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: Y?RK?ILLE ENQUIRER. ISSUED SEMI-WEKELT. L n. qeist'8 sons. Pnbiiihen. } % 4am'*8 Bfirspaprr: the promotion of the political, Social, ajritulfatal and Commercial .interests of tin Jeopt<. | T""~^.*t_'L'?'"*TT!'rT^'ct' ESTABLISHED Tgss; YORKVILLE, 8. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1913. : NoTeST - - The Mn ' By CHARLES TJ Author rf The Va> rf Sad (Copyright 1911, The Bobbs-Merti CHAPTER XVII The Backward Trail. Harlan did not know what haunting of lonellneea took him the next evening to the hills. It was the first day of September, and already a veil of hase *? i- li+tio vftllAvt and I my m uio nwwuw ! the far slope* had the first bronze of the ripening corn. Yet it was summer, with a harvest moon drawing up across the river, round and full and golden. He wandered down old trails from Eagle Point. Northward along the bluff were glimpses of the dis\ant Mississippi over the sycamores and willow sloughs. He crossed the last glade to the ridge over which was Tanner's quarry. Already through the laurel and maples and young elms a patch of the white sheer rock arose. And on this point he stopped to look down In the valley. From the quarry bed the road ran on winding past the fringy corn patches of the Pocket squatters. But all the unloveliness of their meager homes was hidden in the 1 ahnrtnw And All the llliillf of the hill beyond lay revealed by the moon, Harlan had not been on the back trail for more than a year. When he came to the old familiar rock jutting over the cliff he started to climb the last step and then paused. Some one was before him, sitting where he had intended to sit, looking as he had wished to look out ovsr the valley and the town. And before he came out of the ^ shadow he knew it was Aurelle. AureQ} lie, who could not leave without one visit to the home trail. She had not been to Llndstrom's house, but tonight she had ridden over from Earlville, tied the livery mount at the Sinslnawa creek M-ldge. and clambered up to where she could look either way, to the village or to her foster-father's place below the quarry. Harlan watched her long. She wan mute, dry-eyed, very till; but when, at length, he came out and stood before her, curiously she did not start. She moved slowly and looked up at him. Her face had all that grave purity of outline that belled alike her temper and her humor. "It Just seems," she murmured, "as If I was to And you here." He remembered now that she said she was coming to the hills. "But-I never thought of it, Aurelie. And yet?" He stopped and she sat forward to see his face. "Yet you came. Oh, the moonlight made me come, narian: i was restless and?unhappy?and I remembered such beautiful nights here. Oh, very wonderful! September?like this." She moved over with a little friendly gesture. "Sit down." But he stood with his hand out to the llchened rock above her. She did not seem to notice his constraint. "When 1 was a little ragged kiddle, I used to climb up here. Always I loved it, Harlan." "But I tell you." he answered quietly, "you came tonight because you remembered something else, Aurelle." "Yes," she answered simply. "Our nights. I couldn't quite forget the last one. The night you took me to your mother's, Harlan." She laughed briefly. "And she tricked me?and I ran away. I saw so clearly. I just woke up that night, Harlan." "She didn't trick you, Aurelie. Mother couldn't?" "Oh, well! ' she smiled wisely. If you could realize how I've changed! That night I was breathless before her. She appealed to me?she wanted me to let you go?to help you. Harlan. I thought It was fine that night? but I tell you I paid! I did love you, Harlan." i fle watched her face In the moon)ighf. "Mother did something, I knew. J wasn't sure; but that wasn't what hurt, Aurelie. It was afterward?your going on the stage?In that way. Everything?hurt." She made ^ blithe pretense at a grimace pf mockery. "Qh, well?boy! ii* aJi apierent wjtn you ana me. 1 was a weak and silly gifl to hang on ^ you anfl love you, an? cpnfpse you into tfilpklpg thqt yop loved mp! And that nfgift I sqw qll thp gifls of yppf set qpd thp dqnclqg apd the music?It all fushpd pvpp me?the (|ifferenep.,, She spijjefi w}th a tender mystpfy she could not dpny?ft? wa* amazed to find how immeasurably older she could hp fn hpr wpmqphpod?knew ypu'd ; fofget if I made y?'f And it seemed flnp If I could make yqu." She sm}!ed on bravpjy. "Apd |'m glatf. We both 1 ofjght to bp gjad My!"?*he w?s faughfng now. "We wprp botfi kids, 1 wprenrt we? Now I kpow the wor|d q bit?I'm a heqp dffTerept. Done growed up. Unclp Micfi says, antf hP:? scared about It! I'm going to be q real lady soiqetirqe, and come back qnd play In thp tjn ppera-hopse?play )p a pipcp that hasn't so pipch shootiqg in ft?apd you'll be fat and prosperous qnd married and bripg your kiddles to see tq?- And you'll be mighty glad. Harlan, you npver mqrriet} thaf Cajun gjrj irom apwp-nvep.:: Buf fie would not smjle. Ip the mponlight qn fhe hillside, she had fhe same defying gipsy chafip as of pld; wilfpl, rqocking. humble, buoyant, i whep she wjsppd )t. All th<e inevlfpblp vplgarlan stamp of her ppbringlng was i vanished; apd he fejt the old pathos i fop her?thqt wppt was dear antf sjm- j pip In pep he could fipd and pave and k make his own. The pesp would pot i mattep. He cou)d nof fathom how tPp Invincible heritage of h|s family, was : ppw shamed before hpf gay proud I ponesty, the sense of woodlapd free- I dom fropi if II tpp copveptions of pis j sort, ffe wapted to be ps popest as i she. as fearless as she, bpt he dip not i kpow the wpy. < "Aprelip," he njuttered. "be sfill. You pnow I |ove you." Shp was very still, ^pe shadop- pf ; fhe rock was nof more rpute. Qply per i face was turned, evadipg him, p pre^ tense of unhearing. i "I tell you so again Aurelte. It costs 1 a lot. I bucked through school and for- < )LANDERS ENNEY JACKSON ?, My Brother't Keeper, Etc. HI Company.) | got you?almost. I came back here and set my teeth together and worked. And all the things they said about you ?this town never will get over talking about you?all this miserable notoriety ?it hurt. I said nothing. But I knew T InvnH vnn fnr oil tho fnllr hurt? hurt! I didn't want you to go on In this miserable, cheap show business. There was so much to do?to make of ourselves?before we?before it would be right for us to marry." It was badly put to such is Aurelie. "Oh, a girl doesn't want a Sover who thinks of what there is to do, or make of her before he marries her. That's what you mean, of course!" She blurted on, checking her hot tears. "I don't care! I came back here yesterday? perfectly happy! And the way this awful town treated me!" "Aurelie?" he said sternly, white with a battle to be the master; forever this desire to st elter her and teach her mingled with his passion. "You do so many things! Racing around the square yesterday in that machine. And you ought not to have kissed Wiley Curran!" "Why not?" She looked up innocently. "I felt happy?and he was glad to see me." He sighed with discouragement. "And then there's that story?Aurelie. J( J TT.. ^i.iA ?