The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, April 06, 1905, Image 2

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THE LANDS OF MAKE BELIEVE. Within the lar.u of Make Relieve 1 lived in days of o;d, And by its wondrous alchemy Turned ail tae dross to gold. A wider land of Make Believe Now claims attention close; The grown-up children in it count .. The fairy gold as dross. McLandburgh Wilson, in the New York Sun. <=&> I A FRIEND I t OF THE i j family, j i <=&? ?^=> "Hullo, Georgie, what's up? You look pretty sick. Another?" Walter Crane chuckled lightly as he regarded the gloomy-looking young man he had just met Georgie Carter looked at him disgustedly for half a minute. His reply was short if not proverbially sweet. "Get out" be said, as, slowly as before, he resumed his walk down the Buckingham Palace road. Mr. Crane looked after him quizzically. "Bet it's a girl," he said softly, and then he too went his way. It was a girl, or, as Georgie would have told him, it was the only girl. And they had just been parted for a whole year by over-anxious, interfering parents. A whole year, with nothing in the world to look forward to N but one letter a month. "Twelve?only tweive in the whole year," Georgie had groaned, even after Mabel had faithfully promised to begin her letter on the first day of the month, write it like a diary and dispatch by the very last post on the very last day, so that he should really have a moderately fair idea of what she was doing. Even this had not consoled him, and, sick at heart he * left her and took his way to Victoria station, there to catch his train home. But as he entered the yard a cheery voice greeted him. "Georgie," it cried, "are you cutting me?" "Oh, Mrs. Frank, I never saw you," he said listlessly. The young-faced, snow-white-haired, well-preserved looking woman glanced sharply at him. "What's the matter, Georgie?" she >,.* ; asked, a kindly note in her voice. He looked still listlessly away from her over the station yard. "Nothing," he said, and then sud^Qnitr with Riiph a rush of feeling in his eyes that she wondered with half a shock If it were tears. * "Oh, Mrs. Frank, I've Just said goodby to Mabel, and?and?and I am going home," he ended bitterly. H' "My dear boy! I am so sorry. I didn't know. What is it? There?don't go home?tell me all about it?come and dine with me Instead." * * * * "And she was so kind," wrote Georgie in his dairy-like letter that night "I told her all about you. "fou must have met her, Mabel, darling. Don't you remember a woman with snow-white hair?a friend of the family." They were charming flats, and Mrs. Frank's was perhaps the nicest in the .whole block. Possibly because she had a large veranda, beautifully fitted up, where coffee and liqueurs were served every night after dinner. It was just six months since that bitter parting between Mabel and Georgie. Time was beginning to have ^ . a soothing effect on Mabel, though her a letters were still faithfuily dairy-like. Georgie, it would seem, felt the parting as deeply as ever. He still needed consolation, and he received it, with coffee and liqueurs, from a friend of his family at least three times a week. (She had been very kind, very good, very patient. She had listened to Georgie's ravings, and agreed, with him on every point anent the perfections of his fair one, and she was gaining her reward. This nice young fellow whom she had truly tried to help, began to show that she had really done him good. That he saw the wisdom of not worrying, but loving silently on, waiting patiently for the end of that long year which, of course, 'was bound to come. |jp And now he could really talk of other things besides his own sad feel\ ings and the marvellous perfections of \ Mabel. He seemed to take an Interest, \ for instance, in generalities about \women. He no longer held up Mabel as, a type or used her always as an exainple. He could speak quite generally. even if sometimes it was a little vfc^uely, about the fair sex; and no more,\as at first, did he forget his simple duties in the matter of fleers and theatre tickets for the friend of his family who so often played his hostess. In fact*, he grew more normal, and Mrs. Frank felt she had only done her duty when .she had tried to console and help such a very nice boy. For there was no doubt about it, Georgie was a very nice boy. And a presentable, withal. Moreover, he had all those little charms which never fail to appeal to women of any age. In his manner to them there was that air of reverence which comes only from the heart of a very good or the head of a very bad