(Short Mory by Miss Edwards.) "Why, Deborah Oliver! What art thou dreaming about?" At the sound of the sharp voice the little :il?ure in grey turned away from the window, and faced the wo man in th3 doorway. "I can't say that I was dreaming about anything," she said listlessly. 'Her aunt laid both hands on her shoulder and looked down at her. In her eyes a great love for her or phaned n'ece strove to brighten tne look left there by some misunder standing. "Tell me, Deborah, wnat troubles thee. Art. thou not happy? He will be good to thee, far better than any other I know of. He is a good man.'' But Deborah shook her head, and long after Elizabeth Oliver had left the room stood meditating. Yes, truly, no one would be more apt to ?be "good' to her tnan Jonathan Hil ton. Jonathan Hilton was the preacher of the little town. He had known and lover Deborah for years, ever since she was but a girl. Now she was i:. womjui, twenty-two, fair, small, and chamcterized by a quiet serenenesi! that was at once beauti ful and cnarmlng. Jonathan Hilton had not been Deborah's only lover, for every one in the town knew that Stephen Dalton had wooed her for many months before he went away, more thai:; two years ago. But if De borah cared for him she did not show It, not even when the news of his death in a shipwreck at sea was toicL to her. f'.till Jonathan Hilton wooed her, and at laet she promised to mar ry him. "Not that I love thee," she told him, "buv because?," and she never finished. She lived her life over there in the dim gray twilight that filled the room. Then with a sigh she went out to find her aunt and assist if pos sible in some light duty, for the Oli vers wer?: in good circumstances, and Deborah worked, not because she must, bu': because her honest Quaker heart told her she owed it to the* kind uncle and aunt who had raised her. The days flew by. Autumn and all its glory was approaching, and, with it, the hi!.rvesting, the corn huskings and various amusements that are al lowed at this time by the Quakers. Another event also was approaching, and that was Deborah's marriage. It was the subject of the village, and it filled every one with keen antici pation, except Deborah. Next to Deborah's wedding the af fair of ::nost importance was the husking to be given in the big barn of John Winston, Stephen Dalton s brother-i c-law. The morning of the ? great day dawned heavy and misty. "Aunt, if thee dost not need me I think. HI s go^.to^Sarah Winstoi^'s^' " 'Tis rather early and the fog lies heavy." But Deborah threw the grey coat around her shoulders and went down the garden walk. At the gate she plucked a pink rose that hung loaded with dew and tucked it in among her brown curls. 'Twas tne first ros:) that had shone there since Stephen went away, and into her cheeks tie first bit of color that had bloomed there for many a week be gan to creep. She walked slowly along the path that ran beside the little brook, thinking, thinking. Ah, 'twas good to be a;one, to be able to think, or am I mistaken, it must have been bad. "He's a good mau,'* she thought. Then forgetting bersell she spoke aloud, "But I do not love him." It was like a cry, for the meekness was not there, rather de fiance glowed like twin stars in her dark eyes, and burned her cheeks to the red Hush of the rose. Suddenly she lifted her head and, with a sharp cry, she stopped. "Stephen! Stephen! is it really thee?" The man leaning against who tree, there in their old mseeing place,' turned and beheld the girl. "Deborah!" He drew her to bim; but, if suddenly remembering, she pushed him away. "No, no, thee mustn't," she pant ed. "Don't, Stephen, don't!" He released her, and turned away. "Didst thou forget, Deborah?" But Deborah had fled. Across the fields and into the garden, never stopping till she reached her own room. How she ever passed the day, or how it was that 6he managed to get ready for the husking she never knew. She did not wish to go, but since she had promised to go she went. Seemingly, she enjoj'ed herself; but whea Stephen came in she sought her aunt. "Aunt Elizabeth, take me home." To her aunt's anxious inquiries she only answered that she was not feel ing well. "Thee musn't get sick, tomorrow's thy wedding day." After Deborah's departure, Jona than Hilton laid his hand on Steph en's arm. "My son, I wish to talk with t'nee." Stephen