The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, May 21, 1908, Image 3
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1 The Spoilers.
By REX E. BEACH.
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^^T^tieaten into ;i shapeless mass bv the
4 other's euiming blows, while Ulenls\
ter's every bone was wrenched and
twisted under his enemy's terrible onsh^rhts.
The miner's chief effort. It is
true, was to keep his feet and to break
the inau's embraces. Never had he encountered
one whom he could not beat
by sheer strength till he met this great,
sncling creature who worried him
liiti.er and yon < though In were a
child. Time and again K y be. t v.i>oii
the mail's face wiiii the blows of a
sic Ige. N > u!c? g .vcrue.l this solitary
con b it: t!i men were deaf to all but
/th<> mnriir. in i .e. ? :? :-s. o.:iu:cn io an
hut hair, i: ?-ii -to everything b'lt
the hlood mania. Their trampling feet
caused tli** I uihlilivr to rumble and
shake as though some monster were
running uniuek.
Meanwhile a bareheaded man rushed
out of the store beneath, bumping into
n pedestrian who had paused on the
sidewalk, and together they scurried
up the stairs. The dory which I toy
bad seen at sea had shot the breakers,
aud now its three passengers were
tracking through the wet sand toward
Front street, l'.ill Wheaton in the lead.
He was followed by two raw boned
men who traveled without baggage.
The city was awakening with the sun
which reared a copper rim out of the
sea. Judge Stillman and Yoorliees
?ame down from the hotel aud paused
to gaze through the mists at a caravan
of mule teams which trotted into the
other end of the street with jingle aud
clank. The wagons were blue with
soldiers. the early golden rays slanting
fronr their Krugs, and they were
bound for the Midas.
Out of the fogs .t ieh clung so
% thickly to the tundra there came two
other horses, distorted and unreal, on
one a girl, on the other a figure of
pain and tragedy, a grotesque creature
that swayed stilfiy to the motion of its
steed, its face writhed into lines of
suffering. Its hands clutching eautle
aud horn.
It was as though fate, with invisible
touch, were setting her stage for the
last act of this play, assembling the
principals close to the golden sands
where lirst they had made entrance.
The man and the girl came face to
face with the judge and marshal, who
7 cried out upon seeing them, but as
i they reiued in. out from the stairs heside
them a man shot amid clatter and
uproar.
"tlive me a hand?quirk!** he shouted
f Imni
"What's up?" inquired the marshal.
"It's murder! McNuuiara and (Hen
ister!" He dashed back up the steps
behind Voorhee.s, the judge following,
while mil lib I cries came frout above.
The gambler turned toward the three
meu who were hurrying from the
j *. beach and. recognizing Wheatou,
called to him: "I'ntie my feet! Cut
the ropes! tjuiek!"
"What's tlie trouble?" the lawyer
asked, but on hearing (Jlenister's name
bounded after the judge, leaving one
of his companions to free the rider.
They could hear the light now and all
crowded toward the door, Helen with
? her brother, iu spite of his warning to
stay behind.
She never remembered how she
climbed those stairs, for she was borne
along by that hypnotic power which
drags one t" Udiold a catastrophe in
spite of his will. Reaching the room,
she stood appalled; f<>r the* group she
had joined watched two raging tilings
x that rushed at each other with inhuman
cries, ragged, bleeding, lighting
on a carpet of debris Kvei , ; > and
breakable thing had been ;:ii t ?
splinters as though iiy iron slugs in a
whirling cylinder.
To this d.". from |>i!\vo"i to the
straits. from t ngi ; ? the nr?-ti<\s. n;e i
tell of the cicu'iat whoever they f regather
at tl cing ?. ?:" r > <>; in di cry
bunkhouses. and. : P.'a > r!t > : ?> ? , ,,ut
ihe tale, there are others w'c >-nv it
and can swear t<? it- trut'i. v sav
that the eneounPu* was l-v,. the battle
of bull it: the rivtiirg so:; :c:i.
