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'** v ' * - ? V - 7 ^ JC. I : * a i. ^ ^ | ' J Bloodless | .* ? IBTT BELL t""" g^u " mroj T S o'clock, of a lovely niglit J vs. in muicnnimpr in One Of A the upper rooms of the principal hotel at Mt. Desert, stood a girl of rare and * wonderful beauty, donning her armor for the coming fray?an armor whose breastplate was invisible, whose weapons were hidden, but none IS the less impenetrable and keen for that. Her maid had put the finishing touches to a toilet of most artistic loveflness. Her deep blue eyes were black with excitement and triumph. Three nights before she had received a challenge?not an openly-worded challenge, but fully understood for all that. Of course she had accepted, though her acceptance was tactic, too: but she and Jack Raymond understood it, and each other. No more was necessary. They required no witnesses t . among the world. She had met him only a week before. She had not known him ten minutes before she felt he was one of the few. : ' whose friendship she would be glad to possess?nay, more, whom she would feel pride in bringing within the scope of her power. Of course she would escape herself; of that she had no passing doubt. She had played with fire too long to rear its scorching now. She was already in her twenty-second year, and numberless as were her victims, no one of ?? them possessed a single trophy of even ' a momentary triumph. Why, then, %: v need she fear to add a fresh name to the list? "You have a heart? I should like to '4 -. v make it stir!" This had been the challenge, spoken ??'V- In low, earnest tones, heard only by herself and the listening moon sailing ;> in its awakening beauty in the ether |||>. above their heads. , "Is it in your sight so poor a thing ' you wish to make of it a toy?" she had answered, flashing one bewildering glance into his down-bent face. "Give it to me but for an hour and eee the use that I would put it to. You will not willingly, I know, but I mean I to make the struggle for its possession." "You would glory in my defeat, then?" "Yes, if you choose to call it by that . name. Most women would call it victory, since for all so grudgingly given 1 I return to you tenfold." It was a strange, a novel way of wooing, and it held a fascination of its own. Most men had approached her as ( suppliants, carefully hiding their mode ( of attack upon the citadel of her af- ] fection, lest she should see and fortify , . It. This man boldly asserted not only . his method, but laughed to scorn her defense, in his proud confidence that the colors which so long had floated to the free breezes of heaven would lower j A themselves in obeisance before him. , It was nonsense, of course. It was j audacity unparalleled on his part; but } it was audacity most charming, and ^ Ethel Marcus felt a little premonitory , shiver run through her veins, which , would have warned her already of danger, had she known or recognized , it. Alas! her greatest danger was in { her perfect security. j She tossed a little triumphant smile at her own reflection in the mirror, and . with it still lingering about the perfect ] rose-red lips, ran lightly down the ] stairs. At the foot he awaited her coming. How sure she had been that ] she would find him there! i "Do vou know that our waltz is half- , finished?" he asked, in low tones of , reproach. "Do you know that I have . begrudged every moment of which you have robbed me?" ] *:r ^ "I have robbed myself equally," was , W' the low-murmured reply. "Cannot that , plead my pardon?" "For what could you ?ue at my hands j I would not grant?" he answered. "Remember those words," she said. , 'Some day I may remind you of them." , The next moment they were in the merry maze of dancers. But thrice , had they floated through the room, when the music ceased. Drawing her hand within his arm, they stepped out upon the piazza. The moon was almost at its full. It , smiled upon them most gracious welcome. He spoke no word, but she couid feel the earnest gaze of his dark eyes fixed upon her face, compelling her own at length to meet them. What wonderful eyes tliey wore! How full of strength, and tenderness. and loving purpose! She felt hot blood rush to her cheeks ?a commingled sense of pleasure and of pain, yet the latter almost sweeter than the former. A faint glimmering of possible danger in this instance of silence dawned upon her: a faint breath from a fire with which she might not play. A little shiver passed over her. The man saw it and spoke. "Are vc:? cold?" lie nuostioned. "No."' she said. ''1 am afraid it was a little tremor of cowardice. I fear, as a duelist, you are too strong for me." ' ? $ "I wish I might be. Suppose you lay down your weapons, then, and trust to my generosity;" "I prefer to trust to that and my srood steel, too. How like a man. B * L o*? ? ?