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A SADIIFt MOKY HOW A BEAUTIFUL LOVE SOXG CAME TO BE WRITTEN. Tho True Story of "Loreim," One of I the Most Popular StMigs of Its Day, and "Paul Vane." We print beiow a true, but very ead love story of tne long ago: Tho years creep slowly by, Lorena, The snow is on the grass again; a,,,,',, i?w rlown the sky. Lorena, I ur ouu o iv? ? ? ? . The frost gleams where the flowers have been. Hut the heart throbs on as warmly now As when the Summer days were nigh, The sun can never dip so low Adown affection's cloudless sky. A hundred months have passed, Lorena, fllnco last I held that hand In mine; And felt that pulse beat fast, Lorena, Though mine beat faster far than thine. A hundred months, 'twas flowery May, When |up the hilly slope wc climbed, To watch the dying of the day And hear the distant church-bells chime. We loved each other then, Lorena, More than we ever dared to tell; And what -we might have been, Lorena, Had hut our loving prospered well! Hut. ah 'tis past, the years are vone, We'll not call up their shadowy forms; We'll say to them: "Lost years, sleep on, Sleep on, nor heed life's pelting storms." The story of the past, Lorena, Alas! I care not. to repeat; The hones that could not last, Lorena. They lived, hut only lived to cheat, I would not cause e'en one regret To rankle in your bosom now ? 'For if we try, we may forget," Were words of thine long years ago. Yes, these words of thine, Lorena? They are within my memory yet ? They touched some tender chords, Lorena, Which thrill and tremble with regret. *Twag not thy woman's heart which spoke? Thv hpnrt wns nlw.avs true to me: A duty stern and piercing broke The tie which linked my soul with thee. It matters little now, Lorena, The past is with the eternal past; Our heads will so on lie low, Lorenn, Life's tide is ebbing out so fast. But there's a future, Oh, thank God! Of life this is so small a part ? 'Tis dust to dust beneath the sod, But there up there 'tis heai.t to heart. ? Rev. II. I). L. Webster. One of the most popular of American sentimental songs is "Lorenn," and almost equally so its companion. "Paul Vane; or Lorena's Reply." The sad story told in the words of this song is a true episode of human life and human love. During the Civil War it was sung everywhere? in parlors, in concerts, on the street and in camps. It. was equally popular in the South as In the North. In portraying the fate of two lovers It is emotional to a hi"h degree, and In its truly pathetic tone, perhaps, its chief charm lies. It was so popular during the dark days of the war that, a steamer on the Ohio river was named Lorenn. engines on the Western roads were called Lorena, and many mothers called their daughters Boronn out of sentiment for this favorite sone. The author of "Lorena." Henry de Bnfavette Webster, was horn in Oneida county, New York, in 182 1. , Ills father, v.*nr. lineal descendant of John W?"d)?ter, who was Colonial governor of Con* norncnt in t ?<.?<> ami ini'-r. nonrv vas tbo youngest child in a faml'v of five daughters and three sons, lie died In Chicago on November ?> 1890. In I8?S his father move 1 tr I.oain eountv, Ohio, and located about three miles south of K1ynrt whore lie worked for nianv years al bis trade, that of black smith. The author's onpert unit ies for ae quiring an education were limited and as lie grew in verirs he was ?'e quired to do Ills share toward tin support of the family, so that fell In? trees and work In the forest was perhaps, his best aecomplishtnent. Hut. he was studious and in spi1 of his limited opportunities, even tunllv had acquired suffleient know) edge to teneli school. Later, thronel hard work in a store and as a tutor he was able to pav bis way throu?! the collegiate institution In Oolum bus, O. He thon read law until hi attention was attracted to some the ologleal dlseussion. This led bin to investigate the subject, with th result that bo soon avowed himsol a Universalist, laid aaide the ia\ and prepared himself for the minis try. In the year 1848, being then 24 years of age, and full of poetry and romance, he was enjoying his first pastorate In Zanesville, O. His leading parishioner was a wealthy manufacturer, whose residence was upon one of the hills which surrounded that smoky town. The house was about half a mile out, and the eminence upon which it was seated was the one referr ?d to In the song: " 'Twas flowery May When up the hilly slope we climbed." There lived In this family a young sister of the manufacturer's wife, who was the leading singer in the choir. She was 19 yearB of age, small of stature, had blue eyes and light hair, and was not only a sweet sinver, but she was as full of romance as her pastor, and they soon became very much attached to one another. Their loving, however, did not "prosper well," for the family was proud and aristocratic, and had higher ideals for^ the girl than to have her marry a poor preacher. As she was dependent upon them for a home, she was compelled to yield to their counsel, and the lovers were obliged to give each other up. It war, hnwpvpr. the strong will and proud a pi r i t of the sister, more than the opposition of the brotherin-law, that separated them, or rather that kept Lorena from marrying Webster. The minister saw her for the last time at her home, learned of her sister's unconquerable opposition, heard his fate, and took a quiet but painful farewell, very little being said. That night she wrote him a letter, in which she used the words, so well remembered by those familiar with the song: "If we try we may forget." The effect of the separation was to crush the young man, and, writing J to a friend 2(5 years after the oc| rurrenee, ho said : "I doubt if even to this day all I dirk lines are erased from my j heart." | Ho resigned his pastorate and sought another field, smothering his pain under hard study and work. And the only sign of that pain the world ever saw was the heart-cry in the song of "Lorena." In 1 856 Rev. Webster was residing In Racine, Wis. where he met .1. P. Webster, the composer, who, though of the same name, was not related to him. They soon became very intimate, J. P. Webster was doing considerable writing of music, but had trouble finding appropriate words for songs, j The Rev. Mr. Webster told him he would write him the words for a song and In two days he produced one entitled "Bertha," a mere fancy name. When the composer came to set the music he wanted a name of three syllables, accented on the second, and the author made up the name "Lorena." The young lady who called out the words of this sentimental song was not Lorena, nr?r Pertbn but P1b? l<~!ln IUnr'W<;nm I Tho "Lorena" of the song later marr'ed Judge \V. W. Johnson of Ironton, Ohio, a member of the supreme court, of the State. Mr. Webster subsequently married and lived j in Xeenah, Wis., where he became ,the editor of a local paper. because "Lorena" became popular during the war many people were ' under the impression that it was composed during that period. The, early copies, however, hear the in- j scription, "Rntored according to act of congress, 1 Sf)7." The song was a groat favorite with (Jon. John H. Magruler and probably got into the army from his headquarters in the Peninsula in 1 802. The tune was a plaintive one and easily within tho capacity of the ' average amateur and this added to i i t ? unmilnril v j VU 11 J I Little less ;i favorite than "Loi rena" was the heroine's reply, en! titled "Paul Vane," and the history : of the first sons would hardly he completo without the words of the , second. Paul Vane. The years are creeping slowly by, dear Paul, The Winters come and go; The wind sweeps past with mournful cry, dear Paul, And pelt mv face with snow. 1 Rut there's no snow upon the heart, dear Paul; 'Tis Summer always there; 1 Thoro early loves throw sunshine over all, And sweeten mem'ries dear. ,'I thought It easy to forget, dear , ! Pa til; I.ifo grow'd with youthful hope; ' The glorious future gleamed |yet, . t dear Paul, i And bade us clamber up. ^ j They frowning said "It must not? ran noi do; \ Preak now the hopeless bands!" And Paul, you know how well that bitter day y i bent to their commands. I've kept you ever In my heart, dear Paul, n I Thro' years of good and ill; t Our souls could not be torn apart dear Paul, i They're hound together still. . ; I never knew how dear you wore tc h . n,e Till I was left alone; s I thought my poor, poor heart wouh break the day n They told me you were gone. (* f Perhaps we'll never, never meet v dear Paul, Upon this earth again; # VHKY PHCUIJAK CASK. Young Woman Swallows Llzzards and Slowly IMes. A llvo lizzard, six inches In length, and the head of another llzzard was discovered in the stomach of Miss Lovio Herman, 19 years old, who died early Friday ir.orning