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Wie WIMS?J\IMM \Gf AALL1I EKTUM mVT5 ^) ILLUSTRATED ?/* LAUREN 5T0UT CHAPTER III. The Turn of the Page. Jona Valiant stirred and laughed, a little a?Jf coni? iousl>. for there had baeu drop* on hl* Qpt | Preeently he took a check ' ook from hla pocket and bertm to Agare OH the ?tub. looking up with r wry smile. "To lomo down to brass tacks." he mut? tared, "when I ? thing (thank IffffgeOg I fOl t owe my tallorl | there will he s little matter of twev,t\ eight hundred odd dolors. I pgfM no lor and my clothe* between ins end the bread-line!" Everything ?dso bo had disposed of ?everything but the four-footed oom rads there at his Not, - Hut I'd not sell you <>id than' ho said, soMlyj "not a single lick of your friendly pink tongue not for a ggjltlf hun dred thousand'" Ha w thdrew bis caressing hand aud looked again at the check-stub. Tu ? n t* eight hundred! He KsOghed bleohly. Why. b?> bad spent more than that a nMuith ago on I ball at Sherry's! This tnomms h? had 0001 ruh; tOOlght he was poor! What gggjM he do? lie could not remember a time when he had got had all that he wanted Me had BjOTOI bof* rowed from a Mojfffl or be*?n dunned hy aa Importune*** trad? Minn. And he bad nere~ 'rlod to earn a dollar ll Ala life; ss to current n et hods of uiak log a living, be was si ignorant as a .Paehlo Indian. Ha roae grimly and dragged his ?hair facing the window The light was balmy and he looked down across th? darker sea of reefs, barred like a gigantic checkerboard by the shining lines of streets, to where the hashing ?lectric signs of the theater district laid their wtda swath of colored ra? diance The manifold call? ot the atreet and the bux? of tftjlteyg mad* s dull tonal background, subdued and far away. To be eetside! All that light auu eok>r and comfort and pleasure would bum and sparkle on just the game, though be was no longa?* within the ?irels of Its effulgence?alsving per haps, be tbought w!*h a tw! at some tawdry occupation that < t Uod rnor ao experience, be pa] for a tnoel in so?m second rate rontnnfnnt and a Cllet In some shabby-genteel, ball flrootn. tfU bis clothes were PQjplaOed by )n?nt'ing "hand - uv-do v. n v?tin hy anetehed gradartous be armed finally st ia* ststus of aha ihm sent in the gaiter' sud rtvecent etgare! Thare was ons way back. It lay thro^ejh th?? hackru?)"d g. of marriage. You'h. romeiine*M and fmo llnon in the world ho knew, were a ?sir exchange for wealth any day. "Cutlet for sollet* Um agtlrlr nbfl g ran through bis mind. Why no - Others did so. And aa for himself, it Me Had Rur tenl/ Remembered That It Was Nil Twenty fifth Birthday. parhapa Of 4 gO 00 gffwOtlofl ff plgfg sad geamotofed mllllong? thorn vm gTathnrlne la lua bear lohn Valiant ans awnr?\ by thoe*' snMlo aisns which mo gad women sltk<* dlatinguinh, thai While Katharina Kai go Inf ad Hr*t und fore* ?.?st her o\mi wo'.d'tful P'i?<M, gg had been an cany IggejgeJ Iff hof rt> gar.J Iggjg Vallanl looked down at the bulldog aqu.ttltHl on the floor, hll OfOg siimbig in tlui dlmi os.* A li" > iw rlprde had rim gfOI him Not Off tu ?r ffjfgj t tn.ra'" g*J said. "Ji I ffhl in ? ffhhl b.':?*?' There mu^l !??? mhar rhings gonsgog .i.o.i. y and IOC Uli gOOl tlon In thi* OOdeV rmn old world, gftor all' Wo re going to begin gomOthlOg f?.r amieorrig, ll 11 .. onlj raining tah i?*v ? v i ee're going m gtnne! M without. any baby aching the nurse never h? Id oUf QOOlU nhOff Hi tOOll nur ca got oil! ' it * ?* loM w dnwgi ihnl offfl bright pag** Ftnle bad bean nritten to Iba rot?* coi.4 banter, and are* a1* he told bimnelfi he was eons bats nf ff new rugged ffomothlug thai bad la* u alowly du* n.ng nlUllff blm, a sodsc Ol courugi*. ffffl r Of Iff * and g lurtOU* ' itrnd or the scii pi'> thai had ?> r .< !. il 'o t ? V ? o i'm a i.i...m ir. IIm InYged from the v. Ind rW, pit u 1 u. h? kttarni and lollowed b| the do| \v? nt slowly up another lllght to Ii.h room. t e 0 0 O 0 t * II" tyre open the letters abstracted? ly: the usual dinner-card or two, a Ulllor'S spring announcement, a! chronic serial from an exclamatory i ?sarbU ?Ojuen j in? company, a Quarterly statement of a club nonetcommittee. The last two missives boro a nondc* script look. One w;is small, with the name of, a legal Ihm in its corner. The other whk largish, corpulent and heavy, of stout Manila paper, and bore, down one side, a gaudy procession of post are stamps proclaiming that it Lad been ftglltfd "What's in that, I wonder?" he said to bimsen, and then, with a smile at the