The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, June 13, 1907, Image 7
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f I ?k CONQUEST
U OF CANAAN
By BOOTH TARKINGTON.
A?4wr # **CKerry.** "Monsieur BmlAc^Lre,"
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3 Copyright, 1905, by Harper <fc Brothers
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gy, saoou Their Peaas at one anoroei
and slowly went up to the poreb. wbert
Joe met them. Mrs. Louden uttered a
sharp exclamation, for the colonel
shook hauds with her stepson.
Perhaps Flitcroft himself was sur
prised. He had off ere 1 bis hand al
most uucousciously. and the greeting
> was embarrassed and perfunctory, but
" his two conipanious. each in turn,
gravely followed his lead, and Joe's
set face flushed a little. It was the
first time iu many years that men ol
their kind In Canaan had offered him
this salutation.
"He wouldn'r let me sen 1 for you,"
he told them. "V. s r I he knew you'd
be here soon with >ur that." And he
led the way to E.k-*v"> bedside,
Joe and thed v: >: !: i ! undressed the
old man an i hud put him into nightgear
of Roger Tab >r's t.'keu from an
antique chest. It was s ?i't and yellow
and much more like coior than the face
above It. for the white hair on the pillow
was not whiter than that. Yet
there was a strange youthfulness iu the
eyes of Eskew, an eerie, inexplicable,
luminous, live look. The thin cheeks
seemed fuller than they had been for
years, and, though the heavier lines of
age and sorrow could be seen, they appeared
to have been half erased. He
lay not in sunshine, but iu clear light
The windows were open, the curtains
trained, for he had asked them uot
to darken the room.
The doctor was whispering In a doctor's
Way to Ariel at the end of the
. room opposite the bed when the three
old fellows came in. None of them
spoke Immediately, and, though all
three cleared their throaty with what
they meant for casual cheerfulness to
Indicate that the situation was not at
all extraordinary or depressing. It was
to be seen that the colonel's chin trembled
under his mustache, and his comrades
showed similar small and unwilling
signs of emotion.
Eskew spoke first "Well, boys?" he
said and smiled.
That seemed to make It more difficult
for the others. The three white heads
bent silently over the fourth upon the
> pillow, and Ariel saw waverlngly, for
her eyes suddenly filled, that the colonel
laid his unsteady hand upon
Pnew'i, which was outside the coverlet
"It's?it's not," saia tne oia soraiei
gently?"It's not on?on both sides. Is It,
Hskew 7"
Mr. Arp moved his hand slightly in
answer. "It ain't paralysis," he said.
'They call it 'shock and exhaustion,'
(bat it's more than that It's just my
time. I've beard the call. We've all
been slidin' on thin ice this long time?
and ifs broke under me"?
"Eskew, Eskew!" remonstrated Peter
Bradbury. "You'd oughtn't to talk
that-a-way! You only kind of overdone
a little?heat o' the day, too,
and""Peter,"
Interrupted thei sick man,
with feeble asperity, "did yon ever
manage to fool me In your life?"
"No, Eskew."
, "Well, you're not doin' it now!"
? ^ Two tears suddenly loosed themselves
frog Squire Buckalew's eyelids
despite hlshard endeavor to wink them
away, and he turned from the bed toe
late to conceal what had happened.
"There ain't any call to feel bad," said
skew. "It might have happened any
time?In the night maybe?at my
Itouse?and all alone?but here's Alrle
Tabor brought me to her own horns
and takln' care of mc. I couldn't asi
any better way to go, could 17'
"I don't know what we'll do," stam
mered the colonel, "If you?you tali
about goia' away from us. Eskew. W<
?we couldn't get along"?
"Well, sir, I'm almost kind of glal
to think," Mr. Asp murmured, betweet
short struggles for breath, "that lt'l
be?quieter?on the ?National Hous*
corner."
A moment later he called the doctoi
faintly and asked for a restorative
"There." he said tn a stronger vole*
and with a gleam of satisfaction in th<
vindication of his belief that he wat
dying. "I was almost gone then. I
know!" He lay panting for a moment
then spoke the name or Joe Lotraeik
Joe came quickly to the bedside.
"I want you to shake hands with th(
colonel and Peter and Buekalew."
"We did." answered the colonel. In
finitely surprised and troubled. "W?
shook hands outside before we cam<
in"
"Do IP again." said Eskew. "I want
to see you."
And Joe. making shift to smile, wa?
suddenly blinded, so that he could noi
see wrinkled hands extended U
nira atv was rain ro irroj?* i ?r iuciu.
"God\novvs why we didn't all tak(
his hand long ago." said Eskew Arp
"I didn't because 1 was stubborn. 1
hated toWlmlt that the argument was
againsti^. I acknowledge it now be
fore hiin and before you?and I wani
the word of it carried!"
