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THE ADVERTISER. Subscription Pi Ice-12 Months, $1.00 Payablo lu Advance. Kates for Advertising.?Ordinary Ad vertisements, por square, one inser tion, 11.00; oach subsequent insertion, 60 oonts. Liberal reduction made for largo Advertisements. W. W. Ball, Proprietor. LAUBENS. S. C, June 15, 1904. The National Campaign. Mr. Ueurst will have a respectable following in the St. Louis convention. Ho will by no means be nominated but he may give trouble. Col. Bryan is to be there at the head of the Nebraska delogatlon. The "Solid South" will also be there either as backing Judge Parker or opposing with a man of Parker's kind tho purposes and poli cies of Messrs. Hearst and Bryan. This is putting the matter iu plain If un? pleasant English. In the greatest stato of tho South, Georgia, for example, a "Palmer and Buckner" editor is ono of the delegates at largo, Col. Charlie Pendlcton of Macon,?the ablest politi cal writer in Goorgla by tho way. Tho Editor of th > Atlanta Journal is an other of tho ''Big Four" from that stato. la S>U)h Carolina wo have gone n >t quits so far b-it th) pultlon of our delogatlon to tho convention ij practi cally the samo, so tar as results aro to bo a test. Meanwhilo, tho loudest sboutors for Bryan, such men as Sonator Tillman and Senator Latlmor will bo found squarely in lino with "Wall street'" the "money power" and the Belmonts, this year. Tom Watson of Georgia, brilliant man, was a populist ten years ago and called himself a populist. Ho is no cloior t) the "money powor" and "tho plutocracy" now than ho was tiioa. Tom Watson imagined that a man should bo sorious and sincere in Uls political views. They promptly beat Thomas out of his soat in congress. Tillman and Latlmor in this state advo cated tho measures and policies that Watson advocatod and porhaps in even noisier terms. They, meanwhile oallod thomselvos Democrats. Now tboy havo "como round" and aro denying tho political gospel that they swore by those few yoars ago. We spoak of Tillman and Litlmer merely as exam ples. There aro thousands of others liko them. Thero aro practical men of common senso who know that to suc ceed la the politic! trade tho "psople" must bo humored and petted and fooled, hand tod like muling babies and told big tales of the "bogey man" and "black dog." They realize that they must not have convictions, that they must not feel bound in conscience to any system of principles, that they must watch the straws so as to blow with the wind thomselves. Thoy are oxtremoly able and smart politicians. Tbe state of South Carolina should be proud of them. Wo a-e a groat etate anyhow. * Why Only Throe! The campaign is about to open. The signs ard that tho contest will be con fined to the soven or eight or ten citi zens who wish to have places on the railroad commission. Why should not all mou run for this oflice. It pays a salary of $1000, the torm is six years, tho commissioners aro givon free transportation on all tho railways and tho salaries are paid by the railway companies. Why tho general assem bly does not increase the number of commissioners from three to three thousand is a puzzle that wo have novor been able to understand. The stato of South Carolina is paying $200,000. tho year in pensions. If throe thousand gentlemou could be paid $1000. a year by tho railroads tho pansion list could be reducod threo thousand. Of course it would not cost the state a coppor. The railroads would foot tho bills. The money box of the railroads is inex haustible, so is that of the telephone and tolograph companies; why shouldn't thoy unload it upon and distribute it among the people? There are those who fancy that tho railroad compaulos in ono way or another get tho commls aionors salaries out of the pockets of people but this cannot be true. If it were truo, our astuto legislators would not have provided that the railroads should pay the salaries because the legislators arc always solemnly deter mined that the people shall pay no taxes. Tho legislature would never have imposed an indirect tax upon the pooplo. The Advkrtiser Is not to be inter protod as suggesting that the mombers of the railroad commission are pen sioners. Wo do not reflect upon tbelr vast usefulness. To whom aro they useful? It is not for us to guess. If they are paid by the railroads they ought to be useful to tho railroads. Every man should bo loyal and faithful to his em ployers. 