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THE PRINCESS VIRGINIA. (Continued from Page Two.) Insisted upon the argument and it wa? going against her. In her haste to rex the ohnnr-ellot she hud not stopped to study from ev cry side the question she had raised So far she had merely succeeded in ir ritatlng him, and she owed him mncb more than a pin prick. Such infinitesi mal wounds she bad contrived to give the man In abundance during ber twen ty-two years at the Rhaetian court, bet now, if she hurt him at all. she would like the stab to be deep and memorable. To be sure, in beginning the conver sation she bed thought of uotbing more than a momentary gratification, but the very heat of the argutneut inte which she had thrown herself bad warmed her malice and sharpened the weapon of her wit She could justify her expressed opinion only by events, and It occurred to ber that she might be able to shape events in such a way that she could say with eyes if not in words, "I told you so." Her fading smile brightened. "Dear chancellor, you do well to have faith In your imperial pupil." said she. ''You've helped to make him what he Is, and you're ready to keep him what he should be. I suppose even that If. being but a young man and having the hot blood of his race, he should stray into a primrose path you would take advantage of old friendship to?er? put up signposts and barriers?" "Were there the slightest chance of such necessity arising." grumbled the chancellor, shrugging bis shoulders. "It's like your Integrity and courage. What a comfort, then, that the neces sity is so unlikely to arise!" Tbe old mau looked at her with level gaze, the ruthless look that brushes away a woman's paint and powder and coldly counts the wrinkles underneath. "I must have misunderstood you. then, a moment ago," he said. "I thought your argumeut was all the other way round, madam." "I told you I was amusing myself. What can one do at a ball when one has reached the age when it would be foolish to dance? Why. I believe tbat Lady Mowbray and her daughter are not remaining long in Krouburg." At last she was able to judge that she, bad given the chancellor a few un easy moments, for his eyes brightened visibly with relief. "Ah." he returned, "then they are going out of Rhaetia?" "Not exactly that." said the baroness slowly, pleasantly and distinctly. "1 hear that they've been asked to the country to visit one of his majesty's oldest friends." Leopold was not supposed to care for dancing, though he danced?as it was his pride to do all things?well. Cer tainly there was often a perfunctori ness about his manner in a ballroom, a suggestion of the soldier on duty in his unsmiling face and his readiness to lead a partner to her seat when a dance was over. But tonight a new Leopold moved to the music. A girl's white arm on his ?that slender arm which bad been quick and firm as a mau's iu his de fense?the perfume of a girl's hair and the gold glints upon it. the shadow of a'girl's dark lashes and the light in a pair of gray eyes wheu they were lifted, the beating of a girl's heart near him. the springtime grace of a girl's sweet youth in its contrast with the voluptuous summer of Rhaetian types of beauty, the warm rose that spread upward from a girl's childlike dimples to the womanly arch of her b,rows?all these charms and more which rendered one girl a hundred times adorable took hold of him aud made him not an em peror, but a man. uuarmored. When the' music ceased he fancied for an instant that some accident bad befallen the musicians. Then when he realized that the end of the dance had come In its due time he remembered with pleasure a rule of his court estab lished in the days of those who had been before him. After each dance an Interval of ten minutes was allowed before the beginning of another. Ten minutes are not much to a hian who has things to say which could--hardly be said in ten hours. Still, they are something, and to waste even one. would be like spilling a drop of pre cious elixir from a tiny bottle contain ing but nine other drops. They bad scarcely spoken yet ex cept for commonplaces which any one. might have overheard, since the day on the mountain, and in this first mo ment of the ten each was wondering whether or no that day should be ig nored between them. Leopold did not feel that it should be spotten of, for It was possible tbat the girl did not recog nize the chamois hunter in the emper or, aud Virginia did not feel that she could speak of it But, then, few