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<Duv i'rttnilij Stovii. _ ^ , , I John Hardy's Conversion. i IIY MH8. K. T. (XMtUKTT. " Yes, Mrs. Hardy." said tho doctor, glibly, with a parting low. "tic (irons, as licforc, for yourself; and for the little girl, this proscript ion, according to the directions." " Yes, and I'd like to know where the medicine is coining from V'" (.'rumbled her liusbund, the moment the doctor was safely down stairs. "I'm dead broke myself, and these druggists, confound 'cm, wouldn't trust a man like me to save the child's life t" " Is the money all gone asked Mrs. Hardy, timidly. " Yes. all ffnnt! -cvoi'v cent. W'hv don't you say I'vospent it ally" rotortod John Hardy, with a sneer. "It don't cost anything1 to support a wife and child?sick ones, at that! Oh, no of course not! Baker's hills, butcher's hills, and, worst of all, i doctor's hills, and houso-rent, too. 1 fool tempted sometimes to give up." What this threat implied, Mrs. Hardy did not exactly know?it jnay be questioned whether ho did himself hut its unknown horrors were always quite enough to terrify her into submission, wore she disposed to find any j fault with John. Sho knew quite us well as he did that t wo-thirds of his wages wore spent; i%% *:it s:? ../ 41...4 1 I in iii" ^ i it11lieu< (<>11 iii inui uriiMMi appetite which had changed their cheerful, pleasant home into a cold, dark, ? heerloss garret, whose totter- 1 ing walls were hardly a shelter from wind and storms. " I was .'ending yesterday," pursued Hardy, taking down his ragged coat., and thrusting one trembling hand into its tattered sleeve, "that the cursed extravagance of women has readied such a pitch, that men ai'O getting afraid to marry. And I don't wonder they are." It would have been quite useless for Mrs. Hardy to remind Iter husband that the amount he spent in strong drink every day would have bought her a decent dress, He was determined to consider himself an ill-used and unfortunate being, and imv efforts of hers to convince him that the fault was his own, would only provoke his most violent anger. So she only drew the scanty covering of the bed more closely around her, and turned her head wearily on tho pillow to hide the tears that sprang to her eyos. t Quietly as it was done, the movement disturbed tho sick cbild beside her, who stirred uneasily in her sleep with a restless moan. " Maggie," said her fathor, bending over her, "Maggie, wake up! Don't you know me ?" The violet eyes llew open with a startled look, and lixed themselves on John Hardy's faro. " Pupa," she said, with a look of recognition dawning in her face, " I've hud such u beautiful dream?nicer ' than any story 1 ever hoard. 1 dreamed it was Chritiuns, papa, and the room was all warm and bright, and hung with beautiful garlands of (lowers. And a band of shining angels Hew down into the room, with wings i that shone like silver : and they snog, j too, sueh sweet songs, and while they J wore singing, you woke me up : and the beautiful songs and pleasant dreams are all gone: and I'm so tired. papa, and so cold." And she turned away with a shiver. Dulled as his facult ies and emotions woro, there wuft yet one redeeming ! feeling left?love for his child?his 1 sunny-haired Maggie. What if the child were very sick ? j what if she should die? ' I'm afraid she's very sick, John," said Mrs. Hard}-. ''Oh, no, I guess not!" answered, John. Ht.itlintr the. nnoasv fear at his heart. " You can't toll much about children: they always seem worse than they are. Hut 1 guess I'll go round to Aiken's : they say he's going to start a now daily, and he won't refuse to give an old friend a chance in his oinco, I'm sure. If ho will! advance mo a small sum, 1 can buy the ! medicine for Maggie, and have a trilie 1 lest to buy her a Christmas present, j 1 will get Amanda to come up and sit 1 with you while I am gone." He spoke without harshness, almost I with gentleness, and under the inJlueneo of the fear that was upon him, closed the door softly, and, with ii careful step, quite unlike his usual shuttling tread, ascended the rickety stairs. A slatternly-looking girl in slippers was loaning over the banisters, absorbed in a dime novel. A door, half-open, disclosed a dirty break fast-table., with table-cloth askew, and two or three dirty-faced children were quarreling over their j breakfast. Evidently the girl had left the room j for the purpose of enjoying her literary j feast undisturbed. "Amanda," said ho, "I wish you would go up stairs, and sit with Mrs. Hardy. 