Newspaper Page Text
TKADB ISSUE DAILY AND WfiKKT.Y BANNER: DECEMBER 6, 1892.
by THE FIRElIGHT.
It was evening. Prom where the sua
had set rose a red glow melting softly
into the cold, blue gray sky. The sky
tint, bnt colder, bluer, harder in tone,
v.-jis repeated in the line of tpountains
stretching away to the south. Among
the shifting heaps of fallen leaves shone
gleams of color, bnt the moss had turned
to brown, and in the cold, windy even*
in' the lately denuded trees seemed to
sliver.
A woman came out of a pasture with
a pail of milk in her hand. A slight
wisp of a creature, her cotton gown
hung limply about her thin form. She
cowered as the wind struck her and
coughed painfully, yet she lingered. She
was too much a child of nature to ex
plain how the antumn days made her
feel both forlorn and expectant, and yet
was perhaps the more affected by the
moods of the great mother not attempt
ing to translate them into human needs.
The clatter of hoofs made her turn
slowly. One glance and her heart gave
a leap, sending the warm color to her
cheek. By the time the horseman had
reached her the color was gone. •
“Good evening. Does Uncle Billy
Grimes live here?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Do you suppose he would be willing
to put me up tonight?’
“1 reckon. ’Light an I’ll take your
nag.”
The gentleman hesitated as if his gal
lantry would not permit him to allow a
woman to put up his horse, but, seeming
to think better of it, thanked her, and
taking his saddlebags, turned toward
the house.
At the door he was met by an old
woman, who, learning his wish, cordial
ly made him welcome, offering him a
seat-by the side of the hearth, on which
a great fire was burning. He tilted back
on the short legged chair with the feel
ing of warmth and well being which
follow a long, cold ride, and soon found
himself gently slipping into the mood
he had been trying all day to cultivate.
This had been his home, and after half
a lifetime spent away he had returned to
the land of his childhood only to find
the Carolina mountains less grand than
others he had seen, and the simple life
of the people, which in moments of sen-
tiineut he hod remembered os idyllic,
rongh, uncouth and cheerless. He was
too far removed from their life for sym
pathy, too close to feci the picturesque
interest and pleasure of a real stranger.
'1 ,ese people were more or less nearly
r< .Ut 1 to him, yet they seemed anothei
r -0 of beings.
ue \ A left his mountain home a mer,
boy and had gone west, where a nev.
lif- opened for him. Something in hi*
nature always made him reject what
was coarse and vulgar, and when he be-
emne suddenly rich his nativo gentleness
and simplicity of manner 6tood him in
stead -/f breeding and education, dis
arming criticism, till, with the quick
perception and imitative faculty which
were his birthright, he had largely re
paired the deficiencies of liis early train
ing, acquiring much of the manner and
tone of people of. culture. Now he had
come back and was a stranger in liia
own land.
Bnt the bright firelight dancing on the
wall illumined tho rough interior of the
farmhouse kitchen, and he began to feel
less remote, less offended by the mean
ness of his surroundings. Memories of
his childhood rose before him as he
watched the young woman in her prep
orations for supper. She had mixed up
the corn bread, and now knelt on the
floor beside the hearth molding it into
loaves and putting them into a largo non
skillet. The firelight flashed on the tin
pan', gave a ruddy glow to her thin face,
and turned her dull, yellowish hair to
red gold. As the stranger watched her
something'rose in his throat.
“Nancy?’
She turned suddenly.
“Chris!”
“I did not know you at first.”
“1 reckon I’ve changed,” she said
sadly.
“Not so much. It was rather dark.
It takes the firelight to make you look
natural. But how came you here?’
“Uncle Billy married my aunt, ai-.
she wanted somebody ter help her, an 1
hadn’t no home.”
“Not married?’
“No." She picked up her pan and left
the room.
“It cannot be she has waited all these
years for me,” ho thought. “Of course
not; such constancy is not to be found
among women of her sort. How faded
she is! These mountain folks, particu- i
larly the women, grow old early. Poor
thing! 1 suppose she has had to work
hard, and she never was very strong.
