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ANTONIO'S MARY.' Dora England was standing in the garden, bareheaded, holding her baby in her arras. She leaned against the balustrade, and her little son kicked his feet against the pink blossoms of the passion vine miming a race up the side of the house with a climbing rose that j was a wonder even among the roses of j Santa Barbara. Dora looked at the little | feet and ? at the rosy flowers and then ; laughed, and palling off the shoes and j socks held thc bare feet np by the flow- j ers and matched pinkness. Then, being j a mother, she began to fondle the little things in a most unreasonable way, and it was then that she saw Mary for the ! first time-saw her come through the . gate and into the garden, not walking, but running-running as though that, and not walking, were the natural hu? man gait, a girl of 17, a Mexican, dark and tall and with a tuneful voice when she began to speak. **I am Mary, Antonio's Mary," she said, "not Maria, but Mary, just like j American girls are named. I locked from the house there over to the house here, and I knew that you were the one I had come to seek. I am happy, ah, happy, if this is the little angel I am to take care of. I have so many, many lit? tle brothers and sisters, and I beg my mother to let me, stay and take care cf them. But my mother says, 'Mary, you are a woman now and must make mon? ey. ' And so, as for me, until now it is in a laundry that I have worked. But how can one love a laundry? When Jose, the waiter in the big hotel, came to get me, X knew that you would let me come to t you, for I love the baby, and when ona. loves one does well, is it not so?' ' And then, without waiting: "It is a good thing, dear lady, that you aie not in the big hotel now. My mother is a /careful woman-you do not know what a careful woman-and the big hotel is a bad place for a girl like me. " "A prudent mother, " was what Dora thought. Mary had taken the baby and was looking hard at the mother with big, affectionate eyes. Dora's imagination was making a picture, "She shall wear a dark gown, a large white apron and an enormous black hat, and there must be some red about her, and then on the beach with the baby, with his yellow hair, in her arms, she will be lovely. " "And so," Robert England said to the Sedgeleys next day, "the little Mexican is to become the caretaker'of my son, because she has a skin like satin, a low brow and a mouthful of glistening teeth. " But he did not say this to his wife. He could not have said j that he understood women, but he might have said that he understood, one woman. He was never a better lawyer than when he was in his own house, and that high strung little wife of his was as complex a body as 12 men ever were. So Mary came, and Dora and her hus? band and the Sedgeleys watched her every morning when she sat in the san on the sand with the baby on her lap. She would take a handful of sand, and holding it as high as she could reach she would let it slip, through lier fin? gers, and when the child laughed she would laugh, too, and clap her hands. She became a feature cf the beach life of Santa B:urbara. Every enc watched for the coming cf the tall young savage and the fair haired child. .The young men from New York who are the stars in the play life that goes on in the place every winter-an existence that is no more like real life than thc Santa Bar? bara winter' is like real winter-and who are very pretty editions de luxe o? I the Mexican vaquero, with their broad 1 sombreros, their silver trimmed saddles, i their rawhide bridles and diabolical Mexican bits, and their spurs weighed down with silver chains-even they looked at her a-s they rode up and d?Wn on the beach. "Nivn and I have been looking at the most beautiful creature in Santa Bar? bara," said Dora as her husband and Riva's came up to her high curt. "Now I know you tire talking about | Dora's fad, " Robert said. "A month j ago, 'tho most beautiful thing' would j have signified the mest wonderful baby ? in the world, but now-the truth is, ! Dora enjoys being on a pedestal. Per- ? haps she has never been on one before, except for the short time that she occu- : pied one of my millring a groat many ! years ago before we were married. Bar now sile has