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** *f* : r ) i > ^^^1^^^gM1-WEEgL^ "l. x grist's 80HsTpabii.her6.] 4 4antiI8 Hftrsjajitr: J[ot th< promotion of th< fotitiat, gonial. lariquUutal and (Eommtvial Internals of th< ( T^g?^^.T^| in mANc* k e?tTblished i835. YORKVILLE, S. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBES 1G, 1909. NO. 92. m biri By ETTA X i CHAPTER XXVH. r Serle Varneck stood at the door of the Hammerton cottage, little dreaming who the person was he had Just passed at the gate. The same answer which had driven Paulette away in despair awaited Sibyl's lover. Mrs. Arnault, her daughter, and attendant were gone. "But where," cried the old woman, "I don't know, and couldn't tell if you should tear me to death with wild horses!" Gone! And there he stood elate, with news of his freedom, burning with a lover's raptures, eager to claim her. Was ever disappointment so bitter as this? "Think!" he Implored; "did not Miss Arnault leave some word for me?some ' " ? ?ah<? surelv knew lareweu ; one n.?v .. . I would come again." "Not a word, sir," answered the Imperturbable old woman?"not a farewell, for you or any other," Varneck turned from the door, and departed, as Paulette had done. In anguish of sou). He strode back to the station, but a few rods behind that f small veiled figure, but so absorbed In his own thoughts that Solomon, In all his glory might have passed him on the way unnoticed. He crossed the ferry with her, and proceeded, in savage mood, to his hotel, where he found awaiting him a letter from his mother. It was dated from Boston, whither she , had gone with friends. , "If," she wrote, "there Is no risk of v--1- 1"? tho? /irna/tfui tvDhus in your clothes, pray come and Join me. I am : ^ quite prostrated with the news of j fm Lucy's folly. I am sure she will regret it, as soon a3 her first gratitude to you is over. By this time, no doubt, you I have entangled yourself In a new en- i gagemenb Come immediately, and tell me about It." < He paced his room, thinking this summons over. i "As well go there as anywhere," he < concluded, gloomily; and the same train that conveyed Paulette back to her old J ?s Ifntmnolr q 1 an I lie, car rieu on ic <? <? . He breakfasted alone, with his mothi er. In her own elegant rooms, overlook- ( lng Franklin Square. "Where did you leave Lucy?" she i asked. "At Beechwood, guarded by a troop ^ of nurses and servants," he answered, i * "I hope!" she cried, adjusting her charming breakfast cap, "that you havj ( brought no contagion with you?In y<?ur i beard, for Instance. You seem quite i out of spirits." i "I am," he answred. "Pray do not urge me to talk, mother?I really can (not." "Ah!" bristled Mrs. Varneck, "that i means?what does it mean, Serle? That girl?that Miss Arnault?no! it is not j possible that she can have refused : you?" i "Something quite as bad," he answered. "She has disappeared?I can- i not find her." Mrs. Varneck looked rather pleased than otherwise. "I really must beg to express a hope, Serle, that this later fancy may be as short-lived as another which I remem ber. There! don't look so black! My nerves are quite shattered this morning. Remain the week out with me here, and then I think I may venture back to Lucy." i w At another time he might have groaned at the prospect. Now he regarded it with supreme indifference. "Consider me your faithful esquire," he said, whimsically, "and do with me as you will." * The third night after his arrival, in obedience to one of his unaccountable wiilms, he found himself sitting again In the parquet of the old Museum. Oh, the music pealed, and the lights ^ burned, and in the surrounding seats A1? ? ? oooma/1 olnetarA/l AS of lilt" SiVIIlf lutra DVCIMVU V.M-W.-, old! And as Varneck looked a figure stepped forth upon the stage. In the i full blaze of the footlights?Paulette! Paulette. In the full glory of her matured beauty, her golden hair flowing, a smile on her parted lips, her dark eyes brimmed with lustre! There she ttood, bowing to the applauding house with the old grace which had taken him so often by storm. Varneck stared at the play-bill. Could he believe his eyes! yes, the fair-haired enchantress he had once worshiped so madly stood before him agarn. "What a beautiful creature!" whispered Mrs. Varneck, fumbling with her glass and her play-bill. "Who is she. Serle? Horror! No?yes?it must be! You bad, deceitful boy! You have actually brought me, your mother, to see that dreadful actress, that nearly coat you your life!" "Pardon!" he answered, carelessly: 'it is you who have brought me! Yes, ? there she Is?lovelier than ever, too! What a spoon she made of me once, to be sure! There was a rumor current a few years ago that some rich old party had adopted her. They seem rather glad to see her here again." "I really." said Mrs. Varneck. "cannot stay In the house another minute! You ^ need not urge me?it is out of the ques tion. I wonder if all mothers nave sucn trials with their boys as do I with you!" They arose at once, and returned home?Vameck a picture of listless inI difference. He sat the wearisome evening out over a chess-board, till she fell asleep in the midst of her pawns and castles. Long before her breakfast hour on the f dlowlog morning he lighted a weed, and goaded by some restless demon, set out on a stroll about the city. After some random tramping about through Its southern borders, he blundered unconsciously upon a square, green as an * emerald, with a fountain tingling in its centre, and tossing up showers of silver into the sunlight. Rows of trees hraided their shadows along its shaven turf. Varneck lounged mechanically into t the place, and had traversed half its length, perhaps, when he lifted his eyes and saw, seated on a bench beside the [H-MftRK V. PIERCE. garrulous fountain, the figure? of two women. One young, one old, with the air of a duenna?both dressed in sober garb. The girl sat digging holes in