The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, January 27, 1892, Image 5
f PURPOSE.
We fur out on the s-.ir.ir.g lake,
V*:.t .c the tuc "irkcnicp clouds
I rowed :.j the f-".ner rel>!>?y shore.
My face to the i::k:nl- van,
TLo clouds followed ciosu v.-hou fcc shone no
more.
And said: "The day is done."
Then a lirht wind c.i:ar :'r rr. over the lanO
And Us tO'.Vu: .
?here lj.y 11?* .* c.- u.^.* .i..?
My little lr>:it arid I.
The ri.'ir-; lav i?!!'.r. I drifted OH.
To a pas'*- i" a boolc ray thoughts wore gone,
-.'Ju k *\ uC 'J hwC ^?C'S ."* O Z> w?
We passed thr.vtsrh a clump of rushes tell,
And my thoughts ci'.ac b i'-'c to note*
How quickly -: .T c.-u.vo --G. au
By :i roeil at thy i>ov.- o: lioat.
l I said to my b et: "If strong the force
& That sends you ilriftirsir al'-n,.\
A thing so slight cou'.u not change your course
faj&. And make the wh le way wrong.
jBSflaggggj "X>u? 11 you .?uuk
^BSfflHESslBl Mv hn.it rr?v In art A!h1 I.
A ROMANCE
OF
TWO BROTHERS.
BY ELK^AE: FATfCSTT,
Author of "The Confession of Claud,"
"The Evil That Men Do," "-4
Xtw York Family," Etc.
[Copyrighted hj the Author.]
CIIAPTEK V.
Aftv-r lie had thus swlior. she morod
quietly hiru until she stood bo"side
Li- chair, lie at 02 ee perceived
that she hau boccme exircmely tracfegw
<^ii affaia.
Ilcr vuicc soon pave him f arther pso^
^^^itcdly, Sylr::n," she said. ->1{ut^mM
^YOU
^kudfaL .It would :v;^g
' -- M
! ri;:n suiil if tii-.'V wve f> in his
t I:1., the l'Ah-\ of Xylites <-r the
:rt-!. i:.iv: thrit one
i in;, v \Vv-!i !;< jiivuxv oi oul uocil iiot seri!
oi^ly
I v/o::'It*r v.-ii-'il ?s A of :i counsellor
ihis : u-'i- T J?r-(ieraM. m-uli'
r*'::;k?\" J. J.s-r*.te?t. "Me -never
! >v-nt us !;'s ^hot;-.p\':T*h: I laijjht litre <
' gained re:-1 of him from
j ihiit. 1' ;t ar libera!: Dr.
; Th->riHv. ki- more tr:an .\ii;.rsvsted it. His
mind a covert cf cobwebs. like
Sylvan's. It would be refreshing1 to
know h;:n ar.d judge l\:r ray.olf whether
lie eoukl help me." Through a mist <>i
tn.?fk: U'v. iklerment eno clear-viewed
j Sylvan ku<l -pokvn about destroying1
' ihose papers. This meruit that lie had
j not yet ("one s"?possibly that he would
refrain from sueh an act for v. long
j tunc, II lOliecU H? evci 11.
j Meanwhile the manuscript (why not?)
! reposed in one of the tiro locked drawers
j of the cabinet in his stfidy- What if she
i antagonized his obdarasy by theft?
I Ifi>r imnnlso of honesty, still ent?vineJ
j among1 the most sensitive fibers of eonscioncc
itself. urged a stern veto
a .era in.st any such e nifty coarse. Once
more she would try persuasion. Once !
more she did.
I T- 1 ,5 AT !
I ror si'vcrui uuvb uuvj ? uv.?
came to her noticed that she had an absent
and febrile manner. One or two
of them, who were feminine, \ycnt
away with the deduction that a peculiarly
domestic illness was approach
ill^ UIIU LilviC XL u il? kiiav; oviuv; j
happy proof of her band with Sylvan j
should bring1 its welcome change.
