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URU* THE JOURNA L. VOL-. 4 0. PICKENS,. S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1896. ONE DOLLAR A YEAl. ~If Slf. 1L( AI I COPYAtI.I -4396. y I C1lAPT1'jER I. The snow was miantling the wild waste of bairren prairio stretching to ward the white peaks of the Big Horn, shroudiig its desolation, hiding its no customed ugliness and warning scout, soldier or cowboy to look well to his landmarks beforo venturing forth upon its trackless sea, for oven thu cattle trails were hidden and thu stage road lost to view. Bet ween its banks of plis teninig whito the Plat te rolled black and swollen, for a rare thing had happened -0One so rare that old trappers and traders said they never knew tho liko beforo sinco first they sighted "Lar' mioe" peak or forced the passes of the Medicine Bow--there had been threo days of softly falling snow and not a whisper of a Wyoming gale. Thero had been a thaw in the Laramio plains, pro coded by a soft south wind in the park country of Colorado, and wholo fleecey hillsides, said the natives, were "slump ing off'" in the upper waters of thu river. And that was how the lat to came to be tossilg high its wilntry wavo under the old stockado at the ferry and sweeping im power, instead of sle'ping In peace, beneath its icy blanket, urounld the huge blufY whero waved the colors of old Fort Frayne. The roadway winding from the river side up to $ho adjutant's ofi(ce at the southern end of the garrisei was still unbroken. Tho guard at he ferrylionso had beeni witildrawn, and as for tho veteran stockade, solo relic of O he early days of the overiland stage routt, it; looked now inl its siiello and <kd.ola tion, heavily capped as it was with its weight of snow, like somue huge, hat toned out (harlot te (do rusde-at leiwt that wasI wit, Ellis Farr, digliter of the post commander, li kened it to as Sho p mnd froi the north window i i their cozy quarters on thu crvst of the bluff. " And to tihink of Christmas Ie ing alost hero and not a ehn:1eo of getting a wagon thirough from the rail way, " ho nmmnured, "and I so longed to mako it brigit and joyons for motherl It is alw-ays her saddest se:i In. " Those low tonued words were dldressed to Captain Lealo of her father's regi ment, a strong, soldierly looking man of nearly 40 years, who, with fieldglass in hand, had been studying thu wintry landscape to thu north and east. Ho turned as tie young girl spoke, and, lowering his ghses, followed her eves and looked anxiou.ly ,zcross the bright army parlor to whivio tho firelight from the blazing logs upon the hearth fell full upon it matronly wouan whocso luxuriant hair was already turning gray, and whose sweet, patient faco bore tio unmistakable trace of deep sorrow. Sho was seated at a desk, aii unfinished let ter before her, and had paused in the midst of her writing and dropped off into the dreamilaind of faraway scenes and memlories. F~roml a drawer in the desk she hadl takeni what was evidetly13 a portrait, a small photograph, and had been intently studying it while the (only other ocoupants of the room wero busy at the window. "It ir .au know-Royle's, liy brothe- a ir,'' whispered Ellis. "I kne' hough I haven't seen it in r hing--fivo years, I think.'" Againi ho eaptaina bowed, inel iniing his head ini the slow, grave wvay that was habitual '.. f hi hiim. "'I know, " he said briefly, andl i gaz.o lie fixed upon his colonel's wilo wa full (of anxiety and syin ithcy. "I h avo (I'ten wished ' that your fatther's proiotion had brought huni %6 ainy otheri garrison in tihe ariiiy, ~oL reimi'elr lie was sta tied~ hero when lienternoet colonel, and it was froim ho a that Roeyle went to West Point." "'I reimember it bI vaguely. That was nine years ago, eaet ini, and I wans but 7. Wo saw himi a nng his endith furlough two years later- ?i.I s3-and that wais the last. M~hother NOIJ rarily speaks of himi, iand fathter n0,%vT\ uinles -unless," ''silo addedl, withI t1i~iid ap peal, ''li does to you. Does h ?," Captain Leale paused a iiiiimeht 'bo fore replying. Only that very i ing had his colonel talked with imi, Ino\ most trusted oif his iroop) c~omnlh rsili, of Eillis' long missing brother. Only within an hour had F"arrar sought again his advice as to oino whomi ho could no't bring himnself to namie and1( referred t in shamo and sorr'ow as "miiy eldest, and only rarely as "m'ly son." ' First born of the litt le fleck, Itie tioy had~ been given his father's name. Thle oiily child for several years, potted, spoiled, ovovinduilged1 *by a fond, puro hieart ed niother, then reared among the isol at (4d army garrlisonis of thu far west, thb handsome, headstrong, daring yothi but all toe early had shown a tend~encey to wild comlpaniionship and ireck less liv ing. Fv/ mn in the cavalry iarml of thio service were hieldl in higher esteem than Colonel Royle Farrar, who, entering the service with thin first regimenit to be sent to the front from Netv York city in the spring of 180 i, had fought hlis way to the commnand of a brigado in tie last camnpaigni and~ thlen biein (oinunissioned as a junior nmajor (of cavalry at the re organization ofi thte regular army. 