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% ?ed? bdll m> louis jos AUTHOR. OP "THE BRA OQJLfl^lJatfOTKDEK? by C COf>YF>/CHT OY LOU/A UO?Lf?i VAJYC* a 8YNOP8IS. Darld Arnbcr, starting: for a duck-shoo viau wun nis friend. Qualn, cornea u| n a young lady euueetrlan who haz bet demounted by her noreo becoming frlgh nod at the sudden appearance In the roe '' ft burly Hindu. He declares he 3?har1 IaI Chatterjl, "the appoint* mouthpiece of Tho Bell, addresses Amb< is a man of high rank and pressing mysterious little bronze box. "The Ti Ken." Into his hand, disappears In tl wood. Tho girl calls Amber by nam CHAPTER II. (Continued). "You will have It that I must su render my only advantage?my 1 cognlto. If I tell you liow I happen I know who you aro, I must tell yc who I am. Immediately you will lot Interest In mo, bocauao I'm really n< at all advanced; I doubt If 1 shoul understand your book If I had to res It." "Which heaven forfend! But why ho insisted mercilessly, "do you wis me to be interested In you?" She flushed becomingly at this nr acknowledged the touch with a ruefs smiling glance. Hut, "Because I'l Interested In you," she admitted opei ly. "And . . . why?" "Are you hardened to such ndvei tures?" She nodded In tho directio the babu had taken. "Are you a customed to being treated with e: traordlnary respect by stray Bengali and accepting tokens from them? I romance commonplace to you?" "Oh," he said, disappointed, "If It only tho adventure?! Of cours that's easly enough explained. Th half-witted mammoth?don't ask ir how he came to bo hero?thought 1 recognized In me some one he ha known In India. I>?t's have a look ! this token-thing." He disclosed tin; hrnnr-o box and li her take It In her pretty fingers. "It must have a secret spring," si concluded, after a careful inspectio "I think so, hut . . She shook it. holding It by her on "There's something Inside?It ratth ever so slightly. 1 wonder!" "No more th I." "And what are you going to dc wll it?" She returned it reluctantly. "Why, there's nothing to do hi keep it till the owner turns up, that can see." "You won't break it open?" "Not until curiosity overpowe me and I've exhausted every urtlflc trying to find the catch." "Are you a patient person, Mr. Ai ber?" "Not extraordinarily so, Miss Fo roll." "Oh. how did you guess?" "By remembering not to be stupl You are Miss Sophia Farrell, daught of Colonel Farrell of the British di lomatic service In India." I chuckled cheerfully over his triumi of deductive reasoning "You are vl iting the Quains for a few days, whi en route for India with some friem whoso name I'ye forgotten?" "The Rolands," she prompted 1 voluntarily. "Thank you. . . . The Roland who are stopping In New York. You'' lived several years with your fathi In India, went hack to London 'come out' and are returning, havli been presented at the court of 5 James. Your mother was an Ante] can girl, a schoolmate of Mi Quain's. I'm Rfraid that's the who sum of my knowledge of you." "You've turned the tables fnlrl Mr. Amber," she admitted. "Ai Mr Quain wrote you all that?" "I'm afraid he told me almost i much about you as he told you abo me; we're old friends, you know. At now I come to think of It. Qua has one of the few photographs of n extant. So my chain of reasoning complete. And I think we'd betti hurry on to Tanglewood." "Indeed, yes. Mrs. Qunln will 1 wild with worry If that animal fine his way back to the stable w lthci me; Tve been very thoughtless." "How much longer shall you stf at Tanglewood. Miss Farrell?" "Unhappily," she sighed. "I mu leave on the early train tomorrow, i Join the Rolands In New York." "You don't want to go?" "I'm half an American. Mr Ambo I've learned to love the country fi ready. Resides, we start immediate for San FYanclsco, nnd it'll be sue a little while before I'll bo In India." "You don't care for India?" "I've known It lor less thnn s years, but already I've come to ha it as thoroughly no any exiled F.nglis woman there. It sits there like great, insatiable monster, devour!! English lives. Indirectly It was r sponsible for my mother's death; si never recovered from the Illness si contracted when my father was st tioned In the Pocenn. In the couri of time It will kill my father, Just i It did his father and bis elder brothr It's a cruel, hateful, ungrateful lni ?not without