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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-04-17
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-19

hour" answered, and in half that time had started.
She met at the door dressed was her habit, IN
scrupulous black relieved by bands of white at neck and
wrists; she smiling like ideal convent mother vel
coming Grant souls, UNTIL my wraps removed by an
attendant, she led up stairs to the promised fire.
at is good to be here" sighed, took seats
beside the hearth. "My Little Cottage dreary!
1t is always so with rainy days.
Her gray eyes shone from under the dusk OF
her lashes. 81 thought you might be lonely Child m
glad YOU came. Now rest a moment; the wind has
sorey used you and turning to the fire she folded her
delicate, blue vened hands in quiet
Outside ragged the storm, and against the panes
pressed wet green gloom, peculiar to these forest
ranges impapabe vet alive rising from soaked grass
and encirclng verdure Very close it pressed, weird
transparent sheet of color trying steal and entod
u.s. only be held at bay against the panes by the
sparkle of the flames, quite her own spirit with Its
radiance bars out all thought of depressing things.
INSIDE all was warmth and comfort, the freight
PLAYED over her face and those of the portraits
the walls. Close to the mante small pastel, one
of great value like the other portraits, but having
about its very crudeness inspiring quality The head,
in profile, upheld, the shoulders firmly knit, the
eyes straightforward Under the chu on the lett breast
was pinned gold medallion.
"Ah! you are looking at my dear cousin Jeanette"
she said. "But take the picture down and study it.
THERE Now let the freight shine on it you can see
the better. First, the powdered hair the cap la Marie
Antoinette and the gold medallion bearing eur de lis
in its center That you must know, the medallion
by those who were faithful to the memory OF the
martyred King, Louis XVI, as an insignia of their
fidelity setting them apart from the hangmen who were
the people Now look at her face she went on.
"See how sweet is her smile how luminous. yet pro-
found her gaze yet it was out of the very immensely OF
her grief that peace born to her. may be born
to all of u.s. And she drank deep of the cup of
for she only eighteen when young Count tell IN
love with her, and although the Revolution was then
its fulfor this the terrible spring of l193,-
their betrothal announced with all the ceremony
belonging to their estate"
"And were they married." l finally asked; for the
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woman at my side had ceased speaking and seemed lost
in revere. My question reused her. if from thoughts
that had wandered far.
mo. One day the Count did not come. He had been
arrested by the Revolutionary Committee. The next
morning his head fell into the basket"
ooh, poor girl!' l cried out in sympathy, the very
of her she told of the sad ending bringing
the tears to my eyes.
"Ah, but her courage!" she exclaimed quickly, her
face lighting up. "For days she lay dead; then
she sought out her mother Fear nothing for me- she
Now it is my turn to give my life to him. | going
to hunt among the people for the wckedest and the
most cruel since they always the most unfortunate.
going to them; to heal their bodies first that
| may reach their souls
"Unharmed she passed through angry mobs and
crowded Streets her beautiful hair crowned by its cap
gold medallion. Heads inclined to her, and like
Jeanne d Arc she moved among the multitude, con-
verting all in her way. Her very approach made
better And this she kept up until she was an Old old
woman. She died with her lovers her lips.
The Lady of the Gables from her chair and moved
about the seeking her habitual can her head
drawn higher though she too would defy mans cruel
ties proudly, Jeanette had done. long, quivering
sigh escaped her she reganed her and continued
"And now, she repeated slowly, when want courage,
she gives to When need faith she is there as its
living embodiment. She lived love too, love of which
few have ever dreamed That is why night before
go to sleep l say, Goodnight, Cousin Jeanette"
THE silence between grew,-a strar ge, pregnant
silence. Unbidden questions began TO form them
selves; not of loves Submltles, but her. Why had
she told me the story? Who this talking of
love living presence, yet walking solitary path?
What had she been, with her of old regime,
vet content among the peasants other friend but
in twenty years? What she, now?
Suddenly across my troubled inner vision there began
to fit like frefies after rain, floating memories of far
off, half forgotten thingsvague hints that she herself
had dropped scraps had read in the newspapers long
ago, when correspondents knew whereof they wrote.
She must have OWNED my mental process,-wiled it,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-19

