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*.iL'-' ■ r . vmtt'i^-r.rtf, .*• 11 People. ; Circulation in the County WIL'i THE FARMERS LISTEN t Wtom 111* Cotton Plant Thera la no doubt that the farmer* of the South are Bianding Juat now at (he parting of the way*, and upon their their decision trill depend to a great »Tt#n( the policy and plane of a gene ration. Cotton has given them more fSfSwr--'- i l 1 ' v . their force* in due aeaaoo. Still the great ■aaatf of ode paopte are *»• pinely yielding to what they consider the decree of fate against th*n, when by intelligent and earnest effort thei might teach a lesson to trust that would benefit them for many yean to come. THE OUTLOOK OF THE FAItMEtt AN INTERESTING REVIEW OF THE SITUATION—*OQQO ADVICE EllOK AN EXPERT. ode to restore and preeerve the fertility otour soUaand keep up the productive power of our farms. At the close of the war, much of the land at the South was impoverished from successive yean of culture and despite the fact the fetUftSerithat **»« w * r left u * »«rj poor people, in Oeoraia alone prpi>erty values being reduced from 1600,000,000 (o $1,50,- 000,000, our farmers to«ik up the strug gle bravely, hoping to retrieve their tosses in the further production of cot ton, which ruled bewilderingly hi ;h. The lofatuation of high prices in every avenue of trade and commerce ^revaned. Credit was easy, too easy, fv- K ' ' a— ■ K -r • money per pound than for any year ih i a decade, because the crop of laet year was raised for lees cost per pound, and heaoe theie waa more clear money real* ised. Besides tlie average farmer was in a better financial plight than he has been for ten yean, because he has been practicing economy and raising his own food crops for man and beast The money brought by hie cotton crop hat beet) more nearly a surplus than any year since the inflated price# that pre vailed just after thy war, when every thing was booming along that line, and the contagion of going into debt took hold of the farming class and held it in a firm grip for twenty yean. Conditions are changed for the bet ter, and nearly every farmer will admit that the best plan is to raise supplies on the farm, make as few obligations as possilde, and cultivate only enough cotton to cell it a surplus crop. The large acreage in wheat would indicate that Uie farmers are determin jd to stick the policy which has lira large meas ure brought them out of debt and planted their feet on solid ground, but there are signs that many of them are weakening and vacillating at the present time, which would forebode a return to past conditions and restore the ruinous management of affairs in the South. One of these signs is that the fertiliser companies and agent* are generally reporting larger sales than usual, and the inference is that the fertffiien will be used oh i£e cotton crop. This may not be true in every instance, but the large majority of farmers are not yet adepts in the use of commercial fertilizers for any other purpose than raising cotton. • On the lhreebold*of another year the farmers in the South should make liaate slowly about putting their tiust too much in cotton. "What guarantee is there that prices such ss are now prevailing will be realized next fall? A erase on planting cotton this spring wilt inevitably lower the price in Sep tember, and already the speculators are beginning to use the increased purdiaso of fertilisers to depress the price of cot* ton future#. Will we never learn that the woild is combined against the Southern farmer to get his cotton for the least money, and that every factor which indicates a larger crop is used to our disadvantage ? The sensible and pointed remarks of Mr. R. T. Nesbitt, of Georgia, which we print in another column, gives needed information and advice, which ought to be taken by all the farmers of. the South. His conn sel in regard to the fanner putting himself into a position whereby he will not be forced to aell cotton early in the season is worthy of careful study. The bonded warehouses may not be aceeseible to every community, but fthere are few towns in the South where the farmers cannot make ar rangements with locul banks and mer- The following article from jihe pen of Mr. R.T. Nesbitt, former commiss ioner of agriculture in Georgia, 1* well adapted to the conditions existing in South Carolina, and our readers will profit by its perusal: The farmer! have been the recipients of much gratuitous advice, and I hesi late in the face of so grave a subject, but the cotton area question is looming up again and possibly there may be those who, despite the disastrous les sous of the past, are contemplating the /oily of again committing themselves to an overwhelming cotton crop. Sure ly we have- buffered too painfully from this mistake to again f lunge ourselves and all connected with ua into (his sea .of agricultural and financial troubles. Let each of us narrow this question down to his own farm and there let us decide it. It is immaterial what our neighbor does; it is, lu a large mea8ur*c, immaterial to ua individually wheUusr the cotton area be large or small; for in the agricultural results of 1900 It will be found that success has come to the man who, regardless of outside in fluences, has planted ample provision crops and then as much cotton as he can afford to thoroughly prepare for, highly manute and rapidly cultivate. Short or large crop, high or low price, he stands the first chance to win, and if the details of preparation, fertiliza tion and cultivation be so managed that he gets the largest yield from the small est area, he has mastered the secret of successful cotton production. Having done his utmost, iu his individual ca pacity, to settle the ever-recurring cot- \ BACHELOR'S ENCUMBRANCE. 