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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1906-09-20, Page 7••OO••••••••er•ee•••oveen •e•••.e•••rr•r••••••• ai o ++++++++++.1444400+++++ "i t'�k3'3 �+'i" "i'+1":'�'+++0'4';+++l'i�i+'d+• e Gentleman ,:y. From Indiana +t••: ems. By BOOTH TA?i1CINGTON • • •,•,I,. • • • • Copyrlaht. 1899. by Doubleday t McClure Co. �;• Copyrldht. 1902. by McClure. I'h1111p.e at Co. V41, ..74. •44'a++ +44 ++Ae+4.+4e•+ .14+e : ++.14++b+ke• l++H 44++ •A4»z•'14 .•eo•o•••o•oo•o•eeoeeooe•o•,••oo•000e•••oo•••000•roGeo 9:4++ egletteee-Hece+ieletioleieleeeeeieleee++4444seeee+leteete eel. 4.4444 e [directly or indirectly, who had put the ( a peculiar accent (he said that-hlm and (white one there for him. She knew by, his goal should 'now have a swoot' olt 1 the way it was pinned that he had ( time off his winninks, though the lady ;Clone It himself. "Who is it that ev'ry, was not manifested) had pocketed e25 meening brings me these lovely flow- with no trouble at all. The two oper- ! ers?" she burlesqued as he bent over ators seemed depressed, declaring the ,her. luck against 'them and the I'ltttvllle "Mr, Wimby," he returned. "I will people too brilliant at the., game. ;point him out to you. You must see It was wonderful how the young ;him and Mr. Bodeffer, wbo is the old- couples worked their way arm in arm (rest inhabitant and the crossest oe Car- through the thickest crowds, never sepa- low." rating. Even at the lemonade stands I "Will you present them to me?" they drank holding the glasses in their • "No; they might talk to you and outer hands. Such are the sacrifices • !take sonle of my time with you away : demanded by etiquette. But, obsere- ' from me." ing the gracious outpouring of fortune Her eyes sparkled into his for the upon the rare rustic just mentioned, a merest fraction of a second, and she youth in a green tie disengaged his taughed. Then she dropped his lapel, arm—for the first time in two hours— and they proceeded. She` did not put frons that of a girl who looked upon the white rose in her belt, but carried him with fond, uncertain smiles and, it. sr conducting her to a corner of the yard, bade her remain there until he return- ed. He had to speak to Hartley Bowl - der, he explained. Then he plunged, red faced and ex- elted, into the circle about the shell manipulators and offered to lay a wa- The square was heaving with a jos- tling, moving, good natured, happy and • constantly Increasing crowd that over- flowed on Main street in both direc- t . tions and whose good nature augment - ;ed in the ratio that its size increased. ',The streets were a kaleidoscope of ger. . many colors, and every window open- "Hol' on there, Hen Fentriss," thickly ing on Main street or the square was objected a flushed young man beside filled with eager faces. By 9 o'clock him. "Iss my turn." "I'm first, Bartley," returned the oth- er. "You can hold yer bosses, I reckon." "Plenty fer each and all, gents," in- terrupted one of the shell men. "Place yer spoudulics on de little ball. Wick is de nex' lucky gent to win our mom.'ey? Gent bets four sixty-five he seen de little ball go under de middle shell. Up she comes! Dig time we wins. Platt ville can't win every time. Who's de nex' lucky gent?" Fentriss edged slowly out of the cir- cle, abashed and with rapidly whiten- ing cheeks. He paused for a moment outside, slowly realizing that all his money had gone iu one wild, blind whirl—tete .money he had earned so hard and saved so bard to make a holi- enough) on the other, followed by a day for his sweetheart and himself. He mother, with the other children hang- stole one glance around the building to ing to her skirts and tagging e,>4asper- where a patient figure waited for him. atingly behind, holding red and blueThen he fled down aside alley and soon toy balloons and delectable cantly I was out upon the country road, tramp - batons of spiral striped peppermint °in ing • soddenly homeward through the tightly closed, sadly sticky fingers. .A. dust, his chin sunk in his breast and hie thousand cries rent the air—the stroll- • ing mountebanks and gypsying booth merchants, the peanut venders, the boys with palm leaf fans for sale, the • candy sellers, the popcorn peddlers, the Italian with the' toy balloons that' float like a cluster of colored bubbles above the heads of the crowd and the bal- loons that wail like a baby; the red lemonade man, shouting in the shrill :voice that reaches everywhere and en- • aures forever: "Lemo' 1 Lemo' 1 Five . a glass! Ice cole lemo'l Five cents, a nickel, a half a dime, the twentleth- potofadollah! Lemo'! Ice cole lemo'1:' —all the vociferating