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Over tho young grass of tho long
uvquuo, tho branching oaks (lung
slanting shadows. Tho sweetness of
Bauksia roses dwelt iu Iho Virginia
sunshine, whore tlic truiliug vines crept
up the grey walls, and around toe
jewel-like panes of tho uiullioned win
dows, winding about tho stately col
umns that guarded the portals of
Gordou Hall. Tho peace of tho coun
try Sabbath had laid its baud upon the
quiot daily come and go; a quiet that
brought every far off moving thing
very near, in tho rustle of a mighty
silence.
Mistress Esther Gordon came slowly
down.the broad winding stairs. Tho
light from tho great oriel wiudow
above her head, shafting down into the
gloom below, played a quivering halo
of golden motes about the fair young
head. In the dark setting of the old
hall the dainty llguro shown out as
some royal dame stopped down from a
Itomney pictuic, the blue brocade cut
away from the firm white throat, where
tho pearls roso and fell amid the foam
of lace, and tho small feet clad in the
. high-heeled satin shoes.
" Four," booms tho clock that
towers above hor head, nud if in
answer, the thud of gallop hoofs
came up the avenue. Lan had
been true to his tryst, allhougi just
across tho river lay the army of Corn*
Wallis and tho hall of the pickets could
bo heard in tho clear evening air.
There was scarce an instant's pause,
ero the rider's spurred heel rang on the
stone step ami Lansing strode down
the length of the long hall. A goodly
man, this young Continental, albeit the
buff and bluo were a trille tattered and
faded, tho eyes wore bright, and tho
Ftalwart form carried a lithe g .that
botrayed even more than th. iged
cheek, the good red blood of Po? hatan.
Tho Kotnncy picture awoke, and Mis
* tress Esther the sweet face all aglow,
held out her two whito hands.
" You foolish boy," but there is no
chiding in the lovely eyes?and then his
grave face brought the question to her
lips, lief ore. she could voice it the
faint sound of a distant bugle rang
across the river. Lansing sprang to
It is feet. " There they are! Hide me
Esther, for the love of the sweet saints,
hide me! It is the King's troopers I"
Over Bather Gordon's face a white?
ness wont, Between lover and King
lay the choice of a moment, but before
that tribunal where a woman's verdict
is fore-ordained. A moment later,
and Mistress Esther's own little page
was speeding the great- red roan to a
hiding place in the swamp, end .Mis
tress Esther, herself, was lilting a key
to the high carved clock that towered on
tho stair. To and fro swung the great
round disc of tho pendulum, and the
bauds weru pointing to ten minutes
past four, when a laugh, and a clatter
of accoutrements in the avenue warned
them of the danger closo at hand.
Mistress Esther closed the case and
hid the key among the laces about her
while throat. One little foot was
poised on the last step of the stair, as
the Captain entered the door, his
glitter of gold lace on the King's scar
let lighting up the gloom where tho
sun-rays failed'to penetrate. He bow
ed low, as Mistress Esther advanced to
meet, him, and. the ungloved hand,
half-doubtiugly held out to her, was
white as a woman's for Capt. John Wil
loughby, of My Lord Coruwalhs1 favor
ite regiment, was versed far better
in the lore of courts than in the tactics
of theso wild colonists, who fought as
Indians, from tree to tree, rather than
as well-trained troops, standing
up to bo killed in tho open. There was
an instant's embarrassment, as he halt
ed and stumbled through the unwel
come duty of announcing his errand.
" Mistress Esther, I am forced to
commit the indignity of asking your
permission to search the H ill, Believe
me the loyalty of your house is un
questioned by my Lord Cornwall is, as
well as your humblest admirer," and
here he bowed very low, " but we have
tracked one of the rebels straight to
this mansion, and to satisfy evil
tongues it were well to search, though
it be a mere matter of forjn."
Mistress Esther courteaied low.
" Capt. Willoughhy, there need be no
apology, no hesitation in this mailer of
your duty. A Cordon is ever a King's
man, and it were well to set an ox
ample of moral as well as physical sac
rilice in these times of disaiVeetion, if
so be it beaefit the cause. My doors
are open to your men, bid lliem search,
search well, that Gordon's roof hide no
traitor to his MajcBty." Up the stairs,
and down other stair*, through the
rambling garrets, and into holes where
scarce a mouse could hide, deep into
the cavernous cellars went King
George's men, but never so much as a
coat-tail of the hated hluo and buff
could the most diligent spy. Mistress
Esther herself peered down the cellar
slabs and bado them search well, lest
the rebel should disturb her household
in the midnight hour.
