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BT ? OTESGALE? ?fc LANGST?N. 0LJT AT COST. Contemplating a Change in Business I* W. BROWN '& SONS Are offering tieir entire Stock of - ^i)E? GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS AND SHOES At and Below Cost fur the next 60 days. ? > {So come on and be convinced, for low prices will tell the tale. We have on .-? hand $1800 worth of Clothing which mast be sold, and the present prices will soon do the work ; so if yon are needing anything in the way of Clothing now is your time to buy. .. ^^pWiliTSwl'Qoilts, Blankets and Jeans cheaper than any house in the city. : ' ? Oox line,?f-l)res8 Goods is'complete?Worsted from 4Jq to 20s, and Cashmere : from 16c to $1.00. All. kinds of Plain and Plaid Flannels at the lowest prices. Cab'co, Gingham and Checks.almost at any price, so come on and buy before - thea&bargaina are all gonei v BIG STOCK FLOUR, Remember, in buying, that we carry as big line of Groceries as any house in . ^e upper part of the State, and also will, aell-as cheap as the cheapest. Our stock .a-"'' of Flpnri Sugar, Coffee, lTolasse3, Tobacco, Hay and JBran are all fresh, and bought ? at the lowest.figures,, and will be sold the same way. We have joat received a Oar Load of Pure Brown Oats that will be sold very ^^^'eaV^/^^r-j:<\ %W^kc^jm band:?t all times all kind of Canned Goods, such as Tomatoes, Pears, ^ia^hes^Be?si-Oirra, Cherries, Pine Apples, Oysters, Salmon, Sardines, Potte4^H?n?;and^ll;kiad8 of Jelly and Pickles. 5 Eo^fir^^B07^^6ur pricos before baying, and yon will be convinced that we Very respectfully, ?_v Ml W. BE;0"WIsr &c SOIsTS. *VP. S,~We are OASH COTTON BUYERS, and also Agents for High Grade FERTILIZERS.-.. See us before selling your Cotton. E. W. B. & 8. WE THANK OUR PATRONS Tor their Liberal Patronage, and assure You there is a Treat / in Store at our Place of Business. WE will~quote.you some prices that you have been made to believe would tend .?? to make us restless at night, and some articles yon can buy 10 to 15 cents cheaper from us.than you have paid for the same article that you are not familiar with. - Wei are notasking.you more than they are worth: ?2 ^toJC?ffee Bots?.10c 8 quart Coffee Pots.*.:.11c 4 quart Coffee Pots.. 18c ~c2 quart Covered Bucket.=. 8c ? 3.quart Covered Backet...9c & quart Covered Bucket.12c 6 quart Covered Bucket.15c 8 quart Dish Pans...10c 10 quart Dish Pans..'...... 14c 134 qjaairt Dish Pans.....20c 10 quart pressed Dish Pans.15c" 'pEqaart'pressed Dish Pans.25c Wash. Pans.......... 5c ptegfWWPana......... 6c SHoMOTaahPans. 7c 2 quart Oil Cans. 10c 4 quart Oil Cans. 15c 1 quart Dairy Pans. 3c 2 quart Dairy Pans. 5c 3 quart Dairy Pans. 6c 4 quart Dairy Pans. 7c 6 quart Dairy Pans... 8c 2 quart deep Dairy Pans. 5c 8 quart deep Dairy Pans. 7c 4 quart deep Dairy Pans. 8c 6 quart deep Dairy Pans. 10c Gem Toilet Sets.1 10 3 piece Toilet Sets.1 85 ? bushel Barn Basket. 4c Flower Pots cheap. GLASSWARE, CROCKERY, rything kept in a House Furnishing Store can be bought from us priote- . ? * ? NO. 7 COOK STOVE FOR $10.00. Now look at our Goods and you will say we advertise what we mean to do? sell you good Goods CHEAP, uttering and Felt Roofing done very Low. f|5pp?\;Wa.hr j Mr. JOHN Q. DONALD with ub, who haB had several years expe? dience in >fing, and he knows the importance of putting on a roof that will not leak. G: him a trial. Dor forget we sell more Stoves than any one when you want to buy. PEOPLES & BCtttRISS. THAT'S THE WAY WE ARE SELLING. - SHORT PROFITS NOW All WE EXPECT. ALL WE WANT. IN CARLOTS We will give you lowest WHOLESALE PRICES on JliOIJR, CORN, HAT, BRAN, OATS, &c, &c. '- -^r .. . : : AEMOTJB & C?'?. WHOLESALE AGENTS FOE, HAMS, MEAT, LARD, CA MED MEATS. ?LOWEST. CEICAQO PB1CES made on Cases and lots weighing one hundred pounds and over. ,TEIsrT FLOURS, Our BALLARITSBLUE BIRD FLOUR the best in America for the price. iTrya^rxjL^ /? : j /. Ho Firm Can Sell you TOBACCO as Low as we Can. BROWN BROS. ANOTHER CUTTING SCRAPE. ll XHE PRICES OlS dtaHT, BM B?Bf?, Sil ^a^UJOx?!0?-^? FBAMES, NOVELS, , And. all-.the rest of our Stock has been dangerously stabbed. Come at once " * secure bargains, for we are offering real bargains in our line. and WATKINS' BOOK STORE. ?; J. N. WATKINS, Proprietor. NEW GUN SHOP. i^J. C DAVIS, Proprietor. J i 1 f^j J -'??o /^TJNS/ Revolvers, Sewing Machines, v -' ;^. locks and Keys, Trunks, Umbrellas an&Parasols repaired at short notice. - Saws Piled and Set. .'? All work'warranted. Don't tradeoff yonr old Sarriag: Ma" chine, no matter what kind it Is, aj a'small as E8W. I>on'b ^J^ojrmtn'your' old Gun liocks?have the :-:..^/i^*3fcttUea at lees than ifae cost of n?w locka- JBring yourlold Umbrellas.and. - ; 'Pa*aiols tp^me, rand for a Jew cents have ^ifo Of service from them. Romeiober, all r?o:k guaranteed. 3hop ovor W. A. Cfcapnaatt'?3f?sy Anaarwra, R O... THE ATLANTA ASSOCIATION OFFERS superior advantages to parties having money to invest. Money loaned on easy terms to Stockholders for buildiug homes. ANDERSON BRANCH. 0. P. Jones, President. : M. P^Tribble. Vice President. J. Boyce Burriss, Sec. and Treaa. G. E. Prince, Attorney. For full information apply to W. WJ CHARLES Sept 25, 1629 23 WEBB, Docal Agent. TflA?H?