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■ H- 1 z . Wmomu Mi J VOL XIX. \ BARNWELL. S. C.. THURSDAY, APRIL 30. 1896. T MXPIS HMStiF IU IHEMHliyilDimiS. An Audience of Ten Thootand Greet* Him in Kan*a«—Characteristic Boldnetu and Independence. The Topeka State Journal save that 10,000 people tried to grain admittance k to the vast circuit tent in Wichita, Kansas, to hear Senator Tillman, South Carolina’s favorite son, but of necessity many were disappointed. The speech was punctuated with cheers acd laughter and was regarded as a remarkably powerful one. Senator Tillman was in fine form and spoke as follows : Ladies and Fellow Citizens—I must be excused when I say that this out pouring of the citizens of this itate to greet a stranger touches me-deeply. I am esprclally glad to see so many of Kansas’ fair daughters herv; ' We need a new Declaration of Inde pendence, and “ we are here as free American citizens to give it utterance. It is a big question ; it is a moment ous question, and unless your impa tience shall indicate to me that I am going into it too extensively, I pro pose as best I can to cover the ground in one general discussion. I could write a book if I should undertake to -.elaborate all oLthe details, but I vilL at least try to touch on the most sali ent points and present those arguments and those facts bearing on the present condition and the future of this coun try which make it imperative that we should come together as Americans. That it is the watchword, 1 not Demo crat, nor Republican, nor Populist, but as Americans. -I win, however, have to begin with a discussion of my subject. Politics in my observation are largely a matter of inheritance. Those of you whose fathers were Ilepublleans are today Republicans; those of you whose fa thers were Democrats are Democrats, and those of you who have become dis- f usted with both parties ar* Populists, t is like religion. We hear a great deal about this man’s religion and th4t man's religion, he belongs th^churcH and he belongs to another, fla I must v say too few of us belong to any. He is of the religion which his parents pro fessed. Think about it and you- are obliged to acknowledge that it is so. Now what is the origin of party ? Constitutional government. That is a government in which the people them selves by some written or unwritten Instrumental or established charter try to control their actions Mankind, after two or three centuries of experience along that line, have come to the con clusion that it ream res patties to carry on that form of government. I our country when this government was formed immediately there sprang up two forces, the centrifugal and the centripetal forces. One party con tended that the joints or the links holding the country together were too loose, that we were a nation; the other contended that they were too tight, that the State must be sovereign, and they will always be here as long as the people of this country take any inter est in public affairs or undertake to govern themselves. Hamilton, the representative of one, and Jefferson, the representative of the other. Ham ilton, the representative of wealth and intelligence; Jefferson, the represen tative of men. The forces began as soon as Washington left the presi dency ; the struggle was on between those who sought to fill his place. Jefferson got the most votes In the first electoral college, but he did not have a majority because the election was determined in the house of represen tatives, and the fight began in 1776 continued until now, as to wnether we have any freedom left or not. • -s It is necessary, my friends, for me to go back and bring you down in this way historically, so that we may un derstand what is Democracy and what . are the true purposes of this govern ment. 1 will repeal phases here and there from Jefferson’s inaugural ad dress, which indicate . the thepry of F iractice upon which he based his po- itioal faith. One was, “ Trust the people, and teach the people, 0 indica ting his faith in their capacity for self government. The other was fhat error is nevdy dangerous as Jong as reason is left ffbfe to dornhat it, ahd in his works I stum bled the other day on a brief para graph from one of his letters writtea from France in 1786, which contains .;the whole problem of government and shows the wonderful capacity of the greatest of Americans as -far as the * ! ^*~ncerned. as duty of the people and me prob lems which have confronted them. With your permission I wjll read it: “ The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to guide them right, and were it left to me to decide ether we should hive the govern ment without newspapers or the newspapers without the govern ment, I should .not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter, but I name, mark you, a condition that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them. I am con vinced that those societies such aa the Indians, who live without government, enjoy a greater degree of happiness than those who live under European G overnment. Among the former pub- c opinion is in the place of law. In the latter, under