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C. J. ROONEY & CO., 846 Broad St., Augusta,
A Water-Color Sketch.
A purse-proud, elderly gentleman
was Mr. Wm. Shelton, and at the
age of 55 was worth close upon a
million dollars. He resided in a
stylish house on 5th avenue, and
when the Four Hundred abandoned
Gotham he repaired to a lordly
dwelling place on the Hudson.
Jennie, the sole daughter and
heiress ot the house of Shelton, was
a tall, golden-haired girl of 17, at
the hour upon which this story
opens. Arrayed in a plain, white
muslin, and bare-headed, beneath
the shade of a gigantic tent-umbrel-
la, she is engaged in making a
sketch in water-color of “a glimpse
of the Hudson,” as painters love to
call them, and was proceeding with
great flourish of brush to produce a
rather spiritless daub, when a light
cough caused her to look up.
A tall, good-looking young fellow,
in ap ill-fitting suit of blue flannel,
stood gazing at the drawing, a smile
half contemptuous, half in pity upon
his superbly chiselled and firm
mouth.
Miss Shelton resented this smile,
and a flame of anger leaped up in
her heart.
“I beg your pardon,” she coldly
said; “do you want to speak to me?”
“Well, no— thanks”— the young
man slowly replied, his eyes still
scrutinizing the drawing; “unless
you would permit me to suggest
some alterations in that sketch.”
“Thanks!” she loftily retorted. “I
receive all the suggestions I need
from my drawing-master,” and she
haughtily turned from him to con
tinue her work.
The young man still lingered,
however, and after a little, exclaim
ed: “You are all wrong. Your
perspective is—”
“I wish you would go away, sir,”
she said, starting to her feet and
facing him. This spoiled, over-pet
ted child had never before been
spoken to save in terms of adula
tion. “Who are you?” she added,
almost fiercely, her face and neck
crimson.
“I am Tom Hale, a clerk in your
father’s employment. I have come
up from New York with an impor
tant letter and am waiting for an
answer.”
“Then go and wait in the servant’s
hall,” and the girl, snatching up her
sketch, strode rapidly across the
velvet sward, disappearing into the
house.
“What a furious fairy! and how
loveiy! I have, as usual, put my
foot in it. Well, what have I Dst?
Nothing. I have never been here
before, and never shall be here
again. And yet, hang it! I’m sorry
to have angered her; but her draw
ing is simply vile. Here’s the Ty
coon.”
Mr. Shelton whistled to his clerk
as he would to his dog, and, after
imparting his instructions, departed
with a curt “good day.”
As Tom reached the lodge he
heard the rustle of a dress,and an ex
ceedingly dapper young lady said:
“Please, sir, Miss Shelton begs your
pardon for her rudeness. She told
me to tell you this.”
“Say to her,” said Tom, “that I
was rude, and ill-bred, and an ass,”
casting his eyes, as he spoke, in the
direction of the house in the faint
hone ot catching a glimpse of the
repentant heiress. “Also, tell Miss
Shelton that I will make a drawing
of the same bit of the river, and
send it to her. She .can burn it if
she likes, but I’ll send it.”
Tom Hale was the son of a
wealthy sugar merchant, whose
partner went secretly into the
street, “plunged,” and was lost,
dragging Haie’s coin and credit in
to the all-devouring maelstrom.
Matthew Hale became morose, mis
anthropic aud morbid. His friends
dropped him, and he died railing
against his kind.
Tom, who had entered Yale be
fore the wreck of his father’s for
tune, was offered positions in the
counting-houses of several of his
father’s friends; but the latter would
accept no favor for his son, and the
latter, after aimlessly drifting for a
couple of years, obtained a position
with Mr. Shelton—a paltry $15 a
week situation, with little or no
hope of improved prospects. Tom
had no talent for anything except
sketching, and being a lazy fellow,
he never set himself to work to
make this talent pay him. Tom was
honest, outspoken, fearless, and up
to this bright May morning heart-
whole. One never knows when the
rosy archer’s arrow will strike.
