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UNDER TWO FLAGS - -° ui ° A - Ills lips shook under his beard as be j answered her: “Because I can do no less in honor. For God’s sake, do not you tempt me!” A quick, deep sigh escaped her as site heard, her fact* grew very pale, as it had done before, and she moved slightly from him. “Forgive me.” she said after a long pause. “I will never ask you that again.” Heavy as had been the curse to him 1 of that one hour in which iionor had ! forbade him to compromise a woman’s reputation ami old tenderness had for bade him to betray a brother’s sin. tie had never paid so heavy a price for his j act as that which lie paid now. Through the yellow sunlight without. | over tlit* barren dust strewn plains, in the distance there approached three rid- ; ers. accompanied by a small escort of spaLis. She started and turned to him: j “It is Philip! He is coming for me j from iur camp today.” His eyes strained through the sun glare. “Ah. God! I cannot meet him. I j have lot strength. You do not know”— j “I know how well he loved you.” “Not better than I him! But I can not, I dare not. Unless 1 could meet j him as we never shall meet upon earth we m ist be apart forever. For beai en’s sake promise me never to speak my name!” “1 promise until you release me.” “And you can believe me innocent ! still in face of all?” She stretched her hands to him once more. ‘‘l believe, for I know what you once were.” Great burning tears fell from his eyes upon her hands as he bent over j them: j “God bless you! You were an angel of pity to me in your childhood. In your womanhood you give me the only mercy I have known since the last day j you looked upou my face! We shall be | far sundered forever. May I come to j you once more?” She paused in hesitation and in 1 thought awhile, while for the first time j in ail her years a tremulous tenderness I passed over her face. She felt an un utterable pity for this man and for his i doom. Then she drew her hands gently away from him: . “Yes, 1 will see you again.” So much concession to such a prayer Venetia Corona had never before given. 1 He could not command his voice to ! answer, but he bowed low before her i as before an empress. Another mo- j ment aud she was alone. “Is he a madman?” she mused. “If j not, he is a martyr, one of the greatest \ that ever suffered unknown to other . iiien.” -£*•* .-***• ... * * * * • * * In the coolness of the late evening in ! the court of the caravansary her broth er and his friends lounged with hei and the twojadies of their touring and sketching party, while they drank their i sherbet aud talked of the Gerome col- I ors of the place and watched the flame of the afterglow burn out and threw millet to the doves and pigeons stray ing at their feet “My dear Venetia,” cried the Seraph carelessly, tossing handfuls of grain to the eager birds, “I inquired for your sculptor chasseur—that fellow Victor— but 1 failed to see him. for he had been sent on an expedition shortly after I reached the camp. They tell me he is a fine soldier. But by what the mar quis said I fear he is but a handsome blackguard, and Africa, after all, may be his fittest place. There is a charm ing little creature there, a little fire eater—Cigarette they call her—who is in love*with him, I fancy. Such a pic turesque child! Swears like a trooper, too,” continued he who was now Duke of Lypnnesse. “By the way, is Berke ley gone?” “Left yesterday.” “What for? Where to?” “I was not interested to inquire.” Her brother looked at her earnestly. There was a care upon her face new to him. you well, my darling?” he ask ed her. “Has the sun been too hot for you?” She rose and gathered her cashmeres about her and smiled somewhat weari ly her adieu to him. “Both perhaps. I am tired. Good night.” CHAPTER XIX. J x-Sfe k N'E of the most brilliant of Al geriau autumnal days shone over the great camp in the jg-SAlaj south. The war was almost at an end for the time. The Arabs were defeated and driven desertward. Hostilities Irksome, harassing and an noying, like all guerrilla warfare, would long continue, but peace was virtually established, and Zaraila had been the chief glory that had been added by the campaign to the flag of imperial France. The whole of the army of the south was drawn up on the immense level of the plateau to witness the presentation of the cross of the Legion of Honor to Cigarette. It was full noon. The sun shone without a single cloud on the deep, sparkling azure of the skies. The troops stretched east and west, north and south, formed up in three sides of one vast massive square. The battal ions of zouaves and of Zephyrs, the