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The Laurcns Advertiser. $1.^0 Per Yea' in Advance. ...... A Fulfilled Prophecy. | liy JEAN NETTE U. UALIVOKTH. Copyright, 1000, by JetinnottoII.Wft>worth.< *? 0.?? aid the oldest Miss Hen dcrson rollootlvoly, t*??I?1 in;; up :i telegram tliil had thrown the cntirt family into constcrna lion: ? We are so very mu? IllUeeill outside and exceedingly OH*l>ty Inside." Said Miss Julia Henderson, cnstlllj Bcorntnl glances at the monger remain of a meager repast: "Your observation carries pcculln weight with it In view of stteh a din ner." The third and youngest Miss Homier son said nothing, th.cepUd he time concentrating '? e wrecked dlshet about one ttnttii nod plate. They were llugeriug at table to ac commodate Mic "tie male im inber <> the family. 11 is name was 4pek. am he was late. ii" always was T?te, lb was systematic in nothing but tin manufacturing of apologies which snlv ed his own conscience without in tin least mollifying the cook's temper. He made his customary tUIIUlltuoui entry just in time to catch the rcinarki recorded above. "There hasn't been any dinner it view since my arrival. I should SllJ my Individual chances of being exceed lngly empty inside were Urs! class." Three females to one nude is ulwuyi a bad domestic combination for tin male. Six bright eyes wero focuse? upon Jock reprovingly. Three author Itatlvo voices were simultaneously raised in eondeninalion: "Really, Jack, you ought to go for : waiter in u restaurant. Food Is al you think about." "I am firmly convinced that nothing but actual destitution will preserv? you from a glutton's dentb." The youngest Miss i Iciidcrsoil mourn fully averted her gaze from Jack'-! empty pinto. "All of his natural taste? Incline him that way." Jack groaned helplessly. "Natural tastes be hanged! They'ri not In It. Von three girls have got lit more feeling for a starving man that If he were a golden calf." "Which you may thank your stan you are not, my dear." A potato mullled "Why?" invited ex planations. " The temptation to melt you up and convert you Into a hall carpet Ullghl prove too grcibt for us at this Juncture." "What's the matter with the Junc ture?" "It threatens us with a man." "A man?" "Haven't you heard, Jack?" "Ilon't you know?" "Of course he doesn't. The telegram was addressed to him, but nobody ovel knows where to find Jack, so the oper ntor sent It out here." With which the yellow slip of papal fluttered In Jack's direction. Its I 111' mediate effect was to cause his eyes tc open very wdde ami his Hps to perform an Inaudible whistle. Finally he deliv ered an opinion. "Qcewhllllkens! Well, ho Just can't come. I'll wire him." Miss Henderson was absently peek lug at a piece of paper with a crudclj sharpened lend pencil. She looked ut Jack with tine contempt. "You'll wire him what?" "That- that we're all down with tin measles; that smallpox Is on the " QccwhClLlhciui! Well, hcjmt cant come. I'll wire him." plantation next to us; that the house Is burned down or some other equally efficacious lie." EHs sister looked at him sweetly. "The trouble with your lies, Jack, dear, Is that they arc always so ab surdly transparent, so inartistic, any body can see right through tbeui." Even Jack turned sometlines. I "Then Invent a bettor ono yourself, ' Mel." "That Is what I am doing now. I want to do it as economically as possi ble. Telegrams, unless you leave all the sense out, are so abominably ex pensive." Three? heads were Immediately clus tered about hers as she resumed her pecking on the paper before her. "We will bo delighted to see you. Don't miss the lovely walk. Leave ?our luggage at the station. Our boy rill call for it." "Entirely too verbose, seeing he did not prepay answer," said Julia peremp torily. "Strike out 'Wo will be' and 'your' and 'the' and 'our.' Make It read; 'Delighted to sco you. Don't miss lovely walk. Leave hfl?f at hUxM tion fioy will call for it' There, Jack how will that do?" Jack grinned approvingly. "For mendicity it takes the cake fl?r Mio way, speaking of cukes, what ?re you going to feed tin fellow on?" "Really, Jack, I can't think It nlco ot polite of you to call him a follow even behind his back. He's mamma's eons Jn, and he must be nice." "All rjght, Nan. Well, then, Mel, what are you going to feed mamma's cousin on? Or arc you going to treat him llko ono of the family and si arc the soul out of his body?" "Jule's yellow silk dross will feed htm for the first week, ami If he stays Any longer my jacket will have to go." "Weeks! Is bo coining here to live, confound him?" "Not Just exactly, Jack, but you cer hi In I v have not forgotten the letter mother received from him six months ego?" "From Berlin, saying that now bis ?todies were completo bo wantod to pay the eld neighborhood JLvlitit bofor? titributloii i<> (In* n i ri'sli .'s memory received i? Marston Settling ?! .v. ii i" UK' prilollc clue in Now < ?rloiins." "An.I Illttl" Hut Nan's < Uicllt ??l* Jtl rude "< ?Ii. yet?, I remember thai ?ml n I"1 tu.in- fscnliincutnl nil about "'?? 