1 f thoy are paid by tho poo plo, directly or indirectly, or by a de vious and winding route, they ought to be useful to tho people,?by a winding and devious route. We are convinced thr.t the railroad commission is ex ceedingly useful. Moreover we are confident that it is even more orna mental than useful. * Blessings?or Mere Advertisements? One who has boen reading about commoncemonts lately is suspecting that oducation is going to swamp this state. Tho daily nowspapors have prlntod soveral thousand accounts of how this little Johnnie in one sohool and that littlo Mary In another school have recited their little "spiels" and "done great credit to efficient teach ers." Four or five hundred great ora tions have been delivered as usual at the colleges and numerous distingu ished gentlemen have spoken in learned terms profound thoughts about oduca tion. The Advertiser would like to know whether or not in Germany where oducation Is more thorough and more general than elsewhere in the world commencements are so popular? Wo wonder if anything like so much energy and money are expended iu the old countries where boys and girls are ?11 taught well. Will not some of the great orators who have spoken at the great state colleges yield the Informa tloo? Mr. Jamie Roland is at home from Wofford College. Mr. C. R. Wallace of Youngs, was iu tho city Thursday. Cadet Mack Irby has returned from the Citadel. Mrs. Lyles Irby, of Columbia, is vis iting relatives in Laurens. Congressman J. T- John on was in the oity a day or so last week. Cadet Knox Simpson of Clomsonisj at home for the summer. Rev. N. J. Holmes and wife of Col umbia vieitrd relatives in the oity last week. Richard Anderson, of Columbia, spent a few days with bis parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Anderson last week. Mr. Cash Watts is in the city from Oheraw visiting his Unole,Major W. A. Watts. Mr. Popo Irby is at home for tho summer from tho l'eabody Institut? Nashville, Tenn. Miss Nellie Wallace was tho guost of Mrs. Walter Simmons ot Cross Hill, ia9t week. Miss Andrina Out/, of Johnson's, was tha guest of Mrs. P. P, McGowan last week. Miss Flora Dudloy, of Colorada, was tho guest of Miss Mota Bulllvan last weok. Mr. M. J. Owings and Superintend ent of Education C. F. Brooks were of the Laurens visitors to the Wofford College Commencement last week. Mr. Thomas Ray Jr., a student of Clemson College, is spending his vaca tion with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T F. Ray. Mr. W. A. Todd's new rosiduueo on Caroline Street is belngjrapldly pushed by Mr. Ross Powors, who has the con tract. Mr Jacob T. Barron of Columbia, while in the oity the past wook for the big Masonic occasion Friday evening, was the guest of Mr. W. P. Calno. Mies May Little is in the city from Augusta on a vaoatlon. She Is an ac complished stenographer and the at tractive daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Little. Mr. J. Alvin Curry, a former Lau rens boy, was in the city Thursday re turning to Darlington from a visit to Spartanburg, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Collier Curry of Dials Township. Miss Bessie Todd, who Is visiting Miss Medora Duncan in Union, is re ceiving many delightful social atten tions. Miss Duncan and Mrs. L. O. Young have given beautiful entertain ments in her honor. Mr. John II. Earlo, of Greonvillo, Is announced in The Advertiser this week as a candidate for Railroad Com missioner. Mr. Earlo is a young law yer of Greenville and a son of the late Judge Joseph H. Earle. Mr. Featherstene Complimented. Hon. C. C. Featherstone has boon ap pointed by the President of tho State Bar Association, one of tho delegates from this State to the Union Congress of Lawyers and Jurists which meets in St. Louis, the latter part of August. Prof. Martin Resigns. Prof. O. B. Martin, who has boon Headmaster of tho Fitting School at Furman University for several years, has resigned his position, for tho pur pose of taking post graduate work in some Northern University. He is a son of Mr. F. B. Martin, of Youngs township. Mr. Dlllard to be Married. . Invitations have boon recoivod hore to the wedding June 22nd, of Mr. John H. Dlllavd and Miss Mary Elizabeth Wiso of Augusta. Mr. Dlllard is the eld est son of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. P. Dlllard of Tylersville and is a fine young gen tleman. He has for the past eight or ten years lived in Augusta and at pres ent he holds an important position with one of the leading business con cerns in that city. Death of Miss Helen Owings. After a lingoring illness Miss Helen Owings, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James F. Owings of this city, passed away Wednesday night last. She was in the 19th year of her age and w as a girl much admired and beloved by a large circle of friends. The family's se vere aftMctlun is a source of sorrow and sympathy as has been manifested by all who know them. The body was taken to Dials' Church Friday morning for burial. Mrs. Teague A Delightful Hostess. Mrs. Jessie Teague entertained for the Euohre Club and