The people. (Camden, S.C.) 1904-1911, July 18, 1907, Image 1

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+' mw * 0 VOL. IV. NO. 25. CAMDEN, S. C., THTJB8DAY, J ULY 18, 1907. SLOOPer Year A POINT OF HONOR; OR, fOR HER FATHER'S SIN. BY EDWARDS. i CHAPTER XL 13 Continued. Of Ihe some temperament as bis race, Glfford had cut himself off from the bunting and shooting, the coarse, athletic animal oxdtcmcnt which to bis ancestors had been bo blerffeed a safety valve; and his hereditary crav ing after strong emotions gradually came to be appeased Over green balse, not over green country fields? a sub stitute dearer In the end, and by no means so full of zest In the enjoying. As years woro on (j'ear? which brought Jane Grand to the extreme verge of her cold and faded youth) Glfford Mohan, the model heir once, karas spoken of l>y the men and women of Chesterfield parish as an outcast, a pariah ? "the lust of the Mohuns and the worst, and that, my dear inadame, Is, 1 think, to say enough." And then Jane knew in hqg heart that she clung to klin mere tenderly than In the palmhJst days of his flrBt popularity, and thatf If he should re turn, slio wofild ? not wish to marry blm, for was not the ibamc of her pa rentage upon her still? But be his true, strong friend and warmest coun* seiov, now that all the rest of the world .were looking cold upon him. These Intervening years, too barren of incident to bear inoro than a pass ing description, had loft Jane now within two or tbreo years of thirty^ an age which very young girls look upon, in unmarried women, in much the same light as forty or fifty. Jnue felt very old herself. All her contem porarf ?s? the Mies Tennants, the Miss Gillets of the mill, the cottage girls Who had once been her monitors in the Sunday-school ? were niarrlod long ago. The young girls and brides of to-day bad been children when she was en gaged to Mohun. She belonged to the past? dressed in gray, sad colors, or in black like Miss Lynch (it was so dressed that I first suw her In High street of Chesterford St. Mary), and made no attempt whatever dt reju venescence. She wa? very amiable with any young people across whom she chanced to come, but quite cold; could take none of .the genial Interest in the loves and hopes of the rlsiug generation which very much older peo ple than herself? poor MUss Lynch, for example ? seemed always ready to feel. She was iu no way bitter or Jealous of them, but her heart was shut? shut, sealed, frozen around her own disap pointment; and she knew that it was so, and that she could never alter its condition. She got through life alto gether ? rose and ate and walked and went to church nnd listened to the con versation of others? In a very uniform frame of mind, one, I believe, not un common among thousands of well-edu cated unmarried women among our countrywomen. And the only time she lived, really lived and felt and drew the breath of positive vivid life, iwas when she wits alone in her room At night and the thought of Glfford Was strong upon her, and tho ring that IWas to have made hei his wlfo lay clapped, In a feverish, passionate clasp, betwen hor "poor tlHn hands, so Inert nnd cold and passionless in every duty they performed by day. Now, I am far from upholding Jan? Grand In her weakness; indeed, vlowed from my own personal place of stand ing her wnnt of right-mindedness un der her trlnls seems to me to be some thing truly fearful. Fortunately, h6w ever, we do not all form precisely the same opinion upon the shortcomings of our fellows. The Vicar of Choster ford was a man whose discernment nnd strength of mliul I cannot seek to Impeach, and yet? (I can only record, however much In my Judgment I may condemn)? and yet year by yoar the Vicar of Chesterford grew moro and more Infatuated with respect to Jane's perfections. Ho was ignorant for a yery long time, as to the real condition of his heart; and as long as he contin ued so, and only spent two or three hours out of every day in Jane's so ciety, he was happy. Hut the bitter moment of awakening came to him at last. One summer morning? as the poor man was quietly looking across tho clover? the convic tion Hashed before him, clear, strong, impossible of contradiction that the aesthetic had no longer any place what ever in his feelings toward Miss Grand; also that he regarded her worn and faded face of eight and twenty with a very different regard to that with which he had uscC to call her his little love, his picture, his angel, his Madonna, when she was seventeen! CIIAPTEU XII. 1 Hut Jane did uot know It. Under the Influence of h(s surprise nt his own new discoveries. Mj. Kollett kept good guard upon his lips and eyes; nnd soon the shadow of something rather more Important than any humnn love or dis appointment was cast over Jane s home, and in her grief the vicar fell to her again a? he had done when he first saw her n little, hollow eyed child, more than twenty years before In Ches terford Church. Jane never knew how much worth Miss Lynch was to her until the day fyfeen s ?