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ESTABLISHED 1855. ~ YORKVILLE, 8. P., FRIDAY, JULY^V 19lf. NXX 54.
BY THOM
Copyright, 1911, b
fa) Pub. by Doubleday,
BOOK II?THE ROOT.
CHAPTER XV.
Confession.
The face of the dying boy haunted
the doctor's imagination. With his
eyes closed or open, at noon or alone
at night the pity and the horror of his
lonely death gripped him. A boy of
twenty, weak, hungry, ragged, alone,
had dared to lift his thin arm above
his head and charge the entrenched
authority of the civilized world.
Was he. with other theorists, responsible
for the mad act?
He began to think that Tolstoy is
right in his assertion that human
progress is a march of ideas?and that
the day of revolution by bloodshed has
passed. He began to fear that his
struggle with Bivens in his long-drawn
and fiercely contested lawsuit was an
act of the same essential quality of
blind physical violence. He began to
see that the real motive back of his
struggle was hatred of the man?this
little counter Jumper, who had destroyed
his business. It was the irony
of such a fate that sunk its poisoned
dagger into his heart. He faced the
fact at last without flinching.
He rose and paced the floor of his
library for a half-hour with measured
tread. He stopped suddenly and
clenched his big fists instinctively.
"I do hate him?with undying everlasting
hatred, and I pray God to give
me greater strength to hate him more!"
Again the picture of the pale, torn,
blood-stained face, with its mute piteous
appeal, rose before him. The anger
slowly melted out of his heart and
the old thought came back:
"How rich is my life after all com
pared to nis:"
And then he made a mental Inventory
of his assets, with sad results. He
had tried for a long time not to face
those facts. But if he gave up the suit
he must face them. He had identified
this action at last with his faith in the
very existence of justice. To realize
that the element of personal hatred
was the motive power back of it was
a shock to the whole structure of his
character.
He rose with sudden determination.
He would not surrender. He would
fight it out with this little swarthy
scoundrel, win or lose. His house was
mortgaged, the last dollar of his savings
he had spent in helping others
and the money set aside to finish Harriet's
course in music had been lost
in the panic. He would fight it out
somehow and win. But the one thing
that must not fail was the perfection
of his girl's voice. The court of appeals
would certainly render their decision
before her next term's work
would begin. She could rest during
T* nrnnM har crnrtH If
lilt* 9UIIIII1C1. At nvuiu v?v . QVVW
he could be firm with his tenants and
collect his room-rents promptly from
everyone, the income from his house
was still sufficient to pay the interest
on the mortgage and give them a little
to eat. It would be enough. Food for
the soul was more important. He resolved
to ask Stuart to collect his
rents.
. He looked up and Harriet stood
smiling at him.
"What an actor you would have
made, papa!" she exclaimed.
"Why?'
"I've been watching you play a great
scene, all the characters by yourself."
"A foolish habit, dear!" the father
laughed. "Always muttering and talking
to myself. I suppose I'll be arrested
for a lunatic some day."
He stopped suddenly and looked at
Harriet closely.
"Come here, baby."
She came and stood beside his chair.
He pressed her hand tenderly.
"What have you been crying about?"
he asked anxiously.
"Oh, nothing much." was the low answer.
"I really don't know?perhaps
the thing that makes the birds out
there in the Square chirp while the
snow is still on the ground, the feeling
that Spring is coming."
"You're keeping something from
me, dearest," he whispered, slipping
his arm about her waist. "Tell me."
"You really believe in my voice,
don't vou?" she asked slow'.y.
"Believe in it? Do I believe in
God?"
"Could I go abroad right away and
finish my work there?"
She asked the question with such
painful Intensity, the father looked up
with a start.
"What's the matter, dear?"
The girl slipped her arm around his
neck with a sob.
He bent and kissed the golden hair,
stroking it fondly until she was calmer.
"Why do you wish to go now, child?"
he asked at last.
"I've a confession to make, pap-i
dear."
The little head sank low and the
arm tightened its grip about his neck.
"What is it, darling? I'm sure it's
nothing of which you're ashamed."
"*T" /\f ?i>KloK I'm nrnii/1
rtO, suiiiriiiing ui nuit.li ?...
Something so sweet and wonderful in
itself, the very joy of it I feel sometimes
will kill me. I'm in love, desperately
and hopelessly."
Again a sob caught her voice, and
the father's arms drew her to his heart
and held her.
"But why hopelessly, my baby?" he
asked. "Your hair is beaten gold, your
eyes are deep and true, your slender
little form has all the symmetry and
beauty of a sylph. You are young,
radiant, glorious, and your voice the
angels would envy."
"But the man I love doesn't realize
all that yet, papa dear. He is bound
by the memories <f the past to a woman
he once loved, a woman who is
evil at heart, and though she betrayed
>iiin for the lust of money, is determined
to hold him still her slave. But she
shall not. I'll fight for him! And
you'll help me, papa, won't you?"
The father drew her close.
"Won't I?just wait and see! ? But
you haven't told me his name? I've
been very blind, I fear."
"You've never guessed?"
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She lifted her face to his In surprise.
"No."
"Jim."
"Our Jim Stuart?"
She nodded. Her voice wouldn't
work.
"Oh, I see, I see!" the father mused.
"The first love of a child's heart grown
slowly into the great passion of life."
Again the little head nodded.
"You understand now why I wish to
go away, to finish my work abroad.
