CHAPTER XIX. Tt was all strange and bewildering, thought Peter. Tt was not like any­ thing he had ever connected In hla thoughts with Alix, yet It was all for her. The day was warm and still, and the little church was packed with ¡lowers and packed_wfth ¡wople. Worn en were crying, and men were crying too. rather to hla dazed surprise. The orgnn was straining through the warm, fragrant air, aud the old clergy­ man. whose venerable, leonine head. In Ita crown of snowy hair, I'eter coutd see clearly, spoke In a voice that sat thickened with tears. Strangers, or almost strangers, had been touching Peter'a hand respectfully, timidly, hud been praising Alix. She had been "good” to this one. “good" to that one, they told him; she had always been so “Interested" and »« “happy." Her* coffin was burled In flowers, many of them the plain flowers »lie loved, the gillies and stock and ver hens, and even the sweet, sober wall flowers that were somehow like her self, llut It was the roses that scented the whole world for Alix today, ami fresh creamy buds had been placed between the waxen fingers. And still that radiant look of triumphant love lingered on her quiet face, and still the faint ghost of u smile touched the once kindly and merry mouth. They said good-by to her at th» church, the villagers nnd old friends who had loved her, and Peter and two or three men alone followed her down along the winding road tlikt led to the old cemetery. Cherry waa hanging over the bedside of her hua- band, who still miraculously lingered through fonra of pain, hut ax I'eter. responsive to 4 touch on hla arm. crossed the Church porch ,to blindly enter the waiting motor car, he saw, •reet and grave, on the front neat, In his decent holiday black, and with hla felt hat held In his hands, Kow, claiming hla right to stand beside the grave of the mistress he hsd loved Harmful Mo ds or Fungi Should Be Destroyed Before Seeds Are Planted. MOST SOILS ARE UNSUITED A dvertising INTRODUCTION. Ninety-nine In a hundred persona. If aakt-d what they know about advertl» ing, will deny having any knowledge on the subject. And yet every man. woman and child wbo reads this paper Is a judge of the value of Its adver­ tisements. Unconsciously perhaps, i but nevertheless un absolutely Infal- I llble judge. The actual value of an advertise-1 merit Iles In Its'lnflucnce—its ability . to accomplish Its purpose, be it to sell | goods or to draw the reader into a store. If it does Its duty, it is a good ad­ vertisement ; If not. a poor one; aud the reader unwittingly determines which by Ids response or by bis indif­ ference. Just what governs his action may be of interest to our readers, and we have therefore arranged to publish a series of articles to show how the ap­ peal is built into an advertisement and how the successful merchant plans his advertising campaign to make It most effective. IVe belk-ve you will find this aeries of articles very interesting as well as Instructive* The next article will ap­ pear In an early Issue. To be sure ot obtaining b'*«tthy young plants for transplanting to the bone garden or elsewhere, treat the soli In the seed I h > x with boiling water a few days before planting. 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These signs of disease on the young plants, however, may not be noticed and still the trouble may be present on toe roots and de­ velop after the plants are set tn the garden. • To And out If diseases are present, always examine the roots of young plants before setting them out. If af­ fected by molds or fungi, dark dead patches may be seen on the roots and sometimes on the lower part of the •tews. ; PRUNINC WILL ! GET RESULTS Fruit Trees, Vines and Bushes, as Well as Flowering Shrubbery, Require Trimming. Fruit trees, fruit vines and bushes, as well as flowering bushes, require careful pruning to get the best resulti —fruit and flowers. There Is some difference of opinion as to whether the pruning should be done In the fall or In the early spring. D^iplte the argument as to toe time, the pruning Is absolutely necessary If crops are to be the best possible un der weather, soil or other conditions that may prevail In any particular lo­ cality. In pruning fruit or flowering trees and vines It la well for the one who wields the pruning knife to know just how to do the work. One not sc- qualated wtth the operation would best poet up on the task before one seriously wounds the trees or vines. It Is not a difficult task, but one that Is ss necessary Meh year as cultiva­ tion—for