Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' IF NOT, WHY NOT? ^ Whose fault is it? It is nol ours. We offer you the necessarj KJt liltuiuxil gi 1VU( along your corn. I am also prepared to grind your wheat into the > very best grade of flour? V the home ground kind. Bring us your wheat as soon as it is ready. EPPS MILLING CO., S. F. EPPS, Proprietor CYPRESS ^ SASH V DOORS ^ BLINDS ( % * *%% MOULDINGS ^5AND MILLWORK Copyright, 1915, by A novelization of the photo play s mitted to the scenario department of contest during December and January, oame from many sections in the United as well as thousands of amateurs took (Concluded from last week.) CHAPTER VI. r | Wanted For Murder. ?] TIE flush of liopo cuine back to J I the ashou face of Illair Stan- ! ! (9 ley. "I remember now," lie IUU OliCI iU. 1 V VVU1U 41W irv %*V441V\? VUM V when Arthur had been with the young people on the doctor's l>orch earlier In the night he had not had the gadar. It wjis known he and the doctor had had high words earlier in the day over the fact that Arthur, who had squandered his means, had added to his other extravagances by ordering from abroad a costly French racing automobile. lir.t the return of I-Iagar, conscience stricken also, after eighteen long years. .--^^' >; j The Gypsy, Ha gar, Telling Fortunes. I tbe return of Hagar again, bringing | with her the sweet and blooming Estlier. the rightful heir to the patri- | inony the gypsy changeling was sqnau- ; dering, and the arrangement for ber adoption bv Dr. Lee, as bad long been i intended, had wrought a right about face in the doctor's attitude toward the reckless, supposititious young master of Stanley hall. It had also wrought a great change in the character of Ar- ! thur Stanley.^ From the first meeting 1 WATTS'JEWELRY STORE KINGSTREE, S. C. rl keep on hand everything to be found in an up-to-date jewelry house Repairing and engraving done with neatness and despatch. :: As a home dealer, guaranteeing quality and prices, I Solicit Your Patronage. N??r the Railroad Station. Undressed LumberI always have on hand a lot of undressed lumber (board and framing) al my mill near Kingstree. for sale at th< lowest price for good material. See 01 i write me for further information, etc. I F. H. HODGE, EYES EXAMINED I am now equipped to do this work satisfactorily and can save you from $1.50 to $3.00 on each pair of glasses. Let me fit you out with fB*? New Kryptok Glasses, " * ? " reading ana aistance vision gruuuu ?? lens. If you break your lenses bring them to me. I will duplicate them on short notice. Save the pieces. T. ?. BACGETT, . Jeweler and Optician. King'stree, South Carolina W j The Meanest Miller in Town is prepared to grind your corn into fine meal, coarse mf/linm rrrifc RrinCf requirements to place you on the safe side,and would be more thar delighted to WRITE YOU A POLICY that will protect you from all loss by fires at a very low rate. We represent the best and most re liable companies on earth. Kingstree Insurance,Real Estate &Loan Co W. H. WELCH. Manner. fLIGHK BOOS. H. L. WHITLOCK LftKo Clty? 9* C?i Special Sales Agenl Representing the largest man ufacturers of ail kinds Im proved Copper and Galvanize< Section Rods. , Endorsed b; the Highest Scientific Au thorities and Fire lnsuranci Companies). Pure Copper Win Cables, all sizes. Our Full Cos Guarantee given with each job 1 sell on cloee margin of profit mi dividing cumuiiooivu 0 7 I, customers S-7-tJ said; "we" trampled upon his guitar in the doctors garden in our ! struggles. He will he aciiis.-d of cans i ing tin? doctor's ilealli. And who will i ' believe him if lie in turn blames me? "I will keep hidden, as you say. mother. The fact that he has the ili niond mul the doctor had it in lr k4 ' ing up to his death will dam;. tii:u. Thinking uic dead, he w;n i':y- w'm . knows?" Ills mother nodded, and then, seeing the dawn was breaking by the growing light outside, she crossed the room to the old fashioned liropiaee ?md pro.-- : a hid;"sen spring. With wom.