though more terrible. averring that
* two men like these had hover been
known in the land vin e the days r>f
Vitus J?er:::g and his crew: for their
vaneer had v.tin at reel ot each
. othn's !!.- '! they rati rnnd and felt
super? "v.'-u strength. It !s trne. at
. T.\ !'.i that wlth.-r was < insqious
;.f *; rosin, nor tin- ( ries of the
r.i v.' , .?,? vV j t!|o marshal forced
| iV w??dged door and
. ' ' ' n: sr. which was (Jion
.. .t . ... j j j ;.:; n 111 when the v
'" <i ' ' i d :<; jirm's lengih. ghi?
r _ v. drunken eyes, gasping
t' '< l>ae!; Into their
hn S
. : ef Ids j. 'r; arms the
\ yo, . i.ia hailed tiie i'.rm jor aside
'Y? ' i"!et.:!y 'ha? his 1 strn< k the
nroi. safe and ho eolhipsed insensible.
: hen without apparent notiee of the
Interruption. the light went en. It was
seen tlnrnig tills respite that MeXani.r
:i's mot was running water as
thoiigii I." wen* deathly siek. while
every retell (nought forth a groan.
Ile'en hoard herself crying. "She
, th nil S?"p tl nil" lint no one seemed
i aj t'de of iiitoi-:"' : ?. SI h.-a'-l !: ?*
of'.titer 'as ? < ; g i 'tN i a
iny I 1 . i'ty !:' *? t r ti e *' 1 is
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Judge was ashy. imbecue, uerpi
McXamara's distress was patent to
his antagonist, who advanced upon
hlra with the hunger of pnj^^N vh*tory.
but the young mr des
] obeyed his commands s' tys
ribs seemed brokeii^/ >a
i weak, and ou the \or s
the flesh was quiv/ v
| together the bos*
| hand and caught *
burying thumb ae
into his cheeks, f? yya^ .
; apart, thrusting L
1 while he centered e
of??Anflrf irk fK/i fas ril tl I.
,
felt the flesh giving way anw
! himself backward to break the holu,
; whereupon the other summoned his :
I W95*1?"lerio* and plunged toward
| t* here lay the revolver. In- i
ed (llenister of treachery, I
.it the tnan had sought this
e to save himself, and as
turn his back and reach
t on the youth leaped like a.
I ng him about the wn>^*^
gi iiiiara's wrist will
rigi "or the lirst time do
the v were pot faeo to face.
, and ^int Key realized tin
ndvam..B~ through the oil;
er's iH?rtidy. the wrestler's
hold that was u. that tlity.
moment of victory
The telling takes 1
quickly had these things .
the footsteps of the soldi.
w* ?oo/?k/v(1 f V?/\ /1AAC tV'lli)
j > i caviicu iuv ui?ui ?? nv .
; were locked beside the safe.
Of what happened next many gir
1 bled accounts have pone forth, for of
' all those present none but the Uronco
Kid knew its significance and ever roi
counte<l the truth concerning it. Some
j claim that the younger man was sei::ed
with a fear of death which mnltiplie 1
I his enormous stre ijC'i. o hers that the
: power died in his a?. versary as reward
for his treason, but i' w..s not so.
No sooner had 11 oy e:i V:.passe:] Me1
Natuara's waist from the rear tlian he
! slid his damaged hand n;> past the nth|
er's chest apd around the back of his
ne-k. thus bringing his own left arui
I close under his enemy's lof* armpit,
wedging the receiver's head forward.
while with his other hand he grasped
the politician's right wrist close to the
revolver, thus holding him in a grasp
which could not be broken. Now came
the test. The two bodies set themselves
roeklike and rigid. There was
no lunging about. Calling up the final
atom of his strength, (Jlenister bore
backward with his right arm, and it
j became a contest for the weapon.
! which, clutched In the two bauds,
' swayed back and forth or darted up
and down, the fury of resistance causing
it to trace formless patterns in tiie
' air with Its muzzle. McNamara shook
1 himself, hut he was close against the
j safe and could not escape, his head
i bowed forward by the lock of the mill
! er's left arm. anil so Uc strained tin me
| breath clogged in his throat. I?espite
the grievous toil his right hand moved
back slightly. Ilia feet shifted a bit.
while the blood seemed bursting from
; his eyes, but he found that the long
i fingers encircling his wrist were like
gyves weighted with the strength of
the hills and the irresistible vigor of
youth which knew no defeat. Slowly.
