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/ / 9~ VL6:O.1.PICKENS, S. C.. THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1896. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. -Irby Talks to Gantt. THE GOLD BUGS WILL BE THE BO1TERS. Free Silver J)enocrats Will Control the Chicago Conveiioni-Laiirens County a Unit for Irby. The irrepressible Larry Gantt, of the Piedmont Headlight, has been on a political scout in Laurens County, and was tho guest of Senator Irby. who drove him over the upper ecCtion of the county, and gave him an opportuni ty to talk with the people. Hore is the result of him investigations at the storm-centro In political matters: Laurens County is now looked upon as the seat of political war in our State. So The Headlight editor de cided that he would visit that section, and lot our readers know the true situation. Wo found Laurens as placid as a spring morning, without a ripple of excitement. Thoir new cotton mill has just been started, Lp, and the peo ple were of course happy. They are now talking about water works sup plied from an artesian well, and other enterprises. There is no doubt about Laurens belug aroused from her Rip Van Winkle steel), and she has a bright future ahead. Senator Irby met us at the depot with his fine South Carolina raised team. The Senator Is looking better than we have ever seen him, and was in fino spirits. le said he had been busy since his return home planting a big corn crop, and had not devoted any time or attention to politics. He rested his cause in the hands of the people, and if they did not want him to servo them in the Senato he would be content either to retire to private life or work anywhere they put him. We asked Senator Irby his views about the proposed bolt at Chicago. " Did you over know a bolter to ac complished anything?" was his answer. Bolters can tear down, but they never build up. They weaken or destroy the party from which they secede, but if you will examine the political history of the world, you will not find a single instance in which bolters have ever been successful. Aud another thing you will see: Bolters eventually re turn to the party from which they seceded. Take the Kansas Populists, for instance. They slushed off from the Republican party, but after the spasm had passed returned to their allegiance ; and were Populist Feller to run for the Senate today ho would not receive a half dozen votes. I am as strong a free silver advocate," con tinuod Senator Jrby, " as any man in South Carolina. But we must bear in mind that the free silver p1tink is not all that constitutes the Del)mocr'atic party. The De-nocratic party is the friend of the South, and when we destroy it, to fuse with Western Re publicans, we are simply paralyzing our own prosperity. Why, even under the Cleveland administration the South has been favored. The force bill was repealed, and other laws passed that were beneficial to our sec tion. But let the Republican party elect the President and control both houses of Congress, and you will see the prosperity of the South strangled, and the most obnoxious laws passed. I believe that the free silver men will control the Chicago convention. It Is admitted in Washington that the so called 'sound money' advocates cannot secure enough delegates to nominate a ticket or prevent the adoption of a platform endorsing bi-motalism. I believe that there will be, a split when the -convention meets, for the gold standard delegates will bolt sh ould( they fall to accomplish their ends. Then they will be the boltors, and not our side. This is just what we wvant." " Senator, what do you think will be the action of our State Democratic committee ?" " I do not know, but feel assured that the member will not countenance anything that looks like a bolt. I have simply published my views, and have made no attemp~t to intlunence any one. When the committee meets, I shall state my position, and of courso the other members wvill act as their judgment and patriotism dictate. South Carolina is prospecring above all other Southern States, and 1 attribute it largely to the fact that we have rec mained in the Democratic p~arty. 0Our white people rule their State, and the negro is eliminated from politics. We owe It to the poor white voters of South Carolina to protect them fr'om the political power of the negroes, and2 this can only be (lone by remaining in the Democratic part3. We must re member that the colored vote largely outnumbers the white vote in South Carolina, and when our peolo split upl and dlvilei, you will see a scramble made for the colored vote, and negroes will be enfranchised by the thousand. Then where wJll poor and umneducaemted white men be ? I have never advised my people wrongly, and never will. I have fought for' the rights of the poor man. and shall never counsel anything that threatens his political sovereignity. " Of course you are in the race for Senator ?" "I am. I see that an elfort is beiny made to do away with our wh ite prim: ry. The people0 will nmot countenance this. It would be a step back ward. I am ready and willing to trust my chances with the Anglio-Saxon' voters of this State, and will obediently boiv to their decrfee. The p~eople have been given the right to name U. S. Senatoes at the ballot-box, and this right shali never be taken from them if I can hl