a few friends not Included in the club membership on Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Teague Is a charming hostess and gave her guests an informal and most, pleasant after noon. Euohre proved as interesting to | these devoted card playors as usual and the game was played with zest. Miss Marlegene Oalne carried off the prize, a beautiful yiolet vase. Tempting and cooling refreshments were served, end ing delightfully a social afternoon much enjoyed. Miss Shell Weds Mr. Cathcart. At noon last Thursday Mr. John W. Cathcart of Winnsboro and Miss Nan Shell were united In marriage at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Ella W. Shell, three miles West of the city. The ceremony was performed by Rov.1 John D. Pitts. After a visit to Ash eville and other points, Mr. and Mrs. Cathoart will return to Winnsboro, which will be their future home. Mrs. Cathoart Is a daughter of the late Con-1 greasman G, W. Shell and a young woman of wide popularity, whose! many friends here and elsewhere, ex tend hearty good wishes. Mr. Cathoart I is Secretary of the Winnsboro Cotton Mills, and is a popular and well known young gentleman. YfTT tVVVTTTTTTTTTTtTTTTTTy T?? SKY PILOT By *RAL"PH COSfftOH Author of "The Man From Glonjtrry" 'Glenrftrry School D*ya" and "Black Rock" 4* CoprrlgM. 1899, by IUMW6 H. RtVfU COMPANY 4? 4"t* ? ? ? ? ? CHAPTER XII. owen's canyon. WEN'S hope and bright eour <!*??, Iu spite of all h?r pain, were wonderful to witness. But all this cheery hope and courage und patience snuffed out as a CQndle, leaving noisome darkness to settle down iu that sick room, from the day of the doctors' consultation. The verdict was clear and final. The old doctor( who loved Gweu as his own, was Inclined to hope against hope, but Fawcctt, the clover young doctor from the distant town, was positive in his opinion. Tbe scene Is clear to me now, after many years. Wo three stood In the outer room, tlie Puke and her father were with Gweu. So earnest was the discussion that none of us heard the door open Just as young Fawcctt was saying In inclslvo tones: "No! 1 can see no hope. The child can never walk again." There was a cry behind us. "What! Never walk again? It's a tie!" There stood the Old Timer, white, Qerce, shaking. "Hush!" said the old doctor, point ing at the open door. He wrm too late. Even as he spoke there came from the Inner room a wild, unearthly cry as of some dying thing, and, as we stood gassing at one another with awe stricken faces, wo beard Owen's voice as In quick, sharp pain. "Daddy! Daddy! Come! What do they say? Tell mo, daddy. It is not true! It Is not true! Look at me, daddy!" She pulled up her father's haggard faro from the'bed. "Oh, daddy, daddy, you know it's true. Never walk again!" She turned with a pitiful cry to tho Duke, who stood white and stiff, with arms drawn tight across bis breast, on the other side of the bed. "Oh, Duke, did you hear them? Yon told me to be brave, and I tried not to ery when they hurt me. But I can't be brave! Can I, Duke? Oh, Duke! Never to ride again!" She stretched out her hands to him. But the Duke, leaning over her and Holding her hands fast in hin, could ?nly , sny brokenly over and over: "Don't, Qwenl Don't, Owen, dear!" But the pitiful, pleading voice went on: "Oh. Duke! Must I always lie here? Must I? Why must I?" "God knows," answered the Duke btjterly, under his breath, "I don't!" She caught at tho word. 4,Poes he?" she cried eagerly. Then %Jfcepaupcd suddenly, turned to me and Sold, "Do you remember he said some day 1 could not do as I likedV" 1 was puzzled. "The Pilot!" she cried impatiently. "Don't you remember? And I said I should do as I liked till I died." I nodded my bend and said, "But you know you didn't mean It." ?'But I did, and I do," she cried, with passionate vehemence, "and I will do as I like! 1 will not lie here! 1 will ride! I will I I Will! 1 will!" and she struggled up, clinched her lists and sank buck faint and weak. It was not u pleasant sigld. but gt'cwsome. Her rage against that Unseen Omnipotence was so delimit and so helpless. Those wore dreadful weeks to Owen and to all about her. Tho constant pain could not break her proud spirit; she shed no tears, but She fretted and chaff d and grew more Imperiously ex acting every day. Ponkn and Joe she drove liko a slave mnsler, and even her father, when he could not understand her wishes, she impatiently banished from her room. Only the Duke could please or bring her any cheer, and even the Duke began to feel that the day WOS not far off when he, too, would fall, and the thought made him despair. Her pain was hard to bear, but harder than the pain was her longing for the open air and the free, llower strewn, breeze swept prairie. But most pitiful of nil were the days when In her utter weariness and uncontrollable unrest she would pray to be taken down Into the canyon. "Oh, It Is so cool and shady," she would plead, "and the flowers up In tho rocks and the vines and things are all so lovely. 