*A.. nntt /)!A uiu ncu wit cii iugc give yuu an/ uiamonds?" "Yes. A tiny one?" She held out her hand with naive pride. "And he said he'd have given me lots more if he'd sold more oil stock." Harlan forced back a smile. Harvard and two hundred years of his father's culture had no answer to this. "1 ought to be angry," he muttered. She was regarding him wtth her old puzzled air of respect. "I reckon," she went on, "that friends can give one presents if they want to!" She sighed pensively. "You're funny people?you and your mother and everybody. I never can understand. And so I want to go away and be a great actress, and sometime come back here again with lots of clothes and a bulldog on a chain?" I "A bulldog and a press-agent?" i "Ob, Aurelle! I'd rather have you back again?the little wild-woods girl , ?Uncle Mich's girl?and not a prize ( beauty and an actress?not a bit!" He had reached to take her hands, ' and with them drew himself down be- j side her. She laughed blithely: "Har- i Ian, I'm a heap prettier than I used to J be, ain't I?" "Not 'ain't I,' Aurelle!" 1 "Well, then?something else! Prettier, and with clothes?you ought to love me a heap more. Harlan, If I j anount to something." But I don't want you to amount to j anything!" His arm slipped down j about her slenderness, he tried to shake i her angrily; and then, with a great 1 passionate pity, he swept her up in his | arms In the old way?her breath upon i his lips, the quiver of her warm flesh < against his own. He was no more the boy; a new man's madness to possess ( her beat on him. It overbore his con- i trol his heritage. It was not so that 1 ins miner uau iuvcu?iuvcu wim into young lust of triumph, this barbaric holding of poignant life and the beauty that was In her. A flame, a plaything?whatever It was he held Aurelle, It was sweet to know she was lying In his arms, still and content. "If you knew how I cared! I haven't any law or morals with you?It's just you ?and I want you to stay. You shall stay, Aurelle?by God, I shan't have you go away to be cheapened and ground up In the cities with all that life you'll lead! No?no!" She looked up from his kisses. "If I Btay, you'll mqrfy iqe?'' "Yes, dear?a thousand times!" "That's like you and old times, Harlan! But to live here In Rome?oh, they wouldn't have us I" "I'll mqkp thpiq have us!" Be cried It fiercely Jq the tqwp be!ow {hem In me ausKy ugnp "Mr. Curran salt} yop cpuld be district1 aftofney next year. Apd you were getting on fine. Qh, yop'll have to g|vp that pll up, Harlpn!" Hp was still. Thep he muttered: "But I |ovp yop, dear!" "I know. Bpt yopr mpttyer?and what they all think qf me I I pe\'er knew until yesjefday hpw bad they thought!" "ypuUl stay and thaka y?uF Place> deaf. Iflj be the bjg bfavp way. Qh, we were fight bpfofe! fhe njght seemed bjg and geperqus, djdp't |t, depr? And thep we |et jt go. Q|i. we were right?qnd all the wpplg was wrong!" She drew his pepd 1? her and kissed hjm, a soft hpmblenese in h?r e>'e9Then she sat pp and ppt his arrp gently pside apd looked dowp long pt the vplley. Sorpehpw shp copld not quite forget. A strange idep t|iat she pad exchanged places with Harlan grew op her. Thelr ,aat pIsrhF !n th6 h!!!s II hpd beep she who wps burping with tpis wild passjon, this splendor of love that considered pothing Ip al| thelr llyes bpt lovp. Apd pe had beep the pjeptor, hjs cpol spne blood |hat hpd Raved them and held them oure. 'Ttt ~T"? zi' -f i'? r ? p~~ r r ^.nd fiflw, slowly. wltji her spnse pf the bjgness pf Jiis |ove, grew the sense of fiis unrealjzep sacr|fiee. ft seemed j as If the joqg uqepual yearp whjle Jie c was fighting down tjie handicap, wjp- \ nlpg hjs plpce despite her jacking?she, t wjio had even a npme except iyhpt t Lindstrom had givep hej*, qo parentage l pave what a disreputable whisky pep- r ler cjiose to tell of fier; wjio was novy a [he town!s (faughfer of evjl?tfie roll t unfolded tp her. pncf sfte wap cpfiousjy c 9haken, groping pmid hazards, yef cool j with purpose. t want ypu tp stay," he pfepded, c "just to phow these people hPw I }ovP a yop, Aurplip. Why, we can laugh af jt s all tpgetjier!" h She looked at him strangely still fpr r } tlrpe. "No. Wp can'f. Not always, v Tour father spent a fortune on your t education. And all his life, and your t mother's is centered on making you a career. I know it. Why all the county sort of feels that! It's curious how things come to me afterward. I can't blame 'em a bit. Somehow, it's all sweet to me, Harlan. It's very fine, dear! Just as if I was away off and could look at both of us?and could smile and say 'No!'" ' "No." "Maybe I don't care enough for you any more!" i "Aurelle!" "We're not children any more." She looked at him again, subduing the tenderness of her smile. He reached a hand to touch her, and with her Indian quickness she evaded him. He followed a step on the trail as she retreated. "I'm Old Mich's girl, still. I'm not educated, and I've heaps of manners to learn, and lots of ways that hurt you?and oh, how they'd hurt you sometime if we were married! I know! It's Just as your mother said." "Aurelie!" he cried again and followed her. "Don't you come! Harlan, I'd have to give all the new life up?and I wouldn't give anything up?for you!" He stood staring after her as she slipped away. He started again to follow, and she laughed a warning in the dusk of the laureled trail. "I Just been thinking?and I don't love you!" (To be Continued.) WONDERUL