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r ! - ' '\ ; : - , ^ ISSUED SEMX-WEEKL^^ L *. grists 80F3, Pabu?heri. j % ^amiig $mfaftt: Jfor tliq gromotion of thq golitica!, ?ocial. Sjriquliaqal and (Kommwcial Jnteresis of ihq gtoplq. {TMV ^or"nvi ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1,906. NO. 96. A Romance of the 1 By W. GILM CHAPTER IIL "It Is a written bondage?writ In stripes. And letter'd in our blood. L?lke beaten hounds. We crouch and cry. bui ciencn noi? lick the hand That strikes and scourges." Hastings turned furiously at the Interruption; but the stranger though entirely unarmed, stood his ground firmly, and looked on him with composure. "That's a bright sword you wear," said he. "but it is scarcely a good stroke, and anything but a gallant one. Master Sergeant, which you make with it How now, is It the fashion with British soldiers to draw upon unarmed men?" The person addressed turned upon the speaker with a scowl which seemed to promise that he would transfer some portion of his anger to the new comer. He had no time, however, to do more than look his wrath at the Interruption; for among the many persons whom the noise had brought to the scene of action was the fair Bella Tiumphries herself. The maid of the Inn?accustomed probably to quell such conflicts by her beauty and persuasions?^ waited not an instant to place herself between the parties, and. as If her own interest In the persons concerned gave her an especial right In the matter, she fearlessly passed under the raised weapon of Hastings, addressing him Imploringly, and with an air of Intimacy, which was, perhaps, the worst feature In the business. So, at least, the individual appeared to think to whose succor she had come. His brow blackened still more at her ap ?w "Ko (ntnrforo^ tn nfft pruticil, CU1U w lieu OllC IIIWVI ?vt vu - r vent strife, a muttered curse, half-audible. rose to his lips. Brandishing the club which he had wielded with no little readiness before, he seemed more than ever desirous of renewing the combat, though with all its disadvantages. But the parties around generally interfered to prevent the progress of the strife, and Bella, whose mind seemed perfectly assured of Hastings' invincibility, addressed her prayers only to htm, and in behalf of the other. "Now don't strike, Sergeant?don't I pray! John Is only foolish and don't mean any harm. Strike him not, I beg you!" "Beg for yourslf, Bella Humphries?I 1 don't want any of your begglng for me. I'm no chicken, and can hold my own any day against him. So don't come between us?you in particular? you had better keep away." The countryman spoke rerociousiy; and his dark eye, long black hair, and swarthy cheek, all combined to give the expression of fierce anger which his words expressed, a lively earnestness not Ill-adapted to sustain them. The girl looked on him reproachfully as he spoke, though a close observer might have seen in her feature a something of conscious error and Injustice. It was evident that the parties had been at one period far more Intimate than now; and the young stranger, about whom the coll began, saw in an instant the true situation of the twain. A smile passed over his features, but did not rest, as his eye took *? - * - (arnfnlll ?TnK>!l8lon in ai a siiuiuc iiiv of Bella's face, standing between her lovers, preventing the fight?scowled on furiously by the one, and most affectionately leered at by the other. Her appeal to the sergeant was so complimentary, that even were he not halfashamed of what he had already done In commencing a contest so unequal, he must have yielded to It and forborne. Some of his moderation, too might have arisen from his perceiving the hostile jealousy of spirit with which his rival regarded her preference of himself. His vanity was enlisted in fhe application of the maiden, and with a becoming fondness of expression in his glance, turning to the coquette, he gave her to understand, while thrusting his sword back into the scabbard, that he consented to mwnv nn thp score of her application. Still, as Davis held out a show of fight, and stood snugly ensconced behind his chair defying and even inviting assault. It was necessary that the sergeant should draw ofT honorably from the contest. While returning the weapon to the sheath, therefore he spoke to his enemy in language of indulgent warning, not unmixed with the military threats common at the period? "Hark you, good fellow?you're but a small man to look out for danger, and there's too little of you. after all. for me to look after, I let you off this time; but you're on ticklish territory and if you move but one side or the other, you're but a lost man after all. It's not a safe chance to show rebel signs on the king's highway, and you have an ugly squinting at disaffection. My eyes are on you now, and if I but vou wink, or hear you hint, trea son,?ay, treason, rebellion?I see it in your eyes, I tell you,?but wink it or look it again, and you know it's short work, very short work, and a shorter Journey, to the tight rope and the branching tree." The speaker looked round significantly upon the company as he uttered a warning and threat, which, though addressed particularly to the refractory countryman, were yet evidently as much meant for the benefit of the rest. Not that the worthy sergeant had any reason for uttering language which, in all respects, seemed so gratuitous; but this was of a piece with the wantonly injudicious habit of his superiors, from whom, with the readiness of Inferiority and sycophancy, he made free to borrow; and, with as little discrimination, quite as frequently employed it, not less for the gratification of his vanity than for the exercise of his power. The speech had something of Its usual effect?keeping In silence those whose love to talk might have prompted to occasional remark, though without any serious feeling In the matter; and subduing