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f ' ^ ^ ISSXJED SEMI-WEEKL^ l. m. grists sons, pnbii?h?r?. j % ^amilg Ueirsjaper: 4or tN promotion of the political, Social. Agricultural and Commercial Interests of the $eoj>le. {TKK,^ol$e coft.Vi't" c?nt>vA K K 8gtaul1shed 1855. ~ YORKyiLLh; S. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 19Q8. XO. 74. HOW WIDO) i ! WAS SOLE By Mr,. MAR fr ^ *f $* f* ?f? *t- *t' *t T T "f? CHAPTER I. The Attorney. A little country office shaded by pine trees?an attorney's office?a place where lean and hook-nosed men went in and out. and contented men leaned against the door-post, disputing with old Pinckbeck, and , ruddy-cheeked men called occasionally to hear the news, and pale-faced widows, who wanted to raise a little money on house or land, and now and then a fresh, sweet young girl? say, for instance, beautiful Lucy Willets?came to give some message from her mother, whose little property was all in his hands. It would have done you good to see the sudden brightness that Illuminated Peter Pinchbeck's countenance at sight of this glorious little beauty?if it had only been a somewhat different countenance; but when a nose which is permanently crimson, and cheeks that are perpetually red, and eyes that are always inflamed, take on more light than color, one is reminded instantly of a conflagration, and not of that supremest of all passions?the passion of innocent love. It happened, one day, that a stranger came to Pottstown. It also hap" pened that, strolling through one of its narrow, picturesque streets?I say picturesque, because one side was not as yet built up with modern French-roof villas in wood, and there ?, AVOrV OCiTI. were enormous pusicia m ^^ celvable and Inconceivable quack medicine under heaven staring one In the face for a mile or so?this stranger saw the following notice: "For Sale?The premises and all effects therein contained of the Widow Wlllets?a fair two-story house, nine rooms, good barn on the premises. 6,000 feet of land, and all the furniture, at auction, on Thursday next, the 16th of July. To be sold under hammer to the highest bidder." The stranger, a stalwart, hand some man of forty, or thereabout ran his eye over this notice at least four times. His demeanor, had only any one been looking, might have been considered singular, to say the least. At last he set his lips hard together, and all the color seemed to die out of his brorized face. Then he lifted his hat and wiped the great drops of perspiration that all at once gathered at the roots of his hair and began to roll down. Then, when he had replaced his hat, his fingers came gradually together, as if there was something for them to close on. He stepped out from the shadow of the great branching elm and looked at the sign over the low door-way. A very unpretentious sign?simply. "Peter Pinchbeck, Attorney at law. And then he made straight for the office. Peter Pinchbeck looked up. His rheumy eyes watered and brightened at sight of this stranger. There was business in his face. "Morning sir,'' ne saia, aliening ms large head, and half rising from his chair, "Good-morning, sir!" said the stranger, with a clear, strong accent. "I see there's a cottage to be sold." "Yes. sir?a snug, tight little place. Just the thing for a good country residence, sir?Just the thing for a man with a little money to Invest. There's the plan, sir. Won't you look it over?" "Humph! Was the widow hard pushed?" "Very, sir. Can be got at a bargain?as pretty a little piece of property as you would wish to see." "Was there a mortgage?" "Yes?foreclosed a month ago." "Did you hold It?" "Yes; I've had It for a year or two." "And she tried her best to pay, I suppose?" "Oh, well, she wanted time?they always do. I gave it. Then she wanted a little more. Why, sir. she might extend it till eternity if she would." The singular look that accompanied this statement inflamed the curiosity of the stranger. "I don't understand ' you, sir," he said; and his fingers came together again. "Of course, you don't. I can only say there's a pretty girl In the case." "Oh! Her daughter?" "Her daughter. A mighty nice <->f flooh onrl hlnnd?a SDlendid young filly!" "You speak of her as If she were no more than a bit of horse-flesh." "Oh, aye. that's my way. We men of business have an off-hand manner that men of the world understand. I dare say you do!" and he laughed, with an Impudent swagger that made the blood of his listener tingle. "And if this girl had married you ?I suppose that's what you mean in plain words?you wouldn't have foreclosed ?" "You take?that's just what I mean?every time," was the coarse reply. "But. as she won't take the chance of saving her mother and her home?the proud, cantankerous little huzzy?why, she may go to the deu?" Another second, and he was spluttering and gasping and struggling under the heavy hand of the stranger, who had grasped him by the throat, and. with livid face and heaving chest and set teeth, pinned him to the wall. "Mur?mur?der!" shouted the attorney, as. after writhing desperately. he slipped from under the other's aggressive hand. "What do you mean sir. to attack a respectable man ?the only lawyer in this village, sir? Death and destruction!" And a torrent of vituperation followed. The stranger stood his ground, quite cool and composed, though his lips were set and white, and in his eyes was a dangerous glare; but he only said, In the most Indifferent manner imaginable: "My friend, I am subject to IV WILLETS ! 