Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1GG E It th? day poems to carry a bur don of woo. Figger up: If its moments seem dragging and terribly slow : Figger up. For I guess you will tind if you pause to reflect Tbat there's "bout as much sun as you've right to expect : If you've earned something good, you are bound to collect? ? Figger up. On the great slate of Time there are many accounts? Figger up? For various payments of divers amounts? Figger up. And we're apt to collect what is coming our way. Thnnph it"? ctiine of the snn or doom of the day: If we dance, you have heard, we the tiddler ? 4 must pay? Figger up. 4it| tAAit/nti iti I* i^iTi if 11*1 AAiiiTii*! JtAAAA - TTnrTTTrTT TTTVttTttVvTt^i YT I | HER SEGONI The young vicar of Drelling came out of the vestry, and. very straight and very white?face and gown?knelt for a f^w moments, and then rose to begin the morning service. It was a tiny, unobtrusive old church; a mere dot on the territory of the great house whose pinnacles and windows and turrets and fretted bat. tlements?the work of many generations of architects?commanded it at a distance of about three furlongs like a tiered battery of money bags. For the first time since the trouble he had not rung the bell. There was no one else to ring it, and he?it bad !?? come to this?didn't think it worth while. ^ 3 He was no coward, dui ne was ureu of it. Life seemed too complete a mockery this morning, this fair July morning, as he walked up the avenue toward the great house from the lodge which still had his family's escutcheon in stone over the door. He had met no one except the lodgekeeper's children a?t a window of the lodge, and they had been pulled down by invisible hands as soon almost as he had noticed their staring eyes and parted lips. The stone label to that escutcheon bore the words "Stand firm." There were five broken-nosed Delmain monu ments in the church, and to each of them was that same escutcheon, with ? 7" that same motto. But he wasn't sure that he could do it. Even while he faced his congrega. tion he heard the sweet chimes of the new church which the new owner had had built with the forceful haste of a Pharaoh, on purpose to compel him to J go. v A congregation of one! He read for her and himself, with ! his head a little bowed, "Dearly be- j loved brethren, the Scripture moveih us " And then he looked up from his j book. It was as if his eyes were determined to act in defiance of his will. She was, as ever, beautiful and calm. She did not look up. She was half j the length of the little church awav I from him, and that was merciful of her. She was clothed in gray like a dove, with a touch of gold in her haii where the sun gleamed at her through the yellow mantle of a glass saint in the window. A ma?rvel of a woman. considering that she was but threeand-twenty, and her father's daughter. And then he closed the prayer book. "I am afraid," he said, ' that I must i ask you to forgive me, that is. excuse me. I cannot go on, Miss Hassell. I ?will leave Drelling, as your father desires." He didn't speak bitterly. He didn't even feel bitter about things at the moment. But in the vestry, with its crying testimonies to his failure?the eight cassocks of his choir who were not. the written rules for their observance, and the notices about holy seasons? here he was suddenly seized by a throttling despair. He removed his robes and sat down. He believed that it was the unfairness, the astounding unfairness which hurt him most. Was he not wounded enough in the fact that a year ago?or was it an aeon??Eve Hassell has told him that she did not love him. Where was his crime in loving her and telling her so? It was afterward that Eve's father had begun his campaign of ostracism, and there was little that money could do to force him from Drelling that Mr. Melton Hassell, of the great house, had not done. He had written to the bishop about it, and the bishop had written to Philip, suggesting, in all Christian kindness, that if Philip could bring himself to surrender the poor fragment of his ancestral rights which remained to him with the advowson of that, little church, it might, in the circumstances, be best for all concerned, including himself. But he had stood firm against the bishop, even as against the mighty power of her father's purse and the hideous sapping of his influence in the little parish which proceeded from that power. The bishop was grieved to the heart, yet duly consecrated that rival church. It was a gorgeous little church, with much gold and expensive marble to it. and its incumbent was an able man: a good man also in his way, though without private means, and with a family which constrained him to see eye to eye with his patron. It was not