The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, December 21, 1906, Image 3
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felE CECIL THURSTON, i
if "The Circle," Etc.
by Harper t* Brothers
' at the sudden Isolation, his second a
rent thrill ?' nervous apprehension at the
weth- I oblivion that lind allowed him to be so I
fnleht I cntr?Pl>od. The second feeling out- |
S?, _ I W0i<rti?<1 iUn if-> < - ?? I
Jl me a-? ?~ "HI". I
mem- ^,on paused again, uncertain of him- |
[Lou- so'^ filially, with the consciousness
L ^j,e ] that inaction was unhenrnble, he
ijt rjs. I mow! on once more, his eyes wide
uncut [ ?Pen- ol,e hand thrust out as a proteclb
an- t'on 11 nt' ttulde.
nponj The fog had clbsod In behind litui as
nnioil heavily as In front, shutting off all postft,J^fehility
of retreat. All about him in
^^Pfie darkness was a confusion of voices
ougli ' ?(,'1<>orfu'. dubious, alarmed or angry.
jn ' Now and then a sleeve brushed Ills or
__ .. a hand touched him tentatively. It
i not was a strange moment, a moment of
srbi ' possibilities, to which the crunching
wheels, the oaths and laughter from
nsur- the blocked traffic of the roadway, :
? 'u made a continuous accoinpaiiiment.
> the Keeping well to the left Chilcote still
l/.ed tient on. There was a persistence In
u the his movements that almost amounted
to fear?a fear horn of solitude tilled
, the with innumerable sounds. For a space
rge"s, he groped about him without result,
llrcle then his fingers touched the eohl surj
into face of a shuttered shop front and a
e es- thrill of reassurance passed through
aud liiin. With renewed haste and clinging
,ding to his landmark as a blind man might,
lnno- lie started forward with fresh impetus,
out- For a dozen paces lie moved rapidly I
I than ]|flf unevenly, then the natural result;
ished oecniYcd. lie collided with a man coin(dual
big in the opposite direction.
ITIio shock was abrupt. Both men '
swore simultanoously. then both laugh- j
cil. The whole thing was casual, hut
> <'hilcote was in that state of mliul
when even the commonplace becomes
i abnormal. The other man's exclamation.
the other man's laugh, sfcuck on
his nerves. Coming nut. of the darkness.
they sounded like a repetition of
Nine out of every ten men in London,
given the same soeial position and the
same education, might reasonably he
expected to express annoyance or
i amusement in the same manner, possibly
in the same tone of voice, and Chilcote
remembered this almost at the
.moment of his nervous jar.
"Beastly fog!" he said aloud. "I'm
trying Hrosvenor square, but
the chances see in rather small."
| ^I'iie oilier IiiiikIiimI uffitiu, ninl npiin i
>1 'Tie laugh upset f hilcote. lie wonder- I
oij[ uncomfortably if lie was becoming ,
t JL Ill'OV to illll<il>lls! Illlf llll> I v.I I
fsjioke ..before llio question had solved
*vi'isj a-fraid they are small," he said.
"It would he almost hard to llnd one's
w ay to tlie devil 011 a night like this."
i'l^ieote made a murmur of amusement
and drew back against the shop.
f|H^ "Yes. We can see now where the
blin 1 man scores in the matter of sal
^PP>s vat.on. This is almost a repetition of
Bee the fog of six years ago. Were you
^Hie out in that V** It was a habit of his |
Haa- to jump from one sentence to another,
jj^Bie a habit that hud grown of late.
H'll "No." The stranger had also groped
V his way to the shop front. "No. I was
ntv- out of Knglnnd six years ago."
Big "You were lucky." Chileote turned
tjbe up 1 lie collar of his coat. "It was an
I han atrocious fog. as black as this, hut
B^B more universal. I remember it well. .
fl^B]. It yas the night Lexington made his
Bed grjBrfsug ir speecii. Some of us were 1
bffse fo^FT* 011 Lambeth bridge at :> in the
J inorning. havim? left in?> imiwo 10 ?
I'D t'hlleote seldom indulged in reminiseenees,
hut this conversation with an
unseen companion was mure like a >
j soliloquy than a dialogue. lie was
almost surprised into an exclamation |
pj when the other caught up his words.
U "All! The sugar speech!" he said.,
lr- "Hdd that I should have heen looking
I it up only yesterfji..;. What a inagniflcent
d?essIns Q*?h dr/RUlijtct It I
L. was! ,V. hat a earee it Lexington proui-sl'm
those days!"
