CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1904 A, Bluestocking; ROMANCE REALITY. By Miss Annie Edwards.! CHAPTER XII. -?stent Jealousies. /??L ?re! Well, on that point the less ? said the better, perhaps," remarks ' Auut Hosle. dryly. "Jealousy. 'tis evl ast time tin principal actors In this smalt drama have agreed to meet together. Sir John Severne, called away on settlement. business by Als lawyers, will quit the island to nfcfrrow morning. Felix Broughtou Is to. start for Paris a few hours later. The Liberta, wind anc'. wave permit ting, will leave for conger fishing off diaupie's toward noon. In another four-and-twenty hours Daphne Chester nlone will be left-left to live out the old. blank, self-colored life of Flef-de la- Heine, to hear the motiveless fall of the waves, watch the rose leaves flutter and die n round the suu dial; left to stagnate, as she used to do be fore Severne' s coming had brought back human warmth and vitality into the sluggish currents of her existence. "An old woman's opinions signify / fiothing," pursues Aunt Hosie, as she distributes round the forks and spoons. "'An old woman's opinions signify Jiothing? happily for Mr. Broughton? ?o long as young and pretty girls are content to listen to the words of wis dom that fall from his lips. Although, liow a person as cultivated as Miss Hardcastle, not to speak of yourself? you are listening to me. Daphne?? how young women,' destitut ? neither of parts nor education, can hold out the encouragement they do to an empty licaded creature like 'Cousin Felix* pusses my comprehension." I should premise that during the past three days Felix Broughton aud Miss Hardcastle have, through one seeming Accident or another, lingered awny the greater portion of their time at Flef de la-Relne. Aunt Hosle has, In con sequence, had ample opportunity for verifying her Judgments In the Matter of modern love-making and modern lovers. The drift of her remarks will *ufllee to show in what direction these judgments tend. "Felix Broughton may not be a Sol omon." says Mrs. Chester, "if he were. I don't suppose he would care to talk to me. As for his eye-glass, I cannot see that short sight is a proof of shal low brains. Besides, how good he Is to Paul! Always something in his porkets for the child? always." "Don't take the unnecessary trouble of accusing yourself by these excuses," Interrupts Aunt Hosle. coolly. "Daphne rhestcr Is no more In love with Mr. Felix Broughton than Clementina Hardcastle is in love with Sir John Weverne. It would be quite impossible for me to find stronger language in which to express myself." Daphne hides her face away behind the shelter of a bowl she hns i>een lav. Ishly filling with roses, pinks and hon eysuckles. ? "Mlsa Hardeastle I* to become Blr John Severne's wife some lime In Au gust?oh, there I* no doubt about It. A line liosle! The drosses nre ordered, the color of the bridesmaid*' bonnets decided 011. For aught we can tell. It may not be the fashion for engaged people to pay open attention to each other." "Human nature In the fashion ai rway*," cries Aunt Hosle, suddenly Abandoning her tone of banter. "Do you think, If Mi*.? Hardeastle loved Sir John Heverue, ahe would tolerate his lukewarm attentions for a day? I>o you tbltik she would not show jeal ousy?yea, 1 dare use the word- hon est, natural, commendable Jealousy, of walk* by aunrlse, walk* between .t and 4 o'clock on a June morning, with a woman as young and well looking as yourself?" At this sharp home thrust the color (lies ou Daphne's checks. "That walk was an accident." she answers, very low. "Could I help Jean Marie forgetting at which pier he was to meet me? Could I help Sir John Severne's happening to leave the yacht when I did? Surely, you would uot l:ave had me walk tiom , past the fort and harbor works, at such an hour unescorted?" "I would have had you do what your conscience told you was right." nays Anne Hosle. Ilrmly. "To walk alone past the fort at 3 o'clock in the morn ing might be unconventional " "Aunt Hosle! When I have heard you say a hundred times that the only tbing you dread on earth is a tipsy soldier!" "To trifle, or seem to trifle, with af fections of an engaged man is n crime." "A crime!" echoes Daphne Chester, her lips a-quiver. "It is not like 3-ou. Aunt Hosie, to he so wanting iu char ity." "It would be less like me. I hope. -Daphue, to be wanting in a sense of common honesty. 'The Loan, of a Lover' mny be a pretty subject for comedy on the stage. Iu real life, such manners, such levity, are tolerably sure to have a tragic ending. Have the kindness to t?t the dishes straight, child, if you please. Your drawing les sons"? this with emphasis? "do not seem to have improved ybur eye for symmetry." The members of the yachting party have received an invitation, collec tively, to partake of high tea at Fief de-la-Relne; a moonlight sand-eellug expedition to constitute the amuse ment of the evening. When the ap pointed time comes, however, only three of the expected guests put in sn appearance? 