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t. f I ?k CONQUEST U OF CANAAN By BOOTH TARKINGTON. A?4wr # **CKerry.** "Monsieur BmlAc^Lre," Etc 3 Copyright, 1905, by Harper <fc Brothers * "* " - V {Uonwnuea irom page oj gy, saoou Their Peaas at one anoroei and slowly went up to the poreb. wbert Joe met them. Mrs. Louden uttered a sharp exclamation, for the colonel shook hauds with her stepson. Perhaps Flitcroft himself was sur prised. He had off ere 1 bis hand al most uucousciously. and the greeting > was embarrassed and perfunctory, but " his two conipanious. each in turn, gravely followed his lead, and Joe's set face flushed a little. It was the first time iu many years that men ol their kind In Canaan had offered him this salutation. "He wouldn'r let me sen 1 for you," he told them. "V. s r I he knew you'd be here soon with >ur that." And he led the way to E.k-*v"> bedside, Joe and thed v: >: !: i ! undressed the old man an i hud put him into nightgear of Roger Tab >r's t.'keu from an antique chest. It was s ?i't and yellow and much more like coior than the face above It. for the white hair on the pillow was not whiter than that. Yet there was a strange youthfulness iu the eyes of Eskew, an eerie, inexplicable, luminous, live look. The thin cheeks seemed fuller than they had been for years, and, though the heavier lines of age and sorrow could be seen, they appeared to have been half erased. He lay not in sunshine, but iu clear light The windows were open, the curtains trained, for he had asked them uot to darken the room. The doctor was whispering In a doctor's Way to Ariel at the end of the . room opposite the bed when the three old fellows came in. None of them spoke Immediately, and, though all three cleared their throaty with what they meant for casual cheerfulness to Indicate that the situation was not at all extraordinary or depressing. It was to be seen that the colonel's chin trembled under his mustache, and his comrades showed similar small and unwilling signs of emotion. Eskew spoke first "Well, boys?" he said and smiled. That seemed to make It more difficult for the others. The three white heads bent silently over the fourth upon the > pillow, and Ariel saw waverlngly, for her eyes suddenly filled, that the colonel laid his unsteady hand upon Pnew'i, which was outside the coverlet "It's?it's not," saia tne oia soraiei gently?"It's not on?on both sides. Is It, Hskew 7" Mr. Arp moved his hand slightly in answer. "It ain't paralysis," he said. 'They call it 'shock and exhaustion,' (bat it's more than that It's just my time. I've beard the call. We've all been slidin' on thin ice this long time? and ifs broke under me"? "Eskew, Eskew!" remonstrated Peter Bradbury. "You'd oughtn't to talk that-a-way! You only kind of overdone a little?heat o' the day, too, and""Peter," Interrupted thei sick man, with feeble asperity, "did yon ever manage to fool me In your life?" "No, Eskew." , "Well, you're not doin' it now!" ? ^ Two tears suddenly loosed themselves frog Squire Buckalew's eyelids despite hlshard endeavor to wink them away, and he turned from the bed toe late to conceal what had happened. "There ain't any call to feel bad," said skew. "It might have happened any time?In the night maybe?at my Itouse?and all alone?but here's Alrle Tabor brought me to her own horns and takln' care of mc. I couldn't asi any better way to go, could 17' "I don't know what we'll do," stam mered the colonel, "If you?you tali about goia' away from us. Eskew. W< ?we couldn't get along"? "Well, sir, I'm almost kind of glal to think," Mr. Asp murmured, betweet short struggles for breath, "that lt'l be?quieter?on the ?National Hous* corner." A moment later he called the doctoi faintly and asked for a restorative "There." he said tn a stronger vole* and with a gleam of satisfaction in th< vindication of his belief that he wat dying. "I was almost gone then. I know!" He lay panting for a moment then spoke the name or Joe Lotraeik Joe came quickly to the bedside. "I want you to shake hands with th( colonel and Peter and Buekalew." "We did." answered the colonel. In finitely surprised and troubled. "W? shook hands outside before we cam< in" "Do IP again." said Eskew. "I want to see you." And Joe. making shift to smile, wa? suddenly blinded, so that he could noi see wrinkled hands extended U nira atv was rain ro irroj?* i ?r iuciu. "God\novvs why we didn't all tak( his hand long ago." said Eskew Arp "I didn't because 1 was stubborn. 