The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, March 24, 1908, Page 4, Image 4

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BASE BALL OUTLOOK. ONLY CONDITIONS ON WHICH WE CAN HAVE IT. The Old Directors Have Done Their Full Share and We Must Rally to 'Ineir Support. If Orangeburg wants baseball this 'season the business men must go down in their pockets and put up the necessary cash to make the league a success. We had fine ball last year, but it was at a loss of some twelve hundred dollars, which was borne by the board of directors. This is not right. If baseball is a benefit to the town all the business men share In the benefit and every one should be willing to help along the cause by making as liberal a contribution as he can. We should not allow a few public spirited men to shoulder any deficit as was done last year. The old board of directors have done all they could to arouse an in terest on the part of the business men in the league this year, but their ef forts have met with failure, and they xhave about given up the matter. It is stated that much astonishment was expressed when it became known that the old board of directors would not hold the bag again this season and make good the deficit as they did last. We do not see why there should be any astonishment about the matter at all. The old board sim ply said they could not afford to carry the load as they did last year. They are perfectly willing to do their full share, and more than their share, but the gentlemen who com pose the old board do not feel war ranted in proceeding in the matter of putting out a team unless the busi ness men of the city are willing to help keep it in the field the whole season. Who can blame them for this? The board is not composed of our richest business men, but if every one of the business men in the city would contribute one-fourth as much as each of the directors contribute there would be an abundance of money to run the team It takes money to run a baseball team, and if Orangeburg is to main tain one. it must be done iu a busi ness like manner. If wc- want to en joy the luxury of baseball, let us figure up the probable cost and see if we are willing to put up the mon ey. If we are not, we should get out of the way and let some more enterprising town have our place. That is all there is to it. The team must be maintained by the whole town and not by a few public-spirit ed citizens, as has been the case in the past. We do not blame the old board of directors for becoming dis heartened. They have received no support but talk, and that does not pay off base ball players and um pires and railway fares. UNION MEETS AT CAMERON Interesting Program Arranged and a Good Meeting Expected. The Fifth Sunday Union of the Or angeburg Association will meet with the Cameron Baptist Church, Satur day, March 2Sth, at 10 o'clock. Devotional Exercises?10-10.3 0? J. R. Stoudemire. Discussion I. What is the scope and significance of the Layman's Movement??E. M. Lightfoot and W. W. Willian. Discussion II. Who should teach In our Sunday Schools??W. R. Smith. B. H. GravesandW.S. Peterson. Intermission. Disscussion III.?2.30. Whyshould we teach our distinctive Baptist doc trines to the people??Jno. A. Brunson and F M. Hauser. Discussion IV. Shall we know each other in Heaven??J. W. Kin ney, B. M. Foreman and J. W. Pat rick. Sunday?10 A. M. Sunday School Address?W. W. Willian. 11 A. M. Missionary Sermon?F. M. Hauser. I trust that the brethren will feel the importance of being present at the Union and doing all they can to make the meeting a success. J. P. Graham, (For Committee.) Excursions By Southern. Spartanburg, S. C?On account of Festival, April 29 to May 1. Tic kets sold April 28. 29, 30, with limit returning to midnight May 2, at rate of $10.70 for the round trip. Baltimore, Md?On account of the General Conference of the M. E. Church. Tickets sold May 3, 4, 5, limited to leave Baltimore May '0. at rate of $25.75. Norfolk, Va?On account of the General Conference of the A. M. E. Church. Tickets sold May 2, 3, re turn limit May 31. 1908, at rate of $17.10. Colored Man Shot. Govan Salley, colored, who up to a short time ago, lived in this city, was shot and killed ou Saturday night by unknown parties near Denmark. The report is that he was too intimate with some colored women, and their husbands did the killing. Stable and Barn Burned. One night last week the barn and stable of the Messrs. Baldwin near Cordova was burned. One or two horses and mules were also burned. This is a heavy blow to these young men. but they will soon be on their feet again. For the Hospital. The managers of the Moving Pic ture Show will donate 25 per cent, of the receipts from .'