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4 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, FLOUlt. MEAL, BACON. 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. DON’T FORGET THE PEACE •in* thi .tro mu! irivc me a c:>ll when in wan. of W. H. EVANS, Cotton Avenue, - Americus, Qa - •opu’lm'! REMOV A Us. FLOUR! Warranted to Lv the. BEST IX AMERICUS t or Biuncyj’dfundod. CRACKERS! POWDER! i selling nt manafacttrreY Canned. Goods! I have the hue it line of Canned Good-* t i full woi gilt and lit J. G. EDMUNDS0N ut« all hb cuMoiners and every owe eU« u* know that hr; hut removed to More, room Next door to P. II. Williams, COTTON AVENUE, BARTLETT PEAKS, pine APPLES. STRAWBEHRIE8, BLACKBERRIES, PEACHES, TOMATOES, GREEN CORN. STRING BEANS, CODFISH BALLS. PRESERVES AND JELLIES OF ALL KINDS. PICKLES-BUNKER HILL, GHERKINS. CHOW CIIOW, MIXED. BUCKWHEAT FLOUR AND OATMEAL. CODFISH AND YANKEE BEANS, FULTON MARKET BEEF, CANNED SALMON AND MACKEREL. CANNED I1EEF. IIAMS. DRIED BEEF. CREAM CHEESE, FINE GOSHEN BUTTER, AND EVERYTHING ELSE IX THE LINE OF Fancy & Staple Groceries! I ALSO KEEP TIIE FINEST BRANDS OF LIQDOR.S and. CIGARS ANI) KEEP BUDWEISER BEER ON ICE. NOTICE, All parties indebted to tile late Arm of Boswortb & Jossey are re quested to call and settle tbeir accounts without delay. All accounts and notes not paid by November 1st—or satisfactory settlements made —will be placed in tbe bands of mv attorney for suit. L. B. BOSWORTH. Americus, Gn., Oct. -16, 1883. tf customers with tint and etlreeilT. -otiflnuo to r*pply hi* THE BEST LIQUORS IN THE MARKET h* making it a ruin to keep tho bed that can be had, which he will furnUh by the dr*nk or in any quantity wished. He alto keeps a fine line of Cigars, Tobacco, AND Fancy Groceries. America., Oa., Sept. u. 1 vV,. m3 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 at low rates and expeditiously. R. T. BYRD & CO. I which can he taken inter' l externally by th<> tender* m and powerful, acting «1U • system, pr«v»*.:cinir i»*»t*nt .•ir.blin dSecoverca Klccirleltvand the dout!*; I’tof. .We around tli«* world in fiy iW'NMwr, an*l Dr, Joan 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. | At.!. ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED tftTb'vll dirvetio • accompany each tattle We Wt »lto Af«t» foe ibe following i Standard Insurance Companies j HOME, OF NEW YORK, INSURANCE CO. OF NORTH AMERICA, PHILADELPHIA, GERMAN AMERICAN, VIRGINIA HOME, OF RICHMOND, LIVERPOOL, LONDON AND GLOBE, ROYAL, OF LIVERPOOL, which wc can pivryoa safe and rt liable. In tun txce to any amount WE AUK ALSO AOKS18 FOR TIIS NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY! Ore of th* mo*t reliable ia the United State*, who«c TONT1XE PLAN !• ft moot valuable fiati Call und oec »* in reja-d to it It will pay y ou to examine t li feature of life Inturaue; Americus, Go., Not. tl, 1883, tf