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Tba Academy had been opeD about a week-long enough for the newspaper critic; to tell the public what it ought to admire. Strange to say, this year the critics were unanimous in bestow? ing their highest praises on a piece of statu? ary ; and a great future for the sculptor was predicted. As the bulk of the good people who pay their shillings at the turnstiles care little about statue?, one which attracts general attention must be either a very great one or a very tricky one-as a-rule the latter. . Yet, No. ?,460 in the catalogue appealed to no one by cheap sentiment or sensational treatment It was but the lightly-draped figure of a- beautiful giri Ono jost in the first flush of womanhood. She was in 1ha act of stepping hastily forward. Her arms were extended as if to welcome, perhaps embrace, some one who was coming toward hear. Her face bore a smile of eager de? light. The grace, the lightness, the life of the figure arrested each passerby. The fall of the drapery, the position of each well rounded limb, conveyed the idea of rapid motion. It was indeed hard to belie vo that she was doomed to remain forever in one fixed attitude; The stock remark of tho spectators was that in a minute they ex? pected to see her at the other side of the room, This statue bore no distmgaishing title, but those persons who turned to their cata? logues found, under the number and the artist's name, a few words of poetry: Her hands outstretched To greet the new love; while her feet Tread, scornful, on the old love's gifts. After reading this one turned, of course, to her feet, and found that one of them was treading on flowers-roses and large star shaped blossoms. Several people, while admiring the statue, fancied they had somewhere seen the origi? nal cf that beautiful face; but, save the sculptor, only one, James Herbert, knew the truth. He cursed Leigh's impertinence, but was too wise to take any notice of it. Yet he determined to keep Eugenia from the Academy if possible. She was in town, and in a week's time was to be married to Sir Ralph. Two months after Mrs. Cathcart had taken ber niece abroad the baronet joined them and renewed his proposals, this time with suc? cess. The girl stipulated that the marriage should not take place until the spring. The " truth is, she wanted some months? delay in order to get rid of the memories of Gerald Leigh, and by the time she returned to . England flattered herself she had success? fully completed the operation. She hal in the last few days heard some talk about the statue, but had steadfastly kept her eyes from the art criticisms, fear? ing to see Gerald's name. Nevertheless, she wished to visit the Academy, and was sur? prised when James Herbert, now amiability itself, refused to take her there." 'You mustn't go this year," he said; "that fellow's statue is creating quite a furore,'* "Well what of thatP asked Eugenia, coldly. "He has had bad taste enough to repre? sent you. The likeness is unmistakable. It is a maudlin thing-a girl deserting her old love, or some such nonsense. StS?? you'd better not go." Eugenia said no more; but all day long she was thinking of her brother's words and longing to see what Gerald had wrought. That evening she dined out At the table were several perso J 5 who worshipped art, and.., ? Eugenia's cheek burned as sha heard the praise bestowed on the new sculptor and the great future prophesied for bim. Had she, after ali, bien wrong? "Would it not have been better to have followed the mandates of her hear;? Had shs not been weak and mercenary! No matter; it was too late now to repent. Poor Gerald! She must see this wonderful image of herself. Early the next morning, quietly dressed and veiled, she went alone to Burlington House. Like many others, she stood trans? fixed by the beauty and grace of her proto? type; but, .unlike others, she knew the mean? ing of thessasu?, knew the mute reproach it conveyed, knew why the marble foot tr ol upon those particular flowers. She had never told him the face of his boyish gift, but Gerald had often and often re? called the first meeting with her. Eugenia's heart swelled as she remembered his brave words and confidence in himself-how sure he felt of success. He had, indeed, suc? ceeded, but the first great work from his hands was a memento of his love for a faithless woman-herself. Sir Ralph Norgate, her impending mar? riage, her brother's disdain and the world's sneers were forgotten as she gazed on that reproaching fignre wrought by the man she loved, but did not love enough. Tears were in her eyes. She might have stood for an hour "heedless of all save her sad thoughts, had not the mention of Gerald Leigh's name brought her back to the fact that she waa surrounded by people. Two gentlemen were at her sida They were talking of the work and the sculptor. One of them she knew. Ho was a lord, fa? mons fer his love of art and encouragement of rising artists. "I tried to buy it,* ho said, "but found it ivas not fer sale." "Commercially spaaking," said his com? panion, "it is as well you cannot buy it." "Why? The man must go to the top of bis profession." **I think not Indeed, my belief is he will do little more. I have inquired about him. He does noe h ve the life a genius must live, in these days, if hs wants to succeed." *1 am sorry to byar it," said Lord ? ?? , moving away. Miss Herbert left tbs Academy with an echo of Gerald's extravagant statement that life rr death hung upon her love sounding in her ears. ?he conversation she had over? heard distressed hor greatly. The thought that Jier treachery had ruined a life