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? - 1 ? ? " Ihe QL by FRANCIS PI ILLU STRATIONS cQPY/we/rr /?// sr 30333-swax CHAPTER V. The Girl From Radcfiffe. * "Long distance call from Mr. Bill- j lugs, sir," said Jenkins, lifting the receiver. By Jove, he had just caught me as I fras about to leave. ?i? neiio: j-iiat ;uu, juigiiLuuL: came his voice. "Say, old chap, you .remember you said yon wouldn't mind putting up the kid overnight on the way home from college. Remember? Wants to rest over and tjome up the river on the day line." Yes, I remembered, and said so. "All right, then! it's tonight Be thpra ahrmt tiItia frnm Rnstnri Dnn't go to any trouble, now, nor alter any plans. The kid will probably be dead tired and off to bed before you get home from your dinner." "That's all right, old chap; Jenkins win iook aiter tne young one/' I heard Billings chuckle?I remem- j bered that chuckle afterward. "Not much of the young one there.; Eighteen, you know. Never off to ! school, though, until last year?and by George, it was time! Between my mother and my sister the kid was fce* ? 1 l-i-1 I -3 Li. _ J _1 3 ui^ aDBOiuxeiy rumea?ueueu, iuuij cuudled, and was getting soft and silly? l oh, something to mak? you sick. Well, so much obliged, Dicky. You know what these hotels are. Good-by." I explained to Jenkins. "All right, sir," he said. "I won't go out until after nine. It'll be time enough." And so I went off.. I returned early, fori anH cat rpnriir)? Jpnkins was still away, and the dokr of my guest room was open. "Good evening!" The voice behind me was soft, mu- j sical, delicious. , I whirled about, and there, within the door, leaning against the frame, was the most beautiful creature I ever saw iti all my life. A girl! But oh, by Jove, such a girl! A lovely, rosy blonde, dash it! J nnor/vl lrvnrr rAAr*TT VtUIUtJll-XlcllX eu aufcci 10115, uiuwy; kind of lashes, don't you know?eyes like dreamy sapphire seas?oh, that sort of thing?a peach! The leap that brought me to my feet sent my chair thudding backward. v"Why?er?good evening," I managed to stammer. Just managed, you know, for, give you my word, I neve:: was so bowled over in my life? never! And on the instant I guessed what it meant. The "kid" that Bill- ] ings referred to wasn't a kid brother at all, but a kid sister?girl, by Jove! "Are you busy?" I saw the flash of ! her perfect little teeth as her lips parted in a smile. "If not, may I talk to you a while?" I mumbled something designed to be pleasant?dash me if I know what ?and managed to summon sense enough to lift toward her a wicker arm-chair. Then I dashed into my bedroom to chuck the smoking-jacket and get into a coat. And all the while v I was thinking harder than I ever had thought ft r>r>ssihle Just the thing to have expected ol an ass like Billings?a fellow with nc ? sense of the proprieties! His kind of j mind had never got any further than 1 the fact that I had a guest-room and a quiet apartment. The further fact that it was in a bachelor apartment house and I a bachelor?and not yet out of my twenties, dash it?would never have presented itself to a chunif like Billings as having any bearing or the matter. "Of course, I must get right over to ; the club and leave her in possession? \ it's the only thing left to do." This ; * was my thought as I slipped into my coat and gave my hair a touch?just ! a touch, don't you know. The thing to do was to carry it off as natural^ i as possible for a few minutes, and j then slip away. Probably she hadn't! counted upon my being in town at all ?had taken it tor granted it was | some sort of family apartment?witb i housekeeper, servant maids, all that sort of thing. * "Now, just a few minutes of con- ' versation to put her at her ease," I reflected, "and then I'm off. I'll get f the janitor's wife to come up ana stay near her." And I dashed back, murmuring some jolly rubbish of apology. And then 1 just brought up speechless?almost fell over backward. For as she stood tnere under tne lignt, I saw that vfcac I had taken for a dress of black silk was not a dress at all, but a suit of ; pajamas?black, filmy pajamas, whose , loose elegance concealed but could not wholly deny the goddess-like fig- | ure within. t "I'd have known you anywhere, Mr. j Lightnut." And then I found that we were shaking hands, my fingers i crushed in a grasp I never could have thought possible from that tiny hand. i "From hearing Jack talk, your name 1 is a sort of household word in the Billings family." I mumbled something jolly Miotic? some acknowledgment. But I was pink about the ears, and T '-new it, while she was cool ana serene as a lily of the what-you-call-it. don't you > know. I v as trying net to see- i.he 1 ' pajamas, trying to pretend net to no- ! tice them, but dashed if I did" only .make it worseJL - - j I DHiSiirM ERKf ELLIOTT i ftstyWAtrms vi jl cv/?