'lThe presidenit himself had tenldered Farrar, long afterward, a cad~etshlip for is sion, and it was g. .tefnlly yet alnost fea fully accepted. Thi moltier cotuldl not be brought to believo her boy would not strivo to do honor to his name at tu ve Point. The futher dreaded that the wayward, reckless follow, intolerant of restraint or discipline, would ielrit In n is] 'mllent, and, being punished, woluld resenlt. Roylo stoodi ith ordeal only fairly well at first. J)eimrits in profusion and "light prison" twice had clouded his iecord beforo the furlough year, but the miot her's eych rejoiced in the sight of the handsomue, stalwart young soldier atfter his two years f rigorous training, evenj dw( iglh thr mother hiart grieved over the i ;, vidences of di.;ipation amd Vice whicIh Spedily mlarred the long looked for days of his v'acatio. Between hima anid his fatilr had beeoa nore tham one stormy seet before Roylo returned to the neadImyN interviews from whiei the senior iss, d pale, stern, porrowful, tlie young n 0t gloomy, sullen and more than half deli ait. In his second class year caoin tidings of m'aemeanor that alost broko tile m11ot I)t r's lieart. Farrar hastened from the distant frontier to the banl:s of the Hudson, expecting nothing Short of dis missal for the boy, and promising the mothlr to fetch him at once to her, hut the u rt, even in eI teneing, had sigm d a plea for iercy for the cadet who bore so ho-red a name, a plea that his class mates would never have indorsed, and the pri'esident reinitted the pinishment to a tetrim of confilinent to barracks and camp. The father wasted no words in repri 'ach. Ie point ed out to t he son that this was his Last chance. Royl", Jr., had sullenly respondedl that; his di rae w;s5 (hiw ent irely to spies and talb-bear I-s maid shov.-ed neither contrition n er pO , 0 of anend. A veaatr lt er canie tho )I IsIw. He] rrted fo 'a violation of r'egiah ?:s in ltviing liquor in his pos ioGh- I I..rar wrot a lying ox phmat: ion to tlie ieet t hat it was plat d in his rotlm by parties un'kniown (to hi1 atl for the lirposI i of brinIlginltg him into t obleh, but he had been seon "off limitIs at a <ponitioiiable resort in the leighibItoring villago the previous night, had l'eein drinking an1d card playing there, luid lost Ionev and refised to pay, had bein seen returiing by two ower (htssn, to whom lo offered liquor, lli( siaggered to his quarters only an hour or so btefore reveillo roll call. IlIt wais placed inl close arrest after being eon Ironted with the array of evi dence, and that night deserted and was s( (,in no more. Again the colonel iado his miournful pilgriniago to the Point, and (1d comirades pityingly, soirr twfu lly toNl Him the whole story. -e' vent back to his regini'xt looking ten yea's older, took his wife and twoyounger children, Will and Ellis, to his heart, and from that day never spoke again his 1 rst horn's name. It had been for years his custom to sign all official papers in ftll -Royle Farrar-but the very soumd of the Chiristian name seemed from that time_ .. to give hiim distress, and*.- -. lFarrarm becanme his signaturo pers5ona:l or Timh young mian was heard of O('(n sionally, however, borrowing money from oiliceers anid firiends anod rehat ives on his fathier's4 acc'(ount. T1hen lhe went to stea, t hein returnied to New York anti wr'ote a long letter to his nmother, tell mng how he mourned t hoe1( olddys and1( was going to lead( ai now life', anud she too glly senit him all the money slie had. Then the're was another interval, andit after a year ho again appecared as ai suppliant for aid, lie lad been desperi ately ill, lie saitd, and kind but pootr, humble people had car'ed for him, nad they ought to lie rewarded. Thme met 1: r woul have sent agin her last cent to him dlirettt, but Fairrar interposed. I is check went, to a t rusted friend, with in st rutions( to inv'est igate, and that friend was hiis old coimriado, Alajor Fenton, and, ais lie expetedl, it pr'oved only ani other li(e. Then there camne an era of apparent prolperity, and( 1now the pomor miothter ini jiy bt stmghtI. he'r hiusbandu~ t) retogiz ie iht sonm, for lhe r'epor'td h'iI imiself ini gootd empi~loy with a fair salary and brilliant prosp tt. l ie even'i sent a draft to repayt a sinl~ll poertionl of what hie termed his father's ltan, but this was soon follow td byt a draft on his father for dolOe thela''nht , and1( later anlot her, and then t *rs of inqulirycamnO from his empajloy ztml then tueful comilaint of how~ Sih 'ut ing pterson