! to 10 o'clock Wednesday evening to the Hospital Association. So lets all go and help along the good cause. Typewriter Ribbons. Sims' Book Store has just received a full supply of Typewriter Ribbons and Red Seal Carbon Paper. RURAL SCHOOL PRIZES. Regulations Adopted by the State Board of Education. The State board of education Sat urday gave some time to a discussion of the prizes to be awarded the rural schools making the most material improvement during the year. It was finally decided to adopt the fol lowing: "1. Improvements must be made between November 1, 1907, and Dec ember 10, '1908. "2. Prizes will be awarded to the schools where the most decided ma terial improvements have been made during the time mentioned. "3 Under material improvements are included local taxation, consoli dation, new buildings, repairing and painting old ones, libraries, reading rooms or tables, interior decorations, beautifying yards and better general equipment. "4. No school can compete for any of these prizes unless it is a rural school. No town with more than 100 population snail be. eligible to the contest. "5. All who wish to enter this con test must send names and descrip tions of schools, before improvements are made, to the president prior to October 1. "6. All descriptions, photographs and other evidences showing im provements must be sent to the pres ident before December 15, 1908. The chairman of the board of trustees of any school that is competing for a prize must approve all descriptions before and alter improvements are made. "7. Prizes wLi be awarded in checks at the annual meeting of the South Carolina School Improvement association December 31, 1908. The prizes are to be used for further im provements in the schools receiving them." ? NEGRESS KILLED. She Was Crawling Across Railroad Track Under Car. About half-past two o'clock Fri day afternoon Selina Green, a col ored woman, who is employed at Claflin University as a servant, was instantly killed at the Southern Rail ray freight station, just opposite the Unversty. It was a sad accident and made a deep impression on the col ored people of Orangeburg. The facts, as developed at the 'In quest, were about as follows: The woman and a companion were cross ing the tract while a freight engine was doing some shifting. The com panion walked around the three box cars which were standing by them selves, but the Green woman took a shorter route and began to crawl un der one car to the other side. Just as she got about half way across t he engine and five more cars struck those, under one of which tho woman was. The car moved only about four feet, but that was sufficient for the wheel to reach her body and pinion it to the track. The body was fearfully mangled and t was necessary to pull the car off in order to remove the remains. It seems that the acciuent was caused solely through the careless ness of the woman who was killed, as she could have walked around like her companion. Coroner Rickenbaker was immedi ately notified and in less than two hours the inquest had been hid. The verdict was in accordance with the facts as above related. THE PLANTERS BANK. Officers Elected and Will Soon be Ready for Business. Orangeburg's fifth ba?-k v'as for merly organized last week, and will be ready for business within the next week. It was the intention of *he promo ters to orgonize a national bank, but they found it more feasible to or ganize as a State bank and then con vert the institution into a national bank later on. The bank has been organized as the Planters' bank. The capital stc?k is $50,000 and a majority of this amount was repre sented at the meeting of the corpor ators. The following were elected direc tors: William C. Wolfe, Dr. L. M. Dunton. W. G. Sease, Philin Rich, Victor Wald. W. F. Stack and W. K. ?Sease. At a meeting jf the directors, Mr. William C. Wolfe was elected presi dent. Dr. L. M. Dunton vice-president and Mr. W. G. Sease cashier. The bank will be located on Court House square, next to the '>ost'?fflce, and In the store now occupied by Dr. H. E. Reeves. This building is to be handsomely furnished, and os it will be two or three month before it can be occupied, temporary quar ers will be secured elsewhere The list of stockholders is unusual ly strong and the prospects for the bank are unusually bright. Pipe Organ Recital. There will be a large crowd pre sent at the Baptist Church on Fri day evening when Prof. Paul De Launay of Columbia will give a pipe organ recital. Prof. Do Launay is the organist and Choir master at Trinity Episcopal Church, and is one of the finest Musicians in the south, and is a particular fine or ganise There will be no admission fee charged to the recital but a silv er offering will be received. It is hoped that a large audience will greet Prof. Do Launay on this his first visit to our city. School (torn missioner. Messrs. P. H. Marchant, Jr., and L. W. Livingston announce them selves as candidates for school com missioner in the approaching pri mary. They are both bright >on'ig men. and would fill the ofi! e to the satisfaction of the public iL elected. TEACHER'S MEETING. SUBJECTS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE DISCUSSED BY THEM. The Orangebuig County Teacher's Association Held a Most Instruc tive Meeting. The regular meeting of the Or angeburg County Teacher's Associa tion was held at the Courthouse on last Saturday week with the Presi dent. Prof. L. \V. Livingston, presid ing. Several very interesting sub jects were discussed. The first sub ject taken up for discussion was "How to Keep the Plow-boy in School." The first speaker introduced was Mr. j. G. Lowry who said in part: "A complete