"It's all right. Mr. Arp." began Jo<
tremulously. "You mustn't"?
Hi ''Hark to me." The old man's volc<
lifted higher. "If you'd ever whim
BB| pered or give back talk or broke oui
H the wrong way It would of been dif
ferent. but you never did. I've watch
I .
ed you, ana TTtnow. And you've Juat
gone your own way alone, with the
town against you because you got a
bad name as a boy, and once we'd
given you that, everything you did or
didn't do we had to give you a blacker
one. Now It's time some one stood by
you. Airie Tabor 'II do that with all
her soul and body She told me once
I thought a good deal of you. She
knew. But I want these three old
friends of mine to do It too. I was
boys with them, and they'll do It, I
! think. They've even stood up fer you
i against me sometimes, but mostly fer
I the sake of the argument. I reckon.
! but now they must do It when there's
more to stand against than just my
talk. They saw It all today?the mean>
est thing I ever knew! I could of
i stood it all except that!" Before they
I could prevent him he had struggled
half upright In bed, lifting a clinched
flst at the town beyond the windows.
"But, by God, when they got so low
: down they tried to kill your dog"?
He fell back, choking, in Joe's arms,
, and the physician bent over him, but
i Eskewwas not gone, and Ariel, upon
; the other side of the room, could hear
him whispering again for the restorai
tive. She brought it. and when he had
, taken it weut quickly out of doors to
the side yard.
She sat upon a workman's bench un,
der the big trees, hidden from the
street shrubbery, and, breathing deep,
ly of the shaded air, began to cry quiet
ly. Through the windows came the
quavering voice of the old man, lifted
again, insistent, a little querulous, but
determined. Responses sounded intermittently
from the colonel, from Peter
and from Buekalew. and now and then
a sorrowful, yet almost humorous protest
from Joe: and so she made out
that the veteran swore his three com'
rades to friendship with Joseph Louden.
to lead him their counteuauce in
ail matters, to stand by him in weal
and woe, to speak only good of him
! and defend him iu the town of Canaan.
Thus did Eskew Arp on the verge of
1 parting this life render justice.
The gate clicked, and Ariel saw Eugene
approaching through the shrub
bery. One or his nanus was oanuagea,
i a thin strip of courtplaster crossed his
i forehead from his left eyebrow to his
i hair and bis thin and agitated face
I showed several light scratches.
"I saw you come out," he said. "I've
i been waiting to speak to you."
"The doctor told us to let him have
i his way ia whatever he might ask."
Ariel wiped her eyes. "I'm afraid that
. means"?
"I didn't come to talk about Eakew
Arp," interrupted Eugene. "I'm not
> laboring under any amxfety about him.
You needn't be afraid; he's too sour to
; accept hia conge so readily."
i "Please lower your voice," she said,
i rising quickly and moving away from
> him toward the house; but, as be fol.
lowed, Insisting sharply that he must
speak with her, she walked out of earshot
of the windows and, stopping,
turned toward him. "Very well," she
, said. "Is it a message from Mamie?"
At this he faltered and hung fire.
"Have you been to see her?" she
continued. "I am anxious to know if
her goodness and bravery caused her
any?any discomfort at home."
"You may set your mind at rest about
that." returned Eugene. "I was there
when the judge came home to dinner.
I suppose you fear he may have been
rough with her for taxing my step.
brother Into the carriage. He was not.
On the contrary, he spoke very quietly
to her and went on out toward the stables.
But I haven't come to you to
talk of Judge Pike either."
"No," said Ariel; "I don't care particularly
to bear of him, but of Mamie."
"Nor of ber either!" he broke out "I
want to talk of you!"
There was no mistaking him, no
possibility of misunderstanding the
real passion that shook him. and her
startled eyes betrayed her comprehension.
"Yes, I see you understand!" he cried
bitterly. "That's because you've seen
i others the same way. God help me,"
be wont on. striking his forehead with
: his open hand, "that young fool of a
Bradbury told me you refused him
only yesterday! He was proud of even
c rejection from you! And there's Nor5
bert and half a dozen others, perhaps.
already since you've been here." He
' flung out his arms In ludicrous, savage
1 despair. "And here am I"?
1 "Ah. yes," she cut him off. "it is of
yourself that you want'to speak after
all, not of me!"
"Look here," he vociferated. "Are
you going to marry that Joe Louden?
? I want to know whether you are or
? not. He gave me this and this today!"
- He touched his bandaged hand and
1 plastered forehead. "He ran into me?
over me?for nothing when I was not
on my guard, struck me down?stamp
ed on me"?