One Ia<ly even murznared a sentonce j
v\/\>?f T in*??*'o Aor ''ITotv
Ui t XAJ. AJUVUk Vb* ? AAV.I
little she dreams of what thralls ant! J
clouds m \" her hearer thought. That
very evening, perhaps an hour after !
their almost silent dinner tog-ether, she j
j appeared at Sylvan'* side, while he
wrote as our lawyers do when they j
have quitted their "down-town" dis- !
j tractions, and while ho used for a desk J
the very cabinet whose two locked 1
drawers made so heavy an oatrs on her
mental peace. Lucia was by this timej
mvI
J L'.UV.^iVV L\ Ui.>aa v U^4S ^
| not know whether
! ' i
I
1 L "
ft & |
I , < -7s- \ Sri
i -ff"r+3*. N.?/ * . . ' 1 1
y ? \,:? \
& : ' - ic^'.v t j ; f t?? ;
I GIVS IT TO TILE OBLIVION IT DESERVES. ;
I
thing's done. Now I hope your folly
has ended with it."
She made him no answer. She quitt* d
the study with staggering limbs. Her
torment seemed to her like that of a ,
mother who had seen the massacre of &
*1.1 4
CUliU.
She cut into her own private room
and closed the door. Her head was
whirling; she wondered why she did
not swoon. But something appeared to
keep her from that. What was it? Ah,
she knew, t>he realized, in a very surje
of cognition.
It was her unspeakable hatred of him,
new-born and yet born as they said
malism beines were, with all its teeth.
WW ' f
She had never loved him; now her indifferev.ee
had turned loathing intense.
He had killed that splendid hope.
She had witnessed with her own eje*
j its hateful holocaust. Live with nim
1 4-V,?oO X"j-f "Kr\ rtAnl/I l/-vrlrrrt "hr>-r ir>
\ 1* AAV* V^VyiAiU iWi^V **V* A** I
I a house of gold and give her gear tha^
[ would outshine the sun.
[ She must pret awavfr^^|
j head felt hot a^^a^l
despamncjl^gH
| vrerci^^
jtfggBBH
T, . ' -L: . , r,.:5
j closed h. eves. But Gerald did not
| meettbei look, though lie answered.
j tvizti an ( Miaanair, curtuiu ftvuicuvi-s
| tvhich wc o really no answer at all.
4*Oh, I . lean that in a general sort of
| fashion i e's so extremely pood. lie
cheers re np: he makes me feel as if I
were no* truly the mcro neophyte in
| medicine hat I am."
A sue. ee came, ana uien oyivan
queried. .-ith extreme sombemess of
tone: "A 1 what does he say of the ;
manuseri t that father left, Gerald? i
v. i toll me vou were coinc to i
consult 1? .n about it?"
"I did 1 'link oI doing- so," returned ,
; Gerald, a he pulled nt his yellow rnous- j
tachc ai: . cordially hated the lie that j
he was a< Ling-. "But the fact is, Sylvan, ;
Gvde is o dreadfully busy, don't you j
know, and?or?all that kind of thing."
Here wa -, a very lame winding-up of
whatGenld believed a sentence that
might piv voice his brother's keen curiosity.
13';t Si'lvan only let his eyelids
once mor- wearily uroop ana ms ut-au
sink deep -r into tlic pillow, as he said:
"Andyon yourself have not eared to
study it out alone, I suppose?"
The question was so listlessly priori j
+V>?f rii-kT-n ''1 frtlfr. >10 frmlfl Tv?rh;ms lf>t. it I
safely p:.ss without a response. lie
waited a little while, regarding h is brother's
blane led face as though any rxza-in-'
stant mig'it brmgto it the sudden look
of inquiry which he preferred not to
see. But no such look broke SyIran's
apathy. After a short time, Gerald felt
the sick man's pulse. This act did not
alter tfie evident siumoer mu> wmcn uo
had fallen. It was a weak pulse, Gerald
decided, and yet not abnormally so.
The youn;,' man remembered that Dr.
Clyde had but recently decided Sylvan's
latest condition to be one of nervous
exhaustion, ccrebralir^^M|^B^^t!H
SENA7 OR STANFORDS SCHEME j
' f _
To '.Smn'1 Circulatli.z ?I">c')uni j '
for ' h<- County.