1 ) OUT. j i Y A. DEN/SON. I * f <* -f f ? -f f< -f f- -i- -r- f -f spasms, particularly when men of your calling stigmatize young and Innocent girls. Just as you spoke, the spasm came on me with great power, or I might possibly feel it my duty to beg your pardon." "I think you had better, as it is," muttered Peter, measuring the tall figure of his antagonist. "I'm not used to such rough handling, sir," he continued, growing fierce again. "Suppose we come down to business then," said the other, calmly. "I've a mind to buy this place, if we can make terms." Before considerations of money all other matters vanished into thin air, and the attorney pocketed his insult with the best grace in his power and turned to the plan again, and the two were soon In consultation. When the stranger left the office, a curious smile overspread his features. "So that's the sort of men that have the power," he said: "and he thought he could ride roughshod over the helpless and the dependent! Great heaven, how he made my blood boil! So. the widow and the orphan are the prey of such human sharks as this! Well, I did not come here any too soon." CHAPTER II. The Bill of Sale. An old-fashioned hostelry stood at the junction of two roads. It was an unpretending wooden house, whose sign swung from the branch of an old oak, and had so swung for fifty years or more. The landlord was a fat man in a white jacket: the landlady was a portly woman in a calico wrapper, who took great pride in a brood of young chickens that were continually foraging in the cool hall. There were but few boarders at the inn, consequently the host was more than usually courteous as the stranger came forward and requested accomm n^otlnne When he made his appearance at the supper-table, everybody became silent. He wore a heavy beard, was j dressed In a suit of Scotch tweed, and looked altogether a man of importance. Presently the conversation turned upon general matters. The landlord's son came in with his new wife, a fussy little woman with a huge red bow at her throat. "Shall you go to the sale tomorrow?" queried the young Benedict of his opposite neighbor. "What sale?" the clerk at the feed store asked, with his mouth full of cold beef. "Didn't you hear? I thought everybody know'd Widow Willets was tf\ ho* qhM 11 n " "Jack," said the bride, taking her big blue eyes for the first time off the stranger's face, "I want the crockery. They say things is going* for nothin.' " "Very likely. Git all the crockery you want, and I'll foot the bills," said the young man, with a look that languished between biscuit and bliss. "There's nothing I want but the old man's gun: but they say the widder values that as the apple of her eye. Silly of her, for he was a bad lot, that old man of hers." "What was the matter with him?" asked the stranger, composedly. "Oh, he drank like the dickens, and went to the dogs. Old Pinchbeck, down here, got hold of the mortgage some way: he's a spry chap, that. Money's money to him. He wouldn't 'a' foreclosed, I guess, if the widder's daughter 'd 'a' married him. She's a pretty little girl, sixteen years old." "Oh, Jack, you don't call her pretty?" said the young wife, with unnecessary emphasis ? "that pale thing!" "Sixteen," muttered the stranger to himself?"sixteen years old?a woman grown. How long has her father been dead?" he asked aloud. "Can't tell you." said the young man. clearing his plate, and heaping it again. "I only know that he went off one day. and was found smashed by a train of cars. That was the last of him." "I remember him." spoke up the bride, anxious to thrust her pretty face and new importance into notice: "he was an awful man. Lucy was just as afraid of him as could be. Lucy and I went to school together, but somehow she wasn't a favorite. Poor thing! she was so ashamed of her father. They used to call him N'osey Willets?his nose was so red. Why. the boys used to stone him all the way from the tavern: and he'd do any mean thing for a drink. If a man will make a beast of himself, why, he deserves all he gits; and you can call that a temperance lecture, if you will." "A very good one," said the traveler, rising. "Will you have a catalogue?" ask ed the young man, whose name was Jim. The stranger took the paper quietly, and went out. A new moon silvered the peaceful hills and valleys, and pleasant garden-spots in the picturesque little town, as the stranger left the inn and sauntered slowly down the street. He paused for a moment to look at the interior of a barn where a sturdy boy was ministering to the comfort of two or three fine horses. Beams rough, as if hewn out of granite; draperies of dusty cobwebs, the broken, uneven floor, the saddles hanging on the wall, with other gear, the sleek quarters of the coach-horses, the ruddy face of the boy distinctly pictured in the light of the huge lantern hung near the door, appeared to attract him. for he moved away with apparent reluctance. i How peaceful the place seemed at i that hour! There was no sound save the laughter of children, the tinkling of cow-bells, or the careless song of the busy worker within doors. < On strode the man, busy with thought, till he came to a cottage on which the rays of the young moon seemed to rest with a peculiar silverIn ess. Like painted leaves upon a delicate ground, the rich-hued Ivy clung to the slender pillars that upheld the pretty porch. The man paused here, and moved forward almost stealthily. He walked cautiously about the building, surveying It on every side. A detective would, in police vernacular, have "spotted" him for he even prowled up to the window and tried to look in. Once as he stood there a hand lifted the lace curtain, and a young face looked out upon the night ?a face superbly beautiful. But he did not see It, for at the first movement within he stepped hastily aside. Then he leaned against the paling of the garden, stooped and pulled a sprig of sweet-smelling mint, and very slowly, glancing often behind him. he moved away. CHAPTER III. Mother and Daughter. The face that had looked only upon the night was that of Lucy