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y t ' Its T 1 ie u d s K, euiuoa* •'S: ty ceDtB at‘thiDg VOL, I, NUMBER 18. TROY, N. y ., SEPT E M B E R 11, 1886. PRICE 3 CENTS. T o -D av and T o -M orrow . BT (ilKALDitlMIr. Ul('h bop^a tin t bum Ike lu r s s^blimp, uo down toe bpavsB of treeilom, Asd tae aearti p-.nab 1 q tcie time Wa biittreet need Uiem: BiK lUTprBlive do*n and u j T o trei EOUiiBgMi but sorrow. We walk t t c wlldcmeEs tc-dsr, Tbe rro)DtS(dI.uidt«moiro<r. Our birdH ot aooe are soebt aow, Toacd u e 00 Qowcra bloomli g; Yet Ute bekU lb toe sueot boOKH, ADd Freedom's spriSEr u eoailEs; And Freedon’e t ins comes up Blwar, THo’ we mar strand maonow: AndODT good bl SOaUao>tte.li Tbor' all toe long, dirk Dig. to t jeira Tbe peoples t i t Bsoesdsui, Audeartais irit « i u blood and tears; Rue tu r weak auffratce endeta! I'ne taw sbail to t lureTer sira]', Tbemanr (MI li s'rrair; Toe b irs o( Hell ure etroegt o-d.r. Rut Carut sbsll nee to-mvrrow. Too' hearts Mood o'er tue pest oor eres * itb siu Ubg rutur.s ellKten; For lo 1 the dawn biuata up tne aUes I Lean o u t} our aoais a td ilaten! Tbewutidr.rllsFietdOB’1 radiant way. u, Youth: fiame-earoett, lUU aspire, ttltu energies Imino.Ul To that y a haven u< a<s rr, Our yearling oiKsapor,ai, Add iho' Age «eari-8 by tan way, .kud hearts breaklu ihefuirow. WeiiaoiT ta«go:dengr.!u to-d>y, Tue haiVcBtcomte to-inrrow. Kerdy to oash out at Qoi's call, 0 chiva'ry ot labor! Triumph aod Fad are twii s; and syr, i Tbc clock on tbe State nonse boomed I l.'H.APTER XlV. I OUE OF THE BOTrOTTEKB BETRAtTS. I was BO absorbed wifb my terrible idea i that Z did not hesitate to go in the State Bonee alone thongh the LegisUtare was I in session that winter, and at another ’ time 1 might baye abniak from crosung I the ball without an escort. I I found the State’s Attorney-General ; waiting for meat a middle table m the Litiraty. 1 stood by him. and in a whis per—for others were in the room, bat some distance o £—I said; *'I am 80 afraid. I cannot tell yon how 1 dread that there might be some thing wunie than mere gossip.” “What have yon heard?\ he said look ing at me wiih attention. “I have beard nothing and that canses me alarm. Do yoa think they would rc- fnee to tell me; nnleaa there la aomctliioe dreadful—murder perhaps ?” My eyea had filled with ttare, m d I was pale and trembling. “bh I no; nothing like lhat. I will see to it at once. They ■will tell me.” And a stern lock crept in bis eyes and about bis month. “Tell me all they 1 told him oor interview. Hardly hud 1 finished when, who shonld aj'peat but Dr. Nealson from the college. The State's Attorney saw him and Said to me: “Do you intend going Lome this even- (From the lAbor Free Prees.) A Tale of Two Boycotts. “ UNKNOWN” K .O F L. T. V.POWDIKLT. CHAI’TKR XIII. A TEBKIBLI HOUK. In my mind’s eye, Horatio.—Hamlet. When I reached the outside in the broad daylight of noon, in the quiet of the college green at that boar, a cold re action seemed to gra^p my heart, and a thought came to me that made me dizzy and faint for a moment, i “Can my husband have committed some gieat crime that has only come to light? Surely these gentlemen 'wonld not traduce a man, and then not tell him what he was accused of. I thought—as 1 wandered alone in the Navy yard, down on the sea wall—of Eugene Aram; and how men learned as my husband, seDsUive and refined, had committed crimes and successfully hid them for jears. “But what could it b e:'’ I tried to im- You must bear in mind, reader, I bad read—as 1 hav» told you—much, and among my rea<UB^ bad been many an cient works a li^n old castles and dis coveries of sk .letons that revealed dire mnrdi-re and lead the perpetrators to jus tice years after the crime bad been done and they had thought were safe. 1 remembered that my husband had often told me his rooms were on the first fioor of Pinkney Hall and he Lad a cellar where he kept his wine. He haa closed up tbc outer door to the cellar and had a trap door in the floor of his parlor with a flight of steps to descend. The carpet hid the door, but was left untseked for his convenience. He was the last that used these rooms before they were fixed for the financial manager of the college. Ptrhaps it was when they were being painted, that Uie secret trap door had been noticed and a workman had gone down to see the cel lar, found the skeleton, reported it to the ^ president and vice-president who had ^ begged the matter to be kept qniet, until I they could find who bad been missing from Annapolis. 