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EAR A Lifely Encounter at Lancaster. JUDUUlcAIlL.*. AKKN tjt'KSTKJNM. The I .nie Exciting and Dramatlo nt Tii Co m i pr?Paving tlio Way for Hot Itfii Work. Tho canpaign meeting nt Lancaster was tin I liveliest yet seen, und tho candidates for IT. s. Senator caused tho charj lntorcst Judge trodueed o from dullness to exciting him. II of the he had louked face be( thero w ibtratioi it hie pi man or or that cally was no could o larlo wad tho lirst speaker iu thero bolnar several calls for appeared hero asking forouu bhust ofllces in tho land and {') apologies to make. Ho had e people of Lancaster in the re. Ho came then because e charm s against his admin Ho camo bucausoho deemed ivilege and duty to faco any uoplo who said ho was corrupt is olllco had not been cconomi ministered. Ho knew thero hope of his election, but he y answer the charges or in* ever th publio Binuatlaid by being a;oandidato. Whon o is any insinuation against a an, he has no right to say, "Makeout your bill of indietraontand Erove it before I will answer." It is is plai i to go before the people and provo tie insinuations false. When Till ma was nominated, lio ceased to oppose him. '.nilman declared ho though him pure. He did him justico und he md done Tillman justice. He h d been admired by tho people and ha been elevuted to the oflice of circuit udgc, and he came hore to-day asking lection to the United States Sonate So fill as State, affairs wore concern ed, ho rould leave them to other can rliaatea The honorublu und handsome Govornpr and the honorable and hand some Duncan could discuss them, but he poped that as tho result of this election, he would bo permitted to deal with national issues in Congress. Judge Karle, then took up tho finan cial question. As to tho cry of over production, ho said it was nonsense. So long as there was one ragged woman in the world there was demand for more cotton, so long as thore was one hungry man thore was need of more wheut. If all the wheat was divided there would not be a half barrel to each inhabitant; nor if all the cotton wus made into cloth there bo enough to go around. It was not overproduc tion, but undor-consumptlon, and thero was under consumption because thero was not onough money to pay for the products. Ho dwelt upon the history of coinage and then showed how the weight of tho silver dollar had been maintained at412i grains, while the amount of gold in a dollar had been reduced. Was it right and just, after the United States had incurred a debt based on the gold and silver standard to have to pay that debt on the busis of a gold Standard ; was It just to make that discrimination against the debtor? The United States has the right to tlx tho system of weights and measures. Suppose a man was to give his note to day for 150 bushels of corn to be paid next year, and in tho meantime Con gress should change tho measure of a bushel to one third more, und thut when ho wont to pay his note tho cred itor demanded one-third more corn. Would thut bo honest? And yet tho government hud dono thut identical thing as to silvor. Generale Earlo strongly favored the income tax, and spoke at length upon tho iniquities of the tariff. If free silver curried tho day wo would havo u hard time of it for a while, but It wus bettor to endure that for a short time and so get free from tho halter that was about our necks. Let us lay asld'! dissensions among ourselves; let us stand together as one people f >r the good of South Carolina, working together and with ono pur pose. Wo are all Democrats and should stand togethot us one people. Mr. Duncan rejoiced to sco the two great parties urru3rcd openly n tho tight on a great issue. Hereto oro it hud boon u cowurdly contest. Ho muintained thut Tillman had done more for Bllver than any other man in tho United StateB. Mr. Duncan refer red to the history of tho Reform move ment; how Tillman led it on to success when In other States It wont to pieces. Now, Tillman had made the Issue in Congress, ho had stirred tho people and made all men take sides. Mr. Duncan claimed, with modesty for tho " great leader," by saying ho was greater than a President ; he made Presidents. The national com mittee hudSgivon him tho honor of blaz ing tho way to victory. He had dono so und those who dono so sailed into victory. ? As to Judge Barle, ho had no quarrel with him, but a man who was not a Jiarty man need not expect support rom any party. He had him to defeat and ho could do It liko a gentleman. Aa to his othoi* competitor he would spoak without prejudice or passion. Ho would Bpoak to honost men and would stand by thorn. Ho had seen