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Copyricht. 1904< by the VBMH vj) ^oreassseac? qa-aMag?1* CHAPTER m. THE MESSENGER. OIIE next day Menin was bend? ing over fresh sheets of papy? rus, and wi? ci* his son entered and stood beside him he raised Ids head defiantly. "I have- another royal obelisk to deco? rate,* he said, fixing the youn?* man .with a steady eye, "of a surety--with? out doubt-inevitably-for the thing is aH but ready to be set up at On." Before Kenkenes could ask for en? lightenment a female slave bowed in the doorway. "The Lady Senci sends thee greeting .and would speak with thee. She is at the outer portal in her curricle," she ?aid, addressing Mentu. vine great man sprang to his feet glanced hurriedly at his ink stained fingers, at his robe, and then fled across the court into the door he had entered to change his dress the day before. Kenkenes smiled, for Mentu had been . a widower these ten Nile floods. The slave still lingered. "Also is there a messenger ror mee, .master," she said, bowing again. ."&>? Let him enter." The man whom the slave ushered in a few minutes later was old, spare and bent but he was alert and restless. His eyes were brilliant and over them arched eyebrows that were almost white. He made a jerky obeisance. "Greeting, son of Mentn. Dost thou remember mei" The young man looked at his visitor JPor a moment ' ""I remember," he paid at last "Thou -art Ranas, courier to Snofru, priest of On." .'Mine errand is urgent I am come ?rom Asar-Mut to thee. He bids thee prepare for a journey before present? ing thyself to him." "Mine uncle is gracious. Salute him ?br me and tell him I obey." The old man withdrew. _When Kenkenes crossed the_court a .-Ut?eT?mel?t?r," ne mTFliis father": ' - "The Lady Senci brings me news mat makes me envious," Mentu began j -at once, "and shames me because of j . thee:" j Kenkenes lifted an expressive brow ; at this unexpected onslaught "Nay, -aow, what have 1 done?" ^Nothing!" Mentu asserted emphat? ically, "and for that reason am I wroth. The Lady Senci's nephew, Ho> tep, is the new chief of the royal -?cribes." call that good tidings," Kenkenes replied, a cheerful note in his voice, *^and worth greeting with a health to Hotep." The artist regarded his son scornfully for a moment "I have this moment been summoned ty my holy uncle, Asar-Mut, to go on a journey, and I know not when I re ton," said Kenkenes. ..Humph!" the elder sculptor re? marked. "Asar-Mut has kingly tastes. The couriers of priests are.not usually ?rf the nobility. But get thee gone." Tile pair separated, and the young man passed into the house. When, half an hour later, Kenker.es 'entered a cross avenue leading to a great square in which the temple stood, "he found the roadway filled with people, crowding about a group of di? sheveled women. These were shrieking, wildly tearing their hair, beating them? selves and throwing dust upon their "beads. Kenkenes immediately sur? mised that the^e was something more tnan the usual death wail in this. He touched a man near him on the -shoulder. "Who may these distracted women ' "tie?" he asked. "The ni others of Khafra and Sigur ? and their women." ."Nay! Are these men dead? I knew ' 3hem once." "They are by this time. They were ! to be hanged in the dungeon of the "nocse of the governor of police at this i "nour," the man answered, with mor- j 3>ld relish in his tone. Kenkenes look? ed at him in horror. "What had they done?"" he asked. The man plunged eagerly into the nar- ! lari ve. j .They were tomb robbers and robbed j independently of the brotherhood of ! thieves. They refused to pay the cus- I tomary tribute from their spoil to the ; chief of robbers, and whatsoever booty ? Crowlteg atout a_Q-QUD of disheveled CHAPTER T. THE SELB TO THE TH20XE. EOI was not present at the sunset prayers in Karnak. An hour before he had summoned the trustiest priest in the brother? hood of ministers to Amen and bade bim conduct the ceremonies of the vening. Then he sent to the temple stores, jut into service another boat ^and was ferried over to the Libyan suburb of Thebes. He had himself borne in a litter to the greater palace of Rameses IL and asked an audience TW?th Meneptah. The king was at prayers in the tem? ple of his father, close to the palace, ?and the dusk of twilight was settling .on tie valley of the' Nile before Loi "was summoned to the council chamber. Behind a solid panel of carved cedar 'which hedged the royal dais stood 3*.eneptah. Below, with the light of the torch wavering up and down his robust fig tire, was Har-hat, Meneptah's greatest general and now the new fan bearer. To the king's right, beside tue dais, with a ?land resting on the back of a ?cathedra, or great chair, was the Crown 2?rince Rameses. Thc old courtiers of the dead grandsire visiting the court of Meneptah flung up their hands and -gasped when they beheld the heir to the double crown of Egypt They look .?d upon the old Pharaoh, renewed in youth and strength. There were the ?ame narrow temples with the sloping ?brow, the same hawked nose, the same tull lips, the same heavy eye with the .smoldering ember in its dusky depths. He was twenty-two years old now and bad proved that no alien nature had been housed in the old Pharaoh's shape. He had never met repulse or defeat; he had neve:.