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I. ' " ~ ! " \TO rrTT"" : WINNSBORO, S. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1888. " . i' S V UJL# A.1j1 V ? [ \k Brother's Keeper.' 1 fOIiffS WORK OF LOVE AHD DUTY. -! si *ast zisrwm, s&thskwood, AJWHOB O? "Ciu.Q'crE o' POOK," - STEP HEX Gctskts," "Irsx Loss --MAN'S ,v caxol," jxd Other Stosxss. In tie listening attitude which twentyfour hours had confirmed to a habit, Phoebe sat in the school-house and waited lor Thorney. All the seats were empty, but ridges of dust around the bottom of the desks and clay tracks on the floor showed where young, restless feet had been. A i sum la xracuons remained upon tne DiacK* board. The fire was dying In the gray and elderly stove, which seemed to deny having ever indulged in red-hot fits of roaring when wind and snow beat outside. A barkyodor came from the wctoa-box, and from it also crept out a mouse to smell at crumbs dropped at noon. Perhaps Phoebe's moving a hand, perhaps the appalling dreariness of the "school-house interior* terrified the mouse, and it flashed back in a gray streak. Somebody's cow in the woods, reminded by associations of sad experience in her life, uttered a mellr \ plaintive lowing. Feet shuffled and bumped upon the step; then Thorney White brought them in and straight to the wood-box, where he stood digging I the mud off by scraping his heels across the box's edge, as if this were the object of his entrance. Phoebe came down the aisle and took hold of his arm. The unshuttered windows threw plenty of light around them; it was not yet five o'clock. Thorney gave a pettish jerk and continued digging with his heeis. She stood patiently aside. Search as she might, she could never find comfort or support in his face, yet she could not bring herself to guide and control him with more firmness than tenderness. In the secret folds of her heart she owned he was a mortification and a pain; but being her brother he ought to have an average struck between them and be endowed with of her abilities. H^You aren't cross to-night, are yon, j fRiomey?" said Phcebe. Thorney responded that he didn't see no sense in leaving his work to run at her beck and call. "I didn't want yon to leave your work. I would have waited till your work was i done." Thorney growled that his work was never done. He didn't have folks taking him to ? ggg^parties; he couldn't drive around big and K|proud and keep his brother a-hooping it. Bp "Oh," said Phcebe, with an accent of quiet ggdespair. "Thane's been with you, hasn't H "Ye3, he has," growled Thorney. "And HP? took my tin whistle from me." R |^horney, he didn't get your money?" | "He did, too. He made me brinjf out all wages. And he took my tin whistle," jjpjsulked Thorney, grieving for the instrument Mgwita which he imitated birds in the woods. 1 ff|r "but he made me give it L? at him, collapsing on his own muwiles in abject helplessness; and at herself. ?Do you think we shall ever get away iv fni in 'i'kawi? "Get away from what?" ?a^'?^FrOiii a&ofit. Thane la so much stouter and older than we are. And he knows how to make us do things we hate to do. We ought to have some chance." "You've got chance enough," frowned Thoraey. "I wish I could set around and draw big wages. And go to parties. Why ; don't they invite me to their parties?" ae- i manded Thoraey, in sheepish sullenness, shaking his head at the wood-box. "Yes, why don't they?5' said a voice be- ' neath one of the window-sashes, which began to go up with many a shuddering remonstrance and jar of glass. The man who * had met Phoebe in the woods propped the - sash with a stick and teaaed on his arms so 8s4fiJ>iiw?iZc2&^nd shoulders within the 1 room, opposite Tnorney. "And me, too. ' But my lady there has a way of putting her- i self above you and me, Thoraey. She 1 | would like to shake us altogether. Only ' p. she can't." 1 "No," said Phoebe, all the repellant i ft forces in her body roused by the sight of B him. "We never can be rid of him, Thoraey. SjOok as ms nair gerang gray; ana no ciu P* robbed us of more hopes th^n be has hairs < g. in his head. He has carried cur names into I B prisons; he has tried to drag us into wick- 3 E edness. I am scarcely more than a little B girl, but I feel old and life-worn when I look ' B at yra, Thane White." ^ " and he went and took my tin whistle," B saidThorney, adding his climax. ! K. 41 See here," said Thane, his facial spasms in full play. Before proceeding he took out ' apiece of tobacco and worried it fiercely. 1 m. "I dropped along to have an understanding. ! Last night you wouldn't give me a stake, 1 my lady, bad as I needed it." 1 "So you robbed Thoraey," said Phoebe, with scorn. Bfcf- "Took what was my own by rights," corWF rected Thane, giving his tobacco a final IK- Trench, after which he put it in his pocket. 7<>u treated me mean. But I'll pass over ffl' ^ . Mist if you'll divide up after-while. You otto mftw* ?nr>art. anil T can what von . up to now. If you will, I'm mum; if bba _?ju won't I ain't takm' any such, pains to "tielp you on." "I know wfiat you meaa," said Pncebe, her lace suddenly covered with pallor as with a roasts ol strange features. "But understand at once that an honorable nan can offer nothing but pitying kindness to kyour sister." "Fve got % strong purchase on you, and you know it," saifl fhe convict, smiling in a -succession o* facial spasms; "whatever. Intend to do. I went you lo ge?jaagie?. Thorney and me needs a rich brother-in-iaw^- 11 you wont get married Til have to take Thorney with me." "Oh, no, you'd never do that," said L Phoebe, lowe ing her voice detiantly. "Oh, yes, X vould. Td do just that. My HI hair is turnin*. I ought to have a young f hand in training for my oia age. xouvu dragged him around at your apron string too long, anyhow. Now, see here, Thorney," Thane chewed rapidly at his tobacco, jericed his head as low as the window-sill and instantly reappeared with one cheek distendaft; "here stands yt?or sister and her fine notions about honor and honesty that she's always preached at you. But has she done any thing/or you!" ' She never took my tin whistle," muttered Thorney. "Blast your tin whistle 1 I only took it to make you follow me 'round. You listen to me and youll get your tin whistle back and the cash to buy plenty more. Don't you have to work hard for very little money?" Thorney doggedly acknowledged his in- | 1"Go away," burst oat Phcebe, "and let the boy alone. You are only trying to torment me through him. You shan't harm him." ! want to do bim good." said Thane. "You seo it's herself always, and you and mo counted out, Thorncy. When you're as old as I am she'll want to drop you altogether like she