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THE ADVERTISER. Subscription Price-12 Mouths, $1.00 Payable la Advance. Kates for Advertising.- Ordinary Ad vertisements, per square, one inser tion,91.00; each subsequent insertion, 60 cents. Liberal roduetlon made tor large Advertisements. W. W. Halt., Proprietor. Entered at tbe pjstoffioe at Laurens, S. C, as s -oond class mall matter. LAU KENS, H. C, Oct. SO, l?04. Lay up a Little. This tbe year that many young farm era v. ill save a litlle money and "get a star'." The young farmer who saves nothing this year will probably die; poor though he live to be ninety. We have four good strong banks In Lau ren a. The your.g farmer who keeps a deposit in one of them and pays for next year's supplies as he needs tbeut in cash Is fairly an I truly on the road to independence. * Has Done Uood Work. The Laurens County Tonobera Asso ciation has accomplished substantial results in the last three or four yeara and The Advertiser Is glad to ob? servo th.tt It has been reorganized. Tbe teachers of this county are pro gressive and earnest men and women and thoy are able to 1 own much from each other. We hope that they will give special attention in future to tbe improvement of school premises. A neatly painted school-bouse, tastefully furnished with well kept grounds is of great value to a community. Leave tho Counties Alone. We think the State Executive Com mittee was wise in refusing to Interfere in the Walker-Speeglo contest ii Greenville county. It is best that th counties be allowed to mansgu their own alTairs. Once tbe habit of admitt ing appea's to the State Committee begin*, there will be no ond of compli cations. When the time arrives that the counties fail to properly conduot county primaries, the days of prim aries will be over. There Is too much appeal auyhow. ? Better Than Wo Deserve. The Advertiber is fully satisfied that in the matter of pardons Gov ernor Heyward's intentions are in varably worthy of all praise. In the Hayes case Governor Heywaid com mitted a sorrowful error of judgment in going outside of the record for the testimony of a new witness. The method i.uisoed by the governor was most unfortunate. NevortLeles* we oi:ce aga:n repeat w.th all the emphasis that we em command that Duncan Clinch Hey ward of the ricelands Is a hotter Gov ernor than we deserve. ? Kicked Out of Tho Army. A tiDfjro soldier of the United - tatf s Army married a white woman and on tho recommendation of Brigadier Gen eral Fred Grant, ton of the late Presi dent Grant, he was discharged from the army "for the good of tho set vice." Southern people ncd not bo surprised The Northern people aro as much op posed to marriage betwroo the races as we are. The pity Is that tfeeJUiftlhtO' rccognjgg that 1 mwlriHg"with (o-peota oie ne.'coop such as Booker Washing ton implants in the negroes gruerally the ambition for social equality ar.d causes danger and trouble in the South. It was tho failure to ser this that male Roosevelt's invitation to the negro nothing short of a crime The Presi-'ent of the United Sta'es in common decency should have for borne to add to tbo serious.iess and diOiouity of the Southern p.obi in When an English baron dines Hooksr Washington It does no harm to these Southern States. When tbe Presi dent dines blm it tends to set afoot iho very devil. # Can Ono Man Lynch? We do no not know that anv man in Laurens defend* tho lynching of Mor rison who brutally murdered young Floyd. It was most infamous mur der that Morrison did. In cold blood he shot down in hi* tracks a line young farmer boy who had given no offence. Suppose you had seen Morrison mur der poor Floyd. Would you have gone with tho crowd and hclpod to hanf this man wbo killed two men befoi h j assassinated Floyd? Suppose you alone had met Morrison an hour after he butchered F'oyd. Suppose you had been aimed with a pitt>l and had "gotten the drop on him?" Believing that Morrison should b lynebfd, would you alone have then and there lynched him?shot him to death with your pisto1? If Dot, why not? Suppose that you, with none other present, only you and tho victim pres ent, you having h>m in your