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-- ,v V: ., *. ." > . / "111SK UP AXI) RUN.'* Ef you wants to reach de riches AYha? seiners Avaits fer a*ou. \y >n t;e bright sun say. "Good mawnin','' You must tell "im "Uowdy-do!" l)is livin* ain't 110 fun? De race is ter be run! AY'en de bright sun say. ''Good maAvnin','' Rise up, en run! Ef you wants tor reach de hilltop 'Fo de stars come out ter de nituit, Be ready fer do runnin' At de breakin' er dc light! Rear me tr.lk. my son? Be race is tor be run! AY'en de bright sun say, ''Good mawnin',*' j Rise up, ea ran! ?Atlanta Constitution. PHS5C5HSHSHSESH5ESE5HSHH5D] ni . ?. Ln raDe?on| | Ik^jj RoS8., jjjj EsHSHSSSE5aH5E55a5HSHSH5SHJ | For ten years Mr. G. Herning Magnus had been a writer for the lesser magazines. He wrote short stories and essays and sent them to the editors in the hope they would be accepted. His stamp bill was Tery large. Still, perseverance, a mild intention, and knowledge dug from the encyclopedias will tell in time. His accepted manuscripts increased in number. This perked him ud. He started a bank account of moderate dimensions. Nothing makes a man so brave as a bank account. _ And he joined two or three "literary clubs," wherein he was a "lion." Pale, bespectacled ladies with yearnings assured him that they had read his articles in the Ladies' Fireside Instructor on "Every Woman Her Own Sandow," and it was "lovely." This pleased Mr. Magnus almost as much as did the editor's check. He was a slender man, with drooping shoulders, mild blue eyes and a sandy Vandyke beard. When "lionized" he used to twist this beard into a sharp point and stab himself upon his shirt front. Though his legs were wobbly and his feet large, his "heart was in the right place." This he knew from the fact that when startled by a sudden noise it "beat thick and quick, like a madman on a drum." A boisterous doctor came up behind him, slapped him on the shoul- ; der and howled: "Maggy, old man, how're the brutal editor men?" The heart, which was in the right place, began thumping. Magnus "wheeled and faced him, wrath in his pale eyes. "I do so hate to be called 'Maggy,' he snapped. "It really is not my ' 0-:'' name." Then his thin delicate hand went < to his left side. "It's all right, Magnus," the doctor said. "Beg pardon. You look overworked. Take a bit of free advice?go away somewhere and rest." It was early summer and the members of ,the literary clubs, the fashionables and the preachers were flit- i |r.' tiD?' 1 The bank account was healthy. 1 Magnus looked over the papers. Among a thousand advertisements | ' of places "with all the comforts of home," his eye was caught by the mention of Matfield. j! He asked about it and was told it ! ,was in a good country, with pure air, farm foods, trout fishing and cheapness. That seemed to suit. Next afternoon he alighted from a 1 dilapidated cart in front of "Grass- ! .dene" farmhouse. 1 A river rolled grandly to the .. south. The hills were blue, save J upon their.- summits, which were crimsoned by the dying sun. From afar came the drowsy tinkle of a j z cowbell. A slow wind brought the 6cent of fresh fields and flowers. Looking from his window over the 1 sweeping river Magnus saia: - "Here is rest. I do not want human companionship?a cultivated 1 mind needs only itself. Surrounded : by these eternal hills, amid which dwell a simple people, solitude ; should bring happiness. Their ways x V8 *?t my ways, their souls are half-developed, but we need not clash." He fell readily into the habits of the household. It consisted of Mrs. Loudoun, a silver-haired widow, her grand-daughter, Elfreda Loundoun, ' a brown-eyed girl of. eighteen, with a delicious figure, a mass of brown hair, and a frank smile, and a man- , of-all-work, who ate enormously and never sdld a word. The two women gave him no confidences, for which he was grateful. He was forced to admit that their manners were perfect, but set this down to innate female refinement. They made no effort at all to entertain him. He paid his moderate bills and kept to himself. . . He discovered a boat in a small ; house which stood by the river, and used to pull laboriously a half-mile up the stream of evenings, then float lazily down. The heart which was in the right place began to show some disposition to stay steady when sudden noises came. In two weeks, however, he realized that a cultivated mind needs something more than itself. He was bofed. Furthermore, his conscience oppressed him. He told himself that he was ungenerous in withholding himself