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, The Spoilers. I By REX E. BEACH. Copyright. 1906, by Rex E. Beach. untinued from page 2.] _ away during theTale. "Helen Chester," she replied. "Helen Chester," he related rnustinglj. "What a pretty name! It seems almost a pity to change It?to marry, as you will." "I am not going to Nome to get married." He glanced at her quickly. , "Then you won't like this country-. You are two years too early. You ought to wait till there are railroads aud telephones and tables d'hotf and chaperons. It's a man's country yet." "1 don't see why it isn't a woman's country too. Surely we can take a part in taming it Yonder on the Oregon is a complete railroad, which will be running from the coast to the mines in a few weeks. Another ship back there has the wire and poles and fixings for a telephone system, which will go up in a night. As to tables d'hote, I saw a real French count In Seattle with a monocle. He's bringing in a restaurant outfit, imported snails and pates de fole gras. . All that's wanting Is the chaperon. . In my fiigbt from the Ohio I left mine. The sailors caught Iter. You see, I am not far ahead of schedule." "What part are you going to take In this taming process?" he asked. She paused long before replying, and when she did her answer sounded like a Jest. "I herald the coming of the law." he said. "The law! Bah! Red tape, a dead _y language and a horde of-shysters! I'm afraid of law in this land. We're top new and too far away from things. It puts too much power in too few hands. Heretofore we men up here have, bad recourse to our courage and our Colts, but we'll have to unbuckle them botn when the law comes. I like the court that hasn't any appeal." He laid hand upon his hip. "The Colts may go, but the courage never will," she broke In. "Perhaps. But I've heard rumors already of a plot to prostitute the law. In Unalaska a man warned Dextry, with terror In his eye, to beware of It; that beneath the cloak of Justice was a drawn dagger whetted for us fellows who own the rich diggings. I don't think there's any truth in It, but you can't tell." "The law Is the foundation. There i can't be any progress without It ^ There Is nothing here now but disorder." "There Isn't half the disorder you think there Is. There weren't any crimes In this country till the tenderfeet arrived. We didn't know what a thief was. If you came to a cabin, you walked lu without knocking. The owner tilled up the cotTeepot and sliced into the bacon; then when he'd started your meal he shook hands and asked vour name. It was just the same whether his cache was full or whether he'd packed his few pounds of food 2U0 miles on his back. That was hospitality to make your southern article look pretty small. If there was no one at home, you ate what you needed. There was but one unpardonable breach of etiquette?to fail to leave dry kin, tilings. I'm afraid of the transitory we're coming to?that epoch of chaos between the death of the old j and the birth of the new. Frankly, 1 like the old way best I love the license of it I love to wrestle with nature. to snatch and guard and fight for what I have. I've been beyond the law for years, and I want to stay there, where life is just what It was Intended to be?a survival of the fittest." His large hands as he gripped the bulwark were tense and corded, while his rich voice issued softly from his chest with the hint of pow#r unlimited l>ehind it. He stood over her. tall, virile and magnetic. She saw now why he had so Joyously hulled the light of the previous night. To one of his kind it was as suit air to the nostrils. Unconsciously she approached " " - * * ? - ~ K him, drawn oy tue speii ui uu> sucuSui. "My pleasures are violent, and my hate Is mighty bitter lu my mouth. What I want, I take. That's been my way in the old life, and I'm too selfish to give It up." He was gazing out upon the dimly lucent miles of Ice. but now he turned toward her and. doing so. touched her warm hand next his on the rail. She was staring up at him, unaffectedly, so close that the faint odor from her hair reached him. Fler expression was simply one of wonder and curiosa Ity at this type, so different from any had known. But the man's eyes ^were hot and blinded with the sight of her. and be felt only her beauty heightened la the dim light, the brush -' 1 "."""nta and thp small, soft I ?1 un . li$nd beneath his. The thrill from the Itohch of it surged over him. mastered "What