The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, March 24, 1892, Image 1

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BT CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 24, 1892. VOLUME XXVI.- -NO. 38 SHOES! V A*. P. GOS92GTY dt ??. have the exclusive agency for E, P, RE GO ?fc COm, MAMIES' FINE SHOES in the City of Anderson, 8. C, All Goods sold by them of the above make are warranted by the Manufactu? rer*, and are sold under a guarantee to the consumer*. ?tif Ladies will do well to call and examine them, and they will be pleased, as AS. P. GOSSETT A CO. have the finest we make. J. T. BRINKLEY, SOUTHERN TRAVELING SALESMAN. If arch 10,1892 86 4 OF ? --'.V ? ? i g SULLIVAN HARDWARE COMPANY Is foil up with every imaginable article in the ^ Hardware Line, and especially with Agricultural Goods, SUCH AS Georgia Steel Plows, m Stocks, feaice Chains, Hames, "Nimrod" Axes, ''SuHiyan" Ditching Shovels, warranted, &c. GALfMlZED barbed wire Horse and Mule Shoes, * J ui Iron and Steel Nails, Bought only in Oar Lots and sold in any quantity. AS TO PRICES WE DEFY THE WORLD. HARDWARE CO, ANDERSON, ?. C. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO., ELBEBTOJi, GA. r WANTED! AGS, HIDES and BEESWAX by PEOPLES & BUBBIS8, at good prices. SECOND HAND STOVES As good or better than most of the new ones now offered you, which we are offering at a low price. We hope you wili bear in mind that we deal in? En, China Crockery, Glassware, And EVERYTHING in the House Furnishing line, and at prices that cannot be beat by any one. Price elsewhere, then come to ?ee us and you will be convinced. TIN HOOFING. GRAVEL HOOFING and " GUTTERING, Promptly done by experienced men. Yours' very truly, . _ PEOPLES & BURRISS. : DON'T FAIL TO VISfT S H 1 DEALERS IN DRY GOODS, CLOTHINC, boots and shoes, STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, FRUITS and CONFECTIONERIES. 30* We are selling Goods CHEAP, and will treat you Giro ns a call. Yours truly, e. w. brown & sons. HOW TO SAVE MONEY! Yob can Save Money by Buy fog your Schoo? Books and Stationery at COLLINS' BOOK STORE. A fall line of School Books. Blank Books, Stationery, Pictures und Picture Frames, and other goods too numerous to mention, ?11 at the lowest prices. PHOTOGRAPHS. My Pbotograpb Gallery has been lately refitted with all the latest improved appura tus for making Picture* of all kinds, from the size of a postage stamp to life size in the finest &n\fh. Portraits enlarged to any si**, from small pictures, at reasonable prices.. Doa't forget, this if you want a nioe Photo. BwpectfuJly, MONUMENTS i ? and ? TOMB STONES. UaYING purchased the Marble Buai ! ness of the lateT. M. White we are pre? pared to supply all Marbie Work prompt? ly, In good style and? AT LOWEST PRICES. Give ns a oall oti North Main Street, by the Railroad Bridge. wfilTE & CO. Feb 4,1808 / 91 9m T&?Hfllt?'CoUJMN, "tec. All communications intended for this Column should be addressed to C. WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, 8. C. HEKOBY GEMS. "The nation's safeguard is the public schools." "A trained man will make his life tell," Anderson is to be the future home of the Winthrop Training Bcbool. We feel Btire our teachers will be glad to hear this. It is combined with the Woman's Industrial School, Which has been located in Anderson. The teacher needs the sympathy and cooperation of the parents. When they fail to gee it they fail to do their best work. There should be a better ac? quaintance between parent and teacher. There should be a co-operation and sym? pathy. While in the school at Belton we chanced to get the two articles published below. The one on "Bad Boys" was written by a little girl, and "The De? pendence of Man" by a boy. These were not written at leisure, but the subjects were announced by the teacher and the articles written immediately after. There are some good thonghts in these letter:, The test of a good farmer is to make good crops grow on poor land. The test of a teacher is to make good progress with a doll pnpil. Any teacher cku do pretty well with a bright, quick, studious pupil, but it takes a good teacher to carry forward a dull pnpil, slow and not inclined to work. Here lies the test of a teacher's work. He is not to be judged by the progress and development of the brightest and most studious pupils, but by what is done with the pnpil that needs the watchful care, guidance and encour? agement of the teacher?the stupid pu? pil. . BAD BOYS. I should think it is very discouraging to parents to have bad boys. It is al-o very troublesome for teachers to have pu? pils that will not obey the rules of school. Boys that behave badly when they are coming into manhood are generally rude when they become yonng men. It wonld be best for their parents to teach them to obey when they are quite small. I should think they would like their parents mach better if tbey would teach them to obey while they are small. I feel B?rry for boys that have not any sis? ter to tell them how to behave when they go ont into society. But some boys do not care for their sisters or for society either. They bad rather lounge around town on Snnday and play games, such as cards, with some mean, reckless boys, than to go to Church and listen to the good sermons that the preachers gener? ally have. New, I advise all boys that do such as this to stop it and go to preaching ttnd