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. I ????????????1????*? ????? ! ? ^ ^ ISSUED SEMI-WEEKLY. L. *. geisT'S sons. Pnbu?her?. f % rfantilg Scirspaprr: Jfor the promotion of tite political,,Social, Agricultural and tfommercial interests of the fieople. { tebVih"^kcopt,^fivec?!?^''CK" ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE, 8. C., FRIDAY NOVEMBER 10, 1905. TSTO. 9Q. ' 1 I - I UDiucftP vipw nc Mlftft ALICE. THE QL A.n Historical ] Ku Klu BY THOMAS Copyright by the Author and Published Book I?The Assassination. CHAPTER III. The Man of War. Elsie led Mrs. Cameron direct from the White House to the war department. "Well, Mrs. Cameron what did you think of the president?" she asked. "I hardly know," was the thoughtful answer. "He is the greatest man I ever met. One feels this instinctively." When Mrs. Cameron was ushered into the secretary's office, Mr. Stanton was seated at his desk writing. She handed the order of the president to a clerk, who gave it to the secretary. He was a man in the full prime of life, intellectual and physical, low and heavy set, about Ave feet eight Inches in height and inclined to fat. His movements, however, were quick, and as he swung in his chair the keenest vigour marked every movement of body and every change of his countenance. His fate was swarthy and covered with a long, dark beard.touched with gray. He turned a pair of little black piercing eyes on her and without rising said: "So you are the woman who has a wounded son under sentence of death as a guerilla?" "I am so unfortunate," she answered. "Well, I have nothing to say to you " he went on In a louder and sterner tone, "and no time to waste on you. If you have raised up men to rebel against the best government under the sun^ you can take the consequences?" "But, my aear air, oruive m mc mother, "he is a mere boy of nineteen, who ran away three years ago and entered the service?" "I dpn't want to hear another word from you!" he yelled in rage. "I have no time to waste?go at once. I'll do nothing for you." "But I bring you an order from the president," protested the mother. "Yes. I know it," he answered, with a sneer, "and 1*11 do with It what I've done *yith many others?see that it is not executed?now go." "But the president told me you w^uld give me a pass to the hospital, and that a full pardon would be issued to my boy!" "Yes, I see. But let me give you some information. The president is a fool?a d?fool; Now, will you go?" With a sinking sense of horror. Mrs. Cameron withdrew and reported to Elsie the unexpected encounter. "The brute!" cried the girl. "We'll go back immediately and report this insult to the president." "Why are such men intrusted with power?" the mother sighed. "It's a mystery to me, I'm sure. They say he is the greatest secretary of war in our history. I don't believe it. Phil hates the sight of him, and so does every army officer I know, from General Grant down. I hope Mr. Lincoln will expel him from the cabinet for this insult." When they were again ushered into the president's office, Elsie hastened to inform him of the outrageous reply the secretary of war had made to his order. "Did Stanton say that I was a fool?" he asked, with a quizzical look out of his kindly eyes. "Yea, he did, " snapped Elsie. "And he repeated it with e blankety prefix." The president looked good humoredly out of the window toward the war office and musingly said: "Well, if Stanton says that I am a blankety fool, it must be so, for I have found out that he is nearly always right, and generally means what he says, ril just step over and see Stanton." As he spoke the last sentence, the humor slowly faded from his face, and the anxious mother saw back of those patient gray eyes the sudden gleam of the courage and conscious power of a lion. He dismissed them with instructions to return the next day for his final orders and walked over to the war department alone. The secretary of war was in one of his ugliest moods, and made no effort to conceal it when asked his reasons for the refusal to execute the order. 'The grounds for my action are very simple," he said with bitter emphasis. "The execution of this traitor is part of a carefully considered policy of justice on which the future security of the Nation depends. If I am to administer this office, I will not be hamstrung by constant executive interference. Besides, in this particular case, I was urged that justice be promptly executed by the most powerful man in congress. I advise you to avoid a quarrel with old Stoneman at this'crisis in our history." The president sat on a sofa with his lto-u nrAoooH rnlononH Intn ?n Attitude of resignation, and listened in silence until the last sentence, when suddenly he sat bolt upright, fixed his deep grayeyes intently on Stanton and said: "Mr. Secretary, I reckon you will have to execute that order." "I cannot do It," came the firm answer. "It is an interference with justice, and I will not execute it." Mr. Lincoln held his eyes steadily on Stanton and slowly said: "Mr. Secretary, it will have to be done." Stanton wheeled In his chair, seized a pen and wrote very rapidly a few lines to which he fixed his signature. He rose with the paper in his hand, walked to his chief and. with deep .emotion, said: "Mr. President, I wish to thank you for your constant friendship during the trying years I have held this office. The war is ended, and my work is ended, and my work is done. I hand you my resignation." Mr. Lincoln's lips came suddenly together. he slowly rose, and looked clown with surprise into the flushed angry face. He took the paper, tore It Into pieces, slipped one of his long arms around the secretary and said in low accents: "Stanton, you have been a faithful servant, and it is not for you to saywhen you will be no longer needed, fio on with your work. I will have my way in this matter: but I will attend to it personally." Stanton resumed his seat, and the president returned to the White House. CHAPTER IV. A Clash of Giants. Elsie secured from the surgeon general temporary passes for the day, and sent her friends to the hospital with the promise that she would not leave the White House until she had secured the pardon. The president greeted her with unusual warmth. The smile that had only haunted his sad face during four years of struggle, defeat, and uncertainty had now burst into joy that made his powerful head radiate light. Victory had lifted the veil from his soul and he was girding himself for the task of healing the Nation's wounds. "I'll have it ready for you in a moment. Miss Elsie." he said, touching with his sinewy hand a paper which lay on his desk, bearing on its face the red seal of the Republic. "I am only waiting to receive the passes." "I am very grateful to you. Mr. President." the girl said, feelingly. "But tell me." he said, with quaint, fatherly humor, "'why you. of all our girls, the brightest, fiercest little Yankee in town take so to heart a rebel boy's sorrows?" Elsie blushed, and then looked at him frankly with a saucy smile. AXSMAIY. Romance of the x Klan. J DIXON, JR. by Doubleday, Page & Co. "I am fulfilling the Commandments." | "Love your enemies?" "Certainly. How could one help i loving the sweet, motherly face you i saw yesterday." The president laughed heartily. "I i see?of course, of course!" "The Honorable Austin Stoneman," suddenly announced a clerk at his el- ! bow. Elsie started in surprise and whis- 1 pered: < "Do not let my father know I am I here. I will wait in the next room. | You'll let nothing delay the pardon, ' will you, Mr. President?" 