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The Lady im fry r*? kkmm? 0? "Confess. Tsther. sh? has learned much from you?" Nanette laughed. "No, no; I trust?M "Surmised, then!" said the girl. M8ba Is one not eaatly deceived. Clev or Is my Isdy! And you talk, she says nothing, but leads you on! If there's aught she wishes to learn that you know, be assured she's found out from your Upe." "Ney; 111 not bellera?'tis true once or twice I've let a word slip. But she not load not?M -No doubt!" Too Island girl's voice eipressed a fine scorn. "How Curbed s Natural Curiosity. ?rer. It matters little. Speaks she ever of the Black Seigneur?" suddenly. "No. Why?" "Why notr Nanette's ton? was enigmatic. "I don't understand." "At any rate, she is better off hero than yonder In Franca, If tidings bo ; true/' said the other Irrelevantly. "Ah. ma belle France!" murmured tho old man regretfully. "How she Is torn within?threatened from without! Bat fortunstely the bss her defend? ers." his voice thr.ll d. "brave men who have thronged to her needs. I suppose." he continued abruptly, "it's to srrange about the new ship that 1 brings the Seigneur once more to tha Island?" I "1 suppose so," assented the other [ briefly. "A true Frenchman, Pl?rre Laroche, I your father, hsa abown himself, in giv- I tag one of hla best ships to the cause! ! Although perhaps he would not have ? been so ready," though'fully, "had not the Paris Assembly seen fit to sppolnt Andre Dejaurac In command of all the esse Ma t > guard tho coast against the Intrlgn*-? of the French royalleta with foreign powers and aliens! Well, well, be will find here many old friends'" "Youreelf. for ezsmple. rather, who helped him in the courts to establish | his right to his nsme," said the young woman quickly. "And you. Mistress Nanette," the kindly e>es lighting with a curious. In? dulgent look, "who went to the Mount alone, unaided, to?" A frown gathered on tho dark, hand gonvs faoa of the girl. "Unaided?" she ?aid, stanrig st the sparkles on the Waves before her. *?)h. the people never weary of talk? ing about it! and how you?" "Yon's a aall!" Abruptly the young Woman rose; with skirts fluttering b" hind her. gated out to eea. Several hours later. Jus* before ? .-a", a ship ran Into tho harbor, dropped \ anchor, and sent a boat to the shore In the amali craft aat a number of men. and the first of these to spring to tho beach and mount tho atone stair? way to the Inn. wan met st tUfc top; warmly greeted, by old PierTe him? self! Hgfj dtcu! To aee the new? comer wss like old ?!. a! Only now. the landlord observed Jestingly. 0.? profits would be small! Hut a fig to parsimony. In these days when men'd patriotism should bo large; do what h... tho Hlack Hstgneur, would wttB th** new ship, even If he sunk her. pro Tided it was in good company, and \\? went down with her himself! To whh h protestations the o'her answer* d ; pre? sented his companions, and greeted the saaetnt t 1 I unpany within. Hu*v st a great board, lad. ti with coment!ble* Interspersed with flagon* of Wlnea, Nanotre, welcomed him brief ly, and again his glsnce ke* | and sssured. laskt Ol a man the hort/on Ol w whm eittOg had widened, ulnce last bo stood there sw.pf tl.41 gathering itut gppgrsnily. one kg looked for was not pr?-s?i.'. ggjd kg ti?1 again turned to th?? young woman, a nuestlon on hla Hps, when on the garden side of ltd house a door opened. It revealed I flowering background, a j la'eau. yel low In the last rays of Ike sun; It framed, also, tho slender, bl.n k I lad figure of a girl, sbovo who-4- whin "brow the waving lialr shono llki threads of gold. ' An old friend of yours, my Lady!' called out blunt PUrro. A moment the clear, brown eyey MOM^ 10 WAY*r; tb#H became steady as schooled to some purpose. ? . ?.?> forward composedly; gave the Bite! Sc Igntttf li*?r hand. "I?am ftlwayi glad to see old friends!" 8;ild my lady, with a lift of the head, over-conscious, perhaps, Ol the comet.! rated ^aze of the company. He looked at her; made perfunc? tory am wer; sh<* KilDOd about to Epenk again, when the hand ho let fall was CSUght by another. "Elise!" From among those who had come ashore, a man In fashionable at:ire sprain; forward, a little thinner thin when last she had seen h!m. and more cynical looking, as slightly soured by world-contact and the new tenden? cies of society. 