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ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAT MORNING. MARCH 0 1880.
PRICE FIVE CENTa,-
The Demon Plaque.
AStorriuTvro Farts.
lty Frank E. Stockton.
[Copyrigkted, 1888, by S. 8. McClure. All rights
FAST II.
Wleu I reached tho decrcpid littlo house In.
hnbitcl by Mr. Hilly Ha-tell, I found the old
sun In ii'< curden digging early potatoes and
carelkill.r aaurchlng tbo ground he tamed up
for every tubercle, no matter how diminutive
Its tire. I dismounted and went up to him,
and, aa hi icily as possible, told him what I had
heard and why I had <ome, and asked him
What l.c had to fay about it.
old Hilly raised himself up, nnd after having
oared \ fewmoments at a littlo potato no bigger
than a pea, he drooped it regretfully and thea
said:
I I IK AS BII.LY'H STclllV.’
"Yon're not tho same gentleman as was hole
More about this V’’ T
•' "No,” said I, “ho couldn't cerao today and
•tked me te do to. Hot Its all the same." '
" WclLI wish he’d a come,” said the old rash
querulously. Ho told mo I was all right, and
if Saire.v (iromo didn't give me half her last
years crepl eonld sue for it an’git it”
[• "That w»a because he hadn't heard all the
Story,” J said.
, 'iIc ns3adirreutklndofamau,”sald Ur.
Haskell, with a clond upon hia brow. ‘‘He
didn’t go round listenin’ to old women’s tales
about things they don’t'understand, sich at
tiiongh: your neighbor didn't under-
stand the care of horses,” add I, "and if yon
UtjS" said tho old tuan, impatiently. "I
rrap, *ml
the short
"Well.” Midi, "if you porsist In your pres
ent uaiuo of mind and will not consent to take
fair wages for the work yon havo douo. U la
girobablu that you will get nothing, for I see
■ 'tir that yon have no eose with which to
"I don't want to go to law,” aald Mr. Has
kell, "an' to come down hard on an old wo
man. IfSalrey Gromc 'll give me half her
erapl wea't ask her to pay for the boss, an'
well be friends again, jostaa wo was.”
"Nonsense," aald I, "of conrso sho won't do
tbat. If you obstinately persist in claiming
what you know, aasrellaol do, yon havo no
right to claim I shall have nothing more to do
with you, and yon can take what you have
canted, or let It alone, just as you plaase,”
And I turned away to leave lilm.
“I never want to see yon again,” said tho
old man, hla littlo gray oyes sparkling with
anger, "itcomln’ hero to onsettle people’s
minds when everythin’was a-goln’on straight,
»>>’ It’ll do me good If I ever hear that the
Other man’s got her.’’
"Got who?' I exclaimed, stopping in sur
prise.
"Why that young lady, as yon know well
enough,” ho cried spitefully. "You needn't
suppose aa I’d think you two lint gentlcmon
would consarnyourselves about two old poo:
pie, as you didn't know, If you didn’t expect
lo make somethin' by it. You’re doin’ it to
please tho young woman who had jest ssmnch
n’If she'd a
mate as she was handsome,
lot alone 1 could hare showed her I waa right,
an' she’d a talked over old Hairey. The other
man is the beat lawyer, an' the boat hearted,
aB’knows how to git on a boos hotter, aa’I hope
ke may git her."
At this I laughed heartily, and rode away.
The next day I related to Ur, Carper tho re
sult of my interviews, avoiding, however, any
mitreuso to tho old man's parting remarks.
"And uow," told I, “the two can aettle the
matter between them as they please. I shall
Have nothing mere to do with it.”
“Nor I," with that part of It,” said Curper,
who had highly oojoyed my account of tho
lataat phase or the affltlr, "though I believe if
tasy were to taka It Into court their counsel
might manage to string the ease out several
links further and make a deucedly good thing
of It. Hut, though I havo done with their part
of tho sdalr, I havo not done with mine. I
t»m on the track of Mita Janet, anil I shall
coma up with hor yet."
“You don’t mean to any,” I exclaimed, "that
you intern) to push inquiries In regard to that
young lady’s Identity, in spite of bar express
ed desire to remain unknown?”
• " v "- 1 5*?’" “Id Carper. “I take an In
terest in this girl, and keeping her name back
U just a whim, or a frolic. I suppose you will
bo surpi Usd to hear that I have written to her,
and requested an interview.’’
"Written to her 1” 1 exclaimed. “How did
you get a letter to her?”
