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FI/ THE FAITHFUL COUPLE. Son »re still a youth to mo, John, You uruiulll my bonny boim ; Him »amo ns when \tn pii^btod troth IAiJJ II Uy y«ur» n/io ! Ttw sumo as wbon our wedding bells Kang out so glnd and r»y.” An<l here the good wife breathed n sigh And shook her locks ol gray. M Jt seometh strange to me, John, Who married you for ave. Who holds the rkig you gave me as The apple of my eye, To see the youngsters ne’er content To give their hearts and hands, •A***-did in the good old times, Without the scrip and lauds! “1 didn't bring yon much. John, And you bad little more; But we had health in place of wealth, And plenteous Joys In store. And through the joy nnd strife, desr, We each one did our part; And now we’ve one another still, As wo had ut tUe start. “The times have sadly changed, John, _ Since you and If ere young ; ihe marriage lie iWightlv held And many a heart is wrung. And yet you’re young to me, John, And still my bonny beau ; The same as when we plighted troth bull tlfty years ago I’' -Mrs. M. A. Kidder, iu Now York | nlar, nnd in agreeable if of one reject “And jon Mn ia Torrin ne<s that wout bad I not know “Yes,” I saidptfly,“asked, you frequently.” Ledger. AVWA JW.A.AA. i The Wrong: Note. A jflt Ai JBm. jfic > V-«r'V->r-trir>v5i I W VVVVVWVVW When - I left the train at Elmwood And found that no one was there to meet mo I was surprised. Twice I i walked around the station vainly peer- 'ing into the githering darkness in March of the Torrington trap. I was .nonplussed, for I saw nothing but a nokely public hack, with a ri ketv were out of the sanll the shining jliorne and a rickey driver importuning nia to become his fare. Loath to be lieve my eyes, I sought the station agent., , VVasn t Mr. Forrington’s carriage boro to meet this train?” I asked. I The man shook his head. “It was down for the Ji o’clock.” ha “Took a gentleman replied. ofl.” Ibis announcement served to in- jerraso my perplexity. Here I, hav ing been lornially asked to spend Snn- ^oay at a house and having formally t accepted, was compelled to make my iway thither in a public conveyance, ; whilo another had been met at the station and carried off in comfort. Over this unusual condition of affairs I puzzled my brain on the drive out to loniugtou’s. The discomfort of ^y position was heightened by the in creasing darkness, for the rickety Jhorse made no very good speed, and I .realised that the dinner hour was rap idly approaching. Butat length we rat tled through the nates and up the --—through the gates drive to the house. I’ Torrington greeted me on the Ijerauda, which was so illy lighted ;tbat I could hardly see her face; yet ■it struck me that there was confusion in her tone. ■nbl 1 gla<1 . to flee You,’’she ■aul. It s a surprise, indeed. ” I “Surprise?” I said. “Y ou knew I Was coming.” t" h !, raurmureJ . hesitat ingly. But it a so late we’d given you up. You must hurry for dinner. 'Hobson, show Mr. Bottomley his Here a tall figure loomed out of the idariuiess 1 aWAhe ^hVegronnit,~ffnd be- Jfore I could follow the servant who 'had taken my bag my hand w as seized and a heavy voice said: “Hello! old man; glad to see yon.” I i “Why» hello, Bi ooks!" I exclaimed. •'I’m glad to see you.” “Qlad to see you—glad to see you,” ;I repeated, as I followed Hobsou into the ball aud up the stairs to my room. (»> Glad to see Dick Brooks! Glad to see the man with whom I had been racing for two years for the fair prize below. When the servants had gone and I was alone I stamped the finer vigorously aud tore open my hag with lunch violence as to send the coutents scattering in every direction. This filing was getting nupleasaut. I could overlook the lack of hospitality iu al lowing me to make my own way to the house; I could forget her evident surprise at my coining after I had been formally invited by her mother and had as formally accepted: but I could not forgive her asking Dick Brooks and myself at the same time and driv- |ing him home in triumph, as it were. t I was angry—so angry that I erura- ipled three ties iu dressing and started down to dinner with tun shoes on,and when I finally entered the drawing room to find the family awaiting me. family,” I said, once we hea-ing of tlu mother, brother, the father aud rival. 