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CHAPTER XVII.
^ The Trap That Failed.
As the scornful maiden went out
of Ihe door under the escort of Cassidy,
Burke bowed gallantly to her
lithe back and blew a kiss from his
\ thick finger tips in mocking rever*
ence for her as an artist in her way.
Then when he learned that Edward
Gilder had arrived he ordered that
the magnate and the district attorney
be admitted and that the son also be
sent up from his cell.
"It's a bad business, sir," Burke said
with hearty sympathy to the shaken
father after the formal greetings that
followed the entrance of the two
men. "It's very bad business."
"What does he say?" Gilder questioned.
"Nothing!" Burke answered. "That
is why I sent for you. I suppose Mr.
Demarest has made the situation plain
to you."
"Yes, he has explained it to me. It's
. a terrible position for my boy. But
you'll release him at once. ?von't you?"
"I can't," Burke replied reluctantly,
but bluntly. "You ought not to
expect It, Mr. Gilder."
"Inspector!" the magnate cried
brokenly, "you?don't mean"?
"I mean, Mr. Glider, that you've
got to make him talk. That's what I
want you to do for all our saaes.
Will you?" j
"I'll do my best,'' the unhappy man
Jreplied. j
A minute later Dick, in charge of an
officer, was brought into the room.
He was pale, a little disheveled from
his hours in a cell.
J - The father went forward quickly
and caught Dick's hands in a mighty
grip.
"My boy!" he murmured huskily, i
Then he made a great effort and controlled
his emotion to some extent.
"The inspector tells me," he went on,
"that you've refused to talk?to answer
his questions.
"That wasn't wise under the circum^
stances," the father remonstrated hurriedly.
"However, now, Demarest and
I are here to protect your Interests, so
that you can talk freely. Now, Dick,
tell us! Who killed that man? We
^ must know. Tell me."
Damarest went a step toward the
young man. "Dick. I don't want to
frighten you, but your position is really
dangerous. Your only chance is to
speak with perfect frankness. I pledge |
you my word I'm telling the truth.
Dick, my boy, I want you 10 iurgci
that I'm the district attorney and remember
only that I'm an old friend
of yours and of your father's who is
^ trying very hard to help you. Surely
you can trust me. Now, Dick, tell me:
Who shot Griggs?"
"I shot Griggs," said the young
man.
SDemarest realized that his plea had
failed, but he made an effort to take
the admission at its face value.
"Why?" he demanded.
"Because I thought he was a burglar."
"Oh, I see!" he said, in a tone of
conviction. "Now, let's go back a little.
Burke says you told him last
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wife to come over to the house and
join you there. Is that right?"
"Yes."
"Now, tell me, Dick, just what did
happen, won't you?"
^ There was no reply, and, after a
little interval, the lawyer resumed his
questioning.
"Did the burglar come into the
room?"
4^ Dick nodded an assent.
"And he attacked you?"
There came another nod of affirmation.
"And there was a struggle?"
"Yes."
"And you shot him?"
"Yes."
"Then, where did you get the revolver?"
Dick started to answer without
thought.
"Why, I grabbed it"?Then the significance
of this crashed on his consciousness,
and he checked the words
with swift hostility in his voice, "so
** you're trying to trap me, too! You!
And you talk of friendship. 1 want
none of such friendship;"
But Burke would be no longer restrained.
"You don't want to take us for
fools, young man," he said, and his
big tones rumbled harshly through
the room. "If you shot Griggs in
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try to hide the fact? Why did you
% pretend to me that you and -your
wife were alone in the room when
you had that there with you, eh?
Why didn't you call for help? Why
didn't you call for the police as any
9 honest man would naturally under
such circumstances?"
"We're trying to save you," the father
pleaded tremuously.
Burke presisted in his vehement
system of attack. Now, he again
brought out the weapon that had done
Eddie Griggs to death.
^ "Where'd you get this gun?" he
shouted.
"I won't talk any more," Dick answered
simply. "I must see my wife
V first." His voice became more aggressive.
"I want to know what you've
done to her."
"Did she kill Griggs?" Burke questioned
roughly.
Dick was startled out of his calm.
"No, no!" he cried, desperately.
"Then, who did?" Burke demanded
sharply. "Who did?"
^ "I won't say any more until I've
talked with a lawyer whom I car
trust." He shot a vindictive glance toward
Demarest.
The father intervened with a piteous
eagerness.
! "Dick, if you know who killed this
man you must speak to protect yourself."
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rJhe face of the young man softened
as he met his father's beseeching
eyes.
"I'm sorry, dad," he said, very gently.
"But?well, I can't."
Again, Burke Interposed.
"I'm going to give him a little more
time to think things over. Perhaps
he'll get to understand the importance
of what we've been saying pretty
soon."
He pressed the button on his desk,
and, as the doorman appeared, addressed
that functionary.
"Dan, have one of the men take him
back. You wait outside."
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"Where'd you get this gunf*
"Dick, however, did not move. His
voice came with a note of determination.