^riiig o e.. Clair saw the whole fireplace from ' hearthstone to ceiling turn as one ecu. ter pivot and swing half out into the j room and half back into a &reat recess f in the wall. "A hiding place built by your Tory \ great-grandfather," said 4s mother, t "Fairfax was all for the American I arms during the revolution, all except J your great-grandfather. Washington f accused him of hiding and harboring ! spies for King George; but, though they searched here, they never found , them," she added grimly. > In the niche behind the chimney Blair noted a small bench, or pallet, a reading lamp of old design, and sundry other crude comforts. "Yon will find it comfortable I enough," remarked his mother. For one of the few times Blair could remember his proud, cold mother softened. She gave her attention again to the slight wound above the temple, bound It gently with her handkerchief, kissed him, and sighed. The unhappy Blair sobbed and impulsively embraced his mother. For one brief moment he faltered, and then , his mother pointed in silence to the hiding place and he stepped within, the great chimneypiece swung into place, and he was in semldarkness, hidden and secure. c The old procedures of the "erowner's ; quest" still held strong in Fairfax county, Virginia. At the doctor's cottage the first ex pression of authority by the sheriff was that nothing should be touched in , the study where the doctor lay dead on the table "till the coroner came." The broken guitar had been handed It imt lia (laniii'1 ihnt \y ROTT L,. MS CARDBLL i Hoy L. McCardell elected a# the best in over 19.000 subthe Chicago Tribune in a $10,000 prize The manuscripts in this competition States and Canada. Authors of note part. wirn lovpiv liiscner Arcnur mui atmn- i doued his wild ami spendthrift ways, i Then. too. the rivalry for Esther's ' affections with his cousin, Blair, had 1 steadied Arthur. He realized he Loved j Esther, and he had resolved to be; worthy of her. As for Esther, in the midst of depressing. morbid turmoil that followed the discovery of the doctor's death in his study, she had moved as one in a most unhappy dream. Under the cold, suspicious eye*of Blair Stanley's mother. Esther had felt herself an interloper. The judge's widow had arrived upon the scene as soon as she had been sent for. Although her relations with the doctor nad been distant and constrained for.years, yet the judge's widow was next of kin. With the usual delay characteristic of the easy going doctor, he had delayed making out the legal adoption papers for Esther. Lie had only Insisted that she be called Esther Lee. What her real name was the porite Virginians had not ask?d, but it was whispered that it was Harding. When questioned by the puzzled sheriff as to what procedure he should follow after the Identification of the broken guitar, found by the footprints in the flower beds, the judge's widow had coldly, replied, "Do your duty!" and the sheriff, with his deputy, set out for Stanley hall to apprehend Arthur Stanley 2d on suspicion of the murder of Dr. Henry Lee At their parting there had been one gift of Hagar's that Esther had since lovingly cherished. It was a pair of carrier pigeons. "Take these, my dear daughter." ELagar had said. "If you are ever In trouble and need me send a message by the birds. Their homing place is our gypsy rendezvous In the Blue ridge. Even if I am not there when the message comes, some of our tribe will be. They will know where I am and fetch me the word." So Esther, under the open espionage of Blair's mother, had taken one of the pigeons from Its cag^jon the porch and had hastily written the message to send by this aerial carrier to Hagar. The message read briefly, "Come at oncfe, dear mother; I need you." She simply signed it "Esther." From her lattice window she released her feathered messenger. It flew swiftly to the west straight as the arrow flies. The sheriff and his deputy were not long in reaching Stanley halL They alighted with a businesslike clatter, and the sheriff clumped up the steps and across the wide, hospitable portico and made the great iron knocker wake Aoh/ma nf fha oilonf mfinulAn With the buttering ram blows they dealt it wtth this be?Ty instrument of ieoo. As the door gave way ArtbOT darted from the library-. pust the sttll (junking j negro in tlx? hallway and Into the din- I lag room. Fie passed through the dh?- j ing room Into the conservatory at Its back that overlooked, as did the libra- j ry, the grounds at the rear of Stan- ' LIST OF PRIZE WINNERS AT FAIR, ETC (Continued from page 2.) Flour?David E McCutchen, first prize; U C Daniel, second. Meal--H Foxworth, first prize; Epps Milling Co, second. Grits?Epps Milling Co, 1st prize. Ribbon cane?A L Burgess, first prize; D M Cooper, second. Individual farm exhibit?S A Graham, first prize. Best 100 drawn shingles?J B Hemingway, first prize. y.v.io ***.