'i i' ? ?Id homestead aiul Its silent hall.s.' Why doesn't ho go straight oll i" U? dear <>|.| homestead'?" "It is :i rumbling ?iv; I.." "Si? ar "Not quite ho hail ii ; till" place, Jack. We've staid at kept tin- pill.p. W? Bpcciahle "ii the out *bh will wear out." "Ami planus must be sol I Of ho expects to IIml things Jusi ; used to bt'." Mi I sighed heavily and pa ??<? d vised telegram over to ?lack. "Nothing is as it us< .1 to ho must get tt oft us ku hi us |i dear." Jack read the dlspntch with m his eyes. " 'I ltni'1 miss ?eall.x 1 hill fin ccouumletilly w malicious iwiul ?lv walk.' 1 1 In that. You're cleverer tlinn I at ?. Mi Miss Henderson hluslu -l guiltily, unture she was averse in sulitert'11 "We are going to borrow I'mu by'a surrey while Toddy is hen It Is all so sudden. (live un Jack." "Wr'iv developing resources Food him mi yellow silk dres> in It 11 i hue. ?undly 's a 11.1 II he air him in borrowed oipilpuges. about that boy \\ ho is to call i< lordship's luggage? What is he evolved CromY" Mel pointed her blunt penell polut melodramatically at his vest tuitions. "Ho is already evolved you!" "Mo? I'll be banged If he is!" ".Vow, .bu k. dear, see here," Julia developed a sisterly solicitude for the set of his cravat at this JUnc ture and tenderly readjusted it "Von know how we all lean <>n you. Jack, in every emergoiicy. "And you never have failed ns yet." paid Nan. " h. lump Itl I don't like to take my I ?? in broken doses." ?ii won't l>e physic at all. I Just know that you are the only one who will extract 11 moment's pleasure out of Teddy Maisloii's visit. II is going to be unmitigated torture for us girls." "Then lie Just shan't come," sai-l Jin k stoutly. "I'll make it my own af fair to Intercept hi in at the station and take him on to his own rambling wreck." in view of Mrs. Iletidersoii's continu ed invalidlsm. her daughter Melllceut was the recognized head of the house hold. AS one In authority she quelled Jink's Insubordination will) a Bliperb wave of her long, sliin hand. "You \ ill make it your business to gel I lull dlspntCll ort without any de lay, my dear. That Is all I ask of you nt present." "The future has its potentialities."' said Julia, with an accurate reproduc tion of M.d's gesture. "A few kicks among them," Jack Hung Imck front the doorway, upon Whose knob be had deposited Ids hat on entering. With Jack eliminated flOUl the fain lly council, harmony was once more possilde. A lelleetive silence held the tliTec Miss Hendersons for some mo ments. A groan from Julia was the first audible sound. "That hall carpet! it would take ii bah- of cotton to cover some of Its weak spots " "Oh. 1 say. girls"?Nanny looked from one to Hie other luminously "who was. that Roman youth who threw himself Into a tzu\t to save Ihn city?" "Well, that Is a digression:" "Marius,*" Mel suggested tentatively "No; I'm sure It was not Marius." "Julius Ciesar perhaps, or maybe Mark Antony." "Shocking.' Poor Jack! We esteem him lowly until WO need him to pull us out of the bogs of our own Ignorance." "Well, you have no business drugging your old Roman IIIto the discussion Even Mel's pat lone* had Its liuiitniioiis "One man at a lime, please, and Tedd) Marston Is problem enough for tie- da.\ What has your gulf Jumper to do ?villi bim 7" "Everything. I'm going to cm 11 hue him. 1 am going to fling mysoii into the gulf and save, if not Uome, a dear er thing- our credit." "Perhaps Nan will kindly explain If we give her time. Mcllieent." Miss Julia folded her hands with exaggerat ed resignation and fastened stern eyes on her youilgi st sister. "That's just what 1 want, a little time." And without further ado Nanny fluttered from the room, looking ex cessively unlike any Hornau hero re corded in history, with her pretty blond head and dancing step. Miss Julia Henderson looked at Miss Melllccnt perplexedly. "What do you suppose she is up tr now, .Mel':" "How can l tell? Nanny Is always Onprcdlcnble. I W ish she would he se rious about this, though. Ted's visit is going to demand (he united nerve force of the family." "If Uoi", e force were all it demanded:" "I think we had best 1101 get excited, dear, or Ilm ried." "Of course not. I never do over the Inevitable." And then they fell easily and natu rally into a discussion