$'?oi,UlfN. All communications intended for this Column should be addressed to C. WARDLA.W, School Commissioner, An? derson,. S. C. mehoby oems. "Discretion shall preserve thee, under? standing shall keep thee." "Happy is the man that findeth wis? dom, and the man that getteth under standing." We are glad to know that more atten? tion is being given to music now than ever before in the school room. It is very pleasing to find that the children take so much interest in singing. One thinpr we would like to suggest is distinct accent and articulation. It always wor? ries us to hear those Bing who so indis? tinctly articulate that we cannot under? stand a word they say. We hear the noise, bat cannot get the sentiment. This we often find in Church music, and sometimes even amoog our most culti? vated (?) musicians. Let the children learn to sing distinctly, and give us the sentiment of the words as well as the harmony and melody of the sounds. The closing exercises of Miss Minnie Bell's school was one of the m&Bt enjoy? able occasions it has been our pleasure to attend recently. The program was well arranged, and carried out without a sin? gle jar or disturbance. The children, all acquitted themselves very well, indeed. Miss Minnie showed her ability to train on this occasion. We trust she is rightly appreciated, and that she will be .in? duced to teach there again next year. ! When she is gone she will be missed. The most perfect order prevailed from beginning to end. All went away very much pleased with the success of Miss Bell's and the children's efforts. studies in etymology. II. I. Uncouth. The original meaning of uncouth is simply unknown; hence it came to mean strange, odd, rough, rude. Milton uses the word in its strict original sense in the lines, '"Mongst horrid Bhapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy t Find out some uncouth cell." Gray uses it In its present signification when he Bpeaks of "uncouth rhymes." IL Fellow. Borne say this comes from an old word meaning to follow, hence a companion. Skeat, however, who is the best authority, says it comes from two Icelandic wordB,/e, property, and&z#, a laying together, "a laying together of property," a parner in a business. When Paul says "certain lewd followers," he probably means merely "certain ignorant associates." III. Humor. The first meaning of thrs word is moisture, from the Latin verb humere, to tie moist. It meant especially the moistures or fluids of the body. The ancients supposed that the state of the mind depended upon these fluids, and hence they spoke of a good humor, a bad humor, a melancholy humor, etc. We use the word in the same way. "The four humors, according to Galen, caused the four- temperaments of mind, viz: Choleric, melancholy, plegmatic and sanguine." IV. Fond. From an old verb meaning to act foolishly, the verb itself coming from a noun meaning a fool. The origi? nal signification, then, of this word is foolish, weak; doting. In such expres? sions as, "I am fond of "sport," "I am fond of music," one can easily see traces of the original meaning, but of course the word is often used without indicating weakness or silliness. E. A. Few. P. M. I, Anderson, S. C. the teacher's relation to tempee y ahce. The teacher who does not take a stand in respect to the temperance question is making a great and grave mistake. Once a man could come into a community Icbabod-Crane like, with a clean shirt or two tied up in a red bandana handker? chief, to teach (?) the school for three or four months, and steal away as unnoticed as when he came. His opinions were not asked or valued concerning any grave questions of the day. It was only ex? pected of him that he would see that the boys "footed" up their columr ;ght, could say the multiplication tabk, apell all the words of the spelling book, give the capitals of the States, the name of the President and the Vice-President, go through with the tables, beginning 4 farthings make a penny and ending with 12 months make a year, and be able-to read and toe a line at the same time. But the teacher of to-day is quite another man?in most places. In many cases he is a graduate of a normal school, where an extensive course of study has been pursued, or he may hold a certifi? cate obtained by pursuing such a course while teaching. The school term has been lengthened and he has embraced teaching as his business for the entire year, at least; he is under the supervis? ion of a County official; he attends a teacher's institute; he is a reader of educational literature, owning at least one book pertaining to education. And besides this, he is looked up to by the school patrons as one who has culture and refinement; it is beginning to be felt by them that be is to be held in es? teem like the minister?not so much in esteem, it is true, but he is classed with the preacher. Now it devolves upon the preacher that he be able to Bee what is right and best for people to do or not to do. Here is this great question of abating intem? perance, the deadly foe of religion, mo? rality, and education. The clergy have taken their stand without reference to denomination. Where does the teacher stand ? Every teacher should make up his mind that he must take a stand against intemperance. The higher a man goes up the more bis opinion is Bought. The teacher has gone up during the past fifteen years quite perceptibly, and bis opinion is worth something. He may wish not to take sides, but he must. He may not be ready to say that he is for ? prohibition, as the Maine, Kansas and Iowa teachers do, but he muot bo ANDERSON, S. C. against intemperance. In & city like New York, or Philadelphia, he will favor reducing the number of saloons by the best means possible. Every boy and every girl who comes into the school room day by day knows and feels that the teacher who firmly op? poses intemperance is a power for good in the formation of character. Tbe teacher may not put temperance docu? ments in the hands of the children, or even get them to sign the pledge; he may be obliged to exercise the wisdom of the serpent in many cases, for there are keepers of gin mills on school boards, but he has a right to an opinion on this question and it will not be difficult to let his pupils know where he stands. Short statements can be made from time to time that will make deep impres? sions. What does this