- .. ?ri - of the roadbed on the stream side and hurtles a rocking, ponderous mass of mechanism dow n the sloping side of the river bank, swifter than it takes to tell. Tragedy and comedy are close akin; in the midst of life we are in death. On the green bonks of the river on this peaceful summer day the Colored Sons of Liberty had elected to bold their annual picnic. Pat, dusky matrons were spreading tempting cakes and pies and pouring the even more tempting lemonade beneath the eager eyes of the longing colored lodge brothers of the Sons of Liberty. The Sons of Liberty band could hardly keep their smacking lips applied to } their battered old instruments as they j nlsived "Emancipation Day March." j He Smashed Hie Way Through the Conservatory Window. start it. Arthur had read enough of automobiles to know it were well for him if he paused in his flight that he . did not stop the engine. Looking back again and seeing he was not as yet pursued, a fit of desperate recklessness encouraged him in the ( resolve to pause and bid farewell to ' Esther. By this time all but a few of the curious neighbors had gone, and Esther was at the gate engaged in hanging a white wreath upon it in i memory of her dear okl friend. The meeting, the parting, were brief, dramatic and passionate. There was no time for explanations on either side. ! Arthur hekl the fair girl to his heart , for one brief moment and pledged his love ami faith for bor. and then was gone. l Now came the other car in a cloud | of dust On sped the pursued. Now at the railroad crossing the one armed watchman gave his warning flag. The gates are down, a k>ng freight train is 1 thundering up. At his highest speed Arthur takes the gates, that smash and splinter at the impact of his swift machine. He is gone, and the freight train blocks pursuit Then pride has its fall. Around a bend of the road workmen are digging a great culvert. On one side is a sloping bank of the river. On the other side the embankment of the road bed. across which the open culvert cuts. One glance shows Arthur that this way lies death. He will trust the river. With a mighty effort he turns the steering wheel and the great, plunging auto swerves at the brink of the newly dug culvert and, atilt on two wheels, through the soft earth lev ban. nut beiv hi* way \v:;s block- ; ed by iron ami ;*ass. there was no egress from tin* conseruvtory save [ through the dining room. As be turned to retrace bis steps the sheriff, with the frightened automobile man at bis back. ap| eared at the door of the conservatory with leveled re- , vol'or and demanded Arthur's stur- ! render. Arthur's reply was to seize I a heavy rustic chair and with one swinging. sweeping blow thrust aside 1 the leveled revolver and then smash the heavy glass and the metal frames of the rear wall of the conservatory. , lie leaped unhurt through the aper- 1 ture thus made and fled around the corner of the house, followed by a fusillade of shots from the sheriff ami j his deputy. At the front of the house stood the two automobiles deserted. The new French racer stood throbbing under power at the portals of Stanley hall. ' The excited dealer had not thought | further of fho tine new machine when ho heard the sheriff's quick summons for assistance. The more phlegmatic ; and practical mechanic had turned off the power of the old garage car when he had brought the sheriff the jack to j smash the door. ! Arthur jumped into the throbbing ; new racer. Fie had little thought when ! he had ordered it In a fit of reckless j extravagance that its first service for !, him would be in a need like this, lie sensed the use of its levers, and in the ; instinct of fear and self preservation, j it may have been chance that aided ' him, but the machine bounded away j on highest speed, and Arthur turned the steering wheel and made the turu to the gateway safely. He gave one glance back and saw the mechanic endeavoring to start the other car, whMe the sheriff stamped and swore futilely. Whether it was , that the old dependable car failed for once to respond or whether it was because the sporting instinct in the grimy mechanic was strong, and he hoped for a long, stern chase of a practiced driver In an old car after a rank amateur iu a new French racer, in either case the old car