power, should lynch a man?how would you feel about it ever afterwards? Ycu are a rta*onablo man. Would you bo any less guilty if you wore to he one of a hundred in a lynching than if you were tho whole lynching party? the whole mob? Judge Watts in his charge to the L*nceater grand jury said that all the lynchers of Morrison were "murder er*," If one man having Morrison in his power hjd shot him down without giv ing him a chance, you would have said that Morrison was murdered ? not lynched. If tho slayors of a u.an are a hundred do they therefore cease to bo murder ers? Was not Judge Watts a- curate in his use of words? A CONTINUAL STRAIN. Many mon and women are cons'aotly subjected to what they commonly term "a continual attain" because of tome financial or family trouble. It wears and distresses them both montally and pbyslcallv, effecting their nerve* bad ly and bringing on liver and kidney ailments, wi.b the attondant evils of constipation, lo-s of appetite, sleepless ness, low vit-tiitv and despondency They o.mnot, as a rule, get rid of this "continual strain," but they oan reme dy its health destroying effects by tak ing frequen* doses of Green's August F.ower. It tones up the liver, stimu lates tno kidneys, Insures heilthy bod ily functions, gives vim and spirit to one's whole being, and eventually dis pels the physioal or mnntAl dUtres# caused by that "oominual strain." Trial bottle of August Flower, 26c; reg ular size, 76c. At all druggists. X M N .. H >< I" > (..f.. ? If Heart? ourageous CopyrlgM. 1902. by THE DO WEN-MERRILL COMPANY HALLIE Bj^... ERMINIE RIVES n Before who had recovered from her astonishment he was bowing low. "Mademoiselle," be said, "will pardon the liberty I take In addressing her?" She bowed cold!y, half startled. "PatOi" ho went on, "has made me tho owner of this servant, for whom, bein;; no landholder, I have scant use. She spenkB n strange (ongUO nnd is In a strange land, and to five her without bond time were small kindness. May I bvg the favor, mademoiselle, that you take her In your service, demanding such labor na will requite her support?" The Indignant color flooded Anne's brow. "Sir." she said frigidly, drawing herself up. "we have strange surprises in Virginia, but surely the effrontery cf our \'. 5itorr3 surpasses them all." Armand looked clearly nt her out of his dark eyes. "Mademoiselle will par don." he answered, "the error of one af these visitors, who. seeing her face, tins overestimated her grnelousncss nnd charity." With this he bowed again till his hat swept the ground, and, followed by the bondwoman, walked down the wharf town I'd the unlading vessel. red in Anne's cheeks had grown to firebrands and her anger lent sting to t e half COUCoalcd smirks of those M bo .stood nearest. "Laud of mercy!" said Betsy, with emphasis. "What Impudence!" Soon the curious crowd was thin ning. Betsy's search was ended, and Anno, having left her seat In the conch, watched at nearer view the disgorging of the cargo. Here Brooke came primed with a new sensation. This now nothing less than tho tale of a fight which had oc curred during the voyage between the mate of the vessel nnd a passenger. Anne's eyes were very soft as he fin ished. "And wdio d'ye think," he ended, "was this champion? Why, the young Frenchman yonder that you crushed so mercilessly. Mistress Ttllotson." "And the redcmptloner woman?" ask ed Anne, with something like dread. " 'Twns the wench ho won from Burnaby Holph." "Oh!" The cadence was full of liquid self reproach. "Where nre you going?" Betsy nsked as Anne rose. She did not answer, but waHctU quickly across the wharf to the Bpot where Armand stood. He made no movement as she came. "Monsieur"? She faltered and stop ped. Hia hat was In his baud instantly, and be was gravely deferential. "I -wish to take back," she went on, "my words of awhile ago. I assure you they were not rudely meant. I"? He stayed her with a gesture. "What am I that mademoiselle should speak thus? I was brusque, unmannerly"? "No, no!" "I forgot where I was?forgot.tbftt I had not the ^oy-ef Jumytog her?forgot "everything but wh?TT'saw in her face as she sat In the chariot. For I am a great magician, mademoiselle. 