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FRAN IHN B?ECKEN1UDGK KLUS Illustration? by O. Irwin Myers CHAPTER X. An Ambuscade. Fran's conception of the Clinton Boarding-House, the home ol jollity, was not wsrrantcd by its real atmos? phere. Since there were not many Inhabitants of Littlehurg detached from housekeeping. Miss S ipphira Clinton depended for the mont part on "transients;" and, to hold such in subjection, preventing them from In? dulging in that noisy gaiety tc which "transients" are naturally inclined? just because tbey are transitory?the elderly spinster had developed an ab? normal solemnity. This solemnity was not only benefi? cial to "drummers" and "coitr. men" acutely conscious of being away from home, but it helped her brother Dob Before the charms of Q>ace Noir had penetrated his thick skin, the popular Litt is burg merchant was as unman? ageable as the worst. Before he grew aecustomod to fall into a semi-coma? tose condition st the approach of Grace Noir, and, therefore, before his famous attempt to "get religion," the bachelor merchant often swore?not from aroused wrath, but from his pe? culiar sense ot' humor. In those Antl Orace and heathen days, Bob, silting on the long veranda of the green frame building, one leg swinging over the other knee, would say, "Yes, It," or. "No,-it," as the case might be. It was then that the reprov'.ng protest of his sister's face would jelly in the fst folds of her double chin, helping, somewhat, to cover profanity with a prudent veil. Miss Sapphire liked a joke?or at least she thought so?as well as any? body; but like a too-humorous author, she found that to he as funny as pos? sible was bad for buslneis. The "trav? eling men were bed enough, needing fO ba fSWirNMSd ftf " om they'd Wt st boine, and, she'd ha bound, had forgotten. But when one \M <0.?'..her a traveler or not?evgsj a staid young teacher like Abbott * ... for Instance?a youag man who was almost like a son to her?when he secluded himself in the night-time? by himself? with another male? oh, dear, no!?with a Fran, for example? what was the world coming to? ?There they stood," she told Bob, ?the two of them, all slone on the foot-bridge, and it was after nine o'clock. If I hadn't been in a hurry to get home to see that roomers didn't set the bouse afire, not a soul would have seen the two colloguing." "And It don't seem to have done you any good," remarked her brother, who, having heard the tale twenty times, begsn to look upon the event almost as a matter of course. "You'd better not have saw them"?at an early age Hob had cut off his educa? tion, end It hsd stopped growing at tbst very place. Perhaps he had been elected president of the school-board on the principle that we best appre? ciate what does not belong to us. "My home hus been Abbott's home," said Mies Sapphire, "since the death of his last living relation, ar 1 her a step, and it a mercy, for nobody could get along with her, and she wouldn't let people leave her alone. You know how fond I am of Abbott, but your position is very responsible. You could get rid of hiin by lifting your finger, and people are making lots of talk; It's going to Injure you. People don't want to send their tender yeung innocent girls?they're a mighty hard? ened and knowing set, nowadays, though, I must say?to a superinten? dent that stands on bridges of nights, holding hands, and her a young slip of a thing. His a-standlng on that bridge." "He ain't stood there as often as I've been worried to death a-hearing of It," growled the ungrateful Hob, who was Imui 'iin ly fond of Abbott Miss Sappbtra spoke with amaitngly significant double nods between each word?"AM . . . I . . . saw . . . only . . . four ? . , days . . . sgo?" Hhe pointed st the school house, which was almost directly across the street. Its stone steps facing the long veranda "They were the last to come ?ut of that door You may say she's s mere child \l? p children are not In Miss Hull s classes." "Hut Ablott says the girl Is far sdvsnced." "Far advsnced! You may well say! I'll be bound she Is?and carrying on with Abbott on the very school In,mm.