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VOL. X. LAURENS. S. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1896. No 31 The Captive Mountaineer. He made a little "mountain dew" Ag'in the guv'ment's will; They took him an' his whiskey, too, Though he kept it mighty still. 8aid he: " I've got a family; if tills my heart with pain, To think that I shall never see The bright moon shine again." The guv'ment put him In the jail Mo light at all wur, near; He took some corn, an old tin pail, An' made the moon shine therot OLD TIMES IN GREENVILLE. nEOOLLBOytONS Of AN OliD MAN. How the Candidates Were Bled in Kontier Duyw Treating aud Cheats in? Wer? Common. [The following' artiolo from the pen of a gentleman still living was Srinted ten or twelve years ago in the reonvillo Enterprise and Mountain eer, and desoribos the experience of candidates a half century since.] Between thirty-five and forty years ago, one Friday evoning In August or September, I saw Col. P. E. Duncan, who asked me to come to William Bal lenger's the next morning and go with him to Mason's Muster-ground. I promUed him I would, and the next morning wo started. At every house we paused he would call and ask if the gentleman was at homo. If he was not, he would leave word that P. E. Duncan had called to see him. If he was there, Mr. Duncan would toll him that he was still a candidate for the "ktvgJfllature, and wished to be romem bored."'l?i?u^H^Jiej?ljn2arly nt tho muster-ground wo called at"*ft-Ul?i*V. and a woman catno to the door. He asked, as usual, for tho gentleman, stating that P. E. Duncun bad called. She ropllod : "My old man has gone to mustor. They all are looking for you up hero to-day. All tho men round here gwiue to vote for you." He thanked her for such good news ; but it was just as he expected. We reached old William Johnson's, whoso daughter promised to havo dinnor ready for us when we loft in the oven i>g. When we got to tho muster-ground, there was a full orop of candidates busy. Duncan made for tho sutlor's stand, whero ho was mot by beveral old acquaintances, Soon tho air re sounded with, " Hurrah for Duncan ! Everybody como up and drink some of Duncan's treat!" Aftor a littlo while the captain had tho men called into line. Somo one proposed not to drill ; anothor said : "Call roll and dismiss." And a third said : " No use in calling the roll unless we mustor. Thoy could not court-martial any one olse for not doing no." They dismissed, in order, as they said, to givo the candidates a fair chance, this being the last tip they would havo at them. Election eering now bogan in earnest. I was standing a little way off with Major Henry Smith, a oandidato for the Legislature, whon a small man with a black head (hair) and a front tooth out, came to us with Jacob Pon der. He said : "Mr. Smith, you are get ting on mlty well up bore. We are all gwlne to vote for you. I has been Hectionoering mity hard for you. I think you will be 'lectcd this timo, sure. Yes, I know you will; for the ones that gi's this box is always 'leoted. Don't you think so, Mr. PondorV" " I think so," says Mr. Ponder. Black-hoad then says: " Mr. Smith, I want to ask little favor of you, but hate to do It. Mr. Ponder here is in a mity pinch for monoy. I owe him one dollar and a half for an ax, and I want to get you to lone me money 'till the 'lcotlon. I will bo euro to pay you then. Izo got a mity good crap, out I hain't got any money now, and Mr. Ponder is in such a pinoh. Mr. Ponder, you knows lie Eot a mity good orap." " Yes, you ave a good crap," says Ponder. "And you knows, Mr. Ponder, I always pay my dobts." " So far as I know you al ways have," says Ponder. ''But I havo no monoy 'till I sell something," says Black-head, "and Mr. Ponder needs it so bad, or I would not ask you." "Yes," says Mr. Ponder, "I need tho money very bad." Smith took out his purse, and said the leat he had was iivo dollars. Black-head spoke very quickly, saying ho would get Esquire Whiten or tho sutler to change it. Smith handed him tho bill. He (Black-head) was gone a long time. Smith would look towards the stand as if he thought?gone ! gone ! At this time Col. Cox and Johnny Henson joined us. I now saw Blaok head coming back, bringing a tall, short necked man with hin. Each had some money in his han ls. The former said : " Mr, Smith, I was a good while getting tho change, but I always keep my word. Mr. Smith, lot me tell you something. About two week* ago we had a big shooting match way over on Glassy, whore we shot for two beeves. I rocon there were sov enty-flve men there." Turning to tho short-neckod man, he said' "Don't vou think there was that many there, Niles?" Niles replied: "Yes, more than a hundred." " And, Mr. Smith," continued Black-head, " thoy wore hollering for all to oome up and drink Duncan's, Ware's ' and Thompson's treat. Niles. he comes to me, and asked if I did not think wo ought to set out some for you. I told him yes, by all means. Niles said he had two gallons thore ; so ho eet it out and hol lered for all to como up and drink Smith's treat. You ought to seed them oome up. Everybody wanted some of Smith a treat. It done you a heap of good, Mr. Smith. Don't you think it did, Niles? "Yes," said Niles, " I know it did." " Mr. Smith, I told Niles I would see you. I know ad you would pay for it, and while. I -? was getting the onango, Nilos como to me to see you about it, and while I had the change I just givo it to him?one dollar and a half. Now, Mr. Smith, he is got tho money in his hand ; yet you can let him keep it, or he will give it to you. I told him if you did not pay him. I would; but I knowod you would." Smith turned his eyes to wards Niles, who carried his hand to his pocket with the money. Smith saw the job was tip, and replied: "I reokon it is all right." "Yes," says Black-head, " here is old unole Johny Henson. He knows it is all right, or I would not say so " Henson replied : " I know nothing about your shooting match." "Well, unole Johny, .you know me." VNo," says Honson, "I know nothing about you." Bluck hoad turned to Mr. Smith saying: "Here is your ohango. And, Mr. Pon der, here is your ono dollar and a half. Now, Mr. Ponder, I call on you to bo a witness that I owe Mr. Smith one dol lar and a half. Mr. Smith, be sure to be here the day of 'lootion, and I will ^ Bure to pay you. Come eooo in tho lorning ; for me and Niles Is .gwlne to ?ork for you that day." Niles stood by me all the while. Seeing that