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TOE KINSTON DAILY FREE PRESS " Millinery-Ribbons-Embroidery-Handkerchiefs-Hat Pins- Chamberlain & Braxton Cas fJl Building WANT ADS 1 CENT A WORD EACH IN MINIMUM 15 CENTS FOR RENT Store on North street, next to corner store occupied by Har vey Hines. N. J. Rouse. 12-22-d-tf JAMES G. MEHEGAN, Piano Tuner, Phone 184 or address J. H. Dawson. 12-22-5t-dly A. E. POOLE, at Hyatt House Typewriters Cleaned, Repaired and adjusted. Charges reasonable; work guaranteed. Phone 67. 12-28-lt-dly SOCIAL And ' PERSONAL 1 TREY O' HEARTS WANTED Position by Stenographer with six years' experience, by first of year. Address J. B., care Free Press. 12-28-3t-dly FOR RENT January 1st, my house, on North College street. All mod ern conveniences. D. F. Jarman. 12-22-5t-dly TO OUR CUSTOMERS Our store will be closed Monday and Tuesday December 28th and 29th, on account of inventory, j L. Harvey & Son Co, 12-2t4tjdly 2t-sw LOST Between Snow Hill and Kirt- fton, Umbrella with el.rling silver l.ardle. Engra'tfi Helen Montana Winston Salem, N. C. P.eward for re turn to Leon Sugg. i.-. 12-26-6t dly , DONT FAIL to attend sale of Da vid Craft on December 31, at 10 a, m., at his residence, near Kinston, on Grifton road. Four horses and mules, wagons, carts, corn, and hay; also a quantity of farming implements and utensils. 12-24-3t SW-Safcand-Wed J OR SALE All (h : old Furniture in postomce and Federal Building in Raleigh, N. C. Magnificent double and single black walnut, flat top roll top desks, filing cabinets and book cases. Worth a trip to Raleigh to see. Bargains. . Koonce Bros., Ill E Harg ett street, Raleigh, N. C. , 12-26-3t dly NOTICE.' The annual meeting of the share holders of the First National Bank of Kinston will be held at 3 o'clock p. m., Tuesday, January 12, 1915, at their banking house, for the election of offi cers and. such other business as may properly come before them. D. F. WOOTEN, Cashier. 12-ll-ltawk-4wks-dly Special Reduction SALE ON ALL MY jSTOCK OF Hats,Fiowers,Feath ers,Ribbons, Velvets, Neckwear, Gloves, Hose, Handkerchiefs Handbags, and Um- brellas. From Dec. 3 to 25 Ik LI LB RASWELL Miss Louis Ballard is visiting rel atives at Trenton. BBS Miss Carrie Wooten is visiting rel atives at Caswell. i: h s Mr. James W. Russ, Jr., is visiting friends in Baltimore, Md. a a h Mr. Chester A. Walsh returned this morning from Richmond, Va. a sa a Mrs. Dave Oettinger has returned from visiting relatives at Greensboro. H 13 H Mr. J. H. Alexander left this morn ing for Goldsboro on a business trip, a a b Mrs. Kate Cobb has gone to Tusca rora where she is visiting her daugh ter. a a a Mr. R. L. Crisp left this morning for LaGrange to spend the day on business. r n h Miss Mabel Brown of Ayden is vis iting Mrs. T. R. Lee on West Peyton avenue. h a a Dr. A. L. Hyatt of Beulaville was a welcome visitor in the city this morning. a a a Mrs. Charles Davis of Eureka visiting Mrs. J. F. Davis on East Pey ton avenue. a a a Miss Bertha Johnson of Charlotte is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs, II. C. Johnson. a a a . Miss Hulda Slaughter of Goldsbo ro is visiting Miss Alice nines , on King street a a a Miss Addie Byrd of Washington N. C. is visiting Miss Annie Lee Scott, in the city. a a a Mrs. A. J. Kilpatrick and daugh ter, Miss Kate, have returned from visiting relatives at Cove City. a a a Misses Carlotta Mewborn and Car rie Beasly have gone to Bonnerton, where they are visiting friends. a a a Mr. James M. Hines of Greenville has returned to his home after a vis it in the city to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lovitt Hines. a a a Mrs. R. A. Lomax returned to her home in Goldsboro Sunday evening after a visit in the city to her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Russ. a a a Sutton Skinner. Mr. Thomas W. Sutton and Miss Genevieve Skinner, young people of the city, were married at the home of Magistrate H. C. V. Peebles, on King street, Sunday evening, Mr. Peebles officiating. a a a Double Wedding in Hotel Tull Sunday Afternoon. Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock two couples were married at the same time by Pastor Bernard P. Smith. The same ceremony was used for both couples until the vows were reached. These having been taken by each in dividual separately, the ceremony was resumed in its application to all. The parties married were Miss Loverta Jones to Mr. R. Lee Hill, and Miss Floread Jones to Mr. C. Oscar Daw son. The brides are sisters, iney are natives of Georgia, but have been attending school for several years at Dawson. Mr. Hill is a farmer, living near Dawson, and Mr. Dawson is a resident of this city, in the employ of the county. Both couples will live in the city for the present. a a a Speaker Clark's Daughter Engaged. Washington, Dec. 27. Speaker Champ Clark and Mrs. Clark tonight announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Genevieve to James M. Thomson, editor of the New Or leans Item. The wedding will take place in the spring or early summer at the Clark home in Bowling Green, Mo. Continued from Saturday "What's the good of that? We're fast enough as It U!" "Simply to make assurance doubly sure by causing a cave-in . . ." "I seem to remember hearing or reading, some place, that tunnels have two ends. If that's true, tho far end of this ought to bo about the safest place when that explosion happen