pretense of govern ment, they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves and shee The Republican party since RamiL-. ton has been one of education and the classes. They bake monopllzed the fruits of the earth and imposed upon the people of this country. We have come to that pass where a»few million aires own more than the 50,000,000 Americans do. Republicanism was bom in pure motives and in patriotism Jefferson said in bis declaration “all men were ai ocrats and those who glory in the title of Republicans. We have on the one band the man in th£ White House masquerading in the clothes of Jeffer son and pretending to lay down a new doctrine and a new discipline unknown to any man who has a scintilla of Dem ocracy in his composition. And as the apostle of the other party John Sher man, of Ohio! Oh, God, that the name of Democrat should be given to a man like Cleveland, and the. name Republican to a man like Sherman. They have gone far afield from the teachings of the fathers and strange to say they are in union in the full pur- >ese to enslave this country and trans- er its wealth to few and fewer. Yet we free Americans claim to be intelli gent I America, the land of the free and the home of the brave I Pshaw I You Republicans, if there are any such here, would like blind sheep drift more and more into the field of wolves, are using your ballots to crush out freedom. And you Democrats, who say you have always voted with the party and will continue to vote it, God have mercy on your inbecility. But what are you going to do with this other political child, Populism ? What can that do for the country, or what must the country do for It? What caused Populism ? It was caused by the men who turned their backs on both parties. What caused r rove it. the ne- | believe, and right here I When I tried to show some oi farious actions being perpetuated in South Carolina when I was Governor, every daily and four-fifths of the week- lies in the State rose up to down right. The voice which was lifted in the but I have an organ of my own. ( speaker put his finger to his tongue.) I challenge my opponents to meet me on the stump before the people who are the power of the nation—the com mon people, and decide upon the ques tion with the ballot. That is all that we need now. Have the honest men go before the people and tell them what is being done to enslave them. But where, oh where are there enough honest men to before 70,000,000 of peo ple, when the leaders of the different parties previously agree what policy is to be carried out on the matter at stake before they appear before the people? It is a noticeable thing in every city that the boodle aldermen to him like the old man of the sea. Af ter he has paid his taxes and the fixed charges on his farm, that mortgage is I growing larger, or if the mortgage has been foreclosed, he Is a tramp. action, and I say that bimetalism is national and goldbuggery is seotlopal. do not hesitate to swear that in my belief out of the million and a quarter of us f. simply a iy. The 19 . „ have sold this or that franchise to some corporation; that this legislature has been bribed to pass that bill. Our politics have got to be a cesspool, and j we deserve to be brought to the bar of | our own consciences for the low and despicable condition in which we find oursel ves. We are responsible for it, for no stream can rise higher than its source, and if the people are idiots theydeserve what they are getting. But why should I be for silver? There was never a pound produced In South Carolina, and there are more silver men in that State than there are in Kansas, at the door of a silver-pro ducing State. A few men In the Sea ate and the goldbugs in New York keep agitating the ^money questior and say it is only the people out here who want bimetalism, because their chief production is silver. This con spiracy has been entered into with England by these men who have bam boozled the people with that proposi tion. These powers who constitute the privileged and money classes have reduced the standard one-half, and it lies in the sense of any man that if you have cuV off'one-half of the money or ultimate redemption the other half must fill the vacum. If there la too much money it becomes cheap. If there Is too little it becomes dear. This is a truism. But there are a great number of people in this country who vote for their party under the proposition that it is greater than the country. Let me illustrate the double stand ard by farming. The simile is simple. Let us present two plates of butter, one yellow and one white, and let every man in this audience have a biscuit apiece. On the plates there is enough for all. But around comes John Sherman and Grover Cleveland. Cleveland smells the butter on one plate and says that's not good. Con gressmen must condemn that butter smells it again ; I don’t think it sound. Now if any fellow will say he got as much butter for his biscuit as If the two plates had been used, he is a fool. What Is fiat money ? The Latin word means “so be it.'' It means law Take gold and hammer it Into a flat piece and it is not