The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, March 31, 1904, Image 7
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|iL ^ [\/\ ^ ? her jaekot as she !
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^ little fox terrier.
- . ~ . -N r * hearing the bang
ci'1 < of tlie front door. I
rushed around]
the of the house to join it is lit
"le i)ii<ir. *s. ami lugcuiei iu*-.? ?? "
Jh- corner of the avenue.
"Now. I'aisy. dear, yon must go
back. Y< i ought to lie thankful that
I'liti go Uu k. instead of having'
to >it i' .1 stuffy old schoolroom all
. ornii-g. when it's so beautiful out- i
loo; >. ?Jo. tluit a good doggie!" And !
I*ai>\ turned baek obediently, if a
little n In tantly. and was soon dash- j
tig alnon the wet lawn with one of
Margery s old rubbers for a playt'el- |
?ow.
Mart \v went skipping on to school i
rejoicing in the enticing beauty of the '
April morning. It seemed to her that
the grass- ,t]ul t- bursting leafbuds oil
lite shrubbery fairly laughed as she
jtassed thotn. and. as for the robbins |
and bluebirds, they were actually hiliriotis
: [ their joy that spring nad ;
oiin . The people she met seemed tin- j
usually pleasant looking until sac
aim '< vvht re Central alley met the
street. .'. ist as siie reached it three
boy . nis-iied out. almost colliding with
her a> :i:.y ran. and looking over their
should, s ;t> jf they e.\peeted some one
were N .it wing. Margery checked hersell
to avoid them and then looketl ill
the direction from which they had
on.". "They've been teasing old Mrs.
l.a;.<y." she thought, and sure enough,
the old woman stood in her door slia!;in
11^t at tln> receding boys. While
A!:ii> paused the dirty. disheveled
old creature stooped and picked tip n
battered :in can in which ;i sickly geranium
had been growing. With trcmb1
i p i; lingers she tried t<> straight en the
plan;, and it fell over the edge of the
pail ; tain, and .Margery could sec that
the main stem had been broken off
mar 1:.< root. Then she went <<n. but
mi!!!' way the joj ottsm-< of the morning
*< "lued dimmed. and if the birds
in tie maple trees above leer sang as
gay ly ,<s evi r she did not hear them.
Sh" i as thinking of the tumbled old
gray i ad bending over the broken
plant.
In the school r?>oni the girls were
gatle".?"i in a earner discussing a plan
which Margery herself had set on foot,
th" lmying of a palm for their Sunday
.school teacher by the six girls of the
i !asv (, he presented on Master mortify
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iiig. Several of the girls had brought
money and tendered it to Margery,
whom they called chairman of the committee.
To their surprise, she refused
IVELF JESU, the bold son of \\. ^
he mountains invokes Thee, as
Lord of the eternal snows and
sovereign of the lefty P'\iks. ri^HTOr
hinc eyes towards these white SSSSfe
t have the likeness of Thy robe,
vi snowy ! Deign, 0 Lord, to
-rror for mortals who go through ^ , j
ays ; lead them, protect them in [
is paths; and if any should fall
and die, receive him into Thy
Softly spread over h'.m the
hroud ; and as soon as his soul j 1 j
; earthly body, may he ascend to
e. 0 Blessed One, hear my
ck T hou on all the deeds of his
t the noble thoughts that have
his heart, and scatter them like sSwCT
ntain flowers before the feet of gpSJj""
hen his spirit reaches the face of Kjpt fa
Lord may in His infinite mercy ft: rj
n. And may the golden light ^
the Alps, which is an emanaDivine
light, enfold him in - / >,Ljs
:e for ever! Amen. fa ^
to take it. urging her friend, May
Hard nor. to tako it in hor place.
"But why don't you tako it. Margery?
You started the plan." Margery was
silent for a moment trying to gather
courage to face the girls' surprise and
displeasure.
