The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 18, 1901, Image 7
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V;.vti the came into the ilrawit),-.\?otii.
There was a faint,
u:.v>ual dash en her ordinarily
peatiy-.'air cluck. and her eyes
locked large and restless. She had
evidently dressed hurriedly. The laces
cn her Ks. in looked as though hastily
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aUjUSU'll. :.UU mt* uu?tr.5 ui .-v. ,
wo;xi piun.d awry. " I am late,*' she i
apologia J. She had come up th? room j
to her husband, and lifted her lips for ,
his customary evening salute. "I am j
sorry to have kept dinner waiting. It !
is unpardonab.e. It shall not occur '
again."
Ke murmured a few deprecating
words, and they went into dinner together.
All during dinner in the rich,
old. dark-panelled room, where the
golden sunset light poured la through
softening draperies of thin crimson
silk, she was very gay. very entertaining.
She always was vivacious, especially
when she had anything to conceal
under a tide of clever talk or a
sparkling shower of wit. And David
Farnhain was a good listener?an en-celleat
listener.
When cue of his few friends, handsome,
reckless, improvident Iloss Leuard.
had ended his tit of remorse over
disastrous mining speculations uy puitintr
a Lulloi in Lis Lrain, a letter found
Dear him asked that David Farnhaui
would look after the "little girL"
Farnbaui Lad accepted the trust with
the quiet consciousness natural to L!:a
iu matters great or unimportant. He
had sent the girl to the best schools.
He Lad arranged that Lor vacations
should be safely and pleasurably
spent, lie Lad acted precisely as
though she were a Mood relative, legally
entitled to his protection and assistance.
But when she carno to him
from school, a quite bewitchiugly fair
.and accomplished young woman, lie
was temporarily dismayed. Whatever
was 1:? to do with such a charming
encuiui rnnce? For a year she lived
with a widowed sister of his. All her
mother's people were across the ocean,
asd bsing strangers to her she refused
to go to them. Farnhain went
I^fuctuaiiy at stated periods to see his
ward, and was in every way solicitous
for her comfort. But daily the realization
grew en hint that she was not as
well and carefully guarded as she
should be. In his perplexity he asked
her to marry him. Now, months after
their marriage, strange emotions
thrilled him when he recalled the
manner of her reply. She had turned
her head away for a moment. Then
she had locked up at him. her face
flaming scarlet. Her eyes met his full
znd steadily.
"Yes?if you are sure you want mc
?yes." she said.
Life had been a good deal like a
fairy story to him since then. He
1 v * - - ~ t
was luru Ol U I iimtr, UUU lue rnrauir
ful princess was his?only his! In
all his uneventful, bard-workiug life
l;e had never imagined what it might
he to lire iu paradise; that its gates
should ever swing wide for him had
not entered into his imaginings. *
"It was a delightful drama," she
went on. apropos of the matinee of the
.afternoon. "It is likely to have a long
run. Almost every one who is left in
town was there."
"I pass J the theatre as the crowd
was coming out." lie said. "I had an
imperative business engagement, so
could not cross over: but I think I saw
you as you left. I'm almost sure it
was you, out you know how near-sighted
I am. You wore white, did you
iiot?a white coat and hat?"
"Yes." she said in a breathless sort
<jt way. She laid down her roll and
.looked over at him. Yes.'*
He sipped slowly, almost retrospectively.
"I thought I could not be mistaken.
I was sorry I had not time to
make sure?to meet you. Besides, you
were not alone. You had the carriage.
^yAnd?there was some one with you
coming out. was there not? A tall
man. You were not alune. I was not
positive, but it looked like Andrews.
.Was it Andrews?"
Her fork fell 0:1 her salad plate with
a little tinkling clatter. "You?you
are net so near-sighted, after all:" she
laughed.
"Then It was Andrews?"
"Yt s." she answered. That sudden :
rose color again sta.ned her t hoek. li?.r |
bright, eager gaze never left his face.
"It?it " . s Colonel Andrews."
Then she was off in the sparkling !
narrntk n of The chief comedy scene in 1
the play, telling it with delicious hu- J
mor, inimitable mimicry, and scintil
lam th. ihes of original comment. And
E STRAIN'.
"'iV'r.v TV-ill be bear th* strain. rn-a, "
Why will he bear the sttain?"
"He and his wile see dizzy heights Tjf
That they are wild to gain."