had bteen swindled, in I agony of grief and dlisappoint it i mott ier's healt h was giving w I i unr c'oncea'led front her li -ven w orso4 - t hat t heir wo ~, n thle lovxe of his eml'A.b ii Ihbat she hadh follw ttVt '~ hier's house. Thlere ~ ; h - 'rrage 'e was an habi news had bt'fore. It wY H. th.i hadt unsealed h jis lips aid urnid hu, t) Capin)lii Leatlt for tcounse-l ani suppoi0 "My datughiter,"' w rete tihe i ortave d father, "'was the idol if amy he. t, the image of thle ottthei who w1 ~ as tken from her lor.g years5 a s Yet she trr. ed from nit in the paesion oif her 10.0 for him, anti they hiave gone ( itt alont knows' whert. Itf you can fintd hi at, say that. t e he lhas robbe n- it ooer I cani 6 :t;'yt hhn all if Iht ii 1 "n bn ly nrturet, as eareful ly eduated oi your' own dauh 1 'outld he, 2tt dutyv was with her husband, but why 5nouti(1 SIe 1:ve hiddeni that marriago from her fatihe-r? My owvn fort.une is well nigh wrecked, but she hazs her liotlier's little portion-eniough if ho cani resist his craving for drinhJ and gambling to supp-ort them in comfort, J pray you 1 help mie save mly child." All UnijiS a111 tstory wall n1ow Well known to Malcolm L:eale, and his eyes were lull of scrrow as he bent them up on the gentle, yeairning woman at tho desk, lost in her study of her firstborn 'a iao. Ellis in turn stool watching himi. Sho 'was a girl of it6, yet isvemed older LI, bteCause of the years in which sho had been her mother's companion and Closest friend. Thieni, as he made no aln awer 1o her query and seemed plunged iD thought, sho toiurcd amid stepped lightly over to the mother's side. "Day dreaming again, Queen Moth er?" she isked inl Ih half play 2ful way that was Ibitual with her. "It you don't go on with your lvtter to Will, it won't he ready fAor tl courier. Captain Leale tells jim they are to send one out at nlonl." "WIll they really?" asked Mrs. Far rar, rous-ing,: suddlily. "Why, I had g.ivenI Ip all huopes of heariJInzg from him this week or of getting a letter to him. Who is to go, capt ain? The pass must be brast deep in snow." "I t hink not, Mrs. Farrar. There vas very little wind, you know, and the fall seens to lavo been very uniform. Corporal Rorko and a couple of my mn are get ting ready now. Ti colonel was only waiting, Iping that there Imiight bo still soine nevs from Red Cloud. " "Wi, how can it come? TPhe wires are down tlie road hidden and the riv er uifordale, " said Ellis eagerly. "The last nitws was bad enough. 1 own I don't want to hear further. " Over Leale's inc' a graver shadow fell. "There are Ili an riders who Could (asily make the journey, " he said, "Crow Knife, for instance, whom the colonel sent over with the scoutls fivo days ago. The fact that lie hasn't returneid makes me hopeful that matters are quieting down, " but heiro he tunmed again to the window to level hisi glass upon the broad, rolling expanse of white, stretching in wavo after wave to the bleak horizoni. "God forbid I here should be further trouble," said Airs. Farrar slowly, linl gering)y replacing the portrait in its drawver. "Surely the general has foico eiough there now to keep tI h ISO Indians in chec," she vent ured app alingly. Lcale lowered his binocular again. "lie has, irovidted the renegades cap tured on the hv-vynne are not sent back there. Those people should not ho taken to the agency. They are Miimeconjous, Uncapapas, Brules, a turlbulent, ill Con ditioned lot, who make troublo wvher ever the others aro peaceaily disposed. They should have been disarmied and dismount(-d and put und-r guamd at Fort Robinson until t his (Iustion is sot. tied. What I fear is that Red \oli's band is still out, and is defying ihe aIgcIt, and that the revolt will sp-I ad to Kill Eagle's village. If they go on the warpath, somie of our best scouts will be involved. That boy, Crow Knife, is worth his weight in gold, but his fa ther and mother would follow Kill Eagle." "Do you think-do you think that if they should revolt we-our comiiland would have to be orderod out?" asked Ellis anxiously. "It. mi ight; he, " lie replied cautiously, "but I am hoping that no wvinter' cai p-aign is in str e for us. Think of a niebi over such a was-te as that,"' and lie poi't. dI to Itin- sno~w clad scene before tem. " 'We eeuhhI ci't cross the Plat te his side oi L: zmnio eitheur, even if thle st reamut wer'e foirdable. The runminig ice would cut the heor~c: fronm under us." hit -erouas thez' pairade, car, yet soft, as thouii;:h msunhal I'y the nw, the env' call. "Rlork;e amnd h'~is meni wi.l start as sCotn as I ha-y havi- bh C i nr, M!r'. Far rar-, "' z-aid eale, "m'ual 1 musizt see thei' coloneil lefore th:y go . I will send for your l-ti i s. " I .. teook up t lie y lasses again fez- ozne la:st survey, Ililis nar-row 13y watchinzg himi, while her mothler went ont wit h her writing. For- a imo imenlt