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r- \ \ t {> I F VOL. ^lif " :a ' - ~ ?-? == ANTA(iONI8M TO CAPI TOL, (lov. Tillman Knter&u Vigorous Denial of tlio <,oi'r(,?t!?e88 ?f the Iinpcueliinent The Antugonl?*m is against llini. The situation in South t'a olina is being closly watched and capitalists! are inquiring into the situation here. A prospective investor writes a party here, and as far as the subject matter is concerned, says: x^overal prospectness of cotton mill enterprises in your State" have been placed in my hands by some New York friends recently, and 1 have been invited to take s'ock in same. I have not determined the matter in my mind, although inclined to take *50,000 in these mills, out can hardly get my full consent to do so, as a few of my friends will take a similar amount if I will. Recent legislation and litigation in your State relative to cotton mills and railroads, together with threatened legislation of more stringent l/ys in regard to same, compel me to withhold placing any capital in these enterprises. And not being willing to invest my capital, of course 1 can't advise my friends to do so, (at least not for the present) and therefore prefer holding off until I see some signs of legislation that will warrant me in doing so. I havegiv en you my views in a vory unreserve way and await yours, wishing them to be equally as unreserved. Candor and friendship compel me to go a step further on this subject and ask you a few questions; What is the actual trouble in South Carolina? Why is legislation antagonistic to capital? Is there a spirit of communism existing that demands it? Loud and oft repeated rumors in moneyed oiroles'in New York; Bos ton and Philadelphia say it is so:'' The correspondence was submitted to Governor Tillman and he gave the press his views in which ho said: "The most abominable feature of this whole business is that ;n trying to hurt mo my enemies are every day injuring the State. These stories are a good deal like an electric current which goes out and must come hack, and comes back in greatly exaggerated condition. The stories of attacks by my Administration on the railroads and on corporations have boon industriously circulated for the specific purpose of creating a false impression abroad q^bout me and the people who support me. It is the old fable of the wolf and the lamb. Gey tain men and interests interested in corporations are resolved to destroy my influence, and, failing in that, to blacken my reputation abroad. They cannot be appeased for the loss or power, and it is bo damned if you do and be damned if you don't. The slander mill is grinding. What it grinds out for /consumption outside the State is sent back here an l is republished by the newspapers of this State when the editors know them to be lies, and know also that they told them. "I know that this feeling about South Carolina exists; but instead of being a result of the communistic or agrarair. tendences of the Legislature is a result of the lies sent out. These stories are a refinance, and tho people who aro circulating them will wish some day that they hadn't d?ie it. Truth can never overtake li/ie, and in their mad desire to destroy me they are injuring the State and blackening its good name. "As a matter of fact there has never been, and is not now, the slightest intention on tho part of any of tho ofTicers of this State to be unjust to or to discriminate against corporations or capital. "The factory law, of which the writer of tho letter has probably ob uiiuuu unrroneous impressions, gives tho factories more working time than is allowed in ni%ny of the larg est cotton manufacturing State. Georgia for instance. In reality the factories are all paying dividends, wjiich proves the stories about the ana the fight 011 corporations of this kind to be a lot of rot. New factories are going up all over the State and our own people do not seem to mistrust tho Legislature or fear tho laws. "The railroad commission has 110 more [>ower in this State than elsewhere. The members of the commission are sensible and conservative men. They have no desire or pur pose to wreck or hurt the railroads, and other department of tho Government of the State has such a desire. ' In the railroad fight the only contention waj that there should not be favored class of taxpayers and %^that there should bo no taxpayers who conld cloak themselves under the ermine of a Federal Judge when all could not obtain that privilege. "I pronounce as a lie any statements that/this State is making a flglit on capital. If this