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PROMIN By EMERSO AUTHOR of THE MISSISSIPPI 1 ILLUSTRATIONS by Ra; COPYRIGHT 1912 BY EMERSON CHAPTER F. Certain Notable Details in Genesis. One John Rawn is to be the hero of this pleasing tale; no ordinary ; hero, as you might learn did you make inquiry of himself. T% IT* T ftVQQ JOnn ftawn was uum m isab? . and of Texas at ihe very spot where, ' had it been left to his own candid opinion, no John Rawn, no especial hero, ought ever to have been born. / The village he honored by his birth? : one of seven which now cont *id over that claim to fame?was the very home of democratic equality; and how could the home of democratic < equality be called typical environment for the production of a man believing in the divine right of a very few? Neither, had John Rawn been consulted in the matter, would he have indorsed the plans of fate in respect to his ancestry any more than he did the workings of the misguided stars i in regard to his environment. By j right he should have been the off- ! spring of parents for long generations I accustomed to rule, to command, to sway the destinies of others. Yet far frcm this was tne irum m our unus j case. It was rarely that ever a smile enlivened the somewhat heavy features of young John Rawn, even in the earliest stages of his babyhood. Rarely J did the mirth of any situation bring i up in his face an answering dawn of ! appreciation. Pie was a serious child, I as all admitted even from the fhst. He grew to be a grave boy, a solemn youth. Curious persons might have found certain explanations for these traits in the calling, the temper and training of- the father of John Rawn. In that time and place, a minister of the i gospel was a man of whom all stood in awe. He was not much gainsaid, not much withstood, not much disapproved. His conclusions were announced for acceptance, not for argument. It is not known, nor is it important, whence Mrs. Rawn came, or how she happened to marry her lord, John Kawn, Senior, tne Metnocnsi preacner in the little Texas town. They were married when they arrived at this place, and had been for some years. John was the first child granted to them as answer to his father's gram-, bling; the latter, very nobly and righteously, dreading what calamity the world must suffer did none come to perpetuate his race. These necessary and essential preliminaries now all stand adjusted; ana we are able finally to say that John Rawn at least and at last was born, silently, quietly, with small rebellion on the part of his mother. He lay there in his first cradle, silent, a trifle red, a slight frown upon Lis face, a trace of gravity In his features as he ventured an introspective look within the confines of his couch, and for the first time discovered that wholly interesting, remarkable, ind' ^d wonderful human being, Himself. Having assured himself that he was here, John Rawn sighed, turned over in his crndle, and presently fell asleep, well assured that, although He had selected Texas for this event. God after all was1 in His heaven, and that, in the circumstance, all in due time would be well with the world. Could any hero of his years have acted with a finer, a larger generosity? In his younger school days th^re was a way about young Mr. Rawn. He did not really care for plodding, yet he was aggrieved if not accorded rank among his fellow pupils. Even in these early days his features were in large mold, even then his abundant hair fell across his brow. His eyes were blue and .prominent, his nose distinct, his lower lip prominent, protruding and in times of great emotion semi-pendulous. Even thus early he seemed old. serious, foreordained. Much of this might have been remedied by kindly application of educational or parental rod, but young Mr. Rawn remained largely unchastened. His parents did not care to punish * him, and his teacher did not dare to i do so. Was he not the minister's son? If his mother had misgivings they were well concealed. She herself only % shuddered in her soul when she heard the orotund voice of the master of , the house explain, in contemplation of his first born, "How much he is