the sezarch seemzed bzairen of resiult, as before, b ut smzidenzzly Le~ale started, his acttenitiou oin onio sptot. Ellis quickly noted it.. "Y'oul 50eo som1 one?'' she asked. A brief izcd was the onily anzswer. TIhzon, glass ini handz, Ithienp;ztazin sudden 13y tnirned- to a1 sid(e door0, b~t lhiself out inito anlot heri roomt ando th1ence( to the ouzter gaIc-ry surrxoundzhz. thle hiousi. Here hi~s view was un zobstruie'.edc. T[wo) gent Ii-men wer-e ((om1 ig up thIe pat hway fromi the azdjuit ant 's etlice, andzc a schlie-r ini immniticlie uifoiircim aonl sumide-arms followvinzg a short distanzce lbind indi cae/ ht t on in nfr'a h post couinder 't h le nads n .ished lokn a fnal O so1ont msub an mpra wao ta b1u 'om, whos cziozmi wasxio Monshid hz . izga uziiof exotezt irio mo lk:...s.-i l-ather. Ovr Loa-.s' fa foltosu m h ow of alxietyt V NNI1mis noted whena ho stood gazlug in silenco upon tho sorrow ing muother at tho desk within. 'iho colonel was talking in an iarnest man ncr to the nur at his side, a civilian, so far as his dress would indicate, yet a civilian with the erect carriago ani brisk stop of a soldi(r-a handsome fel low, too, of porhaps seven and twenty years. Lealo turned from thliem with some impatieneo. -'d bet a month's pay it I ever bet a cent in th world, " ho mutte-red to himself, "that old Fevnton's noplttw had no thought whatever (if hunt ng when he camoe hero in midwinter. Tho qucs tion is, What elso has brought him he sid(s what I havo alrheady learned, and why does ho haunt Farrar fron morn ing till night?'' At the window the fair, virlish face brightened an instaint a", sght of the comil Soldier, thnit clouided a: ( ickly as tihe civilian camne ill vie. "Mr. Ornsby again!" muruitred ECllis helow her bcatl, and the Lbow of rcvognuitiojn which she gave him in answer to tho quick uplifting of his sealskin cap lick ed all of the warmut h and itercst that beamed in Ormsby's face at ight of hex. Seeing Loale, the colonel preied on to join himi on tihe nortiward porch. Catching sight of Ellis, the civilian fell back, entered the gateway and Came briskly to the door. An instant laiter and his stop was heard in the hallway. Ellis turned to the willdow ill Son thing not unliko aversion. The mother it was who rose eagerly to welcono tho Coming guest. "Prompt as ever, Mr. Ormsby," sho cried as he entered thi parlor, fresh and rosy from the keen air. "I wish you might teach my husband to lo moro pullctlal at luncheon." "In(eed I feared I was detaining him, Mrs. Farrar. 1Ic's Imerely stopped one moment to speak with Captain Leale. Ho was showing mne over the barracks. You havo no idea how vivid ly interesting all this is to ie. I havo shouldered thc musket with tho Seventh for eight years and havo never visited an army post beforo. " "Oil, didn't you seo your uncle when he was at Riley? lie used to write to my husband of you time ind again and of your pride in your regiment. " "No, he was in Now York on recruit ing iervico then, a few years ago, you relenher, and wo used to get hii upl) to the armory or to our camp occasion ally. " "And lie waR very, very kind to iay poor hoy, imy Royle, " said Mrs. Farrar wistfully, searching the face of her guest, "and when you cume to us with letters from our old friend, for we had known him beforo our marriage," 1he continued, a faint color rising to her check, "it seemed aillost like woleom ing himt. There was nothiiig too good for AN ajor Fenton that our home1 afford od after all he tried to do. at least foi -him. " The sigh with whieh she spok semed to well up from the deptls of the mother's heaur t. Ellis, with light footsteps, had left thme room to greet bivr filer (in the piazza without, and for tihe first time Since his comiting, tihre days previous, just Ill time to be im mcd in and held at Frayne by tuho great snowfall, Mrs. Farrar Was alono with her guest. "There is soiet.hing I have longed to ask you, Mr. Ormsby, " she wnNlt 011, "soietiling 1 lmust ask yoll, for it nother's intuition Is keen, and I feel suro you havo seen or known ily poor boy in the past. Hiave you heard (10 youl know anlythIin~g of him nmow?' "Mrtts. Farrar, I give you my word I havo niot the faintest ideca of his5 whero-. aboutsi." "'Forgive mo if I nm intrusive, im portunat21e,"''shte lrsist ed. "B'Vut-Major y'ou kniow, and1( 1 tinlk of hinm with tho title 1he bore whenl lit wasl so good-s) frienmdy-wheni my nhlappy 1.oy mocst lneeded friends. You were wi th your unce oft eni lhen. Did you noet maelt did you not4 knlow myi Royle?"' Ormsbiy 's honest eyes bet rayed th10 dlep embaJ~rrassmienlt unlde'r which he labored, an1( dle, watcin lg ery sign wVithl patinful intentsity, reado the truth, despite his faltering reply. '"Once or twice', Mrs. Farrar, but I knew himii only vory slighltly." "Tell I me still more, Mr. Ormlsby. You hlave been miost ecnsiderate