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HE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL VOL. 7.---NO. 29. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 12YEAR. MILLAN WILL RUN FOR GOVERNOR IF NECI.SSARY TO MAINTAIN THE DISPENSARY LAW. Thanks God He's Not a Politician The People Wise Enough to Act ror Themselves, and Advised to do so upon all Occasions. Special to Atlanta Constitution. AuI31EVILLE, S. C., August 4.-"It is said that Gonzales did not sleep a night for fear the Latimer bill would pass and that he threatened to make a cam paign against it next year. I tay to N. 0., ' blow your horn.' I will resign the Senatorship and run for the Gov ernornship myself, if necessary to maintain the dispensary law." This bold and defiant threat, spoken with all the emphasis of which Sona tor Tillman is capable, fell like a bomb among the audience gathered to hear him at Klugh's park, jubt outside this city, to-day. It will for the Limo dis place the attention which has been given to the Senatorial contest, and bring Senator Tillman forward once more as the stormy petrol of South Carolina politics, the one around whom must gather all the contending ele monts, satisfied to take a second place in the presence of this impetuous leader. The occasion was a gathering of the farmers of Abbeville County, sum moned to lieten to the farmers' insti tute, which was held by the faculty of Clemson College. A farmers' gathering in South Carolina is not necessarily one lacking in politics, for the fact is that the farmers of the State have been its only politicians for the past ten years, and it looka as though the city ward heel :rs havo een permanently retired. When it was announced that Senator Tillman, who is one of the trustees of Clemson C"llege, would be the orator of the day and that this speech was but the beginning of a series to be de livered throughout the State, it became evident that more than usual impor tauce attached to the proceeding. It was well known to the followers of the redoubtable leader that he did not relish the idea which grow out, of the Senatorial primary of several months ago that his control was anywise weak ening. They knew the man well enough to know that he would see his own time to reassert his supremacy, and that time was indicated by the po sition of the present candidates for the United States Senate, who are trying to evade responsibility for the dispen sary law. Now, if any one thing is nearer to Senator Tillman's heart than the dispensary it is not known, and it did not take him long to announce that he would stump the Stato in behalf of a continuance of that law, ne matter whom it helped or hurt. That occa sion was presented today. when. as hA fore said, nearly 2,000 farmers assem bled in Klugh's park and listened to the commanding eloquence of the farmer boy who prides himself upon the fact that be is the only one of his class holding a seat in the United States Senate. As gentlemen of prominence were gathering upon the platform, Sheriff Nance walked up to Senator Tillman and said : "Senator, a" little olice makes us both fat." "Yes," replied the Senator grimly, "when it is mixed with abuse." Hon. J. R. Blake, the chairman of the institute, introduced the speaker of the day as "the great commoner," when Senator Tillman said depreciatingly : "Oh, that belongs to Mr. Stephens, of Georgia." The Senator took his stand before the audience, one leg thrown to the front of the other, and his hands rest ing on his hips under the folds of his alpaca coat. It was just such a posture of studied negli go which added so much to the speaking of Mr. Grady. The Sinator recalled the fact that eleven years ago he started his cam paign in this county, and that many times since he had spoken in it, and though he had adverbarios within its limits, he had never received a single sign of discourtesy. He traced the campaign through which he reached the Governorship and finally the Son atorship, and recalled the fact that the beginning of that campaign was a de mand in favor of the establishment of an agricultural college, where men mi-ght he taught the use of the hand 'and the eye as well as the speaking of Greek and Latin. " It took us farmers a long time to move," said he, " but when we got ready we took in everything fro-m Gov ernor to coroner." This declaration evoked enthusiastic cheers, from which it was evident that the tide forn'ed eleven years ago had not been broken. "A great question," said he, "was the maintenance of Clemson College. There were difliculties in the way, the greatest of which was the effort to) compel the faculty to keep in view the the character of the college as an ag ricultural institution. But the trustees had made up their mind that they would keep on changing their faculty until they found men who had some respect for labor. Those