The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 20, 1902, Page 6

SLES Ee AROG Ht tetera waitin | oe AT THELAST MOMENT. r apartment, before the . shad- dusky There had been ves and corners ale 2 shower, and the ivy. which had for five years climbed unchecked about the north gable, now, w ed down b t over the bay window. On * blossoming rosebud he panes, with one sin- pale blossoms drop- teele sat in the green mor- roceo library chair, whieh had been % ¢ his uncle's, gazing around the once familiar room Nothing was changed urs he had) been away tire- of e great bay window the old-fashioned pilioe, the eleave with the —tttst and the rose And here back to the ast time when he had stood in that with its r ivy bretel drooping across it Gilbert's thoughts went low and gathered roses How vividly it all came back to wi him! [It was just there, to the left, | that Lillian had stood, with the min- wled lamplight and moonlight gleam- ing on her golden hair, and lighting up her pure face, A graceful girl, fair and slender asa lily, dressed in white, and with no ornament, until he had plucked a cluster of those roses and placed them in her hair, He remembered the act and the blush which his whispered words had calien into her cheeks, And then sud- denly had come the rustle of silk and a gleam of jewels, and Miss Lester had fascinated him with her superb beauty, and had led him off to the waltz with scarcely a word of apolo- wy to Lillian. She was only a poor clergyman’s “daughter, accompanying her invalid mother to the neighborhood for the sake of its healthfulness, and there was no necessity for a brilliant belle, such as lsabel Lester, to stand on ceremony with her. Alas for Gilbert's first) pure love under the influence of this new en- chantment. He thought now of how she had kept him beside her through- out the evening—had carried him away nextday to the gayeties of town, and there held him a captive to her arts, when suddenly the spell was by her rejecting his offered hand for that of an old infirm man, whose only recommendation was wealth that far exceeded his own. Then his eyes had been opened—he had seen his idol of clay—and, witha bitter regret and remorse, his heart went buck to his old love. At first shame had withheld him, but when he could no longer restrain himself he wrote to Lillian. The letter was returned unopened, Pheumalism The liniment bottle and flannel strip are familiar objects in nearly every household. They are the weapons that have been used for generations to fight old Rheumatism, and are about as effective in the battle with this giant disease as the blunderbuss of our forefathers would be inmodern_warfaree Rheumatism is caused by an acid, sour It is filled with « | in the joints, muscles and nerves, and condition of the blood. rid, irritating matter that settles nts and oils nor nothing ! else applied externally can dislodge these gritty . corrodi ig particles. They | were deposited there by the blood and can be reached only through the blood. | Rubbing with liniments sometimes relieve temporarily the aches and pains, but these are only symptoms which are liable to return with every | change of the weather; the real disease lies deeper, the blood and system | are infected. Rheumatism cannot be radically and permanently cured | until the blood has been purified, and no remedy does this so thoroughly | and promptly as S. S. S. SSS exhilarating tonic | and its treatment, | vAPITAL, $75,000. pO WARREN OS NAR eet = THE BATES COUNTY BANK, BuTLERNR, MO. Suocessor to BATES COUNTY NATIONAL B NB KeraBisuxn Daw. + It neutralizes the acids and sends a stream of rich, strong blood to the affected parts, which dissolves and washes out all foreign materials and the sufferer obtains happy relief from the torturing pains. S. S. S. contains no potash or other mineral, but is a perfect vegetable blood purifier and most Our physicians will advise, without charge, all who | | write about their case, and we wiN send free our special book on Rheumatism THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga. we OI PRI RABBLE RRR SE RE ee *. 2. TYGARD, HON.J. B. NEWSEBRY, J. C.OLARB | President. Vice-Pres't Cashier An tne mene me - ISTO, A General Banking Business Transacted Bates County Investment Co., : (BUTLER, MO.: Capital, « papers drawn, RAP PIP PIPE 850,000. } Money to loan on real estate, at low rates. Abstracts of title to all lands and town lots in Bates county. Choice securities always on hand and forsale, Abstracts of title furnished, titles examined and all kinds of real estate t F. J. Tyoanp, Hon. J, B, NEwaenny, ™.C Cuarx, President, Vice-President. Seo’y. & ‘Treas. ! Jno. C, Harzs, Abstractor. 