I'll be nearer to him wi ,h the ocean between
us. He'll miss me then. I feel
it, know it. When I returned he will
be proud of my voice. I shall go mad
if I stay here and see him dangling
at that woman's heels. I watched her
with him today, devouring him with
her eyes, her millions won by his betrayal,
yet proud, miserable, envious,
and determined to wreck his life. But
I shall return in time to make him
know. He loves music. I shall sing
when he hears me as I never sang before,
and I shall say to him then all the
unspoken things I dare not put in
speech. You understand, papa dear,
you'll send me away and help me to
win?"
The father kissed the trembling lips
and answered firmly.
"Yes, I'll raise the money for you
right away."
And then for half an hour she lay in
his arms while he whispered beautiful
thoughts of her future?things he
had promised himself to sr- often before
and had not said, until at last she
smiled with joy. When he sent her to
bed he had kissed the last tear away.
She looked at him wistfully at the
door.
"I'm not going to make this fight for
fame and monev?it's all for the heart
of the man I love."
"I understand, dear!" he answered
cheerily as he threw her a last kiss.
> When she had gone and he heard her
door close, he stood for a moment, lost
in thought, and then slowly exclaimed.
"And now I've got to surrender."
CHAPTER XVI.
THE Unbidden Guest.
The bitter reference to Bivens and
the crime of his corner in wheat had
roused Nan's fighting blood. She
would accept the challenge of this
rabble and show her contempt for its
opinions in a way that could not be
mistaken. She determined to give an
ontDWolnmont u'hnaA mflenificence
would startle the social world and be
her defiant answer to the critics of her
husband. At the same time It would
serve the double purpose of dazzling
and charming the imagination of Stuart.
She would by a single dash of
power end his indecision as to Bivens's
offer and bind with stronger
cords the tie that held him to her.
Her suggestion was received with
enthusiasm by her husband.
"All right," he said excitedly, "beat
the record. Give them something to
talk about the rest of their lives. I
don't mean those poor fools In Union
Square. Their raving is pathetic. I
mean the big bugs who think they own
the earth, the people who think that
we are new-comers and that this Island
was built for their accommodation.
Give them a knock-out."
Nan's eyes danced with excitement.
"You really mean that I may plan
without counting the cost?"
"That's exactly what I mean. The
man is yet to be born whose brain can
conceive the plan to spend artistically
on one night's entertainment the half
I'm willing to blow in just now for
such a triumph."
"I'll do my best," she answered quietly.
"Nothing cheap or vulgar about it,
you know. I think that party in which
the guests were drenched with a hose
and the one in which they dressed as
vegetables were slightly lacking in
originality. True, the hosepipe party
had a stirring climax when the pretty
hostess appeared in a silk bathing suit
and allowed herself to he ducked by
her admirers in her own bath tub; still
dear, I shouldn't care for that sort of
a sensation."
"I think I'd draw the line at that myself.
I promise you something better."
"Of course that bathing-suit luncheon
at Newport last summer was a
stunning affair. The women certainly
made a hit. But I can't quite figure
my wife appearing in it."
Nan lifted her eyebrows:
"I promise you faithfully not to appear
in a bathing suit."
"Just one more pet aversion, dear,"
Bivens smiled. "You won't have any
kind of an animal party, will you?"
"There'll be many kinds of animals
present if they could only be accurately
catalogued."
"I mean, particularly, monkeys. You
know that monkey party got on my
nerves. I mix with bulls and bears
every day down in Wall street. And all
sorts of reptiles crawl among those
big buildings?but when I have to
shake hands with that monkey dressed
in immaculate evening clothes sitting
at a table sipping champagne, I thought
they were pushing ramily history a
little too far. Maybe our ancestors
were monkeys all right, but the less
said about it the better."
"I promise," Nan laughed.
"Then good luck, and remember the
sky's the limit."
Bivens waved her a kiss, hurried to
his office and concluded a deal for
floating five millions in common stock,
which cost exactly the paper on which
it was printed. His share of this loot
would pay more than his wife could
spend in a year.
Nan spared no expenditure of time,
money and thought to the perfection of
her plans. She employed a corps of
trained artists, took them to her home,
told them what she wished and they
worked with enthusiasm to eclipse in
splendor New York's record of lavish
entertainments?but always with the
reservation which she had imposed
that pothing be done that might vlu
late the canons of beauty and good
taste. I
The long dreamed night came, and .
her guests had begun to arrive. I
One was hurrying there to whom no
engraved invitation had been sent, and I
yet his coming was the one big event I
of the evening, the one thing that i
would make the night memorable. No
liveried flunky cried his name in the 1
great hall, but a white invisible figure
stood ready to draw aside the velvet <
curtains as he passed. (
The confession of love for Stuart i
which Harriet had sobbed out In her
father's arms had been the last straw
that broke the backbone of his fight
against Blvens. In a burst of generous
feeling he made up his mind to eat
his pride, drive from his mind every
bitter impulse and forget that he had
ever hated this man or been wronged
by him. He could see now that he had
neglected his little girl in the fight he
had been making for other people and
that her very life might be at stake in
the struggle she was making for the
man she loved.
