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A STUDY IN SCARLET Sir A. Conan Doyle. CHAPTER IX. The Flower of I'tah. This is not the place to commemorate tlie trials and privations endured by the immigrant Mormons before they came to their final haven. From the shores of the Mississippi to the western slopes of the Rocky Moun tains they had struggled on with a constantcy almost unparalleled in I history. The savage man and the savage beast, hunger, thirst, fatigue, I and disease ? every inmwlimont i which Nature could place in the way ?had all been overcome with AngloSaxon tenacity. Yet the long journey and the accumulated terrors had shaken the hearts of the stoutest among thorn. There was not one who did not sink upon his knees in heartfelt prayer when they saw the broad valley of Utah bathed in the sunlight beneath them, and learned from the lips of their leader that this was the promised land, and that these virgin acres were to be theirs for evermore. Young speedily proved himself to be a skilled administrator, as well as a resolute chief. Maps wore drawn and charts prepared, in which the future city was sketched out. All around farms were apportioned and allotted in proportion to the standing of each individual. The tradesman was put to his trade and the artisan to his calling. In the town streets and squares sprang up as if by magic. In the country there were draining and hedging, planting and clearing until the next summer saw the whole country golden with the wheat crop. Everything prospered in the strange settlement. Above all, the great temple which they had erected in the center of the city grew taller and larger. From the lirst blush of dawn until i nc closing or tiio t wilight the clatter of the hammer and the rasp of the saw were never absent from the monument which the emigrant erected to Him who had led them safe through many dangers. The two castaways, John Ferrier and the little girl who had shared his fortunes and had been adopted as his daughter, accompanied the Mormons to the end of their pilgrimage. Little Lucy Ferrier was home along pleasit n ly enough in Klder Stangerson's wagon, a retreat wjjieh she shared with the Mormon's three wives and with his son, a headstrong, forward boy of lw<lve. Having rallied, with the elasticity of childhood, from the shock caused hy her mother's death, s'ie scon became a pet with the wo""on and reconciled herself to this im w life in her moving canvas-covered home. In the meantime Ferrier. having recovered from his privations, distinguished himself as a useful guide and an indefatigable hunter. So rapidly did ho gain the esteem of his new companions that when they reached the end of their wanderings it was unanimously agreed that he should he provided with as large and fertile tract of land as any of the set dors, with tho exception of Young himself, and of Stangerson, Kimball, Johnston, and Drebber, who were the four principal elders. On tho farm thus acquired John Ferrier built himself a substantial log-house, which received so many additions in succeeding years that it grow into a roomy villa. lie was a man of a practical turn of mind, keen in his dealings, and skillful with his hands, llis iron constitution enabled him to work morning anu evening at improving and tilling his lands. Hence it came about that his farm and all that belonged to him prospered exceedingly. fn three years he was better off than his neighbors, in six he was well-to-do, in nine he was rich, and in twelve there wore not half a dozen men in the whole of Salt T.ake City who could compare with him. From the great inland sea to tho distant Wasatch Mountains there . was no name better known than that of John Ferrier. There was one way, and only one, in which he offended the susceptibilities of the co-religionists. Xo argument or persuasion could ever induce him to get up a female establishment ( after the manner of his companions. in 111 v i i j;;i vc reasons ior iiiih persistent refusal, but contented himself by resolutely and nflexibly adhering to bis determination. There were some who accused him of lukewarm- ] noss