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If th«r« wm one thlnff la all bar a»-
C rlooa that Susanna Morton was
artilf tlrad of it was the evident
and oontinuoua purpose of laanklnd to
permit her to remain a spinster.
True, she had been one so long it
. - would seem that ahd should have be*
come accustomed to it $ but by some
strange fatality women, that is the
majority of women, never accept their
lot in this form w ith that calm resigna*
_ tlon and , beautiful Christian spirit
' which has won Tor thorn the endearing
title of the gentler sex. ' a
, And Susanna Morton had put up
with it just as long as she was going
to.
Four leap years had passed her by,
and she had submitted gracefully, but
cacb year less gracefully than she had
done the year previously, and there
■ were momenta lii the last-©f tb« four
when she became almost desperate
Now that a fifth had come, her mi ad
was made up. She would take the
reins of Cupid in her own hands and
drive that harum-scarum little rascal
in a manner to suit herself. She bad
—what men seldom disregard—a com
fortable fortune. n :
It was this fortune that had been the
real stumbling-block in the matri
monial path of Susanna, and not any
lack of attractive qualities in her pos
session, for she was not homely, nor
was she anything but charming. The
vfortune, however, which was hers
from her sixteenth birthday, had
! developed In her a fear that men
sought herJbr her money and not for
herself, and, never having fallen in
love with any of her courtien,, she did
not find it difficult to resist advances,
believing, as she did, that some day
the one man+n ail ttre world for b er
would appear and claim her as his
own.
However, he did not appear, and he
continued not to .appear, until Susanna
had reached an age and a firmness of
character, to put it mildly, when her
fortune would have to be at least
doubled to make her as attractive as
she was at twenty.
This knowledge had come to her
gradually, but was none the less force
ful oitfthat account and she was de-
days, teaching you the newer doctrine
that women have the right to say
whether you have the right to do u
you please with yourself. In other
words, some one of them will capture
you in spite of yourself.”
“ Not much they won't,” asserted
Mr. Culver with n great show of oour
age. "If there is anything I don't
want to marry, it’s a woman with fool
notions of that kind.”
Susanna’s heart went down to her
shoes on the instant. Here was an in
surmountahie obstacle in her path,
and with Mr. Culver holding to such
an opinion, what good would a pro
posal bo from her even if she should
muster up courage enough to make it.
The thought made her mule for a min
ute, and in that miqute a new thought
came
" I think myself theyNaro horrlbd,"
she said with an t tTyrt to swallow
something that would glit go dow n very
easily. " Hut there is the leap-year
privilege. All women, new and ok],
can elatra that, and you muBtn't forgei t lduc
that this is leap year.”
“I had forgotten it,” bo said, moving
his chAir over into the far corner ol
the fireplace, but still not so far away
that be was out of the pleasant in-
fiueuce of Susanna's nearness. He sat
there; for an instant making himself
shiver with terror, and then be moved
baok, possibly a little ' nearer* than
before.
" Forewarned is forearmed,” she
said, "and now that I have told you of
the dangers ahead, I hope you will
profit by my advice,”
“ Oh, I’m not afraid,” he asserted
in a good voice, "I’m lust'waiting for
that sort of thing. This custom, or
tradition or whatever you may call it,
is an old-fashioned one, and only an
old-fashioned woman would think of
it, aud that' is the kind 1 wan'.. So
tormined not to let this leap year pass
without results of a lasting character.
Of the men in her train there wore
perhaps half a dozen who were eligible,
and any one of whom would have
made a husband any woman could be
proud of. But ^they were merely
friends: not a man-jack of them bad
ever suggested such a thing a» matri
mony to her and, possibly, this was
why she liked them. So perverse is
the nature of woman.
Among this half dozen wasonowho
found the greatest favor in Susanna's
eyes, the others taking their positions
after him in regular gradation, and
this one Susanna selected as her victim
for leap year, resolved to try all the
others in case of failure in the first
instance.
Truly, Susanna was a desperate
spinster. »
And no less spry, for in the course of
his first call in the new year she began
her operations. Hut it was a dreadful
task, and the evening passed without
a single step taken forward. The
effort had been made, however, and
courage always comes with effort.
When he came again she was so
wrought up over the work before her
that her eyes sparkled and her cheeks
glowed in rosy coU r.
"Why, bless my soul, ti^ss Susanna,”
be said, " bow pretty you look this
evening.”
He was ten years older than she
and always assumed that bless-my
soul style affected by elderly men
" Oht thank you, Mr. Culver^eho
twittered. “I’m sure you only think
so. I look just as I always look.”