Wlllets, the widow's only child. The widow had long earned her living by going out to a day's work in the town and suburbs. She was a busy, active little woman, and her services were generally In request. She sat tonight In a low rockingchair, her face shaded by her hand. The' light burned low?much of the room was In shadow, yet what was visible Indicated the delicacy and refined taste of its occupants. In early life Mrs. Wlllets had married her father's partner, a young and rising man, but misfortune followed within a year. The firm failed ruinously, and from that time commenced the downfall of John Wlllets. They moved out to Pottsvllle, and not long after Mrs. Wlllets came Into possession of some money?enough to build a comfortable home and set her husband up In business. For nearly ten years he contrived to keep wife and child above want, but his habits were bad and his companions demoralizing He was fast drifting to ruin, and had mortgaged the house and land for more than two-thirds of Its value. And now It was to be sold under the hammer. Luck stood for a long time looking mournfully out. The pose of her slender, beautiful figure suggested, In some way, the delicacy of the spirit it encased. One could divine that she had suffered and. was still suffering: for the small white hand that clasped the frame of the window had a . certain tenacity of grasp natural when one's mind is at ease. Presently she turned away with an inaudible but long-drawn sigh. In the dim light she looked as ethereal as a spirit The classic head, the broad, clear forehead, the satin-likelustre of the hair, the graceful step? took and held the eye captive. Gliding over to where her mother sat, she sank upon her knees at her side. "Mother, dear," she murmured, "we are in great trouble." "My darling, I have seen darker times," was the low reply. "I was just thinking that this is a sad anniversary day. Ten years ago today your father left that door, and I have never seen him since. Tomorrow you and I are going." "But, mother, dear?" "He stood there," continued the woman, pointing to the door, her eyes fixed in a faraway gaze. "I felt that I had borne all I could, but he was my husband?your father. 'Go,' I said, 'and never let me see your face again.' Oh, darling, how often T have creDt out of my bed, in the darkest hours of the night, down into this room, fancying that his spirit called me." "Mother, don't; you frighten me!" freely sobbed Lucy, trying to restrain her mother, who had half risen, a wild gleam, like the flre of insanity, in her eyes. "You had cause to say all you did." "Yes; but who knows what I might have done in time and with forbearance. Oh. child, that thought has haunted me all these years?will haunt me eternally! I am always asking myself questions?why did I not do this? or, why did I not do that' ?till my brain aches with the cart and perplexity of my mind. Heaven forbid that a reproach may ever fall from your lips like the words I said, of- that the bitterness of a living death may be your portion! I have never known a happy moment since that time?never a happy moment." "Mother, don't reproach yourself." "But I drove poor John to his death. And now we must leave this house. That is a bitter punishment, too. John and I planned it together. Oh. how happy we were! We looked forward to such peaceful days! We brought you In this room, and put you In your dainty cradle. I little thought how it would end," she added, bitterly, sinking again in her chair, and hiding her face in her hands. "Mother, we need not leave this home; mother, you shall stay!" said Lucy, springing to her feet, drawing up her slender figure. "What! do you think I would consent to sacrifice you?" the widow exclaimed. her face changing. "Never! I have had sorrow enough for my own sin." "But it will not be a sacrifice?perhaps?they say love comes after marriage?and?and it is only because he is old and ugly; but. you know, he may be very kind, and I had better be an old man's darling?" She broke down there, and slowly sank to her mother's side again, taking both the thin hands in hers and kissing them; but two hot tears fell with the kisses. "You know it is only to say one word, ?? ttliu iiiru "Repent the saying of it for the remainder of your life?perhaps in bitter anguish, as I have done. Do you think I would purchase ease and happiness at such a price? Xo; I will work my fingers to the bone first. Heaven will help us, dear, for we are willing and able to help ourselves." Calm as she was, and bravely as she struggled, the thin lips quivered and the breath came quick. Lucy was crying now, her head bowed upon her mother's knee. Suddenly three sharp strokes sounded at the outer door. They knew whose signal that was. Peter Pinchbeck rode a gray mare, and Peter always knocked with his whiphandle. "There he Is," said the widow, her forehead contracting. "He has no business to come here now!" cried Lucy, her face, growing stormy, clinching her little hand. "Oh, if I were but a man!" "Don't you go, Lucy?I will let him In. Thank Heaven, after tomorrow he will not dare to thrust his hateful presence upon us!" Another moment, and the red nose of the attorney was visible, even In the semi-darkness of the hall. "I?I thought I'd jest call," he stammered, evidently feeling himself unwelcome. Nobody spoke. He looked round for a chair. "I suppose I may sit down and rest myself a moment,?eh?" he asked. "Certainly?the house Is about as good as your own," said Lucy promptly. "Well, it's a mighty unpleasant VmioUaoo wAnf T oooiiro VA11 M V? Qn 1 rl looking at the beautiful girl with undisguised admiration. "Then why do you go on with it?' "Well, times are hard?the matter has been running a long time, and? the deuce take me, you know well enough why." "Oh, yes; to revenge yourself