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THURSDAY. JUNE 4.
“Ihe Story of Waitstill Baxter”
Copyright, 1913. by
Kate Douglas Wiggin
V Author of “ Rebecca
PROLOGUE.
•* Strength and interest of quic
lives in the New England o
three-quarters of a century as
provide the framework of “Tb
Story of Waitstill Baxter.” Tha
is the skeleton. The flesh an,
blood of human beings, livin'
and loving and*moving in a worh
of their own that is a miniatur
picture of the greater world ou
side, are also there. The stor
is a cross section of life as see
and described by a woman wk
has been well called ‘‘America 1 :
greatest living woman novelist.
Amid the hills of New Englani
are many men and women lik
aWaitstill and Patience Baxle
and their father, Ivory Boynto
and his afflicted mother an'
funny Cephas Cole, who woo
hopefully, but with small chanc
of success. They find their wa\
into books but seldom, for i
takes a master hand to describ.
faithfully the doings of rea
people. And that is the reason
why “The Story of Waitstill
Baxter" has won highest praisi
from critics who know a gooa
book when they see one.
(Continued From Yesterday.)
“I would nevur nave left you be
hind to bear your slavery alone, wliil
I slipped away to happiness aud com
fort—not for any naan alive would 1
have done It!” This speech, so unllki
Waitstill in Its ungenerous reproach
•was repented of as soon as it left he.
tongue. “Oh, I did not mean that, mj
darling!” she cried. “I would bavi
welcomed any change for you and
thanked God for it, if only it couh
have come honorably and aboveboard.’
“But, don't you see, Waity, how tu,'
marriage helps everything? Tbnt Is
What makes me happiest; that now I
shall have a borne and It can be yours
“Father lias plenty of money aDd can
get a housekeeper. He is only sixty
five, and as hale and hearty as a man
can be. You have served your time
and surely you need not be his drudg
for the rest of your life. Mark and 1
thought you would spend half the year
With us.”
Waitstill waived this point as too lm
possible for discussion. “When an
where were you married, Patty?” sin
asked.
“In Allentown, N. H., last Monday
the day you and father went to Saco
Ellen went with us. You needn’t sup
pose it was much fun for me! Girls
that think running away to be mar
rled is nothing but a lark do not have
to deceive a sister like you nor have
a father sucb*as mine to reckon with
afterward.”
“You thought of all that before,
didn’t you, child?”
“Nobody that hasn't already run
away to be married once or twice
could tell how it was going to feel.
Never did I pass so unhappy a day.
If Mark was not everything that is
kind and gentle be would have tipped
me out of the sleigh into a snowbank
and left me by the roadside to freeze.
“I might have been murdered Instead
of only married by the way I behaved,
hut Mark and Ellen understood. Then
the very next day Mark’s father sent
him up to Bridgton on business, and
he had 4o go to Allentown first to re
turn a friend's horse, so be couldn't
break the news to father at once, as
he intended.”
“Does a New Hampshire marriage
hold good in Maine?” asked Waitstill.
still Intent on the bare facts at the
bottom of the romance.
“Well, of course,” stammered Patty,
somewhat confused, “Maine haß her
own way of doing things and wouldn't
be likely to fancy New Hampshire’s.
But nothing can make it wicked or
anything but according to law.
“Besides. Mark considered nil the dlf
Acuities. He is wonderfully clever,
and he has a clerkship In a Ports
mouth law office waiting for him, and
that’s where we are going to live. In
New Hampshire, where we were mar
ried, and my darling sister will come
soon and stay months and months with
us."
“When is Mark coming back to sr
range all this?"
"Late tonight or early tomorrow
morning.”
"Where did you go after you were
married?"
K'SATI DOUGLAS WIGGIN
* Sunnybrook Farm**
“Where did I go?" echoed Patty in a
childish burst of tears. "Where could
1 go? It tools all day to be married
all day long, working and driving hard
from sunrise to 7 o'clock in the even
lng. Then when we reached the bridge
Mark dropped me, and I walked up
home in the dark and went to-bed
without any supper for fear that you
and father would come back and catch
me at it and ask why I was so late."
