Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Vivian McKellar sat la his ova dln tng'mpn alone smoking. Tbo tow dome of rtifc glass thrn'y a warm yellow light dm tbo linen and silver oa tbe he bleWCtyfcme smoke rings, which floated laxity into tbo dark shadow above Mm. Then bo and they, too, thinned and faded. Ttaro waa a long time coning. /i Tluro waa the (f^irul Jap ha bad < brougfti home with him when be waa war roeTeapondant. That waa before ba married EHlae. And now they were aloae again, be hnd the Jap, aa they used tb be, and KUee ? Ellaa waa back hoqae aa ahe uaed to be. Aud Tluro, "valeted and butlcd and chefod and chauffeured/ aa McKellar told his envloua frienda, with equal aklll 10 all. Tluro bad adored Ellaa, and much aa he waa devoted to bla maater ba had pined alnce ahe left a month be fore to. go back to her father'a home. McKellar bad aent Tluro for a pa per. 0a muat have gone a dlatanoe to get ft, be waa ao long away. The man want Into the living-room. It looked emptier tonight than uauaL The piano In the corner waa cloeed ? had bean for a month. And ba , never failed to notice the empty apot be aide tjka book rack where Ellaa uaed to lay Iter embroidery. He Sipped a dollar and watoboi It fettle on tbe hearth. Tallaf Ha would go to the opera. Ha bad rather hoped it would be heada, for be pre* ferrtd. tbe club. That waa what bad etarted the trouble? but no uae going over tbe old etory. McKellar ahrugged and atooped for the coin. SonuitJUliig seemed to be wrong In the etttoet. Tbe apartment waa on tbe fl**t floor above tbe ground and ba walked to tbe window. A crowd stood around an automo bile in front of the building and Mc Kellar. could make nothing out of tbe confusion. Than the sharp clang of an ambulance bell rang out on tbo night air and the crowd disappeared. ?WV rMii - iniii| ' It was then he saw the prostrate form <m the asphalt near the car. Suddenly the door of the living room was flung op4n behind him. He turned and faced Elise, her face pale with terror. She gave him no time for wcard. Even as she spoke a police* man appeared in the hall beside her und touched her arm. y "Quick, Vivian, go down. X have % run over Tiuro with my car. They want to take him to the hospital, but mske thorn bring him up here, won't you?" Then turning to ihe officer of the law she said simply, "1 am ready: ?- to go with you now." Vivian had to let her go alone. Tha poor, crushed body of the little Jap required all his attention. He Tlald him tenderly on his own bed and sent for the best doctors he knew. Until they came he could not leave. At last he was at liberty to go. But at the police station he was told that Ellse had been allowed to go. Her father had signed the bond for her temporary freedom and taken her home. McKellar turned wearily away. The feeling of relief at finding her free was overcome by the overwhelming sense of his uselessness to her. He was not needed. Ho never had been. Ellse had a home as good, better than his, and her father was an all-sufli clent protector. It was true, she did <not need him. He learned at the station that she . was driving her car alone when it ran over the Jap. Why sho was without a chauffeur ho did not know. Then the feeling of uneasiness returned. What if Tiuco should die! It woul<jl be un pleasant for her. The old feeling of responsibility, of wanting to protect her w& strong Itt htm. - ? He bowed to the inevitable, and when he opened his own door again he looked, like an old man. The dofctors had gone. Tiuro lay '7^ sleeping quietly. He was unconscious Of pal*. Vivian sat near watching him. Ho .had refused to haye a nurse. The little fellow who had' sat night after VUght watching him while he totted with fever at Port Arthur and nursed him back to life ahoqld know what gratitude meant. He was going It fight for his life, The battle had already bopun. The night light was turned low. McKellar in dresslulg gown and slip pers fcad allowed hts magazine to slide to the floor unnoticed. He was a^aka * but Imwtm Bow ho loam* for Bllae. Kvery flt?r of bis body cried ?Mt lor bar. -Than the barbed Shaft unh Into Ui |nut foe tbt eeooad time that AigbL ft* M OMMd to aNdkte,eMM4to?utforMa. Hie; heed bovMl m' und?r a |^d?n ht could npi beer. It was time for the wwIHImI Ho sprang up guiltily, brushing bio bond wtr bio ?f? to bealeh U*e thoughts? 