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Girl froiL^^M Iiis TovvMp^ Ay Hone Var\ Vorst: ^r /yy/L JLLV3TRAHONS4 fiy M.GJvTTTMER_ \ l /Vy \ That arming, one* more In iho hex ha had taken all to himself, bo harte nod to "Mandalay," carried away with the charm of the music and car? ried away by the singer. He was in too box nearest the stage and seemed stone to her, and be lmsglned that ander her paint he could reo her and lor and how thin she was. Noth? ing, however. In her acting or In her eoloe revealed the least fatigue. Blair had obtained a card of entrance to the theater, which permitted him to circulate freely behind the scenes, sad although as yst the run of his visits bad not boon clear, thla night ho had a purpose. Dan stood not fsr from the corridor that led to Lotty Lan. 's room, and saw her after her act hurriedly cross ths stage, a big whits shawl wrapping her slander term olossly. She wss as thin as a sandle Her woman Hlggins followed ahasaty after hsr. and as they paased Das. Latty Lane called to him gaily: 1 "Hello, you! What are you hanging around hers for?" And Dan returned: "Don't stand hare tn the draft It Is beastly cold." "Tan Miss." bar woman urged. Moc't stand here " Tsa From Blslrxown. Montsna, When ?hs Cams From." Rut the sctress waited never the icsa snd said to Dan: "Who's the gui?" "Wast girl* ~Why. ths girl you come heia every sight to see and are too shy to speak ss- Everybody Is crasy to knov." Lotty Lans looked like a lttt'e girl tswnolf In the crocheted garment bsr ?mall bands held scross her breast. Han put his srm on her shoulder nithout realising the familiarity of bis fonturo: "Oet out of this draft?get out of it inlck. I say." and pushed her toward ass* room "Gracious, but you are strong." She tart the muscular touch, snd his bsnd ant sgalnst her shoulder waa warm darough tbe wool. "1 wish you were strong. You work too darned bard.'* Hsr bead waa covered with th<9 rorai csp snd feather Dsn saw hsr billowy skirt, her silken boss, her lit Un corsl shoes. She fluttered at the door which Hlggins opened. "Why bi.vsn't you been to see mo?" she asked him. "You sre not very sollte." "I am coming in now." "Not a bit of it. I'm too busy, and R la a short entr'acte. Oo and see ths girl you csms here to see." Dan thought thst the reason she forbade him to come In wss because Prince Ponlotowsky waited for her in hsr dressing rooa It wss his first yeaious moment, and the feeling foil on him with a swoop, and Its fanga fastened in him with s stinging pain. Ho stammered: "I didn't corns to see any girl hers but you. I csms to toe you." "Come tomorrow st two, st the 8a* soy." Before Dan realized his own pre clpttstlon, he bsd sotted the dco. handle as I.etty Lsne went within and was shout to close her room against him. and said quickly: "I'm coming rlsht In now." "Why. I never beard of such a thing. " she answered sharply, angri? ly; "you must be cn.sy! Take awny your hind!" And hers, aa well as his, seised the handle of the door Her small Ice-cold hand brought him to his senses. "I beg your pardon," be murmured confusedly "Do go In and get warm If you csn " But Instesd of obeying, now that the rude young man withdraw his im? portuning. Miss Irene's hands fell from the knob, and close to his e. < shs swsyed before, hltn. and Dan caught her In his arms went into her room, rsrrylng her He had been wrong about Prinsjg Ponlotowakyj ssvs for Hlggins. the morn was empty. The womsn. though she ex< laltm d, Rend us your Job work. ?ho wee no great surprise and seemed prepared for such a fainting spelt Dan laid the actress on the sofa and then the dresser said to him: "Please go, sir; I can quite manage. She has these turns often. I'll give her brandy. She will be quite right." But Dan hesitated, looking at the bit of humanity that he had laid with great gentleness on the dlvsn covered with pillows. Letty Lane lay there, small as a little child, Inanimate as death. It was hard to think the quiet little form could contain such life, fire end motion, or that this senseless little cresture held London with hei voice and grace. Higgles knelt down by Letty Lane's side, quiet, capable going about the business of resuscitat? ing her lady much as she laced the singer's bodies and shoes. "If you would be so good as to open the door, fir. and send me a call page. They')' have to linger out this untr acte or put ' on some feature." "But,** exclaimed Blair, "she can't go back tonight?" "Lord, yes," Hlggins returned "Here. Mise Lane; drink this." At the door where he paused, Dur, ' saw the girl Ufted up, saw her lean on Hlgfins' shoulder, and assured then that sho was not lifeless In good truth, he went out to do as Hlggina had asked him. In a quarter of an hour the curtain rose and within halt an hour Dan, from his box, saw the actress dance to the rajah her charm I ing polka to the strains of the Hun? garian Band I CHAPTER X. The Boy From My Town. He went the next day to see Lett? Lane at the Savoy and learned that she was too 111 to receive him. Mrs. Higglns In the sitting-room told him so. Dan liked the big cordial fac ? of the Scotchwoman who acted as com? panion, dresser and maid for the star. Mrs. Hlggins had an affable face, one that welcomes, and she made It plain that she was not sn enemy to this young caller. i The visitor, In his blue serge clothes, was less startling than most of the men that came to see her mis? tress. "She works too hard, doesn't she?'