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THE RETURN7. \ He sought the old scenes -with eager feet? The scenes he had known as a boy; uOh, for a draught of those fountains sweet. And a taste of that vanished joy.*' He roamed the fields, he mused by the streams. He threaded the paths and lane?: On the hills he sought his vouthful dreams. In the woods to forget his pains. Oh, sad. sad hills; oh. cold, cold hearth! Tn tnrmu- ho learnt") the truth ? One may go back to the place of his birthHe xan not go back to his youth. ?John Burroughs. f De Mortuis. | ?/ :: "tfS V. E. FRIED LAENDEK. He sat down at Emily's desk to go through her papers. Now that the house was sold, the servants dismissed, and he himself back in bachelor quarters, there was no excuse for putting the thing off. And if Emily had known a month ago, he could i. 1 t ? it.' .1.: 1 - .1 iiui neip mniiung as ue opeueu vat' drawers, that she was to be killed in a railway accident, she could hardly have made his task easier. Neat little bundles, tied up with pink tape and clearly labeled, proclaimed her various activities. "Mothers' Union," "Soup Kitchen." "SundaySchool,"' "Book Club"?how the names recalled Emily herself. A swift pang of compunction seized him. Was it possible, then, that after only a month her image was fading from his mind? He continued absently to empty drawers and pigeonholes. More neat packages, half a dozen unanswered letters and a few notebooks?that was all . . . Yes, undoubtedly Emily was already becoming to him something shadowy and vague. How was it? Rather guiltily he tried <,c avoid lilt: uuciyiuicu utcps ui uis jxiixiu. but the moment of self-re'elation was no longer to be postponed. He Lad been shocked, unnerved, horrified by the sudden tragedy; but underneath all that could he deny the existence of a shameful undercurrent of feeling, a persistent, ever growing joy in freedom regained? And yet, what a good wife she had beer; howpractical, careful of his Interests, unexacting. In a thousand ways, large and smajl, he would be the loser. A good wife, but?yes, that was surely it?she had never conquered, never even entered the kingdom of his mind. And -where she had never entered could she ever be missed? Once in that kingdom there had had dwelt indeed a woman, but she was not Emily. He turned with an impatient sigh. Tn the dnnrwav stood Alison. Of course, it was a dream, but be was conscious of a certain admiration of himself as dreamer. He had remembered to make her look older/ \?oh, quite five years older. "Poor Mark!" she said softly. He started. Then it was not a dream. - "I have only just heard," she explained gently. "We've been in town for a day or two, and Mrs. Heriotson has just told me about?Emily. I asked her for your address, and came straight on." She held out he? hands* in eager sympathy. He felt her fingers cold beneath her gloves. Quite naturally he . unbuttoned and drew them off, as though they had never parted in bitter silence more than five years ago. "You must get warm," he said, gently, and led her to the fire. ' "Do you think," Alison asked, tremulously, "that ? she suffered much?" He shook his head. "Not at all; the doctors said it must have been instantaneous." A t: ~ ^ j J J T ^ -c a A V AU5UU UUUUeU ill SWIH AJI, I'm glad. But?oh, it's hard to realize! We were just the same age, and twenty-four is so young to die, and we used to be?to see so much of each other." Why had she stopped short of the word "friends," he wondered. "And to die like that!" she murmured. He thought he could guess what she meant. "There was nothing? nothing " he began. He wanted to explain that death had spared Emily the last indignity cf being revolting in its form, but he could find no words. She nodded in swift comprehension. "Yes, yes, I know what you mean. It would have been awful? that." He looked up with a grateful thrill. Emily had never understood a halffinished sentence. "You were going through her paO ' ' A 11 o-1 r.C M nr c + a. Aiiiuu aiivcu, ^Aaiiv^ug at iiic open desk. "Yes." She leaned forward with sudden eagerness. "What is that?" "Which?" She rose and picked up one of the notebooks. "Ah, it is!" she said, and began to turn the pages. "Alison!" She looked up in quick defiance. "It's my own," she said. "Your own?" "Yes; my diary that I lost five and a half years ago." The bewilderment in his face was not to be mistaken. "You didn't take it?" she