1 hated toWlmlt that the argument was againsti^. I acknowledge it now be fore hiin and before you?and I wani the word of it carried!" "It's all right. Mr. Arp." began Jo< tremulously. "You mustn't"? Hi ''Hark to me." The old man's volc< lifted higher. "If you'd ever whim BB| pered or give back talk or broke oui H the wrong way It would of been dif ferent. but you never did. I've watch I . ed you, ana TTtnow. And you've Juat gone your own way alone, with the town against you because you got a bad name as a boy, and once we'd given you that, everything you did or didn't do we had to give you a blacker one. Now It's time some one stood by you. Airie Tabor 'II do that with all her soul and body She told me once I thought a good deal of you. She knew. But I want these three old friends of mine to do It too. I was boys with them, and they'll do It, I ! think. They've even stood up fer you i against me sometimes, but mostly fer I the sake of the argument. I reckon. ! but now they must do It when there's more to stand against than just my talk. They saw It all today?the mean> est thing I ever knew! I could of i stood it all except that!" Before they I could prevent him he had struggled half upright In bed, lifting a clinched flst at the town beyond the windows. "But, by God, when they got so low : down they tried to kill your dog"? He fell back, choking, in Joe's arms, , and the physician bent over him, but i Eskewwas not gone, and Ariel, upon ; the other side of the room, could hear him whispering again for the restorai tive. She brought it. and when he had , taken it weut quickly out of doors to the side yard. She sat upon a workman's bench un, der the big trees, hidden from the street shrubbery, and, breathing deep, ly of the shaded air, began to cry quiet ly. Through the windows came the quavering voice of the old man, lifted again, insistent, a little querulous, but determined. Responses sounded intermittently from the colonel, from Peter and from Buekalew. and now and then a sorrowful, yet almost humorous protest from Joe: and so she made out that the veteran swore his three com' rades to friendship with Joseph Louden. to lead him their counteuauce in ail matters, to stand by him in weal and woe, to speak only good of him ! and defend him iu the town of Canaan. Thus did Eskew Arp on the verge of 1 parting this life render justice. The gate clicked, and Ariel saw Eugene approaching through the shrub bery. One or his nanus was oanuagea, i a thin strip of courtplaster crossed his i forehead from his left eyebrow to his i hair and bis thin and agitated face I showed several light scratches. "I saw you come out," he said. "I've i been waiting to speak to you." "The doctor told us to let him have i his way ia whatever he might ask." Ariel wiped her eyes. "I'm afraid that . means"? "I didn't come to talk about Eakew Arp," interrupted Eugene. "I'm not > laboring under any amxfety about him. You needn't be afraid; he's too sour to ; accept hia conge so readily." i "Please lower your voice," she said, i rising quickly and moving away from > him toward the house; but, as be fol. lowed, Insisting sharply that he must speak with her, she walked out of earshot of the windows and, stopping, turned toward him. "Very well," she , said. "Is it a message from Mamie?" At this he faltered and hung fire. "Have you been to see her?" she continued. "I am anxious to know if her goodness and bravery caused her any?any discomfort at home." "You may set your mind at rest about that." returned Eugene. "I was there when the judge came home to dinner. I suppose you fear he may have been rough with her for taxing my step. brother Into the carriage. He was not. On the contrary, he spoke very quietly to her and went on out toward the stables. But I haven't come to you to talk of Judge Pike either." "No," said Ariel; "I don't care particularly to bear of him, but of Mamie." "Nor of ber either!" he broke out "I want to talk of you!" There was no mistaking him, no possibility of misunderstanding the real passion that shook him. and her startled eyes betrayed her comprehension. "Yes, I see you understand!" he cried bitterly. "That's because you've seen i others the same way. God help me," be wont on. striking his forehead with : his open hand, "that young fool of a Bradbury told me you refused him only yesterday! He was proud of even c rejection from you! And there's Nor5 bert and half a dozen others, perhaps. already since you've been here." He ' flung out his arms In ludicrous, savage 1 despair. "And here am I"? 1 "Ah. yes," she cut him off. "it is of yourself that you want'to speak after all, not of me!" "Look here," he vociferated. "Are you going to marry that Joe Louden? ? I want to know whether you are or ? not. He gave me this and this today!" - He touched his bandaged hand and 1 plastered forehead. "He ran into me? over me?for nothing when I was not on my guard, struck me down?stamp ed on me"? She turned upon him, cheeks aflame, eyes sparkling and dry. "Mr. Bantry," she cried, "he did a good thing! And now I want you to go home. I want you to go home and try if you can discover anything in 1 yourself that is worthy of Mamie and of what she showed herself to be this ' morning! If you can, you will have found something that I could like!" y She went rapidly toward the house, and he was senseless enough to follow, babbling: "What do you think I'm made of? You trample on me, as he ' did! I can't bear everything! I tell 5 you"? But she