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SUCCESS OF REV. S. R. BASS. Pastor Newly Dedicated Baptist Church Located at New Brookland. Monday's Columbia State contained the following account of the dedication of the New Brookland Baptist church, whose pastor is tho Rev. S. R. Bass, well known in Laurens, bis native county: Yesterday afternoon the new Baptist church of Brookland was dedicated, Rev. E. M. l-.ight.foot, of Orangeburg, preaching the dedication sermon. Rev. I?, M. Bailey, 1). D., the venerable pio neer secretary of the Baptist State mission board, assisted in the services. A large congregation was present to witness the beautiful ceremony, includ ing the townspeople of all denomina tions. This church has a most unique his tory and the erection and dedication of this new building attests the loyalty and true Christian enthusiasm which characterize the membership. Starting in 1X70 with a very small membership, the church has gradually grown until today it boasts a membership of more than 260. The first church building erected was destroyed in the 1905 tire which almost wiped out the town. Un daunted, the pastor and members went to work to raise funds for the erection of another building. Just a few weeks before the completion of the second bouse of worship, ! July, 1900, a cy clone swept over H i town and the building was dosO d. Once again the congregation b \ a to raise funds for rebuilding, Mr. W. R. Lowe being appointed to solicit funds throughout the state. Their appeal met with a hearty response and it was not many months before work on the new build ing was started. The present church building is well arranged and commodious, having a seating capacity of about 5(H). Ft is centrally located, neatly furnished and well ventillated and lighted. This church has been served by sev eral pastors, in the order named: Rev. M. J. Willoughby, Rev. W. J. Dowell, Rev. J. E. D?ren, Rev. G. L. Finch, Rev. N. A. Hemrick, Rev. S. B. Ste phens and Rev. S. R. Bass. During the pastorate of Rev. Mr. Hemrick there were 100 conversions and the church became self-supporting and contributed liberally to the mission work. Rev. Mr. Bass has been pastor of the church for nearly two years and his labors have been indeed fruitful. The present building was erected during his pastorate and every dollar of indebted ness has been paid. He is beloved not only by the members of his congrega tion but by the people of Brookland of every denomination. S. R. Bass was born in Laurens county, not far from Sutlletown post office, Nov. 15, 1869. His father was G. W. Bass, who came from about 30 miles below Augusta, Ga. His mother was a Miss Isabella Nabors, raised in Laurens county. The early education >of this young man was mastered prin cipally at night, his parents being not well blessed financially. He thus work - ed on tin; farm and helped his father till he was 20 years old, when he went to Fountain Inn to school. After being there for only five months his father died and he returned home to help take care of his mother. He remained with her for two years and married Miss Laura Blakely, of Laurens countv. He then studied and taught a small school that year and in the fall of 1892 enter ed the freshman class of the Presbyte rian College of South Carolina, at Clin (,?)!), where he remained for four years. He left there in the summer of 1896 and soon began preaching in Aiken count v. his first charge being at Lang ley, h * taught school for about seven years, p."caching at the same time. lie is a high-minded, consecrated Christian a nd is an earnest and enthusi astic worker in the great cause. DISPENSARY SALES. Decrease of $25,105.32 as Compared with March Sales. Every dispensary county in the state, with the exception of Charleston, re ports a falling off in sales for the month of April as compared with the month of March. The Charleston increase amounts to about $500 and the total de crease in sales amounts to about $25,000. The decrease as compared with the month of February is about$60,000, the sales for ' bruary being $334,436.37. Nearly evv -y month, with the exception of December, since the establishment of the county dispensary system, has shown a decrease in sales. A compar ative statement of the sales of March sand April is given below 88 follows: County March. April. Mn>evillo.$ 11,318.60 $ 9,295.99! Aike.i. 32,247.54 27,042.09 Barnwell. 13,103.10 11,973.20 Rambertf. 6,690.86 5,371.33 Beaufort. 11,915.13 10,734.08 Borke/ey. 5,557.55 4,660.45 Chester . 9,085.89 7,316.23 Colleton.... G.840.50 fi.172.42 Charleston . 50,311.24 60,892.14 Clarendon 8,288.06 2,495.15 Dorchester. 6,829.80 6,294.10 Fairfield. ... ... 5,218.27 4,213.90 Florence. j0,213.95 9,681.02 Georgetown_ I6.d22.95 9,419.66 Hampton.- 4,.m75 3,651.70 Kershaw. 