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HER OBJECT LESSON.
She was very pretty, very witty, very
sarcastic. Her world had a wholesome
dread of Mrs. Trelawney’s tongue. She
had just intimated a desire for an ice,
and her attendant satellites had dis
persed at once, each eager to be fore
most in the quest.
She had had a busy day, and it was
pleasant and cool there behind the
palm. She only wished that people
would not whisper somewhere near. If
only they were aware how much far
ther a whisper carried than an ordinary
tone! Aud while she meditated an epi
gram on this subject she opened her
eyes and looked round impatiently for
the whisperers.
There was a particularly ineligible
corner near Mrs. Trelawney’s snug re
treat, a three cornered, low backed
seat, in the full glare of the light and
unpleasantly close to an intrusive and
spiky cactus.
Hither had retreated a poor cousin of
the hostess, a little girl of 17, under
dressed and pale faced, conspicuous
only for a very new and shining wed
ding ring. She had been alone most of
the evening, and now it was she and
her boy husband whose whispering had
disturbed Mrs. Trelawney.
“Darling, are you enjoying your
self?” whispered the boy husband.
“So much, dear!” answered the little
girl enthusiastically. “It’sall so pretty
and so amusing to watch. I’ve never
seen anything so pretty in my life!”
“I’ve been helping Lady Lucy. She
asked me to take some old ladies down
to supper, ” the boy husband went on
with a comical importance. “You’re
sure you are not dull here all alone?”
“Dull? Ob, dear no!” cried the little
girl, opening wide eyes of amazement.
“Oh, there’s Lady Lucy looking at us,
dear. I expect she wants you again.”
The boy hurried off again, proud and
elated, aud his little wife sat smiling
after him from her corner. Mrs. Tre
lawney looked sharply from one to the
other. “I wonder how long that state
of things will last?” she meditated cyn
ically.
She knew a certain amount about the
affairs of the foolish couple—Lady
Lucy had confided various details in the
course of her apology for their presence
there at all. The boy was a journalist,
with a microscopic income and very
limited talents, and the little wife was
penniless, and they had a tiny flat some
where in the east—some uncivilized lo
cality, the bare thought of which sent
a shudder through Lady Lucy. “In ten
years’ time,” she said to herself, “what
will have become of them?” And at
that point she paused aghast.
It was exactly ten years since she
herself, a girl of 17, had made a run
away love match with handsome Cap
tain Trelawney.
She sat curiously white and still,
while that dead and half forgotten past
flashed vividly before her. She would
never have thought it possible then for
her husband to be at his club while she
amused herself successfully elsewhere,
and now this was the normal state of
things between them.
There had been no quarrel, no dis
pute. They had simply drifted away
from each other in those ten years of
married life, until now they were com
parative strangers. Neither could have
told how or when the division began.
She looked at the uncomfortable cor
ner again and with new eyes. That pale
little face was the happiest in the room
—'the only contented one in sight—and
when the boy husband came near, al
ways with a glance and smile in that
direction, what a radiant look was
floated back at him! They really seem
ed to be enjoying their evening.
Mrs. Trelawney reflected, and then,
with an indescribable sensation, it oc
curred to her that she, the admired and
petted society beauty, was u dually
envying that plain, badly dressed, pen
niless little girl.
Mrs. Trelawney breathed a long sigh
cf relief when the brouaham door was
shut upon her and she was on her way
home. She had a long way to drive,
plenty of time to follow out her present
train of thought and to he as unhappy
as she pleased.
She told herself that she was a despi
cable little wretch, a mere society but
terfly, and it was no wonder Horace was
tired of her. If only Horace had been
poor, so that he and she could have
worked and struggled together! If only
their one child had Jived beyond baby
hood! But that she could not bear to
think of even now. If only all the past
ten years could be lived over again, how
differently she would use them!
Now it was too late, and then she
suddenly sat up straight, with fast
beating heart. It was not too late; it
could not be too late. She would begin
this very night and try to restore some
thing of the old loving relations of ten
years ago. She would call for her hus
band now at his club. She remembered
having done so once or twice in those
bygone days, when something impera
tive had prevented him from coming
with her to their mutual disappoint
ment.