lifted her hand with such f Imperious will that he stopped short. Then through the window of the sick ' room came clearly the querulous voice: "I tell you it was. I heard him speak f Just now?out there in the yard?that ' no account stepbrother of Joe's! What f if he is a hired hand on the Tocsin? He'd better give up his job and quit - than do what he's do.ne to help make A . fhetown flunk "hard of Joe. SKI WliJtT Is he? Why, he'9 worse than Cory. When that Claudine Fear first came here, Gene Bantry was hangin' around her himself. Joe knew it and he'd never tell, but I will. I saw 'em buggy ridln' out uear Beaver Beach, and she slapped his face fer him. It ought to be told!" "I didn't know that Joe knew?that" Eugene stammered huskily. "It was? It was?a long time ago"? "If you understood Joe." she said In a low voice, "you would know that before these men leave this house he will have their promise never to tell." His eyes fell miserably, then lifted ?? I--.* i ? 1 ttgiini, uui ill nt*r cieur nuu uuuemauie gaze there sboue such a flame of scorn as he could not endure to look upon. For the flrst time in his life he saw a true light upon himself, and. though the vision was darkling, the revelation was complete. "Heaven pity you!" she whispered. Eugene found himself alone and stumbled away, his glance not lifted. He passed his own home without looking up and did not see his mother beckoning frantically from a window. She ran to the door and called him. He did not hear her. but went on toward the Tocsin office with his head still bent. (Continued next week.) A FEATHERED FRAUD. Robin Redbreast Called a Much Overrated Bird. The horticulturist put down his paper and snorted in disgust when he read an article praising robins. "The robin is a much overrated bird/' he said. "People rail against the English sparrow, but he doesn't begin to torment the gardener as the robin does. Did you ever hear of a robin eating insects? No, indeed; not one little bug does he eat. But he'll pull up all the worms in the soil and impoverish it, for angle worms are the natural enrichers of the soil. His appetite is enormous, and it won't take him long to clean out all the angle worms in a good plot of earth. "He also feeds on berries, and I won't forget in a hurry what he did to me last winter. I planted a lot of black alder trees in my grounds, anticipating that by Christmas they would be blazing with red berries. You know the black alder is called the northern holly, and its berries are a vivid scarlet. Well, just as soon as the berries began to form a swarm of robins swooped down and gobbled them all up. How did they happen to be up north ? Why, robins would stay north all winter if At? nnn onnnrrk korripa fn VUtJ VVUiU m.U VMVU^i* W4 4AVU ?W eat. They don't mind the cold weather any. It's simply a matter of food that drives them to a warmer climate. Bittersweet berries are the only sort they won't eat. They are robbers too. They'll steal the nesU of such little birds as the phoebe, that sing sweetly. And they haven't a bit of common sense. When they teach their young to fly they keep up such a squawking that they attract the attention of every cat for a quarter of a mile. Of co-.rse the cats nromDtlv gather and pounce on the young birds. Most horticulturists will tell you that the robin is a fraud and is no pet of gardeners. Even his name is a deception, for his much vaunted red breast is a yellowish brown. I welcome the sparrow around my place much more cordially than I do the fat robin." ? New York Pres3. TH#m Hustling Americans. At a recent gathering in Baltimore two men from different sections of the country were discussing the capabilities of "nervous, restless Americans" for being most slow and deliberate. The Marylander claimed the palm for slowness for the inhabitants of the Eastern Shore of his state. "It is a saying hereabouts," said he, "that if oysters had been created with legs the people of the Eastern Shore would all have starved to death." "The folks around Mount Monadnock have a saying that beats yours," remarked a Vermont man. "Of one man up there it used to be observed tnat n you were 10 give Hiram Higgins forty yards start stock still would catch him!"?Harper's Weekly. A Verbal Puzzle. " 'Lieutenant colonel' is probably the worst verbal puzzle that confronts the child," says a writer. "Our pronunciation is a heritage from the sixteenth century spelling 'coronel,' which represented the Spanish form, wherein the change of T to V was linguistically natural, though popular etymology wrongly connected the word with 'corona,' a crown. It is really from the Italian 'colonna,' a column, the 'compagnia colonella' having been the first company of an infantry regiment, the little column which the 'colonel' led. In the seventeenth century 'colonel' had three syllables, as in Milton's line 'captain or colonel, or knight in arms,' but in Johnson's time the common pronunciation was 'col'nel.'" I I BEARS IN EUROPE. They Plagua the