The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, October 19, 1899, Image 4
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CHAPTER IV.
OETTINO CUOSKB.
Herbflrt Pnrront spoke the truth
when he M^dHhat he did not belong to
the sleuthhonnd typo of defective*. He
wm too thoroughly American to take a
morbid delight in mere man hunting,
bis profotwion "notwithstanding, but he
possessed sufficient sound common sense
to make use of some especially acute
and discerning faculties that nature
had endowed him with and was gener
ally admitted to be one of the very
smartest young detectives that Chicago
had ever been proud to possess.
If there seemed absolutely no dew,
the cry was, “Send Darrent,” and if
Darrent gave it np it was hopeless. Al
fa tiie last man in the world to
;lect dnty for pleasure, he took a
delight in all sports and pastimes
and could handle a baseball bat or cue
and pull an oar with the best
He had mentally dedded that the
Very first step in this investigation must
be to trace Astray Marsden, and as no
farther progrep could be mado nntil h»
got his reply from headquarters he de
rided to take an hour's spin upon the
river, an hour on that perfect stretch of
fee. and then ho would be back in time
to drive over and catch the express from
Barnstaple to Chicago,if required them
It was simply glorious to glide along
at racing speed over miles of smooth
black ice, but rather annoying to Dar
rent. who counted himself a good skat
er, to find that he CooH never overtake
a man who kept steadily on some 40
yards in front of him. sometimes letting
him decrease the distance that sepa
rated them to only a few feet and then
suddenly sweeping a quarter of a mile
ahead. Darrent felt decidedly piqued
as for the fourth time the stranger
■purled double his pace and easily left
him behind, but st last, apparently
contented with the exhibition he had
given of his prowess, the man cnrvM
round and came bearing down upon
Mm
“Bah Jovel" he ejaculated aa he
manenvered to Darrent 1 s aide by a se-
riea of complicated twists and cnrvsa
“Bab Jove, stranger I Yon skate a bit
ahr
Darrent acknowledged the bruaqne
compliment by a shake of the head and
MlWi:
"I tried tny level
not get near you '*
“Well. I fawncy I’m fast; spent a
few yean on the other side of the big
pond -
“I beg your pardon T*’
“In England ”
-Ohl"
“And In Canada, the
has such great skating;
lee for months, y know “
“Oh. yea! ’
Darrent gated with
at his oumpaiiion aa aide by
sped along toward Noroom be.
“It'a a great <> >nn try.
“Yea; so 1 have always understood
bom Englishmen. ”
“The finest on earth, bah Jovef
best but I could
country that
fawncy good
curiosity
they
a pressed by
I fawncy
to."
I am
me of
hit of
“You aatun much tm
•'Why. certainly I fawncy
rather proud to he a ritiaeo of
the big cities of England. Slick
teeth!* ahr
“Very good.
The next remark from the
surprised and nettled Darrent
"Fawncy you're a teo from Chi-
aagn. ahf On the scent; sort of blood-
hound”
“1 beg your pardon r
“You^ieedn’t 1 saw you pottering
mund The Orange this morning, ex
amining footpath* and finger marks 1
fawncy I am a bit clerah—just a bit
Spotted your man'yet T”
"EhT"
“The man who helped old Marsden
to collect bis chips and hand ’em in. "
“Oh. no I Not yet’’
"Now. I rather fawnried you’d lay
hold of him at unoe. ”
“Indeed 1“
“Touching young Marsden. eht
What price thatT"
“I’m afraid I don’t exactly follow
you. ’’
“Not Well. 1 fawbey not I’m a bit
elevah, sir, 1 am." and the Englishman
lapped the aide of his nose with a long
“Silat Oomell, Kir—Silas Uosnell." •
forefinger "Find if young Marsden’s
returned Ah, not that I’m oversorry
old Marsden’s pegged it Of course
1 didn't want him murdejred, but I
fawncy I might stand to be a bit better
off in a wee!: or two. * *
“How soY"
“Really, now. don ’t yon see, he never
recognized me. but I’m a cousin, sir,
and 1 fawnev I’ll shake things np a bit
itly There are one or two others
this neighborhood, sir. and you may
be sure we shall contest the will ”
“That is. if it’s not satisfactory to
your ideas. 1 presume T"
“Precisely What’s the law, now, if
that old miser. Marsden, has left all his
dost to the youngster and it’a proved
that the youngster murdered him?
jWhat’s the iaw-T“ ^
“Don’t yon think. Mr”—
* “Silas Ooenell. sir—Silas OosnedL ”
“Well don’t you think. Mr. Gosaell
•you make quite so much use of his
i b couMctfea with ths mutef”
‘"Tfswncy tbsrperbaps >0*1* light
But what’s the law anyway t”
“I’m sore 1 don’t know,” Darrent
responded sharply ss they mads for the
tank on the Norcombe slda
“All right; steady doss It Don't get
warm, young man,” Mr. Gomel! ob
served as he unfastened his skates.