She gave the necessary order to her
coachman, and then sat tense and up
right, her eyes bright, her cheeks
flushed.
Ah, they were not far from the club
now —five, ten minutes more and her
new life would have begun !
She had no idea what the time was,
but it could not be so very late, for the
pavement was thronged with people—
all going the same way, oddly enough,
as it occurred to her after a moment.
There were so many of them that pres
ently the carriage was blocked and
obliged to go slowly. She heather little
bauds on the seat in her impatience
and looked out again.
A policeman appeared, shouting in
audible directions, and pressing forward
through the crowd, which gave way
reluctantly on either side. In her un
governable impatience she let down the
window and beckoned him to come
nearer.
“Can’t we get on?” she cried. “I am
in a hurry. What is the meaning of
this crowd?’’
“They have come to see the fire,
ma’am,” the policeman answered civil
ly. “I’m afraid you will have to go
round. ”
“But we are almost there—the Ran
gun club!” she cried.
“It’s the club that ib on fire, ma’am, ”
the policeman answered. Then, as she
turned white, he added kindly, “Don’t
be frightened, ma’am; they’ve got the
fire well in hand by this time and every
one is out. ”
“All safe?” Mrs. Trelawney gasped.
“Well, a few broken bones and such
like,” said the policeman oheerfully.
“Nothing to speak of, ma’am—only
one gentleman killed. A sad business
that.”
“Who?”
“The gentleman who did such great
things out in Burma a few years ago—
Major Trelawney.”
“My husband!”
It seemed to her that she bad known
it all the time. She saw, as if in a
dream, the sudden pity and respect in
the policeman’s face, and then she cov
ered her own and sank back in the car
riage.
The long agony of the drive seemed
interminable, and yet when at last the
carriage stopped she sat quite still for a
moment, unable to nerve herself for tbe
next move. Then the door was opened,
and, as if in a dream, she passed up the
steps, walking firmly, her face white
and her eyes set and hard. Her appar
ent heartlessness was silently noted at
the time and afterward freely com
mented on in the servants’ hall
Had they brought him—it —home?
she wondered with a long shudder. She
was in the ball now and someone was
hurrying to meet her —the doctor. She
was not surprised to see him there. In
her dreamlike state nothing seemed
strange any more.
“I have bad news for you, Mrs. Tre
lawuey. ”
“I know—l know!” she answered
petulantly. In her unreasoning misery
she was annoyed by his hushed tone.
Her own voice was unnaturally shrill
and strained, and the doctor raised his
hand in protest.
“What heartless creatures these pret
ty women are 1” he was thinking—an
unconscious echo of the servants’ opin
ion.
“I must beg of you to control your
self, ”he said sternly. “Everything de
pends on quiet. His life is hanging on
a thread.”
“His life? Oh, Godl Then he is Dot
dead?”
She had brushed past the doctor, deaf
to bis remonstrances. With noiseless,
flying feet, she was up the staircase and
a moment later kneeling by her fcna
baud’s bedside.
The dootor, following rapidly, stood
arrested at the door, looking in at the
darkened room, the kneeling white fig
ure, with clasped bands and large, fixed
eyes, the swathed wreck of a man lying
very still on the bed.
One hand lay outside the coverlet.
Her own stole out slowly, hungrily, to
ward it, as if her own daring soared
her. She bowed her head over the band
aged hand at last and knelt on motion
less. The doctor, watching and quite
forgetting his scathing condemnation of
a moment before, thought with a swift
contempt of certain reports concerning
the Trelawneys’ domestio happiness
which had reaohed his ears.
Something came before his shrewd,
keen eyes which blurred the picture be
fore him. He turned aside for a mo
ment and then was recalled by a swift,
low cry: “Horace! Oh, Horace!”
The doctor sprang forward and then
drew back. The injured man’s eyes
had opened and were fixed on the shim
mering white figure with an expression
of mingled awe, unbelief, bliss.
“Clara!” said the faintest whisper in
the world.
The doctor could scarcely hear it. He
did uot know that the old pet name had
never been uaed for years.—London
Forget-Me-Not.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
It is said that out of 150,000,000
women in India not more than 1,000,-
000 can read.
