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16 MARTHA’S WOOING. (Continued from page 3.) and was indefatigable in looking to her own interests and, seeing that number one came first. When she brought the tea tray into the pretty Rectory drawing room on Monday afternoon, it was all a tea tray should be; no cloud dimmed the lustre of the silver, no spot marred the purity of the napery or china. Mrs. Leslie was alone, and Martha saw and seized her opportunity. “Please, ma’am,’’ she began, “I think cook told you this morning that I was going to leave to go and see my moth er tomorrow, but I’ve changed my mind and shan t want to go now.’’ “No bad news, I hope Martha?” mur mured Mrs. Leslie sympathetically. “No, ma’am, I was only going to. take my young man on approval, but I shan’t w 7 ant to now.” “I didn’t know that you had a young man. When you came, if I remember rightly, you said you were not en gaged nor keeping company.” “No more, I wasn’t then, ma'am, but I was on the lookout so to speak. My first young man, an Austrian waiter, had gone back to his own country and stopped writing, and having no address after two years, he was end ed.” As all good clergymen’s wives do, or should do, Mrs. Leslie took an inter est in her servant’s personal affairs. “And have you found someone else? I hope he w.ll prove satisfactory. Hew long have you known him?” she asked. “Only since last Saturday night, ma’am, about six o’clock. As to his being satisfactory, I did think so yes terday, but I don’t think so today.” “Dear, dear,” ejaculated the lady, hew fairly interested. “What has he said or done to offend you?” “It’s more w 7 hat he didn’t say,” snapped Martha. “He’s one of the si lent ones that you can’t be up to. If it hadnt’ been so as I changed to pass with one and another as comes to the house today, I should have been nicely taken in. Some said he was a widower; others that he had a w’ife alive, not having heard of her death; also that he has a dead son about seventeen, and a daughter next him left home. And he never has much as said a word about all this when I walked with him on Sunday. But I’ve sent him a letter giving him the ‘go by.’ Plenty more fish where he came from, better too, as they can’t be worse. Mrs. Hall says his wife died of consumption caught from nursing his son. Her cfcugh was cruel, and she hasn’t been dead three months. He made enquiries for a wife from the neighbors and thought he’d got me cheap. The idea of me marrying a man as carries on like that! I’d sooner be in the grave with her as was his first. And he to tell me he’s twenty-nine!” “He must certainly be more than that to have children of that age.” “Very true, ma’am, and they do say as viewed in daylight very wrinkled; but only having seen him in the dark can’t say for sure. He can find a wife where he pleases, but it won’t be me. But there’s the Rector, ma’am. Shall I get him some fresh tea?” How much or how little of Martha’s A WOMAN’S APPEAL,. To all knowing sufferers of rheumatism, whether muscular or of the joints, sciati ca, lumbagos, backache, pains in the kid neys or neuralgia pains, to write to her for a home treatment which has repeated ly cured all of these tortures. She feels it her duty to send it to all sufferers FREE. You cure yourself at home as thousands will testify—no change of climate being necessary. This simple discovery banish es uric acid from the blood, loosens ‘the stiffened joints, purifies the blood, brightens the eyes, giving elasticltj 7 and tone to the whole system. If the above interests you, for proof address Mrs. M. Summers, Box 576, South Bend, Ind. revelations were retailed to the Rec tor, and how they flavored his tea concerns us not at all. It is more important to our tale to chronicle that at 9:30 the same evening when pray ers had been read, Mrs. Leslie was again addressed by Martha on the same all absorbing subject. “Please, ma’am, I’m sorry to trou ble you again; but if it’s all the same to you, Abel and I are going on ap proval tomorrow.” “Oh, very well,” said her mistress, smiling. “But why have you chang ed your mind again?” “Well, it’s this way, ma’am,” said Martha in her level matter of fact tone. “My note was that cruel and sharp it cut Hope to the heart. Up he comes directly work was over and asks to see me, but I sent w 7 ord to the back door by cook, ‘No! all is over and done; naught remains.’ He was that upset she said it was pitiful to see him, his sighs and groans fair shook the woodwork of the door. I was listening in the kitchen and heard him. He did beg for me to give him just five minutes, so I gave way, knowing as we should all give each other the chance to answer back, besides being wishful to hear what he had to say for himself. He began straight off. ‘Though making all al lowance for false information as you may have heard, I am indeed a wid ower Neither can I help this by word or deed, nor can I help a dead son and a daughter in service. If I wasnt’ a widower why should I want a. wife? How was I to guess you didn’t know? You did go so straight ahead I never had time to tell you. But that’s neither here nor there. Your letter has fair upset me. Oh, to think of you and my happy home as was to be, both gone!’ And the poor fellow leaned against the wall, he did tremble that bad. This was all true, so I said ‘And how am I to know your wife is dead, for they say she is not buried here, if she is at all!” At this question, Abel, he did look very indignant like. ‘She did go back to her mother by their own wish, to die together, and more convenient, too, as she had a grave handy belonging to her own people. But to convince you she is laid along with them, I’ve brought you the bill for the coffin, with the undertaker’s receipt. Also my bank book, my dear girl as was to be.’ His voice shook with sobs, and I was that moved that I looked at both. They were quite satisfactory. Then says I, ‘How did you come by all this mon ey?’ ‘Some was hers, and some is my savings, but most is her insurance money and the sons.’ ” “I hesitated so as to keep him wait ing a bit and then I says, ‘Well, things seem a bit more straighter now, and INDIVIDUAL TRAINING FOR YOUR DAUGHTER. Nothing can take the place of the personal touch in the education of a girl. Not to be lost in the crowd, but io come in close and inspirational con tact with great personalities; this should be in the mind of every parent who sends a daughter off to college. Few colleges offer better facilities or give closer individual attention to the girl’s needs than Coker College, Hartsville, S. C. Its course of instruction is scientifi cally organized to facilitate the work of the student and to make possible the eco nomic use of time. Its faculty is large in proportion to the student body—there be ing about one teacher to every ten students r—which provides all the advantages of pri vate tutorage in class-room instruction. Coker College is one of the best equipped colleges in the South. Its Music Depart ment attrafets patronage from a large por tion of the Southern States. Many colleges would have to charge from S3OO to S4OO for such high-grade instruction, but, ow ing to an endowment of $165,000, Coker College is able to supply it for S2OO or less —about one-fourth its actual cost. A full descriptive catalogue will be mailed upon request addressed to President Ar thur Jackson Hall, Hartsville, S. C. THE GOLDEN AGE FOR JULY 31, 1913 i don’t know but what I’ll give you a trial after all.’ Oh, he did smile, he was that relieved and then went on. ‘One thing your letter did strike home in, and that was saying I was twenty-nine; so I am but ten years besides. I was scairt at losing you so young and fair’ (though how he could tell having only seen me in the dark, I can’t think. ‘I thought you wouldn’t care for one so much older, but if you’ll have me you’ll never repent it to your dying day.’ Well, after that, he did hand me a note from my sister to say if I did break it off with Abel, I should either have to keep away from their house or meet him there, as they wouldn’t quarrel with him if I did, for they didn’t hold with foolish goings on. Nor did I when I thought of the bank book. So after reading it I did fix up with Abel to go by a later train to mother tomorrow, and he took word to my sister to call here for me early so that we can go to his cottage to gether to see if he does have oil cloth all over the floor upistairs and a duchess suite in the front bedroom, and the things downstairs that he says he has, and if he has I will take him on approval, and if he hasn’t I won’t.. So that’s how it stands, ma’am.” ATLANTA COLLEGE OE PHARMACY Twenty-two years of remarkably successful work. Greater demand for our graduates than we can supply. Best attendance south of Philadelphia. Begins Oct. 6th. Address GEORGE F. PAYNE, PH.G. - - - 225 Courtland St., Atlanta, Georgia. SAVE With Leonardos Golden Eye Lotion. You may ruin your sight by neglect. Irritation cured and strength restored in one day. Cool- X O K ing, healing, strengthening. It makes eyes strong—Leonardi’s does. Satisfaction or money back. At druggists or 25c., or sent postpaid I JtLo on receipt of 30c. by S. B. Leonard! & Co., Tampa, Fla. ______ SREC|AL OFFER Only $1 Ladies’ Turkish Boudoir Slippers To introduce the high quality of our line, we are willing, for a limited time, to send each subscriber of The Golden Age a pair of our fine La dies’ Turkish Boudoir Slippers, postpaid, for ONLY .SI.OO. Description. 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