1 am going to work, and she is too sick to be left alone." Mrs. Jones, administering a maternal rebuke to her eldest son and heir, in tho form of a vigorous cufT upon a pair of very dirty cars, heard tho request, and stepped forward. " Yes, go right along, Mandy. I'm going over to yer aunt Jane's to spend the day, and t'11 take all the children. So you can go as well as not." Amanda, without taking her eyes from the hook, gave anafHrmativo nod. It was a most interesting incident in the narrative, where the heroine Alsada, after slaying a gorilla and seven savages with her own delicate hands, was about to make her cscano by riding through the jungle on the hack of a wild panther. She would not go up yet. She just wanted to see what befell Alsuda and the panther. So she sat down on tho lowor step, while frequent skirmishes took place between the boys across the break fast-table. In the meantime the valiant Mrs. .lones'marshallcd her ; forces with the air of a major-general conducting a soige. " And, Mandy," was her parting injunction, "be sure you look up tho front door, and go right up stairs tho minute I'm gone." And Amanda, having seen her heroic Alsada safely through the jungle, pro mised compliance. lint alas ! for humun resolutions! And alas 1 for us, for whom the Tompter Hob in wait at ovory stop upon lifo's pathway ! Scarcely had Alaada emerged from the depths of the jungle, still mounted triumphantly on the panther's back, when the infuriated creature bore her directly into a pirate's cave, whore tho bloody chief of the buccaneers V an just pledging his j comrades in a goblet made from a human skull, and briining with raw brandy. Who could withstand such a tempt,a- | tion ? Not Amanda. So she sunk ! into tho nearest rocking-chair, and' hung with breathless interest over its classic pages. Meantime, the air grew dark with murky clouds, thick snowtiakos wore whirled hither tfnd thither by the resistless rush iiml roar of the winter wind, which rattled the loose easements and handed the blinds and whistled its shrill note of defiance to , tin warmth and eo/.iness of Christmas n firesides into every erovico and key- j hole. j Outside, there were all sorts of merry preparations uointr on for the Christ-I IHUH, tliat would be hero to-morrow - .V< alt sorts of people carrying all sorts of tl bundles*, express wagons bloekudod the erowdod streets: and although d everylnwly was jostled, and squeezed t< and erowdod, without merry, every- Is Imdy retaliated with smiles, instead of o< frowns;* for that spirit of peace and si good-will which a little child had si brought to the world, eighteen hun- 11 dred years ago. was alive in every y< heart." y Inside, the clock kept up its mono- Hl tonous tiek. tlek, and the cat, relieved I1 for a brief time from the persecutions of the little Joneses, was trying to recall a long-forgotten purr, to do honor to the approaching holiday. And Amanda, oblivious to all around, and unheeding the flight of time, road ' on. ****** ti "Where are you, mamma?" and little Maggie's had crept feebly over the tattered counterpane. ^ " Here, my darling." " 1 am cold, mamma?so cold I can hardly feel your cheek. When will 0 papa come? And hark! what are V' those bells ringing for?" " It in twelve o'clock, and they uro 11 ringing in tho Chritnias morn, dear." v{ "Why don't papa come? I am so ' tired?I wish ho could carry ino in his arms once more, as ho did when 1 was J1 a baity. Take mo up, please.'' The poor mother tried to raise her, J' but her feeble strength was insufficient for the task. ?' The strong cigar radiance of a full . moon poured through the curtuinlcss window, and lay like a sea of splendor !' around tho form of tho dying* child. " Como closer, mamma: I cannot seo you." 11 c< Tho blue eyes were wide open, but Ilxod in a meaningless stare, and her |, mother saw that ore the sound of the S( Christmas chimes should die away tho childish soul would wing its upward tlight to One who had declared that (. "of such is tho kingdom.'" I "Come closer, mamma?closer yet; ; tl sing to me." j p Sho smothered the sob that rose to ' tl her lips, and in a clear, but tremulous e< voice. sane the li?mn : " When it is morning." tl ''Sing louder," whispered tlio dying : ii child : " I cannot hear you." \ She obeyed, but Maggie hoard her c not. The numbness of death was | b creeping over her senses, the violet | o eyes grew dim, then closed again : the h saintly soul was out of prison. Little g Maggio was dead ! j S At daybreak, John llardy staggered fi up the stairs that led to his wretched ' d home. 11 ''Don't ho afraid, Margaret!" lie ! 11 called out, as ho opened the door. " I haven't been drinking this time : l'vo b done with that, please God, forever. I .V got the job I told you of, and all night -si I've been working to get money enough A to havo an old-fashioned Christmas 15 holiday. Something came over mo when 1 was setting the types in the the otliee there. I don't, Irnou- wlmi it Ii was, nor where it came froui: but it w guvo inn now resolutions, and strength s' to koon tliom. You vo noon 1110 d drunk for tho last time, Margaret. u And here is a present for Maggie. ' See what papa has brought you, Mag- ^ gie!" * i'( lint when lie would have drawn away the revering that hid the little face, his wife detained him, with a n feeble clasp. "One mightier than we has spoken, 11 and the child obeyed llis voice," she 11 whispered. "Oh, John, be rccon- I il( oiled!" . She drew the ragged counterpane / aside, and the morning sunshine fell \ like a benediction upon his bowed u head, and threw a halo of brightness J1 over the golden curls and marble brow j11 of little Maggie. 