8. F. Warnocn, Notary ( ¥ i SO RRRRARLR RR REPEL RP PR REPRE LPP RRLLE PEEL RAL ARP PP RP RABRIOO more mature in womanly loveliness than five years ago. Gilbert threw open the window, “Lillian!” he exclaimed, breathless- ly, almost doubting the reality of the apparition. She colored up to her temples, “Mr, Steele! I did not know—I had not heard of your being here.” The coldness of her tone recalled him to himself, “L arrived only this morning. I have had no time to make inquiries and was as ignorant of your presence in Easteliff as you of mine.” “And you think, doubtless, that I have taken liberties in trespassing on your premises,” she answered with asmile. “But, returning from a walk the rain overtook me, and I ventured “Miss Ashley,” he said, with some hesitation. “I promised you some roses. May I bring them?” She raised her eyes suddenly and colored, “Perhaps you do not know. Iam not now Miss Ashley, but Lillian Waring.’* His heart, but a moment before so bright with a newborn hope, now sank like lead; but he answered qui- etly: “No; I had not heard of your mar- riage.” And then he found himeelf standing alone in the street, gazing vacantly on the door which has closed upon} Lillian, and all his newly awakened dreams of happiness. A woman, with a basket on her to cross these grounds, as a short; Tm, stopped at the gate and looked cut to the village.” Was this all? She made no allusion to the rose which she held carelessly with the information_that—Mrs,Ash-[in her fingers. ley and her daughter had left East- cliff He subsequent ly succeeded in trae- ing them, but only to again lose sight of them. Mrs. Ashley was dead and her daughter had gone abroad as E Since then five years had passed, and after many wanderings in dis- tant which either business or pleasure had called him, Gilbert Steele found himself again in his old home, in’ the ancient manor house which, by his uncle's. death, had become his own. His sister and his young cousins, whose presence had once brightened it, were married and gone to new homes of their own; and Gilbert as he sut alone inthe library, on this ‘October evening, felt the loneliness very oppressive. In the adjoining apartment a bright fire blazed, and a cosy repast awaited the appearance of “the mas- More than onee the o'd butler and the motherly housekeeper had ven- tured to peep in and remind him of the fact; but, buried in a melancholy reverie, he had again forgotten the summons, and sat there, watching glish governess. countries, to “You willallow me to see you home through the gloaming,”’ he said, as she gathered up her dress from the wet weeds. : So they walked again along the pathway where they had lingered to- gether on happy moonlight nights long ago. So sudden and unexpected was the situation that Gilbert, atleast, could scarcely realize it. It required a strong effort to keep down his feel- ings and to speak in the cold, con- ventional tone which she had assum- ed. He could not blame her for forget- ting or ignoring the past. Had he not deserved it, by his weakness and folly? Yet, upon looking upon her now, in her fair and graceful young wo- manheod, he realized more than ever what he had lost. “T understood, long ago, that you had left Easteliff,” he remarked. “Yes, and returned only some weeks ago. My sister's health required a change of air, and, remembering how my dear mother had been benefitted by this place, we came hither.” He put aside a laurel branch which dropped over his pathway. Buta the swinging ivy boughs, and the|*¥ig swept rudely across Lillian’s pale rose nodding on its stem, in the hand and tore away the petals ofthe deepening twilight. Suddenly the ivy branches were swept aside, A delicate white hand reached up and drew down the rose- bush, and when it sprang to its for- mer position the pale, pink blossom was gone. Gilbert arose and stepped to the window. Could he be dreaming? \ woman's form stood amid the wet weeds without, and a fair sweet fare looked up at him with startled. It had not the fresh, girlish look that he renembered; but still it was Lillian’s face—graver, sweeter and rose which she held. “The last of the summer roses,” {she said, dropping the leafless stem. “Not so, there are still buds left upon the branch. Let me replace | this with a fresher blossom.” She made no answer. They walked ‘quietly along the lane, which now ‘emerged into the village street. ! “Laura will wonderat my being so ‘late,” Lillian said, as she paused at a little wicker gate in front of a pret- ty, vine covered cottage. She did not‘invite him to enter; she only thanked him for his escort and paused for his adieu.. But he linger- ed. , } at him curiously. _ “Is it Mr. Waring that