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LOUIS APPELT, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year......... ............. $1.50 SixMonths............ .... 75 Four Months................ . 50 ADVERTISING RATES: One square, one time, $1; each subse quent insertion, 50 cents. Obituaries and Tributes of Respect charged for as regular adve-,tiseniCts. Liberal contracts made for three, six and twelve months. Communications must be accompanied by the real name and address of the writer in order to receive attention. No communication of a personal char acter will be published except as an adver tisement. Entered at the Post Office at Manning as Second-Class Matter. M3ANNING, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, MAR. 4, 1896. The testimony in the Broxton Bridge horror, brought to light one of the most diabolical and fiendish murders ever committed in this State. It not only showed that such a crime had been committed in a land of boasted civilization, but it also showed the parties charged to be the guilty ones. The proof was con vincing to all, but the twelve men that sat upon the jury; they said "Not Guilty," because they would have it so and, for this mockery South Carolina is held up in shame and humiliation. Solicitor Bellinger did his duty and did it nobly. He ignored the threats of a voting pop ulace and went ahead with a vim and push that sets a fine example for all of our officers to follow. Shame on Colleton for having within her bord ers twelve men who can so perjure themselves as to swear to go by the law and evidence, and then have the effrontry to face their fellow-citizens with the expectation of approval. Such slhameless verdicts must sop even if the people must rise up as they did in a western city a few yeai s ago and drive the jurors into hiding to escape the wraih of an injured people. Whenever an opinion is expressed about the enforcement of the dispen sary law, right off certain newspapers endeavor to jump on the one that has expressed such opinion with both feel. There is no one in the State iore anxious for the success of the law than we are, because we honestly believe it is the best whiskey regula tion that has ever been put in opera tion. People will have whiskey and the dispensary system is the best way to give it to -them. Rev. Sam Jones says "whiskey is a good thing in its place, but its place is in bell." We disagree with this distinguished divine; ii the people find out that the place for whiskey is in hell, they will be wrangling and fighting for the best place nearest the gate, .and all-of the pathos and eloquence of Mir. Jones and his prohibition col leagues can not stop them; hence it is a bad policy to teach such a doc trine. The dispensary system can become obnoxious by laxity in the enforcement; for instance: Members of the county boards of control can bring the law into disrepute by wink ing at, and patronizing blind tigers, constables can bring the law into disrepute by accepting bribes from blind tigers. The law can also be come obnoxious when the officers whoce duty it is to enforce it make bone of the negro and flesh of the white man, and to charge that this is being done needs no further proof to convince the masses than to watch the proceedings of the courts. The law is here and if it is not honestly enforced every citizen has the right. to crit icize, but according to some news papers those who criticize are trying to '-crush out the law." Take the re cent fire at Florence where it is openly charged that one Berry kept a gambling hell and a Llind tiger, and in this den of iniquity the fire oiignated; but while this charge L.as been published, yt t we have not seen where the members of the Florence board of control have taken any steps towards bringing Berry the gambler and blind tiger to justice. However, we have seen an editorial in the Reform Advocate published at Florence by Mr. Clayton who is also a member of the county board of control, asking Hon. John L. McLaurin to define his position on the dispensary law; the ejlitorial intimates opposition on the part of McLaurin. \u ell 3r. Mc Laurin came out lhke a man and stated his opposition to the way ti. law was being enforced sometime ago, and from the way the adminis tration changed its tactics it proved that McLaurin was right; we do think, that before McLaurin is ques tioned on this subject Mr. Clayton should be put on the stand and give his reasons for the number of blind tigers in Florence, and why it is that they are not suppressed. McLauria has nothing to do with the law, his duties take him away from the effects of the law, Mr. Clayton not only lives where the law is in operation, but he receives pay as an officer to carry out the law and to see that the law is honestly enforced. Take the stand Mr. Clayton and state whether you know of blind tigers being in your city, where they are, and what knowledge have you of their ex istence and the quality of stuff they keep? ALL FREE. Those who have used Dr. King's New Discovery know its value, and those who have not, have now the opportunity to try it Free. Call on the advertised Druggist and get a Trial Bottle, Free. Send your nzame and address to H. E. B3ucklen & Co., Chicago. and get a sample box of Dr. Eing's New Lite Pills Free, as well as a copy of Guide to Health and Housebold In structor, Free. All of which is guaranteed to do von good and cost you nothing. *At it R. Tora's drngstoie SENATOR TILLMAN'S VIEWS. His Visit to Wall Street and His Opinion of Its Power in the Whole Country. Wall street is a term in very common use and most people have an essentiality clear tdea as to its meaning. As understood by the masses it stands