asked, slowly. "I? Alison, you cannot seriously think I did that?" She was silent, but they read the same thought in each other's eyes. " "Then it must have been " Ke stopped. Why say what was obvious! And Alison's gesture was eloquent. Emily was dead. She frowned thoughtfully. "Then you haven't known, Mark, all these years, what was in my diary?" He shook his head. She looked at him in grave wonder, j ''Then what made you change to ; me?" He bit his lip. Did she think that ! five years could heal such wounds. "Have you forgotten?" he asked. "I never knew," she said, steadil}7. "I saw that you grew cold. I knew you had ceased to love me. Could the reason why have comforted me?" "I thought you must have guessed," he murmured. "Oh, I guessed and guessed. And i I decided that you had considered j yourself entitled to read my I diary " "Alison!" And to bo offended by its con- ! tents. But that, you say, was a j wrong guess.'' "Yes." "Then " "Alison, did you never treat me j to my face as though you liked me? ] when you were alone?and behind I my back make fun of me, caricature i me, criticise my clothes, my walk, i my way of speaking and laughing?" * He spoke with quiet bitterness. She nodded emphatically. "Often, i Most of it's in the diary." "I?heard." "You heard?" Her look was questioning. "I think you ought to tell me something, if only one thing, that j you heard." He was silent. jls unjy lair, sue uig'eu. He looked up desperately. "Well, J didn't you, for instance, say that I reminded you of Matthew Arnold's ! definition of the Athanasian Creed? . ! 'Learned science, with a strong dash of temper'?" She laughed a little. "I'd forgotten, but I do believe I did." She turned the leaves of the diary rapidly. "Yes, here it is: 'March 18? Emily resumed cross-examination. | Wanted to know if I didn't consider j his scientific learning colossal, unparalleled, etc. Quoted Arnold on the Athanasian Creed to her. Shock j satisfactory.' " He was looking at her with startled \ eyes. "The date," he breathed; j "what date did you say?" She referred to the-diary. "March \ 18." "But?that was before we were ! engaged." "Oh, yes." "But?Emily " " ' "Ah, I sometimes thought " j Their eyes met. "Don't!" she said j breathlessly. "I see, I see." He began to see, too. "I have always wondered," she mused, "why you didn't understand, \ even if you had read every word of the diary. I felt so sure you would see it was all in self-defense. Could a girl bear to let people think she cared for a man before he had spoken? There were girls who did it"? her momentary hesitation revealed ! to him as clearly as words that Emily i had been one of them, and he red- j dened?"but?but that only sent me i flying to the other extreme. When ! people tried to?to pump me about ! you. I said anything?laughed, j mocked, mimicked, caricatured?in ! sheer terror lest any one should discover how much I cared." Wo nnHHwl "T npvor knew " he , ?? ' ? I said slowly. "I was told?I thought j all the things that came to my ears were said by you after we were en- ; gaged." "Mark!" she said; and her voice j quivered. He was walking restlessly up and ! down. "Our insane pride!" he j groaned. "If only we'had spoken? | asked questions!" "Yes," she agreed tremulously; j and through both their minds passed j a flash of wonder that Emily could j have proved so good a judge of char- j acter, should have calculated on just that proud silence with which they had met catastrophe. And yet?she must have been in some doubt, or why had she removed Allison's only j proof, the diary? Suddenly Alison arose. "I must ; go, Mark. I acted on a sudden im- | pulse in coming, and my impulses j are always wrong." Her smile was ' very sad. "Not this one," he urged, eagerly, j "Alison, net this one! You are in j town? I shall see you again?" She answered his unspoken ; thought. "Ah, Mark, has life led you to expect such miracles?" "Alison!" he implored, "you'll for- j give me?some day?" "Forgive?" She turned away with ! a sigh. "It would have been hard, J wouldn't it," she mused, "if I had married five years ago?" He caught his breath. "Allison! I You didn't?" She shook her head. "Xo, I didn't; |. that would have been only hard." j She turned toward the door. "Really, ! I must go, or I shall miss the train." His voice was heavy with disap- J pointment. "Then you aren't on a ; visit in town?" j She stood still. "A visit in town?" she echoed, and her lips were