become a sore of supemat- ! ural being in Mary's eyes. I assure you, ! she is lather, motlier and father confess? or all in one. There are no bounds to her devotion. I am sure she would slay one of her small brothers without a pang if Dora ordered the sacrifice " "An uncomfortable sort of responsi? bility," muttered I\iva. "Yes," Dora said, "and I hate that. I hate responsibility, and I abhor posing, and my part in this is a deadly pose." "She is undeniably pretty," said Niva's quiet husband,''**"and that New York fellow, your friend Dulaney over there, seems to think so too. ' ' "She is beautiful, " insisted Dora. "Sheis, '' mutteredNiva again. ''dan? gerously beautiful.? ' What Robert England said was ail true. Mary gave Dora her worship, and there was jealousy in tho adobe lome of Mary's motlier and hot battles for Mary. "It is for the American woman and her one child that you desert your mother, ' ' stormed Carmen. "Wi'are nothing to you now, ' ' with a sweep cf her hand in? cluding half a dozen very frightened looking little rats of children. Mary was thinking all the time that she did not like scolding mothers and brothers and sisters who were unpleasant and very dirty. "Antonio," insisted Carmen to the big Mexican, her husband, who sat smoking his pipe with great calmness, "tell the girl that she cannot leave the house; that she shall never see the American woman's face again. " "I am going now," Maiy said. " I shall never leave my sweet lady until she tells me to go. She needs me. She has told me that she needs me. ' ' . 'She has taught my daughter to dis other. You shall not go. It obedience of my chil c?reii?3 screamed Carmens Butty this time Mary was running down thc street laughing. Thc big A:: tonio went on smoking, and thc neigh hors caine cut of their houses to sec Car men and her unruly child. "Come back'"1 shouted the mother. But Mary always turned her laugh ing head and cried, "Ivo, nc!" * * .& * * *. "May I tell you all about it?" Mai? said one morning. .'All about what?" asked Dora, am Mary cried: "Oh, the most wonderful thing has happened, the most magnifi? cent tiling. My cousin, who it5 a widow, mourns no longer. Her house is a tine place, as big as these two rooms. The floor cf lier house is not like the earth floor of the house cf my father. It is a floor of boards, all smooth planks. Last night my cousin carno out cf her mourn? ing. A great dance she gave to us all. If you could see our Spanish dances! We have egg shells-hollow, gilded egg shells. And, you see, we are to break the- shells on the head of the one that is most dear to us. The girls are to break them on the heads of the men, and the men on the heads of the girls. And all the men have broken their shells on my head. And the American man-he, too, has covered my hair with gold. See, see!" and blushing cruelly she held down her head, which sparkled with fine gilt dust. There were more dances, and this was not the last time that the gold glittered in the girl's hair. "It is ominous, " Dora said to her husband. ' 'I am afraid that Mary has discovered that she is beautiful. " "What is she going to do when we go away?" asked Robert. "What is going to become of her?" "How serious you are," laughed Dora, "I suppose she will go back tc her laundry." At the end cf thc season, when the Englands went north again, Dora gave Mary many pretty gifts. When she get into the train, she held the baby up for Mary to kiss and was quite frightened at the look on the girl's face. "It seems a pity, " Robert said. "A good.deal might have been done with her, poor little pitiful thing!" And the train moved off, and Mary went out of the station. But she did not go back to the adobe home of Antonio and Carmen. When Mrs, England'heard of it, she cried a little, and she did not look in her husband's face that day or the next day. 2s iva Sedgeley told her. Niva was . not surprised. And in the meantime Horace Dulaney staid on at the big hotel until the hot weather drove him away. -Etta Ramsdell Goodwin in Argonaut. IN JOYFUL YUCATAN. A TRAVELING GROCERY MAN WAXES ELOQUENT IN PRAiSE. He Talks of Bread That Grows Ia Nuts, Milk That Comes From Trees, Sirup That Gathers oa Ants' Backs and Li^ht That Shines From Leaves. "Seems to me that I ought tobe sorry I went down