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*; ' ' I*? I CUPID AND THE 1 I PARROT * I <* V By Elizabeth Cherry Waltz | Copyright, J"0-, bit the ^ & S. McClurc Company * The captain was a jolly man of fiftyone, with a fine blue eye and a pleasant Jf rather reserved manner. He stood at the door of a neat cottage one morn ing in Spring with rather a disconsolate air, "I do miss Sis Therese," he said regretfully, "and her dying so unexpected-like has upset all my ideas of life." He turned and gazed ruefully at the comfortable sitting room, now in the utmost disorder. On the top of the tsewjng machine box paraded a tine gray and red parrot that seemed to enjoy the situation. "Hello, captain!" she cried. "Ship ahoyl" "Wish there was, Polly," retorted the captain, "but there's none in sight. I'll go down town and advertise for a housekeeper to clean up this place." "Ship* ahoy, ship ahoy!" screamed the parrot, and again the captain returned as he locked the door: ; "I wish there was, Polly." After he had put an advertisement in several newspapers the captain walked slowly along the streets to .ward the markets. liis eye caugnt sight of a large blue and white sign, "Servants Supplied." "It will not do any harm for me to stop in there." quoth the captain. As he stepped into the entry he saw ? woman hesitating in front of him. The captain declared ever afterward that when she turned about "you could have knocked me down with a feather." She was not a girl, but a woman approaching middle age and with a pale and gentle face. "Sense me, ma'am. I am trying to find me a housekeeper." The woman looked intently at him. "I am trying to lind a place where I can do something." she said wearily. HIf you would not mind trying to put up with me and my roily"? eagerly J; began the captain. "Is Polly your wife?" she queried. ? "Ob. no; she's the parrot." ! The woman hesitated. "I have always lived in the country," she answered, "but my brother died, and I thought I could do better jn'the city. I haven't money enough to go back?in fact, I haven't any at all." The captain looked at her and speedily grasped the facts of the case. *Tm most old enough to be your father," he said kindly, although he was not, "and you must come right aloug and straighten up that house for Polly and me. First we will .get some breakfast" An hour later the captain unlocked the house door. Polly, much excited at the advent of a woman, swung and screamed in her cage: "Captain, ship ahoy! Captain, ship ahoy!" A week went by. and the burly captain stood triniming his grapevines .when he saw a woman of rather generous proportion's coming in at the front gate, followed by a boy carrying a large valise. He knew that this mustlie his sister Melinda from California, who could not attend her sister's fit neral on account or illness. I lis spirits sank lower and lower as he climbed the back steps. The new housekeeper had proved quiet, clean and very industrious. Polly was never happy unless she*was in sight. In short, his sorrow / for the death of Sister Therese was now softened bemuse of no lack of creature comforts. ' / - In the little sitting room Polly began angrily screaming. One of t!ie lirst acts of the newcomer was to throw a heavy wrap over the case. ^ "You'll smother her." said a quiet voice. "I'll take her out on the porch." "Who are you. anyhowV" quoth an irate female voice. "Where's the captain?" "Here I am." said that individual weakly, appcarins at the door. "I?we ' didn't expect you. Melinda." "I suppose not. 1 came as soon as I could. Therese left me all her things, you s(e." The captain looked about him, much amazed. < "What things?" 1 "Why. the housekeeping things. You won't want to keep house. You can board." "V*c I Tvor?'t bribed ** nmtested the captain. "Polly ami me are eomfortable riirlit here." 9j "Km von ran not live this way," repealed the California sister. "You will be stolen from and imposed upon. Tberese wrote me Unit if she ever had w> ;*<? to come ri>:ht on and break up fot yon. So I've* come." ' The eaptain irazed at her. awestruck, fnseisnted at her daring. What worn^an was this, even of his own blood. ,wbo would so ruthlessly destroy all Ijjs comforts? The captain bejean to realize. lie- went out on to the porch ; and brought in the parrot. "It's too sunny for Polly out there." j be said. "I never set her out until to- j .ward noon.