country spend for Bchools? Answer.?Eighty millions of dollars annually. What does it spend for drinkB? Answer.?Eight hundred millions of dollars I How the Winning of the Corn Prize Astonished the North. To the Editor of the News and Courier: A few days since I had^a very pleasant conversation with a correspondent of a leading New York agricultural paper, the substance of which is worth repeat? ing for the benefit of our farmers, and also because it shows a few of the many natural advantages the South enjoys over other sections of the country. In reply to the questions, if the farmers of the North were not very much sur? prised when it was known that a South Carolina farmer had taken the premium for the largest yield of corn ever obtained in this country, and that, too, in compe? tition with thousands of farmers in all sections of the Union, he replied: "Sur? prise does not express their feelings. They were amazed and astounded, because they had never considered South Carolina as being in tbe race. The supe? rior quality of the corn too, showing that its feeding value surpassed the Northern grain, was a revelation to those of ub who had believed the reverses of this. But," this interesting gentleman continued, "while all ofthat was bad enough for us, something has since happened that has given us even greater concern. The American Pomological Society at its an? nual meetings awards what is known as the Wilder medal for the best one nun dred varieties of apples exhibited by one grower. Every fruit raiser in America, who takes-any interest in his business, j strives to win this medal, and when it is awarded there is never any question about the merits of the award, for it is always made by a committee of experts whose judgment is above criticism. Well at. the last meeting of the Society this medal was given to a fruit grower from Asheville, North Carolina, thus taking away from the North, East and West, and giving to the South, the premium most highly appreciated by American pomologists. "These two results accomplished on Southern farms," continued the corre? spondent, "have put Northern farmers to thinking of the future competition in markets that they had satisfied them? selves were exclusively their own. There is another matter, however, and a still more important one than either that has been mentioned, and it is this that has brought me South at this time. Our far? mers have some time understood the value of cotton seed meal as a stock food, but it has only been quite recently that we have heard anything about the value of cotton seed hulls. If these have tbe merit now claimed for them, and appa? rently they have, it is evident that the farmers in this section will before a great while become extensive cattle raisers, My information is that these hulls sell for about $2 per ton at the mills, and when this is compared with the price paid by Northern farmers for timothy, from $10 to $12 per ton, tbe decided ad? vantage this product gives to Southern farmers is realized at once, even after allowing for the actual difference in the feeding value of the two products. The farmers of tbe North have long ago reached the conclusion that their profits must come from fruit, grass and live stock, and if it shall now be shown that they can be surpassed in these by the South, it is difficult to understand from what source their future earnings must come." These brief facts should give great en? couragement to Southern farmers. It may be a matter of interest in this connection to state that the three oil mills at Columbia have easily disposed of all their surplus hulls during the past season. One of the largest companies engaged in the cotton seed oil business in the Southwest fattened and exported to England, the great beef eating country, last year, over twenty thousand head of cattle on hulls and a ration of meal. Three years ago a farmer residing in Berkeley County exhibited a race colt at the State Fair that was awarded the first premium in his class. Inquiry developed the fact that the colt had been raised on cotton seed meal and sweet potatoes. A prominent dairyman in the upper part of South Carolina, who has made a dividend of 20 per cent, on his investment, testi? fies to the value of the same food, and reports that when he stopped feeding this to his milk cows and turned them on his young barley patch they lost both in flesh and milk. If such results can be accomplished generally, with such com? paratively inexpensive feed stuffs, it is safe to say that stock breeding will Boon be a leading industry with our peo? ple. This result will be hastened by the development of the cotton seed oil indus? try. There are at present thirty-one of these mills in operation in South Caro? lina, and they can furnish in an ordinary season about 70,000 tons of hulls. The estimate of the Directors of the Tennes? see agricultural experiment station is that the cost of fattening cattle on hulla with a ration of meal is from six to nine cents per day. The York statistical agent of the national depsrtmont of agri? culture, in a recent report of that depart? ment, says: "Feeding for beef haB been the most unprofitable of any stock feed? ing, and the conditions have had to be exceptionally favorable in order to make beef sell for enough to equal the cost. Compare this statement with the oppor? tunities offered Southern stockmen in the use of hulls and meal and the possibili? ties and profits are apparent. L. A. Ransom, Gt?mf?, & C, April 28,Wh . THUESDAY M0K1S BILI ABP'S CHAT. Arp on President Harrison's Speeches In the South, Atlanta Constitution, Henry Fields says in hia great paper: "We believe that the president has be? come more than ever convinced by this southern journey that the south is as much interested in good government as the north, and that it