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7H* Wt TC7R. ' 3t So i .' is . r , •_• : • .a: v a t\,i in-4 VOL. IX. NO. 9. ■nSWlrmQWimt*r*m&&m- 1 SOS+ia n n-r \f P\f APV w J UXj illLJluIi JL 0 I OF * 4 PAST *^ k -*■* S S ' BY ADRIANA BPADONL g She e», toils , ., sot , neither ... does she , spin. . _ Bu.-the , rest does . apply re ^ i ot to Donna Maria Joaeta. Pent and wrinkled, bar thin lips, stained at the comer with tobacco, worked nervously over hsr toothless gums. The thin hands that hold the black shawl round her should- ors are knotted with rheumatism. the shawl slips back the skin beneath shows dry and withered like yellow papei Still Donna Joseta claims to be only n ’- a " i ( J '‘ claims she makes, who can contradict? As she herself would say—no have di:- «rer la. For thfrty-seven years out of the flfty-hve Dozuta Josefa has lived in Saa Frant i.a», and in ai st on a ot at that For close on two score years her different homes have been within a lew blot of each.other, and never one be- yonc 3c limbs ol the Spanish quarter. For Oonna Josefa speaks no Hngiish. Not one word can she say. aot one can she understand. When she first meets . U ^ ;'. U0W liU V|”. ! . , .VV, ; . * God ' has ; ’ “^“r'the e m™ beautiful tongue in i ,? £ rr ' J 'j.V" ° learn anothe. •c&ides, Que , cla have?’’ Ro Donna Joso. jntiuv.es to live al¬ most la the shadow of the Spanish , church, in a house as old and dilapi¬ dated &a herself. Thirty years ago it was built, one of the few places scat- herod on the lower slopes of Russian Hill. Now artistic, shingled homes lock down on it from abofe, and cheap, modern flats crowd it <W Still stands .weather-stained and lop-m re- 1 , S £ tt iSe? C K °' ° Outside Donna Jot*fas , . door , yon will „, stand and gasp, boi i, \ real readme. Partl> from me m;K o a'-r, mo-, y rrem surprise. For long since Donna Jo- * fa ;.(.-covered t.iat ,ne proper p. -ye for every tiling « the flo*,. , and acct-i togly everything Is In its p.ace. Dirty clothes, rag*>, empty lan ps, on: with tobacco, orange peel, tomatoes and oil stove, dishes, sauce- rn^^S^f^b^s stone mortar, nail run oi corn, bo.vis w-ift, villainous mixtures into which one is afraid to pry too close y, orum a, dirt, and in the midst of it all, on a cot propped up with a cobble from the street, sits Donna Josefa, old and week and helpless, guarding her one sarrhiy possession—the memory of a P»Ft. How she lives Is an economic mys- tery. , „ Some times, , evrei yet, . she , sea a But betw<*cn times. There e a wayB soma tobacco In .he P°- - ‘"<1 c ^“ a ‘ lUv shell she usee as a box. r. few chi is oa the floor and an orange, or a ,anana E-rwtr.rtaswliiw drop, • . Wh -tar f ob from heaven she dm not exp tan, and I Aid not question. AS. uea she gets . ired of sitting ...... on the oot she walks out in th« sun, along t ie stretts where sh- iiv for avven years, and v-.ere to ay kbe b turn, be, p.tue ntaJa™ and ^ Jse grsv gray momow stone m r- tar upside c.wr o keep the rats from running over them. But be corn she leaves in aa o; ■ u i.-ag, ond tbe* rats make the best of the situation. Fifty-five yeart ago Donna Josefa was born in Guadalajara. Mexc^the ! l being born 1 . 