1 could scarcely breathe. A heavy band seemed to clutch my heait and press the breath out of me. ‘Tes,\ I said. “Very well; leave Dr. Nealson with me. Do not worry. I will see if this cannot be set right.’’ I thanked him and left him. 1 was already happier. I could trust him and fed ho wonld not let him trifle with biro. I went slowly to the station some dis- tnnee off. No one was in the waiting- room uml everything was quiet The dcor at last opened and two or three ladies came lu. Then Dr. Nealson a little later, who came to me with a let ter addressed to Professor Melville. The envelope bore the seal of the State upon, it. The old minister was confused, but managed to say he hoped this would wipe out his p art iu the affair, and he hoped no rest injury had been so far done to the Professor. • I took the letter and thanked him, we shook hands and parled. When I stepped on the platform and my husband took my hand, 1 felt that I shrank trom him. But 1 am glad he did not perceive i t then. I complained of not being well, and on reaching home, begged to be excused at once, so I could retire. The first thought on awakening wss the letter. I sprang out of bed and seirched my muff. There it was in the im-ide pocket. 1 dressed hastily and went to seek my husband, whom I found read ing the morning paper. I gave it to him. He read it, and then caught me in his arms and kisseJ me. “Too are the best, the dearest little wife,” he said, “ who would have thought you wonld have done this for me,” And his blue eyes were fall of tears. “What is the letter!” I asked. “Have yon not read it?” “Then read it cow, dear ” I lead these wovda: “siS o m v X CHAKBEB. Dear Professor: After seeing Mts. Melville this morning and later having a talk with the Attorney-General, Mr. G., 1 have come totbe conclnsioD to retract all I have told Captain Sparkler, or any one else. I am not the author of the story afloat. A man who e name I can not give yon—for I promised when he told me never to tell his name—bnt he gave me liberty to repeat what he told me. He made President Gartlett promise the same thing and I know he told it to some others under the same condition. Also the same charge is made— and in fact came &om the Naval Academy, So yon others know it besides ourselves. I can state here however that living in the same college with yon, I never knew of my own personal knowledge anything bnt what was in every respect mostcom- meodable, and as a Christian gentleman shoold act. Yours most sincerely. C. K. N ealson .” “I dill what I conJd for yon,” I said with a poor attempt to smile as I handed my husband the letter ; “but I do not think this letter does much good. It does not explain the mystery a t all.” Mv husband said it was time to go and he wouldtake the letter and show i t to Captain Sparkler. CHAPTER XV. IBS BOrConBBil ABE SEOWINO THStB HANDS. It was rose-scented June before I rea lized that the anmmui had actnaliy come. The college commencement bad passed bringing to my husband the long vaca tion. The professor told me one day he had a much better prospect for the en suing y ea:; that Captain Sparkler had told him the trustees or some of them had seen marked improvement in his class and he was to have better pay and dif- ieri.nt arrangement as to hoars. Professor during vacation worked hard for a publishing house, revising and al tering books. If he had not undertaken that work, we would have been in debt, when September came. Just befor e tue Agricultural College opened, Profetsor received a letter from Captain Sparkler. “Prufoaser Melville—Dear sir: la m eorry to inform yov we will not need you the ensuing school yea\. We have made other arrangements during vacation. Yours, etc., etc. S pakklbb . ” Profetsor read the tetter to me and in a quiet tone said: “This is not the way to treat any man much less a prolesaiocal man. I was duly elected by the Board in February last for at least one year. I held my po sition just three months, and now that the college is about to open and I have believed I would return with better prospects, 1 receive such a dismussL” He walked about the piazza in gloomy thought. At last he said stopping bo- foro m e : “I will go in and write to him.” So be did and wrote about what be bad said to me. In due time a reply came from Captain Sparkier. “ We have h id no reason at all to dis pense with yoar services so fas as we persocally are concerned. Yon have taught m a most satisfactory manner and have been all we could ask in a professor. Bnt Superintendent Roderick o f the Na val Academy, who is a friend and suc ceeded Rear-Admiral Jubnell, wrote me a pressing letter not to have you back at the college next year. There is—as I