8.7^-8f> ?.?2.29 Laurens . 13,395.08 11,979.58 Lexington. 5,951.48 4,731,09 Lee. 5,092.45 4,790.99 Orangeburg_ 17,763.80 15,577.70 Richland. 41,000.75 40,420.05 Sumter. 12,177.30 11,786.70 Williamsburg... o.ioo.io 0/090.33 Totals.$.'*>0,857.00 $271.751.68 HOLLfSTLR'S Bocky Mountain Tea Nuggef & A Busy Mediono lor Busy People. Brings Golden Health and Renewed Vleor. a f,?vlll<i for Constipation. Initiation T.lvrr i id Kidney trouijios. Phnplos, Bctfmft, Impure 11 Und Kreut?. Simoom HoweK HeWMcno i nd KaohMho. its Rocky Mouotnln Tea in uto lut fort?. Olk coils a ?>ox. tauulne BM?? by iiot.MflTsn Daoo company, Muauon, wit. tiOLDEN NUGGETS FOR SALLOW PEOPLE The Princess Virginia (Continued from page two) "Will you tell me v by, lady?" "Oh, for one ivnsou, becauso I couldn't possibly ask blm, if be were hero in your place, what I'm golug to ask of you. You'VO very kindly laid the bread and ham ready, '"it you for got to cut them." "A thousand pardons. Our talk has set my wits woolgathering. My mind "A draft of our Rhactlan beer will do you more 'joint thou anything." should have been on my manners in stead of on such faro ff things as em perors and their Jove affairs." He began hewing at the big loaf as if it were an enemy to be conquered. And there were few in Khaotln Mho had over seen those dark eyes so , bright. "1 like bam and bread cut thin, please," said the princess. "There; that's better. I'll sit hero if you'll bring the things to me, for I find that I'm tired, and you are very kind." "A draft of our Ltbacllan beer will do you more good than anything," sug gested the hunter, taking up tho philo of bread and ham ho had tried hard to cut according to her taste, placing it in her lap and going back to draw a tank ard of foaming amber liquid from a quaint hogshead in a corner. Rut Virginia waved the froth crown ed pewter away with a smile and a pretty gesture. "My head has already proved not strong enough for your mountains. I'm sure iL isu't strong enough for your beer. Have you some nice cold water?" Tho young man laughed and shrug ged bis Shoulders. "Our water here is fit only for the outside of tho body," he explained. "To us that's no great deprivation, as we're all true Khae tlans for our beer, but now on your Recount I'm sorry." "Perhaps you have sonic milk?" sug gested Virginia. "I love milk. And I could scarcely count the tows, they were so many, as I came up the moun tain from Alloholllgen." "It's trUO there are plenty of cows about," replied her host, ?and I could easily catch one. Put IC 1 fetch tho beast here .'an you milk It?" "Dear m#, no! Surely you, a great strong man, would never stand by and let a weak girl do that? Oh, I almost wish I hadn't thought of the milk If I'm not to have ii. I I.; for it so much:" "You shall have the milk, lady." re turned the chamois hunter. "1" "How good you are!" exclaimed the princess. "It will be inoro than nice of you. But?1 don't want yoil to think that I'm giving you all this troublo for nothing. Hero's something just to show that I appreciate it and to re member mo by." She WOUld not look up. though she longod to see what expression the dark face wore. but. kept her eyes Upon her hand, from which she slowly withdrew a ring. It fitted tightly, for she had had ? made years ago. before her slender fingers had finished grow ing. When at hot she had put led off the jeweled circlet of gold sho held It up temptingly. "What l have done and anything I may yet do is a pleasure," Bald the hunter. "But, after all, you have learn I ed little of Ubactia if you think that j we mountain men over take payment I from thoso to whom we've boon able ' to show hospitality." "Ah, but Pm not talking of pny | nient," pleaded the prlUCOSS. "I wish only to bo sure that you mayn't forgot the first woman who. you tell mo, has ever entered this door." Tho young man looked at the door, not at the girl. "II i; impossible that I should forget." said he. almost sillily. "Still, it will hurt nie if you refuse my ring," went on Virginia. "Ploaso at least come and see what It's like." He Oboycd, and as she still held up the ling be took it from her that he might examine it more closely. "The crest of BhaCtln!" he exclaim ed as his eyes fell upon a shield of black and green enamel not with small but exceedingly brill hi lit white dia monds. "How CliriOOSl I've been wondering thai you should speak our language so well" "It's not curious at all really, but very simple," said Virginia. "Now." with a faint tremor in her voice "pross the spring on the left fddo of tho shield, and when you've seen what's underneath t think you'll fool that you can't loyally refuse to accept my little offering." The bronze forefinger found a pin's point protuberance Of gold. and. press ing sharply, tho shield flew up to re voal a tiny but exquisitely painted miniature of Leopold I. of llhaotla. Tho oltfiniols hunter stared at it and did not speak, but the blood came up to his brown forehead, "You're surprised?" naked Virginia. "I am surprised, because IM boon led to suppose ttiat you thought poorly of .our emperor." 