because?" "Lucy!" said her mother, gently, but In a tone of reproof. "Let her go on, widow," said Peter Pinchbeck, his very nose growing livid. "It isn't to be supposed that I have any feelings. The fact. Is, you know I've held off and held off, and you know that I like your daughter Lucy, and have liked her ever since she was as high as my riding-whip. Now, I could keep her handsomely? set up a good carriage?do anything in the world in reason for her?and I?I thought mebby at the last moment?she?she would alter her mind." "I have not altered my mind," said Lucy, her dark eyes emitting sparks of fire. "We are quite willing to leave this house and make another home, mother and I." "You'll find homes ain't so easy made," retorted the attorney. "There is no use wasting words," said the widow, with added dignity. "Lucy and I are both willing to work. We could not live in aisgracerui idleness. We are well acquainted In this village?you can take away our property. but you cannot estrange us from our friends. Good evening, sir." "I suppose that means that I may go?" said the man, rising and fairly shaking with anger. "I believe the house will not belong to you till tomorrow," said Lucy, calmly. "Well, virtually it belongs to me now," was the reply; "only I gave you permission to stay till tomorrow. I am not sure but it would have been wiser In me to put a keeper in?how do I know that you may see fit to spirit away?" "We cannot permit you to insult us," said the widow; while Lucy came forward with heightened color. "The goods are all inventoried, and I think we are known well enough to be trusted?at least by those whose good opinion is worth possessing. Will you leave us aione, sir.' The man glared at them, and pressed his thin Hps together till they were bloodless. He even had the meanness to double his fist and shake it toward them as he said: "I came here willing to befriend you, but after this I show no mercy. I'll sell every stick of timber over your head. Tomorrow at eleven o'clock all shall go to the highest bidder?indeed, though it's a secret, the house is already sold. The auctioning will be only going through the form." "Indeed! and you came here willing to befriend us, did you?" queried Lucy, who stood tearless and white, one arm about her mother's waist. "None of your sneers, miss!" he said, almost furiously. "As for you, your pride will have to come down. No doubt you'll find a good place?In somebody's kitchen." "Did you ever hear anything like " ? 1- J ?.<4U nAnUiM/y At.AC \Z'C" l^ucy UI'ICUi nun iicisiiiiig cjco and heaving breast, as the door closed on Peter Pinchbeck. "How dared he ever ask me to marry him? I'd die first!" "Don't trouble yourself about him, dear. His words were cruel, but they can only sting. Thank God, he will never come again!" Meantime the stranger in the little inn by the roadside walked his chamber restlessly, now and then pausing to look on the moonlighted landscape. On a table was his traveling desk, together with paper, pen and ink. At midnight he sat down to the desk and wrote with great rapidity, dashing off sheet after sheet. Then he read, reflected, gathered them up In his hands and tore them to pieces. "How can I tell her coolly that I deceived her so, allowing her to think me dead all these years?" he mutt-Ted. To Be Concluded. A Rolling Plant.?Curious among vegetable growths and one which is seldom seen of men is the rootless cactus of the California desert. This plant, a round, compact growth, rolls about the level floor of the desert for some eight or nine months of the year, tossed hither and yon by the winds which blow with fierceness over all of California's sand plat during those months. At the coming of the rains, or rather the cloudbursts, which sweep the desert in its springtime, this cactus takes root wherever it happens to have been dropped by the last wind of which It was the plaything and immediately begins to put out all around it small shoots, which in turn become cacti. pvar>tiv like the narent nlant. These young growths increase in sise rapidly, sucking the moisture both from the parent plant and from the su*roundlng earth. The roots do not pe?etrate the soil deeply, but spread often over a circle whose radius is n>t less than ten feet. These roots, too, are small, but practically innumerable, and they get every bit of moisture ard plant food to be had in the territoiy they cover?Technical World. Why Is a watchdog larger >y night than by day? Because at nigit he is let out and by day he is taken h. $ti$ffUiumws grading. TEMPERANCE IS MODERATION. Able and Thoughtful Discussion of Al ways Important Subject. This able and interesting report on the subject of temperance, prepared for the committee by Rev. John Knox Hair of Rock Hill, and submitted to the York Baptist association at Union last Friday Is well worth careful reading: This is an old subject, and to the minds of many people, somewhat stale. When Paul reasoned with Felix of "temperance" in the dawn of Christianity, the subject was not new. It j has been a problem for the Christian and moralist during'all the Intervening nontnrlps nnrl nn pntirelv satisfactory settlement Is not yet in sight. Perhaps, It may help for us to keep In mind the principles Involved In the discussion. The word temperance, really means moderation, and this idea Is derived from the Greek word used In the New Testament, which means selfcontrol (revised version). Horses, cattle a<nd other animals are unfitted to exerdise self-control in governing thenr^elves, but man must needs be lord pf himself that he may be lord of all other living things. There are four stages in the process of acquiring the sovereignty over self. These are not easy, but "he that ruleth his spirit is greater than he that taketh a city." If we are ever to