“Still, I fawncy a Scotland Yard man
would know the law backward. ”
“Very probably so, Mr. GosneU,”
replied Darrent! “He would know it
as yon say, backward.”
“Are yon strolling xny way, old
chapT”. A,
“I think not, and yet, on second
thought, I think I will ”
“Right Will you have a drink T”
“No, thanks.”
“SureT”,
“No, thanks.”' • ,
“I fawncy yon’re right Poison your
self is no figure of speech if you drink
the stuff they sell in Norcombe.”
Herbert Darrent walked with his
strange acquaintance through the vil
lage, anxious to gain what news he
could, if any, of the relatives of the
late Joeiah Marsden, and before they
parted at the door of the Palace hotel
ho had learned that Marsden’s remain
ing cousins were Andrew Marsden, a
farmer, living a few miles west of Nor
combe, and Arthur Ridgeway, the man
ager of a theater in Barnstaple.
Silas Uosnell was-a- man that Darrent
felt he would very mnch like to study,
but time would not permit He could
only label him as a harm kiss idiot and
then forgot him. although he did ask
himself once or twice during the day,
as the thought recurred to him, why
Qosnell’s Insanity had taken shoh a pe
culiar turn. • , -
After bidding goodby to his compan
ion Darrent walked down to the police
station, bat there was no reply to his
telegram, and it was not until noon next
day that he received a lengthy dispatch
from Chicago in answer to his own.
Thanks to his promptitude of action,
the authorities had experienced little
difficulty in tracing Astray Marsden.
He had gone by the first train from
Barnstaple to Chicago, as Darrent had
expected he would, had taken a cab at
the station and was driven to the Royal
hotel, where he was now staying under
his own nama
“Ham I” mattered Darrent as be read
the message “Got a good alibi. I sup
pose. ” lie glanced at his watch. He
could drive over and catch the after-^
noon train from Barnstaple, get to Chi
cago. see young Marsden and be back
again the next night, and while at
Barnstaple be might be aide to have a
few woids with one of the other eooe-
tne, Arthur ijidgewaz
' A couple of boon later Ilarrent was
strolling down High street. Ilamstaple.
looking for the Gaiety theaW% which
after a lengthy search, he discovered In
a n<>t very lively quarter at the town
ami from a variegated placard on the
wall gleaned the information that Mr
Arthur Ridgeway waa the actor-man
ager Another highly colored poster
n-|vem>nting a gentleman In a deep bine
truck coat and pink trunacm, with an
anuccountybly amiable amil* npun his
features, taring dropped into an ennr
^nons caldron uf some steaming liquid
by another and kws amiable gentleman,
who. iii pleasing contrast to hia nnf«r
Innate victim, waa attired in a pink
frock mat and bine trouser* announced
to all and sundry that th««e would be
played that evening and for the net of
the week the stirring melodnuqa, enti
tied "The Factory Man's Revenga.” In
which were Introduced a r«al steam
hammer weighing a hundred tons and
a real caldron of real molten metal
"the ns at thrilling seen*” the poster
averted, “ever seen on any stage.”
which Darrent was quite ready to be
lieve.
Making his way down a grimy court,
at the entrance uf which a lamp In a
w Ira cage bore the legend “Stage DtXJ», ”
Darrent found n veritable picture gal
lery of jHMtiTa representing tbe villain,
always in the same pink coat and the
same bine trousers, putting tbe gentle
man whose taste in clothes was exactly
rice versa through a variety of original
and excruciating tortures, at which the
bland gentleman continued to beam and
■mile, evidently with an Inborn knowl
edge that his torn was coming In the
last het^
At last Darrent reached the stage
door of the Gaiety theater and. sending
in his card, asked to see Mr. Ridgeway
and while waiting whiled away the
time by studying a pictorial represen
tation of the great scene of the last ad
which explained the mnch put upon
gentleman’s extreme forbearance In
the previous scene*
Darrent’s admiration of tbe triumph
of virtue over villainy was Interrupted
by the return of the stage door keeper
Mr. Ridgeway would see him. he was
informed, and. following his guide
along a tortuous labyrinth of stairs and
passages, he at lust found himself upon
the stage of the Gaiety theater, where
the flaring “T” piece only served to
render the gloom of auditorium visible.
A good tempered looking man nodded
to him as he appeared and. begging to
be excused for a moment, am tinned
the task upon which he was engaged of
holding the hundred ton hammer erect
while a man went over it with a paint-
brash.
