The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 12, 1907, Image 3
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The Maids'Arts
j| By M. C. SANFORD. j|
! > Copyrighted, 1007, by C. H. Sutcliffe. \ i
* Unbroken blue the sky and sea.
shifting greens and browns the shore.
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the empty streets Autumn swished her
rustling skirts with no one to heed her
passing?no one. at least save a solitary
man who, having escaped at length
from the stern dictates of "the law/'
V had come to Surfside for a few weeks'
freedom. Leaning over the fence
which skirted the path around the
rocky coast, he gazed dreamily out to
sea, following the ragged outline of
the shore and breathing in the salt of
the ocean with the sweetness of the
earth beneath him.
Suddenly a fresh cut in the weather
worn rail caught his eye. "H. T., W..
'04!" Some one beside himself had
evidently sought out the shore late in
the season. "W.?'04?" he queried.
"Wellesley!" He had it! For was not
a knife blade broken off half short in
the wood, an indisputable evidence of
woman's work?
"So," he mused, "I am not to be
alone with the "natives' and nature,
after all." ue started to move vu.
Again he was arrested, this time by a
small, bright object at his feet It
proved to be a Wellesley class pin.
"Lost it while she was carving her
name with that doll's knife, I s'pose,"
Van Dyke argued to himself, as was
his legal habit fastening the pin meanv
while to his vest beneath his own
Harvard pin.
Strolling on, he renewed his acquaintance
with one after another of
the favorite haunts of his boyhood?
"swallow's cave," the rock that boomed
like a cannon at high tide and innumerable
cozy retreats to be gained
by careful climbing over the chaos of
big bowlders on the cliffs. He whistled
like a boy as he went and sang
snatches of the college songs so fresh
In his heart At last in utter abandonment
he curled up in the lee of an
I overhanging rock and, soothed by the
lull of the waves and the minor wail of
the October wind, fell asleep.
He was awakened in a curious manner.
Opening his eyes, he found them
covered with a soft transparent something
that wrinkled when he winked.
He raised his hand to remove it and
gazed in astonishment upon his sudden
acquisition of a woman's handker
chief. A monogram was emDroiaereu
in one corner. His logical mind deciphered
it in a flash with little expenditure
of eye strain.
"Exhibit 'C,'" he murmured, jumping
up eagerly. "Now, here's hoping
tor the lady herselfP
But the most searching scrutiny of
rocky "nests" and niches failed to discover
her. Indeed, after several days
of faithful explorations Van Dyke began
to think his lady of the monograms
a teasing myth.
Nevertheless he would have continued
to hope for her realization if a
letter from his sister had not put a
cruel end to his romance.
"Dear Richard," it ran, "I have just
learned that Helen Tudor, a college
friend of mine, is staying at Surfside
with her mother. She's a very clever
girl; has just written a remarkable
thesis on some learned subject and got
an A. M. degree. You ought to like
her. She's your kind. Be sure to look
her up. I've written her you're going
to. She's staying at the Sea Cliff."
That dished the whole thing. "His
kind," indeed! He abominated a "bluestocking."
So he fought shy of the Sea
Cliff and ceased to look for "H. T.,
*04," in his daily rambles.
But with the proverbial irony accredited
to her Dame Fate as soon as she
perceived Richard's back turned upon
her bobbed up in front of him most
unexpectedly, or, to be strictly accurate,
Richard to his own astonishment
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With characteristic alacrity he had
taken a handspring over a jutting rock
and landed in a secluded niche below.
His sudden appearance so frightened
the young person curled up in it that
she dropped her book into a pool of
water.
"I beg your pardon," Richard blurted
out "Let me get it for you." ("It's
probably dry enough to be proof
against a wetting" was his mental
comment) "I hope it Isn't injured fatally,"
he added aloud, handing the
water soaked volume to its owner,
who, he was surprised to notice, was
a dimpled, rosy cheeked young woman
. with mischievous eyes.
"Goodness, I hope not!" was her emphatic
reply. "I couldn't go to sleep
tonight if I didn't find out how the
story ended."
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"T 1CUOII l" lUtuaiu v.auuvuoly.
"Yes, of course. What else does
one read on a vacation?"
Now, here was an incongruity to
ponder over?he hadn't fancied that
"H. T? W., '04," would like fiction. But
he would not be misled. "On a vacation,"
she had said. Doubtless the rest
'* of the year she gave up to more solid
literary accomplishments.
