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r *r 'fTlVvUM ?> VOL. IV. NO.- 31. CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1907. Sl.fSOPer Year BY ANNIE EDWARDS. POINT HONOR. OR, FOR HER FATHER'S SIN. CHAPTER XVII. 13 Continued And on that day Matty Ferguason cried till she was simply alck and faint; ?nd for days, and for week* afterward the girl wandered about hollow-eyed ?nd white, along every allee and hill side where she had once walked with and when she began to lose her freckles and wear long dresses, and, in time, to go to balls and to be ad mired, she still cUmg to her first, and, as far as she was concerned, most pore romance of her life, and* held all men immeasurably Inferior to thnt of that black-haired, taper-fingered, .effeminate faced little Russian- of her Bnden days. And for bim she had shed tears, and of bis white face and topen-flngers, as compared with those of Mr. Mohun of Yotton, she had been thinking when Jane Grand came in, Jnst now upon her dreams. And looking In Jane's agi tated face the thought did cross her, and with something of pity, that la vlellle fllle had loved Glfford mid might feel toward her ns she, Mntty, used to feel toward the grnndly-dressod Indies ?*vlio smiled upon Alexis in the Baden gardens. *:What a fool he is to marry me In stead of her," thought Miss Fergusson. "She Is of his nge, and of his ways, ?nd I well, I am Matty Fergusson, and Mr. Mohun must learn to like Mntty Fergusson when he is married to tier. Then aloud, and, for her, not un gently, "Miss Grand, you were verv kind to ask me here. Thank you for your good wishes and"? and positively Matty Fergusson was at a loss?"! hope you won't think I have been ungrateful for your kindness." "How ungrateful, ehild?" "Miss Grand, I am going to marry Mr. Mohun." Jane had known that very well all the afternoon; yet when the news came? put Into words and spoken by her successor's palpable voice, not by her own fears? the blow was hard! She walked without a word to the fire ?nd stood opposite it for some seconds; then she turned around abruptly. "You love Glfford Mohun?" "I hove accepted him. Ob, Miss Grand, of course I love him." The girl s eyes faltered down under the falsehood. "Be a good wife to him, Matty, ne needs good companionship, and? I do bope, yes. and I do ask God to bless you, and to make you happy!" And she stepped across nnd positively kissed Matty's cheek? Immensely to that young woman's surprise ? and neither shed a tear, nor showed any more signs of agitation than by her white nnd trembling lips, during the re mainder of thnt evening that they ?pent In each other's company. When night came, nnd she whs alone. Jane took her wedding-ring from her neck, nnd then, with a dreary sense or newness, nnd of something clean gone out from her life, she held It be tween her hands and fell to wondering whether she would ever wear It on her breast again or not? The ring hnd so become part of her life nnd of herself that It seemed to her as though no Mntty Fergusson, Glfford Mohun even, had n right to part her from It now. It was a memorial of her own youth and of her own darkened hopes, of her own pure nnd faithful love for more that it was a mem<trlal of the man who hnd promised to take Mntty Fergusson for his wife; nnd, after much of the fine casuistry which on every occasion so perplexed poor Jane's moral serfse, and not a few tears, she decldcd at last tlint she might keep It nnd occasionally look at it, quite guiltlessly, till she died. "And wear It till their wedding day," was her last thought, as she laid It In Its usual resting place besldo tho little Bible on her dressing table. "Wear It till their wedding day, then lay It aside Tvlth oil other things belonging to my youth, nnd only look at it at time*. > when life Is very hard to bear, and It will do me good to bring back the years when I, too, hnd love nnd hope, nnd something In life worth living for, like 'other women!" And yet. when Jane Grand's hot eves ?t length found sleep thnt night, neither Mntty Fergusson nor Glfford Mohun, nor nny other remembrance of her Jeal ousy or of her new loss, shadowed her dreams. ' She slept with a child's worn-out ?leep till morning nnd then, when the ( distant bells of the Chesterford church ?roused her she