does me. Her programme's work for you and easy times for my lady. I'll make your fortune for you." "Now you're gittin' it down to a fine point," remarked Thorney, with a cunning grin. "Why doesn't he make his own fortune," demanded Phcebe, "instead of constantly stripping us!" Thorney's expression changed to blank and open-mouthed doubt He could grasp but one idea at a time, and his feeble hold on that kept his head moving like a ball betwixt these two more powerful natnx*9. "You cu$ht_to be annoying life," contn ?b? CTIJM?m?a?? ued Thane, "instead of chopping and digging for a living. You ought to know where gold watches and full pocket-books grow, and you've wit enough to get at them if somebody gave you a few hints." "He gets it down to a fine point," said Thorney, challenging Phcebe. "Look into my eyes, Thorney," she said. He attempted to do so, but his gaze sank before her blazing earnestness. "Did he ever do any thing for us but get us into trouble? Have we not learned what we know, in spite of him? Haven't we always been happiest and safest when he was in pnsor< Is it likely that he will ever be different." Thorney now challenged Thane with a wag of the head. "She's gittin' down to a fine point," he remarked. "You and I must stand by each other. What have I in the world but you, Thorney? I have enough to bear without your deserting me." "I ain't a deserthi' you," said Thorney, dropping his head with a distressed pucker of the mouth. "Hang to the apron string, sonny," exhorted his other mentor at the window. Thorney menaced him with a slowlyclenched fist. "You ain't give up my tin whistle yet, any way." "I'll blow on it when I want you," said Thane, removing his elbows from the window sill. "I'm staying round the neighborhood, and I'll see you both again. Keep an ear open for that whistle, Thorney." The window-glass again shuddered and clinked as ha drew down the sash. He paused a moment and laughed through the patched pane at them, a puttied crack contributing to the distortion of his face. After he disappeared Phoebe cowered down in a seat with her head bowed. "What ails you?" inquired Thorney, staring suspiciously. "You ain't afraid o' Thane, are you!" Phcebe shook her head without lifting it. "I ain't," said Thorney, stretching out hi3 arm to feel the muscle. "He ain't no man beside of me. I won't let him hit you like he used to. And blame if he ain't got to give that tin whistle up; I won't stand it. He took my tin whistle, Thane did," aanounced Thorney, in a way calculated to impress his sister by the startling news. She took her wrap from it3 nail near the water-bucket and stopped to look at her liquid reflection. "You no account wretch," said Phcebe to the face thus meeting her from some lower nrArlrl ah Ar\ onr Kn+ ofot+Ct ??V4IUJ juu vau (J \ivy ouj> k/vxw >>Miu up from the pit you are in." "That whistle cost me a quarter of a dollar," ruminated Thorney, bitterly. "Be comforted'about it, Thorney," said his sister, laying her head again3t his arm. "We will surely get our whistles back yet." "Thane never took none from you." "He has not left ma even a penny whistle, Thorney, to amuse myself with since you and I were little children." The spring days succeedeu one another in monotony. There was change going onj?? the earth, and the buds swelled iii?^S%-?&?^c^Bcely-STiush of green, even fia the" awakening lichens, showed itself through the woods. Phcebe felt another change growing around her. She was at first so alert for Thane's expected footstep that the meaning of whispers in her school, hints frcm Randy Thompson, and the silences of Mrs. Holmes, quite escaped her. He did not appear. Her breath by degrees grew freer, and she turned again to the simple pleasures of existence to find they were taken from her. If she coaxed Toddles to rock on her lap Mrs. Holmes had an errand with him out of the room. Her host looked at her with a puzzled expression and stinted his usual cordiality. She met Adam and Mose Guy once or twtee, and their curious insolence Drougnt nre mio ner eyes. There were such silences at table that her food choked her. It was no longer Randy's pleasure to wait on the pretty creature whom she considered such a child, Bud to sit in Phoebe's room when every body else was in bed, telling neighborhood traditions. No one wanted her to do any thing for him. An invisible circle of separation was drawn around her. Twice she walked to the farm-house where Thorney was hired, tc make sure that no harm had befallen him, and enjoy his unthinking companionship. Mrs. Holmes spent an afternoon with Mi? 5 Fawcett, and brought not the slightest message from one girl to the Dther. "And I liked her so," thought Phoebe. "And she was so kind to me." Gurley called, and Mrs. Holmes gently devoted herself to his entertainment. Also, whatever latent solicitude she felt for her distant cousin, Milton McArdle, no w became active. His readings with Phoebe were in some way j overruled. She stayed much in her own room. When she came out she carried terself with helpless defiance. i " I will go to Mr. Barker," she resolved, lying awake at night crushed under her in- i visible load, "and tell him all about Thaae. Be may have mercy on me; I'm not wanted tiere." " There's talk goin' round the neighborhood," Randy reluctantly volunteered, once ivhen the girl's face touched her. Talk had aever gone arounu tae neiguixwuuvu auuui, ierself, and this enabled her to state the fact severely. 44 Yes, I suppose there is," said Phoebe. 44 Don't you care'*" demanded Randy. u Would my caring stop it'" 44 It might stop some things." 441 don't think it would," said Phoebe. Randy fixed her eye in dismay upon so casehardened a person. 44 Folks don't like the looks," she further revealed. "Mrs. Barker, she seen him, loo." 44 Mrs. Barker is not talking atout me?" 44 Every body is. How can they help it?" "They can't help it," replied Phoebe, bearing her head erect and undisturbed int? privacy. There si-c 2 it under her bedclothes, kneeling by toe bed and clcncbing tho mattress with her teeth while she stormed and sobbed alone. That day,, however, she prepared her note for Mr. Barker, saying: "You kngw when vnn Mr COM AYV?k3 ? . gr.fi you vouched ior my character: '=/There is a sore truth in my mind, and I know great tales are going around the neighborhood. As far back as Thorney and I can remember, Thane White, our elder brother, has been a criminal. Many people have been kind to me, or I could never have got on and kept Thorney out of his hands. We lived any way we could and in many places. Once I was nurse to some children in a nice family, and the lady taught me almost like a daughter, until Thane, as usual, shadowed me, and drove me off by attempting to make a thief of Thorney. Thorney was at work near me. The boy is not as bright as some boys, but he is all my family, and he likes me. I could not have him turned wicked, and Thane's deeds are more horrible than I can tell. At first I pitied Thane, and tried to help him. He always took our earnings; he wants them yet. I don't feel kin to him; I could let all my blood run out if that would free me from the relationship. "Thane has followed us here. It doesn't seem any use to run from him, and he has all the advantage when I turn on him. There is nothing ahead of me, young as I am, because he can reach out and spoil whatever I do. I have thought over these things until they break me down. May 1 coiuo to your house and ask advice of ifrs. I j Barter and you f Though there is talk in | > -~1~1.