
" Does thd knack of paint bur. pictures
Take much liiiiouiiil i lliow li'i i'iiso v"
Ami is if to write n poeni
.lilowiiijf with pool if lire,
Full (if piiivlfiii, uiul tin' lonj-'iti,"
A ftor Komfthlii!' lift tor, Wither,
Sonit! lime rend It to the hcIkIiIioi-h,
And then, teohnif liku a tool,
Hoar ouofiy, " I wtrote mush verso
Very ofton whllo in school."
FmnC? It Is to leeep on painting,'
Keep on wrilini,' if iiiclincil,
Till the woi l.l that lie R lioyowl you
Your ponitiou has I'.ofliied.
Jm it labor, till yn;r pint urea .,.
Art? rxulinnireil for so much tfnld;
Till your poems, like: potatoes,
in the market cm be Bold.
After you bnvo climbed the liulder.
From the luwcst i-uun.l,
Then the m Itr'.rfoJR P it your shoulder.
Ami your fullsoirn pivitioH soiuiel.
Alter liaviii)!', with yoi.r talent,
I,oni licit the. nioncy-iiiakiu;.; art.
Then they say, " We always loved you ;
Ahvuys said thut yo:: were smart,"
I'AUl. (.'AIWON.
That Coro Disaster To The Peo
ple Of Michigan.
, J'ie Corn hi ij of the I'illur of Mre tml
Smoke Tin- T'liylit of the I'eopleTIie
tt il, I little a) ii Jlniinc anrtlifj
thn ISenrh.l-Vfflitafn ilil Anl
mulu The Chnrreil Ile
um I u.
Detroit Free Frees Correspondence.
On Saturday, the 3 J instant, along 'he
eastern shot e of Michigan a thin cluml of
smoke its-tod over ic forc'is and gave 'the
duke a hazy look. On Sunday this cloud
was tliicker. Cuttle "nil horses had u wild,
txcilid look, ui.d fowls acted in a strange
, Dimmer.
-.-' i.
For t en days past fires hud been burn
ing in Sani.kie Huron und Tuscohi countiea,
but no one nppreheneled any d.inger. 'Farm
,18 hud set lire to blushiiigs to cleur the
ground lor fall wheat, but this happens
every full, mid Ihe fact that not u drop ol
water hud uljeii in fiom lji'ty to seven'y
days wus tint teiisiJorcd by those who saw
the smoke clouds and n pliul 111 it then
was no danger. .Tin re was danger. Pehinel
that pull of wiiokti was a greater enemy
than an cmi ll (piuiic, and ii had a turunda a
its buck uud 2!0 miles of fun st in t; elront.
Monday iiinrnin the sinoku cloud wa
thicker. Fur. out in tlio lake' it settled
,down until lampoon pliipb"aid had lo be
lighted to see liie compass, ami there ws
a weiidiiiss about it which made Fuilors
.fenr. At boon, on land, no midi.ight was
ever darker, jimps weie powerlets to
light even a small room. All business was
. suspended in t lie streets of the towns, nnd
in llie country the latnurs gathered their
wives ni el ehildiei: about then, mid whie
, pered that is was the coming of judgment.
' Hot waves swept through the fores's ai.d
over the furnies, j)roliiufj' the areen leuvis
as if they hud iiu n pin rid in hot ovens.
ISnioke was iveiywhere thick, bitter
.Binoke, which blii.ded men and ;offocated
,chi'dnn in their moth' l'ltiins. From n on
until 2 u 'clock a rlia.igo terror held the
people in iU gup. Then, all of a sudden,
the Iieaveii3 lock lire, or so it seemed to
'-hondredf. Iu seme localities it came with
(the 80and of thunder. In others it was
preceded by a terrible roaring,. as if a tidal
wave were sweeping over the country.' Al
most at the sum iiiiuuto the tl tines appear
etl in every spot over r. district of country
..thir'y miles- brm d by a hundred in length.
pA billow of fl.ime ten lhirty lorty,
and , id flume places sixty feU high, .fanned
by a hot aud urik southwest wind, rolled
over this truck and left behind it the
olmrici! -bodies of hundreds of people,
tliou?ui ds of live stock, ui d t !!' can hardly
tell how many bonus. The very air was
in flam". A gas for ncd ahead ol the wall
Of flumes, and t Lis snapped and crackled
jind set relied nnd witheied and kit green
leaves as dry as powder.