It was well done. No tremor of the
soft white hands that poured the rare
red wine for tho Captain, and as the
shadows grow soft and the gray time
stole over the land, MistrAss Es
ther paced by his sido up and down tho
long hall, while ho spoke of his home
over the sea, and the old mother that
wrote such pitiful, loVing letters to her
boy in this far-off savago land. lie
told her of tho wide moors, whore the
purplo heather bloomed, of tho grim
old castle that frowned across tho
Stalling land, from tho day of ** Bluff
Hal," and nil the goodly heritago lhat
but waited td claim her mistress. Thcro
was good cheer in the kitchens of
Gordon Hall, where tho servants feast
ed the troopers, and the Troy songs
rang loud above the ale cups, and thero
was something more in tho long hall,
whero the shadows touched with velvet
fiogers the gold of Mistress Esther's
curls and veiled the passionate glances
of the Tory Captain as ho whispered
words that for the first time Mistress
Esther had hearkened to, and yet she
said no word, hut let tho white lids
Hfluttor down over tho toll-tale brown
eyes.
Would tho end never come? Verily,
she was becoming an arch-traitor to
self, to all maidenhood, as well as to
hor King. And though tho old do. I, kept
its secret well, it could not shut out
from the cars of tho man hidden with
in the low musical voice telling tho
newest vorslon of the very oldest story
on earth. At last, when the voices had
sunk to an indistinct murmur, and
there had come a little silonco to be
translated as he would, jealousy got the
better of prudence. lie scorned to
owe hla life to her, thisTory Eight o'
love that but held him there to torture
the very heart from his Jbosom. 80
little a time, and the glorifna head had
lain ou his bioast and now the dark
ness hid what um -i be a repetition
with her Tory lovor. Oh! The jade.
His hand ??? lifted to make known
his presence when again, tho blare of
the bugles Hounded r.cross the river,
lustautly there was a stir in the hall
below, whilo Laiming hold his breath,
the ineie foreo of habit rendering him
quiet, nlihough the passion of rago was
shaking him from head to fool. There
was a whispered farewell, and then
the Captain's voice right beneath him,
"The clock has stopped."
MistrvKH Ksthor went white to the
routs of her hair, and all Ihn blood
rushed to her heart, leaving her faint
und sick, but the darkness hid her
agitation, and tho gay laugh rippled
lightly as she replied: 44 Oh, Captain!
You are a sa 1 llatlerer, 1 do protest.
That was a very pretty compliment,
but Uio clock is uot to blame. It has
given good uolice Unit it no louger
guards the hour. 1 am this day ex
pecting the smilh, hut ho has failed
mo, and 'twere well, as that mischiev
ous page of mine must needs meddle
with the pendulum, and to koef> it
from his lingers 1 have locked it so
well thai 1 have lost Hie key. You
will judgo me a careless housowifo in
very truth, but there are maiiy thiugd
in this vast house to burden the mind
of one poor maid," and Mistress Esther
soul a glance from under hor long
lashes Unit rendered the Captain more |
fain than ever to lift tho burden of
Cordon Hall from the shotildeis of its
fair owner.
His men had formed in tho nveuue,
and there was no excuse for a longor
dclny, so the Captain backed linger
ingly down tbo steps, bis sword a jin
gle, aud the handsome head bared in
the gloaming. With del*berate ease ho
mounted, aud away down the avenuo
turning in the saddle as long as the
blue brocade trailed over thu stones,
and Mistress Esther took care to uso
no unseemly haste, but waited until
the red was blended gray, aud the last
lilt of soug had died away ere she
mounted the stairs nud turned the koy.
Lansing stepped forth from the case,
his eyes blazing with pent up wrath,
hut ere be could say the words that
must have been fatal to that loyal
loving heart, two white arms were
Hung ahout his neck, and the sweet
face nestled against his shoulder.
11 For you, for you, 1 did it, and now
may lind forgive me the lies that 1
have told Huh day, and the making a
shuttle cock of a good man's heart. 1
am traitor to all but you, traitor to my
self, and my king, for the sake of the
sweetest love that o'er a maid hath
known. Thy country be my country,
lliy Washington my king, or what you
will make of him, so loug us Guy
Lausiug's good rieht arm is miue."
With a prayer ~ot thankfulness for
the words left unsaid, ho hold her
close and there was silence where uj
word avails.
HILL AKP AND VOLCANOES.
He Humiliates oil Catastrophe
at St. Pierre and Tells of 11 Is
School Days.
Atlanta Constitution.
It is a lilting time lo think ahoul vol
canoes, earthquakes and oihcr internal
and infernal things thai are going on
in the bowels of the earth. We can
sec upward and outward lo the stars
and planets for millions and billions
of miles, but the inside of Ibis little
world is all unknown. Wo live upon
its crust and eat und sleep and dance
and prance and light and Ulk war and
politics and trusts with no thought of
how near we are to the lires that are
burning under us nor when they will
break out and consume us all, ns they
certainly will some time according to
Scripture. Those infernal lires have
been burning for thousands of years,
and the mysteiy is, why they have not
burned lo the surface long before this.