man. In Georgie's case there, of course, was no question which. Mrs. Frank had more than once caught herself wondering if, had ... she a son?but somehow, when the wonder reached that point it failed for want of interest. That Georgie's mother had brought him up very nicely, there was no denying. And he made a charming cavalier. Every desirable touch of polish, mingled with I plenty of savoir faire. that yet had nothing blase or self-opinionated about J it. Really, sometimes, too, she half I wondered if Mabel were quite?quite? * * * The veranda was empty save for its owner. She was having tea quite alone, and was reading. Suddenly the curtain into the long room behind was thrust back, and an excited, eager boy entered. i "Mrs. Frank, Mrs. Frank," he cried, failing to greet her. "Oh, what do you think? You will be so glad, I know. You have been so good. Mabel?" ;virs. r raiiK. uau ustcucu ov mi silently. Now she interrupted him. There was a touch of impatience, almost sharpness, in her voice. It was no doubt irritating to be interrupted in the middle of a truly reasonable article, one might almost say treatise, on the very latest method of removing wrinkles. "My dear boy," she said, "sit down. Have some tea. And now," as he seated himself, gazing eagerly at her, "now," smilingly, "let us hear all about it." "It's all right," he said, comprehensively. "All right? What is all right?" "Mabel?me?" ungrammatically. Mrs. Frank had a strange sensation. It was nothing very much. She just felt as if the light had gone out suddenly. For a moment she was silent. Then she mechanically and sharply drew back the curtain that had until then shaded her from the June sun. It blazed in and showed?showed with what wisdom she chose her literature. But Georgie had prevented her finishing that treatise. "How lovely," she said at last, quite slowly. "Oh, I knew you wouia oe giaa,the boy cried, and he suddenly dropped on one knee beside her, and taking up her hand, very gently put it to his lips. "Mrs. Frank, you have been awfully kind," he said, and his eyes filled again with a look of feeling that took her back to the station yard at Victoria. "Was that only six months ago?" she wondered. Presently he went, leaving her with a paean of Mabel ringing in her ears. She left the veranda, walked through the long drawning room into her bedroom behind. Up to the glass she went Great tears were falling down her face. They riddled the pretty pink of her cheeks that looked so fair and faint against the snow-white hair. She put both hands up to her eyes, and the tears dropped through her fingers. "Fool?fool?old fool!" she cried pitifully through them. And then suddenly age brought its own consolation. The hands dropped down, the tears seemed to dry like magic, and she leaned forward, looking almost horror struck, into the glass before her. "Fool, indeed," she said bitterly. TIhe next instant she was hailing a cab. Once inside she raised the trap Hnnr Irvine "Bond street. Madame Pommes?tlTe Beauty Boudoir."?London Free Lance. KING CORN IS THE LEADER. Monarch of the West Shows His Power for Good. Corn is king by a good safe majority in this country, according to the final report of the Bureau of Statistics of the department of agriculture. Not only was the 1904 crop of such vast proportions that it has been exceeded but twice, but the high prices at which it was marketed made a new record for its aggregate value. The record corn crop of the country was produced in 1899, when the official returns credited a total of 2,666,440",000 bushels. In 1902 the government placed the figures at 2,523,648,000 bushels. Last year the agricultural department figures show a yield of 2,467,480,000 bushels, but on account of the increase in prices its market value was $70,000,000 greater than the crop of 1902, which "until that year had held th# record for value. The returns of the department on the 1904 wheat crop show a marketable value greater than for 1901, although the crop is nearly 200,000.000 bushels less than for that* record year. In this respect there is far less cause for congratulation than there is over the excellent showing made by the corn crop. The dimensions of the yield of the coarser cereal were so far above the average that in supplying business for transportation companies, warehousemen, and numerous other industries dependent on the grain trade, much of the loss through a poor wheat crop was equalized. In the case of wheat the abnormally high price was not an unqualified blessing. While the gross returns which were divided among the farmers and speculators were several million