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native woman out upon the ladder "Courage, Manuella," he kept wbl? per lug; '"courage, Annette. They've got to help you out," Captain Hardin leaned over the Hide. "Let the woman and child come aboard/' he shouted; "back there, men back. Welcber, let them come aboard ." Ah-h-b," cried ilington In a tone of relief. With a final almost super human effort he lifted Manuella to the rail of the Prinoaaa, safely aboard lie, wai about to pass the child to her, but young Neal Hardin wa a holding out hia arma. 'Tin a good catch," said young Neal; "put it there." Ilington glanced for one instant into tbe frank fac6 of Neal Hardin and the captain of the ship. He drew a sigh of relief. He nodded swiftly,., "Whatever happen*, thank God she ia In good hands, " ho aald. ? Captain Hardin put hi* Upa to his megaphone. "Put her about there," he shouted out; "full steam ahead." Kvon an he aald it there waa a fresh shower of huge red cinders; aoine ash ? Home In molten state. There waa an added cry of agony from shore and sea. Kven the refugees aboard the ahlp cowered under the hail of fire In terror. Suddenly at the captain's aide Manuella, the native woman, uttered a gasp. A red-hot cinder of unuiiual Size had smitten her upon the temple &h she crouched low over little Annette Ilington. Clutching the captain by the arm alio fell prone upon tho dock. Young Neal Hardin sprang forward and caught the child before she fell. ? Manuella's breath came fast? tho thinnest portion of her skull had boon pierced by the jagged edges of tho cinder. Wlld-eytfd and frantic, but woll realizing that she was upon tho point of death, she caught young Neal by the blouse. "I die ? you take baby?some day papa come ? very ? rich ? " She said no more. The captain bent over her, rose and glanced at Welch er significantly . Then he turned to his young son Neal. "Take the little girl into our cubin, Neal," he said. "Give her to your mother." Neal clutched tho warm bundle in hia arms and staggered with It aft. As Mrs. Hardin 'unwound the shawl sc/mething dropped clinking to tho cabin floor. Neal seized it and handed it to his mother. > "It's a bag of gold," he said. - No sooner had he said it than an other object fluttered to the floor? an oilsllk packet sealed with sealing wax. Mrs, Hardin placed the two upon a small stand set into the side wall of the cabin. She continued to unwind the shawl. Again they started. Pinned to the child's dress was a crumpled piece of paper, and upon the piece of paper was a hastily penciled scrawl. Mrs. Hardin read it. This is what it aald: "I am Annette Ilington, heiress of the lost IhIo of Cinnabar. I will bo vory rich some day. Save my clothes and the oilskin packet until my father comes for mo or until I am eighteen. I must look out for a man with a saber cut upon his faco. For God's sake keep me safe." CHAPTER IV. After a Night of Fear, Tho three men ? Ilington and his two companions ? sat dejected In their .badly leaking boat and watched Cap tain Hardin's vessel fado away into the distance. Ifrornandez watched her keenly* as e]j4iK*tllsappeared. Into the innermost recesses of his mind ho tucked away the fact that she was the stoamer Princess of Now York. Some 1 day that knowledge would bo of uso to him. Hot ashos brushed against Illngton's cheek; somo reBtod on his shoulders. He shook himself llko some hugo mastiff. Ho seized the (oars. "Come," ho said, "we've got to get out of this ? and right away. This boat is filling fast." "Go to it,' fienor," said Hernandez. "Row." ^ It' was not a reauest; it was a com mand. It was a strange thing that as long ns Ilington had borno tho child in his nrms, Ilington had been tho lead er of tho three. Now his independence seefned to leave him. For hours he rowed ? ho forgot h^ was a human being. His oars rose ntu! fell with the regularity of machine like movement. Suddenly Hernandez ?poke. "Careful, aenor," be commanded. "Behold tbe aurf." He w?? quite right. They were crossing some bar well oft tbe.ehore. Before they knew It they were tn the midst of a tumult of wind-drlven angry wave*. Ponto ahrleked. A wave tow ered high above them and fell with tbuhderoua thud ut>on the bottom of Hbelr boat. Bhe went under. Coqpe on" cried Illngton; "a hand on each of my shoulders? I'll tuke you safe ashore." Half an hour later tbe three men etnggered out of the battered ?urf and ?ank dowu exhausted