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sation waxed warm and rapid. In telling some exciting scene, Cage took occasion to rise from his seat, stretched forth his arms in way of illustration, when "lo and behold" the vest burst asunder and out rolled the biscuits: Now there was aston ishment, and Cage dumbfounded at the peculiar phenomeon. But we will leave 'Cage to explain to Aunt Huldy and the rest how "witches used to ride him in his sleep," and the "jack-o-lanterns lead him at will. He plodded along leisurely his lone ly way homeward, meeting many ad e,yeotures and amusing incidents. One day as the sun was riding low in the West, casting long shadows of the rider and horse in front, the leaves of the tre, now turning their -emerald green, to golden yellow, Cage, traveled stained, tired and worn, came in sight of the old homestead. As he unlatched the old barnyard gate and rode in, he was filled with many emotions. He entered the house where his' young mistress and babe were await ing him, saluted her, placed the sword, hat, watch and purse upon the table. "Well, Miss Calline, I is sorry for you, God knows I is. It seem lack to me, I 'd drather be sleepin besid6 Marse Jake on de mountain beyont de Potomac, dan com home like dis." He could speak ino more and as he passed out he said in sobbing tones, "M se Jak4 shore di0d like er man, an I buried him wid dese! bands.' The young wife sat as one dazed. The poignant grief had burned itself out, by 'days of weeping, tears failing .to come to those beautiful, innoeei t "windows of the soul." Taking up the sword and hat- tenderly noticing where the bullet had pierced she gave a wild shriek and fell into her chair, moaning and sobbing, clasping her, chiM to her breast, cried out, "Oh, my darling husband, all is lost, all is lost. My child, what will become of you?' Cage went back to his place on the farm, was as kind and faithful to his mistress as he had 'been to his young master. Years rolled by, big crops were! made, peace and plenty prevailed on I The "Baldwin Quarter.'' Young Mrs. Baldwin displayed, great energy and economy in theq management of the farm. Knowing even..she would onily get a supporti for herself and child, for by the provmsons of old Maj. Baldavin's will,] they had been disinherited. She/ouldi expeet little consideration or kind ness from her sister-in-law, or from - her husband, she having married a 1 foppi'slh young man from an adjoin ing county, 'whose father was said to i be vastly rich and who was even morei proud and high minded than his wife. Accounts came daily of the moving of a mighty army through the South, spreading 'destruiction and devastation< with fire and sword. In the middle of February, 1865, this great troop of2 Goths and Vandals, led by the Attila< of the century, the chieftain who "made war 'hell'' ne.ared the border- [i land of the Dutch Fork. Astounding~ ' tales preceded of their feroc4ty and K preparations were made every where to remove or hide valu-aibles and pro visions from the enemy. Mrs. Bald- 2 'win did not know how or where to ] conceal anything, so she trusted to the tj Father, who watches over the wid-1 ows and fatherless. Great volumes of smoke from the burning buildings.a to the south and-west told too plainly -) ,the enemy was nearing their homes,'; coming with the torch and Ifagiot. 2 The day came when a 'body of troops, followed by a train of wa- d gons, rode into the yard. An offieer"a afsmounted, came up to the young < widow, told her he would load hi i wagons with provisions, that her'a house would be searched for valuables and such articles as the 'soldiers de sired, that she should deliver up thei keys. She gave them without falter- I ing. Then an inspiration came, she remembered a mystic sign her hus-i band had tauQght her, of a benevolent3 fratenidty to which he belonged. In passing the keys she made, unobserv-i ed by all the rest, the mystic sign. The officer was thunderstruck, and on coming nearer the beautiful, tremb ling young Southern woman, he whis pered due 'word and she answered "Madam I must obey orders, my wagons will be partly filled, but sufE f%ien.t will be left you. Nothing shall 'be molested,'' then seeing the great