about napkins ; nnd new tumblers. The household toward which Mr. Tedlngton Marston was even then evlng, wil ?mug elei local esteem w hile it came up frequent ly for crll lelsin. Mrs. Henderson's (lector was of the opinion that, slnco Providence had sein fit to circumscribe her view to I he four walls of one room she was paralyzed in her lower limbs it was folly to hold Journeying, with no thought of being n dlsttirmnu element, was held In high A white COpprd and aproned maid stand iny demun tyof\ the, threahold. on to that great house Just because shu had gono to It a bride. The placo ought to be sold. It was a white ele phant "on the hands of those sweet glrla of her?," Jack, bjr reason of Umltftd. jjaxs_?u4?a experience, did uot couut for inuoii yot. I'bo minister, or, ml bor, the minis tor's wife, wished slie lia<l the manage uiout <>r tho Henderson affairs. A > handsome us tboso girls wore, she WOUld many tbeill oil in a Jiffy. Ami there were many who cast wordy scorn at the emptiness of that vanity which mudo them nil cling to* got bor under the mohlerlng old roof, which presented such u line exterior, towering loftily among tho magnolias and spreading onks, while inside things wen- fast crumbling to decay. ThO discussion oil ways ami means - I that is. napkins and tuinlders Innl reached the climax <d an order ror "u dozen pressed glass tumblers, Inexpen sive quality," written In Miss Melll- j cent's clerkly hand, when the dining room door was softly opened, reveal- 1 lug a white capped and aproned maid j standing demurely on tho threshold. Miss Melllcent suspended her pencil midair and stared. Miss Julia's stare was of slighter duration. "Nancy Lien- t dcrson, what do you mean?" The demure maid Hung defiance ;it them both from tin.ler her quilled wait- ; ress' cap. "You don't suppose I am ^o lug to let him know that we keep only one servant, a cook?" "Hut that is all we do keep, Nanny." "We will keep a waitress while Mr. Ted Is here. < lit Is. I am in the gulf. I How do you like Miss QtlillticUS Cur j tins. If that was his name. I never thought to put my private theatrical properties to such good use." "Hut he will ask for you, He knows WO are three." "I eon easily be away on a visit to a distant school friend." "Yes. but"- - "Now, Roe here, Julia"?and, with the light of defiance Mazing In her great (dear gray eyes, Nancy turned upon her second sister - "yon arc lust to let me n'onc. You remember the last let to- mother ever received from her cous in, old Mr. Mar ton? Do you remem ber what ho said about the dearest wish of his heart that he hoped Tod Ingtoil would return to America some day and rehabilitate the dear old home stead, putting one of her dear daugh ters that's us- ;it its head us mistress? Then he died," mournfully. "And Teddy is returning to Ameri ca?" "To fulfill prophecy." Whether Nanny's bohl scheme for putting a best foot foremost would have received the final sanction of her more conservative sisters will never tie known. The front doorbell runs;, or, rather, sent an Intermittent whecsa through the great bare ball, and, being nearest the door, Nanny answered the sum mens. Tin? low murmurs of a strange voice j sent two of the Misses Henderson ? trembling toward /he open door, where I they crouched out of sight with the avowed purpose of eavesdropping. "Please say to Mrs. Henderson that I 1 changed my plans about stopping in j New Orleans and followed Immediate j ly on the heels of my telegram. I hope j she got the telegram." "Yes. sir. This morning, sir, 1 beard the young ladies say." Melllcent gasped. Julia clutched tier fiercely by the arm and hissed In her ea r: "There's wo help for k now. Wc'v* got to see her through. Plcnso tlo?'t get hysterics, Mel." ? only this morning. There must have been some delay.'' the guest was k:WJ Ing. "1 am afraid, then"? "Oh. it's nil right, sir. Just st>?p Into the parlor. I ll tell the ladles. The boy'11 take your bag up." With whi?h the eavesdroppers could hefki Nanny patter otlh lally across the hall to open the great mahogany door to tin- seldom used parlor. Miss Melllcent tell while and limp into the chair nearest her. "Well, we ate in for1 it. I shall have nervous prostration before the day is o\ er." Julia looked wrathfully at her and quoted: "I think we bad best not get excited, deai. or Hurried," Here a white frilled cap was project ed Into the low voiced confab. "(this, he's Josl splendid a great big, handsome, manly fellow, with the sweetest smile. Itciiicinhor, he Is here to fulfill prophecy. Now. don't lot my saerlllee go for naught." she was pouring out n glass of water. "He's been used to white capped waitresses. Called me 'my good g!i 1' with tin- most in bam- composure. After I've watered him I'm going to take him into mam ma's room and give you girls a chance to primp." Mi.'i I Melllcent protested. "Hut 1 haven't said a word to Aunt Joliff about dinner " Nanny stamped her root In n in:;:, nor out of all keeping with her cup and apron. "Leave Aunt Joliff and the dinner t., me. There must bo some ladies to do the entertaining." With which she di-appeared, cnrrj lug the tray with its ej.