Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 21 April 1898 — Page 6

GETTING READY Every expectant mother has a trying ordeal to face. If she does not gSif 3 X lL|\ pet rpacl - v for to. ' 1\ I’j there is no telling 'I I what may happen. (_J Child-birth is full of uncertainties if Nature is not given proper assistance. Mother’s Friend is the best help you can use at this time. It is a liniment, and when regularly applied several months before baby comes, it makes the advent easy and nearly painless. It relieves and prevents “ morning sickness,” relaxes the overstrained muscles, relieves the distended feeling, shortens labor, makes recovery rapid and certain without any dangerous after-effects. Mother’s Friend is good for only one purpose, viz.: to relieve motherhood of danger and pain. One dollar per bottle at all drug stores, or sent by express on receipt of price. Free Books, containing valuable information for women, will be sent to any address upon application to THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., Atlanta. Ga. COR D’ALENE. BY MARY HALLOCK FOOTE. [Copyright, >894, by Mary Hallock Footed “The beggars is leavin’,” said Mike. “Are ye hit bad?” Mike’s counter-ambush had disconcerted the executive committee, their shots fell off. and they were dispersing at a trot through the woods, when, with a rush of light skirts across the dark evergreens. Fauth came flying, wild with the fear that she had come too late. “Where are you?” she cried. “Oh. answer, somebody! Are you killed?” Though she addressed “somebody” it was Mike who answered promptly: “Rape qui’t, darlin’; he’s here, and he’s hurted.” Darcie was at her side, speechless, but ■mightily glad; he did not feel his wound. “Thnt wretched Wan!” cried Faith. “He wouldn't come a step to save you i set ••V7here arc you?" she crlod. till I made him, and then he tried tc lose me in the woods. I heard the shots and I thought I should die!” “The message was not your message then?” "That message from me! Is that what you think of me?” “What matter? The meetin’ ’s over, and the man we want now is the docther.” said Mike. “Thrip on ahead, miss dear, and lend us the light av your white frock t’rough the trees. Are you hurt bad ?” he inquired again of Darcie, with as much gentleness as he could put into his voice. “Can ye make it, or will I pack ye on me back?” “Go on; I can make it,” said Darcie. “No; I’ll not go on; I’ll cover the retrate —so we goes in good ordher. Darcie. did ye hear me howl? That’s the rale ould Tipperary yell. I knew they'd be lookin’ for the back door av the woods when they h'ard that, and I gev it to ’em good.”

“I heard you, Mike.” the sweetest voiee lilted in the darkness, with a sob in it of tears and of joy. “Did ye. darlin'? Did ye mind how I reinforshed him?” “Behave yourself. Mike; don't go off your head, quite.” said Dareie. sternly. “Sure there's a power o' fight in me yet. It’s a pity they didn’t let blood on me 'shtead av little Dareie. Are your legs failin’ ye? I cud pack ye aisy as a sack of ore.” “Go onl go on!” said Dareie. “I—l'm so thankful!” said the sweet voiee. a little wildly. "You didn’t think I could send you such a message as that, did you?” “It was not for me to think; I came.” Darcie's sentences were brief and somewhat breathless, for his wound was coining to life; the passion of pain and love, and the weakness of fear lest this strange joy might all fade and pass by daylight, or some new obstruction arise, were nearly overpowering him. “You will have to give me your arm. Mike.” he said. “I’m worse than I thought.” “Run on ahead, miss dear, that’s a