upon a atrip of beaob Dawn broke with Hington atlll Bleep ing UeaVlly. Ponto was tbe first to wake. He shook Hernandez, placing hi* finger on hie lips. Hernandez sprang up with the agility of a pan ther. He collected bl? faculties in an Instant. He placed hie hand upon the shoulder of the sleeping man and shook him. "Wake, eenor," ho commanded; "It is day." "donor," went on Hernandez, "Ifet ua resume our conversation? our talk of yesterday. Where is this lost island?" He thrust his face into the face of Hington. "And whore," ho de? iiiumled, "la the oil silk packet?" "Where, also," added Ponto, "is the bag of gold?" Hington smiled.' "So you have soarched n?,e, have you?" be returned. "Well, you're welcome, gentlemen, to anything you And." He rose to hie feet. "Come on," he commanded, "we're marooned. I'm hungry. Let us sco what wo can find." Horhandez caught him by the arm. "Where ia the packet?" ho demanded. "And whore the gold?" persisted Ponto. Illngton smiled. "Iloth traveling ,,north," ho answered, "with Annette Il lngton. They are confided to her care," * "And why ?" asked Hernandez. Hington shrugged his shoulders. "I thought you and I and Ponto here were booked for death, that's why. Who knows ? we may still be booked for death." Hernandez glanced significantly at Ponto. "Some of us may," he said. "Come on," said Hington, "there are mussels on those rocks yonder. Fol low me." v He strode Into the water and waded toward a patch of rocky reof beyond. Ponto seized a bit of jagged wood that lay upon the beach. He and Hen nandez waded after Hington. Once on tho rocks Hington stooped and tore hugo shell fish from theli* moorings with his naked hands. As he did so Ponto in a sudden frenzy lifted high the billet in his hand and brought It with a crashing blow down upon the head of Hington. Illngton fell like a log. Hernandez sprang at Ponto and shook him as a terrier shakes a rat. ' "You fool," he cried, "what do you gain by this?" "Walt," exclaimed PontO, clawing Illngton with his clutching talons; , "let i!b Bearch him thoroughly." The search yielded nothing to them. "Fool," repeated Hernandez, "you have done a useless thing. There's al ways time I tell you." Ponto shook his head. "Senor," he said, "this man stood between us and the packet. There is no one now to keep us from his child." Hernandez slowly nodded. "True," he returned, "perhaps you are right. He waB a menace? now he Is dead. He is removed. Let us leave him to the mercy of the sea. Come on." 'To the mercy of the seal" these adventurers had Bald, and the sen was strangoly merciful. With the tender ness of a mother it laved the llmba of the supine victim? it washed his wound ? it laved his brow. It did more ? it brought him back to life. Uttering an inarticulate cry, the man rose, staggering to his feet. He put his hand to the back of his head. It came away covered with blood. He stared at hla ruddy fingers vacantly. "Red ? red ? " ho babbled. Ho stared about, him in bewilder ment. Babbling and cackling ho roso once moro to his feet. Some Instinct led him toward tho shore. He waded across the narrow strip of water, breast high, toward the narrow strip of beach beyond. Ponto't Eyes Reddeped; Hit Face Flushed Suddenly. He Fingered th? Hilt of Hie Knife end Glanced Toward Hernande*. He reached the beach und darted slg-xag hither and thither, ulways babbling, always t ackling. There was reason for this. Souif where la his skull there was g dunt ? a deep depression? made by the billet or wooff that had struck him <lown. Kver and anon as he went he stroked the wound with the right hauU and drew the hand away, covered with blood "Red red?" he babbled and went on. . .. ? <-]A CHAFTER V. A Night With Flam*. Young Neal Hardin wan proud of his father's lx>at, the Princess. H? never ceased admiring her. There was no part of her he didn't love. He was well assured that she must hold the same fascination for other people as she did for him. lie concluded thut little Annette Kington would fall des perately in love /with hia huge bout and ho escorted that young lady to all parts of the vessel- in fact, he walked her little legs off. They explored the lifeboats, the for ward quarters of the crew; they vis ited the pilot; they climbed the bridge Finally, they visited the hold.' it was well they did. Something had happened?and had happened on the day before while the I'rjncest) lay off Martinique. Cinders had fallen