like , me!" Yes, he was like. His mother knew how like. At that time and in that part of the country this little western village might have been called almost a little world of Itself. Estimates of men and affairs were such only as might grow out of the soil. The great world beyond was a thing but vaguely sensed of any who dwelt here. The family was its own world. In large part it tilled its own fields and ran its own factories. Mrs. Rawn molded the candles which made the bedroom lights and those by which she sewed?though not that by which her husband read and wrote?in a kettle in the back yard at butchering times, when suet came the parson's way. She made her husband's long black coats, building them upon some prehistoric pattern. She made, mend ENT CITIZEN )N HOUGH BUBBLE; 54-40 OR FIGHT. y Walters HOUGH rd and washed bis shirts, hemmed his stocks and darned his socks for him. I'sing the outworn ministerial cloth in turn, she made also, in due time, the garments of the son and heir, even building for him a cap, with ear-lappets, for winter use. Her own garments might have been seen by the most casual eye to have been the product of her own hands. X -LA. l x _ . 114. A certain interest auacnes to a. ir'le event which nowhere else, save in some such village, would have been noted or could have been possible. The leading-local merchant, in a burst of enterprise, had imported a couple of rlusters of bananas from New Orleans, the first tver brought into the town. ir\f tVio 7on<! nilr r ui a nine ixvxx^ vi wuv V4v??x/..w t chased, and, indeed, it required the prudsring gift of a banana or so to establish a local demand. Then? builded on the assurance of a wise and much-traveled citizen who had once eaten a banana at Fort Worth? the rumor of the bananas passed rapidly through the town. Swiftly it became an important thing to announce to a neiehbor that one had eaten of this fruit. In time, even children partcok thereof. At this timo young Mr. Rawn was six years of age, and by reason of his years and his social position at least as much entitled to bananas as any of his like thereabout.- Yet, he had none. The tragedy of this wrung his mother's soul. Was it to be thought that j this, her son, should be denied any of the good things of life, that he should have less than equal enjoyment of life's privileges in the compauy of his fellows? The climax came when young Mr. Rawn himself approached ? A. Ttr/vrt rl O n 1 I Ills Iliuuitrr e> micc, n nu wuuuci cuiu | surprise upon his face, inquiring why j others had bananas, while he himself, j the Lord's anointed, and son of the Lord's anointed, had none. It was at that time that his mother somewhat j furtively stole away down the village street. She had a few coppers, saved by such hook and crook as you and I may not know, and these she now proposed to devote to a holy cause. It was at about this same time, also, that there chanced to pass by, on the, sidewalk in front of the parsonage, two boys younger than John Rawn himself. These he regarded intently, j for he saw from a distance that each ' had some suspicious object in hij' hand. His own suspicions became cer j tainties. Here was visible proof that they, mere common persons, were owners of specimens of that fruit whose excellence was rumored throughout the town. They ate, or were about to eat, while he did not! They had luxuries while he had none! j They hkd not asked his permission, j yet they ate! Form this picture well) in your mind, oh, gentle reader. It is j that of John Rawn and ourselves. With great gravity and dignity i young Mr. Rawn stalked down thej brick walk to the front gate of the | ^ parsonage yard. Calmly, with no | word, but with uplifted hand?nay, i merely by his stately dignity?he j K.inrncroca r?f fh#?SP. two ! Urtl itU Viiv vwm w* - j They paused, uncertain. Then he held! ; out his hand, and, with a growl of' I7'1 p Leaned Again Toward Her, Insistent, * Frowning, Imperious. ! i I command, demanded of these others! 1 that which they had regarded as their j own. He took if as a matter of course ! that Caesar should have the things i that were Caesar's; and they who give I tribute to our Caesars now, gave itj then. ! Having possession of these bananas,! 