man, or anybody else, is deterred from coming here by these statements, he is simply standing in his own light. If he waits for any change in the polioy of the State Government in the matters he mentions he will wait a long time. Nobody r _ wants him under those conditions. We are striving for equality under the law for citizens and corporations alike, and if we are to permit capita! to shirk taxation and corporations to dictate to the State in order to havfc money come here for investment we don't want it." Columbian Letter. (Regular Correspondent.) We should bo glad to speak thusen couragingly of the throngs who have attended the fair, but if wo did we would bo handling the truth very carelessly. The reason is inefficient and improper management; the effect people staying at home, tho remedy harmony between the directors, less autocratic notions among department chiefs, and the entire management putting their shoulder to tho wheel, coupled with the watchword "com pletion" inscribed on their banner. It is safe to say that now as the llrst month is closing, the fair has been anything but a success. No doubt, the well-paid executive officials, are laughingTn their sleeve, at the public, whom they are gulling and at whose crib they are feeding. How very much Wft are oftentimes in debt to inlluenco, in place of merit, and how a little brief authority and power makes inighty men of us?"iu our own estimation!" Major Handy, the high chief magistrate of the department of publicity and promotion, is a man of much importance in his own mind, but that's about where it ends. The newspapers fraternity will doubtless rejoice, if his head falls in the basket, as there is now a strong probability. The position ho occupies should be filled hy a ma\ with broad views and courteous manner, and above all by one who would bo over mindful of and grateful for what the press (especially outside of Chicago) have done and aro doing for that department. Nature is seen in all its beauty both on the grounds and in horticultural hall. If everything else was in so forward a state, there would be little occasion for the remark heard recently. "It's not so much what we can see as what we can't see." No necessity of going to the World's Fair to see packing cases the wholesale drygoods district af? 1? ll- - 1 ? * _ - I A _ * 1 lorus rnai signr any uay. Many will bo surprised to soo the unique display made by tho different provitices of Canada in the agricul iurnl buttTTfng arranged under the supervision of \V. II. Hoy and A. J. Veale. This Canadian court builded from samples taken from all the experimental farms in the dominion, presents a novel sight. Cereals (wheat, corn, oats and barley) pota toes, tobaco and furs, show what our neighbors can do. Tho vast northwest territories are ably represented herein by Senator W. lb Perley. who exiemis a nearty welcome to all. Across the aisle an the west is the exhibit of this same dominion, of manuficturcd products growing out of the agricultural department proper. As "good wine needs no bush," so with the famous Canadian club whiskey on exhibit here. Jb S, Hodgins is surperintodciul in chargo, and ho is surrounded with praminds of ale and porter, cheese, biscuit, ham and bacon. The word of installation in this building is inquito a forward state, as compared with many others. If it were only a question of time, there is 110 doubt but what machinery hail, when that time arrives, will be alive with interest, but just at present active operations seem to bo confined to the whirl of the marvelous printing presses. The Pino Tree state building was opened by Gov. Cleaves and staff, assisted by several notables, and to judge from the hospitality displayed no room was left for guesswork as to its being genuine and hearty. And not far distant in Victoria house on the same day, the sons and daughters of good Queen Victoria's realm, held nigh cittnival in honor of the seventy-fourth anniversary of her birth, and put tho finishing torches on, by a banquet held in tho evening in the Virginia hotel which was attended by many distinguished foreigners and Americans. Germany not to bo outdone, invited many to assist in her house warming, and as tho material used in the construction of her house of rifany gables was brought from her domain, that itself will form an interesting exhibit, as it is so intended. Tho imperial commissioner, Harry Wermnth, was kept busy receiving friends in his new house. Wolcomo news for many paronts, and the boys and girls between the ages of 6 and 12 years, is tho fact, that the admission