it. A man who Is afraid to face lisa cople Is not worthy to repres,,mt. a brave and free people. And it has been rep>orted," continued the Senatpr, "hat Icannot carry my own couity of Laurons. A fter dinner I will halve mhorses hitched upJ an:l take you; to 'p ri e over a portion of Laurens, goi ng of the voters of Lau rens are with, ne. I have not entered into a polit cal ' coalition with any man, and neli her will I do so. I am a endidaten ( m., own account. I am fighting no one. But I am not a straddler, and the peo ple will always know just where to placa We'." Sonator Irby thou branched out and discussed straddl is and fence-riders. le said he freely conceded the right of any ono to opposeo him, but he did not want any two-faced business. " A straddler," ho explained, " is a weak man, who has not talent enough to de fend his cause, and therefore resorts to double-dealing and hypocrisy. A man of brains has other weapons, and you will always find him taking a de ilded and firm stand on all public matters." After dinner, sitting behind the Senator's fine team, we started out on a ride through the western portion of Laurons County, taking the old Green ville road. This is a boautiful section. While the land is thin, it lies well, and with the use of manure, produces fine crops. Farmers are well up with their work, and small grain far ad vanced over Spartanburg County. We saw live acres in cotton to one In corn. There arc numbers of beautiful farm houses in this section and every few miles is thrifty railway villages. We passed through Barksdale, Gray Court, Owings and Fountain Inn, besides taking in Mr. Chris. Owings, who is one of the most successful planters in that county. We took supper with Mr. Owings, who is a stuunch friend to Senator Irby. Mr. Owings has a pen of six Chester hogs for next year's killing, and which will now average 225 pounds each. He says he will make them go to 500 or 600 pounds by next winter. Mr. Owings raises a yellow corn and he says for stock feed ing eight ears contains as much nutri ment as ten ears of the white variety and it is loss susceptible to drought. We met several friends at Mr. Owings' and spent a delightful evening. After supper we hitched up our team and started for Fountain Inn, to spend the night with Mr. John W. Kellett. iountain Inn is one of the most pros perous towns in Laurens County. It Is about the size of Woodrulf, and buys 4,000 bales of cotton a year. And speaking of cotton, we saw in front of many farm houses great piles of bales. During our trip wo must have passed at least 500 bales yet in hands of farm oil. Mr. Kellett is one of the most hospi table of men, and we met a warm wol come. lie has a beautiful home and delightful family. His eldest daugh ter is a flirst-cla:,s artist, and has or namented the houso with handsome paintings and portraits of the family. Kellett showed us a patch of two and a half acres, on which he last year raised 2,500 pounds of lint cotton, and says he intends to bring it up to three bales per acre. This shows what the land around there will do with the use of fertilizers and scienti'e culture. The good people of Owings are re joicing over the fact of at last having a post ollice given them, and which has been named " Rapley," as there was another Owings in Laurens Coun ty, and it would have confu'sed mails. Owings has threo stores, a church and school, and until this o fice was estab lished her people had to send a long mile into the country to Powers for their mail. During our ride we traveled forty miles, going one road and returning by another. If that section Is an in dex to the political sentiment of Lau rens tCounty. it is a waste of time to try and defeat Senator Irby at home. We stol'ped at a number of houses, talked with the people, and they all report the country as a unit for Irby. The people. have named their babies for him, and every man or lady he -passed on the road would halt him and have some kind wordsto say. Wo never saw such unanimity and enthusiasm for a candidate. Andiparties tell us that the other sections of Lau rens are just as strong for irby as this. So those who are predicting that Senator irby] will be turned dlown by his own people know not what they are talking about. If they will go Into the county, and talk with the farmers, they will findI that J. La. M. Irby is firmly anchored in their hearts. And another thing we noticed: While the people are all strong advo cates of silver, every man we saw re pudiated the idea of going Into any indoependent p)arty. They believe that the silver delegates will centrol the Uniceago convention, and have no idea of following the Popnlists.1 We met Col. Crews, editor of the Lauronville Herald. Hie tells us that the new paper to be stairted by his son will be printed on the Herald pre'ss.4 Both Col. Shiar and Shorif Mcravy deny having any stock in "The Silver Democent.e in fact, a friend of Sherifi McCravy's told Senatoir Irby that he (McCravy) says It was a false rep~ort that he was fighting him. So It will be seen that the opposition to Senator I rby In Laurens is largely ImagInary, and the work of outside parties. Congressman Wilson Is strong over Laurens, and the manneir In which he handlled Ilontelle has made him many new friends. LHe will have no opposi tion for~ re-election. It was reported that Mlr. I 'atton, of Columbia, would