Inch by inch, the great man's arm was
dragged back, down past his side, while
the strangling labor of bis breath showed
at what awful'cost. The muzzle of
the gun descrilnvl a semicircle and the j
knotted hands began to travel toward |
j the left, more rapidly now, across his j
broad back. Still lie struggled and j
wrenched, but uselessly. He strove to j
I fire the weapon, but his fingers were j
woven about it so that the hammer '
, wouid not work. Then the miner be- !
I gan forcing upward.
The white skin beneath the men's
t strips of clothing was stretched over
| jrr**:it knots an 1 ridges which sunk and |
j swelled ami quivered. Helen, watching
in silent terror, felt her brother sinking
his fingers into her shoulder and fce.ml
I him panting, his face ablaze with exJ
citement. while she became conscious
that lie had reiieated time and again:
"It's the hammer lock?the hammer
i lock."
By now McXamara's arm was bent
and cratniied upon ids back, and then
they saw Hlenistcr's shoulder dip. his
I elbow come closer to bis side, and bis
! body heave in one final terrific effort
as though pushing a heavy weight.
In the silence something snapped like
a stick. There came a deafening report
and the scream of :i strong nnjn
overcome with agony. McXamara
went to his knees and sagged forward
on to his face as though every lione in
his huge bulk had turned to water,
while his master reeled back against
' the opposite Avail, his heels dragging
in the litter, bringing up with outtlung
i anus as though fearful of falling,
I swaying. Mind, exhausted, his face
J blackened by the explosion of the revolver.
yet grim with the light of vic;
tory.
Judge Stilhuan shouted hysterically:
"Arrest that man, quick! Don't let
i him go!"
It was the miner's first realization
that otli( rs were there. Raising his
i head he stared at the faces close
against the partition, then groaned the
words:
i near i;:o minor nnu?ai:u?i oiuue
him with?my hands!"
OHAl'TKIi XXII.
SOI.DIEIiS seized tlie youmr man,
who in.nlo 110 offer al resistar.'-e.
and the room boenuie a
noisy riot. Crowds snrsmd up
from lel'?w, elainoriii;;. questioning,
: till some one at the head of the stairs
shouted down:
"They've -_r ?t K>y Cloiiister. lie's
killed Mi X on ." ;<t whi' h a inurnrtr
arose that threatened r. hpt-onie a |
i heer.
This i ?<'je ii| |!i n\Vj> TS t;!<*tioll ;
ealled. "Let's ham,' !d:n. lie killed ten !
of on : an last night." Helen win? ed.
1:v.t a.iii. retired to a sort of ma- '
ceietc f thr< eJi.rvy
J
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band.'
McN
from th i
from tht
distorts*
while 1
with p
broken
Roy n.
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my it.
mara?"
boss, who .cuiru,
glov.eriu;? HI . while
Stillman ran u <1 shrilly
irascible.
"Take hit Vtell you: Tako
him to jail!"
Hut WheatoiV* X plac e. while j
the room cq^ "s tioon him. i
. . I tlplllH'O'llOMf I
MTIlllllg OUU ? J
lie saw it, am ssion to a natural
vanity nr instinct, he '
threw buck h stnlTed his [
hands into his coat i while the ,>(
crowd waited. lie iri insolently
at the jiv's* and the ret
This will l>e a day i "?nts and i I
disappointments to you. friends. .
That hoy won't so to jail >e you '
will wear the shackles yoi ..?
you played a shrewd jran
with your senators, youi
your pulls, but it's our ti
we'll make you dance to.
3'ou uutted an 1 the rohlieries yo
done and the men you've ruin .