tor what has come to be known as the money power, the force exerted by aggregrated capital. There is at this time a double interest attachig to the term -Wall street' by rea son of the fact that everything of a politi cal nature indicates that the struggle for the mastery of this country-whether the people shall govern it or whether money shall govern it-is approaching a climax. I'The financial question and its settlement is now the uppermost one in the minds of men. Interested persons may attempt to push it aside and belittle it and to substi tute other issues for it, but in the coming Viesidential election it must be the issue. Feeling thus, and having had cause re ee ntiy to give expies.,iJ to my ideas and opinions in the benate in no uncertain teris and no uncertain manner, I have thought it well to ask the use of the columns of America's greatest newspaper, with a view to presenting certain phases of the question with more clearness thin was possible on that occasion. With that puipsae in mind I have de voted during the past week a couple of days to the gathering of some facts by a per sonal visit to New York and to Wall street. It so happened .tha; during my term as Governor of south Carolina I nad the op portunity while negotiating for re'unding our State debt to study the methods em pioyed by those who manipulate and con trol the complex machinery by means of which a few mnen, not exceeding five hun dred, have laid the industries, the politics and, in fact, the government of this country under tribute, and are gatheiling for them selves wealth beyond computation in a period of time so short as to stagger belief. For the reader untami:iar with New Yoik City it is well to give a brief description as to what Wall street, taken as a district of Ntw York City, really is to the eye. When .11anhattan Island, on which New York stands, was tirst settled by the Dutch, they chose to locate on its extreme southern point, where meet the East and liudson Itivers. A town grew up, composed of a network of irregular, crooked streets, with oat seeming order, and all very narrow. A few hundred yards up Broadway from Batterv JPark, where the historic Castle Gardel, now transformed into a public acquarium, still stands, is Trinity Church. In the small graveyard surrounding it re pose the bones of Alexander lamilton, aptain Lawrence, of -Doa't give up the shp!" memory, ad other great historic characters. When a note is struk on Trinity's chimes it is carried into every office and institution in the Wall street district, for that *district is so small tat from Trinity's spire it ap pears to lay directly beneath. The office of IRussell sage looks right out over the old burying ground, aad a dingy oflice it is, in a dingy building, where this one of the great money kings 01 America sits and cuts is coupons and calls his high-rate loans. Casting their sbadows on Trinity when the morning sun rises in the east stand the great office buildings, running over twenty stories in height in some cases, in which some of the great trust companies ad banks have invested portions of their enor mous surplus and in which they have their homnes. Directly in front of Trinity's bronze por tals-the gift of an Astor-opens Wall street proper, a narrow, asphaited thoroughfare, less than one-third of a mile long and banked on either side with massive stone structures, some of great height. One of these is the Stock Exchange, which also has entrances on Broad street and New Street, a block or two of which streets ipay be included in the Wall street district, as can a'block or two o1 Nassau street where a large nutuber of the richest banks and trust companies in the land have their headquartei s. Just across fremn the New street entrance to the Stock Exchange stands the Consoli dated Exchange. where a stock-gambling game ol thie same character is carried on, but on a rather smaller scale. Within easy gutshot of both, were it not for the ob struct~on that the baildings offer, are the Produce Exchanga and the Cotton Ex change, where the products of the country, representing the to:I of millions of farm rs and ot'ier workers, are tosse.1 up or down in price ac-cording to the whims or interests of the greedy gamblers. Strange to say, the most insignificant of all the structures on Wadl street proper-or at least the lowest and one which would be the most insignificant wt re it not for its massvenes-is the Sub-Treasury of the United States, at WVall and Broad streets. In front of it stands the bronze figure of Washigton, on the very spot where he took the~ oath of office when sworn in as the first President of the United States. Just across the way i.s the office of Mor gan & Co. The offic of the Sugar Trust is down the street a lew hundred feet, just beyond the Guatom-House. In the imm diate vicinity of the Sub-Treasury are to be found the ollics of the largest private b iking houses of the country, the repre sentatives of the foreign houses and the headquarters of the bullion dealers. So much by way of explanation as to lo caties.'