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LIMANNING, CARNDN COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1888. A Brother's Keeper. 1OII'S O OFYE ID DUTL 3 1 3 EAITWL, CLTEEBWOOD, 4oJoR 0? "CLQUE O' Doox," "SnuEEN Gumats," "THE LoNE Max's 0AmoW," AND OoEa STORIRI. In the listening attitude which twenty -our hours had confirmed to a haibit, Phoebe sat in the school-house and waited for Thorney. All the seats were empty, but ridges of dust around the bottom of the desks and clay tracks on the floor showed where young, restless feet had been. A sum in fractions remained upon the black board. The Are was dyig in the gray and elderiy stove, which seemed to deny having ever indulged in red-hot fits of roaring when wind and snow beatoutside. Abarky odor came from the wood-box, and from it also crept out a mouse to smell at crumbs dropped at noon. Perhaps Phoebe's moving a hand, perhaps the appalling dreariness of the school-house interior, terrified the mouse, and it Hashed back in a gray streak. Somebody's cow in the woods, reminded by associations of sad experience in her life, uttered a mellow, plaintiye lowing. Feet shuffled and bumped upon the step; then Thorney White broughtthem in and straight to the wood-box, where he stood digging the mud off by scraping his heels across the box's edge, as if this were the object of his ertrance. Phebe came down the aisle and took hold of his arm. Theunshuttered win dows threw plenty of light around them; it was not yet five o'clock. Thorney gave a pettishjerk and continued digging with his heels. She stood patiently aside. Search as she might, she could never fnd comfort or support in his face, yet she could not bring herself to guide and control him with more firmness than tenderness. In the secret folds of her heart she owned he was a mortification and a pain; but be ing her brother he ought to have an average struck between them and be endowed with half of her abilities. "You aren't cross to-night, are you, Thorney!" said Phobe. Thorney responded that he didn't see no sense in leaving his workto run at her beck and call. "Ididn't want you to leave your work. I would have waited till your work was done." Thorney.growled that his work was never done. He didn't have folks taking him to parties; he couldn't drive around big and proud and keep his brother a-hooping it. "Oh," said Phoebe, withan accent of quiet despair. "Thane's been with you, hasn't hap "Yes, he has," growled Thorney. "And he took my tin whistle from me." "Thorney, he didn't get your money!" "He did, too. He made me bring out all my wages. And he took my tin whistle," sqlked Thorney, grieving for the instrument with which he imitated birds in the woods. Many an hour when Thorney should have been chopping, he sat upon a stake-and zidered fence or the hih limb cf a felled -reia, and pipedafter his- han as heartily asPan. "Thae don't know how to work it," snifed Thorney, "but he made me give it up to him." PhIbbe looked as him, collapsing on his own muscles in abject helplessness; and at .heself. "Do you think we shall ever -get away Iroin it, Thorney!' "bet away from what?" F "From al 4tit. Thane is so much stouter and older than we are. And he knows how to mak us do things we hate to do. We aught to have some chance." "You've got chance enough," frowned Thoirney. "I wish Icould set around and draw big wages. And go to parties. Why don't they iyite as to their parties?" de msded Tho , in sheepish sullenness, haing his-ead at the wood-box. "Yes, why don't they!" said a voice be mesmos of thewindow-she, which be .5'ntog. up with many a shuddering re montrance aud'jr of glass. The man who hadmet Phbe in the woods propped the sash with astielt and weaned on his arms so ato bring head- and shoulders within the room, opposite Thorzey. "And me, too. But my lady there has a way of putting her self above you snd me, Thorney. She wdauid like to shake as altogether. Only sho can't." "No," said Phrebe, all the repellant forces in her body reused by the sight of him.."We never canberidof him, Thorney. Lookast his hair getting gray; sad he has robbed us of more hopes than he has hairs inbls head. He has carried our names into pr-isons; he has tried to drag us into wick edness. Ilam scarcely more than a little -girl, but! feel old and life-worn when Ilook at you, Thane White." "And he went and took my tin whistle," aid Thorney, adding hisclimax. "See here," said Thane, his facial spasms In fuliplay. Before proceeding he took Out a pie of tobseco and worried it fiercely. "Idropped along to have an understanding. Last night you wouldn't give me a stake, any lady, bad as! needed it." >So you robbed Thor'ney," said Phosbe, with scorn '"Took what was my own by rights," cot' rected Thane, giving his tobacco a final wrench, after which he put it In his pocket. "You treated me mean. But I'll pass over all hat if you'll divide up after-while. You .always were smart, and Ican see what you are8 up to now. If you will, I'm mum; if you won't I ain't takin' any such pains to .help you on." ' "I know what you mean," said Phoebe, she face suddenly covered with pallor as with g mask of strange features. "But udrtand at once that an honorable man een oger nothing but pitying kindness to "regot a strong purchase on you, and yo kziow it," said foe convict, smiling m a succedsion of faclal spasms; "whatever you intend to do. I want you to get married. Tho-ney ad mnedsrich