University of South Carolina Libraries
'v?/" He/ ' i """ -, now LONG THE ROAD. . The woman-need is gone thait made tfev kiss My manna, and a heaven of thine eyes: The patience-preaching years have made me wise. / /Till, in the woods and fields, the sturdy bliss Of fellowship and work. I cease to miss The throbbing acl\e of those old ecstasies, Save to remember with a wan surprise. Sometimes, how long the road that led to this. jfey" But to be sure that somewhere, strong and whole. Thou livest, striving, noble though beset, \Cact*?7- inrflin rvf thp psspntial snill. > I doubted when my cruel wounds were wet? This long my deepest, direst need of thee, O, once beloved! it is granted me. ?Charlotte Wilson, in Metropolitan Magazine. 2 REPAIRS 2 BOB A CHARACTER SKETCH. SOS ^ By S. L. BENSUSAN. ^ . ' ~ - - "I'm going to see Father William 1 about repairs to his cottage," said the agent, checking his dogcart. Tfln T fnvo vrm'a lift0" - O- " . ? I agreed that he could, and we |V drove together. Father William met ns by the gate. In one hand he exm ? hibited a rat that he had just taken . * from the spring trap ^t the garden's end; the other hand nursed two fine &T; ' "lettuces. He responded to the agent's S greeting, but ignored mine, for I am < in disgrace. "I've come about the repairs," said 'the agent, cheerfully, t "An' well ye might," replied Father William, in acid and reproachful > tone. "Sixty-five years I've lived f'ere an' pide me rent reg'lar, an' th' place tumbling' to pieces. I'm shamed ~ " on ye, an' no mistake. Do ye make x th' ole place fit f'r a man what's in years 'fore we gits another winter, fr I feels th' cold, an' that's a fact." "Well," said the agent, cheerfully, " 'we'll soon make things right for you, anyway." He took out his notebook. "To begin with, we'd better have the thatch stripped and put tiles or slates on," he suggested. "It's very ragged fj;, tip there." "Do ye leave th' patch to bide where it be!" interrupted Father William, sharply. "It ain't 'armed ;> ye, as I'm aware. An' don't ye come bringin' y'r nasty old tiles nor slates either, for I never couldn't abide they. Th' roofll do, an' it's me what lives under it, an' pies for 'ut g; reg'lar." ?&., ^"Certainly, if you^wish," replied the agent, crossing through the note i in his book. "I don't want to aril range for anything you don't want done. May I come inside? The pony g Will stand quiet." f "Do ye both confe in," said Father William, depositing the rat on the g top of the close-clipped hedge, that |?' all who passed down the road might see it. "I was jest a-comin' from . picKin up tn gre t oie rat out o me p trap, an' it's wery many on 'em I catches, an' nobody can't deny ut. There's folks," he continued, after ^ ' a brief pause to recover wind, 4 "there's folks what says, 'Do ye don't leave they t^aps 'bout v'r garden, | Father William, 'cos they catches me < dogs.' An* I say to sich as they, 'It's the fault o* y'r dogs, or y'r gre't fool of a boy what don't look after - * 'em; it ain't no concern o' mine, an' | I'll set me traps so long as there's a ? nasty gre't rat left.' " TV> o nlH co'itloman'c fierce littlo ?, > . i ~ t . eyes were bent against me, but I : ? made no sign. "Come in, both o' ye," he repeated. "I ain't got nothin' to 'ide an' nothin' W4 to be shamed on. I'm open most all th' time to rightfor'ard men, an' wimmin, too, though I don't take much count o' they, an' that's the truth. Ye can look Into me parlor i an' into me garden an' see me wege/ ties growin', same as these lettuces p;' what I've just cut and fine 'uns they be. There ain't no concealment 'bout > me, an' never was." We entered the cottage. - CertainTy the ceiling was black, and Father William had put hooks in every raft" er and had hung household treasures from them. Kere was the frame of a butterfly-net, there was a piece of waterproof, and I saw scissors and ggv gardening tools and a crook that looked twin brother to the one that brought the old man's shepherding staff to an end. The wall was decorated with pictures from various illustrated journals presented by me frcm time to time and pasted over the paper. "Ceiling whitewashed?" queried |?: the agent. " 'Taint likely"' snapped the right forward man. I am t goin to ave all me things covered wi' lime-wash. ' I couldn't never abide that, an' I ain't goin' to." "Walls repapered?" said my companion, successfully hiding a smile from the lawful tenant.. "Ye shan't toach they walls, an' don't ye try/at**' said Father William. +r? <:mrio flwav nil m? r?ir>tiirac vv vv. " v?.' vv** ^*VVU* VMJ I doubt, an' gi'e me suthin' what ain't as pretty. I'm s'prised on ye. Do ye leave me walls alone, an' see to th' t'other things what wants doin' up." "Well, let's go into the scullery and upstairs," suggested the agent; but before he could move more than a couple of steps in that direction Father William's hand anticipated him with surprising energy and barred the way. "Don't ye try ut!" he cried; and went on, with outsretched hand and flashing eyes, "Do ye keep where ye are, or go outside 'fore 1 makes ye." He sparred for wind. ' "Sixty years an' more I've lived 'ere,' he cried, "an' pide me rent, an' well ye knovts ut. An' now ye come *ere an' want to walk all o'er me ouse, same as it b'longs to ye, an' go ... - - - . . into me scullery an' up into me bedroom, an' that ye shan't. Do ye g? y'r ways now, 'fore I takes me crookstick to ye. There ain't been nobody in me bedroom this forty years, an' shan't be, nor in me scullery neither." "But, my good fellow, how can I see to repairs if I don't see your rooms?" cried the agent. "Do ye don't call me a good feller o' yourn," snapped Father "William, "for I pies me rent an' b'longs to meself. Aa' don't ye ast me to teach ye y'r business, for I 'on't do ut; I never come to ye to ast ve to teach me shepherdin'. An' ye couldn't ha' taught me if I 'ad, I doubt. I sent f'r ye to make me place fit an' right, +<-. vaK ma a' ma thatch, an' cni 1P me walls an' mess me ceilin', an' go a-spyin' in me scullery 'an me bedroom. An' I'm tellin' ye to go quick, 'fore I " "Don't get excited. Father William." said the agent, closing his book with a bang and picking up his hat. | "I'm not going to stay. Good day." So saying, he turned to the door, mounted the dogcart and drove away. "An' right glad I am ve're goin'," remarked Father William, following him into the road. 'Th' fool," he added, as the agent drove off. "Fancy sich as 'e earnin' a good livin'! Lord," he concluded, turning to me, "seems now I'm in me nineties there ain't nothin' but fools in th' parish. , 'Cept rogues," he added, as an after- ' thought, glancing to where my hedge' screened the garden.?London Sketch. MARKETING WESTERN FRUIT. Shipments Directed by Wire to Point of Greatest Demand. Until 1S93 California fruits were sold through commission merchants, to whom the individual growers consigned their entire crop. The expense for transportation and the keen competition, as well as the immense outlay for commissions, resulted in a number of the large growers of California organizing the Southern California Fruit Growers' Exchange. Since 1893 this has been reorganized several times, but it is still in existence under the title of the California Fruit Exchange. It is co-operative and has only a nominal capital stock. According to Moody's Magazine, it performs every duty for the growers belonging to it from the time they bring their harvest to the packing house until they get their f?rnn m rmov It takes complete control, grading, packing, stripping, finding buyers and selling, so that its members do [ nothing but the agricultural part. Its representatives throughout the districts receive and receipt for the wagon loads, and the horticulturist goes home to attend to his orchards and wait for his check. The chief competitor of the California Exchange is California Citrus Union. By the present method of marketing fruit daily wire reports on the condition-and whereabouts of every shipment are sent to Los Angeles. Like a train despatcher the manager at headquarters guides every car from the side tracks in the orchards over the branch lines and the trunk lines. He has the power to 'divert shipments into the most available markets. Hundreds of cars leave California daily with only a general destination, and these cars must be sent to the point of greatest demand. If through his wire reports the manager finds that New York is receiving too much fruit, that there is danger of a break in the price, he diverts a part of the New York shipment to Philadelphia or Baltimore or Pittsburg. He must see to it that every district has enough fruit, but not too much. He must keep the market even. He must get the top prices and yet sell all his fruit. He must figure against changes in the weather in each district and againet competition from Florida, Europe and other California shippers. Fisherman's Luck. "Perhaps my most amusing fishing expetience in Italy was during a week in Naples,'' says the author of "The Salt of My Life," and gives the story in these words: "Toward sunset one afternoon I was strolling toward my hotel along the parade, when I came across a ragged sportsman angling with a very long bamboo from the pavement. He 1 a t /vV, + n T r?