1 tnink we had cause to he sur- i prised,” she sai l, coldly. Caise! J cried. “I received a not i from your mother on Thursday askmg me down for Sunday. I ac- 'copied.” You declined,” she said, in a tone that brooked no contradiction, “and so I telegraphed to Dick to come down. ‘ e!) » position you placed me in. I couldu t let him know he was second fiddle.” We had stopped walking, and she stood facing me in the lignt of a win dow. Her glance was oua of deep ieproach. “We are always glad to have you, as y.,u know, hiit this time it just a little embarrassing.” “But I accepted,” I maintained stoutly. “Your note said plainly, T that another engagement my »> “Jove! ” I broke into a laugh. What are you swearing about? I don t see anything particularly amus ing.” How stupid I had been from the first. Why Maria,” I said, “it was my unit, and until this minute it never occurred to Ine - 1 ff ,jt your mother’s note on Thursday. I had an engage ment to meet a lawyer late this after noon to try and settle a case I am con cerned in. As I couldn’t attend to the business and catch the last train out I determined to try and postpone the mat er. So I wrote two notes— one accepting, the other declining the invitation. I took them both down town next day, and as the attorney consented to my postponing the meet ing I mailed the nr>cAr>fai>s.o >> is not so the position so asked me,” t on, with a cool- astounded me "1 like yon said, fixing was still fumbi leaves. It hardly seei look so kindly her eyes back yon choose be “Xo,” she very much,” she on Brooks, who stick among the lir that she should r rival, so I called by asking, “Can’t us?” d, after a moment of thoughtful sre, “I’ve tried very hard to, hut Ip. A plan of choos ing was suggefto me by your un expected comic “Wo are bah go away aud stay away?” growlprouks. bark. ” rted eagerly tow- ised her hand in “One may “I?” Bro ard her. Shi warning. “I don’t “There is an riage being a; increase the sent I shall scheme that and careful “Are we ti “No. Tb two notes,o a refusal, envelopes, mailed. T the refusal “Commit Brooks which,” she said, saying about mar- tery. I propose to ces. If you two con- ry out at once the ve got up after long sing” s a penny?” I asked, ifteiuoon I s^iall wri o i acceptance,the other vtill he put iu plain ed up, directed and le of you who receives never haio an opportunity to gloat over me. f would go abroad. I would exile myself rather than witness one minute of his triumph. I would take the very next steamer—no! After all it would but add to the satisfaction of my rival to have me eating my heart out in some foreign city. Fa\’ better to s!av right here in New York; to work and become famous, to bring home to the girl a full sense of what she had lost by her foolish lottery. But why should I waste my life in dull office drudgery? Why should I, with a solid income inherited from indus trious forefathers,throw away the good things of this life for an empty bauble, for the sake of a petty revenge on a silly woman. Hilly woman? A bold woman who had repaid my homage by gaming with me. Would a true hearted girl, a girl worth having, have played with a man’s love as she had done? She was a flirt—-an infernal flirt. How lucky was I in getting the wrong note—how fortunate! I sprang from my chair and danced around the room, singing a snatch of a seng. A bag, half packed for tho jcuruey, canght my eye, and in a frenzy of joy I kicked it and sent the coutents flying over tho flo r. A knock at the door interrupted the celebration of my good fortune. It was the hallboy with a telegram. I opened the despatch and read: “Dreadful mistake. Letters got mixed. Sent you wrong note. Come. Maria.”—New York Sun. Smith Ca clinsand Georgia Saiiread Chapaiy- , “Tuh ChabxiE.stov Line.” EAST DAILY, tv Augusta 6 20 a ar Aiken 7 08 a ar Kingviile 10 10 a ar i.'oluinbla 10 55 a ar Charleston 11 00 a regret prevents Z^^I mailed the acceptance. “ You mean you got them mixed and sent the wrong one,” she said. A hal jl remembered that I had forgotten to brush my hair and was conscious that 'it was all standing out at tho hack. It .seemed that, flustered and dishevelled, I was making a very poor showing in comparison with the immaculate 'Brooks. h “I »m very glad to see yon,” said iMrs. Torrington, cordially. “It’s a special pleasure, as we understood yon weren’t ” Maria glanced sharply at her mother, and the kindly woman stopped, flushed, aud added: (“As we were afraid you weren’t com ing. The train must have been late. 