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VOL. III. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1888. NO, 29 A Brother'sKeeper. IA HO 'S W0R OF LOYB AD DUTY. 3T ARY HA*TWILL CATEERWOOD, AMEoR or "ORAQUE O' DooM," "SrzrvE Guzru," "Tan LoNe MsA's CAni," AND OTEE STORIs. McArdle stood with his hands in his over coat pockets until the air grew dusker around him. , He walked down .hill slowly, knowing low Phoebe must shrink at the supper ta ble,.how the constraint would drive her up stairs, and how shocked Mrs. Holmes would be if she knew what he had said to Phoebe. A variety of stings kept him smarting, -and he occupied so much time in his saun tering that it was night before he saw the lights of Greensburg. Gurleyturned his mare's head toward the billrrdad as McAidle passed the Mounds. They exchanged a word, barely distinguish ing each other's faoes. McArdle could picture Gurley's horse -standing by the Holmes hitching-post But he could not picture Phobe looking out at it from her chamber window as she did, and hesitating to answer thecaller's demand for herself "Oh, the wonder palace!" whispered Phoebe to her unresponsive window-sill, her voice hissing softly through the darkness of theroom. "I mustput myhead into it for a minute and imagine things. Imust pretend I am a little happy. In the wonder palace I have always been a girl like Miss Fawcett, and a friend has come to call on me, and I am just traiing down stairs in a long soft dress to meet hi- L:e friend. It is sunny weather, and I have flowers by my waist and m my hair. And now I am just reach ing out my hand." She opened her eyes, the wonder palace being shattered by a noise outside. At first it appeared the friend was riding away, as friends so often do outside of wonder palaces; but when he silhouetted himself against the lighter background she saw it was her brother Thane White. Phebe threw her window up and pene trated the distance betwixt them with a low but distinct call. He looked over his shoulder and drew rein. The young mare moved resentfully and kept describing uneasy half circles. ."You are not going to do that," said Phebe. "Come down here," he replied, cautiously "If Ileave the window you will gallop off. But don't think Pll not tell." He uttered a derisive hiss. . "Pm open to argument," he replied, "if you're quick." Phoebe ran silently down the back stair way and approached him. He restrained the plunging animal, and leaning from the saddle struck a match upon his boot and held it to his face. "See that?" he inquired, indicating a vivid welt across his cheeks and nose. "That's what your daisy in the house gave me as he was riding this way. I put my band on his bridle and meant to borrow a little brotherly cash. It's your fault all 'round. I've been out along the road the last few days and couldn't raise anything. This horse'll even things, up." "P11 call for help," said Phcebe. Cal, and PIl be out of sight before you san draw your breath again. This is a roadster. Tell you what ill do, though. if you insist. Pll sell you the horse fora hun dred dollars. Thorney says you've got a aundred dollars hid away. 'Taint safe to wait, but Pr wait one minute, while you bring out the money." "Thane, it's no ves to tell you Thornay gad I are destitute-" "Not a bit. I don't want this horse pai ltnlarly, but I must have him or money. You can buy me oft cheap this time, and ll honestly clear. There's a person in this - aelghborhood I don't want to have see me." "How many times have you 'honestly cleared'?" "A good many. ButI'm telling you clear truth. It ain't healthy for me here now. So here's a good horse and the equipments thrown in going for less than half price, cash in hand. Run and fetch your money nce, run and fetch your money twice" "I will," said Phcebe, desperately. "Down to the gate," he stipulated. "I want a fair start if you're goin' to do any thing mean." She ran up-stairs, groped in a bureau drawer, took out a sealed envelope and held it up against the window light. Then, set ting her teeth she slipped down again. "Get off," and give me the bridle inzmy hand," said Phcabe, when Thane reached from the saddle for her envelope. He laughed, but dismounted, looking sus piciously toward the house. The sitting. room curtains muffled their lamp-light, but Randys back-kitchen candle flared out on the wood-pile while she washed dishes and soared among the rafters of the tune called Hebron. "I keep the bridle myself, my lady," said Thane, "till the money's counted out" Whether Bess at thispointutterly rebelled against him, or whether Phonbe frightened ber-, she reared directly over Thane and flung him by her bridle off his feet. Snort -. THEBO. Ing and neighing she clattered up the avenue, bringing Gurley out of the house followed by Tom Holmes, who paused on the step with Mrs. Holmes in the doorway behind him. "Never mind," called back Gurley. "Shell let me catch her when she gets over her fright. Something's frightened her." "-Likely story!" exclaimed Torn Holmes. "I knew that mare'd have some trick, anid now you see she's unhitched herself. Shall I come and help