Where does the heat all go, and where
arc tho escapes?the chimueys?for the
smoke and the ashes and lava? Surely
these few volcauoes can't discharge it
all. The word volcano, or vulcano, as
it used to bo called, comes from Vul
cau, the god of lire, and Ihe ancients
believed that the old fellow had his
shops and furnaces down there, and
sometimes when he blowed the bellows
too hard the tiro bursted out through &
hole in some mouutuin and Ihe melted
rock spouted up and run over Ihe tank
and washed down in the for.n of lava,
which is another Latin word and means
to wash. Volcanoes are Vulcan's chim
neys, and as far back as we have his
tory sacred or profane these chimneys
have had their periodic discharges.
Some writers believe that there was
one of these not far from S .dom and
Gomorrah, and those cities were de
stroyed just like Pompeii and Hercu
lancuin, or more recently like St. Pierre
in Martinique.
A few years ago two of my boystook
a sea voyage from Now York to Trini
dad and stopped at all of those little
islands and hisloric points. They told
us of Martinique, where the Empress
Josephine was horn and lived until she
was 15 years old and whose beautiful
monument they saw. Uuhappy lady!
Tho world is still weeping for her.
They climbed the heights of this samo
volcano and lookod down into its
crater, for it was quiet and peaceful
and had not had an eruption for fifty
years. The island is small, very small,
not quite as large as Haitow County,
bul had a dense and mongrel popula
tion of 180,000 peoplo-r-chielly Inuians,
negroes and Chinese. The whites
numbered less that 10,000, of whom
only 1,200 wore French. Just think
of it. Our county is about 25 miles
square and is quite thickly settled aud
has 2"?,000 peoplo, whilo Martinique
has seven limes as many aud most of
them are negroes. Theso negroes* were
all slaves until 1848. They live chiefly
on fruit and anything they can pick up
or steal. My boys amused themselves
throwing dr.ua? into the water that
Bronchitis
" I have kept Ayer's Cherry Pec
toral in my house for a great many
years. It is the best medicine in
the, world for coughs and colds."
J. C. Williams, Attica, N. Y.
All serious lung
troubles begin with a
tickling in the throat.
You can stop this at first
in a single night with
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral.
Use it also for bronchitis,
consumption, hard colds,
and for coughs of all kinds.
TbfM aith ? Ik.. Me.. $1. All Jrafftete.
Oontdlt your doctor. If he MM tube It,
then do ho tart. If he teilt yon not
to Uko It. then don't take It. It* knowt.
Leave tt with him. We are willing.
J. 0. AYKH CO., Lowell, M*et.
AFTER KANV YEARS
Of BufierinK from kidney dlseaae, Mise
Minnie Ryan, of St. Louis, Mo., found
a complete cure result from the use of
Dr. Picrce's Golden Medical Discovery.
It is such euros - ^b^,
as this which es- JM
Uiblish the sou ml- tf**"Hy
ucss of Dr. Pierce's
tlicory: w Diseases Y"*yjL
which originate in Jfe^y,.
the stomach must /^?KsX3i?fWV
be cured through /'/'/P/^:>SlL'''\
the atom ach." V./j If YwHij^I
Every other organ i-'.V:// ?;/</
depends on the V>V !WfW: ???//?/
stomach for its /^uL'<*if?,'1
vitality and vigoY. t v jfeiiiirv
For by the stom- r. y
ach and its asso- LJF f / //mR
elated organs of ^Lv
digestion and nu- <ir*-i._ ^VOi/ ?
t tit ion the food r/^Sr-^^if
which Is eaten hiiw?SSS^^^I V|
con verted into nu-^*l^/ J B
triment, which, \n^^ ,S \ {
the form of blood, ^ I I
is the sustaining >S\ V
power of the body / ?
and each organ of /'?"Vs .??,:%x?r.
it. When the lb(/< sVUvM
stomach in dls- aJL A ms^MhI
eased the food sup- JE
ply of the body, is J9
cut down, the or- ^m^^mx 'tm^mm^tm
gaus are starved, and the weakneoa of
starvation shows itself in lungs, heart,
liver, kidneys or some other organ.
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
cures diseases of the stomach and other
organs of digestton and nutrition, and
so cures disease of other organs which
hay* originated through deficient nutri
tion or impure blood.
"I bad b??i) suffering with kidney trouble
twenty years," writes Hiss Mlnnte Ryan, of
13?? ijoulslana Avenue, Hl. Louis, Mo.. "and I
bad doctored with a number of the best ptayM
clans. Two y?ara ago l ?otnntenced taktuK your
'Ooldeu M cd Wal Discovery' and ' Pavorlte Pre
acrtptlon ? and took also several viala of Doctor
Piere?'? Pellets. I took tight bottles (four ?I
each), and I ftel now perfectly cured." #
* Dr. Fierce'* Pellets cure biliousness.
was from 20 to 30 fcot deep and the
little negro boys would plunge in and
dive to the bottom for the money and
always got it.
