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Scriptural Quotation. When you 8ay you hive 9scaped by the skin of your teeth, do yoU know you are quoting Scrilpture? Look in the twentieth verse of the kineteenth e)Ipter of Jot) and yoi Wll" find tie Ijne: "My bone cleaveth to my skin ltid my fleshi, 111( 1, anf Aiped witt the skin of I'y teeth." - X . "A pharmaelst was dissatisfic(d With 4,youth fu assistant and requ'ested hin t6 look for another Jot), remarking to customer as the boy was leaving can dispense without. "-noys' life., a NOTICE OF ELECTION. 8*ste of SWIutilo'rolina, M .unt..o 'Line9 ,jWhereas, petit-lons signed by a legal mber of the qualified electors and f .e-holders residing in ,Waterloo 8 toot distI.ctgjl9. 1, :Laure49 9unty, tuth Carolina, asking for an election il On the (ilestion. of voting anl add t nal 4 iffil th'x mpon -the prooMfty In s d school district, to be used for ITS A SeU RE FRIEND Did you earn that mor it, didn't you? Why can't y it in the bank each pay day work for you? Vou wont always be a well. Then it will be a finc you banked, while you coul< it. We add 4 per Make OUR bar The Enterprise N. B. DIAL, President FARMS' .Davis place, 3 miles soil road, containing 116, 170 acres, 6 miles west 2 217 acres, 9:miles~of Li 56 acres nice land near 360 acres, near Boyd's ] 234, acres, 6 miles w< proved. 100 acres, 4 miles of Le 52 acres, 6 miles of Lau One 32 acre and one 60 Tavern. 75 acres east of Lauren 137 acres near Gray Col 143 acres in Greenville church. 100 acres near Ware SI 103 acres at Mountville Other' good farms that you. Rrices and terms ri I also have all kinds of One nice new store fore I buy and slel all kinds Call and see the olde BiM Lauremn school pidrposes, have been filed with the county board of education, an clec tion is hereby ordered upon said ques tion, said Mlection- to be held on the 15th day of July, 1920, at Alt. Gallagher .building in ,said district, under the management" of tile trustees of said school distridt. -Only -such elections as return real or personal property for taxatiofn ani who exhibit their tax receipts and reg; istration certillcates as required In the getgeral election shall be allowed to vote. . Those favoieing the 4 mill additional tax, shall vote a ballot containing the word "YEDS" written or printed therei on1 Those. *gainst -t6 ,4., mii add. U'mal tax Ifaill vote...,baIlot contain-' ing the word "NO" .yritten or printed thereon. Polls shall open at the hour of8 o'lock In the torengon and:,shal T tafn -opjen until the. hon' of 4 o'clocit in 'the afternoon when they shall bt closed and the ballots counted. I The trustees shall report the resul of thp election to ti ecoungaudito ad county superintendent 6T'educa tiop within ten days thereaftep. ' --R. T. IX -SON,'Suipt. 50-2t By order of 'County -Boardt ey? Well you worked for ,ou put some little piece of so that some day it can ble to work. even ifjyou are i feeling to have the money I work, whioh is now. Bank -4 cent. interest. ik YOUR bank. National Bank C. H. ROPER, Cashier Eden. ey Wllyolwrkd.o oust omauensttel picmo brens.or.eeniyo r fceln toacterh micony cert neet County, bnakLbao atinaBn C. shal beOgEad toshiew wet onfas Lainn stetop of Latocks t Reaf Lsae elr irn rt. W LF Cutnar Lebano The House of Whispers WHUIAM JOHNSTON . IRWINMDIERS ,. .. opriht byMWtu, BrownA go. (Continued fi'om Page F'our.) I Was convInced that Wiek iInd-' thi telephone girl were only two--noro than likely two itinor- ietibers-+of a powerful blody of crininals. That it was tills samne siister force that had caulsed my disehargo fron the oflice I was equalily Aure. This sort of thing took blrailns-far bigger brains than Wrek gave any evidlence of possessing. A peculliar apathy came over ie as I finisled readivg the account. Never before had I so fully understood how thorodghly an innocent nan could be damnned by circuinstantial evidence. I knew-Unrbara knew-that I was ab solutely inniocent. I