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this?that while I lire Invili bearne to you, j and, father or no fa&tcrf I wiB diebeforc t j break my troth. I ani >young taSpeak so j largely, but it,shall be as I say. Oh, this | parting is moro cruel than death! Would that we were asleep and forgotten among men! Yet it is best that you should go, for if you staid what could wo be to each j other while my father lives? And may he I live long!" "Sleep and forgetfulncss will come soon enough, Lily. Konc must await them for very long. Meanwhile we have our lives to live: Let us pray that we may live them to each other. I go to seek fortune as well as foes, and I will win it for your sake that we may marry. " She shook her head sadly. "It were too much happiness, Thomas. Men and wom en may seldom wed their true loves, or if j they do it is but to lose them. At the least, ! we love, and le% us bo thankful that we have learned what love can be, for having j loved here perchance at the worst we may i love otherwhere when there are none to j say us nay. " Then we talked on awhile, babbling broken words of love and hope and sorrow, j s as young folks so placed are wont todo, j till at length Lily looked up with a sad, ! sweet smile and said: "It is time to go, sweetheart. My fa ther beckons me from the lattice. All is fmished." "Let us go then,*'! answered huskily ! ?nd drew her behind the trunk of the old beech. And there I caught her in my arms -and kissed her again and yet again, nor was she ashamed to kiss me back. After this I remember little of what .happened, except that as we rode away I -saw her beloved face, wan., and. wistful, watching me departing out of her life. For 20 years that sad and lieautiful face haunted mo, and it haunts mo yet athwart Ufe and death. One thing I bave forgotten. As we kiss ed and clung in our despair behind the bole of tbe great beech, Idly drew a ring from ber finger and passed it into my hand, saying, "Look on this each morning when yon wake and think of me." It had been her mother's, and today it still is set upon my withered hand, gleaming in tbe winter sunlight as I trace these words. Through the long years of wild adventure, through all the time of after peace, in love and war, in the shine of the camphre, in the glare of the sacrificial' flame, in the light of lonely stars iUumin ' ing the lonely wilderness, that ring has . shone upon my hiwdt reminding me al . ways of her who gave it, and on this han it shall go down into the grave. It is a plain circlet Of thick gold, somewhat worn now, a posy zing, and on its inner sur face is cut this quaint ccuplet: Heart to heart, Thongh far apart, A fitting motto for us indeed, and one that has its meaning to this hour. That- same day of oar farewell I rode with my father to Yarmouth. My brother Geoffrey olid not come with us, but we parted with kindly words, and of this I am glad, for we never, saw each other agdpb Mary, my sister, who after Lily Bozard was now tho fairest maiden in the country- : side, wept much at my going. There was bot a year -between us, and we loved each ; other dearly, for no such shiidow of jeal ousy had fallen on our affection. . I com forted her as well as I was able, and tell ing her all that had passed between me and Lily I prayed her to stand my friend and Lily's should it ever be In her power to do sa This Mary promised to do read ily enough, and though she did not give the reason I could see that she thought it possible that she might be able to help us. As I have said, Lily had a brother, a | young man of some promise, who at this j time was away at college, and he and my j sister Mary had a strong fancy for each other that might or might not ripen into something closer. So we kissed and bade 'farewell with tears. And after that my father and I rode away. But when wc had passed down Pirnhow street and mounted the little hill beyond Waingford Mills to the left of Bun - gay town I halted my horse and looked back upon the pleasant valley of the Wav eney, where I was born, and my heart grew full to bursting. Had I known all that must befall me before my eyes beheld that scene again, I think indeed that it would have burst. But God, who in his wisdom has laid many a burden upon the backs of men, has saved them this, for had we foreknowledge of the future I think that, of our own will, but few of us would live, to see it. So I cast one long last look to ward the distant mass of oaks that marked the spot where Lily lived and rode on. On tho following day I embarked on, board the Adventuress, and we sailed. Be-' fore I left, my father's* heart softened much toward me, for he remembered that I was my mother's best beloved and feared also lest we should meet no more. Of my voyage to Cadiz, to which port I had learned that De GarCia's ship was bound, there is little to be told. We met with contrary winds in the bay of Biscay and were driven into the harbor of Lis bon, where