The people. (Camden, S.C.) 1904-1911, January 09, 1908, Image 1
Sl.SOPer Yea
JANUARY 9, 1908.
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Anmlo-Indian
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YOUNG
MISTLEY
BSBSJLusiz
Mmrriman^
CHAPTER XXIL 14
Continued.
Then be mounted. The last per
son with whom he shook hands was
his brother Charlie, who had been
standing at the horse's head. It was
strange how tl^e young sailor Invari
ably found something to do, and was
never to be discovered Idle.
"Come, Adonis!" Wlnyard called
out, and then he vanished In the
darkness.
Then Mrs. Mlstley, Mrs. Wright,
and the colonel turned and entered
the house. Lena and Charlie were
left alone. They stood side by side,
and listened for a sound that won
dead. So still were they that Char
He could hear the hurried tick of
his own watch. Lena stood motion
less, and showed no sign of moving.
Her companion waited for some min
utes with the peaceful patience of
a sailor, and then he said In little
more than a whisper:
"Come, Lena!"
8he turned and looked at him
vaguely, as if she had not been aware
of his presence. He was standing in
front of the open door; a beam of
light flooding out into the darkness
rested on his upright form, and
gleamed on the dead white of his
linen. He was motionless and quiet
as usual ? the personification of equa
bility and strength. From his un
usual hf:ight he looked down at her
gravely.
"Come," he repeated. "We have
?had aT^ard day ? let us go in. Be
ware of that little step."
And, under pretext of guiding her,
he took her hand within his arm, and
entered the house.
They found the old people In the
drawing room.
"Well?" she said, smiling, as she
crossed the room.
"Well!" replied Charlie at once,
without turning round.
"I think," said Lena, without ad
dressing any one In particular, "that
It was a great success, don't you?
Everybody said they enjoyed them
selves Immensely, and I really be
lieve they meant It."
"I am sure they did," affirmed her
mother, readily, with a little contrac
tion of the eyes. "The floor was love
ly. I know, because I tried It. Char
He led me astray as usual, and made
me dance against my principles and
despite my gray hairs."
"I heard," said Lena, mischievous
ly, "several people talking about an
elderly lady from London being the
best dancer In the room. But ?
there Is papa pulling his mustache
to keep himself awake. You old peo
ple keep such shocking late hours.
Puff ? thero goes a candle ? puff
there is another Good-night, Mrs,
Mlstley; good-night, mother; good*
night, poor, sleepy old gentleman;
good-night? Charlie."
/ CHAPTER XXIIL
Disguised.
The rays of the setting sun, pierc
ing the frosty air, gleamed luridly
on every dome and minaret of grand
old "Mother" Moscow. The bell sus
pended In the white tower of Ivan
Veliki was thrilling the entire city,
far beyond t'he Kremlin gates, with
Its deep, continuous voice. There
was no sound of metallic concussion,
but one great unbroken hum vibrated
over all, like the buss of some huge
winged insect. It was a feast day,
and the Metropolitan was about to
bless the people from the Jeweled
altar steps of the cathedral.
The shopkeepers in the Slavonskl
B*taar were busy closing their little
narrow booths, knowing that their
commerce was finished for the day.
From one of the arcaded passages
there emerged an old man, bent and
limping. He was clad in a long gar
ment eonflned at the waist by an
old leather strap. His high boots,
reaching almost to the knees, were
Innocent alike of grease or blacking.
On his head was a black astrakhan
cap, all glossy with newness, and In
bis hand he carried five or six more.
This type is common enough in Mos
cow ? the man was an itinerant ven
der of astrakhan caps, and, liko the
rest of his kind, was quite ready to
take that from his head to offer to
any would-be purchaser.
As he came out of the Slavonskl
Bazaar, he turned his head as if a
dog should have been at his heels;
then beneath his shaggy curls of
grlstllng brown he smiled a Uttfe
grimly.
Painfully he made his way across
the broad market place, not In the
direction of the Holy Gate, but to
ward the marvelous Bftail.
