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K^nC^iiSTllNEl ~ - I RQUGHFAREorlR/lVEl. | reen ffce? 1 .USD South 3a?Cuba. vice unexcelled for luxury >ed with the latest Pullman rsd Thoroughfare Cars, ule, maps or any informa* . J. CRAIG, % General Passenger Agent, Vllmington, N. C. U TRIED OUR j Bread, | | ind CaKe, mson Butter, | am Cheese? j Nothing Better. i WJU f AW hings to Eat" / i . The Untold Half It Wa6 Nat Necessary For Hhrn to Disclose 1l By ARTHUR BOLTONWOOO. There is no particular escitement when one of the lumbering fruit boats of the Yellow Star line comes into port. There was no particular stir along the water front that biting, foggy morning in December when the Admiral Dart came wheezing up the harbor, swung into her berth at the Y'ellow Star dockB with the aid of a couple of tugs?for the uue Mi tut fumiing e^-i. u.u?, ij ouu t uui her gangplank and disembarked the /our passengers she carried. She also disembarked Bobby Shacklett. But Bobby Shacklett did not come to the wharf by w*y of the gangplank. While the fussy little donkey engines in the sheds were puffing valiantly and swinging briskly out of the Admiral Dart's hold the many bunches of green bananas Bobby Shacklett, very thin, very pale and very much unwashed, came up from the stoke room, took a long breath of the mist}- air, shivered a bit?for his clothes weie painfully thin and shabby ? and then climbed over the rail and dropped unostentatiously to the wharf. A couple o* carriages bearing the steamer's late passengers whisked past him. Three rumbling drays went bumping past, one of the drivers shouting impolitely to Bobby to get to somewhere out of the way. Bobby grinned. It was not a pleasant grin. He was thinking of his homecoming as he had planned it and as it had actually turned out, and comparisons, which are always 1 * r odious things, were particularly so in this case. He thrust his hand into the pocket of his ragged trousers, drew out a few pieces of silver, grinned once more, shivered again and made his way to the street. A solitary hansom was drawn up to the curb, waiting for a chance fare. Bobby stepped over to it. The cabby surveyed him scowlingly, but Bobby, quite oblivious apparently to the dubious glances cast in his direction, climbed calmly in. He gave an address on a certain conservative street uptown. The driver 6tared at him. Bobby smiled. "Don't blame me, old chap," he said, noting the other's hesitation. "But I want to go there, strange as it may 6eem and incompatible as it mav kn mv nrPKPnt HnnpflMTlPP What's the row ? Afraid I won't be good for the f^re? Here you go." He passed up the handful of silver through the trap. "Now, then, drive on," he commanded. The whiplash sang through the air; the shambling horse lurched into a trot; the hansom rocked, and away they went through the dingy, noisy streets. They drew up finally before an imposing house on the conservative uptown street. Bobby climbed from the hansom, and while the latter turned and went clattering away he shut his teeth grimly and mounted the brownstone steps with a light of determination in his eyes. In response to his vigorous tug at the bell the door was opened by a statuesque butler, whose dignity stood out obtrusively all over him. He looked at the figure on the stoop and closed the door halfway. "Well?" lie said, and the manner in which he said it plainly bade the visitor begone. "Is Miss Wadsworth in?" said Bobby quietly. "Hi think not, sir. In fact, Hi am very sure she isn't," the butler replied. A look came into Bobby's gray eyes?a look that had made better men than the butler quail many times before now. "I rather think you are mistaken," said he. "I'm sure she is at home, and, what is more, 1 am sure she will be glad to receive me. If you don't believe it, just tell her, if you will, that the general manager of the Colona Intercoast railway would like a word with her. I'd advise you to do as I say." The butler hesitated but a second longer. The man on the stoop was looking at him with a most disconcerting determination in his bearing. The butler, unwilling, it is true, opened the door. "Step in, sir," said he. "Hi will see." A fire crackled cheerfully in a big fireplace at one end of the warm, dark hall. Bobby drew a chair close to it and, sitting down, held out his stiffened fingers to the grateful blaze. Up the wide stairs creaked the butler with as much haste as his ubiquitous dignity allowed. Voices ' sounded above. There was a little | gasp, a cry. the swish of skirts, the ; patter of light footsteps hurrying;' down the stars. Bobby arose from his chair just as Mary Wadsworth, more radiant, more beautiful than ever, came running toward him. "Bobby!" she cried, both her j hands held out to liim. "Bobby, I? I can't believe that it is really you and that you are back! I'm glad? oh, so glad I can't tell you prop- < erly!" < Bobby had stiffened. His face 1 was very grave. i "Mary, please sit down for a mo- * ment," said he. "I shan't keep yoo * long. Just a word oj^pplanation, and perhaps even that is not need- ' ed," he added, with a lugubrious 1 glance at his tattered raiment. "I 1 must apologize for coming here this 1 way, but 6toking on a fruit steamer 1 raises the very deuce with one's ap- J pearance." She was about to say something, } bat he held out his hand. [ "Please let me talk first," eead j he. "I must tell yon before you say a word or else I-shan't-have-the courage to. You see, it's all off? 1 railroad gone up, contracts unfui- J filled, and the fortune I went down there to stow away in my jeans some one else has walked off with. That's about all, except that I came . back in the fruit steamer to tell you 1 that I'm