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SYNOPSIS.
In Ciuptkr 1 Geo Inigo, a prominent im
presario, confides to Hamilton Jocelyn, a man
about town, that Marana, a Russian prima
donna, engaged at enormous expense to open
his new opera bouse in New York, has cabled
that she canoot keep her contract. Jocelyn
offVrs to find an acceptable substitute at once.
Chapter 2 introduces to the reader Beatrix
Randolph, a thoroughly trained amateur,
possessing a remarkable voice and struggling
under financial and social reverses. She lives
with her widowed father qji heavily incura
bered estates np the Hudson.
Chapter 3 brings Gen. Inigo and Jocelyn,
who is an old acquaintance of the Randolphs,
to their retired homestead, and Beatrix is en
gaged at a large salary to impersonate Ma
rana, using the Russian's came.
Im Chapter 4 Mr. Geoffrey Bellingham, a
rising young architect, who is superintending
work on the new opera house, suggests some
changes to Gen. Inigo and wins a high com
pliment/
CHAPTER V.
EOW EVERYTHING WAS MADE PLEASANT
AND EASY FOR' HER.
"What arc the services for which this is
the payment?" Mrs. Demax inquired.
Two or three days afterward Jocelyn
betook himself to a small and rather
shabby looking house in East Eighteenth
street, and asked if Mrs. Bernau were at
home. The woman who opened the
door said, in a weary and discontented
vc lice, that Mrs. Bemax was in, and Joc
elyn went upstairs. He entered the
front room on the first floor. This room
had a dingy and brownish aspect. The
furniture was meager and rickety. Upon
the wall between the windows hung
askew a piint of the Prince of Wales
and his family, taken from some illus
trated paper and framed in a wooden
frame stained black and varnished. The
only pretty thing in the room was a pho
tograph of a chubby little child abont 4
years of age. It was mounted in a
tasteful standard frame of stamped
leather, and a small vase containing two
or three flowers stood in front of it. The
photograph itself was much faded and
was in the style of ten years ago.
In a few minutes a tall, middle aged
woman, with a square shaped face and
rather strongly marked features, came
into" the room. Her eyes and brows
were dark; her hair was slightly touched
with gray. The corners of her large
mouth had acquired an indrawn look,
apparently from a habit of pressing her
lips together; her general expression was
studiously impassive. She looked like
one accustomed to meet with rebuffs
and disappointments, and to put up
with thorn when necessary, though never
with meekness and resignation. There
was an air about her that showed she
had once been familiar with the hand
some side of the world, but, from what
ever cause, had discontinued to enjoy or
practice its refinements. There were
more hard and unpleasant things in her
memory than the contrary, and these
memories and experiences had worn
away her former comeliness and made
her skeptical and somewhat malicious,
instead of gentle and engaging.
""Well, Hamilton,** she said, as she
came in, "I hope you've brought me
some money.""'
"Money, my dear Meg! Dkm*fc I eeud
you some last week?**
"Yes, enough to pay up my arrears of
board. Pve had none to spend on ray
self fora month, and I have only one
other dress to my back, and that is not
fit to be seen."
"Things are more expensive here than
in England. I told you that when you
insisted on coming here. Yon would
have been more comfortable at home.*'
"Home is where the heart is," she re
plied, with an intonation of somber sar
casm. "My heart is not in England,
wherever else it may be."
""Well, Tve been very busy," said
Jocelyn.
"So you always tell me; but I pre
sume, as usual, it is no business of
mine."
"Well, my dear, it's cn?y the money
aspect of my business that you feel any
interest in."
"If you mean there is no longer any
sentiment between us I cordially admit
it," was the answer. "I don't care the
snap of my finger for you or for any
one else , now alive. But I have some
claims upoa 3-ou, and Tve come here to
enforce them.**
"Y<>urhaye the photograph there still,
I see,** remarked Jocelyn, turning to the
table, "Poor little fellow! If he'd
lived I'd have made a man of him."