1 Mr. Lincoln warmly pressed her hand \ as she disappeared through the door i leading into Major Hay's room, and i turned to meet the Great Commoner ! who hobbled slowly in, leaning on his crooked cane. I At this moment he was a startling and portentous figure in the drama of . the Nation, the most powerful parliamentary leader in American history, < not excepting Henry Clay. t No stranger ever passed this man t without a second look. His clean- < shaven face, the missive chiselled fea- 1 tures, his grim eagle look and cold, colorless eyes, with the frosts of his I native Vermont sparkling in their i depths compelled attention. I His walk was a painful hobble. He ; was lame in both feet, and one of them i was deformed. The left leg ended in a ? mere bunch of fiesh, resembling more closely an elephant's hoof than the foot ( or a man. He was absolutely bald, and wore a 1 heavy brown wig that seemed too small i to reach to the edge of his enormous I forehead. He rarely visited the White House, i He was the able, bold, unscrupulous ] leader of leaders, and men came to see him. He rarely smiled, and when he i did It was the smile of the cynic and misanthrope. His tongue had the lash i of a scorpion. He was a greater terror to the trimmers and time-servers 1 of his own party than to his political foes. He had hated the president with ? sullen, consistent, and unyielding ve- \ nom from his first nomination at Chi cago down to the last rumor of his new 1 proclamation. In temperament a fanatic, In impulse < a born revolutionist, the word conser- ? vatlsm was to him as a red rag to a ' bull. The first clash of arms was mu- 1 sic to his soul. He laughed at the call i for 75,000 volunteers, and demanded the i immediate equipment of an army of a t million men. He saw it grow to 2,000,- s 000. From the first his eagle eye had ? seen the end and all the long, blood- < marked way between. And from the t first he began to plot the most cruel j and awful vengeance In human history, t And now his time had come. The giant figure in the White House j alone had dared to brook his anger and t block the way; for old Stoneman was r the congress of the United States. The opposition was too weak even for his s contempt. Cool, deliberate, and venom- 1 ous, alike In victory or defeat, the fas- 1 clnatlon of his positive faith and rev- ( olutionary programme had drawn the i rank and file of his party in congress r to hlra as charmed satellites. 1 The president greeted him cordially, 1 and with his habitual deference to age a~d physical infirmity hastened to Dlace for htm ah easy chair near his desk. He was breathing heavily and evidently laboring under great emotion. He brought his cane to the floor with violence, placed both hands on Its crook, leaned his massive jaws on his hands for a moment, and thei said: "Mr. President. I have not annoyed you with many requests during the past four years, nor am I here today to ask any favors. I have come to warn vou that, in the course you have mapoed ou*. the executive and legislative branches have come to the parting of the ways, and that your encroachments on the functions of congress will be to'erated, now that the Rebellion Is crushed not for a single moment!" Mr. Lincoln listened with dignity, a d a ripple of fun played about his ves as he looked at his grim visitor. The two men were face to face at last? the two men above all others who had built and were to build the foundations of the new Nation?Lincoln's in love and wisdom to endure forever, the Great Commoner's hate and madness, to bear its harvest of tragedy and death for generations yet unborn. "Well, now, Stoneman," began the good-humored voice, 'that puts me in i mind?" i The old Commoner lifted his hand with a gesture of angry Impatience: "Save your fables for fools. It is true that you have prepared a procla- < mation restoring the conquered province of Nor'h Carolina to Its place as a state in the Union with a provision for negro suffrage or the exile and disfranchisement of its rebels?" The president rose and walked back a-d forth with his hands folded behind him, before answering. "I have. The constitution grants to the National government no power to regulate suffrage, and makes no provision for the control of 'conquered provinces.' " "Constitution!" thundered Stoneman. "I have a hundred constitutions in the pigeon-holes of my desk!" "I have sworn to support but one." "A worn out rag?" "Rag or silk, I've sworn to execute 1'. and I'll do It. so help me God!" said the quiet voice. "You've Deen doing 11 ror ine pa?i four ytars, haven't you!" sneered the Commoner. "What right had you under the constitution to declare war agal st a 'sovereign' state? To Invade one for coercion? To blockade a port? To declare slaves free? To suspend the writ of habeas corpus? To create the state of West Virginia by the consent of two states, one of which was d*ad, and the other one of which lived in Ohio? By what authority have you appointed military governors in the 'sovereign' states of Virginia Tennessee and Louisiana? Why trim the hedge and lie about it? We, too, are revolutionists, and you are our executive. The constitution sustained and protected slavery. It was 'a league with dtath and a covenant with hell,' and our Hag a poluted rag!'" "In the stress of war," said the president, with a faraway look, "it was necessary that I do things as commander-in-chief of the army and navy to save the Union which I have no right to do now that the Union is saved and its constitution preserved. My first duty is to re-establish the constitulon as our supreme law over every inch of our soil." "The constitution be d?d!" hissed th" old man. "It was the creation, both in leter and spirit, of the slaveholders of the south." "Then the world is their debtor, and their work is a monument of imperishable glory to them and to their children. I have sworn to preserve it!" "We havi> niitcrown