'Tooriy! Now, what could h**i glvcu you that Impression ?" "Why, you made fun of his opinion of women." "Who am I, pray, to 'make fun' of an emperor's opinion, even in a mat tor he would consider bo unimportant? On tho contrary, I confess that I, like most other girls I know, am deeply Interested in your great Leopold if only because 1?we?would be charlta bly minded and teach him l>ettcr. As for the ring, they sell things more or less ?*f this sort in several of the RUaetlan cities I've passed through on my way here. Didn't you know that?" "No, lady, I have never seen one like it." "And, as for my knowledge of Ithac tiau, I've always been Interested In the study of Innguagcs. Languages are fascinating to conquer, and then the literature of your country Is so splendid one must be able to read it at first hand. Now, you'll have to say 'Yes' to the ring, won't you, and keep it for your emperor's sake, if not for mine?" "May I not keep it for yours as well?" "Yes, if you please. And?about tlie milk?" The chamois hunter caught up a gaudy jug and without further words went out. When he had gone the princess rose, and, taking the knife he had used to cut tho bread and ham, she kissed the handle on the place where his lingers bad grasped It. "You're a very silly girl, Virginia, my dear," she said. "But, oh, bow you do love blm! How be is worth loving, and?what a glorious hour you're hav ing!" For ten minutes she sat alone, per haps more. Then the door was flung open and her hoBt flung himself In, no longer with the gay air which had sat like a cloak upon blm, bat hot and sulky, the lug In his hand as empty as when he bad gone out "I have failed," ho said gloomily?"I have failed, though I promised you j the milk." "Couldn't you find a cow?" asked Virginia. "Oh, yes, I found one, more than oue, and caught them too. I even forced them to stand ?tiil and grasped them by their udders, but not a drop of milk would conio down. Abomina ble brutes] I would gladly have killed them, but that would have gtven you no milk." For her life the princess could not help laughing, his air was so desperate. If only those cows could have known who be was and appreciated the honor! "Pray, pray dont mind," she begged. "You have done more than most men could havo done. After all, I'll have a glass of Rhaottan beer with you to ?lrtnk your health and that of your em J poror. I wonder, by the byo, If ho, who prides himself on doing all things Well, can milk a cow." "If not, he should learn," said the chamois hunter viciously. "There's no knowing, it seems, when one may need the strangest accomplishments and be I humiliated for lack of them." "No, not humiliated," Virginia as sured him. "It's always instructive to lind out one's limitations. And you have been most good to me. See, while you were gone 1 ate the slice of bread and ham you cut, and never did a meal taste better. Now, you must havo many things to do which I've made you leave undone. I've trespassed on you too long." "Indeed, lady, It seems scarcely a moment since you came, and I havo no work to do," the chamois hunter In sisted. "lint I've a friend waiting for me on the mountain," the princess confessed. 'Luckily she bad her lunch and will have eaten It, and her guidebook must have kept her happy for awhile, I at by this time I'm afraid she's anx ious and would bo coming In search of mo if she dared to stir. I must go. W ill you tell me by what name I shall remember my rescuer when I recall this day?" "They named me for the emperor." "They wore wise. It suits you. Thon I shall think of you as Leopold. Leo pold what? But, no; don't toll me the other name. It can'f bo good enough lo match the first, for, do you know, I admire the name of Leopold more than any other I've ever heard? So, l/oo pold, will you shake hands for good by?" The strong band came out eagerly and pressed hers. "Thank you. gna" I ran loin, but It's uot goodhy yet You must lot me help you back by tho way you came and down the mountain." "Will you really? I dared not ask as much for fear, in spite of your kind hospitality, you were, like your noble namesake, a hater of women." "That's too bard a word oven for an emperor, lady, while, as for me, If I ever said to myself 'No woman can bo of much good to a man as a real com panion' I'm ready to unsay It." "I'm glad. Then you shall come with me and help mo, and you Bh ? ' help my friend, who is so good and so strongrnlnded that perhaps she may make you think even better of our sex. If you will you shall l>c our guide down