L ( hlleote changed his ]tosltion.
L "Von are interested A,, the muddle
1 down ntmWestnilnsfer/* he nsked sarcas(ieall\f
/
B "IV" 11? as the t fCvn of the stranger
B to draw fttck a "Oh. I read my
B^ UcwijoapJ witli^^Ue other .">,01 10.000.
B*' thatI am an outsider." His
B\ voje^^Bmlcd eiirt. The warmth that
aclni?B*>ti hud brought into it a mog
- liiei'f before had frozen abruptly. i
^B1*' 'An outsider!" t'hileote repealed. ,
B * "What an enviable word!" | j
B" "Possibly, to those who are well In- ,
^B" ; side the ring. Hut let us go back to
B*1 Lexington. What a pinnacle the man |
reached, and what a drop he had! It 1 ,
has always seemed to ine an extraor^V1'
dinary instance of the human leaven : t
s running through us all. What was the I ,
real cause of his collapseV" he asked I ,
1 suddenly. "Was it drugs or drink? I ,
have often wished to get at the truth." ^
Again t'hileote changed his attitude. j
Hf- "Is trtitli ever worth getting at?" he (
Bh asked Irrelevantly. ,
B*1 : "In the case of a public man?yes.
B1' | He exchanges his privacy for the interB
est of the masses. If he gives the
B? masses the details of Ills success, why
i not the details of his failure? Rut was 1
B? 1 It drinl^that sucked him under?"
BP "Nd|B Chllcote's response came after
"Drugs?" j
Pf" Again C'hllcote hesitated. And at
the moment of his indecision a woman
brushed past him laughing boisterously.
The sound Jarred him.
"Was it drugs?" the stranger went on
easily. "I have always had a theory
that it was."
"Yes. it was morphia." The answer
eauie before Cliiieote had realized it.
The woman's laugh at the stranger's
quiet persistence had contrived to
draw it from him. Instantly lie had
spoken he looked about him quickly,
like one who has for a moment forgoHon
a necessary vigilance.
There was silence while the stranger
thought over the information Just given
him. Then he spoke again, with a new
touch of vehemence.
"So I imagined," he said, "though, ou
my soul, I never really credited It. To
have en 1 lied so much nn,i in imvn
thrown It nway for a cotutnon vice!"
lie made an exclamation of disgust.
Chllcote gave an unsteady laugh.
"You Judge hardly," he said.
The other repeated his sound of contempt.
"Justly so. No man hns the
right to squander what another would
give his soul for. It lessens the general
respect for power."
"You are a believer in power?" The
tone was sarcastic, but the sarcasm
sounded thin.
"Yes. All power is the outcome of individuality.
either past or present. I
And no sentiment for the man who
plays with It."
The quiet contempt of (lie tone stung
Chllcote.
"Do you Imagine that T.exington
made no tight?" he asked impulsively.
"Can't you picture the man's struggle
while the vice that had been slave
gradually became master?" He stopped
to take breath, and in the cold
pause that followed It seemed to him
that the other made a murmur of incredulity.
"Perhaps you think of morphia as a
pleasure?" he added. "Think of It. Instead.
ns a tyrant that tortures the
mind if held to and the body if cast
off." Urged by the darkness and the
alienee of Ills companion, the rein of
his speech had idosened. In that moment
lie was not Cliilcote, the member
for Kast Wark, whose moods and silences
were pijverbial, hut Cliilcote
the man whose mind craved the relief
of speech.
"You talk as (lie world talks?out of
ignorance and self righteousness," lie
went 011. "Before you condemn T.o^
ington you should put yourself in his
place"- -
"As you <lo7" the other laughed.
T'nsuspoeting and inoffensive as (he
lan*_rlj was il startled I'hileoto. With n
sudden alarm ho pulled himself up.
"IV" He tried to echo the laugh,
but the attempt fell flat. "Oh. I merely
speak from?from Do Quincey. Ilut
I believe this fog is shifting? I really
believe it is shifting, ('an you oblige
me with a light? I had almost forgotten
that a man may still smoke though
he has been deprived of sight." He
spoke fast and disjointedly. He was
overwhelmed by the idea that he had
let himself go and possessed by
wish to obliterate the consequences.
As he talked he fumbled for his cigarette
ease.
Ilis liend was bent as he searched
for it nervously. Without looking tip
he was conscious that the cloud of fog
that held him prisoner was lifting,
roiling away, closing hack again, prejiar.it
?ry to linal disajqicarninv. Having
found the ease, lie pit! a cigarette
between his 1 ips and raised his hand
at the moment that the stranger drew
a mat eh across his box.
