The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, August 21, 1895, Image 4

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DUEALA N. Where sighs the whispering linden To summer's lightest breeze, Where tuneful birds make musiC Unseen 'mid shady treess How sweet awhile to linger Beside some babbling stream, And lulled by its soft murmur To fall asleep and dream! What strange fantastle pictures pass mirrored o'er the brain As youth forgets its troubles - And age grows young again. The past, no more remembered. Makes way for what shall be, And scenes of future gladness Are all the dreamers see. Ah. would these idle fancies Might sometimes prove them true Nor fade away to nothing And vanish from the view: Fond thought' But cease repining. Perchance tis happier thus To leave unsolved life's riddle Nor ask what waits for us. MAGGIE'S ELOPEMENT. "You always did act queer, Jim. So said Mrs. Wigfall one night to her husband, and she-folded her arms across her breast and looked at him re proachfally. Mr. Wigfall wasa successful farmer. The school of experience, he said had cost him a goo deal. but he had gone through it and been profited im the end. He always claimed to have "ideas" of his own, which, somehow, he invariably contrived to carry out in a way to suit himself. This was the first time during twenty years of mar ried life that his confiding spouse had ever questioned his metnods, and it surprised him so very much that he could only look at her in dumb aston astonishment. "Now, tell me what in the name of common sense has set you so despera tely against Ted Minter?" she asked, with asperity in her voice. "I always thought you had a very high opinion of him before, ever since he was a boy. "He hasn't any spunk. and, what is worse, he isn't likely to have any as long as he lives," replied Mr. Wig fall. "Pshaw, Jim! You know better than that Ted has got grit, and you know it," cried Mrs. Wigfall. Then she ad ded, as a clincher: "He always man - ages to come around ana see Maggie when he wants to, in spite of your threat to shoot him on sight." "Maybe he does manage to come. But he doesn't want to see her very bad except when I have my back turn ed, or am away from home." "But he always comes in at the front door," insisted Mrs. Wigfall. "And always goes out of it, too, in a hurry, when I show myself. It is lucky for him that the cap snapped on my gun when I shot at him to nioht." he gun was empty, Jim," laughed Mrs. Wigfall. "How do you know." "We examined it this evening before you came home." "I'll lock that gun up after this, so you women folks can't meddle with it. And next time i snap a cap at Ted Minter somebody is going to get hurt." "Now, Jim," said Mrs. Wigfall, in presuasive tones, "don't make a fool of yourself. I never did set myself up against you before, before, but in this thing my whole heart is interested, andl will see that Maggie and Ted get one another if they feel that way mnclined." "And I have made up my mind that they shall be kept apart, sa id Mr. "Weli, then it is Ted, Mgie and myself that you will have to fht and -we will see who wins in the ena." 'Tve got an idea, and I'll bet on 'that" 'mutteireMr. Wigfall. A couple of days latter Mrs. Wigfall and her daughtr Mlaggie were sitting on the pahin the warm rmng sun shine, te former shelling te season's first mess of new peas, and the latter busily engaged with her crochet need le. "Ted sent me a note this morning by Cousin Tom, saying he wascoming here this evening, said Maggie. "'Now mamma. can't you manage to keep papa off the porch tonight, so he and Ted won't get into any trouble?" "I don't know Maggie, but I can try," replied Mrs. Wigfall. " I wish you and Ted would hurry up and come to an understanding before your father becomes plumb cantank erous and does something desperate,' and there was a look of anxiety in the mother's eyes as she stopped her work a moment and looked up at her daugh ter. Ted wants me to run away with him and marry him. He just begged me and begged me the other evening when he was here." "It is a bAd business at best, this rumnino away," half musedl Mrs. Wigfa17. '"There is no telling what father would do then. You can't count on him from one moment to the next-" "Ted said he wasn't afraid." "No; he would risk almost any thing, I suppose, to get you." "If he asks me again tonight, maum ma what shall I tell him?" -. "I really don't know, daughter. Then, looking up, smiling, she asked: "What would you like tell him?" Maggie blushed prettily. She sprang up from her chair, ran to where her mother was sittingr, and put both arms around her neck. "I would like to say yes," she whis pred shyly. "I never would ac kowledge to Ted how much I thought of him, but to you, mother dear, I can own up that I would do almost anything in the world to make him happy. I would go anywhere with him. There was a happy gleam in the mother's eves as she looked at her dauohter's pretty face. "Iknow how it feels, my dear," she said. "It comes to- all of us, that feel ing, sooner or later, and then it either makes or mars our lives." "But what must I tell him, if he asks me again tonight?" Maggie whis pered. "Tell him what your heart bids you say." "Then it will be 'yes.'" After awhile mother and daughter left the porch and went into the house. As they did so Mr. Wigfall stepped out upon the porch, through an open window, and an amused smile played around his lips. "It works like a charm." he' mur mured, as he went down the front steps and wended his way toward the barn. After sup r that evening, when Mrs. Wigfali was trying to think of some scheme to keep her husband in side the house he approached her. "I thought I would go into town to the lodge to-night," he said. "I shall probably be away till mid night. Mrs. Wigfall tried to look disap pointed. "You are always going away some where and leaving me at home to take care of myself," she said with a little pout. "'I was just planning how I could give you a pleasant eveming at home when you came. "Oh, well, if you have set y-our heart upon it, and wish me to spend the evening at home with you, l'il do so rather than make you feel disap pointed, smiled Mr. Wigfall. "No. no, she replied, hurriedly. -I was only tezising. Maggie and I w ill ind something to keep up employ ed and anmused until bedtime. Mr. Vigfall smiled kniowingly, and noded toward the house as lie rode away. "I caught you fairly that time," he chuckled. "I won't have to snap any caps on an empty gun to-night, if I stay long enough." And, somehow, Mr. Wigfall did stay away long enough. Ted and NJaggie occupied the front porch all by theni selves, and before the