be- tore told you—something against you. Indeed I did not believe at- the time 1 wrote to you before that you could have had your honorable acceptance; and was somewhat astonished when you did pro duce it. I am, as I said before, sorry to have to act in this way, out I have inte rests of my own to serve. Remember me to madarne and believe me sincerely your ftiend,\ That evening at twilight we sat on our flower-scented piazzi. Professor was absorbed ; and he had been silent and moody for days. I was eppretsed and miserable. “What was that terrible something— that hydra-beaded sprang up ail the time in our path to frighten and trouble me!” I was afraid to break the dreadful stillness by either moving o t speaking. What was the some:hing? Why did Rear-Admiral Roderick wisu Professor to lose his professorship a t the college? Surely i t would not make his crime worse or better by being employed? Why did not those people wno accused him of tills something, have him tried for it? It must be a crime, otherwise they would not dare to so act. I bad g ot this far m my silent debate when I felt asLamed. Dul he not give me the best of everything—bis love, his heart, his almost worship ! And now 1 am so cowardly—I am weighing the something of strange, dishonorable men against four years of intimate, daily friendship. The muon was just rising above the tree-tops—full and yellow. Iw e n ttom y husband's side and took bis hand and kissed him on the brow, and said softly to him: “Do n ot mind, dear, we hava each other, and we wiU find all this something ont. But tell me once and I will never doabt yon again, and stand by yon If everyone else tarns from y o a ; are you conscious of ever doing any real wrong— lhat might be called a crime?\ Professor turned quiekly in his chair, and looked at me in the nroonligbt; then laughed heartily. Ife l t offended and drew my hand Why is i t that we feel offended when people laugh at us, when we are most earnest? It is a shock to our feelings, that we are so little understood. Professor bad not half eemprehended my feelings upon this miserable snbject. He laughed and it grated on me, Bnt iu a moment I laughed with him. In fact that laugh dispersed all my fears, all my unbelief in him. 1 saw as it were in a slass that ail these months I had been doubting him. Possibly I had not owned it to myself, but the doubt had been there. Now this whole-souled laugh had made me voe he was not guilty, and perhaps he was as much puzzled as my self a t this something. He said at last: “Y oq were too solemn and tragical just now; pardon me, but I coaid not help but laugh. No, child, I never have committed any crime that I know of. What is said of me, 1 am as anxious to know as you are; and am thinkiog bow to make them tell me. As for this col lege affair it is n ot final 1 have been elected for one year at least, and will not be treated so uncermoniously. ” The next day Professor went to Balti more wiih papa. He seemed much more i cheerful 1 met him at the station in the “Well,’' he said drawing up my hand through his arm, “I have madeapp’ica- tion for the professotihip of French in ' the High School. I met a very nice j gentiemau of the public school board, a I lawyer. He says he wiD present it a t : ■ their next meeting. I have seen two of ] I the Agricultural College irastees also. ‘ I They told me they knew nothing of my ! removal; that they did not attend the • ; last meeting, bnt supposed I had been ; elected for one year and more i f I suited. But one, Mr. Witless, said be would en- I quire from some of the other members of tne Board, whom he knew attended : the last meeting, what was done and le t ' . me know.” Two days after, the Professor received ^ a letter from the School Commissioner, Mr. Pole: “Y'onr application has been : filed among others to lay before th e ' I Board, but I must inform you I have , beard eometbiug in the meanwhile' . against you thatwiil prevent me from I presenting your application myself or speaking in yonr favor. Yours, etc.” I This was another shock and a serious ! one. If Proftssor could sot get some- j thing to do, how were we to live? j Of coarse when theBoatd of School i Commissioni-rs met—if his application , ever was laid before them—no notice was | I taken of i t j Professor wrote to the Navy Depart- • ment id Washington to have a copy of his resignation and its acceplance. He had Doth sent to him; they were jnst as he bod them already. Hon. Robertson 1 was then Seeretary of the Navy. Pre-^ ' fessor wrote to him “was there anything I against bis good name at the Navy De- ! partment If so, let him