The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, April 16, 1896, Image 4
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!•« Un^ Qt^A
. #fr* frrflufct nearly
but they ire aUrted on * fresh
rounil throuirh their publication in the
London T'teeeiln enewerto a ohrreepbdd-
eat'equery:| *. !>'■> j
H#*e He* e poor Woman who elweya wee
UredjV-, » *
She lived in e house where help wee not
hired
Her la*t word* on earth we#t: “ Hear
t- frith da l am irolnt
To 4’here tbere'e no cooaing, nor waehlng,
nortewinR; A 1
But eventliing there ia exact to my
wiaht*. . i
For witeie they dor^t eat th«e’e no wash*
I'll be Vhefe load anthenii wHl always be
ringing.
But having no voice, I'M get quit of the
•inging.
Dpn’t mourn for me non—don t mourn for
.me never,
I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.
-f
The cooking, wanting and tewing are
obnletc n«w. <<r nearly w>, l*ut «.•men are
t uat as tired aa ever, and the plaint will
tave to be revised something like Una, per
haps t ,
Here lies a poor woman who always waa
•' buiy; i
«be lived under presadfe that rendered her
dU*y; ' „ .
She bel uged to ten olube and rtad Brown-
lugby eight,
Showed at lUticheona and teaa, and would
^ vote if ahe might;
She served on a school board with courage
and zeal,
She golfed and ahe kodaked and rode on a
. wheel. I
She Wad T«fcgi and Ibson, knew microhm
by frame,
Approved of Helaarfc, wa* a “Daughter"
•^ and •’ Dame; 1 ’
; k Her children went in for the top educa
tion,
Her boehand went seaward for nervoua
prostration.
One day on her tablets she found an hour
free,—* — 1 :
The ahock waa too great end ahe died in-
rtantiy.
@ur |#mUs
The ecttlere who constituted what
was locally called the “Lumley Pass
folks*' wore few,' hard-working and
uaimaginativn. They were much
given to staying at home and minding
their own business, in the sense which
conveys 'total lack of interest in any
body else.
Long reaches of rough mountain
roads; frequeut torrents, whicc rushed
rudely wnerever resistence was most
readily oveicomc, combined with som
ber stretches of dense forest to dis
courage sociability.
Nevertheless, when it became known,
in a gem riil way, that the old Up-
tilted log-house—‘a house hoary with
age—about which the halo of romance
had never clung, was to be the seat of
a wedding, interest in it became vivid
< and visitors multiplied miraculously.
• The bouse stood at the head of the
pans, and gave it its name. It wa*
Peter Lumley s daughter who was to
be married.
That pit oe of information percolat*
ad through Peter biopseif oue even
ing when he had lingered at the store
in Hogan's gulch long enough to for-
C t bis ususl taciturnity nod wax con-
ential With the other late stayer*.
On that occasion Mr. Peter Lumley
remarked, in a general way, that—
“ Women folks was a cussed lot of
trouble when they got marryln’ in
their heads, an' be was oonsidubie
thanful that he didn't have but one gal
to turn the world upside down jast
because a fellow nad asked her to
change her name.”
- This amiable allusion to his only
< daughter, coupled with the fact that,
earlier ia the evening, Mr. Lumley
bad openly Invest* d in ten yard* of
white ‘'crossbar” muslin and a
" reel loped ’ handkerchief, fastened
the impending change of name on Sue
Lumley.
Until that croas-bar muslin and em
broidered handkerchief were actually
transferred from Hogan’s counter to
the gunny sack which already held
Peter's supply of tobacco, whiskey, seed
potatoes and rope for plow lines, the
general public had laid no particular
stress upon Peter'*, outburst.
1 - MSluniiBfore bad Sue Lumley been
an objuiTof even passing local interest.
No cue had ever associated her name
with a possible lover. She was ac
counted rather a spiritless creature,
totally lacking In grit. Grit is a moral
quality in high repute with young
mountaineers.
Being motherless and slsterless,
Sue had grown uu with even fewer
feminine accomplishments than fell
to the lot of other Lumley Pass girls.
A wedding presupposes a man. It
was a long time before local gossip
fastened upon the right man for “Sue
Lumley’s beau.” When it did curiosity
was merged into amazement bordering
on indignation.
Was lirad Martin bent on throwin’
bis-seli ciean away? Had lirad Martin
turned plum idiot,” were questions
which everybody was asking but uo-
body answered.
Bradley Martin was what might be
called a newcomer having-lived in the
neighborhood of Lumley s Pass on'y
four or five “years. None of his fore
bears had over tilled the rockey acres
he called his own.
He was a handsome fellow, with
broad shoulders and strong, swift legs,
which carried him over the steep
mountain paths with the surefooted
ness of the goat.
There wasn't a girl within twelve
miles of Peter Lumley s o^gray house
tnat would not have lent a willing ear
to Bradley Martin if he had come a
courting. But Sue Lumley, of all the
pass girls!