"And when they cain them will they have
Contentment?" asked the hi.
"Xo, there will still he other thin-s
That thev will wish thev had."
v
"Hmv will it be at last, para.
How will ir be f.t last?"
"He'll seareb. for pleasure when the time
Tor happiness is past."
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T OF A LIE. !
cvl:
nil was made mesmeric by the gleam- j
iug laughter of |>uri>le-blue eyes, the I
little airy gestures of white, perfect j
hands.
And David rarnham. eating his
fruit aud cracking his walnuts, listened
and looked, his slow, sweet smile
deepening around his lirin lips.
And she was his?his, David Farnham's?his
wife! this exquisite girl,
with the snowdrifts of her stainless
life behind, and the wild rose garden
of her beautiful life before. He put
his hand to his throat at the thought.
For an instant something hot under
his eyelids blurred the flowers, the
damask, the glittering silver of the
table, even the radiant, glowing, gra
cious young vision beyonu.
"Coiue," she cried, "I shall play for
you."
And play she did. while he smoked
and listened, wild, merry, capricious
music that gradually merged into a little
sobbing minor strain. Slower it
grew and fainter. Suddenly it ended
In a fJ.se chord. Then there was
silence.
David Farnham rose?crossed the
room. He laid his hand on his wife's
shoulder. She looked up at him.
"Evelyn!" he said. "Evelyn!"
The pang of bitter prescience cut him
to the heart. He was too old. too
grave, too sad for her. It had been all
a terrible mistake. And she?she was
finding it out! For in that long, penetrative
look he saw that she was weak,
and white, and spent. All the light
and bloom of her beauty had been
blown out as though by au extinguishing
breath. A passion of sorrow slumbered
in her eyes, and on her lashes
the tears stood large and bright.
uaviu. SMie siuuu up. ox;e pui
her arms around his neck and hid hor
face against his breast. "I wonder
how?how well you love me, David!"
"How well!" he repeated, hoarsely.
"God?Evelyn! How well!"
The answer seemed to satisfy her,
for although she did not offer to kiss
him. the clasp around his neci tightened.
Then she turned away and
went out of the room, and up the
stairs, the rustle of her silken gown
coming back to him with a murmuring
sound that grew momentarily more indistinct.
He heard the door of her room close.
Ten hours later, opening his paper
alone at the breakfast table, he started
to his feet, aghast, dismayed.
"Andrews!" he cried. "Andrews!"
i, iiril* 11 n ?i."? l UUllULlUUg UiUi iU UViU
Mack and white.
-DEATH OF COLONEL FOREST
ANDREWS."
"Unexpected Demise of a Well-known
Citizen at Noon Yesterday."
. So?his friend was dead! But?what
was that? At noon?yesterday! At
noon? Why. he had been at the matinee.
lie had come out with Evelyn.
She had seen and spoken with him. She
?she had said sc?that it was he who
was with her. Oh. there must be an
yjror?somewhere!
lie pushed away his plate; he could
not eat. He drank his 'coffee and
went into the library. Evelyn paused
on the threshold at sight of his bent
head, his agitated countenance. He
turned at sound of her exclamation.
She was just from her sleep?her bath.
nit* pruiust* ioius ui uft ? uhv ^uvtii
wore gathered by Muo ribbons at her
throat. The bright hair was braided
ia girlish fashion and hung loose. She
had never looked to him so youthful?
so innocent. Cunningham's couplet of
his sweetheart came to hini:
"Beauteous she looks like a tall garden
lily,
Fresh from the night, and perfect for
the day!"
"David," she cried. "What is it?"
In silence he held out the paper to
her. "At uoou, yesterday," he said.
She read the paragraph. She went
white as her gown. He thought she
was going to fain:; but she laid the
paper down, turned to the opou door,
closed It. came back aud stood before
him.
"If you will not look at me," she
said, in a low voice, "perhaps?perhaps
1 can tell youi"
The grim silence was for a space unbroken.
Then she spoke:
"i uid not meet Colonel Andrews yesterday.
1 did not see him yesterday,
but I was glad you should thiuk it
was he whom 1 was with. I went to
lie matinee to meet?another man. lie
is the height and general appearance
of. your friend, but younger?much
younger. That is how you were mistaken.
You may have heard his uame
?net that i: matters now. I met him
%
during the last year at school. lie
made me thluk I cared lor hlu; ho
made love n> me. :.:id 1?I wrote him
some foolish letters. They are no*
letters it would hurt you to read?even
now; they were only the siliy letters
of a l'colish and inexperienced girl.
