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...The Yancey Birthday... Rich Ant Floman, lawyer aud oralor and successfull, self-iuade man, was fluding liimsolf oxoccdiugly borod, and blaraen his fates accordingly. What had ho done tbut ho should have to sit still in tho car, while a very young lawyer poured fatuous platitudes jnto Ihm unwilling car? ?? I don't kuow thnt I'll show myself any too prominently about court to day," tho iuano chattor went glibly on. " 1 had au intimation on tho street that 1 might bo appointed to defend that fellow Yancey, nnd 1 don't want anything to do with tho caso. It does n man no good to get mixed with these low flung murder cases, when populur sontiinent's down on tho criminal. You get tho worst of it whether you clear him or not?and of course il would he impossible to clear Yancey." " Yec?" returned Floman, drily, looking out of the window. " Oh, of course. You soo, ho's got no friends at all. Tho strikors are down on him becauso ho refused to go out with thorn?.;nd yot ho goes and makes an assault on tho proprietor of tho business?right at Yancoy's own door, too?when Stein was probably calling there to do something for his family ?and Stem falls and Btrikcs his head aud dies?and bo everybody else is against him. A man gets no honor for dufouding a caso like that. All iho fellows aro lighting shy of it. Person ally, I'm going to keep out if I can, for a man's roputatiou is?" 11 Pardon mo. I got out hero," said Richard Floman abruptly, and swung himself down from the car, wondering vaguely what he had done to be visited by auch unuttorablo plagues. Ho was three miles short of his office, but why should ho hurry to reach tho ollico, where more boros nwaitcd him, doubtless, to talk him into a decpor frenzy? Lot his partner attend to thorn for a little while. He t plunged into tho park across the way and took oft his hat under the treos. Ho had tho park alruotl to himself, i The children were at school or going ] there; tbo nurse-maids had not come i out yet. I In all thcBO shady spac i, just him- i Belf and two children. Thoy were a | girl and a hoy, scaled on a bench. The girl's feet huug down, but did not touch the ground, and the boy's feet i stood straight out beforo him becauso t his legs were too short to hang down. The boy was crying dismally and Flo man, who was in a lounguig mood, 1 stopped and spoke to him. I "Hello,young man," ho said, "what's ! all these tears for? Lost your ball? | Broken your wagon?:> He spoke giullly and awkwardly? i not with the silvery persuasiveness i that molted all hearts iu tho court- 1 room and on the rostrum. Ho was not I used to speaking to children. There 1 was no boy in his house, and no ball or wagon. Ho and n certain proud and 1 cold woman would havo been better | and happier to havo had them there. i Tho boy ceased sobbing, a littlo i frightened; but tho girl explained with a sober little smile. t *? No sir, he's crying becauso tomor row's tho Yancey birthday, and papa can't come home?and so wo won't got anything." Floman found his attention cughl by this arJeM speech. Moat oJ the speeches he heard woro auything hut artless. Ho e .t down on an opposite bench and looked at tho two, his hands in his pocket. *? What kind of a birthd .y was that you mentioned?" he asked politely. ** Something now in birthday??" The child's faoe Hushed. It was a protty little face that had grown too delicate. 44 The Yancey birthday," she ex plained carefully. " You see, that is our name?wo aro Yancey's, and to morrow is our birthday?mamma's and Boy's, aud mine. Wo are all three twins. And that's what made papa call it the Yancey birthday." Sho smiled up at him innocently, de lighted to take him into her childish confidence. " That ia a beautiful idea," he said gravely. " And why isn't papa com ing home to buy Hoy something?" lie had not thought until then?he had been merely passing an idle half hour?but tho look on the child's face, tho sorrow so much older than her years, struck to his heart. ?? Oh, I see," be said gently, " your fathor is Frank Yancey!" t( Yes," Bald tho girl, in patient lit tle tones. Then she went on telling about it. " Wo used to have a splen did birthday when papa came home? sometimes a picnic if it wasn't too cold ?and nice things for all of us. Of course, now mamma and 1 talk things ovor, and we can understand it, but Boy's such a baby, and ho cries." Obi Boy's such a baby, is he?" asked Ftoman. It had been a long limo since he had been sorry for anyone, but now something was tugging at his heartstrings. He was looking down at Boy's sister, whoso foot did not, touch the ground. M Oh, yeV sho said resignedly. " And that's tho reason I bring him out here, so that he can cry without making mamma fool bad. Mamma aud 1 talkod things ovor for nights, and nights, trying to fix up something for Boy so that ho wouldn't feel quite so bad, but we couldn't think of a thing. You don't havo very good times when your papa is away, do you? If it wasn't that 1 talk over everything with mamma?every single thing?I don't lriinw what we'd do." The tell gentleman in the othor seat looked away down the avenue. A pathetic little long-gone vision rose up out of that past when he had not been successful nor solf-mado. It was a vision of a raw. country boy, going home from church through the moon* light under the whlsporing trees, with a timid, little