“Glad to see you. Sit down, sir,”
he shouted as Darrent appeared “Not
in a hurry for a minute? Thanks. Aw
fully busy. Give you ten minutee In
ten minute* Suit youT Right; they’re
yours. Now, give me your opinion,
stranger.” be rattled on. "Does that
steam hammer look like tbe real thing;
or doee it nctT Hal You’re laughing.
Never mind You haven’t got the right
light on it Come tonight and see it,
and you’d swear it was the genuine ar
ticle. One hundred ton* Daylight does
not suit any of us Now, look at me.
What do I look—fid «fa! See me to
night Pm tbe hen, fid and lovely os
the rising sun. Look at the heroine
Ahl She’s a pretty girl anyway, isn’t
sheT But she’ll look a goddess, fi
feet goddess of II, tonight
“Now, Arthur, do«rt
riea, ” a very pretty girl
the manager exclaimed fast
bond over his month.
toinwg nmaenat *‘ abe
aa explanatory way, to Herbert Dar-
wif* Sir,” Ridgeway oori^aod,
the hundred too hsVnmer.
which teoended with s dead wooden
tfcgd^and. ^uttiniJils arm round the
gin. ••one m me inf, mis or «ne vary
bast, and the prettiest little heroine on
the stage. ”
Darrent shook hands with the lady
and paid her an easy little compUment
that raised her color and caused her,
husband to beam upon them both.
“Look' at that, alv—look at itt” he
exclaimed delightedly, “There’s a love
ly little innocent blush fbr yon I And
yet you'll find people who say a woman
forgets how to 'finSh dirtctly she goes
on the stage. Hang it, Mr, they ought
to be horsewhipped, and I’d like to have
the doing of itt Now, excuse me just
one minute more—must go through a
little soene—and then I’m your* By
the way, “he con tinned anxiously, “you
don’t want to go on the stage, do yorfT
Don’t say yon do; shouldn't like to re
fuse you. I like the look of yon, but I’m
fall—full”
Darrent shook his head laughingly,
and the manager, mnch relieved, bos-,
tied acroee the stage and rushed into re
hearsal of the little scene
“A good hearted fellow,” was tbe
way Herbert Darrent summed up the
second relation of Joeiah Marsden and
fell into a reverie about the first rela
tion he had met and why nature had
aver found it worth her while to create
such a colossal idiot Or—the idea al
ways came to him—was tbe man as big
a fool as he pretended to be or some
thing more of a roguet
His ruminations were interrupted and
he was brought back to the world again
by finding Mr. Ridgeway standing be
fore him, wildly brushing hia hand
through his hair and looking the very
picture of farcical despair.
“Behold her. behold her!’’ the matf
ager excitedly shouted. 'waving t ais
hand toward his wife “What does she
look like t”
Darrent thought to himself that she
looked like what she waa a very bright
ydung girl but he was not even given
- time to express his opinion
“Does she look broken hearted and
starving t Not a bit, not a bit like it
’I’ve gone through this scene dozens of
time* and she won’t look miserable. I
don’t believe she can. bless bar heart I*
“Go on. go on. Enter James Hardy
He’s the villain of the piece, ” he ex
plained to Darrent “Squire Hardy, In
love with the village maiden; good old
crusted melodrama. But won’t It got
Won’t the public hoot himT Ahl” and
the energetic manager rushed across
the stage again, “it won’t do, I tall
yon You say 'You’re in my power I’
as if yon were askfhg tbe time the next
train started for Chicago. Put
life Into it Now, then, my dear, shrink
from him. I know he’s not a bad tel
low actoally, but that’s not his char
acter in tbe play. That’s better. No;
wait a minute 'You're in my power'
—yea that's all right Shrink and then
do a little shriek. Now go back. 'If 1
could see him once mar* I could die
coo tent' That's right Enter Hardy*:
co* ’In my power’—good. Bhria
am lost I Who will save met' Ah. very
good! I enter, struggle. Yea that’s all
right Now, do it like that tonight.
Tbe little scene was evidently settled
to Mr Ridgeway's satisfaction, and he
walked over to Herbert Darrent "Now,
sir. 1 am yoors to command. ”
Tbe detective, ever a quick judge of
character, had long since arrived at the
cone 1 onion that the best way to Beal
with Mr Ridgeway was to ootne to the
C lot at ono* and. haring taken a
that gentleman's room
a glass of wine that
BILL ARP FBBL8 THANKFUL-
HAPPINI
Ilf ALL OUR BOMBS
and accepted
preen'd upon him. he placed his hand in
his pocket and. taking out the spring
knife, laid l\ upon tbe table
“I am not going to attempt to deosiyy
you. Mr. Ridgeway. ” he exclaimed “I
tell yon frankly I am a detective In
quiring into (be murder of your cousin.
Joeiah Marsden. ” »
The manager, with his eyes riveted
upon the knife nodded his head, but
■aid nothing.