/\0 1UUJ1CU <% IllCi i V LLUKJL ? ocat^a. myself on the parapet beside him. We were soon deep in as comfortable a conversation as is attainable be* tween broken Tuscan and pure Neapolitan. We discussed rods, and I asked him to let me feel the weight of his, which must have been thirty feet long. With native courtesy he handed it to me as if it were mine, and no sooner was it in my hands tian down went the top, and I was in a good fish, which circled in vain on the unyielding line, and I soon raised a black sea-bream of probably three pounds. "Of a certainty none of his other fish weighed more than as many ounces. He was too amazed to do more than stammer his thanks, and as I turned away I fancy that he crossed himself, regarding the black bream as the fruit of black magic." Change in Bill of Fare. "The bill of fare for Sunday dinner will be shredded chicken, instead of baked chicken," announced the old farmor to the group of city boarders. "H'm!" grunted one pessimist, "what caused the change?" "What caused the change? Why, by heck, one of them thar racing automobiles just ran through my whole itbck of .poultry." ? Chicago Daily NSws. ' . .- " S7- ' '.' V - ' ' ^ ----T*. r ^ ^ ; PaifnettoStateNews; < Spartanburg Shews Increase. The total taxable property in Spartanburg county?real, personal and railroads?will amount to $17,OOC.Oo? this year, being an increase of something like $600,000 over the figures of last year. * * Arrest Caused Sensation. ine arrest 01 h. vv. inomson, tor merly a well known stock and bond broker of Spartanburg, by United States Postoffice Inspector H. T. Gregory on the charge of using the United States mail for fraudulent purposes, caused a big sensation in the city. The case against Mr. Thomson grew out of a business transaction with the S. Morgan Smith Co. of York, Pa., over the sale of fifty shares oi stock of the Aiken Manufacturing company. * * * Electric Power for Spartanburg. J.'C. Slack and F. R. Dravo, capitalists of Pittsburg, Pa., and officers ana directors ot tne nuectric rower and Manufacturing company engaged in constructing electrical power plants at Gaston Shoals on Broad river and Xesbitt Shoals on Tyger river, spent a day in Spartanburg the past week, making arrangements to open general offices. The company will be ready to furnish electric power for commercial and manufacturing purposes early this winter. * t. * Social Clubs on Anxious Bench. The blind tigers and social clubs in Charleston are much exercised about the next steps to be taken .by the state and municipal authorities in the stricter enforcement of the dispensary law. Inspector West has been in that city for several days, and it is thought that his visit has connection with some move against the many social clubs, some of which are, in fact, regular bar rooms or blind tigers, doing business in the name of a social organization. The increased activity in the enforcement of the law is worrying the blind tigers and those in sympathy with the violation of the dispensary act. * 5 * Another Chance for Mrs. Blair. Mrs. Ethel W. Blair, convicted of manslaughter cn the charge of killing her husband, will get another chance to prove her innocence. Before the adjournment of court at Columbia, Judge Johnstone announced that he would grant the new trial, basing his action on discovered after-evidence. When Mrs. Blair realizing the sig nincance of the judge's words she swooned and was carried from the court room to the judge's room where a physician was summoned and she was revived. While the penalty, under the law, is from two to thirty years, Mrs. Blair will not go to the penitentiary any time soon, if at all. The strongest testimony against Mrs. Blair is the dying declaration of her husband, made to the physician. that his wife had shot him while they were quarreling about Conductor Arms. * K * * - ^ - r> 1 ? Last of tne rairneuo Didnu. A Columbia dispatch says: Tho state of South Carolina is finally out of the liquor business. On the first of last February there was in the warehouse in this city about $700,000 Worth of liquors belonging to the state. When at that time the legislature determined to abolish the system, a commission was created to close up the business, and the last has just been sold. So, after fourteen years one month and fifteen days, the " Palmetto brand" is known no more. This was the first experiment of government ownership" of the liquor