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Ike 'MW&^X ^FREDE?lC * ISHAM/7 . torimiT Of m rwiDeM-yfJt^c One oay, an er such an experience at the hands of those who oad par* { taken of the Seigneurs liberality, the ! hoy, all bruised and aching, fled to the woods, and, with the instinct of aa animal to hide, burled himself la Its deepeet recesses. Night came; en. compsssed by strange sounds, un known terrors, he crept to the verge of the forest, and lying there, looked oat across ths distance toward the scattered habitations, risible through the gloom. One tiny yellow out of light which he located held hit glance. Should ho teturn? That small stone hut, aqualld as It was, had been his only remembered home. But the thought of the reception that awaited him there made him Leas? ts ts; the stars coming out aeemec' to lend courage to his resolution, and, with his theo yst turned toward the ! low long strip of Und. sprinkled with the faint, receding points of light, ho fell asleep. The earliest shafts of mo n, how- i wrer, swsklng him. ssnt him rulcklr ? hack into the dark forest, wh?re sll day ho kept to the most shadowy j ?croons and covers, fearing ho should be followed, and, perhaps, captured. But the second night wag like the first, ths neat like the second, and the days continued to pass with no sign? of pursuit. Pinched by hunger, cer? tain of the berries and roots he ate poisoned him, until In time he profited by his suffsrlngs sad learned to dis? criminate to his choice ot the frugal faro about htm. Not that his appe? tite wss over satisfied, even when ho extended his explorations to the beach at night, digging In the sand with his fingers for cockles, or prowl? ing about the rocks for mussels. Tat, despite all, he hugged to his breast a compensating sense of lib? erty; ths biting tooth of autumn was preferable to the stripes and tongue lashtngB of the old lifo; and. If now frugal rspasts were the rule, hunger had often been his lot In the past. 80 bs asaimllatsd aith his surroundings; learned not to fear the animals, and they, to know him; Indeed, they ; seemed to recognise him by that sharp unsated glint of the eye as one of their kind. When the days grew bleaker and the nights colder, ho took refuge In a corner within the gray walla of the moss-grown castle of his ancestors, ths old Seigneurs. No' cheerful place, above all at night,' whsn the spirits of the deed seem to v k abroad, and scLs, moans, and* tierce voices fill the air! Then, creep- i tog cloeer to the fire ho had started in the giant hearth, wide-eyed ho would listen, only st length through sheer weariness to fall aale?i>. Never? theless, It was a shelter, snd here, , throughout the winter, the boy re- | malned. 1 Here, too, Sanchez, the Seigneur's old servsnt, returning months later from long wanderings to the vicinity , of the Mount?for no especial reason, as re the dealre once more to aee the plsee?had found htm. And at the slfht the man frowned. In the later days, the Seigneur Dessurac had become somewhat" un? mindful. If not forgetful, of hla own flesh snd blood. It may be that the absorbing character of ths large and chivalrous motives that animated him loft little disposition or leisure for private concerns; at any rate, ho eeemed seldom to have thought, much less spoken of, that "hostage of for? tune1* he had left behind; an absent* mlndedneos that In no wise surprised the jervant?which. Indeed, mot the man's full, unapoken approval! The bslgneur. hla master, was a noble? man of untarnished ancestry, to be followed snd served, the son? Benches hsd never forgiven the mother her low-horn extraction. He was, himself, a peasant? CHAPTER III. X Sudden Resolution, after his chance encounter with my ladv the governor's daughter, and Beppn. h r attendant, toe boy walked quickly troru the Mount to the forest. Hie eyes gflgfg still bright; his chseks yet burr.. but occasionally the ahadow 01 a vmll*? played about hla mouth, and he threw up bis head fiercely. At the verge of the wood ho looked back, stood for a moment with the refection of light on his face, then piling"! Into the shadows of the sylvan labyrinth Near the eaat door of the castls. which presently he reached, he atopped for an armful of fsggota. and. bending tinder hla load, psaaed through an entranee, seared and battered, acroaa a great roofless space and up a flight of ateps to a room thst bad once been the kitchen of the vast establishment. Aa he en? tered, a