1 know all who are lovely and gracious of heart." "I was wrong," sho said proudly. "And for this I ask your pardon. May ?may I have the bond servant?" He smiled gnyly now and bowed low to her. "To be treated with such pleas ant surgery all the world would be glad of wounds," he cried. "You recom pense me a thousand times!" He signed to the serving woman who sat stolidly upon a nearby chest nnd pointed from himself to Anne. She understood, nnd when Anno put her In charge of John the Baptist to take on ahead a-pillion ab? went without ques tion. Betsy watched this transaction open mouthed. "Did you ever!" she gasped. "I won der what mother will say to that!" Armand had stepped to position, hat under arm, at the coach door. "Made moiselle will permit me to assist her?" he asked and gave her the tips of bis fingers. His eyes were bright on her face. On the step she stopped, half turned, a delicate flnsh coming to her cheek?a flush that deepened to damask nt his look. She hesitated an Instant as If about to speak, then suddenly entered, sat down, gave the word to the driver and was whirled away. The secretary stood looking after the retreating char iot. "A splendid creature," purred Brooko, nt his elbow, "albeit you found her win try." "Wintry!" exclaimed tho young man, "She who Is made only of summer, Its Incense, Its colors, Its dreams! Yours is an enchanted land, monsieur, and she its goddess!" "Kgad, I'll make n sonnet of that!" exclaimed Brooke. "Sink me, but It's coming backt" The latter remark was applied to the chariot, which had turn ed and was now approaching moro slowly tho spot whore they stood. As it drew op Anne leaned from the Window. "Monsieur," she called, "I had quite forgot to speak of the In denture." He drew it from his pocket and held it out to her. "Such have to be conveyed, I make sure," she said, looking at it doubtful ly. "Your delicacy, sir, forbade you to set mo light. Wo shall have to sign and witness a deed nnd what not, I suppose." "'Tis a plain Indenture," aald Brooke, peering. She drew It away sharply. "Alas, we women know so little of business. I bethink me my father will wish to re ceipt to you for it." "Mademoiselle"? "Aye, but he will. At any rate, you would not be so ungnllant as to have me blamed, sir? Will you not ride to Gladden Hull with mo? 'Tis scarce a half league away." "Mademoiselle I" "Your father is in Wllllnmsburg, mis tress," ventured the exquisite. "I chanced to overhear him say this morn log he would remain over at Colonel Byrd's until tomorrow." Anne frowned. "I fear you did not hear aright, sir," she returned coldly. Then, with an enchanting smile, site opened the coach door and made room for the secretary beside her. "I await you, monsieur," sho said, her eyes like fringed gentians. He bowed to her with a new light on his face, entered and closed the door. "Home, Rashlelgb!" she cried to the driver, nnd the heavy coach rolled a wgy. "\\ littry," paid the fop to hluiself, With a chuckle. "Methluks report does the lady wrong," Jarrat meanwhile bad been slttlug In the skipper's dingy cabin, for Mus ter Elves bad now transferred responsi bility to the ship's agent, his face prop erly smoothed to good fellowship ovor n noggin of rum from the locker. He had long ago cultivated a new nffublll ty with the master of the Two Suiters. Now ho had an errand, though he was somewhat long in coming to the point. "The Marquis do In Trouerle," ho : n ill llnnlly and in a purely casual way as he smacked his Hps. "It was nigh two months since that he died, if I re member." The mariner took down bis log from the shelf and, turning it with a hairy thumb, pushed It across tho board. The other looked at It closely and laid tho book open before him. Incidentally he filled up the glasses. "Knew you aught of his affairs in this colony?" he que ried. One might have noticed that tho eyes opposite narrowed perceptibly. "Not I," answered tho skipper. "I hold to my own holm." "A close tongue," vouchsafed Jarrat, "makes a wldo purse." The drift of this succinct remark was not lost upon his companion, who dis creetly kept his eyes upon his glass. Tho