- I propose now briefly to outline the metboda by wvhich the millions of hon est toilers throntgbout this co)untry are laid une r tribute, and their earnings absorbed b this devi:-di'h generally known as Wall street. It has been sail that if anything is more timid than $1,000J,000 it is $2,U000,000L. Sad eprence has shown that if there is any thing more greedy and tyrannical, more insti, t. and r. mnoreeless than $50,0003,000J it SiUO10,000.000. Enough is an un known word in the vocab~dary ol those who own this much capital. iheir cry is "More! Ever mori! lue gatat poxrr an.l infiluince of Wall -treet, wvh:ch has dloubled anid quadirupled and become inure and wore appa.Ihlig, was5 :aid during the war, when by the e-staonsl: ment o1 the National banks and the control t legislation iin their interest, together uth the speculations in g.ld and Natonal s curities, a few hundredi men utterly Lick ing in patriotism and without any regard ;r the pubdle welfare, seized the Govern met by the throat and turt atened it w.th bakrnptcy and. paral)sis if their demaids were not granted Enormous lortunes mnultiplted. The owner ot a millhon so ai founii himself posesed of many miliuons. Money bred noey by reason of the violent fluctuamtions ithe National credit as the fortune - of wtr changed on the battle-fielit of the South. Vi- greeinbacks', w :tchu were t e u-alva t:on of the U'io::, were speutaitei in daily. T'e Naulioi' Teasuiry, iude-r suess~ ot war, was forced to exchange- bonds ior them, and as soon as the war terminated the schemes sst about securing legislation tun der the pretense of strengthen ing the pub ic credit, kcoking to the payment of the bonds in coin. Th:s did not uatisfy them, however. In a . imf time tue demonetization of silver followed, and ?ver- since the lell purpose of those who have conspired together has be to force pay ineent in gold. he N.ational baaks have iec4 ved in t-rst from the- Government on the bonds. they have received interest from the peo ie on the notes issued -as representative ol the bonds. Thus the industries of' the country have been laid under double trio The banking business of New York is con titrated in the New York Clearing House, which is simply a trades uniL~n of all the banks, and has palatial quarters within a stone's throw of Wall street. 'These sixty-six banks have aggregate capial of about SG1.000,000, and in addition have a surplus of accumulated profits of $73,000l, 00O. They hold on deposit from customers about $4IR0,000i,000. They have loaned out t iterest about S400,000.000. 'their cash on and consists of about $4,000U,000 in gold an d $87,000,000) in paper money. 'Their holdings of silver are quite insignificant. It is an understood practice among them never to offer' silver money or silver certi i ates one to another in pay ment of bal nees. The New York Sub-Treasury is a me~mber of the N-:w York Clearing-Hlouse, and is equa ly careful in boycotting silver, nd never offers it in dailv settlement with banks. TIhis notwvithstanding the fact that all our government obligations are payable in cil', siaver as well as gold. 'The aggregate baunk clearings or ex changes ol checks for 1595 was $30,000,000J, u in New York City alone. In all the aggregate for the same time was $23,500, 000,000. New York does more money changing than all the rest of the country, and the man who handles money takes care that plenty of it sticks to hi-; fingers, and the New York bankers are no ex:ep tion. The Chemical Bank has for years paid 150 per cent, annually on its capital, and another bank has paid 100 per cent., and the average of all is a very high one. In 1895 the New York Stock Exchange, which is an unchartere.i body, a mere club, in fact, and euirely independent of the obligations of a corporation to State or Federal law, bought and sold 66,440,576 shares of stock, of an aggregate par value of about $6,000,000,000. In addition, $500, 000,000 of railroad and State bonds were sold and about $16,000,000 of Government bonds. Is it not more? The two latter class of securities are largely dealt in over the counters of bank ing houses, and te figures do not repre sent all tratistet~ons. B.:sides there is another exchange within the Wail treet precinct actively engaged in the same line of uanipulation. There are now listed on the New York Stock Exchange a par value of $4,067,210,334 in stock and $5,122,092, 469 in bonds of various classes. In 1895 ab .ut $i00,000,000 in new issues of securi ties were placed or sold. Of these. $125, 000,000 were purchased abroad and $375, 000,000 were purchased or placed here. This includes the Morgan government bond syndicate issue of February, 1895. But this is only one phase of the mtitter. It is only one of the many schemes that have been invented and carried to success by the harpies who fiequent the gambling dens known as the stocb exchanges. The products of labor throughout the country have been manipulated from Wall street as a centre so that those who prodnec the wealth receive as little as possible, while the men represented in and by Wall street have continued to amass wealth at an un exampled rate. Speculation drives prices down when farmers have to sell and drives prices up after the farmers' prod nets have passed into other hands, Cotton, wheat and other staples have been gove.ned in prices by futures and not by the natural law of supply and demand. Prices have been raised or depressed as this syndicate of bankers and broicers have sold the market up or down. There are now several hundred industrial trusts, the principal ones being listed in Wall street. All are founded on the simple principle of forming a monopoly, minimizing the cost of production and forcing the prices to the consumers to the highest possib!e point. An illustration or two: The American Sugar Itedlning Company is a New Jersey corporation intended to mon )polize the entire sugar trade of the country, which it most effectually does. It has an outstanding stock issue of $75,000, 000. Tuis is supposed to represent the value of their several refineries and tools of trade. It really represents the 'Iniount of money on which the sugar barons desire the American public to pay tribute. The Havemeyers and others en gaged in the sugar ielining industry in 15b7 turned their properties into the Sugar Itelineries