"Yes! You'd, have made the same
sort of man of him as you've made wom
an of his mother. I'm glad he's dead,
if it's only to save him from knowing
what sort of a father he's got! However,
you said that to put me in a good h:imor,
I suppose. What do you want;'*
"I vow, Meg, you're too confoundedly
sour for anything," exclaimed Jocelyn,
twisting his wiskers. "Pve come to
tell you of an arrangement that will
enable you to live at your ease t'ne ro3t of
your days, aud this is the way I am re
ceived. Come, now!"
"It is iuii>ossible you should intend
any benefit to me that would not benefit
you ten times more,** said Mrs. Bemax
impassively.
"You do mo gro3s injustice; you are
like all women with a grievance!" re- ;
turned Jocelyn, whose temper was cer- j
tainly very easy. "My scheme is-to put ;
yon in receipt of an income of $1,300 a j
year. Have you any fault to find v.ith 1
that?"
"What are the services for which this
is the payment?" Mrs. Bemax inquired.
"To chaperon a lady?nothing more,'* ,
"A lady!" repeated the other, a pe
culiar smile drawing down the corners
of her mouth; "I begin to understand!
Who is site?"
"The prima donna at the new opera
house." j
"Yes: in whom j'on are tenderly in
terestcd. Taking everything into con
sideration, Hamilton, that is very char
acteristic of you; a very delicate piece
of kindness r*
"JBah! Meg, your cynicism is over
done; yon are on a wrong scent entirely.
In the first place, the lady is not the per
son she's supposed to be. She's the
daughter of an old friend of mine; I
once intended to marry her, bnt?I
thonght better of it. Circumstances
which yon will bo fully informed of
feave led to her personating the Marana
?name and all?the coming season.
It's a grand secrot, of course, and I se
lected you as the only woman who could
be truste*.! to keep it Yon are to con
firm in every way that suggests itself the
idea that she is the bona fide Marana; say
you've lived with her for years in En
rope, and so on. But she is wholly ig
norant of the world, and you are to see
to it that none of the young fellows gets
ahead of her. You may invent all the
adventures you Hke for her?m the past,
but on no account lot her get into any
scrapes in the present. Do you see what
I mean?"
"I think so. The young fellows yon
speak of are to be "kept out of the way
for your sake rather than for hers; and
she is to be instructed that any scrape
she gets into with you is no scrape at all,
but a distinction and a blessing."
"Upon my soul I should flatter myself
you were jealous if 1 didn't know you so
well," said Jocelyn with a laugh; "I only
wish to protect the girl from annoyance
and to insure the success of the whole
scheme. If you could make me believe
in your disinterestedness and virtue the
only result would be that I should serve
you less efficiently than otherwise. But
you always liked deception for its own
sake, and you are the same Hamilton
Jocelyn that I knew in Richmond twelve
years ago. Well* I shall know what tone
to take with her."
"Take -an}- tone yon like, in the devil's
name, so long as you take the position
and observe the conditions!" exclaimed
Jocelyn, getting up. with some signs of
impatience.
"1 will take the position on condition
of being guaranteed my outfit and twelve
hundred dollars," said Mrs. Bemax. "It
is not high wages for the devil to pay,
but it's better than nothing, and to live
as comfortably as 1 can, so long as 1 do
live, is the best 1 have to look forward to
now. I'm not so fastidious in other re
spects as you do me the honor to imag
ine. *
"Well, Meg, when you Ye enjoyed a
few months' luxury 3rou11 take a more
genial view of things, 1 hope. Above all
things make as good an impression on
the lady as possible. She must learn to
confid? in yon, and to take your advice
in all social matters from the outset.
You can do anything with hor if she
likes you and trusts you, and nothing if
she doesn't"
"1 understand; 1 am to be another
mother to her!" said Margaret Bcmax,
in a tone and with a looS iu her eyes so
quiet and yot so repellent that Jocelyn
made no attempt to reply, but took Iiis
leave without further ceremony.