brigade of Chasseurs d’Afrjque t thfl ; squadrons of spahls, the regiments or tirailleurs and Tureos, the batteries of flying artillery, were all massed there, reassembled from the various camps and stations of the southern provinces to do honor to the day, to do honor in especial to one by wliom the glory of the tricolor had been saved unstained. Mounted on her own little bright bay, Etoile-Filante, with tricolor ribbons ! flying from his bridle and among the glossy fringes of his mane, the little one rode among her spahis. A scarlet cap was on her thick, silken curls, a tricolor sasli was knotted round her j waist, her wine barrel was slung on her left hip. her pistols thrust in her belt and a light carbine held in her j band, with the butt end resting on her foot. With the sun on her childlike, : brunette face, her eyes flashing like brown diamonds in the light and her marvelous horsemanship, showing its skill in a hundred desinvoltures and daring tricks, the little Friend of the Flag had come hither among her half savage warriors, whose red robes sur rounded her like a sea of blood. They loved her, these brutes, whose greed was like the tiger’s, whose hate was like the devouring flame, and any who should have harmed a single lock of her curling hair would have had the spears of the African Mussulmans bur led by the score in Ills body. Today she was to her wild wolves of Africa what Jeanne of Vancouleurs was to her brethren of France, and today was j the crown of her young life. France i had heard the story of Zaraila. From j the throne a message had been passed ! to her. What was far beyond nil else j to her, her own army of Africa had i crowned her and thanked her and adored her as with one voice, and wherever she passed the ,wild cheers rang through the roar of musketry as through the silence of sunny air, and throughout the regiments every £word would have sprung from its scabbard in her defense had she but lifted her hand and said one word—“Zaraila!” j There was not one in all those hosts | whose eyes did not turn on her with gratitude and reverence and delight In her as their own. Not one, except where her own keen, rapid glance, farseeing as the hawk’s, lighted on the squadrons of the Chas seurs d’Afrique and found among their ranks one face, grave, weary, medita tive, with a haze that seemed looking i far away from the glittering scene to I a grave that lay unseen leagues beyond the rocky ridge. A whole army was thinking of her and of her alone, and there was a void in her heart, a thorn in her crown, be cause one among that mighty mass one ouly—gave her presence little heed, | but thought rather of a lonely tomb among the desolation of the plains. The trumpets sounded; the salvos of artillery pealed out; the lances and the swords were carried up in salute. On I to the ground rode the marshal of France, who represented the imperial will and presence, surrounded by his staff, by generals of division and bri gade, by officers of rank and by some few civilian riders. An aid galloped up to her where she stood with the corps of her spahis and gave her his orders. The little one nodded careless ly and touched Etolle-Fllante with the prick of the spur. Like iighlriiug the animal bounded forth from the ranks, roaring and plunging and swerving from side to side, while her rider, with exquisite grace and address, kept her seat like the little seini-Arab that she was. As carelessly as though she reined up before the afe door of the As du Pique she arrested her horse before the great marshal, who was the Imperson ation of authority, and put her hand up in the salute, with her saucy wayward laugh as indifferently as she bad many a time reined up before a knot of grim Tureos smoking under a barrack gate. He was nothing to her. Itwas her army that crowned her. “The geu erallssimo is the poppy head; the men are the wheat. Lay every ear of the w£te*t low, and of what use Is the tow ering poppy that blazed so grand in the sun?” Cigarette would say, with metaphorical unction, forgetful, like most allegories, that her fable was one sided and unjust In figure and deduc tion. Nevertheless, despite her gay eon tempt for rank, her heart beat fast un der its gold laced jacket as she reined up Etoile and saluted. For the mo ment she felt giddy with sweet, fiery joy. They were here to behold her thanked In the name of France. The marshal. In advance of all his staff, doffed his plumed hat and bow ed to his saddlebow as he faced her. He knew her well by sight, this pretty child of his army of Africa, who had before then suppressed mutiny like a veteran and led the charge like a Mu rat, this kitten