“My poor, foolish dear!” sighed Walt
still.
Patty’s tears flowed faster at tin
first sound of sympathy In Waitstill’s
voice, for self pity is very enfeebling
She fairly sobbed as she continued:
“So my only wedding journey war
the freezing drive back from Allen
town, with Ellen crying all the way
iffiM
cut m
“My poor, foolish dearl” sighed Wait
still.
and wishing that she hadn’t gone witl
us. Mark and I both say we’ll neves
be married again so long as we live."
“Where have you seen your husbam
from that day to this?”
“I haven’t laid eyes on him,” said
Patty, with a fresh burst of woe. "1
have a certificate thing and a wedding
ring and a beautiful frock and hat that
Mark bought in Boston, but no rea
husband. I’m no more married than
ever I was. Don’t you remember 1
said that Mark was sent away on
Tuesday morning? And this is Thurs
day! I’ve had three letters from him
but I don’t know till we see how fa
ther takes It when we can tell the Wil
sons and start for Portsmouth.
“We shan't really call ourselves mar
ried till we get to Portsmouth. We
promised each other that from the
first. It isn't much like being a bride
never to see your bridegroom; to have
a father who will fly into a passion
when he hears that you are married;
not to know whether your new family
will like or despise you and to have
your only sister angered with you foi
the first time in-*her life.”
Waitstill’a heart melted, and she lift
ed Patty’s tear stained face to hers
and kissed it. “Well, dear, I would
not have had you do this for the world,
but It is done, and Mark seems to have
been as wise as a man can be when
he does an unwise thing. You art
married, and you love each other
That’s the comforting thing to me.”
.“We do,” gobbed Patty. “No two
people ever loved each other better
than we, but it's been all spoiled for
fear of father."
“I must say I dread to have him
hear the news," and Waitstill knitted
her brows anxiously. ”1 hope it may
be soon, and I think I ought to be here
when be is told. Mark will never un
derstand or bear with him, and then
may be trouble that I could avert."
"I’ll be here, too, and I’m no
afraid !" and Patty raised her bead de
fiantly. “Father can’t unmarry us:
that’s why we acted Id this miserable
secret, underhanded wuy. Somehow
though I haven't seen Mark since we
went to Allentown, I nm braver than J
was last week, for now I’ve got some
body to take my part.
"I've a good mind to go upstairs and
put on my gold beads and my weeding
ring just to get used to them and to
feel a little more married. No. I ean’l
after all, for there la father driving ui
the hill now, and be may come Into the
house. What brings him borne at thb
hour 7”
“I was expecting him every mo
ment,” and Waitstill rose and stirred
the fire. "He took tbe pung und wen'
to ths mill.- ior'Sraiu.”
“He hasn’t anything in the back of
the puug—and, oh, Waity, he is stand
ing up now and whipping the hors’
with all his might. I never saw him
drive like that before! What can be
the matter? He can’t have seen my
wedding ring, und ouly three people in
all the world know about my being
married.’’
Waitstill turned from the window,
her heart beating a little faster.
“What three people know three hun
dred are likely to know sooner or later.
It may be a false alarm, but father is
in a fury about something. He must not
be told the news until he is in a better
humor!”
CHAPTER XXIV.
Patty Is Shown tho Door.
Deacon Baxter drove into
the burn and, flinging a blank
et over the wheezing horse,
closed the door behiud him
and hurried into the house without
even thinking to lay down his whip.
Opening the kitchen door and stop
ping outside long enough to kick the
snow from his heavy boots, he strode
into the kitchen and confronted the
two girls. He looked at them sharply
before he spoke, scanning their flush
ed faces and tear stained eyes; then
he broke out savagely:
“Oh, you're both here; that’s lucky
Now stan’ up and nnswer to me
What’s this I hear at the Mills about
Patience common talk outside the
store?”
THe time had come, then, and by
some strange fatality when Mark was
too far away to be of service.
“Tell me what you beard, father, and
I can give you a better answer,” Pat
ty replied, hedging to gain time and
shaking inwardly.
