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THE MYSTE
ASA
Bv ANNA KATH>
Author of "The Leavenworth Ca
and Ring,"
Copyright, 1900, by Anna Katharine (
Synopsis of Previous Chapters.
In order that new readers of The Enquirer
may begin with the following
installment of this story, and understand
It just the same as though they
had read It all from the beginning, we
here give a synopsis of that portion of
which has already been published:
The story opens with the close of a
ball after daylight in the morning.
"While the guests are leaving the house
Frederick Sutherland dashes out frantically
and disappears in the woods on
the other side of the road. Agatha
Webb is found up stairs murdered.
The body of Batsy, the cook, is found
hanging from a window. Philemon
Webb, Agatha's husband, is discovered
sitting before a dining table asleep,
with a smear of blood on his coat
sleeve. Philemon being charged with
the murder, his mind, alrady feeble
gives way completely. All Agatha
Webb's money has been taken. Miss
Page, standing on the lawn, points to a
spot of blood on the grass. Frederick
Sutherland, who has been a wild fellow,
promises nis father to reform; also
to give up Amabel Page, whom he has
been expecting to marry. Miss Page
tells Frederick that she followed him
? ?*?-* - * on/1 c?o ur
on tne mgni ui mc muiuci anu
him secrete $1,000 in a hollow tree. She
declares that he shall either marry her
or she will proclaim him a murderer.
She is about to leave him and the town
when she is held as a witness. The
past life of Agatha Webb. Six children
have been born to her and all died in
infancy. It is learned that the money
taken from Agatha Webb was all in
new bills. A storekeeper produces one
of them that a strange man with a
flowing beard gave him the night of the
murder. The problem now is to find
the man with the long beard. Suspicion
falls on the Zabel brothers.
CHAPTER XII.
PAT OR SUFFER EXPOSURE.
The Hallidays lived but a few rods
from the Sutherlands. Yet as It was
dusk when Miss Halliday rose to depart
Frederick naturally offered his
services as her escort.
She accepted them with a slight
blush, the first he had ever seen on her
face or at least had ever noted there.
It caused him such surprise that he
forgot Amabel's presence in the garden
until they came upon her at the gate.
"A pleasant evening," observed that
young girl in her high, unmusical
voice.
"Very." was Miss Halliday's short
reply, and for a moment the two faces
were in Hue as he held open the gate
before his departing guest.
They were very different faces in
feature and expression, and until that
night he had never thought of comparing
them. Indeed the fascination which
beamed from Amabel l'ages rar rrom
regular countenance had put all other
faces out of his mind, but now as he
surveyed the two the candor and purity
which marked Agnes' features came
,i out so strongly under his glance that
the countenance of Amabel lost its
charms, and be hastily drew his young
neighbor away.
Amabel noted the movement and
smiled. She had no fears of Agnes
Hnlliday.
Perhaps she might have felt less confidence
if she could have seen the short
gluuces he cast uis oid playmate as
they proceeded slowly down the road.
Not that there was any passion in
them, lie was too full of care for
that, but the curiosity which could
prompt him to turn his head a doxon
times in the course of so short a walk
to see why Agnes llallidny held her
face so persistently away from him
had an element of feeling in it that
was more or less significant. As for
Agnes, she was so unlike her accustomed
self as to astonish even herself.
Whereas she had never before walked
a dozen steps with him without indulging
in some sharp saying, she
found herself disinclined to speak at
all. much less speak lightly. In mutual
silence, then, they reached the
gateway leading into the Iialliday
grounds. But Agnes, having passed in.
they both stopped and for the first
time looked squarely at each other.
Her eyes fell first, perhaps because his
had changed in his contemplation of
her. He smiled as he saw this and in
a half careless, half wistful tone said
quietly:
"Agnes, what would you think of a
man who, after having committed little
else but folly all his life, suddenly
made up his mind to turn absolutely
toward the right and to pursue it in
face of every obstacle and every dis
couragement?"
"I should think." she slowly replied,
with one quick lift of her eyes toward
his face., "that he had entered upon
the noblest effort of which man is capable
and?the hardest. 1 should have
great sympathy for that man. Frederick."
"Would you?" he said, recalling Amabel's
face with bitter aversion as he
gazed into the womanly countenance
he had hitherto slighted as uninteresting.
"It is the first kind word you
have ever given me. Agnes. Possibly
it Is the first I have ever deserved."