*' -? The quiet woman entered with a Clip ! of t(a and sciiic sandwiches. The vis- J ft?>r ircw cainier when refreshed. "1 will just tret a little nap." she j -Paid. rawninir. "ami then I'll ln-rin at i autre en Seder Therese's clothes and i fhincs. I can't spare any time that's *ot necessary. I'm needed at home." As soon as the house became quiet the captain stepped out on to the back porch. Tilly*, the quiet one, was sheilinx peas oti the top step, t "She wants me to jro to hoarding, ! Tilly." s r "Yes. sir." j * "Ther won't baTc Tollv in a board- j * * te . inpr house. Maybe you don't mind Folly?' "Oh. no! I like her. sir. You'd better brinfr her out here by me. She won't scream so loud." The captain set the cage down by Tilly and sat down himself. The parrot laughed a little slyly and said softly: "Captain, ship ahoy!" "I hope so. Polly. Do you know, Tilly, that this is my house and that I bought the furniture, every stick of it?" "Yes, sir." "And that I've got enough money to get on with comfortably tucked away where 110 one can get it?" "Yes, sir. I suppose so." , "Then why shouldn't I keep house as long as I waut to? You must stand by me. I really want you." ^* * r?>/v If T rlr\ ciV "sue s sure iu uuust' iuc n ? uv, ^u. Servants have a hard time." The captain stood up and breathed hard. "Go and put on your other gown, if you've got one." he said hoarsely, "aud if you are willing to marry me we'll go down to the courthouse and get it done. She can't get around that, can she? I have never been so truly comfortable before. You won't refuse me. Tilly?" ' "No. sir." Two hours later Mrs. Melinda. after a long, restful nap. appeared on the back porch. The captain and Tilly vrore standing side by side iu the garden. "What are you doing. Philetus? I supposed dinner would be ready." "It will be before long." returned the captain cheerfully. "Y'ou see, sister, we have been out 021 a little business that will lesson your work and worry i ? 1 mm., l.,...,, v,00 over me .a greac urai. im.i uac uaa taken such good care of Polly and me that we've been out and got married. We're all tixed now, and you are welcome to Sis Theresa's clothes and small truck, Melindn. The rest of the things always were mine, and we'll need them housekeeping, Tilly and Polly and me. Well, l'olly, and how do you like it, old girlV" "Ship ahoy, captain! Ship ahoy!" cackled Polly gleefully. Wanted. We would like to ask, through the c domus of your paper, if there is any person who has used Green's August Fiower for the cure of Indigestion, Dyepep-i* and Liver Trouble that has not been cured?and we also j mean their results, such as sour I stomach, fermentation of food, habitual eostiveness, nervous dyspepsia, headaches. despondent feeliDgs, sleepUfinest-?m fact, ?Dy trouble concocted with the stomach or liver? This medicine ha9 been sold for maDy years in all civilized countries, and we wi*h to correspond with vou and J V s*iid yon one of our bookR free of j c)8t- If you never tried August Flower, try a 25 cent bottle first. | We have never known of its failing. If po, something more seriouB is the matter with you. The 25 cent size baR just bpen introduced this year. Regular size 75 cents. At all druggists. G G Green, Woodbury, N. J. Got It Twisted. Little nine-year-old Rachel, whose failing it was to got stories somewhat twisted, ^nce heard the conundrum of the rat and the thirty oars of com. It ran thus: There were thirty ears of corn in a bin and a rat came along and carried away throe oars every night..