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By ALBERT PA1 H.. COPYRIGHT, 1908, B' CHAPTER VI. At Maxim's ~ *> AXHl'S after mldrilglrt ?the |Vb show, restaurant whither sigbt I |i seeing Americans ami other -i tourists iflock und whose dizzy, machine made merrinieui they solemn ly tielieve to bp a part and panel of true Parisian life. On the night'of Sonia's garden party one group of men and women who en tered the joliy restaurant were so dif ferent from the usual habitues of the place, as to come in for not a few amused glances, from their neighbors, They were Mme. Natalie Popuft; Mme. Nova Koviteh and Ca'scadn and St. Brioche. The visit was Natalie's idea. At Maxim's. . She had heard Dnnilo's wild speech of good by to Sonia and his announcement that he was off to Maxim's. Hence the ambassador's .wife, with a feebie yearning to atoue iu some way for the false |K?sltlon into which the widow had been thrust for her sake, bad re solved to follow in the ho|ie of securing a word In private with Danilo and setting matters right again. Natalie had not confided her plan to her husband, and now as the party were ushered lu a secluded table In an alcove she glanced at the riotous scene about her with a delighted nervous ness. The delight vanished suddenly, however, and the uervousness waxed to a panic fear as a familiar voice smote upon her ear. PopolT had just come In and was standing uot ten feet away 'from the secluded table where his wife sat trembling. ^ "I want fo see Prince Danilo at once." be said to the head waiter. "Has he arrivedV" "Not yet. sir." was the reply, "but he will be here very soou. There is a supper parly waiting for him over there." waving to a tableful of gayly appareled girls with tire<l*\ved men. "Keally!" exclaimed the ambassador. **I'Ii just join them till he comes." He toddled off to the distant table, where, to Natalie's jealous eye, he seeined to make himself at uouie with a phenomenal ease and quickness, lie was-scarce seated when Danilo'strode In. The whole table rose to give the prince noisy greeting "Why. hello, your excellency!" cried Daniio. "This is queer company for m monument of respectability like . .yourself to wander lutel" "I, cameonly to .see you." protested the ambassador, drawing bitn aside. "I was bound I'd eome here and wait till you appeared If? "Oil. I see." cut lu the prince, thor oughly enjoying hi* confusion. "Fools rush in where"? ; ? "I didn't. rush iu." fumed the am bassador; "1 crept here in ji measly eab. and I sneaked into the place like a pickpocket for fear someone would recognize me. I sacrificed myself to my country. Suppose my wife should bear of it! I eaine to implore you. tu rast myself on your mercy, to bee yon once more to prevent t lie widow from"? "I must see his excellency." insisted a portly man behind them, his voice booming through the whole room. "lie is here, and I? Oh.'" he broke off on night of Popoff. "Here yon are! 1"? *"My dear Nova Koviteh." pettishly interrupted the ambassador, "is it nec essary to hunt fur me wilb a brass band? Couldn't you"? "I'm sorry to Interrupt you." answer ed Nova Koviteh. "but here's a dis patch from the Marsovian ministry. It seemed to me important, and I brought it on." Popoff took the slip of paper and read aloud: "If Mine. Sadowa's twenty millions are allowed to leave Marsovia we are a bankrupt country." "There, Prince Danilo." continued the ambassador, turning on the young man in melodramatic appeal; "yon see li's right up to yon! Your country ap peals to you to save it! You are Mar sovia's last hope. Murry the widow and" "I I! marry no one!" flared up I) milo. "To the deuce with matrimony and Marsovia and myself! I'm done with sill- dreams of love and all that uon sense. I'm free, and I'm guiug to make a night of it. I"? He paused and stood silent, dum founded. Down the little flight of Stairs Reading iuto the room a womau SON TERHUNE Y HENRY W. SAVAGE _J "Sonin!" exclaimed Danilo. With a word of .excuse to the others, he hurried across and met the widow as she reached the foot of the steps. "You're here."" he muttered hi hor rified wouder?"here a lone V" "Yes." replied Sonia coldly. "Is it any affair of yoursV" "First the summer house." he went ; on as in a daze, "then .Maxim's." "Quite so. Is that all you have to ! say ':" . I "No." he retorted: "1 have one thine; mote. You should not marry De .loii don." "No? Why not. pray?" "Because I" Ile checked himself. She finished the sentence for him: ."Because you love me?" she sug gested. ? He broke into a discordant, miserable j lung!) "Don't laugh that silly way!" she reprimanded sharply, j "I aiu sorry yon don't like it," he observed. "It's the only way I know." "Then don't laugh at-all. The laugh ; is on my side, anyway." "On your side?" "Yes. Yon are angry at what hap pened this evening.'' But it wasn't I who was in the summer house with M de Jolldoh.