The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, June 21, 1888, Image 1
VOL. XI
BARN WELL COUI^r HOUSE. S.O JUNE 31. 1888.
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i BQIAVTK AMD VAKIKB CAIKXB t.VUKP. ■
John Qnuii, a native of county An*
trim, Ireland, but for many year* past ^
* resident of GreenvUIo, died on aim- probable tbat yonng Practer will come to
day, aged 73 yearn, at Ida home on Fall
street Ills death was a hard Iblow <6
the wife whom he leave* behind and a
cause, of real grief to those who knew
and appreciated hfs sterling worth It
Was, too, thy eloM of a career more fall
of the checkered romance of reality than
are the novel* that men write
Who survive* him while they were yet
young people In their tielgliboring
homes in county Antrim. He was a
Catholic and she a Presbyterian, and
because of that difference the parent*
of the young girl forbade the match.
She was sent to America, and young
Grant followed her here. Then she was
recalled to England whither her faith
ful lore* soon went again Afterwards
she baring been again sent to this coun-
with a vicious wink that made tho deacon i man. llo wan sore and galled by the sonba
shudder from hat te boots. ' - bo had met with today, lie sat quiet in the
“Well, I have discharged tqy duty,” he gaudy
satd, after an irresolute pause. . “It is most
seek you this afternoon.’’
“And if bs comes, I am not to see hbnf 1
with an attempt at a jocular tone that had
more terrible force in it even to the cold
blooded hearer than any painful outcry.
"Why, man, I nin pushed nearer to tlic wall
today than anybody knows. As for this boy
—well, no •matter What he is to me. I gave
up Homcrhing for turn once. It seems a* if I
hart the right to ask his help now, when—
MrTGrttdt became engaged to the wiW-l-* rl ** a d**»th has n* by the throat.« He
“ looked vacantly, quickly about him, at the
boxes, the cars rattling by, at the head of his
hotel parlor, holding duck cloao while
the servants lighted tho lamps and |«opls
came and went; he looked steadily at the coat
t ot what he meant .to do.
‘TU take the weight of your old father off
of you. Jack,” be said at last, stooping to kin*
the fat, red little face, “Good-by, ray sou,’’
He did take it oif. He entered rive boy
. under the name of Proctor at a fashionable
boarding school, setting aside the entire sum
he bod saved with which to start a paper in
| Philadelphia. “I can scratch for luyseif,” he
; said.
Let tho lad have everything 1» wants,” he
friend!”
Mr. McMarray harried nervomly away,
_ , picking hit rteps amung Use boxes and bales.
try, young Grant made an apiertistmciit Htandwli *to«d • moment toting at the
to meet bar In Liverpool and they Wfrf to (round, mad thru turned and stumped ap the
be married hut there was smne mlsun- narrow rtrtoty rtairs that toi U, the U5.
(ierstandlng. and .be disappointed lover ^^??* >l
urged his governers ono (lay, “His futh.r
liad the best blood in Virginia in his Vcinr,
Cane. McMurray tlvought he bad b«>n drink- madam. Aad teach him religion. Hi*
ing. "I am sorry I troubled myself about mother”— but lie broke down her. "Shea
it,” lie said, with dignity. "Good day, MaJ. yonder,” besaid quietly at last, glancing up.
BtnnilisU.” - . 1 Tbc governess nodded, and understood him.
"Good day ” effeetlng a ArarUhing bow tl^ feint succeeded. Of what It
wHh hi* unsteody baud. “Tako old Dan to himself, be said n-Hhing; it Inal lifted tba boy
point your next sermon, will you I I’ve lived at hc Uiortgbt, into a purs region ot
by my wits. Pra mn.le myself the coin pan- fashion, and n-ftneinent, and salvation. The
kst of porta—uf nobles, sir! And now wlveu glories of the Proctesw, in the coarse of years,
the end comes, damn it, man, I bavsn t a gren and malMlIMI readily in the major's
enlisted la a British regiment bound for , ^ t Uo*. aor^td to
lad la. He afterward found that the fair smmgh. ll warned la I
ship that carried him oat paeead tba hi- h*e bi* w«h that
raws lag vassal from America an which **"* ^ *
klaAatanded aiscuadag la harp their
t alghtsaa rear*
thmngh la that item
thrtIMag vxprrtswcra
thta depay —May Ha aaa
mtag ad IMM and v*m b»d
e- - • * • • ; - »
HrriMe sadwa m af tba KagHH
a lhasa A ria* at* ln-4 an rx,«
, ba amend atgM pmt* lama* la
*—< f ly Hi raae* la aft.