"I want to know about my wife.
Where is she?"
Burke disregarded the question as
completely as if it had not been uttered
and went on speaking to the doorman.
with a suggestion in his words
that was effective.
"He's not to speak to any one, you
understand." Then he condescended
to give his attention to the prisoner.
"You'll know all about your wife,
young man, when you make up your
mind to tell the truth."
Dick turned and followed his custodian
out of the office in silence.
As the doorman reappeared Burke
gave his order, "Dan, have the Turner
woman brought up."
The inspector next called his stenographer
and gave explicit directions.
At the back of the room, behind the
desk, were three large windows, which
opened on a corridor, and across this
was a tier of cells. The stenographer
was to take his seat In this corridor,
just outside one of the windows. Over
the windows the shades were drawn,
so that he would remain invisible to
any one within the office while yet
easily able to overhear every word
spoken in the room.
When he had completed his instructions
to the stenographer, Burke turned
to Gilder and Damarest.
"Now, this time," he said energetically,
"I'll be the one to do the talking.
And get this: Whatever you
hear me say don't you be surprised.
Remember, we're dealing with crooks,
and when you're dealing with crooks
you have to use crooked ways."
Then the door opened, and Mary
Turner entered. She paid absolutely
no attention to the other two in the
room, but went straight to the desk
and there halted, gazing with her softly
penetrant eyes of deepest violet into
the face of the inspector.
Under that intent scrutiny Burke
felt a challenge and set himself to
match craft with craft. His large
voice was modulated to kindness as
he spoke in a casual manner.
"I just sent for you to tell you thai
you're free."
"Then I can go?"
"Sure, you can go."
Without any delay, yet without any
haste, Mary glanced toward Glider and
Demarest, who were watching the
scene closely. Then, she went toward
the outer door of the office.
Burke waited until she had nearlj
reached the door before he shot his
bolt.
"Garson has confessed."
Mary turned and confronted the inspector,
and answered without th<
least trace of fear, but the firmness
of knowledge:
"Oh, no, he hasn't!"
"What's the reason he hasn't?'
Burke roared out wrathfully.
"Because he didn't do it."
"Well, he says he did it."
Mary, in her turn, resorted to a hi
of fineness, in order to learn whethei
or not Garson had been arrested.
"But how could he have done it
when he went"? she began.
"Where did he go?"
"You ought to know since you hav<
arrested him, and*he has confessed.'
Burke was frantic over being worst
ed thus. To gain a diversion, he re
verted to his familiar bullying tactics
"Who shot Griggs?" he shouted.
"My husband shot a burglar," Mar:
said languidly. "Was his nanv
Griggs?"
"Oh. you know better than that,'
' Burke declared, truculently. "You see
we've traced the Maxim silencer. Gar
son himself bought it up in Hartford.'
For the first time Mary was caugh
off her guard.
"But he told me"?she began, thei
I checked herself.
"What did he tell you?" Burk
i questioned.
i "He told me that he had never seei
one. Surely, if he had had anythini
of the sort, he would have shown i
to me."
Burke pressed the button on th
i desk, and, when the doorman appear
ed, ordered that the prisoner be re
turned to her cell.
"I suppose," Mary said, "that It's
useless for me to claim my constitutional
rights, and demand to see a
lawyer?"
"Yes," Burke agreed, "you've guessed
it right, the first time."
Cassldy came hurrying In with a
grin of satisfaction on his solid face.
"Say, chief," the detective said wit*
animation, "we've got Garson."
Burke asked Gilder and the district
attorney to withdraw, while he should
have a private conversation with the
prisoner.
"Now," he said when they were
[ alone together, "I'm going to be your
, friend."
"Are you?" Mary's tone was noncommittal.
"Yes," Burke declared, heartily.
"And I mean it! Give up the truth
, about young Gilder. I know he shot
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, any stock in that burglar story?not a
. little bit! No court would either.
What was really back of the killing?
Was he Jealous of Griggs? Well, that's
what he might do then. He's always
been a worthless young cub. A rotten
deal like this would be about his gait,
I guess. Tell me, now, why did he
shoot Eddie Griggs?"
There was coarseness a-plenty in the
inspector's pretense, but it possessed
a solitary fundamental virtue; it played
on the heart of the woman whom
he questioned, aroused it to wrath In
defense of her mate. In a second, all
poise fled from this girl whose soul
was blossoming in the blest realization
that a man loved her purely, unselfishly.
Her words came stumbling in their
haste.
"He didn't kill him! He didn't kill
him!" she fairly hissed. "Why, he's
he most wonderful man in the world.
You shan't hurt him! Nobody shall
hurt him! I'll fight to the end of my
life for Dick Gilder!"
Burke was beaming joyously.
"Well, that's Just what I thought,"
he said, with smug content. "And now,
then, who did shoot Griggs? We've
got every one of the gang. They're
all crooks. See here," he went on,
with a sudden change to the respectful
in his manner, "why don't you
start fresh? I'll give you every chance
in the world. I'm dead on the level
with you this time."
i By now Mary had herself well in
hand again, vastly ashamed of the
short neriod of self betrayal caused by
the official's artifice against her heart.
