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r ^ ^ ISSUEEX SEMtWEEKL^ l. m. grist's sons. Publishers. } % Ifamitj geuispaper: .^or (he promotion of (lie fiolitical, facial. Agricultural and ?ommegcial Interests of the people. jTBI'^py, mliVmI'ANCB ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE, 8. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1908. NO. 32.1 J I in H >11 >ILiUilUJIt.?ILilL>IUIU>LI > THE Mi i m i 9 I By CLARENCE wrwrwiiirnfnrwfwwiwwwiiiii i CHAPTER XX. A Traitor's Fate. It was night. It was, if possible, darker than any previous night during the trip had been. The captain, as soon as evening came, took his place ?.n deck. All felt that it was a time of danger, although the storm was not as severe as it had been. "If we run into anything, either solid or afloat." had said some one, "it is liuniv ?? ho the end of us. isn't it, Cap tain Dennis?" And the captain had gravely nodded his head in the afflrmatvie. One of the men who had allowed ; himself to become infatuated with Miss Bannottie had come nearer to her as the darkness increased outside, and the evening deepened into night. Perhaps he feared some terrible catas- ( trophe, and hoped to be near her to help her when the crisis came. She had never spoken to him?had scarcely even noticed him: but he was build- , ^ ing castles for his future?in his busy brain?letting hope whisper lies to his soul?with only the sides of this frail vessel between him and eternity?with such a woman near him as was Lurline Bannottie. She had never spoken to him: he had , scarcely heard her voice; and yet, suddenly? She turned toward him. and beck- ( oned him to come nearer her. Need I , say he came? "Will you find out how long it will take us to reach New York?" she ask- , ed. "Will you go up and ask thecapI tain?' He knew the sort of night he would find above: he knew the dangers he must face, he knew the risks he , should run: he knew that he might , give his life for her, in what he was | about to undertake, but he did not hesitate. He went. ( I hope Burline Bannottie did not know how great the danger, and how fearful the risk of the errand on , which she sent this young man. I do not know whether she did or not; I t have a very definite and decided opinion, of course, but I am not sure. But ( I am sure of one thing?I am sure she didn't care. The young man went. He was gone a long time. He was as wet. when he returned, as though he had been dipped in the sea. He had had one or , t\vo narrow escapes during his ab- ; sence?one of them resulting in his re- , maining ab(?ard. instead of being blown into the ocean, by the merest chance. But he said nothing to Miss Bannottie of all this; he was too , proud to seem to boast in the first hour , of this new acquaintance?this prob- , able friendship?this possibly more , than acquaintance and friendship ever was or will be. , "You saw the captain?" she asked. j ( "I did." , "Well, what did he say?' "He said he is not sure of where we are now. Basing his opinion on the , position of the vessel when an observation was last possible, and on the j distance we have probably come since, he thinks we shall arrive at New York , early day after tomorrow morning. Of course he is not sure." k '"Day after tomorrow morning!" moaned Miss Bannottie. "Too late! ( too late!" "To late? Too late for what?" queried the young man. "For everything!" she replied. ( "But suppose " he began. "Suppose nothing." she interrupted; "I cannot and I will not bear this cruel disappointment. Go and ask the captain to give us a greater speed." "But?Miss?Miss Bannottie is your name, is it not?". "Yes." "Miss Bannottie. it cannot be done. A greater speed would be unsafe. I > cannot ask it?" "Do you mean that you are afraid?" "I? No. But the captain would never grant such a request." 'You will not ask him'.'' "Hod knows I would do anything for you. Miss Bannottie. but " "But I may ask some other man to do this for me? Is that it?" The man stood up then, pale and calm. "Xn. a thousand times No. I will ask the captain this question for you." He came a step nearer to her. His eyes flashed. There was that in his face, his step, his whole bearing, which spoke eloquently of the passion which r tilled and dominated him. Miss Bannottie." he began. "I?I?" She raised her hand, warningly. "Hush." she said: "remember there are others here to listen: say nothing." And he held his peace. He went his \\ ay. No matter how many times he saw her during that voyage?he has never seen her since, and he never will? no matter how womanly she seemed to him?she gave him an address a thousand miles from where she had ever been or ever will go. if she had been honest with him?she would not have been Lurline Bannottie. ^ She gave him a glance, as he left her to pro to me captain 011 umi uesperate errand, which will keep him single all his life; a look which will come to him again, in imagination, when he shall lie on his dying bed, and thrill his nerves again with the fierce pleasure and hope it gave him; a look to make him a wanderer always; a look to make him a searcher for what he will never find: a look to embitter his life in this world, and to endanger that in the world which is to come. It would be strange to think that such a glance ever fell from the eyes of a woman across the path of a mere stranger?were the woman any other than Lurline Bannottie. The man was gone longer this time. I The wind was wilder. The sea seemed more and more angry with the vessel it tossed upon its surface. He returned, after a very, very long time. He walked up to her, trying JTSIBI i BOUTELLE. \ * wmmmmmmtrmm iw mm i hard to preserve his calmness, though his face was like marble and his limbs trembled