crops cannot be expected un­ less the proper attention is given. “HOr* THE PLANTS IN FLATS Th« small spikellk« plants that hava just com« through th« soil In th« fiats in th« basement requlr« a little "hoo- Ing" occasionally. O«ntl« loosening of th« ground—not close «nough to In­ jure the tender roots—will ds th* plants good. Tt wak Inevitable, she Knew that now— (Continued next week.) but It was not to be this minute; It waa not to be this hoiffl He—Why are you women always "My dear—tny dear!" Peter said to her one day, when spent and shaken going to bargain sales in the hope she came stumbling from Martin'S bed­ of getting something for nothing? She—For the same reason you men Before thou enquire, blame no side and stood dazedly looking from the window Into the soaking October are always going to poker clubs. — man; and when thou hast enquired, forest. Tike a person stunned thorn a Washington Poet. reprove justly.—Ecclesiasticus. EXPERIENCED dressmaker sewing by day. 623-53. Grays Crossing Its AD Right or Your Money Bark - wishes! 9-4 tx WOOD FOR SALE, delivered any-! where; first class old growth; first* ’ class second growth. Phone 614-13. ’ L. B. Cooper. 26-tf FOR SALE—80 gravel, 6-room buildings, piped take a modern first payment. SSth street, cor. Gurreys Pharmacy acres, no rock or! house, barn, out-, water. $6000. Will 6-room house as J. N. Collins, 8808 57th avenue. WANTED—Men or women to take orders for genuine guaranteed; hosiery, for men, women and chil­ dren. Eliminates darning. $40.001 a week full time, $1.00 an hour, spare time. Experience unneces­ sary. 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Two doctors, summoned from Ban Francisco, wereUmre, and two nurses Martin had been told upon a hastily meicd bed In the old study, to be spared the narrow stairs. The room waa metamorphosed, the whole house moved about It as about a pivot, and there waa no thought but for the man wbo Jay, aoiiirtime* moaning and some times ominously still,' waiting/ for death. "He cannot live I” whispered Cherry ghastly of face, and with the utter chaoa of her soul ami brain sxpresssd by her tumbled frock and the careless ly pushed bark and knotted masses of her hair. “Hla arm la broken. Peter, and Jits leg crushed—they don’t dure touch him I And the surgeon says the spine, too -and you see hla head! Oh. God! It la so terrible," she said In agony, through shut teeth, knotting her hands together; “It Is too terrible that he la breathing now. that life In there now, and that they cannot hold It!" She led Peter Into the sitting room, where the doctors were waiting. "la there any hope?" be asked, when t’herry had gone away on one of the rest less, uniieceaaary journeys with which she wan filling the endless hours. One man shook hla head, and In the silence they heard Martin groan. “Tt la possible he may weather It of course." the older mtn said doubt fully. “He la coming out of that first stupor, and we may be nble to tell bet ter In a short time. The fart that he la living nt all indicates a tremendous vitality." Cherry mine to the door to say "Doctor!" on a burst of tears. The physicians departed at once to the study, and Peter was Immediately sum moncd to assist them In handling the big frame of the patient. Martin was thoroughly conscious now; hla face chalk white Cherry, agonized, knelt beside the bed. her frightened eyes moving from fnre to face. There wan a brief consultation, then Cherry and Peter were banished. 'Peter watched her with a confused venae that the whole frightful day had been a dream Once ahe looked np and met hla eyes. , “Ho can't live.” she aald In a whis­ per. “Perhaps not," Peter answered [ very low. Cherry returned to her aom , her musing. "We didn’t see this end to It. did we?" she said with a pitiful smfie after a long while. “Oh. no—no!" Peter sold, shutting hla eyes and with a faint, negative movement of hla head. "Poor Cherry—If I "“could spare you all this!” knotting hla fingers and feel­ ing foj the first time the prick of bit­ ter tears against hla eyelids. “Oh. there la nothing you can do,” she said faintly and wearily after a while. And ahe whispered, as If to herself. “Nothing—nothing—nothing I" n » (Continad from las' weel ) “Thank y<»u. Fred," I’eter answered after ■ moment. 