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would only - Q few days as you was
godn' away. Aargis, she'll take the milk


would only - q few DAYS as you was
eoin' away. Marie, she'll take the milk
then"
Instead of sleepinc that night, Agatha
Clair thought. One result of her think
ing was that when Hardness came in
the morning she told him he could not
have Mamie.
II hardly expected Gene would part
with her." the man said. good humoredly.
would another ten be any inducement? 2"
Agatha shook her brown head decid-
eddy. Nothing you can offer will induce
us to let Mamie TO-"
Fowler was to return Thanksgiving
morning. Would Eugene come with him.
or would he 20 north? There was no
way Of communicating with him. There
was nothing Agatha could do. Nay, there
was one thing-she could pray. Some
times she would fall upon her knees and
assail heaven with prayers that were de-
mands. Again the peace that had filled
her heart when q child at her mother
side came to her, and she trustingly ask
ed that Eugene might come home to md
a different wife from the one whose DIS
content had driven him away.
| Thanksgiving came. The sky was gray
and lowering, while the east wind
brought, ever and anon, a gust OF snow.
| The train would reach the village 4
mile away at eleven. Before that time
Agatha's arrangements were completed.
In the oven a turkey was browning, veg
etables stood in readiness for the stove:
The table was bright in its best array OF
linen, china and silver. There were quiz
ering molds of amber jelly, dish OF
oranges garnished with green leaves, and
at Eugene's plate, cluster of pink car
nations.
The whole house was bright and Coz"
Agatha, in the gray dress with scarA.
trimmings that Eugene liked so well, was
watching at the window.
Everything was done. Think az best
she could there was not one task re-
naming undone with which she could
busy herself. Nothing to do but watch
that dreary road which wound around
the hill.
If he did not come-Agatha's breath
came in short. quick rasps. She had
said she had nothing to be thankful for
An. could she 20 back to that day she
would ask no choicer boon of heaven.
Harki tho train was vbistlinr at the
station II wouh not be long now. She
resolute,v turned away from her watch,
making q tour of the house and keeping
.woy from the window for ten minutes,
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AGATHA Glars THANKSGIVING
~ HOPE DARING.

Go WO weeks from ts-n,orsw II
Thanksgiving. Let u = to Orley
= to spend it." ''Go to Oilsy! Why,
Agatha, you must BE- crasyr' Agatha
Clair pushed back her unhnizhaA cup Of
ssffee. decided frown sA t9 snsstA
white forehead. 'Indeed, Eugene" there
was q note Il irritation in hsr vsies, II
fail 70 see why 4 woman should be pre-
neuncsd Grassy because shs expresses q
desire to visit Aer home, sfter N alb
sence Of q year and 4 half.~ "Hsmew
he echoed the wsrd little ssDssaehfully,
his eyes wandering arslnA ~ nest din
Ing rosm. '-TAis 10 Asms, Agatha. The
lrst real sAe We have either 4 a. had
for yearA."
The colsr deepensd sn the wife's
cheeks. Her husbands words were true,
her girlhoods home, with an uncle In a
distant city, had net been a happy one.
This uncle had been too proud to let his
sisters child earn her bread, and as there
had been more pride than lsve Or money
In the home Agatha had realized the
bitterness of the bread of dependence.
The coy farmhouse, shared with the
quiet man who had won her love, had
seemed haven Of peace. Used all her
life to the hustle Of city and to a home
crowded with gay young life, Agatha be
gan, after a time, to long for change
Just now a letter from her cousins, tell
ing Of concerts, lectures and parties
made the uneventful winter stretching
before her look very dreary.
She sat toying with her spoon unit
her husband had finished his breakfast
Then she looked up, a coaxing light il
her soft gray eyes.
why can't we so, EugeneT
Cant afford it," he replied littl'
ungraciously, for her persistence annoyet
him. Besides the railroad fare, there't
be lot of new clothes wanted and
"Clothes!" Agatha was angry now
"Really, l didn't suppose you knew that
a woman ever had to have clothes. I've
seen nothing since l was your wife to
show any such knowledge on your part
I'm tired of this scrimping and saving
and stagnating."
There was a pause. Husband and
wife confronted each other, both with
flushed faces and hurried breath.
And Tin" he began hotly. Then,
moved by some memory. he stopped. A
moment later he cried out. 'Oh, Agatha.
l never dreamed that you felt that way.
1t cost so much for us to start and the
crops have been poor. l thought you I'M
derstood," and breaking off abruptly, he
strobe out through the kitchen on his
way to the barn.
AS the heroine of nineteenth century
story, Agatha should have sat down and
hurst into tears. But there was little of
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-05-20
The HarfsyilIe Cotton Mill to
Double It's Stock.