who have said that I know nothing about farm ing," said he, "have lied about mec in this matter as they have lied in others. We haven't had the men we wanted but we will keep on trying. I will have teachers who will teach a boy to dig his lIving out of the ground. The continued effort of faculties to drift Into a literary school will be resisted. The effect of the instruction given in Clemson has already been a revolution in the character of our farm"rs. It is the object of this college to send edu cated men to the farm and not to re cruit the so-called learned professions." Senator Tillman went on to) speak of the dignity of the calling of agricul ture, and of the high character of the man of acres, who could look about on his possessions with pride, and whose ability to extract fortune from nature made him the grandest of men. Yet the anomaly has been shown of a Son ate of the U nited States from which the farming class is almost excluded. "In fact," he said, "I am the only farmer there, representing thirty mil lion people. " If I wero aipolitician," said the Senator, "1 would toe holdinag my tongue just now. But, thank God, I was never made to be a politician. I will speak my mind at all times and under all con ditione. I was out in [owa a few wooks ago, and there I learned something of one of my Senatorial colleagues, Mr. Allison. He has been in the Senate twen ty eight years. During the last dozen years Iowa has been revolutionized a half dozen times in her politics, and yet during all that time and all these changes it was never once known how Mr. Allison stood upon a single ques tion before the public. If I were a politician like him I would be away from here today ; but in 1886 I fought it out in the open, and when I get too cowardly to lead you I want you to turn me out and get some man with more courage to take my place. I have nothing to do with the Senatorial elec tion soon to take place. If you have not become capable, throuh your edu cation of the last ten years, to settle upon the right man for Senator, then I must say that our work is lost." Son ator Tillman spoke upon this subject not with the air of a man who has noth ing to do with the race, but with the evident conviction that he was himself the first choice of his auaitors, and that the colleague given him would be one of his liking. Leaving this question, Senator Till man entered the one nearest his heart -the dispensary question. "None of these candidates," said he, "appear to be friends of the dispensary law. There is many a politician hiding out in the bushes to see how the people stand." Senator Tillman went on to leseribe the war which had been made upon the dispensary law by the cities, In which they had openly fought its )perations, so much so, he declared, that Charleston had seceded from South Carolina on the the liquor law. "It was then," said he," "that I made up my mind that the State should take sharge of the police force of these 3ities. As Governor I always asked, is uch a thing right ? is it for the beneit )f the people? and when the answer was in the aflirmative there was noth ing in sight to prevent my perform ince of it. I want one law for South Jarolina-one which Charleston will have to respect just as much as Abbe ville." Senator Tillman went into de tail as to how the dispensary law orig inated. There was an attempt being m1ade to commit South Carolina to pro hibition, as the case was in Maine. That prohibition simply furnished an excuse for prescriptions by doctors to build up a generation ofibypocrites, who were always sick when they wanted adrink. "I pre!erred the dispensary system,' iaid he, "a prohibition law would not be enforced, because being purely po litical, it would go the way of all polit ical measures. There is at, old ex pression that the beat way to light the ilevil is with his own tools, and I argued that the best way to tight liquor is with liquor. I do not agree with min isters who make out that the drinking of whiskey is a crime. It is the abuse of whiskey that is wrong. We can not treat with men as we would like to have them, but as they are. "Now, what is the giant evil in thn whisky business? It is the element of personal profit, the greed of men who make money out of it. The dis pensary wiped that class out of existence. It is personal pro fit that opens up brilliant saloons by which to seduce men. It buys politicians it bribes policemen. As a result of the dispensary we have to-day less drinking in South Carolina than was ever before known in the State. But now," said he, "we hear of the appeal to Cvaar-the federal court. Newspapers have fought the system and little politicians have belied it, aaying that the officers have had re bates and have even attempted to men tion my name in connection with it. I will stand up in the face of God and man and say that they are liars. I