* entered the pres? ence of his peer; he had never loved; 2ie had never prayed. He was a soli? tary power who admitted Death as his ?only equal and defied even him. The other counselors were minor members of the cabinet who had been .summoned, but expected only to hear ..and keep silence while the great pow '?13-the king, the prince, the priest and 4he fan bearer-conferred. Lol entered, bowing and walking with palsied step. At a sign from the jtrfng, who had already sunk into his ithrone, the old man sat. 5 .Thou bringest us tidings, holy fa? ther?" ?'Eren so, O son of Ptah." -Say on." tTbe priest moved a little uncomfort? ably and glanced at the ministers grouped in the shadows. "Save for the worthy Har-hat and .cor prince, O my king, thou hast no teed of great councIL" he said. Meneptah raised his hand, and the supernumerary ministers left the cham? ber. When they were gone Lol un? "wrapped the roll Kenkenes had brought sud began to read: To Lol. the Most High Servant of Amen. Xord of Tape, the Servant of Ra, at On, ?ea?s greeting: The gods lend me composure to speak ?timly Trtth thee, O brother. And let the ??tssiay which Is mine explain the lack of .ceremony in this -writing. Xl is not likely that thou hast forgotten .the sood Queen Neferarl Thermuthis* fos- I ter son-the Hebrew Moses whom, she ttouTid adrift in a basket on Nilus. But ?ftst the y^ars have driven the mem? ory of his misdeeds from thy mind, I ts& sgain the story- ' Thou knowest he was initiated a priest of Isis, and scarce ??ai the last of the mysteries been dis ?S?ss? :o him ere it was seen that the ?arotherhood had taken an apostate unto By the grace of the gods, he interfered tn ?. brawl at Pithom and killed an Egyp- ; tian. Before he cou!d be taken he fied j tato Elid?an, and the secrets of our order j went safe, for a time. One by one our fellows have entered j Osiris. The young who knew not have i SEed their places. Thou and I only are Heft-and the Hebrew! Ec hath returned! The gods make strong our hands ?grinst him! He went away as a menace, bot he retumeth as a pestilence. The ?lemons of AmentI are with him, and his j beor is most propitious. He hath sunk j bhaself in th* Israelitish pool here in the tsorth. and he will breathe therefrom such j vapors as : cay destroy Egypt-faith- ! ?tate-all! j Tb? bond p wple are already In ferment. : There was mutiny at Pa-Rain es u recent- ! 2y wbjen 300 were chosen to work the <3psurri?s. Moreover, the taskmasters are ! <5?Toj>t. The commander, one Atsu by j O&me. appointed when the chief Merenra became aomarch over Bubastis, hath dis asrsf?d the under drivers, removed the wo- 1 ZUKSL tTom toil and restored many priv? . Ssar&s which are ruinous to law and order, i Th* ^rhofe delta is In commotion. The j oss?? tribes near the Goshen country , are ?vgltated: communities of Egyptian j ??qcBaETCs "?ave "Deen won ~over""to GiS Tie- j brewis cause, and now the Isrs^elitlsh ! ses&gade needs but to betray the secrets j tc bring such calamity upon Egypt as j Vtmz befell a nation. Bat, brother, he is within reach of an j ?vertgtag hand! Commission us, I pray theft, to protect the mysteries after any ! seutxzBer that to us seemeth good. Dispatch ia urgent. He may fly again, j vs thine answer as we have sent this j S? thee - by a nobleman - a swift and ! trust; one, and the blessings of the R?- j 43JKQ? Three be upon thy head. Thy serv? ant. ti? servant of Ra, SNOFRU. TChen the priest finished, the king ! was sitting upright, his face flushed j ^arrth feeling. .W-ell" he cried, stamping his foot j ?hen, th*r three before him kept silence, j *i?vf? ye no word to say?