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LITTLE JIINDERELLA She Was Used as a Foil for a More Fortunate Cousin. By H. N. EGBERT. Cinderella was a foil for Beatrice. That, perhaps, was the real reason why Mrs. Lanham, who had never been known to do an unselfish act, surprised her intimates by asking her little orphaned niece to make her home with her alter ner promem death. Esther and Oliver Benton had grown up together in the same home In Ohio, and Oliver had supported his widowed mother and sister until Esther's brilliant marriage to a wealthy lawyer. The Lanhams had gone up in the world and when Mr. Lanham died he was one of the richest corporation lawyers in the country. Esther mourned her husband decently for a year; then she moved to New York and soon became a member of the rich and not very Intellectual society that finds Its doings recorded daily in the newspapers. Why Mrs. Lanham should have taken little Cinderella?whose real name was Elizabeth?Into her home was a mystery until Mrs. BenthamJenklns solved it "Why, my dear, the reason Is perpectly obvious," she said to a friend. "It Is only necessary to look at the children's faces. Did you ever see a more glaring contrast between beauty and homeliness? Beauty and the Beast, I should call it; and that charity child won't improve with years, either." Elizabeth heard it and ran away to cry. But she had always known Instinctively that the difference between herself and Beatrice was as that between darkness and daylight. Beatrice had an abundance of flaxen hair, merry blue eyes, a contagious laugh, and e figure which gave promise of that quality which 1b called "svelte." Elizabeth was thin and sallow and lanky, and nobody ever stopped to admire her as they did her cousin. Perhaps this was partly due to the fact that Elizabeth wore Beatrice's cast-off dresses, after the trimmings .? had heen removed and a wrVmb fluwdiness imparted by Mrs. Lanham's deft fingers. That excellent woman knew the value of a foil for her daughter, Would Dress Herself In the Gown. particularly now that Beatrice was of a marriageable age. Beatrice was kinder. Once she gave Elizabeth one of her cast-off ball gowns. "Some day you may be invited to a ball,' she said, with innocent scorn, "and then you will be glad to have something to wear. But don't tell mamma or she will be angry. She did not know that little Cinderella treasured in her room a pair of Beatrice's old slippers which she had rescued from the lumber room just as its contents were about to be thrown away. In the seclusion of her little attic chamber she would dreBs herself in the gown and in Imagination she would be the belle of some ball, the admiration of all eyes. But nobody ever Invited Cinderella to a ball; first, because she was only a sort of companion and never met anybody; secondly, because it was understood that after Beatrice's marriage she was to go out into the world and work for her living. inH that rtafo toward Xl'hlfth Cinder ella looked forward with rapturous anticipation, was likely to be long delayed, if one could believe in signs. Lester Martin had been a frequent caller at Mrs. Lanham's house of recent weeks. Martin was the son of old Roger Martin, the banker, bat he was more than that, although It counted for less with Mrs. Lanham-r-count ^ ed for nothing at all, In fact. He was the most famous architect in Ameri ca and was the man who had designee the new frieze for the state capitol He was always very kind to Elizabeth and because he was the only persot who ever noticed her she longed foi a sight of him. And one day something very surprising happened. Lester was calling at the Lanhan home, and Beatrice, having heard th? news from her maid, was hurrying in to her reception gown. Clnderellf was all alone. She was just going up stairs?for Mrs. Lanham did not like | her to receive her guests?when sh( met Lester at the door. "Why don't I ever see anything 01 you, Miss Benton?" he asked, detain ing her. Elizabeth did not know what to say so she said nothing. "Vnn dour iittla Cinderella." Bai<! ' Lester Martin, and bent down ant! kissed her. ' How she got out of the room Eliza beth did not know, but she was lc her room at last, and sobbing as though her heart would break. She cried wildly for hours, until Beatrice came In and found her there. Beatrice was too much excited to notice Elizabeth's red eyes. She begat chattering about Lester. "Mamma thinks that he is in love with me," she said. "She says he wouldn't come here so much If he wasn't And it will be such a fine match for me, for his father is wortt a cool ten millions, and I shall have carriages and autos and go to Paris each year and?" "Do you love him, Beatrice?" In quired Elizabeth. "I don't know. I guess I could,' said Beatrice, whirling about. "Mam ma says you needn't come