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VOL. IV. NO. 20. CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1907. Sl.SOPer Year BY ANNIE tDWARJDS. ? : 2 / A or HONOR; on, POR HER FATHER'S SIN. CHAPTER IX. 10 ? Continued. In pursuance"" of the vicar's advice, Miss Lynch tried every morning to get bet to work at her needle] and she would obey passively* and tot a time go on sewing with a sort of automated patience Very touching to witness; and then Miss Lxnch would See the Work lying 011 her lap, rind her fingers plny: lug mechanically with the thread, alid ller eyes staring fixedly, and with no thought in them, upon the opposite wail of the room. And then something liko the following dialogue would take place daily: "Jane> dear, are you tired of Work "Tired? No? not more than usual.'' "Do you think you will do amy more work to-day?" "I will try if you like." "Do, my child. Mr. Foliett thinks exertion so good for you." And then the automaton sewing Would begin again, and the hands sink hgain ill listless apathy upon her lap; and, after two or three repetitions of this little scene, Miss Lynch, in despair; would take the work away, quite un noticed by Jane, and all attempt at occupation for another four-aiHMwenty hours was over. One day the Tennonts called to In quire after hef (for they, in common With nearly ult the people in the neigh borhood, showed real human sympathy Willi the poor girl in her trouble), and Jane, through the cloned Vonctfnns of the parlor window, happened to watch the faces of the two Tennant girls as they sat, blooming and placid, In the carriage, leaving their mother to dp the sympathetic in their Inquiries of the little maid. When they had driven away, she turned round, and for the first time for weeks, volunteered a re mark to Miss Lynch. "Auntie, I think the world is very unjustly governed." Poor Miss Lynch was so delighted to bear the sound of her voice that she did not for a moment understand her; whereupon Jane repeated aqd amplified upon her former observotlon. "I think tho world Is very unjustly governed. I think my troubles are unjustly laid on me. The 'Pennants' father was to the full as dishonest, only more for tunate, perhaps, than mine, and they are happy, and in a good position, and sought after. What have I done more than any one else !o deserve such a bitter, miserable lifo as this? It is unjust." Then she sunk back into almost sub len silence, and gave no more heed to rny of her companion's mild little apol ogies respecting the mysterious deal ings of Providence than she did tostlie wan clouds ns they went and camc upon the cold November sky. Put such an awful state of mind made Miss Lynch tremble in her bed as she thought over It: and the next day found her early In her necustoiucd phice of cqpfession? the vicar's study. "I am glad to think poor Jane mends," was Mr. Follett's remark when he had heard of her speech witli regard to the Miss Tennants and her self. "In another week or two we may look for her to take something like in terest In common things again. This remark of hers is the first symp^pm of coming back to life that you have told me of. Till now, Jnno has been stunned." "Oh. Mr. Foliett, say resigned!" "My dear Miss Lyncli, even to please you I cannot say things that I don't believe to be true. Resignation is never the first feeling of bereavement? not the first, nor the second, nor the third. Resignation Is grief, worn very mild Indeed! You must wait a great many long weeks, I fancy, before snch a state comes to Jane. In the mean time, let us be glad that she is going through her trouble naturally. I was beginning to feel anxious at the length of time her stupor had lasted. You may be thankful at this first symptom of a change for the better." Miss Lynch was dumb, but uncon vinced. She looked upon the human l>ody. and upon the human soul, as upon puppets of which clergymen and doctors held the strings? and felt It a port of obstinacy thnt Jane Would not lie strengthened by tonics, or comforted by good books. When she wa? ill, doc tors did her good: when she wns un happy, parsons. She told Mr. Foliett so. "My dear Miss Lynch, if you had been In trouble, I should have offered to v I r 1 1 you from the first!" the vicar answered, with a hnlf smile. "Dear, angelic man!" murmured Miss Lynch's heart.) "Put before people can be con soled. you