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ihBeverly guard," decided M iss Calhoun. "Beverly, dear, that man is no ordi nary person," sold the princess quite positively. "Of course he isn't. He's a tall, dark mystery." "I observed him its lie crossed the ter race this morning," said Lorry. "lie's a striklhg sort of chap, aid I'll bet my head he's not what he clims to be." "le claims to be a fugitive, you must remember," said Beverly in his de fense. "I meian that he is no common male factor, or whatever it may be. Who and whal do you suppose lie is? I con fess that I'm intersted in the fellow, and he looks as though one might like him without half trying. Why haven't you dug up his past history, Beverly? You aire so keen about him." "Ile positively refuses to let me dig," explained Beverly. "I tried, you know, lut lie-he-well, he squelched me." "Well, after all is said and done, he caught us peeping today, and I am filled with shame," said the princess. "It doesn't matter who he is, lie must certainly have a most unflattering opin Jon as to what we are." "And he is sure to know us sooner or later," said the young countess, mo mentarily serious. "Oh, if it ever comes to that I shall be IIi a splendid position to explain it all to hIm," said Beverly. "Don't you see, I'll have to do a lot of explaining myself?" "Baronl Daingloss!" annc incnd the guIrd of the upper hall, throwing open the door for the doughty little chief of police. "Your highneu'.ss sent for ne?" asked he, advan'ig after the formal saluta tion. The princess exhibited genuine a mazsemenIt. "I did, lharon Dangloss, but you must have cone with the wings of an eagle'. It is really not more than three m1iutes since I gave the order to Colo nel Quiox." The baron smiled mys teriously, but volunteered no solution. The truth is, he was entering the cas tle doors as the messenger left them, but he was much too fond of effect to Spoll a good situation by explanations. It was a long two miles to his office in the Tow%'er. "Something has just hap pened that lilmpels me to ask a few (luestions concerning v1aldos, the new guard." "May I first ask what has happen ed?" 1)an1gloss was at a loss for the mecaning of the general smnile that went around. "It is quite personal and of no con sequence, What (10 you know of him? My curiosity is aroused, Now, be quiet, Beverly. You are as eager to know as the rest of us." "Well, your highness, I may as well confess that thme muan is a puzzle to me. 17 WhtaeyuS ig od ihu? I oe heeavaaod butec tanl desno at ik oe.Headit ththei big utebu aksn on lt /hs4$ldece ortath "I lave yrjou anyreaso to uspect" who e i?" aerked va.aonrry. tli c "Miny (i'Snts like oweeie admritn tham liest heing hun,"b toaeind Dng lioswt ai thet~ii~c look tat -the aorta lter.Sil ha'velamade "aveiatou aln roner sines." "An'wo li s( is' he?" riedBevr "I3 dontu't ko," wste toisappoin friiu~ oing anser."War complonted quriinalof)crum sncs. Doubtll Iha essad youtatiknw tatn yother PinoDan "ta n't knfow,"h wath dfispoint brother, our lamented friend G.abriel. Hie is suppose4l .to be 10.9~ur hills with By - GEORE BRR 0 WOUTCHIfN, - . Author of "Graustark" - - Copyright. 190 . Dodd. ti.~ -h s"iiiied biodfy o'Y followers. It t seems impossible that le could have t reached our northern boundaries with out our outposts catching a glimpse of him at some time. The trouble Is that his face is unknown to most of us, I among the others. I have been going ' on the presumption that Baldos Is In E reality Prince Dantan, but last night a the belief received a severe shock." t "Yes?" came from several eager lips. "My men who are watching the Dawsbergen frontier came in lIst night and reported that Dantan had been seen by mountaineers no later t than Sunday, three days ago. These t mountaineers were in sympathy with him and refused to tell whither lie S went. We only know that he was in the southern part of Graustark three days ago. Our new guard speaks many languages, but he has never been heard 1 to use that of Dawsbergen. That fact t in itself is not surprising, for, of all things, he would avoid his mother tongue. Dantan is part English by birth and wholly