knew thnt she had been walking In the fields ns she hnd ?sed to walk when she was o little child with Mr. Follett. also that in her ?leep she had seen again the study window of the little vlcnrage shlnlnat bright and peaceful in tne red March ?unset. CTIAPTER XVIII. The vicar's sermon thnt Sunday bore marked Internal evidence of having / been freshly written. Jane Grand I knew nothing at all about good writing or good prcnrhlnrr and was Indeed quite Incapable of Judging of the In trinsic merit of my piece of Intellectual work whatsoever; but she knew that /thia ucrison was not taken from that W? wltfcb M bad Um ordinary cut and dried theological meat of the peo ple of Chesterford, and she felt that her spirit answered and her heart ex panded as she looked np In the vicar's face and listened to the vicar's voice. Probably she was the only person in the church who understood Mr. Follett that day. Miss Fergusson, on principle, t&ver listened to sermons, and occupied the time ou the present occasion in planning her wedding outfit and calcu lating on the probable sum for which her relatives might safely battle In the way of settlements. Gilford Mohtin, burled In the red curtained sanctuary of the Yatton pew, was, by turns, won drrlng how the deuce he would get through his first meeting with Jane nnd asking himself in what fit of utter idiocy he had ever been led In to prom ise marriage to Matty. For the rest? tho farmers, as usual, were comfortably nodding In their places, the elder plow men in deep sleep, with their bends buried over their arms; the younger ones staring aloft, with tho sort of ex pression one might imagine in very stupefied young gorillns. nt the knot of smartly dressed girls who formed the village choir In the gallery; the school children alternating between vertigo and resonant blows from th? prayer book of the ancient women who pre sided over the Chesterford Sunday school. . All the Chesterford St. Mary's con gregation at Its ordinary (for I leave unmentloned the few female orthodox censors, who, of course, found hidden footprints sf the Beast ? Broad Church ? In every one sf Mr. Follett's sen tences). all except Jane. She knew tho vicar's* meaning well. She knew every faintest shade of that gray atmosphere through which to-day he bid them look at the picture of life. She knew every note throughout that minor key In which lie spoke of the insufficiency and hollowness of human affection and de sire. She could Imagine? and here, where the vicar's words waxed faint, her lie^rt carried them ont with ex ceeding strength? how great shall be the rapture of looking on a picture no earthly mists can obscure and listening to a Voice in whose tones there shall be no more dissonance throughout all eternity. The lingering remembrance of that sermon strengthened her wonderfully throughout the Interview which took place In the course of the afternoon between Glfford nnd herself. Miss Fer gnsson had the grace to leave the room when she heard his ring at the bell, and so. nlone nnd fnec to fnce. the two old lovers first met under the new as pect In which from this time hence forth they would have to regard each other. Gilford was excessively agitated, much more so than Miss Grand, nnd for some moments ntter he took her outstretched hand in his he was liter ally, nnd without nfTectntlon, too much moved to spenk. "I was a brute. Jane!" he stammered out nt Inst. "I lost myself altogether, and spoke to you like a cursed brute, as I was, yesterday! Can you ever forgive me for whnt I have said, or ? or forget It?" "Gilford, I felt then as if I would like to die. T felt more cruelly wounded than I ever did before, even in all my bitter experience. p,lt now? Glfford. I not only forgive yon from my lirart. but I feel It was well that you snoke to me of my birth as you did. Well, nnd. In the end, kindest to me." "Kindest to you. Jane!"