the price we pny for It "J know how you feel," he said wi sympathy. "It's been a good mat years since I visited Indln. and course 1 then saw and heard little tho darker side. Your people a brave enough, out there." "They are. I don't know abont go eminent; but Its servants are loy unci devoted and unsi lf! h ami choc Big Dumam Modem Life Requires That It Sha f-urnish Opportunities for the Fullest Individualism. Opportunities for xhe fullest lr< vlduallsm Is the demand which rtu cm life mnlics upon education. T1 school should ho an experiment m tlon replete with alluring lneentlv to intellect iinl growth. Hero, nld< by tho helpful sympathy of teache I eph^CD J 88 BOWb" &TC. D JJ ussf wAinriiffi? ^ ful. And I don't at all understand, she added In confusion, "why 1 shoul< have decided to Inflict upon you m: emotional hatred of the country. You in question gave me the opening, an 1 forgot myself." is "I assure you I waa thoroughl '<! shocked. Miss Farrell." 9r "Will you tell me something?" o- "If I can." "About the man who wouldn't ac knowledge knowing you? You remein bor saying three people had been tills taken about your Identity this after r* noon." n" "No, only one?the babu. You'ri -? not mistaken?" "I knew you must be David Ambe: the moment I heard you speakini 3t Urdu." 'd "^"<1 the man at tho station wasn' l< mistaken?unless I am. He knew in< ? perfectly, I believe, but f'/r reason ' of his own refused to recognize me.' 'h ,,v Yes?? [(j "He was an English servant name* I Doggott, who Is?or once was?a vale |n In the service of an old friend, i man named Hutton." She repeated the name: "Rutton It seems to me I've heard of him." a. "You have?" n "I don't remember," she confessed c- knitting her level brows. "The nam x- has a fnmillar ring, somehow. Du Is about the valet?" [a "Well, 1 was very Intimate with hi employer for a long time, though w< 3 haven't met for several years. Rut o, I ton was a strange creature, a man o jg : extraordinary genius, who lived i ,e friendless, solitary life?at least, s> ,?> | far as I knew; I once lived with hit; Hi In n little place he had In Paris fo three months and In all that tltne h never received a letter or a caller. H pt was reticent about himself, and never asked any questions, of coursf ie but in spite of the fact that he spok n English like an Englishman and was public school man. apparently, I a r ways believed he bad a strain of Hur ?g garian blood In him?or else Itnlla or Spanish. I know that sounds pre! ! ty broad, but he was enigmatic?a rlc | die 1 never managed to make muc | of. Aside from that he was wondei llt ful: a linguist, speaking a doze I ! European languages and more eas i ern tongues and dialects, I bellevt , than any other living man. We me rg by accident In Berlin and were draw e ' together by our common Interest 1 I orientalism. Later, hearing I was I n Paris, he hunted me up and Insiste i that I stay with him there while fli i Ishlng my big book?the one whos 1 title you know. Ills assistance t | me then was Invaluable. After tha , I lost track of him." d. I L,r "And the valet?" p. "Oh, I'd forgotten Doggott. He wa le a cockney, as silent and self-containe >h as Button. . . . To get back t Is- Nokomls: 1 met Doggott at the sti )e j tlon, called htm by name, and he r< js i fused to admit knowing me?said must have mistaken him for his twl n. | brother. 1 could tell by his eyes tha I he lied, and it made me wonder. It' |s> 1 quite Impossible that Rutton shoul lo be in this neck of the woods- ht, wn er i a man who preferred to live a herm to in centers of civilization. . . . Ci lg rious!" >t. "I don't wonder you think so. Pe ri- haps the man had been up to som s. mischief. . . . Put," said the gi le with a note of regret, "we're almo: | homo!" y, j They had come to the seawar id verge of the woodland, where til trees and scrub rose like a wild hedg is row on one side of a broad, wel ut metalled highway, id ' To the right, on the other side < in ! the road, a rustic fence enclosed th le ' trim, well-groomed plantations t 's Tanglewood Ixidge; through the dea sr limbs a window of the houso winke in the sunset glow like an eye of ga le 1 net. And ns the two appeared a ma is came running up the road, shouting, ut "That's Qualn!" cried Amber: an sent a long cry of greeting towar ly ! him. "Wait!" said the girl impulsive]; st