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Cy. "&* j the steps oi a red-stoue mansion. { The house looked to be untenant-1 ed. The halls echoed with un-l furnished nudity as the two en- j tered. They walked familiarly j into an oblong room, which was' as barren as the hall with tho ex-1 ception that it contained a small! imitation mahogany table and 1 two uncertain chairs. The girl laughed half hysterically n* she removed her hat and; eat down, resting both elbows on the table. M)ur den of thieves seems re-j tnarkably lit this evening, dear, j It chimes in with mv mood, l'er- I haps it's because this is tho bast I time." The man stalled moodily at i the white wall. "So you mean j what you say; you are going to I quit f The girl wont rather white and uo?.uled liei head. "It's the only thing we can do; you must see that. 1 can't leave this way,I with tnrLnluiU niiurrulc und ft.,,, i pestuous reconciliations. 1 can't j do it. It's better to end it?bet- j ter for both of us. Y ou couldn't1 make things right, and somehow J seem to have developed a con-, rtcience of late." The man tapped a call belt on the taolo and a diminutive ('hi- j liamsn ambled through the open' door. The man and the woman, ordered chop soov ami ton. "See tioro, IJallie, 1 can't stand I this, i he man's face was smooth j and boyish, but it. was lined withl emoti >u as h? spoke. "1 can't live without you. Think I of ill! we have been to each other ; for two years. Why did I leave all the set I knew and take the' tint with our little red parlor, if it wa?n"t to see more of you f Do you remember our Sunday luncheons when you would come out early .uid make those wonderful dishes on our little gas stove? 'You couldn't reach up to fasten th i lubes on the gas jet, and 1 always had to Idt you?" * V ?." she interrupted,eagerly, 'and how clumsy you were audi how }( a used to crumple up my clean shirt waist. And do you remember when old Kben, the 1 ^ I 3 - ? ? * I januor, wouia come in wnu tnei beer, he would stop and talk' when we were dying for him to go? How many pirates did he) say he had killed with one shot? forty They both laughed. "Yes,and the night you thought you were going to be fired from the paper and wanted a 'scoop1; how we had burglars in the building and went out and treated the policeman on the beat so he IVPnt. concoj'tr r doo< ->n - i I an<.? .'oos br?npr > .* to !. * ? ban ?n and . * yours. ^ j b??n**h and str?". ?! . >. 1 r ?< tbv ohlMron. V" i u / t i tJ?>!1 - Vinitlo of Wir.i' < c ' 1'vorn vo n* doalrr. [ Ji* uA ^ ^ j i- ,, t In F?braar;.'|!Kl, ! ' >.' * ! V . i : c ra?.i a:..' i::o i-i.-t> :? y uiurr i. d fifteen r.' I '..at: r. wr i, i i i to iv i .1 at.: .1 !c .t* ; : tt of t sr-Vai. No" I ! v. ' - < f .(' 1 tr1 ,.!vi ... ..i..? - v; 4 ii fi J V ' fti !..?l * UH, i ' r,< n cor t?i . fjl. K ' K o nouj... j.< hi, (.van i i "tvrvi.! W ? if *iinout Wloeot ( sninilr v %"T" . ^uxxY'"v'ni1' i1 U BTtnpt nU Th' v' _;-4! JtfviHR Lf I fc ! . ? JI? a <*on .tji | < Latin; T?-tm. |5 ' ?V. T - \ I ? Another Love Storv. i u A tali man in light rain coat and a neutral-tinted girl climbed what gives me the strength to I break with you."' :? The little one-sided Chinaman t brought in the chop sooy and i lighted a single pas jet, which' I Bplntterod from the wind hlowingii through a broken pane in the i window. The interruption in 1 some occult way seemed to place! ] thorn out of sympathy. The girl's! < voice took on a serious tone. The! ! man grew impatient. i 1 ,-l have an engagement at S < o'clock." stie said suddenly. ii "We must be going. Heside wen gain nothing by talking things|l over." 11 They walked to the car. "This! is toe lirst tinje you have ever < left me this way," he said, as j I they stood on the corner await- [ ing the approaching tram. "Who I is the man f" I < '"One of my craft, the new dramatic editor from New York." "(>h, I see, and he is the cause{ of your new departure "Perhaps." "1 ivxh vriii nrricri^rili' Mi*.. . Doyle. This if- yourrar, f believe, i: Shall I ride down town with you ?''i lie was always most punctilious i when about to lose his temper. "No, Carl it t? better to part now. (iood-bye, good bye, ('arl.,,j: She reached out tier hand half.i pleadingly; Her resolution wusi waving. It tie bail spoken her j name then she would have turned | back; but man like, he remem- i bered only her reference to the I; other man. Krnebt Kheicard, the new dramatic editor, was an iron gray man well in his forties. His hair : was sprinkled as if to match his i eyes, which were steady and uncommunicative, like two littlej; Ofiiiii nf vi'!itf>r 1!.' i\ vi c v i I " " ' sure of himself. lie had met i llallie Doyle but twice when lie 1 determined that she was the wo-1 man ho had lonir pictured, the , "" 1 A YOI .