you?" "No," replied Gurley, laughing. "I won't have you. She's just up here in a corner. Shnt the door. Mrs. Holmes will catch "You better let me help you," repeated Tom Holmes, with merry laziness, with drawing into the house as he spoke. "We don't want you rolling about here In our way" responded Gurley. "Ho, Bess; esmn here," he coaxed, walking towards Ms@at a slis *Nii tablet of light from the ground. But as he approached he traced another figure beside Bess, holding the bridle. "I have her," said Phcobe. "You didn't come out for that !' exclaimed Gurley. "Here she is. Hold tight to:her bridle, Mr. Gurley." "Oh, Bess is no runaway. At least, she wasn't before you put a premium on her capers. I am obliged to her for bringing you down-stairs. May be I've been perse cuting you with calls lately. "No!" said Phoebe, earnestly. "Nof Take my arm back to the house, won't you! There's a harrow or part of an old wagon-bed wrecked hereabouts, and the starlight is hardly strong enough for us to see it. I know the bearings pretty well, though." "Mr. Gurley, will you do a great, great service for me?" "Don't you know I would do anything in the world for you!" "But this is so risky, so dangerous, I ought not to ask it. I want you to take me to Mr. Barker's. I am afraid to stay here!" "Afraid?" said Gurley. There he stopped, without dwelling even in thought upon the probable cause. "You are not afraid of Bess, anyhow," he observed, with a slight laugh. "Or her present saddle, either. Will you.ride her and let me lead?" "Oh, thank you." "Not at all, I assure you. And I know you can mount from the hand. That's it. Are you at all comfortable'now?" "Yes," replied Phebe. I feel safe al ready." "She must learn to walk, and she - hates it," said Gurley, as they started, Bess giv ing an impatient jerk at her rein. I am having a lady's saddle made. Psyche. Fawcett offered me hers, but it is hardly modern enough, so I'm having one mad according to my notions. You said you'd ride with me. .But I scarely expected we'd set out this way." Phoebe laughed. "But I'm glad she hates to-walk. + When you go home, ride fast. There mght be something on the'road." "I did have an adventures below (here," said Gurley, recollecting. "Some fellow tried the prank of grabbing my bridle, but I marked him, and he'll probably gpt ex cused from chapel for a few days." "What is that by the gate?" breathed Phoebe, shrinking toward the horse's aeck. "Nothing but a bush." "Oh, yes; I remember." ' "Our eyes will soon be asoustomed toithe dark. I don't believe I know the best route to Barker's. They live offj the mainarcad, don't they?" "Yes, and if we turn into the woodsthere by the school-house there. is a sleddroad which will lead us." Into the woods near the sc:hool-house'they accordingly turned. The night air mace a far-away aeolian sound among tree limbs, and beyond the Hollow, Guy 's dogs could be heard barking at intervals. Phobe cowered once or twice again, but the sentinel object ahead cif them always proved to be a stump insteaa i of Thane. She glanced backward, suspecting that he had followed them; he had disa ,peared too soon after Bess overthrew him t o be far off. As Gurley's and Baas' feet t rod undisturbed ahead, however, Phebe's conndence re turned. "If you come to harms on my account," she said, "I would notdknow how to en-. dure it." "Do you think these woods are full! of wolves and robber 3?" laughed Gurley.. "As long ago as my jacket days they hadn't evan a wildcat to mr.ke them interesting. Painter is the only monster that is sup posed to haunt thera now. Have you any wrap on? Area't you cold 1 "Just a little cold., but I hadn't noticed it myself. I did not, stop for a shawl. And what will they think when they find you are gone without any overcoat!" "They'll think I'm chasing Bess toward ber stable," rep~lied Gurley, in amusement. "It was fortunate I snatched up my hat. here: you must let me wrap this around your shoulders.." He halted Bess. -"What is i'." inquired Phcebe, but the gleam of his shirt-sleeves was token enough. "Indeed, I won't take your coat, Mr. Gur ley. Indeed, I will not. If you don's put it wa again I'll. go back in the dark.by myself. [t is not a cold night. I don't shiver beause [ am chilly-" "As you. please," said Gurley, throwing it across hi.s arm and moving on. "It does smell of cigars. I feel like a grand wood :hopper stalking along this way." "It wasn't cigars. You know it wasn't. igars. 1 want you to put it on, please." "Hczre," said Gurley, "is a conflict of wills. 