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Newspaper Page TextESTABLISHED IN 1854 BY C. W HANCOCK. INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE SCIENCE. AND GENERAL PROGRESS VOL. 31. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1884. Louisiana State Lottery Co Incorporated In 1868 for 23 years by the iit-tfisUtnre (or Educational ana Charitable purposes—with a capital of fl.000,000—1< which a reserve fund of over 1550,000 ha: sinoe been added. By an overwhelming popular vote It* franchise was made a part of the presem itate Ccrttltution adopted December 2d. I73in urand iriomuiy- Extraordinary ^emi-Annual Drawing;, .In tlie tcndriDj’ «V nude, Vew Or* «.-nJii"T f UEAUREGAT.D of Louisiana and Gen. JUUA1. A EAR1.T, of Virginia. CAPITAL PRIZc $151,000- Notice-Tickets are T«n Dollars only. Halves. $5 Filths $2. Tenths $1. 1 CAPITAL I’HIZE OF $150,000 $150,000 1 GRAND PRIZEOF 30,000 50 000 1 GRAND PRIZE OK 20.000 20,000 .-LARGE t’MZESOK 10,000 20,000 l LA KG K PRIZ t S OF 5.000 20 000 20 PRIZES OF 1,000 20,000 2,279 Prizes, amount ing to. Application for rates to made only to the office of mation write clearly, giv* press Money, Oonlers,- or* New' change In ordinary letters Cm Ml. A. DAUPHIN, Money Orders payable and ere l Letters to EASHSATIOStl. 114 Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. The best Salve In the world for Ci Bruises. >ores. Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe _ Sores, Tetter. Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and allSk n Eruptions, a d pot'* 1 — For sale by Dr. E. J. Eldridge. Law Notice. gether In th-- practice of law. The par ties will be separate and distinct. The Junior member will visit parties in the Terms: $2 A TEAR IN ADVANCR NO . 41. A Physician’s Testimony. be consumption of the wont form. Ai exUuJtSnSaii 5HRs5§5S [o continued the of was soon followed by hemorrbaccs longs, covers rough, fever, and abo < * " r P or *>eem and In afewwwA _____ need to a living ikeleron. Her itosaachre- ^ht* "^of her 1°***' *** ***• P^Vddan a final consnlutlon 1 ©? two phjrslclanajSnr o was pronouneeil hopeless. I tried Brewer’s io. she continued the medicine, and is now :seellent health, and la bettor than she has 'ton-reared SerUfe * beUeTe Brewet ’ > Dm* fa ' BENJ. T. TTCARNDON, . , Sat—rWa.Ga. From Macon. . 1881, it was discovered that KT rns In tho last stages of consnwa. SSWfcS thought it only a*qiieroon ■troyer. °°Af?er all “ofiS N\\8C> 8. creature swept away all other feelingin her tender breast. “You are suffering,she 8aid, in a gentler tone. “Let me see, where are you wounded?” and she knolt once more beside him, for the man had sunk back exhausted. “If—if—you will give me-something —warm to drink, I will try to leave your house at once, madam, h6 gasped, vainly endeavoring to rise again. “No, no, you will not go,” answered Mrs. Sanderson, now with warmth and earnestness. “Your white face is flag of truce enough to eoften my enmity against yon. We women of Lexington are as tender-hearted as onr husbands are brave. I will not turn a suffering man from my door, even though he be onr bitter enemy. Lie still; yon shall havo yonr cup of tea,” and she put a pillow beneath his head, and bustled about, making the fire, while the man watched her preparations with eager eyes. The kindlings now blazed up,and tho kettle sang blithely, when Mrs. Sander son drew from tho oven the old coffee pot into which she had poured her tea for safety. She looked toward the stranger, as she carefully measured out the precious grains. “Coffee?” he asked, catching her glance. A CUP OF TEA. ‘The British are coming!” t was a fearful crj uuto the ears of those upon whom it fell that warm April day. Whispers of a purpose ou part of the red-coats had reached town of Lexington several days bc- i, and now the whisper had calmi- »d in a hoarse, full-throated cry— ‘The British are coming!” Mrs. Sanderson had finished her ironing, and after rocking the baby to ip, swept up the hearth and set the tie on for the cosy meal she meant prepare for her husband and her there when they should return tired ‘ hungry from the village. She had S ot out the precious canister of tea. , ever since the terrible fuss in Boston two Christmases before, she treasured as one ol her most valued possessions, when her brothers burst into the little kitchen with the thrilling bated l just fl CI 7— continued ,be remedy, end was restored to life and health ; and is today better than she baa ever been before. I regard her restoration as nearly a miracle, for which she la Indebted to Brewer s Lung Restorer. It. W. BOBBER, Macon, Go. Brewer * Ltmir Restorer is a purely vegetable ftromUei, or any’pSaoooos vtrt*8mce circular of long lilt of wooderful cure*. LAMAR, RANKIN, & LAMAR, MACON, GA. Hestetter’s Stomach Bitters is a Cneblood . .• •-latbaitic, and as spec Oc It rallies the fauins of tu. debilitated, and chr“- ecay. Fever and aagus, . s dyspepsia and bowel complaints iij; the evils winch It entirely re- la tr .pic il countries, where the bowels are organs moat nnfavora- comblned influence of her hands. ’Do?” answered her husband, who caught her words as he came hurrying behind the hoys. “Do? Why, meet » peaky critters on their way to Con cord, where they aie bound, and scatter ery mother’s son of ’em to atoms,” id he pulled his musket down from its place and looked quite equal to the murderous deed. 