doubted much If we could get anyone else to believe it. The cunning web had been woven with such mallelous thoroughness that escape seemned inssible. WhAt was the use of my fighting further? CHAPTER XIII. Coning as it did as a (lire climax to all my other troubles, the shock of old Itufus Gaston's tnurder sent me into an apathetic state from which It seened itnposslble for tue to arouse myself. Without hope an11d even with out interest I dully awaited the ap proeach of n trial for murder. While there never had been an op portunity for any bond of affection to become established between ny aged relative and myself-in fact, I had seen him only three or four times in my whole life, and then only for brief periods-still his unexnected and dreadful end lad hereft me of practi cally every hope of being acquitted (if the ahsurd charge against ine. Wick, it was plain, intelded to dischlini all knowledge of iy relationship to Mr. Gaston, and now there was no one else to explain how I happened to be living in the buiildirg at the time of Miss Lutan's murder. Unfortunately I had destroyed both Mr. Gastont let ter to me and the note from my mother whleh had first told mne of the old mian's intent ion. My great-aunt, I learned from the newspapers, had been completely prostrated by the tragedy and had been unnble to come to the funeral. The shock of the newA of her hilpusind's violent end had left her in a very critical condition. It seeined to have wholly deranged her aged brain, and the physieians stil moied to the Maine camp where she was refused to perinit her to be re mioved fron there or to let anyone talk wth her, declaring that tle least excitement of anly sort would be apt to hove 'fatal results. To be sure- there was mys mother, who could prove tiny retltoship, bit I felt there was little uste of draugginig her into it. Ona reading of her uncle's E(inthi shle had lasteUned on fr-oun the West to attend his funeral and had bleeni pl~lVed and n1 larmed by not finid Sig me th1ere. All the title I had( bteen ini pri sont I ha~d been wi-itinug her- til utsutal wo-k-ly hetter-, nttee.tinag a cheer funess i wats fuar fromtt feelinrg anud tell Intg heri nothIinig of \vhat htad haippened'a, fleri let tears to tane, aiddr-essed to the GIranddeck, htad btteen forwvtaded by the post offi1ce, so thtat until sifter shbe a rived in the city she knew niothinag of miy plighat. [t had been my hope Itat I wvoldl be able to citoeal evertytig fronm her umntil aift er I had been Iatrim phiatl y sauit ted. If I were-a tnot slae wmould knowv the wvors-t soon enouiigh. When'a she fitrst learnemid, or trom w'ha Sic ofa!C mb ty pared(i('ament I waus unatware', I dlid noit e-ven ktoaw oft her presenice ini te city un t il tin<by after my grefht-uncl(le's fiunernl, whien-just twenit-fourm hours before tmy tial wuas to begli-a keeper brought tme waordt that sihe was waitting dtownstaiies to s-ee tme. I stIeeled tmyself for- the inteirvtew withb het-. Naturtially I expIected'( tht she would be terily~ hiorror sii~trien andt~ sho(-ked tit my plight, but whuat heri a5ttitudte towaird tme woutld be I coiuld rnot conjecturte. I family e-xpacteda; niothintg butt r'eprioaches fr-om ther. She h11 a en rP itposed to tny cottaing toa New York-l thIaut I fe-lt cetain thait Ishe would Intsist that' m iy conducttt musist hae respionible) tot- miy being where I no0w wats. For yeatrs, it seaetd to mie, the relations betweeni my mot~thaer and1 myt~ aelf hadt been not hinrg btut 'onltinuoults ratisu utlesItadintgs. T1( omy grea5it nmazl ?emnt andt howildermet'i taot tall utnkind~ word anor the suagge'stio o(11f ai r-epr-oachfill thaought camse from het' "Oh, may lboy, imy bony," slat land e'ried as shte sawv tae, "I know youm didln't tdo it. I knmow may 1toy is innocent I Whtat cain I (do to help1 youY" In thatt glorious, wonder-ful muomaent of reanctioan all ires-entment-t I haid felt towarttd her fore'ver vianished. I htad 0110 acred, unftorgettabie gitnpse of the etral gr'eatntetss of the Maothe heart, ever- readly to tot-give, ever- quick to cormnlrehiend. eve-rnemnit toaid,: lPor 010 sweet hour -we talked to gether, moro uiderstandingly than ever before in our lives. Freely and fully I told her everything, even to my Wonderful but hopeless love for Bar bara Bradford. Sie was willing, anx ous, eager to aid me-but what was there that she could do?