“Bill Morrill says his brother that
works in New Hampshire reports you
as ridin’ through the streets of Allen
town last Monday with a young man.’'
Therp seemed but one reply to this,
so Patty answered tremblingly: “He
says what’s true. I was there.”
"What!” And it was plain from the
deacon’s voice that he bad really dis
believed the rumor. A whirlwind of
rage swept through him and shook
him from head to foot
“Do you menn to stan’ there an’ own
up to me that you was thirty miles
away from home with a young man?"
he shouted.
“If you ask me a plain question I’ve
got to tell you the truth, father. 1
was.”
“How dare you carry on like that
and drag my name into scandal, you
worthless trollop, you? Who went
along with you? i’ll skin the hide off
him, whoever ’t was!”
Patty remalned-mute at this threat,
but Waitstill caught her hand and
whispered: “Tell him all, dear. It’s
got to come out. Be brave, and I’ll
Btand by yon.”
“Why are you interferin’ and puttin'
in your meddlesome oar?” the deacon
said, turning to Waitstill. “The girl
would never ’a’ been there if you'd at
tended to your business. She’s nothin'
but a fool of a young filly, an’ you’re
an old cart horse. It was your job to
look out for her, as your mother told
you to. Anybody might ’a’ guessed
she needed wntchin’!”
“You shall not call my sister an old
cart horse! I’ll not permit it!” cried
Patty, plucking up courage in her sis
ter’s defense and, as usual, comporting
herself a trifle more like a spitfire than
a true heroine of tragedy.
“Hush, Patty! Let him call me any
thing that be likes. It makes no dif
ference at such a time.”
“Waitstill knew nothing of my going
away till this afternoon,” continued
Patty. “I kept it secret from her on
purpose, because I was afraid she
would not approve. I went with Mark
Wilson, and—and I married him in
New Hampshire because wo couldn’t
do It at home without everybody’s
knowledge. Now you know all!”
“Do you menn to tell me you’ve gone
an’ married that reckless, wutbless,
horse trottln', card playin’ sneak of a
Wilson boy, that’s courted every girl in
town? Married the son of a man that
has quarreled with me and insulted
me in public? By the Lord Harry, I’ll
crack this whip over your shoulders
once before I’m done with you! If I’d
used it years ago you might have been
an honest woman today Instead of a”—
Foxwell Baxter had wholly lost con
trol of himself, and the temper, that
had never been governed or held In
check, lashed Itself into a fury that
made him for the moment unaccounta
ble for bis words or actions.
Waitstill took a step forward in
front of Patty. "Put down that whip,
father, or I'll take it from you and
break it across my knee!” Her eyes
blazed and she held her head high.
“You’ve made me do the work of n
man, and, thank God, I’ve got the
muscle of one. Don’t lift a finger to
Patty, or I’ll defend her, I promise
you! The dinner horn Is in the side
entry and two blasts will bring Uncle
Bart up the hill, but I’d rather not
caJLhltp unless yon force me to.”
(To Be Continued Tomorrow.)
DOUBLE BLIBB.
“She is having a perfectly lovely
time.”
"How so?”
“She is engaged to one of twins.
They both call on her and she can't
tell them apart"—Kansas City Jour
nal.
MUM'S THE WORD.
Hicks—You never can tell about a
woman.
Wicks—You shouldn’t, anyhow.—
Boston Transcript,
THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA. GA.
Todays .Financial and Commercial News
AUGUSTA COTTON MARKET
Middling closed today, 14%c
Tone Steady.
Middling Last Year 12c
closinoTquotations
Good ordinary 11 7-J
Strict good ordinary 12 3-1
Low middling 13 3-3
Strict low middling 14
Middling 14 1-4
Strict middling 14 1-J
Good middling ■
Tinges, first 14
Tinges, second 13 8-8
Previous Day’s Figures
Good ordinary 11 7-3
Strict good ordinary 12 3-8
Low middling ...13 1-8
Strict low middling 11
Middling 14 1-4
Strict middling 14 1-3
Good middling
Tinges, first 14
Tinges, second .13 8-8
Receipts For Week
Sales. Spin. Shlpt,
Saturday . . . . .