~-1.~~/) t ,.i? nnt viftin feeline vou I buu ucijjuuuiuuuu j. x are both friendly toward me. He was in the woods the evening I took supper with you. If you can send some word to the school-house I shall be?as I have been this year past?yours grateful for many kindnesses. Phce3e White." This message was intrusted to the hands of a boy who could not read script, and who, as a reward ior his serves, was delivered from school an hour beiore dismissal. He lived near Mr. Barker's house, and was charged not to lay the paper out of his hands until Mrs. Barker should receive it from him at her door; and his delighted heels at first spumed the dead leaves with true zeal. Bathe saw Painter tramping along the edge of the hollow, and being a boy he could not help feeling the leaf-mold for a chip, stick or stone, and having found a shrunken walnut, whizzed it after the hermit. Painter turned; so the boy was obliged to dodge behind a tree and skulk from one tree to another in following up his game, for he was not the boy to turn his back in the midst of sport. Other shrunken walnuts thumped the ground about Painter or pelted him right heartily. He concluded to come after his assailant; so just as the boy laid the note down to break a promising clod into handy chunks, the shaggy man towered directly over him. He was away like a darling hornet. The note, out of hand, was out of mind, until Barker's cabin appealed to both memory and invention; and the boy spent the rest of bis homeward journey building a plausible tale about the document's fate. Phoebe sat still after the last pupil was ! gone, dreading to go home. Perhaps she hoped Mr. Barker might come to her directly on the receipt of her message; and when the school-house door opened, it was tViic mrnr??mtsLY*x7 ayinn wKifVh lit Rpr eyes, and left them as suddenly as life dies from a spark. McArdle tiptoed in. His pale skin had taken an eager glow from the exercise of walking up hill. He gave her a propitiating smile, aud came forward, removing his gloves. "I came here instead of seeing you at the house," said McArdle, "because I have something very particular to say." "Sit down," responded Phoebe, patiently. "Thank you, I prefer to stand," said SlcArdle, leaning one arm on her desk aud /???. -a "I PEEPER TO STAXD," HE SAID. resting his right foot upon the platform. "You are looking rather used up." Phoebe sat back in her chair. She had never before noticed how personally unpleasant Milton McArdle could be. She did not like his condescending kindness, and 'objected to his long neck and-exaggerated ^ower lip. And it Wr^sTtioA coalTafford to be so fastidiousr" "I apprehend, Miss Phoebe," said Mo AT^IA f+Vial* fintO hoa Kaqd o^irlnt* thing to you about me." Phoebe's smile became positive, and he hastened to confess with virtuous precision: "I do not deny that I may have remarked something of the sort." "You have been remarking, too, have you?" said Phoebe, her face settling back into quiet pallor. "But it was because," explained McArdle, intent on his own object, "I apprehended it would be better for the present for us to? to conceal." "What have we to conceal?" said Phoebe. "Under the circumstances," he continued, growing red as if just grated, "We are both alone in the world, as it were. And there are people who would say it is unsuitable, but I can not agree with them. Therefore," said McArdle, with a flourish of his hand, "I apprehended I had better assume that our ..friendship was but a slight one." "I don't know what you are talking about," said Phoebe. "If you have heard things against me, it would be kinder to stay away 1" " I have heard things, Miss Phoebe," acknowledged McArdle, magnanimously. He plased his hat on the desk and steadied him iu yvoiuiuu. num >vix?*c iaio ?ouio brother Thorney of yours has let drop, and various circumstances, it appears there are matters which will need explanation betwixt you and me. But before those matters are explained," he hastened, silencing her, UI want to express my views and plans. In Bpite of the fact that the church will require me to make a very circumspect selection, and also in spite of the fact that I know my cousin Mrs. Holmes will oppose it, I am determined. I apprehend that you understand?" "So," said Phoebe, lifting her eyes from a carved slit in her desk, which some unruly boy, while sitting there in durance, had turned into an ink cauaL "1 don't know what you mean." The muscles of McArdle's face expressed vexation. i "Then I will explain. I hoped to be more cordially met by you, Miss Phoebe. Ycu surely feel unhappy and unprotected." "I can't remember ever feeling otherwise." "But more so now than at some previous date. I offer you my protection. We can be of mutual assistance. You could still teach or find some other congenial occupation, and I couldassist?: ah?in cultivating your mind. It would be best for you to go away from here, no doubt. I should be at theological school, and for the present we would keep the matter quiet." "What matter quiet!" inquired FboeDe. "Our?marriage," replied McArdle, wiping his heated face with a handkerchief he had bought with money borrowed from her. "Are you asking me to marry you!" "I apprehended it would scarcely be necessary to explain that," he responded, with asperity. "But I don't want to marry you." ."Consider what you are saying," impressed McArdlc. "I know it may seem a "But I mean- its-and will take the risks." Only prudence seems to dictate" said McArdle, going over his grer^.d again, luul " for the present we keep our own counsel." "1 wish you'd go away," said Phoebe, upon which McArdle stared at her with startled eyes. He waited in various uncomfortable atti tudes while 9he put on "her shawl ana prepared to fasten the door. Then, stepping out, he picked his way along by her side, looking at her occasionally with increasing chagrin and indignation. "I