brother-m-lw. If you won't get married PU have to take Thorney with me." "Oh, no, yon'd ser do that," said Phcabe, lowering her voliedetiantly. "Oh; yes,!I would. I'd do just that. My hair is turnini'. I oughtto havea young biand in training for my old age. You've dragged him around at your apron string too long, anyhow. Now, see bere, Thorney," Thane chewed rapidly at his tobaceo, jerned his head as low as the window-sil andizm shtuy reappeared with one cheek distewd .d; "here stands your sister and her due notions about honor and honesty that she's always preached at you. But has she done any thingfor you?" "She never took my tin wistle," mut tered Thorney. "Blast your tin whistlei I only took it to make you follow me 'round. You listen to me and you'll get your tin whistle back and the cash to buy plenty more. Don't you have to work hard for very little moneyP" Thorney doggedly acknowledged his an -e "oaway," burst out Phobe, "and let the boy alone. You are only trying to tor met matronsrh him. You ha't harm "You see it's herself always, and you and me counted out, Thorney. When you're as old as I am she'll want to drop you altogether like she does me. Her programme's work for you and easy times for my lady. 1'1l make your fortune for you." "Now you're gittin' it down to a fine point," remarked Thorney, with a cunning grin. "Why doesn't he make his own fortune," demanded Phoebe, "instead of constantly stripping us!" Thorney's expression changed to blank and open-mouthed doubt. He could grasp but one idea at a time, and his feeble hold on that kept his head moving like a ball betwixt these two more powerful nat ures. "You ought to be enjoying life," contin ued Thane, "instead of chopping and dig ging for a living. You ought to know where gold watches and full pocket-books grow, and you've wit enough to get at them if somebody gave you a few hints." "He gets it down to a fine point," said Thorney, challenging Phoebe. "Look into my eyes, Thorney," she said. He attempted to do so, but his gaze sank before her blazing earnestness. "Did he ever do any thing for us but get us into trouble! Have we not learned what we know, in spite of him! Haven't we always been happiest and safest when he was in prison! Is it likely that he will ever be dif ferent?" Thorney now challenged Thane with a wag of the head. "She's gittin' down to a fine point," he re marked. "You and I must stand by each other. -What have I in the world but you, Thorney! I have enough to bear without your desert ing me." "I ain't a desertin' you," said Thorney, dropping his head with a distressed pucker of the mouth. "Hang to the apron string, sonny," ex horted his other mentor at the window. Thorney menaced him with a slowly clenched fist. "You ain't give up my tin whistle yet, any way." "I'll blow on it when I want you," said Thane, removing his elbows from the win dow sill. "I'm staying round the neighbor hood, and I'll see you both again. Keep an ear open for that whistle, Thorney." The window-glass again shuddered and clinked as he drew down the sash. He paused a moment and laughed through the patched pane at them, a puttied crack con tributing to the distortion of his face. After he disappeared Phoebe cowered down in a seat with her head bowed. "What ails you!" inquired Thorney, star ing suspiciously. "You ain't afraid o' Thane, are you?" Phoebe shook her head without lifting it. "I ain't," said Thorney, stretching out his arm to feel the muscle. "He ain't no man beside of me. I won't let him hit you like he used to. And blame if he ain't got to give that tin whistle up; I won't stand it. He took my tin whistle, Thane did," an nounced Thorney, in a way calculated to impress his sister by the startling news. She took her wrap from its nail near the water-bucket and stopped to look at her liquid reflection. "You no account wretch," said Phoebe to the face thus meeting her from some lower world, "you can't do any thing but stare up from the pit.you are in." "That whistle-cost me a quarter of a dol lar," ruminated Thorney, bitterly. "Be comfortedtabout it, Thorney," said his sister, laying her head against his arm. "We will surely get our whistles back yet." "Thane never took none from you." "He has not left me even a penny whistle, Thorney, to amuse myself with since you and I were little children." The spring days succeeded one another in monotony. There was change going on in the earth, and the buds swelled large upon the trees, though scarcely a flush of green, even in the awakening lichens, showed it self through the woods. Phoebe felt another change growing around her. She was at first so alert for Thane's expected footstep that the meaning of whispers in her school, hints from Randy Thompson, and the silences of Mrs. Holmes, quits escaped her. He did not appear. Her breath by degrees grew freer, and she turned again to the simple pleasures of ex istence to find they were taken from her. If she coaxed Toddles to rock on her lap Mrs. Holmes had an errand with him out of the roomn. Her host looked at her with a puzzled expression and stinted his usual cordiality. She met Adam and Mose Guy once or tweoe, and their curious insolence brought fire into her eyes. There were such silences at table that her food choked her. It was no longer andy's pleasure to wait on the pretty creature whom she considered such a child, and to sit in Phcebe's room when every body else was in bed, telling neighborhood