Bivens had once offered to buy his
business. He had afterward made him
a generous offer to compromise his
suit. He had never doubted for a moment
that a compromise would be ac- ?
cepted the moment he should see fit to t
?1VW U|/. I
Well, he would give up. Life was f
too short for strife and bitterness. It i
was just long enough to love his lit- t
tie girl. He would not waste another
precious hour. t
He Instructed his lawyer to withdraw I
the appeal before the day fixed for 1
filing the papers. The lawyer raved
and pleaded in vain. The doctor was
firm. He wrote Bivens a generous
personal letter in which he asked that
the past be forgotten and that he ap- j
point a meeting at which they could
arrange the terms of a final friendly
settlement. ^
The act had lifted a load from his s
heart. The sum he would receive, If s
but half Bivens's original offer, would t
be sufficient to keep him in comfort, s
complete his daughter's course in <
music, and give him something with ^
which to continue his daily ministry to j
the friendless and the lowly. It was
all he asked of the world now.
He wondered in his new enthusiasm
why he had kept up this bitter feud
for the enforcement of his rights by
law, when there were so many more
urgent and important things in life to
do.
He waited four days for an answer
to his letter and receiving none, wrote
again. In the meantime the day for
final action on his appeal had passed
and his suit was legally ended. On the
last day his lawyer pleaded with him
for an hour to file the appeal suit and
then compromise at his leisure. The
doctor merely smiled quietly and repeated
his decision:
"I'm done fighting. I've something c
else to do." a
When Bivens failed to reply to his .
second letter he made up his mind to t
see him personally. He was sure the t
letter had been turned over to a law- p
yer and the financier had never seen it. \
He called at Bivens's office three times t
and always met the same answer: s
"Mr. Bivens is engaged for every <)
hour today. You must call again." a
On the fourth day, when he had J
stayed until time for closing the office, s
a secretary informed him that Mr. I
Bivens was too busy with matters of I
great importance to take up any new r
business of any kind for a month, and t
that he had given the most positive
orders to that effect to all his men. r
If he would return the first of next c
month he would see what could be e
done. I
The doctor left in disgust. It was s
evident that the millionaire's business
had reached such vast proportions that '
its details were as Intricate and ab- I
sorbing as the government of an em- *
pire and that he had found it neces- fi
sary to protect his person with a net- s
work of red tape. e
He determined to break through this 1
ceremonial nonsense, see Bivens faee
to face, and settle the affairs at once.
When he should see him personally
it would be but a question of five minutes'
friendly talk and the matter
would be ended. Now that he recalled
little traits of Bivens's character, he
didn't seem such a scoundrel after all
?just the average money-mad man
who could see but one side of life. He
would remind him in a friendly way of
their early association, and the help he
had given him at an hour of his life
when he needed it most. He wouldn't
cringe or plead. He would state the 1
whole situation frankly and truthfully
and with dignity propose a settlement.
It was just at this moment that the
doctor learned of the preparations 'or (
the dinner and ball at the Bivens palace
on Riverside Drive. The solution
of the whole problem flashed through <
his mind in an instant. They would i
have professional singers without a
doubt, the great operatic stars and <
others. If Harriet could only be placed ]
on the programme for a single song it i
would be settled! Her voice would <
sweep Bivens off his feet and charm
the brilliant throng of guests. He l
would have to accompany her there of 1
course. At the right moment he would >.
make himself known; a word with :
Bivens and it would be settled. \
He imagined in vivid flashes the ;
good-natured scene between them, the i
astonishment of the financier that Ills i
little girl had grown into such a won- ]
derful woman and his pleasure in re- .
calling the days when she used to vlay |
hide and seek behind the counter of ,
the old drug store.
He lost no time in finding out the .
manager of the professional singers
for the evening and through Harriet'3
enthusiastic music teachers arranged i
for her appearance.
From the moment this was accomplished
his natural optimism returnjd.
His success was sure. He gave his (
time with renewed energy to his work
among the poor. i
On the day of the ball Harriet was
waiting in a fever of impatience for
his return from the hospitals to dress.
At half past seven their dinner was
cold and he had not come. It was 8
o'clock before his familiar footstep
echoed through the hall.
Harriet kissed him tenderly. i
"I'm glad you're safe at home at last
?now hurry."
"I'll not delay you much. I can dress
in thirty minutes. My! my! but you're
glorious tonight, child! I never saw
you look so beautiful!"
She pushed him into the dining
room, crying:
"Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! This Is
really the first night In my career.
Jim's been gone an hour. Dinner up
there begins at eight."
"But my star does not rise to sing
before eleven?the ball begins at
twelve. I've plenty of time to love you
i minute or two."
He drew her near again and kissed
tier.
"I wouldn't exchange my little girl's
.Town of gold ior an me yenow com
if the millionaires we shall see toilght."
"And I would't give the father with
the loving heart and stainless name
.'or the Kingdom of Mammon."
"That's a beautiful saying, my own,
[ shall not forget It; and now I'll
lurry."
He ate a hasty meal, dressed in thirty
minutes, and at nine o'clock led
Harriet to the side entrance of Bivms's
great house on the Drive.
He was in fine spirits. The reaction
'rom the tension of a pitiful tragedy
>f sin and shame he had witnessed in
he afternoon had lifted him to spiritlal
heights. For the life of him he
ouldn't look at his own troubles serl>usly.
They seemed trivial in a world
>f such shadows as that which fell
icross his path from behind those iron
>ars. He rejoiced again that he had
nade up his mind to live the life of
aith and good fellowship with all men,
ncluding the little swarthy master of
he palace he was about to enter.
And so with light heart he stepped
hrough the door which the soft white
land of Death opened. How could he
enow?
(To Be Continued.)
WANT8 MILL INVESTIGATION.
Barnwell People Think Legislature
Should Take Action.