1 Q . vv lh* * ■ m •' 2?; . Ife' ... m i ■ fe; .p- a* £ - i vent the rash of the crop to the inte rior markets early in the fall. There is no doubt that the advice given last , fall to hold back cotton aided to a great extent in raising the price in October and November, but concert of action among the farmers through banks and merchants where bonded warehouses do not exist will have a like effect another season. , Let no one be deceived by the pres ent prices of cotton, which would not yield near the profit this year than was realised from the crop of 1899. Not only will the farmer have to pay more for his fertilizers, but as prices have advanced all along the line, his labor will cost him more than last year, and he cannot bay a male for anything like tho price paid one ya&r ago. ilia plows will cost nearly a hundred per cent, more than they did last year, and all machinery ueed on the farm has advanced not less Chan fifty per cent. Agricultural implements and all else bought from the stores will cost more this year, and it is a matter of impossibility that cotton can be grown as cheaply ** last year, or in fact that any kind of farming can be done in 1900 at the same cost as in 1899. Farmers who are so unfortunate a! to boy provisions this year will feel the effect keenly every time they enter a store to get their supplies. ^ ^ Will the farmers listen to the warn- logs of their beat and most .reliable counsellors T 'Or will they lrno«e the facts staring them in Uie face, and plunge headlong into a course which cannot end in any other way than dis appointment and disaster ? The Cot ton Plant to th* full mess are of its influence wishes to avert the calamity that is lying just ahead, and recognizes with intense aatiafaction that some of the farmers in South Carolina ars pre. • to fight the trusts by organizing ton problem, he must seek menus to combine with his brother farmers, with 4he-merchants and with the bankers, in order that the general cotton crop may be held against the pernicious in fluences of speculative combinations and their power to wrest from his gra»p his hard earnings ere he can realize a fair return for his investment. The bonded warehouse bill, now a law, is pet haps the first step toward the emandipation of the Southern farm er from hi* bondage to Wtdl and l<om- bard streets. Here we base the in- ueptioa of a plan whereby the farmer who wishes to hold his cotton may, for a nominal sum, store and insure bis crop, the warehouse receipt being a letter of credit acceptable in any busi ness transaction. By mutual agree ment both fanner and merchant are secured. Should the plan become gen eral, the glutted markets, so often wit nessed iu the earlier fall months, will be consigned to a dead past, never to be resurrected. The farmers will by this plan l>e enabled to market (heir cot ton with more judgment and not under the whip and spur of necessity. Witness the powerful lever which the limited co-operation of the present season has proven in forcing up pnees. Right loyally have Uie bankers, the mer chants and our local manufacturers up held the fanners, and right royally has the price of cotlon withstood the re|»eal- ed and vicious attacks of manipulators, speculators and “prophets of evil.” It has been asked, if a man has the land, with sufllcient supplies and stock, is be not justified, after aetting aside an amply sufficient ares for provision and supply crops, in crowding in every possible acre for cottonY Ye*, and no. Yea, if he has good land, or such as has been gradually brought up to a good •tate of fertility. No, if his acres are like hundreds and thousands over the ter itbssoeen bsded, and thereby pro- culture, and which do ure, and wmen ao not pay me cos of production. In .proportion a« the bales made on these denuded acres go to swell the general crop and thus re duce the average price, they, to that extent, increase the burden which their cultivation imposes. No greater mis take was ever made, than to rush over the preparation of a large area of poor land, to be stimulated by a little com mercial fertilizer, and planted indis criminately in cotton. At the beginning of a new year the cotton farmer is apt to overestimate the fertility of his soil as well as his ability to prepare and cultivate a ful quota of broad acres. It is only after he is irrevocably committed to the “ex tensive” plan, and