** BBs syes rested on Har-hat, with an Imperious expectation in them. The fan bearer bent low before he Answer- j ?CL **With thy gracious permission, O son j <s? Ptah," he said, "I would suggest ISteS it were wise to cool an Insurrec? tion te the simn ering. The disaffection j 1 seems to~be of great extent But Rameside army assembled on' ground might check an open insun tion. Furthermore, thou hast seen salutary effect of thy visit to Ti when she forgot her duty to her s ereign. Thy presence in the de would undoubtedly expedite the s pression of the rebellion likewise." "Oh, aye," Meneptah declared, must go to Tanis. It seems thal must hasten hither and thither o' '\ Egypt pursuing sedition like a sc? I hunting jackal. Hast thou any simp plan to offer, holy father?" The old priest shifted a little bef< he answered. "The mysteries of the faith are possession of Moses." he began at la "The writing saith he hath exert great influence over the bond peopl< in truth he l^ath entered a peace! land and stirred it up-and time is b needed to bring the unrest to open wi fare. Ye know that we hold the fai by scant tenure in the respect of t people. Ye know the perversity humanity. So if it were to come ov the spirit of this Hebrew to betray t mysteries, to scout the faith and ov< turn the gods, he would have rabt Egypt following at his heels. The ra ble without a leader is harmless. C off the head of Moses and the Inst rection will subside utterly." "Moses, though a Hebrew, an infid and a malefactor," replied Menepta "is a prince of the realm, my fost brother, Neferarf s favorite son. Na he shall not die by hand of mine." Tl prelate raised his head and met tl eyes of the king. After he read whj lay therein the dissatisfaction that h? begun to show on his ancient face fa< ed. The Pharaoh settled back into h seat, and his brow cleared as if ti problem had been settled, but sudden] he sat up. "What have I profited by this cou; eil?" He stopped abruptly and turne to the crown prince. "Help us, ni Rameses," he said in a softer ton "We had well nigh forgotten thee." Rameses raised himself from ti back o?' his cathedra, against which I lounged, and moved a step forward. "A word, my father," he said cain ly. "Thy perplexity hath not been m tangled for thee, nor even a threa pulled which shall start it ravelin] The priesthood can kill Moses," b said to Loi, "and it will do them n hurt And thou, my father, canst com tenanee it and seem no worse tha any other monarch that loved bj throne. Thus ye will decapitate th monster. But there be creatures t the desert which, losing one head, grot another. Moses is not of such exalte or supernatural villainy that they ca? not fill his place. Wilt thou execut Israel one by one as it raises up J leader against thee? "Thou hast not fathomed the He j brew's capabilities, my father. In hin j is a wealth, a power, a magnificenc that thy fathers and mine built up fo j thee, and the time is ripe for the gar ? nering of th? profit. What monard of the sister nations hath two and i half millions of hereditary slaves-no I tributary folk nor prisoners of war but slaves that are his as his catth and his flocks are his? What mon i arch before thee had them? None any where, at any time. Thou art riet in bond people beyond any monarch since the gods reigned, ""^ylise uiey liave~fitied themselves to the limits laid upon them by the great Rameses. The feeble have died, and the frames of the sturdy have be? come like brass. They have bred like beetles in the Nile mud for numbers. Ignorant ot their value, thou hast been indifferent to their existence. Forget? ting them was pampering them. They have lived on the bounty of Egypt for 400 years and, save for the wise in? flictions of a year or two by the older Pharaohs, they have flourished unmo? lested. How they repay thee, thou seest by this writing. Now, by the gods, turn the face of a master upon them. Remove the soft driver Atsu and put one in his stead who is worthy the office. Tickle them to alacrity and obedience with the lash-yoke them load them-fill thy canals, thy quarries, thy mines with them"- He broke off and moved forward a step, squarely facing the Pharaoh. "Thou hast thine artist-that demi? god Mentu, in whom there ls super i HEYEg j I "A. word, my father.1 natural genius for architecture as well as sculpture. Make him thy rojal architect as well, and with kim dost thou know what thou canst do with these slaves? Thou canst rear Karnak fn every herdsman's village; thou canst carve the twin of Ipsambul In every rock front that faces the Nile; thou canst erect a pyramid tomb for thee that shall make an Infant of Khufu; thou canst build a highway from Syene to Tanis and line it with sisters of the sphinx; thou canst write the name of Meneptah above every other name on the world's monuments, and it shall endure as long as stone and bronze shAll last and tradition go on from lip tc lip!" The prince paused abruptly. Menep? tah was on his feet, almost in tears at the contemplation of his pictured greatness. "Mark ye!" the prince began again. His arm shot out and fell, -and the flash of its jewels made it look like a bolt of lightning. "I would not fall heir to Israel, and if these things are done in thy lifetime I must build my monu? ments with prisoners of warr* The old hierarch, who had been nervously rubbing the arm of