>?uiUed Bound of heavy steps came down the narrow cottago stair* ease ? the day when, all excitement and newness of death over, she reallaed, sharp and distinct, the fact that th? armchair by the Are was really and fo* ever vacant, and that to-night, and to morrow night, and m on till she died she wouhl be dlon*. Very commonplace and uninteresting lives sometimes leave as wide a gap as brilliant and exceptional ones. Miss Lynch's feebleness of mind and excess of speech had been real, severe trials to Jane for years; and yet, before her old companion had been dead a woek she felt? ah, with how sharp a pangl? that she would patiently, gladly put up with all such poor, small defects now, could she but got back the kindly, lov ing, unselfish soul she had lost. There was no iougfcr the garrulous, high pitched voice wandering, wandering on, that overflowing, discursive, uninterest ing chatter that used to irritate her | weak nerves so when she longed for rost and quiet; but there was no longer the kludly hand to press hers night and morning, no longer the poor little figure creeping In at ulght, with shaded lamp and stealthy step, to see if Jane wanted anything, or if Jane was watching, or If Jane thought it would make her sleep to have a eup of tea, or to be read to, or staj*ed with; the one human ele ment, in short, the one human affec tion, had passed away from her life, and she knew, almost with astonish ment at first, how fearfully groat hCr loss was, how much worse the state she had used to think mo dreary had now becomel If Mr. Follett had understood such things' better, he might have known thi^t this was the time, if evor, for him to speak to Jane of his lovo. But ho was too shy, too delloate, too reti cent to Intrude upon any great grief. Juno in her deep black was not the Jano he had thought of with a boating heart that summer morning In the clover floUl; hut the poor, pale-faced child of the years afar, the lltfle child who had walked with him hand-ln liand along the village street? 1he for saken, nameless girl from whose par entage of shame all had turned away, and whom it was his duty, as a pastor and priest, to befriend. So as a priest, j he visited her during the dark we;?ks when the first revulsion of grief mnde her long-chilled feelings warm and open; and when, the following spring, he began to communo w^li himself as to whether he might dare to speak or not. Jane's heart was waled again; and whatever fiuttcring words strove occasionally to pass the vicar's lips were froKcn back In a second by the calm, unconscious friendliness with which she received them. Although still considering him as something wholly ailed to herself and to her personal happiness, Jane yet felt that ?he had grown to like him far better of late than sho had used to do when ho paid her showy compliments as a very young girl. In poor M^ks Lynch's lingering last illness he was constantly in attendance on her; and Jane had l**en often touched by his great patience and gentleness in minis terlng to the weak, fickle, exacting re quirements of the dying woman. True to the creed of all her llfte, ftlss Lynch was firm to the last in her faith In doctors and clergymen. When Mr. Huntley's worst drugs wfcre exhausted and the hand of tho great Healer was upon her, she still seemed to find con solation In being physicked and blis tered? "using every means," as sho termed it? to the last; and as doctors keep tolerably correct accounts of such matters, Jane, of course, viewed Mr. Huntley's alacrity In obeying all calls upon his attention as natural. When Mr. Follett had heard her confession, and had given her ghostly consolation and read 1o her, and prayed with her1 In the forenoon, thero was never any certainty that ho would not bo sum moned through mud and rain, at 10 o'clock