would like to know what I am to apprehend from the last remark you made." "I don't want you to talk so to me." "But under the circumstances, surely, Miss Phoebe" "Under any circumstances." "You mean to convey a refusal." As McArdle tried to ponder the fact his countenance hardened. "You'll regret it." "I regret almost every thing which ever happened to me," said Phoebe. "It would be a new experience if I didn't regret this." "It's verv foolish of you," said McArdle, pityingly. "Besides, you are treating me with great cruelty. You have engaged mv feelings." "But under the circumstances, you apprehend, it would be better to conceal that ...4. T)1 maxxer," nasueu uui tuucwc. McArdle let his lower lip hang pendulous, while his sense of injury grew. "I won't go any farther with you," he said, pausing. "I won't go up to the house to-night" "'Good-bye, then," said P'ncebe. "You utterly refuse!" meditated McArdle. "Who else, do you suppose, will come out as I have done, waiting for explanations to be made afterwards?" "You se^in to admire your conduct very much," she said. Ee keenly glanced at her. "You are attached to somebody else. 1 feel it. But it can be nobody but Gurlev." ' I said good-bye," said Phoebe, standing taller. There was a thrill of anger in her voice. "But one moment," insisted McArdle. He took out his tonakerchief and wiped one eye after the other, holding a fold of itoverhis finger point. "When you discard me you are injuring yourself. Poor child! It will never profit you any to cherish these other feelings." . "Why did I never dispise you beiore !"* exclaimed Phcebe, seeming to expand and blaze. "How could I feel a protecting kindness for you and take pleasure in doing you what little services I could!:' "I apprehend," he said, stiffly, "that you allude to the trifling sums I have been forced by an ungenial fate to borrow from you." " No," said Phcebe, relenting. "I never thought of them. I am a miserable girl, but ! princess enough in my feelings to make you welcome to what you have had. Only don't speak another word to me to-night." She turned her back on him and ran toward the lawn gate. , ["TO BE CONTINUED] THE SPAKTANBUKG ENCAMPMENT. The Official Programme Issued by the Association President McCravy of the Spartanburg Encampment Association has issued for publication the official programme of the Farmers' Encampment as lollows: MONDAY, AUGUST 6TH. General preparation day, placing machinery, arranging exhibits, etc. TUESDAY, AUGUST 7TH. Morning session, 10 o'clock? Addresses of welcome by Hon. S. T. McCravy, chairman of local board of directors, and by Hon. W. E. Burnett in behalf of the city of Spartanburg. Responses?Hon. W. K. Thompson, master of state grange of South Carolina; Hon. Johnson Hagood, president ol Farmers'Institute; Hon. J. B. Humbert president of State agricultural and mechanical society. Addresses?The manufacture of sorghum into syrup and sugar, Hon. Norman J. Coleman, United States commissioner of agriculture. Afternoon session, 3 o'clock? Address, The condition of affairs now as compared with 1876, Senator Wade Hampton. Tha Tariff, Senator M. C. Butler. Evening session, 9:30 o'clockAddresses and discussions on T rrac ing. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST STH. Morning session, 10 o'clook? Meeting of State Agricultural and Mechanical Society. Essay, Test of the Purity and Vitality of Seed, JPro, K. JfcL Iipugh'p^j^ ?* ^^^y7 diversified Induatrie.-j as Promotive of Agricultural Prosperity, Hon. Samuel Dibble, M. C. Essay, The Nature and Treatment of ' Contagious Diseases Among Stock, Dr. B. Mclnnes, V. S. Afternoon session, 3 o'clock? Eaoay, Tho Ideal Farm, "by Hon. John S. Verner. Essay, Viticulture (to be assigned). 1 Essay, The Southern Daily (to be 1 assigned). Evening session, 8:30 o'clock - ! Address, Drainage, by W. G Hineoo. THURSDAY, AUGUST 9TH. Morniug session, 10 o'clock? Meeting of Farmers' institute. Essay, Agricultural Experimentation, , by Dr. J. M. McBryde, South Carolina ; University. 1 Afternoon session, 3 o'clock? ] m L T>i?^ .a i A ? xussity, mri xusvca u.y jl?sciena. ixi a.g- i riculture, by Prof. B. M. Bolton. Evening session, 8:30 o'clock? Address, Agricultural Education in South Carolina, Hon. D. K. Norris. FRIDAY, AUGUST IOTH. Morning session, 10 o,clockEssay, Lines Along Which Lie the Development of Southern Agriculture, Dr. Daniel Lee, of Nashville Tenn. Essay, How to Make Forage Pay in Scath Carolina, by E. S. Rivers, Esq., of James Island, S. C. Afternoon session, 3 o'clock? Fruit Growing for Market in South Carolina, be R. B. Watson, Ridge Spring, S. C. Evening session, 8:30 o'clock? Address, Agricultural Organization in the South. (To be assigned.) Closing address by Hon. John W. Wotford, president of the board of commissioners of the Inter-State Farmers' Encampment A Keerful Study of J ones. "It ar' my dooty to explain," said Brother Gardner, as the ball grew quiet, "dat the Hon. Gawge Washington Jones of Memphis arrove here two days ago on purpose to deliber a lecturbefo' disclub. De name of his lectur' ar', 'How an' When to Economize.' I had a chance to look de cem'lan ober an' size him ud. an' . las' night I walked him down to de ribber, pinted across to Canada an' told him to skip. He skipped. Sich of yon as had your moufs all ready fur sumthin' good will no doubt feel a bit disappinted until I fuder explain. By a keerful study of de Hon. Jones I diskibered most of hi? pint?. "I found dat he was economizin' on boot heels to buy mo' braes watch chain. "He was makin' one shirt las' him doorm' de spring sezun in order to buy fo' pink collars which reached up to his ears. "He hadn't any underclothes, but he had a galvanized watch dat run twentysix hours to de day. j barefn* in his butes, bntJ^fl wore a glass cuamcna a pair o' beautiful yaller kid g?S?j3| made ebery street kyar hoss stopdeacMH his tracks. ' "While he didn't carry a comb nor brush, he swelled out wid a blue handkerchitf on which de Czar of Russia ?fn Watit Viia nnaft Ill ig Lib uavu BVllUVt wv f? maw "He showed me a dozen blank checks on vaius banks dat he was luggin' aronnd fur show, but it took his las' nickel to git across to Canada. "He 1 ad a bewtiful way of speakin' to you, but three different policemen war gwine to lun him in for a snspichus character. "While he hadn't had a good sqnar' meal far two weeks, he was armed wid a dozen cheap cigars to make a show on de streets. "I looked ober him, an' nnder him and all aroun' him, an' I cum to de conclnshun dat we didn't want any hints on economy. I didn't want to seem too cold and sf?rve wid him, an' arter turnin' de snbjek ober in mind I decided dat de United States was an onhealthy climate fur his