traditions. No one wanted her to do any thing for him. An invisible circle of sep aration was drawn around her. Twice she walked to the farm-house where Thornoy was hired, to make sure that no har, had beallen him, and enjoy his unthinking companionship. Mrs. Holmes spe'nt an aft ernoon with Miss Fawcett, and brought not thslightest mnessage from one girl to the other. "And Iliked her so," thought Phoebe. "And she was so kind to me." Gurley caled, and Mrs. Holmes gently devoted her self to his entertainment. Also, whatever latent solicitude she felt for her distant cousin, Milton McArdle, now became active. His readings with Phoebe were ini some way overruled. She stayed much in her own room. When she came out she carried herself with helpless defiance. " I will go to Mr. Barker," she resolved, lying awake at night crushed under her in visible load, "and tell him all about Ths. He may have mercy on me; I'm not wanted here." " There's talk goin' round the neighbor hood," Randy reluctantly volunteered, once when the girl's face touched her. Talk had never gone around the neighborhood about herself, and this enabled her to state the act severely. " Yes, I suppose there is," said Phecbe. " Don't you caret" demanded Randy. " Would my caring stop it!" " It might stop some things." "I don't think it would,' said Phebe. Bandy fixed her eye in dismay upon so case hardened a person. "FPolks don't like the looks," she further revealed. "Mrs. Barker, she seen him, too',' " Mrs. Barker is not talking about me'!" " Every body is' How can they help it!" " They can't help it," replied Phcobe, bearing her head erect andundisturbed inte pivacy. There shg y;1 it under her bed clothes, kneeling by tns bed and clenching the mattress with her teeth while she stormed and sobbed alone. That day, however, she prepared her note for Mr-. Barker, saying: "You knew when you got me this school, Mr. Barker, thatlIwas agirl without friends, and you youched for my character. There is a sore truth in my mind, and I know great tales are going around the neighborhood. As far back as Thorney and I can remember, Thane White, our elder brother, has been a criminaL. Many people have been kind to ge, or I could never have got on and kept Thrney ont of his hands. We lived any way we could and in many places. Ouice I was nurse to some children in a nice family, and ab. layanheime almost like a daughter until Thane, as usual, shadowed me, and drove me off by attempting to make a thief of Thorney. Thorney was at work near me. The boy is not as bright as some boys, but he is all my family, and he likes me. I could not have him turned wicked, anzd Thane's deeds are more horrible than I can tell. At first I pitied Thane, and tried to help him. He always took our earnings; he wants them yet. I don't feel kin to him; 1 could let all my blood run out if that would free me from the relationship. "Thane has followed us here. It doesn't seem any use to run from him, and he has all the advantage when I turn on him. There is nothing ahead of me, young as I am, because he can reach out and spoil whatever I do. I have thought over these things until they break me down. May I come to your house and ask advice of Mrs. Barker and you? Though there is talk in the neighborhood I can not help feeling you are both friendly toward inc. He was in the woods the evening I took supper with you. If you can send some word to the school-house I shall be-as I have been this year past-yours grateful for many kind nesses. PGaBE WHITE." This message was intrusted to the hands of a boy who could not read script, and who, as a reward for his services, was delivered from school an hour before dismissal. He lived near Mr. Barker's house, and was charged not to lay the paper out of his hands until Mrs. Barker should receive it from him at her door; and his delighted heels at first spurned the dead leaves with true zeal. But he saw Painter tramping along the edge of the hollow, and being a boy he could not help feeling the leaf-mold for a chip, stick or stone, and having found a shrunken walnut, whizzed it after the her mit. Painter turned; so the boy was obliged to dodge behind a tree and skulk from one tree to another in following up his game, for he was not the boy to turn his back in the midst of sport. Other shrunken walnuts thumped the ground about Painter or pelted him right heartily. He concluded to come after his assailant; so just as the boy laid the note down to break a promising clod into handy chunks, the shaggy man towered directly over him. He was away like a darting hornet. The note, out of hand, was out of mind, until Barker's cabin appealed to both memory and invention; and the boy spent the rest of his homeward journey building a plausible tale about the document's fate. Phobe sat still after the last pupil was gone, dreading to go home. Perhaps she hoped Mr. Barker might come to her di rectly on the receipt of her message; and when the school-house door opened, it was this momentary expectation which lit her eyes, and left them as suddenly as life dies from a spark. McArdle tiptoed in. His pale skin had taken an eager-glow from t.he exercise of. walking up hill. He gave bier a propitiating smile, and came for ward, removing his gloves. "I came here instead of seeing you at the house," said McArdle, "because I have something very particular to say." "Sit down," responded Phoebe, patiently. "Thank you, I prefer to stand," said