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Joe Harvey, as we alT understood,
was in this plot to blackmail you By
making a pretense Of producing an
heir Of Walmsley and then selling you
the deed He had put up the bail for
Cobb. When Cobb escaped from Rec
dy that evening, be got into your libra
ry and found that the deed was gone.
What could he do? Tell Harvey and
go back to Jail? Not at all. BE skip
ped, just as any other rascal would
have done. Then went and bought a
skeleton hand of young doctor over
in Solway, and, with the aid Of that
old scar on the table, I fixed up my
story"
Kelvin sawed the air with his fin
ger.
"That doesn't explain the finish Of
M. Gillespie" said he.
But don't you sec," cried Donald in
agony. Nothing can explain that.
It's luck, luck. It's mere chance. It
was certain to come some time. I
was playing with fire.
''You play with it too blasted we'll to
suit me-" said Kelvin, with decision.
Now, Mr.. Harrington" he continued,
"you understand that didn't know
anything about Jim Bum except that
there was q string on him and that a
little money would keep him away from
this meeting. l knew nothing about
the robbery. That's fat. I'm not
oversquea mish, but don't make part
nerships with thieves. In the first
place, it Is not safe.''
"I'll take your word for it, Mr. Kel
vim" said I.
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CHAPTER XVI.
DONALD'S DISCLAIMER.


%TAHE room was now empty e1-
q cept for Thorndyke, Bum,
d Donaldson and myself. Arch
er's dutburst had not been un-
derstood except by the members of our
group, and so the other men who had
been present at the meeting had escap.
ed as soon as possible into the cooler
air outside.
Bum" said I, "tell me the straight
truth"
Il took the money" he replied. Il
was hard pressed with that land COM
rary deal and other matters
"In heavens name" cried Donald
son, "why didn't you hold on with the
land company, as l told you? We've
turned the corner with it in these last
few days. The company is more than
all right
'My luck" said Bum. 81 thought
that there was no way out; that was
ruined. Yet T hoped with that money
to make myself whole. 7 meant to
return it-felt sure that could. You
know how got it. saw the parcel Of
bills on Your desk and made dummy
to take its place, which you put in the
safe. I hid the money. You know that
row of box letter files? I put it in the
Oldest one. There was no chance that
it would be discovered. But it was.
Some one got it; stole it from me; rob-
bed the robber. Meanwhile I'd used
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Between Nillard and St. Panl.
Daily except Sunday.

THOS. WILSON, President.
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['To BE Continued
ECCENTRIC METHODS.
Why Alexandra Dumas Did Not Sue
ceed as Publisher.

Why Alexandra Dumas Did Not Sue
ceed as q Publisher.
The Mousquetaire, Partisan jour
nal founded by Alexandra Dumas,
grew and fourished for short time
and then became extinct. 1t was car
ried on during brilliant existence
with an astonishing disregard Of busi-
ness methods commonly in vogue. Its
staff was the largest and most varied
ever known. Persons would walk into
the office, propose working for the pa
per and find themselves at once ac-
cepted.
What will you allow mew new
man would ask.
"Whatever you like, my boy" Du-
mas would return. by the way" he
would explain to every new aspirant,
"we must understand one thing: l
mean you to be handsomely paid You
must have LOCO francs month, and
if you should want months pay in
advance now, don't scruple to ask for
it,
Everybody was dazzled, and Dumas
himself more than all the rest No
business enterprise, however, could ex-
ist on such a basis, and the journal be-
gan to Ianguish. Then q man named
Boule proposed taking the speculation
out Of Dumas hands. he offered the
great man 100 francs day, which
meant mere than $1,000 year.
"Here," said Boule, is checkbook
full of those little tinted leaves you are
so fond Of. Every morning you have
only to write your name at the foot OF
one, send it into the Office and touch
your 100 francs.
Dumas loved money, and his face
beamed with delight. "But suppose"
said be, that some day I should want
300 or 400 francs?"
:Well, all you have to do is to send
in three or four Of your checks. Moth
ing is more simple"
The book lay on the authors desk,
delightful and ready resource. DID a
creditor call? a slip Of paper, and he
was paid. A poor woman was about to
be turned out into the street. a few
more slips, and she was relieved. At
the end of the week nothing was left
Of the book but the cover. Then Boule
changed his mode Of procedure
Youths Companion.
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7 AK z etur11s
Oflicc County Auditor Clarendon Co. !;
Manning. S, c.. Dee. y, 1902.