'They will pass here, right through Lexington, then, Silas,” Raid Mrs. Sanderson, catching up the baby from its cradle and holding it tight to her breast. Not if we can help it, mother! We’re only seventy meu strong, to be 'ire, but keep up your spirits; there’s fire and fervor in the American heart that can outblaze any dull, flickering flame of courage in the brcaBt of King George’s hirelings! Come, boys! we’ve not a moment to lose.” Then kissing the sobbing woman, and bidding her 'keep up,” the men hastened on to their brave duty of defending hearth and me. Again the cry resounded on the clear spring air, “The British arc coming!” and looking ont of her window down on the village that lay a little ways be low, Mrs. Sanderson could see the signals; and now the bells rang out and signal guns were firing. “Oh dear! What shall I do?” she :tjad again* “They may pass by here and pillage the house and kill baby ann »!’.’ -Then.^as a thonght 6truck her, ’ll escape to the woods before they reach the road. I shall be safe in the log hat the boys built last win- climate, diet and water, it is a very i ry safeguard. Fcr sale *— and Dealers generally. Fcr sale by all Druggists -e. ^ Specia B. P. HOLLIS, .Attorney at Laic, ameuicus.ua. Office, Forsyth Street, ’.n National Bank building. dec20tf E. G. SIMMONS. .# tt or nett at Laic, ■ Street, in the old office of Fort & THE HELDS ARE WHITE WITH COTTON. HAKlD TIMES NEARLY OVER- A glorious harvest is at band, and pros perity will soon prevail. Thousands of families who have been wanting Pianos and Organs for many long years will BUY THIS TEAR. Anticipating the demand, we have noiMRimffifMinfs nd laid in an Immense stock of SUPERB INSTRUMENTS FROM TEN LEADING MAKERS, which we shall offer on onr usual easy Installment Terms. To accom modate those who wish to buy now, and hold their cotton until later, we make this CASHFBIGES.W1TI3H0IT&ST1HB Dr. J. A. FORT, Physician aril Surgeon, Offers his }rSessional services to the people of Anut-i'iuus and vicinity. Office at Dr. Eldridge’s Drug Store. At night can be found at residence at the Taylor house, ou Lamar street. <ialls will receive prompt attention. may26-tf Or. D. Y HOLLOWAY. DentisT, Treats success fully all d iseasesof the tal organs. Fills teeth oj tar Improved method, and inserts artificial teeth or “•* beat material known to the profession. E. E. Brown. Fillmore Brown. Edgerton House J Opposite Passenger Depot, MACON, GEORGIA. E. E. Brown & Son, FtoprUtcri During the month* of Septem ber and October, 1884, toe trill sell Pianos and Organs at our Jjourst Poet Bottom Cash Price*, requiring only $25 CAS3 DOWtf ON A PIANO. $10 CASH DOWN ON A OSOAN. And allowing three month* tune on the balance. Without Interest or advance of price. Those who buy under this plan, and find themselves unable to complete payment alter the three months, will be given further time, by agreeing to pay our regular Install ment prices, and compiling with c r ~ stallment Terms of payment. Shook yone half the amount due at thee months, make a large cash payment, an eq> price for the Instrument will arrange* will be treated fairly, and charged prices in accordance with the time required for pur- chaee. AH purchasers under this Special of- -e required to sign onr usual form as to rcsnmisibiiitn. Instruments wijl be LUDDEN A BATES SOUTHERN HHSIC HOUSE, ’■‘nvonnah, Go.. OGCONEf CHEE ANDTAR'HEEL smoking rr: Land for Sale Six Miles from Americas. The place on which Major Wm. A. Black resided directly on ihe South Western Rail road containing 400 acres IsYor sale. Persons wishing to buy it, will please call on Mr Gay on the place and examine it, and for terms address the undersigned at Buena Vista. W CHAS. H. McCALL. WANTED, B* 3 Sugar Cane Arofjto" P * 1 ,h0 “* hMt m,rk « McG,n5h * T -^d£. G 5w II. P. JOKER * CO., naSB Mention this Paper. DR. DI-KEY’S Painless Eye-Water. RELIEVES AT ONCK* Cut—, and WeakKfwIn . lew bom. pain. Tb. KHI Sum In il» jncld Granulated Hdn. Price 35c a bottle. I tor It. Hare no other. . _ OB, J, A Dl Kr.Y. Bristol, Tran, OEOOUrt-HANDBOOKSj, O 10.000 School and HUcellaMooa old atabout half price. Stationer, rai fiTSBEioS Centro St *n*t*tn. G» nr. bus t trad far AV List of Local newspapers. G oct-lOtf. Rowell * Co„ 19 Spruce SC, N.,T. 'The British are coming!” 'Oh. dear! Oh, dear! What snail we ” cried Mis. Sanderson, wringing the door, bat in a different garb, into the gathering gloom of tho dull spring night, and never again did Silas San derson or hie wife entertain a red-coat. My story is od bat antially true. Many years after, when Sirs. Sauder- n was quite an old lady, and liked to tell her grandchildren of the cap of tea she made one day for a Britisher,a great tine to her from over the seas one Christmas, It contained a ch^st of tea of the very finest brand, and on a card inside was written, “From a British officer to tho American woman who once made for him a cup of tea.”