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DISAPPOINTED.
Hope In ills mtrning soared on hi*h,
With plumngc whit* m snow new diiren,
Bat fluttered, feebly, home to die.
On tom and Mealing wings at even.
Ho fair and hill of life at mom,
At night an broken and forlorn.
With deep^t grief, my heart l* wrubjj
Tlut.lu>|H‘ ao fair should die eo young.
And o'er my *ou! a atorin hath swept,
Team, saddest tears, bedim my eyes,
Haeh a* heart broken Ad i m wept
When gazing lost on J’aradiae.
As o’er it* vales all dazzling shone
The last rays of the setting sun,
And night, thrfco darkened by the Irofeu
Of an offended God, esmu down.
•*b for a tssto of that dark stream
Whose dark and rlugglah waves posses
Tha power to qoeuch life’s fevered dream.
In deep and long forget fullness,
Where years, and year*, unheeded roll
Above the deeply numbering soul.
Metlilnks no mortal e*cr quaffed
From living stream so swcot a draught.
’ Am! yet while bcudingjoYr the brink,
My tongiug soul would urn'to gone
Upon each shattered golden link
Tbaf bound my heart In other «lsyt.
When lighted by tlteiovfof bunm
Of eyes that no# no coldly gleam.
Twin atars that snone 'mid grief or glee
The whole of light und life to me.
1mm?
'“Max, you’re n fool I”
“Thanks!” murmured Max, lan
guidly.
“Well, you are I” Insisted his
companion, hotly, with the candor
born of long friendship.
He took out his cigar and laugh
ed, Ipzily.
“Will, if it is so, so it is, you
know -, and if it be so, so he it,” he
quoted.
They were strolling along the
Saratoga walks this delightfully
July evening, impulsive,hot headed
Max Warren, tali and liundsome us
m hero of romance, and little rosy
rubicund Jimmie Harris, with his
round, honest face und twinkling
kluo eyes.
There was also this difference he
tween them : Max Warren wus im
mentely wealthy. Jimmie scraped
along, year in and year out, on u
beggarly salary, maintaining j is
* honored position in so. :cty only he
cause of the genuine liking every-
vhereaccordcdhim. Another point
SO bis taVor was Warren’s deep re
gui fer him.
Though several years older than
handsome Mux, between them ex
isted a strong affection.
No|other man would have dared
to speak to Warren as frankly as
Jimmie did; Max would have
knocked him down lor his impel ti
der young lady, dressed In the
latest Paris fashion. She had a
lair, handsome lace, with quite a
coronal of golden hair and a pair of I
soft, lustrous eyes, blue as violets. I — - -
She brightened visibly as young ' the nouveaux riches by their lavish
Warren, lifting his hat, came up | expenditure Mr. Warren was al-
“A.li!” she said, softly. “His | Thalia Lynn, eitiing directly op
and Joined her.
grandfather originally made the : positc, looking pale and worn and
money in I rade, did he not? Doubt-j slightly passe, bit her iip as she
• ■- *’ saw them.
Jimmie Harris, beeming and jov
ial, made his wav over to them.
“H.w are you, Mrs. Warren?
Even'ng, Max." Say," in a whisper
to the latter, "look over there!
less he can make more in the same
way. One can always distinguish
ways so reckless in this respect one
W JUIUI.U Util i “J ' . , • |
From balow, Jimmie Harris saw I would imagine his wealth felt novel
the pair and frowned. He was very j and just a little heavy. Do you not; What do you say to me now?"
fond of the boy, and be listed to sec asree with me ?"
him throw himself away.
But Jimmie sprang up in a fine
“Xo, 1 don’t!” ho declared de
cidedly. “1 think a crown would I
What an exquisite night we I rage, quite forgetful that he baa
shall have for our sail!” Miss Lynn J provoked this outburst,
said, fanning herself.