/M/yy Toir sheTookea down at herself with a laugh?rather an embarrassed laugh, I thought; and her little shrug and glance directed attention to her { attire. j "I see you're looking at the pajamas," she said smiling. And her eyes looked at me through /ash* ?u "I Was Such a Kid When You Saw Me Last." tho^e drooping lashes?oh, such a way! "Oh, no?I assure?certainly not," I stammered hastily. Dash it, I never was so rebuked and mortified in ail my life. What an ass I had been to seem to notice at all! She looked troubled. "Say, do you mind my wearing them?" she inquired. "I? Certainly not?well, I should say not!" I retorted, almost with indignation. "Sure?" By Jove, what ripping eyes she had! "Of course not!" emphatically. Her sunny head nodded satisfaction. "That's all right, then. I was afraid you wouldn't like it?afraid you would think I was acting a little free. But your man Jenkins?isn't that his name??said he thought you wouid like for mc to wear them." I gasped. "Jen?what's that?" I was amazed, indignant at Jenkins' effrontery. "He ?he suggested that you wear?er? She nodded, her glorious eyes shining wistfully. "You see, I went to a frat dance last night in Cambridge," she explained; "and in the hurry this morning, somei how, one of my bags?a suit-case? was left behind. And when I got here tonight and began piling the things out of my other bag?well, I saw I was up a tree. Not a thing to slip into, you know?not so much as a dressing-gown or even a bathrobe. Then your man saved my life?suggested these pajamas. See?" "Oh, I see!" I said so; but, dash it, I wasn't sure I did, for I knew so devilish little oVirmf irirls: "I must cut along now," I thought; "Infernal shame to be taking advantage of her this way!" And then I thought I would just wait a wee minute longer. Just then she turned toward me, her elbow on the arm of the wicker chair, her dainty, manicured fingertips supporting her chin. "You know, Mr. Lightnut, I wasn't sure you would remember me at all,'* she said. "I was such a kid when you saw me last." "Oh, yes," I said, trying to recall the rather hoydenish children I had seen on the motor trip to Biilings' home five years before. "I remember you were quite a little girl?weren't you?" ? - * * - - j 1 j - 1:2. I tnougm ner i^ce aarKeneu a mtle; then her smile flashed through, like sunshine through a cloud. Her laugh came on top, like the mellow ripple of a tiny brook?that sort oi thing?oh, you know! "Oh, I say now, Mr. Lightnut, cul out the josh," she remonstrated; and I thought she grew a little red. "No more for mine those sissy, girlie ways, ?I've got well over all of that!" She tossed one knee over the other and threw herself back in the chair. She seemed a little piqued. She went on: "T iust tell TQU Tvfcat?there's noth ing like a cowple of years off at college for toughening you! Gets all those mamma's baby ways out of you, you bet your life, and all the slushi< ness you get from trying to be like your sisters. Shucks!" I caught my breath. Of course, she had no idea how it sounded?this sort of talk; it was just her innocent frankness, her?what d'ye call it?? her ingenuousness?dash it! She continued musingly: "Gee, but I was soft when I first went away?a regular pie-faced angel-child!" Her voice had in it a sneer. Then she straightened up, whirled her chaii facing me, and gave me a sounding slap on the knee. "Say, maybe ttie fellows I met didn't educate that out of me mighty c?uicl:! Well, I reck or yes-" And she nodded, eyinrr me sidswise, her pretty chin in the air. Bui, dash me, I was so aghr.nt I couldn't get out a v/ord. Just set there batting at her and turning hot and cold by turns. Came devilish near login,? consciousness, by Jove, that's j * r " | what! ! Of course, I knew she didn't know ; what she was talking about. Hadn't any sisters myself, don't you know, ; and never had learned much about ! other fellows' sisters; but-, dash it, I i s\ttf pnTvio*hfn(r oKnut f OXlA T XV11 ^ TV CUilit 14K/V/14V iWVVk), ??VA A, would have staked my life on hers. You can nearly always tell, you know. But, anyhow, I thought I had better go now. I got up. "I say, you want to just make yourself at home," I said. "And if you don't mind, I'll see you at the | boat in the morning." She stood up, too, looking rather surprised. "You're not going away?" j "Oh, no; not out of town." I thought that was what she meant. I added: | "And as I go out, I'll stop down-stairs I ; and have some one come up and stay ! with you." She dropped to the arm of the chair, her pretty face showing dismay. "Oh, but see here! I'm running you j off?I know I am. Say, Mr. Lightnut, , ; I don't want to do that. I thought sure you were going to be here. Broth' er insisted you would be." Brother! Nice brother, indeed, for her?poor little thing! "Oh, you'll be all right," I said reassuringly. "I'm just going over to the club, don't you know?not far away." She came right up to me and placed j a hand on each shoulder. "Honest Injun, now," she said?and i her smile was ravishing. "Honest, : now, Mr. Lightnut, you're going just i because Im here. Say now, own up! ! And, dash It, there was nothing to j j do but admit it. "All right," she said; and I thought her eyes flashed a little. "Then I go ; to a hotel?that's all!" "A hotel! Why, you can't do that? , oh, I say!" "Why can't I?" She was downright angry?I could see it; and how dis-, | tractingly lovely she was with that flame in her cheeks! ! But she was just a child?an innocent little child; and how the deuce could I ever make her understand? I stammered: "Why?er?not in New York, you know. They won't take a lady in at this time of night. They?" She snapped her fingers. "Oh, I say, Mr. Lightnut, play easier on that girlie and lady pedal; cook up a fresh gag! I tell you, I've put all that be; hind me. Say, wait till you've known me a little, and I'll bet a purse you never call me a lady again! Lady! Say, that's funny!" And it certainly seemed to strike ; her sense of humor. She gave me a sudden punch in the side that fairly left me breathless, and her laughter rang out birdlike, joyous. Oi5 a sudden I felt devilish awkward and fool-, j ish. "Oh, please stop stringing me, Mr. Lightnut?don't treat me like a kid. j I want to get acquainted." Then her i bright face sobered. "Say, was that on the level?that about your going to leavo me? See here, I'm not bothering you, am I, Mr. Lightnut?" I "Bothering me!" I ejaculated. "Bothering me? I should say not!" I think I must have said it heartily and convincingly, don't you know, tor her lovely face looked pleased, j "Because if I am," she said earnestly, "I'll fade away into my own little room there." Her glance ranged ; toward her door. "It's sure some swell, that room." "So jolly glad you like it," I said. "Well, I should sav!" Then her v t beautiful eyes looked at me full. "You know, I didn't expect tty-is?I mean having a room all to myself. Never." And then, while I gasped, she went; on, sweetly and calmly: "Why, Mr. Lightnut, Brother Jack would throw seventeen thousand tits I if I went to a hotel, because?" She ; laughed deliciously. "Well, I promised him that if he would let me come home by New York I would stay right , here with you and behave myself." "Behave yourself!" I echoed indignantly. "Why, look here, do you mean to say Jack Billings?your own brother, you know?thought you wouldn't ! ?er?do that at a hotel?" "Thought?" Her laugh this time was explosive. "No, he never thought; ' it; he knew I wouldn't! He knew 1 j would be tearing around all night with the boys?that's what!" And dash me, if sh8 didn't throw herself back with a kind of swagger, i by Jove! , "Why, you?you wouldn't do such a ' thing!" I uttered faintlj'. "Wouldn't I?" She. straightened suddenly, and her lovely blue eyes nar-1 rowed at me. "Say, Mr.' Lightnut, I j don't want you to get me ?ized up wrong. I'm none of your little waxy gardenias?not much! When I'm in New York, it's the bright lights and the Great White Way for mine?yes, sir, every time!" And she gave me a blow on the shoulder that was like a stroke from a man's arm. It sent me down into my chair. "If you don't believe me," she addj ed, her face shining with excitement, : "just you ask Jack about last summer j when I came through?about that Joy I j ride to Coney with three Columbia fellows, and how we got pinched. Oh, j mamma, but didn't Jack swear at mM" i I heard a noise by the door. Jenkins stood there, his eyes sticking out ' like hard boiled eggs. ' I?I'm back, sir," he said rather l'alteringly. "Beg pardon, sir; just j thought you'd want to know. I didn't know you?h'm!" And with an odd look and a little cough Jenkins slipped away. But T scarcely noticed hirj all. Poor misguided girl! My brain was buzzing like a civilisli hive oi; bees, don't you know. 13y; Jove, this was something awful! | ^An<3 yet?and yet? Her fran?, swe?t face met mine with a clear light that there was no