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THE G w i\ By THEODOF _ - ~ T. * ^ iWas ever worn so calm a port, " y So sweet an anchorage as here? ?. | For fifty years the same bent shrubs Have flagged the sailings of the year, " ft II. s?y? ,With ensigns of a peaceful race, ^ And signals not in any code; \ Amid the currant-bushes hangs A brown bee grumbling witn her load. " III. [Was ever won so calm a port? And yet?and yet, tho' no seas run, ^ Nor anchors drag, was ever heart Sn cnr^ affrighted under sun? i - iv. X The sailor paced the garden 'round; His brown hands plucked the hanging spray. "I do not know the tides," he said, "And wind's will is a woman's way. fe- V. "What charts are ihex-e to help me now? Where break the reefs I do not know? I laid my course by sun and stars? God's "tested marks?a year ago. f *TT?n Dnln Rliin ( l lie raic uiuc i -a frg p: By Sarah t If, agt^ft^, HE Reverend John Law-1 ^- ?-""n m + of his study I If __ W iCliCC cm. m. ? ?; v q q table, leaning on his eljf t bow, his usually busy pen held idly between his fingers. lie gazed far over the plains, a trancelike expression in his thoughtful eyes; he believed that the time was coming when those plains would be peopled, and, with the hopefulness which made his missionary life beautiful, he seemed to see the church leading, inspiring and ministering to 1 these people. Already he had visions of a school wherein his own wife should be the ruling spirit; visions of a hospital, a guild-house and clubrooms, where these savages might grow less savage. Even the fact that thus far only one poor little wooden * church building was to be found in many miles did not in the least interfere with his dreams. How long he might have dreamed, no one knows, but he was recalled by a gentle voice calling to him: *'1 am twenty-two inches around the ' waist, John, and my ssirt length is forty-three. You know you asked me ? yesterday." "Sure enough," he answered, with a little start, taking up his tapeline, P < which lay conspicuously on his desk. I' , ' "I must get that letter off today; but I'd better measure you myself. You probably measured with a string. Tflat'S ine iemmuif ?u.?, x uni^v. His wife came in, feather duster in hand, and as he drew the line about her waist, he dropped a kiss upon her forehead. / "I hope they will send you something pretty." Mrs. Lawrence burst into laughter. "The idea of anything pretty in a missionary box, John! Who ever heard of it? It's against the nature of things. Perhaps it is wicked, but I have sometimes thought that they made them as ugly as possible. Do you remember the snuff-colored dressing jacket with the black fringe?" "Wasn't that pretty?" he queried. "I always thought it was veYy elegant, except when the fringe dipped in the coffee." "You dear dreamer! You don't know what is pretty. You don't see anything but your beloved Sunday school and night classes and sick people. A rheumatic old Indian worn' an is beautiful to you if " "If she is a Christian! Yes. I admit it," he said gently; "all of God's creatures are beautiful to mo. and one of them most beautiful," and again he . gave her a loving caress and resumed his work. "Sheets, pillow cases, street suit for my wife, clerical suit for myseif. over ^ XI it It? IU ii'Mv. Jl\jl uia i, u ui> jlv ic such a necessity in this bleak land/' He read once again the friendly letter, in which he had been urged to make known all his needs, assuring him that they would be supplied, so far as possible, by a branch of the .Woman's Auxiliary. These boxes, which had so irked the pride of many a missionary, never offended John Lawrence. He gave little thought to self. His Divine Master Lad lived on alms, and his own horizon was too rich, too broad, for any petty egotism to create even a speck upon it; but, he sometimes reflected with regret, his wife keenly disliked this phase of missionary life. He could not forget at times that he had taken her from a luxurious home; but had he not given her a greater opportunity to do God's work? And was she ciot doing it sweetly and uncomplainingly? He would try to believe that Che did not care. In the meantime, Mrs. Lawrence was dusting the sitting room, and she had come to a standstill before a little ivory miniature of herself, the price! of which would almost have paid for everything in their modest home. It was made ten years before, when she had just finished school and was archly charmiBg in that dainty gown. How ? v ^RDENi IE ROBERTS. , VL ? "J>ut now the gentle inlanu oree?.