- At Ilicl.monilvil'e, ten miles ub.ve
Saialuc, one 1m . died ai d rilty peoph) h'd ;
oomrortable uonies, stacks ol tiny anagram
' teams, cows, pigs, Bheep und no fwir of the
fire which they knew wus burning u mile
'way. At 2 o'clock" the' (tun s rushed but
' of the woods, lciped the fences, ran licros
bare fields, aud swallow.-d every hou but
' two and rousted alive a dt z -n people. It j
is Inrdly fuily rods to the benen of Ihe!
lake, and yet many' people hud not time to J
'' reuch the wuler. Others reached it with
''clothinj on fire nnd faces nnd hands
'blistered. The hours did not burn singly,
but one billow of flame se-'zivl all at one",
and reduced them to nothing in ten minute.
The two building saved were spared by the
,flaima not saved by the hand of man.
The flames swept each side of them, si if
' inercilully intending to leave some landmark
;of the hamlet and some pluce to shelter
Gastosua, Gastox County, . 0., Saturday Mouning1 September 24, 1881.
women nnd children ond the sick. 3,1orty
iambics in nnd around thid hamlet raced
through flame nnd tmoke to the lake. Sonic
reached it, to remain in the water for hours,
while others fell rn the highway and were
burned to a crinp. There was no time to
save anything from the houses, and when
I rode through the disirict, families which
but a dav. lit fore had been possessed ol
plenty, were not the owner of a knife or
spoon. Women were bareheade'd and
barefooted, children still worse off, and bare
headed .men sat on the parched ground and
wondered if God had not forsaken them.
A terrible cyclone stinck this district.
with the flames and -I sow many and many
a spot where the billow of fire jumped a
cleun half mile- ont of the forest to clutch
house or burn. The roaring nnd crashing
were awful. Horses ran here and there,
neighing and ulniost screaming in their
terror; cows awl exm plunged and bel
lowed, and the most savage dogs were so
overcome by fear that tiny ran back into
the binning houses and di(d in the flumes.
In this uwful confusion, with trees crash
ing down before the cyclone, and houses
being unroofed by its terrible power, while
a great billow of, flame came sweeping on
as fast as a horse could gallop, fathers and
mothers were called upon to save each other
nnd their children. The highways were
lines of fire. Rivers and creeks were dry
ditches. The only chance to escape was to
rush for the open fields, nnd et, in the
open fi Idf, men, worn' n end children were
burned to cinder. Those who preserved
ti;cir thought tlu'oueh ihe terrible confu-'
sion preceding the nppenraiicp of the flames
seized the woolen blankets, wet them tho
roughly, and drew these over them as they
crouched down on the plowed : ound, and
white this lun was followi d their lives
wre generally Mivid. In some casts peo
ple lay out in the Gelds fourtti u long hours
before it was safe to rise up.
To one riding through the district it
seeiiie miraculous that a single soul escaped.
The fire -swept through tlic grrcn trees the
came ns Ihe dry. :It ran through fields of
crrn with a speed of twenty miles an hour,
and fie Ids of gicn clover were swept us
bare as a" floor. Dark ttrd gloomy swamps,
K He VI v. ifli poi ds of- Ft.ignat'.t wab r. - and
the home for yiais of wild eats, bcnr3 nnd
Brakes were stiuck urd shriveled nnd
biueiel tilne st in a fl-isli. Our the parched
meadows thefl unes ran faster Ihnnr a horse
could gallop.- .Hursts did gallop be fere it
hut were overtaken ond left roasting on
the ground. It seemed i s if every hope
and a venue of escape were cu' (IT, and yet
hundreds of lives were spared. People spent
ten to twenty lours irj ditches seel ponds
or in fie lds order wet blankets, having
tht ir hair singed, their limbs Mistered and
their clothing burned ( IT piece by piece.
A mile norlli of where the old nmr
Ooodrieh lived was a family which had a
crazy son. When the Fnioke began to
darken the country he begnn to get excited,
and on the daik day, two hours before the
flames came, -h? mounted a horse nnd gal
l.ij eel up and elnwn tht country, crying out
that the lust day had come, nnd that the
earth wi.s to be swept clean. .Later lie was
seen rushing headlong towards the flames,
whooping and cheering, nnd no doubt lie
perished first ol all. The horse itself seem
ed to partuko of tlm 'rider's spirit, and his
shrill neighs answered the cheers of the
rider.