harbingers of the • circus crying their wares. Timid youths in shoes covered with dust through which the morning polish but • slimly shone and unalterably hooked by the arm to blushing maidens bought recklessly of peanuts, of candy, of pop- • corn, of all known sweetmeats, per- chance, and ;oreed their way to the !lemonade stands, and there, all shyly, .Silently sipped the crimson stained ra- brosia. Everywhere the hawkers din— ned, and everywhere was heard the plaintive squawk of the toy balloom In the courthouse yard, and so sin- ning in the very eye of the law, two • swarthy, shifty Iooking gentlemen were operating with some greasy walnut.,{ shells and a pea what the fanciful or unsophisticated might have been pleas- ed to call a game of chance, and the most intent spectator of the group around them was Mr. James Bardlock, the town marshal. He was simply and unofficially and earnestly interested. ,'Thus the eye of the law may not be 'said to have winked upon the nefari- ousness now under its vision. It gazed with 'strong curiosity, an itch to dab- ble and, it must be admitted, a grew- ing hope of profit, theetgamo was so di- rect and the player So sure, Several countrymen had won small gums, and •ne, a charmingly rustic stranger, with ;all the windows of the courthouse in (the center of the square were occupied. (Here most of the damsels congregated !to enjoy the spectacle of the parade, 4 !anis their swains attended, posted at !coigns of less vantage behind the la - Some of the faces that peeped from the windows of the dark, old, shady courthouse' were pretty, and I some of them were not pretty, but near- :ly all of them were rosy checked, and all were pleasant to see because of the !good cheer they kept. Here and there, along the sidewalk below, a father worked his way through the throng, a licorice' bedaubed cherub on one arm, his coat (borne with long The Weakness of Old Age .1► S the years go by the blood gets ▪ •L )► thin, watery and impure, and fails topp y u i the nourishment s required to keep vitality at high water mark. Circulation gets bad, . and the nervous system suffers. Besides the pains and aches, besides • the weakness and dizziness, there - are feelings of numbness which tell of the approach of paralysis and locomotor ataxia. Judging from the experience of the thousands of old people who 1 have tested Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, it seems to., be exactly suited to overcome these conditions, conse quent on old age. 'Unlike ordinary Medicines, Dr. Chase's Nerve Food is entirely restorative in action, and cures by forming new, firm flesh and tissue, and building up the system. 60 cents a box, at all dealers. hands clinched tight at his sides. Novi! ' and then he stopped and bitterly heel- ed a stone at a piping bird on the fence or gay bobwhite in the fields. At noon the patient figure was still waiting is the corner of the courthouse yard, meek- ly twisting a coral ring upon her finger. But the flushed young man who had spoken thickly to her deserter drew att envied roll of bank bills from his pock- et and began to bpt with tipsy caution, while the circle about the gamblers watched with fervid interest, especially Mr. Bardlock, town marshal. From far' up Main street came the cry "She's a-comin'! She's a-comin!" and this announcement of the parade proving only one of a dozen false alarms a thousand discussions took place over .old-fashioned silver time- pieces as to when '.+she" was really due. Schofields' Henry was much appealed to as an arbiter in these discussions, from a sense of his having a good deal to do with time in a general sort of way, and thus Schofields' came to be reminded that it was getting on toward 10 o'clock, whereas, in the excitement of festival, he had not yet struck 9 This, rushing. forthwith to do, he di , and, in the elation of the moment, leve ' or eight besides. Miss Helen Sherwood was looking down on the mass of shift- ing colorfrom a second story windoib of" the courthouse, and she had the pleasure of Seeing Schofields' emerge on the steps beneath her when the bells had done and heard the cheers (led by Mr. Martin) with which the crowd greeted his appearance after the per- formance of his feat. She turned beamingly to Harkless. "What a family it is!" she laughed. "Just one ,big, jolly family! I didn't, know people could be like this until I came to Plattville." "That is the word for it" he said, resting hie hand ore the casement be- side her. "I used to think it was deso- late, but that was long ago." He lean- ed from the window to Look down. In his dark cheek was a glow the Carlow folks had never seen there, and some- how he