know, they must wish for consolation, and whoever wishes for consolation ii already half cured. Na? ?nro work? quickly In i6m? constitu tions. You would pass through the stunned stage, and tha despairing stag#, in lmlf a day, perhaps, and then all tha rest of your ?fllletKwi would taks that mllrtor form In which good adrle# la. I believe, palatable. But we ars all as Hod made us. you must remembsr, Miss Lynch " "And a* the desperate depravity of our own hearts mars us!" put In Miss Lynch, depreoatlngly. "Aud Us has flven Jans Grand ? nature as strong in Its capafeltftIM foi misery as for happiness. Let lis work with Him, not against Him, unless we wish to keep back the cure." "And I am to encourage her in rull liigs against Providence, a* I have al ready glveh up reading tiig lesson* to hefi' thought Miss Lynch during bet homeward walk. "Is there-can there possibly be any truth in that dreridffii scaqdai of Miss Brown's about him? a taint of liet'esy underlying every word he says? One might almost thin* It to bear how he spoke about Jane, and yet-yet, how swe?tly lie alluded to n.e, and the different way I should have behaved Hnder affliction! How glad I am I put on tny rieW bonnet? the damp has SchrcelJ- tafeeii the stiffness Otit of the Strings a bit:" From this time on, jarid begad d?il? to speak more. She was very bitter in all she 8a id? bitter, and at times al most sharp and caustic; her sorrow lending her a kind of hard humor wholly alien to the natural tendency of hei* mind. Klic read "Kcelesiastes," and found It good; she studied "Vanity Falt^- theil iiewly written? arid consid ered life-like; Sho bet bought herself it was time to get her winter cittthcs; ami she got them, and went to church, ami, without faltering, braved out the eyes of half the parish, and put on a cool and Indifferent manner when her vil lage friends pr??Med around her coming out of church to inquire of her Mate. And (hen, afler a week or so of this new condition, she sickened suddenly of the preach r r and of lieeky Sharp alike, and said nothing more at nil hit ter or pungent, and found going to church did her 110 good, and that she hated to sec people's faces, and to hear their condolences. "They all cared for her, In reality, 110 I more than she cared for them." And then she took *0 lying all day. without even a pretense of hook or work In her hands, -upon the sofa, look ing more white and stuprtl<?d and weak than she had looked even in the tirst days after her parting with .Mo hun. 1 lie sound of Miss Lyncll's voice, or of the little maid servant's singing at lier work, tortured h<r; the sounds of the robins twittering around the frost ed window panes tortured her; the vil lage children's shouts, as they ran along the lane to school, tortured her. All life was one Intolerable, nauseating burden not a dull, stagnant weight, as It bad been at first, bringing with it ftt every hour, almost at every moment, an acute stinging, unbearable evidence of Its pressure. Her days b?gnn with the horrible thought that so many more hours of light and sound had to be lived through, and ended with a cer tainty of a broken, fitful night? a night whose ghastly, mocking dreams were yet the least Intolerable part of all the four-and-twenty hours of feverish suf fering. When Mr. Foil el t beard bow she was now be asked If she would like to sec him, and Jane said yes. On the morning when bis message reached her she was wondering bow I many more months of her present life It would take to bring her to her grave," and she felt a sort of curiosity to he-n th ? opinion of another person on the subject, "Only ask him not to condole with me," she remarked to Miss Lynch, who was rapturously waiting to' bear her ultimatum to the vicarage. "Tell him I wish to see him to nsk his opinion "bout something; but I don't want to be condoled with. I need no condolence at all. for I hnve quite censed to think of myself and of my own grief." CHAPTKK X. "Mr. Pol let t Is here, Jane. Would you like to see him alone?" "Yes, auntie, alone- and lit him come In at once, please. It tires uie to be kept waiting or to ha\c to expect any thing now." And In another minute the Vlcnr of Chesterford for t llrst time since Uifford Mohuu left -was admitted into poor Jane's llttb? sitting room. lie set bis hat down '-artfully In the window seat; laid bis walking stick