from these two lonely women, who knew nothing of books, society, cities, or the great world without. He was not conscious of a desire to alleviate the loneliness of Mrs. * * m* -z?t% ::: Loundoun, but he thought 'the girl would improve mightily by converse with a man of his cultivated. abilities and experience. She. was plump, and her weight in the boat made the rowing more difficult, but he endured the extra labor for the pleasure of watching her intellect expand like a flower. j He noticed that in the half-light ! of the evenings she was a singularly pretty girl, nor could he see that she lost any of her attractiveness in the full light of day. She listened to his talk of bocks with every appearance of interest. He found all her comments apt, and some of them shrewd. He felt the unconcions charm of her innocence. One evening, three weeks after the beginning of their friendship, she assumed guidance of the conversation. It was done in a spirit of mischief, but the eyes of Magnus did not see it. He lacked the perceptive faculty. She astonished him much by a sound, if not brilliant, monologue upon the Elizabethan poets as compared with those of the earlier era, and, in a mi{d discussion of the reputed authorship of the Shakespearean plays, she worsted him badly. She said they were the work of Sir Walter Raleigh during his eighteen years of confinement in the Tower of London. Next day she invited him into a part of the house he had not visited, introduced him to a sitting-room, furnished plainly but in perfect taste, seated herself at an old but tuneful piano, and played for him, with feeling and force, selections from Beethoven, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Chopin. Verdi, Donnizetti, Wagner, De Koven, Millard, Sullivan, "Dave*' Braham. The town man dimly recognized that he might possibly have been guilty of underestimating,the simple farming family. A little later he began to hold her in his thoughts and to speak of her, when on his rambled, as a "Devon rose." This was a bad sign. In all his LLLliLJ JCttia lie uau sccu uu wuc line her?so simple, so unaffected, so sympathetic, so beautiful. This was a worse sign. He measured mentally the height of his bank account, and found it sufficient. This was the worst sign of all. He laid his approaches with what he conceived to be consummate art. In his story "Heart to Heart at Eventide," published in the Beacon Light, there was a scene in which Lord Ranald de Cholmondeley had said to Lady Blanche de -Courtney? "I love you wildlj', madly, passionately. Your being has entered into my being. As the dewdrop trembles in the flower chalice, so trembles my soul in your beauteous presence. Be mine?be mine?and there shall be no sun, nor stars, nor the opal-tinted heights of heaven, nor the crimson abysses of hades. There shall be in the wide universe only you." He thought this rather fine, and wondered how it would sound if softly, yet intensely, spoken amid the murmur of the river dcwn-rolling to the sea. It was late in September. There was a slight chill in the air. The girl, wrapped in fleecy light stuff, sat, as was her custom, in the stern of the boat, which made no sound as it drifted. In the moonlight her brown eyes shone like jewels. Below them shone the windows of the farmhouse. Not a word had been spoken for half an hour, 'ihen he said : "Miss Loudoun, when I came here [ thought you ignorant country folk, j [ know now what a fool I was. I must go to-morrow, and it makes me 3ad. I can't bear to think I may aever see you again. I have never told you that I love you, but I do sincerely. You must have seen it. Will you marry me?" She did not answer. She had grown suddenly pale, and was staring intently at the landing-place not a hundred yards away. Suddenly she clasped her hands, and a wave of crimson rose in her face. A happy smile curyed her lips. 'Then she gazed earnestly at her companion. "I have not noticed," she said, gravely. "Forgive me, Mr. Magnus, but I cannot marry you." In silence he pricked up his ears. The prow of the boat grated upon the shore. As the girl stepped lightly to land she was taken intc the arms of a tall, young fellow in khaki uniform. She stayed there a full five mifiutes, while Magnus stood akwardly by. Then, she turned, saying: "This is Mr. Landorf. .He has been to South Africa. We have been engaged, for two years." * * * ' # * * Next spring the great author, G. Heming Magnus, wrote a book which Is in its 150th thousand. His heart has gone into it; its name is "Queen Rose of a Devon Garden."