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JUNE 3.
“The Story of Waitsfill Baxter”
Copyright. 1913, by KAufE DOUGLAS WIGGIN
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Author of “Rebecca Sunnybrook Farm”
PROLOGUE.
L ‘ Strength and. interest of quit,
lives in the New England c
thren-quarters of a century ag.
provide the framework of “Th .
Story of Waitstill Baxter." Tha
is the skeleton. The flesh am
blood of human beings, living
and loving and moving in a worh.
of their own that is a miniature
picture of the greater world out
side, are also there. The stor
is a cross section of life as see,
and described by a woman whi
has been well called “America
greatest living woman novelist.’
Amid the hills of New Englant.
are many men and women lik<
Waitstill and Patience Baxte
and their father, Ivory Boyntoi
and his afflicted mother ano
funny Cephas Cole, who woo>
hopefully, but with small chanc
of success. They find their way
into books but seldom, for it
takes a master hand to describe
faithfully the doings of real
people. And that is the reason
why “The Story of Waitstill
Baxter" has won highest praise
from critics who know a gooa
book when they see one.
(Continued From Yesterday.)
She had wished now and then tha.
Patty's capricious fancy might settle
on Philip Perry, although, indeed
when she considered it seriously, it
seemed like an alliance between a but
terfly and an owl. Cephas Cole she re
garded as quite beneath Patty’s right
ful ambitions, and, ns for Mark Wil
son, she had grown up in the belief,
held in the village generally, that he
would marry money and position and
drift out of Itiverboro into a gayer,
larger world. Her devotion to her sis
ter was so ardent and her admiration
so sincere that she could not think it
possible that Patty would love any
where in vain. Nevertheless she had
an instinct that her affections were
crystallizing somewhere or other, and
when that happened the uncertain and
eccentric temper of her father would
raise a thousand obstacles.
While these thoughts coursed more
or less vagrantly through Waitstill’s
mind she suddenly determined to get
her cloak and hood and run over to see
Mrs. Boynton. Ivory had been away
a good deal in the woods since early
November chopping trees and helping
to make new roads. He could not go
long distances like the other men, as
he felt constrained to come home ev
ery day or two to look after his moth
er and Rodman, but the work was too
lucrative to be altogether refused.
With Waltstill’s help he had at last
overcome his mother’s, .aversion to old
Mrs. Mason, their nearest neighbor,
and she, being now a widow with
very slender resources, went to the
fHHPPI
\ V j
‘Hurry up and dor.' 1 , .v»take me atan’
here all w."*vMrl’'
Boyntons’ several times each week to
ant the forlorn household a little on
It# feet.
It was all uphill and down to IvoryV
’arm, Waitstill reflected, and she coul
lake her »led and slide half tbfi wuj
going and coming, or she could cui
across the frozen fields on the crust.
She caught up her shawl from a hook
on the kitchen door, and, throwing i
over her head and shoulders to shield
herself from the chill blasts on the
stairway, ran up to her bedroom to
make herself ready for the walk.
She slipped on a quilted petticoa:
and a warmer dress, braided her hai;
freshly, while her breath went out ii
a white cloud to meet the freezing air
snatched her wraps from her closet
and was just going down the stairs
when she remembered that an bout
before, having to bind up a cut tinge;
for her father, she had searched Pat
ty’s bureau drawer for an old hand
kerchief, and had left things in disor
der while she rnn to answer the den
con’s impatient call and stamp upon
the kitchen floor.
“Hurry up and don’t make me stau'
here all winter!” he had shouted. ‘‘lf
you ever kept things in proper ordei
you wouldn’t have to hunt all over the
house for a piece of rag when you
need it!”
Patty was very dainty about her few
patched and darned belongings; alsi
very exact in the adjustment of hei
bits of ribbon, her collars of crochet
ed thread, her adored coral pendants
and her pile of neat cotton handlter
chiefs, hemstitched by her own hands
Waitstill, accordingly, with an exclu
mation at her own unwonted careless
ness, darted into her sister’s room t<
replace in perfect order the article
she had disarranged in her Shi
knew them all, these poor little trin
kets—humble, pathetic evidences oi
Patty’s feminine vanity and desire to
make her bright beauty a trifU
brighter.
Suddenly her hand and her eye fel
at the same moment on something hid
den in a far corner under a white “fas
cinator,” one of those head covering
of filmy wool, dotted with beads, won
by the girls of the period. She drew
the glittering, unfamiliar object for
ward and then lifted it wonderingly in
her hand.