Mc Ardle, leaning one arm on her desk and "I PREFER TO sTAND," HE sAID. resting his right foot upon the platform. "You are looking rather used up." Phnbe sat back in her chair. She had never before noticed how personally un pleasant Milton McArdle could'be. She did not like his condescending kindness, and objected to his long neck and exaggerated lower lip. And it amused her that she in her position could afford to be so fastidious. "I apprehend, Miss Phocbe," said Mo Ardle, "that Gurley has been saying some thing to you about me." Phoebe's smile became positive, and he hastened to confess with virtuous precision: "I do not deny that I may have remarked something of the sort." "You have been remarking, too, have you" said Phoebe, her face settling back Into quiet pallor. "But it was because," explained McArdle, intent on his own object, "I apprehended it would be better for the present for us to to conceal." "What have we to conceal?" said Phcebe. "Under the circumstances," he continued, growing red as if just gr-ated, "We are both alone in the world, as it were. And there are people who would say it is un suitable, but I can not agree with them. Therefore," said -McArdle, with a tlourish of his hand, "I apprehended I had better as sume that our dfriendship was but a slight one." "I don't know what you are talking about," said Phebe. "If you have heard things against me, it would be kinder to stay away I" " I haire hear-d things, Miss Phonbe," ac knowledged McArdle, magnaninmouslyv. He placed his hat on the desk and steadied him self in his position. "From what this-this brother Thorney of yours has let drop, and various circumstances, it appears there are matters which will need explanation betwixt you and me. But before those matters are explained," he hastened, silencing her, "I want to express my views and plans. In spite of the fact that the church will requite me to make a very circumspect selection, and also in spite of the fact that I know my cousin Mrs. Holmes will oppose it, I am de termined. I apprehend that you under stad ?" "No," said Phcebe, lifting her eyes from 8 carved slit in her desk, which some unruly boy, while sitting there in durance, had turned into an ink canal. "I don't know what you mean." The muscles of McArdle's face expressed vexation. "Then I will explain. I hoped to be more cordially met by you, Miss Phoebe. You surely feel unhappy and unprotected." "I can't remember ever feeling other wvise." "But more so now than at some previous date. I offer you my protection. We can be of mutual assistance. You could still teach or find some other conigenial occupa tion, and I could :-assist-: ah-in cultivat ing your mind, It would be best for you to go away fronm here, no doubt. I should be at theological school, and for the present we would keep the matter quiet." "What matter quiet?" inquired Phorbe. "Our-marriage," replied McArdle, wip ing his heated face with a handkerchief he had bought with money borrowed from her. "Aeyon asking me to miarry yout". "I apprehended it would scarcely be necessary to explain that," he responded, with asperity. "But I don't want to marry you." "Consider what you are saying," im pressed McArdle. "I know it may seen a strange proposition to you just now." "It does,". said Phoebe. "But I mean it, and will take the risks. Only prudence seems to dictate," said Me Ardle, going over his ground again, "that for the present we keep our own counsel." "I wish you'd go away," said Phobe, upon which McArdle stared at her with startled eyes. He waited in various 'uncomfortrble atti tudes while she put on her shawl and pre pared to fasten the door. Then, stepping out, he picked his way along by her side, looking at her occasionally with increasing chagrin and indignation. "I would like to know what I am to appre hend from the last remark you made." "I don't want you to ti so to me." "But under the circumstances, surely, Miss Phobe" "Under any circumstances." "You mean to convey a refusal." As McArdle tried to ponder the fact his countenance hardened. "You'll regret it." "I regret almost every thing which ever happened to me," said Phoebe. "It would be a new experience if I didn't regret this." "It's very foolish of you," said MeArdle, pityingly. "Besides, you are treating me with great cruelty. You have engaged my feelings." 'But under the circumstances, you ap prehend, it would be better to conceal that matter," flashed out Phobe. MeArdle let his lower lip hang pendulous, while his sense of injury grew. "I won't go any farther with you," he said, pausing. "I won't go up to the house to-night." "Good-bye, then," said Phobe. "You utterly refuse!" meditated Mo Ardie. "Who else, do you suppose, wili come out as I have done, waiting for expia nations to be made afterwards " "You seem to admire your conduct very much," she said. He keenly glanced at her. "You are attached to somebody else. 1 feel it. But it can be nobody but Gurley." "I said good-bye," said Phobe, stauding taller. There was a thrill of anger in her voice. "But one moment," insisted McArdle. He took out his linakerchief and wiped one eye after the other, holding a fold of it over his finger point. "When you discard me you are injuring yourself. Poor child! It will never profit you any to cherish these other feelings." "Why did I never dispise you before!" exclaimed Phobe, seeming to expand and blaze. "How could I feel a protecting kindness for you and