-iss of water upon It as deftly as if her experience of a maid's duties had extended far beyond the hoards of the private the atrlcnts she so ardently affected. Miss Melllcent often declared in aft er years that she felt that day as If they were all playing in private theat ricals, or. as Jack lucidly [Mil it, "K\ eryilllllg was no exactly as it wasn't." Their inconvenient guest alone was a calm, self possessed, well groomed reality when ibey all assembled around the dinner table, with Nan standing de murely behind Miss McIIIcciiI'h ehalr, trnj in hand, ready lo past) the KOlip, Later on. w hen, aft, .-? ,m evi Hing de voted to reminiscent talk ehlelly, Mar stoii had followed !, io (he . ..i!. chamber assigned him, that young man brlolly suminarl/ed Ids own view oi t he sitlint ion. "I tell you we re a lot of flands. He's got en Ulgh man In him to lako us In the rough.' "No one can take us In I he rough. Jack." "Weil, then, just as we are. Some body's going to let the eat out of the bag" "Which cat?" "Nan there. 1 don't like it, I toll you. girls." Miss Julia was delicately darning a h'de In the line damask tablecloth which Nanny had exhumed for the oc casion. She gently pricked Jack on the Shoulder With her needle. "My dear little boy. what you like or don't like doesn't concern us Just now Did you tell our guest to put bis shoes OUtSldo the door, so that the boy could get them In the morning?" "Yes. confound him I" Nanny was carefully folding up her apron "There is where yoilf narrowness comes In. .lack. If you could only of face yourself for Hie good of the fam lly, as I have done! There Is no sense In confounding Teddy He's Just per fectly splendid, and if Mel and Julia between them don't carry out his dear father's wishes 1 shall havo to Inter vene." "He's not tho sort of chap to fall In love with a waitress. He's a genUe PMU?|| _ _ _ "Yes. but?Oh, well. I'm nut plolDg to appropriate him. I simply want some body i?> many into this family to keep us from fulling to pieces from a sort of dry rot. i am so dreadfully tired of livluu on nothing a mouth." "S.. am I." buUI Jack, yawning so portentously that his sister Julia ad vised Iiis going alter Marston's shoes before slumber should overtake him Irrevocably, lie stretched his arms and got up obediently, "1 say, Nan. we are in fur this mas qucrade. Let's make It a howling suc cess." Marston had bcCU the (.'liest of the llCUdct'sous quite tWO weeks when he fell the necessity of explaining himself to seme trustworthy friend laid Inex orably upon him. He selected for this purposu the chum he had left behind hint in ilcrlln. "Nobody knows better than yourself, my dear llolbrook," he wrote, "how entirely in accord with my dear fa ther's wishes for my settlement In life 1 was when 1 started for America. "It all seemed to dovetail beautifully. The proximity of the estates, the w ish es of our chiefs, the beauty and good ness of the 'TvildcrSOU Kills, all pointed ! to the fultlliu.eut of the prophecy ut ' to red over my cradle by my black mammy, who declared 'it was wvlt on the stars l was to fetch home a brldo from this house.' "Hut now let me abase myself. I eau only do so with comfort while seas roll I.et we n us. The Henderson girls are all that my father painted them? ! handsome, cultivated, dlgulfled, proud I ns l.uclfor and bearing poverty, which cauuot he hidden, with a gracious dlg 1 nlty that actually exults it. 1 "Nothing would seem easier than for a vagabond like myself to fall In love wiHi one of these sweet Rhls and take her over to my owe old house to brighten it with the light of home. They lire famous housekeepers, and I m v ild home when I get rid of the ? workmen now In full posses : it wouldn't be a bad place to i hrltfe to. Hut, bah! Let me mil v. lib It. i ? i?l,! chum, I've made a fool of my Hell a beastly assl I've fallen In love With my cousin's wa%ess, the girl ivlio passes me my coffee ut table and stands behind my cousin's chair with a tray In her hands I, who call myself A gentleman! "Not that I mean by that that I've I doraeuued myself She Is no ordinary ?orvttUt girl. I'm Dot quite sure who I ?r what she is. I should never dare question my high broil cousins about (?ieir domestics. Hut oh, well, to make the matter abort, tills demure Utile twiiicy, with her downcast eyes and ' graceful llglire, has got between lue ! and all my [duns, milking It forever Impossible for nie to fall in love prop Wly a word .n self excuse. "Thai she is im ordinary bousemuid 1 um -mit, for I found her dusting ? cloth Im iiechlontiilly between the I lea'.. - . my Itrowiilng, and one day at lable, when l gave my young cub of it cousin, Mr. .lack Henderson, a math ciiKiilcal nut ;?