The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, June 21, 1895, Image 6
In fee simple.
The kings of earth have golden crowns |
Bodight with jewels rare;
I have uo erown, but then I have
Your smile ami beauty fair.
I have no erown of high renown,
But, O my love so true!
What reeks it me sineo well I know
That I have you.'
The soldier wins a dying wreath
In leaping leaguered walls
And spoil of slaughtered vietcu bv.tv.71
Beneath the funeral pails.
Siieh trophies are the meed o." var.
And erimsou in their hue;
uy wn-awi, inv spoils, aro.uioi i<>v:v
For I have vou.
-- IMwanl Orvillo Sharpo
THAT MISS BENTON.
BY EDITII ROBINSON.
HAVE some bad
rj\ I -=_\T news for you,
I girls. Don't call \
I me nn eavesdropr==./V
\V I per?unless it is
_r^vk\\JtL | in the sense ol
jT' ||| dropping from
V j' j jjjj the eaves. If out
; I w, gonial host, Mr.
.. i lr Tattle, persists in
Mil holding his do"
in e s t i e confer
enees beneath tnv
window, in the tone lie uses to lii*
oxen, on 11 subject intimately related
to my peace and welfare, 1 consider
myself justified in listening."
Wtien she had made this speech Lou j
Suxo dropped on the bod. already occupied
by Bertha Lewis and Jennie
Foster, in an attitude of mock despair. ,
"What has happened?" asked Pris
Armstrong, whose room they were in.
She was at the bureau, where she wus '
trying to heat a curling iron over the
flickering flame of a small lamp.
"Some one is coining to-night to ,
take tho corner room,"answered Lou. |
"She is an iuvalid?at least, Mr. Tuttlo
said she was 'coming for the quiet,'
and nobody but a sick person wants to , ,
be quiet, of course."
"Ah!" remarked Pris, after an;
ominous pause.
"This mi s," went on Lou, "that
TO.l TV.uct n"l ri i lit. fin . f,?vf\rtin., 1 - fi. 11,1 1
?TU iUUOV bj 1 V U UUl CIUU1U(J UCHtlOdrums
iu jour room, for when the invalid
goes to bed she will want to go
to sleep. We must not sing when we
co joj home from a hay ri le, or dance
down the corridor after we have retired
for the night. Neither must wo
gather here for midnight ghost stories, !
because an invalid can hear every
whisper."
"It is too bad that she should come j
hero to spoil our good times!" said (
Pris, indignantly. "Sick people
should stay at home!"
"I know all about the way a person
who has nervous postration behaves,
because my Aunt Kathleen had it,"
went on Lou. "Would vou believe it.
i
girls, she could not bear to see the dog
wag his tail, and she put her bauds to
lier ears if ho threatened to bark. She
i
did not like to have any one oat toast, |
because the crunching affected her |
nerves; and if I sat. down in front ot
her in a roc!;lug-chair, she would bog ,
nie to stop rocking, for the motion
I
made her so nervous!' ! .
i
"Mere affectation ! ' exclaimed l'ris.
"If people let such notions take pos- ' .
session 01 mem, more is 110 Knowing
t" w 11:11 extrr lies thev may lie led.
iike the nun- in the Middle Ages, who
hud a iicrvo:!-; epidemic of harking. I
really think we have a mission work
to perform, e.iris, in tho midst of our
good t lines. !
"Aunt Kathleen dnlu t like clocks,
either." pursued Lou. "Her power
of hearing them tick was simply .supernatural.
Her room was f.t the top of
tho house, hut she could hear tho
clock in tho dining-room. She said
she should like to emigrate to the
village in South America that Darwin
tells about, where there was not a
single clock <>r watch, hut the hours
.. . i > . : i i
?? 14" . ? * I - 4 .it IM . 4 i I ? 14 . (III U WHO
h i ! h . . . i m i of Ijiiif.'" I
"!t . . <>ar duly to keep oar
Iiei.?1?'?>??r lioia <!? \< ! ?j?ii:in' > a
hypochondria , liko your nruiuhlc relative,
' '< I dee. iy. ".Shu
shotil i . t o. I'll* to .i :1111n r hotel for
quiet. Wo are hero L j have u good
tiinr*, fin 1 not to look after iuvuliils !'