to mae. You have sought to Hpare 1mi', hut ill my hmushand's sad( face and1( abst racted marmaer I haIvo read the t ruhi. ile hast heard nlews-worse neCws of' Royle-an d so you hiavo been the bearer. Is it nlot so?"' But Ormsaby pulled himwelf together, this timo( ait, loeast like la man, atnd braived her., "I assuro1 you it is nlOt so, Mrs. Fari r-ar. F"romI 111 lit least, the colonel lhas herard blothn 1 nel 1w-nothIinig worse. ] beg you to dlismiss the thoughlt."' But he( (didl not say that h1( hald conie preplared to tell. atyc, instructed to tell, of :r'owniing degs'raee-Comlo( withI the wrlit ten11(1 prop-sition of his emiployers Ic rl inqish id jpezrsuit (If R~oyle Farrarl pro vided the fathe w11'ould mrako g(ood the son11 the~y hado lost tronigh the son '. "(i id bless youl, .ilrI. Ormsby, for thr load1( you hiavi lift< d from 1my3 hear2t, sh10ejitid. "ELver $inl'i you camol~ .[ hia dren~ilh ii a'oo and1 mo(r'e (ech da1v t hat youl wer 11 he bearer1 (f evil tidinigs (it hhnii who ha~s almo1(st broken 11is inthe'e helart1121 adt c (annot, must not, shall1 not ihe bey (m1 r(eelmpt ioln if lb 1mother's love and1( phrayersr aret of any avail. E'ver Ellis has si emued to share my dreai~.1 havo readt it iln her mannerii~ , asi prIhaip you1 have 1 'o. She did nlot mem~ un3kindi, inhoi~sp.iablel to our guest,, bu11 thatI sorroiw has OVer1sha3dowed us all E1e i y bright,, brave WVill, who Is (do ing; n a I' : enn dIuo to rCeom L. nanlotl1 t ii.' PoIi1:--l'eni Will, I say, is soflo t.'ia. e.tufl f!1tey the~ record that hii 'Then to. s x..'re start ing from her eyet nowV,, and~ il a. 2' ne1 trollable emiotlon sh, turnedi awa~:y. 'Then came1 a loud rap a -.bn fra~nt door-and a marvant hantoia to open it. A loud, cheery Irish voice res8oundcd through the hallway an in stmat Iater. "Corpornl Rorke to report to t he eolonel for dispatches, " and gianleing thither, Ormsby saw a stott trooper, with broad, jovial, ruddy face, his biurly fi-:-, clad in winter sorvico dress. 31rs. Fiarrnr, striving to hido and to cheek her tears, iad turned into the dining room. Ormsby stopped to tho north window and glanced out upon the little grouip uponI the porch. Ellis half shiveri ngly cliinging to her father's arn, ho intently eying Lealo-Leale, with leveled glasses, stondily at gaze at some dim), black object far, far aeroas the tirbid I'lat-te, fr o;it tc the a'astward, t(arss thase snoawap'd ~ lews. "('anI 3ou 1u1:e out whmt's coming, "I i bink so, coloneil. "Whatt ik it ?" Inala' slowly bowt red the glass, and, never turning, zonv.orod iii low but. posi tive t4ne: "Our nutrideg orders-for the ageni cv. .ld Wct' I wa;:l .i. Kill Eagle's wJol villiage hwa .iamped for tho Bad An that meant Ihmt the Twelfth must, Iroip its Christmaing and fetch tho wandereri houme. (coN'rN.:n I \ rr wEI.) TOURS OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES, THEo NUMBUM 011' SPEEACHES AND MILE'lS TRANii1il W. .1. Bryan trleaks all Itecor(ds .JaI1110c (. iiille Stood at th li1oa4d o,' ( he la1st Until Ilryan Came. M r. Bryan has broken all records for speechmaking and traveling ever made by candidlates for the presidonCY of uta : United States, having already delivered more than 3001 orations and addrIlesses and traveled over 12,000 ile. Some capaigns of the p)ast have been marked by groat activity of the candidates, whileIc in others very fe~v pelches were made by thom. Th following summary of kpoceehes de liverod and mltiles traveled, beginning wiih Lincoln's firsa, tfspe-.sch, is interest ing: LINCOtN'S ('AM'AltN. During Ihis hirt candidacy for the prea i denc4y, in Is, Lincoln did not; siir out Ol his state: made no campaign tours ; only on1e short speech to the C'outmmittee of Notilieation, and gave nly on lrief ititer'view to a reportel'. Stepien A. Donglas, .Lincoln's op ponet: it, mtaldtte ta speechs and two caml patign tours: thi (3 *. ae flirst through 'nnylvania, New Jersey, and Con nWCet(h,, and the sceond tirough Now York. Ohio, 1nd iana, Virginia, atiu North Carolina, wavelng 2,750 miles Linicoln's second eanpaign for pre si(enjt b~eganii .11une 9, 1mi-, at Balti mio*e. He made On1e cam11ph aign s1W00 inl New York, JunelC. 15, and during A ugust, Septelmb er, an(I October spok very britly to six visiting :lelegations at, the White louse; two of these speeeles were non-political. His re cor(l of travel was -15t) miles and eight speecs in the whole caipaign. (Generll McClellan, his opponent, W S nmint IlilatW(d Until A n-: 25 I re spol(dedLl to tho NotiicLatuil conat1ai.1 a: at. (Orainge, N. J.. his luonea, . and1(l onle other speeclI in Oramige, Sept,. 