the swaddling clothes of a babe. We wjll make new constitutions!" " 'Fools rush in where angels fear to tread,"" softly spoke the tall, selfcontained man. For the first time the old leader winced. He had long ago exhausted the vocabulary of contempt on the president, his character, ability, and policy. He felt as a shock the first impression of supreme authority with which he spoke. The man he had despised had grown into the great constructive statesman who would dispute with him every inch of ground in the attainment of his sinister life-purpose. His hatred grew more intense as he realised the prestige and power with which he was clothed by his mighty office. With an effort he restrained his an- < ger and assumed an argumentative i tone. 1 "Can't you see that your so-called 1 states are now but conquered pro- t vinces? That North Carolina and oth- t er waste territories of the United < States are unfit to associate with civil- | ized communities?" i "We fought no war of conquest," 1 quietly urged the president, "but one 3 of self-preservation as an indissoluble Union. No state ever got out of it, I by the grace of God and the power of < our arms. Now that we have won, < and established for all time its unity, \ shall we stultify ourselves by declaring we were wrong? These states 1 must be immediately restored to their c riarhts. or we shall betray the blood we 1 have shed. There are no 'conquered ( provinces' for us to spoil. A nation t cannot make conquest of its own terri- i tory." t 'But we are acting outside the con- t stiution," interrupted Stoneman. 1 'Congress has no existence outside J the constitution," was the quick an- p jwer. c The old Commoner scowled, and his beetling brows hid for a moment his s eyes. His keen intellect was catching Its first glimpse of the intellectual t grandeur of the man with whom he s ivas grappling. The facility with which a be could see all sides of a question, and g the vivid imagination which lit his c mental processes were a revelation. We s ilways underestimate the men we de- s ?pise. t "Why not out with it?" cried Stone- s man, suddenly changing his tack, v 'You are determined to oppose negro p mffrage?" s "I have suggested to Governor Hahn jf Louisiana to consider the policy of li ldmitting the more intelligent and those who served in the war. It is I inly a suggestion. The state alone has a the power to confer the ballot." s "But the truth is this little 'sugges- F tlon* of yours is only a bone thrown to h -adical dogs to satisfy our howling for s the moment! In your soul of souls, ii fou don't believe in the equality of n nan if the man under comparison be o i negro?" d "I believe that there is a physical y lifference between the .white and black t: acts which will forever forbid their J< iving together on terms of political r md social equality. If such be attempted, one must go to the wall." c "Very well, pin the southern white e nan to the wall. Our party and the v Nation will then be safe." a "That is to say destroy African sla- a /ery and establish white slavery under li legro masters! That would be prog- v fss wun a vengeance. A grim smile twitched the old man's e ips as he said: p "Yes. your prim conservative snobs e ind male waiting-maids in congress tl vent into hysterics when I armed the t] egroes. Yet the heavens have not c 'alien." b "True. Yet no more insane blunder n :ould now be made than any further ti ittempt to use these negro troops, h There can be no such thing as restor- v ig this Union to its basis of fraternal s jeace with armed negroes, wearing the g iniform of this Nation, trampling over y he south, and rousing the basest pas- & dons of the freedmen and their former u nasters. General Bu'ler, their old tommander. is now making plans for d heir removal, at my request. He ex- n ?ccts to dig the Panama canal with a hese black troops." u "Fine scheme that?on a par with i| ,'our messages to congress asking for h he colonisation of the whole negro t] ace!" s "It will come to that ultimately,*" s (aid the president, firmly. "The negro o las cost us $5,000,000 000 the deso- s< ation of ten great states, and rivers >f blood. We can well afford a few u nillion dollars more to effect a per- b nanent settlement of the Issue. This s the only policy on which Seward and tl [ have differed?" 1< "TheiT^fward was not an utterly b aopeless fool. I'm glad to hear some- fi hing to his credit." growled the old tl Commoner. a "I have urged the colonisation of the b legroes and I shall continue until it 1; s accomplished. My emancipation pro- y lamation was linked with this plan, a Thousands of them have lived in the north for a hundred years, yet not one b is the pastor of a white church, a n ludge, a governor, a mayor, or a col- s lege president. There is no room for o two distinct races of white men in fl America, much less for two distinct b races of whites and blacks. We can ti tiave no inferior servile class, peon or y peasant. We must assimilate or expel. The American is a citizen king or t nothing. I can conceive of no greater v calamity than the assimilation of the negro into our social and political life b us our equal. A mulatto cizensihlp would be too dear a price to pay even |t por emancipation." b "Words have no power to express my loathing for such twaddle!" cried ]< Stoneman. snapping his great jaws to- t gether and pursing his lips with con- y tempt. g "If the negro were not here would we allow him to land?" the president went nn, as if talKing to himself. "The duty to exclude carries the right to a expel. Within twenty years, we can r peacefully colonise the negro in the v Topics, and give him our language, j literature religion, and system of gov- c ernment under conditions in which he \ can rise to the full measure of man- a hood. This he can never do here. It was the fear of the MacK tragedy De- ( hind emancipation that led the south into the insanity of secession. We can a never attain the ideal Union our fath- \ ers dreamed, with millions of an alien, c inferior race among us, whose assim- j ilation is heither possible nor desirable, t The Nation cannot now exist half g white and half black, any, more than g it could exist half slave and half free." t "Yet 'God hath made of one blood all c races,'" quoted the cynic with a sneer, i "Yes?but finish the sentence?'and fixed the bounds of their habitation.' i God never meant that the negro should leave his habi'at or the white man in- 1 vade his home. Our violation of this t law is written In two centuries of c shame and blood. And the tragedy will not be closed until the black man c is restored to his home." "I marvel that the minions of slavery i elected Jeff Davis their chief with so s much better material at hand!" t "His election was