I want, I take." he repeated, and then suddenly he reached forth Ed, taking her In his arms, crushed { Er to him. kissing her softly, fiercely, I nil upon the lips. For an Instant she By gasping and stunned against his Be;: st; then she tore her fist free and I 'h* all lier force struck him full in E *aceb was as though she beat ui>on a I . With one movement he forced I rui to her side, smiling into her I ed eyes; then, holding her like I he kissed her again and again I >he mouth, the eves, the hair? 1 ( "What I mint, I take," I and released her. "I am going to love you. Helen," suld be. "And may God strike me deud if I ever stop hating you!" she cried, ber voice coming thick and bourse with passion. Turning, she walked proudly forward toward ber cabin, a trim, straight, haughty figure, and he did not know that her knees were shaking and weak. CHAPTER IV. FOR four days the Santa Maria felt blindly through the white fields, drifting north with the spring tide that sets through Bering strait, till on the morning of the fifth open water showed to the east. Creeping through, she broke out into the last stage of the long race, amid the cheers of her weary passengers, and the dull jar of her engines made welcome music to the girl In the deck stateroom. . .Soon they, picked up a mountainous coast which rose steadily into majestic, i barren ranees, still white with the melting snows, and at 10 in the evenlug, under a golden surn^t, amid ; screaming whistles, they anchored in die roadstead of Nome. Before the rumble of her chains had ceased or the echo from the fleet's salute had died from ttye shoreward bills the ship was surrounded by a swarm of tiny craft clamoring about her iron sides, while an officer In cap and gilt climbed the bridge and greeted Captain Stephens. Tugs with trailing lights circled discreetly about, awaiting the completion of certain formalities. These over, the uniformed gentleman dropped back into his skiff and rowed away. "A clean bill of health, captain!" he< shouted, saluting the commander. "T&ftnk ye, sir," roared the sailor, and with that the rowboats swarmed Inward piratelike, boarding the steamer from all quarters. As the master turned he looked down from his bridge to the deck below full Into the face of Dextry, who had been - * TT7I+K 8n IUlVlll wiiurh 01 uic Uin:uug. tt ihi unbending dignity Captain Stephens let his left eyelid droop slowly, while a boyish grin spread widely over his face. Simultaneously orders rang sharp and fast from the bridge, the crew broke Into feverish life, the creak Of booms and the clank of donkey hoists urose. "We're here. Miss Stowaway," said Glenlster. entering the girl's cabin. "The Inspector passed us, and It's time for you to see the magic city. Come, it's a wonderful sight." This was the first time they had been alone since the scene on the after deck, for, besides ignoring Glenlster. she had managed that he should not even see her except In Dextry'a presence. Although he had ever since been courteous and considerate, she felt the leaping emotions that were hidden within him and longed to leave the ship, to fly onnll r\f hla rvorsi/\T*fl HtXV 11UUI UIC V4 u*9 . Thoughts of him made her writhe, and yet when he was near she could not bate him as she willed. He overpowered her; he would not be hated; he paid no heed to her slight*. This very quality reminded her bow willingly and unquestlonlngly he had fought off the sailors from the Ohio at a word from her. She knew he would do so again, and uiore, and it Is hard to t>e bitter to one who would lay dowu his life for you even though he has of- t fended, particularly when he has the magnetism that sweeps you away from your moorlugs. "There's no danger of being seen," he continued. "The crowd's crazy, and, besides, we'll go ashore right away. You must be mud with the confinement. It's on my nerves too." As they stepped outside the door of an adjacent cabin opened, framing an angular, sharp featured woman, who. catching sight of the girl emerging from Gleulster's stateroom, paused, with shrewdly narrowed eyes flashing quick, malicious glances from one to the other. They came later to remember with regret this chance encounter, for it was fraught with grave results for them both. "Good evening, Mr. Glenlster," the lady said, with acid cordiality. "Howdy, Mrs. Champian?" He moved away. Sbe followed a step, staring at Helen. "Are you going ashore tonight or wait for morning?" "Don't know yet, I'm aure." Then