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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. 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'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*
