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When Betty Came Home. By C. B. LEWIS. Copyrighted, 190 J-. by Associated Literary Press. The Arrangement was satisfactory nil around. Mrs. Hardin, the widowed mother, accompanied by tier daughter Betty and maid, was to spend July and August at a seashore resort. Will Hardin, the son, and his college churn, Frank Archer, were to keep bachelors' hall in the Long Island manor house. The faithful old servant who had acted as cook for many years past was willing to remain, to care for their wants and keep the,house from being turned into a stable, but she was given two months off with wages and told to make herself scarce. All went well at home and at the seashore for a month. Then the time was ripe for something to happen, and something did happen. The mother met with a fall, Miss Betty lost the only young man worth flirting with, and the maid came so near being drowned in the surf that she threat ened to quit her job unless the family retired to a safe distance from the raging sea. Miss Hetty wrote her brother Will that they would arrive home on a cer tain date, and the date was put far enough ahead to enable the two camp ers to get the dishes washed up and their fish poles removed from the par lor. But what is the use of writing letters to a brother who doesn't go to the poßtoflice for mail? The letter ar rived all right, but was not called for. Then, on the afternoon or the even ing on which the family were to ar rive home, Will had to go up to Brook lyn on pressing business. It was mid night before the young lady gave an answer to his pressing question, and It was two hours Inter before he dropped off a freight train at the coun try station half a mile from home. Archer was left to fish the time away, cook his own dinner and go to bed at any hour that suited his con venience. That hour was 9 o’clock, and he had sixty minutes to get to sleep when the family arrived. No Will appeared at the depot to meet them, but fortunately they found a conveyance, and fortunately Miss Betty had carried her latchkey away with her and could now make use of it. As the hour was late no time was wasted looking around-just enough to Ik* satisfied that brother Will wasn’t in his bed and that It would take two robust women two weeks to put the house In its former tidy shape. The arrivals had been abed for two hours when Archer woke up. He was dream ing that he had hooked a fish five feet long and was playing it. when he found himself sitting up in bed with bis eyes wide open. He felt that some noise had disturbed him. There had been a great deal of the “Raffles” business In the country. The chums had talked the matter over and decided what was to be done in case he invaded the house under their guardianship. They were armed, and they were to do their best to kill or capture him. One chum and one revolver being ab sent on this occasion made a differ ence, but nevertheless the Qbum on the spot prepared to die for his host. Getting softly out of bed and partly dressing, he soon assured himself that Will had not yet returned. Just then he distinctly heard a noise in the lower part of the house—the fall of some thing. Rutiles had effected an‘ entrance aud blundered over a chair. The student of chemistry hesitated no longer. He softly opened his door, and, with a lamp in one hand and a revolver in the other, he stepped out into the hall to descend the stairs. There had certainly been a noise— two noises In fact. Mother and daugh ter occupied rooms at the front of the house. After sleeping for a couple of hours the mother had awakened in a nervous condition and called her daughter. This was number one. The daughter had answered, mixed a sleeping draft and kno ked the bottle off the stand to the lloor. This noise had brought young Archer from his room into the hall, and he was just in time to encounter Miss Betty as she was returning to her own room. Of course she was startled. Of course ho was startled as well. They were not ten feet apart, and as they stood there staring at each other she forgot that Will was to have his chum with him, and it went clean out of his head that Will had a mother and sister anywhere on earth. Some girls, under the circumstances, might not have been the first to re <• >ver tliein wits. Miss Betty was. She motioned the young man down the hall. sDd when he could back up no farther she advanced quite close to him and whispered: “Mother is very nervous, and if she knew you were in the bouse the shock might kill her.” T ‘Y-e-s;” replied Archer in some won derment. lucre is some silver plate down- stairs, but I'm afraid It’s not very good. Ho you take bric-a-brac? If so, there are a few pieces in the parlor -vorth your bother. Won’t you please step down and take what you want and leave us alone up here?” “But, Miss Miss”—stammered Arch er. who hadn’t yet got it through his head that the family had returned un expectedly. **We have two watches and three diamond rings up here, but if you must have them let me get them. I won’t be gone more than a minute, and I wish you would be very quiet while I’m gone. I wouldn’t have moth er wake up for a thousand dollars.” “But see here, miss, 1 I don’t want your rings and watches,” the blushing and confused young man managed to articulate. “Hush! Not