the turf with the point of her parasol, a sunbeam the while slipping through the boughs overhead down upon her handsome, drooping face. Varneck looked, stopped short, looked again, then made a great stride forward, his voice rising almost to a cry. "Sibyl! Sibyl!" The parasol slipped from her hold. She sprang to her feet. So did Rebecca Hardin. The next moment, Serle Varneck was crushing her two hands in his own?was bearing down upon her, with great, bold, passion-bright eyes. "At last!" he cried?"at last, I have found you. Sibyl!" She changed rapid color, and tried, to withdraw her captive palms, but could not, so, let them rest In his. Rebecca stood looking grimly oft Into the distance. "Miss Sibyl," she muttered, "I will take a turn around the square," and so departed, leaving the pair together. "Heaven bless the woman!" cried Varneck, fervently; "look at me, speak to me, give me your promise now* Sibyl, for I am free!" They took the seats beneath the spreading trees. Neither spoke for a while after this. They sat, exchanging troth-plight with their eyes, before their lips uttered a sound. "Miss Varneck has, of her own will, released me from our engagement. Now may I call myself your lover, Sibyl?" Then he told her all. "I could leave you no word," said Sibyl, thoughtfully, "for I knew nothing of our destination. There came a visitor to my mother one night, and by davbreak the next morning we left Hammerton. We have taken up our abode in a house near by. I never gro out, except for an early stroll here with Rebecca?she is, as you, see, very good to me." He took her face in his two hands. "Particularly now, when she walks so slow, and turns her back upon us! You must let me see this mother of yours at once, Sibyl! May I call today?" She let her head sink forward toward his shoulder. It was fortunate nobody was in the square but Rebecca. "Oh," she murmured, in an ecstasy of contentment, "are you sure I am not dreaming? I fear?I greatly fear mamma will not in the least approve of you. Rebecca assures me she will never let me marry." "Monstrous!" cried Varneck. "My dubious opinion of her deepens. Pray answer me, when can I see her?" "Rebecca alone can tell you," sighed Sibyl. "We live as secluded here as at Hammerton. She only knows my mother's hours." Miss Hardin's plain figure approached them, with downcast eyes. Sibyl immediately sprang up, coloring gloriously as she did so. "Rebecca," she stamered, looking unspeakably beautiful, in her mingled pride and confusion, "Mr. Varneck wishes much to see mamma. Do you think he may?" Rebecca gave trie Dig Dionae gentleman a good, long look. '"Mrs. Arnault," she answered, "never sees strangers. The last one I let In upon her scared us all from Hammerton." "She must both see and hear me," said Mr. Varneck, "and that without delay. Will you have the goodness to mention an hour when I may call?" Her stolid face grew more stolid still. "She has an early tea at six," said she; "I might possibly admit a visitor then, though, I tell you now, it will do no good. She will never let Miss Sibyl marry. I will walk once more around the square and then we must go." So this indulgent Rebecca left them a little longer to the honeyed sweetness of that old, old story, forever new. "Promise me," urged Varneck, a little dubiously, "that, whether your mother approves my suit or otherwise, nothing shall now part us, Sibyl." "I promise!" she answered. When Rebecca came slowly back, she found them standing in the shadow of the trees. Varneck bold and radiant, Sibyl's proud head held down, "Yonder is the house." said Rebecca, pointing with her gray-gloved finger across nit- quici squcii r. "At six o'clock tonight, then," said Varneck. "Since you insist." A touch of slim hands, a long look, a sigh, then she went off with Rebecca, and Varneck stood and watched them both, till they disappeared together inside the dwelling thus named; then, with a ringing step, he returned to his lady mother, whom he found pensively awaiting him. over her fast-cooling breakfast. "I do not believe in such early tramps!" she cried, fretfully, as he entered, "especially on an empty stomach ?they are always rouoweu Dy a great reaction. How strange you look! What can have happened to you, sir? Tell me at once!' "A blessed. Joyful thing has happened, mother?I have found her!" Mrs. Varneck gave a start and a groan. "My smelling-salts! Fortunately, It Is not altogether an unexpected blow. I can only hope that she may make you happy. Serle?as happy as I am sure your poor cousin would have done." "There isn't a doubt of It," he answered. dryly. "After this, mother, you must be more generous with Lucy?I myself have settled a yearly sum upon her." Punctual at six that night, Varneck set forth to keep his appointment with Rebecca. He crossed the quiet square to the door through which Sibyl had vanished that morning. It was opened promptly by the grim-faced nurse. "I will take you to her at once," she said; "but mind, I give you no hope. r*ne win ue iunuus wmi us o,u. Varneck followed her up a stair lntoj a room, where a tea-gray stood on an Inlaid table, and a woman In a long purple dressing gown, pale, stately as a r crowned queen, was moving slowly, la- t borlously along the velvet pile floor, r She did not look up at the opening of the door, but began to talk In a voice s of deep distress. "I ask you again, Rebecca, Is It prob- t able? Money and Jewels I left, enough for all expenses. Why should Hannah Duff seek the death of my child? Oh! a how cunning my enemies are?how they / try to delude and baffle me!" \ "Mistress!" interposed Rebecca, bold- t ly, "here's a gentleman?Mr. Varneck? t who wants to speak with you particular." 