hand on hie arm. The boy hud devoured the sweet, innocent young face beside him with hungry | eyes, and had hated Frank Yancey in his heart for having wooed and won her before he had a chance. If he had seen her first, he told himself, she would have taken him; and he tossed On bio bed all that night, torn with ) jealous rago and lovo that could never ? be told. No matter? U at was long ( ago?he camo to tho city tho noxt | morning and entered upon his carcor. ( When bethought of her duriug the next fevf years it was to thank heaven that he had escaped a marriage that would have kept him a groundliug to tho ond ot bis days. Hut now, as ho looked away down tho avenue some how tho old thrill wont to his henrt? ho felt the light touch ou his arm, mak ing a leaping madness iu hia veins? and saw tho moonlight drifting ovor tho brownebl hair and bluest eyes in all tho world. His own eyes dimmed at tho memory of it. Well, it wai loug ago, and ho was successful among men, but thero had novor been another night liko that. " Oh, deurl If papa could only come homo," was the tired little sigh fbat awakened him. He stirtcd and turned to eco Boy asleep on his sister's lap, while two tea;s rolled slowly down her thiu cheeks. "You?you muBn't cry 1" ho stam mered. ? Perhaps?" '* I don't lot mamma sco me cry," she replied, smiliug up at him with a childish womanliness that broke his heart. He snatched his hat from the bonch and started up, looking at his watch. If there wore only time I " Seo here," ho said, with an excite ment that he had not felt in mauy a long day. 44 You go homo and?and talk over things with mamma?and tell her?ask her if she remembers Dick Floman?and tell her?well toll her that Frank isn't without a frioud, after all!" If there were only time I Ten minutes afterwards he was push ing through a throng of spectators that crowded tho court room and ex tended into tho corridor outside. Men Btood on tip toe to peep over one an other's heads, tl" .t they might catch a glimpse of the prisoner who woi not with tho strikers and yet had done singlo handed what some of them longed, yet did not daro to do; who bad kept persistent silence daring his im prisonment, and who refused to employ i lawyer, though ho know himself to be in dire extremity. uTen to one his ncck'll stretch," mid a man in the door, as Floman [lushed by him. Ho hoard tho whisper Hid saw tho dark looks cast upon tho irisouer; then he walked across the SOUtt room and took his place at tho prisoner's side. Ho was just in time. '? Does anyone volunteer to reprc >cnt Francis Yanccy?" the judge was i8kiug, and Flomau stood up. ** I do, your honor," he said. There was a moment of amazed si ence, broken by an excited whisper ,hat wont around the court room. If Floman had taken up this cc3e?the ;r< .it Floman,?why, then? Pcopla who saw lv.m saw how he ilooped and whispered a word in the ?tupefled p oner's ear and clasped his land. Then henro!>owilh head tluowu jp and lips set, and those, who k. 3W / ?? cnew that there was a battle in ! .ud. What that battle w..s is still remem bered and spoken of with a thrill of prido by those who watchtd ils prog ress, who heard the examination and 3ros8-exaiuiuation of witnesses; who wept and laughed for two hours, jwayed by such oratory as he Lad never uttered and as they had never beard. If ho had been famous before, those two hours left his fame doubl d, For the jurv returned a verdict of not guilty, without leaving ihe box, and ho. ly denied afterwards that they were under a spell. Wir n the verdict was rendered, men shouted and threw up their hat?, and when the court room was cleared went out wiping their eyes. Frank Yancey was led out staggering by the man who hud saved him. As Floman put him into a cab, he leaned forward, his face working. " As loners you've done this, Dick," he whisper-'1,44 I'll tell you why I beat that hound. I reached home in timo to hear him insult my wife?an' I'd 'a' gono to the gallow's before I'd 'a' mix ed her name up in it." 44 Good for you, old man," roturned Floman, with barren speech, but with a return of bis long-gone heartiness that gavo him a tender feeling about the eyes. Perhaps the tender feeling reached its root down furthor, for he grasped the trembling band on tho cab window. Keep up a stout heart, Frank," he said. 44 I've got my eye on a position?worlds bettor than the one you had?chance of promotion, loo. Well, goodbye. Give my love to?to the little girl that talks things ovor with mammal" ? ? * * * ? It was late when the groat lawyer reached homo that evening. He had been detained by a box?a very impor tant box?which, after being packed to tho brim, had to bo marked, ?< For tho Yancey birthday," and sent by a care ful mossengor. Ho went home at last, tired but smiling, the lady, cold and proud, rominding him of a social obli gation to which thoy wore already late. 44 Oh, the Willoughby dinner," he oxclaimod. 441 forgot all about ii. You can go, my dear, and make my (xcuses. I am too tired and not fit for it. I'vo been fixing up a birthday for some little children." She smiled, but there was a hurt in tho smile, and in her eyes. ?