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THE ADVERTISER. s . ss, ? ion Prke-12 Months, $1.00 Parabl in Advance Kates lor Advertising.?Ordlnury Ad vortlsoments, por squaro, ono tusor tlon,$1.00;oacn subsequent insertion, 50 cents. Llboral ruductiou mado (or largo Advortiacmeuts. W. VV. Bai.L, Prourlotor. -f LAUREN S, 8. C, July 20, 1008. What is Fame? ?ryan BtRiulsby h a colors. To Bryan free silver at 10 to 1 is no', less Impor tant now than In 18l>0. It teems that when Bryan declared for free coinage ho meant It. That is uncommon among politicians. Among tho American peo ple Mr. Bryan is making a place as a man who stands for a prino'plo. Cal houn, Webster, llayno and Jackson, when they died left names ns-oeiat'-d with principles. When one thinks of state's rights, ono thinks of Calhoun. Calhouu's causo failed. When Bryan is dead, his famo promises to last. In the future when ono thinks of free silver Bryan's name will como to mied. Bryan Is au earnest, sincoro man. It happens that we are of those who regard bim ns the aposllo of an error. Tho American peopl'3 have repudiated Ms views und n.oro and more a-o repudiating them. Nevertheless, in the end they must re spect Bryan; for lie has been no trillor, no trimmer, no mere bidder foe offioe. Tho life of any great, str?ng mm wholly given to battling for the truth as he sees it is useful to the republic. It is au inspiration. In his Bisbop villo speech last week, our Senator Till man is reported to have said that the free silver issue must be temporarily laid asldo. Ho declared himself as Ilrtn a believer In silver as ever. The Sena tor knows that ho is wh'ppcd. The Senator is not a Bryau. Tho Sanator says that Mr. Bryan Is talking too much. Por all prac.ical purposes, Ohl Senator is now as good a ''gold but;" as Mr. Cleveland is. He has laid down his arms. II i has purronderod. Be has abandoned Bryan. His view3 re main unchanged but he is not lighting for thom. The gold democrats could ask no groater fuvor of a loader of the opposition than that ho retire from the fight. Pleasantly, Senator Till man alludes to Judgi Purker as a prosldeutal candidate. Parker is a New York gold bug. While he will not cease to denounce tho gold demo crats, tho Senator is today their of feotlveally. Ho will bo of great value to them In the South in next year's cam paign. Senator Tillraun is ono of the most astute politicians in Amorica. lie is a man of extraordinary ability. One of tho strongest, perhaps tho strong est, features in his gamu is tho adrok nes3 with which he ''follows the crowd." Ho Is shrewd enough always to convince the biggest part of the crowd in South Carolina that they are following him. Tho Senator does not play for the greatest stakes. His name will nover be associated in history with a tremendous f<r-reaching prlr.clple of morals or policy. lie will have no placo In history.such as Bryan w.11 have ' ills 6takes nro tho senatorshlp from South Carolina and the political boss domofaitato machine. No man could play it better than he does. No man could better i'lintratc largo talents in a small way. He is to South Carolina what Platt is to New York; Quay to Pennsylvania. With dilTeroDt cards, under dilTorent conditions, they play with equal success and win the same rewards. Twenty odd years ago Platt was the "me too" of Conkling. Conk ling was a brilliant statesman, asser tive, impetuous and unbending. Platt was a pigmy by bis sido. Both went down in defeat. Tho mighty Conk ling, overthrown, could not rise again. Tho littlo P.att in a fo* years was boss in New York. But Congling doad is remembered as ono of the tall figures of his goneration. In tho traditions of tho Senate and of his sti*to, his fame is safo. When Platt dies, ho will have a successor. In South Carolina, Tin man will always bo a winner?uuless a keener politician, a more adroit shuf Mor, a smartor talker better suited to tho times is produced. This is not likely. Nevoithcless, Senator Tlllman will one day pass from tho s'ago an uuKatl8lied man. Ho will know that ho has been, after all, a failure. His must be the consciousness that bo cannot walk in tho campanionship of the roally groat. Bittnerne s will ba ad ded by tho knowledgo that his short comings havo not been duo to want of intelloct. If ho had been capsule of sacrifice?, if ho could have concoived at any ttmo tho high ambition to abido by on unpopular Issue, if he had bacn glvon a heart and soul not dwarfed and shrunken in contrast with his splendid mind, he might have indeed aspired to and reached a lofty and lasting promi nenco. # tlocs to Columbia. F. H. MoMastcr, who for nearly eight yoars has been manager of the Charleston Post and has recently ba como circulation manager of tho Co lumbia State, can do more on the "busiooss ond" of a newapaper