Then 1 got to ruminating about
Vesuvius aud Pompeii aud Hercu
laneum. i used to speak a speech about
ancient Greece and Rome and Thebes,
and 1 always said Pompyoyo and The
bees, for that was right then, and so
was Sisero for Cicero, but they have
got now ways now and I don't know
where 1 am at. Vesuvius has boou
cutting up for more than two thousand
years. It has bad uine bad eruptions,
but there are still peoplo living on Us
slopes and cultivating them. Its en
ormous crater is 2 miles around and
2,000 feet deep, and the accumulated
lava somotimes raises its brink 800 feel
duriusr nu eruption.
When Spartacus, the gladiator, was
besieged by the Hornaus be wilb bis
little army of seventy men took refuge
in that crater, for it was quiet then,
ami killed II ,000 Hornaus who attacked
them on its briuk. Tho great orator,
Cicero, had a boautiful villa at its base,
but in the year 75 A. I), old Vulcan
lired up his furnace and belched forth
Ore and smoko and lava and ashes and
buried those two cities sixty-tivo feet
deep and changed tho sea shore aud
tho river so that their sites could not
be found and when found by accident
they were two miles inland. For time
centuries excavations have been going
on aud of late with great energy aud
the voritable homes of the cultured
people havo been fouud tilled with
ashes aud cinders that have preserved
them all these conturies. These homes
and halls and churches aud temples
have been cleaned out aud even tho
paintings ou the walls have been re
stored and the beautiful marble sculp
tured llgures of Laocoon and his sons
strangled by a serpent was found there
in perfect condition. In some of these
heiiutiful homes of the wealthy the
tables were set for a feast ami in the
temple were found the gold and silver
adornments that are usual in such
places. In the Temple of Juno there
were the corpses of IIOO people who
had lied there for safety, but Juno was
powerless and they all perished just as
did tho :;,<)(i(i at St. Pierro who lied
into the ltoman Catholic cathedral.
The fate of all these cities was very
similar, for it was not lava that de
stroyed them, nor at St. Pierre, but a
shower of cinder and ashes, and these
are preservatives of anything that they
encase*
When we consider all such cala
mities a grateful and thoughtful poo
pic will be thankful to our Heavenly
Father that we live in a land remark
ably free from calamity or allliction.
No volcanoes hang their threatening
peaks over us or near us, no cyclones
visit us. The noisome pestilence does
not visit us by day or by night. Ca
daverous famiue does not darken our
households with its awful distress, but
we live in peace and in plenty and the
lines have fallen unto us in pleasant
places.
It is a fitting lime now for those
who like to read romance that is
founded on fact to take up that good
ol I book of Bulwer'a, " The Last Days
of i 'oropeii," and read it again.
Hii.i. Aap.
. I have just received a pleasant letter
from a North Carolina friend asking
me what I think of Carroll's book,
"The Negro a Beast," and ho asks,
??Do you believe the nigger is a
hoaet?" I answered at the bottom of
his letter, " Which nigger?"
B. A.
TILILIAN'S SPEECH
ON PARTY'S FUTURE.
Plain Ivatijfiiuge Used to Ex
it r< mm H1h Viewn-His CourHe
in the Senate.
Mr. President, Gentlemen of tho
Convention: It is very laie and I am
n >i. like a good many of you who have
hiul little to do since wo took a recess
to*day, because I was engaged from
the time you adjourned as soou as we
could get together from dinner con
tinuously until the Convention reas<
sembled. There was no opportunity
to get any supper, so I am tired and
really I have no deslro whatever to
mako any speech. I recognize the fact
that I am under obligations to yon as
one of your public servants to make
reports when occasion offers as to what
Is going on in the national field. I
will, therefore, trespass for a brief
while on your patience and present in
the very briefest way possible suoh
ideas as may occur to me on matters
about which you might like to hoar.
we bave passed through two cam
paign*, that of 1800 and that of 1000,
in both of whioh we were .signally
defeated as a national party. The
campaign of 1806, following the be
trayal of the Democracy by the man
whom we had elected President, found
us in a condition of demoralization &ud
of impending dissolution almost until
that famous convention at Chicago,
which has been considered by many as
a new Declaration of Independence,
or, rather, Its platform of principles
and its work was looked upon by the
Democratic masses aa involving a re
turn to the fundamental doctrines of
the party. This convention declared
its purpose to stand by the common
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people aod the principles of the fath
ers. Wo were defeated by efforts on
the part of our opponents, the He
publicans, such as had nover boon
witnessed in tho political history of
this country. It was my fortune tha*
year to bo ealled upon to work in the
Northern States, and I made spocches
iu Pennsylvania, in Oregon, in Iowa,
iu Illinois and in Chicago. I know
whereof I speak whoa I tell you that
the feeling of dread and fear among
the capitalists, tho bankers, the cor
porations who constitute the backbone
of iuu Republican cohorts has nevur
been surpassed in the history of the
organi/.atiou. Rut we were dofentod.