‘‘And I must deny myself the
pleasure of accompanying you,”
Mux said, disappointedly. “I am
obliged to give up the citv by the j Max Warren J”
8:30 train.” , I And Max Warren’s loyal eham-;
“Positively?” queried Thalia, ; pion marched haughtily away. j
with a world of regret in her clear, i Wuilc left ulone, Miss Lynn we- i
flute voice. ! thought herself of the nterrupted j
“Do you think I would go were j declaration which had occurred
there any reprieve,” he counter- curlier in the evening,
questioned reproachfully. “A narrow escape!” she mur*
Their eyes met. Hers drooped j mured,
with an air of consciousness. j But there was an ache in her
“I’m sure I don’t know,” she an-! mercenary breast, for all that,
swered in a low voice.
Max Warren looks from Ms wifo
to Thalia Lynn and back again,
then, quite forgetting where he is,
grasps his friend’s hand and lifts
his giad eyes to the kindly ones
above him. No word is spoken.
not feet novel,a throne hut a fitting | Look and grasp are. enough. Jira-
s»at to such a splendid fellow as , mie is content.
OX THE AVENUE!
Sometliing Speoia
5
IX THE LINE OF
HtH Mil PROVISION.
L. B.
FORYSTH STREET, - - - - AMERICAS, GA,
n which he invites
But while Miss Lvnn was con-
“Youdon’t know,"bo ejaculated. ! gratulating herself on her escape
“Why, Thai!
j Irom an engagement with a penni-
cotton m
“Beg pardon, Miss Lynn,” inter- j less young man, and Vera llalton’s j
“Well, do ns you like,” deeideii
Harris, pulling energetically away
st his cigar. "Go and make all the
love yon please to Thalia Lynn;
Dairy her if you wish. Only when
you’ve made such a consummate
idiot of yourself, don’t confide your
regrets to me—that’s alt.”
“Phew!” whistled Max, good
- humoredly. “A tempost in a tea
pot! 8ee here, old boy; what have
you got against Thalia Lynn?
libs’s tbo prettiest girl at Sarato
ga.” ■ .. .
“Yes, she’s good looking, I ad
mit; but, back of all her wax-doll
beauty, she lias got a deuce of a
tamper. ”
“How do you know ?’’
“I am a student of men and wo
men,and I see more in live minutes
than any. blind bat of a boy would
ace in flve years.”
“Oh, wise young Judge! Well,
aoe doesn't want a woman all a red
ness. Too much pulls.”
“One doesn’t want a woman un
kind or headless, either, and Timlin
Lynn is both,” insisted Uarris
sturdily; and then warming to his
work, “a flirt and fortune hunter
io the bargain.”
\oung Warren grow grave.
“Hold on, Jimmie! Aren’t you
going a little loo far ? Will you not
admit any nobility in woman ? You
used to be more gcucrous.”
“Not In that woman,” decided
Uarris, chewing the end of bis
cigar quite viciously. “Xow, take
Vera llalton. There’s as true
hearted a little woman as ever
lived. Pretty, too.”
“Do you think so ? Is tier’s your
style—small, round, dimple, pink
cheeked nnd brown hiircd? She
has good eyes; but, all the same, l
plead guilty to profound admira
tion for Miss Lynn.”
Jimmie gave an indignant snort.
“Why don’t you marry little Miss
Holton yourself, Harris, if you ad
mire her bo immensely ?”
“I T I’ve a great deal to oil' r any
woman—a starvation salary and a
host of debts! Xo, thank you. Be
sides, she wouldn’t have me, and I
think she’s about right,” he con
cluded, savagely.
Warren laughed again.i s <azy.
mellow laugh,and pitched his cigar
into the water.
“Don’t depreciate yourrelf, old
\nbqy; it’s ungrat- ful policy."
rupted a voice behind them. “Will
yju excuse Max a moment ? There
is a gentleman to see him on impor
tant business.”
Miss Lynn clenched her long,
whito hand very angrily, and smil
ed very sweetly.
“I’ll see him later,” declared
Max impatiently, quite guiltless,
however, of an intention to use
slang.
“He can’t wait!” insisted Jim
mie, sturdily.
"Where is lie?”
“In tho billiard room. I'll go
with you.”