PROCESS IS THIS ] 1 Man Says Ha Can Artificially Mature i Cotton. , Every now and then the world is sur- ( prised by the perfection of some great , Invention, but we feel sure that none , has been more wonderful than one j claimed Dy **ror. jonn a. Hau, or Philadelphia in a talk at Barnwell. He came to Barnwell, referred to Col. Harry D. Calhoun by Commissioner E. J. Watson, in order to try bolls for experimental purposes at his station in Pennsylvania. We copy the following from the Barnwell People of Thursday in regard to his visit to that city: That with a new process that he has only recently perfected he can do in two hours what it takes nature weeks to accomplish and do it better at that, was the assertion made by John B. Hall, of Philadelphia, to a number of planters and representative business men in the directors' room of the Home bank of Barnwell, Friday evening. For an hour or more Mr. Hall told of the i "o u i ics iiittt nave uren auuuiiipiisiieu, y and It was like listening to a fairy tale t wherein the good fairy waves her mag- a Ic wand and unheard of things hap- r pen. But that he was In earnest no r one doubted. He was not trying t<? sell c anything; he had no apparent reason ^ to wish to humbug any one; he was a not asking for something for nothing? t on the contrary he paid and was wll- v ling to pay well for what he wanted; I. e., green bolls of cotton. He bought 8 several hundred pounds of short and a long staple cotton bolls at from five to t, seven and a half cents a pound, de- , pending on the variety of the cotton, and In addition made arrangements for n the purchase of several thousand b pounds more to be shipped to Philadel- j, At present the experiments are being carried on at a government station. 8 Mr. Hall exhibited a number of open c bolls of cotton which he said were ma- c tured by his process. One of them was partly rotted, while another had been y punctured by the boll weevil In several y places. Yet they had opened and by g dyeing the staple a part of It can be a used. The boll weevil has cost the . farmers of the southwest millions of 12 dollars by destroying the bolls before they have reached maturity. Mr. Hall a claims that with his process the boll u iveevil will be starved out. At preesnt the experiments are being carried on secretly as letters patent e have not vet been secured, but the n method of procedure is as follows: Instead of waiting until the bolls have fully opened, and the cotton is damag- tl ed by the weather, the green bolls are ci picked "like roses." It doesn't matter y if they are one, two, three, four or five weeks from maturity. They are then a poured into an immense hopper and ti pass into the machine where the ma- r, luring process is done. Then the seed . cotton is separated from the boll and is carried to the gin. w But what is just as wonderful is f< that Mr. Hall states that the by-pro- fl lucts that can be made from bolls and .1.11.. ... .. ...I...Y.1. .. Ik. It tl Htuxvo ait? cus vaiuauic ao u?c cutiuu nself. He stated that an excellent grade a )f rubber, paper pu)p and gunpowder a ire among tbe by-prpdpets. Now, if hp cap "make good" on his J Malm he Is perhaps tpp most wonder- s Tul man pf thp agp. TWnk a minute b ivhat It wopld meap. A saving of waste a oy eliminating immature pr frost-biten bolls and of thp cptton that is ri Mown off by thp wind after ipaturlty. d The savipg pf lpbor, fop by picking the tl ivhole bpll frorp ^he plapt one worknan could do the work of several. It low costs something like $100,000,000 a ?: repr tp gafhpr thp cottpn crop or the ol soptb, and by cpttlpg this in half there tl vould bp a paving pf $^0,000,000 yearly. .. Now as to thp texture qf thp staple hat is prtiflciplly matured: Mr. Hall b Maims thaf ^ is far suppriqr to the rr tame gradp pf cqttpn naturally ma- j8 urpd "bppsp8p pqttqp ps matured low pp thP Meld Whtlp waiting to 11 ip Ricjted, is subjected tq tbe dews cr ci ;hlll of tbe night followed by the heat tl if the sqn nfxf dpy or possibly some l$ys pf ralp or climatic condltlpps of " loipe kipd, togptbpr with the dirt or 4<1 ipst brown on fhe'cottfp. Thp gloss le in t^>p q'rt|np!al|y matpreo pottpn ^ voufd be pf p brilliapcy and whiteness, 'ar superior to that possible on any 01 !ottcn patprqlly manured and exposed wo deteriopatipg weather conditions, ol rhe fibre plst would certainly be much itronger for the same reason." It is >olnted out that by picking the bolls P< hrep weeks or a month before maturi- (1 y, the strength of the plant would be Sl pcrpased and the remaining bells vould grow |arger from the increased lubstanee the would obtain from the CI >lant, and in addition the bplls would tl )e savpd from the weather and insect >ests. The use of this prpcess wpuld .. ilso result in the saving of thp top u rop, which is so often killed by frost. Ci The time consumed in motoring b>' ui he HalJ process is said to bp very ^ ihort ranelne from two to three hours. t is estimated that pnp map can ma- P( urq from six fo tpn bqles a day, ac- st :ofding to the sjzp of |he rqqchin'e. hi l*'- Il( Curjng Wood With Sqgar.?Jhe |iew irocess "qpnpqnced by Cpnsul Qlivares ltl >f Managua js deslgnpd tp mqke, soft ,v vood proof against the ravages of the jp ermjtes or >v^|te ants, which In the |n rop|cs often destroy the flqest build- ^ ngs lp sljc mpqths?aqd is speplqll.v a ecommendqd to makers of furnlfqre jj, md wpodenwafe jntendetf for use in rofiicql couptr|es. ^|f uptreqted woods ci >p|y eucalyptus qnd teak resist the u eriqites. The treatment consists In |n toiling the newly cut timber in a sac- bt harine solution, which extracts the at lr and cpagqlates the albumen in the "t ap, apd tjien rapidly drying at fa\rl.v ar ijgh temperature. The hard, hompgeleops product?whleji dpes pot shrink, f), t'arp or split?resists the dry rot of lei emperate lands as well as the tropic lo ermites. de CORRUPTION IN ELECTIONS John P. Grace Makes Attack on Senator THman. CONTROVERSY OVER CASE OF WBALEY Letter* that Make the Fur Fly, and Information Which ia Calculated to Give the People of 8outh Carolina a Something to think about. In his weekly paper, "Common sense," Mayor John P. Grace o* Charleston, makes a savage attack on Senator Tillman because of the latter's failure to act in the case of Whaley, who, Mr. Grace alleges, was elected to congress by corrupt means. The attacks opens with the publication of a series of letters that have passed between Grace and Tillman, the first two of which are as follows: Letter from Mayor Grace. Honorable B. R. Tillman, United States Senator, Washington. D. C. Dear Senator Tillman: I noticed what you said the other day in the paper about the possibility of Blease's election to the senate by fraud and corruption and of the fight that you would make against him in Washington. The News and Courier had a little editorial on the subject, of course commendatory, not because it hates corruption, but because it hates Blease. Other South Carolina papers, For the same reason, took the same tiew. An old time Tillmanlte and general admirer of yours came in to w?w?v ?