man. thin, wlsened, though active looking, turned around. "So you've got back?" he said In a grumbling tone. "Yes," snawsred the boy good-nat? uredly, casting ths wood to the flag glug nesr the flame ar d brushing his coat with his haad; "the atorm kept ua out last night. Sanches." it'll keep you out for good some day." remarked the man You'll be drowned, if you don't have a care." "Better that than being hangedI" returned the lad lightly. The other'a reepouee. beneath his oreatn, was lost, as He drew bis stool close to the pot above the blaze, re? moved the lid and peered within. Ap? parently bis survey was not satlsfac torr, for he replaced the cover,1 clasped bis fingers over his knees and half closed his eyes. I "Where's the fish?" 1 The boy, thoughtfully regarding the flames, started; wbon he had left the child and Beppo, unconsciously he had dropped It. b'U this he did not now explain. "1 didn't bring one." "Didn't bring one?" ! "No/' said the boy, flushing slightly. . "And not a bone or scrap in the larder! Niggardly fishermen! A small enough wage?for going to sea and helping them?" I "Oh, I could have had what I want? ed. And they are not niggardly! Only?I forgot." | "Forgot!" The man lifted his hands, but any further evidence of surprise or expostulation was Interrupted by a sudden ebullition in the pot. Left to his thoughts, the boy stepped to the window; for some time stood motionless, gazing through a forest rift at the end of which uprose the top of an Aladdln-Uke structure, by an optical Illusion become a part of 1 that locality; a conjurors ccct'.o l.i the wood! "The Mount looks near tonight, Snnches!" "Near?" The man took from its hook the pot and set It on the table. "Not too near to suit the governor, perhaps!" ? "And why shouid it suit him?" drawing a stool to the table and sit? ting down. I "Because he must be so fond of . looking at the forest." j "And does that?please him?" "How could It fail to? Isnt It a nlco wood? Oh, yes, I'll warrant you , he finds It to his liking. And all tag lands about the forest that used to be? long to the old Seigneurs, and which the peasants have taken?waste lands they have tilled?he must think theiu very fine to look at, now! And what a hubbub there would be, if the lazy peasants had to pay their metayage, and fire-tax and road-tax?and all the other taxes?the way the other peas? ants do?-to aipj?" "What do you mean?" I "Nothing!" The man's jaw cloeed 1 like a steel trap. "The porridge la bumed." I And with no further word tn?; meal proceeded. The man, first to finish, 1 lighted his pipe, moved again to the fire. and. maintaining a taciturnity that had become more or less habit? ual, stolidly devoted himself to the solace of the weed and the compan? ionship of his own reflections. Once or twice the boy seemed about to speak and did not; finally, however, he leaned forward, a more resolute light In bis sparkling black eyes. j "You never learned to read, San? chez?" At the ur expected question, the smoke puffed suddenlv from the men's lips. "Not V "Nor writer The man made a rough gesture. "Nor sail to the moon!" be returned derisively "Read? Rubbish! Write? What for? Does it bring more tlsh to your nets?" "Who?could show me bow to read and writer* "You?" Sanchez stared. "Why not?" "Books are the tools of the devil!'* declared Sanchez shortly. "Tberu was a black man here today with a paper?a 'writ' I think be called It? or a 'service' of some kind-?anyhow, it must have been |g Latin," violently, Tor such gibberish, I never heard and?" The boy rose. "People who can't read and write are low and Ignorant'" "Kh? What's come over you?" "My father waa a gentleman." "Your fatter!?yes?" "And a Seigneur!?" "A Seigneur truly!'* And i mean to be one!" anld the boy suddenly, closing bis lists. "Oh, oh! So that's it?" derisively "You! A Seigneur? Whose mother?" "Who could teteh me?' In termitted, but with a trace of color on Ills brow r cheek, the boy looked down. "Who?" The man began to recover from his surprise. "That's not rc easy to tell. But if you must know well, there's Gabriel Oabarie, for one, a poet of the people. He might do it ?although there's talk of cutting of! his head?" "What for?" "For knowing how to write." The lad reached for his hat. "Where are you going?" "To the poet's." "At this late hour! You are in a hurry!" "If what you say is true, there's no time to lose." "Well, If you find him writing verses about liberty and equality, don't