The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, June 25, 1891, Image 1
Vol. 5.
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A Maiden's Conspiracy,
BY 8111 III.KY BROWNE.
4<Oh, El wood, I thouglit you cured
for wi^l"
Fancy Ferrars was certainly a
^ very pretty girl. And, as a picture
looks more beautiful than ever in a
choice and sumptuous frame, so
lOunAv'u ??*wl -1..-1- - - " 1 A -
i ??uv>j o uuii|nvo anu uarK inciting ;
eyes appeared to especially good ad- J
vantage as she sat on the old mossy
stile, with a background of summer
woods, with her white muslin apron
full of buttercups, and eat wild
strawberries from a twisted leaf,
pinned together by a thorn! Elwood
Hariotl looked up at her with
\a strong, deep pain at his heart.
f "What difference does it make,
Fancy," he said, stooping to recover
one of the buttercups which had
slipped from her treasures, "whether
1 care for you or not. Our careers
are both sealed. We have not
the alternative, like other young people
of choosing for ourselves. 1
have been engaged to Miss Farquhnr
since 1 was sixteen. You are
the promised wife of another
man!"
"But how can 1 be expected to
love a perfect stranger?" pouted Fan
cy, picking bits of gold-grcen moss
off the old stone wall. "Perhaps he
is forty years old. Perhaps he lias
got the gout. Or, may be, lie's as
jealous as Bluebeard!"
"lie will, without doubt be a good
husband to you Fancy, if you train
yourself to love him," said Mr. Harriott.
"Oh nonsc/wel" cried Fancy,
Hinging all the yellow buttercups to
the ground, and following them
with one of themostagile of springs.
"Can I train my hair not to curl?
Or my eyes to be any color but
brown? But 1 see how it is.^ You're
in love withAer!"
Mr. Hariott was silent.
"Is sbe nice?" said Fancy, pleadingly.
"I mean Miss Farquhar, the young
lady to whcm you are signed?sealed?everything
bu? delivered! Is
she beautiful as Cleopatra?learned
as Madame de Stael?"
"As for her learning, I am scarce
ly fitted to speak," said Mr. Hariott
slowly. "As to her beauty?you
shall judgo for yourself."
With a curious smile he took from
his pocket a photograph in a velvet
case and opened it. A round, fatuous
face seemed to stare up in Fancy
Ferraris eyes?a wi do-mouthed,
expressionless, Hat countenance with
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nun i eyes Bet very wiue apart, ami
liair plastered down over the forehead
after the latest hideous fashion.
"Why!" cried Fancy, involuntarily,
"she looks like a maid-servant!
One would imagine, El wood, that
you were going to marry your own
cook!"
He ami led'sadly. Fancy looked
at'him with grieved, troubled eyes.'
"Elwood," said she, "you don't
love this girl. You can't love her.
'Why don't you write to her and tell
her so? If she has half a woman's
heart within her breast she will never
hold you to your bargain."
"There it is," said El wood Harriott?"it
is not my bargain. When
I was a boy at school, my father
made this compact with old General
Farquhar. That it was nothing more)
titan a bargain I do not deny. I am
perfectly aware that at the time the
general lent my father a large sum
of money, the 'I O IP for which
was found in his desk, canceled, after
his death. And J, as a gentleman
and a man of honor, can only
ratify his compact."
"You are a perfect Don Quixote,"
cried Fancy. "Elwood, look here.
t>ur stories are somewhat similar. I
too, was bargained away in my childhood,
but I am not such an unresisting
victim as you seem inclined to
be! I don't mean to marry an unknown
hero. I prefer?"
And here she stopped short, looking
infinitely mischievous, and at the
same time confused.
"Ffttiftf." said Tfarrinti. nooui/m.
ately, "you most not tempt me thus!
Wo have dreamed a summer idyl together,
but we must dream no more.
1 am going on to Montreal next
week to meet?Miss Farquhar?"
"And to marry her?" gasped Fancy.
CONWi
"To marry her?of course," he J
he gravely assented. "And when we
meet again,Fancy, our lots will have
widely diverged. Hut wo shall" always
be dear friends; is it not so?