acquire selfcontrol, we must first learn how to be controlled by proper authority. We must learn this lesson in youth or we will never learn it well, and our parents and teachers must teach it to us. The failure of many of them to do this, causes more trouble and expense to government, than all other causes combined. Grown men cannot learn this lesson well, though a policeman try to beat it in:o their heads with a club. If the boy has learned to be controlled during his tender years, he may then easily acquire the lesson of selfcontrol under favorable conditions. Such a one becomes a useful member of society, a good citizen of the state. Tho nfflnprs r>f the law have no diffi culty in controlling those who were controlled hy parents and teachers in childhood. They are not needed at all for those who have acquired the habit of self-control. The one who has passed successfully the first two grades in the school of life as already indicated, being controlled, and controlling self, is eligible for the third grade in which he learns to control others. It is a fatal mistake to put beginners in this grade. They will make no progress themselves, and demoralize the other scholars. Tjiere is a fourth grade in the school of life, which is offered to the pupils who wish to excel. Any one may enter this grade, but all need to have finished the first two grades in order to study to the best advantage in the fourth, and third grade work is needed If one aspires to the highest efficiency. The fourth is the one in which one learns to put self (now under one's own control) under the control of JeVug* Christ, ' who alone is thoroughly qualified to rule his own creatures. The one who successfully passes these four grades will achieve a character worthy of the admiration of men and angels in this life and the li^ to come. This is the final goal of the human race, individually and collectively. How shall the members of our churches help in this matter? 1. Let parents set themselves to teach their children these lessons of self-control. 2. Let every one conscientiously seek to control self on all occasions, and refrain from the use of all stimulants, narcotics, etc., which tend directly to ininrp nnd eventuallv to destroy self control. 3. Let all discourage by every righteous means the use of those stimulants and narcotics which wreck the lives of ->thers. To this end we should seek by proper agitation and education to have laws enacted favorable to temperance and to have these laws upheld by a strong public sentiment. 4. We should seek to elect men to office who will faithfully uphold such laws in their official capacity, and exemplify the virtues of self-control in their private lives. 5. We "should encourage all citizens to uphold the officers in their efforts to enforce the law against those who would destroy our laws and our boys at one fell stroke, by furnishing them every evidence at tneir commana iu secure the conviction of the offenders, it is to be feared that law breakers and their sympathizers have been dominating public sentiment, when we near it said frequently and openly that ihe man who reports another for sellng whisky is meaner than the seller himself, whereas God's law as well as the law of the state unite in declaring: the man who witnesses a crime and keeps it secret to be guilty as an accessory thereto. Shall a man see another openly set a snare for his own boys and his neighbors' boys to strangle their manhood and destroy their lives here and hereafter, and be restrained by such maudlin sentiment from reporting the recreant to the officers of the law? No, a thousand times no! Let such sickly sentimentality not be once named among the soldiers of the King. FLYING MACHINE A SUCCESS. Orville Wright Remains In Air SixtyTwo Minutes. Orville Wright, in three phenomenal flights at Fort Meyer near Washington, last Wednesday, established new aeroplane records that not only assure the success of the official trials before the army board, but indicate that aerial flight is now only a matter of development. Two flights of approximately an limit* Mfh another flight in which two men whirled through the air for upward of six minutes, were the achievements of the Wright brothers' aeroplane today. The first flight made this morning, in which the machine circled the drill ground at the fort 58 times in 57 minutes and 31 seconds, was surpassed this evening when a flight of 62 minutes and 15 seconds was made. Not satisfied with breaking all dis tance and time records for a heavicrthan-air machine, Mr. Wright took Frank P. Lahm, the aeronaut of the signal corps, for a spin around the drill grounds, making a new record for a two-man flight. Among the spectators were members of the cabinet and high officers of the army and navy. The morning flight was witnessed by only a handful of enthusiasts, but fully a thousand people gathered to see the afternoon event. At 5.16, as the sun was disappearing below the Virginia horizon, the aeroplane rose grandly Into space and sailed over the greensward of the drill grounds. Higher and higher it rose, turned at a slight angle as the aviator brought it around at the far side of the field and along at Increasing speed. There was hardly a quiver of the aeroplane in the first few I -mm/la nt tho fiold 'Rnnnrt nft(?r round the machine traveled on, cutting^ short turns and shooting along the stretches. The aviator paid lHt'e heed to the crowd below, until, having broken the record of 57 minutes and 31 seconds, established by him this morning, the crowd raised a cheer that told him of his new achievement. Then Mr. Wright waved his acknowledgments. Before the flight, a watch was tied to the seat next to Mr. Wright, and when he saw that he had stayed aloft for over an hour, the time required in order for him