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"Ten Pounds," Repeated Rys I 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, j 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 J Fortune Chedsoye by a woman to whom he had loaned 150 pounds at Monte Carlo some months previously, and who turns out to be Fortune's mother. Jones takes vr?.? nv\A TTftrtnnA tn a nolo I Mil 9. \<iJtUDV/W j. v* - ?? ? game. Fortune returns to Jones the money borrowed by her mother. Mrs. Chedsoye appears to be engaged In some mysterious enterprise unknown to the daughter. Ryanne interests Jones in the United Romance and Adventure com pany, a concern which for a price will arrange any kind of an adventure to or der. Mrs. Chedsoye, her brother, Major Callahan. Wallace and Ryanne, as the United Romance and Adventure company, plan a rleky enterprise Involving Jonesr Ryanne makes known to Mrs. Chedsoye his intention to marry Fortune. Mrs. Chedsoye declares she will not permit It. Plans are laid to prevent Jones sailing for home. Ryanne steals Jones' letters and cable dispatches. He wires agent In New York, in Jones' name, that he Is renting house in New York to some friends. Mahomed, keeper of the holy carpet, Is on Ryanne's tralL CHAPTER VHI.?(Continued.) What to do? mused the rogue. On the morrow Mr. Jones would leave for Port Said. Ryanne shook his head and with his cane beat a light tattoo against the side of his shin. Abduc tion was rather out of his sphere of action. And yet, the suppression of Percival was by all odds the most im portant move to be made. He had volunteered mis service aiiu auuum r plish It he must, in face of all obsta cles, or poof! went the whole droll fabric. For to him it was droll, and never it rose in his mind that he did not chuckle saturninely. It was a kind of nightmare where one hung in mid-air, one's toes Just beyond the flaming dragon's Jaws. The rewards would he enormous, but these he would gladly surrender for the su preme satisfaction of turning the poisoned arrow in the heart of that canting hypocrite, that smug church doacon, the sanctimonious, the sleek, the well-fed first-born. And poor Per cival Algernon, for no blame of his own, must be taken by the scruff of his neck and thrust bodily into this iwaK onViarw a on/1 ut-i/Ia** laugieu ncu KJL ovuvuio unu uuuci scheme. It was Infinitely humorous. He had had a vague plan regarding Mahomed, guardian of the Holy Yhi ordes, but It was not possible for him to be In Cairo at this early date. That he would eventually appear Ryanne never doubted. He knew the Oriental mind". Mahomed-El-Gebel would cross every barrier less effective than death. It was a serious matter to the Mos lem. If he returned to the palace at Bagdad, minus the rug. It would mean free transportation to the Arabian gulf, bereft of the most important part of his excellent anatomy, his head. Some day, If he lived, Ryanne intended telling the exploit to some clever chap who wrote; It would look rather well In print. 10 lurn i\ianomeu iigainsv r-ercivai as being the instigator would be an adroit bit of work; and it would rid him of both of them. Gioconda said that she wanted no rough work. How like a woman! Here was a man's game, a desperate one; and Giocon da, not forgetting that it was her inspiration, wanted It handled with gloves! It was b?4re-hand work, and the sooner she was made to realize this, the better. It was no time for tuning fiddles. Manomed out of it, there was a cer tain English bar in the Quarter Roset ti, a place of dubious repute. Many derelicts drifted there in search of employment still more dubious. Dregs, scum; the bottom and the top of the kettle; outcasts, whose hand and animus were directed aeainst society; inne, a Hand In His Pocket. i black and brown and white men; not soldiers of fortune, like Ryanne, but their camp-followers. In short, it was there (and Ryanne still felt a dull shame of it) that Wallace, carrying the final instructions of the enterprise, nad round mm, sleeping on tne enecis of a shabby rout of the night before. It was there also that he had heard of the history and the worth of the Yhlordes rug and the possibility of its theft. He laughed. To have gone upon an adventure like that; with nothing but the fumes of wine in his head! For a few pieces of gold he might enroll under his shady banner three or four Bhinlng lights who would un dertake the disposal of Percival. Not that he wished the young man any harm?no; but business waB business, and in some way or another he must be made to vanish from the sight and presence of men for at least two monthB. As for Major Callahan's unforeseen danger, the devil could look out for that. Ryanne consulted his watch, a cheap but trustworthy article, costing a dol lar, not to be considered as an avail able asset. He would give It away later In the day; for he had decided