we refitted. But at last we came safely to Cadiz, having been 40 days at sea. CHAPTER VL ANDRES DE FOXSECA. Many travelers have told of the glories of Seville, to which ancient Moorish city journeyed with all speed. Foreseeing that it might be necessary for me.to stop some time in Seville, and being desirous to es cape notice and to be at the smallest ex pense possible, I bethought me that it would be well if I could find means of con tinuing my studies of medicine, and to this end I obtained certain introductions from the firm of merchants to whose care I had been recommended addressed to doc tors of medicine in Seville. These letters at ray request were made out not in my own name, but in thai; of Diego d'Alia, for I did not wish it to be known that I was an Englishman. Nor indeed was this likely, except my speech should betray me, for, as I have said, in appearance I was very Spanish, and the hindrance of the language was one that lessened every day, since having already learned it from my ! mother, and taking every opportunity to read and speak it, within six months I could talk Castilian, except for some slight accent, like a native of the land; also I have a gift for tho acquiring of languages. When I was como to Seville and had placed my baggage in an inn, not one of | the most frequented, I set out to deliver a letter of recommendation to a famous phy sician of tbe town whose name I have long forgotten. This physician had a fine house in the street of Las Palmas, a great ave nue, planted with graceful trees, that has ! other little streets running into it. Down | one of these I came from my inn, a quiet, narrow place having houses with patios, or courtyards, on either sido of it. As I | walked down this street I noticed a man . sitting In the shade on a stool in the door way of bis patio. He was small and with ered, wish keen black eyes and a wonder ful air of wisdom, and he watched me as I went by. Now, the house of the famous physician whom I sought was so placed that tho man sitting at this doorway could command it with his eyes and take note of all who went in ami camo put _When I had found the^o?se, Tretur?cd againTi?lo the quiet stseet and walked to and fro there for awhile, thinking of what tale I should teli to-the physician, and .all the time tho lit tle mait watched mc with his keen eyes. At last I had made up my story and went to the house, only to find that tho phy sician was from home. Having inquired when I might find him, I left and on co more took to the narrow street, walking slowly till I came to where tho little man sat. As I passed him his broad hat, with which ho was fanning himself, slipped to the ground before my feet. I stooped down, lifted it from the pavement and re stored it to him. "A thousand thanks, young sir," he said in a full and gentle voice. l* You are courteous for a foreigner." uHow do you know me to be a foreigner, senor?" I asked, surprised out of my cau tion. "If I had not guessed it before, I should know it now," he answered, smiling gravely. "Your Castilian tells its own tale." I bowed and was about to pass on when he addressed mc again. "What is your hurry, young sir? Step fa and take a cup of wine with me. It is ?OOd." [TO BE CONTINUED.] Cotton Mills. How They Are Built on the In stalment Flan. The annexed letter from Mr. James A. Mulvey. of Portsmouth, Va., re cently appeared in the Manufacturer's Record, and it is so foil of sound, practical aenee that we give it in its tii et) : A glance a* the cities and towns in which cotton mill* were built io North Carolina io 1893 shows they are places, with one exception, of lees than 3,000. inhabitants. As only four of these mille are too by water power and the other ten by steam, is it not well for the people of other State to investigate this industrial movement and see if they will not be able to follow the example set by our North Carolina friends ? I think they will be surprised to fiad bow easy it is to build a cotton mill in every city and town that in located oo a rail road The North Carolina movement has been founded on co-operation A company is organised com posed of a president, board of directors secretary ar?4 treasurer. The subscription list is opened and payments on the stock are generally made at 50 cants per week per shire. This enables every m??, whether mechanic or capitalist, to take as . many ~ shares : of stock a* desired, and the payments are so easy that where it would be imposable to pay $150 or $100 down, the payment of 50 cents per week is not felt, and the accumula tions run up natii the subscriber be comes the poessessor of stock on which he can secure dividend* if the mill has been properly managed. These.mills are what are termed yaro mills, and convert the raw cotton cost ing 8 or 9 cents per pound, into yarns or warps, varying in value from 14 to 40 cents per pound. This product is whipped to Kastern cities, where it is readily disposed of. Formerly, the