I ad/ray doubts about the shooting ?tch, ho touched mo on the side, and ?I that '-t|hora was ti" !at . oCfMAvod fallow towards us. Blackhead turned to Col. C<>\, and satd : "Col. Cox, this man has been slok all summer, and lost his crap, and his wife is about to?well, I won't say ; but you know when we call the roll, and a man don't answer, some one hollers out that he is watching his bees to swarm. He would not been here to-day, but my wife is staying with his'n till we get back. I told him the candidates would help him. I be liovo Duncan, Ware and all of the rest has give him a little help all but you and Mr. Smith. Col. Cox, if you can give him a little, it would do a heap of ?;ood up here ; fo ? he is gwine to voto or you and Mr. Smith ; and his wife's brother is gwine to vote for you both." Col Cox handed him fifty cents. Black-head said : "I know, Mr. Smith, you will glvo him as much as Col. Cox has ; for you are the oloverest man that has over been in these parts." Smith gave him fifty conts. Seeing that the farce was at an ond in our little crowd, Col. Cox und my self moved towards the stand, whore we were met by two men, one having a jug with a rope over his shoulder. The other, taking Col. Cox's walking stiuk out of his hand, said: " Col. Cox, give Gilo this stick." Col. Cox ro plied : " I cannot part with my stick." " Oh, just mako a pres9nt of ii| It Inn ?ich a pretty gold head," was t e re ply. '* I canuot part with It, sir, and you must excuse mo." " Woll, Colo nel, they toll mo your plantation Is black with nogroes, and that you huvo the best bottoms, und the most of them, on Saluda. Come, buy this jug of whiskey from this poor fellow, and help him out. Ho made it on purpose for the candidates." Cox looked straight at the man, saying: " Aro you not tho same man .Irom whom I bought a jug a little whttb ago^^^tter&ojonel, it was not me; I recon it was uTyT -bjCgtiyjc^ " You aro very much alike," says the Colonel. " Yes, we aro oxactly alike." The jug-man says : " Here is Joo Mc Klnney. Let's try him." McKinney was near tho sutlor's stand, aud they went to him. Tho first says : *' Mc Klnney, buy this jug of whisky from this poor follow and holp him out. They 6ay you havo plenty of money." McKlnnoy roplled : "Yes, yes, I havo enough to carry mo over tho river of Stvx ; but I know how I came by it." " O, McKlnnoy, just buy this to holp the poor man."" " 1?I always buys my liquor from tho tapstor. I?I know ail you fellers up horo, and you needn't be after my money. You all said you wanted a member of the house from up hero, and I agreed to run ; and if you can't voto for mo without trying to get my monoy, I?I kuow what I can do?I can stay at homo." " Well, if you won't buy this, lot us havo somo of your treat, for wo aiu't had any today. McKlnnoy told tho tapster to set thorn out a quart, but just then two men wont to fighting and a largo part of the crowd| gathered around them. Duncan proposed that wo should go while their heads were turnod one way. I told him to hold on and soe the damage. One foliow camo out without hat, his shirt torn, his hair tangled, but said he was not hurt. Patrick Peace throw off his hat, open ed his shirt collar, and swore ho had fought through sovon States, and nover had found a man he could not whip. Dan Harrison was quiet, but signified that if some one stirred him, ho would get hurt. Jeff Ward gritted his teeth, shrugged his shoulders, and said that " lighting hurts,'" because he had tried it. Duncan and I " slid off." MisB Johnson gave us our dlnnor, and wo loft. We crossed a crook and were going up a hill when we ovor took Capt. Millie Moon, who said : *' Duncau, let me ride behind you." Duncan replied : " My dear, sir, this is my brood mare, and I cannot tako double." '* Woll, git down then, and lot me rido." " I am obliged to ride on and get home to-night," rotorted Duncan. H Woll, Duncan, you go on. I will pay you at the election. You will not lot a poor old man rido this hot evening. You shan't get a vote if I can help it." Wo crossed Tyger River just as the sun was setting, and parted?each go ing to hiu own homo much vArqv from the observations of tho day. BILL A UP GOING HOMIO. Winter Has Lost. Its Grip In the Land of Flowers?Ills Experience In a Chowder Party. This Is our last week in Florida. Wo must go home, spring or no spring. Another boy is going away?going far away for good and wo must see him for a week or two and ?ay goodby. Our youngest boy, Carl, has got a place in Mexico on tho International Railroad and will leave the paternal home the last of the month. It is hard on me, but harder on his mother, for he has been her idol and her comfort and never gave her pain or any anx ioty. Already -I see the glassy tears in hor eyes a9 oft as she thinks about his going. " What if he gets sick away off there?" she sayn. "No ono to nurso hiui or caro for him," aud she turns away her face to hldo her tears. " But he will come back once a yoar," said I. " Mr. Raoul will lot him come. Wouldn't borrow trouble. The best way if* to look upon these separations from our children as part of the battle of lifo. We left our parents, thowgh we did not go so far away. But Mexi co Is not so far as it used to be and it takes only two or three days to mako the journey and besides It is a good change for the boy. So let him go ploasantly and don't lot him see your grief." These sad partings of paronts and ohildren have been going on ever since I can remember. Thousands of our boys have gone to Toxas and Arkansas, leaving their old paronts behind. Thousands of motherly hearts have been full to overflowing. It is an old, old story and parents should prepare themselvos for tho inevitable. It is a very selfish love that would tie a boy to the old homestead when there to a better field for hlra abroad. Our life work is nearly ended, while his is just begun and he should take the tldo of fortune at its flood and go whore brighter prospects loom up before him. It looks now liko th*s remarkable winter has Ig .t its grip upon the new year and soou the sweet breath of spring will gladden this Southern land. Every day is lovely down here now in Florida and tho sick and the well aro luxuriating in balmy breezos that como from the tropics. Yester day we joined a sailing party that was projected for our Dunedln friends and about twenty-five of us landed on Pal metto Island somo four miles away and feasted on a fish chowder that was cooked for us thore. I havo