I
I Yashinotyn Jan. 2!.?At no time j
1 j .
fdur-njj to-lay's session c-f the {senate j.
j we; i there more t:.an thfr'y Senators!'
! present, except, perhaps, for a brief p*- j (
| riot ciurii!:* Mr Stanford's spe?ch in ! '
fav ?r of hi - lar:".' kaa scheme, and the j j
Set. ite went intc executive eession and | <
i adj'jurned to M; ijd:-iy with scarcely six i
Senators ir atteiidaace. The L:i A bra i <
cas'; still hi'ids the floor, and bids fair to j
con Uiae to do s;> through the coming
| we- k.
A ft?r ro!;fine business, ard at th* j <
cloiy of th^ morn:.Q? hour, Mr.Stanford
~" >-> ''-"o'Q >"r. ?r!T\n/?rf .-.f hi<3 I
aui.icaacu !.n*z v. uuiv A*4
hill to provide She Govrameet vri?h i
me:;3s sufficient to supply the national >
want of a sound circulating medluia
through the instrumentality of a land j
loan bureau. J
I-i criticism of the adverse rrport
ma !e on a irnilr>r hill by the commit
t.p.p nn finance- of the last Conjiv-ss, ne <
salin par*.: " /he blK underconsider <
atii-n practically provides fcrthedtrrct
issi.e of moiie.7 upon .1 material undru- (
iter in quantity, its value based upon 1
.< standard or measurement, vrhicti ma.? *
be-fo'iQ-.Rj grains of gold or silver, or 1
an} convenient corr.modlty, and fhe i
good faith and crtdit of a civilized J
nation of 65,000.000 of p-eopl? with ap?r 1
capita power of production uneqaxled '
by any othfr country in the world. A 1
con.psrison between this country of >
ours to day and France under Louis *
XV., or Francs in 1792, wh^n she was
lighting united Europe, or between us '
notv- aed the colonists 3tni?g-lin? for f
tD6 5SCPRC15I1CJ,01 ucinccu mio fouuuij
ana the Argentine li?pubJic, seems *
absurd. Yet ti?e committee's chief t
arguments are based upon such com- '
prisons. The Argentine republic issue '
is another scheme to ^rhich (
c<-m pares this bill. The J
8Bb|ls .-sre radleallT it 1321 mi- <
the bl'l j <
at-1 1
REV. THOMAS LEITCH'S CAS?.
A frori Th?? W?j of y.vth Explain- '
ins tfco Mar;?-.
W atkins villi:. Ga.. .Tr,n. 13,1S92.
Iviiiiors vusrsta (.'hrwucl?:?You j
trill pie*se i-d*; in Tiv.? Chronicle thf !
inclose-1 s*y.t?mfnt t?.h.?a from Tgs j
Way of Ffti'h. pxpisriln? the rop rc
johcerslng lb* drunker.??.-* of K?t.
rtios. H. L*itch. evaogelis', la Auius;a,
Ga.. S '-rae ttujff ago. I th!nk it
(MO fVia <*? ; ? ..f rhristirtniT f,h>>t lha
ixplan.ition be made through the same
jolumus that circulated the report.
Yours trillv,
S.J Covtan. ;
P. S.?Otbf. papers that pablisbed
:he report win pl-r^a copy.
I am reaming1 inquiries as to the
jewsrvsoar chfirr.es of drunkenness
ijaii sfc Brother L&itch, tbe evangelist.
Ihe papers report that on the night of
Dec. 15 he v\as fery drank in an Aufusta,
Ga.. i' otel.
I am ankei if il is true. To this I
pp!y: Firs , I do not tLink thac Brother
L*!tch drunk. Second, he, hotter,
did tr.ke s?ni# whitkey.
I do r.o'. minfe ha wa^ drunk because
l\ t-o l'f. /9'\ T narfj^ f/imiDinv
V "< i! ? ' *) \-V f * ? """*f ./
rrith him ihiJt ni^ht at the depot at
} o'clock (' ?ashington tisee) and he
iraa perfpcr.l? 3ol>?r; (3) he left Augusta
>11 ihe 8 o'clock train the next morning
sober, irMcb a man of former drinking
iabits could not have dine. The idea
hat he ttas beastly drunk at 10 d. m.
xhc-n ne nan n r. issiea liquor at, y p. in.,
tnd was perfectly sober at 8 o'clock the
im morniu#! It ts ab3urd.