1 which as yet remained unbroken of' 1 their owners, young Mr. Rawn showed j ] them that, although these fruits were ! , unfamiliar to their former owners, j thev made no enigma to a person of, ' his powers. As though he had clone j nothing else all his life, he broke open j the tender skin and removed the soft' interior contents. After this he hand ed back to each of his young friends j the disrupted and now empty skins. 11 Yet, with much kindness, he explained | ] to both that at the bottom of each j husk or envelope there still remained j , some portion of edible contents which, I ' with care upon their part, might yet j be rescued. They departed, wonder-1 Ins somewhat, but glad they had been shown how th- t'vng was dono; even as you and I humbly thank our great men for robbing us today. Young Mr. Rawn, age six, turned now with much dignity back to the gallery from which he had with much dignity come. He seated himself calmly upon the chair and began to eat that which had been given him of fate, that which had been brought to Caesar as a thing due to Caesar. He ate until at last, wearied with his la- ! bors, he fell asleep. Xoie now our humble moral in this short and simple detail of our hero's early years. He was at this Moment more nearly full of bananas than any Dther human being in all the village at that time. Yet he had attaint that success at no price save that of the exercise of the resources of his mind. That is genius. Let us not smile at young Mr. Rawn. His mother, steal! :g home by the v.#*r wifv, Trot hnnanas con- I udv/h vy qj nuu ^ vw v vaaw. cealed in her apron, presently came upon him and discovfred that, after all, her solicitude had not been needful. Pier son slept, his lower lip protruding, his features grave, his legs somewhat sprawled apart, his midbody somewhat distended, his, head sunken forward, his hands drooping at his side. In one hand, clutched so tightly as to have become a somewhat worthless pulp, his mother discovered j the bulk of several bananas; in short. | ' ' j' : j i the full quota wnicn naa Deen assigueu to two of his fellow-beings. It was genius! His mother looked upon him as he slept sprawled in his repletion and made no attempt to remove the uneaten fruit from his hands; indeed, made no query as to where he had obtained it. She did not disturb his slumbers. "How like his father he is," she whispered to herself, mindful | of certain lemons, certain beefsteaks, i ^ --- -tin OAI1D certain w^uums it-rs, uuu v.wasted years. Slie did not say: "How dear he is, how sweet, how manly, how brave, how decent, how chivalrous!'" Xo, with a slight tightening of the lips as ihe turned back to fir.d her belated sewing, she spok^, as though to herself, and with no peculiar glorying in her voice, "How like he is to his father!" And so took up her burden. Wood's Seeds For The p /~< J I i NOTICE TO PENSIONERS. I will be in the auditor's office each j Saturday in January to prepare pen-i ion applications. Will be glad for j my one to send in notice of Hie death ! >f any of the pensioners. W. G. Peierson. Pensiort Commissioner fo^ Newberry. 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Phone 261, Coward & ! Company's old stand, 1309 Main Street.j 1 li I I NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. (?aid Shout for Jot. 4 Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will make a final settle- ^ want to thank you from the botnjent as Administrator of the personal j Tom of niy heart,' wrote C. B. Rader, of estate of Mrs. Harnett Long, deceased, Lewisburg, W. Va., "for the wonderful in the Probate Court of Newberry double benefit I got from Electric BitCounty, 5. C., on February 20, 1913, at ters, in curing me of both a severe case ' - ' : ^AHnnnnn onH Yvill i of stomach trouble and of rheumatism, J II O (MOCK in uitr IU'CUW.1, immediately thereafter ask for Letters, fr?rn which I had been an almost help Dismissory as such administrator. All Jess sufferer tor ten years, n sunea | persons indebted to the said estate will my case as though made just for me."