* "She does everything too hard, sir." "She ought to rest." I "! doubt If she does, even in her grave," returned Higglns. "She Is too full of motion. She is like the little girl in the fairy hook that danced In her grave." , Dan didn't like this comparison. "Can't you make her hold up a IP: tie?" Hlggins smiled and shook her head. Letty Lane's sitting-room was as full of roses as a flower garden. There were quantities of theatrical photo? graphs in silver and leather frames on the tables and the piano. Signed portraits from crowned heads; pic- ' tores of well-known worldly men and women whom the dancer had charmed. But a full-length picture of Letty Lane herself in one of the dresses of "Man dalay" lay on the table near Dan, and t?e picked It up. She smiled at him enchantlngly from the cardboard, across which was written In her big, dashing hand: "For the Boy from my Town. Letty Lane." Dan glsnced up at Mr3. Higglns. "Why, that looks as though this were for me." The dressing woman nodded. "Mlits Lane thought she wculd be able to tee you today." ! The picture in his hand, Dan gazed st it rapturously. "I'm from Blalrtown, Montana, where she came from." j "So she told me. sir." He laid the picture back on the table, and Higglns understood that he wanted Miss Lane to give It to him herself. She led him affably to the door snd affably smiled upon him. She had a frill In her hand, a thim? ble on her finger, and a lot of needles In her bodice. She looked motherly and useful. Blair liked to think of her with Letty Lane He put his hand In his pocket, but she saw his gestur?? snd reproved him quietly: "No, no, ilr. please, I never do. I am Just as much obliged." and her face remalnod ?o affable that Blair was not em barrasned by her refusal. His parting words were: Now. you make her take care of herself." And to please him. as sho opened the door. ,he pleasantly assured him that she would do her very beet. Dan went out of the Savoy feeling that ho had left something of hltrteelf behind him In tlm motley room of an actress with Its perfumed atmosphere of roses and violets. Tho photograph which ho had laid down on the table seemed to look out at hlin again, and he repeated delightedly. "That ono was for me, all right! I'm the boy from her town' and no mistake." And he thought of her as rIio had lain, lifelessly and pal?? on tho dresslng Olve us your Job work. room scfa. under the touch ?T hired hands, and how, no doubt, she had been lying In her room when he called today, with shades drawn, resting be? fore the long hard evening, when I^on don would be amused by her, delight? ed by her, charmed by her voice, by her body and her grace. He had wandered up as far as Piccadilly, went into a florist's and stood before the flowers. Her sitting-room had been full of rose*, but Dan chose some? thing else that had caught his eye from the window?a huge country bas? ket of primroses, smelling of the earth and the spring. He sent them with hi? card and wrote on It, "To the Girl from My Town," and sent the gift with a pleasure as young and as fresh as was his own heart. He got no note of acknowledgment from h's flowers. Miss Lane was evi? dently better and played every night; no mention was made of her Indispo? sition in the papers. But Dan couldn't go to the Gaiety or "bear to see Tier make the effort which he knew must tire her beyond words to conceive. After a few days he called at the Savoy to get news of her. He got as far as the lift when going up in it he Baw Prince Poniotowsky. The sight affected Miss Lane's townsman so for? cibly that instead of going up to the dancer's apartment Dan took himself off, and anger, displeasure and some? thing like disgust were the only sen? timents he carried away from the Sa? voy. He sent her no flowers, and gave himself up unreservedly to Joshua Ruggles and to a couple of men who came in to see him by appointment. And when toward four o'clock he found himself alone with Buggies, Dan threw himself down In a big chair d looked intensely bored. "Well, I guess we don't need to see any more of these fellows for a week, Dan," Buggies yawned with relief. "I'm blbmed if It Isn't as hard to take care of money as to get lt. I was a poor man once, and so was your fa? ther. Those were the days we had fun." Rugg es took out a big cigar, struck a match sharply, and when he had lit his Henry Clay he fixed his gaze on the flying London fog, whose black curtain drew itself across their win? dow. "There's a lot of excitement," Rug gles said, "in not knowing what you're going to get; may turn out to be any? thing when you're young and on the trail. That's the way your father and me felt. And when we started out on the spot that's Blalrtown on the map today, your father had forty dollars a week to engineer a busted mine and to pull the company Into shape." Dan knew the story of his father's riss by heart, but he listened. "He took on with the mine a lot of discontented half hearted rapscallions ?a whole bunch who had failed all along the line. He didn't chuck 'em out. 