unmasculine speculation, opened the smaller envelope. hear Mr," hi nan the letter, In the most uncompromisingly conventional gf typewriting: "Don? tfir: "ffneloeed please find, with title deed, a memorandum opened In your name by the late John Valiant sonn* years before his death. It was his desire that the services indicated in connection with this estate should con? tinue till this date. We hand you herewith our check for |136.80 (two hundred and thirty-six dollars and twenty cents >. th*? balarce in your fa? vor, for which pleaso send receipt, "And oblige, "Tonn very truly, "Emerson and Hall." "(Enclosure) Flo turned to thr* memorandum. It sho>M'd a sizable initial deposit against which was entered a series of annual tax payments" with minor disburse? ments credited to "inspection and ( rre." The tax receipts were pinned to tho account. The larger wrapper contained an un? sealed envelope, across which wan written in faded ink and In an unfa? miliar dashing, slanting handwriting.) his own name. The envelope con- ] tatnod a creased yellow parchment. I from between whose folds there clomped and fluttered down npon the floor a long flattlsh object wrapped in a paper, a newspaper clipping and a letter, PllSS led na IM folded the Crackling thing in his hands. "Why." he said hnir alond, "It's?it's a deed made over Ig me " Ho overran it swiftly, "l'art of an old Colon} grant * * * a plantation in Virginia, twelve hon?! dred odd acres, given under the hand of a rieO*regel governor in the rix teentli century. 1 had no Ides titi?s in the I nite(; rftates went 1 |i N SO fat as that! Mis *ye tied to the end. "It was my father's! What could he have .van t ed of an aatata in Virginia? It must have come into his hands in 'he course of haziness.*' Ha night d up the newspaper clip? ping. It was worn and broken in the lolris as If It had been carried for months ? ti a pocket book. ? It will hit er eat readers of this sec? tion of Virginia (the paragraph ho. ggn) to lonrn, from a recent transfer received for record at the County Clerk -; < i . . , that hamory Court hai passed to Mr. .lohn Valiant) minor ?" H I turm d ih.. paper OfOf and found a date, it had boon printed in tho year of the transfer to himself, when ho was six jreari old?t ho yog? his father had died. lohn Valiant, minor, tho son of the formet on nor. "There ere few indeed who do not recall tin* tragedy with which In the public sjind the aatata is connected. The Inct, moreover, that this old home stand has b? ei left in Its preaent irate (tttf, :is ih will known, the house hau reanaiaed nitk all its oontentaand fur-, glshlngs nntouchedj lo real dorlng so long a term of your* unoccupied, could \ not, of course, fail to be commented on, ana tin* circumstance alone has perhaps tended to k? ? i? alive s molan ?ihol I ItOTf Which may well bo lor-i gotten." He read the elaborate, rather stllt?nl phraseology la tho twenty year-old p<< per with a wondering interest. "An i Old bOUSOt" he mused, "with a had name, Krobably ho couldn't sell it, and mayho nobody would ever liv? in it. That would explain whj It re manied so long unoccupied?why there are no rooorda of r> eta la, Probably th? laroi eras starred and inn down. ? it 'a an off-set to the hall?bcdroom Idea, at any rat*,' he said to himself humorously, "It holds out sn escape from the noble army of rent-pa} i is. Aton m) twenty eight hundred is goi I d H?a do .ei tin re a landed proprietor, end by 'ho same mark an honorary colonel, and raise the o.*i> bagps I was lall im; about -eh, Chum? - nhlle you stallt rabbite. How doci thst strike you?" He laughed whimsically, Ha, lohn Valiant, of New York, Bret-nighter at its theaters, nall-fello* wreltael in it 1 club corridors and welcome dinar at I any one of ? hundred brilliant |laaa< and sllvcr-twlnkllm supper tables,, en? tombed on the erock or a Virginia p';i' tatl ?n. i would*he country gentle man, on un automobile and next to not hing a > earl He bethought himself of the fallet? Int? r an I noeseej d himself of it quickly. It lay with the superscrip tion sido down. Ou it VM written, in the Mine hand which had addressed tho other envelope: For my son, John Valiant* When he reaches the age of twenty five. That, then, had been written by his father? and he had died m arly twenty years a^o'l llo broke the sjal with a strange feeling as if, walking in some familiar thoroughfare, ho had stum? bled on a Uehonod and sunken tomb-, bleue. "When you read this, my son, you will have come to man s estate. It Is curious to think that this