< Good night," he said as she kissed him. 44 There is a httlo girl?but you shall seo her and bo a friend to hor. Good night." He sat down, looking into tho glow ot the flro, and long after the coals wore veiled with silvory ashes he still saw there tho brownest hair and bluest eyes that wero ovor seen, and a raw country boy, lost out of his life long ago, looking at them and drcamint futile young droaras. The annual report of tho depart ment of agriculture shoves that there are just 209,5113 acres planted in su gar boots in this country. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. the IM You Have Always Bought CONGRESSIONAL 11UMOK. The Wit of the Great Statesmen Flows Fast and Freely. Senator Carmack, of Tenuosseo, who was conspicuous during tho last ses sion of Congress for his attacks on the conduct of tho war in tho Phillippines, used to ho a newspaper niau before he entered the arena of politics, says the Now York Commercial. lie was ask ed tho other day if he was bou sitivo to the bitter criticisms made by some of tho newspapers on account of his arraignment of tho American soldiers iu the Philippines. "Not in the least," he replied,"and that reminds me of a story. Thero used to bo a man in our town who was not very tall aud who was so bow-legged as to appear doformed or crippled. Hut ho had plenty of musclo and a good deal of grit. One tiino tho bow legged man becamo involved in a die* pute with a husky six-footer who, bo coming tirod of tho verbal argument, advanced upon his oppouont with a threatening air and said: " 'You littlo runtl I'vo a good no tion Lo chaw your guzzle 1'?whatever that may mean. *? At this tho bow-legged man imme diately gathered himself together, squared off, and said: 'AH lightl I'vo becu mostly raised on chawed guzzlo, so sail in!" " As 1 was onco a newspaper man," concluded Senator Cs rmack, " 1 don't much care what the/ say about mo. Besides, I'vo 'been raised on' that sort of thing." One day when Senator-olcct Mc Croaiy, of Kentucky, was out looking after his political fences ho stopped before a house where there was a woll in the yard and, aikcd for a drink, says the New Yoik 'Times. " Sony, Mister," responded the mau of the house, " but there ain't a drop on this place, I am getting purly dry mysolf." "Isn't thero any water in the well?" oxclaimod McCrcary. " Of course there is," blurted out tho man: "I didn't know you wanted water. 1 thought you wanted a drink." Senator lilackburn, of Kentucky, poured out a glass of ice water and drank it with evident satisfaction. " Thero isn't anything quite as good as water a?ter all," quoth lilackburn, " which, by the way," ho added, " re minds me of a story. " Down in Kentucky," began Mr. lilackburn, " there was a fatmcr, who, strange to say, did not know the taste of whiskey. One day, at Christmas time, he was at a neighbor's house and was invited to sample a mixture of cream, lomon, sugar and other in gredients, commonly known as eggnog. lie sipped, then drank, then drained several mugs. When ho started to ro homo he felt curious. It's an insidion i drink, you know, and when he reach ed home he went to bed. Tho next morning he awoke with an awful thirst. Hronking the thin covering of ice on the water buck "it out on the porch he took one long drink. " 'Mandy, Mandy, come here and bring tho children,' he shouted. 'I never tasted such water in my life.' " Mr. lh'ownlow, of Tennessee, has amoug his constituents an itinerant preacher who is not only an eloquent preacher, but in his opinion, tins a knowledgo of tho Scriptures second to I o ouo's. So conlident is he that he can make clear the most obscure passages thut he invariably asks his hearers to bring him any puzzling text they wish oxplained, says Tho Washington 1'ost. At tho close of a very largo and successful meeting a country bumpkin silting in the back of the hall, in re spouse to the pastor's invitation, an nounced that thero was a mailer, a very important mattor, he would like to have unraveled. Happy that an opportunity to show his erudition had come at last, the wise man encouraged the fellow to come to tho front and present Ins problem. " What I want to know is," said the bucolic, " is whether Job's turkoy was a hen or a gobbler." And when tho preacher turned red and coughed lo hide his confusion his interrogator remarked in a voico that was audible through the whole hall: " I'll bo aurned if I didn't stump him tho first time!" The Wostorn Sonator had tho floor. It was a great speech and good, and pictured in glowing colors Nevada's future, if only men would bo wise in their generation and make the appro priation for irrigation. Ho left noth ing unsaid. Ho defied arguraont, and Anally concluded by declariug solemn ly: " In fact, gentlemen, all Novada needs is more water and belter society." vVhoroupon Mr. Fcssoden observed: " I would liko to remind the gentle* man from the Wost that that is all holl needs." While tho lato Judge Th?r man, of Ohio, was in Congress, his wife, leav ing for a visit to f "lends, oxacted from tho judge a promise that ho would bo a "teetotaler" during hor absence. On the day of Mrs. Thurraan's return tho judge stopped in tho dining-room be fore going to welcome her to take a drop of that from which he had abstained during hor absence. While in tho act of pouring whiskey into his 1 glass he heard Mrs. Th?r man patter , mg down the stairs. Quickly pulling , his loft hand, in whh'.h ho hold tho glass. behind him, with bia right hand ex | tended, he said, " I'm glad to see you home, my dear." " Allen, what havoyou behind you?" M Whiskoy, my dear." "Ohl Allen, don't you remembor last yoar, when you