is as much in ear? nest to solve its own problems in the best possible manner as the north is to solve its own no less perplexing difficulties." Kind words from Mr. Fields, and he always speaks them. In alluding to the president's speeches along the line, he says: "His frank and well-considered words must bring about a more kindly feeling between men of all varieties of opinion." We hope bo, We liked his speeches very much, for they were kinder than we expected; but from the first to the last he pressed the point that all the citizens of this great nation now shared equally in the bless? ings and the benefit of our national gov? ernment. Is that so 7 Neither Mr. Fields nor President Har? rison understands the southern people. The very best people of the north do not understand us, and Pm afraid they never will. "Put yourself in his place," is a maxim with which they make no experi? ment. I wiBh that Mr. Harrison could have been in Atlanta or some other southern city on decoration day and wit? nessed the loyalty of our people to the Confederate dead?the reverence for the lost cause?and he might have realized something of that deep, undying senti? ment which still glows in southern hearts and burns brighter as the years roll on. While there is neither treason, nor ha? tred, nor regret in it, there is nevertheless a consciousness of moral rectitude that makes ua feel all the more bitterly the humiliation of being under the ban of northern triumph and northern tyranny. If we be friends and brethren then why is this discrimination in blessings and bene? fits kept up ? If the blue and the gray meet together and shake hands and de? clare all estrai^enents buried, why are they not made equal before the law. The northern idea Beems to be that we behav? ed very bad, but that they in their mag? nanimity have forgiven us. But we do not feel that we behaved very bad at all, and don't want any forgiveness. We want justice. We tried to separate?to dissolve partnership, and that's all there is in it, and we feel that we had a right to do it, and every decision made on that question by the supreme court leans that way, and that is the reason why the government dident dare to try Jefferson Davis for treason. They knew that their own Su? preme Court wouldent let him be con? victed. Then why are we shut out from sharing in all the benefits and blessings ? How long is punishment to go on ? How long are we to pay pension money for their soldiers and get none for our own ? That debt is now swelled to $150,000,000 a year, and the south pays one-third of it. A thousand millions have already been paid out since the war to pensions, and the wonder is that we have been able to live and get along. We pay our part through the operations of the tariff, and no man knows how much he pays. If it were a direct tax upon us and was col? lected like our State andvcounty taxes, our people would despise the government for its tyranny, and be ready at any time to throw off the yoke that bound them. In case of a foreign war the north would not be safe for a moment, for the strength of a Republican government is in the hearts of the people. If by the next ses? sion of Congress there should be precipi? tated a war with England or Germany, the first bill passed would be an act to pension our invalid soldiers and to repeal the outrageous law that now prohibits per? sons engaged in the late rebellion from holding any office in the army or navy. Equal blessings and benefits would come in a hurry. That cotton tax of $13,000, 000 that the Supreme Court of the Uni? ted States has long since declared illegal would be refunded to us in double quick. Why has it not been refunded ? Is there any other reason but that the debt is due to the South ? Is a Northern Democrat any better friend to the South than a Northern Republican ? If he is, why do chey not press this act of justice ? Why do they all, both Democrats and Repub? licans, compel us to help them pay their debts, and withhold from us what their own Courts have declared due us 1 Just stop for a moment and think of the State of Illinois drawing $12,000,000 a year from the treasury for pension money. She drew $9,000,000 last year, and ,it will be $12,000,000 this year. Why if Georgia drew $1,000,000 we would feel rich. Its benefits and blessings would be felt from the mountain to the seaboard. You see it would be a gift of gratuity?that did not have to be worked for. No labor or toil or sweat, and it would come twice every year, and we would all get some. I would have a pocket full, and Major Foute a hat full, and Cobe a great big wad of money, and we would spend it freely and scatter it around, and our peo? ple would run down to Atlanta every week and buy dressing. Good gracious, how it would help Atlanta! I wish that Cobe could get a pension for himself and his mule and a whole lot of back pay. I would like to see his eyes roll around and watch him shift his tobacco from one jaw to the other. Well, now in the abstract and the concrete Cobe is just as much en? titled to a pension before the law and be? fore the Lord as any soldier in the yankee nation. He lived right close by a darkey who got a pension of $1,600 all in a lump, and he never done a thing but steal chickens for the Yankee officers. I read the other day in the Youth's Companion about a man applying for a pension be? cause he cut his foot with an ax that he brought home from the army. He got it, I reckon?they all get it, and they never die. I wonder if they wjnlden't consent to pension our Confederate widows? They fought much, and it looks like they have suffered enough. Our own legislature undertook to pension them last year, but the members were a new set, and not used to guessing, and tbey guessed there were about 600 in the State, and they appro? priated $10,000 fio as to give them $100 JTNG, MAY 14, 1891 apiece, and now it turns out there are over 6,000, and the cry is, still they come. Old Carroll sends up a roll of 110 who are living within her boundaries. Hurrah for Carroll. Her married men went to the war, and they not ohly fought and bled, but they died for liberty. But there is no money for these widows. I wish there was; and now if Mr. Harrison want to do the clean thing when he gets back, let him send in a message to pension our widows. That's the road to peace. All this other sort of peace is put on and patched up, and don't last any longer than the champagne. I tell you what, Mr. President, we have endured a sight. Your own war debt was $3,000,000,000, and we had to help on that. You took our negroes and our property and gutted our Churches and never paid us a cent. Old England emancipated her slaves and paid the owners three hundred million dollars for them, but the modern idea of justice 1b "That tbey shall take who have the power, And they shall keep who can.'' Blessings and benefits! Contemplate the picture. One State drawing $12,00 0, 000 a year, and another State drawing nothing, and taxed besides to pay $3,000, | 000 of the $12,000,000. How in the world did the south ever rise from her ashes and stand up and flourish under such burdens?and to day her farmers do not carry one-fourth of the mortgages that the northern farmers do. And now comes the Columbian exposi? tion, at Chicago, that Congress appropri? ated $5,000,000 to, and the South must pay her part of that, and they will ask for $5,000,000 more and get it. Anything to gut the treasury and make a high tariff a necessity. All that was a part of the plan of the protectionists. Gut the treasury and the tariff must come. Mr. Cleveland left ninety millions and it is all gone and McKinley boasted the other day in a speech that "we paid our debts with it?debts to the old heroes of the war." There are some of us who take but little stock in Chicago. It will be a job and a grab all round, for there are millions in it, The woman's branch of the concern started out like the South was to have a showing, and they throwed our Mrs. Felton a bone, but there was nothing on it and then they told her to go, and she went. I asked her the other day when she was going back to help on the concern, and she said: "Never?bless your soul, they don't want me. I've done had my pie; I've got my discharge, but no pension. I am at home cooking for the darkies. I get up every morning by daylight, and cook breakfast for the farm negroes, for the crop is behind, and we can't hire a cook. I do the milking and churning, too, and I am trying to forget Chicago. They lifted me up and then set me down hard, but I feel better a( home -I do." That is about the size of it. Of all the acores of committee women and salaried officials they have not taken one from the Old Dominion nor the Carolinas, nor Georgia, Alabama or Mississippi. Too poor or too ignorant or too Democratic or something. We were banking on Mrs. Felton, and some of my folks were plot? ting to get on her staff and draw salaries and play round and bask in the sunshine. The prospect "was bright, was beautiful, but 'tis past." Mrs. Felton is cooking for the darkies, and my wife is brushing down the cobwebs and wearing her old clothes aa usual. Alas, for human hopes ! Blessed are they who expect little, for they shall not be disappointed. Bill Abp. Dying Out. Making of "moonshine" or illicit whis? key is gradually dying out, and the inhabitants of the foothills and moun? tains are discontinuing this nefarious business and turning their attention to more honest and better paying pursuits. This has been brought about, not so much by the enforcement of the revenue laws, ae it has been by the sentiment of the "mountain people" having undergone a change. They have come to view the matter in its proper light and plainly see that whiskey making has been their worst fault, and has never profited them anything in the long run. Old moon? shiners themselves say they never made anything clear out of the business, and if one did save up a few dollars from the traffic some calamity was sure to overtake them and sweep it away, and usually the calamity was brought on by the moon? shine. This spring has been dull for deputy marshals and we are glad to note that very few cases have been up before the Commissioner, and that it now looks as if Pickens County will not have a very large representation at the next term of the United States Court. With corn at$l per bushel, our citi? zens of the upper part of the County can make more money by raising it for their cotton making brethren of the low land, than he can to make it into whiskey and sell under the penalty of the law. The hills and valleys of our County can pro? duce enough corn to do two Counties. Let them raise it and the money will' come in for it and make the mountains as prosperous as the low lands.?Pickens Sentinel._ Deafness Can't he Cured By local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condi? tion of the mucous lining of the Eusta chian Tube. When this Tube gets in? flamed you have a rumbling soJndor im? perfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothiug but an inflamed condi? tion of the mucous surfaces. We will give one hundred dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that we cannot cure by taking Sail's Ca? tarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. r F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Soid by Druggists, 75 cents. ? The silver in the world is valued at $2,000,000,000, if the price is $1 an oiraoo, A TALK WITH TILLMAN. What He has to Say Ahont the Next Cam? paign. From the Atlanta Journal. Columbia, S. 0., April 30.?Governor Ben. Tillman was looking spruce, cool and comfortable