"Of course, Miss Susanna, only
slightly more so,” he smiled, but there
was that in the tone which had the
ring of insincerity, or at least super
fleial and society sincerity, which is
verv nearly the same thing, and which
made Susanna despise the fiattery of
men that so far had meant to her no
dissolution of the continuity of her
ipintlArhood.
She was good natured about it. how
aver, and let Mr. Culver goon with
whatever he had to say, for if there
was any man who could make flattery
any more palatable to her than any
other man, that man was Mr. Culver.
Hut it wrs soon over, and when he had
fixed himself comfortably in an easy
chair with which he was familiar, he
seemed to have forgotten whether
Susanna looked like a fright or a
fairy, and began talking about all sorts
of things, as people do who talk for
the mere sake of talking.
At all events, that's the way it pre
sented itself to Susanna, and she felt
the spirit of desperation slowly creep
ing over her. She took a long breath
for encouragement, and tentativoly
turned the subjectof conversation upon
the most recent wedding which had
occurred in their circle.
" What a pair of fools they were and
are,” said Mr. Culver, sententiousiy^
"to marry on nothing but his salary,
and that not big enough for two.”
" But they are happy,” argued
Susanua.
"I suppose so,” Mr. Culver.un
willingly admitted; "it< taker fools
to be happy; wise people know too
much.”
“Are you wise?” questioned Su-
anoa, nervously, for she felt that she
was launching herself at this point
upon,an unknown sea.
" I'm old enough to be,” Mr. Culver
frankly responded.
‘ " Isn’t there something somewhere
about the old fools being the biggest ?”
laughed Susanna.
" Hut I’m not so old as that yet.”
" Ah !’’ and her eyes twinkled. " Is
| you r's a case of «
Standing with reluctant feet,
Where the silly seasons meet ?"
Mr. Culver assumed a more serious
air and there was no smile on his face
when be replied ; there «aa rather a
shadow of regret,
"Yes, Miss Susanna,” he said, "I
do stand reluctant, for I think if I had
been more of a fooi-in one-regard I
would have been less of a fool in anoth:
ar. That is to say. a man is a fool to
waste his life selfishly as I have done.”
Xhis was the the auspicious moment
Susanna had been seeking. She would
now lead right up to the matter and
find a listener to her proposal. ~
“ Wby don’t you marry, Mr. Cul
ver?” she asked with ^ directness.
" You are not too wise to consider the
question, I hope.”
"Certainly net, Miss Susanna,” he
smiled. "I've been considering it for
twenty years.”
"Then you ought to stop ocnslder*
log it and pop it,” Susanna laughed,
and Mr. Culver also. \
"T hardly think I’ll ever do that,”
ho said seriously. "I wculdn’t know
how to go about it to make my oase
half presentable. I’ve giton myself
up, you know, as a bad job.” ,
of these now women will be
Surely no finer opening could bo pre
sented to a young woman in her mood
than this, and Susanna gave herself a
little 'shake and took another long
breath. The time had come, and she
was not the woman to lose so glorious
an opportunity.
“Mr. Culver,” she began in ^Irm
voice and with great earnestness, " 1
have for a long time been thinking
that you ought to marry, aud I have
even gone so far as to select just such
a woman as I think would suit you.
I have had two or three consultations
with bee, and she is willing tbvt T
should present the matter tu^you, be
cause 1 know you so well, and you will
understand it oetter from me than if
she should present it herself,'’ -•"•v-* ■
"Miss Susanna,” he disclaimed,
don’t say another word, itettlly.’l
cannot listen to it.”
Bull must say it to you,” she in
sisted, because, as it seemfed to her,
that was the proper way to conduct a
successful courtship, aud now that she
had begun it, she moat decidedly
wished it to be suecesaiei.
" 1 tell you I won't ht ur it. This is
entirely unexpected, and 1 am sure
fibthing in my conduct bas ever war
ranted you in broaching this subject to
me.”
- Mr. Culver was very evidently in
earnest, and Susanna almost chuckled
to herself,' for this was the very way
young women acted under the circum *
stances in which Mr. Culver was
placed. All it needed now-was a little
more coaxing, and Susanua nerved her
self for tho final pop.
"Ferbaps you have not thought so,”
she said in her softest voice, " but to
me there has ever been a desire to say
to vou what I am now tayiug. Mr
Culver—John,” and Su.->anua came
very close to him, notwithstanding she
whs so nervous she hardly knew what
to do.
"Hold on, Susanna, hold on,” he
exclaimed. “ Confound it ” (that
shocked her, for she kifbw no girl ever
tilked that way under such circum
stances, however much she intent
have thought it] “ I don't want ybfftb
be talking in auy other woman’s in
terest. There is only cue woman in
the world that I want, and—and—and
” [Mr. Culver was getting uervous
himself uow, and Susauna gasped],
‘and—oh, Susanna,” he said desperate
ly, "don’t you know that woman is
yen ¥ Yon, Hosanna. Don't you know
it is you ?”