Thank heaven, there's one honest coin *, !'
fi'i '' j/jL ' 3 g
jlL i
"H'c'if make you dunce for the mitics j u
you gutted.1' c
and I happened to find it." lie turned 'f
to the strangers who had accompanied i
him from the ship, crying. "Serve those ' J
warrants," and they stepped forward, t
The uproar of the past few minutes ^
had brought men running from every
direction tili. finding no room on the h
stairs, they had massed in the street i ^
below while the word flew from lip to |,
*l.; . , . ..< ll
up concerning iui.s i himu^ wtuc u> i
their drama, the battle of tbe Midas, r
the great fight upstairs and the arrest |,
by the {Frisco deputies. Like Siud- .
bail's genie, a wondrous tale took shape
from the rumors. Men shouldered one ; il
another eagerly for a glimpse of the n
actors, and when the press streamed |
out, greeted it with volleys of qties- 1
tions. They saw the unconscious mar- ! n
shal borne forth, followed by the oid (J
Judge, now a palsied wretch, slinking
beside his captor, a very shell of a man 1'
at whom they jeered. When McN'auia- si
ra lurched into view, an image of de- j
feat and ehagriu, their voices rose
menacingly. Tlie pack was turning M
and he knew it. but. though racked
and crippled, lie bout upon them a l
visage so full of defiance and conteuip
tuous malignity that they hushed them- i u
selves, and their final picture of him | S
was that of a big man downed, hut !
' 11
unbeaten to the last. They began to j
cry for flh'Ulster, so that when he, J'
loon:e 1 in the doorway, a ragged, he- ; \\
roie figure, his heavy shock low over
his ev. s. his unshaven face aggressive I'
even in its weariness, liis corded arms 1 tl
and ui.*si hare heneath the fluttering f,
streamers. t!ie street broke into wild !,
cheering. Here was a man of their
own. a son of the m>rthl.?ud who labor- a
ed and loved and fought in a way they ?
understo.nl. and he had come into his
due.
Hut ltu\. dumb ami ii? le*s, stag-i C:
gercd uj> the s.reet. r. fusing liie help ( ^
of everv mau c:< ? ;u Wheat on. lieL.
I v
heard his < '>:ui :::iii>ii talking, but .]
jjraspe 1 only thai !!:.? :ik\v floated i 11
>tii-1 jrioriiMi.
"VvY have whipped :1;. i.i. i?ov. We a
I
have whipped she i at tln ir own -.aiuie.
Arrested i.i their very dO"ivards ejted I
for ?t <>!' court that's what !*
t!;o\ ait1 I Iiey ulsoho.. '<i those oilier ?
writs. at d so I iTot th"?u."
"I ! re.!. his r.r: i." \ hi tiered the ,
ntin- s
. i n.?\o;? <lo it. I i?h! It was
::u a.'t;i i ? >;11 I-i'i pri?\:? < on- : ''
sjt;-. i': ; > ; ? j;-ii f r a ji
II't' ' r i!; a:al v e I; e
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cher continued" dully, "Just like a
hovel hnmlle. I felt It?but he tried
o kill me. and I bad to do It."
The attorney took Roy to hi* cabin
md dressed hfs wounds. talking Incessantly
the while, but the boy was
Ike h sleep walker, displaying no elatou.
no excitement, no Joy of victory.
last Wheaton^broke out:
rheer up*! Why. man. you act like
jeer! Don't you renllze that we've j
>n? Don't you understand that the
Idas Is yours? And the whole world i
th It?"
Won?" echoed the inincj. "What!
lo .von know about It. Bill? The
ilfdas?the world?what uood are they V .
k'ou're wrou?. I've lost?yes?I've lost j
she taught me. and by j
-lined t'*iek of fate she was
? ? me do It. X?>-v. ?0 away;'
.0 sleep."
sank upon the hod with its tangle
'ankete and wrs unconscious l>e- j
lie lawyer h.<l covered him over.
I Concluded next week. |
lM] m m _
In the Interest of Better Roads.
."MitorCouxTY Record:?Now,
nut our road official, Mr Smglctarv,
ports fmills available for roads, i
r # I
o better use con Id be made o( s-.id
11mis tnan id ;?n honest,wvii-uirect[i
attempt at improving the sandy
jads of the county, at least those
pst traveled.