'My Lord!" Certainly was my lady taien unawares; a moment looked at the Marquis as if a little startled; then at the I?lack Seigneur: "A pleasant surprise for you, my Lady!" said the latter. "But you owe me no thanks! An order from the chief of the Admiralty, properly signed and countersigned, directing me to transport the Marquis de Beauvillers hither, was not to be disregarded!" "A somewhat singular dispensation of Providence, nevertheless!" observed the nobleman dryly. "After our?what shall w? call It??little passage of arms? You must acknowledge, how? ever, that in truth the Lady Elise and myself had some reason to discredit your assurances that night?" "Far be it from me to dispute it, my Lord," and the Black Seigneur turned, while the Marquis, slightly shrugging his shoulders, addressed my lady. Half blithely, then half bitterly, re? lapsing occasionally from the old, debonair manner he had assumed, he spoke of his escape from the Mount; months of hiding in foul places, amid fields and forest, with no word of her; hli success, at last, In reaching Paris, and, through rumor, learning where she was, and hastening to her? A bluff voice Interrupted further ex? planations and avowals; the steaming flesh-pots, it Informed the company, awaited not soft words and honeyed phrases; monarch in his own dining room, ostentatiously conscious, per? haps, of his own unwonted prodigality, Pierre Laroche waved them to their place??where they would!?so that they waited not! Quizzically my lord lifted his brow; truly here was a Republican fellow who appreciated not an honor when It was bestowed upon him, nor saw anything unusual In a Marr.uls' pres? ence beneath that humble roof. Some? thing of this he murmured to my lady. In a tone others might have heard; but she answered not; took her place, with red. Hps the firmer, as if to conceal some weakness to which they sought to give way. Not without constraint the meal passed; the host, desirous to learn the latest political news, looked at the Marquis and curbed a natural curios? ity, until a more favorable moment when he and the Black Seigneur should be alone. My lady, although generally made to feel welcome and at home there, seemed now, perhaps, to herself, a little out of place, like a person that has wandered f-om a world of her own and strayed luto another's. Cross cur? rents, lor.g at strife In her brennt, ?urged and flowed fa3t; tho while fclie seemed to listen to my lord, who ap? peared now In lighter, more airy hu? mor. And as she sat tbus, with fair head bent a little, she could but hcor, at times, above the medley of I one I and the sound of servants' footstep i in clattering wooden shoes, the voice of the Blsck SVlgneur?now pledging a toast to old Pierre; anon dltCUIllng winds, tides, or ships! A free reck? less voice, that seemed to vibrate from the past?to stir anew bright, terrible fiamea. Daylight slowly waned; lights Wtff brought in, and, the meal over, old Pierre pushed back in his chair. My lady rose quickly; looked a little con? strainedly at the company, at the Mar? quis, then toward the door. Anticipat? ing her desire, attributing to it, pmt> haps, a algnttlcnnce flattering to his vanity, tho youm: w t b man exprcssr d a wish for a stroll; a eight of the Kar? den. At once she assented; a slight ?Int now on h? r cheeks, she moved to the door, and my lord followed; as they disappeared. th* Black BolgBOttl laughed?at one of Pierre's Jokes! "Have I not told It before?" said tho host. "Have you?" murmured the Black 6be Went to the Mantel; Took From It a Candle. Seigneur. "Well, a good Jost, like an excellent dish, may w< 11 be nerved twice." "Humph!" observed the landlord doubtfully. After a pause: "I suppose he will be taking her away soon?" "Her?" The young man rose. "The Lady Elise!" "I Suppose BO," shortly. "Wo shall miss her!" grumbled the. landlord us he, loo, got up and walked ever to the flreplaoe, "I, who never thought to care for any of iho line folk?I, bluff old Pierre Laroche!?say we shall miss her." "Knows she how it fared with his Excellency's?her father's?< state! That little, or nothing, is left?" "Aye." "Aud she will ,'i^roo to the promise I wrote you about?" quickly. "That you?now that the right to your name has been vindicated are content to accept half the land., in ('Is rute; her ladyship to retain the other half?" "Yes; in consideration of that which his Excellency expended in tax^r,?r.j small sum!?and what it would cost to carry on vexatious litigation!" "You are strangely faint-hearted to pursue your advantage," said old Pierre shrewdly. "Hut," as the other made a gesture, "I put it to her lady? ship as you desired me to, and?" "She consented?' eagerly. Pierre shook his head. "No, mon capitaine! She Will have none of them. And you had heard her: 'A great wrong was unintentionally,' she accented the word, 'done the Seigneur Desaurac by my father, which has now been set right!' 