been to clam bakes in New England and Brunswick stows and barbecues In Goorgia, but never saw a fish chowder prepared in royal utyle before Our sail boat toweti a Mtlo boat along that was laden with the fish ?? bread and bacon and potato' I lemons and all the soasoning necessary. Co'-. Srediente and no:m tbe savory odor .led the air and made the guests hun gry for the tempting dish. For ; while our party wandered up and do*i tho beautiful beach on the gulf side the shells orushlng under our feet a every step, and when we returned t< the palmetto grove the cooks orderet the tablecloths to be spread and al the oulllnarles to be gotten ready foi the feast. Hugs and mats wore placec around for the ladles to reollne.upon while palmetto logs gave seats for th< gentlemen. Beat biscuit and buttei and broiled middling and pickles, etc. were spread out. in wild profuslot and then the chowder was tasted bj Colonel Bond and his assistant* thei retasted by feminine amateurs and or dored to be cookod and Baited a little more. In course of time there was n cal; for chowdor?chowder?chowder, anc soon tho dollolous feast was Bervcd Id soup plates and served all around. It was pronounced superb?splendid, and other adjectives too tedious to men' tlon, and some had their plates refill ed, but somehow or somehow else i did not feel as vorashious as I expect ed to feel and said to mysolf, as Mr. Lincoln said of tho ballet, "for tho folks who like that sort of a tulng I oxpeot it is the very sort of a thing they do like." It was all my fault, I know, for thore aro a good many good things that I don't relish, but other people do, and a higher cultlvatlot has pronounced superfine. I don'< like trlpo, nor ohlttllugs, nor raw oy sters, nor frogs, nor snails, nor mush rooms, nor poto de fol gran, nor turtle nor shrimps, nor olain chowdor. Ii fact, I have a prejudice against any thing named chowder, and it Is all my fault and a lack of educatlou. But we; had a glorious day and everybodv was happy. General Parsons and my self wero the veterans of the party' "ijftu a/ter dinner wo stolo oft* to thijj boat and took a nap upon the cushion ed seata. Tho General is I:om IlJ nois, a genial, kind, considerate got tloman, and a tariff roform Demoora, Bo oarned his title by fighting us atl I oarnod mine by lighting him, ail bore we wero sleeping side by side i. Southern waters. Tho liou and lamj laid down together. The general ^ now soventy-soven years \:ld, but ca ries himself woll, and everybody I?bs him, especially his modest lady-Ire daughter, who Is a favorlto with ur people. I like that?we all like tljlt. And wo had Colonol Bond, a Savanuh gentleman, but now of Marietta, who took off his coat and master of coniion les. Ho has made fish chowder on rolfe island for thirty years and wasfiven a diploma by Captain Pos to 11 Many years ago. Then there wore Clone I Bond's lovoly daughters, and thotuau ti'ul Duuodin girls and some Ither maidens with gushing adjective, and some fair matrons and tomo pung men who danced attendance upm tho maidens. I was sitting by a.vory lovely girl in the boat, when'a cooky young man by tho name of Grady who was reclining on the bow, gave aiweet and gentle whistle and my gil left me, under a falso pretense, amwont to him and never came back anymore. II reminded mo of Burn's prottvioem, "Whistle and I'll Come to V, My Lad." Tho next tlms I go I wlltake my wife and sit by her, for those'oung girls are unreliable Nobody (mt a settled woman suits me now. Last week I visited St. Petenburg, by Invitation, to help coinn;u/orato Washington's birthday. I fund the hotels and the town full of atrlot-lc people, and tho blue and tho gay min gled together in fraternal unio. I be lieve tho sections aro drawirt nearer togothor, and when I die aid a fow tnoro on both sides tho po9t<jlty will be right friendly. I hoard a pod con servative Southern Prosbytuan say tho other day tlhat the Prtpyterian churches, North and SoutJ, would unite again as soon as half dozen of their leading preachers die<J St. Pe tersburg is not on a boon! but it is growing slowly and surly. Tho Detrlot hotel ranks an>ng the best in tho State and is qite full of guest.s The floating hotel ras unfin ished when a late storm sun it on one side any mado a toboggan < tho roof. But they will raise It agalupd turn It into a seaman's homo, Mo they did the groat Eastern. But I ppo to see you a little later and ring fair woather with us. bLl Akp. THE PARDON OF STAN. Governor Krans Gives Ik Reasons and Hays Swan Was Cud - Ordors. Governor Evans has gr4ted a full and unconditional pardon k) ex-Con stable C. B. Swan, who wl convicted in Charleston of consplny In con nection with the Cant in east! and sentenced to pay a fine of .'50 or to be Imprisoned four months. Constables Gaillard and Pepper wer both con victed on tho same charg' They are dead, and tho sentence aiinst Swan was a sealed one, ho not ling prosont when It was rendered, ij gave him self up undor tho dlrectlopfGovernor Evans and the sentence ras opened. Govornor Evans was aske'whethor ho cared to make any statinout in re ference to the pardon and?o said : " I pardoned Swan b(ftuse he did what he did undor tho d ee.t orders of the Govornor and I cat see where there is any criminal intit to commit a conspiracy. Furthernre, I am dis gusted with the vordlctpf Charleston jurors. At tho last top of court ws furnished a numbor < cases to tho Sol ice officers of the oittf Charleston, lumbers of these bll* wero thrown out. I am Informed thi tho foreman of the grand jury statodhatthe reason no bills wero found v* because tho jury would not belieb the police officers. This is a n)k, stale story and enough to disgust pnest citizens with Charleston juries 'Their first excuse was that thoy edd not boll ore the constables, or ' spl' as they saw fit to term thorn.' Now/hen on oath the-State furnishes ovhnce from the mouth of their own offprs en trusted with the protection ofiho lives and property of their own dzons, we aro told that thoBo men oatpt be bollovod on oath. How can ly reasonable citizen be oxpeoted vordtot of suoh juries < feted ovon when convicted btheni ? It seems to me the respect the punish a dog imo has come when the decont, respjtable citizens of Charleston should ke a hand In this matter, and see thl the courts of justice are not turned ijo halls whore dlgruntlod politicians kd rovengoful whiskey sellers seek p punish and reflect upon the name id good stand ing of honorablo oltlaci who aro per forming their sworn d les\ undor tho law. "When such roportl as [those are sent to me, it bocomedny luty as tho Chlof Executive to ?V ..cvury powor given mo under th? \t*to Iroteot the good h?mo of tho cvteeni and see that justice is meted ofr-'wih an evo hand." //tibT'SHH nndo u AGAINST AN EVEN DIVIDE. 