If It ever does." "Something In that!" "Got any matches?" Rarcus In quired, as Alan hurriedly helped Rose to her feet. "Never one." "Nor I. We'll have to feel our way along. Let me lead. If I step over the brink of a pit or anything. Til try to yell and warn you In time." Alan caught his friend's hand in passing and pressed it warmly a ca ress eloquent of his gratitude to Bar cus for taking their peril lightly, or pretending to, for the sake of Rose. A ticklish business, that groping their way through blackness so opaque that It seemed as palpable as a pool of Ink. And haste was Indi cated; they stumbled on with what caution was possible against pitfalls a gingerly scramble. Then an elbow In the tunnel sensed rather than felt or seen cut them off from direct communication with the bulkhead, and at the same time opened up a shaft of daylight, striking down" through that pitchy darkness like a column of fine gold. Cries of Joy. amazement. Incredulity choking In their throats, they stun bled forward, gained the spot lmmedl ately below the shaft, looked upward dazzled, to see blue sky like a coin of heaven's minting far above them, at the end of a long and almost perpendi cular tunnel, wide enough to permit the passage of a man's body, and lined with wooden ladders. The end of tho lowermost ladder hung within easy reach from the floor of the tunnel. But even as Alan lifted his hands to grasp the bottom rung the opening at the top of the shaft was temporarily obscured. Thrilled with apprehension, he hesi tated : Marrophat was up there, he lit tle doubted; hardly like that one to overlook the ladder-shaft In preparing the tunnel to be a living tomb. What Is it?" Rose demanded at his elbow, in a shaken whisper. Nothing," he lied instantly, and seizing the bottom rung, swung hln self up. "But wait for me till I signal the coast's clear," he warned before committing himself Anally to the ascent. Marrophat or no Marrophat at the top, there was nothing for him to do but to grasp the nettle danger with a steady hand, unflinching. Even though he were shot dead on emerging from the shaft. It were better than to die down there, like a rat In a trap. . He had climbed not more than half dozen rungs when a voice hailed from above: "Law Oh, Mister Law. I say don't come up here s a present for you. Pausing without answer, he looked up. A few drops of water splattered his face, like heavy rain. Almost Im mediately the blue sky was per manently eclipsed: a heavy cascade of water, almost a solid column, shot down the shaft with terrific force. Half-drowned and wholly dazed, he felt himself picked up and dragged away from the waterfall. Then, as his senses cleared, he com prehended the fact that the tunnel was already filling; that where they stood it was already ankle deep; while the water continued to fall without hint of letup. On this consideration, he drew Rose with him back to the bulkhead. When they had been some fifteen minutes beside the bulkhead, the wa ter mounted the head of a slight rise perhaps ten feet behind them, and poured down in ever deeper volume to back up against the barrier. It was waist deep, however, before they retreated to the head of that rise. Half an hour later It was waist deep there, on the highest spot In the tunnel. In fifteen minutes more It had reached their chins. And they stood with head against the roof of the tun nel. Holding Rose close to him, Alan kissed her Hps, that were as cold as death. i found the hand of the man at his side. The water lapped his lips Ifke a' blind hand . . . In the tunnel that branched off from the main shaft, beyond the bulkhead, some thirty minutes before this Junc ture, a candle had guttered In its stick, If E$S& n I. H.. - Alan Negotiates for the Burros. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTO RIA NOTICE OF EXECUTOR'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE The undersigned Executors of Dock Wallace, deceased, will, on Monday, January 4, 1915, at the hour of 12 o'clock m., at the Court House door in Kinston, North Carolina, sell at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash, the following described lot of land, situated in the City of Kin ston, on Lenoir street and the At lantic Coast Line Railroad, fronting about 121 feet on Lenoir street This 9th day of December, 1914. - NEAL WALLACE CATHERINE WALLACE Executors of Dock Wallace, de ceased. - . . . . , . BOUSE & LAND, . CHAPTER XLVI. Flood and Fire. Screaming to make himself heard above the roar of the deluge, Barcus yammered in Alan's ear: That devil t He's found the reser-1 voir opened the sluicegates turned It into that shaft! We're done for!' Alan had no argument with which to gainsay him. Silently getting on his feet, silently he groped for Rose. In the darkness, momentarily becoming more dense as the fall of water shut out the light, and drew her away with him, left carelessly thrust Into the wall by Marrophat's lieutenant, and guttering, had dropped a flaming wick into a lit tle heap of bone-dry debris. This last flamed, licked hungrily at the timber ing that upheld the falls of the tunnel. The timbering caught fire without de lay. In a space of time incredibly brief the flames were spreading right and left, the tunnel was a vault of blistering fury. As Alan said his last mute farewell to Rose and Barcus. the Are spread out In the bottom of the shaft and In vaded the powder room. Alan