"Because." she said at last, not very
bravely. "I can't give anything toward
the palui. and it wouldn't be fair for
me to choose it."
The girls were silent for a moment.
Then one of them said, nieahingly:
"it's a que? r way to do. I think, to talk
up a plan and get people interested
and then back out when it comes to
paying your share."
Margery blushed and the quick an
"CHRIST IN G
<rrr tr? irs; f-nnio into lior fygs. May
(.ianicer slij>i>f?l her arm around het
: friend's waist, which gave her courage
' to answer: "It does look that way. I
know, lnu wp agreed to spend only om
' own money for the palm. and. and I
have thought of another way to spend
, mine."
| The girl wile had spoken first turned
j away. "Miss Andrews wilt lie flat
; torn! when she hears that." she said
I Oin e more the P-ars started in Marg
; ery's eye-. The hell rang and tin
; group broke up. hut May waited b
j give her friend a sympathetic sipteizi
! and to whisper: "Never iniiul. Marge
i I know you're all right."
On her way to school in the after
noon Margery ventured into the alio}
and peeped through the half-open (loot
of the shanty. The old woman la\
I asleep on a cot. On the tloot* besidi
her was a half emptied bottle, and 01
' the window sill stood the poor gcran
I iiun tied with a piece of string to n
stick to keep it upright. The stem Inn
been carefully bandaged, but the leave.had
wilted and hung limp and dying.
! The school children had become fa
miliar with the sight of Mrs. Laney
intoxicated and belligerent, but it is
doubtful if they had ever thought of
her as Margery saw her now. a friendI
less old woman, her poor old body worn
j with long years of hard, incessant iaj
bor and her mind weakened by sorj
row and lo-s and most of all by the
1 li?jnor she had taken to make her for!
get her hard lot. As Margery went to
j sehool her spirits rose. Site was saying
to herself: "I'm glad 1 though: of
i it Tim tviivv* t 'K lei'iii"' tli.i trials
j and over. Now. 1 am jioiiit; io
1 <-2ijoy the rc-t."
Mrs. I.;uioy v. as still asleep on Master
morning when Margery peeked
; through llio litilo window. but slio
i lia^ not thought it necessary to look
! the door. and. opening it softly, the
I little girl set inside a beautiful white
| hyacinth in a prettily decorated pot.
j Then she closed the door and rail out of
the alley as fast as site eon Id go.
What the old woman did when. 0:1
waking, she saw the lovely plant Margery
never knew, but she was quite
satisfied that her sacrifice had not
hern in vain, when next morning she
discovered Mrs. I.aney seated in her
doorway holding the pot in her lap and
every now and then bending her rough
gray head to inhale its fragrance.
When at last the waxen bells began
to fade tin old plant mysteriously disappeared.
and in its place the bewildered
woman found another just as
fresh and fragrant, but this lime pink.
Again the pink one faded and a purple
flower took its place, until the colors
were exhausted, and Margery was
substituting a flourishing geranium
in nlace of tiie !a?t one. when she was
startled to hear a slr-ill voice behind
her call out: "Thanks to heaven. I've
found ye at last! And to think the
only friend I have ilo he one o* thini
school ehildor 1 be cut-sin' this many
year!"
The geranium thrived, but Mrs. I.nney
did not. and before another Kaster
came round her hard life tvas over. To
her little friend she had confided her
horror of being buried by tlie town,
and. after consulting with her mother.
Margery was able to promise 1 er that
she need not dread a pauper's funeral.
When Miss Andrews' Easter present
was under discussion that year Margery
made haste to ..and iter share over
the chairman, saying, with a smile as
she did so. "That's so: I won't change
my mind this time, girls: there might
be another temptation."?Alice D.
T.aukhage.
l>nr For the Children.
j Easier is a bright day for the little
I ones at the fireside of our own nation,
j The President of the United States
' eomes out on Easter Monday and opens
the gate to his big yard, and the
j happy children take possession and
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ETHSEMANE."
play egg rolling on the beautiful lawns.
