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VOL. XL The Prodigal's Return. " Yes, mother, he will come. Of course, lie will eotuo!" and the girl turned her drawn and anxious young face toward the cottage door, just as if her blind mother could seo the action. It is probable that the old womau divined tho longiug glance from tho change in tho girl's tone, for she, too, half turned toward tho door. It was a habit those two women had acquired. They constantly looked toward tho door for tho arrival of one who never camo through the long Summer days, or through tho quiet Wlntc. evenings : v. moreover, they r^roly spoke of other things ; this arrival was tho topic of their lives. And now the old woman's l'f? ,y.. drawing to a close, as some *" lives do, without Its object. She herself felt it, and her daughter know it. There was in both of tiiom a buhtlo sense of clluging. It was hard to die without touching tho reward of a wondrous patience. It was cruel to deprive tho girl of this burden, for in most burdens there is a safeguard, in all a duty, and in some the greatest happiness allotted to human existence. It was no new thing, this waiting for tho scapegrace son; the girl had grown up to it, for she would not know her brother should she meet him in tho street. Since sight had left tho old mother's eyes she had fed her heart upon this hope. lie had left them eighteen years bofore in a lit of passionate resentment agaiust his father, whoso only fault had been too great an indulgence for tlie son of his old ago. Nothing had been too good for poor Stephen ?hardly anything had been good enough. Educated at a charity school himself, tho simple old clergyman held tho mistaken view that no man can be educated above his station. Stephen Leach's father, having risen by tho force of his own will and the capabilities of his own mind hold. as such iuuo do, that he had only to give his son a good education to insure his career in life. So everything ? even to the old parson's sense of right and wrong?was saerilieed to the education of Stephen Leach at public school and university. Hero ho met and selected for his friends youths whoso futuros were insured, and who were only passing through the formula of an education so that no one could say that they were unlit for the snug Government appointment, living or inheritance of a more substantial sort that might be waiting for them. Stephen acquired their ways of life without possessing their advantages, and the consequence was something very nearly approaching ruin for the little country rectory. Stephen Leach had expensive tasLs, and ho unscrupulously traded on his father's ignorance. He was good-looking, and had a certain brilliancy of manner which "goes down'' well at the 'Varsity. Everything was against him, and at last the end came. At last the rector's eyes were opened, and when a narrowminded man's eyes are once opened lie usually becomes stony at heart. Stephen Louch left England, and before lie landed in America his father had departed on a longer journey. The n'er-do-woll had the good grace to send hack the little sums of money saved by his mother in her widow hood, and gradually his letters ceased. It was known that he was in Chili, and there was war going on there, and yet the good old lady's faith never wavered. " lie will come, Joyce," she would say, " he will surely come." And somehow it came to bo an unr1ni*iitnful 1 11 1 mr t hut Iia uioa tn i m the afternoon when they were all ready for him?when Joyce had clad her protty young form in a dark dress, and when the old lady was up and seated in her chair by the tiro^ in winter, by the door in Summer. Th^v had never imagined his arrival at another time. It would not be quite the same should ho make a mistake and come in the morning, before Joyce had got the house put right. * Yet ho never came. A greater infirmity came instead, and at last Joyce suggested that the mother should not get up in bad weather. They both knew what this meant, but the episode passed as others do, and Mrs. Leach was bedridden. Still she said : " Ho will come, Joyce ! LIo will suroly come 1" And the girl would go to tho window and draw aside the curtains, looking down the quiet country road toward tho village. " Yes, mother, ho will come," was her usual answer ; and one day she gavo a little exclamation of surprise and almost of fear. ) "Mother," she exclaimed, "there is some one coming along tho road." Tho old lady was already sitting up in bed, staring with her sightless orbs toward the window. Thus they waited. Tho