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%5 i i m m mm ? , I 1 ' I ' W fl^B BESB^ | 1 PM. -?r? i ^ HY ___= IMUgD SSMI-WEEKLY. ===== ',. k orist's sons. Pnbiiihen. | % 4ainiI8 S'?3|ia9q: <#or <M promotion of th< fslitiip!, #?4ial, &gri<nttni;al and Commercial Interests of th? |enjl<. ( 1l*";;*l?Jelu*y"c^" EST ABLISHKD ISSST ~ YORKYILLE, 8. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1913. NO. 24. ? THE AMERICA* ? . ? By ETTA W. f _ CHAPTER XXXIV?Continued. Vi "Rely upon me." said Miss Vann, th with decision. "I will find you pupils in music. It's a thousand pities that Cullen Sardis could not have lived th long enough to send you abroad to gt study. Your voice Is really marvel- M ous. Of course, we knew of your t father's first marriage?mamma and I nf - -vlt. J I. oi ?but we tnougnt me cnua u?mu, ?uu , it was a subject that nobody, not even his nearest and dearest friend, ever dared speak to him upon. Remain here rL in the nest of my dear turtle-doves, Eric and Bee; it is the best place for you. I am very busy at present, for I -. am to be married next month, you know"?with a gay smile?"to the most charming of men; but I shall find plenty of time to devote to you . and to your Interests, my dear. You have taken my heart by storm. The baron must see you and hear you sing. He is passionately fond of music, and plays the flute himself like an archangel." Bee shrugged her plump shoulders, Strozzl's name was still an offense to her ears. "Do archangels, generally speaking, pu play flutes?" she said, dryly. "Ah, Miss . Vann, how Infatuated you have be- "a come with that?that?well, I will not 841 call names, it would not be polite . now." Ju Miss Vann smiled calmly. "My dear Bee, you always looked at ac the baron, you know, with eyes that vo could see nothing but Eric Saxe. All . things considered, it is not strange that you should be prejudiced against *;8 him. He wooed you with culpable per- Te> slstency, I allow; but what can one expect of such warm-hearted sons of {"j the south? 1, myself, was very angry na with him for a while. I banished him I from my presence, you remember; but a oh, it is quite impossible to long re- wl main displeased with the baron. He Pa is very penitent for all his misdeeds, an His passion for you is a thing: or tne oa past." ch "Good heaven! I should hope so." th said Brie Saxe, half angry, half amused. "Can no one convince you. Miss "o Vann, that you are throwing yourself Lf away upon that man? No, do not hold 8h up your hands. I am not going to &r- en gue with you upon the subject, for you ag know my mind already." Charlotte Vann bent over Bee's baby mi and patted his rose-leaf cheek. ? "I forgive you, Eric, because I know Da you are my sincere friend. But my lai happiness is quite safe with the baron, th Tou think him mercenary, but he is pu not He adores me; he is ready to die for me. I count myself fortunate in securing without either youth or beauty, Mi so tender and fervent a heart" ca It was useless to talk to her. She rii ? went away soon after and Mercy re- ' turned to the bedside of Mrs. Sardis. rei She had found a good friend. Ac Charlotte Vann never forgot a prom- Th lse. Two days later she appeared er again in the nest of her dear turtledoves, and carried Mercy off in ber an elegant landau to make the acquain- ga tance of six pupils, whom she had se- lot cured for the young girl among her tnj own particular friends. let "Make up your mind, my dear," she In1 said, laughing, "to be looked upon with distrust in all families where there sif are grown-up sons. Your beauty will ag sometimes be a great disadvantage to ho you. One question?have you a lover?" ne "What with all this loveliness? se Passing strange! Were I a man, I fa. would go down on my knees to you at ho first sight. Do you know nothing of se the grand passion?did you never have ba what people call an offer?" mi Mercy grew as pale as If a rude th< hand had sudd: nly plucked at some qu half-healed wound In her heart. sti Once, long ago"?she faltered, pain- llfc fully. "Dear Miss Vann, don't ask me on about It, please?I cannot bear to think ho of It, even now." ml Miss Vann stared, then smiled. th "Not for the world! I beg your pardon my child. I will not say another Hi word." fig And she fell back in her own corner do of. the carriage, and began to talk at c? once of other matters. 8t' In this way Mercy, or Mabel Sardis, ru as she was now called, took up her new burdens. Her days and nights she cr divided betwixt her pupils and the care of Mrs. Sardis. Often she watch- Pr ed from dark till dawn by the bedside t)r of the sick woman, faithful, tender. ? tireless; and, incapable of thought or |nj understanding though she was, Mrs. j?' Sardis always seemed soothed and comforted by her presence. In< "In some manner she comprehends 80 that you are near and dear," sighed Bee; "but I fear you cannot long stand *? this strain upon your strength." [J0 "I am atrnnn>r Ihun VOU think." * ?... Mercy answered, bravely: "with the exception of the last two or three years bc my whole life has been made up of br hardships. I feel as If I could now endure anything." ^ Miss Vann was an unspeakable comfort and help, both to Bee and to Mercy, in these days. Her interest and admiration for the latter person knew no bounds. One day she said to her. "Come and lunch with me tomorrow and make the acquaintance of the bar- w on. He adores blondes, and he will ht think you irresistible." nt Mercy had never been enlightened to either by Bee or Eric Saxe, on the sub- al Ject of Baron Strozzi; but she felt a st little uncomfortable, and tried to frame nt an excuse, which was quickly set aside tr by Charlotte Vann. fa "My dear you must! I shall think it th very odd if you refuse." yc So. the next day. Mercy was carried off to Madison avenue to surprise the hi baron with her blonde beauty: but. as ht fate would have it, when Miss Vann's ar luncheon hour struck. Strozzi failed to p? appear. bl Mercy saw no one but Madame lo Vann, who had grown more eccentric su with age, and whose behavior filled the Si girl with amaze. Lunch over, she de- or parted without encountering the baron ar and she found no time to visit Miss m Vann again for many days after. w And still a deep, unspoken anxiety ye hung upon Eric Saxe's household?no er word had yet arrived from Ethel. Vi There was one visitor who often fa dropped into the studio to inquire re- fa gardlng Mrs. Sardls' condition, or talk ai art with the young artist, and criticise p< his pictures?a brown, grave man whom Bee presented to Mercy as Mr. w Lawrence Harding. n( Fortune while frowning upon so yi many persons in this story, had smiled CI very blandly upon Lawrence. He was a| now a popular journalist?a man ui a< marked ability, courted, feared, concil- &{ lated and flattered by the world. Re- sf port said he was also the betrothed Gi husband of that rich Boston belle, Alice k, Bradford. ei Mercy soon discovered that Mr. hi Harding was a prime favorite with both d< the artist and his wife; and she was n( much imprtss-^d with the undisguised Interest which he manifested In the w whole family. For instance, Ethel's in- Zi comprehensible silence seemed to w trouble him quite as much as it did c( herself and Bee. q "Any news from Paris yet?" was the ^i one question which he Invariably ask- ft ed upon all his visits to the studio; ei and Bee's lugubrious "No" was sure to bring a shadow to Mr. Harding's stern face. nt "Very strange, is it not?" he would say. "Very! I do not understand it. I am greatly worried, Lawrence." "No wonder. She must be ill." ?v "In that case the count would have the civilty to write in her stead, would hi he not?" y< Y COUNTESS 1 _ ? ? PIERCE. S OO^xX>?