It will be interesting to the Charles
ton stockholders in the Hartsville Cot
ton Mill to learn that the capacity OF
that factory is to be doubled. The
stockholders met at Hartsville, May
IA, to consider proposition to in
crease their capital stock from $3.50,
GEO to 500, 600, and acted favorably
upon it. The present mill has 1000
spindles and 800 looms, making fine
print cloth. 1t has been in operation
less than six months and is already
earning money. When extended and
enlarged the mill will have installed
So, 600 spindles and the complement of
looms and other machinery. Mr.. G. c..
Twitty is president and treasurer Of
the company. Mr.. John ". Ferguson,
of Laurers, is secretary, and Mr..
John N. Moore, CT Spartanburg, is
superintendent.
Work on the extension Of the mill
will begin at once and will be pushed
to completion. It is expected that it
will be cone by the beginning Of the
new year.-News and Couriei.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-05-20
White Caps Granted Bail.

Wilson, n. c., May 1e.-Bail was
today granted to i've of the men in
dicted for the murder Of T. Percy
Jones, the Arkansas insurance man
killed here in bis room by 3 mob
Thursday morning. The men to whom
bail has been granted in the sum of
81, 200 each, are: S. J. Walls, ". P.
Groom, Lawrence Morgan, John Pitt
man, T. J. Bass.
A special term of court to try the
case will be asked for by the bar.
In connection with the murder the
board of aldermen of Wilson today dis
charged Policeman .Snakenburg foI
gross neglect of duty, suspended
Frank FELTON, for ten days and de-
priyed CT his official functions Peter
Nicholas, depot watchman.
The citizens insist on a thorough
investigation. There was no attempt
last night to release the prisoners,
as the military was on duty.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-05-20
The Civil War in Venezuela.

Washington. May 1S.-Adyices OF a
thoroughly reliable character, received
in Washington under date of May /,
show that the Venezuelan revolution
lists are not only holding their own,
but are making considerable head
way.
The sdvices say:
"The districts of Coro Barquise-
mento. Tucacas, on the west side,
CiIda Bolivar, On the Orincco. and it's
surrounding country are still In the
power of revolutionists.
Within sixty miles of La Guayra,
in the Rio Chico district, the revolu-
tionists are holding forth and, al
though the Government few weeks
ago sent an expendition there to drive
them out, they succeeded only in max
ing them retreat, and within a few
days they were again back there. a
battle took place in which the Govern.
met lost over a thousand me, and
about three hundred wounded were
brought back to La Guayra after &
two days. fight.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-05-20
FATAL FIRE m NORTH CAROLINA.

Asheville, N. c.. May 15.-ln a FIRE
of mysterious origin, which broke
out last night in a large house at
WaynesVville, n. c., owned by State
Attorney General Gillmer and occupied
by G. j. Galbeath, who runs board
ing house, F. W. Payne, a telegraph
operator, formerly connected with the
Postal Company at Richmond, and a
negro woman and her daughter, ser
wants of the house, were burned to
death. Someone passing the house at
midnight discovered the fire and gave
the alarm. Galbeath and four Others
were aroused and struggled through
suTocating smoke to a place of safety.
Efforts we're made to save the three
people still in the blazing building,
but the heat drove the rescuers back,
and the attempts had to be abandoned.
1t is believed that the three victims Of
the fire were overcome by smoke. It
was several hours before their partial
ly consumed bodies were recovered.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-05-20
The SMALL POX SITUATION.