"There was very little difficulty in regard to
that, be answered, “and Uiaa Janet will dnd
that when she addrmes herself Incognito to a
lawyer ho will vety soon know as much about
her as about her uulsea.' She ought to ex
pect that as a matter of course. Yoa see that,
although the letter was written with a type
writer, tho address on tho envelope wax writ
ten with a pan, and la a lady’s hand. 1 know
from IU-letter It waa not Mia Janet’s hind,
nod I fancied I hod soen the haod-writiog be
fore^ and ysstariey afternoon {searched over
a lot of note*, Invitations and things of that
kind that I hare here, and it waa not long be
fore 1 found who addressed the note. It was
Mrs. Morpeth.”
I'pet. hearing this name, well known to me.
1 evinced au tncrtmi Interert. ■
-When I had made this discovery,” con
tinued Mr. Curper, “I had no hesitation as to
my plan of action. I wrote a note to the young
lady, addresaing hoi by her non do plane, bat
areuming. in a matter of course, that I know
all about her. and having brfedy stated that I
bad attended to tho case aa bur as possible
uDderthc circataatsuees, I sold that It would
He neeeieary for me Ui bare aa interview in
iiider that X might confer with her in regard
to farther action.”
.“She will pay no attention to that,” aid I.
''There you are mistaken,” replied Curper.
quickly. ■’As I have performed the aer '
desired of mo-”
i service she
“Mainly through me,” I enterrepted.
“And bare arrived at a point where her as-
Masco la accessary, It will bt Impossible for
her, if she has any courtesy at all, to refine to
answer my note. Then, if she does not im
mediately disclose hor Identity, her answer
Will give mo further clues, and I shall write to
her again, nnd yon may depend upon it, I
shall ti* conferring with her personally .in a
week or ten days.”
I happened to know, through Mrs. Gromc,
y waa ont of town, but it dll not
my principles to give Curoer any
upon the subject.
' Yexterdsy evening,” mid Kr. Curper, “I
called upon Mrs. Morpeth, who I had heard
waa atm I* town, and requested her to forward
my letter, {made no explanations, and said
nothing at all about tho case, but I told her
that It waa necessary that-the lady shoold
have the note aa toon as possible. Mrs. Hor-
peth looked very much surprised, and asked
why I supposed she know anything about tho
lady, to which I answered that, aa she had ad
dressed that person's note to ms, I, of cOnrao,
concluded sho know where sho was. Sho
laughed, took the note and mid she would for
ward it. I tried, in an easy sort of way, to
'What aro the points,” I asked, “about
salt with the young lady in
which yon will .. .
esse you should succeed In obtaining an inter-
view?”
•Well.” said Career, "when I wfote tho noto
I hadn't thought of anything particular to say
about tho caso, but now, since I havo hoard
your latest accounts, I shall advlao hor to wash
lrcr hands of tho wholo business, and let tho
two old curmudgeons settle their quarrel as
best they can; and then I shall endeavor to
improve the acquaintance, for I find that I
tako a decidedly strong interest in Janet
Floyd,”
It was very lonely In town, add it was good
news to hear that Mrs. Morpeth, a widowed
lady, well known In eociety, hail not gouo into
tho country. I called on her that evening,
and sho seemed glad to see me. She did not
allude to Mr, Curper's visit, but I saw uo occa
sion tor rcticenco in regard to tho qusrrel be
tween hits, Grbmo ana Billy Haskell, and I
told her the story. I never saw any one enjoy
a recital of the kind ns Mrs. Morpeth enjoyed
this I had no idea bow comical the irifoir was
until I saw how sho laughed at it.
"Mr. Curper told me,” I said, “that be had
called'on you to ask you to forward a letter to
the lady who had employed him in this some
what remarkable ease, In which lie hat em
ployed me. .Of coarse I lure no possible in
terest in this yopng lady—
“Of course not,” lutonupted Mrs. Morpeth.
little nneaslly, ‘<but by any lawyer who under
stood the cue and could state It properly.”
"Mr. Carper, for instance,’’ aeld Mrs, Mor
peth.
