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The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-08-03

NDEtSON COUNTY,.
Sheriff Green says that there has
been a great improvement over the
county since the dispensaries were
closed. Some blind tigers existed while
Ohe ~dispcnsaries remained open, and
since their removal the number OF
tigers has shown some decrease. There
are q few blind tigers, but the officers
are vigilant and suppress them az
they appear. There have been blind
tigers all the time. Fewer complaints
OF drunkenness and shooting and other
disorders reach the Office Of the sheriff
now. Mr.. Green lives two miles north
OF the city on the public roads. He
seldom sees a case Of drunkenness
now, but while the dispensaries were
open men, noisy and drunken, passed
along the road.
Mr.. L M. Murphy. chief of police,
OF Anderson says that conditions have
Improved In the city. There has been
some whiskey sold, but this has been
In small quantities and from Jug ship
ped here to individuals. That ia the
extent Of 1t. There have been three
convictions In the police court for
selling liquor this year.
Mr.. &c. II. Nicholson, county super.
~intendent Of education, thinks that
conditions have improved since the
closing OF the dispensary. He has not
seen more than half q dozen drunken
men since then. Drunkenness I'm the
country has bean reduced greatly, his
observation leads him to believe.
UNION COUNTY.
The correspondent says in the oitv
OF Union the police and State consta
bles are very active now, and have
the blind tiger situation 80 we'll in
hand that but very little liquor ia for
sale, even with what blind tigers sold
IN ~diapensary days, Police Sergeant
Evans, who has been connected with
the forces off and on for the past fen
years, said: "As to Drunkenness, r.
has generally decreased. The records
show arrests for drunkenness, June.
1905, is; and June, 1906 6. AS to
blind tigers, 1t Is much easier to on.
troll them now, as more sentiment is
against them and the people are aid.
ing the police O In breaking them
up. l believe that II the people were
vote again, they would 20 stronger
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~ :" taSo Ro1pCSN oo"ID hoWOtCl
for l don't believe they approve Of the
woods dis%pensaries. In other words,
l hear frtqlent expressions that they
prefer the dispensary liquor to blind
tiger liquor, and It's one or the other.
The mayor of Conway, Mr.. II. L.
Burroughs, speaks particularly OF
Conway, and says: There may be
less drinking In Don way now thar be.
fore the %dispensary was voted out Of
the county, but w don't have as good
order. The prevalence Of blind I'll.
gers, which l believe Is about 30 to l
increase, keeps the town in 8 stir.
The blind tigers are reinforced by the
enormous jug trade to which the town
10 subject. l know the people are not
pleased with blind tigers, and think
they prefer the dispensary. Were the
vote again had on the question Of dis
pensary or no dispensary, / think
there would be little change IN the
result unless combined with tue pri.
mary when the people turned out
then the d%ispensary, l think, would
be voted back"
MI. S. O. Jackson, county superyi
sor, Ia Of the opinion that drunken.
ness has decreased In the city, but has
shown an increase In the country dis.
triots. He says that there are a great
many blind tigers In the county.
Mr.. r.. l.. Keys, agent of tho ex.
press company, estimates the increase
in the Jug trade at 200 per cent. An
average Of about so gallons 10 received
at the local Office each day, with an
average OF 10 gallons per day for the
same period last year.
aREENVILLE COUNTY.
Mayor q. II. Mahon, OF GreonyIlle,
asked to compare the conditions In
the county before and after the vot.
ing out Of the dispensary, said. 1T
Ia impossible to get whiskey. The
tigers are under practically perfect
control. 1 believe l am safe in say
ing, off hand, that whore there were
three arrests for drunkenness and dis
orderly conduct as a result Of intoxi-
cation under the %dlspensary, there is
but one now"
Sheriff Gilreath said: "Blind tig.
ers have not Increased in number
since the %dispensary reign. Tho Jug
trade Of liquor consumed now Ia about
fifth OF that consumed during the
dispensary reign. The jug trade per-
haps increased slightly when the dis.
pepsary was first voted out. The
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their Office force and that / would not
be needed at the end OF the month.
It was more politely put than this, but
that was what it amounted 10.