down to night because we are having guests.' She came back presently. "Do yoi know old Roger Lester is giving ? fancy dress ball next month?" sh< asked. "Yes, the invitations hav< just come. And, oh, I forgot to saj that there is one for you. Mamma has written accepting for me and declin lng for you." When 6he was gone the girl gav< way to an access of unrestrained grief For the first time rebellious thoughts came into her mind. Lester loved her 1?1csa whw Ko/1 ho bicooH Hor.9 Vd mar AU1DV7 ?U/ UUU UV UiUUUU UV? * ' w UJMX ever kissed her before. To kiss meant In her simple view, to plight one's troth for ever. Or had he been play lng with her? It was obvious that he marry Beatrice; but then he must have had a passing affection foi her. Suddenly an amazing plan tool root within her. She would go to the ball. She had never been to a ball but why should she not go once? II was to be a fancy dress and nobodj would recognize her, masked and dis gulsed. There was Beatrice's dress but that had been altered and Beatrice had had so many dresses that she would never remember that one. An<! there were Beatrice's slippers. She trod on air during the next foui weeks. She went so happily about hei duties that more than once she caughi sight of Mrs. Lanham surveying hei with amawwi dlsnnnrnvftl. At last the night of the ball arrived. "You need not sit up for us," sale Mrs. Lanham condescendingly. "Wt shall probably not be back until late and you must be up early in the morn ing to accompany the parlor maid tc the station to put her on the train Poor Mary could never find her way about the streets alone." Mary, the parlor maid, was goln? home to pay a visit to her sick mother But Elizabeth did not care, for hei heart was beating wildly from sheei ecstacy. When the auto rolled awaj she hurried upstairs and slipped lntc the ball dress and slippers. Then with her head and shoulders shrouded in her wrap she went into the street and entered a street car. Nobody stopped her at the door Masked, among a hundred othei masked women, her presence excited no comment She recognized Beatrice in her creation of filmy white, and hei aunt, seated among the chaperons and watching her daughter with an expression of admiration in her eyes. But nobody dreamed that Cinderella was there. It was ten o'clock. Two houre ?and then she must go home as silently as she had left. The music intoxicated her. Eliza beth could dance divinely. The little drudge was in heaven as one partnei after another took her upon his arm and swung her out among the dancing couples. But when she saw Lester ap proach and gravely ask her, her head swam and her eyes filled with sudden tears. a nail wo go mio ine conserva* tory?" he asked, when the music stopped. He offered her his arm. A1 the door of the ballroom they passed Beatrice and her mother. Their eyee rested on her, and with a sudden ten ror Elizabeth peroelved that she was recognized. Mrs. Lanham rose to her feet with an exclamation vof anger, and, over coming; herself with an effort, scowled at her. Elizabeth trembtod with fear. She had not calculated upon the after math. "What Is the matter?" Lester asked, as they sat down. "You are not feeling well? May I get you a glass of water?" She shook her head. Lester placed his hand upon hers. "Do you think I do not know who you are, Cinderella?" he asked, "for | all that mask? See if I can guess. You are Miss Benton and you ran away to the dance because Gorgon would not let you go." "And I can never go home," said Elizabeth In panic. "She recognized me. I had never been to a ball before and I could not bear not to Just once. I don't know what I shall do." "HI tell you," said Lester. "You need never go home again if you will marry me." He mistook the look In her eyes. ' "O. Cinderella," he cried, stretching . out his arms longingly, "I love you . with all my soul. It was you I went to see, not Miss Lanham. I know all about your circumstances and your unhappy life. But, Cinderella, I want you for my own, and I know a clergyman over In Jersey who doesn't go to bed till twelve, and if we take a taxi?nh wa nan tiiot mnlro It Will vmi come with me, Cinderella, dear?" "Yes," sighed Cinderella happily, 1 and that was the second time he kissed her. ' .'HART OF ILLIMITABLE V0I0 > Remarkable Five-Acre Sectional Map of the Sky at Harvard University. This seems to be an age of great ilngs. To talk of billions no longer iccaslons a shiver of incredulous adniration. One of the wonders at Har rard university today is a five-acre " lectlonal map of Just plain sky and :onstellations. At the expense of i nore than a million dollars Harvard i uilversity has provided the chart J vhlch distinctly shows 1,500,000 stars, i his hnving been prepared in sections f >y the Harvard university astron} >mers. The sections of the map, - placed together, would cover an area >f more than five acres, which is a > pretty extensive plan of charting the . 