As she listened to the inspector's assurances,
the mocking expression of
her face was not encouraging to that
astute individual, but he persevered
manfully. '
"Just you wait," he went on cheerfully,
" and I'll prove to you that I'm
on the level about this, that I'm really
your friend. There was a letter came
for you to your apartment. My men
it rinwn tn me. I've read it.
Here it Is. I'll read it to you!"
He picked up an envelope, which
had been lying on the desk, and drew
out the single sheet of paper it contained.
Mary watched him, wondering
much more than her expression revealed
over this new development.
Then, as she listened, quick interest
touched her features to a new life.
This was the letter:
I can't go without telling you how
sorry I am. There won't never be a
time that I won't remember it was me
got you sent up; that you did time in
my place. I ain't going to forgive myself
ever, and I swear I'm going strait
always. Your true friend.
Helen Morris.
For once, Burke showed a certain
delicacy. When he had finished the
reading, he said nothing for a long
minute.
Mary's eyes were luminous in the
joy of the realization that for her,
after all, rehabilitation might be in a
measure possible, though nothing
could ever repay the degradation of
, years infinitely worse than lost.
Burke's harsh voice, cadenced to a
singular sympathy, broke in on her
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"Yes, two days ago."
11 "Did you tell old Gilder?" he asked
p Mary shook her head in negation.
1 "What would be the use?" she re
minded him. "I had no proof. N<
e one would believe me."
"They'd believe this. Why, this let
ter sets you clear. If old Gilder shouh
see this letter, there's nothing h<
i wouldn't do to make amends to you. I
He's a square guy himself, If It comes I
to that, even If he was hard on you.
Why, this letter wipes out everything."
Then, the insistent question beating j
at his brain forced him * to speak
roughly, building hope on the letter's
inestimable worth to the woman before
him.
"Who killed Griggs?"
There was no reply. And, presently,
he went on, half ashamed over his I
own intrigue against her.
"Say," he said, and for once, his
i voice was curiously suppressed, "you
tell me who shot Grigges and I'll show
this letter to old Gilder. Now, listen,"
he cried eagerly. "I give you my word
of honor that anything you say In here
is just between you and me." Uncon- ]
sciously his eyes darted to the window, |
behind which the stenographer was
busy with his notes.
That single involuntary glance was
enough for the keen instinct of the
woman to make a guess as to the <
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"Just tip me off to the truth,"
Burke went on ingratiatingly, "and I'll
get the necessary evidence in my own
way. Now, there's nobody here but
Just you and me. Come on, now?put
me wise!"
"Are you sure no one will ever
know?"
"Nobody but you and me," Burke
declared, all agog with anticipation of
victory at last. "I give you my word!"
Mary met the gaze of the inspector
fully. In the same Instant, she flashed
on him a smile that was dazzling, the
smile of a woman triuihphant in her x
mastery of the situation. Her face j
was radiant, luminous with honest (
mirth. "!
She spoke in a most casual voice,
despite the dancing delight in her
face. The tones were drawled in the
matter of fact fashion of statement
that leads a listener to answer without
heed to the exact import of the
question, unless very alert indeed.
This is what she said:
"I'm not speaking loud enough, am
I, stenographer?"
And that industrious writer of shorthand
notes, absorbed in his task,
answered instantly from his hidden
place in the corridor.
"No, ma'am, not quite."
Mary laughed aloud, while Burke
sat dumfounded. She rose swiftly,
and went to the nearest window, and
with a pull at the cord sent the shade
flying upward. There was revealed
the busy stenographer, bent over his
pad. A groan of distress burst from ,
him, and he fled the place in ignomini
ous rout (
The smiling Mary was returned to {
her cell. j
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THE SOUTHERN BANKS '
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Figuring on Cominil(ntnH. With Cut* <
tomers for Next Season.
Banks in New York, which have extensive
connections with banks in the (
cotton growing states, are receiving <
inquiries from their southern corres- ,
pondents asking what the attitude of ]
the New York banks is likely to be in (
the matter of extending credits dur- ,
ing the coming season. These inqulr- ,
ies have special regard to the proposals
in the pending banking and currency
bill, which in its present form ,
requires the country banks to trans- ^
fer their reserves from correspondents ?
in financial centers, where they have ,
hitherto maintained them, to the pro- (
posed regional banks. ,
Cotton state banks are already be- j
ginning to make their commitments .
with their leading customers for next
season. In doing so it is of vast importance
to them to know not only
what their own resources will be, but
also to what extent they can count on \
New York correspondents to meet
their seasonal requirements. The question
they raise is whether, if these
southern banks which formerly kept
their balances in New York are no 1
longer permitted to do so, the New
York banks will restrict their credits
or not be able to lend at all to those
who were formerly their customers, l
Their main financial connection un- i
der the new bill will be with the regional
reserve bank.