Herdsmen by Raiding Tlsair Flocks. Although the last bear was shot in Germany in 1835 near Traunstein, in Bav3ria, bear hunting ami trapping still go on in the very heart of P'urope. In Transylvania, TTnnirarv Rrnrria arrrT Croatia, all mountainous regions, there are hundreds of bean, and scores of them are killed aod caught every year. They are the plague of the shepherds and cattle herders who pasture their docks among the hills. They seem to fear neither dogs nor men and bold.iv earn' off sheep and calves into tie woods before the eyes of the watchers. The peasantry retaliate bv using the stolen animals as bait for the robbers. The bear seldom consumes the entire carcass at one meal. He either buries the rest or hides it with leaves to serve another time. The country people know this, and they follow the bear's trail to the place of concealment. When this is found they determine the direction in which he departed from his prey, knowing he will return when he is hungry by the same path. The trap i- p aced in this line about a yard frv.n the hidden carcass. It is ear d'ul!" concealed with leaves and grass, and bruin cannot help stepping on it with either his fore or hin.l paws. When he is securely t aught the herdsmen, who are mortally afraid of him, appear nn.l 1 - 11 11 .?ti .* t 1 Atou on.1 m nor. ami i\.:i ii.t.i at iunuic auu tit feet safety. Of cour-e the landowners and sporting ciass generally d^not get their hear in this cowardly way. They hunt with dogs and shoot the game when it is run down. But this is not easy work. Although there are plenty of bears in a mountain region, it is not uncommon for a hunting party to travel a whole day without getting a shot at one.?Exchange. Fin* Feather* and Gratitude. The well dressed woman slipped two theater tickets into an envelope, which she proceeded to address to a girl employed by a fashionable dressmaker. "That," she explained, "is a favor that many women with good clothes confer upon the girls who are responsible for their fine feathers. In bestowing it we are not actuated by vanity, but by a desire to give pleasure. After a woman has been in the millinery or dressmaking business for several years she ceases to take much interest in the public appearance of the women who wear her creations, but the younger girls have a great desire to 6ee a customer fully dressed for some occasion for which they have hurried to finish her clothes. From long experience I can pick out these curious, clever little artists, and whenever I wear an especially nice Aa a ?v1?aa aaan fa fkn niiKliA Ui COB tu a piatu w vuv I send tickets of admission to the girls who have worked hardest to make my costume a success."?New York Sun. f Che \ infora space I paper Tobac at lest bacco I Know you a 11 J. RE wi i i Goaneiceaeot at Kane. Prof. Q M MitcbelUprincipal of the Union graded school,passed through the city this morning en route for his home at Ridge Spring, Edgefield county. Prof. Mitchell has had an unusually successful session this year, and his work has met with the hearty commendation of the patrons1 of the school. He reports that all the teachers were re-elected for the coming term, and that a fourth teacher will be added before the next session begins. At present Miss Cora Huggins nas cnarge or me primary grades, Miss Marie Rivers of the music department, and a teacher for the intermediate grades is the one to be elected. The commencement exercises on the 31st of May were elaborately arranged and carried out in a most satisfactory manner, and greatly to the credit of the teachers and scholars. The literary address of Dr H N Snyder in the evening was the principal and crowning feature of the occasion. The address Mm You monej the g< 1 can save vr ? ? - - ^ Call 01 I Yours for t WTW KINGSTR wers who read nation given in i in next wee will know why PPVH K ?/?? c/rAtlfipA rhev s cost than cheap s. Chew what about and Know v ire chewing. YNOLDS TOBACCO CON! INSTON-SALEM, N. C. t I , ' ;jg . / showed the value of an education, and the part of life which can only be filled by educational training. The address was delivered in Dr Snyder's best style and only as he can speak. , The inclement weather prevented many people from attending the lecture, which, by the way, was the first ever delivered in that section by a college president. # ? f Georgetown Cor* News & Courier. ?June 8. * V * m ^ _____ South Carolina Patents. Granted this week. Reported by 0 A Snow & Co., Patent Attorneys, Washington D C? James C Dalrymple, Charleston, device for measuring standing limber?'Joseph C Hubbartl, Georgetown, automatic drainage attachment for lubricators ?Samuel Stallinge, Fountain Inn, cotton-chopper?Advill M Walter, Summerton, buggy-fop supporter. For copy of any of above patents send ten cents in pastage stamps to C A Snow4 Co., Washington DC. % MM have the I have 1 3ods, (ind I and will j HI m Afiair miui/uvj n me. j msiness, . J 'ilkins, EE, S. C. this ma ik's JP\ ipra irers ^ ^ I UMWI m i A A