Martin and Sue alone knew the very
beginning of the love affair whose
immure tit culmination was agitating
the scattered settlers of Lumley’s Pass.
They had first seen ekeh other wheh
the pass lay in the shadows of even
ing, which came early and lingered
long in the mountain-walled clearing.
Sue was sitting alone on the rough
pine slab that did duty for front-door
steps. Her lap wa* full of corn and
corn cobs. A pilu ot unshelled corn
was stacked on the slab within easy
reach. .With a fine disregard for her
owu cuticle, she rubbed the grains free
from the cob with the reddened ball of
her right thumb. *
When all Urn corn should be shelled,
She wopid lift up her voice shrilly,
and ocuntless feathered p* ns oosrs
would make glad response. Boosters,
torgettiqg to be stately, Guinea ov s
gnmn suddenly Vregar.ous,'pigeons
swooping from aloft to share in the
liberal largess, would all comn, flut
tering, flying, sctaaibling, hurrying,
each filled with genuine human greed,
striving to eat ahead of its fellows*
tony of her day. and Introduced cheer
ful clamor into profonad alienee. ‘
spe wss left very much alone during
the day. Her father and her four
uncouth brothers were always off an
soon a* the breakfast of clack coffee
sad greasy bacon she got up at dawn
to prepare was disposed of.
What their business was, beyond
the making and garnering of the
meager crops which seemed never to
result in any betterment of her own
condition, she did not know. Nor did
she much .pare., She was not of n
speculative, turn. She w?nt the dull
roundief ’her.sordid 1 duti.s qnquestlou-
Ing, unrepining. She had condensed
the ethics of the case with uncon
scious philosophy, Into a single apho
rism:
*• Frottin’ don't do no good, so whar’s
the use of frettin'?” '
Under softer conditions she might
hake developed into aa unoonmotoU
pretty girl. The first time Bradley
Martin saw her her face was as the face
of a guarding angel to him. -Their in-
trod uction was a strange one.
She lifted her head, to consult the
shadows. The familiar landscape must
attain a precise stagu of obscurity be
fore she called the wanderers home
for the night.
From the stile that crossed the rude
yard fence thu mountain footpath
dropped precipitately downward. This
rendered approach to the houne pos
sible without anv warning view be
forehand. Standing on this stile,
bolding his hat in one hand, while
with the other he dashed great beads
of sweat from his forehead, Sue saw a
man !
She leveled her clear, brown eyes on
him in in&nse surprise. He was a
stranger, and strangers were not com
mon at Lumley’s Pass She stood up,
with the corners of her check apron
gathered together mechanically with
thrifty thought for her shelled corn.
She gained in dignity by change of
posture.- i»be was la4-, aad just now
she was stanuing on the defensive.
“Who be you ? And what be you
doin' standin' stock still on our stile?”
she asked, in a slow, gentle drawl that
gave no indication of her perturbed
state.,
Her voice was as sweet a* a wood-
plireon's note. Her eyes were clear,
steadfast, fearless. In spite of the
- shortness of hev- eoaswa outt<w- gowu,
there was a certain air of command
-about this mountain girl which im
posed upon the stranger. But ft was
a face to he trusted, and the man on
the stile stood in sore need of a friend.
He was by her side in a few swift
strides. She could see his broad chest
heave with the breath that came in
pan ts.
“ You are alone?” he asked.
She trembled at the eager excite
ment of his voice and manner, but her
fright did not appeat in her drawled
answer :
“ Wnal, what if 1 be?”
“ Hide me, and keep my secret.”
*• What for shall I hide you? Who
he you, and what you been up to ?
Moonshinio’?”
lie cast about blrn excitedly with
eyt* tnat looked like a hunted ani
mal's.
“If you don't want to have murder
on your soul, hide me. I got into
trouble down in Davis’s Dali. A mau
was killed. Circumstance* point to
me. A posee Uout kiokiug for me.
I've been running and hiding for two
days. I’m about spent. If they get
me I'll swing. For heaven sake, girl,
hide me quick."
“ Quick ” was a word seldom he ird
in that locality, more seldom acted
upon. Hho released the corners of her
apron and let the ebtdled corn stream
Into a wooden bowl at her feet. She
never ouoe took her eyes off the travel-
staineJ garb and the haggard face of
the man* before her. She carefully
dusted the loose bran from her work*
roughened bauds before speaking
again :
" Au4 be you blood-guilty ?"
“ I am noC:''
“You don’t look like Lumley Pass
folks You be from town somewhere,
I reck in. How > aa I tail whether you
n* to me or not ?’’
swear before heaven I am inn<£
cent.
Bbe darted away from him, but was
back before ho had time to conjecture.
She hold a tattered, back loss book in
her hand.
"This were mammy's Bible. Can
you swear on that ?”
The stranger laid his right hand
solemnly on the book :
“ Come ’long, then. .Pop and the
boys will he home soon.”