coarser gradee of yarns were made in the Southern States, but during the past five years great advancement has been made and many of the mills are weaving the yarns into print cloths, tfheetinv, etc The eoet of a 5,000-spindle mill ca pable of producing from No. 2s to No. 30s yam will be found about as fol lows : The cost of building would vary ac cording to material used, the location and conditions A plain brick mill with tower would cost anywhere from 45 to 70 cents per square loot of space. This is much lower than can be attained in New England on account of cheaper lumber, brick and labor. Ninety cents is as low as usually attained by North ern mills. Below will be found a state ment which will give the cost of a com plete plant: Land for mill site. $2,000 Mill building. 14.000 House for operatives 4,000 Machinery complete 60,000 Total $80.000 j The above figur?e represent a fair av-1 erage cost of a Southern yarn mill of the capacity mentioned equipped with all the modern improvements. Of course for mills of a much greater capacity a proportionate redaction would be made in the cost. The free working capacity for such a mill ought to be fron $15,000 to $20,000 to operate to the best advan tage, although in the Sooth, owing to the ability of the mills to boy cotton at any and all times they sre enabled to manage their mills on a smaller capital tbao is considered advisable with the same size pianta in the North. The question now arises cao such a ; mill be made to pay, and is the cotton j manufacturing business beiog overdone? When we consider that io the city of Manchester, England, alone, there are ! more spindles employed in the manu facture of cotton goods tbao in the j entire United States, and when it is ; understood that in one Fall River j (Maes.) mill built last year there were I placed more spindles than are contained in the fourteen mills erected io North ; Carolina in 1893, it will be seen that twenty-five mills with from 5,000 to [ 20,000 spindles could be erected in the j different cities and towns of Virginia, and they would not supply more than the output of some of the Fall River ? companies. The fact is, that cotton j manufacturing in the United States is j in its infancy, and every day it becomes more apparent that cotton man afecto ring is gradually drifting nearer the base of supply. Do cotton mills pay ? There is invested in the Fall River mills $17,880,000. The dividends in | I these mills are declared quarterly, and ! for the quarter ending Oetftber 1, 1893, j the average dividend paid was 1 90 per i eeot , or $339,950 was paid our, and this ?oo in the face of a very serious depression that had existed for the pre vious six or eight month*. L-t us take, for example, the Border City Manufacturing Company of Fall Ut ver. Mass. The figures submitted by the treasurer at the annual meeting showed that the earnings for the vaar amounted to $240.320 on a capital of $1 000,000 After paying all expends the stock holders received $150,000 tti dividends, or 15 per cent., and $41 U?0 was charged off for depreciation. The Southern mills are doing equally as well where properly mauaged. and almost without exception bave been suc cesses, the mills in many cases having paid dividende before the capital stock was paid up Every city in Virginia having rail road facilities should have its cotton ?>r other mill built on a co operative plan of this kind. Whatever advantage North Carolina may bave because of proximity to the cotton crop is more than offset by the cheapness with which coal is placed at our doors. The mills afford employment to the people, and leave the the difference be tween the cost of the raw material and the manufactured product in the com munity. This co-operate pian can be used to advantage in nearly every village of the South, as every community han cer tain resources which can be developed by capital accumulated in this way. and thus add much to the prosperity of the people The business men of Portsmouth have adopted this plan, and are erect ing a building to cost $?3.000 They secured eight acres o? land, which bas more than doubled in value because of the building of the mill, and negotia tions; are pending with a Northern firm that wishe? to erect a mill equally as large to use the ya-ns for knitting pur poses ai a? Stonewall Jackson. "As an illustration of 'Stonewall' Jackson's belief in the matter of abso lute obedience to the letter of an or der," said a Confederate veteran to the Louisville Courier-Journal, "I have beard a story told of an incident chat occurred during the Mexican war. General Jackson was then a lieutenant of artillery, commanding a section com posed of two gone Ina certain action be was ordered to occupy a cer tain position iind open fire upon the enemy. His two guns were started for the place, which was very exposed, and before reaching it he saw that he could not remaio there ten minutes without losing every horse