- ^ Conflict J ~ * 23LOSSOM ^ *+*** * wish 'lie glory of conquest without the fr .-unt of battle!" "f J?you mistake me; it is because I kr" r the battle will be so tierce and loiT* that I wish to save us both the scars of many wounds." "Ah," she replied, with a little, low trilling laugh. "Use this most wonderful consideration, I pray, for yourself. Look at me!" upraising her face, the moonlight falling full upon its almost flawless beauty. "Can you see any signs of former scars?" "None!" he answered; "but, by the heaven above us, you shall yet acknowledge one wound, which, if it leave no scar, is only because it refuses to heal!" Again she shuddered, and again a pain, which yet was keenest pleasure, smote her heart. The days glided on. The moon fulled and waned. A month had passed since Jack Raymond had flung down the gauntlet, and she, with fearless fingers, had stnnned and nicked it UD. A month! but "what had it brought to them both? No longer they jested as before?no longer they spoke of triumph or defeat; yet each knew their blades were crossed, and they themselves in the hottest of the fight. August was nearing its close. The pleasant summer was almost at an end. "The winter soon will be here," said Ethel, as they sauntered together, late one afternoon, upon the cliffs, with the sea lashing itself far below them into white, impotent foam. "Are you sorry?" "I have not thought of it," he replied. The next moment the girl clapped her hands. ' "Oh, look!" she exclaimed. "The new moon. Let us wish!" An instant they stood silent, regarding the pale crescent far above them. "What was your wish?" she questioned. "That you would ordain th&t for me there should be no winter, but an eternal, glorious summer," be answered, earnestly, turning and taking both her 1 tiands. It had come, then. She had seen it 1 from afar; yet its coming found her all unprepared to meet it. Iter very soul was in chaos. She had lost the power to think or reason. "I?what have I to do with changing the seasons?" she stammered, at last, with a little, embarrassed laugh. "Ethel, do not trifle! Must I tell the 1 ^ a r> A! no An T?AT1 horn omr. ? Uiiuci JL ui laouuanvu J vu uav ^ vav* lised over me from the first moment ' of our meeting? Ig the road to your heart so long, so hard a one, that, after all my struggle, I have missed my way?" How subtly sweet were his words! 1 One moment she was tempted to up- 1 lift the lovely eyes and let him read 1 his answer; the next, she steeled herself against it. He had boldly prophesied this way? 1 not thus should his prophecy be fulfilled. Were he earnest, the future ( would tell it; were he jesting, the jest should not be at her expense. "Has the play grown monotonous, ^ that you would ring the curtain down ] so soon?" she said. 1 "What do you mean?" he asked. "I?I have enjoyed it so much that I ilmost hate to have it end," she answered. "You are a capital actor, Mr. ' Raymond." His grasp tightened on her arm? J lis face grew very white. "Dare you tell me you have been only acting, Ethel? Unsay those \ words! I love you, darling! Have rou no return for me?" 1 Again she hesitated. Could it be ' love which was tugging at her heart- ; strings?love which tempted her to lay iowu her weapons, and declare defeat ' sweeter than any victory? Not yet? ^ not yet! She looked up in his face; she fancied she detected a little glimmer in his 1 eyes, stern and dark though they were. Do you Know wuat i wjsneu.'' sne ' said, in answer to liis question, and ! pointing to the moon. "I wished iny ( new dresses, on their way from Paris, * might be a success. Worth is so apt 1 to make blunders, nowadays. Let us 1 go in, Mr. Raymond. It is almost tea time, and I am growing hungry." "Certainly!" he answered, haughtily, and in silence they returned to the house. 1 But. that evening, Ethel looked for * her friend in vain. On going to her ' room, she found on her table a note. 1 Hastily tearing it open, she read these lines: "It is right that you should have the palm of victory. Freely I accord it you. I staked all. and lost. You ' staked nothing, and won! I loved you?heartless, soulless though you are ?I loved you in the first hour we met. J Gods knows I would have striven to prove it to you. even as I shall now strive to wrench it from my heart. Were you at my feet as I a few hours ' ago was at yours. I would turn your prayer to mockery, as you turned mine. My one earnest wish for your future 1 happiness is that your Parisian toilets 1 always may prove a success." This, and the signature, were all. : Once, twice, thrice. Ethel read and re- : read the cold, cutting words. ; "Were you at my feet, I would turn j your prayer to mockery, as you turned .