She turned upon him, cheeks aflame,
eyes sparkling and dry.
"Mr. Bantry," she cried, "he did a
good thing! And now I want you to
go home. I want you to go home and
try if you can discover anything in
1 yourself that is worthy of Mamie and
of what she showed herself to be this
' morning! If you can, you will have
found something that I could like!"
y She went rapidly toward the house,
and he was senseless enough to follow,
babbling: "What do you think I'm
made of? You trample on me, as he
' did! I can't bear everything! I tell
5 you"?
But she lifted her hand with such
f Imperious will that he stopped short.
Then through the window of the sick '
room came clearly the querulous voice:
"I tell you it was. I heard him speak
f Just now?out there in the yard?that
' no account stepbrother of Joe's! What
f if he is a hired hand on the Tocsin?
He'd better give up his job and quit
- than do what he's do.ne to help make
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fhetown flunk "hard of Joe. SKI WliJtT
Is he? Why, he'9 worse than Cory.
When that Claudine Fear first came
here, Gene Bantry was hangin' around
her himself. Joe knew it and he'd
never tell, but I will. I saw 'em
buggy ridln' out uear Beaver Beach,
and she slapped his face fer him. It
ought to be told!"
"I didn't know that Joe knew?that"
Eugene stammered huskily. "It was?
It was?a long time ago"?
"If you understood Joe." she said In
a low voice, "you would know that before
these men leave this house he will
have their promise never to tell."
His eyes fell miserably, then lifted
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ttgiini, uui ill nt*r cieur nuu uuuemauie
gaze there sboue such a flame of scorn
as he could not endure to look upon.
For the flrst time in his life he saw a
true light upon himself, and. though
the vision was darkling, the revelation
was complete.
"Heaven pity you!" she whispered.
Eugene found himself alone and
stumbled away, his glance not lifted.
He passed his own home without looking
up and did not see his mother beckoning
frantically from a window. She
ran to the door and called him. He
did not hear her. but went on toward
the Tocsin office with his head still
bent.
(Continued next week.)
A FEATHERED FRAUD.
Robin Redbreast Called a Much Overrated
Bird.
The horticulturist put down his
paper and snorted in disgust when
he read an article praising robins.
"The robin is a much overrated
bird/' he said. "People rail against
the English sparrow, but he doesn't
begin to torment the gardener as
the robin does. Did you ever hear
of a robin eating insects? No, indeed;
not one little bug does he eat.
But he'll pull up all the worms in
the soil and impoverish it, for angle
worms are the natural enrichers
of the soil. His appetite is enormous,
and it won't take him long to
clean out all the angle worms in a
good plot of earth.
"He also feeds on berries, and I
won't forget in a hurry what he did
to me last winter. I planted a lot
of black alder trees in my grounds,
anticipating that by Christmas they
would be blazing with red berries.
You know the black alder is called
the northern holly, and its berries
are a vivid scarlet. Well, just as
soon as the berries began to form a
swarm of robins swooped down and
gobbled them all up. How did they
happen to be up north ? Why, robins
would stay north all winter if
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eat. They don't mind the cold
weather any. It's simply a matter
of food that drives them to a warmer
climate. Bittersweet berries are
the only sort they won't eat. They
are robbers too. They'll steal the
nesU of such little birds as the
phoebe, that sing sweetly. And
they haven't a bit of common sense.
When they teach their young to
fly they keep up such a squawking
that they attract the attention of
every cat for a quarter of a mile.
Of co-.rse the cats nromDtlv gather
and pounce on the young birds.
Most horticulturists will tell you
that the robin is a fraud and is no
pet of gardeners. Even his name is
a deception, for his much vaunted
red breast is a yellowish brown. I
welcome the sparrow around my
place much more cordially than I
do the fat robin." ? New York
Pres3.
TH#m Hustling Americans.
At a recent gathering in Baltimore
two men from different sections
of the country were discussing
the capabilities of "nervous, restless
Americans" for being most slow and
deliberate. The Marylander claimed
the palm for slowness for the inhabitants
of the Eastern Shore of
his state.
"It is a saying hereabouts," said
he, "that if oysters had been created
with legs the people of the
Eastern Shore would all have starved
to death."
"The folks around Mount Monadnock
have a saying that beats
yours," remarked a Vermont man.
"Of one man up there it used to be
observed tnat n you were 10 give
Hiram Higgins forty yards start
stock still would catch him!"?Harper's
Weekly.
A Verbal Puzzle.
" 'Lieutenant colonel' is probably
the worst verbal puzzle that confronts
the child," says a writer.
