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VFAT MrflHT
PRESIDENT LINCOLN’S ONE CON
DITION.
As KxprtMfxt «» Hr. Stepheu* ■»! Hampton
Roadii CoBft>r*i»r»—Agrsrlng to l'ulo«
the Confrdrrary'» IteinaniU Would Have
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Ileen (1 ranted. - ’ '
Atuahta. May, 7,—Col. Kvan- P.
Howell, of the Atlanta Oonetitution,
adds an interestinj? chapter to the cpn-
jtroversy -over what occurred at the
Hampton Roads conference betwceen
President Lincoln and Hon. Alexan
der Stephens. Vice President of the
Coutataacy*. It w»4 1« rcmembe
that Mr. Watterson rocetitly stated
|rONTINUEI> KKOM l*A(JE ONK. |
in the United States, were notciti^ns.
Whether this proposition was sound or
not had never been judicially decided 1 .;
But it had been, held by this court, in
the celebrated Dred Scott case, only a
few vears liefore the outbreak of the
Civil War, that a man of African dc
scent, whether a slave or not, was not
and could not be a citizen of a State or
of the United State. This decision,
while it met the condemnation of some
of the ablest statesman and constitu-
tionul lawyers of the country,/had
never been overruled; and if it was to
bO accepted as a constitutional limita
tion of the right Of citisenship, then
UsetlOH' 5f“ the UtWfc" placfci all upon »l been able to nuute ine separation, for
footing of lejfal equality and give* the 11 find it all
so interwoven as to render
same protection to*all for the preaerva-1 it impracticable, ao far as results are
lion of life, liberty and property and I concerned, ahd I cannot winnow when
its enactment, 1 as
_ we are assured we can (Soon King vi. |
the negro 'race who had recentlylthebogka or lifltfloLk>t£r>Ltlie nanies of [Crowley, 113 U, S., 703; Minnesota
en made fieemen were still no^Si^itroM qualified under the Constitution | vs BArT»er, T3B U. S., .Il.T') then the
that at (Lai I’pesidenL Liii:
coin presented a slieet of paper to Mr.
Stephens, saying, ‘ I will write the
Vword ‘union’ at the top and you mar
write what you please on the other.
A statement which if taken as mean
ing that Mr. Lir$ol»wus readi^and
willing to the South for the
slaves. In last Sunday’s Constitutitm
John Temple Graves endeavored to
show that Mr. Lincoln made no sttch
pro|>osition and he iiuotes from Messrs.
Stephens, Reapou, Ilunter and Camp
bell to sustain him in the issue thus
made. The Philadelphia Times, in an
editorial written presumably by Colo
nel McClure, throws additional light
on the subject claiming that Mr. Lin/
coin would have proposed to pay the
South $4tX),(KK),000 for her slaves, but
did not make the proposition simply
because Mr. Stephens had stated at the
outset that he could not entertain any
proposition that did not embrace the
perpetuity of the Confederacy.
Col.Howell’s letter gives the details
of a conversation he had with Alcxaifc
der H. Stephenson the subject under
discuskiou. Shortly afler Mr. Stephens
was inaugurated Gowrnor of Georgia,
in the year 1882, he spent a day as the
guest of Col. Howell at his home. Af
ter dinner, the talk turned to the
Hampton lioads conference, and Mr.
Howell asked Mr. Stephens if he ever
had any hope that the conference
would turn out dilferently from the
way it did, Mr. Stephens said:
“I had great hope when the question
was first agitated about the conference.
I was always in favor of settling the
war and preventing further bloodshed
and when the conference was suggest
ed by Mr. Blair and others, I took a
very active part in pushing it. There
was very bitter opposition to it on the
part of the friends of President Davis
in the Congress, but finally it was au
thorized and commissioners were se
lected to attend theconference. Much
to my regret these commissioners were
given sjiecific instructions which pre
vented them negotiating for peace on
any other basis than that which guar
anteed the independence and autono
my of the Confederate States."