And without another word he doffed
his hat. saluted her and vanished down
the hillside.
She remained, remained so long that
it was nearly 9 o'clock when she entered
the family parlor. As she came
In her mother looked up and was startled
at her unaccustomed pallor.
"Why. Agnes." cried her mother,
"what is the matter?"
Her answer was inaudible. What
was the matter? She dreaded, even
feared, to ask herself.
BY OF
THA WEBB.
VRINE GREENE,
se," "Lost Man's Lane," "Hand
Etc.,Etc.
Jreen.
Meantime a strange scene was taking
place in the woods toward which she
had seen Frederick go. The moon,
which was particularly bright that
night, shone upon a certain hollow
where a huge tree lay. Around it the
underbrush was tblcK ana tne snaaow
dark, but in this especial place the
opening was large enough for the rays
to enter freely. Into this circlet of
light Frederick Sutherland had come.
Alone and without the restraint imposed
upon him by watching eyes he
showed a countenance so wan and full
of trouble that it was well it could not
be seen by either of the two women
whose thoughts were at that moment
fixed upon him. To Amabel it would
have given a throb of selfish hope,
while to Agnes it would have brought
a pang of despair which might have
somewhat too suddenly interpreted to
her the mystery of her own sensations.
He had bent at once to the hollow
space made by the outspreading roots
just mentioned and was feeling with
an air of confidence along the ground
for something he had every reason to
expect to find when the shock of a sudden
distrust seized him. and he flung
himself down in terror, feeling and
feeling again among the fallen leaves
and broken twigs until a full realization
of his misfortune reached him.
and he was obliged to acknowledge
that the place was empty.
^ 1 1 '1 ?* iaoo n nrkioct o t
werwueuueu m uia iwo. af,uuoi ??..
the consequences it must entail upon
him. he rose in a trembling sweat,
crying out in his anger and dismay:
"She has been here! She has taken
It!" And realizing for the first time
the subtlety and strength of the antagonist
pitted against him he forgot
his new resolutions and even that old
promise to Agatha Webb and uttered
oath after oath, cursing himself, the
woman and what she had done until
a casual glance at the heavens overhead.
in which the liquid moon bung
calm and beautiful, recalled him to
himself. Ceasing bis vain repinings
and silencing with a fierce but determined
effort the fierce demon in his
breast, he turned from the unhallowed
spot and made bis way with deeper
and deeper misgivings toward a home
made hateful to him now by the presence
of the woman who was thus bent
upon his ruin.
He understood her now. He rated.at
its full value both her determination
and her power, and had she been so
unfortunate as to have carried her imprudence
to the point of surprising him
at that moment in one of the hollows
of that midnight copse it would have
taken more than the memory of that
day's resolves to have kept him from
using his strength against her. But
she was wise and did not intrude upon
him in his hour of anger, though who
could say she was not n.-ar enough to
hear the sigh which broke irresistibly
from his lips as he emerged from the
wood and approached his father's
house.
A lamp was still burning in Mr.
Sutherland's study over the front door,
and the sight of it seemed to change
for a moment the current of Frederick's
thoughts. Stopping with the gate
in his hand, he considered with himself
and then with a freer countenance
and a lighter step was about to proceed
inward when he heard the sound
of a heavy breather coming up the
hill and paused, why he hardly knew,
except that every advancing step occasioned
him more or less apprehension.
The person, whoever it was, stopped
before reaching the brow of the hill
and panting heavily muttered an oath
which Frederick heard. Though It
was no more profane than those which
had just escaped his own lips in the
forest, it produced an effect upon Frederick
which was only second in intensity
to the terror of the discovery that
the money he had so safely hidden was
gone.
Trembling in every limb, he dashed
down the hill and confronted the person
standing there.
"You!" be cried. "You!" And for a
moment lie looked as if be would like
to fell to the ground the man before
bim.
But this man was a heavyweight of
no ordinary physical strength and
adroitness and only smiled at Frederick's
heat and threatening attitude.
"I thought I would lie made welcome."
he smiled, with just the hint of
sinister meaning in iiis tone. Then,
before Frederick could speak, he said:
| "I have merely saved you a trip to Boston.
Why so much anger, friend?
You have the money. Of that I am
positive."
"Hush! We can't talk here." whispered
Frederick. "Come into the
grounds, or.-what would lie better, into
the woods over there."