oppose NI r. Wilson, but it would beo folly for l 'atton to make the race. We beard in Spartanburg that there was ill feeling between Senator Irby and Congr'essmnan WIlson, and we asked the Senator if there was any grounds for such aL repIort. lie replied that there wins not, so far as ho knew ; that just, bevfore ho left Washington Mr. Wilson and himself had a talk, and parted on kind terms. HeI also said tihcio was no truth in the story that TI'ill man annd himnself did not speak as they paissed ''Why,'' he remarked, "Senator' Tilhnoan frequently comes over to my sent, and we talk together. Of course our relalions are not as close as they once were, b~ut w~e always sp)eak whetn we nmeet, andc freely dis cuss any measure relating to the good of our State. I tell you I am not mak ing wvar on aniy one. l intend to (di8 charge my duty by my p~eople, and think and act for myself. I am no coat-tall swilngcr. The pluCPCeclected me to the Senate, and they arc the only masters 1 owni." Senator irby'sm enem ies have put out the report that h)e has; been absent from nearly every roll call. To answer this stor'y, hie refers to thie proceed lrgs of Congress. Sena.tor Irtly Sav s tha4t asB soon as the comnmitti metn iIs over hie wVIll return to Wash ingto'n. Hie thinks Congress will adjourn, in May, as all Imotn usns a been transacted which could be hoped for at this session, and only the appro priation bills aro now in the way. Sen ator Irby says he will make a cam paign of the State next summer, and meet the people face to face and give an account of his stewardship. The Heudlight is not an organ for Senator Irby or any other man. This paper is freo and untrammeled, but will keop the people posted. If Sena to' I by was guilty of ropreheueible conduct, we would denouno him as soon its any one. Porsonally be is our friend ; but the editor of this papor wears no man's collar. We went to Laurens not for the purpose of booni Ing Senator Irby, but to study the po litical situation in person, and then tell outr readers tho facts. This we have done. 1'1 GIBRALI'ALR OF CUBA. The Seat of Government of the Cuban Republic is Said to be Impreg nable. Cubitas, pronounced Koobetas, with the accent on the second syllable, although almost unknown to the out sido world, is, for many reasons, one of the most important and most inter esting localities on the island of Cuba. First, becausei it has been chosen for the seat of government of the Cuban republic, Second, because nature has made it not only one of the most beautiful places on the face of the globe, but at the same time it Is ab solutely impregnable from the assault of any ordinary force which could be brought to bear against it. The Sierra do Cubitas is in fact another Gibraltar, rising almost ab ruptly from the beautiful rolling plains of Jamaguey. Although spoken of as the mountains'of Cubitas,Iit is really an olevated plateau, rising to an altitude of perhaps 7000 feet and forming the arc of a circle, with its concave side facing the Atlantic ocean, or rather that arm of the ocean known to nav gators as the Old Bahama Channel. This plateau, or table land, has a length from east to west of about 18 miles, its width vary from one to three miles. The view in any direc tion is magnificent. Beautiful rolling prairios, dotted with charming groves if cocoanut and royal palmes, sweet) away from the base of the Cubitas. Twenty miles to the north can be seen the dark blues of the sea. To the southward lies that-interest ing relic of the 16th century, the city of Puerto Principe, with its Spanish garrison of 10,000 soldiers. But they never dream of molesting the seat of the Cuban government, although dis taunt otily a day's march. The Spanish commanders know too well that an at ilack on Cubitas would bring them nothing but death and disaster. The place is defended today by less than 1,000 insurgents, belonging to the do partment of General Carillo, but even if deprived of arms and ammunition they could successfully defend this nat ural fortress with loose rocks picked from the ground. The approaches from the plain below gradually terminate in narrow defiles, which turn and twist, rise and fall, intil riders of the nimble and sure !ooted Cuban ponies are compelled to lismount, and in single file lead their tnimals to the top. A thousand points f advantage could be found where ocks, hurled down the precipitous ,ides, would annihilate any enemy iont against the place. Nor could the defenders be starved )ut. This beautiful and fertilo l)lateau a now under perfect cultivation. Here tro raised sweet potatoes, peas, beans, iasaya, from which excellent broad is nade, and fruit grows in abundance. P'he table land of Cubitas is a veritable nilitary garden, in which President 31isneros takes a very pardonable ride. In fact, the majority of the in murgents who garrison the place spend nest of their tme tilling the soil and rathering the crop~s. When this duty )ecomnes irksome and a soldier longs or active service in the field, he Is ex 3hanged for some poor fellow who, tfter weeks of hard riding, Is glad of i little rest. Cubitas, with its superb limate oven nin summer- is an excellent )lace in which to recover from irritat .ng wvounds and over-fatigue. iFrom the top) of this plateau Presi lent Cisneros and his cabinet ad minis er' the laws of the new republic. Jourlers