? nnd as her hand drew bnck. and her steady eycR rested on Mfc, Glfford felt with n spasm of Jenlous pnln thnt she had al ready censed to worship him. "Best for you that I should Insult you, nfter all our long years of friendship? That is the cruelest reproach that you could have devised for my punishment!" But no tone of his could soften Miss Grand into notation now. Her heart, that Lad be?u as wax to every unrcr. sonable wish, or w^rd, or look of Gif ford Mohun's, was shut, elose and cold, ngalnst this really natural and r.dtbcr ungenerous nor unfeigned remorse of Matty Fergus son's lover. ..."That blow from you was a hard one. Glfford. but It prepared me. I bettei* bore what was to come to me after ward when I once felt that you did not ?no. that in all your life you had never really loved me!" "A harsh Judgment. Jnne, for n few words of hasty passion !" "But still, harsh or not. the Judgment thnt will nlwnys be mine," nnd Jnne turned from him almost coldly. "My eyes are oponed at last, nnd If I could 1 would not go back to my former blindness, Glfford. You will be happier far with Matty Fergusson than you would ever have been with me." "You speak bitterly, Jane, but .rou don't mean what you say, no, by ! you can't, you ylon't mean it! If I had married you ^hen T was a lad, as 1 ought to hn^Pdone, I should be n dif ferent mnn%? whnt I nm now. Yon know thnt ns well ns I do: nnd vou know. too. that I did love you better than I've ever lored any one rise? bet ter than ? ever shnll love any woman on enrth. If you hadn't been so cold and sanctified, you would have warmed to me. an6 Juv* tot m? lov? jou Again ?when I came bar* here, broken anfl miserable, a year ago, and I should bare you by my side In Yatton now, and bare something to look forward to, by ! and some chance of happiness In my life. Instead of being entangled ?cursed fool that I am! into this idiotic engagement with Matty Fergussou, d? n her!" Glfford flung himself down sullenly In the arm chair beside the fire, and something very like tears gathered In his eyes. Regarded from my own polut of view, this was Just the one occasion in Mr. Mohua'a life when he appeared to the least advantage. His passion was that of a child allowed to have bis own way, and then enraged because his own way has not made him happy. Still It was a natural passion? an im pulse in the direction of good, giving token, by Its very weakness, that, taken early into cunning hands, some thing quite different to what he now was might have been fashioned out of Glfford Mohun's vacillating and un stable moral character. But Miss Grand always took the Ideal, not the rational view, of every subject that was presented to her consideration (she w-ns also looking at the conduct of Miss Fergusson's affianced husband): , and it really and truly seemed to her that Glfford Mobunhad never appeared In such a weak and despicable guise as now. As throughout, she had loved him unwisely: so In this last revulsion of feeling she Judged him without equity. Having chosen Matty for his wife, he ought, she averred, to hold by Matty in all things. What did it avail now to make lament over his past Inconstancy? How could he toll that he would have been different If he had married her in his youth? A man's strength should lie in himself, not de pendent upon the outward circum stances of his life. It was well, vcrv woll for Mr. Mohun that he was to rail for the rest of liis days into such hands as Matty Fergusson's! lie would not lack counsel, lio would not have to complain of hesitation or over-sanctltv with Matty for his wife! I have heard that slaves, when set free, become cruel slaveholders; I know that gentlewomen, who have sub mitted to, and rather courted, the heel of the oppressor for years, are, when the tardy hour of insurrection comes Pitiless in their turn. The recollect'on of all her deserted youth, of her wasted hopes, her recent, her still throbbing ove for him, swelled at Miss Grand's heart, and steelfd it against this man who? now that he had positively given her up? would. If he could, have talked covert sentiment to her still! And so her voice was steady, her eves were tearless, every nerve in her face was unmoved, as she pronounced the fol lowing do profundi* over the pnsslon that had been the very food of her life duilng the last half-score of years: "The past Is dead and gone, Glfford. i>t it remain so. We can never brine it back, and if we could I don't think we should do wisely to alter all that is gone before. You would not have been happy if you had been married to me. "iour sense of the stain of my birth, and of what the world thinks of such n stain, would have weighed heavier than all