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RACHEL
Royal Moore was Racliel Heath’s
first love, and she had reached the
age of 2!) before she met him—quite
an old maid; and yet at that age a
woman knows her own mind, and
her love is much more likely to be
lasting and true than the ardent
passion of IS.
Rachel’s life had been such that
she had never any chance for what
is called falling in love. Her moth
er had died when she was very
young, and the care of an old and
sickly lather had come upon
Rachel. She had fulfilled the trust
faithfully. She had borne all the
old man’s querulous fait finding
with gentle patience; she had sub
mitted without a murmur to being
kept in the sick room while her
young acquaintances were gath
ered together enjoying themselves;
and though Mr. Heath might have
spared her as well as not, she never
called him selfish even in her
thoughts. He was her father and
to him she owed every duty.
So her sweet youth wore away,
and woman’s crowning blessing
was denied her; and its cheek lost
its sea shell bloom, and her dark
eyes gathered shadows of thought
and sadness which should never
come to young eyes.
At last old Mr. Heath died at
the age of eighty-nine, and Rachel
was left ail alone.
it was then that Royal Moore
came into her life. lie was a phy
sician, and had attended her father
for the last week of his existence.
Something about the girl’s calm
quiet endurance—something in the
self-reliant strength of her charac
ter-touched Hr. Moore’s interest
before he had even noticed that
she had a clearly cut face, rather
pale and a little sad, with large
hazel eyes and a wealth of curling
brown hair.
After Mr. Heath died and Rachel
was left in the house with only her
Aunt Edith for a companion, Hr.
Moore applied to Miss Heath
for rooms and board. Rachel
would hardly have taken him, so
accustomed had she become to
loneliness,and so much did she dread
any breaking up of old habits, but
Aunt Edith was strongly in hi
favor, and so it happened that a
fortnight after Mr. Heath’s death,
Hr. Moore was comfortably estab
lished in the soudi chamber of
Rachel’s house and was taking his
meals opposite her at table.
A couple of months they had
been engaged when Laura Sayres,
a distant cousin of Rachel’s, took
it into her head that she needed
the sea air. Rachel lived in the
little seagirt town of Beauview,
and to “Hear Cousin Rachel”
Laura wrote she was coining.
Rachel remembered her as a
child—golden-haired, blue eyed and
waxen-faced—and of late years she
had heard something of her wonder
ful beauty, which had made her tne
belle of Washington the past season,
for her father held an important
office at the capital, and during the
winter his family were with him.
Hr. Moore was not over-pleased at
the prospect, for he had detested
fashionable ladies, and he had no
doubt my Lady Laura was frivo
lous and vain as the majority of
them were. He had so much rather
have his little Rachel all to him
self. Then he kissed her fore
head and slid his arm around her
waist and drew her to his side, and
they stood silently together and
heard the waves beat on the shore
and the crickets chirp in the grass,
and neither of them dreamed of
the cloud which was even then
gathering in the calm sky of *heir
felicity.
The next day Laura Sayres came.
Just twenty—a slight graceful girl,
with hands like sculptured marble
and an arch rosebud of a face
framed in a mass of crinkly golden
hair, tied up with azure ribbon and
falling in a shower of curls down
her shoulders. Yes, there was no
gainsaying the fact that Laura
Sayres was a beauty, and Hr. Moore,
being a man, could not help ad
miring her.
She played and sang finely, too,
and he was fond of music. Rachel
foresaw that which was to come,
but she bore up bravely against it,
and was always kind and sweet to
Laura and gentle with Royal
Moore.
Laura, accustomed as she was to
being admired and flattered, appro
priated Hr.Moore without hesitation.
Aunt Edith mentioned his engage
ment with Rachel to her, but Laura
had lived in the world where en
gagements are formed and broken
to suit convenience of the parties
and she attached no importance to
the communication. She had only
said:
“Why Aunt Edith! engaged to
thatoldmaid! It is too bad! Why,
Hr. Moore is one of the most splen
did men I ever met.”
“Laura,” said Aunt Edith, severe
ly, “no man can be too good for
Rachel Heath. She is the noblest
and truest woman I ever met.”
“Oh, yes, auntie,” returned Laura,
“I know she is a perfect saint; but
then she is so grave and old and
she wears her hair in such horrid
style! Not a puff, nor a friz, and,
I’ll venture to say, not a thread of
false hair!”
“No,” said Aunt Edith, “Rachel's
head is too full of good sense to
allow herself to be done up in hair
from the scalp ot any lunatic or
criminal.”