mounted on fleet Camaguey torses, whose ancestors came over rom Arabia. come and go every hour )f the day and night. In this way the government is made aware of every novement anticip~atedl or executedl by ,he various generals in commnad, and >r'ders are transmitted to them with >recision andi dispatch. --Dwight L. Moody Is a practical nan, and in the educational institu ions which he conducts, while the 'nglish Bible is the principal text >ook, there is a large praictical clement n the Instruction given. In the Train ng Scool, the sixth year of which has ust ended, the student is taught not mnly how to explain the Bible to the wvoman she Is visiting, but how to help icr make her home tidy, proparC lainty dishes foir a sick child or hius >andl, antd make clothing for herself and family. It is a sign of progress in he rigrht direction, says the New York I'ribune, t~hat In Christian work of h is kind people are rem i nded that bhoy have bodies as well as souls, and m life here as well as one hereafter. - T1urpenitine is the friend house keepers have, and a supply should al nays be kept on hand. It is goodl for Jurns, e'xcellent for corns, good for 'heumnatism and sore thnroat and a iuick remedy for fits or convulsions. Lt Is a sure preventive against moths, a fewv drops rendering garments safe rromi such invasion (1urinug the summer. [t drives away ants and bugs fronm siorerooms and coi'ner's by putting a row drops on the shelves. I t elTet tally destroys bugs and1 injures neither furitturie nor cloth Iig. 1"or cleaning ptaint add a spoon ful to aL pall of warmi water. A little in the suds on wash dlay makes wvashing easier. --Chairman [farrity3 of the 'Nationaml D)emocratic commni~ti..10 bi Ves that, the Demecr'ats will 1mi''nato a sound.. money man for President on a sound money plafom. BILL ARP IS TALKING' SQUARE Uiitetd States Senators Should be Chosenl by the People-Theo Old Idea and the New. These times remind me very Imuch of the timos wheni I Eold goods nearly fifty years ago, when cotton was 6 or 7 cents a pound and bacon about the same as cotton; chickons were 12j ets., oggs 5 cents a dozen and sweet. pota toes 25 cents a bushel; sugar and coffeo were twelve pounds to the dollar. Wo called these few years hard times and the negroes felt the Iressuire too and improvised a song with a chorus of "Hard Times Come Again No More." But gradually there came on a change for the better and prices of everything advanced just as cotton advanced. That is why cotton was called king. It seemed to regulate everything. And so we thought those hard times would soon pass, but they show no ign. Nearly everything has come down to hard time prices and the consumers could live cheap enough if they could got anything to do. Thero is the rub. The Irishman who came over here complained that chickens were 2 shil lings apiece and said- he could get one over in Ireland fort a sixpetice. "Well why dident you stay over there anl buy them ?" said the market man. "Faith aid begorra, I coul(lent get the sixpence," he replied. That is the consumers' fix now. The necessaries of life are cheap enough. The farriers and producers complain that they are too cheap. They want some kii of a tariff that will make everything that they have to buy as cheap as dir t and raise the price of what they have to sell. An Irish man heard a Dutch butcher Fay that the way to make money "va6 to puy sheep (cheap) and sell deer (dear)." He dident under stand how that could be done and asked a Scotchman, who ruminated over it, and said it was to buy mutton and sell it for venison. But we can't do that. Our young men who are every year swarming to the front are ready and willing to work, but they can't get work to do. No wondler they leave their homes ard go West or to Mexico and Brazil. I was ruminatin g about advising some of them to tro to Central America and raise coffee. There must be money in that business. For years and years I sold coffee at twelve pounds to the dollar and I don't understand why it advanced to double the old price and for years has maintained it. I was reading about the island of Jamaiet and found tiat for thirty years the pro duet averaged 25,000,000 polInds a year, but when in 1843 England emancipated her slaves there the production dropped in ten years' time down to 3,000.000 pounds. In fact, everything dropped away down exe-,pt rum and that still holds its own. I wish that I was a great statesman and could see through all this tangled up business like the X rays penetrate dark and hidden things and bring them to the light. I remmber when the great national question before the pCo ple was whether the government should make internal improvements or not. The Whigs said it should and the .Dem ocrats said no and the Democrats car ied it. At the next election the par ties changed sides anid a system of internal improvements began. Appro priations were made for rivers and harbors and custom houses and post ollices and this policy has been estab lished and gets wider and bigger as the years roll on. Then again there was the great question about declaring war with Mexico and later on about annexing Texas and the presidential elections turned on those issues. Now we have got the tariff and the currency and party lines are vei'y much unset tled. But-as the preacher said : Even this will pass away." Georgia