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WAS FALSEHOOD JUSTIFIED? How a Mother's Love Overcame Her Moral Scruples. By OLIVE HARPER. {Copyright, l?uy. Dy American Press Asso ciation.J Solomon Beardsley sat tilted back ic his big rockiug chair witb bis feet upon a stool before the glowing bast burner stove, smoking placidly. His wife was in Hie kitchen beyond tinishing her housework before going to bed. She was too weary lo even sit dowD in the parlor, and. besides, there was uo easy chair for her. As she came through the room an anxious look crept over her face and into her dim eyes. She stood near the man fot a few moments hesitatingly, as though she fain would speak. Solomon no ticed her hesitancy and. taking the pipe from his lips, asked shortly: "What's keepin' ye? It is almost 1C o'clock. Ye'll oversleep in the morn In'." By a great effort she asked huskily: "Hasn't Charlie come yet?" "No. not unless be has sneaked lu the back way." was the reply. "He never sneaks." said the mother, with a slight show of spirit. "Humph! And see that you don't go puttln' notions in his head." "About Loreny?" "Yes: about Loreny Rtonyer or any ether gal hereabouts. 1 don't intend to Ipt him make a fool of himself at his age." "He is thirty." "That don't make no difference. He's too young to marry, and we need his money." "No. we don't noed his money. Solo mon. and you know it He Is a good son-dutiful and industrious. it is time he did marry and Settle down here. If yon continue he may go off to some big city. They tell him he's got such a fine voice that bed make Ho end of money to sing in the opera." "Don't you dare to pul such idees into his head! 1 won't hev it. Church choir Is good enough for him. atid well. It Is my duty lo watch over him. I don't want him to make a bad bar gain- like" "Meaning tue?" "No. do. Marthy: I got a good bar gain in you - he?he?he!" Vom moment the thin, worn woman looked at the wrinkled, nearly bald, toothless old mau ou whose face lines of ill temper and avarice were drawn, and then with her candle she went on up to her nu n) whispering to herself: "No: lie did not make such a bad bargain?for himself. lie had my youth, my beauty, my capacity for work, and this farm and $3.000. In exchange what did I get? a bare, scanty living and unendiug toil for all thpse years No: he did not make a bad bargain, but I will not staud aside and let him spoil my boy's life. No. 1 will not have it " Soon after the tired mother had gone up the stairs there was a step outside THE WOMAN LOOkKD AI THE OLD MAN. and then a knock. Laboriously Solo njoo put his feel lo the door, for his rueuinutism troubled him. and witb Bus back belli the father opened the door to his only son Solouioti worked as hard as any member of ihe family In spite of his pains and aches, but his great desire to gel rich made even hin tod not unendurable. Charlie siood ill the door waiting for his father to open it lie had never been permitted a latchkey Charlie had grown up to believe in hia father as au oracle and to listen wuquestlouingly to all his platitudes In this he had always been aided by his mother, who. putting aside her own clearer knowledge of the narrow and miserly character of the old man. had fostered" his belief lu the wonderful knowledge of this illiterate man Char Hp had never questioned his father's Wl.sdow in his life. But for the last four years Charlie ! had been cuing to the church and c.'yir meeting" r^gu'irly. ind 'here j were several very pretty pirls among j ttie singers Charlie's voice was a beautiful, pure tenor, developed in ; the clear air of his outdoor life. [..nur.-;ia Stonyer had a voice, too. but hers was a deep, sweet contralto, like the sweetest notes of a cello, a voice that drew and plaved across Everyone would be benefited by taking Foley's Orine Laxative for stomach and liver trouble and habit ual constipation. It sweetens the stomach and breath, gently stimu lates the liver and regulates the bowels and is much superior to pills and ordinary laxatives. Why not try Foley's Orine Laxative today? Lowman Drug Co.; A. C. Dukes. The two persons to whom a wo man's voice can be sweetest are a small bahy she loves and a large wo man she hates. get this nonsense. Why don't you start?" "Father. 