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Aaother in ilovember of the same year perfected a permanent organization under the name oi the "Farmers' Association of South Carolina Tills association, representiug the reform element in the party, has heid two annual sessions since, and at each of thtse tour conveu tioiis, largely atceuded Dy represeuta- , rive farmers from nearly all th^ Counties, the demands of the people for greater economy iu the government, greater efficiency in its officials aud a fuller recognition of the necessity .'or cheaper and more practical education, have been pressed upon the attention of our legislators. In each of the two last Democratic State Conventions the "farmers' movement" has had a large following, and we oniy failed of controlling the convention of 1SS8 by a small vote?less than fwenrv-flve?aud that, too, in the face of ihe active opposition of ueariy every trained poiicieian iu tliis State. We claim <bat. we have always had a majority of the people oa our side, and have only tailed by rf .-ou of the superior political tactics ? ; >?u oppoaouts and our lack of orgaoizt'it-u. Iu proof of this wo point to iiobt-viii-.! iud Chester, the oa'y Counties txfejf vnarlescou which had not already .ipp .! :; ed delegates to the State couve:iti- u nefore the campaigu meetjogs t A<> yvars ago at which Governor Richa.dsou spoke. Both of those Counties, a!'er Hearing the Governor defend his poticy a'id that-of his faction repudiated bi?t and it, and he received only two voteo !r.?m them. The executive commictee of the Farmers' A>si?tia;iou did not detm it worth while r<. h<?:d any convention last November. our. we have watched closely every ivsjve of the enemies of eeonomy? tbe e:,e^j:?-f <?f agricultural education, the eueui: .^ true Jettersoo'.aa JL?emoc-1 racy?an*i *%v think the time has come to bh').v i.jc people what it is they need and bow to accomplish their de.-ires. We will draw? up the ludictmeut against those who ha7e been and are still govnering our State, btc*u?e it is at once the cause and justification of tbe course we intend to pursue. 2iO REAL REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT. South Carolina has never bad a real republican government. Since the day;, of the 'lorus proprietors' it has been an aristocracy under the forms of de ? ^ mKunooap n (<htimninn nf QQUCrtlCJfy auu <nr ucutfvt w- ? the people has attempted to show them their rights, and advocated those rigors, an aristocratic oligarchy has bought him with an office, or failing in that, turned loose toe flood gates of misrepresentation and slander in order to destroy his influence. Tbe peculiar situntiou now existing in the State, requiring the uoited efforts of . _ .tvery triie wbite man to preserve white supremacy and our very civilization even, has intensified and tended to make permanent tnc conditions which existed before the war. Fear of a division among us and consequent return of negro rule has kept the people quiet and they have submitted to macy grievances imposed by the ruling faccioa because they dreaded to risk such a division. The '"farmers' movement" has been hampered and retarded in its work by this condition of the public roicd, but we have shown our lealty to race by to the edicts of the party, aud we intend as heretofore to make our tight inside thM party lines, feeling assured that truth and justice must finally prevail. The results of the agitation thus fur are altogether encouraging. Inch by inch aud step by step true democracy?the rule of the people?has won its way. We have carried all the outposts. Only two strongholds rernaiu to be taken, and with the issues fairly made up aud put plainly to the people j we have no fear of the result. The j House of Representatives has been car-! ?ied twice and at last held after a desperate struggle. The advocates of reform and economy are no longer sneered at as <lThree-for-a quarter statesmen." They pass measures of economy which four years ago would have excited only derisiou, and with the farmers' movement to strengthen their backbone have withstood the cjtjolery, threats and Impotent rage of the ''ring boj-ses.'' The Senate is now the main reiiftnrft of the enemies of retrenchment and reform, who oppose giving the people their rights. The Senate is the stronghold of tkex:stijg institutions," and the main dependence of those who are antagonistic to ail progress. As we captured the House we c-jn capture the Senate; but we must control the Dem ocratic State Convention before we c n hope to make economy popular in Columbia, or be assured of no more pocket vytoes. Th? General Assembly is largely influenced by the ideas and policy of the State officers, and we must elect those before we can say the farmers' movement has accomplished its mission. It is true tnat we have wrenched from the aristocratic coterie who were euu cuted at and sought to monopolize every, rhiny for 'he South Carolina College, the right to control the laud scrip and HQ<i Hatch fund aud a part of the privilege tax on fertilizers for ooe year, and we have $-*0,000 with which to coin meuce buildiog a separate agricultura college where the sons of poor farmer: can get a practical education at smal expense. But we dare not relax ou effort ur rely upon the loud profession of our opponerts as to their willingnes nsw to build and equip this agricultura school Senator McMaster, a trustee o - - ' 1:? the 5?0UIQ v^aruuua v,vuc?c, gc??c .uiv to the sentiments and wishes which ar prevalent at the University and Militar Academy when he "hoped to see the it feroni Clemson College sink out of sigh next year." They all want to j-ink iL "infernal" agricultural college out < sight, and if its friends do not r*lb one more to its support it will either be d< stroyed or starved, so ibat it cannot d the great work it is expected to accon piish. All the cry about "existing ii sritutions" which must remain inviola! shows that the ring? <ho South Carolir University, Citadel, Agricultnr Bureau, Columbia Club, GreenSel ??MB ' B??n?B? building ring iutend i'? the future, as in j the past. to get all they can and keep all j they get. These pets of the aristocracy and its nurseries are only hoping that the people w'il again sick into their accustomed apathy. The University was given an increased appropriation, and tbere is no thought of transferring it to Fort Hill, although the land scrip fund which is sent there was expressly donated for the purpose of meehauical as weil as agricultural education, and