cannot ao into the indecency of our present oederaijud ge. In all the iniquities which marked the career of Judge Bond, and God knows they were h)ad inough, yet he never equaled Simon ton as a tyrant. To free liquor from tate monopoly is only to build up that personal monopoly which has damned me many communities. If the decision of the supreme court is right, even un Elcr high license or low license, or any nther plan, the legislature may adopt, uriginal packages can still be brought in and distributed throughout the State. Oee of the candidates for the Senate, Mr. Mayflold, has criticised the bill which I introduced which commands Simonton to take his dirty bands off the throat of South Carolina. This candidate is pleased to say the dispensary system is rotten. If that be true, it is the fault of the adminis tration and not of the law. We must," said the Senator, stamping the floor, "put the dispensary either In politics again or out of it. Make the county dispensers elective, as are your clerks and treasurers and sheriffs, and if you are capable of electing those other county oflicers you should be equally capable to elect the right kind of dis pensers. The trouble with us now is that6 there is a divided responsibility; that politics has got into the Sta,se board." It was here that Sonator- 't'll man spoke of the position taken against the dispensary by Mr. Gonzales and declared his p)urpose, if necessary to keep the dispensary to the front, of1 resigning his scat and entoring the fight for the governorship next year with that question as his sole platform. "Not that I want to give up my pres ent place," said he, "I am doing very well where I am. Whenever I get up to speak ever y one of them comes in from the cloak room or wherever else they may be, and they crane their necks to hear every word1 I say. And let me tell you," said he, amid the laughter of the audience, "that I pitch rocks up there as well as here. I went up to Washington to speak for you and Iam doing it." At this point a per sistent gentleman with a red head in sisted upon Mr. Tillman's taking up the tariff bill, which he did, sayingj: "The whole schemo of the D)ingley hill was public theft. I so described it in my p)lace in the Senate. I said lts purpose was criminal; that I was against it in all its shapes and forms, hut if these peop)le, having the power to enforce the protective tariff, insisted upon so doing, I wanted my share for my pemople. They accuse McLaurin of being a republican,'' said he, "because he voted for several amendments ol the bill calculated to bring some of its benefits down this way. Now I voted t,he same way, and l am not a republi can." qenator Tillman continued upos this subdect at some length, having the entire audience in sympathy with hi views and cheering him enthusiasti cally. Thero can be no doubt of the import ance of Senator Tillman's speech to day. While disclaiming participa tion in the Senatorial canvass ho hai made himself the most prominent figur< in it. He has set the pace as to publi< policy, one in which the candidates will have to follow in his wake from sheer force of circumstances. So true is it that when Tillman speaks ir South Carolina all others are forgotten: and that he will from now on be the central and the controlling figure, His declaration of the length to which he would go to enforce the dispensary law is an earnest of what he proposes to do, and it may be taken for granted that the next State campaign in South Carolina will be one without a pre cedont in the intense interest which has always marked the campaigns of that State. On b'rlday the Senatorial candidates will speak in this city, and they will find ahead of them Senator Tillman's work already fully accomp lished. Thus the campaign waxes hot, and we will have to let each day unfold what it has in store for us. TALK ON TIMELY TOPICS, Senator TilimaIn I)efenls the Dispen sary antl Entorses McLauirin's Tarinf Views--Ile Approves Ellerbe's Course About Metropolitan Police. Columbia Register, Senator Tillman spoke to the Farm ers' Institute at Abbeville on the 4th inst., .delivering the first speech he has made in the State since the open ing of the present Senatorial campaign. He defended the dispensary law and declared that the troubles it had been Involved in were du3 not to the law itself, but to its unwise administration. ie endorsed the taril' views of Sena tor McLaurin, and said that while he himself was not a protectionist, if there was any stealing to go on he wanted his State to have its share. lie told his hearers that he was the only farmer In the Senate, and that he therefore represented 30,0O, 000 farmers of the United States. le declared that his speechos were as popular in the Senate as at homo, and told how, when ho arose to speak, the cloak rooms always emptied and the galleries filled. Chairman