Company and took stock in the concern to the extent of two or three time, the actual value of their plant. In other words. according to competent experts, an appraisement of the properties, comprising tue pre-eut company would show an actual value of about $25,000,000. The trust, in order to pay its princely div idends of 1 per cent. per month, is extort ing from the masses a tribute which would be wholly unnecessary if it were working on an honest basis. Even now it is claim ed in Wall street that the trust has invested in cash no less than $11,000,000 in raw sugars. The management hold their ses sions in secret, and no one but the Have meyers and their intimates are permitted to know anything as to the profits, invest ments or anything else to which stock holders are justly entitled. Even mote outrageous is that great com bination of capital known as the Coal Trust. The entire hard coal district is com prised within a very limited are-a. 'That area is traversed by the lines of eleven railroads known as "the coalers." They have formed a combine and control abso lutely the entire matter of coal consump tion, Mlany of them own largo areas of coal lands and are miners as well as trans porters. There are a large number of pri tate miners, but they are entirely under control of the roads embracing the coal combine, since they can get nio transit to market or tide wvater except over these roads. Once each month the sal-es agcnta of these roads meet and fix upon the outpait of coal for the cowing muonth and the price at wh.ch it shall be sold. This combine includes several roads now in the hands of receivers and therefore under the controi of ti~e United States courts. Tnese roads enter into the agreements and are as greedy for their share of the coal output as any of the others. The out put and price is nxed by the weather, the demands of trade and is generally about as much as the roads think they can squeeze out of the public. 'rhe consumption is about $10,000,000 tons a year, so that a rise ~f only 10 cents a ton means an extra $-4, 000,000 a year in the pockets of the coal barons. A dollar means $10,000,000 a year. A private mine owner is compelled to turn over his coal to the railroad company at their prici as soon a-i it c.>mies from his pit. Any attempt on his part to send it to market and sell it as his own price would be met by a refus-il to give him cars in which to transport it. The farmers of the land, representing many millions of people, alter long agita tion and entormous petitions, have sought in vain to get Congress to stop this ne. farious trailic. The cotton, produce and other exchanges, whose nmetubers numnber less hundreds than there are millions of ismers and persons dependent on Iarm ers, have outweighed in the councils of the nation at Washington the cry for relief that has come from the sufferers. Yet there are statutes which make it obh igatory upon the Attorney-General of turi United States to protect the people against these unjust conbinations. 1-ow masny suts has he brought? Not one. What turther proofs do we need that the G.ernment at Washington is absolutely controlled by the nmoney power of Wad street and that the President. the Cabinet ofiers, the benators for many of whoms sats are purchased, the Congressmen and the coarts are the tools and ag'ents of the octopus which has its tentacles fastened upon the people throughout this vast countr., sucking their substance year in and year out? Fotllowing close on the heels of the de monitiati of silver camne the resnumption .. -pi e-c payments, entailinga enormant's cont.itens of t'ue circulating tnediuma. The two c.au es have -teastily huamum--re.l pries down until to-day they arc lower than at any timue within the last three cnturies. The masses of the prodticers troughout the country, the men who create itsw cealth, are being rapidly pan peizd. Farmers who have strugg led to obtain ho:ai-s are driven to the muost .les peratc stra is to keep froma losmng them, or have already lost them, while these financial v,m,ires, who produce nothing, are re veling in wealth uindreamied of in any past age ot the world's history. We are rapid y comitng to he a country in which what should be a large, wvel-to-do contCutedi class of yeoL'ten, such as muist' ever be the strength of a nation, are hope lessly staggering under burdens of debt with no prospect of relief, slaves bound to tue soil t-y mortgages. 'rhe growth atid developument of the United States since the war has been the wonder of the world. One of the most re markabie things iN connection with that development has been the expansion in railroadl building. Who owns these roads and in whose in trests are t'-cy run? Built, as mnany of theat were originally, by the aggregation of cap;tai in .snml amounts from genuine stockholders, taiey have been absorbed in a mnner almost phenomenal, until to-day it is safe to say that three-fourths of the railroad imileage of the country is owned and controlled by a few score of iuen, most of whom have ths ir atics on Wall street. How could such thing- haippen? will be asked. The:, sim ply stole thcm, that is TIhe railroads of the latnd tire now repre sented by a capital stock of $5,150,000,000. a fundeel or bond debt of $5,700,000,000 and a iluating dl bt of nearly $400,000, t0. Tihe gross earnings per year is now about $1,100,000,000, leaving, after paying $325,000,000. This is divided into intet' ests on bonds of about $235,000,000 per year, and dividends on stock of about $85, 000,000. The passengers carried reach nearly 600,000,000 per year and the freight traffic is nearly 700,000,000 tons a year. Every cent of the enormous incorue from this leading industry of the country comes directly from the people. An examination would show that the money honestly er. pended in the production of all railroads and their equipments is but a tithe of the capital nominally invested in them, the rest is water pure and simple; but it fig ures as "invested capital," as "vested inter eats" upon which the capitalists claim the protection of the courts and the whole Government machinery, and always get it No better illustration of the power exer cised by the monopolists is needed than in the history of the West Shore enterprise ot New York State. The Vanderbilts and their cohorts up to the time the Wst Shore road was started, held the merchants and the agriculturalists in an iron grasp, dictating rat.