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C, (next noon to Stiiaus a Stuket's mill.) HAVING permanently located in the town, would respectfully solicit the patronage of the citizens* Every cnbrt will bo used to give satisfaction, Juno 18, 1873 18 COTTON ?INS. THE UNDERSIGNED IS AGENT FOR tho celebrated Prize-Medal Taylor Gin, of vrhich he has sold 25 in this county. Also, tho Ncblctt & Goodrich Gin, highly recommended ^by Col. D. \V. Aikcn and others. On hand. Ono 50 Saw, and One 45 Saw TAYLOR GIN. VpOne 42 Saw, NEBLETT h GOODRICH GIN. RUBBER BELTING rnisbed at Agent's prices. J. A. HAMILTON. July 10, 1873 21 tf WASTER SEELEY'S ELOPEMENT. "Annie, I urn at my wit's end! I shall go raving distracted I" cried Helen Chap man, with a serio-comic expression of despair. "The way these two go on is perfectly ridiculous. What will be tho end of it all I don't know." "Well, I'll inform you, then?an elope ment one of these fine days." "Oh, Aunie, you arc not in earnest 1" exclaimed Helen, suddenly becoming preternaturally grave. "How could they? They wouldn't dare. Why Minue's only a child." "Very true: the best reason in the world for expecting her to elope. People don't do that you know when they are o'd enough to know bettor. Fifteen is just the age for such nonsense." "You dou't kuow how jou frighten me. If she should marry him, she'd never be happy as long as she lived. But what can I do? He's been here almost every day during yo'.'.r visit, hasn't he? And Minnie, romantic little goose, evi dently fancies she's desperately in love with him?that little tow-headed weak eye'l specimen of humanity 1" "But it is not so very si range, Helen, after all. You must confess that he has a pretty fnce, and recites poetry beauti fully," said Annie, with a sly twinkle of the eye. > "Yks ho has the face of a baby, and I'm so sick of bis eternal 'dropping into poetry,' that I fairly gnash my teeth every time be does it. ''Then they must be almost worn out by this time," laughed Aunie. "But you don't know how anxious your words have made me. This is no laugh ing matter. These two goslings! Such children! They are just romantic enough to elojic. Ob, what a trust it is?the sole care of a young fjistorl I .remember how, a few days before dear mother's death, she laid her thin white band on Minnie's curly bead (the little thing was six years old Iben), and said, 'Take care of her, dear Helen?watch over her as I .should' l was < nly twelve?a mere child myself; but I accepted the trust, and never have forgotten it." "Don't look hi distressed, dear," said Annie, "'or I shall be almost sorry that I've said what l have." "No, you needn't be sorry, for I .shall keep my eyes open now?that is all I can do." "Why don't you have a serious talk with Minnie?" "Have a serious talk ! Why, I've had a dozen already, but they do more barm than good. The more I say, the more defiantly she stands up for him, and the more tender she is to wards him tne next time they meet. Hint's human nature! And Helen look cd as if she scarcely know whctlwr to laugh or cry. "You might forbid him the house," suggested Annie, after a pause. "No, indeed, I couldn't do worse. Don't you see that that would only hasten the catastrophe ? No, discretion is the better part of valor, I assure yon." 'Well, what do you intend to do then?' "Nothing?but watch and wait, as I have been doing. Will you uothelp me?" "Help you what?" Wait or watch?" "Now don't you laugh. I wni never more serious in my life. We must hear every word?watch every look that passes between those two. Poor foolish little sister!" Than, suddenly relapsing from tho pitying into the indignant, "I could shake her!" A few days after this conversation, Helen mysteriously beckoned her friend into the garden. "Well," said Annie, as the door closed behind them, "what is on the tapis now ? What has put you into such a state of excitement? Your eyes arc like stars, and your cheeks as red as theses roses." "No? Do I look as if I had anything on my mind?" inquired Helen, anxiously "I've been trying to appear as unconcern ed us possible. But after all," she ndded, musingly. "It doesn't matter much. She would hardly notice it in her present state of mind." "Who? What? Come, out with it! Don't you see I'm dying of impatience?" "Lend me your ears!" cried Helen, with a tragic air. 