formnier left that night the latter had consented to elope with him and be married on the following Wednesday night. During the few days between that night and Wednesday, Maggie and her mother were in a flutter of ex citeinent, and inany were the whis pered consuhations between the two. when Mr. W\ igfall was so near that they feared he could hear what they said, if they spoke in their natural voices. It must be admitted that a move had been made in the game of which Mr. Wigfall was not fully cognizant. but the smile which often played around his mouth, when he saw his wife and daughter together eyeing him sus piciously, was not very sinister. The eventful Wednesday came at last. It was a clear, brighi day, full of dhe perfume of new-blown ilowers and sweet with the south wind coming in from the sea. After dinner, when Maggie was ready to leave home, ostensibly to spend the night at a young friend's house, she went to where her father was sitting, put her arms around his neck and issed him affectionately. Mr. Wigfall eved her questioningly and somehow tiere seemed be a bIr on his sight as their glances met fol' a moment. which made him blink his eyes. Both appeared as if they wanted to say something,. but for some reason they parted in silence. Mother and daughter, on the other hand, whispered together for several minutes, and when Maggie rode away there were tears in the eyes of both of them. That evening Mrs. Wigfall's heart became too heavy for her and she went to her husband and imparted to him the secret which weighed upon it so heavily. "Jim," she said in a choking voice, "Maggie and Ted have run away and got married." She fully expected to see Mr. Wig fall fly into a terrible rage, but, in stead, was very much surprised to see him smile, as if he were fully satisfied with the turn events had taken. "I am glad of it," he said. Mrs. Wigfall was doubly surprised now. "Glad of it, Jim? Why, I thought you were opposed to the match, and oing all you could to break it up." "Don't you remember, dear, wnat a hard tinie we had to keep up our engagment for two years before we were married?" he asked, chucking her playfully under then chin. "I didn't want Maggie and Ted to go through the same trying experience. So I took it into my head to oppose the match, knowing that was the only way to hurry them up, and you must alnowledge that I have succeeded." "You always did act queer, Jim," cried Mrs. Wigfall. But there was not the slightest reproach in her'voice as she said it.-New Orleans Times Democrat. Not Yet Broken. An Aurara special dispatch to the hicago Inter Ocean says Edna R. Brown Garman of Kaneville, Ills., riginator of the famous letter chain! system, which was widely discussed recently in the papers, and was started by her for the purpose of collecting ancelled postage stamps, still receives several hundred letters per day, al hough the end of the chain was sup posed to have been reached several months ago. Recently among the let ters received was one from Henry lancy of San Diego, Cal., inclosing a check for $500. Mrs. Brown Gar :an's letter chain was started about a year ago, her unique scheme being to secure 1,000,000 canceled postage tamps, which she hoped to sell for eough to pay the expense of hospital reatment for her crippled sister-in aw, Mattie Garman. She wrote let ers to three friends, who in turn were o each write to three more, and so on util the number of 50 was reached. ['he chain was then requested to stop. Each person receiving a letter was to end ten cancelled stamps to Mrs. arman. The results were wonderful. or a month letters poured into the ittle Kaneville postolhice at the rate f 20,000 a day, and Mrs. Garman es imates the number of stainps received t 5,000,000. The crippled girl has een sent to a hospital and can be cured. This will be pleasant news to hose who aided Mrs. Garman in her ,ork of love and devotion to a crip led girl, who, as will be seen by the bove, can and will be cured. A Terrible Fall.] CHicaGO, Aug. 13.-At the mami oth coliseum show building, which s being erected opposite the World's air grounds on Sixty-third street, his afternoon, Samuel McC-arney and . McNeil were instantly killed by he falling of a massive cross beam of ron. Five hundred men were at work1 n the open space bounded by the four walls, placing and bolt-1 ng iron girders which are to pan the width of the structure. Mc arney and McNeil were perched on oe of the girders, 150 feet in the air.I hey crept to the centre of he ~beam in order to put the bolts n position, when the two men felt it hake. The ends had not been fasten- 1 d to the walls. Workmen shoutedt rom below, but the warning came too 4 ate. The great mass swayed for a oment, then overbalanced and top- t led to the ground, carrying the occu ants to their death. Their bodies < ere shockingly mangled. The scores f workingmen barely had time to es-] ape being struck by the falling beams. A Poor Marksmrani. NQRTH1 YAKIA, Wash., Aug. 1:3. ithout intending to shoot either of hem, Charles McGonigle last night hot and killed his father, a ranch wner, near Lhis city, and fatallyi ounded an Antenunm blacksmith 1 amed Evans. He surrendered and as brought here by the neighbors. The murderer' had 'slandered Evans' aughter~and that caused the tragedy. - Evans, his wife and daughter, drove1 o the McGonigle ranch to force him o retreat. X.oung McGonigle first hot at Evans. but killed his own ather, and h'e then fired at Evans' aughter, wounding hei' father. The Green Eyed Monster. Cnows POINT, Ind., Aug. 14 heriff Haynes has captured the holesale poisoner who drugged a pail f water with strychine at a dance at1 Eorseford Park MIonday night. Char les William's wife is the guilty one. She did it to get Williams out of the ay so she would get the heavy life insurance he carried. She says she put the poison in the water because her husband was paying too much at tention to several girls and wanted to kill them all. The four victims are woise today, having a relapse this morning, and also convulsions. Mrs. A FREE SILVER A11EETIN. SENATOR TILLMAN SPEAKS TO THIREE THOUSAND PEOPLE. lie Think,% it i, Time for the Free silver ten ts. Ranly--li ispec ill FslI--wh:rt the I'Ian and Ptitrpose- Are. Caorui, N. C.. Aug. 14.