as if he had revolted against Eve's inability to love him He bad spoken no word to her since Not one word. Both she and her fathej "aad seen to that: and he had tried to LK UP. , l I.ouk hack en your life, thnnph you d muen i rather not Filler tit) And say. if you dare, that the treatment J >< ? ?;ot? Fitter tin ? Is not ju'etty near to the treatment you earned. Who was it the candle incessantly burned. And Intrned at both ends, until wisdom he learned? Fijrser up. What's the use of a sish. or the good of a j whine? Kijrp'r up? Take your medicine now. as I must take mine. I'igger up. And 1 guess we may find on the big final sheet There was .iusi as much shine as of gloom for our feet. , Or. if not. that the treatment we had was but meet? Figger up. , ?A. .1. Waterhouse. in Sunset. ) THOUGHTS. | I i put her out of his life, as wise men do ' ! thrust away distracting visions of the unattainable. We.-> there ever such rancor in a man , as this of Melton Hassell toward him? ! ' Doubtless it was true, as the great man 1 i of the great house had declared to him . j after his error. Eve was a bride for a I prince or a duke; certainly not for a j poor parson, who clung with such degrading weakness to the mere ragged ^ hem of the thousands of lordly acres ^ which had for generations belonged to j j the Delmains. i t Eve's father had offered him ?10,000 ( for the advowson of that tiny church. "It's a fancy price." "To get rid of me. I presume?" And Eve's father had said: $ "Well. I don't deny it, Mr. Delmain; and any man in my position would do j the same." ! The ?10.000 was increased to ?20,- j 000. and that had roused the old Delmain spirit in even the vicar of Drel- ^ ling. j "i should as soon think of selling j my coat of arms, Mr. Hassell." j Mr. Hassell had no coat of arms at j that time: but he had a temper, and ^ he was vindictive. t "Well. I'll make you sorry before j I've done." he said. . , And now he had done about all he could do. and it was enough. ^ The Rev. Philip Delmain. last of the i Delmains of Drelling, thus sitting in his disestablished vestry among the cassocks of the choir who would never again praise the Lord with him, was beaten. ^ How could he bear it, with Eve and 1 no soul else for his congregation? This was the second Sunday since the consecration of that other church of j new marble and gilding, and the sec- 2 ond time he and Eve had been thus alone together. It was chivalrously noble of her. j T-To rno H Vi i oVi m nfit*oc o e h o rooH iiv. i v?u uv * uiwii ? \.o ac nv i vuu i ^ her serene and beautiful face. But, of f I C course, it could not go on. She must j recognize that as well as he. If she j were not Eve, Philip might have seen j j in her coming thus to his despised ! ^ little church the master stroke of her i A father's schemes to drive him out of j ? the parish. But she was the Eve he | t knew and loved, aud And he could stand firm no longer. ! I The sweet chimes of that other I ( church ceased. Instead of them he j heard the cheerful twittering of birds. t Otherwise he was surrounded by great t and soothing silence. r Weil, it ought to have been soothing. s But it was not. His pale face flushed j as he remembered what he had just done, or rather not done. The shame of it! j He had allowed his own petty per- ^ sonal cares and humiliations?the agitations of a mere ephemera?to tempt him to insult the Omnipotent and Immortal. He, a servant of the Most High, had refused to pay the service that was due from him to the Almighty. Expressly due from him! He had cried like a child or a pol- ( troon, and ran away. It matt * ed nothing that he had shamed himself before her. She was a fleeting mortal, even as he was. In a little while she, ] like him, would pass away, and ere j then she would, God willing, forget t his weakness. But he had banned j himself before the Most High, and be-. , fore the dust of his own ancestors, who } had been honorable and brave men? ( their many misfortunes in these latter , days the result of their sense of honor. 1 He arose and confronted his igno- . miny with steady eyes if flushed , cheeks, and in a little while he returned. calm again and no longer flushed, to the place from which he had fled. And again he knelt, alone now save ] for the sunshine which beamed full ^ upon the spot where she had stood, ( and whence she had witnessed his j shame. , And afterward he read the whole ] service, with a growing sense of strength, though no desire to rejoice in its consciousness. He read and ( prayed in a low voice, for there was ; no mortal ear to hear him. and no ; other human tongue to join his. ; Just himself, and the altar, which ] was to him the throne of mercy and { 1 all good gifts. | ] So to the very end. Only when he had