South Carolina has done practie|ly
nothing with experimental j
r#ds and only where citizens have
t#en the matter in their own hands i
art where lateRy some counties have;
taen uj> the work has there been :
d
^he State has as varied soils a&|
mr other?the soil varying with ,
rad> geological belt as well as iu !
helt. Herte in the lower pine;
[^ijsa.id pre vat is hut black land is ,
ilmwt as ^npalent, particularly j
>n t1^ near slopes of our branches. ;
i r rain fall he; *e is very heavy at!
jime when the roads are most
Id and the black lands and clay
xe easily cut into almost imhowever,
it is the pur- \
)o ."Jfon'jne attention to i
ami
Just as too much rain means the j
ertain destruction of clay and such'
oads, so drought is fatal to sand j
hat in more favorable seasons are!
>assable. As soon as the rains fall
he water permeates the sand Deds
,nd sinks away to under-ground
hannels, leaving behiud a loose in
oherable, gritty dust. Often this
lust becomes six inches deep or mote.
Clay scattered to a depth of six
nehes ovei such a road-bed has
roved very effectual and is now
;enerally employed in such cases,
rhe clay possesses exactly the oppoitemechtani.al
properties fromthose
f sand, the latter having practially
no binding force, while the
ormer has great binding qualities.
'lit. fnrfhuf iiUri)iiit? nf wnt.cr l'f?- !
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ention makes clay useful also in 1
icldingthe necessary moisture, thus
uaking sand itself incline to cohere. ;
'lay is usually quite abun lant in all
[ eahties and may be had by the'
oad side, so tljat the question of;
aiding is reduced to a minimum.;
? i
n some places muck or black earth
Day be more convenient and while i
ot so efficacious as the clay,owing to
ht dificieticy in binding force, it is !
evgr-the-less useful also when mix- ;
d with sand and it has been em-1
Joyed very successfully in some!
actions Its virtue consists main- |
v in its moisture-holding capacity,
hicli is second only to that of clay, j
After once getting the ciay or J
lack earth on the bed, it should then
e worked over with a road drag,
uck a device, as far as I know, kasj
ever entered into the heads of our j
eople and certainly of all the roadorking
machinery none is so inexensive,
simple and indispensable as;
heeling. Good roads after t lie;
uundation is once made can be and
ave been maintained indefinitely
t the nominal cast of one dollar per
lile per anuni.
What has been said of the appliation
of clay to good roads applies
ith equal force to the application
f sand to clay roads. The res It islie
same.
In the interest of better i oaths ]
in.
\"erv sincerely.
iAt'itKNt'K 11 McCi'hboron.
Rose Hill Garden.
lay 1-. Ibex.
Insist upon DeWitt s \\ itch Hazel
a!ve. There are substitutes, hut
here is??!n> one original, it is heal*
m, soothing cool in ; and is esecially
good for piles, ?? Id by
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Strengthen yo
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X system.
A ALL DRUGGISTS;
Winthrop College Scholarship and Entrance
Examination.
The examination for the award
of vacant scholarships in Winthrop
College and for the admission ot
new students will be held at the
county court house on Friday, July
3, at 1) a m. Applicants must not
be less than fifteen years of age.
When scholarship?are vacant after
July 3 they will be awarded to those
making the highest average at this
examination, provided tney meet tne
conditions governing the award.
Applicants for scholarships should
write to President Joh son before
the ezamic'ation for examination
blanks.
Scholarships are worth ?100 and
free tuition. The next session will
open September 16, 1908. For fur
ther informal ion and catalogue, address
President D B Johnson, Rock
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V\^A,?XnWBe WrJTh Visiting choppers corI
>%r// dially invited to com*
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XjSn&Ti S or hang about on th*
NgJ- limbs.
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0 27 12m. Con. Com.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve
The Best Salve In The World.
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Theoffice of the Supervisor of Beg;
istration will be opened on the first
| Monday in every month for the pur1
pose of the registering of any person
who is qualified as follows:
Who shall have been a resident of
the State for two years, and of the
county one year, and of the polling precinct
in which the elector offers to
vote four months before the day of
election, and shall have paid, six
months before, any poll tax then due
and navahlo and uihn nan hnt.h road
and write any section of the constitution
of 1695 submitted, to him by the
Supervisors of Registration, or who
can show that he owns, and has paid
all taxes collectable on during tho
present year, property in this State
assessed at three hundred dollars or
more. J. Y. McGILL,
Clerk of Board,
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