lady, and rouse up the docther.” “Do mind who you are talking to," said Darcie, peevishly. “Sure. I do mind. Wasn’t it her own doin’s. and why shouldn't she run?" “She had not a thing to do with it! Mike, let me down; my head is going! Don’t go back to the cabin to-night, will you? It won’t be safe for you.” “Niver fear; I’ll be dustin’ out o’ this pretty quick. I’ll be huntin’ high grass before sunrise." "Is it good-by' then, old fellow?" mur mured Darcie. “I dunno what it is; but niver fear. Ye’ll hear me whoop again.” The doctor was not at his own house; he had been one of the guests at dinner, and was the only one of the company now in condition to render assistance. Wan was getting the other gentlemen into their overcoats, and sorting their hats and coats for them in the hall. Abby was do-i n in the gulch exchangingnews with the wives and maidens of the camp. The manager was sitting on th- front stairs with every appearance of staying there all night unless help should come. It was Faith who waited upon the doctor, and, as Darcie fainted under the examination of his wound, it may be imagined what an ordeal this service was for the girl, following the earlier events of the night. It was at this violent pace that the wild little romance, so squalidly begun on the night of the storm, was progressing. In the back hall after breakfast, on the following morning. Wan was brushing and cleaning the clothes that Darcie had worn on the preceding night, discussing with himself their condition and probable destination. "Tlowsa all light, vest all light, coat heap all blood; no can clean him good. Think he no wear coat any- more. Think give him Wan. Say: ‘John, you burn him up, tlow him away, give him some poor miners.' Plenty good coat; me all same miner. Some littee thing in pocket? One silk hankcha; one littee book, velly thin; one big book —some letta inside. I look see.” Hereupon Abby, appearing by aside door, took in the situation at once. “Them things belong to you? Looks like you’re makiu' mighty free with ’em. Here, hand ’em over to me. I’ll take care of ’em. You no business goin’ through a gentleman’s clothes like that. Take ’em out to your own place; you can’t be cleanin’ clothes in my back hall.” Wan looked black, but his fear of Ablby was scarcely less than his hatred of her; she possessed herself of the contents of Mr. Darcie’s pockets, including the letter of evidence against the manager, which he had not sent, nor yet destroyed, and departed, leaving Wan in a grinning rage. He carried the clothes out into the back area, muttering curses in his jargon of heathen English. "Huh!" he grunted, savagely, “mean dam’ w’ite woman! Heap no good. Mist’ Da’cie say: ‘John, where my letta? I no can fin’.' Tell me plenty 1 say: ‘Mist’ Da’cie, you go catchee Abby, tell her ’ ”

VII. UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER. On the morning of July 10 Darcie, still a prisoner to his wound and a guest of the Big Horn, was strolling restlessly about the manager’s handsome din-ing-room, his right arm in a sling, and a cigar he was not smoking in his left hand. Wan had just entered with a tray of glass and silver, which he was putting away in the sideboard at the end of the room. “John—Sam—where is your mistress?” Darcie inquired, with a vagueness in the second person which put the heathen upon his dignity at once. It did not please Wan to be addressed by divers and sundry names that were not his own. “No sabe; maybe gone out,” he answered shortly. Darcie was quite sure that she had not gone out, having been listening the last hour for her steps about the house. He crossed the room as Wan was leaving it, and absently slipped a dollar into his discreetly receptive hand. “Think you can’t find her, ch?” “Maybe upstairs; I go look see,” said Wan, mollified and relenting. “Do, and be quick about it. Tell her my arm is—a—is very bad.” Wan hesitated; if the typical Chinaman has a sense of humor he does not usually obtrude it. “Think better go catchum doctah?” Wan suggested, with every appearance of polite concern. His humor was wasted on Darcie. “Did you hear me say doctor? When I want you to catch me the doctor, I will say so. Sabe?” “All light.” Wan smiled afostractcdly. “I go look see.” In a few moments Faith entered. Her hands were pink and cold', her cheeks glowing with exercise; but her radiant face became grave and solicitous as she looked at Darcie. "Wan says your arm is very bad. Is it worse since breakfast?" “I don’t remember how it was at breakfast; I wasn’t thinking about it then. Perhaps this scarf is tied too short; will you let it down a bit?” Faith undid the fastening of the sling, and lowered it a trifle. She did this with great earnestness, frowning a little as she worked at the knot. “Do you think you should keep walking about so much with your arm hanging down ? I*:i afraid it's not good for the blood to settle in the wound.” “It must go somewhere; just at present it seems to have atejidency tc my head. It’s a very odd'sensation to feel one's self blushing like a girl.” “That is because you are weak. Try this chair with, the broad arm. I will put the cushion, so; could you bear it a little higher? How is that?" "Delicious—for a time. But don’t go! I always want something directly you are gone.” “I had a little thing I wqs doing upstairs." “Can't you bring the little thing down?”

