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FOR ERIC'S SAKE. I. it was Dourly throe o'clook in the morning when Norah's carriage drove up to the door of tbo house in South Audley street. The footman rang the bill and, alighting, she entered the halb running quickly upstairs to the dl sfwlllg KOMI. Her tall figure was still Blight and ?.'irlish ; her hiuo eyes were a look of ?. I Uiu'i ; for her beauty had never urou?cd greater admiration, her biic 1*688 had -never been more triumphant t1'an that evening. ??Has baby been ail right?" she u ked hor maid. "Ob, and can you t II mo whether Mr. Furdyco has come home," ,, "Mr. Fordyeu camo homo at ten, was the answer. " Ho has been in tho it-idy-" Not waiting for the end of tho sen tonoo Norah went down stairs again. "Too bad, Digby. Shabby not to turn up-" Sho had beguu to speak as she open ed tho door, but as soon as sho saw his face stopped abruptly. Tho room was cloudy with tobacco smoko. Though tho Juno evening was hot the Uro had boon lighted und tho grate was full of papers burned to cinders ; hut what astonished hor tho most was Digby's own appearance. As ho stood upright their eyes mot for a moment; thou hid wore cast down Bhamofaoedly. Ho had shaved olT his heavy black mustache, transforming h's swarthy, handsome face ; ho wore a^shooiiog suit instead of his evening clothes. 11 What is the matter, Digby V* she demanded--" If you rcal'y aro your solf." "1 1 ! i can't tell you, Norah." Drawing nearer she rested her hand caressingly on his shoulder. " Anything serious, darling ?" " I'vo got to muko a bolt of it. Thcru's not a minute to lose. To morrow will ho too lato. 1 only wanted j to see you. I couldn't go without, hap pen what might." " But I don't 1 don't understand," she faltered, gazing into his faco in bewilderment. " l'v played my game and lost: that's all. For the hist four years I've been a?Heaven help mo I It will be all over the town to morrow. I lost my last chauce to day. My name will bo a by-word.'' Sitting down, she could still stu'-o up helplessly into his pale, haggard face. Tle? diamonds in bur fair, brown hair caught the gaslight and sparkled. " Barford will know everything di rectly he gets to the office to-morrow," Digby continued, " 1 must bo out of tho way before then. Norah, I sluuld like to see tho youngster." Automatically she rose and left the room, shivering as sho drew her rich plush cloak round her Shoulders. On her return, she made a charming pic tur-, standing with the four-mouths old child In hor arms just as s!m had taken him from his cot. "Door little begga.' I" muttered Digby, bending over him. Laying him gently on one of tho largo armchairs, Norah faced her hus band. " I 1 can't realise it yet,'' she said. "I have looked forward to nothing olso the last four years." "liefere before you married me V" bho demanded. "You knew this when you tirst met mo ! You know it, and asked me-" '? 1 loved you, Norah." "Love!" she cried, contemptuously. " And you loved mo." " I loved tho man I thought you wore. A man who uevor existed." " For Heaven's sake bo merciful!' ho said, buttoning his coat. " You have made, mo a party to your crimes," she cried, and raising her hands, trembling with anger, sho tore from her hair the diamond tiara. " At least, a word of forgiveness," ho said, taking up the juwel quietly, and thrusting it in his jacket pocket. "Just a word before we part - it will be forever, Norah." " I can't forgivo you." sho answered. "It is no use. 1 could forgivo much : if it had been since our marriage, it might have been ditl'erent. But you deceived me too utterly." It hud fallen upon bur liko a bolt out of tho blue sky, without a warning sigo, at the moment of her supremo success. Henceforth she would be known only as tiie wife of a defaulting solicitor. Her love seemed to be crushed, togeth er with her hopes. Long after he had gone, while the child lay sleeping on the chair. Norah stood in tho smoky room, half dazed by tho recent dis closure, till the day broke, and a new ora in her life began. II. "Ah, Norah, anything up? Where's Digby ?" Major Armlstead glanced round tho dining room. He was tall and spare, the more noticeably because he always buttoned himself titrhlly in a long frock coat. His darkly tanned face appeared above a very high collar ; ho wore an enormous iron-gray mous t iche. Longa widower, since Norah's marriage two years ago, he had lodged near Hyde Park, possessing only a small Income besides his pension. Sho took his hand and kissed him, then looked out of the window. "A delicious morning after tho rain," she faltered. "Come, come; you didn't drag me out before breakfast lo tell mo it was a fine morning, Norah. Little chap all right ?" " Oh, Eric is sple ndid," she said. "Then what on earth is it? You're not looking well this morning- too much dissipation, isn't Digby down yet?" "Ho'a gone - gono away. He is ruined." "Ruined I Digby! Bless my-" " Worte," she continued. " He has I committed a crime. You can hardly realize It? Neither could I ; but it is truo. Ho has committed a crime. All this," she waved her han s as she glanced round tho large, handsomely furnished room, "all this is tho result 1 am wearing some of tho proceeds. I can't atay, father ; take me away from It all- mo and poor littlo Eric." Tho evening papers were full of the nowa, and sold largely in conacquonce. Tho hue and cry being raised, and a reward olTored, a few days later tho fugitive was arrested. Tried and convictod in duocourso, Digby Fordyce was sontenccd to soven years' penal servitude. III. Major Armlstead rented a small house, almost a cottage, on tho out skirts of tho town of Tunbridgo Welle, and thero Norah lived with her boy. Only twenty-throe, Bho had bidden good bye to tho world ; lnstoad of thousands a yoar, her incomo consl&ted of but a few hundreds, and theso uot ber own. Yot sho was not ontirely unhappy. Com poll d by her altered olrcurn ?? stances to d ovo to horself to tho child, he toon i lYordcd a now lntoreBt in her Ufa Sho v.atchod his developing in t llgonco, and listoned for his earliest lisping utterances. Tho day ho flrat f tood alono was a red-letter day. Her father became Eric's guide, philosopher and friend; and later was fought a ? battle royal todeoide who should teaob him to read. Major Armlstead took his defeat s >muoh to heart that Norah magnanimously gavo way, and woulu sit always working, soraetimos laugh ing, at others half crying, to obsorvo the impatlect man's patience. 