Something like $17,000,000 r? scribed
by these unlawful trusts wen. j defeat
j Mr. Dry an.
In the last campaign wo went into
the tight under conditions that wore
well-nigh hopeless. Wo hud just ended
a successful war brought on by the1
Democracy against tho protest and
wishos of tho Republicans, aud the
largo amount of money which was set
afloat, ?200,000,000 of bonds, anoTlhc
tax levy increasing the Government
income to a fabulous amount, the
victories at Santiago and other places
iu Cuba and of Dewoy nt Manila, left
the Domocracy with practically no
chance to win iu the last light, no mat
ter what candidate wo had or what
platform we might have gotten. Rut
we fough' bravely and, handicapped
though wo werr by tho conditions I
have mentioned, polled 0,000,000 votes
?our opponents bcatim; us onlv bv
I about *i million.
Wo are now brought face to face, as
I understand it, with this coudittou of
affairs: Tho Republicans are drunken
with power. They are moving forward
remorselessly with their programme of
imperialism, by which it is intended
that we Americans, wo former colonists
of Great Britain, who threw off the
British yoke because we did not be
lievo colonists ought to ho governed
from abroad?these Republicans, 1 say,
are ignoring tho principles of the De
claration of Independence and the
Constitution, and have set iu motion
macbiuery to subject the Filipinos by
force, after having bought them like
chattels iu tho market. They stand
arrayed to-day in solid phalanx intend
ing to perpetuate tho American sway
in the Philippine Islands with the Stars
aud Stripes waving over subjects, not
citizens*, over people who have been
treated with cruelty such as there is
no record of in the history of humanity
?all in the name of Christianity and hu
manity and liborty 1 They have or
ganized there a local government,
consisting of live men hacked .by the
Government of tho United States, and
here's the way this local government?
consisting, as 1 said, of but live men?
dons busiuoss: " By the authority of
the President of the United Slates be
it enacted by the Philippine commis
sion that a million dollars be appro
priated for?." And so we have put
in exislenee iu those islauds a govern
ment far worse than wo ever eudured
here in carpet-bag days, because those
poor, helpless people?colored people
though they are?are bound hand and
foot without being able to speuk the
English language and make known the
wrongs they are ouduriug. And we,
as liberty-loving Americaus, can only
stand as a party opposed to this hellish
scheme. And this Convoution aud
other conventions of the Democratic
party have opposed it as Uu-American.
What ubout the prospeel of the
party winning? Prosperity, or what i<
called prosperity, seems to continue.
There is some indication that every
body isn't prosperous, however. We
have a strike in Pennsylvania h which
140,000 coal minors have gone out to
try aud secure a redress of what they
consider grievances. The trusts are
reaching out to control every avenue
of business and to make this country a
country divided between millionaires
and paupers. They control the press.
They have throughout the Northern
States control of every newspaper of
any degree of popularity or with any
circulation amounting to anything;
they control every one of them I know
anything about except about live.
They are the instruments by which
the masses are deceived. Tho editors
are not known. They are brilliant
writers, paid large salaries and put in
to their olllces with orders t'l edit these
papers as " we want you to do"?in
the interest of "my bank," or "my rail
road," or " my corporation," or " my
trust."
We Soulhorners, wo former (Jon
federates or sons of Confederates, oc
cupy a place apart in this Government.
Wo' are looked upon a? rebels." We
are treated as step-daughters or step
children, with no rights thoao people
are hound to respect. They have iu
the last forty years grantu: to other
sections two nod one-half billion dol
lars for the pension grab alone, and
the tariff grab, and a big percentage of
this money has been taken from this
section?you and 1 havo been robbed
of it. Two and one-half billions, did
I say? It has been more than that,
but I want to he within tho facts.
Here in the South we are confronted
on the one hand by Northern Republi
cans, who are still harboring sectional
hatred and are trying to reduce our re
presentation in CongreSi ?'fare in this
State from Heven to four - ml on the
other we are face to lace with Ilm
situation:
Every railroad that passos through
our country is owned up there: the
telegraph lines are owned up there;
most of thoso factories we have been
talking about here to-night are owned
up there. Half of tho stock invested
in South Carolina is owned outside
South Carolina and, while wo welcome
these Northerners here and desire tbut
thousands of them should come here
and ahall be treated justly and fairly,
we must not forget that they como
here not for our good, hut for their
own Hellish benefits. They look upon
us aa a lemon to be squeezed. (Laugh
ter.)