If the legislature of this state Is
vorth shucks It will at Its next sesilon
begin and drive through with
iteam roller force an investigation of
he cotton mill conditions and coniclences.
The commonest humanity
lemands and the public Interest reluires
quick Intelligence and compiling
action?or exposure.
There are over a hundred cotton
nills in this state, employing many
housand white operatives, men, wonen
and children. Some of these mills
ire spasmodically closed down, others
vork short time. During the next two
nonths every blessed one of them is
>ound by unblessed agreement to dlsontinue
all work two weeks. The
peratives who quit the farm life and
rooped Into the mill towns and vilages
on the promises of good homes,
iteady work, fine pay and better school
jpportunitles for their children are
he sufferers. They are out of work,
he distance between pay days grows
onger and their only hope of relief
lepends on the making of a bumper
rop of cotton and the farmer breaking
ilumps in its price.
When the building of cotton mills
>egan in this state It was promised
hat they would furnish first-class
>rices to the cotton growers at their
ery doors, and good work and pay to
heir employees. Yet they have been
iteadily buying cotton in increased
luantity from the southwest, Egypt
ind India. Upon their promises and
jrotestations they were granted all
lorts of privileges and scooped the
>est water powers in the Viedmont
tills, "where the rivers run" and the
nosqulto was not a deterrent and proector.
It is an admitted fact that the great
najorlty of South Carolina mills are
ontrolled by outside capital, with just
nough home investment to make them
topular and squelch investigation and
itate supervision.
Now is it a true bill that these com laining
mills are really hard up, not
laying operating expenses? If so. It's
ilgh time for the state to know it, for
mch a condition as that now existing
ihows that the southern cotton mills
ire either outclassed by those of Yancee
land, Europe and Japan, or the
ontrolllng foreign capital, which Is
ilpintlv hnoinooa urith nn avmnofKtt la
ust hungry for the 35 per cent annual
aroflt which twenty years ago made
otton milling as money making a busness
as Rockefeller's barrelling of oil
>r Carnegie's Icegiug of steel armor
alate.
Surely thousands of white cotton
nill men, women and children deserve
it least as good state care as the few
rtundred convict toilers in the to be
Inall.v stopped penitentiary hosiery
nill. But, will they get it??Barnwell
People.
YOU CAN MAKE AN ARREST.
Ordinary Citizen Has Same Right as
Policeman, Says Mayor Gaynor.
Mayor Gaynor defined the meaning
jf the blue coats and brass buttons,
is worn by policemen, says the New
i'ork Herald. The mayor made the
explanation in answer to Miner H.
Paddock, Jr., who asked for appointnent
as a special policeman. Mr.
Jaynor wrote:
"Dear Sir: You ask if you could
tie appointed a police officer, to serve
without pay, for the reason that you
see 'so many violations of the law?
spitting on the bridge platforms and
walks, rowdyism in many ways?that
^ou would like to have authority to
arrest the culprits. My dear sir, let
me tell you that every citizen has full
legal right to arrest anyone whom he
n<?m rrt ittincr o rt\r r> r 1 m Inn I r\ff nriuo
big or little. The law of England and
i)f this country has been very careful
to confer no more right in that respect
upon policemen and constables
than it confers on every citizen.
You have the same right to make
an arrest for any offense committed
in your presence that any policeman
has, but we cannot all be bothering
with making arrests, so we employ a
certain number of our fellow-citizens
for that purpose, and put blue clothes
and brass buttons on them, hut their
clothes and their buttons add nothing
whatever to their right to make arrests.
They still have only the same
power which the laws give to all of
us.
"Be so good as to look at Section
183 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
and be convinced of your powers
and then sail right in as hard and
as fast as you want to, being certain
nnly to arrest guilty persons for otherwise
your victims will turn around
and sue you for damages for false arrest.
and get them too. Policemen
have to lake the same risk. Yours
very truly.
"W. J. Gaynor, Mayor."
Aaron was not the last eloquent
man who made a golden calf in answer
to the clamor of the people.
^HistfUancous grading.
BLEASE IN SPARTANBURG.
Makes Two Speeches to Large and
Enthusiastic Mill Audiences.
Spartanburg Hehald, Wednesday,
f Gov. Cole L. Blease yesterday addressed
two Immense and enthusiastic
audiences of cotton mill workers
in Spartanburg county?at Cowpens
in the morning'and at Drayton mills
In the afternoon. Both addresses
mIAH/v k.. i V- - ? *1
bcic so.iu uy uiuae laimiar wan me
governor to be characteristic of the
man.
At Drayton he denounced negroes,
whom he called "apes and baboons,"
and for whom he said the most effective
remedy was "a little gunpowder
and a few buckshot;" openly gave
hla approval to lynching; sneered at
prohibition; condoned manslaughter
committed in the heat of passion; defended
his pardoning of convicts and
justified his other official acts which
have evoked criticism; slurred northerners;
denounced newspapers, especially
the Columbia State and the
Sparianburg Herald; spoke contemptuously
of the university of South Carina
and Dr. S. C. Mitchell, president
of the university; denied that he had
sold pardons, and declared that If he
should be impeached he would go to
the United States senate as the successor
of Senator B. R. Tillman.
Governor Blease began his address
in a tormal manner and then said that
he would talk about anything his auaipnce
wanted and suggested that
somebody give him a text. Someone
shouted "Prohibition."
"If you can show me where there
Is any prohibition in South Carolina,"
said Governor Blease, "I'll talk about
it."