money. You cannot .force your creditor to take it, but gold dollar is a gold dollar by reason of the law ; so la a silver dollar a dollar; so is a greenback. They are all fiat. Yet Carlisle and Cleveland and every other scoundrel who claims to be a fool only for the purpose of making fools of you, says you cannot affect the values of the metals by legislation Carlisle said so in Memphis, and so say all of his ilk. Take 93 and place them side by side—a gold dollar, a silver dol lar and a paper dollar. The paper dol lar is a dollar because it is redeemable by coin* The silver dollar used to be a dollar because it was a dollar. It is now only a 50-oent dollar. Let us burn them to see. The paper dollar goes up in smoke, the silver dollar melts and becomes bullion, theAld dollar ndelts and is bullion, 'too. The gold is the favorite metal in (jengrees and it can f o to the mint and get a new dress he silver is turned out in the cold be- the Democrats who taught and felt and believed with Jefferson to turn their | backs on Democracy? Simply disgust. There was that impatient class of society which sometimes flies off the hamRe-ane gets lost, These impatient, hot-blooded, rash but patriotic men are the men who organized the People’s party. The People’s party ought to be one into which everyone would be willing to go because if we are a free people and nelleve in the power of the people to govern themselves and the republic, of course, we want to belong to the People’s party. But what sort of a platform have they got? The masses, .I say, are anxious to secure good government, therefore, when they did not secure it it. indicate* tha,t they do not understaud the question and that they are led by designing and, Interested men. These men put out a dragnet. It reached out and corraled in an element of communism, anarch ism, paternalism and every other ism that has no business in a political party. The result was inevitable. It rose nigh and swept over Kansas, Nebras ka, Colorado and even the Southern States, but it did not wash away any thing. There has been a refluesce and one of the remarkable consequences, you Democrats of Kansas, is that your party teems to have been sponged off the elate. I believe the record shows that you have gone down to about 26,- uOO votes. Of course the administra tion bad some pie eatbre who were compelled to vote the Democratic ticket. # The policy now offered by the lead ers of toe Republicans and Democrats is a policy which means degradation, poverty and business distress—gold- buggery, it comes under the tltTe of. But we have got beyond that tunlof both-way facing platforms like the one at Minneapolis, which meant just any thing anybody wanted. The goldbug policy summed up means this contin ued contraction. They want sound money. Money, if vou will pardon me for a slight digression, may be likened to the blood In the body. When it i s*xyaa tit*-* itfwiei 4a see sA " it" \S 1 US VW7 w t J v 7 ' j W healthy. If you conject It in tne heart, and w* see it congested in New York and s Boeton, the extremities grow cold, the poor sufferer, and they think that we clodhoppers should dictate tbe policy of this country. If we are to have more bonds issued in times of peace to maintain the gold standard, the Cleveland and Sherman offen if they a-e to impose more tariff, if we are to see our mines stop, the factories stop, tramp* by the millions on the roads, farmers with granaries flowing over because they cannot sell at the cost of production, starvation on one hand for 60,000, idleness, lack of suppose we have the free oonlnage of silver, and that our dollar would be worth one hundred cents. Wheat would sell for 00 cents a bushel, or double the price. That is estion of political economy ebraaka farmer will carry his wheat to London and gets out of It 30 cents a bushel. H& would brlhg that amount home and pay double the amount on his mortgage that he does now. 1 So I would say to the debtors, and I know you are not in so overwhelming a ma jority that the other fellows are not in it, if you do throw that burden off, you should take up the question and vote honestly. x A When the bill for free coinage was being agitated in Congsess in 1890 sil ver went up 'to 102. How long will it take to bring it to 16 to 1 ? They say this happens we will have a panic. Let it come. I say that, because I would not have torture deferred. Let us have the agony over. Let them ’TXMfSrv,«,,, ot I mortgages, those who are present, you 1 * Uleve,ana ere laying the foundation which will carry the wealth up in smoke some dav and will carry you to a lamp post with a rope around your necks. 