full of promise would not be dismissed. She spant a most miserable day, and its misery was not diminished by tue truth, which s ho could no longer conceal from her? self, that she still loved Gerald She loved him more than ever. Too late! Too late! And Eugenia Herbert wept, as many othsis have wept, that the past could not be un? done. Sir Ralph Norgate and James Herbert dined that dav afc Mrs. Cathcart s. Their society was little comfort to Eugenia. She felt now that she hated her lover-hated his polite, hollow society ways ani expres? sions-hated that blas'* look which so often settled on his face. She had never carel for him. Their love milking had been of a frigid kind-not, be it said, by Sir Ralph's wish. He was proud of?, and perhaps really fond of tho beautiful girl he had bo ugh i; so it was scarcely fair that Eugenia should compare his polite wooing wita that of the impassioned boy's, which recked no obsta? cles-heeded no consequences. Ob. if Ger? ald were a baronet and richi Miss Herbert at that moment bated her brother. Bitterly as she blamed hers3lf, she felt that something lie had said, done or designed had induced her to refrain from answering Gerald's letter. If oaly sh3 had to decide again. Her bitter thoughts made it impossible for her to sit out the dinner. Very soon she ! pleaded headache and went to her own roora j to resume her self-re viliag*. She made no ; further attempt to banish Garald from her thoughts. She lived again every moment she had spent in bK company-heard again every word of wild love-felt his hand ci ose on hers-his lips press her own-and shud? dered as the dismal words, "Life or death," seemed echoing through her ears. If she could undo the past!t Why not? The thought rushed through her. What hindered her to, save the fake gods to whom she had bent? She was still legally frje. Gerald was ia the same town. Why should she heed her friends? Why trouble as to what people would think or say? By one bold step she could right everything. If to-morrow-nay, thi3 very hour-she went-to Gerald and bade him take befand hold her agajns? aU, . she knew he would do so. He would forgive. To him her action would not seem bold or unmaid enly. In his eye? she would rank as high as ever; and what matters the rest? To-mor? row they might be miles away, and the bb'ss of being Geralds wife might well com? pensate for what people would say about her conduct. She herself could forget all, save that she was now bound forever to the man she loved She would do it With feverish impa? tience she threw off her rich dress and wrapped herself in a plain cloak She put on the prettiest hat she could find, stole down stairs, and was out of the house be . fore second thoughts had time to bring ir resolution. Her heart beat wildly. She hailed a cab and was driven to Nelson studios. On the way she remembered it was an unlikely hour to find an artist in his studio, but, nevertheless, now sho had set out. resolved to complete her journey. She walked quickly to Gerald's door. She knocked softly, but met with no re? sponse. She dared not wait longer outside. The pictured consequences of her rash act were assuming tremendous proportions in her brain. Another minute's delay and she must leave the spot, never to return. She turned the handle of the door and entered the room Now, Miss Herbert's half-formed plan of action, when she found herself face to face with her ill-treated lover, had been some? thing like this: She would walk up to him and simply say, "Gerald, I am come." The rest roust be loft to him, but she believed, in spite of her weakness and treachery, he would freely forgive her all. Gerald was not in the studio. The gas was half turned down and the clay casts on the wall looked grim and spectral. But if Gerald was not in the room it was still in? habited. On a low couch-a couch covered by a rich Oriental rug-lay a woman fast asleep. In after years. Eugenia, speaking to her? self of that moment, could only describe her feelings by the old image of a s word passing through the heart She turned to fly the place, but as she turned she was seized by an overwhelming impulse. At ali risk she must soe the sleeper? The truth ir, she was now a prey to a second passion, which some say is stronger than that of love. She crept across the room and gazed on the sleeper. Even by the dim gaslight she knew that she gazed on beauty before which her own must pale. The woman might have been some five years older than herself, and these wonderful charms were at their zenith. The rich, dear, warm color on the cheek, the long black lashes, the ar ciel and perfect eyebrows, told of southern lauds; The full voluptuous figure, the shapely, rounded arms, the red lips, the soft, creamy neck-before these tho heart of a man would run as wax before a fire. Eugenia, seeking her lo^er, found this woman in his stead I A bitter, scornful smile played on Mis3 Herbert's lips as she gazed at the sleeper. Somehow, that oval, sunny face seemed familiar to her. Well might it be. In Lon . don. Paris, everywhere, she bad seen it in the shop windows. There were few people in Prance or England who had not heard the name of Mlle. Carlotta, singer, dancer, darling of opera bouffe, whose adventures and amours were notorious, who had ruined more men than she could count on the fingers of her fair hands. Eugenia recognized her,' and her smile of scorn deepenel. The sight of a half emp? tied champagne bottle close to tue sleeper a half smoked cigarette lying on rue floor just as it had fallen from her fingers, added nothing to the contempt Miss Herbert's smile expressed. Gathering her skirts to? gether