11 A CHAPTER ON BRICKS. J ! ft The Antiquity and Durability of tlic Familiar Material. ^ The lirst authontic account of brick- n making is in the Bible. 11 is some time st after the deluge. We are told that w "tho descendants of Noah found a plain w in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt vi there. And they said one to another, w go to, lot us make brick, and burn them f, thoroughly. And they made brick for w stone and slime for mortar." al That was at the beginning of the tl building of the tower of Babel, about st I,(MM) years ago. Excavations have gi been made there in recent years. Tho si ruins of the tower are 2,28(> feet in cir- , p i-umiureiioo, u souu muss 01 eartu ami u brick, rising to a height of 200 feet. The slime used for mortar was of such p a durable character that today one f< brick can hardly be separated from an- h other. Tho brlckmaking of the Isiaol- 1; ites, in Egvpt, of which wo also read y< in the Bible, was different front that in a the plain of Shinar. Tho Egyptiuns li used straw to mix with their clay, prob- 1 n ably for the purposo of making tho > bricks lighter. The Egyptian bricks t< wore adobes, or sunbaked. p The Assyrians, tho most powerful u nation in old Bible times, used brick, o mostly, as building material for their t< cities'. Nineveh was built largely of u brick, and upon each brick one or more 1< letters were stamped. The city of Ban- tl ylon was also built of brick. 'Jshe Bab- e< ylonian brick, too, have letters stamped li upon them, but tho lettorH are put on in a dilforent stylo from those at Nine- g voh. On the Assyrian brick tho let- p tors were put on one side at a time, U while on the Babylonian brick they b wore put on together in a line, and o these letters are history. They toll us si that the city was built by Noouchad- h uo/./.ur, son of Nebubatuchun. t< The ancients made bricks in all n shapes, to lit different parts of their li buildings. Some woro square, some v woro oblong, and some woro wedge- o snapeu. in color, too, t.ncy wore all 11 shades, from the color of tho earth In t< the sun-baked hrick to tho black, green ti rod, blue, white and yellow in thokiln- 1' burned, an shown by recent excava- tl tlons. ai Wo are told by Hoinur. 1 think, that tl l'oseldon and Apollo built a wall o1 around the city of Troy. This wall h was made partly of brick and partly of d< rook. Tho city it-elf was built mostly v< of brick of the sun-baked kind, except pi tho royal palace and a few other build- L ings, in which the uiatorial used was ai stono. in Dr. Schlieman, tho excavator of Troy, tl found in the ruins of that city every h evidence of its having been destroyed 01 by lire. The stones that had boon ex- h; posed to tho llames when laid bare so In that the air could strike them, would pi crumble to nieces, while the brick had in been burned s.? hard that tho atmos- it pherc had no effect upon them, and 11 they were almost as good as new. al BILL AEP ON THE STRIKE. F.OKGIA'H PHII.OSOI?lllllTAl,KK ABOl'T TIIK CHICAGO THOCHLH. le Interview** Conductor llart;)*. Praises I'owdcrly, hut Denounces |)olm-Tli? South Hurt by Having 11m Produce Delayed. I nmno ...? ?lw. .......1 * v..--. ? ? u |Z VII? i uuvi I I A' 111 i \ I 1II II 141 estcrday with Captain I)it*k I hubris, 10 tall sycamore of Nancy's crook, aptaln Dick is one of the genial conactors of the State road, and as lie >ok a scat behind mo I said : " What i tho matter with you ? Are you not inducting this train?" ' " No," lid he, "I've struck- and I'm still irlklng?striking for home. This is ty olT day. I am glad I don't live up under among those strikers. I tell nu what, major, if this government is ived from ruin it will he saved by the eople of the South. Our native born npulation has got respect for law and rder and fair dealing, but them fel>ws up there haven't got a bit. Their lotto is rule or ruin : give us what wo emand, or we will take it. As fast as no strike is settled there is another n hand, and it is ruining the county." A couple of M ich(guilders asked Captin Dies if he thought the big strike ould get down here in Georgia. No," said he, " we Southerners have one had our big strike and got enough fit." " When was that?" they askil. "About thirty years ago," said ?iek. " It was an awful big strike ud lasted four years, and we got liekI. The Yanks hired about 2,000,000 f foreigners to put us down, and they wl il itiiil 1 Iwtv iimiI 1 luiiv u/ui. ying their hand on tlio people who ired them. That's what's tlie matjr." One of the gentlemen ventured ) ask him what our pcoplo thought I Coxoy and Kelly and their armies. Oh, we don't care .mytiling about 10m," said the captain. "They are art of the same crowd that the North lhorited from the war. They came own here at the tail end of Sherman's nny and plundered all this beautifill juntry, and never left a pig to squeal or a clilcken to crow. They liked the ashless then and they like it yet. 1 30 that Coxoy cost