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M I & *m 9mm-. m % pm> 4 * N ** **m ** mm #m * m #* 1 * ?*????** VOL. 39. YORKVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1893. NO. 43. JUST AS S by'william p] [Copyright, 1893, by American Press Assoc in I CHAPTER IX. THOU ART THE MAN. "I s'pose," said Yates at length, "that if any one but you had asked that leftenant to let us go we'd have been in ; that guardhouse yet" "It wasn't 60 much what 1 wanted as what that beautiful young lady said, BurL I wish you could have seen him look at her." "At you, you mean," he replied, with jealous suspicion. But she, pulling him i by the ear into a convenient posture, dropped a kiss in the air just above his lips. Suddenly he clasped her in his arms. "Haven't I loved you for years?" he demanded. "I can't bear for another man to look at you. Look here, Arizony. Me and Chickasaw John have made up our minds to leave these parts. We've dropped onto a good scheme, but I won't ! feel quite ready to go till you're my | wife." "Don't, Bujl" "What? Ain't we promised?" "Burl, I've told you of my love for ; you often enough, but I don't want to be I so hurried. My mother is just dead, j and it would seem almost wicked. My j stepfather has just come. He's a preach- ! er, and he says I've got some property i back in Virginny." "Glad of that, for we need all the I money we can get Me and John are go- | in to get even with them soldiers; tl n ! we'll leave. Therefore I say you must j marry me this very day." "This very day, Burl?" she faltered, j "It is too?too sudden. See, I have some j work to do." She pointed to her bundle, whereat he j scowled heavily. "We are very poor, you know," she continued, "so I thought I would try ! and help a little." "Marry me," he reiterated. "1 swear 1 you shall live easily. Seel" He dr?w -A*- ? ? ? H *?T /?OTl tn Q Iro jurtu a run ?u uaua uvwa > v?u tuu?v : money. You shall help me spend this, j Ha, my girl! It isn't every woman has | such a man for a slave. I?well! Who in the devil is he, I wonder?" j "IFho in the devil is he, I wondert" This change in his manner was caused ! 1 by a man suddenly rounding a shoulder j i of bluff directly in their front ButAri- ! zony's face brightened at once. i " "It's my stepfather," she said 'He's | come to meet me, I know." ] I When Parson Tilney drew near, his | first mild glance at Yates deepened into so close a scrutiny as to surprise both the j I others. ."Hope you'll know me next time," said I BurL "Anzony says you re her stepfather and likewise a preacher too. That bein the case, we've got a job for you right now." "Burl! Burl!" interrupted the girl, shocked at his brutal persistency, but so j lowering v is his look that she paused. "This girl and me," continued Yates, want to get married. We've been courtin a long time, and I've got to leave, so j we concluded to ask you to do the yokin. j Ain't them your sentiments, Arizony?" ' She did not reply, and he grew impa- j tient. "Why don't you speak up." he growled, J "and tell your respected half parent as i we're so blamed tired of livin single that j he must marry us at once?" | There was still another moment of silence. After his first long look at Yates ! the preacher fixed his eyes upon Arizony. | "Ib this man," be asked, "speaking ! your desires as well as his own?" ! She severed under an inward conflict | that kept her strangely silent. i "Of course I am!" exclaimed Burl an- i grfly- j "I ask you, daughter," said the preach- I er solemnly, "to reflect Do you know j who this man really is?" j "I?I don't understand," she faltered. "Do you remember what I told you of the Yates back in Virginny. and how your grandfather died?" i "It cannot bel It is too horrible!" she ' almost shrieked as some inkling of the , person's meaning darted through her mind. "I say he is the man!" and the preacher pointed a finger at Burl, who became furious at once. "Hark you!" he exclaimed. "'Don't you meddle any further'n you're asked." i But Parson Tilney, still regarding only the girl, came a step nearer. "Arizony," said he entreatingly, "bein 1 as you are my wife's child you are also mine. She told me to 6ce after you. How can I let you do this unnatural thing?" Then sternly altering his tone, i i "I say there is blood between you two that cries out against such a union." I ( "Blood, blood!" she gasped. "Tell me , all" Burl interrupted her with an oath. It seemed to break the spell he exerted over her, for she turned from him and kept her eyes upon her stepfather. "He was only a boy then," said the parson, again pointing at Yates. "But he shot your grandfather and fled the country afterward. Years have passed, yet I recognized him. There's an old re- i ward out for him yet, I reckon." "Is this true?" cried Arizony, clutch- j ing her lover's arm. "Oh, Burl! I may be wrong, but?but I'll take your word J first." The man's aptitude for duplicity t seemed to desert him, and he hesitated, j Then he swore roundly, furiously. But as he paused once more her agonized entreaty pierced him like the thrust of a knife. "Is this true? is it true?" "Yes!" he at last roared, fairly goaded into the confessional. "But what of that? Old man Eakins caused my own uncle to be killed afore that. It was a family feud, a long and bitter one. They put , me up to it. and I have been sorry for it since?i swear i nave, this was jo years , back. Our families are friendly now. What? Are you going to leave me. Ari- j zonyT , Inch by inch she was moving farther ; i from his 6ide. As he ceased speaking she | bowed her head upon the parson's shoul- i der, clasping him nervously Yates roughly pulled her back. i "No, no, Burl!" she exclaimed, freeing i herself. "Give me time to think?time to think. You say it has all passed j i away. God help me! It can never pass. ' I don't know what to do. Give mo time, Burl, and?and don't touch me. or 1 ' shall die." So clearly did she shrink and shudder ' < at each approach ha made that he at I ] length desisted. In his breast a storm of passion was seething, for the sense of i his impotence was maddening. "Very well," said he harshly. "You're a fool, Arizony?but 1 won't force your | inclinations. Think well of all this and j remember! I'll stand no nonsense, nuther, from you nor this gray headed mischief breeder here. If ho was a younger man. I'd have it out with him now and at a pace that soon carried him out or ~ sight beyond a neighboring swell. Then the girl again let her head fall u upon Parson Tilney's shoulder. a "Won't you take ine back to?to my . mother's grave?" she sobbed. "I wish I was dead and a-livin there with her v Yes, I do?I do." ? t CHAPTER X. b EAVESDROPPING. V For several days Yates kept himself v away from the camp of the boomers. a Arizony was very miserable. She evinced g little interest in outward affairs and g( seemed to brood more than ever. She : clung, however, to her stepfather, w'10 ^ was making preparations to take her j( away. n "You are right," she said to him. 'We j. must go back together. But I think 1 must see Burl once more. 1 want him to ^ promise me to try and bo a good man n after I am gone. It isn't right for us to ^ marry, but 1 feel like 1 was sorter responsiblo for him. If he should throw ^ hisself away, 'twould seem to me it was g all my fault." ? The parson cheered and advised as best he could. Arizony made another rw-?of f<-\ folra Via/>lr fVo wnrlr i . IV buy J/VOk bV MIMW vuvw WMV ?? w. M she had finished. Miss Oberly received ^ her kindly and again nrged her to stay with her. "I'm sure you're mighty good," returned the girl, "but I am goin back to Virginny. Seems like I'd rather go ^ there nor anywhere else?now." "Poor child!" said the admiral's daughter compassionately. "1 fear you are unhappy. Won't you confide your troubles to me?" ^ Arizony breathed quickly for a mo- j ment, then said wearily, almost apa thetically: ^ "There's hardly anything to tell?that I could tell." "Philip." said Miss Oberly, meeting that young man on the parade after , Arizony had gone, "what do you think can be the matter with that poor girl?" ^ "Oh, 1 suppose that hulking lover of ; n hers wants to marry her?or beat her. 8! You were not so sympathetic in Wash- ? ington, Stella." ? "People have to be dreadfully noncom- , mittal in town. Perhaps we learn to know each other better out here." "See more heart and less cuticle, tsuppose. Well, the air of the plains is a ^ sort of visual magnifyer, they say. 3ut f* I always did think you an angel, Stella " " She leaned lightly against him, and Philip's pulse tingled rapturously. After V that he kissod her on the lips. She blushed & and withdrew herself a little, then inur- u mured as if to herself- 8' "Poor Arizony." 