in his adopted religion, and others who put it down to greed if wealth and reluctance to incur expense. Others, again, spoke of some early love affair, and if a fair-haired ^ girl who had pined away on the * shores of the Atlantic. Whatever the } reason, Ferrior remained strictly eel- j ibate. In every other respect he conformed to the religion of the young ^ settlement and gained the name of being an orthodox and straight-walking man. Taicy Ferrior grew up within the log house, and assisted her adopted j father in all bis undertakings. The keen air of the mountains and bol- ( sarnie odor of the,pino-treos took the j place of nurse and mother to the young girl. As year succeeded to f year she grew taller and stronger, her , cheek more ruddy, and her step more j elastic. Many a wayfarer upon the ^ highroad which ran by Ferrler's farm felt long-forgotten thoughts revive in j his mind as ho watched her lithe, i _ girlish figure tripping through the wheat fields, or met her mounted up011 her father's mustang, and managing it with all the ease and grace of a true child of the West. So the bud blossomed into a flower, and the year which saw her father the richest of (he farmers left her as fair a specimen of American girlhood as oounld be found on the whole Pacific slope. It was not the father, however, who first discovered that the child had developed into the woman. It seldom , is in such cases. That mysterious I change is too subtlo and too gradual to lie measured by dates. Least of (all does the maiden herself know it until tlie tone of a voice or the touch of a hand sets her heart thrilling within her, and she learns, with a mixture of pride and of fear, that a new and larger nature has awakened within her. There are few who can! not recall that day and remember the j one little incident which heralded the dawn of a new life. In the case of I Lucy Kerrier the occasion was serious enought in itself, apart from its future inflluence on her destiny and that of many besides. It was a warm Juno morning, and the Lattor-I>ay Saints were as busy as the bees whose hives they have cnosen for their emblem. In the fields and In the streets rose the same hum of human Industry. Down the dusty highroads defiled long streams of heavily laden mules, all heading to the West, for the gold fever had broken out in California, and the Overland Route lay through the City of the Klect. There, too, were droves of sheep and bullocks coming in from the outlying pasture lands, and trains of tired immigrants, men and horses equally weary of their interminable journey. Through all this motley assemblage, threading her way with the skill of tin accomplished rider, there galloped Lucy Ferrier, her fair face flushed with the exercise and her long chestnut hair floating out behind her. She had a commission from her father in the city, and was dashing in as she had one many a time before, with all the fearlesness of youth, thinking only of her task and how it was to be performed. The travel-stained adventurers gazed after her in astonishment, and even the unemotional Indians, journeying in with their peltry, relaxed their accustomed stoicism as they marveled at the beauty of the pale-face maiden. * She had reached the outskrts of [ the city when she found the road I blocked by a great drove of cattle, driven by half a dozen wild-herdsmen from the plains. In her impatience she endeavored to pass this obstacle by pushing her hbrse into what .I(11"-ared to a gap. {Scarcely had she got fairly Into it, however, before <? boasts closed in behind her, and she found herself completely imbedded i>i the moving stream of fierce-eyed. , long-horned bullocks. Accustomed as she was to deal with cattle, she was not alarmed at her situation, but took advantage of every opportunity to urge her horse on in the hope of pushing her way through the cavalcade. Unfortunately the horns of one of the creatures, either by accident or design, game in violent contact with the flank of the mustang, and excited it to madness. In an instant it reared up upon its hind legs with a snort of rage, and pranced