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6 SYNOPSIS. George Perclval Algernon Jones, vice president of the Metropolitan Oriental Rug company of New York, thirsting for romance, Is In Cairo on a business trip. Horace Ryanne arrives at the hotel in Cairo with a carefully guarded bundle. Ryanne sells Jones the famous holy Yhl ordes rug which he admits having stolen from a pasha at Bagdad. Jones meets Major Callahan and later Is Introduced to Fortune Chedsoye by a woman to whom he had loaned 150 pounds at Monte Carlo "ome months previously, and who turns out to be Fortune's mother. Jones takes Mrs. Chedsoye and Fortune to a polo game. Fortune returns to Jones the money borrowed by her mother. Mrs. Chedsoye appears to be engaged In some v.irota.-l.n,,., nntflfnrUa lltlknOWn tO thfl Ul/OVCI iV/UO VUCWf/* <w daughter. CHAPTER VI.?(Continued.) Some one was sitting down beside him. It was Ryanne, in evening clothes. Immaculate, blase, pink cheeked. There are some men so hap pily framed that they can don ready made suits without calling your atten tion to the fact. George saw at once that the adventurer was one of these fortunate individuals. "Makes a rather good picture to look At: eh?" beean Ryanne. rolling a flake-tobacco cigarette. "t)ance?" "No. Wish I could. You've done quick work," with admiring inspection. "Not a flaw anywhere. How do you do it?" 'Thanks. Thanks to you, I might say. I did some tall hustling, though. Strange, how we love these funeral toggeries. We follow the dance and we follow the dead, with never a variation in color. The man who in vented the modern evening clothes must have done good business during the day as chief-mourner." "Why don't you send for your lug gage?" D Mo nVi 4 n M\Txr M/duuu vtfc&voowvi Uiu vutu. luggage is, I believe, In the hands of the enemy. It Is of no great Import ance. I never carry anything of value, save my skin. I'm not like the villain in the melodrama; no Incriminating documents, no lost wills, no directions for digging up pirates' gold." "I suppose you'll soon be ofT for America?" George asked indifferently. "I suppose so. By the way, I saw you at the game today." "No! Where were you?" "Top row. I am going tp *sk a favor of you. It may sound rather odd to your ears, but I know those two ladies rather well. I kept out of thq way till I could find some clothes. The favor I ask Is that you will not tell them anything regarding the cir cumstances of our meeting. I am known to them as a globe-trotter and a collector." "That's too bad," said George con "And You Aren't A tritely. "But I have already told them." "The devil you have!" Ryanne drop per his cigarette into the ash-tray. "If I remember rightly, you asked me to say nothing." . "I know," said George, visibly em barrassed. /'I forgot." "Well, the fat is in the fire. I dare spy that I can get round it. It was risky. Women like to talk. I expect every hour to hear of some one ar riving from Bagdad." "There's no boat from that direction till next week," Informed George, who was a stickler on time-tables. "There are other ways of getting into Egypt. Know anything about racing-camels?" "You don't believe . . . ?" "My friend, I believe in all things that haven't been proved impossible. You've been knocking about here long enough to know something of the tenacity of the Arab and the East In dian. Given a just cause, an idol's eye or a holy carpet, and they'll fol low you round the world ten times, if need be. I never worry needlessly, but I lay out before me all the points of the game. There is one man .11 Dag dad who will never cease to think of me. This fellow Is an Arab, Mahomed El-Gebel by name, the real article, proud and savage, into whose keeping j i the Holy Yhiordes was given; Ma homed-El-Gebel, the Pasha's right hand, a sheik In his own right." "But you haven't got the rug now." "No, Mr. Jones, I haven't; but on the other hand, you have. So, here we are together. When he gets tnrougn wun me, yum imu. George laughed. Ryanne grew thoughtful over this sign. Perclval Algernon did not seem exactly wor ried. "Aren't you a little afraid?" "I? Why should I be?" Inquired George Innocently. "Certainly/ what ever your Arab friend's arguments may be, moral or physical, I'm going to keep that Yhiordes." Was he bluffing? Ryanne wondered. Did he really have nerve? Well, within forty-eight hours there would come a test. "Say, do you know, I rather wish you'd been with me on that trip?that is, If you like a rough game." Ryanne said this In all sincerity. "I have never been in a rough game, as you call It; but I've orten naa a strong desire to be, Just to find out for myself what sort of a dufTer I am." Ryanne had met this sort of man be fore; the fellow who wanted to know what stufT he was