8o for a tirno Norah's lifo went smoothly on. At first tbo ohango was ^ appalling ; she missed tho excitement, tug admiration, to which sho had bo Wroo accustomed elnco her marriage* ? Sho had not a friend loft, and when fnuplooallod upon her, In ignorance of or history, sho was always "na at home." \Vb< n Erl was more than commonly winsome, M jor ArratHtead alwuy. said tliO rllUl'J : , " Pity nia father was a scoundrol. ? And Norah ncvor demurred, it was the simple truth. Brio was now six yours old, tall, thlo, dollcato, with his father's hundsomo f. at on s and black hair. " I hopo to goodness Di^by won't be gin to ))i'bter us," crio I Major Arral ?toad ono evening. He was an old man now and Inclined to peevishness. Norah looked up quickly. "It isn't seven years." "They don't servo their full time if I hey behave themselves. In prison Dig by would bohavo himself." " He will not trouble us, father." " 1 don't know. Scamp enough for anvthing. He may thiL* you wi.l take him back." " I sbail novor do that," she replied. " After what passed between us bo knows I shall not." " I hopo not, Norab. I hopo not, for Erie's bake. Is that Erie coughing?" ho asked presently. After listening attentively for*, few moments Norah laid aside her work and rau upstairs, where ho still slept beside her own bed. The child was feverish. Next day a doctor was called in, and now began a period of intense anxiety, till ono uigbt the end seomed Imminent Major Armistead did not undress ; at regular Intervals bo looked iuto tho room, imd Norah shook her bead de spondently. When tho morning sun broke through tho clouds at ton o'clock, all tho blinds in the little houso woro drawn down, and tho light had gone out of Norah s life. A few days later she stood with her father?white-haired and bowed now -beside tho open gruvo. Tho gray clouds hung low, and tho October wind blow chilly across ttie cemetery. Henceforth she speut niauy hours there, always alone, siuee tho dis tance was too great for Major Armi stead to walk. Sho always pictured Erie's grave as a kind of bed, and hi in self asleep, as sho of ton used to watch him. " I should like to put up a handsomo tomb," saiil tho old man. "It isn't I much, but it's all I ean do for the little ' chap. I feel I must do something." "If wo could make some other children happy," Norah suggested. "That is what I should like ; to endow a cot in a children's hospital." Major Armistead entered iuto tho I scheme with immense enthusiasm. "Of course," be said presently, "you must remember that you won't have much to live on vdien I am gone, dear." " That does not matter," sho an swered. " Nothing of that kind mat ters now. Nothing matters in an empty world. There is nothing loft to livo for." " I will writo to Ormond street and ' Inquire how much it would cost," said M .j or Armistead. " We will call it Eric's cot." Two days la'.or, going to the eemo : tery in the afternoon. Norah camo t) a sudden standstill a few yards from the grave ; then hiding herself behind Borne headstones, watched tho shabby looking man who stood bare-beaded at its foot. In spite of his black beard and moustache, in spite of bis white, haggard, dissipated face, she recogniz ed him on the instant. After standing then; a few minutes he covered Ids face with his hands, and presently, stopping, broke off one of tho faded flowers from tho bolitary cross Norah had placed there. Having stayed until ho went away, ] sho also left tho cemst-jry, but on I reaching home said nothing to her father. All tho rest of tho afternoon she busied herself in various ways, hor father glancing at her from time to time, wondering what transformed and Illumined her face. Despite her troubles, sho was a beautiful woman. Her figure had developed, and albeit sad and grave, I hor face had retained all its former I charm. To-night it seemed to Major ; Armistead like the face of an angel. At eight o'clock tho postman brought - a letter, but when he would havo I broken tho seal, sho came *,o his chair, ' resting a hand on his arm. "Prom tho hospital, Norah." " Father," she said, " [?-I have thought of another way." " Well, lot us see-" " I saw Digby this morning," she faltered. " Ah, I know the scoundrel wouldn't leave us alone !" cried Major Armi stead. ' Ho did not see me. He was stand ing by the grave. lioforo lie went away he stooped and?and broke off a piece of stepbanotis. Ho is in very low water." " Ho deserves to bo !" "Yes, he deserves to be. Hut 1?I am afraid ho is by way of sinking lowor. He looks utterly broken?de graded. Ho can have no hopo in life nothing to help him upward-" "Pshaw!" cried Major Armistead. "A man like Digby in hound to siuk. Nothing can save hir ." "That is a terrible saying," sho re turned. " I think there is ono thing that might, only one ?a woman's 1 >ve." "Norah!" her father exolalmed, " you're not going to play tho fool 1 All nonsense ! You know you don't lovo the man." " I-?I don't know." "You never wo-t to sen him. You nover wrote. You haven't had a kind word for him all these years. To toll you tho truth. I've wondered some times. Of course, ho deserves all he got, only some women aro such fools." "Was I too wise?" aho asked. "Since Erie's death I feol differently about many things, i am not certain