“When did yon see Joslah Marsden
lastf
“Two years age when be foreclosed
on his mortgage on this theater and
turned me Into the streets almost
ruined 1 was the proprietor then. Now
I’m only the manager. ” Ridgeway re
plied with suppressed passion In his
voice “Never seen him since then and
always prayad I never would—In case
at accident* ”
“Ahl Have yon ever seen that knife
before T”
Ridgeway caught hia breath.
“Marsdun was murdered with that
knife. Do you remember ever seeing It
before f”
"Neves, ” the manager replied, tarp-
tng bis gaae from the Knife to hie own
boots and nervously fingering the stem
of his wineglass “Never. That I am
absolutely certain of. ”
“A good hearted fellow,” waa Dar
rent's mental note as be observed the
obvious embarrassment of the man.
“He's not need to telling lie* but it'a
no nee”
“Seen Astray Marsden lately f” he
Interjected.
“No.” ’ C
“He’s abroad, la he nott”
“Bo thqy aay.”
“Ahl’'
“Good heaven* air I” exclaimed Ar
thur Ridgeway, jumping to his feet
“Yon don’t* mean to say you suspect
him! It’a impossible. He wouldn’t do
it, I'd stake my right hand on -it. He’s
a trump, as white a man as was ever
made.”
“And so Is hia friend, Arthur Ridge
way, ” Darrent interposed, slapping him
on the back. “There, don’t disturb
yourself. If he'e innocent, he’ll be able
to prove it right enough. ” And, wring
ing the man’s hand, Herbert Darrent
strolled out of tbe theater and toward
the railway^ station.
“Arthur Ridgeway recognizee the
knife and knows that Astray Marsden
baa returned,” he muse* “Very well;
things are getting closer. Now to see
whether young Marsden is worthy of
thin man's good opinion or is one of the
biggest scoundrels breathing. ”
l ^ ixo n-OOSXDRXBkl
—‘‘We do not claim," says tbe Port-
lanl, Me., Advertiser, “ to be the big
gest printers aad publishers in the
world, but we do claim to have the
biggest 'devil' In this oouqtry In our
office. Hcl Is Robert BtftSchard,'* of
Hinsdale, N. H., aad wfien he is in
good trim weighs 406 pounds, but hn is
* little thin this summer and now
weighs 362 pounds. He Is only 18
years old, and holds tbe medal for
champion heavy weight bicyclist, hay
ing gained ooasldarable notoriety in
He la Glad Wa Hay# Good Things
to Bn joy In This World—Bean tj in
Autumn Leave*
•
"How small the part of what wa all an-
dure
la that which kings or laws can cause or
cur*”
We make much ado over the money
question, the tariff, the trusts, the com
bination of capital against labor and
the greed and corruption of politicians,
but after all our felicity depends upon
ourselves and what we choose to
make of our domestic life. Compared
with happiness at home all other joys
lappiness
are trifles, transitory pleasures ihat
come and go and leave us at last to
take refuge In the domestic circle. A
hundred years ago the poet wrote :
“ If solid happiness we priie
Within our breast this jewel lies,
From our own selves our joys must come
And that endearing place—our home.”
How sadly sweet Is the dream of
home to the boys who have exiled
themselves to a foreign land—to the
daughters who have followed their
husbacds far away—to the soldiers
who lie In the trenches in the distant
islands of the sea, and to the wretched
convicts who toll in the mines for life
or for a term of miserable years.
I was ruminating about how much
we complaining mortals have to be
thankful for In this goodly land. It is
well for us all to sometimes take an in
voice of what we have got that neither
kings sor laws can take from us. The
masses of our people have homes—
humble homes, comfortable homes
where, as William Pitt said, “The
poorest man may 1)14 defiance to the
crown, ^t may be frail, Its roof may
shake, the wind may blow through It
and the rain leak in, but the king of
England cannot eater, nor bis forces
dare to cross its threshold.” The
msstesof our people have good health,
whtenus tbe chlefeal of all tbe poor
man's blessing* Is this goodly South
ern land we have pure air, good water,!;"'i;' ^‘n^T '.tealIng
a temperate climate and a soil that re- w-.n.h «„,!
sponds easily and surely Vo the la
borer’s toll. Adam Smith said In his
great work on the wealth* uf nations
that a kind Providence had so ordained
that the average labor uf one man
would support eight persons and give
them all of the necessaries, many of
the comforts and some of the luxuries
ol life. How nicely thU fits tbe aver
age family—a man and his wife and
six children. If there are mure chil
dren the older ones are able to help,
and ns the tnnn grows old and feeble
the younger children hnve grown up
to take his place. Of course, there
are exceptions, for the wile mny be nn
invalid or the children nil girls or the
term hone get sick and die, or the
bogs take cholera or the house burn
up, but most all of our Ills are the re
sult of indolence, Imprudence or crimi
nal conduct. If we violnte n law of
suture we are sure to suffer for it. If
we spend more then we mnse nod gel
in debt we chain ourselves to a hard
master, for, as fioiumun said, " the
borrower is a servant of the lender.”
