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MONDAY, MAY IT.
i tie Story of Waitstill Baxter”
Kate Douglas YVigain
Author of “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm"
PROLOGUE.
Strength and interest of qaie
lives in the New England oj
three-quarters of a century age
provide the framework of “The
Story of Waitstill Baxter." Tha.
is the skeleton. The flesh ana
blood of human beings, livin.
and loving and moving in a worle
of their own that is a miniatur
picture of the greater world ou
side, are also there. The store
is a cross section of life as seet
and described by a woman wh
has been well called “America’,
greatest living woman novelist.
Amid the hills of New Englam
are many men and women lik
Waitstill c.nd Patience Baxter
and their father, Ivory Boyntor,
and his afflicted mother ana
funny Cephas Cole, who woo*
hopefully, but with small chanc
of success. They find their wa
into book but seldom, for
takes a n: er hand to describ
faithfully the doings of re,,
people. And that is the reaso
why “The Story of Waitstii.
Baxter" has won highest prais
from critics who know a goo t,
book wh hey see one.
(Continued from Yesterday.)
It did not du any good to say: “Ye*
mother, but the mayflowers have
bloomed ten times since father went
"I’ve been looking out more than ueual
this afternoon.”
away." He had tried that, gently and
persistently when her mind began
to be confused, from long grief and
hurt love, stricken pride and sick aus
pense.
Instead of that Ivory turned the sub
ject cheerily, saying, ‘‘Well, we’re sure
of a good season, 1 think. There's
been a grand snowfall and that, they
•ay, is the poor man’s manure. Bod
nnd I will put In more corn and pota
toes this year. I shan’t have to work
singie handed very long, for he is grow
Ing to be quite a farmer.”
"Your father was very fond of green
corn, but he never cared for potatoes,”
Mrs. Boynton sold, vaguely, taking up
her knitting. "I always bad great
pride In my cooking, but I could never
get your t'atber to relish my potatoes.”
•'Well. Its son does, anyway,” Ivory
replied. helping himself plentifully
from a dish that held one of his
mother’s best concoctions, potatoes
minced One aDd put together into the
spider with thin bits of pork and all
browned together.
"I saw the Baxter girls today, moth
er,” be continued not because he hoped
she would give any heed to whr.t be
•aid, but from the sheer longing to'
companionship. ’The deacon drove off
with Lawyer Wilson, who wanted him
to give testimony In some ease or other
down in Vlilltown. The minute Patty
•aw him going up Saco hill she hnr
neascd ibe old starved Baxter mure,
and the girls started over to the Lower
Corner to see some friends It seems
IPs Patty’s ' '- tJKiny, and they were
V
celebrating. I met "them just Its They
were coming back and helped them lift
the rickety wagon out of the mud.
They were stuck in it up to the hubs
of the wheels. I advised them to wall;
up the Town House hill If they ever
expected to get the horse home.”
"Town House hill!" said Ivory’s
mother, dropping her knitting. “That
was where we had such wonderful
meetings. Truly the Lord was present
in our midst. And oh, Ivory, the vi
sions we saw in that place when Jacob
Cochrane first unfolded his gospel to
us! Was ever such a man!"
“Probably not, mother," remarked
Ivory dryly
“You wore speaking of the Baxters
I remember their home and the little
girl who used to stand in the gateway
and watch when we cume out of meet
ing. There was a baby too. Isn't there
a Baxter baby. Ivory?”
“She didn't stay a baby. She is sev
enteen years old todny, mother."
“You surprise me. but children d*
grow very fast. She had a strange
name, but I cannot recall It.”
“Her name is Patience, but nobody
but her father calls her anything but
Patty, which suits her much better.”
“No; the name wasn’t Patience, not
the one I mean.”
“The older sister is Waitstill. Per
haps you mean her." And Ivory sat
down by the lire, with bis book and his
pipe.
“Waitstill! Waitstill! That is it’
Such a beautiful name!"
“She’s a beautiful girl."
“Waitstill! ’They also serve* who only
stand and wait.’ ‘Wait, I say, on tin
Lord and he will give thee the desire
of thy heart.’ Those were wonderfu
days, when we were caught up out oi
the body and mingled freely in th
spirit world." Mrs. Boynton wns nov
fully started on the topic that absorbn
hei mind, and Ivory could no nothin:
but let her tell the story that she ha.
told him a hundred times.