fee for them has been reduced to 25 cents. The weather in general dur'ng last week, was cool and pleasant, making sight seeing enjoyable, but don't forget extra underwear and outside wraps. , How" many of us have longed for a peep at gay Paris. The French building opened last week affords suoh an opportunity. The Sunday opening question has stircd up quito a tempest between l<Be True to ^ 3 ON WAY. S. ~C. the national ami the local directories and up to date, or.e of tho coinmis sioners has resigned his position on the judiciary comiuitee. It looks now us if the courts would have to take a hai^l in the matter before it is finally adjusted. Itovalt.v will havo ht>nn Ai'lrnmcd - J J t ' "" f " W" W~ ? I within Chicane's hospitable ?ute&, before this letter is read by many, in the person of Princess Eulalie of Spain. It's mighty nice to travel in such royal style, and mostly at the expense of "Uncle Sam." Iler royal highness has been wined and dined in Washington and Gotham, now Chicago will do herself proud in the way of entertaining. The bureau of public comfort have done good work in the placing of benches where they are most needed, and tho people are not slow to appreciate this long wished for necessity. Hut the grounds are so large, that oven the thousands scattered about are like policemen?not to he found when wanted. Imagine if you can the effect last Saturday evening, of myriads of electric lights, fountains of overflowing water, coupled with a chorus of 1,400 voices, lifted up in song, appealing not only to the sense of sight, but also of the ear. Many noted men and wo.ncn at tended and addressed the press con gross hold in the memorial art palace last week. The newspaper world and all its possibilities wore discussed by able representatives of the fraternity. A rk'.e behind four spanking horses, seated in and on top of the ever popular tally-ho, is vory much enjoyed by many, and regular trips are made, front the business centre of Chicago, out to the white city, giving ono an opportunity to bowl along the well kept boulevards. An entertainment of much inter est is giving by the Arabs, in the stealing of a fair bride at the wedding foast, and her subsequent recapture by friends. The poor mother-in law is left in the possession of the ferocious Bedouins. Unless a speedy remedy is applied to increase the attendance of thro people, the financial committee and treasurer will have hard work to make both ends moot. The 111 anagemerit counted on an average of at least 200,000 paid daily admissions. Thus far the paid admissions have not exceeded 1,500,000. There should have been over 5,000,000 -a big margin to make up. The womans building . is full of interest oven in its incomplete con dition as regards exhibits. Many of us men, who do not appreciate what our mothers, wives and daugh tors can do, will have the chance of our lifetime. There are some mighty, energetic, pushing women connected with this department, redacting great credit on tho judgement of those who sent them, and whose state-hood they ropresent. ? Weekly Weather craji lSiillitin of South Carolina for the - i n cck ciKiniK monituy May 120, 181)15. Cotton atul all crops have improved greatly during the past seven days of sunshine and warm nights. I The temperature seldom wen t lower than GG and reached as high as 9G | in some localities. One or two ben* j eficial showers occured up to the 27th, but were only a tempoary relaxation qf the drought, which again threatened and which was begining to have an injurious effect on gardens, when the heavy storm of the night of the 28th, occurred. ^ While this storm in certain sections was ot decided bonefit it was accompanied by high winds and hail, and proved of grot damage to cotton. The previous hot dry weathor stopped tho ravages being made by cut and bud worms, and prospects are more promising than for several weeks. ti BORGIA BOHDKIl COUNTIES. Cotton lias improved greatly and all worked over. Corn is growing nicely. Wheat turning and in some places being cut Potatoes and melons doing well, Oats being housed, but yield generally small. Crops free of grass. COST COUNTIICS. Early oats are being harvested. Cotton improved, of good color but small. Potatoes show the largest yield for yews. Fruit not so well. Rice doing finely and an increased acreage. NORTH CAltOr.lNA HOKOKu COUNT IKS. All crops have improved immensely, especially cotton, which is all chopped out and swept. Wheat good, some being harvested. Corn being plowed the Second time. Somo ntso cat, will run half a crop. MIDDf.K COUNTIKS. ' Wheat