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. ..v, ^|5;v? ? ? "MY TRAIL," Your trail may carry you far away, To the line of the snowy peak: You may follow the wake of the lir-tree's song. But farther, oh farther I seek. g?0. . You may wander the forests primeval, Lured by the eagle's call. Or wait for the desert's wooing? My trail out-reaches them all. ;j I doubt if you find it by searching. However so far you climb: The inn at the end is p constant heart, j The path is a man's life-time. ?Nancy K. Foster. ?.. I J me ? - jV a *> 5' ^7* IT jl * |51 ime JLimit ?s m-tf __ n |?|?{ By J. A. T. LLOYD. J ? It was August and intenseiy hot, ; and, though there was positively nobody in town, London was crowded > "with panting human ?esh. In a particular West End terrace, however, life */v was anything but strenuous. A yawnlug policeman promenaded slowly past fS^the odd numbers, while a young girl, ^ exquisitely dressed, was walking briskly past the even in the opposite direc, tion. Except for these two human bell^-Jag the terrace was deserted. The girl Jhesitated before the last house and If stared a little wistfully at the hall * door. Then she swung round the cor :,v ner and hesitated again. It was all so quiet, so ridiculously like the country. A man had been painting the gate; the brushes and paint pot were still there. Evidently he had gone for refreshment. The gate was open. The \ girl thought hard for half a minute |\ or so, and took something tnat cioseiy - resembled an Easter egg out of her | ( .pocket. She entered the garden and deposited this beneath a rhododendron jpi bush. Glancing at the house she saw latitat the French window leading into looked like a library was open. ^ Here again there was evidence of ||| 5piite recently interrupted work. Some*-~f body had been cleaning windows, ^ and, as likely as not, the girl reasoned, had joined the house painter r' :';3n the quest of mutual solace. The Ml. girl walked quietly into the house and h'v"*ang the bell. Then she sat down in the most comfortable chair in the room. A minute or two later a puztied butler stared protest and admir^ ation at her from the doorway. rV. "Tell Mr. Samuels that I sh^ll see vhim here, in this room; it will be -cooler. Yes, now! Lady Laura Briage' yale, and do be quick." The butler bowed and withdrew. |Sp? In a few minutes a fat, stooping isl xselite shuffled furtively into the li\ ta&ry. The girl smiled at him. "It's horribly hot," she said, gent?Y-3y; "I thought it would be cooler in the library. Do sit down." S&fe-'' "Bridgevale?Lady Laura Bridge^>L*rale," he muttered, fpv The brazen cover of "Debrett" coni; v jfronted them both from the near corIpfiBr of a book case." "I don't seem to remember," he ^ continued, and he moved a pace toward that corner. IpY 4<No, no; it's no use," the girl in^"terrupted. "I'm not Lady Laura j^TrBridgevale; I just said the first name [H/ffcat came into my head." Puffy and startled, the man turned ^cn her. "You mean," he stammered, jp "false pretences?in the city?I never p heard?" wfcl The girl laughed out loud. She had | nice laugh. "There isn't much time," fV ri*? said, looking straight into his ??, eyes. |jp "What do you mean?" At the mo|T: ment he wished that his son, Mont^' morency, were at home. He hated ^talking to these insolent women of !> fashion, who mocked him even while they clutched for his money. "What do r$ \ you mean?" he repeated, avoiding her rj; eyes. "1 want a nunarea pounus, siuu luc 5" girl, brightly. S|f. For an instant the dull, heavy eyeT>r6ws were raised. Then they reJaxed into their old furtiveness. "Ye6, I want it at once," continued the giijl. "They said you were prompt and liberal."' / "Who said?" gasped Mr. Samuels. j&P'[ "The daily papers, of course. Why, ?9* It's everywhere and they say you won't pll take security." "Security! What?, Why you must ?pl? mad! In the City?you come to me talking like that?calling yourself Xady Laura Bridgevale, and talking "about a hundred to my face. Do you think I find a hundred pounds in my garden?" He broke off abruptly. His angry pomposity fell flaccid beneath t-i the scrutiny of her stare. Again the desire for Montmorency came to him. .V The oily, varnished tongue of his son gv had always smoothed such predica ? ments as the present. She might De ||| laughing at him: she might be a duchess for all he knew. He dared mot express the insolence of his soul. "I want a hundred pounds," contin ued the girl, "and? yes, ten shillings M: for a hansom." "I can't do it," said the man of H "business, his teeth closing in angry f, finality. "You'v? got to do, Mr. Samuels," said the girl. "Do you mean just on your note of Jiand?" V s>. "Yes, I do; but there's a time limit y ?for you." :>. Something like a gloomy grin passed p -over the money lender's face. "You inean a promissory note?three months?" 