People fell the heat while the fire was
yet miles away. It withered the leaves of
trees standing two milts from the path ol
the fiery serpent. The vety earth took fire
in hundreds of places, and blazed up ts if
the fire were fuistii g on cordwood. The;
stoutest log buildings stood up only a few
minutes The fire seemed to catch them at
every corner at once, and after' a whirl and
a roar nothing would be left. Seven miles
off the beach, al Forrester, sailors found
the heat ui.comfoi table. Where some
hi ti'cs nnd bams were burned we could not
find even a blackened stick. Every log,
beam and board was reduced to fine ashes.
The people who sought the beach had
Still to endure much of the heat and all of
tint smoke. Wadirg out tip to their
sh.suldera they were s ;le from the flames,
but rpatks and cinders fell like a snow
storm and the smoke wus snO'icating. The
birds not c night in the woodj were carried
oat tn sea ai d drown d, and the waves
Ik.vc washed tin usai e!s (if tin in n-here.
i- i Is, rabbits i.ud nich small animals
stoni to s'n w nt all, I nt de'i r, ai d bear
3 ;u . lit tie beach end the company if
human be ing'. In one case a man leape d
from a bit fT into the lake and found himself
close behind a lurKO bear. They r niaine'd
in tympany undi r the bank i. early all niht.
ai d the bear se t nnd as humble as a dog.
In aim her instance two of the animals
came out of the feiri-st and stood close to
a well from which a farmer was drawing
water to dash over his house, and they
wire with bim for two hours befeire they
ihenud il prudint to j.;; a'or.g. iVercauic
out and sought the companionship of cattle
and horses, and paid no attention to persons
rushing past them.
Half enough Cf.ffi ns to bury tho denel
coul l not have been got into the burned
ilHiriet in a ween. Some were buried with
neither ooflin nor "hroud, while others had
rude boxes as their last re-ceptacle. In
bpjond C'arsonville, in one case, the coffin
was made of roof-boarels tuken from a shed,
suwed up with a cross-cut saw, and
fastened together with nails taken from the
ashes of the victim's burned borne.
The dead are buried, but there is left
a horribly desolate waste of country,
crowded with sick, wounded and discourage
humanity, whose tears and groans must
open tht heart of sympathy in evrey comer
of the country. Turn which', way. they
will, they sec black ruin and utter desolation.
MARTHA PHILLIPS.
She was dead. An old woman with sil
very hair, brushed smoothly away from her
wrinkled forehead, and snowy cap tied un
der her chin ; a sud. quit-t face ; a palient
mouth, with lines that told of sorrow borne
with gentle firmness.; and two withered,
tired hands, crossed- That was all.
Who, looking at that sleeping form,
would think of love and romance, of a heart
only just healed of & wound received long,
long years ago.
Fifty year9 she had lived under thnt
roof, a former's wile. If you look on thnt
plate on her c fib-lid you will see, " aged
seventy," there, and she was only twenty
when John Phillips brought her heme a
bride
A half century she had kept her careful
watch .over. her dairy und larder, had made
butter and cheese., and looked after the iu
nutneniMe; duties thnt full to the share of a
farmer's wife. And John bad never cone
with l uttonless shirts and undurned se.cks ;
had not come home to an untidy house and
scolding wife. '.
Hut crfl'srncah her quiet exterior there
was a story that John never dreamed of.
.She elid not marry for love. When she was
nineteen, a r sy, happy girl, a stranger came
on a vi-il to their village, and that summer
was. the- brighter-', sho ivi'kncw.. .Paul
Gardner was the stranger's r.ame .; he Was
an artist, and fe I iu love with tho single
village girl and won her fear:; und whin
lie went away in the autumn they were be
trothed. 'Iconic again in the spring,' he-said.
1 Trust me and wait lor me, Mattie dear.
She promised to love and wait ft r him
till tho end of time, if need be, and with a
kiss on her quivering lips he went away.
Spring1 time came, nnd, true to his won,
Paul returned ; he stayed ouly a dny or tw-o
this time.
' I am going away in a few weeks to It
aly to study,' ho said.
They renewed their vows and patted
with tears and tender, loving words ; he
put a liny ring upon her finger and cut a
little curly tress frtiin her brown hair, and
tell'ng her always to be true, he went away.
The months went by, and Mattie was
trying to make the time seem short by
studying to . improve herself, so thut she
might be worthy of her lover when he
should come back to nia'u'e her lis wife.