The gong sounded, ami the girls
scattered t.? iluir rooms. Liter thev
rrnth> r ! tie om/.zii to watch the
" , ' I
urnvuls.
"That is .-lie!" whispered I.ou, as a . ,
rounilfaccd. dark-eyed young woman
came up the steps.
"But she doesn't look liko nn invalid,"
demurred Jeanie.
"They never do! Nervous invalids
always look the picture of health," returned
Lou. "That is one way you
can tell them. Another way is by
their bags, to which they eliug as to
dear life. These bags contain littio
pellets, or a bottle of caflee-bromiue,
or a treatise on how to cure nervousnoss,
according to the mental endowments
or disendowmentsof the owner."
Miss Benton?as the name of the
new guest read simply on the register
?retired early, but a light gleaming
beneath her door showed that she was
still uwako when the girls assembled
in Fris's room to exchange their gossip.
Fris had dragged the rockingchairs
from the other apartments into
her own chamber, and they began
their discipline of their unwelcome
neighbor by a series of thumps. The
door was left open; a small round
clock haviut? wonderful tiel.iuo
<J o t'1-"'
crH was placed in the entry.
If the four girl ., after this, could
appear at the breakfast table looking
as fresh as though they had gone to
boil with the sun, such was not the
case with their neighbor; Miss Benton's
heavy eyes and languid manner
bore witness to a disturbed night.
The people in the smaller diningroom,
having come early in the sensou,
had fallen into the pleasant intimacy
for which even a few weeks together
m a summer hotel are sufficient.
Miss Benton made no attempt
to join In the merrv, desultory chat
ter which was, indeed, skilfully *1 iroctcil
by Pris to tho end of excluding
her. What had begun in a znero
spirit of frolic and a passing resentment
developed, a* the days went on,
into scarcely concealed dislike, the
reason for which none could have told.
There was certainly no apparent
reason, for Miss Denton was well-bred
and attractive in appearance.
Even gentle Mrs. Eorsythe, who
bad hitherto welcomed so kindly any
solitary stranger, was swept along by
the current, and save for a stately inclination
of her head and a formal
greeting ignored Miss Benton. She
was very fond of her niece, Lou Saxe,
and "A summer hotel was not a hospital,"
she said.
So in the picnic at the Rapids, during
the long, bright day spent at the
Shaker settlement, and at the climb
up Saddleback, Miss Benton w?3
ignored. She was not invited to join
in the evening games, in which even
tho elders participated, nor did any
one suggest that she was included in
the bidding to tho hop at a neighboring
hotel, or to tho concert given in
the village by the summer residents.
The next festivity was a "lawn
!>arty," given by an enterprising
louth in the near neighborhood, who,
in the hope of remuneration, had
mowered ins rustic attentions upon
llio city visitors. The sawmill of
which lie was the owner stood ou tlio
liriuk of a great dark pool, that had
:>een named by the girls the Styx. i
Mark Mndgett was his name; and
"Mark" was an abbreviation of ''Marlins
do Lafayette," a given name orignally
bestowed, under the impression
hat the French patriot's name was a
Christian name. The girls politely
. ailed hiia "the Marquis."
fee cream was to In: sold at his lawn
nirty, and boats were to be let on the
ityx. The girls had enlisted the interest
of the other hotels and the Marpiis's
fete was a great success.
The girls all enjoyed it much; but
the crowning festivity, the last frolic
>f the season, had been reserved for
the following day. There was to be
i twenty-mile drive to the lake, a sail
around it and a moonlight drive home.