'It has,' I as? sented, and would have urged further your proposal, when she stopped me. 'Speak no more of this matter!' Twas all sh? said; but?you should have seen her face, and how her eyes shone!" HO ?H CONTINUED) Distribution of American Manufac? tures. The wide distribution of American manufactures is illustrated by some recent figures of the statistical di? vision of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce showing the va? riety of articles exported" and the numerous countries to which they ar<j distributed. Barbed wire, fjy paper, telephones, boots and shoes, automo? biles, wire nails, motion picture films, Hying machines, telegraph instru metns. locks, hinges, razor:., bath tubs, traction engines operated by steam, traction engines operated by gasoline, stationary engines operated by steam, stationary engines operated by gaso? line, stationary engines operated by gus, electric locomotives, elevators, cotton gins, cash registers, and cream separators?these are a few of the numerous products of American in? genuity distributed literally over the entire civilized world. j Take wire nails as an example. They w. nt last year to no less than Sixty countries scattered over the entire in habitated portions of the globe? Slam, the Canary Islands, the Dutch East Indies, the British Bast Indies. Russia In Burope, Russia in Asia. Hongkong. Egypt, the Trench West Indies; and practically every country of North America, South America, and Asia knows the American Wire nail by practical experience, since they as well as many other commu? nities are Included in the list of sixty countries and colonies to which the 140,006,000 pounds of wire nulls ex? ported last year were sent. American telephones and telegraph instruments went to such distant p| 'its SS British Africa. Egypt, Aus? tralia, New /<iand, the Philippines, Java. Brasil, Korea, and the Canary Islands, The value of scientific In? struments and apparatus, including telephones, tel. graph instruments, etc, exported last >?? ar was over $13,.', on<> and the countries to widt h they were sen! approximately ninety In number, distributed to all parts of the Civilised world. practically 11,000, 000,000,000 worth to (!uba, 9 1,500,000 worth to Canada, and $1,600,000 worth to the United Kingdom, while among the other countries and com? munities to which they were distri? buted ar?- Slam, Portuguese Africa, Ecuador, the straits settlements, Bgyp . Trinidad and Tobago, Peru, Asiat c Russia and Bolivia, Even such a comparatively unim? portant article of commerce as fly paper went to approximately seventy five countries and colonies, Including Tripoli. Uruguay, Santo Domingo, T?rke) In Europe, the Danish West Indies, Malta, i'inland, China, Egypt, Roumanla, and Gibraltar, American barbed wire serves the agriculturist in every grand division of tio- world. Mow's Tills? We offer One Hundred Dollars re ward for any case ol catarrh that cannot be 'tired by Hall's Catarrh < 'ur 6 F .1. < 'hom y A t !o? Toledo, t?. Wo, the undersigned, have known V. J, Cheney for the last lyears, and believe him perfectly honorable all bualnesa transactions and financially abls to carry out any obligations m ob' by his lii m NATIONAL HANK OK COM MERCK, Toledo, <> Hail's Catarrh Cure Is taken Inter? nally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of 'lu' system. I Testimonials sent free, Price 7.'. cents Iper bottle. Sold by nil druggists, Take Rail's Family Pills for constl I p. t Ion. Adi t Our Greatest Bargain Reading Supply for Whole Year 31* SEMI-WEEKLI WATCHMAN A I? SOl'THRON*. Pom.tu V MlsBANDHY. . FARM PRKSH. WOMAN'S WORLD. J'AKM WD FIRESIDE (ihr National Farm Paper) ) All For $2.0 This remarkable subscription offer may l"- withdrawn &i any ;im<-. therefore do no* delay, but forward your ? rd r to The Watchman and Southron at once. Besides g?ttin^ the Wtachman and Southron iwlce a week f<>r twelve months, you will receive sixty-two numbers of the other publica? tion*?