'There's no life in old wood. Josh.' he said to me, 'but sometimes there's Are in it, and I'm going to light up,' and he did. He won over the whole lot of them in eighteen months, and within two years he had that darned mine paying dividends. Mean? while something came his way and he took it." From his chair Dan asked: "You mean the Denllcy claim?" "Measles," his friend said comically, with a grin. "Your father was sick to death with them. When he was sit? ting up for the first time, peeling in his room, there was a fellow, an Eng? lishman, a total strenger, come in to Bee him. 'Better clear out of here,' your father says to him. 'I'm shed? ding the damnedest disease for a grown man that ever was caught.' I'm not afraid of it,' the Englishman said, 'I'm shedding worse.' Whom "But I Am Thinking of Getting Mar? ried." your father asked * *m what that was, he said the Idea tnat he could make any money In the West. He told your father that he was going back to Eng? land and give up his western schemee, and that he had a claim to sell, and he told Blair where it lay. 'Who has seen It?* your father asked. 'Any of my men?' And the Englishman told your father that nobody had wanted to buy it and that was why he had come to him. Ho said ho thought his only chance to sell was to hold up some blind man on his dying bed and that he had heard that Blair was loo sick to stir out of his room and to prospect. Your father liked the fel iow h cheek, ami When "ho found ??t that ho had tho maps with him, your father bought the whole blooming: sweep at the man's price, which was a mere song (TO BE CONTINUED) v.. will look ;i good whils before you lind 4t bettor medicine for coughs and colds than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, It nol only gives relief?it ? ure* Try it when you have s cough or cold, and you are certain hi be plSSSed with the prompt cur.? which it will effect. For sale by all I dealers. WANT TO JOIN IN HACKS. Sum tor Buys Anxious to Have Racing Wagon so They Can Take Part In Tournament. The members of the Bumter Fire Department are hard at work among themselves and their friends to raise iu flic lent funds to secure a racing .? agon so that they will be enabled to take part In the tournaments Which are. annually held at the time Of the State Firemen's Association meeting. This year the association will hold Its annual meeting in Rock Hill and the members of the Sumter department, who for several years have not taken any part In tourna? ments, owing to lack of the proper equipment, hope to secure their wag? on in time to join in with teams from other parts of the State In competing for prizes and racing for honors. The members of the department do not wish to put the city to the ex? pense of securing the racing wagon which will be necessary, but the mat? ter will probably be brought up be? fore council at their next meeting with a view of ascertaining their opinion and sanction of the plan. The matter of the loan of the tire horses for this purpose by the city will also probably come up at the same time. In past years the Sumter depart? ments have captured a number of prizes at various places and they arc anxious to show that they can now "come back." The department now has the horses for racing and all that is needed is the wagon. The adoption of this plan, if it can be car? ried through, will no doubt revive in? terest in the fire department, which has died down since the boys had to stop their trips to tourna? ments. There are at present com? paratively few people in the city who take any active Interest in the work? ings of the department save occasion? ally when a big fire comes along and this scheme is expected to liven things up. From the Chamber of Commerce point of view the plan should meet with approval, as it is a good advertising one for Sumter. DANCE THURSDAY NIGHT. Very Enjoyable Informal Dance in Armory Hall?Many Young People Present. A very enjoyable dance was given In the Armory hall Thursday evening, quite a number of young ladies and gentlemen being present during the evening. The music was furnished by the Sumter Orchestra and was very pleasing and Inspiring to the dancers. The dancing commenced shortly af? ter nine and continued until one o'clock. NETV KNTKUPRISK S<K)N. Sumter Burial Company Secures Charter to Do Business Hero. Messrs. J. M. White of this city and E. P. Brock of Wilmington, N. C. have secured a charter for an enter? prise which will probably begin busi? ness In Sumter sometime in May. The company is chartered as the Sumter Burial Company and will conduct fu? nerals and embalm bodies. The new firm will probably be managed by Mr. J. M. 