So, very wroth indeed. Max ex
cused himself and went away.
When they reached the billiard
room lie looked around.
“Where is-he?"
“He.-o!” replied Harris.
“You! Xow what in thunder do
you mean by treating me as though
I were a child in leading strings ? I
I’ll stand a good deal, Jimmie, but'
I won't stand that! Wbat do you
want?"
“The loan often dollars I”
Five minutes before bo had not
dreamed of making such a request,
but it would never do to provoke
tbe lad,
Warren burst out laughing.
"Confound you! Why couldn’t
you have said that at first without
waiting till I’d got through abus
ing you! Let’s go and have some
dinner. You know I'm off by the
8:30."
“For how long?”
“Two or three days. There's
your Miss Il.lton!
They doffed their hats are they
passed her—a little, while-clad
maiden of seventeen, with a soft,
wild rose bloom in ber dimpled
check and two brown, shy, starry
eyoe.
The friends dined together and
walked down to tbe station after
ward. Jimmie did not lose sight
of Max until tbe train bore him out
of the station. Then be breathed
sigh of relief and went back to
tbo hotel.
Thalia Lynn, sitting on the ve
randa in a low, rattan rooker,
swept aside her axuro draperies
and beokoned him as he came up
the steps.
She did not like Jimmie. With
a woman’s intuition she knew that
lie divined her putty plots and de
spised her selfish aims. But she
would make him uselul as far as
possible.
"Mr. Warren found bis Iriend ?”
sbo questioned, with a faint eleva
tion of her'pale brows.
Harris sat down deliberately, a
troubled expression on his usually
jolly face.
“Yes, and his friend brought bad
news. Awlul I"
“What was it?’’ asked Miss
Lynn, sharply.
But just at that moment up
came Vera llalton.
It was a rather risky scheme,
this one of Jimmie's. But he told
himself he would not go too far,
warm little heart was grieving for
poor Mux Warren's misfortune,
und Jimmie Ilurris was wonde
angrily what the mischief hud
induced him to concoot such
story, and how he was ever g
10 logieallv contradict himself, fate
took nil the tangled threads in her
own firm lingers and unraveled
them with prompt dexterity.
And this was how it happened:
A telegram flashed over the wires
to the station, from the station to j t
the hotel, Irom the hotel to tile gay
crowd collected on the beach, pre
paratory to embarking for a sail.
From lip to lip leaned the fragment
ary, terriblo news. A collision had
occurred. The out-going 8:30 train
had collided with the Xow York
express. The number of those
dead und wounded, and also of
those suffering from want of proper
attention, was something appalling.
Ilelpwns needed,and that, speedily.
For a brief space, all was confu
sion. Then, us though by the stroke
ofa magic wand, divisions foimed
of two distinct masses—those who
were to go forward to action, and
those who were to remain and play
tbe leas laborious roles of specta
tors.
Among the former, as the relief
express rushed out of the station,
were Jimmie Harris and Vera Hal-
ton.
In the first frantic appeal for aid,
some one hail asked Thalia Lynn
to go, but they bnd shrunk back
dismayed from the ghastly and un
womanly loke, that she preferred
beholding humanity complete to
seeing it in sections. It is doubt
ful that site would have been so
callous were it not for that which
Mr. Harris hud so lately told her.
At length the train stopped,
such a sight as met their eves! To
tho last hour of ber lile Vera Hut
to r. grew weak and cold at tliu bare
remembrance. But just then she
set valiantly to work, like the brave
littlu woman she was. Many a speed-
ing spirit took her Bweet image
with it intoeternity. Many a shut
tered frame struggled back to life
with strength renewed, thanks to
her gentle ministry.
It was nearly midnight, aid a
serene moon was silvering all the
landscape, when Jemtnio Harris
cuine hurriedly up to her.
“Come!’ he said, “I have found
Max.”
She was quite exhausted from her
exertions, but she look hisarinaud
went with him.
They found Max lying by an
overturned engine, very pule uud
faint from loss of blood. His bead
was cut, his arm broken.
