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1 lewis m. grist, proprietor.j Jndcpcndent ^amih) lleurapapcr: <Jor the promotion of the fjolitital, Social, ^tjrituliural and (fommcrriat Jnfcrcsts of the $outh. TERMS?$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. VOL736! " YORKYILLE, S. O., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1890. NO. 38. LEND ME A BY THE AUTHOr VI William Bertram was the manager of a paper mill, and the house he occupied with his mother and sister was a pretty cottage, in which the manager of the mill had lived since the mill had a being. It stood by the waterside in a low situation?very picturesque, but not, people might think, very wholesome. Nevertheless, all its inhabitants had been remarkable not only for good health, but for long life, Mrs. Bertram's nervousness being the only chronic ailment it had ever harbored. William Bertram was a working man. but not a baker, as Miss Wright had suggested. His father had not been a working man; ho had been an idle and profligate member of the uDner classes, in conseauence of winch his son had begun life a good many rounds down the social ladder. Perhaps this fact also accounted for his widow's nervousness. There were few places that on a summer day looked more sweet and dreamy __ than tho Bertramo' (>ouso at Oxhaugh. It was only five minutes' walk from the mill, and did not escape the disagreeables connected with the transmutation of grasses and rags into the great smooth, beautiful webs of paper on which the news of the world was to be printed; but when the wind was in the direction for blowing the smoke and odors away from it, it was specially pleasant Besides, these things don't annoy people whoso hearts and interests are in a manufacture. You could not take a prettier walk of its kind than from the railway station to the village of Oxhaugh past the milL The distance was a mile and a half. On your left hand was a range of picturesquely serrated hills; they looked quite near, but if you had set out to reach them you would have found that appearances are deceitful. Those nearest were swelling and rounded and green; those farther off, dark and rugged and scarred; away to tho right was an open, smiling country cultivated like a garden. ( r Her eye sometimes fell on the words. Wealthy people had found out that it was not only a pleasant but a healthy locality, and they had come and bought ground and built fine big houses; there were The Elms and The Lurches and The Yews and The Hawthorns, and ever bo many more; and a speculator had run up a whole terrace along the slope to the west side of the village. Then the spirit of the age laid his liand gently on the shoulders of the quiet, and stirred them up to put a second Hat on their houses and plate glass in their shop windows, and generally to look more alive than had been the habit with them or their fathers. But after all was done it still to people from the city seemed a delightfully innocent, drowsy little place. Not thatjthe inhabitants were by any means deaf to the wisdom of the proverb which says, "Make hay while the sun shines;" on the contrary, you paid more for probably an Inferior article than you did in town, but then it was sold to you not as a mere cold matter of business, but as an act of friendship done with the expression of much genuine interest in you, your family and your health; and when you threw that into the bargain you found it actually cheap. At this epoch The Hawthorns was to be let, and it was advertised in the Cold burgh newspapers, and described aa "an excellent and commodious house, with large, well stocked garden, park, stabling and coach house, together with the right of fishing in the Oxhaugh water; shooting for two guns could also be had if required." The fishing must have been above the mill, it is to be supposed. What did the trouts think who came down on a voyage of discovery from the clear mossy pools among the hills and found their daiuty snouts plunged in chloride of lime or something equally powerful and pungent? They must either have gone back the way they came, or have fallen martyrs to their intense ardor for piercing the unknown. This advertisement fell under the eye of Mrs. Wright, as most things in the shape of advertisements or news did, and she, being on the lookout for summer quar-. ters, directed her husband's attention to it. The Wrights always went somewhere in summer, and of course they had been at a great many places; but Oxhaugh, although so near, Mrs. Wright had never even seen, and 6ho thought that, other things being equal, it might be a very pleasant and convenient change of residence. Mr. Wright wasaself made man. You sometimes meet self made men you think might have been strikingly improved if 6omo other person or persons had had a hand in the making of them. You would not have been long beside Mr. Wright till this idea occurred to you. He read the advertisement and said, "There can be no harm in looking at the place. It seems as if the shooting is to be paid for or not as you want it, but I have no doubt the fishing is considered in the rent; in which case I don't choose to pay for what I don't want." Mr. Wright had never fired a gun in his life, and as for fishing, he would as soon have picked oakum. The burns of Scotland sound musical to him? Why, the gurgle of Bass' beer out of a bottle was better to him than the music of any stream, be its nationality what it might If such a thing had been suggested to him, he would have instantly decided it was nonsense, and the burns would have ceased to flow before you could have dislodged that opinion from his mind. James Jamieson, coming in, was taken into the family council. He had been in the Qxhaugh district, and reported favorably of it, and offered to go with the ladies to view The Hawthorns. "We can drive out," said Miss Wright. "I like a distance one can drive?then you are not tied down to railway hours." "There's a paper mill out there. I've never been in a paper mill," said Mr. Wright "I'll go with you, too; I know the owner a little." "I should like to-see it of all things," said Miss Wright; "one should feel ashamed not to have seen a paper mill." "I have seen it, but I can look at it again," said Mr. Jamieson. They set off the following Friday morning at 10, Mr. Jamieson driving, with Miss Wright beside him in the front of the wagonetto, and Mr. and Mrs. Wright behind. "I suppose we go to the mill first?" said Mr. Jamieson. "No," answered his uncle; "business first and pleasure after. We'll look at the house, and then, if we have time, we'll look at the mill." "So be it," said Mr. Jamieson; and they drovo on, out of tho suburbs of Coldburgh, away among genMe smiling scenery. They passed the homo of tho manager of the Oxhaugh mill, and, like other people, looked at it. . SHILLING. t OF "BLINDPITS." "That's~a' pretty cottage, " said Sarah, "with its jessamine and its apron garden." "Yes. Surely good, innocent, tasteful people live there." said James. "Hallo, my lad!" cried Mr. Wright to a boy on the road, "who lives in that house?" "Mr. Bertram, sir." "And who or what is Mr. Bertram?" "Themanager o' the mill, sir." "And who are you?" The boy looked without answering. "What do you do?" "I whiles work in the mill and whiles run errands." "And how much are you fined every ! week for being behind the hour at your j work?" "Naething, 6ir?I'm never ahint." "And have you a good master?" "Mr. Thamson, do you mean??he's on the continent the now." "No?Mr. Bertram; is he a good master?" "My faither says a better niaq never walked the streets o' Oxhaugh." "All right; there's a penny for you," said Mr. Wright, tossing the copper to the boy "Are there any streets In Oxhau^o?" asked Sarah. "They must have what are called streets by the inhabitants," James anwered. "And no better man walks on them than Mr. Bertram," said Sarah. "I feel curious to see him." "It is a good sign of a man when people under him Bpeak well of him." And they drove on. nothing telling them that they had or ever would have any personal interest in the manager's house or its inmates. Will Bertram and his sister were standing outside their garden by the waterside, talking and laughing for a few minutes, and they saw the wagonette pass along the road