Mr. Culver caught Susanna's two
hands in his, and looked into her two
eyes with such a pleading, pathetic#
Intense sincerity that all her plans
were consumed as straw iu a fierce
blaze, and she simply tumbled into his
arms and let him finish the proposal
she thought she had begun in such a
masterly m anner.
And Mr. Culver finished it with
glittering success, much to the relief
of Miss Susanna Morton, spinster.
and amount, a considerable amount of that eventful period la his political
then discredited coin is driven out of earner be was not so particular lb his
.Tlrculatiofl, aad if such debts become ! personal appearance, and It was not
general the grtaterpart of its entire unusual loses him in mixed suits of
various colors and texture. Now, he
looks well groomed amispruce, as If he
Intended to go directly from the Sen
ate chamber to an .afternoon tea."
Mrs
volume is retired.. It Is no answer to
say that every one make his contract
for himself, and if be makes it payable
in gold It Is bis own oonoern. It might
be replied that erelryone makes his
own contract with the usurer, and yet
the law prohibits such contracts. But
there is a butter and more conclusive
repl^; the reply is that it is not ex
olusively the concern of him who
makes the gold contract.
The public interest is involved In
the consequences of these contracts,
If they should become general. ' The
public is interested in anything that
destroys the volume of monqy upon
which the people rely for eschange.
You may use your own property, or
vour liberty, in any way you choose so
long as the use you make of it does not
injuriously affect the rights of others,
but when the rights of the public ara
bed. you must pause. Ho, when
the right to make contracts as one
chooses is used to make contracts
which, if they become genera', uould
drive out of circulation a medium of
exchange that is not only convenient
but necessary for the business of this
State, the publio intorrst n quires that
such contracts should no lunger be
allowed. It is not my purpose or do-
sire to elaborate this view of the sub
ject,- but to suggest it for your con
sideration, and if you reach the con
clusion that an evil is threatened, i
briefly suggest to you that in framing
the constitution of the United States,
the States before that time having
power to make anything legal tender,
restricted their power over the sub
ject, in the fdllowing languhge in
Section 10 of Article 1 : "No State
shall make anything but gold and
none of them had better Jtrx-It. nnlesa I silver eoifus legal Uinder Tii~nirymnnt'
lb« means business.” of debts.”
The power to make the coin had pre-
vioulyf io section 8. been delegated to
congre^. Hut, when' congress ex
orcised its power and made and coined
and regulated its value, the power to
make that coin a legal tender the
States have reserved. If the Legisla
ture shall enact a law that the gold
and silver coin of the* United States
shalt be a legal tender in payment of
all debts hereafter contracted and that
shall apply to all debts, (hereafter
contracted), when the process of law
or of the courts, Stata or Federal, may
be Invoked for their collection in this
State, all will be done that is In the
power of the State to avoid an evil
that, in my judgement, ihrewfens
grt&t danger.'^ - —
Respectfully,
A. J. MuLaukin, Governor,
WASHINGTON NEWS‘AND GOSSIP.
Prpminsnt Democrats W H Not Attsnd ths
Cn .ago Corwantion —Rea j and Crisp ara
Parsonat Frands—Pres,dantai Asp,rants
Frock Coats. ’.
vided
WHAT SHALL BE A LEGAL TENDER ?
The States Hava the Right to Designate
Ge4d and S iver as Debt—Pay ng Cun
rency—Gold Contracts Ougnt Not to be
Allowed.
\
Thq fallowing ia a
from Govwnor McLaurin, of Missis
sippi, in which he contends that public
interest requires that gold contracts
should not be allowed :
Jackson, Miss., March 3, 1896.
To the Senate and House of itepresen
tatlves: —.
I respectfully recommend for your
consideration the suggestion that you
enact such law as will prohibit tne
making contracts payable exclusively
in gold. Money is the blood of trnde
and commerce, and anything that
tends to destroy the money of the
people is in derogation of their in
terests and welfare and of the pros
perity of ths State. By the constitu
tion of the United States (section 3 of
hrticV 1), the power ia delegated to
Congress to coin money aud regu'ate
Its value. Proceeding under this
authority end exercising this power
Congress bas coined a quantity ol gold
and silver and regulated its value, and
the people ought to have the right of
the circulation of this coin as the
money of the State. 1 say the people
ought to have the right to the circula
tion of this coin because all the money
thus coined is needed in the business
of the country and I may add a great
t eal more could be profitably^utilized.
do not suppose it will be seriously
asserted by any one that there ia more
coin in the United States than is neces
sary to serve the use of money in order
to secure the greatest prosperity to
all the people .of this country. Nor do
I suppose it will be seriously contend
ed that the volume of money can be
materially decreased without hurtful
results. If I am correct in this, then
anything that is calculated to sbflnk
the volume of money in use, should be
prevented. When debts are made
payable, in coin of one of these- two
metals instead of ooin of both of them,
it is to the extent of suoh debt* i|e-
c re as log the volume of money. It
also puts a premium upon the coin in
which the debts are made payable and
discredits the other ooin. If the debts
made payable in one of these ooins j
TOM "one of"these 1 »loae become considerable in numbers
Special to the News and Courier.