so loud!” she cautioned as she raised her hand and entered her room. lie stood there, feeling and looking like a polite idiot for the next two minutes, and then Hetty reappeared, held out the watches and rings on her palm and whispered: “These are all. I have been very honest with you. We are not keen for jewelry. Now won’t you please go?” “Will you tell me whom I’m speak ing to?" was asked as the girl contin ued to hold out her hand with her ear Font to hear if her mother was stir ring. “I’m Miss Hardin." “Croat Scotts!” with a gasp. “Then you must be Will’s sister. Let me say to you that 1 am’’— "IIusli! You are Raffles- Mr. Raf fles, of course. Please, please go away. I wish we had twice as much to be robbed of, but you will have to be sat isfied. Here I’ll put the things in your coat pocket. Now go on tiptoe. You may leave the lamp burning after you gat through robbing downstairs, and I’ll comedown after it. Hush! Softly!" Young Archer wanted to stop and explain, but she laid one hand on his shoulder and urged him along, and the first thing he knew he was at the foot of the stairs and a white hand was be ing waved to him from the top. Where should he go? What should he do? There was an awful mistake, hut liow T was it to be rectified? Will had said that he would be back on tlie 9 o’clock train. He had missed It, but might be expected at any min ute now. The first thought was to go outdoors and wait for him. The sec ond was to turn out the lamp and sit down in the library and wait for Will or daylight or something or somebody to come along and befriend him. This second decision was final. He stood in the hall, turned the light out, and somehow he felt that eyes were upon his movements. Ensconced in a big leather chair, he had passed away half an hour in calling himself names and hankering after his chum’s scalp when he heard a faint rustle outside the window near which lie sat. He cocked his ear toward it, and a moment later he knew that someone outside had his hands on the sash. Sixty seconds had not gone past when the catch was thrust over with a click, and the sash was carefully and slowly raised. Young Archer was excited, but he was game. It looked as if a kind Providence was sending a Raffles to help him out of his fix. He rose and stood beside the window with his pis tol in hand. He meant to shoot the intruder if he stepped into the room, but a sudden thought made him change the weapon end for end. The report of the pistol Would arouse the whole house and lie had tacitly prom ised the girl upstairs to keep very quiet. The man who had raised the sash waited thirty seconds and then stepped over the sill to meet a blow that dropped him like a log. lie had just fallen when Will Hardin opened the front door and entered. As he scratched a match to sec his way upstairs he noticed the lamp on the hall tree aud lighted it, and next in stant his sister Betty came running downstairs to gasp out: “Oh, Will, we had to come home— and you didn’t meet us—and mother is very bad—and Raffles has been here and robbed the house—and”— “Rats!” interrupted the brother. “But it surely was Raffles. I called him Mr. Raffles, and he didn’t deny his identity. 1 gave him all our jewelry, and then he came down for the plate. He acted real nice on mother's ac count.” The library door stood partly open, and of course young Archer had heard all. Now was the dramatic moment, and he came forward aud showed him self. As the girl uttered an exclama tion and shrank back he said: “Will, there has been a comedy of errors, with something like a tragedy to end lip with. If your sister will go upstairs and you will come in here. 1 think that all can be satisfactorily ex plained.” And all was. It was done in sec tions aud methodically. Asa first move the arms and legs of the man on the lloor. who was beginning to re vive. were bound. When the mask was torn from his face, they saw that he was indeed the Raffles who had ter rorised the manor houses for long weeks. Then Miss Beny was brought down ami .formally introduced ]c> Archer ARE YOU SATISFIED TO FACE THE FUTURE with its uncertainties without endeavoring to provide protection for those who have been entrusted to your care? SAFETY AND SURETY CAN BE HAD by giving them the benefits of your effortsby taking out life insurance NOW. THE STATE LIFE INSURANCE CO., OF INDIANAPOLIS, IND , offers the best protection, doublv secured by the “COM PULSORY RESERVE DEPOSIT LAW” and has been the means of making thousands independent when the independent ones needed it most. F. W. BONDURANT GENERAL AGENCY, Office over Sith & Carithers Bank, Corner Broad and Candler Streets, WINDER, GEORGIA. Administrator's Sale. GEORGIA, Wai.ton County.