the poor love and faithfulness that I should have brought to you. If you had loved me very fervently, vou know, you would have taken me as I ?nas? ns I would have taken vou what ever ill fortune had chanced to come upon you. But you did not: and lack ing such love, you would have had no strength to support you under the dis grace of having me for your wife I have loved you. I think, as much as any huinnn being can love another! Yes. I don't mind saying It now that all Is over between us forever. During those seven years after you left me I Just spent my life in one long, miserable thought of you. Glfford ? of you and of the cause that had broken off our mar riage. ^oti say I have been sonetlfled and cold since you came back to Yat ton. Do you know that everv day till the last week I looked for your coming .lust as I did when I was a girl?? that I would have given up my life still to have been of the least use or happiness to you? Well, you don't know nil this, but 1 will tell it you now. I tell It yon, and I also say? well for me that the past is unchangeable, nnd that I am free again. Gifford. I hope vou wl'l be happy with Matty Fergus*?, and I hope while you live you will count me as your friend." It was tho longest sprech Jane Grand's l'.pg ever put together? the longest, and certainly the crudest. Glf ford Mohun got quite white ns ho lis tened to her. Could this be Jane!? his Ja.ie, who, through good and evil re port, through incor.Ktnr.ey, through de i ?crtlon, 1u??i ever been po "Uerly and w hh'^ut ft struggle his slave? "Ion love some on? else, Jnne, <>r you would never cast me off like this.' i know you too well to think you WQtild be so bitter with me? even after all my brntnl condnct to you yesterday? if I was first with you still as I used to be!" Intensely mean nnd selfish minds do ocrasionntly show keenest Insight In their Judgment upon noble natures. Till Glfford spoke out his shitrulorly coarse view of the ease a suspicion of her own capability of chnng- had never crossed Jane's thoughts. But as lio spoke a ray of lieht dawned upon her mind: nnd (bitterly confirming Mo hun In his suspicions) a blush, guiltily deep as she hnd ever blushed In her young days for him, rose Into lior cheeks nnd brow, and neck. Rhe knew thnt nnothor voleo thnn Gilford's hnd haunted her for months pnst: she knew by what standnrd she hnd mentally measured Glfford In his frequent short comings; she knew what feeling hnd mnde her linger shyly in the sunset by the vlcan.ge gato. "You are very wronc to speak so, GifTord:" but she said this with falter ing lips and downcast eyes. "You , know that what withheld you will also withhold any honorable man from i wishing ?o make me hi* wlf*. yon know thai foil Ho# art the only ones that have ever spoken to me of lore.*" "And you will never listen to love from any other, JaneV* She stood silent nnd confused, her face blushing still like a girl's, ber frail hands clasped with the nervous gesture so familiar to Glfford In th? old days of her youthful love for him. He felt at this moment how fair, how excellent the woman was whom he had lost: he f?lt? and Matty's foot was al ready on the stair? that he would soon er marry Jane, with all her Inheritance, at this moment, than that any other n)an than himself should have the chance of possessions her. "Jane!" starting to her side, "say only one word. Bay that you love me better than any one else still, and I'll break off my engagement with such people as the Fergussons? and I'll marry you!" But Jane shrank awav from his clasp, and her face flushed deeper and deeper. "Don't say these things, Glfford. they pain me dreadfully. The time is past when you could have made this sacri fice with honor. Yes. the time is past!