Mr Stephens wenton to tell of his con
ference with \Mr. Davis, in which he
urged that the commission be-not ham
pered with instructions, but he got no
encouragement; on the other liantL
the day the commissioners left, they
were pointedly informed that no Set
sen made fieemeH were sfiTTiTolTThly
not citizens, but were incapable of be
amendment to the Constitution.
“To remove this diHiculty primari
ty, and “to establiBh a clear and com
prehen live definition of citizenship
which should declare what should
constitute citizenship of the United
States, and also citizenship of a State,
the first clause of the first section was
framed:
“All persons born or naturalized in
the United States, and subject to the
J urisdiction thereof, are citizens of the
Jnited States and of the State wherein
they reside.”
“The first, observation we have to
make on this clause is that it puts at
the pursuit of hippin
It is not my intention at this time
to state in detail the requirements and
effect of each s<*ction of said registra
tion law, but simuly the result that I
reach after a careful scrutiny of them
all, aided as 1 have been by the ex
haustive analysis of the same made by
•ounsel.
THE t ERTincATE.UNWARKANTED.
I Hud no warrant in the Constitution
for the certificate required by tjie
registration law to^be issued to the
voter, the production of which is to
be required at the polls or his vote
is to be rejected.* This is not registra
tion which is simply the entering on
there is no-grain. In behalf of those
so treated, all interested in the welfare
of their country and desirous of seeing
its laws enforced, should protest, in
order that public sentiment should no
longer be dormant, but may by its ac
tivity rouse the community that has
long suffered by such outrages to a re
alization of their cauae, and to an ap
predation of the beneficial resulta
to
oe secured by the abolishment of the
system that nas caused them.
4GAIN8T THE JQCGRO V
If we may judge of what the in
tention of the Legislature was, by the
inevitable result of
to have been thqsubject of differences
of opinion. It declares thaf-persons
may be citizens of the Uni tea States
without regrad to their citizenship of
a particular State, and it overturns
the Dred Seott decision by making al
persons horn within the United States
and subject to its jurisdiction, citizens
of the United States; Thatlts main
purpose was to establish the
“CITIZENSHIP OK THE NKOItl)
can .admit of no doubt. The phrase,
“subject to its jurisdiction," was in.
tended tp exclude from its operqtioi
childreir of mblister*, consuls, am
citizens or subjects of foreign States
born within the United States.
While it is true that the Supreme
Court has held that the Fourteenth
Amendment did not add to the privi
leges and immunities of a citizen, ant
that no new voters were necessarily
made by it, it is equally true that it in
ellect held that it increased the num
tier of citizens entitled to suffrage un
derthe Constitution and laws of the
States. It also held that in the light
of Uie history of the late amendments
that then* was no difficulty in giving
a proner meaning to their provisions,
and that the existeneeof laws in those
States wlnye the emancipated negroes
resided tfhieh grossly discriminated
against them as a class was the end to
be remedied by them, and that by them
such law’s are forbidden. It also fully
determined that a citizen of a Stab
is now simply a citizen of the United
States residing in that State; that his
rights as such an> those that belong to
him as a citizen of the United States,
not dependent upon
tlement could be considered that did
not recognize the independence of the
Confederate government. Mr. Steph
ens told of the meeting with Mr. Lin-
, coin and his associates and the cordi
ality of Mr. Lincoln’a greeting
representatives of the Confederacy.
. nd that they ar*
his citizenship of any State, do not de
pend upon its legislation and cannot
oe destroyed by its |>ower. As 1 un
dors land the decision of the Supreme
Court, they sustain the claim of this
plaintiff that the courts of the United
States are open for the relief of citi-
zens of the United ’
"After we had returned to the saloon
of the steamer,” continued Mr. Steph
ens, “Mr. Lincoln was very talkative
and pleasant w’ith ajl of the commis
sioners. He seemed to be in a splendid
humor and was in excellent spirits.