had guessed aright at Marro phat's design; the keg of blasting pow der was less than an eighth full; Its explosion could not possibly have ef fected the cave-In Alan had at first feared. But what Marrophat had overlooked was the proximity to the keg of some several sticks of dynamite, masked by a film of earth that had fallen from the crumbling walls. When the blazing fuse dropped sparks Into the blasting powder this last exploded right willingly and the dynamite took its cue without the least delay. The resultant detonation was ter rific. The bulkhead was crushed in like an eggshell barrier. Part of the walls fell in, but the tunnels and shaft remained intact. The released flood streamed out and spread swiftly to the farthest recesses of the burning tun nel. Dense clouds of steam filled that place of terror as the fires were extin guished. Swept with the stream as it poured out of the tunnel, Alan contrived throughout to retain his hold round the waist of Rose. Barcus shot past him unseen in the darkness. It was not until Alan had contrived to catci an unburned timber and stay himself and his almost witless burden beneath the mouth of the shaft that he discov ered Barcus alive, if almost unrecog nizable in his mask of mold and soot, battling back toward the shaft against TSh lDCllne thBt 1Cd 10 the"edeep da nau-oiinaea ana Buneu as ne was ay The hour that followed lived ever in his memory as an hour in hell. No ray of hope lightened its impenetrable blackness. He could say nothing to comfort the girl; bravely though she strove to keep up her heart, time and again Bhe shook In his arms like a mad thing, when panic dread caught her by the neck as a terrier catches a rat. To die there, in the darkness, like so many noxious animals trapped In a well! ... The water mounted rapidly. With in five minutes it drove them back to the elbow in the tunnel; within ten it lapped their ankles as they lingered there, doubting which was the greater peril, to advance or to stand fast and the reek of steam and powder fumes. Alan struggled with himself until bis wits were passably clear. Immediately before him dangled the hoisting bucket and rope. Surrendering the care of Rose to Barcus, Alan climbed Into the bucket and stared upward, examining the walls of the shaft for a way to the top. There was none other than the most difficult; gaps too great to be bridged by climbing showed In the wooden ladders. The one feasible route was via the rope. And there was nobody at the top to work the windlass and Alan let the flooding tide snuff out the fires hoped there would be nobody to op- of life. To return to the neighbor- Pe bib essay. hood of the bulkhead was to court the I He addressed himself to the task death Indicated by the fuse and the I without murmuring lifted himself tin ker of blasting powder ... on the rope, wouna it rouna one leg, Of a sudden the thought crossed I and bean that heartbreaking climb. Alan's mind that Marrophat had ar- How he accomplished it he never ranged the'latter solely to keep them knew. That It must bo accomplished away from the bulkhead. Now that he was hla,one, all-absorbing thought thoneht of it. he felt certain that the And somehow, by some almost super- powder room had been deliberately I human effort. It was eventually accom- dlsclosed to him by Jimmy. pusnea Probably, then, the keg and fusel He arrived at the top of the shaft were . but stage properties or pos sibly ... Whether or no. -was death In one form preferable to the other T- : He was decidedly of the opinion that It were better to be extinguished once and for all time. In the space of a second, annihilated by an explosion, than to die thus Ungeringly. : tar too exhausted to show surprise when, falling in half-fainting condi tion within two feet of the brink, be saw Judith Trine running like mad across the clearing. But without her aid he would not within hours have been able to work the windlass and lift Rose and-Uar cos to tho aurfaca, . t J THIS INSTALLMENT TO EE SHQ?N AT DIXIE FVIDAY EVENING Tjh'e re Are Three Ml Days In which to avail yourself of the great bargains offered in Our Removal Sale Christmas has come and gone and the holiday shoppers have been satisfied. There remains in our large stock of seasonablegoods al most countless ar ticles that it will pay you well to investi gate' during these final days of the best value giving sale Kinston has ever experienced Come Tuesday and Thurs day J. M. 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MOORE & COMPANY ; cyOUR WEEKLY LIMERICK V We know of a farmer, by the name of Mcwaae, Who lond. has found this, a rtood'olaceito trade. 1 HE HAS BEEN CON.1NG TO ' A Xftf 1 I :SSS&&. OUR STO E FOR YEARS ' OR MORE. And as yet, he has never been "held np"Aor "waylaid ' -WE PRIDE OURSELVES ON . An Established Reputation for Fair Dealing We handle a good quality of Goods, marked with a (air margin of profit ." We Guarantee Everything Exactly as Represented Stand ready to make right that which is not right AND SOLICIT YOUR TRADE V. DIXON & SON We Lead - Others Follow At this great GOING OUT OF BUS INESS SALE you can find any thing you wish that will be suitable for HIS or HER CHRISTMAS GIFT. Why pay more, when you can buy the same goods here for less money. We are positively going out of busi ness and everything must be sold by JANUARY 1st. M. Adler R' tw n
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