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Sent on FOREIGN TOHE

In the face of such opposition Fer
dinand Karl was powerless. The
Emperor suggested that he should
give up his army command at Prague
and take a long leave OF absence and
spend it abroad. The archduke ac-
coringly left Prague and began his
foreign travels. After spending
some months in Germany he went to
the Riviera and thence 10 Spain.
Some years ago efforts were made
TO bring about a marriage between
the arehduke and the Infanta Maria.
elder daughter Of Queen Maria Chris
tina. The archduke made several
visits TO Madrid, but in the end moth
ing came OF it and some four years
ago the Infants married Prince
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their ONCE force and that / would not
be needed at the end OF the month
1t was more politely put than this, but
that was what it amounted 10.
Overwhelmed With Reproaches.
I went to my wife and told her all.
She upbraided me bitterly. I looked for
another opening. / looked everywhere.
but the expiration of my month found
me down and out" l was. vulgarly
speaking. "a man looking for a job
My wife overwhelmed me with re-
breaches. She blamed me for spelling
the lives of herself and the children.
She said l did not keep my eve out for
the main chance. She bitterly resented
the fact that had tried TO the utmost
to live up 10 the best ideals Of my
chosen work.
All that happened In the morning at
the breakfast table. I had succeeded in
raising loan OF $50 the day before 10
tide me over the week. I gave her all OF
it and 1 walked out OF the house penni-
less. l heard the baby crying ia the
adjoining bedroom and my little bow
was pounding hts plate with hts spoon
I did not wait TO kiss either of them. /
was too angry. I replied with a thrust
infinitely more bitter than hers had
been. What I said cannot be repeated
here but # went home. 1t is the one
thing. the sole, single thing I would
leave undone In all the tragedy of my
married life-that last parting shot at
the mother OF my children. Then put
nv hat on the back of my head. walked
out and slammed the door.
I need not dwell upon the three wears
of misery that have interviewed since
that miserable day. Suffice It to saw that
L managed to get out of Chicago within
the following week. ] worked by way
East and am trying to make a good
architect out of myself in New York
The money I left my wife and the
babies was enough TO enable them 10
get back to the little town in Michigan
where my mother-in-law still Ives I'm
the little house she owns there.
A year after wrote TO my wife and
she replied IN a friendly letter saying
she was teaching school there and that
the children were well and happy We
have entered into a compact not to see
each other until five years have elapsed
and by that time we have agreed ne
win both have better sense. The ex-
perience has made a woman of my wife
and I hope the suffering I have gone
through in these years. particularly in
the years [ have been separated from
her and the babies. viii make something
of man of me. And l belieyS IL viii
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Again the Ancient House Of Hopsburg is
Threatened With a Matrimonial Scandal
That FlorfieS Court Circles and This Time
the Austrian Dynasty Itself is Seriously
Affected by the Romance Of ArChduke
Ferdinand Karl

sons, is quite near enough in the
direct line 10 make a left-handed
marriage an affair of very consider
able consequence for the dynasty.
Bertha Czuber, the "burgerlicher"
maiden, who has won the archduke's
affections. is described as being ex-
traordinarily beautiful with charm
ing and delightful manners Her
father, Emanuel CZubsr is profess
sor of mathematics in he Vienna
Technical Institute ana has the of
fetal rank of ''Hofrath." Bertha
made the acquaintance of her i'm
perial lover IN Vienna, Ggt their Op-
portunities of meeting were much
more favorable AT RostOk. near
Prague, where Berthas uncle is di-
rector of the Noble Dynamite Works
RostOk is a favorite excursion point
for the citizens of Prague, and the
archduke. who was then command
ing the Nineteenth Infantry brigade.
with headquarters ar the Bohemian
capital, made frequent triSs to
RostOk. His attachment 10 the Cyna-
mite directors niece became the sub
ject Of much gossip, especially
among the ladies of Prague, with
whom the archduke was a great
favOrite
Of course. the news was speedily
carried TO the Vienna court. and the
Emperor was al once Informed OF the
affair. Little notice was taken of il
in court circles. however. until il
became apparent that the archduke's
intentions were serious and he real
ly wanted 10 marry the professors
daughter. A family council was held
and as a result Ferdinand Karl was
told that any marriage, morganatic
or otherwise, was entirely out of the
question. The aged Emperor WAS
absolutely memorable and refused to
listen 10 anything OF the kind. Fer
dinand Karl appealed TO his brother.
but with no better success. His en-
treaties were especially hopeless so
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III, and when | returned from work al
$ o'clock without any dinner 1 found
the ignorant servant girl pounding il
on the back. My wife had not re-
turned and the baby was choking.