1 She paused In her walk, her long purple robe sweeping grandly away e from her, her cavernous black eyes fill- e ing up with angry flame. With a ve- 1< hement gesture, she extended her long g arm. T 4,rtob-a vklm qwqv'm flhn pnmmflnhwl- r shortly. r Mr. Varneck, nowise astonished or t abashed, yet painfully conscious that 1 he had no time to waste, made her a s profound bow. "It's Sibyl's lover!" added Rebecca, e The cavernous eyes flashed Are on the intruder. "What do you mean, simpleton? Sibyl ^ Is a nun. She has no lovers." "I had the honor," said Varneck, in his p polite, manly may, "to entertain Miss Arnault for a few weeks at my house at Beechwood. It was there I first lov- g ed her. I come to ask your permission g to make her my wife. One word, ma- a dame, and I will retire at once." ^ She regarded him In a very search- t lng, uncomfortable way. a "You loved her at Beechwood?did a she also love you there?" ' a "Thank God! yes." r Mrs Arnault flashed round uoon Re- ? . ? - ? V becca, in high indignation. s "You traitress!" she raved. "And j this has been going on ever since; and r you knew it from the first, no doubt, t and would not tell me!" t "Mistress," answered Rebecca, "didn't ^ I warn you against leaving her so long 0 at a strange house? Didn't I tell you when she first came to Hammerton she a was like one love-sick! But, lor! you ^ wouldn't hear?where was the good of t talking to you!" y "Madame," urged Varneck, his hand- n some face glowing, "I have said that I love your daughter?I do, Indeed, more g utterly than I can tell. I have wealth and position; give her to me, and I will accept her as the most priceless gift p man ever received." . She repeated her repellant gesture ^ with greater vehemence. "My daughter will never marry!" and then, setting her teeth, "I wish she had g perished with Naman, before she ever a crossed your threshold!" "Mistress, don't be too hard with ^ him," said Rebecca, dryly. "You were ^ young yourself once." She thrust her attendant angrily ? back. She began to trembl. from head to foot in an alarming way. "Is the whole world leagued against e me?" she cried. "Neither this man nor 1 any other shall have Sibyl! I would see ^ her dead first! Go, Mr. Varneck; I r ...111 Kaah urnra T ilitnlinA ^ your suit." Varneck looked as If fast relapsing e into a state of Idiocy. "Madame, how am I to content my- u self with such an answer as this? Is 0 Sibyl's happiness?is mine, to count for a nothing?" Mrs. Arnault's face assumed a livid 11 blue tint. She groped for a seat. "I care," she cried, "nothing for her happiness, or yours! Who has ever a cared for mine? Shall I give her up n now, after all these years, to you or to any one? No! no! no! Thief! you e have caught the trick of my enemies, then?you come only to steal from me n that which I have." Then, waving him again toward the door, she added; ? "Never dare to come here again! Out e of my sight! You choke me?you kill me! Go! go!" Down dropped her wild arms, as If struck by an insensible hand. She stif- v fened In every limb?sank back a dead v weight against Rebecca. Varneck P rushed to her aid. h "Lay her down," the nurse cried, n "She has such turns often?she will die a in one yet. Mercy! how stiff she Is! o can tne otner servant?can miss smyi, c sir, and a doctor. Oh! for the Lord's sake, get a doctor.' ii "It looks very like a fit," said Var- r neck, and rushed out on the landing, fl and met Sibyl. Just as she was ascend- fl ing the stair. o "Something has happened?I hardly 0 know what!" he cried. "Go to your a mother, pray?I will be back directly." tl He hurried from the house. Quite t: unacquainted with the locality, he was a utterly at a loss to know which way to e turn in o*der to find a physician. It was growing dark in the green square, n as he da* hed across it, and ran bolt J( against a person who had Just entered tl from the street?a very quiet and 8 thoughtful looking person, pacing n along, with bent head, and hands clasp- si ed behind him. a "A thousand pardons!" apologized t< Varneck, recoiling. "Will you have the T goodness to tell me where I can find the tl nearest doctor?" tl The person looked at him with a o dark, quiet face lighted by a pair of c steady brown eyes. "I myself am a physician," he an- e J MUrknt ? f .1^ O SWCICU. VVIIUl 1 UU 1UI ^uu . Vameck seized his arm. c "There's a lady lying in a fit near by. w Come, for God's sake! It looks to me v frightfully like death.' t "Lead on?I will follow," said the physician. h Together they hastened back to the 1 house, and Varneck led the way up the c stairs to Mrs. Arnault's chamber. They b stepped across the threshold, and saw e Rebecca kneeling by a sofa, supporting g the head of Mrs. Arnault, who, in her t! long purple robe, lay stretched out s thereon, like one dead. Over them c stood Sibyl, white and frightened. ^ The doctor advanced to the sofa, and t looked down on the ghastly face rest- d ing on Rebecca's arm. Some reflection a of its pallor seemed to fall ui>on him- ? self. He did not speak for a full mo- s ment. f "It's a swoon," he then said. v "To be sure," cried Rebecca, with :i deep breath of relief. "Something is a wrong with her heart?yes, and her o head, too, for that matter." iiTT 0? A J a ^ ,i??? b ncl iiciiiic. uciuauuru iiic uuvivi. q "Arnault," answered Varneck, In a b low voice. ^ "And this young girl?" gazing stead- Q( fastly at Sibyl. tl "Is her daughter." He set silently about the work of estoratlon. With the first sign of reurnlng life Rebecca motioned Varleck to go. "Indeed, sir, the sight of you will be ure to upset her again," she said. The dark doctor dropped the patent's hand from his hold. "You are her son?" he asked. "Hardly," replied Vameck, stiffly; "I rm Miss Arnault's betrothed husband." Lnd then extending his hand In fare veil to Sibyl, "my darling, wnat are we o do!" he burst out. "She will not 11sen to me." "Hush!" cried Rebecca; "she la comng to herself." Slowly Adah Arnault's back, hollow yes opened. With a shudder, she lookd up at the faces grouped about her? ooked vacantly at first, till her roving ;aze alighted on the strange doctor. Phelr eyes met. There was a moment >t dead silence. Then