man stopped opposite the eoHago, and the two women heard tho latch of the gate. Then Joyce, turning, saw that her mot her had fainted. Hut it was only momentary. By tho time she reached tho bod her mother had recovered consciousness. "Go," said tho old lady, breathlessly, " go l'et him in yourself." Down stairs, on tho doorstep, the ndrl fmind :l tall man of thlrt.v nr there a bouts with a browner faco than English suns can account for. Ho looked down into her eagor eyes withastrange questioning wonder. "Am I too late?" ho asked in a voice which almost seemed to indicato a hope that it might bo so. " No, Stephen," she answered. "But mother cannot livo much longer. You are just in time." The young man made a hositating little movement with his right hand and shuttled uneasily on tho clean stono stop. Ho was an actor called suddenly upon tho stago, having no knowledge of his part. Tho return of this prodigal was not adrumatic success. No ono scorned desirous of learning whother ho had lived upon husks or otherwise and with whom he had caton. Tho quiet dignity of tho girl, who had remained behind to do all the work and bear all tho burden, seemed in somo subtle manner to deprive him of any romance that might have attached itself to him. Sho ignored his haft-proffered hand, and, turning into v V, r + A .A the little passage, led tbo way up* stairs. Stephen Leueh followed silently. He was rather largo for the house, and especially for the stairs: moreover, ho had a certain burliness of walk, such as is acquired by men living constantly in the open. There was a vaguely pained look in his blue eyes, as if they had suddenly been opened to his own ulinphxtmliurd Ilia utliliutn wit I'd Joyce wuh distinctly apologetic. When ho followed the girl across the threshold of their mother's bedroom the old lady was bitting up In bed, holding out trembling arms toward the door. Hero Stephen Leach seemed to know belter what to do. lie hold his mother in his arms while she sobbed and murmured out her joy. llo had no words, but his arms meant more than his lips could ever bavo told. It would seem that the best part of happiness is the sharing of it with some one else. " Joyce," was the first distinct word the old laily spoke. "Joyce, ho has come at last. Ho has come ! Come here, dear. Kiss your brother. This is my first born?my little Stjve." Toe young man hud sunk upon his kne<;s at the bedside, probably because it was the most convenient position, llo did not second his mother's proposal with much enthusiasm. Altogether he did not seem to have discovered much sympathy with his sister, whom fie had left in iter cradle. Joyee came forward and leaned over the bed to kiss her brother while the old ludy's hands joined theirs. Just as her fresh young lips came within reach he turned his face aside, so that the kiss fell on barren ground on ills tanned cheek. "Joyce," continued the old lady, feverishly. "I urn not afruid to dio now, for Stephen is hero. Your brother will take euro of you, dour, when 1 am gone." It wu8 strange that Stephen hud not spoken yet; and it was perhaps just as well, because there are occasions in life when men do wisely to keep silent. " He is strong," the proud mother went on. " 1 can feel it. His har/Js aro large and steady and quiet, and his arms are big and very hard." The young man knelt upright and submitted gravely to this maternal inventory. " Yea," she said, " 1 know bo would grow to be a big man. His little lingers were so strong?he hurt mo sometimes. What a great mustache ! I knew you bad been a soldier. And the skin of your face is brown and a little rough. What is thisV what is this, Stephen dear ? Is this a wound ?" " Yes," answered the Prodigal, speaking for the lirst time. "That is a sword cut. 1 got thut in the last war. 1 am a colonel in the Chilian army, or was, before I resigned." The old lady's sightiuas eyes were lixed on his face as if listening for the echo of another voice in his deep, quiet tonus. " Your voice is deeper than your father's ever was," she suid, and all the while her trembling lingers moved lovingly over his face, touching the deep eat from cheekbone to jaw with soft inquiry. "This must have been very near your eye, Stephen. Promise me, dear, no more soldiering." " 1 promise that," he replied, without raising bis eyes. Such was the home-coming of the Prodigal. After all, ho arrived at the right moment in the afternoon, when the bouse was ready. It sometimes does happen so in real life, and not only in hooks. There is a great ileal that might be altered