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LAURENS, S. C., TUES DAY,. APRIL 7, 1896. NO. 36 Irlalte to Gam. WH Free the BE THE BOLTERS? emoeratw Will Control ko Convention?Laurent Cuujuuit lor Irby. Laurc U3 the State, ohled th and let Wei fol spring 11. excite n has ju it pie w?' re Tho Usible Larry Guntt, of the Pled UK e.dllghv, has been on a politics In Laurens County, and was th t of Senator Irby. who drove lijr tho upper teotlon of tho cou il gnvo him an opportuni ty to tti ,h tho people. Hero is tho rest ig investigations at tho storm-cm political matters: nty is now looked upon l>f "politlcul war In our Headlight editor de fvould visit, that section, eaOers know tho truo ontorpris Laurena Van Win future ah Senatoi with hin aurons us placid as a without a ripple of rheir now eotton mill tartedi up, and the peo hirso happy. They tiro now tklkbout wutor works sup plied I)'oi|vrte?ian well, and othor here is no doubt ahout aroused from her Hip op, and sho has a bright met us at tho depot (South Carolina raisod team. Tlnator is looking better than wo fcsverseon him, and was lu fine sp Ho said ho had been busy since-etum homo planting a big corn and had not devoted any time jntlon to politics. He rested his3 in tho hands of the people, 111 they did not want him to serve tin tho Senate ho would be content er to retire to private life or wor whoro they put him. Wo aski mator Irby his views about the |jed bolt at Chicago. "Dldyoi? known bolter to ac COmpliehot ,hing?" was his answer. Holters ear down, hut they never build up. weaken or destroy tho party Iron jh they secede, hut if you will exo the political history of the worin will not lind a single instance ii eh holters havo over been succe And another thing you will sc Holters eventually re turn to thrty from which they seceded. 'Ithe Kansas Populists, for instano hoy sluslied olT from tlio Ucpuh party, but after the spasm had >od returned to their allegiance : wore 1 < fiulist PetTcr to run for tmato touay ho would not receive ilf dozen votes, lam as strong a silver advocate," con tinued Sena rhy, "as any man in South Carol But wo must, boar in mind that tl ee silver plank ip not nil that comtes the BYmoeratio party. Theaooratlo i>arty is the friend of ti&outh, and wlien wo destroy it, tie with Western Re publicans, vjro simply paralyzing our own prorjty. Why, oven under the Clevoll administration the South hau U favored. Tho forc^ bill was rolod,' and other laws passed that e henclicial to our sec tion. But luio Republican party elect the Prent and control both houses of Cos8| and you will pee the prosporh'tho South strangled, and tho motmoxioua laws passed. I believe thaio freo silver moo will control the (ago convention. Tt is admitted In snlngton that the so called 'soundnoy1 udvooatoa cannot secure enoujlulegates to nominate a ticket, or p snt the adoption of a Elatform eining bbmetallsm. 1 olinve that ve will he a split when the convent) meets, for the gold standard dejites will belt should thoy fail toicomplish their ends. Then they w'be the bolters, and not our side. Tils just what wo want." '" Senator, nt do you think will he the action pur Stato Democratic committee ?' ?' i do notlOW, hut feel assured that the metir will not countenance anything th looks like a bolt. I have simply blished my views, and have made attempt to influence any ono. When ! committee moots, I shall state in position, and of course tho other m bora will act as their judgment n patriotism dictate booth Carol! is prospering above all othor Sou the Slates, and I attribute it largely to 1 fact that wo havo mal nod lu th lomooratlc party. Our white people le their State, and tlx negro is ulimited from polities. Wi owe it to the or whito voters of South Carolina to oteet them from the political pot} of tho negroes, and done '>y remaining in partv. Wo must ro xi colored vote largely whito veto in South hen our people split, up will see a scramble lored vote, and negroes lised by the thousand, poor and uneducated I havo nevor advised v\bti?;ly, and nevor will, for the righto of the shall never counsel threatens his political 41 this can only tho Democrat member that outnumbers t Carolina, and and divi le, vi made /or tho will he enfrai Then whore \ white men he my people I have foilgl poor man, anything tha sovoreignity. " Of courseh>" ?>*o in tlio race for Senator " 1 am. I si that an elTort is being made to do awy with our whito prima ry. The pcofe will. not countenance this. It won! he a step backward. 1 am ready ml willing to trust my Ohanora with he Anglo-Saxon' voter.-; of this State, nd win obediently how to their deere The people havo been given the rigl to name ?. S. Senators at tlio ballot-bX, and this right shall never be taker it. A man bravo and fi been reported "th?t I can iK of Laurens ride over a pi from them if I can help o is afraid to face his people is not worthy to represent a in people. And it has f continued tho Senator, carry my own county ftor dinner I will have my horses hitched up anJ take you to tion of Laurens. going in an / directim you dcslro, and 1 will lot you see for yourself how I stand at home. 1 havijiiiy enemies, like every other public imn who takes a strong position In pofitloe, hut the groat mass of the voters 1)1 Laurens are with me. I havo not Entered into a political coalition with any man, and neither will I do so. I am a candidate on my own account. I am lighting no one. But I am not a straddlcr, and the peo plo will always know just whoro to placo mo." I Senator Irby tbon branched out and discussed straddtois and fence-riders. Ho said ho freely ooneoded tho right of any ono toopposo him, but ho did not want any two-faced business. " A Htraddlor," ho explained, " is a weak man, who has not talent enough to do fend his enuso, and therefore resorts to double-dealing and hypoorlay. A man of brains has othor weapons, and you will always find him taking a do oided and {firm stand on all publlo matters." After dinner, Bitting bohlnd tho Senator's line team, wo started out on a ride through the woatoiu portion of I Laurens County, taking tboold Green vtlle road. This is a beautiful ?ecllon. While tho land is tbln, it lies well, and with the uuo of manure, produces lino crops. Farmers are well up with their work, and small grain far ad vanced over Spartauburg County. We saw five acres in cotton to one in corn. , Thoro are numbers of beautiful farm housos in this section und every few ' miles is thrifty railway villages. Wo passed through Barksdalo, Gray Court, Owings and Fountain inn, besides taking