and tossed in a way that would have unseated any but a most skillful rider. The situation was full of peril. Every plunge of the excited horse brought it against the horns again,, and goaded it to fresh madness. It was all that the girl could do to keep herself in the saddle, yet a slip would mean a terrible death under the hoofs of the unwieldy and terilied^animals. Unaccustomed to sudden emergencies, her head began to swim and her grip upon the bridle to relax. Choked by the rising cloud of dust and by the six-am from the struggling creatures, s1k> might have abandoned her efforts in despair but for a kindly voice at her elbow which assured her of assistance. At the same moment a sinewy brown hand caught the freightened horse by the curb, and forcing a way through the drove, soon brought her to the outskirts. "You're not hurt, 1 hope, miss," 3aid her preserver, respectfully. She looked up at his dark, fierce face, and laughed saucily. "I'm awful frightened," she said, naively; "whoever \rrfuld have bought that Poncho would have .been so scared by a lot of cows?" "Thank God you kept your seat," he other said, earnestly. He was a all, savage-looking young fellow, mounted on a powerful ran horse, \nd clad in rough dress of a hunter, A itli a long rifle slung over his shouller. "I guess you are the daughter of lolui Ferrler," he remarked. "I saw /ou ride down from his house. When /on see him, ask him if lie remembers lie Jefferson Hopes of St. Louis. If le's tbe same Ferrier, my father and 10 worn pretty thick." "Hadn't you bettor come and ask yourself?" she asked demurely. The young fellow seemed pleased it the suggestion, and his dark eyes iparklod with pleasure. "I'll do so," he said; "we've been ' a the mountains for two months, and ire not over and above in visiting ondition. lie must take us as be bids us." "Hi1 lias a good deal to thank you 1 or. and so have I," she answered; 'bo's awful fond of me. If those cows tad jumped on mo he'd have never > ;ot over it." "Neither would I," said her cominnion. < "You? Well, I don't see that it i would make much matter to you, anyhow. You ain't even a friend of ours." The young hunter's dark face grew so gloomy over this remark that Lucy Ferrier laughed aloud. "There, I didn't mean that," she isaid; "of course you are a friend now. You must conie and see us. Now I must push you along, or father won't 1 trust me with his business any more. Good-by." "Good-by," he answered, raising his broad sombrero and bending 'over her little hand. She wheeled her mustang round, gave it a cut with her riding-whip, and darted away down the broad road in a rolling cloud of dust. Young Jefferson Hope rode on with his companions, gloomy and taciturn. He and they had been among the Nevada mountains prospecting for silver, and were returning to Salt Lake City in the hope of raising capital enough to work some lodes wlyeh they had discovered, lie had been as keen as any of them upon the busi ness 11 ii111 tuts sudden Incident had drawn his thoughts into another channel. The sight of the fair young girl, as frank and wholesome as the Sierra breezes, had stirred his volcanic, untamed heart to its very depths. When she had vanished from his sight he realized that a crisis had come in his life, and that neither silver speculations nor any other questions could ever he of such importance to him as this new and allabsorbing oik4. The love which had sprung up in his heart was not the sudden, changeable fancy of a boy, hut rather the wild, fierce passion of a man of strong will and imperious temper. lie had been accustomed to succeed in all that lie undertook, lie swore in his heart he would not fail in this if human effort and human perseverance could render him successf ul. lie called on John Ferrier that night, and many times again, until his face was a familiar one at the farmhouse. John, cooped up in the valley and absorbed in his work, had little chance of learning the news ironi the outside world during the last twelve years. All this Jefferson Hope was able to toll hint, and in a style which interested Lucy as well as her