frowned and would have broken away. "Come, Stephen, I wish to help thee," the little parson insisted, and somehow Stephen went. Outside in the bright light of the harvest moon, Jonathan began to speak quickly. At first Stephen lis tened sullenly, then he began to shake 3is head. "I cannot," he said firmly, and walked away Jonathan stood :jtill a few seconds and then followed him. Next day Deborah went to the vil lage church, leaning on the arm of her uncle. Some say that her dress was net. whiter than her face. fc>nt> stopped without the church, under the ivy covered trellis, >o speak a word to a friend, and while she stood ':here the sunbeams came and played among her curls. "Harpy is the bride the s in shines on," some one cried, as she passed within Instead of being beside the railing The Great Wall or China, But it would have been well worth 'while to make the trip if we had got ten nothing else but the view of and from the Great Wall at tbo end of the journey. About two thousand I miles of stone and brick, twenty seven feet high, and wide enough on top for two carriages to drive abreast, this great structure built two thousand years ago to keep the wild barbarian Northern tribes out of China, is truly '.the largest building on earth," and one of th*> world's greatest wonders. It would be amaz ing if it wound only over plains and lowlands, but where we saw it thi3 morning it climbed one mountain height after another until the top most point towered far above us, diz zy, stupendous, magnificent. By what means the thousands and thousands of tons of rock and brick were ever carried up the sheer mountain sides, is a question that must exalte every traveler's wonder. Certainly no one who has walked on top of the great wall, climbing amorig the clouds from one misty eminence to another, as we did today, can ever forget the ex perience. Perhaps it was well enough, too, that the weather was not clear. The mists that hung about the mountain-peaks below a:ad around us; the roaring wind that shepherded the clouds, now driving them swiftly before him and leaving in clear view for a minute peak after peak and valley after valley, the next minute brushing great fog-masses over wall and landscape and conceal ing all from view?all this lent an element of mystery and majesty to the experience not out of keeping with our thought of the iong cen turies through which this strange guard has kept watch around earth's oldest Empire. Dead, long dead anu crumbled into dust, even when our Christian era began, were the hands who fashioned these earlier brick and laid them in the mortar here, and for many generations thereafter watchmen armed with bows and ar rows rode along the battlements and towers, straining their eyes for sight of whatever enemy might be boid enough. to try to cross the mighty barrier. However unwise the spirit'or the aim in which the wall was built, w; must admire the almost matchless daring of the conception and the al most unparalleled industry of the ex ecution. Beside it'trys digging of out Panama Canal with modern machin ery, engines, steam-power and elec tricity?considered as a feat of Her culean labor?is no longer a subject for boasting. To my mind, the very fact that the Chinese people had the courage to conceive and attempt so colossal an enterprise is proof enough of genuine greatness. Nc feeble folk could even have planned such an un dertaking.?Clarence Poe. in Raleigh (N. C, Progressive Farmer. * History That is History. Fascinating as It Is for Its present day interest, however, Peking is even richer in historic Interest. And by historic in China is not: meant any matter of the last half-hour, such a? Columbus' discovery of America or the landing at Plymouth Rock; these things to the Chinaman are so mod ern as to belong rather in the cate gory of recent newspaper sensations. If he wishes something historic, he goes back three or four thousand years. For example, a friend of mine, at a i'ittle social gathering in New England some time ago, heard a young Chinese ftudent make a talk on his country. Incidentally he was asked about a particular Chi nese custom. "Yes," he answered, "that is our custom new, since we changed. But it has not always been so. We did the other way up to four or five centuries before Christ.'' Whereupon the audienere, amazed at the utterly casual mention of an event