1 . Her parents were not rich, but they bed enough. Josefa went to the convent «nd learned to bow and pray like any other w«?U»bre<l senorita. Then, when she was fifteen, she left and went home to sit In id.eness till a husband'D,ouId appear, eager to let her continue that occupation in a home of her own. In a year be came, wlt.h _ youth, good looks, money and a heart for Joecfa and Josefa only. But he wse a foreign- or, aa Italian. He mtgnt ae well have been a Hottentot. Joeefas mother, a .conservative of eocfiervatlvee, swore that no girl in her senses would marry other than a Mexican. Josefa swore that rhe would marry lior Italian or no c»e. Her mother promptly shut her Cp aad began a novena to Ma,ry of loupe for a change in bor daughter's heart. But Mary of Guadaloupe was evidently tniay elsewhere, for Josefa re- mairv«d true to her Italian. In six months the mother grew weary of the struggle and gave her ooosent. A few weeks before she was seventeen Joerna was married and txwne to San Fran- ctoeo. straight to quartern where Bhe now lives. For the first few years everything vrvnt well. Josefa had money and ecrv- ants. She «*i noth tog heavier them em- broidery or ths finest of Mnxkmn drawnwork Even now, after more thaa fifty years, she speaks of the wealth at those days with bated breath —"twenty-*ix.thou3and pesos. seno*«ta twenty-fils thousand l" r t- ' r f- \ "J iSBC1| ^WC ! 'Si -: <£\ . •'*';, '*' .; " ref re*/ # THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CLINCH COUNTY. Bat where is it now? Gone! How did it go? Donna Josefa herself could not tell you. All she Knows is this: It was; it is not. Whether it went in j j stocks whether or they mines simply or used real it estate, she has or up, | | no absolute knowledge. lifts She shrugs her bent old shoulders, and her knott- hands ’ for the saints to witness that while it ,, lasted , . . she , made , Antonio’s home a happy one> aad remembered the j, oor> jjor did she know till the lest p^os had disappeared that the whole oi the miraculous twenty-a*.- thousand was a thing of the past. "Ah, mother of Qod, what a day!" cries Donna do¬ s ®*" a a centui y after, m Ttlftn •** £»?“ M * Jo6 ® t0 fa W for |f , th ? U>T f ' rst ” tir y ’ e bbe did the cue thing that she know how . to do. . ace .. sowed. , She , was young. oj. worked well. There were no big ; garment factories then, rhere were no unions. Those who could do line hand- work were liberally paid. And Antonio, who w::s not of the ci. ,ren race of Meaicnn? The same old si* -y. With hard work J >.’« brown ! , I-' i eheeks. grew dull. T' re,;'; hid* i from j : Aa.-ibio woman c:..u»\ | J<- nger and pr i..*r chWlwa| Tmio went l- 1 .. :; to !a», it v,as j Ji rher stayed •.•remaa’s tare. money With ihat to- going k him. of j j ■■ a 1 .. Antonio went the last reason for iiv-1 1 D< I Jes*^ p-a T) Ua ,ireu ■- - re. . , ■ ’• R‘s factor*.- s up . .vy- 8t ■' lna Joerfa « stin ....... " ***». w c: fore.-d u.iti... f i a wi-i;... s»<e took "k houu'from the fnctc lies, but at j 0 ,. ty g y, e was bioken and old and alow, Then the factories stopped giving it, and Donna Josefa was a thine of the past. Treble to speak K :*?Urh, she si .-yed close to her owu >ple, and j v- .it down, down to where she Is now. j Tire : it she helped w n she had i a. i all gone, or they ir. .a poor ‘ D ■■’"■■y were then. H- ;'.•• m otv • ! rera Josefa says ibis ia an aa- , rcuntrj . Uatk tn ber briC7 ^ ( ;.,;..., ua . . „ a .