made of, and was ready to risk his hide to find out His experience had taught him to expect nothing of the man who knew just what he was going to do in a crisis.' "Did you ever know, Mr. Jones," said Ryanne, his eyes humorous, "that there is an organization in this world of ours, a company that offers a try out to men of your kidney?" "What's that? What do you mean?" "What I say. There is an established concern which will, upon application for a liberal purchase of stock, ar range any kind of adventure you wish." "What?" 0?nree drew in his le^s and sat up. "What sort of a Jolly la this?" "You put your finger upon the one great obstacle. No one will believe that such a concern exists. Yet it Is a fact. And why not?" "Because it wouldn't be real; it would be going to the moon a la Coney Island." "Wrong, absolutely wrong. If I told you that I am a stockholder in this company, and that the adventure of the Yhiordes rug was arranged for my special benefit, what would you say!" "Say?" George turned a serious countenance toward the adventurer. "Why, the whole thin^ is absurd on the face of it. As a jofce, it might go; hut #? a eenuina affair, utterly imnos fraid to Admit It?" sounds absurd, yes; but ten years ago they'd have locked up, as insane, a man who said that he could fly. But think of last summer at Paris, at Rhelms, at Frankfort; the Continental air was full of flying-machines. Dah! It's pretty difficult to impress the av erage mind with something new. Why shouldn't we cater to the poetic, the romantic side of man? We've con cerns ior everytmng else, lne lact Is, mediocrity is always standing be hind the corner with brickbats for the initiative. Believe me or not, Mr. Jones, but this company exists. The proof is that you have the rug and 1 have the scars." "But in these prosaic times!" mur mured George, still skeptical. "Prosaic times!" sniffed Ryanne. "There's one of your brickbats. They swung it at the head of the first print er. Prosaic times! My friend, this is the most romantic and bewildering age humanity has yet seen. There's more romance and adventure going about on wheels and steel-bottoms than ever there was in the days of Drake and the Spanish galleons. There's an adventure lurking round the nearest corner?romance, too. What this organization does is to direct you; alter that you have to shift for your self. But, like o first-rate physical in structor, they never map out more Avifkor of HEAR Uio 7^ AN ON 1 Illustrations by -M COPYRIOHT 1911 by BOB* than a man can do. They gave me the rug. Your bones, on Buch a queBt, would have been bleaching upon the j banks of the Tigris." "What the deuce Is this company 1 called?" George was enjoying the con- 1 versatlon Immensely. 1 "The United Romance and Adven- ] ture company, Ltd., of London, Paris, 1 and New York." < "Have you any of the company's paper with you?" George repressed his laughter because Ryanne's face was serious enough. "Unfortunately, no. But if you will 1 give me your banker's address I'll be ] pleased to forward you the prospec tus." " 1 "Knauth, Nachod and Kuhne. I 1 am shortly leaving for home. Better 1 send it to New York. I say, suppose 1 o r*VIan Kuva an oHrontlirfl thflt Ifl Tint up to the mark; can be return it or ( exchange it for another?" "No. It's all chance, you know, i The rules of the game are steel bound. We find you an adventure; i it's up to you to make good." "But, once more suppose a chap gets i a little too rough a game, and doesn't ] turn up for his dividends; what then?" i "In that event," answered Ryanne ; sadly, "the stock reverts to the gen- ] eral fund." 1 George lay back in his chair and let 1 go his laughter. "You are mighty i good company, Mr. Ryanne." i "Well, well; we'll say nothing more about it. But a moment gone you i spoke as if you were game for an ex ploit." "I still am. But if I knew the ad venture was prearranged, as you say, and I was up against a wall, there would be the inclination to cable the firm for more instructions." Ryanne himself laughed this time. "That's a good idea. I don't believe i the company ever thought of such a Contingency. But I repeat, our busi ness is to give you the kick-ofT. After i that you have to fight for your own aowna. "The stock isn't listed?" again 1 laughing. I "Scarcely. One man tells another, as I tell you, and bo on." i "You send me the prospectus. I'm i rather curious to have a look at it." i "I certainly shall do so," replied Ryanne, with gravity unassumed. i "Ah! Here come Mrs. Chedsoye and i her daughter. If you don't mind, I'll i make myself scarce. I do not care to see them just now. after your hav- j ing told them about the stolen Yhiordes." "I'm sorry," said George, rising eagerly. "It's all In the game," gallantly. George saw him