so witii the experimental stations. The Hatch fund is given to the Ciemsou College, but the stations are left at Columbia and Spartanburg, under the costroi of the South Carolina College. Is it not plain that these peopie intend to yield obedience to the law only when they are made to do it? The Farmers1 Association demands that the lau'i scrip and Hatchfuodsand the fertilizer tax shall first be consolidated and used for the buildand maintenance of a class industrial school, with Experiment Stations attached, for farmers and mechanics. We hold that the experimental work,) the educational wo?k and tin: insptction and analysis of fertilizers can all be more; efficiently and ecouoicicaliy carried on under one board, mostly at one place, and much of it by the same corps of men who teach. We have never and do uot now want any increase of taxos to accomplish these ends. But our opponents having seized the opportunity afforded by our agitation to double the income of tne South Carolina College and call it a university, and in addition obtai- ed the Hatcti fund of $15,000, donated for Experiment Statious, cry out: "Take our Clemsou College! We will give you $08,000 or $198,000 if jou want it raised by taxation, but don't touch existing institutions." They have built with our ! bricks, but say we must not take them, but that we can build if we make others. Was there ever such impudence? TUB DOIMJS or TIIE RJXG. Tbev seized first the land scrip fund.' Then they misappropriated the Hatch fuud. They increased the taxes $(55,000 a year to equip a.nd maintain the dif fereat departments of the grand uoiver siiy. Tney voted $60,000 in one lump without even a division to rebuild, repair and equip the Citadel Academy, and then 6<iy to taxpaying fanners: Leave our existing institutions alone. Let the agricultural bureau with its board?who. ar?i our chosen sons, every mau of them belonging to or aspiring to belong to our aristocratic ring ?let this bureau waste $30,000 a year more?leave our Experiment Stations at Darlington, Columbia and Spartanburg aione. We expect to nontrol votes with them and tnev must not be touched. Put jour hands ia your pockets and pay for your Clemson College if you wili have it, and we wi!l vote the taxes. An analysis of the vote in the House and Senate which defeated the consolidation of all our agricultural work shows that the board and Department of Agriculture are sustained by the fertilizer manufacturers, the phosphate miners and the University and Citadel. If a farmer voted for its continuance it is because he felt that the South Carolina University would lose something by its aiolitiou. T?k- support of the fertilizer companies is easy to understand- This bureau has been their best friend. Year after year Kaon \txr f"!nm ? C 'Iftv t V 1 wutMfwv.vw But. : that the guanos inspected were below the guarantees, but nobody has beea punished. In fact there is no adequate punishment for selling fraudulent guanos in this State. The bill prepared by the committee of the Farmers' Association for the reorganization of the Board of Agriculture would have secured our farmers against swindling fertilizer dealers, but it was amended to death by the lawyers in the Senate, who are attorneys for the phosphate miners ana fertilizer companies; and the men who were elected on the board over the nominees of the farmers' convention were chosen not becHUse they are more loyal to tbe agricultural interests, or better fitted for the position, but becausc they are friends of the University and belong or are subservient to our aristocracy?,l:o called" ?and the phosphate miuers are too well satisfied with the system of collecting musibv to ri^rmit a change if : V4-*V" WW ^ " * I - O they can help it. How wonderfully perfect or.tiefeciive is this system is shown by the fact that during the tea years under the same officials r.ot a single indictment has been brought again.--t any one for attempting to swindle the State out of its dues. No wonder Chaarleston is in Ioys with the Agricultural Bureau and cannot bear to see that "existing institution" disturbed. The receoc proposal to sell the State's interest in the phosphate beds is fortunate, because thereby the attention of taxpayers is attracted to this most important matter. The Farmers' Ass .'Cia tioc proposed in 1SSG to increase tne royalty as a means of lowering taxes, and we believe this can be safely doue to the extent of $100,000. A legislative committee was appointed to "investigate" and report on the subject. This was only done to give time? waiting ten months until the market had been manipulated, etc. This .committee proceeded to show how well it bad been choseu "not to do it." There was no honest effort made to get at the real facts a3 to the profits of the business and its ability to stand an increase of roy p.lty; *nd after it had been "wined and diued," and brought into a suitable frame of mind that committee came to Columbia and actually proposed to give the six largest companies a monopoly for a less annus! rental than the State was then receiving. Oo!y one Senator, to whom ail honor is dae, dissented from this outrageous proposal. What was the result? Of course the General Assembly did nut act favorably upou it, but all thought of increase of royalty was also abandoned, and this was whatthe corpo ration attorneys, who were there in the interest of their clients and not of their constituents, Lad been working for. 'The goose that lays the golden egg" I wa3 not killed?"existing institutions'' were not disturbed. Phosphate rock, I which had beeu manipulated down tc ?3 40 per ton, advanced in two months ; after the Legislature adjourned to $0.0( 5 and has since ruled between $3.50 anc 1 $7 50 per ton. The golden eggs are stil r being laid, but not in the State's nest? s whemcr some of them have not goni s into pockets which they ought not, is ai ,1 open question. Now, we want to wan ? - f n, f the people that tue cnaner 01 iu? \^..u e saw company?obtained by bribery, it i e saiJ, of a Radical Legislature?expire y in ISO 1. This company, which ha i- grown fabulously rich, claims to bav it a perpetual contract, with exclusiv ie right to mine in Coosaw River, an >f pay ODly one dollar per ton for the priv lege. Tbe next Legislature muat act o i- this question, and the next Attorne lo General may have to test these clain: i- in court. The wbo!