Monday ...... 38 663
Tuesday 176 403
Wednesday. . . . 131 206 115
Thursday 148 140 —.
Friday ■ -
Total 148 140
Comparative Receipts
1.13 ,914.
Saturday
Monday 19 7s
Tuesday ... 174 669
Wednesday 179 254
Thursday 64 166
Friday
Totals 64 I
LIVERPOOL COTTON
Liverpool.—Cotton spot steady. Good
middling 8.36; middling 7.74: low mid
dling 7.26. Sales 4,090; speculation and
export 300. Receipts S,OOO. Futures
steady.
June 7.84
June and July 7.16 Vi
Jul* and Augusta 7.16%
August and September 7.04
October and Novembor 6.76
December and January 6.67
January and February 6.66%
March and April 6.68
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
New Orleans.—Marked Improvement 1n
weather conditions caused selling on tho
opening of the cotton market today.
First prices were ten to twelv points off
and the decline was maintained in the
early trading.
The decline widened to 13 to 11 points
but at noon prices were unchanged to !>
points down compared with yesterday's
close.
NEW YORK COTTON
New York. —The cotton market open
ed barely steady at a decline of one to
seven points today In sympathy with
lower Liverpool cables and on iirospects
for beneficial showers In the eastern
belt. Offerings were not particularly
heavy after the realizing of the past two
or three days however, and the market
held steady after the call with July
contracts working back to last night's
closing price while new crop deliveries
rallied to within two pr three points of
that level on covering by recent sellers
for a reaction and some fresh buying.
Cotton futres closed steady.
Stop orders were executed on the early
break which carried prices seven to
eleven points net lower but the market
later steadied In spite of generally fav
orable weather news with old crop posi
tions selling three to six points net high
er while the new crop recovered to with
in three to four points of yesterday's
close.
High. I.ow cm*.
July 13.22 13.05 13.18
August 13.12 12.95 » 03
October 12.71 12.61 12.64
December 12.72 12.63 12.67
January 12.57 12.49 12.53
March 12.62 12.63 12.67
CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET
Chicago, Ills.—Favorable weather over
the entire domestic winter and spring
crop regions put the wheat market today
under considerable Belling pressure.
After opening l-4aß-8 to l-2a5-8 lower
the market suffered a material addi
tional setback. Com eased off wltr
wheat and as a result of cheaper of
ferings from Argentina. Prices, which
started 1-8 to l-Ba6-8 clown, continued
to decline.
Open. High. Low. Close
WHEAT—
July .... 87% 87% 86% 86%
Sept .... 85% 85% 85% 85%
CORN—
Julv .... 69% 70 f,9% 69%
Sept .... 67% 67% 66% 66%
OATS—
July .... 40% 40% 39% 39%
Sept .... 38% 38% 37% 37%
FORK—
July . . . . 2060 3042 2047
Sept . . . .1995 2000 1985 1997
LARD—
July . . . . 1007 1005 1007
Sept . . . .1025 1025 1020 1025
RIBS—
July . . . .1132 1132 1122 1127
Sept . . . .1137 1140 1132 1135
Industrial and Construction
Growth For the Week
&lumbus. Go.—The Industrial Index
soya in Its usue »t;» week:
“Confidence lr the Immediate homing
of o period of u-.usual business prosper
ity Is the dominant note juet now la
the country.
"The substantial manner In which the
upbuilding of cities and towns In the
Southwest Is progressing Is demon
strated this week by the voting of muni
cipal improveinnt bonds.
“Augusta, Ga., has voted 1750/4)0 of
bonds for leve and hospital building con
struction. Manatee, Fla., has voted SIOO,-
000 of paving, sewer and waterworks
construction bonds; Phenlx City, Ala.,
votedw $20,000 for waterworks system
extension. Tuscaloosa, la., will Issue
SIOO,OOO of waterworks bonds voted pre
viously. Dougherty county. Georgia, will
vote upon $50,000 of bridge and road Im
provement bonds.