mistaking. There was no going behind it?she was a thoroughbred, a queen?a lady, dash it! I knew it! And I just settled on that, and was ready to die right then and + VionvViA^v Aarari tn Hisniito H ^ li. CLL1J V%* VW vv^ -. W. I didn't care a jolly hang how she talked; it was just nothing?just the demoralizing swagger of a little boarding-school girl trying to show off like her brothers. And her language? Why, just the devilish, natural result of having a coarse, slangy brute like Billines for a brother. Poor little girl! It was a beastly shame. She was watching me curiously, smilingly, as she sat there, her devilishly pretty mouth puckered Into a cherry as she softly whistled and drummed her shining nails upon the chair arm. "I'm afraid I've shocked you," she said. "Jack says you're so good." Dash it, somehow I felt humiliated! She said It In a way that made me feel like a silly ass, you know. But she wasn't thinking about me any more. Her eye fell on the tabouret, and he little hand stretched toward It. "May I?" she said with an arch Inquiring glance. "Your cigarettes look good to me. I emptied my case an hour ago." And I proffered them with a show of alacrity. "Pray, pardon me," I said. "I?I never thought of you smoking." A chuckle came through the tiny teeth grasping the cigarette. "Thought I was too goody-goody, eh?" "Do?er?you smoke much?" I ventured anxiously. "Cigarettes, you know?" She pulled a sparkling half-inch as she took her little head. I felt awfully relieved. "Not for me," she remarked carelessly. "I prefer a pipe." T "fooVilv X lpc . X . The golden head inclined. "Bet yon! Good old, well-seasoned brier for mine?well-caked and a little strong." Puff-puff. "Oh, damn your patent sanitary pipes, I say!" And as backward I collapsed upon the cushions, she threw her leg over the arm of her chair and shot two long cones of smoke from her dainty nostrils. CHAPTER VI. Arcadian Simplicity. A moment later I had another shock. "I don't blame you for looking at me so hard," she said, rubbing her chin and looking, I thought, a little confused. "For did you ewer see a lace like mine?" "I?I never did!" I said stammeringly, for, by Jove, the question was so unexpected; but I knew I said it earnestly and with conviction in every word. ' She nodded. "Never got a chance to shave, you know?caught the train by such a margin?and my kit's in that * - ? ^ ?? T > 1 1 Other OS.2^. VjUCSb 111 nave IU on you in tlie morning for one of your razors." I stared at her in horror. "Shave? You don't shave?" I protested blankly. "Myself, you mean? Have to; J haven't got a man to do it for me." She seemed to sigh. "Not old enough yet to have a man, Jack says." And just here her attention seemed to center on my cellarette over in the corner. "Gee, but it's warm tonight, isn't it?" she remarked absently. And there was nothing to do but take the hint or leave it; and after all, she was a guest, you know! "Perhaps you will permit me to of mm S3 "You've Had Me Fooled." fer you some refreshment," I suggested, rising. I knev/ it sounded devilish stiff; and I knew, moreover, that I looked like a jolly muff, in fact. "Perhaps I will," she cnucKiea. "say, don't urge me too hard, Mr. Lightnut; you might embarrass me." I did not want to embarrass her. "I thought perhaps a lemon soda would refresh you," I explained. "Or, if you will allow me, I will have Jenkins make you one of his famous seltzer lemonades. Perhaps, though, you would prefer just a plain?" I halted in confusion, for she was laughing at me. "A nlain cud of tea," she gurgled, "or a creme de menthe!" And then her laughter burst deliriously. "Say, do you know, honestly, I'm only just getting on to that dry humor of yours. You've had me fooled. You do it with such a serious face, you know. Say, it's great!" I tried to smile, but I knew it wul' a devilish sickly gc?the more so, because just at that moment her slender fingers discarded the remnant of her last cigarette and reached for_a cigar. | Another instant, and she had deitly clipped and lighted it. j I decided I wouldn't jing Jenkins. I felt ashamed as I looked in the cellarette, and wondered what the deuce I should offer her. Couldn't think of anything I had ever heard of boarding-school girls goiifg in for except ice-cream soda; and, dash it, 1 didn't have any ice-cream soda. Near, est thing would be a little seltzer and ginger ale. That would do. "Oh, I say, I'm going to make you a . highball," I said, trying to assume a | frisky, jocular air. Her voice lifted in alarm. "Nay, nay, Clarence?Dot for me!" she urged i hastily. "But It's only?" "No