Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1$>fa M%mt$m& ?tmmti. PUBLISHED TWICE-A-WEEK Tuesday and Friday. "Vol. 40.. :Xo. 32. "Entered as second-class matter KSau. 1. 1908. at the postofiice at Or / angeburg, s. c, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Mmtu L. Sims, Editor and Proprietor, fas. Izlar.Sims, - Associate Editor. Subscription Bates. One Year.... ..fl.50 "?x Months.. .. .. .. .. ... .75 iThree Months. .. .. ..40 Advertising Bates. Transient advertifleiaeats $1.00 per inch for .fizst insertion and 50 cents for each subsequent Assertion I Business Notices 10 cents per lire for first insertion and 5 cents per line for subsequent Insertions j Obituaries, Tributes of Respect, Notice of Thanks, and all notices of a peuonal or politi i sal nature are charged for as regular advertise IMota ' S??c?d Notices, entitled Wanted, Lest, IFound, Far Rent, not exceeding twenty-five words, one time, 85 cents; two tames 50 cents; taxeo times, 75 cents and four times $1.00. . Liberal contract made with merchants and others who wish to run advertisements for three months or longer. For rates on contract advertising apply at the office, and they will " ttm carefully famished. Remittances should be made by checks ?Boeey orders, registered letters, or express or ders, payable to ? The Times and Democrat, . ' Oraneeburg, S. C. "Wall Street wants Taft," says the New York Sun. We expected as much._. If after being promised a good fat office if you would hustle for a new county, you brought up the tail end of the ticket on election day, wouldn't it jar you. The President's activity about the "'Jim Crow" law is just to conciliate the negroes, who are somewhat off -color in their devotion to theRepub Jican party these days. The Democrats in Congress can not pass reform legislation without Bepublican votes, but they are .plainly showing the country the hypocrisy of the Republicans in pre tending to be for,reform. The House Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads has pigeon -holed the ship subsidy bill. Seven Democrats and three Republicans voted against reporting it. Secretary Taft returned to Wash ington last Saturday after weeks' campaigning in the Middle West. Who pays his salary while he is en gaged in working for himself? The Democratic national conven tion will be able to "point with pride" to the way the Democratic members of Congress forced the Bepublicans to enact all the reform legislation accomplished. Wonder if something can't be done to suppress Lilly? He seems to be harmless, but we are tired of his annual ravings about abolishing the Charleston Navy Yard. About the best thing to abolish is Lilly himself. We have received two reminders in three days that Gov. Johnson is -willing to be the candidate of the democrats for President if they want him. This is going it some for a man who is not seeking the nomination. - The opponents of Bryan are try ing to secure one-third of the dele gates to the Democratic National ?Convention so as they can prevent his nomination and deadlock the ?convention. By this * means they hope to force a weak candidate on the party so as hs will be beaten at the polls.\ One Bryan man was elected as.' a. delegate at large to the Denver con-"" <vention from New York, >-but.hia. hands were tied by the adoption of the unit'rule^ " We have no kick. If the Democrats of New rYork prer ter some other than Bryan they did right to fix their delegation so as it will express their wishes. . ' That Major J..C.?emphill, of the News and Courier, can be his genial nelf with two such hopeless proposi tions on hand as the Johnson boom and the Charleston base ball team is proof positive that he has more than his share of the milk of human kindness in his make up. We hope his base ball troubles will materially improve. The News and Courier says: "The voice of the State press is not for Bryan. The Columbia State, the Charleston Post and the Orange burg Times and Democrat favor the Nebraskan." There are many others that favor Bryan. But it makes very little difference where the press stands, the people are for him almost unanimously. President Roosevelt, it is said, takes kindly to the Fairbapks plan of a special session for revision of the tariff immediately after theelec tieu~th,it is, by the present Con-1 gress ins Lead of leaving the matter to the Congress that will come into power after March 4. What is the j good of these tariff-fakirs telling ot the great things they will do ".sfter flection" when nothing is attempt ed before election. Revising the Tariff. The Republicans, if they control .the next Congress, will not need the advice and