Early 0:1 l.lio morning following
the Marquis's lawn party, Lou en
LCI I'll 1 2 in n I IMMIi l ? ' III!'I Li U1 111' III ly <
with a ghastly face, scateil upon tho
side of the bed.
' It was the ice crrain!" Pris
eji |?ed. "< >li, dear? ! this the way
it ! i > to be .sick
I'our I'ri- ehisped the ' > - loose with
boi'i hands,a.-> thoii/h i-ii" eoiild th r
b\ -too tin* di/./y whirl in her ;u hi ig
!u a !. I'he otlcr .\irls came in and
suggested various unsiiit.ibi r -medics.
"le ave mo ! i don't care if I die!
I'd lather die than feel lilu this. I
heard tin clock strike every hour till
lour ? think of it, girls! And then,
)ust as ! began to feel sleepy, the
cows commenced to low, and Mr. 'J ut
tie began his usual conference through
tho kitchen window."
Mrs. Forsythe was called. The
remedy for a nick headache, she declared,
was to lie abed all day in a
darkened room; and to that treatment
Pris was comlemued
"Please go," who said, when Mrs.
Forsythe wished to give up the proposed
expedition. . "You cnu do nothing
by remaining, aud I do uot want
to feel that I have robbed you of a
day's pleasure."
"You will be quite alone. Everyone
is going but Mrs. Tuttle and that
Miss Benton," urged Mrs. Forsythe.
4'I don't want to talk. I nm going
to sleep all day." The other girls,
with noisy sympathy, yielded commiseratingly
to Pris'g command that
the expeditiou should uot bo givon
up.
Presently sho heard the groaning
wheels of tho mountain wagon roll up
to the door. One horse was restive ;
would he neigh again? Tho girl put
her bauds to 'iibr ears in au agony of
apprehension. "What a shrill voice
Lou Saxo had, and how long they were
getting ready !
They wore gouo at last, and the
girl turned her pillow to see if there
were not a cool spot upon it; but no
sleep came. The day was intensely
hot. Sho had closed the window to
6hut out the sound of Mrs. Tuttle, tho
hostess, beating eggs in the kitchen.
Her sense of hearing was a torture to
her.
Py and by Mrs. Tuttle came to the
room, seated herself in the roekiug
chair?tlio ouo that had been utilized iu
Mrs. Benton's treatment? and entertained
the invalid with a graphic account
of ail the funerals, accidents
and illnesses that had come under her
observation.
"Seems though you'd ought to have
something for dinner," she urged.
"Couldn't you eat a bit o' cheese?"
"No, thauk you," answered Pris.
struggling to speak gently.
"It's home-made. 'Twouldn't hurt
you."
"But I don't care for any, thank
you."
"Jest a grain. You could soak it
in your tea."
"Please, no! murmured Pris.
"If you soak it in your tea it would
make it soft."
Pris's self-control was at an end.
Desperation gave momentary strength.
"I?don't?want?any cheese!" she
cried, hercely. "I never mean to cat
anything again as long as I live. loo
go !"
Mrs. Tuliic moved toward tiie door
in evident alarm; with her hand on
the knob she hesitated and turned,
with a feeling akin to that of the deserter
condenied to be shot, and expedant
ot the word of command,
?v:? . ? i>_. . ,i- . i i .. ..
i i n.i div.Mi tile lieuclolhcs.
Tho next moment the bung
of tho door quivered through and
through her aching heard.
How the hours dragged ! In tho silence
of tho great house n creeping
onso of loneliness caiue over the girl,
till it amounted almost to terror.
"If I live to get home, I'll never
leave it again," sho thought, 'flow do
you do?"
The last words were spokiu aloud,
in a sudden trenzied desire to hear a
human voice, and to ascertain whether
die bad not lost the power of -pooch.
"Not at all well, thank you,"-die
answered herself, st 11 aloud. "I am
in a position to realize, as I never did
before, 1 he figures given in the arithmetic
beneath the 'Fable of lime
Measure,' of the appalling number of
seconds there are in a day!"
