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CLARKE COUNTY COURIER
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J.E. GARDNER
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Brown’s Rebuke to Blease^
Citizens of this republic Twho live
without that section thereof known
as the South should understand—as
thousands of them no doubt do un
derstand—that Governor Cole L
Btease, of South Carolina, is not a
representative Southern governor,,
and does not speak by (he card for
the Southern states.
The South will prefer that the
nation accept such a governor aa
Joseph M. Brown, of Georgia, as a
more repreeentative typo of oxecu
live. Anti particularly will the South
prefer that the deli Iterate and digni
fied utterances of Governor Brown
be accepted as its sentiments with
respect to molt law, rather than the
demagogue, incendiary, and cheap
ravings of Governor Blease.
The South realizes that it has the
respect., the ey^S&athy and the fra
teruul good niah^&f the other sec
tions, in seeking to solve the great
est problem handed down I•> it from
reconstruction days. The land of
Dixie has drained to the very dregs
the bitter cup pressed to its lips by
the misfortunes of a cruel war. A
part and parcel of that war it in
herited the negro question, all un
settled and far at sea, and it has
done with it the last It knew how—
handled it in the light of its purest
thought and its loftiest statesman
ship, with many blunderinga and
falterings as time runs on. For the
result thus far obtained it neither
blusters nor apologizes.
The South has its ideals—maybe
its prejudices and by them it stands
or falls. It has never been able to
consider the negro an unalloyed as
set ; rather it has looked upon him
as a grave liability. It has sought
to be fair to ldm and "treat him hu
manely and with kindness—and the
South has never beon able to believe
that it is a kindness to the negro to
hold before him the faintest sugges
tion ever of social or political
equality.
Governor Blease, in advocating
his shameless ideas of mob law and
executive violenco, undertook, for a
political purpose, to play upon the
thin worn threads of race prejudice.
He can not hold the beast in
greater abhorrence than other men
—all men—must. He spoke of
negro criminals of a certain class—
these, he Bays, ho would extermi
nate, without process of law, and ii
defiance of the constitution he gav
his irresponsible oath to observe
Why he confines his remarks to ne
groes would be puzzling, were it not
for the fact that the occasional Blease
type is understood in the South; for
the patriotic white men of the South
hold in equal detestation both white
and black criminals of the sort
Blease pictures.
In response to Blease, Governor
Brown said:
"The executive of no state has a
monopoly of devotion to the white
women of his state or to the deter
mination to protect them, hut what
ever the crime in Georgia, we hold
that the criminal must be punished
by the law instead of by the mob
Georgia does not have to depend up
on mobs to punish those who violate
her laws.
"I regard Governor Blease’s ad
vocacy of mob law as exceedingly
unfortunate, for the simple reason
that In every other state in the
American Union the devotion of
white men to white women is as
sacred as it is in South Carolina,
and the determination to protect
them, or, if need be, to visit eon
dign punishment upon those who
have wromged them, is as deep-
seated and irrevocable oe it is in
South Carolina.
"Every governor with whom I
talked and every woman in Rich
mond who gave me her opinion
stood as one in advancing legal pro-
oees instead of ‘mob’ law.”
The South will be content if the
nation aooepte the words of Governor
Brown of Georgia, as stating the
real Southern position on this ques
tion et mob law, raised by Bleats.
The South will indorse and ap
prove Governor Brown with that
same measure of emphasis that it
rejects the sinster, dishonest and
illegal attitude of unfortunate South
Carolina’s utterly cheap and shame
less executive.—Atlanta Georgian.
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• By CLARI55A MACK1E
Malsle Pomeroy dismissed ber pupils
aud locked the door of the little school
bouse. It lacked three days of the long
vacation, aud the last hours of tbs
school year dragged heavily, for June
weather was insistently calling. Qei
homeward walk led along pleasant
country lanes aud through clover Held*
crisscrossed with narrow footpaths.
In Malsio'g pocket was ber last
month'* salary^ aud in spite of June
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weather aud the calling bobolink her
heart was heavy with disappointment
though her face wore its usual expres
lion of unruffled sweetness. Just the
amount of that month’s salary would
take her to * large summer resort
where she rnflhjt have two weeks
euch enjoymeiu, as she had never known
in her monotonous life. She had read
of the pleasures of this city by the sea
she had known girls whose parents
were well to do to spend several months
there, and now Ella Shaw bud written
to say they were going and wished
Malsle to Join them. It was to he
•‘Dutch treaty and she knew that
rneuut euch girl was to pay her
penses.
She had not even mentioned the mat
er to her mother, for she knew that
their resources were badly strained this
year. There was an uncle who had
been bedridden for two years, and they
were now matutalniug his declining
days in the hospital, where he could be
best cared for. As Malsle was the only
wage earner tu their family of two,
was iuiportaut- prohibitive, rather
that not one penny he wasted.