'Tliank you. Will you help m* titke—my—wife—homeF- “You wleh II that way?" the oilier num «ml anxiously, "I’leaae,” Peter answered »Imply Atul instantly there waa moving end clearing In the crowd. ■ murmuring of whispered dirvt-tlons. After ■ while they were at the moun­ tain cnbln. anil Kow, with trara run nlug down hla yellow fare, waa helping them. Then they went into the old liv­ ing rwuu. and Alix waa lying there, splendid, awvet. untouched, with her brave, brown forehead shadowed soft ly by her brown hair, and her lashes resting upon her cheeks, and her tin gers riasprd about the stems of three great, creamy r»»ea. There were other flowers all about, and there were women In ths mom. ■ White draperies fell with sweeping tinea from the merciful veiling of the crushed figure, and Alix might have been only asleep, and dreaming some heroic dream that lent that secret pride and Joy to her mouth and filled those closed eyes with a triumph they bad never known In life. Peter stood and looked down at her , and the men and women drew back. ‘ Rut although the muscles of his mouth twitched, he did not weep. He looked tong at her. while an utter alienee filled the room and while twilight deepened Into dark over the eahtn and over the mountain above It. "So that waa your way out, AlIxY' Peter aald In the depth of hla soul. “That was your solution for us alii Ton would go out of life, away from the sunshine and the trees and the hills that you loved, so that Cherry and I should by saved? I wan blind I not to see It. I have been blind from the very beginning." Silence. The room was titling with shadows. On the mantel waa a deep bowl of roses that he remembered I watching her cut—waa It yesterday or centuries »got "I was wrong." he said “Rut 1 think you would be sorry to have me face—what I am facing now. You were alwaya ao forgiving. Alix; you would be the first to be aorry." He put hla band over the tigerish pain that was beginning to reach hla heart. Hla throat felt thick and choked, and at 111 be did not cry. “An hour ago," he aald, “If It had been that the least thought of what thio meant to you might have reached me an hour ago. It would not have been too lale. Alix, one look Into your eyes an hour ago might have saved nn all! Fr*d." Peter said aloud, with a bitter groan, clinching tight the hand» of the old friend who had crept to to'sland liealde him, “Fred, she was here. In all her health and Joy and! strength only today. Ami now—” “1 know—ohl man—” the other man ' muttered. He looked anxiously at 1*0 ' ter’a terrible face. In the silence the dog whimpered faintly. But when Te­ ter, after un endless five minutes, turned away, It was tu spoilk to hla friend In an almost normal voice. "1 must go down ami see t'herry, Fred. look her husband to tlte aid house, they were living there.” “Helen will stay here,-- the old man ! assured hlui quickly. “I'll drive you i down and come back here. We thought perhaps n few of us could come here tomorrow afternoon, Peter,” be added timidly, with Ills reddened eyes filllug again, "and talk of her a little, and pray for Tier st little, aud then take her to—to vest beside the old doc- tor—“ "I hadn't thought about that,” Teter answered, still with the air of finding it bard to link words to thought. “But that la the way she would like It. Thank you—and thark Helen for ‘ mfr~ “Oh, Teter, to do anything—” the woman faltered. “She came to us, you know, when the baby was so III—day after day—my own slater couldn’t have been more to us!” “Did she?-- Teter asked, staring at the speaker steadily. "That was like her." He went out of the bouse and got Into a waiting car, and they drove down the mountain. Alix had driven him over this road day before yester­ day—yesterday—no, It was today, he remembered. “Thank (tod I don’t feel It yet aa 1 shall feel It, Thompson 1“ he aald quietly. The man who waa driving gave him an anxious glance. “You muat take each day aa tt cornea,” be answered simply. Peter nodded, folded hla arms across bls cheat, and stared Into ths earl? dark. There waa no othef way to go than past the very spot where the hor­ ror had occurred, but Thompson told his wife later that poor Joyce had not seemed to know It when_they passed It Nor did he give any evidence of emotion when they reached the old Btrlckland house and entered the old hallway where Cherry bad come nylng In, a few short years ajo, with Mar nnd wervvd so faithfully. The sight of him. In bls clumsy black, Instead ot the usual crisp while, and with a sad and tear-stained (aook ery waa still slight, but that In case aa he Crossed from the truiu, but she of his convalescence Martin need not would fling it into the buck seut and necessarily suffer. Another day or two went by In the make room for Idm beside her. The dog would bound Into the