you're want- ing, sir?” she inquired, respectfully. “No,-he-answered-abruptly, And the servant passed in and closed the gate after her. A light shone suddenly from the lower windows, where until now it had been dark. The curtains were not drawn, and from his position outside the garden paling, Gilbert had a view within. He saw Lillian take off her hat, and standing in front of the fire with her hand resting upon the lew man- tlepiece, gaze dreamily downward. It was the attitude he remembered of old; and the light lit up — her face and golden huir as on that evening in the bay window, when he had last seen her. A door opened, and she turned quickly. There entered a handsome, dignified gentleman, with papers in his hand. He smiled on seeing her, and she pushed toward him an easy chair, and turned to the windows to draw the curtains. Gilbert Steele, with one lingering look at the face which he felt that he must never look upon again, turned away and retraced his steps to his solitary home. * * * * Days passed. The old housekeeper and servants, who hud been congrat- ulating themselves on their young master having come home “for | good,” were surprised to find that he was again making preparations for going abroad. If he would only stay and settle down and get married, he would be happier, they said. It wasaday of Indian summer when he started for a last, solitary stroll about his grounds. Instinct- ively his footsteps led into the path which he and Lillian had traversed together; but on leaving the village above the walls. In one of these gardens, as he idly passed along, Gilbert heard the mer- ry voices of children. Suddenly i the midst came a note of distress. “Mamma, mamma! I can’t down—I can’t move! My caught on an apple thorn.” Gilbert looked up. Seated ona low branch of a tree, in great terror a get hair is boy, who, him, eagerly: on seeing called ; WHAT IS HOME WITHOUT A BOTTLE OF DR. TICHENOR’S ANTISETIC. Palmyra, Mo., Sept. 28th, 1899.— I received a sample of Dr. Tichnor’s Antiseptic by mail some months ago and found it all right for bruises and cuts. So well pleased that I bought Elsberry, Mo., Sept. 35, 1899. Having tried Dr. Tichenor’s Antisep tic for cuts, burns, bruises, sore eyes, and in a case of cholera morbuS I | can recommend it as a splendid rem- : : more and expect to keep it_on hand | edy in such cases.—H.H. Ashbangh and distress; was a_fair-hatred little for family use.—J. R. Palmer. Edina, Mo., Sept. 5, 1899.—We had {occasion to try Dr. Tichenor’s Anti- | Hickory Barrenn, Mo., Sept 8th | 1899.—Have tried Dr. Tichenor’s An- | tiseptic for spider bites, toothache, “Oh, please help me down! Please septic for cuts and burns and found | burns, etc., and can recommend it as open the gate and help me.” ' The gate was instantly opened, & and, as Gilbert hastened to the as- | sistance of the child he found himself face to face with Lillian It was no difficult: task to break | the twigs ou which the child’s long jeurls had been caught, and to lift }him tothe ground. Deftly Lillian | Untangled the golden mesh. “Now, thank Mr. Steele, you little | Absalom!” she said, playfully, “and ‘don't again venture to climb trees ~ Juntil that golden fleece of yours is shorn,” “1 will go and tell mamma!” said the child, and off she ran _ So Gilbert again found himself in the presence of her whom he had re: solved for his own peace of mind, never to see again, “L think T must bid you adieu here, Mrs, Waring,” he said quietly, “1 leave to-morrow for the continent,” “Lalso leave to-morrow,” she an- swered, in a voice as calm as his own “for home.” He held out his hand, but whenshe gave hers his fingers closed onit with a firm, strong clasp. She looked up, and her eyes, moist with tears, met his. That glance un- manned him, Bi ‘Lillian,” he said, passionately, “I would give half of my life to undo the past five years,” Some one coming down the garden walk called: “Lillian! where are you?” “It is your husband,” said Gilbert, bitterly, as he caught sight of the gentleman approaching. There, go —and good-bye.” But she looked up with a gaze of surprise which arrested him. “My husband!” A deep color flush- ed her cheeks as sheadded: “My hus- band died two years ago.” She could almost hear the great throb of his heart. “And you, Lillian—are you free?” The gentleman—the same that he had seen through the parlor window —now came up and Lillian introdue- ed them. “My brother-in-law, Mr. Waring Guy, this gentleman is an old friend of mine—Mr. Steele, of Lester Manor.” Gilbert shook hands with an un- wonted cordiality, which at once made the two fastfriends. Itis won- derful how sudden, upon occasions ‘our feelings will change toward a person. He