about myself. I sco what ho haB fallen to, but ho Is still a young man- clever ?bh, might there not bo hoiqc ehunee for him if?. Hut I doubt my own strength. I am not sure I can do it. As I watched him at tho i/rave tho thought flashed upon me. Wo talk of a memorial for Erie! Could anything bo better than to aavo Erie's father, body and soul ?" "Too late, Norah, ray dear? too lato I" " Ah, but is It?Is it ever ? If thero " oro not a germ of good in blm, would e havo corao to tho grave r You ? on't know that tho cot at tho hospi al will actually savo a child's Hfe. yet vou would endow it. So with Digby. Ho has fallen low, very low ; in may be Incurablo, but is that any reason why I should not inako tho effort?" Major Armistead loanod forward and kissed her forohoad. For i ?. own part, ho sincerely hoped she would never boo hor husband again : and yot he no moro liked to Interfere than ho would havedono with her porformanco of somo religious rito In which ho COUld not partiei pate. For several days Norah walked to tho eomotory at tho samo hour, but It was not till a few dayn boforo Christ mas that sho saw Digby again. Aa he stood lost in thought at the foot of the grave sho drow near. " Digby I" He Btarted like a man whoso nervous strength Is supped. " Norah I*' Inbtlnotlvoly his right hand went up to his cloth cap, as ho stepped a fow foet away. They stood ono on each Sido of tho grave, which was now htddon by young evergreens and plants. " You havo boon hero before," sho said, hardly knowing what to say. " I did not intond to come again. I saw tho announcement of tho bey's doath. Toll me of him, Norah." Aoross the grave she gave htm in formation concerning Erlo's short life and l i t. 11 ay ??, and then sho asked : "Wny?why did you aomo to-day, Digby V "I came In tho hope of seeing you. I had no right to put mywdf In your way?but I am leaving .England. I havo falloii very low." Ho throw out ids hands. " You sco < what I am. The first time X cam*. simply to look on tho spot whcro the hoy luv. 1 saw you had put my nun,. . ' Brio, " ho road from the houdatono. " "dearly beloved bou of Dig by and Norah-1" " I hesitated," ahe admitted. " 1 hcaitat?-d, till I wtu looking for a test. Then 1 thought it ought to ho there. Where-whore are you going V" " Heaven knows. I neither know nor eare. What does it mutter V Look ut me. Do you think I euu siuk lower " You can rlso higher, DU'by. la it ever too lute ?" ''Oil," he cried, "1 duro say you aro right, Sometimes I feol I have it in me. It is memory that thrown mo back. Nc-ruh, you don't know what tho utter desolation of it it). An, I know : you have lost your child, and ho hud a scamp for a father; but you don't know tho curse of being your own accuser. Ou all tho earth there la not a human being who cares whether I go under, or how aoon-" " Yea," she aald ; " there ia ono who earea." He stared at her for a few momenta, then leaned eagerly forward acroaa tho overgreona. " What? what do you mean?" he muttered. Norah held o ;t her right hand. " Dighy," ahe 8ttld, "I will bury tho pabt, und, if you will let mo, 1 will do my best to help you In the future." " Do you meun you will come?come away with me ?" ?' For Brio's sako," ahe said quietly. Tho caretaker of tho cemetery atopped to look at tho poorly-clad man heaido the grave, and Noran ataudiug with her hand on hia shoulder. At tirst Dighy shrank from facing Major Armisteuu ; but ahe uerved blm I to this us to niucli besides. It waa a little hard on Major Artulstoad, who had now to look forward to being left aloue in hia old age. But ho waa tho only one who regretted Norah'a do ciaion, which had not been arrived at without miaglving. Norah never re gretted. Sho had found ono more pur pose in lifo, while Erio's father began a new career that day. And a career whleh went far to make atonement for tho past. ^ ; THE RECOGNITION OF CUBAN RIGHTS. j AN ABLE SIM<;K< II BY SKNATOR I THUUSroN, OK NBBKASKA. Tdo ite?iulreincnts of International Law us Applied to ilte Revolution in Cuba?Why Not Grant Them Belligerent nights? Senator Thurston, of Nebraska, who presided over tho Republican national convention of St. Louis, mudo ono of the atrongest speeches yot delivered In tho Senate on the bellig erent rights of tho Cuban insurgents, and wo take pleasure in giving o*ir readers tho bent, tit of liberal extracts from hia speech : Mr. President, what ia the require* ment of international law upou the queation of whether or not this govern ment 6Qb.ll accord to the Cubaua belli gerent rlghta ? 1 will diaouss it dia pasalona'joly and as eleu- ly aa 1 can, without any attempt to arouse senti mentor to stir up passion or prejudice. International law, aa laid down oy the accepted writers, requirea that a peo j pie, inorjorto nave their bolligoroucy ucknowl >dged, muat tirst act up tho standard of a revolution. That has been done li Cuba. Thoy must lor a certain length of time maintain a territory against tho enemy. That has beon done iu Cuba for two yours and a half. Head the declaration that waa presented by the Senator from Ohio on yesterday, wherein tho fact is thoroughly established that for all tho period of that revolution one pro vince of Cuba bus been maintained , and held by tho Cubau patriots und , revolutionists. International luw says thut thore must be uu established form of govern ment, lias there not been in this ease? Could a war of this character for two years and a half have been carried on, think you, unless it wero carried on under tho form of an organized gov ernment, with some central authority behind it to aeeuro moneys to arm nod equip its soldiers, to issue commis sions, and to million/." and direct the movements of tho army ? International law also says thut there must bo a sent of government, und I huvo heard it contended upon this Moor that belligerent rights cun not bo uccorded becuuso there