white. "Oh, no." Suddenly she swayed toward him. "Help me, Mark," she breathed piteously. He bent and kissed her hands. "My dear! My sweet!" He stopped j v?iin a coarse cry. ausou, you sa.iu you " He pointed to one of her hands. "It was five years ago," she gasped, j "Oh. Mark, if it had been, I think? I could have forgiven her." His eyes questioned her passion-; ately. With a little cry she released j her hands and stumbled to the door, j "Don't go, Alison," he implored. She shook her head. "I must. ! Don't you understand?" She turned for an instant. "Didn't I tell you it wasn't a visit?" Her voice broke. "Mark! Mark! Don't look at me! tfhere are no miracles! It's a honey-; moon."?The Sketch. ' v.,,,-hi ti iA iflU nf~i ^ti rffc i^i ir. Palmetto State Mews Petitions Fell Short. After carefully checking the names appearing on the petitions calling for an election on the liquor question in | Newberry county, with these contained in the registration books of the county, Supervisor Wicker has announced that the petitions fell short of the required number of names of registered voters by about two hun<ivoH vnrprs and the prayer of the pe titicners was therefore refused. * * * Want Gov. Ansell'c Views. An interesting report of the hGom that is being launched for Governor sauioo uoijnuiiuou itn;uaptse.id oiiujoo map aqt joj buiiojro quox i? nua[0 lrom a telegram received for Governor Ansel Monday morning from the New York Times. It was as fellows: "Can you favor the New York Times with a telegraphed expresion of your views on the North Carolina situation and on Governor Glenn as a democratic presidential candidate? Dispatches say the state will put him forward in the convention and Bryan will support him." * * * Lunatic Shoots Constable. A Columbia dispatch says: Monday, Magistrate J. I. Valentine of Cope, Orangeburg county, sent his constable, H. E. Valentine, to arrest R. P. Franklin, a negro, one a charge of larceny. Franklin lives on E. S. Spire's place, about four miles from Norway. Constable Valentine pressed into servw v f.arrer and both went to ? * . * 1 . , Franklin's house to arrest him. On arriving at the house, Valentine went to the front door and got in, and the negro drew his pistol and fired at him. The ball entered his left side and penetrated the stomach. The negro wrenched Valentine's pistol from him, and it fired, striking the negro in the shoulder. Valentine was fatally wounded. The negro is still at large, and is being chased by a posse of men. * * * Lumber Piants May Close. The lumbermen of North and South Carolina met in Sumter the past week. The meeting was held behind closed doors and the only statement given out was to the effect that the separation of the South Carolina men from the Noth Carolina Association was not mentioned. It was decided by the mill men of both 'states to close their mills for thirty days to secure better prices and conditions. It was also decided to | hold a meeting cf the representatives from both states at Norfolk, August G, when -an effort will be made to extend the general movement for better .prices into Virginia and Maryaldn. Should the mills close down thousands of employees will be thrown ouc of work. The lumbermen will not discuss the matter, save to say that nothing will be done until the association considers the proposition next month. * Restriction to Be Tested. An interesting suit has been started in the state circuit court at Charles ton to test the legali:y of the restriction placed upon its employees by the Atlantic Coast Line, which requires them to join the relief association and forbids them from entering suit for such damages as they may receive. The point is to be made in the case of Xorris S. Neville, who was hurt in the capsizing of a flat car in praces of unloading. In this case, the section master is also made a party to the suit for the purpose of preventing the railroad company from moving the cause to the United States court, frequently done under the non-resident provision. On account of these two questions, the suit becomes one of great importance, although brought only for the sum of $10,000, for a victory for the plaintiff will probably prove the breaking up of the relief system and the filing of many actions against the road. * * * carmprs' Union. mccuny \j i ? i-.... The state convention of the Farmers' I Union of South Carolina was held in | Greenwood, and was a success in every feature. Mayor Baker