thoroughly all demonstrations of dislike on the part of the few, who, feeling things more deeply, might be disposed rather to act than to speak. unerican Revolution ORE SIMMS when under such provocation. Whatever the persons around may have felt at the moment, they were generally prudent enough to be silent Old Humphries alone, with uplifted hands, now somewhat touched with liquor, and seeing all danger over, came forward, and hobbling up to the sergeant, cried out, in reply? "Why, bless us, sergeant you talk as If you were among the enemies of his majesty, and not among his good friends and well-wishers. Now, I'm sure I can answer for all here. There's Jones and Baxter, Lyons and Tom Walker there?all for the crown,?right loyal good fellows, who drink the health of King George?God bless him!? whenever they can get a drink; and as for Jack Davis, bleps us, sergeant there's no better boy in Goose Creek, though he is croas and snappish when his fit's on, and no cnicaen euner, as he says himself. He'll fight for his majesty any day, I know. There's no mistake in him?there's no mistake in any of the boys?I can answer for all that's here except?" and here the landlord paused In one of the longest speeches he had ever made, and his eye rested doubtfully upon the person of the stranger. "Except me," said the latter, coming forward, looking Hastings attentively in the face as he spoke, and at the same time placing his hand with some little emphasis upon the shoulders of old Humphries,?"except me, Master Humphries, for whom you can say nothing?but about whom you are excessively curious. You only know I am not a captain, nor yet a colonel; and as I have not satisfied your desires on these subjects, of course you cannot answer for my loyalty." "Bless me. no; that I can't, stranger." "But I can answer for myself and prefer to do so. Master Humphries, and that's enough for all parties; and I can say, as you have already said for these gentlemen, that my loyalty is quite as good as that of any around me, as we shall all see In due season. And now that this quarrel is ended, let me only beg: of the worthy sergeant here, that he m*y not be so quick to draw his weapon upon the man that Is unarmed. The action is by no means so creditable to the'soldier, and one that he may. moet probably, In time, come to be ashamed of." The perfect coolness and self-possession of the stranger. In this brief Interlude, confounded Hastings not less than It did the rest. He knew not In what character to behold him, but that he was rather stolid than otherwise. might have exhibited traces of that confusion which his mind cernis A# ourioHAPitv LcXllliy AC J A. DUI lllC an VI owpv??v..v/ which the other manifested, annoyed him too greatly to give way to doubt or Indeterminatlon; and he was about to answer roughly when a remark which Davis made, of a churlish nature, to the coquettish Bella Humphries, who still lingered beside the sergeant, attracted the latter's attention, and glv:ng a glance to the?speaker he threw his collected spleen in that quarter, while addressing the girl? "See now, that's the good you get for saving him from punishment. He doesn't thank you at all for what you've done." ? "No, that I don't!" cried the Incorrigible Davis: "I owe her as little thanks as I owe you kindness,?and I'll pay off both some day. I can hold my own without her help; and as for her begging. I don't want It?I won't have It?and 1 despise It" "What's that?" cried Hastings, with a show of returning choler. "Nothing, sergeant, nothing; don't mind what he says; he's foolish, and don't mean any harm. Now take your hand away from the sword, I beg1 you." The girl looked so prettily, as she I nrayed him to be quiet, that the soldier relented. Her deferential solicitude was all-influential, and softened much of the harsh feeling that might have existed In his bosom. Taking her arm Into his own, with a consequential strut, and throwing a look of contempt upon his rival as he passed, the conqueror moved away into the adjoining apartment, to which, as his business seems private at present, we shall not presume to follow him. His departure was the signal for renovated life In several of those persons who, in the previous scene, seemed quiescent enough. They generously came forward to Davis and advice and friendly counsel to keep himself out of harm's way, and submit, most civilly, like a - good Christian, to the gratuitous blow and buffet. The most eloquent among them was the landlord. "Now, bless me," said he, "John, my dear boy,- why will you be after striving with the sergeant? You know you can't stand against him, and where's the use? He's quite too tough a colt for you to manage, now, I tell you." "So you think. Master Humphries? so you think. But I'm not so sure of it. now, by half. I can stand a thump as well as any man?and I halnt lived so long In Goose Creek not to know to give one too. But how you stand It? you, I say, Dick Humphries?I don't altogether see." "Eh, John?how I stand It? Bless us, what do you mean, boy? He don't trouble me?he don't threaten me?I'm a good subject to his majesty."' The youth laughed Irreverently, and a stranger who had been standing apart, but still within hearing, noted the Incident with considerable show of Interest In his countenance. * A y-v laticrh nt .Tfthn? s\ iivj u uai uu j uu iuuq>> ? ? Don't boy?I pray you, don't. Let's have a glass together, and don't trouble yourself to be laughing again; there's danger in it. Come; a glass.?Good old Jamaica! Won't you Join us, stranger?" The youth declined, and Davis proceeded? "Why do I laugh. Master Humphries? In truth I ought not to laugh when I see"? Here he paused, and with a praiseworthy delicacy, he whispered in the old man's ear his objections to the large degree of intimacy existing between the British sergeant and his pretty daughter. "Oh, go. John! there's no harm boy. You'se only jealous 'cause she