-There was a large meeting here yesterday of free silverites. the number present be ingr over three thousand. The speak ers were Senators Tillman of South Carolina. and Butler, of North Caro lina. and things were said by them which show that the formation of the new national silver party hinted at up at Tirzah, is a certainty, and that Mar ion Butler, the new North Carolina Populist Senator, is pushing the South Carolina Senator as the leader of the movement. Both Tillman and Butler were met at the depot at different hours, and driven over into the town in a drag pulled by four magnificent bays, being escorted by about 100 Populists on horseback. The speaking took place on a stand in front of the county court house. Tillman was several times loudly applauded. Butler spoke for nearly three hours, and was cheered to the echo. They stood on a platform covered with heavy paper, bearing the inscription: "Free silver, 1; to 1. On the square was a lemonade stand bearing the inscription: -The Till man Dispensary." Senator Tillnian began by saying he had just returned from the great Gotham with its millions of people and billions of money, and in three speeches there had the opportunity to "feel of 'em," not, however, on politi cal questions. I am glad to get back. I feel at home and among friends. We are poor, but we are honest. That country is reeking with corruption, and wallowing in wealth. We are locally free but nationally enslaved. I feel like I am talking toTillmanites in one of our northern counties. We are the same people anyhow. the same in blood and in tradition--the boundary line between the two Carolinas is only a geographical division anyhow. I can therefore touch your sores and point out the places where they need a little ointment, for I have felt the shoe pinch myself. The Southern people are the poorest Anglo-Saxons on this continent: they are the most homoge neous people in the world. At the North, the foreign element has come in, while we are native to the manor born. The entire South has been held together since it was overpowered, by the paramount issue of white suprem acy. This solid South is dissolving. It is breaking up. We gave allegiance to the Democratic party of the North, because it was the only party that kept the heels of our former slaves off our necks. The Democracy in my State has never had any other significance than white supremacy. Party ties have loosened their grasp and other issues have come before us. We had no oth er party to affliliate with but the Na tional bemobratic party. Within the last few years other issues than the race questions have become of absorb ing interest to the Southern people. We have come to realize that the pro ducers of the country were systematic ally robbed by a vicious financial s3 s tem and that, while we earned money, others enjoyed the fr'uit of our labors. How have our people been educated alonog these lines? Alliance has done it. The Alliance sprung up in the 'West and spread like a prairie fire eastward and southward. It taught a doctrine of placing partisan political questions to one side. The Democracy has always been for free silver in its platform, but it has never been able to bring any relief to the people because it never at any time controlled all three branches of the government.d The Republican always represented the classes and stood for gold mono metallism and their attitude on this subject, together with their malignant warfare on the Southern people, kept us loyal to the National Democracy, till our producers had almost reached the starvation point. In my State we had the ground cleared, broke and ready for the seed, and when the Alli ance came, we reaped a harvest. Voice-We did too. Tillman-But you didn't get it as soon as we did; nor in the way we did. You slutled off. We didn't. We took :harge of the Democratic party and ran it. You went outside and got whipped. The machine was too strong ind'you got beat. At least 35,000 of the Reformers or Tillmanites in. South arolina were anxious to go out. I iaid no: we've got the only original seed corn of Democracy in South Car ilina. The minority claim they are Democrats, and that Tillman and his party were populists. The name De mocracy means the rule of the majori :y and that's what we have. We suck x the principles of Democracy with >ur mother's milk. WVe are Demo rats still in every fibre of our being. Senator Tillman then told of how lhe 2ad fought Cleveland at the Chicago onvention. Although we were indig ant at his nomination I told our peo >le that wve could not go out of the1 arty; that we had gone into the p~ri nary and we had to stay. Wve kept the D~emocratic narty to its moorings. Weaver received only 2,4(00 votes in < he State. Cleveland then turned down >ur Alliance Congressmen in regard to 1 he patronage, which was given to our 1 >pponents. Cleveland thought his; ness of p)ottage would buy us. Poor ld fool: (chieers.' We held to the >arty and you could have done it, and o could the P'opulists in Georgia and 1 ~lsewhere. You retired and committed a great >lunder. Otherwise you would con rol the machine now.' But at the last 1 ~lectioni the Democratic party, while .ansom and Jarvis were disputing as o which should be Senator, 1 nd no one consider-ed a Denmocratic lefeat p)ossible, broke up. The young ! nan here (pointing to Senator MIarion utler) quietly coi~ned up the tree, 1 ot the permissio:2 and away lhe went. Cheers.) There is this advantage n the breaking up of the South polit cally. It has broken up the North: ~omewhat. As long as the South had 'emained solid, hooked together as vith a band of steel on the race issue, he North under sectional appeals to he old voters to vote as they shot. re naned solid also. The signs of the times point to a reneral breaking up, and a new al ignment of parties. The masses have een blinded by a vanal press. News- < >apers bought up by the money power re teeming with all manner of so >histries and falsehoods to befuddle1 md confuse the minds of the people.4 % help me God, I'll stand by the par-) .v if it purifies itself, but I will never '~ollow any- more rascals and thieves. C'heers. ~The best definition of patri tism is enlightened self-interest. When you let it go only so far as not] : impose on your' neighbor you are ai patriot: if not you are a rascal. 