DR.. ?. 3. Bacot has recently re-
turned from the Piedmont section,
where he has been in charge of the
small pox situation. He says that
the plague has been put under control,
but that so little attention is being
paid to it by local authorities that it is
likely to break out again at any time.
He has been in the section around
Clemson College, which threatened to
develop an epidemic, but that danger
has been averted.
The disease has not been confined to
negroes by any means nor to the
factory peple. It has been very gen.
eral on the farms. In some sections it
has been very serious, notably in the
sea island country, where the death
reords have been over twenty per
cent in some localities.
DR.. Bacot thinks that the prudent
people have mostly been vacinated and
that they are resting quietly in sense
of their own security and letting the
less prudent take their chances. 1t is
now almost impossible to enforce vac
cination.
There are still a number of cases
through many sections Of the state, but
if they were properly cared for by the
local authorities the disease might be
stamped out, but there is little hope
Of their doing their duty fully in the
matter.-Florence Times.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-05-20
MANGHUREAA MATTER
IS STILL UAsE7TZEa.
Russia Has Been Trying. 10 Crowd
Out American Cotton Trade.

Pekin, May 18.-In reply to furti.er
presentations of the United States
and japanese ministers, China las
again pointed out the impossibility Of
including in the commercial treaties
the opening to trade CT Manchurian
ports on account OF Russian oppcs:-
tion.
The American minister proposes that
China open Mukden, Harbin and a
small port at the mouth of the Yalu
river.
G. G. Baldwin of New York, re-
preventative of the southern Gotten
mills, who has investigated the trade
conditions in Manchuria, reports that
the American cotton trade was in
creasing enormously until recently,
when Russians began to exert pres
sure upon the Chinese, amounting to
coercion, for second orders for Rus
sian firms amounting to 800, 600 bales
CT goods, which otherwise would have
gone to America.
MIR. Baldwin says the foreign firms
complain bitterly of the difficulty of
conducting business under the Russian
administration and he believes that
unless Russian absorption of Man
churia is checked the United States
will be deprived of most promising
market for cottons within a few years.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-05-20
HEsTER's COTTON STATEMENT.
The amount Brought Inte Sight
Curing The Past Week Has Been
1928 Ba!es.

New Orleans, May 15.-Secretary
Hester's weekly cotton statement, is
sued today, shows for the Is days of
May an increase over last year Of IS, :
600, and an increase over the same
period year, before last $4,000.
81 For the 257 days ago the season that
have elapsed the aggregate is ahead of
the same days last year 1000, and
ahead Of the same time year before last
of GIL, 900.
The amount brought into sight dur
ing the past week has been 73, 72S,
against 62, 12S for the same seven days
Lastly ear, and 81, 263 year before last.
The movement since Sept. / shows
receipts at all United States ports to
be 1902, 81, against 1927, $50 last
year; overland across the Mississippi,
Ohio and Potomac rivers to northern
mills and Canada 1,o29, 636, against
1,C62, ,221 last year; interior stocks in
excess of those held at the close Of the
commercial: year 1905, against
70, 044 last year, and southern mill
takings l,6l9, 800, against 1,438, S59
last year.
The total movement since Sept. 1 is
10, 19l, ,552, against $500, 974 last year,
and 9, 523, 966 year before last.
Foreign exports for the week have
been 66, 203, against &c, 173 last year,
making the totals thus far for the
season 6,372, 1s9, against 6, 070,4S6 last
year.
The total takings of American mills,
north and south and Canada thus far
for the season have been 1856, 925,
against 8, 459, 925 last year.
Stocks at the seaboard and the 20
leadings southern interior centres have
decreased during the week IS, 953,
against decrease during the CORES
ponding period last season of 54,209.
Including stocks left over at ports
and interior towns from the last crop
and the number Of bales brought into
sight thus far for the new crop the
supply to date is 10, 4C9, 626, against
10, 260, 661 for the same period last
year.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-05-20
Senator Tiliman pitchforks e!eve.
land.