- How long did it take liiru to carry away the thirty oars? The answer. of course', was thirty nights, counting (he rat's two cars and one ear of corn. I Itachol thought this a wonderfully j good joke and hastened to tell her old| or brother, whom she well knew al ways appreciate*! anything along tho 'ine of a good joke. Rushing np to him J she said: "Oh. Newman. I've got the best conundrum you ever Ilea I'd. See if you can guess it." And thus she went on: "There was a bag of potatoes in a bin and a rat came along and carried away three potatoes every night. IIow long did it take him to carry away tho whole bag?" Waiters* Hands. Many waiters have hands that are more callous than a blacksmith's or | ironworker's. The callousness comes j from carrying hot plates, coffeepots I and the like. The heat seems to fry their skin and to make a dead surface to keep them from being burned by things that a man with ordinary hands could not stand. It may have puzzled IK'ople who go to some restaurants to notice how the waiters hold things in their hands for some time which are ! too hot for the hands of the people at ! the tables even to pass to one another, j This is the explanation: That the waiti it's hands become callous and hard, so rhnr the tough skin at the surface has no more feeling than a piece of horn. " o Bsttsr Than Gold. "I was troubled for several yiarp with chronic; indigestion and nervous j debility," writes P. J. Green, of Lau- j caster, N EL "No remedy helped I a e until I began ue-ing Ewc'iic 15:t- I j ters, which did me more good ihan ! j m:I the medicine* I ever used. They j have aleo kept my wife in excellent j health for year a. She fays Electric j Eitter8 are just splendid for female j trouble*; tbut they are a grand tonic j and ievgnrator for weak, tun down I women. No other medicine can take its pise* in our family.'" Try them, j Ooly 50<\ Satisfaction guaranteed by the Kaufmann Drug Co. III Sickness steals more savings than the burglar. Slowly, coin by coin, the money that has been so hardly earned is paid ouf- for drags and doctors. Sickness is the worst enemy of the working man, and tire common cause of the working man's sickness is disease of the stomach often involving the heart, lung9, liver, or kidneys. TM._ - - ? Ti?? rtorofc'e J. lie U5w Wl 1^1. A -> - -. ^ ical Discovery will stop the stealing of the savings by sickness. It cures diseases of tbflrjtoniach and other organs of digestion and nutrition. It cures diseases cf heart, liver, lungs, kidneys, etc., when these diceases are caused by the diseased condition of the stomach and its allied organs. "About ten years ago I began to have trouble with my stomach." writes \Viu. Connolly, of 55s Wainut"Street. Lorain, Ohio. ''It got so bad I had to lay off quite often two and three days in a week, my stomach would bloat, and I would belch up gr.s, cud was in awful distress at such times. I nave employed and been treated by the best doctors in the city but got no help whatever. By some way or other I happened to get held of a vial of your ' Pellets,' and I thought thev helped me. It was then I wrote to you tor advice. You told me that by my symptoms you thought I had liver complaint, and advised the use of your 'Golden Medical Discovery' and 'Pleasant Pellets' in connection. These medicines I have taken as directed, and am very happy to state that I commenced to get better ( from the start and have not lost a day this summer on account of my stomach. I feel tiptop, and better than I have for ten years." Accept no substitute for ' Golden Medical Discovery." Nothing else 19 "just as good." Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate the bowels. IDER GERMAN j WTi TT m I . CUBBL&K | % Mr. Voglejrtein Dropr la a.nd I> ft -Recount/ Hi/- Trouble/ S (Copyright, 1902. by O. B. Warner.] I VITAS putting on some half sole yesterday vlien Mr. Voglesteiu comes into my shop und sits down for ten minutes und don't say a word. I don't speak to him, either, und by und by he gets tired und says: "Hans, how vhus it about some trusts?" "I don't keep 'em on hand," I says. "Don't try to be funny. You haf heard of trusts. It vhas trusts who put oop dor prices of meat, leather, coal und lots of things." "Vhell?" "Vhell. you know I vhas der only man for ten blocks around dot makes frankfurters. Peoples