She wrapped the book in her apron.
She turned swiftly and led the way to
an old stable, many degrees more
dilapidated than the dwelling house
iiich is condemning it totally.
Slipping through a crevice by pre
ference to wrestling with the huge,
unmanageable doors, she pointed up-
“ Wont the gentlemen atey and take
a bite?” Sue’e hospitality waxed
urgent M the perceived her father
was benton pushing forward. "Twoe’t
take me morh’n half an hour, pop, to
get ’em somethin’ hot.”
'‘They’ll have something hot when
we ketch the feller that done for Jeb
WllsOn ; so will he.”
This witticism reviv'd the flagging
energy of. hie followers, and after a
hurried excursion to the spring house,
Sue bad the satisfaction of seeing them
mount their horses and disappear down
the steep, stony bridle path by which
they had como; /
When the last boot heat bad ceased
tn sound upon the rocky ground, she
fed her prhoner, and loading him
depon with provisions and good advice,
Kent him away in an opposite direction
from that taken by the horsemen.
He turned and Wave*! his hat to her
before the black woods swallowed him
up.
“Of course, I won’t never see him
again.” she said, stolidly “ and I don’t
know as l care to; but 1 lied for him,
right on top of mammy’s Bible, and
that’s goin' to make it hard for me to
forget him out and out.”
In point of fact, she found it impos
sible to forget him “out and out.” She
called herself a mean-spirited creature
fur clinging so terftclously to bis
memory, but it d&l not mend the matter
at all.
Jeb Wilson's real slayer was dis
covered and summarily dealt with.
Jeb Wilson himself was well nigh for
gotten when Hue, sitting on the slab
shelling corn, as she had been doing
that evening, lifted hqy eyes to gnage
the lengthening shadows of the
familiar landscape, as she had dene on
that evening, and saw a man standing
on the stile that spanned the rude yard
fence.
Uhe sat quite still, but a slow, sweet
smile came to her lips and a glad light
Into her clear, steadfast eyes.
- -“You be coma back 1 What for ?"
He was by her side in a few swift
strides. He held out his hands to her
and smiled down in^o ^er uplifted
soepi through the'
. bolt or split m
•x>
A bolt or noirt means min to the _
If we repeat the mistake of i860 it
fasten upon us the Republican
for probably 50 years because
can scarcely win with « solid Demo
cratic front bow can we hope to with
stand the cyclone of Republicanism
that would follow a division into two?
It looks now as If McKinley will sweep
the national Republican convention In
St. Louis. If the Southern farmers
leavs the party of their fathers, the around here have pretty much
gold bugs of the West, Northwest,
North and New England States will
naturally go to the Republican candi
date ; and an overwhelming triumph
will result for McKinley and a Water
loo for the Democratic party.
This would mean, in addition to tfie
election of President, a Republican
House. They will soon have the Sen
ate. Then would follow high tariff
and high money, or in other words
high hats, or clothes or shoes and low
cotton for the Southern farmer. If we
stay In tlie party and are defeated for
President by McKinley we ma.
the next House, which woul
tv carry
il be a
check upon the election of McKinley,
who Is the logical candidate of the Re
publicans and bound to be the nominee
unless the Republican champion of
protection in this country be repudi
ated. If the Southern farmed remain
steadfast and sends his representatives
to Chicago instructed in favor of free
silver-i believe now and have always
believed we will be able to control the
convention as far as the majority is
concerned and force a free silver plat
form, and prevent the nomination of a
goldbug under the two-thirds rule. I
adhere to the position taken seme time
ago that this State’s Democracy should
send delegates instructed for free sil
ver, who will meet their brethren of
other States upon equal and honorable
terms and do the-best that can be
done, in the present emergency. If
they win they will expect the opposi-
tioB to act as Oenaoorats, if -tbey 4es»
house over t’other
be lyii
“In
face.
“I’m building
side of the pell.”
“ Oh. you be ?”
“ And I'm goin’ to live there.”
“ Yes ?" The color came and went in
the girl'a-auBburat-cheeks Ina-hoVtce-
rent.
" I'm goin' to take my wife to live in
my hous<i when It is finished.”
•Yes?”—it was almost a whisper.
Sue fell to shelling corn as If the world
held no other |K)ssible occupation for
trembling little hand*.
He seated himself boldly on the
slab by her side. He laughed and
filled his hands with corn she had
•helled.
“ Don't you want to le&rn something
abou’. the girl I’m building that house
for ?" _
“If you IxPanxious rto talk "about
her.”
“ I am.”
Hi- Hung the corn from him, and the
p'geon* came in a white-winged throng
.o r* hair the waste.
" She's the pluckiest girl I ever saw.
She's worth ten dozen of me: She's
got the dearest,' clearest brown eyes in
the world, and—and once upon n time
• he saved me from being hurried out
of the world by a lot of'idiots who
insisted upou calling me a murderer.”
