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? The ?
Princess
Virginia
By C. N. and A. M. WILLIAMSON,
Authors of "The Lightning Con
docto r,- "Rosemary In Search
of ol Fo-ther." Etc.
Copyright, 1907, by McClure, Phil
lips & Co.
:^CHAPTI? nM5C1
W EITERS of introduction for
Jm^-y Lady Mow bray and her
^B^;7^> daughter to ln?uen
(jvZ^**^! *'a' ni|d interesting per
tcWi^ijiffi sons attached to the
Raaetian court were
necessarily a part of the wonderful
plan concocted in the English garden,
though they were among the details
thought out afterward.
The widow of the hereditary Graud
Duke of Baumenburg-Drippe was re
ported hi the journals of various coun
tries to be traveling with the Princess
Virginia and a small suit through Can
ada and the United States, and, fortu
nately for the success of the innocent
plot the grand duchess bad spent so
many years of seclusion in Euglaud
and had even in her youth met so few
Rhaetians that there was little fear of
detection. Her objections to Virginia's
scheme for winning a lover instead of
thanking beaveu quietly for a mere
husband were based on other grounds,
but Virginia had overcome them, and
eventually the grand duchess had prov
ed not only docile, but positively fertile
In expedient.
The choosing of the borrowed flag
under which to sail had at first been
a difficulty. It was pointed out by a
friend taken Into their confidence, a
lady whose husband had been ambas
sador to Rhaetia. that a real name
and a name of some dignity must be
adopted if proper introductions were
to be given. ? And it was the grand
duchess who suggested the name of
Mowbray on the plea that she hud in
a way the right to annex it.
The mother of the late Duke of
Northmoreland had been a Miss Mow
bray, antrtaere were still several emi
nently respectable, Inconspicuous Mow
bray cousins. Among these cousins
was a certain Lady Mowbray. widow
of a baron of that ilk and possessing
a daughter some years older and In
numerable degrees plainer than the
Princess Virginia.
To this Lady Mowbray the grand
duchess had gone out of her way to be
kind in Germany long years ago, when
she was a very grand personage in
deed and Lady Mowbray comparative
ly a nobody. The humble connection
had expressed herself as unspeakably
grateful, and the two had kept up a
friendship ever since. Therefore when
the difficulty of realism in a name pre
sented Itself the grand duchess thought
of Lady Mowbray and Miss Helen
Mowbray. They were about to leave
England for India, but had not yet
left, and the widow of the baron was
flattered as well as amused by the ro
mantic confidence reposed in her by
the vldow of the grand duke. She was
delighted to lend her name and her
daughter's name, and who could blame
the lady if her mind rushed forward to
the time when she should have earned
gratitude from the young empress of
Rhaetia? For of course she had no
doubt of the way in which the adven
ture would end.
As for the wife of the late British
ambassador to the Rhaetlan court she
was not seutiinontal and therefore was
not quite as comfortably sure of the
sequel. As far as coucerned her owu
part in the plot, however, she felt safe
enough, for. though she was after a
fashion deceiving her old acquaint
ances at Kronburg, she was not foist
ing adventuresses upon them. On
the contrary, she was giving them a
chance of entertaining angels un
awares by sending them letters to
ladies who were in reality the Grand
Duchess of Baumenburg-Drippe and
the Princess Virginia.
The four mysterious gentlemen left
Alleheiligen the day after Virginia's
encounter with the chamois hunter.
But the Mowbrays lingered on. The
adventure had begun so gloriously that
the girl feared an anticlimax for the
next step. Though she longed for the
second meeting, she dreaded it as well
and put off the chance of it from day
to day. The stay of the Mowbrays at
Alleheiligen lengthened into a week,
and when they left at last It was only
just in time for the great festivities
at Kronburg which were to cele
brate the emperor's thirty-first birth
day, an event enhanced In national
importance by the fact that the eighth
anniversary of his coronation would
fall on the same date.
On the morning of the journey the
grand duchess had ueuralgia and was
frankly cross.
"I don't see, after all, what you've
accomplished so far by this mad freak
which has dragged u.-- across Europe,"
she said fretfully in the train which
they had taken at a town twenty miles
from Alleheiligen. "We've perched on
a mountain top, like the ark on Ara
rat for a week, freezing. The adven
ture you had there is only a complica
tion. What have we to show for our
trouble?unless incipient rheumatism?"