“X. remember when first we bean
Jacob Cochrane speak.” (This whs lu>i
usual way of beginning.) “Your father
wai a preacher, as you know. Ivory
but will never know what a won
derful preacher he was. My grand
father, being a fine gentleman and a
governor, would not give his consent t>
my marriage, but I never regretted It
never! Your father saw Elder Coch
rane at a revival meeting of the Frei
Will Baptists In Scarboro and war
much Impressed with him. A few' days
later he went to the funeral of a child
In the same neighborhood. No one who
was there could ever forget It The
minister had made his long prayer
when a man suddenly entered the
room, came toward the coffin and
placed his hand on the child’s fore
head. The room in nn instant was as
•till as the death that had called us to
gether. The stranger was tall and of
commanding presence; his eyes pierced
onr very hearts, and his marvelous
voice penetrated to depths In our souls
that had never been reached before.”
“Was he a better speaker than my
father?” asked Ivory, who dreaded his
mother's hours of complete silence even
more than her periods of reminis
cence.
“He spoke as if the Lord of Hosts
had given him Inspiration; as If the
angels were pouring words Into his
mouth Just for him to utter,” replied
Mrs. Boynton. "Your father was spell
bound, and I only less so. When he
ceased speaking the child's mother
crossed the room and, swaying to and
fro, fell at his feet sobbing and wail
ing and Imploring God to forgive her
sins. They carried her upstairs, and
when we looked about after the con
fusion and excitement the stranger had
vanished. But we found him again!
As Elder Cochran said; ‘The prophet
of the Lord can never be hid; no dark
ness is thick enough to cover him!'
There was a six weeks’ revival meet
ing In North Saco, where 800 souls
were converted, and your father and 1
were among them. We had fancied
ourselves true believers for years, bat
Jacob Cochrane unstopped our ears
so that we could bear the truths re
vealed to him by the Almighty! It
was all so simple und easy at the be
ginning, but It grew hard and grievous
afterward; bard to keep the path, I
mean. 1 never quite knew whether
God was angry with me for backslid
tng at the end, bat I coaid not always
accept the revelations that Elder Coch
rane and your father had!”
Lois Boynton’s bands were now
quietly folded over the knitting that
lay forgotten In her lap, but her low.
thrilling uil e bad a note in It that die
not belong wholly to earth.
There was a long silence; one ot
paarx long silences at the Boynton
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
fireside, broken only by the ticking of
the clock, the purring of the cat and
the clicking of Mrs. Boynton’s needles,
as, her paroxysm of reminiscence over,
she knitted ceaselessly, with her eyes
on the window or the door.
“It’s about time for Rod to be com
ing back, isn’t it?" askpd Ivory.
“He ought to be here soon, but per
haps he is gone for good. It may be
that he thinks be has made us a Jong
enough visit. I don’t know whether
your father will like the boy when he
comes home. He never did fancy
company lu the house.”
Ivory looked up in astonishment
from his Greek grammar. This wns
an entirely new turn of his mother’s
mind. Often when she was more than
usually confused he would try to clear
the cobwebs from her brain by gently
questioning her until she brought her
self back to a clearer understanding of
her own thought. Thus far her vaga
ries had never made her unjust to any
human creature. She was uniformly
sweet and gentle in speech and de
meanor.
“Why do you talk of Rod's visiting
us when he is one of the family?"
Ivory asked quietly.
"Is he one of the family? I didn't
know it,” replied his mother absently.
“Look at me. mother, straight in the
eye. That's right. Now listen, dear,
to what 1 say.”
Mrs. Boynton's hair, that had been
in her youth like an aureole of corn
silk, was now a strange yellow white,
and her blue eyes looked out from her
pale face with a helpless appeal.
“Yon and I were living alone here
after father went away,” Ivory began
“I wns a little boy. you know. You
Stnd father had saved something, there
was the farm you worked like a slave.
I helped. re lived somehow, do
you reuien.i *
“I do indeed. It was cold, and the
neighbors were cruel. Jacob Cochrane
had gone away. and*his disciples were
not always true to him. When the
magnetism of Ills presence was with
drawn they could not follow all Ills
revelations, and they forgot how he
had awakened their spiritual life at
the first of his preaching. Your father
was always a stanch believer, hut
when he started on his mission and
went to Parsonsfield to help Elder
Cochrane in his meetings the neigh
bors began to criticise him. They
doubted him. You were too young to
realize it, but I did, and It almost broke
my heart.”