1 The whole situation is boiled down i nto this question : Shall the people ~overn this c-ountry for their own be aefit, or shall the money power govern. it for the benefit of a few: This is aove everything on earth . The old1 Puritans ran thteir- government on this] proposition. The world was created or the saints, and we are saints. SCheers and laughter). There is only1 mu id e1to this qnnstion. Prve ead al l lock. What would Andrew Jackson have said to them: "By the eternal. you must take what the government promised, and git out, or I11 kick you out." (Cheers.) Jackson refused to black the English officer's boots: Cleve land and Carlisle are today licking the shoes of John Bull's Jews. (Loud cheering.) They ar -ue that if we restore silver to the right our dollars will only be worth 50- cents. This they tell to the working men. They ap peal to the wage earners, factory operatives and clerks: "You want sound money and as good a dollar as anybody else's dollar: you want your doilar to buy as much as possible." This means that we farmers must pay the piper. One half of the people of this country is composed of farmers and we voted it on ourselves. We are no longer consumers, however. We are too poor to buy. The army of tramps is increasing. Prices for labor have been driven down. We must aet a reasonable price for our products &,efore wages and prices will increase. We are the basis of all prosperity; we grow prosperous before the merchant can sell us any goods; or the manufac turer can increase the wages of his em ploves and give employment to the idle thousands. The wage-earner is working at starvation rates because these idMe men stanC ready to take his place, and until there is work for all at fair wages, this must continue. This work will never be furnished as long as the farmers are too poor to bay. The home market has been destroyed by the impoverishment of the agricul tur-al class and demonitization of sil ver has been the prime fector in pro ducing their poverity. What are you going to do about it? The shoe pinches; the blood is even running out. There's not enough pa per money; there's nothing to base it on, and until we get silver back, we are goin to suck the hind teat with no milk in it. (Cheers.) Those who tell you that this is not making this coun try a nation of slaves are either liars, or they are deceived themselves. I told you that the old parties were breaking up. They have been telling you the tariff was the cause and means of your being robbed. Wheni Cleveland got in and the Democrats took charge of the govern ment for the first time in thirty years, did he call Congress to relieve us by lowerin , the tariff? No. When he got in he said to Congress, come here and repeal the Sherman law and stop this. Didn't they keep their pledges? Oh, my! (Cheers.) Cleveland used his high office and his patronage to debauch the people's representatives. He was a Judas. What ware they? Benedict Arnolds, and worse! (Cheers.) The Democrats and Republicans voted together then for goldbugism. Some of them were not millionaires then,but I expect they are now. (Cheers:) Now, can't all these people who are opposed to such schemes-the Democrats and Populists and Republicans-come together and put out a ticket that will stand aainst Wall and Lombard streets? Can't they do this, under a new name if necessary, and go into the fight to win. Voice-Yes. Tillman-Well, that's a mighty weak try, but you people here are divided into. bitter factions. Ah, I know what it is to have a bitter personal feeling of that kind, but friends the time has come to put patriotism above all party feelings, drop factional feelings to the rear, put all our shoulders to the wheel and rescue the country. You have everything easy of attainment here in this matter. How ~wil the Republicans of the West and the Democrats of the South get together? Voice-By going into the Populist party. (Cheers.) Tillman-Ah, that's so simple that you ought to have a chromo for it. (Cheers.) But, my friends, this is all fun. This ia time to be serious. We have only twelve months in which to work. In that time, if we all haven't come to gether, then our handcuffs are forged on us. We will here on the gold bug bonds, and we will be in abject finan cial slavery for a generation. I- hope that you have enough true men here to send to the electoral college a dele gation above suspicion; men who would be scared if they nominated a gold bua- to go home for fear that the outraoe2 people would hang them for it. T~iis is the kind of a delegation we are going to send. The :Republicans cannot take the name of' Democrat. They hate our name ;they have spoken of us as "cop per heads," and all that. We can't take the Republican name, for we have been taught from babyhood to hate that name. And we can't join the Populists and swallow all your be liefs, fo~r you have too many cranks at your' head and too many cranky ntions. Voice-We cant go back to Cleve land Democracy. Tillman (reaching down and grasp ng the hand of the owner of the oice)-Gimme your hand on it. (Cheers.) Now, my friends, we South Caroli ians are going to the National con ention to support only a strong free silver man. If we don't get a Demo rat, then as a last resort, we may ave to vote for a Populist. But we ill not under any circumstan .:es vote for a Democrat who is not flatfooted on the free silver platform. The leaders of the Democratic party ave left us a shadow for the sub tance of a party; we have the name eft; all the principles have gone. ['her afore why should not you Demo rats go off and say start up a new arty for North Carolina and for the nited States: Voice-The other fellows might fooL s. Tillman-My friend, you go ahead; eave that fooling business for Marion Butler and those fellows to take care f. It is the struggle over your local >lices that is keeping you fellows part in this State. If you keep on hasing after the false Gods; I hope he Populists will whip you out. Let s do so now and start the movement hat will save the country from ruin. ollow our lead in South Carolina, nd I will guarantee that we will lead you down the straight road. Voice-And take Mary Ann Butler long in the procession with you. Cheers.) Tillman-Well, yes, I'll take him long, lie has said he was willing to ut aside all factional and party feel igs and notions and vote for any an standing on the free silver plat form; that lhe wanted to be in a party ith no other platform but free silver. e is for his country and not for any reed. (Prolonged cheering.) Senator Tillman thanked the audi mee for its attention, and took his eat. 'While the audience, which was omposed of more than four-fifths ?opulists, dian't relish the hot shot he gave them about the cranks they had, he seemed to make a lasting impres ion upon them. "Mar-y Ann" Butler, as he is famil arly called by the Tar Heels,was then igorously called for. He was not on he stand, having gone up street a few oments before. Some old fellow re arked that lie had gone to get a iink of Tillman's dispensary and Till an remarked that it would be "migh y good stuff." After awhile Uarion Butler came the gold bug :peeclhes, aid they have neither facts nor argum ent to sustain their position. 1ut SomeIC will say to 11eC: "You are a Pritan, when von deny that von can be wrong. wilile charging others with error." I wish that there was some nan here to get up and throw rocks at me -gold rocks. 