the largest, most mexcus- ' able fizzle extant." "That is all?" she asked suddenly. "Are you sure that is all ? Do I you mean to say in those few sentences you. have told me everything?" "All that you should know," he < said. i She looked at him steadily, and a j sudden light leaped into her eyes. "You are telling me only half," she said. ( He was silent. < "Why don't you tell me the other 1 half?" she demanded. I "It?it wouldn't interest you," he said lamely. She leaned toward him. "I know 1 the other half without your telling 1 it, you great, big, generous boy," I said she. "Eh? What? What is it you know or, rather, think you know?" he asked "I know it all?the whole story," < she declared. "I know why you axe here as you are- I know it was because you shielded my brother when he?when he wasn't straight, when the gambling houses down there had done their worst for him. I know that you ? you dear, loyal Bobby Shacklett ? threw everything into the balance ? opportunities, contracts, everything, to save him and that now you have come back to me with your lip6 sealed, claiming that you have failed and offering no excuses for it." Shacklett reddened. He smiled rather vaguely and looked decidedly embarrassed. Twice he essayed to speak and each time got no further than the initial word. The girl was watching him closely. "It?it doesn't change tilings any, -even if all you have said is true, and I haven't admitted yet that it is true," he said at last. "I've lost my money, and?you see that"? " 1 ou nave gameu?gamea suujcthing else," she whispered. The butler was telling the pretty second girl about it below stairs. " 'Is harm was around her," said .he disgustedly. "Think of it! And 'im nothing but a common tramp!" AN ACT OF KINDNESS. A Klngstree Resident Speaks Publicly for the Benefit nt Klngstree People. If you had suffered tortures from kidney trouble, Had experimented with different remedies without relief; If you were finally cured through a friend's suggestion? Wouldn't you be grateful? The following statement has been given under just such circumstances; Mr Mcintosh has used Doan's Kidney Pills. 11 He publicly tells of the benefit he I has recieved. His is a simple act of kindness to other Kingstree sufferers. No need to experiment with such convincing: evidence at hand. Mr Mcintosh speaks from experience. You can rely on what he tells you. W K Mcintosh, prop tobacco warehouse, Main St, Kingstree, says: "Several years ago my kidneys were disordered, and I suffered from r dull pains in the 3mall of my back. I was sore and lame and had headaches and dizzy spells. I tried different medicines, but with no success, until friends recommended Doan's Kidney Pills. They cured me." Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy?get Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that cured Mr Mcintosh. Foster-Milburn Co, Props, Buffalo. N Y. The ups and downs of business are principally ups now. ^ Found Simple R that Hid Laxative Compound Corrects Stubborn Case of Constipation. An important duty that devolves >n parents is the regulation of their ihildren's bowels. Health in later ife depends in large measure on ;arly training and a child should be aught from infancy to regulsr labits. When from any cause the bowel pecomes congested with stomach vaste a mild laxative should be employed tojopen up the passage gently ind carry off the congested mass. \ most effective remedy for this purDose is the combination of simple axative herbs known a9 Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. Mrs W D Bulls, )f Reed, Okla, used Dr Caldwell's syrup Pepsin for her baby boy, Harey Buren Bulls, and says "It did lim more good than anything we lave given him. His bowels are /ery stubborn about acting, but ;hey act easily every time I give him Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin." Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin contains no opiate or narcotic drug and s a splendid remedy for children FIVE HANGED ON ONE LIMB. Negroes Taken From Georgia Jail Swung Up by Mob. Albany, Ga, January 21:?Forty >r fifty men, acting with precision ndicative of carefully laid plans, took five negroes from the Worth :ounty jail at Sylvester last night, larried them in automobiles to Lee :ounty and hanged them all to one imb of a tree close by the side of the principal road leading into Starkfille. The negroes were being held n the Worth county jail in connection with the murder of Sheriff Moreland. of Lee county, who met Does ^ w y Read thii 1 te // Not long a ' came lame e Charleston, me many rei W rious did it 5 forced to coi M. work when I M Sloan's Linii ^ less than one H Cfuu. C. 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Let me say? v j : bottle fixed me up. | nus m gj pbdl, Florence, Tex. ~1 n (MMMMMMMNtfiiift IIWI?iHlllMlllllll II llMM I Home Mixing! tilizers selling at prohibi- I loney by buying acid phos- 8 re running 7 per cent, am- I il and do your own mixing 1 ch cheaper fertilizer. 9 limited tonnage of acid I tton seed meal at prices I will pay you to see me. i HARLEY BUREN BULLS. and older people as well. It has been on the market for more than twenty-five years and is the family standby in thousands of homes. Druggists everywhere sell it for fifty cents a bottle. A trial bottle, free of charge, can be obtained by writing to Dr W B Caldwell, 454 Washington St, Monticello, 111. his death at the hands of negroes in Worth counity during the Christmas holidays. Starkville is a hamlet three miles from Leesburg, the county seat of Lee county. The cutting of all wires leading north from Sylvester was included in the plans of the party. 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