seemed less thin and tired than espal; indeed, hd did not seem tired at• all,* far the contrary,.nnd he carried himself upright, `when he was not stooping underthe hat, thou to see h h S not as if he thou ht abouti " be- lieve t I b lieve they are the best people I know," be went on. "Perhaps it is because they have' been so kind to me; but they are kited to each other, too—kind, good people." "I now, she said, nodding, "I know. There are fat women, women who rock and rock on piazzas by the sea, and they speak of Country people as the 'lower wee C1 a99es., He happy How pl y this big family is in not knoh'rng it is the lower classes!" "We haven't read Nordau down here,e said Jolle. "Old Tom Martin's favorite Work is 'The Descent of 1fan,' and Miss Tibbs Cares most fOr 'Leila Itookh' and 'Beulah. And why not?" "It was a girl from Southeast Cotton- bridges, Mass.," said Helen, "who heard I Wes from Indiana and ssked me if I didn't 'hate to lire so far away from thinge, " There was a pause while she leaned out e>l the window ;with her face THE WINGIIAM TIMES, SGPT +MBI+;R, aside from him. Then she remari ea carelessly, "I Met her at Winter alis bol:" ""Do you go to Winter Harbor," he asked. "We have gone there every summer until this one for years. Have you friends wbo go there?" "I had once, There was a classmate of ..mine from Rouen"--- "What was his name? Perhaps I know Mw." She stole a glance at hem and saw that his face had fallen into sad lines. "He's forgotten me, I dare say, I haven't seen him for seven years, and that's a long time, you know, and he's 'out in the world,' where remembering is harder. Here in Plattvillo we don't forget." "Were you ever at Winter Harbor?" "I was once. I spent a very happy day there long ago, when you must have been a little girl. Were you there hi "Listen!" sbe cried. "The procession is coming. Look at the people!' The parade had seized a psychologic- al moment. There was a fanfare, of trunlpets in he east. Lines of people rushed for the streets, and as one look- ed down on the big straw hats and sunbonnets and many kinds of finer head apparel tossing forward they seemed like surf sweeping up the long beaches. She was coming at last. The boys whooped in the middle of the street. Some tossed their arms to heaven, others expressed their emotion by somersaults; those most deeply moved walked on their hands. In the distance one saw over the heads of the multitude tossing banners and the moving crests of triumphal cars, where "cohorts were shining in purple and gold." There was ?pother flourish of music. Then all the baud gave sound, and, with the blare of brass and the crash of drums, the glory of the parade Must upon Plnttville. Glory in the utmost! The impetus of the march time music, the flare of royal banners, the smiling of beautiful court ladies and great silk- en nobles, the swaying of howdahs on camel and elephant and the awesome shaking of the earth be ieath the ele- phant's feet and his devastating eye (every one declared he looked the alarmed Mr. Bill Snodtly, stoutest citi- zen of the county, full in the face as he passed him, and Dir. Snaddy felt not at all reassured, when Tom Martin severe- ly hinted that it was with the threaten- ing glance of a rival); then the badi- nage of the clown, creaking by in his donkey cart; the terrific recklessness of the spangled hero who was drawn [,along in a cage with two striped tigers —the delight of all this glittering pomp and pageantry needed even more than walking on your hands to express. Last of all came the tooting calliope, followed by swarms of boys as it exe- cuted "Wait Till the Clouds Roll By, Jennie," with infinite gusto. When it had gone Miss Sherwood's gaze relaxed—she had been looking on as eagerly as any child—and she turned to speak to Harkless and discovered that he vias no longer in the room. In- stead she found Minnie and Dir. lefts, whom he had summoned from another window. "He 'was called away," explained Lige. "He thought he'd be back before the parade was over and said you were enjoying it so much he didn't want to speak to yon." "Called away?" Minnie laughed. "Ob, everybody sends for Mr. Harkless." "It was a farmer name of Bowlder," added Air. Willetts. "Isis son Hartley 's drinking again, and there ain't any one but Harkless can do anything with him. You let him tackle a sick man to nurse or a tipsy feller to handle, andl tell you," Mr. Willetts went on, with enthusiasm, "he is at home. It beats me, and lots of people don't think col- lege does a man any good. Why, the way he cured old Pis"— MIss Briscoe Interrupted him. "See!" she cried, pointing out of the 'window. "Look out there! Something's