across It; then took off his gloves, fold ed them neatly together, and deposited them in the breast pocket of bis coal. Jane's weak nerves were horribly irri tated by these preparations, she thought that the vicar meant to stay long; she felt that lie was going to drive her wild by commonplace con dolence and exhortations to long-suffer ing and patience. "I am sure It Is very eood of you to come to sec me, sir;" and there was a weary, half querulous tone In her vol^e, very unlike Its old, fr.iuk, unconscious happiness. "I'm wer.k and ill, and I can be of very little interest to any body now; but Mioa Lynch would send for you." The lootosd iclndly into her bopelcM, iunlvon eyes, "Jnne." he Wnn, nfter h few in quiries respecting her bodily stnte, not made In the accustomed style of friend ly sympathy, not accompanied by any of those stereotyped platitudes which Jar 'so horribly upon the temper of every real sufferer, but Just In hi* qimI, quiet, rather reserved wauuer, "jane, do you know that 1 w?i m*f? fled tfuceiP" A faint tinge 6 f to lor came Into Jane's face? a faint look of Interest la her eyes. "Yes, Mr. Follett, I have heard that you were married In your youth." "I was married for Just one year, and I had one little child. Would J'oil cafe< do you think, to hear me tell the story of that part of iny lifer' "Yes," she answered, she Would curt td. hear whatever Mr. Follett liked to tell her. it as, very kind of hltn to trouble himself abodt her rft all: fiud 1/ It would give him pain to speak About the past he must not attempt to do sO for her sake. And then her head sank listlessly dOWii tipoti the pillow of her coucli, and She trirried bef tVhite face away toward the windOw. "ft iroW't pain me to speak of th? past now, Jane, Mfl jfrou: but you ar# the only person in ChestertWd to \Vhonrt I have ever volunteered such a coiirf' dencc. Most people, I find, when they rtre In trouble like a groat deal of posi tive fldflct? of fio?itlve pity" ? Jane Shuddered? "and, of Ciintse* In all such CnseS Itfng tinl.it make# ttae know pretty Well how midcll one is expected to say. Now, wlictf f U a? ih tiiy grief? my desolation? I eottld bear neltlff'r ad vict ttnr pity. Pity could not lighten my burden; jirf??** from people full of the comforts and hopes ai.'d ?Itallty of life eoukl not in the rcjuotcst tlo#/,rt' nffeet or serve me. You may feel as I did,* /tune. You may know, ns I knew, tfiuit It Is to be In a place where nO friendly voice hits powef In fetich, and wfiore; for a sjiaec,- (J oil's Unlit even seems to haW ft one Out; t do'." Slie turned round quick!*) ?h?* looked at him very full. "Yes, Mr. I'ollett. I have been in that depth? I am there now! No other soul can ever have been ns dark as mine is. I rnfi'l hope? 1 can't pray? and I don't want to do either. Oh. my (Jod!*' It was the nearest tiling to passion or to life that had passed Iter Hps for weiks. Mr. frolic (fa face gave no sign that Jii> had observed Ik'i* eiHotion, but bis heart boat quick, and ho felt that instinctively he had fallen upon the best way of rousing the inert, listless mind Into attention. "I nni speaking nf a great many years ago, (fane- of a time before I had ever seen you? wheft I speak of my mar riage. We were both Veft young, my wife and I. We married? 1 ftican 1 married? for love. Our Income was sufficient for the remote country vil lage of which I was tiien curate. I had everything I coveted In tho world; and Tor a year- yes, for one year. .Tfluf ?I believed I knew what happiness was. My wife's It alth was always delicate, and at times, even from our welding day, I thought there jrf-as something wearied and dejected In the expression of her fae<\ Hut 1 loiked forward to (lie future, to the time when ylie should have grown more used to the monotony of my ipiiet life, to the time when a child's voice should till tho silent little parsonage with life, and I suppose I saw Ics* plainly than othert did how pale and thin and spiritless my poor child really grew. "(J rent love blinds us, Jane, and my love was very great? Idolatrous, my best friends took care to impress upon me afterward. Margar. t was the only woman I had ever en red for. In po*. sessing her I thought I possessed all that could make my life worth holding. I could no more have admitted to my self the possibility of losing iter than 1 could have realized the terrible thought that she had never loved me. * "As the tlrst year of our married life drew to a close she grew more cheerful Hum I had over known her, and took pleasure in getting ready all her work for her expected child with her own hands. In the long May evenings, Jane, when the laburnums and lilacs i are In llower, I sometimes think I see her as Kho used to sit. with the soft evening light fining upon her trans.