Presently there was a gentle tap at
the dour.
"Come in !" called Pris, ready to
welcome even Mrs. Tnttlc. I5ut it
was Mi-s Teuton who stood upon tin
t hreshold!
"1 thought 1 heard you speak," said
Mies Kenton, "Can I do anything
for you"'"
It was more in tho tone than von
Ilm Kindly v or Is, liut tin- l.i.t v -u
of I'riself-control vanished, an i an
irrv-ii n nt outburst was the only answer.
?Iiss Henton listened at lir.-t in
astonishment, ami finally with a hn?i; of
understanding, while her month,
with f'ris noticed for tho first time
wiw so lino and true, lost its smiling
curves. Hut in the gravity that had
stohn over tho face, the girl wae
vaguely aware that a rare depth of
feeling was revealed.
"Oh, it is awful to thiuh. of tho way
i
! we have treated you !" Pris coucludci
breathlessly.
Tho saiilu camo back for a moraei
| to Miss Benton's face.
'This is tho first 1 have kno\Vn (
ray ill treatment," she said, calml
' "I should have gone homo to-morra
! under tho impression that this win
remarkably agreeable household,
have beeu so unutterably thankf
| that you let mo alone, did not for
rae to 'talk shop,' ask for my ant
; graph, inquire if it were not necessa
' for rae to 'keep my mind calm,'?
query with which one poor unfortu
ate agonized mo at Serautou,?ai
' above all, did not alludo to me as t
'authoress!' "
"An authoress!" repeated Pris, in
! dazed tone. "You aro not?voii oa
I . T,, ~ . T.
| nor oe iviito iMeauor Benton ? u
; yes, you are tlie Miss Benton!"
Oh, the dilVoreuco conveyed in
, girl's tone between "the Miss Ueutoi
anil "that Miss Benton!"
"Please!" The owner of the nan
made a funny little gesture of abho
1 reuee. That word?authoress?ulwa;
1 conveys to my mind an impression
n being with long curls, who writ
verses for the Poet's Corner of tl
> local newspaper. You see," she wei
on, in a communicative tone, fi
; Pris was too much overwhelmed f
j tho discovery that '.he occupant of tl
| corner room was a woman whose nan
j was a household word wherever the
wore girls to read nud love her storie
"I had work that I must tinish, and
Scranton I was not loft in peace foi
moment, so 1 staffed uiv mnnuscri
iulo mv bag and Ho 1. I could devo
myself to my work here without o
ear pricked up for fenr of interru
tiou. It was so delightfully quiet
my room ?"
"Quiet!" interrupted Pris,
imazemont.
"Wusu't it?" queried Miss Bento
innocently. "But I acknowledge tk
! I am deaf, dumb and blind when I n
at work on tho last pages of a star
i I did hear your good times togetko
1 though, after you came upstairs fi
the night, and sometimes longed
join you. Your extempore orckest
of whistling and blowing on coml
was my oveuing refreshment."
"We wouldn't have done it for t!
world if wo had known," murmun
Pris, abjectly.
"I am a disappointment, of course,
returned Miss Benton, laughin
"Confess that you thought t
authoress must bo seven feet tall, wit
a dictionary under one arm, n
encyclopedia under the other, goggf
on her nose and a pen in her haut
I'm sorry you're ill. I will have yoi
door and mine open, so you shall ru
feel lonesome, and perhaps you o?
sleep. Oh, no, dou't thank me jti
for being neighborly."
A crowd was gathered around Mi
Benton the next morning, and
chorus of lamentation arose tuufc sj
wasgoing by the morning train.
Big Doats and Long Trips.