-s and conditions for the handling of traffis a itb absolute despotism 'he prospect of a comipeitive line reach ing from New York City to the lakes put the New York Central peaple on iheir imet tie, and from the very inception of the for mer neasures were taken to crush it out. After the new line hal been completed every obtstacle possible was thrown un its way, and the road finally went into bank riuie, a condition winieh had been re gardeed as inevitabi- by every one who at the time was acquainted with the tactics ot the Vanderbilts. When the West Shore becamc hopeles.ly involved, the Vander tuilts, through Mr. J. P. Morgan, gobbled it up at their own price. those wno hat put money into it were crowled out, ail co:upetition vas crushed and the business interests of the State placed under the Vanderbilt control as compietely as ever. The Vanderbilts and their friends were the only ones who profit ed by the deal, which is only one of a hun. dred carried through successfully, despite public sentiment, aud without interferancE from the courts and Judges whose duty it was to interfere. Take another case that is local to New York City: For years New York City pleaded for rapid transit faciuties and two companies were created to supply them, one taking -the east and one the west sidc of the city. fhe Metropoltan road ran up Sixth avenue, and the New York Company took the rhird avenue route. Each issued stock to the amount of $6,500,000 together with a small lot of bonds. This amount was put in cash in the ruadis. Wal0 street saw the pos-ibilities of profit in rapid transit, anid proceeded to take ad vantage of it. rhe first step was to consol idate the two roads, not by adding the two capiUuls together, making $13,00U,000, but by creating a new company called the Manhattan, merely to take the lease of the other two roads. Tj'nis lease had such large prospective earning cupacity that At was capitalized at $13,000J,00, making a tond of $26,000,OO, oi which oe-half wIas clear water or wind. It represented no investment in the prop. erty, and was merely so much stock printed to order, to be unioaded on an innocent pub.ic. For months before the am-ilgamation' of the roads they were the centre of a c) cione of villtication and abuse, until the stocks were pounded down to 17 cents on the dol. iar. Once the property had passed into Jay Gould's hands it was manipulated up ward until it reached 175, and then in a day, because of a quarrel between Cyrus W. Field and the Gould interest, it fell 20 ps i Its. It has been a favorite gamblitig stock since then, being specially useful in cases where deals were made with local politic ians, they being let in with points on the market itn return for the gmrnting of public privileges. It cnnot be gainsaid that Congress has legislaited steadily in the interest of the corporatiotns, and to curtail and restrict the power of the States in controlling the railroads iand protecting the small invest ors and shippers. The machiinery of the Federal courts has been the main engine in this robbery and ruin. During the past thirty years, with very few ex. eptions, and I speak of the exceptions to the honor 01 the few judges who have withstood the al most overp~oweriing temptations with which they hasve been beset, the decisions of the Supreme and Circuit Courts have been ut.iformly against the people and in fur therance of the aims of those who have stolen, under forms of law, the larger por tion of this railroad property from its origi nal owners. ,: The rea-son why the Federal judiciary has been thus antagonistic to the best in terests of the country and to justice is that the judges are almost uniformly selecte'd from among corporation attorneys, and I have no doubt their names have been fre quently suggested or dictated to the Presi dent for appointment by the corporations. In addition to this the raw products hauled to market, together with the mann iactured products transported to the inte riot- in exchange. have had to pay freights fir in excess of what is reasonable in order to yield a fair dividend on the capital orig inally invested. This in spite of the fact that the Intertiate Commerce law wvas passed by Congress essentially with a view to the control of the extortiobs of railroads in handling freight and to prevent the dis criminations and recates. The United states Treasury is run as though it were a private eorporattion. The .Secr.