1 am sure this is not puppy love. I am thirty and she twenty four. We could all be so happy if you would only consent. Father, I want to go to her now and explain why I did not speak before. I feel that I canDot'live without her if she does accept Bert." "Bah! You go to bed!"' Charlie waited a full minute, hoping that bis father would relent. But in stead the old man turned such a stern and unbending look at his sou that1 Charlie tiuully went to his room, to throw himself heavily upon his bed without undressing. Neither Charlie nor his father knew that there had been a listener to this conversation. But there had been. A mother's heart is made of strange stuff. It is made of a stuff that is f TOLD HEK Bt>V THAT HIS FA.THEK HAD GIVES HIS CONSENT. always on the alert against danger to the children. So this mother had slipped downstairs aud bad beard the whole story. For a moment she hated the sordid old man. Then she let her love for her boy. her only one, blot out the detestable character of her husband. But she determined to undo the misery he had wrought. She hastily rehearsed the whole story. She knew he was unjust and prejudiced against Laurena, who was a whole some, healthy, lovely and noble girl. The two children loved one another. She had known It for years by the unerring instinct of a mother. She had pictured to herself the happiness of the two aud of herself, and she was going to undo the mischief if she could. So out into the darkness she dew to Lauretta's borne. Laurena had stumbled to the step ping stone near the gate of ber home and sunk down on It to sob out her heart's great grief. The poor child had played her last poor little trump card, and it had failed. Now she would give up and accept Bert, but it must be a long engagement, she deter mined. Perhaps she would get over this in time. But somehow she felt in her heart of hearts that Charlie did love her. So she sat sobbing lu this louely place, aud here Mrs. Beardslej found her. What words passed between these, two women should be sacred, but after awhile the tears ceased to flow. The two embraced with great fervor, and Mrs. Beardsley went home prepared to give a battle that should know no surrender and no quarter. Her boy should be uo longer treated like an ir responsible child. He should be free So. with her whole being aroused in defense of her one joy and comfort, she reached the kitchen door and stop ped for a few seconds while in her mind she ran over the whole of her life with her avaricious husband. She now knew that in the first year of ber life with him rhe had been almost slavish In her acceptance of his supe rior wisdom. Perhaps she had uncon sciously given her child the same ab ject obedience to his father's orders From his earliest days Charlie had ap peared to consider his father the one being in the world whose wisdom no one could question, and his misery now was due to this unquestioning obedience. But it should last no longer With u firm step and with her lips drawn In one tense liue she opened the door to the parlor, with her bead high But all her battle with herself was futile as she saw that her hus band had fallen over in his chair, help iess. She knew instantly that he had "had a stroke." as his own father had. and that he would never speak again He would die with the refusal of his gau's ha.opiness as his last words. She knew C'burlie well enough to know that he would feel bound to obey that formal aud decisive refusal of his hap piuess aven if it broke his heart. As soon as the old man was laid in his bed and the doctor called the moth- 1 er sat down beside him and considered the case from all sides. She took a heroic resolution She whispered a few words to bim. asking tiis cousent to Charlie's marriage, well knowing thnt he could never reply, and then stood up. looking much ns a martyr might have done A wild animal will fighl for ita young, a partridge de ceive to save her brood. Should slip be weaker than they? Whether her lie could ever be justified or not she could not tell, but she was willing to leave the issue with the great Judge who made mothers. So she told her boy that bis father at 'ast had not re fused his consent. His laRt words on earth had been: "Bah! \ou go to bed!" Hoarseness broncVtis and other throat troubles are qui:Uy cured by Foley's Honey and Tar as it soothes and heals the inflamM throat and bronicha! tubes and the most obsti nate cough disappears. Insist upon having the genuine Foley's Honey and Tar. Lowman Drug Co., A. C. Dukes. Foley's Honey and Tar not only stops chronic coughs that weaken the constitution and develop into con sumption, but heals and strengthens the lungs. It affords comfort and the very heartstrings of those who .heard her. So it is not remarkable that they bad awakeued new desires In the heart or the young man. And this was what the father feared. If his son were to wed Laurena he would naturally go to live with ber people, as her father