“Twenty-seven new corporations were
formed this week, with minimum capital
stocks aggregating $745,650.
"Among the Items of construtlon
work to bs done, as reported this week,
are:
“Clubhouses, Birmingham, Ala., and
Miami, Fla.; hotel building. Birmingham,
Ala, and additions, Clsxton and West
Point, Ga.; warehouses, Macon and F tx
gerald Oa., .and Lincoln, la.; apartment
houses, two each In Atlanta, Ga., and
Stocks and Receipts
Stock in Augusta, 1913 30,992
Stock in Augusta, 1914 23,346
Kec. since Sept. 1, 1013 333,637
Hec. since Sept. 1914 369,776
Augusta Daily Receipts
j»>a. m*
Georgia Railroad 46 39
Southern Ry. Co 5 28
Augusta Southern Ry.. ..
Augusta-Alken Ry. Co. ... 4
Cen. of Ga. i(y
Georgia & Florida 4
C. & W. C. Ry 2
A. C. L. R. R 9 6
Wagon ... . ——
River
Canal
Net receipts 64 79
Through 37
Total 64 166
Port Receipts
Tonav. Laat Yr.
Galveston 2261 —-
New Orleans 1386
M6bile 231
Savannah ... ----
Charleston -*— -
Wilmington 322
Total ports (est.) 7000
Interior Receipts
Today. Last Yr.
Houston 630
Memphin .. v . ... 864
St. Louis
Cincinnati.. .. * —*
Little Hock
Weekly Crop Sloveraent, End
ing Friday, May 29, 1914.
1914. 1918. 1912.
Shipments . .. 18,171 23,181
Stock 43,727 39.877
Receipts 332,416 203,371
Came In St. .. 83,463 16,954
Crop In St. ... 12 830,830 1,481.696
Vis. Sup 4,222,092 4,150,044
LIVE STOCK MARKET
CHICAGO HOG AND CATTLE MARKET
Chicago, Ills.—Hogs: Reclpts 16.0-00;
strong; bulk of sales 815a820; light 795-
a 827 1-2; mixed 795a827 1-2; heavy 775a
-822 1-2; rough 775a79f1; pigs 4loaßno
Cattle: Receipts 3,500; slow; beeves
725a925; steers 680a815; Stockers and
feders 635a525; cows and heifers 370a
-876; calves 70a0985.
Sheep: Receipts 17.000; steady; sheep
540a680; yearlings 625a"30; latobs 650a
-860; springs 725a965.
N EW YORK STOCK MAR K ET
New York.—After a series of uncer
tain fluctuations the stock market moved
upward generally shortly before noon.
Weakness of Lehigh Valley and New
Haven held hack the whole list tetr a
time, but when these shares recovered
strongly buying orders were put in more
confidently. Particular strength was
shown by Canadian Pacific, Delaware
and Hudson, Harvester, New York Cen
tral and Can.
Ruying for the long account became
more of a factor once the market turn
ed upward definitely and further pro
gress was made. Despite the uncertain
feeling abroad, foreign representatives
bought 10.000 shares he*re. Time money
rates shaded notwithstanding a loss by
tbe banks thus far this week of $5,-
000,000 ana expectations of further gold
exports.
Bonds werelsteady.
The market closed firm. Steel made
a more definite response to the improved
character of trade news, rising to 61 3-1.
General buying slackened toward the
end.
HOURLY TEMPERATURES
Degrees.
6 A. M 71
7 A. M. , 72
8 A. M 74
9. A. M 75
10 A. M 78
11 A. M 80
12 M 81
1 P. M 86
2 P. M 88
LAKE RUNNING HIGH.
Duluth, Minn.—The American heart
of the lakes was whiped by a severe
wind, rain and fog storm last night
and this morning. Shipping was de
layed and one steamer, tho F. Cur
tis, was driven ashore In Ht. Louis Bay.
Tugs bad her afloat at daylight. All
vessels here are tied up. The lake is
running high and the wind and rain
continues, but are abating.