Fancy had turned her face away.!
lie took her hand, still fragrant with
the delicious odor of the wild strawberries,
and pressed his lips to it
once. And, before she could command
her voice to call him back he
was gone.
"lie does lovo me," she said to
herself. "Lot hint say what he will,
ho loves me. All, Miss Frances j
Farqnhar, you are welcome to yom* j
Quixotic lover. As long as 1 havoj
nis heart, yyu are kindly welcome to 1
all the rest."
Fancy walked slowly back to the J
hotel where her old aunt was already
beginimiing to revel in dreadful apprehensions
as to forest quagmires,
mad bulls, bloody-minded tramps
and ratttlesnakos.
"Aunt Keturah," she said abruptly,
"I'm tired of these stupid old
woods ami lields. Lets go somewhere
else."
Aunt Keturah started.
"Why," said she, "I thought you >
were enjoying yourself so much!"
"So I have been," said Fancy, indifferently.
"But one tires of even
(hat Garden of IJenomeer after!
awhile. 1 think, Keturah, that 1 '
should like to go to?Montreal!"
Aunt Keturah sighed softly. Ilerj
room at the Glen Hotel were ex - 1
ceedingly comfortable, with a view ;
of old Mount Washington in tho t
purple distance; and a snug spring j
mattress on the bed. Moreover, the
attendance was excellent and they
had a way of stewing brook-trout in
claret wine which Delmonico's self
could not excel, and the. soups and
pubs were ui.appioaohable. And
Aunt Keturah, like most Indies in
the sixties, laid a great deal of stress
on the comfortable things of this
world.
"I don't suppose the hotels in
Montreal can compare with these,"
she said, "lint, of course, Fancy, 1
am only acting as your chaperon. 1
must do just as you please."
"Well, Aunt Keturah, don't look j
so martyrized," said the girl, gavly.
"1 would just as soon go alone if?"
''Alone!" echoed the old lady,
dropping her spectacle case in her
dismay. "You! A girl of eighteen
Hitting around the country all alone!
Why, I should expect your poor
dear papa to rise up out of his grave
nnd haunt me if 1 net m it ted such a
thing Certainly not, Fancy ! Where
you go, I go, whether it suits my
ideas or not!"
"A regular ltuth and Naomi business,
eh! said Fancy, merrily. "Well,
dear Aunt Keturah, don't despair I
shall not always be larking around
like this, I do seriously intend to
settle down, some day."
"I'm glad to hear it," groaned
Aunt Keturah.
I "But, in the meantime," persisted
j Fancy, "I have a most unconquera
! ble desire to see?Montreal."
Mr. El wood Harriott had been in j
the antique Canadian city for three!
days. He had visited the Gray Nun- ;
nery, sketched various ''points of interest
on the mountain, listened to
the music at Notre Dame, and walked
on the ancient quay by moonlight!
?and he was beginning to be rather;
tired of- narrow streets, musty old
houses, and the shrill chatter of the
Canadian French tradespeople, when,!
one night, as he reached his hotel, j
lie loumt ii note aw lilting liitn?Miss
Turquhar's card, with the nddress,
"Tai lor Mo. 7, St. Lawrence I full!"
lie drew a long hreath. "My fate
is upon 1110 at, last,'* he said, shrugging
his shoulder. "Goodbye,
sweet dreams of beautiful Taney,
smiling in the woods?good-bye,
vague glimpses of what might have
been I"
Tor El wood Harriott was one of!
those mrn m'ixe# in these modern j
days, a man of honor. And he fully
intended to sacrilice his heart upon
the altar of filial love and reverence,
a last tribute to Ins beloved father's
memory, let it cost him what it
might!
He went to St. Lawrence Hall,
feeling like one in a dream, and was
shown up to Parlor No. 7, a luxuriant
little apartment, draped in Titian
red, and fragrant \yith the smell of
the bowls of roses which were placed
here and there on gilded tripods.
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m .
"lie True to ) *ou
LY, 8. O.^T
Ami, as he waited. one of the /??
tie res was lifted, and a slender figure
glided in.