things turn out as people feel they should. Next to the throne room was ? the ballroom, and beyond was another known as the waldsaal, which Leo pold had fitted up for the gratification of a fancy. It was named tbe wald saal because it represented a wood. Walls and ceiling were masked with thick growing creepers trained over in visible wires, through which peeped stars of electric light, like the check erings of sunshine between netted branches. Trees grew up, with their roots iq boxes hidden beneath the moss covered floor. There were grot toes of ivy draped rock In the corners, and here and there, out from leafy shadows, glittered the glass eyes of birds and animals?eagles, stags, cham ois, wolves and bears?which the em peror had shot. This strange room, so vast as to seem empty when dozens of people wan dered beneath its trees aud among its rock grottoes, was thrown open to guests vhenever a ball was given at the palace, but the conservatories and palm houses we e more popular, and when Leopold brought Miss Mowbray to the waldsaal after their dance it was in the hope that they might not be disturbed. She was lovelier than ever in her white dress under the trees, lookiu^ up at him with a wonderful look in her eyes, and the young man's calm ness was mastered by the beating of his blood. ? "This is a kind of madness," he said to himself. "It will pass. It must pass." And aloud, meaning all the /while to say something diil'ereut and commonplace, the real words in his mind broke through the crust of con ventionality, "WJiy. djcj you dQjtJ' Virginia's e.vcs widened. "I don't understand." Theu. in an instant, she found that she did understand. She knew. too. that the" question had aske l itself In spite of him. but that once it had been uttered he would stand to his guns. "I mean the thing I shall have to thank you for always." If Virginia had had time to think she might have prepared some pretty answer: but. there being no time, her response enrae, as his question had. from the heart, "I couldn't help doing It" "You couldn't help risking your life to"? He dared not finish. "It was to save"? Nor was there any end for her sentence. Then perhaps it was not strange that he forgot certain restrictions which a royal man in conversing with a com moner is not supposed to forget. In fact, he forgot that he was royal or that she was not. and his voice grew uusteady. his tone eager, as if het had been some poor subaltern with the girl of bis first love. "There's something I must ? show you." he said. Opening a button of the cuilitiry coat blazing with jewels and orders, he drew out a loop of thin gold chain. At the end dangled a small bright thing that flashed under a star of electric light. "My ring!" breathed Virginia. Thus died the emperor's iuteution to iguore the day that had been theirs to gether. "Your ring! You gave it to Leo. He kept it. Fie will always keep it. '?Cave I surprised you?" Virginia felt it would be best to say Tes." but instead she nnswered "No," for pretty white fibs caunot be told under such a look in a man's eyes by a girl who loves him. "I have not? When did you guess the truth - yesterday or"? "At Allebeiligen." Silence fell for a minute, while Leo pold digested the answer and its fail meaning. He remembered the bread and ham. the cow he could not milk, the rucksacks he had carried. He re membered everything aud laughed. "You kuew at Alleheili^eu? Not on the mountain when"? . "Yes. I guessed even then. I confess. Oh, I don't mean that 1 went there ex "My ring!" breathed Virginia. pecting to find you. I didn't I think I shouldn't have gone had I knowu Every one believed you were at Me linabad. but when I tumbled down and you saved me I looked up and?of course I'd seen j*our picture, and one reads in the papers that you're fond of chamois hunting. I couldn't help guess ing. Oh, I'm sorry you asked me this!" "Why?" "Because cue might have to be afraid of an emperor If he were angry." > "Do I look angry?" Their eyes met again, laughing at first theu each findiug unexpected depths in those of the other which drove away laughter. Something in Leopold's breast seemed alive and struggling to l>e free from restraint, like a fierce wild bird. He shut bis Hps tightly, breathing bard. Both for got that a question had beeu asked, but it was Virginia?who spoke first, since it is easier for a woman than a man to hide feeling. "I wonder why you kept the ring after my?impertiuence." "I had a good reason for keeping it" "Won't you tell me?" "You're