was some minutes in responding to his efforts to an indicative gesture of his thumb he had sent his deputy to guard the rear. Joe, the natty and worldly wise colored man servant of the until recently wild young master of Stanley hall, was wondering at the impudent urgency of the clamor that had aroused him as he reached the bottom of the staircase, when he stood stock still, shaken for once out of his usual superior airs and self possession, to behold his young master, wild eyed and dislieveled. rush from the library and seize him. exclaiming as he did so: "Don't open that <Wirl I Knvo kllUul n mfln nnrl tKf-v are ufter me!" Willi chattering teetli and shaking knees the erstwhile dandy darky clung for support in the weakness of his fright to the pedestal of the balustrade at the foot of the old colonial staircase. Still the sheriff hammered at the door, crying stentoriously, "Open in the name of the law!" and still the frightened darky clung to the balustrade, divided in his terror between the awful authority of the law that he was disobeying and in fear of tho fate this till now sophisticated servitor had felt for his young master. One glance from the low French windows that looked from the library upon the grounds at the back of Stanley hall and Arthur was aware of the watchful deputy, with drawn pistoL At this juncture the automobile agent from Richmond came with honking horn up the driveway with one of the first automobiles that had ever essayed the roads of Fairfax. With the agent, who proudly drove the red French racer, was an oily and grimy garage mechanic driving a low, old but powerful one seated garage handy car battered and scarred from much hard service, but still strong, speedy and dependable. The sheriff hammered and kicked unnvallingly at the stout, great white door as these "newfangled contraptions," as he colled them, drove up to the portico steps. "I am the sheriff," he explained to the wondering automobile man. "I am after a man for murder, and I summon you to aid ma" The taciturn garage mechanic brought a heavy iroa jack from his buttered old car, and he and the Sheriff soon hod the stout oak door shattering beneath HORSES, ETC.?COUNTY RAISED. Brood mare and colt?F W Fairey, first prize; Robt Ervin, second. One to two year old colts?J L Covington, first prize; Clifton Guess, second. Two to three year old mare colts? S S Mitchum, first prize; D E McCutchen, second. Two to four year old horse colts? F W Fairey, first prize; M H Jacobs, second. Brood mare and mule colts? P D Snowden, first prize; S D Snowden, second. One to two year old mule?J P Snowden,first prize; S D Snowden, second. rhree year old or over mule?J L Covington, first prize; W D McKnight, second. Double team horses driven by gentleman?Dr W C Hemingway, first prize; D E McCutchen, second. Double team driven by lady-Dr W C Hemingway, first prize; D E McCutchen, second. ^intrlp mnlp drivpn hv centleman? W P McKnight, first prize. Single horse driven by gentleman? Dr W C Hemingway,first prize; F W Fairey, second. Single horse driven by lady-Dr W C Hemingway, first prize; D E McCutchen, second. Single team stallion driven by gentleman?Thos McCutchen, first prize; E E King, second. Saddle horse ridden by gentleman? M H ' Jacobs, first prize; S S Mitchum, second. Saddle horse ridden by boy?Mrs LeRoy Lee, first prize; E E King, second. Saddle pony driven by boy?E E King, first prize; Mrs LeRoy Lee, second. Saddle horse ridden by lady?Miss Claudia Jones, first prize. Pony driven by girl?E E King, first prize. Family horses driven by lady?R L Bass, first prize; D E McCutchen, second. Best colt sired by Black Print?F W Fairey, first prize; James Covington, second. Speed horses?Woodrow Gamble. OPEN TO THE WORLD. Saddle horses ridden by gentlemen?J H Myers, first prize; M H jatuuo, ocwiiu. Saddle horses ridden by ladies?J H Myers, first prize; M H Jacobs, second. Single driven horses by gentleman?F W Fairey, first prize; Dr W C Hemingway, second. Single driven horses by ladies?F W Fairey, first prize; Dr W C Hemingway, second. Double team horses driven bygeni>eacon Jones. in full regalia, was about to summon all to the spread upon the white cloths 011 tin- ground when, roaring and plunging as though, as Deacon Jones afterward* said, "it was tie berry debbil Iilsselfcame the great racing auto down through the picnic and the hand and across ilie very festal spread, and