there, now, ' ' said John Gilbert, the traveling grocery man, who recently returned from a six weeks' stay in Yucatan. "I don't see howl can go ahead and resume the rounds that my business calls for without a sigh and a regret, that, go where I may in my native land, I will look in vain j for thc tree that in those tropical climes I gave me light by night, for the tree : that gave me my daily bread, and the j one that gave mc milk for my coffee, to | say nothing cf thc pleasing and bulbous j ant that gave me the sweetening for it. ! Time and cash customers may wear j down and blunt the edge of this regret, but it is sharp new* and I really suppose that I ought to be sorry I went dowe there. "I didn't know anything about these remarkable specimens of the vegetable and animal kingdoms when I first struck that country, but I noticed that the bread we had in camp was very gocd and the milk very choice and creamy, while the coffee was deliciously sweet? ened. One morning I hear,d the cook cf our party hollering out orders to the I Indian guides. " 'Here, you!' he hollered. 'Hurry I up and pick some bread! And there ; ain't a bit cf milk! Go bore for some : right away! And say, you dago over : ! yonder, what's the matter cf you j ! straining some sugar cut o' them ants?' j j "This was a little astonishing to me, j i and I asked for information. Then I ' found cut all about it. j "The tree that gave the bread we aie ; down there doesn't ?cok a bit as if it j I would do it. But I found cut that looks j ! are deceptive -ander the equator. The ( I bread isn't bread exactly when it is first i picked, but it is a nice, stiff dough in ! closed in g nutshell about the size of a : goose egg. They crack the shell, take ! out the dough, knead it a little, and it I is ready for baking. By thinning it j down to a batter with the milk they get ! from another tree, our camp cook used to make first rate pancakes out of it. j The day ? came away he strained the ! sweetening out cf a quart of ants, mixed j it up with a batch of the dough and i made sweet cake that would have been i good enough for anybody's folks to set j out before company. "The ants that supply th** honey, cr I sirup, or whatever it might be called, j are worth traveling all tho way down there on a mule to see. They are about : the size of a small peanut, and on their ' back is a transparent sack that they dis : til homy into until they swell upas big j as a good sized marble. You can scoop ; these ants up by thc peck. They make this honey to fred their young on. but : they aro so geed natured and so suscep : tibie to familiarity that all one has to I do is to tickle them under the fore ! shoulder and they will give you every j drop of honey they have in stock and i then go meekly (?if to lill up again. "But this accommodating ant isn't i one whit more curious than the tree ; that acts in thc capacity of dara^ewn there. This tree lias a hi.^JgAOBflEigli and leathery that they i Kali j soling sho^s. When theflgHOHBailk one of the trees, they bofl V the ? trunks audit.lets. down^WBp?|B^Mriite and as sweet as any milk you over rea about in summer hotel advertisements. To get sweet milk out of this vegetable cow, though, you must milk it early in the morning. After the sun lias been up two or three honra the tree gives sour milk. They tell weird tale down there about a vengeful snake and a foolhardy InditAL Thc snake is of the deadly ven? omous aphidian family familiar in the tropics by a queer Indian name which I can't remember and which I couldn't pronounce if I did remember it In Eng? lish it is bushman. This particular snake had a nest of young ones, and the Indian was foolhardy enough to steal them. The motlier snake followed thc Indian to his hut only to find the dead bodies of her offspring lying about with their heads smashed. The mother snake disappeared. Next morning the Indian went cut and tapped his cow tree for milk, and returning drank it for his breakfast. He had scarcely swallowed it when he began to double up and howl. His eyes bulged out and his cheeks turn? ed fiery red and with a yell fell dead. " 'The bushman!'cried h is wife. 