finished in the j peace which passes understanding and I was on his feet, very straight and very | white again, and ready to return, comforted in a measure, to his lonely parsonage, only then did he glance once more at the place which she had consecrated in his memory for ever and ever. She was there again, kneeling, with | ! her face in her hands. | .lust for a moment he stood motion- i less; not quite so erect now. but whiter than before. Only for a moment. And then he moved slowly to his vestry and shut the door. Not now a recreant servant of his Master, he returned to the church, and went down its narrow natve. Why should he not pause and even stand where she had stood? She had left her prayer book, and that also was noble of her. All the other books had been taken away to that garish little gem of a new church. Only hers re mainea. He kissed the book and replaced it reverently. In a week it would no doubt be with her in that other church. So much the better for that other church, and none the worse for him Dr for her. And here he locked the door sadly, yet with a firm hand, and removed the key. Tomorrow Mr. Melton Ha/isell might triumph over the key if he pleased; it should be his to do with as he pleased. But on the west side of the church, whither he turned to reach the parsonage in which a Delmain had lived for more than' two centuries, he saw her. She was standing by the large, white marble cross which marked where her mother lay. Mr. Melton Hassell had lost his v, i.'e i:i the first year of his greatness as master of Drelling. It was before the discord between him md the vicar of Drelling. and. well, Df course, she lay in the old churchward. She looked up, and at once moved ;oward him, and there was that in her "ace which constrained him to wait ;or her. The impulse to steal away in he other direction was instantaneous )n seeing her; but so, also, was her Tinvcmpnf toward him i He waited for her and smiled. Yes, he would give her the key, if ;he would take it. But she spoke first, offering him her land. "I want to say something," she said apidly; "and I want you to believeivery word of .it. I?you may think vhat you will of me, but it has got to ie said. Once you asked me if I could ove you, and I?I was hasty, and said ! could not. I meant would not. But : love you now, and you read the vords just now?if you still love me, am willing and anxious to say, like rtuth, Whither thou goest I will go,' md?you know the rest, Philip. Ah!" ?she sighed her contentment?"you lo love me. I am?glad!"?London Answer. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. In Michigan three sisters are living vhose combined ages are 2T5 years. All have been married. In New England the fringed gentian s a shy, rare plant. In the fields iround Chicago it grows like clover. At Strohbeck, Prussian Saxony, chess s a part of the regular school curri:ulum, and every boy and girl carries i hoard and men. The celebrated emerajd mines of Huzo, Colombia, are owned by the government, and are among its most :aluable assets. Colombia is seeking i loan in foreign markets with which o carry on operations in the mines. It is reported that the director of the French school at Athens has just dis:overed at Delos three large lead vases ull of old coins. The largest contained more than 300 4-draehma pieces, ninted in Athens under the Archons. rhey are said to be in such perfect state that they appear never to have )een put in circulation. Statistics show that more people ivo to be one hundred years old ill varm climates than in northern counries. In Mexico there are many cenenarians, for in towns not forty milos xom the capital are not a few men md women beyond the one-hundredrear line. Germany reports 778 cenenarians, France 213, England 146 md Spain 401, and the population of Spain is relatively small. The pine needles of South Oregon ire being utilized, says the New York Evening Post. The needles are first joiled and then run between horizonLai wooden rollers, which extract the iuice. This is called pine needle oil, ft'hich is supposed to possess medical properties. The pulp is used as a medicated material for upholstering, and is ilso said to be a good substitute for " 'inrcphaid Tt ic saiH that incpnt nosts will not live in furniture that has been jpholstered with pine needles. The monks at thd Hospital of St. Jean de Dieu, at Ghent, have in their leisure moments decorated the walls with gorgeous landscapes, glowing with :olor and full of life, formed entirely by means of the postage stamps of all the nations of the world. Palaces, forests, streams and mountains are represented, butterflies flit about in the air; birds of beautiful plumage perch i>n branches, snakes and lizards glide about, and innumerable animals find places here and there. The pictures are most artistic, in the style of Chinese landscape gardening, and already between nine and ten million sta??s have been used. Imrvftsitlnn. Macbooth?In his new play, Fannersfield carries realism a little beyond the limit. Rantington?In what particular scene? Macbooth?Why, at the end of the second act he goes over a cliff in an automobile and then has two stage hands carry him on a stretcher in front of the curtain in order to mak his customary speech?Puck. 2 SOUTH CAROLINA 2j | STATE NEWS ITEMS. 