He referred to prohibition again
later in his address. He said he had
received requests from the authorities
of various counties to send state
constables into those counties to enforce
the liquor laws. But, said Blease
he told them that since they had voted
to be dry they could enforce the
liquor laws as best they could.
The governor then switched from
one topic to another rather abruptly.
He told a story of a little boy whom
he had taken into the governor's office
in the state house and had told
him that it was his office as well as
that of Cole Blease, and followed up
the story by saying that the state
house and the governor's office were
the property of all the citizens.
"But by citizens," he said, "I mean
white men?not apes and baboons."
He then launched into a tirade
against negroes. The Caucasian race
must dominate, he said, and if an inferior
race got in the way it must be
gotten out of the way In the most
convenient manner.
"And a little gunpowder and a few
buckshot," he said, "are often the
effective remedy."
Later he said that on a previous occasion
he had made a statement
which had been taken to mean that
he tavored lynching. He said he saw
no reason why he should not be perlectly
frank about it?that he did approve
of lynching. And the reason,
he said, why there had been no lynch
lugs la South Carolina during the six
months in which he had been governor
was because the negroes knew
tiiat he would not call out the military
to protect them from lynching
if they insulted white women.
Negroes, he said, were so fond of
notoriety that often they were willing
to make a sacrifice and take a chance
of losing their lives in order to get
tneir names emblazoned in the newspapers.
But they knew, he said, that
while he was governor there was no
possible chance of their being saved
trom an infuriated mob. Governor
tslease said that if any woman of his
tamily was insulted by a negro all he
would ask was that the negro be
caught; he would do the rest himself.
Governor Blease took up various of
his official acts which have been criticised
and defended them. The purpose
of revoking the commissions of
the notaries public was to get rid of
negro notaries. He now makes it a
rule, he said, not to issue commissions
to notaries without the recommendation
of a member of the legislative
delegation of the county in
which they live.
Kegaraing nis veiu 01 apprupimuun
bills he said that by so doing he saved
the state 567,000. He declared
that the government of South Carolina
was the most extravagant of any
state of the union. He denounced the
extravagance of the state educational
Institutions especially. Gov. Blease
declared that there were men traveling
in Europe and enjoying themselves
and at the same time drawing
salaries from the state as members of
the faculty of some of the state educational
institutions. He said the excuse
for permitting them to travel in
Europe was that they were being
trained to teach.
"But why the devil," he asked,
"were they employed to teach if they
didn't know how already?"
He said he had respect for the educational
institutions conducted by the
state, and yet they had given no men
to public office, whereas other colleges
in South Carolina, notably WofTord
college, had produced illustrious men.
He mentioned that Wofford had produced
Senator E. D. Smith, with
whom he had ridden to Spartanburg
from Florence.
"And Henry Snyder," he said, referring
to the president of WofTord
college, "has more sense and education
than Dr. Mitchell has brains
enough to learn."
Speaking of his tilt with the supreme
court over the appointment of
special judges, Governor Blease said
that he did not Intend to appoint special
judges when regular circuit
judges were sitting around in club
rooms, drinking cocktails and playing
pinochle. And he added vehemently
thht he could prove that this had been
the ease.
? Concerning his liberal use of the
pardoning power he said that men
ought not to be punished too severely
for crimes committed in the heat of
passion. There was no excuse, he
said, for premeditated robberies, but
when a man got into a quarrel and
drew a pistol and killed his antagonist
he ought not to be judged too
severely.
"There are good men in the penitentiary."
he said, "men of as good
families as yours or mine. And there
are a lot of people in the penitentiary
who ought to be out, and a lot who
are out who ought to be in.
"I am going to do something very
soon." he continued, "which will
cause me to be severely criticised in
Spartanburg county. But, gentlemen,
have you ever considered what a terrible
thing life imprisonment is?"
Governor Blease said it had been
insinuated that he sold pardons. In
answer to that charge, he said, he desired
to say that with the exception ot
Brigman of Florence, who had only
three more months to serve anyway,
there was not a man whom he had released
from the penitentiary who had
had enough money to buy a new suit
ot clothes alter paying his railroad
tare home.
And, he added, a rich man went to
the penitentiary not long ago, and he
is going to stay there.
With regard to the charges of bribery
maue against him by Col. Thorns
B. t elder, ot Atlanta, Governor Blease
saiu inat it Tom e'elder would produce
a tetter asking a bribe or acknowledging
the receipt of a bribe, and any
tnree men familiar with Blease's handwriting
would say the writing of the
letter was his, he would resign the
governorship in fifteen minutes.
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yjli iue uiiici imuu, uc aaiu, a uc
could not prove that felder had ottered
a bribe to a state official, he
would not only consent to resign the
governorship, but would move to the
Philippine Islands.
Governor Blease said that he was
not averse to Felder's being given a
change of venue if there was any
doubt as to his being able to obtain
Justice in Newberry county.
Governor Blease spoke at length
about standing .by his friends. He said
he loved his iriends so much that he
wanted to be with them after death, no
matter where they were. He declared
that his enemies need expect nothing
trom him.
He had been told ,he said, that this
was not' the proper spirit, and that he
should consider the example of the Savior,
who said of those who persecuted
Him: father, forgive them, for they
Know not what they do."
Governor Blease said he had no forgiveness
tor his enemies because they
Knew very well what they were doing.
lie mentioned among his enemies
the newspapers. He said the engineer
ot a train could not stop his train to
pay attention to the curs that ran out
and barked at the train. And neither,
he said, could he stop for the snarling
curs, the newspapers. He said he
wouid like to call them by another
term, but it would be unparliamentary.