4I mean ten minutes, and three \ Itave gone already." -v . time he thought she really was P - v mad, and he jerked his body forward like am animal in pain. For a moment Mr. Samuel's dull eyes wandered to the clock on the mantelpiece. "I think you'd better just rest, Madam," he said feebly, eying the door sideways as he spoke. "There isn't much time for rest," said the igirl. Fear came to him, from the yellow, heavy eyelids drops of perspiration started, airaost like tears. The forehead contracted, the usurer looked years older. "The girl played with the tassel cn her red parasol. "It's like this, Mr. Samuels." she began, kindly, "Do you know what a time fuse is?" "tn r.irv"?hp besan. and then collapsed. "I don't mean in the city," said the girl. "I mean among the anarchists." The word shook him. The girl knew that he would not try to escape. She held him easily in his chair with her eyes. "You see, Mr. Samuels," she continued, airly "there's been quite a lot of bomb throwing lately, in Paris, in Vienna?they watch them there. It's much easier in London, Mr. Samules." As she spoke she rose from her chair and glanced out of the French window. "It's in the garden, Mr. Samuels, and it's a ten-minute fuse!" "My God" groaned Mr. Samules, as he staggered to his feet. "It's no use calling the police," said the girl; "that won't help you. I'm not an anarchist, you know; I'm just a girl who wants a hundred pounds and ten shillings, and I do want it very badly, Mr. Samuels." "Do you mean that there is a. bemb in my garden? Do you mean, while you sit twirling your flimsy fal-lals, that me and mine may be blown to eternity? The terrible fear in his yellow face made him for the moment something other than comic to his visitor.. For the instant she relasped into seriousness. "You see, Mr. Samuels, it's as quiet as the country here. London's like a village out of the Season. I was just walking behind him; he was horrid and shaggy. I think he was a little mad, Mr. Samuels. He threw the thing in just like this," she added, waving her arms, "and then he said,out loud, 'Usurer, ten minutes for your prayers.' I didn't think he was a nice man, Mr. Samuels. There was no policeman about, and so I came in to tell you myself. But I do so want that hundred pounds?and ten shillings for the handsom. No, it's no good making a noise, and shouting for the servants or the police?they can't help you; there's nobody in London who can help you, Mr. Samuels, but I. You see, while they're arresting me, you will be blown into heaven." '"I'll do it," said the money lender, and the girl could not face the animal terror of his eyes. "Here, take it." In a moment he had thrust ten ten-pound notes into her hand. "Waif a moment" said the girl; "we have three more minutes. I can't be found with the bomb Mr. Samuels, or they'll arrest me as an anarchist. Can you catch, Mr. Samuels?" ' "You don't mean that you are going to throw that accursed thing at me?" "The accursed thing is as harmless as a chocolate box until the time limit," said the girl. "It's like this," she continued, taking a little parcel from the pocket of her skirt. "You see this little bonbon box, Mr. Samuels; imagine the fuse, the ten minute fuse, Mr. Samules, placed here at the side. For ten minutes that little bomb is as harmless as an inkstand. Throw the fuse into water one second before the time limit, and you are safe. There's a carafe at your elbow; look, you have just a clear minute; put those notes into this little Easter egg?you see I mean fair play?throw it to me out the window, and you will receive, in perfect safety, the most deadly investment .of modern life. Ah. I forgot the half-sovereign, Mr. Samuels." The money lender had already ad -L- -e Tul ~ justed the notes, ana oegan 10 lumuie savagely in his pocket for this purchase of life. The girl walked airliy out of the. French window. v "Now, then, Mr. Samuels, I'm ready!" she cried, extending her daintily gloved hands. Something between a prayer and a curse died hard between Mr. Samuel's throat and lips. He threw the little bundle out of the window, and the girl caught it easily. She stepped lightly toward the rhododendron bush and stooped down. "Catch, Mr. Samuels!" The money lender extended his arms. It struck him somewhere between the throat and the diaphragm, and he staggered back, clutching blindly at the table to save himself. He rushed to the carafe and poured its contents