^ Wafts litful down the ways of bh'sfl. r41 drift. There are no lights to guide. A wilful heart my compass is."' . /J VII. ^ ^ t'he sailor paced the garden 'round: The apple-bloom swnng close beside. "'Is there no pilot here." he asked. "To con me through this honeyed tide?" VIII. lie turned, and saw her in the path? Sweeter than all the garden bloom. "1 cannot find my way." he said, "Through this uncharted garden room. IX. ''The sun swims down a rosy fog; And love burns lights I cannot read: The choice means life?or death, and I Know not which flower-flags to heed." X. She said, "Love's light should signal clear." Was ever voyage so brave as this, Sailed in an inland garden place Between a heartache and a kiss? ?Woman's Home Companion. ^ j jashmere Gown. m?=.?& S. Pratt. / becoming it "was, and how much he had admired her in it!. # "Alice, is there anything you want? We are to mention everything we need, and they will supply as far as possible." "Yes," she called, a little sarcasti cally, "please tell them I need very much a pale blue cashmere gown," and then she smiled at the absurdity of such a request from a missionary's wife. "Imagine the consternation that would create," she thought, "if he really would ask for such a thing!" She replaced the miniature with a sigh..; Was it a crime to love pretty things? And would she ever have any again? Her trousseau was long ago exhausted, and now she lived and moved and had her being in black things and brown things, and all things that wouldn't show dirt. Oh, dear! but?blessed afterthought!?wouldn't she rather b# the wife of John Lawrence in black brilliantines and brown serges, than anybody else in the world? ****** The president of St. Mary's Auxiliary was rapping loudly for order. She was reading a letter saying that the Reverend John Lawrence would be deeply grateful for a suit, an overcoat, et cetera. It was when she came to the overcoat that the confusion arose; for one lady had a practically new overcoat which her present coachman, being stout, could not wear. It was exactly the Reverend Mr. Lawrence's size, but being a surtout she questioned whether it would be the correct thing for clerical wear. The entire auxiliary set itself to argue this point, when the president stopped them. ' Ladies, we can discuss this matter later. Let me finish reading this letter. Where was I? 'Sheets, pillow cases, table linen, and'?what is this? ?'a pale blue cashmere gown'!" A pale blue cashmere gown! Had she asked for an automobile coat the request could net have produced more surprise. There was a deep silence. Even the .president found nothing to say for some time. "A little unusual," she finally said. "Well, I never had a pale blue cashmere gown in my life," gasped some one. "Pale blue!' So perishable!" another said feebly. "And cashmere! So out of style!" a third added. "She must be some poor little country soul," the secretary said. "Well, whoever she is she ought to be reprimanded. The idea of such worldliness in a missionary's wife!" "He should have known better than to have asked for it!" "The idea of our money going for a pale blue cashmere gown!" ftimmnnts \Tpnt around. till everybody bad bad ber say: some of tbem had two or three "says," and they were seemingly gasping for breath to say something even more severe, when a bombshell fell in their midst. "Why shouldn't she have a pale blue cashmere gown? She is probably a young woman, and maybe has not a single pretty thing! Oh, gracious!" and the speaker grew so energetic that she arose and stood facing them, her face rosy with excitement. "I have helped with box after box in this society, and never have I seen a really pretty thing go into them. They are so deadly practical. How it will wear, how it will wash, whether it will show j dirt?I sympathize with this young woman away out there among those! Indians, dependent 011 us hard-hearted things for the little she wants. God knows," she added, oven more earnestly, "where they get the graec to sustain them in their work. As for this gown"?her voice trembled a little?"let us give it to her. Cashmere is cheap, and just imagine her pleasure; and do you know, I think a pretty gown would have a cheerful effect on both herself and her husband. Perhaps it might even convert a few more Indians." She sat down, a little em barrassed by the feeling she bad shown. . "t*1* "We might mnke her a mother hubbard if you are so bent ou it," some one said doubtfully. "Made up plainly it would not cost much." "But it mustn't be a mother hubbard. I wouldn't doom even a woman living among the Indians to that. If we send it at all, let it be pretty. Let us put our hearts into it and make it a beautiful surprise for her. She will probably expect something ugly, if she expects it at all." "I