27. Made live trips to New York city, bt n~o Other spucebes. In I1SI8 Generat G rant, mtade only two speec0hes, (11e of 50I words at St. .1 asepha. M o., and an1 other at Galena, I l., which tilled It0 lines in a newspaper'. IIis record( for the campaiiign was an arm11y tour of 3t, l00 mi los and thbree speceches of less tihan 200( words in all. Ilor'atio Seymour11 , nlomfi nated at Tallnamany hat! JIuly 3, was -notiflied the ne(xtI day, and repIl ied br'iefly. I n October lie madeo a toutr of Now York and1( 1'e nnsyl vania, traveling al togeth er 1,100 mites, and mlaking only eight specebe hs. ' General (Grant, renom inatedl at. Phi Ila (letlphiIa Ju ne ti, 1872: his letter of ao (wptane containled 2-It words this time; lhe madeo 1c0ampa ~Iin totar a~nd no ]or'ac Griee!e3 wasL 1nomi1nated May(3 3, an h11Ia s famious tour ibhgana taot unt ilI Sept. 17. llo reviewed p~aradeso and1 held recoptions all along the 11ine. 11is recoird for the c111 ampign wais 709 repol~rted 81peeches and he traveled 2, ZN-11mi1es. G;overnaor II ' ya s of ( n io (, nomi111natedl at (incinntati .a one Iti, and on Oct,. 26i, 18'.6i, Oh)ioic day at, t~he Centen nial ex hibit tion att 'hlijladet phia1, lhe spoko ar Limes10 to audi enlces tagg re'gatin g a , t000 Ipeopl e. lli record for' the e inp~aigni was 1,-100 males travoled andl Sllamuelt .. Tilden1, nomiaItedl In St. I samis ,1 unie 28, miad~e a specch1 to sereaderal'is in Albany on thte same1) n1ighlat :irepl ieda to the Notilicationl com mihtatd ini Newa Yor'k .lul~y II. llis re cord) form the cam11paigni, no tr'avels anad In I u ar eid1 tatnado an itlinerar'y V )iugh New Yark and( New Jiersey, an.t taater spioke in Oh in. lIe sp:'ke hatil t a)(o di (gations. at Ihis haome1(, .\l. iOr, 0., iln Oaeoba'r. liis r'ecord for' I,0 II:a'anipign ia s 2,3ti0 miles traveled, 2. rei':ph ed Lto the~ Notification com-i m; : ta' at Governor's Island, New York haabtori, J1uly 30, with a speech of la tines. I (is let~tcr oif aceptlanco, alle out .Jumly 31, coinleted1 his recor'd faa:' iaae (cam~paignl ; he0 madLo nlo tour, -nd '.heore is a record( of on1ly two shor1t a' an-al Weaver oaf Ohio, the Gr'een b~a '-m baboar naoineie in tbe sltfa year', maO t.'. emaaigr! .a-uri', af I Ihe .Sout~h or WV. Ia a:r tog b. a;! .,,00I ink's, a .a.\ o.t.\.\l'S I itST CA.\'AIGN. ra at 'CI'e ago Caddresseda Wa mlassh I iav1 ,: g a I x Yorka : eI~ ityd:a Oc. II5;tr mrad - p.a ala at Jearsay City ; ad. dr'essedt ono laa.. meletinlg at Newark, N. .J. llis recordl for the camp>aign was a journey of 312 miles anl tlhree 1 speeches. .lmes G. i'ain') nominalfted June fl. Ills long ca ipnign tonr h1.,ya onl S p 't. I , at mi it in11 tIl d a 111u;ett , Rhode Island, Connetii' ct., N w York. and Now orscy. Ile 'ohe ill ev(.(3r ill. por.llt city oi tht' NI'W York Contral railroad belwtow n New York und Ilut. ralio. ito traVoirsed te10 fi let of rail road ieross do. h tpeaking in 29 citie-; he thl en11tered West Virsinia, pea., in in 12 cities; agiin ceros(el into0 Ohio, aind was joined by NILInltey. T110y stIm)Cd t!e St3t toget her MI r. lilain spoko in 21; hioro ctitice, includ ing Canton : theneo he went to M ichi t111n, spcai ing in six citios, and Indiana, 15 eiLies : i linoi , live v eit .1is ; isCol sill, six cities. Mlaine retirned to the aLt aeross the northern tior of Ohio and t.he soutbherni tier of Now York ( ii) railroad), cioSing his campaIgn in New York city and Brooklyn Nov. 1, but onl his way homo ho spoko in svenotl cities in Connreticnt. Ills ro cord for the alliill ign was 191 Speeclles and -,7.30 mihs of t.ravel. This record was um ii I psed uui til 1M r. Bryan broke it. II.AIUUSON'S TOULR. In 188 Bienjinin Harrison w a n1ominated. Hi s recordti of travel wis4 less thimu 200 miles, an1d he made 5i sjeochiets (1111imf! thle w iole cam111paigni. Urover D(\ eve lalii was reiominatted .1tlne 6, wrotu his letter of acceptance Siept. 9, and imAde is ily speech lur ing 1.;1- a(majignu to the mnembhers of I eNOtitient-ionl commIlit.e at tihe Whitte llowse. 'LE'El AN IDS H'll RD CAM'AI i N. In I,1,92 Grovet' Clevoland was re nomiiat( d at Ch icago, Jet 2:1. lie made ia .;peenc at Madion Square Gar itel uicce pting L the notilina.ion. lie m1 ale thiree iddressus oil other oe casions, and nio camlpign~ toulr, at Mlinne-apo'is, Junt) 10. lin the Carly part of September MIs. Harrison bu eumlioe ill. and (1 was tiaken to th0 Adiron daeks. Mr. Harrison was in constant attendan uonhio pon is uifo tintil io was taken back to \Vashington. Silo died Shortly aftucr her return, in the m1iddle of October. Nir. H arrison't record--no camlpaigu Lour, two s~peechles. AN APPALIslNG D)I8ASIIFt. A 11liadl ilnd Collision onl thll Flori till, Centra1-1 anid 'eninsular Itait roatd--Thre-e Menl Iurnetd While Itescnme Wis inl Sight. ('olumbia liegis-ter. ()11% of Ob Im1o.4 terriile railroa wrI4eeks 4-Ver recorded inl South Calro Iinia ovccirrel onl the Fl1oridli, Central and 'eiiinsular rai I road, whereby 1,hr1ee men we-re burn-led to de1athl and two iIore injured by reason of a hea en11d collision which IeUurrn..d oi that. rtilroad itt five minttes after three o'clock on Wedncsc ay mornin. No. :15 Was, LcCOrIing to orders, to meet No. 31S at Swansea. The crew of No. 3.