with a lion’s heart, this humming bird with an eagle’s swoop. “Mademoiselle,” he commenced, while his voice, well skilled to such work, echoed to the farthest end of the long lines of troops, “I have the honor to discharge today the happiest duty of my life. In conveying to you the ex pression of the emperor’s approval of your noble conduct in the present cam paign I express the sentiments of the whole army. Your action on the day of Zaraila was as brilliant In concep tion as it was great in execution, anti the courage you displayed, was only equaled by your patriotism. May the soldiers of many war a remember yqo and emulate you. In the name of France. I thank you. In the name of the emperor. I bring to you the cross of the Legion of Honor.” As the brief and soldierly words coil ed down the ranks of the listening g -iments he stooped forward from his saddle and fastened the red ribbon on her breast, while from the whole gafh- Shc reined up Etoile and saluted. ered mass, watching, hearing, waiting breathlessly to give their tribute of applause to their darling also, a great shout rose. And as she heard her face became very pale, her large eyes grew dim and very soft, her mirthful mouth trembled with the pain of a too intense joy. She lifted her head, and all the unutterable love she bore her country and her peo ple thrilled through the music of her voice: “Frenchmen, that was nothing!” That was all she said. In that one first word of their common nationality she spoke alike to the marshal of the empire and to the conscript of the ranks. Then she laid her hand on the cross that had been the dream of her years since she had first seen the brazen glisten of the eagles above her wondering eyes of infancy and loosen ed it from above her heart and stretch ed her hand out to the great chief. "M. le Marechal, this is not for roe.” “Not for you! The emperor bestows it”- Cigarette saluted with her left hand, still stretching to him the decoration with the other. “It is not for roe—not while I wear it unjustly.” “Unjustly! What is your meaning? My child, you talk strangely. The gifts of the empire are not given lightly.” “No, aud they shall not be given un fairly. Hark you! The emperor sends me this cross. France thanks me. The army applauds me. Well, I thank them, one and all. Cigarette was nev er yet ungrateful. It Is the sin of the coward. But I say I will not take what is unjustly mine, and this prefer ence to me Is unjust. I saved the day at Zaraila? And how? By scamper ing fast on my mare and asking for a squadron or two of my spahis; that was all. It was not I who saved the battle. Who was it? It was a Chas seur d’Afrique, I tell you. What did he do? Why, this: When his officers were all gone down, he rallied and gathered his handful of men and held the ground with them all through the day—two, four, six, eight, ten hours In tlie scorch of the sun. I tell you the cross is his and not mine. Take It back and give it where it is duo," The marshal listened, half auiaaod, half amused, half prepared to resent the insult to the empire and to disci pline, half disposed to award that sub mission to her caprice which all Alge ria gave to Cigarette. he sold, with a grave smile, “the honors of the empire are Dot to be treated thus. But who is this man for whom you claim so much?” “Who is he?” echoed Cigarette, with all her fiery disdain for authority ablaze once more like braudy in a flame. “Oto he! Napoleon Premier would not have left his marshals to ask that! He te the finest soldier in Africa, if it be possible for one to be finer than anoth er where all are so great. They know that. They pick him out for all the dangerous missions. But the Black Hawk hates him, and so France never hears the truth of all that he does. All I know is he calls himself here Louis Victor.” “Ah, I have beard much of him. A fine soldier, but"— “A fine soldier without a ‘but,’ * in terrupted Cigarette, with rebellious In difference to the rank of the great man she corrected, “unless you add, ‘but never done justice by his chief.’ ” As she spoke her eyes for the first time glanced over the various person ages who were mingled among the staff of the marshal, his invited guests for the review upon the plains. She saw a fare which, though seen but once l>e fore, she knew * instantly again—the ! face of “miladi.” And she saw it change color and lose its beautiful hue and grow grave aud troubled as the last words passed between herself and the French marshal. “Ah, can she feet?” wondered Ciga | rette, who with a common error of such vehement young democrats as herself always thought that hearts nev er ached in the patrician order and thought so still when she saw the list less. proud tranquillity return, not j again to be altered, over the perfect features that she watched with so much violent instinctive hate. She scarcely heard the marshal’s voice as it addressed her with a kindly indulgence as to a valued soldier and • a spoiled pet in one. t _ “Have no fear, little one. Victor’s claims are not forgotten, though we may await our own time to investigate and reward them. No one ever served the empire and remained unrewarded. For yourself, wear your cross proudly. It glitters above not only the bravest but the most generous heart in the service.” Plie saluted once again and paced down the ranks of the assembled divi sions, while every lance was carried, every sword lifted, every bayonet pre sented as she went, greeted as though she were an empress for that cross which glittered on her heart, for that courage wherewith she had saved the tricolor. The eyes of Venetia Corona followed her with something of ineffable pity. “Poor little unsexed child V she thought. “How pretty and how brave she is and—how true to him!” The Seraph beside her in the group around the flagstaff smiled and turned br> her. “I said that little amazon waß In love with this fellow Victor. How loyally she stood up for himl But if he ever forsake her she will be quite as likely to run her dirk through him.” “Forsake her! What is he to her?” There was a certain impatience in the tone and something of contemptu ous disbelief that made her brother look at her in wonder. “What on-earth cun the loves of a camp concern her?” he thought as he answered. “Nothing that I know of. But this charming little tigress is very fond of him. By the way, can you point the man out to me? lam curious to see him.” “Impossible. There are 10.000 faces, and the cavalry squadrons are so far off.” She spoke with indifference, but she grew a little pale*as she did so, and the eyes that had always met. his so frankly, so proudly, were turned from him. Cecil did not hear the gallant words spoken in his behalf by the loyal lips that he had not cared to caress. As Cigarette passed down the ranks. Indeed, he saw and smiled on his little champion, but the smile had only a weary kindness of recognition in it, and .It wounded Cigarette more than though he had struck her through the breast with his lanee. Venetia gave a low, quick breath of mingled pain and relief as the last of the chasseurs paced by. The Seraph started and turned his head. “My darling, are you not well?” "Perfectly.” “You do not look so, and you forgot to point me out this special trooper. I forgot him too.” “He goes there the tenth from here.” Her brother looked. It was too late. “He is taller than the others. That is all I can see, now that his back is turn ed. I will seek him out when” — “Do no such thing.” “And why? It was by your own re quest that I inquired”— “Think me changeable, as you will. Do nothing to seek him, to inquire for him”— “But why? A man who at Zaraila”— “Never mind. Do not let it be said; you noticed a Chasseur d’Afrique at 1 my instance.” Meantime in another part of the camp the heroine of ’ Zaraila was feasted, | not less distinctively, if more noisily' and more familiarly, by the young offl-, cers of the various regiments. Ciga rette, many a time before the reigning; spirit of suppers and carouses, was banqueted with all the eclat that befit ted that cross which sparkled on her blue and scarlet vest. High throned on a pyramid of knapsacks, canteens and rugs, toasted a thousand times in all brandies and red wines that the stores would yield, the little one reign ed alone and, like many who have reigned before her, found lead in her scepter, dross In her diadem, satiety in her kingdom. When it was over, this banquet that was all in her honor and that three months before would have been a para dise to her, she shook herself free of the scores of arms outstretched to keep her captive and went out into the night alone. She did not know what she ailed, but she was restless, oppressed, weighed down with a sense of dissatis fied weariness that had never before touched the joyous and elastic nature of the child of France. “How they live only for the slaugh ter! How they perish like the beasts of the field! There is only one thing worth doing—hi die greatly!" thought the aching hrt of the child soldier unconsciously returning Vo the only end that the genius aud the greatness of i&reece could find as issue to the terri ble jest, the mysterious despair, of all existence. CHAPTER XX. PME way distant, parted by a broad strip of unoccupied ground from the camp, were the grand marquees set aside for the