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:uy God-' Slucuni did liXewic only he was the first one on the scene and he staved. There that night in a private man sion (I have forgotten the owner's name) amid the roaring and cracking of the flames of the burning city, was : ergie kep1 up during the whole ni::l, the like of whichI was never seen in the worst purlieus of the Five Points. As the blaze from the manv churches and other large buildings, from the thousand housetops illumin ed the city like day, one continued throng of gaily dressed officers, drunk with liquor and the excitement of the raging city, were coming to bow down to Mary and do her homage. But let's hurry away from scenes too revolting for decent eyes to read. Mary 'had two troops of cavalry as her escort. Her wagons, containing the household goods, were put under charge of an officer and detail. The mar6h began. Officers before the car Tiage, officers ehind and at each window, were in one continued strug gle to be near her, to catch the sound of her voice or even a fleeting smile. A United States flag waved over their heads, and the wags dubbed the out fit as "Lalla Rook's departure from Delhi.'" As it began, the orgie continued. Through this State, through North Carolina, and the old Commonwealth of Virginia, this pageant passed along, as if some Oriental queen or princess were driving through her realms to receive the plaudits and worsthip of her blinded and infatuated subjects. The writer did not see allJI these tantrums himself exactly, but while on a secret mission he got it all at first hand and saw enough to make him hold his breath. What became of her lover, the lit tle Captain. who had just come out from hiding? Well, after taking the lovely Mary to the Federal authori- I ties, vouching for her and putting her 6n her road to fortune. he stepped back. One look at the bacchanalian feast in the city with his affianced the center star, was enough. She passed out of his life from that mo ment. Say what we will, there were ' some,decent men in the Yankee Army, at least among the officers. She in time reached Washington City and armed with credentials from Sherman, the sly S10ecum and the pious (fraud) Howard, she had little trouble in getting Congress to donate $30,000 as compensation for her burned home and her .services in aid 6f tihe Federal prisoners. This amount ~braced tihe pair pretty well. They journeyed from the capital to New York, and were there welcomed with open arms by the most exclusive cir cles, she being hailed as the one grand maiden from the aristocratic South, who had remained loyal to the Un ion and the flag. Then a man by t'he name of Buch anan, I think it was. with more mon ey than brains, married Mary. 'iin her as a bridal present a one hun dred thousand dollar check. Then there was a nine days' laugh. and~ then Buchanan was seen kicking himself down the back stairs and all over the back yard. What for? Some said t'hat after Mary had thre eheek cashed, she put her little thumb to her nose and wriggled her jeweled fin gers at "Buck'' and said. "Spoony.'' By this time the little Southern girl could stand pretty well alone. She shook her mother and .hubby .There, took up the dropped name of Boozer, and blazed into quiet and sta.id Old Boston the blue blood and ,beauty of Dixie. Men smiled, but t:he old Puritan (lames shook their heads. Here. to'o. sh.e .ioined forces with a pal, a Miss P earl, almost as beautiful as Mary herself. They .rang the chanzes on the Hub, and don't you mistake yourself. Fabulous prices were offered them to go upon the stage. But what did Mary want with a stage, or Pearl ei ther ? T'he wol was their stage, and oyster as well. Safely secured with friends and credentials from the highest officers and officials in the land, they sailed .away to France. At the court of the ruler of the Third Empire they storm ed the very battlements of the fickle .and beauty-goving Faench. Ma~ry; tackled at once, the old emperor wit'h her wiles and guiles, but the wily lit ile diplomat was too shrewd for the beautiful .republi.ean princess. So af ter doing the honor of one nation, to the beauty of another, he smilingly bowed her 'out. 'She turned her batteries upon the larger craft that are always anchored around a throne, and among otihers whose armo.r had been pierced by the dangerous and fatal eyes of Mary, was the Count de B-. This same count de B. showered favors and jewels and almost the whole fortune inhierited from his Bourbon ances tors. 