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‘ *****W* Jh • npP 1 I (> T1IE»WEEKLY LEDOER: CtAFFNEY, S. C., SEPTEMBER 6, i8S»5. » E film c/kiucfr/ cdmfy. ^ - if Com tour ass * (/ CHAPTER I am rxr.ionEx guest. '^ruCl LITTLE bit at rural England. A dainty g 1 i m p s e o 1 stream, mead ow and wood land, such as Birket Foster w oil id have loved to picture. Hedges red with haws, air laden with the scent of wild flowers, giant oaks and elms spreading their mighty limbs to shade man and beast, and skylarks rising in the heaven with floods of melody. A valley with a road running through it, and, in the near perspective, a village —Hethorton, it is called—and, in the distance, the tall towers of Scarsdalo abbey, one of the stateliest homes of the land. You have the scene before you. But not all harmonious is the aspect. Man comes, as usual, to mar the beauty of nature. This particular man is eminently qualified to scare away any poetic fancies the scene may have prompted. Ho is a spare, cadaverous fellow of about forty years of age, with sharp features and red hair, and eyes that would be bright and snapping, but that they are so bleared and bloodsdj^Y Ills dress is the decay uf_g|ggTr.,-. ?f ri ^^SS*^!?S^JuTnu see rtu.t J^SiUnias been glossy as the glossiest of shoddy; his trousers baggy in shape and loud in pattern, and his shoes of French kid, but the blight of poverty Ison them, and their original grand ness makes their shabbiness the more apparent. Neither is his manner more prepos sessing than his person, for as ho trudges along the road, his lip con stantly curls with the bitterness of his reflections, and lie viciously cuts down ! the unoffending flowers with the cheap j cane he carries, as though the beautiful i were repugnant to him. Yet his footsteps are turned toward Scarsdalo Abbey. Little does Sir Gordon llillborough. the owner of the splendid demesne, as he sits in his ancient library, a tall, stern, courtly old man of sixty, antici pate the visitor that fate is bringing him. Yet barely an hour has passed since j wo saw the vauricn tramping along the • highway, and now lie is sitting very ! much at his case in the presence <>f the great man, who seems too astonished at the novelty of the situation to offer a remonstrance. “Sir,” the baronet says with much dignity, “you have gained admission Into my house under the* pica that you have an important communication to make concerning my son. Briefly as possible tell me your bn iiuv, s’ “Don’t happen ever to have heard tho name of Gregson, 1 suppose, the stranger, replied with a sneer. Sir John shook his head in negation. “Nor of Newton parish in tho county of Lelcestar?’’ “Ah!” There was a look of painful recol lection in the baronet’s face. “The father, I presume, of the young one would tninii tnat tne oui man was Kiri •«.»> wiiti fE>jith. “! ) you realize," he murmured, with diffi ally, “thatthis means that my boy has committed bigamy?” “Of course I do, and sure as my name is Jacob Gregson he shall suffer for it.” “And why, if these papers arc authen tic, have you been silent these three years?” “Because I never knew the rights about it till one week ago. You see my niece never let on who was the father of her child—and ever since its birth she has been sickly and weak-minded, so that she takes no notice of anything, not even of her little girl.” “And you mean to tell me, man, that my son deserted her in such a condi tion?” “Oh, well, Sir Gordon, he's not quite so bad as all that. There were two Catherine Conroys in Newton—cousins —one was killed in a railroad accident, and Mr. Richard might have seen her name in the papers and thought it was his wife, who, I suppose, like the fool sir; was, had promised to keep the mar riage a secret. But it wasn’t—worse luck for him.” “Thank God for that slight satisfac tion; b\it at the best it is a terrible story.” “A terrible story, with only one end —ruin! Unless I play Providence and pull the fat out of the lire.” “You!” “Yes, me! I found those papers hid den away in the girl’s trunk. I've kept ’em close. The doctors say that si will never come to her right RO that there's nothing l^u^flj^yandme standing between salvation of your family^e." ‘•T J • /°" r l ,lanS? ” a cousin down in Derbyshire, notherly woman as ever you saw, married to a man who was once cor poral in the royal marines—John Whit- ford Jus name is—humble folks, but honest as the