"I don't go into the woods with you."
laughed the other. "Not after last
night, my friend. But I will talk low.
That's no more than fair. I don't want
to put you into any other man's power,
especially if you have the money."
"Wattles"? Frederick's tone was
broken, almost unintelligible. "What
do you mean by your allusion to last
night? Have you dared to connect
me"?
"Pooh, pooh!" interrupted the other
good humoredly. "Don't let us waste
words over a mischance word I may
have let drop."
"I don't care anything about last
night's work or who was concerned In
it That's nothing to me. All I want. my
boy. is the money, and that I want
devilish bad or I would not have run ^
up here from Boston, when I might q
have made half a hundred off a coun- 1
tryman Lewis brought in from the ^
Canada wilds this morning." ^
"Wattles, i swear"? 1
But the hand he had raised was
quickly drawn down to the other.
"Don't." said the older man shortly. A
"It won't pay. Sutherland. Stage talk q
never passed for anything with me. I
Besides, your white face tells a truer ^
story than your lips, and time is pre- ^
clous. I want to take the 11 o'clock
train back. So down with the cash.
Nine hundred and fifty-six it is. but.
being friends, we will let the odd six a
go." 1
"Wattles. 1 was to bring It to you to- H
morrow, or was it the next day? I do ^
not want to give it to you tonight. Indeed
I cannot, but?Wattles, wait
stop! Where are you going?"
"To see your father. I want to tell ^
him that his son owes me a debt: that q
this debt was incurred in a way that V
lays him liable for arrest for forgery; ^
that, bad as he thinks you. there are ^
facts which can be picked up in Boston
which would make Frederick Sutherland's
continued residence under the
parental roof Impossible; that In fact ?
you are a scamp of the first water and b
that only my friendship for you has S
kept you out of prison so long. Won't ^
it make a nice story for the old gentleman's
ears?"
"Wattles?I?oh. my God. Wattles,
stop a minute and listen to me. I have
not got the money. I had enough this
morning to pay you. had It legitimate- It
ly. Wattles, but It has been stolen from
me. and""1
will also tell him." the other broke t(
in as quietly and calmly as if Freder- a
ick had not uttered a word, "that in a n
certain visit to Boston you lost $500 on q
one hand: that j*ou lost it unfairly, g
not having a dollar to pay with; that si
to prevent a scandal I became your h
security, with the understanding that w
I was to be paid at the end of ten days it
from that night: that you thereupon ji
played again and lost $400 and odd h
T
w
"J want to tell him that his son is c scamp b
oj the first water." tl
more, so that your debt amounted to ir
$055; that the ten days.passed without it
payment; that wanting money I press- si
ed you and even resorted to a threat w
or two and that seeing me In earnest 11
t-rtti awnro timf the dollars should be 1?
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mine within five days; that instead of r<
remaining: in Boston to get them you 81
cnme here and that this morning at a
a very early hour you telegraphed that w
the funds were to hand and that you *r
would bring them down to me tomorrow.
Fie may draw conclusions from
this. Sutherland, which may make his ^
position as your father anything but ^
grateful to him. lie may even? Ah, p
you would try that game, would you?" lr
The young man had flung himself at j,
the older man's throat as if he would n
choke off the words he saw trembing h
on his lips. But the struggle thus be- u
gun was short. In a moment both a
stood apart, panting, and Frederick, s<
with lowered head, was saying hum- V
bly: a
"I beg pardon. Wattles, but you drive h
me mad with your suggestions and a
conclusions. I have not got the moqey. a
but I will try and get it. Wait here,'' r'
"Ten minutes. Sutherland. No Ioq- t'
ger! The moon is bright, and I can see a
the hands of my watch distinctly. At h
a quarter to 10 I will receive the money
from you here or seek it in your a
father's study." tj
Frederick made a hurried gesture
and vanished up the walk. The next Q
moment he was at his fatkei's study Q
door. F
TO BE CONTINUED. a
V.
THE BALANCE OF TRADE. jj
is
Why All the Money of the World Does Not t(
Cone Here. tl
When we read of tne enormous "bajrance
of trade" In our favor, people a
sometimes wonder why all the money ^
of the world does not come here to pay s
the balance. The following from The ^
New York Post explains why: S
In the current number of the Yale C;
Review, Mr. N. T. Bacon presents a a
computation of the amount of foreign o
capital invested in ihis country, and -j
the interest and profits annually payable
to foreign creditors. Several attempts
of this kind have been made n
heretofore, but they were for the most a
part guesses rather than computations, e
and their figures for the annual charge ?
ranged from $70,000,000 to $350,000,000.