don't know why we should discriminate this way in favor of Mrs. .loim Lawrence. \> e nave never none it before." A severe voice threw a damper 011 the proceedings. "Mrs. John Lawrence," echoed another; "pray let me see that letter. Mrs. John Lawrence was an honor student in my class at college in 1SJ)0. and I belive I am safe in saying that there is 110 one here who could surpass her in either intellect or beauty. I remember now that she married a missionary enthusiast and went out to those wilds cheerfully." The speaker crossed the room rapidly and approached the advocate of the blue gown. "I will gladly help you with the gown, and we will make it beautiful as a dream." How quickly the idea became infectious! Everybody to do something or to give something. It was almost as delightful as dressing a doll! St. Mary's Auxiliary had turned out many a box, but never had anything aroused such interest as this new bit of work. It became a fad; with its silken linings, its dainty frills of lace, its "fagoting" and exquisite accessories, the beautiful Empire gown lay complete. The Auxiliary women who were packing the box stopped frequently to admire and almost to caress it. "I hate to see it go," said the secretary. "It has done us more good than anything we ever did. "What a lovely idea it was!" the treasurer said. "I don't ? .1 -11 ?i begrudge tne money at an. "Let me fasten this in." Some one bent over the gown and tacked in a little sachet of violet. "And I must slip this handkerchief into its bosom;" another deftly tucked an embroidered kerchief into its folds. "I have written this note to my dear old friend, and have told her what a pleasure this has been;" and the note, too, was pinned to the blue gown. And so, with little final adjustment, and pats of admiration, the blue gown, soft and rustling and enveloped in white tissue paper, was put into its individual box, and shipped away, with more practical things, to the land of the Indians and the plains. ?*****Mrs. Lawrence came home somej what discouraged from her sewing school one afternoon, to find her house in great disorder. Everything was covered with clothes, it seemed. The box had come and her husband had lost no time in opening it. The street suit for which she had asked confronted her from the bookcase; dark, neat and serviceable. She examined it with enthusiasm. "They were so good, weren't they, John?" "Good! My dear, tlie Auxiliary is always good.* Now, don't say anything about your brown sack with the black fringe! The Auxiliary ? well, you know what I think of it! See! They have sent us everything, even to the last thing on the list?your blue cashmere gown!" He handed her the box. "My pale blue cashmere gown! John Lawrence! You didn't really write that, did you? Oil, what must they have thought!" She sank into a chair, pale and distressed. "I think the dress tells what they thought." lie lifted the delicate garment as if it were a baby. "Silk! Lace! Perfume! A train! John. I can't believe it is mine! And I can't help crying! I didn't mean St. I said it in a lialf-joking, half-cynical way, never thinking you would ask for it, and see how they have repaid- me for my unfaith! Everything is so beautiful, so dainty! There's so much love in it, John! That's what touches me. It means the love of women who saw in me only a servant of God. When you write, tell them this means more to me than anything that ever happened." Late that night she sat with her old friend's note. She had written a long, lieart-full letter. She turned to her husband with moist eyes "I don't believe I ever told you before, John: but it is very sweet to be a missionary s wne.?mviuj; cuurcu. On Kadium's Kim. "We are evidently yet on the outer rim of the varied powers and effects of radium. Experiments at the University of Michigan seem to demonstrate its power to convert ordinary rain and spring water into a mineral water more highly medicinal than any before known. Injected into cancers, this water stopped all pain in ten minutes. Patients now under the radium j water treatment include one with a ' cancer of eighteen years, and some of I the ordinary nose and breast cancers. The eighteen-year cancer has had six weeks of water treatment, and from the first five minutes after applying water pain has been almost wholly absent. In each of the other cases pains stopped immediately, and several sufferers were released from the morphine habit, which had been forced upon them. , Tea Making Simplified.' A demand is springing up among the natives of Ceylon for a new preparation of tea. It is soluble, and there seems to be a question whether its popularity is due to its being more economical or to the ease with which soluble tea is turned into a beverage, as it can be made with warm water only. A , x.'