black, black ink may be faded to gray and this white, white paper yellowed, just from lying waiting so long. Hut strangest of all is to think that you yourself Whose brown head hardly tops this desk, will bo as tall (I hope) as I! Hon I wonder what you w ill look like then: And shall 1?the real, real I, I mean?bo peering over your strong bread shoulder as you read? Who know s? Wise men have dreamed such a thing possible?and I am not a bit w ise. "John, you will not have forgotten that you are a Valiant. Hut you are also a Virginian. Will you have dis? covered this for yourself? Here is the deed to the land where I and ray father, and his fathpr, and many, many more Valiants bet?re them wore bom. Sometime, perhaps, you will know why you are John Valiant of Now York in? stead of John Valiant of Damory C ourt. I can not toll you mysell'.f bo cause it is too true a story, and I have forgotten how to tell any but fairy tales, whore everything happens right, w here the Prince marries the beautiful Princess and they live happily to? gether ever after. "You may never care to live at Damory Court. Maybe the lifo you will know so wall by the time you read this will have welded you to it? self. If so, well and good. Then leave the obi place to your son. Hut there is such a thing as racial habit, and the call of blood. And I know there is such a thing, too, as fate. 'Every mm carries bis fate on a ri? band shout his neck;' so the Moslem put It. It was my fate to go away, and I know now? since dis? tance is not made by miles alone? that I myself shall never see Damory Court again. Hut life Is a strange wh'-el that goes round and round and comes back to the same pol.it again and again. And it may bo your fate to go back. Then perhaps you will cry (but, oh, not on the old white bear's skin nig -never again with me holding your small, small hand!) ? " ?WIshiug-1 louse! Wishing-FIouse! "Where are you?* "And this old parchment deed will answer?? "'Here I am, Master; here I am!' "Ah, we are only children, after all, playing out our, plays. 1 have had many toys, but O John, John! The ones 1 treasure most are all ia the Never-Never Hand!" CHAPTER IV. A Valiant of Virginia. For a long time John Valiant Rat motionless, the opened letter in h's band, r-taring at nothing. He had the sensation, spiritually, of a traveler awakened with a rude shock ainld wholly unfamiliar surroundings. He was trying to remernbor?to put two and two together His father had been Southern-born; yes. he had known that. Hut he hRd known noth? ing ffhatew r of his father's early days, or of Iiis torehear?. since he had boon (dd enough to wonder about, such things, he had had no one to ask question! of. Phrases of tho letter ran throngs hi* mind: 'Sometime, perhaps, yoa will know why you are John Valiant of New York Instead of John Valiant of Damory Court * * * 1 cannot tell you myself." There was soma tragedy, then, that had bfig-htod the place, some "melancholy story," as the "lipping put it. He bent over tho deed spread out IpOfl the table, following with his fln |0I tho long line of iransfers: "To lohn Valyante.,'" ho muttered; "what odd spelling! 'Robert ValyauC?with? out tl>e 'o.' Hero, in 17;iO, the y' be? gins to he 1.'" Th'?re was something stronnoua and appealing in tho luug line of date?. "Valiant Always a Va? liant How they held on to It! There's never a break." A curious pride, newborn and self conscious, wan dawning In him. He was descended from ancestor;! who had been no weaklings A Valiant had. settled on those acres under a royal governor, before* the old frontier fighting waa over and the Indian* had sullenly retired to the westward, I 'm sons of those who had braved sea and gavaget had bowed their Strong bodies and their stronger hearts to rare the forests and turn the primeval Jungles into golden planta 11ons, Them stole into bis mood nn eery suggestion of Intention, Why should the date assigned for that deed's de? livery have boon thi very day on which ho had elected poverty? Here i a foreordlnatlon as pointed us the Index-flnger of a guide-post. "'Every man carries his fate,'" he repented, ? 