and oats rapidly approaching maturity, and will do to cut in {our Word, Your Work, and 1 I. THURSDAY \ a week's time. Wheat fairly good heads. Spring oats, fair. Fruit good some dropping oft reperted. Worms have quit killing corn. Some peas planted in corn. Farmers well up; with work. Crops free of grass. Labor abundant Control Office. J. II. Harmon. I Columbia, S. U. , Director. POLITICAL PHASES. The Situation Today iN State, Affiars, as Concisely Summed Up. The Columbia Journal, May, 27th. Politics everywhere luis many phases, but in this State now phases are of almost daily occurence* Recent discussion of some of them have been culled by the Journal re porter for the readers of tho paper. For two years or more the ambition of Governor T'llman to succeed Senator Butler has been the most interesting feature of State polities and one that has had numerous phases. Two years ago there was hardly a man in the State who would have bet on the re-election of Senator Butler, and there weiea great many who thought lie would not run again, so certain did defeat seem under existing conditions. This feeling was strengthened by tho election of President Cleveland, for then it was folt bv nearlv ovnrv mm in Mii? Sitntf* tlmt Senator Butler could secure a handsome appointment, which would bo mure preferable than the Senate, especially when the fact of a hard and bitter political campaign stared him in the face, but to tho suprisc of all he has chosen to make tho tight with 11. It. Tillman. What motive can inspire him thus is hard to conceive. It was an administration idea to make tho nomination of Senate a primary one. This plan, it is alleged, was for the reason that it was thought that the Governor would ho stronger with tho people, and that there would be less bkelhood of tampering with tho populace; but even there Butler seems not to fear, and persists in bis determination to make the light. This fact, many believe, has had tho effect of making the Governor doubt, and there i? now some talk of altering the con sti Lotion of the party so far as it relates to this point. The reason given for this is that Governor Tillman can then inako the race for the third term, putting his first lieutenant, John Gary Evans (who is recognized as next in line of promotion), second on the ticket. This will give the I Governor the benefit of being in command when the next Senatorial contest comes up before the General Assembly, and increase his clianoos ^ It it.! ?I- .1-'. ? j ui outucao* nictuy iiiiiik inih 18 li sign of weakness on his part, but his followers and largo numbers of his opponents do not doubt his ability to cary everything before him for the Senate. Theft] is one thing admitted by all. If the fight is made before the people it will be the bittorest political battle that has over been known in this State. t11e 0 uk e un a tor ia l contest. The contest for Governor is one that is likely to assume grenter proportions than in past years if straws indicate at all which way the wind blows. It is now pretty generally admitted that Governor Tillman no Ion [gor has the support of Congressman Shell, as well as Donaldson, B. F. Perry, Cal. Caughman and others who have heretofore been his warmest admirers, and it is suggested that if the Straightouts or Conservatives do not interfere in the fight at the primary, Shell will very like ly be put up as a reform candidate in opposition to Tillman, with a strong show of success, for he has a strong following among tho reformers, could command the support of Perry, Donaldson and others, and it is believed that bis conservative course in Congress would give him many votes from that faction, thus making his election possible. This is about the situation as it stands today. "Urneo Up" Is a tantali/.ing admonition to those who at this season feel all tired out, weak, without nppetito and discouraged. Hut the way Hood's Sarsaparilla builds up tht tired frame and gives a good appetite, is really wonderful. Ho wo say, "Tako Hood's and it will brace you up ' For a general family cathartic we recommend Hood'fc Pills. An occasional bottle of Ayer's Sarsaparilla does more to correct the tcndoncy of tho blood to acumulate humors, and the organs sound and healthy, than any other treatment we know of. "Prevention is better than cure." Try it this month. LADIES Needing atonic, or children who wantbufl<|> Ing up. should tako BROWN'S lllON BITTERS. It la ploaaant to tako, cure* Malaria, IimU> eeUon, BlUoamteas and Liver Complaint* ~ 4 ** four Country." JUNE 8, 1893; Farm Life. I have just had a lengthy