01 Then they walked away arm in arm ej and soon forgot these humbler troubles in brighter anticipations of their own. ^ Late that afternoon Yates returned to P: the boomers' camp. Arizony, relenting in love, though not in purpose, made a B* tew timid advances, which were received " rather gruffly. n "Have you thought things over?" be asked her ungraciously. 81 "I don't know, as I understand" w "None of that now I'll round you up w aere once for all." h< But as he scowled her deprecating 113 looks appeared to strike him with a sense ^ af pity. si "Mebbe I'm a little hard on you." he ri laid. Si Arizony weakly burst into tears. He T x>ok her in his arms, but when he felt ai ;he mute shuddering with which she P1 fielded his suspicion rose. se "Look here!" he exclaimed, "I'm tired >f all this shilly shally. Will you marry ki ne or will you let a hammer headed d< jreacher ruin your place as well as mine?" T "I'll never see peace any more, Burl, st lever," she wailed. j w He left, uttering an impatient ejacula- I & ion. That night she kept long awake, di ;hinking?yet in thought finding little ej elief. After a time she became sensible ai )f a faint glow beyond the open door of t\ ;ho cabin as from a distant fire. More from restlessness than interest she cl 06e, put on her dress and stole out into | " die starlight. Then she saw that the re- j Y lection came from some hidden source ai lown by the creek. She began to feel tl mrious as a kiud of respite from the si- c< ;ent miseries of the night. So 6he went i back, put 011 her shoes, threw a shawl I b: jver her head and walked out beyond : tl the wagons, tents and cabins toward the fringe of timber that covered the creek j B bottom. : ai The heavens were clear. Out on the I prairie a coyote was yelping. Nearer j tl by, where the cottonwoods rustled, sun- j al 3ry minor voices of the night kept up a j ir Ironing interlude. The overmastering j as gloom and glory of the night oppressed j e< ber as with an impalpable, illimitable j t< weight. Vines and bushes clung to her [ skirts and hindered her limbs as she ei plodded on. j g Proceeding in this way for some dis- n tance, she rounded a great upturned la "clay root" and came suddenly in full T view of the object of her search. She ! D threw herself upon the earth and peered j U forth cautiously. 1 ti Seated round an open firo were Burl i le Yates, Chickasaw John and a dozen or a] so of the more restless boomers. They I were apparently consulting together se- I li cretly. Burl was speaking, and his stri- b' dent tones and bull-like energy of gesture a.' made her shudder. ei "Just aforo day Is the time," he said, si 'When them seven stars dip into the ir prairie yonder, we'll set out. We've d been bullyragged by these soldiers long li enough. Now is our chance to get even. There's only seven men left at the fort & outside of the women and that d d ei lieutenant." gi "Where'9 the rest gone?" usked a man. | "Some's here, and some's yonder, keep- si *-11 121 , 1 ...4 , _ in leiiuwg \v? uuitui uux iauu auu e: treatin us like we was born thieves. One | ol of them seven is with us. He told me , o1 the cash for three months' pay for the d: wholo detachment is in the colonel's safe, tl The paymaster fetched it yesterday, y Thousands of dollars and only seven men p; a-guardiu it all. Come, now, boys, let's & hustle. Time wo paint and fix and git tc there it'll be nearly day. If we manage ir right, the hull job'll be laid to these here Cheyennes as has just broke loose from ' n the reservation." p: "He's right, men," said Chickasaw h: John. "We've been drug around like k dogs till we're poor as dogs. When 1 e< think of my wife and dead children, 1 y, lows that if I can't get even with them as got me in this fix in one way perhaps tl I can in another." ft More inflammatory talk followed. For j n some time Arizouy listened with a grow- y, ing horror of this contemplated violence al and crime. Though she might never be y, happy again herself, perhaps she might j save the lives and secure the happiness ! u of others. Meanwhile Burl and another man were distributing various articles ^ of Indian dress and adornment together I ft with paint and bear grease. She waited to see and hear no more, p but hurried back to the cabin, put on her d bonnet and stolo noiselessly through the camp and struck the trail leading to the j n post Two hours of hard travel were be- i e; fore her through tangled bottoms, over i b treeless ridges where the long buffalo y, grass impeded and ucross creeks pitted Si by quicksands. All this, too, amid the y gloom, the stealth and the terrors of the night C A grewsome task, even for a man, und fraught with perilous after consequences c, from thoso whoso nefarious plans she a: was striving to disappoint. Yet tho very h SHE WAS.; ERRY BROWN. [ tlon.] let you boo what a rotten stick you're ! tryin to lean on." - - ? ... I r Arizony suffered him to take her nana, yet avoided his eyo. After a moment he v dropped it, glared vindictively at the ?; preacher, then strode off over the prairie * xtremity of her despair engendered a ertain recklessness. If she could only reach there in time! J Chat was her present anxiety. As to the uture?she had already lost her lover, f endurance became unendurable, could he not at least die? CHAPTER XL THE RESCUE. Lieutenant Stirling made his final ound abont midnight to see that all ras well. The fact that several thouand dollars were in the office safe, with he commandant and most of the troops b6ent, had not disturbed him much, lo exercised great caro in his duties, yet aore through stress of habit than from , sense of insecurity. So quiet had affairs been of late that rom midnight until sunrise no guard ras usually set Stirling, however, laced a cot in the office, and now that he commandant was away slept there imself with a revolver unaer nis puiow, rhile without several watchful dogs fere expected to announce any unusual rrival. After finishing his round he sat by the re for an hour and then lay down. For ome reason he could not sleep. His ! aind was restless, perhaps because Miss I )berly, some three hours before, had at j ist consen'ed to fix the day that should J aake him happy, always providing that j he mighty man of war, the admiral, did j ot object This, of course, was a pleas-' j ag probability, but as a contrast his j lind reverted to Arizony. The interest he had from the first inspired now renered him pityingly solicitous in view of ! er changed and troubled manner of late. ! o wakeful did he continue to be that he nally rose, dressed, lighted a lamp and ' it down again by the fire. Presently, to his surprise, there was a nock upon the o.'ice door. He opened and admitted the commandant's wife ad Miss Oberly. "We really could not sleep," said the | >rmer lady, Mrs. Tolliver. "Hearing j ou up, we concluded to come down. I mnot imagine what ails us all. It must I e something in the air." "Do you think, Philip," said Stella, | that there is any danger attached to i ur present situation? Of course I don't now much about these things, but I j lould say we were rather unprotected ist now." Stirling thought of the money in the | ifo at the head of his cot and was triad as if what ho saw thero was bringing to memory tho features of his own dead wife. "We'll go back," said lie soothingly; "we'll go back to old Virginny. She was always a-wishin for you to come - back." A silence ensued that was broken only by fitful sobbings as the girl gradually grew calm. Philip, moving to Stella's ei.de, furtively clasped her hand. Outside the prisoners wero sullenly marching away to the distant guardhouse. Ir tho east, over the melancholy prairie, hovered tho promiso of another day, for tho dawn was breaking. At last Parson Tilney, as if repeating tho echo of his own thought, bent his head again. "Wo will g) back to Virginny," he said. "It was your mother's wish, Arizony." The girl looked up. "Whenever you wish, father," sho murmured. "I've got no call to stay on here now." # * # * One day several months later Parson Tilney returned from the little country postoffico near his Virginia mountain homo with a letter in his hand. Arizony was seated in the doorway. A fresh color was in her cheeks, and sho seemed to be onco more tho saucy, jovial Arizony of old as sho sprang tip and flew down tho path to meet tho old man. The reception of a letter wa9 an un usual event in their now quiet lives. "It's postmarked at Washington," said he, holding out tho missive. "I hain't much of a hand at readiti writin, but they 'lowed it was to you, Arizony." She felt of tho envelope, then scanned it critically. "There's something hard and stiff inside," site remarked in a reflective way. "I wonder what it can be." Suddenly she clapped her h?jids. "I know, father!" sho cried. "Cau't you remember who lives at Washington?" The parson sagely remarked that he had no doubt there "was a many a one" lived there if all ho had heard was true. "For instance, there's the president? howecl Ain't they