our government so,0(H) while he was in Washington, ut there's no telling how much they est the country they passed through, lefore the war we would have called horn vagrants, but some Northern roachers and editors sympathize with Item and say it is only a sign of disontcnt. That's what's the matter? iscon'ented because I've got sollicking that 1 worked for, and they want t>, and 1 won't give it to them. The 'anks taught them that it was no rime to rob us, and now they are robing them. You know that Solomon r somebody said if a man sows wind e will raise a crop of whilwind. No, entlomen, as sure as you are born the outh will have to save this country om anarchy, and she can do it. We idn't have but about half a million of gating inon in the other lug strike, nd wo killed more Hum th.it and put 300,000 on the pension list, and then it )ok a million more to whip us, and so ou can imagine what we eat; do now ineo we have raised another crop." .nd Captain Dick gritted his Confedrato tooth and rolled his big Confcdrato eyes all round in their sockets. Well, wo have been utiiu/.cd at this ist big strike and we did sympathize ith the railroads and t he people who jfTered, but we didn't feel very much oncorned until the embargo on our utormclons reached us. It is just as 'owderly said in 1 iis speech in Now ork : " lOvory strike against railauds is a strike against the whole mntry. Our railroads arc so essonally connected with the life of the ution that when you stop one of these rout arteries you stop the How of the at ion's life-blood. Personally, 1 do ot believe in strikes. I have always ilvised against t hem." (iood for I Nnvderly. Hut this now aider, Debs, has the instinct of a ruto. He would see thousands of orkmen thrown out of employment nd their families sulTcring for bread, ml commerce paralyzed just to satisfy is own ambition. And what is it all bout 'i .lust because the Pullman Diiipany olTerod its employes wages hieh tho workmen refused to work ' >r, and so they wore paid olT and disbursed. This was their legal right, ow, Dobs orders a strike on every Hid that hauls a 1'oilman ear, and Ite .ops Ions train loads of live stock hero they cannot got either food or 1 uter, and his henchmen actually oreant hundreds of passengers?men, omen and children?from gettins >od or water in the town where they ore derailed. Ho has sent his agents 11 over the Kastern States to induce to employes to come into a universal ,riko and let labor whip capital for nod and for all time. How far he will lcceed, we cannot divine, hut the rely of the Jersey City men was admirble. "Wo have done well to keop our laces and our wuses those hard times, >r wo are assured that our railroads avc not earned a not dollar in the ist six months. No, wo will not join on." This strike is the outcome of narchism. It comes from tho same iwless spirit that caused tho assassiation of Lincoln and Cat-Held and Iayor Harrison and Carnot. It leads > arson, pilage and the destruction of roporty. It causes thousands of workten in other industries to he thrown lit of employniont and their families > sttlTor. If this strike continues a iwiibii Lin- Btl'lKUI'S tllUII18(UVOH Will mo hundreds of thousands of dollars, 10 railroads will lose millions and the mmnorcial public liundrcda of milons. Is there no power in a republican ovornmont to stop these outrages and unish the ringleadersV If not, then ;t us have a military despotism and o dono with it. Our courts have been ur bulwark and our pride. They are low. but they have been sure and we ave felt socure under their protection > life, liberty"and property. Hut those ion laugh at courts and scorn the iw. They substitute anarchy and loloncc for law and reason. By way f apology for them it is said that the uisses of the strikers are bulldozed in> it by their leaders, and that not onemth of them are really in favor of it. his cannot bo true, for wo read that 10 police of the towns and the scurf ...i ..t ?? nil nun in ui UVUI) niillMllllluy lll'O OH loir side. TIio spirit of anarchy is all cor that land and their desire is to avo a divide. Politicians have panDred to this lawless element for their and it is through them that the ulice got thoir appointments to ollice. ook at the police of Now York city, j ox posed by Dr. I'arkhurst. Sixteen ii 11 ions of dollars of blackmail paid lem in two years by law-breakers for nsli money. Look at tho exposures l Ward island, where tho otllcinls avo plundered and robbed tho poor matics and idiotsof their supplies and lit tho money in thoir pockets. Their rutality to these helpless creatures, is said, nearly equals that which Den utlor exposed at the Towkosbury mshouNO. whoro it was proven that ; ? "i~" 80mo of the Joud wore skinned mid \s their hides tunned into leather and f< made into shoos. Just as Tatntnuny n* runs Now York through the ballots of e foroi&rnert* and vuiruhonris. soilnnnlitJ- )i clans <111 tho offices in all the cities and t largo towns of tho north. Verily thoy have sown tho wind tfnd aro reaping tho whirlwind. It in for this