> steps. Yes. I venture she is adva* You make ine ashamed to hear you " Hob tugged at his straw colored mustache; he would not swear, for whatever hiippened. he was resr.lv?.d to lead the spiritual life. "8e?? here, rbipphlra. I'm golrg to tell you some th< .? I had pilte a talk with Abbott about thar bridge-business?after you'd spread it all over town, sis?and If you'll bol eve ii e, she waylaid him Dn those '?,pn He didn't want to talk to her Why, he left her stand Ihg there. Sim Bgadi him mad. find Ins fault with the very folks that have lekuu her up. He's disgusted, Thai night at the camp-mecting, he had to take her out of the taut?he was asked to do it?-?? "He didn't have to stand, a-holding her hand." "?And as booq as he'd shown her the way to Brother Gregory's, he came on back to the tent. I saw him in the aisle." "And she whistled at me/' cried Miss Sapphira?"the limb! ' "Now, listen, Sapphira, and quit goading. Abbott say* that Miss Bull is having lots of trouble with Fran?" "See that, now!" "?Because Fran won't get her les? sons, being contrary?" "I wish you could have seei? her whistling at me, that night." "Hold on. So this very evening Miss Bull Is going to send her down to Abbott's office to be punished, or dismissed. This very evening he wants me to be over there while he takes her in hand." "Abbott la going to punish that girl?" cried Miss Sapphira; "going to take her in hand? What do you mean by 'taking her in hand'? She is too old! Robert, you make me blush." "You ain't a-blushing, Sapphira," ber brother aasured her, good-natured ?y, "you're suffering from the hot weather. Yes, he's to punish her at four o'clock, and I'm to be present, to stop all this confoun?I mean this un? godly gossip." "You'd better wear your spectacles, Rob, so you'll look old and settled. I'm not always sure of you, either." "Sapphira, If I hadn't joined the church, I'd say?M He threw up hiB band and clenched his fist as If he bad caught an oath and meant to hold It. tight Then his honest face beamed, "dee here, I've got an idea Suppose you make It a point to be sitting out bere on the veranda at about half past four, or five. You'll see Fran come sneaking out of that door like a whipped kitten. She'll look everlast? ingly wilted. I don't know whether Abbott will stuff her full of fractions aid geography, or make her stand In a corner?but you'll see her wilted." (TO BSJ CONTINUED.) Is HIS OWN BUSINESS. Hryan's < hurltlcs No Concern of Public. Washington, Sept. 23.?Secretary Bryan nays he doesn't mind discussing his source of LneoHH but he thinks It Is going a little t<> > far to ask hin. to make public detailed account of his private expenditures. A spec h by Senator Martine defending the estifolef j'l oheAitaue.ua lecturing, in which the senator sali Mr. Bryan was supporting mission students in Japan, brought many inquiries today. T ie secretary issued this statement: "We are ont educating any boys in Japan. A Japanese student lived with us for about five years but Sen? ator Murtine's remarks probably re? fer to stt dents whom we have as? sisted in other parts of Asia, but 1 do not consider It necessary to dis? cuss the matter. I have discussed the sources of my income, but I am not yet convinced thai the public re qu res me to dis< uss each contribu? tion which 1 see lit to make to a worthy cause. "1 may add that 1 answer these questions with reluctance and with the feeling that the newspapers repre? sented by those who ask the ques? tions feel more curiosity than the general publie does in regard to my private affairs." (.IRL HI HNS TO HEATH. Young Negress Ixisch Her Life In Fire at Canidcii. Camden. Sept. 23.?Locked In a ionise, While her mother was picking l otion in a Held nearbv, an ls-year old negro girl was hrrned to death this morning at her home, on lower Market street, near V uighan's gin aery. The girl was halfwitted and at One time Was Jin inmate o| tbe ins me aaylum, The supposition is that she set lire to some cotton, Which NN!?S pii .1 up in a corner of the room. Mr. iJarner. who operate a ginnery mar by, together with several hands, saw smoke emitting from tha cracks of the i . Th? \ knocked down the doors and when QeOfjSjg DuBoee, a nui'11. attempted te raecm the ?iri she rush? ed late another room, and In ? few minutes was Calling fof help, but no one could anter on ac want of tha Names and smoke. The bod) was taken from the nahes after the Bra department arrived and quenched tbe llanos I was rein ?