solution of this pro blem remains hitherto undiscovered, but ? the success of keeping boys of this class in school would be more ideally so if the teacher were aided by a compulsory educational law." "Such a law would most assuredly be for the genera] welfare and a safe guard to our future liberties." The root of the trouble was here pointed out as laying in the home influence. "Parents should be very carerul as to this." "A stream cannot rise above its fountain and the boy above his home training." The parents as well as the teacher should labor to instill into the boy those lofty ideas of character and the incomparable returns of the edu cated mind; they through "co-opera tion should impress upon the boy the great need of intelligence in this onward age of ours behind the plow as well as in any other vocation of life." "The teacher should endeavor to grow a deep affiliation between the pupil and the school." He should strive to make the school just a lit tle more attractive than the home surroundings, and the great, work just begun here by the State School Improvement Association will, in deed, be a great factor for good." A compulsory education law was rather favored as being a bridge to aid the teacher in crossing an other wise, in many respects, an impass able gulf. "The boy, too. must be made to look farther than through the vain struggle of this life, as it is here that the soul: the mind, is prepared for the glories of that better life be yond the veil that seperates us from eternity." Prof. W. S. Peterson of the 0. C. I. was the second speaker to discuss this question. The speaker had been a country school teacher for four years previous to his coming to Or angeburg. He pointed out that his patronage comes mostly from the country homes, and that he was here placed in a fine position for knowing the difficulties that confront the teacher in this problem. It is not so hard to keep boys in school during the first part of the year but. it is in the latter part that the trou ble begins." He suggested the good in coming in direct touch with the parents and the making of parents "to see their duty from a business point of view." That it is unwise after the expense if keeping a boy in school during the first part of the year, to take him from school when often as the case may be, the pro gress of the boy is unsurpassed. His experience in country school had taught him the great, value of entertainments as a partial remedy for the evil. Out of seventy pupils in a country school he had actually succeeded in keeping 60 in school until the end of the session by this means. The fault of the decrease of at tendance often lies with the teacher in his failing to keep up the proper interest! "Tack, work and plotting are here needed." And if this Is done from year to year for an extent of ten years by the right sort of teachers in the school room, then no compulsory education will be needed. In was clearly shown that the teach ers could be of great benefit in rem edying the evil. The next subject taken up for ells cussion was "Discipline." The tv'si speaker was Prof. C. J. Rast. The speaker said that he had not pre pared any set speech but ?"would ven tilate the subject from the school o;' experience." The profundity of the subject was pointed out. Out of 107 pupils in school he had fifteen boys between ages of sixteen and eighteen to which the questiou could be applied in its truest sense. "Th? importance of this question commen ces around the fireside, the true source of all greatness." The dis cipline received here will most assur edly show itself in the school and in life of the man after he leaves school. "The father should be very careful in up-holding his son in devilment. "The teacher also is much responsible in this moBt important questiou." He should teach the pupil to do right and be obedient." "These *re hound to show themselves." The second speaker on "Discipline" was Prof. E. H Houser. He was glad to see some at least interested in this question and "would give us a small little talk." "Dicipline com menced under God millions of years ago and continues down to the pres ent day." "We still enjoy the bene fits of dicipline, as no enterprise can succeed without it." "Neglect dici pline and everything is dark." He emphasized the one suggestion which "is the teacher's first, lesson, and that is first govern self before you wish to govern others." The speaker pointed out that harshness nor the rod is a solution for this problem but that the goal lay rather in per mitting the child "to detect the traits of character in the teacher." "Let the teacher be kind but posi tive." "And let us not forget that oot-withnstanding that the teacher is the poorest paid of all professions, his work is most assuredly among the greatest and grandest.Phe architect chisels >ut the mosl images from stone but all of these will fade away; but the teachers vvc : in char acter building is here to stay; the re sult of which will go down the suc ceeding ages." Miss M. L. Bryant was the last on this question. We give below almost in full her beautiful paper. Wordsworth has said, "Heaven lies about us in our infancy." If this be true, how essential