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shouted the Fisbee planned * * ? great crowds of Since noe-, an al iitter.t procession of pe vehicles had been making ie station, and every wag >ard. buggy and "cut under" lags or bunting or streamer of is tied io the whip. The excit?? is crea sed as the time grew suert? es JE^'erybody was straggling for a better position. The people~in"wagons and carriages stood upon the seats, and the pedestrians besieged them, climbing on tbe wheels or balancing recklessly with leet on the hubs of opposite wag? ons. Everybody was bound to see him. When the whistle announced the com? ing of the train the band began to play, the cannon fired, horns blew and the cheering echoed and re-echoed till heav? en's vault resounded with the noise the people of Carlow were making. There was one heart that almost stopped beating. Helen was standing on the front seat of the Briscoe buck? board^ with Minnie beside her, and at the commotion the horses pranced and backed so that Lige Willetts ran to hold ! them. But Helen did not notice the frightened roans, nor did she know that Minnie clutched her round the waist to keep her from falling. Her eyes were fixed intently on the smoke of the faraway engine, and her hand, lifted to her face in an uncertain, muions fashion, as it was one day in a circus tent, was laid against the deepest blush that ever mantled a girl's 4cheek. When the train reached the platform she saw Briscoe and the oth? ers radi into the bunting covered car, and there ensued what was to her an almost intolerable pause of expecta? tion while the crowd assaulted the win ' dows of the smoker, leaping up and climbing on each other's shoulders to catch the first glimpse of him. Briscoe and a red faced young man (a stranger to Plattville) came down the steps, laughing like boys, and then Keating and Bence, and then Warren Smith. As the lawyer reached the platform he turned toward the door of the car and waved his hand as in welcome. "Here he is, boys I" he shouted. At that it was as if all the noise that had gone before had been mere leak? age of pent up enthusiasm. A thousand Nhorns blared deafeningly; the whistle of the locomotive and that of Hib bard's mill were added to the din; the courthouse bell was pealing out a wel? come, and the church bells were ring? ing; the (gannon thundered, and then cheer on cheer shook the air as John Harkless came out under the flags and passed down the steps of the car. When Helen saw him over the heads of the people and through heaving tu? mult of flags and hats and handker? chiefs she suddenly gave a frightened glance about her and jumped down from her high perch and sank into the back seat of the buckboard, with her burning face turned from the station and her eyes fixed on the ground. She wanted to run "away, as she had run from him the ri rsi time she ever saw him, and then, as now, he came in tri? umph, hailed by the plaudits of his fel .\it manus that yon were nominated /or &jngrc*if /" lows, and now, as on that long depart? ed day oi her young girlhood, he was borne high over the heads of the peo? ple, for Minnie cried to her to look they were carrying him on their shoul? ders to his carriage. She had had oniy that brief glimpse of bim before ho was lost in the crowd that was so glad to get him back again and so proud i : him; but she had seen that he lou;:..! veiw white and solemn. Briscoe brought Tom Meredith through the "rowd and put him in $he buckboard beside Helen. * "Ail right Lige!" call ;d the judge to Willetts, who was at the horses' heads. "You. go get into line with the 1 >ys; |hey want you. We'll go down on -Main street to see the parade." be explained, gathering tho reins in his hand. S-IcCsur?. ThiUipj Sgl Co, ? ?**i**? **K~5* *jfr'I? ?I? 'l'g' 'I' 'I* fr fr ?3 ? gn^x? & ?? ? $ 'I? ?>?!' i* fr 'I* 'I' 'H* 'X* fr 'H' fr fr ?> '1* fr ?> fr i n*Did you t?Ti him about Mr. Ha 11o ; way?" disked Helen, leaning forward ai doubly. "Warren told him before we left the ! car," answered Briscoe "He'd have j declined on the spot, I expect, if we hadn't made him sure it was all right with Kedge." "If I understood wdiat Mr. Smith was saying, Halloway must have behaved very well," said Meredith. The judge laughed. "He saw it was the only way to beat McCune, and he'd have given his life and Harkless', too, rather than let McCune have it." "Why did you leave Mr. Harkless?" Helen asked her cousin, her eyes not meeting his. "My dear girl," he replied, "because, for some inexplicable reason, my lady cousin has not nominated me for con? gress, and, oddly enough, the undis? criminating multitude were not cheer? ing for me; the artillery was not in ac? tion to celebrate me; the band was not claying to do me honor. Why should I ride in the midst of a procession that knows me not? Why