<K>9xJiy^(JKy? "I cannot say. It has a bad look. rould to heaven you could hear someing from her." "Amen!" poor Bee would murmur. One never-to-be-forgotten evening, Is same Lawrence appeared in the udlo, as usual, and found Bee and iss Mabel Sardls sitting alone in that mple of art, taking an informal cup tea. Mrs. Sardls was asleep; so so was the baby. Bee greeted her visitor cordially, and ured him a cup of the cheering bevage. Standing at the corner* of the antel, resting his saucer eonvenlenton Its edge, he looked down at her th knitted brows., , "You have heard no news?" he said. Bee shook her head. "Good heaven! this s growing unarable, is It not?" "Exactly. It's the most extraordlry thing I ever heard of. We have nt two cable dispatcl.es, and no end letters and received Jot one word In ply. Oh, the poor derling! How I sh that I had her in my arms! here Is she, I wonder, tonight?" Harding's brown face whitened. He it down his tea. "I dined not an hour ago." he said stily, "and do not stand In need of y refreshment. Is Saxe In?" "No. He went out upon an errand st before you entered." Harding walked twice or thrice ross the studio, with a hurried, nerU8 step. He seemed greatly moved. "I received a letter today from Arle Van Dora," he said; "he is In iris, you know. Would you like to ad it?" He drew a letter from his notebook, d placed it in Bee's outstretched vt/4 She opened it eagerly. It contained good part of the current gossip Uch Van Dorn had picked up in iris, concerning the hapless countess id her worthless, spendthrift husnd. Bee's voice trembled, and her eeks burned angrily as she returned e communication to its owner. "I knew it all before." she faltered;" r, If I did not know it, I guessed it, iwrence. From my heart I wish that e was safe with us. Oh, what amisable mistake It all was?that marrie, I mean." He answered not a word. For a few ^ments silence reigned in the studio the silence of people all absorbed in Jnful thoughts. It was broken, at rt, by the rumble of a carriage in e street below, and then by a sharp ill at the door-bell. "Vistors!" said Mercy. "And my servant Is out," replied rs. Saxe, with a nervous start. "Who n it be at this hour? Eric would not lg, for he has a key." "Permit me to ascertain," said Lawace. promptly. "Ten to one, an ofe boy has been sent in search of me. lere's no peace for the wicked, neithany for men of my calling." He was off down the stair before other syllable could be spoken. A a Jet burned brightly in the hall bev. Harding drew back the fastenrs of the door, and opened it wide. ting out a flood or cneerrui ugnt to the darkness beyond. No famtlar office boy greeted his fht; but in the street stood a carrle, and on the topmost step of the use a black female figure waited?a >rveJess, weary, shrinking flguret that emed ready to fall where it stood. A int voice began to say: "Is this the use of?But with the half-uttered ntence on her lips, she suddenly flung ck her veil, looked and recognized the an towering there at the entrance of e refuge which she sought. Her lestlon ended in a sharp cry. She aggered back a step. Oh, to return ;e this to the last haven left to her earth! Oh, to find this face, of all me faces, the first to look upon her Isery! Verily, it was more bitter an death! "Merciful God!" said Lawrence arding, and he caught her sinking rure and drew it swiftly through the or Into the lighted hall. Then he lied out sharply to the pair In the udlo above. In a moment both were shing down the stair. "Lawrence! Lawrence, what is it?" led poor, frightened Bee. What was it? A bltck-robed shape, ostrate on Lawrence Harding's east; some rippled bronze hair, and white face, worn with great sufferg, upturned in the gleam of the gast; a limp, ungloved band, from which e wedding ring had vanished, trailg at her side?Ethel, come back, in rrow and desolation, to the kindred liom she had left not three years here in pride and splendor, and the full >od tide of high ho]:es and expecta>ns?yea, it was the once petted and lored countess, lying a refugee, a imeless, hopeless wanderer, without eath or motion, in the strong, sup rting arms or her oia-ume lover, iwrence Harding. CHAPTER XXXV. A Revenge. "My queenly Charlotte, this day eek you will be m'ne?all mine! I ive no words to express my happi ss at the thought! At last I have und my spirit's mate; I now see that 1 other loves of my life were but upendous mistakes. Heavens! how >ble, how grand will you look as misess of my palace on the Tiber! 1 int with rapture as I picture you ere. walking my marble halls In >ur beauty!" Baron Strozzl raised the hand of 8 betrothed to his lips. It was not a md to boast of. being rather bony id yellow, like the rest of Miss Vann's >rson; but the diamonds upon it azed like clustered fire. The two vers were seated in Charlotte Vann's iperb drawing-room, tete-a-tete, nlllng and triumphant looked the bari. but rather more seedy in appearlce than at the time of Count Stahl's arriage. In truth, life had gone hard 1th our noble Roman in the last two >ars?ill luck had followed him evywhere, but that was over now. Miss ann's unconditional surrender to his scinations might be called as neat a .vor of fortune as a man of his years id experience had any right to ex?ct. "Fie, baron," saiti Charlotte Vann. ith a good-natured laugh, "I have >i me smanesi ciaim iu ueauij, tm ju know well. Let me tell you a se et?If you wish to make flattery paltable, administer It In homeopathic )ses. I shall never see thirty-five ?aln, and I am &s ugly as sin; but I lall like your Tiber palace, mon bari, providing It is not damp; and I now we shall be very happy togeth . I feel that you have a good, tender sart, and however It may have wan?red In times past, I am sure that jw It beats for me." "Oh, I swear it!" cried the baron, ith fervor. "I long Immeasurably for > moment when I can call you mine;" hlch was quite tru?, for he had revived no remittance for weeks from ount Stahl, whose duty it was to ?ep him provided with necessary inds, and his pu se was well-nigh npty. A footman tappei at the door. "A lady to see Miss Vann," he annunced. "What name. Harris?" "Miss Mabel Sardis, ma'am." "Show her In." With a lively air Charlotte Vann irned to her lover. "Baron, prepare yourself to see the indsomest face in the city. I assure >u she is wonderful. Several times I have sought to bring you two together, knowing that you adored beauty, but, somehow, I could never succeed. And then she Is a heroine?she has a history, I must tell It to you some day. Meanwhile"? Meanwhile the footman opened the door, and ushered in a girl dressed in simple mourning, and carrying a roll of music In her hand. It chanced that the light in Miss Vann's drawing-room was rather dim, for the sky without lowered dull and gray, and heavy curtains of silk damask draped the glass windows. As Charlotte Vann arose from the sofa to meet her visitor, her tall, gaunt figure quite concealed Baron Strozzi. Mercy, seeing no one but her friend, ran up to her breathlessly. "Such a strange thing has happened!" she cried. "Ethel is here?in New York! She arrived yesterday from Havre. Oh, she has suffered dreadful things, we know; though she will only tel us a little. She sends me to say that she must see you at once on a matter that concerns your own welfare very closely. Pray go to her, dear Miss Vann. She is ill?broken-spirited, broken-hearted." Charlotte Vann gave a scream of surprise. "Ethel In New York?broken-hearted! Gracious heaven! Where Is the count? Oh, I see how It Is?you need not say one word, my dear. He has deserted her!" Mercy shivered. "We fear that, or something worse," she answered sadly. "She was compelled to fly from France, she says, and some kind, generous stranger paid her passage to America, Go to her, Miss Vann; she has learned something regarding your friend, Baron Strozzl, which she wishes to communicate to you at once." "The baron!"