assistance, of a tariff Commission; for all'they need do is to call in the experts and attorneys of the Trusts. That is what they did in 1S&7 when the present tarifT law was fixed up. What is the use of deceiving the taxpayers, as Con gressman Payne does, by declaring that "tariffs have always been made without anything like adequate in formation." Mr. Payne and the other members of the ways and Means Committee were fully advis ed, when they were considering the Dingley tariff law, that the high rates demand by Mr. Carnegie and the Steel Trust people would breed monopoly. When they allowed the Standard Oii Trust attorney to write the proviso to the oil schedule they knew they were protecting the trust and adding at least 50 per cent to the price of kerosene to the Ameri can people and the poorest people at that. C When they accepted the Beef Trust schedule on hides they pre tended to be protecting the Ameri can fanner, but they knew thev were helping the Leather and Begf Trusts: When they accepted the wool schedule of the Wool Growers' Association they knew they were adding 75 per cent, at least, to the cost of woolen goods to those people of Northern States, who from necess ity have to buy them and instead of helping the farmers, it was the flockmasters of the great Western plains that were mostly benefited. When they wrote the schedule that protects the Paper Trust they must have known the newspaper owners would have to pay the tariff duty in increasing profit to the trust. Not a schedule, but was carefully con sidered and all with the same in tent and purpose of adding to the burdens, of the people for the bene fit of the Trusts. The Trusts were well acquainted with the facts and; in: return have been most liberal contributors to the campaign fund of not only the Republican National Cornmittees, but also to the committee who man ages 'the election of Congressmen. Millions have been paid by the trusts and protected monopolists to secure the election of presidents and Con gressmen, both of the Senate and House who were "sound on the tar iff." And now the same old show is tobe playedfegainwjth^a different title and the excuse that there must be added maximum schedule rates to protect us from the pauper labor of England whose workingmen are now in better circumstances than our workmen are because their cost of living is so much less. The English workingmen has low er wages, but the world to draw up on for his necessities, for every country, including the United States sells him its surplus products in com petition with each other, with no tariff duties to speak of to add to the price. Here everything import ed that is manufactured is taxed and the trusts profit by adding the tariff rate to their own natural prof it. The only difference being that the government collects the tariff tax on the goods imported and the trusts collect the tariff tax on their products produced heret while the tariff protects them from foreign competition. It is now proposed to promise the people to revise the tar iff, "after election," but whether the tariff is to be revised lower or high er is left to the imagination of the voter.; As the Republican leaders now declare they must enact a maxi mum tariff as well as a minimum tar iff, it is evident that some.of the trusts want still higher rates and no doubt they Will be accommodated by their -friends, the Republican politicians. A Washington View. We have heard for months the it eration and reiteration in South Carolina of this forceful argument: "We oppose Bryan's nomination be cause he can -not be elected." They do not tell us why he can not be elected or what other Democrat is so . strong. Let us now turn to opinions that should count; opinions of men that are in direct touch with the voters in the doubtful States. We quote the following from the Washington Herald, independent: It is not the Democrats who are saying that Ohio can not be carried by Taft; nor the Democrats who are giving Indianna to Bryan as against Taft; nor the Democrats who are talking about Illinois and Wisconsin being doubtful; not the Democrats who scent political danger in Massa chusetts, but Republicans?Republi cans of prominence who are oppos ing Taft and who predict almost op enly that if Taft is nominated Bryan will defeat him. j In commenting on the above The State says "the reader will observe that not Johnson or Gray, but Bry an, is the Democrat the Republicans who are shrewd politicians and well informed; credit with strength to carry Ohio, make Illi nois and Wisconsin doubtful, and defeat Taft. W- fear the South Carolina prophets that detract from a. jjlu jl Bryan's popularity, are only com forting their own desires." J Why He Was Elected. ?? 