SHEA—MR. DAVID, died this after
noon at the residence of his daugh
ter, Mrs. W. D. Deas, 1919 Walton
Way, In the 83rd year of his age.
The funeral services will he held
from the residence tomorrow
morning at ten o’clock, the Rev.
Dr. Roberts officiating, and the In
terment will be In the West View
Cemetery. Deceased Is survived
by his wife, Mrs. A. J. Shea; one
son, Mr. W. T. Shea, and two
daughters, Mrs. W. 1). Deas. of this
city and Mrs. Derick of Florida.
W ANTED—M isceilaneous
WANTED: A 2-PASSI-;NGER, REC
ond-hand Fmrt automobile. Apply 602
6-06 Reynolds street. J 6
Birmingham, Ala.; road construction,
Camden and Johnson counties, Georgia,
and Tuecaloosa county, Ala.; church
buildings, $16,000. Monroe, Ga., and
Birmingham., la.; fraternal budding,
Samson, Ala.; office buildings, Bessemer,
Ala., and Miami, Fla ; school buildings,
Leesburg, Fla., and Georgians, la ; fac
tory buildings, Atlanta. Ga., and Pell
City, Ala.; library buildings, Athena und
Huntsville, Ala.; tell building to he re
modeled. .Campbell county, Georgia.
“Construction contracts have been
awarded ns follows:
“Paving. Daytona, Fla.; church build
ing additions .27,000, LsGrange Ga,;
$26,000, Manatee Fls., and Thomasvllle,
Oh ; apartment house, B rmlnghnrn,
Ala.; theater balding, Sooolaboro, Ala,:
road construction, Chilton, lounar and
Marshall counth-s, .a.; bank building
remodeling. Bessemer, Ala.; warehouse,
Adrian, Ga.
“Industrial plants will be established
as follows:
"Hhuttef actory, Tuscaloosa, Ala.;
woodworking plant, Valdosta, Ga.; abat
toir, Atlanta, Oa.; bakery, Griffin, Ga.:
hot Ming plants, Demopotls, Ala., and
Dalton. On,; cotton oil mill and ginnery,
Eufaula, Ala.; ftrtlllzer factories, Cull
man and Rutherford, Ala.; ginnery,
Hawklnsvltle, Ga.; Ice factory, Tusca
loosa, Ala.; marble plant, Canton, Ga.;
lumber plant, Rutherford, Ala.”
GAMBLERS IN
CIIYGOUBT
Large Number Pleaded Guilty
and Were Given Fines of
$25 each or Three Months on
the Public Works—White
Man Convicted of Adultery.
Thorp were quite a number of pleaa
of guilty In the city court today.
There was nllso one cnne tried, ,1. H.
O’Neal, a white man, being convicted
of fornication and adultery. Judge
Eve sentenced him to pay a fine of
S2OO or work on the public works for
a term of ten months.
Roscoe Jenkins, Nathan Brown,
Sam Roberson. Zam Dalton, Percy
Gunn; (’has. Glass, Geo. Reid, Nat
Davis and /Alex Thomas were each
sentenced to pay fines of $25 or serve
three months on the gang.
Louise Brown, a negress, was given
six mouths for larceny from the
house.
Marry Walker, William Guest, Will
Griffin, Elias Dudley aud Jim Smith
pleaded guilty to gambling and re
ceived sentence of $25 or three
months each.
(’has. Held, 0. J. Hall, Chas. Robert
son. Doc Robertson, Sam Hammond,
Eddie Weatley and Sant Cartledge
were each fined $25 or three months
for gambling. Those sentenced to
day for gambling are negroes.
THE MORNING WITH
THE RECORDER
A tall and uncouth negreas named
Lily, had her husband arrested the
other day as a precautionary measure.
She was a remarkable looking person
like a woman of the Anthropoid Pe
riod, accustomed to holding her own
against infuriated Dinosaurs, and pro
testing her young from the Eohlppus,
or Tree-Toed Horse. She was black
as the atce of spades, about six feet two,
awkward and angular. Her arms would
have reached below her knees, ex
cept that she held In them a diminutive
infant, at which she would occasionally
glance down, to wipe Its face or brush
Jlies off Its nose. At which times she
would carefully shut her mouth, over
her protruding teelh. Hut when her at
tention wns diverted her face would re
lax Into Us native smile. Don't know
why all tills description.