is to lie the forum of the great dil scussionf andl the people arc to be the judges. I am glad that it will be over soon. Let tihe people hear' and1 then make choice. It, Is no( new thing :it is old and the peo lc have been reading ahout it for three years and almost everybody is ready for the vote. 1 like this way of the people having a voice in the choice of a senator. Why not? What is .the difference between aL senator and a representative ? Thea old-time theory was that the senators rep~renited the States and the representatives the peole. A hundred years ago there was something in that,, but there is nothing now. in my opin ion the p~eole should elect the senators just like they do the governor and all other olliccrs. And the next best thing would be to abolish the Senato. It was intended to be an assembly of 01(1 men-counsel lpors In wisdom, and w ho would prhotect the rights of States, and a small State had as much pow'er is a large one. But, that is a thing of the pai,. States rights have gu'rt into aL state of innoc uous deseuef udte .nd money has more to do with a senrator's itness than age or wisdom. There is no good reason why Rhode Island should have as much power as Texas or Pennsylvania. I f population should settle it then New York should have forty-eight senators. If territory should settle it then Texas should have 2,000 in propoi-tion to R.hode Island's two. But we dlon't need such a body at all. One house is enough and there is no good r-eason in eighty foci' men in the Senate overr-iding 300 in the House. Tihe constitution r'e qluirecs a senator to be thirity yeairs old ; ho should be sixty. Th'len lhe would have more sense andl less aim bition. Well, I never voted for' a senator' in my life arid many a one has been hili bustered through the legislature that I would not have voted for- and( the pepCle woulId not hatve chosen. A shr-owd, amnbitions~ mam can plaiy "plar hez v'ou" with 200 men, hut he can't do it with 200,000--so let us alII vote this time. And now let the great battle for the next president come on. This is an ant" of surprises and the D~emocracy is int dead, nor its great prminciples anndon ed. I wouldnu't bet on its success, but we were not, ver-y sanguine thme last time. The P'opulists will he in the fight pre'tty strong and thc. re is no tell ing which waiy the cat Is going to jump. Both par-ties ar'e bidding for their vote and some wise mcin pred ict thait there will ho n'o election by the people ; but McLinley and bi- .Southorn friends are sanguine an'l jub)ilant. Oneb of them made a speech ini our' town and said, with up~lfif : andl, ''that Charley .\l Kinley would sweep) the deck of the old ship of State like Nanoinnn nna. pirte swelAt the field at the battle of Waterloo. ' And all the colored breth ren shouted, atmen. Hut, if wU have to take Iepublican, I believe I had rather risk McKinley thaii any of them. Ie hats never abused the Southii ImaliiCous ly, or malignantly, and that is my test of a Northern man. 111LL1 Am'. HOME INFLUENCE UPON SCHOOL LIFE. Iowsv Parens Can elp 1Teachers and 1lenei t Their Chililren. The boy is a familiar object as lie prc sents himself tot lie fostering C.n0re of the teacher, on a Monday morning, about the first of September, shortly after ils sixth birthday. With what an in quiring gaze does lie look up into his teacher's face on that memorable first day of school. le has a proud air of self-assuranco. IiS fae is rou nd and rosy, and, as this Is an extra occasion, for the piroseint, clean. As the assayer analyzes a bit of ore to determine tile relation of the familiar eleenIts, so the teacher brings the boy under her focal range and determines whether or not his education has truly begun. Whether she will havo to battle against habits wrongly formed, or nourish tile embryonic character al ready developed in the filrt school a child attends-home. Somebody has said "the best part of education is that which ioney cannot purchase." Lt is provided by the child's first teach ers-parents ; and is onl iy made com1 pulsory by its author-God. This school always keeps, and never changes t-cichors but for on1e cause--death. Ii, has no holidays. Sutiday is an illuii nation of all the other days. Its l0 sons are practical and Itiidaliental, destined to outlst life itself in that. they relate not, only to the body but the soul as well. This sehtol affords the saiie opport 11lit'ies to the poor its to the rich. All may form habits and establish principles here for th formal tion of a character inItienced oniy by tile higher aims and purpose. in life, and fortil-ed against the dscourage inents of present mibfortunes or evil ililuences. Society, the church and state receive the impress of the first school life. There ought to be complete harmony between home and school, creating IL mutual hel pfuill ness. But, adas, how often one intereferes with the true mission of the other. Ilom1o furnishes bad boys and girls to disturb and do stroy tile highest fu nction of tile school, and the lattur often half does tile work it is pledged to do. Thus in tile cS tranged relation society suffers ia loss that cannot be esti mated. Obedience at h1om1e tends to obe dience in school, and home and school become mutually helpful as they re quire and cultivate obedience. If the Iupil does not receive a reverence for the tercher from the