-tary ofI the Treasury goes to New York when called upon by his masters to receive iinstructions. His deputies are con stant visitors at the offices of the men who control the Treasury from this city. It is notorious-at least it was generally reported in the newspapers-that Mr. Cleveland, in the early part of 1893, said that Wall street had taie country by the throat. We would have naturaliy looked to a man who appreciated that fact, and who sought to loosen W,dli street's grip on tne country's throat, to haye selected other adnisors than men who are the leaders and directors in Wall street. Bat he cooily and deliberately opened the doors of the 'Treasury and b:d those leaders in Wail street enter and work their own sweet will. There have aiready been issued $262, 000,000 of bonds to add to the burdens of aready desperate taxpayers, and the end is not yet. Still, we aire told that the finan ial question will not he an issue in the next ca:.paign. The best illustration of the existing con ditions, and one which will appeal directly to every farmer in the United States, is a picture wvhtich I will draw. Tue idea, how ever, is not original with me. Spreadu the map of the UnitedI States be forie you. Let us c >nsider for purpose of illustration that there is aa enormons nailch cow, so large i-hat she tin reach half way across the continent. Suppose her imouth to be in the Mississippi Valley and set the myriad wagons anid -freight tratins of that rranary of the world in motion to transport into her capacious imaw alt the' surplus products of the farms of the South and West. It is a never-ending stream, and the str.. dyv toilers in the field, with brawny arms and sun-browned, toil-stained faces, push forward with the products of their labor to satisf~y her omniverous appetite. So much food should produce some milk. But where is her udder? Stretch one of her legs back in the usual attitude for milking so that it will rest in New Eng land. The other hind leg will rest in New Jersey. The bag hangs over Manhattan Island. See the streamns of rich, goldea~milk drawn from the uader of that great cow. The farmers feed and ever feed. The milk streams into the receptacles of the capital ists-the bankers, brokers and speculators of Wall street. How much longer, 0 benighted sons of toil, will you feedt that cow ? You are get ting no milk. How much longer will you vote like dumb, driven cattle, without con sidering why you vote or for whom you vote? Let us reverse this picture. The last Congress, after a bitter struggle, p) issed an income tax ineasure. The idea was to have wealth bear some proportionate share of the burdens of Government. From those who hiad much it wa~s intended to take just a little. Conugress turned the great mitch cow around and placed her head in New York and her udder at Washington. What hap pened ? The Supreme Court of the United States took the cow by the throat, choked it gaza have not yet recovered from their amazement. No milk! How much longer will the farmers sub mit to have the Supreme Court, which has become the tool and instrutuent of the op. pressors, make the few more wealthy and the millions poorer? On this very island of M1anhattan an Astor owns 11,UO liouses, so I :n toll. We are asked to fortify New York U.krbor to protect this property frow destruction by an hostile fleet. Astor has quitte.l his country and inoved to Eagla:d, but :ht Supreme Court of the United states teils us we cannot tax his income on his New York property. When will the American people have enough ? BENTAMIN R. TL LIVN. BEWARE OF OINTMENTS FOR CA IARRII THAT CONTAIN MERCURY. A. w-rcnry will suirely deitroy the ses.c Myste:U wh-!i enterrn'' it throah the ju in cous surfaces. Such articles sii.>uild ncver be used exeepz on prescriptions frow rep ntable physicians, as tho datuage they will do is ten fold to the good you cau po-sibly derive from theta. iall's Ciatarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Chency & Co., Toledo, o., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucons surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Che ney & Co. Testimonials free. z$Sold by Druggists, price 75 cents per bottle. THE STORYOF PUDDIN' SWAMP. Richest Tobacco Lands in the Low and Middla Country. Darlington, Feb. 17.-This is a strange world, my masters! Business carried me through por tions of Sumter. Clarendon, and Williamsburg counties week before last, and some surprising things oc curred. I travelled through that portion of South Carolina where these three counties touch and found it very hard to realize that I was in South Carolina. The country was unlike the other portions of the State that I have seen, but this is not what struck me most forcibly. It seemed that I was in the heart of the new South Carolina tobacco lands, and I have never seen people more dead in earnest on this or almost any other subject. The farm houses were more numerous as a rule than I ever saw them "in the country," and very many of these houses showed that they had only recently been built. I was accompanied by Mr. J. E. Brockinton, of Kingstree, on this trip and our journey was from King stree up through the sections pre viously referred to. At Kingstree, on Black River and Broad Swamp, these wonderful to bacco lands commenced and they ex tended beyond Douglas township in Clarendon county to the farther side of Lynchburg and Shiloh in Sumter county. Some of the readers of The News and Courier and all South Car olina tobacco men are familiar with the celebrated "Puddin' Swamp" grades of South Carolina to bacco. This famous "Puddin' Swamp" section is undoubtedly rich in this peculiar respect. The grade of tobacco attracts at tention wherever it is seen and when this "far-away" section is visit ed a strong combination reveals itself and one no longer marvels at the general excellence of the tobacco. In the first place the lands in situa tion and soil could not well be im proved upon. The country generally is low and marshy, but high ridges are on every side of these low, damp places. These ridges have the gray, loamy, upper soil, the soft, large grained, yellow sub-soil with clay about two to four feet deep. Natu ral drainage is perfect, much of the land