know.” The • answer came back: “Nothing at a l l ; ! record as good if not better than any , other professor.” j Then Professor wrote to Superintend- j ant Roderick and asked him what was I g a inst him at Ihe Academy, and why did he make nse of it to prevent him j from having a professorship. No reply I came from the Superintendent or bis secretary. Professor wrote again; not a single line in reply. Professor f rid; “Now I will go to Aucapolis to see the SuperiLtendent myself, andiw ill see if he will not answer.” I said: “No, do not go. You will not seehim. They will tell you he is away; and if yoa did see him, yoa might say or do something that would indeed, give them something (o say in truth. Yon only want to know what is said, let me go. No one knows me m the y ard.” My hnsband hesitated, but finally yielded. flOBB CONTIHCED.J THE POWER WHICH THREATENS US— HOW SHALL WE COPE WITH IT ? Mouoy is poser. The man who has money his an innumerable advantage over the man who has cot. Even money without brains can hold its own. But money with brains, and without a heart or soul, is omnipotent and aBbcrupulous. The great money monopoly of this country, represented by the bankers and money brokers, is a combination, sonl- leis, heartless, but pcssessid of a rare in- telieetual cunning. What have the masses to hope from it, if it maintains the ascendtucy which it has g ained! Noth ing; absolutely nothing. So sure is it of accoiuplubing its ends, that it aJrcad? iu- Bokntly t-lle its intentions. The abor- ing man must woik L r less wages, and expect to be crowded down “ to that sta tion to which it has pleased God to call him.” The farmer can sec his own future by inspecting the condition of the tenaut farmers and farm laborers in Europe. We already have money monopoly. We are promised land monopoly also. What can the workiugmau do in self- defense? He cannot fight with money since he has none. 8bali be break out in revolution? They who take thesword shall perish by the sword. Money can summon to its aid the entire standing army of the United Slates, if Its privi leges and prerogatives are interfired with, for does it not already boast that it is a 8‘ronger power than Congress? thing -which labor can do, :t too late, thongh no one card, and—if he speak The Xoights of Labor continue to increase in Texas. Notwitbslanding the troabies the order has doubled in mem bership during the past six months. There is one thing and it ts n ot yet too late, thongh n< knows how soon it may be. The work ingman can make an appeal totbe ballot- box—the oracle of the nineteenth cen tury; and like the oracles of old, of the nature of his appeal, such will the answer At the polls all men stand equal. The banker's vote connts for no more than that of the humblest laborer. A few thousands of capitalists can never outvote millions of laborers, unless tue latter permit them to do to. The workingman can speak through the ballot-box, and bis voice wilt be hean with decision—obeyi We do not need to talk of revolutions. The detdrea of the workingman are all in strict accordance with the principles of our government. It Is this talk of laud- monopoly, of distraachisement, of violent measures against discontented labes-, and of power which overrides tnat of Con gress, which is revolutionary and trea sonable. If^the workingman will awake to a sense of the danger which threatens his rights and hberliee, he haa the wea pon iu his hands with which he can strike back this foe, powerful as it is. If there is revelution and bloodshed, let it not be laid at his door, And those who seek, for their own selfish purposes, to subvert the principles ol the government, and to abolish our democratic institu tions, if they do not deust, shall meet Ihe traitor’s doom. U nknown K siqht . APRACIICAL TEMPERANCE LES- On the occasion of the visit to Wash ington of Mr. Powderly and his associates of the Executive Board oftheKniguts of Labor to appear befoie the Curtin com mittee on the Southwest strike, on their appearauee m the c..pital ctrtaia of the Senators vrho were anxious to meet them went over to the House of Rtpresenta- tives' end of the capitol, and members of the House of Rerpesentatives wbo were acquainted -with Mr. Powderly were sent on to hunt him up. Upon finding him, they look him to the place where the Senators had a ranged to be. Upon ar riving a t the door, Mr. Hayes ol the Ex ecutive Board, looking around, asked the question: “Is this a place where liquor is sold?” noticing the appearance of the sale of liquor in the room. Upon the answer being given, “Yea,” he said: “Then I cannot go into that