Senator Calvin $• Brice has decl
that he will not attend the next Demo
cratic National Convention. lie has
not made this announcement to his
polit' ia! friends in Ohio, but if any
movement is made in the Buckeye
State to select delegates to the Con
vention Senator Hrioe wilt formally
state Uis reasons for retiring from the
national organization of the party in
which be has long been an active and
influential member. This bit of politi
cal information leaked out at the Capi
tol to>day, and {occasioned ■coneiderable
comment among Democratic Cmgress-
uit-n.
" What does this mean ?" inquired
a well known Southern Senator who
has been in several national oonven*
tiomf with Senator Hrioe. " Why," he
continued, "it will not seem like a real
Democratic Convention without Gor
man and Hrioe there. Some of us may
dlllor with Gormau and Hrioe on the
tariff questions, but the party cannot
well aflord to lose the active service of
such level-heaued men and such gifted
politicians in a great national contest.”
One of Urice’s friend spoke up and
said that Senator Urice proposes to
give way to some other Ohio Democrat
who may desire to go to the Conven
tion as a delegate. He has served iu
many conventions and has worked
bard in the last three national earn-
paigur, aud he feels that he has earned
a rest from the trials and vexations of
a national contest.
It is said that a number of Demo
crats wuo have heretofore been eon-
spictous figures in the councils of the
Domocraticc party have determined to
remain aw ay from the Chicago Con
vention. Their determination in that
direction is not duo to their disloyalty
to the party, but they ooutend that
they have givou their time and money
to promote the best interests of the
party on all occasions, and they are
now perfectly willing that some of the
other a-pirants for national honors
shall have a free field for the coming
Convention. Thu absence of such lead
ers as Gorman, Hrioe, Wattersoa and
TUnmui from a Democratic-^Couvea-
He walks with a more sprightly step,
and his gensral nature appears to
have undergone a decided change since
he declared himself to be '*Pennsyl
vania’s favorite son.” It appears to
bo the style for Senatorial favorite
sons to affect black frock coate as soon
as their boom Is announced. Senator
Allison seldom appears in the Senate
chamber now in any other attire.
Senator Cullom, Davis an4 even Sen
ator Tillman recognize the demands of
the occassion, and wear frock coats
just the same as the other Freeidontlal
possibilities.
SOLO BY HIS OWN SIM.
way, Mack frequented the various
fashionable saloons and gaming houses
of the city, where he easily passed as
a Virginia planter and contrived to
form a considerable acquaintance
among the fast set of the day. While
walking on the street one evening with
one of these acquaintances bis master
passed by on the oppoelte side.
" See that boy over there ?” s^id
Mack eareleesly Indicating Hubbard.
*' I brought him down here with mo,,
but he’s got so develish independent
wd'fre equally ignorant ar to ths
C olley which may govern tue possible
uyers, but we think that if only the
spare lands from the water power were
opened up to desliable settlers sud the
proper effort was made to bring immi
grants from the West, or elsewhere,
that a vast fortune would reward the
effort. If intelligent enefrgy and a
sufficient capital Is put Into this enter-’
prise no man could estimate the possi
bilities that await the endeavor. Hut
on the other hand : If the whole wa-
that I’ve got to seH him. Think 4 ! he’s ter power and land should be sold for
as good as a white man, and talks hack
to me. He’s got to go. Mighty smart
boy, too. If you know anyone ‘who
wants a good boy to look after account-
or run a pines, he’s a bargain. I’lls**!!
him cheap if I ean get rid of him wi-h
tut any fuss.” *
What will you take for him ?”
" Why, he ought to bring ms fifteen
hundred quick, nut I’ll take a thousand
if iheaa ba arranged quietly. 4 ’
Mack was w»*ll aware that his New
seventy-five ernte or a dollar an acre,
it might be held by some rich capital
ist a.-« a pleasure ground, and thus clog
and retard our progress in the march
of material prosperity for another half
a century.
A Strangs Tals of Ante-Bslium Days Down £ -i
Soyth.
New York Sun.