aside to the girl be mattered, "Shake her; she's spying ou us." "Who Is she?" asked MUs Chester ? moment later. "Her husband manages one of the big compaules. She's an old eat." Gaining her lirst view of the land, the girl cried out sharply. They rode ou au oily sea tinted like burnished copper, while on all sides, amid the faint rattle and rumble of machinery, scores of ships were belching cargoes out upon living swarms of scows, tugs, stern wheelers and dories. Here and there Eskimo oomiaks, fat, walrus hide boats, slid about like huge, many legged water bugs. An endless, antllke stream of. tenders. i*l!en UL?h with freight, piled to and from tne shore. I A mile distant lay the city, stretched ' like a white ribbon between the gold of the ocean sand and the dun of the, moss covered tundru. It was like no I other iu the world. At first glance it, seemed all made of new white canvas. Iu a week Its population had swelled from 3,00!) to 3D.UUU. It now wandered in a slender, sinuous line along the coast for ndies. Iiecause only the beach afforded dry camping ground. Mounting to the bank behind, one sank knee deep in moss and water and, treading twice in the same tracks, found a bog of oozing. Icy mud. Therefore as the town doubled daily In size, it grew endwise like a string of dominoes till the shore from Cape Nome to Penny river was a long reach of white, glintin Hi" i.-im- mm i\f thi? nrctlc sun set like foamy breakers on a tropic Island. 'That's Anvil creek up yonder," said Glenlster. "There's where the Midas lies. See!" lie Indicated a pap In the, buttress of mountains rolling back from the coast. "It's the greatest creek in the world. You'll see gold by the mule load and hillocks of nuggets. Oh. I'm plad to get back. This Is life. That stretch of beach Is full of gold. These hills are seamed with quartz. The l?edrock of that creek Is yellow. There's gold, gold, gold everywheremore than over was Jn old Solomon's mlues-'nud there's mystery and peril and t! unknown." "Let ake haste," said the girl. "I have juiething I must do tonight. After that I can learn to know these things." Securing a small boat, they were ro ved ashore, the partners plying their ferryman with eager questions. Havin; mived five dtfys before, he was exploding with Information and volunteered the fruits of his ripe experience tiff Dextry stated that they were "four doughs" themselves and owned the Midas, whereupon Miss Chester marveled at the awe which sat upon the man and the wondering stare with which he devoured the partners, to he:* own utter exclusion. Sufferln' cats! Look at the freight!" ejaculated Dextry. "If a storm come upi It would bust the community!" The bench they neared was walled an I crowded to the high tide mark with rumparts of merchandise, while nruff ilonnaltixl its nuo C> U J IllVVUUUf, V&U4V ?, ta upon whatever vacant foot was clone at hand till bales, boxes, boilers and baggage of all kinds were confusedly Intermixed In the narrow space. Ringing longshoremen trundled burdens from the lighters and piled them on the heap, while yelling. cursing crowds fought over it all, selecting, sorting, loading. There was no room for more, yet hourly they added to the mass. Teams splashed through the lapping surf or stuck In the deep sand between hillocks of goods. All was noise, profanity, congestion and feverish hurry. The burning haste rang In the voice of the multitude, showed In Its violence of gesture and redness of face, permeated the atmosphere with a magnetic, electrifying energy. i "It's somethin' fierce ashore," said the oarsman. "I been np fer three days an' nights steady. There ain't no room nor time nor darkness to sleep In. Ham an' eggs Is a dollar an' a half, an' whisky's < ,blts a throw." He walled the last sadly, as a complaint unspeakable. " . ?- - J -1.~> 1>> I.M.ImwI ?ha AU "Any iruuuic uuiu m^uuou uiv v?u man. "'You know It!" the other cried colloquially. "There was a massacre In the Northern last night" "Gamblin* row?" "Yep. Tinhorn' called Mlssou done it" . ' "Sho!" said Dextry. "I know him. He's a bad actor." All three men nodded sagely, and the girl wished for further light, but they volunteered no explanation. Leaving the skiff, they plunged Into turmoil. Dodging through the tangle, they came out Into fenced lots where tents stood wall to wall and every Inch was occupied. Here and there was a vacant spot guarded Jealously by Its owner, who gazed sourly upon all men with the forbidding eye of suspicion. Finding an eddy In the confusion, the men stopped. "Where do you want to go?" they asked Miss Chester. There was no longer In Glenister's glance that freedom with which he had come to regard the women of the north. He had come to realize dully that here was a girl driven by some strong purpose Into a position repellent to ber. In a man of his type her Independence awoke only admiration, and her coldness served but to lDflame blm the more. Delicacy In Glenister was lost in a remarkable singleness of purpose. He could laugh at her loathing. smile under her abuse and remain utterly Ignorant that anything more than his action In seising her that -'-Wi ?