mother, lie had been a pioneer in California, and could narrate many a strange tale of fortunes made and fortunes lost in those wild, halycon days. He had been a scout, too, and a trapper, a silver explorer and a ranchman. Whatever stirring adventures were to he had, Jefferson Hope had been there in search of them, lie soon became a favorite with the old farmer, who spoke eloquently of his virtues. On such occasions Lucy was silent, h\it her blushing cheek and her bright, happy eyes showed only too clearly that her young heart was no longer her own. Her honest father may not have observed these symptoms but they were assuredly not thrown away upon the man who had won her affections. tlt was a summer evening when he came galloping down th" road and pulled up at the gate. She was at the doorway and came down to meet him. He threw the bridle over the fence and strode up the pathway. 'I'm off, Lucy," he said, taking her two hands and gazing tenderly down into her face; "1 won't ask you to come with me now, but will you he ready to come when I am here again ?" "And when will that be?" she asked, blushing and laughing. "A couple of months at iho outside. T will come and claim you then, Ml V (1 n f 1 I n ir ~ 1 >.,..11.is. i iiiti; b 11U one WHO can ?tand between us." "And how about father?" she asked. "He has given his consent, provid- 1 nig we pet. these mines working all right. T have no fear on that head." < "Oh, well, of course, if you and : father have aranged it all, there's 110 more to be said," she whispered, with 1 her cheek against his broad chest. < "Thank Clod!" he said, hoarsely, i stooping and kissing her. "It is settled then. The longer I stay the hard- < or it will be for me to go. They are < waiting for me at he canyon. Clood-by i my own darling?good-by! In two ( months you shall see me." t He tore himself from her as he 1 spoke, and flinging himself upon his t horse, galloped furiously away; nev- r er even looking around, as though i afraid that his resolution might fail 9 him if he took one glance at what he j was leaving. She stood at he gate, < gazing after him until he vanished r from sight. Then she walked back ] into the house, the happiest girl in all r Utah. * ' 1 (To be continued.) t t C] This Yankee Government, as Gov- '| ernor Please calls it, lias actually appointed Congressman Francis 'Purton Harrison, the son of Jefferson Davis' private secretary when he was president of the Confederacy, Governor of the Philippines. Mr. TTarri- ' son has represented a New York City . District in Congress as a Democrat . for years. n 4-^ , Man and Wife Guilty. , Will Young, of Greenville, and his wife, Alberta Young, were found guilty of the murder of John Greer, v a negro, about four months ago. A j( recommendation to mercy was made a for Alberta. f ? * p Dog Deads to Murder in Florida. c Charley Morgan, a negro, murder- t ed Turner Camp at Dake Alfred, Fla., d after a quarrel oyer a do?. t ? ! FREE FOR THREE MINUTES THAW TIIKN XAllllKH HV IMMIGRATION At'THOltlTIKS. ? Now York State Scores Notable \ ictory hi Fight for Wealthy Lunatic. 1 Taken From Jail oil Judge's Ortler. Harry Kendall Thaw pried out of Sherbrooko jail on a writ of habeas corpus obtained by a coup of William Travers Jerome enjoyod three minutes of liberty Wednesday afternoon and then was seized by the Dominion immigration authorities and hustled to Coatieook, Quo., where Wednesday | night lie paced the floor of the immigration detention room. It was generally predicted Wednesday night that before many hours Thaw would be back in the Matteawan asylum, from which he escaped Sunday, August 17. The beginning of the end of Thaw's refuge in Canada came with dramatic swiftness. A writ of habeas corpus, sued out Saturday at the direction of Jerome, with John Houdreau, chief of police of this village, as petitioner, was sustained at 2:4a o'clock Wed- ( nesdftv afternoon by Matthews Hutchinson, superior judge of the district of St. Francis, sitting in chambers at Sherbrooko. Stolid, pallid, numb, Thaw sat not five feet from tho judge as ho read the decision. When in the very last paragraph the court declared him a free man, Thaw seemed to crumple up on the lounce where he sat. A cigar stump fell from his loft hand Mild frnni Uio fi.ri.i n--** .... 