to fulfill his contract with the government, he made for "Mother Earth." Swooping down In a sort of "bump-the-bumps" fashion, the machine bore down in the direction of the crowd, which quickly scattered. Raising a cloud of dust as it slid along on the skids, the aeroplane, which weighs nearly a thousand pounds, came to a stop within twenty feet of the crowd. As Mr. Wright stepped from the seat and removed his goggles, he was greeted with lusty cheers. Lieutenant Selfridge, who operated the first successful aeroplane of the Aerial Experiment association, at Hammondsport, N. Y., was the first to congratulate Mr. Wright. Secretary Metcalf of the navy; Secretary of War Wright and numerous army and navy officers, together with enthusiasts from every walk of life, gathered about him to grasp his hand. As three cheers were given, "Wright" calmly gave orders for replacing the machine on the starting track to prepare for another flight. Turning to Lieutenant Lahm, one of the leading aeronauts of the army, Mr. Wright said: "How would you like to go up with nie?" It was an invitation that needed no repetition. With the two men, Mr. Wright and Lieutenant Lahm, in their places, the start was made at 6.42, the machine apparently rising from the ground as easily with its increased burden as it had with only the inventor aboard. As it sped along the road bordering Arlington cemtery, it came in a direct line between the onlookers and the full moon, serving to recall the famous work of Jules Verne, "A Trip to the Moon." As the machine completed the first round, the motor "skipped" on one cylinder: but on the succeeding five trips there was no evidence that the engine ' was overtaxed by the great strain imposed upon it. After the sixth lap, a beautiful landing was made within 100 feet of the "aerial garage," where the machine is sheltered from the elements. Mr. Wright, as usual, displayed no emotion, but Lieutenant Lahm was most enthusiastic. BAUER TELLS OF THE FLOOD. 1 r* 1!*: I ~ iL. \A/.i.MA \/Am< round l/unamons in inc tihicicc ?oi/ Bad Indeed. Mr. J. W. Bauer, section director of the weather bureau, has pone into the upper part of the state on a trip of Inspection of the damage caused by the recent floods. From Camden yesteriay he writes the State: "In 1886, when the Wateree river reached its previous highest water, in old settler congratulated a heavy 'oser by the flood that he would be exempt for twenty-flve years as these visitations came not oftener than once :n that period. The old settler was mistaken, for in a few months another 'r^shet occurred with almost as high water and two years later another freshet swept the valley with, however, not so much water. "The old settler was right in the nain. for after 1888, thirty years were ' radically exempt, except for modertte floods, that inundated only the so nlled 'bottom lands' and not harming Mie slightly higher and very fertile 'second bottoms.' It may be that each "eneratlon shall be called on to pay its ribute of toil and labor to the fury f the flood, 'lest we forget.' "The sweep of the waters must have been terrific down the fertile valley of 'he Wateree. In the main channel the waters were loaded with whole trees. 'ogs that were seemingly too large for 'oggers to handle but which, In the rush of the'current, were borne along as lightly as bubbles. Their lightness was Illusory, for when the water had risen to the bed of the tall bridge, these same logs became resistless battering rams, before whose onslaught the structure moved off Its piers as a feather in a gale. "It is said that this flood demonstrated to a number of planters that they owned 'river lands' that they knew not. "To determine the full extent of the damage done by the flood would require a census of every person owning. leasing or cropping lands on each side of the river, a task that has not been done, and will not, making it necessary to estimate from the known to the unknown. A careful interview with many, and It is believed, the principal losers in the vicinity of Camden, in which exaggerated losses were carefully eliminated by the gentle art of sympathetic squeezing out the truth alone, and by comparison with the area affected by these interviews to the total area flooded, leads me to the belief that the losses in Kershaw county will amount to not less than $150,000, and not over $200,000. These comprise all the items as formulated under the Watson-Bauer plan of flood damage reports. This is a very conservative estimate, the wild ones running up to $500,000 and optimistic ones to about $100,000. "A careful measurement by the river observer, Mr. W. C. Brown, and by l*( hfl | Jet Irl ii \ cr inruoui cuicii in mauv xjj others, at its highest stage reached the unprecedented heights of 39.7 feet at 3 p. m. of August 26. 1908. The date and time are given so that persons down the valley may use the data to determine the rate of flow of the crest of the flood, so that they may in the future make provision accordingly." BRYAN ON BANK DEPOSITS. I Hit Stand for Their Guarantee Cohnmended?Aldrich Bill Condemned. ' Mr. D. A. Tompkins was asked yesterday what he thought of the stand taken by Mr. W. J. Bryan on the question of guaranteed bank deposits and what he thought of the general proposition Itself. He said: "Mr. Bryan's speech upon the subject of guaranteed bank deposits ap pears to be as able an effort as that I gentleman ever made, at the same time one of the best expositions of the subject that has yet been offered by anybody. "Less than twenty-five years ago there were many people who shuddered when some one they knew well proposed to take out life Insurance. Many a wife positively objected for the reason that it seemed to her like setting his life agulnst money. All this prejudice has now disappeared and