This question is taking the form ,
which may involve a change of policy ,
on the part of the cotton state banks ,
toward their customers. If the usual
supply of credits and funds from the
larger financial centers is not available
for the next season, it might have
a highly restrictive effect not only
upon next year's acreage of cotton,
but also upon all the commitments
preliminary to crop production. This
would apply to the implement trade,
to the fertilizer industry and to the
draught animal trade, which is beginning
to be active throughout the lower
portion of the cotton states.
The view taken in some banking
circles here is that a long period of
uncertainty must ensue between the
time the proposed new dim goes nuo
effect, and the time when it may be
gotten into good working order. Should
such a period of transition extend
through the several months when the
cotton states are most in need of
credits but while the banks generally
are conserving their resources, it
might result in a considerable measure
of inconvenience. According to
some views this is practically unavoidable,
regardless of the character
of the currency bill as ultimately
passed.?Wall Street Journal.
A Boy's Monument of Fame.?From
the time he was s^x, Walter Scott
read ravenously; and it was through
his wide reading that, when only 15,
he became, for a few moments, the
center of a group of learned men.
It was when the Poet Burns visited
Edinburgh, and had shown great interest
in a picture of a soldier lying
dead in the snow with a dog keeping
patient watch beside him. Beneath
the picture was some beautiful lines,
but neither Burns ner any of those
learned men knew their author, until
young Walter Scott, who happened to
be present, whispered that they were
e by Langhorne. Then Burns turned
to him with glowing eyes and said:
"It is no common course of reading
that has taught you this," adding to
. his friends, "This lad will be heard of
yet."
How proud the lad felt! How wist*
fully Joyful in the warmth of the
) great poet's praise; and then how
suddenly forgotten when, only a few
days later, Robert Burns passed him
in the street without a glance! Scott's
1 momertt of fame had vanished.?Noi
vember St. Nichols.
FOOTSTEPS OF THE FATHERS
Is Traced In Early Files ol Tlx
lorkvllte Enquirer
NEWS AND VIEWS OF YESTERDA1
Bringing Up Record* of the Past anc
Giving the Younger Readers of Today
a Pretty Comprehensive Knowledge
of the Things that Most Concerned
Generations that Have Gone
Before.
|The following notes are being published
as time and opportunity permil
their preparation.
SIXTH INSTALLMENT
Thursday, August 7, 1866.?Tester
jay anernuun a uuxuptuijr ui ocvcutedn
citizens of Chester district reachid
this city under command of MaJ.
>1. R. Eaves to be turned over to Col.
Wilkes as a part of his company
sound as emigrants to Kansas. The
jompany is composed of the followng
gentlemen: R. W. Murray, Rev. J.
\. McCraw, F. Estes, B. B. Wright, E.
E. Lesion; J. J. Gaston, J. L. McClin:ock,
Wm. Williamson, R. W. Hindnan,
J. Mayfleld, A. J. Houser, Wm.
?. Nail. M. S. McCall, J. B. Humphries,
Wm. H. Traylor, C. Adams.
Fun.?To relieve the monotony of
\ugust weather, and in bold relief to
i six-mile ride through Briar Patch,
?apt Sugg's company paraded in
forkville on Saturday last, much to
he public edification and satisfaction,
loubtless of Timothy Snapping Turtle,
Dog Pelter. The uniforms were
'anciful Indeed and we were pleased to
!lnd woman's rights recognized by the
ippearance of a well-hooped bioom}T
in the ranks. Palmer & Hare's celebrated
band discoursed sweet sounds
vhile the steady tramp of the martial
rteed showed traces of well worn lau ola
Wa rtn not know that Gov. Adams
las yet received the new company;
sut if he does on the 19th (muster
lay) we doubt not they will prove as
efficient a corps as some others, we
vot of who sweat their three hours
slennally on Kerr's old field. The
vhole affair on Saturday was well got
tp and innocently amusing.
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Military Orders.?The 34th Reginent,
S. C., Militia, will parade at
Forkville, S. C., on Tuesday the 19th
>f August, next, at 10 o'clock a. m.,
irmed and equipped as the law directs
for review and exercise. The
commissioned and non-commissioned
ifflcer will attend the day previous
'or drill and instruction. By order oi
:he commander-in-chief, W. H. Mc
Iforkle, colonel.
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Notice Is hereby given that application
will be made at the next session
af the legislature of South Carolina tc
re-incorporate the trustees of the
Methodist Episcopal church In Yori
district; and also to incorporate the
trustees for the same church in the
tillage of Yorkvllle.
Z. D. Smith advertises Improved
flour mill machinery for cleaninj
wheat of impurities, and also the installation
of improvements to hie
wool carding machinery. He offers tc
rard wool with burrs at 8 cents and
without burrs at 9 cents to be weighed
after the carding and to sell rolls al
17} cents a pound.
J. Hudson offers a negro woman
ind two-year-old boy for sale al
public auction on the first Monday ir
September unless the woman and child
ire disposed of sooner by private sale
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Adams, McCorkle & Co., want tc
buy 1,000 pounds of clean, washed
wool.