that while he was In funds there would be wisdom In the purchase of a fine gold Longines. A good watch, as ev ery one knows, Is always as easily converted into cash as a London hank. note, providing, of course, one is lucky enough to possess either. Many watches had he left behind, in this place or in that; and often he had exchanged the ticket for a small bottle with a green neck. Wherever fortune had gone against him heavily at cards, there he might find his latest watch. And another good idea, he mused, as he swung the time-piece into his vest-pocket, would be to add the splen dor of a small white stone to his mod est scarf. There is only one well defined precept among the sporting fraternity: when flush, buy Jewelry. Not to the cause of vanity, not at all; but precious stones and gold watches constitute a kind of reserve-fund against the evil day. When one has money in the pocket the hand is quick and. eager to find it. But jewelry is protected by a certain quality of caution; it is not too readily passed over bars and gaming-tables. While the pawnbroker stands between the passion and the green-baize, there's food for thought. Having settled these questions to his satisfaction, there remained but one other, how to spend his time. It nrnii M Ko Iicolaco r\ ennl/ IV* a LAn #*1tr>k r?v/WiVl UOdVPOO lu OCCR Clio Bar before noon. Might as well ram ble through the native town and the bazaars. He might pick up some little curio to give to Fortune. So he beckoned to an idle driver, climbed in to the carriage, and was driven off as if empires hung upon minutes. Ryanne never wearied of the ba zaars of Cairo. They were to him no less enchanting than the circus-pa rades of his youth. In certain ways, they were not to be compared with those in Constantinople and Smyrna; but, on tk~* other hand, there was more light, more charm, more color. Perhaps the magic nearness of the desert had something to do with it, the rainless skies, the ever-recurring suggestions of antiquity. His lively observation, his sense of the pictur esque and the humorous, always close to the surface, gave him that singular j impetus which makes man a prowler. This gift had made possible his suc cess in old Bagdad. Some years be fore he had prowled through the nar row city streets, had noted the wind ings, the blind-alleys, and had never forgotten. Faces and localities were written Indelibly upon his n-omory. i One rode to the bazaars, but walk ed through them or mounted donkeys. Ryanne preferred bis own legs. So did Mahomed. Once, so close did ho come that he could have put his two Avifkor of HEAR ~Che AYAN ON Ilkistnaliorvs by ^ r^r\ VDrriHT 1Q11 'P.nFS II ' 7 brown hands round the infidel's throat But, patience. Did not the Koran teach patience among the higher laws? Patience. He could not, madly as he had dreamed, throttle the white liar here in the bazaars. That would not bring the Holy Yhiordes to his hands. He must wait. He must plan to lure the man out at night, then to hurry him into the desert. Out into the des ert, where no man might be his mas ter. Oh, the Holy Yhio'rdes should be his again; it was written. The cries, the shouts, the tower of Babel reclaimed; the intermingling of the races of the world: the English man, the American, the German, the Italian, the Frenchman, the Greek, the Levantine, the purple-black Ethiopian, the bronze Nubian; the veiled women, the naked children; all the color-tones known to art, but predominating, that marvelous faded tint of blue,* the Cairene blue, in the heavens, In the waters, in the dyes. "Make way, 0 my mother!" bawled a donkev-bov to the old crone ned dllng matches. "Backsheesh! Backsheesh!" in the eight tones of the human voice. From the beggar, his brother, his uncle, his grandfather, his children and his children's children. "Blacksheesh, backsheesh!" "To the right!" was shrilled into Ryanne's ear; and he dodged. A troop of donkeys passed, laden with tourists, unhappy, fretful, self-con scious. A water-carrier brushed against him, and he whiffed the fresh dampness of the bulging goat-skin. A woman, the long, black head-veil streaming out behind In the clutch of the monkey-like hand of a toddling child, carried a terra-cotta water-jar upon her head. The graoe with which she moved, the abruptness of the col or-changes, caught Ryanne's roving eye and filled It with pleasure. Dust rose and subsided, eddied and settled; beggars blind and one-eyed smiattpd in it. children tnsRert It In play, and beasts of burden shuffled through it. The roar In front of the shops, the pressing and crowding of customers, the high cries of the inerchants; the gurgle of the water-pipes, the pleasant fumes of coffee, the hardy loafers lolling before the khans or caravan saries; a veiled face at a lattice-win dow; the violet shadows in a doorway; the sunshine upon the soaring mosques; a true believer, rocking and mumbling over his tattered Koran; gold and silver and jewels; amber and copper and brass; embroideries and rugs ana carpets; ana uie pesi or neas, the plague of flies, the Insidious smells. Ryanne found himself Inspecting "the largest 'emerald in the world, worth twelve thousand pounds," which looked more like a fine hexagonal of onyx than a gem. It was one of the curiosities of the bazaars, however, and tourists were generally round It In force. To his experienced ey?