wore slumping the Slate, you didn't, taste a drop, and you were never bo woll in your life?" " Yos, my doar, I remember, hut we lost the State." During the Omaha Exposition Sen ator Chauncey M. Dopew and S. It. Callaway, president of the American locomotive company, were strolling about tho midway, taking in the sights, when they were invited into a large hail to see the "greatest performance on oarth. Tho hall filled up rapidly an 1 altera wait of ten or fifteen min utes, tho Senator said to Mr. Cal laway. " This must he a good show so many people are crowdiug in to seo it." Aftor sonio further waiting, dur ing which the hall was jammed full, tho lato Sterling Morton walked down tho aisle, and stopping to shako hands with the Senator and Mr. Callaway, said, "What in thunder aro you fellows doing in here? There is an old faker outside calling out, 'Como in and seo tho great and onlyChauucoy M. Dopew! Only 10 conts to see tho great and only Chauncey'l" A LlKMAItKAIiLK TlIKNOMKNON.? What appears to he a hank of burning coal well under tho surface of the ground has been discovered in a rav ine bluff on tho farm of Hi Dennis, three miles west oi Gordonvillo, Gray 8on County, and tweuty-oight milos from Shcrmau, Texas. A correspon dent of the Dallas News makes tho following statement of tho peculiar oc currence: About twouty days ago parties hav ing occasion to travorso a ravine on tho Hi Dennis farm thought they de tected an odor as of burning coal, but could see nothing. At intervals there after others made tho same sort of re port. Yesterday morning a vapor was discovered issuing from lissures in the ground on tho bluff. This was watched and soon it materialized into an unmi8takablo smoke which grow blacker as it increased in volume. Tho odor became moro and moro unmis takable and soon the hoat in tho vi cinity was so intense that all kinds of vegetation anywhere near it was crisped to death, even trees succumb ing. As a matter of course tho news spread rapidly and soon a iiundrod or moro people bad gathered. Howover, no effort was made to explain tho fact until this morning. Swathing thom selvos in wot clothes and protecting their mouths and nostrils from the fumes of the sin ke, several men be gan to wield picks and shovels, work ing at tho rar.3t extreme end of a discernible| lissurc. After hard work, of ton ituonupled by the heat, a heavy vein o what ma" be lignito, but what is beliovcd to bo a good quality of soft coal was struck aud nearer to the point whore tho smoko was puffing up from a space p.obably eight by fifteen feet, pieces of deposit were taken out actually atlamo. Of course, the investigation has not been carried far enough to make possible any relia ble statement as to the extent of tho deposit. It will require an expert mineralogist to determine what ft is, and geologists will have to bo appealed to for a cause, of this strange lire light ed by unseen hands. Pointed Paragraphs.?Most wo men arc afraid of a loose dog or a tight man. In trying to get his rights many a man goes at it the wrong way. Wise is tho man who can give a wo man advico without incurring her on mity. Talk is cheap; yet some people will give up a dollar to hoar a tiresome lec ture. Milk of human kindness is usually of a poor quality and liltlo in tho can. If povorty is ovor abolished every bate.belor will cither have to marry or act as his own servant. Job evidently had no desire for fickle fame. lie was in a position to win out as a manufacturer of profane histoiy?but ho didn't. A fat man always hai moro troubles than ho has sympathizers. Jumping a summer resort board bill is ono"way to heat a retreat. When a man goes at things head first ho often gets there with both feet. Bo sure your sins will iind you out if you are ever a candidate for oflico. Many a young man has beeu cured of palpitation of tho heart by marrying tho girl. Religion as a rule flourishes belter in connection with adversity than with prosperity. A Kentucky paper montions a "yawning oil well" in that State. Somebody must havo been boring it. " The hairy votch," Bays a writor in the Montgomery Advortiser, 44 is a God-sond to the Southern fanner bo cause, it is a winter cop. Tho price Of tho seed is $2 a bus tied. One bushol to tho acre, drilled in tho cot ton rows that are now clear of grass and in good tilth, along with manure about Septomber 1, will supply green feed of the very best kind for 'stall use from Fobiuary 1 until July, by cutting it, as with tho other. The votch is a tap root plaut and the best improvers of land. It does not grow well on poor land, because it is a respectable plant and don't enjoy bad company. On good land it will 'grow two f et deep and cover tho earth with the vino out of sight in early spring and sum mer. This, tho writor adds, is not theorizing, but the result of many years' personal experience." Blair Irwin, one of tho survivors of tho gallant 000 who mado tho famous charge at Balaklava during the Cri mean war, an exploit which was immor talized by Tennyson in his poem 44The Charge of the Light Brigado," is liv ing with his wife on tho small farm known as the Ansel Smith place, sit uated about four miles from Sharon village, on tho border of Stoughton Mass. The#WoiM s Greatest, t mmmmmmf Wf? *m\i mm ittm n ? i. :ure*ror Hafana - \r\n all fomih ?t MMnrinl poUon n? Uke JottniMt' i Chill and Pever t'onk. tf A t?lnto Mulmi? #v<>l?on ?M in r'fjr blood mnitnitmlMiry UM fftlliiro, *HI(mm1 m?H 'noscsP.'tcur* Malarial poisoning. The antidote forlt In JOHNSON'S TONIC. B*t * bottl? to-dny. i EHtrstCufi U It Ebim. THK CAUSKS OF THK WAR, An Kttttny Head at the Reunion of Orr'? Regiment of Kiflctt at Due Went, Au KiiHt 18, 1009| by MIhh Julia D, CliarlCH, Of Greenville, 8. C. I Miss Julia 1). Charles is a daughter of the lato Joel D. Charles, a gallant ollicer of Orr'a Kifles. 