After a while I joined him and we
went apart from the others and sat
down at a small table where there w’as
writing material. This was before
any formal discussion hacTcoinmcucei
Mr. Lincoln broached the subject of
the conference and expressed special
pleasure at the fact that I was on4 of
the commissioners. He Said to me
w’ith great earnestness: ‘I believe
you and I can settle this matter. I
know you and you know me. 1 have
confidence in your integrity and be
lieve you haVe m mine. I do not think
you would ask me to do anything im
proper and I would not require your
consent to anything which I believe
unjust.’ Picking up a piece of paper
and pushing it toward me, he said: ‘I
will write one won! at the top of this
sheet of paper and that word will la*
’union,’ and with that as a basis, you
may write out the termsOf settlement
and
leges have been abridged by the Stab
in which he resides. Certainly they
should be, and I will surely so hold un
til advised by that court that I,am in
srror. From those same decisions I
find that while the right of suffrage is
not a'necessary attribute of Fedora'
citizenship, that it surely is such iln
attribute as is exempt from discrimi
nation in the exercise of that right on
ccount of race and previous condir.
tion, and that while the right to vote
in the States comes from the States,
that the right bf exemption from the
prohibited discrimination comes from
the United States.
While as a rule the rights of a citiz
en bf a State are such as all citizens of
the United State enjoy, yet this plain
tiff has also certain rights under the
Constitution of South Carolina, by
virtue of the act of Congress of June
2(>, 1868, which was accepted and act
ed upon by that State, in which it was
S rovided that the Constitution of said
late shall never be so changed as to
deprive any citizens of United States
of the right to vote in said State who
are entitled to vote by the Constitution
of the same, recognized in said act
ex-
m my inl ^ ce cepl as a punishment for crime. The
‘ - i ^ WC a * r ?’ Constitution there referred to is
1 then told him w hat our instrr
instruc
tions were from President Davis and
whert 1 did a cloud came over his face,
his chjn dropped to his breast and for
several minutes he did not say a word.
After a pause he raised out of his seat
and said to me witte hands uplifted.
‘Then lam not respcmsfblefor anv fur
ther bloodshed. 1 had hoped the war
w’ould end with this conference, but it
ia impossible to make any settlement
with the instructions by which you are
bodiuT I trust you will consider
confidential what has occurred between
us.’ *
“If we had been empowered
one
the
from which I have before quoted
present organic law of that State.
THE MAIN QUESTION.
Are the registration laws of South
Carolina constitutional t Do they pre
vent the plaintiff and those situated
like him from exercising the rights
conferred upon and guaranteed to him ?
A registration law is hot per se iufcon
stitutional but is the. one referred
to in the bill, such as shoqjd he up
held by the courts. Poes the State of
South Carolina by this legislation de
prive the plaintiff of any privileges to
tone I which he is entitled bv the Constitu-
gotiate a settlement with the preserva-1 turn of the United States and of that
tion of the Union as a basis, the South
would have been paid for our salves
and we would have got an just and
an honorable and reasonable recogni
tion at the hands of Mr. Lincoln. Of
coruse our instructions binding us to
recognize only the independence of the
South, prevented our accomplishing
anything, for at the threshold of Mr.
State ( Does it deprive him of his liber
ty by taking from hint a right by
which he can preserve that liberty ?
Does it deny him the equal protection
of her laws, by enacting a system pf
registration which does not protect
but destroys his rights? If it does dis
franchise him are not his liberty and
his property taken from him ? If it
is
Lincoln s desire for peace, was his de-1 does prevent him from voting, (it _
termination that it must be based upon I shown that he is duly qualified) for
Union/’ .* • - I (IploirflfMS irk fliA v’aW.' J
bse qualified under the Cohsfifutidfi
tb vote, but it is an additional require-
the or
ganic law, not intended, I am con-1
strained to believe, to facilitate the full,
free and legal expression of those
titled to exercise the right of suffrage.