over the harmless looking little object. Then he wiped the perspriation frojp his torehead. Nothing happened. Gingerly Mr. Mr. Samuels removed wnai setmeu tu te the lid. He found a small piece of paper on which was scrawled an "I 0 U" for ?100 10s. with a time limit of three months noted in brackets. When Mr. Samuels, not without a hint of fear in his voice, repeats this story to his old cronies, he always adds that what appears to him most extraordinary about the whole affair is that the money was actually repaid anonymously within the given time.? The Sketch. A Chinese remedy for croup requires seven nests of large-sized spiders : taken trom old walls. ' ! H fik ^ t A 1F ( Palmetto Stateta i v V 'V I ??? Prof. Judson Passes Away. Charles Rallett Judson, LL. D,, dean of Furman university, died a few days ago from paralysis. lie was S6 : years old, and one of the best lmown educators in the south. He had been connected with Furman since 1851, and had made liberal donations to the institution. He was a. native of Connecticut. * * $ The Thntfrmnoe-n. Tradesman renorts the following new South Carolina in-1 dustries: Cowpens?$30,000 cotton mill. Spartanburg ? Saw and planing mills. Columbia?Handle factory; $10,000 bottling works. Fort Mill?Hosiery mill. McCormick?$75,000 builders' supply company. * * * Negro Race Conference. Through the efforts of Rev. Richard Carroll, the well known negro educator of this state, the O.o race conference has been called tc meet in Columbia January 23-25. Governor Heyward, Governor-elect M. F. Ansel and other prominent citizens will make addresses, as also will Booker T. Washington and other prominent negro leaders. t * * * Low Death Rate for Newberry. The mortality statistics for 190G show a remarkable record for Newberry. Among the most interesting figures of the report is the record of births and deaths for the past twelve months. With a population of more ! than seven thousand, there have been, during this period, only forty-six deaths. During the same period 121 births were recorded. * * * For Statue to Calhoun. New bills have been introduced in the senate proV5ding for a $10,000 statue for Calhoun at Washintgon, and one for the state to engage in fertilizer making by convict labor and another for farm iabor contracts to be in writing and registered with the county clerk. The anti-dispensary legislators made no fight on a resolution which was j adopted, calling far a federal law forbidding whiskey to be shipped into dispensary or prohibition states. * Dispute Leads to Killing. Arthur V. Green, a young white man, was shot to death at JLaurens by Joseph R. Fant, Jr., son of J. R. Fant, chief dispensary constable of the Spartanburg division. It seems that the two young men had a dispute at an oyster supper, when, it is alleged", Green swore that he would kill Fant. Green later went to Fant's boarding house, where, after efforts to prevent his entrance by one of the young ladies of the house, he was shot dead by Fant. ? ! * * : rrj-iTj Farmers Oppose Bucket Shops. The recent meeting of the Newberry County Fanners' Union was one of the largest ever held. Delegates were present from every local union in the county. W. C. Moore of Greenville, president and manager of the Fanners' Cotton Union, was present and explained the operations of his organization as it affects the farmers in \ | warehousing and selling their cotton. ? * _ ?. An important move on tne pari 01 the union at this meeting was the adoption of ?, resolution condemning bucket shops. ? * * "Undignified and Insulting." By a vote of 79 to 40, the house of representatives declined to concur iu the resolution introduced in the senate by Senator Blease, and passed by that body 21 to 1, approving the course of President Roosevelt in summarily dismissing the negro troops implicated in the Brownsville riot When the resolution was called up, it was urged that the resclutioh was intended as a rebuke to the senior United States senator from this state, and that such an indirect and covert method of indicating to the national representatives of the state the wishes .and opinions of the house would be both undignified and insulting. ' . * . * V To Save Him from Lynchers. A white man by the name of Turner was incarcerated in the state penitentiary at Columbia Monday night by (Sheriff Hunter of Bamberg for safekeeping and as a matter of precaution. He is accused of criminal assault on the little daughter of former Senator S. G. Mayfield of Bamberg, formerly of Greenville. Turner is related to the family of Senator Mayfield, and was employed at his sawmill as a sawyer. He was staying in the