gracefully ma neuver his way round the crush to ward the stairs leading to the bar. Really, he would like to know more about this amiable free-lance. As the old fellows used to say, he little dreamed that destiny, one of those things from Pandora's box, was pre paring a deeper and more intimate acquaintance. "And what has been amusing you, Mr. Jones?" asked Mrs. Chedsoye. "I saw you laughing." "I was talking with the rug chap: He's a droll fellow. He said that he had met you somewhere, but con cluded not to renew the acquaintance, since I told him that his adventure In part was known to you." "That is foolish. I rather enjoy meeting men of his stamp. Don't you, Fortune?" "Sometimes," with a dry little smile. "I believe we have met him, mother. There was something fa miliar about his head. Of course, we saw him only from a distance." "I do not think there Is any real harm in him," said George. "What made me laugh was a singular propo 8itlon he set before me. He said he owned stock In a concern called 'The United Romance and Adventure com pany;' and that for a specified sum of money, one could have any adventure one pleased." "Did you ever hear of such a thing?" cried the mother merrily. For tune searched her face keenly. 'The United Romance and Adventure Com pany! He must have been joking. What did you say his name is?" "Ryanne. Joking is my idea exact ly," George agreed. "The scheme is to plunge the stockholder Into a real live adventure, and then let him pull himself out the best way he can. Sounds good. He added that this rug business was an instance of the suc cess of the concern. There goes the music. Do you dance, Miss Ched soye?" "A little." Fortune was preoccu- | pled. She was wondering what lay behind Mr. Ryanne's amiable Jest. "Go along, both of you," said Mrs. Chedsoye. "I am too old to danco. I prefer watching people." She sat x down and arranged herself comfort- ( ably. She was always arranging her- i self comfortably; it was one of the se- f crets of her perennial youth. She t was very lovely, but George had eyes for the daughter only. Mrn. Ched- c soye saw this, but was not In the least t chagrined. i "It is so many years since I tripped the light fantastic toe," George con- ? fessed, reluctantly and nervously, now E that he had bravely committed him- r self. "It is quite possible that the accent will be primarily upon the ' trip." c "Perhaps, then," replied the girl, f who truthfully was out of tune, "per haps I had better get my wraps and f we'll go outside. The night is glori- ? ous." MACGRATH rs m> msvs fHE BOX ctcs. >6 - MERRILL COMPA/SY She couldn't have suggested any thing more to his liking. And bo, after a little hurrying about, the two young people went outside and hegan to promenade slowly up and down the mole. Their conversation was desul tory. George had dropped back into his shell and the girl was not equal to the task of drawing him out. Once he stumbled over a sleeping beggar, and would have fallen had she not caught him by the arm. "Thanks. I'm clumsy." 'It's rather difficult to see them in the moonlight; their rags match the pavements." The Egyptian night, that sapphirine darkness which the flexible imagina tion peoples with lovely and terrible shades, or floods with mystery and ro mance and wonder, lay softly upon this 6trip of verdure aslant the des ert's face, the Valley of the Nile. The moon, round, brilliant, strangely near, Buffused the scarred old visage of the world with phantom silver; the stoneti of the parapet glowed dully, the pave ment glistened whitely, all things it touched with gentleness, lavishing beauty upon beauty, mellowing ugli ness or effacing It. The deep blue Nile, beribboned with the glancing lights from the silent feluccas, curling musically along the sides of the frost like dahabeahs and uteamers, rolled Dn to the sea; and the blue-white arc-lamps, spanning the Great Nile bridge, took the semblance of a pearl necklace. From time to time a cara van trooped acrosB :he bridge into Cairo. "Do you care for poetry, Mr. Jones?" "I? I used to write it" "And'you aren't afraid to admit it?" "Well, I shouldn't confess the deed to every one," he answered frankly. "We all write poetry at one time or another; but it's generally not consti tutional, and we recover." "I do not see why ary one should be ashamed of writing pcetry." * "Ah, but there is poetry and poetry. My kin* and Byron's -is born of kin dred souis; but he was an active genius, whereas, I wasn't even a pas sive one. In all great poets I find my own rejected thoughts, as Emerson says; and that's enough for my slen naA/1o T>nafa a tc, rflthor fortable chaps to have round. They are capricious, irritable, temperament al, selfish, and usually demand all the attention." The little