happened!" There was a swirl in the crowd be- low. Men were running around a cor- ner of the courthouse, and the women and children were harking after. They wept so fast and there Were so many of thein that immediately that whole portion of the yard became a pushing, tugging, squirming jam of people. "It's on the other side," said Lige. "We can see from the hall window. Coyne quick before these other folks fill it up." folowed Ulm tbe butler ey �" leghand hooked downaonsan agtat'tlle pwarin of faces. Five men were stand. Ing on the e'ftrauee steps to the door below them, and the crowd was thick- ly massed beyond, leaving a little semi- circle clear About the steps. Those be- hind struggled to get closer and leaped in the air to catch a glimpse of wbat was going on. Harkless stood alone on the top step, his band resting on the shoulder of the pale and contrite ante sobered Hartley. On the lowest step Jim Bardlock was standing with sheep- ishly hanging head and between him and Harkless the two gamblers of the walnut sbells. rhe journalist held in his hand the implements of their pro- fession. "Yes; give up every cent," he.said quietly. "You've taken $80 from this boy. Hand it over." The men began to edge down closer to the crowd, giving little, swift, des- perate, searching looks from left to right and right. to left and moving nerv- ously about like weasels in a trap. "Close up, there," said Harkless. "Don't let them out." "W'y can't we git no square treat- ment here?" one ot the gamblers whin- ed. But his eyes blazed with a rage that belied the plaintive passivity of his tone. "We ain't been rennin' no skin. W'y d'ye say we getter give up our own money? You getter prove it was a skin. We risked our money fair." "Prove it! Come up here, Eph Watts. Friends" — the editor turned to the crowd, smiling—"friends, here's a man we ran out of town once because be knew too much about things of this sort. He's come back to us again, and he's here to stay. IIe'Il give us an ob- ject lesson on the shell game." "It's pretty simple," remarked Mr. Watts. "The best way is to pick up the ball with your second finger and the back part of your thumb, as you pretend to lay the shell down over it— this way." Ile illustrated and showed several methods of manipulation with professional sang free], and as be made plan the vulgar swindle by which many had been duped that morning there arose an angry and threatening The Signs of Heart Trouble Yea can Surely Secure Heart Health' and Strength through Dr. Shoop's Restorative. Heart weatcness which can be dealt with at all is nerve weakness, Just as your hand trem- bles when its nerves are weak when >our heart I nerves are weak your heart flutters and paint- tates. 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Shoop's Restorative creates strength which extends over the whole inside nerve s> stent ---it overcomes the cause of the troubleas well ea *hi/ TCTATEYS and murmur. "You all see," said Harl.less, raising his voice, "what a simple cheat it is— an old, wornout one. Yet a lot of you lost your own motley on it and then stood by, staring like idiots, and tet Hartley Bowlder lose $80, and not one of you lifted a hand. How hard did you work for what these two cheap crooks took from you? Ah," he cried, "it is because you were greedy that they robbed you so easily! You know it's true. It's when you want to get something for 'nothing that the 'con- fidence men' steal the money you sweat for and make you the laughingstock of the country. And you, Jim Bard - lock, town marshal; you, who con- fess that you 'went in the game GO cents' worth' yourself"— His face was wrathful and stern as he raised his ac- cusing hand and leveled It at the un- happy municipal. The town marshal smiled uneasily and deprecatingly about him and, see- ing only angry, 'frowning brows, hear- ing only words of condemnation, passed his hand unsteadily over his fat mus- tache, shifted from one leg to the other and back again, looked up, looked down, and then, an amiable and pleas- ure loving man, beholding nothing but accusation and wrath In heaven and earth and wishing nothing more than to sink into the waters under the earth, but having no way of reaching them, and finding his troubles quite unbearable and himself unable to meet the manifold eye of man, he sought re- lief after the unsagaclous fashion of a larger bird than he. His burly form underwent a series of convulsions not unlike sobs, and he shut his eyes tight and held them so, presenting a picture of misery unequaled in th'e memory of • - , • ee r` VA S.''