interrupt him, or you'll lose your head," shouted the man. But when the sound of the boy's I footsteps had ceased, Sanchez's ex? pression changed; more bent, more worn, he got up and walked slowly to and fro. "A fine Seigneur!" The molderlng walls seemed to echo the words. "A fine Seigneur!" he mut? tered, and again sat brooding by the fire. In the gathering dusk the lad strode briskly on. A squirrel barked to the right; he did not look around. A part ridge drummed to the left; usually alert to wood sound or life, tonight he did not heed it. But, fairly out ot the forest and making his way with the same air of resolution across the sands toward the lowland beyond, his attention, on a sudden, became for? cibly diverted. He had but half com pleted the distance from the place wnere he had left the wood to the oh J jective point in the curvature of the j shore, when to the left through the gloom, a great vehicle, drawn by six ho. es, could be seen rapidly ap proachlng. From the imposing equip? age gleamed many lamps; the moon which ere this had begun to assert its place in the heavens, made bright the shining harness and shone on the polished surface of the golden car Wondering, the boy paused. "What is that?" The person addressed, a fisherman belated, bending to the burden on his shoulders, stopped, and, breathing hard, looked around and watched the approaching vehicle Intently. "The governor's carriage!" he said "Haven't ypu ever heard of the gov ernor's carriage. "No." 'That's because he hasn't used il lately; but,in her ladyship's day?" "Her ladyship?" "The governor's lady?he bought il for her. But she soon got tired of It? or perhaps didn't like the way the people looked at her!" roughly. "Mor. dieu! perhaps they did scowl a lit tie?for it didn't please them, I car teli you!?the sight of all that golc squeezed from the taxes!" "Where is he going now?" "Nowhere himself?he never goes far from the Mouat? Dttt the Lud> Elise, his daughter?some one in the village was saying she was going tc Paris?" I "Paris!" The lad repeated the wore quickly. "What for?" "What do all the great lords anr. nobles send their children there for' To get educated?married, and?tc learn the tricks of the court! Bah!' With a coarse laugh the man turned; stooping beneath his load, he movec ' grumblingly on. The boy, however, did not stir; at' In a dream he looked first at the. Mount, a dark triangle against tb<' sky, then at the carriage. Nearei the latter drew, was about to da&h by, when suddenly the driver, on his high seat, uttered an exclamation and at the same time tugged hard at the reins. The vehicle took a quick turn lurched dangerously in Its top-heavj potrp. and almost upsetting, came tc I a Standstill nearly opposite the boy "Careless dog!" a shrill voice screamed from the inside. "What are you doing?" "The Uses, your Excellency!" Th driver's voice was thick; as te spoitc j he swayed uncertainly. "Lines?quicksands?' 1 "There, your Excellency," indicating a gleaning place right in their path; a small bright spot that looked as ii it might have been polishc-d, while elsewhere on the surrounding sands tiny rippling parallels caressed the eye with streaky of black and silver. "I saw it in time!" "In time!" angrily. "Imbecile! Didn't you know it waa there?" ?I "Of course, your Excellency! Oniy I had misjudged a little, and?" The , man's manner showed he was fright? ened. "Falsehoods! You have been drink? ing! Don't answer. You shall hear of this later. Drive around the spot." "Yes, your Excellency," was the now sobor and subdued answer l Ere he obeyed, however, the car? riage door, from which the governor had been leaning, swung open. "Walt!" he called out impatiently, and tried to close It, but the catc h? ' probably from long disuse?would \ not hold, and, before the liveried servant perched on the lofty carriage I behind had fully perceived the tact i uiid had recovered hiiuseii sufficiently to think of : duties, the toy on tl' ^*?arh bed nnnng forward. j "Slam it!" commanded an lralo voice. The lad complied, and as be did so, peered eagerly into the capacious depths of the vehicle. "The boy with tho fish!" exclaimed at the same time a girlish treble within. ? Kb?" my lord turned sharply. "An Impudent lad who stopped the I Lady Eliso!" exclaimed the fat man ? ?surely Beppo?on the front seat. ?Stopped the Lady Elise!" Tho governor repeated the words slowly; :m ominous pause was followed by an abrupt movement on the part of the child. 