a tragic and superfluous blunder. I am the president \ of the United States, north and south," was the firm reply. i "Particularly the south!" hissed i Stoneman. "During all this hideous ^ war, they have been your pets?these rebel savages who have been murder- ( ing our sons. You have been the everrtady champion of traitors. And you ] now dare to bend this high office to | their deferce?" i "My God. Stoneman. are you a man i or a savage!" cried the president. "Is not the north equally responsible for ] s'avery? Has not the south lost all? 1 Have not the southern people paid the | full penalty of all the crimes of war? 1 Are our skirts free? Was Sherman's i march a picnic? This war has been < a giant conflict of principles to decide | whether we are a bundle of petty sov- j ereignties held by a rope of sand or a mighty nation of freemen. But for the < loyalty of four border southern states ?but for Farragut and Thomas and | their two hundred thousand heroic ' southern brethren who fought for the < Union against their own flesh and , blood, we should have lost. You cannot indict a people?" i "I do indict them!" muttered the old man. "Surely." went on the even, throb- * bing voice, "surely, the vastness of this | war. its titanic battles. Its heroism, its \ sublime earnestness, should sink into | oblivion all low schemes of vengeance! Before the sheer grandeur of its history, our children will walk with silent lips and uncovered heads." ( "And forget the prison-pen at An (HTKtmvuie. "Yes. We refused, as a policy of war. to exchange those prisoners, blocked their ports, made medicine contraband, and brought the southern army Itself to starvation. The prison records, when made at last for history. will show as many deaths on our side as on theirs." "The murderer on the gallows always win more sympathy than his forgotten victim." interrupted the cynic. 'The sin of vengeance Is an easy jne under the subtle plea of Justice," mid the sorrowful voice. "Have we not lad enough of bloodshed? Is not God's vengeance enough? When Sherman's irmy swept to the sea, before him lay he Garden of Eden, behind him stretch?d a desert! A hundred years cannot five back to the wasted south her wealth, or two hundred years restore to her the lost seed treasures of her foung manhood?" "The imbecility of a policy of mercy in this crisis can only mean the reign >f treason and violence," persisted the )ld man, ignoring the president's vords. "I leave my policy before the Judgnent bar of time, content with its verlict. In my place, radicalism would lave driven the border states into th? Confederacy, every southern man back o his kinsman, and divided the north tself into civil conflict I have sought " miKlU Antnlnn In u 5u1uc anu wiiiiui ^uwnv ... o the ways on which depended our ife. This rational flexibility of policy rou and your fellow radicals have been >leased to call my vacillating imbeilllty." "And what is your message for the outh?" "Simply this: 'Abolish slavery, come tack home, and behave yourself.' Lee urrendered to our offers of peace and amnesty. In my last message to congress, I told the southern people they lould have peace at any mopient by imply laying down their srms and ubmitting to National authority. Now hat they have taken me at my word, hall I betray them by an ignoble reenge? Vengeance cannot heal and lurify; it can only brutallse and detroy." Stoneman shuffled to his feet with mpatience. "I see it is useless to argue with you. 'II not waste my breath. I give you n ultimatum. The south is conquered oil. I mean to blot it from the map. lather than admit one traitor to the alls of congress from these so-called tates, I will shatter the Union itself nto ten thousand fragments! I will lot sit beside men whose clothes smell f the blood of my kindred. At least ry them before they come in. Four ears ago, with yells and curses, these raitors left the halls of congress to Din the armies of Catiline. Shall they eturn to rule?" "I repeat," said the president, "you annot indict a people. Treason is an asy word to speak. A traitor is one iho fights and loses. Washington was traitor to George III. Treason won, nd Washington is Immortal. Treason 3 a word that victors hurl at those ,-ho fall." "Listen to me," Stoneman interruptd with vehemence. "The life of our arty demands that the negro be glvn the ballot and made the ruler of he south. This can be done only by he extermination of its landed arlstoracy, that their mothers shall not reed another race of traitors. This is ot vengeance. It is Justice it is pariotlsm. it Is the highest wisdom and umanity. Nature, at times, blots out .hole communities and races that obtruct progress. Such is the political enius of these people that, unless fhn r?ocrrr? tha rillpr thft outh will yet reconquer the rfiSrth and ndo the work of this war." "If the south In poverty and ruin can 0 this, we deserve to be ruled! The orth Is rich and powerful?the south, land of wreck and tomb. I gTeet .'1th wonder, shame, and scorn such srnoble fear! The Nation cannot be ealed until the south Is healed. Let he gulf be closed In which we bury lavery, sectional animosity, and all trlfe and hatreds. The good sense of ur people will never consent to your cheme of Insane vengeance." "The people have no sense. A fool 1 born every second. They are ruled y Impulse and passion." "I have trusted them before, and hey have not failed me. The day I ?ft for Gettysburg to dedicate the attlefleld. you were so sure of my deeat In the approaching convention hat you shouted across the street to friend as I passed. 'Let the dead ury the dead!' It was a brilliant saly of wit. I laughed at It myself. And et the people unanimously called me gain to lead them to victory.". "Yes In the past," said Stbneman, iltterly, "you have triumphed, but lark my word: from this hour your tar grows dim. The slumbering fires f passion will be kindled. In the ght we join today, I'll break your ack and wring the neck of every dasard and time-server who fawns at our feet." The president broke into a laugh hat only increased the old man's rrath. "I protest against the insult of your uffoonery!" "Excuse me, Stoneman; I have to augh or die beneath the burdens I ear, surrounded by such supporters!" "Mark my word," growled IJie 'old pader, "from the moment you publish hat North Carolina proclamation, our name will be a by-word In conress." ""mere are rugner puwcni. "You will need them." "I'll have help." was the calm reply, ,s the dreaminess of the poet and nystlc stole over the rugged face. "I iould be a presumptuous fool, indeed, f I thought that for a day I could disiharge the duties of this great office rithout the aid of One who is wiser md stronger than all others." "You'll need the help of Almighty Jod