is new, having only been cleared during the last year or two, and "new grounds" were even more rapidly coming in response to the axe, che spade, the plough and the fire of the farm owners. The farms were all comparatively small and I saw very few colored people. By day and night the smoke and fires from "clear ing up the new ground" were seen in almost every section and new tobac co farms were the rule. I saw numerous house and barn "raisings," where fifteen to twenty neighbors met at one place and did all the heavy work of building a house with the necessary outbuild ings. When one was completed a new one received their time and labor, and very few hired hands were seen anywhere. Barbecued pigs and hogs of The News and Courier prize stock of 1895 were giving great, though unwilling, zest to the occasion, and savory odors mingled with the work and the smoke. A strange thing here was the fact that in this country section so many new houses and farms were seen, and I was told that five years ago some of the well-beaten roads that we were driving on were only a part of the "pathless woods" and the "forest primeval." Five years ago Messrs. J. E. and R. R. Tomlinson began cul tivating tobacco here, having re ceived information and instruction from their kinsmnan,'Mr. D. M. Smnoot, of Darlington. This gentleman is a pioneer South Carolina tobacco man and he did good work in the cause Iwhen he started these live, energetic Clarendon county pioneers to work on the same lines. The Messrs Tomlinson were laughed while. On their two beautiful farms they cultivate tobacco almost entire ly, and their neighbors far and near are following in their example. Another strange thing here is that so few of these farmers plant cotton. They have good homes, are frugal and hard-working; they have fine stock, hogs, cows, and chickens; they raise corn, grain and small crops, but no cotton, and beyond any qu' stion tobacco is the leading article of ag riculture and commerce. They do not plant large crops but only so much as they can well manage, and give proper care and attention to. This, as almost any one who knows what is necessary in successful tobacco culture, in large measure accounts for the high reputation of "Puddin' Swamp" tobacco. None of the local philologists knows the origin of "'Puddin' Swamp." Po tato puddin' was suggested, but the oldest inhabitant smiled at the mere mention of such a dish, and said that be "did not know." It wvas further suggested that on general principles it was "puddin' " to a man to own such land as this. It will very soon be definitely settled, because the peo pie with one accord will say that this section was called "Puddin' Swamp" because of the tobacco made there and which proved such a bonanza to the owners of these lands. Speaking of tobacco lands and of tobacco culture, Mr. J. E. Brockinton, of Kingstree, made an experiment ast season in curing tobacco which will be of the greatest benefit to ev ry man wvho cultivates tobacco. [Last year he tried a new tobacco fur 2ace, to take the place of the ordi ary old-fashioned flues, heretofore sed in curing tobacco. This flue en ables one to place the heat exactly where it is most wvanted, to hold it at ven temperature for ten to twelve ours, to quickly and thoroughly entilate the barns and is a wonder ful improvement on the old way of uring tobacco. As before published n The News and Courier no finer to acco was raised in South Carolina ast year than was raised, cured and sold by Mr. Brockinton. The new flues (lid perfect work and if they did no more than hold a steady heat for ten hours, thun alngn a tohbacco SIMMONS REGULATO THE BEST SPRING MEDICINE is SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR. Don't forget to take it. Now is the time you need it most to wake up your Liver. A sluggish Liver brings on Malaria, Fever and Ague, Rheumatism, and many other ills which shatter the constitution and wreck health. Don't forget the word REGULATOR. It is SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR you want. The word REG ULATOR distinguishes it from all other remedies. And, besides this, SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR is a Regulator of the Liver, keeps it properly at work, that your system may be kept in good condition. FOR THE BLOOD take SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR. It is the best blood purifier and corrector. Try it and note the difference. Look for the RED Z on every package. You wont find it on any other medicine, and there is no other Liver remedy like SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR-the Kingof Liver Remedies, Be sure you get it. J. H. Zeilin & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. grower to cure his crop and go to sleep, they would be worth almost any reasonable price. Artesian wells and tobacco seemed to be claiming the attention of these entire sections. We saw many artc sian wells at various farms and saw men at work upon others. This was another striking feature and the-prob ability is that nearly every one of these numerous farms will soon have its own flowing artesian well from 150 to 300 feet in depth. The farm houses were thick as also were the schools and churches. Among the prettiest of these country homes were those belonging to Messrs. J. E. Tomlinson, A, Boykin, W. D. Gamble, A. T. Buddin, R. E. Burgess, T. P. Ful more, J. E. Kennedy, W. H. Castine, J. H. Hardy, B. L. DuBote, the Rev. W. A. Wright, E. P. Johnson, J. C. Gibbons, S. C. Mcilvene, W. J. Gibbons, D). N. Gamble, W. F. Russ, R. R. Tomlinson, Z. H. Duncan, T. G. Turbeville, A. Smith, F. N. Thomas, Jehu Smith, A. F. Coker, W. J. Tur