beauties, child?" This sudden chango in tho drift of Mr. Tilney's remark was brought about by tho sight of two elaborately engraved, cards and a photograph. Upon ono was stated that Lieutenant, and Mrs. Stirling lat the ladies did not yet know of its j nival. Of course there was no real anger, yet such knowledge might conire up unreal perils in their minds. He j jplied in a half jocular, wholly reaslring way, and for some time they hatted together upon irrelevant mat- i ?rs as they sat about the fire until Mrs. olliver declared that it was high time ir her to woo the drowsy god once tore. When the ladies got up, Miss Oberly loved to the window, whither Philip i illowed her at once. A gibbous moon | ad just risen, and over the plain withut a thin haze seemed to be brooding, j 'nder the scintillating heavens the loomy undulations of the prairie looked nutterably lonely and desolate. As they ;ood gazing out in silence the sharp bark f a coyote broke dissonantly upon their ire, followed by the depressing and promged wail peculiar to the species. Miss berly shivered, and Philip's arm stole rotectingly about her waist. "What a dreadfully dreary sound!" le said. "At this hour it seems not unke the moan of a distressed spirit lost pon these desolate wastes." Philip's reply was a reassuring presire of his arms. Mrs. Tolliver was aiting patiently, with her hand upon le doorknob. She had not forgotten jr own courting experiences. At that loment a dim form passed before the indow so swiftly that Stella's unearthly mile appeared to have suddenly unrealized. She turned and looked attirling. He, too, seemed to be puzzled, henaclamor of the dogs arose without, id other forms farther out upon the rairie appeared as if from nothing and j lemed to scatter rapidly YY IllltJ Otinill^ Otiii licoxtaicu, huauij sowing what to make of it all, an outer x>r was heard to open and close softly, hen the bolts were violently sho4. Philip arted toward the office door, when it as suduonly opened, and Arizony, pale, .shoveled, staggered into the room, her irk hair glistening with dew and in her ,es a wild, unnatural light. She came ; once to Stirling, noticing the other ! vo, and seized his hand. "Thank God?I'm here!" 6he exaimed in a suppressed, quivering tone. But they're a-comin, thev'ro a-comin! ou saved my mother once, leftenant, id I haven't forgot. Call your men up; lere's trouble a-comin, I tell you! They )me all round ketchin me." While she paused, struggling for rea.h, Stirling pressed a button upon ! le wall sharply and repeatedly. "That alarm will bring my men here, i ut what does this mean. Arizony? Wh 7 ; re you here? "It's some of our own people," 6ai'l ' le girl hurriedly. "They've heard j bout somo money here?a-a-h-h!" sho j iterrupted herself with a faint scream i j voices and footsteps suddenly sound- ! 1 without. "They're here; they mean j > rob, and they're ready for murder!" Her voice sank to a wmsper mat, now(*er, thrilled the three who heard. The irl seemed nearly beside herself with ervous excitement and dread. The two idies looked alarmed, yet said nothing, he steps and voices were close at hand, 'irectly a window was smashed in inyssriously by unseen hands. At the same mo the door was burst open, and a mot- j y crowd of seeming savages rushed in, I 11 armed and filled with hostile designs. Arizouy shrank behind Stirling. The { eutenant fixed his eyes at once upon a arly looking Indian who seemed to act j itho leader. Meanwhile the invaders rinced signs of astonishment at the ght of Arizouy. But now there came i through another door a file of half rcssed soldiers, who gathered about the eutenant and the three women. "Don't fire until I give the word," said tirling to his men in a low tone. "They ridently thought to find the office unuarded, and they are not Indians." Meanwhile the disguised boomers con- ; llted together in whispers. They laid cpected little resistance, and that the Bee guard, if there was any, could bo rerpowered without alarming the soliers, or at least before they could get to le spot. Instead, owing to ArizonyV arning, the entire little garrison were resent and ready for defense. Desperate 3 they were they wero hardly prepared ) assault those who showed so deter- ! lined a front. "What is the meaning of this masque- \ ide?" demanded Stirling, facing thein istol in hand, his head thrown back and j is blue eyes gleaming. "I think I already now some of you. You," pointing to ich in turn?"you are Wichita Dick, ou Chickasaw John, you Burl Yates"? ' "By , men?he's right!" exclaimed 10 last named, recklessly throwing his mtastic headdress upon the floor. "I nvdrmnrc'ii h:ilf believed ill this l'i LT ailV 'ay, 'speshly if there was any lights bout. They've had a warnin too. Else 'hat is she (loin here?" He pointed to tho girl, who shrank back nder his fierco gazo. "I thought you was in bed at home, jrizony," said Chickasaw John reproach- , illy. "How could I lay there," sho whim- J ered, "and let you all perhaps do mur- ! er?" "This is a little rough, men," said Burl lildly, yet with a lurking devil in his ye, "for a man's own sweetheart to go aek on him and his friends in any such ray. It's a little rough and"?his tone ! addculy hardened?"thereain't but one ' ay to get even." He suddenly leveled his pistol, but i hichasaw Joha struck up the weapon. "Don't be brash, old man," ho ex- i [aimed. "I'vo got a intruss in this girl i 3 well as you. Besides, what are we all j ere for? We're two to one as it is. and ' | there is whore tho money lies." He j pointed to tho safe. "Give up tho combination, leftenant, or we'll blow the d d thing to pieces afore your eyes, and that." with a wave of tho hand and n sarcastic smile, "that might scare the ladies." A collision jeemed to be inevitable. The boomers gathered menacingly around the knot of half armed soldiers. In one corner crouched the two ladies oi tho garrison. Arizony, with her eyes fixed pitcously upon her old lover, stood at Stirling's elbow. Tho latter, at this crisis, was surprised to see Miss Oberly suddenly rise, trembling in every limb, and point to Burl Yates. i rt'ixiumwi iuiu iiuw, oiiuiwuiamiuu, "lie is the very man who led the gang that robbed the stage. I cannot bo mistaken, though at first I was puzzled." An oath from Yates and an agonizing cry from Arizony were heard. The lasl straw had been added to tho poor girl's burden of despair. Tho'ro came another uproar of dogs and a clatter of horses' hoofs outside al this juncture. Then a dozen or more men in citizens' clothing ran into the office with pistols drawn. At their head was Parson Tilney, his gray hairs flying, his lean face sternly set and in his eyes an unusual fire. He alone was unarmed save for a thick walking stick, but he laid his hand boldly upon the naked shoulder of Burl Yates. "I arrest you!" ho exclaimed, "for the murder of Georgo Eakins in Virginny 18 years ago come next Aprile." Then turning to tho other boomers. "Drop your we'pons, every mother's son of you!" ho shouted. Truly, tho parson was developing some very unministerial traits. A scene of confusion ensued. Taken front and rear the boomers became panic stricken, yielding up their arms as two of the later comers made the rounds, demanding of each an unconditional surrender. Burl, however, thrust the old man aside and turned, eager to vent his gathering fury, but was everywhere confronted by leveled Winchesters and revolvers. Through their momentary irresolution the pseudo Indians were completely entrapped?the soldiers before, the rescuers behind. Burl's eye, fiercely roving, fell upon Stirling. Tho lieutenant was supporting Arizony with one arm; his other hand grasped a pistol. The girl was endeavoring frantically to restrain herself from a fainting fit. "They've had a uamiti too." A wave of his old jealousy overswept Yates, and leveling his weapon he fired at Stirling. But Arizony with a loud cry threw herself between. Then sh? sank to the floor, at the same time regarding her lover with eyes filled with an expression of pain and terror. Whether she was hit or not was hardly at once apparent. But at that moment another pistol flashed, and Burl, while looking down aghast at the supposed result of his own act, fell heavily to tho floor. Some one among the rescuers had tired with fatal effect, doubtless in a resolve to avenge what seemed to be the result of Yates' hasty shot. But at her lover's fall Arizony rose to her knees, wrung her hands, looked wildlv around, then threw herself upon his bosom. "Forgive me, Burl," she cried, lost apparently to every other consideration but this terrible result. "I meant for the best?I meant for tho best!" But over the stricken man's face a ghastly pallor was spreading. His eyes wero glazing with the film of death. Yet he was conscious to the hist, for suddenly his hand gripped hers firmly. "Arizony," ho