scattering old darkies and young right and left struck the water witJi a mighty splash, turning con: pleteiy over. Neither jlusk.v man nor dusky matron. elder or pickaninny, wait for one moment to see or learn what had gone through their festal gathering like a flery chariot on judgment day or what had happened to man or mighty ma chine after they had struck the river. With ashen faces the Colored Sons of Lil>orty and their wives, children, sweethearts and sisters, clambered up the bank to the roadway, shrieking wtth terror. They did not see. no one saw. the form of a man floating down the river, face up. That eve at early dusk the new risen moon beheld a quiet face floating down the stream. ITalf submerged, at times tlie dank body rose slightly to the surface; then it was tl?e moon saw, gleaming on that wave wet breast, the half hidden, half showing Jewel, the "cliarm against harm" of the Stanleys?the diamond from the sky. (To be continued). 8PMB?toai<ii>itiini a??mmX??B?i I | tleman?Dr W C Hemingway, first j prize; R L Bass, second. Double team horses driven by laI dies?Dr W C Hemingway, first ' prize; R L Bass, second. Double team mules driven by genj tleman?J M Truluck, first prize; i Thomas, second. Single harness mule?J M Truluck, first prize; R L Bass, second. General purpose farm horses?P 0 Arrowsmith, first prize; J J M Graham, second. General pair farm horses?P 0 \ Arrowsmith, first prize; YVilliams! burg Live Stock Co, second. Speed horses?C C Alsbrook, first prize; W 0 Camlin, second. Best Jack?J J M Graham, first prize. Best Jack and three of his get? J J M Graham, first prize. Rest Jenet and colt? W L) Daniel. CATTLE DEPARTMENT. Bull and heifer under 1 year?G W Camlin, first prize. Bull over 2 years?W C Hemingway, first prize. Two heifers, 1 to 2 years, 3 grade heifers?W 0 Camlin, first and second prizes. Bull 2 years old?D E McCutchen, first and second prizes. Cow 2 years old?W E Hurt, first prize; W C Hemingway, second. Jersey bull?W E Nesmith, first prize. Heifer 1 to 2 years?J P Wheeler, first and second prizes. Grade Jersey?H A Miller, first prize. SWINE DEPARTMENT. CLASS 1?BERKSHIRES. Boar over 2 years?G W Camlinr first prize; D E McCutchen, second. Sow over 2 years, boar under 1 year?G W Camlin, first prize. Pair pigs under 6 months?L C Montgomery, first prize. CLASS 3?POLAND CHINA. Pair pigs?J T Sexton, first prize. Boar,l to 2 years?W EBrockington, first prize. Boar and sow under 1 year, litter of pigs with sow?J J M Graham, first prize. CLASS 4?JERSEY RED. Best boar?J M Nexsen, 1st prize. CLASS 6?DUROC JERSEY. Boar under 1 year?W 0 Camlin. first prize. Pair of pigs, sow and pigs?R W Smith, first prize. ' C WT I?ni?iviT firot nri7Q JDtSL 3UW?X' ?T rauc;, ui^i, |/niiv. CLASS 7?0 I C. Pair pigs 4 months old?W P McKnight, first prize. Boar, 1 to 2 years?J J M Graham, first prize. DOG DEPARTMENT. CLASS 2?POINTERS. Pointer under one year, pointer over 1 year?R C McCabe, 1st prize. Pointer under 1 year?R H Godwin, first prize; J S McGill, second. CLASS 3?HOUNDS. Pair fox hounds 5 months old?H Fcxworth, first prize. CLASS 4. Collie?R L Bass, first prize. CLASS 5?BULLDOGS. Bitch and puppies, bulldog?F H Hodge; first prize. Important Notice. The annual meeting of the Wil liamsburg County Fair association is hereby called to meet in the court house at Kingstree Monday, November l,at noon. According to our constitution,under section 4,this meeting should have been held during fair week, but upon consent of several members of the association the above date was settled upon. Each and every member of the association, and especially the executive committeemen, are earnestly requested to be present,as at tjiis meeting officers and members of the executive committee are to be elected for the ensuing year. (Signed) W E Nesmith, Geo A McElveen, Pres. It Secretary. Facts For Sufferers. Pain results from injury or congestion. Be it neuralgia, rheumatism, lumbago, neuritis, toothache, sprain, bruise, sore stiff muscles or whatever pain you have yields to Sloan's Liniment?brings new, fresh blood, dissolves the congestion, relieves the injury, the circulation is free and your pain leaves as if by magic. The nature or its quaimes penetrates immediately to the sore spot. Don't keep on suffering. Get a bottle of Sloan's Liniment, use it. It means instant relief. Price 25c and 50c. $1.00 bottles hold six times as much as the 25c size.