take pleasure in doing you what little services I could!" "I apprehend," he said, stiffly, "that you allude to the trifling sums I have been forced by an ungenial fate to borrow from you." -No," said Phoebe, relenting. "I never thought of them. I am a miserable girl, but princess enough in my feelings to make you' welcome to what you have had. Only don't speak another word to me to-night." She turned her back on him and ran toward the lawn gate. (To BE OONTINUED) THE SPARTANBURG ENCAMPMENT. the Official Programme Issued by the Association President McCravy of the Spartanburg Encampment Association has issued for publication the official programme of the Farmers' Encampment as follows: MONDAY, AUGUST 6TH. General preparation day, placing machinery, arranging exhibits, etc. TUESDAY, AUGUST 7TH. Morning session, 10 o'clock Addresses of welcome by Hon. S. T. EIcCravy, chairman of local board of irectors, and by Hon. W. E. Burnett Lf behalf of the city of Spartanburg. Responses-Hon. W. K. Thompson, aster of state grange of South Carolina; Eon. Johnson Hagood, president of Parmers' Institute; Hon. J. B. Humbert president of State agricultural and me shanical society. Addresses-The manufacture of sor thum into syrup and sugar, Hon. Nor nan J. Coleman, United States commis iioner of agriculture. Afternoon session, 3 o'clock Address, The condition of affairs now is compared with 1876, Senator Wade Hampton. The Tariff, Senator M~. C. Butler. Evening session, 9:30 o'clock Addresses and discnssions on T rrae ing. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8TH. Morning session, 10 o'clock Meeting oi State Agricultural and Me shanical Society. Essay, Test of the Purity and Vitality >f Seed, Pro. H. H. Loughridge, of South Carolina University. Essay, Diversified Industries as Pro motive of Agricultural Prosperity, Hon. Samuel Dibble, M. C. Essay, The Nature and Treatment of Dotagious Diseases Among Stock, Dr. B. Mclnnes, V. S. Afternoon session, 3 o'clock Essay, The Ideal Farm, by Hon. John B. Verner. Essay, Viticulture (to be assigned). Essay, The Southern D)airy (to be assigned). Evening session, 8:30 o'clock Address, Drainage, by W. G Hinson. THURSDAY, AUGUST 9TH. Morning session, 10 o'clock Meeting of Farmers' institute. Essay, Agricultural Experimentation, he Dr. J. M. McBryde, South Carolina University. Afternoon session, 3 o'clock Essay, Part Played by Bacteria in Ag riculture, by Prof. B. M. Bolton. Evening session, 8:30 o'clock Address, Agricultural Education in South Carolina, Hon. D. K. Norris. FRIDAY, AUGUST 10TH. Morning session, 10 o,clock Essay, Lines Along Which Lie the Development of Southern Agriculture, Dr. Daniel Lee, of Nashville Tenn. Essay, How to Make Forage Pay in South Carolina, by E. S. Rivers. Esq., of James Island, S. C. Afternoon session, 3 o'clock Fruit Growing for Market in South Carolina, be R. B. Watson, Ridge Spring, S. C. Evening session, 8:30 o'clock Address, Agricultural Organization in the South. (To be assigned.) Closing address by Hon. John W. Wofford, pres ident of the board of commissioners of the Inter-State Farmers' Encampment. A method is wanted by which family seleonsn can be kept in their ceis. TilE FIRST CAMPAIGN MEETING. RICHARDSON, MAULDIN AND TILL MAN SPEAK TO THE GATHERING. No Opponents Appear to the Present Gov eruor or Lieutenant Gov. ruor--Captain Tillman Takes Part in the Speech Making. (From the News and Courier.) The first of the meetings appointed by the Democratic State Executive Com mittee was held at Hodges, Abbeville county, on Friday, the 20th inst. There were about seven hundred persons pres ent. Capt. James N. Cochran, of Hodges, presided, and introduced. -Governor Richardson, who spoke as follows: Governor Richardson's Speech. The Governor said that he was here by direction of the Dtmocratic party, in accordance with the expression from the recent State Convention, and to address the people as had been arranged by the State Executive Committee. Before he touched on other matters he desired to answer certain vague and irresponsible charges which had been made in regard to the conduct of the State Government. It had been stated by some newspapers and politicians that the burden of taxa tior was to-day as heavy on the people as it was under Radical rule. This as sertion was not true and he would pro ceed to prove it. He quoted from a tabulated statement issued by the Demo cratic State Committee in 1882 and showed the taxes exacted each year of Radical rule. One example here suffices for the contrast. In the fiscal year 1873-74 the total State tax-was 12 mills, yielding $2,085, 000, and the aggregate county taxes were $1,037,000, making a total taxation of $3,122,000. On the other hand the total State tax under Democratic rule in 1886 87 was but $882,000 and the county taxes were proportionately less. The Governor's full tlgures will be given hereafter. He quoted from the records to show that the actual and con tingent liabilities by the State under Radical rule reached the enormous total of nearly $29,000,000. While tha pres ent figures were only one-fifth as large. Then the Governor, to use the lan guage of Mr. W. C. Benet, dealt with the figures of the State's finances at the present time "with the felicity and power of a Gladstone." He took up the Till man comparison of taxation in 1878-79 and 1886 .87, and canvassed item by item the points of increase and diminution in the expenditures. His