Sunday school, and see if tbey can't do better work there. TEE DEPENDENCE OF BAN. We have all often beard the expres? sion, spoken by a person who has not given the subject much thought, "I am an independent man." Some persons are in a manner inde? pendent of another, but we all, taken as a whole, are mutually as well as in other ways dependent. Man is dependent upon plants in several way?. Plants furnish to man the oxygen which he cannot live without. They are sustained by carbonic acid gas, which is cast off by man, and they give out oxygen, which man breathes Man is also dependent upon plants for the food that be eats. The diet of man is composed principally of vegetable matter, such as wheat, corn, cabbage po? tatoes and garden products. Man also eats animal fle?h, but were it not for veg? etable matter would we have any ani? mals? No, for animals, like men, de? pend upon plant life. Man, especially ;he farmer, is depen? dent upon our domestic animals: the horse to work his farms, the cow to give him milk and butter. There is also a mutual dependence of men upon each other. The farmer is dependent upon the merchant, and like? wise the merchant is dependent upon the farmer. If there is a small crop made not only the farmer, but also the merchant, suffers. Likewise if there is a rise in the price of merchandise, not only the mer? chant, bat also the farmer, suffers. In a like manner the merchant and the manufacturer are dependent upon each other. If tbere were no merchants to sell goods tc, there would be no manu? facturers, and if there were no manufac? turers to make goods, there would be no merchants. Man, animals and plants are all alike dependent upon God, the creator of all, and it is by bis power that we are all allowed to live, and it will be by his power whea waall cease to live. Bb?shy Ckeek, S. C, Mar. 7,1892. Mr. Editor: I saw in the Intelligen? cer of last week a question about the wars. I will try and answer it: First, King William's war, 1689-97. Cause: War having broken out between Eng? land and France, the colonies in Americs. took up the quarrel. Second, Queene Anne's War, 1702-13. Cause: Eng? land having declared war against France and Spain, hostilities again broke out be* tween thoir colonies. Third, King George's war, 1744?48. Cause: War again broke out between England and France. The quarrel soon broke out iu *be New World. Fourth, French and Indian war, 1754?63. Cause: B?th French at d English claimed a narrow strip weBt of the Allegheny Mountains along the Ohio River. Fifth, Revnlu tionary wer, 1775?83. Cause: England treated thr colonies as an inferior class of people. The laws were framed to suit Eoglfob merchants at the expenxe of the colonies. American manufactories were prohibited. Tu tax the colonist in order to raise money to pay the expense of the recent wnrp. Sixth, war with Tripoli, 1801. Cause: The capture of American veuseis and American Beamtin by the peo pie of the Barbary States. Seventh, ws of 1812?14. Cause: The capture of our ships and seamen by Qreat Britain. Eighth, Black Hawk war, 1832. Cause: The Indians sold their lands to the United States settlers, but on coming to take possession the Indians refused to leave. Ninth, Florida war, 1835. Cause: An attempt to move the Iudians to the west of the Mississippi River. Tenth, war with Mexico, 1846?47. Cause: The boundary between Texas and Mex? ico.- Eleventh, Civil War, 1861?65. Cause: Whether slavery Bhould be pro* hibited or oot. The South, headed by South Carolina, seceded and formed a new government, because she thought slavery Bhould not be prohibited. Respectfully, Maude Rosamond. We publish the following in the inter? est of the pupils in geography. Who will be the first to send us the answer? Each of the following paragraphs con? tains the name of a capital city in North America: 1. Will is going to the military hop as a "Yank" to-night. 2. Jennie will have to finish the wash* ing to-night. 3. Martha's dress received a great rent ou her stepping from the street car. 4. King William gav.; the peasant a few coins for bis trouble. 5. If you wish to get a good mule, at? tend the sale Monday. 6. He reverenced the rite an second to a sacrament only. 7. While fishing in the river I caught a little rockfish. 8. Education gives an Indian a polish that rivals a Caucasian'^. 9. He possessed much art for design? ing plans for edifices. 10. The tree's dimensions shall no longer be apocryphal if axe can' chop it down. 11. Let us choose a man of rank for the position of leader. 12. The gambling apparatus was bid? den very quickly at the officers' appear? ance. 13. With the character of Faust I never was in love. 14. Does tbe political ban yet operate against them ? 15. Let Laura and Anna polish the tinB with sapolio. 16. In the spring field-larks are not fit to eat. 17. Poor Saturday but rich Monday. 18. His shots were central eight times outof ten. 19. He was given a new portfolio as a Christmas gift. 20. Did you ever hear Alan sing "Lit? tle Annie Rooney?" HEAHDERINGS. At Midway Miss May Neal was found surrounded by an interesting group of boye and girls. She has fine discipline, and her method of teaching speiliog is very fine. We expected good work from Miss May, and we were not disappointed. 