A Bitter Quarrel.
When she returned an hour later,
after the physician had come and gone,
we had our first bitter words. Up 10
that hour I had never said word of
reproach had frequently tried TO
reason gently with her, but she had
always won out by per persuasiveness-
And then I was very proud of her sue
cess and I wanted 10 see her realize
her ambitions But when it came TO
negIecting the life of the child ] lost
my patience.
We did not speak for many weeks
after that night, and never after that
did our relationship seem the same. A
few months later our second baby
came, a little girl
I was then SO hopelessIy involved,
having borrowed money right and left,
and conscious of the fact that [ was
making failure of my own chosen
work and not giving entire satisfaction
to my employers. that all that was
needed was the slightest spark to set
the whole structure OF our marriage
into a blazing ruin. The end came
sooner than 1 expected.
If the first baby had made my wife
,aprieious and exorbitantIy ambitious
the second child had an even more dis
astrous effect. She chafed under the
restraint which the care of the new
baby put upon her and which she
could not possibly obviate. We had
months of pickering. I tried to reason
with her and she resented my reason
ing even more than she did my anger
] began TO grow as nervous as q woman
] could not sleep nights. I had worries
at the office, which I tried TO explain
to her, but which she, poor girl. either
could not or would not understand.
began TO drink for the first time in my
life, and after a while I began 80 stay
away frem home nights. I neglected
my work.
This state of things went on for six
months. and L gradually went from bad
to worse, always getting deeper in debt
and growing more nervous and dis
posed to forget things in a. drink OF
whisky. One day a rude shock brought
me TO my senses, for a brief spell al
least. The firm I was with and which
I had been so proud to become identified
with notified me that they expected to
make some changes In the personnel oil
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1 am q wife deEeFteF TIL ere is not a inst
Judge on the bench in New York city
Tor is there q decent man or woman in
ChristendOm who would not, upon The
hard. bare evidence against me. imm.
diatly condemn me for a precIou7
rascal And yet 7 believe | have acted
only for The best. As I look back upon
IT now IL seems 20 me it was the ve.-,-
best. the only. thing l could possibly
have done RI that time, in those sharp
circumstances. Here is the unvarnished
evidence. and ! hope [ will not he Ton
hastily adjudged either as a brute or a
weakiing. at least until the induIgent
reader has read to the end of my story
Good Beginning.
! am twenty-eight years old, and an
architect. J was born and reared in a
little town in Michigan Ny parents are
weil-to-do farmers, but they were not
able to send me to college, which in boy
mood had always been my ambition.
determined tC make my own wav
through, for 7 had made up my mind
TO have career. To this end / began
'eaehlng school at seventeen years OF
age in the district where I was horn.
- "AN a. htSilL preparing my
self Tor tho entry examinations at Ann
Aroor, and saving all my money 10 de-
fray the expenses of my first wear
II second year was more difficult
My original fund was now exhausted
ana | was obliged TO work nv wsv
through from that'O on I did everything.
/ became assistant TO the janitor Of one
OF the dormitories, ] acted as Ioca4
newspaper correspondent, succeeded in
wrlting several series for BOYS for .
young peoples magazine, and at last
l succeeded in getting food-paying sit
uation at waiting on table In the hast
boarding house i'm the town Here at
the end Of nv second year In coIIaes 7
met the girl who was later TO become nv,
wife ny
She was student, like myself. and
she, too, was working her way throush
eotege- She, with ., girl friend of hers
from the same town, was empIoved out
OF class hours. She was sweet and
sood ana clever and as ambitious as I
was. III was case of love at first sight
we hao worked together in the board
ing house for some three months when
we became engaged. / was graduated
a year before she was and went tn Chi
cago 20 take up architecture
There met the same difficulty rasor5 !
ing finances that I did when nnfertoour
my college career. only in Chicago I
found 1t more difficult 10 make my
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live Just as Cheaply as one.
Misleading Figures.