was dead If Charlie left home his father wonld be obliged to hire two men to do what they had managed between them, with the assistance of the mother. It was not so much that he had anything against I.aurena as that he did not wish his son to leave Dim that had actuated him until now. Up had talked frankly with tiis son and told him many things, ail calculated to wither any budding sentlmentalism. So now Charlie had entered the par lor with heavy feet. He knew what was to come, and he knew what had gone before?yes. only a short half hour ago. No wonder his heart was heavy. "Well?" said his father, eying bira with disconcerting scrutiuy. Charlie held his peace. In fact, he could not trust himself to speak. His eyes were cast to the floor and filled with unspeakable despair. He could not trust his voice. His father sat down with his aching feet on the floor instead of the stool und again uttered the one word that meant so much: "Well?" Charlie was so handsome, with his brown curling hair, his gentle brown eyes, his big frame and tanned cheeks, that the old man felt a thrill of pride, but be never allowed that to check his determination to have from his sou the last word of what he knew he was trying to withhold. Finally Charlie looked up once at his father, whose sharp glance showed him the misery In the soft brown eyes of his son Again he said "Well?" adding that he was listening. Finally Charlie lifted his head, saying: "You need uot worry. It is all ofT." "What's all off"? Tell me the hull thing from first to last." "We finished our practice, and all started for home, and the rest hurried off. but Laureua and I, we walked along slower. She said she had some thing to say that she could not put oil" So we walked along." "You said that before. It Isn't to be supposed that yuu rode aloug or flew aloug or sailed along. Go ahead." "Well, you know, father, that I am fond of Laurena. 1 told you from the beginning"? "And so you've been and asked her, you ungrateful boy, after all I've said and doue"? "No; I haven't asked her nor told her, but I feel as though I should have done so. We walked among the graves and didn't talk much at first. Then she said: "Charlie. I want your advice We have beeu such good friends al ways.'" "Yes. 1 see. I see. She thinks yon cau be caught with such chafl. but go on. go on." "1 said that we had. and then she continued: 'You know that folks have a habit of taking things for granted. I am not blaming any one. but we have been going together so much?for four years since we grew up -and now I?I think I must say that this can't go on any longer. Bert Jumel asked me to marry him. and I thought I would ask your advice before I answer him." " "A trap, a trap." shouted the old man, "and you fell into it like the soft ninny that you are! Didn't I tell you that I'd searched out her family on both sides to see if they had any de scending ailment and that her father died of a decline? Didn't I go to their house and eat myself sick twice to find out bow they cook and set table and they're all ext-avagant? And bei sperrlts Is too oneven One time she Is full of laugh and the next looks all in the dumps. She may know how to sew nnd keep house, but she cares more about singing than anything She's too flighty I won't allow you to have her. I won't, I tell you! Wbai did she do then?" "Why, nothiDg." replied Charlie mis erably. "for we stood a minute still and silent. 1 didn't dnre to tell her how 1 felt till I had seen you. and she leaned against old Mr. Stander's monu ment and cried "Yes, she's artful, sly and smart. I give her the credit, but she's got me to deal with. She got tired of waiting for you to bite at ber bait and Just give it a twitch to make you snap at IL I am older than you and know all about women. You have to live all the rest of your life with the oue you choose, and it stands you in hand to look about and sec them all- weigh every one's faults and advantages. A pretty face ain't all, nor Is a good singing voice. Now. I've pointed out to you the fallings of all the others from the time you began going out in society. Jennie Tubbs was too young and too weakly. Annie Sturk too silly. Mary Blake too pretty and vain, and so on. and none of 'em could cook or take care of a house, and nil of em was poor and had a raft of poor rela tlons" The old man stopped to take breath while Charlie said half heartedly. "1 know you are trying to watch out for my good. but. father. Laurena has none of those faults"? "Never mind that, but go on and tell me. What did you do then?when she pretended to cry'/" "I?i said "Don't cry' nnd things like that, but she couldn't stop I tried to take her hand to comfort her. but she br?