"Fancy!1" lie cried, springing to
his feet.
"Yes, Fancy,'1 said she, brightly.
"Area t you glad to see me? Don't
look over my shoulder, as if you expected
to see some ghost it. the background.
There is none their."
"Hut Miss Fnr<iuhnr!" he exclaimed
"I am Miss Karquhar," said Fancy
"Did von never suspect it. No oik;
ever culled me Frances. Fancy lias
always been my pet name and if I
choose to call myself Forrars instead
of Farqulmr for a few days, just, for
a joke it isn't a stateVprison offense.
"The?the photograph!" guspod
Khvood Harriott, feeling as if his
head were in a whirl.
"It was the porter's daughter?at
the lodge, you know," said saucy
Fancy. "I borrowed one of her pictures.
1 wanted yon to dig'iko Miss
Fare pi liar heartily. I wasn't satisfied
with your liking Fancy Forrars!"
"I did not like Iter," said Klwood,
gravely. "1?loved her! And I love
her still, in spite of all this net-work
of strategem that she has woven
around ine!"
She put both her hands in his.
"Dear Klwood," she said, "1 havo
told yon already that I love you,
But that isn't nil. 1 respect you also.
I honor you, because you would
not allow yourself to be warped from
the path of duty, even by the girl
you loved! And" her face suddenly
changing, "von are sure von lore me.
even though 1 have deceived yon?"
"Quito sure," said El wood, tenderly
infolding her in his arms. "My
Fancy?niv little, capricious, loving
fairy!"
So they were married, and lived
happy over afler. And Fancy kept
her promise to Aunt Keturah?she
"settled down" at last.
X?W York FasliiuiiN,
Shade Hats?Watering IMaee
Cost nines- Independent Waists
-Notes ami Answers.
The Gypsy is a shade hat which
promises to be very popular both for
ladies and children and with undulating
brim presents a contrast to
other shapes that are almost universally
turned up at; the hack from
whence the floral trimming falls over
the low crown. Neapolitan, fum y
braid or Leghorn arc the kinds of
straw most popular, hut in rivaliv
conic shirred hats of lace or silk or
cotton mull, the two former finished
with flowers and the latter by very
tine white embroidery. Both kinds
of inu'l are in white and pretty
shades of pink, bine, heliotrope, pale
yellow, gray or crimson. Sailor
hats are an annual visitation, but
the sailor is distanced this year by
an ofFshot of itself called the "Vassal-,''
that, with a similar brim, has a
very low crown trimmed by a band
and always an upright finish such
as an aigrette loops a feather, on the
left side.
WATKKJNO IMiACK COSTUMK.S
are being made of printed mouseline
do soie, that shows pretty floral
figures and is so sheer that it must
be worn over silk of which last,
changeable taffeta is most popular.
Embroidered crepe de Chine is anoth
er beautiful fabric showing a wide
floral foot border natural colors with
corresponding garniture for waists
and sleeves while very small blossoms
are embroidered in the interval,
and at less cost, crepon prettily
embroidered on tiny flowers or
sprays, is without the borders. New
lace dresses are made of veiling net,
cither black or white over silk and
while not durable, will last l?>ng
enough for gay butterflies of fashion
and is correspondingly inexpensive.
Charming dresses for party wear,
are made of light, plain fabric over
silk to which it is attached by small
llowers sot at int rvals. This is a
lively idea and a dress of white chiffon
over white taffeta bestrewn with
pink rose buds has been just made
Up for a young member of the Astor
family; her sister having line pink
net over surah to match, furnished
with white buds. There i.? a rage
for
lXl>r.PKNi>ENT WAISTS
chiefly blouse or Norfolk, in cotton
cheviot, percale or light <piality silk
in stripes or dots and to such an extent
is the idea carried, that the sale
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HUHBDA]
! of jerseys 1ms never been so limited I
as this season. Shirt fronts worn >
over waists ami with completion of
| vests and jaunty little jackets, are,
much lik"d bv young ladies and *f- !
feet the masculine. 1 u and collar 1
] complete the defiant imitation. J
NOTKS \ N I) A Ns\\ K US.