Mr. Teidelbach, in an article published 11
in The Forum in February, 1895, reck- Sl
oned our annual foreign dues at the o
latter figure. He considered that
American tourists and residents abroad
spent $100,000,000 a year; that foreign _
individuals and corporations doing r'
business or owning property here de- e
rived a like sum as rents and profits; e
that foreign investors in our securities u
derived from them $75,000,000 yearly; .
and that our freights amounted to n
$100,000,000. He became satisfied on n
further investigation that the charge
for freight should be reduced $50,000,000 tl
or $60,000,000. His estimate was there h
fore, that in 1895 the sums payable
abroad amounted to about $300,000,000. d
Mr. Bacon estimates that for 1909 P
these sums were less than $200,000,000. d
gjrtijwltonroMis fUading.
THINGS THAT NEVER DIE.
'he pure, the bright, the beautiful,
'hat stirred our hearts in youth;
'he impulse of a wordless prayer, ,
'he dreams of love and truth,
'he longings after something lost,
'he spirit's yearning cry;
'he striving after better hopes?
These things can never die.
'he timid hand stretched forth to aid
l brother in his need.
'he kindly word in grief's dark hour
'hat proves a friend indeed.
'he plea for mercy softly breathed,
Vhen justice threatens high;
'he sorrows of a contrite heart?
These things shall never die.
'he memory of a clasping hand,
'he pressure of a kiss;
tnd all the trifles, sweet and frail,
'hat makes up love's first bliss,
f with a firm, unchanging faith,
.nd holy trust ana mgn;
'hese hands have clasped, those lips
have met?
These things shall never die.
'he cruel and the bitter word,
'hat wounded as It fell;
he chilling want of sympathy,
Ve feel, but never tell,
'he hard repulse that chills the heart
Vhose hopes were bounding high,
n an unfading record kept?
These things shall never .lie.
.et nothing pass, for every hand
lust find some work to do;
.ose not a chance to waken love,
le firm, and Just, and true,
o shall a light that cannot fade,
team on thee from on "nigh,
.nd angel voices say to thee
These things shall never die.
?Charles DIckenp.
YORK COUNTY'S GOLD MINE.
May Prove To Be Veritable Klondike
of Wealth.
"Some day you are going to wake up
> find my section of this state a veritble
Klondike," said a York county
rnn, who was in the lobby of the
harleston hotel last night. "I know
old mining in the northern part of the
tate Is an old story, and that people
ave grown to think and speak or it
ith a smile; but there is a revival of
iterest in the matter in York county
ist now that has plenty of facts beind
it to Justify serious consideration,
his is no placer scheme, with men
anning out a few dollars of the shinlg
metal in creek bottoms here and
iere; but a real vein of gold bearing
Int rock, that is returning $15 per ton
ight along. The miners have gone
own on the vein to the water level,
)me 80 feet or so, and they have tuneled
for a quarter of a mile or so,
'ithout the least indication that the
aylng rock Js running out. Without
lodern machinery they are making a
ood thing out of their mine; and that
i the reason I say we are liable to
ave a Klondike craze up our way
lost any time.
"It was two years or more ago that a
olorado miner, by the name of Frank,
imped in our county, and started to
ander over the hills out about Hlckrir
Cmva TTo rlM not talk rrmoh about
lmself or his business. He was a
ood fiddler, a pleasant fellow and
lade himself popular with the farmers,
ilttle by little It leaked out that he
as a gold hunter, and while It had
een said for time out of mind that
lere was a rich vein of ore somewhere
1 that vicinity, the people were a little
lcllned to smile at Mr. Frank and his
:heme. But after a month or so he
ent to the Brown Brothers and told
lem he wanted to djg a b}t on their
ind down on a wooded ridge, which
3se above the Broad river. He made
)me sort of an arrangement with them
nd went to work. Month after month
ent by and Mr, Frank wag still holstlg
great chunks of rock out of the
ole In the ground, which he had made
own on the Brown place. When peole
asked him how he was getting
long, he told them he was doing as
ell as could be expected. He
layed the fiddle just as sweetly find
idefatigably at night, and he Joked
ist as pleasantly with the people he
let in his wanderings about the red
ills. Every once in a while Mr. Frank
ould take some chunks of his rock
nd go over to Charlotte for a day or
o; and once he sent some of it to
Washington to some of the government
uthorities. After this kind of thing
ad been going on for something like
year he went over to the Browns one
fternoon and offered them a good
ound sum for the mineral rights on
heir farm. The Browns had developed
very keen interest in Mr. Frank and
is mining operations by this time, and
hey said they would rather have a roylty
than to sell outright. After some
rading over the matter it was agreed
hat the Browns were to get 50 cents
er ton for every ton of ore taken
ut of the mine until the first
f next June. After that date Mr.