?Miss Vann stepped aside as she pronounced these two words and revealed that gentleman himself, seated upon the sofa at her back, his dark, marked face as colorless as chalk. "I beg a thousand pardons," said Miss Vann, briskly. "Baron let me present you to my dear young friend, Miss Mabel Sardls. I trust you two will be gSad to make each other's acquaintance." Mercy started back a step?she stared, as If turning to stone. The roll of music dropped from her hand. Strozzl arose from the sofa, and as he did so one word, a name full of unutterable scorn and amaze, fell from the girl's lips. "Dl8Cordo!" White and shaky, but struggling hard for self-possession, he bowed. "You haf made a mistake, mees?I know not what you mean," he stammered. Mercy seemed In a moment to grow two Inches taller. Her pale face became absolutely grand; Are flashed from her violet eyes. "I mistake you!" she cried; "that could never be. Miss Vann"?she turned aulckly to the latter person, who began to look bewildered?"did I understand you alight? Is this the man whom you have promised to marry?" "Yes," answered Miss Vann. "And he calls himself Baron Strozzl ?he has won your confidence, your love? Oh, thank heaven that I am in time to save you! Shall I tell you what he Is? A villain, an impostor"? "Stop!" interrupted Strozzl, with livid lips; "she Is mad! Ah, my own, my adored Charlotte, you cannot, you will not listen to her!" But Charlotte Vann looked from one to the other, and grew suddenly very grave. "Mabel, what do you mean? Tell me at once!" she commanded. "I mean that this man, known to you as Baron Strozzl, has two other tifl!e8!" cried Mercy, confronting the cowering wretch like some grand accusing angel. "One Is Signor Discordo, a professor of music?that was the name by which I knew him three years ago; the other is as new to me as it will doubtless be to you?Adolphe Sassard, formerly valet to Count Stahl." The baron, overwhelmed with rage and amazement, forgot his usual prudence. "Sacre! how do you know zat?" he hissed. "Has zat man?zat infernal all 9" | uaivvrt uctiajcu iiic, <ukt* u?> . "You hear!" said Mercy to Miss Vann, "his own words condemn him. Now let me teN you how I first made the acquaintance of your betrothed husband." And in a voice of stern denunciation, every word made fiery with the righteous wrath that filled her, Mercy related the story of her persecution, her abduction, her imprisonment. "To this man I owe the darkest experience of my life!" she cried, pointing her slim hand at the baron. "Look at him?his guflt is written on his face! Hardened sinner though he is, you see that he quails before me. Oh, dear Miss Vann, tell me that you believe me?that you know I have spoken only truth!" Charlotte Vann fell helplessly into the nearest chair. Shrewd and sensible as she was in many things, she had actually allowed Strozzi to blindfold her judgment and creep into her heart. He rushed toward her, his dark face full of baffled fury. Oh, heaven! must he lose his rich prize just one week before the day appointed for his marriage? It was too much! "Mv nrinrAri flmrlnttp!" he cried. clasping his hands wildly, "there is a mistake?I swear it! This leetle Jezebel is laboring under some delusion. I abduct her?I! No, nevair! It is a lie ?a pure invention. Nevair did I love any but you, fairest and queenliest of women! Ah, let her not poison your ears against me. I will strangle myself If you listen to her a moment longer. Oh, this is beastly! You wring my heart. You are my betrothed wife remember; you cannot, must not believe such evil. Bah! thrust her out?this small viper zat would step betwixt you and me at such a time, my Charlotte!" Charlotte Vann's sallow face had grown very pale. She arose quietly from her chair. She looked from Mercy to Strozzl. The latter attempted to seize her hand; she drew It away, and pointed imperatively to the door. She hurled this one syllable, like a blow, at her discomfited lover: "Go!" "For God's sake, my peerless Charlotte"? "Go! and never, never let me see your face again." He understood the tone, he understood the look on her set, resolute face; and he went out from the presence of the woman he had well-nigh secured?out from the presence of the girl who had robbed him of his coveted prey, and balked all his fine plans at the very houi* when their success seemed most certain. Truly, Mabel Sardls had avenged the wrongs and insults of Mercy Dill. Neither Charlotte Vann, nor the fashionable society which he had so long graced, ever saw Baron Strozzi more. Miss Vann called her carriage and hastened straight to the house of Eric Saxe. "I am rightly punished for my folly," she said to Mercy, wiping her miserable tears from her brave eyes. "To think that a woman of my age and experience should have been caught in such a snare! It is almost incredible! My dear child, I can never thank you enough for the service you have rendered me today." They found Ethel Sardis?for from that time she would allow them to can her by no other name?lying upon Bee's sofa, wasted, colorless, the mere shadow of her former self. Bee, almost heart-broken, fluttered around her like a bird. In an adjoining chamber, senseless and shattered, lay the mother who had done so much to promote her daughter's marriage with Count Stahl?fortunately, she would never know the disastrous results of her own ambitious scheming. Miss Vann embraced Ethel, and drew a chair to her side. "You are sick enough to be in bed," she said; "and oh, what has become of all your beauty? Don't talk, unless you feel quite able, poor child, for your sister has already shown me the true character of Baron Strozzl?you need T not Bpeak a word." I A smile flitted over Ethel's pale lips. She put out her own weak hand and grasped Mercy's. $i "My elster!" she murmured. "Is It 1 not strange, is it not blessed, that she should be mine, Miss Vann? And 1 never dreamed of such a happiness till I reached this shelter last night. All M my life I have longed for a sister." After a little while she said, with a painful effort: u "Be patient with me, all of you. It n WOUIC1 Kill me UJ put. in wuius mcaiv of the past two years. I have had my day?such a short, miserable little day! Count Stahl I shall never see again." A great shudder shook her as she pronounced the name. '7 cannot 1 tell you about it yet Some other time, (when I am stronger, the words, perhaps will come; but I was forced to ?J fly from him, and I owe my life to ct mamma's former maid, Plnette, as Be* cc owes to her a happy marriage, and my . escape from France to an English a< stranger, who conducted me to Havre cc himself, paid my expenses from his own purse, and secured me care and attention for my homeward voyage. 