'Illimitable void." i In a scholarly annual report the di. 'ector of the observatory calls atteni don to the fact that during the past , rear 3,796 photographs of stars were v Tiade by the observatory. For more . :han 66 years the Harvard observaj :ory has kept complete records of aaj ironomlcal developments. By reason it thirty years' work and an expendli :ure of a million dollars, this observas ;ory is placed ahead of all other siml, lar institutions. t In the study of the stars at the Harr rard observatory there is something . more than me-e love of knowledge or 11 Lender sentiment Even the slow> | paced walk of lovers under the arch> Ing Cambridge elms has no more of 1 witchery and romance about It than Lhe wonders of scientific research . stored away In the college observa. Lory, which with Its various stations I has already become the shrine of mod. srn astronomers.?"Affairs and Folks," j Joe Mitchell Chappie, In Joe Chappie's News-Letter. I j Klngsley Once Woman Suffragist , An early supporter of the woman . suffragist movement was Charles ? Klngsley, who,-with John Stuart Mill, . in 1869, attended the first woman's sufr frage meeting held in London. The following year, however, Klngsley f withdrew from the movement In the course of a letter written to Mill, . who asked his reasons, Klngsley . wrote: "I am pained, in a very large , acquaintance of all ranks, to find the , better, rather than the worst, women against us; while foolish women of no | sound or coherent opinions . . . ; are inclined to patronize us in a most noisy and demonstrative way." One thing Klngsley believed in was the ! medical education of women. "I beI lieve that if once women can be allowed to practice as freely as men, the 1 whole question as to the relation of [ the sexes wi'1 v clear." A MARTYR FOR OTHERS. 1 "Plodder is looking pale; he's just 1 killing himself with hard work." "AVhaf s he engaged at ?" , "Inventing a labor-saving - mv chine."?Puck. l UNAVAILABLE. 1 "Of course you looked up the new 1 girl's references?" "How could I, dear? They were i from a lot of women I don't know." 1 Byron's Freak Manner of Living. i While Byron was In Ravenna, Italy, - he adopted strange habits. It was his i custom to rise at two In the afternoon, breakfast and ride, and dine at six. i Then he would sit and talk nntll fire or six In the morning. Or, If no company were there, he wonld write a bit of "Don Juan." But hlB life was , like that of Aubrey Beardsley?up Ida down?the day was_the night Wonderful in Tc Darlington man breaks yield of tobacco ceives $6,4? at a co& Darlington, Sept. 1.".?The wonderfully productive qualities of the lands near and surrounding the town of Darlington are becoming better known daily. Every day witnesses huge wagons driving down the streets, heavily laden with old corn, left over from last year's crop, for sale at 90c. nof tmcVial hv mir t'armprs Whv arp they selling? Because they have much more than they need, and not sufficient room to store tjie incoming new crop. To take a look at our farmers' corn fields just now you can see the most stupendous crop ever raised in the history of our county. Planted G to 18 inches apart, the stalks are heavily loaded with from 1 to 8 ears that hang downward like great billets laden with lead. Some will wonder if the river Nile had not at some time poured its rich waters across this vast territory. Besides this rich forest of corn, stretching out before us on every hand, is the great est acreage of long staple cotton of the Keenan and Webber varieties ever planted before. There is now every promise that with upward trend in cotton prices that from 75 to 100 dollars per bale will be realized by our fanners off this particular kind. A bale per acre can and is being raised easily by many of Darlington's farmers. The acreage is, by single individuals, immense in this county, ranging from 1,500 to 8,000 acres. Nor is the story half told of the wonderful productions of our lands. Notwithstanding the many record-breaking yields in tobacco this year, here comes Henry Privett, one of the pioneer raisers of the weed for 18 successive years, and snatches away the championship from all others yet HOW DUTCH FARMERS LIVE Cattle Invariably Are Houaed Under the Same Roof as the Family. The typical Dutch fa-mhouse If square, one-storied, with a pyramidshaped roof. The space between the I apex of the roof and the celling of the dwelling part Is generally used as a ! storehouse for winter food for the cat* tie. The living room door opens Into the stable, for the cattle are lnvarl| ably houses under the same roof aa j the family. The homes vary little la their furnishings. One always sees blight strips of carpet, a highly