> crack, l am quite sure she contrived to give him the solution wbll. lug him the wallies. "All the same. I must gel away from here. I can't court my cousins' wait ress, tu I I won't court my cousins. I Khali move over to my own place in a day ol two and shall then claim you for iny guest." There was mailer in this letter that Marston would have been very sorry to have go astray, so he concluded to walk Into the village with his mail lb stopped at the open door ><( the fa mil j sitting room to let Mi s Mcllieent know his Intention. She entered a polite pro test, "if you are not in n particular 'l hurry, cousin, I can send It In by Hie 'i boy He always ^..es In for our mail about o'clock." ' Hut Marston thought the walk woul I do him good, aed presently they heard him swing past the library windows with that Ion-, easy stride which car ried him over so much ground with so little apparent effort. Miss MclllcotU looked at Miss Julia anxiously. "He will come back with the appetite of a wolf and nothing but soup u.cat for dinner!" "Jack went out with his gun." "Vis. and Jack will com?, back with j his gun We can't serve (lint up for Teddy." "In bin. thai me. Mel. he Is making us positively fussy. I wish he would go not thai he Is any trouble at all. He is a dear, simple fellow. I'm really fond of blm." The dear, simple fellow was at that moment swinging through a grove of black walnuts nild pecans which Inter vemd between his own home and the Hendersons'. He would "take a look at the workmen on his way to the vil lage and hurry I hem up." Now thai he had actual! confessed his weakness to llolbrook he felt In honor bound to gel from under his cous ins' roof ?s promptly us possible. Once established under his own. with I.is books and work around him. he might perhaps "forgot thai bewitching liuio Nancy." The thought or his folly enraged him. lie struck out savagely with his stout walking stick at a sapling by the roadside, then started and slopped, with the hot Mo..; of anger surging through every vein In Hm olden thin w, w hen the [lender >en and Marston families had been in daily Intel course, a small pavilion - "the half way house." they called It had adorned tins grove, ii still stood there, ruinous ami deserted, and se covered over with vines thai one inlghl ensll.\ pass it by unnoticed, as Mar stoti would have dene this time but for an arresting sight and sound. Oll one of the rickety benches, with their hacks lo the road, sat Jack, "tbo Cllb." and ?'Nancy, the waitress." Oil the llooi of the pflVllloll lay the Stallt bodies ot some birds ami squirrel-;, "the boy s" hard earned contribution to that day's dinner. At the .incut when, by Slashing away a branch of the sapling, Marston discovered thcill Nancy was actually kissing Jack and calling lllm by ail manner of endearing names. (low Sympathy Is a good Illing tor the young husband to give the you tig wife. Hut sympathy will not abate one jot of her nervousness or hit her to that plain- of sound health where alone the wife and mother cau hud happiness. Dr. Tierce's Favorite Prescription gives the mother abundant nutrition (ot her child. "Favorite Prescription " is a woman's medicine and has no equal as a cure for womanly diseases. It estab lishes regularity, dries weakening drains, heals inflammation ami ulceratlon and cures female wcakuess. Accept no substitute for " Favorite Pre scription." No other medicine is "just as good" for weak and sick women. "it affords an.- great pleasure to i?- able to say it few words in regard l<> the merits of Dr. Piercc's favorite Prescription .out 'Golden Medical Discovery,'" writes Mrs. flora Am, of Dallas, Jackson Co., Mo. "I was tempted in try tbCSC medicines alter seeing tin- elTcel upon my inotlier. At an early age of married life I was greatly bothered with painful periods, also a troublesome drain which rendered me weak and unfit tor work <>f any kind. I became so thin liiere was nothing left of lue but skin Slid bone. My husband became alarmed und g"t me a bottle of ' l'avorlte Prescription. After lie saw ihe wonderful effects < t that <>ne he got two more, an t attei I used i <e up there was no more pain, and I began gal 11 in flesh very rapidly." Dr. Piercc's Common Sense Medical Ad viser is seilt free Oll receipt of 21 one cent stamps, to pay expense of mailing only. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buf falo, N. Y. could Marston know that her demon Btratton sprang from ecstatic grutl tudo to Jack for saving them the hu mlltatlou of that soup bone? And Jack! lie was simply bel?g Insu ff era blcl Mars ton bad much ado to restrain himself from collating him there and then. What was that be was saylUgV "My dear girl, this can't go on much longer without a grand blowout. I on cenlmeut is preying on your damask cheek. Von know how I love you. Nancy." "Then let me alone. Let me have my own way. Don't be trying to?to" ? Hut there she grew utterly incoher ent and, to Mnrston's complete dis gust, fell to weeping silently, with her ' ' head upon .lack's shoulder ami bis "vil lainous young arms" about her waist. It was with this picture maddening him that Marston strode past the pa vilion on his way to the village. It was with the memory of the "cub's" en dealing tones lashing him Into a fury of jealous wrath that he came back by the same route an hour later and Cotind himself suddenly confronted by Mr. Jack Henderson, who was com posedly arranging Ids game bug to tin best advantage over bis shoulder. "Hello!" said .lack cheerfully. lie was in high j ?1 humor with hiiuscl! and his prospective dinner. "Hello!" Marstou answered grimly lie was iu the worst id' humor with evoryltody. "Keen rowing your workmen up?" "No; I've been to the village with II letter." Jack grinned. "The hoy would have taken It it you'd waited until 3 o'clock." "1 did not object to the walk." Then with sudden llerceuess, "What hnvt you done with your companion?" "That measly little setter? Slut's m good, l drove lur home. I've done better without her." "1 am talking of your sister's girl Nancy. I am no) good at beating aboul the bush. Jack. I may as well tell you I saw everything. I know everything.' "Oh, the i^euce you do! Thi n I majt as well tell von I'm confoundedly glad to hear it. l tohl Nancy it couldn't i>. concealed much longer without a grand blow ollt." Marston stopped his further progros by planting himself squarely in front of him. Ills eyes were ablaze. Jack looked at him In amazement. "Hello! What's up?" "This Is up." said Marston In a ehok ed voice. "Von are an Insufferable young cad. Jack, and as the oldest male representative of the family I've a great notion to thrash you where you stand." "Well, you Just try It on!" said Jack, waxing wroth in hi; turn. "What are you row lug about anyhow ?" "Didn't I hear you tell your sister'.; waitress that you lov ,1 her?" sa d Marston savagely. "Yes." "Didn't I bear you tell her that con cealment was preying on her?" "If you were standing mar enough, you did." "Didn't I see you kiss herV" "You know better than I do whether you did. I have kissed her Ii :s of times." "And \ou" Tt ddy's throat sw .died With passion "you call yourself a gelt tlcma ii "oh, Ir.v (borge! I see! I wonder how many soils ol an ass you would make of yourself If I let you g<) on. Look here, it s iinn ton were learning the truth. I told .v . I 'his farce was verging on to tragedy, und nothing but special Providence kept you from throttling me before you heard Un truth about our Nun." "The truth?" "\'es; suppose we .- t down here on this log ami have n < i I." They sat down on i! (< log and hud It out, Marstou'* tine face now glowing with tenderest shame for the poor little makeshifts his coming hud entailed, now shining with (he light < i the great happiness Jack's revelation , ado pos sible. "What an ignorant brute I've been, Jack I" in- said, laying bis band caress ingly on the boy's. Jack gave him absolution patroniz ingly. "I don't suppose yotl made n blggot nss of yourself Hum I would hnvudouo under tho same circumstances, it .hi conies from our girls being so Inform i ly proud." "Tboy nro three angels," Bald Teddy onthuslnstlcnlly, "and Nancy Is the most nugollc of tllO three." Jack executed a prolonged and Incoil sccpient whistle, then shouldered Ids heavy gn.ne hag and proposed "an ad journment." Nannv wis dressing the lettUCO for dinner when Jack ami Marston reach od the house. Jack steered straight for tllO butler's pantry, where she stood, demure and bow'tohlng, in her cap ami apron. "Tho ent's out o." the hag, Nan, and I'm glad of It. You and Toddy flx It." One wild glance at Jack's laughing face made her long for flight, hut Ted dy was standing In the doorway ready to Intercept her. "Oh, my little cousin, how could you treat mo so badly?" ho snld, holding out beseeching hands. "Badly I Why, I