beneath his weight. "I have failed, Miss Bannottie," he said; "now you may ask some of the others to try the same errand?if you wish." Again she flashed that wonderful glance upon him?that fascinating look which told the He of friendship and trust and dependent faith?the look which was an invitation and a challenge. "No," she said, quietly, "I shall send no one but you. Will you ask the captain to grant me an Interview?" The man went on this errand for her. In a few minutes he returned with the captain. Miss Bannottie thanked the gentleman for his kindness. and if there was something of coolness in her manner now, I fancy he was fool enough to regard it as a rebuke for failure?as though woman has not been setting: men su me of impossibility ever since the world was. Miss Bannottie drew Captain Dennis to one side. "I sent a gentleman to you with a message a few minutes ago." she said, "and he returns to me and reports his errand a failure." "Certainly. I regret " "Don't, please." she said, making a contemptuous little gesture with one r?f her shapely hands: "don't. I don't want politeness, and consideration which goes no further than words. I am in trouble, and " She paused and smiled up at him. He smiled down at her. I am afraid he forgot his pretty wife in their quiet English home, for just a minute, and that his heart beat just a little faster than it ought as he stood looking down into the eyes of Lurline Bannottie. "I am very sorry." he said: "will you explain your trouble to me?" "I cannot, fully. But I will say this: I must be in New York city by noon tomorrow." The captain smiled in spite of himself. "Must is a very hard word. You rannot be." "If I am not, I don't care if we never get there. I had rather go to the bottom of the Atlantic than he late." "Very likely, but I cannot run this steamer for you alone. Think of the lives intrusted to my care. Think of the awful fate we should find if we were to run on to some unsuspected ledge. Think of the danger to both vessels of a collision between this steamer and another if we were going at full speed: think or wnai wouia result to the smaller craft if we were to run into some fishing vessel: think?" "Don't. Captain Dennis. Don't ask me to think of anything but my own needs. Don't ask me to think of anything; but the fact that I must be in New York at noon tomorrow." "How important is it that you should he there?" asked the captain. "As important as anythnig can be in this world.' "And yet you cannot explain it to me?" "And yet I will not." she replied, and there was an emphasis on the important word of the sentence which could scarcely escape his attention. "A matter of money?" "Money? Hah! What is money? Do you men'all measure the good and evil in this world by dollars and cents? Money? I've ten thousand dollars here. Captain Dennis, ten thousand dollars in Bank of England notes, and it's more than half of all I own. And yet it's yours?yours to the last penny ?if you'll land me in New York by noon tomorrow." "It does look serious. A love affair. I suppose?" "I have no lover. Captain Dennis." "Some family matter?" "I have no relatives in the world, so far as I know." "You are devoted to your friends, Miss Bannottie, if you can afford to spend money in their service as you have just offered to do." "I have no friends in America, sir: I have no friends nearer than Italy." "And yet this is a serious matter? I suppose." and his words were spoken lightly, "that it is a matter of life and death." "Yes, Captain Dennis." she said, solemnly. "it is a matter of life and death." A curious change flashed over his face. Before, she had smiled up at him and lie had smiled back at her. Now. he smiled down at her, and she?she was looking over him and beyond him?looking at the success of her plans, perhaps. I hate to have to write it. but it is my duty to tell the truth: I am sure that the sweetfaced wife of Captain Dennis was utterly forgotten at that moment. "You're going beyond New York. I presume?" The woman looked the man in the face. She understood him. "Certainly. I am gain*? home. I shall be glad to have you call in person. after my troubles are all over, to let me thank you. My home is ?n Denver: a note addressed to me there at any time will reach me." "I've never been west. I've always thought I should enjoy a trip there. I will write and announce my coming if I should ever find it convenient to call." "I shall be glad." "Miss Bannottie, I " She stopped him imperatively. "You must waste no more time here." she said, decidedly: "are you going to try to help me?" 'T?I will get you to New York tomorrow noon," he said, huskily. "Thank you." said she. "Or we'll all go to the bottom together tonight." he added to himself. He turned away to go on deck again. "And the money?" she said, inquiringly. as she reached a huge roll which she had taken from her pocket toward him. "I don't want your money, girl," lie c cried, gruffly: "I want " "You want to do me a favor? You r know it will injure no one else. I g thank you. Good-night. I rely upon 1 your promise." s "I want her?I want her," said the i captain, as he went away from her and to his post of duty, and gave the nee- a essary and astonishing orders for an a increase of speed. It was a strange thing for a man to e say to himself, with danger so near f and death so possible in so short a time. Though I suppose death is as a possible and danger as real, many \ times, when all is peace and calm and sunshine; and I do not doubt that k men have been as blindly weak and li wicked, many a time and oft. as was e Captain Dennis. r "She shall never know that I was h not a single man when I met her," he s said, under his breath; "as a single o man