*V a>uu * V *u OVU1C U1 UIO ipproval of your sentiments, which he ntended sending to you, but at the ?me time he would ask you why you lid not jump into the tight against Whaiey on the same grounds. I have io doubt he expressed an almost universal question which .the people are isking in their minds about you. rhey realize the inconsistency of your position, and your fame as a senator ind your power as a counsellor next lummer in the fight against Blease vill depend upon the genuineness of 'our stand againBt corruption and perury as illustrated In the Whaiey case, f Washington is the place to fight 31ease, why not tight Whaiey there? When I was in Washington recenty, you treated me cordially; altogeth:r in such a way as almost to disarm ne from persisting in bringing this Vhaley matter to a direct issue beween us. You would talk to me ibout everything else, and you pernitted me to talk to you about a great nonif V> 1 ?-* orci Kti# ? J i iu.il j uuiigo, uuv juu nuuiu uaiui) ome to the point, man to man, on the Vhaley question. You talked about .ffidavlts, testimony, etc., and told me hat you would prepare an affidavit /hich if I would sign you would use a the basis of a fight against Whaley nd that you would send it to me. I old you that I would sign it if I could, lut I have not seen it. Weeks and nonths are passing. My patience is elng taxed. I am honest about it and ri dead earnest about it The case gainst Whaley is overwhelming. I annot believe that you hate fraud and orruption as much as you have said ou do; because I have presented to ou, and am ready to present to conress, the clearest possible case of it; nd you only generalize and tempor:e. Nobody can deny that my fight gainst Bleaseism has not only been ncompromising, but has been pushed } the point of personal danger and ven the risk of my life, as all South arolina knows. All reports to the ontrary notwithstanding, you know Hat I look upon Bleaselsm as the rownlng curse of South Carolina. I earn to have it blotted out. But I m beginning to have doubts. For venty years the people have confered upon you their every power. You ave enjoyed a fullness of leadership hlch carries with it the obligation of iarlessness. You cannot be afraid to ght Whaley because It will Involve a le exposure of some of your lifelong a Hies In this congressional district, and r t the same time command any re- f pectable attention from the people of j outh Carolina. Blease can only be f eaten by a combination of men who a ro nnt afrntn ficrht nnvhnHv'a nAr_ . wm-.- *" a-'* " > > ? <"??- g uptlon and, however, much they may j liter on all things elae, will agree t lat any man that South Carolina c ;nds to represent her In either branch t f congress must have a title to that p fflce as pure as Calhoun. You will be r le means of electing Blease and all t iat be represents and everybody on Is ticket (and I say this with a great g lany things In mind) now that the ^ sue-Is made, unless you come out (l ke a man and say that If Whaley E jmmUted perjury It shall be made p ie means of unseating him. Nobody uts any store In your Idea against washing our linen in public," at ast nphody but those few who wish y fhaley to Keep his seat. Even most g ' those who voted for Whaley now jj ant the facts to come out. The idea n South Carolina not washing her tj nen in public?South Carolina, whose olitics is a "hissing and a byword!" ^ Do you recall using these words last immer?) There is hardly a serious >mic paper that doesn't gibe at South b Carolina every day and hold her UP to ie scorn Of the universe because of &r clylc depravity. Why shouldn't b ley, when the senior senator from t, alhpun's state temporises over the r>seatlns of a man who braaenly g jught her people UKe cattle and then c irinrocl hie wov intn nnr\ rrnouu Out* ' jm? vm vm?o,voo. v/ui || ate \ylth a glorioos history behind T er has fallen nnnn evil times. She w aw has the proqd distinction of lead- s] g the slsterhqqd qf slates in lynch- w ig and illiteracy, and her governor, b ho says, "tp hell with the Oonstltnm," boasts thai be Is needed In Washgtop, because she has nobody there i "represent" her: nnd he looHs to cppstimency made qf sqch cqrwpOnista as Pen stQthapt and his very K >ar frjepd, and your very dear friend, apta(n Martin, to ^^nd him there, nless you at once taRe a genuine part ci bringing Whaley to Justice, I will h i compelled to believe that your talk q >out Blease and corruption Is but t< inkling cymbals apd soqndiqg brass," si id so win the people of aoqth Caro- ai ta; and thus believing, they will tl ect Please and he win be your col- si ague |p the senate. And If you live 0] ng enough, some other Blease will ai feat you, because you have been bi "weighed in the balances and found wanting." It is not a case of washing our linen in public anyhow. The public is already scandalized at South Carolina, and knows exactly what kind of linen she wears. Was there ever a mass of corruption equalising the last days of the dispensary? It's rottenness, as advertised to the world, was unexampled; but was anybody punished? Not only did the world read of those infamies and thieveries, but It read also 1 that out of the whole mess the only 1 one man who was convicted was par- 1 doned! Also the horrors of last summer, when our sad situation was die- i tagfaphed to the universe; and all the ' guilty parties were not only not pun- I lshed but elected! She has shown, i therefore, that she is too rotten to i right her own wrongs. Even the crim- i lnals of past times have been "turned I loose" from the penitentiary on the open theory that they are no worse than most of the judges who sentenced and the juries who convicted them. Her courts have failed; her elections have failed; and our chief executive, with serene contempt for law and order, has not only pardoned the most hardened criminals, but when another jurisdiction has sent here to take one of them away to be dealt with according to law, he permits the criminal 8 to "escape" from the Capitol while the Federal authorities are waiting in the t ante-room. I say the only thing left c to do Is to go to Washington and 8 wash, if you will have it', our very dirty 8 linen, ana let tne world Know tnat 8 there is one laundry left where the t stain of perjury can be washed even c out of the linen of South Carolina. 