“Bring down the bed's I am making?” Faith recovered her self-possession with a laugh. “Beds! Do you make beds in this house?” “At present I do; Abby’ has gone to Gem." “Has she? I congratulate you on her absence. I never see her sailing down the road with those auburn bangs in the wind, but I think of the “ 'Bright hair uplifted from the head Os some fierce maenad . . . The locks of the approaching storm.’ Still, the maenad may be a convenience when it comes to making bed's." "She is no convenience to me,” said Faith, inflexibly. "You may congratulate me all you like. I dote on her very absence; I haven't been so happy since I came to the mine.” “I wonder if any other lady of the Coeur d’Alene is saying this morning she is happy. We know that Big Horn Gulch is a union stronghold, but the seat of war is very near. From what the doctor tells me there is sure to be a collision at Gem. When did you say your father would be home?” “To-night, surely. But everything is quiet here, for the reason, as you say, that here there’s no opposition. I am very anxious about you, though. At present they have enough to do elsewhere, but if they are successful they will come back more insolenit than ever. And those men who were waiting for you in the woods, they have not forgotten.” “Ah, well, there is no time to waste. There may be ‘hurrying to and fro, and ‘mounting in hot haste,’ not to speak of ‘sudden partings.’ And yet I notice a marked falling-off in the attentions of my nurse. When I was-supposed to be in possible peril she was very nice to me, but the moment I take a favorable turn, off she goes—to her beds, or her sweeping, or whatever it is that keeps her, anywhere but where I am. I don't know where you go, and I couldn't follow you if I did. You have me at a cruel disadvantage.” “Y’ou take advantage of j’our disadvantage,” said Faith, in a low voice. “Can you blame me.? I am reduced to bribery and corruption, to every sort of subterfuge. My character is in shreds —all to compass the sight of you for five minutes once in six hours or so. Pray sit down! That attitude of premeditated flight is very pretty, but it makes me horribly nervous.” “I am restless with all these troubles; I can’t sit down,” pleaded Faith. “The troubles will go on without us. Why waste time? Is there any new thing that you are alleging against me, Faith, dear?” "There could not be anything against you except that I do not. know you; yet I know you far too well.” “Too well to draw back now and say you do not know me. How is it possible for two persons to know each other better? Have we not been under fire together? Have we not lookedi in the face that which you Insist on calling your disgrace? Have you not forgiven mean offense you do not even know the name of? At this moment we may both be in danger; and whether the crisis shall bring us toget her or force us apart, what do we know? Only these few moments are our own. Is there any other thing for us to try except happiness?" “Can we say: ‘Let there be happiness,’ in the midst of all this trouble and fear?” “I can, if you will only give me the chance.” “It is too sudden and too strange. My father does not even know all that happened on Tuesday night, or how it happened—unless Abby has told him; and mercy knows what she has told!" “I don’t quite understand' how that can be." "It was simple enough,” said Faith bitterly. “He was incapable of listening to anything I could say to him till Wednesday evening, if he was then. He always avoids me when—after —well, Abby waited on him, and I think she went to Gem partly to look after him.” “Has not the doctor seen him?” “I do not speak of my father to the doctor. He knowsmore than Ido about him. I have no doubt he is keeping an eye on him, and I am afraid he needs it. He is much worried about the trouble, and I think he wishes to keep out of it as much as possible—” “Then he had better keep out of Gem.” “I don’t believe it makes much difference where he is, in his present condition. Don’t let us talk about it.” “Come to me! Why do you take your troubles as far away from me as you ean? Only a little while ago you said you had not been so happy since you came to the mine. Was that because you were upstair" all by yourself?” “Partly; it is so niee to feci I can roam about the house and not meet Abby anywhere, and there is such a heavenly view of the mountains from my window.” “I wish I were a mountain; would you come to me, or should I have to go to you? I think I should ‘get a move on.’ if you were anywhere in sight.” “I will ask you once more not to take for granted a certain fact until it is a fact. We are not on such terms as you constantly assume. If anything should happen it will only make it harder—” “No. If anything should happen, so much would be saved from overwhelming loss and pain. That’s the way I look at it. Perhaps I look at it selfishly.” Faith did not deny that he did; but there were matters that seemed- to weigh upon, her more pressingly than Darcie’s selfishness. “My father will ask if you have spoken to me; you will not like to say that you have —without a word to him.” “How can I speak to him when he is at Gem? But, seriously, lam not yet in a suitable position to speak. In the first place, I am a damaged article, and it’s supposed that I owe my injuries to men in his employ, or to friends of those men. The situation is awakward for us both. In point of fact lam a wounded prisoner within the enemy’s lines. When my arm is well, when martial law