0< But for him I know not what would g have become of me. Heaven bless him .. evermore!" i,. "Amen!" murmured Mercy. # Not a question was asked by any * one of the three. They would not forcd rL her to speak of matters which gave her pain. It was enough for them to know t that she had come back to the few . hearts left to her, sad, suffering, changed beyond recognition, her pride gone, ^ her strength gone, her happiness gone. For a moment Mercy felt a keen thrill of Interest In the English Strang- f er who had befriended the unhappy i: fugitive. JJ? "Tell me his name," she was about "? to say, but checked herself the next In- *" stant, ashamed of her own curiosity, iZ and so, by a mere chance. Sir Valentine ArbuckSe escaped mention. ?? "I am going into retirement for a while," said Charlotte Vann. "Every body will soon know the secret of my t* rupture with the baron. I cannot en- c dure to meet my friends while the ^ / nnrtnj ja new. Moreover, the sum- P mer heat is approaching, and the city will soon be unbearable. I have a place on the Hudson to which I shall remove for a few weeks. I am done \ with matrimony. Heavens! let no one *~e mention the word to me again. Ethel shall go with me to my retreat; plainly she needs rest and care. I never ** saw a person so sadly changed in the little space of two years." i , But Ethel, 111 as she was, would not * 1 listen to this proposition. "I thank you heartily," she said, "but I have had my last of ease and J~ luxury. My place is now with mamma jj? and this dear child"?touching Mercy's black dress. "I must go to work at m' once. I must find a situation as nursery governess. Possibly some of my old friends may provide me with pupils." "Ethel, you cannot do It!" cried Miss f Vann, with decision. "Think of your breeding?of what you have been in t.. the past It would kill you outright to ." become a servant. Moreover, you have J? not the physical strength." 2 "It would kill me to accept charity, of even from you," replied Ethel. "I have , a little pride left I will not be de- ri pendent upon any one. Work is said It to be a cure for sorrow. Oh, dear Miss Vann! If I cannot And employment of some kind for my thoughts I shall a go mad!" (To be continued.) - Ju A8 MINISTER 8EE8 LAWYER8 jjj st Nation Owes Mors to Attorneys Than ot to Any Class, Hs Says. The Rev. Dr. Edwin L. House of ^ snAirono believes in lawyers and vlg- i orously defends them. Writing In the lei Spokesman Review, he says that the t0 nation owes more to men in the legal j profession than to those of any other tr class. This is his defense: d\ When Dean Swift called the law a bottomless pit, a cormorant, a harpy that devours everything, he was more th witty than wise. A western lawyer J"0 tells the story of a brawny, sharpfeatured country woman who came in- W| to his office one day leading a freckle- m faced, water-eyed boy by the hand, "Air you the lawyer?" she began. Up- Wl on being answered In the affirmative, or she stated that she had brought her d? boy Jim to town to bind him out at j" the "lawyerln" trade. At the sugges- ar tion that he was entirely too young to al begin the study of law, she said: "You don't know him. He was Just born to a be a lawyer. When he was only seven ar years old he struck work; when he ,n dfl was eight he got sassy, and now, law bless me he Just freezes on to every- th thing he can lay his hands on." th Such is the story of the caricature th of what a lawyer is, and yet it express- q< es the popular conception among jn quite a class of people. To such a class the lawyer is the man whose or trade it Is to get people out of scrapes. Ve No cause so infamous, no Job so dirty pi but can command his service, provid- be ed his scruples, if he has any, are fo overcome by the bail of a sufficient io fee. To such the conception is un- fo known of a clean, conscientious man, who passes in and out of the temple of Justice with reverent tread, whose palms have never touched unhallowed p{ gold, who would sooner lose his right p hand than prostitute his talents by jt espousing an unjust cause, and yet <ji there are thousands of lawyers who j answer to this last description. m There are two ideals before the law- ,je yer today, one which is high and no- ^ ble and in harmony with the traditions n{ of the past, and, second, another that jn is, to my mind, a fearful comment on b? the legal professions, and the times in which we live. There are lawyers who be feel that there is no profession in Wl which integrity of character is so vl- je, tally essential as that of law. th The administration of justice is a pr delusion and a snare where the high m priests in her temple are lacking in j8 learning, capacity and integrity. And u( there are lawyers today who state pr that it is right to defeat the ends of th justice by any possible trick in the courts, causing prisoners to escape ^ from the sheriff, running off witness- |j es. suborning witnesses, embarrassing gj them from testifying the truth, per- ar verting their testimony, putting off ag cases till the witnesses die or move th out of reach of the court, getting ar away with Important papers in the case, perverting the meaning of the to law, on some trick or technicality get- co ting a new trial, or passing in review n( a. panel Ul iuu men in ui uw IU h*^-" ce twelve men that could be hoodwink- fe ed and be molded according to the or wlshe3 of the lawyers. These and 8e many more Illustrations show the worst side of the lawyer. at Let us now notice very briefly the w part the bench and bar have taken th and what Influence they have exercised In the formation of the American -j republic. In the early Colonial period we find three very strong men, w Wlnthrop, Belllngham and Humphrey, 0f all influential in the molding of affairs, j In the latter part of the Colonial -a period we find John Adams, Robert aj Treat Paine, Thomas Cushing, Joslah w Quincy, James Otis, Thomas Jefferson, th James Madison and Patrick Henry yt arousing and guiding public sentiment 0f towards the Independence of the colonists. sc At the first Continental congress in more than half of the delegates were ai lawyers, and in the second congress, gf the next year (1775), more than two- p< thirds of the delegates were lawyers. Of the 55 signers of the Declaration at of Independence, 32 were lawyers, and of 22 of these afterwards became Judges. vi From the adoption of the constitu- w tion down to the ending of the civil w war the influence of the bench and hi the bar was paramount. Great names oj come to our minds, and the incom- sa parable Lincoln was God's appointed di lawyer to save this nation in Its crisis bj hour. th ILLHAN AND HIS COLLEAGUE! leecti on Being Denied Approprlo Hon Cbalrmansblp. R. MARTIN'S CONDUCT DI ENOUNCED l*ld that Choiea of Poaition Was Hie By Right, and Quot?d Corraspondene* With Prasidant to Prove Hit Fitneea?Wee Not Anarv With Hoke Smith, Who Wat His Friand. Following la the full text of the eech. that Senator Tillman made re ntly on the report of the steering >mmlttee of the Democratic caucus mylng him the chairmanship of the wnmlttee on appropriations: Mr. Chairman, speaking to the resution I have Just offered, I want to ty this: Nothing that this caucus in do