a shriek?a wonan's shriek that might have raised he roof?pealed through the room, ["he patient sprang upright from the ofa. .. "Great God!" she cried; "Philip Gowr!" (To be Continued.) ---- THE KRUPP AERIAL GUN. I "roblem Now It to Bring Down tht Airships. The announcement that the United itates army authorities are about to itart practice in firing at balloons ind airships at Sandy Hook gives adlitional interest to the announcement nade by the Krupps that they have .t last perfected what they consider m efficient cannon for use against .erial war machines. It will be renembered that in an account reently given in The Sun of the scout ervlce performed by the dirigible La lepublique during the French army nanoevres it was pointed out that he present immunity which enabled he ship to fly low as she collected ler Information from above the enmy's lines could not be expected to ast long. It was foreshadowed that form of ordnance would soon be evlsed to neutralize in some degree he enormous advantages which a veil equipped balloon scout system nust give to tne army possessing ?. Whether the Krupp gun will make :ood can only be made certain In ctual practice, but at least In theory I meets all the requirements of the iroblem. The difficulty of course Is o invent a great gun whose aim may e varied In all directions as rapidly s a man can alter the direction of shotgun which he holds to his houlder pointing at a bird in the ir. Scientifically stated, the probim is to hit a target moving in all hree planes of space at the same Ime. In other words, the problem f firing at balloons is the same Mi hat of shooting a bird on the win^.j lhange of lateral direction as well 9# levatlon is Indispensable up to and icluding the Instant of dlschaflfSr loth motions must be swift, easy, egular and capable of minute con' rol. It is represented that the Krupp un meets these conditions. It conIsts of a tube of great length not nlike a great inverted telescope set n trunnions, which enable it to be imed at any angle from the horizonelI up to 75 degrees. Gun and bearigs are set upon a swivel, which is apable of making complete revoluons which carries the man operating the gun along with it. The lechanism is so light and sensitive i its operations that when the oprator points it with the aid of his Jlescope sights he can keep it in lotion so as to follow a minute seemig object in the air until he is sure f his aim and ready to fire with the xpectatlon of hitting it. The cannon has a range varying rom 10,000 yards on nearly horizonal lines to about 7,000 when the ertical is approached. It weighs 'lth its mechanism about 2,000 ounds. It is mounted on a fifty nroo.nnu'oi- nutnmnhllp urhlrh pan lake a speed of twenty-seven miles n hour, carrying sixty-two rounds f ammunition and the full gun rew. The gun throws a projectile weighig about twelve pounds, which caries besides its effective charge a ashing composition which is set on re by a special fuse at the moment f firing and leaves in the air a train f burning gas and smoke visible like by night or day. This enables he operator to follow the trajectory rom the mouth of the gun to its pex, and thus correct his aim with ach succeeding shot. A second fuse of extreme sensitiveess causes the explosion of the prosctile at the moment when it pierces he envelope of the balloon or airhip. It is said to be a great improvelent over former devices for the ame purpose, which contained only flame producing chemical designed i make the balloon destroy Itself, 'his was' found to be often ineffecIve, for whenever the hydrogen in he balloon remained unmixed with xygen it would not explode or even n fnV? fl Still another aerial shell Is regardd as an improvement on both the thers. It is the Hartbaum, and it ontains a reservoir of liquid oxygen ,rhich is released as soon as the enelope of the balloon is penetrated hrough the well known action of he hydrogen Itself In raising to red eat a particle of spongy platinum, 'his in turn sets off a fulminating omposition; the wall of the shell reaks and the oxygen is set at librty at the same moment; the oxyen combines with the hydrogen of he balloon and produces an explolon which destroys the entire mahine. Such Is the theory of the new [rupp gun, but It is admitted that his ingenious contrivance does not o away with all the difficulties of nnlhUntlnc n**rr??tnte hv nrMllnrv re. Airships of the largest size at ilgh elevation will always be mere pecks in the sky, no more easy to ollow or hit than a flying bird, . hlle the new gun presents none of he advantages that chokebore barels and the scattering cloud of shot fford to the fowler. There is an ther difficulty, as Is learned through he experimental firing at captive alloons; the projectile not lnfreuently passes entirely through the alloon and far beyohd It before the estructlve explosion takes place, saving mere punctures In the envelpe which only very slightly Impair he efficiency of the machine. Iftijwltottrous grading. LAST OF RECONSTRUCTION. Recollections of Days That Were Troublous. November 7, was the thirtythird anniversary of the final overthrow of the reconstruction governments In the south. In the year 187fi November 7. In the states of Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida especially, was looked to with I dread and hope. It was the day of the general election. These states, as officially described at that time, were armed camps. The negroes, carpet- . baggers and scalawags and their { camp followers and dependents had ] normal majorities, ranging from 50,- ) 000 to 20,000. The patlve white peo- j pie were generally enlisted as Democrats. As a matter* of fact, they were , giving no thought to'^party prlncl- , pies. They represented home rule and , white rule localfr. The-fights were the ] most desperate and spectacular In the ; political history of civilization. In louth Carolina and Louisiana, on the Ace of the returns as