*' "But I saw you there." be declared. ?T* "1 took auother woman's place to ge< her out of an awkward scrape with ber husband?with M. Popoff. She was"? "And I never even guessed it.'" cried Danilo. his sullen face breaking into a smile of Uttel* relief. "What a fool I was.' I was green and yellow with jealousy 1"? IP- caught himself up. but it was too late. Simla's eyes danced. "But Kiiiee you don't love me." she asked, "why were you yellow and green with"? "'Because green and yellow are our national colors. I am nothing if not patriotic You see"? "Mme. Sadowa ? prince.'" gurgled PoprtT. trotting Hp t" them, unable longer to restrain bis anxiety "I hope it i< all settled. Ail nicely arranged. ,.),-" "I LOVE YOU, SON! "If you mean is madnhie'.to marry De .lolidon." answered Danilo, "she Is' not." "But this evening." ejaculated Pop ofT. "in the summer bouse!" "She took another woman's place." replied the prince, disregarding Sonia's warning gesture. "Dear me!" squealed Popoff. bis curi osity reviving. "Who was she?" "Kxcuse nie, your excellency." re marked Nisli. who had entered with Nova Kovifcll and had hovered aim lessly aboil) waiting to get in a word, "but here Is a fan that was flicked up in the slimmer house after the party. You told me'to search the place, and I dlil. If I may say so. I"? "Same uid fan!" commented Popoff, Idly opening It. Then, with a jump as lib eye vaguely caught the seulenec Natalie bad scribbled beneath lb: .Job don's tivuwal. be screamed: "My wile's haudwriting! Then it was my wife aller ab!" "Sir." iploteil Nova Kov'tcll. "Cae sar's w ife should be above suspicion." "Km Caesar never brought his wife to Paris.'" wailed Popoff. "This is l?.i?1 for me." "No. no!" pleaded Natalie, who at sight or the fatal trinket had left her table and run forward. "It's ail a hor rid mistake. I can ?xpSaiu. I"? "Silence!" comma tided Popoff in bis most magisterial manner. "Madame, under section 4 of the Marsovian code 1 hereby "divorce you. This fan is suf ficient evidence." As Natalie started back, dumb with horror. Popoff turned impressively io Sonia and, to the widow's amused dis may, sank on one knee before her. "Mine. Sadowa." lie declaimed. "1 am free, and in the uame of uur fa therland i beseech you to become my wife!" ?ouia was seemingly blind to the white misery In "Nat;" iV^s Tare and the looU of angry surprise ir Dauilo's. She answered.' with perfect omposure: "My dear M. Popoff. 1 am deeply hon ored by your proposal, but before I ae "Mfidamc, / hereby rtlmrcc yon." cept It is only fair to tell you that if I marry again ['lose all my fortune." The ambassador scrambled hastily to his feet. "I ?I was perhaps just u wee bit hasty." he stuttered, looking sheepish ly about*for a way of escape. Natalie came forward and handed him the fan. "Did you read the words I wrote on it?" she'asked timidly "I?am?a?dutiful- wife!" ?pel!e;l out the ambassador "Forgive?me! I didn't understand. Shall we let bygones be . bygones?" Danilo. who bad stood silent during ? the odd proposal, now stepped past Popoff and faced Sonia. a new light iu his eyes. "Is it true you will lose all your money if you marry again?" he asked in a voice he tried in vain to keep steady. "Yes," 6he admitted: "it is true." "The.n why shouldn't I say now what I want to?" "Why not?" she agreed demurely. He drew a step nearer. "I love you. Sonia."Tie whispered. Steadily, happily, she met his burn ing eyes as she answered: "1 love you, Dan?o. I have always loved you." "Tut. tut!" fretted Popoff. pushing peevishly between them. "This'll nev er do; You can't marry her. prince. You'll both be paupers." "Not quite." gently corrected Sonia. "I shall lose my money, it Is true. Imt? only Itceniise I tun going u> give it alJ to my husband." I TUE END. 1 A.," HE WHISPEIttD. MANY FISH KILLED By the Explosion of an Old War ' Mine. Three of the mines which were put iu New York bay at the time of the Spanish-American war and have rait) in the magazine of Fort Wads worth ever since they were officially condemned have been exploded. This took place