will affect my personal or poJcal status, except that it may afct my health. A Chinese philosoter once said: "A duck's legs are tort; a stork's legs are long! you can it make a duck's legs longer or a ork's legs short Why worry?" It an easy thing to ask a man this leation, but we all know that men n not control their brains, and they 111 worry in spite of themselves. The reasons assigned for the action the steering committee that it is lely because they are solicitous of y health and do not believe I am lyslcally able to perform, the arduis labors of the committee on approlatlons are sincere, I hope, and rest i that motive. If I did not believe at this motive governed them, I suld have to believe that ambition id not the best interests of the Demr&tic party caused their verdict. TlNman, as chairman of the comIttee on appropriations was the lystone of an arch, and it was necsary to remove this keystone and it Tillman out of the way In order let some chairmanships very much sired by some men fall where the Bering committee wanted them. This the natural human view to take of and I prefer to believe their own rslon of the affair. I recognize that ey are all honorable gentlemen, and believe not one of tbem Has any roan other than his own Judgment as to bat is right and proper to actuate m In this matter. I know all human tags are naturally selfish because iscrupulous and cruel. Dealing with Dtlvee is very dangerous anyway, id I will not pursue that train of ought further. For Stats Not 8#lf. I am not contending here so much r myself as for my state and the incipde of seniority. By all of the les that have obtained heretofore the senate since the foundation of e government appointment on comIttees has been governed by the rule seniority. It is an unwritten law, most a constitutional provision, that ould not be lightly brushed aside, has been observed by the steering mmittee in making up its assign enta in the case of every man, expt myself. Why this discrimination? >uth Carolina has seen fit to send me ire for eighteen years, and I have st entered on my fourth term and ive six more years yet to serve. Last jgust I was re-elected against two rang men by a large majority withit spending a dodlar and without aklng a speech. The people have thus own their continued love for and ust in me. My long servlcf "and if may be permitted to say, my more or is distinguished service, entitles me this chairmanship. Four years longthan Jacob served for his two wives have striven here in the interest of ue Democracy. When the senate had vlndled to thirty Democrats I was Ill valiantly battling at the front for e principles and politics outlined in e Chicago platform of 1896. I was on e committee which drafted that platrm. Bryan was not a member of it tcause he was a contesting delegate id only came into the convention Ith a right to speak after the comittee on credentials had declared his legation the lawful one. It'was late the proceedings when the delegation as seated, and his speech, as well as te I made at the same time, was in ifense of the platform. The goldbugs that convention had packed the g&lries on purpose to howl me down, id they did it until I told them with I the emphasis which I was capable that there were only three things hich could hiss?a goose, a snake and man. That seemed to quiet them id they allowed me to go on without terruption afterwards. I had preited Bryan in advocacy of those prinples, for I made my first speech in e senate, which has been designated e "Pitchfork speech," in January of at year, while Bryan's "Cross of >ld" speech was not delivered until July. I was a member of the committee i resolutions at the Kansas City condition four years later and read the atform, as some of you may rememir, for no one who heard it can ever rget the demonstration which folwed my declamation of that p!atrm. RivaH the Dav. Four years later at St. Louis, when irker's gold telegram threw the emocratic cohorts into confusion, and seemed that the party was about to sband in disorder and become a mob, again stepped into the breach and ade the speech which pacified the legatee. In 1896, 1900 and 1904 I .mpalgned for the presidential noml*es, although I had no faith whatever Parker's election and knew he would s defeated, as he ought to have been. I was not at the Denver convention ttause my health had begun to give ay and I was in Europe. But in my ctures, which carried me all over e country and into every state, I eached the true gospel and had as uch to do with the success of what now called "progressiveness," I be>ve, as Bryan himself. That term operly interpreted in its essence is e Chicago platform and nothing else. I do not mention this for the puri8e of influencing your action, but ce an old soldier, I point to my work id the wounds I received in battle, id ask simply for Justice. I do not ik pity or sympathy. I won't have em. Give me what I am entitled to id nothing more. Had I not believI that President Wilson wanted me accept the chairmanship of the mmittee on appropriations I would >t have asked for it, but having reived his letter in answer to mine I it it my duty to ask for the place in der that I might help him, as he emed to think I could. In order that you may fully underand everything connected with it I ill read the letter I wrote him, and len will read his reply: "January 21, 1913. Ion. Woodrow Wilson, Trenton, N. J. "My Dear Mr. Wilson: I despise the ords 'president elect' and yet I think you so much as president to be that can not bring myself to call you ear governor.' I have been thinking >out writing you for some time. You ere kind enough last summer to lank me for the letter I wrote giving >u some pointers about the personnel the national Democratic committee. "This emboldens me to give you me inside Information I have gained my eighteen years in the senate, id incidentally to make some sug stlons or comments on the future >llcy of the Democratic party. "I am proud of the speech you made : Chicago. It rings true, every word ' It, and some of the expressions are >ry felictous. In fact, my dear sir, lthout wishing to make you vain 1 ant to say In all seriousness that you ive the happy knack or gift of never lening your mouth in public without tying something worth while. You ffer from Charles II, as photographed r the Earl of Rochester, in doing wise lings as well as saying them. Ol 5 couse, you recall the famous mot written on the door of Charles' bedchamber: Here lies our sovereign lord the king, Whose word no man relies on; * He never says a foolish thing,' Nor ever does a wise one.' President Taft has taken Charles' place. | The Growing Burden. "Since I have been in Washington I have seen the appropriation bills grow i from a little over $400,000,000 annuaky to over $1,000,000,000. You will recall " the howl about the 'billion-dollar congress.' We have witnessed the change to a two-bltlion-dollar congress without much comment The newspapers seem to take it as a matter of course and are always harping on the growth of the /country as a justification. This growth haa been marvelous, but the expansion in population and wealth haa not kept pace with the growth of the taxes or expenditures. I have heard Senator Aldrich, who surely was an expert on levying taxes for the purposes of protection, proclaim on the floor of the senate his belief that the government could be run for $20,000,000 