fizzy adulterations in mine? not on your life." She followed me across the room. "Just give me the straight, pure goods?anything, just so it's whisky." # And before I could say a word?if, indeed, I could have said a word?she i had selected a decanter of Scotch, and ; with cigar tilted UDward in her tender mouth, was absorbingly pouring a shining stream of the amber fluid. To see the slow curving of that delicately molded wrist, the challeng: ing flash of the saucy ej%s of blue, ! by Jove, it made me just forget all i about what she was doing till the | fluid ran over the brim. And then, before I could intercept her, she had lightly gestured her glass to mine, ! and in a flash the'stuff was gone. : Gone! A full whisky glass; and I | recalled with a shiver of horror that it was very high proof liquor?something X seldom touched myself, but kept on hand for certain of my friends. "I say, you know!" I gasped in con sternation. "I'm awfully afraid that will?er?-will?" I gulped wordlessly. I The coral lips curved scornfully. "Get me jingled?" She looked as she might have if I had insulted her. ! "Maybe so in those girlie-girlie days you were trying to josh me about, ! but not since these two years I've been at college." She shook her love, ly, bright head, and followed a long enjoyable pull at the cigar, projected five perfect rings at a frescoed cherub | in the ceiling. j She leaned forward eagerly. "Look here, I do wish you would let me call you 'Dicky."' "Oh, I say?will you?" exploded from my mouth. | "Will I?" Her look made my blood leap. "You just watch me?Dicky! Oh, say, this is great; maybe it won't take a fall out of old Jack?always bragging that you allow only two or i three to call you that." "I hope you will always call me Dicky," I said?and said it very softI ly. By Jove, I could hardly keep from taking her hand! "You bet I think it's awfully good of you, Lightnut?I mean. Dicky." Then her face grew pensive. "Say, do you know, I need a friend like you?just now, I mean?oh, worst kind." "TV\ v/w ?" T cairi onprorlv nnd JLS\J J V/ t-4 . JL ^ 7 ? ? hitched nearer. She proceeded: "Haven't you had things sometimes you wanted to talk aboift to somebody?well, things you couldn't just tell to your brother or sisters?oh, I nor even your room-mate? You understand." I wasn't sure that I did, for she was blushing furiously, and in her eyes was an appeal. By Jove, some jolly love affair, I guessed suddenly. My heart just sank like a lump of what's-its-name, but my whole soul went out in sympathy for her. 1 made up my mind, then and j there, to put myself aside, j "Devilish glad?I mean delighted to have you tell me anything," I murmured rather weakly; "but?er?I should think your mother?" | "The mater?tell her!" Her hand lifted. "She'd guy the life out of me! Besides, she's in Europe." She paced to the window and back. I protested indignantly: "I don't see how any mother?" * "Aw, forget it!" she broke in, and I winced again at slang from those sweet lips. "No, sir; I'm going to unload the whole thing on you,- or nobody." j And, by Jove, the next thing I knew she had perched on the broad arm of the Morris chair in which I sat, her arm resting lightly abovfe my shoulI ders. "Here's what I want to know about," I heard her sigh. "When you're engaged to one person and meet anotner you liKe Deiter, now are you going to?well, chuck It with the i first, you know?and still do the I square thing? There, that's^what hit 1 me, Dicky; and I'm up against it for i fair!" Her hand gently patted my shoulder. "I'm telling you, old chap, because I know you'll understand? because I like you better than any man I ever saw?that's right!" I wss just afraid to move! Afraid I she'd stop; afraid she'd go on. And all the while I was feeling happier i than I ever had in all my life?hapl r?ior tVinn T cvpr kn#>w nermle could j be, you know. I never thought her i bold?dash it, no?knew It was just her adorable, delicious, Arcadian simplicity, by Jove! That explained it, just as it explained to me all her other unconventionality. "So now it's up to you," she said, "and I want to know what's the an: swer." The answer! And how could J give her any an! swer? Xo, by Jove, I knew jolly well I couldn't take advantage of such cir| cumstrmces?of her artless confession; knew devilisii well It wouldn't do, you know. Miglit reproach me in y^ars to come: and then?and then, j there was Billings! j j So I just contented myseif witii j I looking up smilingly, but it was hard? j y J .. awfully, awfully hard, dash it?and I I just felt like a jolly cad?or fool. ! Coudn't tell which. (TO BE CONTINUED) , HI,EASE GETS HEARTY RECEPTION I Speeches in (Georgetown Before Large '? 