room, ” Mr. Powderly at once added, “ Nor I either.” That the representatives of American la bor should be called upon this way to re- bake American law-makers on the tem- peianoe question is not a thing of which American Republicanism should be proud and that the laboring men of the country should have called to the head of their organization men who thus wonld dare to rebuke liquor-selling in the capitol of the nation is to their everlaehng credit,— Christian Union. WHY IS IT ? The above question can be seen on every package shipped by one of the lar gest dealeis in garden seeds in this coan- try. May we not ask the same question of the laboring classes of the country! “Why is it that men ate so slow to see where they stand, what their present po sition wit] lead them to? How can men of cemmoD sense be so blind, so stupid, so utterlv heedlcstof tluir greatest inter ests-? When and from what source do they expect to get any help, any move ment, any enactmint that Will better their con. itiou, if they don’t come to gether, act together, work together, and sUndtogethei? Why Is it? Is it because they have allowed themselves to be ground in the mill of injustice so long that they are devoid of feriing in this matler? How much longer will they let tyrannical capiul ke>p them in the mill! Is there n ot life enough left in the corpse lo make one desptrato effort to jump and clear Itself from certain death? Why la Oh foolish and wavering men, i ow can you remain «o tranquil and undecided? Let every man come into the fold of united Libor, organized Lbor, that he may be educated up to the point of Feeing his situation as it really Is, cot as it has been Don't stand aroond and say such and tuch. used to be the case; but look the matter square in the face as it is to day. Nolhing can be sccoroplished by a scattered army. Why is it th .t men can not think, see and act together on great and momentoDS questions that will se cure the greatest benefits for the greatest number? The greatest labor organizition exist ing in the world to-i'ay Las promulgated and bronght forward the broadest plan, under which toworksnd lie goveintd by, that -laa ever yet been attempted. It is not conflntd to anyone trade, nor sex not color. Any one of good moral char acter, dependent upon bis or her labor for a livelihood, can come into its fold. What more can be asked? What more can men of thought and brain do? Why is it that it takes years of reasoning, years of urging to get men to even take the first step to protect themselves? Are they afraid of being victimized? Are they afraid ot loaiDg their positiocs? AreUuy afraid it will be found ont by the;r em ployers, and that they will be discharged! If that is the cause of the indifference, thank God the day is not far distant when men can belong to an orgaiiztd lai or society. Now is the time for us to keep tip a steads and aoSiuching fire into the ranks of organized capital, not in ordtr to destroy if, b u t to fire into Ihe minds of capltaMs and monopolis's the idea that the laws ot the land admit of the assem bling together of men and women in a quiet and orderly manner for the pur pose of discussing measures for bettering of their condition. Why is it that the labor press of the eonntry cannot in some way imp'ress upon the working people the utmost impiortance of thorough or ganization? L abo R eb , 6384. A WORTHY MEASURE. A bill is LOW pending in the Ohio leg islature which indicates a gratifying growth of public sentiment in state. It provides that any citizen of that state not the owner of more than fllOOO worth of personal property, or of real e8tate,aad desirons of obfalning land, shall be en titled to receive from the state a parcel of arable land not to exceed 20 acres in extent, such parcel to be held by him so long as be resides upon and cultivates such land, and subject to certain condi tions specified as to tax«s and exf-mption Widows, also, ate entitled to to the ben® fits of the act. The state will retain title to the land, and the occupant can only transfer the impiovemenU thereon. These provisions also extend to the heirs of an occupant should they desire to con tinue cultivation o f the land. A further provisiou is made for the purchase or appropriation of lauds whenever neces sary to supply the demand and a fund is created by the act for this purpose. The entire law is baaed upon the the ory set forth by Henry George iu “Pro gress and Poverty,” and if it becomes a law, will afford practical illnstralion of the beneficience of abolishing privyte ownership of land. The result cannot be otherwise than eucoessful.