iu this world, but, sometimes, by a more chance, things come about rightly. And yet, there was something wrong, something subtle, which the dying woman's duller senses failed to detect ; her son, her Stephen, was quiet, and bad not much to say for himself. He apparently had the habit of taking things as they came. There was no enthusiasm, but rather a restraint in his manner nio'*o especially toward Joyce. The girl noticed it, but even her small experience of humankind bad i. a .. <>...? i........ 1 vuu^nu *1^1 Uiiau an uvi i *ni\ i iiih:u men are oflon thus. They go through life placidly, leaving unsaid and undone many things which some toink tliey ought to say and do. After tho first excitement of the return was over it became glaringly apparent that Stephen had arrived just in time. His mother fell into a happy sleep before sunset, and when the active young doctor came a little later in the evening lie shook his head. "Yes," he said, " 1 see that she is asleep and quiet?too quiet. It is a foretaste of a longer sleep; some old people have it." For tho first time .Joyce's courage seemed to give way. When she had been ulone she .was brave enough, but now that her brother was there, womanlike, she seemed to turn to him with a sudden fear. They stood side by side near the bed, and tho young doctor involuntarily watched them. Stephen hud taken her hand in his with that silent sympathy which was so natural and so eloquent. He said nothing, this big, sun-tanned youth; ho did not even glance down ai. his sister, who stood smalt, soft-eyed and gentle at his side. Tho doctor knew something of the history of the small family thus momentarily united, and ho had always feared that if otophon Lcacf) did re turn it would only kill his mother. This, indeed, soomed to be the result about vu follow. Presently tho doctor took his leave. Ho was a young man engaged in I getting together a good practice, and in his own interest ho hud been forced to give up wailing for his patients to finish dying. " I am glad you aro horc," ho said to Stephen, who accompanied him to the door. " it would not do for your sister to bo alone: this may go on for a couple of days." It did not go on for a couple of days, but Mrs. Loach livod through that night in tho saino sorni-comatosu state. The two watchers satin her room until supper-time, whon they left their mother in charge of a hired nurse, whoso services Joyco had boon forceu to sock. After supper Stephen Leach seemed at last to tind his tongue, and no talked in his quiet, almost gentlo voice, such as soino big mon possess, not about himself or his past; but about Joyce and tho future. In a deliberate, busl"? . '' CONWAY ! net-alike way ho prooeoded to investigate tho a flairs of the dying woman and tho prospects of her daughter; in a word, ho asserted his authority as a brother, and Joyco wus relieved ni d happy to obey him. It is not in times of gayoty thtt friendships aro formed, but in sorrow or suspense. During that long oven* ing this brother and sister suddenly became intimate; more so than months of prospt rous? intercourse could have id ado tliciu. At 10 o'clock Stephen quietly insisted that Joyce should go to bed while lie lay down, all dressed, on the sofa in the dining-room. " 1 shall sleep perfectly ; it is not the lirst time I have slept in my clothes," he said simply. They went upstairs together and told tbo nurse of this arrangement. Joyco remained for some moments by the bedside watching her mother's peaceful sleep, and when she turned she found that Stephen had quiotly slipped away. Wondering vaguely whether ho had intentionally solved her dilliculty as to the fraternal goodnight, she went to her own room. The next morning Mrs. Leach was fully conscious and appeared to he stronger ; neverthless, she knew that the end was near. She called her two children to her bedside, and turning her blind eyes toward them, spoke in broken sentences : " 1 am ready now ? I am ready," she said. " Dears," I am going to your father?and * * * thank God, I can tell him that I have left you together. 