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J. A. Brown, railroad agent, offen
for sale bank checks on Charlestor
and New York.
John R. Nicholson, proprietor of the
railroad hotel at Chester, offers tc
furnish board witnoui lodging at
a month.
Thursday, August 21.?The story 01
the review of the 34th regiment ai
Kerr's Old Field on the 19th instan
Is told in half a column. Col. McCorkle
was in command, and Adjutan
and Inspector General R. G. M. Dun>
novant, Gen. Williams and Gen. S. R
Gist were the reviewing officers. Th<
tremendous crowd was disappointec
at the failure of Gov. Adams to show
up. "During the short time Col. Mc
Corkle has had command of the reg'
iment he has proved himself to be t
dllligent and efficient officer. Th<
evolutions were performed in admir
able order and with a skill and preci
sion reflecting the highest credit or
the officers. Col. McCorkle was abij
sustained by Lieutenant-Colonel T. P
Whltesides and Maj. Z. D. Burris. An
other fact we note with pleasure, tha
Maj. Myles Smith, Robert Whiteside
and Robert Neeland, three old mei
were voluntarily performing duty ii
the ranks from which they are ex
empt. The two last mentioned are 01
the verge of seventy years of age. Wi
doubt not they would render thei
services on a more dangerous an.
bloody field, if the calls of patriotisn
should require it."
W. C. Beatty, J. S. Moore, Gee
Steele and F. Hi Simril publish a cal
for a meeting of citizens of Cleveland
Gaston, Lincoln. Rutherford, Burk
and other North Carolina counties t
be held at Brlgg's store, on the King'
Mountain and Rutherford road ii
Gaston county, on Tuesday, Septembe
16, for the purpose of taking actloi
looking to the extension of the King'
Mountain railroad into North Caro
Una.
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Notice Is given that at the next ses
sion of the legislature application wll
be made for the opening of a publi
road from Catawba church, on th
Landsford road to Massey's Ford 01
Catawba river.
Thursday, August 26, 1856.?Th
editor has been in Washington. D. C
for a week and much of the insid
i space Is taken up with a letter from
I that city.
Thursday, September 4, 1856.?Eight
J bales of new cotton were offered at
Rock Hill on Saturday last.and bought
by Hi F. Broach at 11 cents. This is
pretty fair showing for this latitude
( and we are sorry that our friend
Broach did not report to us the nam?
of the seller as well as the buyer.
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There was a heavy wind and rain
. storm last Sunday; but no detailed information
has been collected as to the
extent of the damage.
Thursday, September * 11, 1856.?
The sixth annual meeting of the stockt
holders of the King's Mountain railroad
company was held In the court
house last Wednesday. The following
were elected: W. C. Beatty, president;
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JOnil O. muuic, uunil ^v. nuanio, uuiiti
S. Bratton, J. Thomas Lowry, Dr. J. F.
' Lindsay, George Steele, John L. Mll'
ler, W. A. Latta. The following dele#
gation was elected to represent the
company at the meeting to be held at
Biigg*s store: Samuel Ralney, Wm.
1 McGill, S. L. Adams, Dr. C. P. Sandlfer,
Wm. Wright, W. I. Clawson, MaJ.
Myles Smith, Col. A. A. McKenzle,
James Brian.
The first annual fair of the South
Carolina Btate agricultural society Is
advertised to be held at Columbia on
November 11, 12, 13 and 14 next. It Is
announced that premiums to the
amount of $4,000 will be awarded. A.
1 P. Calhoun Is president of the society.
St. L/OU1S, sepi. is.?Auviues iium
Kansas received here this evening say
that on the 30th Capt. Reed, with three
hundred pro-slavery men, fought three
hundred free soi'ers under Brown, at
08sawatomie; the battle lasted an
hour when the free soilers were routed
with the loss of twenty killed and
several wounded. Mr. Brown and his
1 son are reported among the killed. Five
pro-slavery men were wounded. Ossawatomle
was burned, and all the
1 ammunition and provisions were carried
away. General Geary arrived In
this city today. He proceeds immedl1
ately to Kansas.
i
York District Chronicle?We are in
receipt of the first number of a new
paper with the above caption, Issued
in this place on Friday last. Thomas
J. Bccles, Esq., has control of the editorial
department. He is an old edl:
tor?a bold and fearless writer, and 11
1 an opportunity presents itself, we pre
diet he. will lose none of the laurels
heretofore won in many a hard fought
1 battle. The number before us preI
8ents quite av neat typographical ap
f pearance, and is offered to subscrib
era at $2 per annum.
Notic??Application will be made tc
the legislature of this state at its next
session for leave to open a street ir
i the town of Yorkville to lead from
> Madison street to Liberty street
s through lands of Geo. W. Williams
t and George Steele.
! Thursday, September 18, 1856?The
railroad meeting at Briggs's store last
Thursday was but slimly attended, and
1 nothing was done except to try to put
' matters in shape for further efforts.