is not found upon tho map of Cubu u known or u fortilicd or un important town wherein tho seat of tho revolutionary govern ment has been established. A seat of government need not ho hold within fortified walls ; it need not bo a place whore tho habitations of men aro clustered tegOther and about. Sir, it need not be held withm buildings made by hands or under domes erected for the purpose of beauty and udornmcDt. It may be thut tho Cubans, from the necessities of tho eus^', huvo gone to tho moun tains and huvo s"t up their seat of government under the eternal rfcirs. Liberty bus always tied to tho moun tains for its safety und its ahoLor. In the hilltops the spirit of liberty tirst know birth. In the eternal hills the stundurd of revolution for liberty has always beon raised, und down from tho mountains huvo alwuys come tho sturdy patriots who huvo eventually wrested from tyranny and oppression tho governments of many of tho peoples of the earth. God bloas tho hills : and if thoro is no reuaon other than that the revolutionary government is held in tho mountaiua, whore Providence has i'ivt") thein bastions and parapets and eacarpmenta and fortification) without cost, then I say thut international luw haabecn fully complied with und thero i atanda no roasoo, so far aa n seat of govornmont ia concerned, why this declaration can not now be properly mudo. Mr. President, international law re quires that a state of warfare shall be curried on to such uu extent thut the elvil authorities of tho dominant gov ornmont aro no longer enabled to pre sorro and maintain tho poacn. Is I thero a man on all tho earth who bo liovoa that for tho pa*t tv/o years tho civil authorities in Cuba have been enabled to preserve tho peace and tranqullllty of that bland by tin* ordi nary elvil proooduro, backt d up by any proper aid of tho military arm? No dofonuor of tho Spanish cause, no ono who apologizes for their atrocities, no ono who seeks to hinder and deluy action upon this resolution, has so far oven suggested that Spain can hold that Island in peuce and trunqulllity under the ordinary processes of her civil authorities. ? What then, Mr. President? Interna tional law requires thut tho revolution must have so far progressed that thoro Is serious doubt about tho power of the mother government to suppress It or subduo It In the near future, [a thero any doubt thut the war in Cuba has progressed that far V Has anyone challenged It? Why, Mr. President, lot me road to you the dispatch In the newspapor of this morning coining from Spain, tho utterance of one of the greatest statesmen : M a i.ui i.. May '9. At a meeting of tho Liberal senators and doputlua to day Sonor SiiKuata. former Dro ml?r, made an Important ? i11 in tho courao of wliloh ho said : " We liavo axi.OOU i troops In Cuba"? And no war ! No war, with 200.000 ' troops gathered from the farms and the hillsides of Spain, tho last desperate levy of the Spanish authority upon the youth of that hind. Two hundred thousand troops in t'ub?, und no Wr.r ! Cuba Is pud led : no trouble ; tho day for notion by tho United State? of Am-Tien has passed away ! Only 200, 000 Spanish troops In that little Is land I? II but wo lire notovon masters of the terri tory tr?ftes W our ?oUim-ev ? I do nut take tbo nnwspapor correB pundenee ; I du not tako the unverified I statements from interested particb',I tako the public declaration made Oy the former premier of Spain on yester day to the Spanish people in the capi tal of that kingdom : Hut w<5 a** not oven masters Of tliu torrl tory tioiMiMi >>.? our p.ildiers Tho |>l<-turo could not be gloomier. We have war in CuOu ami in the Philippines. War in Cuba, not on tho authority of nowspap r correspondence: not on tho uuthority of a letter Irom ono who is in tho insurgent ranks ; not on tho authority of rumor or repute, but on tho authority of tho former premier of Spain. Ho says, " Wo have war in Cuba:" and can civilized mankind question tho sincerity or propriety of tho government of the United States in saying tho same ? Yet wo are con stantly hearing that the Island Is pacified. Tho commander of 200,000 men has sent his bulletious over all tho world and announced that poaeo prevail-. What for, Mr. President ? Uo who runs may read. Spain has drawn upon hor last available man ; Spain has ex hausted her credit in tho money cen ters of Christendom, if she gets an other loan with which to carry on that sanguinary war for even a few more months sho must do it by satisfying tho money loanorsuf tho wund that she is already within sight of ultimate vic tory, and that t>>o resources of that island are within heV grasp for tho re payment of ttio loan. Peace in Cuba! If thoro is peace in Cuba, it is the peace of devastated ti jlils. I'oaoo In Cuba! If there is peace in Cuba, it is tho peace of blaz ing homes. I'eaco iu Cuba! If there is poaeo in Cuba, it is tho peace of ravished women. Peace in Cuba! If there is poaco in Cuba, it is the poaeo of starving children ; yoa, and its p;u ins are Bung alone by tbo silent lips of tho uncoffiued dead, whoso white, upturned faces are nightly kissed by tho pitying stars. No, no, Mr. Presi dent, thoro Is war in Cuba; bloody, sanguinary, awful war. Our oars can not be dulled to Us roar; we can not light y put aside tho fact. War is in Cuba; war has been maintained iu Cuba for two years and a half ; anil to day Spain is uo nearer the subj igation of t.io revolutionists than she was at tho moment of tho tirst engagement. What then? All tho conditions of International law are met. That being tho cus \ I state as an absolut i an 1 un answerable proposition hat this gov ernment has the right to recogn zi tho belligerency of the revolutionists, and in availing itself of that right it does not offer any affront under the 1 iw of nations to tho government of Spain. Read what the International law writcis have