speaker continued, dropping his voice ond leaning on the table: "The marquis and I had somewhat of busi ness together, although we never met. In fact, I made this voyage nt his own request, Now, to be frank, the news of his death will not aid a mutual ven ture of ours here in Virginia, which, for my part, has gone too far for back ing. Zooks! A mortal pity to publish It!" There were interest and speculation In the narrow eyes If nothing more. Some thing jingled. It tuny havo been the visitor's sword knot or a hand In n pocket. Tho skipper was not deaf. "Tho passengers?" he hazarded. "They are off for the north today. Iloston blab will not hurt me. 'Tis tho gazettes here I care about. As for the factors, they are bent on business. Our young Virginia woolsack has gone to Pennsylvania. I'll risk him." "There's the marquis' secretary." Jarrat snapped his fingers. "He'll be cheap. I know the breed. A leaf lost from a log is no great matter," he con tinued slowly ns though to himself. Again tho jingle. The skipper cleared his throat. .Inrial's hand slowly, very slowly, tore out the leaf, folded It and placed It In his pockctbook. Yellow disks passed across the table. "I'll be keel hauled If I see your game," said the skipper. The other smiled. "I'll ho keel hauled If I see why you should," sold he. ?** Wtt??!<e was SCjQJXk done twisting his lovelock when Jarrat crossed the wharf from the ship hot from his bar gain with tho skipper. lie UUldc In quiries concerning a young gentleman dressed in gray and by good luck hit upon nn apprentice lad who told him v__; "Mademoiselle will permit me to assist hcrf" he had carried the young gentleman's chest to the Swan tavern, nt which he had been directed to bespeak supper and lodging. CHAPTER IV. EOR some llmo the two in tho conch rode in alienee. The way, when they had left the clus tered shipping of the town be hind them, wound along the reed rim med bank of tho river where plethoric crows cawed to their males. The after noon had como with a vivid sky burn ing to n char on tho horizon. Tho young secretary gazed out of the open I window, and through It the wind came, ' sweet with the cloan Smell oi dry grass. I Anne stole a side glance from under ' drooping lids. "You are deeply occupied, monsieur," She said at length, with a lurking thread of sarcasm. "I should not mar vel since nil Virginia lies just outside." He threw her a smile that softened his clean cut mouth and lightened his eyes. "All Virginia Is not outside tho window?for mo, mademoiselle." With a woman It Is tho now sensa tion which captivates, Mistress Tlllot son had been used enough to pretty speeches. The beans of half Virginia had recited quatrains to her fan. Here was an unaccustomed subtlety. "Yet your eyes were there," she ro Jolned. "Had your thought fled still farther? Oversea, mayhap?" lie mot her look full eyed. "Sholl I tell you of what I was thinking? I have seen ninny fair Indies in my own land, gracious and kind belike, hut few whoso chnrlty could reach to an object so for beneath them as a bond woman; fewer yet whoso graclousness would lead them to sue for pardon from a stranger?Uko me." "I," she answered more lightly, "was thinking of how tho frost has set tho woods afire. Saw you ever such copper reds and russet golds? And those wedges of pink rock - they hove tho look of raspberries crushed In curdled milk. Ood Is spendthrift of his hues." The country through which they / ! was hung with tue marw us olbra which n Vlrghilmi autumn luv [altos so prodigally. There were the mn roon of the wild rose stalk, the ripe brown seams of butternut bark and the Shifting lints the sun lends the frosted alder, tue gray liehen and bronze llr splotched with searlet creeper, and stip pled mosses like saffron butterflies. Here and there showed the splash of n blueblrd'8 wing or the vermilion erest of a kingfisher. "It is very fair." he suld. "as It should be." Again a silence fell, while the road swung across forest stretches, under springing roofs through which the sky cwnni In dazzles. At last she spoke demurely: "And of what else were you think ing, monsieur?" "I was thinking what you are most