—Youth's Com pan- {little 1 She wrapped the child up warmly a* she spoke, and threwing a heavy bed- quilt about her own shoulders, wa<* about to start, when catching sight ot her beloved tea caddy standing upon the table, she said to herself, and sh* langbed afterward when she recollected how ridicnlons and trivial it was ai such a serious time, “The Satarions red-coats shall not have any tea for theii supper, so there!” and she qnicklj emptied the contents of the caddy inti an old battered coffee-pot and hid it id the oven. 'I guess yon’ll have to whistle foi ir cap of tea in thiB house Mr. Brit isher!” said she, as she ran hurried on' of the honse toward tho piece of woodr half a mile or so away. It was dark now and growing cool, though the weather for the season had been warm. Patches of snow still lin gered on the hedges and in paths which the sun could not reach it mid-day. The wind whistled through the barf bonghs, and she was chilled through when she reached the little hut in th» woods. The baby wakened and cried, and his voice seemed louder and shrille? (ban ever before. She hugged him Closer to her bosom and stilled his cries quickly, lest some prowling British sol dier should detect their hiding spot. Flashes of fire and the sound of thf excited voices of the men could he heard the distance. With a prayer upoD her lips for the safety and preservation of her loved ones, Mrs. Sanderson af last succombed to nature, and lay down to rest. Tired and worn out with tbt fatigue and excitement of the day, she on fell into a profound slumber. It was late in the morning when she awakened. In spite of the discomfort- and cold in her strange quarters, sh< had slept soundly through the night; the baby, too, had been unusually good and had not distnrbed her. For an in stant she could not recoverher thoughts Where was she, and what did it all Then a flash of recollection swept across her dazed brain, and she remembered all. She made her way at length to the edge of the woods and looked down 1 ward the village. Tho fight seemed be raging fiercely; but could she believe her eyes, as', shading them with o hand, she seemed to see the rea-coi fleeting back toward the Boston road, closely pursued by the Minute Men “ “They have been routed and are treating! Brave men of Lexington!” she cried, proudly, as she watched with breathless interest the quick march of the enemy, which were driven before the Americans like a flock of sheep. It was growing toward sundown when Mrs. Sanderson decided that it would be safe to ventnre back to her home. Already along the roadside were to be seen tne debris and ravages of war;and when she entered her own desolate home, there, too,the “British” had evi dently “come” for a general upsetting of her orderly household was plainly visible. Where,oh, where were father and the boys? Shonld she ever see them again? As she laid the baby down in its cradle, and lighted the candle to look about her more closely, a deep groan startled her. She looked over toward the spot from whence the sound had is sued,and sawa man’s figure prostrate upon the floor in the darkened coiner. “Oh, Silaa, my husband! Are you killed?” she cried, throwing herself down besidethe figure. Tbe.man : turned and raisea himself ipou one arm, and ahe saw not the face if her hrishand, tint that of a stranger, and she recognized now the hateful red coat of a British officer. .“Madam/* whispered the man, hoarsely, “I am aiek unto death. For heaven’s sake, give me a cup of tea ” Mrs. Sanderson jumped to her feet. “How dare yon,” she began,her dark eyee flashed fire, the very sound of the of the tea for which yoS British would fain tax us beyond endur ance!” she replied,hotly,her color rising and eyes flashing again. In spite of his suffering, the man smiled grimly. What a spirited little Yankee woman she was ! Presently sho poured out a cupful of the fragrant Oolong and held it to his lips. He drank long and copiously,then with a grateful look, ho muttered a few words half-intelligibly. She bent lower to catch them. “ ‘Whoever giveth a cup ol water in my name,he shall not lose his reward/” So much she beard as he closed his eyes and sank into a deep sleep. Baby now demanded her care, and it was with a sorrowful heart that she seated herself to nurse him. Again and again the agonized thonghts of where vas her husband ? were her brothers till alive ? were she and baby widowed and fatherless ? came over her with overwhelming force. Suddenly a Bhout outside startled her reveries,and roused her sleeping guest. She hastened open the door, and Silas Sanderson burst in begrimed and black with the dust of the fray. “Hurrah!” he cried, triumphantly. Wo have routed tha red-coats,they an going back to Boston to-night quicker ban they came yesterday. Three cheers or'the-irave Minute Men of Lexington “Oh, Silas, yon aro'aljve ! yon not hurt!” cried his -wife, throwing herself into his irms. “No, no; I am cquil'To a hundred more battles” “And the hoys ? Oh, Silas, tell quickly !” “Reuben was wounded a trifle, but Ebcnezer is safe; they are Loth pursuing the enemy, and will follow them up to Charlestown to-night. But you, Mal- viny, where did you stay, and baby ?” “In the woods all night,” -sobbed Mrs. Sanderson, breaking down ' for the first rime. “My poor girl! There, there, are all safe now. Come, make e cap of tea. Ah, you’ve got it all ready tor me ? What!” he canght sight of the tall figure in the red uniform that now staggered toward him from its corner. “What!” he shouted, catching up his mnBket and preparing to file. “No, no, Silas ! not that—not der ! he is sick and wounded, he “He is a red-coat!” cried Silas, tak ing a CON TENT AT LAST. by nELEX FORREST ORAVE9.