-..o. V- L ... :-:r - mfne!" So soon, then, he had ceased te love her, and she?ah. in this moment her punishment had commenced. She had but meant to try a little longer. She had forgotten a man's dig Dity, a man's love, are not always to be valued at a woman's weak caprice. She had thrust her bare, unprotected hands into the flame, and willed that it should not burn. Now that it had eaten its cruel way into the flesh, she could'not wring them in impotent anguish, knowing that she herself had thrust aside the cool, healing balm which would have brought oblivion of any pain. All night she lay with wide-open eyes, fully dressed as she had thrown herself upon her couch, and the letter ?the first and only letter Jack had ever written her?tightly clasped in her lingers. Now and then a sob forced its way upward through the quivering frame. But no tears came! her eyes were dry and burning. Strange! strange! In all her life she had known no want, no void. Now the future seemed filled with emptiness. Where were her weapons? Shattered and useless! Where her armor? Rent asunder, so that, look where she would, she saw but her naked, paintossed soul. She realized now the depth and earnestness of words which she already answered by a mocking lie. Ah, already his wounds were heal' ing but hers?he had said rightly, she would wear no scar, only because hers wouiu nor ueai. At last the day dawned. She watched it break, wondering if any other heart in all the wide world was as leaden-weighted as her own. How should she meet him? Pride must now be her reliance. What he had thought of her, let him think to the end. Had he not spurned the unspoken prayer for pardon? He had anticipated, indeed! She and her own soul could keep their secret?aye, and would! But for the present a meeting was spared her. "Mr. Raymond went out at daybreak with the fishermen," some one volunteered. "It is a bad day, too, gray and squally." She felt a sudden fear oppress her, as they added this; but nonsense! no accident had happened all the summer on the coast. By 12 o'clock he surely would have returned. She took a seat on the piazza, where she could watch his approach; but the long, slow hours wore on, and she watched in vain. At 4 o'clock some one came to her and said: "There has been an accident, Miss TI.-it.? kaii Vinor/19 Una I.UU.I L'U5. Xia> C JVU iittALU v?v the fishing-smacks was overturned, andtwo fishermen and a gentleman drowned. We fear it may be Mr. Raymond." A momentary blackness swept over her, but she conquered it. "God could not be so cruel!" she said, but she did not know that she had spoken. She heard about her the buzz of inquiry, the bustle of excitement, but she sat still and white, as though carved from marble. This?this was the end! Until this moment when hope had died, she had not known all that had lived and perished with it. The day wore on. The night fell. Still she sat motionless, watching the sea. Her end of the piazza was deserted. A gloom hung over the hotel. The young moon shed its faint rays upon her, as though it alone guessed lier secret and gave her its pity. "Alone?alone,she murmured, "forevermore! Ch, my love?my love!" Had her cry conjured up his wraith? from whence had he sprung? An instant before no one was in sightnow he stood close beside her. She did not pause to think. She rose, and with one wild sob threw herself upon bis breast. "Jack! Jack! Forgive me!" she cried. But it was no ghost which wiped iway her tears and hushed her sobs with his kisses. When they were calmer, he told her Df his escape. One poor fellow, indeed, bad been drowned: but he, with the others, had been saved by a passing craft, whose destination bad been some little distance down the coast. Bnt Ethel only realized that he was with her; for the rest she cared nothing. "I?I shall never wear another one of Worth's dresses!" she said, at last, penitently. "Hush, darling! No rash vows," he answered, once more kissing the sweet lips to silence. "You shall send jne more order, at least, ere many lays have sped, and that, my love, for the dress in which you give to rae the priceless gift of your own dear self." ?Saturday Night. New Welding Material. Welding a broken shaft, or even