1 ^ '? ? ?;] Wm bo wdt Had trouble to mod bla brain, or bad tbo dim light at tracted tbo / world of spiritsT Ho lookod again. KUse waa stand la* bo-' fore blm all In white, Her tur cloak bad slipped to tbo floor and her hair and the Ions, white veil acroas her shoulders sparkled with dropa of molted snow. But her eyee ? her eyes, bow they shone! j Tbo man trembled! Tbo sudden shock weakened him. Why had she come to mock blm It was hard enough to bear without this. Ho stood silent He had no words for her; be could think of nothing to say. Kline moved slowly toward the bed "Do you know what the boy baa done, Vivo?" It was the old name. *'He eacrlflced himself for usr-to save us. Don't you eee? 1 hare thought It all out Ho did tbla to bring ua together. Ho saw me alone lb the car out there and throw himself In my way. He know you were In here, that you would oome out to ? to help me. Ho muit have seen me night after night pass by and look up at your windows. Ho knew you cared and that 1 ? X still cared and he waa generous enough to risk bla life to? io break down our pride." "Bllsel" She turned ber eyes full of the old lore light toward blm. "Vtro, will yon take me back? We must not make bis sacrlfioe in vain." Tfuro eigbed and opened Me eyes, then turned his bead toward them, The ghost of a smile lighted up his face, then another sigh and be slept again. Vivian folded BOlse in his arms and touched bin lips to ber hair. "Thank God for this/' be said* "and we will nurse him baok IHiif io> gether." ' - ? AMERICAN VOICE ALL RIGHT Needs Only Cultivation to B? As Bmu> tlful ss That of Any Othtr People. Some of these critic* hare maintain* ed that, owing, to our abnormally changeable climate, we are all, in aome degree, sufferer* from catarrh, so that our national noae Is In a chronic state of "no thoroughfare" ? heace our high-pitched and hasal tone#. This explanation Is hardly to be taken seriously, and I, for one, dd not believe that wo are a more catarrh^ al people than are the Inhabit ants of any other country with in the north temperate zone. Our American winters, so full of bright sunshine and bracing air, are, despite the sudden changes In. temperature and the occasional severe storms, quite aa healthful, I am sure, as the d&nk, sunless winters of London, Paris, Milan and Berlin. The American voice is not inherent* ly (or catarrhally) nasal, or unmuaical, but it is certainly crude and unculti vated. lie disagreeable qualities are due to our generally slovenly utterance and In our neglect of mere technique of speech. Under cultivation our voices are as beautiful aa any. Our' best actors, a few public speakers, like W.'J. Bryan and President Allot, and our aingers in every operarglvlng coun try furnish ample proof of this assez* tion. As a people, we are lamentably careless in our speech. Our restless, busy lives drive from our minds the impulse for self-culture that wbuld lead us to train Intelligently the mech anism of vocal expression. /'Her voice was ever soft, gentle, and low ? an excellent thing in womanf' ? because the tones of the voloe betoken ed the lovely qualities of tenderness, unselfishness and humility. No organ of the body is more Indicative of char* acter and mental states than la the voloe. A melodious voice attracts us; a strident voloe repels us. A Strain of sentiment creeps Into our voice, and our hearers sense at once the feeling | behind it. A shadow in the voice, and instinct straightway guesses the lurk ing .insincerity or falsehood. A friend of mine maintains that he can read character correctly at the first hear ing of a voice. ? Scrlbner*s Magazine. Misplaced Generoelty. John Gorrodan, a West