bar~.a of cotton bales at t)ie gin 'house, "that shall not be , burned,t hovwever, lest some troops come after- 11 wards and destroy your property. T will leave a detail of men to guard I you '' This was do-ne accordingly. - he other sohliers ' wonder and 1 enqiry be only said, "I have my du ties to the armj- to fulfill, but my ob-C lig-ations to the widowsr and orphans , of ounr order are more sacred and At night word came that everything a.t the "home house," the palatial i residence of Mrs. Baldwin and daugh ter had been swept away by fire. Cage heard "dat old miss and specially young miss, done gib dose people some powerful slack jaw and dey sho nuff: burned the house, the barns and de gin house, wid everlastin bit of dat big pile of cotton." Without ceremony, the two ladies moved into young Mrs. Baldwin's house, tading full charge of every thing, as if all that had been saved were their's individually. The proud young wife, taunted the life out of the sorely eistressed widow, with cruel insinuations of sold honor. This was the unkindest cut of all. May would laugh sarcastically, and speak of "poor trash" chastiy and let the vemon of her tongue loose on the in vaders and. women who "rwould buy safety and security with violated' honor," an act no woman in the whole Southland was ever guilty of. So unendurable became the vitriol poured out upon the head of Caro line," she would say, "what can I do, a deserted negro cabin there living for a time upon the charity doled out to her and her child by the haughty and soured mother and daughter. To Cage's, "dog my eat if I'd stan dis, case dis is all yourn, Miss Cal line," she would say, What can I do, the will of old Mr. Baldwin gave it all to them. My father is ruined as well as myself. I have no friends able now to help me, so what 'can't be cured must be endured."' Then, came Appomattox and the Confederacy was buried in the ceme tery of lost nations. After that the Ieluge, freedom and reconstruction. rhe poppin joy that Miss May had married returned from the war, or -ather from a bomb proof office, and inding the vast wealth of his father ad slipped away he too took up luarters at the home of the Bald vins. -There had long been talk of a nore recent will, old Mingo had oft m told Cage in secret that Marse Take could yet be all right, that his >ld master had told him of his mak ng of another will of which he bhould tell his young master at his ather's death. But old Mingo had run in the vay. of a falling limib and was killed ;h same year his master died. So .t was all considered -as "nigger ;alk" as no record could be found .n the archives at the county court iousp. No witnesses ever mentioned ;he subject, so all the talk of anothaer will seemed a myth. Now here comes facts that could ;arcely be credited, but many peo >de now living can vouch for its ;ruthfulness. It is a fact, too, that s impressive of the Great Father's ~are of the widoYws and fatherless. ~'atters were going along in a fashion] ~or some months after the war, but a i riis came when the husband of Mrs. Kay ~began making preparation to nove off the sixty or seventy bales af cotton. Cage protested with ehemence <to "Miss Calline'' at sueh njustice, declared it an outrage to take we-uns cotton, dat we worked] o make." To all of which she could on-ly re ly, "It is theirs, as well as all the and and stock, according to Maj. Baldwin's wilL" She had t'o get er a home for next year and would ;ry to teach a school for a livelihood. 'Cage pondered many times at the mfortunate turn of affairs, then he :00 had an inspiration. He knew a1 rounig offBeer in Columbjia, who had een a classmate, and a mem,ber of Warse Jake 's regiment, a bosom riend of his master. To him he vent. With hat in hand he told the fficer of the injustice and cruelty be ng done to his dead master's wife Ld child, declared his fbelief in a ill being in existence, and his be ief in it being written in Columibia, hae time Mingo and old master sold ;he cotton, that if his master's friend would help his widoiv, Cage would work 'for him till he was paid. The roung officer believed in 'Cage, for it ~eemed impossiible for a father to dis herit so good a man as Jake Bald in, and he would do every thing pos ble for his widow. Sure enough he found at the of ice of Maj. Baldwin's old friend and egal con.fidant, a record of a will yritten in 1862. It had been deposit d in the vaults of Ediwin~ J. Scott's ank. But the banks, like everything 4 se in Columbia, had been destroyed >y Sherman's soldiers. But Mr. 3catt apprehending vandalism from he troops, informed the young officer 'hat he on the night of the fire, had iven a box containing a lot of private apers to a friend, living on the out kirts of the town, but what or whose apers he did not know. To the ~riend on the outskirts, Cage and the fficer repaired with faint hopes. "Yes," said the old citizen, "there tre a lot of old papers in a trunk up j ip the morning after the destruction yf the city, being scattered over the loor by the plundering, go look." ;They searched long and anxously, ,age's heart beating like a trip ham ner. At last! At last, came a pack age that had been ruthlessly torn apen, on the back of which was, "The last will and testament of Jaeob Bald win, Sr." The officer agreed to accompany Cage home, but his joy was so great he left and kept up a speed of the runneer from Marathon. The day followi.g the Baldwin family assembled to hear the read og of the will of the fath-er. After many bequests and instructions, he willed his 'beloved daughter Mary his home plantation and the proiceeds thereof, together with all the slaves living on the plantation, also bank stock, moneys, etc." Then to his son "Jacob Baldwin, or should he be dead, his wife and children, the "quarter place" with the proceeds thereof, the negroes, etc.'' But ix order to equalize the shares, his daughter should pay the son five thousand dollars or the equivalent in land, etc. It is not necessary to give details, but the idea was old Mr. Baldwin, thinking his daughter would go to the home of her wealthy hus band, she would better give land than negroes in its equalization. All these facts can be seen in "Recollections of a Long Life," by Edwin J. Scott. The reading of the paper being fm ished, the proud, but now trembling huband sprang, to his feet and shouted "fraud," "forgery." He was told the signatures of the three )f Columbia's most respectable cit izens were genuine. That once proud and haughty woman. sat as stupefied. When the true import and meaning 3f the will came to her in its full borce, that she now, instead of Caro Line, was a pauper, homeltss and riendless she gave one wild piereing 4hriek and fell swooning in her hus >and's arms. Cage was mad with joy, ind ran from house to house to pread the good tidings. The proud voman did not have the money, nor id her husband, to fulfill the re juirements of the will, so she and her iusband drifted westward and were ieard of no more. "Mis 'Calline'' remains a widow :o this day, retaining all her amiable iualities and much of her youthful eauty, the daughter, beautiful and is accomplished as her mother, mar -ied a young professional man, and ao,w living with her husband in a 2earby eity, surrounded by her chil iren, all happy and prosperous. Cage was given a little farm near the riv ar, he loved so well, with child:ren and ~randchildren living in the. neighb~or To this day you can see the. aged 1egro sitting on the sunny side of iis cabin with his young wife sit ing at his side ('Cage has only been narried three times) while all is aappiness around. When you speak a old "Runaway Cage'' about the 'rolic at old fiddler Bobs, which vorked such ref ormatiori and ion iers in his young master, he will augh till the tears run down the wrinkled cheeks at the recollection, tnd say, "Oh, dare was sho dancing lone dat night, and Marse Jake he g'as a dancer, 'he was, case I larned rim myself.'' The ever.,burning qurestion, "What ;hall we do with our .boys''" seems ;o be satisfactorily answered in the following advertisement, which ap ears in the window of a Farring ion raead butcher's shop: "Wanted, L respectalble boy for beef sausage." -London Tnbune. Ohamberlain's Stomach and Liver l'ablets assist nature in driving all m.purities out of the system, insur ng a free and regular condition and 'estoring the organs of the body to iealth and strength. Sold by W. E. *elham & Soi. SPECIALS. CHANTICLEER Hat Pins - - ?IC. ZHANTICLEER Belt Pins - - .iC. FURBAN PINS inlaid 11 with Gold - - 1 0 Full line Hats and Notions. All Prices Cut. &1s. mma H air. REPOF The Newberry NEWBER9 At the Close of the Busin Condensed From Report RESOURCES. Loans and discounts $269,495.25 Furniture and Fixtures 2,275.00 Overdrafts secured and unse cured 1,758 60 Bonds and Stocks 680.00 Cash and due from Banks 59,437.65 $333,646.50 40 Paid On Sai JAMES MCINTOSH, President. Why Worry ABOUT WHAT TO EAT ( - When you can get just 4 what you are wishing i for breakfast, dinner or LIf supper at the up-to-date Grocery store of W. 0. WISON I The wide-awake man 0 who keeps a full line lhYO *of Staple and Fancy y01~ Groceries, Coffee, Tea, Ca'nned Goods, Fruits and Vegetables. Tell 4 your troubles to Phone No. 2b2 %1 The Class of Patrons a Store ih Has is the Best Evidence of ' the Kind of Goods it Sells Wnumber among our Iegla Whatever you get here you can be sure has back of It the approval of me who kow values intoo ~tuf a of brands the market offers, only such as are proved worthy of a place among the worlds finest. Such a brand is ELECTA COFFE g HH a cotee of rare flavor-made so by handling the world's choicest crop in, th's one best way; from picking to packing, so as to produce a coffee of highest quality. You'll like Electa whatever your _________ othercofee ueuver rnkecause 5 ATE OF SOUTH It .*u*** COUNTY OF NF e E * M*LN O George B. (Cro.mer a Plaintiff, OTICE~ TO DB~MOCRATIC CLUBS- gan In accordance with the constitu- Leland Coppock Sp< tion of the Democratie party of Defenidanuts. South Carolina the Democratic clubs .By order of the >f the County of Newberry are here- the above entitled ae: by caled to meet at their respeetive 7, 1910, I will sell a places of meeting on Saturday, April :in front of the conl 23, 1910, for the purpose of rergn the legal 'hours of sal tion. At this meeting in addiion May 1910, the real et to the election of officers for the club of Newberry, S. C., there should be eleeected on member- M. Speers died seiz from each club to serve as a member Nance street, Cline f the county executive comittee street, and lot of J. for two years, and also deleates to same to be sold in th the county convention which will COn- plats of which are o ene at Newberry court house on fle Thre purchaser w. \ Monday, May 2, 1910. E2ch club is pyoetido h entitled to one delegate for eevry iy nshaid sefr th twenty-five members and one delegate bond and mortgage for a majority fra:etion thereof- sold, payable in one Fred. H. Dominick, annual instalments, wv County Chairman. jthe day of sale at ti IT OF. Savings Bank IY, S. C. ess November 16, 1909. to State Bank Examiner LIABILITIES. Capital $ 50,000. Undivided Profits 27,01 Deposits 250,6 Notes and Bills Rediscount ed 6,0 $333,6 ings Deposits J. E NORWOOD, Gas ENSU TALN PEN rou r Census Enumnerator i wilineed aFountain Pen and i need one that willgive yonu. ~rfect Satisfaction an sel you that Pen at only 1.00 to $2.50 Cs Book Store . USE OF A THOUSAND THINGS CAROLINTA, cent., paabe annually, ile'leave f3 rEERRY. anticipate paymnins in whdie' of'-d JIT. part; the bond to contain the stipa-, s aministrator, lation for 10'per cent. attorney's fee; in-surance to be carried on the dwell-I ing house and assigned to seeure the1 ~rs and others, .eredit porton of the purchasa 'rc of the residence lot. Purchaser top obtcorinfor papers, and recording. bion, dated April ~ .aaecutmFrank M. Schumpert,A et house, within e, on salesday in ;tati thr town Bargains! Bargains!! ed; bounded by While They Last street, Speers 3A limited number of slightly used A. Rikard, the $95 High Grade Organs for only ree r mre ots $58 50. These organs appear near ree r mre ots new adare warranted to last along n fie in my of- lifetime. Terms of sale giver, on ap 11 be required to plicatir'n. Write for catalog stating purchase money terms desired This is an opportu balace b his nity of a life time to possess gfineor e baanc byhis gan at about cost. Answer quick, for of the premises such bargains don't last long \ and two equal Address: Malone's Music House, ith interest from . Columbia, S. C.. Pianos and Orgais. te rate of 8 per A..~ - ~. **--.9-4- -.