in a new light alpaca summer coat when I found him in his office at the Capitol this morning. He was looking better than when I saw him last, on the day of the memorable "March Convention," last year, when he was put forward by the assembled farm? ers as their candidate for Governor. His ruddy, clean-shaven face had grown fatter, and there was a lack of the anx? ious expression of that former day, which indicates that official life is agreeing with the Governor. His single eve had lost none of its penetrating brightness. He spoke with the same quick, firm, but slightly rough tone, and with the same brusque manner. There was, in fact, little change that I could see from the plain "Ben" Tillman of a year ago. In response to my request for an ex? pression of his views on the Third Party movement, Governor Tillman said : "This movement seems to have attract? ed a great deal of attention throughout the country, though, so far as I know, very little notice has been given it in this State. It is true that some ambigu? ous utterances of Col. Talbert, our State Alliance lecturer, have been construed as declarations in favor of the third party scheme, but I don't believe anybody of influence here has come out squarely for it, or that Talbert himself is in favor of it. "So far as I am concerned," continued the Governor, "and I believe I speak for the great body of the farmers in the State, I am a Democrat, pure and simple. I believe in fighting for reforms inside the party lines, but never outside of them, and I believe any attempt to organize a third party in this State or in the South would be an absolute failure. "So long as the fear of negro domina? tion hangs over us we white people here in South Carolina can never afford to split. That fear is always over us, like ; the sword of Damocles, to warn us to fight out our differences inside of party lines. To seek redress of grievances in a i third party would be to wreck our whole political structure and bring upon us { evils far worse than those we sought to escape. ' "It seems to me," added Governor Till? man, "that the Independent movement in this State in the last campaign ought to show the futility of any movement outside the party ranks or of any appeal to the negro vote." "Will South Carolina be represented at the coming thibd party convention, in Cincinnati ?" I asked. "There may be some volunteer dele? gates from this State," answered the Gov? ernor, "but if there are, they will go there as individuals, and they will repre? sent nobody but themselves. They cer? tainly will not represent either the Alli? ance or the Alliance sentiment in the State. "I am convinced that the farmers of this State are unalterably opposed to any and all third party schemes. So long as they have negro rule and Federal inter? ference staring them in the face, the instinct of self-preservation tells them to stick together and to work out their sal? vation as Democrats and inside the ranks of the Democratic party. "Yes, sir," replied the Governor, earn? estly, "you may put me down as absolute? ly and unequivocally opposed to this Cincinnati third party scheme and all similar schemes. I am and always have been a South Carolina, Edgefield, dyed in-the wool Democrat, and I expect to do my fighting, as I have done it in the past, strictly within the party ranks. "Instead of running off after this Third Party will-o'-the-wisp," said Governor Tillman, "what the farmers of South Carolina expect to do is to try to get a Democratic candidate for the next Presi? dential campaign who will represent the reforms they advocate and who will be pledged to their support. In other words, while they don't want an Alliance candidate for President, they want the Democratic candidate to be a man who is in accord with the ideas of the Alliance on the great issues of the day, such as the free coinage of silver and the reform of the tariff." "What," I isked the Governor, "do you think were the causes of the Demo? cratic victory last November?" "There were, it strikes me," he answer? ed, "three factors that contributed to that tidal wave?the McKinley bill, the free coinage or financial issue and the force bill. And as they were the issues in the last campaign, so they will be in the next. "Hitherto the New England and Mid? dle States, the creditor States, have con? trolled the financial policy of the Gov? ernment and have robbed, imposed on and equeezed the South and West be? yond endurance. Furthermore, being the manufacturing States, they have controlled the Government's tariff policy, and managed thereby to 'burn our candle at both ends.' Against this oppression the people of the agricultural States, the West and the South, have.revolted. "In the South we are practically united on the three issueB of tariff reform, free silver and the retaining of State control of all elections, and those will be the issues, in my view, in the next Presiden? tial campaign. wants fiat money. "But," continued he, "the free coinage of silver is only one phase of the financial question. We want not only more sil? ver, but more greenbacks, and I favor the direct issue of greenbacks based on the Government's credit. If the Government can float three hundred and fifty millions of greenbacks, why not a thousand mil? lion ? Or if it is found impracticable to issue this money on the country's credit alone, a system of land banks might be established by which the money could be issued to the people based on land as a security. It seems .to me that the Gov? ernment, with its powers of taxation and its unlimited resources, could issue the money on its credit, but if not, then such a system as I suggest could be devised which would give us a circulating medium as good as gold and relieve the asphyxia? tion that has bwn produced Id the agrl VOLUM cultural States by the disastrous financial policy of the past. "To sum up the matter," said Gover? nor Tillman, "we ?