- * : ? ' ' ^ , -* , ^ * . - , / ^ r^- ^ r -r'- ... V' \ SOUTH CAROLINA I jj STATE NEWS ITEMS. j i Grain of Corn Kills Child. ! The one-year-old child of Robert ! Roberts, who lives near Chester, swalJ lowed a grain of corn and died with| in a minute. [ In Excellent Condition. Stockholders of the Converse Mani ufacturing Company and the Clinton j Manufacturing Company heard reports ! from officers at a meeting held in i Spartanburg. Affairs of the mills were found to be in excellent condition. * I Wofford College Exercises. A thousand invitations have been : sent out to prominent alumnae and j others to attend the semi centennial ! commencement exercises of Wofford i College, June 4-8, and most of that : number have accepted. * * =* Heavy Vegetable Shipment. On May 14th a train consisting of forty-seven cars loaded with vegetables left Charleston by the Southern : Railway for New York, Philadelphia^ I and other points north and east. This i was che largest movement in the history of the vegetable business at the port. x Horse Racing by Electric Light. Arrangements have been completed I at Charleston tc give horse races unI der electric light at the old exposii tion grounds track, and the racing will ! start on June 2, and continue during | the entire summer. Many horses are alj ready on hand, and the contractors ! will have everything complete for the opening night. v Capital Is Increased. At a meeting; of the stockholcfcrs : o? the Beaumont Manufacturing Company held in. Spartanburg the past week it was decided to increase the capital stock of the company from ! $100,000 to $200,000. The work of en| larging the mill will begin at once. Ci?> i-? Inc onJ 1 HiA lnnmo A tuuuoaiiu DjJiuui^O' auu iuu luvmo will be added, giving an equipment of 10,000 spindles. ? * Appointed Navy Lieutenant. Through the effort and influence of Congressman Aiken, of the Abbeville j district, J. R. Horton has again been : appointed by Secretary Moody to a I lieutenancy in the marine corps. Mr. ; Horton was recently local editor of ' The Greenville News and has many friends throughout the state, who will be pleased to learn of his good forti ne. Brick Plant Destroyed by Fire. ; The brick manufacturing plant of ; James Maxwell, located beyond the j ci~y limits of Spartanburg, was totally ! destroyed by fire a few days ago. The i lnco nnncierofl <->,f hni'Mino's: hrifk-mak. vtm v^uugiuwu vj. v* ?v? ....... ! iug machinery and engines. There was ' r.o insurance. Mr. Maxwell will begin ! j rebuilding at once. The origin of the i | fire is supposed to have been due to j a defective furnace. I Sues for Breach of Contract. j W. G. Odom has sued Joel Bush and , Ben L. Clark, doing business under j the name of the Georgia Coffin Com; pany, for $5,000 damages, alleging that upon their employing him as superintendent of their plant in March he rel * | signed the job of superintendent of ; the Carolina Manufacturing Company, , of Newberry, sold his stock in that lactory, sold his household goods at a sacrifice and sold a portion of his real j i state in Atlanta, preparatory to in- I j vesting all. he had in Columbus. He ! says that May 3 the company broke its contract with him, saying his services were no longer needed. He was with the company over a month, selecting and ordering machinery, etc. I * Mail Clerk's Gruesome Find. 'Mail Clerk Jeter, of Southern Rail- j way train No. 16. from Greenville to Columbia, had a gruesome pacKage jam I a midnight companion between New| berry and Prosperity. Fireman Drayton I Shelton discovered a cheap valise on j the blind baggage just as the train j was leaving Newberry. He turned it j ever to Mail Clerk Jeter and Jeter told i 1 him to set it in the corner of the car. : i The negro fireman, observing blood l oozing from the valise, became frightj ened. Jeter opened the valise and i found a well formed negro infant with ; its skull crushed. At the next station, | Prosperity, he gave the package to the j police. An inquest was held and a j physician testified that the child was j i probably about three days old whe>_ ; killed. Conductor Nix, of the train, re- j i members to have seen a negro woman ' place something on the blind baggage just as the train was leaving New- j berry. Thinking she was about to steal j ! a ride he started toward the woman,1 j who hurried away in the darkness. * I * * Officer Killed by Negroes. J At Mauldins, Greenville county, a ' few days ago, when Magistrate Cox at T. *'*v." vv Mjsas.i' w;-v ? t " . tempted to arrest two