perhaps,for while sat- quivering and speechless she
herself broke the silence
"You have grown very dear to me- Child she began
in low pitched tones, but into which had crept
cadenceS CareSsing mothers touch. To-day, when
sent for you, said to myself / wish had no secrets
from her l see that you have already OWNED.
She paused turned wide open, unfalter1ng
gaze on me, and whispered two narnes,-her own and
other
Instantly my mind cleared and face stood out in all
loneliness But did not start Now that certainty was
mine l grew cold. Something like awe crept over me.
"And mean that you shall haveit all, she continued.
at is relief to talk who have been silent many
years DO not interrupt me, or may not be able to go
through to the end. Do not ask me any questions:
just let pour out my heart.
I AM French of course; but was born in Genoa,
1 where my grandfather had gone after the upheaval
and had established himself as banker He was
suspected of plotting against the Government; which
untrue, although we have all been RoyalstS.
When seventeen went to Venice to visit elder
sister who had married Italian Count, who was
Gentleman in Waiting at the court They lived in the
Palazzo da Forsca the the Grand Canal above
the Salute. You have doubt as it is still one
of the show places of Venice although has passed out
of my brother in laws possession and now one of the
city courts. This sister had brought up, she being
ten years older and my mother having died when was
a child.
"NIy coming out was celebrated bv great ball at the
Palazzo, to which everyone of prominence invited
including any distinguished strangers who might be
guests of friends. And everybody came including
the Archbishop in his robes and all the foreign Abas
sailors, well officers of rank in the army and navy
1t unorgetable sight for me- brought up had
been in almost absolute sec1sion and the masses of
gondoas the farng torches and lanterns outside and
the brilliant costumes moving about the grand salon
made great impression me.
Among others who were brought up to and pre-
Sented was young man whose my excitement
I did not catch. He and some of his companions had
been hunting wild boar he told me- in the mountains
OF Austria, and, happening to be in Venice and guest
Continued on page IS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-19

Highly regrettable exhibition on the part of a
rising young Assistant District Attorney" COM
mented Kent "this indulgence in daylight gamb-
ling'
Keeping track of my men," explained the
lawyer, leading the way to the door of the card
room. Martin Hall is half crazy since Staley's
death. That's he, facing us, with the soft-boiled
face and the hard-boiled eyes,"
"And his partner"
"NIy other witness, Benjamin Tenney Naylor
Boss Flynn's former confidential man, known in
political circles as the Tenpenny Nail"
"He looks hard enough for it," commented
Kent eying the spare powerful, weasel faced little
man. And the ford beauty playing dummy is
Overton?'
Exactly. Queer combination, isn't it? The
hunter watching the hounds and the quarry try
ing to corrupt them"
1.-TWO odd and one game in said the ford man
in a full unctuous voice. "You re to deal, Mr.
Chalmers The Assistant District Attorney
came forward and, after presenting Kent to the
others, seated himself at the table.
We'll finish this, he said, "and then Professor
Kent can cut in
CHESTER KENT sat down, ostensibly to watch
~ the game, in reality to study the players.
He had come over from Washington to help his
former college mate, Robert Chalmers, in certain
phases of the Combination Bank collapse. Thus
far there had been two suicides one resignation
from office, dozen indictments and the peculiar
death of Sanford Staley, concomtantS of the
affair; and the shadow of jail was looming large
before sundry gentlemen of unimpeached repute,
who were ready to move heaven and earth and
several puppet judges to keep matters from going
further.
Kent's interest in the case was that of an
amateur. His own position unique one on the
Government roster: that of general scientific
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-19
THE MESSAGE