1 The Cheraw Gazette tells of a public
' meeting in Chesterfield at which twc
' Yankee window shade peddlers sup'
po3ed to be distributing abolition lit
erature were shipped back north.
There Is a long and hot card from
i the South Carolina emigrants in KanL
sas in reply to alleged state\
ments by Major B. F. Perry, derog1
atory to the character and standing ol
. the emigrants. The card is signed by
the York men in the Kansas company
) (To be Continued).
I
Mistakes.?Study your mistakes
There are two kinds of mistakes.
' Those that happen from ordinary huI
? ?In on/1 thnop thai
IIIUII llllO-luiiiniiiQ ?M.u ?
come from carelessness arid petty un>
thlnkifig.
} "Study your mistakes.
) "No one ever gets too big to make
) mistakes. The secret Is that the big
man is greater than his mistakes, because
he rises right out of them and
f passes beyond them,
t "After one of Henry Ward Beecher's
t sermons In Plymouth church, Fb^ok.
lyn, a young man came up to hhii and
t said: 'Mr. Beeeher, did you know thai
you made a grammaticoJ error in youi
sermon this morning?'
k " 'A grammatical error,' answered
j Beeeher, 'I'll bet my hat that I made
r forty of them.'
"Half of the power of this forceful
man springs out of his mistakes ol
one sort or another. They help to keer
him human.
"Study your mistakes.
"But the mistakes that tear away
^ the power of a man, weaken him, and
make him flabby, are the stupid, the
reckless mistakes. The clerk who forgets,
the stenographer that doesn'l
^ care, the worker who neglects?these
are the ones whose life blood and vly
tallty are sapped and sucked away
1 into failure.
"Study your mistakes.
"One of the great things of eacl
1 day for you is to do your best?une
mindful of mistakes. But after youi
r work is done, and you realize youi
blunders, don't shirk, don't whine
don't despond, but?
"Study your mistakes.
"Then profit from them?and gt
ahead!"?From "You Can," by Georg*
Matthew Adams.
I,
e
n Remarkable Co-Incidence.?It Is re
s markable that the deaths of Presiden
^ W. W. Finley of the Southern rail
way and of President T. M. Emersoi
of the Atlantic Coast Line were botl
g recorded in yesterday morning's pa
pers. Both men died suddenly ant
there were only two years betweei
them in age. It is a further co-inci
dence that Mr. Finley's predecessor ai
, head of the Southern railway, Samue
Spencer, met death, In a wreck, almos
c an even six years before?the very an
e niversary, lacking but one day. All o
n these railroad executives died when i
might have been supposed that ther
were many years of high usefulnes:
awaiting each of them. Mr. Finley an<
e Mr, Emerson, if not also Mr. Spencei
may be recorded as victims of thi
" modern business pace that kills.e
Charlotte Observer.
' iBiscctlaneous jScadiufl.
1 BLEASE AT ANDERSON.
' Governor Makes Speech to an Enthuei
astic Crowd.
News and Courier.
Anderson, November 29.?Governo
' Blease declared here this afternoon ii
his speech that President Wilson woul
not be re-elected unless he change'
1 what, the governor says, is the polic:
of the national Democratic admlnls
( tratlon, permitting negroes to boa
white men, and also girls, in the gov
ernmental service in Washington
" Drawing cheers from the crowds whic
occupied every seat and utilized ever;
inch of room in the court house. Gov
ernor Blease declared that the Soutl
' Carolina senators and congressmei
were afraid to denounce this condition
1 and announced that he would make i
fight on It when he goes to the sen
ate.
The governor said that he was goinj
to beat Senator E. D. Smith next sum
mer. "He may come around with i
pocket handkerchief to show you hov
to grade cotton, but I am going t<
show you that all he has done ha
been to draw $7,500 a year for si:
years," he exclaimed, amid yells fron
the audience. Saying that his ambi
tlon had been satisfied when electe<
governor, and that he would have beei
content to retire If some folks hadn'
meddled last summer, but he was go
ing to make one of the United State!
senators sorry for his meddling. "
am going to beat him," declared Gov
ernor Blease.
Federal Patronage.
finvarnnr Rlpflxfi marie an attack Ol
the United States senators for thei
failure to agree on Federal patronage
said that Til man was standing by ht
friend, Thurmond, and Smith by hii
friend, Weston, for district attorney
which some folks said was*all right
i but criticised Blease for standing b;
his friends. He also paid his respect
to J. L. Sims of Orangeburg, who ha
. been recommended for United State
marshal, charging the first thing h<
had to do when elected was to get af
fldavlts to show that he was not edit
ing a negro paper in Radical timet
and saying that this was the brand o
Democrats which Senators Tlllmai
and Smith said was "Simon pure."
The newspapers came in for a roun<
, of denunciation, the governor saylni
they criticised him for pardoning peo
pie, and in the same breath commend
; ed President Wilson for doing th
same thing. He claimed the credit o
saving eight out of thirteen companle
, which the war department wante<
mustered out of the National Guard
and said no paper said he did right
"Pour it in, governor," yelled an en
thusiast from the crowd.