1 say this in the light of history, because the ab sorption of wealth has been the ruin o* every empire, Persia, Assyria, Rome, Greece, and you cannot change the law which makes empire* grow and then rot and die. They have not made you all slaves. If you are so lost to the aspirations freemen that you can continue to ■ess onward with those lenders who e going to perdition and bringing >u with them, you are putting the ast straw on the camel's back and it will stand no longer. Where will this new French revolution break out ? (A voice—"New York another—"South Carolina." No, sir, thank God, we tried revolution once in South Caroli na. and we got a dose. But whenever you and enough Americans in this country are ready you will find South Carolina will respond. We are ready now to respond with votes, and we hope that you have the sense to do like wise. If you doa’t, at some future day this anarchistic and communistic ele ment which is in our cities by the mil- ion, driven to desperation, will arise, the modern bastile will be captured, the armv taken and the millionaire fu gitives done ilk* the nobles of France n 1789-91. This does not come from a disordered brain. History must repeat iUelf. One of the class words which roll un der the tongue of mooometsdists is over production. If we raise too much why are there so many starving, ill-clad people? The over-prod action which U ruining this country is the over production of rascals in office and the fools who put them there. The conditions which exist -to-day are these : The northwestern States have given up in the production of staple crops. They devote themselves to the products which can be sold near in the in South Carolina, ten seen gold' ih five; ears. We lire so poor and have got so used to it, we can look on with complacency because the other fellow is getting some of it. We have plenty to eat and can always sell our cotton whenever we offer it I saw hundreds of crib* of corn in Missouri, which they tell me tbhy can hardly give away at ten oents a bushel, apd there are plenty of people in Chicago who would be glad to get it for their starving, families. In the South we have stood the tariff, the war debt, we have stood a solid phalanx to protect our civilization against tbe inroads of negro domina tion. The wool-dyed Democrats go out of the party and join the wild men in the west. In the south, we are like Smith, who one warm day cotton-growing territory, ly to do, the Inereaee in the able conditions fora Mgen ess than 50 per cent, of I ably force further rises in 1 while for the greater {cotton on ’change. There was less than the usual amount [of cloudiness generally, except in Berkeley County, where the sunshine was reported 1 less than 50 per cent, of >rtion of the State it ranged between > and 90 per cent. The reports covering the last week divide the State into two distinct di visions, but the hue of demarkation is not a well defined one; in a general way it runs from Abbeville to Lancas ter County. To the northward and westward of this line the reports all declare the hot, dry weather favorable [oa crops, with the exception of oats sowed since January, which is Deeding rain badly. To toe southward and westward of the lino the reports indi cate a less favorable and more di versified condition, altogether on ac count of the lack of rain. Not only has there been less rainfall in this division since the crop season began, but the soil is lass retentive of to take Off hU skin and sit in moisture generally. i^hat fools.’’) story, “We ipet tb.' UUC ll au VI I VS I vrv, wv/, avasvaa WWW« •w'-’re wa a as ex masws ao ewi vine 1 aa eaaex ererses erex tabor, and then look at the millionaires cause it is a 50-oent dollar, and yet who are sending over to Europe to get some bob-tailed lord to sell their daughters to—ain’t we a glorious na tion? And yet frantic appeals come from Wall street to vote for the party and stand up for sound money these men say that law does not affect the value of the metal. They bam- beetle the people of this nation, and we must submit the matter to interna tional agreement. We must submit to the money-makers and the monarohs You Republicans pardon me, 1 wn in of Europe. If we must, why did we _ . m M M * * Mk l V A * W 4* *4 1 A MA ♦ . A A A# I M sS A AAA«1 A A AA V .ted there was a reservation men who were black were sot free and equal.* Lincoln’s"deeUtfaQou of inde pendence included all men. It was yt 'growing power, a glorious purpose, and stave leader, as I was In my oride ly inheritance, t say that I concur. W« have those who claim to be Dem- the condition here of a free lanoe, and if I am here at ail it is because I am that. I hit around and about me wher ever I thick it is needed. What a spectacle the Republican party pres ented at the national convention when tne question of putting up a candidate fur President was settled by bought negro delegates from the South. Such condition never existed in Rome. We did not have any of that when we were Democrats straight and Lincoln Republicans. What are you going to do about that, you Republicans who are today patting the juba and saying we will have McKinley ? What does he stand for 1 ? Protection! What does Reed stand for? What does Alli son stand for? Every man of them ho is seeking the Republican nomi nation says he ' believes in sound money. We Democrats would believe in sound money, but what constitutes sound money ? We must get a politi cal dictionary to answer that. I will address myself now to the definition. There is one difficulty In the way. I see it everywhere. If it is only the question of a nation ! But, ah, the struggle