Sleeves made of a material differ- i
cut. from the dress, are much more 11
stylish than of the same. This It
fashion has been taken advantuge of j <
I in t ho ronoviLt.iiiii of lmvt mil v u-oi-n .
'dresses. especial lv wools, that with ! <
' 1
fresh silk alcoves, touches of the i
I same on the waist ami a llounee or t
more n run ml the bot tom to match, ?
are easily given a Iwok of new I
ness. 1
la answer to special inqnirv on I
the subject, it may he repeated that. 1
Murray ami 1 aunmoifs Florida water ?
is undoubtedly among those who
have given thought to the subject i
the only choice. None other can t
possibly compare to it in the Moral t
fragrance that is concentrated in nil 1
'its freshness and purity. i
; "Mrs N ' Skirts are growing I
I wider at. the bottom while of ten re- f
j maining very narrow at the top and
! this effect may he given by success- 1
ive prolonged plaitings that extend \
! out hh they reach the lower edge. (
Thin fabrics ale now sometimes also <
, made with the fulness more evenly I
arranged and not a few show the <
1 gathers well on the sides and front, t
LUCY Cautku. i
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\l>st met of limit lily ICeportsof
( a |>(. I 'red e rick V. Al>l><*t, of ,
Work Done I>ni*iii ; tlie .
.uout n ot .11 ay, imm. ^
< 'ongarco liiv.r, S. Iloist.or
!
work was continu1 d between 20 and ;
21 inik'S above the mouth, roughly .
| (dealing elminu 1 (? depth of I and ,
width.of SO feet at low water. From j t
! tlw hanks 538 trees and '} cords ?>f \
i brush were cut, and from th? bed of
j the river 271 logs, SO stumps, 180,
! large snags and 10 cords of small j
snags were hoisted.
ltd is to Ifiver, IS. (Work on the ,
North fork was done between Or- j
angeburg Bridge and Howe's Bridge. |
From the banks 217 trees and 535 1 <
cords of brush wore cut, and from \
the bed of the river 120 logs, IS .
stumps, 85 large snags and lot |
cords of small snags were hoisted,
clearing channel to depth of 18 >
inches end width of <10 feet at low
water.
! Work on the South Fork was done I
^ j f
I between Hobnail's and li'iinaker'aI
j bridges, clearing channel 10 depth
of 12 inches and width of (JO feet at
low water. From tint banks 174
1 rees and 65 cords of brush were
cot, and from the bed of the river
100 logs, 61 stumps, 185 large snags
and 14 cords of small snags were ;
hoisted.
Great Pee Dee River, ft. C. Hoist j
or work was continued between 107i
and 124 miles above the mouth,
clearing channel to depth of 5 feet
and width of 80 feet at, low water t
j From the lnvt.ks 338 trees and 1
j cords of brush were cut, and from j
the bed of the river 168 logs, 0!'
i stumps, and 66 large snags were
i hoisted.
Harbor at Charleston, ft. (!. Mr.
J.Incob Friday continued work under
j both of his contracts. Under the
50,000 ton contract depositing 2,064
ton-of rip-rap inside of the Main j
i ft hi]) Channel, and 1,561 tons on the!,
iouter end of the South Jetty. Fu-i.
;tier his 60,000 ten contract bode ,
1 posited 4,444 b us of rip-rap on the1
j North Jetty, between 8,300 and
8,000 fcot from the shore end.
: ! '
Two thousand live hundred and
fourteen t<?i of 1 ip r (p were dep< i 1
fed on the North Jelly, by II. S. ,
plant and hired labor, oetween 7,000'1
j unit ?,uuo ]w i I rou i LI if* shore end. j
(Two thousand live hundred and
!eleven tons o: rip-rap was shipped i
: from the 1'. S. Quarry near Kdgo j
. field.
j The lew (love, iinient dredge
j building at New York was nearly (
icoiiij le'ed at the end of the month '
and was expected to ho ready for
trial about the middle of dune.