said upon this subject. I have not tho time, nor is it my pur pose today, to present them iu detail to tho Senate, but 1 know what the principles are. 1 have read them ami all that has been written on tho sub ject. The right of docidlug when a cause for recognition of belligerency exists is a right belonging solely and alone to tho nation that takes the action. With that decision and that declara tion no other government on earth can Und fault. It is a right we exercise, recognized by the law of nations, often acted upon bv tho gn at powers of the world. Wr.jn Spain recognized tho bei igerenoy of the Southern Con federacy, wo neither did nor could wo have taken .exception to that determi nation and that action on her part, it was her right to decido then, and it is our right to decido now. Why should svo not act? The groat Senator from Massachusetts, it seems to me, has dwarfed and narrowed the consideration of this proposition. He puts it upon purely commercial and material and monetary considerations. Why sh.?uli wo not act? Mr. Presi dent. Cuba lies at our v. ry doors, with in a few hours' sail from our ports. Wo havo with her, or had with her a great and an advantageous trade re lation. Our citiz mh have acquired i and occupied and oarriod on great plantations in the inland of Cuba for their own ,t Ivantago and for the trade i advantage of the people of ibis conn try. Why shoul 1 we not act? There is no nation, there is no place upon the fi.co of the earth with which we have such immediate, such direct, euch im portant commercial anil other relations as with and in tho island of Cuba. Greece and Turkey may engage in war, and it mutters little to us. Russia, Germany, Italy, and EjOglaDd may em broil themselves ; Africa may become tho seat of groat strife and warfare ; but they are distant countries : our re lations with them are not relatively of the same immediate importance as our relations with tho island of Cuba Wha should wo not act ? 1 will put it upon no other than purely com mercial grounds, if you please. Dur ing tho pendency of that **ar our trade has been practically out olT ; wo have loot tho advantage ol the Cuban market. During these two years and a half the interests of American citiz sns in that island have, been swept away by sword and tire. During these two years and a half the citizens of our country temporarily resident therein have been subjected to tho Inconvi ni ences and the dangers, and oftentimes to the horrors, of that warfare. Yea, even today in tho sunshine of the nineteenth century, in "a Oacillod island." American citiz mis, 800 In a group, are. homeless und houseless and hungry and starving and appealing to us just for bread. lias a situation ever before arisen which has shown so groat necessity for action upon the part of this government as does the Cuban present situation ? Mr. President, why should wo not grunt belligerent rights to the revolu tionists? Wo should do it, first, be cause every thoughtful man is con vinced that Spain nevor can subdue that island, und that, if peaoo comes to it, it w.ll como in some other way. If the plantations once more bloom und blossom, it will bo from some other cuuso. If our citizens onco more have protection nd shelter and food, it will bo because of some other reason than any probablo or anticipated triumph of the Spanish authorities over the rovo'utionists. Why should wo not act now ? It Is tho abiding conviction of tho American peoplo, fortilied by tho solomn faets of tho ease, that if peace over comos to Cuba it will como undor tho Cuban Bag, undor tho government of Its own people, as a part of that grand result which will dr.vo tho last claimant of despotic authority in America to tho othor side of tho At* lantie Ojonn. I am not asking or urging interven tion at tho present time. Tho grounds are not properly laid. We can not lu torvono in Cuba now. We can not carry out tho ultimato declaration of tho Republican party now. Wo must first lay tho foundation, and that founda tion can only be laid by a declaration on tho part of tho proper powor in tho Unlt'-d StatoB according belligeront rights to tho Cuban revolutionists. In the President of tl o United States under the constitution s vea*od tho ! executlvo power, and when you run I this question down, it will bo found that tho contention of tho opposition rests linut 1 y and alone upon tho broad proposition that tho recognition of bol llgorent rightB or tho Independence of a neighboring people is a mere execu tive aot. I deny It. I deny it for tho peoplo of this country, who have a right to participate, in any suoh action. Executive newer ! What is executive I power? Whero shall wo turp to dis cover that indt finite, that shifting, that transitory line of demarcation among powers purely executive and powers qu'isl executive, and powers partially legislative ?nd powers par tial y ox?<cuti?--< V Wtiiro shull wo turn? Will It hi to inn record d do olblens id tho O'-urt* of our country. I have read evory ?,aso that has h iei j olted on tho groat question of cxuou-f< tlvo power as applied to a situation of y thla kind. I grant you?and I cull tho Senator's a tcution lo the proposition ?thut while .ho courts of our country havo repeatedly docl trod that tho President of the l'ult d States may lawfully give recognition tea peoplo uud'u- conditions similar to tliut of tho Cubans, while tho eourtsof our country admit that when suen recognition Is i accorded by tho action of the IVceidout of the United States, It stanos us the ' action of tho couutry, 1 chullenge the Senators to find me one ease, to read mo one line in tho decisions of tho i c iurts of the United States, which ' directly or indirectly, by exact state ment or by intendmeut, denies that that same power may bo otherwise ex- ! ereised or that too Congress of tho United States may not a'so act. Where shall Wo turn