Such requirment is unreasonable,
burdensome and harrassing, and clear-1
1 y it impedes aruhabridges the right of
the constitutional voters of the State
to cast their ballots. Tlie additional re-1
quirement that the voter moving from
ohc place to
precinct must
secure a new certificate is with
out reason, and vexatious. While
the mode prescribed for securing
renewal thereof in case of loss is J
cumbersome and peculiarly strin- !
one object that controlled the minds
" those who formulated the f
ment I have been considering was
how best to abridge and destroy the
number of votes of the citizens
African descent, while at the same
time interfering with as few as possi
ble of the votes of the white race
The fact is that, with a candor than
was air frank as it was amazing, this
was virtually admitted during the ar
gument of this case. It is evident tha.
another in the same I the effect of this registration system is
surrender his old and | to fearfully impede the exercise of the
right of suffrage by the colored voters
of the State of South Carolina It to
4’great extent defeats their constitu
tional right to vote, and it seems to be
_iTT-TITTrieumuersuiue auu iiwuimriy sirui-ithe leading, I must be permitted to
I.?!,,hlift nf Hi lik ^’ ful . 1 ! lls lts pb- say its only object, the effort being X
ject in deterring the ordinary voter so legislate as to apparently respect
f rom making the effort. The registra- [constitutional requirements, but at the
tion of voters closes oti the first day of same time stab to the death the rights
July preceding a general election, I and immunities guaranteed by them
winch is held in November following; 1 ^ T J ' V i “
What possible reason isjhere for this
unreasonable cdu^se? During- the
four months preceding an election—
the period voters generally devote t6
the examination of questions then to lie
determined, and to the placing of their
names on the voting lists, .when such
lists are required—it Ur utterly impos
sible for any duly qualified voter to
have his name registered, and neces
sarily results in depriving many of
them of the right of suffrage. The
ofuly parties permitted to register dur
ing the four mohtlis preceding the
election are those becoming of age
during the period, provided they, fur
nish satishictory proof. The Consti
tution says that the citizen who shall
have l*een a resident of the State for
one year, and of the county in which
he offers to vote for sixty days next
preceding any (‘lection, shall be
entitled to vote at such election,
and yet he is prohibited by this
requirement from so doing. lie lias
Finding aSj,I do that the registration
laws of Southf^trolina are unconstitu
tional, and that their enforcement wil
deprive! the plaintiff, a citizen of the
United States, of the rights of a citizen
of the same, I conclude that this court
has jurisdiction of this case, and that
the same is not a proceeding againsl
the State of South Carolin, prohibited
bv the Eleventh Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States; I
-find that the bill does present a ques
tion arising under the Constitution and
laws of the United States, and that the
plaintiff has not a plain and adequate
remedy at law; that the bill is suffi
ciently verified and not multifarious.
Under these circumstances, it is the
[.duty of the Circuit Court of the United
States for the District of South Caroli
na to entertain this complaint, an in
stance in which duty mingles with in
clination. 1
——TIOT' A ‘lreiflHON n Yx>URf.
I have noticed during the progress
of this case a disposition to regard
completed his one year’s reiHqpee tfN thie court as a foreign jurisdiction,
ter the first day of duly, but lie cannot
register because the books are closed
and he cannot vote because his name
is not upon the Ixioks, and there is no
provision by which he can prove to
election ollicers at the polls, that he is
u qualified and legal voter. This en
tire provision is most peculiar, with
out a precedent, and without defense,
even from the advocates of the law.
Tor
Why the books should be closed
months before the election and kept
open for months aftorit is over, to the
uninformed would be passing strange,
and yet in the IrgAiUof the recent hi;
tory of this State and the discussion
this cause, is easily understood.
“A 8TUPENDOCH OUTRAGE..”-
much to my surprise and my regret.