/ It was no more than a fine specimen of emerald quartz, worth what any fool of a collector was willing to pay for It. From this bazaar he passed on into the next, and there he saw Fortune. And as Mahomed, always close at hand, 6aw the hard lines In Ryanne's face soften, the cynical smile become tender, he believed he saw his way to strike. i CHAPTER IX. The Bitter Fruit Fortune had a hearty contempt for persons who ate their breakfast In bed. For her the glory of the day was the fresh fairness of the morning, when every one's step was buoyant, and all life stirred energetically. There was cheer and hope everywhere; men faoed their labors with clear eye and feared nothing; women sang at their work. It was only at the close of day that despair and defeat stalked the highways. So she was up with the sun, whether In her own garden or Hi these odd and myBtical cities. Thus she saw the native as he was, not as he later in the day pretended to be, for the benefit of the Feringhi about to be stretched upon the sacrificial stone. She sa\v, with gladness, the honey-bee thirling the rose, the plow man's share baring the soil; the morn ing, the morning, the two or three hours that were all, all her own. Her mother was always irritable and petu lant in the morning, and her uncle never developed the gift of speech till after luncheon. She had the same love of prowlinp that lured Ryanne from the beaten paths. She was not inquisitive but curious, and that ready disarming smile of hers opened many a portal. She was balancing upon her gloved palm, thoughtfully, a Soudanese head trinket, a pendant of twisted gold wires, flawed emeralds and second pearls, really exquisite and not gen erally to be found outside the expen sive shops in the European quarters, and there infrequently. The merchant wanted twenty pounds for it. Fortune shook her head, regretfully. It was far beyond her means. She sighed. Only once in a great while she saw something for which her whole heart cried out. This pendant was one of these. "I will give you five pounds for it. That is all I have with me." "Salaam, madame," said the jeweler, reaching for the pendant. "If you will send it to the Hotel Se mlramis this afternoon . . But she faltered at the sight of the mer chant's Incredulous smile. "I'll give you ten for it; not a pias tre more. I can get one like it in the Sharia Kamel for that amount." > MACGRATH !TS AND ZU5KS THE BOX etc. R- ] B6 " MERRILL COMPANY I.G.KjETT^^] Both Fortune and the merchant turned. iou, norace: , "Yes, my child. And what are you ] doing here alone, without a drago- ( man?" , "Oh, I have been through here alone ( many times. I'm not afraid. Isn't it beautiful? He wants twenty pounds , for it, and I cannot afford that" , She had not seen him in many i weeks, yet she accepted his sudden ap- y pearance without question or surprise. She was used to his turning up at un- ( I expected moments. Of course, she J had known that he was in Cairo; ( where her mother and uncle were this { I secretive man was generally within j calling. There had been a time when ^ she had eagerly plied him with ques- ( tions, but he had always erected bar riers of evasion, and finally she ceased ( her importunities, for she concluded that her questions were such. No mat* ^ ter to whom she turned, there was no ( one to answer her questions, questions born of doubt and fear. "Ten pounds," repeated Ryanne, a hand in his pocket. The merchant laughed. Here were ' a young man and his sweetheart. His experience had taught him, and not unwisely, that love Is an easy victim, ' ~r---.ii/1 frt hnccrla tnn ?pn?rnilB tO LUU J7IUUU vv ""OD*"# ??? o , bargain sharply. "Twenty," he re- ' Iterated. "Salaam!" said Ryanne. "Good day!" He drew the somewhat resist ing hand of Fortune under his arm ' and inade for the door. "Sh!" he whis pered. "Leave it to me." They gained the street. ' The merchant was dazed. He had j misjudged what he now recognized as an old hand. Tbe two were turning up another street when he ran out, shouting to them and waving the J pendant. Ryanne laughed. "Ten pounds. I am a poor man, ef- ( fendi, and I need the money. Ten , pounds. I am giving it away." The . merchant's eyes filled with tears, a trick left to him from out of the ruins ^ of his youth, that ready service to forestall the merited rod. I Ryanne counted out ten sovereigns and put the pendant In F^tune's hand. And the pleasure In his heart was such as he had not known In many days. The merchant wisely hur' ried back to his shop. ' "But . . she be^n protest ing^. I T Vn**A IrnAwn ?a?? %???