for local office of the little fry. You must stand by the party. The solution of the question is handi capped and, perhaps, will be defeated, simply because the local politicians put these petty things above this grand patriotic form. And we consider our selves American citizens. We should go together on this national question, land therefore we should not have too many questions in our platform. Af ter we have done that, say to the knaves who want to load the (platform down, let us first settle with Sherman aad Cleveland. When I mentioned a little while ago the deplorable condition of this coun try I failed to bring in one most im portant factor. Jefferson said If he had to hkve a country without news papers or without government, he .would have it without government. iGseat God, did Jefferson know to what level the preas'descends, that it can be make the declaration of independence We whipped the British and the To ries, both, in that devolution when we had only 3,000,000. We whipped Great Britain in 1812 with only 6,000,000. When the war of secession was ended England blustered, but when the ulti' matum was sent in she submitted to ar bitration and paid the bill. And now, in our zenith of power, when we are to-day the most powerful nation on Ibe ! :lobo, we are asked to fall at England’ eet and ask permission to adopt a cer tain monetary policy. Senator Tillman read some extracts from a London paper of recent issue, in which it was stated that owing to its condition this country was never better' able to stand an increase in takes, that the people in general were well satis fied and well paid, and commenting upon the utterance of the chancellor of the exchequer, he said : And yet we are told by the adminis tration that we are to go to these peo ple for our policy. The productions of America are carried to England fct half their value to enrich that people and to the impoverishment-of our own. I saw it stated in a St. Louis paper that Senator Teller said he would stand by the nominee of the Republican par ty at the St. Louis convention. Let me remark right here an elaboration of that Idea. If we had any statesman ship in conducting our affairs, if we had any patriotism, if we had any in sight which took in this whole vast country and sought to protect it care fully and foster every State In it, our nation would be the richest and most prosperous to-day on the globe. Our products are low; wheat the plains of our West London at a cost less than we have ever known In 200 years; cotton lower than It was In 1839 and IMS; and the farm ers of our country are toiling more hours a day than anv other cli something Is responsible for this, and It Is the present depression in silver. To illustrate : A man in Nebraska sells wheat for 35 cents a bushel. The produced on Is selling in ['bought and manipulated by the sohem- railroad m— ing politician* he would ant have ut- absorb nriil th * co “® 1 «lon men ter* the .on!.. W. h.„ tb. mi, IbTgLE* i" 4 oorn.* ..-tP-P-r, I. tb. .orid, I cltv—butter, fruit, egg-, etc. Aad they are meeting the 00m tioe of the west by standi farms which are worth only half of what they were. There are millions of farmer* Is the west are feeding a great big, old oow, big enough to have her bead on the Pacific coast and reaching all around the sea coast towns to the Atlantic. The farmers are haul ing their product* to put into this oow. Where does the milk go ? That cow’s bag hangs over New York city and there are India rubber tubes reaching Into the national hanks ahd over the sea to England. Pierpont Morgan, whom Carlisle gave another shert time ago, Jav Gould aad a few other fellows get all the milk. Go to New York and see now they live, you benighted, blind, iguoraut workers The cow’s milk goes into the palatial residences and stately yacht* which have made Manhattan Liaad, bought from the Indians for 940, richer than the greatest State In the west—it could buy you. They have already bought from you Congrees and the supreme court—and they stand by the party and you stand by the partv. Along come the Populists with their platform, in which there Is one genu ine piece of good, the income tax, a tax which appeals to the sense of Justice, of any man in this country, England has it, France is going to levy it. They passed the income tax bill, a sickly lit tle thing that wouldn’t hurt anybody, levying 930,000,000 to help support the government which protects their prop erty. They set to work to put the thing in motion, but it did not work. Thev took another cow with its head at Maahattan and the bag over Wash ington. A few Populists tried to milk into the treasury, but the fellows in New York kept freding the cow cou pons till they choked her to death. They have sold themselves to the rail roads, so that they get injunctions whenever a strike comes on under the construction of the law sustained by the supreme court. We have seen a man committed to prison for no crime whatever, simply because that man put into force a true and just principle. (Shouts of Debs, Debs.) They purchased the President and the income tax and gave more millions to the rich