of Greenwood delivered the address of welcome. The initial session was occupied in routine work and the appointment of committees. Warehouses, fertilizers and the immigration question received due consideration. The principal feature of the first day's session was the magnificent address o/ Chas. S. Barrett of Georgia, national president of the union. rni? iiroll vor>oi vOr? QTirl lilt? auui COS ? CIO "Vii frequently interrupted by applause. G. M. Davis of Georgia made a strong speech at night. . At the second <ia#'s session the re s " . " ? ' - 7' r>S . I pons of the committees on ware-1 houses and fertilizers were received. J The report of the committee on warehouses shews a number of warehouses now chartered and in full operation. The report of the committee on fertilizers was full and comprehensive. J. C. Strlbling of Anderson was elected delegate to the national convention, which ruteis in Little Rock, September 3. W. C. Moore, with others, will rep-j resent the Farmers' Union of this state j - ? ^ n-rAu-Ovo' r>nn vfn. i <il Uie spmneia auu 6lunv'iJ vvuiwution to be held in Atlanta in October. The following officers were elected to serve for the ensuing year: 0. P. Goodwin, president; T. T. Wakefkld, vice president; B. F. Earl, secretary; J. B. Black, chaplain; H. T. Campbell, doorkeeper; C. W. Dickerscn and W. E. Hopkins, sergeant-at-arms. Executive committee is as follows: J. B. Pickett, John T. Boggs, J. C. Brown, W. L. Kenedy and W. L. Anderson. The convention was, in every way, V I most successful, and shows the strength of the Farmers' Union in South Carolina. More than half of the counties of the state nave organl- ; zations, and the work is progressing rapidly and satisfactorily. The out look for the present year gives promise of every county in the state being fully organized. The officers elected express them- , selves as being confident that almost every person in the state ^ho is eligible for membership will become connected with the union during ths year. ' SOUTHERN PROGRESS. Noted by Georgia and Alabama In- j dustrial index. The Georgia and Alabama Industrial I Index says in issue of the past week: j "News <sf plans for the building of j more cotton factories and more inter- i urban electric railways and a typical ' purchase by Ohio and Pennsylvania capitalists of a large tract df South Alabama land upon which improvements to cost $100,000 will be made are interesting features of advance i; reports to the Index this week. "A $200,000 cotton mill is projected a Junction City, Ga. At Dougiasville, Ga., a company which is to build a $200,000 cotton mill, has effected organization, will subscribe the entire capital stock and by January l, 190S, expects to have a 10,000 spindle factory in operation. "Electric railways between Blackshear, Ga., and Waycross, Ga., and j between Eatonton. Ga., and Madison, j Ga., are projected. Organization will be effected in a few days b^ the company which will build an electric railway, previously reported, between Quitman, Ga., and Valdosta, Ga.; surveys are being made for the line pro- j jected between Griffin, Ga., and Social j Circle, Ga., and contracts wiil be. awarded and construction begin in a few days upon the electric railway between Macon, Ga., and Albany, Ga., via Americus, Ga. "Besides the development of wa? ter power and the supplying of electric energy for the manufacturing purposes, no one factor promises more for the upbuilding of Georgia and AioHomo than tha buildins: of interur AlUUUUJiM VMMM ??W ? w ban electric liines, by .bringing great ' resources into close touch with markets, will increase the rural 'popula* tion so that one town and village with its schools, churches and smaller industrial enterprises will hardly leave off before another begins, eventually. WILLIAMS A WINNER. 