turned you off." "Turned me off, indeed!" responded the other, Indignantly and aloud? "turned me off! No, Master Humphries ?not so bad neither. But it's no use talking?you'll know all in time, and will wish you had minded what I told vnn. But eo your own gait, you'll grow fatter upon It:" and with this not very nice proverb the disappointed lover turned away without taking: the offered Jamaica This scene had not been lost on the stranger youth, though little regarded by the other personages; who had each made his speech and taken his drink and departure. There was much more spoken that we do not care to record, but which, duly noted by the one observer to whom we have made especial reference, was held not unworthy in his mind of proper consideration.. He had seen a dogged disposition on the part of Davis to break and quarrel with the British sergeant; and though he clearly saw that much of this disposition arose, as old Humphries had asserted, from a jealous dislike of the intimacy between Bella and the person In question, he yet perceived that many of the phrases made use of by the countrymen Indicated anything but respect or good feeling for the British authority. There was a sturdy boldness In his air and manner, when the other spoke to him of treason, which said that the crime was, after ail, a venial one in his mind; and this disposition, perceptible as it must have been to the sergeant, not less than to the stranger, might doubtless have prompted much of that violence on his part which had been so happily and In time arrested. Nor was there anything precipitate or uncommon in what the sergeant had done. Such exhibitions were frequent In the bitter and unscrupulous warfare of the south. The word and the blow, and usually the blow first, was the habitual mode of silencing, not treason merely, but all manner of opposition; and this was the injudicious course by which the British, regarding South Carolina as a conquered province, revolted the popular feeling from all sympathy with -their authority, and provoked that spirit of determined resistance and hostility which. In a few weeks only after this event, blazed up throughout the whole colony, from one end to the other, and commenced that series of harassing operations, the partisan warfare, which, in spite of frequent defeats, cut off the foraging parties of the British army, destroyed Its resources, diminished its exeroise, contracted its sphere of operations daily, and in the end, drove the Invader to the seaboard, and from thence to his departing vessels. """Old Humphries' followed Davis to the door, and again renewed his exhortation. The landlord seemed to have a good feeling for his guest, who had probably been a crony of his own, and a favored lover of his daughter, before the British army had made its appearance to compel a change of political sentiment in the one, or a British sergeant, in his red coat and round face, to effect as great a revolution in the bosom of the other. His object seemed to be to persuade Davis into a more cautious utterance, when speaking of the existing powers; and he warned him of the unhesitating nature of the enemy when punishing what they held rebellion,- and of the severe kinds of punishment put In exercise on such occasions. But, whether it was that the youth really felt sorely, too sorely for calm reflection, the loss of his sweetheart?or whether the assault of the sergeant had opened his eyes to the doubtful tenure by which the American held his security under the rule that now prevailed throughout the land ?may not well be said; but there was a reckless audacity in his replies to the friendly suggestions of the landlord, which half frightened the latter personage out of his wits. "I'd rather eat acorns, now, Master I Humphries, I tell you, and sleep in the swamps in August, than hush my tongue when I feel it's right to speak. They shan't crow over me, though I die for it; and let them look out; for I tell you now, Dick Humphries, flesh and blood can't stand their parsecutions. There's no chance for life, let 'lone property. Look how they did Frampton's wife, and she In such a way; and only three days ago they tied up Tom Raysor"s little boy Ben, and gave him a matter of fifty lashes with hickories thick as my thumb, and all because the boy wouldn't tell where his father was hiding." "But you see, John, that all came of the hiding. If Frampton and Raysor had not taken to the swamp, the old lady would have been let alone, and the boy wouldn't have been whlpt. Alnt they In arms now against his majesty "Yes; and if his majesty goes on after this fashion there will be a few more, I can tell you. Now, you yourself, Dick Humphries, I put it to yourself, whether the thing's right, and whether we ought to stand it. Now, I know you of old, and know you're no more a loyalist than?" "Hush! Bless us, John Davis, how you talk, boy! hush, hush!" and with an air of the greatest trepidation, looking round and perceiving that, though the stranger appeared to be reading very earnestly from the pages of the "Royal (Charleston) Gazette," he was yet within hearing, the landlord led his companion farther from the door, and the conversation, as it proceeded to its conclusion, was entirely lost to all ears but their own. It was not long before Humphries returned to the hall, and endeavored to commence a sort of desultory dialogue with the stranger guest, whose presence had produced the previous quarrel. But this personage seemed to desire no such familiarity, for scarcely had the old man begun, when throwing down the sheet he had been reading, and thrusting upon his head the rakish cap which all the while had rested on his knee, he-rose from his seat, and moving rapidly to the door of the apartment. followed the steps of Davis, whom he beheld pursuing his way alang the main bridge road and towards the river. The path was clear In this quarter; not a solitary being