and man he had. At the eatne time he saw that by moving some 300 yards away hi* fire would be more effective. But hie ordere to open fire most be obeyed, so. reaching the designated position, the two guns were fired. Then they were limbered up and moved to the new position, and the fire was opened up in ear ne? t and with effect. I could tell of several incidents iu which Jackson figured," he continued, "which come under my notice while a student at (be Virginia Military Insti tute, where Jackson was a professor. | I remember once how a student tried | to kill bim. Some fellow?I forgot his j uame?had a fancied grievance against Jackson. He took a bag which was ! used to hold soiled clothes and filled it with bricks. Hie room was iu the top floor of the building, and one day as Jackson was passing under bis win- : dow he dropped the bag of bricks. It passed so close to Jackson that it graz ed his cap, tilting it one side. With out pausing or looking around, he | straightened hie cap and passed ou j as if on parade, the only notice he I seemed to take of the occurrence being ; to step over several of the bricks that had rolled out of the bag. Several of| os who were standiog near rushed up | to him, remarking opon his coolness. 'Gentlemen,'said he, 'the bricks were ! on the ground when I saw them. They | could not hurt me then." Anc! 60 our "Uncle George" i? not in it. He formally and definitely made this declaration in a letter to the Columbia Register. He thinks there is at this time quite too much "Edfiefield" io Sooth Carolina poli tics Perhaps so, bot it seems a pity that weasels and woodebocke should orowd out the great "Numidioo Lion." ?Sdgefield Monitor. -?? ?? -camm^?? That Alleged Rebate Matter. Since the charge has been made upon the stump that some one must have secured rebates on the purchases of dispensary liquor, a gentleman in Colombia has written to a prominent! liquor house in the West with the ob- ? ject of ascertaining something about it. A reply came yesterday. The writer say the whiskey trust has a law which allows distributing houses to sell to retailers without rebate vouchers "It is the presumption," he writes, "that the State of South I Carolina paid extra big prices for j what whiskey they bought.'' He ? says that either the Mill creek Com- ? pany made a great deal of money out of the sales or else somebody else did | on the extra profits. Governor Till man has flatly denied all charges made on this line on the stump and challenges the most searching investigation of all the dispensary affairs.?The State. K.TCelaior Baking Powder is the best, be cause it is pure, trv it. Prepared by Dr. A. J. China. Equity of the Income Tax. The equity of ao toc?me tax, especially to connection with tariff taxa tion, is thus forcibly shown by Gover nor Penooyer of Oregon, who although somewhat erratic in his views pome tunes, is as level as a utili pood in this : No fairer system of taxation could possibly be devised than the taxation of incomes, by which a man pays for tbe support of the Government according to his ability to pay Under tariff taxa tion a man pays on what bo eats, drinks, and wears. Under that system a laboring mau, not worth a dollar in he world, with a family of ten persons, pays nearly ten times as much as his bachelor neighbor worth a million It is indeed most astonishing that such ao unjust and unequal mode of taxa tion could be tolerated among an intel ligent people. Aud then when to the tariff laws are added the protective feature by which tbe poor man is not only compelled to pay au undue share for tbe support of the Government, but a tax for the enrichment of monopolies, it becomes a national olfeu?e so rank that it smells to heaveo. 'Take, for instance, the people of Orgoo, and how very few. compara tively speaking, are benefited by a protective tariff ; and yet every man not benefited is sorely injured. There are no neutrals allowed under a pro tective tariff. It is the old game of robbing Peter to pay Paul, aud every citizen of Oregon can rest assured, if he has uot the clear figure* to establish his identity as a fortunate Pani, that be can safely be counted among the innu merable hosts of poor despoiled Peters. Under au income tax no such robbery can prevail ; a man pays according to his means; a system which has the sanction of both common sense aud common honesty. The Roman peo ple, twenty-four centuries ago. changed their system of taxation from a per capita tax to a tax laid apon citizens commensurate with their wealth and ability to pay, and the American peo ple should follow that jti?t example. If tbe Wilson bill becomes a law the income tax featore w:II be placed upon the statate books never to be removed. At a matter of fact the poor or peo pie of small incomes as a general thing have larger families than the rich in all countries. Io this country, especially in the North, large families among the weabhy are not fashionable, so that