1 wants to pitch into someboly so bad that I am almost ready to pitch into Butler a little, for I am sUch a rock thrower I hardly know how to make a speech along any other line. Money is the medium by which we exchange commodities. Bartering was a cumbersome scheme. Some thing of value was needed for a me diu;i: gold and silver coin fit the bill. For a long time these metals were ex changed by weight in all countries. But this too was cumbersome. The governments coined the two metals to facilitate exchange. The world got along very well with this scheme. It's only in the last twenty-five years you hear them say we want only one of these metals for a -standard of value, and let that be fixed. These two metals have an intrinsic value. The only other money is paper money, and pro mised to pay the gold or silver. This is a provision of law. Carlisle says law cannot affect the value of these metals. This is false because gold is made the standard. You can carry it to the mint and get it coined. You can't do it with silver, because it is contrary to law. Melt a silver dollar and a gold dollar. The silverin a dol lar will be worth only 50 cents, while the gold bullion is worth 100 cents. Law makes it so. Go and get it recoined and see. Gold is as mnuch fiat money as silver. The law says a silver dollar is a dollar and then that it cannot be recoined. And this is the wrong that is done you-silver is driven out aid denied mintage. Political economists are all unamimous on the law of supply and demandgoverning price. If articles are plentiful, the prices go down, and vice versa. So it is with gold and silver. As long as the coin age of both metals was the law the would prospered. The description of silver as a money metal and refusing it mintagedestroy ed one-half of the money of the world and the consequence has been a con tinued and prolonged fall in prolong ed fall in prices. The result of this conspiracy against the people has been ground betwen the upper and neither mill stones till they can't get another drop of it, (Applause.) If you con tinue to support this schemeof robbery by your votes, you should be put in a lunatic asylum. Why was silver de monetized, sneaked through Congress and signed by the President without anyone knowing anythingabout it ex cept those who were in the conspiracy? In 1873, when this iniquity was per petrated, the United States owed $2, 500,000,000. Sherman and his crowd decided that if they cut off half of the yard stick they could increas the value of this debt to those who held it The panic of'73 followed the demonstraion act, but it was several years before the people found out what was the matter. The agitation Ior the remonetization of silver resulted in the passage of the Allison-Bland bill over the President's veto. This, however, only provided for the purchase of E2,000,000 of silver a month for coinage, but not for free coinare. It was a compromise, the best that could be obtained at the time. While there was a majority in' favor of free coinage there was not erfoug'h majority to override a veto. The go~l bugs then made dire predictions of disaster, because of the declaration by Congress that all of the obligrations of the government were payable in coin and the partial rehabihtation of silver. It was said by-the-gokL- bug .t the national credit would be inj and that the debt could not be re nded, except at a very high rate of terest; but te prophets were ' sthenas they are liars now, for the bonds were refndd a 3and31per cent., and some were evye. continued at 2 per ent. rather that accept the money for theni. Now, they tell you that a sillver dollar is worth only 50 cents. They tell you that we want to pay our debts in 50-cents dollars. Lying thieves, they are, when they say this, for we re paving' them with 200-cent dollars. To illustrate: India is on a silver asis and' the Indian cotton farmer when he sells his cotton in Liverpool boys $2 worth of silver for every dol ar of gold lie receives, in effect receiv ng 10 cents a pound with whrich to ay debts, while the American farmer eceives the gold and must pay hisI iebt with it at the rate of 5 cents a ound for cotton. So it is with wheat. Carlisle says that if we restore sil rer to free coinage we will rob our lear English creditors and Northern ~reditors. I've no patience with the ellow who says stand still and let me ~et that other dollar. (Cheers.) This rhole scheme. and all the plans and >redictions of disaster are simply to righten the people into remaining luiet, while these robbers steal our ~arnings. They say that the govern nent must go out of banking. What s it doing in banking? This means he r'etirement of over five hundred illion of paper mioney and silver cer if icate and greenbacks, anid the issu nce of gold bonds. That will further ~ontract the currency. They have ot only robbed you; they now want o rob your children. The bonds of he United States are selling away up -onder above par, showing that the cople of other countries and our own rant them. Why can't some gold ~reenback paper be as good as onds? All of tIs is intended to wring aterest from the people, and give you paper currency, based on what: Is thie intention to hrave the National anking' system enlarg'ed on a gl asis alone and make the government ~uarantee tire notes: The bonds arid hie greenbacks r'est on the same basis: hue conftidence of tire people in the ~overnment. If the bonds are good. ry not the greenbacks? Fiat money hey cry: The bonds are fiat. If one aper is good with interest, why isn't lie other without it? They want the terest; that's where the shoe pinches. 