system." On motion of Waydown Bebee the thanks of the club were tendered the president for his action in the case, and a resolution of sympathy was extended to Pickles Smith for having loaned Hon. Jones $2 in cash without security ?Detroit Free Press. Some 01 lue new canes are aiw^cuj^i too heavy for the feeble society youth to think of carrying in hot weather. Grover Cleveland is the son of a Presbyterian clergyman, and Allen G. Thurman is the son of a Methodist minister. THE FIRST CAMPAIGN MEETING. RICHARDSON, MAULDIN AND TIIXMAN SPEAK TO THE GATHERING. No Opponents Appear to the Present Governor or Lieutenant Gov. rnor?Captain -^Tillman Tak'-s Part in the SpeechSlaking. (From the News and Courier.) The first of the meetings appointed i by the Democratic State Executive Com; mittee was held at Hodges, Abbeville j \50unty, on Friday, the 20th insk There i yere about seven hundred persons pres| ^jfcapt. James N. Oiwhran, of Hodges, pr^jed, and introduced Governor Kv/iar^t)nr^io spoke as-foliows: GovernorRichardson's Speech. - :. Ti^Govei-nor said that he wasffifftPEjT or tho Democratic party, in acco iauee with the expreasion from the State Convention, and to address the people as hid been arranged by the j State iiixecuuve committee, joeiore ne j touched on other matters he desired to antwer certain vague and irresponsible charges which had been made in jregard to-iho conduct of the State Government. It had been stated by some newspapers and politicians that the burden of taxation was to-day as heavy on the people as it was under Radical rule. This assertion was not true and he would proceed to prove it. He quoted from a tabulated statement issued by the Democratic State Committee in 1882 and showed the taxes exacted each yeai- of Radical rule. One example here suffices for the contrast. Li the fiscal year 1873-74 the total State tax was 12 mills, yielding $2,035,000, and the aggregate county taxes were $1,037,000, making a total taxation of $3,132,000. On the other hand the total State tax under Democratic rule in 188687 was but $882,000 and the county taxes were proportionately less. Tie Governor's full f-gures will be given hereafter. He quoted from the records to show that the actual and contingent liabilities by the State under Radical rule reached the enormous total of nearly $29,000,000. While tha presAnlTT QCf lov/vn CUL U^UICO nDiO V/XXAJ VUfc-IUHU **0 MWgVt Then the Governor, to use the language of Mr. W. C. Benet, dealt with the figures of the State's finances at the present time "with the felicity and power of a-Gladstone." He took up the Tillman comparison of taxation in 1878-79 ?UMl, ^.GJ8I^ao4_a&Egiaaalit|Qni by item th^oiuts of increase and m the expenditures. His table will be after published in full. It is sufficient dow to show that the most important differences were as follows: Excess in appropriations 1878-79 over 1886-87: South Carolina University $2,100, South Cait^ga College and Mechanical Institute jS?00, penal and charitable institution ?3,000, civil contingent fund $6,000, State Agricultural and Mechanical Society $1,500, Court of Claims $8,000, Bond Court $2,000, claims passed $5,000, defi sietcats ;>iz,ouu; total excess 540, eoz. Exoe^ 18S '-87 over 1878-79: Legislative expenses $7,000, tax department $1,200, University and Citadel $33,800, j repairs Governor's Mansion $2,700, publicprintiog$i,000, artificial limbs $2,000, ; railroad commission $7,850, (paid by railrotds) supervisors registration $3,500, ! transportation of convicts (cost charged from counties to State) $5,000, comple- ! tion State House $16,103, Charleston : Medital College $500, interest on public iebt $2,130, militia $13,000, experi- ' mentil stations $10,000; total exoess 1 ^38,0)0; net difference in favor of 1878- ' 79 $33,476. Deducting the payments of 1 interest on the public debt with the new j ipprcpriations for the State House, the , Questional institutions and the militia, left sardly the appearance of an in- ' ireas?. Th? Governor not only referred to, t>nt dscussed, every item of increased , rxpeiditure, showing the reason for its jxistaice and putting the question 1 whetler the public would forego the ad- \ rantaje derived from the outlay. The j jrovenor did all that was possible to reieve be monotony of his ranks of fig- i ares, and made tnem infinitely more ef- 1 iecti'w than they might have appeared ( ffhennarahalled in dull array ~ " 1 Reprinted a bright pictare of the 1 preset condition of the State as I thwhat it was 4 Zo' ' The .-rogress was great for a poor people * State 1 Pen?d in ^ of a 1 It ad been said, declar6d-iW~"cr0vr * arno; that lie -?-otraddler on the ? laeaon o? the Ciemson agricultural * 3olle;e. He was here as a loyal son of the Sate, grsatly honored by her, to an- . iwerher inquiry as to his position. With I ill rigard for his friend, the editor of the i.bbeville Medium, who was present, * md ffho yesterday in his paper said that 1 tie (Governor Richardson) had refused 1 to aiswer questions as to thigc?.ii , > ? -* isse.ted that he never had proposed, and iid lot now propose, to answer his interritories. His official duties did not j illov htm time to reply to such questions j propounded to him. But he was now , tiere at the time and place appointed by the Democracy to speak his convictions. That was right, was it not? Then why put him in the position of a straddler or iodger? In a letter to the News and O^g^er before his nomination in 188G jK%} expressed his opinion as to the college question. It was a ISd'csopie, who_woddbMi| ^yurden, to decifl* 5d low reaffirmed, that he w^no^ l ot&ws^rSd tiz I ^'.--made a comnarisnn ,hn j ca tibial status of New England and South Carolina, and asked how he could oppose any educational advantage for his people. If the Ciemson college was acctpted the State should support it liberally. One question for the Legislature wa? "Will the will hold?" Ihere was no reason why it should I not but it would be unwise for the State > to #eept the beqaest and proceed to < easy it oat without being sure of its le- 1 galty. He was for all institutions of < lesiaing, the free schools and agricultu- * raicollege, the South Carolina University and the Citadel. It would be a good 1 thig to offer the youth of the State a t vaiety and choice of education suited to ? tb<r differing genius. s fcuth Carolina should go always on- ? wfdin the matter of education until t tljsLiost favored of the sisterhood of ( Stfls should be the greatest and grand- 8 e& c Be Governor's speech lasted for 8 niy two hours. At its close he was a fijy applauded and presented with a I bwiiul bouquet. & |pt. Cochran introduced Lieutenant- ^ , G irnorJMauldin, who, although suffer- & io