Emerson and Ellison Case*.
The governor justified his pardonim
of Emerson and Ellison on the groum
of the large petitions filed asking clem
ency in their behalf, and.(com Soliclto
; Bonham endorsing the parole, and to!
' the people if anybody didn't like wha
he did they could just help themselvei
1 . He justified his paroling of the safe
; cracKer, samuei iv. wiiiiama, rearrest
i ed by Federal authorities, on a lette
received from Judge Prince, who sen
tenced the man and who asked th
governor to parole him, saying h
, would take all the blame. He enters
into a vigorous defence of his pardon
: ing record and declared that he ha
1 never given any except for mercy an<
that It made him happy to give raercj
And he expected to continue pardonln
people. He said that he had beei
criticised for pardoning a dead mar
: but that the newspapers would no
[ have to worry in this case for fear th
fellow would be sent back to the pen
itentiary.
Education of Negro.
The governor, holding in his hand
a catalogue of a negro college in Co
, lumbla, wherein both white and ne
groes are shown in the picture of th
faculty, made an attack on educatio:
of negroes. He entered a declaratio
in favor of the taxes of white peopl
going to the whites, and made a de
nunclation of encroachment by th
Federal government on the states ii
. the course of his speech.
The campaign of 1912 was recalle
by the declaration of the governor tha
a man couia mane me ctuivaiw iui guv
ernor on $300 and his charge that th
friends of Jones had raised a fund o
$250,000 in an effort to buy votes. "The
. talk about Blease debauching the pri
, mary; what did they want with tha
' $250,000 but to buy votes?" he askei
' amid cheers.
Confident of Anderson.
The governor drew a mighty chee
I when he expressed his belief of carry
, ing Anderson by a larger majority fo
' the United States senate than he ha
for governor. He said that he put n
> stock in the stories being sent out tha
he had lost strength in Anderson coun
ty," and the people yelled, "That*
right"
The governor reiterated his determi
I nation not to Interfere in the race fo
: governor, paid a tribute to the lat
. Representative George R. Rembert, o
Richland county, and thanked the peo
pie for the reception accorded him.
I Mr. Charles Carroll Simms of Barn
, well, who is with the governor on th
present trip in the up-country, made
short speech this afternoon in th
1 court house, being well received. Mi
f K. P. Smith acted as master of cere
monies. Several hundred people shool
hands with Governor Blease after hi
speech. The governor and Mr. Slmm
left in Sheriff Ashley's automobile t
r visit Mr. J. W. Ashley at Honea Pat!
I and returned to Columbia tonight.
LOCOMOTIVE CENTENARY
[ Our Tremendous Progress in Traffic i
a Short Hundred Years.
We have been in possession of th
locomotive for a hundred years. It ma
be useful to trace briefly the varlou
( steps that have led to the present ma
Jestic engines, the power and poetr
. of which are a part of modern life
r says T. P.'s Weekly, London. In thl
task one is helped by a recent artlcl
in the Times, which sets at rest sev
eral problems raised in the Letter Bo
} of this journal some time ago.
s Richard Trevlthick, a cornjsn engi
neer, seems to have been the first i
the field. In 1802 he patented, inter
alia, the application of his "puffer" en
gine, as it was called, to steam carri
1 ages, and had not long to wait forth
opportunity of showing what he coul
1 do. Samuel Homphray, proprietor c
1 the Penydarren Iron Works, in Sout
Wales, who was cognizant of Trevl
* thick's inventions, made a wager c
1 500 guineas with Mr. Hill, of th
neighboring Plymouth works, that h
? could replace horses by steam i
drawing loads of iron from the fur
. naces along the tramway to Navlga
f tion House, over nine miles away, an
1 return with the empty trucks. Trevi
3 thick quickly got to work for M
J Homphray and in 1803 made a llttl
*. tram engine which eventually prove
e satisfactory in spite of a few defect
The plateway was unequal to ii
weight and many plates broke, but the
wager was adjudged to be won. The
- engine was afterward set to work on
Iron rolling mill. The versatile Inventor,
although he made other "traveling
engines" to run on rails or else on
the road, received scant encouragement.
One of the tram engines of Trevln
thick's design was made at Newcastled
on-Tyne in 1805 for Mr. Christopher
^ Blackett, proprietor of Wylam Coly
llery, when It was to work wagons on
the tramway down to the River Tyne.
g On trial it did not prove a success, for
the master mind was not there to
overcome the numberless difficulties
h that beset any radical departure from
the beaten track, and consequently It
y never reached Wylam. The question
^ of haulage remained acute and was
n forced to the front again by the bad
times of 1812. The taxation necessary
' to support our Napoleonic wars, the
shortage of horses and the rise in the
cost of provender made it almost im
possible to keep the colliery going any
S longer, situated as it was, five miles
from the stalthes on the Tyne, where
the coal had to be shipped in keels or
lighters. In October of 1812 Mr.