interview with u prominent mombor of tho bar in this city, who owns an ob egant farm in Middle Georgia. His I farm is about sixteen miles from I market, iiy dirt road, yet he suys it i is not for sale, nor will it be. It is I his fixed purpose to return to bis 1 farm at some day in tho future and spend upon it the remainder of bis | life. 1 This purpose conies of two rea- | sons: lirst the pleasure bo finds in i agriculture; second, its profits. The pleasure is in the removal ' from strife and contention and dis- < appointments that are found in the < professions, and what is known as i business, and especially the absolute < independent living. ! f'Ke\v people who have tried it, i understand the wear and tear upon ' the phiysioal and nervous systoni," said bo, -'by the professions and by business. The man who follows successfully, the practice of law, or cor- i tainly the practice of medicine, has i demands upon bis physical endurance entirely unknown lo tho farmer. "Again, ii.professional man is en- l tirely subject to the control and call of his clients and patrons, while the farmer is master of his own time, and his own business. Profits are to he measured by cost and expenses," < said he. "The expenses for personal preparation for the farmer, as against i preparation for the professions, is largely in favor of the farm. The outlay for necessary investments for the business is equally so. The professional man must live in an expensive town or city, where taxes are high and the necessities of life costly, because they always come at soeond hands. The farmer lives in the country, where ho has no town tax to pay, and receivers his necessities at first hand, because thoy are his own products, and without the pcrcetitum of prolits put upon them for the man in the town or city." These statements made by the gen uemnn or mo law acscrvo consitloration. tt may bo, as in the days of the ancient poet, every man thinks his own business tho most subjectto criticism. This, however, is not the proper consideration. No pursuit ought to be determined upon until duo investigation has determined it to be the business in perfect harmony with the tastes and inclinations. When that is done we should trust for tho pleasant features connected w.ith it, and enlarge upon and develop thorn. It is quite an easy matter to find difficulties and annoyances in my business in life. If we get our consent to magnify them and nurse them, however attractive otherwise, we can soon become morose, sour and unsuccessful. Tho happy man hunts far sunshine and not for shadow; for pleasant aspects and not for unfriendly ones. The best man undertakes business, whatever it may be, with the full understanding that it has difficulties and defeats; while he does not look for these things, ho prepares for thoio, and when tliey come to him he is ready with a break-water, so to speak, and he then, holds them in check, instead of sitting down to be resistlessly overwhelmed by their force. There aro many attractions in farm life?quite a good many moro than told by my lawyer friend; many of these are found in health fulness and character. Talking with another resident of this city, who has attained to wealth and retirement, 1 was astonished to find how many of Atlanta's most prominent and worthy citizens were trained upon tho farms of this and otner States. 1 tie country, free from temptations to vice, immorality, is the place where sturdy men grow; tho place where the State makes its best citizens. The income from the farm, then, is not to bo counted in the amount of money received in the sale of cotton, corn, oats, peas, butter and pigs, but in the freedom and pleasures of its life; the balmy, invigorating atmosphere, the absence of noise and contention and strife, and, above all, the strong moral influences upon character and life. Very many troubles havo come to the farmers in late years. Time and time again after hard struggles, defeat has fallen on their industry and they have been almost driven to despair. hot us aoccpt, bravely, the condi| tion, recognizing its embarrassments, and^o to work inteligently to remove them. By all means let us keep good cheer and determined courago, and remember there is still a star of hope in the bosom of the storm. ?? tot felling ronmory, Dr. Mil**' NmtiM. a ( 'otlfl'l'll 1 llg IVaS." ( 1IY C. M. SANDHItH. .luue is the month, "par oxccK , lenco,v fur planting peas* liyo and bnrley lots nuiy luivo been planted jomo time during tho month of May, but the regular grain fields cannot bo had fur this purpose much beforo