'on a riband about his neck.' Chum, do you believe In fate?" Cor gnawer the bulldog, cocking nn alert eye on bli master, discontinued his occupation a conscientious if un? successful mastication of the nattiah ps< Ice! thai bad fallen from the folded deed and with much eolicltoui tuii wsgglng, brought the sodden thing In in* mouth nod put it into tho wit ?tr< li ned bond. Ilia msater unrolled the pulpy wad ami extrlested the object it had en? closed so old fashioned irou door key. a a e e e e ? After a time Valiant thrust the key Into his pocket, and rising, went to a trunk that lay against the wall. Searching in a portfolio, he took out a small old-fashioned photograph, much bntterod and soiled. It had been cut from a larger group and the name of the photographer had been erased from the back. He set it upright on tu? desk, and bending forward, looked long at. the face it disclosed. It was the only picture he had ever possessed of his father. He turned and looked lnto-the glass ahovo tho dresser. The features were the same, eyes, brow, lips, and strong waving hair. Hut for its time-stains the photograph might have been one of himself, taken yesterday. (To be Continued.) ? ACTION AGAINST FUTURES. Henry Says lie I'xpects This Coil* grcss to Legislate Upon subject of Cotton healing-. - Washington, March o.?That con? gress would legislate upon trading in] cotton futures at this session or the' next was the opinion expressed by I Chairman Henry <>f the house rules I committee today during hearings on the resolution proposing an inquiry] Into an alleged Wheat trading mo- j I nopoly. Replying to statements by' Henry H. Robblns, counsel for the Chicago Hoard of Trade, that if an' Investigation was decided upon, the board favored a sweeping probe tak? ing up the whole subject of future tradingi Representative Henry Inti? mated that such a course had been tentatively ugreed upon by the com? mittee in order that Democratic plat-! form pledges might be carried i ut. TO IIASTCN TRUST PLANS. Chairman Neulands Appoints Special j Subcommittee to Report on mil. j Washington. Mann ?Senator! i Newlnnds, chairman of the interstate, commerce committee, with a view tot expediting trust legislation, today ap ' pointed a. subcommittee to consider und meke a report on the pending bill , to create an Interstate trade com? mission. ibis course was determined upon after a tentative trade commission' i bill hml been before the committee i for more than a month and had been effi com passed i<v such a flood ol Swiehdments that it will require mueh ?w?lk to whip the measure into sat? isfactory shupe. i hi tho subcommit? tee are: Senators Newlands, Pom-j erene, Robinson, Hulsbury, Cummins, Brandegee and Townsend. Th< appointment of Senator Cum? mins Indicated =i healing of ttie breach Which occurred several weeks ago when the Iowa senator left the com? mittee room after learning that Hem-1 ocratic members of the committee had voted d?Wn several of his pro posed amendments to tho bill, ? When the subcommittee will make a r? port can not be predicted at this time and it is probable that another j subcommittee soon will be named to consider other phases of the proposed trust legislation. CHAR-UK AUA IN ST CRKKCIl. lU'PrcHcntntlvc \cvused of CHingi Worthless i hecks. Columbia, March ?">. -Norman < recch, member of the liarnwcll dele Igntlon in the lower house of the gen-; eral assemhly, when brought before Magistrate r'owles today, charged] With uttering worthless checks on bunks of lllackvllle ami Rock Hill. procured hin releuMe by pleading the constitutional Immunity of a leglsln-l tor during the sessions of the as-1 sembl> ami during the ten days pre i ? ? ceding and the ten days following the esslon. Tin- wnrranl and the checks j in i|iiestlon are held b> the court pending developments. The checks, one lor $4, the other for M.BO, it was! charged, were cashed at a drug store] in Columbia, WISH 1011 I HI M M.I. in:Al l II. ? I Governor, However, Hoes not Wish All Political Sin .'CSS. , Colutnhlu, March ??. At i o'clock! tie house sent a committee, constst-] in:-, of Messrs. Wyche, Doyd ami, I Illuckwell, i'? advise tin governor I hat ( II had Hnished its \\<'ik and wished! 11. know if iin re was uny inrther coinmuulcut ion, The . ommlt tee prompt!) returned and anuounced thai the governor would send his llnal message in once. IP- sent word that I to- would see tin- people on tie* stump and suggested that his friends, though ni th< minority, hail through sustaining his veto, kept the other side from doing great mau> things ib?