% JL Ul, IUL x lioro Auunji ;uu oiuut; you wore short dresses and tam-o shanters." "I really cannot accept It as a gift. Let me borrow the ten pounds." "And why can't you accept a little gift from me?" She had no ready answer. She gazed steadily at the dull pearls and the flaky emeralds. She could not ask 1 him where he had got those sover eigns. She could not possibly be so cruel. She could not dissemble In words like her mother. That gold she knew to be a part of a dishonest bar gain whose forestep had been a theft ?more, a sacrilege. Her honesty was like pure gold, unalloyed, unmixed with sophistic subterfuges. That the young man who had purchased the rug might be mildly peccable nad not yet occurred to her. "Why not, Fortune?" Ry^nne was very earnest, and there was a pinch.at his heart. "Because . . "Don't you like me just a little?" "Why, I do like you, Horace. But I do not like any man well enough to accept expensive gifts from him. I do not wish to hurt you, but It is Im possible. The only concession I'll make is to borrow the money." "Well, then, let it go at that." He was too wise to press her. "And can you afford to throw away ten pounds?" with assumed lightness. [ "My one permanent Impression of you is the young man who was always forced to borrow car-fare whenever he returned from Monte Carlo." "A fool and his money. But I'm a rich man now," he volunteered. And briefly he sketched the exploit of the Yhiordes rug. "It was very brave of you. But has it ever occurred to you that it wasn't t honest?" ' i "Honest?" frankly astonished that i she should question the ethics. "Oh, I say, Fortune; you don't call it dlshon- I est to get the best of a pagan! Aren't ^ they always getting the best of us?" i rfc in r T _ Deli or tragi Has Remarkable History That Will Strike the Reader as Being Typi cally Russian. The Kamaoull^e Koloko, or "Bell With the Ear Torn Off," hat' a most romantic history. In the sixteenth century Prince Dimitri, the rightful heir to the Russian throne, was de posed by a revolt led by Doris Godun off, who was afterward proclaimed czar. The seat of government was then at Uglich and thither Dimitri was sent, in order that he might remain under the direct observation of the usurper. Boris, fearing that the populace might awake to the justice of the claims of the young prince, planned C the assassination of Dimltri. He was : t one day stabbed in a courtyard. None ! f of the bystanders showed any disposi- r tion to aid him. A priest, however, c from the cathedral belfry, saw the t crime and immediately began tolling o the great bell, which was held sacred r and rung only on unusual occasions, i: "If you had bargained with hjm and >eaten him down, It would have been o llfferent. But, Horace, you stole It: rou admit that you did." t "I took my life In my hands. I t hink that evened up things." c "No. And ?ou sold It to Mr. Jones?" n "Yes, and Mr. Jones was only too i] jlad to buy It I told him the facts. r 3e wasn't particularly eager to bring E ip the ethics of the case. Why, child, *' vhat the deuce Is a Turk? I shouldn't * :ry out If some one stole my Bible." c "Good gracious! do you carry one?" r "Well, there's always one on the s oom-stand In the hotels I patronize." * "I suppose It all depends upon how ve look at things." / ' "That's it. A different pair of spec- d acles for every pair of eyes." If only he weren't in love with her! .hought the girl. He would then be in amusing comrade. But whenever le met her he quietly pressed hlB suit. He had never spoken openly of love, * lor which she was grateful, but his at- ^ :entions, his little kindnesses, his un- ^ obtrusive protection when those other t men were at the villa, made the read ing between the lines no difficult mat ter. : "What shall you do If this Mahomed pou speak of comes?" I "Turn him loose upon our friend Tones," with a laugh. . <i ? j l. - a. iii i j mtt Ana wnaT. win ne uu iu mm: "Carry him off to Bagdad and chop Dtf his head," Ryanne jested. "Tell me, Is there an;- possibility of Mr. Jones coming to'harm?" "Can't say." Her concern for Percl val annoyed him. "Is it fair, when he paid you gen erously?" He did not look into the grave eyes, rhey were the only pair that ever dis :onoerted him. "My dear Fortune, it's i o.uestlon which is the more valuable to me, my skin or Percival's." "It Isn't fair." "From my point of view It's fair enough. I warned him; I told him the aeoessary facts, the eventual dangers He accepted them all with the Yhior Jes. I see nothing unfair in the deal, since I risked my life in the first \ place." "And why must you do these des perate things?" "Oh, I love excitement. My