OHice County Auditor Clarendon Co.
/ Manning, S. c., Dec. p: 1902.
The Auditors Office will be open from
the first day of January, 1903. to the
twentieth day of February, 1903. to re-
ceive returns of real estate and per-
sonal property in Clarendon County fol
the year 1903:
The Auditor will be at the following
places in person on the dates mentioned
to receive returns:
Pinewood-Monday, Jan. Il, 1903.
Paxviile-TuesdaY, Jan. -. 1903.
Panola-Wednesday. Jan. II. 1903.
David Lewis Store-Thursday. Jan.
Is, 1903.
Summerton-Friday. Jan. is. 1903
Davis X Roads-Saturday: Jan. II:
1903.
Jordan-Monday, Jan. 10. 1903.
Johnston's Store, St. Mark's-Tues-
day, Jan. 20, 1903.
Forestou-Wednesday, Jan. q. 1903.
wilson :s-Thursday, Jan %. 1903.
Alcolu-Friday. Jan. %, 1903.
w. NJ. Youmans ns'-Saturday Jan. pa
1903.
DuBose's Store-Monlay, Jan. 26,
1903.
New Zion--Tuestiay. JAN 2G, 1903.
S. &. Turbeviilc' Store-WcdneSday,
Jan. 2S, 1903.
S. W. Gowdy's Store-Thursday, Jan.
80, 1903.
McIntosh's storc-Frid;ly. Jaa. 30.
1903.
Taxpayers return what they own on
the first day OF January. 1908.
Assessors and taxpayers will enter
the first given name of the taxpayer in
full, also make q separate return for
each party for the township the prop
ertv is in, and where the taxpayers
owns realty. to insert the postotfice as
their place OF residence, and those who
only own personal property: to give the
party's name who owns the land they
live on as their residence, which aids
the taxpayer as well as the County
Treasurer in making the collections
and preventing errors.
Every male citizen between the ages
of twenty-one and sixty years on the
first day OF January, 1903, except those
incapable of earning a support from
being manned, or from other causes,
shall be deemed taxable polls. This
does not apply to Confederate soldiers
over fifty years of age, who are exempt.
All the returns that are made after
the twentieth day of February will have
penalty of so per cent. added thereto:
unless out of the county during the
time OF listing. Not knowing the time
of listing is no excuse.
The assessing and collecting of taxes
is all done now in the same year. and
we Ihave to aggregate the number and
value of all the horses, cattle, mules,
etc., and their value that there is in
the county. and have same on file in the
Comptroller Generals Office by the
thirtieth day of June each year. And
from that time to the first day of Octo-
Der each year the Auditor and Treas
urer's duplicate has to be completed
and an abstract of the work in the
Comptroller's Office by that time. which
will show at glance that the Auditor
has 10 time to take in returns or do
anything else much, between the first
day of March and the first day of Octo-
Der each year but work on the books
and blanks Therefore hope that all
taxpayers will do me the favor OF max
ing their returns in time.
E. c.. DICKSON,
Auditor Clarendon County.
2l-3t]
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W 9. u A.
Sonth-Bollr.;
North

+ NO. o2 runs through from Charleston y,a
central II: H., leaving Charleston 6 ae,a m.
Lanes s Is Il III, Manning 857 am.
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A Straight Tip.