at the Narrows, near the fort. No boats were allowed to pass that way al the time, the places where the mini's were being < marked off by floating targets. The only evidence the spectators tcot of the explosions was about a thousand stuuned lisli ?Buke, black fish and flounders?which were seen floating directly in from of the fort after the mines had been sei off. The soldiers got into small boats at once and every one of I hem went 'bacl< to quarters with a good catch for Friday. One soldier got -"<> fish. * I 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 or Kidneys. That is simply a make shift. ' (let. a prescription known to Druggists everywhere as Dr. Shoop's Restorative. The Restorative is pre pared expressly for these weak in side nerves, build them up with Dr. Shoop's Restorative?tablets or liquid?and see how quickly help will come. Sold by Dr. J. G. Wan namaker. Mfg. Co. Saturday. Sept. 26, will be the last dav to get the $1.00 bottles of Globe Tonic for 50c I UUR S( PAPER BY PROF. WIL Short School Terms?As has al ready been noted, the average length of the white schools of the State last year was less than six months. To lie exact, the average for the town and rural schools was 117 days; the rural schools alone 110 days. While this is a better showing than we made a. very tew years ago, still our^schools are in session a little less than two-thirds of our own standard school year of ISO days, or nine months. In other wosds, the white people of the State are giving their children less than two-thirds of the schooling which they declare a child ought lo have. ' Here again is a lack of school I funds, which our people. 1 insist, are able to provide. In many rather thickly settled and prosperous dis tricts the schools close after six or; seven months because the funds are exhausted, yet not a dollar of local school tax is collected. 1 know districts with from 50 to GO white ; children, which depend upon the pittance of $300 to $325 to run their schools. Is it reasonable to expect such a district to keep its school open or to keep competent teachers? j In some of these very communities I I have been told, with a tinge of re sentment, that the schools are better j than those to which the fathers and J mothers went. That may be true, j and it may also be true that these ; same fathers and mothers are hewers j of wood apd drawers of water to day, simply because they are unable to cope with those who have been better schooled. He is a very dis pieable parent who is willing to withold schooling from his child on the ground that he himself had few or no advantages. However, short school' terms are by no means entirely due to lack of money. Strange as it may seem, there are many districts which close their schools at the end of six. five and even four months, with half us much money left in tne county treas ury as they spent on their schools. I know schools which have to their credit enough money to run them twice as long as they have been run any year-within the past five. In fa,ct. some entire counties are mak ing what the officials call a good financial showing, at the expense of the ?chool children. For instance. Florence county had on hand. June 30, 1907. a balance of S35.S38 to the credit of the school fund, while she had spent, only $27,050 on her schools that year. In other words, the schools had at the close of the scholastic year a balance of $S.7SS more than the entire cost of the schools that ye'tr. Financially that may be a gooil showing; how is it educationally? Let us see: Flor ence county kept her white schools open last year six months: she paid her teachers, an average of $2r?0 a year; she gave each white teacher an average of 3G pupils to teach. Chester county makes but little bet ter showing. She kept her white schools open seven and one-fourth months, paid her white teachers an average of $296 a year, uid gave each teacher an average ofTI pupils to teach. Yet Chester county closed these schools with a balance larger than the total expenditure that year. I believe in running the schools strictly on a cash basis, and I know it is necessary to cloe the books on the 30th of June with enough balance to run the schools until the next tax collection has been made. But is it sound busi ness or common sense to cut off the school year, pay beggarly sala ries, and give each teacher too many pupils to teach, in order to show a money balance? Of course under such policy our school boards can