at night, to perform tho same offices again. And knowing that spir itual medicine is unpaid for, and that the vicar was by nature averse to un timely exertion and night air, also that Miss Lynch's profuse requirements of familiar sulrltual comfort wore not strictly In unison witli his own broad and rarefied crfed, knowing those thing*, Jane was forced to admit to bersHf flint xho had greatly underrated Mr. Follett In nearly all of the opinions that she had oneo formed concerning him. After Miss Lynch's death her now prepossessions In his favor were strengthened. She nevei? thought him selfish now. Sho never thought, as she ured to think, that he wasted his ener gies In his study or among his fields, wnllc Mr. ltrndley did the real hard work among the poor of the parish. Learning, as people do when their youth Is over, to see the real inner core, not the mere coarse crust of character, she came gradually to think of Mr. Follett as a man placed altogether in the wrong groove of life, but allowing none but himself to suffer from the an gles that continually Jarred upon him; a man made by nature for Intellectual nn<1 artistic enjoyment, but living out, without complaint, the dronry, stag nnnt l!'.'o of a little Devonshire village; a man who had made early shipwreck of his own household affection*, yet who, without bitterness, even with kindly sympathy, could look on at the lores and hopes of others; s friend (and though I place them last, these were, of Course, his primary tirtues to Jane) ?a friend who had been kind to poor Miss Lynch through all the long years since she first wearied him with h?f attentions 40 Vn to the last hour whan he had knelt by her deathbed? a friend had held her own, Jane Grand's, hand more closely and warmly than ever since the dark history of her parentage had become publicly known. But rcspcct, admiration, esteem, grat itude, do net constitute love? however firm a foundation they may lny for lore. Jnne entertained erery one of these excellent sentiments toward thft Tlcar of Chesterford; and in secret he| tears were still shed* her heart ttm cried out for the prodigal son who wtl WAsting his substance In riotous living ?the gambler Who was wasting his sub* stance In riotous living ? the gambler whose life was spent without one higher aim than the gratification of his own immediate despicable desires? the heartless man of the world who had so utterly forgotten her, and her love too! It would hove been simply a revelation to her to lmve been told that she was playing fast nnd loose with Mr. Fol lett'e lienrt all this time? leading him on to tcmlercst hope by familiar tone or gesture at one moment, sinking him to despair by a sigh, a look, a distant reference to Mohun and her burled love for him at the next. She was ulngle-hcarted and generous to a degree quite beyond the average of her sex? on exceptional feminine nature that would have felt real poln, not flattered, delicious triiunph, at knowlug that a good man's love was b4l?g luvishod upou her in vain. And Oils very lock of vanity. Joined to the preoccupation of her own thoughts in all tiling's pertaining to love, made her guilelessly play out a port which Mon sieur de Halloa's "Princess" herself could not have rivaled. The conclusion to one conversation, the lost of ruany like to It, will show upon what terms this man and woman fast approaching middle age now atood with regard to ench other. Scene ? the little garden of Jane's cottage; seoson ?early summer; principal figures ? Jono Grand, dressed In black, pale and list less as usual, training the roses in the the way they should go above the par lor window; exactly opposite her, at the distance of about three feet, the Vicar of Ohoflterford. Aiul here I stop to say? what I ought to linve said long ago? tlmt Mr. Pol len's appearance was not an uneoinoly one. lie did not look his hko (Indeed, at this moment there appeared very sllerht difference between Jane aiul him self), his spare, broad chested, loose knit frame being of that order which retains nil the lightness and elasticity of youth years after compact but fleshy contemporaries have spread Into the rotundity of middle life. As he stood now, with his arms fold ed behind him? his accustomed attitude ?and looking Intently at Miss Grand's unconscious face? a stranger seeing only lUs figure and dark, thick, close cut hair, would have hesitated to call him a man still on what Is