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Best Market Price Paid egetables on Hand in Season. .E'S MARKET .ER, Proprietor. | <|TIC(^JST llNfcl QUGHFAKEoPJKflVqi. sen ffre? ind-South a?Cuba. ice unexcelled for luxury d with the latest Pullman d Thoroughfare Cars., le, maps or any informa* J. CRAIG, leoeral Passenger Agent, Wilmington, N. C. U TRIED OUR || Bread, jj ind CaKe, || m son Butter, p am Cheese? 1 ! Nothing Better. T rwic UJL< XvJ hings to Eat" c.mm 'inr#.t^3fcvo5Mva*w~awy ^- TT-TffirfTiMTrTT "r - ej"?**orrv -w The Gate J That Won J ane; i i How It Opened the Way For Their Happiness \\ i By MARY G. BENTLEY. Farmer Tiilson hadn't a generouf hair in his head. He kept every j cent he got and never gave out a | cent. Jane was as open hearted as Til I6on was close. She was the life of the young farmer people round about, and not one of them but loved her. Her uncle did all he could to impress her with the fact that, having some capital, she should look . upon marriage as a sort of partner- ] ship in which, her partner should 1 furnish an equivalent to her own means. One day there came to Tillson's farm a y^ung man who asked for work. He was rather intellectuai looking than muscular, a fact that 1 did not favorably impress Tillson. But he offered to work for very low wages, and as it was harvest time Tillson employed him. Now, Jane no sooner saw young Zeke Freeman doing the hardest work there was to be done oft the farm, which hex uncle put upon the young man, than she pitied him. Pity being akin to love, she loved him. She was bright enough, however, to keep the situation from her uncle, who never suspected it till Freeman one day went to him to ?vclr fnw To-no'e ViqnH | don V uuv a "No, ye can't have Jane," snarled old Tillson ungraciously. "She's my brother's daughter an' has money of her own, an' yon ain't nothin' but a hired man with no prospect?. I don't see what Jane was thinkin' on to say ye could ask me. Ye can't have her, an' thafs all there is tr. it." Zeke opened his mouth as though to protest or to strengthen his case bj further argument, but Tillson's face was grim and forbidding, and he knew the old man too well to weaken his chances by causing useless irritation. He turned away. That afternoon they were neai the farmyard gate, Zeke digging post holes and Old Tillson patching up a wheelbarrow, when the drummer of an agricultural warehouse appeared. But, instead of going straight to Tillson, he stopped at the gate and began to examine it curiously. "Queer contrivance that," he said * ii l presently, "liood idea, tnougn? grand, good idea. How did you happen to think of it?" "It's some of my hired man's dillydallying" replied Tillson gruffly. "He's forever up to something of that sort. Wastes half his time." Zeke flushed a little, but did not look up. "No wasted time about that," declared the drummer emphatically "It's a valuable idea. There's money in it." "Money?" questioned Tillson eagerly. Then he saw one of the horses squeezing his body through the open doorway of the corncrib and he rushed off. He would have sent Zeke, only he preferred him to continue at the post hole digging. "So it's your idea, is it?" said the drummer as he crossed to Zcke's side. "Going to have it patented, of couree." Zeke laughed. "Patented!" he echoed. "That foolish thing? Why, it's nothing but a lot of stones and two hinges placed so the gate will shut of itself." "But that's just the sort of thing which usually proves valuable," persisted the drummer. "The simpler ' * ? 1 Al-- 1.-4.4 the device, n irs useiui, me wucr. You'll make a mistake if you don't protect the idea." "Then 1 guess I'll make the mistake," said Zeke carelessly. "Patents cost money, and I haven't any. Besides, if I had I wouldn't risk 50 cents on that foolish thing." The drummer regarded him thoughtfully. "Look here," he said suddenly, "how would you like to make a trade? I could appropriate the idea for myself if I did business that way, but I don't. Still, I like to make money wherever I see a chance. My house does a good deal in patent articles, and I can generally guess pretty close whether there's money in an idea or not. Now, if you say so, I will put this through at my own expense and keep half