— Bv virtue of an order of the Court of Ordinary of said county, will be sold, at public : outcry, on the first Tit sday in September, 1908, at the court-house in said county, between the usual hours of sale, the following, personal property, to-wit: One-half int-rest in a Big Steer Wagon. One-fourth int-rest in Sawmill, ■Engine and three Carts, the engine a 15-horse power Frick, and the mill a Farquar?. One-helf intrest in six shares of Lowry Notional Bank stock, par value S2OO per share. ' One-halt' interest in ten shares of Walton Cotton Mill stock, par value SIOO per share. One_ha f interest m sixteen shares of Bank of Monroe stock, par value SIOO per share. One fourth intrest in one hun dred shares of Winder Oil Mill stock, par value SIOO per share. One-fourth interest in four shares of Winder Banding Com i any stock, par value. SIOO per share. One-fourth interest in eightv three shares of Winder Foundry and Machine Works stock, par value SIOO per share. One-fourth interest- in thirteen shares of Hcschton Oil Mill stock, par value SIOO per share. One share Monroe-Campton T*-le phon Exchange, par value S2O. The sale will continue from day to dav between the same hours, until all said property is so’d. Terms, CASH. This the sth day of August. 1908. G. W. SMITH. Administrator of J. S. SMITH By this Time she had exchanged her wrapper for something more appro priate for receiving company. Then the stolen jewelry was restored. Then the nearest country police station was telephoned to and Raffles was re moved. Then the mother awoke and said she had had a good night’s sleep and felt well enough to come dotvn to breakfast, and she didn’t faint away when told of the doings of the night. Then, as a sort of closing chapter to the events, brother Will beckoned bis sister to follow him out into the shrub bery, aud when they were hidden from sight of the house he turned on her aud said: “Sis, you are a brick—a regular brick." “Yes?” she smiled. “And Frank is a brick—a regular brick.” “Yes?” “And by the great horn spoon, if you two bricks don’t fall in love with each other and give him to me for a brother-in-law I'll—I'll” And then Betty blushed and laughed and ran away. Come To Wilkes County. This summer is the time to buy. I have 5.500 acres of good farm lands in and near Fieklin, Ga., which I will sell cheap and on the most reasonable terms. Only come and see is all 1 ask. This is the best part of Georgia. First come, first served. J. \Y. RIDER, Fieklin, Ga. m SALE! Scholarship in the Byrne Busi ness College at Athens, Ga. Will make to it your ‘interest- if you are | contemplating taking a business cvur.se- Write The News, \\ in dvr, 1 cWfor further particulars. BETTER DO IT NOW? Too late for Fire Insurance after it burns. Too late for Life Insurance after your health is im paired. Make use of opportunity. See us to day. KILGORE & RADFORD, Insurancec Agents, Office at The Winder Banking Company. 20,000 TELEGRAPH OPERATORS NEEDED YOUNG MEN PREPARE YOUR SELVES FOR GOOD POSITIONS. On account of the new 8-hour iaw passed bv congress in the in tetest of telegraphers, and also on account of so many new railroads being built and old lines extended an unusual demand for- operators has been created. Conservative estimates have placed the number of additional Operators that will be required during the next ten months at approximatly 20.<100 YOUNG MEN NOW IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY! Enroll in our School NOW and in only four to six months we will have you qual ified for splendid positions. Tele graph Operators receive from $50.00 upwards. Our school has been established twenty years; its equipment is perfect: instruction thorough and practical; position positively guaranteed our grad uates. Board in New nan is very cheap; the town is heathful and the people are cordial. Two Main Line Railroad Wires run into car school rooms. No other school in the United States has such up-to date and practial facilities for the benefit of its students. Write at once for free descriptive literature. SOUTHERN SCHOOL OF TELEGRAPHY Newnan, Georgia. Good Farm For SALE! Anybody wanting nice farm of I7BAGRES of land, 8-room dwelling, two tenat houses and outbuild ings call on J4T. MORGAN, Three and one-half miles north of Winder, on Athens and Lawrenceville road. ROUTE 23. Opera House HIGH CLASS Moving Pictures AND I ilustrated Songs. Pictures Changed Nightly. Admission 5 and 10c. PROFESSIONAL CARDS J. F. HOLMES, - ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Statham, Ga. Criminal and Commercial Law a Specialty SPURGEON WILLIAMS DENTIST, I Winder - - - Georgia Offices over Smith & Carithers bank. All work done satisfac torily, r- = ===== W. H. QUARTERMAN ATTORNEY AT LAW Winder, Ga. Practice in all the courts Commercial law a specialty. W. L. DeLaPERRIERE dental surgery. Winder - - Georgia Fillings, Bridge and Plate-work done in most scientific and satis i factory wav. Offices on Broad St. ALLEN’S ART STUDIO. All kinds of Photographs made by latest methods. All work done promptly. Office on Candler St., Winder- Ga Hinder Train Schedules Arrival and Departure of Trains Eastern Time. Taking effect Sunday Jan. 5, 08. Eastern Time is 88 minutes fas- ‘ ter than Sun Time. SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY. EASTWARD. No. 52. / - - 10:08 am No. 82, - - 2:50 pm No 88, - - 10:85 pm Westu ard. No. 41, - - 5:29am No. 88. - - 8:50 pm No. 58, - - 7 :43 p ai Above schedules are shown as infor mation, and are not guaranteed.” Gainesville Midland Railway SOUTH BOUND ’No. 11 —Lv 8:40 a. m. No. 18 —Lv. 1 :15 p. m No. 15 —Lv. 10:85 am; Sunday only. NORTH BOUND No. 12— At. 18:00 m. No'. 14—Ai. : 505 pm. No. 16 —A.. 5:28 p m: Sun.onlv. No. 12 will run to Winder re gardless of No. 18. * Yard limits at Winder are ex tended i.th' to s aboard Aw Line junction. ’ _ e All trains going through Winder” yard must be under fuli control.