reason thai Powdorly said in his speech at Prohibition park : "There is no help for it hut for tho government to seize the railroads and the coal and iron mines and operate thorn." Hut what next? I f lawlessness drives the government to that extremity, w hero would it stop? Wouldn't tho government have to seize all the factories and run them, too? The lawless element and tho spirit of anarchy would still tie unsubdued. May the Lord have pity upon those people up north who have to suffer and endure from contact with such an clement. There aro some good conservative people up there. I know several, but take it all in all, it is the finoBt missionary held in the world, and I wish that wo had some to spare to send thorn. They are our brethren, and if we can do anything for them we ought | to do it. BlLb AKP. GEN- GORDON'S GREAT SPEECH, j AITHAIjS FOIt LAW ANI) OKDKIl. | A Si art ling Hound in the I n i I ] suatos M-uale I lid mi nl Kdiiikcs ill IVom i Ik- Noi-C Ii iiiiiI i Ik- Soul li. Washington, July 10.?Tho Sonuto w spout throo hours to-day in debate tl. upon the resolution offered by the kl Populist Senator from Kansas, Senator 111 roifer, looking to government eoitrol ri of inter-state railroads, the regulation i oc ?.?f their freight and passenger rates, tli the fixing of the wages of railroad cm- j tli ployees, the acquisition and operation >" (either by the federal government or , I" by the State governments) of all the so coal beds of the country, and to many w other of the peculiar ideas of the It Populist party. ti' As was to ho expected tho great dt railroad strike at Chicago was tho lo chief topic in the debato. In a speech tl of over an hour and a half Senator a.^ Poller stated the ease from the Debs ni or striker's point of view, and laid all pi the blame for tho outbreak on Mr. pi Pullman, whom he characterized as w soulless, conscienceless and tryannical. w The eaus? of law and order and of the in maintenance of free and unobstructed to intercom**a by railroad communication tl; was championod by Senators Davis, Republican, of Minnesota, and Cionlon. st Democrat, of Ceorgia, botii of whom us denounced, in eloquent and patriotic vt language, tbo position taken by tbo o\ Kansas S? nator and the lawless acts w of Dobs and bis followers. g' A substitute for tbe I'effer resolution St was offered by Senator Daniel, Demo- si crat. of Virginia, upholding and com- ui mending the olllcial action of tbe l'rc- in sident and bis Cabinet. w In tbe last two bours of tbo session tbo post-< llieo appropriation bill and ti tbo House bill for tbe admission of (N Utah as a State was passed, tbo former j tli with very little friction and tbe latter tli without any at all. even without tbe el yeas and nays being called upon its ai passage. h? Senator I'offer, in tbo course ofhis|l'< speech upon bis resolution, said : " 1 | or do not wonder sometimes that there is j ra a growing feeling against tbo political | in condition of things in Washington, pc 1 do not wonder that my friends w rite to to mo expressing tbe hope that tlie th Senate shall be abolished, I wrote to lu one of them the other day saying that hi I would vote for its abolition; and I oc would go farther and vote for the lv abolition of tbe Mouse of Kepresentu- tli tives. 1 would favor tbe government ev being contiued to one man, not more than one, from each State." Tbo fewer en (Governors we have in this country the ; nc better. At any rato one man can do : at no worse than a few hundred men have done." Senator 1'offer went on to speak enthusiastically of tbe grand spectacle \ that would be presented when all tbe ? workmen of tbe country stopped work; < when all tbe life of tbe communities would be at an absolute and perfect .)}| stlLl idsl.i 11 I i t.lm uiliiiino . ?f .1 Wiiiwl.n. ?? -"vmuv .% "".""v mornig; when nobody would be ut|n> work ; when everything would l?e para- th lyzod ami inert. And that was, he' j., said, what tiiis thing meant to the | th American people. The time had come aj for employers to learn how to handle j,j the situation, by fair treatment of their \ m met; and if they could not do that, it hi wa time lor the people in their severe- th ign capacity to interfere anil to say |n that the thing has gone far enough? j to say, "Thus far and no farther." to Senator PelTor read and commented yt upon the report of the interview he- 'jlt tween delegates from the common hi council of Chicago and the vice president of the Pullman Company, Mr. y, Wiokes: and lie repeated with words ac of condemnation the final speech of ]l( Mr. Wieki-s, "The Pullman Company w, has nothing to arbitrate." Then he ' }u spoke of the modern craze to teach to the use of arms in the colleges, public m] schools ami even, he said, in the SunI day-schools, and he exclaimed passion- al] ukui^, ib is tune inai in us militarism should ceaso. If I am asked what wo ,|c aro going to do when disputes aviso hi, between employers and employes 1 rj would say, " Keop your hands otY." w] That is my advice, keep your hands tr away from them. They will