8be is fall of energy, and enters into her work with enthusiasm. Miss Lillie Bigby, the teacher at Wel? come, has a school that is doing most ex? cellent work. There is a mutual love and sympathy between teacher and pu? pils that greatly aids their work. Tbe children love Miss Lillie, and it is very evident that she loves her pnpila. This is a condition of afff.irs that we are always glad to fiud in tbe school room. She is careful and watchfcil, and is doing a most excellent work. At Centre Mis* Addie Duckworth is the teacher. She taught there last year, and gave such satisfaction as to induce them to secure her services this year. She is exceedingly conscientious and faithful in her work. She was trained in the Williamston Female College by Dr. Lander, which means that her train? ing for tbe duties of tbe school room were first class. She has a new school room that is much more comfortable, and one in which she will do first class work. At Cedar Grove Miss Mamie Stephens, another one of Dr. Lander's pupils, is teaching. Wherever wo find tbe gradu? ate of tbe Williamston Female College we find good work faithfully performed Miss Mamie has a large school, and is g ving large results. Tbe Belton High School, under tbe control of Rev. J. T. Smith, is doing good service. His pupils show that they un? derstand what they are doing, and are able to give a reason for what tbey do. We make no hesitation about saying that Belton has a school worthy of that live, wide awake town. Miss Maggie Grubbs ably assists Mr. Smith. She shows the qualities of a teacher, calculated to be numbered among our best. The pupils are bright, cheerful and happy?three qualities that greatly facilitate work in tbe school room. Old Nursery Favorit?s. There was Tom, the Son of the Piper, Jaok Sprat, and Merry Kinfr Cole, And the Three Wise Men of Gotham, Who went to sea in a bowl, The woman who rodo on a broomstick, And swept the cobwebbed sky, And tho boy who sat in a corner, Eating bis Christmas pie, There were some of the old favorites, but tbey have been superseded by tbe "PanBy" and "Chatterbox" stories, "Lit? tle Lord Fauntleroy," and "Five Little Peppers." The old fashioned pills have been superseded, and wiaely, too, by Fierce's Purgative Pellets, a mild, barm less and effective cathartic. They are plea-ant to take?so gentle in their action that tbe most delicate child can take them, yet so effective that they will cure tbe most obstinate case of constipation, stomach, liver and bowel troubles. Tbey should be in every nursery. As a gentle laxative, only one for a do96. ? Stone Moun'ain, Ga, has a re? markable pony. He has not only almost human intelligence, the power of know? ing to to tbe minute his feeding hour, an ability to distinguish persons he has met before, but can run errands. Hia owner has a small bag which be hangs on hia neck, and on being told to "bring the mail," the pony marcbfB off with much dignity to the po?t office, where the genial postmaster rece'ves the bar, and upnn depositing the mail, tell* him to "take it home," which he does without a mistake. A NEW MINING TOWN. An interesting Letter From a Former An? derson Boy?Ho Gives a Description of Creede, Col., and tells Something About the Life of a Miner, Etc., Etc. Editors Anderson Intelligencer: I have thought it quite likely that some of the good people who read your paper would find some interest in a partial description of the newest, and, considering its age the greatest mining camp in America Creede, Colorado, is about 350 miles south of Denver, in the wildest part of the Col orado mountains. It is a silver camp every sense of the expression, as its si! ver mines are all it can lay any claim to except snow banks from two to twenty feet deep during a considerable portion of the year. Creede now boasts about ten thousand people, but it is likely that there are not so many people there, but at any rate, its present population is wonderful when is considered that the town is less than six months old. The place has a peculiar shape. Being built on the banks of a small creek which at tbis point flows through a nar? row gulch ; it is about two and one half miles in length by one hundred and fifty yards in width, and in many places its width does not exceed fifty feet. In some places the houses are so built that tbey hang directly over the creek, and is now predicted that when the snow meltR on the mountains, these houses will share the fate of those referred to in the Scripture which were built upon the sand. Along the sides of the gulch are stairways built up to the level of the sur rounding country. When one reaches the level up there he will see that the ground reaches away to the foot of the high mountain in a kind of elevated plain or "mesa." The mountains are from one to two miles distant and there are the mines. The "Holy Moses," on one side is about one and a half miles away, and on the other side, the "Last Chance," another prominent mine, about four miles from the gulch. There are numerous other mines of great value adjacent, and countless numbers of "claims" and pros pect boles. Good ore is gotten out of several of these mines, and as it lies near the surface mining is not very expensive as compared with other mining districts where deep shafts have to be sunk through solid rock. The active develop? ment of mining began here less than six months ago, and as the ground has been deeply covered with snow nearly all the time since then, but little, comparatively has been done outside of those mines