it is that those who are entrusted Witd the training and moulding of chil dren's minds should strive to develop all that is pure and noble in the child. By discipline, as I understand the term, the cbild is to be developed in such a manner as w*?i evolve the highest moral character of which he is capable. Heredity and environ ment at home will do much to aid or mar the earnest efforts of a faith ful tccaher. Some requisites necessary for the child to be taught are self control, unselfishness or thought of others, a, desire to be a good man or woman, good in every sense of the word. Intellectual desires will necessarily be included. To teach a child self-control you must let him know that you believe in him. wive him sympathy. The important thing is to elicit the inter est of the pupil in his own pro gress. This is often the result of sympathy, because they are not un derstood, nor are the difficulties that encompass them. Every pupil should be studied. Its costs little to bestow kind words, and they often produce marvelous results. The tone of a schoolroom will de pend largely upon the qualities of the teacher. If tne teacher is loud and noisy, so will the pupils be, if the teacher is careless and indifferent, lacks order, is often tardy, so wiil the same spirit dominate the school. 'Jne following points, says Kellogg, indicates high moral character, po liteness, this means a great deal. Kindness, this shows a good heart. Forbearance, this indicates self con trol, and is a great thing to have. Helpfulness, a virtue of wonderful power. '>.:ac.hableness, this is a qual ity that will always shine in a real teacher. He is always ready to be taught as well as to teach, is never ashamed to say, "I do not know." Promptness, how important this is. Cheerfulness, a pleasant countenance doeth good whereever it goes. A kind voice, a musical exprssion. a forbearing tone, make combined a mighty uplifting force. On the other hand the following points indicate n low moral tone. Harshness, if a teacher commences by saying in a <iuick, sharp tone. "Sit up there John, answer louder." "Go out and wipe your feet, William," he will lower his moral tone ten degrees at once An iceburg in his place would nol exert a more chilling influence. Ar rogance, quick judgment in cases of disobedience, unapproac hableness, haughtiness, fault-finding, accusa tions, these are all bad. and, practic ed by the teacher wUl weaken his dicipline. President Livingston in conclusion made the following remarks: At the conclusion of this most in teresting meeting, let me say that the work being done in our schools by the combined efforts of our teacher.-, fathers, and mothers counts for much in the future greatness of our nation. Therefore we should arouse our selves and seek every opportunity for improvement so that the very best results can be expected. Our Teachers' Association should be a great source of information and inspiration to progressive teachers who are ever active and anxious "to have their children drink from a run ning stream and not from a stagnant pool." At these meetings, we come in touch with the experience of teach ers who have made a success of the profession; and we feel sure that all teachers, who attend these meetings and keep in touch with school work are greatly benefited. Here we can learn what is being done by other teachers and determine if we are do ing our full duty in the several com munities in which we teach. Our duty as a teacher in a com munity is broader than we realize at first thought. It is our duty to be come acquainted with the lathers and mothers of the children we teach from day to day and to seek to make them feel and know that we as teachers are anxious in every pos sible way to assist them in making men and women of their children. Deep down in the heart of every true father and mother there is a desire that their children should be come great and useful, but sometimes they are so bourne down by business and domestic relations that they neglect their training. Here lies one of our Important duties as teachers which we may discharge by going in to such homes and felling their par ents of their neglect and trying to plan with them how to keep their children in school. Let us all be more mindful of our duty and keep in full touch with our work and see to it that all children of school age are enrolled in our schools and thus obviate many trou bles that otherwise exist in our schools and communities. Remember that the boys and girls under our care are fast becoming men and women. L. Millinery Openings. We call attention to the millinery openings of Theo Kohn. F. R. Mal pass & Co., and Mrs. Linstedt, all of which takes place on Wednesday and Thursday, 2f>th and 26th in stont. The ladies should remem ber the dates and be on hand. Will Decide Luter. We have been asTted several times where the new Government building would be erected. No one knows, as the matter has not been seriously considered yet. As soon as the ap propriation is made by Congress for the building a location for it will be decided upon. Sold to Macon. Stowers, who pitched for Orange burg last season, has been sold to Macon for one hundred dollars. He has