8 And it is going to be done! But t this is the last time I am going ii to ask you to help me to do it t In view of what you Baid from the t beginning, I think you have cost me v a great deal of unnecessary money and c mush loss of time, and thereby perhaps prejudiced the case; for which I e think you should be truly Borry. In- 1 stead of telling me, as you did, that h you would help me, I think you might t< have told me that t. ere were reasons s< why you could not h ilp me. I under- b stand them?you don't want to involve f< Martin. fi But suppose I can prove the case v> against Whaley without necessarily in- t< volving Martin? Whaley used far li more than enough money in any one t< of the other counties in this district a to greatly exceed the amount limited by law. One county, therefore, would t< be enough to oust him. Suppose I t< agree to leave Charleston county out It of It; may I then depend upon you to le push the matter? o: You said something to me about ir why should you be called on to do this, n Why shouldn't you? You are our se- ir nlor senator; our state has been re- ci nowhed for the purity of Its statesmen. B You have recognised Mr. Whaley's ft right to the seat to the extent of pi breaking your promise to Legare to fe appoint Storen, and permitting Wha- w ley to name Peters; although I told rt pou, and the evidence will prove, that ct Peters also was one qf Whaley's cash- p< [era. I can Imagine the possibility of la the destiny of the United States hing- p< Ing upon Whaley's vote. It Is not v< probable, of course, but there are in- vc stances In even recent history. If It Is not your business to take the first step a; n this matter, whose is it? fii I heard a gentlemen say the other pi lay In Washington, quoting one of th :he leading men of the United States, fo hat the gentleman quoted had said tl| hat he had always had respect for at m east one thing about Tillman, he was th iou?tot and hated corruption. But hi vhen r.e saw Tillman shed tears over th he er o\ isica of Lorimer, those tears ps nstan.ly washed out the little good >plnion he had. I told him you were ni lerhaps blinded in the Lorlmer case Up >y personal affection. But I can lmag- of ne no personal affection between you of ind Whaley; nor can there be any so- ap :lal or political affection. He repre- so ients the things which you capitalized yc n arraying the people of the state ve igalnst Charleston. Of course, you pr tdvocated some things which you mi night say all of us In Charleston op>osed, the dispensary, for instance. Sc 3ut on the other hand all those re- th orms designed to lift up the poor man mi md alleviate his awful condition in |8I louth Carolina many of us profoundy favored. But it Is for Just those W| hings that Whaley and his whole afl rowd hate you. They were wearing go he silk stockings and they wanted the mi leople as a whole to continue to go in st( ags. And I am sure that if the gen- 8p leman above quoted could be inform- an d of the way in which you have hag- thi Jed and hesitated about unseating pa Vhaley, while at the same time talk- en tig through the press, etc., about VU Mease and corruption it would be lm- gn osslble to convince him that you had Coi ver been sincere in even your advo- mt acy of reforms for the poor. So Pardon me If you think my letter th< ery plain, but the aggravation Is |8|, reat. Don't say that you have more rel nportant things, because there is 8U( othlng so Important. Representa- ab ive government is a failure if our rep- of esentatlves are to be those only who to o not mind committing perjury. TIHlanlsm was worse thqn In vain; It yoi as an unpardonable crime: and the asl load that was shed and the men that yoi re dead because of It will rise up and So uree the man who began it unless he 8hi olds to Its professed Ideals. The for- giy une which made you what you are thi j* uiua jruu iu naru ? pui ies to Junius). If your right arm In me harleaton politics scandalizes you, cut the : off and cast It from you; and let tlo illmanlsm In its last fruits correspond ma lth Tlllmanism In the seed; or verily ma hall It come to pass that the tree ity 'hi<n has not borne good fruit shall the e cut down and cast Into the fire. to Yours very truly, (S(gned) John P. Grace. Senator Tillman in Reply. & [on. John P. Grace, f?r Charleston, S. C. prc My dear Mr. Grace: I am In re- * eipt of your letter of July 25th, and mo ave read It with care. I note the 1 uestlon of an "old time Tillmanite," ) the elTecf that he does not under- ? :apd why I do not Jump into the fight gainst Whaley on the same grounds f\ tat would Induce me to protest the an< rearing In of Blease, should It devel- enf p that his election was bought. The I nswer to this Is simple. I am a mem- out er of the senate and have a right to thi speak from the floor of the senate and to command attention. I am not a member of the house, and while as a member of the senate, I am entitled to the floor of the house, I have no rights under Its rules to address that body. This you know as well as I do. I love ray state, its honor and its good name; and I am not willing to bring either its honor or its good name Into question upon hearsay testimony or belief; nor am I willing to confess the incapacity of the people of South Carolina?keeping In mind their proud history?to rectiry anyi wrongs that may exist among them or to govern themselves in accordance with the best tradition of civilised government For me to