so by cultivation. In that he evidently fiNds a mate in th!s Baldos." e "Then he really isn't Prince Dan- ' tan?" cried Beverly, as though a cher Ished1 ideal had been shattered. "Not if we are to believe the tales from the south. Here is another com plicatlon. however. There is, as you know, Count Hlalfont, and perhaps all I of you, for that matter, a pretender to the throne of Axphain. the fugitive 0 Prinec Frederle. He Is described as young. good looking, a scholar and the next thing to a pauper." "Balos a mere pretender!" cried Beverly in distress. "Never!" "At any rate, he is not what he pre tends to be," said the baron, with a wise smile. "Then you think he may be Prince Frederic?" asked Lorry, deeply Inter ested. "I an' inclined to think so, although another complication has arisen. May it please your highness, I am in , an amazingly tangled state of miud,." ad- 1 mitted the baron, passing his hand 0 over his brow. "Do you mean that another nyateri- f( ous prince has cone to llfe?" asked Yetive, her eyes sparkling with interest in the revelations. "Eary this morning a dispatch came to me from the, Grand Duke Michael of Rapp-Thorberg,. a duchy in westeru. Europe, informing me that the duke's eldest son had fled from home ami1 Is known to have come to the far eazst. possibly to Graustark." "Great Scott!" exclaimed Anguish.. ~ "It never rains burt it hails, so here's hail to the princes three." ri "We are the Mecca for runaway roy- S alty, it seems," said- Count Hlalfont. t' "Go on with the story, Baron Dan- a gloss," cried the princess. "It is iikte' aG boo0k."A "A description of the young man ar' compIanies the otfer of a large reward for information that may lead to ihis return home for reconciliation, and" bere the baron paused dramatically. "And what?" interjected Beverly.. who could not wait. 1 "The description fits our fr'iend Bai dos perfectly!"' [Tro am commeuan.) Tho Poltry Show, The Pickens County Pouitry,Pg-, eon and Pet Stoca Show is nm'-mma i with much enco~ur'agement, arnd l1.,: of people have signifie'd their in e'n- 1' tion of uxhibiting, which is all very' mice and good; but the memb.'r-hip. is not swellinlg a fast as it ab.'sai'" Only six weseks re-nain until the shouw "omes off' and a lot of work is t" ve t be done-tickets, po~ts-rs, prmiumlm g lists, entry blanks, score cards,, tagy, h etc., to be gotten up, correspond ice R to be done, exbiitition coopS h,' ' e I' proenred, and only a very few nwn - bers who have the time or inclinstioni to go ahead wvith these things. So folrther working arrangements must be made and ai meeting of the fan.: ciers should bo immediately held to take up these matters, n Tlhis association, by its members, ' MUST make an exhibit at the Green- (1 ville show which is to be held Dec. 10--14, and our fanciers should get t tog~ether at this next meeting and V make the necessary arrangements for c an rixhit. Clerk's Sale, t1de of South Carolina, County of Pecone. In Common Plea Court. I i crsnauce of 31 decrectal order 1 do in the following-nanwd case atid a file in tie clerk's ofice, I will Roll to I! highl-st bidder, during the legal ourse for faim, at Pickeune comthosge, . U. on Salesday in Deoombmr, 1907, 10 followinag-sec-ribed r-ea Cat to upon be terms lierein -fter Iensti,nod, to-wit: James Ti o! ter, ot al., vs. J' n Trotter. 1st All th t cernina piece, parcei er -Ile of lan I lying anad being situate in coun y and state iaforesaid, contain. 1g 103 uni 17)-100 acres, more or less, a reprro'-wted by plat of survey imade Li the dIv'sion of tihe estaite of G. MoD. vrotttr, deceased, on tHe 251h day of eptembir. 1907, by 0. A. Ellis, sur, --yor, and better knaowin as the home nict of G. MeD. To t or, des ea' d. djoining lnd , of B. P. Mauldin, For, 'mson's land-, Re ese Bowen laud others. 