but themselves was to be seen?by them at least. In the centre of the bridge?a crazy structure of 111-adjusted timber thrown over a point of the stream where It most narrowed? the pursuing stranger overtook the moodily-wandering countryman. He stopped him in his progress till he could come up with him by a friendly hail; and, freely approaching him, tendered him his open hand in a cordial salutation. The other grasped It with honest pleasure. "Master Davis, for such I believe is vour name," said the stranger, frankly, "*I owe you many thanks for so readily, though I must say rashly, tak I in? up my quarrel. I understand in&i your brush with that soldier-fellow was on my account; and though, like yourself, I need nobody to fight my battles, I must yet thank you for the good spirit which you have shewn in this matter." "No thanks, stranger. I don't know what name to call you?" "No matter; names are unnecessary, and the fewer known the better in these doubtful times. I care not to utter mine, though it has but little value. Call me what you please." The other looked surprised, but still satisfied, and replied after this fashion? "Well, stranger, as I said, you owe me no thanks at all in this affair; for though I did take up the matter on your hook, it was because I had a little sort of hankering to take it up on my own. I have long had a grudge at that fellow, and I didn't care much on whose score it began, so it had a beginning." "He has done you wrong?" half affirmatively, half inquiringly, said his companion. "Reckon he has, squire, ana no sman wrong neither; but that's neither here nor there, seeing there's little help for It." "How! no help for It! What may be the nature of this Injury, for which a man with your limbs and spirit can find no help?" The countryman looked at the speaker with a curious expression. In which a desire to confide, and a proper hesitancy in entrusting his secret thoughts to a stranger, were mingled equally. The other beheld the expression, and readily defining the difficulty, proceeded to remove it. "This man has wronged you friend Davis; you are his match?more than his match; you have better make and muscle, and manage your club quite as well as he his broadsword:?why should you not have justice, if you desire It?" "If I <1- sire it!" cried the other, and his black eye sparkled, "1 do desire it, squire; but there's odds against me, or we'd a been at it before this." wnai uqub : "Look there! as Davis replied, he pointed to the fortress upon the opposite hill, a few hundred yards off, where the cross of Great Britain steamed high among the pine trees, and from the entrance of which, at that very moment, a small body of regulars were pouring into the street, and proceeding with martial music to the market place. "I see," replied the other?"I see. but why should they prove odds against you in a personal affair with this sergeant? You have Justice from them surely." "Justice!?such justice as a Tory captain gives when he wants your horse, and don't want to pay for it." Davis replied truly, in his summing up of British Justice at that period. "But you do not mean to say that the people would not be protected, were complaints properly made to the officers ?" "I do; and what's worse, complaint only goes arter new nicKones. *_mc man was strapped up only yesterday, because he complained that Corporal Townes kicked his wife and broke his crockery. They gave him a hundred lashes." "And yet loyalty must have Its advantages, more than equal to this usage, else"?and a smile of bitter scorn played upon the lips of the speaker as he finished the sentence?"else there would not be so many to love It so well and submit to It so patiently." The countryman gazed earnestly at the speaker, whose eyes were full of a most searching expression, which could not be misunderstood. "Dang it, stranger." he cried, "what do you mean?who are you?'^ "A man!" answered the speaker boldly;?"one who has not asked for British protection, nor submitted to their hickories;" and the form of the stranger was elevated duly as he spoke, and his eye was lighted up with scorn ful fires, as his reference was made sarcastically to the many in the neighborhood who had done both. The face of Davis was flushed when he heard this reply, the tears gathered in his eyes, and with a bitter emphasis, though in low tones, as if he felt all the shame of his acknowledgment he replied? "God help me, but I did! I was one of those who took a protection. Here it is?here's the paper. Here's where I sold my country, and put myself down in black and white, to be beaten like a dog with hickories. But it's not too late; and look you, stranger, I believe you're true blue, but if you alnt, why it's all the same thing?I care not ?you may go tell quick as you please; but I will break the bargain." , "Ha!?speak!" and the form of the stranger was advanced and his eyes dilated, as he watched the earnest glow in every feature of his companion. "By tearing up the paper; see,"?and, as he spoke, he tore into small bits the guaranty of British protection, which, in common with most of his neighbors, he had been persuaded to accept from the commandant for his security, and as a condition of that return, which he pledged, at the same time, to his duty and his allegiance. "Your life is in my hands," exclaimed his companion, deliberately. "Your life is in my hands." "Take It!" cried the countryman, and he threw himself upon his guard, and while his right hand threw up the cudgel which he carried, the fingers of his left clutched fiercely and drew forth the hunting knife which was concealed in his bosom. His small person. slight but active, thrown back, every muscle in action and ready for contest; his broad-brimmed white hat dashed from his brow; his black, glossy hair dishevelled and flying in the wind, ' lips closely compressed, while his deep, ' dark eye shot forth fires of anger, fiercely