for tiio defini tion of executive power? Shall wo goto the established doctrines of mon archies under otnor syst ?int) ? Wo can not safely look there. If wo do, tho Congress of the United States, under our constitution, as toull those subjects over which it is given jurisdiction, has I tho same absolute power of action as has tho Parliament of Groat Brltatu, I and the power of Great Britain through Its Parliament has never been limited, hut is supremo. Whore shall we go? I. >t us go to tho spirit of republican institutions which animated our fathers when they drew that sublime Instru ment, and going thoro, I insist that they diil not bei ovo in a government of any one man, and they did not in tend to vest, and did uot ?est, in any one man tho sole power of acti n in groat aud important matters alTccting tho welfare of the whole people. * * * * * * Mr. President, war is an abhorrent tbiug. I hope th it its bloody shadow may never lull athwart our sky ugiiin. War is a terrible thing* and yet | no advance toward liberty has ever been made except by the bl ?ody pathway of i war. War in defense of human liberty and human right is Coil's thunder storm ; it clears tho air for humanity's advance. JL^.t us havo no talk of war. It Is ! nonsenloal. It is lotorj toted in this debate for the mere purpose ol delay ing, of prooraatlnatlug, of defeating action In this important matter? Mr. President, I baveonlysought, in a general wa\, to show to the people of tho United States that our proposed action is right and just. I am a con servative?conservative in thought, in judgment, and in action. I hold by Inheritance the stubborn conserva tism of tho Now England hills. By my 1 professional life t have been taught that every question should he carefully considered, scrutin z d, and examined, and that hasty action is alsvays dan . gerons. 1 have Dot been hasty in reaching tho conclusion to veto for tho pending joint resolution, 1 have not resolved upon my course without the most careful anil patient examination of the consti tution of my country. I have not de termined what 1 would do without listening to all this great debate, with out fortifying myself with a thorough ! knowledge Of international law and all I tho faets t hat exist in regard to the island of Cuba. When I vote there I will be behind my vote my deliberate ' judgment, my OOOnOlODOO and my man I hood as an American oit<z in. Mr. President, 1 am free It confess I to the gri at Senator from Massachu setts that in the consideration of this question my sympathy, my love, of country, my love of liberty have gone hand m hand with my Investigation of ! tho important fai ts and my study of the tho principles of law that govern the OttSe, 1 would not divest myself in tins important action from all considera tions of sentiin int. Almost thirty years ago a story went tho rounds of tho American' press, and this was 1' : Tho story said that ono day a little ship was captured by the Spanish authorities in an attempt to land arms upon the Cuban shore. The eiew were seized, tried by drumhead COUrt-martial, and sentenced to bo shot at the sunrise of the morrow. Among those men was one' humble, simple i I American sailor. Liu had enlisted for ; tho voyage without knowing tho des ! tination of the Vessel or the charact >r j of tho cargo carried : 3 et be was seized aud tried, if you may so call it, and sentenced to he shot at the hunriso of the morrow. I [a home way lato at night word ' reached the American consul at the I nearest seaport town. Ho had no op ! pottunlty to wait upon t ie authorities i of Spain ; he had no ohanO ' to appeal ; for otllolal action : hut as a repres nta I tivo of tho United States, at daylight of the. morning ho mounted his Iiui'm1 and hastened away to tho scene of the execution. When he arrived he found these sailors, and among tb< 111 the American sailor, drawn up in lino, and opposite them, with guns in their hands ready to shoot them down, were I the soldiers of Spain, Our eon-ul went to the officer ill charge und Bald, " S r. that m m is a I citiz ?Ii of tho United States. H > has committed no intentional crime against the King of Spain, lu the ? name of my country I demand that ho j be given an opportunity in tho civil eourtsof Cuba to establish and main tain nis innocence." Tho oQl ?er said, '' S'r, 1 havo the warrant of the King of Spain to shoot that man at the rising of tho sun, and bo will buiv ly die." The sun camo over the sea, kissing tho distant billows with a tinge of ?lory. That same ray of sunshine, it may be, ?hone through the window of a little cottage in tho not thorn land, upon the sleeping faco of a devoted wife 1 ?.*.*> e>i-'v hf??if1 of t.ne innocent babe t.iat my ... r? .-i .?,,,.. ...r noly breast. Tiio sun camo over the soa and fell upon tho brow of this American eiti z -n eondoninod to die. The order was given, '? It.jady ! Aim I" Tho American consul, Booing that no other effort would aval', drew from his bosom a silken flag of our own free land, and, springing for ward, wrappod its glorious folds around this man condemned to die, and turning to the soldiery of Spain cried out, "Shoot if you dare ; but if you shoot that man, you shoot the flag of tho greatest nation of the earth !" And the II ig saved him. Mr. President, that story may havo been but the merest fancy of a romnn oor's brain, but I havo loved to believe it true. I havo loved to holiovo that the Hag of my country would protect Its citizens on land and sea tho wide world round. 