rom an attack of inflammatory rheu- t< in jm, was able to make a forcible 0 s] ;h of half an hour's duration. <1 IE lie X.Ieutanant Go\ernor's Speech. a] . it he referred to the responsibility sc o e position he occupied and the duty ai to rested upon him to act, not for pi , a >ne section, but for the beat inter- a: ests of the whole State. The chief interest of the taxpayers "was to have the Government administered with regard both to publicnecessities and the ability of the State.. tfr ;bear the expense. He had always held that the Government should be administered in the same manner as a prudent man's private affairs. Sometimes, however, projects failed of effect because of a mistaken idea of economy. Differences always existed between representatives of the people as to the best economy for the Commonwealth. The compromises to which these variances led were, perhaps, after all, the most advantageous measure for the State. He denied the charge that he was an enemy of education, lower or higher. He had supported the proposition to charge a tuition fee iu the University, and was glad to know from friends of that institution that-the requirement of such a fee had not injured it. No one jhould place a stone iu the way ol any liastitution .aaf learning in the State. While an economist, he would not consider himself pledged to support every measure whose originator fancied it would be one of true economy. He would vote after hearing debate as his judgment dictated for the beet interests of the State. He did not oppose the Ulemson college, and wished tne University made par excellence the college of the State, drawing its students from, bat not competing as an equal with, the : lesser colleges. An agricultural college, with a school of technology, would be -firvaluable addition to our educational sys- < tem. If the Clem son legacy turned out 1 as represented, it should be accepted and vitalized by the State. Captain Tillman's Speech. Capt. B. R. Till man was introduced I by Dr. Jones and was enthubiastically ' received by the crowd, who listened to j him with absorbed interest. He was armed, he said, with plenty ' of ammunition, bat had not time to fire j it all off. He was glad to give his fellow citizens an opportunity to look him ' in the eye and judge whether he was the , demagogue and crank he was alleged to XJ a TTTrt r* Kr? i nrnf rt^/vr\ f a ^ uui xxu rrcfco laTitauiuu vi iuc i Abbeville Democracy and the Abbeville J farmers neither as an open nor secret.< i candidate for the office of Governor cr . Lieutenant Governor. He felt his dis- , advantage in following their able and ^ silver-tongued Governor, whose glowing , words in praising South Carolina had stirred his heart as much as any one's. , "J," said Capt. Tillman, "am nothing but a barnyard rooster." [Laughter. ] A voice: "No, an Edgefield game j chicken!" [Applause.] , "I don't want to fight eagles nor buz- t zards either. It seems that some buzzard ' Charleston and gone into the News and"^ Courier office, where it is spewing its slime all over me, but such a creature is e unworthy of the notice of a gentleman." u [Applause and laughter.] a After this graceful remark Capt. Till- , man said that he was not here to discuss differences between Democratic and ^ Republican government, but between . Democrats and Democrats. He con- 11 gratulated his audience on the fact that * the time had passed when men could be *? shut up by the whisper, "Hush, oryou'll split the Democratic party." The he- y groes had been pitched overboard, and the only question was as to the white f? men who should govern the State, whether the people or a clique should C: do it. He denied that he had accused u the State Government of corruption, but of extravaarance. Th? Government was c< not the State officers, but the se officers, st the Legislature and the judiciary. The F* Legislature had been the most extava- b( gant of the three branches. This Gov- . srnment was supposed to be Democratic 81 but South Carolina was purely aria to- w srati.3 from centre to circumference. It f1 tisd been so for a hundred years and ?! :?ould be so for another one hundred 01 until you people rise in your might as w tree Anglo-Saxons, and demand the right of self-go vera ment. Before the ?rar the aristocratic element controlling ;he Legislature held that the people s-ere not fit to elect their Governor and irrogated that power to themselves. The ?G same element controls the State Conven- P* ion, which practically elects the Gov- P1 irnor by its nomination, and, exercising J isurped power, saye to the people, "yoa Wl san't be trusted." He hoped the time ^ vas near when the people would denand the right of voting in a State >rimary for everv officer xhev wished. gSSueS m?ht' heir bosses wonhiA -- -*s*??3e8toa and the farmers' sti tfvement <'a queer kind of critter," th Swf dldn'fc understand it SSSJ rifc wasu nofc ^e child he gave ha JLaughter-^ Jt lSve, owever, the germ of statesmanship ? t or i eonid n?t have grown so greyly beheved it to be the beginniL of a M evolution. It would be JS * w SJ3^fl?tof F6 to ?c?? tbS ** ^ht of voting in a State primary for Pl iiijoy lLV11Ifg hfiT-inrltlin?i ? .ipjii. -al Capt. Tillman criticised severely the P* provision for a preliminary canvass un- * ier which he was now speaking, charicterizsng it as "a bone to a dog." In half a dozen counties, before the first aI speech of the canvass had been made, ? delegates had been selected to the State Convention devoted to the interests of certain candidates. Let any change of c sentiment occur between now and the " State Convention, and these dele- f gates would snap their fioee^SSB faces of the pi' pli mnl nn themerk like little men ?