Laura llounced out of the room
in a pet, and revenged herself by
hunting up Hr. Moore and coaxing
him to take her out in his boat. It
was twilight when they returned,
and Rachel sat on the piazza and
watched them come up the shell-
paved walk with an odd pain in her
heart. She did not understand Hr.
Moore. Suddenly something seem
ed to have come between them and
to have changed the genial, happy
young man into a restless and
capricious trifler.
All the brief summer Laura
lingered at Beauview, and Hr.
Moore was ever her most devoted
cavalier.
Laura confided her hopes to Ra
chel one night after the girls had
gone to their rooms. She should
marry Hr. Moore, for she liked him
vastly, and then he was rich and of
a good family.
“I did think he was engaged to
you,” went on the selfish girl, “but,
of course, that is all over, No man
loves and neglects a woman at the
same time. And you must be older
than him!”
“I am 29—Hr. Moore is 30,” said
Rachel, in a cold harsh voice, which
surprised herself, and if he loves
you I should advise you to marry
him.”
“You are such a dear, good crea
ture,” cried Laura, kissing her, “and
I am so glad that you do not care
anything about him. It would be
so awkward, you know, if you did.”
It was early autumn now and the
evenings were growing chilly.—
Rachel had a fire lighted that night
on the sitting-room hearth.
Laura, all in a diaphanous cloud
of white muslin and agure ribbons,
sailed in just before it was time for
Hr. Moore to come from his office.
“A fire! a wood fire!” she cried,
gaily; “how charming! Royal and
I are to practice that new song to
gether, and really, it would have
been chilly here without the fire.
You are yery thoughtful. Cousin
Rachel. I wonder if 1 will be as
good when I am as old ?”
She went close to the fire and
held her small, white hands out to
the ruddy blaze. Her sweeping
skirts trailed over the hearth—a
breath of air from the open door as
Aunt Edith came in swayed them
a little nearer, a tongue of flame
seized upon the flimsy fabric, and
in an instant the unfortunate girl
was wrapped in a cloud of fire.
A fearful temptation beset Rachel.
Ho not temptations, at times—temp
tations dark and evil—beset the
best of us? It Laura perished,
Royal Moore would be hers cnee
more. The thought went through
her brain like lightning, but she
cast it behind her with impatient
scorn.
The next moment she had torn up
the hearth-rug and wrapped it
around Laura, forcing the scream
ing girl down to the floor, she suc
ceeded in smothering the flames,
just as Hr. Moore entered the room.
She thought it very strange that
he should spring to her side, and
ask if she were burned, before he
ever look 1 at Laura; but after
ward he lifted the poor young girl
in his arms and carried her up to
her room and dressed her wounds
and soothed her as best he could,
By-and-by he came down, and
found Rachel out in the moonlight
under the yellow maples. She had
bandaged both her hands, for they
were fearfully burned, and she had
told Hr. Moore she was not hurt.
“My dear little girl!” he said,
drawing her into the sitting room,
“you haye deceived me—you are
burned. I must see after this my
self.” And he took off the wrappers
and grew Dale at the sight of the
poor scarred and blistered hands.
She submitted to him quietly.
Ilis touch brought back to her
some of the sweetness of the old
time. And she had made up her
mind to tell him this very evening
that he was free.
“Rachel,” said he, when he had
finished dressing the burns, “I want
to talk to you a little while. You
have given me no chance lately,
and I have been very unhappy over
it. I have at times almost began to
fear that after all you did not care
for me as I thought you did.”
“I desire your happiness above
anything else,” began Rachel brave
ly, “and when I saw that you were
pleased with Laura, and indeed it is
not strange, for she is young and
handsome—”
“Pleased with Laura,” said Hr.
Moore. “I was never pleased with
her, dear. I have been playing,
you will think, a very mean and
dastardly game, but my conscience
approves me! Two years ago, Ra
chel, that girl flirted with my broth
er Henry, and broke his heart! He
was young, romantic and very sus
ceptible! Her beauty enthralled
him. She, like the heartless flirt
she is, led him on until he knew no
rest nor joy away from her. Then
when his devotion became trouble
some—for there was another suitor
on hand—she laughed at him for an
idiot and frankly told him she had
never thought of marriyng him.”
“She had only been amusing bet-
self, and supposed he was doing the
same. It was so ridiculous tor peo
ple to get in love. Henry went to
his lodgings, entered bis room, lock
ed the door, and blew out his brains
and when this girl who had caused
his death just as surely as though
her own white hands had held the
pistol—when she heard of it, she
cried out: ‘What a fool! But there!