S'owly the truth dawned upon Sue'*
mind. She leaned toward him with
hands folded on her knees.
“filed for you on mammy's Bible.
How are we going to get around that?"
“ We are not going to try to get
around it. We are. going to forget
it. No one need know we ever met
before.”
And Sue placed her hand in his,
with a smile of absolute trust and con
tent.
Pending the furnishing of his house
and the fencing of his farm, Martin
•pent much time at the Lumley’s.
Peter fancied he came there to learn
wisdom in farming of him. Frank
thought he cafne to learn how to make
a coll pace. Each masculine member
of the Lumley household hud his own
solution of the mystery.
Sue alone knew why he came. Mar
! >ii alone knew how he hail tx*rn naw d
from an ignominious death by the
superb courage of the mountain girl.
No one else will ever know bow hand
some Bradley Martin came to “ throw
himseif away ” on Peter Lumley'* Sue
1UUY IS A SrilAIUHTOUT.
they should not do less than they ex
pect of others.”
“ What is your impression ot the
feeling among Reformers and Demo
crats on this matter ? ”
“ There can be but one answer to
this question. Tbe people, both Con
servatives and Reformers, are not dis-
to hold the principles of the
mooratie-paety responsible for any
misinterpretation Or betrayal, Ifl may
he allowed to use so harsh a word as
that, of the platform of by men
who have been expected to carry
out. The principles are the same and
if the leaders have failed in the dis
charge of their duties, it is the part of
wisdom to discard them and name
others who wil, carry out tbe princi
ples of the party. And besides in this
State a ho t now means ruin to a large
class of our citizens In view of the fact
that tbe estimate is made, even by
Reformers, that the Republican* will,
number at least 75,000 men. I know
positively that hundreds of Reformers
will not Lilt, snd even if all bolted it
would leave 3.YU00 Conservative*, who
have always claimed to be the Demo
crat*, w ho would remvaLize on what
they consider DemokraHc lines. We
have about 5T>,000 to OU.OOO Reformers,
a very large estimate. With these
three tickets in the field the Republi
cans would either carry the election or
bold the balance of power in the State
election and would probably carry tbe
electoral ticket. I may ipudestly sug
gest that this is a vindication of the
fight that I made while a member of
the constitutional convention. It vin
dicates my position against the
suffrage plan of that body. Taken all
In all tho situation in South Carolina
is a very serious one and it behooves
every white man who loves bis race to
be firm and stand by the Democratic
party.”
DOWN IN FLORIDA AGAIN.
wftTWM so Violently opposed to tha
dispsosary law? Ihat, he would .neglect
to send up to |fen AJourt of General
Sessions for trial doses made out
against violators Of that statute.
Thu constitution anys the Governor
shall have the power to appoint cer
tnin officers, by and with the advice
and consent of. the Senate. Senators
contend that this confers a substantial
power upon the Senate, which should
be protected. The custom has been
for a Governor, if the Senato^rejeoted
any of his appointments, to wait until
the Senate adjourned and then reap
point the rejocted appointee. Senators
maintain that if this practice is to be
gave him an average crop, and allowed to continue, there is not a bit
so did Mr. Markley V. Our home mar- of uae in the Senate passing on appoint
bought a beautiful bay-front, with aa
orange grove attached, and asked ma
to walk down ami sea him measure a
grape fruit tree. Ha did Ik very care-
fuliy, and found it was fifty-two inches
around four feet from'ttae ground. He
said be had measured it before, but
wanted a witness. So, for fear he may
be suspected of exaggeration, 1 had
just ss well give tbe certificate. That
tree is seventeen inches in'diameter
four feet up from its base. The groves
covered from thu freeze aod are now
covered with blooms. Some groves
suffered but little, aod never tost a
crop. Mr. Bailey’s grove, near Clear
water, gave him an average crop, and
ket has not been without a supply of
fine, first-o!a»8 fruit, as far superior to
the California oranges as an apple L
to a persimmon. If I had money, I.
would invest jn a grove or two on
speculation, for here is the safety line,
aod Florida oranges and "gi'ap-j fruit
will command -fogh -prices for
years to come.
Yesterday morning our
some
made up a grouper party and sailed out
to the coral reefs in the greuti blue
gulf. 1 was respectfully invited to
stay at home and loo* liter tbe little
f irl and they promised tyr be back by
o'clock. I xeaa and wrote and ru
minated and played with the child
and helped her make sand pies, until
the sun was nearing the horizon, but
still there was no sail in sight. Every
few minutes I scanned the distant
waters and the two passes between the
island*. The twilights are brief down
here, and when the dark had .spread
its lonely curtain I began to be troubled,
and walked the veranda with anxlot>
and impatience. Then I walked down
to the dock, and was comforted with
the information that ou" boat could
not possibly get In until the tide rose
and brought them, for there wa* not a
‘breath or air to move a sail. Slowly
and -sadly- d came borne, and our little
HILL AKI* AMONG THK ELOWER?.