who haf to buy must come to me. I keep der price so much all der time. A week ago my wife wakes oop in cler mglit una says I to me: " 'Voglestein, you vhas a fool!' " 'How vhas dot*/' 1 says ash I wake I oop too. " 'Because you doo't make mie hoonered per cent profit on sausages.' " 'But how can 1'? " 4You shall become a trust uud put prices oop. Der peoples must haf frankfurters. und dey must come to you. If you vhas a smart man. you would be rich in one year.' "Yhell. dot makes me tio some thinking." said Voglestein. "I sit und think und scratch my head, und 1 stand oop und think und feel ol' my ear. und in two days 1 vhas a trust und prices vhas oop. I vhas a trust for two days, und den I vhas busted." "How vhas it?" I says. "Shust like dis. I drink a k-.-g of beer eaferv week. Mv beer vhas out one day, und I gees !>y dvr brewery und says: " 'Schmidt, you may send me up dot keg of beer for a dollar und a half.' "'I don't haf some.' he says. " 'But why?' "'Because she haf gene imp to 14 shillings. Beer vlias in sympathy niit frankfurters, you know. Ven one goes oop, der odder goes nop too.' "Dot knocks me out. but I haf to pay. Dot same day I goes bv der tailor who cleans uiv clothes uud says. 'How much to clean my coat?' lie says it vlias feefteen cents more ash before pecause frankfurters vlias gone oop. und eoats vhas in sympathy. I go by der coal man for a ton of coal, but it vhas gone oop a quarter on a ton to me. I goes by jpp^(' '' ' '' / * ' J "I SHIT.1I' its HiM I'M) KICK HIM HOWS j 1>KK STKl'S." (Icr butcher for my meat, bm meat vhas higher. li vlias so in eafery place, und I bust oop my trust uinl home uiul say lo my wife: "'If I make ?1 asti a trust und lose $ ? ash an indivvidual. liovy laauy f(wil?j i vnas in our lainnj : I like Mr. Voglestein to go home, pecause I shall send out dcr growler for beer unci drink by myself, but he smokes und smokes uud stays on. und by und by he says: "Hans, maype i do some awful things last night, und I vhas feeling bad about it." "Do you rob somepody V" I says. "No, not dot. I used to haf a brudder-in-law named Carl. He vhas a fine , man. und he reads und thinks a great deal. He don't pelief he shall go to ' heaven vhen he dies, but dot he vhill turn into some animal und stay on earth. I laugh at him many times, but he was werrv serious. Maype you remember dot he dies last spring? He shumps off a street car und falls on his head und breaks his neck. You could take his face und turn it clear around und make him look backwards." "Y'es; I hear about it." "Vhell, I can't say if he turns into some animal, but all der time I vhas I looking out for him. Maype he vhas a horse or a dog or a cat. Last uight I comes home late and finds a do# in my westibule. Maypo I haf too much beer und vhas mad. Ash soon ash I see dot dog 1 shump on him und kick him down der steps, und I no sooner tt^l my wife about it dan she throws oop her arms und cried out: '"Oh. cruel man. vliat haf you doner Dot do?: vhas my poor brudder Carl come to us for food und lodgings.* "I run out und whistle und call und I look all around, but der do;; can't lie found. He vhas afraid I kick him some more. Hans, do you pelief dot vhas my i bruddor-in-law?" j "1 can't say, but if I vhas him I bite you vhen yon kick." '*1 wish he had. 1 wish I vhas too drunk to kick him. Poor Carl! He j comes home for supper und a bed, und lie meets mit kicks und cuss words. I don't pelief I can efTer forgive rnvself." Mr. Yogleslein turns his head uiy und sheds tears, but I can't say nottirgs to comfort him. In der first place I vhas too busy mit dot half sole, und in der next maype dot dog vhas somepody else's brudder-in-law und goes by der wrong house. Nopody speaks for ton minutes, und don Mr. Voglestein wipes avhay bis tears und says: "Hans. I don't know if 1 vhas a joker, but I tell you how she vhas. I vhas going alone dor street dor odder day, und I meets a man mit two watch chains on his west. I stop him und says: "Vhill you please be so kind ash to j tell me vhnt time it vhas by your right band watch?' " 'I shall.' he says, und he nulls out a watch, und it vhas ten minutes to in. Den I says: "'Und now please tell me vliat time ! ft vhas by your left hand watch.