- a full year's subscription <>n each. Old subscribers may :?? new and get this great combination < ff er. SUBSCRIPTION BLANK i -ate.191.... Watchman and Southron, Sumtt r, S. C. Enclosed find $2.00 for which please enter my order for the Semi-weekly Watchman and Southron and the above four Magazines, ail for a period of 1 year. Name R. F. D.P. O. Our Prize Contest 1st Prize?Dinner Ret, 2nd Prl*e?Innner Set. 3rd; 10 pHxea each of a 4-1? Pound take with Roy? al Icing. Present Your Labels on DEC UMBER JOth At The NEW YORK BAKERY. TUM BKvST FOOD IS BREAD THE BEST BREAD LS? Butter-Nut Bread? RICH AS BUTTER sweet as a nut NFW YORK BAKERY. AT ALL LEADING GROCERS. SAVE the LABBLS FOR A nice "dinnhr SBT." Adding machines, printing presses, aeroplanes, automobiles, clocks und watches, celluliod manufactures, bind? er twine, dynamite, gunpowder, loco? motives, ice-making machinery, jew? elry, kitchen utensils, phonographs, car wheels, cotton cloth, printers' ink, and hundreds of other manufactures which might be enumerated passed out of the Hnited States last year to the value of more than $1,000,000, 000 and were distributed not merely to every grand division, but to prac- 1 tioally every country In the inhabited 1 world. I Flagged Train with Shirt. Tearing his shirt from has back an Ohio man .'lagged a train and saved it from a wreck, but 11. T. Alston. Ral? eigh, x. C, once prevented a wreck with Klectrio Hitters. "1 was in a terrible plight when 1 began to use them," he writes, "my stomach, bend, back and kidneys were all badly : f feeted and my liver was in bad con? dition, but four bottles of Electric Hitters made, me fee! like a now mar ." A trial will convince you of their matchless merit for any stomach, liver or kidney trouble. Price GO cents at Sibert'a Drug Store.?Advt. WON llY MAJORITY OH ltt.079. Vote on Woman's Suffrage Amend? ment in Kansas. Topeka. Kan., Nov. 22.?Official figures given out today on* the vote on Woman's suffrage show that the amendment carried by a majority of D'<.,,7'.*. Seventy-four counties voted for it and thirty against it. with a tie in one county. Approximately 81, (ooi voters failed to vote either way. A Night of Terror. Few nights are more terrible than that of a mother looking on her child choking und gasping for breath dur? ing an attack of croup, and nothing iu the house to relieve it. Many mothers have passed nights of ter? ror in this situation A little fore? thought will enable you to avoid all this. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is a certain cure for croup and has never been known to fail. Keep It at hand. For sale by all dealers.?Advt. FIRK DESTROYS BARN. J. I*. Commander Loses Quantity of Grain When Barn and stables Born. A Are, which originated from s< me unknown cause, totally destroyed the barn and stables of J. P. Command. : on Uauaer street at an early hour Saturday morning. No one was about the building when the fire started, bul it was dls covered in time to Bave all of the ani? mals in the stables from i>. ii.^ burned to death. A large supply of oats, hay, and corn, which Mr. Commander bad stored im the I arn were totally de? stroyed, however. No Insurance was carried ??.) the building, .<s far as could be aseer tal n?.l. A <.reat Building Palls when its foundation is undcrmlnded, and if the found itlon of health -good digestion Is attacked, quick collapse f.diows. ?0, ihc first Btgns of indlges? lion. Dr King's New Life Pills should i q iak< n t" tone the stomach and regulate liver, kidneys and bowels. Pleasant, easy, Bafo and only 25 cents at Blhert's I trug Store. Advt. Crippling the Food arid Drugs Act. The Journal of the American Med? ical Association, di.srus.sing the Mc Cabe-Witeon-Dunlap conspiracy to oust I>r. Wiley from the Hureau of Chemistry, rays that the Food and Drugs Act was seriously crippled both by the inadequacy of the punish? ment meted out to its violators and by the Interminable delay in bring? ing cases to trial. Good examples of the law'? delay are found in two no- I tices of Judgment recently published. One of these records a case in which an offense committed in January, 1910, finally came to trial in April, 1912. The public document giving in? formation about this case was not issued until September 27, 1 & 1 2. The j other case described was one of mis? leading committed in August, 1910, and brought to trial in April. 