'Johnson,',' says The News and Courier,.' 'would carry Minnesota.'' How do you know that? D. L. Sav age, of Minneapolis, a Bryan Demo crat, Who claims to know'something of political condi tions in his State, in a letter opposing the nomination /of Johnson, says: "John A. John son was elected Governor of Minne sota because of a fight in the Repub lican party four years ago, and not on his own strength, but by the weakness of his opponent. Two years ago the lumber barons nomi nated Cole, a man very unpopular with the people of the northern part of the State, and disliked by the commercial travelers, who fought im incessantly and defeated him, not because they liked Johnson but because they determined to defeat Cole and the lumber barons. The Republican party in Minnesota is thoroughly united this year and will carry the State by 40,000 majority next fall. Johnson can not carry the State for Governor or Presi dent." The Charleston Post says because he carried Minnesota for Governor is no sign that Johnson can carry it for President. W. L. Douglas swept Massachusetts for Governor in the same year that Roosevelt roiled, out a tremendous majority in the State for President. Is there any likelihood that Douglas could get the vote of Massachusetts for President? ' The Johnson, Pa., Democrat says "the one thing that animates the newspapers and the politicians who are opposing the well-known and the notorious desire of an overwhelming majority of the democratic voters of the country for Mr. Bryan's nomina tion, is a desire to defeat that nomi nation. They do not want him nom inated because they fear, indeed, they know, -that he will be elected. And with soft words and fine prom ises they are saying that they ad mire him greatly, but that he should step aside and turn over his strength to some other candidate." AS TO LETTER * BITING. Post Card Extent of Our Attention to Relativer. It Is a well-known fact that no body writes letters nowadays. It is true we spend a vast deal of time at our writing table,, that we consume untold quantities of Ink and nibs, while our stationery bill is by no means the most modern item of our ever-increasing expenditures. But we neither write nor receive letters. The utmost we oo is to "dash off notes'" in answer to invitations, to "scribble a few lines" of congratula tion or sympathy, as the case may De, with a friend; to express briefly but forcibly our dissatisfaction with our dressmaker, or our surprise of our milliner's account Never Ask For Their Fee. A Japanese doctor never.thinks of asking a poor patient for a fee. There is a proverb among the medical fra ternity of Japan: "When the twin enemies, poverty and'disease, invade a home then he who takes aught from that home, even though it be given him, is a robber." "Often," says Dr. Datsumoto, "a doctor will not only give his time and his medicine freely to the suffer er, but he will also giv,e him money j to tide him over his dire necessities. I Every physician has his own dispen [ sary and there are very few chemists' j shops in the empire. When a rich i man calls in a physician he does not j expect to be presented with a bill for j his medical services. In fact, no such thing as a doctor's bill is known In j.Japan, although nearly all the other j modern appliances are in vogue there. I The doctor never asks for his fee. The strict honesty of the people makes . this unnecessary. When he has fm I Ished with a patient, a ? present is ! ma.de. to him of whatever sum the pa ! tient or' his friends may deem to be t just compensation. The doctor is sup posed to smile, take the fee; bow, and thank'his'patron!'' ? ; Resourceful For, Cripples'. ' "f * The greatest achievement of the administration of Sir William 'i reloar who lately retired from the Ixjrd Mayoralty of London, was the raising by him of $300,000, with which to es tablish a home and a school for young cripples. To secure money for the fund, he sometimes employed very un conventional methods. He once at tended a prize fight! wearing his robes of office, and solicited donations from the crowd: Good, Bad and Very Bad. "What kind of eggs have you?" isked tue.man entering the store. "We have fresh eggs, stored eggs, md theatrical eggs," replied the deal er, looking over hir spectacles. She was a little girl and very polite. 