whispered, "I wanted to?mako money?for?you" A choking rattle interrupted tho words, and after the momentary rigor which followed was at an end the man lay dead. "Come, child," said Parson Tilney tenderly. "It's bad enough all round, but then it can't bo helped. You ain't to blame, Arizony. That's one comfort." But the girl clung to her dead lover and for a timo refused to be comforted. Meanwhile Lieutenant Stirling ordered the rest of the captured boomers to be conveyed to the guardhouse. The parson lifted Arizony to a chair. She clasped her arms around tho old man's neck and hid her faco as the body of Yates was borne out of the room. "I'm tired ? tired," sho whispered. "Seems like I want to?rest." Stella, both shocked and pitying, bent over the girl. Mrs. Tolliver began to hunt for restoratives. "Arizony," said Miss Oberly. "I wish I could say something that would mako you feel better." "Burl was good to me," 6obbed the girl. "Maybo he did do wrong things but?but he loved me. Oh. miss! oh. miss! I'm so miserable." The old minister laid his hand upon Arizonv's head and looked into her eyes > would bo "nt home" to their friends on ! Tuesday afternoons. > "Well," said the parson, "I'd stay to ; [ home more'n one day in the week, even j i if I did live in Washington." i The other card boro the announce- | inent of Miss Oberly's marriage. The , picture was one of her and her husband, j ' o nnnmnonvin Cf nntfi lnfnrmorl An. zony that tho contents were sent with ' much love and also contained a kindly i invitation to visit them as soon as pos1 sible. i Over this last request the parson grew ' reflective. "It would be a grand thing for you, Arizony," said he. "But I'm afeard you might not want to comeback." : "Bless your dear heart! I don't in- j tend to go. Of course it's mighty kind for them grand folks to make out like ! they want to sco me once more, but I ; know mother would rather I staid with i you." So she remained, and Mr. Tilney was > happy. As a kind of atonement she hung ; the photograph in a place of honor ovc > the fireplace and spent a laborious hour < or two in inditing an ill spelled yet ap1 propriato reply, which the parson with considerable formality mailed tho very j i next day. 1 . ' THE END. ?? ?? THE BLIND CLASSES. i ' ARE THEY HASTENING THE COMING | SOCIAL REVOLUTION? Rev. Thom&n Dixon, Jr., Continues Ills j 1 Sermons on lite SocIaI Signs of the Times ' and Warns the Plutocrntlc Forces That [ Their Destiny Hangs In the Balance. ' New York, Oct. 15.?The new series | of sermons on "The Coming Revolu- j tion" was continneil this morning in As- j sociation hall by the Rev. Thomas Dix- j on, Jr. The subject of the sermon for j today was "The Blindness of the Class- ' es." He declared that in faco of the fact of a worldwide discontent and restless- j ness among the masses most startling in j its character the strong and privileged | classes face the fyct with blind adherence to their traditional ideals. He maintains that the conservative powers of state by their aggravating course are hastening a revolution; that the plutocratic forces of society with blind fatuity are hastening their own ruin, while thd church throws aside the scepter of the world for the privilege of building gilded "steepled clubs." The text chosen | was from Isaiah i, 3, "My people doth , not consider." REVOLUTION AND EVOLUTION. We have seen in a previous study that the masses of the world are today in a condition of restlessness that can but indicate the approach of a revolution. Revolutions have been averted from violence in the history of nations and their forces transformed into the vital work j of an evolution accomplishing the same results. But this has only been done i when the powerful classes representing | the conservative elements of society have shown the wisdom of recognizing the approaching cataclysm and readjusting to the situation. It is very rarely that class power can maintain itself in the face of threatened change. The trouble is, the moment danger approaches, the threatened interests themselves seem smitten with the blind determination to work their own ruin. Jerusalem of old did not know the day of her divine visitation. There was an jiour when the Saviour was nigh. Her destiny hung in the balance. She turned a deaf ear to him. And in her desolaI tion thero was left not one stone upon another. Such seems to be the history of almost all established power. THE EXAMPLE OF JAMES II. Macaulay says that James II seemed i "bent on ruining himself, and any attempt to stop him only made him rush the more eagerly to his doom. When his i throne was secure, when his people were submissive, when the most obsequious of parliaments was eager to anticipate all j his reasonable wishes, when foreign king- j doms and commonwealths paid emulous j court to him, when it depended only on I himself whether he would be the arbiter i of Christendom, he stooped to be the hireling of France. And when by a series of crimes and follies he had succeeded in alienating his neighbors, his subjects, his soldiers, his sailors, his children, and had left himself no refuge but the proI tection of France, he was taken with a I fit of pride and determined to assert his independence. That help which, when he did not want it, ho had accepted with ignominous tears, ho, now when it was indispensible to him, threw contemptui ously away. He resented the friendly ! intervention which might have saved | him. Was ever king so used? Was he ! a child or an idiot, that others must think for him?" TOE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL. Macaulay's inquiry as to James II : might well be repeated to the ruling j classes of the closing days of the nine! teenth century. Are they blind? Are j they idiots? Is it possible they cannot see the handwriting on the walls of evi erv street in Christendom marking the ! near approach of their supremo trial? I If so, they give no sign. Tho conservative elements of society have sometimes, however, changed their positions most radically in an incredibly short time when once roused to the meaning of the movements about them. We read in history that in May, 1775, George j Washington on his way to congress met ! the Rev. Jonathan Boucher in the middle of the Potomac. While their boats ' paused tho clergyman warned his friend that the path on which he was entering might lead to a separation from England. "If you ever hear of my joiningin any such measure," said Washington, "you have my leave to put me down for everything wicked." At the beginning of 1770 Thomas Paine published his pamphlet "Common Sense." A copy of it reached Washington soon after tidings that Norfolk had been burned (Jan. 1) by Lord Dunmore, as Falmouth (now Portland) Me., had been burned in Octo| ber, 1775, by ships under Admiral Graves. On Jan. 81 General Washing| ton wrote to Joseph Reed, "A few more such flaming arguments as were exhibI ited at Falmouth and Norfolk, added to the sound doctrine and unanswerable j reasoning contained in the pamphlet J 'Common Sense,' will not leave numbers at a loss to decide upon the propriety of separation," Mr. Edward Bellamy, in commenting on this historic fact, aptly says: "There were many men in the colonies who in 1775 saw far clearer than Washington did what the outcome would be and declared much earlier for tho Revolution, but when Washington at last came to see as they saw he led them all. Let us wait with patience for their accession to I our side, where tho logic of events and the disclosure of the scope and threat of ! the plutocratic movement will surely i bring them in the near future." Will these men know tho hour of their divino opportunity, or will they bo numi bered with thoso who have flung themselves against the stars in their courses , and been destroyed in their folly? This is the uncertain element in the i present hour. A - i- IUaif /Irtn'f. nnmnrolinn/1 f.ViA } CO W11CJ V?v/A* * www j movement of the age. In fact, the powerful classes of the i present social regime seem bent upon destroying themselves by a blind adher{ ence to traditions. FIFTEEN MILLION SOLDIERS. Wo observe this: First?In the ruling powers of stato the people have shown that they are almost ready to revolt against the army i system, and yet every monarch of Europe is engaged in the desperate umlerj biking of increasing the army at all hazi ards. Samuel Laing declares that there I are in the five great military states of . the old world not less than ""15,000,000 ] soldiers, drilled and disciplined, and to 1 a certain extent taken from civil life: 1 Russia 5,000,000 1 Germany 3,500,000 France 3,000,000 Austria ",000,009 Italy 1,500,000 < 15,000,000 | With this fearful array of soldiers, j still the ruling powers cry for more, for j larger armies, for larger navies, for more j massive and costly fortifications, for new i ' guns and implements