Why, she can't be much older than Lois
Ellison.” He shuddered at the con
trast. Miss Ellison was his partner’s
sister. They were the best of friends.
He had proposed to her annually for tl i
last five years, and yet they still re-
x wife wi’ yer. 'Taint tet lat*». We’ve
some pretty gals here. (At tins point
Nancy, who had gone for a can of cher
ries. re-entered the room.) Yer reck-
lect Sally Peters? Uster spark her, didn’t
yer? Wall, she’s got two gals as purt
as their maw. Beckon one on ’em ood
suit yer.”
Chris looked up, caught Nancy’s eye
and frowned slightly. His own feeling
responded to the look in her face. What
to a real stranger might have been amus
ing jarred upon him.
After supper they sat around the fire
talking of old times. Chris learned with
a strange feeling of being under a spell
that all the boy» he remembered of his
own age were either dead or had be
come grandfathers, yet he had hot
thought.of growing old. Pretty soon
Uncle Billy rose and said:
“I reckon me an my wife’ll go ter
bed. Nancy’ll keep yer company,” and
he retired to the room beyond.
Chris sat looking into the fire. Nancy
drew a chair near him. He was scarcely
aware of her presence, his thoughts be
ing far away. At last she spoke:
“I have waited long fur yer, Chris.”
He started.
“Did you believe I would come?” he
asked.
“Yes.”
Vividly he recalled the moment when,
a boy, he had bidden goodby to a rosy
cheeked girl. “Will you wait for me.
Nancy?” he had said. “TO come back
and marry you some day.” Idle words,
containing more of feeling than resolve
He had long forgotten, till the firelight
reflected upon her face flashed into a
dark corner of bis brain, and it had all
come back to him. He could say noth
ing, and she began to tell him of the
long, weary years she had waited. She
had no misgivings; among her own peo
ple she was accounted a simple creature.
She knew nothing of the gulf separating
her from her old sweetheart,
W. M. PITTMAN,
Staple Dry Goods, Boots,Shoes and Hats,
-A3STI>-
CHRISTMAS FRUITS AND CONFECTIONERIES.
NO. 21 EAST CLAYTON STREET.
BRILLIANT LIGHTS.
THE ATHENS Cl AS LIGHT COM
PANY AND ITS WOBK.
THE BEST IN THE STATE
Ho (lie E’ectric Light* of Athens aro
Declared to be-Tlie Splendid Equip-
Ment of thi* Company—It* Ex
cellent management.
Make it Your Business
To examine the new and x elected stock of Plain and
Decorated China, Porcelain, Quaensware and Glassware at
b j equaled in the city.
HOLIDAY GOODS
Are now arriving and you will find it to yoar interest to
examine our stock and prices before buying elsewhere.
JACOBS’ PHARMACY.
*
SAVE MONEY
Froe Advice.
Always consider that the house that buys for cash in
large lots and sells largely at
' BETHIL IT WHGLESHLE PRICES
uiaiued friends. She treated him kindly j the springhouse.
New Store on Clayton Street. Their stock of Jewelry,
not married, and he had come backus he T ^ Cutlei T> etc *» is complete in every detail, and cannot
said he would; that was enough for her.
He listened, pained but fascinated.
Her speech, uncouth as it was, still had
something of dignity in its old English
form. He had not the heart to wound
her with the trnth. Most men would
have thought such cruelty the truest
kindness; a finer sense restrained him.
Perhaps experience had taught him that
a forlorn hope, may be dearer than at
tainment. He realized that an illusioi
which has been growing np in a woman’:
heart for twenty years cannot be shat
tered at a blow without crashing th
woman.
“Poor child,” he said tenderly; sh
had been telling him of her loneliness.
“But you’re here now, Chris.” Sh
drew nearer him and laid her chee
against his arm with simple, childlik
confidence. He started slightly. 1.
seemed wrong to touch her, and yet i'
he put her away from him he woult
have to tell her why.
This is an evening ont of the ol<
time, Nancy. You and I are a girl an
boy again, do you understand?" he said
putting his arm about her waist.