* parent face through our little parlor window, hep work upon her lap, and her patient smile ready to meet every word, or look, or faintest wish of mlno. Patient? not loving. Jane; but It was only afterward I came to know that. "Early one fair Juno morning ir^i child, my little daughter, was born to me. I remember, ns I walked abroad In my garden soon after sunrise that day, I thanked (iod, almost with rap. lure, for the mrrcJes with which It had pleased Illm to crown my life. I felt in that state of happiness, of love with : out fear, which I know now Is not meant for any man or woman to do more than taste of. If wo look upon the face of some gods, child, we die!" "I have tasted such happiness, too." broke In Jane. "I have known what it Is to |o:;k forward to life without a single cloud." "And, like mo, you have known that such a stnte Is only to be tasted of." answered the vlear, gently, "l.lkc ine, only in a different degree, you have known what It Is to have done with life, even In the very helarht and full ness of life -to lose In ii day, not what you loved only, but nil hope, nil cnnac It.v of loving, out of your own soul. I even think that, when yon have heard me out. you ill say that my experi ence of dlsn ppolnhncrit has hern a harder, a more fiery one than yours. (To lie continued.! K Tory otto In Krlcmltr. "In nil my dally walks and rides for miles here and In the streets of Tokio," snys a trnvoler, "I never hoard nn or. fonslvo word applied to me, nor mw an unfriendly faro. Nor In the n u Jctrr streets did I over ?oo whnt is so rom mon In Cltlnn, women And children dnrtlrf In nnfl bolting tho door* oh the nppronoh of n foreigner. Even the dosi here nre friendly and never bnrk at you." T1i<* HnmburR-Amerlcnn line l? con tcmplntlng building six Kinnll pAMvn* K**r utoniuer* intended for tourist *er vice ou tUo Nile, Louisville, Ky.t Special. ? Twenty one persons dead, the village devasted and several thousand acres of grow er ops ruined we the havoc wrought by a cloudburst thct caused Big creek to submerge Uradyville, Ky., and vi cinity .All the dead are residents of Uradyville and, although reports art meagre, it is believed that no further fatalities will be reported from the surrounding country. The dead : JHwa L. C. NELL, wife of State Sen at <if ll. FOUR CdM.'tJflKN ?f Senator and Mrs. L. C. Nell. MRS. LUM1IILL. ONE CHILD of Mrs. Lumhill. MRS. CARL WILMEKE. DAUGHTER OF Mrs. Wilmere. tilt A ft J>})A UG I ITER of Mrs. AYil mere. MRS. IIARTFIELfl MOSS. SIX CHILDREN of Mrs. Moss. MRS. J. W. KELTNER. ONE CHILD of Mrs. Kellncr. MISS MARY MOSS. The disaster was due to the erratic behavior of Big Creek which was al ready swollen by recent rains. "When the clomtfon??t precipitated three inches of rain in :iti hour on Grady ville and vicinity the creek leaped from its bed and took a new course with the force of a tidal wave. Inhabitants of Uradyville were ne.tfly fiU in bed when the fonmiug waters struck the town, carrying away six residences, a mill and a lar?e number of small houses. Near ly all the victims were drowned, but four were crushed by the collapse of dwclings. State Senator Nell, who is a physi cian owes his escape from the fate that overtook his fainilv to the fact that he was several miles away in the hills, sitting up with a patient. When the news of the disaster reach ed Columbia, Ky., the nearest town of any size, several hundred citizens de parted for the scene with wrecking appliances, food and clothing. All the physicians available went along. They found the residents of the de vasted villa.ee dazed and helpless, but by nightfall nil the relief possible had been afforded. Several persons were injured, but none of these will die. Grndvville is a village of 175 in habitants in Adair county, six miles from Columbia and IS miles from l!ie nearest railroad station. Chicago, Special. ? Dispatches from various places in Southern Illi nois, Indiana and Kentucky tell of ! severe