boast of having money on hand. As I see it, we have more need for mon ey on the children. A man could doubtless make a fortune on a salary of $.">00 a year, if be wore to go naked and hungry, and keep all his earnings at ten per cent compound interest; but what'would he be get ting? ' ? After all, do our people wish to keep the schools open nine months in the year? Repeatedly I have had fathers (mothers very rarely) op pose the attempt to lengthen their school beyond six month's. Their contention is that the children can not be spared from the farms and the mills for a longer period. Ex cept in case of extreme poverty in the homes of very unfortunate people, this argument means nothing less than that the child is looked upon as a bread-winner. The par ent is either too short-sighted or too selfish to give his child the op portunity to become even a bread winner, save in the humblest call ings. Such a parent needs to be shown how his child may be trained until he becomes a master of some thing, and a citizen useful to the State. Every child should be taught to work to work intelligently and profitably, t<ur his ultimate success !>nd usefulness should not be sacri ficed to immediate selfish gain. Poor School Honers and Pour j Knuipoietit There are at leasl two verv distinc; kinds of poor school houses: The building itself may 1?' worthless: a giod tiuilding may be unfit for school purposes, tl is pps sibble to invest a modes! sum of money in a good school building. What we know as school architec ture is yet in a very crude and no developed state, if we are to judge from some of our recent school buildings. Some of even the larger towns of the State have taxed them selves liberally to erect new school buildings, and have very inferior ones. Not one cent of public mono}' should be pormirted to be used it" a school house until the plans or the building have been favorably passed upon by some thoroughly competent person. Some of the most common MOLS. I NO. 3. L1AM H. HAM). $ [defects in our school buildings are 'small class rooms, low ceilings, in sufficient window space, windows set in front and to the right of the pu pils when seated, tops of tht; win dows too far from the ceiling, poor heating, and poor ventilation. These ?defects are found in the town build ing and in the rural buildings. We have some excellent school houses. Among the I?rger towns the buildings in Florence, Darling ton, and Georgetown, together with the latest buildings in Greenville, j I eel lent in almost every detail. The I Spartanburg, and Stimter. are ex cellent in almost everything. The Taylor school. in Columbia. is another excellent. building, but i am forced to add that this is Colum bia's only public school building worthy of the name. A number ot the smaller towns have relatively excellent buildings, notably St. George and Summerton. Helton. Brunson, Chesterfield. Fountain Inn, Manning and Seneca each will soon have a new building of modem type. On the other hand. souip of the towns have very poor buildings. There are in this State four towns whose taxable property combined was returned last year at $1,400,000, in round figures, and whose four school houses for white children would not sell at auction for more than $1,500. Of course these build ings cost much more than their pres ent value, but they are almost worth less to-day as school houses. In these same .towns are beautiful homes, good stores, good banks, at tractive churches,-' and even good barns for the horses and cattle. Can the citizens of these places make themselves believe that they are not discounting schools? They can not make other people believe it, I am sure. The rural school houses are rela tively inferior to those in the towns. Many of them are little better than dingy sheds, unpainted, ugly in ap pearance, poorly lighted, poorly heated, and miserably equipped. M'.ny of these houses are not ceiled on the wails or overhead. When they are ceiled, that overhead is often so low that the tallest boys can reach it witii their heads. Not one building in three has enough window space properly distributed. The windows are small and placed equidistant from the floor and ceiling. It is no uncommon thing to find a room of children silling with their faces toward one, and even two, open win dows, while the room at their backs s comparatively dark. In 190"). the State Superintendent of Education Issued a pamphlet giving designs for modern school houses, which has done much