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ICOPTRIGIIT, liOBEtl 15:
CIIArTEIl XI.
(Continued.)
' "We have not yet met that hateful
Mr. Wiutlirop," she wrote one day toward
the cud of the second winter.
'You say his mother and Miss Gray
are still here, although the ogre himself
is hack at his grinding of hearts!
Had we met him?or them?I assure
you it would have soured every drci>
?f the sweetues* in Parisian sugarplums!
He would turn even the Sweetwater
River of our Rockies into the
bitterness of Marah! It would be a
wintry day when we met. Though he
were dying, I would not lift my hand
to save him! There is a rumor?deliciously
faint?that an American family
has arrived in Paris for a flying I
"llmncn nf Kllfrnr nliims. If it is he I
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She ended abruptly after a heavy
dash of her pen:
"Your modern, Beatrice Conci Fieid."
And Gregory Bensouhurst understood
that if ever the opportunity
came for Beatrice Field to be kind to
John Winthrop, she would remember
what Alecla had suffered through him.
So far. however, nothing special had
occurred save Marion's engagement to
a wealthy New Yorker who had fol
lowed them to Europe and had won
her there; and Kathryu Franklin's engagement
and innumerable quarrels
and reconciliations with an American
artist in Rome, who often neglected
liis studies to be with the charming
woman of his choice.
But one morning Beatrice and Mrs.
Gleudenniug were shopping. They had
but just left the "Belle Jardiniere."
Beatrice was chatting delightedly of
ha h?v?ntlps thev had seen, when she I
paused suddenly, grasping her companion's
arm with a stilled exclamation.
An elderly woman, who left the say
shop just ahead of them, had been
vainly striving to attract the attention
of her coachman, who, engaged
In flirtation with a pretty nursery
maid, seemed quite to have forgotten
Ills duty. He had driven up and dowu,
waiting for bis mistress, and had
paused on the opposite side of the
street Finding her effort in vain, the
woman attempted to cross the street,
regardless of the passing carriages,
and stumbling, would have fallen under
the hoofs of an approaching team,
tiad not Beatrice sprung forward and
pulled her away and Lack upon the
pavement.
An officer close at hand started to
rescue her, but Beatrice had waited
for no assistance. The coachman,
now aware of the neglect of his duty,
was at hand, and the girl assisted the
trembling woman into the carriage,
, pausing a moment to learn if she
.were comfortable ere she left her.
Then, as Beatrice was turning away,
. the lady in the carriage said, very
softly and sweetly, leaning forward,
one gentle hand upon the light fingers |
on the carriage door, the quaint langdage
she used sounding strangely on
the gay street:
~\uoes inee minu giving oae m.>
name.' my dear? It will be good to remember
the name of my brave rriead
.when I think of her."
Beatrice smiled, her eyes bright with
the swift touch of tears at sound of
this sweet home tongue. She bent her
head with half-shy grace, like a child.
"I am Beatrice Field," she said, softly,
leaning nearer her new acquaintance,
forgetting, in the excitement of
the moment, tliaf Mrs. Glendeuning
still waited, "from New York. We
start for home to-morrow. You are
quite comfortable now, madam? I may
safely leave you?"
The answering smile 011 the sweet
old face was like a ray of home love
and truth in that brilliant street*.
"I am quite comfortable; yes, thank
thee, dear. I am Mary Wintlirop. My
home is in the Berkshire Ilills of
America. If thee would give me thy;
address, my son John will wish to
thank thee for thy kindness to his
mother. John is a lawyer in thy New
York, too."
Rnt Rpntrire was suddenlv with
drawn from her frank cordiality. Removing
lier hand from the carriage
door ancKf'-om under the touch of the
?ther"s^*TJrt fingers, as though a sorpeut^nad
stung her, she stepped back
Upon the pavement, a scornful curve
on her lips, a world of anger in the
hazel eyes.