Certainly Beatrix needed a mother at
this epoch of her career. The peculiar
conditions under which she was making
her entrance into the world rendered
her cspeci'?ly defenseless. She was not
only ignorant (as any girl brought np in
theseciusionof home is likely to be)of the
ways and wickedness of mankind, but
the strict necessity of- her incognito cut
her off from the support and society of
both her father and of all the other rela
tives and friends who should naturally
be around her. She was not herself,
and she was somebody wholly different
from herself as welL furthermore she
was a singer, with all the seij-iithreness
and the liability to emotional impres
sions that the musical tomperament im
plies. Upon the whole a young woman
can select no career more dangerous than
that upon which Beatrix had jnst en
tered, and th? external circumstances
which attendee her entrance could
scarcely have been more untoward.
Meantime the subject most constantly
present to her thoughts, since it gave
color to everything else, was her assumed
cliaracter of the Marana. To be herself
began to appear in the light of some
thing criminal. Everything depended
upon maintaining the deception. Nor
could she disguise from herself tlwrt the
men she met treated her with a sort of
freedom to which she was quite unac
customed. This perplexed and annoyed
her, and Mrs. Bemax, when she appealed
to her, only smiled and said she mustn't
mind them. Finally she thought it
would bo a good idea to ask information
of Mr. Jocelyn.
"Fellows bother you, do they?" said
that gentleman in answer to her com
plaint, with a r?ossnring smile. "Woll.
ina'mselle, you know we mustn't be too
particular alxnit that. Whon we ha,ve
been on the stage a little longer we shall
leara to look upon all men as our
brothers, and not mind a little fun. Bo
sides, you know, you are the famous and
invincible Marana, and are snpjx)se<l to
be able to settle all such Jack-a-dandies
with one hand, so to speak!"
"Idon't understand you," said Beatrix,
with a slight flush.
"Well, my dear, the amount of it all
is they mean no harm, and they've heard
so many stories about the Marana's ad
ventures that they feel justified in try
ing to find out what she's snade ci. TJ.-e
fact is, von know, she's said to be a tittle
hazardo?-dangerous?as soon ruin a man
as look at him, and you must act Out the
character."
"Do you ?nean that i should pretend
to be anything that is not?good?"
"Oh! no, no?not that, of course!
Only a sort of give-aud-take, Kve-and
let-hxe style--that's what you want."
"If they think I am different from
what I am, in any bad way," continued
Beatrix, "I will cither tell them who I
am or give up the whole tiling." Her
voice trembled.
"Now my good little prima donna,
don't yc?3 say anything so foolish!" said
Jocelyn, taking her hand in his and pat
ting it. "Come, you know me, don't
you? and yon know whether or not
Hamilton Jocelyn would permit any
one to insult yon? Very well, then;
you're ns safe, if the worst comes to the
worst, as if you were scaled up in the
center of the pyramid of Cheops! Bnt
want 1 want you to learn is to liave
courage?to hold your own bravely, and
not to be too squeamish about what the
people you meet with say and do. The
world always seems queer and a little
disagreeable when one i- first brongh.
in contact with it?full of people not
a bit like our quiet folks out in the
country. But we can't change the
world, can we? All we can do is
to take things as they are, and make the
best of i t . If wo arc all right nothing
can really hurt us. But we must have
courage, we mustn't be afraid, we
must n't talk of giving up! We must, be
a little woman of the world. Every
woman must be who intends t-> accom
plish anything, let alone to make such a
r?putation as lies before you. It's a lit- j
tie froem-isonry we all have to learn,
nothing more; and, as I said, though j
yon won't love me ?naughty child!?yet
you can't help trusting your father's <>M j
friend; and as a matter of course you
will come to me if yon get into any real
scrape. I shall he only too ready to as
sist yon; but I don't want to seem offi
cions either to you or to others, and I
want you to fight your own way as much
as possible at first It will make it all
the easier for you hereafter. Don't let
yourself be put upon, of course, but
don't altogether forgot that you're the
Marana either. If you manage it clev
erly her name ought to be a help to you
rather than the contrary."