and more poverty to the poor, end yet you vote their ticket. You did it yourselves, don't grumble over your physic. Now, gentlemen, I think 1 have said enough. (ShOuts of “Go on, go on.”) Well, I suppose will. I am like the wild man from Bornefc, and you have a good circus. I will close by a paraphrase by one of tbe most distinguished men of the country and ^apostle of liberty, who will live as' Iqng as the stars and stripes. Charles Sumner, (loud cheering) who in a speech in Faneull hall, said that slavery was sectional and that freedom was national. If you will look and see where rests the strength and power forcing this issue, see whence comes the Inspiration which controls ths newspapers and the government, you will And it a little moneyed section not big enough for a cow pasture In the west. I am come from tbe south which has been robbed and oppressed by the domination of negroes* I come to you. and tali you that the negro slaves are free, but that ws have more slaves ' teattatfB we ever had Mack 01 to aek you to his bones. I have received many let ters since I made that speech in the Senate from Republicans saying that they could never vote the Repuolican ticket and from Democrats, who said never vote fbr Democrat. My friends, we are face to face with the crisis. Since 1860 men are restless and anxious. They are looking around. The Democratic party is to meet short- What purports to be the Demo cratic party ? The Republican party meet—what is the Republican party ? McKinley stands as the expo nent of tariff taxation and yon fellows out west vote for that cow. Cleveland and Carlisle stand there and say, retire the government paper and stop this endless chain. Sqund money is their cry. Didn’t the Republicans promise us a short time ago that in their admin istration confidence would be restored, the price of wheat would rise—(a voice, “they lied.") Yes, sir, you hit it, in lain Asglo Saxon, they were liars, we we? (A voice, “Wo are My friend, you are a discrim inating genius. I congratulate you. Coming from the home of secession and of genuine Democracy, where all the seed of the pure crop is left from the teachings of Jackson and Jefferson, I have ootne to you* who have been Re publicans In the past, to ask you if you 111 give the hand of amltv to your brethren in the South and take a hand In carrying our united flag to victor (Ringing cheers, and voioes wlllT We will! ’) Democrats of Kansas, 1 don’t know what you can do. You oan do this at t, go to Chicago and if the men of the East who have masqueraded as Re publicans under the guise of Democrats come before you, make the tact of par ty above nation. I pledge you my werd that I will be there a* a delegate, will stand with yon for bimetalism, and if you do not care to lead, just follow where I go. (Loud and long cheers.) I don’t go there any more with a bridle oa. They must give me the doctrine of Jefferson and tbe promise of Jack- son, or something to lighten the lend of my enslnvened people. If we cannot be Democrats straight, tat us be Lin coln Republicans. I pledge myself straight to either ticket. (Prolonged applause.) There are enough of us If we get together and throw down the animosity that exists between theSouth and the West. (Shouts of “There L none.”) South of tbe Potomac we have electoral vote* aad tl only takes 234 to elect a President. (Long and loul cheers.) But ws must be careful that the scoundrels do not divide the flock and let the wolves take the ad vantage. I plead with you to come to the South and join us in our efforts to make this country tbe land of the free and the home of the brave, and as sure as we join so sura will victory he ours in November, the victory that comes to patriots who know their rights aad win not be held or bought and know ing these righto dare to maintain them. (Loud and prolonged cheering.) e iV Corn of earliest planting is generally up with 1 a good color ;and growing fast, but few satisfactory stands are reported and replanted oorn does not come up and will not until it rains; the snme is true. of late -planting. Corn planting Is practically finished except late or Majr and June oorn. Cotton planting slackens, both, be cause the greater portion of it has been S lanted and because tka .ground Is too ry for thorough preparation, while others prefer to wait for rain before planting. The first planting is up, but not to. good stands. Later planting cannot germinate. Wheat -is doing well generally, but needs rain to prevent it from heading prematurely. The condition of falls oats has not changed materially since last week and is fairly promising except that it is likely to head prematurely should the dry weather continue. Spring oats are falling everywhere and In some localities the crop has already failed. Pastures improved generally under the Influence of the hot weather, but in Beaufort County pastures are fail ing. Tobacco lands are prepared only waiting for rain to begin I planting, a little of which was done before the ground became too dry Irish potatoo# need rain as do gardens, the latter are parched oa light soils. Melons and sorghum case are being