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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
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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
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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? "
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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*
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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 (
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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.