\ ad and is gwsItIng the arrival ol he coroner( who *.iii decide whether or not the holding of an Inquest Is ncces enry< llQCldfS tbe bouse tin- glfl was In wo other bouses nearby were burned sad only by bard work of tha fire uon. wln? bad to string out hoat from I hydrant tWO blocks away, was tbe ginnery and another bouse saved. Two of the bouse., belonged to Rk'hard Halle, ? negro merchant, and I the other was a tenant hoilOS on tin ?in property. Mi ssi s, R i >. Bpps and L W, M< - Lemore lefi Tuesday for Char b -ton, Where they Will be in uttond nnce upon the Federal court at that place From tbrre the) will go to Alken. While III y also Will liaVe |e ual business. GOVERNOR S?LZER S TRIAL. ( Ol kt has NOT DECIDED WHETHER IMPEACHED EXECUTIVE WILL HAVE to TELL or misi'se OF FINDS. Governor Now Admits That He Can No Longer Perform Administrative ruin lions and Announces Ahundon inent of Claims to Prerogative, Albany, N. Y? Sept. 2:1.?After a day spent in listening to lengthy ar? guments the high court for the trial of the impeachment of Gov. William Sul/er adjourned tonight without having decided whether the impeach? ed executive will have to answer charges involving the misuse of the funds contributed for his campaign last fall. The court probably will reach a decision early tomorrow . In event of the denial of the mo? tion to strike out the three articles dealing with the campaign contribu? tion, the guns of the impeached exec? utive's legal battery will have been spiked SS far as the preliminaries are concerned and the actual trial will begin. That counsel for the assembly mar . agers are confident the v ? ? wil' lOt dismiss the three articles is evidenced by the fact that they announced that Jaeob 11. Schiff, Abrain I. Elkus, Henry Morganthau and others who contributed to the .Sulzer election fund, would be on hand tomorrow to 1 testify. Jacob H. Hchlff, counsel announced would be the first witness for the prosecution on the eontcsted faets. His $2,500 contribution was not men? tioned in the sworn statement of election expenses filed by the gov? ernor. GOV. Sulzer today submitted to the ruling Qf the high court that the as? sembly had the constitutional right to impeach him. This announcement, was made at the opening of court by Judge IX Cady Herrick, chief counsel for the impeached executive, who de? clared that "the governor will bow to the will of the court, and will ex ereise none of the prerogatives of his oflico pending the determination of J the impeachment charges," Counsel for the assembly managers were busy tonight preparing to place their early witnesses on the stand. Formal proof of the nomination and ' election of the governor first will be add need. Hater the governor s State? ment of campaign expenses and dis-; bursements, sworn to and filed with the secretary of State, will be proved. It is on this statement that the pros? ecution bases its most serious charges. The document shows that Sulzer re? ceived $5,460 in furtherance of his election, and that he expended $7,724. The artieles of impeachment charge him with having received at least $8,500, of which no mention is made j in the sworn statement, The preliminaries disposed of, the managers are planning to centre their light upon the three articles having to de with the governor's campaign contributions and his alleged use of 1 the funds in Wall street, if the court rules they may be considered. These charge perjury, fraud and larceny. Louis A. Barecky, who was the gov? ernor's campaign secretary and handled 1 inch of the funds, has not been subpoenaed, the assembly man agers* counsel announced tonight. Barecky refused t<? testifj before the! Prawley committee when it was un? earthing the testimony on which the Impeachment was based. The principal contention of the gov? ernor's side in today's proceedings was that the acts specified in the 1 three arti des objected to were com-! mltted, if at all. while Sulzer was a private citizen. Their opponents ar gUed that they were, so intimately Connected with the Office that it would 1??