•..,,., "Poe, you, a man elected to"— any stectator. The editor'ss outs 1 t ch.D ed hand began to shake. "You," he tried to continue; "you, a man elected to"— There came from the crowd the sound of a sad, high keyed volce drawling, "That's a nice vest Jim's got on, but it ain't hardly the feathers fatten for an ostrich, is it?" Harkless broke into a ringing laugh and turned to the shell Mtn. "Give up the boy's money. hurry." "Step down here and git It," staid the one who had spoken. There was ,a turbulent motion in the crowd, and a cry arose: "Run 'em out! Hide 'em on a rant '.Car and feathers(' Run 'ern, Out o' town!" "1 wouldn't dillydally long if I were Me" said l larkless, .A. roll of bills was t , bullenl y p aeect in his hand, which he counted and turned over to the elder $owlder. One of the shell mens clutched the editor's sleeve with his dirty and. 'We hasn't done id' y'ouse," he said 20 1906 hoarsely, "Don't helle[ It, not for a, minute, see?" '1.'he town marshal opened his eyes briskly and, placing a hand on each of the gamblers, said, "I do hereby arrest your said persons and declare you my prisoners." ' The cry arose again louder: "Run 'em out! String 'ern tip! hang 'em! Hang them!" Ant a forward rush was made. "This way, Jim, Gnirk!" cried Hark- less, bedding down and jerking cue of the gamblers half way up the steps. "Get through the hall to the other side and then run 'em to the lockup. No one will step you that way. Watts and I will hold this door." Bardlock hustled his prisoners tbrough the doorway, and the crowd pushed up the steps, while IIarkless struggled to keep the vestibule clear until Watts got the double doors closed, "Stand buck, there!" he shouted. "It's all over. Don't be foolish. Tlie law is good enough for us. Stand back, will you?" He was shoving vlgorously with open band and elbow, when a compact little group of men suddenly dashed up the steps together, and .a heavy stick swung out over their heads. A straw hat with a gay ribbon sailed through the air. The editor's long arms went out swiftly'' from his body in several directions, the hands not open, but clinched and hard. Tho next instant be and Mr. Watts stood alone on the steps, and a man with a bleeding, blas- pheming mouth dropped bis stick, and tried to lose himself in the crowd. ler. Watts was returning something he had not used to his hip pocket. "Prophets of Israel!" exclaimed Wil- liam Todd ruefully. "It wasn't Eph Watts' pistol, Did you see Mr. Hark- less? I was up on them steps when he begun, I don't believe he needs as much takin' care of as we think." "Wasn't it one of them Crossroads devils that knocked his hat off?" asked Judd Bennett. "I thought I see Bob Skillett run up with a club." Harkless threw open the doors be- hind hint. The hall was empty. "You may come in now," he said. "This isn't my courthouse." f4�¢�V;11 CHAPTER VI. HEY walked slowly back alone the pike toward the brick house. Ile was stooping very much as they walked. Ile wanted to be,told that he could look at her for a thousand years. The small face was rarely and exquisitely mod- eled, but perhaps just now the salient characteristic of her beauty (for the salient characteristic seemed to be a different thing at different times) was the coloring, a delicate glow under the white skin, a glow that bewitched him 1n its seeming to reflect the rich bene- ! diction of the noonday sun that blazed overhead. Once he had thought the way to the Briscoe homestead rather a long walk-, but now the distance sped malignantly. Strolled they never so slow, it was less than a "young bird's flutter from a wood." With her acquiescence he rolled a cigarette, and she began to hum light- ly the air of a song, a song of ineffably gentle, slow movement. That, and a reference of the morning and perhaps the smell of his tobacco mingling with the fragrance of her roses, awoke again the old reminis- cence of the night before. A. clearly outlined picture rose before him—the high green slopes and cool cliff walls of the coast of Maine and the sharp j little estuary waves he lazily watched through half closed lids while the pale smoke of his cigarette blew out under the rail of a waxen deck where he lay cushioned. And again a woman pelted his face with handfuls of rose petals and cried: "Cp, lad, and at 'em! Yon- der is Winter Harbor!" Again he sat in the oak raftere.d casino, breathless with pleasure, and. heard a• young girl 1 sing the "Angel's Serenade," a young girl who looked so bravely, unconscious Of the big, hushed crowd that listened, looked so pure and bright and gentle and good, that he had spoken of her as "Sir Galahad's little sister." IIe had been much taken with this child, but he had not thought of her from that time to this, he supposed. He had