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THMAINhfOPEOFTHE SOUTH AND
rr'ly jTHEWEST.
ci ^oniiiBnn Klaboratcs Some of His
iu?s on Jionemry yut?*uoiw, uuu guos
in llvor of the White Metal.
>
k Tjo the Editor of the State.
| 11 endeavoring to comply with the
' request of your correspondent "More
Thau One .,1 shall at lirst attempt to
meet your^exceptions to my position
^S/on silver as expressed in your issue of
yLNovembet 26th. In your editorial of
^thatfdate you hold that the free and
unlimited coinage of bilver at the rar
tio (to 16 to 1 should be entered upon
B only by international agreement, that
its adoption by this country alone
would reduce our monetary unit to a
fifty cent standard, and that it being
|^Lso.regarded by the great trading naHKons
would be a disaster. The quesJH&m
of international agreement is albroached
by the advocates of the
gHfcld standard, whenever the free
HS^Kintage of silver is proposed, not that
HEHev have anv idea of accomplishing
thing-, for they know that is im^^Kssible;
but it is advanced, often like
M||fcnrer's move for a continuance,
E^HBely for the purpose of evasion and
BHHpponement. , Three times has this
HHvernmentadmitted the disastrous efHj^Kts
of the gold standard by calling
H^^y^ternati'onal conferences to rehash
Kite silver and three times have
American delegates labored under
humiliation of rising in the con^^Wences
to vainly beseech the EuroI^Bean
delegates to join with tnem in
j^Rtndoing the treacherous robbery of
^VSherman and Ruggles and their coV
conspirators, who engineered the deH
monetization of silver through a Con^Leress
apparently as ignorant of the
Huws of finance as the average voter
BVf the. South and Northwest appears
Ho be of his own interest. Those who
jwiow pretend to deny that the present
5^kstressing situation has been caused
^ by the refusal of free -mintage of silBPver,
would do well to read and consider
the admissions of our government
made by those who, as her delegates,
voiced her sentiments in these
conferences. Even John Sherman
- IMAAA "W?* /^L\A?'UnAlr A /lA1 f/\ A
wryw iar. vjucauttvu., a uciugoic taj uxc
^-international Monetary Conference of
1878, as follows: "During: the Monetary
Conference in Paris when silver
in pur country was excluded from circulation
by being under valued, I was
strongly in favor of the single standard
of gold, and wrote a -letter, which
you will find in the proceeding of
that conference, stating briefly my
- view. At that time the wisest among
us did-not anticipate the sudden fall
^pf silver or the rise of gold that has
^Rccurred. This uncertainty of the reBlation
between the two metals is one
^ftof th# chief arguments in favor of a
Hmono-metalic system, but other argu^Raenis,
showing the dangerous effect
upon industry by dropping one of the
^.precious metals from the standard of
value outweigh in my mind all theoH
retical objections to the bimetallic sys9
tem." In his address in this conferHLnrA
Bahfpisnr TT A "WallrAT coirl ?
KgOftiternational Conference 1878,
'Yet even more important,
j^HffigjMiew of the delegates from the
is the probable effect
HmKHqRproduction of wealth, resultdiminution
of the money
RHjuflMPjirope and America, alreashed
or in progress,
KWMf"???-atuitoug demonetization
HW^fc^Hng as in the first in P?f-A
the very quick- into
the^nterpreneur,or man
which-profits constitute
to production"under
nfl^^^HBBHfeKnization of indUstry,
mnRH as in its .ultimate
all
pri^Bn9R^nHHBHI^Br<}i
rloKfa and
IHHWthe mortgage
EB^^Hves of past proBfflHjBproducts
of curiBalflWmnutioii
of the
mUSM of the gravest
H|^Hace mankind *
IHMKrangulation, are
jHHron? to express the
SE^Ktrlal body when
R^Btal coils of the conHMpply.
* * * Against
Ho civilization and to
Hkind the representaBd
States here presW
earnest protest and
fm international conferVPilliam
M. Eyarts, chief
I United Sta^s (see in[onetary
conference, 1881,
3 and 328) saitk- "They
the way to^ofc at a unity
fcrto have but one metal
l<xq ^C 4-1-. ~ ^
-Dei viw ui iuc wuriu lur lis
BMey. This was a clear subordinaj
tioii of the end to the means; this was
r a sacrifice of money that could not be
I spared in its volume and in its force,
in order that the symmetry of the
mintage mig-ht be more conveniently
y attained. This.was in the nature of a
sacrifice of the great and manifold
transactions of an open commerce to
the convenience ana the simplicity of
r the bookkeeping which records it.