'rank has the right to buy the mine at
given figure, if he sees fit to do so.
"Now, of course, I do not know just
ow much Mr. Frank is making out of
he scheme; but all of us know that he
s shipping carload after carload of ore
j Charlotte every week. It Is said that
lie ore is paying $15 per ton gross, and
hat there seems to be no end of the
mount that is available. Now, every
ody is aware of the fact that a mine
uch as that is a veritable bonanza,
t'ith modern machinery put on the
round and a company formed with
apital enough to handle the stuff to
dvantage, there are fortunes of six
r seven figures to be made out of it.
hat is the reason I said just now that
he people of South Carolina should
ot be surprised if York county became
Klondike in the next year or so. Othr
men have found ore on their farms
s rich as that which Mr. Frank is takig
out of the Brown farm, and there
eems to be no end of the possibilities
f the thing.
"Unlike some of the North Carolina
old this metal is found in soft flint
oek, which can be mined with great
ase. You can see the metal in nearly
very chunk you pick up, and some
locks of it that Mr. Frank has on exibition
are fabulously rich in the
letal.
"As I said before, I know all about
he South Carolina gold mines that
ave started out well and then dwindled
own to nothing in a few years. I am
erfectly well aware that this one may
o likewise; but you must not forget
that miners have long held the belief
that there was a splendid vein of ore !
somewhere in northern South Carolina, j
and I merely wish to call attention to ;
the fact that it is possible that Mr.
Frank has found it in York county. If 1
he has you are destined to see a boom 1
up our way in the next year or so, be- i
side which all other booms in this sec- i
tion of the country will sink into insig-11
niflcance. The people up about Hick- I (
ory Grove have not lost their heads
over the affair?they have not taken '
the gold fever. They are still raising 1
cotton and corn and wheat on their rich i
bottoms and loamy hillsides; but they ]
are watching that hole in the ground i
down on the farm of the Brown Broth- 1
ers, with something akin to excitement, t
Mr. Frank still plays the fiddle in the t
long pleasant evenings, and the people j
who gather around to listen to the music
say that the tunes he selects nowa- <
days are merrier than those he used to ^
play when he first came to the county." i
?News and Courier, December 3.
MARKHAM'S NEW POEM. !
Edwin Markham contributes to the i
Christmas number of "Success" the
most remarkable po .m he has written f
since "The Man With the Hoe." His <
new work is entitled, "The Mighty i
Hundred Tears," and It is a story In <
forcible, yet graceful and elegant verse, ]
of the world during the past century. 1
In Markham's poem, the Muses stand i
before the Norns, the gods of mytholo- i
by, that gave ail men birth and tell the 3
wonderful history. The following are 1
a few stanzas from this great piece, il- 1
lustrating the growth of the world
from the death of the dark ages;
TH8 MJQHTY HUNDRED YEjARS.
"One mighty gleam, and old horizons ?
broke!
All the vast, glimmering outline of
the Whole
Swam on the vision, shifting at one
stroke, '
The ancient gravitation of the soul.
1
"All things came circling in one cosmic {
dance,
One motion older than the ages are; 1
Swung by one Law, one Purpose, one 1
Advance, I
Serene and steadfast as the morning c
star. t
KIT AM iMAAM 4-V.a smAnlAlia ArKlla A# f VlO 1
IV1CU Lia^C UIC O^aV/iUUO Vt Ml to vra. mv
Lav/,
And find It is their snelter and their
friend;
For there, behind its mystery and awe,
God's sure hand presses to a blessed
end.
"And so man pushes toward the Secret
Vast?
Up through the storm of stars, skies
upon skies;
And down through the circling atoms,
nearing fast
The brink of things, beyond which
Chaos lies.