The Marine Kami plays ami many pen.
pie come to look on at the children's
j pleasure, among whom are often grave
and wise Senators, who. taking a
short recess from the arduous exorcises
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//y.UUiliilil!:ih
I
<' of national legislation, come to bestow
j their Easter smiles on the little sover
eigus of the Itepublie.
i
i" the ^hvcc ihavijs
iAfter the painting b
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^legend of the |i
9 jflsteruly^
{ O flower lias been more hon^1
ored in song and story than
X the imperial lily. Its purity
and stately bearing have
caused it to l>e chosen as
>70 the symbol of divinity and
? the badge of kings.
1 ^ Although in this country
we understand by the word
I lily the lily of the valley, the stately
calla. or the wonderful barrisii. or
Kaster lily, these are only three
' varieties of a very great family.
: members of which are tottnd in
! all quarters of the earth. Kverywhere [
the lily has been honored and held a
: sacred flower, whe'her by the hanks
- . ;~-i v:u .... Onni'its where. .
j 01 IIIO SlOl lfU .Mil- ?M vxw.B. . . |
,-is tho lottis. if received honors little |
short of those accorded to tloifH*, or in j
heathen tJreece. where it was conse- I
crated to .Muio. the spotless yet imperj
ions i)neen of Olympus; or later in
[Christian eoitntries. where the flower
i was dedicated to the Virgin .Mary. No
great artist, when he painted the Holy
Mother, ever forgot to place near her
the flower that was the symbol of her j
I heavenly rank. It is also in art the j
, symbol of saints, martyrs and an- '
' gels.
The Kaster lily is a native of the i
east. Those now cultivated in lterumda.
ami popularly known as the Her-1
muda lily. were originally imported !
i there from Japan for commercial pur
poses. The lily played an important
j part in Chinese history Wo years ago. I
I It happened that the Flowery King- ,
11<>111 was ruinl hy the Kmp< ror Chow. f
! a monarek universally feared and hat- J
ed. No one could depend on his favor, i
end at lest his host friend, the Prime
' Minister. Li cluing. Iicgan to tremble
for his life.
Knowing we!! the bloodthirsty na"
1 : ilovised
tl.fo oL nil' J-.iupci ?>i. i.t - ,
:i f-I; \er scheme li> eM iipc from liis !
power.
One da*. when lie fancied thai tin* :
Kmperor was in a I'mvorable moo.1. Inbroached
tin* plan. It was that 100 of
tin- strongest young men ami 100 of
I in* most beautiful maidens should In* .
sent with hint on hoard ship to an islam!
i:i Ihi' -ea. whirh lie said had been !
revealed to him in a dream l?y the j
','ods. There. for tin* welfare of China '
, land its i (>:iditio!i eould not have been j
ltttteli worset these people were to be I
sacrificed to the deities for the b-netit j
of tlteir native country. There was
it sanguinary toueh it bout tin- pian
thiit pariiettlariy recommended it to
the bloodthirsty mind of wiekeil old
; Chow, and he immediately gave cheerfitl
assent to the project. even showed
liis interest by throwing in a royal
prime and prim-ess or two as special
tidbits for the gory banquet of the
gods.
, The ship in which I.i Chung and his
hundred young men and maidens
' sailed was the very finest that China
! afforded. The larder was tilled with
: dainties and every provision was made
I that the victims should be kept in lirst,
class condition until the time for the
j saerifice. The tirst torn tout musicians
in the kingdom were loaned for the
' voyage to charm the ears of the pas- J
sengers with sweet sounds. But in '
I vain the artists tried their most pleas- :
ing compositions; nobody would sing i
I or dance, while the prevalence of red i
eyes indicated that a good deal of |
weeping was going on.