putting out a detaining hand. "Let' to keep our secret," she begged, her eye dancing?"Just for the fun of it!" "Our secret!" r. "About the bnbu and the Token; it' il- a bit of mystery and romance to mely and we don't often find that in on ?h lives, do we? Let us keep it personi for a while?between ourselves; an you will promise to let mo know anything unusual ever comes of i tP after I've gone. We can say that h- was riding carelessly, which is quit a true, and that the horse shied nn lg threw me, which again Is true; hi; e ttie rest for ourselves only. . . ie : Please. . . . What do you say?" ie lie was infected by her spirit of 1: n- resnonsibile mischief "Whv voa_ - '~~ se I sav yes," Ik- replied; and then, mor gravely: "1 think it'll be very pleai r. ant to share a secret with you. Mia id 1 Farrell. 1 shan't say a word to an .." one, until I have to." th ly As events turned he had no nee of to mention the incident until th< of | morning of the seventh day followin re j the girl's departure, in the interli I nothing happened and he was able t v- ! enjoy some excellent shooting wit nl Quain, his thoughts undisturbed b r | any further appearance of the babtt. i on Education who have discovered the different Ih tweon schooling and education, chl Iren could try their powers, and mi ments of enthusiasm bo utilized ft 11 rental growth in various lines. Met id- t;<l tendencies, like animal instinct he mtw he coaxed out by stlmulatin a- sit' t i ns. and the present school et es viro.r. tit is too barren to offer th ed need, >'citation. Hoys aro contlnt rs ally trying to understand themselve; Hut on the seventh morning it became evident thut a burglary had been visited upon the home of his Hosts. A window bad been forced in the rear of the house and a trail of burnt matches and candle-grease between that entrance and the door of Amber's room, together with the somewhat curious circumstance that nothing whatever was missing from the personal effects of the Qualns, forced him to make an exolanation. For hla own belongings had been rifled and the bronze box alone abstracted?still preserving its secret. In Its place Amber found a soiled slip of note paper inscribed with the ^ round, unformed handwriting of the y babu: "Pardon, sahib. A mistake has r been made. I seek but to regain that j which is not youra to possess. There will be naught else taken. A thotiy sand excuses from your vhmbl. obt. svt., liehurl Lai Chatterji.'" CHAPTER III. i- Marooned. i- A cry In the windy dusk; a sudden. >. hollow booming overhead; a vision of countless wings in panic, sketched in a black upo.k a background of dulled 'sll- e~; two heavy detonations and, r with the least of Intervals, a third; 5 I 'hree vivid flashes of crimson and i gold stabbing the purple twilight; and t then the acrid reek of smokeless u drifting into Amber's face, while from B the sky, where the V-shaped flock had " been, two stricken bundles of bloodstained feathers Tell slowly, fluttering, j ; Shotgun poised abreast, his keen . eyes marking down the fall of his prey, Amber stood without moving, dxultation battling with a vngue re, ! uw rse In his bosom?as always when ' I he killed. Quain, who had dropped back a pace after firing but one shot and scoring an unqualified miss at ' close range, now stood plucking clume sily, with half frozen fingers, at an 4 obstinate breechlock. "Just my beastly luck!" he growled. 8 "It wouldn't 've been mo If?! How e many 'd you pot, Davy?"' "Only two," said Amber, lowering ' his weapon, extracting the spent 8 shells, and reloading. 0 "Only two!" The information roused 11 in Quain a demon of sarcasm. "Only i (hsC i -- ' 'n% i {\S)s : \ IA ?j ^jJ , /??& ' ?*S? >1,1. /, VV5wv_ 5 ro rl it >| * pl They Had Come to the S< 0 two! How many 'd you expect to I UIV|I, uu il allill'-anul J1IV*.