vocal stream died up again, and once more they listened to the magic sounds of the night. She stopped abruptly to lock over the para pet, and his shoulder met hers; after that the world to him was never go Ing to be the ssame age in. Moonlight and poetry; not the safest channels to sail uncharted. The etfrl was lonely, and George was lone ly, too. His longing had now assumed a. definite form; hers raoved from this to that, still indefinitely. The quick ness with which this definition had come to George rather startled him. His first eight of Fortune Chedsoye had been but yesterday; yet, here he was, not desperately but consciously [n love "VFith her. Tho situation bore against all precepts; it ripped up his preconceived ideas of romance as a ;alo at sea shreds a canvas. He felt i bit panicky. He had always planned i courtship of a year or so, meetings, separations, and remeetings, pleasur able expectations, little junkets to the aters and country places; in brief, to witness the rose grow and unfold. Somewhere he had read or heard that :ourtship was the plummet which sounded the depths o! compatibility. He knew nothing of Fortune Ched soye, save that she was beautiful to lis eyes, and that she was as different from the ordinary run of girls as yon ier moon was from the stars. Again she stopped, leaning over the parapet and staring down at the wa :er swirling past the .stone embank nent. He did likewisu, resting upon lis folded arms. Suddenly his tongue jecame alive; and qiietly, without lesitancy or embarrassment, he began :o tell her o! his school life, his life it home. And the nunner in which le spoke of his mother warmed her; ind she was strangely and wonder ngly attracted. "Of course, the mother meant the jest in the world when she gave me Percival Algernon; and because she nnonf tVio haal T bava rornlv trloH tn * w u4 wv vi .vu wv j lide them. What was g ood enough for ' Salt Put to T # nvaluable to Mankind Though as a Condiment It Should Be Em ployed Sparingly. If food Is tasteless without salt, It Is uined with too much. Unappetizing looking is often due to guesswork. V level teaspoonful of salt is sufficient or a quart of soup, sauce, or vege ables. Salt used once a day is an excellent ientrifrice, tending to keep off tar ar. It is said to retard receding ;ums, A half teaspoonful of salt added to l cup of hot water?which many pcr ;ons take each morning?will make it )alatable. Do not garglo with salt water. Throat specialists consider it injuri jus to the tender mucous membrane if the nose. Salt water rots the hair, so never ail to rinse with fresh water after ;ea bathing. To set color in wash materials and her to give was good enough (or me to keep. It Is simply that I have been foolish about It, supersensitive. I should have laughed and accepted the thing as a joke; Instead, I made the fatal move of trying to run away and hide. But, taking the name in full," lightly, "it sounds as incongruous as playing Traumerei on a steam-piano." He expected her to laugh, but her heart waB too full of the old ache. This young man, kindly, gentle, Intel ligent, if shy, was a love-child. And she? An offspring, the loneliest of the lonely, the child that wasn't want ed. Many a time she had thought of flinging all to the winds, of running away and hiding where they never should find her, of working with her own hands for her bread and butter. Little they'd have cared. But always the rebel spirit died within her as she stepped outside the villa gates. To leave behind for unknown privations certain assured comforts, things of whl/'h cho txt o a fr\r\A +Vi 1 n ?n *ttV? I UUV "MO iUUUy lUllJ^D LU rvuiwil she was used, she couldn't do it, she just couldn't. Morally and physically Bhe was a little coward. "Let us go In," she said sharply. Another moment, and she would have been In tears. CHAPTER VII. Ryanne Tables Hit Cards. During this time Mrs. Chedsoye, the major, Messrs. Ryanne and Wallace, officers and directors In the United Romance and Adventure Company, ^itd,. sat in the major's room, round the boudolr-stand which had tempo rarily been given the dignity of a table. The scene would not have been without Interest either to tho specula tive physiognomist or to the dramat ist. To each It would have represent ed one of those astonishing moments when the soul of a person comes out Into the open, as one might express it, Incautiously, to be revealed In the ex pressions of the eyes and the mouth. These four persons were about going iinnn a e<nmi1oi*lv ^oflnarofo luiwaiu ujjuu a oju^uimi/ and unusual enterprise. From now on they were no longer to fenpe with one another, to shift from this topic to thdt, with the indirect maneuvers of a hou6e-cat Intent upon the quest of the Friday mackerel. The woman's