one idea 1 In life is to avoid the humdrum." i "He Will Come to No .hese excitements? Is your life noth ng more to you than something to ex )eriment with?" "Truth, sometimes I don't know, fortune. Sometimes I don't care. When one has gambled for big stakes, t is hard to play for penny points." c Memories ueh a3 at a coronation or the death of . czar. Furious at this tacit expression of eproach, the czar commanded that the t riest should be tortured and executed ii .nd thjt the bell should be taken down .nd placed beside the body of Its inger. This order was fulfilled, and he bell was beaten with clubs by, the | d ntirft nonulaee the Czar Boris beintr ! n t their bead. The czar then decreed that the bell hould be exiled to Tobolsk and that ne of its hangers be removed to in icate its disgrace.?Harper's Weekly. Luminous Metal Discovered. For generations the peasants of Cornwall have handed down a legend hat at night there may be seen a j d aintly luminous metal among the | p ocks brought from the mines of the j h ounty. A British scientist has proved j fi hat this story is by no means based ] \ in imagination. A specimen of the j nineral autunite, which is also found | n Wales, was sent to him from Portu- y, "A strong, healthy man like you ught not to court death." "I do not seek It My only tempta lon is to see how near I can get to he Man in the S jud, as some poet alls It, without Delng touched. Ill aake you my confessor. You see. It b like this. A number of wearied men ecently formed a company whereby nonotony became an obsolete word n our vocabulary. You must not think 'm Jesting; I'm serious enough. This ompany ferrets out adventures and omanoes and sells them to men of pirit. I became a member, and t?e rip to Bagdad Is the result. One ne^ ir has to share with the company. The ewards are all yours. All one has to lo Is to pay a lump sum down for the tdventure furnished. You work out he end yourself, unhindered and un issisted." "Are you really aerious?" "Never more so. Now, Percival A^ jernon has always been wanting an idventure, but the practical side of 1 kl? olnn# T Hill IiaD iuauo UlUi UVIU uivvt.. * wtv ilm about this concern, and he refuses o believe In It. So I am going to un lertake to prove It to him. This la lonfldential. You will Bay nothing, 1 enow." , "He will come to no harm physical y?" "Lord, no! It will be mild and in iocuous. Of course, If any one told ilm that an adventure was toward or his especial benefit, It would Bpoil ill. I can rely upon your silence?" She was'silent. He witnessed her ndeclslon with distrust Perhaps h? lad said too much. "Won't you promise? Haven't I al? ways been kind to you. Fortune, times *rhen you most needed kindness?" "I promise to say nothing. But II iny harm comes to that young man, alther in Jest or in earnest, I will lever speak to you again." "I see that, after getting Perclval Algernon into an adventure, I've got :o cloerone him safely out of it Well, [ accept the responsibility." Some lays later he was going to recall thlf : insurance. "Sometimes I wonder . . pen lively. "Wonder about what?" "What manner of man you are." "I should have been a great deal setter man had I met you ten y^ara 1*0." ; "What? When I was eleven?" with Harm Physically?" i levity intended to steer him awaj rom this channel. "You know what I mean," he an wered, moody and dejected. She opened her purse and dropped he pendant into it, but did not speak. (TO BE CONTINUED.) :al because of its shining character, ie finds that it closely resembles ar ificially prepared salts of uranium, nd that its luminosity is due to spon aneous radio-activity. The light it heds is stronger than that of nitrate f uranium. Upon parting with its wa er of crystallization die metal loses ts luminosity. Destroying Weeds In Ponds. Copper sulphate is often used foi estroying the scum-like weeds in onds. But precautions must be ta- j en, for unless the right proportion ol ulphate is used any fish which may e in the pond will be injured. The roportion of copper sulphate used in he ponds at Kew Gardens is one part o from 750.000 to 1,000.000 parts oi ater. Sulphate of copper In a piu-1 . erized state is placed in a porous bag i , nd dragged through the water until ! issolved. The water in St. James's ' ark, London, it might be mentioned, 1 ' as for two summers been kept free , om scum by this method.?London [ail. Don't lie to be entertaining?only Ji? 