The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, May 11, 1898, Image 7
A LEGACY OF HATE.
He used to kiss me ou the hair,
My winding hair that wanders so?
21 left a perfume fine sud rare
Which faded ?ow.
Be used to kiss me on the "brow,
Upon my brow that seems so cold. -
His breath was warm. I wonder now
If I am okL
He used to Idas me on the eyes
Poor, tired lids that shake and fall!
Kow they know weeping-eyes sc Tr?an
No more at alL
He used to kiss me on the lips,
False kisses, ah, my lipa so red!
To burn and sting like poisoned whips
Till I am dead!
-Post "Wheeler in Kew York Press.
A LOVE TRAGEDY.
they be sich a darned mixture of f cebu's,
They lore and they hate in a breath,
They'll be false to one love in five minutes,
And they'll stick to another till death.
As to minds, they ain't got none, I reckon.
It's heart as prompts all as they da
' ? t Bave I seen some nun things with these wom?
en?
Yes, I ?ancy I have-one or two.
"Mole Jarvis O'Morley" <G. B. Sims).
Tb* story* of Ellen Crawford and ber
y two lovers may serve as an illustration
of tbe Sims philosophy. She's jost a
woman, pretty, tender, loving and good.
. But Ellen Crawford was not exempt
from tbe little weakness of her sex She
~ did not know her own mind. She yield
?ed to the mistaken impulse of an undis
csphned beast and wrecked her own life
i and those of tho two men who loved
her to their own destruction.
A husband seeking solace in drink
curses the waywardness of woman; a
sullen, angry man bereft of her who
would have made his happiness stalks,
gun in hand, over the mountain side,
cursing ali humanity, and the authoress
cf tile mischief sits by her father's fire?
side, sad eyed and weeping, breeding
over the fragments of a wrecked life.
Martin Dome was a strapping boy of
12 and the pride of the little village
of Hayesville, N. when one day he
heard thai; Br. Hardin, a physician fa?
mous in that part of the country, had
retired from practice and was about to
pass the rest of his days in that beauti?
ful spot. [The doctor dame, bearing with
him * pr?t?y baby of 3 years, whom all
those around him knew as Nellie. Her
black eyes, curly hair and dimpled,
rosy cheeks soon became one of the most
attractive sights of the village.
Marim'Bome watched over her as she
grew up, and in his big, lumbering,
awkward way fae loved her-loved her
as baby, as girl, as woman. But he
nad never dared to mention the matter.
At 13 he could thrash any man twice
his size in those parts; he could "shoot
straight," even for Carolina, where
"shooting straight" is part of the edu?
ction, and he sat his horse like an
Apache.
But in the presence of the divinity
who held his fate in the hollow of her
hand he was ever the big, awkward boy<
. ? his.knees seemed always in the way,
his fingers twice as lumbering and thick
and heavy, and be could only stand
stock still and turn red and blush like a
schoolgirl and stammer,y "Lor, Miss
Ellen!" whenever abe tenoned on the
question of the weather.
She knew that he loved her-had
known it as soon as sha was old enough
to know anything. Somehow at last she
found a way of making him tell her so.
When her father, in pursuance of his
long cherished plan, sent her to Nash?
ville for the completion of her educa?
tion, it was known all over the coun?
tryside that the young farmer and the
doctor's daughter were to be man and
wife some time.
She left Hayesville a specimen of
dainty, unsophisticated rusticity. She
came back a clever, cultivated, witty
woman-somewhat masterful, some?
what impetuous, changeable as the
winds, but all sweet and womanly.
The change in her most striking and
ominous of all was the change in the
expression of her eyes as they rested on
Martin Dome. The light that had once
' been there was gone, and Martin Dome
knew why, when presently there came
to Hayesville John Crawford, a young
man she had met in Nashville. He had
the ways and manners of the city; he
wore city clothes as no country bred
man could wear them. He had the su?
perficial veneer polish that comes of a
three years' course in a western college.
He was of her caste.
"It has all been a nil stake, " she said
to Martin one day. ''I love him. Tba
man I marry must have my heart "
And in the heart of the man whose
doom she spoke there stirred the deep,
fathomless well of passion that had been
hidden under the placid surface of his
rustic life.