Little Lee bee Niver, S. C. bolster
work was continued between 22
and 25 miles above the mouth, clearing
channel to depth of it and width
of 40 feet at low water. From the '
banks 271 trees and 121 cords ofj
brush wore cat, and from the bed ofi
the river 180 logs, 78 stumps, 105'
r (1ountrtf"
s\ >11 I NK ;
large snags and'J! cords of small
mags with hoisted.
Lumber River, N. (1. it S. S.
II??i.ster work was continued between
iM and I miles above the month,
roughly clearing channel to do|?th of
it and width of 40 feet at low water.
I'Yotu the banks 32V trees and l.'R
rords of brush were cut, and from
he bed of the river 145 logs, 5!
itumps, 00 large snags and 21 cords
jf small snags were hoisted.
Mingo('reek, S. tRoister work
xmuinieu oeiween 11 ami 7 inilos
ihovc the month, quite thoroughly
bearing channel to depth of 1 ami
10 feet at low water. From the
Dunks 710 treses ami 43 cords of
tiriuh were cut, and from the bed of
he creek 58 logs, 54 stumps, 50
urge snags and 1.5 cords of small
mags were hoisted.
Sulakhatchie Fiver, S. C. Work
ivas done between Toby's HInIT and
die (J. ?!i S. Kail road bridge. From
ho banks lb") trees and 2fl cords of
irnsh were cut, and from the bed of
he river 18 logs, 21 stumps, 15
large snugs ami { cord of small
mags were hoisted.
Waccatnaw Fiver, X. & S. (! i
tloistcr work was coutintied between
hi and 081 miles above the mouth,
deal ing channel to depth of 3 and
a id Hi of 4(1 feet at low water.
From the bank 809 trees and Id
ords of brush were, cut, and from
lie channel 282 logs, 110 stumps,
>8 large snags and I cord of small i
mags were hoisted.
Waimoo ('tit,. S. ('. The d red ire!
- ?O I
:ou tractor continued wojk removing
i:,d it limping 1,102 cubic yards ??f |
ma ei i d, completing lii.s contract. ,
This contract was completed on1
die .'ill of the month, the total
nnoie i. of material removed and
'iicpi'il being '12,21 1 cubic yards,
l;ivia channel all the way through
in" to about 30 feet wide and not
k s ( ban u feet deep.
VVateree River, S. 0. Roister
work was continued between 27 and
11 miles above the mouth, clearing
iihannel to depth of 4 and width of
SO feet at low water. From the
banks 100 t rees and 0 cords of brush
wore cut, and from the bed of the
mi logs, 10 stumps, 1GG large snags
md d'{ cords of small snags were
hoisted.
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riii<: i?urposi<: or urn dim x
.MeLANIOS hATIiST POL1TCAL
DEAI,
A Itoston Newspaper Alleges
Hint 111? Republicans oi that
< 'ily Raised a Corrupt ion Fund
liiist Year "lo Aid ?he Alliance
of South Carolina to ISrcuk up
i lie Democratic Party."
M. mi,.hi ('ominercial,
The Boston Traveller makes thoj
lisgracefnl confession that the Re- j
publicans of that city last year raised
a corruption fund?of how much
it docs not stale?to aid the Aliiunco
of South Carolina to break up
the I )eniocra!io party, and it states
that. I'iilman's election was due to
[hit1 fund, and also the defeat of
\\ ; dc I lampion and t.lie election of
Irhy to the United States Senate.
This fund, the Traveller says, was
subscribed ''to break up a tyrranicullv
solid South" and ruin the
"regular Democratic organisation."
This effort, however, as our readerknow
was u failure. The result of
the eleetion in South Carolina was
merely to turn out one set of Demo :
[natund put another in, ncvorthel(
I lie I ?osl on Kcpnblicans, the I
Traveller says, are going to try the j
Ti\ . f a second oorrnptio.i fund.;
1 lies believe in the vulgar saving
that iOMiioy r. I : I hey b?diev< ' hat
money will buy Drinocruts in South
i arolina. away from their principles,
that ihe conscientious convictions of
the. fanners of that S'nte are to be
purchased as openly and as easily
us the rice they raise or the cotton.