-) misuderstaiding the orders went, past SwanLsoa, and ats the Sequel proved to duitil and destruction but iL few mil e below that stiatiion. No. ',' wnits in Coluinbia.i, for thets Southernu- train il] lItf, one hour andi fortly-1ivU llinUtes late. It. rall oil orders t;it it should Inss No. 36 at Swanseat, but the order d was 111undor anod ind th1. collision resulted Vithl a loss of li fe. As a r'silt of th iisunderstitanding tLre0 (11011 enar0 delad, and I hlorrile den-Itl the y met w 1i.. F'rom w liat col Id i learned the men met doath bravely -)d colrtgonsly '. Though loy plelad ed for their life, yet seeing iht.L rescue was impossible tIhey met their fitj like WhI'len (liho tain IScamei Logether the enigineerlIS 111 jumped andi saved~ thir ItI lives PTe firlemon dIidi li k ewise and 11011 of L received any injurics. When tein tiwo tain ciaL ~ inti colli s10ion runintg aLL aLI hih rate; of speed81, TJhe tendert'i of tbhe southblotund train tehescoped into the b~aggao.o and eIx pres 5$cart and comiiiplotely demnolishled it. In this car wesre mail agent L,. A. Th'omna. amnd Sxpress'and biiiIaggage agentl WV. D). ILine1s. Thesae meln woroI' nolt kiilledl, nor (does it appea~r thalt they were faitally hurt by the cIoliiion, but Ltey were'I shut inl by3 the (debris so that they culd ( not, got1 ouit. I'CTi uinlj uresoon 5(1a Iw Lbo di ilicuiilty Il in which tile ir fri ends were pulL anid thbe crews of boitlh trinis ibegan the woirk (If re'scule. The lilmels were ratp idly spreaid ing and 111 11he II uinjured'c work Ilies, in1inal by bagga~gO anfd ex press, were no1.dead, but as the flatmes gradLlily grewv LiowaIrds themi they p) It ously cr'ied( for Lhir re' 'scuers' t'o hutirry. These worked wibth might and main and eut LIhrou1gh the car so much as to be able LI eiatch Thinnei hand. They tr'ied toI pull1 himl out. but could not do iL. '"or G odN' saike save me," the poor5 man(1 cried(J, It do aill they could1( the restcuers could( not get him out. Theb the hiorrifiecd cries of1'1 Thomas and Lines, the recscuers had(1 to) stand hack and see3 them horned to death. TheO tire waLs beyond control thun, but the crow nov eri waverei'd inI its aLCttempt to savo other pr'oper'ty. With all their woirk till bagsrnge and ex press ci.ri. th m)1sail car andl~ the second class paan~ igei arworo0 dcstroyed. Fluagman 5liLUInIer1 was Htandi Ing be0 twethe seLcond1I')I( clai ear S~l and tih bg gaye (lari. his haIs not been, I fouindl anid is suIIppre. d toe be buirie'd in tbh burned TI'he norf*th boundii trin i was not bad ly injured exl, it Lhb delilition of theo engifne. /'- ,lon as. theS. collision oe (licure .\lr. L . C. Parmer''t, sx piress agoent, jumpelid. Hes recoivedl an injur'y of theO Ileg, bu1t. not1.h1ing ser Iiouls. With 1him1 waLs a ne(w I noi n name ICl I riico, w ho was mallki ng h i-a lir't rn. Ito jumped)0( with NMr. i'armeur and rteeivedl a bad break in the back of the neck. So farl Ia' can( be Ilarne~d the accident waLs W wing to at misulnderstahndinlg of the orders by the crew of No.35t, or tile soth Ill151n11 trinsin. it n ppeaLrs thaut they receive'd the w'ordi "Swavnsea1" for "'Swe'den," and1( 1' (et paLst thl. flelst namesld -tatioln. P1rom what can he leaLrned tihs e othbound( crew is at fauit for' tile colision511. Conductor Taylor and i'ng infeer' loite slcm to be recsponsil ir~ emsan N\l'ekel telis at Lhrlilling story of the deathi of Mesenger' Lines. As anon as the accident occurred Fih-tnan Mickel rusebd to the rescue of those w bo wevre' - about to ho killed. He vwont "o tb4 1osO of Line- and Thomas. He found ldues alive and he cut his way o h ihm but could niot savo his friend, thC lire be itig too hot. rlncs bogged and encouragel his frietd to Savo 10m from a li'. v eIth. hit, a t Ka' tgt to.) h101 108e '41d : "Godd.l d, ms man," ind in sutfering agony hie exuired. T'he p'cunIlary' lo is placed at about ,':130 0U1, in cw luing the engines and cars. The trick isn b'-en cleared and trallie onl the road his been resumed. SAM JONI.8 UN CHILDREN. T'h(eGrt Preachier Gives a Ilain, TaI..lk on the l)angers of the Pre still )ay. SaM Joies in Atlanta Journal. Civilization as history show it is liko a road in the hill country, up and down, born in poverty and ignorance, and clying ii uIlluence and pleatsure thus the history of the past is but the hi istory of the rise and fall of nations. H)wcveI, from the high tide of each n tion something has been preserved t i add to our permanent progress. The (q'ueitionl often arises, will our nagni li.-nti civilizaltion go on to perfection ilr rul. .