'The fine-tempered but firm inelastic woman's will, and the big brutal man's will. [f he gives way he creates a dangerous pre edent, and in .this case makes himself con temptible." "It, isn't any-connlict," said Phcebe. "I'm only begging you to do as I want you to." - "That's the artful wayv in which the wom a's will operates," laughed Gurley. "BuS [ will obey you," he added, with gentle seri >usness, "even in this case, because your slightest wish is going, to have a life-long. power over iae." '-No," gasped Phoebe, feeling her heart. :lose its muscles as wi.th a grip. '-Yes. My place is at your bridle rein." He turned his face up- toward her, his eyes smiling through the. dark, and threw the :oat around his shouaders, buttoning it un-' Ier his chin. "I don't want to be too warm while you are not wirapped at all, though." "And that's a man's obedience," said Phebe, in a strange..voice, which she could not make playful. "Yes; his loyal obedience." They moved forw.ard in silence, save the sound made by walking. Phobe felt the blood beat in every part of her body. The shelteringr woods seemed warmer, having a spice of odorous bariks and the breath of the trst spring flower in the air. "I never have beien on this.path before," said Gurley. "Ha.ve you f" "No, never," breathed Phobe. "Oh what am I sayin~g I I have been through these woods ofteni." "I'd like it," ho continued, "if we were going straight on to Heaven knows where. Some happy v'alletv, may be. So far as my' interest in the matter is concerned the rest f creation may go by the board. This is. an unusual ride, isn't it! How keen the' starlight is. Two going down to Egypt to escape Herod." "I feel quite safe from Hierod," said Phoebe, rubbing an agitated palm on Bess' eck, -'with you. But there isn't any happy alley or pleasant end tothis ride. It's a very unhappy valley. And.your place.is not at my bridle rein." "The existing factedisperses that state ment." "But I mean any more." '-Now is always the beginning of here after," said Gurley. "I am here now. Let a stronger man put mie out of my place if he can." -"Listen :" said Phoebe, sitting alert. "And 'on't you see somebody coming yonder?" As they crunched on, feet approaching. them crunched also, and two figures wvay ered, now together ad now apart, as they picked znmer footing about ti.s roc-s of~ wayside trees. &alvdewade betho'.ege as he looked up at Phoebe, and she said: "It's Mr. and Mrs. Barker. I know his voice." "Whom have we here?" demanded the master, as the parties encountered each ather. "Oh Mr. Barker, I was coming to your. house. And you are going away." "Yes, but you save us a walk, Miss, Phoebe. We were setting out to see you. Is this young Gurley t Good evening, sir, good evening." "Good evening," responded Gurley, car rying his white sleeved hand to his hat in saluting the master's wife. "It's ii tering to have a convoy sent out for us. Miss Phoebe has been trembling through the' woods, but she ought to feel safe in the heart f a party like this." "Why, you surely didn't expect to be :nolested, child ?" said Mrs. Barker, with a pang of anxiety in her tone. "I didn't know," hesitated Phoebe. "Need you go any further now, Mr. Gurley? I can walk; it's but a step. You -ol "YES, MT PLACE IS AT YOUR BRIDLE REIN." :an ride fast through the woods going back, and watch the dark places along the road." "He will proceed with us to the house,", said Mr. Barker, decidedly. "Certainly I shall," corroborated Gurley. 'You shouldn't turn me off as a bad es-, :ort the moment you can better yourself, :o encounter dark places along the road and so on." "You'll want to see the fire," said Mrs., Barker. "Seems as if neither of you has on warm enough things." "You got my note, did you, Mr. Barker?" inquired Phoebe, as they entered the nleared space and saw the cabin's bay win-' low wavering with pleasant firelight. "I got no note," replied the master, striding in the lead. His wife walked by Bess' right side and held the girl's hand in her woollen shawl. "But I thought that was why you were' -oming. I sent you a note and wanted to see you. It was necessary for me to see' rou." "We heard tales," explained Mrs. Barker, in a low voice. "And he thought, and I did, ,oo, we ought to go over and see you." "Then you were coming anyhow-before [ told you any thing," said Phoebe, bearing eartily upon Mrs. Barker's hand. "I got no note." the master repeated, :hanging his emphasis. "But impressions avre received. There seems to be a de moralizing spirit abroad." Phoebe knew he was casting a quelling look around the horizon as around a large school-room. "And I considered it was time to investi. gate: an d bring proper authority to bear on the ring-leaders." "Thank you," said Phoebe. They came up in front of the house, and she was lifted down by Gurley. She begged that Bess should be put in the stable instead of tied carelessly to a tree. Therefore the master, carrying the padlock key, piloted Gurley to his log barn, where the cow had her stall and was sighing that low tune cattle seem to breathe to them selves over the cud. "Orcutt is in bed,"' said Mrs. Barker, rawing chairs before the fire and shaking sway some of the ashes with which she :autiously smothered the boldest flames be fore starting. "You don't look as pale as I expected to see you, but your eyes are too ig." "I've been stretching them open of ights," said Phobe. "I haven't been sleep nag as peacefully as your boy since we alked here the last time. The log house mnd all the plans are gone, Mrs. Barker. And much-much worse." "Never you mind. Wait till he comes in. We didn't believe what we heard, but he's felt it, and you must tell him the whole rouble." When he came in and threw