IB to totf
• to to totof ftoto totoM
SstoMto^ Im # to tototo^
toi Mto totoPf to toi • to Immi •%'
totoMt totoatoMto# to toa atoaf itoto
toto^g aaaaaal tot toa ttoai awaa Ito a to
mm ^ toi mi wmm mmm0k toa wm
4ki toa atoto af toa #to, to aaato to
hamlluig. There were tiinr* when hc Iwcaina
confused himself, so real bad Jack’s illustri
ous family grown. “Uetucnvber your father
the gcuarai, ladr he would cry, when urging
the boy to mauixnm or roarage. “Xeblsmy
obUp-r
"Ivs-nneH If I know whethtr liver* waas
Gesv. IVorbw or antT he aoahl matter jar-
pteud to LianeU eftmwanl
Well, there was the «ad of b ell asm. The
1 Ue had beea pteyad wwcmafaDy f a yean,
yet now all Je-a'* weetfwae ta kaaw 11 wae
aba Batlag hy Ito toe as hladrtrt tdsnas,
taiqdag his kaam with Ma vtawy flapma,
lb* vaeyw went ■* T M tbte eTW* -f —e
•“ ranee's aehedy who kaesv me te Vtrgtaba
■ad A wvw ■ set eaea* leUwhari aad am Ihaa,
that eaat tea ateml the he* * Me *ew en
“Until to-anwrow-BBitwi yoo woald rothic
1 would go to-lUght,” quickly.
"Yes, I would rntlvor. 1 bavo some busl-
uesH-J-thvro will be so One men hers after
awhile—it wouldn't b? best for yon to stay.”
“Very well,” Maddy no.UW, taming her
stockinged feet about before the Are, She
P££ur jaskixi questions, but »he gener
ally frund out all that the wanted
to know without them. “How long can 1
stay, Uncle Dan!” taking ott her hat.
“In two hours wilt be time enough. Let
me have you king ns I can.”
“Isn’t that a lovely hatf’ poking It on her
little fat fid;, and looking over it steadily into
bis gauut, change tow face. “The brown
plume is just the shade of my hair. Been
hard at work on Tlie Camera lately, dearr
“Tiiey'vu needed nothing for two weeks,’*
"OUr She was quiet a minute. “Just put
that hat carefully aaay fa my room, won’t
you! and bring me my slipper*. They're in
tlie lower drawer. You have the keys” She
sat motiontaw until the door chwod behind
him, and then like a flash she was in the pan
try cupboard: which was empty, a* we know,
Vmd Iwek again by the fire. Hbo took op the
gobies and smoltol it. The mnjnr, coming
back, glanced at it jealously, but it stud
where be left It, and Maddy was imsiug
Lully bad in bw own low chair. She Pa*
pale, and the water stood la bar eye*.”
“ You’re not well, cbitdr
“Ka Hd dawn by am, Uarie Dan. I'm
tttad and I'm haagry, that's aU. I no lewd a
■airaruhma httk supprr aa I cans* akmg. It
j will tm her* praarntly.* She tank hM U«
■aad aa he m* hy tor, flagsrtag M aver, baM-
loc M now and Ito a to bar rtoah IVuma-
to doae it At that moment !C*d<ly r vught
sight of a follow bit of writing on the haarth,
stooped, pitched it up. 81* nodded aa she
read it Wltliout safpi tse.
"Hi* son? And Jack wants lb* old man
uow to dany itf Not to atand in his way C
Tbe first hint about that poor dblta mbttit
Clara had turned ber blood to gnlL Hive was
suddenly bitter and unjust aa death to Jack,
to whom she tod given Ivor whole Ufa of
patient, sweet tempered trust.
The stop* onnvo nearer. The poor oH ma
jor hacked toward the in iter door, hi* un
couth face white and wet. “I'm not writ
j I'm going to lie down on your bwk TakeTfim
away with you, Ahukly. I can't see either of
yodtomlght." Yet even then H gave him *
vague pleasure to hear how light and gay
, and reeoluri tho boy's steps Were, ‘
Maddy came quietly between hint and tb«
door. “No, we win both see this Jack, who
’ puts you oat of his way.” •
Tlx; door opened. There was the old short,
stout built Jack) Tba old sturdy, honest face
Under the move fur can, the twitch id the
mouth raady to make a Joke at any body or at
1 hintwlf.