He Meeis A Good Many Acqwalut-
ances—How a Elslitnif Cany Caus
ed Him AatiMjr.
ward to a loft raggedly filled with bay.
The man was close behind her^ -
‘Climb up and burrow under tlie
bay. Quick—I h^ar a mighty trampin’
>f hoof* ! Hut don’t you bo scared ;
I’ll manage era. You Can trus’ me.’‘
It took the fugitive but a second to
aultupon tho ram-hackle feed trough
and from that into the hay fott. She,
standing on the edge of tho trough,
scattered hay over him liberally. She
was singing lustily, somewhat dis
cordantly, entireiy by ^pme-made
methods, while *he was about it.
The tramping of feet had eucoeeded
to that of hoofs. Filling' her arm*
with hay, still singing at the top of
her voice, Sue left the barn just in
time to confront her father, brothers
and half a dozen othfer mountaineers
She leaned against the barn door-and
stared.at them.
“In the name of wonder, folks,
what’s up, wkat’s up? A barn raisin'?”
On the top of the hay with which
her arms were filled lay her blue
apron folded about the old Bible. She
speculated vaguely about tho probab'e
fate of a girl who should tell a l e
with the Bible right under her nos
Her father was spokesman for the
searching party.
“Jeb Wilson’s been done for down
in Davis’* Dell by- a town chap. We’s
lookin’ for him. Seed anybody pas^
tnis'way, Sue ?”
She laughed scornfully .
' “Likely, ain’t it, so many folk pass
this way ?”
Her father laid his band on tbe
clumsy latch to the ragging barn door.
Sdc straightened her back against it
resolutely.
“ Not in there, pop. I’ve just found
that old*yeller turkey hen we thought
the minks had got. Sbe’s •ettin’ up in
the hayloft, and I wouldn't hate her
f *stef,:d for forty Jeb WU-ons. No,
wouldn't. She do look to peaceful
an 1 proudlike. Bud Frank, take the
gentlerfieo to the springhouse and give
enj a bit er buttermilk. ' Frei
Yean eh urn
ed this mornin’, gentlemen. And you
uns do look like you’d been •wallerin*
yq ’peckerdu-t t’oncet, 1 ’ v ~'l
Lumley took his hand off the latch
ana faced toward the men.
** We’re foolin’ away valerble time,
gents. Will you step down to tbe milk
Unalterably Opposed to Rolling from
the National Demooraoy~He Will
Agree to No Mongrel A Hitt tiers
• —
Chainiidn Jo^tr’t." .M. Irby, of the
State Democt’aticfFkecutive committer,
was interviewed he fore. Utetnoe ting of
his committee on the 7th inst., and ex
pressed himsblf freely as to the fines
on which the - party .is to be reorgan
ized. His remarks are reported as
follow* by the Columbia Register :
" The con*titution of the party ex
pressly stati s who shall participate in
primary elections, namely, known
DcUioeratH and negroes who have voted
the D ‘diocratic ticket continuously
since 1870. The executive committee
supplemented this part of the constitu
tion for the election in 1894 by opening
the doois ami allowing even Republi
cans and Populists to participate in
the primary election, who would agree
to abide the result of the primary and
support its nominees actively. Any
one cafn see that in the reorganization
of the party on certain.fixed principles
the d<K>rs must bo more carefully
watched than In a primary election,
(n other words, in tho organization
D ‘mo rats, and Democrats alone,
should participate. In conference* and
councils on party policy none but the
tru : and tried should be allowed to
enter. While there might bo some
excuse In primary elections to gain all
t,/a recruits from other parties possi
ble, 1 do not hesitate to say that none
but Democrats who are willing to give
and take, and to abide the result and
sustain the nominees, should partici
pate in the organization or feorganiza-
tion’at this time.
“ I do not want to be misunderstood,
for I never intended or attempted to
deceive the people of the State, since I
have been chairman of the party, as
winking at a mongrel organization.
Tho white jieople, I know, are Demo-
cr*t* by inheritance and have entrust
ed the colors of the party into the
committee's bands as its guardian and
trustee. ft is treachery, outright,
ba'-e-faced. to talk of a.-State Democ
racy and a national populism. We
must go the whole-hog or none, all.
As chairman of the State I recognize
the authority o' the national chair-
mnu, Mr. Harrity, and am acting un
der him as such and I propose to fight
any party whether Populist o„r Repub
lics os an enemy to the Democratic
pa > of this State and the United
Stn’es. I wou'd not like to be misun-
den-UiMd, though 1 believe everybody
itHcrsitobd*, that 1 favor free silver
rather liked “feed-time” toluouneand wetyo' whistle* before wejand believe and Lave always believed
It fooke up the dreadful a.OTe- gore afir’ia ^ no rsoef can oome in thin dlroutloa
With but little warning I had to
U ave home and wife and two dsuguters
and numerous grandchildren and run
down to Florida on business. Here 1
am again at Clearwater, breathing its
balmy air and feasting my vision upou
the same beautiful sunsets and dancing
waters and tropical scenery that
always charm me when 1 come. I am
happy with three other daughters and
l^o dear little grandchildren and with
congenial friend* who greeted my
coming and gave mo a glad welcome.