*J bn,.re a | ' " l ' ?l ' • 1 - hlt have not. Tim woman who cannot do! , pr ov ,, , xrk ,. a:J u f( . r h „ r by j i ,,.... ; , rx .... her8 st dl money, D , nlie y an( ^ the Mexicans are aa bad aa ^ Amerleans . Donnft j osefa makes a F , ve4 , p j n g gesture over the filthy room. ** (n Ouadalaja,” she says, "it would not ^ Hert ^ Some one would do it for ms,) I cannot pay, so no one does It , ()m 0)( , and alck# and j bave Mvcr th(lt klnd ot work /* j WO nder ! i wMf ' h !s tl! ‘' ™' ? ** When , had {t » she continues, “I ^ t0 al! who Mked . No one ^ In va , n p*j VC! building hundred dollars I gave | toward the of the.church of Guadaloupe, and four of my gold rings wi;h stones, senorita, with stones, are buried under the foundation. Now X i have nothing, only God and the saints,” j Then Donna Joseta will lead the way j back to another room, and if you know j u ,- t |, ow to manage, you can have the . hiosn bound chest lu the oorner opened.' It i. full to the lid with remnants of ^ pMt Bu| chu>f trasLHure 0 f all. a p,i.,,re t -repe scarf, with a heavy border C ' i ft bud-- I ana Josefs unroll* It renfully and holds it up. "From the . , . ;. when he loved me," she says, bUb. put! pl No persuasion can make her . - t **>;e,-er again. Never, never." on ^ rf’>■■ is. Like the aid lhy im —ht 1( .. . loves me not, Donna Jo- whole life is divided into two " h ” be }oved ‘ ae ~ and uow - ■y,.- •• £ j. e f.dmits, "I lovs him y*-L" ;;>j . ,, . ; ^ ^ tl)lrty yearB hM c j, ;liig , k . "He wu* my heart, my .. ay f, ii,” alio cries, while tsars trickle over the dry, yellow sklo. "Did ; f _ ot IIms good o>d gtVe him to me for JiUelMt . idj and would you have me for- ’• For thirty years I have cried night • ad „ Now K1 , tear; Ere dry. 1 bave criw] my eyes ^ ay .. ever r€ j y \owe Douna j oge « a w* ,. At yea; at firgt p,ved me jj l|t other—she was younger ttnd p r( ^t; ( , r than L” .Vgtvtaet L*er IXmnu Josefa has no anger. Antovilo loved j t T;ag cot tu tp.e nature of things for her to remain oold. ftuflika, w j )k (> { thirty y«a.rs, Donna Jo 8 e j a kas t> u nt a philosophy. It is ^jg “AU men are bad—ell, all. Worn- pr . is ( . vcr the victim. Don’t marry, 8eaorlta *• Bhe warcs , elenebing bor j k j n> iwistwi hands, while fer once her (Aa.r-tired ej’es IWl. with righteous i'i- dlgBaUf>u . “ Not if he Is king of France, Qf Spajn> of the wor j (J , • But the next raoine , lt s j, e takes a picture out of its j jrty vet ftn( 3 H with a lock and vfc j tY of a i lttle c hjld: "Bu: ts he nU ^ c , ;nej my Antonio?” An i ^ si)e tiiri yet. ---------- I Japanese Chess. I Japanese chess Ib complicated. Th® board is nine squares Instead of eight squares, and each player bss twen.y pieces, of eight kinde. pliK-ed in three rows. Bach kind of jrteee has Its own pcouliar move, and if you take your op- j pobcnt’s man you add It- to your forces. The pieces are fiat, like ohereiors, vrnb designs on both sides, anil wnyn they j reach the '•king row" they are turned ] over and take higher ranks and powers, which are not the same for all piece*, HOMERVILLE, GA„ FRIDAY. DEC 29. 1905. ________- r.„- 1 THE DKEAM y *•» « $ jTHE 4v AKIMr. Si ® 5? And .... a»erc, in ... the midst of chatter- a tag, gesticulating, fashionably clad throng stood Mary, ptuk-uieeked, smll- tag and talking animatedly about art; Mary, In strange, esthetic array, with the train of her clinging gown coiled sorpentwise about her feet, her 1 pretty hair dragged forward in a pale brown i . : .«t that threatened to drop ovos her 1 . t! '. > tin :;.oat, and a ivre tucked ’■■•Mud her dainty ear. [ Could she be that demure, shrinking country girl whom Robert had escorted to rural dances four short years ago? : Evidently the painting under coasid- • eration was the work of Mary’s hands, It v.’as a portrait ot an 'amasingly tall, reed-like woman whose scanty dra- : perl os seemed in eminent danger of slipping off altogether. Robert looked j Dom Mary to the picture and back sev- j er*l times before his bewildered con- I spiousrecs grasped the significant fact of her artistic achievement. Then, quite j suddenly. Mary turned and saw him. i with "Why, unfeigned Robert delight, Nearing!" gblng she forward-! cried j with outsretched hands. “Robert. In-j ii was not at all what he had hoped she would say. or, rather, not the way j «?