with no sense of affinity or even curiosity; many carriages passed every day, and that was simply one of them. Will went rapidly across the narrow foot bridge that took him the shortest road to the mill, and Katie spent the forenoon about the garden. After dispatching that meal and seeing her mother comfortably settled for a rest, she set off to walk a mile or two to see a friend. She had not been gone a quarter of an hour when a boy came from the mili (the same who had given Mr. Bertram such a high character) with a note, whicli said: "Dear Katie?Some people have been seeing the mill; I must bring them in. Could ycu get something for them to eat??there are four. W. B." But Katie was gone beyond recall. Mrs. Bertram read the note, and got something ready for the strangers to eat. The strangers were the Wrights and their relativa They had been to The Hawthorns, which had exceeded their expectations as a dwelling place, and the owner seeing his proposed tenants number but three, with no children, was not difficult to deal with; therightof fishing was eliminated without a word, and Mr. Wright got the rent screwed down nearly to his satisfaction; so that they were all in good spirits when they came back to the mill. "And you are the manager, are you?" said Mr. Wright to Will Bertram. "Yes, and 1 shall be very happy to show you through the works." "You k-uam to manage well; you have a good going concern hera How much, now, may you turn out a week?" "Oh, well, an ordinary machine turns out about four miles a day." "Miles of paper!" exclaimed Miss Wright. "What in the world do they do with it all?" "Write love letters on it, Sarah," said her father, laughing at hi3 own joke. "Newsnaners use immense quantities," said Will; "we send it all over the world for newspapers." "1 dare say paper and printing must have been invented together," Sarah said. "No." answered Mr. Bertram, "paper was invented first." "Who invented it?" asked Sarah. "The wasp9 were the first papermakers, and then the Chinese; it was not made in Britain till 1605, but it had been ? made on the continent long before that." "Ay," said Mr. Wright, "I should not have thought we would have let them beat us in anything. Well, we are far ahead of them now anyway. It pays well; you paperniakers are all rich." "I haven't grown rich yet," said the manager. "All, but you must get old Thomson to give you a share in the business; then you'll make money fast." "There are many things connected with the manufacture more important than making money, altnough wo can't do at all without it." "Money is power," said Mr. Wright. "Yes, as a means, but not as an end. A hundred years or two after this people will laugh at us for our clumsy, wasteful, dirty ways of working, if they don't rather pity us." "Now," said Mr. Jamieson, "I was just going to compliment you on the perfection of your machinery and arrangements." "Well, they are as perfect as we know how to make them yet, but look at that stream. 1 hate to fiee it; every living thing in it dies." "Why, what is the use of a stream if not to carry away nuisances?" asked Mr. Wright. "It does not carry away nuisances cheaply; even if nothing were offended but tho eye, it is not cheap," 6aid Mr. Bertram. "Can you tell me how you would get rid of your rubbish more cheaply?" "Oh, it is cheap to us, but that does not make it cheap absolutely. And look at that chimney; it is polluting the air with what we ought to make use of. Yes, we are clumsy and wasteful and dirty; but when we get the tides to do our work, and have the sun's rays for a motive power, we shall get on; but, as the proverb says, we must creep before we gang, and one gets impatient of creeping." "I never do," said Mr. Wright; "it's a poor business dreaming and scheming. Stick to turning out miles of paper, my lad, and don't disturb yourself as long as it pars well." "Stick to turning out miles of paper.* "Now, I think you have seen all that's to bo 6een," said Mr. Bertram as they looked at some paper, the product of the milL "That paper will bo better worth looking at when tho thoughts of the world are printed on it." "It is all very curious and interesting," ; said Miss Wright. "I wonder who in| vented printing?" "That is not known," Mr. Bertram I answered. "It was often invented, and I lost again for want of materi.'U to print on. The ancient Assyrians printed on I bricks of clay; their libraries are only | turning up now after four thousand | years. It takes us about as long to discover backward as forward." "And what's the use of it?" 6Jtid Mr. Wright; "what the better are we to be of what is printed on an old brick?" "You keep the mill remarkably clean and tidy," said Mrs. Wright, as she walked alongside the manager on their way to his house, "and 1 have enjoyed the sight exceedingly. Perhaps we may have the pleasure of seeing it occasionally when we have friends with us; we are coming to reside in your neighborhood for a little." "Indeed!" said Mr. Bertram. "Yes Mr Wright has taken The Hawthorns; we were looking at it today before we came here." "That's a pluce I've always had an eye on," 6aid the manager; "I have thought if ever I grew rich I should like to 6tay there." "Well, I hope we shall not keep you out of it" "If you do I shall not envy or grieve at the good of my neighbor." "T mv uniH Miss Wricht. who was walking beside her cousin, "isn't that manager very clever and intelligent?" "You find he knows a good many things you don't?" said Mr. Jamieson. "And a good many you don't, either." 'I dare say he does, but he is clever; he not only knows?that's part of hi^ 'business plant'?but he thinks." "I don't like servants who think; they, have no business to think?they should only do their work. I wouldn't advise Thomson to take that young man into partnership." interposed Mr. Wright. "Why not, papa?" "Because if he had the power he would waste money in experiments." "But," said Sarah, "he might Invent or discover something by which a great deal of money could be made." "There is ten to one against that, Sarah, and a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Dreamers are always useless creatures." "Mr. Bertram may dream," said Sarah. "but he is not useless; he is remarkably effective, I think." But having that opinion in his mind, Mr. Wright was likely to stick to it as long as the print to the bricks of Babylon. Mrs. Bertram had something ready for the strangers to eat, and they ate it and went on their way, arriving at home in time for dinner, and all in good humor with the day's enjoyment VIL "You missed visitors, Katie," said Mrs. Bertram to her daughter when she came in not five minutes after the wagonette drove off. "Did I? Who? Nobody to be sorry about, I hope?" "Well, the people who are coming to The Hawthorns for the 6ummer; they were through the works, and Will brought them in." "And what kind of people are they?" "Oh, well enough, I dare say." "Will, what do you say? Are the) people that won't know you again when they see you?" "I don't know; 1 shall know them again at least." "Is it a family?" "Only father, mother and daughter," said Mrs. Bertram; "they had a young gentleman with them whom I took to be the daughter's betrothed." "What made you tbink that, mother?" asked Will. "They were young and on very intimate terms apparently." "That's rather .a vague reason to go upon. Well, she is a remarkably pretty girl and was not ashamed to ask for information about what she did not know, and Tooked very interested when she - ?