11KA80N8 FOB OPPOSING THIS COMPROMISE. CoiiKresenian J. Wrn. Stokes Dis cusses the Constitutional Convoii t on. Iditor Register: It goes with ou saying that the election of dele gates to the Constitutional Convention in tho most vital and delicate problom lltely to demand an answer of the Encsent or any succeeding goneratlon njour Stato. It is equally plain that tie answer to the problem, to be satis factory, must be projected along linos that will hold our Stato abreast of tu? nineteenth century civilization and pipgross?and suoh an answer must bo (cumulated by the whole white people. Tii is is but another way of Baying that the work of tho Constitution Bhould be dono in a non-factional spirit. Thus kr nearly all of u* may agree without qlfnoulty. The troublo begins when an effort is made to buttle upon tho forms and conditions upon which dis cordant factions may bo unified in this work. I There Is practically but ono definite proposition beforo the pooplo looking I" that end?that promulgated by Sen ator Tillman and several Reform lead ore in eonforenco with Mr. Barn well and sovoral other Conservative leaders. 1 shall offer soino objections to that features of their plan, which provides for equal division of representation bo tween tho factions in elcoting dele Sates. I shall stato theso objeotions rankly and plainly ; but with no in tention to impugn the motives of the parties to tho uouipaot. These objec tions seem to me to be absolutely fatal to tho echemo proposed?unless, indeed wo are ready to throw priuciplo to tho winds and turu our banks upon funda mental contentions of the Reform fao httdB-'ilH'-i-iiB' tuu pa?t deoade. 1. In tho first place, then, tho propo sition is irrational and contradictory in its terms. It professes to secure a non-faetional convention, and yet it starts out by making a division of dele gates between the factions. In other words it proposes to obliterate faction al linos by drawing theso lines more distinctly, if possible, than they have ever boon drawn before?in that it not only lixes, motes and bounds for oaeh, but reduces them to exuet terms on figured before the people have spoken. Can anything bo more irrational than this? Can auy proposition bo more self-contradictory ? And yet that is the palpable absurdity that tho people of tho Stato are asked to ratify. 2. In tho second placo, tho ratio of representation proponed violatos a fun damental priuciplo of representative domocraoy. Aftor recognizing and emphasizing the factional lines?pre cisely what it sot out to eliminate?it providos for an equal divisioo of repre sentation botweon those factious which are notoriously unequal. It proposes to give one-third of the peoplo inter rosted equal influenco and equal voico with tho other two-thirds. Such a proposition contravenes every priuciplo of representative democracy, and is without a procont in the history of govornmont formulated upon Demo cratic Hues. Tho most suporficial student of political science will tell you that auch a precedent can be found, as a deliberate sehemo, nowhere save in ft olear-cut, undisguised aristocracy. Upon no hypothesis can a minority of the people bo deliberately accorded more than their proportional share of representation, save that that minority possesses superior claims to represen tative functions. Are wo prepared to admit this ? Are tub Reformers of all people prepared to admit this? Tho yory utmost that could bo claimod or joncodod, consistently with representa tive Democracy, would bo representa tion for oach faction in proportion to ts relative strength. Under Domo-( jratic methods a majority can novor be justified in shirking any of its propor tional share of responsibility, and a ninority can never bo justified in do nanding or desiring raoro representa tion than its just and proportional iharo. Men do not usually seek to as mrao any responsibility without some jxpectod advantage to acoruo. They lover voluntarily assumo more rospon libility than properly attaches to thorn, vlthout correspondingly onhancod ad vantages which they suppose to bo in reach. These statements of principle tre absolutely irrefutable. They aro ixlomatic. It is amazing in view of ;heso plain principles to near mon se riously argue that this isaspecial caso, ?hat the work of this convention is dif eront from ordinary Legislative work ind from ordinary ofllco-holding--as bough this very fact did not enhanco bo necessity for a closor clinging to undamental principles! Wo are told vith apparent seriousnoss, that in an ?rdinary Legislative body, or in tho kpportionmont of offices, under Derao iratlo government, it would be proper o divide representation, and tho con equont responsibility, in proportion to 'olativo etrongth; but in this caso, vhero tho ground work for future leg slation is to be laid, that principle iMm Id bo set aside?that factional linos nust be olimlnated by an equal dlvls on between unequal factions. Can it >o possiblo that any snno man who is lonest with himsolf, and frauk with be public, will pretond that an equal livlsion is any less a distinct division ban a proportional division? Will my ono pretend that the way to eliral tate factional lines in a doliboratlvo >ody 1b to rcduco tho inequality be tween their forces, and maKO tho con rol turn upon a vury narrow margin? mssibly a si agio veto ? I say reduoo be inequality botweon tho factional orces bocauseit is exceedingly linpro )ablo, if not utterly impossible, to se cure absolute equality. On which sido ,ho narrow majority will stand, tho lay after the election alone can rovoal. 