Chief among his newspaper enemies
he considers tne Columbia State. He
said the state was controlled by Cubans
and they were foes to organized
government. One of their ancestors
he said, was exiled from Cuba because
he was a toe to organized government
Governor Blease also paid his respects
to the Spartanburg Herald. He
asserted that this newspaper was owned
bv the Columbia State, and that the
editor published nothing until he had
first telephoned to Columbia and had
obtained permission.
The Herald, he said, published an
untrue story to the effect that the
girls of Winthrop college had asked
ihat their diplomas be presented to
them by somebody else than Governor
Blease. This story was later found to
be untrue, he said, but the Herald
lacked the manhood to come out and
admit it was untrue.
He was warmly applauded and one
man shouted that he had stopped his
subscription to the Herald because of
its unfair attitude towards Governor
Blease.
Governor Blease made slighting remarks
about northerners several times.
He said that of 160 voters in a Newberry
cotton mill 164 voted for him.
"The other six," he said, "were the
Yankee bosses."
While speaking of the penitentiary
he devoted some attention to the hosiery
mill, which he proposes to abolish.
He said that prisoners were put
to work in the hosiery mill who knew
nothing about making hosiery, but
who were required to do just as much
as sttiiieu operatives. iney nuu iu
work ten hours a day, he said, and
were^ kept standing the entire time.
A lawyer, he said, might be put to
work alongside a skilled worker. The
lawyer would bo given the same task
as the other men. If the lawyer failed
to complete his task, even though
it was an impossibility because of his
ignorance of the work, he was taken
to the stocks, his arms placed in it, his
clothes removed to the waist and the
lash applied.
Governor Blease, in the course of
his speech, made several remarks
about Spartanburg men, which pleased
the crowd.
When Congressman Joseph T. Johnson
came upon the rostrum he said
that a United'States senator had told
him that Mr. Johnson had more sense
than all the other South Carolina congressmen
put together, and this he
said, confirmed his own judgment.
Governor Blease spoke at some
length of his fight for the governorship,
which he said had been the
crowning ambition of his life. He said
that when his father had been on his
deathbed he had called Cole and told
him that he wanted him to be governor
of South Carolina, and that all his
life every dollar he had made had been
devoted to attain the governorship.
He said he was content with the
governorship, but conditions might
arise which would make him a candidate
for United States senator.
There had been talk of impeaching
him, he said. But if the legislature, at
its next session, should impeach him,
he asserted, he would make a tour of
the state which would result in his going
to the senate as the successor of
Benjamin R. Tillman.
In concluding, Governor Blease said
there were six empty bed-rooms in his
mansion at Columbia, and though
they were poorly furnished, he invited
any of his audience who visited the
capital to come to the mansion and
stop there.
He declared that he owed his success
in politics largely to the cotton
mill men.
Governor Blease was succeeded on
the rostrum by Congressman Johnson,
who gave a short general talk on
representative government. Mr. Johnson
said that the questions of government
were eventually settled by the
people through their representatives.
Mr. Osborne was the next speaker.
He made an address on patriotism
and the history of South Carolina.
The speakers were introduced by
Superintendent Bean, of Drayton
mills.
Governor Blease came to Spartanburg
from Florence. He stopped for
a short while at the Gresham hotel,
and yesterday morning went to Cowpens,
where the Red Men had a celebration.
There was a crowd of 3,000 at Cow
peris. The governor was met by a
brass band. A parade was formed,
with the governor and the great
sachem of the Red Men, Dr. J. P.
Carlisle, of Greenville, in the lead.
"Next came the great junior sagamore,
S. S. Tiner of Pacolet, and A. E.
Hill, sachem of Seminole tribe, of
Spartanburg. They marched from
the station to a grove in the churchyard,
where a platform had been
erected. Between the speeches there
was music.
The speakers were introduced by
Rev. Mr. Sams. Dr. Carlisle, who made
the firitf address, spoke on Redmanship.
Mr. Hill was the next speaker. He
entertained the crowd with jokes, and
spoke more seriously on Redmanship
and fraternity.
Then came the governor, who was
greeted with great applause.
Governor Blease spoke for an hour.
The early part of his address was given
to the principles of Redmanship.
He then spoke of his record as governor,
and defended his use of the
pardoning power. He denounced the
newspapers, especially the Columbia
State.
He said he had no apologies to
make for his pardons to the Columbia
State or anyone else, and so far as he
was concerned he didn't give a darn
what they thought about it.
Speaking of his pardoning of
George Hasty, of Gaffney. who killed
two actors who remonstrated with
him for insulting an actress. Governor
Please said that the record of the case
,.roo In Ma r*ffir?o. nnrt Jinvone who
wanted might see it.
He said he had proof that the actresses
were not what they ought to
have been, and that they were perjurers.
as well as thieves. He said he
had evidence that one of them stole
violins.
' He also said that he had" direct
proof in his office of what George
Hasty swore on the stand about the
women.
"Now. ladies and gentlemen." said
Governor Blease, "that's as plain as
I can express It In the presence of ladles."
He also touched on "that tuberculosis
incubator, better known as the
hosiery mill, at the penitentiary,
where the state Is making money by
the sweat of the southern man's brow
for those Yankees."
After Governor Blease had completed
his address the crowd rushed
up to shake hands with him.