«»»•»« r^erv^oi manner was gone; | lior ready smile transferred Itself from i the company to him with unprejudiced i sincerity that made it drearily imper- sonal. “Of course, you’ll stay for a little , chat about borne folks!" she Insisted, "I live here w!.’! Miss Gilbert, my rl- j val get in art, and, being gored togethef." Bohemians, | we on swimmingly ’ Robert stayed after the silken throng i had draped fluttered lamp off. Mary stand lit the pink-j on the little with its ba li-emptied wineglasses, drew up an, easy chair, and seated hoi red where ! the light fell rosily on her pre ty, suiil- log face. She asked all manner of q um Ions about the old friend.-and h-.r brother, who had fostered tar orphaned childhood with paternal tenderness, “Dick hasn't been in to see me often | —or.ly twice. In fact," she told Robert. "U t I really don’t mips him half as , much ai 1 feared I might, tad so many other Interests have com* Into uiy , , *• : n . is one of the Tritorc ;t; ’ I :ip- ■ Hohcit. v.. d 1 po a 4 -i-nc on her deck; the photogi*.;:U of i a . ., lih a kandsome, 1, re rec I and * e of singular, womani re I re’y. Mary’s f«ce took a delicate roitectlon of it < re.;es on her bosom and a sudden radiance flashed across her line Uke a gleam of sunlight on still waters. , "Ha is the dearest fellow in the world," she answered, blithely. “A jolly good fellow straight through." Rci*ert did not trust himself to an- | ew .i He picked up the picture and looked closely, but unseelngly at the ; handsome, debonair face of his rival, 'while he fought down the pain of de- Pit. for the look In her eyes when they strayoi toward the picture of "the dear- c,,t fellow In the world” destroyed the last vestige of bis hopes. He woe a man of fine character, sternly upright and eweet-uatured, but j slow of speech and singularly reserved. He had loved Mary in patient silence for Blx DJars, during •which his secret hopes had helped him through much t re, ,. ;;d disappointment Now thaui realisation of hie ambition had ,gi i him the rigl.t to speak there v.^s auo* 1-r man In his light—a man against whom he bad not the shadow of a chance. . tagaged to marry himr he asked presently, In a hard, conetralned vote that quite startled Mary. - 0h . d<;ar , no," she laughed. "We’re eburas—good follows. He Is a writer, ai)( p llke moat of the tribe, poor and charming. He writes siories alxiut me and poeoa for my sketches. Neither of nr think of marriege. We talked Uiat question all over and came to a nensi- tie understanding.” ' And you’ve given up the Idea of marrying?" Robert asked, Mary nodded and bit oil the tip ot the bu l she toyed with. "Will a career satisfy you?" "Perfectly,” Mary answered, glibly. "We live as you see, ia a happy-go- lucky, unconventional way. We sell our work when we can, v.-ben we can’t —why, then, we don’t,” she laughed with an Irresponsible sliiog. "Strikes me you’ve changed a good deal,” said Robert, soberly, after a thoughtful pause. “I don’t like the idea of you living (j.ft way, Mary,” avid the young fellow, involuntarily glancing at the wine j ’ j aa6e6 .,' j Th!B jg t^g^ae 0 f your absurdly oa e-eid«fl view of ttiings," she laughed. gckJ( i-ndtui’edly. "U is great fun, re- aJly u rj1ie (ol tbe humdrum , Wg ^ the oia-fo^hioned woman, ; <xhat Is Juat why I object to it. I’d ra ;y cr you happily inari ied and set- down in