his chair during the last of the prince's speech, broke the dead silence with an awed whisper. "Ab, then spake the Incomparable Pharaoh:" Meneptah put out his hand, smiling. "No more. The way is shown. I fol? low, O my Rameses!" CHAPTER V.L. ATHOE, THE GOLDEN. - |T sunrise the morning after his A j return from On, Kenkenes ap f\\ peared at the Nile, attended by I a burden bearing slave. The first lean, brown boatman who touched his knee and offered his bari for hire Kenkenes patronized. The slave had eased his load into the boat and Kenkenes was on the point of em? barking when a four oared bari which had passed them like the wind a mo? ment before put about several rods above them and returned to the group on shore. A bent and withered servitor was standing in the bow of the boat wild? ly gesticulating, as if he feared Ken? kenes would insist on pulling away despite his efforts. The young man recognized the servant of Snofru, old Ranas. The large bari was beached, and the servitor alighted with agility and, beck? oning to Kenkenes, took him aside. "There has been an error-a grave error-concerning the message," the old man began in excitement "but thou art in nowise at fault Yet mayhap mon canst aid us in unraveling the tangle. "Seel" He displayed the linen wrapped roll, .the covering split where Snofru had opened it but the wavering hieratic characters of the address in Loi's hand were still intact When the young sculptor had gazed the old servant nervously undid the roll and showed within a letter to the commander over Pa-Ramesu, written in the strong epistolary symbols of the royal scribe. Kenkenes frowned with vexation. Innocent and efficient though he bad been, the miscarriage of his mission stung him nevertheless. The blunder was not long a mystery to him. ' Summoning all the patience at his command, he recounted the events in the apartments of the ancient hierarch of Amen. "There were two scrolls," he explain? ed-"one to the servant of Ra at On, the other to Atsu. The holy father sealed them both before he addressed them and confused the directions. The I one which I should' have brought to j thine august master hath gone to the taskmaster over Pa-Ramesu." "Thou madest all speed?" the serv? ant demanded, trembling with eager j ness. j "A half day's journey less than the ? usual time I made in returning. I doubt much if the messenger with the other scroll hath passed Memphis yet since he may not have been dispatched in such hot haste. Furthermore, be? cause of the festivities In Tape it would have been well nigh impossible for him to hire a'boat until the next day." This information kindled a light of hope on the old servant's face. "Thou givest me life again," he ex? claimed. "The blessings of Ra be upon thee!" Without further words he ran back to the boat, and the last Kenkenes saw of him he was frantically urging his boatmen to greater speed back to On. Kenkenes dismissed his slave and rowed downstream toward Masaarah. When he reached his block of stone, he unrolled his load of equipments and set to work without delay. He was remote from any possible interruption from Memphis, and the slaves in the gorge and in the stone pits had no op? portunity to come upon his sacrilege in idle hours. They would be held like prisoners within the limits of the quar? ries. His sense of security had been strengthened by the renewed activities in Masaarah. With a shovel of tamarisk he cleared the slab of its drift of sand. He found that the block broadened at the base and was separate from the sheet of rock on which it stood. Among bis supplies was a roll of reed matting, and with this cut into proper lengths he carpeted a considerable space about the block. Precaution rather than lux? ury had prompted this procedure, since the chipped stone falling on the cov? ering could be carried cleanly and at once from the spot. Pausing long enough to eat a thin slice of white broad and gazelle meat and to drink a draft from the porous and ever cooling water bottle, he turned to the protection and conceal- j merit of his statue. Weary and happy, he rowed himself ! back to Memphis and slept soundly on the eve of a great offense against the laws of Egypt But the next day, when the young ic. :..