/ant more money, we want the tariff reformed, and we are too afraid of the negro to run off into any third party." "Which of these questions do you con? sider of the greatest importance?" I asked. The reply was prompt: "The financial question, undoubtedly. It is of more pressing import to us than the tariff. We can stand the tariff a while longer, but more money we must have and at once. It seems to me, how? ever, that/ne can afford to neglect neith? er the financial or the tariff issue. They are both of overwhelming importance, and they will not down. Least of all could we afford to relegate the free silver issue to the rear." ' Speaking of the SUB-TREASUEY BILL, Governor Tillman said: "I am opposed to the measure.. I want 'something better/ and that 'something better' I believe to be what I have already suggested?the free coinage of silver combined with the issuance of greenbacks either on the Government's own credit or on land. The sub-treasury Dill violates the Alliance doctrine of 'Equal rights to all, special privileges to none.' I don't believe that two wrongs can make a right, and because farmers have been systematically and outrageous? ly imposed on in the past is no reason why they should demand class legislation for their own benefit now. "My opinion is that the majority of the farmers of the State are not in favor of the sub-treasury bill, though in that opinion I differ from some of the Alliance leaders. The reason no opposition has been developed to it inside the Alliance in this State is that it has never been made a equare issue. In any contest with an Allianceman advocating the sub treasury and a non-Allianceman oppos? ing it, the sub-treasury would be pretty sure to win, but as between two Alliance men, both loyal to the Order, one oppos? ing and the other supporting the sub treasury, I believe the anti-sub-treasury man would get as many votes as the other. In other wordB, where Alliance men have the subject presented to them clearly and are allowed to. vote without the interference of prejudice, I believe the majority of them would go against the measure. "However," continued the Governor, "I don't believe the Alliance can afford to split on the sub-treasury. They will hunt something better rather than at? tempt to force it down the throats of the very large section of the Order opposed to it; They must agree to disagree as to details in order to achieve the great reforms at which they are all aiming." FUTURE OF THE ALLIANCE. "What of the future of the Alliance ?" I asked Governor Tillman. "It is hard to say, but itseems to me the Order has a great future. Even when its political reforms have been secured, there is its business organization to hold it together. Already the Order has done vast good, not only in affording direct relief to the farmers, as in the jute bag? ging fight and through co-operative stores, etc., but by teaching them the secret of acting together, of co-operation. It has shown the farmers that they can do something when united, and that without unity they are helpless. "There is one danger the Alliance will have to guard against," said the Gover? nor, "and that is the individuals who would use the Alliance vote for their selfish ends. The rank and file of the Order will tiave to relegate to the rear those leaders who would attempt to enforce unanimity; to measure men by a 'yardstick,' and ostracise or expel all who refuse to do their bidding." AN INTERVIEW WITH TALBERT. After my interview with Governor Tillman, I met Col. W. J. Talbert, super? intendent of the Penitentiary and lectur? er of the State Alliance, whose utterances on the subject of the third party have been widely quoted and have attracted attention outside the State. Col. Talbert has been quoted as advocating the third party movement, and I asked him to tell me exactly what his position was. "In the first place," said Col. Talbert, "I am a Democrat, was born a Democrat, and have been one all my life. I don't think anybody in this State will attempt to impeach my Democracy. My idea of the principles of the Alliance is that they are the principles ot the Democracy; that there is nothing inconsistent in being both an Allianceman and a Demo? crat. Our Order is political, but not partisan, and in its ranks men of both parties are fighting for reforms, without, however, renouncing their party allegi? ance. We propose to endorse for Con? gress, or for the Senate, or for President only men who will advocate the reforms we demand, but we will make our fight in the primaries or conventions, as the case may be, and will abide the voice of the majority of the party, whether it is for or against the Alliance candidate. "Now, as to a third party, I want to say this: I am opposed to it, unless we find that the reforms we advocate cannot be brought about in any other way. If they cannot, then there will be time enough to decide on a course of action. It might be that a third party would be found to be the best, or it might not. I have never crossed a bridge before I got to it, rode a horse faster than it could go, or paid a debt before I got the money; and, therefore, I can't say what would be done if it should be found that the Alli? ance could not achieve its ends through either of the old parties." Col. Talbert said that a Convention of all the labor organizations had been called to meet in February, 1892, at a place yet to be determined, to discuss the situation and agree upon a plan of action. The Cincinnati Third Party Convention was an entirely different affair, he said. It had no official sanction and the dele? gates who attended it would do so as individuals only. He did not think it would amount to much. Replying to