than any man In South Carolina. In thor ough mastery of tho details of a nows paper business oflloe, he has no equal that wo know of In South Carolina and tho OfeVrgpaprr to which Mr. McMas ter now goes will have no man in any way connected wirb its staff more valuable to it. ? Nelson Miles, commanding general of the army, is to bo retired nixtweek. Tho army has already bsen retired from Miles. * Tho Charleston Xows and Courier still insists that Charleston Is a cool town in summer. Ntvertholess, the News ond Courier is itsolf a "warm baby." Mr. Bryau has another ground for oharglng Mr. Cleveland with being a Republican syrapatbi/.ar. Mr. Cleve land is with Roosevelt on the "raco suicide" issue. * After all, Missouri is one state In which a politician rnnro?, s'oal with Imp-mnlty. .WHEN KNIGHTHOOD i WAS IN FLOWER Or, The Love Stor? o? Charles Brandon and MaryTudcr, King's Sister, and Happening In the Reign o? His August Majesty King H< nry the Eighth Rewritten Lnd Rendered Into Modern English rrom Sir i'.<!win Cfetkodcr.'s Metrvcir By EDWIN CASK9DLN [CHAftLCS PvlAJOR] CnpurUjht, isos and Jaot, />v the IJoictn-Mi n Itl < V>mj any f i I E it CHAPTER XVIII. TO tiii: TOWEit. IlIETHER or not Brandon would huvo found some woy to de II vor tho princess safely homo and still make his escape 1 cannot sa.v, as ho soon had no choice In tho mittler. At midnight a body of yeomen from the Tower took possession of the I'ow and String mid carried Brandon off to London without commu nication with Mary. Sbo did not know of his arrest until next moruing, when she was Informed that she was to fol low Immediately, nml her heart was nearly broken. Hero again was trouble for Mary. She felt, however, that the two great questions, tho marriage of herself to Louis, and Brnndon to any other p >r son, wen?, ns sin- tailed It, "settled." and was almost content to endure this as a mere putting off <>f her desires, a meddlesome and Impertinent Interfer ence of the fates, who would soon learn with whom they were dealing and amend their conduct. She did not understand the conse quences for Brnndon, nor that the fates would havo to change their purpose very quickly or something would hap pen worse even than his marriage to another woman. On the second morning after leaving Bristol Brandon reached London and, r\s he expected, was sent to the Tower. The next evening Lady Mary arrived and was taken down to Greenwich. The girl's fair name was of course lost, but, fortunately, that goes for lit tle with a princess?since no one would believe that Brandon had protected her against himself ns valiantly and honor nhly ns he would against another. The princess being much more unsophisti cated than the courtiers were ready to believe never thought of saying any thing to establish her Innocence or vir tue, and her silence was put down to shame and taken ns evidence against her. .Inno met Mary at Windsor, and of course there was n great Hood of tears. Upon arriving at the palace the girls were left to themselves, upon Mary's promise not to leave her room, but by tho next afternoon she, having been unable to learn anything concerning Brandon, broke her parole and went OUt to see the king. It never occurred to Mary that Bran don might suffer death for attempting to run away with her. She knew only too well that she alone was to blame, not only for that but for all that had taken place between them, and never for one moment thought that he might bo punished for her fault, even admit ting there was fault in any one, which she was by no means ready to do. The trouble In her mind growing out of a lack of news from Brandon was of a general nature, and the possibility of his death had no place in her thoughts. Nevertheless for the second time Bran don had been condemned to die for her sake. The king's seal had stamped the warrant for the execution and the headsman had sharpened his ax and could almost count the golden fee for his butchery. Mary found the king playing cards with De Longuovllle. There was a roomful of courtiers, nml as she en tered sho was the target for every eye, but she was on familiar ground now and did not care for the glances nor the observers, most of whom she despised. She was the princess again and full of self confidence, so she went straight to the object of her visit, the king. She had not made up her mind just what to say first, there was so much, but Henry saved her the trou ble. Ho, of course, was in a great rage and denounced Mary's conduct as un natural and treasonable, the latter, in Henry's mind, being a crime many times greater than the breaking of all the commandments put together in one fell, composite act. All this the king had communicated to Mary by the lips of Wolsey the evening before, and Mary had received It with a silent scorn that