1 am always better there. I know I should be better," till the Duke would be distracted and would come to mc and wonder what the end woidd be. One day, when the strain had been more terrible than usual, the Duke rode down to me and said: "Look here. This thing can't go on. Where Is the Pilot gone? Why doesn't he stay where he belongs? I wish to heaven he would got through with his absurd rambling." "He's gone where he was sent," I re plied shortly. "You don't set much store by him when he does como round. He is gone on an exploring trip through the Dog lake country. Ho'll bo back by the end of next week." "I say, bring him up, for heaven's sake!" said the Duke. "He mny be of some use, nnd anyway It will bo a new face for her, poor child." Then he added, rather penitently: "I fear this thing is getting on to my nerves. She almost drove me out today. Don't lay it up ngnlnst me, old chap." It was n new thing to hear the Duke confess his need of any man, much less penitence for a fault. I felt my eyes growing dim, but I said roughly; "You bo banged) I'll bring tbe Pilot tip when he comes." It was wonderful how we had all como to confide In tho Pilot during his year of missionary work among us. Somehow the cowboy's nnmo of "Sky Pilot" seemed to express better than nnythlug else tho place be held with us. Certain It is that when, in their dark hours, any of tho fellows felt In need of help to strike the "upward trail" they went to tho Pilot, and so tho name first given In chaff came to bo the name that expressed most truly the deep and tender feeling these rough, big hearted men cherished for him. When the Pilot enmo homo I care fully prepnred him for his trial, telling all that Owen had suffered nnd striv ing to make him feel how desperate wnn her case when oven tho Duko hnd to confess himself beuten. Ho did not seem sufficiently Impressed. Then 1 pictured for him ?11 her fierce willful ness nnd her fretful humors, her Impa tience with those who loved her nnd were wearing out their souls and bortic* for her. "In short," I concluded, "she doesn't enre a rush for anything In heaven or earth, und will yield to neither iuun uor Qod." The Pilot*? eyes bad been kindling as I talked, but be only answered quietly: "What could you expect?" "Well, I do think ehe might show some signs of gratitude aud some gen tleness toward thoso ready to die for her." "Oh, you dol" said he with high scorn. "You nil combine to ruin her temper und disposition with foolish flattery and weak yielding to her whims, right or wrong; you smile at her imperious pride and encourage her willfulness, and then not only wonder at the results, but blamo her, poor child, for all. Oh, you are a flue lot, the Duke and all of you!" He had a most exasperating ability for putting one In the wrong, nnd I could only think of the proper and suf ficient reply long nftor the opportunity for making It had passed. I wondered what the Duke would say to this doc trine. All the fallowing day, which was Sunday, I could see that Qwen was on the Pilot's mind. Ho was strug gling With the problem of pain. .Holiday morning found us on the irny to tho Old Timer's ranch, and what a morning It was! How beauti ful our world seemcdl About us rolled tho round topped, velvet hills, brown and yellow or faintly greon, spreading out behind us to tho broo4 prnlrlo, and before, clambering un nod up to meet the purple bases of the great mountains that lay their mighty length along tho horizon and thrust nj> white, suultt peaks Info tho hluo-eky. On the hillsides and down In tho shel tering hollows we could see toe bunches of cattle and horses feeding upon the rich grosses. High above, the sky. cloudless and blue, arched Its great kindly roof from prairie to moun tain peaks, and ovor all, above, below, upon prairie, hillsides nnd mountains, the sun poured his floods of radiant fellow light. As we followed tho troll that wound up and Into the heart of these rounded hills and ever nearer to the purple mountains, the morning breeze swept down to meet us, bearing a thousand scents and tilling us with Its owu fresh life. One con know the quickening Joyousness of these foothill breezes only after he has drunk with wide open mouth deep nnd full of them. Through all this mingling beauty of sunlit bills and shady hollows and pur ple, snow peaked mountains we rode with hardly a word, every minute add ing to our heart Alling delight, but ever with tho thought of the little room where, shut In from all this out side glory, lay (?wen, heart sore with fretting and