'Whito of this city. The concern has a capital stock of $10, 000. A commission has also been grant? ed to The Sumter Retail Lumber Company with a capital stock of $10,000. Those making tho applica? tion for the commission are Messrs. II. X Forester and Edward Oreer. ?Dr. J. T. R. Meal, Prop.. Rivet side Drug Co., (Ireenville, S. C, writes re? cently, "I have been a practicing phy? sician and druggist for over 35 years and have sold and administered many kidney medicines but none to equal Foley Kidney Pills. They are su? perior to any 1 ever used, and give the quickest and most permanent re? lief." Blbert's Drug Store. One of the big cotton planters stat? ed to an Item reporter Thursday that he was taking advantage of the tine weather to pick cotton. The re? porter thought he had a scoop?until he found out that tho aforesaid cot? ton was of last year's crop. ?Do not drag along with a kidney a Iment that sups your strength, causes terrible backaches. sleepless pess, nervousness, and loss of appe? tite. Take Foley Kidney Pills. They quickly cure all kidney and bladder ailments. Blbert's Drug store. Tin- hardware stores began clos? ing at <i o'clock p. m. on April ist. < >ther merchants who can do s.i should follow suit and reach an agreement to'close at ?'> o'clock during tho summer. ?Mrs. .1. I,. Btarnes, Hickory, N. C, has in the part Buffered severely with throat and lung trouble, and says. "1 used Foley's Honey and Tar Com? pound for this ami it gave me imme? diate satisfaction ami relief. It gives me pleasure to recommend this prep? aration for sore throat, hoarseness, or any affliction of the throat or lungs. 1 know it will do all claimed for it." SH ert's Drug Store. IN COMMON PLEAS COURT. W. J, Popewell Gets Verdict for gi.ouo^other < ?set?Beek Oese Today? With tiie ending <>f the case of w. J. Popwell against tii,? Betts Lumber Company Thursday two other cases were taken up and disposed of, and Friday t!te case of Julia V. Heck against t!;(. Northwestern railroad was commenced. This cans is one brought to recover damage! al? leged to have been caused by the per? sons employed by the Northwestern railroad digging up land on what 's alleged to be Mrs. Beck's place. Ths railrond, however, alleges that the earth was dug on their own ri^-ht of way. The case o* W. J. Popwell against the Betts Lumber Company resulted n the jury returning a verdict for $1.000 for the plaintiff. A motion was at once made for a new trial. The case is one brought by the plaintiff to recover damages due to personal injuries. received while in the emplov of the company. The case of F. C. Thomas against John Wilson was awarded to the plaintiff by default. It was an action to secure payment of a note for $121.20. The case of Geo. 1"). Shore and Bro. against Thos. D. Prohun to secure payment of a note resulted in the jury awarding a verdict for the plaintiff for $1*8.86; amount due on n note made by the defendant. The Whole Truth. As a rule it is always best and fair whenever a question involv? ing integrity arises to wait for both sides to be heard before a de? cision is made. It will be remem bered during the latter days of the last session of the legislature there was a great ado made over the work done by Col. L. M. Green who was appointed to do special factory in? vestigating. Mr. W. F. Stevenson and some of his colleagues who are fight? ing Governor Blease, attempted to create the impression that Col. Green did no work for which he was em? ployed, but made up his report from the statistics furnished at Green's re? quest by Mr. Watson. The members of the house who made this expose, only gave the correspondence between Col. Green and Mr. Watson, they withheld the rest of the Green report, thereby, for the purpose of discrediting Green in order to injure the governor, they misled the legislature, the same as a lawyer would do did he mislead the Judge by falsely quoting from the law books. In other words, by tell *ng a partial truth, in effect, it is the worst character of a lie. Those who know Col. Green have the highest re? spect for his character, they know him to be a very modest young man, when he was the Columbia corres? pondent for the News and Courier, a position he held with splendid abil? ity, he was highly esteemed f' r his reliability, until he accepted a com? mission on the staff of Governor Blease. because he would not resign from the governor's staff his resig? nation irom the News and Courier was requested, notwithstanding the Cact that members of the News and Courier staff, including its former managing editor, held staff commis? sions in the past. But Governor Blease was not pleasing to the News and Courier, therefore its present man? aging editor demanded Green's resig? nation, which was given, rather than forfeit his self respect. It is the custom whenever news? papers