Yes,” she said, with a happy littlt
laugh.
Soon he disengaged himself and arose,
saying that he. was tired and would lit-
to go to bed. She went with him to hi
room, and before leaving him lifted he-
lips for a kiss. Again he hesitated, ano
stooping kiBsed her forehead. He went-
to bed, but not to sleep. The sense of
the irreparable wrong he had done thb
girl burned into his heart, tender witl.
its own pain. Wild thoughts of self im
molation occurred to him, only to be
checked by the conviction of its hope
lessness. She would not be less lonely
with him. They were utter strangers,
for how little of the boy she had love'
was left in the man, and how lost ah-
would be in the world where he lived!
He rose early, and, going into the
kitchen, found Mrs. Grimes dressing t
chicken for breakfast. The old woina;
gave him a knowing look and remarkeu
with a chuckle:
“Nancy’s ben a-waitin fur yer a
mighty while, an here yer air .shur nuf.”
“Did she tell you so?’ /
“No; I knowed hit ’thout«her tellhi
me. She ain't like other folks, Nancy
ain't; she’s a sort o’ fool body.”
“I do not think so.”
“Yer don’t?”
“She doesn’t seem strong. I'm afraid
[ she works too hard.”
“Us mounting folks all hef ter work.
' Nancy ain’t stout. She’s got the con-
( sumption, on the doctor says she can’t
' live the winter out.”
Chris was going to speak, but the
woman’s co'id, hard face checked him.
“Who is your doctor?” he said at last.
“Nobody yer know; a young feller—
he ain’t like Dr. Crain, he ain’t; he’s got
larnin au knows what’s the matter wi’
yer right off.”
“What is his name?’
“Jim Banks. He lives in Wadeville.”
Chris wrote down the name, and »
plan began to form in his mind.
After breakfast he took his departure.
As he was starting Nancy came up from
J. J. ARGLAND,
NO. 306 PRINCE AVENUE,
Detail Dealer in
Is the place to patronize If you are wise,
meat in business. Buy where you can
for the price usually charged for one.
There is no senti*
buy several articles
n FEW SH7UtPLB PRICES
GROCERIES
Of Every Description.
Dry Goods at Co°t!
Boots, Shoes and Hats
As cheap as can be bought else
where.
Country Produce
Kept constantly on hand. Bays
all kinds of Country Produce.
Telephone 4=8.
F.G.UMBACH,
BLACKSMITH,
114 W. Clayton St.,
BELOW HEHDERSOR WAREHOUSE,
Is Still doing the best HORSE
SHOEING in Athens. If your horse
has bad teet or anything the matter
with them, I will cure them free of
charge. All I want is the shoeing,
yon bring the horte, i’ll do the rest
or in other words. y< u press the bnt
ton, (the price of shoeing) I’ll do the
rest.
/also Repair any Kind of
Carriage, Buggy or
Or anything else in that line, bet*
ter than yon can get it d me any
where else in Athens.
Satisfaction Guaranteed or no Fay.
F. G. UMBACH,
114 W. Clayton St., Athens, Ga.
and without coquetry and pleaded a |
prior attachment. As the other man
*as dead Chris waited and hoped.
Sometimes he had been tempted to
doubt her reason for refusing him, bnt
it only gave him pain, and he had al
ways made it a rule never to doubt a
lady’s word. "Circumstances had now
and then obliged him to be false in this
principle, but he had lived up to it when
he could. His romantic fancy was
touched by the constancy of the fair,
cultivated woman of the world, but in
this mountain girl such a sentiment
seemed painfully incongruous. He knew
too well that the position of an old maid
here was one neither of honor nor profit.
Uncle Billy came in andgreeted Chris
with warmth, and they sat down to sup
per.
“So you’ve come back ter ver old
home,” began Uncle Billy. “Wher’s
)'er companion?”
“1 haven’t any."
“Not got none?*
“No."
“Couldn't yer suit yerself out in Cali-
fornyY”
“The girl I wanted didn’t want me.”