- S A. 11 got It. "In short, she liked to hear a sensible man speak, Will, did she?" "It was a great pity she had not an opportunity of hearing a sensiblo woman speak," 6aid he. "She may have that yet?who knows?" said Katie. In July the Wrights arrived and settled themselves at The Hawthorns. The church at Oxhaugh?there was only one, not a common circumstance in Scottish villages, but there were others at the distanco of two miles, to which strict sectarians went undeterred by length of way?the church in the village had in the front of one of its galleries a pew appertaining to The Hawthorns? The Hawthorns had a right to it, as it had to the fishing in the Oxhaugh water ?and in this pew the family deposited themselves on the first Sunday after their coming. People see each other in church; this is a good thing; in truth, it is the end of going to church to worship in the company of our fellow creatures; but, like every other good thing, it can be put to bad uses, such as criticising glances, uncharitable thoughts, etc. The minister, but more especially the minister's wife, is apt to think it an exceedingly wicked thing in any one to sleep in church, and it would not be good to advertise a prize for the best essay in defense of the weakness, although a great preacher was not offended, nor did he seem to consider it a deadly sin, when a young man fell into a dead sleep as he was long preaching. Self made men are probably not such humble worshipers as i * -i. 1 J- -i 11 men wno nave not oeenmaae at an; bun, Mr. and Mrs. Wright, with the perpetual consciousness of intensely comfortable circumstances, all owing to their own good guidance, were religious people, and they went to church from the best of motives. Partly owing to this, and partly to the fact that their powers of observation were not quite in their first jeunesse, they did not see every one that was in it; but Miss Wright listened attentively to the services, and could not help mastering the population of the district at the 6ame time. In particular, in a pew on the other side of the church, below a gallery and immediately under her eyes, she saw the manager of the mill, his mother and what sho knew must bo his sister; and in this girl 6ho instantly recognized the distressed damsel to whoso appeal for the loan of a shilling she had not only refused to listen, but whom she had told that 6ho did not in the least believe her story. Their eyos met, and the recognition was mutual; Katie withdrew hers with an unpleasant sensation, and Sarah felt her face grow red and warm. Next day Miss Wright wrote to her cousin thus: "Dear James?Do como hero immediately; I want to show you something you would like to see. "Yours, S. Wright. "The Hawthorns, July 20, 18?." To which he rejoined: "Dear Sarah?I can't come; I am busy among my turnips, and unless it is something of great importance you must excuse me. Truly yours, "J. Jamieson. "Justinleo, July 20, 18?." "Dear James?It is very important. Do you personally hoe turnips? Do come. S. Wright. "The Hawthorns, July 21, 18?." "Dear Sarah?At times I personally hoe turnips, and the eye of a master is worth much. Tell mo what I am to sec, and I'll judge if I can come. "Yours, J. Jamieson. "Justinlee, July 21, 18?." "Dear James?I won't tell you what you are to see, but please don't neglect your turnips on any account. I am yours affectionately, S. Wright. "The Hawthorns, July 22, 18?." "Dear Sarah?Is it a thing I could see between Saturday night and Monday morning? I could come then, if that will do. Yours ever, J. Jamieson. "Justinlee, July 22, 18?v "Dear James?That will do, capitally. You must see it on Sunday?you can't help it?but we must not speak of it on that day. I shall expect you; don't fail me. S. Wrioht. "The Hawthorns, July 23, 18?." Accordingly Mr. Jamieson arrived at tho Oxhaugh station on tho next Saturday evening. Miss Wright met and drovo him up to Tho Hawthorns. "Well," he said, "what is it I'm to see?" "You'll find that out when you see it." "When am I to see it?" "To-morrow." "Can I not seo it to-night?" "Well, if we were to tako strong measures wo might, but it will be better to wait till to-morrow." "Strong measures! What can it be? Where am I to see it?" "At the church." "At the church 1 It's not a grave, is it? Is Ossian or the Venerable Bede or Mary of Lorraine or John Knox's first wife buried here?" "I don't know; they may be, all four of them. Jt's not a grave you are to see, but vou must look crave when vou see it. Mind that, above all things." "Shall I bo inclined to laugh? Is it funny?" "Oh, very funny. But we had better say no more about it; you'll see it in good time, and you won't need me to point it out." "Very well; I'm not curious. I feel as I do when I'm reading a story where there is an extraordinary mystery always kept before you; you know that nothing can possibly happen to justify the expectations that have been raised. However, if I get away on Monday early in the morning, I don't mind." "Certainly, you can go by the first train, and I'll drive you down with great pleasure, and very likely wo shan't see you all summer again." "Whatl do you think I 6hall take offense at your nonsense? Not a bit." "We shall see." Next morning the Wrights and their guest wero seated in their gallery in very good time. Miss Wright watched the people coming in, and at length, when she saw the Bertrams enter, she fixed her eyes on her cousin's face to note the effect. The Bertrams were settled in their seats with their faces full in sight before he noticed them, then all at once he saw and knew the eyes that had gleamed on him from tho carriage window at Summertown station, and he bent his head and smiled with tho kind of expression people liavo when they And out they have been pleasantly fooled. He turned to Sarah and whispered, "Who is she? what is she?" "Hush! hush!" she exclaimed, gravely; "it's a subject wo must not speak of today." VIIL "Will," said Katie Bertram as she and her brother wero together in the garden in the evening, "was the gentleman who was in the Wrights' Beat today the nerson who was with them when they k . wore here?" "Yes," sard Will, shortly. "Well, ho was the man who lent me the shilling at the railway station, you remember?" "I remember well enough; ho was the man, was he?" "Yes, and Mrs. and Miss Wright were the two ladies who would not believe a word I said." "Not Miss Wright, surely?" said Will. "Yes; silo said to her mother that asking money on 6omo pretext was becoming a regular dodge at all the railway stations." "I could have supposed that of Mr. or Mrs. Wright?they are narrow minded people, and narrow minds are always suspicious?but I can hardly believe that of her. She must have learned it from them, and her own dispositions have not asserted themselves yet." "But how will they agree?" said Katie. "They'll never agree after they are married, they are so different" "Except that they have been seen sncakinir together, there is nothintr to make any one suppose they have the least intention of marrying." "I think it would bo a pity," said Katie. "A great pity," said Will; "it Is always a foolish thing for cousins to marry." "Oh, they are cousins, are they?" "Yes; he called Mr. Wright uncle, so I infer they are cousins. You should go and call on her, Katie." "I call on her! Why, she won't think us her equals at alL Besides, it is not pleasant to call on people who suspected you of a regular dodge." "Well, well, just as you liko," said Will "I think myself quite her equal, whatever you do." "It's not whatever I do, it's whatever she does, that is the question. Does Mr. Jamieson stay with them always, do you know?" "I know nothing about it," said Will shortly, and he walked away to another part of the garden. Next morning Sarah came down equipped for driving, and ready to give her cousin his breakfast before they started. "You 8eo I always keep my promises, James," sho said; "and now that it is Monday morning we may speak of it as much as you like." "F; does not keep a baker's shop," said he. "No, my wisdom wa3 at fault there; she is the manager's sister. I mean to call today and apologize for my horrible suspicion at Summertown, and if she'll come I'll bring her up to Bpend the day." "Well, you can't do more than apologize, or les3 than ask her to visit you." "Get on with your breakfast, please; I don't mean that you Bhall miss this train. Turnips first, and beauty in distress afterward." "I'm ready; I don't mean to miss this train either." And they started. When they came in sight of the manager's house Sarah said, touching his arm: "James, the blinds are still down; she must be sleeping. They say even a criminal is holy while ho is sleeping: what must sho be?" "It's a pity you are not sleeping too, 1 think," 6aiil ho. "The manager is not asleep, at least: there he is, standing at his gate." "So ho Is; wo must speak, even at the risk of losing the train." And she drew up. "Do you think," she said to Mr. Bertrani,'"that it would be convenient for Miss Bertram for me to call as I come back?I