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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,,-,, -v/i • x •v --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*. Effort i 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. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO. hull information gladly given at any office 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 WINTHROP COLLEGE nock Hill, R. c., June 16 to July 24, 1014. COURSES OF STUDY-- Full course* of study will he provided to meet the need* of 1. Superintendent* and principals. 2. High School teacher*. 3. Primary and gnido teacher*. 4. Hural achool teacher*. FACIJETY—A large faculty ha* been secured, composed of speolal* lets and lender* of education In thl* and other state*. SPECIAL FEATURES- Model *chool through flret six grade*. Bp*, dal course in rural school problem*. Kindergarten practice and lecture* on Monte**orl method*. General lectured und entertainment*. Pest feature* of best summer nchool*. Accommodation* unexcelled. County Board* of Education are authorized to renew certificate* atlll In force for all tiru-'her* who do satisfactory work In thl* summer school and tuke jthe final examination. For rate* and further Information, writ* for Summer Bchool Bulletin to D. B. JOHNSON, Rock Hill, S. C. President. 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.” TO SAVE EYES Is llie Object of This Free Pre scription—Try It if Your 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. FIVE