"No,” said I quickly, "Curper couldn'tdo it
He doesn’t know anything about the' cue ex
cept what I told him.” . ■
I'ponthls Mrs, Morpeth bunt Into a laugh;
land, shortly afterwards, I left, feeling a good
deal Irritated that she should suppose, as her
manucr Indicated, that I took any unusual
interest in Janet Floyd, which, of
course, was perfect noneense. Sho should
have known better. — ,
I Jn a fow days I went to the seashore, whore
.1 remained a month or more; returning to thei
I city at (ho time when nearly everybody wu
earning borne from summer sqjouras. One af
ternoon, a few days after my return, rjfound I
I bad some inure Umo on my hands, and In
stead of going home from the office I con
cluded to ride ont to Ormsby park. When
I retched the eerond lane beyond the bridge I
thought It. would be a good idea to drop in at
Mrs. Groms’! and sco if aha had (Old hor de-
men plaque; because,If her negotiations withher
young lady had fldlen through. I waa very
anxious to buy it. All rode up the lanolsaw
by the garden gates carriage,which I knew bi
lls appearance to l>e a hired one. The driver,
who waa sitting on the gnus near by, rose and
nodded to me, and I perceived that he wu h
man whom I had frequently employed myself.
“Now," thought I, "If 1 were Curper; rd stop
and ask him who It is he hu brought here.”
But I passed bn, and, having tied my hone to
Grome.'
glaucod
tained no occupant hut ourselves.
“Well,” said I, “how do you get on with
your dispute with Mr. Haskell?” I
aid not really care very much how
they got on, but thought it not wlso to imme
diately proclaim that the demon plaqno wu
tho purpoao of my visit.
“Oh, we’ve settled all that,” eabl sho. "Mo
on’ Hilly aro goin’ to be married. Thero
husband, an' wouldn’t lie lwthered with ono.
but havin’ to hire tho work done, as 1’vo had
to do this Year, would ruin me in no time', an’
to I told Billy, wlio'd talked about this beforo
our quarrel, that if he'd buy a real good
work Horse 'that tho neighbors would
agree Htyoung enough, and call all things
square, I’d marry him, an’ he cOnld leave
bis old tumble down shanty an live here an'
wqrktimfsng: So he agreed, an’ wo're to be,
married next month, so as ho can bo here for
the fall plowin', fgr tafllH
"But how do yon know the is a young Jadv?”
' by Mra
"She wu felly described to me .
Grome, and Curper also had a description of
her ftom the old man. Hut, u I wu abmt to
uk, do you Intend to send Curper's letter to
her?”
“I havo sent It,” add Mrs. Morpeth.
'Yon may think It none of luy- baainen,”
said I, "bat u I have been called upon to act
In this matter, I cannot help thinking tbit the
person who hu taken inch a generous Inter
est In these old people, should lie protected
from unwarrantable Inquiries—u I consider
them—Into her Identity. I have spoken to
Mr. Curper on the subject, but my remarks
made no Impression on him."
"What a queer man Mr. Curper must be,”
said Mrs. Morpeth.
"Yes,” said I earnestly, "he is a queer mu.
I wouldn’t say anything against him, and, in
deed, there Isn't anything to say; but that
ijucerneas of his, that determination to go
ahead without regard to tba opinion of hu
friends, and all that sort of thing,
" MARUY UU!” I 2XCLAIUEP,
thing for me, fur I’ll save the money I wu
goln r to pay him for his luf year’s hire, an' I
kin keep him to hit work a lot better when
he’s here en the spot than when ha wullvln'
nFir n mil* «waT.”
makes It
highly undesirable, in ray opinion, that ho
should be encouraged to fores himself upon a
rerson who, it la quite evident, la of a retiring
no Interest In this lady, at least no more than
any man would in a person who la—”
' idioms," suggested Mrs.
e rout, and of a modem nature t
notice in a case cf this kind.”
that shrlnkafrom
"And having heard her described,” said Mrs.
confer with her in
regard t
y decide
• old people?'’
“Perhaps,’’ said Mrs. Morpeth, “if It is real
ly ncceiaaiy to have an interview, or a confer
ence abont this matter, It might bo better for
you to tee the lady than for Mr. Curper to do
state the cue than Mr. Curper, who hu not
Hen Mrs. Grome at ill, wbereu I have folly
interviewed both putties, why of course I am
willing to-rdo what I can.”
’ Very kind, Indeed, of yon,” aald Mis. Mor
peth.
"Is the lady,” I asked, "likely to naOr-
stand the logal aspects of a eaaa like this? or is
she too young, and—’'
"Handsome,” again suggested Mrs. Mor-
|«th.
"Handsome hu nothing to do frith ft,” I an.
iwered. "I simply want to know whether
she is merely a fashionable young lady whs
might not be (opposed to understand these
thing*, or a studious, thoughtful girl of a
higher range of Intellect perhaps than one
generally meets with in ordinary society, who
would not only give herself np to generous
impulses, but would take an intelligent inter
est In a legal question when rleirly nnd plain
ly presented to her.’’