aonars greatei than ever before, a much smaller proportion of the population of the country was benefited by these prices than was the case with corn. The shortage made heavy inroads on the profits of some of the roads traversing the American wheat belt, and capital, thus suffering, passed the blow on to labor by laying off train crews and reducing operting expenses, so that dollar wheat this time was at the expanse of the American people and not due to any strength in the foreign markets, which in all previous seasons have been the prime factors in elevating prices. Despite the constantly increasing demand for corn as a food product, and an increase in the home consumption due tb^the short crop and high prices of wheat, the decline in corn shipments waA far from being so pronounced as that pf wheat, American corn shippers thus holding their foreign trade much bettor than wheat and flour exporters.-^Portland Oregonian. \ \ \ 1 SOUTH CAROLINA ' ?| 2 STATE NEWS ITEMS. jlj Young Girl Succumbs to Wounds. Belle Sessions-, the young white woman, who was shot five times by F. O. Sessions, at her home near Homewood, Horry county, died after lingering many hours. After shooting the woman Sessions blew out his own brains. * * * Salesman Will Run for Governor. A. C. Jones, traveling salesman for Arnold, Constable & Co., New York, will make the race for governor of South Carolina on the prohibition ticket in 1906. The formal announcement of his candidacy will be made in a few days; also a statement of his platform. * Hayes Helj pn Arson Charge. H. Hayes, a white man of Marion, has been arrested on the charge of arson. His meat market and the store of A. L. Campbell, were burned several weeks ago. The comptroller general ordered an investigation as to the cause of the fire, and Hayes' arrest followed. Hayes is a native of Marion county and has been conducting a meat market for some months. * * * Woman Admits Perjury. ,R. A. Adams, who was convicted two years ago of the murder of H. M. Jacques and sentenced to be hanged, and who afterwards escaped, has been granted a new trial upon the grounds of after-discovered evidence. Amchg the affidavits was one by Mrs. Ruth Adams, daughter of the deceased and wife of the defendant's brother, to the effect that tier testimony given at the trial was false, she having been induced to the same by Martin and Hogan Dodd. * * * Charleston a Coaling Station. The promoters of a railway from Winston, N. C., to the coast by way of Lexington and Wladesboro declare that work will begin soon. The line will pass by the narrows of the Yadkin river, where 20,000-horse power is being developed for electrical transmission. It is claimed that this road, commencing with the Atlantic Coast Line, will furnish the most direct route from the West Virginia coal fields to Charleston, making the latter a coaling station. The capital o+/-?/vir nf t>io rftmnanv is $3.00(K0OO. of OIVVIV Vik VMV W ?x m which almost all has been taken. * * ? Mill Hand Kill# Time Keeper. Langdon Boozer, time Iceeper and manager of the Wylie mill in Chester. was shot and instantly killed by Will Perry an employe, a few days ago. The trouble is said to have started from a mistake of $4.50 in Perry's time. Boozer showed Perry that it was not his mistake, and told him to go and see the superintendent. Perry walked to the door of the store, turned and fired twice at Boozer, the first shot taking effect in tne chin, and the second struck his heart, killing htm instantly. * * * Governor Receives Box of Flags. Governor Hteyward received by express a few days ago the box of confederate battle flags from Secretary of War Taft. The list includes those of the eighth, eleventh, sixteenth and twenty-seventh infantry, the Sumter flying artillery, Sumter heavy artillery and garrison flags of Castle Pinckney, Fort Mbultrie, the Citadel, SeT and UYkrt' I cession vine, james i&iauu anu x v* v . Ripley. There are also three regimental flags which the war department has been unable to identify. No disposition will be made of the flags until the governor has conferred with the veteran associations. * * * Special Rate for Educators. Joseph Richardson, chairman of the Southeastern Passenger Association has announced a rate of one first class fare plus 25 cents from all j points in the southeast for the con- j ference for education in the south, which meets in Columbia, April 26, 27, 28 and 29. It is expected a thousand or more educators from all parts of the south will attend this convention, of which Robert C. Ogden of New York is president. Mr. Ogden will bring a party of friends in his