they came from he polling precincts, the Democrats t Bud majorities. The legal authorities, fethe returning boards, composed or ptate officials calling themselves Re- < publicans, but really the most intelli- i pent Elements of the scum intent on j plunder, threw out enough Demo- i Kratic majorities, on the grounds of i fraud and intimidation, to give the < states to the Republicans. Unques- ] tonably the fraud and intimidation Eated. In a scuffle like that nobody j tught much of the fine points of j r. The negroes and their carpet- i bag leaders defrauded and intimidated ] where they had the power and op- j portunlty. The white men rode their ] Neighborhoods whooping and shoot- 1 |ng during the night, fired cannon at ; daylight, repeated from precinct to precinct as long as their horses would hold out and without hesitation shot Eand burnt hostile ballot boxes, t hostile election officials and obloua negroes over the head with the barrels of long navy revolvers and when it became necessary for the exigences of the occasion, turned loose bullets into the persons of unduly Stubborn opponents. Nobody knows jor ever will know who really would have been elected on a straight vote and by an honest count governor of any of the three states or whethter Tilden or Hayes for president really was the choice of the majority of the people choosing the members of the electoral college. It was a time of deadly danger to the republic, of confusion and fear and fierce contention. Colonel Watterson, of the Louisville Courier-Journal, threw a firebrand Into the situation with a telegram prospering to have 100,000 unarmed Kentucklans in Washington to see Tllden inaugurated. Through south and north were muitferlhgs and threats and suggestions of revolution and resort to weapons by one side or the other. These conditions of doubt dragged along through November and December, January and part of February. It was a clouded and fearful Christmas hot vonr hut one of the wildest and ' ' " c Jolliest the country ever has known. The reckless spirit of the American people asserted Itself and because nobody knew what would happen Or what fury and disaster would break forth before the next Christmas everybody proceeded to celebrate It and enJoy It regardless of consequences. It was a tremendous reaction of laughter and drunkenness and jollification against the gloom and dread which overhung the country. Later, American common sense and conservatism asserted themselves 'and peace and growth were gathered from danger and wrath. In South Carolina the conditions were especially dramatic. In the early part of December of 1876, two houses of representatives were occupying the same hall In the state house with two speakers sitting side by side, E. W. M. Mackey, of Charleston, presiding over the Republican house, William H. Wallace, of Union, presiding over the Democratic house. Sitting so close together that either could touch 8 the other with his hand, eacn aecunea to recognize the existence of the other or of the house presided over by the other. The white men and their few negro allies had walked Into the chamber stiff-legged with Winchester rifles inside their trousers and stores of six shooters and ammunition In their overcoats. On a Sunday night General Wade Hampton, supposed to have been elected governor by the Democrats, while Daniel H. Chamberlain was officially declared by the Republican returning board to be the governor, received an anonymous letter informing him that during the night several hundred desperate negroes brought up from Charleston and officially commissioned as deputy sergeant-at-arms of the house, would break and run out the Defmocrats or slaughter them and that they would be backed up by the United I Q rofrlmonf h<i|n C fl llfl F oiaico uuupo, t* i UQititvtih w?....a ^ tered at Columbia and under the di- 1 rect orders of President Grant. Calls were sent out by telegraph wire and s courier. Special trains were called s Into service. At daylight Monday f morning the red shirts were piling In g by trains and pelting headlong on the s backs of horses driven at full speed, 1 every man armed, many of them, vet- ^ erans of the Confederate army train- 9 ed to desperate fighting and eager e for opportunity to know again the stir 8 and exhilaration of battle and the t smell of powder smoke. By noon a Hampton had concentrated In Colum- r bla probably 8,000 armed and fighting * men ready to sweep away the Repub- s llcan government and to go against b the United States regulars. The rank * and file of the United States army, t consorting with the South Carolina S people, had given It out confidentially J that if called on to tire on me reu shirts they would "bust h?1 out of t the stars," the plain meaning of which F was, that they would Are over the 11 a heads of their antagonists and permit t themselves to be run down and cap- s tured. Probably their officers under- r stood very well the purposes of the | men and would not have been very t severe in their demands. Blood is t thicker than water and it was a race ? fight. c That was about the last serious ii demonstration of the reconstruction and Republican governments in the south. The rotten fabric fell to pieces in May when Hayes, by some juggle or mysterious Dargain, never yet clearly revealed, having been counted In as president, withdrew the troops. Then It became a case ol "save yourself." The Republican politicians and leaders fled the south with what remnants of loot they could collect, and disappeared Into obscurity, anxiously sought. And the southern white man came into his own and the top rail was replaced on the top, where It belonged. Not for bitterness and not for strife or resentment, but to know the truth and for guidance in the future, the younger generation of southern people should have drilled Into their minds always the significance, the lesson, the warning, the glorious recollection of the heroism of