'Twas the first time she had been on a visit alone, and sho had been told how to behave. "Now, Ethel, should they ask you to stay and dine, you must say, 'No, thank you, I have already dined." It turned out just as papa had anticipated. "Come along, Ethel," said the host, "You must have a bite with us." "No, thank you," said the dignified little girl. "I have already bitten." It's a poor tool that can't be work ed both ways. A good cause make a stout heart and a strong arm. Worry for worry's sake seems to be the working motto of many peo ple. ? The ? Princess Virginia By C. N. and A. M. WILLIAMSON. Authors of "The Lightning Con ductor." "Rosemary In Search of \%. FeUher," Etc Copyright, 1907. by McCluro. Phil lips & Co. fCHAPTEB ELEVIN"! HE ran from him along the moonlit path. One . step he took as If to follow and keep her, but checked himself and let her go. Only dis eyes went with her, and in them there was more of pain than anger, though never before In all his life per haps had he been- thwarted in any strong desire. Passion urged him for ward, but pride held him back, for Leopold was a proud man, and to hnve his love thrown in his face was to re ceive an icy douche with the blood at fever heat For this girl's sake he had in a few days changed the habits of a lifetime. Pride, reserve, self control, the wish not only to appear but to be a man above the frailties of common men. the ambition to be placed and worthily placed on a pedestal by his subjects all these he had thrown" away for Helen Mowbray. He was too just a man not to admit that if one of his royal cousins of younger ? branches had contemplated such folly as this he would have done his best to nip that folly while it was In bud. "ne jests at scars who never felt a wound." and until Leopold had learned by his own unlocked for ex perience what love can mean, what men will do for love while the sweet madness is on them, he would have been utterly unable to understand the state of mind. . A cousin inclined to act as he was now bent on acting would but a month ago have found all the emperor's Influ ence, even force perhaps, brought to bear in restraining him. Leopold saw the change In himself, was startled and shamed by it Nevertheless he would have persevered, trampling down every obstacle that rose In his way. if only the girl had seen things with his eyes. She bad accused him of Insulting her. not stopping to consider that even to make her morganatJ.cally his wife he' must give great cause for com plaint not only to Iiis ministers, but to his people, for he was , expected to marry a girl of royal blood that the country might have an heir. If Helen Mowbray had accepted the position he offered her, he could never have bro ken her heart by making another mar riage. Not only would It be difficult In these days to find a princess willing to toler ate such a rival, but it would have been impossible for him to desecrate, the bond between himself and the one adored woman. This being the case, with Helen Mowbray as his morganatic wife, there could be no direct heir to the throne. At his death the son of his uncle, the Archduke Joseph, ? would succeed, and during his life the popu larity which was dear to him would be hopelessly forfeited. Rhaetia -would never forgive him for selfishly prefer ring his own private happiness to the' good of the nation. . He could fancy how old Iron Heart von Breitsteln would present this point of view to him .with fierce eloquence, temples throbbing like the' ticking of a watch, eyes netted with bloodshot veins. B?t. on the-other hand, he could picture himself standing calmly *o face the storm, steadfast In his own indomitable will, happy with love to uphold him. ;\ But now the wil which had borne him through life in a triumphal march had been powerless against that of this young girl. She would have none of Jilm. A womun whose face was her fortune, whose plaee In life was hard j ry as high as the first step of a throue. had refused?an emperor! :. Hardly - couldLeopold believe the thing, that, had- happened to him. He had spoken of doubting that be had won her love, and be had doubted. Bat be had allpwed ? himself to hope, because he had confidence in bis star and. because perhaps it had ..scarcely been known in the annals of history that an emperor's suit should be re pulsed. Besides, he had loved the girl so pas sionately that If seemed' she could not remain cold. .And he hoped still that when she had passed a long night in reflection, In thinking over the situa tion, perhaps taking counsel with that' comparatively commonplace yet prac tical little lady, her'mother, she might be ready to change her mind. For the first few moments after the stinging rebuff he had endured Leo pold felt that If she did It would be her turn to suffer, for be could never hum ble himself to implore for the 6econd time. But as he stood In the soft still ness of the night, gazing toward the lights