like. Rome ladles are like snow moun tains that stand very far o'f, white and beautiful, but cold?bo cold you cannot warm them, and so high. Some j are like blossoms, sweet nnd perfumed, | mad' for only a nosegay in tho even ing. Wbeu the sun Is hot they wither. Some are like a song that one hears and thinks lovely-hums It nwhile and forgets." "And which of these am I, sir?" "Yon are like a sword?slim and shin ing and straight and yet delicate. It took centuries to make tho sword, mademoiselle. It will bend, bend, but not break. It Is sharp and cold to all the world save one?the one who wears it at his side. l:ut to his touch It bo comes alivo to ward him harm, to guard his lifo, to kcei his honor." "An we were tr. , swords," she Hashed, "we ladles oi Virginia, there were less ot' bitterness In this fair colony of ours." "Po the ?vd has the temper!" ho cried. Ida vj e n Hing. "It Is not for ornament nlone! And these troubles of the colonies?they strike so deeply then? Do even the ladles of n land such as this feel the sting?" She gazed out toward the low knob bed hills limned ngainst the deepening sky, her elbow on the window sill, her chin In her gloved hand, silent. Abovo them in sun stained air shreds of torn clouds folded away like dreams. From near by came the startled llutter of Held larks and the rustle of ripening corn. The road curved quickly and lurched Into a pine forest, where the day Qlmcd to twilight nnd the hoofs fell noiseless ly Into a carpet of brown needles. It was a pleasant way, full of mingled odors, all s'.rnngely pure and agreeable, where clamorous wood things piped to a musical silence. "'Tis not nil Virginia, after all, that one sees here, monsieur." she said slow ly after a time. "Far to the west of us Is n vast region, raw, full veined nnd of scattered tenants. There are great mountain peaks and ravines, wastes wailing seed nnd hoe, plateaus and woodlands where the musket and the ax are never silent. Deer run In the brake. Wolves race along the ridges. There strong men have lived and toiled and fought back the savages and cleared themselves homes. Their children have grown up unyielding like the granite In tho mountain's heart, un trammelcd like its torrents. And this life amid the silences has taught them a Justice that may not be bought, a strength that knows neither fear nor favor. The region you s?:o here, mon sieur, to this great weave I speak of is but the raveled edge. "Here broad rivers run brncklBh with tidewater, and ships lie at the wharfs. They bring to our manor houses all of luxury und refinement which Virginia tobacco can buy. And here tho planters ?for Virginia was first settled by gen tlemen, monsieur ?choose to put on courtllnoss and dress in gold lace and make n bit of London for themselves on the edge of tho wilderness. "Just beyond those hills to the south ward is WlUlomsburg, the capital they have built. It has a college and n court. Tlyro the cocks are over light lug, the horses are ever running, the fiddles are ever playing, nnd there in his palace sits tho royal governor his majesty Is pleased to put over his colo nials, levying on their leaf and sneer ing at their jpucksklns." "The Barl ?f Dunmore?" "Aye, my lord the earl, Think you he knows one whit more of this Virginia than does tho king, a thousand leagues away? Ho drinks in his palace and drives his whlto horses and budies his burgesses, tho representatives whom the people have elected. They must pleasure him or he dissolves them. The king has forgot that the Virginians aro Englishmen aud that Englishmen love freedom." "And Englishwomen, too," he snid. "Wo can do little," she went on. "Wo wear no swords. All wo can do Is to hope nnd to wait." "Littlel" There was a thrill In his tone. "Little! You call such a hope, such a feeling, small? You think it val ueless or weak? Ah, mademoiselle, know you what makes a lady adorablo to a man's heurt, what makes him worship her? It Is that she inspires him; that is It?not to dress for her or bow or sing her little songs, but to toil, to struggle, to fight, to die mnybo ?something high like tho stars. Man has n want for two things?n cause to fight for