When later I came to know you better,
to know you well. 1 knew that I
could never be quite happy as the wife
of any other man. I was hoping. I
was praying lor months before you
spoke, that you would ask me?what
you did.
lour money ur.u notning to uo v.ltn
ilils desire; be is wealthy, too. It was
only that I wanted you?you! And I
knew, too, thai when you said at last
the words I bad been longing to hear
that you did not love we as a man
should love the woman whom be does
the honor to ark to be his wife.' If I
hesitated in that moment, you know
the reason now. Then 1 said to myself.
"You can make him love you! It
may take years, but you can wake him
love yon!' I have tried?my best; and
daily I have been happier and happier
as I fancied 1 was succeeding. I
could not tell you about that first
absurd romance of wine. I thought
you would deem me trivial?that it
would lower we in your sight, and I
could not bear that. But still it seemed
to me disloyalty to you that any other
man should have letters of mine in
liis possession, so I wrote to him when
I heard lie had come back to Europe,
and asked him to send them to me. lie
said he would give them to nie if I
would meet him and tell him with my
own lips tlm. I was mistaken In once
thinking 1 had cared for him, and that
I had married you for no other reason
than that I loved you. This I did
yesterday. Even he could no longer
doubt why I had become your wife.
The letters are on the cabinet in my
n r.t vnr^j tr\ rnoil at /Ti>_
stroy. Now I have told you all!"
Sounds of busy life ramc from without;
of rolling wheels, of speeding
hoof, of children laughing at their
play.
liut DavW Farnham only knew with
great and gbu rejoicing that the one
cloud had faded from his sunlight,
that the roses were redder than ever
in his way. that the iuusie of his life
rang strong and true. Ho breathed
the fragrance of the mignonette she
wore as he caught her to him.
"David, are you sure you understand?
I?I lied to you!"
"Dear," in his voice an infinite
thankfulness, an infinite content. "You
love me! For that I did not dare to
hope?beloved. I did not dare!"?Kate
M. Cleary, in the Household.
FULLS TEETH WITH HIS FINCERS.
The Chinese Finn I'ar Superior to tli? |
Forceps, Says a Dentist.
Dr. Charles E. Coughlin, of Indianapolis,
has discarded the forceps in
pulling teeth and has adopted the
primitive rules of the Chinese by using
nothing except his thumb and iudex
linger for the purpose. He believes
that the sight of the forceps constitutes
the harrowing part of tooth pulling
and that many nervous persons art
almost as shocked at the sight of the
instrument as they would be if a
cocked revolver were presented at
their heads,. He can take out the most
flrmly-rooted double tooth in a few (
secouds. and that without causing
pain, comparatively speaking.
"It is all done with the thumb and
forefinger of the right hand," he said
to-day. "and docs not require any
great strength, for it is not performed
by main force.
"In pulling a tooth by hand, it is
first worked around with a gentle motion
and there is absolutely no violent
wrenching or tugging. In a surprisingly
short time the largest and most
firmly-rooted ' molar will show evidences
of being loosened. The motion
is then continued with increased press- !
uro outward from the pivot of the ;
tooth, as it were, until it seems actually
to come out of its own accord. It
is brought out with a final circular
twist, not more violent than the gentle
working which is required to loosen It,
and it is all over before the patient re- j
alizes that his tooth is being extracted, i
"It is ridiculously easy when you j
have got the hang of it. The tooth al- !
ways comes out. and my patients testify
that it is a comparatively painless
process, the movement of the tooth
being so gradual as not to produce any
shock even to the most nervous person.
"I learned the process from a Chinese
practitioner. It has been practiced
by the Chinese from time Immemorial.
Our method seems as crude and as
barbarous to them as their seems antiquated
to us.
"In many eases we are getting too
far away from nature with our complicated
apparatus and highly scientific
way of going at things, and I have
found that extracting teeth by hand is '
not only better for the patient, but |
also for the practitioner, for a man of
sympathy must necessarily feel some
of the horror caused by the forceps in
an extremely nervous person, and just;
to the extent that he is unnerved he is !
incompetent to perform his duty well."
?New York Sun.
England's prison population is ninety
per l'V).oOO of her inhabitants, that of
Ireland sixty-six per 100.000, of Scotland
cuiy flfty-llve in the same numL
er.