enlivening the dusky sallow of t his cheek?all gave to him a most imposing expression of animated life and courage in the eye of his companion. | "Take it?take the worthless life!" he crted, in low but emphatic accents. "It is worthless, but you will hev* to fight for it" The other regarded him with a look of admiration sobered into calm. "Your life is in my hands, but it is safe. God forbid. Master Davis," said he), with solemnity, "God forbid that I should assail it I am your friend, your countryman, and I rejoice in what you nave done, you nave done wen ana nobly in destroying that evidence of your dishonor; for it is dishonor to barter one's country and its liberties for-dastardly security?for one's miserable life. You have done well; but be not rash. Your movements must be in quiet. Nothing rash, nothing precipitate. Every step you now take must be one of caution, for your path is along the steps of danger. But come with me?you shall know more. First secure those scraps; they may tell tales upon you; a quick hand and close eye may put them together, and then your neck would be fit game for the halter your sergeant warned you of. But what now?what are the troops about?" The countryman looked, at his companion's question, and beheld the troops forming in the market-place, while the note of the bugle at intervals, and an occasional sullen tap of the drum. gatnerea tne crowa or ine vniage around them. "It's a proclamation, squire. That's the market-place, where they read It first. They give us one every two or three days, sometimes about one thing. sometimes another. If the cattle's killed by the Whigs, though It may be their own, there's a proclamation; but we don't mind them much, fcr they only tell us to be quiet and orderly, and, heaven knows, we can't be more so. They will next go to the church, where they will again read it That's nigher, and we can get round In time to hear what It is. Shall we go, squire?" The other expressed his willingness, and leaving the bridge, they proceeded in the direction of the crowd. TO BK CONTINUED. TELEGRAPH OPERATOR'S JOKE. In F'un He Sent a Cable Message to Emperor Napoleon. "The story of Billy Holtham's costly Joke illustrates that the laugh is not always on the side of the Joker." aald W R Raaaatt. an old time tele prafh operator to a reporter of the Kansas City Star. "The incident occurred a short time after the civil war. when Holtham was assistant operator in Denver, Col. In those days two operators did all the worlc of the Denver office. Holtham opered the office one morning, took the dally paper and began reading aboi.t the war between Germany and France. All at once the desire to perpetrate a practical Joke seized upon him. Taking the pencil from hie pocket he indited the following cablegram upon one of the office blanks: "To the Emperor Napoleon, Garden of the Tullleries, Paris, France: Colorado will not accede to the cession of Germany to France. Please let Bohemia alone. Gov. Gilpin or any other man. "Holtham called up Omaha and sent the cablegram to the man on duty rt ?? 4.ant An U? nr/\111 /I hflifO OOnt O IIICICi J uai CU) lit; vrvuiu imvc uen v ? bona flde cablegram. "Omaha was the repeating office for all eastern business. Holtham then tore up his copy and threw the remains in the waste basket. Then he sat down and laughed. He supposed that the man on duty in Omaha would, of course, see the Joke and after laughing himself over It would throw his copy Into the waste basket Eut the Omaha operator was a man who took everything seriously and hanging the cablegram on the New York hook thought nothing more about It. "This happened about the middle of the month and nothing more wa? heard of the fateful cablegram untl' about the middle of the following month when Mr. Woodward, the Denver manager of the Western Unfnllnti'lncr mpq. 1UII UUICCi I CLCIV CU iUV t..vw sage from the secretary of the cable company in New York: "Please come down with the dust. "Woodward scratched his head, but could not solve the enigma and replied: "Don't understand your message about dust. Please explain. "In due time an answer was received, saying: "Your cablegram to Emperor Napoleon, Garden of the Tullleries, ParIs, France, signed Governor Gilpin or any other man, $187.50 in gold, please remit. "At this juncture Billy Holtham stepped in and pushing the message toward him. Woodward remarked: " 'What do you suppose that New York idiot means by that?' "Holtham read it and, turning pale, blurted out: 'Why, I sent that thing to Omaha as a Joke, supposing the man receiving It there would see the point and throw his copy into the waste basket as i am wun mine. " 'Joke!' replied Woodward, angrily. 'Do you understand that gold Is now worth just two to one and the cost of your little Joke Is $375?' "Manager Woodward wrote a letter to the cable authorities explaining the matter to them and asking that the cablegram be cancelled, but they were Inexorable and demanded payment in full. At that time cablegrams were enormously high and payable in gold at that. The result was that poor Holtham had to make the amount good and the telegraph company permitted him to pay $50 a month until the whole sum was paid. Fortunately operators were then paid $125 a month salary and it was not as hard upon Holtham to liquidate the obligation as it would be upon a telegrapher at the present day, with salaries so greatly reduced. "The late Edward Rosewater, who was manager of the Western Union office at Omaha when the incident took place, secured copies of the cablegram and of all the correspondence relating thereto and put the whole thing in a frame and it is no doubt somewhere among his collection of telegraphic curiosities." Mrs. Benham?Do you think a woman's age counts against her? Benham?Not her own count of It.? New York Press. iHisccllaufcms radix#. ; i. t TILLMAN IN CHICAGO. ' Hat Hit Say and Sayt It ?n tha Rao# J Problem. Chicaco. Nov. 