first, nnd then?then a one, a perfect one, a loved face, to wait and smile on him when ho has won. "With this a man could do miracles. Ah, It could mako of a poor nobody a king, an emperor! I, even I, mndemoi solle, a stranger from another land?I could fight so well for these great things, for this Virginia of yours, if I-lf I"? Ho paused. There was a tenso mo ment. Then the air filled Itself with a long, dull sigh, ond on Its train carao a sud den snapping of dead boughs, nn un Jolnted, cracking report, nnd both look ed up startled. A strange farawoy circumstance had had part in this. Indians had not been used to fell trees as did their whlto conquerors. Instead they cut deep rings Into the bark and let nature be axinnn. These trunks fell when dry 'rot had done its work, sometimes In storms, often when no wind stirred, crashing in a forested silence. A quar ter century before perhaps n Matta pony brave had thus girdled a gnat pine with his tomahawk, and it was thin dead tree, its llmhh now white ns bleached wolf bones, which was now. after its time, leaning to Its fail from the roadside. A shriek burst from Anne's Hps ns sho saw the toppling bulk through the Window, and she started lo her feet. Simultaneously came a bowl of terror from Uashlelgh and n leaping Jerk from the horses ns bo tried to lash them to safety. There was an instant when the hugo bolo seemed to hang inot'onless In tho ulr above them, an Instant In which Anne frenzledly wrenchocl open the door and made ns if to loa\p out. Tho same instant Armand seimal her, drag ged her back and threw himself and her against tho rear wall 4f tho char iot. Sho struggled, but he foreAl her back and held her as tho gronfUng mass came (o earth with a crash lhaFrocked the ground. Anne, conscious even in her ecstasy of flight of it Bense of safety In his arms, felt the body of the coach crush like an I .-hell. She had hidden her face on l.is breast and shut her eyes, waiting the end. The whole world was a splin ter or glaotf, a ripping of boarding, a sickening jumble of thuds, through which stabbed the agonized squeals of the horses. Then there was stillness, broken by Itashlelgh's sobbing scream: "Do good T.uwd, Mis' Annel De good Lnwd! la yo' dald?" She opened her eyc3 and looked up. Tho riven trunk lay right athwart the He forced her back. forward cushions, where It had crashed its way through. A great, gnarled limb, broken off, thrust Itself n yard from her face, and through the jagged edges of the top she saw the far foliage swaying. Armnnd's face bent nbove her. It was white and strained with an anguish that was slipping away, but It was calm. Rashleigh's head appeared at the wrecked window, his features blue black with fear. "Dress (lord!" ho stammered, his grizzled forelock working. "Bress bis name! So yo' a In' hurt, honey? Den I gwlneter ketch de bosses 'fore dey scare missus to def!" The head withdrew, and Anne tried to smile up nt Armand. "We are safe," she sold, speaking slowly, like a child. "I know. 'Twas? bo sudden. Let me?wait a moment." She closed her eyes again, nick and faint In tho reaction. He did not speak at once, but she felt his arms, which were under and around her, shake with a little tremor ami draw her closer. "Suppose," she breathed, her eyes skill closed ? "suppose It had struck nearer?" "We should not have felt it a quick death and merciful." She shuddered. "They would have found us? so," he said, with an uuderbrcath. She lifted her head nt this and start ed, the color coining back to her lips. "Help nie out." Stooping under the splintered door frame, he assisted her to the ground. It was a burly of broken broujrhes, ?Sprawling spokes, thrusting springs and distorted fragments of wood. A snapped limb n foot in thickness Iny with Its end upon the bent and twisted step. "Had I leaped It would have struck me!" "Yes," he answered. "So swift and terrible!" she said, her voice catching. "Like a bolt from a cloud ? like tho Judgment. That mo ment?I would not live It again for worlds I" lie spoke with a (lame in his cheeks. "And I?I would I might! Ah, I would ondure all agonies for that moment again, that moment when"? "Monsieur!" II? stopped