I will woo her; as a single man a I will win her. I will marry her some- u where in the west, where I am un- e known, and no one shall ever know that I sin when I do it." No, Captain Dennis, you will not do tl as you plan. It is easy to say; it is a hard to do. You are weak and wicked, s Miss Pannottie is wicked, but she is not by any means weak. She under- b stands you. fully and entirely. Put v you neither know nor understand her. Perhaps she is proud in the knowledge d that you love her?or think you do. s Possibly she regards your determination?you may not know that >ou o showed it in your face, Captain Den- U nis, hut you did?to deceive her by a r pretense of honorable marriage, as a n delicate compliment to her; though h the slight it puts upon her powers of s observation and good common sense a may more than balance her apprecia- n tion of the compliment to her charac- li ter. Y<>u will not marry her; you will h not ask her hand in marriage. You will e set her upon the wharf at New York at the time you promised, and you will ci never see her again. You will have F been a tool in her hands, and she will cast you aside because she is done with a ' "? Vnnr totters to Denver will meet with no answers, though they may a make interesting reading in the Deadletter Office at Washington. Your s< search will he unavailing. Hurry now; T make tomorrow noon the end of your u chapter, and you need never cross these pages again. Pray for pardon y for the sin you contemplated, but will never find an opportunity to commit; a in time you may deserve it: in tiine n you may receive it. But the silence si with which you intended to cover and fi conceal your sin could have been no n greater than the silence which shall fall for ever between Lurline Bannottie S and yourself. A traitor's fate. Cap- S tain Dennis, a traitor's fate! and we fi know Lurline Bannottie well enough to say that her silence is better than you si deserve. h * * ***" P-, The captain remained on deck. Miss Bannottie remained below for some hours. The man who had gone on the errands for her said nothing to her. j* He did not even come near her. Perhaps he had nothing to say. None of the others presumed to intrude upon ^ her evidently desired silence. But all recognized, by the changed motion of the vessel, and by the new noises among the machinery, that the speed ( had been greatly increased. To some. n this was a source of terror: some doubtless, were gratified; the man who l< had failed when sent to the captain I1' was in the depths of despair and sor-l^ row?for he did not know how the result had been brought about: and Lurline Hannottie herself, she was 's <iuietly serene and triumphant?for she did not care how any result was brought about, so that she only had her way. ' After some time she went to her stateroom and clothed herself in her " thickest and warmest garments. She " put on her waterproof cloak over them all. She went up on deck. The night t( was still pitchy black, but the storm n had somewhat abated. The circles of x light cast by the various lights about the vessel were very narrow indeed, 1 c and seemed to leave the darkness out7 side them blacker and deeper yet. She found a place where she felt se- ' tl cure: a dark place where she could sit, unseen, by any of those whose places 1 were upon deck, and strain her eyes '' in a vain attempt to pierce the wild night through which they were so madP ly plunging. It was a pleasure to her to think that all this was for her. For her, the firemen were piling more coal upon the fires: for her. the engineers were coaxing greater and greater power from 1 the ponderous machines which responded almost humanly to their wishes: for her. the outlook was watching with redoubled attention and zeal; for her?she was musing now Imost dreaming?almost asleep after all the strain had been put upon her mind? almost absent from the real?almost walking through the shadowland of sleep, in spite of storm and danger? for her. Captain Dennis, had, had? " V what had lie done??she didn't know? she couldn't remember?she didn't care. What was Captain Dennis to her. or she to him? Only let her sleep, and She awoke again. She knew it was unsafe to remain where she was and *N sleep. She knew she might be missing in the morning if she dared risk it. Hut the half-relin<iuished powers of . slumber still held some power over her: she could not rise: she could not speak: she could not think clearly. "It?it makes little difference, perhaps," she muttered, as the lids clos* ?u-ltli lend- ' tMl MOW IV IJ i-KMU,, en weight, over her tired eyes: "little a difference. If I am not in New York 1 by tomorrow noon I might as well be ' in?in " She didn't finish the sentence. I -S [don't know how she would have fin- 1 ished. Rut. having the opinion I have, I venture the assertion that she had been traveling in that direction longer j than she had toward New York. Lurline Bannottie slept. She dream- , ed she was a little girl again, saying her ptayers at her mother's knee, with all the world and the future before her. with innocence for her possession and hope for her future: "And lead us not into temptation, but de- i liver us from " (' She awoke with a loud cry. Dream which could never fall her way in j waking hours again, the mother she had disappointed and whose life she s had shortened, the prayer she neither ^ lung to nor lived by?all were gone. She was conscious of having experenced a terrible shock. The vessel was rroaning and creaking in every joint. The crash of shivering timbers and plintering planks was still sounding n her ears. Her first thought was a shipwreck, nd of the near presence of death in n awful form. And then, there arose such a shrill ry