-.1 question of pho: > phu:e management or mi?uianageuiei ts must be settled. Can the taxpaye Id afford to ahow any but true meu to go I al the Senate, or elect a corporation lawvi Id as Attorney Genera;? Shall the polit \ [ cians choose him, or shall we, casting about arnog the amony honorable, patriotic lawyers of the State, make the selection ourselves? RAILROAD LEGISLATION. Tho Legist* re which has just adjourned has o^ter sins to answer for, or rather the Semite must be held responsible The people demanded that the Railroad Commissioners should have something to do besides draw their salaries and spend them. We want protec* *"*? nirrontin HOI! against iae greeu ui uut* corporations owned at the North, which regard South Carolina a9 a lemon to be squeezed, and care nothing for the welfare of our towns, ourS.ute or our people. The railroad laws of IS?made thcommission a power to defend the people against imposition. The same legislature which enacted it having been bambcozleed or debauched, at the very next session left it only us a sinecure with fat salaries and no power. We have just seeu the disgraceful farce repeated. The law was vastly improved at the session of 1888, but after a year, which has sho.wa the weakness and unfitness of present incumbents, for they have done very little, the Senate i tr? mwtp *nv peremptorily iciu?- .v ? ?j changes. The Railroad Commissioners now in office have been ''tamed" so to ! speak, by the railroads, and men who have not been so loug under their wing ! might Lave done something in the inter! est of the people, but that 6ame Senate, which bas again aud again thwarted the people, which refuses to reduce salaries, which fought the Clemson College and yielded at last to necessity only, which is the stronghold of aristocracy with its old, extravagant, non-progressive, impracticable ideas, which in a word is dominated by Charleston's rich politicians?that Senate resolved to mantaiu this "existing institution," too," statu quo. Of all the taxes we pay, the pensions 'to Confederate veterans are submitted to most willingly, and we regret that we cannot increase the pittance they receive. But tue continuance of men in office as political pensioners, after their ability or willingness to serve the people is gone?when the interests, and even lights of the people are thereby sacrificed?this pandering to sentiment?this favoritism?is a crrime, nothing more and notbiog less. Rotation in office is a cardinal Democratic principle, acd the neglect to practice it is the cause of many ilis we sutler. We cannot elaborate tbe other counts iu this indictment. We oan only point briefly to tbe mismanagement of tbe penitentiary, which is a burden on tbe taxpayers, even while engaged in bo public.works which might benefit the State. To the wrong committed against the peopie of many Counties (strongholds of Democracy) by tbe failure to reapportion representation according to population, whereby Cbarleton has five votes in the House and ten votes in the State Convention, which chooses our State officers, to which it is not entitled. To the zeal and extravagance of this aristocratic oligarchy, whose sins we are pointing out, in promising higher education for every cl*os except farmers, whiie it neglects the free schools, wbicb are the only chance for an education to thousands of poor children whose fathers bore the brunt in the struggle for our redemption in 1876. To the continued recurrence of horrible lyncbings ?which we cau but attribute to bad laws and their inefficient administration. To the impotence of justice to punish crimkonu mrtnoo T.i r.hfi failure to IlJiliS W LIV/ Uav V uivuvj * v . call a constitutional convention that we may have an organic law framed by South Carolinians and suited to our wants, thereby lessening the burden of taxation and giving us better government. DEMAND J"OK A CHANGE. Fellow Democrats, do not nil thete things cry out for a change? Is it not opportune, when the^e is no national eiection, for the common people who redeemed the State from Radical rule to take charge of it ? Can we afford to leave it longer in the hand3of the?e who, wedded to ante-bellum patriotism and honor, are running it in tbe interest or a few families and for the benefit of a selfish riag of politicians. As real Democrats and white men, those who here reDew our pledge to make the fight inside the Democratic party and abide the re suit, we call upon every true Carolinian, of all classes and callings, to help us purify and retorm the Democratic party, and give us a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. If we control the State Democratic Convention. a Legislature in sympathy will | naturally follow; failing to do this we risk J losing all we have gained, and have no i iiftncnf anv change for the better. Tbe logic of events and pa3t experience show that we must nominate candidates and put them in the field early, so that the masses will understand what they must do to bring about the change we so desire. Such course will cause an active caovass, wide discussion of the issues presented, and the people thu3 learning the truth can show whether they are in favor of the farmers' movement or! not, by electing or rejecting jjurJ'nomi-1 nees. We therefore issue this call for a convention of those Democrats who sympathize with our views and purposes, as herein set forth, to meet in Columbia, in fhp. TTmise of Representatives, on Thurs daj, the 27th day of March proximo, at 12 o'clock m., to nominate a ticket for every State office, from Governor down, to be put in the Held for ratification or rejection by tbe next Democratie State Convention, and we pledge ourselves to abide the result, whether that is for us or against us. E'tch County will send as many delegates as it sends to the State Convention, and we suggest that a mass meeting or convention be called ic each ' County to elect delegates on salesday in March. By order of the executive committee ' of the Farmers' Association of South Carolina, G. \V. Shell, Pres't. ? and ex-officio Ch'm. i ?" v A Sad Experience in Arkansas. A sad case, neeiing immediate as1 sistance, has come to our notice of twc " young men, one eighteen, the othei 2 twenty, who reached town last e\en3 ing in a most destitute condition, hav3 ing walked from Arkansas to this " point-, being twenty-ooe days on the s road from Memphis here. One o: 3 them had during that time a severe s case of pneumonia from which he ii c just recovering. It seems they lef e their home in Wayne countj7, N. C. d some lime ago with their parents and o email hrnth i- ??vo youugei suicio auu m n er for Arkansas. Soon after their ar