8he is one of the most intel lectual women in the State, a graduate of Converse College, and has taken a course at the University of Chicago ) The Civil War, the War of the Re bellion, or tho War of Secession, as it I is variously termed, according lo one's point of view, was but tho natural con sequence of three facts of long exist ence. The Puritans of New England aud tho Cavaliers of Virgiuia wero by no means possessed of similar habits of thought and life in tho very be ginning, and tlicit- different climates and occupations sorvod but to in crease this difference in their na tines. Next, there were lacking the modern avenues of intercourse between the two soctious, and bo becauso of this lack of acquaintance they becamo suspicious aud estranged. Most important of all, they ha 1 differ ent ideas of the Constitution of tho United States. Had all other causes boon wanting this alone would havo been sufficient to produce the torriblo upheaval of 18(11. " One party held that under tho terms of the constitution tho Union is indissoluble ; tbat tho sovereignty of the nation is lodged in the central government ; that the States are sub ordinate ; that all acts of Congress are binding on the Slates ; that tho highest allegianco of a citizon is due to the central government, and not his own State ; and that all atlompts at nulli fication and disunion are iu their na turo disloyal and treasonable. The other party held that tho constitution is a compact botween the sovereign States ; that for certain reasons the Union may be dissolved ; that the sovereignty of the nation is lodged in tho individual States, aud not in the general government'; that Congress can exorciso no olher thau delegatod pow ers ; that a Stato, feeling aggriovod, can annul :\n act of Congress ; that the highest allegianco cf a cili/.en is due to his own Stato, and not to the cen tral government ; and that acts of nul lification and disunion are justifiable, revolutionary, and honorable."?Kid path. At first the Northern Si des were tho closest adherents to this doctrine of Stales' Rights, but later, with tho rise of tho tariff question?a question of dollars and cents?a change occur red. The tariff, a Congressional meas ure, favored the manufacturing section at the expense of the agricultural sec tion-, hence it was but natural that the North should favor a protectivo tariff and a goverumont^at would force the collection of that % tariff in uuwilling States. ***?' ?> The ordinance of secession passet Doc. 20, 1800, was not the llrst, hut the last expression of the constitution al and admitted right of a State to withdraw from tho Union for just cause. In the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1708, drawu by Jeffer son and Madison,^was tho llrst expres sion. In these resolutions it was dis tinctly stated that since tho constitu tion was a compact between the States and tho government, a State has a right to nullify a Federal law when that law infringes upon its rights. In tho early years of tho republic the balauce of power botwoeu the North and the South was nicely pre served. The slave and the free Statos were evenly matched. In 1810, how ever, when the quostion of the admis sion of Missouri arose, au attack was made upon the institution of slavery, and iu the bill slavoiy was forbidden in tho now State. The bill passed the House but was defeated in the Sonate. Ky tho Missouri Compromise of 1820 slavery was permitted in Missouri, but was forbiddeu in all States north of 'A(\ dog. HO min. From this time on to 18(il American political history is a story of the increase in importance of tho Free Soil movement and the development of the Democratic parly into one whose llrst object was the maintenance of slavery and tho perpetuation of tho power of the slave States. With each application of a State for admission into tho Union camo a repe tition of the struggle between Ihe two parties. Tho last States to apply for ad mission beforo the war were Kansas and Nebraska (1857), both barred to slavery by the Missouri Compromise. The Kansas-Nebrasba -bill practically proposed to repeal the Missouri Com promise as unconstitutional in that it had allowed interference with slavery, and left it to the people of each Terri tory to decide for or against slavery. Each party began to pour sctllers into the Territories, and at first the Soulh was successful, but with its smaller population it was only a mailer of timo whou tho North would finally secure the reins of government in Kansas and forbid slavery. Thus wo seo tho balance of powor passing into the hands of a party inim ical tO the in t eres Is of ttlO Soulh, pledged to the abolition'of slavoiy and to a commercial system of protection unfavorable to an agricultural commu nity like the Soulh. The South was not devoted to a servile system. The greatest statesmen deplored it and hoped at some day to see it abolished, but it was an established fact?the fact upon which