That he dratik s-iee whiskey he adults.
That it tras a seriout blunder be
'rels si'd confesses. That it was an
mpardonF.ble sin I deny. The circam
itances he tells tis were tneat: uemg
lungry and arriving at the hotel too
ate for supper, he ate some oysters
iising corroded, or from some other
^nsc, they made him very, very sick.
Having nothing else at hand he took a
InnJi i;r liquor, ana nerore lie couiu gee
>ut of the hi-uss threw the whole thing
ip. To a thoughtless bystander this
Tould be taken &s a case of beastly isvrhereaa
it was a case of un?^^>y.-ter
sickness and a little
.so much of it
I -*-; c;- na.lv.
Atlanta J~n. Tvt- &?*?? tfv*
birth ai GsntTi*! ft. S. T~-v r--v r
d.iv i:i t'lr S'.-v v.\: i -|.propruiielv
voii. :Iuv : x*.- nin^
tii* j^irb'-i.Svu cou-cjiu-H ? ..J bile
e:%crc:."ci n litres? v.,?r vts ?!*' n?
S:*rc i!*nkr.L s* ws'ich Lha Ho-i . !i?rlw.
T. O'Ferra1?. ('0T.r*:-?;?,nn from Vir
<;:nia. delivered an ' ration. He -*3
itstroC.uced t-~. Co! Hantilw. Ikt-^iav
i'l'ol'.ieut, o '.he V is. S> ' ?y
Atlanta, un--: r whose av>p:cf> t-:e celebration
was held. Aficr the vublic
exerciser a bauqu.?: was <river. T^e
% T!*._ /-\t D.nKapJ
iiiSL LU33L Y> ilU'- iUCOi'n f Vi lt</uuu
E. Lee, sol:'i-r, pairi >t, ?iaialas; ivatleman
and hnrr>bie Christian, ih* model
man of the ce ?turv." which was rnrik
stand.ns: and iii ?iVacs. Toast* *er?
responded to \t Rev. Benjamin J". Kiley,
Romas Catholic Vtesr Gener 1 -jf the
Diocese oi Georgia, Speaker Cla?ko
H Archil rtf fro r>f 7i*?r?
seataiires an.i editor of the A.lanta
Constatuiioru Capt. E. 6. Gnr, Major
Hemphill, C*>1. W. L. Calhouu Hnke
Smith, Z. M. Black'.:'irn and Ik ,'. Dr.
J. W. Jcnc*. Th;a aUtrnoon Mrs.
O'Farrell =vas gTvea a rcccpuon br the
ladies of Atlanta.
'tL'\r - y "sr c . ' ?,
9 t-in/.rsti* L'nr a rht 5
Iruioii rajs m ?
A GP.3A1 0T7Z5, 11?AT KAY !TC2 ACA'.Sjg
KB P.2FZATEB, ZO 20 SOT DLLAY, g
"Stkim While rhblp.ox is Hot." p
Writ* f?r Catalerue new, and say wfaa-d
Baser you sa-.f this^advertjsomen; ii. 8
5 AbJifOtber that 1 sell everything tiiat^
iumsiiing a home?siaDulactar-#
|ing some tlucgs &3'' buying others in th?$!
1?larjesi possible ioti. which euabks xe tc*j
wipe out all competition
HBBB ARE A JEW OF iiY STAHT-I
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jjsjze. i5xi < inea oveu, uiit'c. u:c,?.
fof ware, tie! ve.'ed s.; you* cwu dQ-ot...
Ssli freight charges bj ruf, i<-r|onlj
Tweiv? Dollars.
* Again, I mil aei; you c. ? hew OocLi;-:
Range 13x15 inch oveu, 18x26 liiuii I'op, 'di -i :
ted with 21 pieces of wa-e, ioi I'iiiS t:
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