confess such 1 i thought would be an admission of 1 my disbelief in the capacity of my itate, with its splendid history and its 1 great accomplishments in the past, to- ' govern itself. I do not believe that ^ou believe South Carolina Is incap- 1 ible of self-government; and if you bought so, I am sure you would be ' ishamed to confess it While I am not in accord with the 1 lominant political factors in. South 1 Carolina at this time, and while there * s much to criticize in the conduct of * he affairs of the state, I do not ugree 1 vith you that "the public is already icandalixed at South Carolina." * But even if your statements were ' rue, I have made up my mind, after * inferences with those who love the tate as much as do you or I, that the < tate Itself with the facts before it t hould not only be given the chance * hrough its legislature and the Demo- s ratio state convention to handle the < ituatlon in the interest of pure elec- t ions, but I am equally persuaded that t f given the opportunity, she will see t a I# that Hon olanHnna arn rlnflti onH G hat the Democratic party, in its con- > entlon having had the opportunity to leanse its own stable, will cleanse It c I have not changed my opinion as ? xpressed to you in my letter of May c 2th; "I would rather you fall in and n elp me, as you, can most effectively, r a reform state politics through the n tate convention next time It meets, ^ y changing the rules of the party and 8 ortifying all along the line against o raud and corruption; and then go to B 'ork when the legislature meets again ? j see that the statutes are changed fa i regard to primary elections so as y j preserve the purity of the ballot fa mong white men." fa You will recall that In a recent in- B srvlew I urged upon Oovernor Blease t! > use his powerful influence with the ti tglslature for the enactment of such t< igislatlon as would protect the purity f the white man's ballot in the prl- tl lary and the general elections. I do V ot know what Oovernor Blease is go- P ig to do, and no one else knows; nor f< in I say what the legislature will do. u ut aa a last resort, if the legislature " ills us, we can go to the Democratic d arty and by agitation ?nd making a si )w speeches, I know that the people tl 111 rlae in their wrath and compel a d sform of the party constitution, beiuse there is nothing more certain in ?i all tics than this: We have had the di st primary in the state unless the >1 ?ople become satisfied that they can pi >te at the primary and have their lc >tes honestly counted. This has been the course which has ^ apealed to me all the while since you pi *st brought this Whaley matter to ni y attention'; and the more I consider bi ie consequences of your suggestion s< r an immediate congressional inves- gl nation, the more convinced my judg- el ent becomes that my first opinion is ta ie DroDer and only one. If we are to Je ive any regard for the good name of m ie state and for the future of our er irty. sa I do not question at this time the d< otlve which prompts you to Insist m >on the "washing of the dirty linen ' South Carolina" here In the capital A the nation. It has too much of the cc >pearance of malignancy and per- n< nal spite and a desire for revenge on Qi >ur part, and you cannot escape that P* rdict throughout the state if you al ess it. But your co-operation with th e to have the Democratic party of T1 >uth Carolina and the legislature of th tuth Carolina reform the situation In th e state can be attributed to no other w< otlve than that of the highest patriot- M n. ar If you will permit me to do so, I II be glad to submit copies of the tw Idavit left with Congressman John- nru n, and Buch other affidavits as you tr; ly submit to the chairman of the ite Democratic committee, the ^g eaker of the house of representatives thi d the president of the state senate, ?0 at both the head of the Democratic rty and the heads of the state gov- jn iment in the legislature shall be ad- pr led of the situation in the First conesslonal district as you see it. If this tJv urse is followed, I believe that the ] >ral sensibilities of the people of P1*1 uth Carolina can be so aroused in f?' re] ; meantime as to force both the leg- an ature and the Democratic party to as 'orm the system of primary voting in re! ih a manner as to make corruption tuJ Boiutely Impossible, and in this kind of an effort you may depend upon me del the fullest. Jj? you overlook the responsibility which UJ> ur wishes Impose on me. You are try king me to pursue a course which 11 admit would cause the people of g^ uth Carolina to hang their heads in brl ime, and asking me to do so without cai ing to the people of the state 'ough its legislature or Its dominant lltlcai party of which you and I are he mbers, the chance either to confess *h? >ir inability to deal with the sltuan or their desire that I should be uni tde the vehicle by which the state mc klr iy be brought Into shameful public, In order perhaps, as many think, r it you may be given the opportunity ev? prosecute your political enemy. uai Very sincerely yours, (Signed) B. R Tillman. Wo , # , ed nei T A negro was once summoned bee a justice of the peace. The court for )ceedings were as follows: grt fudge?Why did you steal that inkey wrench and crowbar? aj9 ^egro?Your honor, I wuz busted. Me fudge?What do you think you are wh in automobile? m . W1 r Caller?So your sister and her fl- ^re DT ?e are very close-mouthed over their ragement? dec dttle Ethel?Close-mouthrd? You to jht to see them together w?:?n they nk no one else Is around. nitl UNITED SMS AND MEXICO President Wilson Explains Situation to Congress nun (EJECTED PUCE PROPOSALS. Urgant Request to Amorieano Living in tho Revolution-torn Ropublio to Hurry Baok Home?No Change in wipiviiiaiiv nviauviiii President Woodrow Wilson went to I congress last Wednesday and revealed how the Huerta provisional govern- , ment in Mexico had rejected the friendship of the United States and its effort to aid in the establishment of peace and & government which would be re- ' cognized by this nation and which i would be obeyed and respected by Mex- 1 Ico's own people. < . ] In a statement which breathed re- i gret and sympathy in every phrase, I the president clung tenaciously to op- * timism as to the