Virginia had nothing to show for it.
at least nothing that she meant to
show, eren to her mother, but In a
little scented bag of silk which lay
next her heart was folded a bit of
blotting paper. If you looked at its
reflection in a mirror you saw written
twice over in a firm individual hand
the name "Helen Mowbray."
The princess had found it on a table
in the best sitting room ...tor Frau
Yorvan bad made that room ready for
its new occupants. Theref ore s'je loved
Ailehelllgen; therefore she thought
.with redoubled satisfactio-? of her visit
there.
To learn her full name he must have
thougbt it worth while to make In
quiries. It b.id lingered in his thoughts
or he would not have scrawled it twice
on some bit of paper?etnee destroyed,
Oft doaot?in a moment of lil* dream
ins.
Through most of her life Virginia
had known the lack of money, but she
would not have exchanged a thousand
pounds for the contents of that lictle
bag.
Hohenlangenwald Is the name of the
house froiu which the rulers of ithae
tJn sprang. Therefore everything In
the beautiful city of Krouburg which
can take the uame of Iloheulaugen
wald has taken it. and it was at the
Ilohenlangenwa Id hotel that a suit of
rooms had been engaged for Lady
Howbnty.
The travelers broke the long journey
at Melinabad. and Virginia's study of
trains had timed their arrival in Kron
burg for the moruing of the birthday
eve, early enough for the first cere
mouy of the festivities, the unveiling
by the emperor of a statue of Rbaethi
in the Leopoldplatz, directly in front
of the Hohenlangenwald hotel.
Virginia looked forward to seeing the
emperor from her own windows, as.
according to her calculation, there was
an hour to spare, but at the station
they were told by the driver of the
carriage sent to meet them that, the
crowd in the streets being already very
great, he feared it would be a tedious
undertaking to get through. Some of
the thoroughfares were closed for traf
fic. He would have to go by a round
about way and In any case could not
reach the main entrance of the hotel.
At best be would have to deposit his
passengers and their luggage at a side
entrance in a narrow street.
As the carriage started, from far
away came a burst of martial music?
a military band playing the national
air which the chamois hunter had
heard a girl sing behind a closed door
at Alleheiligen.
The shops were all shut, would be
shut until the day after tomorrow, but
their wiudows were unshuttered and
gayly decorated to add to the bright
ness of the scene. Strange old shops
displayed the marvelous chased silver,
the jeweled weapons and gorgeous em
broideries from the far eastern prov
inces of Ithaetia. Splendid new shops
rivaled the best of the Rue de la Paix
in Paris. Gray mediaeval buildings
made wonderful backgrounds for dra
pery of crimson and blue and garlands
of blazing flowers. Modern buildings
of purple red porphyry and the famous
honey yellow marble of Rhaetia flut
tered with flags, and above all, In the
heart of the town, between old and
new, rose the Castle Rock. Virginia's
pulses beat as she saw the home of
Leopold for the first time, and she was
proud of its picturesqueness, its riches
and grandeur, as if she had some right
in It too.
Ancient narrow streets and wide new
streets were alike arbors of evergreen
and brilliant blossoms. Prosperous
citizens in their best, inhabitants of the
poorer quarters and stalwart peasants
from the country elbowed and pushed
each other good naturedly as they
streamed toward the Leopoldplatz.
Handsome people they were, the girl
thought, her heart warming to them,
and to her it seemed that the very
air tingled with expectation. She be
lieved that she could feel the mag
netic thrill in it even if she were
blind and deaf and could hear or see
nothing of the excitement
"We must be In time! We shall be
in time!" she said to herself. "I shail
lean out from my windows and see
him."
But at the hote', which they did
finally reach, the girl had to bear a
keen disappointment. With many apol
ogies the landlord explained that he
had done his very best for Lady Mow
bray's party when he received their
letter a fortnight before ?und that be
had allotted them a good suit, with
balconies overlooking the river at the
back of the house?quite a Venetian ef
i feet, as her ladyship would find. But
as to rooms at the front?Impossible!
All had been engaged fullj six weeks
in advance. One American millionaire
was paying a thousand gulden solely
for au hour's use of a small balcony,
today for the uuveiling and again to
morrow for the street procession. Vir
ginia was paie with disappointment.
"Then I'll go down into the crowd and
take ray chance of seeing something,"
she said to her mother when they had
been shown into handsome rooms sat
isfactory in everything but situation.
"I must hurry or there"! be no hope."