And the other day, when in anawer
to taunts and insults that no brave
South Carolinian could stand, 1 got
up iu my seat and answered them and
defended the statu and the South and
our poople and brought out the facts
in regard to the butning of this city in
1806 and convicted Sherman out of his
owu mouth of having lied on Wade
Hampton about, it, the Associated
Press sent broadcast over the land the
statemoi t that my J)omocratic col
leagues were very mueh outraged over
my utterauces aud retired in disgust
from the Sonate chamber. I don't
know whether they retired or not aud
[ don't caro. What did you send me
there for--to boothek around like a
licked hound aud whine when I am in
sulted? 1 can't do it?I ain't built
that way. So 1 told them the truth
and hit them between the eyus.
I pointed out tili? couditiou. That
during the dark days of the civil war,
when ull the men of the South wore
away iu the army aud only the young
ebt boys and feeblest old men were left
at homo ; whou those like Harriot
Bcecher Stowe at tho North, who had
depicted the cruelty of tho white mus
tor, said that now the slaves would lake
the opporiuuity to revenge themselves
upon their masters?that duriug this
period there is uotoue iustauce ou rec
ord of auy negro having mistreated any
while woman?not one crime. Is that
to the credit of the negro alone? 1
askcd'thcin. is it not nlso to the credit
of the white masters who had uplifted
him ? He loved his master and the tie
was mutual iu a geueral way. Hut
you?and 1 poiuted my tlsls iu the faces
of my political opponeuts, the Republi
cans, across the aisle?you, by your
damnable doctriue of equality, have
taught thoso poor, ignorant creatures
dowu South to thiuk that they are as
good as the whites, thoir former mas
lers, or hotter, and today you never
pick up a paper but you liud recorded
iheru iu all its horrible details the story
of somo shocking crime.
I mention this merely us a sample of
the kind of speoch I made. Good peo
ple hero have not understood the situ
ation aud a lot of the editors herchavo
lent themselves to tho pitiful whiuu aud
cry of the subsidized Associated Tress
and the Republican newspapers at the
North. They have couduinucd me as
a marplot, and suid 1 had injured the
I Democratic chances in vbis uationul
tight by coming out aud bearding those
hypocrites to their teeth. " You prate
about the fatherhood of God aud the
brotherhood of mau und all that sort of
thing," 1 told them. ?? You taunt us
with our treatment of the negroes?
why you have butchered and robbed
and burned more in three years iu the
Philippines thati the South has in three
hundred years."
1 went <>n and lold them that we
wore not responsible for the presence
among us of negroes; that their fathers
went to Africa and stole them, brought
them to this country and sold them to
us and the i went home and prayed to
the Lord to free them. 1 told them
thut the hypocrisy was just oozing out
of them all over. I pointed to tho fact
that we did not put the negroes in tho
South and can't help it thut they are
hero, "but you," 1 said to them, "wont
into the Pacille and bought your ne
groes to butcher and burn und tob." 1
don't know whether I ought to have
said those things or not, but I feel that
it is time lor Southern men I > assert
t heir imdihood.
1 have been going around over tho
North lecturing?I am notorious, you
know. (Laughter.) I don't know but
what notoriety will some day grow in
to fame. It doesn't matter much. 1
will soon be gone to the hereafter, a?>d
if my name goes down into history as
the "Notorious Tillmnn " it is a mat
ter of indifference, to me. Rut 1 have
been lecturing about the negro among
these Northern people ami making
them pay to bear me, and if I don'l
tell them the truth and bit them be
tween the eyes! Ani they applaud
me to the echo. 1 show them the ne
gro is no longer a name lo conjure
with; in fact, if if wasn't that he held
the balance of power in Maryland and
Delaware and Indiana and otbor bor
der States they would throw him over
to-morrow, but they arc between the
devil and tho deep blue sea and they
havo to keep up their cant for political
reasons.
I don't kuow what tho prop.pect is in
regard to this coming election. We
have hopes that the revelation of tho
infamies perpetrated'by our soldiers in
the Philippines, the burnings and tor
luret and murders and sbootiug down
of " all ovor ten " will awaken the con
sciences of the really good people at
the . North?and there are millions of
them. We look upon Yankees?as a
general thing?as something mean
and despicable, but from personal con
tact with them in Washington and in
the different places at the North where
I meet them when out lecturing, I Und
that the masses of the Northern people
are just as good and clever and honor
able aud Christian and patriotic as we
are?but they do dearly love a dollar!
(Laughter.) And I havo hopes that
this great contingent, involving mil
lions, will be brought to a reuli/.ing
sense of the infamies that are being
perpetrated ou those poor crcaturoB in
the ICust?and in behalf of what? Wo
have spent $400,000,000 in subjugat
ing the Philippines and we are not yet
through. There is ono large island,
Mindanao, as large as South Carolina,
where they only began two weoks ago
to make an effort in asserting authori
ty. I don't kuow whether the North
ern people will keep on furnishing
money to the army to keep up this
work or not, but my idoa of the duty
of patriots in the South, North and
everywhere else is to stund by the
principles of Democracy as Jefferson
formulated them, as Jackson illustrated
thorn and as Rryan defended them, and
keep it up forover. And to us in tho
Southland, won for us llrst by Moultne
and Sumter and Marion and Pickens
and won hack ngaiu in '70 by Hamp.
ton, it is an especial duty.