negroes, named Fletcher and Bris Bird, they resisted and fired upon the officer, killing him instantly. Which of the two fired the fatal shot is not known. The Birds live at Woodruff, in Spartanburg county, and for some time had aroused the suspicion of people at Mauldin, who believed the two had been selling whiskey illicitly. Shortly before the tragedy, it was ascertained .that the evidence justified the issuing ! of a warrant and the magistrate did so and attempted to execute it, which led to the killing. Immediately after shooting the officer, the negroes escaped and Sheriff Gilreath, of Greenville, was notified and went to the home of the two at Woodruff, where he arrested them the next morning. Great excitement resulted when the details of the crime and subsequent arrest of the criminals were learned, ^nd Sheriff Gilreath, in order to avoid the possibility of serious trouble, took his prisoners to Woodruff station and placed them aboard a train and carried them to Columbia. SPINNERS ADJOURN. Interesting Meeting of Cotton Manufacturers Closes at Washington? Important Recommendation. The American Cotton Manufacturers' Association, in session at Washington, D. C., named the following officers: Vice president, A. H. Lowe, Fitchburg, Mass; secretary and treasurer, C. B. Bryant, Charlotte, N. C. Chairman of board of governors, R. R. Ray, McAdenville, N. C.; board of governors, T. H. Swift, of Elberton, Ga.; J. C. Smith, of Newton, N C.; Val Taylor, of Uniontown, Aia.; J. l*. LieaK, of Rockingham, N. C.; W. C. Heath, of Monroe, N. C.; A. J. Draper, of Pell City, Ala. The next convention will be held at Knoxville, Tenn.. the second Wednesday and Thursday in May, 1905. Resolutions were adopted indorsing the establishment of industrial schools throughout the country,, also for a committee to meet he Southeastern Cotton Buyers Association to formulate satisfactory rules between the buyers and mills in regard to the delivery of cotton. The retiring president, Mr. Heath, was presented with a silver service by the association, the presentation being made by D. A. Tompkins, of Charlotte, N. C. One hundred and- sixteen new members were received into the I association during the convention. Thursday afternoon President Roosevelt received the members of the association, their families and guests in the east room of the white house. MORE PARKER DELEGATES, ? A - A ... n J U/..AM Indiana Democrats vaei in D<inu nayvn of New York Jurist The most interesting democratic "state convention since 1S92, wnen Cleveland and Isaac P. Gray contested for the control of the Indiana delegation to the national convention, was held in Indianapolis, Thursday. The sole purpose of the convention was to elect delegates to the national convention, the state convention lor the nomination of candidates for state offices having been called for July 20, when the same delegates that were in Thursday's convention will return. I A platform will th?n be adopted. The feeling of the delegates was intense when the convention opened. The Hearst followers had Deen An attempt to send a response from nation by rousing addresses before hand in the Claypool hotel assembly room by the Rev. Sam Sfcnall, of Georgia, and C. A. Wmdle, of Chicago. The Rev. Sam Small advised against voting for Parker, if he were nominated. The convention instructed the thirty delegates to the rational convention to vote as a unit for Judge Parker, of New York, for president, and indorsed Thomas Taggart for national committeeman, and recommended him to the national committee as its chairman. JUDGE SAYRE DECLINES. i Will not Call Special Term cf Court to Investigate Lynching. Judge T. S. Sayre, of the fifteenth Alabama circuit, has refused to order a special term of court in Autauga county to investigate the recent lynching of Gains Hall, a negro. The judge staged his decision In a dignified letter to acting Governor Cunningham Thursday afternoon. He is in thorough accord with the executive in his efforts to uphold the I law, but thinks it injudicious to hold ! a term of court when the people are s.irred up over th* cause of the troiI ble. I GIRLS AT ONLY HALF PRICE. Boys Are Worth Double According to Decision of Judge. | A boy's life is twice as valuable as that of a girl, according to the decision of Judge Adams, of the Essex county circuit court, at Newark, N. J. The suits grew out of the Clifton | avenue trolley accident of February j 19, 1903, in which nine high school ! pupils were killed. When the cases j were tried the trolley company ac| knowledged its inability, and -the jury was asked simply to fix the amount of damages to be paid in each case. f-J ' '' '?:&- vw.