"My dear child, impossible for you
to do such a thing!" exclaimed the
grand duchess. "1 can't think of allow
ing it. Fancy what a crush there will
be?all sorts of creatures trampling
on each other for places. Besides, you
could see nothing."
"Oh. mother," pleaded the princess
In her softest, sweetest voice, the voice
she kept for extreme emergencies of
cajoling, "I couldn't bear to stay shut
up here while that music plays and the
crowds shout themselves hoarse for
my emperor. Besides, it's the most
curious thing?I feel as if a voice kept
calling to me that I must be there.
Miss Portman and I'll take care of
each other. You will let me go, won't
you?'
Of course the grand duchess yielded,
her or j stipulation being that the two
should keep close to the hotel, aud the
princess urged her reluctaut companion
away without waiting to hear her
mother's last couusels.
Their rooms were on the first floor,
and the girl turned eagerly down the
broad flight, of marble stairs, Miss
Portman following dutifully upon her
heels.
They could not get out by way of the
front door, for people had paid for
standing room there and would not
yield an inch, even for an instaut,
while the two or three steps below
and the broad pavement In front were
as closely blocked.
Matters began to look hopeless, but
Virginia would not be daunted. They j
tried the side entrance aud foi.nd it
free, the street into which it led being I
comparatively empty, but just beyond,
where it ran into the great open |
square of the Leopoldplatz, ther? war
a solid wall of sightseers.
"We might as well go back," said
Miss Portman, who had none of the
princess' keeuness for the undertak
ing, fh" v ? tiv?'1 nftcr the jouruey |
and for i .1 i itln h ive had i
a cup of tea than see lift., emperors
unveil as inary statues by celebrated j
leulptfl-3.
"Oh. ? o!'" cried Virginia "We'll get
to the front somehow sootiir or later, |
even if w^'re taken off our feet Look
at that l an lust ahead of us. He
doesn't i^^an to turn back. He's not
f. nie? pi<?'. hut d**% IktIIuV deter
mined. "Lers Keep close to mm and
see what he means to do; then maybe
we shall be able to do it as well."
Miss Portman glanced at the person
indicated by a nod of the princess'
head. Undismayed by the mass of hu
man beings that blocked the Leopold
pints a few yards ahead, he walked
rapidly aloug without the least hesita
tion. He had the air of knowing ex
actly what he wanted to do and how
to do it. Even Miss Portman. who
had no imagination, saw this by his
back. The set of the head on the
shoulders was singularly determined,
and the walk revealed a consciousness
of importance accounted for perhaps
by the gray and crimson uniform which
might be that of some official order.
On the sleek black head was a large
cocked hat. adorned with an eagle's
feather, fastened in place by a gaudy
jewel, and this hat was pulled down
very far over the face.
"Perhaps he knows that they'll let
him through." said Miss Portman. "He
seems to he a dignitary of some sort.
We can't do better, if you're deter
mined to go on. than keep near him."
"He has the air of heinc ready to
die," whispered Virginia, for they were
close to the man now.
"How can you tell? We haven't seen
his face," replied the other in the same
cautious tone.
"No. But look at the back of his
neck and his ears."
Miss Portman looked and gave a lit
tle shiver. She would never have
thought of observing it if her atten
tion had not been called by the prin
cess. But it was true. The back of
the man's neck aud his ears were of a
ghastly yellow white.
"Horrid."' she ejaculated. "lie's
probably dying of some contagious dis
ease. Do let's get away from him."
"No. no," said Virginia. "He's our
only hope. They're going to let him
pass through. Listen."
Miss Portman listened, but as she
understood only such words of Rhne
tian as she had picked up In the last
few weeks she could merely surmise
that he was ordering the crowd out of
his way because he had a special mes
sage from the lord chancellor to the
burgomaster.
The human wall opened. The man
darted through, and Miss Portman was
dragged after him by the princess. So
close to him had they kept that they
might easily be supposed to be under
his escort, and, in any case, they pass
ed before there was time to dispute
their right of way.
"It must be the secretary of Herr
Koffmr.n, the new burgomaster," Vir
ginia heard one man say to another,
"and those ladies are with him."
On and on through the crowd passed
the man in gray and crimson, oblivious
(o the two women who were nsiughim.
There was something about that dis
agreeable back of his which proclaim
ed him a man of but one idea at a
time. Close to the front line of spec
tators, however, there came a check.