convention ally termed the best side of thirty. Nor was his face old. Youth wag, of course, pone from It, If by youth you mean freshness and rounded outline and vivid coloring: but these qualified tlons, tlie first point* lp a woman's beauty, are by no means essential In a man's; and Mr. Follctt's (lark face, with clear-cut salient features, and deep-set Iron-grey eyes was, I fancy, handsomer now than It was a dozen years before. Ills dress was always old-fashioned and the Rame; not very priestly, and seldom in first-rate condi tion, but suiting him in that indescrib able manner which Messrs, Stuls or Buck master, do not always find it easy to make their well-ut clothes assume upon the wealthiest client's shoulders* On the morning in question he had on his head a wide-awake hat, which ad mirably became his somewhat foreign face, but which had already caused a great deal of mental dlsquiotude in the parish. "Merely to shelter his eyes from the sun! My dear Miss Brown, all the world knows wide-awakes nre the sign, the watchword, of the Ilroad Church principles." And as that drpndful heresy was new to the minds of Chesterford Sr. Mary, its Insignia or standard was naturally regarded wltU tlie terror men have for new and fell diseases by the eyes of parochial orthodoxy. "Do you think the yellow roses trail ns well ns they did last year, Mr. Fol lett? I fancy all the flowers have some thing wan and sickly about them this summer. Look, this clotli-of-gold will never be brought to hang as it used to do around the window." Exceeding grace Is the sole personal charm that years cannot take from a woman. As Jane, with one white bare wrist aloft. turned to glance across her shoulder at the vicar, her attitude might Hlmost have vied with that im mortal one of her who stood?" a sight to make nn old man young." The Vicar of Chesterford felt very young and very foolish, indeed, as he looked at her; the more foolish, per haps, as, for certain crafty reasons, ho purposed within himself to spoak defi nitely of his own i?a*ssion upon this par ticular morning. Young fellows of flvc-and twenty, without the slightest grain of diffidence in their nature, and who have been receiving every legiti mate encouragement for months past, feel a singular tingling In the soles of their feet, and a general indistinctness before their brain, when the actual morning of speaking definitely has ar rived. (To be Con tinned.) A recent census of the homeless poor of London showed that 19U9 nieu uml 012 women were In tho streets. 6 DEAD: 20 , HURT Fast Passenger Train Collides With Light Engine NO REASON FOR THE ACCIDENT All of Dead Negroes of Party of 20 Being Brought from Alabama to This State ? "What? Labor Agent in Charge Probably Fatally Injured. Knoxville, Tcnn. Special. ? A long distance telephone message to The Journal and Tribune from Johnson City, says: ? Six persons met instant death and 20 were injured when e&stbouud ves tibule train No. 42 on the Southern Railway collided with a switch en gine onn mile west of Johnson City at 7:30 o'clock Sunday night. The switch engine was in charge of a hostler, who, when he saw the fust passenger coming toward him, revers ed his engine and jumped to safety. Scarcely had he done so when the passenger crashed into the light en gine with feaful force. The engine of the passenger, baggage, mail car and second-class coach were derailed ami overturned, but the switch engine was not lifted from the rails and with i'ull head of steam started on a wild run which was not ended until a switch was thrown for it and it was ditched at Carnegie. The lives of the mail clerks were saved because of the fact that their car was of heavy steel const ruction. This heavy car, however, played hav oc with the light second-class conch behind, which was entirely telescoped The second-class coach was occupied by (leorge Moore, white, a labor agent for the Virginia & Southwestern Hailroad, who was conducting a parly of 20 negroes from Alabama to North Carolina Moore was perhaps fatally hurt, and of the negroes six were killed outright and all others maim ed and injured. Six Unidentified Negroes. The injured are: Engineer Sam Hush, of Knoxville, slight injuries; F. O. Shij>e, Knoxville, mail clerk, seri ously injured; Archeoln Moore, mail clerk, one leg slightv hurt; (ieorge Moor?, labor agent, bady crushed, perhaps fatally hurt. Patricians from the National Sol diers' Home at Johnson