“By yoa?” suggested Mrs. Morpeth.
‘ No, not necessarily by me," I answered a
made a good bargain and congratulated her on
the happy tosminatlon of tho dispute with
her neighbor; and then . noticing that tho de
mon plaque mas) hanging in its place I ask
ed her If tho yonng lady had been thereto
buy It
‘‘She's here now." said she. "She’s In tho
garden picking a bunch or what abo calls old-
fashioned flowers, an’ I'm packin’ np this dish
fur her to take sway.” And with these words
the old woman approached a table on which
the demon plague waa standing in tbs midst of
moment before yoa
said I, glancing u I spoke to-
but perceiving no
the garden. ”1 am really sorry to think
that I shall uot be able to see it again.”
The plague looked much better upon tho
ran It up,” said I, glancing
ard the open back door, bu
table retting on the Chinaman's feet and thole
of the demon, than It did when hanging
aaainrt the wall, and I faced upon it with a
plrasara which I tree willing to protract at
Ions as possible.
“It's a pity yoa oaa'tfbave it, aanee yoa like
it so nmrh,”aaM Mrs. Gromr, “an’ if aha hadn't
come fur it in a reasonable time, I’d made up
my mind to let yoa take It. But ebe did came
an’abe give me a good price fur It, ant! that
settled It. But I tell you what you kin do,”
said the old woman, glancing at me with a
twinkle in her aya, aa aha proceeded ta envel
ope the plaque in newspapers, "yon kin aattla
the matter aa ms an’ Billy did. Yon're a very
good looking young man, an’ ahe’a a handsome
young woman. Yon marry her an' than both
of yon kin have (hia dish.”
"Marry her I” I exclaimed. At tbia moment
the lack door was darkened, and the young
lady who had been gathering old-fashioned
tiowera entered the room. I turned, sod per*
ccived that I bad been married to her for more
tbaa a year!
My wife started with surprise. “Whst on
earth are yoa doing hare?" aha cried.
“And yon,” I exclaimed, “are you—? did
you?"
"Hat my hualand scan the plaque?”
the asked, stepping quickly towards lira.
"Your hatband!” exclaimed the aetonlsbed
old woman, “of course he baa He wanted to
buy II.- It I'd a kaowed—” And bar took
of amairment turned to one of redden de
jection as abo thought of the bargain abe
might have made If abe had known bow mat
ters stood.
"Now, this ie too bad!” exclaimed my wife.
“Hew did yoa happen to com* here? I hare
heea for ever eo long trying to get tkle plaque
to give you on your birthday, and I was so
anxious that you shouldn't use it, or know
anything about ft, that I wrote a note to Mr.
Curper and naked him to cornsand gatthia
good woman out of her trouble, when I
ahnntd certainly ham sent yea, If I hadn't
wanted yen not to ace the plaque.”
the business, as lio had no tlmo.'
"What an awfully provoking person he la!”
site cried. “1 wrote to him in inch a way that
ho couldn't poaribly And ont whs I waa, and so
ccnldn’t toll you. Bnt how came you not to
■ay anything about coming here while you
were with me at the seashore?”
“Because," said I, “I was trying so get the
p'nqre that I might give it to you.”
" ’’lin. tiromc, “here le the dish
all Jon
dll,” said
Imre up ready to carry away, an’ aa you
two are married a’ready, yon can lioth havo It
without goln’ to the expense of another wed-
At thla we laughed heartily.' »nd took our
leuTo. As no stepped together from the little
porch, wo met old Billy Haskell, who was
coming artmnd the houso With a“rake In his
bond. ' ' *—
BILL ARP ON THE NEGRO.
And Bara the Naero Ha. Dana and :a Dolor a Vas
Amount ar tTaafu), Frofrraalva Work at tba
" eo yob cot min, did vor?”
"Hlllo,” (aid bo, with a look ofaonr sur-
price on his face, "so yon got her did you?”
"Yes,” I replied laughing, "X got her." >
"Well,” aald Mr. Haskell,bis venerablobrow
ilwdewcd with disapprobation. “I’d a big sight
liefer the other man had got her. I’d a had
the money for half Inst year's crap in s
pocket now. if you'd a kept out of this bus
new.." Ami, so ,Hying, lie went hit way.
"What dbet Ajl'tnia mean*” asked toy wil
ns I handed her Into the carriage, and place
tbe plaque carefully in her lap.