The patrigjTchal idea was, as all the
world retn|jQbers, atonca the moral
foundation and justification of the
slavery system ip the South under the
old r •gitne. But in none of the slave
States was this idea carried into * ths
practical every-day life of the people
so fully and consistently as Virginia.
And this again, was particularly true
of Eastern, or Tidewater, Virginia.
The condition of affairs, both moral
and material, growing out of the situa
tion thus created had already become
critical when the Civil War solved the
problem.
Among the slave owners of eastern
Virginia especially it was held to be t
point of honor to protect and maintain
Orleans acquaintance wanted just such
a " boy,” and in less than twenty-four
hours they had come to terms, and
Hubbard was seld by his own slave.
The pape rs were regularly made out'
and transferred and the money.paid
over, Mack only stipulating that the
buyer should take his property quiet
ly, " because he didn’t want any fuss.”
This sort of arrangement was unhap
pily, all too common at that lime and
place to excite either comments or
suspicion. So that Mack was enabled
to gain a long start before the thun
derbolt fell on Hubbard.
When Hubbard was sc’zod of course
there was trouble. He fought like a
wildcat, but was finally overpowered
and taken from the fashionable hotel
their human chattels at whatever cost.
The man who sold a slave, except
undei*v«beolute compulsion or neces
sity, was disgraced. The present gen
eration will never realize the heavi
ness of the burden thus imposed upon
and accepted '-by^the Virginia slave
holder. The owners of estates which
would have yielded a handsome reve
nue with, let us say, 100 slaves, found
their substance consumed and their
profits destroyed by the (increase of a
dependent population which their own
principles and the moral sense of the
community would no* allow thorn tu
dispose ol *' down Soutn.”
It was this overplus of the negr
population which made slavsssocbeaj
in Virginia and the business of.ltu
stave speculator so profitable. For
when ruin overtook an old estate, the
was the harvest time of the desptseu
" nigger dealer." Slaves which would
sell for 1400 or 1500 in Virginia readily
brought tl.000 on more in New Or
leans, and hence the sueculators were
always on the alert for such oppor
tunities, weigh were all too few to
satisfy their trade. It was the custom
in Virginia for the friends of an em
barrassed man to purchase, so far as
their n.eans allowed, the best of his
slaves, to sa^e them from being " sole
away.”
One of the most successful negro
speculrtors who operated on the Pen
insula in the forties was a man named
Hubbard. He lived upon his own
estate at Yorktown, and was accounted
one of the wealthiest men in .those
E arls. The nature of his business.
owever, debarred him and his family
from all social intercourse with the
better class of whiles, and bis whole
energy was concentrated upon the ac
cumulation of wealth, in which he was
eminently successful. He left, at his
death, a very considerable fortune for
those days to each of bis two sons, who
were both gallant soldiers in the Con-
federato army, the eldest dying in one
of the battles of the Wilderness.
About the year 1845 James Murder,
a young man, last in the male line of
one of tneA>ld colonial families died
suddenly, leaving his large estate
completely involved, it was necessary
to sell otf everything to satisfy his
creditors. Among his slaves
EUr&RBE F0H GOVERNOR.
k Tfis Announcement of His Candidacy Fie-
garded as a Declaration that Governor
Evans will Seek-Senatorial Honors.
( olumbia Register.
Gen. William II. Eilerbe, of Marion,
is a candidate for Governor. This an
nouncement was made yesterday by a
member of. the Colleton delegation in
the General'Assembly, who said he
was authorized to speak lor General
Eilerbe.
Thiu announcement was not unex
peeled, for the Register several weeks
ago contained an interview with a leg
islator, in which he stated that if .Gov
ernor Evans became a candidate to
sujceed Hon. John L. M. Irby in the
United States Senate, General Eilerbe
would seek to succeed him as the ten
ant of the Executive Mansiou.
While there has been, no ant.hnrit.a>
tTve declaration from Governbr Evans
then that if the chance ’erer came
they would make amend^by support
ine him for Governor.
The only o her openly avowed Demo
cratic gubernatorial candidate at pres
ent is Col. -R. B. Watson, Senator from
Edgefield, whose platform is epposi'.
tlon to SUte support of institutions
for higher education.
~ It may be tbat other eanditate* will
enter the Democratic primary. Thi rc
has been some talk of the possibi’Uy
of General McLaurin’a, {entering the
gubernatorial race, but the general
consensus of opinion was that he would
go back to Congress, in which l e Las
made a particularly good record.
Whoever the Democrats name as
their candidate he will have to beat
that chronic office-seeker, Samps Pope,
who is reported to be determined to
play a lone hand once more.
Chstmcey M. Depaw give* the re
cipe for success in these words: "The
main elements of success in this world
are good sense, good temper and mind
ing your own business.”