storms of tornado severity j which have caused some loss of life I and the destruction of muclih prop- i erty. Early Saturday I lie town of New Minden, III., 25 miles southeast of St. Louis, was visited bv a tornado which killed four persons and injured a score of others. At Grady villc, a cloudburst is said to have caused the loss of from 10 lo lo live#?, and washed nway eight resi dences. At York, 111., Saturday 25 or 30 houses were destroyed and a number of people are said to have bfen killed' Because of the loss of telegraph wires, exact details are not available. The storm is said to have been es pecially s*?vcie in southern Idiana and at Kaunershurir and Sullivan much damage was dime by wind and rain. Du?|itoin, III., was also visited a! ni'Jil by the sj'.nie stoim that caused the destruction al work. A number of houses were blown down, but no lives were lost. 59 Per Cent in Mississippi. Jackson, Miss., Special. ? Commis sioner of Agricullurc 1'lakcslee gave out a bulletin sli ?wing crop condi tions on .Tune II, and estimating the average condition of I lie cotton on that date at JSO per cent, against the ?rovcrnmrmt estimate "f (?*> per cent. The difference is athibuted to the con siderable bad weather between M iy 31 and .Tune M. the dates on which the data wa- compiled. Hlitcksdale ejui mates the cotton acreage at S;t per cent, and the cern aereflc*? at 00 per eent. or about normal. The nven re condition of the coin crop j? placed at 00 per ccr.t. Krupp Company Sifts Gen. Greater. Wflnhlnjiton, Special. ? Suit was begun her* in the fmprcme court of Iho District of Columbia in the nama of tho Krupp Manufacturing Com pany of F<?sen, Germany, against Gen oral William Crozier, ehief of the bureau of ordinance of the war de partment, charging nn infringement of the company 'a patent on recoil mm brakes and asking for an accounting. j DEATH RIDtS STORM twenty-One People Are Swept Away in Mood MUCK PROPERTY DESTROYED Thousands of Acres of Growing Crops Ruined ? Cloudburst .Causes .Big Creek to Submerge Qradyville and Vicinity, Waters Leaping From Creek Bed and Taking New Course With Force of a Tidal Wave. PROMINENT PEOl'LR District Attorney Jerome Is an In veterate cigarette smoker. Karl Blind, the German patriot, died In London from heart disease. He was born In 1826. Lord Selborne is the first British Cabinet minister who has accepted an appointment in the colonies. Joaquin Miller, the poet of the Sierras, will try to get himself elected to the United States Senate by the Oregon Legislature. Governor Cummins, of Iowa, has announced that he will be a candidate for United States Senator at the next year's pVimary electWn. Augustus St. Gaudens has been commissioned by the Treasury De partment to executfe a new design fo? the $20 gold piece. Secretary Taft has traveled over 100,000 miles on Government busi ness since ho became the first Gov ernor of the Philippines. Lord Rosebery, formerly British Prime Miuister, is an authority on gardening, though most people know him only as n statesman and author. William Aldon Smith, who suc ceeds the late Senator Alger as Mich igan's representative in the upper house, got his start in life as a news boy. Maxwell Evarts, son of former Senator William M. Evarts, is a big lawyer who lives in Vermont, prac tices law In New York and raises old English sheep dogs for fun. A letter of the late M. Pobiedon ostseff. Procurator-General of the Holy Synod, tells how. but for him, the present Czar's father would have granted a constitution to Russia. Justice Gavnor agreed with Justice Brewer that tho country was entering on its period of greatest glory, say ing that thcro always came a*nian and a time to correct all public abuses. "Night Raiders" Scrape Several Dozen Kentucky Tobacco Beds. Henderson, Ky., Special. ? A report received here states that several do zen tobacco beds near Jordan Spring, Ky., were scraped Friday night. The plant* destroyed would have been suf ficient to set out secvral hundred acres in tobacco. The work is sup posed to have been done by "niglit raiders. ' ' Tho statement, oi' thet Berlin pro fessor thit alcohol U a cure tor neu ralgia will cause a hendacho epidemie in many a healthy sett'.?inent, proph ases the Atl:?n;a Constitution. NEWSY GLKANINGS. The French seameu surrendered to the Government. ' Guatemala began to fortify along the Mexican