table will be here after published in full. It is sufficient now to show that the most important differences were as follows: Excess in appropriations 1878-79 over 1886-87: South Carolina University $2,100, South Carolina College and Mechanical Insti tute $7,500, penal and charitable institu tions $9,000, civilcontingentfundS5,000, State Agricultural and Mechanical Soci ety $1,500, Court of Claims$8,000, Bond Court $2,000, claims passed $5,000, defi ciencies $12,800; total excess $45,832. Excess 188:-87 over 1878-79: Legisla tive expenses $7,000, tax department $1,200, University and Citadel $33,800, repairs Governor's Mansion $2,700, pub lic printivg$4,000, artificial limbs $2,000, railroad commission $7,850, (paid by railroads) supervisorsregistration $3,500, transportation of convicts (cost charged from counties to State) $5,000, comple tion State House $16,109, Charleston Medical College $500, interest on public debt $2,130, militia $13,000, experi mental stations $10,000; total excess $38,000; net difference in favor ofi 1878 79 33,476. Deducting the payments of interest'on the public debt with the new appropriations for the State House, the educational institutions and the militia, left hardly the appearance of an in crease. The Governor not only referred to, but discussed, ever-y item of increased expenditure, showing the reason for its existence and putting the question whether the public would forego the ad vantage derived from the outlay. The Governor did all that was possible to re leve the monotony of his ranks of fig ures, and made them infinitely more ef fective than they might have appeared when marshalled in dull array. He presented a bright picture of the present condition of the State as com pared with what it was ten years ago. The progress was great for a poor people in so short a period in the life of a State. It had been said, declared the Gov ernor, that he was a straddler on the question of the Clemson agricultural college. He was here as a loyal son of the State, greatly honored by her, to an swer her inquiry as to his position. With all regard for his friend, the editor of the Abbeville Medium, who was present, and who yesterday in his paper said that he (Governor Richardson) had refused to answer questions as to this college, he asserted that he never had proposed, and did not now propose, to answer his in terrogatories. His official duties did not allow him time to reply to such questions propounded to him. But he was now here at the time and place appointed by the Democracy to speak his convictions. That was right, was it not? Then why put him in the position of a straddler or dodger? In a letter to the News and Courier before his nomination in 1886 he had expressed his opinion as to the agrieultural college question. It was a matter for the people, who would bear the burden, to decide. He then said, and now reaffirmed, that he was now, as ever, for any school which would aid in the educating of this grand old State. He made a comparison between thc edu cational status of New England and South Carolina, and asked how he could oppose any educational advantage for his people. If the Clemson college was accepted the State should support it lib erally. One question for the Legislature was: "Will the will hold?" There was no reason why it should not, but it would be unwise for the State to accept the bequest and proceed to carry it out without being sure of its le gality. He was for all institutions of learning, the free schools and agricultu ral college, the South Carolina Univer sity and the Citadel. It would be a good thing to offer the youth of the State a variety and choice of education suited to their differing genius. South Carolina should go always on ...rd in the matter of education until this most favored of the sisterhood of States should be the greatest and grand est. The Governor's speech lasted for nearly two hours. At its close he was freely applauded and presented with a beautiful bouquet. Capt. Cochran introduced Lieutenant Governor:Mauldin, who, although suffer ing from an attack of inflammatory rheu matism, was able to make a forcible speech of half an hour's duration. The Lieutenant Go. ernor's Speech. In it he referred to the responsibility of the position he occupied and the duty which rested upon him to act, not for any one section, but for the best inter ests of the whole State. The chief in terest of the taxpayers was to have the Government administered with regard both to public necessities and the ability of the State to bear the expense. He had always held that the Government should be administered in the same man ner as a prudent man's private affairs. Sometimes, however, projects failed of effect because of a mistaken idea of econ omy. Differences always existed between representatives of the people as to the best economy for the Commonwealth. The compromises to which these vari rnces led were, perhaps, after all, the most advantageous measure for the State. He denied the charge that he was an enemy of education, lower or higher. He had supported the proposition to charge a tuition fee in the University, and was glad to know from friends of that institution that the requirement of such a fee had not injured it. No one should place a stone in the way of any institution of learning in the State. While an economist, he would not con I ider himself pledged to support every measure whose originator fancied it