^ldates toe j ? iSs j.iicn uo uouiareu suae ne was CHOCt lull g of rocks and wanted to chunk 'em into sj the crowd. He next said: "When I +j started to work for the college I m ide a f( mistake. I admit it. The roof would t< have been on the college now and the & boys in it if I hadn't criticised the t} glorious State Government, but that mined me. See what heaps of politi- pillar jumped on the agricultural wago. i p ill they broke it down. He then pro- sfc seeded to give in detail his version of tb ;he failure of the farmers' movement in ^ 86, when it controlled the House of ^ Representatives, because of the oppoei- ^ ion of office-holders and lawyers. The _ itory has often been told, but the crowd -eemed to think it fresh. He had a jrave charge to make here, and it was his: That the trustees of the South cl< Carolina College since '79 had been en- pi ;aged in a conspiracy against the agriultural interests of the State. This is a -on rave charge because the trustees are Oj mong the most honored of our citizens, up le would give them credit for not in- foi andirg it, but he would prove that they us< rere conspirators. He then outlined, pa 3 at various times in his published let- do irs, the course adopted for the revival Ne f the South Carolina College and the isposition of the agricultural scrip fund loneys. The conspiracy he referred to ppeared to be the establishment of the J >-called agricoltural annex instead of lib 1 agricultural college. He highly wa raised the South Carolina University rep id said he would like to see it grander kai <0 than ever, but these proceedings of the trnstees "had made the blood to broil in his bosom." He then made the usual attack on the annex. The South Carolina College had inch by inch fought the farmers' movement. He said that, in " bis opinion, President J. M. McEryde is the man who stood more in his (Tillman's) path thaD any other. He might do Mr. McBryde injustice, and some other man might be the "head devil" of the opposition, but he believed him to be the man. He read with ridicule a : student's essay on the South Carolina collegian, in which it was stated that 1 the students, after having their boots ! blacked by colored janitors,- rose to their breakfast at 8 o'clock, and con trasted it with the achievements of the * students of the Mississippi College, who J made eight cents an hour for extra labor ] on the farm, A boy raised oil the South 3 Carolina College pian was sure -to re- tarn home eifcheii a theorint or feeling himself above *, hid people. This 1 oligarchy, this little gang of opponents 1 of his, would have trundled Port Hill < down to Columbia if it had not been for 1 Mr. Clemson's provisions giving controi of the bequest to the farmers themselves. * Capt. Tillman was very severe on the J "How de-do" political cowards in the 1 Legislature, and accused a majority of < the Edgefield delegation of breaking ? their pledges to support the college. He J attributed their defection and that of ? others to the seduciion?of the Columbia Club. At this point he proceeded to 1 explain why he had, after the last State < Convention, become a guest of the club 1 himself. It was just after he had told ? the truth, and Col. Haskell had denied t it, that that gen leman urged him so i strenuously to visit the club; that he al- s lowed himself to be grabbed by the arm S and taken there rather than appear per- i 3onally spiteful. He drank there a glass ?f lemonade only. It was a "monstrous c nice place," and no wonder the corn I bread and bacon fellows liked it. Some s 3f the legislative deserters from the ? farmers' movement had been rewarded s for their action. One Senator had re- 8 :eiv=d an $800 po ition. He preiicted that at the very opening c 3f the next session Gideon Lee i would serve notice of suit to con- F ;est the Clemson will, and that this would be made the excuse for a failure t jy the State to accept the bequest. If t ;he farmers did not make the coming 1< Legislature set at once, they wonld not s .ikely ever get the college. He had lever seen any good in the agricultural lepartment. Six or eight thousand dol- a ars should suffice for its maintenan ce. t< rhe other $25,000 of the privilege tax c should go to the college with the Hatch t< 'and and land script fund, and it was n itily hy pledging Legislative candidates o ^ ^ i^^xnlicit plan that the farm0 I 11 ii I In ii ends: they d rs could hope to ^ ^ aust swear by the holygodst^SWlMi^i chool of their own. Taking varioas official reports and se- sc icting figures from them Capt. Tillman df ndertook to demonstrate that his state- ti lent at the State Convention as to the T. icrease and expenditures over 1878-79 cl as correct. His figures would be given, fc n I- ti'nM r? Ar a infAllimKln 4-a Lit; kucj ncic uuv uxumc uu I is hearers on the stand.' He annouuceiiij ->af: Comptroller. General Yenier. wbo^>? owever, he considered an honorable la tan, liad misstated the facts and played ec le partisan in his declaration as to the or jmparative expenses of the periods n< nder discussion. th Governor Richardson having made a cl >rrection of one of Capt. Tillman's pa atements, the Moses of the farmers imarked to him, "I give yon credit for TJ singa^equare old gamecock." or He characterized the railroad commis- ar on in language the brief equivalent of ni hic'a is thjit that body constitutes a fos- sp lized aristocratic excrescence upon the th Ddy politic. He compared the salaries a : State officials and Judges in Georgia th ith those in South Carolina. He was a] it., however, in favor of cheap Judges >r South Carolina, nor drunken ones wi ther. This agitation had gone too far, pi le speaker said, for him to give up now. wl he people were laboring under burden- pc -me Kadical laws wincli blioukt be re- nc ?aled, aud tiie aristocrats should be ua lUed from the public teat. But for the ha Edgefield devil" in the speaker he wi Duld long since have given up this ' sll-nigh hopeless fight. He was incur- inj Qg heavy pecuniary loss by makine I en is canvass, but if he hads?\itfer their "a c make hi:s themselves he was is < Bffigar* . hn Concluding Capt. Tillman said, "I'll ms ck to you, so help me God, till we win cai is fight." Th The speaking closed at 2.13 P. M., ire ,ving lasted four hours and ten minutes, go m m bit A Good Fish Story. Wll Mr. Tho:nas had a large farm on the th< issouri bottoms near Sioux City. It < is all fenced with barbed wire, there wa dng two miles of such fencing on the wa ace. He happened in Sioux City iost abj - ^ <-i oaigious ULigia b likey np ben the gorge broke at wouiu ^ nl( - raise th?wato to bis farm he rode hasteriy uu ^ ? madepre^UoB^ou^^ Kjckaudiill"1^^8^ , Then he and ^ ;rre-d to higher g^-'^ ^ :mpaiesmall of is hired nan proce^ec^ Wo o{ that ra bucks of meat on ^ bat ft was bl S&i as the river began to cover 1 ~Por twenty-six liours the water stood i Ivc feet above the top of the highest" j ence post, and when it receded the $ nost remarkable sight was revealed o ^rom every barb, except three, of that o wo miles of fencing hung a fish.- There c< rere pickeral, bass, pike, suckers and ai very other imaginable varietv. A imple calculation will show precisely o: tie size of the haul. It was a five-wire ti snee, each wire having thirtv-nx b^rhfe ) the rod, making, as any schoolboy m tell you, a total of 115,200 barbs to le two miles of fencing. There were iree barbs that had caught nothing, so > that there were only 115,197 fish. in erhaps the most remarkable part of the p? ory is to come: From that day to ^ is, in all parts of the Missouri Kiver, 0I ere have been caught just three fish, jg< e exact number that didn't get co ,ught on oar friend's barbed wire fence. gr Iowa Falls Register. PIAXOS A.