in which shafts had been sunk previous to the cold weather. But little can be known of the real resources of the'camp. Per? haps thorough development, which can be prosecuted in the Spring, may result in great discoveries, and on the other hand it may turn out that there is but little more here than has already been found. But notwithstanding the uncertainty of what the future may bring to light, thousands of men have flocked here to "stake a claim" while there is ground yet untaken, and the majority of them have brought money to pay their expenses for a while until tbey can strike a vein and get rich. Nice out of ten hope for this, but less than one out of a thousand suc? ceed in makiDg money out of mining. The fame of the mineral districts went out through Colorado like wild fire, and in a wonderfully short time the gulch through which Willow Creek flows was changed from a solitary wilderness to a bustling town of several thousand peo? ple, insane with the hope of prosperity and reckless as are all who live to day in the hope that to-morrow will bring wealth and comfort. The excitement grew rapidly, and the usual number of gamblers and whiskey men came here with the first rush of peo? ple. Before houses were built fos men to sleep in, half a dozen saloons and gam? bling places were running in full blast, and in its infancy the Goddess of Chance began to hover about the town. An in? teresting sight, indeed, and strange, it is to pass through a gambling house in Creede. Every game of chance by which the house has an immortal cinch for winning is played, from Faro to Honest Jobn, and from Keno to Stud Poker. Crowded around the 'various tables are hard-visBged men and harder hearted women, placing their chips and watching the turn of the card. In the eye of the man who is winning there is a glitter of fierce interest, and his hand trembles when he reaches it out to rake in his winnings. From the other side of the table you can hear a curse and a gnash of teeth from the man who has bet the opposite way and lost, and in a few mo? ments he rises from the table Bwearing at his luck, fate and himself, for be bas lost bis last dollar, but he immediately seeks some acquaintance from whom he hopes to borrow a few dollars with which to re deem his fortune. It is strange that wbereever open gambling is allowed peo pie almost universally gamble. Not oue out of a hundred succeed in keeping ahead of the game, yet tbey return day after day, and night after night, to depos? it their money in the Faro Bank or some other game. In Creede there is a large number of people who make a living by gambling, and here can be encountered the kind of life of which Mark Twain and Bret Harte wrote a few years ago. Here the first mayor was Mr. Bob, Ford, the man who killed Jesse James. Mr. Ford is here running a large establish? ment, cousisting of a saloon and gam? bling house all in one. He was the first mayor, as stated above, but the man who so unfeelingly murdered another who was his own partner in sin and crime does not stand very high in the estimation of the people of a settlement like Creede, and it was but a short time until he was removed and another gambler known as "Soapy" Smith put into office. "Soapy" still holds the town. It is very conve nient for him and bis associates. "Soapy" owns and runs the largest drinking and gambling place in town, and things are run pretty nearly a* they want them. It was quite a hard deal with the gamblers, however, when, a few days aeo, three men entered one of the houses and under cover of a revolver held up the Faro dealer to the tune of $1280, and theu got away safely into the hills. The character of their business causes tbe moral world to look upon gamblers in general as a pretty hard lot and devoid entirely of all decent traits of character. Of course, t would not for a moment think of lauding the few exception to the general rule, yet there have been in? stances where these people have gone out of their way to do a kindness to some poor fellow who was in unfortunate cir? cumstances. It is 8 fact that the gamb? ling houses of Denver contribute largely toward tbe institutions of charity of that city, and there have been times when the moral element of the city, failed to raise sufficient funds for certain charitable purposes, the gamblers raised it and turned it over to tbe preachers. Among the great number of people at? tracted at the first of tbe boom waa a preacher who came with the desire to open a mission or Church, if such a pro? ject were practicable. In Creede all are in a common acquaintance, and tbe preacher soon became well acquainted with one of the principal gamblers of the place. One Sunday night about six weeks ago the preacher met his profes? sional friend and stated to him the bur? den of his hope. He wanted to build a Church and intended doing so, Tbe gambler said to bim "come with me and I will give you a chance to preach and take up a collection for your Church scheme." At that time and how the most prominent place in Creede is "Soapy" Smith's saloon, and to this joint the preacher was conducted. When acquaint? ed with the preacher's object, "Soapy" closed the games and discontinued the sale of liquors for the time being and announced to tbe crowd of miners who were drinking or playing then that there "is a preacher in tbe house and he wants to preach, so let np on it for awhile