to avoid any chance cf contamina? tion by touch, she was preparing to leav3 the studio as noiselessly as she h id entered it, when, suddenly, the sleeper awoke. Awok? without any warning. Simply opened her splendid dark eyes, stared for , half a second, then with wonderful lightness and agility sprang to her feet ' "Que faites vous la? "Why are you here?" she cried. "Without a word Eugenia mored towards the doer. Mlle. Carlotta was before her. She turned the key and placed her back against the door. "Doucement! doucement! ma belle," sh9 said. "Permit me to know who honors me with a visit?" "I wish tos >3 Mr. L^igh. . I suppose he is out Be good enough to let me pass.5' "Are you a model then? But, no, modell look not as you look." "I am not a mole!" "Not! fi done! You are, perhaps, ons of those young misses- who write GeraMo tot? ters of love. A la bonne heure? I wish ta see ono ot them-moi." With a saucy smile, Carlotta pocketed tho key, turned up the gas and commenced acx>l scrutiny of her prisoner. Eugenia blushed crimson. Jf??e. Carlotta -was before her. "Oui, vous ?tes belle, ma chere-belle, i mais blonde, and Geraldo, he loves not the blonde." "Let mo pas?," said Eugenia, stamping her foot Her tormentor laughed, but not iii-tcm perediy. "Ho will soon be here," she said mockingly. "Surely mademoiselle will wait. He will be enchanted to see ono of the young misses." Mlle. Carlotta, when not injured, was not vindictive or uukindiy ; but she was as mis? chievous as a monkey. No doubt having teased the girl to her satisfaction, she would have soon released her, but it bappmed that Eugenia turned her head and for tho first time the light shone full upon her face. Her jailer starked. She sprang towards her, seized her _rm and dragged her across the rcxiin. Still holding her captive, she tore down a sheet and revealed the clay model of che statue which had made Gerald famous. She looked from tho lifeless to the living face, then burst into a poa! of de? risive laughter. Eugenia's secret was dis? covered. "Hal ha! ha! The young miss that Geraldo loved Tho one who threw him away for a rich lover! Yet she wished to see him a^aiu-so at uigbt she comes. Ah, mademoiselle, you have w-r-r-recked him, c-r-r-rushed him, r-r-ruiued ^m, still would see bini. Gool, good; it is now his turn. My Geraldo shall have revenge-revenge!" , ] Eugenia, thoroughly arouse 1, commanded h-r to loz hw go. Carlotta laughed in ber face, was even ill-bred enough to snap her fingers and po ce out her tongue at her pris onet Eugenia humbled herself and im? plored her by their common womanhood. Carlotta laughed the louder. Eugenia ap? pealed to her venality and tried to bribe j ber. Carlotta lowered her black eyebrows j and scowled, but laughed louder than ever. I "He will come very soon," was all she said. j "He v. ul not stop long away from mo-Car I lotta," Miss Herbert was at her wit's end. Yet, even through the shaine of tho situation, I the anguish of her heart made itself f elt After In vin g wrought herselt' up to m;ike such a sherill ce, such, a n atonement, it was pitiable to find Gerald no bettor than tho rest of his sexl She sank upori a chair, longing for release, yet dreading to hear the step which would herald it. Half an hour passel Milo. Carlotta whiled it away by emptying a glass of champagne, smoking a cigarette and mak? ing comments on Gerald's prolonged ab~ ! sence. Presently she cried: "Ah, mado i moiselle, this is dull for you-soe, I will dance to you," and therewith she raised her? self on her toes and went pirouettiug round her captive, humming the. while an_ air pf Offenbach's. Her dress was long, but she managed it with marvellous skill, and Eu? genia, while loathing, could not help watching her wita a sort of fascination. She was as agile as a panther-every atti? tude was full of grace, every gesture allur? ing. Suddenly she stopped short. Her great eyes sparkled even more brightly. Sho glanced at her victim "Hist," she said "1 hear him 1 know his step. He comes." A moment afterward the doer was tried. Eugenia covered her fac3 with her hands. Sae knew not what the woman meant to do or to say, but she felt that her crowning shame was at hand. Yet her heart beat at the thought of seeing Gerald once more, and a wild idea of forgiveness on cither side passed through her. Mlle. Cariocr? turned down the gas, un? locked the door, and, as it opened, threw herself into the arms of the newcomer. Eu? genia heard the sound of kissss given and returned, and her heart grew like stone. "Geraldo, mon ami," she heard the dancer say in passionate tone.?, "dis moi, que tu m'aimes-que tu m'aimes toujours!" -Jo l'adore, ma belle-tu es ravissante!" "Tell me in your own dear barbarous tongue. Swear it to me in English." "? swear it, my beautiful gypsy. I love you." "Me only r "You only," and Eugenia heard him Irisa her again and again. "Dis done, my Geraldo. You love me more than the pale-faced miss who scorned you?" Ha laughed a wild, unpleasant sounding laugh. "Why not? You can love or say you can lova She was the changeable white moon you are the glorious southern sun. She was ice-you are fire. Better bc burned to death than to die of cold and starvation. Men have worshipped you-men have died for you. I love you." They came into the room. His arm was round her. Her radiant face rested on his shoulder. Again and again he kissed those beautiful lips. His eyes were only for her and saw ncr Eugenia Miss Herbert rose. Her face was as white Miss Herbert rose. as her marble prototype's. She might hav8 passed ont unobserved by Gerald; but Mlle. Carlotta was on the watch. She pointed to her and