of- the house, thoughts of Vir ginia?her youth, i her sweetness, her beauty dimmed with grief?overwhelm- j ed him. Could he have reached her be would have fallen, on his knees and kissed her gown. By and by a vast tenderness breath ed Its calm over the thwarted passion in his breast, and plans to win her back came whispering in his ear. He would write a letter and send It to her room. Rut, no; perhaps it would be wise to give her a longer Interval for reflection and, it might be, regret. To morrow he would see her and show all the depths of that great love which she had thought to throw away. She could not go <>u withstanding him for ever, and, now that ' ? had burned bis boats behind him, lie would never think of turning bn"!:. He would per severe till she should yield. Meanwhile Virginia had hurried b'lndly toward the buntie, aud It was instinct rat.ier than intention that led her to the jjpen .window of music room, uy which sne had couie out. Tears burned her eyelids, hut they did not fall until she stood once more In the room w.here she and Leopold had been happy together. There she had sat at the piano, and he had bent over her. love In his eyes~bot?>st love, she had thought, her heart full of thanksgiving. How little she had guessed then the hum!!'at ion in si ose fur her aud the end of all her bones! How could she bear her pain, and'how could she go on /iving Out her life? She paused in the window uiche, looking into the room through a mist of tears, and a sob choked her. '"Cruel, cruel!" she whispered. "What agony, what au insult!" Then, dashing away her tears, she pushed back the dark curtains and would have passed on Into the room had not the quick gesture brought her arm into contact with, the buttons and gold braid on a man's breast. Instantly she realized that some one was hiding there, some one dressed In a military coat, and her first impulse was for flight, anything to escape un recognized. But ou second thoughts she changed her mind. Whoever It was had in all probabili ty hidden himself for the purpose of spying and was already aware that Miss Mowbray had rushed into the house weeping after a tete-a-tete with the emperor In the garden. Perhaps he bad even caught a word or two of her sobbing ejaculation. No; she must not run away and leave the outcome of this affair to chance. She must see with whom she had to deal that she might know wbat was best to do. She had taken a step into the room, but quick as light she turned, pulled away the screen of curtains and faced Captain von Breitstein. It was a trying moment for him, and the girl's look stripped him of all his light audacity. She had come to the window by a different path from the one he had watched: therefore she had taken him unawares before he had time to escape, as he had planned. He was caught fairly and must save him self as best he could without prepara tion. If her reproach forestalled, his ex cuse he was lost. He must step into the breach at whatever risk. There was no time to weigh words. He must let loose the first that sprang to his lips. "I see what yon think of me," he said. "I see you think I was watching you. I swear I. wasn't, though I-knew you were in the garden with?the em peror. Walt?you most listen. You must hear my Justification. I was sent to this room to fetch yon. For your sake, how could I go back and say you had disappeared?together? I looked out into the garden and saw you?with him. I saw from your man ner that?he had made you suffer. I was half mad with rage, guessing? guessing something which one word you let drop as you came in told me had happened. He is 'my sovereign, but?be bus insulted you. Let me be your knight, as In days of old. Let me defend you, for I love you. I waited here to tell you this as you came, so that If you would we might announce an engagement"? If Virginia's eyes had been daggers he would have) fallen at her feet pierc ed to the heart. For one long second she looked at blm without speaking, her face eloquent. Then she went by him with the proud bearing of a queen. Egon was stricken dumb. Dully he .watched hep move across the room to a door which led into a corridor. He heard the whisper of her satin dress and saw the changing lights and shad ows on its creamy folds under the crystal chandeliers; he saw the white reflection, like a spirit, mirrored deep under the polished surface of the floor. Never had she beeu more beautiful, but she was beautiful In his eyes no longer. He had. hurt her pride, but she had stabbed hlS vanity, and to wound Egon von Breh.