the ends of rails on trolley lines, is considered of sufficient importance to require experts at the head of the work, but if the new welding material, thermite, fulfills all that is promised,-unskilled workmen may be doing this work in the near future. The thermite railwelding process has already been accepted abroad, and 20,000 joints have been united by this system in forty European cities. The rail ends must be claned from dust and rust by a wire ntwl tliaii clinrhtlv n-acmofl UL U^il UUU liitu ? mold is tlicn fitted around the ends and the thermite is heated in a crucible directly above the entrance to the mold, into whieli it flows as soon ae the temperature rises to the melting: point. The welding is done automatically by the thermite itself, and thus the supervision of an expert welder is not required. In welding a heavy shaft the mold is built _p around it and the heat applied to the crucible as oefore, a process which might saTe raluable time on board ships. ' -v-' ..:.5 - .-i'v,' .y. 'y j S SODTH CAROLINA \ !k STATE NEWS ITEMS, i i i I 6' I ?CSM\?rvJ?NKNJCNJCNJ*,\J# I i ** * Charleston Fisherman Lost. I Reports from the surrounding country show that while the recent storm was severe, and in some sections I wrought considerable damage to rice crops, it was not of a serious character, and there was no loss of life, except from the fishing fleet off Charleston. No trace has been found of the fishing boats reported missing off the j port, i i * I * Sheriff Called for Troops. i A few days ago Sam Marks, a negro, struck ca the head and seriousiy injured Hill Langstcn, a white man oi J i Lyaia, 'Darlington county. * He wa^J chased with bloodhounds and captured and landed in the Darlington jail. Fearing lynching, Sheriff Scarborou^*. telegraphed Governor Heyward ask- { ing him to order out the Darlington | Guards to protect the prisoner. The Guards were soon assembled in their armory, ready for any emergency. * 1 Williams to Speak in Spartanburg. | John Sharp Williams, one of the } leading democrats in the country and j temporary chairman of the democratic j I national convention, held in St. Louis, i has written a letter to Congressman Johnson, in which he states that he accepts the invitation extended to him by the lyceum to speak in the city and will accordingly stop over in Spar; tanburg this fall on his way to WasnI ington from his home in Mississippi, j He adds that his subject will be one I bearing on public questions of the day. Was Formerly of Spartanburg. A telegram has been received in Spartanburg announcing that Dr. E. B. Craighead has been elected president of Tulane University to succeed Dr. Edward A. Alderman, who was chosen president of the University cf i Virginia. * Dr. Craighead was once member of the faculty of Wofford College m ! Spartanburg. Later he became head of Clemson College. After leaving there he went to the Missouri Normal College, with which institution he is now connected. * * * Life Sentence for Dean. Harry Dean, a member of a leading family in Spartanburg county, was found guilty of murder, with a recommendation to mercy, the jury being out only 40 minutes. Judge Ernest Gary pronounced the ustial sentence, life imprisonment, and shortly afterwards counsel for Dean gave notice of appeal. Dean was charged with killing Mili ler McKinney, about a year ago. The first trial resulted in a mistrial, and i the case was set for the present term ' *> 4 ^ a 1 t*? n oi courc at spartan Durg. nrx-\*uveriiar John Gary Evans assisted the solicitor in the prosecution. * * * Discrimination Charged. A Washington dispatch says: Charges of unreasonable and discriminative rates on freight are made in a complaint filed with the interstate commerce commission by James L. Quinby, W. J. Piatt & Co., and a large number of other merchants in Aiken, Graniteville and Blackville, S. C., against the Clyde hnd Old Dominion Steamship lines, the Merchants* and Miners' Transportation Company, the Baltimore Steam Packet Company, the Southern Railway, the Seaboard Air Line and the Atlantic Coast Line and the Charleston and Western Carolina Railroads. The complaint alleges that the rates between the points named and Boston, New York, Providence, Philadelphia and Baltimore are unreasonable as compared with the rates to Augusta, Ga.; that prior to June 2, 1899, these South Carolina points, except Blackville, were allowed the same rates from the northeastern cities as Au1 . AM J 'AIIama. AI'AI.