When they were far troni China, j
however. J.I ? liurg lonu ui?
tiers into his eoiiiidenee. He had not '
intended to hill sbelli at all: instead j
; tliey were going to tin* most beautiful j
island in the world, where they would I
| settle and where they would live happily
ever after, far from the power of
the wicked Chow.
This island was Japan, and here they
did settle. But they had brought with
. them great quantities/of lily bulbs as
food. Nobody had been able to eat j
much on shipboard, and quantities of i
these bulbs were left over. They were
planted, and in the balmy climate of
S
at Christ's Tomb."
y (J. Spangenberg.l
the Flowery Kingdom they attained a
beauty unknown in China.
Years later some Europeans, discovering
the beauty of this flower, iraIKirted
it into their own countries and
called it the Liliura longiflorum. But
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as an American named Harris was
practically the tirst to discover the
flower and make ir popular in two continents
it is now called the Liliuin harrisii.?Ethel
Knox.
What's in an egg": Everything at
this season, especially chickens. Kabhits.
ducks, hears, deer, pigs, elephants
and other birds and beasts s|iare the
privilege, not to mention whole regiments
of tin soldiers.
A little chick sitting on a chair
comes as low as ten cents. Another
baby chicken sits on a nest of eggs.
No doubt it assists it< mamma. Still
another is blithely enjoying itself in a
swing.
A rabbit in a Mother Hubbard is
very quaint. Other rabbits draw carts
and one climbs a pole. Another dwells
in a lettuce head.
Coops and pens are among "the latest."
and range from twenty-five cents
to $1. They are fenced, with a gate.
;in?l in some instances wmi a nouse,
ami contain chickens, sheep or bunnies.
Eight cockatoos on a branch are new.
Their Easter message is obscure.
A little nuuil made of real feathers
is to be bad for a dime.
I'nele Sam on a rabbit is new.
A lovely white eiderdown bunny at
s!..")<? has his ears lined with pink silk.
one of the new candy boxes shows
:: ?ouple of stuffed kittens on the cover.
Every sort of animal ligures in some
way or other, ami most of them have
a weakness for motoring.
Cotton birds are very attractive.
They are made from white cotton, with
a little color laid on where necessary.
The chicks, ducks and storks are very
well done. You simply raise their
wing to get at the candy inside. It's
not a bad idea to put a tiny bisque
baby under the stork's wing instead
of edible sweets.
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PALMETTO POINTS '
GIVEN IN BRIEF
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Strongly Suspected.
Greenwood, Special.?Sheriff McCaslan
returned to the city recently
with a negro, B. Mathis. who is strongly
suspected of murdering another ne^ro.
Praser Goodc, on Sunday night.
The murder was committed on Mr.
Tern Chatham's place and by means
of a blunt instrument which was used
as a bludgeon, the assailant striking
the negro without warning as he was
going along a lonely path from the
home of a girl he was "courtin*" to
his own home. The negro who was
killed had carried for years in his
nnckfttionk an old Confederate five
dollar bill and a one cent piece for
luck. A bill of this kind and a one
cent piece was found on the person of
the supposed murderer. Until the
shbriff went down, there had been no
clue on which to work, the coroner's
jury having failed to find anything.
The circumstantial evidence against
Mathis is very strong.
A Heavy Docket.
The busines sof the South Carolina
supreme court is steadily increasing
Clerk Brooks estimates that in the ten
years of his employment /with the
court the business has increased by a
third. When he took charge in 1894
there were 74 cases heard at the first
term. The indications are that 135
to 140 cases will be docketed for the
spring terra beginning the 19th of
next month. Already 96 cases have
been docketed for the coming term.
01 the 100 cases docketed for the November
term about 90 were heard.
The South Carolina supreme court has
the reputation of being the most
prompt in the United States in hearing
and disposing of cases. The Nebraska
court is five years behind and
the Florida court is three years behind.
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All Acts Signed.