Mayfield home at Denmark. Sunday Mr. Mayfield was at V " ' ' J,-'., < ft - :.y,y-r':\ r - .V iracted by. the cries of his little laughter, and discovered her in the room of Turner, where Turner had Enticed her. Mr. Mayfield seized Turner and beat him into insensibility at the time. * * Must Obtain Seed Elsewhere. The Sea Island Cotton Association of Georgia and Florida held an enthusiastic meeting in Valdosta, Gn., the past week. The committee on acreage for next season placed the acreage ten acres to the plow. All of the old officers of the association were re-elected and ?. new constitution wras adopted. A discussion of the seed problem was f .11 PQrnl ina tt'ill 1 llll Ui kw'v/ LX >.1X ? *. not sell any seed outside of the state, and, as heretofore, the sea island growers have been obtaining all of their good seed in this state, it is up to the Georgia and Florida growers to make other arrangements. It is stated that the growers in the Valdosta section have seed for two or three years' planting, and they have already begun a process of selecting seed from their own crops, which they believe in a few years will result in a strain of seed better suited to the locality than the South Carolina seed. The experiment will be watched with interest by the growers of this state. \ ????-??? WIFE OF LAWYER ARRESTED. Mrs. Guinn Charged With Hiring Men to Murder Husband. About three weeks ago, Colonel W. A. Guinn of McCays, Tenn., was assassinated while entering his front yard about 9 o'clock at night. Ever since that time the coroner's jury has been investigating the crime, and until Thursday their investigations have been kept a profound secret. On that day John Ellis of FanniQ county, Georgia, who has been held under bond as a witness in the murder, made a confession which is highly sensational. I-Ie states that Mrs. Guinn, the wife of the murdered man, divided $250 between himself and John Allen, who is now in jail at Benton, Tenn., for the murder of Colonel Guinn. For this amount either he or Alien were to kill Colcnei Guinn. They stationed themselves at tlie two gates which gave entrance tc Colonel Guinn's premises, and at whichever gate Colonel Guinn entered whoever was stationed there was tc shcot and kill him. This was the agreement From Ellis' statement, Colonel Guinn entered by the gate where A! leu was stationed, and Allen shot anc killed him. Ellis also gave infonna tion where was placed the gun wit! which the murder was committed. Or investigation the gun was found a: Ellis stated. Ellis also stated wher< could be found a bottle of turpentine a part of which was used on thei teet to prevent the degs from tracking them. . Mrs. Guinn and Ellis have hot] been placed under arrest. GOVERNOR COMER INAUUUKR i E.L Immense Throng Witnesses Inducticr of Alabama Chief Executive. With an escort of two thousam soldiers and in the presence of te: thousand people, B. B. Comer was in augurated governor of Alabama 01 Monday at Montgomery. The occasioi was marked by great ceremony. The most impressive thing in th< inaugural address of Governor Come was his recommendation for the greal est liberality for education. Hi is not enthusiastic about immigration and cautioned against cheap foreign ers and calling attention to the tron bles we have now with 40 per cen cheap negro labor. He urges the ap propri&tion of $200,000 a year more fo confederate soldiers and better car of them. Ke urges bills to bring about rat reduction, abolition of free passe save to employes, laws making tb waterways avanaDie w tne pwpieaui emancipation from "the railroad bone age and boycott." He thinks that a] fares on main lines should be two am a half cents a mile and on branc) lines not over four. PIERCE UNDER GRAFT CHARGE. United States Minister to Norway Ac cused of Crocked Dealing. Herbert H. D. Pierce, new Unitei States minister to Norway, and foi merly assistant secretary of state, I again in the public eye because c charges made against him. He was accused Monday by Pre fessor H. W. Elliott of Clevelani Ohio, before the house committed o: ways and means of having been guilt of misconduct while representing th ! United States government at in I Hague in the settlement of claims r< I suiting from the 'seizure of a sealin vessel by the Russian government. The charge is that Mr. Pierce nc only represented this government, bu did business on his own hook an represented the owners of the vej sel. * Bull Proved the Victor, Antonio Montes, considered to b , one of the foremost matadors of Spair | was fatally gored by a bull in a figh i given in the City of Mexico Sunda] | Montes was about to place the swor I when