Opposite this, the most lovely ,
building ever erected to ibe glory of
Ood by a man who knew not His
love, the old hat-seller stood and
gased. For greater donvenience he
laid his cdne of fur hats upon one
arm and raised hie two bands tp the
crook of his staff.
The eyes that re*ted on the glori
ous curve of varying cupola and min
aret were strangely youthful and pen
etrating. Admiration for this trl
umph of Eastern architecture was
expressed thereto, but wonder there
was not. It was as If the old man
knew every line and turn, and was
now casing on them as one who bids
farewell.
The sharp, concise tread of an ofll
clous police agent sounded on the
stones behind the old fellow, but he
never turned or heeded It.
He seemed lost In a reverie where
in perhaps figured the grim personal
lty of Ivan the Terrible, who had
caused thla same Basil to be built;
snd then, when It was finished, see
ing, despite his coarse and barbar
ous nature, that It was almost super
Human, had blinded ToVever Tts name
less architect. But what should an
old hat-seller know of these things?
"Thou wilt sell no caps here," said .
the obtuae police apy at hla elbow.
"No?" an8wered the old man quiet
ly, without looking round.
"No; go on, one way or the other."
"Then In Moscow one may not
even look at a church?" said the old
man, turning to go.
"No. I turned away an English
man from here yesterday; and If an
Englishman ? for they see every
thing ? may not look, surely thou
may eat not."
"Same fellow, my man. Same fel
low, you thick head!" muttered the
old man In perfect English, a3 he
hobbled toward the Holy Gate. In
passing through ho reverently
bared his head, looking sideways up
with senile awe toward the sacred
picture.
He quickened his shambling pace,
but stopped suddenly in one of the
narrower streets of New Moscow. A
blue letter-box was fixed to the wall,
and upon this he laid his atock of
fur caps, separating them and shak
ing out the little black curls of hair
with a practiced hand. He arranged
and sorted hla diminutive stock In
trade for some time, till the atreet
was clear of passers-by. Then he
slipped one hand Into the breast of
his long coat and produced a letter.
After glancing at the address, he
dropped It into the box, and mur
mured In English:
"There goes the last link. I am
oft at last, and a week ago to-day I
was putting up scenery at Broom
haugh!"
When tho Post Office collector
came shortly afterward with his bag
to clear the box, the old hat-seller
was still examining his wares, one of
which he pressed upon the letter car
rier with a little clumsy pleasantry
about the cap coming in useful when
he received his pension.
The old fellow spoke the guttural,
coarse Russian of the south.
Beneath his shaggy brows he
watched his letter fall from the box
Into the canvas bag, and then turned
away toward the high road leading
to Nljni Novgorod.
Thus Wlnyard Mlstley turned hit
back on civilisation, and started on
hia lone and wearisome journey of
-three thousand miles. The hurried
leave-taking at the porch had been
indeed a farewell, despite his cheery
assurance to the contrary. Twenty
four hour* after leaving Broomhaugh
he was on board a little merchant
steamer gliding slowly down tho
Humber. An Interview at White
hall, a second at the War Office, and
he had received his instructions. No
outfit, no letters of Introduction, no
baggage. "Was there anything to
delay his starting immediately?" he
had been asked. "No, nothing!"
The answer was not very prompt;
there was the shadow of hesitation
In it; and for ? moment the white
haired, anxious soldier who had asked
the question relaxed the coldness of
his official demeanor.
"It is sometimes better," the old,
worn-out traveler said, "to find that
there Is no time to say good-bye ?
do you not find It so?"
"Yes, perhans It is better so," Win
yard had replied, with a sudden
smile, and all was said and done.
And now that was all over ? a
mere memory of the past. The hur
ried preparations, the difficult letter
to Mrs. Mlstley, written at a club
amid the laughter And merry-making
of men who would have been silent
enough had they known. The un
comfortable farewell at King's Cross
Station, and the last grave prossure
of the hand from the two old travel
ers, who, partial strangers as they
were, had made a point of seeing him
off.
Now he was fairly at work, and
his old confident delight In the at
tendant difficulties was returning to
him.