4 i111 iin mi inn i i>red two gay hits of ribbon a child had given him. Hut he did not rise. \\\ K. McKoown, of his counsel, leaned over and. patting him on the shoulder, whispered. Thaw raised his big, staring eyes and stood tip. Immigration ollieors moved near him and then Thaw began slowly to move to the door. At the threshold Assistant Superintendent Robertson of the immigration bureau s:iid sim ply, "Come with us, Mr. Thaw.'' And without a word, except a hoarse good bye to the reporters, Thaw obeyed, j Five minutes later a gray roadster j streaked away from the court house. In the back seat sat Thaw, lie had not even been given time to pack his scanty belongings and voluminous correspondence in his cell. In an hour lie was in Coaticook, guarded in ihe detention room by two stalwart Dominion police. None but counsel was allowed to see him. The twenty-three milo trip was without special incident. Thaw expressed no surprise, evidence I no grief. Behind him trailed his defeated lawyers. rPlin V/i\e \r/-? ? !' ?,,i 1.,. i i .... ..... i wi i\ .I it i iiu 111 h's nave nrranged everything on the other side of (ho border, oven down to distributing deputy sheriffs and automobiles, ft would not surprise Thaw's lawyers if. once across the line, be were put bodily into a car and bonded straight for the Now York lino. There is basis for this suggestion in the fact that John Lanyon, a private detective, lias been made a "special attendant." of Mattoawan and in this capacity it is certain would authorized to han;iri oscaoed lunatic. rc.v F- f! W,t\!> TK.intS. Judge b')ViUi;tii Adopts I'hYcctU'o Method in <?'reenville. Judge I. W. bowman, of this city | is now holding court in (Jreenville. O" Wednesday lie made this statement in speaking of those who were _ convicted of violating the liquor law: i "1 wish to put all interested parties an notice that whenever defendants ure convicted, after a fair trial, on violation of dispensary laws, I will not impose the alternative sentence :>f a tine, but will sentence only to imprisonment." . The dispatches from (ireenville inlicate that the Judge's statement aused some very animated interest, is there are many blind tigers, who j lo not ob.'oct to paying a tine out of no proms or their business, but who vould seriously think before running he'rick of a chaingang sentence. As Pho (Ireenvillo Piedmont, commentng favorable on the Judge's words, j lays: "A tiger would much prefer >aylng $.r>00 to a sentence of sixty lays. The fine doesn't worry him at til. But when you deprive him of his iherty, force him into convict garb ind to work on the roads or confine- ~ nent in the jail, you hit him a lick hat hurts. Tie thinks thrice before inning again."?The Orangeburg [Mines and Democrat. ? 4. ? Body in Paddle Box. _ rni- ' ?. inc j)iiot. or ino ('ily of Louisville I omplained, after docking tho boat ,t Cincinnati, that it would not steer >roperly. A search disclosed the iody of Edward S. Willis wedeed in lie paddle box. Willis had fallen off l passing steamer and his body bad *?enn picked up wbllo the boats were I lassing. Some folks give us an excuse for ? 'oting for the dispensary the preva- V ence of blind tigers. Rllnd tigers nd the lawlessness that result thererom are flagrant evils that are a tench in the nostrils of law abiding ? itlzens, but they exist only because \ hose same law abiding citizens enure them and in effect, endorse hem and wink at them. I'll* ) ' A REAI *<?' r. \? ship an!) chahac'i section of upper sf? south of asiihvilll THE BLUE KID ie, El tf . * / ? r 11 h ai.r iii e R 110 S \* i r. ) I) 10 R \ TKM lU \\ R I r ' i >i{ r WOF Oi!D . m IMG bUli SITUATED ON WOFFORD CO I ' EQUI I'M ION" I TWO MODERN ROOM BUILDING FIVE TE \C Til? DORMI TORIES. I.VSI RI V: AND HEARTY CO OPIOUATI ON A SCIIOOI WITH IIIOII ST \ NO MOSPHERE TWO HUNDRED PENSES FOR THE YEAR. $1 8? w. iiorto: si? \ IIT \ v 1 Os angebui W. W. Rivers IPres i.\i;<;i;st < <?