?illustrated Bits. Word From Br'er Williams. De Chris'mus gobbler gobble mighty fas', but de diffunce 'twixt him an* de human gobbler is dat he ain't got time ter gobble all in sight. It never does come ter de human race dat dey orter be mighty thankful for lots er de things dey don't git. Satan go ter church mighty reg'lar, but no man ever yet kotched him sleepin' thoo' de sermon. Keep de hallejuia road, but don't holler so loud dat dey'll 'res' you fer disturbin' de peace. W'en you er In de ban's er a receiver you orter ms.ke up you' ruin* ter de fact dat de l-ceo'^r got ter live es well ez you.?Atlanta Constitution. wht. ^?y .+* . . * * - \- "' / ??^ v i A rf*r A fh -^i -*"-i A an t jp'almeiState News! i > A k r W V W W " V V V V x Pushing Saluda Railway. Work is proceeding rapidly on the Saluda Valley railway. The road is being built to Marietta, twenty-five miles from Gieenville in the mountains,with the ultimate purpose of going through to the Tennessee coal fields. In fact, the road is graded as far as Knoxville. I Bill Affects Greenville. Much interest is manifested in Greenville in the bill prohibiting bucke;. shops, that passed the state senate. Greenville is one of the few cities mow tiuf hn< an exchange. 1 III I IX" OlUl^ w*v?o ?V?w t w , j and tha local one probably dobs more business than any two others combined. * u * Wife Very Much Alive. Sidney Bouknight, a guileless looking youth, who strayed into Greenville from Georgia several months'ago, was j convicted the past week of bigamy in j general sessions court. His defense was that he thought his wife in Georgia was dead, but she suddenly came to lite and proved an energetic prosecutrix. Boukhight was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. # * * Purchase More Stamps. A committee from the Newberry chamber of commerce has been investigating the matter of free mail delivery for the town. This committee has recommended that all merchants in paying their small bills will do sc? by using stamps, instead of money orders. This request is made or. account of the fact that the revenue derived from tile saie 01 stamps omy enters into the calculation of postoffice receipts. * * Crooks in Aiken Jail* Thomas Nolan, Charles Howard and Edward Duggan, alleged members of a gang of pcstoffi.ee robbers and safeblowers, who were released from the federal prison in Atlanta, Ga., were landed in the Aiken jail temporarily. I^ater Nolan and Howard were taken to Marion county, where they were charged with the robbery of a bank at Mullens. Duggan is charged with the robbery of a store and postoffiee at Mcntmore. The men were -sent to the federal prison at Atlanta in 1902. * * * Large Rice Crop Planned. . Advices received in Charleston show that a considerably larger crop of South Carolina rice will be planted Ibis year in the tidewater sections of South Carolina and Georgia. The rice market has greatly improved during the past year or two with a reduction of the acreage and the surplus stock in the state of Louisiana and Mississippi and Texas and the tide water people see better prospects and are disposed to take advantage of the conditions. The ground is being turned and drained and plantations made ready, for planting. * ** i Woman is Granted Bail. Upon application by attorneys, supported by the evidence taken at the coroner's inquest and f>y an affidavit made by Conductor Willis *H. Arms, Judge George E. Prince, at Lexington, granted an order admitting Mrs. Ethel Barringtor. Plair, now in t'ne Richland county jail, to bail in the aum of $2,000 on her own recognizance, with sureties in that amount to be taken for her appearance at the next term of the general sessions court for Richland county to answer the charge of murdering her husband, the late Cullen W.. Blair, at their home in Columbia on January 17. Conductor Arms, who has a run on the main line of the Southern railway between Danville and Washington, came to Columbia of his own accord. He went at once to the attorneys lor Mrs. Blair and of his own accord offered to sign an affidavit averring her innocence of criminally intimate relations with him. ? * Wilson Circuit Judge. In the joint assembly Solicitor John S. Wilson of Manning was elected judge of the- third circuit to succeed Judge R. 0. Puray, who recently resigned. Mr. Wilson aeteatea Representee T. B. Frazer of Sumter at present chairman of the house judiciary committee. Mr. Wilson has for many years been solicitor of the third circuit ' Captain D. J. Griffith was re-elected superintendent of the penitentiary without