Gerald-turned and saw Eugenia. He had but time to realize it was na vision-then she was gone. With a wild cry he turned to follow her. but the woman twined her arms around him and restrained him. She was stroan, and for some mo? ments delaine! him. Her resistance mad ?en:-d bim. With a ?erce oath he grasped har round arms and toro them from his neck, throwing her away with such feres that she fell upon the floor. Then he rushed niter Eugenia. She was walking swiftly along the road. He soon reached her side; but, although aware of his presence, she neithsr spoke nor looked at him "What brought you heref5 he said,^ hoarsely. She made no reply-only walked the faster. "Tell me why you come?" bo said. "I will sever leave you until you answer m\" She turned and looked at bim Fresh from that scene in tho studio-with those words still ringing in her ears-even the great change she saw in his face did not move her to pity. "I came," she said, "on tho eve of my marriage, to ask forgiveness of a man whom I fancied I kal wronged I am glad I came. I found him happy and in Bocietv after his own hear;." Her voice was cold and contemptuous. He qui vero 1 beneath her scorn. At that moment a cab passed. Eugenia called it. "Leave me," she said to Garald "Leave me. Our paths in lifo shall cross ho mere." He grasped her wrist. *"Do you dare to roproacu me? You! Eugenia, ? told you it was lifo or death." "Life cr death!" she 'repeated. "Death, at any rate, c-oems mada very sweet to I you." Still holding her wrist, he looked into her eyes in a strange, hopeless way. He saw nothing in them to help him. He leaned down to her ear. "Yes, death," he said, in a solemn whis? per; "but the moral and spiritual death come first." His hand left her wrist. Ho turned and, without a word, strode away. Whither? Even as Tanuhauser returned to the Venus berg, so Gerald Leigh returned to his studio and Carlotta. Eugenia wept all the way hom?. Wept for herself and Gerald Wept for the shame she had endured Wept for thc use? lessness of the contemplated atonement. Wept for the life bef ore her and for a man's future and career wrecked by ber weakness. The nexc week sha mairied Sir Kalph Norgate. The ceremony was surrounded by befitting splendor. Ye',- even at tba altar, Gerald Leigh's pale, passionate face rose before her, and she knew it would Dever leave her thoughts. She loved him S?L On her wedding morning she received many letters. She had no time to read them, so took them with her and perused them as she went north with her husband. Among them was one in a strang} hand? writing. It ran tb xis: "For your salce he struck mc-Carlotta! But he came back to rae and is mine again. Him I forgive, not y cu. We go abroad to? gether to warm, sunny lands. Some day we shall quarre: and part. Then I shall rc- j member you and take my revenge. How? | dhat husband for whom you deserted Ger? ard. I shall take from you." Eugenia's lip curled. She torc the letter and threw the pieces cut of tho carriage window. Two years af ter wards Lady Norgate was listlc-siy turning the leaves of a society journal. Although she was a great and fashionable lady; she was often listless, and found life rather a dreary procee Jing. She read to-day among tue the ;t rica! notes that Mlle. Carlotta, tho divine opera bouifo no? tre-s, v as engage:! to appear v.cn month at the Frivolity. Although lbj woman's absurd threat wes unheeded, if not forgot? ten, her naine recalled too vivi'lly the most painful epis' ? le in Lady Norgate'* Ufa She turnci to another part of the paper and read that the gentleman who committed sui? cide under such distressing circumstances at. Monaco, hal now been identified. Ho was*Mr. Gerald Leigh, the sculptor, whose ?r.-;t important work attracted so much at? tention two years ago. lt was hinted that his passion for a well-known actress was the cause of the rash deed. Lady Norgate dropped the pap^r and covered; her face with her hands. He had spoken tinily. lier love meant life or death. Had ?he believed or troubled about the concluding paragraph of tho notice, had she venn; re-1 to tell herself it was true that Gerald bad forgotten her and Carlotta waa responsible lor his death, her mind would soon have been sot cc res;. Like a courteous lee who gives fair warn? ing. Mile. Carlotta wrote once more: "He is dead. Ko died for your sake, not mine. Your uame, not mine, was on bis lips. Look to yourself. 1 am coming to London." No doubt Carlotta meant this letter rsa first bi ow town rds revenge. She would hardly hayo written it bad she known that Lady Norgate would cheri- h those words forever-. Poor comfort its ii was. they told her.thal Gerald had loved her to the hist. Then Mlle. Carlotta, more beautiful, more enticing, more audacious than evor, cama to London. For some months it had been whispered in society that Sir Ralph Norgate was not so perfect a husband as such a wife as Eugenia might rightly expect. After Carlotta's re? appearance the whispers grow louder, the statements more circumstantial Eugenia caught an echo of them and smiled disdain? fully. Then the name of Carlotta's new victim became town talk. Yet Eugenia made no sign. Not even when she met her husband, in broad daylight, seated side by side with the siran. Tho man had the grace to turn his bead away, but Carlotta shot a glauco of malicious triumph at the- pale lady who passed without a quiver of the lip. James Herbert was with his sister, and found this encounter too mucb, even for bis cynicism. He was bound ?p speax 44Tne blackguard'" *e said. "But, Eu? genia, I don't think I would have a divorce or a separation. It makes such a scandal." - "it