"I beg your pardon, madam," she
said, coldly; "but if you will tell your
son for me that, had she known whom
she was saving, Beatrice Field, Alecia
Graham's sister, would not have lifted
her hand for you. I scarcely think that
he will care to thank me. I bid you
good moruing, madame."
And like a priestess of vengeance
she turned away.
CHAPTER XII.
"it was kot she!" he said,
"Well, girls!"
Beatrice paused upon the threshold
of Alecia's room. wherg_ her mother
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and sisters and their friends wore assembled.
Beatrice was dressed siiil
in htr street costume, as she stood before
tlietn. but this was not the
Beatrice who left the house not long
before.
"Listen to me! I have been standing
on the heights of Olympus this
morning. I have breathed at the mistshrouded
entrance of Delphi!"
A sensation stirred the group before
her: even Marion turned her calm eyes
upon her, quest ionlngly.
"What is it, Bee'/" queried l:cr
mother, somewhat sternly: tor Beatrice
was sometimes too childishly impulsive,
her mother said, "if you have
been to Delphi, surely you have gained
a little wisdom, my dear!"
"Xot an atom of wisdom!" said
Beatrice, shutting her red lips as
though she crushed down sumo fury of
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reefing. "uuiy prout o- ;.u u.u cubing,
mamma!"
"What old saying, Toe? Ycu must
loam to ho more ?:i\u..c in c.Apresstou.
and have more rcir-cenuvl. I did
hope that this trip vot.id b.nclit you
in that v.v.y, child.''
"And it hasn't? i-.'ay the trtii.ii right
oat, mamma?T doTTT lUIndTt replica
the girl, though a vivid red spot burned
in each smooth cheek, ami a lk.uie
was in lie:* eye?, as though the Oiympliiau
goddess had touched her there
with fire. "But the old saying that I
specially meant, mamma, is of the
'mills of the gods' that grind so slowly!
The spider-like wheels of their
machinery made a revolution to-day
under my hands!"
Mrs. Field sighed over this iuoorrigi1.1
.?a.i. iv,.? innoriioU- Mnrlnn
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shrugged her shoulders disdainfully
and raised her eyebrows; Kathryu
aiul Althea aud Frances waited expectantly.
Alecia reached out her baud to her
sister.
"You dramatic child! Come here at
once aud explain," she said.
Beatrice shook her head.
"I haven't much to say," she replied,
steadily. "I prefer standing here
where I can easily escape should horror
seize you. I have aveuged you to
some extent this morning, Alecia Grahaup
I saved the life of some one at
the 'Belle Jardiniere.'"
"You, Bee Field? Whose life was
it?"
A clamor of tongues; interested faces
new in place of quietly attentive faces.
Even Mrs. Field forgot her annoyance
at the girl's heedlessness.
"What do you mean, Beatrice:"
"Guess!"
"I'm a Yankee, but I can't," said
Kathryn, laughing. "Tell us, Bee, like
a j^uuu vuiiu.
"Guess!" repeated Beatrice, with
that slow, stern shutting of the lips
that came ouly with iuteuse anger or
excitement.
Perhaps the one name was in the
minds of all, suggested by the girl's
face: but only Altliea Dunraven had
the hardihood to utter it in her soft,
pretty voice.
"John Winthrop, Bee?''
Beatrice shook her head. Her lips
were cruel now. She turned her eyes
upon Althea like a tlash of blazing
anger.
"Not John Winthrop. No, Althea;
but next best?his mother!"
Utter, dead silence for a moment.
Then Alecia asked, a sweet light upon
her face:
T? I?*.!.. T> < TTnn* nM ,7n
lii U ? U ItiUC iJWt i.AU?l V4.U V? *4V
it, denrV"
Beatrice mr.de a swift, fierce gesture
with her hands, as though she
were pushing down some rising eueuiy.
The stern lips would not soften even
before the light in her sister's face.