>ke away from me and ran as fast as she could. I followed to see that she reached her gute safely and then came borne, and. father. I wish you would think it over I am very fond of Laurena. She is good and hand some, and?and?we love one nnother I mean we love music." "Poppycock and moonshine! Pup py love! She ain't the right wife for von. Now do yon tro to bed nnd for relief in the worst cases of chronic bronchitis, asthma, hay fever and lung trouble. Lowman Drug Co.; A. j C. Dukes. Delay in commencing treatment for a slight irregularity that could have bi..n cured quickly by Foley's Kidney Remedy may result in a seri ous kidney disease. Foley's Kidney Remedy builds up the worn out tis sues and strengthens these organs. Lowman Drug Co.; A. C. Dukes. ASTOR PEAT GAS MACHINE. Ingenious Device For Manufacturing Producer Gas From Peat. The vibratory disintegrator herewith shown was invented by Colonel John Jacob Astor of New York and will, it is believed, solve the problem of the commercial manufacture of producer gas from peat. The device utilizes the expansive force of the air and pases within the very porous peat to disrupt aud disintegrate the latter and to per mit the peat to be thoroughly and uni formly heated. The gas generated may be supplied to an ordinary internal com bustion engine, I>. the engine muffler C being placed inside the gas producer. The sidas of this muffler are thin, so as to permit them to be distended and drawn inwardly upon variations in the pressure within the muffler. The sectional view of gas producer. edges of the muffler may be tinted, cor rugated or accordion plaited to facili tate this relative movement of the opposite sides, and one end <>f the muf fler is connected to the exhaust pipe. The gas escaping from the engine cyl inder after each explosion in the latter teuds to expand the muffler, aud as the exhaust gas escapes from tin: muffler the sides will again contract. These vibrations of the side walls <if the muf fler cause the successive compression and expansion of the gas within the pas producer and likewise the gas in cluded in the pores a?d Interstices of the peat. As a result, the cells and pores contained in the peat are dis rupted and the peat is broken up and disintegrated. To further aid in breaking up and disintegrating the peat and permitting of^its uniform heating the peal cham ber Ii of the producer Is supported from the engine frame or base E. so that the jarring and vibrating of the engine frame are transmitted to the peat. Any suitable form of gas engine may be employed, but preferably one run ning at comparatively slow speed, so that the successive charges of exhaust gas will have time to produce the de sired expansion In the muffler. Pref erably an air cooled engine Is employ ed, and the air utilized in cooling the engine cylinder is delivered in part or in whole to the base of the producer. Colonel Astor is now erecting a peat fuel producer gas plant at his coun try place at Ithlnecliff-on-the-Hudson, in which the vibratory disintegrator will be given u practical test. The plant, of about 1?0 horsepower, is to run a stone crusher, and if the peat yields Its gas. as it is confidently be lieved it will. It will mean an engineer ing advance that may have very far reaching remits. The patent application is now pend ing, and on its heilig allowed t'olonel Astor intends to present it to the pub lic in the hope that it may be of wide general use. Improving the Piano. The dulcitone of Thomas Mitchell of Glasgow has the keyboard of a piano, but the key hammers produce sound by striking steel forks like sliankless tuning forks instead of wires. A semi circular sleel spring carries the vibra tions from each fork to the sounding board. The tone Is softer than that of the piano, but it has great clearness and carrying power and is adapted for solo playing as well as for accompany ing other instruments or tue voice. Important advantages are the lack of necessity of tuning and the portability. A dulcitone of live octavos weighs but forty-five pounds, but a piano of the same range has a weight of 250 pounds ?