- IU?V. tj ; "Two," returned Amber so patiently a that Quain requested him, explosively. r. ; to go to the devil. "If you don't mind," n | he said, "I'll go after my ducks In' stead. You'll follow? They're over a ! there, on our way." d Fifty yards or so away he found the | ducks, side by side In a little hollow. f, j "Fine fat birds," he adjudged them s sagely. is Satisfaction glimmering In his grave dark eyes, he lingered in the hollow, while the frosty air, whipping n madly through the sand hills, stung - | his face till It glowed beneath the ir brown. Hut presently, like the ghost il of a forgotten kiss, something moist d ; and chill touched gently his cheek, If and was gone. Startled, he glanced t, skyward, then extended an arm, I watching it curiously while the rough ? fabric of his sleeve was salted gend erously with fine white flakes. Though it to some extent apprehended (they had been blind indeed to have Ignored the menace of the dour day just then r- dying) snow had figured In their cal? culations as little as the scarcity of e game. Amber wondered dimly if it a- would work a change in their plans, s prove an obstacle to their safe rey turn across the bay. The flurry thickening in the air. a shade of anxiety colored his mood. (1 "Thls'll never do!" he declared, and e set himself to ascend n nearby dune K Hehlnd him a meager strip of sand u hehl back a grim and angry sea; boo I fore him lay an eighth of a mile of h sand-locked desolation, and then the y weltering hay?a wide two miles of i leaping, shouting waves, slate-colored to find the occupation that their nature vaguely craves, but the pedagogical ropo always pulls them back to >o i the curriculum. Then their enthu1 | siasm cool... while the teachers go on t>- tryl:ig to strike an intellectual spark >r with the mental (emperaturo at zero, a- This Is not only an extravagant waste s. 1 of educational forces, but, what Is far g more serious, It awakens hatred of a* study in those whose mental organl? zation does not suit the school plan. Tho restraint of a system suited to s. the average child inhibits tho powers j | I \ j but white of crests. Beyond, se< dimly as a wall through driving shoe of snow, were the darkly wood* rises of the mainland. Dut, in the gloom, their little ct boat lay occult to his searching gai Qualn's voice recalling blm, he tur ed to discover his. host stumblli through a neighboring vale, and obe ing a peremptory wave of the ?ld> man's hand, descended, accompanh by an avalanche In miniature. "Uetter hurry," shouted Amber, t soon as he could make himself heai above the screaming of the gal "Wind's freshening; It looks 111 mean weather." "Really?" Quain fell Into step his side. "You 'stonlsh me. But tl good Lord knows I'm wlllln'. Whei a bout's the boat?" "Blessed If I know: over yond somewhere," Amber told bin, wavh toward the bay-shore arm i vaguely helpful as his information. "Thank you so much. Guess I ci find her all right, liurnp yo'se Davy " They plodded on heavily, makii fnlr progress in spite of the hinderii ' sand. A little later they came to the w ter's edge and proceeded steadi along it, Quaiu leading confldentl Eventually he tripped over some o staele, stumbled and lurched forwai and recovered his balance with i effort, then remained with bow< head, staring down at his feet. "Hurt yourself, old man?" "No!" snapped Qualu rudely. "Then what in?" "Eh?" Quuin roused, but an I stant longer looked him blankly the eye. "Oh," ho added brightly "oh, she's gone." "The boat??" "The boat," affirmed Quain, too d couraged for the obvious retort u gracious. He stooped and caught 1 a frayed end of rope, exhibiting it witness to his statement. "Ain't hell?" he Inquired plaintively. He cast the rope from him In d daln and wheeled to stare baywarc "There!" he cried, leveling on ar to indicate u dark and fleeting shade upon the storm-whipped water. "The i she goes?not 300 feet off. It can't ^ B8 taward Verge of the Woodland. I five iulnutes sine*' she worked loos ; It's the devil's own luck!" A biur of snow swept between be and shore; when it had jmssed t former was all but indistingulshab i From a full heart Qualn blasphem fluently. . . . "Hut If she holds ' she stands," ho amended quickly, 1 inuonunuaDh' spirit fostering the ft lorn hope, she'll go aground In anoi er five minutes?and I know Jt where. I'll go after her." "The deuce you will! How?" "There's an old sklmmy up t shore a ways." Already Quain w moving off In search of It. "Notlc her this morning. Daresay she lea like a sieve, but at worst the wate pretty shoal inshore, hereabout.'" "Damn"' Qlaln brought up she | with a shin barked against a thwi of the row boat he had been seekit ; and In recognition of the mishap 1 orally insulted his luck. Amber, knowing that his hv was as inconsiderable as his 111-te per. which was more than luilf-felgn to