should I en? throne me in an open barouche, with four white horses to draw it and draped with silken flags? Since these things were not for me, I flew to your side to dissemble my spleen under the licensed ; prattle of a cousin." "Then who is with him?" "The population of this portion of In diana, I take it." "Oh, it's all right" said the judge, leaning back to speak to Helen. "Keat? ing and Smith and your father are to ride in the carriage with him. You needn't be afraid of any of them letting him know that H. ?isbee is a lady. Everybody understands about that Of course they know it's to be left to you to tjreak it to him how a girl has run his paper." The old gentleman chuckled and look? ed out of theJcorner of his eye at his daughter, wfiose expression was in? scrutable, t "1!" cried Helen. "I tell him! Xe one must tell him. He need never know it." Briscoe reached back and patted ber check. "How long do you suppose he will be here in Plattville without its leaking out?" 'jBut when they kept watch over him for months nobody told him." "Ah," said Briscoe, "but this is dif I ferent" j "No, no, no!" she exclaimed, "ll i must be kept from him somehow." "He'll know it by tomorrow; so yoi: I better tell him this evening." "This evening?" "Yes; you'll have a good chance." "I will?" "He's coming to supper with us-he i and your father, of course, and Keating I and Bence and Boswell aid Smith and I Tom Martin and Lige. We're going tc have a big time, with you and Minnie to do the honors, and we're all coming into town afterward for the fireworks and I'll let him drive you in the pkao ! ton. You'll have plenty of chances to talk it over with him and tell him ai: about it." Helen gave a little gasp. "Xever!" she cried. "Xever!" The buckboard stopped on the Her i a!d corner, and hore and along Mail ? I street the line cf vehicles which had foi lowed it from the station took position - I to await the parado. The square wa almost a solid mass cf bunting, ano the north entrance of the courthouse *b:id boen decorated with streamers sue' ' flags so as to make a sort of stand Hither the crowd was already stream ing and hither the procession made iii way. At intervals the gun boomer from the station, and Schofields' Henry was winnowing the air with his bell. Nobody had a better time that day than Schofields' Henry, except old Wilker? son, who was with the procession. in advance came the boys, whooping and somersaulting, and behind them rode a band of mounted men, sitting their horses like cavalrymen, led by the sheriff and his deputy and Jim Bard lock. Then followed the Harkless club of Arno, led by Boswell, with the mag? nanimous Halloway himself marching in the ranks, and at sight of this th? people shouted like madmen. But when Eden's eye fell upon Holloway's fat. rather unhapp3* face she felt a pang o! r.iry and unreasoning remorse, which warned her that he who looks upon politics when it is red must steel his eyes to see many a man with the heart? burn. After the men of Arno came tho Harkless club of Gainesville, Mr. Bence in the van with the step of a grenadier. There followed next Mr j Ephraim Watts, bearing a light wane in his hand and leading a detachment of workers from the oil field in their stained blue overalls and blouses, and .:itcr them came Mr. Martin and Mi Lan?as at? the beau of an organization recognised in the "order cf procession" printed ia th" Herald as "the business men of Plattville." The band played ir. .::<..! magnificent time that every high stepping loot in adi th*' line caine down with ta-- same jubilant plunk and iift cd again wita :>. unanimity as eoinp?ci - as that ol' ?.?st Vote tl.O COIlVCntiOU had ta-fcs n that day. Tb.- leaders of the procession set a brisk pace, ata: who could bave set tiny <-.!; ;. kind of a pace, wir o on parade to the strains of such .l hand playing'suvh a tune as "A Xcw Joon In Town" with ali its might aa:: . -is ended and the musicians paused ;or breath and there fell comparative j quiet. Among the ranks of the "tmsi I ness men" ambled Mr. Wilkerson, sing ! ing at the top of Iiis voice, and now be j could be beard distinctly enough for those near bim to distinguish the mel? ody with which it was bis intention to favor the public: "Glory, glory, halleluiah! As we go marching cn." The words, the air, that husky voice, recalled to the men of Carlow another day and another precession not like this one. And the song Wilkerson was singing is the one song every northern born American knows and can sing. The leader of the band caught the sound, signaled to his men, twenty in? struments rose as ose to twenty mouths, the snare drum rattled, the big drum crashed, the leader threw his baton high over his head, and music burst from twenty brazen throats: "Glory, glory, halleluiah!" Instantaneously the whole procession