'The bushman has stung him!' "He had all the symptoms that follow the bite of that cheerful serpent, hut no? where about him could the marks of the deadly fangs of one be found upon the dead Indian. Later they found the mother bushman lying dead in the bushes neai- the cow tree. In the trunk of the tree, deeply embedded, they dis? covered her poison fangs. Then the ter? rible truth was revealed. The snake, despoiled of her family, had avenged herself on the despoiler. She had min? gled her venom with the milk in the tree, and the Indian had drunk of it deeply and met his awful fate. "But the tree that gives light inter? ested and amazed me more than the oth? ers. This tree doesn't grow more than 10 or 12 feet high, hut three of them would light a pretty good sized house. If you rub its leaves smartly between your hands they will glow in the dark like a lightning hug. As soon as night comes the leaves on this tree begin to shine as if they were so many electric lights. Looking off across country, one can see scores of the trees shining here and there in the darkness like beacon lights set in the hills. The Indians call it the witch tree, and I don't blame them. It gives the best light after it has been drenched with water, and so if the tree begins to grow a little dim all they have to do is to douse two or three pails nf water over it, and it is just like giv? ing the wick of a lamp a turn or two higher."-New York Sun. THE ANGELS" OVERSIGHT. Wc have a'littlo -sister. I wonder if they missed her When she -wandered out of heaven io come so far away. How could they ever sp;i.re her? . I know she must be fairer Than any little angel -they are keeping there today. Her eyes are blus and shining, And her hair is soft and twining, . Just liko a bit of sunshine all curled in little rings. Eut. ah, who would have thought it? (Perhaps they all forgot it.) They let her come from heaven all tho way without her wiags! -Sydney Day ve in Outlook. A Boy's Composition on "Hens." 1 'Hens is curious animals. They don't have no nose, nor no teeth, ncr no ears. They swallow their vittles whole and chew it up in their crops inside of them. The outside cf liens is generally put in? to pillars and feather dusters. Tho in? side of a hen is sometimes filled up with marbles and shirt buttons and sich. A hen is very much smaller than a good many other animals, but they will dig up more plants than anything that ain't a hen."-London Tit-Bits. Hetti at Once. "How do you feel, Bill?" asked the sympathizing friend. "Some better," answered thewouud cd cowboy. "I guess it won't belong 'fore I kin get ron? id an get square. " Cincinnati Enquirer. A Stem Chase. KEY WEST, Fla.. July 6.-This morning when it became known and spread like wildfire that :i steamer was being chased up the gulf, thousands of sympathizers rushed dowti to tue beach and to house tops to get a view of the brave little filibuster. When first 1 sighted 'h t vessels were a iittie this side of Sand Key light, and judging hy the j volume of smoke coming from th^ir [smokestacks, were being driven to their ! u'niost capacity The Three Friends. ! as if is now positively known to be her. was skimming the reef, while her pase er , which turned out to be tbs U. S S. Haleigh, wa?< some distance in the gulf ! When off this port the Mains was sig j nailed and the Haleigh kept on and ! -finally, when the Three Friends came ! iodide the reef, the Raleigh altered ber j course, giving up thc chu6c. The re : ports that the Raleigh fired at th j steamer arc without .foundation The I pilot boar. Glance returned to port this i afternoon from off the bar, ind reports I that while not close enough to decipher ? the name on the steamer, they were close i enough to hear the report of cannon if j any had been fired. j Geo. P. W B. Young Bead. ! NEW YORK, July G.-Gen. i\ M. 1>. Young. United States minister to , Guatemala, who has been sick in the Presbyterian hospital for a fortnight, ' died at noon to day of Bright's dis : ease Ile reached New York from Guatemala two weeks ago today on a leave of absence and went at once to the hospital for treatment The body will be shipped at once to his home at Carterville, Ga. LONDON July 6 -Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer and member of parliament for North Lambeth, who has been ill for several weeks with gastritis, suffered a relapse last night and is now lying io a critics! condition. I Irs, ?no? Saga, wife of Ex I Deputy u. i mm, Sohsmbus* Mn,, says? DID NOT STJFFElt AFTEEWAED. ^"Sentby Express or mail, cn receipt of price. Si.00 per bottle. Booie "TO MOTHERS" mailed free BRADFIELD REGULATO ic CO., ATLANTA, GA. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. !S JUST A.. COOD FOR ADULTS, WARRANTED. PRICE 50 cts. GALATIA, ILLS., NOT. IG, 1S93. Paris Medicine Co., St. Louis, Mo. Gentlemen:- We sold lass year, 600 bottles of GROVE S TASTELESS CI?ILL TOXIC and have bought turee gross already this year. In all our ex? perience of 14 years, in the drug business, have Eever sold an article that gave such universal satis* laciion as your Tonic. Yours truly, ?* AEXEY, CARE &CO SOLD-No Cure, No Pay, by A. J. China J-;F. W DeLorme, J. S. Hughson <fc Co. ATRACT OF 250 ACRES, situate about 3 miles from Effingham, bc inded bj Lynch's Creek, the public road and land now or forerly of Jesse James. The last named tract of bind well timbered, and admirably adapted for planting and pasturage. Terms easy. Apply to " PURDY & REYNOLDS, Attorneys ai Law, Oct. 30 Sumter. S 0 NOTIC ES. I have got in stock a fall line of 3uggres, Ladies' Phaetons, Surreys, Car? riages, one and two-horse Farm Wagons, which I offer for sale at Low Prices. I represent several of the largest wholesale manufacturing companies in the United States and can compete in quality and price with any dealer in the country. Call and examine my stock and get my prices I will save you money. GEO. F. EPPERSON Office at Epperson's Livery Stables _ HEADQUARTERS FOR a r iii ? T is sit FOR THE NEXT SIXTY DAYS WILL SELL AT 10 per cent. ABOVE COST All of his stock of China, Glassware, Willoware & Woodenware. Also entire Stock of Toys. tfcw'*%^<6. w?r e^au-izL. X-^E A magnificent assortment ar 2b cents per piece. This is a leader. The Peerless Oil Cooking Stove is the latest, model and best manufactured. The Wilson Trash Burner is the mos; convenient and economical heater ever in vented. As ia the papt, a full stock of the best STOVES AND K APIOJES Always on band. Housekeepers can be suited, no matter what they may need in any of the hoe? handled by ScafJe. The Workshop is better equipped than ever and every variety of Sheet Iron and Tin Work turned out promptly. Stove Piping and Tobacco Flues manufactured to order of the very best mate? rial. Piping made by Scaffe guaranteed to last longer than any other. Am prepared to estimate on Tobacco Flues, Furnaces, Doors and Frames. All sizes of Iron for Flues-Nos. 16 to 28. DRIVEN WELLS put down in any part of the county. Best pumps and ma? terial used, thirty inch points. Guarantee a good flow of water. Remember the old reliable and give him a call. T. Dec 4 ^^^^^^ , ^ ''?ig jSjP physicians, and prescribed by them J^?^ll^l^JU I" /mg jf all over th. world. TP VT* AB?ms?'?f M W Positively guaranteed to cure the most Jfc?) ? O IS 1*1*^ \V^! I stubborn cases. Thelbrrnul is published j?y vjS/ ? plainly on every bottle. As a tonic it is Ijj^ f^f |$^|pf ?^ ^/j [ Superior I BLOTCHES 6 f TO ALL llrOLB5?RES# For Female Complaints and Ip5 ' ' ^ ' ' fe? building up run-down sys- Jjfc PAIRAN I Nf v\ terns it acts like magic. Try ^ ? IIWH Fl I Pt <U vi a bottle and be convinced. jjj j?? ff AA A CiL M I READ THE I.KlHn rJWfr*^ m w * fl * EXTRACT FROM BOCK OT TEST! MON ?ALS. "Wasa rheumatic FuiTerer for K months. D?river! nolvr.oSt from physicians, treatment at Minera! Wells, Tex., cr Ilot Springs, Ark. MY doctor declared tay condition heri?;lr>?, ba; as last resort adv??2d P. P. P.. Lippman's Creal Renie ty. Through its usc 1 am to-day s. well man." V*. F. T7M>?l>?.*\ of Timmins &? Hines, Leading uroecr?, Wai abachie, Te::. Indorsed by E. W. FEAKEXS, Druggist. " P. P. P.. Lippman's Great Remedy, cured rac nf difTienlt breath? ing: and palpitation of the hear;. Had ncr. clent on cither sida for two years; now i sleep soundly in any position." A. te. RAMSAY, Do Leon, Tex. " Sworn to and subscribed before mc," J. 1:1. LAMBEST, Notary Public. "Suffered for years v.-ith a disagreeable eruption on my face. Various remedies failed to remove it. Throe bottles OL' P. P. P., Lipp? mann Great Remedy, completely cured me." CAPT. J. D. JOHNSON, Sa rannah, Ga. i SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS BROS. PROPRIETORS, LIPPMAN'5 BLOCK-SAVANNAH, GA.