For a second each stared blankly at
the other's face, suddenly made visi'
For n second cuch stared lilanklu at the
other'* hue.
hie by tIk> lifting of ihe fog. The
match in the stniuiter's ham', burned
lown till it scorch'.-.I his lingers, and,
feeling the pain, lie l-'Ughed and let it
lrop.
"Of all odd things!" he said. Then he j
liroke off. The circumstance was too
novel for ordinary remark.
Ity one of those rare occurrences.
hose chances that seem too ^ ild for
enl life and yet belong to no other >
tphcre, the two faces so strangely hid- j
len and strangely revealed were idenleal,
feature for feature. It seemed
o each man that he looked not at the
'ace of another, but at his own face I
eflected in a flawless looking ftjass. I
[TO UK COSTINDID.]
1'nprlntnhle.
Emma sat at the pl-an-o, striking strl- '
dent strokes,
tVhen father, up In the smoking room, |
yelled: "Goodness! Holy smokes!"
Those weren't the words he really used?
Oh, no! Hut still I fear
[f I should tell you what they were
There'd be a blank space here.
?New York Times.
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to produce the cheering
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that do not give the same
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR CHARTER
Of the South Carolina Public Service
Corporation, which if granted, will
confer among other things, power to
Gondemn lands and other property1
for ail corporate Purposes.
NOTICE IS IIEkEHV CIVEX,
that under and pursuant to
the provision of Article IV.'
Chapter XTATII, of Volume i.
Code of laws of the State of
South Carolina, 1902, and Acts
amendatory thereto, the undersigned
Hoard of Corporators
will on Wednesday, the sixteenth
:day of January, A. D. 1907, at
12 o'clock M. of that day. make
application to the Secretary of
State, of the State of South Carolina,
at his office in the City of
Columbia, in said State, for a
charter tor the S< )I T11 CAROlina
public sf.rvicf.
corporat i ox'. in pursuance
jof the Declaration heretofore
J tiled and the commission issued.
If the said charter he granted,
the said corporation will he authorized
and empowered to condemn
lands and other property
for its proposed Railroad or
Railway tracks and stations, and
landings for its proposed Steamboat
business or system, and for
i all other corporate purposes of
the said Corporation, as fully
jset forth and stated in the said
Declaration and Petition, now on
file in the said office of Secreta-,
ry of State, to which Declaration
reference is hereby specially
made as a part of this notice, and
proposes to condemn lands and
J other property for ah of its corporate
purposes, if necessary, in
the following counties, to wit:
Charleston. Berkley. Dorches
ter, Orangeburg, Richland. Lexington,
Saluda, Greenwood, Abbeville,
Anderson, Greenville
Spartanburg, Cherokee, York
Chester, Fairfield, Union New !
berry, Laurens, Aiken, Colleton
and Bamberg, in the State of
South Carolina, and Mecklenburg
county in the State oS
North Carolina; and also in the
following Towns and Cities:
Charleston, Orangeburg, Lex-j
ington,Columbia.Saluda. Green- I
wood, Abbeville. Anderson. |
Greenville, Gaffney, Yorkville, |
Rock Hill, Chester, Union, I.au j
reus, Newberry, Aiken and
Bamberg, and other Cities and
Towns in the counties above ,
mentioned, and to own,construct,
equip and operate a Railway or
Railway system for local business,
within the said Towns and ,
Cities. j
Joseph J. Timmes,
J. C. LaVin. |
Joseph A. Bill,
v George Fleck, Jr.,
John P. Bonney,
Chas. B. Van Ft ten,
bought a supply o:
g himself with the c
5 Tobacco, which h
gratify his desire tc
lan ch'^p tobacco.
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u vertisc^V^y^s " Some day th
wer has in Schnapps?tl
ainted i?. me theyVe missed
gs are nflc used
quality 5 lUnd in ^ a^? 1
untry fluiewcujyjd themselves.
\PPS is yttiat he , __
ere are -zhewers SCHNAPPS
:heaper tv |>accos cent cuts, and
pleasure. sure you get th
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John r. Tinimcs.
John ( Lott.
Joseph A. Craij^.
Robert II. Jennings,
Lawrence M. Pinckney,
Hoard of Corporators.
50-41.