special train, and they will visit various educational ! institutions in this state. * Truck Expert in Charleston. Professor L. C. Corbett, truck expert of the United States agricultural department, has arrived in Charleston to join Professor Spillman, Drs. Metcalf and Benton and Irrigation Agent Harring in the matter of the diversification of the crops and the utilization of lands formerly planted in rice, which have now been found unprof- J itable on account of the large production of the staple in the southwest. Professor Corbett and Professor Spillman are well known through this section, having begun elaborate experiments in the way of diversification of crops in the Carolinas and Georgia last summer. * * Unique Suit Over Accident Poiicy. The executors of F. G. Stacy, the late president of the National Bank of Gaffney, have brought suit against the Fidelity and Casualty company, to recover $5,000 on an accident policy which he carried with the company. Mr. Stacy had a little trouble with a nartv on the streets last sum mer in which he hit the man in the mouth with his fist, breaking the skin on the knuckles, which resulted in blood poison and death. A motion has been made to transfer the case tc> the United States court and it will be tried in Greenville next term. The company contends that the striking was no accident; that the striking was the voluntary act of the insured, and under the terms of the policy they are not liable. ? * * Chester Farmers Enthused. Francis H. Weston of Columbia, secretary of the South Carolina division of the Southern Cotton Association, delivered an address before a large audience of farmers, business and professional men at the courthouse ai Chester. He said that the people of all classes were heartily in favor of the movement to curtail the cotton crop, and that the farmers are better organized than ever before, and that it lay in their power to make the movement successful. He urged all the members of the association to' stand by their pledges and expressed the opinion that they * - - TT i.~ J Ui-ilA wouia ao so. ne suggesieu mc uunuing of warehouses, so that the farmers could store their surplus cotton anu hold the price up. The speech was enthusiastically cheered and all of the farmers in the section are heart and soul in the movement. CHARGES AGAINST LIDDON. Florida Ex-Chief Justice Called Upon to Face Disbarment Proceedings. Proceedings for disbarment have been entered in the circuit court of Jackson county, Fla., of which Mar:* anna i^s the county seat, against B. S. Liddon, ex-chief justice of the state of Florida, the proceedings being brought by J. Walter Kehoe, state attorney of the first judicial court. There are three charges, the first charging that Liddon has been guilty of deceit and misconduct in his olfioe as attorney in the courts of the east judicial circuit of Florida. The second that Liddon has been guilty of unprofessional acts which unfit him for association with fair and honor able members of his profession, and third that Liddon has been guilty of uiauuutbi. cuuuucl. Tlie charge was filed in office 01 Clerk W. N. McRae of the circuit court of Florida, the 8th of Sfhrch. News of disbarment has created pro found sensation. BUTTONS GOING RAPIDLY. i Many Thousand Emblems of Southern Cotton Association Sent Out. One hundred thousand of the official emblems of the Southern Cotton Association are being distributed this week in Texas, 25,000 are being sent cut in ^Mississippi, 25,000 are being sent out in Alabama, 50,000 are being sent to the people of Georgia. The state' departments have taken a great interest in seeing that the buttons adopted by the association are distributed to the members of the organization in their states, and the emblem bureau is very hard worked getting them out from Atlanta. Orders are filled, however, as rapidly as they are received. SOUTHERN IRON RULED HIGH. Financier Hoadly at the Helm Makes Merger Stocks Hum. With a rod of iron, southern iron at that, Joseph Hoadley ruled the 1 market at New York Monday. The j Tennessee Coal and Iron company, the control of which it is now generally admitted as being in Hoadley's hands, wag traded in to the extent of nearly 100,000 shares with an advance of over $7 a share, closing at 105 bid, while Sloss-Sheffield followed with a sharp advance to 100, closing at 99. MAY DUEL AT SIPINGHAI. Russians Stop Long Enough to Fortify a New Position. According to St. Petersburg advices another duel between the two opposing armies in Manchuria may be on the program for the coming week. The Russians, according to the Associated Press Hafbin