mask his anxiety, laughed quiet meanwhile inspecting their ilnd wl ! a critical eye. "You don't seriously mean to put 1 I11 this crazy hen-coop, do you?" asked. "Just precisely that. It's the 01 I way." It is simple madness. I won't?" "You don't want to stay here ; night, do you?" I "No. but?" ' Well, then, lend us a hand a don't stand there grumbling, thankful for what you've got, which ine and my enterprise." "Oh, all right." of unusual children and awakens nentmont. Unformity In treatmc and Instruction suppresses the t< dency to vary and creates dullards Edgar .Tamos Swllft, In Harpo Magazine. His Pass In Halves. Tit David Umlauf, the smnlU hotel pace In St. Ixmls, Is the poss sor o lie only half ticket pass e\ Issued tor a grand opera porfor ance In St. T.ouls. The pass was m | ten by Carolina White, who sang t t ?a Together they put their shwuldertf ts to the bows of the old, flat-bottomed ad rowboat, with incredible exertions uprooting it from its ancient bed, and at it- length had it afloat ;e. Panting, Qualn mopped his forehead with a handkerchief much the worse for a day e association with gun j. grease, and peered beneath his hand er into the mur* that veiled the bay. 3<1 "There shd is," he declared confidently: "ag,*ound." He pointed. "I'll u fetch up with her In no time." ^ But Amb?jr could see nothing In the 4 least resembling the catboat, and said te so with decision. "I'm ooming, too," Amber said . quietly. . "The 1?11 you are! IXyou want to ^ sink us*" What do you think this is, anyway?an excursion steamer? You stay W^ere you are and?1 say?take ** care <C this till I come back, like a good >/411ow." M H?. thrust the butt of his shotgun into 4mber's face, and the latter, seising it, was rewarded by a vlgor' ous push that sent him back half a dozen feet. At the e&me time the | painter sliDDed from hi? ???" ? 1K Quain, lodging an end of the ell-pot stake on the hard sand bottom, put ^ his weight upon It. Before Amber _ could recover, the boat had slid off and was melting swiftly iuto the shad^ ows. After a bit Quain's voice came back: "Don't fret, Davy. I'm all right." Amber cupped hands to mouth und sent a cheerful hail ringing in response. Simultaneously the last, least, indefinite blur that stood for the boat in the darkness, vanished in a n- swirl of snow; and he was alone with in the storm and his misgivings. ? Twenty minutes wore wearily away. Falling ever more densely, the snow drew an impenetrable wan curtain be18 tween Amber and the world of life in- und light and warmth; while with up each disconrdant blast the strength m of the gale seemed to wax, its h^h it hysteric clamor at times drowning even the incessant deep bellow of the ;s. ocean surf. Once Amber paused in his 18 patrol, having heard, or fancying he m had heard, the staccato plut-plut-plut ,w of a marine motor. On Impulse, with re a swelling heart, he swung his gun be skywards and pulled both triggers. The double report rang in his ears lcud as a thunderclap. (In the moments that followed, while he fltood listening, with every fiber of his being keyed to attention, the f scrse of his utter Isolation chilled his (1 heart as with cold steel. A A little frantically he loaded and ' fired again; but what at first might have been thought the faint far echo 5 of a ha.l he in the end set down reluctantly vo a trick of the hag-ridden wind. An hour passed, punctuated at frequent intervals by gunshots. Though they evoked no answer of any sort, hope for Quain died hard in Amber's heart. Resolutely he turned to a consideration of his own plight and problematic way of escape. His understanding of his situation was painfully accurate; he was marooned upon what a flood tide made a desert island but which at the ebb was a peninsula?a long and narrow strip of sand, bounded on the west by the broad shallow channel to the ocean, on the east connected with the mainland by a sandbar which half the day lay submerged. (TO BK CONTINUED.) QUEENS BOROUGH TIN HORSES | How Nightmares, Hobbles and Ponlea of Beer Were Put on the City's Pay Roll. "What's all this taik I hear about tin horses In Queens borough?'