** KAHAm r%t hap HlallkA UlffUl laj ai lut v. He did not dream that be possessed characteristics abhorrent to her, and he felt a keen reluctance at parting. She extended both hands. "I can never thank you enough for what you have done?you two?but I shall try. Goodby!" Dextry gazed doubtfully at his own hand, rough and gnarly, then taking hers as he would have handled a rob In's egg waggled It limply. "We ain't goln' to turn you adrift tbls-a-way. Whatever your destination Is, we'll see you to it." "I can find my friends," she assured him. "This Is the wrong latitude In which to dispute a lady; but. kuowin' this camp from soup to nuts, as I do, I su'gests a male escort-." [Continued next week.] Mixed Sausage made fresh aily at People's Market Scott & Miller, Proprietors. 11 31-tf N J rjj Rapid changes of I J on the toughest consti iThe conductor pass inside of a trolley car tc of the platform?the ca hour or so in a heatec walking against a bit! difficulty of avoiding o S Scott9s Et{ ats A body to that it can I $ danger of cold from cha 4 It wul help you to ai I ALL DRUGOISTSl I The C:J Ma-tars. Prices which run to five figures I arc frequently given for paintings by what arc called "the old mas- . ters.'' Brt what of the original *1 cost?- A collector who has been ^ making inquiries quotes the follow- 1 ing startling f.gt> re-: , Michael Angiio. he fo.md, was{^ paid only about $1-0 a month while! ^ he w.-.? a! work on his cartoons of i g: - ? ? i l (. the bit:!" of IVa. Leonardo, who ; acted ab his assistant, received the ^ same wr'yo: t t'orreggio received less than $10 j" for his ''Christ In the Garden/' ^ while Carracci's "Resurrection" a brought its painter still less. Albert Durer was seldom paid in cash for his pen ar/I ink portraits. A bag S of liour, a pair of boots or some V such equivalent satisfied him. ' Rembrandt, "the mightiest genius," received a? his highest price J* under $500 for his "Night Watch." Valesqnez worked chiefly for the Spanish government. He was paid on an average $35 a picture. 8treet Cars !n V'jxiso. "Street car conductors in the J '"* ' ? n . . i :_r L uuy 01 Atexico, saiu a luurisi, a receipt to each passenger on taking a fare. The pads are number- a cd and show as quickly as a cash register how many fares each man must return to the company, provided that the passengers accept the receipts. The Mexicans never forget to demand a voucher, for each is a ' numbered ticket in a monthly lottery with many rich prizes, and the gambling zeal of the passengers acts ?? ?* nViant avnrv t a to fnlrpn in" | ?New York Sun. Surprising. "Yesterday was my birthday." "I suppose your husband gave you a little surprise?" "Oh, yes. He came home before I midnight."?Houston Post. 1 _ 8 in all countries. \ Jhuhett Arret with Warktagtov raver timeM f mmmay am4 rften Ik* patent. I I Mat m4 iafrUpMMt Pnctka Exclutaly. I f Mi Ml Rral, evv- MM Bhta hM OtM,l f camp no* 27. i usnjkt aunnoi I 1(t *n<* 3rd Hoodt) r J II Mghta ln^ each > fw/3Ji Visiting choppers cor- l vTSjaVBt JgXJw dlally invited to oome | wjM&n'y/ up and sit on a stump \ ^ Umbg11* a^?ut en tlie \ PHILIP STOLL, \ 9 27 12m. Con. Com. / Hereafter we positively re- ! * fuse to publish any communica- | tion received at thisjofflce later 1 than Tuesday, noon, except lo- X, cal and personal items, which " * 11? IB willjnot be available later taan Wednesday, noon, for the current week. By trying to be accommodating we are thrown late every week and we are tired of it. This notice applies to EVERY BODY. 4-25-tf. NoticeTrustees will meet'on Saturday, 15th inst, to let contract for the erection of a school building at Indiantnwn church. We reserve the right to reject any and all bids. D E McCutchen <- c Daniel W SBrockinton Trustees. Feb 6, 190*. It emperature are hard V ' tution. g ing from the heated Z g > the icy temperature 2 \ nvaiser spending an o v 1 building and then 9 y mr wind?know the V ^ ion strengthens the X * >etter withstand the Q h nges of temperature. Q ] roid taking cold. 0 \ >0c. AND $1.00. X 1 e AGE NO OAS. ; Everybody in South Carolina ib c ligible. Md people stooped with suffering, fiddle age, courageously fighting, r routh protesting impatiently; C Ihildren, unable to explain; t ill in misery from their kidheys. 