v rival, their parents died, leaving then is without resources. Some friends sent s- the younger children home and th Jt brothers started to walk the long dis rs tance; being unable to raise the mone; io in any way to defray their expen er ses. It is propesed to laise an amoun i- sufficient to pay their w?y to Raleigl DISASTROUS OVERFLOW-. \ The Kittle \Vnba*h Drives People From Their Home* iu Carnie. Illinois. Cairo, III., January 19.?Three hundred persons at Carnie, Illinois, bave , been compelled to leave their bome3 by a sudden rise in Little Wabash River, And it is feared that a still larger number will be forced to nbaudon their dwellings and take refugo on high ground. The river is out of its bank?, and the northern part or tne town i? | flooded to the depth of 20 feet in some places, and from 75 to 100 houses are submerged. The bouses have all been vacated, the people seeking refuge in spare rooms of their neighbor in Ihe M>uthero parfc of town. Vast stretcher of low land ami mender are under water, and a number of animals have been carried away or drowned in the fields. Feace railr, boards and other drift borne dowu stream by the raging waters, indicate that the farmers hare tufftred much. Hay on the bottom lands has been ruined. It is reported that th-; worst is yet to couie, and that the people in the towns aiong the Little Wabash are preparing for the worst. At Gorwin it is expected that the river will rise 15 feet higher. If this does happen, the result will be appalling. Oar Simall Collrices. ilr. Bryce, in bis ' American Commonwealth," says au excellent word for our hundreds of small colleges. Som<* of our owu people are inclined to sneer at these humble places of learning, aud recommend that they be abolished, swallowed up by the greot universities, etc. Mr. Bryce says they get hold of a multitude of poor men who cotdd never go to one of the great universities at a distance from their home. They thus fill the j country with a learning, cot of the highest, t'? be sure, but still higher than the public schools. They stnxe oftentimes the spark in the btea^t of the ' country youth that kindles in later times . to such a love of scientific pursuits aoa ' original investigation that the youth be- ' comes one of the famous men of his day. Our great men m all fields are nearly alwajs those who were born ani grown ] in the country, Dear to t'ae heart ot oature. It is these Sirong, ambitious . youths that the country college reacbes particularly. Ex-President Andrew D. ' White speaks in high commendation of the small colleges, calling them feeders of the universities. What though they j are not so sumptuously endowed, and have not stately, high salaried profes- 1 sors? In the true love of learning, ia ( the simple, unconscious dignity of genu- ' ine manhood, in the kindly sympathy with hi3 students and nearness to them ' the country college professor is often ' the superior of his brother in the uniniversity. The strong pinioned humau sympathy that draws Dear to the weak, ; the erring, the poor, the unhappy, and bears them up and at length gends them J into the world as men in their turn is better than the ability to write a whole Greek play and put in the accents cor- ] rectly. We have in the United States I ) now 345 colleges, mostly small ones, j Long may they wave! An Engine's Remarkable Record. A Philadelphia inventor named James Reagan claims to have ruu an engine continuously for one week over the Philadelphia Division of the Reading Railroad without changing the lire in the furnace, aud that nothing of the kind was ever attempted or accomplished before. The invention, it is believed, will revolutionize :he old time methods used iu firing locomotives if the railroad companies adopt it, and inventor Reagan's performances are the talk of every engi neer on the roaa- Jtsy using a. i shaking grate the unheard-of record 1 was made of running a locomotive ( drawing heavy freight trains for 136 i hours, inc'uding long stops on the j road., which the engineers dread on ] acc -unt of the way their fires clog, it ] often requiring thirty-five or forty min- i utes to renew thirn iu order to pro- i ceed. Mr. Reagan stuck to the engine < throughout the week of experiment, | scarcely sleeping. All the food he got f was what the engineers gave him and a ( few oysters secured duriiga shortstop in Philadelphia. "The mageitude of the undertaking," says Mr. Reagan, ''was such that every one doubted the abi'ity-to make one trip. The quality , of the coal was even below the ordinarv us#?d bv the road. The test was mad?j as severe as possible, and the victory is more signal on that account. Besides the fast gain in time there is equally as much saved in fuel. After the firs' fire was lit I did not burn a piece of wood as big a match stick, and it usually takes one-quarter of a cord to start the furnace after the fire begins to clog and a cleaning out becomes necessary." - The Successcf the Alliance. Atlanta Journal. The farmers are deriving great benefit from the Alliance. It has saved them in Georgia alone $200,000 in a single year on the purchase of fertilizers. It has lowered the cost of almost every article they use, food, clothing, farm implements, wagons, buggies, and even the few luxuries that Geor- j gia farmers have been able to enjoy. It has taught the farmers the use of the most powerful weapon in the struggles of peace or war?-co-operation. Divided, they were the easy prey of the monopolists and trusts; but united in a phalanx 4,000,000 strong, with one wing resting on the shores of Maine, the other on the Pacific coast , the farmers have become a power. They are the people, and they must rule. The membership is steadily increasing, and its field of usefulness steadily broadening, Our reports from the South Carolina Alliance are par-1 ticnlarly encouraging. Tbe order is makiDg rapid progress in that State, and has, as the Georgia Alliance, a settled policy of uplifting the people and protecting them from the designs of the monopolies and trusts: The ' J 1- ,-f Tr ' Alliance nas a guou wuija. uciuic i?. has accomplished much, but it has " much more to accomplish. Fortunately for the people, it has the cour1 age and the ability to wage war suc* cessfully and to fulfill its mission, j 3 Rilled the VVrocz Man. t Charlotte, Jan. 26.?Monday even , ing, John Howie was killed in a rathe [ peculiar manner in Carribus county, - near Harrisburg. Oscar Galloway and - White Pharr were quarreling and Howie i was Standing near by. Galloway jerked b a pistol from bis pocket, intending tc e kill Pharr but he caught hold of it. Th; i- pistol, however, was discharged and fhy ball struck Howie. He died in a few "Rrsth Oallf.wav and Phari L- | LU IliU l>VO? jurwv? - - ?j it then took to their heel3 and have no l* ' been seen since. All are colored. 