> Impossible to separate them. "The managers here," declared Counsel for the governor, "want to stand broadly upon the proposition that a man may be wholly unlit lor governor of the Empire state some little time before be is really ripe for State's prison. The dividing line betwssn the two?between ripeness for the state's prison and qualifica? tion for the governorship?'Is broad? er than that." WHIT l>l < l,\KI I> VALID. Troy, N. Y.. Sept. 23.?Supreme Court Justice Cochrane at a hearing today on tin- application for a writ of ha bean corpus tor .lames C. Qur rlson, held for contempt of the as Mcmbly, ruled thul tin- commitment warrant as Issued by the assembly w;i \alid. Tin- case was continued until Saturday when tin- justice will hear further arguments. After tin- hearing (Jurrlson was t?rm?! to the Albany county pe tentia i \. win Enforce Uame Law. sin-riff Bradford has given Mi in ii net inns to his deputies and ral policemen lo attest und prost e ;iil persons violating the game la Tl.SUghl w ill probably Buffer \ ere consequences, GUNMEN INFEST CAPITAL. SENSATIONAL CHARGES MADE BY SPEAKER OP TENNESSEE HOUSE. However, Despite infinnumitory Srjieeelies, First Ray's Session of Legislature Sees No Bloodshed. - Nashville, TVnn., Sept. 23.?Sensa? tional charges of the bringing of two suit cases of guns into the office of the superintendent of the capitol and of the presence of gunmen in the hall of 'the house of representatives, were made on the floor of the house today by Speaker Stanton. Serious trouble at one time looked certain after the speaker's charges. Several Inflammatory speeches were made. At the afternoon session a motion to Investigate the speaker's charges and to bring George C. Ken fro, superintendent of the capitol, be? fore the house was voted down. Speaker Stanton, after charging that scurrilous articles had appeared in newspapers threatening to unseat him and that ihreats and efforts of intimidation had come to him for the past several days, he said. "There are two suit cases of guns now in the office of the superintend? ent of the eapitol sent there by friends of Gov. Hopper, and even this will not intimidate or scare me. 1 am speaker of this house and propose to remain so to the end. 1 do not pro? pose to be intin.idated by Gov. Hooper or his gunmen and their efforts to force me to make rulings will do them no good." Representative McFauami, lollosy Ing Mr. Stunton, after I ailing off his coat to show Hat he was not firmed, denounced the nan who "rams down weapons in his pocket" and declared thai any man guilty of such a prac? tice was "a-coward." Representative Lex stone threw back his coat to show that he was Un? armed, turned to Mr. McFarland and said: "Any man who would call a set of armed men to guard the door of the legislative hall is just as much a-coward as the man refer? red to by Mr. McFarland." "Why not stud the gunmen out and let honest men have a chance?" shouted Mr. Stone. He declared that if the house was to be cleared all armed thugs should be included and not just "thost who side with the fusionists." After many speeches some of them conciliatory, the house adjourned. The socalled liw enforcement bills, the consideration of which has brought feeling to a high tension among members of the house, proba? bly will come up tomorrow. On all test votes today it was shown that the fusionists probably have the necessary votes to pass the measure. Senator Fisher of Shelby county, in a statement tonight said that this morning he entered the office of George C. Renfro, supci intendent of the capitol, and found a dozen men seated there. Later, he said, he met Mr. Renfro and asked who they were and was informed they were peniten? tiary guards. A resolution to have Senator Fisher brought before the bouse was voted down at the after? noon session. EAGLE'S PRESITGi: TllRFATEN BD. Chicago, Sept. 23.?The hen that will lay an egg a day soon will replace the eagle as the national bird, accord? ing to officers of the National Poultry, Butter and Egg;:: Association, that ended its annual convention here to? day. one billion dollars' Worth of eggs a year is sold and $7r?,000 worth broken in transit, according to