in Mr. Chris. Owings, who is one of tho most successful planters In that county. We took supper with Mr. Owings. v/ho Is a staunch friend to Senator Irby. Mr. Owlugs has a pen of six Chester hogs for next year's killing, and which will now average 225 pounds each. He says ho will mako thorn go to 500 or GOO pounds by next winter. Mr. Owings raises a yellow corn and ho says for stock feed ing eight cars contains as much nutri ment as ton oars of the whito variety and it is loss susceptible to drought. Wo met several friends at Mr. Owings' and spent a delightful evening. Aftou BUpper wo hitched up our team and started for Fountain Inn, to spend tho night with Mr. John W. Kellott. Fountain Inn is ono of tho most pros perous towns in Laurens County. It is about the size of Woodruff, and buys 4,000 bales of cotton a year. And speaking of cotton, wo saw in front of many farm houses great piles of bales. During our tri]) wo must havo passed at least 500 bales yet in hands of fat ra ers. Mr. Kellott Is ono of tho most hospi table of men, and we met a warm wel come. He has a beautiful homo and delightful family. His eldest daggh ter is a first-class artist, and has or namented tho houso with handsomo paintings and portraits of tho family. Kollett showed us a patch of two and a half acres, on which ho last year raised 2,500 pounds of lint cotton, and says he intends to bring it up to three hales per acre. This shows what the land around there will do with tho use of fertilizers and scientific culture. The good people of Owings uro re joicing over tho fact of at last having a post office given them, and which has been named "Kapley," as there was another Owings in Laurens Coun ty, and it would havo confused mails. Owings has three stores, a chureh and school, and until this office wus 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 ono road and returning by another, if that section is an in dex to the political sentiment of Lau rens County, it is a waste of time to try and defeat Senator Irby at home. , We stopped at a number of houses, talked with the people, and thoy all ( report tlio country as a unit for Irby. Tho people havo named their babies for him, and every man or lady ho passed on the road would halt him and have some kind word'tosay. Wo never saw such unanimity and enthusiasm for a candidate And parties tell us that the other sections of Laurens aro juBt as strong for Irby as this. So those who are predicting that Senator Irby will bo turned down by his own people know not what thoy aro talking about. If thoy will go into tho county, and talk with tho farmers, thoy will find 1 that-J. L. M. Irby Is firmly anchored 1 in their hearts. ' And another thing wo noticed : '? While the people are all strong advo- 1 cates of silver, every man wo mw ro- ' pudiated the idea of going into any Independent party. They believe that 1 the silver delegates will control tho 1 Cnicago convention, and have no idea of following tho Populists. Wo met Col. Crews, editor of the Luuronvillo IJcrald. He tells us that tho new paper to be started by his son ] will be printed on tho Herald press. Doth Col. Shaw and Sheriff McCravy deny having any stock in "Tho Silver 1 Democrat." In fact, a friend of ShorilT ! McCravy's told Senator Irby that ho (McCravy) says it was a falso report that ho was fighting him. So it will ' be scon that tho opposition to Senator I Irby in Laurens is largely imaginary, and the work of outside parties. < Congressman Wilson is strong over ' Laurens, and tho manner in which be 1 handled Boutolle has made him many new friends, lie will have no opposi- 1 tion for re-election. It was reported that. Mr. Patton, of Columbia, would ! oppose Mr. Wilson, but it would oo 1 folly for PattOD to mako the race. We 1 heard in Spartauburg that thero was 1 ill feeling between Senator Irby and Congressman Wilson, and wo asked the Senator if thero was any grounds for such a report. Ho replied that there wns not, so far as ho knew ; that just before he left Washington Mr. Wilson and himself had a talk, and parted on kind terms. He also said there was no truth in tho story that '1'iil man and himself did not speak as thoy passed "Why," ho remarked, "Senator Tlllman frequently comes over to my seat, ond we talk together. Of course our rotations aro not as close as they onco woro, but we always speak when wo meet, and frooly dis cuss any measure relating to tho good of our State. I tell you I am not mak ing war on any ono. I intend to dis charge my duty by my people, and think and act. for myself. I am no coat-tail swinger. Tho peoplo elected mo to tho Senato, and they are tho only masters I own." Senator irhy's enemies havo put out the report that ho has been absent I from nearly every roll call. To answer I this story, he refers to tho proceed- j Ir.gs of Congress. Senator Irby says that as soon as tho committeo meeting is over he will return to Washington, lie thinks Congress will adjourn in May, as all important business has been transacted which could bo hoped for at tliis session, and only tho appro priation bills aro now in tho way. Son ator Irby *ays ho will mako a cam paign of tho State next summor, and moot the peoplo face to face and give an account of his stewardship. Tlio Headlight is not an organ for Sonator Irby or any other man. This paper is froo and untrammeled, but will keop tho peoplo posted. If Sena tor Irby was guilty of voproheot-iblo conduct, wo would donoun^o him as soon as any ono. Personally ho is our friend ; but tho editor of this papor wears no man's collar. Wo went to Laurens not for the purpose of boom ing Senator irby, but to study the po litical situation in person, and then tell our readers the facts. This wo I havo done. ? Turpontine is the friend house keepers havo, and a supply should al v ay's bo kept or hand. It is good for burns, excellent for corns, good for rheumatism and soro throat and u quick remedy for fits or convulsions, it Is a sure provontlvo agalnnt moths, a fow drops rcndorlng garments safe from such invasion during the summer. It drives away ants nnd bugs from storerooms and corners by putting a few drops on the sholvee. It effect ually dostroys bugs and injuroB neithor furniture nor clothing. For cleaning paint, add a spoonful to a pall oT warin wattrttk A Uttlo iu the aud? on wash walUA A ^^HbLw* wtwa*Q? oneler. C-w ?;. I: LET ALL DEMOCRATS STAND FIRM, Tin; MAJORITY SHOULD RULE ALWAYS. Wo Owe the Party Much.and Must Stand Ity It to the Knd? Division Means an Appeal to tho Negro. Senetor It. B. Watson, of Edgoficld, who has always boon