finds himsell|“over cropped,” that he realizes bis mistake, and begins to wish that a part at least of his land had been devoted to a rest, or to some renovating crop. In the final settlement, however, he does not always realize the fact that the painfu disparity between the receipts and ex penditures ot his year’s accounts might be tiaced directly to this big leak of injudicious cotton cultivation. It cer tainly does not pay to plant an indis criminate and wide area m cotton— though a man have supplies, stock and surplus of well-worti and overtaxed acres of hard-run land. In the histoiy and progress of oar agriculture that period has been reached where farmers cannot raise and sell lhe raw products of (he farm at a satisfac- toiy profit, if we take into consideration the deterioration of our lands This is a startling statement, but it is made deliberately and after thorough consideration, and on investigation it will be found that such is the history of every agricultural country, where b been grown and sold and everythiny needed on the farm, was ruinously dear. Mules $150 U> $250; flour $10, $15 $20 per barrel; meal iu the same proportion; meal 22 to 25cents a pound; farm laborers $150 to $175 per year, and rations; besides guano fOO per ton and farm tSbls were eagerly purchased at prices which we would now regard as almost prohibit ory. But Ibis high pressure policy could not continue indefinitely, neith er could the methods prevailing before the war, except in rare and favored cases, be successfully brought over into the new conditions, which follow ed that memorable and devastating struggle. At least 90 per cent, of the men who plunged into this desperate and specul ative period became -hopelessly invol ved, both farmers and merchants. The high price of cotton and the ease with which high priced supplies could be purchased, credit prices being predic ated on big and remunerative cotton cfbps, tempted many men to put every available acre in cotton and not one square inch or else a totally inadequate area in provision supply crops of any kind. When (be price of cotton declined, both the fanner, who h»d borrowed, and the merchant, who had loaned, found thenivelves saddled with debts which only years of earnest and patient labor could hope to wipe out. In many instances after a vain strug gle to regain the lost vantage ground, the merchants went to the wall and the old plantations passed into the hands of strangers. ' ■ This is a sad picture and pity ’tis, ’tis true. It was only tboee men who followed more conservative methods and who apprehended the new era just beginning to dawn on our agriculture, who were able to letain their birth* 1 right and weather the storm of financi al depression, which swept with such fearful force over the entire South. But that generation has passed—new men have come upon the scene and now prevail. The strong, youug business men of the South, farmers and mer chants and.manufacUirera and bankers have been trained in a very different school from the maguificem golden age of the old South. Agricultural litera ture has been spread broadcast over the land, experiment stations have multiplied, farmers’ institutes and colleges aud other methods for dissemi nating agricultural and up-So-date prin ciples are in easy reach of the army of earnest workers constituting 73 per cent of our populatidU who are reading, studying and applying these vital truths. Already diversified farming and rotation, fruit growing, cal lie rais ing and bultei making are taking the place of the one-crop system with its at tendant bondage to debt and the inde pendent farmer who can make his cot ton and hold it is not the rara avis be once was. In technical education and manual training, in manufacturing, in every olher development of business, the new South is proudly taking her place among commercial nations. The era for which thirty odd year* of lessons painfully learned, disappointments, dis asters and final successes have prepar ed the way, is being ushered iu, and on the banners of tbe twentieth century we see the glimmer of victory—victory for farmers, merchants, bankers, man- ufactuiers—all business interests fight ing in one grand army to hold the com mercial aud agricultural supremacy of tie South against the world! From this union must come our strength for all futuie conflicts against .dbc forces wop—cotton—which- is the-gigantic industry of the world. R. T. Nesbitt. Marietta, Ga., January 8, 1900. I. Paul Particular, went West lat* i a-l autumn, sod waen l returned it ass in company with my encum brance 4 . * Impriml*, my paternal patronymic wiw not a mlsnoiqpr. I am undeniably “particular;” I waa particular from my childhood. 