"In what way?"
"Oh, the sharper the fight the sooner
over, you know, and the more decisive,'*
said Jocelyn, laughing. "Yes, it is an
advantage in every way. If you were
entered in the lists in your own name,
with your father and all your friends to
fall back on, you would be falling back
all the time. You would be trusting to
their strength instead of to your own.
But since you're alone you'll discover
your own force, and make it evident to
the others into the bargain."
"But win not papa live in the hotel
with me?"
"My gracious, no!** exclaimed Joce
lyn, lifting his hands in half playful con
sternation. "In the eyes of the world,
remember he's nothing but a respect
able old gentleman, in no sort of way re
lated to you. To have him in attend
ance on you would be most?what shall
I say??inexpedient; and if it led to
nothing else, it might lead to his true
relationship being found out. No, you
may see him occasionally, of course, but
on the same footing as any other chance
acquaintance. Ha, ha! You wouldn't
want to compromise your own father,
would you? not to speak of being com
promised by him!"
"Well, I certainly am aroneT said
Beatrix gravely.
"In appearance, yes; but so long as
Hamilton Jocelyn is alive you'll have- an
unfailing resource."
**I should compromise you as weil,**
said she, looking at him fixedly. He
made a laughing gesture of depreciation.
"Oh, dont be afraid of that! Im
known; everybody understands me! We
can do no possible harm to each other.
It's an understood thing that I stand
godfather to all prime donne on their
entry into New York society. You may
safely refer to me as an old friend on ?11
occasions. And, by the by, Tve taken
the liberty to do you a bit of service al
ready. You need a companion, and Pve
been eo lucky as to secure just the per
son. She's an English lady, daughter of
a clergyman; Tve known her for years;
an excellent creature; really a lady of
great refinement and experience, and
precisely suited to your needs. She will
take perfect care of you, and keep you
posted about everything you ought \o
do and all that sort of thing. I have let
her into-fee se?ret, the only other per
sons who know it being your father,
Inigo, and myself. The idea is, of
course, that she's been living with you
on the continent, and all that sort of
thing. Mme. Bemax, shell be here to
morrow morning. Youll be certain to
like her immensely."
"Well, what must be, must, I sup
pose," said Beatrix, folding he* hands in
her lap and looking down. "It does
seem hopeless to think of going back
now I have come so far. But if I had
understood beforehand.*' * * * She
paused, but went on after a moment.
"I seem to be living in the midst of false
hoods, and it seems to me that that is
more likely to take away courage than
to give it."
"Pooh, pooh! things will very soon
shake down, and then in everything but
name you can be more yourself than
you ever were before!** returned her
father's old friend encouragingly.
The next day Mme. Bemax was in
troduced, and was very genial, helpful
and acrreeable.
[to be continued ]
Joel E. Branson.
The following biography of Mr. Joel
K. Brunson, who uow 611s io a worthy
and efficient manner?as he always does
pverv'hing he undertakes?the office of
Grand Chief of the I 0. G. T. of South
Oaroliua, is copied from the Christian
Mefpenger, published at Timmonsville
by Ilev S. M. Richardson :
Sumtkr, S- C, Jan. 19, 1S91- j
Dear Brother Richardson :
I received your card on my birthday
(16*b instant.) but whs so busy caring
for the baby boy which arrived a few
days before, I could not find time to
reply.
You ask "an auto biographical
sketch of my life to read before the
lodge and for publication io the
Christian Messenger." Now I am
somewhat averse to that kiud of writ
ing. For first of all it brings before
me tbe words of Solon to Crocus:
"That no man could be happy before
death;'' aud 60 I may say that no man's
lire can be reckoned a complete suc
cess until he has met this greatest of
man's foes. Io the second place,
whatever of merit there may be in my
life, for me to set it forth ruth my own
hand would smack so muoh of egotism
as to destroy all good effect?the end
sought. I can only give you some of
the leading facts of my life, and, as
you have known u;e from my youth,
leave you to fill out from your owd
knowledge.