One day she glanced over a newspaper,
her eyes were attracted by bi3 came, and
with while lips and diluted eyes she read of
his marriage, to another.
' Married ! Taken another bride instead
of coming back to marry me ! Oh, Paul !
Paul ! I loved nnd trusted you (or this 1'
She covered her fuce w ith her hands and
wept bittcily. An hour afterward, ns she
sat there in the twilight, she heard a step
on the gravel walk, and, locking up, saw
John Phillips coming up the steps, He
hud been to see her often before, but had
niveryet spoken of love, and had received
no encouragement to do so. 1 le was a plain,
hard-working farmer, with no ri'iiiaoce
about him, but matter-of-fact to the core.
His wife would get few care'sses or tender
words. Jle would be kind enough give
her plenty to cat and wear.
Now he seemed lo have coiac for the
express purpose of a king her to be his
wife ; for ho took a chair b.'side h r, and,
after the usual greeting, rese rviug scarcely
a moment lo take breath iu bigati in his
business-like way. Tin re was no conlVs
sien oi love, no pleading, no haud-ciitspiog.
no It uiK r j:'.u:ees ; he timply wanted bet ; ;
would .shu be his wile ?
Her lips moved lo tell him she did i ol :
love him ; but, us she lit full her eyes from i
the criinsou htarted rese that swung from
Iho vine tvtr the window, she caught
sight of those ftw bias again.
.Man i. il ?' cue said to hi re!!. 'What
can I do? He doesn't ask me to love him.
II I ina. ry him I can be a true w ifc lo bin.
and nobody will kuow that Paul Las jilted
me."
The decision was made. Iler chetks
were a-by pale ns she licked up into Ins
eyes-arid ' answered quietly : ' Yes, I will
ho your wife.'
tier parents were pleased that she was
chosen by so well-to-do a young man ; so
it was .settled, id they were married the
same ' summer. I'enri,' .thought that she
sobered down won.lti fully ; metre than that
nothing was said teat would lead any one
to suppose that ,;y change had taken
pluce. " , .
Yes, she had sobered diiwn. She dared
not think of Paul. There was no hope
ahead. Life was a time to bn filled with
something so that she might .not think of
herself. John was always kind but she
got so wearied " of his talk of stock and
crops, and said to herself, "I must work
harder, plan and fuss and bustle about as
other women &t.io Ih.Cjl may forget and
grow like Jobn'r-
Two years went by. A baby slept in
thecradie, and Martha nobody called her
M -ttie but Paul sat rocking with her
foot as t-tie knitted a blue woolen stocking
for the baby's -father." .There was e knock
at the half-open dorS
'Will you be kind enough to direct me
the nearest way to the village ?" said a
voice, and a stranger stopped in.
.She rose to give him the required direc
tion, -when he cume quickly forward.
' Paul !'
' Mattie!'
Hie face lighted up and -be reached out
his arms. With a surprised, painful look
the drew back,
' Mr. Gardner, this is a most unexpected
meeting.'
.tr. Gardner!' he repeated ; ' Mattie'
what do you mean ?' .
). n't call me Mattie, if you please,
she r ;. lied, with dignity. 'My name is
I'e.i::;.'.' '-
' 1'nillips!' he echoed. 'Are you mar
ried?' ' '
'These are strarge wc-rds from you,
Paul (Jard; er ; did you think I was wail
ing al! this time for another woman's hus
band ? that I was keeping my fuiih with
one who played false so soon ?'
' Played ye u false 1 1 urn come as I prom
ised your The two years arc but just
pus-, d, nnd 1 am htre (0 claim you. Why
do you greet me thus ? Are you, indeed,
t,i .I, Mat-Si.: --r-y ?' . .
ei.e wus tn nil ilng like an ..aspen leaf.
For an answer she. pointed to the cratlk.'.
He came and stood before tier with white
face snd fo'd- d nrrns. .
"Tell me 'why you did this ! Didu't you
love me w-ell t-no igh to wait fcr me?"
She went and 'unlocked a 'drawer -and
took out a in wspaper. Unfolding it and
&ming the place, she pointed to it with
her Cnij'ir,.ai.d he read the marriage notice
"What el' this?" he atked, as he met
her reproachful look. "Oh, Mattie !. you
thought it meant me. It is my cousin. 1
am not married, nor in love with eny cue
but you."