11 Granted Thirty Additional Days. In the United States district couu at Charleston an order "was filed giving the Union cotton mills thirty additional days in which to file an am | swer in the bankruptcy proceedings recently begun. The plan for reorganization recently formulated at a j stockholders' meeting is being put into operation. * * Fletcher Byrd Executed. Fletcher Byrd, a negro, was hanged in Greenville the past week for the murder of Magistrate #Cox. white, cn May 14, i904. His accomplice, Palmer Creswell. was to have been hang ed at the same time, but was respited at the last moment by the governor. The killing was brought on through an attempted violation of the dispensary law. * * * Growers Assessed 3c Per Bale. At the recent meeting of the Ches ter County Cotton Growers' Association a resolution was passed assessing each member of the association 3o per bale for all cotton raised by him, also to collect funds for anyone who tvlchtiH tn />nntrihiito anrl tn trv anH induce other farmers to join the association. Hon. P. L. Harden, president of the association, presided, and W. S. Hail was elected secretary pro tem. The association is in a very flourishing condition. * * * Seymour Visits Charleston. Vice Admiral Edwin H. Seymour of the British navy will resume his trip to New York in a few days, after a very pleasant stay in Charleston. He was to make a direct run from At Ianta to New York, but on account of historical connection of Charleston with his country he determined to spend a few days in the city, and his time has been well employed. He has been shown courtesies by the United States array and navy officers and by the English societies and citizens generally, who delighted to honor one cf the most distinguished officers of the British navy. * =* * Have Trouble With Seamen. Seamen are giving masters of ves- j sels a good deal of trouble at Charles- i ton. The vessels are not long in port j before the men begin to find some cause of difference with their mas- i ters. largely as a result of their de- ; sire to profit through the lack of extra j men in port to take their places. In J a number, of cases the masters have , been forced to yield to the demands I of the men. In provoking and aiding I the differences between the masters j and crews several lawyers have prov- j en ready agencies, taking the cases j of the men into court on various tech- j nicalities. But for the extraordinary lack of seamen willing to ship, the masters would not- have the trouble that they have been experiencing. I # * Judge Refused to Restrain Election. Judge Klugh at Gaffney refused to grant an injunction restraining the su- j pervisor and managers from holding j the election on "dispensary or no dis- j pensary" iQ Spartanburg county. The application was presented by Sims and Hannon, the attorneys of J. T. Harmon, dispenser, and the hearing j was the result of an order issued by j I Judge Klugh previously. The elec- [ tion was accordingly held as announced. Judge Klugh overruled the motion made by the plaintiff's attorney. He held that the Brice law is constitutional and that it is not a law for the purpose of raising revenue, but for the regulation of the establishing and abolishing dispensaries, and that the revenue feature is only a subsidiary clause. He also held that no case was made by the plaintiff, and ! so dismissed the case. * * * Turned Into Cotton Lands. A Charleston news item says: j Hess & Sbingler cotton factors. | have raised a crop of cotton on aban- j doned rice land, which has proved one of the finest crops to be raised in I this section this season. The success which has attended the cultivation i shows that the abandoned rice fields can be put to profitable use. The crop ! was raised on a plantation of 6? acres and a yield of two bales to the j acre will be made. An average stalk j taken at random from the field shows j 195 open bolls and it is said that there ! are many stalks with larger number. ! No special fertilization or effort wa> made in raising the cotton. Other successful experiments have been made in raising cotton on lands abandoned by rice planters.who fouuo the industry unprofitable, but the ex | periment