beville, W. L. Green, A. J. Castine, J. P. W. Gibbons, E. J. Green, J. W. Barrow, J. J. Doggett, W. P. Baker, J. C. Baker, J. C. Bell, G. V. Ross, and W. J. Coward. Magnificent Forests of Timber were more numerous than I have ever seen them and many of these homes nes tled on the edges or in the midst of these "dark rock pines with their tossing plumes." Hospitality and courtesy greeted us at each and every one of these homes and the russet corn fields, the whir ring part:idge and the setter dog lured us away when we could no longer resist. Fording the inundated causeway nearly two miles long at Black River and Broad Swamp is not pleasant in sunlight and clear weather. Late at night, with black water, a pouring, cold, drenching rain, darkness and water above, below and around you, it is hardly as pleasant as watching a minstrel performance. At the Cole man House, presided over by Mr. Geo. S. Barr, of Kingstree, we were soon drying, smoking, and-forget ting the last part of our ride.-J. E. N. in News and Courier. PACKSVILLE DOTS. The farmers are busy preparing for another crop, some are handling fer tilizers, others are getting ready to plant corn and1 some doing nothing as usual. M~r. M. N. Taylor, of this place, died Sunday night at 8 o'clock. He had measles and took pneumonia, whicb caused his death. He was interred in the Packsville cemetrey Monday at 4 p. m. Rev. A. B..Wat son, conducted the funeral services. The deceased leaves three small chil dren and a broken-hearted wife, and many friends to mourn his loss. The bereaved family have our sympathy in this jtheir sad afuction. Miss Abbie Womble, of 3[unning, who has been spending a fewv days here has returned home. -Miss Katie Watson and Mliss C. D. Way, of Parlor, S. C., arc visiting at Mr. .J. D. Beatson's. There is a great deal of sickiness in and around Packsville, consisting of measles, colds, coughs etc. Edgar W. Nye, better kniown as "Bill" Nye, died at his home at Buck Shoals, near Asheville, N. C., as a re suit of an attack of apoplexy. The fu neral services over the body took plice at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning and the interment was at the Episcopal cem etery at Fletchers, 12 miles south of Asheville. At Columbia, S. 0., James Miller, a 12-year-old boy, had a difficulty wvith George Demates, a lad about 15 years of age. Young Miller, during the course of the trouble, picked up a heavy iron rollei and threw it with all his strength at Demates. It struck him over the heart. causing paralysis of that organ and killing him instantly. The tobacco stemmery of T. D. Luck ett & Ce., one of the largest concerns in Clarksville, Tenn., was destroyed by fire and abeut 1,500,000 pounds of to bacco stock was destroyed or seriously injured. The plant was valued at $20, (00 and the tobacco at $G0.000. The loss was entirely covered by insurance. Incendiarism is suspected. Two weeks ago, in Guilford county, N. C., a man found $18,000 in gold coin buried in the ground. News of the find gained currency. The man who, it was said, made the discovery, later denied it, and now the owner of the laud delares he will bring suit against him to obtain the money and says he does not believe the finder's denial. At Mt.dison, Ga., John Nolan. chared with killing Charles Cowan on Feb. 15, waved preliminary examination, and the case goes before the grand jury at te next term of Morgan superior court, which convenes on Monday, March i. Nolan still insists that the ki'.ling was accidental, and apuears fully saLtis fled that the courts will entirely exener ate him. The Virginia lawmakers were non plussed by the Rev. C. J. Oelschlaeger, ~n English Lutheran preacher. It is the custom of the clerk of the house of delegates tio invite a minister to open the proceedings of the body with prayer each day daring a week. Mr. Oelsch lager was invited to serve the house as chaplain next week and he ref used, say ing: "I do not believe in opening a promiscuous political party with prayer."K Charles Hodman, a prominent Harper ounty (Kan.) farmer, was assassinated In his own yard at Anthony. Hodnman had returned from a drive to the ountry and was hitching his horse when some one fired two shots at him from ambush. The first shot tore his left arm open arnd the other entered his left breast, killing him instantly. The murderer escaped in the darkness. H d man had no known enemies and the murder is a mystery. He leaves a fmily. HARDWARE! To Our Clarendon Friends We are now prepared to cffer lower prices than ever. or wr:. for vou want. Oar Stock is complete. We have added to our immense stock of hardware a large line of Paints, Oils, Etc., at Low Figures. Harness, Saddles, Rubber and Belting. Leather, Etx. Great bargains in guns, patols, etc. Headquarters for Powder, Shot and Shells (loade. and empty). Engine supplies, belting, etc. Headquarters for Gooking and Heating Steves (Warranted), The Terry Fish Coiiipaiiy 00 S WHOLESALE SUIPPERS OF rieuh rish oil all sinais Ys Cls, I= MR samme. Our regular season for shipman ts of fiesh aish (packed in ice) b..ing now open. c l we are prepaired to ship you any desired quantity. Charleston is the only market south that can offer a large variety of fish, and. being situated on the ocean, where ca they are caught, must Le fresh. We sioiicit L your patronage. Consignments of poultry, eggs, etc., so licited. Account sales and check mailed lay of sale. 22 AND 24 MARKET ST., CHARLIESTON, S. oors . iIi( 01 tET THE BE ST ilig H(I Bug When you are about to buy a Sewing Machine :.:t be deceived by alluring advertisements CHARLESTON, S. C. ild to think you can get tie best made, ines-.: iished and Most Popular AND a r:c ong. 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