I always thought he was kinder
week somehow! and he was so
fond of me! Hear me! how disa-
greable it is to have men falling in
love with one.’ By the side of my
poor brother’s dead body I made a
vow that if ever destiny threw this
false and treacherous girl in my
way I would punish her for her sin
against him, and I have kept my
word. Perhaps it is not noble or
generous for me to say it, but I be
lieve she loves me. And, Rachel,
darling, I love only you!”
Despite poor Rachel’s involunta
ry shrinking back, he took her into
his arms and kissed her in the old
slow, sweet way.
Ho her lost happiness came back.
Laura Sayres was not able to
leave her room when Rachel and
Dr. Moore went quietly to tfie vil
lage chapel one morning and were
married.
And when Aunt Edith tokl Laura
of what was going on—and Aunt
Edith had a wicked sort of enjoy
ment in telling her—you may well
believe there was a scene.
The next day Laura went home.
A month afterward she married
old Goldbrim, 70 years old, and
worth a million; and the old man
still lives and leads her a life of it.
Hr. Moore and his wife are living
their contented, quiet, country life,
all happier maybe, for tiie cloud
which once came across the heaven
of their love.
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AUGUSTA, - GEORGIA.
oct28,’87-by
“An idler is a watch that lacks both hands;
As useless it it goes, as when it stands,”
Alas! how many women, though
household and children need their
care, are necessarily idle, because
suffering from diseases peculiar to
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Saysit Anyhowe—How did you
ever come to marry Mrs. Barrett?
Grinand Barrett (frankly)—I mar
ried her for her money, she said
she’d be worth a million on her
wedding day—estimated me at
that figure, you know. Saysit
Anyhowe—Why she deceived you
shamefully. Grinand Barrett—
Well, I was deceived, that’s a fact
but great Scott, man just think how
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—Largest assortment of plain and
fancy crackers at C. E. Scherer’s.
IF YOUR HACK ACHES
Or you are all worn mu. really good for nothing
it is general debilitv. Try
II ICO II M’S f ICO .V HITTERS.
It will cure you, and give a good appetite. Sold
by all dealers in medicine.
roil Tilr, BLOOD,
Weakness, Malaria, Indigestion and
Biliousness, take
BROWS'S IKON BITTERS.
It cures quickly. For sale by all dealers in
medicine. Get the genuine.
Dr. Moffett's TEETHIHA (Teething Powders)
Allays Irritation. AMs Digestion, Regulates the
Bowels. Strengthens the Child,makes Tetthing
l£*sj and Costa only 25 Cents. Teethina cures
Eruptions and Sort3, ai d nothing equals it lor
the bummer troubles of Children of any age. 11
it safe and mire. Try It and you will never be
without TEETHINA as long as there are Child
ren lu ths House. Ask your Druggist.
Whitehead & Co.. Waynesboro, Ga.
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H ENTIS T,
WAYNESBORO, - - GEORGIA.
Office at TIIE ARLINGTON HOTEL
my4,88by
G. J. Murphey, M. D.,
PERKINS’ JUNCTION. GA.
Near Birdsville, offers his professional ser
vices to the Toili District; Prompt attention
given to all calls da or night mnr28,’S9
DR.-:-GEORGE-.-A.-:- PATRICK,
Formerly of Winkler & Patrick,
UDerrtlst Office,
Rooms over J. B. White’s Dry Goods Store,
Central Hotel.
720 BROAD STREET,
-fi-W Q-USTA, - GKHOIKGrr-A.
I&jj“ Office hours front 8:30 a. m. to G p. in.
junelo, ’89-hxn.
Capers D. Perkins.
-DENTIST.-
G12 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
—OYER BEALL’S DRUG STORE.—
G RADUATE of the University of Mary
land Dental Department, has opened
his office at the above named place, where he
will be pleased to meet any who may need
his nrofessional services. hinl2’85tf
MONEY!!
CHEAPER THAN EVER
SIX PER CENT.
TIIE GEORGIA
m
Of Atlanta, Ga.,
Negotiates Loans on Farm Mort
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by writing to them or
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WAYNESBORO, GA.
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Whitehead & Do.,
PURE*DRUGS
Medicines, Paints, Oils,
in Tinrrun
j, irnuumunq
Toilet Articles, Etc.
Waynesboro, Georgia,
In Fancy Soaps you wll! find Pear’s,
Oat Meal, Brown Windsor, Cuti-
cura, Marshmallow, India Ro
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mium Boquet, C a s t i le,
Cold Cream and Sil
ver Soaps. In fine
Perfumes; Palmer’s
White Rose, Heliotrope,
Victoria, :-OCean-:-Spray,
Jockey Club, Rose Geranium,
and many others too numerous to
mention. Bverybody invited to call.