the bull caught him amidships V Y- fiY : r % ANOTHER MESSACf On Brownsville Affray Sent .Congress by Roosevelt. STICKS TO CONTENTION Along With the Message He Sends j Evidence ot uuut ot uoiwrea i Troops in Shape of Bullets, Empty Shells, Etc. President Roosevelt Monday sent to congress a special message re^ j garding the Brownsville incident, which gives the additional vidence collected by Assistant Attorney General Puray and Major Blocks-cm, who were sent to Texas by the president | to investigate the affair. The report submitted with his mes- | I sage, including maps of Erownsville ! and Fcrt Brovm, a bandoleer, 23 j empty shells, seven ball cartridges, . picked up in the streets a few hours after the shooting; three steel jacketed bullets and some scraps of the casings of ether bullets picked out of the houses into which they had been fired. The president declares that the evidence is positive that the outrage of August was committed by seme of the colored troops that have been dismissed and that some or all of the individuals of the three compa nies the twenty-filth infantry naa knowledge of the deed and have shielded the guilty cnes. The negro troops are referred to by the president in his message as "midnight assassins," and he declares that very few, if any, of the soldiers dismissed "without honor" could have been ignorant of what occurred. That part of the order which bars the soldier from all civil employment under the government is revoked by the president. This clause, the president says, was lacking validity. The discharged troopers, however, will be forever barred from enlisting in the army or navy and as to this the : president says that "there is no 1 doubt of my constitutional and legal ' power." ' Secretary Taft's report giving the 1 sworn testimony of witnesses is trans1 mitted with the message. The testimony of fourteen eye witnesses .is given and the president declares that " the evidence is conplusive that the weapons used were Springfield rifles i nrvn.- iNPd hv T'nited States troops, in ) I - r j eluding the negro troops who were 3 ! in the garrison at Brownsville. s Taking but a brief time to pass the legislative, executive and judicial 'T appropriation bill. carrying nearly , $31,000,000, the senate devoted the remainder of the day to the Browns2 ville affray. The president's message was read and ordered printed, j The speech-making on the subject began and continued until 5:30 , o'clock, Mr. Foraker saying he was not going to make a speech, "but a few rej marks." observed that the testimony amounts to a great deal, '"for the president tells us it is conclusive." 1 "But it does not remove the obx jection I have had from the beginning of the proceedings. What I have 3 been trying to contend for, and I hope .. I will be successful, is to secure a hearing for the men charged with this B serious crime. This testimony has J been taken as the other was, behind closed doors, without anybody repre^ senting the men. V. Qoron with ? JSL3rl/HiJ5 tllcll litJ UIU iiut TT AIM H the president in all he has done in r this case, Mr.' Mallory of Florida die gressed to call attention to what he regarded as the best illustration that e could be given of the incompetency Q of the negro to grapple with great e questions. His illustration was the ^ criticism of the president by a. negro I. mass meeting, at Boston. A negro, he U said, held the most lucrative federal A office in Florida, as collector of in2 ternal revenue; the collector of customs at Savannah, Ga., was a negro, and the collector of internal revenue of the state of Georgia was a negro, and everyone knew the fight which the senate had made against Crum, a negro, made collector of the port at A Charleston. "But," added Mr. Mallory, "the pats riots of Boston, who probably are the ,f best representatives of the negro race in this country, allow themselves to j. be carried away by the passion of It the moment, unable to look fairly and n and squarely at a proposition which v should be judged justly and honestly, e forget that they are under great oblie gations to the president, and send j. forth a denunciation of the best friend g they have ever had in office." * FAMILY EXTERMINATED BY GAS. it d Father, Mother. and Daughter >_ Asphyxiated in Brooklyn. At Brooklyn, N. Y., Sunday night, illuminating gas, which escaped dur0 ing the night from a small stove used l* for heating, caused the death cf Meyer ^ Rubin aged. 50 years; his wife, Rosa, jj 58; their son, Philip I., and their 15year-old daughter, Rosa. . ..w . ? ' ' ' ' " -*C I ? SHAW HAS SIDESTEPPED. Recommends a Subtreasury for the \ South, But Fails