the profit. What do you say? Suppose we fix this thing now." He opened a notebook and wrote for some seconds, then tore out the leaf and handed it to Zeke. "It's a sort of agreement for you * ? v _ _ i ! to put your name to," ne saiu. i i "Read it first, though. Never sign j ] anything until you know what it is. pi tjg&e ; feffipSt held ready. Ths& frl Tfr < pgtedMa Egging. A fewnfronfiafa ! late* 'Tillson came hurrying track j "The dratted horse ate a full i peck of good coin " he began wrath- \ folly. %o supper 11 he get this \ night. Now, what i9 it lout that j rate bizness? How's there money j mitr "By getting the invention pat- j ented," answered the drummer J carelessly, "but Zeke and I have fix- j ed that up. Well, I must he going." ' "But, look here!" exclaimed Till- | sou. "Ye must talk with me twut that gate. It'B mine! Zeke aSn*t j nothin' to do with it." "Oh, I don't want the gate," said J the drummer coolly. "Ifs only the . idea, and that, I bdieve, belongs to Zeke. Goodby." Tilbon stared at him as he walked away, the wrath deepening on bis face. Suddenly he swung round to Zeke. "What did ye get T* he demanded. "Come, hand it over." "I didn't receive anything in money," Zeke answered. "Stop!" roughly. "Don't tell any yarns. Didnt I hear the man 3ay you an' him fixed it up? Now, how much money did he give ye for my gate ? Look at me straight P Zeke did so, with a half smile. "He's to pay for getting out a patent," he replied, "and have half what we make." "An' ye didn't get any monev?" "Not a cent." Tillson looked at him sharply, but there was no deceit in tne straightforward face. Even he realized the fact. "Then yer an idiot!" he snarled. "The man was set on the idee. 1 could see that from the way he spohe. Ye conld have got 550 or $100 jest as easy as nothin'. Mebbe we could have made a trade for a lot of his tools. An' now? huh?yell never hear from him ag'in." Zeke did not answer, and presently Tillson went toward the barn grumbling. But his words did not disturb Zeke in the least He scarcely expected to hear from the man again. Even when the "regular pa- . pers" came, with imposing seals and blank places for him to sign his oaine, he regarded them mare as novelties than as anything that would affect his future. But one day a letter came which caused his eyes to open wide with amazed delight and which after a half hour of hard thinking carried him into the house after his Sunday clothes. It was nearly dark when he returned from the town. Old Tillson met him at the barn door, his face dark. "What d'ye leave work for without my say so?" he demanded. "Business," replied Zeke. "1 heard you say t'other day the mortgage had run by and that if you did not raise the money soon they'd be selling you out. So I've been to a lawyer and had it fixed over in my name, to save you trouble. You can pay me whenever it 6uits. You see," in answer to the look on Tillson's face, "I got a check for $2,000 od t]ie patent and am likely to get as much more every year. I think I'll buy Dickson's big farm that joins ours." : Tillson stood looking at the young man with month and eyes wide open. The expression on his face was a study. "What interest you goin' to charge me?" "Never mind about the interest. You can pay whatever rate you please or nothing at all." "Waal, I suppose you've got to be paid suthin'. What is it you want ?" "Jane." "Oh, that's the pay you're after The moment the old curmudgeon's interest came to the front l.e was less concerned about that <>l his- ' UiClC. *'Tou aud she can settle that, I suppose. As long as she's satisfied I suppose I'll have to be." Jane was perfectly satislied, and !>efore long there was a wedding. But Zeke didn't buy Dickson's J farm. He drifted into the employ of a firm engaged in the development of mechanical contrivance.* and is now a very rich man. The Ever Active Brain. The question, 'Does the brain ever rest?" would seem to be answerable only in the negative. Unconscious cerebration appears to Ik* a necessary concomitant of the powers of intellect, and during sleep, whether we remember it or not, we are always dreaming. Of course, during waking time we are perpetually thinking, thinking. 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