the southern white man and of his ability to take care of himself in any stress or strain or circumstances, perpetuated by this date of November 7.?A. B. Williams, In Richmond wewg i^eaaer. FARMING AMONG THE BOYS. Agricultural Department Pushing a Great Work. "In The Progressive Farmer 'Uncle John" tells about margin a. boy a year ago to join a Boys' Corn Club. The boy did so ind has reported this fall that he made 104 bushels of corn on an acre sf land where he gathered twelve 3ushels of nubbins the year before. "Our reports show that there are i great many boys of this kind imong the 12,464 boys in the south Evho have joined such clubs, and who have planted and cultivated their acres by improved methods. A report which came in today tells of a soy who made 8,640 pounds or IU6g UUOIICIO VI Ol IQIIOU Will V(1 u? icre. This report was not so much >f a surprise to me because I had flsited the plat and had counted the lumber of stalks and ears to the row tnd the number of rows to the acre. A great many of these reports show fields of more than 100 bushels per icre. "Not so very many miles from the 3oy above referred to, 1 have met mother boy whose work is of especial Interest. He will make a fine field on his acre, and he will know low he did it. He has secured a lice desk In which he has kept accurate records of the progress and expenses of his work. He knows extctly when his land was prepared, low deep it was broken, what ferlllzers were used and the analysis >f the same. He knows the time of planting, the kinds and amount of iced and the dates of the various cultivations. He has kept a record >f his own time and the amount of :lme required for the horses to do he necessary plowing, and the value >f such time by the hour. This boy il8o keeps all the bulletins and agricultural papers which he receives carefully filed in his desk. He will evidently develop Into a business 'armer, something the country needs n large and increasing numbers. "Some of the meetings of the Boys' muds ana meir exniDiis mis season lave been of unusual interest. In tome cases the exhibits have led to he establishment of county fairs vhere prizes are offered, not only to >oys for other field and garden crops, >ut also to girls for good work in lower and vegetable gardens and ilso for good specimens of cooking md sewing. "At some of the meetings the nembers have been called upon to ell how they worked their crops. The reports say that boys who would >e unwilling to talk publicly on abitract subjects talk right out in the neeting when it comes to telling about heir successful work. This progress n public speaking, as well as the )rellminary knowledge gained in sonducting the clubs, is worth while. "Public-spirited men generally ap>reclate the Importance of this work ind realize its significance. In some :ountles more than $500 worth of >rizes have been offered. In quite i number the amounts are above 1300, while It is very common for he amount to exceed $100. The folowing will show some of the things vhlch are offered as prizes in this vork: "A trip to Washington; $50 in rold; $20 in gold; $10; $5; a nice >uggy and harness; a good two-horse vagon; a first-class bicycle; a strong wo-horse plow; a two-row corn >lanter; a double-barreled shot gun; i substantial cultivator; a $5 hat; a 115 suit of clothes; a half ton of ferllizer; a $5 pair of shoes; some full>looded pigs; three books on agriculure; bridle, saddle and whip; gold itick pin in shape of ear of corn. "It will be noticed that some very ;ood suggestions are contained in the lsts. A sample prize list from a ilngle county will perhaps give a nore definite idea. Herewith is subnitted a list from a county which las a live, active Boys' club. "$25 cash; $15 saddle; $5 farm im)lement; $20 watch; corn planter; liverse cultivator; $15 shot gun; $5 lat; $5 pair Plymouth Rock chickins; trip to state fair; three books in agriculture; three good agriculural papers for one year; $3 cash to toy in each beat who makes most :orn on one acre, given by Farmers' Jnlon; 500 pounds fertilizer. "The prizes are not offered upon rreatest yield alone; other important actors are considered. When a club s first being organized and the work teing started in a county it is the :ustom in many cases to put up a ew prizes, just on seed selection lone. Each boy is asked to bring he best ten ears of corn he can find in his father's farm to the organiatlon meeting. Some instruction is hen given in corn judging. This has ?een found helpful to the boys in the rery beginning of the work. After hat the following points are used in naking awards of prizes and premiums: (1), yield; (2), ears and talks; (3), written account; (4), nowing or prom. "There are a great many more nembers of Boys' Corn clubs in the rulf states than in the south Atlantic tates. Some of the boys In he South Atlantic states, however, ire showing some fine records for his year. They will be prepared for till better work next year, and sevral more thousands of boys In these tates will join clubs. "Those boys who have made more han 100 bushels of corn per acre .re public benefactors in their comnunities. They are making demontrations of what can be done. They onstitute a great correspondence chool because they ask for the best lulletins on specific subjects and hen master them. After they learn . great deal about corn they are beter prepared to study other plants, iuch study gives pleasure and profit, t opens up some of the delights of arm life. Just from the standpoint if profit the showing is good. The ?oy who made 152J busheds of corn >er acre can sell his corn at $2.00 per lushel If he wants to. I have heard Iready of a good farmer in his coun\r u'Vin U'finta tn hnv Qnma r?f Vila eed. He will probably make 525 or nore In county prizes and at least n equal amount at his state fair, le will stand a fine chance of winning he prize trip to Washington. Alogether his one acre will be worth .t least $400 to him. Many other ioys will approximate the same sucess. May his tribe greatly Increase n 1910." HITS BACH AT TILLMAN Mr. W. L Gonzales Makes Statement About Columbia Luncheon. POSITION OF COMMITTEE EXPLAINED There Were no "Gussts" at tha Big Dinner Except the Taft Party?All the Other* Were Hoet* and aa 8uch Paid $10 Each?It Waa a State Instead of a Columbia Affair, Notwithstanding Columbia Reserved the Right to 8ay Who Was Who. Editor W. E. Gonzales of the Colum> bla State on last Saturday issued the following statement with reference to i the Columbia luncheon affair: As a member of the central comi mlttee and as the Individual primarily responsible for the method of Presdent Taft's entertainment at luncheon at Columbia, a method characterized by B. R. Tillman as "Indecent," and criticised In chorus by more or less thoughless, uninformed, or malicious newspapers, I make the subjoined statement of facts. The vicious assault upon Columbia by Tillman, broadcast throughout the country In press dispatches, Is a reflection upon all South Carolina Last winter the president-elect was Invited to Columbia by the governor, the president of the South Carolina Bar association, and the president of Columbia Chamber of Commerce. He could not then come. Later the In vitatlon was renewed by the governor, the' mayor, and the president of the Chamber of Commerce. He accepted that Invitation. Three months ago organization for the care of the president and his entertainment was begun by the formation of a central committee, of which the governor, representing South Carolina, was chairman, Mayor Reamer and myself being the other members. The first suggestion for the president's ent?rtfl.inment was bv GOV ernor Ansel, who proposed tendering him a luncheon. I opposed that plan on the ground that the coming of the president to the capital, on the Invitation of the city and state, was statewide In Its significance, and the hosts should be the representative men of the state, that any formal function at the mansion must of physical necessity be restricted, and therefore the idea of a state entertainment could not be carried out. As a substitute I suggested Inviting a certain number of representative men of i South Carolina to participate in giving this luncheon. The cost was estimated at $10 for each host, there to be no "guests" except the president, his Immediate party and members of his cabinet. This plan was accepted, the governor deciding to give the president a breakfast, Mr. Taft at that time expecting to arrive here In the morning. . ..." J Members of committees were later appointed, and the committee on in- < vltatlon forwarded to the thqusand persons selected to be given the op- i portunity to participate in entertain- , lng the president, a card of Invitation, In stereotyped form, bearing, as ' symbolical of the scope, an engraving ' of the flag of South Carolina. There was absolutely nothing upon that card suggesting Columbia as the host An- i other card carried tne inrormauon 10 i South Carolinians Invited that the 1 first three hundred to avail them- ] selves of the Invitation, and pay the f amount fixed upon, would participate 1 in the luncheon. 1 Invitations were essential because I limitation and selection were neces- i sary. No one was invited because he i could pay his way. Official South 1 Carolina, the press, the men of learn- l ing and of worthy achievement were recognized a3 fully as possible in the effort to have assemble here a repre- I sentative and distinguished body of South Carolinians to meet the country's chief executive. Private entertainment in Columbia would have 1 aved the committees Infinite troubles and trials, but would necessarily have eliminated that state feature of the I entertainment to which the president 1 so feelingly referred in his address here. Further carrying out the state- i wide conception, a reception committee was appointed, on which every < county in South Carolina had representation; there were two aldermen from Columbia and probably a dozen members of the general assembly on that committee. The design and Inscription for the menu card, chosen by the luncheon committee, a full month before the event, emphasized the scope of the function. In addition to the engrav- > lng of the capltol, the coat of arms of South Carolina and a palmetto tree, 1 the declaration that the luncheon I was "Given to President Taft by South ' Carolinians," was conclusive of Its i purpose, i At the beginning of the preparation ' it was declared that there should be i no "guests" at the luncheon except ' the president, his party, and members of the cabinet. And there was . none. Every South Carolinian pres- i ent was there as a host. The report- < ers for The Columbia Record, The i News and Courier and The State, the < members of all committees?the men 1 who bore the responslbiltles and did 1 the arduous work of preparation? aonh rr?ntrihutlnfir his ' WCIC I1UOIO, CUV.. w share toward making fitting South 1 Carolina's hospitality to the nation's < official head. There are two practicable methods 1 of defraying the expenses of public ' banquets. One Is by using the tax- ' payers' money. to pay for an enter- 1 talnment from which more than 99 J per centum of the taxpayers must of < necessity be excluded, and the other ' Is that those acting as nosis uu me part of hosts and defray the-costs. ? By the first plan the many pay for the ( benefit of the few; by the latter there i is equality and Justice. And the latter t plan Is practically universal. After Tillman's Ill-bred outbreak In ' the face of Columbia and South Caro- < Una's approaching guest, I took the t pains to inquire of four towns that < either had entertained the president or contemplated so doing, as to the I plan followed. Here are extracts 1 from the replies: ! "Washington: "The dinner given to j President Taft was arranged by a < Joint committee of the Chamber of c Commerce