******
Five years! Oh, the magic that
may be wrought by five long years!
A tall bearded, sun-burndd, distin
guished-looking man sat in Delmon-
ico’s cafe, smoking, and interrogat
ing a short, pudgy individual.—
“Five years in Peru, Tom; I can
hardly realize it. Why, it was only
yesterday that you came in and
said, *Ed, I’m sick of desk work;
I’m going to get a living out of this;’
and you showed me a sketch of a
bit of the Hudson that you were go
ing to send to some girl—you didn’t
mention her name, you sly dog.”
“I’ll mention it now, Ed.” said
Tom Hale, gravely. “I was about
sending that drawing to Miss Shel
ton. I—I suppose, that is—I hope
she got married—well married, be
fore her father became bankrupt.”
And he leaued forward, a strange,
wistful look in his honest blue eyes.
“I don’t know what became of
her. I know that she was single at
the time of the bust-up. Gracious!
wasn’t it a fizzle! Twist and Rlg-
gles got the old man into a regular
skin company, and the deeper he
got the deeper he had to plunge—
everything went. It was a silver or
gold mine in Mexico, and William
Shelton wasn’t left a dollar; not a
solitary, straggling dollar.”
“And Miss Shelton?”
“Nobody pitied either of them.
He wanted to own the earth and
everything on it. As for the girl,
she—”
“Not a word disrespectful of her
Ed! Where are they ? Is she with
him? Where is he? How can I
find them out?”
“Oh, hang it all, he wasn’t so nice
to you that you need trouble about
him. Tell me about yourself. Why
we were all paralyzed when your
father’s lost partner turned up and
made restitution. Honor bright!
how much did he really put up!
Was it a million ?”
Y'es, Mr. Phillimore had fled to
Peru, where he engaged in specula
tion. Fortune, as if to make up for
her cruel treatment in Wall street,
smiled upon him at Lima, and al
most at a stroke enabled him to
make good the losses of Mathew
Hale to his son Tom, to whom he
handed over his entire business. In
addition, when dying, he willed
every dollar in his possession “to
the boy of the man I murdered”—
so ran the words of the legal in
strument.
Tom Hale, by dint of hard and
very earnest work, discovered that
William Shelton was living in a
small flat in Brooklyn, supported
by his daughter, who was employed
in the capacity of daily governess
in a family in New Y'ork.
Little did that tall, beautiful girl,
neatly, but poorly attired, imagine
as she stepped into the Bridge cars,
that a pair of anxious eyes were
tastened upon her, or that the heart
of the owner was beating fast.
******
“This is too much happiness,”
said Jennie Shelton, bursting into
tears after she had read an honest,
manly letter from Tom, delicately
offering her father a sinecure posi
tion.
For the reply to his letter, Tom
Hale waited with a burning impa
tience. The answer came at last, a
few sweet, girlish words of grati
tude, and oh,joy! rapture! the iden
tical sketch which he*had ventured
in his open, honest way to criticise.
On the back was written:
“To Thomas Hale. May God
blessyou. Jennie Shelton.”
This all occurred last Easter. If
you join the brilliant throng pro
menading Fifth avenue to-morrow
you will meet Mr. and Tom Hale.
If you choose to follow them, they
will enter a large bay-windowed
m msion on Murray Ilill. And if you
will walk upstairs to Mrs. Hale’s
boudoir, you will behold in a gor
geous frame, a water-color sketch
of a glimpse of the river Hudson.
The quality of the blood depends
much upon good or bad digestion
and assimilation; to make the blood
rich in life and strength giving con
stituents, use Dr. J. H. McLean’s
Strengthening Cordial and Blood
Purifier; it will nourish the prop
erties of the blood from which the
elements of vitality are drawn.
$1.00 per bottle.
UKSOLimOMS OK THANKS
Adopted liy tlie Georgia (Fanners’ and Press Ex
cursion to Ohio.