by the hundreds ? a condi tion of affairs th?t the captain and his crew had well prepared for. It was impossible to be everywhere at once and a cinder? a live, red messenger of death ? had taken advantage of this condition of affairs, had wormed its way unnoticed into the cotton cat-go, and like %>red hot cancer had eaten in to it with flame. With just the slightest trace of sx citement Neal drew the little girl to the deck and with her at his side sought and found his father and whis pered to him. The captain stiffened as with shock; his face turned pale, He held up a hand and three members of the crew rushed to him. He gave hasty, whis pered orders. . In ten minutes the Are hose was laid out ? men were working at the pumps gut in ten minutes something else had happened ? the hold was filled with smoke. Huge tongues of flame were leaping heavenward, and in that same ten minutes panic took command ? pandemonium reigned. "Abandon ship," Hardin cried. "All hands to the boats! Women and chil dren first." Two days later a boatload of half starved refugees parched with thlfBt, chilled by the cold night and baked by the heat of d<V, were sighted by a cruiser of the navy. Half an hour aft erwards its exhausted passengers clambered wearily but gratefully up the cruiser's side. The last of the refugees to leave the lifeboat an<L last of all save the life boat's crew to reach the cruiser's deck was young Neal Hardin. Clutched in his arms was the recumbent sleeping figure of little Annette Uington. Mrs. Hardin was offered the com mander's cabin. She accepted with gratitudo. She tucked Annette Illngton and Joey Welcher into their berths, but when sh? cam e to look for Neal, her young son, she found him missing. She searched for him. A seaman touched her on the arm. "You'H find him there, ma'am." said the sailor. He pointed toward a group in a cor ner of the sleeping deck. The ere* Ponto in a Sudden Frenzy Lifted High the Bi I le{ in His Hands and Brought' It Down. were swinging hammocks ready for the night. Mrs. Hardin listened. She hoard tho cleaj.-*<nr6s of her young ; son Neal. She hastened to the group and caught her offspring by tho hand. ? "Mom," he pleaded, "don't." He pointed toward a hammock high above his head. "That's where I'm going to sleep ? Just once ? tonight." A seaman touched his cap and grinned. "He's a sailor from the ground up, ma'am," ho said. "You can't make him anything else if you was to try a hundred years." All through that long night a woman lay, wide-eyed, with dumb agony with in hor heart. ^ She didn't know ? she couldn't know ? that Capt. John Har din was exploring the depths unknown with a knife sunk between his shoul der blades toy hla mate, Welchat. But sh? knew that she would never lay ?yes upop him more ? never feel the clasp of his hand, nor his kiss upon her lips, Kor his strong arms about her ? never In this #orld again. (TO BB CONTINUED.) Kduart rtple'n So vd Koeuu?? "The I*ve Kout*," Paramount Feature at The Majeatlc Next Tueetfay. 7b# t. mi. .11 roiituiut* i if tlM nt'i'li and the niilroud,_ "Th? Jx>ve Jtoutv," r?y Edward P?l>Ii'7 (author of the cur i tni comedy triumph, "A Pair ot sixes") is the iat?*st Kttioop Player* Flint (VnilpUliy'M four I ?;i ? I feature 00 thy I'ara mount program, the present attraction a I flu* Maje?ti<- 1 1?* \ i Tuea Hop*. 21 ?t. AlUullg l lt?- niHiiy striking effects In troduced In this subject Is the actual construction of a railroad, from (lie lliht *iuuU* (lUK in <??** gr?aind t?? the laying of tli?' l**t tie, a in I 1 1?? final running of, I lie mammoth engine over the newly-laid lint', a distinct novelty in motion pictures. The main charac ter# In t)u> play aiy a railroad civil engineer ami a you in* woman, the own er of (he ranch through which the new railroad is to puss, which ?be trie# to prevent even at the |>oliita of the re volvers of her cowboya, Tbdm two character*, when they meet, tiring forth i clash of will under eircumntamjee rarely simmi on the ? Xt'reen. The fact that they had previously J<A'e<i each other dearly adds to the Interest of I lif plot. To the very end she tights, ihd ultimately triumph*, but she ev^nl iually awakens (o the gi'e&ttieM of her love for the engineer after he . la allot hy one of her men, and is her self responsible for the completion of the line within the required time llinlt granted hy the railroad company. Produced In California, the camera has clearly defined the beauties of that wonderland. The situations calling for the united action of the cowboys and the railroad workmen, and scenes in which these t wo element* .meet 111 battle, display to the utmost the croft of the screen director. The carefully aeleoted coat includes Harold Lockwood, \Vlnlfre4 Kingston and Donald Crisp. ? adv. Library Note*. At a meeting- of the executive board ! of th6 Library Association held Wed nesday at <i p. Mt It wan decided V> purchase fixtures for indirect lighting from B. Electric 01k, Columbia, U.