've seen their diamonds and finery. fy heart bleeds for the poor foolIs ro are going to continue to let this o on. (Cheers.: Throse fellows up here are livinglike Roman lords. No, hat's not it: Roman lords ain't in it rith them? (Laughter.) Wasn't that a fine performance of ur Secretary of the Treasury and .resident last fall: Instead of re eeming the paper of the government n coin as the law provides, they paid in gold. They created a panic by retending thratthe gold would all low utt. Under the plea of maintaining arty, they drove silver down and old up. and they issued the bonds to uy glod-what pretense: .Taking in on-interest bearing paper in one win ow and issuing bonds out of another. ah:: tApplause.) Such treachery senough to make a nman hold his ead down in shame--especially a an who voted for them, as I did. Senator Tillnmari then read an extr'act romn tire Morgan-Behnont contract. Ie also qjuoted'what President Cleve nd said in Ihis message in regard to ire interest on tire bonds. IHere we ave tire President and Secretary con essinig thrat this gr'eat country with eventy millions of people and seventy ilions of property is so poor that we and started out on a speech nearly three hours in length. He seemed tc have the crowd at his beck aad call. He twitted them about calling hirr "Mary Ann," saving Grover Cleve land had given his Tatest girl thai name and had a nonopoly on it. (Cheers.) He came to hear Tillman: every time he heard him, lie wanted to hear him again. Tillman was a Democrat. and lie was a Populist for ever and forever. But how many Democrats have you got in this coun try like Senator T.llman! I want you to show to the pecple of this State ihal you have learned that there is some thing in this country bigger than all labels. Show then. that aPopulist will take the doctrines of Jefferson and Jackson and Lincoln under any kind of a label. That's the politics of a Populist and that is the true patriot he that puts the welfare of his coun try above any party label. GAd save any man who is a Democrat and is not the kind of a Democrat, Populist or whatever you may call him that Tillman is. Luther had to leave his creed to preserve its purity. When he had told the peop-e of North Carolina long ago that the financial question was the question of the hour they had called him a country crank. He told them that this was the trouble, the thing that was making hard times. He repeated at great length his mil lionaire illustration reported in his speech made at Tirzah. He took a hand primary to see how many would vote to perpetuate the present condi tion of things. A forest of hands went up in the negative. An honest financial system the country was com pelled to have at once. If sheep were the medium of exchange in that State one. man could secure a corner on all the sheep and he would have every body else at his mercy. So it would be if a gold standard was adopted. He wanted a financial system in which every dollar had to stand on its own bottom. At this point it began to pour down rain and the crowd adjourned to the courthouse where he concluded his speech, which was a very long one. When Senator Butler completed his long speech, onl.y portions of which ] have given, the crowd pressed around him and shook his hands as they cheered him. I had a talk with him about the proposed new party, and it now seems certain that the plan of the free-silver-new-party men is to go intc the national convention of the Demo cratic party in the hope of controlling it through hard work in each State prior to its assembling. Then, failing to control it, they will retire from the hall, issue their call to dissatisfied Re publicans who are for free silver, and the Populists, to come in with them and form a new party, with victory in sight. -Columbia State. THE WEATHER AND CROPS. What Director Baur Ha8 to Say About Them. COLm3IDIA, S. C., Aug. 14.-There is considerable improvement to note in the condition of crops in general and corn in particular over the west ern and northern counties where the drought was partially relieved every where and in some places entirely so, except that in Abbeville and Ander son the showers were partial and a1 best insufficient. There were general showers on the 6th over the upper portion of the State, the rainfall amounting to from one tc two inches. There was rain in some portion of the State every day of the week. The rainfall varied from 00 tc 50 in Darlington, Colleton, Fairfield, Anderson, Greenville, Clarendon, Richland, Williamsburg, Charleston, Lexington and Spartanburg counties; from 50 to inches in Barnwell, Berke ley, Beaufort, Ham pton, Laurens, Sumter, Kershaw, Chesterfield. Lan. caster, Chester, Abbeville; over 2.00 inches in Aiken, Newberry, Union, Edgefield. Pickens, Orangeburg and Florence; at Conway the week's rain fall was 5.09 inches, and at McColl in Marlboro, 4.50 inches. The average of thirty-eig'ht rainfall reports was 1.80 inches, and the normal for the same period is approximately 1.47. The temperature was very even, having been slightly, but steadily above the usual, the entire week, the excess averaging 2 degrees per day. l'he highest temperature reported was 38 at C5olumbia on the 12th; the low st 63, at Sanituc, on the 8th. The averavge temoerature of the week for the State, deduced from thirty-one tations evenlyr distributed throughout, was 81 degrees, and the normal for the same period is approximately 79 egrees. The sunshine ranoed from 57 to 92 er cent. of th~e possible, with an aver ge of about 7;4 per cent. for the State, hich is considerably in excess of the sual, and in places was damaging, where there was also excessive rain, cusing a steam-like vapor to raise, hich was in jurious to crops. There ere high local winds on the 6th in ?ickens and Union counties, and a evere -cyclonic storm in the vicinity f Santue, Union county, on the 10th Saturday), that broke down a great eal of corn tore up some by the oots, unroofed houses, destroyed fruit. tc. The reports on cotton show that hile in the main it has slightly im roved during the week, yet in places ts condition has retrograded. Abbeville county reports rust, lice nd shedding of forms and the plant urning yellow. Many other places also report shedding. Comparino its >resent condition with the same ates ast year, the plant is from ten days to hree weeks Later, lacks uniformity of ondition and the acreage greatly re uced. A few sections only report as ine a crop as last year. The regular and some special reports on corn confirm the reports by coun ies of last week, except there is con iderable improvement in the northern nd western counties, where the rought was greatly relieved, which ut latest planting in promising con ition. In Anderson and Abbeville, ~ut little improvement noted; In hesterfield, Cherter, Lancaster and aurens, the improvement is most arked on bottom lands of late plant ng. Corn in those counties that was lanted late in May and early in June s a failure. The ~average fine condi nd large acreage promises a very aro~e corn crop, much of which is al ealy made. Fodder pulling will be uite general this week; a great deal as already been gathered in fine con hiton. Tobacco curing continues and the eports all agree as to the fine quality f this year's crop, due to both the tness of the soil for tobacco and skill sed in curing.o Peas are ripening and the crop is a ne one in most sections, especially so here the rains have been abundant. urnip sowing continues as the con ition of the ground permits, and here will be a large crop planted. Sugar cane and sorp hum are not .oing very well. Molasses boiling as begun in the lower part