* "I'm surprised at your Ignorance. Tin horses are a mere term used to designate equlnes which never exist cd, part of a graft game." "Explain some more, please." "Well, It was like this. If a fellow with a pull wanted some extra money he would have a couple of nightmares, report to the powers that be that ha R had a team, and they would be hired, ? at so much a day, for city work." "Did all of the grafters have to have mares?" ae. "O, no; one of the gang had his wife's two clothes horses, drawing full iat P?>"" he "He waa a genius." le. "Yes, another man had a hobby e<j about not wanting to work, his son ag had a hobby horse, and so he doubled them up and sent In bills for a team. or. at least, so I hear." th- "That's Interesting." ist "Yes, rather. There was a rumot going around the other day that a man who owned a pair of ponies ol he beer also figured In the game." as "I suppose If one of the gang's wlfa 0(j and daughters owned pony skin coati they could have got on the pay rol! rs* "Sure thing; It was a pony skit )rt game, all the way through." ir^ "And all that these fake horses evei lg drew was pay?" "That's true, although they have sel tongues a-wagging."?Hrooklyn Tlmea lrt ; The Siamese Cat. m" ; Siamese cats, with their curlnuj ei* markings and loud, discordant voices, I arc favorite pets. ll^ In mnny respects these animals ol Siamese breed are unique among fel off ines. They follow their owners like he dogs; they are exceedingly affection ate and insist upon attention, and they mew loud'.y and constantly, as II trying to talk. They have more vivae ity and l?ss dignity than usually falls a-H to the lot of cats. In color they vary from pale fawn through shades of brown to chocolate, nd There are two varieties, the temple He cats and the palace cats, the princi Is j pal difference between the two being I that the palace breed Is darker li I color. r?o principal part in "The Girl of the Gol int don West." Miss White wro*. j on ai ?n- ordinary card: "Good for one hal ? ticket for my ninseot. Sir David ,l>m r's lanf, any performance. ? CarolinJ White." I'mlauf was so delighted with th? half ticket that he Immediately found Jst Andreas Dlppel, general manager of es- the opera company, and was mado er gladder still when Dippel wrote on m- the other side "Good for another half, it- any performance.?A. IMppel."?St he Louis Globe-Democrat. FROM THE PALMETTO STATE Lateet General Newa That Has Been Collected From Many Towns and Counties of the State. < Bamberg.?The large cotton ginnery of Decani* Dowling, about four miles from Bamberg, was destroyed by Are. His total loss was about $2,000. I Charleston.?In the United States district court proceedings ot a voluu- ? tary character were begun to bar* F. W. Eldridge of Rock Hill adjudged (MLiiKrupi. i ne uium vruwnp T*n taken. Lexington.?One of the hardest rains of the season fell in Lexington a few days ago and was uccompanied by terrific thunder and vivid lightening. Many .of the telephone lines l were put out of commission. < Lancaster.?Petit jurors for the ( first week of the fall term of the cir- ] cult court, which convenes October 9, Judge Watts presiding, were j drawn. The criminal docket is un- j usually heavy, there being a dozen or { more homicide cases pending. j Oaffney.?It is the general opinion l i? this city that Judge Thomas S. t Sease will n?? *>e a candidate for the 1 fifth place on the supreme bench t created by the last legislature. His e friends here, however, are urging him I to offer for the unexpired term. ? Chester.?One thousand eight hun- 0 drcd bales of cotton have been receiv- 1 ed and weighed at the public weighers * platform in this city from this year's crop to date. This is considerably 1 ahead of last year's receipts up to tiila ( time. Aiken.?Aiken will make a strong 1 bid for the army aeroplane fleet to lo- ' cate here this winter. It has been stated from Washington that the war department has decided to send the J fleet South this winter. Some time ago Aiken began to agitate the advls- ] ability of securing this aviation school and met with considerable encourage- ' ment. Columbia.?The governor has grant- ( ed a parole to Wess Williams, who was convicted in Newberry county in 1908 and sentenced to 10 yearf in the . penitentiary on the charge of man- , slaughter. Since assuming ofllce the governor has extended clemency . in 233 cases as follows: Paroles. 