“If Bloouitleld were not so dull," she
murmured wistfully. "Ever sluce
can remember there has never been
any unusual happening here. No new
families ever move here, and nobody
ever marries anybody that lives farther
than Fairmount. I don’t wonder there
are so many maiden ladies in this vll
lage!” She smiled as she pushed open
the front gate, for there on the front
piazza sat her mother, dispensing cake
and root beer to five of Bloomfield'
spinsters. Some day she, too, would
form one of a similar group.
“Lots of news, Malsle,” cried Emma
Risley as the girl sat down on the top
step and sipped a glass of the cool
beverage.
“News?" repeated Malsle; then she
added quickly: “Oh, you mean the new
flagpole in front of the town hall?
saw that yesterday.’’
No, Indeed; that’s old! What do
you think Is going to happen In Bloom'
flold?" Emma was bursting with im
portance, and the four other spinsters
nodded their heads significantly.
A—circus?" There were painfully
few things that ever had happened in
Bloomfield, and Malsle's Imagination
was starved,
‘No, sir! What do you think of bal
loon races here?" Miss Risley’s voice
was triumphant.
Balloon races?’’ echoed Malsle
blankly.
“Ten balloons all starting at once
from Cabot’s big hay field!’’
When is It going to be?" asked
Malsle.
'In three weeks. The men have
been here and looked over the grounds,
and the lumber Is on the way.
the rooms at the hotel have beeu eu
gaged for the workmeu. You see, I
knew about It the first one because
bold a first mortgage on Cabot’s big
fleld," explained Emma IJIsley impor
tantly, "and Joshua Cabot spoke to tne
about the matter.
When they had chatted themselves
away Malsle and her mother sut on
the plazzu until the sun went down.
They talked about the coming of the
balloonists aud bow It hAd been learned
tbat Bloomfield was chosen because
of some special advantage It possessed
for the purpose, and everybody said
that once the city excursionists saw
what a beautiful spot Bloomfield really
was there would start an influx of
aummor boarders and possibly a land
boom.
“Mother, dear," half sighed Malsle,
“I was complaiulug this very afternoon
of the du1lL«9s here, and as I walked
home through Cabot’s field I was wish
ing almost anything would happen to
break the monotony. Now that some
thing Is going to happen 1 am feeliug
sorry about the clover fields. They are
so beautiful. 1 '
Mrs. Pomeroy laughed softly and
caressed her daughter's bronxe hair.
“That’s the way with all of us, my
dear. I have known for a long time
that you were weary of the monotony
of ypur life, and I cannot blame you.
When I was a girl somehow we seem
ed to get more out of life .even If we
never went away from the village.
There were parties every week and
socials and spelling classes and skating
parties. The winter was always too
short for all the good times we had.
Nowadays the girls and young men go
away to the cities, and those that re
main and marry here don't seem to
care for the old aimple pleasures.”
‘ Perhaps after the balloon races are
over we will rejoice in oar old time
qolet But somehow I would like to
have just a taste of life and pleasure
before”- Malsle flushed and bit her
«P.
“Before what, dear? 4 ’
“I know I’m horrid, mother, but I
waa going to say before 1 settled down
into a regulation Bloomfield old maid,’’
cried the girl, hiding her fact in Tier
mother's lap.
Mrs. Pomeroy smiled Indulgently.
“Ton are aure of that, Malsle? Did
Jdu tell Walter Avery never to come
back to Bloomfield r
For a long time Malsle was silent.
Chetfi. Tier crown eyes were very
fcrtfiht
"1 told him things that 1 am sure he
will never forgive,” she said slowly.
“I said l would never marry a Bloom
field boy and settlo down luto a hum
drum existence. I said 1 could never
thlok of him seriously; that every time
I looked at him be seemed to be the
same chubby faced, apple, cheeked lit
tle boy I went to school with years
ago."
“What did Walter say to thut?" Mr*.
Pomeroy’s face was grave, though her
brown eyes were shining, too, aud they
looked much like Malsle’s.
“He didn’t say anything. He Just
nodded his head in that awkward way
of his and went off. The next 1 heard
be wag in New York studying to be a
doctor. You know be has never beeu
home since.” Malsle’s tone was uu
consciously wistful.
The days before the great event that
was to transform Bloomfield from a
sleepy country village Into u fashion-
able rendezvous for a day were filled
with preparations for the balloon
races. As if by magic all the daisies
in Cabot’s field were laid to the
ground aud grand stands were erect
ed and huge gas tanks put lu place.
School was ended, and Mulste walked
In other directions when abo chose to
be outdoors. Now, she only remem
bered Cabot's field as the place where
.Walter had met her one day and con
fessed his love among the daisies,
which are supposed never to tell lov
ers' secrets.