1 have loved to believe that tho power and prestige of my coun try would be recognized by ull of the potentates of all the earth. I have loved to ho ( v ?, 1 do believe, that the Unit.;d Statis of America readily ac cepts that supreme position of power and leadership assigned her by Provi dence as the one great nation of the Western Hemisphere, the ono groat republic of the earth. I have loved to believe that the friendly offices, the divine sympathy of our people would go readily and speedily forth to glvo succor and aid and comfort and assis I tanoo to every people struggling to achieve freedom for themselves. Those I to the oolfitu and sordid and grasping spirit of merocnary times may set m but dreams, h,it on their realisation hangs tho welfare of mankind. Mr. President, I lovo tho constitu tion. I Observe the la*s of my coun try. But under tho constitution and by tho lawB of my eouutry 1 insist that this government can now at this timo give the Cuban revolutionist* a proper standing bofore the world. Under tho constitution and hy the law wo can give them the right to float a flag on land and sea ; wo'can give them a right to insist upon tho ordinary and recog- i hizcd usages of civilized warfare; wo can give them a right to stand sido hy Hido with Spain In tho money markots of the world, and wo can see to it that from this day on In the Island of Cuba no American ctt iz in shall bo deprived of hid property, his liberty, or his life wituo.it due procobs of tho law. Mr. IVenlduut, those things tho U uited States of America nan constitu tionally, lawfully, and properly do. VA1.JIOOI.-Jjg? POWDER Absolutely Pure. Celebrated for its en at leavening strength und health fulness. Assures the food against ulum and ulI forms of adulteration eoinmon to tho chea;. brands, Royal Baking Powder Co., No ? York. L ;t us do them now. Yea, Mr. Presi dent, and ns an earnest of our sincerity and good faith, let us dispatch the most powerful battleship of the (Jolted States to Cuban waters. Let us station her there in the harbor of Hubuna? in tho harbor of llubana, where her frowning guns may disturb the spirit of tyranny by night, and where bv day the shining stars of her tl Utting || ,jr n ay gladden the eyes and insplr? ' ho iu arts of those, whostruggl'! to he free. |Ap plaUSO in tho galleries.I THE WEAXllMR AND CROPS. Valuable Information to Those inter ested in Farming Operations. The following is tho vvee'tly bulletin issued by the wealth r bureau in Col umbia as to the condition of the crops in this State : Columbia, s. c. May 20 1807. During i lie tlrst portion of ihe past week the temperature ranged deeiued ly below tho normal with the nights unusually eool ; during tho latter por tion tho temperature rose to slightly above the normal. The average for tho week deduced from 52, weekly moan was lit), and the normal for the samo period is approxi mately 72. The highest temperature was'.?7 on the 21st at Gllllsonvllle, the lowest was Hi on tho 18th at Ftorenee and San tue. Prost heavy on:>ugh to nip young corn was observed at Holling Spring. Spartanburg, on the 17th, and trace of frost in Hurry ou the morning of the ISob. There was very iittlo rain during the week, only light soattercd show ers on Friday over the northern anil western counties. Fleven measure ments aro reported for the. week, rang Ing from ,U3 to .fit), and averaging U.17 of an inch. The upproxlmat i nor mal for the week is 0.88. Kalo is ne ded over the entire Slate, and for all crops. A destructive wind, rain and hail sierin passed over Woodward, Pair Held, on Friday, doing a great deal of damage to o! on. fruit and gardens. Injury was ooullned to a comparatively limited area The week was nearly cloudleoS, and at many places entirely so. The av< r age estimated per cent ago ol thu pos sible was .'.?I : the lowest was Mil at Or angeburg. Hut . i ti le change WHS noticed in the condition of staple crops during the wiek exoopt a siignt improvement generally in the color of c< ri) Uud cot ton, towards tin- eloeO. F.arly iu the week the nights were too cool, ana the ground is loo dry, for rapid growth of vegetation, but with the rise in tem perature and showers in p atres, which occurred on Friday ami Sunday, a bet tor condition has developed. The general teuor of all reports in dicates about a gootl average condition of all crops ami tnis holds gootl for the entire State, with a few local excep tions, fho prevalence, in injurious numbers, of cut and bud worms ou bot tom land corn has been .the worst utl verso condition on any crop to date, ami that is abating. Kim is generally needed and would provo very .benelicial. The. condition of corn remains prac tically the same as heretofore, it being small for the season but with a healthy color. It Is belter on uplands than on bottoms, owing to tho poor prepara tions the latter lands r.-celvcd gen erally, and to the damage by worms and crows, necessitating much replant ing,.and generally poor stand:'. Corn nearly all planted ami replanted. Is being worked out. The Heids are gen erally clean and in tine tilth. Cotum has improved somewhat ami no complaints are received of poor stands, excepts from Abbeville, Green wind, l?dgetlold, Ham well and Sal id a, where on certain lauds the plant is dying. Tho plants, while small, are health] : ami although BOmowhat irregular as tu size, stands are. otherwise nearly perfect, and required very little "patching" by rc-planting, over the State generally. " Chopping out " is progressing rupidly and is Hearing completion in the more easterly coun ties, whilo in tho northwestern coun ties is only well begun, as cotton is nut all up yet. Tho plant is in a satisfac tory condition and in excellent shape to respond to more favorable weather for.growih. Soa-Islantl cotton has made slow growth and stands in need of rain. Tobacco continues to tie well. Worms have appeared iu c sidora bio numbers, but as yet are within easy control. Oats harvest has begun in the east ern half of the St.ite, where tho crop is m>i generally as good as it promises to bo over the western portion. Spring Bown oats a total fai ure?they arc not generally over .'I to 4 inches high. Wheat has developed considerable rust, hut not OOOUgi) to t Heel the yield. It