>r more. New Musical Instrument. A novel musical instrument has re cently been exhibited, which resembles a piano, but the wires, instead of be ing struck with hammers, are vibrated by means of electro-magnets. The In strument Is also provided with ordi nary piano keys and hammers; so that It may be operated by them alone or at the K?me time by hand and by the electro-magnets. It is suid that the tones ef the instrument, which is known ns a ehoraJeolo, resemble those of a stringed Instrument and orgau combined. Size of Engine to Drive Dynamo. A eon ven leu I rule of thumb for as certaining approximately the size of an engine required to drive a direct current dynamo is to multiply the kilo watts of output by 1.7 for small ma chines. l.C for medium sizes und 1.5 for 500 kilowatts or over. The result will bo about the brake horsepower re quired - Power and the Engineer. THE BANK OP SPRINGFIELD. Officers. L. M. Mims, President; Jno. McB Bean, V. P.; J. B. Smith, Cashier; Edith Phillips, Asst. Directors. L. M. Mims. Jno. Bean, Joe. A. Berry, L. B. Fulmer, W. P. Hut to, J. W. Jumper, H. A. Odom, T. L. Gleaton, O. C. Salley. All business intrusted to ub re ceives careful, official attention. Leave your Surplus funds with at ?t four nor eent 'nterest. Undivided Profits. 12,000.00 Capital...Q30.000.0fl TO START IN AUGUST THE PLANS ARRANGED BY PROF. BARROW. Counties Visited by Experts From CleniKon College?Explanation of the Trip. In August the plans inaugurated at Clemson college for extension schools will be put into execution and several counties will take part. The difference between these schools and the former cars sent out from [ the college is that longer stands will be made at the various towns en route and in this way every phase of agricultural work will be taken up for discussion. The farmers of the counties will reap the ben efit given. The work is under di rection of Uhe agricultural depart ment at Clemson and men from the United States department of agri culture. "Actual practical instruction will be given at a definite hour each day,'' says the synopsis of the work sent out by Prof. Harrow of Clemson, "In some subject of vital interest to the farmer." This instruction will be of such a nature that the man who attends the school can go right home and put it into practice. Among the. various subjects taught will be that of butter making. Those who at tend this class will be given instruc tion in the theory and practice of butter making, not by lectures, but by seeing the butter made. The school will be equipped not with a lot of expensive apparatus but with such that any ordinary farmer can easily afford to provide. Good but ter can always be sold at a profit and many a dollar can be added to the revenue of the farms of this State by making a slight improve ment in the quality of butter. We feel sure that this feature will ap peal to the farmers and especially their wives and that much good will result from this course. "What soils are and what consti tutes fertile soil and how that fer tility can be preserved and increased is another subject on which enlight enment is needed and that will ap peal directly to the intelligence of our farmers. There is no question of greater paramount importance than this, together with that of com mercial fertilizers. It is a well rec ognized fact that there are hundreds of thousands of dollars lost annually to the farmers of the South by im proper buying and using of commer cial fertilizers. This is due largely to a lack of clear understanding on the part of the farmers as to just what, commercial fertilizers are and how to use them. These two sub jects will be taught in a way that will give a clear understanding of them and there will he no need of a fanner who attends ever being in doubt as to what to buy and how to use his fertilizers. "It. is a well recognized fact among breeders of stock that it does not pay to breed or raise scrub stock and we. all understand at least a few rudimentary principles of improving our stock and breeding up a herd. The same thing is true about, our farm crops. How to select seed so as to Improve our crops is there fore a very important line of instruc tion that will be handled in a prac tical way at this school. it is d well known fact that we have prac tically no well bred seed in the South and that by one year' intelligent se lection of seed at least five bushel can be added to the yield of the av erage acre of corn. Like results will follow with other seed. It will pay the farmers of this country then to give close attention to this subject. "No farm is complete or can ex pect to reach the maximum results that has not its quota of live stock. Put in order to attain maxi mum results Mils live stock must be properly handl'd and fed and \v must learn how to raise feed for :t in the best and cheapest way. The-t too. the work Heck of our farms and all other live stock have troubles, accidents and sickness. How many of these latter can be avoided end how to treat the simpler troubles