"Are yon idling the truth ?'' she asked
in an eager, husky whisper.
r.d then, as he replied, "It is true,"
she gavi a low groan aud sank down into
a chair,
"Oh, Paul, forgive me ! I didu't know
you hud a cousin by the same name. I
ought not lo have doubted you, but 'twas
there in black and white aud this man,
my husband, cume, and I married him 1"
With bitter tears she told him how all
happened. With clenched hat.d he walked
to-at,d fro, then stopped beside the cradle
uud bent over the sleeping child.
Then he turned, and, kneeling before
her, said in a low voice :
' I forgive you, Mattie ; be as happy ns
you can." He took both her hands in his
and looked steadily, lovingly into her face.
Hi lips .twitched convulsively. I have
no right here you are another man's wife.
Good bye, Cod bless you!'
And she went down eu her knees beside
her sleeping baby and prayed lor strength.
Tiny luver saw one another again.
Seventy years old ! H-r stalwart sons
nnd biight-ejed daughters remembered her
us a li ving, devotid mother, .her gray
huiied husband as a most faithful wife.
' Never was woman .more patient .nnd
kind, and as good a housewife as ever was,
he stid as he brushed the back of his old
browu bard across his ryes v.hile looking
down on tl.e peaceful face.
And net one of litem tver knew i f tl.e
weary heart ard broki n he pc that had
dud in btr lieast, nor even ibr-mcd oi
the tad load she had lu rn thi't ull lift .
"They tell me," said the reformer, "that j
you have quit smoking, i am glad to h"nr i
it. Xow, tell me, why did yon quit "" lie;- j
fonn d uni-kiTS, titling for a match "CaiiM' I
my cigar went out."' j
Under the laws of Pi t'vidence. lile is a
probation ; probation is a succession of
temptations; temptations are emergencies;
and for emergencies we need the prepara
tion and the safeguard of prayer. A'ltin
riniiif. '.
r
WAITING FOR THE ENGINE
The Average Inhabitant Of Dal
las Aroused.
JIM Arp llciiiiilcri) into i'miliViiig Comity
ntul llieckn His Itriim in la'.ta Where
lie Cttiche.1 the Spirit of the Htm H,
and ToheH an Interest in the
Qitention of JlaiCroud De
velopment. Atlanta Constitution.
Dallas, September 17. I've seen lug
ger tow.,ie than this town, where the popu
lation was more thicker, more denser, as
Cube savs. A man told ma before I not
here that 1 could tell the town when I got.
to it by a wide place in the road, but I , ub ut town blowing like a locomotive toot,
found several stores, and soma nice dwell- to..), lo-oo-oot, pish, isli, ish aud shouting,
in houses, and plenty of floweVs, ai d a " A II (.board, Go to the Foot house, Btr ;
good court-house, and a brick jail with j crry your baggage;, sir ; buy a Const itu
nobody ifi it, and that's a mighty good i lion, sir."
recommendation for an; people. Paulding
has a voting population of 1.5U0 whit.s
and SOO nitfioes, and Judge Underwood
gets through his Court bu-iutss in three or
four days at a session. 13-irtow and Fioyd
have got about tw ice as many people, and
brag about their high civilization and
refinement, and it takes twelve weeks in a
year to keep up with the court business in
each county, and the like of that is what
shakes n;y faith in , the morality of big
towns tv.id cit'u s, and wealth and un'ovi r I
dose of education. I like, these primitive
'old-fashioned, hard-working country peo
ple; because they are honest. I want 'em all
to be able' to read and 'writ", but I
wouldn't Ftnd 'tin to colli ge ill Cfu'J.
Now and then you may find one whow-.tdd
profit by it, but m nine cases out of ten it
spoils tlis boy and a good citizen is lost to
the state. I've seen the ignorance
of our country people. ' slurred at by
northern newspapers, but I'm not
ashamed of 'cm I'm willirg ulwnys to put
'tin side by side with tht ir masses in every
thing that -constitutes good C'tisitn?. The
difference between' us is, they have got one
standard and we have get another. How
to make money .is theirs "get money, gtt j
money ; put money in thy urse honestly if
t hen cut st, but at al! evt-nts get iiitn-y," ;
as Iugo said. Solomon say?, -' nj.iicein.tr.y
labor- and do go' d ir. tb 1" life, lor ail eite J
is vanity ;" ami Ti.n Fra- Ktffl rr-fr.'ra'.d a
truer tiling than that ida ness is the parei,' ..j.
of all enin So when. I se the buwUiii-i
fanners at work 'in the -field. I'.tt r.ot ritrtf'd !
to take shelter -under their roof.'. I7 my I
horse hp's sic!: they will doctor bin: If'iuy
buasy breaks down they will mend it. l'.;i'.