is a matter of pyrfect indifference to me," sba said, coldly. She spoke tue truth. Carlotta's romantic vengeance was an utter failure. Lady Nor? gate and her husband were, in truth, no further apart than they had been for many months. Eugenia was indifferent And, as time goes on, grows more and more so. Indifferent to wealth, indifferent to rank, to pleasure, even to pain I She cherishes nothing, cares for nothing, save the rem?mbranos that sho was once loved by Gerald Leigh-that he bade her give him life or death-that although she gave him death be died with her name on his lips. THE END. Mr. Ario Bates tells, ia The Providence Journal, a story illustrating the extremes to which the worship of literary greatness has at times gone in Boston, whatever may be its present state. In the latter part of Mr. Emersons life, when his mind had failed somewhat, his daughter came into his library one morning, and found hirn enter? taining a stranger, a Boston woman. As Miss Ellen entered, the. sage looked up with an expression of hopeless be? wilderment. ''Ellen," he said, "1 wish you would attend to this lady; sho wants some of my clothes." Trained by ?? experience to she vagaries of the hon hunting female, Miss Emerson was yet rather taken aback by this somewhat startling announcement; but the visitor proceeoed to a voluble explanation that sho was a making a "drawn-in" mg, "a poets' rug," made of poets' cast off clothing. Mr. Longfellow had given her an pld shirt, and "if Mr. Emerson bad a pair of worn-out pants-"Whether she got the trousen report sayeth not, but surely such ingenuity of impertinence dessrvw som? pew rd. Col. J. J. Dargan Before the Brooklyn Club. From the Brooklyn, N. Y. Eagle, March 20. L small audience gathered in the Art Association Hali yesterday eve? iling to listen to an address on free trade, by the Hon. John. J. Dargan, of South Carolina, on the ''Parallel ism of Negro Slavery and Protec? tion/' delivered under the auspices of the Brooklyn Revenue Reform Club. Mr. Dargan was formerly a slave-owner, cultivating about five hundred acres in cotton, in his State. Since the act of emancipation, how? ever, he lias adopted a system of community of interest between his col? ored work-people and himself, which, he says, he ?tids works much better than the wag-es s}'stem. He em? ploys colored labor exclusively, and finds that now the cotton crop in South Carolina has increased a hun? dred fold with free labor, aided, in 'part, by improved mechanical con? trivances. Mr. Thomas G. Sherman, in intro? ducing the speaker, made a brief his? torical survey of the tariff from the first protective tariff measure passed by a casting vote in 1816, but a measure framed independently of auv idea of deriving revenue, down */ O' to the. last protective tariff passed to provide n-veuue for the war. Mas? sachusetts and New Hampshire fought side by side agaiust the grow? ing influence of protection, which was 1 coming from the West, and playing into tho hands of certain Eastern men whose avowed policy it was to retard the growth and progress of the West. Yaukees are seldom outwitted, but in tin's instance they found they were. They were outwitted by New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky, and then resolved to retaliate by adopting protection as far as possible and making all the money out of their own States they could. This they did by controlling the cream of the trade. Webster, when twitted with being a Protectionist, retorted that the Eastern men had been forced to adopt the measure, and certainly did not mean to ask for a discontinu? ance of the policy. While Kentucky Wa6 forcing protection on Massachu? setts she was sending representatives of free trade to both Houses. Refer? ring to South Carolina, the speaker hoped the time had come when she could afford to recognize the mis? take Calhoun made in supposing slavery to be the secret of her suc? cess. The time has come when South Carolina has a mission to teach Mas? sachusetts a lesson in freedom in re? turn for the Massachusetts conversion of South Carolina to the dectriue of the rights of man during the war. The' lesson South Carolina is now teaching Massachusetts is one of broad scope and of larger rights that man should be able io go where he will to buy or sell what he will so long as he docs no harm to his fellow-man. lie must accept the les? son of thc war as teaching the value of freedom in al! things. The speak? er paid a high compliment to the statesmen ol' the South on account of their incorruptibility when in Con? gress. There never was a represen? tative of the South ever suspected of casting his vote for corrupt 'motives. This could not be saul of tire repre? sentatives of the North. At least three members from Northern Stales j have been censured for conduct which ; was corrupt. In the main wc hail to j rely upon the South. He hoped the j South was going lo take its proper share of this Government ; it will not ! override the North: it could not if it would and would not if it could. We need the Southerners to help us drive i out the swindling schemes of our ! corrupt legislators. Present reck? less legislation is going far beyond the line of necessity, and wc are in danger of being ?vamped by exces? sive taxation. Many Northern rep? resentatives are docp up lo the bows in schemes for personal advance? ment, and we are apt to be swamped by them, for they carry with them so many other men. The speaker then introduced Mr. Dargan. Mr. Dargan saw a distinct parallel? ism between (-lavery and protection, and between abolition and free trade, lu the Constitution of the United States it was laid down that all in this country should be equal, joy equal rights and the same eminent. Yet it was only tw years ago that we succeeded in ding our Government of the brar slavery, and not without using iron hands of war, shedding oceai blood and sacrificing life. But other form of slavery has since fa.