the 1 Oth of Juno. Whore I intend to plant peas for rny fattening hogs, I leave the land especially for this purpose, and this 1 plant at any convenient season, after tho 15th of May, Planted earlier than this they require ir. extra amount of work, without an equal advantage to the crop. The Dat crop is, in mv opinion, one of tho most exhaustive that is grown to any considerable extent by the average Southern farmer, and for this reason, whenever practicable, it should Ijo followed by some crop of a renovating nature. The pea is probably the host crop for this purpose that is easily within the reach of all. Three crops of peas can be crrowu as cheanlv as a throe n i / yours' crop of olovor, and I beliove with tho sumo benefit to tlio land. Some sort, of n crop of peas cm be grown on any grade of lund, while yon cannot grow clovor unless your land is fairly good to start with, and I had rather undert ake to cure a crop of pea vines t han a crop of clover bay. For while the pea vines requiro a longer time to cure, they are not nearly so easily injured by unfavorable weather. Now get ready for sowing your stubble land in peas, haul tho grain off from a portion of the hold as soon as possible after the grain is cut. This can bo done at once if the grain is allowed to lie in the swartli for six or eight hours before tying up into bundles. I would not, however advise this course, as it toughens the sfi'nw nn<l Mtnpk ivill not nit if tuiiir so nvoil; besulcs it will cost more to have tlicin taken up. Four good bands will keep well up with a team cutting in oats that will make thirty to thirty live bushels per acre, while if you start them six hours behind the reaper and run thrco days, tlio same hands would be one and onehalf or two days behind. When a portion of the lield has been cleared of its oats, and you have had a rain, go right in with everything that can plow. Sow from three fourths to one and one-fourth bushels of the Unknown peas and 200 pounds of acid phosphato per acre. Plow in with a six-inch Diamond roofer and harrow with the Acme harrow, the driver riding. If things move up i - ? i ~ ~ i lively you can put m unu uiiu u fourth acres por ilny to eacli plow, if speckled peas or crowders arc used, the quantity per acre should be increased one-half bushel. So also should the quantity bo increased as the sowing is done later in the season. This program should bo followed after every rain, continuing In the stubble land until the cultivated fields* are dry enough to plow. Komotimes the stubble and bo too wet for the plow, just alter a rain, but you can get in there at least a day sooner after a thoroughly wetting rain than it would bo profitable to go into your corn or cotton. J understand that June is the busy month 011 the farm, and that the farmer thinks he hasn't time for anything except to attend as closely as possible to work that is alrwudy messing, but I think if my plan is closely followed out every farmer will be able to get in at least three or four acres to the plow, and that without detriment to his other crops. These sowings may continue up to the middle of July, the latter sowings, however, not yielding quite so heavily us tho earlier ones. Peas may also be planted in drills very rapidly in tho following way: llun off rows three feet apart with a six-inch rooter (this is better than a shovel-plow), drop eight or ten peas overy two feet in the row, and finish i by tunning two furrows with a turnplow, tho bar side to the row. Three furrows with tho plow and one booing will finish the ouhivation and lay tho peas by clean, For renovation and for hay the broadest plan is preferable. All corn land should bo planted in peas. When the rows are wide enough, peas should go in the middles, otherwise between tho hills of com, but never before tho second plowing. Those will make as many as tho farmer will Iiavo timoto nick. Last year [ planted three gallons of Unknown peas on two acres of branch bottoms, after the corn was laid by. The time consumed by the boy and mule in planting was two hours, at a nominal oost of twenty cents and thirty cents; for tho sum total, fifty cents* I gathered fourteen and one half bushols of peas, at a cost of twenty cents per bushel for picking, making tho whole cost loss i than twenty-four cents per bushel; i ' t - "y :rV ... > NO; 47. could they have been gathered by hogs they would have cost loss than four cents por bushel. The Unknown pea seems to be one of the surest crops wo have, but they are I it 11 i i ? i tougn, ana nogs will not eat tnorn while there arc speckled