--what was there that anyone could (o? It was hopeless for a lone woman of limited means, unacquainted with the big city and unused to its ways, to at tempt to battle against such powerful and desperate criminals as were con cerned in the far-reaching plot to make me the scapegoat of their hein ous misdeeds. I could only advise her that she se McGregor and Gor mim and be guided by what they sug gested. When the morning of my trial actu ally 'awrived I entered the courtroom in a state of dull apathy. The night be fore I had not slept at all. I had spent all the black' hours reviewing my life, especially the last year, thinking with what high hopes and great expecta tiorig I had conie to the metropolis and how milserably everything had turned out fo'r in(. Stop by step 'I had re viewed the events that had brought iae, discredited, all but friendless, all but pennilless, into this dismal court room accllse(l of a horrible, cowardly deed, seekiig. to see wherein I might have altere(d my recent actions or changed the course of my life to avoid having arrived at this shaneful goal. Yet, strange to say, I found myself after imature reflection convinced that had I this Iast year to live over again not in one iota would I have (one dif ferently-no, not even if I could have foretold what the future had In store for m1e. No sense of shame nor of guilt pos sessexI me. I was aware of having (one wrong to no one. A clear con scinece kept assuring me that it wvas aisfortime and not error on imy part that had brought me here. At every point in the st'range chain 'of circuni staices I felt that I had acted ag mon of honiw should have acted. My sense of innocence upheld me ven though the deliberate mallei6us- plot ting of evil men iight mnake It appear to the judge, to the jurors, to the whole world that I was a murderer. Itven though I should be sentenced to death for killing a woman I never had seen the knowledge that at every point I had done what I still believed to have been right, brought me strong comfort and filled ine with new cour age. Yet It was.with lack of interest that I listened to the monotonous question Ing that formed a part of the- selection of a jury. "So far as I am conceined," I had said to my cotnsel in our last chat, "any sort of a jury will (to. 'Unless we sticceed -In upsetting the- evidence against ine-with a crash that all the world can hear it makes no differ ence." "I guess you are right," he answer ed, despondently, it seemed to ite, "and if the worst happens, we always can take all appeal." Ills reply convinced me that lie, too, was antlelpatng the result, whlh I long ago had deeided to be the only oittl1n nlessA something unforeseen happened-a verdlet against me of urder In the first degree. (To be continuefi.) Spiders and Good Fortpne. Sipiders, accordmIinmg to super-stIt iorl are Omelns of good forinne11, theare-fort! to kill theam provokqs Wanth and in vites disaster. Supierst itious people will tell that the br-Ide who finds a splider In the folds of her wedingi gown many look forward to a married life of irrent nrosneritv. INSI F Pro L. C. Barksdale J. J. McSWAIN Candidate for CONGRESS M1any People .oday still buy a piano as a meanis otf fiurni ishing their home. nI tu Ihere are t hose who seek to express, inl the pianos they own, soietiing of the finer imnpulses antd of the finler ideals I ha t guide l bema in the cihoosilnl-1 of tIleir flrientds an1d of their hoies. To such as these the Weaver pltight (trand akes a resist less appeal. 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