Blake introduced Senator Tillman as "one whom we a month age mourned as dead, but who is now alive and in our service.' The Senator spoke, in part, as fol lows: "Eleven ycars ago yesterday, I spokc advocating an agricultural college and the rule of the people. Sinwe i have been here repeatedly. I have nevel been shown an act of discourtesy The dispensary is the best liquor sys tom. We have tried others. The dis pensary removes the chief demon o the trailic--personal profit. Undo high ,license keepers would sell a night and on Sunday at all hazards If the dispensary management 1t rotten, Iturn the rascals out. Tht,rt was no rottenness when I was Gover nor. It is as possiblo to got hones dispensers as honest treasurers and auditors. I favor the election of dis pensors by the people. The lquor men have appealed to Cat,ar, and our judge has outdone them all. Bond, in his palmiost days, could not. exceed Simonton as a tyrant. He has run government by courts to an unbearable limit. The change from the old board of control to the now was a sad change. There is politics in the board. Two against three shows something wrong. Something is wrong with any man the legislature elects. The governor,. etc., are the rightful board. "As to the metropolitan police, Charleston had virtually seceded from the State. Her grand juries persis tently refused to do their duty. The oficere of the law were discredited. Governor Evans was right in p)utting on the metropolitan police. Governor Ellerbo was right in maintaining it Ellorbe wanted to remove the police, but necessity called for its mainten. "If the dispensary is rotten, you arc largeoly to blame. If you admit yet can t elect honest dIspensers, you can'I elect honest treasurers, and therefore admit that clviliztation is a failure. Ir A bbovillo and elsewhere you have had honest management. "Men who have constantly oppOsOd Ben Tillmnan and all his work art bound to admit that the dispensary ii superior to tuo other two systems wt have tried. "As to my Seuatorial record: went to Washington to work, andi hav< worked. I have helped save yor $1,000,000 on armor plate. I passet the dispensary bill in thie Senate ant Latimer did his utmost to pass it, i the House, and but for Tomn Red I would have p)assed. Of 3,5~00,00I farmers, I am their only representa tivo in the Senate. I don't claim pro tection is right. To illustrate: Thre' br-others own a cow; two take all th< beef, as .two-thirds of the American have taken all the p)rotection. I wan our share of cow." Asked as to the Senatorial candi dates, the Senator said: "if the fou can't, convince you one o)f them is fit leave all. For 'a man who as Stat Senator has been a friend and a sup porter of the dispensary, Mvaytleld I taking a remarkablo course. "We are trying to get men at Clem son fit to teach the boy s. We wan boys sent from the school to the farni --not from school to a profession an< the do-nothing class." A P~ARSONS S'rOReY.-A n it,ineran parson tells that, way out "in the back woods" he came, one day, to a settler' house, and entered to h,avo a talk witi its inmates. The old Woman of th house b)ecame much interested in th preacher's discourse, and requaesto that he conduct family worship. Sb also insisted upon hunting up he family Biole, to be used upon the or caslon. She loft the room to look u the Bible, but seemed to have har work finding it. The minutes passo< and she came niot. Trho preacher ha time to grow imp)atlent before the ol woman r-eap)peared, wit,h a few tattore leaves In her hand. She handed thol over, with an apologetic air. "I' awful sorry, parson,'' shoe 'xplalnet "but the fact is I dlidn't know I was noar ont of Blhbno!' THE CAMPAIGN MEEIING AT ANDERSON. MR. MAYFIEIl) STitKES BACK. John Gary Evans Talks About Met ropolitan Polico-Col. Irby Makes a Bold Attack on McLaurin's Friend Neal. Special to The Mountaineer. ANDERSON, S. C., August 5.-About six hundred or more voters gathered under the trees in the Blue Ridge Rail road yard yesterday to hear the Sena torial candidates. There was a sprink ling of ladies on the outskirts of the crowd, who seemed to be much inter ested in the discussions. It was a Me Laurin crowd, there was no doubt about that. Evans got some applause during his speech, but the most of it was re served for McLaurin. The Senator made a much better speech than he did at Greenville the other ds'y. In fact, he seemed to be a different man. At Greenville he was undoubtedly badly backed, as he realizad the crowd was against him. But here he had things as he war.ted them and was according ly encouraged. He is evidently what in baso ball would be called a grand stand player. He is not at his best un less he is sure of applause from the au dience and he plays for the applause almost entirely. Unlike Evans or Irby be cannot grow defiant in the midst of opposition. Mayfiold was the first speaker an( he had almost flnished when the writer arrived. The only now thing about the meeting was the way in which he jumped on 1llorbe. He cane back at the Governor and called him "anoth er." lIe is not to be dismissed in any such lofly manner as Governor l;ilerbu has assumed. '.. is speeches are causing i'llerbe to lose ground and incidental ly, McLaurin for the two are insepara bly connected1 politically in the minds of the people. A prominent politician remarked after the meeting that there was no doubt as to which one the peo ple were believing, 14llorbo or May lield. 