\(? 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Ah, but those were i good old days ! ilallie, how can you forget them?" < All enthusiasm died from her face as his words brought her back to the present. She sat up very straight. "At lirst," she said i slowly, "i just loved you and i never thought of anything else. J i I went on and on, and gradually < 1 couldn't see my future. Always 1 before 1 thought I would be m something of a writer. Put after i you cam? 1 always seemed to see I you instead of success. Perhaps i if I had belonged to some one, l you would not have filled every i crevice as you did; but I didn't you know. There wasn't a soul | who cared, unless it was the < people to whom 1 paid my board. < And then after a while?God, Can't you see? Von went ou tell ! t ing me that you loved me and couldn't live without me, but you j did not say a word about?about i making filings right. And all! the time I know that no < ne could I love you as 1 loved you. And, yei that awful dread began toj come over me of the ultimate > woman?the woman you must it moot some day." "Halite, child," he broke out ' J impetuously, "it isn't my fault, i > 1 pwear it isn't. You don't uu I derstand." 1 "Oh, yes," she sighed wearily,! 1 "I do understand. and that isli woman for him ! He told her this that flight between the first and aecoud acts of "L'Aiglon." "I want you to be my wife, my comrade," lie said in hi? low,even voice. ' ! hail never expected to marry unless I found a woman whom I thought could be both to me and until I met yoti that seemed doubtful. I believe I appreciate you. You have been casting your pearls before swine ; liave been dissociated with those an worthy of you. I shall make it mv one study, next, to my profession, to brine out what is great in you. 1 know that you care for me and I only want your assu ranee." She turned the leaves of her program and her mouth twitched j convulsively. So he knew she j cared for him. Such is man. "You understand there was ?o? ie one olr-c?," -ho began. "I care nothing for whet has heen. Whatever process made >'ou what you are nui- t have be mi , i good one. I always know what ! [ want, and 1 w;mt vou. Will u be my wile, tia'li ? "Yes," she- said. 1 okiug him J draight in the eyes. In iiei heart he name < Ca ! rang ; " ;t* ntiy This man beside net. meat; iij ircomDlished, good l< ;n(,k n; ; .! uul with the digni y of i.._h bought. was asking i m to he Ins vife; ami jet with toe perverseless of fate, ?ho km . that nil tho joy of living had gone with her' arewell to the othei mwi. She I mmparod the tw . as she sat in i he theatre. Car S Hinders, the Her, undisciplined aid spoiled. Kxtrnvagant of time ai.d goods, I uid carried aw y by his ever ready sympathy. he w?nt hroughl life easily, heedless of deeper problems of living. When dilli nltiee confronted him he was' rankly and helpiessiv puzzled. It was this l.o.v isii incompetency! which appea'ud to the maternal instinct of women. Hallie Doye realized hi? imitations and loved liim for tin n, "t tb-? same time grieving o\ >-r thetn. Tlie cum.xii. had swung back an the battlefield scene. A soft haze hung over the stage. * l'es. it is smoke. 1 whs richlC'i her companion was paying. "My! jove, that iri peculiar." i here w?6 an uneasy stir, through the house Mademoisella Secrard paused and looked ahout her uncertainly. "What is^the mutter,"' asked I M illie, alarmed, "hj* there a li re ?*' As she ?poke the curtain was suddenly rung down, and an injinaculate man in e\ening dress was addressing the audience assuringlv There wan a slight conflagration jback d the stage. j l'lie speaker wan scare* Iv heard.! Women screamed and some fainted. Th? re was a rusk for the' exit. The ' moke began pour- [ nig from the heavy drop curtain, llallie and Kheicnrd were standing on their cl.air*. ' It is nothing serious,', he said,' raising his voir to be 1 eard above i the din. "Don't bo alarmed.) We .vili vruil until these cattle j regain their senses.'' Iiailie was cou^hin^ with the, smoke, bu: !. a.:.