NOTICE
Of the opening of Books of Subscripiior
to the capital stock of,the Soutt
Carolina PnbliG Service Corporation.
xtrriCE is iierehy civ
EX, that by virtue of a Commission
issued to the undersigne*
Hoard of Corporators by the
lion. Jesse T. (iantt. Secretary
of State, for the State of Soutl
Carolina, and dated the Xincteenth
< 1 <>t 11) da\ <>f Xovember,
kjo(). Rooks of Subscription t<
the capital >tock of the SCH 1 11
CAROLIXA IVRLIC SERVICE
C< >R I'ORATIOX will by
opened, by the undersigned Cor
porators, at the office of s;ii< 1
SOl'Tll CAROI.IXA I'CHLIC
SERVICE CORPORATION'
Edisto building, in the city ot
Orangeburg, State of South C ar
oiina. on Wednesday, the nintli
day of January. A. I). 1007. at
10 o'clock A. M. of that day. and
will he kept open until the whole
of the capital stock, as provided
in said Commission, or a sufti
cient part thereof as required 1>\
law, shall have been subscribed.
Joseph J. Titnmcs.
|. C. La Yin.
Joseph A. Hill.
(ieorjge Meek. Jr.,
John P. Bouncy.
("has. R. YanRttcn,
"yof n 1'. Tinnnes
John Lotl.
Joseph A. Craig,
Sol Kohn.
Robert 11. Jennings.
Lawrence M. Pinckney.
Board of Corporators.
November 22, 190b.
50-4L
CUT PRICES ON PERFUMES
We have to make room for an elegant
line of holiday perfumes soon to arrive.
Until then we make the following
prices on our stock now on hand:
25c size for 16c.
50c kind cut to 35c.
Bulk goods, 30c an ounce.
rhe package is not so bright, but the
luality is good as ever You will
rind such well*koown manufacturers as
colgate. Stearns, Spiehler, Rickseekvr,
;tc., on the list.
Jome while you can fiod the odor of
your preference.
DUKE DRUG CO.
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SUMMONS FOR RELIEF7*^^M
Ccf&pla
South
County.
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dorson, Hcs.sie K\ \")u^ctvn _ ,.
I tfs. Helton Kstos, \vt^ce ^nd
erson, McDulYie S.^vcv^011 ^
Lillian Stovcrson, \ y)eie,v a
To the I )efendants aba A,nc^' _
1 You are hereby sumy.\|^ aV' ^\4
quircl to answer the C?>^yinl ^with
, action, of winch a cop>^c uy ~v\A\ch
> served upon voti. the orij: :u ? .?u.
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s;iill Complaint ami Sunm ^ ^ a[
ly tiled in the ofticc of he ' ^n\oU
. Court of Comnton Plenfs ,T 0Ourt
county. South Carolina, jit ^ ,U ^ ^iohou-r.
S. C., on thc^ \jtV\ ^ ^et*e a
vetuher, A. 1). 1906,\jttd , p.om*^ __
copy of your nns\vc-M-.vAV|^^j?i oMI
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Dated at Union, South V T., vfl H
vemher 15th. 1906. vMM
J. A. v^'.er. ' <
Plaintiffs' Attorney. 'j
I. Prank Peake,
Clerk of Court. (Seal.)
To the Defendants Robert I.ee Steverson.
McDufiie S. Steverson, Loula
Sanderson and Lillian Steverson^
Take N otice: That tlu- Complaint in v .
' ?V yd
mi> <KUUII, i"m-iinrr wiiii inc
tn< >ii.s, of which the foregoing is 3f
copy, was duly filed in the office of the)
Clerk of Court of Common Picas foe
Union county, South Carolina, at Union
court house, S. C., on the 15th day
jot November. A. D. tood.
J. A. Sawyer,
Plaintiffs' Attorney.
' rUnion,
S. C.. Nov. 15, 1906.
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To the Defendants Ressie F.stes,
can F.stes, Helton Kstes, Robert' LjV
Steverson, McDuffic S. iteversof*
and Lillian Steverson: 4
Take Notice: That unless you p?A
dure the appointment of a guardian
ad litem to appear and defend this action
in your behalf, I will, after twenty
days front the date of the service of 1
the Summons, Complaint and this No- 1
tice, in this action, upon you, apply lo j|
C. H. Pcake, Esq., Mastex for Union
county, at his office, at t/ffion court^
house, for an order appointing some
suitable person as giiardfctin ad litem
for you, and authorizing and requiring
him to appear and defend this action
; in your behalf.
J. A. Sawyer,
Plaintiffs' Attorney.
Union, S. C., Ncr. 15th, 1906. ?
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