\ did not want lone, The gover? nor said he ?li<l not w;sh ill of the 'members political success, but wished them all H""?l health and llodspecd, AMhlund, VVls . Ma r< it U XI Ihh Til Iis Augers, uged .'I. and three un? known men were hunted lu ? I ? -:41 %> lo day, when Tit t tigers' boarding house Wii? deatroyvd o< ai here in what i,; believed i" have been an incendlar> Uro, Miss Vnnle, another doughter, was fatally burned, COLLEGE WD CLASSES. Society Enforce* Higher Standard of Right Than Church, Soya Yule I'resident. New Haven, March f?.?You may be a son of almost any one and go to college nowadays, President Charles P. Timing*, of Western Reserve Uni? versity, told an audience In Woolsey Hall, Yale University, this evening, in Harvard, perhaps the most aris? tocratic in reputation of all American schools, one class has eight men whos,> fathers are technically class? ed as '?laborers" said the president, while other fathers "ire cigar makers, letter carriers, firemen, paper hang? ers, house painters, express messeng? ers. Bex tons, cellar builders. shoe cutters, peddlers or junk dealers. President Arthur T. Hadley of Yale University, declared society today en? forces a much higher standard of right ami wrong than that of the r church, or the scriptures. '?Modem society has been gradually developing theories of morals which compel us to decide whether our acts are riglit or wrong- by their effect on the happiness of our fellow men. in? stead of contenting ourselves with referring them to some standard im? posed by the past,"' said President Had ley. "The application of these new standards of right and wrong is more uncertain and required far more exercise of the intellect in the affairs Of every day life. It was a comparatively easy and simple thing to decide whether a line of conduct conformed to certain traditional rules laid down by the church or the scrip? tures, it is an infinitely harder thing to follow out the consequences of a line of conduct and see whether they are going to produce good or evil to ma nklnd. "Nothing has done more to under? mine the Influence of the pulpit in re-' cent days than the attempt to deliver judgments on questions of business or politics on the basis of a merely cas? ual study of the facts. A preacher who founds his precepts upon such casual study is like a lawyer who knows no more of his case than the jury, or a doctor who understands the disease no better than his patient." "The remedy for the evils of ir? responsible fraternities is more fra? ternities and more responsibility," said President William De Witt Hyde. "Have enough fraternities or clubs like them to include practical? ly the entire student body; publish their realtive rank, and stimulate a wholesome rivalry In scholarship, in character, in contribution to the so? cial, artistic, athletic, dramatic and ' literary life of the institution; admit I freshmen early for better or worse, and bold tipper-classmen to account for their Influence over them; weed lent upper-classmen who tail to real? ize this responsibility tor lower class? men in their group and fraternities become a mighty influence for the in telluctual, social and moral uplift of their members, far more potent than any force presidents and deans and faculties can bring: to bear." Prot', k. A. Klrkpatrick of the state Normal School at Fitchburg, speaking on "Who should not go to College" said: "The importance of degrees of all kinds should be minimized instead of emphasized, and to this end students should be allowed and encouraged to take what is of value to them as long as they wish, receiving instead of ;i degree, ;? certificate stating just What they have done, or in other words, universities should be run as "open shops" instead of being- closed to all except apprentices to scholar? ship." canal Tones will. HE RE? PEALED. - House Committee Report*: Repeal Resolution by Large Majority. Washington . March ?I. ? By a vote of i i to :: the house interstate com? merce committee toda) reported fa-j vorably the bill providing for the re? peal of the elans.? in the Panama cunol act granting free tolls to Amer? ican coastwise shipping. Those voting against the repeal] were: DoreimiM. O'Shaughnesay. Democrats, and Knowland, Kepublt-I c a It. RRA7JL ii tS nhuko i pkimm.. . i Government IHnlere* liuwrtrecUon Not serioiu and HlsOnlCT Will lie Kuprcsscd. Hlo Janelde, March 0.?The lira-, Billati government todaj announced thai it-* negro uprising In northern; Brazil is not considered serious andj the disorders will soon be quelled. A. warship with troops was sent up) raast todas where tin- negroe* menace inhabitants. < hxfesses ro n \\ i Hitonii.it. We I ol. an-. Mali Ii ,; \U-ert Da \is. w ii" saved hin brother i>> con-i tensing that be murdered bis sister-j ii, law ai Tholman, ila., died ot tuberculosis today. The woman's husband li e- '.11 b*ld fur the iTlliie.J STATE TOOK CORN PRIZES. I). R. Coker