It seems that the other day, whejj
she had finished all her house wbrk,
one of her women neighbors called
over to her and said:
"Lily, you don’t go nowhere. Co
over and play a game o’ Flve-up.“
“I don’t keer es I do,” she replied
graciously, and gathering up her min
iature offspring, she repaired across
the street and engaged In a. lively
parly of cards.
When her husband came home, h»
found her in the midst of tho game.
He had repeatedly told her that he ob
jected to her playing Flve-Up. Ho
called her home wrathfully, and hit her
in the head with a saucepan.
She said: "Go on Jake, T don’t, want
to have no trouble wld you.”
He expostulated with her un the sub
ject of her mania for gambling until
she Anally became exasperate^.
‘iEf we goes on talkin’,” she said,
"me and you both's gwlne to Jail. I’ll
Jos' have you 'rested for convention.”
Wherewith she sailed forth, found an
officer and had Jake brought in.
Lily explained to the Judge that her
husband worked hard all the time and
took good care of her. Hhe, In turn,
did her share. He came home In the
evening to And the house all clean, his
clothes all mended and washed, and
supper all cooked. Hhe never had, tor
one day, neglected her duties. But she
did think, that when her work was
done, she should be allowed to endulge
In a friendly game of hive-Up with
her neighbors. She never played for
money. It was her only vice. (One got
a mental picture of her, with the little
two-by-four black hoy tucked up In
one of her bony elbows, concentrated
to the pitch of frenzy, slapping the
cards down on the table, in the Rig
our of the game. Hhe was a second
Sarah Hattie).
The Judge dismissed the case.
MEETING CAMP HICKMAN
AT 6 O’CLOCK SATURDAY
Final Plans For Two Weeks’
Outing to Graniteville June
ICth Will Be Made Then.
A meeting of those who are going nnrt
those who are In any way Interested In
Gamp Hickman, which will ho held on
the lake at Graniteville, H C.. for two
weeks beginning June 16th, has been
railed for 6 o’clock Rnturdav afternoon
nt the Telfair building corner of Tel
fair ami Seventh streets.
At this time find plans for the camp
will bo made. It Is urged that there
lie a full attendance.
Forty girls will be taken on tile camp
this year and others who will go will bs
Miss Dora Haines, camp leader; Mrs. B.
F. Brown Bible teacher; Rev. and Mrs. 1
J. ft. Hevier. and Mr. and Mrs. Chas. E.
Whitney and family.
N. Y. BULL MOOBE GATHER.
New York. —Htate leaders of the pro
gressive party met here today to dis
cuss the approaching state campaign.
Notwithstanding Col. Roosevelt's dec
laration before he sailed for Madrid,
that he would not be a candidate for
governor this fall, some of the state
leaders today expressed the belief that
his decision was not final.
FIRST SAIL STRETCHING.
Portsmouth, Eng. Shamrock IV.,
Sir Thomas Upton's new challenger
for the Americas* Cup, today took her
first sail stretching spin In the vicinity
of Kplthead. The wind wns light and
fluky and inadequate to teat the cap
abilities of the challenger. She man
euvered handily, however, and picked
up way quickly after tacking.
THE WINTERS TRIAL.
Newcastle, lnd.~The trial of Es. W
A. Winters, Mr*. Winters and W. N.
Cooper on ( barges of eonap racy to com
mit a felony today waa set for July 10th.
Prosecutor Myer* waa In court and no
effort was rondo to quaah the indictment
against the three who are iccused of
connection with the disappearance of
Catherine Winters, 9 yews old, about a
lyear ago.
ELEVEN
Our 25c Hose
Our Socks have made
good because they ARE
MADE GOOD.
No. 21 made in light
lisle (all colors.)
No. 414 the most pop
ular sock made. Those
that know say buy Wil
son’s 414, because they
wear. (All colors.)