al- most forgotten her. No! Her face suddenly stood out to his view as though he saw her with his pbysical eye, a sweet and vivacious child's face, with light brown hair and gray eyes adfa short upper lip like di curled rose 1 leaf. And the voico— 1 He stopped short. "You are Tom eferodithi's little cousin." "The great I.tarkiess," she answered and stretched out her hand to him. "I remember you." "Isn't it time'!" "Ah, but I never forgot you!" lie cried. "I thought I had. I didn't know who it was I was remembering. I thought it was fancy, and it was mem- ory. I never forgot your voice, sing- ing, and I remembered your face, too, though I thought I didn't" He drew a deep breath. "That was why"— "Tom bas not forgotten you," she sadI its hemsec 1 P "Would you mind shaking hands once more?" he asked, She gave him her hand again. "With all my heart. Why?" "I'm making a record of It; that's all. Thank you." "They caked me 'Sir Galehad's lit- tle sister' all one summer because the great John Harkless called me that. Your id I dan?ced" with me in the evening." "A "Ab," sbe said, shaking her head, "you were too busy being in love With pretty 11Irs. Van Skuyt to remember a Waltz with Only 111e! I was allowed to meet you as a reward for singing my very best, and you—yon bowed with the indulgence of n grandfatbee And asked tee to dance." "Like a grandfather!' !low young I was then! Iiow time changes us!" "I'm afraid my conversation did not make It great lmpreselon uppn you," ibe eoletinued, 7 111111111111111.11.1111111111111111111111111111.1111111111111111111 AORIM111001P11111101011111111111,1°17111•111111111N11,U10 o• 1„.111 awls y A�'"1.7„'h�J..� r, AVegetablePreparationforAs- slmitating LheTood andRegula- ling the Stomachs andBowels cf Promotes Digestion,Cheerful- nessandPest.Contains neither Opluni,Morphine icor Mineral. NOT NAftC OTIC. RecreefeldTr& lii7.1•!,P111 12 rmnp„'•iz Seed' IIxSenna . J..df11AS 's Arun Jeq.L • I:PIe saint - Br ar darw.t.rdye PrimSeed- (thMid Ji.ynr lira rrytea" Plast: A ecrtect 'Remedy for Constipa- tion, Sour Stornach,Diarrhoca, Worms ,C:cnvulsions,} everish- ncss and Loss OF SLEEP. recSi:rale Signature cf u NEWYORE:. C STORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of I n �. Use dor Over thirty Years EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. ...,, sitz• "But it did. I am remembering very fast. 11 you will wait a moment I will tell you some of the things you said." The girl laughed merrily. Whenever she laughed he realized that it was be- coming terribly difficult not to tell her how adorable she was. - "I wouldn't risk it if I were you," she warned him, "because I didn't speak to you at all. I shut my lips tight and trembled all over every bit of the time I was danc- ing with you. I did not sleep that night, and I was unhappy, wondering what the great Harkless would think of me. I knew he thought me unutter- ably stupid because I couldn't tall: to him. I wanted to send him word that I knew I had bored Itrit1. I couldn't endure that he shouldn't. know that I knew I had. But he was not thinking of me in any way. Ile had gone to sea again in his white boat, the un- grateful pirate, cruising with Mrs. Van Skuyt." "How time does change us!" said John. "You are wrong, though. I did think of you. I have al"— "Yes," she interrupted, tossing her head in airy travesty of the stage co- quette, "you think so—I mean, you say so—now. Away with you and your blarneying!" And so they went through the warm noontide, and little he cared for the heat that wilted tbe fat mullein leaves and made the barefoot boy who passed by skip gingerly through the burning dust with anguished mouth and watery eye. Little he knew of the katydid that suddenly whirred its mills of shrillness in the maple tree and sounded so hot, bot, hot; or that other that railed at the country quiet from the dim, Cool shade around the brick house, or even the rain crow that sat on the fence and swore to ' them In the face of a sunny sky that they should see rain ere the day were done. Little the young man reeked of what he ate at Judge Briscoe's good noon dinner—chicken wing and young roas'n ear, hot rolls as light as the fluff of a summer cloudlet, and honey and milk and apple butter flavored like spices of Arabia and fragrant, flaky, cherry pie and cool, rich, yellow cream. Lige Willetts was n lover, yet he said he asked no better than to just go on eating that cherry e till a w death overtook him; bppii s >•ailrtlnd sandeet- = a-wC"1Cs t-,._ aa,.,A ..A ,+edtuu1s1i have been set before Harkless for all the difference it would have made to him, At no other time IS n man's feeling of companionship with a woman so