! make immediate settlement, and all; For dyspepsia, indigestion, jaundice j persons lnlding claim3 against the j and to rid the system of kidney poisonssaid estate ivil! tile np same with the [that cause rheumatism. Electric Hitundersign^d. duly attested. j ters have no superior. Try them. EvIs.tiah J. Lcwman, iery bottle is guaranteed to satisfy. Only Administrator. j "0 cents at W. E. Pelham & Son's. COLUMBIA, XEVVBERRY & LACBE>S R. It, Schedule in effect June 4, 1912. Subject to change without notice. Schedules indicated are not guaranteed: A. C. L 52. 53. Lv. Charleston .. .. 6.00am 10.38p? Lv. Sumter ^.40am 6.55pm C., N. & L. Lv. Columbia 11.35am 4.55pm Lv. Prosperity 1.12am 3.34pm iaV. Newberry 1.29pm 3.20pm Lv. Clinton 2.30pm 2.35pm ; Lv. Laurens 2.52pm 2.05pm C. & w. c. Ar. Greenville 4.40pm 12.20pm A.r. Spartanburg. .. 4.05pm 12.20pm I S. A. L. Ar AhhpviJla 3.55pm 1.02pm I ? ! Ar. Greenwood 3.27pm 1.33pm j Ar. Athens 6.05pm 10.30am : Ar. Atlanta 8.45pm 8.0Gam I A. C. L. 54. 55. ! Lv. Columbia 5.00pm 11.15am | Lv. Prosperity 6.26pm 9.50am j Lv. Newberry 6.44pm 9.32am Lv. Clinton 7.35pm 8.44am lv. Laurens 7.55pm 8.20am No. 50. No. 51. Lv. Columbia 8.00am 9.38pm I Lv. Irmo 8.26am 9.12pm j Lv. Chapin 8.57am 8.41pm 1 Lv. Little Mtn.. .... 9.11am S.27am j Lv. Prosperity 9.30am 8.08pm Lv. Newberry 9.47am , 7.52pm Lv. Kinards... .,. .. 10.18am 7.21pm Lv. Goldville 10.26am 7.13pm Lv. Clinton 10.41am 6.58pm ; Ar. Laurens 11.04am 6.35pm C. & W. C. ^ , Ar. Greenville 9.30pm 7.00am -I I S. A. L. i i i Ar. Greenwood .. .. 2.28am 2.3Sam ; Ar. Abbeville 2.56am 2.03am Ar. Athens 5.04am lLodpio Ar. Atlanta 7.15am 9.55pm ISos. t>z au'i 06 arrive anu utjpart from Union Station, Columbia, daily, and run through between .Charleston ! and Greenville. i Nob. 54 and 55 arrive and depart Gervais street, Columbia, Jaily except Sunday, and run through between Soil nib ia and Greenville. Nos. 50 and 51 arrive and depart from Gervais street, Colombia, on Sunday only. ' W. J. Craig, P. T. M., ! E. A. Terrer, C. .A, Wilmington, N. G. Columbia, S. C. NOTICE OF FIXAL SETTLEMENT. Notice is hereby given that I will i make a final settlement on the estate of John Lake, deceased, in the Probate Court for Newberry county, S. C., on the 24th day of February, 1913, and will immediately thereafter apply for a final discharge as Administrator of the persen&l estate of said deI ceased. ; All persons nodding .demands against i the estate of said deceased are'notil tied to present the same to me duly I attested on or before said date;, and I all persons owing said deceased will i please make payment to me on or I before said date. , George Lake, ! Administrator, ?tc., of John Lake, de ! ueasscu. j l-21-4t i " Drives Off a Terror. ! The chief executioner of death in the | winter and spring month's is pneu- ^ | inonla. Its advance agents are coids I and grip. Iu any attack by one of ! these maladies no time should be lost [ in taking the best medicine obtainable 1 to drive it off. Counttess thousands ! bave found this to be Dr. King's New , Discovery. "My husband believes it has kept him frcm having pneumonia three or four times," writes Mr3. George W. Place, Rawsouville, Vt., j| "and for coughs, colds at:d croup wehave never found its equa1." Guaranteed for all bronchial affections. Price r>ts sinH $1 Art XOTJCfc. By virtue of authority I will sell to the highest bidder on February 3, same being saleday, at Newberry court house, one acre of land, more or less, just outside the corporate limits of the town of Prosperity, S. C., on the Columbia road, adjoining lards of A. P. Dominick and E. M. Cook, the same having two good dwellings th-ereon. Terms to suit the purchaser. 1-21-td. G. W* Kinard. NOTICE OF SALE. The undersigned will sell to tli? highest bidder, for cash, before the court house door at Newberry, South Carolina, on February 7, 1913, at 11 o'clock a. m., all the accounts, notes A* and mortgages belonging to the estate of J. A. Bouknight, deceased, amounting to the sum of five hundred and ninety-two and 16-100 dollars, aa itemized list of which may be seen, at the office of Eugene S. Blease, attorriey-at-law. D. P. BouknightAdministrator of the Estate of J. A. Bouknight.. deceased.