-i:i>t < \tiii\ \l .< B tahy i<>u r.ovs. i!< imi'i si* i i i l :i: \uv. Ml SIC, \H l\ KXI'lll-:s a cost within \ <>i u m: xcii, w. w. m ] Or an gen m ytr" tk? wryy ^ 1 I ?ij] 1 Wm W M # \1 < J i 1 ^ |) ? <1 till Id ? I f 1 4 I I I k I i iaa since 1894 given "Thorough hit Influences at the lowest possible c RESULT: It Is to-day with its fac its student body of 413, and its plant TIIE LEADING TRAINING SCI $150 pays nil charges for the year, ir heat, laundry, medical attention, pliy* except jiiuaic and elocution. For ca RliV-THOB. ROSSER B * blacks'! rori/ruv and races. I or Sale?I'oiand China pigs of lii? breeding. Write for prices. S. J Summers, Cameron, S. O. Kor Sale?Registered (). I. (!. Rigs, 2 to 2 months old nt reasonable prices. R. P. Jones, Reynolds, Ga. tarred Rocks, Whit? Leghorns? Idggs, 20 for $1; chicks, dozen, 1.20; wenners, Sac; half grown, f>0c Marion Moseley, J offers, Va. .MISCKLL ANICOl S. buy all kinds of ejnpty barrels am bags. Try me. Walter A. Moore, > George St., Charleston, S. C. ''arms for Sale?Barge or small in lower and upper country. Ten to i forty dollars per acre. Some bar-, gains. Address Box 4 43, Greenwood, S. C. Mies can he relieved at once?Send i 1 r?c for liberal sample, <'Rino 1MB Remedy," and be convinced. I.arm Size, 50c, 6 for $2.50. TI. M. Kni^io i ? I and Co., Manufacturing Pharma j cista. Lancaster, Penn. ., . i lurry if you are lonely. The Reliable Confidential Successful Club has large number of wealthy eligible members, both soior wishing early marriage. Descriptions free. Mra , Wrubol, Pox 2t>. Oakland, Cal. 'or Sale??1 10x12 Did doll-Tump- | kins just overhauled; 1 Ross cotton i press and 1 7 0-saw gin, both in good condition. Also n full line of j gin and saw mill renair parts. Or- i angeburg Machine Shop. | i )ogs?Wanted to buy trained bird dogs for rash. Write E. C. Stark, j Commerce, CI a. Vnnted?Py every famllv. Return if not delighted. Yours for five, onecent stamps. S. D. Jones & Co., Melrose, Fin. , 1111 Vh, Rhea Springs has muslft, ;ttud dancing. The plaee yppi pj^ay golf, tennis, croquet, gp(Ifffls^^g, swimming, boating, ficMftg cw? ^v ......TANBURG S r ^ * . 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V/ , ? , ing, antomobiling. Fine lawn and board walks, and the homo of the Old Reliable Rhea Springs Water, the best that flows; been tried for a century. No better place to recup- 1 ; erato. Fine aecom modnt ions. Rates reasonable. Write for particulars. Rhea Springs Co., Rhea Springs, Term. < Dies W'itli Sister, When Jack Boone, eight years old, I saw bis sister-, Dorothy, aged 0, strug J gling beyond her depth in the Arkan- ' , sns river, near Little Rock, Wednes- ( f day, lie went to her assistance. Rej fore a fisherman, who had been watching the children paddling in ! the shallow water near the river , bank, could reach them, both had drowned. a How easy it is, and how presump- ) tuons, to declare with eocksureness < that dry spells accidents, etc., are ' punishments pie ted out to men for ^ some alleged wrong-doing. In all such catastrophes the good suffer ? along with the had, and tlod would hardly punish good people in order to punish bad ones, Clod in his good- ' ness protects his people from harm j. but never afflicts them. } ? D Finds Husband Dead. Two weeks ago Mrs. John Rritz of c Oshkosh, Wis., found her father-in- ;li law dead in his bed, a victim of heart f(i 'disease. Thursday she discovered ia her husband had, succumbed to Hie p same ailment during the night. condition, due to shock, is such that locnl physicians have only small ho.se < f her recovery. fN .<? -+ A grim cclio of the war in the V.a.1kans conies from an advertisement in V5 a Herman newspaper "that three ' j thousand artificial l?ys rre wanted by 2 ja nation how at war". The advertise| ment salil these artificial legs ^ ere ' V wanted at once. ^ The murder of Chief of Police Har- ary urn j... . . aiJ tpr, of Allendale, by Walker and his z P.pn, qt ,hena Sunday, afcenia lo hare ifWen a cold ^toQ^cd, preWiedttatofl'af- 'Ct I falp. Too mitcli pkrdBliiingf of . S 'dereri'W ttto aiW(M,"'1 " ' "" ? I 'ddi.^iajni no; '