"Who is the man?" he cursed. "Is it
that white livered puppy from the city
who has taken you away from me?"
"I won't answer you. You've no
right to ask," she cried. "He's a gen?
tleman, which you never were. It is
Mr|Crawford, if you will know."
"Then I nope I may never kill
him."
Those were his last words. The next
moment he was gone. On the day of
the marriage all Hayesville and many
people who had known the doctor in the
world outside were assembled in the
village church. One great gasp of sur?
prise and horror burst from the crowd
as Crawford, the happy bridegroom, en?
tered the church, limping on a crutch,
his head swathed in bandages, his face
battered out of all recognition.
"Thrown from his carriage while
driving, " he said. And only Dr. Hardin
?sew that Martin Dome had waylaid
him in the woods and beaten him al?
most to death.
In the city of Knoxville the young
couple were living happily, but it was
noticed that Mr" lawford was always
tired and ill, mat her step dragged and
that the light had gone out of her eyes.
Of Martin Dome only, one thing was
certain-that he was somewhere in the
mountains and that he had joined the
moonshiners and that the officers wars
after him.
One night Dr. Hardin and his two
noys wore found unconscious "by ?he
roadside, dabbed into oblivion by White
Caps.
"Ufartin Dome," said everybody. Yet
beyond his hate there was no evidence
against him.
It was known positively that he had
left Tennessee and gone into Tesas, and
every one felt happier.
"We're waiting for him; he'll find
ns here when he drifts back," said the
old doctor with a qniet smile. At sun?
rise the next morning the villagers
brought home the dead body of his old?
est boy, shot through the heart in a
fight, and the fight had its origin over
the jilting of Martin Dome by Ellen
Crawford.
. ...*.?
Two years had gone-two years of
hopeless waiting and watching by the
father, robbed of all that had made the
sunshine of his old age. His hair was
white now, his step was feeble and
halting, his voice was weak and tremu?
lous. His 55 years had changed to 70.
But one day a yellow envelope was
put into his hand. It was a telegram j
that bore the signature of T. E. Lake, a
private detective:
"I have found your man hiding in a
saloon," it said. "I have him fast
Come to Knoxville or-send Crawford
and swear out the warrant for his ar?
rest"
Crawford and the father stood in the
office of Commissioner Broyle. awaiting
the arrival of the detective and the po?
lice with their quarry. They came pres?
ently, and the enemies stood face to face.
The faces of the father and the husband
gleamed with hatred of the man who
stood before them in rags that would
scarcely hold together, unshaven, un?
kempt, haggard, poor and ill, with the
hunger of many days and nights.
And then all started to their feet as a \
graceful little figure that they knew
stood in the doorway with hand uprais?
ed, a light in her eyes such as her hus?
band had never seen tber?.
"Send that man away!"
These were her first words. lier fin?
ger pointed at the detective.
"He shall not harm a hair of Martin
Dome's head."
Father and husband strode toward
her and grasped her by the arms.
"Girl, do you know what you say- \
do you know what this means?" cried
the doctor.
"I do," she answered. "Ho must not
be arrested."
Lake dropped his hold of the prison?
er, stood with his mouth wide open and
stared at the woman.
"Let me be sure that I understand
this clearly," said the husband af ter a ?
panse. "Let me know that I am not j
mad or dreaming. This is the situation
as clearly as I can make out : This man
has ruined your father, he has tried to
kill me, he has brought about the death
of your brother, yet you say that he
shall not be punished."
"I mean that if he be punished I will
gc with him to the end of the world,"
she answered, looking at Dome with
all her heart in her eyes. "What care I
for what he has done? He loved me and
we were to have been man and wife be?
fore you and I ever met The wrong
has been my wrong. Tbe fault bas been
my mult from the beginning. It is all
a mistake-all a dreadful mistake. " ?
Her eyes softened and her voice melted
into tears as she gazed upon the broken
man before her. And he was weeping
like a baby.
"I tbought-r-I thought-you had for?
gotten the old days when we were chil?
dren and all in all to each other, " he
sobbed.