quick at forming conclu sions. Miss Mowbray. Can't you guess?" "To remind you to beware of strange young women on mountains." "No." "Because your own picture is In side?" "It was a better reason than that" "Am I not to ask It?" "On that day you asked what you chose. All the more should you do so now. since there's nothing I could re fuse you." "Not the half of your kingdom, like the royal men in fairy stories?" As soon as the words were out Vir ginia would have given much to have them back. She had not thought of a meaning they might convey, but she tried not to blush lest he should think Of it DOW. Nevertheless he did think Of it, and the light words, striking a f^Wl they had not aimed to touch, went echoing on and on till they reached that part of himself which the emperor knew least about?his heart "Half his kingdom?" Yes, he would give it to this girl if he could. Heav ens, what It would be to share it with her! "Ask anything you will," he said as a man speaks in a dream. "Then tell me?why you kept the ring.-' "Because the only woman I ever cared?to make my friend took it from her tiuger and gave it to me.'' "Now the emperor is pleased to pay compliments." "You kuow I am sincere." "Bui you'd sorn me only for an hour. Instead o:' deserving yoiir ? Lship. I'm afraid . '? "For one hour? That's true. And! how 'ong ago is that one borr? A wee!; or so, I snppos*, as tune counts. But thei^ came yesterduj aud the thing you did for me. Now I've known you always." "If you had, perhaps you wouldn't want me for your friend." "I do wap: yog." The w?r?s would c?me. It wrfs true already. He did want her, but not as a friend. His world?a world without women, without passion fiery enough to devour principles or traditions?was upside down. It was well that the ten minutes' grace between dances was over and the music for the next about to begin. A young officer. Count von Breitstein's half brother, who was to be Miss Mowbray's partner, appeared In the distance looking for her, but stoppen seeing that she was stil' with the em peror. "Goodby." said Virginia while her words could still be only for the ears of Leopold. "Not goodby. We're friends." "Yes. But we shan't meet often." "Why? Are you leaving Kronburg?" "Perhaps?soon. I don't know." "I must see you again. I will see .you orfce more, whatever comes." "Once more, perhaps. I hope so, but"? "After that"? "Who knows?" , '"Once more?once more!" The words echoed in Virginia's ears. She heard them through everything, as one hears the undertone of a mountain torrent, though a brass baud may bray to drown its deep music. Once more he would see her, what ever might come. She could guess why it might be only once, though he would fuin have that once again and again repeated, for this game of hers, begun with such a light heart, was more difficult to play than she had dreamed. If she could but be sure he cared, if he would tell her so In words and not with eyes alone, the rest might be easy, although at best she could not see the end. Vet how in honor could be tell Miss Helen Mowbray that he : cared? And if the telling were tint to be in honor how could she bear to live her life? / "Once more!" What would happen in that "once more?" Perhaps noth ing save a repetition of grateful thanks i and courteous words akin to a fare well. To be sure. Lady Mowbray and her daughter might run away and the ne gotiations between the emperor's ad visers and the Grand Duchess of Bau menburg-Drippe for the Princess Vir ginia's hand might be allowed to go on as If no outside Influence had ruf fled the peaceful current of events. Then in the eud a surprise would come for Leopold. Willful Virginia would have played her little comedy, and all might be said to end well. But Virginia's heart refused to be satisfied with so tame a last chapter, a finish to her romance so conventional as to be distastefully obvious, almost if not quite a failure. She had begun to drink a sweet aud stimulating draft?she who had been brought up on milk and water?and she was reluctant to put down the cup, still half full of sparkling nectar. "Once more!" If only that once could be magnified into many times. If she could have her chance, her "fiiug." like the lucky girls who were not royal! So she was thinking In the carriage by her mother's side, and the grand duchess had to speak twice before her daughter knew their silence had been broken. "I forgot to tell you something, Vir ginia." "Ye-es. mother?" "Your great success has made me itbseutmlnded. child. You