** "Say only what I ask you, Jane! Say only yon don't love any one but me, and leave the future in my hands " "I cannot say what you wish. Glf ford. All is over between us, and? and I don't think you have any right to ask me such a question now." And Miss Mattj* Fergusscn entered the. room. - CFI AFTER XTX. Repentance at the eleventh hour, however commendable as an abstract virtue, is one that avails men llttlo in the majority of tl-.oir practical, earthly concerns. Whrn tho train is onco f::!r. ly laid, some chalice hand is generally ready to apply the match, whatever tho tardy vacillation of liiui who origin ally projected the mine. Gilford Mo bun might remember all the grace, and fondness, and long suffering of Jane Grand now? might f<'H sharpest regret at having lost her? might feel that to call ber his wife would be to Insure the abiding happiness of his life. But. in a moment of mingled pique and vanity, GifTord Mohun had given his word to marry Miss Matty Fergusson ? and Miss Matty Fergus son was not a young person to allow so very large a prize as the possessor of Yatton to escape from her net. The tender love scene on poor Jane's little lawn took place on Saturday. Monday's post brought letters from Fergusson mere. She prayed that the man who had been fortunate enough to win her Marty's love might prove worthy of her. She cared not for the wordly possessions of Mr. Mohun; she thought of him but as of her departed Warren's friend, of her little Matty's future husband, nnd she longed to press his hand in hers, and express to I him the fervent outpourings of a mother's heart. N. B. from Miss Fan? "And mamma thinks it would be a good thing for you to get home as soon as possible, be cause Cousin Hartley Is here now, nnd be would manage with Mr. M. about settlements, etc. You can easily con trive to make him escort you on the Journey, and once here, mamma will undertake the rest." In accordance with which excellent diplomacy Miss Matty was seized with girlish longings to be under her dear mamma's roof at once. She was sure sli? had already troubled Miss Grand a great deal more than she ought to have done: but hoped, some day, to have it in her power to ask her to come and visit, her in her own house, nnd? and (looking up under her long eyelashes at Glfford) how much she would like him to see mamma and Fanny. If only for a day, and did Miss Grand think there would be any harm In Mr. Mohun's es corting her back to Cheltenham? Of course Miss Grand thought there would be no harm In the world: and of course Matty's lover had to express his desire of renewing his acquaintance with his futnre wife's family. The truth was. that having got so hopeless ly far, Mohun felt lie would rather . hasten on than retard the Inevitable fate Into which he had been entagled; also that It Irked him horribly at every hour of the day to have Jane's quiet eyes upon him during his courtship of Matty Fergusson. For Jane, she sim ply longed for the* hour when Matty's voluble tones s'jouhl cense to ring in her ears, and the little cottage should have gone back to its accustomcd quiet, and she herself should have time to breathe and think over the strange new emotions which during the last few days had never ceased to throng her heart. But l:i deep earnest or In light' est Jest, in slnple country cottages or !" r.'lxr.. * when Is nulling dfjply v.tiiiTuii -a to u ntli told In fcucl) mat tors as marriage cr giving In marriage? If the most cynical minded man living had witnessed the farewell thnt^took place between Miss Grand and the lov ers. he would. I think, have guessed little of the different positions In which thrse three persons really stood to each other, with so florid a decoration of good wishes from Jane, so much of hand-pressing nnd kissing and tear shedding from Matty, so much rather over-acted high spirits from Mr. Mo hun, was that departure overlaid. (To be continued.) Not Whit* Mules. W. F. George, of Gunn City, was In II olden Saturday. It Is nald Mr. George has the hirgest span of mules on earth, they weighing over 4000 pounds. The mules were raised on Mr. George's farm nnd he may exhibit them here during the- big snle.? Holdcn (Mo.) Progress. Ktiortnnii# I'rlf', The sale at Stone, Staffordshire, Eng land, of rnre duplicate orchids fclected from th" Walton (irango collcction re sulted in ronie enormous prleos being realized. In the case of two orchldt the figures were 270 guineas ap\cce, and cttaer* aa impfc ? ^intt and *? cvlMa* ?SIHIlHiiiuS- - * TO BE INVESTIGATED Matter of Canal Appropriation to Be Gone Over CONGRESSMEN TO VISIT CANAL Committee Having in Charge the Sun dry Civil Appropriations Expects By Personal Inspection and a Heart To Heart Conference With Those in Charge of the Work to Be Able to See the Justness of the Ap propriations