day. If you and I can make a deal, they’ll take out Mrs. Bichard Number One and her child, an’ you'll never hear of ’em again, no more than if they'd never existed.” "And your price for this piece of ras cality?” “Five hundred pounds down, and an annuity of five hundred a year on my life. After I’m gone, 1 will leave you or your son to look after your grand- da u gliter's interests. ” “My son!” the baronet cried, in startled tones, “lie must never know the price 1 paid for his immunity, and not for him only is the r.icriiice made, but for the poor, : 1 g'rl Adio thinks herself his wife.” Now Mr. Jacob Gregson had not ad hered strictly to the truth in his com munication to Sir Gordon llillborough. Ther -were those who knew him who said that it was a physical impossibility for him to make an accurate statement on any subject, and in this case he had done justice to his reputation. There had been no dual Catherine Conroy in the parish of Newton, and the verita ble Catherine—Richard 1 lillborough's legitimate wife, had really been the victim of the railroad accident not before, tho birth of her little one. Poor girl, hers had been a brief and unhappy career—tho only child of im pecunious tenant farmers, who had died when she was fourteen years of age, leaving her to the tender mercies of tli(‘ world, doweis d only with a sweet disposition and face of rustic loveliness. She had found refuge in the home of her mother's brother, Jacob Gregson, a bankrupt horsedcaler, who had managed to keep a roof over his head by acting as “sporting agent” for the neighborhood, a profession whose tides of profit ebbed and flowed with woman, by whose allurements my son, | constant contrast, now l.eiMng him with ft mere boy, u pupil at a private school, i f’ 1 ^ pockets and wild spiri; .. and again was nearly brought to the verge of so cial destruction?'’he asked, haughtily. “Uncle, sir,” was the airy reply. “Uucle to as interesting a young fe male orphan us ever fell a victim to the wiles of an aristocratic scoundrel.” “And you want—” “Justice, fur Gordon! Has not your son behaved like a villain—going and getting married and starting for India, llJLL IBM plunging him into the depths of desti- ! tution and misery; but through good ; and evil fortune he had been, accord- ] ing to his lights, kind to his niece, and, i after her death, had managed to scrape j together each week the few' shillings a laborer's wife charged for tho care of the motherless babe. Now he had his reward. MmiL : y ■Mmmr CHAPTER II. THE NOKTHEUN' HOS1K. elapse •.its re Fourteen years have the occurrence of the w. the preceding chapf rs. Tho scene of our ■* ‘ ory i. i the bleak, desolate rep' .a o; ern shor of Lake Sup', rlor. d since luted in laid i:i e south- f Tii * a 1 )mv n in n hollow, bet \ V t en two l lulVs, lie:, th iron city of Orolo' ■.vn, wit !i its even tl lou and inhabit: .. hudd! d to- gother in unpainted ;.!i:i ’ kaiandl 4oj1:s of !.qu: iilid tenements. v*. lit >11.i O f the lo\7i St description a’ •JIT 2 id, the only preen tior. , buildings 1 u i: ig the hoxl- lhJu.> , the hotel and th ■ ii :>. pit:.!. L ne whole region breathe:,! .fit 'an. Tin * very groum 1 is the red dutt of i n»n re. . and miner: ; and miners’ u iv v‘. > ! ai.d ehi Urn -O'' “WHAT do r YOU MEAN?” BAKOMET. GASPED TUE while my poor niece and her little girl ftre left to starve?” Sir Gordon's hard look softened. “A babe? I had no idea it was as had ftft that. Something must be done for it and her.” “Yes,” sneered Gregson, “something - ;! got to be done, an’ done quickly, too.” “A small annuity to support and cdu- Cftte the child,” continued the baronet, meekly. “I will see my attorney.” “And what about Airs. Richard Hill- borough?” “Oh, sh* in India with her hus band. 1 beg that her name may be kept out of this unhappy controversy.” “Oh, no, she's not, my noble friend;' jou arc laboring under a great mistake. Mrs. moment “Great onct. “What do you mean?” ’ “I mcan that your son married my Uece three years ago come next Au gust. Oh, you needn’t staresodb.be- lUevingly. Here it all Is in black and Iwhite—Birmingham’s registrar'. cer- tifleate and letters by the dozen.” k SftT« fel a quivering of the lip. ruddy with the stain of tho brown earth, meet you at every step. All around tho outskirts of the place, big hills of clinkers and bowlders nre crowned with the engine-houses of tho mining shafts, while trade is limited to the few “stores” belonging' to the min ing companies, where ihe unfortunate digger., into the bowels of earth ruinous ov .