in the course you've mapped out!" "Some ships come into port that ire not steered." went on the dreamy foice. "Suppose Pickett had charged ?ne hour earlier at Gettysburg? Sup>ose the Monitor had arrived one ?our later at Hampton Roads? I had i dream last night that always presiges great events. I saw a white ship lassing swiftly under full sail. I have ften seen her before. I have never mown her port of entry or her destination, but I have always known her ?IIot!" The cynic's lips curled with scorn, do leaned heavily on his cane, and ook a shambling step toward the loor. "You refuse to heed the wishes of longress?" "If your words voice them yes. ^orce your scheme of revenge on the louth, and you sow the wind to reap he whirlwind." "Indeed! and from what secret cave vill this whirlwind come?" "The despair of a mighty race of vorld-conquering men, even in defeat, s still a force that statesmen reckon vith." "I defy them," growled the old Commoner. Again the dreamy look returned to Lincoln's face, and he spoke as if repeating a message of the soul caught n the clouds in an hour of transfiguration: "And I'll trust the honor of Lee and lis people. The mystic chords of nemory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living leart and hearthstone all over this oroad land will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when touched again, as they surely will be. by the better angels of our nature." "You'll be lucky to live to hear that ;horus." "To dream it Is enough. If I fall t?y the hand of an assassin now, he will not come from the South. I was safer in Richmond, this week, than I im in Washington today." The cynic grunted and shuffled another step toward the door. The president came closer. "Look here, Stoneman; have you <ome deep personal motive in this vengeance on the South? Come now, I've never in my life known you to tell a lie." The answer was silence and a scowl. "Am I right?" T koto Iko Smith he cause I hate the Satanic Institution of Slavery with consuming fury. It has 'oag ago rotted the heart out of the Southern people. Humanity cannot live in its tainted air and its children are doomed. If my personal wrongs have ordained me for a mighty task, no matter; I am simply the chosen instrument of Justice!" Again ihe mystic light clothed the rugged face, calm and patient as Destiny, as the president slowly repeated; "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives me to see the right, I shall strive to finish up the work we are In, and bind up the nation's wounds." "I've given you fair warning," cried the old Commoner trembling with rage, as he hobbled near the door. "From this hour your administration is doomed." "Stoneman," said the kindly voice, "I can't tell you how your venomous phllanthronhy sickens me. You have misunderstood and abused me at every step during the past four years. T kA*. ..a.. 111 ..111 T 0 T IA i umi yuu nu 111 win. 11 i imvc boju anything today to hurt your feelings, forgive me. The earnestness with which you pressed the war was an Invaluable service to me and to the Nation. I'd rather work with you than fight you. But now that we have to fight, I'd as well tell you I'm not afraid of you. I'll suffer my right arm to be severed from my body before I'll sign one measure of Ignoble revenge on a brave, fallen foe and I'll keep up this fight until I win, die, or my country forsakes me." "I have always known you had a sneaking admiration for the south," came the sullen sneer. "I love the south! It is a part of this Union. I love every foot of Its soil, every hill and valley, mountain, lake, and sea, and every man, woman, and child that breathes beneath Its skies. I am an American." As the burning words leaped from the heart of the president, the broad shoulders of his tall form lifted, and his massive head rose In unconscious heroic pose. "I marvel that you ever made war upon your loved ones!" cried the cynic. "We fought the south because we loved her a**d would not let her go. Now that she is crushed and lies bleeding at our fee*?you shall not make war on the wounded, the dying and the dead!" Again the lion gleamed in the calm gray eyes. TO BE CONTINUED. SELF-MADE MEN IN ENGLAND. Difficulties to Be Overcome Greater Than In America. Americans are never tired of telling us that theirs Is the country for selfmade men. It Is, however, open to question if there ever was an age or country in which a man of strong character and ability could not force himself to the front and open a career pretty much according to his will. Even under despotic governments wonderful stories are told of men of pleblan origin obtaining high rank for 9ome service to the state accomplished under the patronage of the court. In eastern empires a large proportion of the most successful statesmen and generals have been slaves by birth. In western Europe there Is always some circumstance of the period which favors the rise of low born ability. In war time a great soldier or engineer is recognized without thought of his parentage. There has always been plenty of military ability when ambition has been attracted In that direction. Lord Eldon once boasted that England was a country where every man might raise himself from the humblest orlgtn to the highest office in the state. He Instanced himself as proof of the fact. The advantages enjoyed by the present generation are far greater than In his time, nevertheless the upward path Is far more difficult and the difficulties to be overcome far greater tfcabfhi America. The superiority of knowledge among the instructed, the fixedness of all classes in the station, and to the employment to which they have been born unite to render the pressure very heavy on any artisan desirous of rising to a position of distinction. Yet the age is favorable, for It Is a period of scientific development. So many men of humble birth and training have risen to fame and fortune in this country during the last two generations that we quite expect to hear that every successful inventor Is the son of a laborer of one sort or another. Arkwrlght, Wedgwood. Brindley and Telford were types of our self-made men In one generation. Just as Stephenson, Paxton and Whitworth were types of a later date. At the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries, when new questions occasionally arose of which aristocratic statesmen were Ignorant, It was felt that some clever and well informed middle class man would understand them better In all their bearings. Then arose Canning and Husklsson. called in their day "political adventurers." Few poets' and artists now spring irom me '.vormng classes. rts Miumedge and taste have advanced the need of cultivation is more generally perceived by the public. If not by the aspirant. We do