, IN A HUMOROUS VKIN.
" Are you fond of Action, darling?"
" Yes, dearest; but don't tell ine 1
am tbe only girl you have ever loved."
Parishioner?the people are com
plaining that you are too liberal.
Unorthodox. Pastor?Oh, that's a
mistake, my dear sir, a great mistake.
1 am just as stingy as the rest of you.
" Is there an author's club in this
building?" asked tbe individual with
long hair, as he Bluck his head into the
editorial sanctum.
"There is," replied the editor, as he
snatched a murderous looking bludgeon
from ihe desk and stood up ready for
business.
It was m a country village that the
swain had proposed for the hand of a
village beauty,and had been successful
aud carried off the palm. Ho had
bought the engagement ring aud was
hurrying as fast as his two feet would
carry him lo the homo of his adored
one. A friend tried to slop him to
make inquiry concerning his haste.
"Hollo, there, Bob! Is thero a
lire?"
" Yes," replied Bob, with what
breath he had left, " my heart's on tire
and I'm going now to ring the village
belle."
Duriug an eucampmeut of the Na
tional Guard of Pennsylvania at Mount
Grelna several years ago, a party of
olllcers wont out for a stroll aud hap
pening to pass a farm house near the
encampment grounds, one of thorn
suggested slopping iu for a glass of
milk. On going inside the yard they
were met by the farmer's daughter,
who brought foith a cau of buttermilk
aud some turn hi em, saying:
" This is tho only kind of milk we
have."
After each of tho parly had taken a
drink one of lhem remarked:
" By George, that's line; cau jou let
us have some more?"
Tho lass replied:
*? Oh yes; lake all you waul; we feed
it to tho pigs, auy way."
A Kansas editor wrole this oblluaty
notice: " He was born May .'I, 1875,
and therefore escaped this earth iu
timo to celebrate his 27th birthduy in
the house of his eternal abode beyoud
the arching skies, leaving terrestrial
laud on Friday, March P.), 1002, at
0.30 p. m., central time."
A young cock saw a weathercock on
lop of the bouse aud, thinking hun a
rival began ciowing tiercely.
" If you keep on making a noise like
that,",said the old bird, ? they'll wriug
your ueck for you."
The young cock looked thoughtful.
" 'lake example by mo. I've got
along and have been Ir.oked up to for
half a century by simply keeping my
bill shut and turning with the wind."
Tho moral is obvious.
> Thero is an institution in Dtiluth
' that employs about fifty people, and
among others is a genial, jolly, good
follow, who long ago loal fuub in their
restoratives, and is the possessor of a
waid measurement of many niches.
An Kast Knd lady dropped iulo the
store n day or two ago, accompanied
by her pretty little 4-)ear-old daughter.
The big man was somewhat atten
tive to the child, and when the lady
had finished the business she had come
to transact the little girl said,in a clear
voice, as Ihoy left the office:
" Who is the mau bigger 'round 'an
our rain barrel, with the awful shiny
head?"
Tess?You don't mean to say they
have broken oft their engagement?
Jobs? Yes.
Teas?Why, I thought they were
perfectly devoled to each other.
So they are. You see, they havo
broken oil ihe engagement so that he
may save enough money to enable them
to get married.?Philadelphia Press.
" One-half tho world," remarked tho
good-natured girl, u doosn't know how
the olher half lives."
"That maybe bo," said the girl with
tho long, sharp nose, " but 1 don't be
long to that half."
A belated traveler, who was com
pelled lo stay all night in a backwoods
cabin, says that soon after the frugal
supper of " sody biskits " and fried
"side meat," swimming in grease, had
beon eaten, a tall, gaunt youth of about
18 and an equally sallow and gaunt
girl of 17, both barefooted, took their
hats from wooden pegs in the wall and
prepared to go out, whereupou their
mother, taking her pipe from between
her yellow teeth, said reprovingly:
?* Go 'long an' wash your feet, Lcvi,
you nn' Looly both! Hain't you
'shamed to go off to an evonin' party
without waslun' your feet?"
Thoy oboyed, but as Lovi took the
washpan from a bench by the door he
said, with a grumble:
" I'd 'bout as Boon stay home from
a party as to havo to tlx up so for
hit!"
The Japanese, do not use milk, cows
being almost unknown in Japan.
Milk,an animal producl, falls under
the condemnation which excludes
everything that has pertained lo lifo
from the list of articles used for food.