am anxious to speak to her? I would have called last week, but the country air, and the thing I want to speak about hanging on my mind, made me bashful." "Quite convenient. I will tell her to expect you." "And tell her 1 should like if she would go up with me and stay till evening if she can." "I know of nothing to hinder her, and I'll come and bring her home." "Good-by, then. We haven't a moment to lose; Mr. Jamieson must catch the train?it is of the last importance;" and she touched the horse with her whip and sent him on at a fine 6peed. "Now," she said, "here you are, James, in time. I'll not come out, as I can't leave Gip. Good-by! Wo shall not expect to see you till November, when you have got the harvest well in, but I'll write and tell you what I think of her. What a pity you could not stay till to-morrow! Farewell!" "Farewell!" said he. "I think you'll find Mr. Bertram's conversation informatory, as the newspapers say." "I have no doubt I shall. Just come down a peg, will you, and ask me to help you with beauty in distress?" "Thank you; I don't need help, but I'm not tho less obliged. Good-by!" IX. It was a curious tiling that a week after, tho following Monday, when Mr. Bertram left the mill between 5 and C o'clock, he met Mr. Jamieson. They shook hands. "You are on tho way to The Hawthorns, I suppose?" said Mr. Bertram. "No, I was not thinking of going tonight; I am just going homo again." "Indeed! but you'll come in for a little? Have you time? I am going in to tea, and it will bo ready. Katie, my sister, will be glad to see you, too; sho told me it was you who lielped her in her strait at the railway station." "Did she remember me?" asked Mr. Jamieson eagerly. "Of course she did; sho hasn't had so many adventures as to forget- that one; and I feel obliged to you for helping her." They went in and found Mrs. Bertram and Katie waiting for Will; they wero both much pleased to see Mr. Jamieson. "I didn't know when you were here before," said Mrs. Bertram, "that wo were obliged to you for being kind to Katie when sho was in perplexity." "I knew you as soon as I saw you in the church," said Katie. "So I did you," said Mr. Jamieson. "I wonder a littlo at that," sho said, "for I don't find many people have such a good memory for face3 as I have." "Ah, but I don't remember every face I see," he answered. "You'll be on your way to The Hawthorns?" said MraBertram. Ho had to exj Jin again that,he was not on his way to The Hawthorns. The manager thought, "if he wero engaged to Miss Wright he would never be so near without going there; even if he is hero on business he would have turned it so as to go there." Mr. Bertram was by no means a dunce, but the idea of Katie having a lover had never dawned on him; she had had no lover yet Mrs. Bertram, with the pride of fallen fortunes, had not cultivated society of any kind; Will had attended to his business late and early, and had not cultivated it either; so Katio was much in the position of the lovely young Lavinia when the pride of swains crossed her path. It was a warm summer evening, and with the window thrown up they sat and talked till Mr. Bertram got impatient, for he had to go to the mill again; and he wondered how long his guest meant to stay. One train hour was past and another imminent, with no sigu of movement At last he said he would run over to the mill and come back in a little. Then Mr. Jamieson Baid they would look at the garden till he returned, and Katie went out with their visitor to show the * garden. Katie, In light summer garments moving about among flowers, showed to much greater advantage than she did wrapped in a dark cloak, as Mr. Jamieson had first seen her. She looked very happy and serene, but she did not talk much, nor did he. He had meant to sit in judgment on her, but lie could no moro do it than he could fly. She stooped over a flower bed and pulled a pansy. "See," she said, "if you gaze into that flower a while you'll catch yourself wondering it does not speak?at least I do often." "Thank you," he said, "I'll put it in my buttonhole. Perhaps it will speak to me as I go home. You have got acquainted with my cousin Sarah, I suppose?" "Yes, a little." 'And how do you like her?" Very well; she is frank and kind." "And clever," he said. "I wondered how she uado such a mistake about you at Sumtnertown." Kato blushed and said, "1 don't like to think of it" "But you don't object to my thinking of It; it is pleasant to remember one's meritorious actions." "You must have thought mo wicked for a whole fortryght." "No. I didn't; I mereJy suspended my opinion. Were you far beyond Summertowu that day?" "Not beyond it at all. 1 was visiting an old friend of mamma's who lives two miles to the west of it." "Then perhaps you don't know the country farther on?" "No." "Justinlce is five miles farther on; that is where I live and where 1 was born. 1 succeeded my father in the farm. There are only three of us now? myself and two sisters?and they are both married." e fes* "// you gaze into that flower a while." "Then do you live alone?" she said, with an involuntary touch of compassion in her tone. "Yes; do you think that sad?" "Oh, no, not at all; plenty of people prefer to livo alone. But I shouldn't like it; it would not suit me." "It suits very well till one sees some person one would like to livo with." "People must love a place very much where they have been all their lives," she said. "Yes, and I love Justinlec; It Is worth loving. I wish you had seen it; it i3 an old house, with additions built to it, not regular, but very picturesque, and from the windows you look over a great stretch of sea and land." "I am sorry," said Will, who had come up to them through the garden, "that I was kept longer than I expected." "Well," said Mr. Jamieson, "I am sorry that it is time-for mo to go. Perhaps if you have nothing better to do. you will walk with me to the station?" "I 6hall be very glad," said Will; "and, Katie, you might come, too, or have you been walking today already? But come, you don't look tired, and it will do you good." "Oh, yes," she said, "I'll go." When Mr. Jamieson bade Mrs. Bera. -.1 1,? nni/1 rrh l->Arvnrl VlA I ram gOUU'UJ' Dug duiu oho nu would call on them again any time that ho was passing to The Hawthorns, which ho very heartily promised to do, and said it was likely that ho would be often there in the course of the summer. The trio were not far on their way when vrhoin should they meet driving but Miss Wright? She saw them approaching, and drew up her horse as she came near. After they had spoken she turned to Mr. Jamieson and said: "No wonder, Jame9, that you despised my help; you certainly aro independent of human aid." "Yes," ho said, "in the matter you spoko of." "Quite so, in the matter I spoko of. How aro your turnips looking?" "Very well indeed; they only need a shower to be all I could wish." "I am glad of that. Couldn't you come up with mo and stay till to-morrow? I really had no hopo of seeing you till November." "Thank you, no, not to-night, but I'll come next week for a day or two." "Very well," she said, and drove on. Mr. Bertram came back, sure that his mother was mistaken entirely as to the relations existing between Miss Wright and Mr. Jamieson; and Katie, she thought of Mr. Jamieson, her thought as yet being like the faintest breathing on a mirror, but as he came aud came again his full imago rose to the surface and remained there. One day Will said (for even yet the thing had not occurred to him): "I wonder, Katie, what brings that man here 60 often?" Kate blushed. "It must bo his own good pleasure," sho answered. Will said no more; the matter stood revealed to him at last, and he had a queer, stinging feeling that the sister of whom he was so fond, and who had been about him like one of his own bunds all his life, was weaned away from him. Yet ho could have chosen no better brother-in-law, and he knew it On the 10th of October, the anniversary of their first meeting, Mr. Jainieson transferred Katie Bertram to Justinlee. They went on no wedding tour, preferring to live the memories of the honeymoon In their own home, and postpone tho tour of Europe till they should grow rich; it is well that people should keep some new pleasure before them to bear them up under