Realizing that he was expected to
say something, although he had quite
forgotten that her last remark had
been in the form of a question, Richard
braced himself for the ordeal.
'This is my favorite haunt" he announced,
unconscious of displaying
any air of proprietorship, as he estab*
lished himself comfortably beside her.
The girl smiled mysteriously.
"Yes, I judged so," she answered
eimply.
( "Why, how did you guess?" asked
t
Richard in surprise. "I've never seer
you here before."
"But I've seen you."
He gathered his wits together at this.
It made, no difference that she was '
pretty and that she was fond of love
stories, like other girls?he knew her '
real self behind this mask of coquetry i
She was really a haughty, overbearing. 1
pedantic person with a string of aca '
demic degrees tacked on to her name
He would round up this little matter ;
without any sentimental nonsense.
"Oh, yes," he said in his dignified. '
legal mannar. "You probably refer to
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the (lay you aroppea your uauu^eichief
on my face. Here It is. I am
glad to be able to return it to you. j
And here is your college pin also. 1 '
found it near the fence where you had ,
been carving your initials."
He handed both souvenirs to her with
a cold solemnity he had difficulty
in convincing himself was genuine. j
The girl looked at the pin carefully, '
glanced up at Richard a moment in '
perplexity and then burst out laugh- '
ing.
"Thank you," she said finally, recovering
herself. "But why do you imagine
the pin belongs to me?"
Richard explained with elaborate
pride how he had traced the mono- ]
gram on the fence, the pin and the <
handkerchief. <
"I cannot be mistaken, Miss Tudor,"
he finished confidently. "You see. 1 '
discovered your identity some time
ago. You did carve the initials on the <
fence, didn't you?"
"Yes."
"And you did drop the handkerchief 1
over my eyes?"
"It blew out of my hand."
"Same thing. 'And you are stopping '
at the Sea Cliff, aren't you?" 1
"Yes." i
Richard made a gesture expressive 1
of the futility of stating further evidence.
The girl made an effort to check her
amusement
"I will take up your points in se- 1
quence," she announced, with mock
gravity, looking at mm wiiq a irauh.ness
so charming that he forgot his
dislike of her and smiled back indulgently.
"First I did carve the initials in the
fence, but they were the initials of the
girl who was with me; second, it was
she who lo6t the pin, and, third, the
initials on the handkerchief are not
H. T."
"Then you are not Helen Tudor.?"
exclaimed Richard, with such evident
relief that the girl burst out laughing
again. "And you don't write clever
theses and tack A. M.'s on to your
name?"
The girl shook her head.
Richard took up her handkerchief,
which was lying in her lap.
"It certainly looks like H. T. to me,"
he said, examining the monogram
closely. "I am not yet convinced."
The girl handed him the water soaked
novel, open at the fly leaf.
"To Theodora Harnett," he read
aloud.
He took out his pencil and began
scribbling beneath the inscription. The
girl looked over his shoulder.
"Theodora, I adore you"? That was
as far as his foolishness had a chance
to go, for in a flash Theodora had
snatched the book from his hands and
sped like a deer over the rocks.
"Come back tomorrow," he called,
"and tell me how the story ends."
And she did?and not only that day,
but the next and the next, until the
end of their own story, like that in the
water soaked novel, came with the
asking of a question and an answer
short, but sweet
* "But oh, how near you came to
marrying EL T., didn't you, Richard?"
laughed Theodora bewitchingly. "Well,
she's welcome to all the A. M.'s and
other degrees she deserves. I'm happy
with just V. D."
"There's one degree thafs yours by
nature, little 'maid of arts,'" said
Richard lovingly. "Cupid must have
conferred it on you at your christening.
It isn't acquired from books, not even
from water soaked novels."
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Are You Left Eared?
"Left eared?" said the physician.
"Most of you girls are."
"Left eared?" said the young lady
from the telephone exchange.
"Yes, left eared. The same as left
handed?that is to say, is your left ear
better at its work than your right
one?"
She did not know, so he tested her,
finding, sure enough, that her left ear
was a little the acuter of the two.
"It is a natural thing," he said.
"You girls use the left ear exclusively
all day long in your telephone work,
and the right ear has nothing to do;
hence the left, like a muscle, develops,
the right atrophies.
"Indeed," he ended, "if the telephone
comes into much greater use we shall
have not merely left eared exchange
girls, but we shall become a left eared
nation."?Cincinnati Enquirer.
Only One.