two thousand years old as il it were a happening of yesterday, roared with laughter, which the young Chinaman was attely unable to understand. When Christ was born, Peking (or what, is now Pe-j king, then bearing another name,) having centuries before grown into eminence, had been destroyed, re built, and was entering upon its sec ond youth. About the time of the last Caesars, it fell into the hands | of the Tartars who gave place to the Mongols after 1215. It was dur ing the reign of Mongol Emperor, Kublai Khan, that Marco Polo visited his capital, then calkid Camhulac. Seventy-three years before Columbus discovered America, Nankou, bulu, the great wall that surrounds the Tartar City to this day?forty feet high, wide enough on top for four or five carriages to drive abreast, and thirteen miles around.?Clarence Poe, in Raleigh (N. C.) Progressive Farmer. Don't Depend on the Hoe. The hoe is too costly an imple ment to be depended upon, for it takes a man, and you will never need a hoe in the field if you start early with smoothing harrow and weeder, and if the cotton is planted in hills, there will be little need for chop ping. For the cultivation of the hoed crops you will need ;ower, and we must have the horse-power to start with the smoothing harrow and the weeder. With these you can get over the land so rapidly that you will nev er be caught in the srass, and will need to put a plow in to cover the ;rass in the rows, for the early use of the smoothing harrow and weeder will prevent its starting there.?W. F. Massey, in Raleigh (N. C.) Pro gressive Farmer. * to meet her, Jonathan stood in the pulpit, book in hand, and a faraway look upon his face. Deborah stopped in bewilderment. Then Stephen took her arm and led hei forward as if in answer to the que- *n in her eyes Jonathan leaned fo ard and said in a low tone, "I give thee to him, Deborah," and without another word began the marriage ceremony. As they were leaving the church, Deborah said softly, "He's a good man, Stephen." DEFEAT ST?BIES DRUNKEN THROUGH NESS. I Kings 20:12-21?March 19 "It is not for kings to drink wine; nor f*r princes strong drink."~Proverbs 31:$. CODAY'S lesson recounts an in vasion of the land of Israel by King Benhadad, over-lord of Syria, who had under him thir ty-two kings of Syria and a large army. Warfare in those days, of course, was very different from what It is today. The numbers hi conflict were fewer and their weapons inferior. Their motive was plunder. Our day witnesses a considerable advance along the lines of diplomacy. Wars and invasions now are always based upon some p h 11 a n t hropic motive ?to free people from bad government, or to compel them to pay their debts, or to open up their country to civilization, or to give them more responsible and rep resentative government, or greater freedom of religion. Rob- Benhadadi king of Svria. bery and pillage. by an invading arrjrv, are reprobated. Whatever is tak ..i'Rom the conquered people must be obtained by the levying of an indemnity fund. All this speaks to us of a higher morul sense, even though much relating to it be hypoc risy. The very need for tbe hypocrisy Implies that, with a considerable num ber, there are qualms of conscience on the subject. The Battle Was the Lord's, and of Course He Won Benhadad sent his demands to King Ahab saying. "Thy silver and thy gold are mine; thy wives and thy children, even the goodliest of thine." ' King Ahab, recognizing the greatness of tbe army and his own uupreparedness for resisting tbem. answered, "My Lord, 0 King, according to thy saying, I am thine, I and all that I have." But when the invader broadened his de mand and included with it the wealth of all the nobles of Israel, their wives and their children, etc., resistance was aroused. Thereupon the Invaders set the battle army against the walls of Israel's Capital, Samaria. At this juncture God sent a Prophet to Israel's King, informing him that he would deliver the Invaders into his hand and give him a great victory. The astonished Ahab asked by whom would the battle be waged against the host. The answer was that at the command the princes of the provinces should fight under Ahab's direction, supported by the militia. By this sig nal victory God would demonstrate his power by protecting the nation with whom he had made the Law Covenant. The Divine order was