“I was nearly twelve years old. Do
you think 1 escaped all the gossip,
mother?”
“You never spoke of It to me, Ivory.”
“No, there Is much that I never spoke
of to you, mother, but some time when
you grow stronger and your memory is
better we will talk together. Do you re
member the winter, long after father
went away, that Parson Lane sent me
to Fairfield academy to get enough
Greek and Latin to make me a school
master?”
"Yes,” she answered uncertainly.
“Don’t you remember I got a free
ride downriver one Friday and came
home for Sunday, Just to surprise you?
And when I got here I found you 111
In bed, with Mrs. Mason and Dr.
Perry taking care of you. You could
not speak, you were so 111, but they
told me you had been up In New
Hampshire to see your sister, that she
had died, and that you bad brought
back her boy, who whs only four years
old. That was Rod. I took him Into
bed with me that night, poor, home
sick little fellow, and, as you know,
mother he’s never left us since.”
“I didn’t remember I had a sister.
Is she dead. Ivory?’’ asked Mrs. Boyn
ton vaguely.
“If she were not dead do you sup
pose you would have kept Rodman
with us when we hadn't bread enough
for our own two mouths, mother?”
questioned Ivory patiently.
“No, of course not I can’t think
how I can be so forgetful. It’s worse
sometimes than others. It’s worse to
day because I knew the mayflowers
were blooming, and that reminded me
It was time for your father to come
home. You must forgive me, dear,
and will you excuse me if I sit in the
kitchen awhile? The window by the
side door looks out toward the road,
and If I put a candle on the sill It
ahlnes quite a distance. The lane Is
such a long one, and your father was
always a sad stumbler In the dark! I
shouldn’t like him to think I wasn’t
looking for him when he’s been gone
since January.”
Ivory’s pipe went out, and bis book
slipped from his knee unnoticed.
His mother was more confused than
nsual, but she always was when
spring came to remind her of her hus
band's promise. Somehow, well used
as he was to her mental wanderings,
they made him uneasy tonight. His
father bad left borne on a fancied mis
Hion, a duty he believed to be a revela
tion given by God through Jacob Cocb
rane. The farm did not mlu him
much at first. Ivory reflected bitter
ly, for since bis fanatical espousal of
Cocbranlsm bis father's Interest In
such mundane matters as household
expenses had diminished month by
month nntil they hud no meaning for
him at all. Letters to wife and boy
had come at first, hut after six months,
during which he had written from
many places, continually deferring the
date of his return, they had ceased al
together. The rest was silence. Ru
mors of bis presence here or there
came from time to time; but. though
Parson Lane and Dr. Perry did tbelr
best, none of them were ever substnn
tisted
(To Be Continued Tomorrow.)
JUSTICE LAMAR NAMED
AMERICAN MEMBER OF
MEDIATION CONFERENCE
(Continued from page one.)
speedily to dispose of the latest inci
dent in their negotiations. Names of
the American delegates—Associate
Justice Lamar of the supremo court
and former soliqiator general, Leh
mann —were announced soon after the
receipt of dispatches from Vera Cruz
telling of the arrival there of Huerta's
representatives.
The American Mission.
Announcement of the American mis
sion disclosed that two men with ex
tensive public experience had been
chosen. Joseph Rucker Lamar, as
sociate justice of the federal supreme
court, was a schoolmate of President
Wilson in Augusta, Ga. He is 58
years old and was born in Ruckers
ville, Ga. Admitted to the liar in
1879, he practiced law In Augusta until
1903. He has been a member of the
Georgia legislature and a justice of
the state supreme court.
He assumed his duties as associate
justice of the federal supreme court
January 3rd, 1911.
Distinguished Career.
Frederick William Lehmann has had
a distinguished career in public life.
Probably his most Important was that
of solicitor general of the United
States in the Taft administration. He
is 62 years old and was born in
Prussia. Admitted to the bar in 1873,
he practiced law in Nebraska City.