CHAPTER XXIV.
The Black L4ne.
Only a fortnight had elapsed since
Wlnyard Mlstley's departure from
BpoomAaugb, and Colonel Wright
fcraa already beginning to experience
some anxiety at the absence of news
from him. The old soldier, too 1m- '
pulslve for a diplomat, grumbled
aloud at the prolonged silence of his
pupil. He knew that there must be
good reaeon for It; but Ml at the
mm* tfm* ^ or an people*
?mt rMMMitr #Mt t* be *ept
fully posted M.lB WlBTird'i move*
meats.
On the ftttMBtk morning the tardy
Utter arrived at last, havlag been
forwarded by Mrs. Mistier from
Paris. Tow vuloaiX 73S& it itew!**
for It was written In pencil on the
torn-oat pace of a sketchbook. Then
he tarned the paper over again and
read It aloud: *?
"Dear Colonel ? I leave Moscow
this afternoon, walking to fhe first
station on the Nljnl Line. 1 am fair*
ly off now ? right tn the heart of the
country, and no one the wiser. Give
me twelve months before you think
of getlng anxious* eighteen before
you show your antlety, and twenty
one before yon send Wilson and
Bates. Let them come unknown to
the newspapers* If either of them be
unable to come? I do not anticipate
unwillingness ? some one else must.
Do not on any account send one man
alone. If I should not get back, and
Wilson falls to hear ot me, shed a
friendly tear, but shed It In private;
our white-coated friends must not
bear of it. By the bye, on second
thoughts, please tell your ladles and
the mater all about Marie Bakovltch.
It will be safer. Do not lose sight of
The mater, and take care of the re
spectable Adonis. Yours, *
"W. M.M ?
The colonel's voice quivered a lit
tle as he finished reading.
Lena, slowly sipping her coffee,
looked over her cup toward her fa
ther , with an Interested hut some
what critical expression on her face.
"It is to be hoped," she said, "that
the respectable Adonis will appreci
ate the Interest shown In his wel
fare."
"Ye-es," said the colonel, vaguely,
as he slowly folded the letter.
"There!" he continued more ener
getically, as he placed it in his pock
et, "you know as much as I do."
Mrs. Wright slowly raised her eyes
from her plate, and looked across the
table toward her husband.
"Except," she said, suggestively,
"la the matter of Marie ? something
or othor."
"Marie Bakovitoh ? yes, I must tell
you about her. It would interest
you, I think."
Lena was still sipping her coffee
indifferently.
"Marie Bakovltch," continued the
colonel, "Is a young lady, beautiful
and accomplished. Two years ago
she undertook to remove me from
the face of the earth. She is What
is called in some countries a patriot,
and that is the form taken by her
patriotism. Of course shd belongs to
several crack-brained societies, and
one of these was kind enough to' in
form me by letter that I was con
demned, at the same time warning
Mlstley, He had the effrontery to
reply to their formal communication,
but I did not see the letter. Since
then I have heard nothing about It.
Some time later Mlstley received a
threatening letter, and since then this
girl has followed him like a shadow."
Lena slowly set her cup down upon
tho table. With one white finger she
began polishing the top of the silver
coffee pot with peculiar attention,
like a child who being gently
scolded. >
"By some means," continued the
colonel, "he turned the wrath of
these mistaken patriot* from my
head, and called it down upon his
own. Marie Bakovitch followed him
to Walso, and actually attempted to
shoot him, down at the Broomwater
one day when he was fishing. She
missed him, and then fainted Into
his arms ? In the most oonfldlnc man
ner, Wlnyard said. The fellow man
aged to make ?ren that Into a funny
story. He generously kept the whole
affair quiet, and succeeded in getting
the girl away from Walso. She ??en
promised to leave England, but
whether 6he will keep her promise or
not, I cannot say. He was afraid
that they might have beea seen to
gether, and that gossip would get
about, so he asked me to tell you the
truth about It."
