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fSSSS M headache, biliousness, in- m I digestion, rheumatism, M | m pimples, blotches, yellow | complexion, etc., are all m H pi/me r\f rtnicnnc in vntlf 9 M OIJ^UO VI pviwviitf J V ?- H blood. These poisons V m should be driven out, or H m serious illness may result To get rid of them, use 1 I Thedford's J [Black-Draught! M the old, reliable, purely M I vegetable, liver medicine. I Mrs. J. H. Easier, of Spartanburg, S. C, says: M " I had sick headache, for li years. I felt bad most of M the time, I tried Thed ford's Black-Draught, and I now I feel better than when J was 16 years old." B Your druggist sells it, in 25 cent packages. M 1 Insist on Thedford's M South Carolina New Enterprises. The following is a record of new enterprises in the office of the secretary of state: The Carolina Mills of | Greenville, filed notice of increase of its capital stock from $200,000 to $600,000. J. I. Westervelt is president and treasurer of this mill. The East Shore Development Company of Charleston was commissioned with a capital of $2,000. The petitioners being C. B. Huiet and Geo. R. Eishburne. The company proposes to do .a real estate and developing business. The Cherokee Place, Inc., of Charleston, was commissioned, with a capital of $15,000, the petitioners being Walter R. .JWilbun, William C. Wilbur and Sarah E. Quinn. The company proposes to do a general real estate and developing business, stocks, bonds, etc. The Carolina Phosphate Company of Greenville was commissioned with a capital of $100,000. Orangeburg?Orangeburg will have its second annual "booster trip this | year, so say the directors of the Or-? angebtirg chamber of commerce. Sol | Kolin, chairman of the executive com-1 mittee. has appointed the following! committee to have the automobile j booster trip in Charge: M. O. Dantz-j ler, chairnrtn: Leonard Bennett. Cecil j R Culler, Ueoltoti Z"isr!or and A. H. Marchant. commercial secretary. Darlington.?Work on the new poi:toflice building is progressing nicely. The building is located on Pearl St., and is being erected at a cost of j $50,000. Manning. ? Harry Lloyd, a young while man. IS years old, while cleaning a gin accidentally shot his mother, who is the widow of the late l\ It. Lloyd and lives just outside tho vestern limit- of town. The bill en v ivd ?!:?> abdomen. but apparently ranged tow; ;-<l the hip and did not ru'rr th<? cavity. The patient is re4.;-.rt(.1 c.- r< .- if fairly well and sortc-us results arc not ; uicipnt; d. Surely Professional. It was well known that tho late Dr. P. H. Brascome, though he demanded and got large fees from his wealthy. clients, gave much of his valuable time to treating poor patients, says tho New York Herald. One case or a laboring mail came under his notice, and he not only treated tho man, visiting him every day and providing the necessary medicines free, but he managed also to see to it that tho laborer's family did not suffer for food while the man was ill. When the man got well again and went to work he sent out of his meager wages a grateful letter and enclosed a two dollar bill, which Dr. Drascome, ratner man uucnu mo grateful man by returning, put into bis pocket. One of bis colleagues happened to be present at the time and started to reproach him for being so "unprofessional" as to accept so small a fee. "Why," said Dr. Brascome, "I took all the poor devil had. I guess that was professional enough." Evil of Wodsm Life. There is justification for the unrest of today, for multitudes of people spend the!: time in making a living and never Laving time to live. fi s ' * vr*> J jp*ro*?fr, SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER I.?The scene at the opening of the story is laid In the library of an old worn-out southern plantation, known as the Barony. The place Is to be sold, and Its history and that of the owners, the Qulntards, is the subject of discussion by Jonathan Crenshaw, a business man, a stranger known as Bladen, and Bob Yancy, a farmer, when Hannibal Wayne Hazard, a mysterious child of the old southern family, makes his appearance. Yancy tells how he adopted the boy. CHAPTER II.?Nathaniel Ferris buys the Barony, but the Qulntards deny any knowledge of the boy. Yancy to keep Hannibal. Captain Murrell, a friend of the Qulntards, appears and asks questions about the Barony. CHAPTER III.?Trouble at Scratch Hill, Yancy's home, when Hannibal Is kidnaped by Dave Blount, Captain Murrell's agent Yancy overtakes Blount, gives him a thrashing and secures the boy. CHAPTER IV.?Yancy Is served with a warrant for assaulting Blount. Yancy appears before Squire Balaam, and Is discharged with costs for the plaintiff. CHAPTER V.