The act of 1873, a coinage act, as I understand
it to have been, which, under
-this unlucky incident of regulating
coin, has assumed to suppress oaehalf
the intrinsic money of the State * * *
Whakis it competent, within the courage
aM wisdom of this conference,
r,T_ ?ii
1UX Mpuiupvdc tnat DUOU uccuuipiibxi,
' ?-erf shall promise, or shall tend to accomplish
this great result of placing
the money of the world abreast with
its burdens and responsibilities and
untrammeled in the discharge of
k them."
Delegate How (see same, pages 242
\ and 243) said t "We do not seek a
pinched market pining for our so-called
precious metals. We rather -wish
to find a busy and lusty world to help
consume the really precious fruits of
^our agriculture. We seek a thrifty
NHorld to pav for them. It is the proBMburid.belief
of that government that
world is possible if its money
!ii.J i. i i-i * *
W it SJLIiglU IIICUll. " " ""
HMKidTt is not to be forgotten that the
M^pnoralization of silver means the
K^Rirement of not only nearly half the
^^Hprld's coin circulation, but of more
I^Han half of its convertible paper is^Rues.
It means to double the weight
V of existing obligations and to com
press the world's activities into half
th$r existing scope." The delegates to
M. the international monet arv conference
HT of 1892 on behalf of the llnited States
reiterated the same sentiments. (See
Tinternational monetary conference
189#-, page 54, appendix A). The men
B who constituted the several delegaB:fcions
were not cranks or Populists, but
Br&presentative men, selected through
Stiti ordinary channels of government
|Bfer their intelligence, integrity and
ability to voice at these conferences
the sentiments and opinions of the
United States. And in doing so they
fully sustain my position as elaborated
in my three articles on the low
price of cotton, that the inevitable result
of discarding silver from the
mints would be a contraction in the
circulating medium, which would
double the burdens of all debts, taxes
and fixed charges, and by proportionately
reducing the price of all the
products of labor, produce, as was
said by Prof. Walker, "suffocation,
-A? ^ - A- ^ AO TWOO
SmillgUlitUUIl. Xliai.lt nuuiu, so nno
said by Delegate How, "double the
weights of existing obligations and
compress the world's activities into
half their existing scope; consign the
nineteenth century to a pauper's
grave and lay the heavy nana of
paralysis on the cradle of the twentyieth."
Said Prof. Walker: "Against so
great .1 -vrong to civilization and to
the hopes of mankind, the representatives
of the United States here present
raise their earnest protest and
warning." This is the official voice of
the United States upon this question.
It is the "dew upon the fleece," but as
there seems to be quite a number of
"incredulous Gideons^'I will now
seek absolute confirmation by showing
the "dew upon the ground;" for the
response to the American delegates by
the representatives of the monetary
agencies of the old world dove-tails exii
*iV At.
acny wicii uie expressum ui uiwswueiof*ates
in sustaining; my position. The
hrst witness I shall produce, is one
who perhaps more fully than any
other voices the sentiments of the ruling
class in Europe. Dr. 0. I. Broch,
delegates from Norway. (See International
Monetary Confernce 1878,
page 27.) "Mr. Broch recognized that
the United States had a great interest
in having other countries make equal
use of two metals for their monetarv
circulation and give equally to both
the legal tender character. The United
States fear that if the States still subjected
to the regime of paper money
resume specie payments with the single
gold standard, tnis will immediately
produce JJthe double consequence of
augmenting, in a high degree, the
value of gold and of depreciating that
of products of any kind; a result which
from their point of view, as a great
producing country and as a great
debtor State, would in factpresent dis
advantages. The United States nave
a heavy debt, and it must be admitted
that a rise of gold would, with
one blow, aggravate the weight of
this debt. But Mr. Broch observed
on the other hond that if, with the
double standard, the unlimited coinage
of silver be admitted, as the United
States demand, it is also to be feared
that everywhere the price of provisions
and of the necessaries of life will be
considerably increased; which is another
evil, and a far more serious one
than the one just mentioned." In his
address at the conference of 1881 (see
International Monetary Conference
1881. page 44,) Dr.Broch says: "Another
unfortunate result of the universal
adoption of bimentation at the
ration of 1 to 15 J would be an augmentation
in the monetary wealth of the
1 J ?J
wunu, tuiu, as a uuu^uuuia/, a uguiv
ciation of the metals, accompanied by
a corresponding and general rise of
prices. * * * On the day when the
proportion of 15i should become universal
and obligatory, silver would
rise 18 per cent., gold would fall and
the pices of all commodities, especially
of those which come from the East,
and are paid for in silver, would experience
a considerable advance. * * *
A rise so general, so sudden, and so
considerable, would throw the economic
and commercial world into confusion,
and would carry disturbance
into all classes of society. It would
change all the relations of mankind
among themselves, and would be
equivalent to a reduction of all debts."