a warm frioud and strong admirer of Senator B. B. Tillman, has written tho following letter of admonition und counsel to tho pcoplo of tho Stato: Editor Beglstor: I have never writ ten an article for publication. I feel that it would bo criminal to bo silent now whon tho very existence of tho Democratic party in South Carolina is threatened. I am a Democrat und I intend to bo ono to tho ond of tho chapter. I allied mysolf to tho Be form p-trty becauso It was Democratic. When occasion"dcomed to demand it, I hit somo hards licks for Boform. I shall feol it my duty to strike with all my might all oncmies of the party whoever they may bo. Lot all those who do not bclievo in majority rulo leavo tho party and form suoti ulliunces as they choose. But lot all Democrats stand firm. I shall stick to tho party of my fathers, and if sho goes down ! will go with hor. Lotus all Gght for our rights in tho party. Scn-ttor Tillman has mado u great mlstako in advising our people to leavo tho party. Wo owo her much and wo must staud by hor to tho end. Must wo leavo tho only party that has helped us In the past if wo cannot oou trol it in every particular to-day P It is of tho utmost importanco that our whitd people stand firmly together. If Senator Till man's advice is followed thoro will bo a permanent division of our white people and ultimately an ap peal to tho negro. It is a crime to bring about such a condition. Senator Tillman says " our ono ovor poworing and overmastering issuo in Stato :iIIairs has been white suprema cy, and this under tho conditions ex isting before the new Constitution was adopted mado revolt against tho white majority nothing less than a crime." And, I say, it is no less a crime to-day. Ho may call us "'cowards and syco phants and treacherous leaders uow masquerading as Democrats," but we will light for the good old party against all hor enemies?tho only party in which our rights are assured. The Biedmnnt Ueadlight says truly 1 "The word Democrat" in the South means more than any political move ment. It means tho rule of tho white majority! In conclusion let mo say again to < every true Democrat in South Caro lina, staud firm. Bu true to the party of your fathers. Fight all her enemies. B. B. WATSON. Bidge Spring, S. C, March 31. BILL ARP IS TALKING SQUARE. United Slates Senators Should bo Chosen by the People?Tho Old Idea and tho Now. Those times remind mo very much of tho times when I sold goods nearly fifty years ago, when cotton was 0 or 7 1 conts a pound and bacon about tho 1 same its cotton; chickens were 124 ets., oggs 5 cents a dozen and sweet pota toes 25 cents a bushel; sugar and coffee ; wore twelve pounds to tho dollar. We railed these few years hard times and 1 the negroes felt tho pressure too and improvised a song with a chorus of "Hard Times Como Again No More." ' But gradually there camo on a change ; for tho better and prices of everything advanced just as cotton advanced. That is why cotton was called king. I It seemed to regulate everything. And 30 wo thought these hard timos would soon pass, but thoy show no sign. Nearly everything has come down to hard time prices and the consumers could live cheap enough if they could [jet anything to do. There is tho rub. The Irishman who camo over here complained that chickens were 2 shil lings apieco and said ho could get one Over in Ireland for a sixpence. "Well, why dident you stay over thoro and buy them?" said tho market man. "Faith and begorra, J couldont get the sixpence," ho replied. That is the consumers' fix now. Tho necessaries i)f life are cheap enough. The farriers and producers complain that they are too cheap. They want, somo kind of a tariff that will make everything that they havo to buy as cheap as dirt and raise the price of what they havo to soil. An Irishman heard a Dutch butcher say that tho way to make money "vao to puy sheep (cheap) and bcII deer (dear)." Bo dident under stand how that could bo done and asked a Scotchman, who ruminated over it, and said it waste buy mutton and soli it for venison. But wo can't do that. Our young men who aro every year swarming to tho front aro ready und willing to work, but they canvt got work to do. No wonder thoy leave, their homes and go West or to Mexico and Brazil. I was ruminating about advising some of them to tro to Central America and raise colToo. There must bo money in that business. For years and yours 1 sold coffee at twolvo pounds to tho dollar and I don't understand why it advanced to double the old price and for years has maintained it. 1. was reading about tho island of Jamaica and found that for thirty years tho pro duet averaged 25,000,000 pounds a year, but when in 1843 Bnglanu emancipated her slaves there the production d roppee1 in ton years' time down to 3.000,00? pounds. In fact, everything dropped away down except rum ami that still holds its own. I wish that I was a groat statesman nnd could see through all this tangled up business llko tho X rays penetrate dark and biddon things and bring them to tho light. I remember whon tho great national question boforo tho peo ple was whether tho govornmont should mnko Internal improvements or not. Tho Whigs said it should and tho Dem ocrats said no and the Democrats car ried it. At tho next olection tho par ties changed sides and a system of Intornal improvements began. Appro Enations woro mado for rivers and arbors and custom houses and post OfSooa and this policy has been estab Ushed and gets wider and blggor as the years roll on. Then again there was tho great question about doclaring war with Moxico and lutor on about annexing Toxas and the presidential elections turnod on thoso i u>-. Now wo havo got tho tariff and the currency and party lines are vory much unset tled. But as tho preacher said : "Even this will pass away." Georgia is to be the forum of tho groat discussion and the people aro to bo tho judges. 