^'AH A 9 f k A V* O 1, 1 Elista, aiiu alleges viumiwu ui IUC naui clause. The complaint asks reparation for thousands of dollars of loss alleged to have been sustained and other redress. * * Fire in Capitol Building. At an early hour last Monday fire was discovered in the office of the secretary of state in the state capitol at Columbia. The flames were confined to the one office, and were quickly extinguished. None of the records were entirely destroyed, but a good many will have to be recopied. The tntal lnss is pstimatpri at ahmit 49 - vvvv** * T"> 500. ? * * Storm Carnage in Kerry. A special from Conway, Hcrry county, says that great damage has been wrought in that county by the recent storm, which passed over the ' , ... , lower seerion of the state. "Coamun!cation l'rora Conway was temporarily cut off in every direction, but reports so far received indicate that the dimage done in Horry county will approximate $500,000. The great area of destruction was from Loris, the test station on the Chadbourn and Conway railroad, the first in North Carolina. Here crops appear to have been wiped out entirely. At Myrtle Beach and Pine Island a number of houses were blo\>n down. TWO WANTED BY GEORGIA. Requisition Probable for Feudists Incarcerated in Jacksonville Jail. A Jacksonville, Fla., dispatch says: The twenty aileged Baker county feud-! ists who were brought here by the soldiers and turned over to Sheriff Price of this county are still in jail, though lawyers, who have been engaged will institute habeas corpus pioceadings. Jesse Altman, who appears, to have been the leader of the crowd, states ih-it he was deceived into giving himself up. He states that when he surrendered he wa? to have been taken to the jail at McClenny, the county seat cf Baker county, and to have h id a preliminary hearing. In the absence of any direct testimony to implicate i. i.y UI LU'Jse wiiu an~ (.uaittn nun being members of the inch who killed tic deputy sheriff, he thought to escape prosecution and to be released at the preliminary hearing. All of the prisoners feel confident of their discharge from custody as soon as they are returned to Baker county for trial. It is a fact that there is a great deal of bitter feeling In that county among the farmers because of the turpentining of that county by the Duncans. They interfered with the burning of the woods and other privileges which the farmers enjoyed for their stock before the Duncans moved to Baker county. The authorities of Charleton county, Ga., where the murder of the negro and Jackson Duncan occurred last Sunday night on the train, the authorities of Baker county and Sheriff Price, with the state's attorney, were in consultation this morning in reierence to the disposition of the prisoners. There is no testimony against Charley and Hilliary Duncan for killing the negro and Jackson Duncan and wounding Marshal -Duncan and throwing him off the train. As all this occurred in Charietqp county, Ga., the sheriff of that coun- j ty thinks that he ought to have the j two men, since there is no direct evidence to implicate them with the subsequent affairs at Baxter. Sheriff Herndon will not object, and it is believed that the state's attorney will concede the justice of the demand from the Georgia officials. If this course is decided upon requisition papers will be prepared at once, and Charley and Hilliary Altman will be j sent to Folkston, Ga., the county seat of Charleton county. MUD SLINGING BARRED. Judge Parker Insiatit on Clean Demo, cratic Campaign Book. The following letter concerning the democratic campaign book was made public by George F Parker, chief of the democratic literary department ai New York: "Rosemount, Esopus, N Y.f Sept 17, 1904?My Dear Mr. Parker: The Times of this morning says that the party text book is about prepared, and that it will go to the printer in a few days. Therefore, I hasten to beg ycu to see to it that there is no word in it that reflects upon the personal honor and integrity of Presideuf Roosevelt. "An Evening Post editorial indicates that but little care was taken in that direction toward myself by the compiler of the republican text book, but let there be no rejoinder in kind or otherwise. "I feel confident that'you need no reminder, still my anxiety impels me to send this caution. Very truly yours, "ALTON B. PARKER." WOMAN FOULLY MURDERED. Police of Louisville Have Mysterious Tragedy to Work Upon. Mrs. Fannie Porter, 20 years old, was found dead in her apartments at Louisville. Ky., Monday, all evidence showing that she had been murdered. The young woman's throat was cut from ear to ear and the apartment showed traces of a fearful struggle. Mrs. Porter, who had been divorced from her husband, lived alone. GIRLS SLEW FATHER. Stuart Made Threats to Exterminate ? " > Family ana w?5 *??.