This is as much a court of the State of
South Carolina as is. the
cuit or supreme court of
State. The State of South
olina assisted in forming
Constitution and ipaking the
by virtue of which this court was or
ganized and now convenes. This
court is and will lie ns rarefnl and ns
rir
that
Car
the
laws,
of
careful examination bTtlie regis
tration enactment of the State of South
Carolina—excluding the act of 1884—
irings me to the conclusion that if a
voter who was duly qualified and en
titled to register in May and June,
1882, did not, on account of absence,
sickness, inadvertence or other cause,
register when the books .were open in
that year, lie was not only prevented
rorn voting at the general election in
November,- 188?,~~hirt"~was~ and haff
jealous of the honor and the interests
of that State as any of her citizens can
be, and it hopes to merit their esteem
by l*eing worthy of it. A distinguished
jurist of that State is my associate on
the circuit, and the Chief Justice of
the United States is its presiding jus
tice. Why such a court of the United
States, conVerilhg In South Carolina,
Z
“These are the words, as near as I
can remember, which Mr. Stephens
spoke at my residence,” says Col,
Howell. "With the exception of my
family, the only iwrson present was
the late Mark Johnston, an intimate
delegates to the constitutional touven
lion meiitioned in the bill which may
so change the organic law of the State
as to affect his life, his property, his
liberty, his franchise, does it not do
him a grievous wrong, and bv what
authority ? As pertinent to this 1 quote
friend of Mr. Stephens since boyhood ^ ie words of Mr. Justice Swavne in the
and a neighbor of mine, who Ijliad in-[slaughter house cases . “Life, liberty
vited over to take dinneiLwith me.
‘Tasked Mr. Stephens at that time
to permit me to publish the conversa
tion, but he expressed his preference
to have nothing said about it, as the
conference was a matter of unwritten
history, and he did not feel even then
authorized to make it public. Since,
however, the matter has come up for
newspaper discussion. I think It but
and property are forbidden to be taken
without due process of lajv, and eqyal
protection of the laws is guaranteed to
all. Life is the gift of God and the difficult for them to thus write out Die
right to preserve it is the most sacred
of the rights of man.. Beyond that line
lies the domain of usurpation and'44-
rany. Property is everything which
has an excliangyable valudT'' and
the right of property includes the
justice to all concerned that the public J power to dispose of it according to
be given the benlit of this statement
from one of the most important char
acters in that noted conference.”
A Chinaman, be he king or coolie,
u devoted to his father and mother.’
When either parent dies custom or
dains that the sons shall resign all
honors and employments to repair to
the ancestral tomb and mourn there ’
for a Jong period. .w
the will of the owner. Labor is prop
erty, and, as such, merits protection.
The right to make it available is next
in. importance to the rights of life and
liberty. It lies to a large extent at the
foundation of most other forms of
property, and of all solid individual
and national prosperity. “Due pro
cess of law” is the law as it exists in
the fair and regular course of admin
istrative procedure. “The equal
pro-
was
x‘en prevented—under the law—from
voting at all elections Iteld in the
Mtate subsequent to said election in
;.882. This seems almost incredible,
yet I think it is correct. The state
ment is appalling, the outrage stupen
dous, the result close to the, bonier
and that divides outrage from crime,
't is not necessary to discuss it fur
ther-likely the least said about it the
letter.
' THE ACT OF 1894.,
Does the act of 1894—the convention
act, with its four sections relating to
registration -cure the defects I have
alluded to, and render valid the form
er unconstitutional laws 1 have men
tioned ? In my opinion it does not.
hese sections refer to the old law—in
act, are to be considered as a part of
it, as amendments thereto- andjjie
ontain all tin; bad featurestliftr
including the certificates to be pro
duced at tlie.jiolls and the closing of
the books many days before the elec
tion. They also add to the qualifica
tions contained in the Constitution
relative to the residence- of the voter
the State and county. And they
make no provision for the registering
of voters between the closing of the
looks iuid the election,/ when their
names have been omitted' on account
of absence or other usually sufficient
reason. Again, the applicant for reg
istration must make affidavit setting
orth his bill name, age, occupation
and residence at the time of thegener-
registration in 1882, or at the time
thereafter when he became entitled to
register, and also' give the place or
ilaces of his residence Since .the time
when he became entitled to register.
his alfidavit mpst be supported by the
affidavit of two respectable citizens
who were each of the age of twenty-
one years on the 30th day of June,
1882, or at the time the applicant be
came entitled to register; Our most
intelligent volers would dread this or
deal. This history of their movements
for years; that statement of the differ
ent places
this stx.’uriiig of two reputable affiants
who must have been twenty-one years
of age in 1882, pr at the time the appli
cant arrived at voting‘age. With
what crushing force, Jthen, must it
strike the weaker race which is thus
made to suffer by the stronger; how
administering the laws of that State,
should be regarded as a foreign court,
is w’onderful in the extreme and as
strange as is the story relative to
which it is about to enter its decree.