Neb., later moved to lowa and in 1890
took up his profession in St. Louis,
Despite the absence of President
Wilson and Secretary Daniels who
were in New York today at the me
morial servicer, for the Vera Cruz
dead, war and navy departments con
tinued working out their precautionary
plans.
Seizure Protest.
Washington.—Ambasador Da Gama
of Brazil reported at length today to
his fellow envoys on his conferenco
yesterday with President Wilson be
fore the latter’s departure for New
Y ork.
No announcement was made of the
results of this conferenco at .which
it is understood Da Gama took up
with the president Huerta's protest
against the seizure of Lobos Island.
While it is understood that the re
ported seizure of the island was re
ferred to In an extremely guarded
manner, there was a disposition to re
gard this action as not altogether wise
in view of the armistice, even though
it was intended merely ns a precau
tionary measure and not as an ag
gresive movement.
View of Order,
Some government officials took the
view that the order issued by Huerta
last Saturday to shut down the light
houses on the Pacific coast might he
considered as a violation of the armis
tice inasmuch as it operates as a
hindrance to the movement of Amer
ican warships In Mexican waters.
The selection of Justice Lamar and
former Solicitor General Lehmann to
represent the United States in the Ni
agara Falls conference had been re
ceived with great satisfaction, it was
said, by the envoys. Reports persist
ed that a third American would be
named to take part in the sessions.
Third Representative.
Secretary Bryan, In formally an
nouncing today the selection of Lamar
and Lehmann declined to indicate
whether a third representative would
be chosen, saying that it could be as
sumed that there would be no other,
although he did not wish to definitely
indicate that such possibility was fore
closed.
“There is nothing to Indicate a cri
sis in Mexico,” said Senator Shively,
of the foreign relations committee, af
ter a brief conference with Secretary
rßyan today.
Senator Stone, chairman of the
committee, also conferred at length
with Secretary Bryan but afterward
said that he had discussed “an en
tirely personal matter.”
THE SHRINERS OWN ALL OF
ATLANTA
(Continued from Page 1.)
or Seattle and San Francisco are con
testing, 111 take place either tomor
row or Wednesday.
Many events have been planned for
the visitors. The famous battlefields
of the war between the the states will
be visited and on Thursday night spe
cial trains will leave for a visit to
Savannah.
A Fairy Tale Bagdad.
Atlanta.—A few thousand fezes, a
riot of red, green and yellow banners,
a welkin ringing with strains of ori
ental mußle, have transformed Atlan
ta from a 20th century American city
Into a of fairy-tale Bngdad.
Although American Stars and Stripes
are patriotically displayed at occa
sional Intervals, the foreign-looking
Shrine colors predominate; the (nil of
fice buildings are swathed in the gor
geous draperies and festoon, and the
color scheme, If It suggests anything
modern at all, looks more like Madrid
on a great bull-fight day, or Mexico
City In the old days of the Iron-hand
ed Diaz.
The crowds in the streets ar<? won
derful to behold. Every other man
you pass wears a red fez in place of
the conventional straw or felt hat;
many of Atlanta’s beautiful young
girls and matrons are wearing the
white fez, and scattered here and there
like poppies In a wheat field are the
luridly beautiful uniforms of the Arab
patrol and other uniformed Shrlner
bodies.
By Thousands.
Every train Is bringing new visitors
literally by the thousands. The Seat
tle, Washington, delegation has al
ready taken charge of the Piedmont
and has rung Its own tremendous elec
tric sign from the front, "Nile, Se
attle, 1915.” They are going to pull
for the next year's convention.
T ehOalifornla crowd Is establish
ing Itself today at the Kimball and
their own electricians, here for week*
In advance, h#ve converted the Peach
tree facade of that big building Into
a blazing Invitation to come to Cali
fornia next year.
Peachtree and Whitehall from one
end to another will be ablaze of light
tonight, with festoons of electric lights
In a network over head.
Atlanta has never seen anything like
it before, and though she grows to
have a million population, she may
never live to see anything like It
again.
Jno. B. Ratto to Give Character
Studies From Life. Chautauqua
(Continued from Page 1.)
ance or ns many performances during
the week as desired at 10 cents each.
Another attractive feature this year
Is that the stage will be a foot higher
from the ground than last year and
there will he no trouble In anyone not
being able to easily sco the perform
ers.
MANY THOUSANDS PAY
REVERENT TRIBUTE TO
THE VERA CRUZ DEAD
(Continued from Page 1.)