'But come.” t I shall never forget the dinner that followed. It seemed as though there |was a pall over the little company, or, irather, over all hut Brooks. He is a .clever fellow, I admit, and, seeming to realize that the rest of us were em- j^Mirassed and hampered by some se cret which could not be his, he pro ceeded to make the best of things and to hear the brunt of the conversation. I Bat at length it was over, and Mr. Torrington cornered my clever rival over coffee and cigars, while I slipped •way aud, though it was late in Octo- her and a stiff breeze was blowing from fthe sea across the bleak meadows, .crackling cheerlessly throngh the dy- : iug leaves of the trees, I succeeded in ‘inducing Maria to take a walk on the veranda. I “Now, tell me why there is all this £ajpriM os the part of you and yoar omUM. Ugw. a to give place to a settled Iook of dis- pleasure. “And I wired to Dick Brooks.” I laughed quietly. “What are you laughiug at?” she asked. “Brooks must be puzzled over yon having us down here together.” She resented this inference as to onr mutual relations by turning sharply and, carrying herself witlrex- aggerated erectness, entered the house, with me followiug crestfallen at her heels. Brooks was puzzled; so extremely puzzled that he hardly said a word ut breakfast, hut was quiet aud thought ful, an unusual mood for him. I could see that he had an important piece of engineering on hand and trie 1 to block his schemes, but despite my subtle moves ho succeeded in inducing Maria to take him out to the pond and show him the trout. For a time I chafed in the library under Mrs.Torrington’s verbose recital of the difficulties of se eming funds for a certain deserving hospital, and ut leugih,unable to bear the rest: aiut longer, rather abruptly excused mvself to take a stroll about the place. My steps camel me in the direction of the pond, down the drive, over a stretch of lawn, through a grove, till I was halted at the sight of two hats protruding over the top of a bush u few yards away. “Maria,” 1 heard Brooks say in a more earnest tone than I had deemed him capable of assuming, “I have waited now for a year for an answer. Sometimes my hopes have been raised —raised only to see yon shower kind ness on that fellow ” I whistled to the collie that had been bounding along near by, and when Maria Torrington and her com panion stopped hurriedly into view I cried “Hello!” Brooks looked foolish and replied “Hollo!” Then he began stirring the dead leaves with his stick. For a moment all of us must have looked foolish,as Maria,her face crim son, stared blankly at a distant tree- top, while I leaned over and fell to patting the shaggy dog. The silence was broken by the girl. She had completely recovered her composure, aud, fixing her eyes on me, said: “Harry, as you have doubt less heard, Dick—Mr. Brooks—has just asked me to marry him.” “Asked for the thousaudth time, muttered Brooks. His clean-shaven face was turning red from the tip of his chin to where the hair divided. A man seldom objects to having it known that he is attentive to a woman, bat to have her blazon it forth to all the world, and to his worst rival in partic- cide.” glnny countenance gave credence to aisplcioa that in event of his receivingio wrong note he would resort to sjdestrnotion. Tho girl, however,spe-ily crushed all hopes of such escape om suffering. “You shaJ*nof!” she cried. “If you do I shs never speak to either of you again’ There wan long silence, and then Maria lookeifrom one to the othei of us and said,!arnestly; “You’ll agree to my plan, .on’t you?” “There isnothing else that we can do,” said I. “Nothing.'’ repeated Brooks. Iu fact tlj scheme rather appealed to me, for q late things had not been going so snuothly as 1 could have de sired. It Yad seemed at times as though Books was drawing away from me it the race. Now a chance had been offered. Once for all the question would be settled. Then, my luck was usually good. The plan was not so agreeable to my rival. Doubt less he Self, that he had the advantage of me and iu entering into such a game was gambling to obtain what was al ready alniosi his own. He had no blit ti) t thon^h. “It sedna hard, ” he said to Maria, “but y (m J will it, and I obey. ” “It is qgroed, then,” said she. Brooks* aud I bowed. The throe of us walked back to the house. I was up early next morning at my rooms in town. • I