They believe that the Democrats of
South Carolina are a lot of vulgarians
to whom a dollar is more than
principle, ami they have hired J.
Ilendrix Me Lane, of Columbia, in
that Stab*, to act as their agent and
buy voters, to act as their broker and
tempt men away from the path of
rectitude and honor, away front the
standards of honorable dealing and
and honorable life and living, and
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sell themselves, sell their votes in
order that the purposes may be -iecomplished
of these infamous and
dishonored Republicans of Huston ,
who set a money value on everything
and believe that every man, espec
iullv and particularly the Alliance
men of South Carolina, have their
price, and a small one at that.
According to the Traveller, "much i
more extended preparations are bei?g
made for the next campaign in
South Carolina under the skilful
leadership of Kx-Uovernor Long at
he Boston end of the line, and of
.1. Ileudrix McLanc, of Columbia,
S. C., at the othev end." Boston is
to supply the money, the Government
at Washington "the influence,"
and Mr. McLanc the voters. "Mr.
Me Lane's Alliance tendencies," says
the Traveller, "Would shock his
Boston associates under ordinary
circumstances, but they are willing to
join hands with him and tolerate
the crudities of the Alliance to beat
the Democrats. Those Boston moralists
believe that while Republicanism,
'pure and simple/ will never
prove acceptable to the Southern
Democracy, their organization can
easily be disintegrated by some other
political force like that of the Alliance."
Mr. McLanc, wo are informed,
has been in Boston, "and will
take with him a generous contribution
from that city for the organization
of political clubs."
But what has the Alliance of South
Carolina to say to this? Were they
or any of them, its members, privy
to the distribution of tin; fund by
which Tillman and Irby succeeded
in uercating the gallant old soldier,
Wndo I lampion, and driving liim
oil!, of political lite? What had
the Alliance to do with this fund?
And is it, let its ask, a part of the
tactics of the Allianco of South Carolina
to lend itself to the corrupt
purposes of these villanously corrupt
and persistent?y corrupt Republicans
of lioston ? Is it a part of the tactics
of the Alliance of South Carolina
to deliver that State to the Republicans
and to break up the Deni
ocratio party, which has stood like a
stone wall between the people of
that Suite and the thieving, robbing
and plundering party, whose negro
j Legislature left so indelible a mark
of its ignorance and c.?pidity in the
additions it made to the State debt?
And is this corrupt deal with the
lioston Republicans by the Alliance
people of South Carolina to become
general? Is it to be u general policy
with the Alliances in the other,
or any of the other, Southern States?
These are questions that every Deni
ocrat will now lie asking, and they
are questions that every Democrat in
the South will he justified in asking.
The News and Courier comments
as follows on the above:
A NIC"' 8LANDKK AltOUT TILLMAN.
"The lioston Traveller tells an us-!
touiulnig story about the New Kng 1
land Republicans and the South |
Carolina Alliance men which will)
,,nl Iw. unnanC.wl Iihia ! > ?LSo ......4
| IlUt IJ\, in I l|V> III tlUQ |*U? I I
I of the country. The Traveller in u;
i Republican newspaper and has always
been very near to the cousci-(
ence. of tin? party and an active ad !
; visor in all its political councils, j
We have not seen the full text, of'
the story but the article from the j
.Meni])hi.s Commercial, which wv |
publish elsewhere today, gives Its)
main points.
"Briefly stated, the Traveller charges
that the Republicans of Boston raised
a corruption fund 4to aid the Al
liaiice of South Carolina to break up
the I>euiocratic party;' that Till j
man's election as Governor ami Irby'si
election < the Senate were uccomp j
lisl.ini b\ the use of this fund ; that,'
j the Boston Republicans contributed)
! , . . . .1 !
tins money ro 'ruin tnr regular.