This idea of denying free mintage to
silver, to make money scarce, and
thereby increase its value, and depress
the price of all the products of labor;
also to pi ejudice the United Ssates, by
using cneap silver to discount the price
nf Vior ftTTwrts hv nnr
chases of wheat and cotton in t?ie feast >
runs through the whole tenor of financial
opinion in Western Europe. We
see it plainly manifested in the last
conference of 1892 by the English delegates,
both Mr. Ross Wilson and?Al- 1
fred De Rothschild. Mr. Wilson said,
(see International Monetary Conference,
1892, page 97); "What, may I ask 1
are the supposed evils that we are
called upon to remedy? As far as can
be ascertained we are met here to en- <
deavor to raise the price of commodities.
Such an object is entirely opposed
to the economic doctrines which are .
accepted in the country from which I
come. Cheap goods and not dear goods, :
plenty and not scarcity,- have always '
been neld to be conditions of profitable <
trade."
Mr. Rothschild (see same, page 69) 1
said: Advocates of bimetallism main- J
tain that the fall in the price of silver
has brought about a corresponding fall
in the prices of various commodities.
This may or may not be the case; but,
supposing the former hysothesis to be
correct, I am not prepared to say that
it would be a misfortune for England
or the world in general; nor do I share
the opinion of certain distinguished
exponents of that theory who aeplore
the fact of the Indian exporter being
able to send wheat remuneratively to
England, thus interfering seriously
with the interests of the British farmers;
but I hold that wheat at 30 a quarter
instead of 45 is rather a blessing
than otherwise." De Rothschild like
the average Northeastern statesman of
this country; a fundholder and speaking
for the advancement of the fundholder,
regardless of the interest of the
country gentleman, the debtor and
producer; whom men of his ilk regard
as their legitimate prey, nevertheless
admitted, (see International Monetary
Conferenc 189?, page 72,) "if this con
lerence were to DreaK up witnout arriving
at any definite result, there would
be a depreciation in the value of that
commodity (silver) which it would be
frightful to contemplate, and out of
which a monetary panic would ensue,
the far spreading effects of which it
would be impossible to foretell." This
conference did break up without arriving
at any definite result. There has
been a great depreciation in the value
of silver (that is compared with gold),
a monetary panic has ensued and we
are now experiencing some of the far
spreading effects of which it was impossible
for Mr. De Rothschild to foretell.
Not only a drop in silver, but a
corresponding drop in the price of nearly
all the great staple productions of
this country; trade is stagnant, industry
paralyzed, debtors overwhelmed,
and ruin and bankruptcy broadcast
throughout the land. We behold the
almost inexplicable paradox of universal
want in the midst of plenty. i
4
There is a striking similarity not
only in conditions, but in portions of
President Cleveland's message to the
last extra session of Congress and
that of Mr. Van Buren when he con
vened Uougress in extraordinary session
after the great panic of 1837. Perhaps
a better^word picture of the sit- j
uation than that found in the mes- j
sage of either of the Presidents may
be quoted from an article of Mr. Talmage
under the caption of "A Silvering
Christmas": 4"There is something
awfully wrong, as you will see when
I put two facts parallel. In the far
Western States more wheat than they
know what to do with; in the Southern
States more cotton than they know
what to do with. Plenty of bread,
plenty of clothing, and yetmultitudes
half fed and half sheltered, thousands
of employed, and to hundreds
and thousands of people thin is a hungry
and starving and shrivering
Cnristmas. * * * It is like the depression
of a man who has plenty of money
in the safe and of a woman who has
plenty of food in the pantry, and they
nave lost the keys." The key to the
situation, and the only key tnat can
unlock to the civilized world the blessings
of thrift, prosperity and contentment,
is a legislative key. Bat
alas I this key is neld by just such
men as Dr. Broch and Mr. De Rothschild
in Europe, and over here it
hangs high in tue lour million dollar,
five hundred milliouaire club room in
New York. This class of men has
the ear of the government, and with
some honorable exceptions commands
the press, our legislators acting in
accordance with the suggestion made
by Judge Brawley in his speech on the
repeal of the purchasing clause of the
Sherman act; that, upon financial
questions advice should bp sought
from bankers, as their familiarity with
finance renders them most competent
to instruct; they, usually repair to
New York for information and instruction.
Of course they receive the advice
of the spider to the fly. "Walk into
our parlor." There is nothing mqre
natural than that these gentlemen,
manifesting a most earnest soltcitude I
for the maintenance of public integrity
and national honor, and indulging
in such clear phrases as sound money,
honest money, having the key placed
in their hands by men who have not
informed themselves upon this sub;
ioct, should immediately proceed to
nelp themselves and then lock the
store house against the general'public.