had calculated everything to a nicety. The postman would reach the house at 8.10 o’clock. The train for Elmwood left at 9 o’clock. Provided the contents of the note that I expected were satisfac tory, I would just have time to break fast and reach the ferry. Should the note prove to be the wrong one, I cer tainly would not need any breakfast aud much jeas to catch a train. I had beenawakA at dawu; excitement had driven sletpp from my eyes, and the dragging Utmrs gave me more than ample oppe rtunity to figure out my chances. revolved over and over again in u y mind the history of my acquaintan e with Maria Tom igton. I review*™ my own life and picked out incideu s in it in which luck had played a pi t, and I found such a bal ance in m favor that I was almost convinced iat it was useless for me to worry ov r the outcome of the game of chance 1 was playing. Having brought mj elf to a state of compara tive confid ace, I begun to pack a couple of hi 5s full of clothes, for I had made up in mind to make a long stay at the Torrigton house while I was about it. .4 I stuffed my golf things into a pm tnknteau I pictured Maria nnd myself Bodding over the links to gether. Asal folded up my riding clothes I tfttnght of the gallops we were to Uavl and I broke into song, and as I saul I forgot all about the note that wl then on its way to me and workedjwayas cheerily as though it were hnt Be matter of an hour till I was speellg to her. But a loud knock at thadoor called me back to realities, an! when the hallboy held toward me a nuare envelope addressed in a small, jugular hand, I realized that, perhA, after all my joy had been pretnaire. Decidedly prema ture! The ibto was brief, so brief that in an inant I comprehended its conteuts,saul into a chair and, tossing the paper fnn me, repeated the fate ful words: Bliss Torrington regrets that, owing V another engagement, she cannot ftcept Mr. Blank’s kind invitation toiecome his wife.” Why had lever consented to risk all on a mei throw of dice? Why had I tried win by a gamble what other men w ked, waited and .suffered for years to >btain? It wonld not have been so ad had Harkinson, who had been oat f the game a year, won her. Bqt tha mob Brooks! He wonld EAST DAILY, tv Augusta 3 20 p ar Aiken 407 p ar Kingviile 9 20 p ar ColumMa 10 10 p ar Char lea ton 8 00 j> CAMDEN BKANlH, NOKTH tv Kingviile 10 25 a ar Caiuilcu 1155a Iv Kiugvillo COOa nr Cumdea 8 25 a xisr daily. iv ' I'-vlcstuu 710 a Iv Cnlviobia 7 oo a lvK!uR»ii| a ar Aiken 1103 a ar Augu 1151 n wrsToAii/r Iv CharlHMuu f. SO p Iv Coiumbia 4 0# p Iv Kiugvilte 4 44 p ur Aiken 0 57 p ar Augu.-ta 10 45 p daily except Banday. SOUTH. Iv Charleston 8 45 a nr Kingviile 10 05 a Iv Cumdea 2 25 p ar Kingviile 4 35 p AIKEN ACCOMMODATION. Dally except Sunday. Iv Augusta 6 40 p in Iv Aiken . ..4 15 p m ar Aiken 7 30 p m nr Augusta 0 07 p m via Denmark. North and South sleepers to nnd from New York. Through. Iv Augusta .. .3 05 pm ar fUchmond. 3 40 pm a - Washington 7 00 am ur New York . .1 23 pm Iv New York 9 30 pm Iv Wnahug’n 3 10 pm ly Hiehm’nd 7 31 am ur Augusta.. 810 am TWO CALVES IN THREE MONTHS. Iti innrkable Performance of u Cow in South Carolina. W. McC. Venning of Mount Pleas ant is the proud possessor of a coyv that has given birth to two calves within the last three months. In June she became ihe mother of a healthy calf. Since then she has been a steady milker, nnd n few nights ago aston ished the little village by having an other offspring. The second calf is a stout, well-built young animal, and is sporting around to the amusement of the villagers. The first one is almost large enough to eat hay, and is dis posed to fight its younger brother for the mother’s ull'ectign. The cow is still furnishing milk to her people, aud does not seem to think het feat near so strange as the citizens of Mount Pleasant do. For a time Al hambra Hall is forgotten, and from all sides of tho town the children have swarmed to see “de cow wot have two ealfs in free mouths. ” , But there is no fake about fhis cow. If the story is doubted it viill he au easy matter to get bundles* of proof and affidavits from Mr. Vending and others. The oldest Charlestonian cannot recall an instance of a cow hav ing made such a record. It is birtn TO tw Connections at < Imrleston with New York steamers, also with steamers for Jacksonville Fla , on sailing dates, and at Augusta with Georgia Road