Little Boy-I say, mamma says you
are going to take sister away.
Engaged Young Man (soon to be mar
ried-Yes, In a few weeks she's com.
ing to my home, and my mamma and
papa will be her mamma and papa.
Little Boy-I see. Then she'll be your
sister same as she was mine. But,
say, don't you do anything she doesn't
like, for, If you do, she'll bang you
about awfuly when your mamma and
papa amt looking.
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Cnreasonnble.

"Why did she leave him"
"Oh, he was so unreasonable. She
wanted to frame her divorce DEGREES
and hang them in the library, but he
insisted that they were not artistic
and wouldn't have them there."-Chi-
cago Record Herald.
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MANCHESTER u AUGUSTA r Il

Trims - and 35 carry through Pullman
palace buffet sleeping cars between New
York aid Macon via Augusta.
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I''''' Y O11'y except SUNDAY 80
/ NO. 93 r1ns through TO Charleston, $. O.
VIA Central L. r., arriving Manning 65s.
u, Lanes, 7.35 p III, Charleston s. 70 nm
Train No. So makes cosecoa pectfon at
Sumter with traia No. 50, arriving lanes
= A5 N, Charleston IL IS am Tuesdays
Thursdays and saturdays. -
Trains on Conway Branch lsave Chad
DonEn l2.0l a IN, arrive Con 2 %
returning leave Conway 255 y NJ. arrSVya
Chadbourn 5 20 p IL, leave Chu,,bonrn
$50 p IN, arrive at Efrod $40 =,
returning isar. E'rodns8:AO NJ. arrfge-.
Chadbourn II rs j. al.@:Dlily exe.pt Sun
day
f. u; EAERsoN. Genl Pass. Agent.
j.; 4: KENLY. Geal Manager.
l. NJ. EMERSON, Traffic Manager
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a simple decoction Of hemp was used
in China 1,700 years ago as an anes-
thetic in surgical operations, according
to Chinese manuscript in Paris u
brary.
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ATLANTIC COAST LINE.
CHARLESTON, s. c., April l3, 1902
On and after THIS date the f.il"win0
,asScnger schedule will be Is effect:
RTuEaSTERN EAILROAD.

DAILY. fOa:ly except Sunday.
No. 81 runs through to Columbia via
Central r. H. of S. c. \:
Trains Nos. 78 and 80 run via Wilson
and Fa,ettev:le.-Short Llnc-at..! make
close connection for all points North. :;
Trains cu c. j. D. E. K. leave Florence.
daily except Sunday 8. SIS !. IN, arrive Dar-.
Eneton 1O2s N, Cberw, ll.4O j m.
"adeShoro 1885 p N. Leave Florence
naily e1celt Sunday, s 90 III, arrive Dar.
!,;;hgton, 8 rs p IN, Hartswille s2 M
D'nnetsvliie S.2l p m, Gibscn 9.45 pm.
Leave Florence Sunday only o.55 Il m. ar
rive Darlington 1927, Haitsville II 10
Leave Gibson daily except Sunday e.35
NJ, Btnnettsvilie $50 a u, arrive Darling.
ton 7.5G u m. Leave Hnr:syille dnilv es-
cert sunday 700n III, arrive Darlington
10 a III, e;tvsDa ellington 8 SIS N, urriv.
Fi"rchee $. 20 Il III. Leave iH:s... sbor., daily
except Sunday rs p H. CLeruw 5.T5>s-m,
Darlington 6.29 p N, arrive Florence %
N. Ienre Hartsyiile Sunday only S.l5 m
Darlington 500 a III, arrive Florence eau;
am. 's
). I; hENLEY. JNO. f. DIVINE
- zen n S,,mE,:r;>, :nalaSsr; GenI sup't.
II. u. EMERSON. Gent Pass. Agent.
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N cTthwestern r. r. of S. c..
lime TADLH No. Z,
In effect Sunday, JAN IS, 1902.
Between Sumter and Camden.
Alixed-Daily except Sunday.
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about $4,000. I'd got out Of the land
scheme. seemed to be in better shape.
I telt that / could restore this money
and that nobody would ever know.
Then, suddenly, it was gone. Do you
The Tomahawk., 1903-07-23
NERVE WORN KIDNEYS.