publish a story which may be damaging to a person to give that person the opportunity to explain, but in this case Col. Green was not giv I en this opportunity until recently The Yorkville Enquirer, a newspaper Which we have frequently referred to as one of the fairest in the State, edi? torially called attention to the treat? ment of Oreen and asked for the square deal to be meted out to him. In response to this Green has given to the public a full and a complete exposition of the deception resorted to by those who were endeavoring to injure Governor Blease through him. ?Manring Times. It Looks Like a <*rime to separate a boy from a DOS of Buck len's Arnica S?he. His pimples, bolls, scratches, knocks, sprains and bruises demand it, and its quick re? lief for burns, scalds, or cuts is his right. Keep it handy for boys, also pirh. Heals everything beatable and does it quick. Unequaled tor piles. Only 25 cents at Sihert's Hrug Store. An electric railway promoter visit? ed the city recently ami his propo? sition is being investigated by some of tho real estate men and property owners with whom he conferred while h<-re. Something substantial may eventually grow out of tho proposition as conditions are rapidly reaching the stage here that <'all for suburban ?'?? ! \ elopment. Dont' be surprised If you have sn attack of rheumatism this Bprfng. Just rub the affected parts freely with [Chamberlain's Liniment and it will soon disappear. Bold by all Deal? ers. MKS. M'REE BET FREE. Second Trial Of Woman for Killing Voung Allen GsrlassJ Reeatsi in Acejnhtnl, _ ? Opetoueaa, La., April ?Mrs. Zef Runge Melle?, who shot her yniiti^ frit mi. Allen Gotland. to death in her horn.- here Beptember II la.st, wa* today acquitted by a jury on the charge of manslaughter. Th?? jury stood 11 for acquittal and 1 for con? viction as charged. A verdict was confidently expected when court convened today. The jury retired with the case at 10.30 o'clock last night, hut an hour later word was sent to Judge Davy th?t no agreement had i?een re iched. Feeling between the factions in? volved in the case had attained such proportions that personal clashes were expected at almost any moment. A light between Garland and MeRreo sympathizers was narrowly averted last night. IN THi: RECORDER'S COURT. A Borrowed Razor Gets Harber in Trouble?Other Cases. Several cases were tried by the re- \ corder Friday morning, in most of the cases the persons arrested were lined various amounts. Harry Pappas and J. D. Harper, were up for creating a disturbance. Harper was not present and his bond of $5.00 was forfeited. Pappas waa * discharged, after he had been heard. Arthur Phillips, being drunk and leaving horse unhitched, was fined a total amount of $20 or 40 days. Ed Prince borrowed two razors from a negro named Croskey several years ago on condition that Croskey could come, to his barber shop to shave whenever he desired. Later the razors, he alleged, were stolen from him with several of hia own razors. Recently Croskey has been in the way at Prince's shop when the latter was shaving customers and Prince reproved him for his conc.uct. In return Croskey swore out a war? rant for Prince's arrest on the gound of beach of trust with fraudulent in? tent. The recorder settled the matter by telling Prince to return a razor to as Croskey for the ones which he had had in his possession. ?Dan. J. Joyce, Sanville, Va., is so glad he escaped consumption and re? gained his health, *hat he writes about it for the benefit of others. "I had a cough which hung on for two years when 1 began using Foley's Honey and Tar Compound. I kept on until the cough finally left me and I gained In weight from 113 to 185 pounds. In two years I have grown strong and healthy, all from the use of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound, which cured me." Sibert's Drug Store. 1 Accidents Will Happen And when they do?they hurt. HCNTM LIGHTNING OIL Is the one lustsntaneoas relief and care for all wousds, bruises, sores, cuts, sprains and abrisioae of the skin. It forms an artificial akin covering, excludes the air instant - ly, stop? pain at once. There are many oils, but none like HUNTS ^jj The action Is different, and the effect as well. . . HUNT'S .. ?\ It LIGHTNING U IL Always have It in the house. Take it with yon when you tratet? H you never can tell when HUNT'S LIGHTNING OIL may be most needed. 25cts and 50cts bottle*. l or Sale by Sibert's Drug Store. A. B. Richards Medicine Co. Sherman, Texas. J Mm y a Man Is a critic because he likes to be contrary. You can go contrary to the wishes of your friends and neigbbora and sometimes get the best o( tin m; but go contrary to the dictates of nature and you al \\ a\ I gel the worst of it. If Nature Says Spectacles, Why, Spectacles it must be. Nature won't ac ccpt just Spectacles though; they must be tioht Spectacles. We can give lite kind nature demands, and our prices arc right, too. Graduate optician in charge. W. A. Thompson, Jesrelee and Optician.