Jimmio split (lis sleeve and Vers
bound the wounded limb with soft,
deft fingers.
And all the time he watched her
with a new look in his eyes. How
lair, and sweet, anil womanly site
was, to be sure. Harris was right,
after all. How could lie—bow could
lie ever have been idiot enough to
ignore such a dear, modest little
tune, TI '1 |T! *
HlFamilyGrocanes,
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SALT FISH, CANNED HOODS,
('BACKERS. CAKES,
CHEESE. TOBACCO,
CRIA US, SNUFF, &c„
Wlitr-ti lie propit-r* to m-H
cf tion with his stoic
SJLlEi,
which is supplied with
Fine Whiskies,
Wines and Beer.
lie aim* to keep tho host nrtirjes in thi* line
and fuelsconfident that iiymuri.v him u trial you
will call again.
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customers with
tint and etlreeilT.
-otiflnuo to r*pply hi*
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h* making it a ruin to keep tho bed that can be
had, which he will furnUh by the dr*nk or in any
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and that, if necessary, Ire; could j tiling lor a flaunting coquette like
later lay liis assertion on rumor.
"I don’t think Max would mind
my mentioning it before two such
intimate friends,’ ho continued, train
Thalia Lynn!
All the wounded and their nur
went back to Saratoga by the next
MONEY!
LOOK TO YOUR INTEREST
We have just completed arrangements with
the C ^|ffP n,nkia> T r!niTir>nnv of York,
for thie negotiation of Loans on impro ved farm
ing lands in the Counties of Sumter, Webster
and Lee. The short crops have made it nec
essary that some should'borrow money to set
tle their past due papers. To those we would
say, make no arrangements until you have
seen us, as we are now prepared to serve you ;
when lie bnd brought a chair for
Vera. “We were just talking about
Warren when you came up, Miss
llalton. Heard such wretched
tidings this evening. Special mes
senger-very distressing. Yon
know his entire fortune was deposi-
ed in the Great Southwestern
The following dav Warren
mother came to him. It wus some
time before he was fully recovered,
and then he learned that Vera Hal-
ton had gone to Europe with her
father.
But if she bad vanished Harris
had not, and the old frieuds had a
: OrJP- s WJones
Electric Light Association. Cor-1 long, confidential talk, the result
of which was that Max was inspir
ed with a frantic desire to leave
America.
One night a few months later
there was an immense audience
poration made bad investment
Gone higher than a kite—Max’s
money with it. Clean swoop. Too
bad. ’ Nice fellow, Max.”
And all the time lie was delivcr-
“I don’t; I depreciate my con- 1 w “ 3 closely watching the dainty
founded luck. And you won’t take ladies before him.
my advice ?”
ing his telegraphic information he j the Grand Opera House in Paris. I
It was the opening of the opera
season, and Patti was going to
sing.
There was quite a stir as a lady I
When he had finished, Vera Hal-
“No,” said Max, smiling, “I don’t | ton stood up abruptly, ber delicate j and'“gentleman"'toto oiieo’f' SSKrSJVSla
believe’ I will.” j lips tremb ing, and turning, walk-1 I
Muttering something decidedly , cd away without a word.
She was sorry, kbrry, sorry—so
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yut*ly tu cure all pain.
uncomplimentary to his friend, j
Jimmie wheeled round and went j sorry she dared not trust herself
away. And Max Warren went up j to speak,
to the hotel.
the boxes—be tall, fair-haired .hand
some; she a lovely creature, with a j Gcad fits Mail noil Gao l lor Boast
skin of rose and pearl, and a pair
ofsoft, dark eyes. Quite a bewitch- \ Pries one Dollar.
ing vision, too, in her foamy wed- , *
Miss Lynn drew her fleecy bnr- i ding dress of costly lace, with dia-1 asSuT *»■ nlD ,l " • ”**' ’
Thalia Lvnn was sauntering up j nous around her and leaned bick j monds in her hair and at her j
4 down tbe balcony, a tall, slen- 1 with a little shiver. * »••*»** ‘
throat.
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