1 grew up-particular, for these Id-as "grew wlib my growth, and strengthened with my strength ’’ I would not till the com’o tsite Jiwlo miuntry estate .'alt me because a far mer must sometime* w^ar'ovoralU ; so I arranged Primrose oortige a« nicely as pain’, and elegant fu niiuie could render it, hired Dorcas Trim a« house- Keeper and Job Tarifty as gardener, and went low town, ontlred into the commission and brokerage busin.'s,. i! He asQd aud took rooms at Eisy’s hoUl. JBy bu loess was nut Wearing , 1 bad a working parlntk.and my own capital procured me the greater share ot the profits and an naty ate. I had a sister, out she was married aud bad a colony of little totumbrances growing up around her, and filling nursery, hall add drawingroom with tuelr noise; hence I went lees and less to Ellen’s as the encumbrances Increased ; and grew more demonstrative of the isp-tcity and strength ot juvenile lungs. Prim rose cottage wai twenty miles from town ; and taougb pleasant enough for a summers va ation, when I enter talned a party of choice guests, yet autumns und winters, mluo host ui E,8>’s hotel bad the preference. But for the jmrney I set cut upon :bot autumn whereof i am about to re late ; for the story will show you by what unlooked-for means ( took to my self an encumbrrnce for life. A long time bad my old friend and college chum, D ck Avery, been Bind ing me letters descriptive of h’.s La >py farmer life :q Montana. “ Waene.vcr you get the blues and dysprosU, -or grow sick cf business, come cut for a month through the glorious^ great West, and to my M-mtana home.” This bad been D.ck’s (landing invita tion ever since ue had immigrated to bis present hem). Providence directed me. I had then ty p-psia and would go to Montana! 5j', with a full pocXet, and unencum bered, save by that horrible tyrant whose tbnne was my gastronomic re gion, 1 sel my face toward the setting sun. How glad Dick was U>am me’ shook my hand so vigorously and me question! in sujh rapid succession UuA I could scarcely draw a free brvatb betwtej answers Tben came introductions to his wife, Mrs. Ne ly Avery, whom ( never should have re cognized as the slender wife D:ck carried from the East with him; the four children, and a cousin of Mr*. Avery, Miss Gertrude Bird, a pretty •ort of young creature with dark blue eyes and a wealth of brown hsir. Miss B'.rd had been West four years leach mg school, and was now getting home sick; to that It was only after much persuasion that *ne consented to stsy * month or two longer with the A very*. “ A bachelor still, Paul,” said Dick, wfille Mrs. Avery and her pretty ccus- la were preparing supper. * Why, mao, you ougnt to have been settled down in life route ton years! You e;d I used to be about of an age, I believe, Paul, and I'm getting along well to wan my forties. Thirty-eight lest priog.” It was certainly uncalled for—Dick's meitiooing ages j isl then; but some ho« Dick Arory was always a blunt kind of a fetlow. “I'm happy as a king,” he resumed, taxing his youngest son—a fine fellow whom he bad “ K -roembeied me by,” in the bestowal of hi* cognomen—upon his kono. ” Nelly’s proved a treasure ; wasn’t too much of a fine lady to-give up her EsSlern home aid accompany ue out h re to the border* of the wil derness, nod I have mapped out great careers for the young ones.” Just then Gertrude B rd came into the r #m sod romm o- u us to supper, CanolJly, I oon’t remember the time that Hist Es*y tver got up such a 'cmpllog meal. And tben my appetite •ofiMofl eled with the tyrant tost bad held it in abeyance Upon .roe whole, it was decidedly pleesint. After supper, Dick proposeo naviog some mu*lc "We always hav- \ Bat when, twilight bed merged teto f ven'of Gertrude Bird's brown heed, began to show most unrqu'vooa 1 symp tom* of weariness; then began my flrat positive trouble. P'Bxliy the sod diog heed settleJ to its own way ; over and over It dropped towa-d the. till a* last it settled wearily on my shoulder, and MU* Gertrude Biid’s thoughts were tn neither dta’e lying between Montana and Massscbusett*, but in the fairy realms of Dreamland. Nol-tbat the little head was *' setloiiR-^imaih- breoce. because of It* weight simp)} —O no! but, then, this was a decided.y novel position to which I, a bachelor, four.d m>*elf, and it was not unit, every tired‘‘occupant of the oar bad olimted Into a sleeper that sti# wak ened. Then Miss Bi^ii lifted her little h<-ai and said with a biusn “Oa 1 must have slept adittle 1 And I fear I mu^t h*yt been an encumbrance to you, M-. I’srti cular !*’** Ana again, tn accordance with the dictate* of my good ua’.ure, t wa- forced to awure her that I had n< t b,e> in the laast encumbered by the weight of her head; "in fact, I thou/n I must have slept most of roe time my sail.” FETIALE MAI That sounds ft is, when attention' a description of the 'SSjSKwsr gest mail received tST uS lively from women. Thiv“female trui is reeved by Dr. R. V. Pierce. Institute, Buf- , chief consulting physician to the Inva lids’ Hotel and Surgical falo, N. Y. » n s. the It is only fair to say that »*“"*“* man that women wn»e to,;bqt the doctor. v WVrazMiAA ^ m a*.