less than It is now being appropriated. "Being on the committee on appropriations in the senate, I know Just how the appropriation bills have grown so rapidly. It is largely due to personal influence and importunity. Some clerk or officer under the government wants an increase in his salary, and his senator or congressman goes to some one on the committee on appropriations, very often to the chairman, and asks for the item to go in. I have often done it myself to oblige a friend. An increase in the salary of one man produces a desire or demand to increase others, and the result is that < the figures are moved up all along the line. This happens in one bureau and ImmMttatalv nthar hnrpnim hpain to clamor for Increases, and so It goes. "Then men have haunted the congress, since I have been here, with schemes for new bureaus. I have seen these created, many of them necessary and useful, but some of them worthless and mere vehicles to spend money and create places for friends. i For "Lam# Ducks." "Then commission after commission | has been appointed for any and every conceivable purpose to make fat ' places for friends, very often 'lame ' ducks' who have been repudiated by their constituents. I have seen Republican presidents who have been glad to take care of Democratic 'lame ducks.' In Cleveland's time I saw Democrats who had been repudiated* by their home people on account of free silver, rewarded with judgeships and appointments on commissions. "I do not want to tire you, so I will stop this enumeration until I can 'have the pleasure of talking with you- In person. This I do know, Mr. President that if the Democrats axe In earnest about reducing expenditures, it is an easy matter to do it, and that, too, without crippling the government. It will mean the selection of cabinet of- , fleers who will not be at adl complaisant, but Intent only on having the government machine work smoothly, , accurately and effectively for the people's benefit and not for the benefit of the officeholders. The estimates are all made up by the cabinet officers, and appropriations arealways based on estimates, or supposed to be, unless they come as independent propositions from the floor of the senate chamber Itself. I know you understand the Importance of a loyal cabinet In sympathy with this ideal of economy. What we need In-the United States is more attention I tn nuHi onH nmloptlnn nf the tAX* payers than to the wishes and desires of the tax eater a "There are any number of building* in Washington rented at high prices from local real estate agents for government use. Some of these are necessary, no doubt; but many of them are not necessary at all. This city is a veritable Augean stable and the 'daughters of the horseleech' are abroad and always crying, give, give.' "Some of the departments are very much cramped for lack of room. These are clamorous for new buildings. Government buildings have been erected for one purpose, and almost before they were completed the demand grew up for that use to be discontinued and the buildings appropriated for some i other use, or rather new one. "Wheh I first came here the members of the house had no place to receive their visitors or constituents, while the senators had the 'marble room' and overflow senators who had no committee rooms were quartered in the Maltby. The house conceived the idea of building a palace for the use of its members; the senate immediately demanded and enforced that demand to build one for their own use. The two marble palaces we now have are the result. Undoubtedly they supply a want, but not a necessity, except on the part of the house. Recently the house has demanded that the senate turn the Maltby building over to it, and I understand this will be done when the new congress meets in March. There 1b much lost space in the senate office building which could well be utilized to good advantage for other purposes if the senate would agree. Sure to Do 80. "But why go Into all these details? You will find It all out when you come to Washington. Speaking with a very 1 Intelligent clerk not long ago, he made this significant statement: 'Senator, the only way to reduce expenses Is to have senators and congressmen who will rise In their places and Inquire to know why certain Items are in the appropriation bills when they are not needed, and say so, and thus call the attention of the country to them.' I know this to be true. But the rule is rather to increase than to reduce. "My long service here and the custom which has obtained almost from the beginning of the government entitles me to select from among the committees of which I am a member a chairmanship. I am senior Democrat on three important committees and can select the chairmanship of either one of them: appropriations, interstate commerce and naval affairs. "I want you to tell me frankly on which one of these committees you think I can best serve your administration and the country, for I will serve the country best by serving Wll- ; administration best. "The committee on appropriations, as you know, applies the money, or designates how it shall be spent on many appropriation bills. The committee on Indian affairs, the committee ' on postofflces and post roads, the committee on naval affairs, the committee on rivers and harbors and the committee on pensions make up their own appropriation bills. Thus there is no co-ordination and general understanding by one committee and its head as to the scope and amount of all the appropriations. This was the way it was done when I first came to congress. I remember what a bitter fight the change from this system to. the general distribution of the appropriation bills brought about. There was too much work for any one committee to Ho and it irave one man too much power. The change was salutary In that respect, but It has largely been responsible for the Increased expenses, : taken as a whole. "The committee on finance in the i senate ought to be divided as it is ' in the house, one part of it to deal with the tariff and the taxes to raise money, while the other deals with i banking and currency and the money I problem. , "The committee on interstate com merce, while of minor importance at i first, has come to be one of the most important in congress. It deals with i the problem of transportation in all of I Its ramifications. This problem has i i come to be one of the greatest of the age. The gamblers In New York, Bos! ton and Chicago who manipulate the i stocks and bonds of the banks and ' railroad securities, have amassed great fortunes based on water alone. Muli timillionalres have multiplied with great rapidity, and the masses of the people are expected to sustain these fortunes by paying dividends on stocks and bonds which never had any honest ga or real foundation. Plerpont Morgan en and men of that type have been the ad: prime movers and leaders in amass- on lng wealth of this kind. Having up scrambled the eggs they bo'.dly stand I and ask the committees of congress what they are going to do about it. y? Rockefeller, who has amassed millions kn by monopolies which could have been *u prevented by an honest enforcement di< of the Sherman law, rolls in wealth and snaps his Angers at the house nil committee. Carnegie, whose hundreds of millions have been stolen from the tw people through Roosevelt's connivance up at his organisation of the steel