opposition. For three penitentiary directors, .Messrs. Mobley, Kirby and Sanders were nominated for re-election and E. H. Cain of Highland, and Jasper W. Smith of Colleton in opposition. .Messrs. Sanders, Mobley and Smith were elected on the first ballot. A Delusive Matrimonial Ad. A suit for $5,000 alimony was ar-' '"- y. & - '/ ' gued before Judge Gary at Greenville a few days ago, being brought by Mrs. F. H. Newton, against her husband, Dr. F. H. Newton, an optician of Greenville. .Mrs. Newton's complaint alleges desertion, non-support, etc., while Dr. Newton, in his rebuttal alleges that he was promised S3,000 to marry Mrs. Newton, the two having become acquainted through want ad correspondencev she living in the west and he in the south. Dr. Newton alleges that the money had never been paid him, and instead that his wife's insane jealousy had made his life miserable. The suit was finally settled out of court, the property being divided according to settlement reached between I ii? TVia nortioc liflvp SPI). Hie Ct'UUI UC.) 3. X u\^ uvu i?i rated. President Much Interested. Piesident Roosevelt will write a letter on the subject of target practice to be read at the national shooting festival to be held at Charleston, in May, at the time of the triennial meeting of the 'National Schuetzcn Bund. He will also pvess a button at the white house which will fire the first three rifle shot* at the festival. President Roosevelt* made these promises to a committee of the German Rifle Club of Charleston, who called on him at the white house a lew days ago, and asked him to attend the festival. The president expressed his appreciation of the invitation, but regretted he could hot accept. He talked with the members about rifle shooting ana encouraged such gatherings as that to be held. * For South Carolina Rivers. The river and harbor appropriation hill reported to the house by the committee on rivers and harbors will carry an appropriation aggregating $83;460,138. Of this sum $34,631,612 Is appropriated cash to be available be tween July l, 1907, and July 1, 1908, and $48,834,526 is authorized for continuing contracts, no time limit being fixed as to when it shall be expended.This bill is a record-breaker in size, exceeding by many millions the amount allowed for river and harbor improvements in any congress. The South Carolina items in the bill are: Winvah bay $3,0100: inland waterways between Charleston harbtor, South Carolina, and opposite McCieliansville, $75,290; Charleston $25,000; Waccamaw river, North and South Carolina, and Little Pedee river, South Carolina $20,000; Santee, Wateree and Congaree rivers and Bstherville-Minin creek canal $150,000. * * * Refused to Vote for Tillman. The general assembly of South Carolina in joint session elected B. R. Tillpian to succeed himself as United States senator. Representative C?oke, 'a Methodist minister, refused to vote to confirm the re-election, and gave these rea.sons: "First, he made a worthless and malicious attack on the Universalists of South Carolina, charging them with being in league with the ex-barkeepers of the state and with Colonel James A. Hoyt as their standard bearer, to destroy the dispensary law in Soutli * Carolina. He knows this was an out? rage on common decency. ^ "Second, before I could, vote for him. I should have to know how much , money he returned to Mr. Hubbel as ! rebates allowed the state of South Carolina. 1 contend that as governor he was handing the money of the state and he had no right to return the money to the liquor house any more than the president of the board of directors has the right to appropriate to his own use or to such purpose as he might see fit." VETERANS !N FIRST PLACE. Hereafter, Sponsors to Reunions Will Not Be "Whole Show." I Two important orders to confed| orate veterans, issued by Stephen D. : Lee, General United Confederate Veterans, were made public at New Orleans Saturday. Speaking of the appointing of sponsors and maids of honor by the United Confederate Veterans, General Lee says; ; . . '"It cannot be denied that what was intended as an honor to the descendants of the glorious women of the Confederacy has grown to such a decree that the Confederate sol diers have, in a manner, been forced I into second place." He announces that this matter will j be brought to the attention of the Richmond reunion this year, and that pending action by the veterans at this convention he will abstain from ap- I pointing a chief sponsor and maid of honor for the Richmond reunion. "It is absolutely necessary," he