"I never forgot," she softly sa>.d.
"Now, father, take me home. I sm
tired of living this life. "
" Will the husband kill the man who
-holds the love of his wife? Will Domo
kill the man who robbed him of his
sweetneartr . ass: me men.
"What fools men are! Sbowasn't
worth the trouble," say the women.
New York World.
Ancestors and Ancestry?
Now it must be admitted on common
sense principles that the formation of
hereditary societies has reached a nat?
ural limit, and it is time to cry a halt.
The reasonable conclusion is that these
societies should unite in work, if not in
organization, and justify their existence
by practical deeds. The end, however,
is apparently not yet. The ancestor
quest drives its followers to absurd
lengths. Forefathers conjured up rise
I from the genealogical caldron in a sort
? of harlequin procession-the ancestor in
buff and blue, the ancestor in scarlet
tunic, the bewigged ancestor, the jack
booted ancestor, until from the dim
twilight of heraldic tradition the crown
! ed ancestor looms up in the shadow, ls
there not something decidedly incon?
gruous in tbe spectacle of descendants of
those who bade defiance to the third
George of the name seeking to establish
kinship with royalty through Saxon
chief or Norman freebooter? Does not
this latest departure tend to prove that
ancestor hunting has no limit, tha? it
is simply a question of enterprise, re?
search and credulity? If we may estab?
lish the Order of the Crown, why may
we not in due course welcome a new
hereditary society, lineal descendants of
the mariners of tbe ark, the Ararat
chapter, with proper insignia-suspend?
ed from a navy bluo ribbon, a dove
bearing the olive branch: - Harper's |
Bazar.
No Need of It at All.
"Have you given up your idea of
mastering some European language?"
said the courtier.
"Yes," replied the Chinese emperor.
? "What's the use? There is no means of
i telling which I will need in order to
talk to my neighbors."-Washington I
! Star.
Road Notes.
The Good Roads association has form- j
! ed 27 branch sections cf that organiza- ?
! tion on Long Island rlone.
I The city of Louisville will expend j
$82,000 on its streets during the com- .
ing year.
England has 186, OOO miles of read i
which have coat thc government ?150,- j
000,000 in tbe past ?00 years.
STATE AID FOR ROADS.
A Recognition That This Is the Solution
of tho Good Roads Problem.
The strongest impetus which the good
roads movement has received in many
years past was the passage by the New
York legislature of the Higbie-Arm
strong good roads bill, says the Chicago
Times-Herald.
It is significant of the rapid growth
of public sentiment in favor of state aid
to highway construction that the oppo?
sition to the measure could muster only
89 votes. Under this bill, which has
become a law, the state appropriation
for this year to expend for highway im?
provement will be ?50,000, which, it is
estimated, will amount to 1 cent per
$1,000 of assessed valuation, or 2%
cents on the average $2,500 farm.
The size of each year's appropriation
is fixed by the legislature, and as the
good results of the law become more
discernible and more generally recog?
nized it is not improbable that public
sentiment will demand in a few years a
much larger appropriation. Under the
provisions by which a county is author?
ized to apply for a portion of the good
roads appropriation the law becomes a
home rule measure. If the appropriation
should be increased to $1,000,000 in any
year, thc average tax on each $2,500
farm would be only 50 cents, which
seems a trifling expenditure considering
the immeasurable benefits that accrue
to agriculturists through good highways
to the markets.
With such a notable example of what
the state can do in the way of encour?
aging the constriction of good highways
afforded by her neighbor, New Jersey,
the wonder is that New York did not
inaugurate the state aid system long
ago. Under the New Jersey law the
state bears one-third the expense, the
size of* the appropriation being deter?
mined by the legislature. Under the
stimulus of state aid nearly every coun?
ty in the state is now building macadam
roads, while there are already so many
miles of stone roads in the state that it
can be traversed in every direction
without leaving them. Nineteen of the
21 counties of the state have this year
made application for their shares of the
appropriation.
The action of the Now York legisla?
ture is gratifying recognition of the fact
that state aid is the u?'~ late solution"
of the good roads proble J
Thc^ Attitado of Trost.