* 'One of the remarkable features of Ihw correspondence is that years after a cure has been effected, grateful women con tinue to write to Dr. fierce, being t ful for health and for the kind And so It went on nil that journey, I. Lis* Biru’i beyond LqBring B rd had recover of the journey. I I and no idea of lifelong Sncum Paul Particular, serving os camsjkir by day. ^ Finally we arrived in Boston when, after seeing ML* Bird safely on the train b iuodfor X—, I took uu my quart rs at Lasy’s outei again. When «e par.ed Mias G rtrude repeatedly tbanXed me for my kindness, anuflng me that she shou d get oh uiccly the rem jaut cf the j mrney, and/extending ne a cordial iuvlisiiou to go out to X—-a. and visit her borne and her tUiOtter. 1 ao not know how ii'eame to pas* , do not think when L went out to X I had any toough now Mies Ger.ru ed from too la'.igue am very sure tost taxing to rnysoif a branch, and assuming the rtaponai • htieaof looking after not only • inwls, satchels and baskets, but household fixtures and .wardrobe generally dur ing all my future. But do no. under stand me that I implicate ML* Bird with dravirg mi into such a -aep; for I solemnly assert Here to at I bmevo that young lady was as surprised as myself after we real zed that all this ha- tomaily came about. Neither under Siaud mo that I regret or would recall toi* event. I, a'one, am to blame. I was at sister Ellen’s the other day and roe fi'St thing she said to me was, “ Why, Paul, what 1a all this 1 bear about you ? You going to bu married i am delighted, though i always did thins you were cut out for a bachelor But your j jurney helped ^ou in more a litt.e ting of evenings,” said h«**"and to night 1 propose ‘Auld Lang Ayne.’ uoma, G rtie.” Miss Bird sat down to the piano and “ Aud Lang Syne ” was ways than your dyspepsia.” to Kit T submitted to Ellen'* coigratula- .tions (roe always did say malicious things) end the children's shouts and kisses la fact I am getting qnite resigned to my prospective fate. , it is only once in a wnile. as ia the present instance when 1 am in a rage at having lost the last train out to X- , tost the wan tog spirit of my bachelorhood urges me to pourout into tom* sympatbnag ear my complaint. But, aft^r all, really don't believe thnt I sbou'.d con elder that mas my true friend wh should offer to ooudole with me. Toe die is cast, and I take home my future with lu attendant joys and sorrows hoping that the (oroer will b* many and the letter few. 1 Invite you, one end all, reader* ou> to Primrose cottage next May, and [, Paul Particular, married man, wlii Introduce you to my encumbrance. THK QUESTION A OF TUK DAY. De the Kept eropa have been grown and sold off the oat an adequate return being made to tee sell for the clementr removed In those crop#. As Iff iUnstration of this truth, we have only to point to Ireland, whose )K>verty stricken people, under the bondage io alien lords, have seen their crops removed and expended elsewhere, year after T«Rr. and nothing of this departed fertility replaced. In our own case many cause* have tended to bring ue to a condition where we hove been compelled k) study math- It is expected that unusually good facilities for aludying pheuoineua con nected with the interior of the earth will be afforded at the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, where a well it to be sunk to the depth of several thousaud leet on the university grounds. The investigations on this well will be carried on by Prof. I. C. Russell of the department of geology, and Dr. Carl Gutbe of the department of physics, and the fact of a deep well being located so near the laboratories of the university will doubtless provoke much original work ou this subject. In addition to questions of a geological nature, involving the various strata pierced by the boring, there are many problems connected with the interior temperature of the earth which are now interesting scientists. Results from a large number of wells are now desired for purposes of comparison, and while it is not to be supposed that the Michigan well will make a record for depth, yet in the hands of scientific investigators much should he forth coming. The efforts which Gov Merriam, di rector of the census, is making to induce farmers to prepare statements of their operations for the calendar year of 1899, so that they will be ready to a reply definitely and accurately to the enumerators’ questions next June, are bearing fruit. Borne farmers have forwarded ccpiesof statements to the census office, accompanied by inquiries as to their completeness aud correctness. The first and one farm for many successive yeUrt, With- of^ the ’ best of these tatemeuts came from a woman who operates a farm in Pennsylvania on her own ac count. The paper show! not only the acreage, quantity and value of each crop, but contains also a good inventory of live stock and a detailed statement of the quantity and'vhhMot miscellane ous articles produced. If every farmer would imitate this woman, the agneui- tufalr report of this twelfth census would be a, marvel of oompleteueaeaDd would show the entire productive strength of the United 8tales in food products. ana to«-u BtOto soil we ad retired (or tbe otgut And I must say that such calm sleep and quiet dreams never visited m* io my Handsomely furnished bed-ebam- her at E>sy’* hotel as came to me there in the plain little bed In which I lay diwn torest that first night in Mon iana. But I have not time here to recount all tbe events of that month in Dick Avery’s home. 8 j dice it that each was a type ot re.