• havo so ha '.1, ' . . . Here end th ere you . . * a ! of rcsid :. o, ,n 1 ip thin yo wire that :n a '-ent or aptai tli i cap’ aln b. ■mg the higlic are driven by necessity to spend at a . they ■; it-r hind may be i iv ddes— t flight of aristocracy to which the society of tho metallic city aspire .. These too arc for the most part English, though here and tooio .i aScvv riU,>4i.iuot . OCCUpit'.i tho covetc dposit ion. He is an autocrat of auto nits. Well do the men know that t hey have to look to him for every favor, and, as in ’ho old 1 udal davs tho retainers bows d t i of tilings was not so bad, but occasion ally were found among the captains men of brutal instincts, who used their posi tions as levers for acts of pitiful oppres sion. On the top of one of the bluffs on the outskirts of the city stood a gaunt, square house, rudely put together with unpainted boards, and surrounded by a squalid “settlement”of temporary shan ties. Hardly a roof was whole, for when the blasting occurred huge masses of rock were flung high in the :■ m a A. ‘COME AMD JOIN OUR STUfU^g.” air and fell sojfarj^at sometimes they cra.siicdJfR*r7mgh t} ie neighboring dw r ell- “‘Tlgs. , The gaunt, square house I have al luded to bore a sign with the inscrip tion; * * : BOARDIXO BY JOHN WniTFOUD. ’* and, notwithstanding its rude exterior, when once j'ou were inside, surprised you with its homelike simple comfort. On this mild September evening Mrs. Whitford was busy preparing supper, while her husband sat smoking his pipe in the chimney corner—she buxom, jovial and pleasant featured, with the bloom of the Derbyshire hills still on her cheeks—he, silent and thoughtful, with his honest face corrugated with the wrinkles of care. “John,” the wife said, turning from her work, and speaking in broad native accents, which no change of country had ameliorated, “I canna abide to see thee so down i'th’ mouth. Heart up, now, may happen we shall get word across the soa from Jacob, an’, if the T0 Silver Leaders Decide Not to Name a Committeeman. IT WAS DEEMED INEXPEDIENT, \7or.,t betide us, Capt. Wixou may gic thee a chance to work the new gang next week.” “Don't go on hoping against hope. Be ‘;>e. Your brother-in-law is a scoun drel - nothing hut broken promises and edition of It’s a had hist coming on.” Bichard Allestree Gordon is at this lllL> will of their lor;!s, these sturdy ent In Newton, Leicestershire. mining giants give humble ullegiancj reat heavens!” gasped tho bar- to hilll( viel(liuf7 cvu: . ,i u .i r ..Bniienl !> suffrages and voting obediently as the “boss" wi.'.he,, thou h iho new 'Ansira- liuu ballot box” will avti! that little* arrangcm-nt; but at th hie I write of the free and hid" > i ' d eiiizeti of Oretown had only l!i • i'.v d . .i to think as his taskmaster thought. Tn the hnttd* o? n ffond man thU fitfltft —why, he’s an American J:> >!) in rougher binding, lookout, an' winter “Well, moil, Oi told thee how it ud be. Thou'st made a heap o’ money sin’ vc coin * to this ughsorae spot, but thy dai'i head couldna keep it in thy poke. Speculation — alius speculatin' —and alius on the wrong side of the fence to run.” “Yes,” replied John bitterly, “hit a man when he’s down. That’s just like woman.” “Oi didn a mean to do so, mon,” quoth the repentant dame, brushing away the tears with the hack of her hand. “Only there’s nowt left, now them Keweenaw shares be worthless, but the sticks o’ house-gear, and the duds we wear.” “Nothing,” was the doleful reply. “No lodgers hut the schulcmeastcr an’ the two lads, an’ God knaws Oi canna keep things together wi’ their havings.” Then John, ruminating, changed the subject by asking his wife: “Where’s Elsie?” “In yon, wi’ the schulemcaster,” was the reply, as the dame pointed to a door cm the inner side of the room. “I don't quite know,” John said, very slowly, as if he were propounding a dif ficult theory, “if it is right to let the lass spend so much time alone with that young man. She's getting up in years now, and—” He stopped, for the surprise and in dignation depicted on his wife’s coun tenance were enougli to check the most loquacious. “John Whitford,” she demanded, furiously, “has trouble addled thy brain? A chit o’ a child, as has na left off short frocks, an a young mon as has lived under thy roof welly a twelvemonth, an’ never so much by word or deed ’as showed he wasna a perfeo’ gentleman! Who put that silly craze i’ thy soft pate? Frank Holbrook, I’ll tek my Bible oath on’t.” “It wasn’t.” “Who were it then? For none such nonsense entered on its o\\ n account.” “Well, then, it was the captain.” “What captain?” “Wixon.” “Bah!” said the woman, as she burst into a su])crcilious laugh. “Oi thowt thee was ne'er sueli gowk aa to moiml that inischief-makin’ tyke. Here, howd the heft o* this griddle, an* Oi’ll sec for mysen what they be a doin’ of.” With this, she ero .sed the kitchen, opened a door very qui -tly, traversed a short, i a; ;g; and nb -q.Uy opened a si .