thought?why, we" "ij!finj^?fUW*-?Z fettti jyj#.wl? or than my head. I'vo loved you. little one, for two whole weeks now ? so dearly, so very dourly." "In spile of" "Your deceit eup and iiproul" Not being aide to recall his letter to llolbrook. Marston sein a cablegram after it: "Prophecy fulfilled. Will be married to Miss Nancy Henderson as soon as home is ready. Try to eom over at once." And Hoibroolt came. IN A GARDEN. VnrloiiM I'oes Mnl.c |.lfv St renn ?ihm. Ii ii I A t'V O V? reo in e. Everything went smoothly until the encumbers, squashes ami melons began to appear above i he ground, ami then the striped cucumber beetles came out in full force and proceeded to devour tin- patch. Paris green was applied by means id a dry powder gun while the plains , were wet with tain It killed a good i many of the beetles. i>m the plants soon Liegau to show signs of Injury, ami within a fe\v days it became licet - sar\ in replant nearly the whole patch, ban r on air slaked lime containing ti little turpentine was applied to ti ? plant-, when the beetles appeared, ami it si ! mi d to he at least partially effect Ivo In p. "i< el i";: I be p.ants Tow itrd 11" i i,11 of .1 line, when the beetles became exceedingly aggressive in ihelr attacks, spraying vvbh bor den tlx mixture was resorted in, mid it Beel led to be the most clUclctit remedy tried. This mixture, composed of four pounds of lime ami four of copper sill piiiite (blue vitriol) to M) gallons of vvu U?l*. is primarily a fungicide, but it Bee III 8 either to kill or drive away the Striped beetles better than do the usual ItlSCCl ieides. IVw insects besides Hie Striped beetle caused any very serious trouble. The cutworms nipped off a few newly transplanted cabbage plants, tail were dug from their hilling places beside the destroyed plants and hilled. Cabbage worms were somewhat trou blesome, especially on the Into cabbage, but succumbed t<> two dosos of belle bore mixed iu wnter at the rate of one ounce tu a gallon ami sprayed oil the plants. The mixture was made stron ger than usual because the hellebore was not very fresh. Squash Imps became numerous lato in the season and were at hast partial ly responsible for the almost total fail ure of the w inter squash crop. Potato beetles were very sen ret.*, and it was unnecessary to spray the pota toes at all. A few tomato worms ap peared, but were picked off and killed before serious damage was done. Northern grown pea, bean ami cab bage seed is advisi d by a truck fanner, because the home grown will begin to degenerate the second year. 'Die Japanese Kiuslui rice, w hich has been an element in the rice boom "f Louisiana and Texas, does not dctcriu KUte under cultivation, as does some rice, ami hn aks \> ry little in the mill lug proees . So Kay experts. Famous among Maryland products are the Anne Arundel county strawber ries, peas ami tomatoes-, which uro grown in < nor mo us quantities. Tillage in the peaeli orchards may be overdone, a clayey soil should not be worked when too moist. a number or reports 01 eieenem success with ginseng come from Ken tucky. Your Hair "Two years ago my hair was falling out badly. I purchased a hottle of Aycr's Hair Vigor, and soon my hair stopped coining out." Miss Minnie Hoover, Paris, 111. Perhaps your mother had thin hair, but that is no reason why you must go through life with half starved hair. If you want long, thiek hair, feed it with Ayer's Hair Vigor, and make it rich, dark, and heavy. $1.00 a bottle. 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II GASTORIA For Infant s and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature In Use For Over Thirty Years Mf W YOKK CITV. Double Daily Service CA IM I A I. < I l \ HOC I K Shortest line lie' ween :tli |?ri ic.ipal ? bleu nrlh, Kast, South and West. Viic<|iiaIIc(I Schedules lo Pan American Snl?os?itinn al MulTaln. SeiiKori.rh In Ki i i:? i Mw >. !? kH. t.'ouril ii -avatmfth, Ccill ral T Kairlax . No I'll i. .11 i . in I IMaii ?_' Clam ?l 10am ? > :;Vam 7 I'2a ill 3 |l toil I Mipm t nli.iv bin Knstern I' ('iinuleu. ciicrnw,... . \r Hamlet . ,v Caihoun Kalls. Abbeville. i :t<pm (iroouw ood . 2 0' pin Clinton. >.>j.iii ( 'arlislo. !14 >pm ('bester .. .... I 10pm < aluw ba .) iniel inn. i ir>pai \r Hamlet. 7 lUpin b\ 11 amlei . H uoain A r ? all it i.1<? :',7n in Petersburg.'2 Iftpm Richmond. !i 2S|?m Wasldn .'tun. 7 i)."?|ini Haltimorc.II '20, in Philadelphia. ' rniam New York.ii imam Portsmouth- Norfolk.. ."- idpm No. 31 i | ii ftSpni I n 7 f.'i n v (iiipin I :( in In l.'.pm I linin I y.-i' in f? 01 n in (Vain ii ;>:::.n. 7 n^itm 7 It"mii'i ID Kam tUHAp;? 