Your card came to me on my forty
fourth b;:thday. I was born within a
few miles of Sumter C. II , and have
f?pent most of my lifo in the county.
My father, Johu B. Brunson, died
when I was four years old, and my
mother left with four small children,
taught school here in Sumter for five
years after his death, wheu she,
blessed woman, was also called to the
.shining courts above.
(iod, io his care for orphans, pro
vided in my step-grandmother, Eliza
beth Landsdell, a second mother, who
trea'od the four little orphans with as
much tenderness as it is possible to
bestow. She satisfied their every want
until her means were exhausted during
the war.
After my mother's death I went to
school to Mr. Richard Kendrick and j
then to Mr. Cope I and Stiles. I owe
much to both of them. I was growing
to be a big boy when I went to Mr.
Stilen, and he made special effort to de
veiope my moral character, aud to this
day 1 never think of him, with his
straggling silver locks, without feelings
of gratitude welling up in my heart.
I wonder how many of the teacher? of
to-ilay in South Carolina give ttie
necessary thought and time to grow
good morals in their scholars. The
heart needs more care in its cultivation
than the intellect
At the age of fifteen it became neces
sary f->r me to begin the struggle for
bread, and I entered the Watchman
office at a salary of two dollars and a
half a week, which I paid over to ray
step-grandmother every Saturday even
ing. In other words, it about paid for
my board and clothe*-. That was riot
a large salary, and yet, as I now look
back upon my printing office life, I
unhesitatingly pronounce it the bept pay
I ever received for my services ; that
from which I have derived roost beuefit
and mofit pleasure. My mind was
keenly alive and the printing office
opened before me a new world of in
formation in which to satisfy it. Mr.
II. L Darr had the entire management
of the paper?Mr. Gilbert being in I he
army?and while he exacted good work
be was kind and considerate, an ex
cellent printer and conducted the busi
ness in a most methodical manner.
Yes, while there I gathered that from
the printing office, which 1 would not
to day exchange for a life time's tuition
in our bept schools
When the *'reserves" were called ?
went into the army and returned at. the
close of the war to find the last vestige
of my step-grandmother's property
swept away by the emancipation of her
negroes. Her brother, Henry Spears,
then about seventy years old, was doing
carpenter's work around through the
country aud it fell to my lot to assist
him. Now, it so happened that, during
my school days, Mr. Spears, though he
lived in Bisbopville, kept a chest of
good carpenter's tools in Suinter and
I was permitted to use them. In. fact
carpenter's tools were my toys in child
hood and when I now went out to work
[ found I was already far better skilled
in the use of tools than the ordinary
workman. After a few years Mr.
Spears was so unf-ebled by age and
disease as to be unable to work. Mrs.
Landsdell was* in the same condition
and my brother, who came home from
the army of Virginia with hemorrhage
of the lungs, was n ?w a confirmed con
sumptive Then it was that gaunt
poverty, with her long, bony fingers,
put in her best work. I had to leave
my business ami stay at home to nurse
the sick members of the family Day
after day for long weeks there was not
enough bread in the house to last till
the next day, and yet. the kindness of
neighbors kept starvation away. What
strange changes take place in life?how
often since havo I had opportunity to
t-elp some of the children of those
who, by their charity, /.hed light on
my darkened pathway.
The sick ones passed away and ? re
turned to my work look in <^ more dead
than alive. Gradually recovering my
strength I coutiuued mtll-wrtghtiog,
screw-building, etc., until employed to
conduct a mill and lumber business for
other parties. In a year or two I wt.
taken in as a co-partner and have con
tinued in the lumber business ever
since.
My education has been gathered by
constant effort at home, by reading good
books, and last but not least, by obser
vation as I came along life's j -urney.