Police Lined Way.
Ho took no part in the procession
hut was taken immediately to the
home of Ms close friend, Col. E. M.
House and thence to the Navy Yard.
By the time he had breakfasted the
hero-dead were upon the gun caissons,
police had lined the way and the pro
cession was ready to move.
Twenty-four picked mounted police
led the way. Behind them were the
combined bands of the dreadnoughts
Wyoming and Texas and behind the
hands 600 bluejackets from these
ships.
Next came the coffins in single file.
At the side of ea# rode a policeman
and at the corner of each caisson
trudged a national guardsman. The
stars and stripes alone covered the
I caskets.
Behind the last caisson came the
! carriages hearing the President, Sec
retary of the Navy, Senators, etc.
With President Wilsln in Number
1 carriage were Dr. Grayson, his phy
sician and Secretary Tumulty.
The Procession.
No. 2—Secretary of the Navy Jose-
I phus Daniels; Gov. Glynn, Lieut. Com-
I matider James, U. S. N.
No. 3 —Assistant Secretary of the
Navy Franklin 1), Roosevelt; president
of the board of aldermen. Geo. Mc-
Aneny.
No. 4—Rear Admiral Bradley A.
Fiske, U, S. N.; Lieutenant Colonel
Cornelius Vanderbilt and other na
tional guard officers.
No. s—Collector of (he port of New
York, Dudley Field Malone; Briga
dier General George Barnett, U. S. M.
C.; Captain Wm. D. McDougal, U.S N.
No. 6 —General Horace Porter;
Former Mayor Seth Low; Surgeon
General Wm. C. Braisted, U. S. N.;
Coporation Counsel, Frank L. Polk.
No. 7 to B—Dr. Nicholas Murray
Butler, president of Columbia Uni
versity; Joseph H. Choate, A. Barton
j Hepburn, Dr. St. Clair McKelway and
others.
I No 9—Police Commissioner Arthur
Woods, the mayor of Chicago’s com-
I inittee.
No. 10 to 20—-Congressional com
' mittee.
I No. 21 to 24—State legislative com
mittee.
No. 25 to 36—Officers from Gover
nor's Island and Navy Yard.
Cortege Moves.
The cortege began to move at 9
o’clock, the ships hands playing u
funeral march. The rrowd sfooil with
hared heads, silent. Through the sky
scraper canon of lower Broadway, pas<t
Old Trinity Church and into the city
, hall plaza the procession passed.
At city hail, whose columns and por
tioco were draped In black, the cor
tego halted while Mayor Mitchel
I placed upon a caisson a wreath or
| orchids, the city's tribute.( As ho did
so the bluejackets stood at present
arms, and 800 school children sang*
, "Nearer My God to Thee.’’
Gathered at the city hall were per-
I haps 10,000 spectators.
“Taps.”
From there the route lay north,
aeross Manhattan Bridge to Brooklyn
and the Navy Yard. There the cere
monies arranged were simple and com
paratively brief. . A hymn by the bat
tleship hands, an invocation by Chap
lain Wm. G. Cassard of Annapolis;
then President Wilson's address. Pray
ers by Rabbi Stephen H. Wise and
Father John P. Chidwick, chaplain of
the Maine. Three volleys fired by a
detachment of marines from the Texas
nnd "taps" by a- bugler concluded the
program.
Stand Bareheaded.
New York. —It wits 10:50 when the
procession reached the navy yard.
President Wilson, Secretary Daniels,
Governor Glynn and the others of the
president’s stand stood bareheaded
while the coffins were taken from the
caissons and placed in a lino in front
of the stand. The transfer occupied
15 minutes.
Ten thousand spectators with bare
heads slood massed about the four
sides of the square. Several thous
and more were gathered on neighbor
ing roofs. When all the coffins were,
in place, the sailors holding the crowd
back at the edge of the square gave
way and several thousand persons
rushed into the enelosure.
The silence that had overhung the
parade ground was broken for the
first time when the, band began to
play softly "Nearer, My God, to
Thee.”
When the hymn was finished Chap
lain Cassard read the opening prayer
while the multitude stood reverently
with bowed heads
Face Each Others.
President Wilson stood at the chap
lain’s right and Secretary Daniels at
his left.