followed. Two hundred and thirty-two princes, or chiefs, of the people at noon passed out of the gates of the city, followed by seven thousand militia?a small number wherewith to meet a host. Apparently this was poor generalship: but the Lord was the General and overruled the results. King Benhadad and his associates had been drinking. The Syrian.", were ordered to capture the men alive. But this they did not do. Soon the Syrian forces .were in disorder and completely routed. Hu manly speaking, the battle was lost by Benhadad's over-confidence, and par ticularly by his indulgence in intoxi cating liquors. Lessons Which We May Draw The honest, the holy, the reverential of mankind, who seek peace and right eousness may be likened to Israel, to God's people. Benhadad and his thirty two kings and their armies would cor respond to Satan and his various hosts of unrighteousness. We may name these hosts ns we please. To some, one portion, ud to others, other por tions of these .sosts are the more rep rehensible. Many these kings may represent various Trusts which, by manipulation of life's ?ecessities, are attacking the welfare of the people. Others of these kings may represent political grafters. Others may repre sent various vices which prey upon the public, including iutemperance. The forces thus set in battle array against the public are appalling, especially when the wealth at their command is considered. The demands of these various "inter ests" come first upon the honorable and well-meaning public servants. But when the de mauds broaden, and it is evident that general pil lage Is the inten tion, the voice of the Lord should be heard and heeded, and a stout resistance should be made. As with Ahab, the resistance should not be de fensive merely. The call is for tbe princes, the chiefs of tbe people, who love righteousness, to go out first to do battle with all iniquitous invaders of the rights, hap piness and interests of the people. And these princes or leaders who stand for righteousness should be ably seconded by the courageous und ef ficient of the people. The mighty princes. Warfield in "The Music Master." Could make the story more vivid, but you can have the old Music Mas ter's humor in your own home, in the form of an exquisitely illustrated book, for fifty cents at Sims' Book Store. The Indian Appear Again. Life on the Western Frontier as it was lived some years ago is brought to us again most vividly in Owen Wister's "Red Men and White" A novel formerly $1.50, now fifty cents at Sims' Book Store. IS IT WORTH WHILE? Is it worth while that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worth while that we jeer at each other In blackness of heart?that we war to the knife? God pity us all in our pitiful strife! God pity us all as we jostle each other; God pardon us all for the triumphs we feel When a fellow goes down; pom, heart-broken brother, Pierced to the heart?words are keener than steel, And mightier far for woe or tor weal. Were it not well in this brief little journey, On over the Isthmus, down Into the tide, We give him a Ash instead of a ser pent, Ere folding the hands to be and abide, For ever and aye, in dust at his side? Look at the roses saluting each other; Look at the herds all at peace on the plain; Man, and man only, makes war on his brother, And dotes in his heart on his peril and pain. Shamed by the brutes that go down on the plain. Is it worth while that we battle to humble Some poor fellow traveler down into the dust? God pity us all. Time too soon will us tumble, All men together, like leaves in a gust; All of us humbled down into the dust. ?Joaquin Miller, i More Poultry for the Farms. No careful observer can fail to note the increased interest in poultry raising in the South during the la?t year. Like all other lines of live stock raising, it is especially receiv ing attention in the area being in vaded by the boll weevil. It Is sim ply astonishing what capacity this little bug?the boll weevil?haB foi making men think and even act. All lines of live stock are receiving more attention than ever before and poul try is coming in for its share of in creased attention. But, strange as it may seem the greater part of this in crease in poultry interest is among the people In the towns and to a much less degree among the farmers. This appears to us wrong. Surely there Is no