is out, and these bragging bullies have had their combs cut. I shall be in a better position to ask for what I want. A treaty on the basis of such pretensions as mine wouldi be rather absurd just now.” . , . "That sounds very sensible; it's just what I think.” “But, in the meantime, why so much thinking? Why not be ourselves, since the main thing is settled ?” “Is there no other thing in the way —not anything at all? You spoke of my forgiving — something without knowing what it was. Will you not tell me now what it was that you spoke of?” “It is all past, history; 1 told you li should get out of the fix I was in; and I did —I have.” “But what was it?” “Dearest, I cannot tell you. The matter is confidential, and it relates to business which is not. my own. Ihe position it placed me in became insupportable from the moment I saw you, and I resigned my part in it; but having done so, I cannot now give it away.” : "I do not like mysteries. I have told ■ you everything about myself, even to my silliest dreams and fancies.” “This is no dream, my darling; it is j serious business, and it is not my own. 1 Any trust is serious, and though I took this one on me rather lightly it is not : lightly that I give it up; and if I should j now betray it” — “To tell it to me. merely to satisfy j a shade of doubt about yourself, is not I betraying. I don’t care in the about their business. I should forget j it all as soon as I knew about your part! in it.” "I have no longer any part in it, and I cannot give away a confidential trust the moment I resign it. You cannot ask me to do that.” [TO BR CONTINUED.] --1 Was Weak, Nervous and Run Down.’’ I want to testify to the good Brown’s Cure has done me. I was weak, nervous and run down in vitality when I commenced taking it; it has done everything for me and I am now a new being. A number of my friends also speak with gratitude of the good your medicine has done them it is indeed a grand remedy. Yours Gratefully. Mrs. L. V. Criig, 907 Mass. Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. Such is the testimony of thousands concerning Brown’s Cure, a Perfect Family medicine, the best remedy known for the liver, kidneys and bowels, a pcsitive cure for dyspepsia and all bowel troubles, sick headache, nervousness, constipation and loss of sleep. If you suffer try this great remedy and find health and happiness. Sold by Page Blackburn. Price 75 cents. Yi-Ki cures coms and warts 15c. Educate Y°ur Boweli With Cascarcta. rnn-ly Cathartic, cure constipation forever 10c. A St. Louts man returned a marriage license he obtained a few weeks ago with this notation on the back: “I am too poor to get married. Will try again later on. ” His fiancee, who confesses to 89 years, says $1 is sufficient money with which to get married, but he insists that $l5O is necessary.

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