The figures thus misleading as. NE
we're straightway carried away. ! have
neglected TO state that ell this while nv
love for her had never wsvered. nor
did it waver through the 0irssfuI year
that followed. Indeed. IL the word of
a man who has done what I have
done can be believed. I would like to
say here and now that il has not TO this
day wavered. Despite all I have done.
notwithstanding the fact that four
years after our marriage was to desert
her and our two babies. 1 still love
my wife and 1 have always loved her
One blissfui year. during which We had
nothing more serious than perhaps some
slight misunderstanding, which a tear
on her part and a kiss on mine were
potent to dispel. Then the baby came
and with tie baby our troubles began.
The small salary which by pinchfng and
scraping we had managed to make do
for two would not possibly stretch to
cover the manifold wants of the child
we both loved so much.
Along with the increase of my work
and the lengthening of the hours there
was not proportionate increase in nv
earnings, however. The result was that
/ had but the briefest spell in which 10
stay at home and enjoy my wife and
babys society Such time as I could
cSeHd at home l needed for sleep and
rest, and no doubt often was cross and
irritable. for motherhood combined with
the worries of tsa household had
wrought a disappointing change i'm NV
wife. She loved the baby, but somehow
its coming did not seem to satisfy her
soul as the coming of a first baby is
COMMONLY supposed to satisfy the soul
of good woman And my wife was and
is the best woman God ever made.
/ had foolishly supposed that even 4
greater contentment would come 10 her
when there was a baby in the house. but
TO my amazement she had no sooner be-
come mother than her ambitions
broadened. For the first time in her life
she began TO long to so out She wante d
to go TO the theater she eagerly ac-
cepted the invitation of a woman who
lived in the fat next to ours to ioin a
bowling club and when baby was nine
months old she was q member of two
intellectual women's clubs.
To ali of this I had not the slightest
objection. On the contrary. I was proud
of my wife. and 1 wanted her TO make
the most of her individuality. There
was just one thing that did not make
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AN EXPLANATION OF WHY LEAVE HON1E-BY THEN

ESPITE the universally ac-
knowledged truth of the old
saving anent there always be-
ing two sides 10 every question.
there nevertheless remains certain
strong prejudice on the part of the
world and his wife-especialIy his wife
against the application of the principle
10 me problem of desertion. TO the
world and his wife that question mas but
one side. the womans side There is
no other side worth considering. II mat
ters not what extenuating circum-
stances it matters not what infinite
variety of iustiha BILE motives the man in
the case may have 10 offer III explana-
ton OF his action. popular as well as
judicial sympathy always inClines a
dead weight upon the side Of the wife
Like all other popular opinions regard
lhE subjects on which from their very
nature 1t is impossible to establish any
hard and fast canons OF judgment this
particular prejudice is founded upon a
false application of the theory OF chIy-
alFy- Our notions upon that subject
are as absurd as they are unreal and
unnatural Ia order TO fulfill the re-
0uirements OF a system Of conduct
which has long since cutIived its use
fuiness as factor OF civilization public
opinion continues to force men and
women to play havoc with the most
sacred and intimate relations or life.
A False Notion of Chivalry.
I refer to that false notion of chjv-
airy which regulates the conduct of
courtship and which obiiges a man to
marry wtilvnilly after he has once
plishted his troth. quite Irrespective
of his better judgment and the prompt
tugs of his heart should he discover
such a change in himself before the
tatefui wedding DAY. / refer to that
same false notion that. once married. it
is better to live together a catvand-dog
existence than il is 10 pursue separately
an honorable and useful life And I re-.
fer particularly to that wrong concep-
ton of chivslry which would deny any
modicum of it to the man who may be
driven 10 the unhappy action OF DESERT
ing his wife and family.
I ofTer no apology for what ] am about
TO say in defense of myself. Nobody can
completely understand the attitude of
a man like myself unless it be another
man who has stumbled against the
same hard. rough stones in his journey
ing along the dry. dusty road of matrI-
lnohy
To stats the case with brutal brevity,
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nand Karl is one of the most popu-
lar and highly esteemed members
Of the imperial family. He has a
slender and elegant figure, and until
a few months ago had a remarkably
boyish appearance. LatterIy, how
ever, he seems to be more reserved
and serious and MS features have
become bronzed from exposure TO
wind and sun while performing his
military duties. He is fond OF art
and loves the drama, and was a fire.
quent occupant of an imperial box
At the Court Theater. He has also
taken part in amateur theatricals.