^eln's vanity was to strike at his life. He hated the girl, hated ber so sharply that his nerves ached with the intensity of his hatred, and the only relief he could have would be through reprisal. He had uot been able to deceive her. She knew that he had been spying, and It was fortunate for his future, he realized already, that she had broken with the-emperor. He must do all he could, and do it quickly, to prevent a reconciliation lest she should , work him Injury. . . As for his hastily stammered pro posal, it was a good. thing that the girl had nor taken him at his word, for the chancellor had not given him permission' to speak, and If she had accepted blm he might have had to wriggle out of his engagement. Still, he could not forgive her scorn of him. "Lorenz shall help me to pay her for this!" he said furiously to hi,mself, too angry to mourn over lost hopes, lost opportunities. "He will know how to punish her. And between us she shall sruffer." ?:?!?~m |CHAPTE?TW?IJVL| T was for refuge that the princess fled to her own room. A boudoir shared by the grand duchess ad joined It, and. entering there, to her dismay the girl saw her mother lying on a 6ofu, attended by Ernestine, the French mnid. Virginia's heart sank. She had sup posed the grand duchess to be in the white drawing room with the baroness and the other guests of the house. Now there was no hope that she might be left alone and unquestioned. And the girl had longed to be alone. "At last!" exclaimed a faint voice from the sofa. "I thought you would never come." The princess stared, half dazed, un able to tear her mind from her private griefs. "Are you ill, mother?" she stammered. "Had you sent for me';*' "I can.e very near fainting in the drawing room," the grand duchess au swered. "Ernestine, you may leave us now." The Frenchwoman went out noise lessly. Still Virginia did not speak. Could it be that then h:id been auotber spy besides Egon von Breitstein and that her mother already knew how the cas tle of cards had fallen? Was it the news of defeat which had prostrated her? "Have you?did any one tell you?" the girl faltered. "I've had a telegram?a frrrible tele gram. Oh, "Virginia, I am not young; as you are! I am too old to endure all this. I thinlc you should not have sub jected me to iL" The grand duchess' voice was plain tive and pried among the girl's sick nerves like,hot "ire. "What du ;>u im an. ifwXr? I do ubt understand," she said dully. "I'm so sorry you are ill. If it's my fault in any way I"? Her mother pointed toward a writing table. "The telegram is there," she murmured. "It is too distressing?too humiliating." J Virginia picked up a crumpled tele ; graph form and began to read the mes sage, which was dated London and written in English: Some one making Inqulnk-s here about the Mowbrays. Beg to i.dvise you to ex plain all at at once or leave Kronburg to avoid almost certain complications. LAMBERT. Lady Lambert was the wife of the ex-ambassador to the court of Rhaetla from Great Britain. The princess finished in silence. "Isn't it hideous?" asked the grand duchess. "To think that you and I should have deliberately placed our selves in such a poskiou! We are to run away, like detected adventuresses, unless?unless you are now ready to tell the emperor all." "No." said Virginia hopelessly. "What! Not yet? Oh, my dear, then you must bring matters to a crisis? instantly?tonight even. It's evident that some enemy, perhaps some jeal ous person, has been at work behind our backs, it !s for you to turn the tables upon him, and there isn't an hour to waste. From the first you meant to make some dramatic revela tion. Now the time has come." "Ah. I meant?I meant!" echoed .Vir ginia, with a sob breaking the ice In her voice. "Nothing has turned out as I meant. You were right, dear: I was wrong. We ought never to have come to Rhaetla." The grand duchess grew paler than before. She had been vaguely dis tressed. Now she was sharply alarm ed. If Virginia admitted that this great adventure should never have been undertaken, then Indeed the earth must be quaking under their feet. "Ought not?to have come?" she re peated piteously. "What dreadful thing has happened?" The princess stood with. beat head. "It's hard to tell," she said, "harder almost than anything 1 ever bad to do. But It must be done. Everything's at an end. dear." "What?you've told him, and he has refused to forgive?" , "He knows nothing." "For heaven's sake, don't keep me in suspense!" VIrginla'3 lips were dry. "He ask ed me to be his wife." she said. "Oh, wait?wait! Don't look happy. You don't understand, and I didn't at first He had to explain, and he put the thing ns little offensively as he could. Ob, mother, he thinks me only good enough to be bis morganatic wife!" The