of despair and horror and anguish rom the blackness outside the vessel -the night's domain of sea and storm s she had never supposed the human oice to be capable of. And in an instant she knew it all? ;new it before the pitiful cry for help lad died into the silence which seemd so utter and awful in spite of the oar of the winds and waters and the loarse commands on the Pond Lily; he knew it all?they had only run ver a small vessel, only run over it nd cut it in two; the Pond Lily was ninjured, she had only sent the smaur craft to the bottom! Only! What an awful word! What a houghtless an(i heartless word to use t such a time and under such circumtanees! But Lurline Bannottie used il! I eg the render to remember that the ord was not mine. Lurline Bannottie had had a had ream?bad for her. She had had a trange awakening?even for her. She met the captain just at the head f the stairs, under the light of the imp there, she coming from one diection and he from another. She had ever seen him so pale before; peraps he was of a slower nature than he. and took longer to recover from shock. She had her color in her face ow, and the smile on her cheeks and ps and in her wonderful eyes. Peraps she had not lost them at all, not ven in the moment of awakening. "My God, Miss Bannottie!" cried the aptaln; "you here? Did you see? lid you hear?" "I heard. I saw nothing. Was there nything to see?" She had laid her hand upon his arm s she spoke. "For just a moment, yes. The veso| was evidently cut squarely In two. 'here is no help for tlie poor fellows nless we can pick them up." "Itut our engines have not stopped et." "No; and there's something wrong bout giving orders from above. I lust go below and have the vessel topped, and" shaking her light hand mm his arm. "you must not hinder le." He tried to shake off her hand again, he clasped him more tightly still, ho laid her other hand beside the rst one. "Do you not know, Captain Dennis," he said, and her voice was so low that e had to bend his head to catch her ords, "that it is utterly useless to et out the boats now?" He looked down into her face. A assionate sigh shook him. For a lament he hesitated. Then he turned , ack from the stairs. "I?I believe it is," he said. Perhaps it was useless. I hope that ( -i ? T i e inougm st?. i miuh mic umu i. It was not quite twelve, the next ay. when Captain Dennis walked own from his vessel with Miss Banottie, and found her a carriage. , She gave her order to the driver. He )ok her hand for a moment. He liftil his cap. "K&rewell, Miss Bannottie," lie said; farewell until we shitII meet again." "Call on me in Denver, captain." he said, gayly; "I shall always he glad ^ see you." And so they parted. And so she , ad her own way, as she rarely failed i have it. , She rode to the place she had menioned to the driver. She paid and dislissed him. She walked just one lock. She waited just long enough i be sure that neither Captain Denis nor any of her companions of the oyage had followed her?though why he should imagine that these loyal and rusting fellows, so far as she was oncerned, should do so, I cannot tell, 'hen she found herself another eariage. with another driver, crossed at he proper ferry, drove far enough rom New York city to battle any uestions or investigations which light he made in or near that city, nd took the necessary train for the oint she had in view, paying her fare rom a "thousand-mile ticket," instead f buying a ticket for the trip. Farewell, young man, nameless to ie. who are doomed to the miseries of leinory and the horrors of hope for iUiline IJannottie's sake. I wish you ell. I pity you. Farewell. And you, Captain Dennis, good-by. 'on go nut of my story with my wishes hat you may do better, think better, e better. You have my pity. Oo. rou have not played a part to be proud f. You should find shame and soriiw in your soul for what you have one. Search for Lurline Bannottie, ou will not find her. Pray, but of rhat avail are the proud prayers of lie wicked? You will never see Lurine Bannottie again, until you stand ogether before the Judge of all in the ?ast Day. And, Captain Dennis hough you may not guess it. though our weak humanity may protest gainst it, if there is one thing, more r t. :?i nan annuier, Mil \<inin ,iuii ^iiuum hank Ood every morning and evening, t is that Lurline Bannottie never tossed your path in life but once. To be Continued. RAKK.?There lives in Evanston a ittle girl who was taken recently on l trip to the Paeilic coast. While gong and coming through the Rocky fountain region she heard a good deal ibout the difficulties some of the passengers had on account of the rare condition of the atmosphere. It was hortly after little Hester's return that ter smaller sister came home from bin day school and reported that she tad heard of a wonderful thing. "It says in the Bible," she declared, 'that once there was a man who went 0 heaven without dying." "Oh! no," said Hester, "that could lever have happened. Why do you ell such libs?" "It did, too happen. He went right tp to heaven in a chariot and never lied at all." "Yes," said the mother of the little rirls, "it is true. The Bible says that Elijah went to heaven in that way." After seriously thinking about it for 1 moment Hester asked: "I wonder how he ever stood the lititude?"