Led the World in Rye and J. suintun Whalcy in Sen Is? land Cotton. i Clemson <'ollege. March 6.?Prof. T. B. Keitt, chemist, and Prof. H. W. Barre, botanist and plant pathologist, have returned to Clemson College from Dallas, Texas, where they went to take charge of South Carolina's ex? hibit at the National Corn Exposition. Prof. Keitt stated upon his return to the college that the exposition in Dal i las was a fine one, but that the at? tendance was no larger, Ijj his opin? ion, that that at Columbia last yeai, nor did he consider the exposition as a whole to be bettor than Columbia's. Despite the great distance of the ex? position, several South Carolinians i I took important prizes, in addition to those who took the corn prizes offer j ed for each State. D. R. Coker, of Hartsville, won i first prize in the world class with a ! sheaf of his Abruzzi rye. He won the sweepstakes in the Southern zone for the best sheaf of oats and the best j sheaf of barley. He was third and j fifth in the world class in cowpeas and fourth in the world class in beans. Mr. Coker was one of the most no? table exhibitors of small grain of the whole exposition. J. Swinton Whaley, of Edisto Is? land, took first prize in every class, world, zone and State, on his two pound sample of Sea Island cotton. A five oound sample of butter made and entered by Clemson College ; scored 9.1 points. The winner of the prize for the Southern zone scored only 92 points. But Clemson's butter could not take the prize as State in? stitutions were not allowed to com? pete for it. The butter from Clem? son < College scored third highest in America, disproving the statement made by some people that fine butter cannot be made in the South. Among other honors paid to South Carolina, blue ribbons were awarded the tea plant and tea from Pinehurst, Summerville, and to the grape fruit: from James' Island. AGRlCULTURALi EXPERTS COM? ING. Will Visit Oswcgo, Dalzell and Beth j d Schools on ftth, 10th and 11th of Marrh, Respectively. Clemson College, March 6.?Promi? nent speakers representing Clemson College, the State department of edu? cation and the United States De? partment of Agriculture will held agricultural and educational rallie? at ! three schools in Sumter county, be J ginning with a meeting at Oswego school on March 9. The other two rallies will be at Dalzell school on March 10 and at Bethel school, Pri? vateer, on March 11. All citizens of Sumter county are invited to attend these meeting and parents and school children are specially desired. These three schools are cooperating J with the farm demonstration worlc I being conducted in Sumter county by Agent J. Frank Williams. Each ie J conducting a three acre plot and the j children are learning practical agri? culture from lessons that are written I on the ground in gowing crops. This j is the first effort ever made in South Carolina to teach practical agriculture in the public schools and a great deal of attention is being given it. The work has now spread into thirty-eight counties and rallies have been held in all of these by four parties sent out from Clemson College for the purpose. The work is under the per? sonal supervision of W. W. Loru?, . State demonstration agent and super J intendent of the extension division of i ?emson College. It is planned at the Sumter rallies 1 to organize the boys and girls into strong clubs of various sorts and afcs? , to make these schools centers of CO* operative community life and 1 net It 4? 'tions for Sumter countv to be proud of. Of much interest to farmers will be the agricultural discussion of a prac? tical nature thai will be held at the rallies. Farmers, teachers, parents aal school children are the classes es? pecially invited, luit all Who attend will be warml) w< loomed. It u ex? pected that there will be large crow Jo at the Sumter meetings, as the at tendunce has been large at similar meetings held In neighboring cour ti?s recently. EARTHQUAKE IN SOUTH. Light hut Distinct Slunk- rV|| Thursday. Atlanta, Ga.. March r>?Seismic Shocks, light but distinct, were felt late today In many cities and towns ef Tennessee, Georgia. Alabama and the Carolinas. At many points busi? ness buildings and residences trem? bled, windows rattled and mild SK? citemenl prevailed. . the rural dis? tricts negroes wen adly frightened. Kt recorded by t',e seismograph at Mobile, the tremors were light but rapid, indicating thai the disturb* ance was not far distant. Reporte from many sections tonight were thai t ho shocks did no damage.