*?:-. ?aced the . \or. < n ctual creation, he r??ized~tiiat his goddess taust take form from an unembodied idea. The ritual had been his guide before, and his genius, set free to soar as it would, fluttered wildly without direction. The young sculptor realized that he was in need of a model. Sto? ically he admitted that such a thing was as impossible as it was indispen? sable. It seemed that he had met I complete bafflement j He took up his tools and returned j to Memphis, but each succeeding morn? ing found him in the desert again, des? perately hopeful-each succeeding even? ing in the city disheartened and silent So it followed for several days. On the Gth of January the festival in honor of the return of Isis from Phe nicla was celebrated in Memphis. Ken kenes left the revel in mldafternoon and crossed the Nile to the hills. He found no content away from his block of stone-no happiness before it. He descended through the gorge and found that the Hebrews were but nom? inally idle. Presently a little company of Hebrew children approached, their bare feet making velvety sounds in the^ silence of the ravine. Each balanced' a skin of water on his head. Kenkenes caught himself looking sharply at each face as he passed, for it contained somewhat of that for which n?~s??g??E "A's tie wlHkeTaloug looking after them he became aware that some one was near him. He turn? ed his head and stopped in his tracks. He confronted bis idea embodied Athor, the golden I It was an Israelitish maiden, barely sixteen years old; but in all his life he had never looked upon such beauty. He had gazed with pleased eyes on the* slender blush tinted throats and wrists of the Egyptian beauties, but never j had he beheld such whiteness of flesh j Thy burden is h-eavy, rnaiden." as this. He had sunk himself in the depths of the dusky, amorous eyes of highborn women of Memphis, but here were fathomless profundities of azure that abashed the heavens. He had been very near to loveliest hair of Egypt, so close that its odorous fila? ments had blown across his face and his artist senses had been caught and tangled in its ebon sorcery, but down each side this broad brow was a rip? pling wave of gold, over each shoulder a heavy braid of gold that fell, straight? ened by its own weight a span below the waist The winds of the desert had roughened it and the bright threads made a nimbus about the head. Its glory overreached his senses and be? sieged his soul. Here was not witch? ery, but exaltation. Enraptured with her beauty, her per? fect fulfillment of his needs, he realized last the unlovely features of her pres? ence. She balanced a heavy water pitcher on her head and wore a rough surplice, more decorous than the dress of the average bondwoman, but the habit of a slave nevertheless. He had halted directly in her path, and, after i a moment's hesitancy, she passed j around him and went on. j Immediately Kenkenes recovered him I self and with a few steps overtook her. j Without ceremony he transferred the ! heavy pitcher to his own shoulder, j The girl turned her perfect face, full of amazement to him, and a wave of color dyed it swiftly. "Thy burden is heavy, maiden," was all he said. As they neared the camp the girl spoke to him for the first time. He recognized in her voice the same se? rene tone he had noted In his talk with the Hebrew some days before. "Give me my burden now," she said. "Thou hast affronted thy rank for me, and I thank thee many ?mes." The sculptor paused and for a mo? ment stood embarrassed. It went sore? ly against his gallantry to lay the bur? den again upon her, and he said as much. "Nay. Egypt has no qualms against loading the Hebrew," she said quietly. "Wouldst thou put thy nation to shame?" Kenkenes opened his eyes in some astonishment "Now am I even more loath," he de? clared. "What art thou called?" "Rachel." "It hath an Intrepid sound, but Athor would become thee better. Now, I am a sculptor from the city, come to study thy women for a frieze," he continued unblushingly, "and I would go no far? ther In my search. Rachel repeated will be beauty multiplied. Let me see thee once in awhile-tomorrow." A sudden flush swept over her face, and her eyes darkened. "It shall not keep thee from thy la? bor," he added persuasively. The color deepened, and she made a motion of dissent "Nay, thou dost not refuse mei" he exclaimed, his astonishment evident in ? his voice. "Of a surety," she replied. "Give me j my burden. I pray thee." Dumb With amazement too genuine to contain any anger, Kenkenes obey? ed. As she went up the shady gorgo, walking unsteadily under _the heavy pltcherThe stood looking after her Tn eloquent silence. And in eloquent silence he turned at last and continued down the valley. There was nothing to be said. His ap? preciation of his own discomfort was too large for any expression. [TO BX 00X133) DSD.] TURKEY CREEK CANAL. Health Officer Reardon Makes a Trip With Supervisor Scale as His Guide. When Supervisor Seale was talking about his work in widening and deep? ening Turkey creek canal, at the Chamber of Commerce smoker last Tuesday night, President Manning asked him to tell us something about good roads also.' Mr. Seale replied that as soon as he could get out of Turkey creek he would proceed with the good roads. "Had