Tho two ladles were silent. Lena
bent her head over the coffee pot as
If she were short-sighted and wished
to see the result of her prolonged
polishing. It was only when he
looked across the table and met his
wife's eyes that Colonel Wright fully
realized what Winyard Mistley had
done in taking this danger upon him
self.
"And you knew thla all along?"
said Mrs. Wright, presently, with
gentle severity. She was recalling,
with the unerring memory of a wo
man for such details, the thousand
passing incidents in which Wlnyard
Mistley and his chief might have be
trayed their anxiety concerning Marie
Bakovlteh and her presence In Walso.
Women usually consider that they
have the monopoly of the minute dip
lomacy of every-day life. They love
to comment on the clumsthess and
want of tact with whieh they are
pleased to endow their husbands,
brothers and sons; and when a rev*
elation comes to them, as it had now
come to Mrs. Wright, the result is a
trifle humiliating. Most women learn
sooner or later in their lives that the
men whom they pride themselves up
on blindly leading, allow themselves
to be led just as far as suits them,
and not an inch beyond.
Lena must have been thinking of
this also, for presently, without look
ing up, she said:
(To be continued.)
The Mexican Government charges
on transfers of land deeds amount to
from $40 to $46 Mexican on 91000
value, According to the laws t t that
country it Is necessary for foreigners
to havo their nationality mentioned
in the Jtle, otherwise they become
Mexicans.
1W0 RECEIVERS NAMED
Mp Mkkari Grants Frtyw F?
luiirti^ll Toe the a? boar* All
Um Iirib hb Appd=$? I. D?>
via Warfldi Ml HJjaomg wu>
Iff to Tata Tiixllitt Fmm?
ston of Ike Rallread.
Richmond, Va., Special* ? Judge
Pritehard, judge of the United States
Circuit Court, entered a decree nam*
ing S. Dariea Warfleld, or Baltimore,
and R. Lancaster Williams, of Rich
mond, as receivers to take immediate
possession of the property of the Sea- (
board Air Line Railroad. The bond
of each waa fixed at $50,000
By the decree the receivers sre
empowered to borrow money if need
ful to pay such rental as may becomo
due, purchase cars, etc., and pay for
labor and supplies but not for any
other purpose without an order of
the court having primary jurisdiction.
They Sre ordered to pay forthwith
all installments and interest that was
due and payable January 1, 1908,
notes or trust equipment certificates
and all eoupons and interest matur
ing January 1, 1008, on the first mort
gage bonds of the Seaboard Air Line
and embraced roads such as the Ral
eign and Gaston, Rsleigh and Augus
ta Air Line, the Georgia Carolina and
the consolidated mortgage bonds of
the Carolina Central.
Burglar Got a Surpise.
Richmond, Special. ? Effecting en
trance through a front window in the
residence of Mr. R. I. Barnes, at
Sherwood Park and Brook avenue, at
an early hour Thursday morning,
someone, evidently s burglar of the
professional species, walked through
the parlor, crossed the hall and walk
ed into the room in which was lying
the body of Mrs. F. F. Herdy, Mrs.
Barnes' mother. He was so badly
frightened that for a second he was
afraid to run. Then, without a word,
he turned and fled the way he had
come, diving through a window, tak
ing with hiih the majob portion of the
lace curtains stid landing on the
porch, from which he jumped to the
ground.* It all happended bo sudden
ly that the persons sitting up with
the body were unable to tell whether
the intruder was white or black. They
saw a tall, slender man, wearing a
gray overcoat and a slouch hat, and
that was all
Examination of the premises show
ed that the burglar had pried open
the blinds, carefully raised the win
dow and as carefully lifted the screen
on the inner side. He left everything
open behind him, and bin escape was
accomplished with such celerity that
he was gone almost as soon as seer..
Mr. Barnes' daughter was asleep in
the room above the parlor and was
awakened by the noise of the en
trance. Knowing that persons were
up and moving about, however, she
thought nothing of the disturbance
and went back to sleep. But the
whole household was aroused when
the intruder msde his sensational
dive through the window. Rev. Mr.