1 am glad that it will bo over soon. Let tho oeoplo hear and then make oholoo. It is no new thing; it Is old and the peo ple have been roading about it for three yours and almost everybody Is roady for the vote. I like this way of the people having a voice in the choice of a senator. Why not? What Is tho difference between a senator and a representative V Tho old-time theory was that the senators reprontod the States and tho representatives the people. A hundrod years ago there was something in that, hut thoro is nothing now. In my opinion tho people should elect the senators just liko they do the governor and all other officers. And the noxt host thing would bo to abolish tho Senate. It was iotouded to be an aesorably of old men?counsel lors in wisdom, and who would protect tho rights of States, and a small Stato had as much povrer as a largo ono. But that is a thing of tho past. States rights have gono into u stato of inrfne uous doHOuotudo and money has more to do with a senator's fitness" than ago or wisd jm. Thero is no good reason why Khodo Isluud should have as much power as Texas or Pennsylvania. If population should settlo it thou New York should havo forty-eight senators. If territory should suttlo it thou Toxas should havo 2,000 in proportion to Rhode Island's two. But wo don't need such u body at all. Quo house Is enough and thoro is no good roason In eighty four men in tlio Sunato overriding .'100 in tho House. Tho constitution re quires a si nut or to bo thirty years old ; ho should bo sixty. Then he would havo moro seuso and less am bition. Well, I never voted for a senator In my lifo and many a ono has been fili bustered through tho legislature that I would not havo voted for and tho peoplo would not havo chosen. A shrowd, ambitious man can play "par lex vous" with 200 men, but bo ean't do It with 200,000?so lot us all vote this timo. And now lot the great battlo for the next president como on. This is un age ol surprises and tho Democracy is not dead, nor its great principles aoundon od. 1 wouldn't bet on its success, but we were not very sunguino tho last time. Tho Populists will be in the fight pretty strong and there is no toll ing which way tho cat is going to jump. Both parties aro bidding for thoir vote and some wiso men predict that there will be no election by tho peopio ; but McKinley and his Southern friends are sanguine and jubilant. Ono of them made a speech in our town and said, with uplifted hand, "that Charley Mc Kiuley would swoop tho deck of tho old ship of Stato liko Napoleon Bona parte swept the field at tho battlo of Waterloo." And all tho colored breth ren shouted, amen. But if wo have to take Republican, I believe 1 hud rather risk McKinley than any of them. He has novor abused tho South malicious ly, or malignantly, and that is my test of a Northern man. BILL Am?. THH OIIBKAIjTAK OF CUBA. The Seat ol' Uoveriimeiit of t he Cuhnii Kepuhlie is Said to ho Iinprc^ nnhlo. Cubitas, pronounced Koobctas, with tho accont on tho second syllable, although almost unknown to the out sido world, is, for many reasons, ono of the most important and most inter esting localities on the. island of Cuba. First, because it has been chosen for tho seat of government of the Cuban republic, Second, because nature has made it not only one of the most beautiful places on tho face of tho globe, but at. the same timo it is ab solutely impregnable from the assault of any ordinary force which could be brought to bear against it. Tho Sierra do Cubitas is in fact another Gibraltar, rising almost ab ruptly from tho beautiful rolling plains uf Jamaguey. Although spoken of as the mountains'of Cubitas,jlt is really an elevated plateau, rising to an altitude of perhaps 701) feet and forming tho arc of a circle, with its concave sido facing the Atlantic ocean, or rather that arm of the ocean known to uav 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. Tho view in any direc tion is magnificent. Beautiful rolling prairies, dotted with unarming groves of cocoanut and royal palmes, sweep away from tho base of tho 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 10,001) soldiers. But they never dream of molesting tho seat of the Cuban government, although dis tant only a day's march. The Spanish commanders know too well that an at tack on Cubitas would bring them nothing but death and disaster. The place is defended today by less than l,0(iu insurgents, belonging to tho de partment of General Carillo. but oven if deprived of arms and ammunition thoy could successfully defend this nat ural fortress with looso rocks picked from the ground. The approaches from the plain below gradually terminate in narrow defiles, which turn and twist, rise and fall, until riders of tlio nimble and sure footed Cuban ponies are compelled t:i dismount, and in single file lead their animals to tho top. A thousand points of advantago could bo found where rocks, hurled down tlio precipitous sides, would anniiiilato any enemy sent against tlte place. Nor could tho defenders ho starved out. This beautiful and fertile plateau is now under perfect cultivation. Here are raised sweet potatoes, peas, beans, sussnya, from which excellent, bread is made, and fruit grows in abundance. Tlio table land of Cubitas is a veritable military garden, in which President CisnorOS takes a very pardonable pride. In fact, the majority of tho in surgents who garrison tho place spend most of their timo tilling the soil and gathering the crops. When this duty becomes irksomo and a soldier longs for active servlco In tho field, he is ex changed for somo poor fellow who, after weeks of hard riding, is glad of a littlo rest. Cubitas, with its superb climato ovcmln summer is an excellent fdaco in which to recovor from irritat ng wounds and ovor-fatlgiie. From tho top of this plateau Presi dent OisnerOS and Iiis cabinet adminis ter tlio laws of the new republic. Couriers mounted on lleot Camaguey horses, whoso ancestors came over from Arabia, como and go every hour of the day and night. In this way the govrnmont is made aware of every movement anticipated or oxocuted by tho various gonorals in command, and orders aro'transmitted to them with precision and dispatch. ?Uwlght L. Moo ly is a practical man, and in tho educational institu tions which he conducts, whilo tho Knglish Bibio is the principal text hook, there is a largo practical oloment in tho instruction given. In tho Train ing Scool, the sixth year of which has just ended, tho studunt is taught not only how to explain tho Bible to the woman she is visiting, but how to help hor make hor home tidy1, proparo dainty dishes for a sick cllild or hus band, und mako clothing fpr herself and family. It Is a sign of progress In tho right direction, says the/Mow York Tribune, that in Chrlstioii work of this kind people aro reminded that i h<?