When the chaplain finished he step
ped back, leaving Secretary Daniels
Opening Day of the Chautauqua Hera
zz,,-,,
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--i#**®***—
THE DUNBAR QUARTET AND BELL RINGERS
TUB Dunbar Male Quartet and Bell Klngers are to appear here as the musical feuture of the opening imJI!
of the forthcoming Chautauqua.
This organization curries a peal of 200 hells made In Europe and ranging In sl/.e from one to twen*'
n five pounds These hells are soft and mellow In quality. There Is no sweeter music than that of bnld
when they lire In tune and played in perfect harmony
In addition to their hell ringing the Dunbar* present cello, piano mid volln solos and appear In Instrumental
trios, vocal solos and vocal quartet*.
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Before the time of Western
Union Day and Night Letters
business men used the tele
graph in emergency as a
final effort. Today, many of
these same business men
take advantage of letter
length at telegraphic speed
and minimum cost, and make
that final effort first—
with astonishing results.
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and the president facing each other
at the front of the platform.
Then the secretary recited the
names of the 19 in whose honor the
services were held. This included
those who h.'tvo died at Vera Cruz
since the Montana ateamed away.
BECKER JURY IS NOW
COMPLETE
(Continued from Pape 1.)
idr no mention of the execution of the
death sentence on the four gunmen
and in no way suggested that the
prosecution had any new evidence to
present. It is understood that what
ever now evidence the state seeks to
introduce 'will be held as a surprise.
Jiis speech was chiefly a review of tlie
events leading up and following the
murder.
Live Lobsters and Soft Shell
Crabs. Jansens.
SET ASIDE THE JAIL TERMS
(Continued from page one).
sued an Injunction prohibiting the
federation officials from boycotting
the Bucks Stove and Range Co., of
St. Louis'then in a labor war with or
ganized labor.
Sentenced to Jail.
The labor leaders were sentenced
to jail but the supreme court of the
United States In 1911 set the convic
tion aside because the defendants had
been proceeded against as If the pro
ceedings were a part of the boycott
suit. The district court then began
new proceedings against the leaders
for* the same offense.
They Were Americans, Said the
President Todav in Impressive
Address, Dead of Vera Cruz
(Continued from page one.)
serve mankind if we can find the way.
We don’t want to fight the Mexicans,
we want to servo them.
“A war of aggression Is not a thing
In which It is proud 'to die, hut a wur
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of service is a war in which it is a
proud thing to tile."
The president referred then to the
cosmopolitan personnel of the vic
tims. ‘‘l listened to the list, ”he
added, "with profound feeling, be
cause they were not Irishmen or Ger
mans or Hebrews when they went to
Vera Cruz. They were Americans,
and no matter whero their people
came from they did the things that
wore American,
Have Shown the Way.
"War is only a sort of dramatic
representation, a symbol of a thou
sand forms of duty. I never was in
battle or under fire, hut I fancy It Is
just as hard to do your duty when
men are sneering at you, for when
they shoot, at you they take your nat
ural life and when they sneer at you
they wound your heart.
“As I think of these spirits that
have gone from us, I know that the
way Is clearer for the future, for they
have shown us the way.”
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Eyes Give You Trouble.
Thousands of people suffer from eye
troubles, because they do not know what
to do. They know some good home rem
edy for every olher minor ailment, but
none for their eye troubles. They neg
lect their eyes, because the trouble la
not sufficient to drive them to an eye
would, any way, charge
them a heavy feo. As a last resort they
go to an optician or to the five and ten
«ent Btore, and often-tlmes get glasses
that they do not need, or which, after
being used two or three months, do
their eyes more Injury than good. Here
Is a simple prescription that every one
should use:
6 grains Optona. (1 Tablet)
2 ounces Wa^er.
ITse three or four times a day to bathe
the eyes. This prescription keeps the
e>es clean and quickly overcomes in
flammation and Irritation. Weak, wat
ery work-strained eyes, granular lids
and other similar troubles are greatly
benefited and often-tlmes cured by Its
use. Many who wear glasses have dis
carded them after using it for a few
weeks. It Is good for the eyes, and will
not injure the most sensitive eyes of an
infant or the aged. Any druggist can
fill this prescription promptly. Try it,
it, and know for once what real eye
comfort is.
SUMMER
SCHOOL.
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