place where the opportun ities for raising strong, healthy poul try at a minimum^ of cost, are so good as out on the farms. Not only Is this true as regards the production of utility poultry?eggs and birds for food?but it is especially true of the production of fancy poultry and birds for breeding. By much care, constant work and intelligent feeding and management, good poultry is produced on the small lots in or near the towns; but it re quires more intelligence and poultry knowledge to raise good birds under such conditions than it does to ac complish the same results on the farm. Why then, is most of our best poultry raised in the small towns or near the cities? The range which may be given the birds <>n the farm, except perhaps during the breeding season, is al most unlimited and this means a va riety of feed, such as poultry require, and ample exercise, two things most essential to the economical prod.ic tion of vigorous birds. It requires some knowledge to raise good poultry and this can only be obtained by reading and studying the experience of others as set down in poultry journals or agricultural papers and in books, and by actual personal experience in the handling of the birds. In the past this has been thought too small a business for the farmer, but if that is still the idea, we insist that the women and children should be given an oppor tunity to add this additional industry to the farm. Nor would we limit them to the production of eggs and the growing of birds to be used as food: but would Insist that where the inclination exists they be given a chance to produce the best, to be sold as breeders, or eggs to be sold for hatching.?Raleigh (N. C.) Progres sive Farmer. PHONE Your office wants. If it's used in an office we can furni h it and at the right price. Service prompt. Pi ices reasonable. SIMS BOOK STORE. Orangeburg, S. C. Say, have you paid for your pa per yet? *"f you have not, please do so at once. CiASSlFIEQ COLUMN For Sale?Pure K.ng Cotton Seed at Poultry Yard, Darlington. S. S. For Sale?Pure King Cotton Seed at $1.00 per bushel. Address, J. J. Llttlejohn, Jonesville. S. C. Money Maker Cotton improved and selected by T. J. Klrven is the best. Seed at $1 per bushel. T. J. Klrven, Providence, S. C. For Sale?1,800 acres fine farm land near Macon, Ga., for less than $15 per acre. Address J. L. Bragdon, Sumter, S. C. Buff Wyndottes; S. C. White and Buff Leghorns, Stock and eggs at bargain prices also O. T. C. hogs, W. E. Carroll, Normandy, Tenn., Route No. i. For Sah??Jig Saw, cost $90.00, will sell for $40.00. Six inch Moulder, cost $300.00, will sell for $140.00. Best condition, J. H. Cole, Ran dleman, N. C. For Quick Sale?Six million feet fine unbled long leaf timber. Prices and terms right to party meaning business. McCallum Realty Co., Sumter, S. C. For Sale?S. C. R. I. Reds, White and Brown Leghorns, Black Lang shang, Plymouth Rocks. Eg?s for setting, 15 for $1. M. B. Grant, Darlington, S. C. Eggs in incubator lots or single sit tings from S. C. Reds, $1.50 per 15; $8.00 per hundred. Nice cock erels, $2.00 each. Eugenia Ham mond, North Augusta, S. C. Hustling Agents wanted to sell ac cessory indispensable to all auto mobile owners; very liberal terms. Write for particulars. Henszey, Box 542, Troy, N. Y. Cabbage Plants?65c thousand, for balance this season; oldest grower here; Fishel White Rock eggs, $1 per 13, from beautiful birds. Tbos. W. Blitch, Young's Island, S. C. For Sale?On account of consolida tion, will sell large or smali Steel Screw Door Manganese Bank Safe, also Vault Doors. Best condition. The Peoples Bank, Randleman,. N. C. The Little Tell Tale which telb the Truth. A complete egg record of the day, the week, the month, and the year. Price 10c. Address, Mrs. M. B. Roberts, Dade City, Fla. Girl or Woman?each locality, good ., Atlanta. Ga. Good Live Agents wanted in every town to sell a meritorious line of medicines extensively advertised and used by ever family and in the stable. An exceptional oppor tunity for the right parties to make good money. Write at once for proposition to L. B. 