Life is still worth liiing, if for nothing
else but the pleasure of meeting, those
who are dear to you and receiving the
cordial salutation of friends. ^ They
tell me that if I did not discover Clear
water, I urcovercd it to the Southern
people, who hud m v .r heard of such a
place, and now I find scores of visitors
who are looking in u|k>q tbe beauties
of this place a id buying property, and
preparing to plant here their winter
homes. I wa* surprised to see so
many of Atlanta’* good people visit
ing here—the Hi’lycrs, Hemphills,
Howells, Inman*. Swanuas, English,
Colonel George VV. Scott, Dr. Palmer
and others—and even Mr. Plant and
Colonel Wrenn and their wives did for
a time leave tho Tampa Huy hotel and
found a happy h ding place in Clear
water. Ju*t»think of Captain Evan
Howell staying here a week or two
without saying a word about Cleve
land or finance or conventions or any
other politics during bis stay. The
cairn serenity of this heaven-favored
spot put podtics to tbe blush and
smothers all selfish ambition an 1
uugodly thoughts. The tired mind
comes nere in search of rest, and finds
it. . -
Evan Howell used to smile rt my
gushing letters, and declared there
was no such place this side of heaven ;
but now that lie has seen it with his
eyes, he can’t find adjectives enough
to express his admiration, and, like »
loyaf husband, has gone after his wifq^
to come down* and make a choice of a
hay-front lot. He says he is prepared
to believe anything I say—yes, even
my fish stories. I told him about an
old lady who had lived' near here for
fifty years, and when she wanted fish
for breakfast, walked down the bluff
and waded out ;a few yards into the
crystal water and held out her apron
and let the fish jump in it. Evan
smiled, blit -aid nothing. Next morn
ing I met my old friend Turner, who
publishes a paper at Statesboro, Ga.
I introduced hke fc$£aptain Howell as
a man who was bg^n and raised here,
and captain, thinking to put off a good
joke on me, told Mr. Turner what I
said about au old woman catching fish
here in her apron before the war. Mr.
Turner looked at him: ” He told you
the truth, sir; that woman was my
mother.”
When a man first comes here and
sees extraordinary things, he is almost
afraid to tell of them when he goes
back home, and he begins to Took
•round for n credible witness^ Oolonel
tfoott, the quiet old gentleman who
founded the Agees
notes of a screech owl and the piaintive
song of the whip-poor-will in the grjve
naar by. - At tro'clock we pot the little
girl to bed, but sht, too, had become
excited, and couldn’t sleep. I sat by
her and stroked her hair and her hands
for an hour, when at last with a sigh,
she dropped asleep. Eleven o’clock
came and 12 and 12:30 o'clock, aod 1
reasoned that the boat* was on a sand
bar and could not get off till morning.
A boat party from Duneden was strand
'd on a bar last week and had to stay
there all night, and their families aou
friends were greatly alarmed and sent
out searching parties for them. All is
uut gold that glitters even at Clear-
.vaters. At half-past 1 o’clock, while
nodding in my chair, I was suddeoly
awakened by the sound of voices, anu
my heart bounded with gratitude and
joy. The long suspense was over, for
1 had imagined many distressing
things. Twice the little girl had silk
ed in her sleep, and sighed and said.
“ Oh mercy !”
My daughter threw herself into a
chair aud exclaimed, “Oh, I am so
tired and thankfuland another
daughter said : Now, don’t scold ur
one oit, but listen to our tale of woe.'
We started back at 3 o’clock, but soon
found our boat becalmed away out in-j
ibe gulf, and we could not move half a
mile an hour. When nl^bt came we
were five mile* from home, and after we
got into the north pass we lo-iguU on i
sand bar and had |p wait t tr the tin
to rise and fi<>at us off. and the four
gentlemen then got into the little boat
and pulled at tbe osrs with all their,
might for three hours and towed the
big boat after them. Oh, it was awful,
and some of the girls got awfully sea
■>ck acd fed the tishe* and lost their
dinner, and we had a new pilot and lost
mir way and it'was just awful! If *
live a thousand years, [ will never go
out so far on the gulf again.”' '
Well, of course, I did not scold them
but I will bet 62 they go again next
week if they are invited Already
this morning they are boasting of what
a good time they had at the grouper
banks, and how they caught thirty
•even, and one that Miss English
caught was three feet tong, and would
weigh thirty pounds. There Is such a
charm about these waters, that they
cannot keep away from tfyeiu
Hut 1 am going home to my better
and bigger half tomorrow and work in
m/ garden, and in hers, too, of course,
for “ the winter is over and gone. Th<
time for tnosinging of birds has come,
and the voice of the turtle dove is
heard in the land.” BlL Aitr.
ments, for its confirmation or rejection
does not amount to a row ot pin*.