of Hesse & Shingler is the j most successful which has been re j ported, and it shows the possibilities1 of the industry. * * * Fleet to, Winter at Charleston. Commandant Very of the Charles ton navy yard has been instructed tc j make arrangements for the comin,; | ! of Admiral Dickins* fleet, which is tc i ! spend the winter in Charleston. The fleet will have a complement of 1,501men and the department desires tc j insure fully the proper and adequate j market supplies, so the commandant j of the navy yard has been advised tc. j I give attention to this matter, as well j as looking after the anchorage of the j fleet, coal supply and other points | saving the admiral and officers of the | fleet from caring for these details I The fleet will arrive on or about JJej ceraber 1. Charleston will, be the I base for many excursions which the vessels will make for deep sea man| oeuvers. The new cruiser Charleston j will also soon arrive for the preseni tation of a $2,500 silver bowl, given bv the city council. j ! * l Large Reward fcr Missing Books. The directors of the recently reor ganized Union and Buffalo cotton mills at Union held an important and evidently rather" warm session a few days ago, those present being William Winchester of Baltimore, H. C. fleitt- | man of New York. T. H. weenie ol i ; Graniteville, Edwin W. Robertson ct j Columbia, Emslie Nicholson and T. C. ! ! Duncan of Union. A tomewbat sensational action tak- [ j en by the directors was the offering | ; of a $2,500 reward for the return of j i several important books belonging to the Union cotton mills, with evidence to convifct the person making away with them. These books, it is under1 stood, are a 600-page ledger and 400- j ; page journal, canvass-bound leather j back and corners, which have been ( missing since October 18. after the expert accountants had made a partial I I examination of them. ' One thousand dollars was offered ; i !for their return unmutilated to Pres- j ! ident Robertson and $500 simply for J ; information leading to their recovery, i The salary paid Director Duncan , since the reorganization will be stopj ped. It was announced that all the : future contracts for. cotton had been closed out, a fact that had hitherto been kept quiet. These contracts callj ed for 88,003 bales, bought by former President Duncan in July for the ' Union cotton mills, or more than j seven years' supply, the approximate ! average price being 11 1-2 cents, and | 13,000 bales, also bought by Mr. Dun| can for Buffalo mills, some of that ; new comipg in being about 11.81. i SUIT LOST BY PAPA PLATT. Old Man Fails to Recover $685,000 Given to a Negro Woman. The appellate division of the New j York state supreme court Friday handed down a decision dismissing a suit brought by John R. Piatt against Hannah Elifs, a negress, to recover $685,- j 000, which Piatt asserted he had given to her under coercion. The court stated in the deeisinn that it wa? not made on the merits of the case. "There are in the complaint," the decision reads, "many allegations of acts on the part of Hannah Elias which would result necessarily in a decree requiring her to make restitution of what she received from the plaintiff. The difficulty is that none of the allegations of the complaint respecting fraud, intimidation, threats, coercion or blackmail, is proven. "The plaintiff himself, in his testimony in court, said that he gave nothing to the defendant under coercion; that all he gave was voluntarily given; that he paid her household bills, spent large sums of money ki furnishing lodgings or apartments for her, ; advised her with reference to the investment in savings banks of some of S the money he gave her, and as to the disposition of other sums not so invested. "It is also true that the plaintiff says that he gave large sums of money to her 'to prevent anything of our relations coming out to the public,' but there was nothing in his testimony to indicate that there was any threat on the part of th6 woman to expose the relations." ? . REJOICINC IN QUAKER CITY. Victorious Reform Leaders Indulge in Great Demonstration. ! There was a great demonstration i at**..he mayor's office in Philadelphia i Wednesday morning by the victorious [ city party leaders and others. They | formed a line, and. headed by two Vira?c honHf murrhP't thrniljrh the ! streets. In the line were some of j ! Philadelphia's best known citizens, j j The men marched into Mayor Weav- i er's large reception room and cheer- j | ed him while the bands played patri- | otic airs. Mayor Wjeaver was lifted j I upon a table and made a stirring \ j speech. He gave the people credit ' j for the victory, and said it was the j cleanest election had in Philadelphia ! in many years. SCORE