"Yea, in the shaping of a grain of sand,
He sees the law that made the
spheres to DeSees
atom-worlds spun by the Hidden
Hand,
To whirl about their small Alcyone.
"With spell of wizzard Science 011 his
eyes,
An argument on his arm, he probes
through space;
Or pushes back the low, unfriendly
skies,
To feel the wind of Saturn on his
face.
"He walks abroad upon the Zodiac,
To weigh the words in balance, to
fuse
Suns in his crucible, and carry back
Tne spheral music and the cosmic
news."
m
AN OLD SOUTHERN GAMBLER DEAD.
Mack Won $20,000 on a Pokor Hand Once;
But Waa Buried By Charity.
William Mack, who died In Charleston
recently, was one of the gamblers
whose heyday of success came a quarter
of a century ago. At the time when
he was best known the common story
was that he had more money than he
could put In a barrel. He died in poverty
and was burled by the charity of
his former associates. One story told
of his early playing was of the game
when he raked In $20,000 at the poker
table from a sea captain, who was
bluffed out on a pair of fours.
"You don't find many gamblers now
of the Billy Mack stripe and color,"
said one of his friends to The Sun correspondent.
"In his early days, when
V?o nlovori \ rt "Mow iirloann Vip wfl
known as a huge bluffer. The time he
put the blinds over the eyes of the sea
captain was after a long dash with the
American game. The stakes had been
running high and there was enough
casn on the table and in nearby pockets
to equip an army. Billy's luck had
been jumping, and the captain was
having a bit the best of the play. Some
giant bluffs had been engineered. Billy
was caught in one of these and he
was bumped so hard by the captain
that the latter remarked that Mack
would not be caught that way again.
"It was a ragged game and the players
stayed in it only when they had
Jacks or better. Finally we decided to |
make everything a jack, and a remarkably
bad streak in the hands resulted
in having the pot made as sweet as a
sugar plum. There was all kinds of '
money on the table and of course we '
all wanted it. After we had passed
time and again It came to the captain's '
first say and he opened the pot with a:J
stunner. We all stuck?there were 1
five of us?and when the cards were '
handled the captain stood pat. The
rest of us had ordinary pick-ups, ex- 1
xsnitr u'Virt askori for one card. '
The betting was cautious at first, but
when It came to the captain's second
turn he jammed on a handful of money
which made several of us want to drop.
Around at Billy's end he saw the raise
and lifted it without even looking at
his hand, and so there was nothing left
for us to do but jump, the captain alone
remaining to see the end of the fight.
"Well, they raised and raised. The
fact that Billy refused to look at his
fifth card rather nettled the sea player.
and he began to get cautious. Raise
after raise came, and finally Mack
stuck a diamond scarf pin in his five
cards, lying face down, and asked for
time to go and get more money before
making another raise. He just had to
go across the street and we waited
with the greatest anxiety until he returned.
He eajne up the steps blowing
and puffing. The captain, who had
grown uneasy in the absence of Mack,
began to fidget in his chair, and he
was losing some of his playing nerve.
" 'Being that It's my raise,' said
Mack very quietly and very cooly, 'and
as the pot Is rich, it will cost you
Just $5,000 to call me.'
"And with that he began looking at
tils money. He brought out bills of the
four figure character and he was counting
these off slowly. The captain had
reached for his wallet and we looked
for wild plunging. The captain, howiver,
hesitated.
" 'Hang the luck,' he said viciously,
I am beaten and there isn't any use
:hrowing good money after bad,' and
.vith that he threw down his hand.
Billy began to rake in the money just
is if it was a $2 bet, and the captain
eft the room. The pot had a frac:ion
less than $20,000 in actual money,
ind Mack smiled when the sea dog had
jone.
" 'Pretty good,' he said, 'for two Utile
fours, but the chance of the draw
vas worth it. What did that guy
iave?'
"The captain's hand had been copped
)ut. He had a little straight, and
strange to say the smallest card in it
vas a four spot."
Billy Mack belonged to the class of
jamblers so much in evidence around
?narieston just aner me ciuse 01 me
var. He was without a relative. He
:ame to Charleston years ago from
New York city and It Is understood
:hat his home was originally in Albaly.
He never received a letter and it
s doubtful if he got any mail for 15
fears preceding his death. He never
:alked of himself, and in a certain way
le was a mystery.?New York Sun.
JUOQE AEDANUS BURKE.
tome Sayings of a South Carolina Jurist?