"TFc can't dn better."
Peopie were vexed at the audacity of
the girl and the elderly woman and
would have pushed them back, but at
the critical second the blue and silver
uniformed baud of Rnaetla's crack
regiment, the Imperial Life guards,
struck up an air which told that the
emperor was coming. Promptly the |
small group concerned forgot its griev
ance iu excitement, crowding together
so that Virginia was pressed to the
front, and only Miss Portman was
pushed ruthlessly into the background.
The poor lady raised a feeble protest
in English which nobody heeded unless
it were the man who had inadvertently
acted as pioneer. At her shrill out
burst he turned quickly, as if startled
by the sudden cry. and Virginia was
so close to him that her chin almost
touched his shoulder. For the first
time she had a glimpse of his face,
which matched the yellow wax of his
neck In nallor.
The girl shrank away from him in
voluntarily. "What a death's head."
she thought?"a sly, wicked face and
awful eyes! He looked frightened. 1
wonder why."
Assured that the sharp cry did not
concern him. the man turned to the
front again, and. having obtained his
object?a place in the foremost rank of
the crowd, with one incidentally for
the princess?he proceeded to take
from his breast a roll of parchment
tied with narrow ribbon and sealed
with a large red seal. As he drew jt
out and rearranged his coat his hand
trembled. It, too, was yellow white.
The fellow seemed to have no blood in
him.
Virginia, standing now shoulder to
shoulder with the man in gray and
crimson, had just time to feel a stir
ring of dislike and perhaps curiosity
when a great cheer arose from thou
sands of throats. The square rang
with a roar of loyal acclamation. Men
waved tall hats, soft hats and green
peasant hats with feathers. Bcautrrul
ly dressed women grouped on the high j
decorated balconies waved handker-1
chiefs or scattered roses from gilded J
baskets. Women in gorgeous costumes
from faroff provinces held up half |
frightened, half laughing children, and
then a v. bite figure on a white charger
came riding into the square under the
triumphal arch wreathed with Uags
and tlowers.
Other figures followed?m?u in uni
forms of green and gold and red on
coal black horses?yet Virginia saw
only the white figure, shining, wonder
ful*
Under the glittering helmet of steel,
with its gold eagle, the dark face was
clear cut as a cameo, and the eyes
were lirbrht with ? pror" light. To
the citiwu be was tV eiii -;v>r. a fine,
popular, brilliant "v; i.mn, who
ruled .Ufa <?? '?"v i '? er '3?a 't bad
\
been ruled yet by one or nls'bouse end.
above all, provided many a pleasing
spectacle for the people, but to Vir
ginia he was far mure?au ideal Sir
Galahad or a St. George strong and
brave to slay all dragon wrongs which
might threaten his wide land.
"What if he should never love me?"
was the one sharp thought which pierc
ed her pride or him.
j The people were proud, too, as he sat
there controlling the white war horse,
with its gold aud silver trappings, the
crusted jewels of many orders spar
kling on his breast, while he saluted
his subjects in his soldier's way.
I For a moment there was a pause,
save for a shouting, which rose and
rose again. Tlien he alighted, where
upon important looking men with rib
bons and decorations came forward,
bowing, to receive the emperor. The
ceremony of unveiling the statue of
Ithaetia was about to begin.
T<> reach the great crimsoD draped
platform on which he was to stand
the emperor must pass within a few |
yards cf Virginia. His gaze (lashed j
over the gay crowd. What if it should
rest upon her? The girl's heart was I
in her throat. She could feel it beat
ing there, and for a moment the tall
white figure was lost in a mist which
dimmed her eyes.
She ha 1 forgotten how she came to
this place of vantage, forgotten the
pale man in gray and red to whom she
owed her g ?cd fortune, but suddenly,
while her heart was at its loudest and
the mist before her eyes at its thick
est, she grew conscious again of his
existence, poignantly conscious of his
close presence. So near her he stood
that a quick start, a gathering of his
muscles lor a spring, shot like an elec
tric message through her own body.
The mist was burnt up^in the tlame
of a strange enlightenment, a clarity of
vision which showed not only the
hero of the day, the throng and the (
wax white man beside her, but some
thing which was in the soul of that
man as well.
"He is going to kill the emperor!"
It was as if a voice spoke the words
in her car. She knew now why she
bad struggled to win this place, why
she had succeeded, what she had to do
or die in falling to do.