< cd itself upon us. Protection as now have it, is but a remaining tion of the war. The war was elated and fought to secure the ration of the black man : but it < rise to another form of slavery the white man. Good men argue to be the sure corner-stone of An can slavery, and it is now- air unanimously agreed that aboli was not a too dearly purchased 1 dom. Many, like the speaker, c pared free trade with abolition, now hoped that oppression and in tice would be put down because was their wrong. Free traders ac the arguments of the abolitionists the pro-slavery men adopt the ai raents of protection. It is iuevita it is clearly to be seen by those . will look, that the fight for : trade will be crowned as was fight for abolition. A study of arguments pro and con, abolition free trade, will be found of pecu interest. Many years ago, yet w in living memory, England and ft England found the business of c turing wild Africans, shipping tl to America, and then selling then be very profitable. Earlier yet So Carolina objected, but the moi country vetoed our import tax slaves, and so continued the unfa traffic. From that time until Al ham Lincoln signed the proclam?t of freedom our soil was stained ? this wrong. Ile recollected well t just before the proclamation freed slaves most of the Southern sla owners gloomily predicted that c ton planting must cease' if slav weie abolished. Cotton was king ? the slavery of the negro the foun tion of the throne. When Willi Lloyd Garrison rose up in New E land to fight slavery, emboldened noble courage and perseverance, put aside all- calculation or con quence in the desire for the rig South Carolina now ackuowledg his courage and foresight, and rega ed him as worthy the highest hom memory can place upon him. 3 too was a rebel of the deepest d; be it remembered. Liberty has ni but to take one more step for wa -there need be no war this til in abolishing the white slave; There is no possible chance of war over free trade because t people are at present divided the question in every State of t Uuion. We are now tired war, and tired of the implacal patriots of the North and South w cannot see that the war is eudc The free^trade battle will be fong out with ballots, not bullets. U present tariff was imposed to obta revenue to carry on thc war ; t people bore the imposition cheerful for the purposes of the war. V have become so accustomed to tl tariff that it has ceased to be regal? ed as a burden, and it is even grav ly urged that it is a positive go< and the very-corner stone of Ame can civilization. Thc old argumen used half a century ago by the pi slavery advocates are used still ; b despite those old arguments slavei had to go. The ruin which w; promised and prophesied before sla ery was abolished failed to appea but instead we have happiness ar freedom. Instead of a stoppage cotton planting it has doubled sim slavery was abolished. But the tariff which made the ab( lition of slavery possible now coi tinues and is used for the maintei auce and support of a privai enterprise at the cost of another pr vate enterprise. It has become curse, aud has reduced the whit people to a degree of slavery mea? ured by the work necessary to ear the money with which the tax is paie The people work two-thirds for then selves and one-third for the protec tion of classes. This is slavery an it cannot staud. So surely as w hurled slavery from us so surely i the doom of protection approaching They forfeit their country's gratitud who seek to perpetuate oppressive taxation. Protection is as certainly a curse as a protection to industr and a shocking wrong to all other iu duslries that it docs not protect Protectionists may make up thei minds to pass into history with th< advocates of slavery, lt is due t< South Carolina to speak out and le the world know what a horrible insli tutiou slavery was. We owe it ti the cause of justice and truth and tc the welfare of mankind the work over and the American people whom we have so greatly wronged, but, above all, to ourselves, to em phasize our abhorrence of tire insti? tution and of the arguments by wh?cl: we were misled into a support of it. South Carolina, in all bul slavery, ha* been true to the American Irnloir. Nunification and secession are neith? er of them the products of lier mind. She loves freedom, and not slavery ; justice, and not oppression. At the close of his remarks Mr. Dargan received a warnt vote ol thanks. Mr. Shearman perceived Mr. Henry George in the audience, and made thc fact known The audi? ence called for him and he ascended thc platform. "1 can b;.ar testimony/' said Mr. George, "that Mr. Dargan is a thorough going freo trader-in that he is a free trader after my own heart. I join, as all heartily must, in recip? rocating his sentiments. We are indeed, one nation again. 1 trust we shall always remain so, and that the North and South will stand to? gether in the contest thal is coming on to abolish the new slavery.13 --?a ? ?