'He did not stop me; it was I who nearly ran over him, and it was my fault. Btppo does not tell the truth? he's a wickea man!?and I'm glad I'm not going to see him any more! And the boy wasn't impudent; at least until Beppo offered to strike him, I and then, Beppo didn't! Beppo," de I risively, "was afraid!" "My lady," Beppo's voice was soft and unctious, "construes forbearance for fear." "Step nearer, boy!" Partly blinded by the lamps, the lad obeyed; was cognizant of a piercing scrutiny; two hard, steely eyes that seemed to read his Inmost thoughts; a face, Indistinguishable but compell? ing; beyond, something white?a girl's dress?that moved and fluttered! "Who Is he?" "A poor boy who lives in the woods, papa!" But Beppo leaned forward and whis? pered, his words too low for the lad to catch. Whatever his information, the governor started; the question? ing glance on an instant brightened, and his head was thrust forward close to the boy's. A chill seemed to pass over the lad, yet he did not quail. "Good-by, boy!" said the child, and, leaning from the window, smiled dcwn at him. I He tried to answer, when a hand pulled her in somewhat over-suddenly. "Drive on!" Again the shrill tones cut the air. "Drive on, 1 tell you! I Diable! What are you standing here J for!" A whip lashed the air and the j horses leaped forward. The back wheels of the vehicle almost struck the lad, but, motionless, he continued staring after it. Farther it drew away, and, as he remained thus he discerned, or fancied he discerned, a girl's face at the back?a ribbon that waved for a moment in the moon? light, and then was gone. Eight years elapsed before next be saw her. ITO BE CONTINUED) DEMONSTRATION AGENTS TO MEET, Will Assemble at Clemson College September :*-??Meeting Will be in Charge of W. L?. English, Clemson College. Aug. 27.?The farm demonstration agents in South Carolina will hold their annual meet? ing at Clemson college September 3 to 6. This meeting, which is held for purposes of instruction, will be in charge of Prof. W. L. English. State .agent of demonstration work and superintendent of the extension division of Clemson. The college has appropriated $10,000 for demonstra? tion work and $12,000 for extension work this year. A new position, instructor in chemistry, will be tilled by W. T. Pierce of Virginia, a graduate of Ran dolph-Macon. He hold*, an M. A from the University of Kentucky. Mr. Pierce has done special work in the University of Chicago. Another new position is that of as? sistant in chemistry in the experi? ment station. This will be tilled by T. R, Rieher, a 1912 graduate of Clemson. A third assistant has been added in the veterinary division on ac^ounr of the Increase of the work in the pre? vention of hog cholera and of the de? sire to make serum in lar^e quail* ties. This s^rum will be administer? ed by the college veterinarians or will be sent out at the cost of mak? ing. It takes 5 0 to 50 cents' worth to the hog according to the size of the animal. Dr. M. L. Quigley has been elected QS successor to Dr. Uur'eigh. He is a graduate of the University of Penn? sylvania, and comes recommended by Dr. Louis A. Kline, formerly of Clem? son but now at the head of the veter? inary department of the University of Pennsylvania. Frank T. Wilson of Florida. a graduate of the University of Flor? ida and of the Maryland Agricultural college, has been selected to fill the position of assistant professor of ag? ronomy made vacant by the resigna? tion of Prof. J. if. Napier. Prof. L#. A. Niven is succeeded by C. F. Niven of North Carolina, a graduate of the North Carolina A & M. Prof. Niven holds a master's de? gree from Cornell and has been for two years professor of agricultural coli? ge. The position of associate professor id' horticulture was left unfilled, but O. If. Clark, Clemson '07. was ap pointed assistant in horticultural for one year. Mr. Clark is n<>w a horti? culturist at the North Carolina ex? periment st Ltlon. Hoys \oeept Challenge. The boys of Came Cock Troop, Hoy Scouta Of America, have accepted the challenge of the Florence Hoy Scouts and ;i picked squad will go owr to that place on Labor Day to compete with tin- Florence scouts for honors on the athletic Held. The boys will be tinder the supervision of Mr, Thees. Voting Wife Somehow 1 oannol get my bread to rise. Hub Why don't you set the alarm clock ??Boston Transcript. "HARLEQUIN AT CHICAGO/ "Manie Henry" Hs* Hie say About The Bull Mooee. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. Now that Theodore Roosevelt la no longer dangerous, that the third term menace has been quite lifted, that he appears at Chicago rather as Barnim., the showman, than as Diaz, the man on-horsehack, thoughtful Americans may look with equanimity upon his performances. They may regard him as sane or insane. They may question his pur? pose and his method. Hut they will have from now onward no reason to fear him. His genius for constructive melo? drama is indisputable. The Hull Moose recalls the Wholly Horse only to discredit the earlier conceit. We are told that the Wicked City by the Lakeside has been turned into a veri? table camp ground, with an old-fash? ioned revival in progress. We may well believe it. There is a community of interest between emotional .religion and hysterical politics. In both song becomes the outburst of the soul. Armageddon is a taking trademark. The sword of the Lord heats the "big s ick" as an emblem. Trust "Teddy" for knowing how to work the Bible into his advertising. Trust is curiously intermingled with falsehood. Beneath the fuss and fus? tian appear some transparent facts. "Thou shalt not steal" would seem to general a sign visual, so that "Baten rebuking sin" might better describe the Hull Moose leaders and the more appropriately decorate their coat- of arms, because what is the yawp about bosses und hossism but the outcry of one set of bosses against another set? II. Theer may be a few politicians, so called, here and there who are in j politics for the love of it, but ii out of 10 of them are after the loaves and1 fishes. Office is their objective point. | As a rule they choose the label that promises most votes. Their loyalty to ! party is chiefly hope of preferment. The Bull Moose movement is obvl- j ously an array of the "outs" against the "ins." Scratch a Bull Moose and you will lind a disappointed Republi? can office-seeker or some disgruntled Republican turned out of office. The claimants grew too many for the party. The honor which is said to exist among thieves will be sought in vain among the professional politicians. They know not the bond of fellowship called by the French esprit de corps. They recognize not gratitude binding friendship nor resentment restraining ambition. Time was when a man might not go back upon his brother and live in the good repute of his neighbors. That time has passed. We have seen men openly breaking life? long ties to make alliances with what appeared implacable enmities to get office, and yet no uprising of public opinion in rebuke. We ahre seeking dally liaisons between the purist In politics and the blackleg of business to secure votes for the one and money for the other; and no aroused popular sentiment. If there be corrupt government any? where, the people themselves are pri? marily responsible. With their eyes wide open, they are constantly and everywhere giving their support, sometimes actively and sometimes passively, to proved fakers and faker ism. Everything that the Bull Moose leaders i re saying about the inequal? ities and fraudulencies of Government is true enough, only it does not lie in their mouths to say It, because every mother's son of them is tarred by the brush they arc slinging so boisterously and applying so savagely to the ob? jects of their disaffection in the Re? publican party and of their animad? version in the Democratic party. It is the case of the poker calling the pot and kettle black. in. It Is easier to found a new religion than a new party. It used to be said that we had 50 religions and only one soup. We have not had as many parties as religions. Yet we have hail a few parties. I There were the Anti-Masons. There were the Know-Nothings. Federalism evolved into Whlgism and Whigism devolved into Republicanism. Demo? cracy is the only organism which has retained its title and stood against the wear and tear of national and political vicissitudes bordering on revolution. Nature seems to cast men In two original molds, turning out on the one hand the conservative and on the other the radical; but circumstances and environment play haven- with in? dividualism. It makes all the differ? ence In the world whose ox |g gored. Many of the men who are rallying about Theodor?