his army >vercoat on the deer-antlers and saw Gur XE sTOOD AT TEE END OF TEE MANTEL. ley placed in his own throne before the fire ad Phobe in the rocker, he stood at the ed of the mantel and said: "Now, Mrs. Barker, we'll have a taste of that root,-beer you bottle away for the blood in the spring. My blood has been heated lately and I think it needs medicating. Mr. urley, I never had the pleasure of sprout ng your jacket, but your father before you has run many a race with me; he was a long-legged, long-winded fellow, and fair in a wrestle. I know something of your stock, and I suppose you wouldn't be where you are to-night if you didn't mean to be friend this young lady." "I think Lve declared my friendship to her, sir." "Hehi!" said the master, keenly inter rogative. " And it's certainly a loss to me that I've, ever been here before, to cultivate the good will of my father's old friends." "I didn't mecan that," said the master, with massive sincerity. "The generation oming in never runs after the generation oing out. But you're welcome for his sake." Mrs. Barker brought not only the root eer but a platter of nut-cakes. These she portioned on her flowered plates, and poured the beer into tumblers as heavy as umps of quartz. This liquid might have been a tap of the verv juice then coursing upward everywhere from the earth; it smelled so ripe of wood odors. "Thre' alke roots and barksia it~" explained the master's wife, boiled down and strained, and cleared with- yeast. Abd it saves a doctor bill every spring." "Now, Miss Phoebe," said the master, standing on the hearth with his tumbler held before him and his nut-cakes bandy on the mantel, -you're not to feel that you're on trial." "I want to be put on trial," replied Phobe, keeping her eyes on the plate in her lap. " Let her eat her bite in peace first, Ogre," begged Mrs. Barker, pulling a splint-bottomed chair to the corner opposite her husband and sitting down with her own refreshment. --Then she can talk. The poor child, she never came here that she didn't have to stand an examination of some kind." "I'd rather speak at once," said Phoebe. " Tell us the rights of it, then, in as few words as you can, but remember you are not going to say any thirg wa'ch will alter Dur impressions about yourself." " I hope not, Mr. Barker.'? "Certainly not," he affirmed, coming down with a mastiff-like crunch upon a nut cake. " It's my older brother who has followed me here. And he is," said Phoebe, with ef fect, "just out of prison." " Oh, dear!" murmured the master's wife, "that's worse than Thorney." " I don't know what I should have done if Thorney hadn't been the boy he is," ob served Phoebe, with maternal dignity. Gur. ley smiled at her. " Stick to the analysis of the sentence and omit rules and explanations," commanded the master. "Miss Phoebe, what turned this brother to bad courses, and what bear ing has his conduct had on your past his toryf" --I don't remember when he ever turned to any thing else, and once his conduct bore so heavily on our history that I thought i would end my part of it. It was when i first grew sure-that he meant to make us -worse than he was." Gurley's great stump chair faced abou with a jerk toward the rocker. But Phoebe met the older man's eyes, continuing: . "I could not get out of the trouble that way, though, and leave Thorney. I've lived right ahead." "Have you no recollection of your par ents?" "Only a glimmer, like fancying you see a star between .louds." "In order that we may thoroughly under stand your position, Miss Phoebe, give us a skeleton outline of what you do recollect." "I recollect first, Thane's whipping me and Thorney doubling his fists at him. We were in a great many places which seem dim to me. When I was seven or eight years old we lived in Pittsburgh at an or phan asylum. Thane was gone for several years. I knew afterwards he was serving out a sentence. A lady in Alleghany City took a liking to me and had me among her children to help nurse. She got' a place for Thorney, too, right across the street, because I was unwilling to be quite away from him. But folks were never so kind to him; and the rude talk he heard stayed in his mind. You can not cultivate Thorney," Phoebe admitted, dropping her sincere glance to the level of Gurley's eye brows. "I lived in that family until I was in my teens. They were refined people and taught me almost like a daughter. I don't let myself think their name aloud, I made auch a poor return for all their care. Thane came back. I was studying regularly and the lady said I could in time be a governess. But he followed me when I was with the children on the street. He could take Thorney and make a thief of him. I was =sung and foolish. That was four years ago. I thought we could run off from him, and tried it. Before I really went the chil dren and the children's mother used to look at me so. And the servants whispered be hind my back. I guess she was discouraged when she got a hint of Thane, for she said before that Thorney was bad enough. I re membered that when I took Thorney away without telling her. For you see I didn't