—If you wish success in life, make
perseverance your bosom friend, ex
perience your wise counsellor, caution
your elder brother, and ■ hope your
gaurdian genius.
—George Bancroft told a bevy of
young girls that sl;o secret of long i,fe
lay in never losing one’s temp* r. "If
t ou will nevor got argry,” s tH tho
istorian, “you will live to be 9o ”
provided for such cases instituted a
fits it. ” Hia utrr r* a t n Wlife 1
tiou will be a novelty, for that quar
lette has been among the principal
attraclious at such gatherings for the
post ten or flfteoh years. There are
some pl« usaut fruits in connection with
the rendition of such party service, but
juuiro-ar^ many-disagreeable circum-
’stances of a personal as well as a politi
cal nature which cause men to hesitate
about euduring them for an indefinite
period.
Spectators ip the House galleries to
day saw’Speaker Hoed and ex-Spcaker
Unsp the rival leaders of the two
political parties in that body,‘laughing
and taiklug together in tho most
friendly manner imaginable. The
impression bas prevailed in the minds
of tno casual visitor to the Capitol
that Speaker Road and Ex-Speaker
Crisp are mortal enemies. Tnis im
pression probably arises from the fact
that-in tho debates Ex Speaker Crisp
never lo^es an opportunity to punch
holes n some of tno rulings of Speaker
Reed, and when the latter was leader
of the minority and ^ Mr. Crisp was
Speak :r of the House Mr. Reed took
great delight in ridiculing decisions
made by Judge Crisp.
To-day the iiou-o was engaged iu
considering a bill from tho judioiary
committee illative to the salaries of
judical officers of the Government.
Speaker Reed called Representative
Payne, of Now York, to the chair while
he went dowu upon the floor to mingle
with mem hers back of the desks.
Strolling a oug the Democratic side
of the chamber, Speaker Reed came
upon Judge Crisp as the latter emerg
ed from the cloak room. They stopped,
gre eted each other familiarly, and
swepped s’ories to the delight of a
group of D.-mocrats who gathered
net r. In debate Messrs. Reed and
Critp enjoy a "rough and tumble ”
d+M uenion, atcHheygivenud take some
body servuu’. called “ Mack,” who was
a remarkable character. Mack was
nearly tne same age as his deceased
master. The two boys h*/l s 11 -^**-
sfflo enpty ail the educational ad van
tages of uis master, of which, as was
sometimes the ease, he made far better
use. He had lived for some years
abroad with young Murder, aad
through constant and close association
with good society in many countries
had acquired an ease and grace of
manner and flueucy of speech which,
combined with bis handsome person,
would have made him. an ornament to
any society. There was very little
pure negro blot d in his veins and he
would have passed as a white man
anywhere. Between Mack and his
former master there had been an inti
macy and affection which had well-
nign obliterated the social gulf between
them, and the faithful servant aud
friend of the unfortunate Murder was
held in high esteem by ail tho latter’s
friends.
It was therefore determined that
Mack should be saved from t-hw KsnAs
of the speculator and find a purchaser
among his master's friends. Accord-
ingly, upon tno first day of the year,
which was the date sstabiished by
custom for thesaleand hirou.'. n groos.
a number of geutlemvu attended at the
Court House mWilliamsburj prepared
to pay a long price for the accomplish^
ed young ioegro. James iluhbaru was
also there. Ho was. faiuiliffr with
Mack’s history aud talents. He knew,
too, that the Wiliiamsburgh people
were determineU to prevent Mach from
going to the New O.-leacs market.
Therefore he » vurc an oath that he
" would have that nigger if it cost
himjiis fortune.” For Hubbard had
a two-fold grudge Pi gratify. Many a
time before JU'e Williams burg a m..n
had prevented him from securing a
*’ bargain ” ojl sucii.ociiasliiua-as tins;
and be was very hitter against them
becahs.; of tue social ostracism which
his business had brought upon his
family. So that in the end Mack was
knockcu down to Hubbard for a price
seldom paid for a stave in Virginia.
A few days later Hubbari started
south with his band of negroes, taking
Mack with him as a body servant.
Hubbard was a man of powerful
physique and coarse manners. His
hair and eyes were intensely black
and his complexion so swarthy that
he would have sufToreJ by comparison
with many of the human chattels he
dean in. Oj their arrival at New
Orleans, Hubbard soon disposed oPhis
negroes to good advantage, but retain*
in uis
or any of his friends as to his inten-
freedom suit.” His stgpature was I ^*b Q s, the announcement of Eilerbe’s
identified, accepted at the bank which J ? u ^ erD f lor ' ii * aspirations, coming
did his business, but*-bankers refuseirt T t,nn source whence it issues, is
almost tantamount to a declaration of
Evans’s Senatorial candidacy, as it
would be a waste of time and money
for Eilerbe to run for Governor if
Evans were seeking re-election.