largely planted but coming up slowly. Early blossoming fruit does not look ( •remising generally, but lata bl . ng varieties appear more favorable, except that some report fruit, eepe- peciaily peaches, dropping bealy account of tbe dryaeee. In vie* of the hot weather there is a remarkable freedom from destructive inaeota ; reporta from various sectloos of the State indicate that ooae have yet appeared. J. W. Backk, Director. and COTTON MADE A JUMP. ■ar Baser Dtooseees Upoa tl Abnormal Climatic OondltloBa Pre vailing tn the Veiled States Dari eg the Laet Portatght. tm Providence is Bead! over the South to rectify the error of the Southern farmers la pi a huge crop of cotton this year, normally low temperature for a or ten days will probably flsors— yield of ootton aseffaoinaUjr as would a reduction of the cotton 1 DR MATO OH the Gtrle School. Special to The State. Dr. A. D. Mayo, of Boston, one of the ^ most influestial trustees of the Pea body fund, who has devoted sixteen years of his life aad talents to the noble ministry of education la the South, and who visited for about tan days recently at Winthrop College, was interviewed by a representative of the State, from which we take the following: * ___ In tbe pleasant interview which Dr. Mayo gave upon tbe broad portico ef Winthrop college, he spoke at length of the condition of the schools, especial ly In the country, which onlm for better Instructors, and made ncosseery the establishment of aa InstituUoa which should send out competent teachers. In the way of such efforts he mentioned tbe begianiag r by tba establishment of such aa lastttutiou in MigaUtfippl some six or eight years ago, followed taf North Carolina, line. Discussing the different ones, ha came to lock et Winthrop Normal aad Industrial collage of Sooth Oaroilaa. la soma respects he considered It " unique "—eotabiy, la eomMaiag aa academic education with a normal aad Industrial one and spoke of the oemM nation as a most desirable oae. The buildings be ooeeiderad eUsoet perfect—“the beet la the South, and. compares meet favorably with anywhere." The thorough asm of tho into aad tbe model way la'which this “ up-to-date hotel" to kept, make it ea object-lessee to mats with tho educational edvaatagen oally, he spoke of T living la the ooii hi* 16 years sxperloao* vtohtom < he had never eetaa suoh “good 1 He also spoke of the great 1 to be derived from tho farm : tioe with the ooltagn. Dr. Mayo seemed to be the broad ideas which had < la the seleetioe of tho allowing social to lafluaooe it—and commanded thoroughness^aod^ effictaec^* of the He also paid a high trlbuta la tha organising qualities aad s—aatlfU powers of President Johnson." Upoa tho whole Dr. Mmto seamed to be very highly ptaaeed with the work being doae at W La three gad hoped » Caro- WSKILLY CROP BULLETIN. The KWert of tbe Hot Weather Upon the Growing Crops. This bulletin covers the weather and conditions for the week ending Colombia Register. Misery to said to love company ; if that be to; the people ia South Caro lina who are made miserable by the unusually hot weather of the lest fort night may find some ooeeotaUou is tbe feet that they had lota of company, for pheoomeal climatic ooodltioos p vailed over the entire Usited State while ooe-half of the country roasted sad fried aad slssled aad sought com fort is cussing the hot weather, la free use of fans and in copious draughts of summer drinks, the other half came to the conclusion tnat winter was sitting in the lap of spring and that overcoats end stove* bad been too uniokly dis carded. Farmer Bauer, the Weather Bureau Observer at Columbia, who is a verita ble walking enoyclopadia off!nforma tion about the weather, told a Register reporter some Interesting facto yester day concerning the sweltering beat of the East and chilly breexes of the West the beginning of the work, aad wosdd give the college tbw support it do- strike 12 at the hegiaaiey* _ He sxvrwmed himself as much used with the reeawMoo ke had always received in South Osroileo aad said that It was but natural that ha should feel warmly attached to her. clock should aal crop conditions lor me week ending mo »uu ou«»j ureews with Satunley, April 18th, and in its during the last fortnight. preparation were used reports from one or more correspondents in each county of the State. The hot weather of the past week was noteworthy not only bemuse the highest April temperatures, within the time covered by the Weather' Bureau records, were recorded, but also because the heat wave was so pro longed, as such steady heat is charac teristic of July or August but, remark able for April. Tbe heat of the week converted a deficiency of 70 degrees in tempera ture since March 1st which existed at the beginning of the week Into an ex cess of abput 26 degrees. The week exhibited another feature of mid-summer temperature in that It was as hot, or hotter, in the interior as on the coast. The dally mean temperature aver- ed from 7 to 12 degrees per day her than the normal, and from 11 to 16 degrees higher per day than during the previous week. The great est gain occurred in the extreme wes tern