looked like a shining white lily among all those handsome, overblown Rhaetian wo men." "Thank you. dear. Was that what you forgot to say?" "Oh. no! It was this: The Baroness von Lyndal has been most kind. She urges us to give up our rooms at the hotel on the first of next week and join her house party at Schloss Lyn dalberg. It's only a few miles out of town. What do you think of the plan?" "Leave?Kron burg?" be more or less Informal. The "baron ess was dancing with the emperor. I remember uow, just before she came to me. They were talking together quite earnestly. I can recall the ex pression of his face." "Was It pleased, or"? "I was wondering what she could have said to make him look so happy. Perhaps"? "What answer did you give Baroness von Lyndal?" "I told her I thought you wouldn't mind. I told her we would so." (To Be Continued.) Why the Piper Keeps Prancing. A little boy listening to the weird skirl of bagpipes of a street performer once said to his father: "Father, why does the piper keep on the move all the time he plays?" "I can't say. my boy. unless It Is to prevent any one getting the range with a Cobblestone." Clean City Plan For Children. The board of education of Chester. Pa., has extended permission to Mrs. Henry Clay Cochrane, chairman of the civic Improvement committee of the New Century club, to introduce into the public schools the formation of companies among the children of from Iten to fourteen years of age of a so j clety to be called the League of Good j Citizenship, the object being to en ' courage the children in all matters re lating to good citizenship, with the I view of eliciting their co-operatiou in keeping the city clean. How to Clean a Carpet. Take half a dozen large potatoes, which will Ik> enough for the carpet of one room, grate them and rub well with a dry rag into the carpet; then take a cloth wrung out of hot water and wipe off thoroughly, and your car pet will look like new. War on Electric Light Signs. Berlin's police department has deter mined to get rid of the monstrous elec tric light signs and advertisements which to the artist make night hideous In many of the principal streets and open places of the German capital. "During the day It is bad enough," says the president of the Berlin Art academy, "to see otherwise handsome buildings with huge roof signs adver tising cigarettes and dog cake and cer tain infallible nostrums for stomach ache and nerves. But at night it Is In tolerable to see In every direction those blinking, insistent lights high hi the air at the end of every romantic and beautiful street vista telling their ugly, monotonous, maddening tale of choco late and biscuits." When the Stomach, Heart or Kid ney nerves get weak, then these or gans always fail. Don't drug the Stomach, -nor stimulate the Heart oi Kidneys. That Is simply a makeshift Get a prescription known to drug gists everywhere as Dr. Shoop's Re storative is prepared expressly for these inside nerves, build them up with Dr. Shoop's Restorative?tab lets or liquid?and see how qiuckly help will come. Free sample test sent on request by Dr. Shoop, Racine. Wis. Your health is surely worth this simple test. J. G. Wannamaker Mfg. Co. The old saws don't cut much of a figure any more. At times when you don r feel just right, when you have a bad stomach, take something right away that will assist digestion; not something that will stimulate for a time but some thing that will positively do the very work that the stomach performs un der ordinary and normal conditions that will make the food digest. To do this you must take a natural diges "She's asked a uumber of friends?to tant like Kodol for Dyspepsia. Kodol meet the emperor." is a scientific preparation of vegeta "Oh! He didn't speak of it?when ble acids with natural digestants*and we danced." ] contains the same juices found in a "But she has mentioned it to him I healthy stomach. Each dose will db= since, no doubt-before giving me the gest more than 3,000 grains of good invitation. Intimate friend of bN as she is. she-wouldn't dare ask people to meet him if he hadn't first sanctioned the suggestion. Still, she can afford to food. It is sure to afford prompt relief; it digests what you eat ana"*is pleasant to take. Sold by A. C. Dukes; A. C. Doyle & Co. . . ?Vege tauIePreparalionfor As similating tiieTood andRegula ting the S tomachs anriBowels of Infants /C hildkkn Erimiote3l)igesuon,C^ ness arid Besr.Con tains neirher OpmrR>Mon)lime norrTmsral. Not Narcotic. 