would have withered any one but the worthy bishop of York. As I said, when Mary approached her brother he saved her the trouble of de ciding where to begin by speaking first himself, and his words were of a part with his nature, violent, cruel and vul gar, lie abused her and called her all tho vile names in his ample vocabu lary of billingsgate. The queen was present and aided nml abetted with a word now and then, until Henry, with her help, at last succeeded In working himself into a towering passion and wound up by calling Mary a vile wan ton in plainer terms than I like to write. This aroused all tho antago nism In lite girl, and I hero was plenty of it. She feared IJenry no more than sho feared me, Her eyes Hashed a lire that made even tho king draw back ns sho exclaimed: "You give me that name and expect mo to remember you are my brother? There aro words that make a mother hate her firstborn, and that is one. Toll mo what I have done to deserve It? I expected to hear of in gratitude and disobedience and all that, but supposed you had at least some traces of brotherly fooling?for ties of blood are hard to break- even if you have of late lost all noinbhinee to man or king." This was hitting Henry hard, for It w.-j.s beginning to bo the talk In every mouth (hut he was leaving all the af fairs' of Hl;?to to Wolsey and spending his time in puorile nmusemeiit. "Tho toward ftopo which at all poyntos ap peared in ihe youngo Kyngo" was be ginning to look, after all, like nothing uioro than tho old tlino royal cold lire, made to consume but not to warm the nation. Henry looked at Mary with tho stnro of a baited bull. "If running off in male nttlro and stopping at inns and boarding ships with a common captain of tho guard doesn't Jiutlfy my accusation and stamp you what you nro, I do not know what would." Even Henry saw her innocenco in her genuine surprise, sho was silent for n little time, and I, standing closo to her, could plainly see that this phase of tho question had nover before presented It self. Sho hung her head for a moment und then spoke: "It may bo true, ns you say, that what I havo done will lose mo my fair name?I had never thought Of it In that light?but it Is also true that I am Innocent, and havo done no wrong. You may not bollovo me, but you can ask Master Brandon"- here the king gave a great laugh, and of courlo tho couriicis joined In. "It Is all very WOll for you (o laugh, but Master Brandon would not.tell you u He for your crown." (.Jods! I could have lullen oil my knees to u faith like Hint. "What I tell you Is true. I trust ed him so completely that the fear of dishonor at his hands never suggested itself |t, me. I knew he would care for und rospcel me. 1 trusted him. and my trust w as not misplaced. Ol' how many of these creatures who laugh when the klug laughs could I say as lnuehV" And Henry knew she spoke the truth, both concerning herself and the court iers. With downcast eyes sho continued: "1 suppose, iif(or till, y<'u are partly right in regard to me. for tt .as his honor that saved nie, no! luy own, nnd if I am not what you culled mo l have Master Brandon to thank not myself." "We will thank him publicly oil Tow er hill day utter tomorrow at noon." said the king, with his accustomed del icacy, breaking the news of Brandon's sentence as abruptly as possible. With a look of (error in her eyes Mary screamed: "What! Charles Bran don?Tower hill?? You are going to kill him?" "I think wo will," responded Henry. "It usually has that effect, to separate the head from tho body and quarter the remains to decorate the four nates. We will take you up to London In a day or two and let you sec his beauti ful head on tho bridge." "Bohoad?quarter- bridge! Lord Je su!*' She could not gl'iisp the thought." She tried to speak, hut the words would not come. In a moment she be came more coherent, and the words rolled from her lips as a mighty Mood tide pours hack through the arches of London bridge. "Von shall not kill him. lb' is hi .no less. You do not know. Drive . ose gawking fools out of the room, and I will toll you all." The king ordered tho room cleared of everybody but Wolsoy, Juno and myself, who re mained at Mary's request. When all wort? gone, the princess continued: "Brother, this man is in no way to blame. It Is all my fault--my fault that ho loves mo, my fault that ho tried to run away to New Spain with me. It may be that I have done wrong und that my conduct has been iinmnldonly, but I could not help it. From the first time I ever saw him in the lists wilh you at Windsor there was a gnawing hunger in my hear I beyond my control. I supposed of course that day he would eon I rive some way to be presented to me"? "Von did?'