boundary. Suits against the Minnesota two cent fare law were started In St. Paul. The uprising in Southern China Is regarded as a revolt agatnst the dynasty. A serious scandal has developed In the German Court, and Count von Moltke has resigned bis post. I The. open attempt of Germany to seek English favor is commented on i in diplomatic circles in Europe. I With the continuance of wide spread looting and incendiarism, the situation in Rumania is critical. The Navy Department finds It must get Congressional appropriation to transform cruisers to mine ships. Two stringent measures ordered by Premier Stolypin to suppress se dition were repealed by the Duma. Russia, with Austria and Germany, opposes any discussion at The Hague of the question of limitation of arma ments. John Smith, charged with having a part In the murder of Dr. B. D. Cox, was released under >10,000 ball at Lexington. Ky. The Standard Oil Company, It was reported, is secretly buying huge tracts of pine forests in order to con trol the turpentine and rosin product. James Morris, son of Dr. Stuy vesant Morris, left $37,000 to provide free rides in the park and music for little invalids of St. Luke's Hospital, New York City. F. W. Hoehn, charged with steal ing $59,000 in bonds and cash from a sister in Indianapolis, was arrested at Wheeling, W. Va.. and all but $1200 worth of the property recov ered. Raise Railroad Assessment. Jackson, Miss, Special. ? The Mis sissippi Railway commission, sitting as a hoard of equalizalion, increased the assessment of the property of common carriers two and a quarter million dollars, making the total as sessment about $48,000,000. The The heaviest increase was on the Mo bile, Jackson and Kansas City line, amounting to about one million. The Cumberland Telephone Company was wJso increased a quarter of a million. HIS CUlJSfARY LOVE. Cook: "Now we've 'ad words, you'll be lookin' for another cook to keep compauy with?" Policeman: "Not mo. I'll starve II rst!" ? Punch VKMIXIM? XKWS NOT ICS. Miss Helen Could Is in Venice. A woman sixty-five years old haf? Just entered Vassal- College as a freshman. Sarah Orno Jewett recently re ceived a legacy of 000 from Mrs. Susan B. Cabot. Women are endowed with full vot ing privileges In the States of Col orado, Wyoming. Montana and Utah. The pope has sanctioned the long debated proposal to establish a Roman Catholic college for women at Oxford. There is a special examination in Austrian cities for female barbers, who are yearly growing morn numerous. % The Teddy Bear has given place to the living pet. Monstrosities In the 'way of dogs and monkeys have now como into favor. j Mrs. George Could, if was report ed, will be a witness for Mrs. Howard Gould when the suit for a limited di vorce comes to trial. Mrs. T. De Witt Ta linage, widow of the noted Brooklvn minister, is eald to be one of the favorites in literary circles In Washington, l>. ('. The French Government has in trusted to Mine. Laurence Fiedler, of Paris, a mission to make an inves tigation into the socinl and indus trial conditions of women and chil dren In America. Though she is not yet a social ?bud," Miss Helen Taft has been nicknamed "the mlin girl" by her close friends in Wn^hiu^iou, I J. The title had its origin i.i her fond ness for a certain style of dressing. Miss Itobb, who recently died iu Edinburgh at the age of ninety-four, hnd been a naval pensioner for nine ty-tbreo years. She was the pos thumous child of Ciiplain ltobb, ol the royal navy, and was p. it on lilt State pension roll at hirlii. Death of a Bride. Knoxville, Special. ? Miss Nellie Ruth Lyon, daughter of J. R. Lyon a well-known newspaper man of Gieono ville, Tenn., diad at her home there within twenty-four hours after her marriage to Ellis E. Crabtrej of Vir ginia, a student for the ministry in one of the Roston theological semin ar*,. ?Some time ago they had ar ranged their wedding and, although the bride was ill, ber condition was not considered alarming at all. The wedding waa performed, she grew rapidly worse and died. Wtm north |*/ie. There it stand.*. |rttected by the ice trust, announces Ke Boston Transcript. CREANorftENTUCKT "THEE" WHISKY SOLD EVERYWHERE Its guaranteed purity and sterling quality are the best reasons why you should buy it. Guaranteed Under the National Pure Food Law SERIAL NO. 137. THE I. TRAGER CO. Cincinnati, O.