paternal lips, hut instead is ImIdI to apI)lpearIl In Oi jc(3t of Suspicion, anl antaglolistic feel ing will be imbued greatly to the dis advantage of the putpil and the teach er's work. Oin the other hand14, pupils who receive no higher conception of home by an llattendanec at school, no lessons that magnify the missions of parents and hIlial duties of children, (10 not becomo mor3 obodicit sons and daughters in consequence of their at tendance at school. A friend gives tile following, which serves to illustrate tho point: "In my pedagoging days two roguish pupils sat side by side. Repeated correction brought no relief from their persistent Mischief. Knowing the prts'C1tS ve'y well, the two families being at the an tipodes in regard to government, I rosolved to try the experiment of send( ing them home for tile next imisdle mleninor'. On tile following day. ablout the middle oc(f the motrnling session, an opplortuinity occuirred for the til. .'John and [Henry, Put upi your hooks anid go0 homie.' Thlis unlexplected comn mandil~ ratheri sIitrted the boys37 at fir st, ar~d they looked up with surpri . I repeated the command, whlen ll enry aplpear'ed frightened, anti .John smi led clear batck to h15isLar. It was evident at once that thlis putnishmienlt was weoll chlosen for [Honery, hut the p)(orest kind1( possible for John11. 1 lenry left, thie room crying:;Johln left it laughing ; thloughi toda~y John11 crys and IIenr~y laughs. I n less than One hour lIfen ry returned w ithi this message from his very exeellenit andlt faithful mlother' . ' AMother sent me1( back and told~ mie to tell you t-ha~t slit pun ishedi mc fo my'~ dIisobed ience, and11 to ask youri forgiveness(7, andit priomiise toI obhey you hler'eafter'.' 'I forgive y'ou, Iltenriy,' 51said ; ' take your11 seat1, and1( lolt mie. tell you that youi en~n netver lovet and1( r'7espet your I goodl miotlber tooi mu tch.' The iresulIt (of the cx perimen t wi th I finry waLs jut,~ Its IC expocted; for I knew hIis mnoth~er well, and 51h( em phatically made herm home whlat it, wits. IHut John 1 did niot pult in anf atppearmance unltilI thle next daiy, lie waLs ulLIly tardy, and1( tile next mioriing he) camei Ii about twenlty ilminultes late. I stopI lped h1im onl0 tile floor andl Hiired, blefoIre the schooI(l, 'J.ohn, whlat, did yourh parents say to you ? ' ' Noth inl',' wvas the laconic rePly. ' Did you tell. thlem that I sent y'ou home~lt for' miiscon d(ut ?' '' ts, sir'.' ' 1) d they niot re prove you for your iisconlduct, an(.I 1ad vise you11 to do ')ettcr ?' ' They dI n't say noth in'.' 'T'hin, I say, John11, thait lte next time that yout v iolato3 tihe rules (If the school I will atdinlister' thlt pun ishmnent that youir palrents ought to have inflicted yestor' (lay.'" IHenry's mother co-operated with the teaicher' for tile h1ighest good (If her31 son1 and1( the school. T1heo manhood of lher boy is thme legitimate fr'uit of her11 wise andII faithful tratining-a mer~l chan t (of uinbiemishhed character, hon11 oretd and1( re(spected by all his acquiLn tances(3. Jo(hni lives also,,at poor1, m1iaear able wireck of a man wvho carlly dis gr'aed~ himself by strong drink, atbused his wife and troubled the nei ghbor'hood, Th'lis inicident il.ustrates how one home hlelpls school, while1( another hin1 deris by cuiltivating or' noglectinrg to cultivate obedolence, t~he v irtue of w hich can not be overrated. It Is an absoluto condition of eflicient wor'k and eminent suIccess. It Is of vastly morei' impor'tanlce that a child should obey his pare(nts thlan thaIt hie should go to school and when he her' im . -,emom bEr! (of the school it Is fari, fa,- better V' him to Obey his teacher than study Latin or Algebra. 1118 pntn cn mako more of a man of him by obo dioncO without schooling than they can with disobodience with schooling. And the teachor can do bettor for him by Insisting upon obedience lirst and lust, without a thorough drill in math Cmatics or language, than he can by perimitting disobedienco for the sake of tio to pursio these studios. As obedience lays the foundation to sym metrical charactor and true progress, so disobodienco shatters character, hinders progross and inviteg failure. The dowdrop Is drawn to the heart of the lily by the samto voice that governs the cataract's mighty plungo into the abyss; and the gentle beauty of the meadow blossom bursts into the light in obedience to the same power that controls the cosmical SWOoI) of the stellar systems around tho throno of God. All law is but the obedience to cOrtain coIditions which te child must a ly learn to obey and to govern himisolf according to the tcomperaonnT of his ol0virontIents. LET ALL DEMOCRATS STAND FIRM, 11Ei MAJOIlTY SHOUILD IULE ALWAYS. We Owe thie Part I. M 11h Mtust Satml i 'ty it to 11he I'IdI-)ivision Meanas at Appeal to thei Negro. Soenetor 1. B. Watson, of i'dgeilict, w ho has aLlways been a waarm friend an21d strong admiliror of SeInator' 1. It.. Tillinn, has writton the following letter of 10dlmonlition and coinsei to tihe pe()ole of t'.e State: Ed itor IlRegister: I have never writ teat n111 Iticle fo pbo h tion. I feel t.hat it, woIld ho criani nil to be silent nlow when lthe very existetnco of tihe Deimocratic party i) South Carolina is 1treatoned. I aman a i Detiocrat, and I int-end to bM One tO the Le1d of the chapter. I allied iyself to the lte