at her home at Akron. Cleveland physicians and surgeons are interested In the case and a number of them will attend the post mortem examination to be held at Akron. Miss Tlorman had been I'll a year from a disease which had puzzled many specialists. Last Monday the attending physicians succeeded in bringing from the girl's stomach tho live lizzard and the head of the second one but too late to save her life. The family formerly lived near MiVrrsburg, O., and drank apring water. It is supposed the girl swallowed the lizzards when small, while drinking and that they gradually grew and killed her. BUY AN WILL BE THERE. Will Re Imitetl to Attend the Haiti inoro Mooting. Plana for the Democratic conference to be held In Baltimore on Jan. 17 to frame plans for the course of Democratic efforts during the next two years were discussed at a conference at Washington on Monday, participated in by Senators Smith and Rayner of Maryland, Gov. Harmon of Ohio and other leading Democrats. Gov. Harmon is expected to attend the Baltimore conference, as is Governor-elect Wilson of New Jersey and other national leaders of fhe party. Senator Rayner said that an invitation certainly would be sent to William J. Bryan. Advance the Colors. We take the following from the last issue of The Commoner, owned and ed'ted by William J. Bryan: Belle.'ing that democrats do not desire to engage in a sham battle The Commoner confidently lays down those propositions: The .democratic party must he progressive. No Wall Street candidate can nope to noin trie (leiiiucrrtui: Democracy must go forward and meet present day problems boldly in the spirit of Jefferson and Jackson. The democratic victory of 1910 is the result of fourteen years of democratic tight for reforms. The party cannot retire now. It must go forward. We heartily agree with all Mr. Bryan says above. It would be suicidal for the Democratic party to adopt any other course In the next campaign. The'people have turned I to the Democratic party for relief, [and if the party fails them now, it I deserves and will be disastrously defeated. Advance the colors to the tiring line, and let every Democrat rally to them, and victory is sure. . Treat All Alike. Every now and again some of the large city dailies poke fun at the country press for their "Town Talk," or "Social Happenings" columns. Doubtless some of the items that co mto those columns are insignificant and puerile, but in what respect are the city dailies any better? Where any difference exisrs it Is usually in favor of the country papers, for with them there is less of paste and snobbishness. They insert Items concerning people in every walk of life and ! therefore are democratic in their atj titudo. I ? * Nearly all the fine colored postanals used in this country up to a Vw months ago were male In (ler| nany, but the duty imposed on them I ay the new tariff law now shuts 'hem out, and dealers are now coin)elled to pay a hifrher price for inferior cards made in this country. I Possibly this is one of the reasons i vhy Oermany has put a one dollar i >er ton tax on potash. I ? m * It was heralded all over the countv just before the election that : President Taft had appointed a Hos'on ne^ro to a very important otllee | n Washington. Now if is intimated 'hat his nomination will ho withtrawn, as the ollice to which he was ippointed will be unnecessary after rho present incumbent serves hi* I 'line out. At least that is what fTncle Joe Cannon says. Teddy has climbed hack on the irandpat Republican hand-wagon b\ araising President Taft in a public ?peoch, The Democratic landslide sp^ms to have sobered the great bins 'eror. ?? ^ ^ ? ? If the Fdisto project fails it wil not bo any fault of Mr. Lever. 11 < has boon on the job over since it was troposod, and is still on it. We hop* ho will vet win , Hut there where happy angels f reef clear Paul, You'll meet Lorona there. > Together up the shining way We'll press with hoping heart? Together thro' the bright eternal da; i And never more to part. While "Paul Vane" was not a melodious as "Lorena." yet in tin , old days where the words of the on was found In the home the othc invariably was also found. ' MILLIONS INVtSTLD LAIIGB INCKKASK IN NKW CAPITAL IN THIS STATK. Total Amount for TIiIh Year is Over j $11,000,000 According to Figures Prepared by Secretary of State. One million dollars represents the approximate Increase In the amount ~e