But what is much more remarkable
in an Austrian archduke is that Fer
dinand Karl takes a keen interest in
politics and is an avowed support
err of the German Liberal party,
which is not particularly pleasing TO
the heir TO the throne, Franz FeTdi-
nand, who is strong reactiouary
and clerical.
Among his brother oficers and the
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plans dovetai ! was TWENTY-FIVE wears
old and had a sound univer sitv educa-
zion. but had no means o. earning a
livelihood while 7 was studying archi-
lecture Again I rescrted to ali sorts OF
occupations, selecting such as I thought
would give me most time TO spare for
the pursuit of Iuy chosen vocation.
got q job as cashier in a mercantile
establishment. ] coached boys for col
ie8e, I wrote some for the newspapers.
and after while ] succeeded in procur-
ing employmelst a part of the day as
mechanical craftsman in The office Of a
patent attorney
The Girl Has Disappointment.
Meanwhile the girl I loved had been
graduated and got a position in a far
Western State as instructor I'm A girls
school. She was then tWenty-one, Just
two years younger than myself Born
and bred in a small town like myself,
she had no knowledge of the world. She
had dreamed, as / had dreamed. that
once out of college she would be fully
equipped to make a sensation in the
world
Rut the girls school where she got
her first position. proved a bitter dis
appointment. She made only $40 a
month. which included her board and
washing, and the school. being on the
very boundaries of civilization, made, as
she thought, too narrow a horizon for
her ambitions. She longed for the laTg-
CT opportunities that were to be found
in the city and imagined that she could
find a career in Chicago.
She had saved her money during her
year at the girls school, and when her
time expired she refused the principal s
offer TO engage for another year but
came instead to Chicago. She had a
series of vicissituoeS there. as even q
college girl cannot Tail to have who goes
to strange city to earn her living
without money and influential friends. l
was just beginning to see daylight when
she was in the thickest OF her tribula-
tons and was about to compromise with
bad luck by accepting a pos itton as of
flee assistant to an insurance broker. BY
seeing daylight / mean L had Just got
myself established in the office of a first
class firm of architects, where ] would
have an opportunity of earning fair
salary as a clerk, with a privilege Of
studying and perfecting myself as far as
possible in the profession.
The salary was large enough to ena-
bic one person TO live comfortably there
on, but according TO the aTitlametical
system which lovers only too often en-
ploy in casting their accounts, we. the
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general public the archduke Is i'm
mensely popular. Some years ago,
when commanding the Third Tyro-
lean Imperial Jaeger Regiment, he
dined regularly two or three times
a week at the officers mess, but only
after expressly stipulating that there
should be no change Of the meal on
his account. His brother officers
were quite free TO come and go, and
appeared in their ordinary undress
uniform. One Of his first acts after
going 10 Prague was 10 dispense
with police protection, and he fire.
quently walked home alone 70 the
Hradschin Palace from the town at
midnight
Public sympathy Is entirely vi,
tine archduke and It is hoped that
the Emperor may yet be prevailed
upon TO permit him 10 marry the
maiden Of his choice There are
rumors that the couple are already
married, but the writer is assured
that there is no foundation for such
report.
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far as Franz Ferdinand was con-
Csrned, for he had been the bitter
est opponent Of the formers NOR
ganatic union, protesting that the
inequality of birth on the Countess
Chotek' 5 side was such thar mar
riage morganatic OF otherwise,
ought not TO be entertained.
And even after the Emperor had
yielded an unwilling consent, and
Franz Ferdinand WAS allowed 10 take
his Bohemian bride. his brother
Ferdinand Karl remained Obdurate
and absented himself from the we'd
ding festivities. 1t was therefore
scarcely to Ue expected that Franz
Ferdinand would al his brother in
marrying woman IS far lower So
cial rank than the Bohemian Count
ess ChOtek. So far as Otto is con
cerned he is probably quite indiffer-
ent as to what sort of an alliance
his brother contracts. Perhaps Otto
feels that his cwn iuN affairs have
been 100 numerous and notorious TO
give him any particular right 10
regulate other peopIe-s matrimonial
affairs