to and from all points West an 1 South;also at Biacksvllle with the Caro lina Midland Railroad to aud from Barnwell. Connections with Southern Railway nt Co lumbia to all points lu upper South and North Carolina. E. 8. Bowen, L. A. Emersom, General Manager. Traffic Manager. LIMITED Drains* DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE To Atlanta, Charlotte, Athens, Wllmingtoa, New Orlea^ai, Chattanooga au * New Yoik, Philadelphia, Washington, Norfolk na« Blcbmond. Schedule In effect May 30, 1397. [•email cow cul- of the M it was I od men, nen who •uth, are cow will to come HIA. The e ble, and adds a new phase ture, whatever that may b< Many persons who hei Mount Pleasant prodigy all bosh. But it isn’t, and honorable men, nnd know how to vouch for its prepared to prove it. Thi go down in history. In yea she will rival the one iu Chu^igo that kicked over the kerosene lamp, or even the famous hull of the crockery store. Mount Pleasant feels a local pride iu the animal, and it is probable that some official recognition will be taken of her patriotic service. It has been suggested that a jolification meet ing ho held and souvenirs iu the shape of milk-shakes be presented to the guests.—Charleston (S. C.) News ami Courier. Certainly Complimentary. “John,” said Mrs. Harkins, “I heard a nice compliment for you to day.” Mr. Harkins put his paper down, twisted up the ends of his moustache, looked pleased, and said: “Well, that’snothing so remarkable. . I receive compliments nearly every 'day.” Mrs. Harkins went on sipping her tea, and her husband waited for her to resume. Finally, he said: “Well, why don’t yon tell me what it was? Who was it that compli mented me?” “Oh, you couldn’t guess in a week.” “Mrs. Deering?” he ventured. “No.” “Not Bessie Fallington?” he rather eagerly suggested. “No.” “Oh, well, of course, if there’s any secret about it, I don’t care to hear what it is or who said it.” “There isn’t auy secret about it,” Mrs. Harkins sweetly replied. “Mr. Hannaford told me that every time he and I met he became more thoroughly convinced that you were a man of ex cellent taste. ” John Harkins then shoved his hands down in his pockets and walked out- aide to think it over. WESTWARD. P. M. A. M. No. 41. K0.4C-9 Lv. Wilmington Lv. Lumberton. Lv. Maxton Lv. Laurinburg Ar. Hamlet Lv. Hamlet •510 Lv. Rockingham .. 780 5 23 Lv. Wadesboro Lv. Marshvllle .. 8 48 625 Ar. Monroe 648 Lv. Monroe 780 Ar. Charlotte 10 28 8 80 . Ar. Mt. Holly 919 Ar. Llncolnton 10 85 Ar. Bhelby 11 48 Ar. Ellenboro 12 29 Ar. Ruthsrfordton 12 64 P.M. P. X f8 40 a. m. Lv. Hamlet Ar. 6 20 p. m. m. Ar. Cheraw ' Lv. fOM p. m. L> .» KASTWABD, **r*t*- "lr. Mr ^ Lv, Butherfordton •4 85 Ellenboro •••• C» Lv. Bhelby eot Lv. Llneointoa 7 00 Lv. ML Holly 760 Lv. Charlotte ..•CIO 8 26 Ar. Monroe 819 Lv. Monroe 6 05 Lv. M&rshvUlo 6 25 Lv. Wades boro 7 01 Lv. Rockingham 7 41 Ar. Hamlet 7 65 Lv. Homlot 820 Lv. Laurinburg...... 8 46 Lv. Maxton 905 Lv. Lumbertea 9 63 Lr. WJlmUgtoa 12 0ft P. M. 940 10 31 1105 1128 P.M. Inducementa to Build. There are in Vienna 1263 old build ings whose owners are guaranteed eighteen years’ freedom from taxation if they will tear them down and put new structures in their places. Last year 242 owners made nse of this privilege.—Philadelphia Ledger. Bicycles are used for smuggling on the frontier of France and Belgium. •oarawABD. Lv. Hamlet •1120 pm 2 11am 7 25 am Ar. Raleigh Ar. Portsmouth Ar. Richmond.. Ar. Washington Ar. New York.. •815 am 12 ffi pm • 23 pm so Draw ARD. Lv. Monroe *(148 am Ar. Abbeville 11 05 am Ar. Athens 116 pm Ar. Atlanta (Cen. time) 2 60 pm •8 25 pm 140 am 8 45 am 820 am Both trains make Immediate conneetioa at Atlanta for Montgomery. Mobile. New Or leans, Texas. California. Mexico, Chattanoo ga, Naabvtlte. Memphla, Maoon and Florida. For Tickets, Bleepers, Ste., apply to B. A. Newland, Gen. Agent Paas. Dept., 8 Klm- House, Atlanta, Ga. UEO. McQ P BATTLE, Trav. Pam.Agt. Charlotte, N. 0. E. 8t. John, Vice-Press, and Gen. Manager. H. W..B. Glover, Traffic ManagsT^ V. E. Me Bee, General bupt T. J. Anderson, Q. P. Agent. General Office* Portsmouth, Vv * NORTH * FROM CHATTANOOSA OR HARM- MAR VIA Till QUEEH AUD CRESCENT HOint Handsome VesHbiiM Trains. Through Pullmans from Mavamah, Os* lambla, Spartanburg, AthevUle, KnexviU4 Atlanta and Chattanooga to GIMCINN ATI. •uobtbst ura. punurr aranra 0. X* MITCHELL, W. (X JUNSAMO*. *' ‘ Oerffir *