The fin me in the hazel eyes deepened
thcin to black. Her voice was like
steel when she spoke?not ike bright
voice of impulsive Beatrice Field.
"Iiow did I do it, Alecia? You ask
me'' But first I must tell you the
truih. You shall not think that I would
have lifted my hand for her had I
dreamed who she was?for I would
not. I told you long ago how 1 hate
that man?her sou! This woman should
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| uave (lieu, xruuipieu uuuei iue uuuis
I of the horses, for all me, had I known
that she was his mother! Such cruel
natures have 110 right iu this world.
No! I did not know until?afterward."
Silence again?a throbbing, alive
silence that seemed filled with beating
hearts trembling before the truthwaiting
to hear the worst, if worse
there were.
"But you did save her?" said Alccia,
then, going over to her sister. "Being
our true, brave Bee, you could have
done nothing else, darling."
Beatrice pushed aside Alecia's gentle
hands and stepped back from her,
her flashing eyes holding a spirit of
evil within them, though a streak of
alternate red and white fell across her
face as though evil and good were
having equal battle in her heart.
"Don't touch" me, Alecia!" she cried,
with swift impulse. "You dou't realize
how wicked I am! I tell you I
arnjust as much a murderer as though
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I liad killed that woman! Have I no
told you that I would not liav<
touched lie:* had I known that she wa:
John Wlutlirop's mother?or sister?o
wife? That is how I hate hiui!"'
istill Alecia did not recoil from ho:
in horror as Beatrice seemed to ex
poet; only the smile died from he
lips as she followed Beatrice, drawin;
her forcibly over to the low coucl
among the others and pressing lie
down tenderly among the cushions.
"You threaten like a tragedy queei
of the stage," she said, quietly. "Nov
put away theatricals. Bee, and tell u
the trutU. lou saveu .urs. luuirup
life*"
"But I toll you, Alecia," protestei
Beatrice, restlessly?"that I wouhln'
have done It had I known ''
"I don't wish you to tell me that.'
said Alecia. steadily, and sternly, ho
violet eyes upon her sister's flushe
face. "You saved Mrs. Winthrop*
life. Boo Field':"
"Yes," rather sullenly from Beatric<
angry because they would vindioat
her in spite cl lier denouncing word'
"How did you do it. Bee, dear?"
"She was crossing the street," sai
Beatrice, pulling her head away fror
Aleeia's light lingers that were reinot
ing her bonnet and veil, and inakiu
more iluffy the soft hair on her fort
head, "and she stumbled. It wasn'
anything really, only 1 wouldn't hav
done it?I tell you, Alecia. I will finis
it?had I known who she was,"
"Where is Annette*" questioned Al<
-to -stiio with vou. Bee. Sh
will tell us connectedly of the acc
ileut.*'
"She has gone home," replie
Beatrice, frowning. "I didn't wan
her to come in. I knew that you woul*
question her, aid I will not have thai
This is my affair, Aleeia!"
"What is she like, Bee?" asked Corr
presently. "Is she real horrid?a sot
of ogress, you know';"
"How could she fail to be horrid,'
said Beatrice, coldly, "being his mot!
er, Cora';" m
"But what docs she look like?" pet
slsted Cora. "Is she tall and big wit
a hard voice and cold eyes and thai
you know?" ^
"And did she <':ank you in a wa;
that made you wish you hadn't save*
her," queried pathryn, saucily, "a
some people do. Bee?"
".No, she didn't,' said Beatrice, cross
ly. The truth would not be at al
pleasant for her to tell to these girlsit
was bad enough for her to liav
to acknowledge even to herself.
"Then, whr.t did she say?" asked A
thea. "Of course, she. said somethiui
Bee Field!"
"How can you expect: me to reinen
ber what she said?" retorted Beatrice
irritably, rising to leave the room, feai
ing lest she be too closely pressei
"One seldom remembers details a
siicli a time, Althea."