It irai a string of burnished gold
beads, the avowed desire of Fatty’s
heart—a string of beads with a bril
liant little stone in the fastening. And.
as if that were not mystery enough
there was something slipped over the
clasped necklace and hanging from it.
as 'Waitstill held it up to the light--n
circlet of plain gold, a wedding ring!
Wultstill stood motionless in the cold
with such a throng of bewildering
thoughts, misgivings, imaginings, rush
lng through her bead that they were
like a flock of birds beating their wings
against her ears. The imaginings were
not those of absolute dread or terror,
for she knew her Patty.
If she had seen the necklace alone
she would have been anxious Indeed,
for it would have meant that the girl,
urged on by ungovernable desire for
the ornament, had accepted a present
from one who should not have given It
to her secretly. But the wedding ring
meant something different for Fatty
something more, something certain,
something unescapabie, for good or ill.
A wedding ring could stand for noth
ing but marriage. Could Patty be mur
Tied? How, when and where could so
great a tiling happen without her
knowledge? It seemed impossible.
How had such a child surmounted the
difficulties in the path? Had she been
led away by the attractions of some
stranger? No, there had been none in
the village. There was only one man
who bad the worldly wisdom or the
means to carry Patty off under the
very eye of her watchful sister, only
one with the reckless courage to defy
her father, and that was Mark Wilson
His name did not bring absolute confi
dence to Waltstlll'a mind. He was gay
and young and thoughtless. How bud
he managed to do this wild thing, and
had he done all decently and wisely,
with consideration for the girl’s good
name?
The thought of all the risks lying in
the train of Patty’s youth and lnex
perience brought a wail of anguish
from WaltstUPs lips, and. dropping the
beads and closing the drawer, she
stumbled blindly down the stairway
to the kitchen, intent upon onethougtn
only—to find her sister, to look in her
eyes, feel the touch of her hand and
assure herself of her safety.
She gave a dazed look at the tall
clock and was beginning to put on liei
clonk when the door opened and Patti
entered the kitchen by way of tin
shed—tbe usual Patty—rosy, buoyant
alert, with a kind of childlike lntio
cence that could hardly be associate*:
with the possession of wedding ring'
__“Are you going out, Watty? Wrap
up well, foi u s freezing cold. Watty.
Waity, dear! What’s the matter?” she
cried, coming closer to her sister in
alarm.
WaitstiU’s face had lost its clenr col
or, and her eyes had the look of some
dumb animal that has been struck and
wounded. She sank into the flag hot
tomed rocker by the window and, lean
ing back her head, uttered no word,
but closed her eyes and gave one long,
shivering sigh and a dry sob that
seemed drawn from the very bottom of
her heart.
CHAPTER XXIII.
The Confessional.
“TAT AITY ’ 1 know what u l8 ~
■/&/ you have found out about
V ¥ me! Who has been wick
ed enough to tell you be
fore I could do so? Tell me—who?"
“Oh, Patty, Patty!” cried Wnltstlli,
who could no longer hold back her
tears. “How could you deceive me so?
How could you shut me out of your
heart and keep a secret like this from
me, who have tried to beLjnotber and
Bister in one to you ever since the day
you were horn?
“God has sent me much to bear, but
nothing so bitter as this—to have my
Bister take the greatest step of her life
without my knowledge or counsel!”
“Stop, dear, stop, and let me tell
you!"
“All is told, and not by you. as it
should have been. We've never had
anything separate from each other in
all our lives, and when I looked In your
bureau drawer for a bit of soft cotton
—it was nothing more than I have done
a hundred times—you can guess now
what I stumbled upon—a wedding ring
for a hand I have held ever since it
was a baby’s. My sister has a hus
band, and I am not even sure of his
some!”
“Waity. Waity, doh’t take it so to
heart!” and Patty flung herself on her
knees beside Waitstlll's chair, “not till
you hear everything. When I tell you
all you will dry your eyes and smile
and be happy about me, and you will
know thnt in the whole world there is
no one else in my love or my life but
you and my—my husband!”
-Who is the husband?” asked Wait
still dryly as she wiped her eyes and
leaned her elbow on the table.
“Who could It be but Mark? Has
there ever been any one but Mark?”
“I should have said that there were
several in those past few months.”
Waitstill’s tone showed clearly thnt
she was still grieved and hurt beyond
her power to conceal.
“I have never thought of marrying
■ny one but Mark, and not even of
marrying him till ji little while ago,”
said Patty. “Now do not draw away
from me and look out of the window
as If we were not sisters or.you will
break my heart
“Turn your eyes to mine and believe
In me, Waity, while I tell you every
thing, as I have so longed to do all
these nights and days. Mark and 1
have loved each other for a long, long
time. It was only play at first, but we
were young and foolish and did not tin
derstand what was really happening
between us.”