^' bms1reak ' r National and Private Institution Fail at Macon. TWO MILLIONS INVOLVED ? *l Both Concerns Under Control of R. H. Plant?Established in 1863 and l/a 1365 ? Suspension Caused the * Greatest Surprise. f The First National bank, of Macon, Ga., and the I. C. Plant's Sons' bank, two of the oldest and generally accepted as among the most solid financial * institutions of the south, closed their doors Monday morning in the face of a long line of creditors, to whom were due sums aggregating over $2,000,000. The failures were wholly unexpected. Eoth banks are known in the financial world whenever and wherever Macon's financial condition are discussed, and both have always been considered' abundantly able to meet any and all demands that might at any time oe made upon them. Both carried-'che Plant name, a name long since accepted in the financial world generally as a synonym for prompt payment, safety and honesty. So strong has been tie faith of the public in the Plant name that of the two banks, one a national depository, the other a private institny _ tion, the latter carried a larger deposit than the former. With both banks R. H. Plant's name was prominently identified. Of the na- ^ tional bank he was president, while of ? the private bank he was the sole direc- * tor, if not owner. The First national bank was established in 1865, and had ^ j a capital and surplus of $265,000 Of li n tJ Dlnni ttto a nvaeMont CAArffA It XV* XI, naiIL new pivoiuvu^ UWA^V H. Plant was vice president, and R. E. Pindlay was cashier. The board of directors carried the names of some of the leading and most successful business men of the city. The I. C. Plant's Sons' hank was the elder of the two corporations or ^ bodies. It was started in 1863 and was manipulated and directed by R. H, Plant personally.' It carried the name of the father of the two brothers who have always been identified with Macon's banking interests since the city - began to recoup from the disastrous days of the war between the states. So great was the confidence of the people * generally in the I C. Plant's Sons' house that its deposits are now said to be in the neighborhood of $1,500,060. No intimation of any embarrassment of any kind was abroad until af- a ter the calamity had come, and for that reason the failures were that much greater in the surprise they carried to the public. . ,. With the stroke of 9 Monday morning, the doors of the national bank * were thrown open for business and for about forty minutes the clerks and officials went on with the daily routine of work, some accepting money and others paying it out. About 9:40 a well known business man presented a " check for several hundred dollars. * 1 - - . ^* The cashier passed the check pack 10 t { the payee, remarking: "The bank is closed and payment ?' cannot be made on that check." It developed later that soon after . the national bank opened Judge Feltcn, of Bibb superior court, presented a check, which was paid. The exact amount of that check cannot be given, as the judge declines to talk and as the gentlemen in line immediately after the judge, the one first ? turned down, did not notice particu iai i j. It was the check next after Judge > Felton's that was turned down. That check was in the four figures, and was over $2,000. Next, after it came Congressman Bartlett. The congress man had been informed that his money would be safer in his pocket, at least that it would be mere ready for touch there than in the First national bank, and went at once to draw it out. He passed the paper, calling for something like $1,500 over the counter, and the paper was handed back to him by the cashier with a pleasant smile, . but without any coin. r ?. i RECEIVER FOR MACON BANK. 4 Comptroller of Currency in Charge of f First National at Macon, Ga.j A Washington dispatch says: The comptroller of the currency has been advised by National Bank Examiner ^ W. F. Albert son that the First National Bank, Macon. Ga., closed, its doors by order of the board of dlrecj tors. The failure of the bank, the ex- . aminer states, is due to heavy loss sustained by the suspension of I. C. Plant's Son ,a private bank, of which the president of the First National also was president. Examiner Albertsen I has been appointed receiver. BAPTISTS FINISH WORK. " 1 __ Convention at Nashville Adjourns to . Meet Next in Kansas City. The forty-ninth Southern Baptist convention in session at Nashville completed its work and adjourned to meet next year in Kansas City. It was announced that almost $200,000 had been raised during the year for foreign missions and that now workers are needed more than money.