Two boats nro now boing built
carry loaded freight cars 5G0 miles
that is, from I'eshtigo, Wis., rout
ward to South Chicago. They will!
din feet long, with forty-four fe
beam, and will cacli have a capacit
of twonty-oight freight ears (foil
trucks, seven oars each). Those boa
will be towed by tugs instead of ha'
ing engines of their own. This lor
route connects the Wisconsin nu
Michigan Railroad with the lines rui
ning cast from Chicago, and a rout
trip will bo made every threo day
At South Chicago the boats will co
.met directly with the Elgin, .Toll
and Eastern or outer bolt line, wliu
can deliver cars to the Eastern road
thus avoiding tho crowded Chicuf
yards.?San Francisco Examiner.
A fricX of tho Waiters.
Waiters at restaurants where it
the custom li? give iips invariably 1
vour heck "ii the table face dow
while in places wliero tij?s are u
1; 11 ( w; i your check is usually thro-a
down face 11 ]>. The philosophy of t
thing is obvious.?Chicago 'linu
Ilerald.
Dead Sea ?.I America.
The Dead Sea of America is situate
on the Columbian plateau in Southei
Wu-hin^tou. Tho lake is 2'HM) l'e
above sea level, and its chemical eoi
])(>.sition is almost identical witu tti
of tlio Dead Sea la Palestine.?Nc
Orlcaus Picayune.
' HARK, YE PEOPLE.
' _ ^
ANOTHER ADDRKSS FROM FOUR- V
TEEN OF THE FORTY.
i\v It Advises Tlmt the Action of Edge-*
,i ; lipid and Aiken ai to Equal Repj
! resent at Ion tie Followed and
Compromises Made.
ill
00 ! ~ ~ )
0. j Fourteen of the Forty met Thttru- (
i ?lny night iit the parlor of the <?rund
* i Central Hotel at Columbia. Those
"a present were: ! K. Ellcrbe, Marion; I
n iJ. k. rniii'v, ioi-k: j .1. imikiuuu,
ml ' Kershnw; T. I'. Mitchell, Fnirlleld;
Louis Appelt.Clarendon; !. \V. Hamel,
in Lancaster; Conservatives, C. E. Spencer.
York; F. 11. Wont on, Richland;
n ! George lohustone, Newberry; !. \V.
u Ferguson. Laurens; 11 II. Uoykiu
! Iverslmw, T. II Kelchin, FnirHehl; H.
| B.llichardson, Charpmlou; Henry T.
i Thompson. Darlington,
a J As can be seen l'rom the above only
p> twelve counties were represented, but
, letters hail been received from the
members of the committee in nearly
1U all of the other counties in the State,
r- so that those present eotibl net iuv*s
telhgeritlv and with the sentiments of
t)j the people of the State as reflected by
the Folly well known of them
os 1 It was stated that the greater part
1*? of their work was private Ail that
ut was given out was '.he following a l
dress:
111:'. Anur.Kss.
0t 'to t!i" WliiP- \ < : Soul: ('uv.liiri
he The W'?r!ving eoinmitte-* eoa-iitutai !?y
' authority of the eonP'renea <>i" ll-aorncrs
ami Conservatives whicti nvt i:: Columbia
m\?% Gw? 'JTlh ,,f Mire). 151 sit ! ? titmonl \* kiiiitvii
,, a* the committee of the Forty. n. view ?>f tho
' grave t-?.?n.ii11?>u-4 ill confronting tin* p aint
pie of tin, Staff, ili'i-m it propi-r and e\pidi:
oat to make some recommendations infurtli*
* i rniifi- of the well known objects . ' ??! purt
1 : f is-. organi/unon. Wa ili-sim to i-ull
^ ! atfi-ntion again to thi- cardinal principles sot
to forth in ill*- platform adopt d fiv the conven'
tiou, nam- i> . niniutonneo of ivhito
supcretna *\ "by fair constitutional methods,"
ji- and ' > earnestly urge upon every patriotic
on o,' South Carolina, without regard to
1U I political fiction, the imp mam o in til is crisis
' of contributing everything in iii-w power to
the attainment of that end. To tho* ' who
lu have'abar-d lor a r. united Democracy and
the restoration of p ace and unity ntr.iug
the whit** poo pi a of the State, it is a source
n, of gratification that a uumlier of counties
! have alroatly taken sue'it action in regard to
| the election of delegates to the Constitutional
ni convention as will obviate all friction umong
j the people of our race, and will iusure the
i selection of men whose undoubted quiiliUr,
j motions and lofty patriotism eminently lit
! them for the important duties they have been
or j called upon to discharge,
to Wo cannot appeal too strongly to those
counties which have not yot acted in this
ra j matter, to take immediately some steps that
I will place thorn in line with this movement,
and will render it general throughout the
State.