marshal and for his guests. They wefe 12 in number, gayly deco rated as far as decoration could be ob tained In the southern provinces of Al geria and had, Arabiike, in front of each the standard of the tricolor. Be fore one were two other standards also —the flags of England and Spain. Cigarette, looking on from afar, saw the alien colors wave in the torchlight flickering on them. “That is hers.” thought the little one, with the mourn ful and noble emotions of the previous moments swiftly ehauging into the vio lent. reasonless, tumultuous hatred at once of a rival and of an order. She had it in her, could she have had the power, to mercilessly and brutally destroy this woman’s beauty, which was so ft r above her reach, as she had once destroyed the Ivory wreath: yet, as that of the snow white,carving bad done, so did this fair and regal beauty touch her. even iu the midst of her fu r~ $ ■ f XT CO.TTIS I,'KD.I 1 SEPTEMBER CROPREPORT Cotton Has Suffered For Want of Sunshine. PICKING GREATLY RETARDED Complaints Reach the Departmental Rust, Kott-iug and Ravages of tbs 801 l Worm—Fodder Will Be Scarce. aS. _ Agricultural Department, Atlanta, Sepc. 1, 1901. The characteristic feamres'of Angus! weather were very heavy rains in moat of the counties of the state, while the temperature ranged slightly below the normal, as a result of which the cotton crop suffered materially for the want of sunshine and warmer weather. Hence many complaints have reached the de partment concerning injury from rust, rotting of bolls and ravages of the boll worm, so that the crop condi tions on Sept. 1 are far from satisfacto ry" The average condition of the cotton orop has fallen from 84 per cent on Jane 1 to 75 per cent on Sept 1. In addition to the fact that the ootton crop is 15 days late, picking has been very materially retarded, owing to the August rains. The condition and prospects of corn, which on June 1 were 89 per cent, were on Sept. 1 77 per cent. This de crease in the prospects of the corn crop was caused in many cases by overflows of the creeks and rivers, resulting from the excessive August rains. A large par cent of the fodder also has been damaged by the same agency and this forage will be unusually scarce the coming year. Most of the cane, sweet potatoes, peas, ground peas, upland rice and the grasses promise well. Southern Section —Appling, Baker, Berrien, Brooks, Bryan, Bulloch, Cal houn, Camden, Charlton, Chatham, Chattahoochee, Clay, Clinch, Coffee, Colquitt, Decatur, Dodge, Dooly, Dough erty, Early, Echols, Effingham, Glynn, Houston, Irwin, Lee, Liberty, Lowndes, Macon, Marion, Mclntosh, Meriwether, Miller, Mitchell, Montgomery, Pierce, Pulaski, Quitman, Randolph, Schley, Stewart, Sumter, Tattnall, Taylor, Tel fair, Terrell, Thomas, Wilcox, Wayne, Webster, Ware, Wilkinson, Worth. The report of crops for this section is as follows: Cotton, compared to an average, 75.13 per cent; corn, compared to an average, 78.44 per cent; rice, compared to an av erage, 80.24 per cent; sugar cane, com pared to an average, 91.50 per cent-; sweet potatoes, compared to an average, 90.82 per cent; tobacco, ooapared to an average, 90.50 per cent; pea crop, com pared to an average, 84.84 per cent; pea nut crop, compared to an average, 89. U per oent; hay crop, compared to an av erage, 85.60 per cent; number of stock bogs, compared to last year, 90.42 per cent; condition of stock hogs, compared with an average, 94.24 per cent Middle Section Baldwin. Bibb, Burke, Butts, Carroll, Clayton, Colum bia, Coweta, Crawford, Emannel, Fay ette, Glasoock, Greene, Hancock, Harris, Heard, Henry, Jasper, Jefferson, Jones, Johnson, Laurens, McDuffie, Monroe, Mnscoge9, Morgan, Newton, Pike, Put nam, Richmond, Screven, Spalding, Talbot, Taliaferro, Troup, Twiggs, Upson, Warren, Washington. The report of crops for this section is as follows: Cotton, oompared to an average, 74.13 per cent; corn, compared to an average, 72.09 per cent; rice, compared to an av erage, 79.20 percent; sugar cane, com pared to an average, 84.28 per oent; sweet potatoes, compared to an average, 89.27 per oent; tobacco, compared to an average, 90:33 per cent; pea crop, com pared to an average, 90.10 per oent; pea nut crop, compared to an average, 91.24; hay crop, compared to an average. Bfl 31 per oent; number of stock hogs, com pared to last year, 92.17 per cent; con dition of stock hogs, compared with an average, 90.33 per oent. Nobthebn Section— Banks, Bartow, Campbell, Catoosa, Chattooga, Chero kee, Clarke, Cobb, Dawson, DeKalb, Douglas, Elbert, Fannin, Foreyth, Franklin, Floyd, Fulton, Gilmer, Gor don, Gwinnett, Habersham, Harraleoa, Hall, Hart, Jackson, Lincoln, Lumpkin, Madison, Milton, Murray, Oconee, Ogle