tho burden of riches. But the aunt whom Mr. Jamieson had been on his way to visit when youth and beauty In distress appeared to him, presented the bride with a sumptuously bound book of travels entitled "Forty Days in the Desert." She must have thought this an appropriate gift for people entering on the honeymoon, as she repeated it on the occasion of Miss Wright becoming Mrs. Bertram, which event occurred in the course of another year. The presentees enjoyed the joke; there are timeB when even a small joke is as sweet manna in the? well, desert. Mr. Bertram had before his marriage got a partnership in the mill, and Mr. Wright, having bought The Hawthorns, proposed resigning that place of residence in favor of his daughter and her husband, but Will declined it; he know that being obliged to such a man as Mr. Wright meant always taking his advice when offered, and having it offered very frequently Sarah was quite willing to live in the manager's house till her husband could afford a better one. Mrs Bertram Senior continued to live in her son's house, except when she visited her daughter; and If. as is said, mothers and daughters-in-law always disagree, this case must have been the exception that proves the rule, for the two ladies agreed admirably; while Mr Bertram, by diligently holding his tongue and letting his father-in-law speak, found much favor in that gentleman's sight Mr. Wright, being the kind of self mado man who thinks when he takes any one by the hand that he makes him too, felt that when Will became his son-in-law be, by reason of reflected consequence, became a man of mark and consideration; even Will's dreaming visions of scientific progress, although Mr. Wright did not at all approve of them, he quoted ir\ /%flioru tri'Mi nrirlo huf tliAn oq hAfialfl "Mr. Bertram was a practical man as well as a dreamer." If the ill natured railway clerk happens to 6eo this account of all that hung upon his disobliging humor, what will he think? Let him not be encouraged to do evil that good may come, if Cupid made an opportunity out of his ill nature for shooting an arrow, no thanks to him. ?Lippincott's Magazine. THE END. politics in the THE STATE CONVENTION. An Inharmonious Meeting of the Sonth Carolina Democracy. A Protracted Session of the Democratic Party in Columbia?A Dual Opening?Tillman Nominated Without Opposition?The Other Nominees?The Platform. On Wednesday last, at high noon, the long-expected "September convention" assembled in the hall of tne nouse or representatives at \.uiunibia, .and its deliberations consummated the political revolution, the throes of which have been agitating the people of South Carolina since the noted convention of the Farmers' Movement party on the 27th of last March. The canvass, which was the result of that convention, is without a parallel in the political history of the State, and the deliberative bodies that assembled in Columbia pending the canvass, were of an unusual character?the proceedings, demonstrative at times, but displaying the methods and tactics ol the Titans who led the contending elements. Hut now the battle, which was practically won by the farmers, in the first weeks of the contest, is over, the victory has been confirmed and sealed by the solemn act of the representatives of the people in the highest form recognized by our political ethics. It now remains for all discordant elements to unite upon the nominees, rejecting the acrimony engendered by the late political strife; and again, under a united Democracy, let our people await the fruition of the pledges of those who are to succeed in guiding the ship of State. As is known, there were two State Executive committees; the Hoyt committee, or that which was at the head of the party at the opening of the canvass ; and the Farmers' committee, or that elected under Tillman auspices at the State convention of August 13th. Which was to gain the mastery had been the question, but the difficulty was arranged by representatives of the two committees, and on Tuesday a compact was signed?as the suggestion of the conference?by Chairman Hoyt and Chairman Irby, that Chairman Hoyt should call the convention to order, and by his direction Wilie Jones, secretary, should read the call; then, that Chairman Irby should call the convention to order, and by his direction G. Duncan Bellinger, secretary, should read the call confirming the previous call; that the nomination of temporary president should be made on the floor, and the question put of his election, and when the temporary president took the chair, the said chairmen and their secretaries should | withdraw from the platform. l Accordingly, at five minutes past 1? Chairman lloyt and Chairman Irby ascended the platform. On Chairman Hoyt's left was his secretary, Wilie Jones, and on the right of Chairman Irby his secretary, (J. Duncan Bellinger. After a pause of a few minutes, Chairman lloyt said: "The secretary will read the call under which this convention assembles." The call was accordingly read. Col. Irby then said: "The convention will please come to order. You will now hear read the confirmation of the call of the old executive committee. The paper referred to was read by Secretary Bellinger. Immediately thereafter Mr. W. 1). Evans, of Marlboro, said : "1 nominate the Hon. II. A. Meetze, of Lexington, as temporary chairman of this convention." The motion being seconded, the question was put and Mr. Meetze was elected by a large majority of the convention. As he ascended the platform he was loudly cheered. Being introduced to the convention by Col. Irby, Mr. Meetze said: "Gentlemen of the convention, I beg to return you my sincere thanks for this nomination and for your kindness. The chair has only to announce that it is now ready to receive all matters looking to the permanent organization of this body." Judge A. C. Haskell, on behalf of the entire Richland delegation and of members of other delegations concurring, read a protest against the agreement between the two committees. He asked leave to have the names of the protectants attached later during the day. The following is the protest: j "We, the undersigned, declare that under the constitution of the Democratic party, the agree- I incut said to have been made between Mr. Hoyt, the chairman of the State executive committee, and Mr. Irby, claiming; to be chairman of a State executive committee, by which Mr. Irby is to participate in the organization of the convention assembled this day, is irregular, illegal and void, and, if |>ersisted in, affects the iegality of the convention, and against the same we enter our emphatic ami solemn protest." The motion for the acceptance of the protest was seconded by J. 1). Blanding, of Sumter. The President?I would suggest to the convention that before we proceed with this or any other matter, a temporary secretary be appointed. Accordingly, Mr. John T. Duncan, of Newberry, and Mr. G. Duncan Bellinger, of Barnwell, were elected secretary and assistant secretary respectively. Dr. Pope moved the appointment of a committee on credentials, and the motion carried, and in accordance with its terms one delegate was appointed from each county except in counties in which there was a protest or contest. Delegate Thompson Jackson was appointed a member of the committee from York. The convention then took a recess until four o'clock, and the committee on credentials retired to agricultural hall, having in hand three cases of contest from the counties of Berkeley, Fairfield and Sumter. THE AFTERNOON SESSION. The convention re-assembled at a quarter past four o'clock. Up to that time the committee on credentials had been in session. It had first taken up the Berkeley contest, and after hearing the evidence, including the testimony of Capt. Porcher Smith, decided to seat the StanIan delegation. The chief ground of objection to the Porcher Smith delegation was that it was elected by a convention which was illegal and unconstitutional. The committee then went to work on the contest from Sumter. When the convention was called to order Dr. Pope moved that a committee of three oe appointed by the chair to wait on the committee on credentials and inquire at what time it would be ready to report. Carried. The president appointed on that