of the tate. The greneral condition of sweet po ttoes show gains, but the crop is late nd, comparatively, a small one, ow g to scarcity of seed at first and after rards poor condition of the ground or plantinz slips until quite recently. Garden truck along the coast in fine n1tn; -eliewhere about ruined. TILLMAN WINS. "Soutli Carolina," lie added, "is a conquered country. She is s-ruggling under the $2,000,000 which she sends every year to the Northern soldiers who conquered her. Let the pension tribute be returned to us by Northern soldier who will settle here. He enumerated the advantages of his dispensary system, and said that the principal were the removal of all idea of profit and incentive to sell;the procuring of a standard article which was sold undiluted, as it was not open ed; the fact that it was not sold at night, and only for cash. He was told to stop then by the chadrman. There was t'he usual applause which accompanied the Governer all the evening, but the audience made no conclusion as to who won last night's debate.-N. Y. Sun. HOW TO MAKE BUTTER. Description of the Method Used by Mr. W. H. Hicklin. The Yorkville correspondent of The News and Courier, some time ago, paid a visit to Mr. W. H. Hicklin's dairy farm at Guthriesville. and wrote it up for his paper. The* following description of Mr. Hicklin's method of making butter will prove interesting: Shortly after we arrived at the barn the separator-a machine used for separating the cream from the milk was put in motion. I shall not attempt to describe it. as a detailed description would occupy too much space, and would be of little or no value to the reader when done. I will say, howev er, that the machine is a marvel, and is a combination of cranks, cog wheels, cylinders, spouts, etc. It does exactly what it was made for, and will take every particle of the cream out of 300 pounds of milk in one hour. On that day the product of the cows-one milking-was about 18 gallons, and the cream was extracted within 30 minutes. I-asked Mr. Hicklin to tell me what the relative value of the two systems of extracting cream by this new method and by the old of allow ing it to rise and skimming it off was, and in reply, he said that on receiving the machine, he had made a test and found that during the firs'. seven days it was used, there was an increase of 23 pounds in yield of butter over the seven days previous, from the same number of cows with same feed and treatment. He also said that the sep arator had now been in use for about two months, and had paid for itself and yielded a net profit of about $80, as compared with the old method. As my special mission in this article is to tell how Mr. Hicklin. handles his milk and butter we will follow the cream after it has been separated. It is placed in tin cans and set in cold water, where it remains for 12 hours, after which it is mi,:ed with a previous milking and set to ripen. During the ripening process it is stirred two or three times daily, and is churned 36 to 48 hours after being drawn from the cow. A swing churn is used-one with no inside fixtures and as winging mo-ion does the work. The time occupied in churning is about 40 minutes, with the temperature of the cream about f6 degrees. When the butter comes it is in granules about the size of a grain of wheat. The but termilk is drawn o: and the butter is washed in the churn with pure cold water, and this process is continued until the water runs off clear, and then one ounce of salt is added for each pound of butter. The butter is now ready for the printer-not the kind that manufacture The News and Cou rier-but a powerful little machine that is used to press all the water out of the butter and to compress it into cakes of one pound each. The cakes of butter when taken from the printer are about in the shape of a brick, are free from any foreign substance, such as milk or water. They are then wrapped in parchment paper and pack ed for shipment ina regular refrige rator. It will be observed that the story of how Mr. Hicklin, or rather Mrs. Hick lin, makes butter is very simple and I can see no reason why any intelligent housewife in the State might not make exactly the same quality of butter as that made at this dairy farm. Of course it is absolutely necessary. if the best results are secured, that the cream be in exactly the proper condition be fore being churned; and the next im portant step is to see that everydrop of the milk is washed out of the butter, and next, that it is properly salted. Mr. Hicklin says that one ounce of salt to the pound of butter is the pro per amount where butter is intended~ for market, but that he sometimes puts only a half ounce, and occasion ally as much as t wo ounces, at the re quest of customers. A Fatal Landrdide. CoLUMBIA, Aug. 14.-Fifteen ne oro laborers had a narrow escape from aeath yesterday. As it was two of their number, Henry Young and Joe Jones were killed, and Richard Hall was severely wounded. The force of hands, under W. 0. Gouch, foreman, were at work dijoging gravel at the foot of the emban menit just north of the penitentiary wall, and forty or fif ty yards east of the canal bank, when s iddenly a part of the embankment slid out as it were and the top came tumbling down, the stones and earth fyino in every direction and causing the aYove stated fatalities.-State. Scared the Darkies. BEAUFORT, Aug. 12.-The Amphi trite reached Port Royal harbor last night to be ready to make the test of the streno'th of thie dry dock which i:, completeal. Her arrival was heralded up to Beaufort, a distance of ten or twelve miles to where she is anchored by lighting up the whole horizon with her electric lights. The negroes did not know what to make of the sudden lashes of effulgence and thought that volcano or some "debil of a ting" ad broke loose down the bay. THE powder used in big guns is ueer-looking stuff. Each grain is a exagonal prism an inch wide and wo-thirds of an inch thick, with a ole bored through the middle of it. n appearance it resembles nothing o much as a piece of wood. If yoi' ouch a match to it it will take seven r eight seconds to go off. Slow urning powder like this is employed n cannons because it does not strain the gun so much. The quicker the xplosion the greater the .shiock and the shorter the life of the weapon. THERE is a negro in Laurens who ecently bought and drank a quart of blind tiger whiskey. The stuff proved rank poison, and will probably cost the imbiber his life. Soon after swal owing the decoction the hands and feet of the negro began to swell, until they assumed enormous proportions. e has been under treatment of a doc tor ever since, who says lie is suffer ing with poison administered in the hiskey he drank, and his life is in anger. -- THE~ misguiided efforts of some of he women of Georg~ia to obtain a ommutation o:' the death sentence of Mrs. Nobles, the woman, who with a negro man, murdered her husband, does not have the support of right thinking people. There might be omething said in their favor if the fforts were directed to saving the ne gro. He was the less intelligent, and hefore the le respnsible. NAKI0 POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream or tartar narmg powder. Highest of all In leavening strength.