know then it was useless to run; and I was not convmnced until we tried it so many times. We didn't run very far at fir-st. We went into the country to a Dutch farmer whom the asylum matron knew. They made us work hard, but let us go to school in the winter, and the next summer I aught school near by. Thorney kept on working for the farmer and we saved every ent except what we bought clothing with, and it was well we did, for Thane hunted s out. I bought him off that time and had eough money left to bring Thorney and me to this State. I thought if we went to aother State he must lose track of us. We went to the Dutch farmer's relatives, and I aught school there and Thorney worked. We staid a year befor-e Thane found us. Every time he found us he took our oney." "And no one protected you!" said Gurley. "No one could." '-Couldn't!" roared the master. "Wait i the scoundrel comes around here." "You shouldn't have allowed him to lackmail you," said Gurley. "Any friend nderstanding your relative positions would ave driven him off." Preverbs About Thunder. 1 lIthe birds be silent, expect thunder. If the cattle run around and collect to ether in the meadows, exet thunder. If the clouds grow r~il larger, ex ect much rain and also tunder. Two currents in summer indicate hunder. If there be many falling stars during a clear evening in summer, expect thun er. Increasing atmospheric electricity oxi ies ammonia in the air and forms nitric aid, which affects milk, thus aecounting for the souring of milk by thunder.g Thunder in the eveningindicates much ram.1 When it thunders in the morning it1 wilt rain before night. Thunder in the north indicates cold eather. Thunder in the north indicates dry eather. Thunder from the south or southeast ndicates foul weather; from the north r northwest, fair weather. Wiha north wind it seldom thunders. Much thuuder in July injures wheat and barley. Thunder in the fall indicates a mild, pen winter. Distant thunder speaks of coming an.-Boston Journal. The evil pf marrying in haste is shown y the experience of Mrs. Gilbert Austmn, E f New Haven, Conn., who recently < arried Mr. F. C. Hart, a perfect tranger. The bride had about $35,000 ad the gom had nothing. The two . eit for te west, and in a few days the ~ hsband got about half of his wife's ~ oney and skipped. Mrs. Hart is bit erly disconsolate, but it should console er to know that her scoundrelly hus and did not take he last cet. C TILE SECOND CAMPAIGN MEETING SPEECHES BY THE CANDIDATES AND OTHER PROMINENT GENTLEMEN. Public Questions of an Interesting Char acter Discussee Before the People. (From the News and Courier.) The second of the public meetings appointed by the Democratic State Ex ecutive Committee was held at Green ville on Tuesday the 23d inst. Capt. G. G. Wells, in the absence of County Chairman B. F. Perry, pre sided. Governor Richardson was introduced, and was received with applause. He spoke in substance as follows: GOVERNOR BICHRDSON'S SPEECH. He said that he had been quite un well and was unable to address his audi ence as he had hoped to do, but he could not refrain from attempting at least to meet the demands of the occasion. There was something which thrilled him in the presence of a South Carolina au dience, for Carolinians, whether they lived in the centre or on the borders of the State, were yet one people with one pride, one hope, one destiny. He did not intend to say here at this late day, twelve years after Hampton's great vic tory, to show figure by figure, dollar by dollar, that the Democrats who consti tute our State Government excel in the honesty and ability of their administra tion the aliens and robbers of the old Radical days. It could not be that the Governor of South Carolina, or any other officer, was required to go over the State and maintain such a proposi tion. The man who attempted, the Governor said, to deal with facts and figures of moment to the people of this State must assure the public of their ac curacy or stand convicted as unworthy of public confidence. [Applause.] As at Hodges, the Governor took up the charge that the present State Gov ernment was practically as oppressive as that robber Government, which was overthrown in 1876, and it did not take long by an attractive combination of eloquent words and equally eloquent numerals to drive the slander from any lodgement in the minds of his hearers. His discussion of State finances was masterly. Instead of the $28,000,000 debt which we had before 1876, our in debtedness was now but $6,000,000, most of which would fall due in 1893. Let the State Government continue to be managed with fidelity and conserva tism, and this debt could be refunded at 4 per cent., effecting an annual saving of $120,000. "That's economy," com mented the Governor. These savings should be enough, he added, to estab lish, without the Clemson bequest, two first-class agricultural colleges. Referring to the Tillman charge that the expenses of the State Government in 1886-87 were $224,000 greater than 1878-79, he said that the individual who made the assertion did not know enough about the matter to sustain his