?Chicago Record-Herald. ittiscdlanmts -Bfadittfl. STATE CEREAL CONTEST. York County Competitors Have a Chance For Additional Prizes. One of tlie first steps of the committee appointed by the Farmers' Union of York county to augurate a corn growing contest for York county, was to write to Hon. E. J. Watson, commissioner of agriculture and immigration for information about the state cereal contest, and literature that would assist the committee in the formulation of rules and regulations for the government of the county contest. Commissioner Watson did not happen to he in Columbia when the letter readied there and as time seemed to be a most essential element of the situation the committee decided to go on with Its work as best it could, under the circumstances, throwing open the contest as already announced. In the meantime. however. Commissioner Watson has been heard from in an infernslinfr loftr.r flint will no doubt have on Important bear ins: on developments. This letter Is as follows: Columbia, S. C., April 16, 1908. Mr. W. D. Grist, Yorkvllle, S. C'. Dear Mr. Grist: ? On returning to the city I found your letter of April 7th. and was very much gratified to learn that the Farmers' Union in your county had inaugurated a county corn raising contest. I was very much pleased too to note the principal requirement of the contest which should have most beneficial results. The state corn contest commission, of wiiich I am the chairman, has today issued its manual for corn growers to use, and record the crop this year. I am sending you under separate cover several copies of this Manual which contains all the rules and regulations from which you can get some suggestions as to the rules your committee wishes to provide. For your information I will say that the commission will be delighted to furnish you with a number of these Manuals if you can ^nake use of them in your county contest. I wish particularly to direct your attention also to the fact that every man who enters your contest is eligible to participation with one acre in the state contest, thereby having the opportunity or winning one 01 me prizes that the state offers. I wish to say on behalf of the commission that I trust your committee will work in close co-operation with our state commission in the prosecution of a work that promises so much to the agricultural industry and work that lias in the past been of incalculable value to the commonwearth. Very truly yours, E. J. Watson, Commissioner. Copies of the Manual to which Commissioner Watson refers have been received. This Manual is comprised in a pamphlet of 26 pages with covers. It gives full directions for the cereal contest of 1908, and includes blanks to be tilled.in by the contestants with details of seed selection, planting, cultivation. fertilization, etc., during the production of the crops. There Is nothing in the requirements that are calculated to prevent participants In the York county contest from also participating in the state contest. It will be well worth the while of all who may be interested to write to Commissioner Watson for copies of the Manual. The following information is given in the general announcement: This competition has been inaugur ated with a view to Increase grain growers' profits by increasing the yield per acre, and also the quality of corn iind oats through simple methods of seed selection and proper culture. It is so named from the fact that it cannot but result in adding millions in the aggiegate to the profits of those engaged in agriculture in this state. Managers of the Contest. The contest will be conducted by a commission created by the general assembly of South Carolina consisting of the following: 1. The state commissioner of agriculture. commerce and immigration. 2. The president of Clemson college. 3. The professor of agriculture at Clemson college. The objects of the contest are: 1. To encourage proper selection of seed and better care of soils: 2. To centre attention upon varieties that are superior for each section, to introduce seed of such varieties that are pure and true to name, and to prove that when such varieties are grown under normal conditions, it is not necessary to so frequently change seed. To encourage better methods of culture and harvesting, so as largely to increase average yields per acre and improved quality. 4. To show that such results can be had at less expense of time, money and labor than poorer crops when increase in yield is considered. ii. To improve methods of marketing and conversion of crops into largest possible cash return. 0. To increase grain growers' profits on each acre and each bushel every vca r. 7. To promote the keeping of intelligent records and the use of business principles in fanning, to foster the farmer's prosperity and the welfare of the whole people. Nature of the Contest. 1. Each grower will be required to grow one acre of crop. 2. Each contestant can follow his own best judgment as to the selection of seed and soil and mode of culture, harvesting and marketing. 3. Each contestant must report all particulars relating to growth, tillage, etc.. on forms in contestants' manual. Rules of the Contest. 1. Any person may compete. There are no fees or dues. 2. Each contestant is to furnish one sample bushel from each acre grown, to be judged, and then sold for benefit of expenses of conducting contest. 3. Each contestant will mail a pint sample seed from each crop to chemist designated for analysis. 4. Each competitor must secure the Contestants' Manual. 5. To enter contest, simply notify the chairman and order Contestants' Manual as per preceding paragraph. 6. Reports must be made on forms prescribed in Contestants' Manual. 7. This contest to Improve grain growers' profits is to cover the crops planted in 1908, of corn. Scale of Points, Each contestant's work, including sample of crop, record and report, will be judged according to the following scale of points: Points. 1. Purity and selection of seed .. 