? "Ves, hut ho made no effort at nil, and when we met ho treated mo as if I wore an ordinary girl." "lie did?" "Yes." "l [orrlblo." Mary was too Intent on her story to hood the sarcasm, nnd continued: "Thai made me all tho moro Interested In him, since It showed that ho was dif ferent from tho wretches who beset you und mo wilh their flnttory, and I soon begun to seek him on every occa sion. This is an linmaidciily history 1 am giving, I know, but it is tho truth and must be told. I was Satisfied at first If 1 could only be in the same room with him and see his face and hear his voice. Tho very air ho breath ed was like an elixir for nie. I made every excuse to have hhn near mo. I asked him to my poiior?you know about (hat?and and did all I could to bo with him. At first ho was gentle and kind, hot soon, I think, ho saw the dawning danger In both our hearts, as I, too, saw it, and he avoid* d me In every way ho could, knowing the trou ble it held for US both. Oh, ho was the wiser! And to think to what I have brought him. Brother, lot mo die for him I wiio alone am to blame. Take my life and spare him spare him! lie was the wiser, but I doubt if all the wisdom in the world could have saved us. He almost Insulted mo once hi the park -told mo to leave -when It hurt him moro than mo, I am now sure, but ho did it to keep matters from growing worse between us. I tried to remember the affront, hut could not, and had he struck mo I believe I should have gone back to him sooner or later. Oh, It was all my fault! I would not lei him save himself. So strong was my feeling that I could boar his silence no longer, and ono day I went to him in your bed chamber anteroom and fairly thrust myself and my lovo upon him. Then, after he was liberated from Newgate, I could not induce him to come to mo, so I went to him and bogged for his lovo. Then I coaxed him Into taking me to .New Spain and would listen to no excuse and hear no reason. Now lives there another iniin who would have taken so much coaxing?" "No, by heaven, your majesty!" said Wolsoy, Who really had a kindly fool ing for Brandon and would gladly save his lifo It by BO doing he would not In terfere with any of his own plans and Interests. Wolsoy'fl hcnrt wms naturally kind when it cost him nothing, nnd much 1ms been related of him which, to say the least, tolls a groat deal more than tho truth. Ingratitude nlways re colls upon the lugrnto, und Henry's loss was greater than Wolsoy's when Wol soy fell. Henry really liked or, rather, ad mired Brandon, us had often boon shown, but his nature was Incapable of real affection. Tho highest point he ever reached was admiration, often miMo extravagant for n time, but usu ally short lived, as naked admiration is apt to bo. If he had affection for any one, It was for Mary. Ho could not but 800 tin- Justice of bis sister's position, but ho had no Intention of allowing justice in tho Reuse of right to Interfere with Justice in the sense of tho king's will. "You have boon playing the dovll nt a groat rate," he sold. "You have dis obeyed your brother nnd your king, have disgraced yourself, havo proba bly made troublo between us and Franco, for If Louis refuses to take yon now I will ornin you down his throat, and by your own story have led a good man to tho block. Quito a budg et of evils for one woman to open. But I have noticed that tho troublo a wo man can make Is In proportion to her bonuty, and no wonder my little sister has made so much .disturbance, it is strange, though, that ho should so af fect you. Master Wolsoy, surely there lins beeil witchery here, He must have used j) nbundantiy to casi mich a spei: over nr. nil u r." Then turning to the prlhfes^ "Was it at any time possible for MUpio havo given you a lovo pow- | dor. or did ho ever make any signs or passes over you?" "Oh, no; nothing of Hint sort. I nev er nto or drank anything which he could possibly have touched. And as to BlgUS and passes, I know he never made any. Sir Edwin, you were al ways present when I wns with him un til after wo left for Bristol. Did you ever see anything of the sort?" I answered "No," and she went on: "Besides, I do not believe much In signs and passes. No ono COU affect others unless he can Induce them to eat or drink something In which he has placed a love powder or potion. Then, ngain, Master Brandon did not want IUO to love him, and surely would not havo used such a method to gain what ho could have had freely without it." I noticed that Henry's mind had wan dered from what Mary was saying and that his eyes wen? fixed niton me with a thoughtful, half vicious, Inquiring staro that I did not like. I wondered what was coming next, hut my curios ily was more than satislled when tho king asked, "So Cnskoden was present at all your Interviews?" Ah! Holy Mother! I knew what was coming now nud actualist began to shrivel with fright. The king contin