correspondent, are now strongly fortifying their positions at Sipinghai against which the Japanese are reported to be gathering in force. COMER FIRES HOT SHOT. president of Alabama Railroad Commission Creates Sensation. At a meeting of the Alabama railroad commission in Montgomery Monday President Comer created a sensation when he declared that at the time the rates were raised by the railroads in Alabama, the Alabama commissioners were out west in a private car, under the supervision of George W. Jones of the Louisville ami Nashville railroad. NEW CANAL BOARD President Names Men to Dig the Big Panama Ditch, SHONTS HEADS THE LIST Only Three of the Members Have Important Executive Functions to Perform, Thus Carrying Out Roosevelt's Primary Object. President Roosevelt has carried out this -plans for the reorganization of the isthmian canal commission as to personnel and business methods, generally on the lines of the legislation he suggested to congress at the last session, which failed, in the crush of business, at the closing hours. Monday, within half an hour after the president's departure from Washington on his vacation trip, Secretary Taft, directly in charge of canal matters, made public the personnel of the new commission and the division of duties among them Only one member of the old commission was reappointed, Benjamin M. Harrod. Otherwise, the commission is new from top to bottom, for there is a top' and bottom fend considerable difference between the functions and pay of the commissioners. Finding he was obliged to appoint seven commissioners, the president did so, but he carried out his plan by making three of them practically the commission. The other four, though bearing the title of conv missioners, not only receive a much lower compensation, but are assigned much smaller fields of activity. , Tha nrociHonf a 1friac i^arrioH nut il* VOiUVMV Miwv MMW V ? his scheme of dividing up the work of canal building among the commissioners, so that, nominally, acting as a body on stated occasions, each individual member would operate in a special field. The head of the commission is a trained railroad man, chosen for his administrative abilities in the financial and purchasing field; the new governor of the tone is a lawyer, who also has had to do with state affairs; the engineer commissioner already Is known for his abilities in the execution* of the practical work of canal cutting. The other members of the commission are piaced to comply with the law as to the number of comi misfsioners, but are men of high ability as hydraulic engineers. Secretary Taft told them that they were expected to show results, and that is said to be the keynote for the president's action. The personnel of the commission is as follows: Theodore P. Shonts, chairman; Charles E. Magoon, governor canal zone; John F. Wallace, chief engineer; Rear Admiral M. T. Endicott, United States navy; Brigadier General Peter C. Hains, United States army, retired; Colonel Oswald M. Ernst, corps engineers, United States arm^ Benjamin M. Harrod. These names were announced at the war department, and in connection announcements Secretary Taft gave out for publication a statement showing the allotments of salaries to the new commissioners and his own letter to the president and a lengthy one from the president containing the plan for reorganization of the commission, the reasons therefor and the particular duties to be assigned to each commissioner. The first reads as follows: "The president has made an order allowing a salary of $2,500 with traveling expenses for each member of the commission, and the chairman of the commission the additional compensation of $22,500; to the chief engineer, the additional compensation of $17,500, and to the governor of the zone the additional compensation of $10,000. The head of each department is allowed the use of a furnished 'house upon the isthmus and his traveling expenses when traveling on business of the commission." I The total is $102,500. The salaries and allowances under the former commission amounted to $120,0001 TRIBAL TROUBLE IN LIBERIA. Bloody Warfare Raging Among Natives of the Black Republic. A Liverpool dispatch says: According to a report brought by the British land African line Royal Mail steamer Sokoto, from West Africa, tribal warware is now raging in Liberia. Natives of the Picananynines tribes on March 13 attacked Cestos, killing sixty men and eighty women. The Cestos natives are organizing a big counter expedition. When the Sokoto sailed a fierce encounter, with much slaugh ter, was expected. LIGHTHOUSE KNOCKED OUT. Price Demanded for Land is Too 8t|ff for Uncle Sam. Information reaches Savannah from Washington that the government will not erect a light house of St. Catherine's island. The $75,000 of the estate of the late Jacob Raeurs wants for five acres of the island as a light- ' house reservation is too stiff for the government. / NEW OFFICIALS OF SOUTH^^^H Etensive Changes Announced Immediately Effective. The following changes in olfic?