longing. This must have been in the Pilot's mind, for he sud denly held up his horse nnd burst out: "Poor Owen, how she loves all this! It Is her very life. How can sho help fretting the heart out of her? To seo this no more!'' He Hung himself off bis bronco nnd snld, as If thinking aloud: "It Is too awful! Oh, it is cruel! I don't wonder at her I Ood help me, what can I say to her?" Ho threw himself down upon the grass and turned over on his fuce. After a few minutes ho appealed to me, and his fare was BOrel) troubled. "How can one go to her? It scorns to me sheerest mockery to speak of pa tience and submission to a wild young thing from whom all this Is suddenly snatched forever and this was very life to her, too, remember." Then he sprang up and we rode hard for on hour till we enmo to the mouth Of the canyon. Hero the trail grew dif ficult, and we came to n walk. As we went down Into tho cool depths the spirit of tho canyon came to meet us and took the Pilot In Its grip. He rode in front, feasting his eyes on all the wonders In that storehouse of beauty. Treos of many kinds deepened the shadows of the canyon. Over us Waved the big elms that grew up hero and there out of the bottom nnd around their feet clustered low cedars and homlocks nud bnlsams, while the sturdy, rugged oaks nnd delicate, trem bling poplars clung to tho rocky sides nnd clambered up nnd out to the can yon's sunny lips. Bock of nil tho great black rocks, decked with mossy bits and clinging things, glistened cool nnd moist be tween the parting trees. From many an oozy nook the dainty clematis nnd columbine shook out their bells, and. lower down, from beds of many colored moss the late wind flower and mnldon hnlr and tiny violet lifted up brnve, sweot faces. And through tho canyon the Little Swan sang Its song to rocks nnd flowers and overhanging trees, a song of many tones, desp booming where It took Its first sheer plunge, gay chattering where It threw itself down the ragged rocks and soft murmuring where It lingered about the roots of the loving, listening elms. A cool, sweet, soothing place It was, with nil its shades and sounds aud sllcncos, and, lest it should be sad to any, the sharp, quick sunbeams danced aud laughed down through all Its leaves upon moss es, flowers and rocks. No wonder thnt the Pilot, drawing a deep breath as ho touched (he prairie sod again, said: "That does me good. It is better at times even than the sunny hills. This was Owen's best spot." I sow that the conyon hod dono its work with him. nis face was strong nnd cnlm os the hills on n summer morning, and with this face he looked in upon Gwou. It was one of her bad days nnd ouo of her bad moods, but like n summer breeze he burst Into tho lit tle room. "Oh, Gwon," ho cried, without a word of greeting, much less of com miseration, "we have had such a rldol" And he spread out the sunlit, round topped hills before her till I could feel thoir very breezes in my face. This the Duke hod never dared to do, fear ing to grtevo her with pictures of what sho should look upon no moro. But as tho Pilot taUied, before she knew, (twon wns out again upon her beloved hills breathing their fresh, sunny air, filling her heart with their multitu dinous delights till her eyas grow blight and tho lines of fretting sraoothod out of hor fnco nnd she forgot her pain. Then, boforo she could remember, he had her down into tho canyon, feasting her honrt with Its airs nnd sights and sounds. The block, glistening rocks, tricked out with moss nnd trolling vines, tho greot elms nnd low, green cedars, the oaks and shivering pop lars, the clematis nnd columbine hang 'ng from the rocky nooks nnd the vio lets and maiden hnlr deep bedded In their mosses. All this and for more ho showed her With a touch so light as not to shake tho morning dew from boll or leaf or frond, and with a voice so soft nnd full of music ns to fill our hearts with the canyon's mingling sounds, and as I looked upon her fnco I sold to my self, "Dear old Pilot for this I shall always love you well." As poor Owen listened tho rapture of it drew the big tears down her cheeks, olns, no lougor brown, but whlto, and for thnt day at least the dull, dead weariness was lifted from her heart. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Linoleum - flatting - Rugs. !f you want better floor coverings than you have been buying-?if you want a larger, newer and brighter stock to select from, and at prices lower than you have been paying, we invite you to do your buying here. a 8 Everything to F urnish a Home at Prices You'll be Willing to Pay K,. P. MILAM & CO. Your stock and poultry need douug. Now is tha lime, pro vided you use the International Stock Food Company's Products. 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