All of the New Testament has been
translated fur tho first time into one of
the Australian native dialects by two
Germau missionaries.
To protect passengers from the extor
tion of cabmen in Havana the lampposts
are painted in various colors —red for
the central district, blue for the second,
green for the third, eto.
Naval experts put down the active
life of a modern battleship at about 15
years. A hundred years ago battleships
lasted nearly six times as long and were
on active service nearly the whole of
their commission.
Snow rarely falls in Smyrna. Conse
quently when in the performance of
Puccini’s “La Bobeme” recently the
property snowflakes were almost as
large as newspapers there was no crit
icism from the audience.
In 1801 France had three towns with
over 100,000 inhabitants, while Eng
land and Germany had two each, but
in 1870 the figures were: England, 18;
Germany, 10, and France, 9, while iu
189(5 they 6tood: England, 30; Ger
many, 28, aud France, 10.
King Charles of Roumania’s Rem
brandt, “Esther, Hainan and Ahasu
erus, ” lent to the coronation exhibition
at Amsterdam, had a nail driven through
it by the carelessness of the hangers.
An attempt has been made to repair it,
and tho sum of $2,500 has been sent to
the king to compensate him for the
damage done.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Every tailor knows a lot of promising
young men.
Bellows are not boxers, yet they often
oome to blows.
Some men are quite regular in thair
habits—but their habits are bad.
An exchange of servants is one way
to terminate feminine friendships.
When a woman accuses a man of
flattery, she wants him to say it some
more.
The man who is usually wrong never
stops talking about it when he happens
to be right.
It’s only in a crowded car that the
standing of a well bred man is never
questioned.
The north pole is like a woman’s
pocket—we all know where it should
be, but no one can find It.
Asa rule the man who seeks your
friendship has a motive in view. The
woman who does so usually has two or
three of them. —Chicago News.
CARE.
All In the lafy darkness, when sleep had
passed me by,
I knew the surging of the sea,
Though never wave were nigh.
AH in the leafy darkness, unbroken by a star,
There came the clamorous call of day,
While yet the day was far.
All in the leafy darkness, woven with hushes
deep,
I heard the vulture wings of fear
Above me tireless sweep.
The sea of doubt, tho dread of day, upon me
surged and swept,
All in the leafy darkness,
At.d while t;• .\. b-iki world slept.
—Virginia Woodward Cloud in Century.
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IRAM*
—To — ,
ATLANTA, CHARLOTTE, AU
GUSTA, ATHENS, WILMING
TON, NEW ORLEANS,
CHATTANGOGA, jNASHVILLK
AND
NEW YORK, BOSTON,
PHILADELPHIA,
RICHMOND, WASHINGTON,
NORFOLK, PORTSMOUTH.
Schedule in Effect Dec. n, 1898
SOUTHBOUND.
No. 403. No. 41.
Lv. New York *ll 00am *9 00pm
“ Washington 4 40pm 4 30am
'•Riohmond 9 00pm 9 05am
“ Portsmouth *8 45pm *9 20am
Ar. Weldon 11 10pm 11 50am
Ar. Henderson *l2 57am *1 50pm
Ar. Raleigh *2 16am *3 34pm
“ Southern Pines 4 23am 5 58pm
“ Hamlett 5 07am 6 53pm
“ Wilmington *l2 05 pm
“ Monroe, 6 43am 9 12pm
Ar. Charlotte *7 50am *lO 25pm
Ar Chester *8 08am *lO 56pm
*• Greenwood 10 35am jl 07am
“ Athens 1 13pm 343 am
Lv. Winder 2 08pm 4 28am
Ar Atlanta (C TANARUS.) 350 pm 6 20am
SOUTHBOUND.
No. 35.
Ar. Athens 8 06 am
Lv. Winder 8 46 am
Ar. Atlanta 10 40 am
NORTHBOUND.