1 always knew Stephen would come back. I found it written everywhere in the Bible. Stephen?kiss mo dear." The man leant over tbo bed and kissed her. " All !" sho sighed, " how I wish I could see you?just once beforo I die. Joyce !" she added, suddenly turning to her daughter, who stood at the other side of the bed, "toll me what he is like. But 1 know * * * I know? 1 feel it. Listen 1 lie Is tall and spare, like his father. His hair is black, like his father's?it was black beforo ho went away. Ills eyes, 1 know, are uin'k?almost dark, lie is pale?like a Spaniard 1" Joyce looked across tho bed with slow horror dawning in her face, looked into a pair of blue eyes beneath tawny hair, eut short, as a soldier's hair should be. She looked upon a man big, broad, fair?English from crown to toe. For some moments there was silence. Joyce stood pale and breathless, wondering what this might mean. Then the dying woman spoke again. "Kiss mo," she said, "I * * * am going. Stephen first?my first born ! And now Joyce * * and now kiss each other?act oss the bed ! 1 want to hear it* * .1 wunt * * * to tell * * your father." With a last effort she raised her hands, seeking their heads. At first Joyce hesitated, then she leant forward, and the old woman's chilled lingers pressed their lips together. That was the end. Half an hour afterward Joyce and this man stood facing each other in tho little dining-room, lie begun his explanation at once. "Stephen," ho said, "was shot?out there?as a traitor. 1 could not tell her that ! I did not* mean to do this, but what else could I do?" Iio paused, moved toward the door witli that strange hesitation which she hau noticed on his arrivul. At tho door he turned, to justify himself. " I still think," he said gravely, " that it was the best thing t > do." Joyce made no answer. Tho tears stood in her eyes. There was something very pathetic In the distress of this strong man, facing, as it were, an emergency of which he felt the delicacy to bo beyond his cleverness to t.u.i.ll.. " Last night 1 made all tho necessary arrangements for your future? just as Stephen would have made thorn ?as a brother might have done. 1? . Ho and I were brother olllecrs in a very wild army. Your brother?was not a good man. None of us were." His hand was on tho door. " Ho asked mo to come and tell you," he added. " 1 shall go hack now." They stood thus, ho watching her face with his honest, soft blue eyes, she failing to meet his glance. " May 1 eoino back again?" he asked suddenly. She gave a little gasp, but made no answer. " 1 will come back in six months," ho announced quietly, and thon he closed the door behind him. ^ ^m Delegates to The Monetary Conference. A MAJORITY AKKRIMKTAIililSTH. No Time for I lie Meeting Has Been Set?How the AppoiiitmcntH are Itecci veil. Prosldent MeKinlcy has announced tho appointment of Senator Edward O. Woleott, of Colorado ; Hon. Charles J. Paine, of Boston, Mass., and ex-Vice President Adlui K, Stevenson as commissioners to an international monetary convention. Those appointments are made under tho aot approved March 3d, " for tho promotion of an international agreement for bimetallism," and by its provisions do not require confirmation by the Senate. It has been generally coneodod that Senator Woleott would bo made a member of tho commission, ile lias boon an active leader in the movoment for a monetary agreement and widely known as an advocate of tho sliver cause. His trip to Europe last summer I was conceded to be, at least semi-olliciaHv. as tho rei>ro9entat,ivo of the new adininistra -ion. IIIh tour extended over several months and embraced the ,loading European capitals. Ho had audiences with tho more noted tinaneiors and ministers, and it is believed then laid the foundation for the international conference which tho commission appointed will endeavor to bring to a conclusion. Senator Wolcott is now serving his second term in tho Senate, having been elected to that body in 1885. Whilo a pronounced blmetallist he, was a staunch supporter of tho St, Louis ticket. Ex-Vice President Stevenson, tho Democratic member of the comI mission, though generally known as an advocate of bimetallism, was a supV t* V m / \ i. : / v ' iri 11" inn i iy? B. O. THURSDAY, Al norter of Bryun and the Chicago platform. IIo and Senator Wolcott, howevor, are said to bo in accord on tho tinuncial question. Gonorai C. 11. 