1 i nHiVn/>?c nf till u LlIUlU9109Ut auuivuwu v* Admirers i Georgetown, April 4?The dedication I of the splendid new Firemen's hall | set for Wednesday night, April 3, was made the occasion for a grand celebration with Governor Cole. L. Blease I as guest of honor. Congressman Elj lerbe, of the Sixth district, was also present The program for the day was be^un with a big picnic at i Brown's Ferry, on Black river, where ! about 500 country people from George; town and Williamsburg counties congregated to see and hear the governor and others of the announced speakers !of the day, and <to partake of the j abundant eatables. | The visiting party were taken up the i river on the tug Wm. P. Congdon, leaving Georgetown at 8 o'clock. Dr. Olin Sawyer was master of ceremonies j and introduced Congressman Ellerbe, I -rcrVi rma t-cw-ii+o ti/vn nf hie wnrlr in TV 3 ah - j ?? 11VOV/ ? WiVUfUVU V4. A* AW TT VA At. ?M * v ? ?. ! ington for Winyah Bay and' George| town county and the Sixth district was heartily applauded. County Superintendent of Education J. W. Doar j spoke along educational lines. Governor Blease followed with a j characteristically vigorous speech ' along lines heretofore reported. He I dwelt long and with apparent effect * upon his pardoning record and related 1 pathetic instances of where the pardoning power had been invoked. He i reiterated his determination to disi v/vvtn A olnriA '* \T An a ia> uij> tu JLii^-nvto aiuuu. ^wiiv others need apply." Governor Blea&o j let fly some hot shot into the news; papers and his enemies, mixed with i frequent witticisms and apt anecdote j to the evident amusement and delight ; of his audience. Shortly after 8 o'clock in the evening the loaded banquet tables in the big Firemen's hall were thronged | about with firemen and their guests. .Among the speakers were Chief Sanders, of the Greenwood fire department, who set the oratory on a polii .- - . ... . . # tical plane witn a red not ta,iK tor re-election of Governor Blease. Mr. Ellerbe spoke and was warmly receivi ed. "He predicted that Champ Clark | would oppose President Taft and de; feat him." J. W. Doar, Esq., spoke ! briefly. Andrews Praises Blease Mayor W. H. Andrews, who acted as j toastmaster in introducing Governor I Blease, spoke with pride of the splen! did fire department of Georgetown, in ; recognition of whose worth the really I magnificent building was authorized j by tlie city council, with the unanimous consent of the citizens, and i which was this night dedicated to their ; use for the public good. He spoke of Governor Blease as a man who had ; the courage of his convictions, and the ! ability to carry out his policies with- _ out dictation from any man, or set of men. i It was late when Governor Blease began speaking and he spoke for more than an hour. There were in the ^ neighborhood of five hundred men present, standing room being at a ; premium. The crowd was hilarious, i and he entertained it perfectly. "There will be only one governor while I am in office, and those who dcn't like it have a mighty poor way to help it," said the governor. Again i he dwelt upon his pardoning record | and bitterly attacked the newspapers ' for their unfairness to him. He recounted the Bel-ton incident. The gov-? ernor was loudly cheered at the. con- , ! elusion of his speech. Today, April 4, was a great day at : Andrews, fifteen miles from Georgej-town, on the G. & W. R. R., where.an educational rally and picnic for the' farmers was hplri in tho tnwn Tho graded school was closed, and the ! teachers and children attended the speaking. A crowd, estimated to be 1 600 people, attended the exercises. Speaks at Rally. Governor Blease and Congressman ; Ellerbe were the principal speakers. The former seemed among warm ad? : mirc-rs and friends and was enthusws- j tieallv cheered. He made no new state-i ments, but attacked the present system.of educating the negro, who were only mad-p for servants to the white man, "We are educating them not to do tlie. very things we want them to do." The party of visitors, including thegovernor, left for Columbia on the afI tornoon train i \ ' The Man That Counts. "Remember each of you that the chance for heroic endeavor of a rather spectacu ar kind does not often count ; that the man who really counts in this life is not the man who thinks how well he could do some bit of heroism if the chance arose, but the n:an who actually does the humdir . workaday, every-day duties as the duties arise."?Theodore Roosevelt