No. 402. No. 38
Lv. Atlanta (O. T.)*l Ol'pm *8 50pm
“Winder 2 35pm 10 40pm
Ar. Athena 316 pm 11 19pm
“ Greenwood 6 41pm 2 03am
“Chester 7 53pm 4 25am
Ar. Monroe 9 30pm 5 55am
Ar~ Charlotte *lO 25pm *7 60am
“Hamlet *ll 15pm *7 45am
Ar. Wilmington, *l2 05pm
Ar. Soutiieru Pines U* 08am *9 00am
“Raleigh 2 10am 1118 am
Ar. Henderson, 328 am 12 50pm
Ar. Weldon 4 55am 2 50pm
Ar. Portsmouth 7 25am 5 20pm
‘“Richmond *8 45am 7 12pm
“ Wash’tonP.R. R. 12 31pm 11 10pm
“ New York “ 6 23pm 6 53am
NORTHBOUND.
No. 34.
Lv. Atlanta 5 30 pm
Lv. Winder 7 25 pm
Ar. AthenS 5j05 pm
♦Daily. £Daiiy Except Sun.
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Passenger and Ml,
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AUGUSTA, GA.
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L. C. RUSSELL. E. C ARMIBTKAD,
RUSSELL & ARMISTEAD,
Attorneys at Law.
Winder, Ga Jefferson. Ga.
W. H. QUARTERMAN,
i Attorney at Law,
Winder, Ga.
Prompt attention given to "31 legal
matters. Insurance and Real Estate
agent.
JOHN H. SIKES,
Attorney at Law,
Winder, Ga.
Office over Harness factory.
J. A. B. MAHAFFEY,
Attorney at Law,
Jefferson, Ga.
Silmau’s old office.
Winder Furniture Cos.
UNDERTAKERS AND—
—FUNERAL DIRECTORS.
C. M. FERGUSON, M’g’r.
WINDER, GEORGIA.
A. HAMILTON.
Undertaker and Funeral
Director,
Winder.
EMBALMING
By a Professional Embalmer. Heaise
and attendance free. Ware rooms, cor
ner Broad & Candler sts.
DR. W. L. DkLaPERRIERE,
DENTAL PARLORS,
In the J. C. DeLiiPt-rriere building,
over Winder Furniture Cos. Call and
see me when in need of anything in
the line of Dentistry. Work guaran
teed.
Honey to Lend,
We have made arrangements with
brokers iD New York City through
whom we are able to place loans on
improved farms for five years time,
payable in installments. If you want
cheap monev come in and see us at
once Shackelford & Cos
100 Broad St., Athens, Ga.
LOUIS SMITH,
The oldest Blacksmith &
Horse Shoer in Winder.
I will appreciate your patronage and
give you good work at reasonable prices.
Lodge No. 333, (Winuer) Officers —N.
J. Kelly, W. M.; J. J. Kilgore, S. W.;
A. S. Adams, J. W.; J. H. Kilgore,
Sec’ty. Meets every 2d Friday evening
at 7 o’clock.
J. H. Sikes, N G ;J. T. Strange, V. G.;
S. T. Rosa, Secretary; H. 8. Segars,
Treasurer. Meets every Ist and 3d
Monday nights.
RUSSELL LODGE No. 99.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
Meets every Ist. and 3d. Thursday
vening in each month. R. B. Russell,
P. C. and Rep., C. B. Almond, C. C., H.
C. Poole, V. C., A. A. Camp, K. of R.
and A. S., W. B. Dillard, P, W. H.
Toole, M. of E., T. A. Maynard, M. of
F. J. J. Smith, M. of A., F. L. Hol
land, I. G., O. L. Dabney, O. G.
ROYAL ARCANUM,.
Meets every 4th Monday night. J.
T. Strange, R.; J. H, Sikes, V. R.; J.
J Kilgore, Secretary.
(COLORED).
WINDER ENTERPRISE LODGE,
No. 4283. G. U. 0.0f0.F.
Meets every Ist and 3i Friday night
in each month. Dudley George, N. G.;
G. W. Moore V. G.; L. H. Hinton,
Secretary.
Honey to Loan.
We now have plenty of money to
loan on improved farm property in
Jackson and Banks counties. Terms
and interest liberal. Call and see ns,
Dunlap & Pickrell,
Gainesville, Ga.
Sept. 13th, 189S