tonneau, silent, rain-wrapped house under the Alix would bund lier bgsl.and hla tree«; days of quiet footsteps and mall, the car would start with a great whls|>ertng. and the lisping of wood plunge toward the mountain—toward fires. Then Mnrtln suddenly was con­ the cool garden high up on the ridge— scious, knew his life, languidly smiled at her. thanked the doctors for oc­ Cherry looked small and pathetic In casional ease from pain. “Peter—I’m sorry. It-» terrible for her fresh black, aud her face" was marked by secret Incessant weeping. yon—terrible!" he said In his new. But the nurses and doctors could uot hoarse, gentle voice, when he first saw *ay enough for her self-coutrul; she Peter. They marveled among them­ was alwaya com|H>scd, always quietly selves that he knew that Alix was helpful and calm when they saw her, gone. Rut to Cherry, In one of the and she was alwaya busy. From early long hours that «he spent sitting be­ morning, when ahe slipped into the side him and holding his big, weak, strangely white hand, he explained sick-room, to stand looking nt the un conscious Martin with a troubled, In­ one day. “I knew she w as killed,” he tent expression that the nurses came said, out of a silence. “I thought we to know well, until night, she moved both were!" “How did she ever happen to do It?" untiringly about the quiet, shade!! house. She su|>ervlsed the Chinese Cherry said. "She was always so sure boy. saw that the nurses had their of herself—even when she drove fast!" hours for rest and exercise, telephoned, "I don't know,” he answered. ~“It dusted nnd arranged the rooms, saw was all like a flash, of course! I callers sweetly and patiently, tUled never watched her drive—I had such vases with flower». confidence In her!" Every day she had several vigils In His Interest dropped; she saw that the sick-room, and every day at least the tide of pain was slowly rising one long talk with the doctors. Every again, and «lanced at the clock. It afternoon nnd evening had Its callers; was two; he might not have relief she and I’eter were rarely alone. Martin was utterly unconscious of until four. In his own eyes she saw the life that flowed on almut him; reflected the apprehension of her own. “You might ask I’eter to play some sometimes he seemed to recognize Cherry, and would stare with pulnfnl of that—that ratnbly stuff he was Intenmess into her face, but after a playing yesterday T' he suggested. few seconds his gaze would wander Chqjry, only too happy to have hlin to the strange nurses, and the room want anything, to have him helped by that lie had never known, and with anything, flew to find fieter. Busy a puzzled sigh he would close Ids eyes wtth one of tie trays that were really agnln, and drift back Into his own beginning to Interest and please the strange world of pain, fever and un­ Invalid now, she told herself that the bouse was a different place, now that consciousness. Almost every day there was the one nurse wfik gone, the doctors com­ sudden summons and panic In the old ing only for brief calls, and the dear, house, I’eter going townrd the sick­ faptlllar sound of the old piano echo­ room with a thick beating at his heart. ing through the rooms. Martin came from the fiery furr.ace Cherry entering, white-faced and with terrified eyes, doctors and nurses gath­ Changed In soul and body. It was a thin, gentle, Mrangely patient man ering noiselessly near for the last scene In the drama of Martin's suffer­ who was propped In bed for hla Thanksgiving dinner, and whose pain- ing. Rut the release did not come. There would be murmuring a Hi on g worn face turned with an appreciative the doctors nnd nurswa; the pulse was smile to the decorations and the gifts gaining, not losing, the apparently that made his room cheerful. The heavy Cloud lightened slowly fatal, final symptoms were proving neither fatal nor final. The tension but steadily; Martin had a long talk, would relax; a doctor would go. a dreaded by Cherry from the first hours nurse slip from the room; Cherry, of the accident, with bls physicians. looking anxiously from one face to He bore the ultimatum with unex- fortltude. another, would hrefithe more easily. To which Jim Burdette, res- • Millinery about March I. Mr». • • Richardson, 6004 88th street. 8-1t-x • ponded: • “Yes, but that one man beat • FOR SALE —Clifton steel, wrod- • me by one-tenth of one per cent. * buming range. Piping, coils, lids, • He received one per cent on ten * all complete. Mathes Market. 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