CONCLUSION.
I will pass an order as prayed for by
complainant, restraining and enjoin
ing the defendant individually and as
supervisor of registration irom the
performance af &ny of the'gets~Tfreff
books of their lives, and have all the
pages thereof attested by two witneses,
reputable in the estimation of the reg
istrar, who is to judge them. In my
opinion the fact that there still remain
several" days—prior to. the election—
during which the plaintiff may apply
for registration, does not, in the light
of the allegations of the bill,the proofs
rendered and admissions made, pre
vent him fromj asking for, nore
the court from granting,
prayed for.
I was asked, in case any
the said registration laws
found invalid, to eliminate the part so
foiuid and decree that the remaining
sections should stand. 1 have not
the relief
portion of
should be
tioned and complained of in the bill.
Nathan Goff',
•United States Circuit Judge.
.THE INJUNCTION.
' The following is the order of injunc
tion passed by Judge Goff in the case
of Mills vs. Green :
“It is ordered that the restraining
order heretofore granted by this court
bearing date the 16th day of April,
1895, enjoining and restraining the
said respondent from exercising any
duties, or performing any acts com
plained of in the said oil 1 of the com
plaint. either individually or as super
visor bf registration for tne country of
Richland, State aforesaid, be, and the
same is hereby continued, subject to
tlie final determination of the issues
involved in this case, or until the fur
ther order of this court.”
THE OTHER CASES.
In the case brought by Messrs. Cald
well and Pope, to enjoin the election
of delelegates for the Constitutional
Convention. Judge Goff delivered a
short opinion^ sustaining the iurisdic-
tion-of the court to consider tne mat
ter, but holding that the complainants
hRd not shown themselves entitled to
the injunction that they demanded.
The temporary injunction-! passed-somo
weeks ago) whs dissolved; which
leaves the State officers without inter
ference as to their respective duties in
the matter of arranging for * the due
election of delegates tb the’Constitu
tional convention—at least so far as
the proceedings taken by Messrs. Pope
and Caldwellliave thus far gone.
• all over.
When the last opinion had been de
livered, and the injunctions duly
signed, tlie court was finally ad
journed, Ji
Judge Goff left this afternoon for
his home in West Virginia, and Judge
Simonton, with the officers of the
court, took the afternoon train for
Charleston.
Your horse can pull a plow, wagon
aa well as it ever did; your
cow gives as much milk as she ever
did; your land is the same place and
will yield as much as it ever did; your
products of every name and kind are
as healthful, nutritious atid necessary
as they ever were, but your horse is
not worth in money 50 per emit, of his
cost three years ago, nor is your cow,
your land or your products, because^]?
money is high, and not because your
property has depreciated in value.
The two hundred and fifty colored
people who left Savannah a short
while ago for Liberia.have arrived at
their destination and been given a
piece of land and provisions for three
months. The colonization company
proposes to ship future installments
from Philadelphia^ '.
The easiest and best way to draw
trade from the surrounding country is
to develop within the town industries
—then trade will flowTfi aa naturally
as the needle to the pole.
-HHEWHIROUN1I EARTH WASTOU,
I witch the night’s slow coming,
Wh le swift gmy shadows rise,
•That touch me with your gentle hands,
And mock mewith year eyes
Shsilows from dayi not distant,
Of in moiles sweet and true,
When 1 waa your world, love.
And my round earth was yon.
I hear the harbot’s waters rash
Athwart our steamer’s bow,
As. leaning on Its trusty rail.
Your voice cams soft and low.
There first you told the story,
Uo old. so sweet, so new, H|
r
Of love that made me all your world,
And all uy round earth you.