not expect a Burns to be repeated. The poetry of ploughboys is prized, if at all, for Its clear reflection of nature, and not because It proceeds from a ploughboy. The same change has taken place among artists. More knowledge is now requisite for a man to be considered a great painter than was dreamed of by our forefathers before the art treasures of the continent were open to our study. John Opie. the Royal Academician, was a case In point. He was a son of a carpenter in Cornwall, and as a lad was always scrawling likenesses of people and things with chalk on every surface within reach. He attracted the notice of Dr. Wolcot (Peter Pindar), who brought him to London and introduced him to his friends as a heaven born genius. Opie had the sense to perceive in course of time the importance of study. Instances of artists born in humble circumstances becoming famous are not numerous, probably because education in Its widest sense is necessary for mastery in the art. In the sister art of music less disadvantage is experienced from lowly origin. The means of a scientific musical training are becoming more and more accessible and abundant. We may yet hope to see, as one of the results of the extended cultivation ol music in England, the rise of some l?...... I ?.rln<7 frnm thp flirrOW mounting on high to win the world's ear with music. Musical genius is 8 matter of organization in which there is no respect of persons. It is like mathematical genius, mainly inherent while susceptible of incalculable enlargement by application and a general cultivation of the intellect. 9 The Theban Sphinx.?The Thebar sphnix was said to be a monster senl by Juno to lay waste the countr> around Thebes. It had the head a >.d bust of a woman, the body of a dog the wings of a bird, the paws of ? lion and a human voice. It at onct became the terror of the neighborhood and devoured all who could not solve the riddle propounded. "What a ima nlks on four legs in the morning two at noon and three at night?' Oedipus, attracted by the promise ol King Creton of his crown and his sister in marriage, came to Thebes anc declared that man goes on all fours it Infancy; erect on two legs whet grown and supports the infirmities o: age with a staff. On hearing this so lutlon the sphinx dashed her heat against the wall, and the land hat rest. JHistcllanroua Jltadinfl. ' MINERALS OF THE PIEDMONT. They Include All Varieties and Exist | In Large Quantities. ! No other state In the south, says a Washington correspondent, shows up as well In the diversity of her mineral resources, according to the Geological ' Survey's recent Investigations as South Carolina. The wealth that is hidden throughout the state will some day ' startle the world. Her resources are 1 varied and cover gold, Iron manganese, kaolin, monaztte, graphite, phosphate rock. etc. There are large, deposits of brown hemltlte and magnetic Iron ores, and at Blacksburg where before and during the war charcoal furnaces were successfully operated, unusual activity Is being shown In raining operations. No finer deposits of granite exist anywhere than In the counties of Fairfield, Spartanburg and Edgefield. In other sections of the Piedmont and In the sandhills it Is also found, and Is said to be second to none produced. The Wlnnsboro and Pacolet quarries are known the world over for the superiority of their product. One of the few tin belts In the world extends from Gaffney In a northeasterly direction across Into Cleveland county, N. C., and from there over Into Virginia. The principal deposits that have thus far been located are the Ross mines at Gaffney, and as this Is one of the few tin mines now known to exist In this country, Its development Is being closely watched. South Carolina Is one of the few southern states having no deposits of lead or zinc. Tennessee Is leading the states of the Appalachian range In the production of both of these. Neither does South Carolina, so far as known, possess any deposits of slate, but the counties of Anderson, Oconee, Greenville, Laurens and Spartanburg are rich In graphite. Monazite has been found In large quantities In Spartanburg and Greenville counties, and In the counties adjacent In North Carolina, and for the last few years this state has been producing the larger part of the world's supply. As Is well known. South Carolina does a large commercial business annually In phosphate rock, which abounds in all the lower coast sections. Abbevlile, Aiken, Anderson, Cherokee, Edgefield, Laurens and York counties are all rich In manganese ores and extensive deposits have recently been found near Blacksburg. Almost the same counties with the addition of Pickens and Spartanburg, nave aouna- ? ant deposits of soapstone. Aiken's kaolin mines are becoming famous the world over, and there are rich deposits of terra cotta and Are and brick, clays in Richland and Edgefield counties. There are also deposits oC aluminum and corundum throughout the counties of the Piedmont section, but they have not, as yet, been ful'y developed. It will be seen that the efforts of the United States Geological survey to develop the mineral resources of the south have uncovered vast flelds of wealth in South Carolina, which will in the course of a few years prove of Inestimable value to land owners in different sectiohs of the state. Especially is this true of the once rich Dorn gold veins running through Edgefield | and Laurens counties which are not at this time being operated. FAMOUS LIBEL 3UIT8. < i Brought By Annie Oakley, Crack Wo- 1 _ man Rifle Shot. < A recent Issue of the American < Printer contains an interesting ac- I "ount of the famous "Annie Oakley" I libel suits, probably the most remark- i able series or group of lawsuits ever I brought in this country. About two < years ago, it seems, a woman known < as Lillle Cody was arrested in Chic- < ago, upon the charge, made by a ne- ' gro. of the larceny of a pair of trous- * ers. During her detention in the police station she admitted to the police 1 matron that she was the noted Annie 1 Oakley, the crack rifle shot who had 1 exhibited with Buffalo BUI and others. Upon her arraignment, the officer who 1 had her In custody stated to the Justice the identity of the prisoner, repeating that she was the well known 1 Annie Oakley. After being sentenced 1 to prison in default of payment of a fine, she was interviewed by a number of people, including a newspaper reporter, who questioned her carefully as to details, dates, and names of persons connected with Buffalo Bill's exhibition during the world's fair in 1893. She answered all these questions so satisfactorily as to convince the reporter that she was none other i than Annie Oakley, and thereupon he wrote an elaborate account of the