for'm p-rrty beceuso it wits DIloeratie. Whenl occasiOnl seemled to dennmind it.,, I i'. some harIds licks for Itefo1). I S1111l feel it my dutty to striker witl all my ighlit all enliei s Of tbf part'ty w htoov.I' they mnaty be. Lot all those w:Im do not believe in) Imajority r-utv leave the party and form such allilances as they choose. Blut let all Demtocrats 3tand hi .'m. - shall stick to the party :f mty fatlhers, and if she goes downt I will go with her. Let us all light for nr rightb inl thlt party. Son-ttor Tillm1an itas mad a great nistako in advising our people to leavu the party. We owe ' her imuch %nd we must stand by her to the en(1. NMust, we leave the only Iar'ty that has hel ped Its in the past if we cannot con LaroI it inl every pat-ticular to-day ? It is )f the itilost iltipor'tanlec that our' Whit.- people stand firmilly togetiter. If Senatot Tillman's adivice is followed there will be a perm t'anent division of our white peoplo and ultiiately an alp pel to the negro. It is ia crimto to b.311artg IA)oIt, such at cond ition. Senator1 Tillmatan says " our one over )ower'inig and OV( (eriataSter' ing i.suo in Stat, atftaiirs h as been White supre)'Imima C, and this u1nder the conditions ex istintig ef11r241e the nlow Constittituion wias ado)ptet matde revolt against tte whi to rultjority nothing less thll IL cri11e.' And, I say, it is no less i criio to-day. le lLay call its " cOwards and syco plihants and treache2o2s leatters now Inasil ueradiig as DIem;ocrats," but, we Wi ill figh t for' tihe good ol d patVLy ani lst, a1ll1 her Cienmies-tth0 0131V o)n1y1'ty in which our rights lre assured. The Piedmaont, Ileadlight says truly The word )crI100a1t " ill tilO Soiutlt mieans mtoro than antly political imove InCit. It maIs tihe rille of tite white itnaljority. In conlusion let no say agat to 3Very trite D~emoei'at in South Caro lina12, stalnd firmi~. l3e true to the patty af youru fathers. igh t alt thaer enomies. it. B. W A'rSON. Ridge Sprin tg, S. C., Ma rch :11. ShOU'lIltN I 'itot I'SS -Special r piorts Lt) thle Mainiufacturier's' I tecor'd, I Coveinmg the buisinesCs intertests oif the t~lhe negotiations for' Lthe capi tat for' a $1i,000.000O steel piant at 13Biing~h am, although itot yet, closed(, [are e3xpect(1d to) be settled wviitin a few dayIUs. Ex Ltensi vi imprlltovteents in the way of inl 'rebdchls ing00( and w111 vharf facil Iitirsat I'hl'esacola :arle to be added lit aV list o3f $1 50,00t0. CTe Ilinoi0s Central I tailrIat announces(311((3 that it, wvill spend 1(150,0030 (12 its whaIriif and1( elevator im Iwo4vementsL atL N w (Oleans andt abtl~ P;50,000io ,inilcreasedC31 trac1k facilities. A cotton mill aLL A mlItron0, S. C., wIlt :1.pl1icato its present, pla3nt at a1 cost of i250,000l ; a new comlpany is being or 11anize at.'( ILLiatrmony Gro'uvo to bu31Id a li5,000 .in adi me22ill and one2 at .Lncol n Lon, N. C., to build a1 5,000 spindle mIll; I, *173.000))13 paig and3( cold stor'age plant, i-a LI) hI built alt Baltimnoro ; a 1500,000 coall andt clay compan3Lfy hals eenl or'ganizted atL Calvert, Texas ; a 1(50,000 Iumtber' comlpany9 att WVarron l')xaIs ; aL $100,000) czonstrutction comn pany alt Nor' folk ; $30,000) to b)eC eiomed in the331 enlrgemt~ent, of the gaana oe valor lat ' ,efolk, anod of mfiscelllanfeous 221terprisIs thor-e hats boon a largo num'~ber't) rouaghou13t the South gor01 ily during the pa2st week. Thte old1 methiod of teach ing waLs the teachor,2 the book, the pupil)1, or' in other word(s the book between the toacher anld the pup21il-at bflarier which separates thes[parik of interost; but the new and correct method Is the book, the teacher, a~nd the pupil. Books should servo merely as a guide, an out lIne, in the search for knowledge, as things of reference and not the residu tumi of all tritth. That prince among teac~herts, Giuyot, said long ago, "'the puls1 will not neeod to be instiructod hs tihe word'(s of the boo0k, butt should bc sont out to obsetrve for themselves, and then (questionled 'oy the teacher as if h< was utter-ly ig~norantot the subject.' This is par'tboulary ttruo of all studiet batsed on2 natural scence. ---houston Post: "A Houston moth or1 wvas much astonished yesterday The children had gone in anothet' reoor to play, andi presently she heartd ho ten-year'-old son say to his younger Bs tot's: "You~ little fools, you ain't go as much sonse as an old ho0g. If yol dotn't believe what I say you cani go t, the devil." She gr'abbcd a switdh an: oried, "Willie," hut sho hadc prosene of mind entugh to sit dovn and fa herself, When Willie shouted: "That havinga Ram .onon mang.~ , e' THE VEYS OF A GREAT MAN, The Silver Question Stated in Plain Language by Alex. H. Stephens. The following letter from Alexander H. Stephens, written January 20, 1882, states the silver question i plain lan g uage and tells the whole story in a ew words. It was written prior to the first election of Mr. Cleveland, and w hen all Democrats were supposed to be unanimous In condemning thorime of 1873, for which the Republicans were responsible originally. No matter what one believes now us to the silver question this letter from the great com monor of Georgia will prove interesting andiprofitablo reading : WASIINGTON, D. C., Jan. 20, 1882. Mr. H1. 