Indian, con fined In the Tombs, New York, and under indictment for assault, very generously loaned his clothes to hit cell mate, and was consequently obliged to decline the Judge's invito tion to appear in court. Tho lettei of apology ran as follows: "I can't get away to see you today, my mod esty won't let me. I have no clothes^ judge, because my cell-mate**' Henry I Willis, borrowed them the other day ? to go to court In. They tell me that he was acquitted. Anyway, he didn't come back; neither did jay clothes." A warrant has been Issued foi Willi?, although the shivering victim of misplaced generosity says he 4,feel? kinder sorry for the guv." 'The Testw "Can animals reasonr^^V "If you want a deer proof, Just m a bulldog get a good ject and see how well he can hold Ms own.* S ' Foresight. TH* 00?rt|L ONCV FOR SINNKVtS. m Mlftl H, 13 m 1 ?MM M to M0 M? rifbMM. M ** jmmnw u*m "PoWkM" u? Jww'j day Ws* applied to Jew* who ? served'. Mm (toman Govern meat m Um collector* lo Pal <Mttu<x The mm waa a reproach be cause the Jews held to the A bra heroic prom lee that the wbola work! should be blMied by them aa Ood'e peculiar people. They bald that thle meant that tbey should not only be free from all other governments, but that they should be the roaster* of the world / The term "sinner** wss applied to all Jaws who were careless In respect to the orthodoxy of their day. for the orthodox Jew of that a? well M today took l?rlde la lil* reli gion and &on?t?*l of bis Uollneaa. As, for lnataooe. the word "Pharl fee" slfnlfiea Mho QT. peraon" ? ??e ?crupulouaJy care ful In obeerviujc the amalleat de- CaU of Mmttkm,. m tail* of the Uw. - There wu a wide breach between these sealeua follower* of Moeee* Law and the maaa of Uw nation who |m alto gather classed aa "?lnuers,M or pereons not up to the orthodox standard of carefulness of form, ceremonies, etc. Our Lord'* disciple* were nearly all Sthared from thla lower or taee ortho x and leea educated claaa of jew*. Because of our Lord's talents the P bar laeee would hare been glad to hare Htui aa one of their number, provided He would aide wtth them and up them Id their more or leae hypo critical pretentions of perfection and ho line**. But Jeeua denounced the clalma of the Pharlaeea aa hypocritical, and told the common people- plainly that there were "none righteous, no, not one^?that all needed Divine mercy, and that the humble and contrite would be much more acceptable to God than the proud, the eelf -conceited. "Thy Olaelplea Feat Not." About that time a fasting aeason waa observed by the Phaifceoa. nod alao by those who had accepted the teaching* of . John the Baptist; but Jean* had said nothing to HI* disciple* about fasting. Mow the question arose. Why waa thla? TheljBnvlot'a explanation waa that while He waa witff them It should property be considered a time of rejoicing and feustlng rather than a time of faatlng and sorrow. *p?ej would have plenty of opportunity to weep and faat after He had gone end while waiting for Hie return. jfcetlng should not be considered a matter of obligation or command, but rather a' voluntary aacrlflce of present and tern pora I good things that the mind and heart might go out the mdftTfjKK* neatly after the things not seen as jet but hoped for. Thns for eighteen cen turies God's peo ple hare been fasting and pray ing and waiting and longing for fk* PkarUM o*4 *k$ the Bridegroom's Publican. ? return. But In tbe time of His presence, their fellow ship with Him, their joy In the reallxa tlon of the completed promisee will wipe a wsj their tears and *glve them beauty for ashes, and the oil of joy for ? ? ? the spirit of heaviness." The Church a New Creation. : It was difficult for the Savior's hear ers to get a proper focus upcta His teachings. They could understand John the Baptist's preaching of repentance and reformation; but when Jesus de clared, The Law and the Prophets were until John, and since then the Kingdom of Heaven is preached," this wss so radical a proposition as to he