own sharge. If he had understood the mat ter as he assumed to understand it, he would have seen that instead of an in rease of $224,000 there had been one of X334,000. When a man made a differ nce in figures of over a hundred thou sand dollars against himself in his own argument he did not consider him as re liable as Davies's arithmetic. In speaking of the recklessness of the harges made by would-be statesmen an aspirants for political power, the aovernor referred briefly to the fact hat away off in one of our counties a andidate for the State Senate had ac used a noble and true public servant, Governor Hugh S. Thompson, of steal ing the furniture from the Executive Ianion. After declaring that the charge af such baseness against such a man was sot worthy even of denial, Governor Richardson said that the man who could atter such an accusation like that against m honorable officer was himself capable f committing the deed he charged. 'his sentiment was entho.fastically ap daded. Considering the difference in the ap ropriations between 1876-87, Gover ior Richardson did not bring out all his igures, but explained that the increase was caused by the new appropriations or the militia, University, Citadel, coin letion of the Stats House and the pub ic debt. Each of these appropriations e successively took up and showed the *eason for. There was particular ap ause when he alluded to the militia ppropriation. But one thing stayed he hand which, in one section of the state, was ever ready for the torch, and hat was the presence of the gallant >os whose white tents were on yonder till to-day. He resented the imputations cast upon he Legislature by the ultra agitators of he day, and presented proofs of thei dustry and constant striving after1 onomy of its members. As to the Clemson College, the Gov-] nor repeated his declaration made at] lodge's, that he was in favor of the widest education in schools and colleges, sud his approval of the acceptance of1 he much discussed bequest if it should < rove a valid one and the people wantedt t. South Carolina was no longer af >auper and need stand at no door to< teg for clothing, bodily or intellectually, >ut what she adopted should be under t zer control and used for her people and hem only. [Applause.]t He appealeti to the people of the State 1 o educate their sons, to touch not a t ingle institution which they had, but o build for all the youth of South Car lina. The old State did not need to r evote all her care and love to one class. 'Upward and onward should be the cry ( ' education," said the Governor, "until ivery Anglo-Saxon son of South Caroli i shall be acultured man, aye one who 1; walks his native heath a very prince I mong men." [Great applause.] The Governor's speech lasted one I Lour. After an air from the Greenville ornet Band, Lieutenant Governora ilauldin was introduced by Capt. Wells a one honored by and honoring his ounty and State. LIEUTENA.NT GOVERNOR MIAtTLDIN. Governor Mauldin spoke very briefly adeed, askng to be excused on account c f physical disabilities, but, as always, s words were very much to the point.e The address of Governor Richardson, e said, would go straight to the hearts f this mountain people. It wanaworthy of him and of his people. Honest criticism of public men and officers was a right to be cherished, but cynical criticism for the sake of criticism was to be condemned, and the people of South Carolina would always render their ver diet for honesty and truth. For the benefit of the candidates for the Legis lature, who were present, he told a little story of the Irishman who on his return to the "ould counthrv," after a sojourn in the United States was asked what sort of a place America was. "A -- fine counthry," was his reply. "Ye can do as ye plaze over there, but the devil av it is to make make the other people do as ye plaze." [Laughter and ap plause.] The moral, the speaker said, was that there should be mutual conces sions, because it was always a hard mat ter to make other people think or do as one thought or did himself. The next speaker was CAPT. F. W. DAWSON, of the News and C )urier. After some graceful introductory remarks, he said: "Why am I here? Not as a candidate for Governor or Lieutenant Governor, although the meeting was ordered for the purpose of hearing from such gen tlemen. If I were a candidate for Gov ernor f don't think I could beat Govern or Richardson. for I don't think he ought to be beaten. [Great applause.] So long, added Capt. Dawson, as I am connected with a paper, I aball not be a candidate for office. I am here because Ihave felt that* a citizen foully slandered would here be welcomed to tell the truth before his accuser and ask for a verdict, such as you all would ask when the great ac counting day shall come. [Applause.] My accuser is not here. I should only repeat his fault, and a grievous fault it is in South Carolina, were I to say one word in his absence which I would not say in his presence, but I shall meet him face to face, thank God." [Applause.] Capt. Dawson then briefly discussed public affairs, and in concm-uson said: "When, my