began to sing the refrain, and the peo? ple in the street and those in the wagons and carriages and those lean? ing from the windows joined with one accord. The ringing bells caught the time of the song, and the upper air reverberated in the rhythm. The Hfcrkless club of Carlow wheeled into Main street, 200 strong, with their banners and transparencies. Lige Willetts rode at their head, and behind him strode William Todd and Parker and Ross Schofield and Newt Tibbs and Hartley Bowlder, and even Bud Tipworthy held a place in the ranks through his connection with the Herald. They were all singing, and behind them Helen saw the flag cov? ered barouche and her father, and be? side him sat John Harkless, with his head bared. She glanced at Briscoe. He was standing on the seat in from of her and Minnie and both were sing? ing. Meredith had climbed u-pon the back seat and was nervously tumbling at a cigarette. "Sing, Tom!" the giri cried to him excitedly. "I should be ashamed not to," he answered, and dropped the cigarette and began to sing "John Brown's Body" with all his strength. With that she seized his hand, sprang up beside him, and over the swelling chorus her full soprano rose, lifted with all the power in her. The barouche rolled into the square, and as it passed Harkless turned and bent a sudden gaze upon the group in the buckboard, but the western sun was in his eyes and he only caught a glimpse of a vague, bright shape and a dazzle 0/ gold, and he was borne along and out of view down the singing street "Glory, glory, halleluiah! Glory, glory, halleluiah! Glory, glory, halleluiah! As we go marching on." The barouche stopped in front of the courthouse, and Harkless passed up a lane they made for him to the steps. When he turned to them to speak, they began to cheer again, and he had to wait for them to quiet down. "We can't hear him from over here," said Briscoe. "We're too far off. Mr. Meredith, suppose you take the ladies closer in; I'll stay with the horses." "He's a great man, isn't he?" Mere? dith said to Helen as he handed her out of the buckboard. "I've been try? ing to realize that he's the same old fellow I've been treating so familiarly all day long." "Yes. he is a great man," she an? swered. "This is only the beginning." "That's true," said Briscoe. **Only wait awhile, and we'll all go on to Washington and get a thrill down our backs when we hear the speaker say. 'The gentleman from Indiana,' and see John Harkless rise to speak. But hurry along, young people." Crossing the street, they met Miss Tibbs. She was wiping her streaming eyes with the back of her left hand and still mechanically waving her hand? kerchief with her right. "Isir't it beau? tiful V" she said, not ceasing to uncon? sciously "Butter The Tittle square of cam? bric. "There was such a throng that I grew faint and had to come away. 1 don't mind your seeing me cry. Pretty uear everybody cried when be walked up the steps and we saw that he was lame." John Harkless looked down upon the attentive, earnest faces and into the kindly eyes of the Hoosier country peo? ple, and as he spoke the thought kept recurring to him that this was the place he had dreaded to come back to; that these were the people he had wished to leave, these who gave him everything they had to give, and this made it dim cult to keep his' tones steady and his throat clear. Helen stood so far from the steps (nor could she be induced to penetrate farther, though they would have made way for her) that only fragments reached her, but these she remembered. "I have come home. Ordinarily a man needs to fall sick by the wayside or to be set upon by thieves in order to realize that nine-tenths of the world is Samaritan-and the other tenth only too busy or too ignorant to be. Down here he realizes it with no necessity of iliness or wounds to make him know it. and if he does get hurt you send him to congress. There will be no other in Washington so proud of what he stands for as I shall be. To represent yon is to stand for fearlessness, honor, kind? ness. You have sent all of the Cross roaders to the penitentiary, but prob? ably each of us is acquainted with politicians who ought to be sent then-. When the term is over I shall want to i-he the first train home. This is the place for a man who lilies to live wlu-rc people are kind to each other and where they have the old fashioned way O?" saying 'home:' other places they don't seem to get so much into it as wc ?lo. And to conic home a.; I have today to see ?I12 home faces-I have come h.;.mo." [TO BE CONTI?;UEX? HOLDING 3,000,000 BALES. Harvie Jordan Outlines His Holding Plan and Reasons fer Advocat? ing: lt. New Orleans, Xov. 24.