privilege in South Carolina, and the fruits have been such that it is likely to be the last for many a year. Xei ther municipality nor state is likely to embark upon that sea while memory of the state dispensary lives as a "terrible warning." Advocates of the system promised that the dispensary profits would eliminate state taxes. That was an unrealized dream. The thing got into politics and stayed there: and there corruption was so appalling that the strenuous personal efforts of Senator Tillman could not stem the tide of revolt. * * * Will Probe Western Union. The state railroad commission has filed a decision sustaining the complaint of the Columbia Telegraphers' Union, that the Western Union Telegraph company is violating its charter in mailing out telegrams and turned the matter over to the attorney general to begin proceedings to f ' : ' ' ' ' > revoke the company's charter if he can find law enough on which to base such proceedings. A complaint from John T. Leonard, a Charleston broker1, says that tele- | graph service in that city, both state and'interstate, is unsatisfactory; that for five weeks he has not handled a single telegram that has not been delayed from eight to twelve hours. A copy of this letter was sent to Superintendent Maxwell of the Western Union, at Richmond, with this , statement from the commission: "We beg to relate that unless these complaints are remedied we will tiirn the matter over to the attorney general or solicitor, to force your company to handle your business with dispatch and regularity." * * * To Advance Sea Island Prices. The Sea Island or long staple, cot- ? ton farmers have decided to take an : additional step in the control of the market and the advancement of 1 ! prices. The farmers are all to be assessed $2 a bale on the new crop, netting a sum of $20,000 to $30,000, with which warehouses are to be erected for the storage of the staple for better prices. The idea of advancing the poor farmers money on their crop, holding the cotton, is also suggested in the general scheme, of keeping the cotton off the market until satisfactory prices are offered. The promoters of the warehouse scheme say that they have tired of the control of the buyers and the warehouse project offers the only plan of independence of which they propose to avail themselves. Some time ago the long staple planters made plans for the erection of a cotton oil mill to be run by the association in furthering the scheme of control of the seed, and now comes the plan of the warehouse for the better and more convenient holding of the staple for higher prices. i * 3 * Berry Again Under Arrest. G. R. Berry, former school superin nf Mavinn nrmntv ivhn Wflc Lcautno Ul AUUl 1VU VVM*? Vv- y .. mw .. arrested in October,1905,charged with forgery, but who afterwards forfeited his bond of $2,400 is again under arrest. It was alleged that Berry forged the names of school trustees to teach-ers' pay certificates and appropriated the money to his own use.' He was also charged with having defrauded several book companies. Berry left Marion and went to Tampa, , Fla.. where he lived under the name of R. H. Mclntyre. * k j He was finally arested and brought | back to Mariom, giving bond in the ' ?-a ? ^ A An 13 Ayyir Ar\ Offoin I S-UIU U1 JJC1 1 J LlH_.ll IWL iiaam for Tampa, and was not heard of again until he was placed in the Mcj rion jail a few days ago, having been brought back by a Florida officer. The prominence of Berry and his capacity for evading arrest has caused his case to become conspicuous. EVERY STATEMENT FALSE. Woman's Affidavit Anent Goebel Murder Denied by Sanford. Captain Cassius M. Sanford, oniy son of the late John Sanford of Covington, Kv., who was referred to in nf \i>? T.iiin Williams Clark In Sunday's newspapers as "John Sanford," and as having been present in the statehouse at Frankfort when Governor Goebel of Kentucky was killed, has issued a positive denial of every one of the statements. Captain Sanford, who is now living in Xew York, after a residence of eight years in China and the Philippines, said: "Every one of the statements of Mrs. Clark is absolutely faise. I never knew her (Mrs. Clark) or Ger.trude King, to whom it is said 1 paid attention, or Turner lgo, or any one else mentioned in the affidavit. At the time of the killing of Governor Goebel, February 8, 1900, I was in tne fniuppmes un uuaiucsa, hmus with a number of army officers by whom I can prove my residence there at that time. Subsequently I entered the Philippine constabulary, rising to the rank of captain. I