1 joined the Suinter Baptist Church
about 1873, was transferred to Kings
tree Church about teo years ago aud
then ordained deacon. Presided over
the body tf delegates which met at
Lake City to consider the advisability
of forming the S K Association.
Served two years as moderator of the
S E Association. Was returned to
Sumtcr Church about a year ago, whore
I now serve as junior deacon
I have always been earnest in tem
perance work. I joined the L 0 G.
T. 800u after its organization in this
State. Served two years as G Coun
selor, and am now serving my second
term as G. C. Templar of South Caro
lina. 1 have never drank, all told,
one half pint of intoxicating liquor,
and have yet to learn to ohew or smoke
tobacco.
Looking back over my life I find the
dark places growing brighter aud the
lessons which came with poverty and
flufforing wrought more of good than
any other.
Did total abstinence play any part in
my life ? I answer by stating a fact :
One third ae all the little boys who
played marbles with me along the
p tree tri of Suuiter before the war either
filled drunkards graves or are unfiit.d
for busiae-s by liquor to d iy Tis
horrible to think of one third of our
town boys destroyed, body and soul, by
liquor, and our good people sanction
the traffic.
God will rrq.'lire the blood of our
boys at the bauds of those good people
who make no cftWt to remove this
great curse from them..
Yours faithfully,
Jokl E. Br?nsos.
The Keitt-Stckes Controversy.
Col Ellison S. K'Htt, of Nowberry,
who is a prominent member of the
State Alliance has written some scath
ing letters attacking the action of the
Alliance, in the most bitter way He.
accuses tho President, J. W. Stokes,
of treachery, in having sold oat the
Alliance for the shadow of being Gov
ernor of the State four years hence.
He scores members of the Alliance
for their action iu the caucuses recently
held in Columbia. Ho charges them
with having "permitted a scurvey fel
low, leprous with crime and without
an clement of statesmanship to worm
himself by political trickery into high
position''?instead of electing a clean
and able man to represent the order iu
the Senate, ss they had the power to
do. to push their measure to success.
To this severe diatribe, President
Stokes administers a mild rebuke : he
positively denies all of Keitt's charges
and ridicules hid statements. He goes
on to say his denial of having sold out
the Alliance is worth as much as
Keitt's bare assertion that he was not
a candidate for the U. S, Senate in a
common acceptation of that word
A member from Stateburg writes a
letter to the Cotton Plant asking for
brother Donaldson's views in reference j
to Keitt's charges that Stokes was false i
to his leadership in the Alliance?and ;
asking geuerally fur light to be thrown
on the matter
In reply to this a letter is written !
from a member at Berkeley, sincerely i
hoping that brother Donaldson will do '
nothing of the kind?deprecating any
further discussion of the matter?and j
hoping, instead, that the rupture might ;
be healed.
The Stateburg Sub Alliance have
since held a meeting and acted as fol
lows :
To the editor of the News and Cou
rier : As instructed by the Stateburg
Sub-Alliance I send you a copy of the
following resolutions adopted by them
at their last meeting, with the request
that they be published.
W. Waties Rees,
Recording Secretary.
Resolved 1. That the Alliance
should teach all its members that all
charges agaiust brother members for
failure to live and act op to Alliance
principles and methods must be pre
ferred through Alliance channels to be
entertained by the Aliiance.
Resolved 2. That wc commend in
the highest terms the well-timed and
well-lempered reply of our State Presi
dent, brother Stoses, to brother Keitt's
gross charges, and pledge bim. as our
chosen leader, earnest, acfive, and
determined support against all assailants
while he shows himself, as at present
he appears able, zealous, and faithful
to the Older.
In reply to this Col. Keitt has pub
lished the following :
To the Editor of The News and
Courier : I have j?st read in The News
and Courier two resolutions proposed
by the Stateburg Sub-Alliance in which
Senator Stokes, president of the State
Alliance, is endorsed as "zealous and
faithful to the Order."