27.?The efforts of the colored citizens of Chicago to prevent United States Senator Benjamin R. Tillman from delivering an address here tonight In Orchestra Hall were unsuccessful. . When the South Carolina senator arrived In Chicago early in the afternoon he was told of threatened In- 3 junction proceedings to prevent him f from appearing on the platform and of 8 a money consideration tliat had been ? offered if he would cancel his engage- 11 ment, but Mr. Tillman expressed scorn for both. Until he leaves for Fond Du v Lac. Wis., tomorrow. Senator Tillman will be guarded by police and private ^ detectives. This Is In accordance with 11 >rders Issued by Mayor Edward F. 8 Dunne, who was scheduled to preside d at tonight's meeting, but who refused to have anything to do with the affair 1 after a 'committee of colored citizens visited him a few days ago. 1 Senator Tillman gave his address "l protected by forty detectives. In antic- '' ipation of trouble a number of police- f men were kept at nearby stations in h reserve, but they were not called for. Six negro policemen mingled with the t crowd which blocked the streets In n frnnt Tif the hall 5 In the audience were many negroes, but they listened to Senator Tillman's r remarks good-naturedly and although "i he was Interrupted many times, the li meeting passed off without trouble. li In leading up to his address, "Shall i the United. States Annex Cuba?" Mr. c Tillman took occasion to criticise May- " ->r Dunne's action in refusing to pre- t side at the meeting. "I have been told that I have been snubbed by the may- a *r of this city," said the senator, n ' I did not ask Mayor Dunne to be here tonight. If any one has been snubbed v it is the gracious ladies, who planned ti this meeting to secure money for the s Chicago Union Hospital and who re- e quested Mayor Dunne, the creature of ? i political hour, to come forward and t add his mite. t "I have been advertised to discuss he annexation of Cuba," continued Mr. 1 Tillman, "but in view of the fact that c t could not discuss that subject with- 3 ut discussing tne race quesuon, 1 am ? qoing to go at the matter with hammer e ind tonga. Therefore I shall discuss the race problem pure and simple from an American standpoint and not from a v Cuban standpoint Owing to my ex- c cerlence with the question and the dll- r igeqt study I have made of It I believe 1 I am better qualified to discuss this r question than any other man In America." c While discussing the fifteenth amend- r ment to the constitution, whloh he declared gave the negro every right that e a white man had, he was Interrupted several times by one of his listeners, * who kept asking "How about Kentucky?" . 1 Finally Mr. Tillman seemed to lose a his temper and exclaimed: "Oh, shut your mouth. You don't T trnnnr tha ATI C nf thl? thin*. I for- ' grot forty years ago more than you ever 8 'cnew." "You make up your minds that v equality before the law which the flf- 1 teenth amendment guarantees is right e and should be enforced, notwithstand- ' ingr its results. If this law was enforced it would result in two states at * least being dominated absolutely by negrroes, while four other states would 8 be so near being governed by the ne- c gro that there would practically be an 1 equal division of offices." A voice?How about the law? Senator Tillman?The law? To hell 8 with such law. After telilng in detail how the negro e is prevented from casting his ballot in 8 the south. Senator Tillman said: "There is a great deal more to this 1 question than the little racket here in r Chicago." A voice?How about the negrro Judge? 1 Senator Tillman?Well, I will tell you r about your negrro judge and about c vour political machines putting him on vnur ticket and bamboozling those poor r ignrrant baboons into electing him, and j then afterwards you rellows wno voiea the ticket without knowing what was on it, find a way to cheat h'm out of it. "No matter what the people in the north may say or do, the white race in the south will never be dominated by the negro and I want to tell you now that if some state should ever attempt to 'save South Carolina' we will show them in their fanaticism that we will make It red before^ we make it black. "God Almighty made the Caucasian of better clay than the Mongolian or the African or any other race. The Ethiopian is a burden bearer. He has done absolutely nothing for history, nor has he ever achieved anything of Treat importance. . "There are no great men among the race. Yet this people has been picked >ut by the fanatics of the north and lifted up to the equality of citizenship 8 .1-- J.vt. Vn rinuht * UUU III me 115111a ui ouuiosv. ?? ? ? many of you have listened to the oratory of the greatest colored man of ( this country?Booker Washington. He had a white father, however, and his brains and his character he has inherlte$ from that father," I Fenator Tillman then told his audience of the attacks on white men by negroes In the south and declared that the people of the north were In a great measure responsible for this state of affairs. In conclusion Senator Tillman said: "Now, as a general illustration of the 1 Injustice that Is sometimes done: President Roosevelt discharged three companies of colored soldiers without a court martial, and in doing this he punished Innocent men for the crime of a few. In doing this he transcended the authority of the law and he ought not to have done It." During Mr. Tillman's speech a colored man and a Russian were arrested for creating a disturbance In the gallery. Rbady to Bei.ieve 'Most Anything. ?"Eastern visitors to the west are i generally prepared for any phenome- 1 nal showing in the line of agriculture, < stock raising and the like," says a Col- ] orado man, "but once In a while they i are taken by surprise. I "A New Hampshire man who was i spending his vacation on the ranch of a relative in Colorado went out one 1 morning to inspect a large Incubator 1 In which the young chicks were hatch- < ing. In one corner of the incubator a I leglected peach seed, encouraged by he warmth of* the atmosphere, had >urst, and a tiny sprout several inches ong was growing out of it. "'Suffering Caesar!' exclaimed the few Hampshire man, as this caught lis eye, 'do you hatch out your peaches n this country?