The daily Alaskan., 1914-05-15

|
 bsr a gentle liver and bowel cleans
 ing should always be the first treat ment g!veu.
 Nothing equals "Purola Syrup
 My dear Mir Twigg, would you per form a most interesting service for
 me? Of course | shall wear a white flower in my cout-aucm. Tm not afraid-no, siree! |. Ananias, take 1 tHee, Elm Bevis-nO; that's not right 1 Em-Em - Emma-or Emmaiue-ah" l MT. Slime resUrtud to snoring once l more, and the widow, now thoroughly awake to the perddy of her star goard-
 CT. sat up in bed and fell 10 planning.
 When the Widow EoweII fe.. to p.an- ning-welI, things usually happened. For an entire week she watched and waited and listened and paeaed and
 pried. and when Thursday evening drew around she was possessed in | some mysterious manner of most of the details oC tue approaching eIoDe- ment. She knew that Hep Riddles buggy had been engaged and that Hep was fo harness the sorr2I horse, ale
 though Hep Riddle himself didn't know what Auanias Slime wanted tJdo
 with a buggy.
 By Thursday evening ArauiaS Sine
 was shiycriug with nervous dread. He l had a feeling that in some way or oJh- CT his elOpemcut would be frustrated Time and again he had found the Wid- ow Rowelps wits could OUtm9tch his own, but so far as he knew not a son.
 was aware of the approaching mar l riage save the prospective bride, the
 minister and himself.
 Ananias ate scarcely any supper, 0l- though Mrs. Powell had prepared his l favorlte dish of oyster stew. She sat opposite him and bliuked her eyes at 1 him until he guIped down a huge cup
 of scaIding hot tea and boted away ] from the table.
 Little dear"' murmured the widow
 with a strange smile on her face. Ananias locked himself into his room and made an elaborate if hasty toilet l After many maneuycrs be let himself
 out and managed to escape by the back hall door. There was no sign of the widow. and he hoped she hal gone to
 call upon one of her cronies. It would
 be iIl luck indeed iG she had taken 1t l Into her head to call upon Em Bpvis | though the two rivals were not the ! best of friends since Auanias came be- l tween them.
 l Still, the Widow Powell was apt to | do the most bafIing things. 1 Anaaias buried to Riddles stables and climbed Into the buggy which ! grinnlng negro had prepared for him. | Be drove rapidly out of the yard, ua1r- ] Iy losing a wheel iu the turn, for he vas not a skNlfuI driver. Qulnce Hurbor folks are iuluisiure and prone to mind each others busi- ness to a most annoying degree; there 1 fore 1t had been decided that Em Be-
 vls was to wait for Ananias in WhiD-
 poOrwir lane by the brook. He would catch her up into the vehicle, and away
 they would go to Big Harbor.
 WhippOOrwilI lane was thera and so
 was Elm Bevis, for Auanias recognized
 the white veil she was to wear about her uncovered head.
 | He pressed her hand and received a ! tender pressure in return. After that l they rode in silence through the woods toward Big Harbor.
 At last they reached tue main street
 of Big Harbor, and the sorrel horse
 chose to gaIIop madly until Ananias, saving at the reins, managed tC bring
 him to a stop before the gate of the l parsonage.
 "Belay there." yelled the little eZ- sailor angrily just as the minister
 opened the front door and stepped into the porch to meet them.
 The prospective bride got out maid
 ed while AnQuias was tying the sOrrel horse and she was inside the house by the time Ananias had reached the gate. When Ananias Slime reached the par Tor, where stood the beamiug clergy man and his smiling wife and a couple
 of servants for witnesses, be stood tu the doorway 0ghast at the sight that met his amazed eyes. The bride was there-a bride was there, indeed. but not the one be had so carefully chosen! ! Standing there in the modest splundgr
 of a gray satin dress hurriedly gar nished with white lace and punches of artificial orange blossoms was tbe WidOw-ROwell
 Em Bevis was nowhere to be seen.
 Somehow he had been tricked by l the artful widow whom he had at first
 courted, only to leave when a better chance presented itself Surely reui- button was close upon the heels of | Ananias Slime.
 i've are waiting, Mir. Sine" remind ed Mir. Twigg. smiling benevOlenty. l Burpees Sweet AIyssum, Migu-
 onette and Cypress Plants at A. B. ] Greenhouse. 9th and Main St. See