There will be no relief until the
South and West wrest this key from
the hands of those who live by the
profit of capital. Mr. Calhoun said
(volume II, page 348, works(: "There
is a dangerous antagonist relation between
those who hold or command the
currency and the rest of the community."
In speaking of this class in
whiph he includes the wholesale dealers
and master manufacturers, Adam
Smith says (see "Wealth of Nations,"
nAtrem 202 20S: "The ttlans and
projecets of the ^employers of stock
regulate and direct all the most important
operations of labor; and profit
is the end proposed by all those plans
and projects. But the rate of profit
does not, like- rent and wages, rise
with prosperity and fall with the de
clensionof society. * * * It is always
highest in the countries which are
going' fastest to ruin. * * * The proposal
of any new law or regulation of
commeroe, which comes horn this order,
ought always to be listened to
with great precaution, and ought
never to be adopted till after having
been Ion? and carefully examined, not
onlvwith the most scrupulous, but
with the most suspicious, attention.
It comes from an order or men whose
interest is never exactly the same
with that of the public, wno have gennrallv
on in rifWMTrA And iTflB
to oppress the public, and who acordingly
have upon many occasions both
deceived and oppressed it" This legislative
key in 1861, on the withdrawal
of the cotton States from the Union,
passed from the agricultural class
into the hands of the merchant and
manufacturing class of the-Northeast,
and right well have they wielded it,;
as Adam Smith asserted, to deceive,
oppress and rob the other sections of
the Union. By doubling the restrictive
duties they first acquired the war obligations
of the nation, and then by financial
legislation doubled, trebled
and quadrupled them in value.
The interest of this section in finance
is almost identical with that of Western
Europe to double the value of the
money and money obligations which
they hold, and to depress the price of
cotton and wheat, which they buy
from the South and West To ao that
which was denounced by the prophet
Amos among the corruptions of Jeroboam
t "To swallow ut) the noor bv
making the shekel great and the
ephah small." These lords of finance,
of the loom, the factory and the furnace,
protecting. the banks and the
Bhops and plundering the fields, have
so depressed and despoiled agriculture
that our great staple products are now
selling below the cost of production,
as our chief articles of export no longer
maintain the exchanges in our favor,
and as the treasury reserve is
drained to settle the balance of trade,
which suicidal legislation has set
against us, this robbery and oppression
is made a pretext for further extortion
in the shape of repeated issues of gold
bonds to furnish investment for
the usurious interest levied upon
the South and West. This
class of men, who live by the
profit of capital, controlling the
government and hostile to the interest
of the .general public, during the pa?t
thirty years (their term of supremacy)
have legislated into their possession
all the railroads, telegraph lines, va
? ?- 11-1 Jf J x1 V
cant lands, mineral ituLOB.auu iuiuu^u
the instrumentality of loan associations
have shingled our farmg and
homesteads with mortgages, owning
everything in existence, tney are now
seeking, through the repeated issues
of new gold bonds, to secure liens
upon the energy and industry of future
generations. These are the gentlemen,
their hirelings and parasites,
who dwell in glowing periods on the
symmetrical beauty of tne gold standard,
who speak with an air of honest
sentiment about individual and National
integrity, and roll under their
tongues as sweet morsels such clever
catch words as "honest money,"
"sound monfey," "full value of money
of the world.
To suppose that this class in Europe
who by tne prescription of ages constitute
the dominant element, who
boldly avow their intention by maintaining
the gold standard fb reduce
the social status of the agriculturist;
because, it is for the stability of government
that capital shall rule, and
Democracy find its home in the rural
sections, that thev will impair im the
least their power by virtue of the sdn.glegold
standard, to eoatrol iftd
. ?~ .. '
propriate the labor of the masses by,
agreeing to the free and unlimited
coinage of silver, is to suppose that 4
greedy averice can be slacked, that
the daughter of the horseleech will
cease to cry for more. In Europe the [
people have but little voice in the government,
the masses are born to labor
and snhififiinn Antonio has no slins (
and shylock will continue to demand ]
his pound of flesh. I think any intelligent
reader who will carefully peruse j
what I have written will reach the
same conclusion that I have?that *
there will never be any international 1
agreement for the free and unlimited
coinage of silver, as long as the United ,
States subordinates her financial sys
tem to that of Europe. In this land, .
where, in the good old days, when 1
both metals were money and the ' 'peo- {
pie tilled the lands they owned and \
owned the lands they filled," when T
the husbandman was prosperous, and
the laborer worthy of ids hire; before 1
the gold standard, financial craft and (
legislative jugglery vastly enriched <
the few without merit, and paralyzed
the many without individual discredit:
before eighty-five per cent, of our peo- 1
pie shrouded in gloom, were spending i
anxious days ana sleepless nignts, ana '
the voice of the auctioneer rung
throughout the land signalling the departure
from once happy homesteads, 4
houseless and homeless families; if 4
there is any man yet putting his trust 1
for relief in intenational agreement. I '
say unto him: Friend, waive your '
delusion, weigh anchor and steer for <
4v.- 1
IUU UUJUOU1U1U.