* " 'Certainly,' he says, und he pulls out dot watch uiid says it vhas ten minutes after 10. j "'How vhas dot you vhas twenty minutes different between your two watches?' I says. " 'Oh, dot vhas dcr time tooken up in answering fool questions.' he laughs as he goes on. Now, Hans, vhas dere acme joke in dot?" "I pelief so," I says. "Und how vhas it?" "I can't tell." 11 Tl- ?1-~ ?. ?*v>/? T on *? T V\ O 4* ft 11 V11US SU LUIl LUC. I uyt l u>ll >1 good joke on dcr two chain man. und my wife says lie knocks me out. I like to find somepody to tell me. Did you hear about me und dcr street car conductor?" "I don't pelief so." "Vhell, I make complaint against him at headquarters. I take a street car der odder day to go to Greenfield. 1 don't know vhere it is, und I tell der conductor to let me off. Dot car goes on unci on. und it vlias one hour peforc I says: " 'Don't we come to Greenfield yet?' " 'Vliy, man. we vlias six miles be yond it.' lie says. "'But I wanted to get off at Givenfield.' "'You must be mistook. Greenfield vlias all right in dcr summer, but now dot it vlias winter you want to get oft at Snow II ill.' "Und dot vlias not all. Ilans. Yheii I ovwsa tn <r*.f r>17 floi* car he calls OUT. 'Step lively!' Pol makes me fall down, und he oalls out. *<Iet <;op lively!' I jjhs oop und starts avhay. utul lie shouts . after me. 'lamp lively!" und eaferypody lau.uhs im?l makes me fetl bad. 1 make complaint, und itaf iiim bounced out. It vims all riirhi to be lively, but you must not be too lively. Yhat did you say. I I:msV" I don't say not tines. und while I vhas sayinc it nml keeping still Mr. Vojflestein falls asleep und don't wake oop till all der beer vhas wanished und some ice vyater vhas in der pail. M. QUAI). thi'M Sharf. "There are many little children." said pnpa. "who must be satisfied with* a c* ? v. ?. V/mi chAn 1/1 ho ! orusi mis inn ... thankful to the Lord for lmvinsr sent you this splendid dinner." if the Ixii'd sent it." said little May. "that was tite express charges ma paid the butcher man yesterday, wasn't it?"?fatholie Standard. A Weak Stonach Caneee a weak body and nvites j disease. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure j carts and strengthens the stomach, j wards off and overcomes disease, i J. B Taylor, a prominent m ^rcbant j of Chrieaman, Tex., says: "I could j not eat because of a weak stomach, j I lost all strength and run down in ; weight All that money could do I was done, but all hope of recovery 1 vanished. Hea- cg of some wonder- ! ful cures effected by use of Kodo\ I co ? luded to try it. The first bottle j beu< fi'ed me, and after taking four bottles I am fully restored to my n*ual strength, weight and health." | Kaufmanu Drug Co. I LOVE'S 11 ? STRATAGEM I _ * ~ * ? By Martha * t McCulIoch-Williams 1 ! t I j, Go&yrijhl, 1502, by the 3. S. McCbru Ccnsaiy J * V J FeneJla watched licr mint with wide, unfaltering eyes. She was much too angry to be the least bit afraid. I>eliberately, in cold blood. Miss Do Yaux Lad opened a letter addressed to Fenolla and stood reading it as though it were her own. The reading made her *>vr>c <tvm W'hon ?!?<> c:iii!C to tile sliT nature, slie stamped bard and made to lling the offending sheet into the lire. Fenoila was too quiet for her. She caught the letter, crumpled it between locked hands, then confronted Miss De Vaux with a face as set as her own. "I have wanted not to hate you. Aunt Pain." she said. "There are just the two of us left. Bur- hut you make mo do it. 1 did not think my father's sister could be so dishonorable." Miss I)e Vaux gasped. If one of the roses blooming on the terrace outside the windows had spoken reproof of her, she would have been scarcely more amazed. Fein !la in all the tivo years since she came t<? Vauxiour had shown herself a pattern of silent, shy obedience. She must be instantly disciplined. "(io to your room at once!" she said icily. "Stay there until John Jennuin comes. I shall tell him the whole truth. Alter mat, n lie sun wisues in ujan-.