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Stoves Stove M C-AJR. LOAD OF STOVE ■■ -■■ . .. _ We have just received a Car load of Cook aud Heating Stoves and are prepared to offer some very good Bargains. We carry the best line in town. We also handle a Complete lino of GUNS, PISTOLS, CUTLERY, AMMUNITION. BUGGY and WAGO N MATERIAL. WE CAN SELL YOU THE BEST MAKES OF TURNING PLOWS, SUCH AS OLIVER, CHILL, ATLANTA, and SYRACUSE. We are exclusive agents for the HANCOCK ROTARY DISC PLOW Endorsed by the'best Farmers. Everything sold at Rock Bottom prices. Satisfaction guaran teed. Call and see us and be convinced. Your’s for business, BENI ON-ADAIR HARDWARE CO., HARMONY GROVE, GEOEGIA. 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. eg*s 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. Nos. 403 and 402. “The Atlanta Special,” Solid Vestibuled Train ol Pullman Sleepers andOoaches between Washington and Atlanta, also Pullman Sleepers between Portsmouth and Ches ter, S. O. Nos. 41 and 38. —“The S. A. jU Ex press,” Solid Train Coaches, and Pull man Sleepers between Portsmouth and Atlanta. Company Sleepers between Columbia and Atlanta. Both trains make immediate connec tion at Atlanta for Montgomery, Mo bile, New Orleans, Texas, California, Mexico, Chattanooga, Nashville, Mem phis. Macon, Fiorina. For Tickets, sleepers, etc., apply to Agents cr W. B. Clements, G. P. A., B. A. Newland, T. A., Atlanta, Ga. E. St. John, V. Pres, and Gen’l Mg’r V. E. Mcßee. General Superintendent H. W. B. Glover, Traffic Manager. T. J. Anderson, Gen’l Passenger Agt. General Offices, PORTSMOUTH, VA. GEORGIA RAILROAD AND CONNECTIONS. For information a8 to Routes, Schedules and Rates, both Passenger and Ml, to either of the. undersigned You will receice prompt and re* liable information. JOE VV. WHITE, i. G. JACKSON r. p. a.j a. p. a. AUGUSTA, GA. 8. W. WiLKES, H. K. NICHOLSON. C. F. & P. A. G. A. ATLANTA ATHENS. W. T V,. HA HD WICK S. E. M AGILE, S. A. D. F. A. MACON. MACON. AI. it. HUDSON, F. W.COFFIN, S. F. A. S F.,& P. A. MILLEDGEVILLE AUGUSTA. A Smith's ATLANTA, GA. The Complete Husiness Course, Total Cost. $35.00. Huai UMinaw from etart to liaish." Most thoro-inh akr^iaiWt la Aamtim. tm jt-Oat free PROFESSIONAL CARDS. 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