“Why, Msrtdyt I did not hops to am yoa
tore, little wmatt,” giving her a brotherly
, shake of the hand, and so flgarati rely setting
her aside. How the duM morbid shadow*
that bad filled tbs room mpa aside before
1 Mm! MartstamleH that tor itf. tod toea
“I don't know/ said Mr. Jack, wbciw con
science twinged him with certain roouullgbt
walks iu Chlcaga • * H!va was very couskkr
ate god kind to me, Madrlin* Her Utbcr
was anxious for me to take the First church
bora. But I'd made np my mind to that
tittle bom* tn tin west--if you wqaMgo with
mo/ to
thought you'd come for me/
faddy.
Tho mayvr ws* Jooklnjf at tbem ore* Ms
qwctackm . ' 80! Bor” he uviJ, in Aniau>
bo would
tmMcM
Intbr 1
butai
thdl.
Ore* Wiese Ms
While San Fruncisropafa
tion to K.imqvean fash tons tndnH
niehoa more exnntplra «f or
atylca than mast large cities,
particularly frhr of the wrflrl
and ovhrconts. For this the _
mate Is hirgely rrspOOMM*. Hi Narw York
on n fine atimim r da* the lady Who
pnmde Hnsidwiiy IA a hriiry
nlatct would aertaluly to rcfitnlcd with
more thnn interest. Kqtudly
tlM to the
strolling ti
iiia*t to~
om iiiinr, Wrap or tlpjOK. Koch snaebroa-
Iciiia imss UnitotlcM (a San FraneteiOk
however.
There la no climatic or fashionable do
rm? that forbids .the spprensaea of Mi*
sealskin meter ahjWUctn, and it do*«
active service Ikfonghoitt (hc yaar. O**
caa tonally It dors duty under try tag rdr-
cnmstances, for (he fog or wind of a awm-
mrr day la likely to give place at aay mm
nvrtrt to Uudimmad sanshlrie that make*
the thermometer Vi
Kt rangers from older
the sealskin Ulster cornea Into faahtaB
for a brief apace In the IwrivemoaU
amaaed at ks perennial Nig* I*
Fraortsca. The fair arx are tart tba
one* who brsaeat sharp aad straage
tmeta la the matter af
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**fe%irta^!*t.
A negro pNa> her addN«aeil hU Cork
aHk great eniamtneM «a tka sobje,,
of mlnw-lea at foH*«*«: “My beloved
frirnca, de greatest c/m tolrad-^ was
’kaat dr Hate* and deCsbea. Here a as
fl.OQO lonvea and J.OOrt fl*hes, and tie
taalve 'potties had to eat drat all. I>c
miracle Is dey - Idn't hu*t. M
Hand to Hand.
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almasm aWmal m*wm M TM
asebl W’” tmsa totms#y toad—Aw We hw
ho met kw ry totoad toak ami imo amvwm
■ml* kamto me** *toppml oem Mi eyso TM
aestthtag wae a Marty kaa ngW aa hto
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»«d Me
BY REBECCA HARDING DAVIS.
(Completed J
„ ran* ft.
Later in the afternoon tho iftajff stood
leaning against a pile of bale* in front of . the
ware house, loftily tapping hi* chin with hi*
pinchbeck beaded cane and listening to Mr.
McMurray. That gentleman, iu his anxiety
lest the church should actually losa Proctor,
had resorted to the desperate maflffe of nn
appeal to Standish. The old man kept bis
malicious eyes fixed »i»on him, and grinning
With enjoyment of bis enilorraMHincnt, but
under the grin he looked haggard and
anxloua -
“80 the bny has a mind to tako tbc part of
hia old friend* He'd stick by tbo hulk be
cause it's going down! Tutf tut! There'*
stupidity for yw.”
“I do not talk in mrtaptmr about hnlkx.
2 only thought it likely, from my knowledge
of you, yon might pmsime on your acquaint
ance with the lad ami Me gvnemu* natur* to
draw hiia into trouble, aad I warn yoa what
Ike malt will b* to Mas.”
"It wifi ruin Mia to M haowa as erva my
riond I aadantaad.*
McMurray Mutated A/tor all. why act
tv* toamdkb a Mat af
racfcl If M maoM a
of a
ndfeuyiag Ml •Vt« af
lhlag«f«w "pan* Dqrhrow'a Mby ”
Hr. M went oa for ysar*. Th- re wav always
a strang snwil of r|~ara aad printer's task m
the air Urn child breathed, aad no duabt
when she ram* In be a ynaag lady tbe learned
to think In a scrappy, itomUing. n*w»pape*
way; Imt MadcUacs life was ta fact m
clean!v, and sweat, and tender among these
men, as if she had Iwcn one uf any rom-bnd
ganlni of girls, perhaps more so. Whatever
psrasent of lies tbe major chose to pet on as
armor, or to perk and vaunt himself in out
among other neu, bo never wore it into “tba
oockkrft.” Nobody could account for tbe
almost pathetic tenderness of his love to tho
girl It wa* more than seemed due for her
father's sake, or eveu her own.