1 According to Unofficial Returns from Mississippi Election. A New Orleans dispatch says: Complete returns from Missisippi give Williams the election with a plurality of 2,259 votes. This coun: is unof- ' ficial, but is based on the official returns made by individual counties. E. F. Noel and Earl Brewer are the 1 two leaders in tie gubernatorial race, ' according to the count, and will enter 1 :he final primary. JONES IS OPTIMISTIC. < Says the Whole United States Will Go "Dry" Before Very Long. "Every state in the union will, at i a comparatively early date, be free from legalized liquor traffic." This statement was mad? Thursday night j by Charles R. Jones, chairman of the j national prohibition committee. Mr. Jones based his optimistic prediction on' the action of Georgia in enrolling itself among the "dry'' states. - ? ( EMPLOYEES IN BIG LUCK. ^ Wealthy Hat Manufacturer Left Busi- ^ nes to Them on His Death. Dying in St. Vincent's Hospital, New York, from the wound inflicted by ( Frank H. Warner- who just before had killed his former cashier, Miss Norling, John C. Wilson, a hat manufac- j turer, left his business and personal estate valued a* more than $190,000 q to six of his employees and Bernard j J. McCann} an old friend, to share i charo alike Mr. Wilson had no! o ^ - C4 near relatives. a " '?' : ': , **.';? . , ' ' >. ON STATES RIGHTS Supreme Court of South Carolina Renders Decision. GARY BiFFS PRITCHARD Damage Case Against Atlantic Coast Line is Kept from Federal Court. Road is Declared Domestic or a Common Trespasser. Justice Ernest Gary of the South Carolina supreme court, at Columbia, Thursday, delivered an opinion in a states rights case. It was in the suit of W. G. Geraty against the Atlantic Ccai# Line Railroad company. Judge Gary's ruling is of more than ordinary interest, for it is in direct opposition to a recent opinion handed down in the federal court by Judge J. C. Pritchard in a similar case. This is a case for damages against the Atlantic Coast Line for a stim exceeding $2,COO. Relying upon the decision of Judge Pritchard in the case of Leo vs. the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad company, in which it was held that the defendant corporation was not to be considered a domestic -a* * * * corporation 01 me siaie ui auum v^a.iolina, but a Virginia corporation, and property within the jurisdiction of the United States court, in such cases alleging damages, the defendant company made a motion before Judge Gary, which was argu<d before him at chambers, in Columbia, last week, to set aside the service of summons in this case od the ground that the defendant is not a corporation organized under the laws of South Carolina, as alleged in th? complaint. Judge Gary dismissed the motion, holding that this raflrcad company is a South Carolina corporation. If it is not a domestic corporation, then he holds "the operation of its railroads in this state is unlawful." ' The opinion was filed Thursday night with the clerk of the court of common pleas for Charleston county. It is not known what will be the next step to be taken by counsel for the defendant company. Judge Gary's decision is that the Atlantic Coast Line company was formed by merger enactment of the constitution of 1905. Therefore the Coast Line is operating in South Carolina under a charter given by the state. And if it is not, then it is a trespasser and has no right within the state, under Judge Gary's ruling. He declares a "domestic corporation" to be a foreign corporation, and insists that the laws of the state apply to one just as to the other. WILLIAMS LEADS VARDAMAN. According to Unofficial Returns from Mississippi state election. Mississippians held their state election Thursday. The returns first received from more than one-half of the counties showed a maintained ma\ jority in favor of Williams of about three to one, but this majority, it is claimed at the headquarters of Governor Vardaman, will be counterbalanced by the vote in the rural precincts, many of which had not been heard from. At Williams' headquarters his election is claimed by a ma- i jority of 20,000. In the contest for governor Charles a I Scott was leading. His nearest competitor being E. F. Noel, and & secand primary will doubtless be necessary to decide. A complete state ticket was voted for as well as county officers in every :ounty. TO DAVIS AND MORGAN Mabama Will Erect Monuments Through Legislative Action. The Alabama senate has passed bills :or monuments to the late Senator Morgan and Jefferson Davis, first and jnly president of the confederacy. The Morgan monument is to take he only remaining place of the s:ate n Statuary Hall, Washington, and will :ost $15,000. The Davis monument is to have Mace on the capitol giounds in Montgomery and will cost $15,000. NEGRO VILLAGE WIPED OUT. /Visconsin Farmers Object to Black Colcny in Their Midst. Porterville, a newly organized vilage in Wisconsin, the inhabitants of vhich are negroes, was completely [estroyed by fire Saturday night. It s reported that the fire was started iy farmers, who were ^incensed at the ,ction of the negroes in building up i negro Tillage in the vicinity. 