Mr. Manning been with me yesterday on the banks of this famous canal for a distance of about one mile from the head of Dingle's mill pond, he would know why Major Seale could not get out of Turkey creek any sooner that he did." So spoke a city official, who has been inspecting the work now being done by the county chaingang in this canal. Said he, "I think Ma? jor Seale has struck the- toughest proposition in the shape of drainage and clearing out of right of way he has ever been up against bul his force of convicts are coming down the line cutting out a width of swami? and woods on both sides which looks as though he was preparing to build a railroad or Panama canai from Dingle's mill to Sumter. Turkey creek canal is. or rather was, choked up '. with logs. brush .and other matter for the best part of the distance, and caved in and washed out so that it is a wonder that anv water got off at all. In fact, a great deal of the water had to run over the banks and aiter running around in the swamp and woods, got back into the canal any old way it could. .For a distance of about five hundred yards from the head of Dingle's mill pond the canal has suddenuly terminated, and there . is nothing to indicate that there ever was any ditch or canal there as the sand has completely "filled up the ca? nal. It will require a lot of work to put this canal in a condition to do the work of draining Sumter, and the country through which it runs. But the chaingang force, under foreman Brunson, is making great headway, and when it gets through with the work of deepening ?nd widening and sloping the banks so that they will not cave, why Sumter is going to be greatly benefitted in the way of drainage, as will also be a large sec? tion of country tributary to this ca? nal. No one who has never been down the canal from Sumter to Din? gle's mill pond, has any idea of the amount of work required to nut this ditch in the right condition *o do the work exepected of it. It is irregular in width and depth, crooked, and caves in a great deal and stops up, and backs water. It was necessary to cut down a great many large black gum, pine and oak trees from the i banks on both sides, and to cut out many large logs from the ditch, be? sides cutting down lots of sma?i trees j from both sides, nearly all of the way, before the work of excavating could begin. Hundreds of large stumps on both sides will have to bc blasted or dug out in order to widen the canal. It will be necessary for the chain? gang- to go over almost the entire distance three times before complet? ing the work as it shou'd bc done to guarantee satisfaction. Quick sand beds for hundreds of yards give Jots of trouble, and it will require sloping of sides to a width of from ten tc fif? teen feet in order to overcome thc difficulty of the banks caving in. But when Major Seale and Foreman Brun? son turn this canal over to the city, there ought to be a big fish fry given in their honor by the Chamber of Commerce, Board of Health and City Council, and I can guarantee that a Turkey creek catfish stew will go good at this fry. Fish traps have been taken out of this canal, by the force at work, but the boys in stripes are catching catfish right along with set lines. Major Seale can run along a three-inch cypress over a mud hole or across a canal like a squirrel, and it is no wonder he can outrun any other man for supervisor on level ground. Major Seale is authority for the statement that Health Officer Rear? don is no good crossing mud holes, and saplings across Turkey creek ca? nal, as that officer fell in and was covered from head to foot with blue, slimy mud, and had to be toted out on the back of a convict. Major Seale had this officer taken up to the convict camp and thoroughly disin? fected before bringing him back to Sumter. But any town man is lia? ble to lose his nerve while crossing a footlog, the morning after a Chamber of Commerce smoker. Maj<?r Seale is very anxious to car? ry the committee <>n public works and sanitary committee of City Coun? cil over the exact route taken yester? day, footlogs and all, and is particu? larly anxious to get Chairmen R. F. Hay ns worth and James H. Chandler down to the head of Dingle's mill pond. $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper' will be pleased to learn that there is at least me dreaded disease that science has been abie to cure in ail its stages, and chat is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, re quires a constitutional treatment. Sail's Catarrh Cure is liken inter? nally, acting directly upon the blood ?nd mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient ?strength by building up the the con? stitution and assisting nature in do? ing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer $100 for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testi? monials. Address F. J. Cheney & Co., Tole io, O. Sold by all druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for con? stipation. Palestine has 100,000 Jews at the presenc time. . *Rest is the great restorer. We tire our muscles by exercise and then rest to restore them; yet a great many of us do not stop to think how little rest we girt our stomachs. As a usual thing no part of our bodies i- so gen? erally overworked as our digestive or? gans. A tired and overworked stom? ach will give signs of distress, to which we pay no heed until at last dyspepsia takes hold. Indigestion is ju.?: a warning, and if we heed the warning we can easily avoid further consequences. Kodol is a most thorough stomach relief. It digests .vh-.it you eat and gives the stomach the needed rest and greatly assists in restoring it to its normal activity xand ?1st-LUIncss. Kodol is sold on a guar tntee relief plan. It is sold here by Ul druggists. Mr. L. Wi Dick has been re-elected superintendent of the Abbeville Grad-' ed Schools. - t * Kodol for dyspepsia clears ?he stomach and makes the breath sweet as a rose. Kodol is sold by druggists on a guarantee relief plan. It conforms strictly to the National Pure Food and Drug Law. Sold by all druggists. A reduced rate of gas and electric lights has gone into effect in Charles? ton. Eureka! Yes, I Have Found it at Last *Found what? Why that Chamber Iain's Salve cures eczema and all manner of itching of the skin. I have been afflicted for many years with skin disease. I had to get up three or four times every night and wash with cold water to allay the terrible itch? ing, but since using this salve in De? cember, 1905, the itching has stopped and has not troubled me.-Elder John T Ongley, Rootville, Pa. For sale by DeLorme's Pharmacy. The State intercollegiate oratorical contest will be held at Greenwood April 26. * How to Avoid Appendicitis. *Most victims of appendicitis are those who are habitually constipated. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup cures chronic constipation by stimulating the liver and bowels and restores the natural action of the bowels. Orino juaxative Fruit Syrup does not nau? seate or gripe and is mild and pleas anc to take. Refuse substitutes. Si bert's Drug Store. An average man needs 1,600 pounds irtj weight of food yearly. Bitten by a Spider. ?Through blood poisoning caused by a spider bite, John Washington, of Bosqueviile, Tex., would have lost his leg, which became a mass of run? ning sores, had he not been persuaded to try Bucklen's Arnica Salve. He writes: "The first application reliev? ed, and four boxes healed all the <ores." 25c. at Sibert's Drug Store. There is an epidemic of rabies among the dogs in Columbia, and sev? eral were killed last week. Gentle and Effective. *A well known Manitoba editor writes: "As an inside worker I find Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver TabU-ts invaluable for the touches of biliousness natural to sedentary life, their action being gentle and effect? ive, clearing the digestive tract and the head." Price 25 cents. Samples free. DeLorme's Pharmacy. HE BRINK IS NEM. Few Sumter People Know How Near It Is. Every time you neglect backache, Allow the kidneys to become clogged, Fail to cure urinary disorders, You get nearer to the brink of Bright's disease. Down's kidney Pills will save you from danger. J. L. Hollis, residing at 221 Cheeves street. Florence, S. C., says: "Doan's Kidney Pills wbicb I used for kidney and bladder troubles have greatly Lenefitted me. I w:is very bad? ly hurt on tl?e railroad a number of years azo. had my Wk injured and I think my kidneys were badly hurt at the same time. My bark sot well enough for me to ge? around, but eiog paralyzed from my hips down 1 am unable to walk. I have suffered greatly with backache during the past eight ye:irs. The secretions from the kidneys were in a bad condition, very dark col? ored, full of sediment and accompanied with burning pain. I used numberless remedies, but none of them did me any ?ood until I read about Doan's Kidney Pills and sent to a drugstore for them. They gave me relief The kidney secretions cleared up. the burn in? sensation left and T do not suffer from the terrible backaches. I attribute these satis? factory results entirely to tbe use of Doan's Kidney Pills. You are welcome to use mv name as an endorser of Donn's Kidney Pu,O' Plenty more proof like this from Sumter people. Call at Dr. China's dru? store and ask what his customers report. For sa ie by all dealers: price 50 cents Fos ter-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, X. Y., sole agents for the United Slates. Remember the name-Doan" ..... other