( It: Brooks, president, the wiring hav ing been done by. this company at a low bid. Mr. Bradford, of Columbia, met with the board to discuss screening of build ing and will bid for this work. The screening of the hospital was satis E. D. BOSTICK THE FARMERS BROKER v I have an attractive proposition for any one who has White Oak. If you are interested come in and see me. ? Wanted ? One second-hand hay press in tfood condition. Agent for Peruvian Guano and Phospho Land Plaster Room 7, Man Bldg. Phone M factorlly dune by him. The regular meeting of tbe Library Ammoi'Im t ioi i will be held at aiaml ou Monument Park next Tuesday after PODU at <1 j>. in. hIui i*i?. All i&embent. and those Intending b> be< -omu mem ber* arc urged to^ In? |>reHeut lo adopt Constitution and coudwf buslueHs. Aiiiium I d^ies will be collected, and committee* formed. Mrs. K. C, yon Trewekow, Pres. . . The conductors and motormen of the Columbia tdreet railway company, went Oil) ou strike SatiiKln.v morning. It i,s Mabi tttf conductor# objected t<? the ? li? < hliig Uli aiystem whieh is given a* the (BUM of twC Ktrlke. Temple, Texan. ? Ksther (Jrant, U years old', U the mother of a 7 -pound baby girl, she is Muppoeed t<? tie tbe youngeat mother known to medical science. Her step fat her, being beW li Jail for the crime, oootimltted suicide^ WIIJ JAM II. CKANK ' at MA/jraric TOIMV ? The Majestic T^entre announce* for today \N' 1 1 1 In in 1 1:-' Crane in "David llarum," one of the nnrnt famous aud eha racteriaatlons over con tributed to the American stage. Mr. Orane makes his lirst motion picture appearance In this his greatest <iiar acterixatlon of i >?t vi?l Ha rum, It is doubtful If. any Atnerlcun work of drauut o.f Action has cvci' achieved Much a widespread and instantaneous success a? did thle hook and i?lay. Mr. Crane's wonderful portrayal of the genial UJid qui^i old hero of this masterpiece is ou0 of the best exam ples of character work ever given on the Stage, so that the unusual com bination of star and play insure a pho to drama of unusual merit. ? adv. "The funniest play ever seen in New York," js what one of the most re* itowil&d dramatic critics of America ?uil<l when "A Gentleman of I/eisure" originally produced in dramatic form. HIh judgment was ftonttned hy an en gagement which continued for more than* a year to overwhelming business and also by the success of tjie play When offered on tour. It has now been plcturlzed by the Jesse L Lasky l*Ya ture Play Company, and js .presented with Wallace Kddlnger as "the star of an exceptional organization. At. the Majestic Theatre soon. ? adv. William H. Crane in the Popular Photo Play "DAVID HARUM" At the Majestic Today. We expect a few J Ford cars in stock within next few <layH. We alao w? have a full line ef ifyj parts. 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The government, in Bulletin 77, "Liming of Soils,", page 7, says that "Sulphate of Lime Plaster acts on the insoluble potash In the soils changing them to soluble potash, making them available for plant." Use It separate or in connection with your commercial fertilizer in, place of potash. ? The plants to which this fertilizer is best suited are Corn, Oats', Cottdn, 'Clover, Potatoes, Peauu . Peas, Beans and 'Cabbage. i ' ? > "" The price Is so reasonable that any farmer can afford to use it ;? .'? ( v j ???' Sulphate of Lime, Gypsum or Land Plaster does not liberate ammonia, it tjonserves, or fixes, re ?^n^. same as the plant requires this particular food. You can readily see the 'iluperior virthes of ** Plaster or Sulphate of Lime over Carbonate of Lime. For a practical illustration, call on the vn signed. Write for prices and further information to v . .... i J WW. IP si *F, E. D. BO STICK, CAMDEN^. C. SPECIAL DISTRIBUTING AGEHT^ : Carolina Fertilizer & Contracting Co. ^ W. A. 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