trust kn and the absorption of the Tennessee an Coal and Iron company, tries to buy th: Immorality by giving back to the peo- ha pie a modicum of money in the shape nu of libraries, etc. ha Doesn't Like the Dish. "If you and I were to go Into a restaurant and there see the cook mixing tet rotten eggs to scramble for us, would fOI we eat the dish when the water brought it to us or would we throw "J tie out of the window? The temper of by mind of the American people is to p# throw the eggs out of the window, ter Tour greatest problem will be bow to an 'unscramble eggs' and bring back the m(3 railroads of the country to an honest ca| basis. Tills will involve a valuation ^ of the railroad properties to find out me their actual value, not cost, of the rail- me roads. The committee on interstate w?i commerce will have to do this work, if cov it Is done, and I am therefore Inclined to take that burden upon my shoulders, If you so advise, and select that 1 chairmanship. thl "The committee on naval affairs has D* to deal with the question of an 'ade- lea quate navy.' This Is the happy phrase lnJ of the Democratic platform adopted at P?' Baltimore. Just what is an 'adequate ba< and well-proportioned' navy must be P?< determined. Whether it shall be Hob- on< son 1 zed to make a market for struc- 8,n tural steel and armor piate manufac- ar> turers, or give us such a fleet as will ha' be sufficient for the needs of the coun- Pla try, is a question to be settled. "My health has been too poor for me ha< to keep abreast of things as I used to do. But I have tried to keep in touch vol enough and have kept in touch enough me to believe that we have a good enough cor navy now, and only need to maintain chi It at Its present degree of efficiency, it i The fifteen or twenty millions of dol- me lars required to build a first-class bat- to* tleahip of the best type can do so e*I many more things for the people, and bet better things, that I do not feel willing cot to see the money sunk that way, es- ble peclally when the life of such a vessel his is only about twenty years. Already the the Oregon, made famous In the Span- I v Ish-Amerlcan war, is obsolete and tlo ready for the Junk pile. ab< "If I take the committee on appro- wh prlations, I can help reduce expenses; sul If I take the committee on interstate wo commerce, I can assist In 'unscrambl- an: Ing the eggs;' If I take the committee Pie on naval affairs I can resist as best I mu may the clamor of the steel manufac- urn turers and armor-plate people for an Pic ever-Increasing navy. My strength Is d? limited as you know; my will Is equal wo to any task. I realize every day more w and more that for the purpose of this ^ world a live Jackass Is better than a on dead senator. Ph] "Please think this over and give me &bl your advice in the same spirit I have written you. c*l ed President's Reply. wi "State of New Jersey, Executive De- pri partment, January 80, 1918. am "My Dear Senator: Brief absence sqi from my office and constant aborptlon la with the business connected with the apj opening of our legislative session here ate have prevented my replying sooner to wit your most Interesting and important &n letter of the 21st. I want you to know re<! with what deep and genuine appre-. hoi elation I have read lt< I thank you for thl It very warmly, indeed. giv "Confidentially, the appropriations am committee Is the committee on which th? you would have the hardest work, but 1 your letter convinced me that it Is also Re the committee In which your Interest the chiefly lies and where you can cer- tor tainly be of the greatest and most coi constant service. a# "Ever since I was a youngster I have his been deeply Interested In our methods ate of financial legislation. Ever since the then I have insisted upon the absolute mi necessity of a carefully considered and Ion wisely planned budget, and one of the on objects I shall have most In mind when ma I get to Washington will be conferences tlo with my legislative colleagues there ere with a view to bringing some budget system Into existence. This business . of building up the expenses of the na- t tlon, piece by piece, will certainly lead us to error and perhaps embarrass- ?n ment ^2 "I was very much pleased by your " re-election and shall look forward to the greatest interest to being assoclated with you In counsel. Jl "Again thanking you for your splendid letter, h "Cordially yours, hv "Woodrow Wilson. * "Hon. Benjamin R. Tillman, Washington. D. C." Jg tin This and That. th? Contrast my services and work for ] the party with Senator Martin's. Last summer at Baltimore I led the South Carolina delegation. South Carolina's ma eighteen votes were cast first, last, and all the time for Woodrow Wilson, while p" Virginia, led by Martin, never did give Wilson any votes until he no longer needed them. or. In June, while the convention was 3 still balloting and the question as to who would receive the nomination hung ue In the balance, Mr. Martin gave out an Interview and here is what he. had to say about the political situation, and hla faAlincM an/1 hta oHvina tVla VIp. ginians as to what candidate they ought to support. It speaks for Itself, ? too, and I have no comments to make: "Virginians Support Oscar W. Under- J10' wood?They WM1 Vote for Him as te? Long as He has Chance of Nomina- wh tlon?Martin is Strong for Him? Men from Old Dominion Will be tut Classed Among the Conservatives. " 'The great majority of the Virginia delegation,' said Senator Thomas S. , f Martin this afternoon, will, I am sure, vote for Underwood. I believe that after the first ballot the unit rule wiU be voted by the necessary two-thirds ma- Jr: Jority. It ought to be. There is every reason why Underwood should be the *yy nominee; none why he should not be. ~' He is a man of pronounced ability, of clean life, of unblemished record. He has been highly successful as the party rr, leader in the house. Doubt as to his availability because he is a southern J" man is heard only from our own peo- ? pie. I have yet to hear of such objectlon from the north. fP " 'I hope all the Virginia delegates ! will vote for Judge Parker for tern- . , porary chairman. He has been always a loyal party worker, and it would be an outrage to defeat him merely on the ipse dixit of Mr. Bryan, who j*?' chooses to call him a reactionary. Jf " 'Of course, I do not mean that Vir- ap' ginla should keep on voting for Under- ' wood if it turns out there is no chance J"?