“I’ll ride back,” aald I, “close to your able
mol tell you all about it.”
Tho ‘
of my
AHHtok—
Among tlicso waa Mr. Curper, to whom my
wife end I had decided Miss Jnnot Floyd
should not Rake herself known.
"Where in^ic world did you get this thine?"
-idd be, rf\ud tug tlio plnquo with much !u*
tWf .l /'Poy’'* Hke a lawyer taring to inHn-
cnc£ a frjhaXiit dlcut. If that duetto gi*oe
„,v.will be bod for tbe barrister.”
■ Weiring no notice of bis uuprofcssiohal 5
Dinrk, 1 told him that tho plnquo bad been
f iroeurcd from the old woman whom I had vis.
ted at his request.
“It’s too bad!” he oxrialmod. “I got no
I at all ont of that aflklr. The young lady
laan't answered my note, and I don't suppose
robsdray troubles for my
fellow,- havo come
ho ev er will. I have h
pey. But you, you leeky .
out of (hie business with this tip-top bit of brie
a-brec.”
“Mr. Curper,” laid my wife, “do you sup
pose that my husbeud should see there people,
and And out everything about the care, and
do everything that could be dene, and get no
reward?”
“Oh, well,” aald Carper, “If I bed made the
acquaintance of Miss Just, he might have that
plaque, and bo welcome to it, aa forael am
concerned; bnt you roe I got nothing.”
“1 really sympathise with you in regard to
Miaa Janet," compassionately remarked my
wife.
"What surprises me, my dear,” aald I, when
urper bad gone, “la vonr want of tee"
to pnt it—In connection with myself s
young lady correspondent or Carper's. You
muat hare supposed that I was taking 1 a good
deal of interest in an unknown young wo
man.”
“tVny should I have had nay feeliag about
It?” (he answered, “I wu the young wo-
mini.'’ •
"Rut when yon heard about this, yon
couldn’t have Imagined that 1 knew you were
„ the vonng lady,"
sho said, flipping Ja Ilttln dnit from the up
turned thee of tbo Chinaman, "and how
conlit I object to yonr taking an Interest In
mo?”
"But yon know.” I lusUted, "that I didn’t
know you were Janet Floyd.”
"Hut what difference does that make,” said
she, "when I was Janet Floyd."
“I most admit,’’ said I, shaking my htad,
"that I don’t understand yoii.”
My (riend, the reader, do you understand
her?
INDIONANT MORMON WOMEN
Who do not Uk* to lie Asked too Maoyfjues-
tlons.
Salt Hake City, March A Urge meet
ing ofMormon women wu held in the theater
yesterday. Many speeches were made end a
protest adopted. The speakers uphold tho
right of women to go Into polygamy, and aald
Hurt the thousands of disreputable women In
the cut would be glad to bo nude
wives, nth u tbe speakers ware.
They maintained that the government had
no right to uy that woman should not marry,
and it might u well Uko tho opposite coarse,
compel virgins from the cloister to nurry.
Such social preferences should ho respected,
and tbo government had no right to Inter
fere. Tbe protest declares womanhood had
keen outraged in the courts by qatt-
lions about expected maternity, tbe
fathers of children, etc. Tbe suffrage
wu declared tots tbe verted righto of women
here, end should not be attacked. An em
phatic denial wu made that they voted other-
wlte than according to their free will. The
“noble women” who had refused to answer
the^joestione propounded Ijy tbe courts were
and the action ol
>7 these
if Judge
inaon.Tn
Zone and
denmed. Tbe wives and mothers of the Uni
ted Stales were called upon to corns to the
assistance of the women of Utah in their res-
• A
committee was appointed to msmorelize the
president. One enthusiastic speaker wu de
sirous tl knowing “whether ““
federal officers and courts
would
persist in their present course after readlag
our protest.” Another speaker said the beld
the "honle of petty officiate” In contempt.
In four days more the legislature must ad
journ, and no progress hu yat keen made to-
uaidaulwUaung the laars of Utah with the
national statutes. All the pro posit Iowa tend
In tbo contrary direction. The deadlock be
tween the governor and the legislature ie
■till unbroken. i
destroyed by fire.