2d. All that otlir piece, parol or mnot of land lying and I being situa'e in l conitaty uand sate af sresaid,conatainiig 19 sid( 83-100 anere. more or less, as bown by pl..t of survey made in the iviioll of the- esite (if 0. Mc'i. Trotter, ecensed, onl the 25th doy of September, 907, by . A. Ellis, m veyor, ;t being 1s northern portion of the estate of G. I -). Trotter, decesied, adjoining lands f M. W. Simmo'is, the- home tract, Ed. fetidrioka aid (others. Tr~n - IOneh If easlai l'alance on a r.edit of twelve months from day of sale. be' 0redt portion to be setenred by a onid of th0e piirclhasti and a Iiortgage f the premfise4, said mortgaige bealing' iterest from dacy of sale st the rate of ight per cent. per aunnum, with lemv to Iw ili'chasmer or paitlasers .o pay all ah ou) d-ay of sale. Terms f %aal must I complied with in sme hour aft-r sale, the pr-emiseA will be resol st the risk f thei fortome pmrcheaseer or purchoaisel-.4 nyehier or purch .,;ors to pay for all -es a' d for recordiug the sawue. A. J. BO08. [sal.] ..lerk of c( urt, Clerk's Sale tale of Soumth Carolina, County of Pick MnS.-In C.otnimon Pleam Court. In p)rn4MaeIm of a decreetal order ado in the follo-wing-named case anaJ 1 ill- l th-, olerk's mall0, I will sell to iEf higheat ijd ler during the legal loura >r ale,amt Pioog coIrthouse, 8. C., on ,Iles lny in Denember, 1907, the follow. ag-described remI estate, ipon th ete-rmak en-ine fler Imentioned. to-wit: Lieasv'u Riggina, ef al., Plaintiffs, against Clayonm Collia, et al., Defendants. All that, certainm tract or p~hiintation of 11nda ini said county andua state lying on4 actea ntf Urow creek, waters of Ksowvee yea-, edulaiininig two huundred and fifty x (?5G} a ee, more or lesa, being allIlof at tract of hand r-epresenmted by a plat med survey of -amne amade by Tho<. D. asrvin, surveyor, dasted thme 19th day of pr-il, 1854, 1es4 fifty m'id onie foath iG) ares sold off thammefromn to Daniel lexander by t he said Jordan Rice,, as all appear bv- deed fe om Jordan Rice to 'aniel Alexarnder, dated MI trch 12, 1872, ad recornded ina Deed Bomk "A," at 1gm-s 735a ad 736 of the records1 of Piek- { s cunity, S. 0., reference being hereby ade teo the above-menatione-d deed: and rat, and to a plit of the portion solhr off inm thae originat traet amatde by E. C.I da-as, an-teyor, dated May 8tha,. 1;907, r sa more 0 >mplete dlescriptioni of tane Imaa'ning 256 acr-es, more or less.. Te.rma-Onae-half cash on dlay, of sale, so bzalancm on a credit of twelve mon th,. tae credit portion to bear inter'est at me uiate of cighat per centumn per annum atil paid, and to be sanrmed by a bond the piirchasaer nnd mortpnge of the -emisoes sold. with leave to the pumrchaisei, pamy all eaish oen day of smle. Terms. sale must he complhed wirlh in cno mnr. or thae premises will be sold on me day of sale at time risk of the for-mer troa-s.-r. Pnmichaser to pay for alla ipera aend reo >rdinmg name. I A. J. ROGGS, j1 [Seal.] Clork of Court. otice of Final Settlement and Dis i charge. Notise is hiereby giveni that I will mask. >phicationa to J. B. NOwbe~rV, Eaq.,I inude o.f Pr-ob -to for- Piekena cannty. in me Statc of Month Ca -oia, on ahe 5th ay of December, 19937, at 11 m'clock in ae forenoon, or aia anon thaereafter a< isid ap~picoation can be0 haear-d, for leavy make final settlemoent of the estate of r II. Singleton, dec-eased, anid obtain echmarge as excutor of 'emdl esat'. 4 H. D. SINGLETON, Nove. 7, 1907. Execnt or., Ashmore & WTE have just received Dress Goods and S right up-to-(ate In c Bring us your Prodi ens, Eggs, Butter., Pe We Will pity the top anything you have Our Motto: "" Bet Shoes, It will pty You'to buy your Shoes. Yours 1 A SHMORE am ORCANIZE1 CARTE n, W. T. O'Di r, President. Vimo Prem LIBERTY LIBERTY Capital - Profito - - Dag0Bits - - DIRECT . . Moto w. : I I N- 31OnuAN *J. CARTE! Accatitit of Mijrchtut. Farmers, Firms, H.l A. RI 'ENERAL M1!RHAND4E A -- ELLS T H I -ORSE HIGH, TE WE 3ull THAT IStrong ,hicken w Proof -log Nothing - :an run through r climb over anc LOOK -Fall S1 AND FA ' FOR TPi FALL SE Cloods Sent o MPRETURNAoL.EIAT ( ZREENVIL]1 Nimmons a big lot of N(%1w 1oes. Our stock is Y 3 res!)ect. Ice, such ats Chick IutiLs, Potatoes, etc. of tie Illarket for Inr Sale. goods for less Money, ,r goods for same Money. Seoes! See us before you truly, i. NIMMONS D 1901. H. C. Sinury, ident, Cashier. BANK, ,S. C. -- - - 0,000,00 DRS. I. C. , SFIRLEY J. P. SMITr. CHE1fY, 4. s. c., MD COUNTRY PRODUCE, BEST ON EARTH! BRICS - SO.~ DE / t, craw unde