* -i - The Kershaw County Poor House is a dilapidated building with two rooms in it for black and white alike. The i Gamdeu Messenger says : {A glance into I thc place in which they live is enough j to sicken any oae.' Wiiat Our Editors Say. Berkeley Gazette. There are at least five policy or lot? tery establish me nts in Charleston, which make two drawings daily, besides numbers of other gambling dens of various denominations which are sapping the earnings of the working classes. These concerns are carried on io open defiance of the law, right in the faces of the city authorities, and are not even compelled to pay taxes for the privilege. If some of the papers over in the city would expose and denounce these dens, even if they devote less time to uproot? ing negro churches and barber-shops, it would be infinitely more to their credit. - Laurensville Herald. Strikes among railroad employee?, es? pecially, seem to be the order of the day in the Southwest and elsewhere. Tbe Knights of Labor organization seems to be at the bottom of the move? ment. While sympathizing with skill? ed labor and all other kinds of labor, we deprecate the methods resorted to by the Knights of Labor to remedy alleged grievances. If complaints ar* well founded, some other means should be adopted than wholesale strikes and boy? cotting^ The average laborer must suf? fer in the end. If wages are oppres? sively low there are certainly better methods of relief than those in question. Whether just or otherwise, whenever labor undertakes to fight capital through doubtful or impracticable means the former must succumb to the latter. : The Commission. - Our neighbor asks, 'Can anyone tell what bas become of the South Carolina Railroad Commission V Probably they have gooe into the rear coach to eon suit in regard to the importance of what the South Carolina Governor said to the North Carolina executive. Clarendon Enterprise. ' We hear it mooted that this farmers' movement, or as it .is called in derision, this Tillman' movement, is a class on? slaught, intended especially against lawyers. We do not think that any such intention exists. The idea is, as well as we can understand it, to remove a lot of before-the-war aristocratic fogies and in their stead to place live, ener? getic men. Of course no rapture of the Democratic ranks can be intended, for the farmers and those interested in this movement embrace at least nice-tenths of the Democratic voters in the State. At present we are decidedly in favor of this movement, but we anxiously await the ac';onofthe State Convention, to see what will be their declared policy. ?lampton Guardian. The farmers of South Carolina cast two-thirds of the entire ballot of the State and pay a greater portion of the taxes. They sacrificed more than any other class to rout the Radical robbers and place honest men in office* Their pursuit is the basis of all others, and is a most noble vocation. They are en? titled to a respectful hearing-in fact, they can compel it. What the outcome of this convention will be remains to be seen. We suppose the reduction of taxes, laws in the interest of farmers, and the necessity of combining and showing and using their political strength, will be debated by the lights cf the assemblage. Seneca Free Press. ? good number of the bad laws are attributed to the farmers who have been in the Legislature. There is a good deal of solid lying about that thing. There are not so many genuine farmers in the Legislature as are reported to be. A man who owns a farm, runs three stores, own3 forty shares in a factory, and then practices law or medicine out of benevolence (?) is no farmer. Be? sides, the few genuine farmers in our recent Legislature were sent there for various purposes. They had no unity of design, no concert of action. Some of them have been sent there not for any known or even presumed legisla? tive ability; they have been elected because they represent certain factions upon a single question. S. 0. Advocate. The United States Congress outgoes Dickens's British 'Circumlocution Of? fice' in exemplifying the great business principle, 'How not to do it.' It has taken the two houses three months to get settled in their seats, and now three more will be consumed in getting ont of them and going home. Meantime thc country looks anxiously to see some little matters of finance, tariff, civil service, cte., disposed of. The Demo? crats are doing an immense amount of nothing, and the Republicans are help ins with all their might. f Carolina Spartan. The silver question is now op for dis? cussion rn the House. Mr. Tillman believes in using gold and silver both as a ba/is for our currency. Mr. James, cf New York, thought the demonetiza? tion of silver a great blunder, and that coinage under the Bland Act should be suspended, fer a continuance of that eoioagc was a fraud. The free coinage of silver was what the country needed. Mr. Hempbill, of South Carolina, op? posed the coinage of silver and thought the country should use only gold as a metallic currency. No vote has yet been reached. Ike Montgomery, colored, who was sentenced at Spartanburg Court to serve two years in the penitentiary for re? sisting an officer, hanged himself Mon? day after being carried back to bis cell, ile threw a blanket over the cross-bar of bis cell and was found dead by a deputy who visited him a half hour after having placed him in a cell by himself. He sent word*to his family a few days ago to make his coffin and dig his grave. When arrested in January hst he threw himself into the fire while tied, Baying that he might ss well go that way as to have to go to the peni? tentiary. Columbia Register. Tho plan adopted for the primary : election by the Executive Committee ? seems to be quite fair and complete. ! All that is required now is to carry it [out tu perfect good fsitb. ?iii ?a.