* "?Harpers Weekly. A8 TO 8AVINQ THE PENNIES. kn Old 8aw In the Light of Modern Instances. "Save your pennies and dimes, young ;entlemen," the lecturer, a college pro essor, advised his audience. "Never pend a dollar If you can help It; torero' the luxuries; live plainly, be ecolomical and you will be successful." "That was not very Intelligent ad- j ice," remarked a bank president as be eft the hall. "Without qualifying his Irectiona he wcCs pointing those young nen to a life of drudgery. Big affairs .re not managed in that way nowalays." "But on a college professor's salary hey have to be." 'Probably; but business is another hlng. For Instance, when I bought n automobile my friends said I was ndulglng in wild extravagance. They oresaw that I would land in the poorlouse and pitied my family. My faraly did not worry about It greatly, for he swift rides in the park did every nember good, and I did not say much .bout the cost of the machine. "One day there came to town the epresentatlve of the biggest contractng frm in the east, desirous of lookng over the city with a view of placing nvestments. A dozen of us met him .t the cafe and talked through a six ourse dinner. Then plans were diseased for the guest's entertainment he following day. " 'Harris has an auto,' some one said, nd of course It was arranged that I hould take the visitor for a ride. "I did so, spent the most of the day rlth him; we became well acquainted; le seemed to like me. and before he tarted home he offered me the westra management of his company's fllanclal affairs. I had no better chance han the others?save for the automoille. That brought the opportunity. "I am $200,000 ahead already through he connection, with more to come. I !ould have got along probably without i machine, but It was an Investment hat paid the largest return of any I ver made. One rainy evening a newspaperman talked along the line of railway oaches in a noisy union station. His Ide home would take half the night Te debated with himself whether or lot he should take a Pullman. The fare In the Pullman was 76 ents. He could save that amount by Iding In the ordinary car, but the orlinary car was crowded and he dreudd the crowd and the weary companons with whom he would- associate In he coach. Still, 75 cents was not to >e despised, and he pondered tne proDem for several minutes. At last the attractions of the Pullman in rest and ireparatlon for .the following day's rork won; he gave his grip to the porer. and sat back in the section aslgned him in solid satisfaction. After dinner in the dining car he rent to the smoking room and found here the only other man on the sleepr, the agent for a manufacturing Arm f the busy northwest. "Have a light?" was the opening of heir acquaintance. Then came the inevitable western alutation, when the emblem in the oat lapel Is observed. "Where do you >elong?" Both were members of the ame lodge. Following that came a friendly talk, md the manufacturer told the newsaper man many interesting experiences,, not noticing that the latter kept niiMtloninar in oDeration. The conductor of the train stopped to ake part lii the conversation, and fllally the superintendent of the divison, who was aboArd, dropped in, and he peculiarities of modern machinery naking methods was thoroughly gone >ver. It was nearly -midnight when the lewspaper man reached home, but he tat down to his typewriter and rattled he keys for an hour before tumbling nto bed. He simply put into readable orm some of the things that had been old him that evening, and a check for 175 was the payment that his story ;rought him. He always rides in the Pullman car low when he travels and says that he >hal! continue so to do until the $75 rives out. He has never made so good l speculation as on the occasion men* loned, but he has mingled with people vho have helped him in many ways ind will continue to help him for many 'ears to come. Here was a case where the expendiure of a few cents brought a rich reurn. it might not always prove pos ilble and the lesson might fall to come rue In many Instances. But the fact emalns that the man who Is trying to ret on In the world must meet the people who do things If he expects to aciomplish his ends.* It is good policy, is well as good comfort, to rub against he leaders in business affairs.. There was a young man of Kansas ?lty who had the business intelligence tecessary to success, but he had little ppportunlty to exercise it. He hesitaed one evening whether he should ake dinner at a cheap restaurant or ihould eat at one of the cafes patroozed by the best people of the city. He :hose the latter, and this is what happened: "Come over to, our table," was the nvltation that came from a friend, ind he accepted. He was introduced to a widow who >wned a piece of ground lying close to he business part of the city but which iad never been utilized for building jurposes. He found in his conversion with her that she needed a steady ncome and finally told her he would ake a lease on the ground for nlnetyilne years at $125 a month, and she nade the bargain. On the lease he borrowed $25,000 ind built an office building that rents :oday for enough to pay the interest ind give him a profit of $750 a month. He has nothing to do but collect hiz money, and the rental value of his property increases daily, as the city is growing in that section. The dinner in the first class cafe ivas the start; but, of course, it took business acumen and ability to carry ?n the enterprise after he had it starLed. The man dull of apprehension