counties, and it was warmest in the south central counties. The high est temperature reported was 98 on Friday the 17th at Gillionsville, Hamp- top county, and the lowest was 47 on Sunday, the 12th, at Greenville. The mean temperature for tbe week for the whole State, taken at 45 dif ferent stations, was 73, and the normal for the same period is approximately 63. There was but one shower reported the entire week, and that occurred in the upper portion bf Sumter County on tha evening of Friday, the 17th, and the greatest amount that fell was less than one-tenth of an Inch (0.03 at Cam den). Along the immediate coast the absence of rain was partially supplied by heavy desw, which sustained vegeta tion, but in the interior there were scarcely any dews. The normal rainfall for the week is approximately. 0.80 inch. The defici ency In rainfall for tbe whole State to now over four inches sinoe March 1st. The last benefloial rain occurred passed from West to b I Three weeks ago. ,r said he, “ a hot wave struck the Pacific Coast and has slowly over the United State* i to East, gaining in intensity aa it went along. In its wake haa fol lowed a cold wave, which traveled at about the same rate of progress. The result has been a strange contrast of climatic conditions. East of the Mis sissippi the temperature has been muen in excess of the normal tempera ture for this season of the year, the exoees being greatest in Eastern Penn sylvania, where it was from 20 to 25 degrees above the normal. On the other hand, weet of the Missiseippl, the temperature for the season being as, muon as 20 to 23 degress below In Montana. “ The climatic conditions during the last week broke all records of the Weather Bureau. East of the Missis sippi, the temperature was from 3 to 9 degrees higher in various placet than ever before recorded at this season by the Weather Bureau, which has been In o^ whil end temperature was from 2 to 6 degrees below all observations for this season by the Weather Bureau. “ While the people bf South Carolina were sweltering under a heat 10 de grees gveater than tbe normal for the season and in North Carolina the heat was 16 degrees above the normal, on Monday there were fourteen inches of IVYITBO tO kAYAMTAR | Adjutant Qeaeral Waite has receiv ed th* following letter from tha Ad jutant General of Georgia: Sir: 1 have the boaor to lavlte roar attention to tha fact that tha MlUtaT Inter-State Association of Savannah, will hold Ito first meeilag from May 11th to May 16th. Tba ex ercises will include military drills of different kinds for cavalry, artillery and infantry. Contest* for rUte, ear- bine and pistol aad cavalry in the school of the trooper such as riding at heads, rings, ate. The State has no direction of tha af fairs of this meeting yet. as tha par- pot* to to test tbe usefulness aad effi ciency for active service of those tak ing part in hand tha exercise* ar* to be of a practical nature, this depart ment win extood nay aid la Ito power to make It a suooasK Tha manage ment is to the hands of leading wi ltary moo and citizens of Savannah, and] ties UtiXVHRI will prove a beneficial 00 well aa a pleasant experience for the visltlag military. The ground for manoevuree 4a a park near the center of the oityand to well adapted to the purpose.. The arrange ments for rifle firing are of the moot complete character. The Avondale Rifle Range near the city on an electric car line, to pro nounced one of the finest ranges ia tho country. It bos recently been finished and is thoroughly equipped with all modern appliance* to insure safety and rapidity and accuracy of fire. Should it meet ’with your approval. I would be pleased to have you maae known to your troops the time and purpose of the meeting, and 1 can n*^. sure you that any representation from 7 men ana citizen* or ^avannan, posseMiag, a* they do, all faoili- 1 for carrying out aa undertaxing hi* character, it to believed that it jn A^rU 2d. wind* were generally from ths south aad southwest, aad e very pioweu k,- ... 4 sqow in North Dakota and Montana wa* also covered with a mantle of •now crystals. This is a vast country, an is evidenced by the strange con trasts of extremes of temperature so frequently prevailing in different parte at the same time. The inevitable deduction from Farm er Bauer’s explanation of tbe weather conditions which have prevailed dur ing the last week to that South Caro lina and the other ootton States will hav* a touch of the cold wave which has passed over the Want in ths trail of the hot wave. Ia fact, the advance of the cold wave stuck Texas yesterday sad its advent there was promptly re corded la the Cotton Excasage is New York by advance of 8 to 7 points in ths price of ths cotton crop. If tha wave I oar State will be cordially welcomed 1 Savannah. - , •Very respectfully. . Jno. Mcintosh Kell, Adjntaat —Maine’s labor commissioner been gathering statistics on the [of living ia that State. He _ that the avenge dally costs of a liv ing to 21 cento a day for each Individual in the avenge family. The cost of iiv- | ing to single men, boarding, to These figures cover rant, food, and light. -