Washington, May 16.--Senator Till
man paid flying visit to Washington
today, leaving for the south tonight.
Ee found time to attend to number
of departmental matters and to give
an interview excoriating ex-President
Grover Cleveland, whose mention in
connection with the Democratic nomi-
nation for president he declared to be
''an insult to the party
"What sort Of ours do they take Us
for,'' he said, to ask US TO vote for
such man as Cleveland? Yen can't
change Democrats that way. You might
as we'll talk about nominating & Re
publican as the head Of the Democratic
ticket. There has been some inclina-
ton in South Carolina to look upon
Judge Parker. as an available man, q
man who will prove acceptable to
different factions IN the party"
Speaking of local matters, Senator
Tillman declared Gov. Eeyward was
making the blind tigers sQuesl BY
putting on the thumb screws a little
tighter IN enforcing the cispeasary
law.
| The senator was at TIE navy depart
1rent TO ask Acting Secretary Darling
to assign q commandment exclusively
| 20 the Charleston navy gard instead
! OF having ti3aG officer si!are his t!Ti2
between there ana Port Royal. Char
+ iesteeiane, il seems, have been much
worked Up about the talk OF Po5,tt Eo:.
al ,jeine retained as naval station.
Acting Secretary Darling has Sena-
tor Tiliman's S request uader ccnsidera-
t5o,
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-05-20
GEN. MILES SPEAKS OUT AGlIB.
"IdIe to Assume That Campaign.
ing Has Conditions That War
rant Resort 10 Raediaeval
Cruelty"

New York, May i5.-The Army and
Navy Journal Will print tomorrow a
letter from Gen. Nelson a. Miles, in
which the writer says that he went to
the Philippine Islands not as tourist,
but in an official capacity and that
the instructions addressed to him as
lieutenant general commanding the
army came from the highest
authority, namely, the President, in
which he was directed to give especial
attention to the instruction, discipline
and supplies of the army.''
In referring to his official report on
the Philippines Gen. Miles says that
mo one can have a more sacred re-
gard for the honor of the army than
myself"
Coming to the subject of cruelties
in the Philippines Gen. Miles's letter
reads as follows:
1t is idle to assume that campaign
ing in the Philippines has conditions
that warrant resort to medieval
cruelty and departure from the honor
able method OF conducting warfare,
and that such departures as have exist
ed should be overlooked and ccndoned.
1T is most gratifying that the
serious offences have not been COM
mitted by the soldiers unless they were
under the directions of certain off,
GERS, who were responsible. Soldiers
have withheld fire when ordered to
shoot prisoners, protested against acts
of cruelty and written to relatives at
home urging them to take action to
put stop to these crimes. 1t will
ever be one of the glories Of the army
that such deeds committed by what
ever authority are abhorrent to the
American soldier. The officers who
are responsible, sing chiefly cruel
Maccabebes, do not by any means
constitute the American army, and
there must be very unmistakable
line drawn between the great body of
honorable and faithful officers and
brave soldiers, whose records have
been commendable, and those, of
whatever station, whose acts have re-
cieved and should receive the earnest
condemnation of all honorable men,"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-05-20
PANAMA. AR9 SuEz.
Consideration Of the Effect One
Canal Will Have on the Other.