been doing some good work for .Macon recently. # The # Princess Virginia 1 I By C. N. and A. M. WILLIAMSON. | Authors of "The Lightning Con ductor." "Roiemtry In Search of ft. Father." Etc. Copyright, 1907. by McCluro, Phil lips & Co. gCHAPT?? TWO M WILIGHT fell lute in the tiny Rnaetiun vil lage of Alleheiligen. So high on the mountain side were perched the simple inn and the group of brown chalets clustering round the big church, with its bulbous orieutal spire, that they caught the last red rays of suuset and held them flash ing on burnished copper roof plates aud jeweling small, bright window panes long after the green valley be low was curtained with sh:idow. One September evening two dusty traveling carriages toiled up the steep, winding road that led to the highest hamlet of the Ithaetian Alps, and a girl walking beside the foremost driv er (minded, as he was. Co save the jaded horses) looked up :o see Alle heiligeu glittering like a necklet of gems on the brown throat of the moun tain. Eacb. window was a great, sep irate ruby set iu gold; the copper bulb that crowned the church steeple was a burning carbuucle, while above the flashing band of gorgeous color the mountain reared its head. :.'acing west ward, its steadfast features carved In stone, the brow snow capped and rosy where the sun touched it, blue where the shadows lay. The driver assured the youug Eng lish lady, whom he much ?d mired for her pluck as well as beauty, that she had far better return to the carriage; that indeed she need not have left it. Her extra weight would be but as that of a featber to the horses, which were used to carrying far heavier loads thau that of today up the steep moun tain road to Alleheiligeu in the "high" season of July aud August, when many tourists from all countries came to rest for a uight and see the woc.derful view. He even grew voluble in his persua sions, but the girl still smilingly In sisted that she liked walklug, and the brown faced fellow with the soft green hat and curly cock feather admired her the more for her firmness and en durance. She was plainly dressed in gray, which did not show the dust, and, though her skirt and short jacket were well made and her neat little hat jaun ty and becoming?Almost dangerously becoming?she was not half as grand in appearance as some of the ladles who drove up with him in July and August. Still, the man said to himself, there was an air about her?no; he could not describe It even to himself? but It meant distinction. Aud then, as she was English, it was as pleasing as it was remarkable that she could speak RhaeUau so prettily. She had teamed it, she said, when he respectfully ven tured a question, because sluce she was a child she had taken an interest in Ithaetian r" ory aud literature. And this seemed strange to him?that so dainty a lady should have learned such a language for pleasure, because the people of most countries found It excessively difficult ?as difficult as Hungarian and just enough like Ger man to make it even more difficult perhaps. But this English girl said she hud picked it up easily, and the young man's heart warmed to her when she praised Ithaetian music and Ithaetian poetry. This was the last touch. This won him wholly, and without stopping fur ther to analyze or account for his ad miration the driver of the first car riage found himself bestowing confi dences upon his gracious compnuion as they slowly tramped up the winding road, the reins looped over his arm. He told her of his life-how he had not always lived down there In the valley and driven tourists for a livlug. A girl walking beside the foremost driver. Before he fell In love and married a valley girl and hud a young family to rear his house had been aloft In Alle heiligen. He was born on the moun tain side. His mother still lived In the village. It was she who kept the Inn? ach, but a good woman and a cook to the king's taste, or, rather, the emper or's taste, if It was her own son who said it! He was glad that the English ladles would be staying with her for a few days at this season. She would make them comfortable, more comfortable than would be possible nr. a crowded time, and then, besides, a:fter the sea son was over and the strangers bad been frightened away by the first flur ry of suow, the poor mother grew lonely and tired of idleness. Oh, yes, she stayed the winter through. It was home to her. There were not many neighbors then, it was tnie, yet she would not be happy to go away. Moun tain folk never really learned to love the valleys. What! The ladies had not written to the iun in advance? Ah, well, that would not. ^.'