- unporturhe ! by if. "Ilallie, 1 must {.to behind the scenes. An interview with So-1 -aid at nnoh a time would be invaluable. Vci will net ho afraid? lust stand quietly where you are" All this he was compelled to shout, for the confusion had in- I creased. For a moment the jnr! looked after her escort bewildered. She could scarcely realize that he I meant to l<-av? her alone at such' a time. The aloofness of the man's mentality appalled hor.l then some one iron) behind her, jostled against her chair, and she! fell forward, catching the back of the seat in front. She crouched there between the ohairn to keep from being trampled on,and 'ay very quietly while the place became black with amoke. Presently the noise subsided' somewhat Her head felt dizzy. She straightened up with difficulty and peered through the smoke The place was quite deserted. Presently she saw two men ta'kmg excitedly midway up the. aisle. Hallie staggered toward them. Simultaneously they saw her, and both uttered her name I 1 HJPPPf and sprang toward her. One of them was Carl. She saw him only iiud reached out her hand to him, calling his name as she had done that day at the car. For a moment they clung to each other like children; and ignoring the other man, the danger of their situation?everything, their lips met, which sealed the sudden reconciliation. The fireman was calling to them roughly. The other man had disappeared. As they stepped into a carriage some distance from the line of engines surrounding the theatre, Hailio broke the silence for the first time. ''He was Ilheicard; you w?re talking with Frnest Kheicard." "1 found him searching for you as I was doing," said Carl. "In heaven's name how carne him to! leave you?" '"low came you to know I was in the theatre?" "I had kef! watching y u from the back of our box all the evening. H'd.'ie, you : gOiiig to many ilia; man. I .v it in Ins ; ami in \ on; I' ?11 me, WPf? v >1! could Vt.'i >?. ; liltv Ot thai Slio did r. >' answer. (' r) put his head mi* ,,t the v nd ?\v and gav oui: . .uctt'-no l > t t- ..river. "Where nCO we i.'UiiuV" she asked helplessly. lie drew her toward him tenderly. -To a priest, II iJlie. 1 always meat it so, only I didn't quite know it. > on see I was so satisfied just to have vow with me in the old days that I did not tlnnk it possible that I could lose von. Are you satisfied to go,dear?" lie reached out and turned her lace to the light, dropping his hands limply as he did so, with an exclaiinalion halfol awe, half adoration; lor in that moment the woman came u> a lull realization ot the greatness of her love; her lace had caught something ol the supernal, and the man tell back abashed at it. A Necessary Precaution. 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During a terrific windstorm which passed over Carolina Reach, twenty miles troin Wilmington, at 9 o'clock iast night, the Hotel Oceanic wa^ razed to the ground and thirteen guests more or less, injured, one perhaps tatalls. jp His Sight Threatened "While picknicking lj/t month my I I year-ohl boy wds poisoned by some weed <-r pbi/t," says W. u. iJibDie, or ^louruity, la. "Lie rubbed the poison off his bauds into his eyes and for ft while we were afraid he would lose his sight. Finally a neighbor recommended DeWitt'a Witch Hazel Salvo. The first application helped him and in a few days ho was as well as ever/' For akin diseases, cuts, burns, scalds, wounds, insect bites, DeWitt'sWitchllazel Salve is sure cure. Relieves piles at once. Beware of counterfeits. Crawford Bros. "IsnffVred the torture* of the damned with prolruilh s' pilCH brought ou by constipation with which 1 whs afflicted for twenty years I ran aoross your CASOARF/i'S In the K town of Newell. 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ONE vacancy in the State Henefloiary Scholarship, to be awarded oti competitive examinations, for Lancaster County. Hlank forms of application should he applied for at | once to Col. C. S. Gadsden, Chairman . Hoard of Visitors. These applications fully made out must be in the hands of the (chairman on the 31st July in i order to receive al tent ion. C. S. G A ICS DEN, .July ft Ch. Hoard Visitors. $100 Worth $100 Scholarship ITIOR each Congressional district in J South Carolina, and two for the .state aj,, Hrjft? in Kind's Mountain j M ilLHtfy Academy, Yorkville, S. O. scholarships will ha awarded roy our Representatives and Senators, ! strictly upon merit, in the same manI ner as the award of scholarships to j West Point. For fuU information address jour Representative, or one j of on r Senators, or ^ W. (i, STKl'Il KN joX, Siipt., duly n, it Yorkville. S. 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Registration Notice. ! rpiIE PUBLIC will fake notice that J the Registration Hooks will he open at the COURT HOUSE fo.* the | registration of parties entitled to reg- I : ister under the constitution, on the 1st Monday t Tuesday in each month, I until HO days preceding the general | election. J. M.CASKKY, Chair. Bd. Keg. Lancaster Co. I March 7, 11*00.