"At the unveiling of Rodin's bust of
Henley in Westminster abbey," said a
New York editor, "a number of good
stories were told about the great poet
- "H. G. Wells praised Henley's convrtttt
Dattiatkt Af nAllfCO
U.UCI VI IUC iicn J.IC T it n. V4
this periodical failed, yet it was undoubtedly
the best edited magazine of
the last century. In it Henley introduced
to the world new writers of
such distinction as Joseph Conrad,
Kenneth Grahame, W. B. Yeats, Mr.
Wells himself and so on. One day as
Mr. Wells and Henley stood in the office
of the magazine discussing rather
sadly its gloomy prospects a funeral
went by with slow pace. Henley leaned
out of the window and looked at
the funeral anxiously. Then he turned
to his companion and said, with a worried
frown:
" 'Can that be our subscriber?'"
The Kiss in Japan.
She was a Japanese college student,
little but thin, but very graceful in
her Paris gown.
"The kiss," she said blushing faintly,
"was unknown in Japan 50 years
ago. Now among the aristocracy, it
is becoming quite renowned. Some
of my people love the kiss.
"Yet it comes as a great shock at
first. It is so different, you know,
from anything in a Japanese girl's
experience. I have known maidens
who fainted at a first kiss that was
too warmly tendered. Yet these
very maids became afterward ardent
advocates of the new Western em
orace.
4'Frankly, I like the kiss myself.
Its stimulus, its fragrance and the
feeling as of red satin when mouth
touches mouth, like a warm, soft
shock?yes, frankly, I like the kiss,
and I find it extremely difficult to
deny any eager young man so innocent
and so delightful an embrace."
Encouraging the Lawyer.
A North Carolina lawyer says that
when Judge Buxton, of that State,
made his first appearance at the bar
as a young lawyer, he was given
charge, by the State's solicitor, of
the prosecution of a man charged
with some misdemeanor.
It soon appeared that there was no
evidence against the man, but Buxton
did his best, and was astonished
when the jury brought in a verdict
of "guilty."
After the trial one of the jurors
tapped the young attorney on the
shoulder. "Buxton," said he, "we
didn't think the feller was guilty, but,
at the same time, didn't like to discourage
a young lawyer by acquitting
him."
Read the Christmas advertisements
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do your holiday shopping.
Rev. Waddy T. Duncan, presiding
elder of this district, will preside over
the Sumter District next year. Mr.
Duncan, since making his home here,
has made many warm friends and
they will regret much to see him
move.?Greenwood Index.
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Office of Countv Dispensary Board of
Bamberg County.
Bamberg, S. C., December 2nd, 1907.
Bids are hereby requested, in accordSince
with the terms of the Dispensary
Law now in force, for the following kincfe
and qualities of liquors, beer, ana other
articles herein enumerated, to be furnished
to the State of South Carolina for
use of the County Dispensary Board of
Bamberg County, to-wit:
Fifty barrels Corn Whiskey, 90 proof,
different grades.
Fifty barrels Rye Whiskey, 90 proof,
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Fifty barrels Gin, 90 proof, different
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Five barrels Banana Brandy.
Five barrels Sherry Wine, two grades.
Bids will also be received for Case
Goods, including Rye, Corn and Scotch
Whiskies, Brandy, Gin, Rum, Wines,
Beers, Ales, and Porter. Also glass,
cork and tinfoil, wire and other articles
used for a County Dispensary.
All goods shall be furnished in compliance
with and subject to the terms and
conditions of the Dispensary Law of
1907, and bidders must observe the followingrules:
1. The bids shall be sealed, and there
shall be no sign or mark upon the envelope
indicating the name of the bidder.
2. All bids must be sent by express or
registered mail to Jno. F. Folk, County
Treasurer for Bamberg County, at Bamberg,
S. C., on or before 12 o'clock of
Monday, the 6th day of January, 1908.
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MULATTO WINS IN BEAUTY SHOW.
Indignant Farmers Threaten to Drive
Ail Blacks from the Neighborhood.
Pittsburg, Dec. 2?Edna Mason,
a mulatto ?irl, won the first prize at
a beauty show held at a charity
bazaar in Taylorstown, and now the
admirers of her white competitors
threatened to expel the entire colored
population from the neighborhood.
Edna, eighteen years old, possessed
of strikingly regular features and
with a clear light brown complexion
came from Louisiana two years ago.