%,t, the top), like OGLv'I- civi Iza V ons. The liopO of a country is in her sicceediug generations. The boys and 'ris'i of today are the mon and women of ( e next generation. W i may read 1 Oil. chillrten the future of our nation. As my children beg'a to take position as citUzOns, this question becomes more int erestiIg to me. When [ begin at Now Orleans on the gulf, I find the steps of the foreign part of the city crowded with French and Itallian children, as distinctly foreign in looks, ianguage, and habits, as if burn in Franco and Italy. Whon I colo Up into the cities and towns of Alabamn. Georgia, and Mississippi, aial find tho cabins in the negro qiuarters jammed together and as full of negro children as a cheesO is of skicppers ; and when I find the old farm rosni-ences of aute- bollum days deserted by tibe whites, who have moved into the towns ond cities, and literally full of negro children, all of whom are growing up almost as ignorant as if in thbe heart, of Africa ; when I go to the northern and eastern cities, and find the on owded portions of the cities mal~tde u1p of foreign population, with foreini linguages and habits, and ialnot every liomie crowded with chil dren ; when I add to this faut that the saloon gets its heaviest patronage from teis-ei clahsses and consequently those unildren are born into tue world part d ruo kLrdb by horedity; and when I add the other fact that these children aIre without, homs, with no religious training, uined louse in strecets and alley ai ,cavengers of all the impuro things about them, drinking, stealing, gam bling and lewtiness, on every hand, I confess the picturo Is not encourag ing to me. In the face of this picture is another fact, that in the homes of the more cilitiured Americans there aro few children to be found, and to what is called high society, child-bearing is becomning a reproach, and children are iian tccideulit ani a nuisaneo, guarded against by infernal mfedil skill. I ask you as a thoug Itf uil citizen to got ilnto your buggy, and drive down the back stroots, and count the children. Then look forward 20 years and count citizens and voters. But as dark as this picture looks, I am candid to say I htve as much hopo in the lower classes as I have in what Is called the highest class of socicty. I have very little hope in either. My hope is in the midle class. S.) far as making useful citizns Is concerned, I had about as soon risk the ignorance and neglect of the slums as the card table, wine sup per, (lance antd theatre of the uppor class. The United States is taking some interest in stock raising and in amuse monts. We are raising well-bred horses, cows, hogs and dogs. We have jpurnaiils on horse breeding, journals on dog-breeding, aind on cattle brod ing. I think it would be well to have Hom11t nlioro good literature on the bireedI ig of chi ldren. 1 (10 not think our11 anc' stors camne fromi the monkey, but I d(, think we had better block up the roadI that ieads to the razorback hog. '[hle country seems to be headed that way. I notice from the papers1' that all our schools and colleges are fuller this year than usual. This is a good indica tion, but the boys and girls are located ini college hoarding houses and private fammies, away from the kind and salu tary influences of the mother. Trho bad our children get away from home at school, mixed with the good they get, makes in many cases a doubtful comipounmd. The higher colleges airo going to "seed" in amusement "clubs" and " thamfs " aind secret societies. "College yells" i'ro becoming more prIoinenihit thani college honors. The average college boy who can wear toothiick shoes, part his hair in the middle, sot his hat on the back of his hund, belong to a "'team " andi gIve the college " yell," socems to be satisfied with himself, prI'(vided his daddy foots the bills. In many cases the daddy had better foot, the boy. Thank God there are many 'ichools where girls and buys may secure the very bost, training of head and heart. it seems that over-y fad andI new invention is bidding for our boys iand girls. The ballroom andl~ th~ hilcycle bid( for our modesty. Moomnlighlt ba]lk: and moonlight bicycle partl(s bid for our p'urity. Sunday oie(~, ole Xe xursion., tr act cars, parks inako a~1nd favi li(ons biat for our Sunday schouol boys and g Irmls. Social clubs, dances and cards take our boys from homie at night. The various trioks of trade are bidding for thu honesty of our boys, the cigarietto, thu saloon, the card table, the bicycle clubs and ball teams bid for their health and morals, and the boy who runs the gauntlet to day Iand mai~kes a clean, honest business or1 p~rofic1elonal man is the r-are excep - theon. The 1h0p) of the country lies in tig fow homes, where, by the family atltari arad1 proper restrictions and care, the boys atnd girls ar-e raised for God, the enkurch and a successful business life. -An rOratorical contett will take lacme in Memorial 1Hall, Clemson Col loge, on Wednesday, 21st inst., under the auspices of the Calhoun literary -society.