IroatwiX. March 7.—IUbton n village near
Iihseatls. Switzerland, including the church
and sc hool, wu destroyed by Are.
j Tho negro problem sectna to havo broken ont
afresh and tho negro la gettlog tho worst of
it now. injt North Amertcau Revlow and'
Professor White and Governor Hmlth, and
other philosophers have reoently sot the dar
key down u a fraud so far as tidier is concern
ed. One complains that ho la laxy mid won't
work, another complains that ho Is incapable
of Improvement and cannot keep up with
progressiva farming. Then again It Is said
that be keepa Intelligent white labor from
romlng south, and so wo have got an elephant
on onr bands and can't get rid of him. North
ern republicans have turned against him be-
cause they can't vote him and to tbo poor dsr-i
key ip losing ground and losing friends. Tho
poorer clouts Ilf i!,r south Unit is ibo com
mon laboring people—desplso lilm nnd wish
hhn well ont of the country. Ilia presence
among them as u competitor for hire or wages
or un renter is odious to them. I know tho'
.sentiment of tho tenants in my section audit
la very hostile to tho negro. They want lilm
to go. It Is very natural that tho poor white
man should bo unfriendly to
his - presence. It Is proclsely
the umo sentiment that cansed tho expulsion
oftlieChlneaefrom Wyoming. Indeed tlroy
set np objections to tho ne
gro that cannot be urged against
tbe Chinaman, for they ny that tiro negro Is
tlirlftlen and will steal and moro than all, the
negro bu a contempt for poor folks and
poor folk* know It. Tho average negro
had rether bo tho serf and aervanp of a rich
man than to work on an equality with a pi
man for better wages. My rich neighbor Mi
ford can get plenty of labor at low prices and
orders his darkies around just about like ho
used to beforo the war.
Well, now, we All look at this negro question
from our own standpoint, landlords Uko to
employ them Just breauxo they can order them
about. Tho love of dominion is strong in our
mro. They liko to omploy them bconuso tho
darkey is easily flUtleu with. Ho is caroloas
ol'lifs money nnd moat always comes out a lit -
tlo bcltlndaud that fastens lilm over for nn-
ot her yen. They will'put up with pooror
ahamjes nnd fewer privileges. Tlroy will pick
U|nin
i It,mu
his own judge and
circling*. Many
Ml *'
Loth races aud
iarjNaoier Iris
lunsrel* tin iricnMRi fro
rny tlitnM* up Ml cranial..—
all round, but my observation Is that neither
race like It nnd it is kcltler to havo all whites
or all dArkics. Wircn a fanner lias good, do
cile, industrieus white tmaribi be is apt to
keep them, and so with tho negroes, Kvery
i mploykr Judges of the negro by bis own in
terest and bis own experience. So far as I am
concerned I prefer tho wblto man now, for no
man has better tenants than 1 have. They aro
my friends and I inn theirs;
but a few yearn ago I preferred
tbe negro u a laborer. Nevertheless, I like to
have some darkeys around, for they are always
ready and always willing to do things In emer
gencies that a white man does not like to do
and I do not like to uk him to do. livery
southern white man, however poor, will main
tain the independence of his fotully if he can.
toy muko tho morning Arcs
tiro water and milk
White folks ovon in
country have tliolr social rank.
The lines are dim and crooked, but there are
lines. Whereu among tho negroes thero are
none. Neither religion, nor. morals, nor
poverty have yet established any social caste
among them. Hob Smith hujuat come from a
two yearn' term in tho chaingang, and ton
■round in the settlement like a hero returned
from the war. Tbe negroes give hia cordial
weieomssnd listen eagerly to his experience.
Hob declares that be bad a I ret rate time, aad he
listed tocomeawaywuil dan he hated to xo dir.
Hut Hob wm a “trinity” and folt liko he wu a
rommlisloned officer In the army. Rob says
that two black rascals got away and bo sot do
run ant '
run, and
track dogs attcr ’em and dey run and da don
' blotchy
run, and dey run and do dogs run, and blrneby
dey dims a tree and de old houn dog lot away
oil and leek np In de tree and he open hu
moof wide pnd say too-o-o uvt-tu, loo-no uvem,
tco-oo uvem, and hero cimi do little Ace dog
and he look up aud my, hit’s a fak, hit’s a fak,
hit's n fak; and den de gyard he cum a
gallopin’ np and pinto his gun up in
do tree snd uy uow tumble to do
racket or I’ll drop, you and shore nuf dem
niggersjiscuiu downing hurry'
dey did dat for true. Bob seems
was very bad conduct to runaway from ao
gtod a place aa Captain Jamas’ big form la
Jifftreoa cf——
good vltfles
sat ap to mve hia Ilfs.