0L0TD1ED0CT0RS WHO BLED THEIR PATIENTS TO CURE THEM. And thu Modern Doctor* Who Bleed Ttieir Patient*' i'ockef* find Sometimes Kill 1 hein?A rp'i Rcmivi?ceccc?. ^ There is an awful mystery about these doctors. They know so much thai comvr.c;a people dun't know. When I was \ cbiid I ha i profound reverecce for J~cm. 0'ir family doctor was a :fcree^mdred-pouuder, aiid was grutt and short- jn his speech, and not ^erj fond of ^lildrec. And jet h>s seemed to have a grn'%t many Lid out somewhere, and Was always giving theiu away. Whenever a new child came into the farniiy or ike neighborhood it was said that the ('wbioi brought it. I used to wonder ft jftie he kept them. I asked my mothefk?Bce, aod aim said, "in Heaven m.iyb^" fend this increased my veneration, mr oig,- *?c doctor had a shop?we oldu': caii it an office?and I used to peep in at the door sometimes and look at bio little bottles on the shelves. I was sent there once for some licorice root and some cinnamon bark. There was u mysterious box standing up in the corner, a ioog narrow box about big enough to bold an old-fashioned clock? a grandfather's clock?and the door was .-.-1 , T cpeu a lime sou i saw uu umui m.uy ( in tbere, a skeleton suspended from a I screw iu the skull. There were dark j cavernous holes for the ejes, and a hole (<A- tbe uose, and there were jaws with teeth in them and tbey looked fierce and malicious. I had a iittle primer at home, aud it had pictures in it. One was a picture uf a skeleton with a scythe m^his hand and I had learned the iiofcs: "Time cuts down all, Both great a^d small.1' iud I thought I had discovered where this old rascal was kept hid. He was iu that box. It was a lo3g lime before [ recovered from those ctiildish superititious. One time I had a long spell of fever, and that old doctor bled me till [ fainted, and he wouldu't let me have mv water, and wheu I got delirious I Lbought that he hud that skeleton oa his jack, and I was to be cut dowa with a scythe blade. He bled me several ?fiirn cr?;irs ?r? on mv arm ?et. Bleeding wa~ a bi^ thing theo. Mark Harding says his arms are just :atiooed with scars. I reckon they Died nore in Murk's day than >o mine, for the ilJer a man is the more scars he has; lou Mark says be has got forry. I can :eSl how olu a man is by his scars. Mark lay.; that "bleeding was a good thmij ind ought, not to bave been abolished. Fhat these modern doctors are always asking about blood poison, blood poison. Well, if the blood is poisoned, svhy not take it out? Bleed a rr>- r_jil liecau hardly wag, and let^ jlood oroi that is noc poisoned." But we lived?blood or no blood? tfat^r or no water?doctors or no docThu lived and the Pres jyieriaus i'.ved, fur they say that Bapist? don't die uatil their time conies, s^es t.l\o Presbycusis; but it is a wonder tint soy Meth>dists were ever raised in these phlebotomy days. We never had any medicine :xcept cut-tor oil and calomel, and epsom ;altsand jaiap, and number six and iheep saffron tea, and some jawbreakiDg .ooth pullers that were made just like iiese crowbar hooks thu: you turn over i log: wiih at a sawmill. There were some patent medicines, like paregoric ind Bateman's drops, and Gcdfroy's cor3iai and opedeldock that were kept in :he store, anu they were good, too. But ;he noble science has made progress, ind I like it because it offers such a siim chance for a tool. We've got a yy studying medicine, and are hopeful jf him?of course we are. llis mother :hinks be will be a great surgeon, for he s tbe seventh sou, and when lie was a ad our peacock got his leg broke, and [ was about to kill him to put the poor ~ * ' ? hn?- hprrtmfl LUlag UUl Ul LUlTil jr, ^ me to give the bird to him; ana be made some splints out of a big cane and fixed bici up in a swing, and he got well; aud mother time be sewed up a bad cut on one of our mule?; and be just loved to picsc out splinters or get a cinder out of your c.ye, and so we consented to bis being a doctor, and he is attending lectures in Atlanta, and the other day.I called to see him at t?e college. It was a kind of recess when I got there. I was introduced to Dr. Kecdrick, and ho was mighty kind and said tbey were just about to pet form on a clinik, and invited me in. I thought that it was some kind ot electric maearae, uul wuen I got in the room there were 125 young doctors sitting all around on tiers oi seats ibat got higher and higher so that all of them could look down on the little circular pit. at the bottom--a little pit about tea feet across and looped like it was built to fight chickens in.. I heard that the boys did fight chickens there, on the sly, sometimes. The clinik was a revolving table that had a cot on it, and was placed la the middle of the pit. Dr. Keudri<-k went in first and I followed along with a sick white mau and two sick durkies. All of a sudden the youDg doctors commenced cheering' and so i took a cheer and sat down. I didn't kno.v whether they were cheering the professor or the sick men. I rose for-* * r\ k e\c~? ur?r3 t Vl PTT w&rn auu iuuix <suw*uci ^?u^j chcered acjaio. Tbe professor then introduced me to the audience and I came to a perpendicular attitude, and they cheered again and again and I took my cover. After this little episode vas overtue professor asked one of the darkies what was the matter with him aad he said he didn't havs brjath enough -he was short of breath, he couldn't walk ten steps and his lu-yrt went like a kittle drum. So the professor thumped on him and put his ear to his left breast and be^au to ask the young doctor's questions about diseases of the heart, and they seemed ?o know right smart. One said the heart had two ocats to the bar, aud auother said the heart hsd two oracies and two ventriloquists, and another said the reason tbe .j. _t.?? ?t.,a hr^sifh whs because I UK* ACJ ? c*0 JUVl V V?? w t wv* - - , he didn't have enough of it, and another said the valves were out of order, and another thought tbat toe clavicles of the sternum were contracted, hut h knowins youDg man said there was not enougt oxygen in his blood. I noticed thai when a young man hesitated and go' things mixed, the professor -was veri kind j.nd helped him along just lik< Dr. Wnddell