10 2. Methods of culture 25 3. Record or report?its clearness, completeness, accuracy, care bestowed upon it, etc 15 4. Yield of contest acre 25 5. Quality of crop, market grade, salability, feeding value, etc. 10 6. Profits resulting from the entire operation 15 Total points 100 The scale of points offers every inducement to truthfulness, and by means both apparent and secret the judges will lie enabled to exercise righteous judgment. There is no need or inducement for misrepresentation, and anything of the sort will be detrimental to the contestant. The Prizes Offered. The prizes offered are as follows: 1st prize on above scale of points. $225 1st prize on yield per acre 150 2nd prize on above scale of points 75 2nd prize on yield per acre 25 3rd prize on above scale of points 25 Total ir.OO Certificate of Honor. Rvvry competitor Fn this contest whether he or she wins a prize or not, provided their work is meritoi ions as shown by results and complete report, will be awarded a certificate, setting forth the results achieved. In awarding these certificates special stress will be laid by the judges upon the purity and selection of seed and methods of culture, as well as the actual crop obtained. The purpose is to award the ceitificate only to contestants whose methods and crop are such as to render the grain they produce mi the contest acre in 1908 worthy of endorsement for seed purposes. In this way it is hoped that farmers everywhere will universally demand certified seed grain when they come to plant for 1909. THE FIRST BALLOT. What it Means to Leading Candidates In National Convention. We are told that Secretary Taft will lend on the lirst ballot in the Republican national convention of 1908. There is a chance that he will lead. Hut the man who is ahead on the first line-up unless in the ease of renomination of a, president, does not always carry off the prize. Seward led at the outset in the Republican convention of 1860, but Lincoln got the nomination. Blaine was far ahead of any of his rivals on several ballots in 1876, yet it was Hayes who won the candidacy. Grant led for a long time in the convention of 1880, but it was Garfield who was nominated. Sherman was so far ahead of all the other aspirants in 1888 for several ballots that it looked as if he would get the candidacy, but Harrison was the lucky man, and not Sherman. It has been the rule among the republicans to re-nominate their elected presidents, the only exception being in the case of Hayes, who said at the outset that he would accept only one term. But a new man has to fight for the candidacy. If the new man does not carry off the prize on the first ballot the chances will be against him. This was shown in the case of Seward, of Blaine in his first convention, of Sherman and of former President Grant when he sought a mini it-1 in. The only Republican aspirant who failing to win on that ballot, was successful on a subsequent division was Blaine in 18R1. who was ahead from the beginning and who received the nomination on the fourth ballot. In Democratic conventions also luck usually turns against the leader on the first bsi'lot who falls to get the candidacy or- that or on the second ballot. At the outset Van Buren led in 1844, Cass in 1852, Douglas in 1860, Pendleton in, 1868 and Bland in 1896, but in each i tse the nomination went to somebody else?to Polk in 1844. to Pierce in 1852. to Seymour in 1868 and to Bryan in 1896?except that in the Douglas case of I860 the party split eventually, and Douglas in another convention received the nomination of one section of his party. Tllden in 1876. Hancock in 1880 and Cleveland in 1884, who led on the first ballot, were nominated on the second. The case of Cass in 1848, who carried off the prize on the fourth ballot and Buchanan in 1856 who won on the seventeenth, both of whom led from the beginning, are exceptional in Democratic annals.?Lesslie's Weekly. Diversion of a Sultan. Writing in The World Today of the various amusement "fads" of the sultan of Morocco. John H. Avery says: Still, the sultan was really interested in "sun-pictures." And while his gorgeous cameras were being made in Paris and London he set gangs of slaves at work on a palatial studio and darkroom that cost $30,000. It was a huge domed structure, wainscoted with carved teak, and its appliances and fittings cost a small fortune. As soon as I arrived in Fez I began to explain the working of a small hand camera, of course through <>., i..i,i,,, It w.ist :i litflp hard for the latter to find Arable equivalents for "focus." "lens." and so on. Hut the sultan is really an intelligent man; he soon mastered the mysteries of the little instrument and pressed me to pass on to the bigger machines wherewith he might take groups of his friends. Great was his delight when he snapped his first successful picture, showing Sir Harry MacLean caressing his favorite hound. For some weeks the despot ran around hugging cameras like one possessed and devising subjects of all kinds, chiefly the ludicrous. Borrowing the bicycle of Doctor Verdon, his English physician, his majesty insisted on Kaid Bel Harty. keeper of the palace keys, trying to ride. But so great was the sultan's hilarity over the performance that he could not take the picture. Bel Harty is a tall, dignified old man of 60odd, and all of us Christians earned his undying hatred by reason of laughter it was impossible to suppress, as he lurched erazily this way and that, and finally fell sprawling in the mud! til' 111 Tokio every workman wears on his back an Inscription telling his trade and his employer. MARTIN AND HEYWARD. Senatorial Fight Opens Early With Rock Throwing. Greenville News. Saturday. Replying to comments in the Baptist Courier on the withdrawal of Mr. Henderson to the effect that the race for the senate is between Heyward