Now 1 havo known Rob for years and ho is
■ heller dsrky than Ike average, and this re
minds me of a letter I had today from a
friend In North Carolina, who says: “Over
litre the negro is like metaphysics—the moro
studied tbe more new phases. Religiously
aud politically he Is on enthusiastic fanatic.
Ills whims and caprices ire Indeterminate
quantities.
nor virtno.
Hut suppose he is a failure ua progressive
former, who does that hurt materially but
himself? Bet the white man nuke progress
and the negro will keep den behind hint,
for, as my friend mya, be is a good imitator.
In tbe middle beit that Is Mack with negroes,
the white landlords live away off aid rent out
to negroes, sad tfou complain that they do
act proem*—do Lit make enough on tho
forms. Of courea not. Perhaps oomn <lerman*
would makt more If they owned tba tend, bat
as It mints it la doubtful, list otter all, whst
is ths uss sf eeupteiaiag when than is no
ii-s? ionhjaaz « &
. Ife bM Riven tu ft great
anxiatj «ince tho war for
hit new g«»rriiM« audt» Tool of him, bat now
there are force•» at work that will sooner or
Inter »ctUe him damn where hU nature au«l
Interests nnign him. It is ft slow procefft but
It is sure—the mills of tho God* grind slowly.
One thing Is sir*, tbs negro bss done snd U
now doing s Tftst Amount of useful, progrev
*We work it tbe south. Hedoonull tho heavy
work of Imildlng ndltosds nud Qft&ftlt, snd
mining for ore. nnd rutting tim
ber. ftnd making cotton nnd rice*,
and surar cane. Ho Is ft willing worker tnd
makes no strikes nnd baa tv* envy of tho rich.
He Ift tbe only creature that Isnlwolntely
without envy of tbe rich. Ho will steel to
gtatify immediate wants but not from envy.
ITo has no communism In his nature. In fhot*
bo has more respect for a rich iran than for a
poor rue or fur himself. The great issue be
tween capital and labor docs not concern him
or disturb bis slumbers. I havo
great respect for our whito laborers,
our farmers and mechanics. AU the sympa
thies of my nature aro with them, but when I
r exactions snd demands—us made
■... ■ dcConnlrk—I am disgusted with
Inlior unions. When they tell him ho must not
$Ufnoj anybody outaido of their union, it
ftlioeka the judgment of mankind. 1 aamlto
bis spunk for shutting down and turning thorn
all out. I saw Mr. Sam Noblo do that onco at
Home. Tho union scut a committee to wait
him aud notify .-him to dis-
argo au .'inprcnttcc, mid I will
nover forget tlio towering rago nnd
indignation that took {kmemrion of Mm. They
got away from there quick and he dinc.hargod
tlio whole concern for insulting him with such,
a - demand. Labor and crfpltnl have got to
woik together In harmony aud each must bo
reasonable. If capital was always kind and
consldoruto there Would bo littlo need of
unions. If labor was never imperloas
nor unreaaon&blo It would always get tho
sympathy of mankind. /I
Dot we will uot solve tho negro problem right
awsy. Let us wait n few days Jongor. Tho
chaingang Is diminishing in numbers, and yet
I saw a convict on the train last week who wm
going for three months for stealing .1 black
smith's punch that cost ten cents. For tho
Hke'nf that WO could have almost half the race
in ahneklcs within tho next twelve mouths—
nnd we could thin ont tho whito folks power
fully if all their little cheatings wero pun*
hhed. Wo are mean enough nil round, bpt
if I had tho dead suro pfoof on that darky
who stole Carl’s gun Christmas while I was
away off In Florida, J wouldn't bother tho
<riurts with him hut I would tlo him up 1k*.*
hind tho barn nud give him forty hull os safo
one, and he would let those gun alone tho uoxt
time. Wo nro morally certain who did it and
havo reason to heliovo he intended to bring it
hack after ho had his l»Ig rabbit
host,. with tho other niggers, but
ho got scared nnd don’t do it. Ho
didn't mean to steal it, but tho gun is gone alt*
the nunc. A good whipping gives more satis
faction nil round than tho chaingang, unit
costs leas tfmo and Jess money.
‘ , BillAhp.
AS INFATUATED AK.VATOIt.
Joiich'h l>r*l»tent Attention to the Klllion-
nlri'i Daughter.