> you, you will leave liv house as his wife or else as penniless as you are ungrateful."' "I shall go now!" Fenella said, turning toward the outer door. Miss De Vaux barred her way. saying with a bitter smile: "Wait. Head your letter. Between the lines you will find out that your true iove, Mr. Allen Lee, does not want you unless you bring him the hope of my money." Fenella's luminous pallor turned suddenly ashen, but her head was high as she answered, "You would hardly have tried to burn a letter which said that.'' But instead of pressing to the hall door she turned and went up the stairway. In an hour she came down, a slim, black wraith, clothed in the faded mourning she had worn when she came to Vauxlour. A small bag, pitifully rusty, more pitifully tlabby. dangled from her hand. "I am taking away nothing but what belongs to me. Bear witness to that. Aunt l'arn," she said dully, pausing a few steps in front of Miss De Vaux. "You wore right. 1 was ungrateful. I understand now. you? you- wanted to save 1110 the hurt, the shame of it," she went on, "but I must go away, just the same. 1 cannot?can not marry"? "Stop, foolish child! There need be no talk of marriage?until you choose," Miss I)e Yaux said huskily. Under her crust of imperious pride she loved Fenella dearly. "Listen! Be "wise and a little pitiful. John Jermain ought to be my son. 1 never loved anybody but his father. My pride and temper parted us. Now you know* why I want him to have the money, yet not to leave it away from my own blood.", "Lot him have it?unincumbered," Fenella said proudly. Miss Do Vaux wrung her hands. "You?you must not go away," she said. Fenella smiled wanly, but shook her head, saying. "I must." "You are mad?quite mad!" Miss Do Yaux said, the distress in her voice apparent. A tall, wholesome looking fellow came gustily through the door. Two strides took him up to Fenella. "What does it mean-tins masqueraue: nc asked. Miss I>o Vaux began to speak, but renella stopped her by an imperative gesture. "It means you are to be rich and liappy in your own way," she said clearly. "I have not been so blind as you thought. Mr. Jennain does not really care for me. lie loves Susan Weir, though he has never let himself acknowledge it." Termain laughed heartily. "In that ease you must needs console me." he said. "Haven't you heard the news? Susan eloped last night with Alien Lee, and I have been ready to lnurdei him this last six weeks. I was so sure he had bewitched our fairy here." lie touched Fenella's arm reverently as he spoke. She shrank from bin; and made as if to speak. Miss De Vaux put a hand over her lips, saying: "Let me tell him. Kenella. lie ought to know the truth, bur girl was bewitched. Jolm. That is the true word for it. Hut she had the strength, the sense, to save hei.self?would not hear of a secret marriage. She had found him out. She is going away because I have been cruel. Tel! her she must stay." "I bare no right to tell her any think'." Jermnin said. ]>i?lintr through ali his healthy tan. Then to Feudist ho said-: "Hut you need not <ro. dear, to-useape mo. I shall never foroe inysolf on yon. I love you too well"? "It is not that." Fonolla interrupted. "I will stay. and. irladly. on one condition." "Name it." .Toiauaiti said. looking j away. Fonolla drew back a stop. "That I may In? my aunt's corn pan Lon. not hot* heiress." she said. "If ! you will lot hoi' adopi you" Sue stopped. faltering tho loa.sl hit. ii - . .Ienaaiu frowned blaokly. Inu suddenly : his fair oloarod as if by niaaie. "I behove lhat is Tin.' host way out." ho said. | with a slight siauiiioaiu 1:0s lure to Miss ! I?o Vaux. Tla- now ordor of thimrs made littlo : outward difference. Inwardly Fonolla 1 olutl'od ovoi' slialil and subtle eha litres. ! Matorially sho had no oauso for ootu- | plaint. I [or salary was a litilo more ! than her quarterly allowance had boon, tier duties weie Joss than sho had rolt Women as Well as Men Are Made Miserable by Kidney Trouble. Kidney trouble preys upon the rnind, discourages and lessens ambition; beauty, vigor tana cheerfulness soon / disappear when the kidneys are out of order or diseased; Kidney trouble has become so prevalent that it is not uncomrr on for a child to be born 1 afflicted with weak kidneys. If the child urin . ates too often, if the urine scalds the flesh or if, when the child reaches an age when it should be able to control the passage, it is yet afflicted with \ J 4 4.