.ter at this season..There would be rooms and to spare. The la dies could take their choice, and the mother would hare a pleasant sur prise. Glad he was that he chanced to be the one to bring IL Those who knew Frau Yorvan know that her larder was never empty of good things and that her linen was aired and scented with the dried lav ender blossoms gathered down below. Indeed, she had ueed to be ever in readiness for distinguished guests, be cause sometimes? But the eloquent tongue of Alois Yorvan was suddenly silent, like the clapper of a church bell which the ringers have ceased to pull, and his sunburnt face grew sheepish. "Because sometimes?" echoed the girl in her pretty Rhaetian. "What happens sometimes that your mother must ever be expecting?" "Oh," the man stammered, a little foolishly, 'i was but going to say that ?he has sometimes to entertain people of the high nobility of different na tions. Alleheiligen, though small, is rather celebrated, you know." "Has your emperor been here?" ask ed tLj young lady. "It may be," answered Alois jaun tily; "it may be. Our emperor has been to most places." His companion smiled and put no more questions. Slowly they climbed on. the two car riages, containing the Kndish girl's mother, a middle aged ro ipunion. a French maid and a reasonable supply of luggage, toiling up bei.it: 1. the h :r ness jingling with a faiui sou ml ->f fairy bells. Then at last they came to the Inn. .1 quaint house, half of stone, half ol rich browu shingles, a huge picture crowd ed with saints of special importance to Alleheiligeu painted in once crude, now faded, colors on a^wluging sign. A characteristic yodeling cry from Alois sent forth before the highest turn of the road was reached brought an apple cheeked and white capped old woman to the door. Then It was the youngest of the travelers who asked, with a pleasant greeting in Rhaetian, for the best suit of rooms which Frau Yorvan could give. BuL to the girl's astonishment, the laudlady showed noue of the delight her son had predicted. Surprised she certainly was, even startled and cer taiuly embarrassed. For an iustant she seemed to hesitate before replying; then her emotion was partly explained by her words. Unfortunately her best rooms were engaged?four of the bed rooms with the choicest view and the oue private sitting room the inn pos sessed. But if the ladies would put up with the second best she would gladly accommodate them. Was it but for the uigtit? Oh. for several niguts! (Again the apple face looked dubious.) Well If the ladies would graciously enter and choose from what she had to offer she would be honored. They did enter and presently wrote their names as Lady Mowbray. Miss Mowbray, Miss Manchester and maid. An hour later when the newcomers mother, daughter and dame de compa gnle?sat dowu to a hot supper in a bedchamber hastily but skillfully transformed into a private diniug room the youngest of the three remarked to Frau Yorvan upon the peaceful still ness of her house. "One would think there wasn't a soul about the place except ourselves," said she, "yet you've told us you have other guests." "The gentlemen who are stopplug here are away all day long iu the mountains," explained Frau Yorvan. "It is now the time .'or chamois hunt ing, and it Is for that and also the climbing of a strange group of rocks called the Bunch of Needles, only to be doue by great experts, that they come to me." "They are out late this evening. Aren't you beginning to be a little anxious about them if they go to such dangerous places?" "Oh, tonight, gracious frauleiu, they will not return at all," said the laud lady, warming impulsively to the sub ject. "They often stop at a kind of hut they have near the top of the mountain to begin some climb they may wish to underuike very early. They are much cioser to it there, you see, and It saves their wasting several hours on the way. They are constant ly In the habit of stopping at the hut la fine weather. But they are very considerate. They always let me kuow their plans beforehand." "If they're away so much I think It a little selfish in them to keep your one private sitting room when yor. might ueed it for others," remarked the girl. "Oh, but gracious frauleln, you must not say that!" cried the old woman, looking as much shocked as If her young guest had broken one of the commandments. The girl laughed. "Why not?" she Inquired. "Are the gentlemen of such Importance that they mustn't be crit icised by strangers?" Frau Yorvan was embarrassed. "They are excellent patrons of mine, gracious frauleln; that is all I meant," said she. "I cannot bear that unjust things should be thought of such?good gentlemen." "I was only joking," the girl reas sured her. "We are perfectly satisfied with this rooui, which you have made most comfortable. All I care for la that the famous walks In the neighborhood shall not be private. I may at least walk as much as I like and even climb a little, I and my friend. Miss Man chester, who Is a daring mountaineer" ?with this she threw a glauce at the middle aged lady in black, who visibly started aud grew wild eyed In re sponse?"for I suppose that your guests have not engaged the whole Scheehorn for their own." The landlady's hospitable smile re turned. "No, gracious frauleln. You are free to wander as you will, but do noL I beg you, go too far or attempt auy climbs of real difficulty, for they are not to be done without guides, and take care you do not stray into wild places where by making some move ment or sound before you were seen by the hunters you might be mistaken for a chamois." * "Even our prowess is hardly likely to lead us into such peril as that," laughed the girl, who seemed much more friendly ami Inclined toward con versatlon than