Blackett therefore decided to try again
and see if anything could be done with
steam power. He asked William Hed
ivy, llle UUIIiCI} TIC TV CI II, c,, niBiiaevi
j or overseer), to undertake the Job, be1
cause Trevithick. who had been apt
pronched, had declined the business,
being otherwise employed. The engi9
neers in those days were under the
j Impression tha* smooth wheels would
slip on smooth lines. Obviously cogwheel
traction from London to Edinburgh
would have been unpleasant.
, Hedley did not share the accepted
r view, and made experiments with a
. little model which satisfied him that
g the friction or adhesion of smooth
g wheels on smooth rails was sufficient.
, To make quite sure, he constructed an
underframe on four wheels the full
^ width of the colliery plateway, which
u was worked by men at cranks standB
ingon platforms attached to the frame
8 Different known weights of iron were
e placed on it, and wagons from two up
. to six In number attached successiveit.
Tha rolaMnnihln hetWMn the
, weights and the load when slipping
I took place was found to be practically
a the same in every case. With the assistance
of Timothy Hackworth, the
j enginewrlght of the colliery (si'.bseg
quently well known as a locomotive
_ engineer), Jonathan Foster, the black
smith, and Tommy Waters, a Gates e
head iron founder, Hedley began the
8 construction of the steam engine. It
d had a single horizontal cylinder and a
1, fly-wheel, while the boiler was of castiron
with the Are tube straight through
It. The result, however, was not very
successful, principally because the
g steam-raising capacity was lnsuffld
cient.
Variojs extraordinary machines be?
gan to craw! about, and as they passt
ed the door of his cottage, drawing
i. coal wagons, George Stephenson decided
in 1814 to try his hand at mak~
ing locomotives for Lord Ravens.
worth's collieries, where he was then
e employed as enginewrlght. Finding
? that the locomotive was more economical
than horses' ]?ower, he was led lad
ter to reflect on the possibility of exd
tending the idea to the transport of
g goods generally on a public railway.
D He had an opportunity of urging the
t, adoption of this method about ten
years later, when his talents had led
? to his appointment as engineer to the
Stockton and Darlington railway, it
was owing almost entirely to him that
a the partners In that undertaking obtained
parliamentary powers to use
" the locomotive Instead of horses, the
n traction power that had been con tern n
plated. After the public goods locomoe
tlve had become a success It was but
^ a step further, to use It to carry pasn
sengers, though this was not done on
a scale that enabled the speed of the
d stage coach to be surpassed till the
* Invention of the tubular boiler was eme
bodied In the famous Rocket, which
f made Its appearance at the Ralnhlil
y trials of the Liverpool and Manchest
ter railway in 1829. It is good to think
d of these things now that the aeroplane
soars like a dragon-fly, even as the locomotive
used to crawl as a snorting
r snail.
r " T '
d Origin of 8lit 8kirt.?The silt skirt
0 is only 1,200 years old, and Chu Fi Chu
* Invented it for the ladies of Japan.
8 Also Carlton, In 1602, described the
costume of the British queen thus
" quaintly:
e "Her cloathes were not so much bef
low the knee, but what we might see
- a wonderful woman hath both fute
and legs, which I never knew before.
e She had a pair of buskins sett with
" - i?i?#u1l a# 4n??a!1a
a ncn stones, a iieuuci >uu m ^wv??,
e and her whole attire embossed with
I Jewells of several fashions."
k When one has just been listening to
s a sermon on the degeneracy and oss
tentatlon of our times, it is a real reo
, freshment to happen upon a passage
' like this?for Carlton's age was certainly
not a licentious one at the British
court with dour James I sitting on
the throne. True, the outfit Just partially
described embodied the queen's
n idea of Pallas Athene, and was worn
at a court masque?not on Broadway.
It is all the same well to observe the
e past?lest we think too 111 of our own
y day's frankness as to "both fute and
g legs."?Collier's Weekly.
y The Unearned Increment Principle.?
? In an editorial In the Progressive Fars
mer of last week we noticed that Ed'
itor Clarence Poe rather advocated the
taxing of unimproved lands and rex
ducing the assessments on Improvements.
That system would possibly
be a good thing in some towns and
n communities where parties hold property
of higher prices and will not Bell,
even at a reasonable price, to those
who would improve it, and yet they
will make no Improvements themselves,
e We don't know how this plan would
d work out, but we certainly would like
lf to see it tried in South Carolina, for
here we tax a man's energy and im
h provement8.
i- It would seem to be a good princi>f
pie of government that, If a property
e owner would not sell to some one who
would Improve it, he should be taxed
ie because of his lack of progressiveness.
n ?Bamberg Herald.
i- Amnesty as a Filisr.?"I see where
d a band of them starvin' Mexican rebels
1- give up when they was offered amr.
nesty," observed Henry Cornfield, layle
ing down the paper. "It sounds queer,
id but if it's fillin* I guess it must 'a' tasts.
ed mighty good to 'em," responded the
ts neighbor.?Kansas City Star.
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