TIERE is where they found Sta1ey," said
n Chalmers. He and his guest had paused
at the head of the broad, winding stairs
that help to preserve to the Standard Club its
atmosphere of old fashioned spaciousness. Kent
walked over to the place indicated. 1t was just
outside obviously temporary telephone booth.
"Had he been telephoning?'
Chalmers looked up quickly. "The story has
reached you, then?'
"Rumor only"
"Club gossip has it that he fell dead from the
shock of the message"
"No man dies of mental shock, unless he is as
good as dead anyway observed Kent mildly.
cases every day"
mo. Shock may hasten, it does not cause,
death. Such is the residence of the normal ner
vous system that it can sustain the most extreme
imaginable impact
"If you're going to be Professor Kent with me,
give in, retorted the other, with smile. "The
worst of your dognatism is that it's generally
right. And, at that, Staley wasn't in the best of
condition. He'd been drinking pretty heavily
since the Combination Bank scandal burst"
"He was one of your Witnesses
"Yes' Chalmers lowered his voice. "He
one of three whose testimony will connect Over
ton with the smash
stephen Overton? supposed him too shrewd
and too powerful to come within reach of the
law"
$50 he has been, up to now. Nobody but Over
ton could have carried through the Cooperative
Electric Supply deal and kept out of Jail. Yet he
went from that to the presidency of the Real Estate
Trust Company, which makes him one of the
twenty most influential men in Wall Street today.
And to think that ten years ago he was getting
twenty-f dollars week an electrician
"You actually believe that you will get hm?"
absolutely. And he's worried. In some way he
has struck the trail of what 6ono 60 he's
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-19

Overton came out of his lives the end of
this hall, the telephone BOOTH and stumbled
over poor Staey, who was quite dead. But have you
got that ink analysis?'
Professor Kent nodded at was the old ink, wholly
unlike the other"
"Then the note was postdated," said Chalmers with
subdued satisfaction. proof conclusive. Come; the
game will be waiting for me-
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adviser secret to the federal Department of Justice
was held on his own terms which that he would
work when he felt like it, and not when he didn't. As
he was, in his line, indispensable, and he had in
to led tape-bound administration. Being, by his
Interpretation of his duties in Washington at leisure,
he had responded promptly to Chalmers appeal and
with trenchant observation of the than his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-19

has struck the trail of what doing So he's keeping
track of my two remaining witnesses, whose testimony
will convict him personally. You'll the comedy in
progress in the temporary cardroom at the front of this
floor I've given my two guest cards to the club,
and the four of us playing a rubber now. By the
way, it was Overton who found Staey's body"
"And you see nothing suspicious in that?"
Gam quite fool, Chet9 Yet the thing plausible.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1911-08-24
Japan's snsppins Turtle Farm.


One of the oldest farms in the world
turns out each year tens Of thousands
Of swapping turtles and has solved the
problem of preserving the supply OF
what is to the japanese as great
a delicacy as diamond back terra
pin Is to some Americans. This queer
farm consists Of a number Of ponds.
Certain of them are set apart as breed
ing ponds. Once a day man goes
over the shores and with little wire
baskets covers up all new egg de-
posits. Sometimes thousands OF these
wire baskets are in sight at a time
marking the places where the eggs lie
and preventing turtles from scratching
the earth from them. Hatchfng re-
quires from forty to sixty days, ac-
cording to the weather. The young as
soon as they appear are put in separate
small ponds and are fed with finely
chopped fish. They eat this during
September and October and late IN
October burrow In the mud for the
winter, coming out in April or May.
Most of them are sold in the market
when they are from three to five years
old, at which time they are most deli
cate.-Harper'S.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1911-08-24
DANGER In DELAY.
Kidnps Diseases Are Too Dangerous
for KiRqstree People to Neglect.