of war, for new J bills of taxation to meet them. THE HOUSE OF LORDS. In England the people have decreed 1 that Ireland shall have a system of home ] rule. The classes assembled in the tra- ' rlitionnl house of lords bids the noonle defiance and invites the destruction in ( the coming conflict of all the fictions of their very existence. In the face of pop- 1 nlar suspicion and discontent the professional politicians everywhere continno 1 to loot the public treasuries, and more ' and more the governments of the present regime are brought into contempt. In France recently the sickening revelations of the Panama gang showed con- . clusively that there were few men at that time in tho nation intrusted with power who did not have their price in dollars and cents. When the test of an election came, the monarchial party, expecting to profit by this fact, was uncer- 1 emoniously swept out of existence. Tho ] party of the masses, the hated and ma- ' ligned socialists and their allies, sud- j denly appeared in power as the only opponent of the conservative republicans. . In Italy the power of tho government . has been weakened by revelations of official corruption. In Germany tho honesty of high offi- ] cials has been impugned before the peo- j pie and no successful answer given to the arraignment. CONGRESS SCORED. In America the present congress has 1 demonstrated its general worthlessness in a manner that has sown the seeds of 1 revolution in thousands of men hitherto little moved by politics. A description of the last congress is typical of the average session. Listen: At a time near the conclusion of the session of the late congress the house of representatives appropriated $24,000,000 in one bill after an hour of debate. No opportunity was allowed ' ' - -/* -1 4-^ 4Un ryit,rtwrt i TO oner uuieiiuuicuLa iu mis um. iucid was no time for discussion or amendments. Congress had been in session three ( months, but at the last moment the ( money of the people had to be bestowed ( for various objects, which may or may not have been entirely worthy, at the ( rate of $400,000 a minute, for want of ( time for longer consideration. ( Our solemn senate is just now busy ] digging the grave of its traditional pride ^ and "courtesy" by demonstrating its exhaustless capacity to do nothing in the j hour of a nation's peril. j How long the people in their silent suffering millions will stand the torn- , foolery of tradition ridden governments ] in Europe and America who can tell? ^ And strangest of all is the fatuity with j which the present rulers pursue the even , tenor of their way. WEALTH STRUTS AMID SQUALOR. Second?We observe it in the hearts l and methods of the very rich of our day. | It is a day of lavish expenditure and r vulgar display. In the midst of hunger and cold and j even starvation among thousands, the ] rich are busy amusing themselves. j There has been no time since the days ( of the Emperor Nero when wealth strut- ? ted amid squalor with greater contempt ? for its surroundings and with vainer dis- x play of all its vulgar trappings of gold ? and silver. The palaces of the rich in the days that preceded the fall of Rome j were pigpens compared with the marvelous piles of architecture and decorat- y ivo art with which our modern cities are f full. The banquets given by the great gluttons of Nero'sday are not to bo com- c pared in cost or display to the elaborate ( affairs of the year of our Lord 1893, at a v time when 20,000,000 of the human race are in a starving condition. j Tailors are busy inventing costumes ^ for dogs, while children freeze for ^ clothes. a Servants are busy airing the poodles g of fashionable women who refuse to c have children, preferring the affection i of dogs and the gav rounds of a decay- r ing social order. While thousands toil, c half fed and overworked, and fight for the half pay and overwork, the rich are busy preparing divorce papers and so- ^ liciting new partners as the results of half drunken social debauchees at their > palaces. The men who give largely to the community of their great wealth are fewer and fewer compared to the C number of very rich. GOULD AND AMES, "1 Mr. Gould not only did not leave tho community a dollar of tho wealth it H created, but gave it a parting kick as he did by creating a perpetual trust for the Gould millions. Mr. Ames, the richest man in Boston, died the other day and left not a single ! r dollar to the community that created .v his fortune. And note this?that while such men as Gould and Ames die every day and clutch their millions with spas- e modic grasp in the hour of death, the 1 seeming unconsciousness of the fact that L they live among men whose lives are s bound up with theirs, the restless mil- r lions about them curse with deeper em- ,r phasis tho grave of every man who thus , proves traitor to his social trust. It i. used to be common to say only good | *' things about the dead. The rich man who dies the death of a \ hog today is roundly cursed by every- i body without fear or favor. Will the rich tako note of this fact? The rapacity of the groat freebooters of modern coin- J, merce seems rather to increase in pro- ti portion to tho discontent and opposition v among the masses. With threatened labor uprisings in many nations, the money kings of tho world have just pre- j J cipitated one of the greatest panics of ; % the nineteenth century. They have made j t billions of dollars. But a few more such ? victories and they are lost. Are they c all fools or are they born idiots when j confronted with tho problem of selfish I fi gain on the one hand, justice on the j 1 other? THE CHURCH AND THE PEOPLE. I j Third?We observe the fact in tho i habits and methods of the modern ec- 1 clesiastical machine. In the past tho church has been tho j bulwark of society against every revo- <j lution. " Napoleon used it to maintain his [ crown after lie had walked over it to () mount his throne. Will tho church now v bo able to hold in check another revolu tion? j It is exceedingly doubtful. It is a i a question if the church have not already j lost her divine opportunty. The revolu- | j tion at the Vatican and tho arousing of i v hundreds of Protestant ministers within ! I tho past few years may have come too J ?' late. Wo liopo not. But we fear it. j | Certain it is the church as jet sits calm- j t ly by in stupid indifference, or, worse o still, is active in hostility to the causo ; of the common people who "heard him ! gladly." ! 1 Tho separation of tho masses from tho | church is an appalling fact of this age. ! a rm? ?nnrrlor-f. nf tVio 111.1SSPS i t XI1U CUIllUUl^tUVUO uv.0*vvv VJ. ?..W by the church aiul the disgusting toady- | * ing to tho rich is a still sadder fact. Mr. c Moody said some time ago, "Tho gulf | i between the church and the masses is j * growing deeper, wider and darker every j ' hour." I | Dr. Strong declares that the census ( shows that over 32,000,000 of our people in America never enter a church of any sort?Protestant or Catholic. Of the other half of our population which nom- t inally attends, not half of them are in 3 vital touch with organic church lifo. In t Vermont, for instance, where 40 towns j were canvassed, only 44 per cent of the population called themselves churchgoers. In 15 counties in Maine 133,445 ' families were canvassed, and 67,S12 of these families reported themselves as attending no church. The same proportion holds in other states of the Union i where careful canvass has been made. The working people do not attend | churches as a rule. Not only do they refuse to attend, hut thousands of them i liate the sight of a church building. Four Brooklyn pastors, whose churches ' aggregate 2,200 active members, representing four different denominations, in i comparing notes recently found that i there was but one workingftian among tho aggregato of their four establishments?one lone carpenter among 2,200 professed followers of the Carpenter's Son! On the other hand, Dr. Gladden found in a canvass h9 made of one of cur cities that of tho leading business men 77 per cent were regular attendants upon church. Canon Farrar, speaking for England. 