Frugal habits and contentment nt
home ore cardinal virtues that ensure
Lnppmess. Then there ore tbe pi
.tires that affect the heart and the
emotions, the joys of loving nnd being
loved, tne innocent sports of children
or grandchildren, as thev play arouuu
us; the sweet cha-m of mude. eve-
though It be a mother's song as Si.*
soothes bar child to sleep. Fiom my
window 1 see beautiful Hover* looking
up to heaven or bending gracefully to
tne God who made them.
- Flowers ibat weep withmit woe,
And blush without a crime.
And tbo vines on the trellis are fad
ing into bwauty and tbe forest trees
*re taking on their variegated colors.
What is lovelier than tbe autumn
robes of tbe chesnut and maple and
sweelgum and the intermingled green
of the piaeay Why not cultivate a
taste for all these outside ornaments of
nature, for they are not only beautiful,
but the iui,ti 11. pialiun of th«.mis re
fining. A beautiful Huwer is a mira
cle ; no buman band could faebiuu it
and " Solomon In ail his Ktorv was not
clothed like one of these. ' The bless
lags o', calure are gratuities. They
cost nothing—tbe trees, the fl iwers,
the grass, tbe sunshine aad tuo rain
the songs of birds and the reverential
sound of distant thunder that comes,
as tbe poet says, from beaven’i own
organ.
And so the invoice might go on. Of
course, a good citizen will take an In
lerest in the laws that govern him,
but he should not forget tbe blessings
that laws cannoTtSke away, nor should
he fret himself because ot evildoers
A much traveled friendj^pn his return
from Europe told me that as.he jour
neyed through Germany he saw many
and many a woman yoked beside a cow
or a steer pulling a plow through tbe
tough soli, and huedreds of women
going to market half bent under the
burden of wicker baskets piled up
with small wood or vegetables. Tbe
white man’s burden fs nothing com
pared with the white woman’s burden
among the pe^stnlry of that country.
Every young man owes military service
to iho government and is obliged to go
when his time comes, but here every
man is a king or a sovereign and can
go or not, as he pleases. The truth is
that our common people are the most
independent common people In the
world ahd ought to be grateful to God
that tbe lines have fallen to them Id
such pleasant places. Why be envious
of tbe rich, tbe millionaires who have
more care and anxiety than we have ;
whose children grow up in peril, whose
days are consumed in plans to Increase
tbeir riches, whose nights are restless
with dreams of gold, and whoso health
and appetite require constant nursing.
The law of compensation is as fixud
as fate and it is entirely- possible In
this land of liberty fqr a poor man to
be as happy as a rich one. But we
must all work and be diligent in busi
ness. It is every man’s duty to better
his condition, if he can. He must
make his home comfortable and at
tractive. His wife and daughters are
compelled to live there and they like
comforts and ornaments. It is tbe
nature of woman. The roof should not
leak nor the wind blow in at a broken
window pane. The doors should shut
easily and the front gate Lang well on
its hinges. If you can’t buy a carpet 1 ,
you can make one of bagging that, will
bfc r comfort Th ftiWr. Beg'a few
rose bushes and vines from your neigh
bors and plant them. Bring same
goldenrod from the fields and place it
somewhere to look at. Keep a good,
clean dog, but don’t let him He by the
fire. If you can’t hire a servant, then
do you or the boys make the fires and
milk the cows. Woman has enough
to do in nursing the little children and
making their clothes and caring fdr
them *11 the day and sometimes half
the eight.' My contempt for a man
who does not help his wife has no
bounds.
The oatech Ism asks what is the
chl*f __
“To glori
*« -ri
of man. Aad the anewer >,
Ify God aad enjoy him for*
ever.” That la good theory, but the
fact is that a man’s ohlsf business is to
raise children aad to enjoy them. The
world la working for children and our
greatest pleaauia aad oar greatest
grief cornea from them. What doee
politics or fame or money weigh com
pared with the death or the dlshoner
of a child. How doee the great world
shrink when affliction invades the
family circle. The welfare of our
children is the all-nbeorblng business
of our life. The desire to see them
well nnd happy in childhood and later
on to be well mated and married and
prospering In business and ornaments
to the church and the community is
the ideal hope of parents. “To glorify
God nnd enjoy him forever ” is in a
measure postponed fpr another world.
We must trust the Lord and pray to
Him, but our most constant devotion
and anxiety is for our children.
But why this moralizing? The poets
have long since sung tbe sweet song of
filial and paternal love. Even David
sang of the rich reward to the
righteous man when his children grew
up like olive plants around his table.
