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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 IUM. CONTESTANTS NOTICE For the benefit of those who are contesting for the prizes in The Her ald’s M. & M. Contest, we will carry a complete stock of all the products listed in the contest. Votes Good On Monthly Payments We will give votes on all bills paid by the 10th of each month, which are good for ten votes for each cent paid. 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