'hen It is profitable. ' ENDANNUALSESSIOf CONVENTION OF THE DAUGHTER8 OF CONFEDERACY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. , . * " . } IMPORTANT WORK IS DONE i' *" ' ' . Officers Were Elected at the Last Meeting.?A Number of Reports ami Other "Routine Business Was Disr r 1 r\?i?? lii i. rv P<jbcu ot?wincr nom uwe. Charleston.?The third and last day of the 17th annual convention of the* South Carolina division of the Daugh-i ters of the Confederacy was marked! with the election of officers, constitut-l Ing the most interesting business of] the exercises of the day. The follow-i Ing were elected: Mrs. C. E. Graham^ president; Miss Alice Earie of Colum-! bia, Mrs. St John Lawton of Chariest " r ton, Mrs. E. J. Burch of Florence and* Mrs. J. L. McWhorter of Jonesville^ first, second, third and fourth ricen presidents, respectively; Miss C. JJ Milling, Darlington, recording secret tary; Mrs. M. B. Owens, Clinton, cor-j responding secretary; Miss Martha! Washington, Charleston, historian^ Mrs. John Cart, Orangeburg, recorderj of crosses; Mrs. U. R. Brooks, Coluith bla, auditor; Mrs. J. A. Burton, New-f berry, registrar, and Mrs. M. J. Perry/ treasurer. A number of reports and other rou tine business was disposed of, con taining little of geneal interest but of some concern to the ladies in clos ing up the /Work of one of the most successful conventions In the history of the organization. The visitors were guests at a recep tion tendered by the Confederate col lege chapter at the "Home" building on Broad street The function proved % very enjoyable affair. Care of 6eed Corn. Charleston.?Prof. P. H. Jeter, as Blatant director of the South Garottpa experiment station, Issues the follow* ing bulletin on the care of seed corn: > - It has come to the notice of the 8t&> tion that from time to time in the. spring on a number of forms in the state, there is a scarcity of good seed coin. The question of how to prevent ; '> such a deplorable condition then arises, and the usual ad rice giyen for meeting this poor seed corn situation is to test the germinating power ol each ear. This is good adrice when It does not become a yearly'habit; but ' , , the germination test is very' discour- ^ aging unless the seed corn Is gather- ' ed and dried early In the fall, thus ' causing the seed to retain full pro ductiveness which the germination test cannot restore or even properly reveal. , Who Will Be Judge of First Circuit? - St. George.?The suestion is almost daily being asked throughout this and the other judicial circuits in the state, "Whom will the general as sembly elect to the position of Judge of the first circuit to fill out the ub- . expired term of Judge Robert E. Copes, who resigned in the early part. of September?" So far there are .two candidates actively seeking the posi tion. One of the known candidates at present for the position left vacant V by the resignation of Judge Copes Is '' i * P. T. Hildebraad of Orangeburg. The other candidate is M. S. Connor of the Dorchester county bar, who has been practicing at the county seat for the past 14 years. ' * / > Failed to File Annual Report. Columbia. ? Commissioner Watson said that 50 manufacturing concerns have failed to file with his depart ment the annual report required by law from these concerns on or be fore December 5. "Unless these re ports are filed by them, I shall be forced to resort to legal processes,'* said the commissioner, "and I there fore wish to give a final warning to the delinquents." "This course is made absolutely necessary," says a report sent out by the commissioner October 14, as a warning, "as the law requires that all reports shall be printed and reported \ to the general assembly by January 3, 1913. No Official Announcement Lexington. ? Information received from Leesville that v,the directors of the People's bank, -which closed ita doors recently, are not ready to make any official announcement. Members of the board, it was stated, went to Columbia on business con nected with the affairs of the institu tion, bnt if they succeeded in finding anything new it has not been made ' public. Dr. E. J. Etheredge is still missing, and nothing that would gi-re any light on his present whereabouts has been learned. Baptists Favor Sanitarium. ' Abbeville.?By an apparently large majority of a viva voce vote, the Bap .. . ~. x. u? tist state uonveuuuu cvuiuuun wc denomination to the establishment of . a sanitarium under llie care of the Convention. The debate that preced ed the action of the Convention was the most spirited which has so far characterized the work of the Con?en tion and was participated in by the ( Rev. Messrs. J. J. Lawton, A. C. Wilk ins, A. McA. Pittman, M. W. Hayns worth, J. H. Mitchell, Louis Birstow ind Col. J. H. Wharton. Two Killed in Automobile Wreck. Columbia.?T. Hugh* Meighan and William S. Stewart were killed and William Watson, Theodore Bell and William C. SwaflVeld were seriously injured as a resirit of a skidding auto mobile on the Hyatt Park road. The accident occurred about 2<W yards south of tin? Smith branch bridge on the road going to Ridgewood club. The heavy machine turned completely around and then "turned turtle" hi a eully ten feet deep. The occupants, were caught under the automobile md were pinned there. !