* Fresh as a rose looked Harry Morny she came jn from the woods.-^on that lear autumn afternoon, with her apron all of wild grapes, and her hat gar landed aronnd with scarlet-veineS au- tnmn leaves. . Her husband,. sitting in his study glanced np‘ at her bright!, flashed face* with sombre eyes fall of past rnemo- he said. “She wonld have told that it was no disloyalty to cheer the darkness of my life.* with a second love.” So he married the smiling young beauty, and the only grief that canker ed his heart was Harry’s insane un reasonable jealonsy of her dead rival’! memory. * Julian was no expert in reading the; hieroglyphics of a woman's heart! “Harry,” he would 6ay, with a pain ed f xpression upon his face, “if yon loved me, yon would not talk in thiB way. ‘ “It is because I do love you that I cauuot help talking iu this way> w she remonstrated, and thei\ tho tender, coaxing little artifices wonld be __ doubled. “If you wonld only forget her,” tddflded Harry—“it- yon wonld only telt me that I am past and present both to yoil.” Bat he mailed and shook his head. “Sweetheart,” he wonld say, “yc are the sunshine of my present. With my past no living touch can meddle. Is not that enough ?” “No!” Harry • cried, “it is nof enough !” And after she had taken triumph- possession of the picture, a new darken silehtly on Mrs. Sanderson quickly placed her- -*elf before the man, shielding him with her own body. “Silas !” she cried, putting up her hand; “you shall not have this blood npon yonr soul. It is n but murder, in yonr heart now.’ The man poshed her aside, and stood awaiting his doom. Silas dropped bis mnsket with a dull thud upon the floor, ind grasped the man roughly by the •houlder. “You are my prisoner, at least/’ said te, “and yon’ll stay here until”—— “Stop, Silas! do you not see the nan dying?” The loss of blood, which now gush ed from a Bevere wound in the officer’ ride, made him nnable to 6tand longei and he fell in a dead swoon at their feet. At sight of his enemy’s weaknet- ren tho stern Minuto Man s angei lelted, and Silas lifted np the man, as tendorly as he wonld have done a brother, and laid him down npon the settle by the hearth. Then together tho compassionate an and wife dressed the g *ping wound that undoubtedly some one of tiieir own friends had that day inflicted npon the hated red-coat. They watched beside him through the night, ministering unto his feverish thirst and answering his continual peti tion for “a cup of tea, for God’s sake!” without a thought of enmity toward the “Britisher” in their hearts. For three days was this their enemy, their prisoner and their guest. At the close of the third day the man was strong enough to walkabout the‘room Up to this time the three had spoken upon nothing save the necessary talk relative to the man's illness. He himself broke the constrained si lence at last. “I am strong now,” h< said to Silas, one evening, “but I an yonr prisoner; what disposition shall yon make of me ?” Silas looked at his wife.- Sho plied qaickly, and with warmth— “Yon are om enemy,” said she, “but yon have been wonnded by—wh knows ? perhaps one of our own blood’ —with a thought of her brothers, who were still down in Cambridge. “Yon not a Britisher. If I may answer yonr question as I would like to, I would say simply. ‘Good-by, don’t is this way again; we might hospitable another time.’ ” And she looked anxiously over toward Silas. Her hnsband did not speak. “And yon, sir?” asked the officer. Silas did not look np. “My wife’i word is law in this house,” he'replied, in a low tone. “I won’t answer for what I might say if she were not here. You’d better do as she says nt good-by and go—right away.” “Madam, I feel that 1 owe my life and my liberty to yon, God biers yonl” and the officer extended his hand to them both. Mrs. Sanderson accepted it, hut “Is the world coming to an end?” saucily demanded Harry, as she flung tho purple cluster ou the table—“for I that nothing else can aeconnt a solemn face as yours. Ju- He tried to smile. “You have been in the woods all day,-Harry?” he said. “Where else should I be?” retorted the young wife, whom he bad married because she was such an embodied sun beam. “You don’t catch me poking myself np in the house when all the world is so full ol brightness!” Bat she looked halt doubtfully at m as she spoke. “Now you are going to scold me!” «he said, with a pietty uplifting of her hands, as if to ward off some verbal ■nslaugkt. “I can seethe stern.words rising up to youriips.” “Am I, then, so stern with you 1 he uttered. “If so, it is quite uui entlonal. No, Harry, 1 am not going o scold yon.” For he remembered that Harry <dy eighteen, and that he was cight- .nd-thirty. Harry came and perched herself “Jnlian,” she said, with a sudden rnrst of penitence, “I am sorry!” “Sorry!