the feeling about life Insurance Is wholesome and good. Insurance In other lines has made progress and Is now generally regarded as very advantageous. This new movement to insure deposits is as wholesome and rational as is life insurance. The objections made to it are as much based on prejudice as any ever made against life Insurance. "Let us suppose that a widow owns a house. There are none who would not consider it foolish for her to neglect ir.surance upon the house against fire, and yet when she sells the house and deposits the money in the bank, objection Is made to her paying a very much smaller charge than a Are insurance premium to Insure against loss by failure of the bank. "The claim that insurance on deposits would contribute to reckless banking is wholly erroneous. All the stockholders stand with the full amount of their stock and 100 per cent liability besides between the officers of a bank, and any encroachment upon the deposits. The stockholders elect the officers and these, together with the government supervision, constitute protection against reckless banking. The Insurance of deposits will have nothing to do with it. The following is from Mr. Bryan's address: "In like manner it might be said that if all people were careful about fire, fire insurance rates need not be as high as they are, but the careful have to pay higher rates than they should because some are not careful. Life insurance rates are higher than would be necessary to cover the actual risk if everybody took care of his health, and here, too, the cautious are bur- , rifMierl heoause some are careless of their health. (A11 insurance is open to the same objection, and yet insurance of all forms is growing, and the insurance of deposits is growing In popularity more rapidly than any other form of insurance?and, I may add, it yields the largest return on the investment. "The insurance of a house against fire is solely for the protection of the owner. The rest of the town or city in such a case is protected by a separate fire department. "In the case of deposit Insurance, ] 14 U a A Anno! f Ar wVlA la II IS IIU L aiunc IIIC uc^vouui T(i*v protected but the community is pro- , tected against panic. Mr. Bryan gives ( two very apt illustrations of how protected deposits protect the whole | community as follows: , " 'Compare this failure under the I guaranty system with a failure where i there is no guaranty. In Oklahoma I the bank commissioner telephoned i the farmers to come in and get their ' money, and the answer was, "I am I busy today with my crop; I will be in in a day or two." i " 'T? r<l??n1on^ OViln a ho Tl If fail- ] XII Vyic* cianu, viuv, m ?% ed about the same time, and the papers announced "Twelve hundred infuriated Italians stormed the closed doors of the busted banking house of Costan Llopea on Orange street, today. The police drove the crowd back.' " "The bankers of the country who are opposed to guarantee of deposits are surely standing in their own light. < The guarantee of deposits protects 1 the bank in two ways that are very ' important: 1 "First: It protects a solvent bank < from runs which create panic. 1 "Second: It removes the force of 1 all arguments favoring the establish- 1 ment of postal savings banks. The postal savings banks would necessa- ! rily have to be handled as a govern- t ment proposition. There are a few ! who doubt that the working people j would put their savings in a postal . savings bank, where it is guaranteed s by the government at 2 per cent, rath- 1 er than In any unguaranteed bank at ' 4 per cent. Safety is what the people want and they are going to have it in 1 one form or another. This ties up ! the money of the country into the , hands of the government, and the t guarantee which the government gives t is naturally the taxes paid by all the . people. If deposits are guaranteed , by the government or otherwise, eith- t er all the people or the banks them- 1 selves must pay the guarantee premiums. , "Again Mr. Bryan says: t " 'The refusal of the banks to per- J mit the passage of a law granting se- t curity to depositors is responsible for ^ the growth of the sentiment in favor ' of the government savings bank, and the sentiment will continue to grow ( unless something is done to satisfy 5 the demands of the people upon the subject. "The Republican party proposes 1 I the establishment of a postal savings i bank system; the Democratic party prefers the guaranteed bank, because it Is better for the depositor and better for the banker?it gives the depositor the security which he needs and yet leaves the banking business in the hands of the banks. But the Democratic platform declares for a 'postal savings bank if the guaranteed bank cannot be secured,' and in November more than 90 per cent of the voters will, by their ballots, demand either the guaranteed bank or the postal savings bank. Can the financiers prevent the carrying out of this demand? "The Republican party has so far been very unfortunate in its handling of the currency questions, although Mr. Charles Fowler, a Republican, worked out a most satisfactory currency bill. The Republican party under Mr. Aldrich defeated it and sub stltuted something which was much worse than 'nothing. "Everybody who ever carries a bank account and particularly every banker, ought to read Mr. Bryan's speech." ?D. A. Tompkins in Charlotte Observer. "QUALIFIED SUFFRAGE." One Thing Needful to Raising South Carolina Politics. Columbia Record, Saturday. Suffrage, as we endeavored to show yesterday, is a most priceless possession of citizenship, and ought to be held by all upon whom it has been conferred as a sacred trust, something that should not, must not be given indiscriminately to those who through ignorance or lack of appreciation of its worth use it to