storm had burst at last, and tlig princess fell on her knees by the sol?., where, burying her face lu her moth er's lap, she sobbed as if parting with : her youth. There had always been mental and temperamental barriers between the Dresden ehiun lady and her daughter, but they loved each other, and never had the girl been so dear to her moth er as now. The grand duchess thought of the summer day when v'irginia had knelt beside her. saying, "We are go ing to have an adventure, you and I." Alas, the adventure was over, and summer and hope were dead! Tears trembled in the mother's eyes. Poor little Virgiuia, so young, so inexperi enced aud. in spite of her self will and recklessness, so sweet and loviug with al! "But, dear, you are making the worst of things." the grand duchess said soothingly, her hand on tbe girl's bright h.iir. "Why. Instead of crying you ought to be smiling. 1 think. Leo pold must love you desperately or he would never have proposed marriage, even morganatic marriage. Just at first the idea must have shocked you. knowing who you are. But. remember, if you were Miss Mowbray It would have been a triumph. Many women of high position have married royalty morganatically, and every one has re-' spected'them. You seem to forget that the emperor knows yon1 only as Helen Mowbray." "He ought to have known that Helen ilowbray was uot the girl to cousent? no, not more easily than' Virginia of Baumenburg-Drippe! He should have understood without telling that to a girl with Anglo-Saxon blood in ber veins such an offer would be like a blow over the heart." "How should he understand It? He is Rhaetian. His point of vlew"^ "His point of view to me is terrible. Oh, mother, It's useless to argue! Ev erything is spoiled. Of course If he knew I was Princess Virginia he would be sorry for what lie had proposed, even if be thought I'd brought it. on myself. But then it would be too late. Don't,you understand? I valued his love because it was given to me, not the princess. If he said, 'Now I know you I can offer my right hand instead of my left to you as my wife,' that would not be the same thing at all. No; there's nothing left but to go home, and the emperor of Kbaetia must be told that Virginia of Baumenburg Drjppe has decided not to marry. That will be our one revenge, but a pitiful one, since he'll never know that the princess who refuses his right hand and the Helen Mowbray who wouldn't take his left are one and the same. Oh, mother, I did love him so! Let us get out of this h::teful house as soon as we can." The grand duchess knew her daugh ter and abandoned hone. "Yes. if you will not forgive him we must go at once and save our diguity if we can," she said. "The telegram will give us our excuse. I told 'he baroness I had received Lad news, and she asked per mission to knock at my door before going to bed and inquire how I was reeling. She may come at any mo ruent. We must say that the telegram recalls us immediately to Fngland." "Listen!" whispered Virginia. "I think there's some one at the door now." Baroness von Lyudal stood aghast on hearing that she was to be deserted early in the mornir : by the brighi. particular sfar of her house party? after the. emperor.. &ho bogged iba_i ITriuy ?TowCT?T woulo~rcc?h&i?er; that she would wire to England instead of going, or. at all events, that she would wait for one day more until Leopold's visit to Schloss Lyndalberg should be over. In her anxiety she even failed in tact when she found arjuments useless. "Bnt (he emperor?" she objected. "If yoj go cd early Lu the morninj before he or any one comes down, what will he think? What will he say at being cheated out of his au revoir?" * The grand duchess hesitated. .But Virginia answered lirmly: "I said good by to him tonight The emperor?will understand." (To Be Continued.) CANDIDATE CARDS. FOR SHERIFF I hereby announce myself as a candidate in the coming primary for re-election to the office of Sheriff of Orangeburg County, subject to the rules of the Democratic party. Respectfully; JOHN H. DUKES. ' FOR SUPERVISOR. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for Supervisor, subject to endorsement of the Democratic prim ary. D. N. WESTBERRY. ' I announce myself a candidate for Supervisor. Having had much exper ience in road building and county af fairs generally, many voters realize that I am thoroughly competent. I am respectfully, T. M. HALL. Superintendent of Education. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for County Superintendent of Education subject to ratification by the Democratic Primary this Summer. E. H. HOUSER. 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