resigned my commission in March of this year of my own accord and have since been in business in this city. I have never been connected .in any way with the Goebel murder or known anything about it. I shall gladly appear in court at any time or place to refute these falsehoods.'' euncUAI/CRC nC5CBT I ARTS gnvumoiM-..w vh.wk..? .w . w. Twenty-Five Thousand Go Out on Strike in St. Louis. A conservative estimate places the ! number of strikers who are out as a I result of the general strike instituted in St. Louis by the shoe factory workers at 25,000. The demands are for a nine-hour working day, the rate of pay to remain on the basis of the ten-hour day. The officers of the companies operating the eighteen factories, have decided not to accept any demands made , by the strikers. CRUSHERS AROUSED Over Export Losses Caused by Foreign Tariff. HOLD SPECIAL MEETING Convention in New Orleans Will Attempt to Have Duties on Cotton Seed Products Lowered?Expert Benton Reports. Facts from both sides in the controversy as to why southern cotton seed products exporters lose thousands of dollars monthly from negligent handling of their goods in steamships were presented at Monday's extraordinary session of the Interstate l/Uiiuii otrtu V. J iioucia Asaubiauuu JJLL New Orleans. Action was taken to combat foreign tariffs, which are claimed to have cut down southern business in these products by $2,000,000 annually. The convention nominated Albert G. Perkins of Memphis, Tenn., for United States expert abroad on the subject of cotton seed products. This nomination is to be an appointment which will be made by Secretary Strauss of the department of commerce and labor. Professor J H. Connell of Dallas, Texas, was the only other candidate Jor nomination. Mr. Perkins succeeds J. L. Benton of Monticetlo, Ga., resigned. Mr. Benton reported to the convention his observations upon the causes of the losses of southern shippers. Mr. Benton told of the enormous waste in cotton seed products, due to careless handling by steamship lines, ?id of the loss to American shipers thereby, estimated as high as $1,000,000 in a single year. As an example of hew this waste occurred he said: "We find in New Orleans today waiting for export 5,000 tons of meal from five different firms. This meal includes five different brands. Of the total amount 4,000 tons of it is choice meal. The remaining 1,000 tons is dark, badly ground and with an excess of lint and hulls. All this meal is loaded into a vessel at New Orleans without regard to the classification shown on the marks indicating the brands. As a result it is pretty well scattered over the ship. Since tills cargo does- not mi uie bqat's capacity, a few thousand barrels of cotton seed oil are rolled in on top of the meal. A few of the barrels break, a few of the sacks are torn, and both cargoes, oil and meal, are more or less damaged. "Upon unloading, the meals sacks are foisted by a single rope from the hold of the vessel and are dragged along the floor until they reach the warehouse, by which time several more bags are broken. Having been loaded without regard to brands, the meal is unloaded in the same manner. So many bags, moreover, have been ruined that it is useless to at +V10 Mrcn nf?^nrr1in?? LCIIipt kU kUUCV/l tuv vu.Q? 0 to its classification. . Instead, the meal is piled indiscriminately in heaps of a ton each of mixed meal for weighing and sampling. The loose rrteal from the broken bags is appor-1 tioned to those piles which may be short in weight. At this stage, a cargo which left the United States consisting of 4,000 tens of choice meal and 1,000 tons of off meal, is now reduced to all one grade, and that the worst.' There is just enough lint and hulls in it to cause reclamation. "The importer therefore does not get the grade he has bought. If we could guarantee him the grade we could get more for southern cotton seed cake than is paid for any other cake in the world." Mr. Benton said it will be a difficult task to extend southern cotton seed products trade abroad until the delivery is improved. TABLES TURNED ON CALHOUN. Another 'Frisco Promoter to Be Tried on Bribery Charge. The California supreme court has sustained the validity of the grand inrv which indicted Schmitz, Ruef ?# ?