3. In the third place, the proposi tion for an equal division or any pre concerted division, to bo made effecttvo tnd oertain, must necessarily ovent late in rules for tho primary ordered >y the State Democratic committee, that will ourtall the freedom of that primary, or else in an utter abandon nont of the primary for some sort of convention. Now, if there was ono thing more than another that stimu lated tho revolt of '90, if thero was ono rallying cry that never failed, It was the denim)J for a full, free, untram meled primary for tho election of all affloera from Govornor down, In liou of Lhe oonvontlon system with its in evitable train of slates, and trades and logrolling?a Bystom under whloh too frequently a fow loadors got together In Columbia and fixed things, without taking the people Into their confidence, or consultMI' tbem until after tho work was done. Already tho air Is full of plans and sohomcs by whloh tho , bo set asldo, or if re tained in form so handicapped with the people very narrow iiolce. Can w(, affprd to by a deliberate re htluii system, <>r?fln the primary to attempts any preconcerted ratio of representation, would be for each fac tion to be represented in proportion to its strength. This would be a large concession by the majority, for the simple reason that under established democratic usage, the minority in any given political unit is not accorded any representation, and rarely ac quires or expects any?tho majority accepting and carrying all responsibili ty for what may bo done. This much, however, can bo conceded without flagrant violation of principlo?but it goes to the utmost limit that principle will allow. A single step further is a stop beyond tho limit of representative domocraoy. Thus far tho majority may go with out surrender of basic, principles, and thus far it should go, if auy procon oorted division bo deemed necessary to secure the desired ends?it being undeoteed first, last and all the time that such preconcerted division is purely advisory, aud that the final arbitrament must rest in a free, uu tramtnoled primary, without rules re strictive of freest choice. This can work no hardship upon one sincerely attached to democratic principles. Any man who would hesitate to uo copt such a plau because it might In jure his personal chancos would bo un worthy the confidence of the peoplo. Any man who rejects It because It doos not inauro, or promiso to insure, do Quito rutios, or becaues it does not couccdo more representation than democratic, usage justifies, is lacking in the essentials of patriotism. But what will It matter after nil, whether tho minority have one-half, or one-third, or one-fourth in tho con vention, if they pledge themselve (as they propose to do In tho primary) to do precisely tho samo thing that the majority have been pledged to ail along, and have sealed their dovotiou to those pledges by an unwavering fidelity in faco of most violent opposi ftlQfiE? riil. ' *"> solicitude to as sume greater rVrauunsfbluty lmTn~pro"p-' erly atttuches to them while pledging themselves to do just what wo have unfalteringly stood for, is Inexplicable ? unless they distrust either our pur poso or our ability to carry out those pledges. If they sincerely agree with us as to tho object to bo achieved by theconvention, why then, every ground of difference between us being remov ed, there is absolutely no excuse for any tamporing with tho primary. The limits of the work being agreed upon, there is no -iuoro differences between tho majority and tho minority faction or principle, so far as ttiis ??special case" is concerned, and hence the whole question rosolvos itself into a question of men. Tho mean res being agreed upon, it is purely a question of mon, and there can bo no justification or shadow of excuse for tinkering with tho question of roprosontation. It is perfectly plain Bailing by tho chart laid down by our Statu Dotnooi'ut'o ICxoeutlvo Committee, compose.i .-. ooth factions, upou tho representative bases fixed by the party. Boing pure ly a question of men to do a prescribed work, it would bo little ?h?rt of crimi nal to violate principlo and run in tho faco of democratic usage, to further t,hc interests of any man or class or [action of men. Neither faction can illord to loud its sanction to such )rostitutiou. Under these olrcum ttances there is no excuse for any de parture from the strictly democratic way ; tho way prescribed by the State iOtnmlttee?a full, free primary elec tion for delegates. That should be mtlrely satisfactory to all Democrats, vhero all questions of principlo aro igrecd upon, and it ouly remains to 'elect, the men for tho work prescribed, t follows, of course, that the host men ihould be aeleotod regardless of fac tional affiliation. I believe that such vill bo selected if proper e ffort is made ?provido for. aUaoluto tairttOSn iff "tho -.Ohduct of the primary; quit talking ibout rutios; quit trying Lo devise ichcmes to insure cut and dried ro ults ; quit assuming that either side >r anybody will act in bud faith and rylng to protect against It; lot every* K)dy go to talking up tho host quali'icd non for this difficultand delicate work, iml then lot all ahido tho result. The units and the naturo of the work to >e done boing agreed upon by tho ro irosontative mon of both factions. I opoat in conclusion there can bo no ixcuso for any effort to curtail the uliest, freest choico In tho primary of ho mon. to do tho work. This Is de hoc racy pure and simple and should >o good enough for all who profess to ?o Democrats. j. Mm. Stoke. Orangeburg, S. C, March 15. WHEN FRUIT IS KILLED. tecord of the Frosts ainlFrec7.es for Ten Years Past. Tho following is taken from tho Hary of Mr. R. P. Johnson, Smithvillo, Ja., showing tho timo that fruit trees, teaches, poars, etc., wore in full bloom ,nd tho cold thereafter which killed r partially destroyed tho fruit crops : In 1884, full bloom March 30th, frost ^pril 7th and 10th, some fruit. '85. full bloom March 25th, frost larch I7th and .'list, somo fruit. ?86, full blosm March 10th, frost and CO March llth, sleet on Kith, very lit le fruit. ?87, full bloom February i?tb, frost 'obruary 28th and March 1st, and ico ,1 arch Kith, no fruit. '89, full bloom March 10th, Ico on 2th and lUtb, thcrmomotor 27 at sun luo 15th. crop killed. '81), full bloom February 20th, slcot 1st, largest crop ovor known horc. '00, full bloom February 20th, killed .laroh 2nd, thermometer 20 at sunrise. '91, full bloom February 24th, ice fobruarf 27th, thormomefer 20 at sun iso, March JiOth thermometer 110 nt unriso, April 5th thormo ueter 29 at unrlso, somo fruit loft. '92, full bloom March 10th, killed ?laroh 19th, thormomoter 21 at sun Ise '03, full bloom March 10th, killed darch 2?th and 27th, thormomoter 24 d Bunrlse. '95, March 12th, but fow blooms yet, md tho Indications aro that It will bo ,ho 18th or 20th before tho fruit will >o In full bloom. By referring to tho abovo you will lee that our fruit crop has boon killed >very year, whon killed, In March, and ownrd tho latter part of tho month, md by referring to tho almanac you it-Ill soo that the froe/.o each yoar came ,wo to flvo days after full moon. Only iwlce In ton years havo wo had any jold weather In April to Injure tho Irult crop. ' ?Tho mind is busy ; it, la no" sleep ing. It is a mint ..always (.lining thought, very debased coin It some times turns out; but nlso sometimes irery pure and beautiful. Somo mon's minds coin no thoughts but thoso of business; others nono but those of pleasure; but-iome mon's minds havo the power o>t turning all to gold by conmv.?' Vig all that MTaround thorn wud tho thoughts of Odd and his won derful low .????u u".