-1. And* 1 this time the tyrant, dyspepsia, bad been growing feebler in hi* sway, till finally ha en tirely <>bd leaked toe throne. And then I began to think ol com ng home, and then was it that my cacumbrqncecame to me after this wise. “ Paul,” said D ck, one day, coming to mo with a serious face from a long talk with Gertrude Bird, “ how would you I Ike. company to the East? Ger trude it thoroughly homesick and longs to see her untoer again ; and though we shall lose half the suushlne of our home, I cannot urge her to stay an other mouth. Your goiug back offers such a capital chance for uer to travel lo company that Gertie’s deputed ms to ask you if she'll be any encumbrance to you.’’ Bo what was left for me, Paul Par ticular, bachelor, who had never “ lax eo charge” of a lady on a journey In all my life, but to protest to Dick Avery, hi* wife and to MlssGdrtrude Bird tnat U'wputd afford me sincert-st pleasure .to act a* escort from Montana to Massachusetts to the last named young lady I And this Is how I came oy my encumbrance I It is one thing to meet a young lady —and mat lady as pretty and bewitch ing as Miss Bird at stated hours, day time and evening, and quite another to find yourself shut up lu the same railway oar with her and seated on the same seat with her for a journey of three or four days and nights together. Ode either gets thoro goly wearied of or ia love with-fats companion during all this; that If, If he is unmarriedabJ suscjptihle. But L Paul Particular, who bad arrived at tbe age of-well, Dick has revealed the matter of my aga for me—might have oeen supposed to possess abilities to steer dear of both SayUeand Charybdia. The first day’s journey was ia no wise different from th«t=ef ary good- cat a el, easy man who is encumbered wlro roe charge of a young lady, with her dalaty individual wsate to attend to.' dura it was thet-MLe Gertrude Bird’s first twelve hoars were com- para.ively easy Dees to her. Democratic Leader Teaches cratic Doctrine la Ball 1 in I’arty Leaders in Maryland Away. Hon. W. J. Bryan spoke to a very large audience In Baltimore upon the political questions of tbe day, and bL speech was received with tbe greatest ion u- a-m. Tbe regular orgeats* lion of Democrats kept aloof from par licipalioa in tne meeting, wblcQ *aa under the auspices of tbe Maryland Democratic a*eociaklon, which adheres to tbe Chicago p a:form Senator Tilt man went with Mr. Bryan to Balti more. Mr. Bryan’s remarks were part as follows: “ 1 want to assure you in tho begia- nlng that my happiness does not de pend upon any honor which tbe peoD^u, .can confer., neither uo ■ftons.-harper wr fatherly advice, which was tended wite at./'SMinoj*! and which w&s the physician’s counsel, . ao helpful in preserving the health when regained. , , The offer of a free consultation by let ter is extended by Dr. Pierce to every sick and ailing woman. Every letter received is read in private, answered in irivate and its contents treated as a sa cred confidence. To exclude any third party from the' correspondence, all answers are mailed in a plain envelope, bearing upon it no printing or advertising whatever. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, the rreat remedy for female troubles, irregu- ariiiM debilitating drains, inflammation antics, debilitating and ulceration, is for sale-by all. dealers- in medicine. Accept no substitute which may be recommended as “ just as good ’’ that the dealer may make a little extra, profit. • • Dr. Pierce’s Favor ite Prescription makes Weak Women Strong and Sick Women Well. ustrat eil ; p&mphle which shouh be in the hand of every planter wh< raises Cotton. -Th book is $ent Free. and sddrew io GERMAN kali works, 93 Nswsu St., Nrw Yack. PITT’S < ures dyspepsia, indigestion, and i stomach or bowel troubles colic or chole morons., teething troubl s with cbiMrt kidney troubles, bad blood and all torts sores, risings or felons, cut* and bums, is as good antiteptie. when locally *ppli« any thing on tjiie market.' Try 1 It and vou will praise it to othe If your druggist doesn’t keep.it,>rite L Pitts' Antiseptic Invigorator C THOMSON, GA- you run across tbe stomp tax dai in or -wo-farer depends upon any ana.per son. As In politics as la the army, the generals get the glory and the privates uo the wort. And therefore I feel that I owe it to those who for nearly four years have been bearing the bur den In the heat of the day, fowe it to them to say that what I have done L but an atom compared with what they have done. “ It,1896 the voters proved that they could control the policy of the pany, and during the last three years they have proven that they oouid hold what they gained in 1896 in spite of news papers, in spite of railroads, in spite of banxs, and In spite of every Influence supposed to obtain, the plain people of tbe D mocratio party have stood and now stand (or the Chicago platform in