1llerbe's word is at a discount now almost everywhere, and McLaurin finds he has a hard load to carry as he feels in honor bound to take sides with his personal and political friend. Evans, in the beginning of his speech, took up the matter of the metropolitan police and defended his action in put ting the metropolitan force on Charles ton. le then attacked McLaurin's position on this matter, saying that ma a .nu oou u lttbi l l1l were Governor he would have removed the fore, if h, had promnised to do so, and - yet he would not say anything against his fri( nd, Governor Elerbo, who had - refused to do so. Evans then took up - his regular lin' of argument on the i tariff question, saying that MeLaurin had made the issue. "If Iillman,"said l ho, "occupies the position of McLaurin on the tariff the hbnest farmer of South Carolina will not iupport him." 3 This remark was received in dead - silence. t vans then made his usual remarks I about Calhoun and nullification. Mc Laurin, he said, spoko two hours in Hampton to show what fools the Don ocrats were who wanted a tariff for revenue only. McLaurin said in Oconee he wanted America for Americans. rhis nosition Evans ridiculed as sini lar to that of the rich Yankee who got on the stand on the fourth of July and said America for Americans, and at the same time was stabbing the South in the back. The Iepublicans, he said, had baited a few Democratic Senators and had switched them oil the currency ques tion and en to the tarif, Hie explained the doctrine of free raw material and attacked McLaurin for his votes on thIs question. Hie made his usual statement as to his theory how Mc Laurin got on the ways and means com mittee, and read from Republican pa pers showing how McLaurin Is re -garded at the North. Evan's speech waslrelplete with illus trations and anecdotes, and was well received. He took his seat amid soe hearty cheers. McLaurin was the next speaker. He first rep)lied to Mayfleld's dispensa ry- speech and up)held his position on the Tlillman-Latimer bill, saying it was a general bill to carry out the intention of the Wilson act. Hie would make the bill a law if he could. Why is it, he said, that Governor Ellerbo is brought into the campaign, and that he had to rep)ly to charges against llerbo as well as those against him self? McLaurin said that when corn is thrown into the barnyard, the best rooster got it. He had got the corn, but there was a Shanghai from B1am boi)rg, a D)ominmck from Laurons, who had got old and tender footed, and a little Game cock from Aiken, who woro - fighting the rooster f rom Marlboro be cause ho got the corn. 'This simile was well received. SMcLaurin made his usual speech against the doctrine of free raw ma terials, dofen.Jing his votes in Con gross. The Senator spoeke in lisa usual - rap)id and earnest nannor, and tho -crowd got closer to the stand to hoar ,him. Evans had attrihuted to him are Smark about John C. Calhoun of which - he had never heard until just before 1 the campaign. Evans interrupted and said McLaurin had never denied mnak - ing the remark, but had saidl ho didn't t remember it if he had said it. Mc Laurin then said it didn't make any I dIfference if he had said it, he didn't mean any .disrospect to Calhoun. lie then gave his attention to the Walker t tariff of 1847, sayhi.g it, was the only - Docmocratic tariff bill ever introduced e in Congress. is position was the isame as that of Camhoun. Evans had a said lL..ed put him .on the ways and 3 means committee. Well, all ,the 1 Demnocrats were put there by Roed. o W. J. liryan had been put on the om r mittee by Reeod aftcr a service of one :term. p When McLAurin got on the wheat a question r'vans intarrupted him and I said that wheat wont dlown when a d tariff wasI put, on it, McLaurin said this d was caused by the demnonetizAation of d silver. This was groeted with chcorr n for McLaurin. n Senator McLaurin read the letter I, from F'red G. IBrown, of Andersen, o which caused such a stir at Saluda, Mr. lHrown unhcld McLaurin'a tarl1 position. He is a cotton buyer and merchant at Andersons. Senator MoLaurin's points were clear and his speech took well with the crowd. He was several times inter rupted by Evans, which made him a little mad. All during his