the Injury of society. Thorn lu nn Hiatrnfalntr tho fa r?t that In South Carolina, to say nothing1 of other states, are many, perhaps two-thirds of Its population, who esteem suffrage of such, little value that they will without a qualm of conscience make merchandise of votes, selling or buying them, as sheep are bought or sold In the shambles, for a small consideration. Whatever of redemption the revolution of 1876 brought to the state, It must be confessed It also entailed upon our people evils under which they are still suffering. The greatest of these evils, because the source of all the others, was the cheapening of suffrage to this degree that men of education and substance and character voted Illegally by voting many times, stuffed ballot boxes, swore falsely as to election returns, and thus?through necessity, of course, let us say?set an example to the Ignorant and naturally vicious holders of the suffrage who ever since have taken their cue from it to the great detriment of elections now. The moral tone of the people was frightfully lowered from the effects of which they have not recovered, and perhaps never will. We see It In the witness box, In the jury room, and at all elections. It Is In consequence of the lowering of the moral standard at that time that men are found depreciating suffrage and no longer regarding It as a sacred trust that they must employ for the well being and good of society. The lacK or appreciation is snown positively and negatively. Positively by bad men who mock suffrage and degrade It by Illegal voting and bribing of electors without character at election; and negatively by many good men who make no use of their suffrage at all, but from squeamishness or a feeling of foolish pride refuse or neglect to go to the polls and vote for the best men offering for office. In thus acting, by which they show their absolute lack of appreciation of the suffrage, they are no better than the men who lay violent hands on It. They prove by such a course that they regard the trust reposed In them by society as being of no account, the duties of which they may utterly Ignore or discharge whenever It suits their Inclination and pleasure. It Is needless to say that these men, respectable though they be, who thus undervalue their prerogatives as citizens, deserve to be deprived forever of the trust of suffrage. They should be put In the same category with those who in positive ways desecrate the elective franchise and make it a thing of scandal. We realize the extreme difficulty of bringing the people to a full realization of the sacredness of suffrage as a trust, out of which, could it be accomplished, would inevitably come the purification of the hallot because the means that ought to be employed, and which should have been used long ago, might at this late day prove Inefficient were It possible to give It force. We allude to the disfranchisement of Ignorant and Irresponsible voters, white >r black; but this, however desirable It may be, is out of the question now. The most that can be done In this respect is to disfranchise those who unawfully abuse the suffrage. Disfranchisement for bribery at elections Is, as we said yesterday, the proper penalty to affix to the crime. While, then, it Is impracticable to disfranchise by wholesale, but only by littles at a time and for crimes, actually committed, we are going to risk Incurring the wrath of small politicians and demagogues by saying it is a thousand pities that the great mass of gnorant and characterless voters cannot be eliminated from the suffrage. Thus the disease would be reached at cnce and cured, and the country, left in the keeping of intelligence and virtue, would be safe and free of the danger of revolution. Universal, unqualified suffrage is a delusion and a snare, false in theory and false in practice. To it may be traced all the evils and mfferings that have afflicted the country heretofore, and from it even greater evils, we fear, are yet to come. Now, to restrict it, by passing qualification icts such as would weed out the objectionable and unworthy, would place suffrage at a premium, make people ralue it far more than they do now, ind prove a mighty stimulus to them :o acquire the qualifications necessary to secure it. They don't prize it now because it is thrust upon them regardess of their lack of intelligence and noral qualities, when it ought to be nade a prize worth all their striving. fVere that done, what a great impulse vould be given to education! How jarents woQld see to it that children ,vere not deprived of the advantages of he schools! There would be no need o talk about compulsory education. It s patent to the most obtuse mind that he quality of citizenship would De vastly Improved, that the dominating, 'orces in the land would be intelligence ind goodness, and that political demagogues would disappear like miasmatic fogs of the night before the morning <un. Mint In Iced Tea?If a housewife ias not tried serving sprigs of mint in rlasses of Iced tea for luncheon or supaer, she wants to experiment with It it once. It gives a refreshing flavor to the Irink. The stems and lower leaves are crushed between the fingers and then lipped into the glass after the crushed ce has been put in. A glass should be filled with this crushed ice. which is a far better method than breaking off lumps of ice and ettlng them swim around in the tea. After the glass is filled, two slices of lemon are slightly crushed on top of the ice and then boiling hot tea is poured over. The method that some housewives jse of making the tea in the morning, pouring it into a pitcher and putting it nto the refrigerator for the day is now iiscarded by those who do not want the unhealthful effects that come from tea that has been standing over a half lour. ,