Recognizing in .the agricultural
mtereets of our country the founda
tion of all prosperity, all other pur
suits being dependent thereon, It
must be true that he who fosters
and encourages the highest develop
ment of agricultural methods is a
benefactor. The Central Railroad
of Georgia, under its present man
agement, has been liberal and un
ceasing in its efforts to develop the
agricultural interests of Georgia,
having made liberal donations to
our agricultural fairs, sent a car
filled with Georgia products through
the Northwest, and In many other
ways has sought not only to advance
the interests of the farmers of Geor
gia, but to attract men of industry
and capital to our state.
In this excursion both the farm
ers and press recognize not only a
progressive and liberal spirit on the
part of the Central Railroad of Geor
gia, but also point with pride to the
fact that it is the only excursion
ever tendered by any railroad to
the representative farmers of any
state for the purpose of investigat
ing the methods of agriculture pur
sued by farmers of other sections,
and therefore feel that not only
their gratitude, but the gratitude of
the entire people of the state, is due
the management of the Central road
for its liberality aud enterprise.
We therefore return our sincere and
heartfelt thanks to General E. P.
Alexander, president, ana Major M.
S. Belknap, general manager, for
their efforts to promote the mate
rial interests of Georgia,
To Maj. W. L. Glessner, commis
sioner of immigration, for the Cen
tral railroad, we consider the high
est meed of praise should be award
ed for the conception of the scheme
which has brought Georgia into
such prominence, and the admira
ble execution of which, to the min
utest detail, promises lasting and
beneficial results to the state. His
tireless energy, thorough practical
and business capacity have not only
impressed this delagation, but have
aroused an interest in Northwest
Ohio, which will inevitably stimu
late among the young men of Ohio
a desire to emigrate to the empire
state of the South. His well de
vised plans to accomplish this end
meeting the approval of the broad
and liberal management of the Cen
tral railroad, have resulted in this
trip, which is without parallel in
the history of the state, and in the
opinion of this delegation is des
tined to prove of incalculable ad
vantage to our grand old common
wealth.
We also desire to express our
thanks to:
The members of the Slate Board
of Agriculture of Ohio, and the offi
cers of the experimental farm, for
their kindness and courtesy in af
fording us the opportunity to inves
tigate the experimental farm and
the products of Ohio as exhibited at
the State Fair.
The people of Wellington, Ohio,
for the cordial welcome which they
gave us and their efforts to make
our visit a pleasant and profitable
one, and we assure them that we
will ever hold them and their beau
tiful and enterprising little city in
grateful remembrance.
The mayor of Cleveland for his
cordial hospitality and efforts to
make us leel at home in his beauti
ful city.
Mr. John T. Mack, editor of the
Sandusky Register, for his untiring
efforts to make our visit to his city
and vicinity one of pleasure and
profit. We parted from him as one
whom we had learned to loye, and
will ever bear him in kindest re
membrance.
The Fruit Growers’ Association
and Board of Erie County Agricul
tural Society, for the fine banquet
tendered us at Cedar Point, and
also for the information given us in
regard to the fruits and agricultural
products of that section.
To the citizens of Kelley’s Island
for the courtesies shown us in a
*ride through the vineyards of that
gem of Lake Erie; and also to the
Kelley’s Island Wine Company for
a visit through their cellars and a
test of their wines.
The citizens of Catawba Island
for a pleasant and most instructive
Visit through the peach orchards.
Ex-Gov. Charles Foster and the
Toledo and Lake Erie Boating and
Fishing Association for the splen
did entertainment given us at their
club house on Middle Bass Island,
a most charming spot.
The officers of the steamer Ga
zelle for a most delightful ride from
Pul-in-Bay to Toledo, one of the
most pleasant features of our ex
cursion.
The Board of Trade of Toledo for
a ride through their growing and
prosperous city and visit to their
leading manufactories. We rejoice
with them in their prosperity and
send them our best wishes.