, The practical method of solving the prc.Ti116
lem is. after all. one that every county must
eel settle for itself. The time for n"tion is very
ihort. The crisis that confronts us, it goes
without saying, is immiuont?we believe the
> white people ol South Carolina fully realito
'.his. It is uow time to aet and to act now.
g. Tuoe. J. Kirkland.
' Chairman.
Francis II Weston. Secretary.
h - ?
The Cotton Crop of Soutli Carolina.
LS | Tho New York Fiunncinl Cbroniclo
' ! of Inst week had the following rcgardur
ing the coniitig cotton crop in Mouth
jt ' Carol inn :
i(j Tti common with a largo section of
' the cotton hell, planting liegnn in
8* : South Carolina later tlinu in lS!if
I Coinmeneing in the coast section uliout
isb the lHt of April, it gradually extended
westward and was dually completed
i May 20. On some low and sandy lands
u j seed germinated poorly, but as a rule it
came un well. At the same time tho
j* weather conditions have net been
favorable to the best development ol'
the plant, temperature having la en too
low much of the time ; at intervals
? j there ban been an excess of moisture,
h. | High water, frost and cut worms are
the causes mentioned, rendering much
replanting neeessarv. It is stated that
, in the more northerly portions of the
y State, aloe;; the N'oi th ('aroli ua border,
ir whole lb-ids have been rej hinted. An
improvement in the weather since the
hcoiiiniti<r <>f tin' last week in May is to
j be notetl, and tile erop is now ?l<>i:i^
'o ; well. St a mis are reported very iire?ul
nlar, being exeeptionally good i:i some
,j. j)ortionsof the State and it. others very
j poor. The erop, however, is a late
j one, and may soon show much iiu*
s- proveinent under the present more
n- satisfactory conditions. Out'ioor
t?t work lias been retarded, but euiiiva,jj
tioii is now apiillv progress;eg.
^ Acreage? ('ontrary to expectations
there have been adilit ions to acreage in
some localities, but tiuse lie in the
i western portion of the State. klse
wl'er" the temb ney has beep st'-omrlv
li- l III- I'j'i iinm: Illll-l-ll M'. I I' li MOliollS
boiil,; Illllrl) lit>??'? S i 'i hli'V'i i lit.
'ill bilhtllOO the lli'S. ill' ;;) ) : :t 1.
nv deon nso roue' ii"; In | * r <*< f11.
,, Ft .t ill/.i 1- It Wi'iM ii j j i ! v : ' >t
1 !) takings ill" <-i>)1111 i-!<i'11 I'i . Idi'/a
have beet' bill lit t!' miii!i- t tin; ita'f of
11 what toov wiif i i iM'.n. I'm J in riiii n ,
Iio ;in- 11si ol limai-imiiic tiiuiima.i ims
;s- ; very 'y itu i -nsi'il.
virion ntlftH in la-\inston.
D. T. Hoof, of Lexington ('uiin;<T
I ty, m well-to-do-fanner, has u low minjilts
of bugs which lire infesting Ids
ot ' watermelon \ines. Ifo sdvr tlint llioy
i 1 out the vino, and thinks <lint 1?v pubof
lishing the fact, that ho nud others who
!V* nro Iroublod by tho bugs will bo able
to find some remedy.