committee Dr. Pope, of Newberry; W. D. Evans, of Marlboro, and Capt. J. L. Weber, of Charleston. Mr. J. B. Green, of Marlboro, was subsequently substituted for Mr. Evans, who at the time had other engagements. Gn the return of Dr. Pope he stated that the committee would not be able to report until 9 p. m. The convention, therefore, on motion, took a recess until that hour. THE NIGHT SESSION. At 10.130 p. m., President pro tern. Meetze rapped to order, and as soon as quiet could be obtained, Mr. Ira B. Jones, chairman of the committee on credentials, su Dm urea tne report, of that committee. The delegates as returned from York, were A. W. Osborne, L. K. Armstrong, James A. Erwin, J. J Waters, W. H. Carroll, Henry Massey, W. H. Crook, T. S. 11. Ward, Tnompson Jackson and Joseph W. Neil. The majority reports on the contests from Berkeley and Fairfield were in favor of seating the Tillman delegations, and they were adopted. A motion was made that the Fairfield Anti-Tillman delegation be invited to remain in the nail, but Mr. Mobley, of the delegation, arose and said in behalf of his fellow delegates, that he respectfully declined the invitation, and the Fairfield rejected delegation then marched out. The majority report in the Sumter ease recommended that neither delegation be seated, and this report \vas adopted. During the debate on the several reports from the committee on credentials, there was much confusion, to a great extent made by persons who were not members of tne convention. It was, therefore, moved and carried that the hall be cleared. The convention receded from business for a few minutes for this purpose. As soon as some degree of order had been restored, Mr. Irby rose and moved that the Hon. W. J. Talbert be made the permanent president of the convention and that the temporary secretary be made permanent secretary. The motion was adopted and Mr. Talbert took the chair, briefly returning thanks for the honor conferred upon him. He also appealed to those who were not members of the convention and were obstructing its business, so good humoredly and effectually, that order was restored. Soon after the attempt to clear the hall, the chair stated that Mr. Mac Robertson was in the hall and asked the convention what should be done. (Cries of put him out!) Great excitement followed, nearly every man in the house rising in his seat. Mr. Haskell asked the chair not to make an individual reference to Mr. Robertson, that there were about fifty other persons in the hall who were not delegates. The president stated that the sergeant-at-armshad informed him that Mr. Robertson had refused to leave the hall. "But," he added, "I am ready to assume any responsibilities devolving uj>on me as president of the convention." (Applause.) He further stated that ex-Chairman Hoyt, of course, would be welcomed on the floor. Mr. J. A. Simons asked if Mr. Robertson was making any disturbance. The president replied that he was not. Mr. Haskell?"If the rule applied to one it applies to all." The President?You are right and I again appeal to every gentleman not a delegate to leave the hall. Any gentleman will retire, and if any one is not a gentleman he must be put out. A man pronounces himself not a gentleman when he remains, no matter from whence he came." Quiet was finally restored by no more effort being made to put those not elected delegates out of the hall, I and many of the visitors, Mr. Robertson among the number, remained. TIIE NOMINATION'S. ! After the adoption of the credential committee's reports, R. C. Watts offered the following resolution: Resolved, That the convention proceed to the nomination of State officers in the following order: Oovernor, lien tenant-governor, attorneygeneral, secretary of State, State treasurer, comi>troller ?cncml, superintendent of education nnd adjutant and insjieetor general, and that all nominations shall he made from the floor, without I speeches. Adopted. Col. J. E. 31. Irby, nominated for governor Benjamin Ryan Tillman, ! of Edgefield. TSllmnn'd rwiminntimi WAS SfWmd ed by i)r. Pope. A motion was then made that nominations be closed, which was carried. Judge Haskell protested against proceedings in this respect, as the Fairfield and .Sumter delegations had been ousted and left the hall. It was moved that the nomination be by acclamation. Objection was made and the roll was called, the vote being by counties, which resulted yeas, 2(19, nays 40. Charleston, Beaufort, Richland and (Georgetown voted no. The nomination of Tillman was then put to the house. He was nominated by a vote of 2(59 to 40?the same counties voting against him. E. B. Oary was nominated by acclamation for lieutenant-governor. Y. J. Pope was nominated by II. A. Meetze for attorney general and elected by acclamation. Gen. Stack house nominated J. E. Tindal as secretary of State; J. H. Walker nominated J. Q. Marshall, who was defeated bv a vote of 209 to 40. Dr. W. C. T. Bates, of Orangeburg, was nominated for State treasurer, and was elected by acclamation. Dr. Williams, of Colleton, nominated Benjamin Stokes, of Colleton, , for comptroller-general. The following were also nominated: W. B. Rice, of Barnwell; W. II. Ellerbe, of Marion, and Edmund Bacon, of Spartanburg. The result of the vote was: Stokes 113, Ellerlie 108, Rice 30, Bacon 19, Verner 1. The total vote cast was 276. Necessary to a choice 140. There was no election. On the changing of some votes, Mr. Bratton, of Georgetown, changed his vote from McGintey to Ellerbe. During the vote for comptroller general, Col. Irby named the following as a committee to escort the nominated candidates into the hall: J. L. M. Irby, I^aurens; T. \V. Stanlan, Berkeley; W. N. Marchant, Aiken; W. C. McCreight, Chesterfield ; W. E. Evans, Marlboro; IT. A. Meetze, Lexington: J. G. Evans, Aiken; A. E. Padgett, Edgefield; G. L. Buist, Charleston. Mr. Buist | declined to serve on the committee. On the second ballot for comptroller general, the names of Bacon, Rice and Verner were withdrawn, leaving Stokes and Ellerbe in the field. The voting was by counties. The result was: Stokes 110, Ellerbe 144. Ellerbe was nominated. The following were the nominations for superintendent of education: W. D. Mayfleld, of Greenville; J. H. Rice, of Abbeville; D. A. Townsend. of Union. The result of the ballot was: Rice 49. Mayfleld 152, Townsend 88. Mayfleld was nominated. The last nomination was for adjutant and inspector general, the nominees being Hugh L. Farley and Milledge L. Bonnam. Farley was nominated by a rising vote. RESOLUTIONS INTRODUCED. Mr. Pope introduced the following resolution: Resolved, That this convention endorse and affirm the action of the August convention, the constitution adopted and the executive committee elected by the name, of which Hon. John L. M. Irby is the cliainnuii. Mr. H. C. Burn, of Darlington, introduced the following resolutions which were adopted: Whereas it is due to our dignity and self-respect, as representatives of South Carolina, to cherish the glory and fame of her sons as common heritage, and we should always respect and honor those in authority over us, and that no act of ours should call into question their exalted patriotism, without flrst laying our complaint before them for due consideration, in order that they may take such action as will be approved and commended by the people, therefore be it Resolved, That a speciul committee of five members of this convention l>e appointed by the chair to call on Governor J. P. Richardson and request bis excellency to recall the appointment of election commissioners for the approaching State and Federal election, and that he consult at once with the chairmen of the respective county executive committees as lias been the custom before making new appointments. Resolved, further, That this resolution is not intended as a reflection on Governor Richardson or his appointees, but simply to call attention to the fact that the majority of the Democrat faction of the Democratic party is not fairly represented in the board of election commissioners. Committees on Resolutions and Platform and on Constitution were next annointed. From York. Dr. T. S. R. Ward was appointed on the first and J. J. Waters on the latter. Wilie Jones, who was secretary of the Hoyt committee, was