w. R. F. Priebe, executive committee man from Illinois, Kansas City was chosen for the 1 i? 1 4 place of meeting. Harry Howie, of New York, was elected president. Kutawville, Sept. 23.?Sis Mack, a negro woman of this place, was shot at Ferguson Saturday night and died yesterday from the effects of the Wound. Three negroes are held as suspects. An inquest was held by Magistrate J. i>. Wiggins, but it was adjourned pending tbe arrest of tWO other suspected negroes who are still at large. Greelyville BUSINESS SCHOOL ?MSSBSOSBSBSMHSe ? '?"""'dual training for Bous and Girls. course of all Knglitli brsucbei, lortliaud, lypwrtiliiK snd l>ook up o(Tern ua> irpassed opportu i?? Ma* youths of your county very reason able price. board eobtslned hi town, fc'or parti' s address, J. M. JERVEY, ELY VII.LE, - S. C. TO THE BOYS' CORN CLUB. - ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRIZES OF? FERED TO YOUTHFUL FARMERS. County Farm Demonstrator Williams Advises Boy* to Gather Their l orn on October 1st.?Should Plant Win? ter Cover Crops. To the Members of the Sumter Coun? ty Hoys' Corn Club: it is getting about time lor the members of the Corn Club to break in their corn. October "he lirst was the day set last year to begin break? ing, and J think that cate is early enough to begin this year, I want each boy to select his seed for another year in the lield, and to plant a cover crop of rye, oats, and vetch, or some kind of clover. About $400 in prizes are available for the "toys. This will be divided up so as to about equally emphasize the following: The greatest yield; the best ten ears ' of corn exhibited in Sumter; the best written account of how the crop was grown; the best paper on "How I Se? lected my Seed Corn in the Field," and a cover crop of some kind of clov? er, rye, oats and vetch. The merchants of Sumter have al? ways been very liberal in supporting ' the Corn Club and the banks offer substantial prizes to the farmers as well as to the boy*. The following is a list of the sub? scriptions: i O'Donnell & Co., $10 in gold for the largest yield; Suit of clothes for the 2nd largest yield. Booth Harby Live Stock Co., one! saddle. S. M. Pierson, $10 in gold. Bultman Shoe Store, < ?ie :>air ol Howard and Foster shoes. Stubbs Bros, one pair of Hegal shoes. DuRAnt Hardware Co., $10 In gold. W. B. Burns and Son, steel beam middle burster. J. Frank Williams, a Duroc Jersey Pig. Knight Brothers, five yearly sub , scriptions to The Herald. George F. Epperson, one Hocking Valley corn sheller to the boy writing the best history of his crop. Burns Hardware Co., a one-horse ' steel beam Eynehburg plow. The D. J. Chandler Clothing Co., $10 in gold for liest ten ears of corn. Shaw and McCollum, pair of Ham? ilton-Brown shoes. W. A. Thompson, $5 watch for sec ! ond best ten ears of corn. McCormack Jewelry Co., $5 tie pin i for best written account of "How I Selected My Seed Corn in the j Field." The Farmers' Bank. & Trust Co., $f>0. The First National Bank, $50. The president of the Bank of Sum? ter, who is very anxious about the boys growing their corn with smaller cost in the way of commercial fer? tilizers is working out a plan to offer the boys prizes for putting on winter cover crop. The boys will be eligible to $100 of tho $300 in prizes offered by the j City National Bank in its diversifica? tion rotation contest, just the same as the men. During the heated campaign on the dispensary election it seems that the big Sumter County Fuir was rele? gated to the background. However, there will be one big day in Sumter when the City National Bank prizes and the Bank of SumUr prizes and all of tho Corn Club and Tomato Club prizes are awarded. J. Frank Williams. Mr. G. Irving Sehneeberg er has re turned after an absence of three months in Asheville, Baltimore and Savannah. Mrs. M. 1.. Parier is visiting in the city. WARNING AGAINST WEEVIL DEPARTMENT OF AGRlCCLTl'RE SENDS ADVICE TO FARMERS. Destroy the Stalks, is First Direction und Second is That tr. Crops Be Diveatftsjtf. Washington, Sept. 24.?The depart? ment of agriculture is sending out warnings to the farmers in the cot? ton belt, cautioning them against the spread of the boll weevil. It is also advising them