PATENT MEDICIN ES, ETC.
PRESCRIPT IONS CARE-
FULLY AND PROMPTLY
COMPOUNDED.
WHITEHEAD k CO.,
DRUGGISTS,
Waynesboro, : : ; Georgia.
julyl6-tf
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Loans negotiated on
improved farms at reasonable
rates of interest and small com
missions. We are now prepared
to negotiate loans for our clients
on BETTER TERMS THAN
EVER BEFORE.
LAWSON & CALLAWAY,
Waynesboro, Ga.
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Terse37- ZETla/ts
Chill Cure!
Guaranteed to cure any cases
of Chill and Fevers. No cure,
no pay. 50 cents per bottle.
Sold by everybody.
For Sale at Wholesale by
Waynesboro, Ga.
Whitehead X- Co.
marl(i,’89-l>y
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Constination, Sick-Headaclie-& Bilions TronMes,
For Sale by
ALL MERCHANTS. AT WHOLESALE
BY' WHITEHEAD * CO.,
Wnydesboro, : : : : Georgia.
marlG,’89-by
BARRETT’S TONIC
-CURES-
HEARTBURN and INDIGESTION.
Pleasant to the Taste.
As an appetizer it
everybody.
is unequaled. Sold by
mar 10,’89-by
Advertise in The Citizen.
W. L. DOUGLAS
$3 SHOE CENTLEMEN.
Best In the world. Examine his
*55.00 GENUINE HAND-SEWED SHOE.
*54.00 HAND-SEWED WEI.T SHOE.
*53.50 POLICE AND FAR MICKS’ SHOE.
83.50 EXTRA VALUE CALF SHOE.
83.25 WORKINGS!AN’S SHOE.
83.00 and *51.75 BOYS’ SCHOOL SHOES,
All made in Congress, Button and Lace.
W. L. DOUGLAS
S3 SHOE lad°i r es.
Rest Material. Rest Style. Rest Fitting.
(f not sold by your dealer, write
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KOK SAJ.E HV
Ij D CHANCE. Mnnnerlyn, Ga.
££•?” Examine W. I.. Douglas ?2 Shoes for
Gentlemen and Ladies. janl9,’89
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YOUR
But do not use the dangerous alkaline
and mercurial preparations which destroy
your nervous system ar.d ruin the digestive
power of the stomach. The vegetable king
dom gives us the best and safest remedial
agents. Dr. Sherman devoted the greater
part cl his life to the di eovery of this relia
ble anrj sa,fo remedy, and a!! its ingredients
are vegetable. He gave i: the name of
Prickly Ash Sitters!
a name every one can r jmember, and to the
present day nothing has been discovered that
is so beneficial tor the BLOOD, lor the
LIVER, for trie KIDNEYS a hd tor the
STOMACH, This remedy is now so well
and favorably known by a!! who h2ve used
it that arguments as to its merits are use
less, and it others who require a correct
ive to the system would but give it a trial
the healih of this country would be vastly
improved. Remember the name—PRICKLY
ASH BITTERS. Ask your druggist for it.
PRICKLY ASH BITTERS CO,,
ST. LOUIS. MO
SO MORE EYE-GLASSES
wait
MORE
MITCHELL’S
Eye-Salve
A Certain, Safe, and Effective Remedy for
SGRE, WEAK, & INFLAMED EYES,
Producing Long-Sightedness, & Restor
ing the Sight of the Old.
Cures Tear Drops, Granulations, Stye
Tumors, Red Eyes, Hatted Eye Lashes,
A5D FE0DUCI5G QUICK BELIEF iXD PEB3USESI CURB.
Also, equally efficacious when used in other
maladies, 6uch as Uleera. Fever Sore*.
Tumors, Salt Rheum, Rurns, Piles, or
wherever inilammntion exists, XITCHEEZ,’3
SA.E VE may be used to advantage.
Sold by all Droffeiets at ‘JO Cents.
june 13.’89
The ★ Star
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REPAIRERS^ ^
T.HARRY OATESfyCO.
AUGUSTA, GA.
OCt JO/SY—1>- \
Tulfs Fills
To enre costiveness I lie medicine must
l>e more titan a purgative. To be per
manent, it must contain
Tonic, Alterative and
Cathartic Properties.
Tutt’s Pills possess these qualities in
uu eminent degree, uml
Speedily Restore
to the bowels their nutuul peristallie
motion, so essential to regularity.
Sold Everywhere,,
FEMALE MEDICINE
By giving tone to and strengthening the.Uter
ine System and building up the geueral health.