"But you would," murmured Cor:
disappointedly, yet net daring to fu;
ther question this willful sister o
hers. For, if the truth must be know)
when Beatrice looked as she did a
luAnmnt Cavi w'jic r>rm si d pra hi
afraid of lier. "You never forge
Bee!"
"Yes," said Beatrice, coldly, flashin
her eyes upon Cora. '"In that you ar
right. Cora?I never do forget!''
"But, before you go," joined 1
Marion, coolly, "we shall be glad t
learn what this man's mother doe
look like, Beatrice. It should be
gratification to you to describe her I
she is such a disagreeable person."
"I did not say that she is disagree
able, Marion!" Beatrice paused in tb
doorway.
"Oh, indeed! But you certainly it
sinuatcd it, Bee. You said that 'sh
could not fail to be horrid, being hi
mother.' What else were we led t
expect?"
"Well, of course, she is horrid!" d<
dared Beatrice, desperately. "But sh
doesn't look so, Marion! Iler face i
very sweet in expression?mild, yo
know?and her eyes are blue, like blu<
bells?like Alecia's?and her hair i
liic xovoxrest wxixie. ouc s ;i i^uum-i
too, and called me 'thee,' as thoug
she loved tbe word. Tlxcre! Onlyshe
Is just as horrid, of course! Sli
cannot help being horrid, as I said!
The girl vanished as the last wor
was uttered, as though it were sorel
bitter for her to be obliged to yiel
oven this iimi'li to the mother of Job
I Wiuthrop, and silence for a momec
fell upon the room.
"Well!" exclaimed Cora at last, i
extreme astonishment.
"Well," repeated Katliryn and A
thea, lost for any new expression i
the extremity of their curprise.
"Ee-atrice has a way of making sue
mountains out of mole hills!" sai
Marion, scornfully. "We might hav
known whafHto believe. I : would b
well for her to break herself of tha
habit, among others, mamma."
"It is because she lives and think
and feels so intensely, I think, Mar
on," said Frances, quietly. "Sh
doesn't dissect what comes to her, a
a naturalist would do, but takes i
' and lives it and feels it herself as onl,
such natures can. It isn't a sin 1;
Bee."
"No," added Alecla, very softly, ver
sweetly. "She is doing this for mc
Marion. Because "
And then silence fell between then
eloquent with memory.
At that same hour, John Winthrof
Just returned to Paris to accomoan:
t his mother and ward back to America
? the following wee*, after their ab- '
s sence of two years, was sitting with
i- them at luncheon, discussing the event
of the morning. He was very pale,
[ but it was the pallor of strong passion,
. and his eyes wore Hashing with a fire
r equal to that of Peatrice Field stand
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i room.
r Jessica Gray, his ward, faced him at
the table. She was tall and graceful,
a willowy in ligure and movement, with
a subtle lilbtuess about her that sugs
gested the nature of au inuolen.*
s leopard. Her eyes showed this possibility
also in their opal calmness, and
a the thin, rose-leaf lips were just now
t curled in scorn.
She had lived a quiet life among the
" Berkshire Hills with her guardian's
i- mother, and yet this subtle lire and
i! lierceness could waken within her brils
liantly and her voic<5 soften to a languor
that was fascinating when she
>. would. She often startled the gentle
Quaker lady sitting near her sou with
her snowy hair smooth and soft and
her gentle face pleading with them
j for kindly thought of the willful girl
u who had uttered such reckless words.
' You should not have ventured
alone, mother," said John Wiuthrop,
* gravely. Ilis voice was always gentle
it addressed to this one woman. She
e was the only woman, perhaps, whom
^ lie fully loved and trusted. "Jessica
would have boon glad to have accomnnriled
voj anions the slions."
e (To be continued.)
l* Wise is the youth who sticks to business
with the glue of industry.
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CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
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t The Irrigation Bill Passed the House.
Senate Receives a flessage.