S'anf industry is the salvation of a t.iar ;
He rij dees in his Lbnr and bus no incl;-
nation to steal or cheat of7 take the nigh
eut to fortune. 1 found the good people
of Dallas ail jubilant and serene ; ii hun
dred souls made Lapp? by the prespect of
a railrouel coming to their totvi-. For wci ks
they have labored and etitr. atrd and rert,
scned w ith the magnates ; for weeks they
have lived i:i a state cf alternate hope am!
fear, lor the New Hope .line w. s the short-
est, and that left them oul in the .cold. I
Puiihin vine and Jlact'oon cretlis meander- j
ed tl.ronih rc-nuh ravines ai d wild moun-!
tain gort.es. and the sui veyors hunttd in
vain for an easy rou'e. Line after line was
run, and at the last it was rumored that
Dallas was doomed 'and tlnn the p'cple'
wvre sad and town lots were offered at
tweu'y-five dollars with no bidders, and old
Fattier Foot said he was too old to move,
and slmol'd stand by the flag, and the
preacher fixed up a consoling sermon for
next daj's st i vice and his text was,
'BltsseJ are tiny --who ixptct lit lie,. -for
they Khali not be disn; pointed.'.' and
P.i'ntv.!l it; indefnt ii':i!.!e. irrepressible
,, ,, , , , r i i -i i-'
Uocf.l! !.,-. l.L-.. (,file!:;l .I.ini s o
" c . ., ....v ...... v. -.-. w...-, --
lloekuiart, had pulled off his coat and roil-
ed up his si eves and put on his seu u j
leagued hoMi and pihi.te.1 the surveyors into I
a llious u.d, thicket-:, and up muscadine j
vines and down into dens and ca rns, J
hunting for a way from Dallas to K ick
mart. Oh, I'raswell, where was he?
There was the I'raswell lino and the
Jones line and the Spii ks line and the w;Id
turkey line and the red fox tiue and vari
ous other lints ranging from two hundred
to a thousai d feet grade per mile, Jind 1
saw drawing of one of 'tni which went j
through a tunnel and immediately er sstdj
a lu iiLe five' hundred fett hih slanting up j
wan's ura! ending iu the nn uth of ant-ther I
tutl'i'.'!. and a ui!.!.' w is pt:iti;,e til.' engine j
! tin re wuj a u: m on tl.o r.vcli w :'.h a I
thrash p 't ten f-vt !o u. for y i see the
boys b.ive to o;k up nt night nil Ihe j
snnind thty have pone ever by day u-ni
si" d it to Mr. S .siph s' l.taJq tartcrs.
wl'.o !;.. t i .1 -i-V h;f!. line s tht best. ;
A'e 'HiT 2 i."c! e'i i i the" idti rnrevi t-f j
Sat ir.l.iv a e'leu 1 o( da-t w is seen ri.-i-i-
afar oil'i.rt the Powder -Sp: iugi r-ad nnd j
soon the form of a lu'rse jn l bujgy and a I
man dtivicg furiously was seen and his
driving was like tin: driving of Jehu, and j
his horse was all in a sweat of perspirati'i'i, !
ml his whip was wore" id' to t! hu die, '
No. 38.