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Back pains, dull and heavy, or sharp and acute tell you j of sick kidneys and warn you of the approach of dropsy, diabetes and Bright's disease. Doan's Kidney Pills cure sick kidneys and cure them permanently. E. Starton, well known in Flor ence, S. Cm says: "Doan's Kidney Pills helped my back after every thing else had failed, and after I had thought that my back was worn out. They made it stronger than it had been for five or si>: year.-, and seemed to put a new backbone in me. I have had a terrible time with back ache which was greatly aggravated by my work and at times f hed to lay off for I could not work on ac count of the acute pains across my loins. I could not begin to te'! you all I have suffered. The secretions from my kidneys also bothered me, | were very dark in color and con tained sediment, being also too fre quent in action and annoying me during the day and preventing my resting well at nights. I applied plasters and rubbed my back with liniments but nothing helped me un til I read about Doau's Kidney Pills and procured a box. They were just what I needed and are the best back ache remedy I ever used. I have not had backache since I used them, the kidney secretions are all right, I can sleep all night without having to get up and my back is stronger than it has been for a number of years." Plenty more proof like this from Orangeburg people. Cali at J. G. Wannamaker's drug store and ask what customers report. For sale by all dealers. Price 50c. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agent for United States. Remember the name?Doan's? and take no other. Some of us would rather tell the truth than be popular. DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve is best for cuts, burns, boils, bruises and scratches. It is especial ly good for piles. Sild by A. C. Dukes; A. C. Doyle & Co. A rose by any other name would have as many thorns. Tact s the leaven that saves flat tery from falling flat. A tickling cough, from any cause, Is quickly stopped by Dr. Shoops Cough Cure. And it is so thoroughly harmless and safe, that Dr. Shoop^ tells mothers everywhere to give it without hesitation, even to very young babies. Tne wholesome green leaves and tender stems of a lung healing mountain shrub, furnish the curative properities to Dr. Shoop's Cough Cure. It calms the cough, and heals the sore and sensitive bron chial membranes. No opium, chloro form, nothing harsh used to injure or suppress. Simply a resinous plant extract, that helps to hea; aching lungs. The Spandiards call this shrub/ which the doctor uses, "The Sacred Herb." Always demand Dr. Shoop's Cough Cure. Dr. J. G. Wannamaker Mfg. Co. 8tomach troublo is but a symptom of. and no! la itself a true disease. Wo thin It of Dyspepsia. Heartburn, and Indigestion us rtial diseases, yes they are syr-r^nis only, of a 'certain speclflo Nerve sickness?nothing else. It was this fact that first carrectly led Dr. Shqop tnthe creation of that now v?iry popular StomaOr Remedy?Dr. Shoop'g Restorative-. Going dheia" to the stomach nerves, alone brought that success and favor to Dr. Shoop and his Restorative. With out that original ana highly vital principle, no mich lasting accomplishment: i were ever to be had. For stomach distress, bloating, biliousness, bad breath and sallow complexion, try Dr. Shoop's Restorative?Tablets or Liquid?and see for your self what it can and will do. Wo sell and cheep fully recommend Dr. Shoop's Restorative DR. J; G. WANNAMAKER. FLORIDA-CUBA During these Cold Winter Months A TRIP Via THE ATLANTIC COAST LINE Would be just the thing to make life worth living. Superb trains, excellent schedules and tickets which offer every advantage possible for a pleasant and attractive trip. For full information or Pamphlets call on your nearest Ticket Agent, or write, W. J. CRAIG, T. C. 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So inexpensive arc they that you can furnish every bedr >om in your house without feeling yourself extravagant. Also everything in the Hardware line, Stoves and Ranges &c. Orangeburg Hardware & Furniture Co. Now is the Time To buy your Farming Implements. I have a complete line of Plows, Plow Stocks, Back Bands, Leather & Cotton Collars, Plantation Bridles, Farm, Church and School Bells, Shovels, Anvils, Forges, Poultry Netting, Woven Wire Fences, Lard Presses & Meat Cutters. And in fact everything that is used on the farm. Prices are right. Give me a rail J. W. Smoak Phone No 1. Orangeburg, S. C.