friends of Greenville, you find that a government which is essen tially the concrete expression of the pub lic will, is attacked bitterly and in its entirety by any man aspiring to political leadership, you may depend upon it he is a false prophet, and that if you follow him in any manner or upon any device, he will lead you and your people to de struction." [Great applause.] GEN. JAMES W. MOORE. Gen. James W. Moore, State Demo cratic Chairman, was next called on and he made a brief and stirring address, which, however, the limits of this report cannot afford space to. He made a pleasant and graceful reference to the militia, uttered wordy of cheer as to the national campaign, recalled the lessons of 1876, touched upon the essentiality of unity and told an appropriate story. The revolution of 1876, said he, would never go backwards. As the sentinel of the Democracy at his post he could say "All is well," and with your help all will be well. COL. B. W. EDWARDS. Gen. Moore introduced Col. B. W. Edwarde, of Darlington, who spoke at length and with ability upon education. He then referred to the subject of the agricultural college, announcing his de votion and faith, and elaborating his views on the subject. Col. Edwards de clared that he was not a candidate for office. The meeting then adjourned.. DON'T FRIGHTEN CHILDREN. A Shock for Their Minds May Result in More Iii Ultimately Than Blows. (From Good Housek.eping.. The influence that is brought to bear upon a child during the first decade of ife will have a decided effect in determin ng his power of self-control in later ears. It is in the home more than in mny other plaoe that this influence must irst be exercised, and upon nurses, gov rnessess and parents devolves this most important duty, a responsibility which, onsidered in its true light, becomes a rivilege and a sacred trust, A child annot understand the "why and where fore" of many things which to an adult re perfectly plain and intelligible. He stimid, and naturally shrinks from sights and sounds which, to him, are strange and unaccountable. To in any way frighten a child is not only thougutiess and cruel, but, die act itself may be fol owed by serious results. For one to say o harm was intended, and that it was mly in fun, is no excuse. It is of some f the ways in which this abuse is ometimes offered and their consequent ttendant evils that I wish to speak. There are some people who seem to ~ake a morbid satisfaction in frightening roung children by suddenly appearing efore them with the face hidden by a nask or the entire body covered with a heet, at the same time uttering loud and inatural sounds and gesticulating in a rild and frantic manner. Occasionally re find a person who is so regardless of ossible accidents as not to hesitate to >oint at a child a gun or pistol, and feign o strike him with a knife or hatchet. The setting of a strange dog upon one rho already shows signs of terror at the ~onstant barking of the animal is some ines followed by unexpected and pain al results. For little acts of disobe iencee children are sometimes shut up in dark closet or temporarily confined in be attie or cellar. At other times they ~re told strange stories of ghosts and reatened that, if they do not behave ey will be sold to the ragpicker or at wandering gypsies will steal them nd carry them away. These and other such frightful appa atons are of barbarism and superstition, hich should have no place in the iristian light and intelligence of this ineteenth century. And not only this; ch scenes, stories and threats are gross y indecent and deliberate falsehoods, e nature of which the child will some ay understand, and he will be very likely form a just estimate of the moral lacter of those in whose contidence1 d honesty he firmly believed. It is also to be remembered that it is osible that a child may be so often ightened in one way or another as to ventually weaken his character,and even ymetimes produce a deplorable state of< ental imbecility; and there are many sees on record where a child has been >frightened as to cause insensibility, nvulsions and death. A work box--The pitcher's, in a galae I hbum hall. SOME HINTS FOR FARMERS. Wonders Accomplished in France on Small Lots of Ground. (From the Atlanta Constitution.) Man naturally wants the earth, or at act that part of it which adjoins his his particular estate, but hemakesa great mistake when he engages in farming on an extensive scale. Prince Krapotkine, who has made a careful study of the subject in France, gives a number of instances in the ooundl try districts around Paris, where com paratively ignorant farmers have made small market gardens enormously pro ductive. One farm is mentioned by him of two and seven-tenths acres which pro duces annually 125 tons of marketvegeta bles of all kinds. The owner of thisfarm by building walls to protect his land from cold winds, whitening the walls to secure all possible radiated heat, and by the constant and judicious use of fertilizers has his little farm in a productive condi tion from the 1st of January to the last of December. By simple and inexpen