Our little orphan girl came home
yesterday as proud as her Uncle Tom
will be when he receives his thousand-
dollar sword, for she is on the second
honor roll at school and her picture
will get ja<o the papers some of these
days. Another grandchild got the
second honor in another grade and the
parents and we grandparents are i
proud as tbe children. We had no
marks or honors wheofave went to
school, except to got beau in the Fri
day eveaing spelling class, when the
whole school stood up In a semi-circle
and contended for the highest place.
My sweet-heart generally held the
fort and if I could climb to her side
and hold her hand In mine it was
enough for me. But, ah ! the oeauti
ful books tbe children have now and
tbe beautiful pictures. How we would
have wondered and admired if we bad
had a small portion of them. Tbe old
blueback spelling book had five, I
think, and I see tbe rude boy up In tbe
And
we bad an English reader and I re
member the picture of tbe two farmers
quarreling over a cow. One bad her
oy tbe horns and the other by the tail
and they were both pulling with all
tbeir might, while a lawyer was sitting
on a stool milking her. How does that
fit lawyers and a law case now v We
had a grammer and an arithmetic and
I notice that three times three still
make nine and the multiplication table
is tbe same, but I don’t see the rule of
three nor " tare and tret,” that we
used to whisper wms enough to make
the devil sweat. Our geography wa«
a book and an atlas separate, but
there were to pictures. But there is
more in the boy or tbe girl than In the
books, and either can got an education
if they try to. Too beet part of our
education comes after we quit ecbooi
and settle down to the bus'nees of life
It oomee^from .-ending good books—
history, biography, inagaz no ami
newspapers. In our young days we
did not read trash, for we did not have
It. but aow the young ixiup-e read any
thing and everything, if evil com
munications cortupl good manners,
aa St. 1’aul sa d, then a person's
character Isaffejtei by the books be
readx.v ‘ le ading ail sorts of novels
is as mucb a dissipation as gambling
•nd 1 wish there was a commission in
every State to decide what books were
brsl for minors to read. There Isa
smart servant girl in my family and
tbs la reading ’Trilby” on tbe sly—
negroes will do evesy> devilish thing
they see tbe white folks do. 1 rucSut
that is the monkey that lain th. m.
Bill Am-
Lieut. Win ship's Brave Act.—
Emory Wlnsttic, assistant engineer in
tbe-navy, held aa- untire regiment ot
Filipinos at bay while 126 of ms com
rades escaped to tbeir boats. While a
party from the Bennington were ms*
mg a reconnoissance at Malabon, Win
ship was sent ashore In charge of the
steam cutter conveying three open
boat loau* uf men. The.landing party
went lost.ore too far without sending
out scouts and was surprised fcy aa
overpowlng force of natives, who pur
sued them fiercely. The Americans re
treated toward tbe shure, hotly pur
sued. Winsbip was alone In the launch,
ami at ..ono i realising tbe desperate
situation, heunllmbered the revolving
cannon of the launch and opened a
steady fire upon the enemy. He was,
of course, the mark of tbe-whole bat
talion, but be kept his place ucfllnch-
ingly, his finga* on the trigger, and
poured a deadly fire upon the Filipinos
until they jurped and flsd,.leaving
thirty dead~'on' the shore. Then tbe
brave young officer fell back with five
bnliets In bis body. Commodore Taus
sig says that but for Winsbip none of
the party would have escaped.
The gallant young man who did this
Is a native of Georgia and graduated
th(oe years ago from the naval aca
demy.
CRUEUriBB OF WAR.
The Moanment to Mosby’s Men a
Memorial of Yankee Brntatlty.
The Washington correspondent of
the New Yprk Evening Post says that
the recent dedication of a shaft at
Front Royal in the Shenandoah Valley,
seven of Mosbv’s men who were ex-
uted by the Federal authorities dur
ing the civil war’has, in ar way, a
bearing npon the much disputed ques
tion whether or not our soldiers have
been committing atrocities in the
Philippines. Several weeks ago a
member bf the cabinet, tailing with
your correspondent concerning the re-
ports which were then coming from the
Philippines in the shape of soldiers’
letters gave his opinion that the ex
planation was found in the fact that all
war is full of brutelity and ruffianism.
He thought it very probable that the
American soldiers' in* the Philippines
had on occasions treated with cruelty
and revengefulness more or less in
nocent persons. He called attention
to the fact that Southern communities
are to this day full of accounts of the
same sort of conduct on the part of in
vading armies from the North that is
now charged against our soldiers in
the Philippines. The. extent to which
this feeling continues in the_ South is
a surprise to every Northern traveler
in that section. Local newspapers to
this day rehash stories of cruelty,
brutality and wantonness on the part
ol Northern invaders, showing that
such recollections are still vivid. A
man who could clip all such references
from Southern newspapers, especially
those printed in the smaller oities,
would be surprised at the mass of al-
legatiofas which would come to him In
a month’s time.