and Evans, Supt. Martin, who is also a candidate for the senate, today rnniln nnhllp a !r>ftor tn the Renttst Courier, in which he attacks Governor Heyward and calls attention to the testimony before the Investigating committee in regard to the expenditure made by W. R. Dillingham in Spartanburg in behalf of Heyward as a candidate for governor in 1902, and also for announcing shortly after the death of Senator Latimer. The comment in the Baptist Courier is as follows: "Mr. Dan S. Henderson, who was announced as candidate for the United States senate to succeed Mr. Gary, has withdrawn from the race. There are still left, however, five avowed candidates, of whom the leading ones are former Governors Heyward and Evans. Mr. Heyward had probabl}* gained by the withdrawal of Messrs. McCullough and Henderson?two of the most scholarly and Intellectual men in the state?and the present indications are that Mr. Heyward will "win out." If he should, South Carolina would have a representative in the senate equal in every respect to any member of that body, and one whose acquaintance and influence would be worth a great deal to the Of Q to * ' This paragraph appears In the column of comment conducted by Rev. L. J. Bristow. Mr. Martin's letter is as follows: "Columbia. S. C., April 17. 1908. "To the Editor of the Baptist Courier. "The enclosed clipping has been noted by me and also sent to me by Courier subscribers. I regret that you use the influence of your paper and your gifts of prophecy to try to line up the votes before the campaign opens. I have always believed that your sense of fairness would have prevented such action. "It Is possible to prostitute a religious paper in politics. I wonder if you have read pages 327-346 of the testimony of the dispensary investigation committee? Mr. W. R. Dillingham, of Spartanburg swore that he spent several hundred dollars for Gov. Hey ward, upon his (Heyward's) authority. in the race for governor in 1902. Dillingham said he was conducting the campaign upon the 'Mark Hanna system.' Several men swore that Dillingham collected $50, each, from men whom Gov. Heyward appointed dispensary constables. Some of those fellows had to 'borrow money for rent and rations.' Chief Fant said Dillingham told him that he spent $1,080 in Heyward's campaign. Is a man responsible, under the law for the acts of his agents? Does the Courier stand for this? "It is well known that Gov. Heyward said before Senator Latimer's death that he would not. run for the senate because of his business matters. Did Senator Latimer's death immediately affect Gov. Heyward's 'business matters' so that he could get into tne race In less than an hour? Would he have much influence In congress where he would be known as the post mortem candidate? Did you see the daily papers in South Carolina which announced Senator Latimer's death and Gov. Heyward's candidacy at the same time on front page in large headlines? Some of the congressmen appointed to attend the funeral saw them and expressed their opinions of the same. South Carolina generally respects the dead and their families, especially in the solemn hours of their deepest grief. "South Carolina, too, believes in giving every man a fair chance. I think your paper would not lose anything by hearing the arguments and reasoning before it decides definitely for the people of this state as to whom they shall elect for any office. "Sincerely yours. "O. R Martin." "S." Heyward Replies. Columbia. April 17.?(Special).? Governor Heyward was today shown a copy of Mr. Martin's letter and asked if he had any reply to make to this attack upon him. Mr. Heyward said: "I am very much surprised and sorry to know that Mr. Martin has seen fit to begin the mud slinging in the senatorial campaign. When I was not a candidate for the same office to which he also aspires he seemed to entertain for me a very high regard. The people of the state will recall thai when Mr. Martin last July got mad with Governor Ansel and made a bitter attack upon the chief magistrate of South Carolina he referred to D. C. Heyward as that "delightful and considerate gentleman who adorned that office during the past four years.' "But since that delightful and con siderate gentlemen is now Mr. Martin's opponent and is pronounced by a leading religious newspaper as the probable winner of the race, Mr. Martin seems to change his opinion of him entirely, but I am certain he cannot change the opinion of the people of South Carolina. "The testimony before the investigation committee must have been known to Mr. Martin when he spoke of me so kindly last summer as it has been public property for nearly three years. The people of South Carolina know what sort of campaign I conducted in 1902, and their confidence in me was clearly demonstrated by the fact that I was re-elected governor in 1904. without even a hint of opposition. "As to the alleged expenditures in 1902 in Spartanburg county as brought out at investigation, I have nothing to conceal and have never had. I will he very glad for you to publish a copy of this testimony which I herewith hand you. Hundreds of my friends throughout the state know the circumstances in the case. Between the first and second primaries. I made my headquarters in Spartanburg and necessarily a great deal of expense was incurred. I was under the impression that all of the expenses had been settled at the time, but two and a half years later a statement was presented to me from Mr. Dillingham, which, after an investigation by some of my friends and upon their advice, I paid. As shown by Mr. Dillingham's testimony the amount was not nearly so large' as Chief Fant had thought and furthermore the testimony will show