tbe gener?os bachelor il lustration might be extendeod to include wealthy bachelors and thus make the equity of tbe income tax more apparent, and ' show more forcibly how the burden of tariff taxa tion, as between class-s, fall" opon tbe poor. Take it all in all the income lax is the fairest of all taxes and the more it is studied the fairer it shows itself to be.?Wilmington Star. The "Redbone" People. A Peculiar Baco, About Which Comparatively Little Seems to be Known. To tbe Editor of the News aud Cou rier : Your Hampton correspondent, under date of Jane 13 gives an account of the murder of Capt. James Mixson. Continuing tbe correspondent says : "Minis, who is suspected of having done tbe deed, is one of a rather pecu liar race of people who live in the river section of this county known as 'Old Issue.' They are a mixed race and have never been slaves. They are supposed to be descendants of Indians and negroes, but nothing is definitely known of their origin." The right uame of the race, or rather mixed race to which Minis belongs, should be "Redbone." These people, as your correspondent observes, are "a rather peculiar race," and it seems the irony of fate that we should have cyclopedias giving accounts of *aces in which we are not interested, and with which we will never come in contact, when right here in oar State we have a peculiar race about which compara tively litttle seems to be known, and yet it is a race which is worthy of ethno logical research. There are living in this townsnip (Privateer) a mixed breed of people of this description, among whom are the Cbavises. For many years I have been interested in them, I mean those in Privateer, and have made attempts to gather op their history, which I have found to be ao entertaining study. McDonald Forman Ramsey, Sumter County, Jane 18, 1894 That Tired Feeling So common at this season, is a serious condition, liable to lead to disastrous results. It is a sure sign of declining health tone, and that the blood is im poverished and impure. The best and most successful remedy is found in HOOD'S Sarsaparilla Which makes rich, healthy blood, and thus gives strength to the nerves, elas ticity to the muscles, vigor to the brain and health to the whole body. In truth, Hood's Sarsaparilla Makes the Weak Strong Be sure to get Hood's and only Hood's Hood's Pills are purely vegetable, per fectly harmless, always reliable and beneficial. A LEADER. JAMES MEANS' SHOES are leaders. Why? Because thev have an established reputa tion, and never fail to give satisfaction. Perfect in style, qualitv, and tir. Bnv JAMES MEANS' 82.00, ?2.50, 83.00, 83.50, 84.00, and 85.00 Shoe, according to y<>ur needs. When you are passing our store call in and try on a pair. We want your custom. We want your friendship. We shall have both if you will once test a pair of JAMES MEANS' SHOES. . HAMMOND, The Regulator of Dry Goods at Leading Prices is tbe AGENT FOB SUMTES, S. C Sign, Oreen Front, Main Street, THE SIMONOS NATIONAL BANK OF SUMTE R. STATE, CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSI TORY, SUMTEit, S. C Paid up Capital.$75,000 00 Surplus Fund.12,500 00 Liabilities of Stockholders to depositors acccording to tbe law governing National Banks, in excess of tbeir stock . . $75,000 00 Transacts a General Banking Business. Careful attention given to collections. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. Deposits of $1 and upwards received. In terest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent*, per annum. Payable quarterly, on first days of January, April, Julv and October. r m. Wallace, l. S. Carson, President. i Auir 7. Cashier. NEW Marble Works, COMMANDER & RICHARDSON, LIBERTY STREET, 8?MTER, S. C. WB RAVE FORMED A CO-PARTNERSHIP For the purpose of working Marble and Granite, manufacturing lenente, Mies, Etc. 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Witb its foil corps of efficient teachers and high standard of schol arship, it offers advantage? for educating young ladies, equal to any College for wo men in this State. We intend that it shall grow in efficiency as it grows in years, and thus command the continued favor of its patrons, and commeud itself to tbe favor of all who have daughters to educate. Entire expenses for tne year from ?150 to $200. For particulars apply to. H. FRANK WILSON, President, July 4 Somier, S. C. DAVIDSON COLLEGE, DAVIDSON, . C. FIFTY-EIGHTH E BEGINS SEPT. 13, 1891 NINE MEN IN THE FACULTY, CURRICULUM IN LOWER CLASSES, HIGHER CLASSES ELECTIVE, THREE DEGREES CONFERRED. CLASSICAL, MATHEMATICAL, LITEBABY, SCIENTIFIC, COMMERCIAL. Terms Reasonable, send for Catalogue. J. B. SHEARER, President. June 27?3m. SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE, COLUMBIA, S. C. Session begins Sept. 25th. Nine regular Courses, witb Diplomas. Special Courses, with Certificates. Requirements for admis sion modified. Board $8 a month. 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