A barbecue was then served, after
which Governor Blease entered an
automobile and went to Drayton.
Governor Blease spent a part of the
evening, after the Drayton meeting,
in driving about the city with Postmaster
W. M. Floyd. He also stayed
I at the Argyie hotel ror a while and
was seen standing in front of the hotel
talking to George Cofleld and Jack
Pates.
Public School Book*.
The regular annual scandal attachin?
to the selection of text books for
the public schools is more or less raging
in South Carolina. It has never
yet been clearly shown why periodically
the people are subjected to the
expense and annoyance of changing
the text books for the use of their children,
which has led to the suspicion
that the book publishers have a winning
way about them of reaching officials
at various times not altogether
based upon the merits of their publications.
An incident Is recorded in a
neighboring state wherein one text
book publisher has nearly all the patronage
in a certain county In which a
brother of the state agent of the favored
company is a high official. It is
not alleged that the "merit" of the text
books used is thus accounted for, but
it is cited as one of the reasons why
the time for selecting school books
iComes on.
The agitation of this question in the
states named has induced the suggestion
that a way should be provided by
oklnk a knnw/I A# (rMV\ai^io1 QTlH Hioin.
terested experts should be chosen to
select books by numbered classifications
instead of by the imprint of publishers.
Unfortunately, some of the
book publishers have not shown that
strict regard for the rights of the public
they should, and by various ways,
and sometimes by trickery, have secured
concessions they ,were not entitled
to.
There should be at least no "smoke"
about the adoption of text books to Indicate
that there was somewhere a
"fire," the fuel for which was being
furnished by some able and enterprising
publishing concern.?Chattanooga
Times.
Ths Artist Soul.
The incident happened upon one of
the great ocean liners during an autumn
trip when a famous violinist was among
the passengers. At first he firmly refused
to play, but was finally persuaded.
and upon the appointed evening
the salon was crowded with eager passengers.
It was a most enthusiastic audience,
intelligent, sympathetic and appreciative,
yet as the evening wore on, peopto
began to notice that the violinist's
glance went always in one direction,
and after a time others followed it.
They saw a plain little woman, plainly
dressed, with no marks of wealth
or culture. But she was looking at
the master with shining eyes, her face
wet with tears, unmindful of everything
except the magic of his violin.
When the programme was ended,
pushing his way through the people
who would have detained him, the musician
went straight to the little shabby
figure.
"Madame, I congratulate you?you
are ze great artist!" he cried.
She looked up at him almost in
alarm.
"I?oh?I cannot play a note," she
stammered. "I don't know anything
about music. I only?love it!"
The violinist shook his big shaggy
head impatiently.
"Is it not what I say? You have ze
artist soul?ze artist to listen. What
good to play to ze deaf?like ze rest?"
with a disparaging gesture toward the
crowded room. "It is to ze one wiz ez
heart to listen zat we masters play."?
Youth's Companion.
Are You Educated?
A noted professor in a Chicago university
recently told his class that if
they could answer certain questions
with "yes" that they were educated
men, says Exchange. He suggested, at
least, that they were not educated in
the broadest sense of the word if they
could not answer them In the affirmative.
Here are the questions, read
them and see If you are an educated
man in the professor's view:
Has education given you sympathy
with all good causes and made you espouse
them?
Has it made you public spirited?
Has it made you a brother to the
weak?
Have you learned how to make
friends and how to keep them?
Do you know what It is to be a
friend yourself?
Can you look an honest man or a
pure woman straight in the eye?
Do you see anything to love in a
little child?
Will a lonely dog follow you In the
street?
Can you be high-minded in the
meanest drudgeries of life?
Do you think washing dishes and
hoeing corn just as compatible with
high thinking as piano playing or golf?
Are you good for anything to yourself?
Can you be happy alone?
Can you look out on the world and
see anything except dollars and cents?
Can you look into a mud puddle by
the road side and see the clear sky?
Can you see anything in the puddle
but mud?
Can you look into the sky at night
and see beyond the skies?
The Way Charlemagne Was Buriea.
?Charlemagne died in the fortyseventh
year of his reign and the
fourteenth of his title "emperor of
the Romans." He was burled at Alxla-Chapelle.
His body is said to have
been disposed of in the following
manner: He was seated upon a throne
of gold, clad In his imperial habits.
He had a crown upon his head and
was girt with his sword. He had a
chalice in his hand, the book of the
evangelists upon his knees, his scepter
and gold buckler at his feet. The
sepulcher was filled with pieces of
gold, perfumed and sealed, and above
a triumphal arch was raised with
this epitaph: "Here rests the body of
Charles the Great and orthodox emperor,
who gloriously enlarged the
kingdom of the French and governed
It happily for forty-seven years."
i WHAT 13 LAUGHTER?
Defined at a Convulsive Action of the
i Diaphragm.
"Laughter," says Prof. Sir Charles
' Bell, "is a convulsive action of the diaphragm.
In this state the person
draws a full breath and throws it out
in Interrupted, short and audible
cachinatlons. This convulsion of the
diaphragm Is the principal part of the
physical manifestation of laughter;
but there are several accessories, especially
the sharp vocal utterance
arising from the violent tension of the
larynx and the expression of the featlima
fhla Knlricp a mnro Intanaa fnrwi
uico, lit 10 uciitg a illuig it*iviiov ivi iu
of the smile. In extreme cases the eyes
are moistened by the effusion from the
lachrymal glands."
There you have a scientific definition.