Auimals taken in the chase are ex
cepted, as are fish. The Japanese
mother nursos her own child, continu
ing sometimes up lo Ihe sixth year,
though other food is givon in addition
after the llrst or second year. The
main food of the Japanese mothur
consists of rice, lish, shellfish and sea
weed. Wine or alcoholic prod nets are
never used.
Frank Snrgont, who has been ap
pointed Commissioner General of Im
migration by the President, held, as
bis tlrst position with a railroad com
pany, that of ongino wiper at Phoenix,
Ariz.
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money. I travel South Carolina, ami
would be pleaaed to call and show you
ray Pianos and Organs. A postal card
will bring me to you.
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Athens.10 60am 619 pm
KP>erton .It 5?>am 5 17 pm
Ahbevillo .12 57pm 4 05 pm
Greenwood.1 22pm 3 35 i m
Ar Clinton .... Dinner... 2 loptn 245pm
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Spartanburg. 12 15pm 8 30
Greenville.12 22pm 3 25
Ar I.aureus.Dinner.. 1 12 2 OB
BO I) Til BOUND.
?No. 22 No. 03.
Lv Laurena.0 OOahi 2 ?Opm
Parks.(i 10 2 08
Clinton. 6 40 2 22
Goldville_ .?68 2 31
Kiaard. 7 08 2 43
Gary. 7 17 2 iU
Jalapa. 7 26 2 51
Newberry. 8 00 3 10
Prosperity. - 8 26 3 24
HI .-mm . 8 42 a 84
Little Mountain . 8 65 3 3!?
Chapin.015 3 61
Hilton . ?24 3.7
White Hock. 0 20 4 01
Halen tine. Uj37 4 07
Irmo. 9 62 4 17
Leaphart.1OJ02 4.23
Ar Columbia.10 30 4 4.')
'Daily Freight except Bunday._
NORTHBOUND.
?No. 85 No. 62
Lv Columbia .12 30am It loam
Leaphart.12 48 11 30
Irmo. 1 00 It 37
Halentine. 1 15 111?
White Hock. 1.24 11*61
Hilton . I 20 11 51
Chapin. 1 80 12 <rj
Little Mountain. 150 12 12pm
Sligha.2.02 12 111
Prosperity. 2 22 12 25
Newberry. 3<ki 12 31)
.lalapa.3.22 12 51
Gary. .8|3I 12 5!)
Kinard. 3 40 l < r>
Ooldvilie.3.51 1 1?
Clinton. 4 80 1 27
Parks .4 50 139
Ar Laurena. 5 00_1 47
A. C. L.
Leave
Columbia.... . 4 65pm Ar 10 AO
Buniter.?20 0 25
Ar v;narleatoii... .... 9 20 Lv 0 00
Trains 68 and 12 arrive and depart from
new union depot.
Trains Nob. 22 and 85 from ACL freight
depot West Gervais street.
For Hates, Time Tables, or further in
formation call on any Agent, or write to
H. M. Kmkhson, Gen. Freight and Pas
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Columbia,
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To your consideration is gen
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but it's always ehoapost in tbo
long run, because we givo tho host
valno. Thoroughly kiln-driod,pro
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No 58
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Lv Obarleaton ..626
Laues .7 35
bumter.9 10
Ar Columbia.10 tu
Prosperity...
Newberry .
(Minton.
LaureiiB....
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Spartanburg
Lv Bumter..
Ar Camden.
Lancaster.
Hock Hill .
Yorkville.
Hlaekshurg
Bhelby, N. t:.
Kutherfordton, N
Marion.
Winnaboro.
t hnrlotte N. C.
Hendersonvillc, N. I
Ashoville N. C.
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7 13
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Lanes.7 35
Sumter...0 13
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Prosperity. .. 3 2'J
Newberry.3 (Hi
Clinton.2 22
laurens.... 2 ('2
Urcen villc.12 ' 2
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Spartanburi'.12 15
Sumter.5 45
Camden.4115
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Lancaster.10.65
Hock Hill.10.00
Yorkville.?16
Hlaekshurg.8.15
Shelby, N C.7115
Kutherfordton, N. o?6;0?
Lv Marion.5 (X)
Winnaboro.....10 18
i harlotto, N. 0.8]lo
Hendersonville, N C...? 02
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Wato>loo. 1 12 p
" Anderson.
" Laurens.1 40 p
?' Greenville.8 20p
" Glenn Springs .4 45p
" Sparenburg.3 30 p
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Ar Augusta.6 40 p 11 3) a
Alken . 7 30
Lv Greenville. 12 22pm
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Nowberry. 3(K)pm
Prosperity. 3 20pm
Ar Allundale. i, ? o v
'? Fairfax . ?I 32 p
" Yemaasee._10 2ia 7 36 p
" Boaufort.II in a 8 Hi p
?? Port Hoy al.II.'6 a ? ti p
Lv Port Hoy ill.Il'o p ti ?i 2?
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Yemaasee.2 30p v 4Ufta
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Allendale. 8 68 a
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