Distinguished Men of Long Ago.
R. H. Kirke writes to the Washlng;on
Post as follows:
Mr. Edward Hooker, a native of Conlecticut,
and an educator of note, was
i professor in the South Carolina colege
at Columbia from 1805 to 1808. He
cept a voluminous diary during that
>eriod, which, through the enterprise
>f Prof. Jameson, of the American Hisorlal
association, has been published.
Prof. Hooker relates many interesting
sxperiences with eminent members of
he South Carolina bar of that day, a
ew of which I recount here.
Aedanus Burke, a native of Ireland,
md a Carolinian by adoption, was a
nember of congress from 1789 to 1791.
le was a common law judge from 1778
;o 1799. He once pronounced sentence
>f death on a culprit and added at the
:lose of it, "but don't mind my good
'ellow, it is only what we have all got
:q come to."
"I hope," said one of the lawyers,
'your honor don't mean that we've all
jot to be hanged."
"No," replied the Judge, "but we've
til got to die, and It don't make much
llfference how."
On one occasion General C. C. Pinckley,
who had been minister to France,
tnd the Federalist candidate for the
rtce presidency of the United States In
.780, was arguing a dry legal point be,'ore
Judge Burke, when the later lost
latience, tucked up his silk robe, took
lis hat and left the bench. The lawyer
:eased his argument.
"da art flonprol TMnokni?V. CO On."
said the judge, "you love to hear yourself
talk. Meanwhile, I'll go out and
:ake a look at the camel," then on exlibition
back of the court house.
Hence "peeping at the camel" is to
:hi8 day a byword among the Carol!la
lawyers for going out of the court
oom on any occasion.
One day, while going on horseback
:o hold court in a neighboring county
le lost his way. He met a mountaineer,
whom he requested to pilot him
ihrough the woods to the court house.
[Jpon his refusal to do so, the Judge
lismounted and vigorously attacked
ilm until he cried out that he was
willing to carry his honor anywhere
f he would stop beating him. The
ludge told the lawyers that he had
seen among a desperate set of people
:hat day, and tha.t nothing but their
tear of his strong arm had enabled him
:o fill his judicial appointment.
Prof. Hooker devotes much space in
tiis diary to the legislative debates at
Columbia, and pays high compliment
:o the eloquence of the gifted and amiible
Colonel Robert Barnwell, General
Wade Hampton, of Revolutionary
'ame; Charles Pinckney, Paul Hamil:on.
William Lowndes, John Goodloe
Harper arid others. The years that
Mr. Hooker spent at Columbia are a
sart of a period of transition, during
vhich the state was developing from
:he Federalist South Carolina of 1788
nto the better known South Carolina
)f 1832. All South Carolinians will
:hank Prof. Jameson for having made
?ublic this most interesting diary.
WHY DEMOCRACY WAS DEFEATED.
Ar. Wm. J. Bryan Gives Some of The Reasons.
In an article on "The Election of
i900," published in the December number
of tne North American Review,
tVTlliam J. Bryan gives what he beieves
were the causes of his defeat,
rhey were, according to Mr. Bryan, the
,'ree use of money, the war in the Phllppines
and the cry of "prosperity."
Mr. Bryan says: "There are certain
egitimate uses which may be made of
noney in a campaign. * For all
:his legitimate work the Republicans
lad plenty of money, while the Demo:rats
had very little. The Republicans
,vere also able to secure transportation
'or all Republican voters who were
iway from home. The Democrats were
lot in a position to secure passes or to
lay for transportation.
"It is impossible at this time to oaicuate
the effect of colonization or the exent
to which votes were purchased by
;he direct payment of money or by emiloyment
for political w?rk. There are
nstances where as much as $500 was
iffered to one man for his political
iervices for a few days."
Further on Mr. Bryan again refers
o the use of money, saying: "No time
leed be wasted in the condemnation
>f the illegitimate use of money. But
t is worth while to consider why such
arge campaign funde are used by the
Republicans, and how such funds are
:ollected together, with the remedy to
>e employed for the protection of the
public against the Improper use of
, money In the election.
. "Pryor to 1896 the moneyed elements
of the country were divided between
the two leading parties. *
Since 1896 the consolidation of wealth
has gone on with a rapidity never before
known. All the trusts had a pecuniary
reason for supporting the Republican
ticket, for they not only have
enjoyed immunity during the present
administration; but they have every
reason to expect further immunity In
case of Republican success, while the
Democratic platform and the Democratic
organization were outspoken in
their condemnation of private monopolies,
and the candidates were pledged
to aggressive measures for the extermination
of all combinations formed in
restraint of trade."