But it is clear that mankind
would hardly take the trouble to go
through that experience if that is all
that laughter consisted of. They
would not regard Dickens or Mark
Twain as a benefactor merely because
a perusal of their writings produced
that. No; even the philosophers know
that laughter is something?better
than that?something internal?that
there is such a thing as silent laughter.
Hobbes calls laughter "a sudden
glory arising from a sudden conception
of some eminency in ourselves by comparison
with the infirmity of others, or
with our own formerly."
If a laugh is a benefaction and the
provoker of a laugh a benefactor, why
are there more statues to dull people
than to witty ones? Who was the
greatest laugh promoter in history? It
was said of Sydney Smith that he was
the father of ten million laughs.
"Laughter," said Lord Roseberry, recently,
"is a physical necessity. We
live under a sunless sky, surrounded
by a melancholy ocean, and it is a
physical necessity for the English nation?even
for the Scotch nation, and
the Welsh nation?to laugh. It exhilarates
all social relations. "Was not,"
his lordship added, "the laugh of Sir
Frederick Lockwood something that
would make a stued bird rejoice? And
those who listened to the splendor or
merriment which he could impart by
that laugh realize the Intense value
of that emotional exercise."
Laughter in church would seem to
be a good thing out of place, but there
are thousands of Instances of It, even
amongst Scottish congregations* In
England the chief clerical humorist for
many years was the late Rev. H. P.
Haweis, who once announced from the
pulpit: "I see some one has been criticizing
laughter In church. Let me tell
him that I would far rather see laughter
in the house of God than envy and
covetouaness and worldlineaa and un
charitableness. Laughter, innocent
laughter, cheers and cleanses the heart
and prepares it to receive the lessons
of Christianity."
In the same way D. L. Moody in
America and Mr. Spurgeon In England
were no friends of a sad, sour religion.
Don't tell me," said the former,
"That Christ never laughed. He was
a man as we are; and there were times
when even His soul broke into pure
laughter, and it issued from His lips
even as the laughter of a little child."
Yet to the Puritans laughter was said
to have been "one of the deadly sins,"
and, according to Sydney Smith, even
for a Methodist to have laughed a
century ago was to have forfeited his
claim to salvation.?The Strand.
Cars-Free Convicts.
Cettinje, the capital of Montenegro,
possesses the most remarkable prison
system In the world. The jail presents
little to indicate that It is a place of
confinement. There are no outer prison
walls, and in the cells the men?
about ten In each?are as contented
and comfortably housed as their own
personal domestic belongings can make
them. Moreover, they are generously
fed, and cigarettes without stint, wine
occasionally and no work at all combine
to check any deeire to escape
more effectually than would strong
walls, Iron bars and an army of warders.
When W. J. Stillman was In
that country in the '70s all the free
men were away fighting, and he observed
how when a messenger was
wanted the officer took a man out of
the prison and sent him off, having no
fear that he would not return. One
such messenger was sent to Cattaro, in
Australian territory, with 3,000 florins
for the bank and duly came back. Another
asked a Russian at Cattaro to
Intercede with Prince Nicholas for his
release from prison.
"But you are not in prison," said the
Russian.
"Oh," said the man, "I have only
come down for a load of skins for Soand-So,
but I must go into prison again
when I get back to Cettinje."
One guard watched all the prisoners
when they sunned themselves out of
doors, and if he were called away a
prisoner would take his rifle and do
duty for the time.?London Mail.
The 8ong of the Corncob PipeRedolent
of the red hills of Georgia and
sweet as a breath of breeze which stirs
through the fragrant pines is our
corncob pipe. It was whittled by our
old friend Willis Huddleston and presented
to us yesterday. It came from
the good county of Butts and was as
fresh and sweet as the odor from her
fields Just after a gentle rainfall.
Some may sing the praises of the
meerschaum, foam of the restless sea;
but as for us, give ?js the good old
Georgia corncob pipe, product of our
native land, whittled by the hand of
friendship, and better than all the
quaint designs wrought by the hand
of skilled artisans from the pure white
sea foam. When we smoke it we dream
of the green fields of corn that wave
as a sign of our independence of the
western product that once kept Georgia
farmers poor, and in our fancy we
scan the leafy lanes of long ago where
our boyish feet wandered with rod and
line toward the purling creek, where
lurked the illusive horny-heads we
used to try so hard to land.
Ah! there may be dreams of other
lands that mingled with the smoke
that curls from the expensive bowl of
meerschaum with its amber stem; but
for the sweetest dreams of all, the
dreams of auld lang syne, and the
blessed memories or the happy days
spent on the farm, give us a corncob
' pipe?Just such a one as Willis Huddleston
has just brought us.?Griffin,
(Ga.) News.
Shot by th? Kaiser.?According to
German papers the German emperor
has since he first commenced to shoot
killed to his own weapons 33,637
pheasants, 17,963 hares, 3,392 wild
boards, 2,447 rabbits, 1,880 red deer
, stags and 90 hinds, 1,768 fallow bucks
and 98 does, 931 roebuck, 826 cormor '
ants and herons, 439 foxes, 121 cham*
[ ols, 108 capercailzie, 95 grouse, 87
| ducks, 24, blackcock, 12 elk, 6 bison, 6
badgers, 4 woodcock, 3 bears, 3 wild
' turkeys, 3 relnbeers, 2 guinea fowls, 2
snipes, 1 whale, 1 pike, 1 martin and
'1.616 various.?Bailey's Magazine.