Each joyous bird Is singing clear I
A song more sweet to heaven, ’
And Tnesday morn will ever be
The fairest of the seven-
1 smell the pansies’ perfume /
As they shone that morn with dew.
When I became your world, my deir t
Afiff itnuj’round earth you
Opce more the wave Is
While only dsnclng lanterns
Illuminate the land.
Out. lust bevond their rad limp a
I he upon your breast,
And all life’s turmoil seemed to end
On that dear pittow’s rest.
Grim shadows of all shadows, hute
To hide the past from me! •* / -
Let Loathen waters sweep away
Each rapturous memory! „
Yet never may my heart farget,
The look In eyes of blue.
When I was all vour world, dear love.
And my round earth was you
Cora Stuart Wheeler In Boston Transcript
DOROTHY PRESTON S PRIDE.
Pride is an unpardonable thing in
some people, and then there are others
whom it tits with the appropriateness
of a natural garment.
Among the latter class the Preston
family might have been justly placed,
and as an exponent of uncompromis
ing, stately pride, one might have
cited ‘ the only daughter, Dorothy.
And why should she not have been
proud ? She was young and beautiful
and wealthy, and knew that there
coursed through her veins some of the
bluest blood of the Old Dominion.
The men, self-complacent and con
ceiled as they are over reported to be,
said that they felt like manikins in
her presence. And the women—well,
she was too good and pure for them to
hate and too proud and distant for
them to love, for, say what you will,
we may reverence, but we can never
really love a lieing who is greatly
above us. It is selfish but it is human
So the women contented themselves
with loving her a little, envying her a
great deal and copying her very
much.
Btt’Mrhe-men loved her, "proposed to
ler, were rejected and grew desperate
There never was a social function but
she had her coterie of admirers about
icr each anxious for a word or a
smile, aud always in that number
might be found tli# handsome and
strong, but hopeless, face of Ned Cul-
xTtson. A man of brilliant intellect
ual attainments, society-was kind to
urn on account of his talents. His
character, his manners, his social po
sition were above reproach. But when
that’s said all's said. For. as the
worlds—looks at it. Ned Culbertson
was a poor man. Of course he had a
irofession, and there was an income
from that. But in the circles in which
ic moved the yearly earnings of even
so excellent an architect . as himself
were hardly a very weighty matrih^)-
inal consideration.
But the-heart knows no distinctions
of weAlth or condition, and it soon
lecame an open secret, a secret shared
>y all the immediate circle who knew
the two. that Ned Culbertson had pre
sumed to fall in love with Dorothy
’reston. It caused no extraordinary
comment, for society recognized the
right which every man has to be a
fool if lie chooses,and then there were
so many others in exactly the same
position.
Burffcsptte' tffs 'ttne'-TTratities, thrt-
jertson was a very modest fellow, and
no word of UftHc^e for Dorothy had
ever passed his lips. He was no dox-
comb, and thougtehe was conscious of
lis ability to holirhis own among the
men he saw in himself no quality to
attract women. So when the proud
Miss Preston treated hitn with even
ess consideration than she bestowed
on-her other admirers, he accepted it
all as only what was due him and
went his w’ay in silence.
Meanwhile, Dorothy Preston chafed
and groaned in spirit under tlie sting
of wounded pride. She refused to see
what was patent, to every,one else—
that Ned Culberteon loved her—and
only knew that she had, after a strug
gle,- given her heart to a man who
lad never spoken an affectionate word
to her..
R was after a ball one night that her
sosition first came so strongly home
o her mind. She had long tried to
eny to herself this passion of her
leart, but now it rose a strong, full
down love and clamored to be heard.
She clasped her hands and, with flush
ed face, admitted to herself that she
oved Ned Culbertson.
“Sbame. shame upon me!” she
cried.- “I love him and he has never
given me a word—and they call me
>roud, too/’ Her lip curled and she
lalf laughed.
“Well, I will lie proud. I will be
’oo proud to let ithe kbown that I
lave given my heart unsought to a
man wlio V
She did not finish the sentence, but
tlie blood * llamed up into her cheeks
and over her forehead, the tears came
into her eyes and she clinched her
lands sharply together.