The House has passed the irrigation
l* I bill by a vote of 146 to 55. Many
i amendments were offered, but only one
- except those offered by the committee
k was adopted. It was of a minor charac;t
ter. The bill already has passed the
Senate. The friends of the measure
greeted the announcement of its pas.
sage with a round of applause.
The bill as passed creates a reclamas
tion fund from the sale of public lands
in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, i
5. Kansas, Montana, Nebraska. Nevada,
U New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma,
_ ; Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washing
| ton, ana Wyoming, ifoo mi; amuum
e paid to local land officers and 5 per
j cent, due the State under existing laws
I- for educational purposes, which is to
f, be used for the construction and maintenance
of irrigation works in the
i- States and Territories enumerated.
I Provision is made for the payment out
r* of the Treasury of any deficiencies in
! the allowances to agricultural colleges
* 1 owing to this disposition of puolic
u i lands. The Secretary of the Interior is
authorized to examine, survey and conit
struct the irrigation works and report
r- the cost thereof to Congress at each
if session.
it Section 4 provides for the letting of
j contracts for the works contemplated
? in sections when the necessary funds
; are avilable in the reclamation fund
'* for such section.
Section 5 provides that "no right
8 to the use of water for land or private
o ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding
160 acres to any one land own-j
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n i cr ana no sucu ngui suan uiau^uv,
0 attach until all payments therefor are
,g made, and no such sale shall be made
to any land owner unless he be an ac*
tul bona fide resident"
lf To the reading of the message Senators
on both sides of the chamber lis'
tened with profound attention. The atic
tendance of Senators was notably
large, indicating the great interst bc1
ing manifested in the subject. At the
n conclusion of the reading the chair
~ , announced that the message would be
"s referred to the committee on relations
0 with Cuba.
"I had intended to make a motion,"
?- said Mr. Bailey, faeetiousuy. "I will not
e do it; but I feel inclined to move to
is refer the message to the Republican
u caucus."
Mr. Allison, who was sitting directly
in front of Mr. Bailey on the Democratic
side, turned to the Texan and
r- smiling with the utmost good nature,
bowed ceremoniously to Mr. Bailey.
"The chair is not aware," replied Mr.
e Kean. "that any such committee ex"
ists."
,1 Mr. Tillman, of South Carolina, pre..
sented some of the advantages of sup,
plying metal mail boxes for rural free
delivery and showed to the Senate a
11 sample box of sheet steel which could
lt b purchased for 49 cents. Boxes now i
supplied by private individuals cos^ *
ii from $1.25 to $3 each. Suc!j.-a price, he
"?1'' ? ?? a coflniic hurUom/ unr>#i .MJp I ,
I. farmers. Already $7,500,000 a year was
u paid for rural delivery of mail ..nd he 1
believed such rural delivery woUld ex.
pand until it exceeded the cost of city
mail relivery.
1 During the greater part of Friday's
session the Senate was engaged in the
e transaction of executive business, ilie
lt nomination of Captain Crozier to be j
chief of ordnance of the army being ,
s the particular subject under considera[.
tion. The President's message urging
e the establishment of reciprocal rela- .
s tions between the United States and j
. Cuba was received after the Senate had
gone into secret session. The doors
v were opened, the message was read and
u then the secret session was resumed.
^ Many of the Boers in tne British
'' concentration camps are employing ;
their leisure in studying medicine,
' law and civil engineering and by the
. time the war is over they expect to
' utilize their new knowledge. 1
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CANDIDATES OPEN
STATE CAMPAIGN
A finioi inii firriarhr Maofin/r At HaHm.
rk yuiwi uiiu uiuwnj utcviuig r%v uuu ?
aids Saturday.
GOOD NUMBER OF PEOPLE PRESENT
The Several Candidates Outline Their
Policy and Present Their Various
Claims to the Audience.
Staff Correspondence Columbia State.