* ~ : 4 4 1 LKXi-WCUlIlg, U^pCUU upVil 11. UIC Uwt'OiC UL the difficulty is kidney trouble, and the first step should be towards the treatment ot these important organs. This unpleasant trouble is due to a diseased condition of the kidneys and bladder and not to a habit as most people suppose. Women as well as men are made miserable with kidney and bladder trouble, and both need the same great remedy. The mild and the immediate effect of Sv/amp=Root is soon realized. It is sold by druggists, in fiftycent and one dollar sizes. Ycu may have a sample bottle by mail tree, also pamphlet tell- Home of Swamp-Root ing all about it. including many of the thousands of testimonial letters received from sufferers cured. In writing Dr. Kilmer & Co.. Binghamton, N. Y., be sure and mention this paper. nntariiv taken on her.se!:' in the old flays. ?he had .meator absolute tree- ? iotn, but she missed something. Miss I >e Vatix no louder talked to her of tiio Lutnre. Now and again she Sitid of such or stieh a plan. ".John will keep it up." And once she went. ?.#% i\i>. .ii! t/i .ldd tti-if in T11r? cvpnt of Fonolla's marriage after live years' satisfactory service she would give lier B wedding out tit and a modest if comfortable dowry. Further, she made not the least objection to potential lovers. If lliey asked her leave to court her niece, siie said invariably Fenella was free to choose for herself. Thus a year passed. Fenclla was finding out things?things bitter to be borne. She had thrown away happiness because, forsooth, she fancied it was to be thrust upon her. Jerwain was as kind as ever, as chivalrously courteous, but nothing more. Of course / he no longer cared for her; of course, too. he would marry as soon as he found a lucky woman exactly to his mind. Until that happened Fonella meant to stay. Afterward? She stopped there, blind and trembling. Still it was like a knife thrust when Miss I>e Vaux said: "Fenella, John is to marry shortly, so on many accounts 1 think it wise to get another companion. lie has chosen well. As he is to live with me after he marries, it is almost certain lie would not like to have you keep the place." *I understand. I will go." Fenella said through stiff lips, then, waiting for no answer, stumbled blindly away. I In the briefest t/mc she was walking down the avemfc, looking neitner 10 right nor left, her eyes still unseeing. Half way to tlie gate sbe ran plump Into Jermain's arms. The? closed about her in most possessive fashion as he said, with his lips on her hair, . answering her incoherent murmurs: "Oi' course, Aunt Ham needs another companion. You are going to be my pr'ecious wife." Mysterious Circumstance. One was pale and sallow and the other fresh and rosy. Whence the difference? She who is blushing with health uses Dr. King's New Life Pills to maintain it. By gently arousing the lazy organs they compel good digestion and head off constipation. Try them. Oily 25 cents, at t le Kaufmann Drug Go's. Store. Wheele & Wilson . No. 9 BAIL BEARING SEWING MACHINES!!! f Wonderfully Liqht Running and Rapid. One-third faster; one third easier than any ahntile machine. Save about ONE DAY IN THREE. Quiet and durable. THREE DRAWERS. FIVE DRAWERS, DROP HEAD AND 1 CA1U.NET STYLES ORGANS. A lot cl High Grade Organs wry low for cash. On; duple very near cost. 1S00 BALLBEAEING Washing Machines urn: Bill Bearing Wringers Th"seare treasures No wet dresses f and teet. Any seven or eight yeai L old child can work it. Will cleanse the clothes in tell minutes. Will last lor years. t. BB. BEBBT, 1*0! MAIN ST., COLCMMU, 8. C. December 3, J '.02. , 3m f * i i / / #