elected treasurer of the new Executive committee. The following platform was adopted without debate : THE PLATFORM. First. The Democratic party of South Carolina, in convention assembled, hereby re-affirms the platform and principles of the National and State Democratic party, particularly favoring the free and unlimited coinage of silver, the increase of the currency and the repeal of the internal revenue system. We denounce the McKinley tariff bill as unjust to the producers of raw material and the consumers of the countfy ; and especially do we condemn the unnecessary and burdensome increase in the tax on cotton ties and tin commodities so largely used by the poorer portion of our people. The iiussuge of this bill by congress will encourage trusts, combines and monojiolies, evils which have so long oppressed the people. We denounce the Lodge force bill as iniquitous, emanating from minds whose nefarious purpose is to establish the supremacy of ignorance over intelligence in the Southern States, thereby engendering race antagonism and sectional animosity. We condemn the action of Speaker Reed and his followers as tyrannical and a flagrant degradation of a position intended only for the true patriot and statesman. Second. We demand the enactment of laws that will remove the burdens of tiic jieople, relieve the existing agricultural depression, and do full and ample justice to the farmers and laborers of our country. Third. We demand the abolition of iiHtionul lianks, and that legui tender treasury notes lie issued in sufficient volume to do the business of the country on a cash system, and that all money issued by the government shall be legnl tender in ]>aymcuts of all debts, both public and private. Fourth. We demand that congress pass such laws as shall effectually prevent the dealing in futures of ull agricultural productions, prescribing such stringent methods of procedure in trials as shall secure prompt conviction. Fifth. We demand that congress shall provide for the taxation or incomes or individuals ana the surplus of corporations, thereby equalizing the burdens upon the poorer classes. Sixth. We demand that our State legislature shall alxdish the board of agriculture; that the priviledge tax on feetilizers and everything appertaining to agriculture, or mechanics, or industrial education, including the agricultural stations, be placed in charge of the bourd of trustees of the Clemson Agricultural college, and upon said trustees shall devolve all duties dow performed by the present board of agriculture, except the control of the Stutc phosphate lute rests. Seventh. We demand that the South Carolina college at Columbia shall be liberally supported as the classical and literary department of the South Carolina Univeristv. Eighth. We demand that the school districts in the various counties of the State shall be us nearly as practicable square, and of an urea sufficient to ullow one white and one colored free school, separate and distinct in each district, and the school trustees be elected by the people. Ninth. We demand rigid economy in public expenditures, the abolition of useless offices, reduction of salaries and fees of all officers. State and county, to conform to the increased purchasing power of money and the decreased ability of the people to pay taxes. That public officers be paid in proportion to their labor and responsibility. Tenth. We demand that the railroad commission shall lie given all the power needed to protect the rights und interests of the people, without injuring the ruilroads, and that the commissioners be elected by the people. Eleventh. We demand thut there shall lie u survey of the State's phosphate Ix-ds, and their classification into three grades, and that a commission composed of the governor, comptrollergeneral and attorney-general shall control and direct the mining under rigid rules, each river or phosphate district ticing leased at public auction for a term of three yeurs, after the commission lias tiled a minimum royalty uccording to the value as shown by the survey. Twelfth. We demand that a constitutional convention Ik- called to give us an organic law framed by our own people. We believe the present law a standing menace to our civilization and to our educational institutions, and that we cannot obtain any great relief frum our burdensome taxes till this is done, and we have lost faith in the power to amend the present constitution so that it will answer the requirements. Thirteenth. We rely upon the sense of justice and enlightened self-interest of our fellow-citizens to enforce these demands, and we call upon and invite every citizen who has the interest of his State at heart to assist us in enforcing these needed reforms. We condemn any attempt, either by word, deed or by unholy ulliunce with the enemy, to disrupt the Democratic party of this State. White supremacy is the luiiwurlc OI our CIVIUUXIOII unu UIII wiii> IK secured by Democratic unity. ( APT. TILLMAN SPEAKS. At ">.30 Thursday morning the committee appointed to escort the nominated candidates to the hall proceeded to perform that duty. Capt. Tillman entered, walking with Col. Irby. When Capt. Tillman entered the hall there was a wild scene of enthusiasm and fraternal greeting. The delegates arose in their places, tossed up their hats, waved their canes and handkerchiefs, and appeared to be inspired with a delirium of delight. When, leaning on Col. Irby's arm, he faced the crowd from the rostrum, the scene and all of its incidents were repeated with redoubled vigor. When quiet was restored, President Talbert said: Gentlemen: ItafTords mo the profoundest pleasure to-night to be able to introduce to you and present to you the nominee of the Democratic party for our next governor of South Carolina, Capt. Beni. R. Tillman, a patriotic son of Edgefield. [Applause.] Capt. Tillman then advanced and began to speak with coolness and deliberation as follows: Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention : After your arduous labors, lastingas they have, during the whole of the day and far into the night, it is natural to suppose that j*ou are fatigued and tired. I have had some sleep and do not feel fatigued, but there has been so much speaking (and I have done so much of it recently in the State canvass) that I am tired of that sort of work. I will, therefore, be brief in my response to your invitation to address you. There are somo few points which I deem necessary to discuss on this occasion. You represent the people ofSouth Carolina, and through you the people have conferred upon me the highest honor in their gift. The sense of gratification, if I have any, is swallowed up in the consciousness of the high responsibility which rests upon my head to-night. We have just passed through oneof the , most momentous, exciting and exacting icampaigns ever witnessed by the people V)f South Carolina. I may say that in some respects, I doubt if any other State of this Union has ever been so stirred from centre to circumference, as South Carolina has been during the past four months. Now, gentlemen, there was a cause for this, and it is absolutely idle to pretend that this feeble entity has been tho creative force of this movement. No, gentlemen, I was merely the engineer f upon an engine which had received its 1 steam, its motive power, from others sources. Most of you have heard me at some meeting of the campaign discuss the issues which have been presented to tho people; and whatever have been the heartburnings and the labor, (and they have been great), I say to-night that what has been accomplished in Soath Carolina by my elevation to the governorship of this State is as nothing ; but the principle involved is in the victory of the people in attaining the right?the sacred right?to govern themselves and elect their own officers in their own way. This reflection is worth it all, [Applause] for we to-night have inaugurated a new epoch in the history of the State, and I trust that when that history shall be written the new departure, which we all see and feel, will be looked back to by our posterity as marking an era to which every man "can refer with honest pride, gratitude and gratification. [Applause.] Of course, it is difflcultfor meto separate myself