1'alnc, who may bo termed tho minority member, is a Kopubllcan and was a McKinloy man. Lie is one of tho most prominent business men of Massachusetts and is said to bo a deen student of tho llnancial question. \V hilo ho is classed as a ..I 1.1 *..111 1... I ' sup|>vi rar ui i 11 i' mi 11r>11., uuauu on 111toruationul agreement, ho in regarded us allied with tho sound money faction, lie is a graduate of Harvard, being a member of the class of ISfi.'l. General I'aino is largely ident lied with railroads and other corporations, being a director of the Chicago, Ihirliugton and Quiucy Head and other large concerns and a director of tho lloslon Institute of Technology ; was an intimate friend and associate of Prof. Walker, the financial author and authority, lie is a man of large wealth. It is a fact not generally known that General I'aino accompanied Senator Wolcott on his European trip last summer and assisted him in that work. It is believed that he went abroad with Senator Wolcott with tho understanding that he was to he made a member of tho commission. It is not yet known when the commissioners will meet and organ'/". W>?n pn c gaui/.ation is MY M ..uwuvcr, it is believed th: t senator Wolcott will be made presiv. cnt. It is authoritatively stated the commissioners will not go abroad bofo o May, by which time the now ambus adors will be at their posts and render the special envoys assistance nece.1 jary n the consummation of their mission. The naming of the commissioners to attend the international monetary conference has caused a good deal of discussion in Washington. Almost without exception tho appointments have been commended. The Senators, regardless of party, were pleased with the selection of ex-Vice President Stevenson. It seems that this selection is the President's own, no one appearing to urge his appointment. The President desired a Democrat who stood high in his party ami who was an earnest silver man. lie sent for Mr. Stevenson, aud after talking the subject over with him. decided to make him a member of the commission. President MeKinley desired that the subject of international bimetallism should bo lifted above party politics and that the men selected should be those who would work in harmony toward bringing about an agreement. It was also believed by the President that the name of Mr. Stevenson would give tho commission great weight abroad. Among tho earnest advocates of the selection of Mr. I'ainowere Senators Hoar, Allison and Chandler, all of whom talked with the 1'resident, on the subject and recommended him, expressing the opinion that his selection would bo a great benclit to the cause of bimetallism. It has been gonerally conceded for some time past that Senator Wolcott would bo one of the commissioners, as his hard work since tho eloction has boon in the direction of bringing about an international agreement. Senator Wolcott is very hopeful of success. lie looks forward to hard work, but says from what ho learned while abroad last year he is most sanguine us to the results. Senator Wolcott believes in tbo selection of tbo commission and especially in naming Mr. Stevenson, a silver man, and one who supported Mr. Hryan, President McKinloy has convinced everybody he is an earnest hi metal list, bimetallism at homo and abroad, lie says, will bo promoted by this selection. Opposition to tho scheme for international bimetallism lias developed from an unexpected source. Moreton Prowen, of England, who has given a great doal of attention to tho subject and who ha# visited this country several times in tho intero t? of silver, is now opposing an international agreement, and declares that tiio money question is one which each nation must settle for itself. Mr. Pre wen will oppose any agreement and use his influence against tne commission when it goes abroad. Senator Woleott has said that the gold standard countries would oppose any further depreciation of silver, and elTorts were now being made to provent any further fall of silver in India. Also that the demand for gold by .lapan in establishing a gold standard would cause a drain of gold from Europo which would bo resisted by gold countries. In the United States Sunn tor Woleott anticipates little opposition to bimetallism. What opposition, Mr. Woleott says, there, is comes from tho groat bankers of New York, who are already fighting bimetallism and whose opposition tho commission will meet when it goes to Europe. Ex-Vice President Stevenson, of Mloomington, III., when asked about his appointment on the monetary commission, said : " I appreciate the compliment paid to mo by tho President and w'll cheerfully render what assistance I can to accomplish the object of the commission. Whatever our views may be as to the ability of our government to maintain tho free and unlimited coinage of silver without t ho co-opc-ation of tho leading countries of Europe, it may bo safely assumed that every friend of silver in this country will welcome international bimetallism. As to tho impossibility of tho success of this commission, it is known that tho trend of public sentiment in European countries, as well as our own, is undoubtedly favorable to bimetallism. " Many of tho publicists of England and Germany aro in earnest accord with our gov< rnment upon this cuestion. Should public sentiment in those countries justify, an international conference would undoubtedly bo called and action taken that would be deemed proper." Bucklen's Arnica Salve. Tho best salvo in tho world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Utoors, Suit Uhcum, Fever Soros, Tetter, Chapped 1 funds. Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Rruptions, and positively cures Piles. or no pay required. It isguarantoed to vo perfect satisfaction or money refunded. , I'rlco 25 cents per box. For sale by 1 Carpenter Bros., Greenville, S. C I ? \ * vriwsaMOvr . j r|/o ^RIL 22, 1B^7. KX .IIDUK THOMPSON II. t'OOHH llis l>cutli Occurred on Wcduceuln] Morning Alter a lionn Illness. Cireonvillo Mountaineer. For several months the citizens ^on orully of (ireonvlllo havo seen verj little of ex- hiileo Thomtisoo II CJooWi* who whs h familiar personago on oui streets for many years. Kidnoj troubles and kind rod complication! have 1<? i t him at home, and for a (food while he has boon gradually goinu down the hill, with an iuereaso of in tirmltics and a loosening of the cord* that bind men to this life. The end came on Wednesday morning, when he went out peacefully into the realms ol eternity. Ho was nearly sixty-six years of age, and until a few years age was a strong, vigorous man. Judgo Cooke was a native of Fairfield County, and the son of a Methodist preaehor, Kov. John 1'. Cooke who was a resident of Columbia when he died in 18(10. The family lived in Columbia for a number of years, and Judge Cooke began his collegiate cdu cation at the Arsenal, which was completed in 18">1 at the Citadel. He taught school in Lexington County, and afterwards went to Orangeburg, ' "* ore ho had charge of the village academy, and where lie lived until his removal to Croenvllle. He studied law while engaged in teaching, and was admitted to the bar prior to the war. Ho served In the Confederate army, and when hostilities ceased lie resumed the practice of law. lie was one of the earliest converts to the lb publicans, and was appointed trial justico bv Governor Scott, acquiring quite an i nil nonce in the party, so that when Governor Orr was sent as minister to Russia in 1873, ho was chosen to preside over the Eighth Circuit for the unexpired term, and was ro-olocted the next year. As'a judicial ollleor, during the period of 11 vo years he was on the bench, he gavo general sutisfaetion and was quite popular with the lawyers of the circuit Judges did not rotate in thoso days. Judgo Cooko kept in touch with his party after he wont on tho bench, ami was almost always a delegate to the btato conventions. Ho was sent to the convention in September, 187b, and It became known that ho was not in sympathy with the purposes of the leaders, who intended to place Cardo/.a and El liotlon the ticket. Both of them were connected with the corruption and profligacy of the times, and Judge Cooke boldly declared hie purpose to quit the party unless those men wore sent to the rear. Klliott and Cardo/.a wore strongly Intrenched with the rank ard tile, and the next day they were nominated. The Hampton cam paign had been in progress for about a weok, and whon tbe Republican con volition adjourned on Friday afternoon, Judgo Cooke had decided to cast hit political fortunes again with the native white people of the State. Accorditiffly ho made a visit to the roomt of the Democratic exeoutivo committee in Columbia, and after announcing his purposes, be tendered his services foi the overthrow of the party to which ho had bolonged in this State, at the. same time declaring his allegiance and avowing his support of the national ticket, headed by Rutherford B. Hayes, Ho joined the Democrats to aid in establishing home rule, and repudiated the Republicans on account of misrule and corruption. Tho next day wat Saturday, when tho campaign mooting took place at Abbeville, and was at tended by an immense concourse ol "red shirts" from four or live counties. In addition to General Wade Hampton and tii ; other nominees who made speeches, General Robert Toombs had enthused the crowd with an eloquent and ardent speech, and the thousand^ who had cong regaled on Secession Bill were in a great blaze of enthusiasm when the train arrived from Columbia. Judge Cooke bad sent a telegram ti Judge J. S. Cothran, who was the county chairman of Abbeville, asking him to hold the meeting until tin. train reached there, as he wanted U address the people. Judge