Washington, May 13-The possible
effect Of the construction of the
Panama canal on the business Of the
Suez canal is referred to in q report
to the Department of State by Mr..
Ravenel, United States consul at
Beirut, OH the suez canal. 1.-The
traffic passing through the Suez
canal" says Consul Ravenel, has up
to the present time been constantly
increasing. Whether the canal will,
however, continue to receive a grow
ing share of the tonnage of the carry
ing trade to the Orient is a PROPOSE
tion affected no less by the Canadian,
American ard Panama routes than by
the Bagdad, trans Caucasian and
trans-S berian railway schemes. It is
believed that the Suez canal inter
ests. while naturally concerned about
the competition which is sprlnging up
in all directions, regard the situation
without serious misgiyings.
Even if the main path to the Orient
shall be found to lie across America,
the canal has the Persian gulf, India,
West Australia and the east coast
of Africa from Beira (the port of
Rhodesia) to Saukin, in the Red sea,
to guarantee it's future trade. TO sup
ply the growing needs Of these and
otner east African prts, including
Djibuoti, Mmobasa, Zanzibar, Oar
es-Salaam, etc., the German and Aus
rtian Lloyds are increasing their fleets,
and Mr.. Chamberlain, in speech at
Mombasa, recently announced the
speedy inauguration of another direct
line Of steamers subsidized by the
rapid transit, the canal has quite
recently been supplied with four new
light houses. In considering the
chances of the Suez canal route, one
must not fail TO attach due Importance
to the work of development now being
performed in Africa. -
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-05-20
AMERICAS, COURSE.

Washington, May J8.-The state de-
partment has been made fully aware
Of the obstacles which the Shanghai
treaty commissioners are meeting With
the Chinese in the effort to include in
the commercial treaties the opening TO
trade of Mancburian towns. TIE
Chinese, as stated in the Pekin els
patch, point out the impossibility of
this on account Of Russian opposition.
The accuracy of this statement, how
ever, is denied by the Russians them
selves. M. Paul de Lessar, the Rus
sian minister to Pekin, who has been
absent from his post of duty for some
time, is now returning to Pekin. His
arrival is awaited with some interest
for it is expected that he will be able
to speak authoritatively on the subject
of Russia's position and thus clarity
the situation considerably. Meanwhile
the United States, anxious to secure
additional port facilities for American
trade interests in Manchuria, will.
continue to exert it's efforts to bring
about that result.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-05-20
Ths Traaaady Of Russia.

,sssr feoorts sustain the early ae-
s.nnnSs of the massacre Of Jews at
siishinsa, In southern Russia, and
Eass aFaig viii bs recorded as one Of
shs biackest incidents in history.
me New York Sun well says: The
nlackest chapter in the history Of
I5hristiauity is the cruelty of so-called
Christians to the race OF Jesus Christ.
Ehe worst medieval prosecutions are
gc1alIed or exceeded by this
4ishineG massacre. Murder and
nntilatin, robbery, outrage, exile ;
these are the penalties of the
crime of being q Jew in southern
Rnssia.'' The persecution Of the race
from which the Christ came is one OF
she anomalies Of history, whether pats
or present. It has been done~in all
subsequent ages ana II all countries
bg the professed followers OF Him who
Gaught that vengeance is the Lords.
This latest outburst Of cruelty
against the Jews has occurred in the
realms of that ruler who has sought
80 establish a permanent peace among
the Christian nations OF the world.
NO other two things could be as vide
apart as the professions upon which
she car called the peace conference at
The Hague and the atrocities in his
own country. Personally the emperor
Of Russia, perhaps, should not be held
responsible for the contradiction be-
tween the fanatical deeds Of his
ignorant subjects and his own philan-
thropic desires. yet tie divergence
does demonstrate how far from keing
truly Christianized the world IS to,
a Russia is rich and powerful, potent
factor in the politics of the world,
able to influence nations and to deter
nine national destinies, and yet these
barbarous prosecutions occur il
Russia's domains and the people OF this
distant republic are being asked tc
succor the suffering and the helpless II
Kisbineff. Would that the czar nigh
convert his own people. Bound dowI
with traditions and customs, guarded
and gagged by an unyielding hureau
cracy. himself physically and mentally
weak though OF good impulses, he !:
practically helpless.
And SO Russia stands out today
tragedy in the book OF nations. 4
ruler wise, good and strong at once !:
what she needs to lead her on to
great destiny.-State.