INDIAN WIJRD
corrects all Irregularities and annoying troubles
from whleh so many ladles suffer. It gives the
weak, debilitated woman health and strength.and
makes cheerful the despondent, depressed in
spirits. In change of life no lady should be with
out INDIAN WEED. It is Safe and, Unfailing.
Ask your Druggist.
For Sale by Whitehead & Co. scp21,’88-by
inay25,’S9-by
5-Tor? Cotton Gin Soaies? $60
Beam Box
Brass Tare Beam.
■Warranted for 6 Years
Freight Paid.
ACENTS WANTED.
£e»d tor Term**.
JONES HE PAYS THE FREIGHT.”
For Free Price List, Address
JONES of BINGHAMTON, Binghamton, N. Y.
june22,'89-iim
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Boots, Shoes
-A-ITID hats,
IVBuSherin, Rsce 4k Co 7 s. 5
Augusta, Georgia.
We must close out our Winter stock with the seasou, and
in ordhr to do so we have marked down our goods so that they
are within the reach of all. Do net miss this opportunity to
secure some ol the finest bargains of the season.
MULHERIN, RICE & CO.,
913 Broad St., Sign of the Large; Red Boot, AUGUSTA, GA.,
Branch Stotc, 1 Doors Above Augusta Hotel. oct.H.'SS
TO THE LADIES!
-OF-
WAYNESBORO AND VICINITY
-to|-
Mv Stock of Spring and Summer
MILLINERY-:-GOODS
will as usual be found full and complete, all of the latest styles
and most fashionable patterns, ever shown in the city of Aagus-
ta. My stock also embraces many new and seasonable novelties
that will be sure to please, and all of my o-oods will be sold at the
Most Reasonable Prices.
[JmIP Call and see me, or write tor prices and terms befjre
purchasing elsewhere.
MRS. N. BRUM CLARK,
Opposite the Monument.
oct22,’86-bv 719 Broad Street. AUGUSTA. GEORGIA.
GRYFTOGONGHOIOS YPHONOST OMATS
Thinking of commencing a store ?
“STOTT
If so, send me SI-3.00 and
I will send the following goods
SHICTTKEIL.'Sr PACKED!!
TINWARE—>2 dozen, Quart Coffee Pots; dozen 2 Quart Coffee Pots; dozen No. T
Wash Pans; 1 dozen Pint Cups: 1 dozen 9-inch Pie Plates; dozen 2-quart Covered Buckets
dozen 3-quart covered Buckets; dozen 4-quart covered Buckets: dozen 10-quart la.-k
Pans; dozen 12-quart Disli Pans; '.-dozen 14-quart Disli Pans; 2 dozen Teaspoons: 1 doz.
Tablespoons; 1 dozen 2-quart Milk Pans.
GLASSWARE—1 dozen Butier Dishes, assorted; 1 dozen Sugar Dishes, assorted: 1 do:
Pint Milk Pitchers; Q dozen quart Milk Pitchers; ' 4 dozen I and Q quart .Milk Pitchers: g |
dozen 2-quart Milk Pitchers; dozen Lamps, Stdnd Complete: ‘ u Lamps; 1 dozen 8a:'-
Cellars. ADDRESS,
TH03IAS 3IEDD,
5, 10,15-Ceut Store,
jan26,’89-by
31G Broad St., Anguota, Ga.
WE BEAT THEM ALL!
AUGUSTA FURNITURE PALACE.
Strong Bedsteads,
A Good Bureau, ...
Washstands ,....
Mattresses,
Pillows,
•Sideboards,
Chairs, . .
Beautiful Pictures,
Parlor Suits from .
Bedroom Suits,
Lounges,
Springs,
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$27 00 to i 250
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FLEMING & BOWLES,
S3S Broad Street,
oc(27,’8S—tf
THE LEADERS,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA,
SCI Ellis Street.
CLINTON S ROTTLING WORKS,
1348 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GA.
Lemon Soda. Pear Cider, Sarsaparilla, ete. Orders Filled Promptly and SbiPt'A.j.
Express. Circulars and full instructions as to prices, etc., furnished on appltcsth’-j-
ephone, 142. »pr8. y ,
C. F. KOHLRL SS,
CORNER WASHINGTON AND ELLIS STREETS,
Augusta, - - - -
Leading Monument Business for Artistic W'ork, and Reasonable Prices,
the country carefully boxed and delivered at Augusta depot free of charge-
Oeorsfi* 1,
Work.
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EVAPORATORS,
CIDER MILLS,
HALL’S FIRE-PROOF SAFES.
THOS. M. CLARKE & CO., Atlanta, Ga.
LOW PRICES