my inquiries about the sub-treasury bill, Mr. Talbert said: "I beg leave to disagree with Governor Tillman when he says a majority of the Alliancemen of the State are not in favor of the msaaurej I say, and i know E XXV.?NO. 45. whereof I speak, as I am constantly travelling among the people, that a very large majority of the farmers of the State are io favor of it. Even those individuals who are opposed to it are in favor of standing by it, because they recognize that it baa been adopted by the majority of the Order as one of its cardinal princi? ples. The Allianceman who does not support it, even though he may not him? self endorse it, is, in my opinion, false to his obligations and had best get out of - the Alliance. Otherwise he disobeys the rule of the majority. "I can't see," said Col. Talbert, "how Governor Tillman can say the majority of Alliancemen are not in favor of the bill when it was endorsed by the last Alliance State Convention ^without a \ dissenting vote. A.a I see it, without the sub-treasury bill, all other Alliance demands are worthless, for it is to that measure we look for our release from the domination of the money king." the hon. m. l. donaldson, / of Greenville, manager of the State Alli? ance Exchange, and the man who came ' near being elected Senator instead of Irby, said, when I asked him about the prospects for a third party movement in ' South Carolina: "The Alliance in this State has no need of resorting to a third party. We can secure all we want inside the party ranks, and all talk of going outside seems to me superfluous. We have everything to gain by doing our work inside the Democracy,-; and everything to lose by going outside :v of it. I do think there is a feeling of discontent among the people with old party methods, but there are many reasons why we could not afford to split, chief among them, of coarse, being the danger of negro supremacy." " The directors of the State Alliance Ex? change have just completed a session here. I talked to-day with a number of them. They were unanimous in saying that there was no symptom of a third party sentiment among the Alliancemen^ in South Carolina?at least for the~" present. Thad. E. Hoeton. All Sorts of Paragraphs* ? What is the first thing a man does when he falls into the water? Gets wet. ? The reduction of the public debt ;; for the last month was about one million dollars. ? Every one admires a man of push, but nobody wants to be the person push? ed aside by the man. ?Of every million people in the world 800 are blind, and the other 999,200 can? not see their own faults. ? The man who never gives away any? thing, cheats himself out of a good deal ' of satisfaction. ? There are a good many men in the pulpit who would not be there if they had not misunderstood the Lord.' ?A good deal of the trouble in this life comes because men take too much time k to make money, and too little to enjoy ^ it. ? There are people that-"claim that they want to get to Heaven whomever'? want to get near a warm prayer meet? ing. ? By mistake a New Orleans paper..:1 printed a list of coming weddings, the other day, under the head of "The Sugar Crop." ' ? It takes about three seconds for a message to go from one end of the Atlan? tic cable to the other; this is about, 700 miles a second. ? From the figures of the new United States census, it appears that the mort? gage indebtedness in Iowa amounts to $520 for every family. ? Clay County, Mo., will be repre- % sen ted at the World's Fair by a span of mules eighteen hands high, and which will weigh 3,800 pounds. ? When driving nails into hard wood, if they show a disposition to double over, dip them in lard or oil, and they will sink into the wood without any trouble. ? Tne Rev. John Hall, of the Fifth' Avenue Presbyterian Church, of New York, is now rated among the million- _ aires. His annual income is not far short of $75,000. ? In adversity we should pray for pa tience to ber.r its trials and privations; in prosperity we have even yet more need to pray for grace to meet its many temp? tations. ? The railroads own 211,000,000 acresfc - of land, which is an area larger than six States the size of Iowa. Since 1861, no less than 101,000,000 acres have been given to the railroads. ? In the Uuited States annually abou 2,500 persons are tried for murder, with' an average of about 100 legal executions. In five of the States imprisonment for life has been established for the death penalty." ? It is considered that the ovary of the average hen contains about 600 eggs; 20 mature the first year, 120 the second, 135 the third, and the rest after that; so the second and third years are the best for egg production. ? The name "Indian" was given4o the inhabitants of America by Columbus^ from bis belief that the country which h had discovered was an extension of Indi the country known to occupy the extr of the Eastern hemisphere. ? Minnie?The idea, Mamie, I nS thought you Tvould marry a man with a red mustache. Mamie?His mustache is not red, you hateful thing. And if it were, there's just as much tickle to a red mustache as a black one. > -i ? First boy: "The preacher safd^fcafc^ when the collection plate went round everybody thought to theirselves not how much they could give, but how little they could give without feel in' ashamed. Now I'd jest like to know how he can tell what. people is thinking about." Second Boy: "Of course he knows how folks feel. , Before be got to be a minister he used] to be in the congregation hisself." Commendable. All claims not consistent with the high character of Syrup of Figs are purpcf avoided by the Oal, Fig Syrup Corapa It acts gently on the kidneys, liver .I _ bowels, cleansing the system/effectrollj but it is not a cure-all and makes no pre| tentions that every bottle wilf not suty Htft&tlfttCi