u<ed to help us boys alocj in Latin when we were in college "Quidarn i* a pronoun, is it not ilr i .Jones?" '"Yes. sir." "Well, quidemi [ what? an adverb, is it not?" "Yes, sir >* ves. sir. Quidain is an pronoun an< >. quidem is an adverb." "Correct, 7tlr : Jones." And Mr. Jones thought he ha' done venders until his report came ou r aDd he was put dovro -10 in Latin. "We t -what is the remedy for that," said tb professor. If his blood lacks oxygen ho1 j can oxygen be supplied?" "Give nitri aj ! tonic, sir/' said a younjr man with i j a bad cold, an iron doni*;." Then the j j book-keeper wrote a prescription. | j Good gracious, thought I, has that j i darkey got to eat a whole donic. A i donic is a lump of iron as big as a wai ter pail. But maybe he is not to eat j it, but is to handle it. Maybe be is to j dig in the mines. It does make a man j strong to dig up donics in the mines, i It is like swinging a pair of dumbbells ! to get strong. But our boy told, me ! afterwards that it was not a donic but ! a tonic, l wish that I knew as rcuch about the hurcuu: frame as Dr. KendricK knows. He put a little glas3 quill in the other darkey's mouth, and when he look it out and looked at it, ; U r/mnor all about his ! | :iv (.viu vuv j ? ?-? ! disease and how it came and what | must be done for him; and then he j began on the white man and asked ! him what was the matter, and the | man pulled up the leg ei his pant? j and showed an awful case of big leg, ; and the Dr. said something about an j and zoli -Aim that he come the wrong day. and belonged '.o f Dr. Westmoreland's clinik. Poor fei-! ; low, thougUt I, you are gone up. Dr. i Westmoreland will cut that leg o?'in \ ten minutes and smile. Next- J was invited into the dissecting room. Yes, I was invited, and the big fat, black janitor who steals all the stiflk opened the door, but I didn't go in. I saw enough, and one wbiff of the \: odoriferous" atmosphere satisfied me, and I departed those coasts. The young doctors laughed at me tumui- . tuously. There were ten tables inthere, and a cadaver on every table, and some of them were split in two, i and some dismembered, and there ; were arms and legs hanging about on ; the wails, and from some all the ' nerves had been taken out like a bun- ( die of suing, and from some ail the ( muscles hsd been taken out. And there were backbones, and haslets, and ' spare ribs, juss like you see at a hog killing time. And all this is to teach * the doctors anatomy, and itr is all right, and if a man has any genius at all it . does look like he ought to know how to treat a ai-ease, and what to do for t every wound that humanity is liable ( to. Those 125 doctors seem to be in ( earnest, and some of them will make ( I"1'- A??. AWI A ' ilCll JLULUa.. vm uuv <_auic uuljv other day and had a darkey's e^r i wrapped up in his pocket, and wanted <= to tell his mother all about its anato- 1 my. For a minute she didn't under- 1 staud what it was, and asked him in i amazement if he had got to chewing < tobacco. He said, "Why no; this is not tobacco, this is a dartev's ear. She < rose forward and then backward and < was more iudignant than when I had 1 that mole in the sugar dish. Ealph i had to leave the room and hide out g the ear, and she wouldn't let him eat ? dinner until he had washed his hands with lye soap and cologne two or three ? times. But still she is proud of that j boy, and tells how he used to speak a 1_ __ .1 an.: ^ speecu, auu isify jcimcuus, iwuiauo, i countrymen; lend me your ears.'; "Lit- j tie did I think," said she, "that he j would some d ay go about cuttiug them t off from dead negroes." I Bill Akp. i . < A Kev*- Era. tu "Azricaltnrc^ 1 There are hints that a revolution is ' about to come in agriculture through the discovery that the free nitrogen of 1 the atmosphere isabsorbed and "fixed" by the soil itself under suitable eondi- ' tions. Plants need phosphoric acid, 1 potash and nitrogen? Tbe first two < are in reach, but the third has been 1 supposed to be elusive. It has been * the general teaching that the nitrogen 1 of the atmosphere plays no part in ( vegetation. Now M. Berthelot and ' others affirm that it does. They have 1 demonstrated, they say, that the free 1 ? a**v\/v.-.%\uaka iff i ] JJ1 tru^CJLl Ui tJJLC acii:u^,/ucic xo uavv* and made available as a fertilizer "by ( the Co-operation of mineral matter and * of living organisms in the soil." The ' fact exptoins, it is said, why it is "(1) s that spade husbandry is much more < productive than pawing; (2) that land * can be enriched by simply plowing ' under its own product, and (3) that summer following, with frequent stir- 1 riog, actually enriches the soil." Pul- 1 verization of the soil increases, it < seems, its capacity to absorb nitrogen. 5 The method of centrifugal tillage now ? being developed in the West supplies, 3 it is claimed, an ideal modus operandi < for the new fertilization. It pulverizes < the soil and aerates.it in the manipu- 1 lation, and toen confines a mass of air : in its midst for the slower process of ] absorption and digestion by earth and iLUUiiii).-?JOi*?ii?nu.CAC Kju.ia? Itaw Oysters Sclf-Digestire. "Forthergill on Indigestion," in speaking of the oyster beiug eaten habitually and by reference in the raw or uncorked sta'.e says: '*It is interesting to kdow that there is a souud physiological reason at the bottom of this i preference. The fawn-colored mas* which constitutes the dainty of the oyfter is its liver, and this is little less than a mass of glycogen associated with the glycogen, but withheld from actual coniact with it during life, is its appropriate digestive ferment?the hepatic di*?stace. Tne mere crushing between the teeth brings these two bodies together, and the glycogen is at once digested, without other Help, oy its own diastace. The oyster in the uncooked state, are merely warmed, is, ia fact, self-digestive. Eat the advantage of this provision is wholly lost by cookiDg, for tbe heat employed immediately destroys the associated fermeot, and a cooked oyster has to be digested like any other food, by rhe eater's own digestive powers.?Hall's Journal of Health. X Youthful iiurclar. Chaklottf, N. C., Jsn. 25.?Johnny Little, a lad fifteen years old, has been arrested at Beaver J)am, Union County charged with burglary, and the little faiiniiT r'hfi iq small for his aire) confessed to having raided '\s few bou-ts," witj^ pistol and bowie-knife in bund. When arrested, these two articles were found on his person, as was also a bunch of . false keys. Johnny bad recently been on a visit to Stanly County, and while I there the residence and store of David \ Foreman wa? burglarized and some $200 j in cash disappeared. Johnny confessed t that he mad^ the raid. He is now in t j>iil at Ai'oetnarie. The lad is an orphan ? and on this account much sympathy is [ expressed fcr him, He comes from a ' good family3 Fnltnl I'oiler Explosion. s Scrantox, Pa., Jan. 22 ?The en; gines and boiler houses of the Mount ~l T 1 ^ninnnr luoro Vilnwn to | J t'bb Li y VlJOi vviuj/auj, '. pieces this morning by the explosion J of our of the boilers. Firemen Mum it ley, of Aicliibald, was iastantly killed, 11 and several German laborers fatalij ie injured. The buildings caught fir* sv and were totally destroyed. ( BLOWN INTO ETERNITY. | i THE TERRIBLE FATE OF FIVE RAILROAD LABORERS. ; A Cicarerfe Carelessly llanflled Explores a. eltarze, liiJls Five ilea and Wound* a Cozen Others?Terrific K?Tectt? of the Explosion. CHAiiLOTTE, X. 0., Jan., 23?News is received here today of a fatal explosion in Wilkes county, yesterday, * ? m on Xr ill /in A, ill WUit'U IX VV> UiVU J dozeu wounded. A squad of railroad ' hands vere working on an extension of the Cape Fear & Yadkin Vailev railroad, in the lower portion of that county. They were prepai ing to make a heavy blast, which was expected to tear up a big rock in a twenty foot cut. A tremendous hole had been driven in the rock, and two kegs of dynamite had been packed in<o it. George Headly.a laborer, was ;>reparin.^ t<v adjust the fuse, at the tan1-? time smoking a cigaretteXroia which a spark accidentally dropped in and lirr-d off the powder. It was all done in an instant and no one had time to escape. The explosion roared like a dozeu cannons and not only burst up the big rock but also tore up fifteen feet of the deep cut. . Five unfortunate workmen were sent whirling into the air, riding on iarge pieces of the broken rock. Among the ilyiag earth, a dozen others ( were knocked about and partially buried uader the falling dirt. , ? ? /> 2 ' Wil^n tne smote OI tue masi, uieareu , iway it was found that five had been ' killed. as follows: George Hendly, 5amuel Culls, Thomas Emery, Joseph < Falls and Eugep? Moore. Twelve J >thers were more or less wounded but < )nly t;iree very seriously. ; THEY MADE IT WARM FOR HIM. i J The Tonsb Experience ol" a Claimant " fer (ieorsiM Lauds. * \tlanta Journal. The. Journal has already published he fact that Western men are lay ng ;laim to large tracts of land in Canilen County, and ha'i gone there to lo;ate their property. Mr. Peck, one of the claimants, has slurred from his jaunt. He was 1 ;een by a Brunswick Times re, -rter * ast night, and the old gentleman . "s * ookiug exceedingly wan and p<* ; * iVheu questioned about hi3 trip tu f jaruaen. inr. jtcck saiu: "Ob, never let rae hear the came of ^Djdeu again. I feel as if I had es- l :aped a most horrible death and if I 2 ive to board the train tonight and 3 ide safely out of Southern Georgia I 1 ;hali feel exceedingly thankful and c greatly relieved.5' f ';Wny, did you have a tough experi- j jnce in Camden? questioned the re- * )orter. ? ''Tough doesn't express it. Why * nan, if I had even intimated that I ^ lad come to claim my land those peo- * :>le v.'culd have cut me up and fed me * :o the hogs. Yon don't know how [ fitter they feel against anybody who ? visits the county with even the shad- ^ >w of a claim. They have been trou- ^ ;>Iod so ilucL ihey \aiwpect strangers ' :he first, time they lav eyes on them." ? "What did they do to you when you * tven cover." ? "Well, it was like this: 5Ir. Brown ~ and I reached Camden about noon 0 --- - T v t ast Monday, m tne meauume i snow- ; >d Mr. Brown my claims to about ? >8,900 acres in the County, and I told aim I expected him to point out ttese ' ands and resurvey them. We took ' iiuner with a good old substantial E armer, and induced him to go along v with us. Pretty soon he discovered v vhat we w?re up to and the old fel ^ ow goo coo wrathy to see. He imme- liately left us and carried the news to I everal neighbors, and in less time ? ;han an hour Mr. Brown and I were * surrounded by at least a half dozen ? ntizens, and one of them^ wanted to 1 enow who I was and what I had come or. ? "I gave him my name aad told him f [ had merely come to find some land, 2 ;vhich I owned in the county, and c ;hat I intended to sell my claim as ? soon as a survey could -be made. No * ooner did I finish making this expla- e aation than the spokesman /or the jrowd cried out: 'That's a brother to aid Primrose, who came here about forty years ago to cheat us out of house i and home.' I insisted that they were mistaken and that I intended them no j barm. At that juncture the crowd drew ofi to one side and held a whis- , pered consultation. Pretty soon ' they came back and tcld me it wasn't healthy for me in Camden and advised ' me to lake the nearest route out of the \ County limits. "And you took their advice?'' ''Wei!, I thought they meant every ( word of it, and I made haste to take the first boat for Brunswick. I tell you, it won't do to fool with these Camclen County people. I wouldn't go r ack there for naif the County." "What became of Mr. Brown, the surveyor?*' "He was in jeopardy when I last saw him. They thought he was in league with me io defraud them, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if he pays the penalty with his neck." A Split iu tho W. C, T. U. Philadelphia, January 24.?At last there is a break ic tbe ranks of the Women's Christian Temperance Union nf P^nnsvlvania. and the seceders have formed tin independent organization. The split was determined upon at a conference of tbe body today. The break was brought about by tbe frequent endorsement of the Prohibition party and Its methods by a number of tbe members of tbe Women's Christian Temperance Union. Immediately after the devotional exercises the President's add-.ess was read, which began bj stating that "differences of opinion in methods of work and the best manner of accomplishing practical results have, during the last fewyear3 in this State, grown rapidly, and are now so conspicuous that harmonious co-operation, among those who have sincerely and conscientiously differed, is manifestly impossible. An actual separation seems to be a practical, wise necesstiy if the labors of very many good women orr> he continued and used effectively against the common enemy." Mrs. Shepard prescotad the Secretary's report, which spoke ia bitter terms of partisan methods. It charged that the operations of the politicians were concealcd behind it. Mrs Weeks offered a resolution that ; the meeting proceed to organize a non> sectarian and nonpartisan Women's i Christian Temperance Union. This was ' agreed to. A commfttte on consti'.u, tion was appointed. r 9 m 5 ?All the ministers of the new Spanish cabinet are free traders. taju31 avici s r llu,.