Asked. Washington, Special. ? The exami nation on the ground of the estimates for the appropriations for continu ing work oil the Panama canal sub mitted by Secret aary Tait for the tis cal year 11)07 is to be made by mem bers of the next Congress, who will have in charge the preparation of the sundry civil bill, in which the appro priation for the canal is incorporated. The proposed visit is the outcome of a suggestion from Representative ?James A. Tawney, of Minnesota, chairman of the appropriations com mittee in the last Congress, who was at the isthmus following adjournment last March, lie believes it will lie t > the best interests of the services as well as .to those dircetdl" and in directly in charge of the administra tion of the forte at work if the mem bers of the appropriations commit tee having in charge the preparation of ft he sundry civil bill go to t hr* isthmus with the estimates for the next (iscal year and consider them carefully with the officials having su pervision of expenditures for all kinds of work being done. Tin* sug gestion has met with a hearty re sponse from those identified with the commission's work who believe that a great deal of good will result fro? i a heart-to-heart talk between the Congressmen, who prepare the ap propriation and the officials who spend it, and that it will clear away in advance any misapprehension or misunderstandings that may exist as to the justness and propriety of al lotting the money estimated to be liocessarav for the year's work. Of particular importance is the proposed visit regarded at the present time when the question is now bcfoie the President whether the commission can lawfully expend during the pres ent fiscal year any more money than was specifically appropriated, Colonel floethals having reported to the au thorities in Washington that the work has progressed so rapidly ( lint n it will be in the interest of true economy to exceed that amount to the extent of iKS.OftO.OftO and by reason of which he thinks a year's time will he saved in the completion of the great waterway. Officials here think Congress mnv, as a result of the observations of the members of the appropriations' com mittee who go to t lie isthmus, see lit to provide legislation under which work mnv proceed regardless of I lie appropriations, if this authority doe-; not alreadv exist. The committee will leave New York November fit li and return to Washington in time for the opening of Congress in December. 1 Material for Manufacture of Dyna mite in Tailor's Possession. Worchester, Miss., Special. ? The police of this city upon receipt of a telegram from Chief Inspector M?*. CafTerty, of New York, searched the premises of Sarkis Kcstigian a tailoi here and se:zed a case of material used in the manufacture of dvnamite. Kestigian is a friend of Father Ma.' toogessian who was arrested in New York some *?me .ago in connection with an Armenian murder. Rcsti gian told the police that the box was sent to him by some unknown person in New York a long t*v ago. Drivers of Meat Strike. New York, Special. ? No meat has been delivered since midnight by the jobbers to the retail butchers in the city, owing to a strike of driven*, which took place Friday afternoon The men demanded higher wages and less hours. The meat men say there will be a' famine in New York withi.i twenty-four hours unless the striko ;s settled. Attempt to Blow Up Train. C ripple Creek. Col., Specinl. ? An attempt was made to blow up the in coming short line passenger train with dynamite at St. Petersdome, midway between Cripple Creek ami Colorado Springs. Kvery window in the last car was broken and M. ,T. McCarthy, of victor, deputy Stale mine inspector had his hand cut. A number of women fainted. A similar attempt was made to blow up the some train at Duffield. The dynamit ers escaped. , Interest on New York Bond Raised Half a Cent. New York, Special. ? Owing to the present stringency in the money mar ket the City of New York was obliged to raise the rate of interest on bonds it now has for sale from 4 to 4 1-2 per cent. The mayor issued an order to the heads of all city departments to limit the expenditures of their departments to the lowest possibly Ciut coiu?L?lcut jtith cllicicut aduuv ratiom THE STATE'S NEW BANKS Increase in Several Other Banks Makes South Carolina's Exhibit Excellent One. Columbia, Special. ? Despite tlie ru mors of a tight money market just at tins season before the eotton begins to come in, a number of new banks njave been organized in South Caro lina so far this year. Nearly all of them are in small towns and are not capitalised heavily, but it means thai bank stock is held by farmers and merchants in nearly every town in the inif* iThc tot.aI ^Totalization of the 1J banks making application to the State for charter is near ly $.