-La test United States Government Food Re port. Royal Baking Powder Company, - 106 Wall St..N. Y. A Great Corn Year. The corn crdp of 1889 was 2,112, 892,000 bushels. It was the largest crop known in our history, but this year's yield promises to be still larger and the estimate is that it will be 2, 400,000,000 bushels. The west will furnish a tremendous share of this total and the south will produce more than at any previous period. The price keeps up fairly well, and the farmers will make a profit. The St. Louis Republic says corn is the most valuable agricultural product of the United States; not only use it is the largest, but because it is manufactured and consumed at home. The total crop is transformed directly into human energy or adds to the country's employment of indus try by being fed to live stock. It is corn which makes the American peo ple the best fed in the world; which gives them a variety and cheapness of meat food, phenomenal when com pared with the past of any other na tion and striking when compared with the present. There has been some re pining because Europe will not im port our corn and corn meal in large quantities. Some earnest efforts have been made to introduce the many - preparations for the table which we find palatable and wholesome. Per haps these efforts are not thrown away, but the most profitable export of corn is in the form of meat. If the United States can sell abroad all the meat their corn will make,they should be pleased rather than discontented if not a bushel of corn left our shores. When the South manufactures its cotton as closely as the west manufac tures its corn, the wealth of this sec tion will no longer suffer in compari son with the showing of New Eng land. There is more to regret in the large proportion of raw cotton exports than in the small proportion of corn exports. This big crop will create wealth and trade just where they are. needed. It will pay debts, increase the value of real estate and benefit the railways. Corn is the poor man's crop. It requires very little capital and can be produced almost anywhere. It is fortunate that the South is pro ducing so much of this great staple. We need it for man and beast, an& even if we do not send it to distant markets it will keep a'great deal of the money at home which we formerly spent in tIe West. The Mmltary Academy. We have-received the official register of the South Caroliaia Military Aca damy for 1895, and it contains much interestinge information. This institu-. tion has ben most highly recom mended in the reports of United States army inspectors, but the men it has launched on the world are its highest recommendations. Lieut. Col. G. H. Burton, inspector general of the United States Army in hiis report dated 1894 says: The disc'ipline, military instruction, bearing and general ap pearance of Cadets; the general care and condition of arms and equipments and the entire military aspect of the military department of this Academy admits of no comparision to any of the colleges with which I have had experi ence. It is so superior in all its meth ods, scopes, appointments and its dis tinctive military features that it must be clqssed alone, and can only be com pared to our National Military Aca demy. Their limited means does not permit the extended military curric ulm that obtains at the West Point Academy especially resipecting. ad vanced theory and prectice in ordnance and gunnery and practical instruction in cavalry drill; but in, discipline, methods and the practicaland theoreti cal part of an infantry officers' educa-4 tion they follow closely the West Point methods and are but little i ferior in accomplished work. In the set, military bearing, cohesion, and drill of all kinds in the infantry tac tics this battalion equals any organiza tion in the army and is but little short of that superb excellence generally believed to be possessed by the West PointCadets. A Sad Death. RALEIGH, N. C., Aug. 14.-In Dav idson county yesterday Hamlet Swing lost his life in his effor': to keep his sweetheart from drowuing. The young couple were out driving when the horse shied in crossing a bridge and ran the buggy off. Mr. Swing jumped from the vehicle, but the young lady, with the horse and bug gy, went overboard, falling several leet. The young man ran to the bank and swam to the rescue of Miss Galli more. In the strizggle and excitement she held him too heavily by the neck and he sank and was drowned. Just as she was sinking the last time Mr. Robert Young came upon the scene in a batteau, and seeing her long hair in the water reached down and pulled her out and she was saved. The body of Mr. Swing was found and taken from the water about 10 o'clock at night. He was about 20) years old' The horse was drowned also. Sheppard Goes Free. COLUMBIA, S. C. Aug. 14.-C' unty Clerk of Court E. R. Arthur, at a late hour last night, received by mail from Cheraw, Chief Justice Mclver's decree in the habeas corpus case of Win. Sheppard, now confined in the peni tentiary under the judgment rendered by Judge Townsend, who held him guilty of contempt of Judge Benet's order of injunction under section 22 of the dispensary law. Sheppard gets his liberty and will doubtless be dis charged this morning. It. was hoped that Justice Mclver would pass upon the vitally important constitutional questions involved but lie did not, merely decides the case on the point that Judge Benet had no jurisdiction in this circuit when lie issued the or der.-State. THE August report of the statistician of the Department of Agriculture shows a reduction in the condition of rotton during the month of July from 92.3 to 77.9 or 4.4 points. This is the lowest average ever reported, being lipl! a point lower than the average for August, 1893. The reason for low condition generally given by corre spondents is excessive moisture, though in South Carolina drought eems to be a principal cause of in jury. There is much complaint of grass md not a little rust, the blight, worms ad insect na enemie of the plant.