$klm.a.\x?. i The Kotou Divine Tell ?t Hi* Trip to th? Holy Lund. Pakis, Jan. 21.?Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, o?the Brooklyn Tabermicle, has quite recovered from the attack jOf juiSuenza which seized him here and Isai'excellent health and spirits. When I caIIedU)D him the American Kin^ i^ter^.carriage was waiting to convey tie clergyman's lamiiy to tne Jtiois de Boulonge. He was entertained at dinner on Wednesday night by Whitelaw Reid. "I am it Paris," said Mr. Talmage, ;'for the lir&t time since 1885, but never before, during this winter was Paris so ehariiiirxg, and I regret that I most sail on the Aurania on the 25th to resume my duties. "I have murned from the most enjoyable trip of my life. I have been ^ all over the Holy Land and into parts of Italy, Home for instance, which I bad not seen before, although I have been abroad msnv times. 'Every place in Palestine has had great inter- *t est for me. Just "before I reached Bethlehem and Jerusalem I could not sleep. I was as excited as a boy, for it was the realizat'on of a life dream. "At Jericho I met an American, whose name I have forgotten, who asked me to baptize him in the River Jordan. So one fine Sunday morning, v.ben the sun shone gloriously bright, we assembled together on the banks of the great river. I was clad in. the ^-hite robes of an Arab shiek A small crowd of interested people stood about me, some of whom were Americans, who sang together '*On Jordan's stormy banks I stand," which my daughter had copied from a hymn book. After this the ;mer?ion was performed and we disbanded. "My trip was replete with Biblical nterest. I feel doubly repaid for it. Every book in the Bible seemed to =peak more forcibly and I could trace ill the important places in Bible hisry in every journey made." T E PRETTY YOUNG WIDOW. Charged \Vi:2i Poisoning Her Hash* Chablotte. N. C;, Jan. 18.?Some ntereat is again being centred upon he Mrs. Cora Scales Morris case ?t ieiasville. The case will be called in he Superior Court next weeK, ana he pretty young woman must face a ury on .'he charge of poisoning her msband. The case is the most sensaiocai ever known in North Carolina, icd on account of the prominence of ill parties concerned, It will attract universal attention. Mrs. Morris, the lefendant, is a beautiful young woman ind connected with the very best femiies of this State. D. E. Morris, the can she ;'s charged with having murlered by aduiir-istering chloroform to lim while he slept, was one of the oar?;,>or *??Tv la lists and business men of leidsville. He was a bachelor of 45. te loved Miss Scales but she did not ove him and told him so. He begged ier to marry him but she refused. He egged her but still she refused. strange to say, on account of Morris's r^aith, Miss Scales,was almost made ^ o marry hiE?M5^h"er peopfe. U^FeTday-'??' ^ or the wedding was set. It came off, >ut when the marr'age ceremony had ?cen performed the young bride sat town, and, crying bitterly, declared hat she would never liye with her lusband. She went (altogether against ier wishes) to his home, but there hey occupied different rooms. They ived this way for nearly a year. They Lever attended church together, and vere never seen anywhere as manand vife. Morris pleaded with his young rife to become reconciled. She asked lim to make his will and put all his >roperty, etc., in her favor. This he lid. Tnen she asked him to insure itc Kfo fnr ?90 000 p.nd make the Dolicv >avable to her. Obeyed. One week ater Morris was found dead in his >ed. There were signs of chloroform ind strong evidence pointing to foul' >3ay. Tne young wife was arrested, md the stomach ot her dead husband :ut out and placed in the hands of the :ourt. There is plenty of money on >oth sides, and the case will be \rateh.-% sd witk interest. y A FAMILY TRAGEDY IN ROME. I Prominent Physician Shoots and Kills Brutlier-in Law. Vugasta Clironlqle. Rome, Ga., Jan. 30?Deforest Allgood, president of Trion factory, one of ;he wealthiest institutions io North Georgia, was shot and instantly killed, it 8 o'clock this evening by Dr. J. B. S. rr-1? ix?.-??V?ur_?n.lo'a7 qnr? nnp of nuiaiCS, AJia yiviuu-iu *w?j mwv. ww the most prominent and popular of Georgia physicians. Aligooi h.is long cherished ill will toward Holmes forsonie business matters between ihem, and had frequently threatened bis life. Holmes had avoided Allgood for years and went out of towb to avoid meeting him. Today Aligooa came down from Trion factory to Home on an evening train ana waited for Holmes in bis office door. Holmes, who had bad a vague warning, sought to reach bis office by back street. Messrs. ilcKelden and Mattiocfc, of Tennessee, friends of Dr. Holmes, had been hunting with them. When the party drew up in front of the office. All good advanced with a drawn pistot on Holmes. Tbo latter shot Allgood twice with bis double barrel shot gun, loaded with oird shot, both shots taking effect, the first cutting an artery and the jugular vein and the second breaking the ntct completely. Aiigood fell at the first, then half rose, still trying to draw his pistol, when he received & second shot falling on bis face and instantly expiring. Holmes exclaimed: "I was forced to do it to save my own iife. I am sorry, so sorry; but be bunted me down, and j for the sake of my wife and my sen I had lO KU1 iiiUJ. Holmes immediately surrendered to the officers, and and is resting in his own apartment ia charge of the deputy sheriff. General sentiment agrees that the kilbiDg was cicarlv in self defense, and although ooth men mere exceedingly popular, lae current of sympathy is strongly with Dt. Holmes. a Bis Tobacco Company. Tlenton, N. J., Jan. 22.?A. certificate of incorporation of the American Tobacco Company was filed here yes1rr The AanifAl is r>laced at uci KICK J . ? x $2,000,000. Among the incorporators are Messrs Ginter and Pope, of Richmond; Arcdt- and J. B. Duke, of Xew ~?ork; B. X. Watts, of Durham; Emory and Butler, of BrcokIyH,and Kimball, of Rochester. It is said that most of the large cigarette plants of the i country are to be absorbed by the i company, or trust.