[TWO BLOODY CRIMES
A Crazy Man Assaults and Mutilates
a Young Girl.
AN OLD WOMAN IS MURDERED.
The Culprit Confesses After Being
Arrested ? Bloody Knife Found On
His Person.
Denver, Col., Spenal.-^-Jeesie Kingport.
the 14-year-oIii daughter of Mrs.
Carrie Kingport. who resides at 119
IVest Ninth avenue, was assaulted and
aorriblv mutilated in her rconi during
the absence of her mother Tuesday
night. Mrs. Kingport. upon returning
home, found the uoors open in her
daughter's room, the bedclothes strewn
about and blood sputtered over the
room. She aroused the neighbors who
about midnight found the girl in a valr?*
nmr hv tinennecinus and with
numerous cuts on her tody. The authorities
were notified, but not before
Chris Jensen had been brought to the
station by Policeman Lambert, who
had arrested him on the outskirts of
the city. As Lambert approached Jensen
whipped out a knife and shoeted tc
the officer that he would not be taken
to jail. Lambert disarmed the man and
brought him to the station. On the way
he repeatedly spoke of having been
compelled to defend himself from a
woman, saying that he had cut her up
pretty badly. His knife was covered
with blood. He is believed to be demented
and to be the man who lately
l as committed numerous assaults on
women.
Jensen confessed to the police that
he assaulted Jessie Kingport and also
said he stabbed another woman dur- i
ing the night near the end of the
University Park car line. Search was i
it once begun and the dead body of I
Mrs. Armenia A. Bullis, about GJ years J
old, wh? conducted a uairy, was uuuu j
at the place described by Jensen. She)
had been stabbed in the breast and the !
blade of the knife had penetrated the
heart, causing instant death. The body :
lay i-n the roadway and there was no j
evidence of struggle. Jensen said the |
woman was "after him" and for that j
reason he killed her. She lived on a j
ranch near by.
It has developed that a young man ;
was at the Kingport home .falling cn
the girl and remained until after 10 j
o'clock. Jensen was arrested about 9:45 j
o'clock In the evening, making it im-;
possible for him to have committed the
assault. A crowd of several hundred;
gathered outside of the city jail and '
made threats of lynching Jensen. Hf,
tr\ fnl/xro <1.-* Snr!n?s.
wao laacu .-0..
A Darkey's Deadly Work.
Douglas, Ga., Special.?Jake Dcvoss ;
a negro laborer on James McKinnon's '
plantation, was v;orking a team of,
mules Tuesday morning. The mules
balked and the negro flew Into a rage, j
He went to 6is house, got a Winchester
rifle and shot both mules dead. Devoss' j
wife expostulated with him, and he
turned the rifle up her, inflicting a j
wound which may prove fatal. James
McKinnon. who owned the muie3, and |
his brother. Charles, attracted by the
-1 tr\r? V? o C/?OnP T*h P
SilUUUUK. SIOI icu 1U1 k?v
now wildly Infuriated negro saw them
coming and began shooting at them.
Charles McKinnon was instantly killed
and James McKinnon was so badly
wounded that he will probably die.
Then Devoss escaped to the swamps.
The county authorities were notified
and started in pursuit of the murderer
with blood-hounds. He has his rifle, j
but it is not believed he has much am- i
munition. More bloodshed is looked J
for.
New Express Company.
Atlanta, Special.?An application J
for a charter for the Brunswictc ana |
Birmingham Express Company was
filed In the office of the Secretary ?f J
State Tuesday. The incorporator# are ,
E. C. Machen, general manager of the
Brunswick and Birmingham Railroad,
and others. The capital stock of the
new company is $10,000. The principal
office of the company will be In Brunswick.
Booker Washington Speaks.
Cincinnati, Special?The chief adflress
before the Christian Endeavor
society was that of Booker T. Washington,
of Tuskegee. Ala. He took
as his subject "The Power of a Xohle
Life." He was the recipient of a tremendous
<>'. atinn and had n >t proceeded
for into his address until he had
won a warm snot in *he h arts of his
hearers. He traced his ovra oarcar
fronj that of a slave through the bitter
struggles he had to attain what he
aow has. and told of what he had done
for his race. He made an impassioned
appeal for his people and asked that
j they be judged by the best among
them and not by the krwliest .
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SOUTHERNINDUSTRIAL
Comparison Of Different Sections In
MM Cuildins:.