continues, "that the expenses cf the reunion cities be reduced and 1 wish 1 it be distinctly understood that the outlay for entertainment of all spensors and maids of honor must bt: borne by those who make the appointments." ; : v The second order announces ..the date for the seventeenth annual reunion for June' I. 2 aric? ^/-'next. , ^ ' ,j* THIRTY-TWO MILLIONS Have Been Spent So Far in Canal Work, Says Retiring Chairman Shonts in Banquet Speech. Theodore P. Shonts, who on Wednesday resigned the chairmanship of the isthmian canal commission, was the guest of honor in Kansas City on Thursday evening at the monthly dinner of the Knife and Fork Club, and delivered an interesting address touching the Panama canal. The creative period," declared Mr. Shonts, "has come to an end, and the period of active construction has begun. As to the manner in which the creative task has been performed we are content to let the facts speak icr themselves." In closing Mr. Shonts quoted as fynm Pificiripn t Pm?pvelt S AU41V n O A* V/#** A * VN ^ message, written after the chief executive returned from the isthmus: "The wisdom of the canal management has been shown in nothing more clearly than in the way in which the foundations have been laid." Mr. Shonts denied that his resignation of the chairmanship had resulted, from any disagreeih<ent with President Roosevelt, or; any .member , of the comission, and declared that the best V of relations existed between himseif and all his canal associates. Regarding the necessary preliminary work he- said: "In this preliminary work, we have spent down to January 1, 3907, about '$32,000,000. Of this amount $4,500,000 have been spent in government and sanitation; about $7,000 in construction of quarters and other buildings, docks, wharves, railway enlargement, water works and sewers in the zone, and in engineering work, and about $12,000,000 in permanent plants; over $4,500,000 in miscellaneous materials and supplies, and over $1,500,000 in the construction of sewers and water works and atreet paving and improvements in Panama and Colon. The last naiue$ will be refunded ultimately to the government. "We -have driven yeftow fever permanently from. the isthmus. That is the supreme achievement. For fourteen months there has not been' a single case of this terror of the tropics. The stegomyia mosquito of which the extreme period of life is three months, and which is the bearer of the yellow "fever germ, has been almost thrown out of business. "So far as general health conditions are concerned I can give you no stronger evidence of their favoraide character than by stating the fact that among about 6,000 white Americans, including women and children, on the isthmus, there was for three months in the rainy season of last year?August, September and October ?not a single death from disease." Continuing in his detailing of accomplishments, he. said: "As I said to you in the opening part of my address, the work of actual excavation was restricted during the creative period to merely preparatory lines. Still, something has keen done in the direction of making the 'dirt fly.' During the fiscal year ending with June last 1,500,000 cubic yards were taken from the canal prism against 742,000 yards removed during the previous year. "Altogether, the surface in the Culebra cut has been brought down 65 ' -1 ?? 1/N?rOl Kt* > I ieei yt:iuw mo icy^I / w; tuv French. A large amount of the excavated material has been used in tilling for railroad yards and double-tracking ot the Panama railroad." JOB 1$. UP TO STEVENS. ? ? ^ Chief Engineer Will-Also Act Chair'man of Canal Commission., Announcement was made at the war department Thursday that the office of chairman and chief engineer of the isthmian canal commission would be conjbined, and that Mr. Stevens, the present chief engineer, would be given the appointment, the understanding being that he will maintain a i residence on the isthmus. COTTON GINNING REPORT. | Bales Turned Out to January 16 ToI . taled 12,167,873. At Washington Wednesday the census report was issued, which shows that 12,167,873 bales of cotton, counting round bales' as half bales, have been ginned from the growth of 1206 to January 16, 1907. . ' The number of active ginneries this year is 218,525. The sea island cotton ginned to I January 16, 1907, distributed by states, J was: Florida 23,606 bales, Georgia 24,775 and South Carolina 7,761. I MAYOR HAD NO AUTHORITY. NashviHe Negroes Protested Against Presentation of "Olansman." Alleging that it will embitter the immediate vicinity and possibly lead to bloodshed, a large delegaton of liegio preachers at Nashville, Tenn.,. urged Mayor Morris to prohibit the proposed presents,fion of "The Clanmrp" at a local theater. Tlaey were informed by the mayor that he had no authority to prevent the play being given. \ BANGS ELIMINATED . Oliver Wins Panama Canal ^ r : ? 