In my next article I shall deal with
the silver dollar?which you say the
drop in silver has made 50 per cent
fiat and is intirnsically a fifty cent
dollar. L. W. Youmans.
Fairfax, S.'C./Dec. 22,1894.
A Bloody Sunday
Augusta, Ga., Dec. 23.?This was
probably the bloodiest Sunday in the
history of Augusta. John Wiggins,
a negro, waylaid Anderson Williams,
also colored, on the South Carolina
side of the river several miles from
Augusta last night, killing him and it
is said also attempted to loll another
old negro. The murderer fled to Augusta.
Negroes living in the vicinity
of the crime learned that he had come
to this city and was at the home of his
sister. They followed him here and.
asked assistance at police headquarters
to make the arrest Detective
Joe Murray was detailed for the work
with instructions to call for further
help from the police precinct in which ]
Wiggin^jsister's house was located, j.
um cere w renn ana stringer accompa- j
nied him. Wiggins was told by nis j
sister of the approach of the officers j
and as they entered the house where ]
he was lying, the murderer opened ]
fire upon them shooting Murray twice i
in the face about the nose and mouth ]
and Stringer near the eye. Murray <
will die. Stringer may recover, but 1
he will be injured for life. The negro j
then fled followed by Wrenn. i
The pistol shots attracted people in ?
the neighborhood to the streets, and i
among these was John Davis, white, t
an operative in Richmond factory, (
near Augusta, who came to the city ^
to spend Christmas with his family, t
Davis was shot in the breast by a i
I bullet from the murderer's pistol, and f
I died in half an hour. Wrenn pursued s
the fugitive to the river hank, where g
the negro hid behind a clump of trees, t
Holding a pistol aloft in his right (
hand, the scoundrel told the officer he c
surrendered, to come and take him (
The officer advanced, and the negro ?
shot him in the leg with a long bar- (
reled pistol he had concealed in his 1
left hand. Others joined in the chase 1
but tha murderer reloaded his weap- i
oils and made a desperate fight He f
was directing his steps toward the c
bridge, hoping to escape into South a
Carolina. Just as he approached it, a
however, one shot hit him and ranged \
around inflicting only a flesh wound. 1
His weapons were empty then - and he ^
surrendered. The presence of a num- g
ber of policemen on the scene when a
he wis captured was the only thing f
that savednis life. , r
The onlv thing that saved the mur- ^
derer's life is the fact that the Leg- e
islature that has just adjourned passed (
a law empowering the Judge to call a t
special session of the Superior Court o
in criminal cases for immediate trial, t
The negro 'will be tried within two
weeks, and February winds will prob- r
Maw his arrave. 1 f
f'kere was great excitement in the j
ity all day, and a mob of several i
hundred gathered im front of the jaiL I
They only murmured their discontent c
thourh, and no attempt was made to o
raid tne jail, which is guarded by a a
special detachment of police and by i
deputies. t
Starvation Threatened. 'V
Niobara, Neb., Dec. 23.?The suf- ?
fering among the inhabitants of the ?
droughtblasted part of Nebraska, in- ?
eluding three-foriths of the residents of ^
five counties, is becoming more intense 6
daily, and immediate steps alone can F
prevent many deaths by starvation. a
Three years ago. the farmers of these
drought-blighted counties raised a very J*
light crop and the past two years the f3
crops have been almost total failures. ?
Many families have not enough provisions
in their homes for one week's ?
sustenance, and no money to purchase a
the necessaries of life. Many of the s
merchants here feel that they have ^
aide4 the poor farmers to the extent ot s
their ability, and are unable to do any e
more for them or to sell them goocis e
on credit. The sufferers cannot ob- ?
tain employment, ana unless tney re- u
ceiye aid very MK>n, it is the general 0
opinion that many will starve to death. 8
Snould the weather turn very cold a
many will freeze to death, as it is a E
fact that many have scarcely sufficient
clothing to cover their nakedness. A
mother and her two children were
found dead in their little cabin this t
week. It is supposed the mother had ^
been confined to her bed by sickness c
and she and her two little ones starved j.
to death. The stomachs of the children e
were opened and not a trace of food a
could be discovered. There is not a c
stream of water in Perkins county and j
not a living spring.- Wells run from ^
<10 to 200 feet, the majority being 150 f
and 300 feet. The soil, if watered, j
raises good crops; if not, it bakes into ?
a solid mass. The roads and much of \
the prairies resemble asphalt, so hard
packed and smooth are they. Well
matr Viof tlio ?ni'l ia n. snlifl mnss
UiK^GlO rx*jr JUUWV UJUV WVMM/ w ww??? . . .