—and for what?” He put. his hand caressingly or blonde curls, as he might have stroked pretty infant’s head. “I meant to practice to-day,” sht pleaded, “and to read a whole chapter in “Macaulay’s History of England,” and to darn yonr stockings in the con vent stitch that Annt Prudence taught me; but when I got out in the sunshine I forgot it all. Oh, Julian, I shall never learn to be a companion And Bhe glanced rnefully aronnd the drifts of paper and open folios the desk,-and her radiant face gloomed rer suddenly, as she canght sight of tiny photograph lying cioso by hit inkstand. 'Jnlian,” she exclaimed, abruptly “why did yon marry me?” “Is that so hard to guess, little ‘Yes, but why?” 6he persisted, i so silly and shallow—th t is actly what Mrs. Meredith calls me— and my poor little groveling soul reach np to the height of • yours, Oh, don’t try to comfort me—I under stand it all,” with another sidelong glance at the photograph. “Yon loved her! She was a true wife to you. I >nly a plaything!” “Have I ever said so. Harry?” “A score of times!” cried Harry .get ting more and more excited, while the deep roses horned vividly on her cheeks Not in actual words perhaps, but— Oh, Julian, why did I ever marry widower? She is as much my rival now as if she was a living and breath ing woman, Julian, I hate her!” “Harry! Harry!” “Give me that picture!” cried the /*iung wife, snatching the photograph from the desk, and retreating a pace or two, as if she feared to be pursued. “It shall not lie beside yon at yonr work. You shall not carry it next yonr heart when you go ont of the shadow seemed his forehead. tender as ever to the child- wife, whose presence lent snob fascin ation to his home. He did not ask for the return of the photograh, bat he felt that there was something missing at his side. lie had declared that he coaid re member Evangeline without the pic ture, and yet he longed with an unut terable longing to look once more upon He resolutely guarded himself from sitting in judgment ou the lovely little spite, who-losed-huBMsilh such way ward unreasoning affection; , and yet he could not but feel that Harry had been cruelly unjust to Evangeline. So he left off thinking ab,ont it at all, and applied himself steadfastly to .the studies which had always formed main occupation of his lire. 'Julian!” t was a stormy night—mid Janu ary—with the snow-flakes whirling wildly through tho darkness, and tumultuous' wind howling in the trt He had been writing long and steadi ly, and bad leaned back in his chair rest of hand and brain, when Harry came in, attired in the black- •elvet dress which he had given her. and wearing at her ronod, white throat little cro>.8 of diamonds. The husband’s serious face bright ened at the fair vision. 'Why, my pet!” be exclaimed, oap- ing tho hand that was laid lightly his shoulders; “what ing of this extraordinary brilliance of costumes ? Is there to be a party a ceremonious dinner ? Neither,” Harry answered. “B it is my fete-day. Do you remember what anniversary this is, Julian ? Ten years ago, to-day,, you were married to Evangeline Sedley.” I remember it, Harry,” he said sadly. “Come! She took hi3 hand with imperious tenderness and led him to the little drawing-room, where hot-honse vere arranged in all tho vases a ■andles burned. Above the mantle lmng a crayon picture of his dead wife, smiling i like a living face. Evangeline !” he cried. “Her very i ! Oh, Harry, where did yon get tips that ennoble human nature and give joy and dignity to life. Pennsylvania's bio vote. After Maine—indeed, along with Maine, my first thought • is always of Pennsylvania. How can I fittingly ex press my thanks for that unparalleled majority of more than 80,000 vote*, which has . deeply touched my heart, and which has, it possible, .increased my affection for the grand old common wealth; an' f flection which I inherited from my •Ancestry, and which I shall transmit to my children. ’ Bat I do not limit my thanks to the State of my residence and the State of my birth. 1 •« much 'to-true and zealous friends New England who worked so nobly for the Repnblican party and its candi dates, and to the eminent scholars and tiviaes who, steppiag aside from their •rdinary avocations, made my cause their cause, and to loyalty to principles tdded the special compliment of stand- ug as my personal representatives in ha national struggle. But the achieve ments for the Repnblican cause in the East are even surpassed by the splen did tictories in "the West. In that uagnifieent cordoq of States that iretche* from the. foothills of the Alle- fhanies to the Golden Gate of the Pa cific, beginning with Ohio and ending with California, the Republican banner was borne so lofty that bat a single State failed to join in the wide acclaim >f triumph, nor should I do justice'to uy own feelings if I failed to thank he Republicans of the Empire State, »ho encountered so many discourage ments and obstacles, who fonght foes from wittun and toes from withoQt.and who waged so strong a battle that a change of one vote in every 2,000 wonld have given ns victory in the nation. Indeed, a change of a little more than 5,000 votes would have transfer red New York, Indiana, New Jersey md Connecticut to the Repnblican standard