no.iitQi In new enterprises V/l . in this State for this year over 1909. Of the total amount invested in companies according to data prepared by U. M. YcCown, the secretary, the sum of $1 1,441,850 has been invested up to December 1. This has been invested in banks, mercantile companies, cotton mills, fertilizer plants, building and loan associations. The figures do not include railroads and increase of capital stock. The total amount invested last year was $10,824,000. The increase for last year were $7,000,000. Th's amount will be far exceeded durin? the present year. There was invested In railroads last year the sum of $1,350,000. A much larger amount has been put Into new roads this year. ! The present year has been one of the most prosperous in the history of the State and has been marked by the inauguration of many small industries. There has been especial activity in the fertilizer mill construction. A number of new banks imnn r-Tiirtorpfi in the smaller towns of the ?tate. j The great amount Invested in new enterprises was in Orangeburg county with $ 1 .fin0.000. The amount invested in Charleston was $1,0SO, 100. There was not a now companv char tore! in Kershaw countv. Richland lmd $082,000 with more to come. Dillon, a new county, has an encouraging amount. ] The following amounts have been invested in the various counties of the State: Abbeville $ 82.000 Aiken 252.000 I Anderson 102.8 0o Ramberg 22.000 1 Darn well 4 0,000 ! Reaufort 42.000 Berkeley 15,000 j Calhoun 7,500 Charleston l,0S0.1OO (Cherokee 05.000 Chester. . . . . 25,000 : Chesterfield 62,500 Clarendon 22.500 j Colleton 25,0 00 (Darlington 225,200 Dillon 105,000 Dorchester 82,500 Edgefield ' 22,000 Fairfield 22.200 Florence 117.150 Georgetown 240.000 f~l , n n n ? 11 1 r? 7 7 4 7 0 0 Greenwood 54 5,'oOG TTnmpton 2.? ooo "orrr 15.1.000 Korshiw I.oncnstor " 1M Mll l.aurons 1,130.inn r'pp 20.100 f.*vtnaton 74 noo Marlon 211.000 Marlboro .(fl ??? NVwborry 4, ??? "oofoe RJ;oon Ornnrphurg 1,05 0 000 432.000 niPhlnnd 932 000 15.000 Snortnnburg 718.500 S u m 1a r . . . . 21 2,500 TTnion 60 8.000 Williamsburg 148.000 i York 505,5 00 ? ?, Sri Fire to ;i flarn. Hon Hibbs, a negro, about 21 years old, Tuesday confessed that he sot fire fo the barn of W. H Martin, near Septus, Anderson county. Friday morning. The barn, with contents, was burned to the ground, entailing a loss of $8,000. The negro said he set the barn afire because .a son of Mr. Martin heat hftn. j The barn was about the largest in the county and cost $2,500, The barn eontnfned enncldrrable feedstuff Snuill I toy Killed on Kail. Arthur Miller, aged 18, son of Dora Miller, was run over and killed 1 about 9 o'clock Tuesday morning at C.astonia by the Southern switching ; engine, which was switching cars* a - short distance west of the York j street crossing. The boy's body was ; fearfully mangled, one arm and one leg being entirely severed from his body, and many bruises being sustained * j ^ ^ ^ i\ ii umj i rom a iihmisii, F. Kevin, a prominent merchant, , operating a general merchandise establishment two miles from Fori Mill, was shot from ambush about f o clock Monday afternoon, dying almost instantly. Xo cine as to the perpetrator is obtainable. Nevin wai shot from ambush and seriously in ' j in red h vr?-i r q Among the Missing. The steamer Arkadia, of the Nrv y York and Porto Ilico Navlgatloi (Company, has been added to the cat aloguc of "Missing Ships." 11 is sup 3 posed the Arkadia went down In tin a hurricane which swept the gulf atu a the Atlantic off the southern coas r last October. She was a 300 foo steel steamer. A New Cotton Compress. The world's progress during the past two centuries has been largely a history of labor-saving and timesaving inventions, says the Atlanta Journal. To this wonderful record another chapter has been added by the perfection of a cotton compress that reduces the size, improves the t quality and greatly economizes the 1 transportation cost of the cotton bale. It is called the Neeiy compress and, according to every indication, it means higher industrial advancement for all the south. A full * A L 1 - .. ... 