affair which was, after further investigation and verification, sent out over the wires of two press associations to the newspaper subscribers. It turned out, however, that the Cody woman ' i was an impostor, and although many of the papers which had printed the 1 story originally, published a correction therefor as soon as the truth was known, the real Annie Oakley, or Mrs. Frank Butler, was not satisfied that , justice had been secured for her by the public retraction, and since that ' time she has been busily ocupled with | Instituting libel suits against newspa[ pers all over the country. Something ' like fifty different suits have been begun against papers In eighteen or j more different states the total amount t of damages claimed being nearly $2, 000,000. Judgments have been enter! ed In nine cases for a total of about ; $17,000, and ten other papers have settled with the plaintiff by paying her approximately $8,000 in cash. Two judgments of $1,000 each have f been paid, and in only one case so far r has there been a verdict for the de1 fendant. Assuming that the judg ments already recovered will all be , affirmed upon appeal and subsequently I paid, the net result to the plaintiff up to date In twenty out of her fifty ' suits is {25,000. If this ratio of re covery obtains as to the remaining f suits Mrs Butler will ultimately have j received as a salve for her Injured j reputation the paltry sum of $62,500! i This tidy little fortune, when placed ( side by side with other known recov| eries in libel cases, brings to mind 1 the thirty-cent comparison of slangy parlance. We wonder if quite a few people could not be found, willing, for a consideration of $62,600, to submit to being charged in the public prints with having stolen a pair of negro's trousers, even though the charge were not afterwards as publicly withdrawn??Law Notes. THE COSSACK. Half Savage Soldier Who Executes Will of the Czar. News dispatches from various parts of Russia report that the Cosjacks are making brutal use of their whips against the excited people, rhe Cossack's whip is arf Instrument 3f torture, and It is used by these semi-barbarian followers of the cxar with wonderful expertness. Generally :he whip has but one thong or lash; occasionally has two or three. The snd of each thong Is loaded with a bit of Iron or lead to render the pain uid wound inflicted more intense. \ Cossack has been known to pick an eye from a man's face with a blow of his miniature cnout. He can split an apple on a nan's head with a cut of the lash, tnd he can snip off the burning end )f a match held In a comrade's flrrers. But no thoughts as to the 8J:uracy of stroke govern him when :o~fronted with a vengeful, howling nob. Then he simply lays about him with the full strength of his lusty arm, and the recipient of the blows .vill remember for a lifetime that he ins had an encounter with these ireaded hirelings of absolution. The Cossacks are said to be of Tartar origin. They generally inhabit the steppes of Russia about the lower Don and Dnieper, but are found in esser numbers in eastern Russia, Cau:asla and Siberia. Ethnologists are incertain as to their origin, but their lucleus Is supposed to have consisted >f refugees from the ancient limits of flussia forced by hostile Invasion to idoptien of military organization, and ater into a more or less free tribal xistence. They have indulged in nany unsuccessful revolts against the ;zars, ending in their subjection, but hey retain various privileges. With egard to their military prowess they vere surrounded with a certain imount of romance, like the French :ouave and the Prussian uhlan; but he war with Japan has tended to lispel much of the glamour that atended their alleged exploits. The Cossack was supposed to be unparaleled as a scout?in fact he was sup oosed to be the eye ana soui 01 me izar's legions. But the unpretentious avalryman of the mikado has shown hat as a scout and fighter he ranks is high, if not higher, than the vauntMi Cossack. The Cossack generally Is irmed with a rifle without bayonet, ind with a sword which has no icabbard. The front rank of most Hossack regiments also carry lances. \.t the beginning of the war with Jaoan it was estimated that there were 130 regiments of Cossacks of six iquadrons each and eighteen of four iquadrons, beside fifty-three independent squadrons. Army service with hem begins at the age of 18 and asts for twenty years, seven of which is tn actual service, and generally hey provide most of their own equipneit. LEGENDARY DEVICES. How Strange Animals Appeared In Heraldry In Old Days. Early writers on natural history subjects make mention of many strange creatures that never could have existed save In the superstitious mind of the age in which they wrote, and of the many that did exist the accounts of their structure and habits are so ludicrous that one may really wonder If it was possible, even In the middle ages, that people could be so credulous. Many of these strangely garbled records of the animal world were, no loubt, due to travelers' tales and probably had a certain foundation in fact, but It Is difficult Indeed to account for the creation of such things as the phoe nix. the cockatrice, the wyverA, the griffin and the dragon. The belief In the existence of the unicorn may have originated from fact of some of the larly African travelers meeting with certain antelopes that had lost a horn for it is a peculiarity with most antelopes that their horns are never shed and if injured or broken never grow again. The horn, growing out of the forehead, betwixt the eyelids, is neither light nor hollow nor yet smooth like other horns, but hard as iron, rough as any file, revolved into many plights; sharper than any dart, straight and not crooked and everywhere black except at the point. Bartholomew asserted that there w<re many varieties of unicorn, and this would be feasible If this creature had been created from those horned biasts that had accidentally lost one of the horns. How the phoenix was called into be- | lng it would be impossible to hazard a J guess. It was popularly supposed that there was only one such creature exist- | lng in the whole universe and that there was only one tree in which it built Its nest. We find mention of the phoenix as far back as Pliny, who says, "Howbeit, I cannot tell what to make of him; and, first of all, whether it be a tale of no, that is never but one of them in the whole world, and the same not commonly seen." In the fifteenth century we find Bartholomew writing of this imaginary bird: "Phoenix Is a large bird, and there is but one that kind in all the wide world, therefore lewd men wonder thereof. Phoenix is a bird without make (mate) and iiveth 300 or 500 years. When the which