rested the entiro fabric of Southern life. Just as reasonably ask the men of the North to closo their ' gicat mills as to ask tho men of the i South to free their slaves. That such > was what tho North was del or mi nod not to ask the South to do, but to de mand of them, is cloarly shown by the following extracts from a document known as *? Helper's Book," publicl) recommended by Sherman, of Ohio, in connection with sixty-eight other Re publican Congressmen : Frown, sirs; fret, foam, prepare your weapons, threaten, strike, shoot, stab, bring on civil war, dissolve tht Union; do what you will?you can neither foil nor intimidate us; our pur pose is as II zed as tho eternal pillars of heaven; we have determined to abolish slavory, and, so help us God, abolish it we will." * * ? ?? It is our hon-1 est convi >tion that all the pro-Mavery slaveholders deserve to be at onco re du cud to a parallel with the basest criminals that lie fettered within tlx* , colls of our public prisons .... Com pensation to tho Blnvu-owuers for uc groos ? Preposterous idea?the sug gestion is criminal, the demand unjust, wicked, mouslrouu, damnable. JSIiall wo feed the curse of slavery to make thorn rich at our expense? Pay these whelps for tho privilego of oou vcrtiug them into decent, honest, up right men ?" Such was tho abuse heaped upou a sousitive aud high strung people be cause thore existed among them an in stitutiou origmally planted there large ly by Now England traders and North ern slave dealers. Tho consequence I was that mon who believed thoroughly iu tho abstract wrongfulucss of slavery rushed to its defenso when tho attack upou it took the form of an attack upou all that tho South revered. Besides tho Kansas affair and the Helper book wo have also John Brown's raid to widen the breach. It is truo ho wns only a fanatical old niau, notorious as ahorso thiof and assassin, but his purpose was to frco Iho Blavos ovon at tho cost of tho lives of thoir masters, and who could toll how many more of his stamp would join him? i Iiis plan failed, ho was captured, tried at Charlcslown, Va., condemned to death, and executed Doc. 2,1859. Upou tho day of his execution a motion for adjournment out of respect to the sacrodnoss of tho day was lost in tho State Sonate of Massachusetts by only three votes. Julian Hawthorne in his history of tho United States, published iu 1808, sayB of him,44 Tho North un derstood him, felt with him, pitied him, and gloried in him; and his name and story were better known to this nation than that of any other man of that age." The year 18(>0 was election year. Tho four tickets in tho field and their plat forms wore ? Tho Cotton States nominoo, John C. Breckinridge, of Ky., on the prin ciple that tho Congress of the United States had no power to abolish slavery in the Territories, or to prohibit its in troduction into any of ihem, nor any jower to destroy and impair iho right of property in slaves by any legislation whatever. Tho Northern Democratic nominee, Stephen A. Douglas, on the platform of abiding by the decisions of the supreme court of tho United States on tho questions of constitutional law^ The Dlack Republican nominoo, Abraham Lincoln, with a platform de claring frcodoni to bo the normal con dition of the Territories, and protest ing especial attachment to the union of the States. Tho platform of tho Constitutional Uuiou party had 44 Tho Constitution of the Country, the Union of the States, and the Enforcement of tho Daws " as its planks, and John Dell, of Tennessee, as its representative. Lincoln was the successful candidate, though ho did not recoivo a majority of tho popular vote. He was olected by a majority of the electoral collcgo, be cause every Northern State oxcopt Now Jersey voted for him and every Southern Stale voted against him. In Congress the North had 18.'} votes and tho South ]2() if unanimous. Under these circumstances, with an anti slavery President, and with it the purpose of the North to abolish slavery, her principal moans of support, the only hope of the South lay in quietly drawing out of an ngrcemont made only for mutual benelit. Tho conven tion which met in Columbia Dec. 17, 18(!0, was asscmblod in recognition of this fact. At that time both North nnd South were agreed as to the right to soccdo. New York had reserved it to herself on her adoption of the Federal constitution. On four separate occa sions Massachusetts had threatened to exercise tho right. Tho New York Tribune on the eve of hostilities de clared : 44 Whcnevor a portion of this Union, large ouough to form an inde pendent, self-sustaining nation shall sec (it to say authentically to tho rosi duc, we want to got away from you, wo shall say, and we trust self-respect, if not regard for the pnnoiplo of solf govcrnmont, will constrain tho residue of tho American people to say, Go." In ordor to presorvo peace South Carolina sent commissioners to Wash ington to consult with Buchanan as to the best moans of avoiding a hostile collision between herself and tho Fed eral government. Tho commissioners expressed their fmn belief that no at tack would bo made on tho forts in Charloston until a friendly arrange ment had been mado, provided no re inforcements bo sont into tho forts. Tho Prosidont gave orders accordingly to Major Anderson, and ndded, 44 An attack on or attempt to take possession of cither one of them will bo rogardod