11 inly a little backache first n 'ornes when you eaten a com. )r when you strain the back. * jany complications follow, friuary disorders, diabetes, Bright's c isease. Joan's Kidney Fills cure backache. , lure every fcrm of kidney ills. ? J W Powell, proprietor of a gen- j ral store ai d coal, wood aud ' ice ealer of Waverlv, living at 2010 Handing St., Columbia, S C, says: My son has been afflicted with kidey and urinary trouble from child- . ood, being unable to control the j pcretions especially when asleep, j ince using Doan'3 Kidney Pilla he ^ as entirely recovered." , . For sale by all dealers. Price 50 c ents. Foster-Milburn Co, Buffa- c :>, New York, sole agents for tha ^ Jnited States. J Remember the name?Doan's? t nd* take no other. 1 I rv % j ; Don i Wait! TILL YOURIPROPERTY j IS DESTROYED, BUT INSURE NOW, ) i Against Loss By Fire or Cyclone. j If you want the best, pet your i nsurance in a strong "Old i -ine" company. 1 represent j everal of the largest Fire and J lyclone Insurance Companies. I L. H. FAIREY j At Bank of Kingstree. 24?tf. reYSnSflj C i Applied by skilled mechanics J ^ is worth a fair price. Cheap J " mixtures slopped on by cheap J i pain ten are dear at any price. 3 We expect to receive a reason- j able equivalent for our labor. J j But we give an honest dollar's r worth for every dollar we get, r and we endeavor to permanent- ) ly satisfy our customers. ) ALFRED WELLS, Painter and Paper Hanger, / KINGSTREE. S. C. \ Leave orders with ) Kiegstree Hardware Co. ] BE UP-TO-DATE IN 1 908. Your name and address, occupation or profession. Words of any order or society stamped on ? - AAA M _ W. i.L a Deautnui ljwe souvenir >? a ten Fob. In nickel 50c in gold $1.00, Key Checks and Name Umbrella Plates 25c. Address all orders to : : : : : : WILLIAM H. CHESNETT, 2004 Wilson Ave- j Columbia, - - So. Ca. . > IE THRICE A WEEK WORLD IN PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN TUN. lore Alert, More Thorough and lore Fearless Than Ever Read In Every English Spoken Country. A president of tbe United Jtates will be elected this year. Vho is lie and who is the man vhom he will beat? Nobody et knows, but the Thricea Veek World will tell you every i tep and every detail of what promises to be a campaign of he most absorbing interest. It aay not tell you what you hope ?ut it will tell you what is. The ?hrice-a-Week World long ago stablisbed a character for im>artiality and fearlessness in he publicacion of news, and bis it will maintain. If you rant the n^ws as it really is ubscribe to the Thrice-a-Week dition of the New York World, rhich comes to you every other lay, except Sunday, and is thus >ractlcally a daily at the price >f a weekly. The Thnce-a-Week World's egular subscription price is >nly $1.00 per year, and this >ays for 159 papers. We ofer his unequalled newspaper and The County Record tog-ether or one year for $1.75, The regular subscription price >t the two papers is $2.00. Your choice steak at Peace's Market, Scott & Miller Proprietors. 11-21-ti Registration Notice. Theofflce ot the Supervisor of' Beg' atration will be opened on the first ionday in every month for the pur>ose of the registering of any person vho is qualified as fellows: Who shall have been a resident of he State for two years, and of the :ounty one year, and of the polling presinct in which the elector offers to rote four months before the day of slection, and shall have paid, six % i.U_ V-# -.-11 ?... ijuuuub utriurc, au) pun mi wicu uuv md payable, and who can both read, ind write any section of the constitution of 1895 submitted to him by the / Supervisors of Registration, or who :an show that^he owns, and has paid ill taxes collectable on during the present year, pioperty in this State issessed at three hundred dollars or nore. J. Y. McGILL, Clerk of Board, [cLEANINoTf and Pressing, | Cleaning and Pressing and J 5 Slight Alterations of Clothes ? ( done?the best of Style by P. i j V. Hazel?next door t#,Corner B j Drugstore. 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