\D OR? YXS. ^3 One thousand Pianos and Organs to D?e out by October 1. All Organs and anos sold at cash price, payable Pt iveiuber 1?no interest?delivered to < >ur nearest depot. Fifteen days trial, rgans from $24 up; Pianos from $150 ^ ?. All instruments warranted. Send an( r circulars. Buy now and have the a~ 9 of the instrument. Remember we gni y freight both ways if the instrument n't. fin it: cm <? T"5 r\ f .cwvrJ ? - iVDO LJLUlli !W York. N. W. TRUMP, * Colombia, S. C. T lones (to his wife)?Why is a husband W 5 dough? [He was going to tell her it ? 1 s because a woman needs him; but she eve lied: "Because he Ls hard to get off her 7 id?H 1U-* ' S00] THK WICKED WATERMELON. Its Hurtful TMiilendw Have Keri Greatly Stretched?It is Keally a Cooling and Delicious Piece of Vegetable Production. (From the Sew York Evening World.) Frait or vegetable? Which are they ? It doe-ai't make the least difference to the man who drives a large, sharp knife through the dark rind and Shows the ruddy interior with the jet black seeds. He knows how it tastes, and his interest in the watermelon is not a scientific onv\ The watermelon erop is quite a feature of commerce. The melons begin to some into the market towards the end of May, and they continue to come until November.. The frost kills them, 3a sends the first, supply. The frnit raited in the state south of the Indian \ river and in some of the central,cocntiea s sent to Jacksonville merely for. an exlibit in the very beginning of the SL Ne# lort bonifaceM^w w)uap-r<^ -r steure^jte aX the. very first waterttcicn^ . * 'or his table, offered ten dollars for" one >f these emerald/beauties seat to JaiksoL- \ rille. His oiler was declined. As the season continues, the melons ire sent from points farther north. Havana and Key West contribute a quota 0 the market. Then the Georgia melons some along and they sie the finest whWi ire sent-. Then Virginia, Maryland, / Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and, last of ? . ill, Long Island, send in their products. 'M . ' A good watermelon has a thin rind, a ed meat without much of a fibrous sharacter, and jet black seeds. There 13 10 key to the excellence of a watermelon,. ixeeptagood sharp knife. Cat it in wo, and you can tell what it is. Hold t in your hand as it came from the vine, ? >nd nobody can tell with certainty. Ne- ' jroes pretend to know, and tiiey do hit t off very frequently, but it is by instinct. As to the qaantity of watermelons thas :o'ne to the New York market, it is imwssible to give the exact number, bat ome idia may be gathered from the act that one day's contribution in one eason was 93,000. Sloops, sailing vesels, steamships, all bring in the frait. The watermelon is in appearance one >f the coolest things ia the world, with cs dark green rind, and yet by a sort of >aradox it grows in sandy soil. New Jersey furnishes one of the very est varieties of watermelon. It is called he Gypsy, or Mountain Swee. It is a ong, i3triped melon, with thin rind and weet, juicy meat. Watermelons are sold by their size. 1 rlAftlor n<->? wAiah hnt hA ppro:rimates the price to the size. K,f- ^^ sen or twenty cents to forty or nity " ents is the range of prices. Eighteen o twenty pounds makes a good sized : lelon. A prominent marketman said he nee had a ninety-pounder! There is one man in New York who JMI eals ia nothing bat watermelon^aMte|^P tie season. CLd&nit does not decay so^fl ^?^te^aud will keepjy^B ime ijs, and there* te melon can XseK^^k bis consists in t? uding thea^r. A-ttiM >r twc^flQ&Sag} by tmSQIfl 0 oe of the features aveler who is delayed' in NorfoiKu^JI ie sommer is to.Bef ii^e-bn&te.come den with watermelons, and be onlcadL " A line of darkies is formed Iiom ie of these boats to the held of s >me jrthern steamer. The melons are xown from hand to hand along the ip.in, the negroes enlivening their occuition by quaint cries. Occasionally a .melon is dropped. lis accident, indeed, may be counted 1 to a dead certainty when "niggers" e handling the fruit, and generally the elon which falls is a remarkably fine ecimen. When it drops and breaks ere is a rush of black boys to the spot, wild confusion of legs and arms, an<i en the boys extricate them, each vti'h aalf-consumed bit of melon in his paws. It is enough to make ont's month iter to see a darkey burrow iuto a large ece of succulent red watermelon. JELta lole face disappears in it, and it is ditised of with a quickness to make one >la his breath. If there is any pure, [alloyed happiness in this world, it is d when a darkey effects a combination tli a fine watermelon. There are not ma ?y ways n f ]i ~ n ijx t y the fruit It is Jvummeeffftot as a swell dinner aelon is treated in this way:. A piece jut out of one end. Then vrith a loDg ife the read meat is pierced, so as to kke it easily permeable by liquid, and npaign or brandy is pocred into it. e plug is then replaced and the melon izsn, When a party of eight get a od- sized melon, with ali it can hold of indy, they are apt to get "loaded" .toot knowing how ithss happened to ia arms against the railway compais, and a famine in the succulent fruit threatened. The fruit importers say at the Pennsylvania Railroad company id the Ocean Steamship company Of 1 i vail nab, who enjoy almost a monopoly the watermelon trade, have raised the >te of freight until it is no longer possile to do business at a profit. The rates from the south to this city ponndT * loO a car, wh:ch is ^ SI3? I'toefruit ConsequSSK^theva'Ue 'ten refuse to r^eiye fh^lmpoTter8 wapany then selh7hl f hem *** toe Tlie importers have decided not to rder any more melons from the south 11 the freight rates are reduced. its use for md.yeyo. Jesup, Ga., May 26, 1887. I have been suffering from kidney sease for a month past and the pain my back was very severe. My oceuition requires a good deal of wntiug at ght and I suffered all the time. I saw le man who said he wsa cured by using Dtanic Blood Balm, (B. B. B.) and I mmenced using it, and the pain is a eat deal less. I have only used two ittles and believe it will effect a cure ' the use of a few more bottles. Yours respectfully, J. E. Colemaic. re blood is of priceless valce. The Blood Balm Co., Atlarta, Ga.: ? ?- - t ? ? r i/cai Oii:?x jiave, ior sometime past, id B. B. B. as purifier of the blood I to build up the system generally, i consider it without exception the est remedy of the kind* in the market. Yours with best wishes, Arthur G. Lewis, Editor Southern Society. Vhen you go Lome, fill the house with , so thai the light of it will stream out he windows and doors, and illuminate n the darkness. ,az;ness travels i>o slow that Poverl^ a overtakes him.