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Hopper capacity 250 lbs. fertilizer. Other machines both larger and smaller. They soon pay^ for them selves in the saving of labor. If you use fertilizer you can't afford to do without this distributer. Order today. Adcress, W. M. Patrick, Woodward, S. C. lbs) this variety sold In Boston, Nov., 1910, for $281.32. Seed $1.50 per bushel, 10 or more bush els, $1.25. Address A. M. Hug gins, Lamar, S. C. Reference: Merchants & Planters Bank, La mar, S. C. For Sale?120 bushels Iron Peas at $2.50 per bushel, 200 bushels Cleveland Big Boll Cotton Seed be ing best of seven different varieties by test for two years by rae, and free from disease, therefore I have abandoned all other short stables, also 30 bushels Long Staple left, sole lint at 20c. Dec. 23, good and bad, all delivered F. O. B. New berry, S. C, at $1.00 per bu. J. ? L. Mayer, Newberry, S. C. Wanted?Every man, woman and child in South Carolina to know that the "Alco" brand of Sash, Doors and Blinds are the best and are made only by the Augusta Lumber Company, who manufac ture everything in Lumber and Millwork and whose watchword is "Quality." White Augusta Lum ber Company, Augusta, Georgia, for prices on any order, large or small. when a 25 cent bottle of Noah's Liniment is guaranteed to drive this terror away?or moiey re funded. At the first twinge, applied as directed, Noah's Liniment will give immediate and effectual relief. It quiets the nerves and scatters the con gestion, penetrates and requires very little rubbing. Nonh'i Liniment Is the host remo { Imitations. Larpo bottle, i", cents, and sold by all rollers in medicine. Guaranteed or money refunded l>y Noah Remedy Co., Inc., Kirhmond, Va. Circuit Court Sale. State of South Carolina, County of . Orangeburg?In Common Pleas. . E. N. Mittle, Plaintiff, against Wm. L. Bishop and Mary Louise Bishop, Defendants. 'By virtue of a judgment in the above entitled case, I will sell at pub lic auction at Orangeburg Court House, during the legal hours for sales, on the first Monday In April, 1911, being the third day of said month, the following described real estate: All that certain lot of land, with buildings thereon, situate in tne town of Bowman, in the county of Orange burg, in said State, fronting towards the Southwest on Ott Avenue eighty (80) feet, and running back to the depth of one |hundred and eighty (180) feet, and bounded on the West by lot of said William L. Bishop, on the Northeast by lands of the Bowman Land and Improvement Co., on the Southeast by lands of J. D. Stroman, and being the same lot of land conveyed by Robert E. Copes, Judge of Probate, as Special Referee, to Mary Frances Bishop, who died bearing even date with the said mort gage, the same being executed to se cure the payment of the balance of the purchase money. Terms?Cash, the purchaser or purchasers to pay for all papers and all taxes falling due after the day of sale, and in case the purchaser or purchasers fail to comply with tho> terms of sale, said premises will be resold on the same or some subse quent salesday, on the same terms, and at the risk of the former pur chaser or purchasers. G. L. SALLEY, Clerk of Court of Common Please for Orangeburg County, S. C. March 14 th, 1911. Citation for Letters of Adminis.ration State of South Carolina?County of Orangeburg. My G. L. Salley. Clerk of Court. Act ing Probate Judge. Whereas, Fred K. Norris, has made suit to rne, to grant him Letters of Administration of the Estate of and effects of Ned A vinger, deceased, These Are Therefore to cite and ad monish all and singular the kindred and Creditors of the said Ned Avin ger, deceased, that they be and ap pear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Orangeburg. Court House, on March 27th, 1911, next after publication thereot, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be grant ed. Given under my hand, this 13th day of'.March, Anno Domini 1911. G. L. Salley, Clerk of Court, Acting Probate Judge j. W. DANIELS THE TAI LOK has moved to No. 10 West Amelia, St., where be is better prepared to handle your work. Suits made to order, lit guaranteed, cleaning, rc pairing, altering, and pressing neatly done. YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED. A New Vorher Who Tried Socialism. A New Yorker had an in voluntary experience of this Kind and David M. Parry, in "The Scarlet Empire," tells how it affected him. A book worth while lor fifty cents. Sims' Hook Store. If you have anything in the line of Shoe Repair you can have them done at No. 6 South Broughton, St., by JOHN W. CADDIIN Manager and Proprietor, Orangeburg, S. C.