speech Evane was talking to several farmers near the stand, answering McLaurin's points as he made them. Senator Irby began his speech with his usual statement that the liar was abroad in the land. Ho then- referred to the alleged interview of Tillman at Charlotte and read a letter from Till mal denying the interview. Tll!man said that he had not soon a reporter at Charlotte and had made no statement about Irh's candidacy and that be was strictly hands-off in the Senatorial fight. Irby took up the combination charge and made his usual denial. Ho said that instead of his running as a loose horse, Evans was a colt to him (Irby.) His comparisons of the other candi dates brought forth laughter. is was charged that he was going to be Gov ernor. If he wanted to be Governor, he could beat five Ellerhos next year. lie called Ellerbo, Gonzales and Neal, the world, the flesh and the devil, against which he had to fight. Ile paid a high compliment to Latimer, who, he said, had made a tine record in Congress. He also referred to Strait as a true man, and said he had waited for these men to come out against MeLaurin. The ex-Senator kept the crowd laughing with his jokes and apt illustrations, but it was quito evident that his speech was having little or no elfoct. His bold attack upon Colonel W. A. Neal was a bravo piece of work, but irby gained no friends h. it and probably lo,t som . Colonel Neal, or "Bill" Neal as he is called, is very popular hero and know ing this it took no little courage to attack him as Irby did. The candldates were forced to spend a good deal of time in Anderson as they did not got away until this morn ing when they left for the meeting at Greenwood, going at once to the speak ing there from the train. The would-be Serators arc getting tired of their own speeches, and Col. Irby says ho is going to get a now one at Laur-ns. CLAItiENCI1. STATE BOARD 01' CONTItOL. The Monthly Meeting Almiost.Devoid of Int erest-Extracts ironm the Coi issioner's lReport. The State board of control held its monthly meeting in Columbia, but two members were abs.nt. Contrary to expectations no purchases of liquor were made and the liuor men who were expecting to go away with large orders in their pockets are badly disappointed. The board has about agreed to pass a resolution in accrd ance with the plan suggested by State Commissioner Vance as to the making of purchasos. Under this plan the board will receive and consider all bids, sulect the grados and brands of liquors at the pricos presented in the bids and leave it to the commissioner to send in the orders for the liquors during the month as he needs thom. The board thinks the plan a very good one, and there will hardly be a dissenting voice when it comes to the adoption of the resolution looking to the change. ThIe will prevent 'any clogging from over stock and at the same time the board will retain its supervision of the pur chases. It was expected that the mat ter of tha purchases would be reachad, but Mr. Williams failed to arrive and it was not taken up. Commissioner Vance submitted his monthly report dealing very thorough ly with the statement of liquors re ceived and shipped during the month, and making certain minor recommend ations. Trho rep)ort contained these rather interesting paragraphs : "It is with p)leasure that I inform you that in accordance with the resolu tion p)assed by your honorable board at your last meeting I have turned over to the State treasurer'the sum of $15,000. This makes a total of $35,000 paid the State treasurer since I was elected commissioner, taking charge in May, and a grand total of $155,000 in the last eight months. "We owe comparatively nothing, everything being paid for as the bills are presented. "Our stock of liquors and supplies amount to about $150,000 here in the State dispensary, and the stock on hand in the local dispensaries will amount, in round numbers, to *200,000, and we have money enough on hand to pay for all your hionorale board may see fit to buy th is month. Th'lis I conaldier a good showing for tihe financial standing of tile dispensar-y notwithstanding tihe charges miado by the enemies of the dispensary of co)rrup)tion.'' At last the vacancy on the Charles ton board of control has been Illied. Mr. 0. C. lleckman, who is a member of tile city council of Charleston, was appointed to fill tihe vacancy occasioned l)y the resignation of Dr. Graman. in accordance with the resolution of the board adopted at the last meeting Mr. Cooper ropor-tod that hie had visit ed the Charleston dispensary during tile month and had ordered a lot of old wine, champagne, beer. etc., dumped luto the streets. Tis is stuff which has been on hand for several years, and is utterly unsalable. 