The greet danger of kidney trou-
bles is that they get firm hold be-
fore the sufferer recognizes them.
Health is gradually undermined.
Backache, headache, nervousness,
lameness, soreness, l,umbago, urinary
troubles, dropsy, diabetes and Bright s
disease follow in merciless success
sion. Don't neglect your kidneys.
Help the kidneys with the safe and
reliable remedy, ,Doan's Kidney Pills,
which has cured people right here in
this locality.
Mrs J H Williamson, 104 E Front
St. Florence, S C, says: / am
pleased to recommend Doan's Kid
ney Pills in return for the benefit
they brought me. For several
months | suffered from backaches,
headaches and dizzy spells and my
kidneys gave me a great deal of
annoyance. Doan's Kidney Pills did
me a world of good and am now
free from pain, in fact, | am enjoy
ing good health
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the Unit
ed States.
Remember the name-Doan's-
and take no other.
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"Pardon Me-"

According to Congressman Byrnes
of South Carolina, says Leslie's
Weekly, Governor Blease recently
visited the penitentiary in Columbia.
As he was leaving, convict acci-
dentally stumbled over the Chief Ex-
ecutive's foot. Pardon me, Gov
ernor," the prisoner murmured. /
can't do it today" Mr. Blease is said
to have answered, but l will attend
to- it the first thing in the morning. y
The foregoing paragraph appeared
in the Columbia Record week or
so ago, On June u the following
susab was published in The County
Record:
Pardon tse,. Governor" pleaded
a poor convict who happened to
stand in the way of His Exceahency
as he was looking over the few re-
naming prisoners in the peni5entaa-
ry, striving to devise some excuse for
releasing them. Certainly, my
friend" promptly replied the COM
plaisant Chief Executive and he hied
him away to his office at. the Capitol
to fill in a blank pardon form and
affix thereon his signature.
Reader, can you guess the name
of the Governor. and the Common
wealth over which he exercises do
minion?
Sort of great minds runhing:in
the same channel" it seems, only we
are glad ours was published first.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1911-08-24

terOnOmy % Is INC ooo" '" Wv
very clear statement OF what appear
ed to be the penalty due Josiah's king
dom because of idolatry preceding his
day. The king was astonished. Evil
dently Divine judgments were due.
Why they waited be knew not. He
reflected that possibly something might
vet be done to Offset the evil. He sent
therefore to make inquiry on the sub
ject.
The inquiry came to Huldah. a
prophecies Of that time. who gave the
Lords answer. saying that all the
woes foretold in the Law would surely
come to pass because Of the idolatrous
course followed by the nation. But
the message declared that this trouble.
this chastisement, would be deferred
and not come In King Josiah's day be-
cause of his earnest repentance and
manifestation Of sorrow In connection
with the matter as soon as he learned
about Il.
The Bible Lest Today
1t may amaze some when We say that
to the masses of the people today.
Gods Book is lost. What! do you say.
have we not over a hundred million
Bibles In Christendom. and are We not
printing more than a million copies
every year!
Alas! Bibles we have. but to the ma
jerty of the specially cultured they
are Bibles no longer-tbsJ are the in
spired Word Of the Almighty no longer!
They are studied. believed and obeyed
no longer. 1t IL still fashionable to
have Bibles; it Is still customary to
take texts from them-this is done
even BY ministers who privately con-
fess that they have NO faith In the
Bible-that they have no more faith IN
the Bible than In Shakespeare. And
the number Of religious teachers who
have thus rejected the Word OF God
as the DIvineiy inspired Message Is
much greater than the majority OF
people surmise. Nearly all ministers
graduated during the past twenty years
from, nearly all Of the colleges and
seminaries Of Christendom. in Great
Britain. Germany. the United States
and Canada-are really infdels. unbe-
levers. These today are styled High
er Critics, but Higher Critics are really
infidels-some of them even profess
atheism. denying a personal God. rec
ognizing only nature as God.
How did the Word Of the Lord come
to be thus lost?
We answer that history shows long
period called the Dark Ages In which
the Word Of the Lord was set aside In
favor of church councils and DEGREES.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1911-08-24