settle j)( this thing themselves, and they will do ta it without bloodshed. They will do it without lining the torch. They will fa do it without getting angry. They uc will doit j lstlv, safely, wisely, prompt- ],j ly. The very instant you begin to call out the military arm in order to ta protect one side and send the other to ov oppression, just so soon you arouse a spirit of i uimosity which cannot be (n quelled by foreo. hi Senator Davis, Itepublicnn, of Minne- fa sota, rose and declared, in a manner which betrayed intense indignation, or that ho had' hoard with amazement t]| anil pain much of Senator Potter's remarks, lie had supposed that by ,,i common consent it appeared to be the ||; hotter course not to inllamo the sltua- ui tion by speeches on either side, because i>{ oven the most moderate language at Wi such a time might be construed into -y intemperance. tii Senator tlordon also spoke in a tone si of defiance and indignation. Ho said : "Mr. I 'resident, the Senator from Kansas closed his somewhat extraordi- fr nary speecli witii an assault upon the fa two lending political parties occupying tli this chamber, and lie appeals Tor a third party. At a time like this, when the peace of great communities is not m only threatened, but broken, when i<\ a great centra! city, one of the first in tli this or un,\ other land, has its pros- or pority theutonod by a reign of blood j0 and (Ire and terror, when great communities are looking hither and thither re for some method of c capo from the rt|, terrors which surround them, when our civilization, not to say the form of f(! government, under which we livo, is Ti heaving under the mad ground swell g< of a great agitation, it seems to mo tli that any r< prosentativo on this floor H]i has deseenued very far from the lofty at* plane of statesmanship and patriotism (?o 'ho stands at such an hour to appeal u* party. What matters it to us 'bother we in) Republicans or Doiuoruts ; what matters it to any lovor of is country on which side wo stood in tio great American contlict 5n tho ast, ho now wo stand shoulder to liouldur for tho poaco of tho country, >r the enforcement of its laws, for tho jpport of its dignity and the peretuity id its personal liberties- for tie lihnrLii>? of it- o.,o?J?.v i * iHh to speak to ii subject like this om a Southern standpoint: 1 will not. L matters not to 1110 whether the woo hich threatens Chicago be Western r Castern or Northern or Southern : i involves in its incshos the very life f this Republic, which is u Uepnblic f order, il it i- i Republic at all. 44 We are a peculiar people. We are people who govern their country by i>to, by ballot, anil the will of the poo- j lo is its law, and when the will of the eoplo fails to support the law the j overniuent 111 list become defunct, /e have no government recognized ud upheld by the free will of the peo- > le. Law governs by the populai will , tid protects private property and j rivate life. It protects the rights of; 10 laboring man to dispose of his j thor and sell it whoro he pleases, and i hen that right is invaded by Mr. ebs or Mr. anybody else, it is a dounco not only of the laws of tho hole country, hut il is an iuauguraon of a system of slavery never known i the past history of this country. ''The institution of slavery has been >]ivu uuiiwiu 111 tiu; uioou Ul'ttwn iroiu 10. veins of Northern and Southern nil red, und tlioro never has lived a an on this continont who had the glit toorder u man of his own blood to 'ase from labor. Why, sir, whore is lis country to-day V I stand here in lis high chamber and recall, with une misgivings I confess, tho woful ophecy of Lord Mucauluy that in une great public upheaval, like that hioh confronts us to-day, this fair epubllc would either lose its civili/.a011 through mob law, or in putting it > >wu by the strong arm of power would j so it liberties. Sir, 1 do not belieye , lat, but 1 confess that if such doctrines i we have heard on the floor this orning become popular well may we inse and consider w bother Macaulay's ophecy is to bo fulfilled or not. Rather ould I think with tho great (/amln t ta hen he said that all the llborty-lovg people of the country would unite save the country, however much toy might light in politics. '"The day is op us right now, and I and here, not as a Southern man, but i an American citizen, and 1 wish my lice could ring through tho heart of cry law breaker on the continent, lien I say that tho men who wore tho ey from 'til to '<if> and eon fronted the :ars ami Stripes will he found side by ile with those who wore the other liform following that Hag in uplioldg tiie dignity of the country over hich it Moats. I Applause.| ' One more thought. Tho disnguished Senator from Minnesota Ir. Davis) said truly and wisely that io great backbone of the country was ic common class. I belong to that ass: 1 am a farmer and only a farmer, id as their representative I stand ro to-day to say that south of tho jtoinae River you will not see a farm', be lie white or black, who will not ,1 ly to the support of the government the support of tho power which tho soplo have oleeted. 