'rho State board requmires thlat at least one member of the county board must be p)resent to sco that all the stufY is dumped. The samoe course has been adopted as to certain old liqluor from the Spartan inni in Spartanburg. Mr. Miles made the examination In this instance in person and issued a similar order to have tile stuff dumped. State D)etectivo Newbold submitted to the board a complete report in re gard to his finding a good many pack ages of whiskey put up at the State dispensary short at the dispensary at (Choster, and seizing them. The beard took no action in regard to the matter. Thie board agrees with the comnmis sioner that it is well nigh an imupossi bilily to send out packages that will exactly measure up to a drug gist't graduated measure every time. They say that in the first place bottles can not be blown that wi hold the exaci quantity uniformly without exception They say they are doing all that moni . an do to give full measurn. and if a Tool That is, we are too bus Low Prices keep us busy. The Racket Store is th ways buy what you want cl we mean what we say. Our competitors call us acknowledge the charge an of this county to say whetti Store has been a benefit to 1 as goods as the best. Bought at Low Prices, and our customers rejoice v Racket Store is doing for tli Asking that one and al to " Underbuy and Underse Yours in dea NEW YORK R Easley, 8. C. P. S.---Still remember tl will get a nice carriage this bottle happens to fall short once in a while they cannot help it. The matter of granting a permit to the lHay distillery in Groonvilli Coun by was fully and exhaustively discussed, but final action was delayed. M r. Cooper and M r. Miles both said that there may be some risk in granting the permit asked for, but they thought that encouragement should ho given to home distilleries and if the permit was granted it would tend to stop the illicit sale of liquor in the neighbor hood of the still, Inasmuch, as the State would purchase all the liquor turned out and the men would know that it was to their interest to comply strictly with the law. Applications wore received from W. A. Lark and P. Babb who wish to start up distillerles in Glroenville County. loth applicatlone were dr:d at come length, but no final action was taken. THI WICATlilat AND CROPS. Valuable Infornation to Thoso Inter estedu in Farnini Operat.ions. -The following Is the weekly bulletin issued by the weather bureau in Co lumbIa as to the condition of the crops in this State : COLUMIA, S. C., Aug. 3, 1897. The week exhibited temperaturos ranging slightly above the normal every day, but over the extreme north west portion the nights wore cool for the season, with a minimum for the State of 62 at Liberty on July 28-21). The maximum, 102, occurred at nodges on July 26. The average for the week was 81 while the nor mal Is approxl matoly 19.5. At most stations the daily maxima ranged between 88 and 16, whieh, while It, favored ntivn arnwt.h of vegetation, tended to dry the ground very fast. The entire rain for the week fell on July 25-20,h, and In places the rainfall was excessive, wash in g lands and flood ing bottoms, especially in Anderson, Darlington and Greenwood. Twenty three places reported weekly measure ments of less than 1 inch ; 15 of from 1 to 2 inches ; 4 from 2 to 3, and 9 of over 3i inches with a maximum weekly amount of 4.88 at Charleston. The mean of these 51 measurements is 1.15 while the state normal for the same p)eriod is approximately 1.54. Trhe rainfall was fairly well distributed and with limited exceptions was suflicient for the needs of growing crops. The sunshIne was above tihe normal, averaging about 77 per cent. of tihe possiblIe duration, and, followinga woek of generally cloudy weather was highly beneficial. There occurred seome local high winds which slightly injured corn in p)lacesi. There appears to have beoon a quito general impJrovement in crop~ cond itions in South Carolina during the paUst week and the staple as well as the minor crops are exceedingly line over the western, tile north central, and the northeastern counties, and over tile greater portion of the remainder of the State. The exceptions are that over p)ortions of Oconee, l'ickens, Laurens, U1nion and Spartanburg couunties more rain is noeded, wilo in portions of RUihlanid, Hamborg, Kershaw, Sumtor, i)arl Ington, Orangoburg and Berkeley there has been an excess of rain to the injury of crops especially corn andl cotton. Laying by of the principal field crops is nearing completion, and was favored by the hlot, dry weather that pre vailed during the greater part of the week. Old corn is maturing rap)idly over the eastern portions of tile 8Sbate where fodder-pulling is now qu'ito general. This p)ortion of the corn crop) varies in condition with the locality and the soil and is not likely to be a full cr0op. Late corn continues promlising b)ut needs several morec good "seasons " to keep it up to p)resent conditions and to in. sure the