difficult for the masses to grasp. What could be higher than the Law and the Prophets? Sympathetically we must concede that it was difficult for the Jews- to understand - that before the blessing could come to natural Israel, another, spiritual Israel, must be selected. By way of emphasising this thought, our Lord gave two parabolical illustra tions, saying, Ko man sews a piece of unshifunken cloth upon an old gar ment, because the shrinking of tike now cloth would poll away the old and Increase the difficulty. Likewise no one would think of putting new wine which had not yet finished its fermentation into old wineskins, whoso elasticity had been exhausted* for the old wineskins would be burst by the fermentation of the new wine. 60 the Gospel teaching Is not a patch upon the Jewish Law, but Is a new proposition.. And the hew wmn Gospel. Jblspensatkm must be put new wineskins that will bo stnnd the stress of the ferment sure to come^ Thus our Lord attempt to engraft His teachings the jews, but called out of Ji ' special clsss^ whlch the Bcrlptui :not# as "New Creatures la K is ? ~ ; MAP IK BOX OAK. '~jT' R' - -?( | fljff mi? IF*T7fr fed OmMm UUle IJoy at '^wlwrMKse W^iU | ^ ! ' - ** w '.? y^- J*"*1''] Andrew Jackaoo, the hrlfht et*ht~ year-old Mm Jttckaolip ..;dib-ypea.tHl from their bom* In Florence 'about # o'cloek U*t Wedneeday evenln*. When iA#t ma he ?u near the i.ou?? on the Ht re#t,< ? j. ! Beercbln* partit* were formed aa hunted la every conceivable ylaee all night Wednesday night, Ttaure d*7, Thursday alght, and up till W day afternoon, when a party of boy* went tato aa, old box ear la the rail road yard aad found themurdered body of the boy. The Florence Times published Wlday evening the following: "The body of the Utile boy AnJ drew Jackson, who has been missing from home ever idnce Wednesday night has been found and the long and heart rending search Is over. "The body was found this after noon In a box car at the transfer yard by the employees of the road, and the police and coroner were no tified at once. "For two nlghtu and a day the search for the little one has been pressed all through the country and not a stone has beeh left unturned to find some trace of him. "This brief story of the sad find ing hurriedly takes the place of a! notice -i of reward offered for the finding of the child or any Informa tion that could be bad. "It was just as the paper waa be ing printed that the news came of the finding, and the pitaaes were stopped for this change of news, and the sad- Intelligence of the little boy's death. "No stone will be left unturned to find who la guilty of the crime, and who knows anything about It. "Nothing can be learned until the coroner take* charge and calls the witnesses before him." ? ; Kershaw tiswds to go to Alabama. ?The members c^our local militia company wfll haggled to learn that the national 4Kampment this year wll) be at Annlston, Ala., Instead of Chlckamauga Park. "Richmond on The J ?ems." (A timely rhyming tribute to South era cooking by Robert Sale In The Cotton Seed.) A homesick Southern traveler Lay gasping on his bed. There. was lack of beaten . biscuit There wfes dearth of batter-bread ; A Northern comrade watched him Eire he yielded up the ghost, From the ravages of oatmeal, and Mangled wheat and toast. The1 fainting traveler groaned loud, And wildly tore his hair, Attd said; "f i^ever more shall taste My own, - my native fare; Thls^eold bread truly will be My death, it seems, For I was born In Richmond! ^air Richmond, on the Jeems. "Take a message, and a token To my mother dear and tell . Her, If I'd taken her advice, I would be strong, a,nd' well. But! I was e'er a restless lad And thought I knew it , all. So heeded not her warnings That ere long this grub would pall. Alas! I know she told me true, Now that 'tig all too late, Ah! would that I were entering now The old fatimiaT gtiW/ ' And could see the smoking corn bread, That forever haunts my dreams, As they bake it down in Richmond! Fair Richmond, on the Jeems. "Tell my sister, not to weep for me, Not that -4 think shewlll, ' She'll only say, 'I told him so. I knew 'twould make him 111/ But tell her I'll forgive her, And 'twould be a goodly thing If she would hasten Northward, And our Mother's Cook book bring. So that If some exiled Southerner Should seek, and win her hand, She then could fry his chicken, ^ As 'tis fried in Dixie land! Thus casting on his saddened life, Some cheering, sunny, gleams, Like those that shine on Richmond! Fair Richmond, on the Jeems. ? ? r .