LutHeT f"u' ""e D'0''' sion, anu ONCE
more the Word of God began to exer-
else a transforming influence upon hu-
manity.
But alas. the errors. the darkness.
the superstition Of the Dark Ages al
ready In the human mind gave to the
Word of God peculiar distortions and
made it appear through the colored
glasses Of sectarianism to mean things
wholly irrational and iIconceivable.
AS a result school men, college pro-
fessors, Doctors Of Divinity. etc.. have
charged up against the Word OF God
various doctrines which it does not
tcach-amongst others Purgatory and
eternal torment for all except the very
elect"
Finding the Word Of God
Now, in due time. the Word Of COD
Is being found. The dust Of the Dark
Ages is being brushed aside. The Book
Is being investigated In the light OF
its own teachings. 1t is shining with
wonderful brilliancy upon the path OF
the just. We are seeing fulfilled be-
fore us Gods promise that the path Of
the Just will "shine more and more
unto the perfect day" Its bright shin
ing at the present time betokens that
the New Day. the New Era Of Mes
slabs Kingdom is nigh. even at the
door CMatthew xiv, 80; II Peter /. 19,.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1911-08-24

Then came the
period Of the Ref
ormation. The b.
BILE was translat-
ed by the Catho-
lies into the Eng
lishand styled the
Douay Version.
1t was translated
by the Protes-
tants into English
and styled the
King James Yer
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1911-08-24

W II at blessings
would come upon
the nation Of Is
rael If Obedient
to God. 1t also
portrayed tn e
penalties which
would be theirs
if they neglected
the service Of the
Almighty and His
Laws and became
idolatrous. Deu-
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1911-08-24
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N1RRGKlYN }
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IMI" .RIBiE.sInDIEs.
.BIBiE.STODIES.
FINDING A LOST BIBLE

u Chronicles "a, 14-3a-July 30
THY cord hare hid IN my heort. that might
not s1n a0atnst thee. ."-Psal'n 119:u.
Y y conjunction with Josiah's refcr-
nation and cleansing o. the tenn
pie. a copy of the book Of the
Law was found. Presumably
this book contained the Pentateuch or
five books Of Moses. The loag period
Of idolatry preceding Josiah's work OF
reformation had placed the Testimo-
nies OF the Lord at discount. so that
evidently the king had never seen. per
haps had never heard of the Divine
Law up to this time. The royal copy
vas doubtless destroyed long before.
The king caused the manuscript to
be read in his hearing. 1t detailed
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1911-08-24

meet it on the road and ne 'er did.
South Carolina is cooler in sumter
Iif.ers New York. and Florida beats
Maine 10 a finish. Go South, young
man y IS The proper slogan thirteen
months, IN She wear. W L B.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1911-08-24

The Peoples Mercantile
Co, Kingstree, S c, has
found a regular l5c plug of
tobacco that they are sell
ing for a dime; it is called
TERRY WIDOW. 7-27-St
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1911-08-24

" " For summer diarrhoea in children
always give Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and
castor oil. and a speedy cure is GER
tain. For sale by all dealers.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1911-08-24

When you want US to change the
address of your paper it will save
lots of trouble to name the old
as well as the new postoffice. Please
bear this in mind. tt
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1911-08-24

The price of subscription fer The
Record is 81 25 year; we allow 25
cents discount when whole year is
paid in advance. If you are six
months or year behind don't ex-
pect receipt for whole year one
dollar. This applies to all. If
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1911-08-24

1t is now against the law to send
q weekly paper to a subscriber long,
er than one year on credit. We
don't intend to violate the law to
please anyone; so don't be surprised
if your paper stops coming when
you don't pay. tt
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1911-08-24

We have printed up a lot of note
books and receipt forms, which we
will sell at ten cents the book off
ty. u