-os <1 does <.t the end of it. TO liK CONTINUED NEXT WEEK. At the Methodist Church. A protracted meeting is being now being conducted at the Methodist church. The sermons are being preached bv Rev. II. P, Brown, of Rock Hill. Mr. Brown is preaching some very practical sermons and in terest in the meeting is increasing. . «•» . All Free. Those who have used Dr. King’s New discovery know its value, and those who have not, have now tho opportunity to try it free. Call on the advertised Druggist and get a Trial Bottle, Free. Send your name and address to II. K. Bucklcn A Go., Chicago, and get a sample box of Dr. King’s New Life Pills Free, as well ns a copy of Guide to I halt li and House hold Instructor, Free. All of whicli is guaranteed to do you giWai and cost you nothing \V, B. l)uPre,T)nig store. The N<-gro<M of tin- State Arc Culled to Meet In Convention Sop. 11, When They Will Muko Known w Few of tho Claims They Moan to Uress Upon tho Politician!. An Important Occasion. Raleigh, Sept. 2.—At tho Demo cratic silver couloronca at Washington recently ox-Souator Jarvis, Representa tive John S. Lockhart and Joseph Dan iels wore requested to suggest thonamo of a mau to act as North Carolina’s member of the uatioual committee. Thursday these gentlemen met here and hold a couforeuco, at which W. C. Dowd, E. C. Smith, W. H. Day, B. C. Beckwith, W. M. Bass, S. A. Ashe, Ashley Horue and N. B. Broughton wore present. It was conaiderfed to bo inexpedient to najuu-fi committeeman, so no name ^Ss suggested. After this matter had been disposed of, tho question of on- dorsiug the state silver convention, called by C. E. Smith, was brought ud. Some iovored endorsing, others opposed it, and so nothing whatever was done, as there was uo authority to take action. Representative Lockhart was inter viewed and said: “Tho ineuimg was not held to dis cuss the call :or a silver convention, as made by Ed Chambers Smith. I had •no knowledge that that matter was to be discussed. Speaking for myself, I say no silver conveutiou.” Mr. Smith insists that tho sentiment of tho meeting was favorable to tho silver convention. Ed Chambers Smith was interviewed regarding tho state silver convention of Democrats, for which ho is so earn estly working. Ho said: “Tho sentiments of the people so far as hoard from aro largely in favor of tho convention. Tho counties heard from advocate it. They seo in it an opportunity for white supremacy and it is having an effect to secure this end. It will go like wildiiro in tho eastern counties.” What tho Nogroes Want. A call for a negro state convention has been issued, tho date beiug Sept, il. It says that the negroes havo cer tain things they desire to say to tho people of tho stato generally along the linos of industrial, educational and po litical welfare, and believe tho present to be the most opportune timo to give expression to their desires, it being be tween elections and a timo Ireo from political excitement. It is asserted that it will bo tho most important gath ering of negroes that has taken place since their freedom. They desire to say to the politicians of tho stato what they should do for tho negroes, who compose threo fourths of tho voting population of tho Republican party. The call says: ■\Ve desire to use that vote intelligently, so that the results of our voting maybe redounding in benefit to tlie whole race, rather than to a few men wiio attempt to lead our race to get places for themselves. We want a larger appropriation for col ored schools; we want a colored man appointed or nominated to some oilice of dignity and honor in the state; wo want an equal distribution of tho smaller offices among colored and white alike; wo realize that if we leave this matter to tho average politician we can never get the recognition demanded. Now is the time to speak in no uncertain way, so those who expect our votes will give us considera tion. We have been votiug 30 years, and although the men we vote for get elected, tre aro not beneiitted. The only way of remedying this evil is in union and tho expression of t he best sentiment of our people in the state. Senator Marion Butler is reported to have said it was now timo for white men to get together and pat aside differences. DESTRUCTIVE STORM. A TcnnetM* Town Suffers Severe Loss, bat No Lives Were Lost. Nashville, Sept 5.