City were tirst upon the scene. Relief trains were sent to the wreck from both Knoxville and Bristol. Appeal for Protection. Lorninc, O. ? The American Ship buiding company lias appealed to t lie federal circuit court for protection against a possible damage to property and violence against employes, as a result of the sccoud strike. This week the shipbuilders walked out again oi? account of not desiring to work with former strikebraeksrs. Injunctions were issued by the United States court in Cleveland. Separate injunction against each striker were served. There were 125 orders for bidding the strikers from interferring with the company or its employes. Conductor Shot to Doath. 'Augusta, On., Special.? A tele phono message to the Chronicle frnu Snndorville says Conductor J. M. Ma son of the Central railroad was shot> to death by an unknown nqgro two miles from Sandervlllo. The negro is.'Aped and is being choked by a posse. Tho negro attempted to ride on a noto and was put off. lie got on the rear car and when put off again drew a pistol and fired three times on tho conductor. Tho shots wore re turned, but it is not known whether or not any were effective. Fugitive F.x-Convict Wounded by Virginia Ofliccr. Bristol, Va., Special. ? Joe Farm worth, 23 years old. and for scev ral days n fugitive l'r<?m justice, was slr>t and perhaps fatally wounded by Po liceman A. L. Hill, in the mountains near Bristol. The otllccr was attempt ing to arrest Farnsworth, who is wanted on a ehage of shotting Wil liam Kirk in Bristol July 4tl Floors of Building Fall. Philadelphia, Special. ? Fortunate l.a^ando and Francisco Br unco were killed, two other men fatally and six severely hurt by the collapse of floors in a building on Water street nbow "Market, which was being razed. About 8, 'MID brirk were pibd on one of the upper tlouP?, when the stud ding gave way and the floor went down, carrying with if the !l??<>is be low. Lagatido was dug out dead. Ku gene Scut for nd Isreal Jones wcr buried under bricks and heavy stud ding and badly crushed. News Notes. Governor Hughes is meefing with opposition on nominations by direct vote at the special session of the Leg islature. Archbishop Mcssmer and others ad dressed the Catholic Education Soei ety in session at Milwaukee. Clarence Mackay, president of the Postal Telegraph and Cable Company denied the existence of a telegraph combins. , PALMETTO AFFAIRS Occurrences of Interest From All Over South Carolina MANY ITEMS OF STATE NEWS A. Batch of Live Paragraphs Cover ing a Wide Range ? What is Going On in Oar State. Governor Wants Reports. Columbia, Spccial. ? Gov. Ansel it Jetcrinined tbut a full investigation .hall bo made of all cases where the registration boeJcs have not been ro rised or where a county supervisor fails to order an election or take act ion when a petition on a dispensary sleet ion is presented. Lately he re vived a telegram from the supervisor :>f Barnwell county asking if the board of registration could not em ploy some one to do the revision work )n the registration lists. The gover nor at once replied that it was tho Jilty of the board of registration io Jo the work and therefore the law lid not delegate them to confer the power upon some one else. To the founty supervisor of Wiliainsburg ?ounty ho wrote that a complaint luul been made that no action had been | taken in regard to the dispensary pe- ' tition in that county. In the mean- | time the Haruwcll matter has been turned over to t ho grand jury for action and something is expected defi nite for the solicitor is expected this week. Spccial Term For Union. Union.Special. ? Union county is to have a special term of criminal court It will probably begin Monday, July 2!>, and as there were a large number '?f important criminal cases carried over, it is possible that the term will last two weeks. Among the promin ent cases that wore carried over from ? lie dune term were those of Arthur Davis, who shot and killed Clarence C. (iist, at Carlisle, on the night of May 23, James W. (iallamau, charged with the murder of Sims M. Gilmoiv, at Jor.esville, and Will Iteuty who shot and killed Frank Rice at Sedalia. It is understood that Solicitor Sear-e when ashed whom he would likely name in his request, for a judge to hold this special term of court, s;i'n! that he did not definitely decided, h it jis most of tho judges will be busy tlii^ month on their regular circuits it is