Once, however, hc had mid to her, “You
came tv take the place of a child that I lost.”
That was the only time he had hinted at the
secret of his former life. He kept it bi.klen
even from himself.
It came to him today, nnd would not be
thrust aside. In a few boon it would be
known to all the world. .
John Proctor wns ids son.
He remembered well now the Last day when
hc had called tbo boy hy that name. It .was
a dreary, rainy season in Novomb r,
or four years before he took Madeline. He
Mt by a hotel window with Jack on his
knee. It was a week since he had come from
Richmond, tearing the child’s mother dead
there. He had spent the week going from
one newspaper oftieo to another, vaunting
and vaporing, and drinking hard, imt with a
still uptd eonscieusneas all tho time of stand
ing by her grave, on which the rain pat
tered, with Mr riHkfa life left in hia hands
ta do with it what be would.
Mary'* boy would have grows lata a truth
ful, Mod fearing man if ofe hod lived; a
gMittoNvan. too; tho class which Rtatadisb.
with ail Ma tawdry bragging, watrhod far etf
with joatoas awn Itow— What ensdd ba
atoka *< tka Myl Ha look ito hale chap's
hank to his, aad pslkd tom rt wsr. trying
k was asi
Madrltato! cMMI toll year
"Of mums * k nat sac ’ tkrr* am an asawy
pr**«y gtrU si.alingla ta toss yaa*wuho«t
kam! Ok dsaf, rai gall* froara, Uaek
Da*r
Hto looked aa if ato wem to* cMbky.
liosplrd (aca was blur, aad tba riair dmps
•tool in tor eyva Hto pNctod torsrif up on
tba awjork etohr, towtiag bar hands in ttotr
woolen clove* together. “If you only could
unlace my toutsf My fart haven't had a MV
of fading for nn hour. Five miles did they
tram,*, I didn't want to tweak the »<>t« fnt
car fare. If* tbe half yearly poy dqy, yon
know. Just'Took at it,” fumliling in bur
besoc.t under her sack and bringing 'mt warm
and .Tisp a bright new note. “I couldn't
deep until we’d both seen it and—gone
halves!” winking with both eyes and laugh
ing all over in the most ridiculous, lovable
way. Tho major had taken Off tor shoes,
and stood with them in his hands looking
down at her. She waa so alive with beauty,
tody
A*
I toawd to Ms way to Ma
waal <wtf of his way.
hw a»e i* to» F qatto *
It
“la Jaafc 1
I
gi**
s! Ilmlgt
aa It ato tod
ww«aaafm« walk towafg
"If bat en«M M saattar ta Mm*
ohl tor and braggart, mt McMunuy cslkd
me. I saw hw chunh to-day, and the boaee
wtom to wiy live. So grandly ftarniatod,
MaddyP
“Oiwrchrs and furniture ^ with a ora-
teniptu<ius shrug. “Y.Twt are ttoy to JackT
“I saw the woman to la to marry.”
“Ah! the woman"—
“A daughter of MrAIarmy's*-a delicate,
white roselmd of a girl He boa everything
now the world can give, Jack has. There's
but «ite bar in his way, and that won't be
tlioro long/
But Madeline had turned to tbe window,
her face toward the sun that was going down.
It was some time before she came hack.
When she did, she stood by the mantel shelf
looking down at him. “Dow the woman
lovehimr -
“I thought an. It was her fae**.’ ,
"She only has known him a little whilef*
“Withrow told me they met last month in
Chicago. Tbe match was arranged tliere.”
Hbc looked at her hand. Thera waa a thin
gold ring oa one linger—a Cheap little trifle,
mich ok a schoM boy would give. It had beea
there so many years that It bound and twined
the woman’s fall grown finger. It had done
so for many year*.
“One mouth r sho said to herself again and
kwkv
The sun was down, but tbo reflection from
the snow on tho roofs threw a pleasant bright
ness into the many windows, while the chirk
ticked cheerfully tbo last boar of ftivllgta
away. A auto baiow Wake the silmec iota
Wbirh they had fakaa. The steira were loaf
•ad netot), aad stops coaid to brawl creak-
tog fraaa raw flight to tto *Cto*.