what you call 'humdrum w<? , than Ilving aa you do here j Ccl ,i dn - t you paint as well even if you .carried?” _ uo: said -,ury, very positive¬ ly. y-ilh a laugh at rue absurdity of sn ' L a thought. ‘ Marriage spoils art. Bet what of yourself, Robert? Why don you take your owu advice and seii down?" ‘,-cause," said Robert, gravely, '' " ‘ &' :r ‘ la the world to me and she doesn’t want me." v>t> .. miu . dlcd out ot Mar >g mo.".ontarlly. ■d .U St: sorry, Hubert,” she said shn- ply. Her eyes strayed Inadvertently to •'o picture in his hand, and she won- deti i vaguely if she was "the only worn an la the world" to Ted Hartley * **»•** ' j 'hat night Hartley called with the P r0i ' s of a story which he wanted Mary to isad. It was a bnlliauOy written Bke'cJh of a decadent type, in which a man ot the world had wooed and won a l«l worldly woman, ’ 'don’t like it," Mary told him frankly; “it leaves a bitter taste In the tnouth.” "Taya well," said Ted, complacently. “And, by the way, the story la a true one." “Are you the hero, Ted?** “I am," he admitted, uublushlngly. “And the girl—surely she is a mythr* "Your quondam model, Eleaor Frost.” "Elenorl And she loves you?" "Does that surprise you?" Ted asked, lighting a cigarette and leaning im h she docs.” ’ "Ted, you deliberately made her bo- “I succeeded perfectly, as you will see by the story.” Mary’s eyes hardened, and a curl- ous pallor supplanted the rose of her cheek. “Are you telling mo tho truth?” she asked, In a low voice, “This time—^es.” ----------- GEORGIA, /ujaiwh » ClllH'li , COR Illy: Notice ia hereby given that * ^ H _. <f j j j. ^ til* 1 dinarv of Said count V- for ‘ k . a to sell lots., lot in Du _ P 0,l! , ' (,:i ,, ” bdmiging , , - to . H.ccs rate “of Lida B. Mobley for the purpose of education and mainlainance of the children Said application J will be beard V fh ............ u ' , vm nf Court ol ,, Ordinary for . said . . county to be held on the iirst Monday *’ in Jan. 1900. HilS . Dec. 4. , 1909. . J. A. Mobley, Guardian of Minor children of Lula 15, Mobley, GEORGIA, Clinch county: S. A. Pierce administrator of Gi f< egtatft of Li Her J. Pierce having filed bis application for leave to sell the following property ! ’tnwif belonging of to ids in- tMt "I' , , ' • Lot lunil No ' $ -^ ri 1 > ^4 ^ 1 J . of ° r lot , 1 ]( t t £ No. K °’ B80, rw tl 175 i*« • - , acres in _ the S. 1-2 of lot No. 582, bounded North lands of Frank Touch toil and E. S. and W . by original ? land lines. 800 ' “V°* r « 4 488( <.o (> o f () a i'J* 8 V 1 « i. t '’ plftCe ,,n< OI J lift', known lain li. as B. Johnson, Ih* homo all lying the 12th district of Clinch COIIllty Georgia, fia< All j that persons are application hereby noti- said will hu * ......i I* 1 1 Y °1* ,i 1M il^st Monday W . in ' .January . Dfinie, 1900. J. T. Ordinary, SPECIALS. o are spcciallj" fitted to .soli you a Thornhill Light Running cross tie. wagon for one to four mules. Don’t wait till the prices go up to buy your wire fencing for the season. Men’s and boys’ clothing. Ladies Jackets and capes. Specialty reduced prices during December. Now opening the handsomest line of china, glass-ware and holi¬ day goods ever before shown at right prices. New lot cook stoves, furniture mattresses, etc., just arriving. See us before you buy. One of our Reversible Disc Harrows will make farming easier and life longer. Manor Trading Co. Manor, Ga. A A 50 CTS PER YT.AJR *• '■* ,£.* i> **»*».*-(-• , fiiSi ; :f, . ;. c '■& * H. J. PEAULER, President. 1J. L. LANKFORD, JR. I ;A \V. T. 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