C illC'Afio,.March 2.—A Detroit sitocial to tbo
Tribune says: Souator Charles W. Jones, of
Florida, has been in Detroit continuously glnoe
last (June. For two or three months tho
atrongcat possible pressure lias been brought
to bear to induce him to go to Washington,
Imt ho cannot be moved. Ho is atopplng at
tbe RiiMctf house, and apparently hus nothing
to do. Newspapers all over tbo country haru
taken up the matter recently, aud attribute
his pressure to infatuation for a woman. This
ia true. Hr tu in love with one who will not
sco nor listen to him, nnd hr?
lins said he was going to stay until ho got her.
Thoso who know the facts assert that tlio caso
la a bopelces ono. Ilut ho ia of a sangulno
temperament, and will not listen to their ex
postulations. Tho woman upon whom his af
fections nre centered is Miss Clotllde Palm*,
tbe daughter of Mr. Frauds Palms, ono of tho
wealthiest lumbermen In tho northwest, hts
fortune being estimated by soma at $3,000,000.
and hy othcrK at Mint Palms l* a
bruuetto, about thirty ycanof nge, not romark-
uhlo for fur.al beauty, hut an pihu ated, reflux<1
woman; modest, very pious and charitable in
an unosieotatlotiainty. Sho live* somowlmt
secluded, seldom going into sodety. Tin? sen
ator saw Mia Palms first hi Washington in tho
winter of 1862. The following summer while
on a visit In Detroit he met her at a dinner
.y. A day or two afterward he called 11 (ton
and proposed. Hho pleasantly and politely
declined the honor. Ho called several Irani 1
afterward, bnt was unable to sco Miss Palms.
Ono afternoon ho Willed nearly »n hour In
tho parlor but sho did not come. After that
ho only went as far ns tho front door, which
was •fntly closed when the servant saw who
was on tho top stop. Homo flowers
wero sent to the house, but not re
ceived. The postman brought several notes,
ut the contents, except the signature of the
irtt, wero not read. The senator remained in
Detroit two or three weeks, but was uot dis
couraged. Shortly after his departuro a let tor
came, iu which tbs proposition was renewed.
No atteation wm paid to It. Another nmo
and still another. Miss Palms appealed to her
father, who wrote the senator In a couslderato
and firm way that his attentions were very of-
intimating that If necessary li - ....
from further annoyance. Tho
protect
Ungthfl
bis daugtwer i _
temperament of the senator sustains him. Tho
assurance of a friend that if he livcl a
thousand years lie could not uot tho
woman provoked a smile. ](is son
Charles came here in December, nnd did ail ho
could to get hfs father to attend to his senato
rial duties, but without avail, A friend
named Hickey Journeyed all tho Way from
Florida on the same mission, but also was un
able to get him to leave. A very urgent tala-
gram from Senators Duller, D-.rk and other*
friendly to him, saying that his presence in
the senate was absolutely necessary, made n *
impression. A reporter met Senator .fom s last
cnlnr, snd asked bim plainly why ho ro
sined In Detroit. "I will not bo interrogated
1 any except public questions,” he vepltd.
'There have been intimations in various
newspapers, and Injustice may hare heendono
yoat”
*T wait no 7indicatlon. I am not tho only
senator who has been away. Cameron went
to Knrope, and fsogan was In Illinois during
tbe session of the IcgUIstare. I don’t see
I do as others havo done. It is nobody’s
why I
himiiu
When do you intend to go to Washington?”
‘That I won’t -«ay.” _
Tlio Norm in KngltunL
London, March 1.—A snow storm prevails
(bant Gnat Britain. In m»!i.\ mm the
has drilled In great piles on the railroad
tracks, scriouily Impeding irafilc. The v.ifbrr-
Ings of the poor arc greatly lncrea*»eil by the
SB.
LottDOjr. March 2.—The snow atom coutiu-
• unabated in the north: Tho mails bo-
tween Bcctlaml and London are twelve hours
behind the schedule time. At least twelve
trains are embedded in tho snow. The sU amer
Missouri, ashore af Holyhead, Is completely
submerged.
Many vessels are detained in the harbors
ong tho coasts. Numerous wrecks aro re
ported in Linlithgowshire today, ow ing to the
clogging of the signals by the snow. One per-
Km was killed and several Injured. Arctio
weather prevail* In Denmark.
Intensely cold weather, witkkeavv snow,
mill throughout Europe. In Berlin a
cabman was found frozen to death ou bis ve
hicle, while another was discovered alnnwt
dead No Danish mail arrived at Ham
burg for thrredays, owing to the storm.
Boom for Turkish OStesra
London, March 7.—Lord Rosebery, British
foreign secretary, has consented to make roMB
for a number of Turkish Officers In the Kgyp-
tiau army by displicing British officon*
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