1). Barrows, Los Angles, Cal. My dear Sir :-Your letter of the 14th instant with onclosed lps was received this ovoning. Tho subject is one of the gravest that now occupies the attention of Congress and the thinking men throughout the United Statos. The reason that silver bullion has been depreciated since 1873 In this country is that Congress in February, 1873, struck silver from the lists of money In the Unitcq States. The moment that this act of Congress was passed gvld was made the only stan dard of ;lues in this country. That was a great error and was attended wit,h infinite mischief in the United Statos. In 1792 Mr. Hamilton and the pa triotic statesman of that day recogniz el in our coinage the bimetallic sys tem of money; that is. he and they recognized silvor as money naF woll as gold at the ratio of about sixteen parts Of silver as equivalent to one of gold. Under this regulation nd coinage we wore pros.'0,1ous in 1873. When silver was deprived of its debt-paying powor as an equivalent to gold at the ratio stated, silver in the markets of the world was at a premium over gold. It, is usoless to go into reasons why this chango was adopted in our system or by w hat unscon hands it was effocted. The true policy of th is country is to return to the system of otr fathers. If the gov oeinent should now, as it ought to. retrace its steps and provide for the freo coinage of silvor as, it does of gold and make 412 1-2 grains of stan dlard silver equivalent to 25 8-10 grains of gold then silivor would immediately return to its original dignity in the markets of the world in purchasing and debt-paying power. This is the real function of money and in this country this equality in this function at the ratio stated should be main tained. TLo debts and bonds of the United States piovides for payment in gold or silver coin at the then standard value; it Was Ia gr-at wrong to the taxpayers ol whom rests the paymont of the public debts to striko silver from the list, of imoney as was done in 1873. It was tlhat blow which changed the value Of the proport.v of the United States. IAlore than half of the money of the worlid at that time consisted of silver. Tme whole amount in the world in 1873 was esti mated at $8,000,000,000, of tleso $4,500,000 were silver and $3,500,000,00 wero gold in round num iers. The rIu inous conseq uonces which atteunded this lad act of administration were seen in the failures of mercantile houses and business men amounting to imore than hai the public debt of the Unlited States within the last nine years. Now, I am for the free coinage of silver bullion just as of gold. Gold and silver should be put upon a perfect equality as of yorc in the ratio of 16 I. This would not only add to the valun of rc al estate and all sortas of property in the United States, but it would greatly encourage and stimulate the miniing of silver in this country. In my view all the gold and silver should be coined alike. The coin should be kept in the vaults of the Tr'easury andl certificates given in all cases where certificates are preferred. These coin certifIcates should be the curroncy of the country, it would be the best in the world. In this age we do0 not wish to burden with the weight of either' gold or silver in ordinary business transactions extending to dis tant places in the country, but we do want a nmper currency which is re dooemable at the will of the holder in coin dollar for dollar. Hank bills which are so common ini usc, are only promises to pay in coin and are often issued in amounts of two and seime times to three for one of the coin in the vaults ; but under the plar. advo cated1 by me the certificates would in no case represent any thing but dollar for dollar'. I haven't time to say more to you now. I will barely add that the pres ent depreciation of silver bullion and of the silver standard dollar arises solely from the dlegradation of silvor by the act of Congress in 1873. Let Congress declare, as it ought to, that 4lIZ 1-2 fgrains of standard silver is and shall be equilvalent to 25 8-10 grains of goldl in its purchasing andl debt-paying power, and instantly silver will be on aL par, if not above par, comp~ared with gold. To increcase the quality of silver in the prel~sent dolllar 412 1-2 grains up to 4180 grn M, to make it equivalent to tihe pre..en t current value of 25 8-10 grains of gold would be a great wrong to the laboring masses in the Union whose taxes have to meet the public debt ; the holders of the public debt at the time they received the bonds received them under the express stipulation that they were to be paid in United States coin, gold or silver, at its then standard value, and all that is wanting to make gold and silver equal, to make 412 1-2 grains of silver equal in the markets of the world to 25 8-10 gold, is for Congress to p~ut silver back on the list of moneys of the United States as it wvas in 1873. I have lately made a report to the House of Rleproeoutativyes upo ourI I coinage, in which I urge not only the restoration of silver to its deblt-pauying power, but also the adoption of muietrie coinage alp )iicablo al ike to gold and si lvor.I will send you a copy' of this in a few ,days when it comes from 'i the press. Yourms trul.1, A - -~.1. ST-IES 3 IPching, burning, scaly and crusty 1 skin und se'u ps of in fants cleansoed and s healed anid luliet sle. restored by e Johnson's Oriental Ap~i, medicinal anti toilet, two large cakes, 2~> ets.