-"Pie do es for tying up 3,000,000 bales of cot? ton for 90 days or longer are being received at the headquarters of the Southern Cotton Association in large numbers, already, by wire and mail, although the movement is but a few days old," says President Harvie Jor? dan of the Southern Cotton Associa? tion. Up to Saturday, November ISth. pledges by wire to hold one hundred thousand bales had been re? ceived by me at the Atlanta office. It is confiedntly believed that one mil? lion bales will be pledged before the end of this week and that the whole three million will be tied up by i De? cember 10th. "The division officers of the differ? ent States have gone actively to work through the co-operation of the coun? ty officials have put out solicitors in each county who will make a house to house canvass reaching every in? dividual holder of spot cottcn and securing pledges for every bale that can and will be held for 90 days. If any holder objects to signing the pledge for a fixed price of 15 cents, let him sign to hold for 90 days re? gardless of any fixed price; the mar? ket will take care of itself and we will surely get our figure. "The public mind must be disa? bused of the idea advanced in some quarters that the present effort to tie up so iarge a quantity of spot cotton is done in the interest of speculation. The plan is urged purely in the in? terest of Southern farmers who have cotton to sell and who should receive better prices for their holdings than present markets, dominated by bear? ish speculators, authorize. The de? mand for higher prices is based sole? ly upon the present legitimate laws of supply, demand and consumption of the raw cotton. Spinners of Ameri? can cotton amount to 300,000 bales of spot cotton per week, and if there is no curtailment in consumption th?! demand for American cotton will reach fifteen million bales between September 1, 1905 and September 1, 1906. These figures are based upon practical facts. Jobbers' suppli2S were never so short as at present, were never so short as at present. Mills were never so pressed for the entire output of their spindles and looms as at present. The entire civ? ilized world was never before in so prosperous a condition as now. "More than four million new spin? dles have gone into operation in Man? chester, England, within the past three months which will create a new demand for at least one million bales of new cotton not hertofore existing Consumption is unprecedented, whi'e supply of raw coton is limited. Th% t American crop is short. The India and Egyptian crops are short. . The price of wool is very high and scarce. Mills are now mixing an enormous quantity of cotton in woolen goods, which is another important facror en? larging the use of American cotton." Half the crop has already c-vn marketed around ten cents per pound. If three millions of the balance un- I sold should be held and fifteen cents I demanded for it, this would hardlv av lei age the whole crop to the spinners lat 12 cents, and vet the working and pricing basis of cotton goods ali tho i season has been on the cost of raw cotton from 12 1-2 to 14 cents pe. pound. The price of cotton g oJis continues to advance in the face of j the enormous demand and inability j of the world's spinners to furnish j needed supplies. The i-pot and fu j turo contract workers aro being j unmercifully hammered by a lot of I gamblers, and speculators who are flooding the South with pres.-; articles and circulars misrepresenting ac? tual conditions and forcing prices lower. There is but one course for the farmers to pursue and that is to j I tie up the spots. The mills can't spin paper contracts into cloth, they must have the spots. The market is being hammered on condition re j ports, ginners reports and padded large estimates to fool the people. The size of the crop is immaterial, the question for each spot holder to consider is, what the staple is legiti? mately worth at the present time and then refuse to sell it for less. Hold your cotton off a glutted market, de? pressed by illegitimate speculation j'and demand a square deal. The South is financially able to control i j the spot situation. Debts have been ? I paid, Southern banks have plenty o? i money and every man owning a bale i of cotton who wants higher prices lean, if necessary, finance his holdings ? and refuse to market the staple for ?the next 90 day.--. j On December second called meet? ings of farmers will be held in all the civil'subdivisions of the various cot Iton counties and Parishes for the pur- j pose of making effective the annual reorganization <.!' the Southern Cotton j Association. As the farmers meet at their respective beats; school prc- j bints, rvT ? * ? 11?t Districts or townships, lei them make up usu. giving names, : postoiHce addresses and number o\ j bah s they are willing to hold for 90 : days, where they have not already signed pledges to that ene.