thorpe, Paulding, Pickens, Polk, BabU% Rockdale, Towns, Union, Walker, Wal ton, White, Whitfield, Wilkes. The report of crops for this section u as follows: Cotton, compared to an average, 76.16 per cent; corn, oompared to an average, 82 per cent; rice, compared to an aver age, 98.33 per cent; sugar cane, com pared to an average, S3 per cent; sweet potatoes, compared to an average, 93.17 per cent; tobacco, compared to an aver age, 81.15 p-r cenr; pea crop, compared to an average, 90.66 per cent; peanut crop, compared to an average, 91.19 per cent; hay crop, compared to an average, 89.17 per cent; number oi stock hogs, compared to last year, 90 39 per cent; condition of stock hogs, compared with an average, 90.07 per cent. Sections Conoli(lated. Cotton, compared to an average, 75.14 per cent; corn, compared to an average, 77.54 per cent; rice, compared to an av erage, 85.92 per oent; sugar cane, com pared to an average, 86 26 per cent; sweet potatoes, compared to an average, 91.08 pier cenr; tobacco, compared to an average, 87.32 per cenr; .pea crop, oom p&red to an average, 88.53 pier cent; pea nut crop, compared to an average, 90.53 pier cent; hay crop, compared to an av erage, 88.02 per cent; number of stock hogs, compared to last year, 91 per oent; condition of stock hogs, compared with an average, 90.51 per cent. i Lollscto.’s Notics I will attend the places „„ on the days stated for the n, 6d bei <V collecting state and Cou„.o P rf)oa <= l the year 1901 to-wit. OUut - v tHx e 8 f(j 'J ■ arte-sville Get, 7,iq qi. x . Dec, 14, 1(5, 17, 18, 19, W 8I ’ Nov > 16, 30 Emerson Oct. 8. 26; N ov i, Ailatoona Oct, 9, 25, Nov io btainp Creek (Jet, in 2s- j 1 *’ Wolf Pen Oct. 112$: n’ W V. V - U. Cassvilie Oct, 12; Nov, 2 V 3 ’ Pine Log Oct, 14, .40; NoV i 9 Eubarleo Oct, 21 Nov 7 tl?' „ Iron Hill Oct, 22; NoV,B; Dec'/’ Taylorsville Oct, 23; Nov g f'C Stiiesboro Oct, 24; Nov li •' )! >ec > 6 - White Nov, 18. ,U>l) ec,7. Booo’s Shop Nov, 22. Boonsle.vs Nov, 2h Lin wood Noy, 27. Cement Nov, 28. Ford Dec, 3. Hitchcocks Dec, 5. Sugar Hill Dec, 9. Rogers Dec, 10. Cass Station Dec, 11. Ladds Dec, 12. Douthitts Dec, 13 I am required by the laws settlements, aud issue litas for n mak# paid taxes on Dec 20th. T hav • Un ' tax payers the longest time 1 copy the lollowiug from my P K} 6 \ tions from the Comptroler ()i ruc- The Legislature impowers and remro® 1 me to cause taxes to be collected i ! ? 1 20th of Dec. next and upon any tax collector to clo so it i s „? 0 ? f my duty to issue ilia's against eacK every collector wno has failed to senu bis account and place Ufa’s iu hands it an officer for collection. I now tL ■ warn you that, the law relating m faulting collectors will be rigidlv Ji , strictly enforced and the securities' ! your bond notified if your settlement are not promptly made. I hope tax nav ers will give prompt attention and payment withiu the time named Th! rate is ($14,84) fourteen dollars eighty four cents per thousand. This 16th day of September 1901. F. V. SMITH Tax Collector Bartow Cos. G a ’. Libel for Divorce. Mariah Young) In tne Superior Court vs- -of Bartow Countv, Ben Young ) Georgia. Libel for Divorce. No. 28, Julv term, 1899. To the defendant, Ben Y'oung: You are hereby notified, required and com mauded personally or by attorney, to I be and a_ppear at the Superior Court to be held in and for said county of Bar tow on the second Monday in January next, then and there to answer the plaintiff’s libel fora divorce, and in de fault thereof the court will proceed as to justice shall appertain. Wituags the Honorable A. YV. Fite ' judge <®*nirt court, this Julv 30. 1901 ’ L. YV. REEVES, JR.,' Clerk Superior Court. Libel for Divorce. Eva Little Pugh, alias t Liberal for di- Eva Little Fowler I vorce, Bartow vs- )■ Superiorcourt Andrew Pugh, alias I July term, Andrew Fowler. J 1901, To Andrew Pugh, (alias) Andrew Fow ler: It appearing to the court, bv the re turn of the sheriff, that the defendant does not reside in this countv, audit further appearing, that he one's not re-, side in this state. It is on motion o f counsel ordered, that, the defendant ap pear and answer at the next term of this court, also, that the case lie considered in default, and the plaintiff allowed to proceed, and it is further ordered that this rule be published iu the News and Courant, a newspaper published in this county twice a month for two months prior to the next term of this court. A. W. FITE, J. S. C. C. 0. August 12, 1901, A true extract from the minutes of said court, L. W. REEVES, JR , Clerk. 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