“1*10, WlUljj^er ought ter ha' taken
Where air yer goin?’ she asked in
some alarm.
“To Cranberry.”.
“Yer’ll come back?’
“Yes, some time.”
She looked at him with a patient,
trusting smile.
“Goodby! God bless your he said and
rode away, wondering why it is that a
strong and constant affection is so sel
dom mutual.
As he got on the cars at Cranberry a
gay voice greeted him:
“Hullo, Warren! Pm right glad to see
yon!” It was a young drummer with
whom Chris was pretty well acquainted.
He, .too, had been np in the mountains
and was full of amusing stories, from
which it soon appeared that he had been
flirting outrageously with the mountain
“Look here, my hoy,” said Chris after
a time, “let me tell you something.
You can outlive aU your early habits,
you may outlive most of your friends,
but you’ll never outlive the promise you
make a woman, and if you don t want
to discover some day that youare au un-
. mitigated scamp.
none that you don t mean to Keep.
Lorraine Stanley in W aulungtOP
Barter’s Wild Cherry Bitten. $ 75
Mother's Friend .....?. 99
California 8yrup of Figs 84
Sale’s Catarrh Cure 34
BjV Cream Balm 84
Pieroe’a Fills..... 15
Fleroe’a Golden Medical Discovery 69
Pleroe's Favorite Prescription 69
Swift’s Specific 18. S. a) 59 and 99
Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) 68
Dr. John Bull’a Sarsaparilla .......... 73
Die. John Bull’s Worm Candy 15
Chlcheater'agPennyroTalFUla... 1 67
Brown's Iron Bitters 71
Shiloh’S Catarrh Cere 85
-Shiloh'sConsumption Core........... 34
Shiloh’s Plaster *...... is
McElrse’s Wine Caxdul.... 78
Black Draught - 16
King's New Discovery 84
Parker’s Hair Balaam 85
Hinder Corns mL io
Oastoria 25
Injection G 73
P. P- P 68
Hire's Boot Beer 18
Tutfs Pills 13c box, 9 tor 25
Carter’s FlUs 13c box, 2 for 25
Beocfiam’s Pills 17
Powers & Welghtmsn’s Morphine
Hood’s 8arsaparilla.....................
Hoyt’s Cologne
Pe-ru-na
Shakers’Extract Boot
Warner’s Safe Cure • 000*0
Brown’s Essence of Ginger 8$
Meliln’s Food 37 and 69
Nettle's Milk Food ...40e;dozen 4 50
Hall's Hair,Benewer 57
Ayer’s Hair Vigor 66
Sozodont 60
Vin Marina Coca... 99
Swanadown Powder....................Sand 19
Viola Cream box 89
Hunyadi Water .. '26
Fellow’s Hypophosphltes T „ 99
Uexican Mustang Liniment II
Pain Killer 18,38 and 76
May Apple Pills 19
Packer’s Tar Soap 16
Bradfield’sFemale Regulator.....61
Murray’s Cyclone Liniment 16
Electric Hair Curlers .10 and 16
Winslow’s Soothing Syruh 13
Smith’* Worm Oil 17
Vaseline ....6,8,18 and 86
Paregorm, pint... 60
Castor Oil, Baker’s, pint M
Pear’s Soap
* ***#****•••*••••••
EVERYTHING ELSE IN PROPORTION.
Express charges are usually 25 cts.
on packages under five pounds.
REMEMBER THE PLACE:
CORNER PEACHTREE AND MARIETTA SIS.,
HTLKNTH. GH.-
I HAYS OPENED tJP AN ELEGANT LINE OP
and SIHIOIESB
Suitable for Men, Women andsOhildren.
121 Clayton Street, Opposite Haselton & Dozier’s.
Give mo a calltsnd I will take plenum is showing Goode and giving priees.
. |§. E.L. JOHNSON.
/GEORGIA, ClAhkr Cousty.—Hr virtue ol
kl authority given me in a deed delivered b\
Emetine Livingston to the Athene Building &
Loan Association, on March 23, 1886, I, J, h .