“You are both of you only a few
months older than when you were
‘young aDd foolish,’ ” objected Wait
still.
“Yes, we are-years and years! Five
weeks ago I promised Mark that 1
would marry him. But how was 1
ever to keep my word publicly? You
have noticed bow insultingly father
treats him of late, passing him by
without a word when be rnegts him in
the street? You remember, too, that
he has never gone to lawyer Wilson
for advice or put any business in his
hands since spring?”
“Tbe Wilsons are among father's
aversions, that is all you can say. It
is no use to try and explain them or
rebel against them,’’ Waitstill answer
ed wearily.
“That is ull very well and might be
borne like many another cross, but I
wanted to marry this particular ‘aver
sion,”’ argued Patty. "Would you
have helped me to marry Mark secret
ly if I had confided in you?”
“Never in the world—never!”
"I knew it,” exclaimed Patty trt
umphently. “We both said so! And
what was Mark to do? He was more
than willing to come up here and nsk
for me like a man, but he knew that
he would be ordered off tbe premises
ns if be were a thief. That would have
angered Mr. and Mrs. Wilson and made
matters worse. We talked and talked
until we were hoarse; we thought and
thought until we nearly had brain fe
ver from thinking, but there seemed to
be no way but to take the bull by the
horns.”
“You are both so young you could
well have bided awhile.”
“We could have bided untt we were
gray. Notbiug would have changed
father, and Just lately I couldn't make
Mark bide,” corfessed Patty ingenu
ously.
“He bas been in a rage about fa
tber's treatment of you and me. He
knows we haven’t the right food to
eat, nothing fit to wear, and not an
hour of peuce or freedom. Ho has
even beard the men at tbe atore say
that our very Jivea might be in dnn
ger if we crossed father's will or an
gered him beyond a certain point.
“You can't blame a man who loves a
girl, if he wants to take ber away from
•nch a wretched life. Ills love would
be good for nothlug If lie did not long
to rescue her!”
(To Be Continued Tomorrow.)
THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA. GA.
Markets
Middling closed today, 14%c
Tone Steady.
Middling Last Year 12c
closincTquotations
Good ordinary 11 7-3
Strict good ordinary 12 8-8
I.ow middling ... 13 1-3
Strict low middling 14
Middling 14 ]-4
Strict middling 14 1-3
Good middling .
Tinges, first u
Tinges, second 11 7-8
Previous Day’s Figures
Good ordinary ... ...11 7-8
Strict good ordinary 12 3-3
Low middling 13 1-8
Strict low middling 14
Middling 14 1-4
Strict middling II 1-2
Good middling
Tinges, first 14
Tinges, second 13 3-8
NEW YOrFcOTTON
New York.—The cotton market met a
renewal of heavy realising at the open
ing today and first prices were 5 to S
points lower. There was a good demand
at the decline, particularly for the old
crop positions. Apprehension of further
showers in the southwest and the fore
cast for continued clear weather over tho
greater part of tlie eastern belt inspired
fresh buying, while bullish predictions
were also encouraged by an unfavorable
view of Texas crop conditions from a
traveling expert. Old crop positions ral
lied to a net advance of 3 or 4 points
and the new crop sold back to within
apojnt or two of last night’s closing dur
ing the early trading.
Realizing continued during the fore
noon, causing mere or less irregularity
but private reports that it was raining
in Texas gave the market a steadier
tone around midday with old crop
months selling a point or two higher
while the new crop ruled a point or so
under last night's close.
The rally on Texas rain news caiTled
prices 2 or 3 points net higher, but
failed to create a broadening demand
and prices later eased off aguin under
renwed realizing.
Cotton futures closed barely steady:
High. Low. Close.
July 1324 1311 1312
August 1313 1302 1303
October 1286 1272 1272
December 1280 1274 1274
January 1273 1259 1259
New Orleans.—ln observance of
Confederate Memorial Day, a legal
holiday here, the local cotton exchange
was closed today.
LIVERPOOL COTTON
Liverpool —Cotton, spot, easier. Good
middling. 835: middling, 773; low mid
dling, 725. Sales. 8,000. Speculation and
export, 500. Receipts, 30,000. Futures
steady.