They want the Senate’s power ^with
regard to appointments made* Vsub-
stantial reality.
On tho other hand, tbe Governor
claims that tbe con-tltution lodges the
appointing power-la his hands, and
bly passes a new- law regulating ttd
duties, etc., of mogUtrates.
The next in importance Of toe bills
vetoed by the Governor was that doing
away with the publication of ti.e an
nual reports of County Treasurers 1*>
the county papers. The contention in
favor of the bill was that such publi
cations cost the taxpayers large sums
of money, for which there was no com
mensurate return. N The GuVtrnor
claims that there is value in the pub
lication of tbe repons of tbe County.
Treasurers, for tbe taxpayers can find
out from them what has been done
wuh their mohoa and acts as a check
on 1 the treasures, preventing them;
from making overpaytpen's or pay
ments to themselves in tlie Lame of
other parties.
The third bill vetoed was one pro
viding for free distribution among tbei
members of the General AsB^robly
copies of volume one of the South
Carolina statute*, edited by Tnomaa
Cooper. These books arc on sale In
tbe State library Aod the Goverapr
that passage of the provision prevent-
ing reappointment of an
household had supper and cheered the
lingering hours with prose and poetry
and conversation. Ever and anpn 1
came out and listened for a song to
float its melody over the waters, for
they always come back singing : but
there was no sound save tbe ominousi-what they consider their rights, oven
jected by the Senate really operates to
transfer that power to the Senate.
It is hardly likely that the Governor
will lose tbe power he desires to pre-
sei ve, for tbe House will not likely con
sent to the passage of such a bill over
his veto. The argument presented to
the members of the House is very
plausible and has some force. It is
practically to this effect: You are en
titled to some show in?the mutter of
appointments.
The Governor is usually guided in
tbe making of appointments by the
desire of the majority of the members
of the delegation from the country for
which the appointment is to be made.
It is frequently the case that tbe Rep
resentatives favor the appointment of
one man, while the Senator wants an
other to land. The Governor takes
the advice of the members of the
House and appoints Ateetr msirr "wbore
appointment the Senator has rejected,
Senatorial,courtesy operating to have
h^i-confceres vote against any appoint
ment which does not suit him. When
the case is put in this light, the mem
bers of the House are apt to protect
ry.
thinks if any legislator wants one, he
preprinted no funds to pay for mailing
the books and there is do fund which
can be devoted to tha?. purpose.
if those rights are not specified in the
constitution.
“Tr ail the Senators would examine
into the merits of an appointment,
there would be some value in the pro
vision requiring appointments to re
ceive tbe sanction of the Senate, but
if each senator, fo return for like con
sideration, simply votes agaiust an ap
pointment because it is objectionable
to the Senator from the county for
which it is made, then it appears that
the confirmation provision, coupled
with a law preventing reappointment
of a rejected appoiutee, would un
doubtedly practically take the appoint-
Ijpg power out of IheAfoveruor’s hands
and put il for each county in the hands
of the S nator from iitnt, county.
.The effect of the veto of this bill
win be to leave tbe old law governing
trial justices of force, for the consti
tution expressly says that it shall re
main of force until toe General Assem
THREE VETOES BY THE GOVERNOR.'
THE MAGISTRATE’S ACT IHStP
PROVED.
He Claims the Right to Remove for
Cause—County Treasurers’ State
meats to be Published.
Agnes Boot* iMlUiita, has
Columbia Register.
There we,re some 200 bills passed by
the (icneral Assembly at its ro< eut
session, and (fovernor Evans only ve
toed four or five of them. Oue or two
of them were vetoed while the Legis
lature was in session and th*oe have
been vet'H*d since its adjournment.
The most important measure of the
three was that declaring the law of
the Statu with reference to the ap
pointment, duties and compensation of
magistrates, a* trial justices are called
under the new constitution.
Governor Evans** objections to the
magistrates’ bill are two-fold. In the
first place the bill denied him to re
move magistrates, even for cause, and
in the second place it prohibited reap
pointment by tno Governor of magis
trates whose appointment the Senate
refused to confirm.
Both p? tho provfaion^ which are ob
noxious to the G iv -rnor were plac d
in tho bill by the Senatd. The House
voted byth of them down. The bill
finally went to a free conference, fan
ureJUi adopt whose report kills any bill
which they have considered. Tnc
Epilepsy 20 Years.
Cured by Dr. Miles’ Nervine.