11 ii mill. < description or tuns prrou lished in The Times and Democrat I several months ago. i Perhaps the most signal gain niado by this invention lies in the fact that it does away with recompressing. Under the old system the far- ( mer's wagon load of cotton must be < hauled to a ginnery, wnence after it had been ginned and loosely packed, it must be shipped by rail to a steam compress, frequently over a long distance, to be compressed again. Then it must take still another trip to the port. But under the Neely system, the wagon load of cotton 1b compressed at the ginnery itself. It comes forth ready for shipment to the remotest point in the world. | This, it is estimated, means a saving of not less than $5 to the bale for the cost of recom pressing and rehandling le wiped out, while the cost of rail freight, marine freight, bagging, tare and many other items is greatly reduced. In addition to this the new ginnery compress vastly improves the package in which cotton is shipped from the south. For long years the Amer- i icnn cotton bale has been a sore vex- I ation to the foreign market. At the J International Cotton congress, held I some years ago at Manchester, Fngit w:is declared: "The lOng- I lish, French and Gorman vocabularies have been ransacked in vain for words strong enough to denounce the American bale." The new ginnery compress satisfies this very need. The bale It turns out is rectangular in form and measures eighteen by thirty by fifty inches. With a density of thirty pounds per cubic foot, it Is so compressed that the bale Is freed from air .thus becoming well nigh impel vious to fire and water and proof a.'ainst the wear of transportation. It can girdle the globe and still bo in prime condition. Such a system means money saved for the farmer, the ginner, the carrier, the insurance companies and for the spinner. It. is of local Interest to note that this mechanism is the invention of a southern man, Mr. Samuel .VI. Neely, of Chester, S. C. Tariff For Kevcnue. No definite plan of tariff revision was arrived at at the conference in Washington Wednesday night between the Democratic members of the ways and means committee, the Democratic members of the Kentucky delegation, George Harvey of New York and Henry Watterson, according to a statement issued by Mr. Watterson Wednesday night. "Some brushwood was cot out of the way and a clearing made in the' labyrinth of confusion and misunlerstanding which always guard the approaches to the robber castle of J protectionism," said Mr. Watterson. lie declared that "tho principal ol . revenue opposed to the principle of | protection as the bedrock of whatever plan the ways and means committee of tho house would adopt" was the general idea of those present at the meeting-. He said that tentative committee on ways and means soon would confer with the newly elected members of the house and the work of collecting data, which "can not be obtained by the government and must be relegated to experts employed for the purpose" would bo begun at once. Weather Prophets. The season of winter is the golden >* riod of tiie year for tho weather rophots. To forecast the winter j venther seems to give even greater i satisfaction than the predicting of n early or late spring. The man j vho savs we are going to have an old fashioned winter," lie who says he winter will be open, and the j \ isencres who pin their faith on corn I usks, voose bones, flying birds and urry animals are all in their ele orit One thine Is oortnlr I 'hat when spring begins to dawn ev! eiybodv is agreed that the winter { was long enough and cold enough. Senator La Folette, the great Tnj *urgent Republican, gave out when j he reached Washington tho other lay that he had been operated oil luring the recess and cured of a trouble that had impaired his activities. When Crane, the stnndpat Republican Senator from Massachusetts heard this, ho threw up his lands and exclaimed: "Rood Lord! (f La Follette was sick all the time he was kicking up those rumpuses in the Senate the past three years, what ire we to expect now that he is well?" . . In putting a tax on potash of one lollar per ton, Germany is uiving the United States some of Its own medii line. The only trouble about the ax is that it falls principally on the farmers of the South, who suffer as much as the Germans do from the 1 iperatlons of the tariff on which they t ire retaliating by putting this tax t en potash. Thus it Is the farmers are robbed coming and a-going. Flkt5 IN IHh STATE 1 >KFHCTIVK FLUBS CAU8K (JKKAJ MANY OF THBM. M some Timely \Vor<ls of CritJciam ?n4 ^ ^ SugK^tloitb From Insurance Couv H miss loner McM aster. S "Maybe Nero would enjoy It, but H i man who realizes the labor and V Lime that it has taken South Carolina-.