* for him. She would then go to some "?l one else, perhaps Clark, perhaps Har- . mon?to any one ratner man 10 wooa- ~i row Wilson, who has done nothing to deserve party honors unless to help 10? wreck it in his own state.'" Is there any progressiveness about f?1 in' On the Rack. ab Another phase of this subject and I am through. I have been on the rack, t ' as it were, ever since the caucus met ^' on Monday last, and have persistently refused to consider getting off the glT committee on apropriatlons or of glv- tjn ing up its chairmanship. It seemed that this demand was so Insistent and *ei bo persistent that suspicions came into we my mind, and in analyzing- the situa- da, tlon I grew very angry. I declared to lea the gentlemen of the committee who came to see me about it that If I were Jn? turned down in caucus I would carry aU( the fight Into the senate itself. Yes- all terday morning, when there had been act no conclusion of the case, I went to the capltol and began writing a speech to be delivered in caucus, and was en iged on it nearly all day. It was hot lougrh. I assure you, so hot that it most burned the paper It was written i, for I was angry from the around >, and my indignation was such that pulled the bridle off and gave free In to my vitriolic tongue. Some of u who have heard me In days past iow that there are few men who can rpass me in saying biting and vinitive things. I was In this frame of mind last arht, but as Is often the case with ;n of my temperament, I slept only 0 or three hours and then waked 1 and began to think. All public men ow that some of their best thoughts d speeches have come to them In Is way. I myself know that If I could ve recollected them next day I havr ide better speeches in bed than I ve ever made on the platform or roe im. When I analysed the situation d the conditions here my anger vanted. I thought how pitiful and eonnptible In comparison was my light * my rights and the rights of my Lie as compared with the great batto be fought and now being fought Democracy for the rights of the }ple. I had thought and written bit' things; but my passion was stilled d entirely disappeared when I re mbered President WHson's clarb II In the last paragraph of his Inaural address: "1 summon all honest in, all patriotic, all forward-looking in to my side. God helping me, I II not fall them, If they will but msel and sustain me." Another 8peeeh. decided to write another speech s morning and tell my brother mocrats just how I feel, and then ve it all to them. I still feel a great ustlce has been done me In this rert. I also feel that 8enator Martin i not acted the noble part I exited of him as a Virginian, for not :e but twice and even three times ce I came to Washington in Janu' he has told me he wanted me to ve on the committees whatever .ce I was entitled to and desired; 1 he has never notified me that be i changed his feelings or purpose, rvator Martin, after making these luntary statements and pledges to became a member of the steering nmlttee which has glvett him my ilrroanshlp. Fairness and decency, seems to me, required him to notify of bis change of mind and attitude rards me. He never, at any time, >reesed any uneasiness about my Llth to me. Had he done so. his lduct would not seem ao desplcaWhen I talked with him about own rase for the chairmanship of i caucus and tnentloned to him that ranted the committee on appro prians he advised me to say nothing >ut it and keep others messing, ich I did. It is this phase of the Jject which I do not understand. I uld hate to believe there has been i understanding or any promises or dges made. As I have no proof I ist perforce leave any accusations aid. But I can not help the sus* Ion that there must have been a U of some kind or Senator Martin iuld not have retired without a show wn. iVhile I am no longer able to battle the floor of the senate and deliver illpplcs as I once did. I am still le to give counsel and advice. I am II able to say "No" and spell It with vitals, too. and that la what is need" on the committee on approprl&Uona outlined In my letter to President lson my ideas as to why the appro* atlons must have grown ao rapidly i why so much money is being landered needlessly. My ambition as chairman of the committee on proprlatlons to bring Into the sen> bills which have passed the house tbout increasing the amounts at all. k if jxiaalblfi. to bring in the. bills luclng them as they passed the use. I believe It is possible to do s. In fact, I know It, and if I am en help on the committee of young 1 willing men, earnestly striving for > same object, I will do it L'hen, senators, contrast the way the publicans treat their ojd men and > way ours are being treated. SenaAllison was kept chairman of th? nmlttee on appropriations as long he was in the senate, although In last years he was very iHbie. Sen>r Perkins, although far more feeble m I am is still chairman of the comttee on naval affairs. Senator C\il? n. when he retired from the senate the 4th of March, was still cbair.n of the committee on foreign relans. They do not demote and disdlt their old leaders because of age. Threatened a Fight, have said more than once, and more people than one, that If the ong was not righted in the caucus 1 uid carry it to the senate itself, Jch, under rule 24, must elect its nmlttee a My Idea In going to the late was to get into the Record, for sservatlon for the future historian, ' vindication and defense, as it were, t when I considered the spectacle ilch I would present to the country allowing my grievances against the rty, however Justifiable, to militate &lnst that unity and harmony which ;ht to prevail among us, I decided it It was a selfish motive and I bade i devil get behind me. Democratic harmony and concert of Lion are more necessary at this time in anything I know of. Democratic cipllne ia also needed very, veiy ich, for as compared with the Rebl leans we are an untrained mob th little knowledge of parliamentary r and very little effective knowledge the rules of the senate, festerday one of the newspaper /a told me he had seen the two orgla senators in amicable confer:e In the restaurant Immediately i thought flashed on my mind, if con and Hoke Smith are friendly er what has happened why should ke Smith and Tillman fall out about I have aiready. In the caucus, told ke Smith how I felt about Bacon's t getting the place of president pro npore, and it was that Indignation lch prompted the interview with the respondent of the Atlanta Constlion. Reporter Changed It. used the word "Progressive" in that ervlew. The reporter changed It to inspirators," and when I hastily reed the interview, I did not note the inge In the language. I do not feel it those senators who brought about con's defeat were conspirators at They merely expreeed their prefnce as between the two men as ?y had a right to do. I know if iy saw this interview they must ire become angry, because It was unit I recognise that now, and desire apologize to them for using the rd In the interview. I also desire to jloglze to Senator Hoke Smith for i way I have treated him. Ay regret is more keen because I ire since learned?only last night? it he was my friend on the steering nmlttee and battled manfully to ?p the rest from demoting me or Ing Mr. Martin the chairmanship of propriations. festerday, when I was so hot, a ?orxe^ irom & uwr^w whc o my room and said something >ut Bacon and Hoke Smith talking out Georgia patronage and expresssurprise that they should be speakr to each other. I told him I hoped ike Smith would never speak to me EUn; but I do not feel that way now. im always ready and willing?nay, xious?to make the amende honorle when I am In error, and that is r reason for speaking as I do. The other day I said I loved the 0 Georgia senators. I did not tell 1 exact truth. I do love Senator Bai and was beginning to like Hoke llth very much. I hope I shall conue to like him, and will unless he res me Just reason not to. We have >d in the senate of his brains, for presented a sorry spectacle yeeterY for lack of consultation among the ders and concert of action. The rty is so new in Its role of conductr affairs that the people must make iwances. The new men are nearly awkward and green, and unless they lualnt themselves thoroughly with (Continued on Fourth Page.)