-.y havo bodies as well al souls, and a life hero as well as one hereafter. NEWS FROM SOUTH CAROLINA. POLITICAL AND INDUSTUlALi ITEMS. A Brother or Governor Kvans Talks Prcely With h Philadelphia Re porter. * Mr. Barnard B. Evans, a brother of tho Governor, has boon on a visit to Philadelphia, and gave to a reporter for tho ?Press his views on tho in dustrial and political situation in this State, as follows: "Tho State dispensary, of which so much has been said and writtou," said Mr. Evans to " The Press " representa tive, " is now comprised of a board of control. It numbers live mon, elected by tho State Legislature, and thoy aro uot otllceholdors. These men do all o the financiering and buy all tho liquor. In addition to this, they ex amine and audit all of tho accounts. Tho results produced by this system are of tho boBt. Heretofore tho matter was in tho hands of one man and the system did not seem to prosper. Not withstanding that things have been turned upside down in South Carollua during the past three or four years, the State has not beon us prosperous siuco the war as it is to-day. Wo have three now factories in Columbia, where ducking and other cotton goods are made. All of theso cotton mills aro largo and prosperous. Another cotton mill, now In course of comple tion, will ho started soon, and'a 10,000 horse-power electric plant will drive tho machinery when it is completed. The old paper mill, between Aiken and Augusta, is undergoing a change into a bleachcry, which, when ready for work, will bo the only bleaching mill in tho State or in the South. Heretofore wo had to go North to got our goods bleached. "Wo are also extending our rail road facilities. The no weft road is tho Greenwood, Anderson and West ern, which will reach the seaboard on the one hand and tap the vast coal Held of Tennessee on tho other. This road, instead of parallelling some other road, will cross a number of roads and open up a section of rich country that never before has been reached by a railroad. Sixty miles of this lino have already been graded and ironed and tho remaining dis tance will soon bo put in running order. "Then there are our phosphate fields. My brother, the Governor, has just returned from an extended visit to the phosphate holds of Florida, i Much to his surprise he finds that we i have in our midst much better ma terial, easier to mine and not so full of grit as is the Florida phosphate. Be sides, we can produco cheaper phosp hate than can Florida. Our cotton mills arc paying large dividends. Tho i itichland mill, atColumbia.will declare i a dividend of from 12 to 18 per cent. | A cotton seed oil mill last year paid a dividend of 40 percent. Spartanburg, | tho Lowell of South Carolina, has a i number of mills and they aro all mnk- < ing money. All of them aro doubling t their capacity and the future output I must be very great. Still there ie < room for more mills, and Massachusetts , people are coming nearly every day ; into the State looking for investments ; in cotton mills. I " In spite of the financial depression i we are, as you see, doing fairly well in ; South Carolina. Within ten years tho Dispensaries of South Carolina will 1 pay our State debt of $5,000,000. With- ? in the past eighteen months tho system 1 has put Into the State treasury $250,' | 000. Tuen there is quite an extensive 1 tea plantation at buimnervillo that ' promises much for the future revenues < of the State." t " Has Tillman dono you good or 1 harm ?'' !, " Tillman opened for tho first time , to tho people of tho State tho possi- . hilities that lay before them. lie created an era of indust rial develop ment such as was never known before. . No public man since the war has done the State as much good as Ben Till man. Whichever way you view Till man dispassionately you must admit that ho is no common man. Why, , think of it ! A few years ago he was a small fanner and Illiterate in a eer tain sense, for he only had the most ' meager education in the schools. He lived in a little four-roomed hut at ( Edgciiuld, without a sign of a ceiling. His library was in the rafters of his house, for there he kept the fow hooks that he possessed. The stables when; ho kept his cows were much better than the house he lived in, and he ran a kind of a small dairy farm. He read law after he was elected Governor, 1 and when as a member of tho recent constitutional convention some of the legal lights tripped in their authori ties, Tillman was right aftern them." "There is talk that Tillman will bolt tho Democratic ticket if a gold plank is inserted in the Democratic platform this year." " Mark my word, ho will not bolt. There will bo no bolting the ticket. The Democrats of South Carolina will stand by the candidate. What we don't like we will try to alter later on." "Will Irby succeed himself in the United States Senate?" " Not if my brother can prevent it. He will bo a candidate for the seat himself and expects to win. Ho was only 30 years Oi age when ho ran for Governor and is only 111 now." - ?-?s?^??-? THE VIEWS OF A GREAT MAN, The Silver Question Stated in Plain I > >ii Ii;-.ii;??'.<? by Alex. 11. Stephen*'. Tho following letter from Alexander H. Stophons, written January 20, 1882, states the silver question in plain lan guage and tells the whole story in a few words. It was written prior to tho first election of Mr. Clevoland, and when all Democrats were supposod to bo unanimous in condemning th crime of 187U, for which tho Republicans were responsible originally. No matter what one believes now as to the silver question this lotter from the great com moner of Goorgia will prove Interesting and'profitable reading : Washington, D. C, Jan. 20, 1882. , Mr. H. Di Barrows, Los Angles, Cal. My dear Sir:?Your lettor of tho 14th instant with enclosed slips was received this evening. Tho subject is ono of tho gravest that now occupies tho attontlon of Congress and tho thinking men throughout tho Uoited States. Tho reason that silver bullion has beon depreciated since IXl'A in this country is that Congross In February, 18711, struck silver from tho lists of money in tho United States. Tho moment that this act of Congress was passed gold was made tho only stan dard of valuos In this country. That was a great error and was attended with infinite mischief in tho United States. In 1792 Mr. Hamilton and the pa trlotlo statesman of that day recogniz ed In our oolnago tho blmotallie sys tem oi money; that is, he and they recognized silver as money as well as gold at tho ratio of about sixteen parts of Bilvor as equivalent to ono of gold, l/nder this regulation and coinage wo were prosperous in 1873. When silver was deprived of its dobt-paying power us an equivalent to gold at tbo ratio Btated, silver in the markots of the world was at a premium over gold. It is useless to go into reasons why this ohaogo was adopted in our system or by what unseen bunds it was elTocted. The true policy of this country Is to return to tho systom