Ben Tillman who had declared ho was hands-on* in this race; when ho con vinced the Reformers of that fact thon Evan's ohanccs in this race would in deed ho slim. He repeated his question as to wheth er, when Evans had gotten Rhind tho appointment of agent to refund tho dent, ho, Evans expected to make any thing out of it. Ho wauted him to say whether or not ho had expected to make anything out of the 'bond tran saction. Evana would got up and cry, " Prove It, provo it," whon he would not oven deny It. Ho ohjeoted to bolng misquoted on the stand in ordor that the crowd might bo made to laugh and turned from the point. If Evanj did deny having an agree ment with Rhind, he would navo Bomethlng more to say. Governor F.vans. who was seated bo hind the speakers' stund, was heard to say, sotto voco, that sonic mon wore ' natural born linrj." This amused some of tho woolbat boys about him, who by quiet laughing, expressed ap proval of his excellency's wit. Evans has done somo boasting, said Duncan, about this bond businesss, and now ho was probably sorry he had talked so much, but he would not daro deny that in tho very recont past ho had tried to persuade a friend he was mistaken as to an impression ho had about a statement Evans made to him in regard to his conuootion with tho bonds or Rhind. EvanB?Who Is tho man? Duncan?Larry Guntt. :- v Evans?That is a lio. I nevor said . any such thing to him. Duncan-That is his only defense. " 'That's a lio," is all ho can say. I say ^t&Jbrave man,would take ad^?lgyte of ] a man on tho stand Hko that, partieular i ly whon ho is protcoted by paid mon, hero to do hit* bidding. Men hired to go around with him und protect his cowardly bones. (Shouts and cheers.) This reference to paid men was di j reoted to the presence of Detective Nevbold, who has followed the cam Eaign from the beginning. There ave been one or two other haugors on, but they are not known to have the job of protecting Governor Evans. Tiie truth, said Duocan, was hard to take somotime, and when ho told it, Evans tried to blow ink over him. " Sec him come with tho lie again," said ho. in Charleston, in 18U4, Butlor had chargoi Evans and Tillman with having a linger in the bond pio. At Walterboro the next, day Tillman swore no man In South Carolina hud gotten one cent. Evans hud not told him of his connection with Uhind. Ho don't darodeny that. Evans?I do deny it; Tillman will, too. Duncan?Do you daro charge Sonator Tillman with knowing your guilt and trying to hide. Evans?No, I don't say I was guilty ; you do. Duncan?You don't dare say Tillman would try to hide any man's guilt ? As to tho dispensary the la'w was all right? A Voice?The whiskey is not, though. Duncan?No but don't hold tho law responsible for the bad mnnagement. That's what I want to tulk to you about. After the Darlington riot, said Dun can., all the insurance on dispensaries woro cancelled. Mr. Seibels, an,insur ance agent, wont to Governor Tillman and offered to insure all the dispen saries. Governor Tillman told him to do so. Seibols went to New York, mudo arrangements with his com panies andi placed nil the insurunco. "This man," pointing to Governor Evans, " took it away from him when he got to bo governor, and gave it ull to his brother." Governor Evans will toll you I am n clerk in the State house and that I havo a brother in the Stute's omploy. 13. R, Tillman appointed him. Evans?Did you not usk mo to ap point him ? Duncan?No, for I advised him not to take the job. Evans?You havo a short memory about some things. Evans, s id Duncan, had singled out threo ruilrouds in South Carolina to attack., in his annual message. He shook tho Southern roud severely to please tho boys. Juet after that his brother, George, a lawyer in Edgefield, came through Columbia on his way to Washington to get employed by the Southern road. He returned from Wash ington in the privato car of the gen oral counsel of the road. (Mr. Duncan did not finish what he seemed about say. Tho inforenco is thut as thero wus nothing further suid about the Southern roud during tho session of the Legislature, that somebody was "in fluenced.") Evans suy? he was watching some one In the dispensary closely, yet ho only called one meeting of the board of control in 12 months. That wus a tine way to keep watch. As to tho bonding of dispensers, he reasserted that after the new board had taken oharge, blank forms of the company represented by tho governor's brother, hud been enclosed In official communi cations. Tho premiums from this amounted to ubout $4.000 G'ovornor Evans was received with a few hand elups. Ho was glud, he suid. to see General Earle here. He was a dignified