- Roosevelt have had an ox tluu was gored by Taft. Leslie Combs had his ox gored Ii Peru. Bru? tus Clay had bis ox gored in Switzer? land. Beveridge's ox was gored b> th<- people oi l ndlona. This is not t?? sa\. nor to Imply, that these gentlemen are not upright and sincere. We believe them to be so. EXPEGI MANY VISITORS. EDVERYTTXU LOOKS UOOU FOR LABOR DAY. Many Kntrlo in the Hone Wagon anil Auto liar's ? Other New I*ro gram Feature1*. Florence, Aug:. 24.?-The ftremen are getting out now to collect the amount* promised for the Labor Day celebra? tion and they need a little more mon? ey to give the kind of show that they want to give. They hope to be kind? ly received and generously treated by everybody thai they call on. for they are not working for themselves, but for the public. They especially want to urge the merchants to decorate for the occa? sion of the tournament, and want to see the city in gay attire, lor there will be a great crowd here f<u- the races. The firemen are getting letters from comp^n'.^s all around who want to come here to compete for the prize* offered the hose reel and wagon teams. The entries for the auto races are being filled rapidly and a great show is expected in this. There will be a great celebration by the civil improvement league, and this is to be one of the most inter? esting of the features of the week. There is planned, also, a drill by some of the Woodmen and there will ' 3 other things to entertain the visi? tors, and everybody will do all possible he or she can to make the visitors glad that they came. The boy Scouts propose to have a contest of their own, which will be a very interesting feature of the oc? casion, to be taken part in by boys between twelve and sixteen years of age. TO RECALL BI LL, MOOSK LEAD ER. Would Remove Go v. Hiram Jolinson of California Prom Office?Land Praests Basis of Charge. San Francisco, Aug 26.?A petition for the recall of Oov. Hiram Johnson has been put in circulation here by Alva Udell, an attorney. Udell could not be found today. Investigation fail? ed to show that he had any powerful support in offering the petition. One of the charges made in the pe? tition is that Gov. Johnson approved legislation intended to foster land grabbing by wealthy individuals. They are out of the jobs they held and there is nothing to blind their eyes to green fields and pastures new beyond the garden wall of Republi? canism. It rarely takes a man ong to believe whatever he wants to be? lieve. That Theodore Roosevelt jerked the word out of the mouth of La Follette and turned him down lay equally in the nature of the case and the men. He who draws th? sword and throws the scabbard away is like? ly to prove in combat one to be reck? oned with. Audacity and audacity and again audacity! Roosevelt the ex President; Theodore the invincible; Teddy the lion tamer; a queer com? bination. No regard for facts or con? sequences. No respect for persons or for appearances. Prodigious capacity in labor and output. Mediocrity, with its universal appeal, in utterance, gen? ius for self-exploitation. A defter stage carpenter than David Relasco; a bolder playmaker than Der natal Shaw; fusing Rienzi and Napoleon in one modern blend of Boulaoger, Do wie and Gcuige Francis Train, and applying to the commonplaces of politics the resources of a more than Cagllostro, this God of the Coliseum exercises a spell as potent and far reaching as Mother Eddy, as fantastic snd spectacular as Oom Paul ICruger. To what end He may get a million of votes?two million of vote.-. How shall they avail him** Suppose he splits the Republican vote in twain and breaks even with Taft? Shall it profit him in the work of reorganiza? tion? Shall it enable him to possess himself of the ruined remains of Re? publicanism? Shall it flip his Jack in 1916? The Courier-Journal believes him of unsound mind <>n no other hypothe? sis can it reconcile his amazing sac? rifice <d* the things men commonly call great, good and real; the glory of achievement; the dignity. modesty and respect of manhood; the virtue of truth and the grace of friendship; the splendor of a revered, historic name for the vulgar excitement of the img and the Ignorant applause of the groundlings. it la ghastly. it Is pitiable, fjood nun leel like crying. not scolding, or laughing, it makes such a lame and impotent Anale to a career thai shone so nobly. Nothinc can come ol it but defeal ? ignomlnloua defeat. There la little likelihood the ticket thua pui m the held will carry a state in the Union. The Democratic ticket may carry every State in the I nlon. Its triumph ! [a assured. What then"