would be one of true economy. He would vote after hearing debate as his judgment dictated for the best interests of the State. He did not oppose the Clemson college, and wished the Uni versity made par excellence the college of the State, drawing its students from, but not competing as an equal with, the lesser colleges. An agricultural college, with a school of technology, would be a valuable addition to our educational sys tem. If the Clemson legacy turned out as represented, it should be accepted and vitalized by the State. Captain Tillman's Speech. Capt. B. R. Tillman was introduced by Dr. Jones and was enthusiastically received by the crowd, who listened to him with absorbed interest. He was armed, he said, with plenty of ammunition, but had not time to tire it all off. He was glad to give his fel low citizens an opportunity to look him in the eye and judge whether he was the demagogue and crank he was alleged to be. He was present by invitation of the Abbeville Democracy and the Abbeville farmers neither as an open nor secret candidate for the office of Governor or Lieutenant Governor. He felt his dis advantage in following their able and silver-tongued Governor, whose glowing words in praising South Carolina had stirred his heart as much as any one's. "I," said Capt. Tillman, "am nothing but a barnyard rooster." Laughter.] A voice: "No, an dgefield game chicken!" [Applause.] "I don't want to fight eagles nor buz zards either. It seems that some buzzard has escaped from the Market House in Charleston and gone into the News and Courier office, where it is spewing its slime all over me, but such a creature is unworthy of the notice of a gentleman." [Applause and laughter.] After this graceful remark Capt. Till man said that he was not here to discuss differences between Democratic and Republican government, but between Democrats and Democrats. He con gratulated his audience on the fact that the time had passed when men could be shut up by the whisper, "Hush, or you'll pitthe Democratic party." The ne groes had been pitched overboard, and the only question was as to the white men who should govern the State, whether the people or a clique should do it. He denied that he had accused the State Government of corruption, but of extravagance. The Government was not the State officers, but these officers, the Legislature and the judiciary. The Legislature had been the moat extava gant of the three branches. This Gov ernment was supposed to be Democratic but South Carolina was purely aristo cratic from centre to circumference. It had been so for a hundred years and would be so for another one hundred until you people rise in your might as free Anglo-Saxons, and demand the right of self-government. Before the war the aristocratic element controlling the Legislature held that the people were not fit to elect their Governor and arrogated that power to themselves. The same element controls the State Conven tion, which practically elects the Gov ernor by its nomination, and, exercisinag usurped power, says to the people, "you can'tbe trusted." He hoped the tune was near when the people wvould de mand the right of voting in a State primary for every officer they wished. Until they got that right they might grumble as much as they pleased, but their bosses would be in Charleston and Columbia. He styled the farmers' movement "a queer kind of critter," and said that he didn't understand it himself, as "it was not the child he gave birth to." [Laughter.] It must have, however, the germ of statesmanship in it or it could not have grown so greatly. He believed it to be the beginning of a revolution. It would be as great a revolution as that of 1876 to secure the right of voting in a State primary for the State officers. He hoped they would enjoy this right two years from to-day.. Capt. Tillman criticised severely the provision for a preliminary canvass un der which he was now speaking, char aterizsng it as "a bone to a dog." In half a dozen counties, before the first speech of the canvass had been made, delegates had been selected to the State Convention devoted to the interests of certain candidates. Let any change of sentiment occur between now and the State Convention, and these dele gates would snap their fingers in the faces of the people and say. "Ah, boys, we were too smart for you." The speaker's next jeu d'esprit was, "We've got to make the candidates toe the mirrk like little men, like some of them are doing to-day." [Laughter.] Then he declared that he was chock full of rocks and wanted to chunk 'em into the crowd. He next said: "When I started to work for the college I made a mistake. I admit it. The roof would have been on the college now and the boys in it if I hadn't criticised the glorious State Government, but that ruined me. See what heaps of politi cians jumped on the agricultural wagon till they broke it down. He then - pro ceeded to give in detail his version of the failure of the farmers' movement in '86, when it controlled the House of Representatives, because of the opposi tion of office-holders and lawyers. The story has often been told, but the crowd seemed to think it fresh. - He had a grave charge to make here, and it was this: That the trustees of the South Carolina College since '79 had been 'en gaged in a conspiracy against the agri cultural interests of the State. 