-Betty Malroy. a friend of the Ferrlses, has an encounter with Captain Murrell, who fortes his attentions on her, and Is rescued by Bruce Carrlngton, who threatens to whip the captain. CHAPTER VT.?Betty sets out for her Tennessee home. Carrlngton takes the same stage. Yancy and Hannibal disappear, with Murrell on their trail. He overtakes them In the mountains of Tennessee. Murrell gets Yancy drunk and stabs him in a fight that followed. Hannibal escapes in a canoe. CHAPTER VII.?Hqnnlbal arrives at the home of Judge Slocum Price. CHAPTER VIII.?The Judge recognizes In the boy, the grandson of an old time friend. Murrell arrives at Judge's home. Hannibal hears of the finding of Yancy's body. Price arrested as counterfeiter. CHAPTER IX.?Cavendish family on raft rescue Yancy, who Is apparently dead. Price breaks Jail. CHAPTER X.?Betty and Carrlngton arrive at Belle Plain. CHAPTER XI.?Hannibal's rifle discloses some startling things to the Judga. Hannibal and Betty meet again. CHAPTER XII.?Murrell arrives In Belle Plain. Is playing for big stakes. CHAPTER XIII.?Yancy awakes from long dreamless sleep on board the raft CHAPTER XIV.-Judge Price makes startling discoveries In looking up land titles. Charley Norton, a young planter, who assists the Judge, Is mysteriously assaulted. CHAPTER XV.?Norton Informs Carrlngton that Betty has promised to marry him. Carrlngton bids Betty good-bye. Norton Is mysteriously shot. CHAPTER XVI.?More light on Murrell's plots. He plans uprising of ne groes. " CHAPTER XVII.?The Judge and Hannibal vlatt Betty. CHAPTER XVII. The Judge Extends His Credit. That afternoon Judge Price walked out to Belle Plain. Solomon Mahaffy had known that this was a civility Betty Malroy could by no means escape. He had been conscious of the judge's purpose from the moment It existed in the germ state, and he had striven to divert him, but his striving had been in vain, for though the judge valued Mr. Mahaffy because of certain sterling qualities which he professed to discern beneath the hard crust that made up the external man, he was not disposed to accept him as his mentor in nice matters of taste and gentlemanly feeling. He owed it to himself personally to tender his sympathy. Miss Malroy must have heard something of the honorable part iifj iiiiu pia\ ru, oaici; ouv wum not be in ignorance of the fact that the lawless element, dreading his further ae;iviti< .>, had threatened hint. She must know, too, about that reward of five thousand dollars. Certainly her grief could not blind her to the fact that he had met the situation witt a largeness of public spirit that was an impressive lesson to the entire community. These were all points over which he and Mahaffy had wrangled, and he felt that his friend, in seeking to keep him away from Belie Plain, was standing squarely in his light. Ho really could not understand Solomon hie nhioniinnc Ho nnlntoH nnf that Norton had probably left a will ?no one knew yet?probably his estate would go to his Intended wife? what more likely? He understood ; Norton had cousins somewhere In middle Tennessee?there was the attractive possibility of extended litlgaj tion. Miss Malroy needed a strong, ; clear brain to guide her past those difficulties his agile fancy assembled rr-trwFitff t THE >ODIGAL JUDGE -V4ughanKester. a JizvsTQATms By DLMELVIU I ?*\ H /p'/t r?i 3o003 M?G0flt COMAArrr IB , In her path. He beamed on bis frleu i wi:h a wide sunny smile. "You mean sne neeas a lawyer, Price?" Insinuated Mahaffy. "That slap at me, Solomon, Is unworthy of you. Just name some one, will you, who has shown an Interest comparable to mine? I may say I have devoted my entire energy to her i affairs, and with disinterestedness. 