face was alive with eagerness; the oldest man looked from one to the \ " O "It's the Excitement of Getting 11 other with earnest calculation; Wal lace no longer hid his cupidity; Ryanne's immobility of countenance was In itself a tacit admission to the burning of all his bridges that he might become a part of this conclave. Varied Uses embroidery cottons soak them In strong salt water. An excellent tonic for nervous peo ple is to take salt rubs twice a day. As sea salt dissolves slowly, some of it can be kept in solution in a glass jar to be ready when needed. When a child is inclined to bow legs or to have a weak back, rub it night and morning with strong salt water. A faded carpet is freshened if wiped off with a wet cloth wrung from strong salt water. Sprinkle floor with dampened salt and sweep well. Kacl dyspepsia can be helped by dis solving pinches of salt on the tongue after eating, or when there is a sense of oppression. Tact. He (tired of (lodging)?Would you marry a one-eyed man? She?Good gracious, no! He?Then lot nu1 carry your umbrel la.?Illustrated Bits. I "Smuggling," said the major, with prudent lowering of voice, evidently j continuing some previous debate, I "nmuggling Is a fine art, a keen sport- i lne Dronoaltlon: and the conseauences > of discovery are never serious. What's [ | a fine of a thousand dollars against | the profits of many successful excur- , slons Into the port of New York? j Nothing, comparatively. For several years, now, we have carried on this j business with the utmost adroitness. ' Never have we drawn serious atten tion. We have made two or three blunders, but the suspicions of the se cret-service were put to sleep upon each occasion. We have prospered. 1 Here is a gem, let us say, worth on this side a thousand; over there we sell It for enough to give us a clean profit of three or four hundred.' Forty per cent, upon our investment. That ought to be enough for any reasonable person. Am I right?" Mrs. Chedsoye alone was unrespon sive to this appeal. "I continue, then. We are making enough t<T lay by something for our old age. And that's the only goal which never' loses Its luster. But this affair!" 'Talk, talk," said Mrs. Chedsoye im .. .. I patiently. _ . "My dear Kate, allow me to relieve ! my, mind." "You bare done so till tbe topic Is threadbare. It Is rather late In the day to go over the ground again. , Time la everything Just now." "Admitted. But this affair, Kate, lr big; big with dangers, big with pit falls; there Is a hidd^ j menace in ev ery step of It Mayhap death; who knows? Tbe older I grow, the more I cling to material comforts, to enter prises of small dangers. However, as you Infer, there's no going back now." "No," assented Ryanne, his mouth hard; "not if I have to proceed alone." She smiled at him. "You talk of ; danger," speaking to the major. "What danger can there be?" "The unforeseen danger, the danger of which we know nothing, and there- | fore are unable to prepare for it. You do not see it, my dear, but it Is there, nevertheless." Wallace nodded approvingly. Ry- t anne shrugged.' ' 'Failure is practically impossible. And I want excitement; I crave It as getting it and coming away unscathed, i If I could only get you to look at all I sides of the affair! It's the Rubicon." I (TO BE toN'TINUED,) The Time of Her LWe. The new colored domestic, fresh from Kentucky, took her first "Thurs day afternoon </ff" and failed to re- | turn to prepare the seven o'clock din- 11 ner for the family. Next morning she j 1 reappeared rather "don6ie." "Why, i : Sibbie," said the lady of the house, j 1 "you look sick. What is the matter?" I "Yes'm, I done been sick, awful i ' sick, but it was wuth it. Dat dollah 11 you given me, I spent every cent of < it an' I done had de time of my life.. ] What I done with it? Well, missup. I i tell de truf an' no more'n de truf. I bought ten glasses of soda and weut to ten of dose movable plctuh shows. | My, my, one cain't have no sich time ! in Kaintucky."?Indianapolis News. ' In Fat Berth. Towne?No; Grafton doesn't work at all now Browne?He doesn't? Why, when I knew .<im he seemed to be a young man v.ith considerable ptish. Towne ? All that's changed now He's a young nnn with considerablf pull and doesn't have to work.?Catho :ic Standard and Time* ESTATE DIRECTOR I . H WANTS DELGE^TES TO ATTEND RIVERS AND HARBORS"CON GRESS IN WASHINGTON. PREPARE FOR OPENING CANAL Doctor F. Horton Colcock of the Uni versity Telia of the Importance of Work of the Organization to State of South Carolina. .4 ?