124, ; pardons 109. l Columbia.?That the road from Co- 1 | lumbia to Ilidgewood, the Monticello i road, may be paved with bithulitic and i made as good and durable as Main street, is a matter being freely discussed. Definite steps, however, have i no been taken, but it is thought that the plans will be carried out and the I work will commence in r short while. Columbia.?Secretary Hamby of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce went to Cheraw to confer with the mem- 1 bers of the chamber of commerce of that place relative to holding the National Corn show in Columbia in 1 1913. A conference will be held with i the corn club of Chesterfield county. He is working to raise $40,000 to assure the success of the exposition. Orangeb'jrg.?Robert Chestnut, who was convicted at the recent session of the court of general sessions for manslaughter and sentenced to serve IB , years in the state penitentiary, served , notice of appeal to the state supreme 1 court on Solicitor P. T. Hildebrand. 1 j through his attorneys, Raysor &. Summers. Wolfe & Berry and Adam H. ! Moss. Laurens.?Over a bale of seed cotton was picked on the place of Mr. W. ; F. Harris in one day by three young ( men recently. They picked for twelve hours and at the end of that time | Walter Malone weighed out 603 pounds, Andy Young 528 pounds and Farker Parks, colored, 526 pounds. , The cotton picked was a big boll variety and is called by Mr. Harris | "Fickers' Delight." , Charleston.?It is understood that i the revenue cutter Yamacraw will asi sist la this district in seeing to it that i motor boat owners regard the regulai [ tions set forth in the Act approved I I bv Conerpss .Tune 0 101 ft nrnvldim. for the proper equipment of lights, bells, fog horns and other signals. The district extends from Cape Romain to Ashepoo River. There are 72 documented boats in the district, according to the reports kept at the Custom House. The Act includes all boats propelled by machinery and up ' to sixty-five feet in length. ' Lexington.?William Kroker, a neJ gro, was found guilty of grand larj ceny in general sessions court, it be ing alleged that he entered one of the 1 houses of the Southern railway at I l'ellon and took several articles of i wearing apparel. He has not been 1 sentenced. Lancaster.?Ren Cassidy, a white man, wanted in llartsville on the charge of seduction, was arrested here by Constable Caskey and Policeman 1 Ferguson. Chief of Police Kirkpatrlck of llartsville. came after the man . Cassidy had been working in the mill here for about three weeks. Rlaekville. ? Fire destroyed the f freight depot here and with it about . 27f> bales of cotton and several box , cars. The citizens of Rlaekville re 8ponded to the nlarm and saved about [ 25 bales of cotton, but the rest went f up tn smoke with the other contents of the depot, i Florence.?Senator E. D. Smith was ; in the city for a short while. He is i attending pretty close to his farm Just now. He says that if the cotton men > of the South are content to sit down after six years of fighting and let the I speculators dictate the price of cotton 1 they deserve to be licked. Aiken.?The Holstein homicide case . is expected to come up for trial in generul sessions court which convenes in a few days. The case has created more interest than any that 1 has been tried in this county in many " years. 1 Columbia. ? Senntor Benjamin R. s Tillman's announcement that he was a > candidate to succeed himself was made public here refuting recent stories that he might refuse to run again because of falling health. Senator Tillman probably will be opposed by former Congressman W. J. Tal bort V f this city. jflEyL. TJL ' " '**% > 3H UHu^B^^DIvivlHA'lWflHlK I VlilVlflttnl I ' -9 Iff > g ? HM^^k, i xJ l^a^Ja jm.EluMH|^^H3^H|i|i^Hnn|^H^H^^H ? # COMPANY H or PLONKNeimBf^^'%W.-?v^ffiH BEEN CHARGED WITM MANY OPFINUE ** Br 4 T^3PQ ' * ' '^^88 .ieutenant Hornsby Wu OrdifM if H9H';r, RfMtv* Government Goods From : Captain Ayer?Executive Ordar Wit "W| Published For Information of All. -," * 1 Columbia.?The governor as com- ", mander-in-chief of the National Guard 1 uf South Carolina ordered the mil*- | tary company of Florence. CotApany 1 H, to disband. This action was taken following the M recommendations of tUeUnli.ed States irmy officer. It was charged by the irmy officer that the drill hall was lot adequate for idetraction; that IS ; Sfij-*. :>cr cent, of the men did not conform o array standards; that the p?e#sitf s not properly