ail that it says. I want to begin with an accepted proposition, that pr vision which 1 considtr most fundamental ia government. “ 1 Hod it in the declaration of inde pendence—If you will pardon me for quoting anything from that old ana wuraout document as our Kspublican friends seem to think it. The declara tion of independence was once a highly respected document; It Is under a cloud just now, but I have con fid ence that in a few more months tbe c oud* will be rotted by and that old document will shine with all its former bright ness. •' “That fundamental principle is that all men are created eqttRl. _ 1 do sot mean to say that all men are created equal In physical strength; I do not mean to say that a 1 men are created equal in mental ability, or In moral worth, or that under any just loim of government a man will be equal In capacity for enjoyment, or in the enjoyment that we have. Wnatl mean to say is this: That whenever government comet into contact with tbe oitiaen, or whenever tbe citison touches the government, tben all must stand tqual before the law, and thera must be no high, no low, no rich, no poor. That government must be ad ministered according to the maxim of Jtffersoa: ‘Equal rights to all And special privileges to BOAS*' “lam going to ask tbe Republican* hereto think for a little while, wneo they go home, of the income tax, and sfe if it is aot ia Has with that doc trine of equal rlghu.to all and special privileges to none. •• Whea the Spanish war broke out we bad to bava more taxes, and tbe Republican party looked around for nay old thing to put a stamp oa, and s all th* time. Every time I send a te!ugr»m I have to pay the regular rate *nd la addition 1 cent to each one is added for the beneficial asslmllatlm of tbe Filipino. “ Why la It that the man who tends the telegram has to pay the tsx ? Be cause the tel* graph company says so, and why was the law ao made tnat the telegraph company oouid shift the bur den onto the mao who sends the tele gram ? Because the tslegrapn com panies have more iottueooe wl-.h the Republican party than ail tne poor R-publicans who use the wires. •• In tbe hour of peril this xovero- menl can take tbe too from hi* myth- ar, the huiband from his wife, tbe father from bit child and stand them up ia froatof an enemy’s gins, but lo sn hour of danger th.s goveroauc.1 cannot lay lit basd* upan accumulate*: wealth and make that wtaito Dear it. share ot ^he expenses. ‘“Why 1* it? It Is because tbe R>- pubucao party baa made money more preclqps than blood. My (riands, you neard men der ounce our Income tax la 1896 1 want tossy that It is strong er today than it was then. And if those who have been shirking their taxes tbiok that they have settled this question forevsr, I want to tell them that tne Income tax will he in the next campaign and It will be io the campaign until the constitution of the United Stales It so amend*d as to specifically author si so Income tax, to that neither one judge nor owe judges can builds bulwarx around the for unes of tbe great and throw the burdens of government on tbe poor. “ But this Is only one questioo. 1 am going to speak of another question which shows how the Republican part) Is looking after the’ interests of weallO aad neglecting the aelfare of th* peo ple. 1 am going to say a word on the money question. I know they say that the money question Is a dead it.uc. But, my friends, silver bat been buried to often that a lluie thing like a fu neral does not bother ui like it uted to. When reverse* In a war with a handful of Biers will shake our finan clal system, where will tbe gold .tan dard be If England ever alt OX* a nation of her six j sod got* into a reai war. * When we join ourselves to tbe gold standard ; when we make gold aiooe the legal tender for the payment of debts, we oonot-ctourseive. with every disturbance in Europe, and make our Mivts dependent upon tbeir condition* 01 CARFENrEtt BROS., Greenville. H. C IS fat* that this nation L to ceaae be F republic, and become an empli If it Is destiny that this, the greate republic of history, b to extinguish light sna follow in th** light of t monarchies of tbe Old World, iMn t providence of God the time bat ooi when the pemulum shoud iwl back toward the dara ages of * triumph of brute foroW.-f pray to G that the D mo -.ratio party may down to eternal drain with ibe i public' rather than Vi live when principles are gone." An Embarrassing Question They are telling a story lo Wasbn ton a>>ut C*.ngr.*stnac CLylon, Alabsms, whous:d to be district i torn-y io bis State. It became I duty atone time to proeecute ao < man for making Illicit wtoskt-y. was not a very senoue Infraction of t law; but the old back wouoa man fa been recite** in hit open vto atioo a it was oicetsary to maXe ae exsm| of him. Ue w*s brought lalo cou and slier tbe government had slat it* ca-* tbe old man. who had no la yer, asked to bi allowed to go oa t stand. Ue wa* told that this woi render him liable to answer any qu lions; but he insisted; ••Well, un "e J ssld Clayt* “did you really mske any whiskey yoer still ?’’ . “Henry,” replied the old man, w! pathetic tone, “ 1 koow’d your pa vo-el for yimr p* eve^y l-me he r forJedge. Aid, Henry, your pa woi a ver have axed mo ao question II toat.” The juror# laughed, the court smil and Ciaytoo relented. Tbe old m drove home that night. It it false; that system Is hot sound. Tell me It is an American system ? It It site; there It no such American system makes us tremble every time there ia trouble among the gqld stan dard countries of the Old World.” Continuing upon the'currency-ques tion, Mr. Bryan asserlei that in 1896 all of the leading political parlies de manded a double -tandard, differing only In tbe method of obtaining it. Now, the Republican parly Insists upon a single standard and a bill is pending in Congnss which not only seek* that ecd, hut also eodoavors to perpetually fore*) upon this country tie present national banking system. I the Ripubl'cans bad aavocatod such a messuie in 1896, be declared, Mr. McKln.ey would dcvi r have been Pres ident. Aft- r fully discussing tbe cur reocy question, Mr. Bryan took up the —The past year has bees on*, of gn profit lo tbe Iron mining taiere«ta Alabama. Toe output of pig iron • as much as. 1.048,794 tons and prl* were n ore than doubled, lu Janus 1899, No. 1 foundry Iron void at M too, »ray forge at 16 50 a* d No. 1 * at 68 lo the followini Decern I the«e sorts told, respective^, at 618 616 and 618.50—a profitable advance makers who bad tbeL yards full of | accumulated during dull time*, li or# waa mined to tbe extent of 2,140,' tons; tbe coke product was 1,834,1 tons, coal 7,559,381 toot. —Down at Washington the oti day some ooo in introducing Benal Depew to R.-preseotative Doiltvec Iowa, tald to the Senator : "Th| Kmley and Prottenly," whereup Senator Depew replied: “ Nature the sequel will be McK nley and Blia —A special census in Brooklyn tbo that 574,459 inhabitants Uvo in 31,C tenement bou*?s, an average of 18 the bouse. WHY HATHAWA' CURES. for His larrelow Shoe* His New, Free Beek. Dr. Hathaway's met) of treatment L no exp meat. It to the resul twenty years of exp ence In tbe most ext sive practice of i r -laltst In hto line w world. He water noted from one at best medical coDegei the country snd perft sd hto medical and sui col education by ext sire hospital praet career he made disc trusts, which he discussed at great length; insisting that tbe Republican party bad no int.-ntion whatever of in terfering with such corporations under any circumstances. From toe trusts be passed to a discussion of the stand ing army, and declared that the pre sence of 100 000 soldiers in this coun try and the Poillppino* was but a step J toward militarism. He tben discussed ! '"■pytllr L h „“,b» l 7.T.* great dtffereoce between that and ex- erlef whlch place<1 hlm at the head o( hu ^ panaion. Tne present policy 0‘ l*(L.iionu a specialist In treating what are genen administrati-m, be asserted, tended toKreupwnas private diseases of men and worn ward Imperialism, although Its friend* ! 'nlto system of treatment he has more aad as and upholders endeavored to show that 1 perfected each year until today hto cures an It was expansion. : Invariable as to be the marvel of tbe medl He discussed the problem of tbe ' pr ^?* l ? n ' , . . Philippines from the point of com-1 , n teUorid hellKSf.lySSL'K merce, clvilixstlon and religion, and 1 nal fees which makes it possible for all to oM Cited tbe results of English govern- ment In India to show that none of { these Would be accomplished in the > Philippines. > ‘ : • You cannot find, an argument,” said he, "for the permanent holding of the Philippine islands that would not apply to Cuba.” I want,” said Mr. Bryan, In conclu sion, “if I can to restore a government founded upon the declaration of Inde pendence and administered according to tbe doctrine of Jefferson; a govern ment that will stand as It did in Jack- son’s day between a bank aristocracy and the people, but, my friends, 1 can not telil you what fate has decreed. I cannot teii you wbtiber L is to be our lot to triumph, and in our trinmoh lay tbe foundation again in the old pleoee, and raise again the ancient lan j marks, which the father* had /eat up I can not tell; but I know this : That if it hto services. Dr. Hathaway treats and cures Lost of VKafa Varicocele, Stricture, Blood Poisoning In tta < ferent stages. Rheumatism, Weak Back, N« outness, all manner of Urinary rv«»p«*fr Ulcers, Sores and Skin Diseases, Bright* Dtoei and all forms of Kidney Troubles. Htotreatm for undertoned meb restores lost vitality i nates tbe patient a strong, well, vigorous m Dr. Hathaway's success in tbe treatment Varieoeeie sod 8tricture wtttxmt tbe aM of In or cautery to phenomenal The patent Is treal by this method at hto own home without pots loss of time from business. ThiatopoaiOrety I only treatment which curat wRhoutan < Dr. Hathaway calls tbo particular sufferers from Varieoeeie aad P 27,28,20, XT and xi of bis an "Manliness, Vigor. Health,” a eopyeri bo sent free on application. Write today for free bosk and I J. NBWTONHATHAWAY, M. A Dr. 1