and would have made the North as solid as the South. My thanks wpuld still be incomplete if 1 She paused as if expocting a volley of remonstrances—perhaps proof—but he neever spoke a word He only looked at her with sad, grave eyes. “Julian,” she hesitated, treatingly, “may I havo it—the photo graph?” “Yes,” he answered. “I can remem ber how she looked, without any coun terfeit presentment. Yes, you may have it, Harry, if that is your desire.” And Harry vanished out of the room, half delighted, half-terrified, at what she had done. Swift as any arrow she darted down to a cool, shady nook, the foot of the garden, where a crys tal tront-steam gargled under the shad- of a canopy of elm leaves, and It is my anniversary gift to Jnlian,” 6he said. “I had it from your little photograph. Is Is it not holy iu its expres- wr can I thank you for it ?” he said, in broken accents. “But you must let me keep the photograph, ’ pleaded Harry, with tears iu her eyes. “I have learned to love it. It is my guardian angel, my sweet companion and counselor. Oh, I cannot part with it now /” And drawing it from her bosom, she kissed it reverently. “Harry—my Harry ! said tho hus band. “What has wrought this change in your heart ? “Evangeline’s face,” she answered, in. a whisper. He drew her tenderly to his heart. “Seetbeart,” he said, “this was all that was lacking to complete my per fect happiness.” With his arm still about her waist, he looked up at Evangeline’s picture. “I love you both with the Bame love,” he answered, impressively. And Harry was content at lat hould fail to lecognize with special gratitude that great body of working- botlf native and foreign born, who gave me their earnest support, break ing from old personal *nd party tiei ind finding in tho principles which I represented in the canvass a safeguard i protection of their own firesides and interests. The result of the election, •uy friends will be regarded in the fu ture, I think, as extraordinary. The Northern States, leaving oat the cities f Now York and Brooklyn from the countj sustained tho Republicnu cause by a majority of more than 400,000, almost half a million, indeed, of the popular vote. Tbecities of New York md Brooklyn threw their great strength :nd influence with the solid Sonth.and rare the decisive element which gave q that section the control of the tional government. Speaking now, not at all as a defeated candidate, but as a loyal and devoted American, I think that the transfer of the political power of the government to the South is a great national misfortune. It is misfortune because it introduces a element which cannot insure harmony and prosperity to the people because it introduces into the republic the rule of minority. The first inBtinct of .Ymencan is equality-equality of right, equality of privilege, equality of politi cal power, that equality which every citizen,“Your vote is just as good, just as potential as the vote of any other citizen.” That cannot be said to-day in the United States. ARRAIQNIKO THE SOUTH. The Course of affaits in the South has crushed out the political power of more than six million American zens, and has transferred it by violence others. Forty-two Presidential elec is are assigned to the South on ac ant of the colored population, who, with more,than 1,100,000 legal havo been unable to chose a single elec- thoso States where they have a majority of more than 100,000. They are deprived of free suffrage, and t heir rights as citizens are trodden der foot. The eleven States that com prised the rebel Confederacy had, by a Northern white as odiously as ever a Norman noble stamped it npon a Sax on ohnrL This subject is of deep in terest to the lsboringtnen of the North. With the Southern Democracy trium- ; phant in their States in the natioq, the negro rtjilL be compelled to worlf for just snch wages as the whites vaaf decree —wages which will amount,-, as did the supplies of the slaves, to a bare substance, eqnal in cash, perhaps, to 85 cents, pet ,day,, if averag ed over the entire South. Tho white laborers in the North'will feel the dis tinctive effect of this upon his own wa- gas. Republicans have clearly seen from the earliest days of reconstruction that wages in the Sonth must be raised to jnst recompense of laborer of wages in the North ruinously lowered, and the party has steadily worked for. the former result. The reverse inflnence wiH now be set in motion, and that condition of affairs be prodaced which £ u»rs ago Mr. Lincoln warned the free boring men of thd North wonld prove hostile to their independence and would inevitably lead to a ruinous redaction bf wages. The mere difference in color of skin will not suffice to maintain an entirely different standard of wages in contiguous and adjacent States, and the voluntary will be compelled to the ' involuntary. .So completely have the tailored men in the South been already deprived by the Democratic ' party of their constitutional and legal rights as Citizens of the United States that they regard the advent of that party to the national power as a signal of their, re enslavement, and are affrighted because they think all legal protection for them is g6ne. THE OLD BRIO ADIEUS ON TRIAL. Few