150 feet down, so hard that picks have ]
to be used to loosen it. Over this sur- j
face, the never-ceasing winds blow (
from every direction.
Women Beg for Bread. <
Nrw York, Dec. 21.?A lima, Peru, j
pecialsays: Over 4.000 hungry wo- 1
men and children called on President ]
Carceret, who ordered them dispersed. <
Rioting followed, lasting over three I
hours. Many persons were killed or i
wounded. i
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MAKiNu HONEST CHEESE.
1 South Carolina Factory In Operation.
Wbat a Sensible Farmer Says.
ro the Editor of the Cotton Plant:
Four pounds of honest white and
:lean cotton for one pound of lathery
painted cheese.
It takes about two acres of fine land
'our hundred pound of fertilizer, bagging
and ties, toll, lots of hard wo^k to
produce one bale of cotton.
The same land planted to cheese
will produce at least 500 pounds of
lonest milk cheese, that is cheese that
a ma/If? fmm mir? r?nwa millr pwwim
md all together; this cheese will not
xjund about like a piece of rubber; it
nelts and crumbles in,a manner to be
eadily distinguished from the common
impressed sold on our market as
jream cheese.
What makes this vast difference in'
sroducts? Can't good cheese be made
m South Carolina, if not, why not?
rhese rambling thoughts led the writer
to inspect the new cheese factory at
31emson College, where there is a nice
iutfit of the improved appliances for
making cheese, now in successful operation
by Prof. Hart, who has demonstrated
the fact that as fine cheese as
:an be produced in this country can be
made in South Carolina. The flavor is
really superior, and its rich nutty
jheese flavor at once sharpens the appetite
and calls for more certified honjst
cheese. While eating this South
Carolina cheese our mind does not
roam from the crude oil tank under
he Southern cotton seed oil mill to
he dead hog, horse and cow rendering
rats of the'West. Our mind while
sating this South Carolina cheese wanlers
over the hils and valleys of South
Carolina, along the* oanks ef clean
;lear water that flows through the
TiPAdows: and its honest flavor re
ninds us of fragrant flowers and new
nown hay. After eating honest cheese
me can sleep and dream of the clean
;hings, (the Switzerland milk maid,
'or instance) and rest in confidence;
jut when his stomach is loaded with
ihunks of the indigestible compound
sailed cheese, he is compelled to kick
md roll around at night, dreaming of
unning from vicious bulls and such.
We learn that it takes about one galon
of milk to produce one pound of
:heese and'the cost of a small cheese
aolory need not cost more than an
mproved cotton ginning plant; in fact
t seems that these two plants might be
run by the same power as the cheese
naking season is about over with
ivhen the cotton ginning season comnences.
What is the use of shipping
>.nttnn seed oil to the West to be com
sounded into cheese, and pay freight
>oth ways, if our market really denands
this compound? Why not
lend West or East for one car load of
mproved machinery for a cheese facory,
instead of shipping thousands of
jar loads of cheese. This freight alone
vould be-a good profit. The only
"ling that is not at our hand for makng
fine cheese is good cheese-makers,
rood, industrious, intelligent, honest
tnd well trained, educated young men
uited to take charge of all such enter)rises
are the scarcest article in South
Carolina. And just here we ought to
Hive the board of trussees of Clemson
college due credit for their wisdom in
letting up a cheese making plant at
Hemson College, where our boys may
earn cheese making. Prof. Hart in
lis forthcoming report on cheese makng
in South Carolina, will give the
armers a complete outline of making
heese, the cost, etc.; and the best of
ill he will tell the farmer how to make
. small amount of cheese at home,
nth the outlay of only-about two dolars
for necessary machinery which 1
nil be far ahead of the old plan of
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;ranama s cneese press, now uoxi t
H of you readers write to Prof. Hart
or a letter on cheese making for the,
aan can't spare the time from his
cork to write so many letters; but evry
lady can write to the director
President Craighead), for a copy of
he report of the Experiment Station
?n cheese making, which report will
>e published probably soon.
As to the cost of producing milk for
aaking the cheese, every farmer ought
o be able to make his own figures.
Jut one of the more striking features
n the change from cotton to cheese or
utter is, that the fertilizer bill in
neese and butter making may be left
iut. The cow is the fertilizer factory,
ad this is located at home, on a cash
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erprise is coming in all along the
rhole season. There is no space of fromen
to twelve months is this kind of
arming, which has a broad gap ?to be
illed by liens and mortgages and inerest.