1 wish the mat r coutu nave Doen settled. 1 regret ' 0 bloodshed, but I want to say, us an most man, that the blood which has < icn shed or will bo shed, he it an j can, is nothing to the price of this j opublic and its value, and the sons of ic men who made it will save it what* or may be the cost." This speech evoked prolonged and ithusiastio applause which made it socssary for the Vice I'resident to Imonish the galleries. .CI? ? J I A Cllllil) IIIOltOINi;. 1 jilt le (i i i*l Saves 11 or l<'ut her I rom a Shocking Deal It ?lie hay i ii a I > run lien Stupor on a Itailroail Track. WihKSttAKUK, I'a., .July 8.?It was iy day at tho mines yostcrday, and unuol Kra/.er, a well know miner i r'ing at liillgatu, a small village near is city, who had made about twenty I. ys during .Juno, drow a larger pay an he has earned for years. Natur-! ly he was jublilant, hut unfortunately s high spirits before long became 1 ingled with other high spirits, and . i 5 was early this morning in a coudi-1 ' m which prevented him from knowg or caring much about anything. j, lie had wandered away from homo, | o, and his anxious wife and little 8 i mi' old daughter did not know whore ) was. l3oth started out to look for in, going In opposite (liroetions. The tie girl walked down by the Lohigh n11 ey Kuilroad truck, and thoro, lying ross theruiis, iuu high out, slio found sr father sound asleep. She tried to ike him and get him to go home, hut * merely pushed her away and told her go home, that he was tired and want- , to sleep. The child wound her arms about him id tried with endearing terms to use him, but it was useless. ttudnly, as she was kneeling beside him, e heard a familiar &ound a peculiar nging of the rails. She knew well hut it meant the morning passenger ain, which every morning ran past , >r home, was flying down the mounin, For a moment she didn't realize her ( ther's danger. Then as it flashed , ross her mind, she throw herself upon in shrieking. " I'upa, papa! Wake up! llulT a iff is coming and you will be run or. i'apa. papa, don't you hear?" ( I hit t lie father was inscnsiblo to -cry t>mng. uesporately she grasped in with her baby urmg, but hor innt strength could not move him, grin sho shrieked in his our, but lie ily mumbled incoherently in his unken sleep. Then as the ringing of the rails gave aee to a hoarse rumble and she reaped that the heavy train was almost ion thorn she fell upon his breast sobng. His rod bandana handkerchief ; as hanging from his pocket and she ipod her eyes with it. Instantly a lought Hashed through her mind, lie had seen the railroaders atop trains r waving a red Hag. In a moment. io hud pulled the red handkerchief om his pocket and was running as st as hor little feet could carry her up 10 track. She must have faMcn onee or twice, i there are big bruises on hor hands id knees, buf she kept bravely on. irtunately the cut was short, and iough tlie track eurvod into it, at its id one could see up tho -track for a ng distance. Tho brave child just managed to uch tliis spot as tho engineer was ! jwing up fertile curve, llo saw iter, i w tho rod bandana whicli sho was i obly waving and pulled a lover. ' here was a heavy jar on tlie passcn- i >rs and they were thrown forward in ! loir seats. Tlio train slackened its 1 mod, tin-re wore more jars and it J opped, and there at tho foot of the w catcher of tho big engine stood the < ? child crying with the pain of a cut in hor hand. Hurriedly the trainmen crowded around her. ' My papu't* ttslcop back there," t>ho explained. 44 and I don't. wnnt. Iiim to bo run over.'' Some of the trainmen ran forward and lifted Frazor from the track and aroused bim to a sense of hi* danger. This partly sobered him, and when lie realized what his daughter had done ho hroko down and wo)>t. Meanwhile the news had spread through the train. A number of passengers grouped around the child. One took the red bandana, and when the conductor a minute afterward shouted " All aboard " it was given back to her with something heavy inside, which chinked like pieces of silver. Then as the train pulled out of the cut the passengers with their hands out of the windows waved adieu to little Annie, who was now being carried houioward by her now half sobered father. That is why Sam Frazor has signed the pledge. ON 10 OF Tll.hMAN'S IKIINDS. A Former I cmler Denounces (lie <la* ~ crnor air! Calls llim I ?ly Names? ! >- miiHi's noinc i urines Charges. ! Governor Tillman took occasion in the course of his speech in Darlington County to make some very harsh re- i marks in regard to Mr. John M. Waddill, one of the original Tillmuuitos of the State?the man who is said to have twice carried his county for Tillman, and who has figured in most of the !> foiuuconventions, etc. Mr. Waddill was U<>t permitted to reply at tlie time. He has therefore written the following open letter to the people of the State: To the i'ublio : A few days ago (Iovernor Tillman cowardly attempted to hold mo up to the scorn of the people 1 of my country. 