througn held agents how to destroy and prevent the spread of the insect. "Destroy the cotton stalk early in October, if possible," advises the de-/ partment. "Destroy your stalks even If your less progressive neighbor does not,, It will pay. Clear off and burn all your rubbish on ditch banks and other hibernating Places for the weevil. This should be done early in the fall. Do not plant cotton after cotton but plant your cotton on land that has grown a heavy crop of cowpeas, velvet beans, lespeleza or some other leguminous crop to supply the land with nitrogen and vegetable matter. Break the land in the fall or early winter that is to be planted to cot? ton next year. "Where sufficient teams and tools are available to plow under and com? pletely bury the stalks this should by all means be done Where it is im? possible to plow th<! stalks under they should be uprooted, raked into wind? rows and allowed 10 dry for a few days, they should then be burned." "To prove the value of oestroying ' the cotton stalks, the department con ducted experiments in Amite county, Mississippi, last year and the follow? ing results are t-hown: "'On 117 acres where no stalks were destroyed but where all other instructions of the government were followed, the average yield was 619 pounds of seed cotton per acre. On 28 acres where the stalks were destroyed before October 10, and the same cul? tural methods applied, the average yield per acre was 1,050 pounds of seed cotton, or a gain jf 441 pounds of seed cotton per acre, worth at that time $17.04, was sceured by early fall destruction of stalks. If it pays a few men $ 17.G4 per acre to cut their cot? ton stalks before October 10, what would it mean to a county if every stalk in it were cut before Octo? ber 10?' "On the other farms in the same county where none jf the government instructions was followed, it took from eight to ten acres to make a bale of cotton." _ . ? WON'T ACCEPT CONTRACT. Attorney General Qaushcs Proposed Agreement Whereby Former Ho? siery Mill Employees would Make Furniture for Northern Concern. Columbia, Sept. 25.?Attorney General Peeples today refused to ap? prove the proposed contract admitted through the chairman of the peniten? tiary board, in reference to the em? ployment of 225 prisoners in the ho? siery mill to enter, after November 1st, into the manufacture of furni? ture for a Kent! iky firm. The con? tract is deemed by the A.Uorney Gen? eral's office as one-sided, giving the State the wrong end of the bargain. It is understood the contract gives A. D. Martin, of Frankfort, Ky., com? plete control of the output of the pro? posed furniture factory. The rates for labor are higher than heretofore paid in hosiery mills. To Preach at Salem Mission Chapel. Rev. William Haynsworth will preach for us in the Salem Mission Chapelt on Sunday next, September 2Sth, at 8 o'clock P. M. Come and worship with us. Benj. P. Cuttino, Superintendent Salem Sunday School. Sumter Railway & Mill Supply Co., SUMTER, S. C. The season is here when you are Dbliged to have repairs, generally, as quickly m they can be gotten. We are in your midst, can give you quicker service than our competitors, and we bespeak a part of your business, guaranteeing satisfaction. Our Stock is Complete in the Following Lines: Roofing: rue ft tad ami v. Crimped: Klectrold rubber rootling. 1.1 und :t ply. Raltine* Rubber. <;andy Delling, und Leather. Injectors: ^?klnd? Packing: 8heel As Hose* *u uni a,H'w:iior Axes' ^''ll,,y 8 p61*60* Blocks: ?iSi. ?op> iBd Phain1 s',',?1 loadlnn ami 0 lid III ? proof tented. DiiIIauc Steel, Iron Mid rUliejb. wood split will lit sny bIm shaft. Lace Leather: ??? ??ll Babbitt Metal: Sn.lni to Shafting: Allsl/,s Hangers: Shaft Couplings. ^X2; plate ami ribbed. Walwac 'enUlns and str .le" TfllTCo. -iU\ i-41tt. ?? la, D BtOCk. Iron Pipe Fittings. I;4""0'1 to tfin. al I styles. Bar Iron. Pjnp Pat ?nd Threaded from l-Mn to til n. tu elusive, to sketoh. Wire Rope. SaWS Qretiieat tad etrea C?r,i Hooks. I Pumps. Blacksmith Tools. In fact everything carried in ;>n up-to-date supply house. When needing anything write, phone, wire, or call. Vour wants will have immediate attention. Respectfully, Sumter Railway & Mill Supply Co.