and give him a show." The preacher was given a place of prominence from which to speak ; he stood on tbe "Keno" call? er's platform, and, nothing daunted by his surroundings, he delivered a sermon in true Western language and style which at once went to the hearts of the men, who cheered vociferously and threw up their hats, The preacher's friend took off his hat and passed it among the boys for a collection, and every man present, with but few exceptions, put something in the hat, but when the gam? bler noticed that some were putting small change in the hat, he said in in juied tones, "Damn it, boys, don't put chicken feed in here, put in bills." In all he collected in the neighborhood of ninety dollars from the five or six hundred men present. He was disappointed in the amount and said to the preacher, "You go home and I'll try to rustle you up some more money for your church." When the preacher was gone he took the nine? ty dollars and bought chips at the Faro table and sat down to play the game. In about two hours be pulled out of tbe game with about seven hundred and fif? ty dollars ahead. He took this to the preacher and told him that it was the be3t he could do, "as they were not com? ing very smooth" with him just at pres? ent, but if he didn't get enough money for bis Church within a week or?two to call again and he would see what he could do. There is a place of worship in Creede now, in which this man holds services every Sunday. They are generally about five hundred people present. On one side of the Church is a saloon and gam? ing house kitowo as the "Texas Ex? change," and xcross the street is a dance hall and > he >p variety theatre. The sweet sound* ul sacred music rise from the lips of tbe devout people, rough and dirty, but sincere and fearless, and startle the rugged walls of the wild mountains. The cold is intense, and the wind sweeps down the gulch like a whirlwind hurri? cane. The mountains, white with snow, lift their beads high up toward the stars that are twinkling coldly upon the wicked little camp. As tbe good people Bend the sounds of "Nearer My God to Thee" and "Safe in the Arms of Jesus" out on the night air, a rushing wind bears it far away dowu thegulcb, and the worshipers are startled by tbe broken sentences which come from tbe neighbor? ing institutions, such as "Seventeen iu the Black," "Little 0," "Keno," "put this five on tbe ace" or the shrill laughter of the demi monde across tbe street. There is but little law in Creede save that of the sixBhooter and Winchester rifle. The courts are held in open air. The witnesses are those who happen to be on the street. The principals are usually subpceaied by a rifle or revolver bullet, and the burial usually follows soon after tbe case is decided. Undertakers do an extensive business. When a guu shot is heard you will see this individual reach for his tape line and start in the direction from which the shot was heard to come. The Dead Sea now covers the spot where men in ancient days became too wicked to live. The topography of the couutry here would have to be consider ably changed before there could be a large body of water, but certain it is that Sodom and Gomorrow could not have been worse than Creede is to-day, and the fact that it is still untouched by tbe band of the Great Judge is evidence that men have more lenient judgment meted out to theo? now than in the days of Lot and his unfortunate Bpouse. Yet one of the infalible evidences of prosperity in the mining camps of the West is the multiplicity of vices and the disregard of all that is good aud moral, it takes time for morality to get to the new and hastily settled camp, and tbe mineral is all gone and the people dis persed generally before anything moral gets there in any force. What future development may result in cannot be told at this stage of the towu's history. It is almost universally predicted that the town will become the third or perhaps second producing camp in the State when the snow has melted and the work of development here thor? oughly prosecuted. Some are sanguine enough to predict that the mines at Creede will produce more silver than those of Lcarlville, but this is Dot likely ; however that may be, the town has so far had a remarkable history, and its few de veloped mines have made many men rich who have heretofore known but the hard side of life. One man who six months ago was only a prospector in the hills, refused an offer of a million dollars for bis interest in one of the prominent mines a few days ago, and others have climbed high so suddenly that they are as yet dizzy from the sudden altitude to which they have risen. The cry in Creede as well as all over this country is 'Free Silver,' and the day is near at haud when the voice of the miner of Colorado must be beard and minded as well as that of the manufac? turer of the East. Every town in this country has a "Silver Club," and these in? stitutions are not being formed for pless ure or pastime. To day Colorado has but a small population as compared with many other biates, bnt it has resources for millions, and tbey are journeying this way every day that passes. The feeling that has so fastened itself in the hearts of the people of this country will rood make itself felt far beyond the borders of this State and those adjoining and with similar interests. The breath of the pass? ing breeze which gently