'I've something of the gravest importance communicate.' Then, after r solemn pause, she said in a stage whisper, opening her cses very wide, 'I am going to elope.' Annie's expression of open mouthed , astonishment was so ludicrous that Hcleu involuntarily burt into a mgrry laugh. 'What do you mean by saying such an absurd thing?' cried Annie, looking a little relieved. 'Exactly what I say,' returned her friend, assuming her former expression of mysterions gravity. '1 elope this night at half-past nine precisely. I've arranged it all. Didn't you see?' 'See what? Why, I verily believe you're demented.' 'Fot^nore than tho majority of woman kind, I assure you. Then you did'nt notice that Herbert Saeley handed a note to Minnie yesterday evening ?' 'No, indeed! Did he? And I watched them all the evening! You have eyes like a lynx, Helen 1' 'I owe this discovery quite as much to my cars as to my eyes. When little See ley took my sister's hand a. parting, I noticed that he gave her a very signifi cant look, and as her hand fell among the folds of her dress, I heard something rustle faintly, like paper. So after we had all been in bed pome time, I arose softly, and having listened at her door to make sure that she was soundly sleeping I stole in and looked about for the note, which by a piece of good luck I hardly expected, I found on her. bureau, and read without any trouble, the gas not being out, but only turned down. It seemed a dishonorable thing to do; but better that than lose my Minnie. Dear little thing?sleeping so soundly, her rosy lips parted, and her long golden ringlets falling about her shoulders.' 'But the note; the note!' 'It contained only these^words, as^near-' ly as I can remember: 'Meet me, my beauteous one, to-morrow night, at half past nine, in the little summer-house. A carriage will await ua at a short distance. Fail me not, thou precious angel, nor fear to trust thyself to one who would die for thee. Forever thine, Herbert.' 'Ob, the little imbecile ! So it is ns I predicted ; and now what arc you going to do?' *Exacfly what I told you?elope with the youth, myself.' 'How can you jet so? A few days ago you told me it was no laughing matter. Is it any less now? Yet there you sit, looking as if it were a capital joke.' 'I am not jesting, Annie, and you nccdeu't proceed to turn up the whites of your eyes, and look sanctimonious, for the cause of my high spirits is simply the thought that I've found away oat of this difficulty?at least for the present?and perhaps forever, who knows? I thought it nil out last night, when you were fast asleep, you lazy thing. I shall elope in Minnio's place' 'Helen Chapman!' 'Annie Graham !' 'You'll never astonish me aga:n, as long as you live, by anything you may say or do. Well, let us hear how this pretty little manoeuvre is to be accom plished.' 'But first?may I count upon your as sistance ?' 'Did I ever in my life refuse it when you asked it,adventurous girl?' 'Very good; here, then, is the pro gramme.' A long and mysterious conversation followed, and the climbing roses that enwreathed the little summer-house peed cd in at the young conspirators, and stir red by the June breezes, seemed to whis per to each other and nod their faces in approval. Ah the clock struck uiue that evening a warm, soft rain was falling, and the night nir was heavy and odorous. The two friends sat in tho parlor gayly chat ting together, while Minnie,silent and ill at ease, restlessly watched the bauds of the clock in their slow march, and started at every sound. After a short time Ilelon turned, affecting a yawn, nud asked her sister to step into the dining-room, and bring her some ice-water. The instant sho disappeared, Hellen ran to the clock and set it back teu minutes. 