General Eilerbe was one of the orig
inal Reformers and did much to bring
about the triumph of the movement in
1890, when ho became Comptroller
General, which ulli je he hold four years,
filling it to the entire satisfaction of
the taxpaying public, of whose inter
ests ho was alWays a v.gilact guardian.
In 1894 General Eilerbe was a candi
date lor Governor, canvassing the
State snl making vigorous speeches
'rom the stumo in e»ery county. When
John Gary Evan!) defeated him for
the Reiorui ’‘suggestion” in the Colle
ton prima-y, he gr acefully submitted
and turned in aud helped Evans defeat
Dr. Samp* Pope, the independent can
didate. This conduct made him many
friend*, o^peootHy a'.iiOng the lUppOrT-"
era and admirers of Evans, who vowed
did his business, but* bankers refused]
to vouch for his person. It was there
fore necessary to send to Williams-
burgh for aid. Accordingly three
weH-known residents of that city prop
erly fortified with papers of identifica
tion from the authorities, made the
long trip Is^iew O.-leans at Hubbard’s
expense, and upon their positive ideuti-
fleation he was released and restored
to cit zenship. The trial had cost him
thousands of dollars and .consumed a
S teal deal of time, and meauwniU
lack, well supplied with funds by the
sale of his master’s body, was beyonc
pursuit. Large rewards were every
where offered for his apprehension
and the beat detective talent was em
ployed absolutely without avail. He
was never traced beyond the whan
where he took passage for the Nurth
and is supposed to have gone straight
to France, where he bad lived during
his former master’s student days anu
where his antecedeaU would never be
suspected, and an honorable career
would be within his reach.
It may be imagined that Hubbard
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to Virginia, and it U said that he never | Ilcai 1 VUI CU
By Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure.
made another trip to New Orleans,
but soon gave up the business and died
a few years later on his plantation.
. THE CALHOUN ESTATE.
Ar. WaAblngioB
Balun’e. f KR
1 lliiUdelphia,
1 M«wYurk ...
very sharp blows, but personally they
arc very go.Ki friends.
Since Senator g iay f >rthally launuh-
.1 his Presidential boom he appears
...ni> in the Senate chamber attired in '
a blacx Prince Albert coat. Prior to
ed Mack In his personal service, either
becau-ie ho coitfd not find a buyer for
him at the high figure he had paid, or
because he had become vain at having
so acooraplUhed a valet. At any rate,
Mack was still in his possession after a
couple of ’Mrepks in the Gulf metropolis.
Mack had some money of his own, and
as a matter of Pfida as well aa hiiaUl-l^a.r-^lriTf
hiss TIuBoard dressed him like a geu- •- ■'
tletqafi. A great deal of liberty was
allowed him, anil he took advantage
of it to perpetuate one qf the most au-,
daoipus an l successful schemes in the
mate
success!
suns is of the ante-bellum days.
Keeping carefully outof his master’s
Sals of tr>* Vast Landed Property of the Late
James Edward Calhoun.
Abbeviilq Press and Banner.
The vast landed estate of the late
James Edward Calhoun will bo sold
by tbe executor on March 31st, 1896
The sale will take place in the town ol
Calhoun Falls at twelve o'clock. The
estate oooeists of sixteen thousand
acres—twelve thousand in Abbeville
County and four thousand in Georgia
—the Savannah river running through
it. The tract, it seems from the ad
vertisement, will be sold as a whole-
sixteen thousand acres, including tbe
tiue.i-t water power in the State.
Taking no consideration of the water
power, the land-iteelf is a fortune, and
unless some one, or some syndicate,
looks after this sale, tho land and wa
ter power will go for a song. The v&s'
stretches of unimproved land cqulu.1
Lot pusbttrty t>e worthTess Than' say.
four, five or six dollars an acre for
farming purposes, and, with the facil
ity for transmitting electric power
the waterfalls of the Savannah rivet
would be an inexhaustible and ever
increasing source of wealth to thost
bo may improve it. x If the water
power should be improved, and lh«
lands should be occupied by thrift)
immigrants this estate may yet bt
worth an amount far in excess of our
ildust dreams. It was wise in our
constitution and laws to prevent alien.-
from buying such land for hunting
grounds and deer parks. The opening
of these lands and the improvement of
tbe water power has been the dream
of the peop'e of this county for half a
century, and now it seem!) po-sibli
'.hat these dreams may be realized.