1912. I'h?' public was given information about this case September 27 1912. Both of these wer?' clear-CUt cases of misbranding. In one. the defendant declined to contest the charge, and was let off with the mere payment of costs; in the other, a plea of guilty was entered and a fine of five dollars was imposed. it"W much of a deter? rent is a law wl ch is so enforced that It may take tv . years or more for a given case lo L'ome to trial and when finally brought to trial results in a mere nominal tine? < >ne of the best preventive! against law violation is newspaper publicity. Many turns of the "large and respected" type which, under present conditions, do not hesi? tate to misbrand or adulterate foods and drugs, would think twice about doing so if they found that the news? papers of the country w ? uid giv?' wide publicity to their trial and con? viction for Buch misdemeanors. But the average live newspaper docs not want to <!- :il with facts that have he tome ancient history before they reach the public. "There are moro ways of killing a rat than by drown? ing it:" and there are more ways ?>f killing p law than by failing to en? force it. Tonight. Tonight, if you feel dull and stupid, | or bilious and constipated. take a | dose of Chamberlain's Tablsts, and you will f?el all right tomorrow. Sold by all dealers.?Advt. TRUSTEE'S BALE. I am offering the B. B. Seymour place in Concord Township consisting ?>f ;}4i' 1 aevs t'-.r s. > under division. For particulars, applj to B. i>. Hodge, Truste. AlcolU, S. C. Fort?? KIco'h New Wonder. Prom far away Porto Itlco come re ports of a wandcrful new discovery that la believed will vastly benefit the people. Ranion T Marchan, ol Uarce? loneta, writes "Dr. King's N?--v i>ts eovery is doing splendi i w< rk here, it cured nn about tu. Unit - t< rrible coughs und ruin-, al.so my brother ol ,i aevere cold In his chest and more than 20 others, wiio used It on my ad vice. We hope this great medicine will yet be s?-M in every drug store In Porto Rii n " Kor tin .'.it and lun troubles there is nothing better. \ trial will convince you of its met I ;.<?,. and .< 1.00 Ti ial bottle free Guaranteed by Slbert's Drug Store, 1 advt. TALKING ABOl'T BIG DAY. Merchants Preparing to Entertain LsUBjeug Crowd Here In Many a Day on November 2?th. The merchants are all busy getting ready for the entertainment of the largo crowds who are expected here to he'.p In "Sumter's Seaboard Sele bration." Speaking of the big day Saturday morning, one merchant said he was confident Sumter would have more visitors, and visitors from a larger territory than she hid probably ever had before. H I based his opin? ion on the attractions offered for the day and tho thorough way in which it had been advertised. Secretary Bnell has seen to it that every high? way ami byway for miles around is 1 I properly decorated w ith Sumter liter? ature, the railroad agents along the new road are all supplied with ad? vertising matter about the big day and Friday afternoon nearly 1,000 ?ample copies of the Sumter Watch? man und Southron containing the at? tractions offered for tho day were mailed out to points from which crowds are expected on "Seaboard Day." Mrs. B. Frank Kelly and little daughter returned to BtshopvtUe Friday morning after a visit to friends in this city. Giving the Onto Away. Borne young ladies got up a party to go on a moonlight excursion up the river. The ni^bt anally arrived tad the moonbeams were all that had been anticipated, w hile the air w is warm and balmy with the odore Of I woodland and held. When the party was ready to leave he house that had been appointed as the place of me. ting, it was noticed that one of the prettiest a rls was wearing a shawl. I "What's the matter, l.uey?" inquir? ed one of the other young ladies, "are you afraid of taking cold?" "No, no, no!" Lucy replied. "The thermometer is up to I 6," said one of the young men, "you'll be aw? ful warm with a shawl on." "Oh, never mind no." answered Lucy rather pettishly, "I'll be all right." "Don't you know why she 'aants to wear th.it shawl?*' Baked Lucy's small brother, with s grin. "Now. John Walter:1. JfO > keep still," snapped bis sister; 1 tut the boy skipped out of her re.o h and said in a \oiee that could be heard by all present, "I'll tell you anyway; yr?e wear it s.? that when you uo up the river Fob Stevens can pul his arm under ?t and bug you and the others i an t ... him!". Poor John was caught und sent home t" bed and then the party start? ed up the river without the shawl! raase of Insomnia. I The most common cauee of lissom* j nia is disorders of the stomach and constipation. Chamberlain's Tablets correct these disorders and enable you to sleep. 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