—A storm which has just visited Hantingdon, Term., Was the severest in its history. Its bourse was northwest and it was ac companied by torrents of rain. The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Lonia railway depot was completely wrecked, with the exception of tho telegraph office, in which several persons were seated. The debris from the freight depart ment fell in snch a direction as to pro tect it. The roof was blown from the main Sonthern Normal university building. On the pablio square the large brick storehouses occupied by W H. Carter, grocer; Head & Sou, dry goods; Karman Sc Husky, dry goods, and Scott Sc Bowles, clothing, wero un roofed and their stocks damaged. The front of Fry’s jewelry house was blown down. The public square is al most impassable on acconut of the tim ber and debris. Tho damage amounts to several thousand dollars. No lives wero lost. A PLEA FOR CHINESE. REV. MADISON C. PETERS SAYS THEY ARE UNFAIRLY TREATED. CAUGHT AN ESCAPE. One of fhe Men Who Got Out of Laillow Street Jail Foun<t In MlMonrl. Springfield, Sept. 5.—Charles Allen, one of the Springfield, Ills., postoffice robbers who broke out of the Ludlow street jail in New York on July 4 last, has just been caught here. He was ar rested 20 miles south of here where he had film flammed the postmaster and several bankers ont of small sums. Claude Webb, a confidence man recent ly of St. Louis, was oaught with him. Allen’s picture sent ont by Chief In spector Whorter at Washington, D. C., offering $3,000 reward for him, tallies perfectly with the prisoner, and there is no doubt but that he is the right man. A letter fonnd in Allen's pocket shows that he has gone under the aliases P. M. Hogan, M. D. Miller and Charles Robinson. These letters, which are from his wife, are dated at Oakland, Cal, and fonnd him at many points between that place and this city. Joseph Killoran and another man who escaped with Allen in July, each have $3,000 reward haugiug over their heads. A Noted Editor Dead, Chillicothe, Mo., Sept. 5.—John Boyd, an ex-editor of note and a promi nent lawyer, is dead at his homo horo, aged 03. Mr. Boyd was born In Lick- j ing county, O. Daring the Whr ho pab- lisned tho Fairmont Vidette, at Fair mont, W. Va. To him belongs the credit Of agitating the partition of the state and carrying his agitation to a success ful termination. He was a delegate from West Virginia to tho national con vention at Baltimore that nominated Lincoln for his second term. / Carr Offara a Reward. Raleigh, Sept. 2.—Governor Carr offers $100 reward for tho arrest of Ar thur Tuttle, tho young white man who murdered Henry Carr, a negro, while be was handcuffed and in his custody. Tattle has fled tho state and gone to Florida or Cnba, relatives having sup plied him with money. Governor Carr honored tho requisi tion of the governor of South Carolina for Charles Lloyd, who is wanted for mnrder in Lancaster, county, South Carolina, and in jail at Monroe. Actor ttounlau’a Brother f Raleigh, Ang. 30.—It now seems certain that tho man killed by the train at Wilson was B. J. Scanlon, brother of Billy Scaulan, tho actor, who is now in Bloomingdale insano asylum. Scanlan was here a week ago earning his way by playing his violin. He was arrested and ordered out of town. He started in the direction of Fayetteville. A letter received here from Wilson describes a man killed on tho railroad. The descrip tion fits Scaulan exactly. A Rich Gold Find. Raleigh, Aug. 20.—News has reach ed here of tho finding of a nugget of f old weighing 21 pounds at the noted agram mine in Stanley county. This la the second largest nugget ever found in the state and is worth a amgli for tune. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. A holiness convention will be held at Durham, N. C., beginning Sept. 17. The Odd Fellows of North Carolina will erect a now orphanage at Golds- lK>ro. Two North Carolina UogrC COUViCtS E iado a break for libertv and wore shot nd killed by tiie guards. Scab Wilson, of Gadsden, Ala., com mitted suicide because his wife ran away with another man. Selma (Ala ) has a now steamer which will ply tho river trade. Tho Josie W. makes her first trip this week. Tho He 111ii (Ala.) Gold Mining co: S any has b >oi» organized, with h carters at Chattanooga, Tenn. Dr. K L. V aught of Chajjrauooga, Tenn., was drowned, accide/,tally at Point Pleasant, W. Va.. VV/J neg diV. New Southern TralDo Liu. Evansville, Ind, Sept 5.—The St. Louis, Danville aud Sonthern Trans portation company has been organized at Nashville, Tenn., with a capital stock of $50,000. Capitalists of this olty and several southern cities are in terested. The company will operate a line of boat) from this city and from St. Lonis np the Tennessee river. Has n Large Following. Cincinnati, Sept 5 —Tho Central German M. E. conference met here with Bishop Foss presiding. This con ference covers a large territory, having members in Michigan, Ohio, southern Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, western Pennsylvania and Nashville, Tenn. The session will continue sev eral days. To Xune Bonds. Huntingdon, W. Va, Sept 5.—The stockholders of the Columbus, Hunt ingdon and Gnyan railroad have au thorized the board of directors to issue mortgage bonds not to exceed $25,000 per mile, to be used in the construction of the road. Work on the line will be gin at once and will be completed In 18 months. Decrease of Inebriety. The good canso of temperance flonr- ishos in spite of the mistakes of some of its misguided friends. Tho use of al coholic drinks is steadily decreasing. Drunkenness is becoming less prevalent. Tho managers of the great railway lines and other corporations aro helping the temperance movement by insisting on sobriety among their employees. In congress and in state legislatures there is not onc-tentb as much inebriety to day as there was 40 years ago. On tho farms, and in the factories and mills, and wherever mon work for their bread, there is a gratifying diminution of in temperance. This good “work goes on” bravely and hopefully.—Washington Post. Whlaky and Railroad Accident*. A great railroad corporation recently collected and tabulated all the facts pertaining to the nicu and conditions of every accident which occurred on its lines for five years. Forty per cent of all accidents wero duo altogether or in part to the failures of men who were drinking, besides 18 per cent where there was every cause for suspicion of a sim ilar coudition. In one year over $1,000,- 000 worth of property was destroyed by tho mistakes or irresponsibility of beer drinking engineers and switchmen.— Ghristinn Work. Alcohol Injure* Horse*. Colonel Spoht, in a German military newspaper, ptiints ont how frequent is the casq^n that country of horse train ers f<.,^*iiig their animals to indulge in iiltfoltolic “pick mo ups.” Tho writer yfleclares that the effect of alcohol on horses is of a highly iujnrions nature. P OOR DIGESTION i leads to ncrvousiios rhnmir dyspepsia and great miserv. The best remedy Is HOOD'S SARSAPARILLA. They Arc No Worse Thun the Same Claa* of Other Nationa’.itlr* -Give Them Amer ican Fair Flay—Victim* of Folltlcal Cru elty Because They Have No Vote. On Sunday, Ang. 18, Rev Madison C. Peters, D. D., did not preach. He sends this plea for tho Chinese: The people of the land havo used oppression and exercised robbery and have vexed tho poor and needy; yen, they have oppressed tho stranger wrongfully.—Ezekiel xxii, -0. Therefore, nil tiling., whatsoever yn would that men should do to you. do yo even so to them.—Matthew vii, 12. What you do not like when done to your self, do not do to others.—Confucius. In tho naftie of God, who of one blood mado all nations of men to dwell on the face of tho earth, 1 protc.