heavy yild that now scemu likely. Corn is " firing " on sandy lands in Korshaw, 11er kel ey and Aiken Some bottom land corn injured earll In the week by high winds, and over flowed streams in the central counties however, comparatively small area were affected. Cotton continues to fruit well and t shod comparatively little. A numbe of corresp)ondents report this crop ur usually line and more heaviy fruite than is usual at this season. Thor were fewer reports this week than las of rust, excessive shedding, and "hone: dew " although these damaging coi ditions are still widely prevaloni .esReAiallyl in onnina whor.e theren lE 3usy! y to write very much. Our e place where you can al leap. When we say cheap, by cheap names, and we [leave it to the good people -r the New York Racket .hem or not. Our goods are so let our competitors weep At the good the New York e people of this county. remember that our motto is l1," we are I earnest, ACKET STORE CL.YlI1 & NALLY, Proprietors. '1e Surry offer. Some one fall FREE I been an excess of rain. Much grass was killed, and laying by made rapid advance. There are reports of the plant being small but well fruited, and others of the plant growing too much to " weed" at the expense of taking on fruit. Bolls are opening rapidly over the southeastern counties. Excessive rains injured cotton in portions of Berkeley, and Darlin gton while in Spartanburg and limited areas elsewhere more rain is needed. In places the plant has turned yellow and stopped growing. Sea Imland cotton continues to put on fruit and was grcatly benetltted by the abundant sunshine of the latter portion of the week. The first bale of now cotton for this season, was shipped from Allendalo, larnwell county, on August 2nd. In :i., > bales were marketed on July 28-29th, in 1895 the first on August 2Oth, in 1894 the first on August 15th. Tobacco curing progressing and nearing completion ; quality good. Curing up flne in Florence. Rice heading and with the exception of limited localities where damaged by catorp!Iars, is in an extra ilno coadi tion. Early rice will soon ripen. Peas are growing luxuriantly with good stand. Large crop of pea vine hay assured. Sweet potatoes are doing well gen erally and the acreage Is larger than usual. Turnipsowing continues but in places is awaiting rain. Cane is very promising. Hay a heavy crop. Pastures afford Ing good grazing. Melon" continue plentiful. Fig trees bearing heavily ; late ap ples a good yield ; pears not a heavy crop but of good quality. Gardens failing. J. W. BAUER. Director. -a : a.. TO MEIT IN GitEENVILLE. Ue.1. Boniham Orders the Sons of Veterans to Assemble In the Moun tain City. The Uuited Sone of Confederate Veterans are to meet in Greenville at the same time that the annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans is held there. The order for the meeting of the Sons has been Issued by Gen. M. L. Bion ham who was recen tly appointed to the command of the South Carolina division of this organization. The order is as follows: Heoadq1uarters S3outh Carolina Divis ion, United Sons of Confederate Vete rans, Anderson, 8. C., July 29, 1897. General Orders No. 1. 1. H aving boon ap pointed to the comn mand of the South Carolina division, United Sons of Confederate Veterans I have accepted said appointment and hereby assume command of the divis Ion. 2. The United Confederate Veterans of South Carolina will hold their an nual reunion in Greenville, 8. C., on August 25, and that has been deemed to be a most desirable occasion for a meeting of the members of the camps of this dlivision of the Sons of Confed orato Veterans. Wherefore each camp within the division is hereby instructed to sendl delegates, net less than two to such mtf('ing. Thue railroads have granted the low rate of one cent amile, and the always hospitable people of Groenville willI make the stay of vli.l tors p)leasant, andl so it is hoped that eac~h camp will be largely represented at this meeting. 3. In view of the fact that South Carolina l>as next to the largest num b)or of camps of veterans in all the Southern states, it behooves us, the sons of these veterans, to emulate their zeal and enthusiasm in the cause. To the end that we increase the number of our camps and the membership of those in existence, you are earnestly urged to use every endeavor to add new members to your camp and to in duce the formation of other camps within the radius of your influence. All the assistance in the power of these ,headquarters to render you will be gladly given. Ollicial: By order of M. L. Bionham, Ma jor General Comm.mnding. 2 HI. II. Watkins, Adjt. General. -Humility never lowers herself by app)earing on good terms with pride. ,-It is much safer to handle dyna -mite than to take a dare from the devil. -Many so-called great men are like , the moon: they shine with borrowed a light.