Regarding the war issue Mr. Bryan
says: "Many were led to the support
of the administration by the plea that
the insurrection must be suppressed
before any plan could be adopted for
dealing with the Philippine question.
They refused to believe that the Republicans
contemplated an Imperial
policy."
Mr. Bryan says the Spanish war
and the Philippine war withdrew many
men from the labor market, a war loan
put a large sum into circulation, and
the South African war increased tfie
demand for our products. Thece "abnormal
influences," he says, contributed
to a temporary Improvement, but
the Republicans cannot justly claim
credit for any of these things.
DECEMBER WEATHER.
The Averages of the Month of December For
13 Yeara.
Mr. J. W. Bauer has compiled for The
State the following data, covering a
period of 13 years and showing the averages
of temperature and precipitation
in Columbia during that time':
TEMPERATURE.
Mean or normal temperature, 48 degrees.
The warmest montu was that of 1889,
with an average of 58 degrees.
The coldest month was that of 1896,
with an average of 44 degrees.
The highest temperature was 77 degrees
on December 28, 1889.
The lowest temperature was 9 degrees
on December 29, 1894.
Average date on which first "killing"
frost occurred in autumn, November 5.
Average date on which last "killing"
froBt occured in spring, March 23.
PRECIPITATION
Average for the month, 2.38 inches.
Average number of days with .01 of
an inch or more, 8.
The greatest monthly precipitation
was 3.37 Inches in 1887.
The least monthly precipitation was
0.75 inches in 1889.
The greatest amount of precipitation
recorded In any 24 consecutive hours
was 1.64 inches on December 16-17, 1888.
The greatest amount of snowfall recorded
in any 24 consecutive hours (record
extending to winter of 1884-86)
was 6.3 inches on December 30-31, 1894.
CLOUDS AND WEATHER.
Average number of clear days, 14;
partly cloudy days, 7; cloudy days, 10.
WIND.
The prevailing winds have been from
the northwest.
MORMONS ARE BOLD.
They Attempted House-to-House Canvass
In Columbia.
Press dispatches recently announced
that numerous prominent Mormons
were assembling at Chattanooga for
the purpose of pushing the Mormon
propaganda in the South.
As is well known to the public, for
several years Mormon preachers have
been operating in remote rural districts
in this state, where a number of converts
were made. A year or two ag >
they held a conference in this city, and
it was then stated that there was something
over 1,000 converts in the state.
The elders and preachers have been
quietly at work ever since and it is
likely that more converts have been
made.
But the elders and preachers seemingly
no longer intend to confine their
efforts to rural communities. Three
preachers have been at work in this
city, and it is stated that a church is
soon to be organized at the Uranby
mill. The elders, or whatever they are
called, have even grown bolder and are
attempting to conduct their mission
work right in the city. They go about
it in a quiet and unoDstrusive way and
do not hesitate to broach the subject
of their religion to most prominent and
respectable families.
A gentleman mentioned an instance
where two of them called at his resl
dence. Tney nrst pretenaea to de iooking
for some place to board, and during
the talk on that subject they adroitly
brought about their religion, prefacing
the remark that it was misunderstood,
etc. As soon as the subject was
broached they were promptly dismissed.
But it was brought out before they
left that they Intended to make a
house to house canvass.
The Mormon religion is very obnoxious
to Intelligent people, and the boldness
of these men In attempting to
propagate their doctrines in the city 13
unprecedented. But it goes to show
to what extent the Mormons are carrying
on their propaganda in this stateColumbia
Record.
Why You See Stars.?If you are one
of those who frequent the police courts,
you have no doubt heard the victims of
assaults declare that their assailants
hit them so hard that it made them
"see stars." And, indeed, the sensation
which you experience from a violent
blow on the head resembles very
much the sight of stars.
The fact is, there is a phosphorescent
power in the eye which shows itself
when the head is struck violently, and
is often perceived even in the act of
sneezing. The jar to the system caused
by the blow, produces a pressure
of the blood vessels upon the retina,
causing either total darkness or a faint
blue light which floats before the eye
and in which the imagination discovers
thousands of fantastic figures, the
majority of which resemble stars.?New
York Herald.
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