as an act of hostility, and you may then put your command into either of them." Major Andorson romovod his troops to Fort Sumter, immodialo'.y after the passing of tho ordinance of secession. Whon Buchanan, reminded of his pledgo and asked to order Major An dorson back to Fort Moultrie, refused to do so, Mr. Floyd, of Virginia, the Socrotary of War, in view of the Pres ident's violation of faith and tho at tempt to make him party lo it, with drew from the cabinet in a high stale of indignation. Buchanan not only did not ordor Anderson back to Fort Moultrie, but went so far as to send the Star of the West with rcinlorce ments. As it was taking the channel for Sumtoi, Jan. 0, 1801, a battery on Morris Island manned by Citadol ca dets fired upon hor and she ran out to sea with all speed. Immediately after tho inauguration of Lincoln tho Oonfedorato govornraent sent commissioners to Washington to provido for the settlement of all claims of public property arising out of tho separation of the States from the Union. Aftor keeping them waiting a month, assuring them by promises, Soward, on April 8lh, deliverod to them a reply to thoir communication of March 12th, dated March 16th, in which It appeared that tho Prosidenl and the Secrotary of State had already dotormined to hold no intercourse with them whatever. On tho tame day, April 8th, Oov. Bickens, of South Cat OABTOniA, Bean tb? lh9, Kind You Have Always Bought Signatare .If Royal ? ?bsoiajtely Pure Makes the food more delicious and wholesome, (mjumju_|_^_^ j^hmu*0??l' L"??????M.JII I !mm' IMIm?'????.mmubmiwiiII olina, was notiliod that an attempt would ho made to supply Fort Suinter with provisions only, aud that uo elTorl to put in men, nrms or ammunition would bo made if tho attempt wore not resistoil. That it was resisted we know full well. Two days after tho bloodless battle of Fort Suinter, Lincoln issued his proclamation to raise 7G,000 troops and tho war of 18(11 was begun in | earnest. So wo seo our fathers fought for thoir rights, for tho principle upon which the constitution of tho United States was foundud?tho right of self government. Tho right was oura, but the might was theirs. A Son's Dkvotion.?The Atlanta Conslitution says that an anecdote descriptive of n fine phaso of the late William A. Hemphill's character was, strangely onough, related from the pulpit last Sunday night by Hov. T. B. Clovolaud, who at tho time know nothing of Colonel Hemphill's illness. In less than two hours afterwards Colonel Hemphill was dead. Mr. Clovclaud had chosou tho duty of a child to his parent as the general theme of his sermon, and it was to illustrate a rare display of devotion that ho told of the Hemphill incident. " Tho most touching and dramatic evidenco of a son's dovotion to his mdthcr that 1 evor saw happened at the battle of Gettysburg," said Mr. Clovelaud. *? When tho battle wns raging at its hottest, and men on the Confederate sido wore falling by hun dreds, 1 saw a 8tnl\vart youug Southern soldier reeling from the lines to the rear, where tho hospital was located. He had been badly shot iu the faco, and the blood was gushing forth in streams. As he picked his way ovor the rough ground it was plain to see that his con dition was serious, and that the loss of blood had greatly weakened him. Hut what attracted my attention most was the position of his hands, which were held upright over his head and con tained a8tnall object, which 1 could not tuako out for the smoke and dust of the battle. 1 was so interested that I fol lowed tho yotingt man, and asked him whyhe held his nands as he did, and what it was he carried. A wan smile lit his face, and he suid: " 'It's a Hiblo that my mother gave mo. It was in my pocket when I was hurt, and I took it out to keep it from gotting bloody!" " That man," continued Mr. Clcv land, "was William A. Homphill, of Atlanta, then a gunner in tho Con federate army." IN A HUMOROUS VKIN. Mother?" Tommy, if you don't sit etill I'll have to punish you. Why can't you be patient ?" An absent husband telegraphed to his wife : " I send you a kiss." He received tho reply : " Spruce young man called and delivered the kiss in good order." Harbor?Will you have anything on your face when I have finished, sir? Victim?I do not know. Hut I .hope you'll save my nose, at least. " Wo never realize the full value of a thing until we lose it," remarked the moralist. " That's right," remarked tho prac tical man, " especially if the thing lost was insured." Teacher?Tommy, what is tho dif ference betwoon a comma and a pe riod ? Tommy?A comma is a dot with a tail to it and a period is a hoh-tail dot. " Colonel," said tho reporter," what is your opinion of this wator cure ?" The gentleman from Kentucky diew himself up to his full height, but would not say a word. Fat hor (impressively)?Supposo I should ho taken away suddenly, what would become of you, my hoy ? Irrcvcront Son?I'd stay here. Tho question is : " What would become of you ?" " I see you altond noarly every game. Do you understand thegamo?" " No," replied tho pretty girl in the white duck suit. " 1 hato the game? but that pitcher is mighty handsome." Mr. Stubbs?Hero's an item that saya when women marry they stop reading so much fiction. Mrs. Stubbs?Well, John, I guess that's bocauso thoy hear so much from their husbanda. Mrs. Gayhoy (who is not a prizo beauty)?A friend of mino says you only married mo for money. Is it true? Gayboy?Cortaiuly not, dear. It may seem improbablo, but 1 really and truly married you for love. Biggs?So Jaggaby baa passed in bis checks, oh ? Poor follow, ho had many vices. Diggs?Yos, but he had at least one redeeming virtue Biggs?What was that? Diggs?Ho never smoked cigarettes. 