Templeman and the others sitting up
with the corpse were too dazed to
move when they saw the door slowly
open and then a man's form slouch
upon the threshold. But the vision
was m much astonished as they, and
he did not stand upon the order of
his going ? but went.
T?km Editor Killed by His Wife
Halletsville, Tex., Special. ? Thurs
day afternoon a* be was entering his
office, "W. R. Beaumier, editor of the
Halletsville Herald was shot and kill
ed by his wife. She was arrested and
plarcd under $2,000 bail. Domestic
troubles ore snid to be the cause of
the killing.
Official Report of Alabama Mine Dis
aster Filed.
Birmingham, Ala., Special. ? State
Mine Inspectors J. M. Gray, James
Hillhousc and Edward Flynn has
filed with Governor Comer a full re
port of the explosion which took
place in the Yolande mines last
month, in which 50 men were killed.
Chief Inspector Gray's opinion is
that a miner allowed some dynamite
to go off and that this ignited dust.
The assistant inspectors uxpress the
opinion that there was a gss sxplosion
followed by a dust explosion.
New Orleans Bnterpriaw Show No
Decrease in Dividend*.
* ii
New Orleans, La., 8(aecifl^Divi>
dend payments of abort $1.^000,000
wiU >? made in New Orleans thy
month. These payment^ ?now np de
crease under the dividends paid a
year ago, for although ratea have
been reduced in many cases, a large
increase in capital invested makes up
the defiicit which otherwise there
would be.
POLITICAL POT A-BOILING.
- Secretary Taft's tour of the world
Is to bo put on tho stag*. |
A carload of now la to bo deliv
ered dally to the Democratic Na
tional Convention at J>enver.
Senator McCarren, of Brooklyn.
?nm?d prophet and predicted that
Hughe* could not be nominated for
President.
There are more than ninety mem
bers of the House of Representatives
who are serving their country for
the first time.
Vice-President Fairbanks was en
thusiastically urged for President at
the biennial Republican "love feast"
at Indianapolis.
Judge W 11 lard M. McEwen will
open In the Great Northern Hotel.
Chicago, within two weeks his fight
for the Gubernatorial nomination.
Indications are that the Iowa dele
gation to the Republican National
Convention will support Governor
Hughes for the Presidential nomina
tion.
Mayor McClellan, of New York,
asked the 8upreme Court to compel
Jackson to submit a more complete
bill of particulars In his suit to oust
the Mayor.
Senator Tillman attacked the pol
icy of the administration in Issuing
Panama bonds and three per cent,
certificates of Indebtedness and ques
tioned the authority of law for such
action.
The Missouri Republican State
Committee indorsed William H. Taft
for the Republican nomination for
President and selected St. Louis for
the meeting place of the State con
vention.
President Roosevelt told his friends
that the nomination of Secretary
Taft is practically assured. His con
fidence is based on the refusal of the
New York County Republican Com
mittee to indorse Governor Hushes
*?>?* President. "~
Greensboro Has $45,000 Fire.
Greensboro. N. C., Special. ? Fire
damaged the plant of tho Sherwood
ttohbin Works Friday night at 0
oVlock to the extent of several thous
and dollars. The alarm sounded al
G:30 from box 54 and the firemen
responded promptly and did some
very effective work, saving the main
building, but the dry klip, containing
a large quantity of stock, and the
boiler room were destroyed. The en
tire plant was insured for $03,500,
and the estimated damage is $45,000
The High and Low Trse.
A well-known fruit expert says thai
the cost Of picking a barrel of applet
upon very large, high trees Is 20 centi
per barrel, while on low-headed treei
the cost does not exceed seven centi
per barrel, a very great difference 1|
favor of low-headed trees.
I FEMININE NEWS NOTES.
I Telegraph operating la a favorite
1 pursuit (or women In England.
Woman's average life la forty
I four years, and man 'a forty-one
I yeara.
An exhibition of the clothing.
Jewelry, etc., worn by women during
the laat 300 yeara haa been opened In
Rome, Italy.
A mualcal atage training school
for English girls la to be opened in
London under the management of
M. Edouard de Reazke.
Although women were admitted to
university study In Norway twenty
five years ago only 800 have In that
period availed themaelvea of the
privilege.