'So far so good.' said Annie, 'but don't you begin to be afraid, as the time ap proaches ?' 'Afrad of that little bit of pink and white cnody ?' . #'But if we failT said Aunic, uncon sciously quoting Macbeth. fcfWe fail!' exclaimed Helen, striking an attitude. 'Still, I'm 'free to confess' that I beiug to experience a rather flut tory sensation about the region of the hlart. Hush I here she comes. Thank you, Minnie dear; this is quite refreshing. Hxigh-ho. "What does mako me so sleepy to-night? It's only a little after nine. Well, nevertheless, if you'll excuse me, A^uie, I believe I'll say good night. Miuuie shall en tertian you by playing that pretty overture to 'Le Premier Jour dejBoulieur.' and Helen tripped up stairs, humming gayly, while her sister, glanc ing onco more at the clock, shrugged her pfump shouldois impatiencetly and seated herself at the piano. ^Helen's voice died away as sho reached hdr. room, aud hastily letting her long hair fall down about ho shoulders, in imitation of her sister, she threw a veil oven her face, wrapped herself in a water jPSOof cloak, and softly stole down the back stars aud out into the rain and darkness. It may be safely affirmed that Minnie Chapman had never before played the o>crture to 'Lo Premier Jour do Bon iteur' so wretchedly as upon this peculiar occasion. As hIic rose from the piano, the clock pointed to twenty-five minutes past hi?e. Hurriedly murmuring something about having left her crochet, in the library, she was about to leave the room, when a sudden cry of pain, from Annie, arrested her. 'What is the matter ? She inquired, looking back. 'Oh, my eye I' moaned Annie, with an expression of extreme anguish. 'Oh dear what shall I do ?' ?Have you got something in your eye?' asked Minnie, irresolute whether to go or iinj|er a moment to hejpljer friend. ?Yes; oh, what can it be? Do try and get it out for me. Oh !' and Annie screwed up ono of h?r azure eyes very tightly, and glared widely about with the other, rock ing herself to and fro with frequent groans This was too much for Minnie's tender little heart, and in an instant she was searching eagerly for the cause of so much suffering. 'Why, I can't sec nuythiug at all!' cried she, after a moment's ex imir.ation. 'How very strange!' It was exceeding strange! 'Can't you?' gtoancd Annie. 'Oh!?I'll turn the gas a little higher. There! I've turned it out!' 'Pshaw ! where arc the matches ?' asked Minnie, grouping impatiently about in the darkness, 'They were on tho table,' replied her companion, deftly rempving the safe to the mantle-piece. 'But they're not here now. Oh dear, and I haven't time to?I mean?where can they he? Th?ro! I've tipped over that vase of flowers and the watcr'U be all over everything. How provoking! I'll wip it up with my handkerchief. Mop mop, mop. Do look for those matches, Annie.' 'I am. What's the great hurry, I'd like to know ?' 'Nevermind; I'll run into the library and get sonic; the gas is lit there.' 'No here they are now! I've found thorn at last?on the corner of the mantle Take one.' So saying Annie handed thr> unsuspect ing little maiden a match of which she had previously moistened the lighting end in her mouth. Scratch, scratch, scratch! 'Wrhy it won't light.' (Scratch, scratch, scratch !) 'It in us be a bad one.' 'Here's another,' said Annie, repeating her performance. 'Oh my poor eye!' and sho .shook convulsively?with pain per haps. Renewed scratching, n? ineffectual as bet?re. Minnie's patience was entirely ex ha listed. 'I'll tell you what Anuie, you jus? run up stairs and get Helen to examine your eye, for I remember having loft a book out in tho summer-house this morning, and tins pouring rain will completely ruin it.' With those words poor Minnie fairly bolted from the room, overturning a chair or two in her progress, and an instant after was heard rushing down the garden ! steps. +jMwmmmm^mmcM*mmwmmmmmmwmT.'mmrm**mmmmmmmmmi*mmw*mmmmmn mmmtgr? Annie lighted the gas, and demurely set the clock forward again. Twenty minutes of ten. That "will dd very well/ said she. ' . ? v .? ' ? - . * .