^*MxSSim&i The people are eotitled to have their ~; choice in this watter, it is a* matter of , no moment whom they choose to sop? ? *M port. Under DO other circa m stances . / can there be a lawful' cboiee by the . \ people of t heir ow a public servants. Hence, the Register has at ali time? advocated tbs primary system as essen-' ; y. tia! to anything like a proper represe?- > 5 tative government. ^ All we want is a fair showing for the - people in choosing their officers ; and v; th?3, and nothing bot this, will tbe#eo~ T; pie consent to take. ? A Bold Jump, An ofEcer with a handcuffed darke/ boarded the train on the Port Royal an4 i 3 Augusta railroad at Allendale yesterday > - and the following information was given the Chronicle reporter by s passenger V> of the bold and successful escape of the prisoner Ey jumping through the witt* \-<? dow of the car. The Circumstances, a? : narrated by the passenger, are as follows V A constable, accompanied by a hand- 1 ^ cuffed negro prisoner, boarded the pas* . :'r? senger train at Allendale. Just as the ? train had passed Branson, going at the . -? rate of thirty-five miles per hoar, the : ? constable, not dreaming that there wa? Jpj any possibility of his prisoner escaping, >-V took bis seat on the opposite side of the . ??| car. The window Deit to the negro r was open, and in an instant the negro Sl^fS made a plunge and went straight ??| through the windcw, head foremost, H lighting on his head. He was up in en " ?5 instant and upon his feet and to the tr? woods. The train wasitt once stopped, - , >}::\ bat the constable, deciding that ii j^J would be a useless pursuit, on foot, did not give chase. .Neither the name cf Cff the negro or tho crime fer which he had been arrested could be ascertained.--* Aguste Chronicle March 20. R~ - mm $ $ mmm - ? >.v i A Charming lottie Story; "i Several years ago a resident of one of ?? ^fs the suburbs had the misfortune to be* come totally blind, a cataract forming- - : over his eyes. While in this condition i?? his wife died. .A young German girl, '?^ whom the unfortunate man had never seen, was very attentive to the wife m (JS her last illness, and, after her death, ! did what she could to make the grief* '.CQ \ stricken husband and his two little ; children as comfortable as possible. ?SfP I Such devotion did not go unrewarded. >;] I The blind man proposed and was se* I cepted. He married the faithful girl. - : ? Two children were the result of their , V union. Daring bis years of blindoer? the sightless man never lost hopes that some day he might again look into the - y beauties of nature and the loved ones around him. / . . || A physician was finally consulted, 8? who agreed to attempt the removal o? ' ~ ig the cataract. The operation was soc- ^-1 cessfal, and he from whom the Kgh$ cf ? day bad been shut ont so many years, ?vi saw again. He was almost beside hier- : - ' ^ self with joy. A friend, who was ai .y'ri once recognised, esme, leading a lady . V: by the hand. . > - 'Do you know who this is F he said to the happy fellow. ^ ?No, I do not/ ?? .That is your wife? and their the ? pair, one of whom had never see? the S&ff other, fell into each other's arms, and a domestic scene of pathetic beauty ensued* |s The two children were also brought ./ in to their father. He clasped them to his beating heart, and all the miseries 7v of the past were forgotten in the pleas- . ;J ure of that moment. This isa true story. The actors in this life panorama, covering a period of ten years, are all alive. The husband seems as wella? ^ j he ever did, and zs ?ow is business ia this city.-Cincinnati Sun. % ----- Boys Getting AquaintecL ! When two strange boys com? together they proceed to get acquainted some* I thing after this fashion; ; 4 What's yer name ? 'Tommy Cropper* What's your? T : V .Dickey Tabbits. Wot's your dad/? name? .Ole Dan Cropper, an* the dog*? name's Sniff. Is yer dog yaller ?' - v.:l 'Nope : be's spotted an' wears ?cot* lar. Got a knife to trade?* ?Yep } bot I lost it. When I fiad it PU swop you. Watchy read in f 'Third Reader. Lus trade bats/ *I dassest ; my pop won't low me. - ^ My feet's the biggest/ O - i 'Well, I chawed terbacker onest/ ? That's notbin/ I saw three dog? --^ fighting at one time.' *I was in swimming six times one day a'ready., ?I had two teeth pulled last week. ^ 'That's notbin.' I eut my finger <. most every day, an' oar hired girl 'mos? p burot her head off las' night.* 'That's no great sight. A robber | broke into oar boase one rime, an* my \V; pap's got a brother in jail.' "; 'Well that ain't mach. My ma*? got a sister with a glass eye, an' oar ? baby's got foar teeth an' a lamp on its head what makes it cry all the time. -\ \ Can your father play the fiddle?' ?Maybe I aint got a brother who can turn a han' spring an' walk on stilts. Why don't you brag ?' 'Who's a brsggin'? I wouldn't be blowhard.' .Don't voa call me that, or I'll-f ?YOE will, will you?' ?Yes, I will r I 'No. you won't I3 .I wilt!* 'You won't T ?Will-will-will!' ' - : ?Won't, won't won't I ?Touch me if you dare/ " : ?Don't you pucker your month st me, or I'll smash yer nose. *If I was a girl I'd wear s dress.* * Watt tili 1 ketch you some time, aa' I'll lick you till you can't walk.' ?Put a chip on your shoulder ?nd I'll knock it off/ *No, you won't.* . ? Yes, I will/ ; .You won't, either I9 'I will if you dare me to/ >;-? .Well, I dare you, an' anybody won*f tako a dare'll steel sheep. There* it is, smarty, an'now let's ?ce whafc > you'll do/ The next instant both boys are roll- . - ; ing in the dust, pulling hair, and try- * . ;*. in g to chew each other's eara. Fro? ; .'' ^ this time on they consider themsetvet u ^ well acquainted, and take a Hendly ;-^?^?*? in teces t in each other.-[ Washington ; . Republic. .