Textile mill construction during the
first six months cf the year 19C1, as
complied from cur weekly bulletins,
was considerably greater than the last
half cf the preeeeding year. This may
seem strange to manufacturers and
mill men in general, by whom the depression
in the manufacturing business,
both cotton and woolen, which
has taken place since the first of the
year, will long be remembered. Yet
this fact cannot be disputed, when cur
list of new mills constructed ot proposed,
given below.is carefully studied.
It may be easily seen that the number
of Southern mills constructed during
that time has shown little change,
compared with the number built during
the last half of last year. In the
North, however, the increase in tae
number of new mlll3 built or proposed
has been remarkable, and particular
nctice should be given this point.
During the first half of the year 1901
we find that the number of new mills
constructed or that are Intended to be
constructed amount to 261, a gain of 37 .
over the ?24 reported for the last six
months of 1900.
Of the 261 mills, 143 are devoted to
the manufacture of cotton, 35 to wool,
5S to knit goods, hosiery, etc., and 25
to miscellaneous purposes, such as
sill-:, linen and jute manufacturing and
bleaching, finishing, etc.
The number of woolen mills constructed
shows the greater increase.
Relatively speaking, there was an increase
of 250 per cent, compared with
the number erected during the latter
part of 1900. This should be an encouraging
factor with the wool man
and grower, as It goes to show that the
woolen industry is increasing proportionally
with the fast increasing wool
growing industry. A point worth mentioning
is that the new mills referred
to will make mostly goods of a quality
not considered cheap. The public is
beginning to see the folly of .buying
clothes made from these cheap goods
and necessarily the demand Is not sufficient
to keep additional mills in operation.
In fad, the old satinet mills
throughout the Connecticut valley, in
Massachusetts, have found it to their
interests to change over on to goods
flnor ni-djr nn/1 nn? en!nc through
these mills -will see more cass;mere9
than any other class of goods.
The knitting industry is also increaoing
rapidly. While the depression In
the textile industry has not affected
the knitting business as much as the
other branches, yet it has been sufficient
to cause the building of new
mtll3 in less numbers than would hava
been done.
Our knit goods are being exported
In larger numbers each year. Not
long ago reference was made to this
natter in these columns. In Germany
and more extensively in E.ijland,
goods made by American manufacturers
can be found in the very centres of
the hosiery manufacturing towns, and
prices as a rule are in favor of the
American product
In tne cotton manufacturing industry
the demand has not warranted as
many new mills as In other years. Yet
since the first of the year the number
of new mills constructed only laclc
one of being equal to the number
erected during the latter part of last
year.
The Chinese controversies have affected
this branch of the textile industry
more than anything else, and not
until that trouble has been fully settled
will business in this line ehov much
improvement. This, however, has
only reference to the manufacture of
coarse goods.
j-A ? FA rw# finnr ovwlo \&
1 1IC luaiiuiawuic v* uavi qwuw
becoming more general with the
Northern mills which formerly made
goods for export This was brought
about when the Asiatic market was
cut off. and in order to keep their
mills running they had to change the
nature of their product.
The following table gives in detail
the location of the 261 new textiie enterprises.
together with the class of
goods manufactured:
Cot. Wool. K.G. Mis.
Alabama 18 ? 9 ?
Arkansas 4 1 ? ?
California ? 1 ? ?
Colorado ? 1 ? ?
Connecticut 3 1 ? 3
Delaware ? ? 11
Florida ? ? 2 ?
Georgia 29 15 1
IndHna ? 1 ? ?
Kansas 1 1 ? ?
Kentucky ? 11 ?
Louisiana 1 ? ? ?
Maine ? 2 ? ?
Maryland ? 1 ? ?
Massachusetts .... 3 6 2 1
Michigan 1 ? 1 1
Minnesota ? ? 1 ?
Mississippi 3 1 3 ?
Montana 3 1 ? ?
New York 1 3 5 1
North Carolina ...24 ? 10 1
Ohio ? 1 ? ?
Oregon ? 1 ? ?
i Pennsylvania .. .? 4 5 8
Rhode Island .... 1 3 ? 6
Swth Carolina . .26 ? 4 1
Tennessee 4 1 4 1
Texas 9 ? ? ?
T'tah ? 1 ? ?
Vermont ? 1 ? ?
Virginia 4 2 4 ?
Canada 1 ? ? ?
Total 143 35 5S 25
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