*-woman 1 im umbrella 1?. that von can shut Til I ' WAK IN OU1U. The Planters tor the First Time Ar? lu With the Patriots. A private letter received in Atlanta last weok from a gentleman of high character who lives in Matanzas, Cu ba, gives interesting details of the struggle now ponding in that island. The writer eays : "The nature of the disturbance at prosent existing in this island is of a different eharaoter from what it has over boon borotoforo. In all previous uprisings the govornmont has been able to rely upon tho planters for aid in suppressing troublu. These plant ers, as a rule, held oloso rolations with the government and with the official class. Many of thorn wore educated in Spain, and they were fully imbued with Spanish traditions. " On tho other hand wus tho poorer class, such as landholders, tonauts, la borers, etc., people who had but littlo or nothing to lose, who were always ready for a rising. Of this class tho patriotic party was composed. They wero the most numerous oluss, but lacking in intelligence aud leadership they were always at a disadvantage. They had not only tho officials and sol diers to avoid, but tho vigilance of their employers, who wero as llrmly dovotod to Spaiu as arc the landlords of Ireland to England. *? For three years past the planters, hitherto so loyal, have been put to a sovoro test. Owing to tho freu sugar clause in tho McKinley bill, thoro was a great boom in tho sugar iudustry of Cuba. The planters not only largely increased their capacity, but invested to the extent of many millions lu new mills aud machinery. Then like a crash came tho announced policy of the United States, to cripple the very market upou which Cuba had built hor hopes. Spain blundered in clumsy forms of retaliation, instead of having atheurt the interests of those who had been so true to hor heretofore. - " Lust November tho planters of Cu ba held a meeting !Q Havana, at which they adopted a piteous appeul to th home government. Captain Gouoral Callijo promise*., to forward if., with a personal endorse ment, it is doubtful if ho ever did so. But. bo that as it may the next thing these planters heard of it in July, was in intimation that further meetings for any purpose whatever would bo Iis pleasing to the govornmont. Thus loprivod of tho right of petition, tbo planters have been brooding at their aonieSi giving quiet aid and support to ilia rebels. 1 have been through a considerable part of the island and jyerywhere men aro roving abound in imall groups, avoiding the military, jut keeping thom in constant pursuit, vhile tho planters aro non-committal, ?omaining just quiet enough to pro rent confiscation. As soon as tho troops leave any given point, It swarms ?gain with too open advocates of revo .11 'it. Tbo harmony between tho )la'?l. .?< and the discontented oloinent s plain to bo seen, as is the faet that ,helr trudeis have superior means of uforuiatiou. There is really no well ormrd uitempt at mobilization yet. Dhe purpose of tho rebels is to keep in mall bands, to attract as littlo atten* lull ;>?> possible, and to avoid conflicts vith the troops. This plan of having he whole island a camp, without any lolnt of strategy for the Spaniards to ittaok, it is believed will weary out he Spaniards, and by lengthening tho tei'lou of disturbance, will attract out ido aid after awhile. There is not a iay but that every Spanish garrison hi the island is rushed nut on a wild ;oose chase after an enemy that dis olvos Into nothing and escapes. Many f the planters who had largo stores of iroarms for rural defenso, with tho ap iroval of the government, bavo been robbbod,' whether wittingly or not is pen to conjecture. To sum it up, here is practical accord among all lassos of C41 bans, which would find xpresslon if opportunity offered itsolf or success." HOW TO RAISK POTATOES. 'he KSxnorienoo of a Successful Gar dener In York County, forkvillo Knqulror, Almost everybody knows how to eise Irish potatoes, in a manner; but rhicli is tho best way to raise them is question on which there is room for onsiderablo light. Mr. H. P. Adickes, f YorkvlUe, has, for tho pant few ears, been one of the most successful otato raisers in this section, and at ho request of a reporter, a few days go, he gave Tho Knqulror somo In arosting information as to his methods, lo said : " Tho first thing to do, of course, iB 0 prepare your land. Tho soil should o bfokon doepiy aud thoroughly mel jwed In order that it may absorb and etaln moisture Thon put in your tenure?stable manure is perhaps the est that can bo used?and see that It ? thoroughly mixed with tho soil. Tow you are ready for planting. "It is my experience that it is best > use for BOOdSouthern grown, socond 1 pop potatoes, for tho ospeciul reason iat they are more certain of produc lg a. largor and liner yield. The otatoos should bo cut to single eyes, 1 1th the substance as well distributed a possible, and should bo put in tho round at tho rate of ton or twolvo 1 ushols to the aero, according to size. ''Tho potato Is intolerant of dryncss nd heat, aud In all eases should be I lantcd as early as tho season will 1 dmlt. If tho soil is light ami sandy, ! 10 sots should bo put out as soon as i icy aro cut; but in tho ca.^o of a cool, ioist and heavy soil, it is best that tho its should be dried in tho shade a day 1 r two before planting. 