gathers force as it moves through the Union can scarcely be heard as it moves through the pines of North Carolina, but it is louder when it strikes the border of Tennessee, and when in its fury it reaches its fill strength far away to the Westward, nothing can stay it in its course, and every obstacle must bow before the storm. Where men are free to vote in the laws that are to their interest, it does not take a century to learn them that the moon is not compos? ed of green cheese nor that water will not run up hill unassisted, and it will not take long for the people of the United States to learn that their interests are al? ways associated with the people of any class whatsoever who are combined against the tyranny of Wall Street. No man, be he Democratic or Republican, in the coming contest can secure the sup? port of the people of this section of the country if he is an enemy to the honest treatment of the white metal product of the Rocky Mountains. HAL STRICKLAND. Denver, Colorado, March 10, 1892. Why Not Have u Primary ? The outlook for the Democratic party in this State is anything b".t encourag? ing. There are at the present time three distinct factions?the regular Democratic organization, the Straightouts, and another faction yet named, but which, until further developments, might very properly be called "March Oonvention ists." The bone of contention be? tween the factions is Governor Till man. He is upheld by the regular Dem? ocratic organization and opposed by the other two factions. There is really no other important issue before the people of the State, and it is the question of Tillman or anti Tillman alone that is threatening disruption and division. The platform of the Straightout ele? ment is "down with Tillman at any cost," and the platform of the March Conven tionists is "down with Tillman if that end can possibly be accomplished within the party." The platform of the regular Democracy is, we hope, "the men and measures advocated by the majority of the while people of the State." The strength of the Straightouts at the last general election was about 14,000, and the Btrength of the March Conven? tion is ta and advocates of Tillman, who, combined, formed the regular Democ? racy, was something like 60,000. The March Conventioniats, as a rule, sup? ported Tillman, not because they be? lieved he was the best man, or even a good man for Governor, but because he was the regular Democratic nominee. The Straighouts voted against Tillman for reasons so varied that we cannot un? dertake to mention them all. The short? est way to get at it would be to say, be? cause they could not see a single reason why they should vote for him. The Till mauites voted for Tillman because he was the exponent of the platform that they favored, and because they admired him as a man. The developments of the past two years have not, in our opinion, served to alter the numerical strength of the re? spective factions to any great extent. With very few exceptions, the Tillman ites are Tillmaoites still, and the anti Tillmanites are as much opposed to Till man as ever. The only important change in the situation is this. By the March convention coup d'etat for two years ago, Tillman'u opponents were so thoroughly demoralized that they were unable to marshal their forces again until it was too late for any effective opposition t* his nomination. This year, organization has been commenced in ample time, and to say the least of it, a stout resistance to Tillman's renomination may be expected. If matters are allowed to go on in the channel in which they are now drifting, there is no telling what may be tbe re? sult. The leaders of the March conven tionistB are no doubt honest in their intentions to fight out their grievances within tbe party. But with the bitter? ness already in existence, and that which may be aroused, there is a possibility that something may happen tbat will place the movement beyond their con? trol, and eventually land the March con ventionists in the Straigbout party. Though, of course, the combined factions may still be in the minority if this should happen, anybody can see the result?an ominous black cloud looms up at the bare suggestion. Both sides will appeal to the negro, and white supremacy, politi? cally, in South Carolina, will be at an end forever. Now, without considering who is re? sponsible for this state of affairs or lay? ing any special blame anywhere, we beg to suggest that there is an effectual rem? edy, which, if applied now, will settle all differences. Let there be a primary?a primary from Governor down to Coroner. Let all Democratic aspirants for office go before the people?the whole white peo? ple of tbe State?nod if they receive a majority of tbe votes cast, any maH who refuses to support tbem in the general election is not worthy of being called a Democrat. Even if tbe present fight be actually against Tillman and Tillman alone, be should have no hesitation in going before the white voters of the State and allow? ing each and every one to express his individual preference. And no supporter of Tillman should object to his doing so. If be is not the cboice of the majority of tbe white voters, he has no right to be Governor; and if he be the choice of the white voters, no man or set of men should raise their voice against him. This is democracy.? Yorhville Enquirer. RAISE WHEAT AND BUILD MILLS. Facts