stored, the unifbrtut telng attacked by moths; that thd unlisted men are permitted to carry tome the property of the United Hates ;that the rifles are In a rusty md bad condition and that the regu* ' ar enlisted men do not attend the * >ncampmenteL The following order was issued rom the offices of the adjutant genThe following executive order la jubllshec! for the information and ;uidance of all concerned. "By virtue of the authority vested n me?as commander-in-chief?by lection 18. military code of South Carolina, I hereby direct that Company H, Second Regiment of Infantry, National Guard of South Carolina, be lisbanded. "ThiB action is taken after investigation into the administration of this company, and in pursuance of recommendations of the United States irmy officer who Inspected said company this year, In his report to the war department. Has Outlined Public Duty. Lexington.?The Lexington county ; grand jury completed Its work for Lhe September term of court and wa6 dismissed. The presentment is one of the most Interesting documents presented during the year. Referring to the roads pf the county the committee is severe in its criticisms of * conditions. The report says: "We regret to note that the condition of the public roads of the county Is sadly In need of repairs. The county rhaingang is engaged in this important public work and is doing valuable service upon the roads, but, with upwards of 1,300 miles of roads in the county?as we are Informed?It contd hardly be reasonable expected that this gang of 30 convicts would be equal to tne tasK or improving ana keeping repaired so great a mileage of public highways. Therefore some* thing should be done to keep theM roads in good condition." t J The National Banks' Condition. Columbia.?The abstract of the condition of the national banks of South Carolina at the close of business on September 1, as reported to the comptroller of the currency, shows the average reserve held at 15.11 per cent, as compared with 15.96 per cent, on June 7; loans and discounts increased from $23,343,121 to $25,180,344; gold coin decreased from $201,173 to $196,342; lawful money reserve decreased from $1,279,738 to $1,125,284, and individual deposits decreased from $18,722,264 to $17,437,412. South Carolina New Enterprises. Columbia.?The secretary of state has issued a charter to the Robinson Automobile company of Charleston, with a capital stock of $10,000. The officers are: J. T. Robnson, president and treasurer, and B. F. Robnson, vice president and secretary. A general automobile business will be conducted. A commission has been issued to the Hudson & Johnson company of Greenville, with a capital stock of $5,000. The petitioners are R. C. Hudson and D. L. Johnson. The company will deal in cottonseed products. Books To Be Used In Schools. Charleston.?Assistant Superintendent A. Burnet Rhett, of the Charleston public schools, issued the list of the books to be used in the white schools of the city during the coming session. The schools will be opened for the admission of new pupils 25th Inst. The list of books will be of general interest in Charleston and parents will be in position to furnish their children with the texts required so that the pupils will be ready to start work when recitations begin 011 October 2. To Bun For Associate Justice. Columbia.?While in the city the other day W. F. Stevenson of Cheraw stated that Judge R. C. Watts would not change his plans in any particular as to the race for associate Justice in consequence of the additional place on the bench to be filled. He will still allow his name to bd used for the position of associate justice created hv the constitutional amendment for which he received the most votes on practically every ballot at the last Joint session of the general asscmbly. Secretary of Corn Show Has Returned Having secured the co-operation of the agricultural experiment stations nine well-known agricultural states tad the United State ''-partment of n priculture, George lr wenson, the steretary and general n.cnagrr of the National Corn show has returned to ( olumbia after a trip of several weeks throughout the Central. Western and Northern states much encouraged Witk the outlook for the great corn epKositicn to be held in Columbia in Jfinmry, 1913. Secretary Stevenson v ill , vtnblleh headquarters here. ,