ultimate result, not- \ withstanding the pessimistic facts con- i fronting the two nations. After picturing the hopelessness for Mexico if , ihe maintained her present position t 'isolated and without friends who can I effectually aid her," the president an- l lounced the necessity of a firm neutral e itand by this government, a policy of t 'hands off" to wait the time of Mexl- * :o's awakening. He also voiced an ur- j tent appeal for all Americans to leave ttexlco and for the United States to e Lid them in every possible way, but In ? emphatic language served notice upon i hose who assume to exercise authorl- c y in the revolution-torn country that r hey would be held to a definite reck- j >nlng for losses and suffering to American citizens. t The message of the president was re ci*cu ttiin ciuiiuBiaaiiv: appiauoc gam- [ red In joint session in the house s hamber, and Wednesday night the nachinery of the government was In t notion for making effective policy for p leutrallty and "hands off" while the raring factions continue their strug- ? le. To prevent the shipment of arms r munitions of war Into any part of b fexlco or to any faction, the United e Itates troops on the border already a iave been warned to exercise increased a Igilance. Whether more troops will a e sent to the border is a question to ^ e decided within the next few days, fajor General Wood, Chief of Staff of tl he army, who has been inspecting the ^ roops in Texas, already is on his way A o Washington. tl General Wotherspoon, attached to K he office of the chief of staff, said jj Wednesday night that much would de- n end upon the experience of the next S aw days on the border in determining ^ pon the order for more troops. Sec- ? etary Bryan will confer with Presi- gent Wilson early tomorrow on the abject and the assurance was given jj lat everything necessary would be C) one to carry out strict neutrality. Secatary Daniels conferred with the presit during the day, and the navy epartment is ready to dispatch more G Hps to Mexican waters if required to revent tne snipment or arms to Mex0 by sea. ' S3 Foreign powers, It was understood el Wednesday, have not been asked to M lace an embargo on the shipment of tr lunltlons of war or arms to Mexico; w ut the president in his message as- et srted that this government had been ol Iven generous moral support of for- pi gn nations In proposals to the Huer- er 1 government, which have been re- In cted. It became known that the ad- pi Jnistration has under serious consld- at -atlon the ordering of several thou- m ,nd more troops to the Mexican bor- or ir line, and it is said that cabinet er embers have urged that this be done, m The president's urgent request to mericans in Mexico to leave the th untry emphasized to congress the ed ;cesslty for action on the recent re- co lest of Secretary Bryan for an ap- el< -opriatlon of $100,000 with which to th d citizens of the United States in pli elr exodus from the scene of conflict, tri le state department estimates that ini ere now are in Mexico not more sis an 16.000 Americans, whereas there loi ?re 60,000 several years ago. In inn exlco City it is estimated that there na e less than 2,000 Americans today. sti The diplomatic relations between the en 'o countries, it is understood, will re- nil lin as they are at present, each coun- wl Y maintaining an embassy without Iclal recognition, presided over by a pe arge d'affaires. Though the presl- . nt made it plain in his statement 141 at all negotiations thus far have coi me to naught, and the message of ac ireign Minister Gamboa, rejecting for c e Huerta government the American charge of the American Embassy. bri oposals, left no room for doubt as to an e situation, the way is open for fu- hir re negotiations either at the initlae of Mexico or the United States. Meanwhile Nelson O'Shaughnessy in abably will remain in Mexico City tor hn Lind, the president's personal wo ?resentative, still is in Vera Cruz rl nrnhahlv will remain there aa lnn?r Ba' there Is any possible ohance for a W< lewal of negotiations. COi In his message, which was In the na- . _ re of an appeal to the moral forces lor this and foreign nations, the presl- 1 nt made it clear that he based high tor pe upon the effect the announcement tra this government's policy will have on not only the people of this coun- ?" and the governments of other na- gei ns, but upon the people of Mexico ev( jmselves. Now that the United . ites has exhausted the effort to ng about peace and a stable Mexi- *18 i government, the president says Ing 8 government's example will prove ab< id In the end. the 'A steady pressure of moral force," rial said, "will before many days break wh > barriers of pride and prejudice hoi svn and we shall triumph as Mexi- er s friends sooner than we would tri- sec iph as her enemies?and how much J ire handsomely, with how much cer [her and finer satisfactions of con- sat ence and honor." for rhe president told congress that ?P? ;rything this nation did in the ait- *r tion confronting it must be "root- wlf In patience and done with calm, Ing interested deliberation." He had no net rd of rebuke for Mexico and reach- rap the determination to maintain strict fac ? iia.. - i 1 val' Jimmy unci' Having prcocuicu mo ole situation to the members of the ?P? eign relations committees in con- A >8a. Not an essential detail did the ma >sident withhold In hta presentation ers the case for the public, publishing are o to the world the reply of the she xlcan government to Mr. Lind In ten Ich Minister Gamboa refers to the the lerlcan proposals as "humiliating," of I lies the representation by President safi lson that Mexico had not made pro- mcx as toward peace and though ex- apj ;88lng appreciation of the avowed Inti ;ndly Intent of the United States, In I dares that "if such good offices are rep be of the character of those now the dered us, we should have to decline spe .m In the most categorical and defl- of < e manner." Everything that Mex- ade tco has said to this government In response to the proposals was made public, including the Huerta alternative that nothing could be welcomed except unrestricted recognition of his government After he had concluded his message and listened to the applause which greeted it, the president returned to the