>00,000. In addition there have been a large number of increases in the capital stock of some of the banks already organized, nine of the banks adding nearly $.100,000 to their capi tal during the first of the year. Following is a list of the newlv or ganized banks since the lirst of the year, together with a list of the banks stock^me amount of the capital Savings bank of Lando, Chester county; capital $10,000. capital* Chesterfield, $15,000 Peoples' bank of Fountain Inn, $ir>,ooo! ??uuty with capital of Union Banking and IUokeraire com $"0,000 Urocuville Wilh c"l,ital farmers' and Merchants' bank of Ureenyille; capitalized at $50,000. tal 0t TaV,0ls with *??.000 eapi J*a,,k *.>f. ( "oronaca, Greenwood county, wit. i capital of $20,000 ;:,pi!;:;is' Ho,,-v ,u""^ Hunk of Chapiu, in Lexington coun ty* t.ipit allied at $10,000. i..i?r?WkItt,Ml Lex ington county, with $25,000 .apital mXvilTk 1 ?*" \r^?rn ers' niul Merchants' hank of ^i;itribow "i"' *15 ^ns?.t,,rar,"n The Dollar Savings bank of Spar tT ? W a caP,tnl of $50,000. of Ttt^,TMK?n<I Wcrcha"(*' bank $ioX ?" mn; capitolized at Trns? lJ*ncaHter Savings Hank and ^".000 Pa"y ?f capital liauk of Pageland, in Chesterfield county, w.fh $15,000 capital. ProJe 'n" of Simmonsville ii; $15,000 <'OU",y' "ilh '-"Pi'"' "t ^ Increases in Capital. .^oSo^to.ow.' ,k "f l'"cstcr from 4UMt?&Savinss bnnk frora from $2olooo\\?\$r,(!i?('io''UU'' <!<""u.v' $2."noo .?of$";:s at r?",v"-v- r'?' mm !rk ot to $ir>,Wdf Gret',<'-VVil,,! from *10'000 $-,0,000. of Conwa>- WOO to $no!ooo ?f Spri,,fffipId f,(>ni $20,000 to Carolina Loan and Trust Company odo ,rg' fro,n flOO.OOO to $200,". There is also a bank formin- a? Lancaster with $25,000 capital and a dt'vwi'l ?" ?- bnMks in n '^mont fity with a capital of $400,000. Newspaper Man Assaulted Charleston, Special ? Leon Patrick a notorious money lender, was arrest ed on a warrant taken out by Mr Fay (). Emerson of the staff of The Evening Post, charging liini with as sault and battery and the case will be called in Magistrate House's court Mr. Emerson was assaulted by the money lendor, who was accompanied by several of his friends after the game at Hampton park on Saturday afternoon. lie was called aside from a ear which he was about to board and asked his name. Upon giving it. he was accused by Patrick of writing attacks upon him and immediately he was struck several severe blows in the face, cutting and bruising it about the eyes. The cowardly method of at tack especially in view of the fact that Patrick is very much larger in stature, is severely condemned. ** Badly Burned by Live Wire. Florence, Spccial. ? A broken elec tric wire found on the ground by Mr. George Lnugbtin's little son, Law rence, caused a serious accident. Mrs. I .aught in seing her son with the wire in his hand rushed into the street to rescue liim and caught the wire in her hand and found her foot on it. As a result both are in a very sorious condition and expected to live, but should they survive,. Mrs. Laurhtin will lose one foot and hand, and the boy will lose one hand. Mr. Laugh tin is one of the engineers of the At lantic Coast Line and resides liorc. Fino Crops at Mayesvillg. Mnvesville, Special. ? The crop*? in this section are reported to be extra fine. It is thought that the farmers will be able to pay up all back debt* and this year's accounts too. Cotton is beginning to open in some place:;, and the gins will be running within the next ten deys. Several planners have sold portions of their cottoa ?rope at goed prices alreatfj, Late ./V ebvf In "Brief <?=* MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST Nearly all of the Governments rep resented at The Hague liave instruct ed their delegates to work in favor of obligatory arbitration. The New Zealand Legislative Coun cil rejected the bill making women eli gible to election to the upper house. Two (icrmans and 110 Chinese were killed by a dynamite explosion in a Chinese mine. Attorney-General Bonaparte tele graphs District Attorney I 'arsons, of Alabama, that the entile p.iwer of the Government will be use,l to enforce the decree of the Federal courts. Mr. Bonaparte says he has no in tention of resigning, but is working hard on the trust cases. J. I). Uzzell, negro editor who is held ics|tousible for much of the re cent race trouble on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, gave himself up at Gancock and was tak.m I ? Norfolk under strong guard and locked up in the Norfolk jail. l">:zoll surrendered to Colonel Nottingham. Piince Wilhcltn. of Sweden, had a bu\v day sightseeing at Ja:ne>town and attending social t i ;?ns in hi-> honor. lie awarded tin* t;op!iies to the .\ict*?*>s in tiie !>?>;. 1 raves be tween t'le Ameii.rn ard Swedes. T!:e ??Black Elijah" and his fol ?, who haw lire;; ? ? e.M i:ig great, excitement ain?>!"_ i..'grocs of Hichmond have ilep:itliad. Mr. .1. N. Wilkin . >n. of Norfolk, was found drowned in tiie Elizabeth rivet . President Hoosevell declared in his Provincctown speech that there was to b?' no let-up in his tru-l and rail road policy. Senator Foraker in an interview, says there ean he no peact* between him and Taft. Two mailbags with .'?Ji'iO.OOO wete stolen from a train on the way l'roin Denver to Chicago. The arrest of a well-known Armen ian in Chicago, it is thought may solve the murders of Father Ca per and Tavshatijiau, the rich Armenian mer chant. The submarine boat Viper, showed licr ability to remain out at sea four days and met every te>t. The present Eddy suil lias been dropped by the attorneys for the next friends, who say they will shortly be gin a new one. Senator Foraker made a speech in reply to that of Secretary Taft. Jacob II. SchilY said the Adminis tration's policies were n >! to blame for the financial situation but ascrib ed the changes to natural causes. Ex-Mavor Paul C. Barlii of Louis ville, committed suicide bemuse ho had been legislated out of ollice and ( hiticiscd. Julius Teich, in a lii of jeahni y Killed his wife and himself in their N\ w York Hat.* Mrs. Lena Scham a w i? i >\v was m\ dered in her apartments n: Brooklyn. A rejected suitor is reported missing. Forest tires are doing ureal damage in Massachusetts and Mieidgau. Willi, 'lm .1. Bryan after ;i wreck aL Kockville, III., said he would soon re l?ly to Secretary Tal't's spereh. The grave of La Flora S. Baker, <i lumberman, was openel a!':cr I I year.i to satisfy a partner he was really buried. J. I'. Morgan re};;rred fr >tn abroad and only spiited when ask'-d if lie had read the President'* str'och. The report of the Judgo-Advocato Gcucial shows that nearly half tiie enlisted men in the army have been tried on some charge the last year. An 8-year-old boy killed his 'J-y ear old sister, in York, I'a., with a revol ver he didn't know was loaded. William Hicks was held up in the ?uhurhs of Philadelphia by robbers who got 000 and citizens caught two of the three highwaymen and recovered the money. Emperor William toa-fed Emporor Francis Joseph as friend and ally and Kinj.' Edward gave a ban<|iiel in honor of his hil t Inlay. Secretary Taft left Washington on the first stage of his around-the woi !d to, a. Go\ et ii'tient ofTieials are wondering what is behind the mysterious de mand I'm an investig.'t ioi into the early f nonactions of the t'hicngo and Alton Koiiroad. Work on delimiting the boundary between Siatn and Fremdi-Indo China win soon be commenced. The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce gave a love f?ast to cement the friendship between the United Stales and Japan. The International Socialist Con gress began at Stuttgart, Germany. With the telegraph strike a week [ oid each side professes to be as con fide nl as ever. Three persons were killed and two probably fatally injured when an ex press train struck an automobile near Great Partington, Mas*. A large wafer main in <!ie Shenan doah Valley burst on Sunday and the people of Berry ville are now without water, except what can be drawn from cisterns. It will be several days i Wore the break eon bo repaired, ,