^^^| in the Southern railroad have bed^^H announced at headquarters in Was^^^J ington: C. HI Ackert, formerly general mah* % *- fmifitK V1AD. * . eger, nas oeeu cuuacu. iuuuu <v.v president, in charge of operating department. T. C. Powell, formerly freight traffic manager, fifth vice president, with offices at St. Louis, in charge of traffic in the west and the operation of the St. Louis-Louisville lines. H. B. Spencer, general manager to succeed Mr. Ackert. M(r. Spencer was formerly general manager of the St. Louis-Louisville lines. L. Green, freight traffic manager, with offices at Washington. G-. R. Browder,general freight agent, with offices at Atlanta, Ga. Randall Clifton, assistant general ; ." freight agent, with offices at Atlanta, Ga. W. R. Paton, assistant general freight agent, with offices ?t Atlanta, Ga. I. L. Graves, assistant generai freight agent, with offices at Mtemphis, Tenn. A C. P. Cooper, general superintendent of the St.Louis-Louisville lines. b These appointments are all promotions. To all those in railroad circles one matter regarding the appointments of the officials noted in the dispatch is ' ^ apparent. This is the fact that the promotions in each and every case were for that kind of genius that comes from perspiration rather thaih inspiration, for each and every promotion was on its face a reward of that kind of merit that belongs to harJ and conscientious work. SMITH AND WIFE ARRESTED. ' ' ' $ Man Accused of Connection with the Murder of Caesar Young Taken. - ? MOrgan Smith and his wife, who is a sister of Nan Patterson, the ac- v tress, who is held in New York on the charge of killing Caesar Young, the bookmaker, were arrested in Cm .J cinnau murau?jr ubciuwu. Smith had been summoned to ap-' pear as a witness in the case, but left New York city several months ago. A New York detective managed to , locate Smith in Montreal and after making his acquaintance and getting on friendly terms with him was abl& J to accompany Smith and his wife when they left the Canadian city and , started south. Mrs. Smith has relatives in Covington, Ky., across the river from Cincinnati, and they went to that place, but were refused admission to ttio house. They then took rooms' in a hotel and were arrested there. Bod \ ^ Smith and his wife admitted taeir identity. Mbrg&n Smith is declared by the New York authorities to have gone with Nan Patterson to a pawnbroker's shop In New York, and to have se- >' lected for her the pistol with which Young was shot The detective said that J. Morgan Smith went under many aliases while traveling around the country. NEW ATLANTA POLICE CHIEF. 0 John W. Ball Deposed and Captain Henry Jennings Installed. Captain Henry S. Jennings sue- sj| ceeds John W. Ball as chief of the Atlanta police force. This was the feature of the bi-ennial police election Thursday night; conducted by the board of police commissioners in the board room at the police barracks. The retirement of Chief Ball is re- 'J sented by all the newspapers of the ' city and a great majority of the populace. The esteem in which the retiring chief is held by the people of the city will probably receive expression through a testimonial, to be subscribed tn hv the DeonJe. and which. It is suggested, should take the form; '?f of e loving cup. MISS LEE LAID TO REST. . Body is Placed in Mausoleum Beside Father, Mother and Sister. At Lexington, Va., Friday, the re- v mains of M5ss Mildred Lee, youngest daughter of General Robert E. Lee, were placed in a crypt of the mausoleum at Washington and Lee university. The other members of the family buried there are her father and mother, and one sister, Miss Agnes Lee. , j Funeral services were held in R. E. Lee Episcopal church. Eight students of Washington and Lee university acted as pallbearers. ?-????? RUSH FOR JAPANESE BOND8, A 4 w W Loan Engineered by New York Bankera Six Times Oversubscribed. Kuhn, Loeb & Co. announced at New York Friday that they will have to reject further applications for the Japanese loan. It is estimated that the applications for the American portion of the loan ?$75,000,000?will reach a total of almost $500,000,000. It will take some time to make the allotments.