and it was Kagsdale Uusdale, the, mail
man, and his face was ail aglow and his
eyes shone lihe crystals us he opened his
inouiii i.Disjoke und slie.nted, they are
coining by Pallas. The railroad is coming
by DjIIus. Hi. rruh for Dallas, ' ii's all
stilled. I heard the letter, read, the
things happened, the bullgine is a coining
shore. When he hud given all the partic
ulars and convinced the doubting, some. of
em cm the pigeon wing, and some turned
a summerset, und ' soma run 'round the
court-house, and some threw up their ha's
and kicked 'eut afar ft' as they came down,
and hollered "All Hail Columbia, Happy
Land," und the married men hurried home
to lei! their wives, and the boys run all
Hut Ltcaswelil where was he? In due
iin;e i.e. pui in an appearance, but nobody
knew where he came from, doing up ' to
Dr. Foster he Said sol. mnly : "Did you
say you would take six thousand dollars for
your farm railroud or no railroad'
"Yts," said the doctor. Quietly pull
in out a roll of m aiey as big as your
arm lie handed it over -to...him..,iiad.8aid
"count it and make me a deed" and then
and not till then were all doubts . removed
and the laiiroud question considered settled
Dallas is tae big!) and eiry center of a
good deal of space, and as Judge Under
wood rtmaikiel Paulding is the best county
in Ihe state to' the looks ot it. They have
jot very. eood. eri-ps and their cotton is
moving to ntaiket lapidiy. Most of their
farmers will make corn enough to do 'em
and a little to ?;iure and it wuuideut be a '
bad idea fi.'r a man' who is bad off at home
to 'take up whit r qutTte-rs there on the line
of Ihe icilr- ad. He c .ul i set plenty to do
and work f'jr his team-:, fur it will be lively
times uh.ing the iit-.e this winter. 4 Com
modore Melveehncy l:cs got a wagon load
of money and is going to scatter it, and if
our people diiit gel their share it will be
their owa fault. T.i..'p.'opl of i his country
have hem len.some fot"u long time. Some
of 'em neeer saw a bullgine, and so the
.Marietta I'oiks lluug'it t;i;y would educate
'tni tj it by 'Jerc-M,' arid tlitfy sent two
ycm:i; men- over to Po-vd-r .Springs on
bicycles, and as they came rolling . down
the. street, ihe iwis - W things slipped up
on a -tnule -.villi a in tu on it and the
glitter of ih-i silver spikes a whirling
.ircu.'d seared ihe a'oiui d .left the man on
the 'jv.'-utid, and he- followed 'em up for a
iUlit.aini t'ic-y up lo.-V. -d in most respect
liil iai''.!.i but t .iok o.i powerful and
said thai the next time tiuy com'? a runnin
of llirir tlai n it old s()iii;itn ivoeel along
side ol his mule' he'd Oc d igond if he
liiih-iit ge-vlia!lop the Sj'iz'renktutn out of
'em. 'I'hiii!i3 I to myself if a little bicyc
le is going to upset a feller that way, what
will they do when the locomotive comes
thunder ng alorg, ai d tooting a horn that
shakes the air foi a'mife.' . Put it will all
.weak 'tut riht in the long run, and as Mr.
Si.akspeare says, all's well that ends well.
Dili, Arc.
A WIFE'S POWER.
A good wile is to a bad man wisdom,
strength aud courage; a bad one is conlus
ion, weakti'ss and di-pair. No condition
is hopeless to a man where the wife pessess
is Griums?, decision and economy. There
1j no outward propriety which cau coun
teract indolence, extravagance mid folly at
home. .-No -spirit en long endure bad in
fluence. Man is strong, but his heart is
I not iulamaat. I lo needs a tranquil home,
!lld C-'pici
'
y il he is an inttliycnl mau
... . ,
I l I 1 p.- I:
with a whole head, he needs its moral force
in the conflict of life. .To recover his compel!-
are, 'In me must be a place of peace nnd
comfort. There I is sou! teiews it3 strength
and goes loftli villi tone wed vuor to e
contiUr I he labor ui.d troubles 'of life.
Hut if at hi me he finds no r. st, and there
is met with bad temper, jealousy and gloom
ur aocailed with complaints and censure
hope vanishes, and he sinks into despair.
ir.-f.VJ MILK AS A HE I "ERAUE.
Milk heated to much above 100 d -grees
J a'.renheil lost-s for tho tim a degretj of
its sweetir ss and density. No one who
fatigu- d by ever-eX-Titm of body or miud-
Wtvtr expei ii i.'c-d die reviving influence
ot a t'rnMer of this tf. eragc, heated as
hot as it can be s ipp-'d. will willingly fore,'
;;,) t res rt to it !i c uise i.f its having h.-e'u
revide-rtd S'm,'wh-t ! ncei-ptable ,tu .l;c
p:!;l.-. Tli? p-oi::it:K ?" wiii; which its
e-in b ii i'.l! iei:C" is f it it. i.n..'J surprising.
S me portion of it set-ms t- be digesled
and appropi ia'el al 'i"st iniiKHliat ly ; and
many who lancy thut th.-y need alciiholic
u,::u!ants when ejj:urs!-it by fatii;uclwi!l
find in i!. is simple dr night an rej iivalent
;',at s!::;;! be abunii-it 'ty satisfying aat!
n ,r: end u in? in its IT '