1 have made myself felt. Will you mention who else these cutthroats have tried to browbeat and frighten? They , know that my theories and concluI slons are a menace to them! I got j *em In a panic, sir?presently some < fellow will lose his nerve and light out for the tall timber?and It will be Just Judge Slocum Price who's done the trick?no one else I" "Are you looking for some one to take a pot shot at you?" Inquired Mahaffy, sourly. "Your remark uncovers my fondest hope, Solomon?I'd give five years or my life just to be shot at?that would round out the episode of the letter i nicely"; again the judge beamed on Mahaffy with that wide and sunny smile of his. "Why don't you let the boy go alone, Prlce7" suggested Mahaffy. He lacked that sense of sublime confidence In the judge's tact and discretion of which the judge, himself, entertained never a doubt. "I shall not obtrude myself, Soloi mon; I shall merely walk out to Belle I Plain and leave a civil message. I know what's due Miss Malroy In her bereaved state?she has sustained no ordinary loss, and in no ordinary fashion. She has been the center of a striking and profoundly moving | tragedy! I woul^-give-a good deaf It? J know If my late client left a will?" "You might ask her," said Mahaffy cynically. "Nothing like going to headquarters for the news!" "Solomon, Solomon, give me credit for common sense?go further, and I give me credit for common decency! Don't let us forget that ever since we : came here she has manifested a charmingly hospitable spirit where we are concerned!" "Wouldn't charity hit nearer the mark, Price?" "I have never so regarded it, Solomon," said the judge mildly. "I have read a different meaning in the beef I and flour and potatoes she's sent here. I expect if the truth could be known to us she is wondering In the midst | of her grief why 1 haven't called, but ; she'll appreciate the considerate delicacy of a gentleman. I wish it were j possible to get cut flowers in this cussed wilderness!" The judge had been occupied with a simple but ingenious toilet. He had trimmed the frayed skirts of his coat; then, by turning his cults in- i side out and upside down a fresh surface made its flt^t public appearance. Next hl3 shoes had engaged his attention. They might have well discouraged a less resolute and resourceful character, but with the contents of his ink-well he artfully colored his white yarn socks where they showed through the rifts in the leather. This the judge did gaily, now humming a snatch of song, now listening civilly to Mahaffy, now replying with undis- j turbed cheerfulness. Last of all he I clapped his dingy beaver on his head, j e'.vintr it an indescribably jaunty I slant, and stepped to the door. | "Well, wish me luck, Solomon, I'm off?come, Hannibal!" he said. At heart he cherished small hope of . seeing Betty, advantageous as he felt an interview might prove. However, , on reaching Belle Plain, he and Hannibal were shown into the cool parlor j by littho Steve. It was more years ! than the judge cared to remember since he had put his foot inside such i a house, but with true grandeur ot | soul he rose to the occasion; a j sublimated dignity shone from every I battered feature, while he fixed little I Steve with so fierce a glance that the grin froze on his lips. | "You are to say that Judge Slocura ; Price presents his compliments and , condolences to Miss Malroy?have j you got that straight, you pinch ot | soot?" he concluded affably. Little i Steve, impressed alike by the judge's i air of condescension and his easy | flow of words, signified that he had. ! "You may also say that Judge Price's i rv? I 1 They interlock and overlap e I hardest driving rain or snow canno I Won't pulsate or rattle in wind I last as long as the building, and ne< Sold by Cheraw Hardwari ward, young Master Hazard, presents his compliments and condolences?" What more the judge might have said was Interrupted by the entrance of