to Allchclllgen, where wo'vo been Btaylng at tho Inn since last night. Besides all that, If you w ish to be very good you may carry our clonks and rucksacks, which seem so heavy to us, but will be nothing for your strong shoulders." The face of the chamois hunter changed and changed again with such iimused appreciation of her demands that Virginia turned her head away lost she should laugh and thus lot him guess tbntsliA held the key to tho Inner Hituatton. His willingness to become a cow herd and now a beast of burden for I tho foreign ludy he had Been and Iict friend whom be had not seen was In dubitably genuine. He was pleased I with the adventure. If not as pleased I us his initiated companion. For the next few hours the hunter was free, | It seemed. He said thnt he hud been out sinco curly dawn and had had good luck. Later he had returned to the hut for a meal and a rest, while hip friends went down to tho village on business which concerned them all, As they hnd not come hack, they were probably amusing themselves, and when he had Riven the ladles all tho assistance In his power ho would Join them. The way down was easy to Virginia, with his baud to help her when it was needed, and eho had never been so happy In her twenty years. But, after all, she asked herself as they noared the place where she had left Miss Portmnn, what had she accomplish' ed? What Impression was she leav ing? Would this radiant morning of adventure do her Rood or harm with Leopold when Miss Mom bray should meet him later In some conventional way through letters of Introduction to court dignitaries at Kronburg? While she wondered his voice broke Into her questioning. "I hope, gua' fraulein," the chamois hunter was Baying, almost shyly and as If by nu effort, "that you won't go away from our country thinking thai we Hhaetians arc so cold of heart and blood as you've seemed to fancy. We men of the mountains may bu differ ent from others you have seen, but we're not more cold. Tho torrent of our blood may sleep for a season un der Ice, but when the spring come as it must, and the ice melts, Ihon the torrent gushes forth the more hotly because it has not spent its strength before." "I shall remember your words," said the princess, "for my Journal of tthac tin. And, now, here's my poor friend. I shall have to make her a thousand excuses." For her journal of Rhaetia! For a moment the man looked wistful, a.s If It were a pain to him that ho would have no other place In her thoughts nor time to win It since th< i sat a lady in a tourist's hat and eyeglasses and the episode was practically closed. He looked, tOO, as If there was BOUlO thlng be would add to his last words If he could, but Miss Portmau saw tho two advancing figures and shrieked a shrill cry of thanksgiving "Oh, I have been so dreadfully anx ious!" she groaned. "What has kept you? Have you had an accl<lont7 Thank heaven you're here! I began to give up hope of ever seeing you ajrain alive." "Perhaps you never would If it hadn't been for the help of this good and brave new friend of mine," said Virginia, hurrying Into explanations. "I got Into dreadful difficulties up thero. It was much worse than 1 thought, but Leopold" ? M iss Portltmn started, stared with her nearsighted eyes at the tall brown man with haro knees, colored, gasped and swallowed hard after a quick glance at her |>i!n cess?"Leopold happened to bo mar. came to my help and saved mo. Wasn'l It providential'.' Oh, I assure you, Leopold Js a monarch- of chamois hunters! Give him your cloak and rucksack to carry with mine, dear MiS8 Manchester. He's kind enough j to sny that he'll guide us all the way j down to Allchelligcn, and Pin glad to i accept his service." Miss I'ortmnn, a devout royalist I and firm believer in the right of kings, grew crimson, her nose 0S|.hilly, as it Invariably did at moments of strong emotion. The emperor of Rhaetia hero, caughl ami trapped, like Pegasus bound i<? tho plow, and forced to carry luggage as If he were a common porter worst of all, her Insignificant, twice wretched luggage: She would have protested If she had dared, but she did not dare and was muh Portman started. obliged to see that imperial form?un mistakably imperial, it seemed t<> hor, though masquerading in humhlo gulso ?loaded down with her rucksack and her large golf cape, with gnlOCllCS in the pocket. Crushed under the magnitude of her discovery, dn/./.led by the surprising brilliance of the princess' capture, stu pefied by tho fear of saying or doing the wrong thing and ruining her i.l<>','s bizarre triumph, poor Mi-,s Portman staggered as Virginia helped her to her feet. "Why, you're cramped with Bitting so long," cried the princess. "P.o care fa!. But Leopold will give you his arm. 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