^ The rearing of this shaft at Front
Royal is a concrete example of this
general feeling throughout the South.
The inscription on Its face asserts that
these seven men were executed while
prisoners of war, which Is a plain vlo
lation of all the laws of war. It is as
if the inscription should read : “Erect
ed to commemorate the cruelty of the
Northern invaders of the war of 1861-
65." Of course, the reasons which the
Federal authorities had for taking
sharp measures with Mosby’s raider*
seemed at tbe time valid. It was a part
of war. These reasons will in time be
forgotten, while the cruelty of the
thing Itself will be perpetuated in en
during granite.
Tbe mooiMnent is thirty-five feet la
height, resting on a pedestal five feet
tquare, and located on the brow of a
hill overlooking tbe Town, and at tbe
bead of a flight of terraced stone steps.
Tbe people of Front Royal will prob
ably look upon it much as tbe statue
of Nathan Hale is vlowed in New York
city, with the exception that Hals'*
execution was strictly in accord with
the lews of war, while the southern
people alweys maintain that this was
not.
It seems that on the 23rJ of Septem
ber, 1864, the company of Mosby's com
mand to which these men belonged at
tacked a wagon Ira n just srulh of
Front Royal. Thi j were surprised to
find that they nad -noouotereu e large
Federal force, a perl of Custer's brl
gads. la tt> sharp fight tnal followed
these sev«-u men were captured, it bad
been charged that Mueby's men had
fired on Union ambulances, aid had
otherwise conducted themselves with
oir regard to tbe proprieties of war,
and hence the severity of their punish
/neat. Three of these seven p>*-n -rere
m| < i near where they were ceotured,
two were hanged on a walnut tree
north of Front Royal ; the r'xUI—
Rhodes, a 17-year-ofd boy—***, ac
cording to the Southern nsrraiive,
dragged through the streets by two
cavalrvmen before bis mother, who
begged piteously for hie life, aad then
he was shot. The seventh man *
hanged about six miles away. In re
taliation Mosby ordered to be shot an
equal number of Custer's men whom
he had *aken prisoners.
The message that the Robert E. Lee
camp of Confederate veterans at Rich
mond te! eg raped Mo the exercises is
significant, Ihirtv-five years after the
cloae of the war. It waa this; “R. E. Lee
camp sends greetings, and heartily
commends the honor yo»-do this day to
your brave comrades, martyrs to tbe
cause of constitutional liberty.”
—A special dispatch to tbe Atlanta
Journal says that Washington County,
Ga., has tbe ebamoion cotton picker
in tbe Bouth. His name is Mr. John
Doolittle, who, however, did a great
deal when' he picked.487 pounus of
ueed cotton. He did this last week at
the place of Mr. J. F. Webster, near
Tabernacle, six miles west of Tennllle.
For several years past he has under
taken tbe task of beating the record of
John Simmons, of Washington County,
Mississippi. This man beld the re
cord of 460 pounds in a day. it is a pe
culiar coincidence that both of the
champion pickers should bail from
counties by the same name in different
States. Mr. Doolittle ispioudofthe
record be has made, and be has every
right to be.
—The attendance at the University
of Virginia this session promises to
break all records aloe* the war. Al
ready ove r 600 young men have matri
culated at t)be University, and, taking
previous tfeseloas as a criterion, this
number will be increased to at least
700in a few w«eks. Never In the his
tory of the University has tbe standard
been higher or the faculty been larger
or more competent for the discharge
of the important duties assigned to
them.
--Lansing, Mich., has the widest
driveway bridge in tbe United States,
if not in the world. Tbe bridge crosses
Grand river in Michigan avenue, two
squares from the front entrance to tho
State bouse. It is of the truss pattern
and is 115 feet wide in the clear—the
full wid«h of the avenue. Oa either
side is a walk sixteen feet wide, leav
ing a' roadway eighty-three feet in
width.
—Governor Johnston, of Alabatba,
taa just granted a unique pardon to
John Boston, a negro, uf Rnsseil
County. Boston was serving a term
for stealing chickens, and the Gover
nor g mated him-a pardon upon condi
tion that for twelve ninths he should
not buy, steal ot eat koother chicken
or aay portion thereof.
—Opinion among leading men in
Washington is decidedly against the
United States offering mediation be
tween Great Britain and the South
African republic. Tbe Transvaal has
no foreign relations except through
Great Britain and technically any of
fer from the United States to mediate
might be regarded as interference in
the internal affairs of British empire,
in much the same way aa the offer
from a European power to mediate be
tween the United States and Agulnaldo
might'be considered an interference
in the Internal affairs in tbe United
States.