81r John 8everne. Felix Broughton and Miss Hardcastle. ~ Lady" Lydia, It Is vaguely believed, may be somewhere on the Channel be tween this aud Normandy. Races arc gding on at St. Malo; and Lady Lydia. with Mrs. de Mauley and Max. was last seen on the pier near upon the hour when an excursion steamer was advertised to depart for France. Miss Rivers, knapsack on shoulder, is tak ing a solitary walk round the island. The Arab has beeu lost since yester day. Of Mr. Jornlngham I need scarcely add, no one for a moment Hpeaks or thinks. "And so. unless any of my Inwful guardians conic to life. I must osk tlic Misses Yansittart to be iny elinperons." nays Clementina, as she is taking off her hat in Daphne's little white, coun try-looking bedroom. "That is. if chaperons, the crowning mistakes of civilization, could by any possibility be needed at Flef-de-la-Keine! Oh. Mrs. Chester, how good it must be to in habit a house like this,"' she continues. "Not an inkstand, not a book to be seen? our bedrooms at home are lined with hooks. 'In case any of us should feel sleepless in the night.* Mrs. Hard castle says. A sea of whose chemical constituents you know nothing, around a sky you have never been forced to sarvey through telescopes overhead all. and whnt delicious real roses!" And balancing herself on the broad granite casement ledge. Miss Hard castle leans forth her town-complex ioned face amidst the labyrinth of odorods. bloom-laden branches that droop around. "The roses one buys In London never seem quite real, against country ones." I she goes on, presently. "Besides, when I was young. I was so tortured with Iwitany, classifying, after Linnaeus or Jusslcu, every flower that blows, that I almost grew to hate the smell of them. And to think you have never had a governess. Mrs. Chester, never been to a lecture, or assisted at a con versazione! What have I done to de serve such cruel reverses at the hands of fate?" "Reverses!" echoes Daphne Chester, somewhat hastily. "Yes, it comes lightly enough to you, no doubt, to use that word. You, Miss Ilnrdcastie, who cannot yet have tasted one aetual trou ble, who have everything to make the present sweet " "Oh. I know, I know." Interrupts Clementina, with a jarring little laugh. "When people are engaged It is thought the correct thing always to address them In that kind of Jubilant strain. As if marriage was such a panacea for human ills that the mere road thereto were a matter for insane rejoicing! But perhaps you are not aware"? she says all this iu a short, decided manner, as she speaks tearing cruel wounds In the petals of what ever rose has the nick to co:nc be neath her lingers?' "Perhaps Hir John Heverne has not told you It is n set tled thing that I am to be his wife?" "I knew of your engagement before I llrst saw you at Quernec," answers Daphne, with as steady a voice as she can command. "And you think, of ckery. of Missouri, and President Francis. President Francis, In his address, spoke of tho lasting influence of the fair, "which marks a new epoch in the intellectual and indnstrial advance ment of the world and the dawn of a new era in the industrial relations of governments and people." In conclu sion he said: "May the enterprise with which we have been connected for nearly seven years past bring into still closer brotherhood all tho nations and all the peoples who huve participated In it. May It deepen our patriotism. May It strengthen our for a benign Providence that smiles upon lis." Promptly at 4 o'clock all the great exhibit places were closed and visitors were excluded. In the Palace of Agri culture onslaughts were made on some of the exhibits, where the settings were composed of straw and fragile mate rial, and for a time general demolition was threatened, but prompt action in affecting a general ejectment put a stop to the threatened turmoil. Steadily the white bul1>s silhouetted the exhibit palaces against the night, periodically the illumination of tho Terrace of States surmounting Festival Hill changed from white to red, then to green, and then black and white. Over on Agricultural Knoll the great floral clock clicked off the minutes of tiio de parting pageant. And In tho night rang out the tones of the massive bell, as the midnight hour was tolled by the great clock. Instantly a hush seomed to pervade tho entire grounds. The glowing electric bulbs slowly begah dimming, the pulsations of the great engines that drove the cascades gradu ally died downL The light faded stead ily. diminishing until hut a faint glow was perceptible. Suddenly there was darkneps. nnd the I?tilsiuua Purchase Exposition had passed Into the chron icles of history. Gift to Methodist Churoh. Nashville. Special. ? The late million* aire philanthropist and dry goods mer chant of St. l^ouls, Richard M.' Scruggs ir, his will Just filed, makes specific bequests of $481,000. I^arge amounts are left to the Methodist Church, South foi the foreign missions. To W. It. I^ambuth, Secretary of the Board pf Misslones of Nashville $5,000 are left for a girl's school at Hiroshima, Ja pan: Bishop E. R. Hcndricks will get $".,000 for missions and tho. ' same-' sums are left to Bishop E. E. Hons, Bishop Chandler, of Atlanta. Bishops Calloway and Wilson for tho same purposes. *?