that It was entirely disconnected with the constabulary. "As to my alleged disrespect to Senator Latimer, I wish to say that my candidacy for the senate was not announced until I read In the afternoon paper an account of the funeral of Senator Latimer, and it was then announced only because I was leaving the next day for Philadelphia to be absent for some time on account of the Illness of my wife. Any previous reference to my probable candidacy made by the newspapers was, of course, without authorization or Instigation from me. Mr. Martin's consideration for the feelings of Senator Latimer's family may in his own words be termed post mortem regard, because it Is well known that Mr. Martin was preparing to attack the personal and political record of the late senator, had Mr. Latimer lived to enter the campaign. This Is shown by Mr. Martin's announcement of his eandidacy for the senate." THE REAPER KINGS. A Theory That Lincoln's Candidacy Was Due to Their Wars. Among the different types of reapers and the numerous variations of each type the bitterest rivalries prevailed. There was no pool, no "gentlemen's agreement," no "community of interest." Indeed the "harvester business" was not business. It was a riotous game of "farmer, farmer, who gets the farmer?^ The excited players cared less for the profits than for the victories. As fast as they made money they threw It back into the game. Mechanics became millionaires and millionaires became mechanics. The whole trade was tense with risk and rivalry and excitement, as though it were a search for gold along the high plateaus of the Rand. And this in spite of the fact that, with the exception of McCormick, Osborne and Whlteley, the men who/, came to be known as reaper kings were not naturally lighters. No business men were ever gentler than Deering. Olessner. Warder, Adriance and Huntley. But the making of reapers was a new trade. It was like a vast, unfenced prairie, where every settler owned as much ground as he could defend. Fitch step ahead meant a struggle for patents. Whoever built a x reaper had to defend himself in the courts as well as approve himself in the harvest fields. Cyrus H. McCormick especially, as William Deering soon learned, wielded the big stick against every man who dared to make reapers. He was the grizzled old veteran of the trade, and he gave battle to his competitors as though they were a horde of trespassers. He was their common enemy, and the reaper money that was squandered on lawsuits brought a golden era of prosperity to the lawyers. Some of these patent wars shook the country with the crash of hostile forces. The tide of battle rolled up to the supreme court and even into the halls of congress. Once in 1855, when McCormick charged full tilt upon John H. Manny, who was making reapers at Rockford, 111., a three year struggle began that was the most noted legal duel of the day. McCormick. to make sure of his victory, went into the fight with a battery of lawyers whom he thought invincible?William H. Seward, E. M. Dickerson and Senator Reverdy Johnson. Manny made a giant effort at self-defense by hiring Abraham Lincoln. EMwin M. Stanton, Stephen A. Douglas, Peter H. Watson, George Harding and Congressman H. Winter Davis. From first to.last It was a lawyers' battle, and McCormick was finally defeated by Stanton, who made an unanswerably eloquent speech. For this speech Stanton received $10,000, and Lincoln, who had made no speech at all, was given $1,000. Yet in the long run the man who profited by this lawsuit* was Lincoln, for it was this money that enabled him to carry on his famous debate with Douglas and thus made him the inevitable candidate of the Republican party.?H. N. Casson in Everybody's Magazine. EDWARD THE PEACEMAKER. His Remarkable Success In Composing European Differences. A Maurice Low, in the Forum, says: A man of extraordinary ability Is the present king of England, a man whose great capacity was not suspected until long after an age when the world has usually formed and closed its judgment of men. Had the king died when he was stricken down with appendicitis on the eve of his coronation. he would have occupied a much smaller place in history that he does now. I'p to that time, as the world was able to Know mm, ne was a man who loved life and got out of life all there was in it. He had always been noted for his tact; a marked trait was his desire to make every one around him happy and to play the peacemaker whenever it was possible but no opportunity had been Riven him to give proof of statesmanship of the first order. In a few short years he has shown himself to be the first statesman of Europe. Summed up. the result of King Edward's diplomacy of the last few years is seen to be as follows: England and France have settled all the questions that formerly kept them apart, and are now working in perfect concord to keep the peace of Europe; England and Russia have reached a working arrangement, and a clash between the two powers, either in the far or near east, Is no longer feared; between England and Italy and England and Austria there is complete sympathy: an English princess sits on the throne of Spain, which is of importance politically because of the interests Engliiml has in lh<> Meillferrsineat! ? an English princess sits on the throne of Norway, which is of lesser importance, but not without political value. England, therefore, can command the support of every European power with the sole exception of Germany, whose emperor rages with impotent fury as he watches the success of his uncle's diplomacy. The Turkish government recently disposed of an immense collection of stamps which it possessed in order to raise money to build a railroad.