sive means he has practically located bis farm the tropics. A French gardener does not care what kind of soil he starts with. He would be satisfied with an asphalt pavement, because he makes his soil, and so much of it that he has to sell it to keep his place from being gradually raised above the level of the surrounding country. when a farmer once understands the laws of chemistry he has no difficulty in making soil that contains all the materials needed for plant life. Prince Krapotkine speaks of one gardener who has covered half an acre with a glass roof, and run stream pipes supplied by a small b'oiler under the ground sheltered by this covering. The result has been that he has cut every day for ten months from 1,000 to 1,200 large bunches of asparagus, a product whion under ordinary conditions would require sixty acres of land. But this result has been surpassed by an English farmer, who has made a one-acre mushroom farm yield him an annual income of $5,000. Under the French method of culture it would be possible to make one square mile support 1,000 human beings. On such a scale of productive capacity this country would support a population of 3,000,000,000. Even when we knock off a fair percentage for mistakes, exagger ations and unfavorable conditions, it will be seen that we are in no danger of hav ing an overcrouded population for many centuries to come. There is no reason. why our Eastern farmers should go West for mere elbow room. Their great draw back is not the want of more land; it is the possession of too much land. In some localities in Switzerland the traveler on the plains or in the valleys looks up to a towering precipice 2,000 feet above head, When he laboriously climbs to the summit, expecting to find nothing but a bare rock, he sees before him the smiling expanse of productive fields, with pretty cottages dotting the landscape. The peasant proprietors started with only the naked rook under them. They carried the rich soil of the valleys in baskets on their backs up the steep mountain side, and went to work with a will until they transformed their sterile patches into blooming gardens. The success of European farmers with all the- forces of nature against them should bean inspiring lesson to ourtillers of soil. The American small farmer has only to unite brain work with hand work to make himself independent and com fortable if not rich. But without this union of the brain and hand there can be no great and permanent success. T HE EDITORS IN COUNCIL. Election of Officers of the Preas Associa tion -The Next Meeting to be Held in Co lumbia-Mlajor Holmes's Address. GarrxxvInr July 25.-The morning session of the State Press Association was held at the Court House. There were present Capt. F. W. Dawson, of The News and Couries, Capt. Franz Melchers, of the Zeitung, the Rev. Sidi H. Browne, of the Christian Neighbor, J. C. Bailey, of the Greenville Enter prise and Mountaineer, T. B. Crews, of the Lancensville Herald, J. E. Bogs of the Pickens Sentinel, Octavus Chn of the Charleston World, J. A. Hoyt, of the Baptist Courier, C. H. Prince, of the Florence Times, A. S. Todd, of the An derson Journal, S. A. Nettles, of the Manning Times, J. W. Holmes, of the Barnwell People, J. B. Bonner, of the Reformed Presbyterian, M. B. McSwee ney, of the Hampton Guardian, W. W. Keys, of the Baptist Courier and the rep resenative of The News and Courier. The journalists went through their reguiar routine business and the various officers made their reports. It was moved atd carried that hereafter no an nal dues shall be collected. Messrs EHolmes, Petty and Boggs were selected as a committee to draft suitable resolu tions of tribute to memory of several members of the Association who have dhed since the last meeting, The following officers werenunanimous ly elected for the next year: M. B. Mc Sweeney, president; Charles Petty, first ice presidenlt; J. E. Boggs, second vice president; J. R. Bonner, secretary; Franz Melchers, treasurer, and Capt. F. W. Dawson annual orator. Capt. Dawson made the suggestion that a permanent place of meeting be selected, and that Columbia be chosen. it was decided that the Press Association vill hold its next meeting at Columbia >n D~ecember 13, 1888, during the ses ion of: the Legislature, at which time Lapt. Dawson will deliver the annual ,ration. Capt. Daws ,n, who is connected with :he Charleston corporation intending to lace upon the market type-setting ma :hines, gave a full and interesting ac ~ount of the working of this machine. til seemed to think the improvement ery practicable and that it will revoln ionize the press. Major John W. Holmes, of the Barn rell k'eople, who had been chosen an iual oratbr, delivered his address, which ras well received by his fellow journ liats. It is said that the climate of Russia ans shortened the days of every Ameri ~an minister ever sent to that country. Lhe Hon. Cassius M. Clay who was once ent on that mission, still survives at the ~ge of nearly ninety, but Mr. Clay is an ~xceptionally tough man. Even if you run for it, it is ten to one P anybodylever catche thr. 12.50l train.