towards improving their character. Very few of our schools are equipped as they should be. Hun dreds of good desks have been put in within the past five years, but there are yet scores of school houses seat ed with the most clumsy and un sightly and uncomfortable desks known to suffering backs and limbs. The blackboards are too few in number, made of the cheapest mate rial, and the surface is no t'-nira? black. In many of our school rooms is not seen a map or a ciiart from September to June. Even the famous charts have been rele gated to some (doset of plunder. Were it not for the genius of my friend, Mr. Hughes, of Greenville, many of our school houses would be absolutely without any kind of globe. The State has very wisely provided hundreds of schools with small li braries. In most places these libra ries are used much and well cared for. but in altogether too many places the books are torn to pieces, some scattered through the neigh borhood, and some lost. What mse can be expected when the school house stands open to every body and everything. A dirty school house is inexcus able, and is a disgrace to a commu nity. Here the teacher is chiefly responsible. Any teacher, man or woman, who keeps a dirty school house ie rather poorly fitted to. train children. You can not readily re fine the tastes of a child who Is compelled to sit five hours a day in the midst of filth and utter. WILLIAM H. HAND. University of South Carolina. FLYING MACHINE WRECKED. One of the Occupants Killed and One Hurt. Alter having drawn the attention of the world to his aeroplane flights at Fort Myers, near Washington., and having established new world records for heavier-than-air flying machines, Orville Wright Thursday met with a tragical mishap while making a two-man Might. The nero planist was iiccompanid by Lieut. Thos. B. Sclfridge of the signal corps of the army Lieut. Sclfridge was fatally in jured and died at S: Hi o'clock Thursday night. Mr. Wright was seriously injured, but is expected to recover. While the machine was eneirc'i the drill grounds a propeller bladdc snapped off and hitting some other part of the intricate mechanism, caused it to overturn in the air and fall to the ground, enevloping the two occupants in the debris. Doth men received deep cuts ;i>.->ut the head. Mr. Wright regained con sciousness at the hospital and dic tated a cablegram to his brother j at Lemans, France, and requested that the same message be. sent to J his sister and father at Dayton, Ohio, i assuring them that he was all right.* Saturday. Sept. '2?>. will be the last day to get the $1.00 bottles of Globe Tonic for 50c. Good Ne To the People of Orangeburg C?mIj;. Times are hard, btrt made easy and pleasant by visiting and making your Fall purchases at my store. The largest line of Domestic Dress Underwear of every discretion. SHOES! . SHOES!! To he?f>eantl lit every Man, \V< man and Chi'd in Orunyt Imrg County, KVery .Pair isOiid Leather and Guaranteed MMJRS FA SYMOF For Women CLOTHING HATS, and FURNISHINGS. NoiLing can beat. We do not mm fair ran petition in these lines ^ Come fcjid get iuy }oices, every 'liing hold fht>t cIssb. Satii-fac tion guaranteed. To visit my Hoie bud iee the Gnat J isjlay and cxira values is to l uv. write Geo. V. Zeigler, Phone 1402 19 West Russell. FOREMAN=RICKENBAKbR CO. "The Store of Low Prices." Our Fall ami Winter goods are arriving o'aily and it will' pay you to drop in When out shopping and .examine our stock and get .prices. i ? ? . ??? '? jWe carry everything in the line of dry goods, notions, shoes, etc., - eti\, ? and at prices that will defy legitimate competition. Xow is the best time i . . v? ? ' ' ' jto buy your winter supplies before the goods tire picked .over, and if you i . ? :; . will call at our store you will lind us in line with the goods you want. Come and lei us show yon what ive have (o offe FOREMAN RICKENBAKER CO. 0?????@?@@@?? Sewing Machines. NEW DROP-HEAD MACHINES sold on <tsy payments. Good pvit'PS allowed for nld Machines in eirhai *, Scitm'.'.'haud Machines 'ruin $A.()0 to .fl?.(X). Abo part* c.j'l attachments furnished ' ?U standard makes. Promp: sitennnn to mail orders. New Bicycles ? n Easy Payments. Urc tsicycle parts and si a .ria furnished for all standard make*. General Repair Shop for eewmg Machines, Bicycler, Guns. Clock* d Watches. anGive me your work. Satisfaction guaranteed. J. H. S M I T H. Market Street - ? Opposite New Postoffice. School Supplies At Sims' Book Store.