is ripening and continues promising', but with many poor Ii 1 Ik. Chinch bugs damaged wheat in Chester and Lancaster. Water melons improving hut still backward in Barnwoll, beginn .ig ti look well ami blossoming in Abbeville and Riohlriod. Nit doing well ami poor stands in Lexington and [lamp ton. 8wool potato draws plentiful, but tho weather has not favored trans planting. Irish potatoes needing rain. Favorable, weather for gathering antl shipping truck. Commercial peach crop will bo small, but scodlings will bo quite plenti ful. Injects Injuring apple troos in I'iok ons. Many complaint) of fruit drop* ping too fr cly. Qrupcs uro very promising ov^r entire State. A large crop of blackberries being gathered but rain would du them and othr r berries very much good. Plums ripen ing In ouslern counties. Labor in fair Hupply. r'roni too national bulletin of May 17 >?" Corn planting is now in progress i lu the most northerly seetion, having begun during the week in North Dako j'a and Minnesota. Asa result of bad > stand?, considerable replanting will bo necessary In Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee. In tho Southern States, early corn is being laid by." '? Cotton Improved In tho Carolinus, ii orgia, Alabama and Texas. In tho last nil .ied State some damago rosult <u irom excessive rains and insects, i Cool n gb s have proved unfavombio in Ar lean as and Loulsl. na, wluro. !! nils are po r and whero insects have eausda injury." J. W. Bauer, D.mtor. 1 COUNIHY M Kill 'HAN I S Should know that thoro Is nothing , that soils so well us ?n artiolo that you can guarantee to glvo satisfaction to vour customer*. Such an artlola la HICK'S GOOSE CUE ASK LINI MENT. Iteures all aoh.es and paloa iu man or beast?Scratches, fttogbODo, ; Kwioney, and oil ailments need Ins a | Eirst Ciass Liniment. NO CUKE, NO I'AY, is tbo motto of the Goose Grouse peopb . Don't forcret we are wbo)< strle agents for Goose Grosse LluUnonL Try Pa I mi t*n LIvp?- U>tr??>atnr. BRUCE & dosit.k, Greenville, S. C. ?Boosters uro a good deal lilto \ men, A rooster n ver give* ?* ? of t finding a wenn until aft r hu hut swab l'.w-d it. THIS LAUREN'S BAR. J. t. Johnson. w It uioiiKY JOHNSON M HIGHLY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Okkiub?Pleating 1 ! irn ?r, S ortuest side of Pul 1 i! Square. h. y. simpson. c i> bar 1(8dale SIMPSON At BAHKSDAbli, Attorneys at Law, LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA Spooial attention gl von to tho investi gation of titles and collection of claims \V. II. MARTIN, Attorney at Ltiw, Lauhkns, - South J-arolina. Will practice In all Courts >i this Stute Attention trlveu in eollMtu-lotiM. Ii. w. iia i.i. i. w. him kinh. w. w, ham, BALL, SIM KINH & BALL, Attorneys at Law, Laurrns, South Carolina. Will practice in nil Stain and Ulli too Stales Court, special attention givon collections. CHARLESTON "Augusta and Aeheville Short Line.'' Bohodule inelTect Feb. v, 1890. Lv Augusta. !? in an ' i 1 pm Ar Greenwood.12 it pm .... Anderson. 0 10 pm i l,aurr-,i. I l/> pm 7 U I am | Greenville. 3 00 pm 10 15 am Glenn Springs.. . 10? pm . 8partanburg. s 0 pm l) 26 am Baluda_ ....) 23 i>m . Hendersonvillc. .. ? I pn . Ashcville. 7 00 pm___. Lv vshevillo. 8 20 am . Bpartanburg .11 t? pm i UO pm Glenn Springs_lOOOam ....... Greenville ... .. .1) fOam 4 00 pm Laurons. t 30 pin 7 00 |>m Aiutcr8<?n . 7 on am Greenwood ? _ 2 28pm .... Ar \ugusla iLl'lLi'Ili_1 > lf- am Lv Spartan burg . n 15 am Greenville_ . 11 .><> an Ar (Million. 2 10 pm Newborn-. 257 pm Prosperity. 8 18 pin Columbia. I 30 jen Sumtcr. ?! "~* pm Charleston ... . '?' 3d pm Lv Charleston_ . 7 00 am Sumier .... !' 35 an. Columbia. 11 00 an Prosperity ... n > Nowberrv . 1210 pm Gliiilon. 12 fiii jdi Ar Greeuville . ion p" Spart aubur^ . 3 00 pm I.v Augusta . 2 .v. i n. Ar AI endalo. ?? 0 I jui Fairfax . 5 15 pn Yemassce.o loam 0 2" pn Pe ml ri . I" ?' ant *? 20 pn l\irt Itoyal.1050am 7 30 pn davaiuiii'i . f oo pn Charleston. 8 OS pn. Lv Charleston . . 0 50 am Savannah. '! 50 an Port Itoval. 0 55pm ~> to am Beaufort.7 lOjun 7 50 an Yemassce . 15pm 0 10 an Fairfax. lO 20 an Allendale.?.. 10,35 am Ar Augusta. 12 40 n'n Closoconnections at Greenwood for all points on s. a. b. anf! ?'. ,v i;. Ilal I way. and at Spartanburg with Somborn Railway. For Information rclai ivc to tickets, rate sehedules, et<-. add ess W. J. t'IIA 1G, Gen. Pass. Agent, Augus ta. (? i. K. M. NORTH, Sol. Agent, Wigusta,Ga J. ri. Cure ton, ?trent, i H. iSpoighis Gen. Agent, (ireenvifle. 8. (? ATLANTIC COAST LINE PA88BNGBK j > KJ" a KTMKNT. Wilmington, \. Jan* 19M, 1897 FAST LINE l?B1 w KliN Charleston an?! Columbia and Upper Bouth'Carolina, North Calc ium, and Athene and Atlanta. CONDKNVBIi S< H t'JU) LK . tloinj: Kan, No. 53. 9 39 pro 7W8 (i :<.-> 5 15 3 13 2:?? 2 101 1 V> i.v ttoluK Wet. N?. M 7 ??'??on* ? :.*> l?'?'? 11 M 12 lOpm 1;? ".'> I 10 Mit a ?l 5 to 1 45 li l?pm S '.'It ... ?' 'harleti oil .... Ar .I laueri. .tiutnter.. .... * oliuubla. ' . ... Prosporlly. .... Novfhefl v .... .Clin tob. ... bnurehe .... .. Greenwood .... ... Abbeville , ..Aiho (la..., , AIntn . . . W.iuu-'wr? .? . .Chariot \'. '*. U 41P.TO !l M 3 .tf.pm Ar ... Audi i n I ...J.'/ ll or>arjo 4 i'M ... 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Fi ret ? ?* ?. ? Wiiehluv utno nil meitil it 11>4 Feet Sf.^U 1 i ii ' i N'.MV Of ^ fy ' i'. 15 ft., mi of haggagti thenge fof i:n >i itruwlnfj vv York .>M M Dtgomery. t 1 I . , :\ t.HiI >8| Diitweon wri?.*K. ithoat ohattge, ?Isepina oav? lie* / , Onnvl '<s Lhhounrl N?i IS. < i. mi l IB. j .. Gin., ilalljr ?? 1 nfllt. M'^'r.. \v.,.-,-,t. ^i.iu, ;j a P \HI")WKSK, ' . IM \Ct'? , . _'a Who is Will Whitener ? F m urn I E7 V'''' ' '? -.?.- ... ?I He is our Fashionable Hai.^ Gutter a id'Shaver -iM BENDELl.A HOTEL. im WE WANT TO EXCHANGE Pianos, Organ] or Sewing Machine] FOR -Good Horses. Alexander Bros. & Co. GREENVILLE, S. C