Leopold was uot half a dozen yards
away and was coming nearer. No one
but Virginia suspected evil. She alone
had felt the thrill of a murderer's
nerves, the tense spring of his mus
cles. She aloue guessed what the roll
of parchment bid.
"Now?now!" the voice seemed to
whisper again, and she had no fear.
While the crowd shouted wildly for
"Unser Leo!" a man in gray and red
leaped, catlike, at the white figure that
advanced. Something sharp and bright i
flashed out from a roll of parchment, j
catching the sun in a streak of steely
light. I
Leopold saw, but not in time to
swerve. The crowd shrieked, rushed
forward too late, and the blade would
have drunk his life had not the girl
who had felt all, seen all, struck up
the arm before it fell.
Tiie rest was darkness for her. She
knew only that she was sobbing and
that the great square, with its crowded
balconies, ils ropes of green, its wav
ing flags, seemed to collapse upon her
and blot her out.
It was Leopold who caught her as
she swayed, and while the people surg
ed around the thwarted murderer the
emperor sprang up the steps of the
great crimson platform with the girl
against his heart.
It was her blood that stained the
pure white of Iiis uniform, the blood
from her arm, wounded in his defense.
And, holding her up, he stood domlnat- j
Ing the crowd.
Down there at the foot of the steps
the man in gray and red was like a
spent fox among the hounds, and Leo
pold's people in the fury of their rage
would have torn him In pieces as the
hounds tear the fox despite the cor- j
don of police that gathered round him,
but the voice of the emperor bade his
subjects fall back.
"My people shall not be assassins!" j
he cried to them. "Let the law deal
with the madman. It is my will. Look
at me alive aud unhurt. Now give
your cheers for the lady who has
saved my life, aud the ceremonies shall
go on."
Three cheers had he said? They
gave three times three and bade fair
to split the skies with shouts for the
emperor. While women laughed and
"Let the lair deal with the minhnan."
wept and al! eyes were upon that noble
pair on the red platform something
limp aud gray was hurried out of sight
and off to prison. On a sigual the na
tional anthem began. The voices of
the people joined the brass instru
ments, ill Kronburg was singing or
asking "Who is she?" of the girl at
the empo-or's side.
(To Be Continued.)
Synopsis of The Princess Virginia.
Chapter I?Virginia, the only roy
al princess with American blood in
her veinr, discusses "nprripge with her
mother, the grand ducrQss, at their
home in Londcn. >t)Je.tlng to the
prfnee her mo'.her had selected for
her, Virginia conCer""m that Leopold,
emporor of .aetu., -i.u :.ee:. h't
ideal since she wea a srlrl. A letter
comes from Dal, Virginia's brother,
by adoption crown prince cf Hungar
ia, in which the emperer offers his
(hand to Virginia. She declares she j
wiill not marry after the conventional
[manner of royalty and hints at a bold
plan to win the emperor's love. II
The Princess Virginia and her moth
ler, traveling as Lady and Miss Mow
bray, with a companion. Miss Man-]
j Chester, stop at an inn at a little j
Rhaetian village in the Alps, where
[the best rooms are occupied by four
'important gentlemen, wnose real iden
tity appears to be concealed. Ill
Virginia, alias Miss Mowbray, while|
climbing the Alps alone loses her
I footing and is in imminent danger of
j death when she is rescued by a chain-[
jOis hunter wlhom she recognizes as
the emperor of Rhaetia. IV? The
emperor, ignorant of Virginia's Iden-|
tity. but evidently pleat-id. gives her
lunch at his hunting lodge. There are
jno others present, and they spend
pleasant hour gel ting acquainted.
CONDITION OF STATE RANKS
The State Hank Examiner Makes His
First Quarterly Report.
Mr. Giles L. Wilson, the new ex
aminer of State banks, Thursday
made his first quarterly report.. Thisj
shows the condition of State bank
ing institutions at the clo;e of busi
ness March 9th.
The last report was Dec. 16th.
[Since that time eight new banks have j
I started business, two have consolidat
ed and one has nationalized. There
are now 23" State banks.