of our fathers. If tho gov ernment should now, as it ought to, rotrace its steps and provide for the freo coinage of silver us, it does of gold and make 412 1-2 grains of stan dard silver equivalent to 25 8-10 grains of gold then silver would immediately return to its original dignity in tho markots of tho world in purchasing and debt-payiug power. This it* tho real function of money* and in this country this equality in this fuuetion at tho ratio stated should bo main tained. The debts and bonds of tbo United States provides for payment io gold or silver coin at tbo thon standard value ; it was a great wrong to tho taxpayers on whom rests the payment of the. public dobts to strike silver from tho list of money as was done in 1873. It was that blow which changed the valup of the property of tbo Unitod States. More than half of tho money of tbo world at that time consisted of si'vor. Tbo whole amount in tho world in 1873 was estimated at $8,000.000,000. of these $4.500,000 wero silver and $3,500,000,000 wero gold in round num bors. The ruinous consequences which attended this bad act of administration were seen in the failures of mercantile bouses and business men amounting to more than half the public debt of the United States within tho last nine years. Now, 1 tun for tho freo coinage of silver bullion just as of gold. Gold and silver should bo put upon a perfect equality as of yore in tho ratio of 10 1. This would not only add to the value of real estate and all sorts of property in the United States, but it would greatly encourage aud stimulate the mining of silver in this country. In my view all the gold and silver should bo coined alike. Tho coin should be kept in the vaults of the Treasury and certificates given in all cases whero certificates are preferred. These coin certificates should be the currency of the country, it would be tho best in tho world. In this age we do 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 paper currency whieh is ro deemahlo at the will of the holder in coin dollar for dollar. Bank bills which aro so common in use aro only promises to pay in coin and are often issued in amounts of two and some times to three for one of tho coin in the vaults: but under the plac advo cated by me the certificates would in i no case represent anything but dollar for dollar. I haven't time to say more to you now. 1 will barely add that the pres ent depreciation of silver bullion and i af tbo silver standard dollar arises solely from the degradation of silver by the act of Congress in 1873. Let Congress declare, as it ought to. that 112 1-2 grains of standard silver is and mall be equivalent to 25 8-10 grains of jold In its purchasing and debt-paying power, and instantly silver will be on ( i par, if not above par, compared with jold. To increase the quality of silver in ( the preset t del liar 112 1-2 grains up to l^u grains, to make it equivalent to . ;ho present current value of 25 8-10 , 'rains of gold would hi; u great vrone to tho laboring masses in the Union \ whoso taxes have to meet the publh lebt; the holders of tiie public debt . it the time they received tho bonds 1 received them under the express stipulation that they wen: to bo paid , In United States coin, gold or silver, it its then standard value, and ul! , that is wanting to make gold and silver < 2qual, to mako 412 1-2 grains of silver ?qtial in the markets of the world to l;> s-io gold, Is for Congress to put , -ilver back on the list Of moneys of t he j United States as it was In 1873 I have , latoly made a report to tho ?OU80 <l Ropresoutatlvcs upon our coinage, in which I urge not only the restoration , of silver to its debt-paying power-, but ulso tho adoption of metric coinage Applicable alike to gold and silver. 1 will send you a copy of this in a few Jays when it comes from tho press. Yours truly, Alkx. ft. Stephens. THE NEW DISPENSARY BOARD, The Organization Effected Wit hoot Any Tronble--No Changes in the Dispensary Officials Special to the News and Courier. It is somewhat of a coincidence that the famous Baines bill should go into elToot almost at tho samo time as tho new order of things with tho South Carolina dispensary law. In Now York the chief subject of conversation is tho effect the Raines bill will havo on business and politics. There the Idoa seems to be to centralize the con trol of tho liquor business, so that what they call the " Blatt machine " may havo control of matters. In South Carolina, instead of having the Gover nor to run the whole business, a hoard of live is now to have general ohurgo of tho liquor business. The change In South Carolina is :i mere Incident in the operation of the dispensary law. while in Now York the talk is thai the approval of tho Baines bill has killed tho hopes of Governor Morton for the Presidential nomination, and that he could not carry the State for anything. In Now York State it is said that as a result of tho business of the Baines bill a Democratic State ticket is sure to be elected. The change of alTairs in South Carolina will have but little, if any, effect on the Stat". Government. Every ono in Now York was on tho tiptoe of expectation on tho eve of the chango in Now York, whon tho freo lunches and front door screens had to go under tho provisions of tbo bill, whilo with tho new order of things in South Carolina the change oame about as naturally as the most COmtnon-plaOQ law goes into operation. With the exception of those im mediately Interested in tho offices and tbo sales of goods to tho dispensary, few took any interest in what was going on in the bourn meeting. They want to seo tho results of the change. Under the provisions of the Aot under which tho board is operating there aro five members, and the terms of office vary from one to fiv>> years, ??