by a horse and badly hurt
his hip was fractured-ants
after he recovered he was il,
such misery that he coult
hardly walk, and to stool7
caused him such distress thai
he thought he would have t.
quit work = also, it affected
his bladder, and he was un.
able to make his water with,
out so much distress. I in,
sisted on his getting a boz
of your pills and trying them
so I went to Mason,s DRUG.
Store and got a bcs. The
first box helped him ~ mucl
that I got the second a.'< alst
the third, and now he Is en-
tirely well. Mrs. L. W.
AMMUMEN, Lock Haven, Pa.
The Tomahawk., 1903-07-23
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

A meeting of burghers in the Trans
vaal adopted resolutions against the in
PRODUCTION of Asiatic labor.
The government will give foreign
manufacturers ten days grace before
enforcing the pure food law.
The Oregon state constitutions ini-
tiative and referendum amendment is
declared invalid by the state circuit
court.
Sir George Williams, the founder Of
the first Young Mems Christian associa-
ton, is still living at the age of 81 in
London.
Consumption of cigarettes is increas-
ing faster than that of cigars throughout
the country, though in each case the
gain is large.
A dispatch from Vienna says the late
King Alexander and Queen Draga Of
Servia left debts there amounting to
900 francs.
Express companies have taken con-
certed action in raising express rates,
the added burden falling chiefly on the
general public.
American railroad receiverships for
1908 are below all records. Five lines,
aggregating 70 miles, failed to meet in
terest obligations.
The state of Texas has begun action
under the antitrust law against labor
unions, which declared a boycott on a
San Antonio building.
Eight candidates caught cheating in
entrance examination papers at Prince
ton university have been forever barred
from entering the institution.
Secretaries Root and Moody agree
upon joint board to govern improve
ments and other matters in which both
branches of the service are concerned.
United States restrictions on Chinese
coming to the st. Louis exposition is
resented at Picking. The Industrial in
stitute's exhibit has been abandoned.
A lecturer on Russian institutions de-
clared at the University of Chicago that
autocracy in the cars land is doomed
to be engulfed in wave of democracy.
The National Wholesale Tailors as
ISOLATION and the United Garment
Workers in Chicago made an agreement
barring strikes and lockouts for two
years.
Prof. Wiley. Of the agricultural de-
partment. will conduct new series Of
experiments this fall for the purpose of
determining the effect of tobacco On the
human system.
The Tomahawk., 1903-07-23
FOREIGN.

American warships at Portsmouth,
England, were viewed by hundreds of
persons from the surrounding coun-
try.
The Cuban governments receipts for
the fiscal year ended June 80 were ST.
100000; the disbursements. S15,339 900.
The birthday of King Peter was cele-
brated by thanksgivingse services through
out Servia.
News Of the complete defeat of the
rebellious tribes in Morocco Is con-
firmed.
The relief committee at Kishineff.
Russia, has received the sum of 1872 500
roubles from America.
The prince of Wales was entertained
at breakfast on board the United States
flagship Kearsarge in Portsmouth har-
Dor.
The municipal corporation Of Dublin
voted against presenting King Edward
with an address Of welcome on his visit
to that city.
The Servian authorities have un-
earthed conspiracy among soldiers of
a frontier garrison to avenge the as
sassination of King Alexander and
Queen Draga.
A cyclone ravaged the French pos
sessions in Tonquin and $50 natives
were killed and many villages laid in
ruins.
Judge Wilcox, the intimate friend
and adviser of the late King Kala-
kaua and other monarchs of the Fla
waiian islands. died in Honolulu.
The Tomahawk., 1903-07-23

Doan's Kidney Pills
make freedom from kid
ney trouble possible.
They carry a kind of
medication to the kid
neys that brings n bright
ray of hope to desperate
eases.
Aching backs are eased.
Hip, back, and loin pains
overcome. Swelling of the
limbs and dropsy signs
vanish
LOCK HAVEN, Pa Mrs.
L. w. Ammumen writes:
ga few weeks ago I sent for
D trial box of Doan's Kidney
Pills for myself, and they did
Ill they are said to do. My
husband was kicked last fall
The Tomahawk., 1903-07-23
M Omcia1 News in London.