*. 1 to produce $2,^00,000 is distressed / when he knows that so much was V burned up in less than one year," j Commissioner F. H. McMaster will f say, in making to Governor Ansel ,fj| and the general assembly the third annual report ?or the State departr ment of insuranccc. & The reported lire Insurance losses of South Carolina for the 1 1 months ending December 1, 1910, were $967,565.17. Says the commission- j er: T* "The actual losses, reported and unreported, were probably three times that much." The losses by months were, as reported: January, $26,699.94; February, $100,320.24; March, $1 1 3,888.36; April, $131,718.74; May, $76,520.02; June, $33,1 54.77; July, $194,214.91; Angust, ' $65,739.93; September, 4 $54,049.1 0; October, $87,162.02; November, $84,087.18. The largest losses in the State for the year were: The Charleston conflagration, 8 firms, total loss $215,549, insurance loss, $189,757; tho l>. \V. Alderman & Sons lumber plant, AIcolu, loss $53,600; the Santoe River Cyress Dumber company plant at Ferguson, loss $5 9,4 20; Sumter, 8 firms, loss $30,000; Tiinmonsville, 7 firms, loss $13,500. Out of 1,219 fires, 607 were of unknown origin, sparks on roofs caused 93 and lightning is held responsible for 76, while I ! are set down as incendiary. Defective chimneys or flues mused 89 fires. In 2 9 cases the explosion of a lamp wrought the havoc, Along this line, the commissioner has some words of criticism and suggestion : "If, must be kept In mind that not cmy are the uninsured losses a loss to (he'State, but that the insured losses merely represent premiums collected from all of the people and paid to those who suffered. If these losses could be cut in half, premium receipts could he cut in half relatively, and would remain in the packets of those who now pay them. "It will be noted that 25 fires were traced directly to rats and matches. Anion? the G7'< fires from 'unknown* causes a very large percentage of I hcin were supposed to have originated from friction matches by one means or another. It Is believed that it would he profitable for the State, or for municipalities to forbid the sale of the ordinary friction match. "Eighty-nine fires came from defi ('live ft 11r*< ni'iv lw* rS:iri'<xt to the incompetence of Die bricklayers who made these flues. If the old hnelish system of guilds was recognized and enforced by law, and no rue permitted to build a chimney until he had served his .apprenticeship, the people of the State would he saved many dollars. ' Twenty-eight fires were caused by sparks from chimneys. Ninety-three more by sparks on roof?121 fires chargeable to wooden shingles. All cf these could have been saved, and ower insurance rates would have. . oeen paid if metal, slate or compositurn roofing had beex used. These elements, together with the extra time needed to put on a shingle roof, makes this the most expensive roofing material.'besides being a constant menace in extending fires from house to house." ? ? , Iteneflt of' <iood Komls. Ttonds are to a city or village what the arteries are to the human body. Without them no community can exist, and it naturally follows that the better the roads the greater the prosperity of the community. Many pro- J***pie will go miles out of their way ^ to trade in some place to which they i may travel over good hard roads, and Jin -o do'rvr v. H avoid the town near at hand to which approach is difficult oecau.se of bad roads. Vet there are many places so destitute of eood sense and business enterprise that they never improve the roads. These are the places that vegetate and die and whose people curse their fat? and complain of hard times. Jr " -77-? T lii I f IS UK' S>e.U |. Robert. C. White, Democratic nominee for Congress from Delaware at ( the recent election, has served notice J of contest on his Republican compet> ! itor, Representative William U. 'Moald. White allegel that about j 3,000 negroes were induced to vo'o {for Uealci by money offers and that rhout 3,000 white voters wre bought to vote for Head, who otherwnulil 11 io for White. Tight Shoo Causes Death. Seburn J.Iones, a prominent farmer of Kershaw county, died Monday at his home near the town of Kershaw, of blood poison resulting from a slight abrasion on the foo* caused by a tight shoe. The leg was amputated at the thigh a few days ago in the hope of saving hi* Uf?. 1," * ? ! ' 1