> - k ? ? ? *' :S !'? ; 1 'Last night I dreamed 1 was at home, And emelled or thought I did. The grateful fragrance that arose , When cook removed tne lid ,\M From off the pot where boiled An old Virginia ham-? Alas, too soon, I woke to find my I dream Was bnt a hollow sham ? !" But here the recollections grew Too strong for him to stand. So hastily he packed his grip. And sought that Southern land To barter all his prospects And his wealth-producing schemes, | For corn bread a la Richmond, K;jl!ohmond on the Jeems. ' Fair Offer. was a political meeting in the east end, and the M. P., an excep tionally popular man, Was addressing Ids constituents. The politician In question rejoices in a luxuriant crop Of hair. 'The audience wat sympa thetic for the most part; but there was one roan In the front row -of the audience who made numerous Inter* ruptions. He was a coal-heaver, ap parently, and had but recently been hearing coals. "Get your hair cut!" he shouted during a most pathetic passage In the candidate's speech. The well-known pitch phrase seemed particularly ap plicable, so a good many of the au ? ?. was - v- '.v." WUX WAVW AMtMi ItKJO. H*-Vmtom Committee Prcpmrimg To iv?*l Macon. ... Mimw, Qft., March 1 ?.??*? food question |* A imrt of W3-'" c*!Jipru?nf Mid It IS tO thl* QUeetloU that Maoou will look sow MM) per fect o syst?m in an effort to giro the ^veteran* who take part in her mammoth encampment the beat pro visions obtainable. -No one except those intimately connected with re union work can have any definite Idea of the immensity of the ta?k of feeding 10,000 or 12.000 vetenut* daily and satisfying their wants and appetite#. Some' literary authority as well as gaatronomic expert Sum testified^ to the truth of the statement that a man's heart is reached through his stomach oftUmes. ; Be this true, it Is an assured fact that the Veter an* who visit Macon in May as well a? the visitor* who do not belong to the encampment will go away per fectly satisfied aud with a heart full of love aa well aa a stomach full, for Macon is going to aee that not a guest within her portals or a vet Sran art the encampment goes away ungry. a At Little Rock reunion last year the commissary department was un der the charge of ?2. A. Pickens, and was most satisfactorily handled. An average of 6,000 veterans were fed at breakfast, dinner and supper making a total of 18,000 meals serv ed, exclusive of the thousands of cup* of coffee and sandwiches serv ed to those who did not come into the dining room during meal hours. During the whole reunion an aver age of 10,000 veterans were fed three times daily at Little Rock and it to expected that fully this number will he car6d~fdr at Macon. Hartofield Defeat* Hidgewood. . - ? y ? ?, - y>~. /-?, - The Sar*fiel<j Golf Club defeated the Ridgewood Oolf Club, ot Colum bia yeaterdpy afternoon by fourteen points. The train from Columbia was late, and It was nearly four In the afternoon before the match was started. All of the Camden play ers defeated their opponents/ with tjie exception of Ticknor, who lost to Munsell by three points, and Mar vln, who tied Ansley. "Jimmle" Norton ,the professional of Sarsfleld defeatde Beagen, the professional of RldgeWood. Mr. Norton played the course in 34. Bogey ia 40. Camden H. Cook 2 Columbia . . . Ancrum Yates 3 .. .. .k; Crawford Johnson 3 .. ? . . .. Norrls G. 'ft. Cook 3 ? ? ... . - Watson Barker 3 . . ... ........ Green Bagby 3 .....