Translation of an ancient papyrua
In the Toledo Muaeum showed that
I the "new woman" Idea awayed
| Egypt to an extreme degree 2200
I years ago.
Ella May Burke, known on the
atage as Mlgnon Worth, was burled
by a Mrs. Burke, of Rochester, N.
y., as her daughter, a girl of the
same name, who la alive In New Or
leans.
A new prima donna is Elizabeth
Parkinson, a young soprano who has
created a real sensation In Paris and
London. She la a protege of Mme.
Melba, who predicts a great future
for the Western songster.
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith-Miller and
Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higgln
son are now the only two survivors
of the eighty-nine persons who signed
the call for the first national wom
an's rights convention, which was
held in Worcester, Mass.. in 1850.
Mrs. John R. McMahon, a news
paper and magazine writer under
the name of Margarita Arllna Hamm,
died in New York City from pneu
monia. She was a war correspon
dent in the Spanish-American war.
She was connected with the London
Geographical Society.
Receiver For Furnace Company.
Gadsden, Ala., Special. ? Capt. W.
P. Lay was appointed receiver for
the Quinn Furnace Company, the ap
pointment being made at the instiga
tion of local creditors, whose claim
amounts to between $G,000 and $7,
000. It is stated that New York
bondholders will bo consulted before
it is decided to file a petition in bank
ruptcy.
There is little danger of high fl
nr.:ic? becoming too honest. There
If I'.ttle danger of rich offenders be
ing too uniformly, too unfailingly, too
severely punirhed. Even if there
were, insists the New York World,
and even if a Wall street panic were
the result, it would he far less dis
astrous than the indefinite continu
ance of unfair competition and the* Il
legal exp'.oitaticn of the people.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
District Attorney Jerome an
nounce* that he Is tired of pubUo
lire.
Admiral Dewey celebrated his sev
entieth birthday, naval officers re
peating the President's toast In his
honor.
Andrew Carnegie has added the
sum of $2,000,000 to the $10,000,
000 endowment fund of the Carnegie
Institution.
1 Signor Gianturco, Minister of Pub
lic Works. Is dead In Rome. -He is
rae fifth colleague whom Prime Min
ister Glolltti has lost through death
or lllneBs.
Alfred Q. Vanderbllt gave $100.*
000 to the Y. M. C. A. of Newport,
R. I., to erect a new building as a
memorial to his father, Cornelius
Vanderbllt. ,
General T. S. Harrison, Consul
General at Cairo. E?ypt, during Mc
Klnley's administration, wps sued
for $10,000 by T. 13. Wbitmarsli, me
chanical engineer. ,
Charles G. Dawes, president of the
Central Trust Company of Illinois,
and former Comptroller of the Cur
rency, will quit banking and finance
to become a composer of music.
Professor Edward W. Morley, of
Hartford, has received notice from
Sir Rayleigh, president of the Roynl
Society of London, that he has heen
awarded the Davy Medal for his ser
vices to science.
Thomas W. Lawson, who visited
the White House, announced thnt he
was forming a party to force a third
term on President Roosevelt, with
Governor Johnson, of Minnesota, as
his running mate.
Colonel John Jacob Astor has just
spent $250,000 for a private club
house on his Hudson river estate,
where his guests may play tennis as
well protected from the weather as
they are in the indoor courts of the
racket club in New York.
Reception at White House.
Washington, Special. ? President
Roosevelt received at the White
House for the seventh time a New
Year's throng of well-wishers which
was three hours in passing his hanci.
Mrs. Roosevelt and the members and
ladies of the Cabinet were his assist
ants. Though curtailed in number,
5,045, by more than a thousand over
the preceding New Year's Day, the re
ception was resplendent in all the in
cidents of tradition which have ac
cumulated to its interest for mow
than a hundred years.
When t'ne navy ?:ets that alrsUlp
fle<H the pet narv.e for the sailormen
who "lay aloft" In the new cr:i f t will
probably be Jack Stars, observes th?
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