Donnalds. Special.?The candidates
for governor, for the United States
Senate and for Congress spoke here
Saturday. It was a pleasant gathering
of about 1.500 people representing the
counties of Abbeville, Anderson. Greenwood,
Laurens and Greenville. There
was a Dig picnic at Cooley s bridge ia
Anderson county or the crowd here
would have been larger.
Of the candidates for the Senate all
were here except Senator Henderson
and Mr. John Gary Evans. All of the
candidates for governor were here and
all In good physical condition. The
meeting was quiet, the candidates confining
themselves to a discussion of
topics of the day, and the crowd was.
not demonstrative.
Col. J. H. Tillman had given noticethat
at the time he would answer the
charges made by the editor of The
State. His explanation was not a refutation
of the charges, and the crowd
was not satisfied. The other noteworthy
incidents of the day were the appearance
of Capt. Heyward for i.he first
time as an aspirant for office; Mr.
Latimer's reflection on certain of hi3 competitors
for having listed him asPopulist
when he was first sent to congress;
and the general tendency toavoid
unpleasant and unaparliamentary
debate.
Col. Talbert was the first speaker..
He declared that this gathering reminded
him of some of the old alliance
campmeetings. He declared that a candidate
for any office, particularly that
of governor, ought to first examine
himself and see if he has the manhood
to fill the place. He stated hi3 opposition
to the use of money in elections.
He declared that he is a candidate on
his record and on his merits, and is
opposed to political conspiracies and
the use of money in elections.
EXPENSIVE CAMPAIGNS.
u win ue a sau uay wnen weau.'i win
be an embargo on thos^who aspire to
office. He deplored the fact that the
campaigns are becoming so expensive,
for this will eventuate in injury to ihe
poor man. He opposed the trusts. We
need statutory laws which will put 2
restraint on the combinations >f capital.
He wants to see factories built.
While capital should be given protection,
we don't want a new political
school to be brought in with capital..
There should be no conflicts
between the corporations and the people,
between labor and capital. It i3 impossible
for a small amount of C2pit3l
to compass large enterprises, but there
should be restrictions on the combinations
of capital.
The betterment of our public roads,
is no longer a local matter but a national
question. The government is
making inquiry into the methods of
building roads. The towns and the
country should be divided in nothing,
and in building better public roads
they should be particularly united. It
would require some taxation, but one
dollar spent would mean ten dollars in
n r n In Knnnf. 1 a
xciuiu m ucucuvo.
He next touched upon the question
of education. He is in favor of all of
the schools and colleges. He would
not take one brick out of a single college
and would rejoice if there were
more. But he wants to see a better
public school system. This system
should be so reformed and built up that
a good English education can be given
evrey white child. He would like to see
the common school made *h3 highway
leading up from the poor man's door to
the highest offices in the land. There
are two races and one must dominate
the other. The ballot and the spelling
book must be taken away from the
negro. Let the negro go to the fields
where he belongs; let him pay his
teachers as he does his preachers, and.
let the white man's, taxes go to educating
the white, man's children. Col. Talbert
was listened to very attentively.
He told some jokes, but not as many as.
usual as his time was short.
CAPT. HEYWARD
was introduced as a "prominent planter;
of Colleton county." He commented
omf the presence of so many ladies.
Tney should take an interest in the
affairs of the commonwealth. Thehousewife
does more to coutrol the
destinies of a nation tban does the?
platform of any party.
Some might inquire why does he
aspire to the office of governor? Ho
said there were .1 variety of reasons
which he might give, but like the little
negro who gave his reason for being,
a Republican, he is in the race because
he wants the office.
He is running on his own merits. Ifhe
can't get it on his merits he would
like to see the office given to a betterman.
He would not attack cr refer unkindly
to any of his competitors. Hewanted
to see South Carolina prosper
agriculturally, commercially and industrially.
The past year has been the
hardest the farmers have had to deal
with, and all prosperity depends on the
success of the farmer. Appropriation of
public money should be done most care