the two elders of tin party. "But please wake us early to morrow morning. My friend Miss Man chester and I would like to'have break fasted and be ready for a start by 8 . o'clock at latest" Again the placid features of the lady in black quivered, and. though she said I nothing, Frau Yorvan pitied her. ? "Would you not wish in any case to I have a guide?" she asked. "I could en gage you an Intelligent young man who"? "Thank you, no," broke in the girl decidedly. "A guidebook is prefera : ble to a guide for what we mean to do. We shan't attempt auy places which the book says are unsafe for ama teurs. But what an excellent engray Lig that Is over the fireplace, with the chamois horns above it! Isn't that a portrait of your emperor when he was a boy?" The landlady's eyes darted to the picture. "Ach, I had meant to carry it away," she muttered. The girl's quick ears caught the words. "Why should you carry it away? Don't you love me emperor that you would put his face out of sight?" "Not love Upser Leo?" cried the old woman, horrified. "Why, we worship him, gracious frauleln. We would die for him any day, all of us mountain people?and, yes, all Rhaetians, I be lieve. 1 coulfi not let you go back to your own land with the idea that we do not love the noblest emperor coun try ever had. As for what 1 said about the portrait, I didu't know that I spoke aloud, 1 am so used to mum bling to myself since I began to grow dea. and old. Bui of course I wished it put away only because it Is such a ; poor thing. It does Unser Leo no sort j of justice. You?you would not recog nize him from that picture If you were to see him now." With this excuse Frau Yorvan hur ried out to fetch another dish, which she said must be ready; to cool her hot face and to scold herself for her stupidity all the way downstairs. She was gone some time, and the girl, who bad no doubt unwittingly occasioned the old woman's uneasiness, took advantage of her absence to laugh?excited, happy laughter. "Poor, transparent old dear! So pleased and proud of her great secret which she thinks she's keeping so well!" she exclaimed. "I'm sure she doesn't dream that she's as easy to read as a book with big, big print She's in a sad fright now lest we In convenient foreigners should chance upon her grand gentlemen tomorrow, recognize one of them from the por trait and spoil his precious incognito." "Then?you think that he is really here?In this out of the way aerie?" half whispered the grand duchess. "I feel sure he is," answered Prin cess Virginia. For a moment there was silence. Thea said the grand duchess, with an air of resignation, "Well, I suppose we should be glad, since we have come to Rhaetla for the purpose of? Dear me! I can scarcely bring myself to say It" "You may say it, since our dear old lamb of^ a Letltia knows ail about it aud is In with us," returned Virginia. "But?but 1 truly didn't expect to find him here. One knows he comes some times?It's been In the papers?but this time they had It that he'd gone to make a week's visit to poor old General von Borslok at the baths of Mellna, and I thought before we went to Kronburg with all our pretty letters of Introduc tion, as he was away from the palace there. It would be Idyllic to use up the time with a visit to Allehelllgeu. I don't want you and Letltia to think that I was just making catspaws of you both and forciug you without knowing to help me unearth him In his lair. Still, as he Is here"? "Perhaps he Isn't." suggested the grand duchess. "I dou't see that you have much ground for fancying so." "Oh, general!" echoed Virginia scorn fully. "It's Instinct that I go upon, not ground?that woman's face when she saw foreign tourists at her door out of season when she had a right to think she was safe from invasion; her stam mering about the best rooms being tak en; her wish to get rid of us; her dis tress that she couldn't possibly do so without making matters worse; the way she talks of her 'four gentlemen;' her horror at my leze majesty; her con fusion about the portraits; her wish to Impress It upon us that Unser Leo Is quite changed. Instinct ought to be ashamed if It couldn't play detective as far as that. But?of course we may not see him. If she can help It. we won't. lie won't like being run to earth by tourists when he Is amusing himself, and perhaps the trusty land lady will send the intelligent young guide whom I refused to warn him, so that if he chooses he can keep out of the way." "I almost hope she may send," said the grand duchess. "I don't think Providence wills a meeting here. You have brought no pretty dresses. I should like him to seo you first when you look your best, since to yoar mind so much depends upon his feelings ha this matter." "Our first meeting Is?on the tneea of the gods," murmured Virginia. And then Frau Yorvan came Into the room with a souffle. (To Be Continued.) Deafness Cannot bo Cured, by local application, as they cannot reach the diseased portions of tho ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and tnat is by constitution al remedies. Dearness Is caused by, an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. 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