irulch Show that South Carolina can make her own Bread. News and Courier. A dispatch published in tbe Sunday News last Sunday, states that Mr. J. H. Johnson, of Blakely, Minnesota, who is described as being an ardent advocate of Farmers' Alliaoce doctrines, has publish? ed a letter to the farmers urging them to organize Farmers' Alliance milling as sociatior.8, which has a great deal of interest and c omment in his neighbor? hood. Mr. Johnson, who is himself tbe own? er of a fifty barrel flour mill, maintains, as reported, that the farmers of the Da? kotas and Minnesota alone have lost $28,000,000 on wheat sold up to De? cember, 7 1891, of this year's crop, and proceeds to show the farmers their folly in not building their own mills anJ thereby securing $1 a bushel for tbeir wheat, with a ton of feed per bunderd bushels, together with some minor ad? vantages. Any community that can produce 75,000 bushels of wheat, h6 says, can thereby keep a fifty barrel mill running for a year, and such a mill can be built for $7,000. This is the testimony of a practical miller, whose experience has been ac? quired in the heart of the chief wheat raising and flour making district of the country, and there appears to be matter in it which is worthy of the considera? tion of some of the farmers in South Carolina. The main points are as fol? lows : Any community, district or country, says Mr. Johnson, that can produce 75, 000 bushels of wheat can keep a fifty-bar rel flour mill running. South Carolina produced- 992.000 bushels of wheat last year, as that number is reported by tbe United States agricultural department ? and probably produced over a million bushels, if all were reported. On this basis the State, or the upper counties, where most of the wheat is raised, would support a dozen fifty-bar? rel flour mills, which would be a nota? ble addition to the industrial equipment of these counties, and of the State. No particular attention was paid to wheat raising in this State, last year, we believe. It is probable, then, that could easily be dou bled, and if so then the one million bushel crop of last year the wheat growing section could easily support twenty or more fifty barrel mills. There is not a county in the sec? tion probably that could not readily grow 140,000 or 200,000 bushels, at least, and this would give prosperous mills to each county. The cost of constructing a mill of tbe indicated capacity, as stated by an expert, in $7,000. This is much lees than the cost of a cotton factory or even a cotton seed oil mill. There is not a communi? ty in the up country that cannot afford ty build such a mill, and that would not be glad to build one, with or without precuniary aid from the farmers. The presence of a mill in any connty would ce an inducement and a help to the wheat farmers to raise more wheat; more farmers would go into tbe busi? ness, and a diversification of crops would be effected in tbat region. The "minor advantages" to the farmers of having for use or sale all the by products of their wheat-bran, seconds and shorts?we take it are fully understood to require more than mere mention. The mills need not be confined to flour making. It was stated a few days ago by a business msn of Charleston that 60,000 barrels of grits are imported into this State every year?our people paying thousands of dollars annually for this one article which could as well be pro? duced at home and getting a product that is inferior in every quality except whiteness to tbe home-made article. As much may be said of corn meal, which is imported at a cost of many thousands more?the aggregate for corn and corn products alone running up into millions annually. The local flour mills could supplement their wheat products with corn products equally to their own advautge and that of the farmer, who would thus have a new and valuable out? let for their corn crop. Any community tbat can produce 75,000 bushels of wheat, says Mr. John? son, can keep a .fifty barrel flour mill for a year. Any agricultural or other community in South Carolina, therefore, that thinks such a mill and its attendants advantage worth the having would do well to look into the subject, consult Mr. Johnson, and take steps to have a mill built by the time tbe next wheat crop matures. State of Ohio, City ok Toledo, ) Lucas County, j Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State afore said, and that said firm will pay tbe sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that can? not be cured by tbe use of Hall's Ca? tarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D.1886. ? A. W. GLEASON, j seal I Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internal? ly and acts directly upon tbe blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for list of testimonials. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. BS-Sold bv Druggists, 75c. ? MissGush: "And Ethel, dear, what is the baby's name ?" Mrs. Newmother: "I've named him Ethelbert Algernon." Miss Gush: "But I always thought the father named the boys." Mrs. Newmoth? er: "If you could hear what his father calls him when he is walking the floor with him in the early dawn, you would not wonder I took the matter in my own hands." AH Sorts of Paragraph?. ? The frown of a friend is better ti the smile of a fool. ? The tailor undertakes a great w| in reforming men. ? "That is my besetting Csin," as I ben remarked when she returned to | nest. ? A two hundred aud twenty pod alligator was captured'Jn Orangeb| County last week. ? None but tbe brave deserve fair, and none but the brave can with some of them. -- Early Risers, Early Risers, Ea Risers, tho famous little pills for con" pation, sick headache, dyspepsia and i vousness.?Wilhite <fc Wilhito. ? In England tbey stand for office j this country they run, and in both coj tries they lie more or less. ? Farmers of Marlborough Coul have pledged themselves to plant ljj acres of cotton less than last year, ? It won't, do any good to look solemn as an owl in church if you are the habit of skining people in {hi ?ess. ? If dull, spiritless andstupid; ify<] blood is thick and sluggish; if yonr petite is capricious and uncertain, need a Sarsaparilla. For best results De Witt's.?Wilhito and Wilhite. ? Stranger?Have you any firet slj saloons here? Villager?No; oi second-class ones. This is a prohibit} town. ? A close thinker says that the rl son why many people know Compaq Lively nothing is that they never bear to be told anything. ? The new Woodbridge gun, one construction at Watertown arsenal,! expected to throw a ?300 pound project twelve miles. ? Mrs. L. R. Patton, Rockford, writes: "From personal experience I < recommend De Witt's Sarsaparilla, act for impure blood and generaldebility.M Wilhite & Wilhite. ? There is a woman in Bonhai Tex., who does business in sewing bt tons on men's wearing apparel, doing work on the streets. ? A Qeogia sheriff burned tbe boul of a man whom he wished to arrest [ order to drive him out, and now the' ernor is making it equally as hot for tj sheriff, ? "Before he married me John sal he would love me too well ever to me build a fire." "And does he! "Yes, be never looks at me when I building it." ? It is a truth in medicine that tl smallest dose that performs the cure I the best. De Witt's Little Early Risej are the smallest pills, will perform tt oure, and are the best.?Wilhite & Wi bite. ? It is a good thing to laugh, at at rate, and if a straw can tickle a man it | an instrument of happiness. Beasts weep when they suffer but they cannj laugh. ? There is a farmer in VentarH County, Cal, whose name is Stubble field and another named Haymakc Los Angeles, Cal., has still another horj eat granger who bears tbe euphoniojj name of John BeanblOBsoms. ? "I ain't goin' to send any more mo^ eyout to the heathens," said Willie, seen a picture of one of 'em fchis morrgj in' and as far as I could see he didi wear any pants, and so hasn't any pocl ets to carry the money." ? It is a fixed and immutable law th: to have good, sound health one must ha\ pure, rich and abundant blood. There no shorter nor surer route than by course of De Witt's Sarsaparilla.?Wilbil & Wilhite. ? At a church near Ledbnrry, Pal an annual sermon is still presche against the vice of duelling. This, done in accordance with the last wi and testament of a damsel whose riv? lovers died while fighting for her hanc ? Mr. Gilman, formerly America consul in Jerusalem, avers that tbecit "is now growing toward the northwes just as was predicted by the prophet Jeremiah and Zacbariah." He say there are now over 25,000 Jews in Je rusalem. ? Bright people are the quickest to rt cognize a good thing and buy it. We sei lots of bright people the Little Early Ri sers. If you are not bright these pills wil make you so.?Wilhito &. Wilhite. ? Trunks are now made of paper pul; that has been subjected to a great pret sure in the same manner as the materla used for the manufacture of car wheel Owing to the tenacity of the paper it i practically impossible to injure a tronl made of this material. ? It is all owing to what a man ii proud of. If he is prond of his honoj and integrity, proud of his blamelc and his efforts to benefit bis race, he is tbd right kind of a man. But if he is pronfl of his loots, his clothes, his wealthy bitth, or his learning, he is a fool. ? We truly believe De Witt's Litill Early Risers to be the most natural, mos! effective, most prompt and economic? pill for billiousness, indigestion and inj active liver.?Wilhite & Wilhite. ? First Lady?I saw your husbattj meet you ou Fulton street yesterdajj and I noticed that he raised bis bat whj speakiDg to you. I admire him for Very few men do that. Second Ladj I remember; I told him in the mor ingto have his hair cut, and he showing me that he had obeyed. ? A couple in Biddeford, Me., separated four times and reunited thi times since their wedding in May. last time the wife returned to her spool she admitted that she was a little tempered, but declared she him $50 if she made another months. She broke over inj and now the husband will sue ? "Laic to bed and early to rise * shorten the road to vour home in skies." Hut early tu* bod and a "Lttjl Early Riser," the pill that makes longer and bettor and wiser.?WilKuH Wilhite. ? What is poesible at presents American railroads was demonet when a train, made up of three cars, weighing 260,000 pounds, drawnl one of the new standard passenger ti motives, made the run from New** to Buffalo, a distance of 436A mil* 440 minntes. This was a speed cf 0t little less than a mile a minute, main* edfor more than seven consecutive ho and was a feat never before accompli any where in the world. Thin only shows what can be done: American railroads, but contafcisi gesr-onr.f what may be r.osaible near future.