Writing about the attitude of "be?
lievers" toward the future life, of
whose details their knowledge is limit?
ed, a correspondent of the London Spec?
tator insists that it should be one o?
trust similar to that reposed by Gari?
baldi's volunteers in their leader. Quot?
ing from a popular life of Garibaldi, in
Italian, the correspondent says:
"In 1859 Garibaldi's volunteers, some
rich, some poor, were :aear Alessandria.
On May 23, the camp of the Alpine
Huntsmen was in con) pie te confusion.
The improvised soldiers rushed to arms
to the sound of the trumpet
" 'Quick, quick!' said the officers.
. We are to start '
" * Where are we goin&.-'
"?That is a mystery. Garibaldi
knows where, and that's enough.'
"Garibaldi went through the ranks
with words of encouragement to the
weary and sympathy for the enthusias?
tic and in person saw to every need."
This motley host drove the Austrians
in a 20 hours' battle 20 miles up the
Stelvio pass, over the . glaciers of the
Ortler and back into Tyrol.
"The most unkind thing, not only
the most imprudent thing," comments
the correspondent "would have been
for these volunteers to have been sup?
plied with a full and accurate plan of
what lay before them. The silence of
God as to the future life is at least
kind. Knowledge without correspond?
ing power to act tends to become a
burden. It would be no kindness to
humanity to bewilder it by descriptions
of an unrealizable state and to distract
it from that daily path of duty which
leads thither."
Worriment a Stranaer to Edison.
Two things are unknown to Thomas
A. Edison-discouragement and worry.
His associates claim that his freedom
from these afflictions comes from the
fact that he possesses absolutely no
nerves. Recently one of his associates
had to report to him tbe failure in im?
mediate succession of taree experiments
involving enormous expenditure of
money and labor. But the inventor
simply smiled at tho recital. The asso?
ciate, worn out with the neivous strain
of his long watch and disheartened by
his disappointment, said impatiently,
"Why don't you worry a little about
it, Mr. Edison?" *
"Why should I?" was the inventor's
reply. "You're worrying enough for
two."-Ladies* Home Journal.
How to'vook Dried 2Fro.it Pot I*ie.
One-half dozen dried apples, one-half
dozen dried apricots, one-half dozen
dried peaches; wash well and boil until
almost done in a granite pan four or five
inches deep with just enough water to
keep from sticking and scorching. Then
add three-fourths cup granulated sugar,
one teaspoonful lemon juice, two table?
spoonfuls New Orleans molasses, but?
ter the size of an egg. Stir well; then
add dumplings mado as follows: One
egg, one-half cup sweet milk, a lit?
tle salt (not quite one-fourth teaspoon?
ful), one heaping teaspoonful baking
powder. Mix so as to drop with flour
and drop over the top o?: fruit. Boil 25
minutes, just in timo to serve steaming
hnfc
Road Brief-,
Along poor roads land sells slowly.
There is a demand for farming land and
rural homes along good highways.
Under her present road law 238 miles j
of good roads have boen built in New \
Jersey.
Hard roads make access to the farms
easy at all seasons; produce can be ship?
ped in any weather if the highways arc
cassable.
Twenty-Fifth Ordered to
Tampa.
Cbickaihauga, May 5.-Orders were
received from thc d< parta? nt at Geo
Brooks' headquarter- tbh afternoon
that tho Twenty-Fifty infantry Col
Burt, be t>?-nt immediately to Tamps.
Ic wiil probably ?tart to-morrow muru
ing.
Tbe4" Wbive" is the beet oo earth.
You will save rxoripy if >oo will flee Ran?
die bet?r* bujiug a Piaoo, Organ or sewing
machine.
Greeoville bas tent ro tbe war a
larger number of voluoteeirs ?ban bag
any county or city in South Carolina.
With oo big talk and no bluster the
Greenville boys eohsted and went for?
ward. It was tbe same when money
was to be raised for tbe reconcentradas.
Proportionately, Greenville did consid?
erably n ore tbao any other community
io the State. And yet there are not
over a d'zeo people io ali Greenville
who feel any special io ti-rt-st in the
cause of Cuba The canse of "Uncle
Sam" is another thing - Greenville
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