is one of the very important subjects in which Instruction will be gi\ i. An insect is a very small thing but the State of South Carolina loses many a dollar in the injury they do to her crops. Much of this dam age can he prevented if we know how to fight them. Th e habit of some of the most injurious and numerous insects and how to combat them? how to poison, how to prevent their multiplication and how nnd when to spray and how these sprays are prepared will all be taught in a practical way. "This extension school is thus se<-n to be intended as a school indeed. If the farmers of the counties arc real ly anxious to learn something of this, this is their opportunity. MONTHLY STATEMENT OF THE Dispensaries at Springfield, S. C. Blloree, S. C. Branchville, S. C. Livingston, S. C. Orangeburg, S. C. Total Invoii including stock on bar flrs-t day o> month. . . . $ 4.040.C ... -4,207.E ... 4,764.2 ... 4,265.> 9.4IK.C Total S J G. ti 9 2.: State of South Carolina, County Personally appeared J. G. Smitl Bary board, who being each duly i and correct. . Sworn to and subscribed befo me, this 9th day of July, 1909. J. H. Clafly, N. P.. & Worn Women (Women, worn and tired from overwork need a tonic. That feeling of weakness or helplessness will not leave you of itself. iYou should take Wine of Cardui, that effectual remedy for the ailments and weaknesses of women. Thousands of women have j tried Cardui and write enthusiastically of the great | benefit it has been to them. Try it?don't experiment ?use this reliable, oft-tried medicine,. The Woman's Tonic Mt9, Eena Hare, of Pierce, 71a,, triea* Cardui and afterward" wrote.- "I was a sufferer from all sorts of female trouble, had pain in my side and legs, could not sleep, had shortness of breath. I "I suffered for years, until my husband insisted on my trying Cardui. The first bottle gave me relief and now I am almost sell.' Try Cardui 'Twill help you. AT ALL DRUG STORES THE ONLY Excursion This Season, Orangeburg to Charleston Friday, July 23 Train leaves Orangeburg 7:00 o'clock a. in.; Folders, 7:05; Rowesville, 7:20; Sixty-Six, 7:30; Brahchville, 7:40; Reevewville, 8:00; St. George, 8:15; Pregnall, 8:2."5; Ilidgeway, 8:40, and re turning, leaves Charleston at 0 o'clock p. in. THERE WILL BE SEVERAL COACHES FOR COLORED PEOPLE. Fare for Round Trip $1,60 Children Under 12 Years of Age Half Price. 2 Base Ball! Fine game of ball has been arranged for in the afternoon between Charleston and a picked team from Orangeburg. No. ex pense will be spared to make this ? winning team. W. S. COOPEK and M. K. JEFFORI>S, Managers. P L E A S N G The more we are civilized the more care we bestow on our toilet needs, as that means respectability. We mention a few of the more im portant needs that you should take with you on your vacation. In our complete drug store we can tell you of many more. Brushes. Combs. Tooth Brushes. Common Medical Needs. Tooth Paste or Powder. Alcohol Stoves. Rubber Gloves. Sun Burn Lotions. Cold Creams and Lotions. Talcum Powder. Wash Rags. Soaps?100 kinds. W:itch Hazel. Mosquito "Skoots." Hand Brushes. Cigars. Candy. Razors. Strops and Soaps. Manicure Goods. Stationery. J. G. Wannamaker MTg. Co. ?AB Your Drug Store Needs." Mail Orders Filled. SPAHR'S TALK ON YOUR VACATION NEEDS! There are many things you want ' on that trip. First of all you may need a re membrance for those you are going to visit. No matter how much you take with you It is the thonght that count3. We are particularly well stocked for gifts to take with you. The* we can tell you some good things you should take with YOU. THERE IS A j'j GOOD KODAK FOR ONE THING. There is no Kodak like the East man and we are direct agents. Gather the idea? You trade with one price. YOU MAY ? '. WANT a GOOD WATCH, or a cheaper one. We have them. Little toilet articles which are in dispensable on a trip let us supply you. Perhaps you are an Elk and will go to the Los Angeles meeting. We can give you the emblem direct? beautiful ones with the right price. Ask us. The Best Jewelers Since *6T. SPAHR'S DISPENS A RIES IN ORANGEBURG COUNTY FOB MONTH OF JUNE. Lll Stock Ls> Given at Consumers' Prices. Total sains. $ 597.05 1.3.r>0.20 1,781.75 1,026.05 fi.390.03 $10.145.08 Operating expenses of each dispenfarv $ 77.05 100.27 101.69 84.57 209.90 $573.4 S Inv. breakage. 5 6.r>5 7.60 7.70 6.40 21.75 $50.00 Consumers Stock on hand last day of month $ 3.434.45 2,849.75 2,973.65 3,233.35 4,005.10 $16.496.30 of Orangeburg. i, T. R. McCants, L. A. Carson, Members of the Orangeburg County DIs? nd severally sworn, deposes and says that'the foregoing statement is tnxm