"Il « JaekT Tka an>* q*to kvarariy,
^toTlaa^toal
taM, to tba* art af m
woul^faA
Jack never
am thing.
Maddy!” Ho
on all hw faartoa aad Me-
kmg in duabt about
ad tba haarth rtag te
thF comer wberr she stood aad took ap tor
hand. “Ttorihgl ft's gone "
Maddy gtancod down caratoaly. “Ring!
Yoa; 1 rrmember now. That nag waa too
■mail I ttek it off tnag ago.”
Jack's eyra twinkled; to bold her wrist
tight. “How long ago! Within th* bouiT
See bow rad and bruised the poor little hand
1*.”’
The pity waa too much tot heroic Maddy,
8ho gave a sob, but held the toon back in her
Wet, miserable eyas. Jack never knew in all
hia life bow deep tba bruise want whan that
ring came off. He looked at ber steadily,
Ckxfir, closer; lifted tbo bmt baud till his
breath touched It, thert kissed it Just as he
used to kiss ber lips long ago; <H no man had
touched thorn since; as they never would b*
kbaod again.
She drew back. “You have no right to
play with mo ta that way.” At tbo first tone
of her altered voice, Jack stood startled aad.
grave. “What do you mean, Modelina! Yod
need not feign tbat you did not know 1 loved
you when I went awuy two yean ago/
“You were under no pro min to me,*
quickly. "I bar* no right to raproneb yoa.''
“No promise. But I loved yoa.”
“And now little Clara baa taken toy place/
with ley compsaara. “I do not think that
atrange.”
“That poor littlerraatara! Ob,
M ray yoa
ag Mi
iatry, Kvary prapar
• lotky or nnlarkr
any oatatato (IkH* aawatectarad Is
own aactkxj of th* rimut
atMa is bora
alar, aa they seem to I
Npmltoa of the energy or money pos
sessed by the DIM who are iateraated ta
poshing their aale. None succeed wtihoat
adverti«lng, altbongk ntllUoas hare beea
■pent Ip puffing uertkioes that never sold
tbe original stock shipped ta wholesale
druggists. It la a game of chance wbeft
you cannot eatinjata the risk- Kcsulta
cut very little figure with the sales men,
for If the stuff wilt sell K will go off their
hand# with scarcely an effort, beeaua*
their bast customers an the Chfctiic In
valids, who nn tbtclud than files arooud
a molasses cake.
Nevertheless, I would prefer to take a
new medicine out On the rood thhu handle
Any of tho old ones whicfi hare been ad
vertised from the cliffs of the Paci lc coast
to tho rocky Ixtfito of Labrador. Ameri
cans are experimentattve^iul will bay g
new nostrum without any rccommetidv
tion, for the simple reason that they hav*
heard nothing Sgshtst It, rft. Ixmis leSds
the country ta sales of quinine, malarial
specific and bUions antidotes, and some of
“the local manfifnetwrers will dear millions
from two articles that originated here
within the last two years,- but which dr*
already beginning to elieit notiee.-^Georga
Haskell. .
ftsaaK* of Ovaftralalaj,
Is one a* pee l of I be Mllraa-
U fight which la to Car devoid of
ty to to b* *f public Interest; this
! a man seemingly la saprrb phyaf-
T, to reality, U to tor
aa H to taWnad, aa to tow*
1 daprlvad af
stare saimHa* to
to m
-tom tba waaaflH *£7
lows la I
lagan,
•BIS little boys I
to toddle by
and ec*'. stare, 1
saw. This stawia
C ty general with Ito
y were all too
staring to tare. I m
gathering so ailem. <
spoke as they trudged
lug rtxasi, and wbea they
still aatd nothing, but found
benches. M park* and’ oa th*
gtoed about th
by fatigne er
can we go oft carta
'■’iy
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—Chicago JotirtMl.
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"Why do It^Uato. almost hold a piaana
Oly In Counterfeit coins}” was mkad af *
treasury.detcctlra.
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ftatlrca. These latter wiu
Besides, many Italiaan are 1
tag plaster of
over to avoid detection fat
try, where, I believe,
punished with death. Over her* Rtoj
A matter ti a year or tmo, ami then %
tb*yi
they are in
when they are free, to
Ik tie terror Amt them. They aaa
trith light j ‘
fom of mo
worth at a
k-.-fAl
XX.
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