from this fight or from the discussion of its issues. Somehow or the other the agitation seemed to centre in me, to revolve around me as a pivot, and so much so that the whole State has been divided into "Tillman and "Anti-Tillman" factions. And again there was an effort made to divide tne white party of this State Into "Democrats" and "Tillmanites," but, thank God 1 those whb originated that scheme have abandoned it or surrendered it, and we are all here to-night, I trust, as Democrats, as we have been all the time, [Applause] for I maintain that the bitterness, the passion of the past, and the present feeling are largely due to the assumption of certain men?certain organs?wno presumed to defeat the will of the people because the people desired to discuss questions of public policy and dared to assert their freedom. [Applause.] It has been the custom of all Democratic nominees for the governorship, or, rather, it has been considered the proper course to thank the convention for the honor conferred by its nomination. To mark the significance of your action to-night and to illustrate the change which has been accomplished, I came here not to receive this honor at your hands, because the people had instructed you before you left your homes. You knew and they knew whom they were voting for for governor, and you came here merely to ratify the wishes of the people. I thank you, my personal friends and political adherents, for your support, and I am the more grateful as your assistance was given with a willingness and unanimity which would have rennlrad and flnmmandnd anv man's arrat itude, and I must heartily thank your masters and mine, the rank and die of the Democracy of South Carolina, [Applause] who are henceforth and forever to be the true masters, the only masters, in and of this State. [Tremendous applause.] I know and feel that with my bluntnees, my frankness?my brutal frankness if you you please to call it?I am, perhaps, the worst hated man in South Carolina, Bimply because I have stated the truth, so help me God, as I believed it to be; and have therefore engendered enmities and a spirit of opposition such as never before assailed a candidate for office. A voice: "We have you, though." Capt. Tillman: Yes, you have me, it is true, and being conscious, my fellowcitizens, that although I have no feelings . of gratified ambition, I have the satisfaction, the gratification of knowing that the people of South Carolina have vindicated me and my motives, and by their endorsement have put to flight ana stamped into the earth the lies and slanders that have been heaped upon me. Compare me with my competitors, the two honorable and distinguished gentlemen who have opposed me for governor. One of them tne most accomplished attorney in the State, and the other one of our most distinguished soldiers?compare me with them, and what was there in me to bring about this great change, unless it was the principle I represent? [Thespeaker paused here. He was overcome with emotion and began to shed tears.] I presume?for it is natural that men should be ambitious?that many of you would like to be in my place; but ltell you that if the man who assumes power is a true man and loves his State and people as I do, he must know that he has only reachea that condition where in the future?and such is my feeling to-night? he must confess that his days of peace are gone. You haye put a load aa of a millstone upon my shoulders. I have made no pledgee in this canvass ; I have made no promises?certainly very few; but I say to yon, and through you to the poopfe, that in assuming the power you have given m?, it shall bo exercised without fear, favor or affection, and to the best interest and for the glory of this State, [Applause,] and that in the future, whatever betide, whatever of good or evil may befall me, I shall do my duty as I conceive it, and I hope that you and your people will never have cause to regret or feel ashamed of haying gone into the field, taken a new and inexperienced, and, if you please, ignorant man, and put him at the head of your affairs. 1 feel, my friends, that I have been educated to a great degree by the canyass I have but recently made. Few men in South Carolina have ever possessed the advantages of such a canvass. I have in the last ninety days faced over 60,000 of the white Democrats of this State, have talked to them face to face, have felt their pulse and had with them the same inspiration and aspirations. We have a grand country. It has glo riOUH pusttiuilllica, auu 11 WO, ao uiuvuiuu> will unite and lay aside all bickerings and contentions and things of no moment, and press onward, opening up new holds of progress and enterprise in this State, and if we cease trying to rebuild the State on Its old pedestal, and if we of the 19th century keep up with the procession, South Carolina, with her yaried products, with Jser favoring climate and advantageouV geographical position, should, and will, occupy a place second to that of no 'State in the Union. [Applause.] I deem it necessary to say briefly in vindication of myself, and although the people, as I said, have already vindicated me, I desire to state for outside consumption, away from South Carolina, to say a few words about the canvass and its results. Possessing, as my opponents did, the press of the State almost solidly, and having the ear of the world through their power to transmit dispatches to the Associated Press, and with the editorial columns of the leading n<. ./spapers teeming with assumptions, it was to be expected that the whole country would stand aghast at the idea of thegovernment passing into your hands, and that I would be regarded as a sans culotte in the chair of State, and surrounded by a horde of ignorant and un scrupulous followers. But you know it was, it is, a lie (with great emphasis.) The intelligent citizens of South Carolina are at my back, [Applause] and if we are not endowed with brain and polish of manner, we have at least an honorable if simple citizenship whose only desire is for good government. I begun this campaign on a high plane. It was my desire to discuss its issues uu their ow'n merits. How was I met? You all know. The argument was forced almost to a personal issue, and was pushed to the low plane of putting me in the position of a defendant against the accusations of having slandered South Carolina when, as a simple truth, I would sooner have cut my throat than to have dragged the State's good name into discredit. Because I criticised?because I dared to criticise?the men in power, and in so doing exercised my right as a free man to criticise public officers?it was considered that I had invaded the inalienable, divine right to rule, which seemed among some men to have been an inheritance. I was compelled to discuss the issues upon a different plane than that which I had intended, but the jury, the jury of last resort?the people?having heard, as I have said, the distinguished gentleman from Sumter, my competitor, one of the best lawyers in the State, presented his case, and you 1. , V tr... I Via Know ne am 11 auiy. xuu jv.uuw vu<?w Uy made the best of it ho could. They heard my answer, and you know the result. That would have been vindication enough at home, but how am I to get that news abroad ? How is the good name of the State to be reclaimed ? It has been said, it has been stated that my election means that the Democracy of South Carolina has been proved to be derelict, and that it is rotten. We are the Democratic party?the rank and file? and I deny the" charge. [Applause.] Because we had neglected our duty as citizens and permitted a certain element to run it in a certain way, and because we have now come forward and taken possession of our birthright, does that mean that South Carolina has become filled with a mean, corrupt, and despicable population ? I do not think so. No set of men constitute the State, and it is the first time I have hoard that ever the legislature constituted the State, or the State officers, or that the whole government constituted the State, It is the people who are the State, and they neglected their duty when they came forward and wanted to straighten certain things, but they were refused, a and I stated in this hall two years ago, A A