Malsle waa disturbed by these memo
rles that forced themselves upon her.
She did not wish to think of Walter
Avery, and she had dismissed him
from her mind for four years nud re
seated that she could not buulsb him
from her memory. She felt sure tbat
out there In the big world there was
waiting for ber an ideal lover, tiaud-
sorne, courtly, polished, rich.
At last came Bloomfield’s great day.
The road to Cabot's field was black
with vehicles of every description. By
10 o’clock every seat In the stauils wus
filled, aud the four sides of the great
fleld were lined with carriages, motor
cars aud farm wagons. Malsle and her
mother were there and by good for
tune aud the kind ofik-es of Emma
Risley had secured front row seats lu
one of the stands. Ten big balloons
swayed slowly, tugging ut their anchor
ropes. There were a smell of escaping
gas, the music of a band and the
sound of many voices. Malsle found
herself eujo.vlug the excltemeut. If
this was life she would like a taste
of It!
Emma Risley leaned across Malsle
and spoke to Mrs. Pomeroy. "I hear
Walter Avery’s going up in oue of the
balloon*. You know he’s quite an
amateur balloonist. Mrs. Avery is wor
ried almost to death about It."
“Ballooning is a dangerous sport,’
returned Mrs. Pomeroy’s' calm voice
"but 1 suppose Walter finds It a re
laxation from his professional work."
“I guess he deserves all the fun he
gets. They say he worked like a Tro
jan to get his degree, aud now he’s t<:
go In partnership with a city "doctor.'
Emma Risley sat back In her seat
"There, they’re off, Malsle! I wonder
Which Is Walter’s balloon. Let me
your program—No. 7 (that’s a lucky
number, auyway), Dr. Avery! 1
that funny? Seems as if f could
Walter aQ he wus when he came to
school to me years ago. Think of his
being a doctorl”
Malsle was thinking entirely too
much for her own good. She was tbor
oughly frightened at the Idea of Wal
ter Avery’s asceuslou lu the balloon.
She gould see No. 7 now. That was
Walter, tall, slender, supple of form,
his. dark hair blowiug back from bl9
forehead. He was lookiug their way
Was he looking at her? She told her
self that he could merely see the crowd
of white faces; that he could uot pick
out individuals. Still he stared, aud
tbeu, Just as the anchors were cast
adrift and he sturted up, he waved a
handkerchief toward them. Suddenl>
Malsle’s little handkerchief broke into
a fluttering signal. Tho fresh breeze
tore It from her baud, and It whirled
upward with balloon No. 7.
Walter leaued out, deftly caught (lie
bit of white, tucked it in his breast and
•mid tbe cheers of tho crowd went up
to an altitude that cuused hearts to
throb aud cheeks to pale with appro-
benslon. When tbe last airship had be
come • mere speck in the sky the
crowd dispersed to otkgr diversions,
aud Malsle aud ber mother went home.
It would be late in the afternoon be
tore the balloons might be sighted ou
the return trip, provided they were not
driven before adverse winds. Then
their return would be uucertala ludeed.
There was an excellent chance that
some of them would never come back,
Malsle Pomeroy never forgot that
waiting time. In those hours died all
the foolish longing and discontentment
that bad possessed her. There was only
on* thing she craved, and that was the
life of Walter Avery, whether be loved
her now or not. She knew that she
loved him.
With the evening came tbe return of
tbe balloonists, every one safe, Walter
Avery winning the second prize, which
he did not care a fig for, because a
greater prize awaited him In Mrs. Porn
eroy’a old faahloned garden. Bloomfield
la a thriving suburb now, and Ufa there
la by no maanfl dull and commonplace.
Tha balloon ground la now a baseball
fiald.
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Glenn Lodge, No. 75,1.0. O. F.,
meetfl every Thursday night at Odd
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Jackson streets. All Odd Fellows
are cordially invite.! to meet with
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A. B. IIakpkr, Rec’y.
Williams L<*dgo, No. 15, I O. O.
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A. Mkalor, Sec’y.
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Seaboard Air Lite Railway will ex
tend the accomodation trains 57
aud 58, which are now operated be
tween Atlanta and Athens Ga., to
Abbeville, S. C. This announcement
is of ur.u> ual interest to all tbe pat
rons of ti e Seaboard who live along
sod adjiceut to ti e line between
All.eus nnd Ablieville. This accom
modation train will continue to
leave Atlanta in the afternoou at
4:00 P. M. and will arrive at Ab
beville at 8:45 P. M. thus giving
an eastbound evening schedule at
a very convenient hour. Returning
lids train will leuvo Abbeville
5 00 a. m. and arrive Atlanta 8.50
a. in., thus givimr an early morn-
ing daylight schedule westpnund.
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