MSCreary’s I
C. & W. G. GOAL
CHUTE FIRE
Good Size Blaze Last Night
Attracted the Attention of
Many People. Was Dangeroui
Work.
Firs In the yards of the Charleston At
Western Carolina Railway, corner of
Calhoun and Washington strests. laat
night between 10 and 12 o’clock, all but
totally dcelroyed the big coal chute,
holding many tons of ro:il and three
loaded coal cars, and s ightly damaged
three first-class locomotives running the
total damage to about $5,000.
The cause of the fire Is being Investi
gated by the road's authorities, al
though this morning It was understood
that the hlnze originated from burning
sparks from lomotlves.
Ab soon as the fire was discovered,
boxes 223 and 232 were sounded, follow
ed Immediately by the genera 1 alarm.
The fife spread very ruphlly and when
the firemen arrived the whole chute was
a mass of flame. The fire was fought
for at least an hour under serious dif
ficulty before It was gotten under con
trol. There were hundreds of people
that congregated on all sides of the
burning avea to watch the fire which,
while not so costly, was one of ftlie hot
test and fiercest that has occurred here
In some time.
Fretty soon Chief Reynolds had eight
streams of water playing on the blaze,
six of which carried pressure from the
pumps In several Instances the fire
men had a hard time running the hose
to the fire, as the line from Engine No.
l’s pump had to he threaded through
shop windows and then carried over nu
merous railway tracks to the burning
property. For a few minutes It looked
like the machine shops, paint shop and
planing mill, all located In the Imme
diate vicinity of the chute, were in dan
ger of going up In smoke also.
It Is understood that an oil house wag
located under the chute, which caught
afire, too. ’ Some of the flames Hhot far
Into the air at times, as If there had
been explosions.
Many of the C. & W. C. employees
live nearby and were on the scene short
ly after the firemen. They rendered
considerable aid In extinguishing the
flames, although ecounterlng great dan
ger 1n doing so from the fact that It
seemed at any moment the chute would
collapse and the loaded coal cars fall on
the men fighting the flro from under
neath.
Broad Strsst Firs.
Between 8:30 and 9 o’clock last night
the department's apparatus wars called
to the seven hundred block of Broad
stret, where It was found that in the
rear of the Augusta Trunk Factory a
few wooden boxes were on fire. They
would have possibly caused serious dam
age to nearby property had tha little
flames not been checked when they
were.
On account of happening early In the
night several hundred deople gathered.
The nanse could not be ascertained.
DEPUTY U, S. MARSHALL
PIERCE BACK IN TOWN
Deputy V. S. Marshall E. C. Pierce
returned to the city today from Sa
vannah, Oh., where he has befh In of
ficial attendance at the trial of the fa
mous Naval Stores case In the District
United States court thsre.
WANTED: SEVERAL BOTB TO CAR
ry The Herald. Apply Sub Station
No. t, Kollock street. ts
At the Casino
It la v«rry likely that the 8. R. O. sign
will be hunir up netr the box offlre win
dow at the T.ake View Casino tonight,
aa the change In the program promlaea a
crowd thla evnlng that will tax the thea
ter to Ita aeatlng cnpclty. The drima
for preaentatlon the reat of the week by
the Oollenstrln Mualcal Comedy Com
pany la "Brother Against Brother," said
to be one of the moat thrilling atnrlea
of Ita kind ever dramatlced for tahlold
vaudeville.
Announcement waa made at the Ca
alno at the beginning of the week that a
guarantee went with the atatement that
everything would 1m ahaolutely new be
ginning Thursday night. Thla holds true
every Monday and Thursday night. The
songs, the dances, the costumes, the
Jokes, the specialties will all be new to
gether with the new play.
Take a cool car ride to the Lake; get
off and buy a ticket to the Casino: take
a seat under one of the large electric
farm, anil enjoy an hour and forty min
utes of solid fun and amusement. One
of the big attractions Is the coolness of
the place.
Don’t forget the extra feature this
evening: Tne tangoing exhibition, and
tomorrow night, the tango contest.