Cothran sent an escort of " red shirts" to meel him at the depot, and in a few moments Judge Cooke was standing ir the presence of the Vast audience declaring his affiliation with tlu Democrats for a definite purpose and predicting the election of Ifamp ton as jin assured ract. The excitcmenl produced by this unexpected announce inent was intense, as he wjis the tirsl Republican of nolo to make a speec); in favor of Hampton. It is true Judgi .Maekey had acted simultaneously witi him in deserting their political asso dates, hut Judgo Cooke iiad the ear liest opportunity of proclaiming il from tiie stump. Ho was actively en gaged in the campaign until it closed and his speeches always evoked muci enthusiasm wherever ho went. Om of the largest gatherings of the cam paign was just a week after his con version at Honoa I'ath, and ho reeoiv ed an ovation that was second only t< Hampton, by whose side tie continue! to work until victory was achieved. The Republicans were very oittei against Judge Cooke for tho course in pursued, and gave out threats of ex posing his record in their party in damaging to his character, hut tliert was no foundation for the assertioni made, and tie defied them to do tiieii utmost. His term of service on tin bench expired in January, 1878, and in failed of re-election, when lie began a once tho practice of law in (iroenville He was sent to the Legislature after i memorable campaign in 1878, and wa re-electod in 1880. Among the moas uros lie introduced was amendments t< the homestead law, which are regard ed of much value by tho legal frater nity. Ho was a faithful and industriou legislator, and earned tho approval o his constituents. Of course, he hecaim a full-lledgod Democrat after tho cam puign of 1870, and was at one timo th president oi tno Central club in thi city. In subsequent years ho a fill i ate again for u short while with the Rc publicans, hut renewed his connoctlo with tno Democrats as a moinber c the Reform faction in 18i?2. Judge Cooke was a member of th Rutherford Street It iptlst Church,an I t?vo evidence in the last few week j that in- had brighter hopes of a0Cc| ' tance with God. Ho lived in poac I with all mankind, and was alwa> ' courteous and att'abie in his domuanoi v t I * \ liS^ kn...liti '-mun" POWDER Absolutely Pure. Celebrated for Its grout leavening ' strength urul hcnlthfulness. Assures the food against alum nnd till forms of lidulterution common to tho cheap brands. KOVAh HAKI N(? I'OWDKIt CO., i Now York CHARUSION'S MAYOR AND I HE GOVtHNOR i MAVOIt SMYTH'S STATI'lMI'lN'l'. lie Ditl Not IJiiderstaiul that 1'iinni tiioiiM Consent Was lte?|iiiro<l lor Keiooval of Met ropolit an I'olleo. Mayor Smyth, of Cha.'luston, has published tho correspondence with Governor iOllorho in regard to the removal of the metropolitan police, and in his statement to tho city council he throws the responsibility upon the (Jovernor for tho failure of the recent i negotiations. The following is a summary of the matter submitted to the , council, with its action thereon : Mayor Smyth's defenso was that the situation had assumed such shape that i he thought he should speak for himself ; that he did not understand tliat i Governor lOllorhe required a unanli piously signed agreement. If ho did, , he says that ho would never have brought tho paper out of Columbia. On the contrary, Mayor Smyth is certain that Covei nor Kllorbo's stipulei tions did not provide* for unanimous action 011 the part of council. Mayor Smyth stated that when lie , arrived at the capital on Governor Kli lorbo's invitation ?and tho Governor , began tho now famous conference with ! the remark that tho metropolitan s/s torn had been desired by the city eoun. cil, ho immediately corrected him and t the first agreement drawn up, which . started out with this assertion, was cancelled. Moth agreements were oh( jectionahlo, Mayor Smyth said, but lie linallv agreed to the second as lie knew that the people of Charleston desired ( to bo relieved of the system and he i therefore assumed the humiliation ini cidont to the acceptance. Mayor Smyth said that tho more i fact that ho wired tho Governor that ) 17 aldermen had signed and he was I waiting his proclamation was evidence I suHicient that he knew nothing of any desired unanimous action. The Mayor stated that tho Governor I knew, or should have known, that he ( (Mayor Smyth) with the chief of police ( were the proper parties to enforce the law and that council was not invested 1 with executive powers, further, that f three-fourths of council favored the removal, and wore willing and capable i to enact any ordinances necessary to I enforce properly the dispensary law 1 and bring its violators to justice, lly , his action, the Governor admits hi* , injustice, Mayor Smyth said, and the i deadlock is on as a result of conditions . unnecessarily imposed?condition* . which tho Governor should have known could not ho carried out in con> sequence of Marshal Martin's openly i declared friends, six In number on the r aldermanic board. 