*' . . Live Items of News. Some striking figures are contained in the annual report of Secretary of Agriculture Wilson. The President and Mrs. and Miss Roosevelt returned safely to Washing ton from St. Louis. Kansas contributed a figure of John J. Ingails for Statuary Hall, In the Capitol. The New York State Court of Ap peals declared the Eight-Hour law'un* constltutlooil. \t I The Weather Bureau, a department of the National Government whose ser vices are for all, bases Its forecasts upon actual instrumental observation of weather conditions throughout the United States, and is scientifically In vestigating the laws controlling at mospheric phenomena. ltn forecasts are for a definite -time and place, and- are Issued for only two pr three days In ad* vpinc?, Mfrfllywtote. tyvaiise^the expert tifrsMsters' of the bureau understand the futility of attempting long range forecasts in the present status of tbo science. Though occasionally missing a forecast, the Weather Bureau rarely (ails to give timely warning of radical weather changes which are of practical Importance to the interests of the country. It speaking well for the people of North Carolina that the press in this State so generally refrains from dis seminating harmful long range weather forecasts. Misstatements by privato weather forecasters should be entirely suppressed; weather forecasts in alma nacs. etc., are worthless. As a true knowledge of meteorological phenom ena is of great importance to man in all the activities or life, people should rather place their faith in the Weather Bureau, the operation of which can not fail to be of greater and greater benefits to the people as the science of meteorology advances. ? C. K. Von Her mann, Weather Bureau. News of the Day. Thirty thousand Socialists demon strated against Herr Luoger. mayor of Vienna, on the eve of his sixtieth birthday. The burgomaster recently de scribed the Socialists as a lot or raga muffins. October 23 they gathered in the Rlngstrasse opposite the Itathaus, shaking their fists and waving sticks and red handkerchiefs. A charge by 1. 000 police finally dispersed them. Archbishop S. (?. Measmer. of Mil waukee, did not attend the funeral of Archbishop Elder in Cincinnati on elec tion day beeatrse he said his duties as a citizen prevented his going. Mme. Francesca .Tanauschek. famous a? an actress, died at Amity vllle, l<. I. , Rev. Dr. William T. Manning, vicar of St. Agnes' Chapel, Trinity Parish New York, was elected at Lacaster, Pa., as Protestant Episcopal Bishop of . the now Diocese of Harrisburg, Pa. Rev. I)r. Charles E. Woodcock, of Detroit, MJch., accepted the offer to bo tome Protestant* Episcopal Bishop of Kentucky. Father VandeVon was consecrated at New Orleans and Father .lames I*. Davis was. consecrated at Davenport, Iowa, as Coadjutor Bishop of Daven port. Organizers of the Women's Christ Ian Temperance Union made their re ports to the national convention hi Philadelphia Tho World's Fair at St. IxjmIs. which eloscd Wednesday, !.-> pronounced a financial success. The strike of . the miners in tho Tel lurite district of - Colorado has boon declared off. Joseph Loiter, the wealthy ownoi rrl coal minys at Zolgler. 111., and his attorney havo Ijeen .Indicted for bring Ing armed men Into (he State In de flflnce of a'neW Illinois statute. Tho creditors of D. J. Sully, the for mer "cotton king," enme to an agree ment, and a settlement now seems probable. Mrs. Casslo L. Chadwlok agreed In New York to pay In cash the claim for $190,000 held against her by Her bert. D. Newton. Thomas E. WatFoti, lately Populist candidate for President, made a r, ad dress at Crawfordvllle. (la.. In whir l: he bitterly aarollod the Deniocr&tk party and tho "Solid South." LOW MNGE WEATIEt FQHCASIS. An Interesting Document latutd by the Department. The observation of tbe phenomena of nature has engaged man's attention from remote antiquity. Hie early efforts to Interpret tbe wonders of theeport,. C6nn? exec utive a great of the American Anti Boycott Aaaociation.. Mr. Davenport's topic was cfte purpose and work of the American Anti-Boycott Association. He told of the suits against the United Hatters, wftfeb, he said. h;id been of great morel effect in ttrlngir^ home to workers responsibility for tfte boycott. John Beattfe. a representative of the Master Painters and Decorates* Asso ciation. speaking of the labor situation In New York, .sahl: -Recently 1 asked President Roosevelt, ate an American citizen, to use his influence to put the responsibility on labor nations, and he said: . ? ? <. , ?? "That's the thing that is needed.* The report of the committee en reso lutions as adopted re-affirms the ob jects as adopted by the Chicago and Indianapolis conventions of the Cit izens' Industrial Association, and again declares for "$he open shop." De manding only good faith and fair deal ing. it discriminates against neither Union nor independent labor. "The freedom of the apprentice and the right of the individual to- Have a trade and follow It. "The rfgbt of private roirOract, with equal obligation upon employer ann would he promptly presented 1 to the Diet. Tlw? intimation la t tint j the proposition meets with Japanese } favor.