Her grand parents were slaves and
she was brought up in a southern
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in a southern industrial school and
spent two years abroad as the maid
in the family in which she had been
brought up. She is a musician of
some promise and possesses a sweet,
well-modulated voice.
Her advent inTaylorstown was not
passed unnoticed. The village is
situated in a farming community
and for years the colored inhabitants
have been treated in a free, easy
fashion and enjoyed some pretense
at equality with their neighbors.
When the bazaar was opened the
blacks were cheerfully admitted.
Their money was accepted and there
was no privilege they did not enjoy.
A beauty show was one of the attractions
and half a score of the
belles of the town took part. Edna
Mason claimed the right to sit on the
stand with her white sisters. The
mulatto girl was getting the majority
of the ballots. Her millinery and
gowns were of the latest design, and
worn with a grace that caused the
chagrin of the farmer's daughters.
When Edna won the prize a storm
of protest followed. She hurriedly
left the hall and the negro patrons
fled. Late last night threats were
heard that the blacks would have to
leave.
Roundtree Given Three Years.
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13AKIN W tilili, L?CC. 'i.?A3 cuiicu kij
your correspondent yesterday, the
jury in the case of I. W. and J. F.
Rountree returned a verdict of guilty
of the charge of purchasing stolen
goods.
When court covened today a motion
for new triel was made by counsel
for the defense. The court refused
the motion and in sentencing
the two prisoners, both white men,
the judge took occasion to refer to
the amount of lawlessness and disregard
for law so prevalent in many
counties in the State. He commented
on the fact that two white men
should be charged and be found
eruiltv of such a crime. He stated
he would give them a sentence that
would be a lesson to them and a
warning to all others in Barnwell
county. He sentenced them to three
years hard labor on the public works
of the county or in the State penitentiary.
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JACK CAUQHMAN ARRESTED.
One of the Negroes Implicated in
Shooting John Blckley.
Prosperity, Dec. 3.?Jack Caughman,
one of the negroes who was implicated
in the shooting of John
Bickley of the Fork in Lexington
county, was arrested near here last
night by Mr. A. A. Singley and was
taken to the Lexington jail by Mr.
Singley to-day.
Caughman tells a very plausible
story and says that he had- gone to
Bickley's to buy some whiskey and
that Bickley put it in a bottle that
had kerosene in it and he went back
to get it changed and he refused to
do so and at this time there was a
fiiaa in thp lot and that Bickley
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went to the lot, and on his way back
when near where he was some one
shot Bickley.
Caughman says that he knows who
it was that shot Bickley but he
would not say here who it was.
Caughman says he knows nothing
of the attempt to outrage Mrs.
Bickley. Being present at the time
of the shooting he "lit out" he says
until the matter had blown over.
Amelia?Herbert, dear, your office
is on Orange street, isn't it?
Herbert?Yes; why?
Amelia?That's what I told papa.
He made such a funny mistake about
you the other day. He said he'd been
looking you up in Bradstreet.?
Chicago Tribune.
SUMMONS FOR RELIEF
(Complaint not served.)
State of South Carolina, County of Bamberg?In
the Court of Common Pleas.
Daniel Reddish, Ella Reddish, Wesley
Dyches, Josephine Wright, Malinda
Smalls, A. F. Brown, T. N. Rhoad,
Slaintiffs, vs. Mattie Guess, Sammie
uess, Blanche Guess, Leon Guess, defendants.
To the defendants, Mattie Guess and
Blanche Guess:
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You are hereby summoned ana required
to answer the complaint in this
action, a copy of which is to be filed in
the office of the Clerk of Court of Common
Pleas for Bamberg County, and to
serve a copy of your answer to said
complaint on the subscriber at his office
in the town of Bamberg, county and
State aforesaid, within twenty days
after the service hereof, exclusive of
the day of such service, and if you fail
to answer the complaint within the time
aforesaid the plaintiff in this action will
apply to the Court for the relief demanded
in the complaint.
J. F. CARTER,
Plaintiffs' Attorney.
Dated at Bamberg, South Carolina,
November 7th, 1907.
C. B. FREE, [L. S.]
Clerk of Court of Common Pleas for
Bamberg County.
To the defendants, Mattie Guess and
Blanche Guess:
Please take notice:
That a copy of the complaint in this
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action has been filed in tne omce 01 ine
Clerk of Court of Common Pleas for
Bamberg County. J. F. CARTER,
Plaintiffs' Attorney.
November 7th, 1907.
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