DrPiepces
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WHICH “SNEAK IN” ON ^
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YOUR SYSTEM.
IT PURIFIES YOUR BLOOD.
The Paoaoas Milt Ballder of
Piedmont—His Early Lift la
moat and Canada—A Volunteer la
the, lou federate flervtqk*^ .
The Spartaeburg correspondent of j
the Newt %pd Courier gives toe follow- f
iag sketch of the late D. E. Convene,
of that city: . • - l
Dexter Edgar Convene was born
in Stanton, Vermont, 1828. His an
cestor came over from England .with
Governor Wihthrop in 1630. Hia fath
er died when he was only 3 jeers old,
aad he wea brought up by an uncle
over on the Canada side. In his boy
hood he Iras taught the very impor
tant leeeon of self-reliance and think
ing while he waa at work,.^Hecarried
the habit of thought and action
through hia whole life. —
He first entered a woollen mill with
hia ancle, nnd after working thare
some time he accepted n'positlon In a
cotton mill nt Cohoes, ,New York,
which he held five years.
In 1855 he came Southward Id search
of a place where he might find work.
That was before the days of railroads
in the Piedmont. He atopned in Lin
coln County, N. 0., and made some in
vestigations of a little yarn mill or two
in that section.
He then dhme to this county and
applied to John Bomar, who was prin
cipal owner of a -little mill at Bivings-
vllle, now Glendale, for work. Mr.
Bomar had no special job for sxtran-
ger, but Mr. Converse, in going through
the mill seemed to know so much about
the machinery that Mr. Bomar con
ceded that he wonld give him a place
In the mill.
Mr. Convene proved so efficient
that It was soon seen that he waa n
most valuable acquisition. The mill
was thew perhaps the largeet in tne
up-country. It was In an old weather
board building and had only 1,300
spindles and 20 looms. Bsfore 1860
Mr. Converse owned, some stock In the
mill and was the general manager.
His brother-in law, A. H. Twichell,
had come tc the mill meantime. When
the war came both these young men
entered the Confederate service as pri
vates and served in Company 0, 13th
S. C. V. They had made up their
mieds that the South was tbeir adopted
home and they would fight for it.
After remaining In service several
months Mr. Bomar, feeling that he
could not run the mill without the aid
of these experts, applied to the Gov
ernment and had them released from
service in order that they might do
more good fo" the Confederacy at horns
than they could do in the field. Thus
tbe old Bivlngsvills factory during the
four years of war supplied hundreds
and thousand* of famlliee with yarn to
make cloth for people at home and la
tbe field.
After the war was over the D. E.
Converse Company was formed and a
new brick building took the place of
the whoden one, and Improved machi
nery look the place of the old, aad
tbu* tbs first well equipped cotton
mill of tbe up-country was built. From
that event dates all tbe fins mills of
tbe Piedmont, aad it waa la a great
measure owing to the suejees of Mr.
Converse mat mill building Increased
so rapidly in tbs State.
About 1880 Mr. Converse* formed a
company, bought lbs old Burrloaa*
Sboaiv, or Rolling Mill property, oa
Paoolet, ana built Clifton Mill No J.
Then 2 followed, and No 3 Was finished
about two years ago. Mr. Converse was
presideal of all these mill* They
navn an agg regate of 3,168 looms aad
118,(172 spindles. He Is also interested
la other mills, and a stockholder aad
dlrecw r uf toe three tanks at this
place
When a female school was talked of
several year* ago Mr. Converse was
interested and waa a large stockholder
la tbs first orgaaltaitoc. Since that
he has given large sums to Converse
College, and took groat pleasure la
the success of the institution. With
out his aid it would nut be tbe impor
tant factor In the education of girls
that it Is to-day.
Us married Miss Twichell, a sister
of A. H. Twichell, treasurer of these
cotton mills. She with one daughter,
MUs Marie (^onverse, survive him.
Mr. Convene was a member of the
Presbyterian Church and a liberal sup
porter of.lt. He was gentle in manners,
kind In all bis relations with the peo
ple about tbe mill* helpful towards
tbs needy at all times. He was never
prone to speak of tbe evil in ethers,
but could generally see some good In
all. As a neighbor and frlsnddm will
be great! j missed in this community,
if he had never built a mill, but bad
gone into any other businees, he would
have been a quiet, honored leader of
the community. The people of tbe
Piedmont are unanimous In honoring
and respecting him Jor tbe work he
has done, and for the genuine manhood
that was in him.
—A correspondent of the New York
Evening Post at Manila says that the
street cars of that far Eastera city are
already ornamented with whiskey ad
vertisements. and adds : “Surely we
shall yet civilize these people. They
are an abstemious race, but we can, by
persistent energy and advertising,
added to tbe force of example, cure
them of that.”
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