Betty, herself. . w . "My dear young lady?" the judge bowed, then he advanced toward her with the solemnity or carriage and countenance he deemed suitable to the occasion, and her extended hand was engulfed between his two plump palms. He rolled his eyes heavenward. "It's the Lord's to deal with us as his own inscrutable wisdom dictates," he murmured with pious resignation. "We are all poorer, ma'am, that he has died?just as we were richer while he lived!" The rich cadence of the Judge's speech fell sonorously on the silence, and that look of horror which had never quite left Betty's eyes since they saw Charley Norton fall, rose out of their clear depths again. The Judge, instantly stricken with a sense of the inadequacy of his words, doubled on his spiritual tracks. "In a roundabout way, ma'am, we're bound to believe in the omnipresence of Providence?we must think it?though a body might be disposed to hold that west Tennessee had got out of the line of divine supervision recently. Let me lead you to a chair, ma'am!" Hannibal had slipped to Betty's side and placed his hand in hers. The Judge regarded the pair with great benevolence of expression. "He would come, and I hadn't the heart to forbid it. If I can be of any service to you, ma'am either In the "Since You Insist, Ma'am?My Best Respects." capacity of a friend?or professionally?I trust you will not hesitate to command me?" The judge backed toward the door. "Did you walk out, Judge Price?" asked Betty kindly. "Nothing more than a healthful exercise?but we will not detain you, ma'am; the pleasure of seeing you Is something we had not reckoned on!" The judge's speech was thick and unctuous with good feeling. He wished that Mahaffy might have been there to note the reserve and dignity of his deportment. Ill 5 i FOR; f ;< | ONE CHAINLESS C( | H. L. F if ???? ???^ ach other in such a way that the I t sift under them. ] storms. They're also fire-proof, will I vet need repairs. I b & Supply Co. Cheraw, S .C "But you must let me order luncfe eon for you," said Betty. At least this questionable old man was goodi to Hannibal. j "I couldn't think of it, ma'am?" j "You'll have a glass of wine, then,"" urged Betty hospitably. For the moment she had lost sight of what was clearly the judge's besetting sin. Aiken.?A S30.000 stock company, to be known as the Aiken Industrial Company, has been formed and th? majority of the stock subscribed to j take over the plant and business of | the Southern Cotton Oil Company's i plant at Aiken, which was recently purchased by J. T. Shuler, who has been elected temporary president of the new company. In addition to operating the oil mill and a ginnery, the new company proposes installing an ice plant, conducting a wood and coal business and the building of a fertilizer plant. Old Clock of St. Giles. All loyal Scotsmen will learn with regret that the well-known clock on St. Giles' tower in Edinburgh, which must have told the time to Scott and Burns, is doomed to disappear. Ap* parently a workman fell through the case and damaged the mechanism so badly that the civic authorities do not consider the wornout works worth re* pair. So the old clock will be ban* lsbed by the city museum and re* placed by an invisible timepiece, witl* out hands or face, which will merely strike the hours and leave the aesthetic effect of the tower unspoiled. The ancient clock of St Giles has seen fta nmtiilrTTfl-<wrtirtTri It* ^ mere giddy youth compared with some of the medieval horologes on Engllih , cathedrals. There are clocks that date from the fourteenth century at Exeter, Wells and Peterborough. NOTICE Cheraw, S. C., June 12, 1912. Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the Stockholders of the Chesterfield and Lancaster RalLroad Company will be held at the office of the Company at Cheraw S. C., at twelve o'clock noon on Wednesday, Juy 10th, 1912, for the election of Directors and for the transaction of such 1 other business as may properly D? considered at said meeting. ROBT. L. NTJTT, / Secretary. Jc. S. Lynch &STAT& jGheraw. 8. G. 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