Will the members of that Sub-Alli
ance, please consider and auswer the
following questions :
Is it loyalty to the Order for the
president of the State Alliance to
exercise the power of his high cfScc,
and call in a meeting of Alliance men,
agreed upon and appointed to nominate
a candidate for the United States
Senatorahip, agaiust the protest of
Alliance men aud go into a meeting of
Non-Alliance men from which Alliance
men are excluded, and with them ballot
for a candidate fur the United States
Senatorship
In not treason the opposite of loyalty ?
Are the members of the Stateburg
Sub Alliance ignorant of the fact that
Senator Stokes in the Cotton Plant of
December 27, 1890, assumed the sole
responsibility for this act?
Do the members of that Sub Alliance
commend and endorse him as "zealous
and faithful to the Order" because of
(his act? Do the members of that Sub
Alliance not know that Alliance men
should no more go into a meeting of
Non Alliancj men than they shouhi
admit Nou-Alliance meu into their
meetings when Alliance iuterests are
involved ?
Do the members of that Sub-Alliance
iot know that Senator Stokes, when he
called in the Alliance meeting agreed
upon and appointed against tbe pro
tests of Alliance men, trampled upon
the welfare of the Order, and when he
went into the meetiug of Nou-Alliance
men he made his conduct a matter for
the whole State, to the dishonor of the
State, for which the Alliance is not
responsible ? Hence my appeal to the
State. Will the members of that Sub
Alliance kindly tell me where Senator
Stokes gets his authority to deal with
Non-Alliance men when Alliance prin
ciples are involved ?
Will the members of that Sub-Alli
ance kindly permit me to ask them to
subscribe for the National Economist
and learn the principles, demands and
measures of the Order to which they
belong; that in future when they act
they will know what they are doing?
Will they kindly permit me to tel) them
my eud and aim is to keep the Order
on the plane of purity that it may be
crowned with success, and no earthly
power can keep ma from speaking the
truth ?
The writer respeotfully asks Alliance
men throughout the State to consider
and answer tbe above questions before
they vote for resolutions aiding and
abetting treason against tho Order if
they have any respeot for its purity.
Alliance men in Kausas are loyal
and brave. They heroically stood to
their colors and elected a champion to
represent them on the floor of the
American Senate. They demonstrated
that they mean what they say. They
were not sold out. Respectfully,
Ellison S. Kkjtt.
Enoree Plantation, Newberry County,
February 1.
Stained Cotton,
And JLjw to Whiten it?JSojnethiitg
Waith Millions.
S'ained and blue cotton oosts the
farmers of the South many thousands
of dollars annually. The difference
iu the price between the finer grades
and stained cotton is great, although
the staple may be the samo.
Heretofore it has seemed an impos
sibility to get stained cotton white
without injuring it. This problem has
at last been solved by Mr. J. J. Wil
liams, a successful firmer who lives at
Ellcnton, S. 0-, says the Aigusta cor
respondent of the Atlanta Constitution
He takes his seed cotton and packs
it in layers. Over each layer he
sprinkles wafer with a pine top, and
after he has done thin he leaves it. for
almost three days. The stained and
bine otton when taken out is clean
and white, with staple just as good a.s
ever. The cotton when packed in the
manner above described generates heat.
This lie^t removes the stains, and the
farmer is saved the difference in price
betwf-en the stained and the white cot
ton, besides gaining one pound in
eight in ginning. The heat generated
iu the packing kills the germ in the
cotton seed, but when the ginning is
done the seeds easily let go all the cot
ton. Though the seeds are dead tho
oil in them is uot injured, and they arc
s'il! salable to the oil mills
This shows what a wondorful gain
this may be to the Southern farmer.
He gaius oue pound in eight on bis
cotton.
He has no bluo and stained cotton
to sell a reduced price. He still has
the seed left in a salable condition.
Mr Will isms has tried this process [
himself ani knows its value, and will :
be glad to answer any iuquiries ad
dressed him.