Statement o f (he conuiiion of the
233 State, private and savings banks
j located in South Carolina nt the close
of business March 9, 190S:
Resources.
|Loans and discounts. . $33,4fi4.2Sl.33
Demand loans.1.9S7,177.94
[Overdrafts. D71,8fD.40
; Bonds and stocks owned
by the bank. 3,603,317.74
Banking houses. 733,061.91
Furniture and fixtures. 360,161.07
Other real estate.. .. 287,937.82
Due from banks and
bankers. 4,862,130 62
Currency. 1,092,952.74
Gold. 165,220.50
Silver, nickles and pen
nies . 332,710.18
[Checks and cash items. 359,798.81
[Exchanges fortheclear- ....
ing house. 97,711.05
IOther resources. 5,973.15
Total.$47,975,807.2?!
Liabilities.
apital stock paid in..$ 9,061,713.56
[Surplus fund. 1,536,410.44
Undivided profits (less
current expenses and
taxes paid). 2,781,584.87
Due to banks and bank
ers. 720.577.1'
[Due unpaid dividends. . 27,569.64
Individual deposits sub
ject to check.17.3S1.322.76
Savings deposits. 11,075,256.71
Demand certificates... 223,439.55
|Time certificates.. .. 2,069,753.06
Certified checks.. .. 13,441.93
[Cashier's checks.. .. 74,716.6.5
Notes and bills redis
counted. 764,518.:"
Bills payable. 2,237,173.23
[Other liabilities. 1 8,329.14
Total.$47,975,807.23
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Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation,
?nd Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy aud natural sleep*
The Children's Panacea?The Mother's Friend,
genuine: CASTORIA always
Bears the Signature of
The Kind You toe Always Bought
lln Use For Over 30 Years.
^* *ME CENTAUR COMPANY. 77 MURRAY ?TRCCT. NEW VORR CITY.
LOW HATE MILEAGE TICKETS OX SALE BY
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
500 Mile State Family Tickets, $11.23.
Good over the Southern Railway in South Carolina for the head or de
pendent members of a family. Limited to one year from date of
sale
1000 .Mile Interchangeable Individual Ticket, $20.00.
Good over the Southern Railway and 30 other lines in the Southeast
aggregating 30,000 mile:'.. Limited to one year from date of sale.
I
2000 Mile Interchangeable Finn Ticket, $40.00.
Good over the Southern Railway and 30 other lines In the Southeast
aggregating 30,000 miles. For a manager or head of firm and em
ployes limited to five, but good for only one of such persons at a
time. Limited to one year from date of sale.
1000 Mile Southern Intcrchangeblc Individual Ticket, $20.00.
Good over the Southern Railway and 75 other lines in the Southeast
aggregating 41,000 miles. Limited to one year from date of sale.
On and after April 1st. 190S. all mileage tickets will not be hon
ored tor passage on trains, nor in checking baggage, except
from non-agency stations not open for the sale of tickets, but must
be presented at ticket office and there exchanged for continuous
tickets.
Money saved in passage fare by purchasing tickets from Southern
Railway agents. Fares paid on trains will he at a higher rate.
Call on Southern Railway Ticket Agents for mileage tickets,
passage tickets and detail information.
R. W. HUNT,
Assistant General Passenger Agcnf,
ATLANTA, GA.
J. C. LUSK,
Division Passenger Agent,
CHARLESTON S. C.
1008
SEEDS
1008
CLARK'S SEED STORE.
Just received my Spring Stock of Field, Garden and Flower Seeds, from
the best growers in the U. S.
IRISH POTATOES.
7, of the leading varieties, grown by T. W. WOOD, & SONS.
BIRDS?Hart's Mountain Canaries, (TRAINED SINGERS), South
American ParotS talkers. Bird supplies of all kinds. Cages for breeding
land for song birds, Fish food, Aquariums etc.
Prepare your ground and plant now.
Y'ours Truly,
S. H. CLARK.
55 RUSSELL STREET.
THE DRUG STOKE
is the one place on earth
whore it is unsafe to loot
for "Bargains."
If you are satisfied wit>
getting the v ';rth of youi
money, the best M^i'-me
it is possible to e< ? j.nund
from the hi.' .,; grade
drugs, d ?ervices of
an ex] P~ : < cJ Pharma
cist vn .v ill send your
IV, ? r'b Prescription to
J. G. Wannamaker
ffl'fg. Co.
GUNS!
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i
OF Til EM.
FINEST EVER
BROUGHT
?T O?
ORANGEBURG,
AMUNITIGN, Etc.
Repairing of all kinds.
L BENNETT.
For The Best
ST APLE AND FANCY
GROCT^7^
..SEE..
J. H- ROBINSON,
11 North Middleton St., Orangeburg, S. a