44 Mamma," said little Georgia, " does a deaf and dumb boy talk with his Angers?" *' Yos, dear," replied hia mother. 44 Well," continued the small inter rogator, 41 how do you suppose he says bis prayers if his Angers are sore? Instead of the American expression, 14 cast oft clothing," tho English use, 44 left off clothing." In an Haglish oastohia. tho Ihe Kind You Hate Al*ays Bou?W newspaper an advertisement stated ! that *? Mr. aud Mrs. Brown havo loft I off clothing of overy description and invite your careful inspection." " Lcud mo your ear a minute," re marked Mrs. Brown to her husband tho other eveniug. ** Will you give it back to mo?" he inquired with mock auxicty. " Of course 1 will, you idiot I Do you suppose I want tc start a tannery?" She got the oar. Mrs. ({aswell?So Ethel married abroad and married well, did she? Mrs. Dukauc?What 1 said was that she was well married. *? Bow ?" "Thoio were two coremouics, a civil aud a religious." ** No, Johnny, said tho father, as they eat at dinner, " you can't have a second piece of pio. One is enough for you." "There 'tis again," rejoined the lit tle fellow. " You are always sayin' I must loam to eat pio with a fork an' then you wou't gimme a chance." " Now, little boy, what's tho mean ing of the word hypocrisy ?" asked a Sunday school teacher of her favorite pupil. ** I can't explain what it is, but r know it all tho same." " Give mo an example of hyp lisy." ?? When a fellow says he loves hi: ?Sunday school teacher. That's hypoc risy." " Ilavo n cigar. One of my favor ite braud," said Choeply. " Thanks," Jenks, who know tho brand, replied, as ho carefully placed the cigar in his hat. "Do you always keep cigars thorc ?" inquired Choeply. " No ; only certain kinds. You know, they say a few cabbage leaves in your hat will prevent sunstroke." " She's ouc of the most economical women I ever saw," h?r neighbor was saying. " Why, do you know wl" t she did? She got married throe weo"'"i before she was roady, just to make i? possible for her husband to take vantage of the BUtnmer excursion n on their wedding trip, and they w only going about ?Aghty miles, (i ? way." w The following explanatory note ac companied a Liberty (Mo.) young man's wedding gift to a friend : "My dear girl : You will find in the box a thingamajig, which has something to do with eating. It's a cross between a harpoon and a hayfork. It may bo for spearing pickles or stacking chop ped cabbage. Any way, you will be so happy that you won't care.' District attorney Jerome, of New York, whoso father, Lawrence Je rome, was a celebrated wit of his day, says that on a certain occasion when ho was a little chap he was riding on bis fathor's knee in a Fifth avenue stage, every other seat being taken. At tho corner a lady entered and his father said to him in sovero tones : " Why, Travers, my boy, I am ?ishamod of you I Why don't you get up and give this lady your seat?" ANew Kini> of Swindle,?Salt Lake City folks havo lately had among ihcin an attractive refined and at tractive palmist. Ho arrived a couple of months ago and opondd an ollicc, whore llaring signs proclaimed him the wonder of the age. Ho was soon woiug a rushing business, telling min ing men when stocks wore going up, .'dvising ladies in attairs of the heart, c'3. For this a moderate rcconi ponco was asked and freely paid by *'\e patrous. To onlookers business ... fined to bo increasing, but when tho Jmc for opening the olllco came ono .morning tnc nrofossor of palmistry did no. appear. Tl>e public then learned or the llrst time tiwil ho was the orig inator of a brand now swindle. He represented to each of his patrons that if they would givo him a twenty dol ' ir goldpiecc ho would magneti/.c it so I hat they would havo power to read le future, when thoy consulted tho goldpiecc, just as ho read it in tho palm. They were to call aud receive ihcir magnetized goldpiecc the day on which tho palm specialist failed to ur livo. Thoy called, but thoy went aw without their gold, and with a cor lion thai the magnetic inlluencc iwcou the professor's fingers and tL. goldpieces was really marvelous. IThe ordinary fly is partly responsi ble for tho spread of cholera in tho Philippines, according to a repoit mado by Major L. M. Maus, commis sioner of public health for tho Philip pine Islands, to the war department. The report says that from March 20 to May 15, 1,005 cases of Asiatic chol era wore reported in Manila. 800 of which rcoulted fatally. An Atlanta, Ga., bank has opened a department exclusively for its wonr n clients. The paying teller is a woman, who pays all checks prcsonted to Vor iu brand now currency. Depo jrs in tho woman's dopartment aro fur nished with dainty combination c ..?> and pass books bound in Russian'. er. Charlos Uhtef, ono of the ek men who survived tho massacro of Company C, Ninth United States In fantry, in the Philippine Islands, has reached his St. Louis home. lie was stabbod sevon times, and has a bolo knife, which was run through his shoulder, as a souvenir of tho occasion. Swathe ^?1 he Kind You Haw Always Bwtflt fijgnaturo