White House to await Its efTect He believes that it will be beneficial. The president In his statement today announced the position of the United States to be as follows: No armed intervention. Strict neutrality "forbidding the exportation of arms or munitions of war of any kind from the United 8tates to any part of the republic of Mexico." Under no circumstances to "be the partisan* of either party to the conteat that now distracts Mexico or constitute ourselves the virtual umpire between them." To urge all Americans to leave Mexico at once and to assist them to ret away In every possible way. To let every one In Mexico who assumes to exercise authority know that this government "shall vigilantly watch the fortunes of those Americans who cannot get away and shall hold those responsible for their sufferings and losses to a definite reckoning." "That can and will be made plain >eyond the possibility of a misunderitandlng." said the president Negotiations for the friendly mediaion of the United States are open to -esumption at any time upon either he Initiative of this government or of Ifexlco. The reply of the Hnerta governnent rejecting the American proposes written by Foreign Minister Oam>oa suggested the following alterraIve policy for the United States: Receptlon*of a Mexican ambassador n Washington. That the United States send a new imbassador to Mexico without retraints. Strict observance of the neutrality aws and "see to It that no material >r monetary assistance be given to the ebela" Unconditional recognition of the luerta government. President Wilson read his instrucions to John Llnd. "AH America criee out fw. a settlement," read the note Mr. Llnd bore o Mexico. "A satisfactory settlement eems to us to be conditioned on; "An immediate cessation of lighting hroughout Mexico; a definite armisice solemnly entered Into and scrululously observed. "Security- given for an early and ree election In which all will agree to ake part "The consent of General Huerta to lnd himself not to be a candidate for lection as president of the republic t this election; and "The agreement of all parties to bide by the results of the election, nd co-operate in the most loyal way m organizing and supporting the new dmlnistration." The president emphatically praised be execution of his mission by Mr. Jnd and said he was led to believe be Huerta government rejected the merican proposals "because the auboritlea at Mexico City had been rossly misinformed and misled" upon be matter, and upon a mistaken belief bat the present administration did ot speak for the people of the United tates. So long as such a ralsundertanding continued, the Dresident as srted that this nation "could only wait the time of their awakening to realization of the real facta. "The situation," declared the preslent, "must be given a little more me to work Itself out in the new clrj instances." HIGH 8PEEO TRAINS eorgs Westinghouse Says 80* Mile Trains are Impossible. Shortly after the elevated railway rstem of Boston was equipped with ectricity and the elvated system of Manhattan and Brooklyn adopted elec1c energy there was discussion in hlch a group of capitalists participetI about thto commercial practicability ' constructing a true air line between hiladelphia and New Tor kto be opated by eelctrlclty. 11 was asserted these discussions that it would be -actlcable to build a line of this kind ' >out ninety miles in length of the best odern construtclon which could be terated for through trains at the av age rate 01 a mue ana a quarter a inute, perhaps a little more. George Westlnghouse, at the time is project was under discussion, statI that there was nothing in roadbed instruction or in the utilisation of sctric energy for operating trains in e way of success of the proposed an; motors could be built and elecIc energy furnished capable of haul* g a train considerably in excess of sty miles an hour. But in his opinion an Insuperable obstacle was the ipossiblllty of constructing any sig.1 system ,eevn upon a perfectly ralght line, which would enable an gineer to stop his train when runng at the rate of 70 miles an hour thin safety distance. He himself had caused careful exriments to be made to show how dlsnt a signal must be set if it were to me within the range of an engineer's curate vision. These tests proved ncluslvely that nc signal could be ought within the range of vision of engineer at a distance sufflcient for n to stop his train within safety limit the train was running at a speed excess of sixty miles an hour. Aunatlc signals might be devised which >uld bring a train to a halt within 'ety distance, but at the time Mr. 38tinghouse seemed to have no great iflderce in the reliability of an aunatic system. Ilr WootlmrhAiiao hn aIwdvi h?an newhat opposed to the operation of ins at & speed averaging in excess about flfty miles an hour. The danin his view, lies in the fact that ?n with the best kind of emergency kkes a train running at the rate of hty miles an hour would still be gor sixty miles an hour at a point ;ut 1,100 feet from the place where brakes wre put on. In his view, the k of accidents is greatly increased en speed In excess of sixty miles an ir is obtained, and he doubts whethany kind of automatic signal will ure safety. Ir. Westlnghouse, in view of the reit accident at Stamford, onn., is lafled that there should be authority the limitation of the maximum >ed of trains, and he believes furththat locomotives should be fitted ;h speed indicators or some record' apparatus which will tell the englsr b ya glance of the eye exactly how ildly he is running and would, in t, furnish indisputable evidence to Iroad officials of what the maximum ed really was. Ir. Westlnghouse has, therefore, de the suggestion that the managnf thn po I1pnnt\a nnnn whlnh tealna now operated at very high speed uld seek to co-operate with the Instate commerce commission, so that re may be exhaustive investigation the entire question of what is really e npeed, taking into consideration dem equipment and modem safety >1 lancet. He is convinced that the estate commerce commission can, this way, prepare an authoritative ort which may do much to restrain prevailing demand for very high ed of trains operated between some our larger cities.?Holland, In PhllIphiay Ledger.