INJURED IN A WRECK. I Northern pacific Express Crashes Into Rear of Freight Train. Northern Pacific passenger train j | No. 4, eastbound, running 40 miles ! j an hour, crashed into the rear of an i I eastbound freight train, two miles ' west of Missoula, Montana. Thurs- I day. A score of passengers and i trainmen were injured. The two engineers will probably die. ' ROTREVEALED IN BOSTON # Raid by Police Unearths Wholesale Malpractice in Private Hospitals. Aftermath of 4,Suit Case." ; 1 . * At Boston Saturday afternoon twen. _ . ty detectives made a sensational descent upon five offices on Tremont - - j street, where it is alleged illegal operations have been performed on an -J extensive scale, and, although the raid did not result in any arrests, the %t police found considerable material which they think will aid them in the future. In each place a photograph was. taken of the rooms and of the in-' ; . struments found. Hundreds of people X blocked traffic on Tremont street dur- ^ ing the raids, and for hours afterward? the impression was general that >> 1 another girl had met death in ohe . . of the hospitals, and that the police had caught the criminals. The action of the police was the re- , . suit of the disclosures which have. " x' come to light recently in connection . with the death of Susanna Geary, the victim of the suit case tragedy, whose i death followed an illegal operation at leged to have been performed in the s./: . | office of Mrs. Dr. Jane Bishop, and the more recent operation performea on Jola Reed, a 15-yearold girl of West Newfleld, Maine. Although five places were entered - , , by the police during the day, the 4' work will be continued next week, the ^ r ^ authorities having information their possession indicating that business is being conducted on such'^lpl a large scale that it has beromeV^f^ alarming. Their information also in-.;^||| dicatrs that Boston has becon^^^^O headquarters for these illegal practi>/-tv^l tioners. who bring their patients all parts of the country. MINOR OFFICES TO REPUBLICAN^ Latest Returns from Last Week's State Election in Ohio. *y':*j Practically completely returns on im the entire Ohio state ticket show ailIhe republican candidates except for / , ^ governor, have been elected by. su^ stantial pluralities. Both parties continue to claim a :M majority in both branches of the leg islature. The majority in either branch will be very small, probably not more than two or three for the party that controls. TRIPLE LYNCHING IN TEXAS. Mob Hangs Three Negroes Charged' > With Murder of White Farmer. A mob of 200 men broke into jail at Henderson, Tex., and overoptr-^^^ ering the officers took therefrom Reece, Robert Askew and one other negro, and hung them in the poi)li?r^^| The negroes were arrested with two ? : others a few days ago for the murder. %|&l| of a farmer. The other negroes whori j^^ not molested, members of the moo claiming they were only accomplices/GLADDEN REVERSES HIMSELF. Says Controversy Over 'Tainted Mon^iJS ey" is Definitely Settled. Rev. Dr. Washington Gladden, modera tor of the Conereeational churches J of the United States, announced from ' > his pulpit at Columbus, Ohio, Sunday; -, . j that controversy over "tainted raoney" has been definitely settled so far as the Congregational church is concerned, and "that there need be no fear that moral issues will be raised 1 hereafter in the solicitation of mo&Result of Virginia Election. , vlfl Complete unofficial returns from thd m recent state election in Virginia show J that the republicans elected only IS. ^1! members >f the general assembly,/All.; |jjfl of the remaining 122 members of the Vrjj assembly are straight democrats. Montgomery Jews to Meet. A meeting of the Jewish people has* been called in Montgomery, Alabama, to express indignation at the treatment of the Jews in Russia, and raiae * money to aid them. . ]| MEET AT HAGUE IN MAY. Powers Practically Agree to Accept vr j Invitation of Czar Nicholas. Practically all the powers have f M now accepted the invitation of Em-*^*}J| peror Nicholas to be represented at ';|R the second peace conference, and the program which Russia will submit for kf the consideration of the delegates at ^ II The Hague is being elaborated at the - } foreign office. The date of the con- , jfl ference has been definitely fixed for May next. POLES BALK AT MARTIAL LAWjl -J Repression Drives Them to Exaspera* V. ;|B tion and Trouble is Imminent. ** The proclamation of martial law iQ all of the ten governments of Rus- /,'J sian Poland has caused surprise an/1' -'fl exasperation and there are apprehen- . N. sions that It will provoke disturbance^^; flj worse than those that have already ' taken,place. The city of Warsaw if < . panic-stricken.