'This is a grave charge because the trustees are among-the most honored ofouraiian. He would give them credit for not--in tending it, but he would prove that they were conspiratori. He then outlined, as at various times in his published let ters, the course adopted for the revival of the South Carolina College and the disposition of the agricultural scrip fund moneys. The conspiracy he referred to appeared to be the establishment of the so-called agricultural annex instead of an agricultural college. He highly praised the South Carolina University and said he would like to see it grander than ever, but these proceedings of the trustees "had.made the blood to broil in his bosom." He then made the usual attack on the annex. The South Caro lina College had inch by inch fought the farmers' movement. He said that, in his opinion, President J. M. McBryde is the man who stood more in his (Till man's) path than any other. He might do Mr. McBryde injustice, and some other man might be the "head devil" of the opposition, but he believed him to be the man. He read with ridicule a student's essay on the South Carolina collegian, in which it was stated that the students, after having their boots blacked by colored jamtors, rose 'to their breakfast at 8 o'clock, and con trasted it with the achievements of the students of the Mississippi College, who made eight cents an hour for extra labor on the farm, A boy raised on the South Carolina College plan was sure to re turn home either a theorist or feeling himself above his people. This oligarchy, this little gang of opponents of his, would have trundled Fort Hill down to Columbia if it had not been for Mr. Clemson's provisions giving control of the bequest to the farmersthemselves. Capt. Tillman was very severe on the "How de-do" political cowards in the Legislature, and accused a majority of the Edgefield delegation of breaking their pledges to support the college. He attributed their defection and that of others to the seduction of the Columbia Club. At this point he proceeded to explain why he had, after the last State Convention, become a guest of the club himself. It was just after he had told the truth, and Col. Haskell had denied it, that that gentleman urged him-so strenuously to visit the club; that he al lowed' himself to be grabbed by the arm and taken there rather than appear per sonally spiteful. He drank there a glass of lemonade only. It was a "monstro's uice place," and no wonder the corn bread and bacon fellows liked it. Some of the legislative deserters from the farmers' movement had been rewarded. for their action. One Senator had re eived an $800 po.ition. He pre dicted that at the very opening of the next session Gideon Lee would serve notice of suit to con est the Clemson will, and that this would be made the excuse for a failure by the State to accept the bequest. If the farmers did not make the coming Legislature act at once, they would not ikely ever get the college. He had never seen any good in the agricultural department. Six or eight thousand dol: ars should suffice for its maintenance, The other $25,000 of the privileg tax should go to the college with the Htch fund and land script fund, and it was only by pledging Legislative candidates to push this explicit plan that the farm er could hope to attain their ends: they must swear by the holy gods to have a school of their own. Taking various official reports and se lecting figures from them Capt. Tillman undertook to demonstrate that his state ment at the State Convention as to the increase and expenditures over 1878-79 was correct. His figures would be given, but they were not made intelligible to his hearers on the stand. He announced that Comptroller General Verner, whom, however, he considered an honorable can, had misstated the facts and played the partisan in his de'claration asto the ~omparative expenses of the periods nder discussion. Governor Richardson having made a ~orrection of one .of Capt. TJ.illman's statements, the Moses of the farmers remarked to him, "I give you credit for being ajsquare old gamecock." He characterized the railroad commis sion in language the brief equivalent of which is that that body constitutes a fos silized aristocratic excrescence upon the body politic. He compared the salaries >f State officials and Judges in Georgia with those in South Carolina. He was not, however, in favor of cheap Judges for South Carolina, nor .drunken ones either. This agitation had gone too far, the speaker said, for him to give up now. 'he people were laboring unddr burden some Radical laws which should be re pealed, and the aristocrats should be ouled from the public teat. But for the Edgeield devil" in the speaker he rould long since have given up this ell-nigh hopeless fight. He was incur ing heavy pecuniary loss by making his canvass, but if he had said anything ; make his audiences think over their rongs and arouse themselves he was' atisfied. Concluding Capt. Tillman said, "I'll itick to you, so help me God, tdI we win ;his fight." The speaking closed at 2.41) P. M., aving lasted four hours and ten minutes. Of a bank check it may be truly said, 'ts face is its fortuzne." An Englishmanl has written a pamphlet o prove'the pedigree of the devil. IHe lates the old chap back eleven thousand ears, and gives him far more credit than loes the average minister. Jones (to his wife)-Why is a husband ike dough? [He was going to tell her it ws because a woann needs him; but she epie. "Beaume he is harrd to et off her