ued, "I suppose he helped you to es cape?" I thought my day had come, but Mary's wit was equal to the occasion. Willi an expression on her face of the most dovelike Innocence she quickly said: "Oh, no! Neither he nor Jane knew any thing of it. Wo were afraid they might divulge it." Shade of Sapphlra! A lie Is a pretty good thing, too, now and then, and the man who says that word of Mary's was not a blessed lie must light me with lance, battleax, sword and dagger till one or the other of us bites the dust in death, he he gieat or small. "I am glad to learn that you knew nothing of it," snkl Henry, addressing mo, and I was glad, too, for him to learn it, you may he sure. Then spoke Wolsey: "If your majesty Will permit I would say that I quite agree with you; there has been witch ery hero?-witchery of the most potent kind; the witchery of lustrous eyes, of fair skin and rosy lips; the witchery of all that Is sweet and Intoxicating in womanhood, hut Master Brandon has been tho victim of this potent spell, not the user of it. One look upon your sis ter standing there, and I know your majesty will agree that Brandon had no choice against her." "Perhaps you are right," returned I [onry. Then spoko Mary, all unconscious of her girlish egotism: "Of course he had not. Master Brandon could not help it"- which was true beyond all doubt. Henry laughed at her naivete, nnd Wolsey's lips wore a smile ns he plucked the king by the sleeve nnd took hi in over to the window, out of our hearing. Mary began lo weep and show signs of increasing agitation. After a short whispered conversation the king and Wolsey came back, and the former said, "Sister, if I promise to give Brandon his life will you consent decently and like a good girl to marry I,oiiis of Prance?" Mary almost screamed: "Yes, yes; gladly. I will do anything you ask," and fell at his feet, hysterically em bracing his knees. As the king stooped nnd lifted her to her feet he kissed her. saying, "Ills life shall be spared, my sweet sister." Aft er this Henry felt that he had done o wonderfully gracious act and was the kindest hearted prince in all Christen dom. Poor Mary! Two mighty kings and their great ministers of state had at "Brother, let me die for htm," last conquered you, but they hnd to strike through your love, tho vulnera ble spot In every womnn. Jane nnd I led Mary away through a side door, nnd the king called for Do Bongueville to finish the interrupted game of curds. Before tho piny was resumed Wolsey Stepped softly around to the king nnd asked, "Shall I affix your mnjesly's seal to Brandon's pardon?'1 "Yes, but keep him In the Tower un til Mary In off for Prance." Wolsey hnd certnlnly boon a frloud. to Brandon in llmo of noedj but, as usual, he hnd vnluo received for his frlendllnesH. Ho was an ardent advo onto of tho French mnrrlnge, notwith standing tho fact ho had told Mary he wns not, hnvlng no doubt been bribed thereto by the French king. The good bishop hnd, with the heb? of Do LbnguevTile, secretly sent Mnry's miniature to the French court in order that It might ns if by accident fnll into the hands of Louis, and that worthy's little, old, shriveled heart began to flutter Just ns If there could be kindled in It n genuine tlaine, Louis had sent to Do Longuevllle, who was then in England, for confir mation of Mnry's beauty, nnd Do Longuovllle grew so eloquent on tho theme Hint his French majesty at once authorized negotiations, As reports enmo In Louis grew more nud more Impatient, This did not, how ever, stund In the way of his driving n hard bargain In the inntTer of dower, for "the Father of the People" had the characteristics of his race and wns In tensely practical ns well ns Inflnnima ble. They never lose sight of the dot but I do not find fault. Ixmis little knew whnt thorns this lovely rose had underneath her velvet leaves, nnd whnt n verltnblo tartar she would be, linked to the man sho did not love, or ho would hnve given Ilen ry 400,000 crowns to keep her nt h?rne? TO HE CONTINUED. Clothing Renovated CLEANING AND DYEING DONE PROMPTLY. Cleaning and Dyeing Club up stairs over old Post Office. 'Phone No. 70. W. It. DOXIEIt. A Doctor's Reasons Patient: "Why do you say Schlitz, beer? Isn't any other beer as good?" Doctor: "Perhaps; but I don't know it. I do know that Schlitz beer is pure." Patient: "What do you mean by pure?" Doctor: "I mean free from germs. Impurity means bacilli; and in a saccharine product like beer bacilli multiply rapidly. I do not recommend a beer that may contain them." Patient: "How do you know that Schiit/, beer is pure?" Doctor: "I have seen it brewed. Cleanliness is carried to extremes in that brewery. The beer is cooled in plate glass rooms, in filtered air. The beer is then filtered. 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