and the board of trade. The committee issued invitations to a few distinguished guests who, of course, paid nothing. Ali others who attended paid $20 a plate. The list, however, was not confined to Washingtonians." New Orleans: "At the banquet tendered President Taft here last February, Just before the inauguration, all those who attended were Invited to pay $26, with the exception of Mr. Taft's party, the press (of New Orleans) and possibly one or two guests of honor." Those invitations to participate were not confined to cltisens of Louisiana. Atlanta* ?T Vi a vn ttiat ?iriv?a/1 vnn that we did exactly the same thing here In Atlanta, and It la the usual custom not only here In the south but In every other city In the country. It seems to me It Is a very sensible custom, see Somebody has to pay, why not, therefore, those who are there in the capacity of hosts? So far as I have heard this Is the only instance of complaint of this kind on record." Savannah: "The Taft banquet will be attended by S50 persona About thirty will be guests of the city; the 320 who are not special guests will pay 320 per plate for the occasion. In eighteen years I do not recall a function of the sort in this city that was not similarly financed. Invitations to participate in that banquet and its expense?a banquet given in the name of Savannah?were sent to Atlanta and elsewhere in Georgia." The direct charge that Columbia was attempting to make the state at large pay for her frolic, and the infamous insinuation that the plan of a committee of which the governor, the mayor and myself were the members, had engaged in a money-making scheme, warrants reference to what was spent in Columbia aside from the luncheon?whose cost, by the way, was not covered by the est! mated $10 a plate. Aaide from the entertainment In the state house, the outlay was as accurately as I can now secure the figures, $6,800. I have no means of defining the motive prompting B. R. Tillman to make the gross and Insolent reply he did to the Invitation to be a host Instead of a guest at the luncheon to the president, and it Is immaterial whether he imagined It an opportunity to hurt Columbia, or to embarrass his political opponents on the committee, or to hoodwink gullible backwoodsmen. But his ill-bred tirade, his maliciously false statement of Columbia's position, his charge that our plan was a violation of hospitality, and "Indecent," would have been ignored by me, had not newspapers in South Carolina, some of them perhaps misinterpreting the committee's silence while the guest was approaching, Indulged In wholly unjustified, and, as a distinguished Georgian writes me, unprecedented criticism of this. city. That Tillman, who has never balked at the price of a dinner when paid for with the money of taxpayers, should essay the role of a Ward McAllister Is grotesque. The man who as a guest of honor In Charleston, A#f?? V. la an/1 luurv kiic iiiuo uu 1110 uvsub cuiu vsavs* "rubbed In salt," and gave Charlestonlans a stomach-turning from which they needed years to recover, the man whose coarse speech when making addresses by Invitation has brought the blood to the face of farmers' wives and daughters in South Carolina, the man whose profanity before women has shocked In South Carolina and in Washington?this man's criticism, I say, of hospitality and etiquette is grotesque. The animus is revealed when Tillman, notorious for lack of courtesy, lack of refinement, and for general uncouthness, and boastful of his disregard of the conventions, attempts to be mentor of Columbia's manners. And when it comes to maintaining the good name * of South Carolina, for which he now essays to be Jealous, Tillman's display of an appetite for getting something for nothing or much for little, which had its incipient manifestations when he was governor in the cultivation of a private oat crop at public expense, and its latest development in the Oregon land tuitiir, uuKin its uciaucu aa tuiuiui inconsistency between the word and the deed. WHEN WOMEN VOTE. Not a Self- Respecting Man Will 8tay Away From Polls. I have a letter from a man, says Dorothy Dlx, who is really intelligent enough to know better, who says: "If women had votes there is not a self-respecting man who would go to the polls. He will let the country go to perdition in the hands of that abnormal and unnatural creature, the masculine woman, and things will the sooner right themselves by a political, social and economic cataclysm that will drive the brazen females back to their proper places?the kitchen and the nursery." Let us hasten to assure this modern Jeremiah that his gloomy prophecies ire without foundation. The time will :ome when women will vote, and yet not a self-respecting man will stay iway from the polls because he is liable to meet there his mother, his sisters, his female cousins and his aunts. "The proof of the pudding is in the mating," says the old adage, and we 3ase our belief on this happy outcome )f woman's suffrage on the fact that n the countries where women do vote ;hey have not kept a single man, selfrespecting or otherwise, from exerclsng his privilege as a free man to exjress his opinion by means of a ballot. In the four western states where wornm vote and where men are quick on he trigger it certainly wouldn't be lafe to tell any gentleman that he was i poor, emasculated squaw man be a use ne weni 10 me pons ui which vomen voted. In New Zealand, Ausralla, the Isle of Man, Finland and Norway women have full suffrage, and f the self-respecting men of these :ountries are conspicuous by reason of heir absence from the polls no rumor >f it has reached the outer world. Indeed, the best argument that can >e advanced for giving women the ight to vote is that wherever female luffraae has been tried it has worked >ut successfully, and there has never jeen a suggestion of depriving women >f their rights and going back to the >ld order of a male oligarchy.