1 " In all cases, tho rows should bo ?om 3 to !U foot apart, and the sots liould ho about 12 Inches in the row ; ut as to how deep it Is best to plant, < oponds upon tho eharaoter of tho ! jil. In light, sandy soil, tbo sots liould atonco be covered to a depth of illy six inches; but in cool, heavy tnd, it is bettor to at llrst cover to a opth of about four Indies, and then ut on tho additional two inches just oforo tho plants or me up. "No vegetable is moro nhVcted in uality by different soils than the otato. Tho "mealiest" and best avorod potatoes aro to bo produced n sandy soils ; but for tho most satis aotory yield, you should ehoosoa rich, andy loam, containing an abundance f vegetablo raattor. In all cases, ultlvatlon should bo shallow and rcquont, and In no caso Bhould tho >otato bo dug until after tho plant is lead." On one or two ocoaslons, Mr. Adlokes ins raised on an averago of something iko aoO bushol? of potatoes to tho icros and roalized la.the city markets in average of 7f> cents a bushel not. lie regards tho potato as ono of the most profitable crops that oan bo raised In this section, and Is satisfied that if some of our people will go into the business on a largo scale, that they oan easily develop a good healthy market that will yield still more handr some returns. i ?Tbo' State. Press A obs lauta Re position In October ih'.i:,. The Coldest Winter. The ?tost notable thing about the Bpoll of oold woather through which wo hayu just passed is its widespread intensity. All Europe has been in the grasp of the ice king, and in far Asia while Japanese sailors were frozen to death while training their guns on the Chlnoso forts In Northern Africa suow fell for the first time in so long a period that growu raon gazed at it with won der. Scientists havo been at work for years to flguro out a law of climate and weather changes, and tholr con clusion is that It takes between thirty and thtrty-llvo years to got from the extromo of heat to che oxtromo of cold. Just why this is so they oau not toll, but their delving into tho old records eouvinces tbem that there is Boino na tural law at work and that sooner or later it will bo discovered. Five years ago a Swiss professor published a book called Climatic Oscillations Since 1700," aud, strangely enough, his calculations mado it ap pear that one of tho culminating periods of oxtromo coli would come around ubout this tlmo?perhaps In this very year?to bo followed by gradually increasing warmer weath er, which is scheduled to reach its highost point about tho ond of tho first quarter uf the next century. While we think of our sufferings, wo may. therefore, turn for consola tion to ll)2? or 30, and rovol in tho an ticipation of tho mildest winter that we can freouro in this latitude.?Now York News. Favors Annexation.?Senator Morgan, of Alabama, chairman of tho Senate foroigu rclutmus committee, lias remained in Washington since tho adjournment of Congress, and takes an interest in tho existing foreign com plications. " I do not known what is bolng dono," ho said to au Associated Press report er, " further than what is said in the papers from time to time. I am, of ?"rested in the situation in '"tlnnfftts are ablo ' '??? to seeure material a.i. .. _ sons in this country, not only in "the way of money, but in men, in spito of all olTorts to proveut it. There are many that aro ready to go into a war for Cuba, or any other war, and there will be no way of keeping them out of It if the men who aro leading this re volt show that they command any strength at home. At first 1 was in clined to view the uprising as without any particular backing, but it appoars now that it has grown to be quite formidable. Those peoplo are not to bo blamed for rebelling. It is only a question of time when Cuba will throw off the Spanish yoke. It may not be with this revolution, but it will coma with BOatu future revolt." '? You are in fjvor of purchasing Cuba V" was asked. " I have always been a Cuban nn nexationlst." responded Mr. Morgan. I am In favor of purchasing tho island, or of any other method of acquiring it from Spain. It is an important islund for the United Statos." Tho Allianca luoldeut was referred to by Mr. Morgau, who t) iid ho ap proved the course of the state depart ment in demanding an apology and re paration. He declared that American merchantmen cannot bo lawfully in terfered with upon tho higli seas. Ho expressed tho hope that Cuba might be annexed and said it was a groat mistake that San Domingo was not pur chased when wo had an opportunity. No such chance, ho added, should be neglected in the future, whon there were offered islands in either ocean over which wo could exorwiso control and which are properly a part of tho American continental system and nec essary to tho protection of our eom merseonour coasts. " Here's Your Mule."?Several stories aro told to account for tho cry " Hero's you mule," which was so popu lar .with tho Confederate soldiers dur ing tho-sj-'oosslon war. The bost au thontlcatod ofHfeesfr-is thai in the fall of 1801, after tho battle of MahftSdAlj a farmer earao ono day Into Hoaure gard's camp, near Contcrville, in search of a stray mule. Some of tho boys sworo they had soon the mulo In tho camp of another division, half a mllo away, but hardly had the old man started whon they shouted ; " Como back, mister, here's your mulo." no turned to retrace his steps. Immediately tho other enmp, know ing only that some fun was on foot, took up tho cry : " Mister, they uns lyln; to yon uns ; we uns hev jot you uns mulo "?a travesty on tho dialect of the troops from tho North Carolina mouutainn. As he turnod In the di rection of this last call, ho was hailed from still another camp with, " No, they havon't. Hero's your mulo." And so tho whole army joined in, and had tho bowlldorod countryman chang ing his course as tho cry came from quarter, to quarter, " Here's your mulo." Tho phraso caught on aftor tho Incident of its origin was forgot ten and was everywhere repeated npon nil sorts of occasions. A Florida Pastor Hunu in EPPI uy.?Whon tho Rev. M. Kobison, pastor of tho Congregational church at AvoniPark, Fla., stepped out into his front yard tho other morning ho saw an elligy of himself hanging from tho limb of a ti or. It had a placard bear* Ingjtho inscription : "So may all min isters be sorvod who uso tobacco." Avon Park was intended by its founder to bo a model town. Liquor cannot bo sold in tho place, and lately there have boon mutterlngs about the uso of to bacco. Sunday night the matter came to an issue In tho church, During tho ilobato it developed that a majority of tho congregation were in favor of ex pelling every man and woman who used tobacco in any form. Pastor Kobison confessed that he himself used tobacco in his study. Tho pastor hurried from tho church accompanied by such of tho congregation as agreed with him. During the night tho in dignation of the anti-tobacco faction Increased to such a pitch that thoy hanged tho offending pastor in cfllgy. Tho tobacco users of tho town propose to build a church of their own, with Rev. Mr. Robison as pastor. ?Curiously enough the right hand, which is more sensitive to touch than tho ioP* is less sonsltlvo to tempera ture ^nnds bo dipped in tw* hosamo toui p :>l feel tho g . it will do tl tl. V?' rl| xiod persons 11/ ?VIII uu ,'ors Bhow basin 1b ^ an in tho ?th et credit for o really doing -giving away [Ing, a widow owns 1875 ,000 aero of ?TA'i'F, NMIV.1 IN BHIKF. Interesting Note? from' various Sour* Ma. ?Two now dispensaries have boon established in the city Cha.