A few 7*tr* ajo. Mr. L. W. Galloher, was
sa •itrntirs, •acceoifal sxprrt mana-
f vtarrr ot lumber prod art*. Attacked with
epIlepAj. h« was obliged to giro upj|labu*l-
nr**. Tlie attack* ramo ujmmi him most In
opportunely. One time falUnx from a carri
age, at a- o'. her Corn stain, aod often la the
street. Once bo fell down a shaft In the
mill, hl9:n>rl<% nearly proving fatal, hlr.
'iollalicr writes from Milwaukee, Feb. IS, IB.
“There are none more miserable than epi
leptics. For 20 years I suffered with epilep^
Uc fits, haring as high as five In one night. I
tried any number of physician*, paying to
one alone, a fee of SSCUU) aud. have done
little for years but search for something to
help me, and hare taken all the leading
remedice, but received no benefit. A year ago
my son, 'tias. 8. Gallahcr, druggist at 191
Reed St!, Milwaukee, gave me Dr. Miles’
Restorative Nervine, and I tried It with
gratify ing rusults. Have had but two flu
since I began taking It. I am better now la
every way than I bare been In 20 years.’’
Dr. Miles'Remedies are sold by druggists
on a positive guarantee that the first iuttle
will benefit or price refunded. Book on the
Heart and Ncrroa, free. Address,
Dr. Miles Medical Ce.. Elkhart, lad.
Dr. Klei’ Remedies Restore Ueitik
a tboreutthly
is general t be-
—Armenia ,ts tbt
Christain country, as
Heved. Out<v s popufatYm of3£10,20r>
nearly tfve-t.ixth* are Moh mm dan*
tbe exact number being 2,Uk>,sl4 to
only 609.791 Christ aca.
—It is a busy B ceno uow abjut the
site of the Niirri." Cotton M'lfa C n-
piny's factory. Presiili nt Non is is
pushing work in a lively'w»,t.
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Trains leave Spartanburg. A. A C. dlvMoa.
northbound. S.Ui a. m . S.fi p. ta., S-.u p. m ,
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all
fee conference committee agreed to
the Senate anv-mlrnentfl, and, rather
than kill the bill, tbe House accepted
the reports
Governor Erana ia determined in^bis
opposition to the. curtailment of the
power of the chief executive which
would be accomplished by tbe passage
of an act depriving"hlTiri orthe right to
rsmove magistrates. He.says that the
knowledge of his possession of that
power restrains magistrates and
makes them attend .strictly to their
duties, fo’’fear ofjbffidal decapitation.
In cowershtion wiHti a R-Mrlster report
er, he mentioned several instances
where magistral s hod failed to do
their duty, aod claimed that such-men
ought not to bo tilowvti to retain their
offices, but the Governor should have
toe power Input tb-rr ryffi ial heat’s
in tfis’waste hot-icet Oie of the cases
a Hoped was that of a trial jostioa
Delivered tn ynttr railroad Sopot, „
> fic-iglit < hat'?<'S pa'd. Kend thla descrip- J
9 tlou carrfuliy. Ibis s; lundld Cooking”
rs Stove i» No, S; lus f.itir S Inch jpot holes;
ft M>xl6 luck ov<-n : IS im h tiro box. 24 inches
!9 high; 21x25 Inch top; nice smooth casting.
fa I have bad tbi.i »;oV« made f. r my trade, *
J9 after toy own td- a. cotiibiiiing aif the good
9 foists cf nil tit-dfini pno-d rovea, ao4 ..
9 leaving mu Uk' o 'p et tollable features. It
Bryond all >lo:i i th*> 1 eH No. s Cooking 2
fitove made, f -r the p> l"«. Kilted with 2 2
JKitu, 2 pot cov* ny-2 »kibels,2 gri(ldlea,S 2
baking pans, : Jom s of pipe, I elbow, 1 col
lar, 1 III:or. 1 scrip r. 1 cxke polish, 1 Iron
tea kettle, 1 tie v I. We wmt to make cae-
tomers uuU In n h ,i,i i tury pert ufi tbe
'Nkiuth, for the i urjs>.« of ti.iroduclng our
basinet* to new ,>*<>' 1c, and to renew our
acquaintance wiMf ••611* c uls.
i will ship ibl'.
;i.,iid.i in'king Stove 2
(St*.ire lo any depot, 2
v YV V Will 1*11
and the abovc*aN*>j jfr*»re to any
all freight cliJei:cs*v!T»i*f for only fi
whea the each cues as a n h ihe order This
•love Is a good one. »Hi iiiade, and will
glge entire sailafai-t on om illustrated 2
catalogue of Fundima. SloiM and Baby
Carriages mailed f>*«. Au,ire,s
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between New York and New Orleai a, via WaSS
tagtnn, Atlanta and Montgomery, and alas ba»*
tween New York and Memphis, vfi Washington.
Atlanta and Blrmlnghaoi. Diking
Noa 8B and 99—United Stole# Fait Mall. Toll.
»i*«>lng car* between Atlaito/Nok
i and Hew York.
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Richmond, Danvllls and Greenaboe.
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