* . * . Although Helen Had anticipated tho appointed time, by a few minutes, she was received into a warm embrace on entering the summer-house, j and a thin piping voice exclaimed, rap turously, 'Sweet angel I I knew ihou wonldst hot fail me I Yet thou knowest not with What'impatience my heart'was 1)eating.?Ah, I cannot believe my hap piness! Speak to me dearest?-tell me ouce more?' "Haste, oh haste away, dear Herbert, lest we he discovered!" interrupted the Minnie, in an agitated whisper. "We must not lose a moment or all may he lost." "Thou art right, beloved! This way? the carriage waits*" And they hurried down the garden path, and out the gate, on a very undig nified and and unromantic trot. Another moment and they were seated in a close carriage, rupidly driving through the rain and darkness. "Delightful situation!" said Helden to herself, resignedly. "My queen! my fairy! art thou mine own at?" inquired Mr. Seeley, with what tho French call effusion. Ob, Herbert I am so frightened whis pered the "Fairy," burying her face in a disagreeable wet overcout, iu order to escape a more disagreeable shower of kisses. Fear not, I will protect thee! I feel that I have the strength of a lion! respon ped the small voice of tho iufatuutcd youth. Splash, splash, went the horses' feet through the mud, and the raiu pattered steadily on the.carriage top. "I wonder where on earth we are going?" said Helen to herself, and after h moment's silence, 'dear Herbert, when shall we get there?' she whispered?for she tlared not speak aloud, lest her voice should betray her. 'In about an hour my own sweet love. Pcarville is nearly five miles from town is it not? It will all be as we j, arranged, when I first gained thy dear consent: the minister is to await us at the village ho tel, at half pas ten, and then o few mo- j incuts and wo shall be man and wife! Ah canst thou realize it, my precious one?' The 'precious one' thought she couldn't but contented herself by remarking, 'oh, what will my sister say?' 'Thy sister is a prude. She has a cold and stony heart, that knowcth not the soft power of love. Herself unyielding to its rosy touch she would have others so as well. The sweet blossom of the spring, and the chilling snow wreath of winter, are not more unlike than areiu heart thy sister and thyself! Thou art. "A shadow of some olden dream, a splendor Leaving the thier sphere pi lot less;a tender Reflection on the eternal Moon of Love. Under whose motions Life's dull billows move; Here poor Helen was obliged to take refuge, again in the overcoat. 'Ah, do not shun my kisses, timid bird, remonstrated the unsuspecting youth' Hide not thy lovely face upon my breast but raise those beauteous orbs to mine. True the darkness veils them from my sight, yet I feel their glances burning into my very soul!' 'I wish they'd dry his clothes on the way, the oder of a wet coat is so unpleas ant,' thought Helen with a snuff. 'Ah!' continued Master Seeley, uncon cious of this application of his remark. 'Now am I repaid for all that I have ever suffered in this dark struggle lhat wo call Life. At last are the dreams of my youth realized!' (lie was nearly eighteen years of age, and cultivating an infinitesimal moustache.) 'Yes, thou didst dawu upon my longing eyes, ns the glo rious orb of day rises upon the cold and sleeping earth, to arouse, to chcor and revivify. But how poor and feeblo seem my words, fool that I ami' (This with ex treme complacency.) 'Oh, would that couldst read my heart! Thou shouldst be able, since we are one. ? ' We?arc wo not formed as notes of music nro For one another though dissimilar; iSuch difference without discord, as can make Those sweetest sounds, in which all t-pirits shake As trembling leaves in a continuous air!"' 