'upon this new-found sorcer e's. not 'of the Nile. but of the Conga ree. He sued for her hand in matnr mnyn. There beingr a kind of Salie law in France. ;s well as'm stier countries of Europe. fo rb)idding the arriages of royalty to members of )IL,ce hi bl( Id. ti %\t w "Ild cut a rt t his misalliaice, unless, however, royalty yielded its titles and preroga atives. But what did Mary want with a Count without title or inheritance? There were no cartoon artists in that day but tihose wicked paragraph ers had a held day of it. One ran in this way, if mY memory selves me right: "Mary had a little Count, His hide was white as snow; Everwlywhere that Mary went The Count was sure to go." The whole gamut of "Mary and the lamb'' was spun out in the differ ent papers. Another verse ran thas: "What makes the Coun-t love Mary so, The people all did cry. Because Mary loves the "chink," you know, The Comte did reply." And so it went the .rounds of all Europe.. Tiring of the fickle and the effete Gaul, Mary and her co-adventuress, Miss Pearl, next bent their steps to wards the capitol of the Russ, their fame having preceded them, there they played their beauty and excel lent French against the fortunesof the stiff-necked Muscovite. This Jezebel could have plagiarized Caesar's fa mous saying, "Veni, vidi, vici," only she would have put it, "I came, theysaw, and I conquered." At every court ball at the Winter Palace, or fetes of royalty, she stood the bright est stai in the galaxy. The Areh duke Alexander, youngest brother of old Nicholas, was smitten to the bone. He fairly "brain stormed" over this republican queen. Alas! for Mary! Alas! for Alexander! Mary was at the zenith of her con quest, her little toes barely touching the earth, while her eyes were among rifts in the cumulus, diamonds, jewels, precious gems fell at hers and Miss Pearl's feet in such quantities that it began to seem sacrilege to gather more. A great ball was to be given. The Winter Palace was ablaze with plendor. The oldest and bluest blood of the empire was there. Mary was soaring to perilous heights. Alexander sought a. private interview just before the opening of the doo.rs to the great ball room. They met in a little alcove Alexander bedecking her with the most ancient and costly jewels in all Europe, some of which had come down from the great Cat'harine, be ing a part of her crowned jewels. 1he daring Archduke did not intend that Mary should wear these jewels; le only wished to see her in th'e setting. They were to be hbers, of course, but outside of the "dominion of the reat White Czar.'' But vanity h.as een t'he ruin of better women than Mary. When the great vaulted arches f the corridors began to resound with merry laughter and small talk, beau :y and royalty thronging in the great ball room, Mary. robed in all the splendor that French artists could devise, weighted downwthjwls.n em wothafmillions, glided in >n the arm of some obscure noble ~nan. When she entered the assemblage stood entranced. She was the very narnation of southern womanhood and beauty, adorned in such an array f jewels and gems, and robed in rarments as the queen herself might ave envied. Every tongue was still 2d in admiration and astonishment. But the keen scented olId Czar gave squint a.t this plebian beauty and adventuress. and detected the jewels of his grandmothier. Calling his Chambrlain to him he asked for facts, they were soon forth comina. Then he ordered these jewels replaced, and b)eautifull Mary was escorted beyond the frontier within twelve hours, with an admo nition that if caught within his con fines again, she would spend her time in future in Siberia. Alexander was placed in what is called "disgrace,'' with orders never to hold offiee of trust in the limits of the Empire, and banished from the throne 's influence. To the day of his death he held some minor official po sition, outside the realm. Mary 's wings were only clipped. She fluttered to Monte Carlo, and there gambled away a king's ransom. Back to "Gay Paree'' she and Pearl rushed, to try their fortune amfofng thae diplomatie' corps of east ern embassies. Mary caught and married a son of a wealthy mandarin. and accompanied him to the celestial kingdom. But for some reason the marriage was annulled, and she was again flitting lik,e a butterfly among othe roses of France. Next she won -the 'heart and hand of Count Aoito of the Japanese delega tion, and lastly we find her in the flowery kingdom of the Ohildren of the Sun. Mary thought everything was going well with her in the silent. easy-goin land of the Mikado, she began put t ing on some democratie' airs and cut ting a few republican shines. . These riuier. unassuminZ Jahps stand for a !int if' things. but do not stand fm. foolisn. Then they have some to earl aibitions women and wives who kick up higl jinks with other fellows. So Mary fell in the toils. -Count Aoito sat up and took no tiee and then something dropped. It was Marv'. or rather Countess .\(it's "ead that dropped in ;I bas ket. under the knife of the guilotine. Thus she died, after so many con quests, a victim to her own vanity and perfidy, a just retribution for her duplicity and the misery she had en tailed, a recompense for i the treach cry to her friends, her confidantes. and to the State that gave her birth. TTLTMAN NOT TO JOIN FIGHT. Senator Will Not Return to Wash ington to Oppose Aldrich Ma, chine. Washington, D. C., August 2. Senator Tillman will not return to Washington again at this session of Congress. This information was se cured from B. R. Tillman, Jr., a son of the Senator, to-day. Although many inquiries have been made for Senator Tillman here, it was not known positively that he was lecturing in the West until the state ment was made by his son this morn ing. Senators Bacon and Clay, of Georgia; Bailey, of Texas, and other Southern Senators are making a hard fight to protect the interests of the South in the tariff bill, but it is al most impossible to keep the Aldrich machine from running away with probably 'half the Democrats absent. ENGINEER SHOOTS NEGRO. Railroad Man Wounds Black Whose Actions Were Suspicious. Oreenville, August 3.