*? Columbia.?Dr. F. Horton Colcock, the head of the department of engi-1 ; j aeerlng at the University of South] Carolina, is exceedingly anxious to get1, ^ i representative delegation to attend! ^ the meeting of the National Rivers* ind Harbors congress in which he la :he director for this state. The annu tl meeting will be held In Washington! on December 4 to 6. "The National Rivers and Harborn congress is an organization composed; of the most prominent business men; In the United States whose object m to bring pressure to bear on the fed eral congress to make appropriations for the linproyement of rivers and harbors on a permanent basis so that the army engineers may be enabled to design improvements without fear 1 " : of special. projects interfering with the scheme of general development," * said Dr. Col cock, in speaking of the work of the congress. "The mott> of the organization is 'Not a project, but an object' . # "When asked to serve as delegates, men often make the statement to me, 'I am no engineer and know nothing about the improvements of rivers and harbors.' I want the public to under stand that the congress is not made up of expert engineers. "Indeed, I doubt whether one out of '100 delegates is an engineer. It is <a congress coin posed of the most .' f? progressive business men of the United V - State who recognize the limitations ot roHrnoH and nrn paraeath endeavoring to promote the cheapest transportation from point to point in the United States and from points from which transportation may be ob '' tained to foreign countries. ? Cheraw Board of Trade. Cheraw.?The annual meeting of thv - Cheraw board of trade had more than usual interest. There was a kind o( round-up of all that was done during the year, besides the election of th4 officers for the ensuing year. Of th 'fd standing committees, than on roadi and parks and that on new enter prises, made especially good reports. Hon. W. D. Evans, chairman of the roads committee, Btated that the board * /'] '> was working in harmony with Mr, Tufts, of the Pinehurat resorts, in !. \ keeping up that part of the "Capital to-Capital Highway," lying betw<sen Cheraw and Rockingham, N. C. < ; . Farmers' Union Growing. <Tflumbia.??The Farmers' union h growing in the eastern part of the < state, as evidenced by the fact that ' three new local unions were charter ed from the state secretary's office recently. One is in Chesterfield conn- * ;< ty and is known as Bear Creek loca} union No. 818, with D. J. Williams, president, and P. C. Crawley, secre tary, postofflce address of both is Pat rick. Two of the new unions are lo- . cated in Florence county?Sandy Hill iocal union No. 814, with B. J. Gause, Effingham, as president, and S. - C. Smith, Coward, R. 2, as secretary; Newton local union No. 815, w.lth J. E. " rV Robinson as president and J. H. Baker as secretary. Chicago to Hear How Jerry Did It .- 1 Columbia.?Jerry. Moore of Winona, the boy who raised 228 bushels of " corn on one acre and broke the world's record, will be the big feature of the r.i ' ; V South Carolina department of agri culture exhibit at the National Land show, which is to be fceld in Chicago in connection with the International Live Stock exposition. The South Carolina exhibit, occupying an entire baggage car, left on the Carolina Spe cial in charge of James D. Lee. Col. #r_ E. J. Watsen, commissioner of agri culture. commerce and industries, will go to Chicago later with Jerry Moore, Lexington County Corn Show. Lexington.?The third annual Cora. Show for Lexington county was held ' ' several days ago with a large and rep- ' ; resentative gathering in attendance. Strong addresses were made by Con gressman Lever, who was instrumen tal in bringing about the organization of the Lexington1 County Corn* Grow ers' Association, and who has alway? taken an active interest in the agri cultural advancement of the county and state, and by Prof. W. L. English, of Clemson College, who judged the corn. Richland County Humane Society. Columbia.?About two months ago Rev. Richard Carroll succeeded in get ting the Humane Society of Piston to appoint a woman to organize nu mane societies and bands of mercy in the state. The Richland County Hu mane society was organized recently in the Carroll auditorium on Wash ton street. B. F. Taylor, president oC the Bank of Columbia and president 3f the Richland County Humane so :iety among white people, assisted Richard Carroll in organizing the ne groes. The South Carolina Conefrence. Centenary.?The 127th session of th<^ South Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church, South, will convene in St. John Methodist church in Ander son in the near future. Bishop KilgCk will perside. This will be his second! officials visit to this Conference since lis election to the equicopal office at) he Asheville General Conference. The. Rishop is in high favor in South Caro ina he having been reared in this: itate as an itenerant Methodist preach-; >r's son. i