thought that some distinguished at torney may be appointed as special judge to try these cases. New Lutheran Hospital. Charleston, Special. ? The insta lation of the heating system and the plumbing arrangements have been started at the old Adger house on Cal houn street almost opposite Rutledire avenue, in the fit tting tip and opening of the new Lutheran hospital and it is expected that the doors of the inst tution will be thrownopenin the early fall for the reception of patients. The charter for the hospital has been is sued in the name of the Evangelical Lutheran Charity society, and the spe" cial committee which has the conver sion of the handsome residence into a imodern hospital, consists of Capr. Herman Klntte, Stephen Thomas and F. Heinz. Great Gathering of Salnda Farmers. Sahula, S|M*cial. ? Tuesday was a farmers' rally day for Saluda, town and county. There are more farmers according to population and area in i Saluda county than in any other in the State and more of them own then almost unversally, it is no wonder farms. Being an agricultural people that fully *2.000 turned out to hear the representatives of the interests they are most interested in. From every nook and corner of the county they came and numbers were here from nearby towns and counties. Bank at Little Mountain. Little Mountain, Special. ? The stockholders of the Fanners' and Merchants' bank met July 10, and organized by electing the following I in dors: ,J. I?. Derrick, S. .L Der rick. W. A. Counts, ,J. II. Wise, D. K. Farr, \V. 1*. Counts, M. <?. Shealy, Dr. ?!. M. Sease. The directors elect ed Dr. .T. M. Sease president, J. II. Wise vice president, and W. A. I Counts cashier. The bank will com mence business as soon as a house ?an be elected. Vcrdict of Manslaughter. Spartanburg, Special. ? The jury in the case of .less Woolen, the wo man "barged with the murder of Na than Ds.ivey of (latTney in this city a few weeks s\go returned a verdict of manslaughter. Attorneys for the woman gave notic of a motion for a new trial. Harvey was killed while engaged in a drunken row with sever al women in a disreputable section of the city. "MY POND." Take a pilece of stout cord about * yard long; tie one end to a eane, and on the other end make a knot that will slip quickly about any object put In It. This rod and line Is for fishlng Tho (players now sit around a table, one holding the rod; In the middle of the table is a circle marked by crayon or n circular piece of paper. The fisherman cries: "My pond! * At that every player puts Ms forefing er In the circle. The fisherman then cries: "Your pond!" The fingers then go rapidly back. He may call these commands rapidly and try to catch a iplayer in "his pond" when he should be In "my pond." At such an error a forfeit Is paid. Meanwhile the fisherman tries to slip his knot over some finger, and when he does so that player become# the fisherman. ? Newark Call. A Pardon Rcfnscd. Ciov. Ansel lins refused the petition presented for the panlou of .Tuie (?il lespie of Laurens county, who was sent up for laijceny of n mule, the sentence being two and one half years. Lightning Kills Stock. Lvnnville, Special. ? Late Wed nesday afternoon during an electri cal storm in the Kobhinson Fork see lion a holt of lightning struck an.l instantly killed n line mare and colt owned by Peter Woods, colored. The stock had taken refuge under a large t roe. Cloudburst at Vicksburg. Vickshurg, Special. - ? This city and surrounding country suffered greatly by a cloudhmrt v.-'iich si ruck hero Sunday. Neatly every Inidge in the city mid court rv wa?; v. allied away. The flood carried awav one house Pie Yazoo ami Mississippi railroad reports r.-el of track washed away a few miles Ivlow Vickshurg ?icd trallie over this line is at a stand still. ( hit vide of 1 he cost to the rail road, the storm da magi* in lliis city 4iul country is ;il lea t .f I . >0,0U0. Proposed New County. Clov. Ansel has appointed ,T. M. Tucker of Orangeburg, A. M. Heeves of Dorchester and 1?\ .1. Ik'iry of Colleton as commissioners favoring the proposed new county represented by the above names. The county pro posed has llrauchvilte for its county seat and is the third petition present ed affecting Orangeburg. SOLD EVERYWHERE Its guaranteed purity and sterling quality are the best reasons why you should buy it. Guaranteed Under the National Pure Food Law SERIAL NO. 137. THE I. TRAGER CO. Cincinnativ O,