-?. L I j these lists be mailed to Southern Coi- ? ton Association. Atlanta, Ga. The names of all who sign pledges will be treated as strictly eofindentlal. Do not be weakened or influenced against demanding higher prices fo. the balance of this crop. A tremen? dous effort will he made to discour? age .?pot holders and all kinds of arguments advanced against holding cotton above present prices. Larg* on contracts, bear speculators, and buyers who are short of spot cotton others will do all in their power to whip this fight. We have the fact*, to base our demand on and active concert of action will win the victory. "The South absolutely controls the monopoly of the world's cotton sup? ply. All civilized nations depend upon American cotton for clothing. There is no raw fibre that can com? pete against it either in prices up to 15 and 20 cents per pound, or in sup? ply. It is not a question of specula? tion or bulling the cotton market, but a great business proposition bas? ed upon the ligitimate conditions that confronts us at this time. Hold your cotton. Be a factor in tying up the 3,000,000 bales and the world will re? spect the farmers of the South. The fight is on. The farmers are well en trenched and have all ths ammuni? tion in their possession. The enemy is working the game with hot air and falsely manipulated figures.- The members of this Association and its friends, the members of the Farmers' Union and other organizations should stand firmly together and an easy victory can be won. Determined and effective. co-operation must he the watchword and in three months we will be the entire masters of the sit? uation. How's This? We offer one hundred dollars re? ward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions, and finacially j able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter? nally, acting directly upon the blooa and mucous .surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price, 75c. per botle. Sold by all druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for con? stipation. 11-lS-lm In Time ol' Peace. *In the first months of the Russia Japan war we had a striking example of the necessity for preparation and the only early advantage of those: who. so to speak, "have shingled their roofs in dry weather." The virtue of preparation has made history and given to us greatest men. The indivi? dual for any emergenc3r. Are you prepared to successfully combat the first cold you take? A cold can be cured much more quickly when treat? ed as soon as it had been contracted and before it has become settled in the system. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is famous for its cures of colds and it should be kept at hand ready for instant use. For sa'_ by all Druggists. !Cfiamberiam9s|| I ? M \ Viagra ? \n?m willi The Children's Favorite -CURES Coughs, Colds, Croup and Whooping Cough. This remedy is famous for it? cures over alargo part of the civilized world. It can always be depended upon It contains no opium or other harmful dru;? and may oe given as con. d?xtly to a baby as to an adult Price 25 -*ts; Large Size, 50 cts. ?tops ?i3 cemgb. and IreaZslu&gs Land i?urvevhis I Trill give piompt attention to all cail? for Harveyiag;, platting, terracing hill *idi* draining bottoms, drawing Morteree:? Titie>. Probating, <fcc. BANKS H. BOYK?X, D. S., Oct 19-o Catchall, S. C. -:- ti. 11 uwm -:? DENTIST. 105 i N. Main Street, over Knight's Book Store. Hours 8 to 2.30 : 3.30 to 6. j Phono 210. j Gares Sc?ds; Preve?is S^eumcn?a ?fl omi 3 O that word is '9 eiersto Dr. Tutt's Liver Pills and &SANS HE?LTH. Are vou constipated? Troubled with indigestion? Sick headache? Virtigo? Bilious? insomnia? .NY cf these symptoms and many others ndicate inaction of the LIVER. Take No Substitute. Money to Loan On Cotton. Four per cent inter? est, compounded quar? terly on savings de? partment. THE SUMTER SAYINGS BANK. G. A. LEMMON. President. L C. STRAUSS. vice-President. GEO. L. RICEER, Cashier. $100.000.00 Capital. If mil NATIONAL SANK of Sumter, S. C. THE Comptroller of the Currency hav? ing approved the increase of the Capital of this Bank to $100.000.00, depositors now have as security for their deposits : Capital, - - $100.000 00 Stockholders' Individual Lia? bility, - - - '.00,000 OG Surplus and Undivided Prof? its, -, - - 25,000 00 Total Security for Depositors, $225,000 00 ONLY NATI0VLA BANK IN CITY OF SUMTES. Largest Capital of any Bank in this section of South Carolina. Strongest Bank in Eastern part of this State. Interest allowed on deposits to a limited amount. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. A. J. CHINA, President. NEILL O'DONNELL. Vice President. H. D. BARNETT, R. D. LEE, G. A. LEMMON, JOHN REID, E. P. RICKER. R. L. Er MUNDS, Cashier. R. D. LEE, Solicitor. BOOKKEEPERS. J. 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