*?. Two daughters of S. C. Stuart, a prominent farmer of Falls county, Texas, who was found dead in bed with his head almost severed from the body, have confessed to the crime. They are 13 and 16 years old respectively and say their father threatened to exterminate the entire family of four girls. They are held under $1,000 bonds. ' f " > V ' .V' 1 ' . ; :v -* HURTSDEMOCRATS Many Lynchings Deplored by . Campaign Managers. v MAY AFFECT ELECTION i ' Eyes of Republican Managers aro Upon Georgia and Recent Episodes Will Be Kept to the Front. ( A New York special says: There is an air of gloom hanging over the.inner circles at democratic headquarters and the cause of it is news from Georgia which is given great prominence in the republican newspapers. Right on the heels of the report that the governor of Georgia had taken positive stops toward the investigation and punishment of the militia which failed to do its duty at Statestooro . . comes the report of another Georgia 4 lynching, and, if reports be true, for an ordinary killing which the state courts had full power to handle. Whatever defense there may bo for lynching. for other crimes, it seems from the reports published here there qould be none for this latest case. The democratic managers feel very much as if they might just as well fold ud their tents and close head quarters, so far as this campaign is concerned, if there is to be a continuation of these lynching stories from the southern states. It is \n- \ ceivable to them that the southern people do not realize the immense damage such affairs do to the democratic cause. Here are the democratic managers seeking to impress the country that the democratic party is a ' great law and order, a" great constitutional party and pointing to the southern states to illustrate their con- ^ tention that the masses of democracy in that section of the country, which is their stronghold, are conservative; ' and yet almost every day they have to face some such Illustration at the south as that furnished by Statesboro I and Cedartown and Roys ton, and other points in the south. * ' The republican newspapers, realizing the effect of these southern lynchings upon sentiment at the north, where respect for the law is ingrained, are not only seeing that the news reports are magnified in all their newspapers, but are preparing to scatter J Droaacast campaign^ uucmueuu wutaining lynching statistics. It is understood they are having the same material put into large posters to he pasted on billboards and other convenient places in every corner of every doubtful state. West Virginia republicans are particularly jubilant over v developments, claiming that this record of lynchings alone will carry that > state for Roosevelt and Fairbanks. ] They have been fearful lest the great popularity of Senator Davis with the working classes, black as well as white, would lose them the state; hilt now they talk confidently of holding in line every negro vote, 'as well as the vote of every white republican, and if they do they will have a good majority. Parker Honors Veteran Flagman. The flag at Rosemount will be halfmasted as a tribute to George Bed-' ford, who has been flagman for the' r West Shore road at Esopus for eight years. Bedford died suddenly Monday. He was an admirer of Judge Parker, who never went to the station without paying him a visit. Honor Declined by OIney. At a meeting of the Massachusetts democratic state committee in' Bo> ton it was announced that Richard Olaey, whose nomination for governor has been urged, has absolutely declined to become the nominee. RESORT tO MARTIAL LAW. Little Georgia Town Takes Precaution to prevent Race Conflict. T&ere has been so much excitement in Broxton, Ga., among the' negroes f since the white primary last week for the nomination of count/ officers that the council met Monday and de* clared the city under martial law to f> 7 prevent the congregating of people i on the streets. On Friday night the negroes held an indignation meeting over their being denied the right to vote, and since , that time they have been indulging in incendiary talk. Hence the action, of council. JURY ACQUITS DR. BAKER. Tried at Tarboro on Charge of Mur- ' dering Dr. Bass. The jury in the case of Dr. Julian M. Baker, charged with the murder of Dr. H. T. Bass, at Tarboro, N. C.? horns' out many hours, returned a verdict of acquittal. The homicide occurred March 16, 1903, and was the outcome of bad feeling for some time previous.