to Suggest Where It Shall Be Located. fr.iSj A Washington dispatch says: See- \ rtary Snaw has forwarded to the ways J and means committee his recommendation relative to the establishment r>f Kuh-treasurv in the southeast. Chairman Pnyne says the matter will be considered at a called meeting, a^d in the meantime refuses to . * ^ talk of the contents cf Mr. Shaw's communication. It is known, however, that the secretary has failed to express a preference as to the location cf the institution. Indeed, he makes no reference to the alleged caucus of the southern states from which Georgia bolted. He . says in substance that if another sub, treasury is to be established, it should .Q|| by all means be located in the south- . east He even avoids naming a state. Chairman Payne had intended call- ' ' -3% ing the matter to the attention of his committee Monday morning, with a view to disposing of the question, but the secretary's communication was forgotten for the time, being. The report of Secretary Shaw is ; disappointing to. many southern con- .7^ gressmen, but is especially gratifying ; to the Georgians, who are anxious to Y: have the matter settled on its merits 1by the ways and means committee. It had been known, however, that the secretary would urge the establish- ,':J| ment of a sub-treasury, instead of l/tOTrlnm if fVlrt PAmmittflO tf* I^UV1U5 XL 1V/1 ViukV W .,... . -tffifH cide whether one is really needed. *. ;* | Congressman Livingston announces, in connection with the report, that --''M if a subtreasury is established it is v . bound to be located at Atlanta. A CENTURY BEHIND TIME. -Jp Pope's Orders .Are Considered by yM Many as Ridiculously Antiquated. ;;;?j|s| Kev. C. K. Nelson, Episcopal .bishop of Georgia, does not agree with the Rev. Robert Cod-man, Episcopal bishop of Maine, in believing that the troubles between the government and Sf] the Roman Catholc church in France warrant official action on the part ; of the Episcopal church in America. Bishop Codman, a few days ago, authorized the churches in his diocese to offer a special prayer in behalf of the Roman Catholic church. in France. Bishop Nelson was shown the prayer and asked if he ^ntended . to authorize the Episcopal church of Georgia to take similar action or whether he agreed with the policy, ' and said: "MNO, 1 CLD nui 1UICUU UJ ittivc OUJ! . ^.jrgBg such action, for I do not think,, the conditions warrant it "Some are inclined to lay the trouble to the fact that the orders' of the pope are always a hundred years behind the times. Things that he could order and consistently contend for % ^|s one hundred years ago are about out -J|1 of date now, and cannot be upheld. Many have held this view." > FIVE BILLIONS ARE NEEDED ' -M By Railroads of Country in Order to Keep Up With Growing Business. Governor John A. Johnson of Minnesota has received a letter from Jiubos . J. Hill, president of the. Great korthern Railway company, declaring that " ^ it would require a/permanent investment of $1,100,000 a year for five years to provide the railroads of the country; ^ with the means to handle properly business already in sight, and not al- . lowing for future growth. , / u'"spi eo Tft AftftlftT DREAR. &SS I nriKKbbn I V rtww.w. ? Son of Notfed Sire to Aid In Inspection { :;j of Georgia Troops. Captain Jos. A. Wheeler, Jr., U. S. A., a son of the . late General Joseph . Wheeler, has been detailed to assist in the inspection of the troops of % the national guard of Georgia. Captain Wheeler has been ordered to report for duty February 1, when the inspections will be begun under the direction of Colonel Obear. WOBK HOURS NOT RESTRICTED. . J| ' '' Commerce Commission Brings Out the - ^ Facts as to Railway Wreck. Investigation by the interstate com- | merce commission Monday at Wash ington into the block signal system to '.C use on the Baltimore and Ohio rail- r road showed that men engaged in the < * operation of trains work an excessive ",:;j number of hours without a sufficient y "Si? period of rest intervening it. It was" developed that no restrictions are placed upon the hours trainmen shall work, and that they take advantage of- -r ? fercd to labor for many hours in order 2 to increase their compensation. i , . 0% ANDY PAYS THE MOST. ' ^ Carnegie Beats Rockefeller by Half < in Personal Taxes. Andrew Carnegie will be the hear' '$8 iest personal taxpayer in New York j if the list of assessments just -made ' public by the assessor's is not amend- . ; ed. The value of his personal prop- ' erty is fixed at $5,000,000, and that :' . - ! of John D. Rockefeller ait $2,500,000..' --i > . .. . ;' w&Bi - . -.v./? '7i