To tbe younger generation it may
seem strange that way one man could
buy and own so much land in one body,
bet these large estates
by purchase fronj adjoining Ir.ndo vn-
ers. Mr.Calhoun commenced life with
a fortune and he was economical, and
all his savings in a long life he inve.- •
ed in the lands which are now inclu -
ed in his estate He always boutrh
huVbever sold land. The pr* seno-< of
a great number of slaves made the im
mediate vicinity an undes rw-i e cm
munity for white men, and Mr. Cal
houn’s neighbors became fewer an<'
fewer. People moved away. Tnen
settlements were dismantled. Theii
churches and their school houses were
ailow-d to go to destruction.
Under conditions of this sort the
white men who had sma l Quloiugs oi
lands, one after anoth< r, sold then
farms and went to the West. I > tho*-
years Mississippi, Alabama, am
Lmisiana afforded the most invitim
fields for our nou-slave-holding fa pi
ers. These sturdy and well;to-do fai*
mors could not stand the potty anno.- -
anoes to which tin y were suhioOUid h\
the multitude of slaves, and, accepting
liberal prices for their lands, tuey l«di
the homes of their nativity to populate
and build up the waste places, when
the slave uol ler had not or could not
croird them out.
It was thu* that the fine«t portion o'
Abbeville County was depopulated ol
white men. It was thus that theii
improyeiqents went to waste; It wa-
thus that their mills, their fine dwell
ing houses, their school houses, th.-d
churches, and all the evidences of s
thrifty civilization were ab-orbod b<
tho neiguboria' slave-holders, aur.
nothing but si-vves, decimated f> rfest*
and cultivated fields wore left..'Are*
the war these fields were either al
lowed to remain idle, or were culti
vated by negroes, who had not tb<
intelligence nor the capital with which
to preserve the finest of the farming
A few slave
holders on the Savannah side becam
Fainting, Weak or Hungry Spells, Irregu
lar or Intermittent I’ulse, Fluttering or Pal
pitation, Choking Sensation, Sh-iftneas of
Breath, Swelling of F>-«t and Ankles, are
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MBS. N. C. M-LLER.
Of Fort Wayne. Tu l., wr'.;. s 6a Nov.20.1364:
"I was afnjrted for forty- years with heart
trouble and suiTcrvd uaUdrpmgnny. I had
weak, hungry spells, and my heart would
palpitate s<> hard the vain -T.nCd be so acute
and tor.-irin*. that I htvarui! to weak and
nervous I could not sl-t-p. I was treated hy
several physicians viihcut relief and gave
aperer being well again. About two years
ago I commenced using. Dr. Ml lev' Remedies.
One bottle of tbe Heart Cure stopped all
heart tronbles and the Restorative Nervine
did tbe rent and now I sleep soundly and at
tend to my household aud socialduties with
out any trouble.
Sold by druggists. Book sent free. Addri
Dr. Miles Medical Ca, Elkhart, lad.
Dr. Miles’ Remedies Restore Health.
A $25 Cooking Stove
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Ysttibale Limited Tbiuugh Pullman -‘tsiwrl
xasau Kaw Vvrfc aad New Orteat I, via wSp
Ingu-u, Atlanta aad Moutgiunacv, ami alsaow
twean Nsw York and Memphis, vis Wash mg too,
Atlanta and Birmingham. Dining Sara.
Hus. » and IS—United Mates Fast Mail Full,
nan slcwning ears bstwssn Alls/ ta. New or.
sans and New York.
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tho owncrii of many thousand" acres oi
land. The free white-man wai crowd
ed out to give piacn to the ne-ji o slave
Tbe Press and B isoerls not it form
ed as to the capital that may possibly .
be invested U tbs Calhoun estate, and
railroad depot,,
paid.* Head this
This apla«dM
i. _ _ fo. 8; has four 8
laeh m* holes; 18x16 Inch oven; 18
inch die box, 84 lashes high; 81x88
inah top: ales smooth easting. I
I have had this stovs mads for my
j xftsr my own idea, combining
all ths good points of all medium
priced stoves, aad leaving out the
| objectionable features.
Beyond all donbt the best No. 81
Cooking Stovs mads, for the price.
wKk 8 pots, 8 pot coven, 81
skellets, 8 griddles, 8 baking pans.
8 joints of pips, 1 elbow, 1 coUax/l
lifter, 1 scraper, 1 cake polish, 1 Iron |
tea kettle, 1 shovel. We want to
make customers and friends in every
part of the South, for the purpose
of introducing oar business to new
people, and to renew our cooualnt-
aaoe with old friends.
We will ship this splendid Cooking
Stovs and the above described wan
to anv depot, all freight chargee
paid, for only &La.OO when the
cash comes with ths order. This
stovs is agood one. well ma,
will give satin satisfaction. Our
illustrated catalogue of Furniture
Stoves and Baby Carriages mailed
free. Addnae ^
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Trains 16 and 18 carry elegant Pullman
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