3ay8, "Not 3 per cent of the working classes, who represent the great mass of the people, are regular or even occasional communicants." The Earl of Shaftesbury declared before his death that not 2 per cent of the English workingmen attend any place of worship?papal or Protestant. WORSHIPING GOD AND MAMMON. In the weekly prayer meeting of a New England church a gentleman arose and 3aid: "I went recently to call on that man who at the fire the other day so heroically saved the lives of eight or ten persons by risking his own life. I found that he and his family are poor, and that they attend no church. I invited him to our church, and now I hope, brethren, when they come?if they do come?you will give them a cordial welcome and make room for them in your pews." Dr. Strong says that when he took his seat the wealthiest and moBt influential members of the church arose j and said: "I don't want any such man k r i ti. i_ At cr iamny in my pew. i uon s want mem near my pew. I don't want them in this I church." The pastor in reply said, "I will not cease my efforts until yonder door swings ; in to the lightest touch of the poorest man in this city." It did swing open, and a poor man went through it. But he went from the inside out. There was a change of pastors in that church. That was all. And the pastor who made that vigorous remark?he who had to fold his tent and move away?was a man of great ability and national reputation. So does the church continue to try to Jo what Jesus Christ said could not be lone?worhip God and mammon at the same time. So a reformed drunkard applied recently for admission into a high nosed church. He was informed by an officer cf the church that he believed there were ao "vacancies" in the membership at that fcimel Protestantism as an organic power lias declined in membership and power in New York city in the last 20 years. Need there be any wonder at it? And fret while assemblies of workingmen hiss the name of the ghurch they cheer the name of Jesus. Christianity is one thing, churchianity another. They do well to make the distinction. THE OPPORTUNITY OF THE HOUR. Will the statesman, the man of wealth md the ecclesiastic wake to the call of ;he hour? Or will they be engulfed? rhey must answer and that soon. When the oppression of the poor in ttome became intolerable, you rememcer what happened. The plebeians bejan to look upon their order as a state )f hereditary servitude. They met by a :ommon and resistless impulse, abanloned the city and encamped in arms ipon the Mons Sacer. The politicians, it last thoroughly intimidated,'granted wery demand for their recognition in >opular goverment. TJUnn ? aP wrtnaofiuff ifonIP liistuij' uoo ih >vajr ui ibowii JVill not the strong turn anything from he past? Strange fatuity that befogs the brain if the powerful in the hour of crisis! ?oul<l they only know the hour of their isitation! The assembly sent a deputation to jpuis XVI of France to request him to lismiss the troops. This Louis declined 0 do, but offered, if the members felt .larmed, to transfer their sittings to ioissons! When the Duke de Liancourt ame to announce to him the fall of the Jastile, the king exclaimed, "This is a evolt!" "Sire," replied the duke, "it is 1 revolution./" riLLMAN AT ST. LOUIS. YHAT THE WEST MAY EXPECT OF THE SOUTH. !0MMl!XITY INTEREST ARE IDENTICAL. L Speech That 'Will he Read With Equal Interest by Those Who Oppose and Those who Endorse the Governor. it. I.OUls Republic, October 0. Governor Tillman, of South Carolina, huirman of the committee on resoluions of the Bimetallic convention, oade a speecli yesterday, which dealt vith more matters than silver. lie lauled up the bloody shirt, not to launt it in the faces of his Xorthwestrn auditors, hut as an illustration of he persecution to which the South had ecu subjected. He took the floor to peak upon the motion to adopt the esolutions, and spoke as follows: Mr. President and (?knti.kmkn of iik Convention : It is not my habit to nake any excuses for my style of speakng or my lack of what men call oratory, ind I will simply make a brief explanaion in order that yon may not believe, inco I have told you that I came here to nake a speech, that I have any specially irepared speech, that I have elaborated nything, that I have polished anything. I am a plain, blunt man, as you have disovered. I say what I think and believe, iid when I get through I quit. [Laughter ntl applause.] Therefore, I shall not vorry you. two i'oi.iticai, questions. In turning your eyes hack ward over the ages of our i>ast history you find that tlim-u u-ofo twn irrp-it nrn- i ailing political issues?slavery and the arill'. 'I he explanation has been made, ir attempted to lie made, thousands of itnos, that the war grew out of the desire if the South for free trade rather than the reservation of slavery. We wanted to ret off to ourselves. There were then only wo great questions, and last year we were old that there were still two great quesions. The financial question (slavery laving happily passed away) and the tarIf. We were led to expect that when this lemocratic congress met, with a majority ent thereby the people in all the branches if the government for the first time in .'10 ears, the tariff would be one of the main [iiestions presented to it to which it would ddress itself. We found, however, that ongress has been called in extra session o solve the other question, the financial [uestion, which I have always contended cas the burning question. [Applause.] Ind today it has brought the West ami louth together and made men who for 20 cars have been mortal political enemies ,ct here as a band of brothers. [Applause.] It is true that for a short period before he war, during the time of reaction, the inancial question and the question as to vhethcr money in the hands of a few, to io manipulated by them, should run the ountry or the people should run it, was a aiming question, and the tariff and slaery questions both dropped aside until hat matter was settled to the satisfaction if the people. Now it confronts us to-day. Til K WillTK SI.AVK. I said that the financial question was a turning question, but there also confronts is another form of slavery of today, but he slave is a white man. [Applause.] iVhat do I mean by slave? Tell me, genlemcn, what more absolute condition of ervitude can possibly exist than that of he farmer, who in the language of the lequent gentleman from Missouri this norning (Mr. Cochran), has for20 years ince 187:1 been making his crops on a filling market and has grown old hoping to ay off the mortgages on his property. Applause.] Who, in the language of j ,'owpcr, Has dipped his bucket into an empty well And grown old in drawing nothing out. [Applause.] At the same time he has seen men reap j he fruits of his labor, and grow rich bc,'ond the dream of avarice, millions niuliplied until they cannot count them, while laupers?white slaves?have been niuhillied lo,ooo fold for every millionaire. And what are we confronting now? The lii.glo gold standard face to face, right lore. It isn't a theory but a reality that I confronts us. "It is si condition," in tiio v language of Mr. Cleveland. The Sherman u law repealed smd silver demonetized sis si t( money of linsil siccount confronts us. I j ri believe the people of the United Stsites j [ will rise in their wrsith before they will i si persuit such wrong. The liquidsition of tl debts smd mortgsigcs will go on un- p der the gold stsindunl with one-half ' of the inetsillic currency of the world j C destroy oil smd the capacity to psiy debts 1 I1 reduced one-half. It will tsike two | tl bushels of wheat 01* two pounds of I cotton to psiy where it took one before. t< I ssiy, if we are not confronted with liu- f< man slavery of the white race in this fi country, where are we? [Applause.] lie- I ti cause, if the titles are gone to the homes 0 that these men struggled to obtain for si themsolves and tlieir families, and they | become tenants, subject to the humilia- cs ntnl fit' tlin nmnnr Tinwnr I It what havo you nimlc of tlioiu fmt serfs like tliey have in Europe? Serfs, us the gentleman said, and a new form of serf- w dom. Thev talk about the dishonest dollar, they talk about the 58-cent silver dol- j, lar! Jfy (tod! my countrymen, doesn't S) the same amount of silver buy as much I v wheat and corn as it ever did? Which is j (-( the dishonest dollar? That which has re- tj maincd at a parity with all other products, | 0 or the one which will buy twice as much ! as it ought to buy; t lie gold dollar? [Ap- j plause]. ! y T1IK MO.NKV OK THK POOH. I .. Silver is the money of the poor; gold the ' a; money of the robber, and has always been | i, the money of the rich. They talk about [ ^ restoring confidence ! These patriots that | ], are so solicitous that confidence shall be ! j, restored by the repeal of the Sherman j e law! Do they care anything about re- ?< storing confidence to you and I and the e millions of American freemen who they | p are representing ? [A voice?"No."] | p Hy the gracious permission of England i a they will do it; otherwise wo are not to be ,j considered. And then the humbuggcry e which they express in their speeches in j t] in congress! "We are friends of silver |, within certain limitations." Ohl l)r. ;{i Adamant, a celebrated English physician, (.( used to say the first thing to do 111 treating c, a man was to get him to acknowledge tl that he was sick. Well, I thing the most hopeful sign that I have seen in many a month, because I come from a section where the sun of hope does not shine ;.