~ .. Coward As. each side has won .a game, there Is an* an effort being~ made^ to have a rubber game played at an early date. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Lazarus. 7 of Timmonsvllle, were visitors here last week. Ticknor Marvin Munsell 3 . . Ansley ? . ,v Charged With Hurdler. Asheville, N. C., Mar. 12.-^- TWO* additional arrests In connection with.) the Myrtle Hawkins case were made here tonight when Mrs.; Nora" Britt and Mrs. Llzle Shaft were ar rested by two of the sheriff's depu- ] ties, the women being charged with having guilty knowledge of or be ing active . participants in the crim-] lnal operation which resulted in the deat^ of Myrtle Hawkins last September. Mrs. Britt was lodged in the Buncombe county jail, while Mrs. Shaft war taken to Henderson* ville jail pending a preliminary on Friday morning before a local mag istrate. The warrants fojr the two women, who h^ve been under suspi cion* since the finding of Myrtle Hawkins' body in Lake Osceola last September, wtere taken out on affi davits made by T. C. Brown, a 16-' cal citizen, who was given data for the warrants from the sheriffs of fice. The county authorities say that they can produce a witness to swear that Mrs. Brltt has repeated ly stated that she knew all about the Hawkins case and irill swear that Mrs. Britt had told him that she (Mrs. Britt) had been hired by Mrs. Shaft to perform an operation, and that she had gone to Hender sonvllle for thqt purpose. CITATION, r State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. By W. I*. McDowell, Esquire, Pro bate Judge. Whereas, J. E. Brannon made suit to me to grant him Letters of Administration' de bonis non, of the Estate of and effects of Thom as R Thome. , :-T These are therefore to cite and admonish all and Singular the kin dred and creditors of the said Thomas R. Thorne, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court ol Probate, to be held at Camden, S. C., on April ?th next, after publication thereof, ai eleven o'clock in the forenoon, to show have, why the said Administration should not be granted. ? - > Given under my hand, this 21st i i iniiililr I n !&. . '? ; " Mutt*** wiwt i* loy. the negro charged wlthVL tal murder of Guy Ro^ri jT, the *essio>j? court now b(,iu?r5 Marlboro. H peaking of th? <*1 Poo Doo Advocate says: ** Mailer was cttirie<j jj. - court room Muodsty afUrncaa? arraigned (or the murder i3 Rogers and Preulin*. jjJgg Thanksgiving day, 1910. fim for? the arraignment * J* i M alloy's leading counsel, W p venaon, of pheraw, chall^^, Jurjr and moved to qua*& That* ment on the ground that N % gers, the father of ou* of the ceased boy#, aud a p*#secator wltneue In the cane, watt 0a? 6f Jiljry commissioners who had d. the Juries to pass on this "After tfce quashing of the h, ment and the probability ate* that there oould be no trfcj year or next, rumors w?r? w Tuesday that Joe and perha* tothers, would be lynched. ? Sheriff Patterson, realfeifiJ, seriousness of *he sttuattoofi ?m1 the prisoners away Ttt^ ternoon and took them to the 1 tentlary for safe keeping "Joe Malloy, Charlotte and DuKant Cole Were all m by private conveyance to Hn Fearing that they might t* k cepted at Kollock if carrio n to Columbia, the sherlft took t around by Monroe and Chtttw ?* rTTTZTT Wr " V?**' To my Friends;? I deslrs ft press to you my sincere t^ti tlon of tbe aiipport accorded a a candidate for Mayor In the mary election on Tuesdgy la* assure you your eonfldenc* iD Und^i-^r: iyaoity to ma. will be kindly remembered m | fondly ct>?rt?h?a. P^IIWP High FIAanee. A New York thief chlo.^ Yictims before he robg th?m money. Probably he is a tarlan. It ta euch a painful to get jnoneir from tome , an anesthetic is absolutely ? Cincinnati Commercial We Manufacture ? J Doors, Sash and Blinds, Onumts, Screen Dei ? -I We Deal In? OUws, Sash Cord and W auBusTOx^ ... ;%cpM IiAND 8URVJ WIU accept pUno ttrt d pils. Instruction give# dence if desired. Spec to beginners. 80c per advanced pupils $1.00,"^ ther information telepl Kirkwood Bfotel, Cam* eyor and S.