'Contract on Condition. Cj MUST FIND A PARTNER || New York Man's Credentials Found : to Be Unsatisfactory and He Was -d&J Turned Down at Conference at White House. A n.'n4r?rrfnn cQttc* A g. 'J A w OOUiU^tVU WjM'VAUi CUJtf * J^he result of an extended conference at the white house Friday, it was. ^ decided to reject the bid of Oliver ^ and Bangs, who proposed to com-. plete the construction of the Panama. canal for 6.75 per cent of the total estimated cost, in so far as Anson. M. Bangs of New York is concerned. ", While no official statement was -;^ given out, it can be authoritatively; ^ ^ stated , that if William J. Oliver ofj Knoxville, Tenn., can enter into a. * satisfactory arrangement with some etcher contractor, who is financially responsible, he will be given the big J$|| contract. r The fact that the MacArthur-Gilles-.pio company of New York, whose bid||j9 was 12.5 per cent, was represented ; at the conference, leads many to be- y.l I'leve that a oomoinauon may o& formed between that firm and OIivefi7-v|l \t is known that the MacArthur-Gillespie company has convinced Pros-, ident Roosevelt and Secretary Taft of pjaj its responsibility and the^ canal com- ^ mission offloials are satisfied that Oil- M ver is able to carry out his end otfgga the agreement. There would have- -t|| been no question as to awarding the *:/ jcontract tp Oliver and Bangs the credentials presented by Banfib ~ proven as satisfactory ' as those fur- 'kQ Dished by Oliver. The decision means that Mr. Oliver will be given a chance to take some; ether contractor into partnership. The canal commission, with this requifep "Vjj raent met, will not undertake to <ti^':v||| trate to him who this contractor sh6ll;:^3 The rejecting of all bids was dj^'J9 cussed at Friday's cabinet meeting^^^S and this decision had been practicaBy^^^ agreed upon before the night confer ence. If Mr. Oliver refuses to constder^q the contract after the rejection ^of^ Mr. Bangs, the canal commission *^???1 issue a call for new bids. Anson M. Bangs of New' York, Oliver's associate, was the contractor^|^| for tlie Soo line canal locks. Bangs is a brother-in-law o* John Pi ; 0. 10aynor of the firm of Greene & Gay- ; -;&i| nor, who were implicated with Cap^^/ tain O. M. Carter in the Savannah harbor ffeuds. This fact, however, 4t ^ is stated, had no influence with the- M canal commission. Alter the cabinet meeting l?r. OH- 0 ver left Washington for New York^ and it is admitted by his represent*- V tives that he will ask the MacArthur-Giltespie company to join him : submitting a proposal in place of tho ./ bid submitted under the firm name, at; Oliver &- Bang3. It is stated that a . compromise arrangement will be con- ; sidered by the canal commission, provided Oliver succeeds in making' ij||8S satisfactory arrangement with tlfb ' ' | MacArthur-Gillespie company to pay9 per cent of. the tptai cost lor construction of the canal. ECHO OF RU8SO-JAP WAR. r.?ar'? Cftv^mment to Comoleto th* Evacuation of Manchuria . In a cablegram received in Waan^MB ington Friday" Mr. ROckhill adVp?i^|Vra the state department that the CW~ ; nese government has been informed by the Russian minister at that Russia would complete the evao- *'J| uation of Manchuria at once, lear^ ing only the railway guard, which ; is m accordance;with-the treaty cd Portsmouth. There are about twenty thousand troop* to be withdrawn, HIGHER POSTAL RATES. For Newspapers of the Cbuntry Pro<? ^ vlded in Commission Refrorfc' . i.^p A Washington special says: Thfc&%|| report of the joint postal commission % | consisting of senators and represent tatives, after a prolonged and. ing session, altered Its .original. repprt^ij in so f9t &s daily and weekly new^.-^tf papers axe concerned. The commission provided. that th& >fe postal rates on daily and weekly newspapers throughout the country shall V, be increased 12 1-2.per cent ' *^3} TIE* WIFE IN A CHAIR And When He Returned With Doctor She Was Dead. Mrs. Cris Young,-an aged woman, died suddenly at her hoine near Dawyon ville,: Ga. She became sick ami :;VJ3| ner husband, fearing' she might fall ^ out of her chair while he vent xor/ ^ assistance, tied her to the chair. \Vhe?.'"'^| be got hack she was dead. - Jjli