1 -linn .ri Kam ?; L'tlAin in ilium II 'Jftam i :;tipn I '_' fin 7 (Want I.oi ,\Ii AT I. AN I \ TO < I.INTON. I.v Caihoun Kalis. Abbevillo_ (jrconwi od .. . i Lnton . No ,?J 11 I7um I " "J.Mii I a lupm I i :r>pin J BOUTIIHOI Nl). Dallv No. . I Lv * hcraw, basti ru l ... 7 Kam <lamdcii. ? '?> . 'am Columbia, Central l ? " t 'am I'eniiiHi'k.II o'.'ani KatrftiN .ii 'lam Ar Savannah. I l7|'in Jacksonville. ?< lupin Tampa. *> i *am i.v Catawba. ICastern T Ii t ?am .in anam ?bester Carlisle .. Ilnlon (Srocnwnod Abbeville in 17am . ii :i7am ) J !pm ,ii |s,.m Calbouii Kalls. i Iftpm \ r Athens .i inpin A tlanta . . I ft ipm aily. ?i. -7. Imm fi?am n ian ^ 7.i in (?."?am .">.'. tm Iftiim HI. I I 1'ii un l'2am (V 'rtlll ? am ?inain Ifiam IS III .sain " ..in \ i. a l l \ n'l \ . i.v < tlinton .. . <; i i en wood. A libevillo Caihoun Ki A r Athens. .. A tlanta ?|.m 'lin I 11 j . in .") I Mil (iii'.m No. ((! connects al Washington with the Pennsylvania hallway llulfahi K.wrcss arriving ItulTalo .' '?? > u m Columbia, Newborry .v I.aureus bail way tiain No. ft.', leaving Columbia, I nil n station, :n 11.3:1 a m daily, coiuieei tal Clin ton with s A I. Ky No &t, alTnrdiitg short est and ipiickosl route by several houi to Atlanta,! hattanonga, Nashville,fcst. houis, < 'hicago and all points \Yoet, close eonuoction at Petersburg, Itieh mond, Washington, Portsmouth-Norfolk. C domhia, Savannah, Jacksonville mid A i Ian a w itb divoigihg I in ef. Magnificent vestibule trains carrying through Pullman sleeping cars bet wer n all principal points for reduced raten, Pullman reservations, etc, apply to Wm Ih'Ti.cit, J it., I), P A.,Bavaiiunh, (Ja. (1, Mel. Mm n . I. P. A.. 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Ti'niiiK lOavo s|.-n ttmliai. i s, r. ,v ?'. <it iiind mini, ??iii?-, I'm ' :l<5 a. Iiul >? Knrvloo South' irain, vi-1? ??? ilnll.v for?i Columbia ami liiinruti-liain poim. ui. and il:ln |>. in ClivsiipvaUi! Klan s't? ? mi.-r , in bt'iwrnn Niirfolu ?ad Hallluinrp iin.l Di? W.i liiiiginii ninl \vi >ii i ii Kliiiili'ii," - .. I l'iilliinia 'l 'a -ich ?li itpluv var iM-nvnnii Now Vork and N- . ixliiniH \-r? WainiiiiKinii, Ailnntii and AI,nip iiii-rvj iii ' i > liniwi-nii Xow York mid Mi-ni'i |s. vin V,'.-- ii.'..a. Allaiila and Bir* Inn v-liain. Al*i i-l< nil I'i i.i.man Kiiiiiaiiv Iii, i,:. ition ? ! .m-, a Ai limit! mill Nan Yi.lll. li.M i Cl.l'll (JAllH I'lllM KN A 11 as i \ ami . i:\vYoiik. Dluinu ciii-s <i?rv? All lUl-ill^ i'ii i'niitC. I'lllllll 'ii si,.,,, in_> <-nr? h. |\vi itn(4r? i'?|s ,iii'iill.i,l(4n|.ls!j im. Clo.-.?m ii1---ii a at N. rfolk for in.ii I'ihm (!o.\ironr. Aln-?al Atlanta with I'lilhinui I). K. sli-opor U'tf (!hl|liiiiii'ioi'li Mi l i in-'ii imi. N ? - it/*iii Jiil t niit'il Sinti i Khst Mull" ruiH Rulid iii'twii i Wiislmiirtna and Ni-w Orloium, Im'Iiiu iiiiij" ii ofc. iit'hi-s. through wllliuiil l'llllliK? fol pa ?-i ii.i r lit lill <-lil.-<s0.i, I'tllltuiUl dm a liiu-ri i>'ii Nlni'piini' i'iirs 1 nt wocn x.-vv York iiml St-w llriMiiiif, via A tlaiitaiind Mniiiuoiuory ami iiotwOi'il lilriiiiiiuhiiin ami Itltdiinoiul, Diulnu i'iirM el vi-all im als i inoitio, N ? - .1.: ami .;l ?? Atlalltll iii id Now York K\pi '?." I.ot-al I rain iioiw.i Atlanta timi i'harloliO, roiiiii'itifng ni i/liarlolU* wllh llunii'/li tniliH -a. limiiitora narry? Im.' I? *iiri.itii ?li'i-pini? ' ii' - i i'iwi-i-a ('harlotto mid Kli'liim-in! Sorrolk, \Vnshiai<IOiniiid N'"\v YoiH. N" I'limii in ii - "ii Ui"-' irainaha twi i i, Aiiatiiii and (.niiiribtro. I.<*aviii|ir Wnali It,)/.>|i.-11 >|iiiii|ii,\, \\'i'lia--iiio ami I'ri l iv A tmU'i.Hl -'< ? ?;? ii ? .-m- will ran Ilirotluh he t\M-. i- \\ a-irt :i'. i ami Snn I'tain---. ??? wllhonl ciianui iiiioi 'lioMHl Allanta wllh throitttli jpiilitniia drawing i" ill MiciiiiM ein for ifai'K aonvl l'?; ahn?I'uuiiiiia ilt'opiiiM irar for liriUia Wich. I',a mail" M HjHirllllllitirK with through I'ulti. ih-npor for A ?ho vi I In, Kno.x Vlllo ninl <'im>in'iiitl; iiN'< it OnUllilllla fur Sa vannah ami \ 1110. WtA N KS, 14 A .'- Ni IN U li \HOWIOK, Third V I'. A Unn. Slur., (4i a I'a Wilshhitflmi, i?. e. w nMhliiirtoa. D. c \S i. TAYl.i'K, .1. I? M< lAKKt A-viiii'ii'l I'aaa. Ag't., I'liss. A? T'kl \-. nt, Atliinttt. Wttj (4i,oi.'nvil i-, S. p. T?bJ_VO?NQBLQOD LUMBEU COMPANY OrPicit and Wokkh, Noiitii Auousta s. i". DoorSi SahIi. III Inda ?ml Bulldor'? PLOOR1 NfO, SIDING, CEILING AND INSIDE FINISHING LUMBKU IN GEORGIA l'IN?. mi Corrospondouco givon i>r<>rn|>i i,t tention. TjosrnoNs! positions n no oiuKin r Moro o?lls than nro t un posHiidy an. Qua/ * anU'ooi posll ioiih UuoKimI Uy V^M). Con rrti* 1 uiM-.xt'iiicri. BniOl any 11 tin-. CiitiiloKUc Ine Address, COLUMBIA III; ?l N LMS 1,01.1. Hi K COMJMuiA. ?, C august \. (i v. II AI ll AI r