pol' (shed "center table," where the family 'Bible la displayed, and a glato dress| er, with its shelves filled with rare old , brass and Delft ware. The most curlona thing about the bouses la the leeplng quarters?unique and certainly unhealthy from the modern viewpoint, which requires plenty of fresh air In the bedrooms. The cheesemaker's family sleeps In beds built In cupboard-like recesses In the wall and as far from the window as possible. There Is a door similar to that of a cupboard, and this Is kept clpsed during the day, In order that the bed may be hidden from view. The tufTy condition of this walled-ln bedroom can be readily imagined. The linen Is always snowy white, and the whole make-up presents an attractive appearance, even to the decorated i strap suspended from the celling and used to assist the occupant of the couch to arise. The visitor Is always welcome at the cheese farms, but the visit must be made early In the morning If the cheese making la to be seen. ?Leaile's. Way to Rest Lying flat on the floor Is a good ??? --l-*- K??+ o Sorf? way uj real auu i ciax, uu<. a u.u.. ... ter way is to lie flat on the floor with legs up to the knees resting on a chair. This changes the entire circulation and is the very Quickest way to rest. To rest the eyes and make them bright, while lying down have them bandaged with a soft black silk handkerchief. The Chronicle is only $1 per year. Profit \ >bacco Crop a record in twenty-acre for which he re17,00 planted of $800 hoard from. Mr. Privett has just sold his crop from 20 acres or land planted in tobacco for the snug sum of $6,487.00 in cash, leaving him 700 pounds of tobacco yet to be sold. Think of a man investing $800 dollars in farming tobacco and realizing therefrom a net cash profit of $5,687 on one crop. Bank stocks, oil stocks and all other stocks pale away in utter insignificance before this wonderful yield of Darlington lands. Mr. Privett a few years ago bought this land of 500 acres for $5,000 and made more on 20 acres in one year. than the entire property cost. Besides this monstrous yield and gold mine like profit, Privett is offered today $50,000 more in cash than he paid for his plantation. But doesn't this portray a true picture of the Darlington lands. We defy any one to excell it. We challenge any one in a like comparison, from anywhere, yet it must be remembered that Privett is a worker. Some will say this is especially prepared land; not so. We will go 15 miles west of Privett's land and find James Howie, who bought 221 acres of thrown away lands for $231, one dollar per acre, a few years back. This year he planted six acres of this land in tobacco. He spent $200 in cultivating the crop and sold the entire yield for $1,519.65, leaving a net profit of $1,519.65. Go where you will, st? all that is to be seen, look far beyond the .distant, hills,, where you are told fame and fortune awaits you, but if you have ever rested your eyes upon the rich, fertile fields of Darlington you will stop in your wanderings, turn back and retrace your steps, Darlington, homeward bound, for it will satisfy a longing that nothing else will do. TO BUY COAST LINK Persistent Reports That Deal is on With Pennsylvania. The Augusta Chronicle publishes the following from Atlanta: It is rumored in Atlanta that the Pennsylvania Railroad soon will take over the entire properties embraced in the Louisville & Nashville and Atlantic Coast Line Railroads and their tributaries. It has caused widesperead interest and the fact that the information appears to be coming almost first-hand now, there seems little doubt but that .the deal will be consumated shortly. Although the report has not been confirmed, road officials here freely admitted hearing of the rumor, and that the possibility was far from being remote. Officials high in the railroad v^c^ld wfiO .recently have . been in Atlanta are taking the matter in a most serious light and are firm in their belief that he report is not a wild rumor. It is known that the Pennsylvania, for some time in an effort to secure a foothold in the South and has finally reached the conclusion that the Louisville & Nashville and Atlantic Coast Line are the properties best suited to its interests and plans for future development in this section of the country. What the ultimate result will mean to the South is purely a matter of speculation, but that it will prove to be the means of development of the railroads in this section is an acknowledged fact by all who have a part in the business. WITe'S Ames as an urnmnDni. An ingenious method of disposing of the ashes of a cremated body has to be recorded. After a woman had been cremated tbe husband took the ashes to a chemist for the purpose of ex* tracttng tbe troo, which he is now wearing set In his ring, as one would wear a diamond.