Democratic o-gainzation,* and that
the experiment of buyers in South i
! Carolina was so successful last year j
that the Boston KVpublicuns have
gone to work to raise a larger cor- J
j ruptiou fund for use in the cantp- j
! aign next year. This new corrup
tion fund is to be entrusted to Hendrix
McLane, who has been hired to
place it where it will do the most!
good. As the Memphis Commercial \
! puts it : 'Boston is to supply the:
t money, the government at Washing- J
j ton the 4 "influence" * and Mr. Mc- j
1 I*une the voters.1 To quote again i
from our Memphis cotempoinrv, the
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'infamous ami dishonest Republicans
of Boston set a money Taluoon every \
thing and believe that every man,
especially and particularly the Alliance
men of South Carolina, have
their price and a small one at that.'
' The charges made by the Boston
Traveller are simply outrageous. It
is doubtless true that McLane has
collected money from his New Eng
luml <111 pen, hot it is certain that no
part of the fund he collected wns
employed by the inen who managed
or took part in the 'movement' in
South Carolina last year.
"The Commercial asks: 'What had
the Alliance to do with this fund ?'
VN'e have no knoweldge or information
upon the subject, but knowing
the farmers of South Carolina as we
do know them, and blieving (Irmly
in their integrity, we answer without
four of contradiction, or challenge
that the Alliance had nothing to do
with this fund. We do not believe
that Tillman or Irby or Shell or any
of the other leaders of the 'Movement'
received, or would have accepted,
a dollar from the Boston Republicans,
for tho purpose of running
the regular Democratic organization.
The methods pursued by
tliem in the campaign were irregular
and undemocratic, but whatever
their methods they were permitted
by tho Democratic authorities and
the light was made within the lines
of tho party. We do not believe that
there was a dollar of Republican
money employed in the campaign or
thai a single Alliance vote wa*
hnixrht nr milil fi?r mi ah < ?? fb<?
iso of cash, There were doubtless a
grout many ante-election promises of
official position and many political
combinations, but it is a vile slander
to May that money was used at the
polls in the purchase of voters.
"There is an easy way, however, to
test the truth of the Boston Traveller's
story, if there bo any grain*of
truth in it. Who raised the corruption
fund which the Traveller al- ?/
leges to have been used in South
Carolina last year? Who contributed
to it, who paid it out, to whom
was it paid, and for what purpose or
purposes was it expended ? There
ought to be letters and receipts and
reports to show exactly where the
money camo from and where it went.
Let the Traveller publish these facts
and give an itemized account of the
operations of the Boston corruptionists,
or else stand convicted of deliberate
falsehood. We have 110 doubt
that Governor Tillman and Senator
Irby will speak out for themselves
against the miserable slander of Itendrix
McLane's Boston organ.
"The statement that a larger corruption
fund is to be raised in Boston
for use in South Carolina in the
next election will doubtless open the
eyes of the white people of the State
to the desperate game McLane. is
playing. We would not give much
for his skin if he should repeat before
an audience of South Carolina
farmers the stories which he has told
about them among the slack twisted
moralists of Boston.
Wlien Von (lioosv a Wito.
Boys, when you choose a wife look
out for these two or three things. Is
her hair nice, sweet, and kissable
looking? Are her dresses neat and
nice around the edges, and what
about the inside edge of the white
skirt: Oh, dear, yes; you arc sure to
see it. some time?when she
steps into a car, or out of anjoninibus.
When she gives yon a letter to "just
post this for n?e," is it stamped?
Oli, hut girls are unscrupulous about
stumps! Is she on time, ami with
gloves on, for tiie theater or eon cor t
to which you take her? How alKinr
the the luce in the neck of her drew?
<>h. you want to notice these things
when you think ot marrying.?Ex.
A CiirioiiM Apache He! let'.
The Apache Indian's religious belief
presents them from committing
murder in the dark. If a dozen
Apaches should liscover a man
sleeping hy his camp Are at night,
110 ambunt of money could hire them
to atttack him before the sun came
up. They believe that if they kill
a man at night thcii own souls will
walk in darkness forever. Knowing
this curious superstition, hnnters,
trappers, scouts and others traveliftc
through the Apache natio"
about at night, and laj^L
safe retreat during