-'-^ton. ?Gen. M. C. Outlet* * by the ladles of Augu?. moinorial add.essou Aj. ?w. h. Perrons & Co., ers of New Hork, have insti. against .the State Publishlu, Jaoy for an. amount aggre^ 1)272.71). ?Tho machinery for Lockhart Milu Union County, is to bo delivered at Hickory Grovo, over Three C's rail road, hauled to tho rivor, and carried to its destination in a boat. There will bo over 100 carloads of it. ?Governor Evans will this weo make an oillcialjvtsltto tho Deaf.'Dun and Blind Institute at Cedar Springs, Spartanburg County. Prom there he will go to, Clerason College and make an examination of that institution. ?Robert McLaln, a North Caro linian, has boon arrestod in North Carolina, and is to be brought to Spartanburg, to answer to the charge of horse stealing. McLaiu is said tc be a man of fine family connection! and to stand woll at homo. ?Mrs. A. Viola Noblott, of Groen ville, is traveling through the arranging dates for advoeates r Woman SutTrage movement to t She will bo assisted in this W( Miss Virginia D. Young, of Fi in this Stato. ?Work will soon be common tho new cotton factory at Bath new mill will bo furnished with spindles and 450 looms, and wi completed and reudy for operat about ?vo months, and will employment to about 250 oporati ?The Wofford College, Spartanb baseball team has organized for season. William Coloman is manav and John Humbert is captain. * Wofford Collegians expect to raak strong fight for tho State champ ship. Thotr team will go regul into training this wook. Nr=:7P*com pctHWe exam I - *4' be held nt SpartanBurg u*. 1895, beginning at 10 o'oloot. ^ which will dotermino Congressman Wilson's choice of a oadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point from the Fourth Congres sional District of South Carolina. ?J. C. McLendon, who opened the firing in tho Darlington riot last April, is said to bo slowly dying of tho wound ho received at tho time. Ho is at his homo in Barnwell County. It was thought that the wound was slight, but it has never healed and no hopes of his recovory aro now entertained. ?Enlistment of the State militia under the new law Is about complete. Adjutant General Watts states that seventy companies have entered the service. Of the 100 ccmpanies organi/.od after tho Darlington riots, only twenty bavo enlisted. Last yoar'\ there wore about 200 companies in the f Stato. ?At Yorkvillo, a few days ago, Earnest Parker caught a pig belong ing to' him and was about to crop its tail. The pig's tail was wrapped about one finger of bis loft hand and in his right ho held tho knife. Ho mistook tils finger for tho tail and at ono stroke cut it off. Tho finger was never found and tho pig wont his way rejoicing. ?Congressman Stanyarno Wilson, Democratic chairman of Spartanburg Uounty, has ordered a primary election to select dclegctes to tiio constitutional convention. The committee prescribes that only those who voted tho John Gary Evans ticket in tho last goneral election shall participato In this primary?excluding tho antl-Tlllman Itos, who supported Dr. Sampson Pope. ?A ourioua story comas from Crossf Anchor. Last week a negro man wat, , returning through tho woods work with an ax tdung- sTcrosn u. ihoulders, when suddenly he stopped into an old well, partially covered with brush. He was forced to cut itcps in tho sido of tho weil by which jO oltmb-OUt, and it took twenty hours' >f hard work ^before ho reached the ;op. ?The South Carolina ?qQftl Right* \ssooiatton has elected as prosldont VIrs. Virginia D. Young, Fairfax; *lco preaidont at la^go, Mrs. Viola SJcblctt, Greenville; secretary, Mrs. Vlarlon Morgan, Bucknor; treasurer Vlrs. Georgia Bailey, Greenville ; press oportcr, Mrs. Mary Uemphill, Abbc mlo. General HomphiU's papor, the \bbovillo Medium, was made tho irgan of tho Stato society. ?It is stated on good authority that Senator Tlllman will appoint Mr. vlatthow Fitzsimmons Tigiio, reconlty if Charleston, but now of Washington, }. C, as his privato secretary. Mr. L'igho was formerly on tho staff of The Jharleston News and Courlor. In 891 Senator Irby appointed him as irivato terectary, and ho acted in hat oapneity until last fall, when he oslgned and accepted a position on ho staff of tho Tho Washington Times, Io is a young man of more than unual alent. ?Secretary Charlislc has appointed . Vm. Martin Aikon, of Cincinnati, O., uporvislng architect {of the Treasury, o fill the vacancy that occurred on Jept. 20, 1891, by tho resignation of eromlah O'llourko, of Newark, N. J. Che salary is $4,500 per annum. Mr. Uken is about 42 yours of age, and iras born in South Carolina. Ho is a lescendant of tho colobratod Aikon amily of this Stats, after whom tho own of Aikon is named, and is a iophow of Hon. D. Wyatt Aikon, who eprusontod tho Third South Carolina )istrict for six years In Congress. Mr. Wkon romoved to Cincinnati somo ten ir fifteen year' The Dispens a i> oy has decided t.. arising out of tho soi. ?onstables of tho sola?, vhich arrived in Chariest iry 20th with a cargo oi vhiskoy. Tho suit wns tm ;ho owner to recovor possossu ilio court directed that ho bo [l?bsossion. Tho court finds ths Lion 118 of tho dispensary law which tho schooner was seized constitutional, and void in so fai plies to this case. Tho court e? its jurisdiction of the caso to the question as to whether tho sei/ the vossol was legal or not. Up tho validity of tho polloo rogu by which tho Stato purports to tho llcpuor traffic it is not called upon, and refrains from doi It does not assumo any jurisdic tho right of tho State to eontlsc. cargo, but holds that tho so? the sohooner was illegal, and elusion says* It is adjudged tha. much of tho ?et of January, 1895, un< which tho vossel was selzod is void an lntorforene/o with intor-State c merco, and that the llbollant is titled to adooreo for possession an ' his oosta