London, July 1.-THE foreign Office
here has no information of the reported
seizure of some 20 islands off the
coast of Borneo by American warships.
Not much Importance is attached to the
report, although an inquiry will be
made. It is asserted here that the United
States navy department has prepared a
chart, showing the American posses
sions in the far east, which was submit
ted to the state department and ap-
proved by Secretary Hay. but Great
Britain has received no official notifca-
ton on the subject.
The Tomahawk., 1903-07-23
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

James c. Hall, known as the Alexans
der hermit, Harvard graduate, who
for forty years Stunned society, died in
poorhouse in New York.
Miss Lavinia Wheeler died in Oak
land, Cal, at the age of 102 years.
Mrs. Nancy Townsend died at Sand
wich, ILL.,, aged 100 years and four
months.
1t is said that Grover Cleveland is to
speak before the Chicago Commercial
club in October as candidate for the
presidency of the United States.
Miss Mary J. Piercey, one of the small
est women in the world, died in Bayonne,
N. J. She was 81 inches tall, weighed
so pounds and was 40 years of age.
The Tomahawk., 1903-07-23

Thirty lives were lost in flood
which destroyed so houses at Graef-
fenberg, Austria.
Russia has informed China that she
is compelled to exclude foreigners from
Manchuria and postpone the opening
of Manchurian ports.
An arrangements procession at Bel
fast was attacked by Roman Catholics
and many persons were injured.
A London and Great Western train,
carrying the prince and princess of
Wales, covered 246 miles in 1884 min
utes, breaking the worlds record.
The British government in India ap-
pealed to Secretary Wilson to solve the
food problem there, and he advised
them to mix beans and peas with rice,
which is now the sole diet.
King Peter of Servia is accused by the
Paris Gil Bias with leading the conspir-
acy which killed King Alexander.
Samuel Herbert Dougal was hanged
in Chelmsford, England, for the muir
der of Camille Cecile Holland in Essex.
The pope's personal fortune has been
bequeathed to the church, his relatives
LATER.
A boat race between four crews from
the naval yacht Sylvia was witnessed
by President Roosevelt and family at
Oyster Bay. The idea originated with
the Roosevelt children.
Harriet Stanwood Blaine, widow of
James G. Blaine, died at her home in
Augusta, Me-, aged 76 years.
To avoid arrest for clipping with Is
year-old girl known as Blossom" A. A.
Earl shot and killed the girl and then
himself at Baker City, Ore.
Mrs. Cynthia Hendrix, 101 years old,
died at her home in West Monroe,
N. Y.
Owing to series of misfortunes the
West Salem (Wis.) Exchange bank
and the Farmers and Merchants bank
of Bangor, Wis, closed their doors.
After a quarrel Charles w. Garlic
ton shot and killed Mrs. Ida Draeger
in Milwaukee and then killed himself.
Hudson Samson, known in Methodist
Episcopal church circles throughout
the United States for his charity and
philanthropy, died in Pittsburg, Pa.
Former Mayor Johnson, of London,
O., has been mysteriously missing since
May.
The safe of the Montezuma (Ia.)
post Office was blown open and $500 in
money and stamps stolen.
Three walking delegates of New
York labor unions have been indicted
on charges of extortion.
The car has abolished punishment
of prisoners in Russia with cat-O'-nine-
tails, cudgels, claiming to the car or
shaving the head.
The Pilgrims club of London has
taken action toward erecting statue
of George Washington in st. Pauls ca
thedral.
It was rumored in the British house
of commons that American war ships
had seized 20 islands off the coast of
Borneo.
Cardinal Gibbons, now enroute to
Rome, will be the first American to take
part in a pope's election.
twenty-five policemen were attacked
by mob near the Kellogg Switchboard
plant in Chicago, where there is a strike
in progress. and several persons were
injured by flying bricks.
The forty-ninth annual camp meet
ing Of the Methodists of Chicago be-
gun at the Des PLANES River camp
grounds.
Enraged at the courts, a mob broke
into the Flemingsburg (Ky.) Jail and
hanged William Thacker, white man,
who had been given life sentence
COR the murder of John Gordon.
The Tomahawk., 1903-07-23
Win. sculling Championship.