-t against our unmanly, un-American and uu-Chris- tiau treatment of tho Chinese. They ara human beings, having tho same parts, affections, passions and tho sanio nat ural rights as other men havo. When wo needed cheap labor to develop our country, we begged tho Chinese to conic. In 1844 our government began to coax them to come. In 1807 our government sent Mr. Burlingame to China, and ho presented tho invitation to tho Chinese to como aud stay with us in such a dip lomatic way that when ho died tho em peror deified him, and ho is one of the gods of China today. What could bo further from the spirit of Christ than tho way in which wo have abused and maltreated tho Chi nese? They did not come by their indi vidual motion, but were imported iu overwhelming masses by the concerted action of capital. I have studied this question iu San Francisco, and it is dreadful enougli. But the Chinese quar ter there, with its malodors of opium, is a heaven compared with tho brazen faced beastliness of lust in tho French quarter, and the Hungarian, Italian and other foreign quarters in New York are more filthy and more iniquitous than Chinatown. The Chinese aro no worse than tho same number of the same class of any other nationality in our midst. Tho 80,000 Chinese iuSan Francisco pay tho landlords of that town $3,000,000 an nually iu rent. The Chinese in Califor nia pay nearly $4,000,000 a year as taxes to tho state government, and in customs to tho United States govern ment more than $0,000,000 annually. Official statistics show that the Chinese in taxes and iu work give to California in a single year tho amazing sum of $14,000,000, aud this is exclusive of their contribution in railroads and re deemed lands. The surveyor general of California declared that in tin* two items alone of railroads and redeemed land tho Chinese had enriched California by over $280,000,000. And I want Christians to note this fact—the Chinese Young Men’s Chris tian association of San Francisco recent ly sent $42,000 to China for the cause of missions in that country. It has been estimated that of lho$15,- 000,000 mado by tho Chinese every year in this country, $13,000,000 is expend ed hero. But tho Chinese aro not tho only people who send money out of the country. Tho late J. Boyle O’Reilly, in a lecture on tho wrongs of Ireland, de clared that “tho Irish send out of this country every year to Ireland $70,000,- 000,” and what is good for one nation ought to bo good for another. The Chi nese aro not found begging, they never reel through our streets, they do not defy our Sabbath, they do not commit tho fearful crimes wo read about iu our daily papers. They aro peaceable, indus trious, economical, law abiding, and pay their honest debts. But they are heathen. They must ho to do that! “The Chinese do not Americanize.” They never had a chance to do so. Other na tionalities who havo had the chance have failed to do so. “They do not come to stay.” . In 1889, 11,000 Italians returned tG Italy with their earnings. If only more of our nn-Americauized foreigners would go home, wo would be able to control our own politics aud bo given a chance to work out tho problem of a re publican government. Tho Chinaman with his laundry is not so dangerous a man to our civilization as some other nationalities iu our midst, who run gin- mills, commit our crimes aud then fill onr offices. I bespeak for tho Chinese American fair play. If wo have a Chris tian civilization, let ns present it to the Chinese iu a Christian way. We send missionaries and money to China and profess a deep interest in them, thou- gands of miles away. There they are an interesting object to ns, but at our doors we avoid them, and tho very ministers who make tho most eloquent pleas for tho Chinese in China will, without pro test, allow tho Chinese in America to become the victims of political cruelty. Some people havo more religion than humanity. If the Chinaman had a vote, our demagognes iu congress would pro fess great love for tho Chinaman, and they would go around on election day with an opium pipe sticking from their pockets. Our political parties will do anything for votes, aud this whole busi ness is to catch tho alien vote. The Chinese aro uo more slaves than the Italians and Hungarians. The six Chinese companies prepay the passage for tho Chinese, and then the Chinese hero work it out. Investigation shows that tho Italians aud Hungarians axe brought hero in tho same way, and they will work as cheap and in every way in terfere as much with tho white man earning a white man’s wages as the Chinese. Yon can buy one or a thousand laborers from tho Italian padroues in this city. Within threo years wo admit- ttd into tho American labor market 427,000 Huns,Italians aud Poles. Every where immigrants swarm in tho path of Americans, competing with native Industry, glad to do the Work for half fhe prtw paid the American labowr.