/ - ? and Patrick Calhoun, head of the United Railways, and others, in 'Frisco, for corruption. The decision means that Calhoun, who is now out on heavy bond, must stand trial on a charge of bribing city officials to secure franchises for his street railway ALLEGED TO BE INSANE. Man Who Instigated Vancouver Riots Placed Under Arrest. A. E. Fowler, secretary of the Seattle Anti-Asiatic Association, has been arested at Bellingham, Wash., charged with insanity. Fowler took part in the anti-Japanese riots at Vancouver, a week or so ago, and many claim that he incited them. -a. ?? EVERYBODY ENJOINED, ?? Minnesota Judge Ties Up New Commodity Rate Law of State With a Sweeping Order. ',v1 Judge Lochren of the United Statescourt at St. Paul, Minn., Monday, issued an order for an injunction which absolutely ties up Minnesota's commodity rate law pending a final decision in the case, or until the lower court's decision is overruled on appeal by the state. I The order is sweeping in its terms, taking in not only the defendants at-' ' V bar, including the attorney geperaL and shippers who were made parties to the actions, but all other persons as well. This means that, even though the county attorneys throughout the state, whose duty it is to institute and. prosecute criminal actions under the law, were not made parties defendant in the suits instituted by the railroads through their stockholders, yet the . county attorneys and everybody else are warned to keep their hands off the railroads while Judge Lochren's order is in effect Not only is everybody enjoined \ "from taking of instituting or causing or advising to be instituted any action, suit, step or proceeding for. the violation of said act, but anybody and everybody is enjoined from demanding that any of the rates con {*1 4-Via Ont VIA o^vnn thorn " UllilCU 111 liic avi, uv fci i <.u The order issued Monday relates to the Northern Pacific case. Similar orders will be drawn in the other , J eight cases, and injunctions will be served in pursuance with the orders. .<*' ? It is reported that the state of- f: ficials are planning to violate the' injunction in such a manner that / ? habeas corpus proceedings will have to be instituted in which event the case will at once be appealed to the United States supreme court, and the whole matter determined, there instead of going through the usual routine, lasting probably three years. " I SIX PARHAMITES INDICTED. , m ? - 1 \kl , .. Fanatics wno i onurcu nuiiiaii iv. Death Must Answer. Six persons were held to the Lake county grand jury by the coroner's jury sitting at Waukegan, 111., in con- 1% nection with the death of Mrs. Letitia Greenhaugh at the hands of fa- . > natical followers of Parham in Zion City. They were: Harold Mitchell and his wife, charg- 7 ed with manslaughter as principals in ; the tragedy j William and Jennie Greenhaugh, son and daughter of the dead woman, and Mrs. Louis Smith. , Jield as accessory in the commission of the crime, and B. Hopkins, undertaker. , Health Commissioner Larose of Zion City, also camq in for a scoring at the hands of the jury, which called the attention of the board of health to the laxity that is' alleged to exist Ui Zion City in the reporting of deaths. Undertaker Hopkins admitted to the corner that he knew the bqnes of Mrs. Greenhaugh had been broken by the treatment she endured, but f said that he suppressed the fact on the request of members of the family. Hopkins is a Parhamite. > . {': * ? r COMPRESS COMPANY OUSTED. Given One Year to Close Up and Retire from State of Mississippi. At Vicksburg, Saturday afternoon, v Chancellor n.icKb uaimcu uu.c uu^ Compress company an illegal trust, and gave the corporation one year to wind up its business in the state and withdraw. He denied the application for a receiver. # This decision is a victory for District Attorney Thames: who filed suit against the company asking that a receiver be appointed, and ihat it be declared an illegal combination in restraint of trade. The Gulf Compress company owns or controls thirty-one compresses in the south, eighteen of which are lo cated in Mississippi. PUBLISHERS HAVE GRIEVANCE. - s Want President Roosevelt to "Bust" the White Paper Trust. Members of the American Xewspa- iSi per Publishers' Association, which met recently in New York, appointed a / committee and instructed it to call the attention of President Roosevelt to what the association asserts is an unlawful combination of paper manu- .< ta keen ud the price of c . white paper and to demand relief from what they consider an oppressive burden. TRACE OF SNOW IN CHICAGO. September Flakes Were Plainly Visible for Brief Time. A few flakes of snow fell in Chicago late Monday afternoon. The fall was not sufficiently large to be recognized by the weather bureau, but for several minutes it was plainly visible in the air V r &