persons in the North realize flow completely the chiefs of the re bellion wield the politicel power which has triumphed in the late election. It is a portentous fact that the Democrat ic Senators who came from the States of the late Confederacy all—and I all, without a single exception— personally participated in the rebellion against the National Government. It is a still more significant fact that in those States no man who was loyal to Union, no matter how strong a Democrat he may be to-day, has the slightest chance of political promotion. The one great avenue to honor in that word “tea’* from her enemy's lipt ing her American indignation; then at «. »u «, bu«u ubuus who b onusn- sight of the man’s pale, agonized fea- er, sir,” he said; “yon are my enemy tures she stopped, anffa womanly com-j still.” passion for a sick and suffering fallow-1 .The man turned and walked ont of twisted root formed a sort of rustic Shall I fling it into the stream?' she asked herself. “Shall I tear it np?’ she looked at the soft, calm features, a gentler mood crept over her. “How wicked and babyish I am!” she said. No, no! I will not tear np yonr face, sweet saint. I should have loved yon, too, if yon had been living —will try to love yon now, because he loved you! Look down from your throne in heaven, dear, white-robed angel, and help me to be worthy in yonr seat at his board, to share yonr place in his heart!” And glancing fearfully aronnd her, lest she should be observed, she kissed the photograph one, twice, three times, and placed it in her bosom. When she came back to the honse she was quieter and more silent than usual, bnt she did not offer to give back the photograph to her hnsband. Was she jealous of it still? And Jnlian Morny went qnietly oi with his student labors—the labors ii which his first wife had shared so in toligently and helpfully. He had loved his beantifnl Evangi line so truly and passionately, sho had been to entirely a part of his existence, that when she died it seemed impossi ble that he conld ever place another woman in the empty niche of her being. But ai time dnlled the first sharp edges of his sorrow, and pretty Harry Tinton’a winning graces stole into his heart, he began to realize that he was not yet an old man nor a hermit. He looked at Evangeline’s picture, "She wonld have bid me be happy," BLAINE TRIES TO BITE. He Snaps and Snarles at the South Like a Rabid Canine—Tiie Muz zle Which the People Put on Him at the Ballot- Box Sufficiently Effective to Prev Do Harm Augusta, Me., Nov. 18.—A large number of devoted personal aqd politi cal friends of Mr. Blaine serenaded him this eveningas an expression of person al good will and admiration of his mau- of conducting the national cam paign. They marched through the streets under the marshalship of Col. Frank Nyo. When they reached Mr. Blaine’s honse their compliments and friendly regards were expressed ii speech by Herbert M. Heath, of the Kenncbeo bar. Mr. Blaine responded Friends and Neighbors: The tional contest is over, and by the i rowest of margins we have Ipst. I thank you for yonr call, Which, if not of joyous congratulaiioi i snre’, of confidence and of sanguine hope for the future. I thank yon for the pnblic opportunity yon give express my senw of obligation, n ly to yon, bnt to all the Republicans of Maine. They responded to my nomi nation with gennino enthusiasm, and ratified it with a superb vote. I count it as one of the honors and gratifica- of my pnblic career that the par ty in Maine, after straggling hard for the last six years, and twice within that period losing the State; hai come back in this campaign to an old-lasb- : a on nnn of 1880. 7.500,000 white population and 5,300,000 colored pop ulation. The colored population al most to a mau desire to support the Repnblican party, bnt by a system of cruel intimidation and by violence and murder, whenever violence and murder thonght necessary, they are abso lutely deprived of all political power. If the outrage stopped there it would be bad enough, but it does not stop there, for not only is the negro popula tion disfranchised, bnt the power which rightfully and constitutionally belongs to them, is transferred to the white pop ulation of the Sonth to exert on the electoral college an influence far be yond that exerted by the same number of white people in the North. To illus trate jast how it works to the destruc tion of all fair election let me presen- to you five States iu the late Confeder acy aud five loyal States of the North possessing in each section the number of electoral votes. HOW I1E figures it out. In the South tho States of Louisia na, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina have an aggregate of 48 Sectoral votes. They have 2,800,000 white people and over 3,000,000 color ed people. In the North the StateB of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, aud California have likewise an aggre gate 48 electoral votes, and these ha* population of 5,600.000, or jnst don ble the five Southern States which I have named. These Northern* States have practically no colored population It is therefore evident that the white these Southern States by usur ping and absorbing the rights of the colored