W. Brumby, as Secret try of said Association,
will expose to sale to the highest bidder at pub
lic outcry betorc the court house door In Athens,
Ga., between the hours of io o’clock a. m and
4 o’clock p. m., on the first Tuesday In I ecem-
ber, 18 2. the following property:
A lot of land in Athens, Ga. upon which Em
elins Livingston now resides, containing one-
half acre, more or less, and Imnnied as follows:
North by Prince avenue, e*st hy lot of Liura
McKee,-south by lot of A. Griffith and west by
Franklin street. Sold to satisfy a debt due b-
Emeline Livingston to said Association. Terms
cash ThisNov. 5.1892.
JOHN W.BRUMBY, as
Secretary and Treasurer of tbe Athens Building
.r & Loan Association.
NEW OPERA HOUSE.
ONE NIGHT ONLY,
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6TH.
The Favorite German Dialect Comedian,
GEORGE C. STALEY,
In his Successful Comedy-Drama,
-A.-
See the Great
LOCOMOTIVE. RACE,
2—REAL WORKING ENGINES—2
The Greatest Railroad Scene Ever Produced in
this City.
“Yourc.ty is the best lighted dty In
orgia,’’
The above is the remark of almost every
stranger who comes within our gate*.
And it is quite true that the lights for*
tisled Athens are of the moet excellent
character, and that the management of
he system is in the best of bauds.
Athens is furnished light by gas end
electricity, which is controlled by the
Athens G^s Light Company, one of the
best and strongest companies of Us kind
in Georgia.
It is under the management of the fol*
owing officers:
I
Pnsident—John A. Huncicntt.
Manager—John T. R ffiinson.
A^ent—Thomas P, Hunnicutt.
Electrical Engineer—C, B. Hulburt,
Its officers are men who understand
the r business, and know how to m»R« a
success out of the company.
Dr. Huanicutt is one of the leading
financiers of Athens, is interested in many
of her.leading enterprises, and haa
a i eminent success of all.
Manager Robinson and Eagimer Hui-
bui’t are experts in their business and
k iow exucJy how to keep everything
in the mechanical department la ihip
shape.
Mr. T. P. Hunnicutt, tbe agent, is one of
the Classic City’s most progressive young
bus.ness men, and is making a name tot
himself in the position he occupies.
It iB capitalized for $20.000,but is worth
a great deal more than that today. law
provements are being made every week
and the plant being largely improve^
A tint to the plant of the Athens Gas
L’ght Company always repays one for tbe
ime spent in m ikiog it. It is nea'ly kept
and everything is found in good order nna
der the care of the Electrical Engineer, Mr»
C. B. Hu.hurt.
There are in p sition, two engines, two
boilers, and three dynamos. T wo of UtCM
lynamos famish electricity for the big
lights and have capacity fo;ons hundred
ighta. Tbe other dyna no is for the ins
candescent lights, and baa a capacity of
ix hundred nd fifty lights.
There are flfty-8ix arc lights in the dty,
and tbe city is extending the servic «
rapidly as possible.
There are five hundred incandescent
lights io Atheas and the demand for them
is increasing day by day.
Tbe arc lights are of 2,000 candle poweg
and the incandescenta are sixteen c*pdl*
power. Toe company strives to keep the
ights absolutely up to this standard.
The Gas Company was chartered in
1892, and the Electric Light Plant
lished in 1890. Daring all these yean its
business has increased wonderfully nntU
additions to the plant are reqmrea
A Superb Company of Players,
Piciuresqne Costumes,
New and Catchey Songs.
8eats on Falo Monday at City Drug Store—
Regular prices.
. Have you Sean the Beautiful
Columbian Exposition Knife
for sale by the
JACKSON &IBURKE CO.
Tney are beauties and selling fast
year.
At present there are 220 subscribers to
the gas department, wLieb shows an in
creased consnmptio 1 every month.
In all probability the company will adf
'o its iui&jdescent power soon, as the d*»
mand is getting to be very large.
The complime .ts paid to the manages.!
ment of the Athens Gas Light Company
by men who are in position to apeak with
authority are sac as anyone should b#
1*
Give*