( brightly, is that the gentlemen of the 1 West realize at last that the}* are sick. [Laughter and applause.] But these i ? bimetalie friends, these friends of silver, I '' their remedy for the trouble of silver I ^ is to lay the poor thing in its collin and I " prescribe death as a remedy. That is a . new kind of medicine. [Laughter and {' applause.] Let us pass the Sherman law, | |J repeal it, demonetize silver, and then wo will take into consideration a remedy? always, understand, with the consent of v England. [Applause.] P Doesn't every man in congress who has rJf pretended to deceive himself with that * delusion know that they can never legis- c' islato after they have repealed that law? ^ Does he not know that Cleveland will veto everything they do? If they pre- S1 tend they are bimetalists and friends of ^ silver, they simply lie. [Croat applause.] 11 I told you I would speak plainly and p bluntly. ? A Voice?That is what we want. B Governor Tillman?I take the language 0 of the Bible and the ecclesiastics. [Ap- 11 plause.] Why, for the conditions they are offering us, the remedy reminds me of the old doggerel: ? Mother, may 1 go out to swim ? n Oh, yes, my darling daughter; 0 Hang your clothes on a iiickory limb, , But don't go near the water. " [Laughter.] ? Don't you go near the water with your silver bullion ; don't keep in that direc- 8 tion. We want to keep you as a commodity?not its money; malte you a slave of . gold, not its equal; we will redeem you in gold, and therefore destroy you as money of final redemption. And they tell you .. they are bimetalists. [Applause.] THK SOUTH's SITUATION. 0 UnnHotimn an much hv wav of general- c ities. I am not trying to convert any of h you into bimetal ists. It is useless to talk b of that to you. I came here for another a purpose, and I want now to proceed to fill- a till it. I want you to understand, once for y all, and fully, the situation in the South, i, The talk which is heard of some of these y timid patriots?patriots! God forbid that I should so desecrate the word?politicians, r these timid politicians who have refused to g participate in this meeting, who have sent tl no delegates here, or who have not taken ti any pains to become acquainted and get in f, touch with one another?these fellows who h feel one side of the fence and then feel over I 011 the other side with a gentle touch to p see how the popular voice is expressed? ? they say that this is a sectional movement; ti that they cannot take part in it. The Globe-Democrat, one of the morning dailies of this city, had in it this morning a little squib: a Those who are proposing to array the v South and West against the East should a read some sentences of Webster's speech t< in reply to Ilayne." a Well, gentlemen, we may disguise it as c< we will, try to disguise it, try to pretend a this that or the other, but I have always P noticed that in this Union the sections tl voted as their interests dictated. They a have always voted, and will continue to evote, and it is their duty to vote, for what S they regard as the interests of their constituents. I mean representatives of difforent sections in congress should vote ti for what they regard as the interests of 0 their constituents, and it is not sectionalism c at all within reasonable bounds. This is a s< great country, and it is so great that the ti extremities of it know nothing of each tl other. The papers of one State do not tl circulate in another. Wo never see in c South Carolina any papers from up here, e and you see no papers from our State. b A COMMON MEETING GROUND. r The only place where the people of this ^ grand country can meet upon a common s ground is in the halls ot congress, and v here I wish to suggest an idea that has caused me great uneasiness for the perpc- 1 tnity of our institutions and the continuation of the union as it is?that, is the great diversity of interestsand that adherence to ? party which makes men forget that other g men have rights. [Applause.] That makes d them forget that some classes which they arc legislating against may bo absolutely tl ruined by the passage of a certain law, and g I announce today that any man who is not h broad enough and patriotic enough to con- ^ sider the whole nation, consider the inter- a estsof every State in this union, is not tit 11 to represent any State in any legislature t: anywhere, [( treat applause.] Talk about o sectionalism ! When the fiat went forth d from the leaders of the Republican party g that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amend- P mcnts must be passed in order to lmmili- 1 ate and punish tne Southern people, they a lacked one vote of the necessary two-thirds a majority to carry it. What did they do? ? Nevada at that time was a mining camp, h The discovery of the Conistock lode had n filled her with adventurers from all the I face of the earth, and she had a Moating u population of l(X),(XM)or 150,000 men. They e admitted Nevada into the union, solely h with a view to get that one vote that was P necessary. Now what are they proposing to do with Nevada? [Laughter.] Now c they propose to obliterate, as far as they ti may, Nevada by adding Utah to it and a give her some population. [Laughter.] j h I have got 110 objection in the world, be- j S cause I think Utah is Democratic or Pop- j M ulist or something of that sort [laughter C and applause], and I don't think they will j ti get rid of Senators Stewart and Jones by j ri that sort of hocus-pocus. j t< rnoiuNii oi.n wounds. ! !' Now, let 11s come on down to the end. ; ' You will excuse me if I rip up some old j ~ wounds, or if I probe those that are healed, o I do it in kindness and in sincerity, but it is necessary in order to have a clear and perfeet understanding of the situation. We j are?all men are?more or less creatures of ' it habit and education. We inherit our re- i a ligion, we inherit our politics, and we a transmit to our children our hates. It is I ci not worth while to talk about the war, or ! fi how it came on, or who got the most glory | c. out of it. You got all the glory and we j n got all the bitterness and ashes. 1 am not 1 e: going to speak of that. I just want to at- j a tract your attention to it, that those of you v in this Western country who are our natu- y ral allies in everything, who have been following the banner of New England and si New York and those Eastern States in a your efforts to crush and enslave the South- i b ern people by your adherence to the lie- ! u publican party?those of you who have I k been told to vote as you shot?I simply ! b want to sav to you that I am glad that (lay- y light is at last dawning and that you real- i si ize, after 2T> years, that we have aVommu- 1 nity of interests between the South and [ p West, and you are turning to us with long- ' 11 ing eyes to come and help you regain vour n own fortune and undo the wrong you liave j \ done to us. [Applause.J We can stand | li anything down our way. [Laughter.] i y Our climate is so genial, our soil so fertile I t< that we have been enabled to rehabilitate ! t< our country, and to push forward in equal j b race. Although we are behind you in the ; a production of iron, we are steadily ap- [. proaching you in the manufacture of cot- j ton and other enterprises. The interest | we have paid down there has amounted to 1 ? from 10 to 100 per cent, for what we have | c bought on credit, and yet we have stood 1 it, and we are not as badly oil" now as you ' are. [Laughter.] Therefore, when I tell j you that we have been skinned so long that we have so little skin now, you will I ,. understand we can live without skin. I [Laughter and applause.] It does my soul v good to know that your withers are wrung, ? that your backs arc being bowed until you j , have risen up and intend to help us grow ! some skin ourselves in order that you may | c save your own. [Great applause.] " 0 THE NKGRO QUESTION. J What is the trouble with us? What has 1 c been the bone ot contention? The Negro J .. iiulinii Tim Rntinlilu.,111 lMrtv tins I . waving the bloody rag?the bloody shirt? | inn 1 has made accusations of murder and ; t of buldozing, of ballot box stalling and , n all that sort of thing, but the greatest curse of all to us were those Federal soldiers, I those men whom our people dread, who I t ;oro told to voto as they shot. You shot s hack into the I'nited States and we in nd to stay tliere, [Applause.] We are eady to help you to make ft a real union. Applause.] We are ready to shake hands eross the bloody ehasni and throw away lie maliee and hal ted we have felt. [Aplauso.l Will you lotus? [Cries of "Yes! ycs!"l 'an wc trust you? [Criesof "Yes! yes!"] tut let me call your attention to some* ling. [Laughter.] [A voice?Spit it out.] Yes, I am going to spit it out. [Laugh*r.] It may he hitter; hut you have the ;ver. [Laughter.] I have found an old iend from Colorado, the most reealei*ant, red-hot, old-time State's rights Denicnit I ever met in my life. [Laughter nd applause.] He is masquerading as a Populist benuse he is ashamed to say he has been listaken so long. [Laughter.] TitK SOI,ID SOUTH. What has kept the South solid ? Why on't it split up 011 economic questions? ou ask. I tell you, gentlemen, there is ut one thing that has kept the South >lid, and that will keep it solid as long as o are threatened with it, and that is the Mir of negro domination and the restoraon of those governments that robbed us f over SloO,000,000 during the short time icy were in existence. Why don't we vote with you up hero? V'liy don't wo vote with the Populists? ou ask. Why don't we give you some ssuranee? I tell you perfectly plain and lunt. Let us understand one another, 'ou have been the most recalcitrant, rodot, hlaok Republicans in this union. I ....... I.,. llAi.nl.lt.Minu u-lirt for. vcr anil eternally harping about the poor negro." They love him for nothing lseon the face of God's earth than the erpetuating of the Republican party in ower. Now they talk about taking away certain part of our representation and isenfranchising the negro. When they nfranchised the negro they gave us a club iat we have since used in a very scientific tanner to club them with. They gave us ) or 40 additional votes in the electoral allege and the additional members of ongrcss which they gave us by reason of lie increased negro representation. IIAVK USED TIIK CLUII. We have used this club very skillfully ") preserve our liberties up to this time. 'hey gave us tho club to use and we are oing to hold on to it; and it will be to our benefit that we do hold on to it, beause with it we will win this light in hieh we are now engaged and beat those jllows up yonder. Now, gentlemen, I have told you that lie Negro is the trouble with lis. The ^ lackest Republicans, the staunehest and lost outrageous in their demands that lie Negro in the South should have a full ote and a fair count. That was their hihbolcth and battle cry. It was the tepubliean watchword in the Northwest. 'hose Republican States are as safe and ertain for the Republican nominee in a dIid congressional convention, as South 'arolina is for the Democratic party, in pite of the 40,000 negro majority. This rliole North was that way and they used ue spites and hatreds of the war to inuce you to "vote as you shot" ; and they ave quietly regulated the progress and rowth of the country in that littlo comer vcr yonder east of Lake Michigan and ortli of the Potomac river. A PERTINENT QUESTION. "What are you going to do about it?" Where are we at ?" I asked you a moicnt ago if we could trust you ; and some f you said "yes." Iowa is not represented ere; Minnesota is not represented hero; either of the Dakotas is represented here. Governor I.ewelling?Iowa was repreented here by General Weaver. Governor Tillman?Yes, and he said he as ready to meet us half way and all bat sort of thing; and then he generously topped. Where arc we going to look for ssistanco and help? What is to keep us rom a renewal of the era after the war? f beini? reconstructed? Tho Democracy f New York, New Jersey and Conncctfut and Indiana? We could not come icre because Epkriam was wedded to his lols and wohad to le t you alone. If you re ready to "cave those idols and set up a new god?a god of our country?a god k'hom we can all appreciate as free A morgans?we arc ready to join hands with ou [Applause.] But to-day, gentlemen, some of your epresentatives in congress who make this allant tight in behalf of silver and for lie emancipation of the people from tins nancial thralldom, are as bitter in their eelings to the South as they have ever eon. This is a complex condition for us. f we would keep trom being ground to iowder we will join forces with you as oon as we have guarantees that ran be rusted implicitly. [Applause.] "can wk trust you?" The gentleman from Kansas tells me we re right. My friend over there says they rill turn their senators out if they try that, ml all that sort of thing. Perhaps so. I ill you it is the God's truth that as much s we realize and understand the evils that onfront us in the single gold standard, nd the losses that it will entail upon the eople, the grinding, perpetual poverty hat confronts us if the gold standard is dopted in this country, does not begin to ompare with Negro domination in the outh ; and before we perm it it we will die! I am nearly through. I think we utidertand each other fully, but in order to urn this into practical shape, let us start lit right. As I told you, I am not a politiian, unless you consider plain common etise politics. Let us come right down o practical business. The States south of lie Potomac and Ohio rivers and west of lie Mississippi, will send to the olectoral ollege 224 votes?2 more than enough to lect a president. They have 54 senators? 0 more than a majority. They have 170 epresentatives in the house, nine less than majority. Let us cross the river and see rliat our prospects are over there. We ee plainly enough that we can hold it, and re can capture the presidency. [Aplauso.] will not criticise the president. What do those millionaires up there care a long as they can clip their coupons and o to Europe and buy official positionsid I say buy? Oh, no! [Laughter.] But amo ot you must think that sort of a [ling is done when a Democratic president ives a nice fat position to a fellow who elps out the campaign fund?like Mr. an Allen. Jiut tne Kepuuucans werejusi s bad. Look at Little Johnnie Wanna* taker. [Laughter.] Right here I will ike occasion to say that I haven't a word f abuse for Mr. Cleveland ; don't think it oes any good. I was sorry to hear tho entleman front Alabama (Mr. Skaggs), ass those strictures on him this morning, le is the president of tho United States, nd he was put there by a large majority, nd under circumstances that ought to lake him the proudest man in American istory, because it is something that has ever been done in this country before, lis future place in the history of stateslcn will depend on whether his party lects his successor or not, for I believe he as aOSOlllieiy siil,i?iii.-(i nil- i'ciikm i.hu arty to atoms. As I said, it is certainly that, without rossing either of these rivers, we can capire hotli the presidency and the senate ; nd T am very certain that we ought to ave a lighting chance to get three of the tates east of the Mississippi, and mayho ve; and certainly enough straggling 'ongressmen who are patriotic enough > vote for the country as a whole iither than their individual interest, ) give us a majority in congress anu [ store our country and bring it hack to s original purposes, which were "the reatest good to the greatest number," ithout interfering with the rights and berties of any section. [Applause.] SOUTH ANI) WKST. Sectionalism! Well, we can't help it, ' the interests of one part of our country re antagonistic to those of another. I onsider that we are simply trying to take are of ourselves, and saving ourselves rom ruin, and our States from bankrunty. [Applause.] And as I said tliis *10111 ing, the promotion of our self-interst is patriotism, provided you do not llow your self-interest to go so far that 011 rob your neighbor, and make him our slave. [Applause.] The South and the West possess the trength to run this country and to rule it, nd we will rule it, unless we become so esotted and so lost to our interests, and nless we are so far enslaved by the money ings that they can come out liore and cat you. ('an they beat you? I can tell 011 there isn't enough money in Wall treet to buy South Carolina. [Applause.] (tentlemen, I beg your pardon for tresassing upon your time so long. You will ave opportunities to consult with your eople; let tlieru understand the situation. '011 can get your organizations and potieal bearings; you can lind out where 011 are- And whenever you are satisfied > let the past be past, and turn your faces ) the future, reaching to us the hand of rotlierly love, we will come to your standrd from the Potomac to the Kio (irande. Applause.] Governor Tillman, as lie uttered the 1st words of his speech, was given heer after cheer. L-AVai* AVI, CIICTII I'Ulnl.lN'A. Governor Lewclling, who had reigned the chair, followed Governor "illman in a short speech. He said he ras willing to meet South Carolina's overnor at the line, hut he thought he fact that Kansas's 80.000 Republian majority had been obliterated light to show how his State stood, le said they cared nothing for the olor question. He wanted patriotic cntiment which would include the upuilding of the whole people. "Will he governor of South Carolina grasp ly hand?" he said in conclusion. "Yes!" replied Gov. Tillman, and lie South and West joined hands.