Gov. Heyward has completed the
work of signing the acts passed at the
recent session of the legislature. The t r
work takes some time as the bills
must be, of course, carefully read. The
only instance in which the chief executive
exercised his veto was that of
the "exclusive jurisdiction" act.
also put his veto on the bill to pro-^^H
hibit expatriation, in other words to ^
provent a convict from being pardoned
upon his promise to leave the State.
The bill was killed by the Senate, but
became engrossed as an act and would
have become a law, but the Senate
requested the governor to veto the "jj
act.
Palmetto Briefs.
Trouble is brewing about the sctipol *
at Campobello. There is friction or
disagreement between, the male prin- ?
< iji.il and the trustees. It appears tl)&t
last Saturday the trustees, having re- $
eeived information that the principal *.
had been swearing and drinking, told ''Jj
him that they would no longer need \i
him in connection with the school. S
He was at his post Monday, and after
again told him to discontinue teaching
there; and the school is without a "tj
principal. The teacher dedies the I
charges and a petition for his rdin- %
statement is being circulated. .,*
P. D. Havlrd. of Saluda, the young ;-J
white man who appealed to Governor *
Hey ward a few weeks since for protection.
and who mailed the Governor , in
some notices of a threatening nature ja
found posted on his premises. wa?'fi3fl
shot twice Saturday morning by John IS
Yarhrough. a white man living on his ,'jfl
p.ace. It is said that the shooting J
had nothing to do with the threatening I
notice. The trouble is the culmination . |
of a personal difference between Hvird a
and S'arbrough growing out of some
dispute relating to their contract for .^1
The town of Union was shocked Monday
morning to hear of the
death of States It. Crawford, presl- /m
dent of' the People's Supply Co.,
i hat place, who died the night before 3
as the result of blood poisoning caused
by a carbuncle. Mr. Crawford went to ./-j?
Ai!enta last .Monday in his > usual V3
health: on Wednesday he felt a ear- J9
bimcl? coining and returned on Thurs- . JH
day night, when he went to bed. Blood JJ
poisoning at once set in and after suffering
intensely Mr. Crawford passed
away at 10:30 o'clock. :;8
The police of Charleston were son- 1
usually busy Saturday night and Sunday
and the harsh clang of the patrol "3B
wagcn gong could be heard in tttb' j
streets at all h nirs of the night and
day. Only one fatality resulted from jHB
the revels of the merry-makers, aqd jB
this slaying took place outside the city ^11
limits. Frank Jenkins, colored, was I
shot and killed by Scipio Jankins, col- I
ored. in Lawton's lane. near the navalnJ
station. Scipio escaped and had not^^B
been eantured at a late hour Sunday
Ed "Lucas. colored, who has been I
conducting a small restaurant in Darl- - V
lington. was drowned Monday night in ' I
Pee Dee river, at the "Barn planta- B
Uon, near coutij n*?.
Robert Wilson, colored, was shot 9
and fatally wounded at Lumber by '
Robert Register."also colored. Regis- 1'9
ter was arrested by Deputy R. G. Par- JH
nell and lodged in jail at Darlington. 9
Further than this no particulars have 9
been learned. 9
The value of railroad property in 9
the State is now thirty million dollars. * 9
Valuable tin deposits have been dls- -.9
covered near Gaffney. in Cherokee 9
The Secretary of State Tuesday char- 9
terpd the Siimmerville Hardwood Com- ;9|
panv of Summerville. having a capital 9
of $5,000. R. R. Cuthbert is president 9
and W. X. Richardson treasurer. 9
Three conflagrations in the business 9
section of Bamberg within six weeks is 9
the record that that town has estab- ^9
Iished. The third and most disastrous 9
occurred Saturday morning, and four
stores were burned. The fire originated
in the store of H. F. Bamberg and Is 9
supposed to have been accidental. It 9
gained such headway before it was dis- |9
covered that it was impossible to save
any of the goods from that or the ad- H
joining buildings, and the whole block
would undoubtedly have been burned
but for the assistance of the cotton
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