men are exerting just doable the political power of the white men in the Northern States, I submit my friends, that snch a condition of af- section is a record of zealons service ii the war against the government. It is certainly an astonnding fact that the section in which friendship for the Jnion in the day of its trial and agony s still a political disqualification hould be called now to rule the Union. All this takes place during the lifetime of a generation that fought in the war, and elevates into practical command of the American Government the identi- icn who organized for its destrne- and plnnged ns into the bloodiest >st of modern times. I have spoken of the Sonth, as placed by the late elec- possession efthe government, and I mean all that my words imply. The Sonth famished nearly three- fonrths of the electoral votes that de feated the Republican party. They will step into the command of Demo crats as unchallenged and as unres- . trained as they held the same position for thirty years before the civil war. political inequality impossible. Gentlemen, there cannot bo political inequality among the citizens of a free Republic; there cannot be a minority of white men in the Sonth ruling a majority of white men in the North. Patriotism, self-respect, pride, protec tion for person and safety for the conn- try all cry out against it. The very thonght of it stirs the blood of men who inherit equality from the Pilgrims, who firs*, stood on Plymouth Rock, aud from the liberty-loving patriots who came to Delaware with William Penn. It becomes a primal question of American manhood. It demands hearing and settlement, and that set tlement will vindicate the equality of American citizens in all personal and civel rights. It will at least establish, the quality of white men under the Na tional Government, and will give to the Northern man who fonght to pre serve the Union as large a voice in its government as may be exercised by the.Southern man who fonght to des troy the Union. The contest jnst closed utterly dwarfs the fortunes and fate ot candidates, whether successful ioned 20,000 plurality. No other ex pression of popular oonfidence and es- among *3 fairs is extraordinarily unjust and de rogatory to the manhood of the North. Even those who are vindictively oppos ed to negro suffrage will not deny that if Presidential electors are assigned to the South by reason of negro popula tion, that population ought to be per mitted free suffrage in the election. To deny that clear proposition is to affirm that the Southern white men in the Gulf States is entitled to doable the political power of the Northern white not. WORMWOOD A the Lake States. It is to af firm that Confederate soldiers shall wield twice the influence in the nation that a Union soldier can, and that per petual and constantly increasing supe riority shall be coneeded to the South ern white man in the government of Purposely—I may say instinctively —I have discussed the issues and con sequences of that contest without ref erence to my own defeat and without the remotest reference to the gentleman who is elevated, to the Presidency. Towards him personally I have no cause for the slightest ill will, and it is with cordiality that I express the wish that his official career may prove grati fying to himself and beneficial to the country, and that his administration may overcome the embarrassment which the peculiar source of its power imposes on it from thehonrofits birth. At the conclusion of Mr. Blaine’s speech he invited a large crowd into his house, and for nearly an hoar an informal reception was held. As hun dreds after hundreds passed through the rooms the greetings were especially friendly and cordial. AN ARMY OF WORMS, GNAW- ing, gnawing, night and day, eating the vitals away, is frequently the cause_ of couvulnions and fits. Shriner’s Indian Vermifuge is the remedy. He Was Prepared to Go. Boston Sunday Times.] ■Young man, are you prepared to go?” asked the revivalist of a young mac in the back row after the meeting i over. Yes, sir perfectly.” Do yon think, every night as yon to bed. that yon may be called be fore morning?” 'It’s always on my mind sir.” That’s right. And yon are always ready to go whenever the angels oome, without warning, and unannounced ?” Yes, sir. * 1 always sleep with my clothes all on and my overcoat, and an extra paper collar on the chair at the side of my bed. I am always ready.” “But, my dear young man, yon must mistake me.” “Not at >11, sir. I’m a handaome coachman, and I know my business. Whenever the angel of the household calls, I’m ready to take the first train.” tha Union. TBYISO TO BULLDOZE LABORERS. If that be qnietly conceded in this generation, it will harden into custom and to whom I am attached by all the till a badge of inferiority will attach to of youth, nervous weak- loss of manhood, Ac., 1 lllessendjron a'recelpe that will cure you, FREE Or CHARGE. This great remedy was discovered by a missionary in South America. Send a self-addressed envelope totheRav. 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Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Weekly Sumter republican. (Americus, Ga.) 18??-1889, November 28, 1884, Image 1