might eat In the cafe for month* and make no headway financially. The young man who aeelu to gat ahead must have something more than opportunity. He ought to see the best way to do things as welL Sometimes the chance of the young man depends quite as much on others as on himself, and he has reason to thank the fates which throw him on his own resources. He finds that he must meet the conditions and does so, testing the fibre of his'nature and proving the stuff of which he Is made. A son of a New York lawyer became I >nn ?k.t tk. . ?VW nuiuucoo kiiai uic UIUWI tu " ate him from the girl he wanted to marry aent him west with only money enough to pay his fare and expenses, but armed with authority to draw dp a western bank up to $5,000. v The youn- man drew $2,000, landed in eastern Colorado and sought work among the sheep ranches of the irrigated lands. In a week he sent for more money and later for all that he could have. Then a few months after came a message.' "Will be in city Saturday with ten cars of sheep. Meet me." "Ten cars of sheep! What lunacy is the young man up to now?" exclaimed the father. But the youth came, and he had ten care of young sheep that had been fattened on alfalfa and cottonseed meal. ^S.. *UA imm AVa mselrat rwajr iui tuo tvy |irivo ui uio uhmmi* He sold the bunch and showed a draft for 112.000. "I made some money oat there and the rest is out of the sheep. I don't owe anything. Take out <5,000, dad; I am going to call on Cante." He did and married the girl. They are now managing a big sheep ranch In New Mexico, with prospects of becoming far wealthier than the father. Likewise little things give an Index to the character of the young man, For Instance, the editor of a country newspaper was called to the telephone and heard a message from a real estate man In a neighboring town. "What will It cost to put an advertisement In red on the middle of your front page?" Now the editor did not print a yellow Journal and It meant a great deal of work to run the paper through the press twice, so he named a price that he thought would be prohibitive. "All right," was the resjonse. "But do you understand?" asked the editor, thinking the. dealer lid not get the right figures. "Of course; do as I tell you." So Wa odvnrtlaomAttt Wflfl nla/^fid in red and the bill was paid. The farm advertised was sold; no one coold help'seeing the announcement. The young real estate man la now president of an oil and gas company that pays dividends on more than a million dollars of stock, and his wealth la estimated at J10&M#. Tlda la not great as fortunes go; but it la a great deal In the west, where money comes in more slowly. Likewise It Is a good thing to build up a reputation that can be sustained. "I have to be careful," said the bank president already quoted, discussing the various estimates of the young men of the town, "because I began that way. "I know one wealthy banker who never wears clothes that cost more than $15 a suit; who Is careless of his personal appearance, never pays his store debts until forced to do it and is reckless In his actions. Tet he makes money. 'If I were to fall to pay my bills on e firs f e tohmhtn. J m , that .hrwy the first of the month, or should I take to wearing old clothes, or should I be seen In fast company, there would be a run on the bank the next day. People would think something was wrong. "If the other banker should suddenly take to good dressing, his bank would be under suspicion. People around us are educated by our actions and learn what to expect of us. When we vary from our usual course they suspect danger. "I never loan freely to a young man who la educating the community to expect a poor performance from him. It may be that he will succeed, but the chances are against him, because he Is nearer to the bottom than the man who has a proper pride In himself and In his own standing." That Is not, perhaps, a very profound philosophy, but It is laden with truth. The chance for the young man is largely his own making. "But there are not so many chances, and money goes faster than It used to In the old days," complains the youth. To quote the bank president again; "I wish I were young once more, bright young men who know how to use wisely what they earn thau ever ueiuie. He was a poor boy himself and has been through It all. THE LIBERTY CAP. Its Significance Dates Away Back te Early Greek Times. From very early times one of the distinguishing marks of a slave, Dotn in Greece and oriental countries generally, was the lack of any covering for the head. Accordingly the cap came to be considered the insignia of liberty, and when slaves were given their freedom they were presented with a cap as an emblem of it In Sparta the helots wore a cap of dogskin, and this was reckoned a badge of servitude, but upon gaining their freedom this was replaced by a cap of a different material, of another shape and ornamented with flowers. A elmular custom was observed iti Rome, where the presentation of the pileus, or cap, was always a part of the ceremony of maumitting a slave; hence arose the proverb, "Servos ad pileum vocare." Also on medals the cap is the symbol of liberty and !s usually represented as being held In the right hand by the point. When a cap was exposed to the people's view on the top of a spear, as in the case of the conspiracy against Caesar, it was intended as a public invitation to them to embrace Jhe liberty that waa offered them. The Qoddess of Ldberty on Mount Aventime was represented as holding a cap In her hand as a symbol of freedom. The Jacobins wore a red cap during the French revolution, and in England a blue cap with a white border Is used as a symbol of liberty. The custom which prevails among university students of wearing a cap is said to have had its origin In a wish to signify that the wearers had acquired full liberty and were no longer subject to the rod of their superiors.