Another very great good for
verybody that is interested in our
rosperity and the beautiful appearnce
and permanent improvement of
he whole face of the country is the
eplacing of grass upon the naked and
iare spaces; the soil will be preserved
asteaa of being washed from the
ligher liands in the steams, thus doing
amage, skinning the higher lands
,nd causing the streams to fill with
and and overflowing the bottom lands.
Lny farmer who has any thought can
ee how this cotton farming has ruind
the whole country. It is not necssary
to point out the^e things now,
be five cents a yound will make everyody
feel. I hare cotton several years
Id and still have a good appetite and
;ood home made cheese; tastes as good
s it did when I used to eat it in grand
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Pendleton, S. C.
Padgett Pays the Freight.
The advertisement of L. F. Padgett,
he well-known furniture dealer of
Lugusta, gives some idea of what he
>ffers in the way of furniture and
louse furnishings. In his extensive
stablishment may be found well-nigh
,11 that is needed to make the home
omfortable. This large trade which
5adgett enjoys and tne testimonials
vhich he has from scores of customirs,
sufficiently shows the character of
lis goods, the fairness of his prices,
md his determination to carry out
lis guaranty of satisfaction in every
nstance. Kead his advertisement.
A frog farm with about a million
lead of stock is carried on successfully
by a man in Contra, Costa county,
California. He started ranching'
n frogs a few months ago with a hera
sf about 2,000 frogs, and ^JLs already
making lots of money, lie supplies
the markets of San Francisco, Oakland
and other large cities on the
joast. It costs little or nothing to raise
Jie frogs, and the rancher is not anxous
to trade his ranch even for a gold
nine, so he says.
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MURDER BY WHOLESALE.
White People of l^rooka County Wreaking
Vongeanco.
Quitman, Ga., Dec. 23.?The posse
in pursuit of Waverly Pike, the murderer
of Ison, an account of whose
unprovoked murder appeared in The
Chronicle of yesterdav, last night and
early this morning killed three negroes
and reliable information is that the
total number of victims is seven. The
negroes known to have beeh killed are
Sam Taylor, Eli Fraser, - and Harry
Sherrad. Taylor jwas Pike's step-fa ther,
and the other two negroes his
close pals, all of whom were supposed
to Know or Jfike s wnereabouts. it
these negroes knew, they refused to
tell, and the penalty of not telling was
death. Pike's wife was seen to slip
into his house at 4 o'clock this morning.
She was supposed to have known
where the murderer was and every effort
was made to make her divulge.
The mob still has her securely held
and may succeed in making her tell.
The negroes killed were all shot down
on this side of the Ocopilco creek,
about ten miles above Quitman. The
report is that a second pose, which
was scouring the woods north of the
Ocopilco have killed four other negroes.
This wholesale killing is terrible,
but the people of that community
have had terrible provocation. Hardly
three weeks ago, Tip Mauldin, a respectable
white man was brutally
murdered on the public road in the
same neighborhood by two worthless
negroes. The people were greatly incensed
over the murder, but the law
took its course and the murderers are
now in jail awaiting trial. Numerous
negroes exulted over this murder and
even went so far as to hold a war
dance a few nights afterwards around
the fepot where the murdered man's
life blood oozed out. This, of course,
enraged the people still more, and
when Isom, the best" citizen in the
community was cowardly murdered
by on6 of the same gang the pent up
flood of rage and vengeance was turn
ed^loose. All of the negroes killedare
those intimately connected with Isom's
murder and supposed to be aiding in
his escape, or were in the gang which
held the exulting war dance over poor
Mauldin's life blood. The arresting and
jailing of Mauldin's murderers had no
suppressing or restraining effect on
other lawless negroes in the neighborhood.
Mauldin's'murderers have no
more regrets for their deed and no
more compunction of conscience than
a dog. Every day they can be heard
singing and laughing in jail, happy
ana unconcerned, though the! gallows
is staring them in the face. The pose
which did last night's terrible work is
still banded together doggedly and
rl oWm i n or] ] u- TrvVlrin<y for* \VnvprT
Pike. The record of tonight and tomorrow
remains to be seen. Brooks
county is aroused. The wholesale
killing of negroes not directly connected
with Isom's murder is severely condemned
and it is hoped that the avenging
mob will do no more of this mad
work.
4c Cotton Slakes 4c Prices.
Not only on provisions, clothing,
furniture and all the actual necessaries
of living, but as well on things appertaining
to our enjoyment and culture.
This is specially true as to pianos
and organs. Wise manufactures
realize that in these close times prices
must be exceedingly low, and terms
of payment made exceptionally easy,
ana they are meeting the emergency.