<> as to keep tome of tho members on the board while changes of the others may bo mado oaeb year by the General Assembly. As the members of the now board wero oleoted without, llxing their terms it was in order to draw lots for tho periods for which oaoii of tho mombors should servo. Tho result was : W. A. Nicholson, ono ytar; T. M. Allan, two veas; J. T. Douthit, threo years; Col. WUVo Jones, four years, and* Loon J. WjUidm*, live years. Col. Jones, tho local mombor of tho bourd, was elected chairman of tho body and a better selection could not possibly have been mude. The board after talking over mutters for some tlmo wont into the election of the btuff officers to can y out tho work of tho board and re-elected all of thi present attaches, only changing tho names of tho places to conform tu the new law. The appointees were : Clerk of the board and bookkeeper of tho board, Seth W. Scruggs, bookkeeper to tho commissioner, R. K. Blakeney : assisteut bookkoppcr, Chas. Lyuch ; Huperintondcnt, John T. Gastou ; clerk in charge of the constabulary, W*< W. Harris ; shipping clerk, D. A. U. Out/.. Of course, the board had nothing to do with tho commissioner as his term of olllce continues a year longer. The new board held afternoon and night sessions, but not much was givin out for publication. The board seems to bo hard working and getting along very harmoniously. At the afternoon sessiou a series of rules were adopted for the government of the dispensary and these will likely bo given out as soon as they are prepared for the press and printed. At tho night session the purchase of liquor was considered by the board. There were about eighteen representatives of liquor houses on hand and it was thought better to re ceive written offers from each of the houses represented than to hear them and so the board took up the offers, but no linal action was taken. THK NEW BOARD OF t'ONTHOh. The Dispensary Law is I'm Into Operation I!mier the Changed Aus pices. The new and amended dispensary law went into operation on the 1st of April, and the Columbia Register tells of tho threatened complications which were happily ended after all : It is not often nowadays that tho olliee seeks the man, and especially is tliis assertion true of offices in South Carolina, where tho office generally goes to the man who seeks it most per sistently and vigorously. An election at the last session of th<- General As sembly furbishes an exception to this rule in South Carolina. When the Legislature elected a hoard of control under the new dlsponsary law, there were a number of candidates for posi tions of that board, but a majority of its members wore elected without any effort on their part, and one, Mr. W. A. Nicholson, of Uni?n, was elected without his having been asked if he would consent to SOrvo. Several days ago it was rumored around Columbia that Mr. Nicholson, on account of the pressure of iiis banking business and for other reasons, was averse to ac cepting his election and serving on the hoard. Had he rofusbed to serve, mat ters would have been much complicat ed and it was even feared that the law itself would have been invalidated, as it provides that tho entire board shall meet and organi/.e and take, charge of the dispensary business, of course, if :>no of tho members refused to serve, it would he a physical impossibility for the entire hoard to meet and com ply with the provisions of tho new dis pensary act. Nor could Governor fOvans have HI led Ike vacancy by ap pointment) for tho act does not give ihe Governor power to (ill vacancies irisingon the board from any cause whatever. Under the constitution he baa general powers of appointment in ?ortain cases, but a vacancy on the board of control could not by any pos sibility be regarded as one of those jases. in this omorgoncy Govornor Kvans promptly opened uommunicti ion- with Mi*. Nicholson aud went to Union to confer with him. Mr. Niobol ?on is an exceedingly patriotic, man, who always considers the good of the State in proform a: to his own privat' jomfort, and when the Govornor ex plained to him what Would bo the iffeot and possible danger of his do mination to servo, he promptly agroed Mat, no matter how ludispo.-cd to servo, nor how much he would lie in jonvencod by serving, ho would acoepi he place, for I.lie pi" sen!. This patch >tic dcoisioi) by Mi'. Nicholson re ?uu'es all danger to the, now dispen sary law and it will go intoctfcct with mt' any hitch. There was a I'utnoi' to the eil -et thai Mr. T. M. Allen, of York County, who was elected muoh in the same manuor us was Mr. Nicholson, was also in nlincd to docllue to accept his eloclton. This rumor could not he confirmed and little crcdenco was placed in It at the Siate House. Almost undoubtedly, if he has any such inclination, when the effect of it is presented to him as it was presented to Mr. Nicholson, he will imitate his example and servo tho Stall-, even at inconvenience to himself. The new dispensary law is infinitely superior to the old one, and it will bo a thousand pities if any sue* hitch should prevent its going into opera tion. ? An attempt was made on Thursday nignt to wreck the capitol building at Jackson, Mi-.-. At. 10 o'clock that night whiloCol. J. L.l'owor, Seorotary of State, was.ongagcd in his office at the captol, he heard a noise- outside. Going to tho window he saw several men digging at tho walls. His appear twice frightened away the men and an investigation showed that two pieces of StOno about two feet square had hoc 11 romoved from the wall. Had tho work gone on a litte. lonJfOl' a section of tho wall aho.it four by twenty feet would have falicn, thus wrecking the. whole ouilding. Strenuous efforts woromado during the rocont sosslon of the Legis lature to provllc 'or a new building, but nothing was done in tho inat'er. and it is thought BOlnO mlscroants took this means of scouring immediate ac tion. ?Gon, Stephen ?. Lee. president of thccMisslsslppI Agricultural Ooi'i go, who has acut !>i?'d the invitation to i ?? liver an address at tin laying of U - corner-Hone i of tin-. JofTorson Di monument pi Richmond, on the 2i <f July next, i- a in< in 1)01' of the distin guished South Carolina family of that name, was horn in Charleston in 18211, graduated from West Point in 1854, served in the Confederate army in the battles around Rlohmond, was made a brigadier for conspicuous service al Sharpsburg und was then ordered to VickBburg- la June, ist;i, he was made lieutenant ?: neral. and W08 assign* i! to duty as commandant of the dopart mont composed of Mississippi. Alu? buna, Euot Louisiana and We>t Ten? nesseo. -Ho surrendered with Johns ton in North Carolina, Ninety Per Cent Of all the people need to take a coin.