"Our pronunciation is a heritage
from the sixteenth century spelling
'coronel,' which represented the
Spanish form, wherein the change
of T to V was linguistically natural,
though popular etymology
wrongly connected the word with
'corona,' a crown. It is really from
the Italian 'colonna,' a column, the
'compagnia colonella' having been
the first company of an infantry
regiment, the little column which
the 'colonel' led. In the seventeenth
century 'colonel' had three
syllables, as in Milton's line 'captain
or colonel, or knight in arms,' but
in Johnson's time the common pronunciation
was 'col'nel.'"
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BEARS IN EUROPE.
They Plagua the Herdsmen by Raiding
Tlsair Flocks.
Although the last bear was shot
in Germany in 1835 near Traunstein,
in Bav3ria, bear hunting ami
trapping still go on in the very
heart of P'urope. In Transylvania,
TTnnirarv Rrnrria arrrT Croatia, all
mountainous regions, there are hundreds
of bean, and scores of them
are killed aod caught every year.
They are the plague of the shepherds
and cattle herders who pasture
their docks among the hills.
They seem to fear neither dogs nor
men and bold.iv earn' off sheep and
calves into tie woods before the
eyes of the watchers.
The peasantry retaliate bv using
the stolen animals as bait for the
robbers. The bear seldom consumes
the entire carcass at one meal. He
either buries the rest or hides it
with leaves to serve another time.
The country people know this, and
they follow the bear's trail to the
place of concealment. When this is
found they determine the direction
in which he departed from his prey,
knowing he will return when he is
hungry by the same path.
The trap i- p aced in this line
about a yard frv.n the hidden carcass.
It is ear d'ul!" concealed with
leaves and grass, and bruin cannot
help stepping on it with either his
fore or hin.l paws. When he is securely
t aught the herdsmen, who
are mortally afraid of him, appear
nn.l 1 - 11 11 .?ti .* t 1 Atou on.1 m nor.
ami i\.:i ii.t.i at iunuic auu tit
feet safety.
Of cour-e the landowners and
sporting ciass generally d^not get
their hear in this cowardly way.
They hunt with dogs and shoot the
game when it is run down.
But this is not easy work. Although
there are plenty of bears in
a mountain region, it is not uncommon
for a hunting party to travel a
whole day without getting a shot at
one.?Exchange.
Fin* Feather* and Gratitude.
The well dressed woman slipped
two theater tickets into an envelope,
which she proceeded to address to
a girl employed by a fashionable
dressmaker.
"That," she explained, "is a favor
that many women with good
clothes confer upon the girls who
are responsible for their fine feathers.
In bestowing it we are not
actuated by vanity, but by a desire
to give pleasure. After a woman
has been in the millinery or dressmaking
business for several years
she ceases to take much interest in
the public appearance of the women
who wear her creations, but the
younger girls have a great desire to
6ee a customer fully dressed for
some occasion for which they have
hurried to finish her clothes. From
long experience I can pick out these
curious, clever little artists, and
whenever I wear an especially nice
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I send tickets of admission to the
girls who have worked hardest to
make my costume a success."?New
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Goaneiceaeot at Kane.
Prof. Q M MitcbelUprincipal of
the Union graded school,passed
through the city this morning
en route for his home at Ridge
Spring, Edgefield county. Prof.
Mitchell has had an unusually
successful session this year, and
his work has met with the hearty
commendation of the patrons1
of the school. He reports that
all the teachers were re-elected
for the coming term, and that a
fourth teacher will be added before
the next session begins.
At present Miss Cora Huggins
nas cnarge or me primary
grades, Miss Marie Rivers of the
music department, and a teacher
for the intermediate grades
is the one to be elected. The
commencement exercises on the
31st of May were elaborately
arranged and carried out in a
most satisfactory manner, and
greatly to the credit of the
teachers and scholars. The
literary address of Dr H N Snyder
in the evening was the principal
and crowning feature of
the occasion. The address
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showed the value of an education,
and the part of life which
can only be filled by educational
training. The address was
delivered in Dr Snyder's best
style and only as he can speak. ,
The inclement weather prevented
many people from attending
the lecture, which, by the way,
was the first ever delivered in
that section by a college president.
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?June 8.
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South Carolina Patents.
Granted this week. Reported
by 0 A Snow & Co., Patent Attorneys,
Washington D C?
James C Dalrymple, Charleston,
device for measuring standing
limber?'Joseph C Hubbartl,
Georgetown, automatic drainage
attachment for lubricators
?Samuel Stallinge, Fountain
Inn, cotton-chopper?Advill M
Walter, Summerton, buggy-fop
supporter. For copy of any of
above patents send ten cents in
pastage stamps to C A Snow4
Co., Washington DC. %
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