-Believing that the negro was trying to enter his home and the home of others in the neighborhood. Engineer Ben Snider, of the Southern Railway, left his engine in the yards at the depot at an early hour yesterday morning, walking to his home. got his revolver, commanded the negro to throw up his hands, and when the negro refused, shot him in the left shoulder. Lige Gaines, the negro, some twenty-five r thirty years of age, is now in jail, having been treated by a physici.an, nd later served with a warrant, harging attempted larceny. MR. CtLARK WARING DEAD. oung Columbian Succumbs to Ty phoid. Columbia, August 2.--Clark War ng. Jr., one of the most promising oung men of this city, died to-night t 12 o 'clock. He had been unwell for two weeks with typhoid fever, ontracted in Birmingham. Alabama, ut deathi came suddenly as a result f hemorrhage. Mr. Waring graduated from t'he itadel Academy with highest mili tarv honors in 1906. and studied law mder Jacob T. Barron, of this city. Ele decided to enter the ministry, and as a student of Sewanee at the time f his death. He had been capta-in of the Governor's Guards, of this city, nd was a universal favorite. TEMPLETONS PUT IN JAIL. Two Saluda Men Returned to Prison After Being Released on Bond. Saluda. Aug. 3.-Two of the Tern pletons, young white men, who have een out on bond under a serious arge- since the early spring, several days ago left for the other side of the Savannah. Their bondsmen, fearing they would wander too far away to find their way back in time for t'heir trial in' October, reported the matter to the sheriff. In a very short time he had them located and now they are in jail where they will probably remain until court convenes. More Exciting. "Women like masterful men' "Yes: it's more fun to boss that kind. ''-Philadelphia Bulletin. A Mean Thrust. '"Washington!'' exclaimed the ora tor. '"First in war, first in peace.-' ''And last in football,'' interrupted a low wretch.-Louisville Courier Journal. The Secret of Long Life. A French scientist has discovered one secret of long life. 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The NEW SUN No.2 PRICE $40.00 This Writing Machine is Good Enough for Anybody. INVESTIGATE IT 6. L ROBINSON, Agent, BARBECUE BAHXMAN CHAPEL On August 12th there will be a bar becue at Bachman Chapel church for the benefit of the church. Refresh ments-iee cream and lemonade-Will be served by the ladies of the congre gation. Mrs. Jimmie Epps being at the head of this. There will be some speaking on subjects of public interest Come, all who will and help a cause worthy of your help. Congregation. A GRAND OPPORTUNITY To See The Pacifc Coast And The Alaska-Yukon Exposition. The best and most inexpensive way to see the Pacific coast and the great Western country this summer, and take in the Alaska-Yukon Exposition opened June 1st, is to "Go as you please, pay as you go, stay as long as October 31st, if you desire." Why not spend your own moneyl Why not plan your own trip and go in comfort, and when it suits you? This may be done by planning your trip over the SOUTHERN RAILWAY in connection with an individual par ty leaving the Carolinas July 3rd, on the individual expense plaa, whioh will cost you about half as much as a fixed expensive excursion tour. July 3rd, Route. Southern Railway, Goldsboro to Harriman Junction. Queen and Crescent, Harriman Junction to Danville, Ky. Southern Railway, Danville, Ky., to ~ St. Louis, Mo. Wabash R. R., St. Louis to Kan sas City, Mo. Union Pacific, Kansas City to Den-. ver. Denver & Rio Grande, Denver to Salt Lake City. S. P. L. A. & S. L., Salt Lake City to Los Angeles. Round Trip Railroad Rates. Going via any ticketing route se lected and returning via any ticketing route as desired. Via Portland, Seattle and Sani turning one way via Portland and Seat-tle. From: Goldsboro .. .......$99.75 Greensboro .... ...99.75 Durham .. ......99.75 Spartan~burg.......97.45 Columbia ....... ..98.20/ O'rangeburg ...... ..98.20 Greenwood .. ......96.65 Rock Hill ....... ..98.35 Anderson ......... 96.10 Raleigh .. ......... 99.75 Salisbury ......... 99.75 Charlotte ......... 99.75. Greenville .. ... .96.65 Charleston .. .......9.75 Newberry .... ....97.4$ Chester.. .. ......98.35 Sumter .. .... .... . 5 Rates quoted from other ponts on application. Tickets limited to October 31st, 1909, and permit stop-overs at all points west of Chicago or St. Louis. Tickets on sale daily to September 29th, 1909. Lower Round Trip Rates 'to and fromCalifornia queted on appli cation. Before completing arrange ments foryour trip give us an oppor tunity to talk with you about the de tails of it, quote you best 'rates and tell you of the most interesting points, and the best and c:heapest way to see them. Write to representatives as follows: W. E. McGee, T. P. A., Augusta. 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