5 Col. /. Davis moved that tho entire > correspondence be spread on tho min utes, which motion was duly seconded t, and passed. A sensation was sprung just as the i motion was carried by Alderman Mat, thies. one of t.hn cnimlon funll/.n V...? ) one of the seven who rofusod to sign , tho agrooment. Matthles was a for - mor wholcsalo IIquor dealer. Ho do !> clarcd that ho hail long boon awaiting - this opportunity to explain hi* posi l tlon. lie indignantly denied that h< wuh a friend of Martin. Ho said that hi > was opposed to tho dispensary law and ) tho metropolitan police system, but - that he had refused to accede to Gov - ornor Kllerbo's unjust demands. Ir t strong Gorman accents ho tragical 1> declared that Charleston had sulToreil t tho humiliation of a metropolitan po ? lico system for some time, but she J could endure it for a few years longor tho day of reckoning would come. Hi - said that ho refused to sign tho agree mont because ho considorod tho sign > ing of it an additional disgrace upor 1 tho city. Til K CJOVKItNOIt'B VKIiSION. He Hays Unanimous Consent Wai i Agreed Upon?A Clear Mlsumlor n standing llotweon the Officials. r 5 special to News and Courier. t Governor Kllorbo was very much in . torestod tliis morning in the corros i pondenco and statements published ir s the News and Courier with roferenci - to tho metropolitan police question i) Governor KUerbo talked freely abou tho correspondence and statoment o Mayor Smyth, b t did not caro to hav< s anytlting much to say about tho Issue f as ho could not soo whore any good win ir to curno of it. Ho, however, said tha i- it may bo as well to call attontion t< o one feature of tho matter. lie Is thor s outfhly satisfied that Mayor Smytt d should have understood from what hi ! said to him in tho intorviow in tho Ex n eoutivo otlioe, that all of tho Aldormoi >f wore to sl^n. If Mayor Smyth under stood dillorontly ono thintf is certain o and that is that Governor Ellorbi d thinks that ho gave Mr. Smyth to un :s dorstand that all of tho Aldormoi >- were to si^n the agreement. Whothc 10 thoro was occasion or not for such a s "agreement" is not now tho matter i r. issue. y-v . 1 NO. 7 Governor Ellerbe said if Mayor Smyth or anyone would look over tho accepted agreement, und which was signed by those members of council who did sign, it reads ''individually hereby promise and pie 'go ourtolve*. This was, ho said, clearly to his understanding an evidence that tho members of Council were to sign "individually," which mount all were to sign, [fit nnr> hvv an uuuvhiuuu uuvornur CjlltirDO suy? Mr. Smyth did not say so, and If ~ Mayor Smyth or Mr. Hacot did not tliink thiit all tho members of Council would sign this agreement or any ugroement thoy never said ho to hiin at any time, never wrote him to that effect, and liavo never suid that they at any time told >11111 that all of the memberH of Counell would not sign the "agreement." Mayor Smyth may have thought that ho could got all of tlio members or Council to sign tho "agreement," but Mr. Kllerbo insists that ho never said ho to him in his otlico or elsewhere. If lie hud, things may liavo 1 been differently arranged. "llo did toll me," went on Covernor Kllerbo, "that ho would personally rather not have the metropolitan polh o removed from Charleston, as It would give him a great deal more work to have tho change" If Mayor Smyth was really In earnest in his desire to 1 have the police system removed, Covernor Kllerbo suggested that it might have been a very easy matter for blm to have suggested the trouble of getting all members of Counell to sign the agreement, and avoid any trouble of this character. Governor Kllerbo was very much in earnest in what lie had to say about litis matter, and insists that ho lias been telling the straight, absolute facts in tho entire matter from tho outsot. Governor Kllorbo said that ho only sent one telegram advising Mayor Smyth that the proclamation would not bo issued until tho other members of Council signed the agreement. 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