London, July IF. S. Kelley, of
Balliol college, Oxford, winner of the
Diamond SOULS at Henley last week,
Thursday won the Wingfeld souls and
the amateur sculling championship of
England over the Putney to Mortlake
course. He easily defeated A. H. Cloutte,
the former champion.
The Tomahawk., 1903-07-23
Kills Wife md Self.

Erie, Pa, July 17.-Benedict Himmel,
a well-to-do farmer, near here, killed
his wife Thursday and then turn
ing the revolver on himself sent bull
let through his heart. Himmel had been
drinking heavily for several days and
frequently quarreled with his wife. He
was 65 years of age and his wife was a
year his senior.
The Tomahawk., 1903-07-23
Go South Young Man,

to Sunny Alabama and Mississippi, the
Mecca of the Fruit and Truck Grower. 3OO,-
600 acres of good, fertile land for sale at
wonderfully low prices. Write .Jno. NJ.
Beall, A. G. p A., Mobile 4 Ohio r. R.,
St. Louis, for full particulars.
The Tomahawk., 1903-07-23
The Adirondack Mountains.

The lakes and streams in the Adirondack
Vtng the are air III! is filed With G hea ItSs a and
the nights are cool and restful. If you
visit this region once, you will 60 there
again. An answer to almost any question
in regard to the Adirondacks will be found
in No. 20 of the "Four-Track Series, '"The
Adirondacks and How to Reach Them"
sent free on receipt of a 2-cent stamp, by
George II. Daniels, General Passenger
Agent, Grand Central Station, New York.
The Tomahawk., 1903-07-23

The Four Track News for July, best yet.
Sold by neWsdealers. Five cents copy.
The Tomahawk., 1903-07-23
Where HI. Art Was Needed

Mesmerist's Wife-Carlos!
Mesmerist-Well, dear?
II wish you would come here and tell
baby he is asleep."-London Answers.
The Tomahawk., 1903-07-23

The scientists have discovered that lazi-
ness is a disease, but they will never find
out how lazy people can be induced to take
any thing for it.-Chicago Record-Herald
The Tomahawk., 1903-07-23
ssHer First Rum

is the title Of little booklet issued by the
from the Chicago Record -Herald, and tells
of the running of the Alton Limited 100'
miles, by young lady. The story is attract
lively told, and is illustrated. Copies may
be obtained by sending four cents in stamps.
to Geo. j. Charlton, G.. P. A., Chicago.
The Tomahawk., 1903-07-23

He that committeth no evil hath nothing.
to fear.-Hindoo Proverb.
The Tomahawk., 1903-07-23

Tired Tommy-"Didn't youse belong to
de Woodworkers' unions when youse was
q workin'?" Resting Rastus-"Nah I be-
longed to de Wouldn 'tworkers union."-
Baltimore American.
The Tomahawk., 1903-07-23
Uncle Aliens Idea

IT know" said Uncle Allen Sparks,
wincing as he felt another twinge, they
cav better late than never but in the
case of rheumatism, by George, that doesn't
apply!'- Chicago Tribune.
The Tomahawk., 1903-07-23

Trial plus toll equals triumph.-Ram's~
Horn.