June 738
June and July 719
July and August 719
August and September 707
October and November 881
December and January 672
January and February 671)4
March and April 673
LIVE STOCK MARKET
CHICAGO HOG AND CATTLE MARKET
Chicago.—Hogs: Receipts, 28,000 mar
ket strong. Bulk of sabs, 810a815; light
79O&820; mixed, 790a520; heavy, 770 a
817)4; rough, 770a79»; pigs, 700a785.
Cattle; Receipts, 14,000; steady:
Beeves, 725a926; steers, 680a815: Stockers
and feeders. «36a830; cows and heifers.
370a875; calves, 700 a 086.
Sheep: Receipts, 16 000; steady. Sheep,
545a035; yearlings. 625a730; lambs, 650 a
850; springs, 700a976.
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET
New York,—Steadiness (of the early
market caused traders to take on stocks
in moderate volume and a fractional
advance resulted. Snorts found It dif
ficult to cover except at higher quota
tions. Pressure against Lehigh Valley
was resumed to the accompaniment of
bearish rumors regarding dividend pros
pects, which, however, made little Im
pression. The stock broke 3 potntß to
1 3-4al-4,the lowest In many weekH and
toward noon the general list eased off
slightly.
Prices moved upward after noon. A
Ibrlsk demand for Steel and the Harrl
man shares offset the effect, of persis
tent selling of Leblgh Valley. Specula
tive sentiment was cheered hy optimis
tic reports of the outlook for crops and
by the hopeful tenor of foreign advices.
Some of the specialties were strong.
Consolidated Gas, American Telphone
and Wells Fargo rose 1 to 3 points.
Bonds were steady.
The market closed strong today. Rail
road sharea were bought more freely In
the late dealings. Atchison In nartleu
lar responded to reports of good earn
ings and crop prospect*.
CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET
Chicago.—Wheat continued to advance
today, influenced by firm cables. As
sertions that black rust was spreading
In Oklahoma counted also against tho
bears. Prices started unchanged to 1-1
higher, dipped under last night’s level
and then again rose.
Good demand from the east helped
the com bulls. After opening a shade
to 3-Bal-2 up, the market reacted s lit
tle but then made a further ascent.
Oats sympathised with the strength of
other grain.
In provisions an upturn at the yards
formed a fresh Incentive for an advance.
Corn:: Profit-taking sales were aslly
absorbed, as country offerings turned
out to be comparatively email. The
close was strong at I-4a3-8 to 6-8 net
advance.
Open, if!gti. Low. Cloae
WHEAT
July. . . . 87% *7% 86% »7%
Sept. . . . 85% 88 85% 86
CORN—
July. . . . 69% 70% 007, 70%
Sept. . . . 67% 67% 67% 67%
OATS—
July. . . . 40% 40% 40 40%
B, foßK ’ 3 * H 381/4 **% 68%
July. . . .2027 2045 2027 2045
Sept. . . .1995 2000 1990 1995
LARD—
July. . . .1007 1010 1005 1010
Sept. . . .1020 1020 1020 1025
RIBS—
July. . . .11*0 1192 1125 11J0
Sept. . ■ .1140 1142 1132 1187
MONEY MARKET
New York.—Mercantile paper. 3 3-4a4.
Sterling exchange steady; 60 rtnvs. 4.86-
10; demand, 4.88.80. Commercial bllla,
4.8. t B*B.
Government bonds steady, Railroad
bonds steady.
rail money steady, 1 8-4a2; ruling rate
1 3-4; closing, 1 S*4a2.
Time loh ns, steady; 80 and 90 days
2 1-2; six months. 3 1-4.
HOURLY TEMPERATURFS
6 A. M
7 A M 72
8 A, M 74
9 A . M 76
10 A. M 79
11 A M 81
12 noon 82
WEEK'S COTTON
BELT JEITHER
Continued Drought With Ex
cetion of Texas and Oklaho
ma. Excessive Rainfall There
Washington, D. C. —Continued drought
in the southeastern staes with further
excessive rainfall over much of Texas
and Oklahoma were the marked feat
ures of the weather of the week which
ended last night, according to tho Na
tional Weekly Weather Bulletin of the
Weather Bureau issued today.
“Tn the eastern portions of the cotton
belt one of the severest spring droughts
ever known is greatly retarding the
growth of early planted cotton and de
laying the germination of lute planting."
says the Bulletin.
“In the central portions of the belt
showers afforded relief from tho drought
in some localities and the early cotton
crop is reported in good condition but
generally late and growing slowly.
‘ln the western part of the belt In
cluding the greater part of Texas and
portions of Oklahoma excessive rains
have prevented any improvement in cot
ton and the soil continued too wet for
cultivation and large areas in northern
Texas remain unplanted.