As the best evidence of its value it
may be stated that this year he sold j
his entire crop as first class cottou.?
Marion Index. I
Georgia Newspaper on
Governor Tiliman.
A friend from over in the Empire
State, signing himself "A True Demo
crat," sends us a copy of the Wash
ington (Ga.) Gazette, with the follow
i'?g article on the manners of Governor
Tiliman and requests that we give same
publication :
An old lady well known in this com
munity as a saycr of pithy things often
says "Manners are cheap/' No man
loses anything and he may gain some
thing by the observance of courtesy.
Good manners came from the combi
nation of two feelings, just regard for
one's self, and just regard for otbef
people. It is sometimes difficult to
strike the balance between these two
feelings which have maiy points of con
flict in the 1 Struggle for existence.*'
The only way is to cultivate both feel
ings aud so form a habit of good man
ners.
Good manners, genuine heartfelt?
oourtesy, are as important to Hi#
Excellency the Governor as to anybody
else Our governor Northen is s
very courteous man. We do not knot*
that the governors of our state have
ever been wanting in good manners,
but our Farmer Governor is perhaps an
unusually courteous man. There i?
nothing surprising in this. For*
genuine, hearty, sincere courtesy no
men arc more noted than farmers.
Dot late newspapers publish a story
on Governor Tiliman which if true,
shows that he might take a lesson from
Governor Northen. It is perhaps
exaggerated, but we reprint it below as
it appears in the Telegraph of Macon.
44A special committee of prominent
and wealthy phosphate men of Charles
ton went to Governor Tiliman. Their
object was to obtain some accommoda
! tion with regard to new inspection tags
I on bagged goods for shipment. The*
new tags are not ready, and a conges
I tion of business is threatened unless
; some arrangement can be made. Gov
ernor Tiliman met the committee iu his
. office, and in the presence of members
j of his cabinet. He greeted the mem
! bers of the committee stifly, without
: removing his hat from his bead, and
j shook bauds as though with a broken
I arm. The spokesman of the party bc
I gan to explain the cause of the visit,
I but was interrupted by Governor Till
i man, who refused to hear him through,
I and who slated his views He broke
out into a tirade against swindlers, and
said he would put all who committed
! frauds against the new law in the peu
j itcntiary. If any delay or loss was oc
casioned by the tags not being ready,
he would shoulder the responsibility,
A mem bur of the committee asked
: what the companies would do about the
matter, as it was a severe inconvenience
; to them. Governor Tiliman replied
that they could keep cool by going to
Sullivan's island and airing themselves.
Tiliman seems to have no conception "of
I the loss that (ho companies might sus
tain by having their orders cancelled
and being u c ab le to fill them and he threat
ened to put a man at each end of the
; line to see that the goods were tagged
! when they were delivered from the
cars. Governor Till man then jumped
i on to Comptroller EMerboe and told
I him that he was responsible for this
I delay iu going off ou a four day's frolic.
I He concluded his remarks by saying he
was unable to help the committee iu
! getting the tags, but that blood couldn't
' be got out of a turnip. In dismissing
j the commiiteo the Governor stood at his
; desk with his back to them, and shook
; hands without turning his faee to them.
1 The members of the committee, who
tetuMicd here last night, are dazed and
at a loss what to think of the remarks
; ble exhibition of tho Governor. They
do not know whether to laugh or swear
when they think of his rough insults.
They are a grim looking set, and gen
erally inclined to be mum about therr
treatment, but several of them were too
indignant to keep the joke to them
! selves aad the town is gradually getting
hold of it. Governor Tillman's rough
\ unpolished manner* uie well known and
I much allowance made for them, bnt his
j wanton, truculeut, unprovoked disconr
i tesy to the committee aeems mauical in
its violatiou of all decency in official
[ intercourse, aud exceeds all conception
! of his possibilities in that line. His
j conduct since his inauguration with
j respect to this city has tended to incense
[ all factious against him, and this last
act is regarded as going beyond the
bouuds of pardon."
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