strong as When he sits at table with her, not at a "decorated" and beeatered and be- waitered table, but at a homely, appe- tizing, wholesome, home table like old Judge Briscoe's. The very essence of the thing is domesticity, and the im- plication is utter confidence and liking, There are few greater dangers for a bachelor. An insinuating imp perches on his and softly t t Y t!elcli t the g bachelor's ear with the feathers of an arrow shaft, whispers: "Pretty gay, isn't it, el? Rather pleasant to have that girl sitting there, don't you think? Enjoy having her notice your butter plate was empty? Think it exhilarat- ing to hand her those rolls? Looks nice, doesn't she? Says 'Thank you' rather prettily? Makes your lonely breakfast seem mighty dull, doesn't it? Iiow would you like to have her pour your coffee for you tomorrow, my bey? Iiow would it neem to have such pleasant Company all the rest of your life? Pretty cheerful, eh? It's my conviction Mkt your ono need in life is to pick her up in your arms and run away with her, not anywhere in particular, but just run and run and run away!" After dinner they went ent to the veranda, and the gentlemen smoked. The judge set his chair down on the ground, tilted back in It with his feet •n the stege; and blew a wavery, dom- t i THE CENTAUR COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY. ed city up in the air. He called its solid comfort. He liked to sit out from under the porch roof, he said. Ho wanted to see more of the sky. The others moved their chairs down to join in the celestial vision. A feath- ery thin cloud or two had been fanned: across it, but save for these there was nothing but glorious and tender bril- liant blue. It seemed so clear and close one marveled the little church[ spire in the distance did not pierce it.. Yet at the sante time the eye ascended miles and miles into warm, shimmer- ing ether. Far away two buzzards swung slowly at anchor halfway to the sun. 1 "0 bright, translucent, cerulean hue, - Let my wide wings drift on in you," llarkless quoted, pointing them out to Helen. "You seem to get a good deal of fun out of this kind of weather," observed Lige as he wiped his brow and shifted his chair into the shade. "I expect you don't get such skies as this up in Rouen," said the judge, looking at the girl from between hie lazily half closed eyelids. "It's the same Indiana sky, I think," she answered. "I guess maybe in tbe city you don't see as much of it or think as much about it, then. Yes, they're the In- diana skies," the old man went on. , "Skies as blue As the eyes of children when they smile at you. "There aren't any others anywhere that ever seemed much like them to me. They've been Company for me all my life. I don't think there are any, others half as beautiful, and I know; there aren't any as sociable. They, were always so." IIe eighed gently, and Miss Sherwood fancied his wife must have found the Indiana skies as lovely as he had in the days of long ago. "Seems to me they are tiro softest and bluest and kindest in the world." "I think they are," said Helen, "and they are more beautiful than the Mil- ian ian skies, though I doubt if many of tis Hoosiers realize it, and certainly no one else does." The old man leaned over and patted her hand. Harkless gasped. "'les Hoosiers! " chuelrled the judge. "Yo»'re (To be conti.niled Get all your harveetiug iriiiolr ser -' under cover just as soon as possible. Sun and ran do it no good, and by ex - prising your implements you set a bad example to your neighbors. t Minister ot the bospei Recommends OXYOENATOB "r�, .evaral yearn I DMus been ha ver! pees ►.a:sh. Last Balli war advised by Bev. J. S. Allen. si Nutri, Harbor, 1'.15.L, t. try 'Oxygenator.* bat ,re trying ft I had no faith in it, but last Ooto. M. I began its nu sad can truly ray that betor• twh g one jug I had 'wonderfully improved in my e' -.rat health. Since then I have need several fug 1,11e. result bays never ;vent such a bealtby W taer or Spring a.I did this ear. 'Oxygenates' for throat Trouble, Catarrh, Purifyin the Blood. tog fer Building up the System,1 beets le rat N'• ailed today by any other remedy, several of my congregation hats sled Seed it r! . h blessed results. II great Interest far 'hvygenator,' having given jugs of ft away, sea Cut it ray it 1. A WORD*EtvL REMEDY. iy regard to My *yea, Oxygenator' has dor. sh, m more good than toe Oculists or the 1reMtamsts I received in the Hospital. "er learaeebe, I think It prerler.. Vet palm he we chest, lunys et site, indeed Mayo ;USN 'N, t rka imbibe." AIM I. A. D. McL1EOf, Mout Stewart, rots. •+r Saki b•— j J THFe, XYQENATfB, 0. •. J tiarsabrd *f. • flereoilteilev