Notice the latest advertisement of
Ludden & Bates Southern Music
House, Savannah, Ga., in this issue,
and write them for their Four Cent
Prices. This is a wide-awake-neverget-left
and thoroughly reliable house,
whose offere always mean just what
they say. It costs nothing to write
T.uHdftn Ar. Bates for catalogues. nrices
and easy installment terms, which
they send with pleasure.
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This Handsome Rattan ROCKER,
worth the world over $5.00, will b
sent to any person who will send me
$1.85.
Six Cane Seat CHAIRS, finished
light, worth $1.00, at 65c. each.
40 yards of Straw Matting $3.90.
$10.50 for an Oak Bed, Bureau,
and Wash Stand to match.
Send for Catalogue of Furniture,
Cooking Stoves, Baby Carriages, Sewing
Machines, Buggies, Lamps, Crockery,
etc.
L. F. PADGETT,
~-v - Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
RICE MILLb.
We rfler a complete Rice Mill in
one machine. The rouah rice in
placed in hopper and comes out
cleaned and polished ready for table
nse. Machine can be operated
with horse power and will clean
100 bushels of rough rice per day.
CORN MILLS
Of the latest dtslgnp, vertical and
horizontal, double and single gear.
oiler Mills,
Saw Mills,
Engines,
Gins and Treaeea,!
i W ood working machinery,
V. BABBAM.
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LAWSUIT.
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STAUNTON LIFE INSURANCE ,
COMPANY,
Numbers of Beneficiaries Testify to
Promptness and Soundness. /
Natural Premium Insurance on the ami'
Approved flans. . ?
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The new "Coupon Policy" of the Staunton
Life la a modal of simplicity. In addltlon
to all the bast features of modern Qft1 0
Insurance it provides for the payment of. '
the "coupon" IMMEDIATELY after >
death, without notice or the formalin . :-;i
ty of proofs. The "coupon" covers 1? per
cent of the face of the policy, aqjl is in addition
thereto.
Agents wanted. Liberal Commlsstoa*
Live men can make big money. 4 5'w
Address
Jno. & Reynolds,,
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General Agent,
COLUMBIA, ?. , ';;,a
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FOR $1.00
IF PROPERLY SIGNED. 5
Dor Proposition
Cat this Certlfilcate out and anclose it I
with 25 cents in an enrelope with your :
name and address plainly written. We I
will send you one set of our f 1.00 Gennina - .. te
Sllrer Plated Tea Spoons FRBK by maltogether
with oar laue illustrated catalogue
of Furnltuxe, Cooking Stoves, Crock t'
ery, Baby Carriages, Sewing Machines; ^
Buggies, etc., and will sign this certificate '
ana retarn tJ you with catalogue, and ? 'Jf;
herewith agree to receive this certificate aa >
one aonttr oasu on ?ojr (jurouwxj maa?
within 18 days from the date of endorsement
of this ce tifloate, provided that flit - J J
amount of purchase shall not be for itea > I
than 115.00, and must positively reach tn 1
inside of 15 days from date written or 1
stamped on certificate returned to you. I
Fill oat the following blank with' penefit |
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L. F. PADGETT,
< 846 Broad Street,
Augusta, Oa|
Enclosed find 25 cents stamps or silte*
for which you will please send to my address
one set of your f l.oo Genuine Kilter
Plated Tea Spoons and your Illustrated
Catalogue, free, by mail: also please eft- I
dorse this certificate and date it the d Ate J
that you mall spoons and catalogue, so thai M
I may. If 1 so desiie, use this certificate CI M
your store for one dollarcash In a purchase
of not less than f 15 00, which is te be made H
inside oflSdays from date stamped or* SM
written on certificate returned to me. I
fully understand that this certificate Is of W
no value unless above oonditions are fully/ S8|
compiled with,
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and goods mailed
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846 Broad Street, Augusta, 6a. B
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K^cottonI
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j PIANOS & ORGANS I ^
C nONT discouraged, bat 3 |^D|
Cj J-'V-'lN 1 write for oar great jy
Q Bargain List and Wendenulfj Jfl
U Easy Installment Term*. Qj
| 4c. PRICES. I wM
0 A new Mathushek Piano ISO less than a ^HHI
m ever before sold. B
S 940 Saved on a Sterling: Piano. - Q
jjj Twenty Nearly New Square Pianos ' H^RbH
[J at New York give away Prices. H
pJ Fifty New Uprights?from Best ifai|Q
ers at Cut Prices.
E Rlcb Mirror Top Organ only
IS AV L MUNtY oy Dnying irom iuo
Greatest Southern Masie ffeott.
HIDDEN & BATES,
Savannah, 6a.
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