'Well, I've had about us much of this sort of thing as I can conveniently stand/ said bis companion to hereof. Jkfc.this point; 'and its high time now. for, me to he tearing myself away frdrri my'amiable land interesting young- friend.,1 "1 She let dowir tlie carriage'wi)Sj|owTand leaned put, re^rdTcsTo^ ll^rsfJ^pHug ram. ?Whutis M ^^^fi^?cid? anxiously inquired Herbei thmn \ 'I am trying tofeee whWfr^-'iafBtRbut I it's go dark that I can't h'a aure/oitiiv \ |'We must, bo alwuMtoifcra&?ie9# of town, and at.this moment f^yn3f!^|#ij?ter. searches for thee, in vain. ?, In one. short hour thou wilt utter those' words 'Which will make thee riue fd^c*e,f,.,'0,,tei9lI, The minutes fly on golden, rwWgfl^ftljJJt "Oh, Herbert! .stop the carriage quickly I've lost my bracelet., P^PI^$orr?ver my hand, and must be. at some ~ distance behing now, we're riding t? rapVcflyT4 JAh seek for it if thou lovesfc me.' ??ek?*i8r it carcfullyl' 1 rfijvi nnm In au instant the carriage was stopped and tho too trusting victim was splashing ? off through the mud, on his-hopples.1* search. No sooner was his figure, lest to view in the darkness, than 'Helen11 leaned forward aud said in low 't?ne^'fb'flMi'?ri ver, 'What does Mr. Seeley prty-yWMfor taking him to Pearlville?T *h> joioh!? 'Five dollars mum.' ,? ^jffl? oih Til give you ton if ypu'l^.turn^ahjout instantly and lake me right 'back,, to to.wn. ?What and leave Mister Saley?^"1, 'Yes; decide im mediately ^^eil'l^'bot a secend to lose. Go on and ? get five dollars or return and get ten.',{ j)yyn-: 'Faith the temptation's too . great (;en tirely,' quoth Pat, as ho beaded his horses in the oth?r direction, "|buli'ts a mighty quare trick to play oh'tho^ollng gentleman, sure!' ? ' 'Hallo! What are you. doiog??1c?mo back! Confound you, come back, I say!' cried the youth iu question, suddenly I and unpleasantly recalled to to the proso af Life. , : , ,tl ,aijl > A loud 'Git dap!' accompanied by a crack of the whip, was tho only answer he received; and as the carriage rolled rapidly on, his angry shouts g?evy jfahjter and fainter until they died away iu the distance. Helen put, np., tb,e ^Yin^ow again, and settling herself ou the komfor table seat, remarked, pensiveJy/Ppordit I tie fellow, I hope he won't ta^B,ppJdV!; It was nearly eleven o'clock when ? she reached home, and entering A the^/Jpor which opened into the garden, stole ?oftly up the back stairs to her room,, where she found Annie anxiously awaitingrbcr. 'Congratulate nie!' cried Helen, thaw ing offner wet cloak, and giving her friend an enthusiastic hugf J j'J'vefi,suc ceeded admirably in carryinoufe roytipro gramme. Not a hitch an}'whcre.': >i 'And Master Scely is lcfW-?',., .<(.. , 'Standing in the mud, and cooling bis ardor in the rain, half <vay between hero and Pearlville.' . , , .;?,. 'A rather violent remedy for his,liJLtle ailment.' j j , -}!.j.wv{ 'Oh, I go on the 'kill or cure prfucjple laughed Helen, as she!' dried her; long hair. 'Well, how did Minnie take her disappointment?' 'She stayed out in tho garden until after ten o'clock, and then I went after her, and, with some difficulty, persuaded her to come in. She was tljpreugljly dreanched, poor child, and shivfirhjg from head to foot, with cold and excite ment. I was really frightened about her so I govc her a hot, brandy , sling and put her to bed.' . .. ...J;,, 'It seems that I nm not the . only ono who believes in violent remedies/.,,said Helen, with a smile. aotlaohi Well, I fancy that our patients \\\\\ both recover.' * * * And so. they,, did Indignation and wounded prido tqok the place of their sentimental attacbmiml, and when by accident, they metflgojfft a few weeks after tho occurcneo jusLnarrn tcd, thoy refused even to recognize ,cach other. Several years had passed, and Minnio had become a happy wife and mother, when Helen one day laughingly related to her the history of Mister S^pJey/a Elopement. t A talking man makes himself artifi cially deaf, being like tho man iu tho stecplo when tho bell rings.