learned that evening how Lil- lian had been induced, by the advice of friends, and her own pride and de- spair in losing Gilbert’s love, as she thought, to wed one who loved her, aud one whom she tried to love in return—the brother of her sister’s husband. But she had never been able to forget her first love. Gilbert Steele did not go abroad. New arrangements were made. The old manor house avsumed a_ bright and cheerful aspect, and the last rose that blossomed on the bough before the library window was worn on the breast of Gilbert’s bride. “I want you to wear it, dear,” he said. “I wish you to look as you did on that evening so long ago, and we will forget all the unhappy years since.” And she, looking up, said, with almost an expression of awe: “Had we parted a moment earlier, Gilbert, we might both have been un- happy forever. Our fate turned upen that last moment.” The Plague Killing 1,000 a Day. London, Feb. 14.—A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company from Lahore says that under the new regime of non-intervention the plague is ravaging the Punjaub and a thou- sand deaths are occurring daily. aa Excursions to San Francisco and Los Angeles, Tickets on sale April 22 to 27, it the best remedy ever used for that purpose.—John McCarren Palmyra, Mo., July 20th, 1899.— | We have tried Dr. Tichenor’s Anti- ‘septic and find it a mighty good | thuig to have about the house.—Ed, | Marion Co, Herald. your opportunity to secure a cheap “IT 1S IGNORAN ae Senator Hanna Objects. ed here that Senator and Mrs, Han- gagement of Miss Mabel Hanna to Harry A. Parsons, of Cleveland. Ac- cording to Miss Mabel her parents at ding. will take place in the early spring. Friends of the senator say that he opposes the marriage be- cause of Miss Mabel’s delicate health. 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Notice is hereby given that letters of admin- jon, upou the satate of samsee Wo Aches, deceased, have been granted to the undersign- ed, by the Bates county probate court, in Bates county, Mi date the nth the date of said letters, ded from any dened of uf if said claims be not exhibi' may be such estate: — returning to June 25th, 1909, | within two years from the date of the publica- Rate of $45.00 for the round trip. On sale June 2nd and 7th, 1902, return limit July 31st, 1902. Rate of $45 for the round trip. On sale Aug. 3rd to 8th, 1902, good returning to Sept. 30th. Only he turned off _into_a retired lane, |445.00 forthe round trip: which ran between two rows of gar- dens bordering parallel streets. Soft 88 tufted the ground, and branch. Sot trees laden with fruits, appeared Only one change of cars between Butler and San Francisco and Los Angeles. For any further inf - tion, call on or ad iad E. C. 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CE THAT WASTES EFFORT.” TRAINED SERVANTS USE SAPOLIO Trustee's Sale Whereas, John Medger and Annle Hi his wife, by their d th, 1804, and recorded in the recorder’s office within and for Bates county, Missouri, in book 7 page 338, conveyed to the ed trus- tee, foliowing Uieacribed ‘real eatave lying and being situate in the county of Bates, state of Missouri, to-wit: The north half of the west half of lot two inthe northwest quarter of section feur (4) the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section eight (8) and six (6) acres off of the north end of the southwest quarter of the north east quarter of section eight (8) all in township ry (40) of thirty-two (82), Ferg | in all sixty-six (68) acres more or less whi conveyance was made in trust to secure the payment of one certain note fully described in said deed of trust, and whereas, default has been made in the payment of said note and the same is now past due and unpaid. No therefore, at the request of the holder said note and \parseaat to the con ne of deed of trust I will proceed to sell bove acribed real estate at public vendue to the high- est bidder for cash at the east front door of the court house, same being the east front door of the opera house building at the southwest cor- ner of the public aquare, where the circuit court ig now held, in the city of Butler, county of Bates and state of Missouri, on Friday, March 7, 1902, between the hours of nine o’clock in the fore- noon and five o’clock in the afternoon of that day forthe purpose of satisfying said debt, in- terest and cost, CHARLES A. ALLEN, 15-4 Trustee, Notice of Dissolution. Notice is hereby given that the copartnershi, heretefore existing between Samuel Levy ani Silas W. Levy under the firm name of 8am Levy & Co. has this day been dissolved by mutual consent. Silas W. 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