From that time on if Ned Culbert
son had any faint gleams df'hope,
hey must have been entirely extin
guished, for Dorothy Preston’s man
ners toward him were a revelhtion of
rigid disdain. Did she touch his
land in the dance, it was shrinkjngly,
as if she abhorred the slight contact.
: Jid she speak to him i^was with such
(istant hauteur that his blood froze.
And so it continued until he was in
despair. •
Alone l in his office one evening dur
ing a busy week, he was trying to
nish some complicated designs for
he interior of a church which was
Lroon tobe erected. Could one have
id at him as he sat with bent
lead over his work, drawing hard at
cigar, one would have said that he
was all absorbed in the labor before
ijm. But any sucli thought would
lave been efficiently routed when he
suddenly sprang to his feet and, dash
ing his pencil into a corner, exclaim-
“1 can't doit, confound it! I
can’t. With that girl’s face'before iriy
eyes constantly I am getting as inca-
jable of thought or performance as an
mbecile. And what does it all amount
to? She looks at me as if she would
ike to walk over me, aud when-she
speaks it’s like pouring ioe water aver
my head. I can’t do anything this
way. Rather than endure this
sus
pense I would tell her and hav<‘ her
freeze me with a glance or show me
the door. Maybe that would put me
on my feet anyhow and infuse a little
spirit -into me, if it were only the
spirit of resentment”
In his lucid moments Mr. Edward
Culbertson was a quick thinking and
prompt acting man, and in ten min
utes he had determined on a plan of
action. A note left on the desk of his
first assistant told that gentleman that
his superior was suddenly called away
and might not be back for a month
■and left the work of the office in his
hands.
He^aould see Miss Preston tell his
story and then go away for a month
to forget.
When the plan was^oncc settled
upon it was but short ywrk to hasten
for the proposed call;
, When he entered thePreston draw.
mg room he thought that Dorothy
had never looked so lovely to him be-
fnre irt aJI Rip lift _ ——„—
He could hardly follow the com
mon-places that introduced the con
versation for looking at her. And
then, more like the rude swain than
the polished beau, almost before the
greetings were over he had plunged
“in ineaias res.”
The girl listened to him, ^speechless
with surprise, as he poured out his
story of love. She could not check
him, nor did he give her time to say a
word.
“Miss Dorothy,” he concluded, af
ter telling his story, “I cannot suffi
ciently fipank you for listening to me.
I was a madman to think that you
would, but I felt I must tell you how
I loved you. I do not ask' for your
answer, for I am too sure what it will
be. I suppose I’m a fool, bqt—” and
there was a tremor in his /voice—“I
can’t help it, you knowy And ndw
goodby,-l’ve got to cafch that .10.05
for—ah—Pm going away for a little
while for change of scene and forget
fulness, as the novelists put it.”*
He smiled mirthlessly as mechanic
ally she gave him her hand, and be
fore she had recovered from the shock
he had gone. To a woman a sofa pil
low is a very sympathetic ^article, and
a certain Howered silk one in Miss
Dorothy Preston's room received her
tears, laughter aud incoherent words
of joy. Then the same sofa pillow
was dashed hack into its place in a
rather unfriendly manner, hardly con
sistent with the confidences it had
just received, as the proud Miss Pres
ton rose to her feet exclaiming:
He said the 10.05; I have time
yet!”
—R was-just three minutes past ten
when a woman approached Ned Cul
bertson at the Grand Central station,
where he was pacing back and forth
impatiently awaiting his train. She
touched his shoulder.
“Dorothy!” he cried.
“Ned, don’t go; I—I want you,”
and then her voice broke. life led her
quickly away, for people wore liegin-
ning to observe them. And once
without the station he kissed her and
then put off her clinging hands to
tear up his ticket—I'xtravagant fellow!
He went home jvith Dorothy in
blissful dreams. Then he sought his
office, took the note off the desk of
his first assistant and tore that up
too.—Chicago News.
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