“Over the eastern belt the fields are
clear but In the western portions they
are badly In need of cultivation and
many have been abandoned."
GRADUATION
ST. min
Closing Exercises Were Held
Last Night at the School.
Large Attendance.
A largo number of people witnessed
the annual graduation exercises of the
St. Patrick Commercial Institute last
evening at the school. There were
ten young men to be graduated.
One of the features of the com
mencement was the rendition of Tar
clsus, or the Little Martyr of the
Blessed Sacrament by eleven of the
students. After this the boys of the
second grade sang “Never Fear” and
this was followed by a violin solo by
H. G. Fourcher, which wa sspeclally
good.
Shorthand, Typewriting.
A demonstration of the students'
work in typewriting and shorthand
wus given, Mr. L. J. Henry acting as
dictator. Brief declamations on “Ben
efits of Shorthand" were delivered by
seven members of the graduating class
as follows:
“Shorthand and the Government” —
C. A. Meyer.
“Shorthand and the Political and
Judicial History of the Country”—C.
DJmmock.
"Shorthand and tho Mind" —W.
Laird.
"Shorthand and Judgment”—M
Barton.
“Shorthand and the Student”—J. A.
Bresnaban.
"Shorthand and Science and Relig
ion”—R. A. Bresnaban.
"Shorthand in General"—J. W.
Mura.
“The Songs My Mother Used to
Sing,” was sung by Young D. Powers.
Rev. Fr. P. 11. McMahan delivered
the address to the graduates in tho
absence of Bishop Kelley, who could
not come on account ol illness.
Prize*.
The prizes were awarded as fol
lows;
Ninth grade—Christian doctrine,
John A. Bresnahan; excellence,
spelling contest and typewriting con
test. Joseph M. Kinchley; elocution
(to be decided).
Eighth grade—Christian doctrine,
and excellence, Henry Mura.
Seventh grade—Christian doctrine,
D. Powers, W. Dlmmock; excellence,
Frank Dorr.
Sixtli grade—Christian doctrine,
C. R. Battey; excellence, H. Fourcher,
C. R. Battey, W. W. Stulb.
Fifth grade—Christian doctrine
Charles Cornell; excellence, Charles
Deßeruff.
Fourth grade—Christian doctrine,
and excellence, Joseph Fontana.
Third grade— Christian doctrine
and excellence, Fred Williams.
Second grade —Christian doctrine
end excellence. Lawrence Ward.
Fir*t grade—Catechism, Bernard
Meyers; excellence, Philip Farrell.
Graduates.
Diplomas were delivered to the fol
lowing young men, whose names are
given In the order of their standing in
class:
Joseph M. Kinchley, Charles A.
Meyer, Jr., John A. Brenahan, How
ard C. Smith, Jr., Morgan Barton,
Charles A. Robert A. Bres
nahan, James W. Mura, William Laird
and Julian Welth.
Among the donors of prizes for the
graduates were the following gentle
men:
Rev. P. H. McMahon, Dr. W. W
Battpy, Hr. William Mulherin and
Messrs. James Tobin, M. J. Callahan,
J. J. Tarleton, J. C. O’Connor and L
J. Henry.
AUGUSTA SECURITIES.
BONDS AND STOCKS
(Corrected Weekly for The Augueta
Herald by Martin ft Garrett)
Bank Stooka.
Rid. Aak
Augusta Savings Bank 160
Merchants Bank 215 220
National Exchange Bank of
Auguata 135 U 4
Planters Loan A Savlnga Bank
(par value 10) 48 45
Cltlzene A So. Bank 240 250
Union Savings Bonk (par
vaiua 8100) 125 ...
stauroas Stocks.
A. A W. P. R. R. Co 148 161
Augusta & Savannah Ry. Co .103 l(/l
Chattahoochee & Gulf R. R.
Company 102
Oa. It II 4 Banking Co 258 261
Seaboard pfd atock 50 83
Seaboard Common Stock 20 ta
Southwestern R. R. Co 103 105
rectory uonaa.
Augusta Factory, Ist 6s, 1915
M. A N 92 21
Eagle A Phoenix Mills Co.
Ist Is. 1926. J. A J H 101
Enterprise Mfg. Co., Ist 5s
1923. M. A N 90 92
Sibley Mfg Co.. Ist ss. 1928. J.
A 1 10 22
Feetory Stooka,
Aiken Mfg Co #v
Granlievltle Mfg. Co 135
King Mfg. Co. 77 as
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