at the indignation In her tone. "Let us go," she an Id. "Gladden Hall is Just behind these pines." "1 bog you"? "Bethink, air," she added coldly, "that so late as yesterday I had never seen you!" "So late ns yesterday!" bo cried, "To measure all things by the hands of the clock! What has time to do with the feeling of the heart? Is death nil that conies suddenly, unexpectedly? Are there no sweeter things that come as swiftly? Ah, a man can live a year in an hour, mademoiselle?a lifetime with in one little day. Yesterday, you say? Mademoiselle, yesterday for me were only dim waters and gray sky; now there are flowers and bird .4 and laugh ter and all glad things. Shall I tell you what has changed it all? The moment you spoke to me on the wharf, the hour we have ridden Bide by side along the field, most of all, mademoiselle, the moment you will not have mo tell you of, that one moment I lived when death came falling out of the sky upon us, when you cried out when"? "Stop!" she protested, her hands to her red cheeks. "When your face was on my shoul der?I felt your breath! You clung to me?to me?you, the fairest lady God has made! My arms were around you." "Oh!" she gasped. "No more! You hove no right" - "Bight V "No!" she cried slormlly, her breast rising and falling. "Not You presume upon n danger Into which fate thrust me without my wish. Wrhy, we hove but ridden n half league. I know not even your nnme! Who are you to apeak thus to me?" "Who am I?" repeoted the young man slowly, the rich color dyeing his face. "I am-only a Frenchman, mademoi selle, only a man who gazed upon your face In n crowd and whom?whom you naked to ride beside you In the coach." Ills tone had fallen. "Is It his fault, mademoiselle, if his custom is not the custom of your laud, if he knows not to repress, if lie must sny what ho feels?" He finished very low. "Is it ids fault that he cannot forget that your face hid llsclf upon bin breast for one little moment here In the forest?" She was alternately flushing and pal ing, and her eyes were alibiing. "You must not! You must not!" she cried out With softer voice. With I ho won!,: she started walking rapidly, hastening without glancing at him. The dimness of the interlaced branches overhead parted; tho trees Stood sparser, .lust ahead a leafy arch lei in the fading BUIlllght and a view Of yellow stubble, and beyond this showed a broad gateway twin brick pillars crested with martlets-opening on ii winding road ton great house that looked a many w indowed welcome. It sat snuggled in elms on a hill from whose erost n terraced lawn fell softly into the arms of the shining, twisted river a Ronthorn home In its high days, Iis dairy, meat bouse, lee house and granaries all dazzling white against the blue and olive of sky and wood. Spacious olllcea stood to the. left, nn4 wide negro qHaltorl squatted at some distance behind It. Near l?v n Huy i I sparkled down to wash a tungh of i-t lands. From adjacent Held? cut y i'e piping whistle of partridges lu r - Just before the gateway tin yo\ >,?,' man's voice caught her. "i'oi' of that one moment, madi>jn>Vel h sold huskily. She paused, looked buck and lu?!d out her hnnd. lie dropped .r rrw Uli e nnd touched his lips to her Unborn "i am glad i owe lliy life to you." she said softly. Gazing nt him uncertainly an in 1 she hcsltuted. then Iura <l find ran rab idly np tho Winding dfj\*e Her Ii ?und lifted bis shag head from the eo tit fn tied porch and came leaping down to incel her, while his whine drew Mnmmy Kv> nllne peering from the kitchen door, her weather beaten face, dilating Into a sudle. "I.awd, dar come mammy's honey chile snfe nil' soun'!" she crjed < ? Mrs. Tlllotson. who came hnstlly. to the steps and waved her hand at t!." girl's fluttering signal. "Down. Swentlips! Down'." cried Anne ns the hound leaped against '. er. She stopped, bethinking herself or ihe Indenture. She ran hack to the gateway, but the young Frenchman wasj not to he seen. As she stood peering into tho pin.1 tl ? breeze went playing with some lorn bits of paper scattered In the ruts. She picked up several fragments and strove to decipher them. "Wh'ch term the nald bond sdrvdut falCifa'V shall si ya * * * does covenant with the said l.ouki Armand, holder," she read. Then she caught her breath and, for bearing to glance i:; the direction of the forest road, walked toward the anxious figure on the porch of the grout house. To be continued. o^LSTOnXA. SILVAS I 0* CMt7 Wo guarantee a lit or money refunded. PALMETTO DRUG CO., Laureus, S. C. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of ?2 >2 ? ?2 The s, MUTUAL ?I Life Insurance Co. j^e -OF New York 2? Richard A. AlcCurdy, Fres. ? Oldest in America Largest in the world ^ W. W. DODSON, Agent for Lnurcns Count) Lnurcns, S. C. fp A? LOOK OUT! NEW MEAT MARKET I have opened up a first-class meat and produce market at the City M a r k e t stand, northeast cor ner public square. In addition to a supply of fresh meats I will handle all kinds of produce ? chick ens, butter, eggs, etc. Parties desir ing to buy or sell milk cows will do well to see me. . . . ), Wade Anderson City Market. Special Notick?i have j st. r oo'ved a fine line of fell snd winter s unplos t all tho latest styles. I'ricei t. > ? mt the times. Fan's made to order from &4.00 up, Suits ur.nlo to order from $i2 00 up. a lit is always gnaranti od i ttl n invite you to jo*n my pressing Club, only $1 oo per month. Phone l8o, M tcr building. K. .1. DAXCY, Tall,or, CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of W. C. IRBY, Jr., Attorney at Law, LAURENS, 8. C. y m/ k?s v? / \m> v vm^ m/m/ va^ \?y v/ say \?/ S?/ N*/ sa^ QUALITY AND PRICE There are two points always taken into consider ation by the expert buyer. Here are a few items of the many articles w5 offer as special value. Union Broad cloths hi black at 65c and 75c the yd. All wool colored Broadcloths, the $1.00 quality, at 90c. A full line of shadea in all wool 52 inch Flannels at 5oc. Shrunk Chevoits and Granite Cloths, 5oc the yd. All wool Tricot Flannel ?, 25c a yard. SILKS Yard wide black Taffetas at l.oo, 1.25 and 1.5o the yard. On the selvege every yard bears the stamped guarantee of the maker. New Fancy Silks for Waisting, Hosiery and Underwear. These are two departments much inspected at the present season. You will find the goods and prices here to correspond with your own ideas. Scarlet and white wool Flannels. Cotton Flan nels as low in price as can be purchased anywhere. Blankets and counterpanes and all articles neces sary tor winter wear at lowest market value at | W, G. WILSON ?S CO. R. P. MILAfl & COiMPANY Moved to W. L. Gray's old stand. We have the choicest line of Staple and Fancy Groceries, Hardware Harness, Guano, Etc. These goods will he sold on a Low Price Pull Weight Guaran tee, and, the quality is the hest that can be found on the market. Adolphus M. Owings, Alec N with us and will be pleased to sec Funeral Directors. Our equipment in the Under taker's line is better than ever before. On Sundays or at night parties desiring anything in this line will 'phone R. P. Milam at his residence or call on Alec. N. Bramlett at his home. . Bramlett ond Martin Poolc are their friends. R. P. MILAM & CO., LAURKNS, S. C. Shingles at a Bargain We have just received three car loads of Shingles and offer them, while they last, at the following low prices. ggg ^ ^ $2.00 grade at 2. 50 grade at ?"2TV5 grade at 3.00 grade at No. 1 Cyprus at 3.25 per $1.50 per 1000 2.00 per 1000 2.25 per 1000 2.50 per 1000 Shingles .1000 THESE \H FJ* CVSM HUDGENS BROS, Laurens - - South Carolin, Kennedy Bros The selection of good seed is very importont. We gH special attention to this as well as to other departments of our business. We can fill your orders i'or Sai Wheat Oats, Barley, Rye, Vetch, Clover, Lucerne, Rape, Tur nip and all kinds of good Garden Seeds. WE ARE ANXIOUS TO SELL YOU. KENNEDY BROS As As As As As As As As HS As As ns HS As As As As As /jv ^ T. C. LUCAS, Manager.^ w ? W I STYLISH FOOTWEAR -at Popular Prices You will always find this store headquarters for the best grades of I Shoes for yourself and family. See our new Irving Drew Co, Line All the latest shapes and styles made from the finest leathers are ready for your selec tion. See them. )(Laurens Cotton Mills Store