-, of Hood's Sarsaparilla at this season to prevent that ruin-down an I debili tated condition wbloh invites disease. Tin- money invested In half a dozen bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla will como back with large returns In tin health ami vigor of body and Btrongtli of norves. HOOD'S DILLS are. easy to buy, easy to take, easy to operate! Gurt all liver ills. 25b.' How Parent* Can Help Teachers an?! iteiieltt Tlieir Children. Tho boy ma familiar object as he pre sents himself tot ho fostering euro of the teacher, on a Mouday moruing, about tho tirstfof Septombor, bliortly after his sixth birthday. With what au in quiring gaze does ho look up into bia teacher's face on that memorable ?rat day of school. Ho has a proud air of solf-assuranee. His face is round and rosy, and, as this is au extra occasion, for the present, clean. Astheassayer analyzes a bit of ore to determine tho relation of the familiar elements, so tho teacher brings the hoy under hor focal range and determines whether or not his education has truly bogun. Whether she will have to battle against habits wrongly formed, or nourish the embryonic character al ready developed In the Ur?t school a child attends?home. Somebody has said "the best part of education ia that which money cannot purchase." It is providi d by the child's first teach ers -parents ; and is only made com pulsory by. its author -Oed. This school always keep-, and never changes teachers but for one cause -death. It has no holidays. Sunday is an Illumi nation of all tho othor day*. Its lo*^ . sons are practical and fuudam< rital,^* destined to outlast life Itself in that thoy relate not only to the hotly but the soul a* w< 11. Th s school a (fords the same opportunities o tlie po >r as to the rich. All may form habits and establish principles here for the forma tion of a oharuotor Influenced only by tho higher alms and purposes in life, and fortified ugaibst the discourage monta of present misfortunes or evil Influences. Society, tlio church and state receive the Impress of the first school lift;. There oughtto lie complete harmony between home and school, creating a mutual helpfulness. But, alas, bow often one intereferes with the true mission of tho other. Home furnishes had hoys and girls to disturb and do* stroy the highest function of the school, and tho latter often half doe- the work it is pledged to do. Thus in the es tranged relation society Millers a loss that cannot be estimated. Ohedionco at home tends to obe dience in school, and home and school become mutually helpful as they re quire and cultivate obedience. U the pupil does not receive a reverence for the tOPOher from the paternal lips, but instead is made to appear an ob ject of suspicion, an antagonistic feel ing will bo imbued gn ally tfl the dis advantage of the pupil and the. teach er's work. On the other har.il. pupils vho receive no higher conception of home by an attendance at school, no lessons that magnify the missions of parents and filial duties of children, do not become UiOI'3 obedient sons and daughters in consequence of their at tendance at school. A friend gives the following, which serves to illustrate the point: "In my pedagoging days two roguish pupils sat sldo by side. Repeated correction brought no relief from their persistent mischief. Knowing the parents very well, tho two families hoillg at tho an tipodes in regard to govorntnont, 1 resolved to try thooxporimontof send ing thorn home for the next misde meanor. On tho following day, ahm t the middle of the. morning session, 11 . opportunity occurred for tlio trial. 'John and Henry, put up your books aud go homo.' This unoxpooled com mand rather sturtlod tho boys at llrst, and they locked tip with surprise. I repeated the command, whin Henry appeared frightened, and John bii iled clear hack to Iiis ear-. It was OVidetlt at once that this punishment was woll chosen for Henry, but the poorest kind I* is I hi for John. Monry loft tlio room crying: John left it laughingthough today J'ohu orys and [Ionry laugbn, I ri less t an one hour 1 . Ill y returned with this mcssago from his very excellent and faithful mother. 'Mother sent mo hack and told me to toll you that .-he pun ished me for my disob. dh nee, unM t() ask your forgivelios-s, and pioin;,.,. i(> 'bey you heroafter.1 'I forgave Henry,' I sain: 'lake youiVseat/nnd let me tell you that you eajj u< vor loVO and respect your t?ood 'mother too much.' "ho result of U,e experiment with Henry was ju t Srs 1 < xpicti 1 : for I know his mother ?Vo II, mid el < . m phaticnlly mado \y.v honiewh Ht was. Hut John did not/.)Ul |n 1111 pinaranco until tue nex?/<iiiy. II, was usually tardy, and 'i:/. ;1, . { morniriu h came in ahoi.i tv - nI v .., nu,(., !at,f.. I stop ped bi n on" t|u. iluor and inquired, before Ibe . ? J ?, what did your parenu 8aj to you V ' NothlnV was tho la|.oni,.' reply. Did you tell thorn thai 1 ^,.u-l you homo for miscon duct V ' y,..' '])ui they not re prove you ? ,, our misconduct, and adviso you ? >',;<, hotter?' 'Thoy dt'-n't say noirifn?> 'Thon, I say, John, that tho l-. xt time* that you violate the rules or Hchool I will administer the puilib?urn nt that parents ought to have Irilllctod je tor day."' \ Henry's motherco-opornfibvj with t' 0 teacher for tho highest goof.- ,,| |, r son and the school. The manlioou of her hoy ir the legitimate fruit of her wise and faithful training?a. mer chant of unblemished character, hon ored and respected by all Iiis acquain tances, John lives ulso,iU poor, ?.live able wieck of a man who early dis graced himself by strong drink, abused his wife and troubled the neighborhood. This inicidont illustrates how ono home helps school, while another hin ders by cultivating or neglecting to cultivate obedier.ee, the virtue of which cannot he overrated. It is an absolute condition of olllclotlt werk und eminent success, (t is of VUStly more importance that a child should obey his parents than that ho should go to 1 "school dud"whvii he bCCOl u - 0 HA* bor of the school it lu hu\,fai bettor for him to obey his teat hor tbfUl study Latin or Algebra, ill- pai'Onta. Can make more of a man of lilm l)J ?bc dlonoo without schooling than tl can with disobedience with uii< ol hj . And tho teacher can do bctt< r for lilrh by insisting upon obedionco llrst And last, without a thorough drill In math* 0 ma tics or languago, than he can by p< rinltting disobodiooce for tho sake of time to pursue these studios. As obedience lays the foundation to sym metrical oharnch r and true progress, so dlsobodh net; shatters character, hlndors progress and invitob failure The doWdrop is drawn to tlio heart of the lily by the sumo volco tliut governs the oataraot's mighty into the abyss : and the gentle of the meadow blossom bursts into th light In obedience to the same pow< that controls the OOsmical sweep tho stellar systems around the tbrc of Cod. All la v i-< but the ohodler to certain conditions which tho e' must ea ly learn to obey and togo? himself according to tho temporal of Iiis environments. m ? s?i ?Chairman Harrfty of the Ni Democratic committee, beiivi the D. moerats will nominate 1 iw .. .y man for ^reeiuont 00 mouo^^atform^