years be passed she feeleth her default and feebleness and maketh a nest of sweet smelling: sticks that he full dry, and In summer when the western wind bloweth the sticks and the nest be set on flre with burning heat of the sun and burneth strongly." The bird then allows itself to be reduced to ashes in this flre?on this point all the writers agree?and in due course rises again from the ashes in the full glory of renewed youth "and is the most fairest bird that is. most like to the peacock in feathers, and loveth wilderness and gathereth his meat of clean greens and fruits." The basilisk, or cockatrice, was reputed to be some strange mixture of a bird and serpent, able to slay with his breath and his sight, which power was accredited by some to dragons.?Wesminc'ic4 Gazette. A Lady of Tokio Daaoribaa tha Visit of tha Praaidant'a Daughter. Mr. Jiher Hashiguchi, a Japanese living in New York, has been giving to The New York Sun for publication some interesting letters from a friend in Tokio describing recent happenings in the capital of Japan. One of these from Mrs. Matsunaga Junkichl, gives a very naive account of the visit of Miss Alice RoosevelL as follows: "My husband has left for Korea this morning. Before he left, he told me to be on the lookout, if your telegram should reach here in his absence. Your telegram In which you requested my husband to describe how Miss Alice Roosevelt was received by the people here, has just reached our house this afternoon. As my husband requested, I tried to write all that I could think about the matter. But you must not expect very much from me, as I am not able to write so well as I wish I were. You and my husband used to tease me about my writings when I was a girl in school. But hope you will not do that about this letter. "I used to know, and do know, some American ladies, some are wives of missionaries, others are wives of those who came to this country for pleasure. So I know a thing or two about how the American ladies fare. But I never knew until last June, when Miss Alice Roosevelt arrived here in Tokio, how lively and selfconfident a person an American girl is. You see, I belong to one of the women's leagues here. And in one of our special meetings?we hold our regular metings four times a year? we voted that we go to the Shlmbashi Station to meet our distinguished visitor when she arrives. My husband didn't object to my going. So I went Of course I did not expect to come very close to Miss Roosevelt at the station. Only I hoped I might be able to see her from a distance. "Half an hour before the time set for her arrival there was a crowd of men and women?mostly women? gathered about the station. Some of them were high officials and their wives. I believe one or two imperial princesses were there, If I am informed right. Our women's league was represented by a dozen of us. And we were allowed an exceptional opportunity to be in the station. "My heart was beating violently in expectancy. When the whistle blew my heart ceased to beat so violently, for with that signal the train carrying , Miss Roosevelt had arrived. Then my heart began to beat again, as I uiuugiii wiui wiioi tuunco/ auu icspect I should greet the daughter of the American President, whether I should bow my head as we do In our society or look at her straight In the face and boldly shake her hand when It is offered, according to the American usages. Suddenly I was awakened from my meditations, when Hiss Alice Roosevelt came, accompanied by her girl friends and gentlemen from America. I believe these gentlemen were persons of distinction. But they looked all alike to me, and I could not tell which was who. Only I could tell MIsh Roosevelt, as she walked straight toward us like a princess, although her whole expression appealed to me rather as that of just a woman than that of a princess. Perhaps that is because in America everybody is supposed to be as good as anybody, and Miss Roosevelt doesn't want to be too well conscious of the fact that she is the daughter of the President "Be that as it may, I was surprised when she came in front of us and greeted us, or rather replied of us and greeting, in a most democratic fashion, with smile on her face, nodding her head all the while. Of course you must understand that I could not greet her in the American way, much as I may have wished to do, although I have learned the American way for years while in school. Well, I simply bowed my head as low as possible in a natural uftv as tt is done In this country. But she didn't bow her head in response. But she kept her head as high as possible, all the while nodding her head in a wood pecker fashion. You see. I couldn't help feeling a little shocked. But I compromised In my mind, remembering that that is the natural way In America, as I learned in it in school, as bowing is in this country. But what was more surprising, when she was greeted by men she held her head higher than she did when she was greeted by us. Then I recalled that in America women take precedence of men in social arrangement, so I read in books. I think it's right that women take precedence, although I don't want to pick a quarrel with men. We wouldn't for the world forget our good qualities. But I should think that we ought to do something to improve our opportunities. You will help in that, when you come back. I trust. "When Miss Roosevelt walked out of the station she was greeted by the crowd outside with shouts of banzals. And in a few minutes she was taken to her temporary abode in a cab. "I heard that Miss Roosevelt has been entertained by our Empress. As to that, I will not go into detail, as it . will take a long time, and the mail for America will close at 5 o'clock. It's 4 o'clock now, and I have to get our supper ready. "In closing my letter, I want to say that Miss Roosevelt has gone to Korea and China. She is expected to be in Yokohama soon. In fact, dlsanv that she has left Nagasaki FUI ^ ? on September 30. at Moji she left her steamer and boarded the Minnesota on October 1, and Is bound for Yokohama as fast as possible. She was greeted by fifty of the Shlmonosekl Girls, school students and the high officials and others of Shlmonosekl and Moji, and the neighborhood on the boat. Gov. Watanabe of the province of Yamaguchl was also among the party. When he said to her that he was very grateful to her father for his services In bringing about the peace between Japan and Russia Miss Roosevelt replied in Japanese: " 'Do Itauhi mashlte' (Don't mention It), with a bow which she seems to have learned after she has been In this part of the world. It's remarkable how she picked up our language so quickly." W When God wants a man to come in ahead he frequently gives him a handicap. ajfcfv V