peas, black peas or crowdcrs in the same field. Still they do eat them after tho others are gono and so fai' as I can see do well on them. So far as we can seo the indications all point to low priced cotton in tho future. The United StatC3 government cannot regulate it to any appreciable extont. The only remedy is for tho producer to lessen tho cost of production, and the only way to lessen this very materially is to plant better land. This can only ho done by improving and bringing up to a better state of fertility the lands wo already cultivate. The pea seems to he the best thing wo have at our command for this purpose. Therefore lot us plant peas at ovcry opportunity, and if we haven't stock to consume the hay, wo can let it make humus on tho land, or we niay soli the hay and invest in fertilizers to bo returned to the land. Tbo process of renovation, without manure, is slow and tedious, so let us begin at once, and keep it up without ces sation, otherwise this country is doomed to poverty and want, or tho people will have to get f ay from it, for the most part, and the remainder devote themselves to stock raising. This is the twenty third year 1 have been farming here, I am familiar with the country around me. 1 say without hesitation that my own farm is the only one in my knowledge that will m vko as good a crop to-day as it did twenty years ago. I know farmers who could not make a living if they were confined to the samo lands they cultivated twenty years ago. A great deal has been said from time to time about the way Col. Jas. M. Smith has brought up his extensive farm. IIow has he done it? llv improving his old lands? No, but by cutting away his forests and clearing up his swamps, and bringing into cultivation lands made rich by the slow process of natural laws. I do not believe that outside of two or three hundred acres, contiguous to Iuh barns, Col. Smith has an acre of land as good as it was live years ago. You need not toll me a man can bring up a live or six thousand aero farm by sowing each year * three or four hundred acres of rye as a renovator, and that ryo all taken olY the land, and that land planted to cotton the same year. Yon could not chuck that into my head. Col. Smith is a brainy man and a successful farmer, and when the convicts arc put upon the public highways or upon a great farm belonging to the 1 Stiiln Ik* nnirli Ia lm n t flirt linml /if if Ho would make thorn self-sustaining; but nevertheless, he is not improving his lands, and there are few who arc doing it. Ptnfhldy (ia. ? Tirc<l Oi Tillman. To the Kditor of The News and Courier: I havo been a constant Tillmanito in the past, and believed that ho would do, us good in some w v, but since reading tho recent decision of the railroad commission making rates on the shipment of whiskey I am compelled to acknowledge myself a backslider from his policy and purposes. Why has he not used his great influrence with his commissioners to get lower rates on our plantation tools, wagons and supplies that we are often compelled to havo shipped? (let lower rates on our cotton, lumber, turpentine, etc? Why does he so quickly seek low rates on whiskey? 1 am now convinced that in voting for li. R. Tillman wc have been serveing a partisan self-seeker. I now suggest to the farmers that wo vote for no man for the Legislature who is committed or admits that he is for any particular man for any office to he o'ccten l>y the vote of the Legislature. Let's sidetrack the coat tail | brigade and select tho best men for | all positions to be tilled?if we have ! to go to the plough handles or tho work benth to get them?and not vote for professional office seekers. ?. s| Gaston, Lexington Couuty, May 39. To prevent tho hardening of tho i subcutaneous tissues of the sealn ! and tho obliteration of tbo hair folficles which cause baldness, use ! hall's hair Kenewer. Guaranteed Cure. 1 Wo authorize our advertised druggist j to soil Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, upon this condition. If you are afflicted with a Cough, Cold or unv Lung, Throat or Cheat trouble, and will use this remedy as directed, giving it a fair trial, and experience no benefit, you may return the l>ottle and have your money refunded. We could not make this offer did we not know that Dr. Kings New Discovery could bo relied on. It never disappoints. Trial bottle free at E. Norton's Drugstore. Largo size 50c and sf 1.00. * ' Tho Paris revolutionary socialists celebrated the anniversary thre \>?* nlv week. There were no disturbances. St, vuo*' I)?nr? ?or*l by Dr. Ksrrlaw