1 was denied the opportunity to reply to this charge of his. ' The Governor denied culling mo by name, hut his friends and coat-tail swingers did it for him, 1 hud information of the matter the day before, hence lie Is guilty of falsehood and oowuudioo inthosuino breath. My former advocacy of Tillman and prominence In Alliance work and present position cause me to become an object of Tillman's hate and vindictivoness. 1 wish to retire from active participation in politics, hut before L do I want to put myself right before the i people of Darlington county and the ' State at largo. Governor Tillman charges mo with being in the pay of Wall street. I sell Hour for .1. A. (). Moore, broker, Darlington, and mm of Tillman's host friends. I urnalsongent for tho Homo Supply Association of Chicago, Recause 1 will no longer worship tho false and ugly God, Till- | man, I am to bo slandered by this .Hellish, mean fraud; for ho Is nothing hut a fraud, a traitor to tho Reform Movement and to tho Alliance. One of tho first acts of treachery was to tho Reformers of Darlington county in making an appointment which wain violation of his solemn pledge made ! in his first address at this place in 1S5K). and reiterated to several gentlemen in hisoflieo in Columbia. Then violation after violauien of his pledges to the 1 Alliance at Spartanburg in I8SU, and May convention, 185)2. Tillman is in tbe interest and. I believe, in tho pay of Tammany Rail. Tillman denies voting for Hill at Ch icago I don't believe he can prove it, and if ho does, he can not disprove his advocacy of Hill before the convention at Chicago, for he took the delegation (all that he could inlluoueo) one night to Tammany Wigwam, where we were introduced to Croker, Rourko, Cock run, Cununings, ct. ah. who wined and eigurcd Tillman, and if ho gets to tho Senate ho will only have Hill to welcome him. He hasviiilied and abused I'opulists, Democrats, and Republicans alike. Tillman wrote OHO of his henchman i travoling in Kdgolield in tho interest i of General Butler. Qouoral Butler was ; kind to me in tho war and 1 prefer Butler to Tillman, thereby no principle is involved. Butlerisa bravo, honorable! old soldier and an old soldier knows how to moot such a man. Kxporieneo of four years, often in contact with Tillman lias lead mo to judgo him a cold, selfish, cruel anil cowardly man. I thought at tho time that 1 saw evidence of bis cowardice at Florence in 18U2, and so stated to a few friends at the time, and I have soon more evidence of his cowardice at Chester and Oats. If tho Alliance of South Carolina will support such a man, who plainly tells; thorn why they can do so, I, for one, j will draw the line right here and say I ; will support Butler unlil a simonpuro i AUianceman is put out. If tho truo Alliancemon of Darlington county will allow an oHieo holder, coat-tail swinger, dependent on Tillman, to carry thorn into a packed caucas to push aside truo and tried Alliancemon for a shyster lawyer, an eleventh hour convert, why they can do it, but 1 will oppose such methods and light such a candidate. One word to the truo one-gall us boys who followed Tillman on so blindly and who swallow every word he says. If you, the poor tenant white farmers, who rent lands and to whom Governor Tillman is so fond of appealing, if you lived in Kdgclield near Governor Tillman's tenantry place, and wanted land of him, you could not get it. lie has not a white tenant, all are negroes and his neighbors say that he will not have ii whit.o. mn.n on Uiu a.... ....... w.i ?u |/.uv u. *xliy lurtii* or information on this lino will bo furnished on application to 1). C. Mullock, Ksq., (fanner, ) Ninoty-six, S. C. lie is a man of integrity and high standing, a descendant of I {evolutionary ancestors, and lives on land of Sires who fought in 177<> at Ninety-Six. In conclusion I ask the Kefortners of Darlington county, what has Tillman done for you? I las he, out of his abundance, contributed one cent to anything hero? Our paper wentdown; did hoover pay his subscription? lias any lie form enterprise or work ever gotten a cent from Lien Tillman; and in tho least of the epithots east upon him, so justly, cannot I add one more and say Stingy lien Tillman? Who will follow longer a aollish, cruel, cowardly and stingy man, howovor able ho may be? 111 tho end he will disappoint us. John M. Waddim,. Darlington, K. O., .July 7. MARNPTIO NCDWiwc IIIIIMIlhl IV llklll II1K.I yrfsJf^V '6 0,<' w'"1 wr'"on I' cm guarantee to cur* S3? out -ifc/4 Nervous Prostrn JW yJSt WW irS tlon, Fits, Oizzl*ir\ ff ilr m!i >*.' ness,Headache and jT'*~'JY s/i t* vW' Neuralgia nndWakoi 1 fulness,caused byox^ ^wtalvoueeofppium, ni.nn, n hoi; Mental Deprcs BEFORE ? APlfcR slon, Softening >1 the Brsln, causing Misery, Insanity find Death j Riirroncm, Ininotencjr, Lost Power in otthoreox. Premature Old Age, Involuntary Istssos, causf <1 Lty over-indulgence, over-oxort Ion or the lirnln and Errors of Youth. 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