'cotton has improved. I Government Report for July 25 Show*. Good Average Condition ? Three Per Cent Gain Over June. . % The crop reporting board of the bu* ?sj reau of statistics of the department of agriculture at Washington findfc from the reports of the correspondents and agents of the bureau that the average condition of cotton on Juiy 5 25 was 75.0 as compared with 72.0 on June 25, 1907; S2.9 on July 25? V' .*! 1906; 74.9 on July 25, 1905, and a ten...? ?? co c jctti aveidge ui o-.v. The following table shows the con-' dition on July 25 in each state: Virginia .. 65 North Carolina 75 * South Carolina 81 Georgia 81 Florida 84 Alabama 72 Missisippi 71 Louisiana 71 . ? J| Texas 75 Arkansas 68 Tennessee 75 Missouri .. .. 66 Oklahoma ....74 Indian Territory 74 United States 7? . When the report was posted in^-tlie . New Orleans exchange at 11. o'clock Friday morning, there was an advance - ? ?nnV, rtntinn HTWaII ^ Ill values. 1 lie WIVUW y^uuu, nuiva^ stood at 12.22 just before the report was made, jumped to 12.48 on the first bid and then advanced to 12.50. Therewere similar advances on the other options. It was generally expec.ed that " the report would be bullish in its na- v ture, but it was never anticipated that 2 it would be lower than 77, and whea .. 75 was posted as the condition, even the mcs; sanguine of the bulls were thoroughly surprsed. * . At New York the report was .considered bullish, and there was' con- ^ siderable excitement in the local futures market. The immediate effect ' was an advance of 25 to 50 points from the low point of the morning,. -L s CHINAMEN ON BLOODY RAID. New York Clan Swoops Down on Be*> ton Colony and Kills Three. Burning with hatred for their dead- : ly enemies belonging to the rival on, Long Tong Society, a band of Xew York Chinamen, numbering a dozen or more, and said to be members of the notorious Hip Sing Tong organi- r-\ zation, entered a narrow alley In Chi- . natown at Boston, Mass., Friday night and, drawing revolvers, fired upon half a hundred Chinamen, killing thrjee and injuring seven. At the first vol- . ley the Chinamen rushed for their quarters, stumbling over one another ..! in their haste to reach shelter. The Hip Sing Tong men cnasea unir tims into their own doorways and , shot them down as they rushed upstairs or into side roojns. Then casting away their guns, the strange vis- / itors ran away from the Chinese quarters, most of them escaping the polic?. :? *, Immediately after the shooting, one of the Hip Sing Tong men from New York was captured by a policeman as he was running away. The man ^ gave the name of Nim Sing. He was dressed in American clothes. Later an officer at the south station took dnto custody Hong Woon, aged 34, 01 New York, whose hands were powder | stained. Both prisoners 'are charged m with manslaughter. The police placed under arrest on' j suspicion seven other Chinese who are strangers in the local colony. : > The shooting occurred in Oxford place, in the center of Chinatown, ~ where about fifty Chinamen were sffioJ king in the open air. Fully fifty shots ! were fired. That the visitors shot with ^ careful accuracy was apparent from' the fact that each of the three killed was shot through the heart. V? The trouble has been anticipated I for more than a week. About ten days i ago nearly a dozen Chinamen who j were all strangers, came to Boston J ; and rented rooms near Chinatown. RAMASES AN OLD FRAUD. U Not Entitled to Credit Given Him * by Historians. Egyptologists claim they have discovered that Rameses II was a fraud and that he is not entitled to the ap-' pellation of "great" which historians have given him. Recent explorations have developed the fact that the many * temples and monuments bearing his - - ,v name, and therefore supposed to be his work, existed a thousand years before him. The explorers believe the king - ^ was vain and caused his name to be cut everywhere. COMER SIGNS CLOSING BILL. * Alabama Saloons Must Shut Doors Early After First of Year. The saloons of Alabama, after the ^4 first day of next January, will have,, to close up early. Those in cities of , over 15,000 at 9 p. m., 15,000 down to 10,000 at 8 p. m. and below that # 4t 7. The bill to this effect has been ; '.-.A signed by Governor Comer and hacomes a law the first of the year. ; ' - . * '* > *; ;