Secretary Farley and directors of
the Tri-State Fair for the courtesies |
shown and information given, I
which was of great value.
The Press Club of Toledo for a
charming evening spent at their
rooms, in which we were made to
feel that in the order of knights of
the quill all are brothers.
The Board of Trade of Dayton,
who spared no efforts to make our
visit to their city one to be long re
membered, and they were success
ful in the highest degree.
The Gentleman’s Club at Dayton,
with whom we spent a most de
lightful evening, forming acquaint
ances who will be long remembered.
The Montgomery County Farm
ers’ Club, w ho not only took us to
their homes, but to their hearts,
and from whom we learned many
valuable lessons of thrift an enter
prise. The day spent with them
was one of the brightest spots in
our journey.
We feel that we have but mea-
£e ,- ly expressed our gratitude for
the uniform kindness and courtesy
shown us by all the people of Ohio
whom we met, and there are many
individuals whom we would like to
especially mention, but the list
would be so lengthy that time and
space forbids making but brief
mention. We can only say that w T e
appreciate to the fullest extent the
cordial welcome extended to us by
the people of Ohio, and we hope
that an opportunity will soon be
afforded to us to give to them a
warm-hearted Georgia welcome.
W. J. Northern,
Sam’l Hate,
Felix Corput,
A. H. Richardson,
E. W. Barrett,
Committee.
Planter’ll I.oan anti Savings.
The Planter’s Loan and Savings
Bank of Augusta, and of which Mr.
L. C. Hayne, an old Burke county
b >y, is president, is carrying on a
successful and sate banking busi
ness. It gives close attention to
collections, lends money. at low
rates of interest on satisfactory pa
per, gives drafts to any part ot the
business world, and allows interest
on deposits. It is the oldest sayings
bank in Augustn.and has an unbrok
en record tor wise management
and-successful results.
The “Life of the of the flesh is the
blood thereof.” Pure blood means
healthy functional activity, and
this bears with it the certainty
of quick restoration from sickness
or accident. Dr. J. H. McLean’s
Strengthening Cordial and Blood
Purifier gives pure rich blood, and
vitalizes and strengthens the whole
body. $1.00 per .bottle.
—All goods strictly first-elass at
Scherer’s.
Augusta Hotel,
Augusta, Ga.
Large and well Ventilated Rooms. Central
ly located near railroad crossing. Telegraph
office in the building. Headquarters for com
mercial men Best $2 house in the .South.
Electric lights. Electric Bells, Special rates
be the week or month.
MARSHALL &. CO.,
Merchant Tailors,
220 JACKSON ST.,
Augusta, : Georgia.
mar2,lSS!)-iim
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ARLINGTON
HOT £ L,
WAYNESBORO, : : GEORGIA.
J. W. C. CitITCHELL, Prop.,
NEW SHOP.
I have just opened a
at the old stand back of the Court House,
where I will do all kinds of carriage work,
Repairing and Sharpening Gins, Sewing Ma
chines and Furniture repaired.
*—DIFFICULT JOBS—»-
of all kinds—A SPECIALTY.
B. H. MOBLEY,
apr27,’89-bm Waynesboro, Georgia.
ALEX. G. CARTER,
Dealer in
LIQUORS, WINES,
CIGARS, and LAGER BEER.
Corner ot McIntosh and Fenwick Streets,.
AUGUSTA. GEORGIA.
Liquors at wholesale prices, The
best whiskies always on hand and for sale.
Special attention given to the JUG
TRADE in Burke.
Remember the best, purest, and
Liquors, Brandies, Wines, and Cigars.
aug.S'Sy-am
830 BROAD STREET,
Augusta, Greorgia,
Sells the Best-
$2.00 WHISKY
Y'OU EVER DRANK. GO TO
T. IHC. IVEY,
of Waynesboro, and your order will receive
Prompt Attention.
ALL GOODS JUST AS REPRESENTED.
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