gentleman, a judge who had just luid uside the ermine. Governor Evuns was tired of going around this State shooting at eurrion crows and sparrows. Ho had been endorsed at Hampton. They suid he wus not guilty of nuy wrong. Hocpuld not put bruins in a numskull's head so ho could un derstand. He hud not made Duncan und wus not responsible for him. God Almighty made him und he sometimes wondered why ho hud. He hud decided to pay no further attention to him und unless ho was asked questions he would mr ko no answer to the charges. Ho hud letters from friends ull over the Stute telling him to puy no utten tion to Dunca i. It is not possible to Satisfy his onemies, and Duneun wus his enemy. Ho hud slept In his room at Manning und he now realized that ho might have hud u cold dagger plunged in his heurt. Why did this man keep on in this way ? Duncan?I havo asked questions and you have not answered them. Did you have an understanding with Rhind to get a fee before you recommended him to Governor Tillman for appointmont ? Evans?I can't givo you brains to un derstand. You must take my answers as I give them. (Cheers.) You can't preach yourself Into the United States Senate by abusing mo to theso boys. You must show that you have ability and not only say, "This man is not worthy and Ben Tillman Is tho great est man that over lived." Ho wus not bis brother's keeper, suid the Governor. One wus a luwyer In Kd; etiehl and had a right to choose his clients, and the other was an insur ance agent in Columbia, who hud a right to got insurunco whore ho could. Duneun?Did you not givo him tho Insurunco on tho dispensary in Colum bia ? Evans?No; If ho got it, Mixon gavo it to him. Governor E.ans then made reference to the famous disponsary bill, about tho drawing of which thoro has been so much discussion. Duncan said, "Governor, I propose to faco you with General Barber to provo thoro was a bill agreed upon by you, that was not drawn." Evans?Barber wont say It. Her-* Judge Earle asked loavo to pro pound a few questions. "As chairman of tho State Board of Control, how many meotings did you calt in 1895?" Governor Evans could not remember. He did not know. Earle?Was It not your duty to call meetings? Evans?No; not unless thore was something to do. Governor Evans did not know any thing about cancelling of insurance of State buildings. He had not done It, nor given the insurance to his brother. He did not know how many agonts had in- or,i nee on State property when he went in, nor how many had It now. Earlo?What purpose did you have in nsklug tho presont clerk of the State Board of Control for the prices tho board was paying for whiskey ? Kvans?Because I heard they woro paying too much and I wanted to find out about It. Earlo?Did you not cancel the insur ance at lit per cent, on the Anderson dispensary and give It to your brother at is per cent. ? Evans?I did not. Governor Evans said ho had not called tho board together In 1805 be cause Norton, Torapkins and hlmeolf h id agreed on a policy and ho was left to carry It out. Voices in the crowd called on Evans to give them a chance to veto on the disoetiHary noxfc fall. ??"All right." ho wild, 'Til do it." AOoveruor Evans foltoonfldentof boat both those fellows, it was two to one, and he almost wished ft was 10 to 1. Wh> had Judge Karle asked him these questions ? Whut was the object of them? Earle?Because. If it was true that you bad done these things, you wore not fit to bo Governor. (Choora.) Evans?But you know they are not true. Earle?I know nothlrjg of the kind, sir: I know nothing about you. I asked the questions; they are not mine but were handed to me. I am responsible for asking them. The person who handed them to me assures mo he can prove what they imply. Ho will be responsible for their answer. (CrleB of Earle! Earle!) Evans?I will hold you responsible for tho questions and ausworsl Earle?I am always responsible, sir, for anything I do. (Choors.J Governor Evans was on the platform shaking his finger and gesticulating vohemontly, while Gonoral Earlo was on tho ground, gesturing with his up lifted arm. it was by odds tho most interesting momont of the campaign. Governor Evans said ho brought the people tidings, but ho did not tako time tu toll thorn, coming back to tho caso in point and saying ho know tho peoplo were not going to put men In charge now who had been against them in 1800. Judge Earlo was a good man. Ho was a judge, and, he bolievod, a good judge. He had been made one by Reformers, but ho had not boon with the peoplo in tholr domands six years ago. He says ho is not Conservative or Reformer. Ho stands batweou, thon ho must be half alligator, half horse man. Earle?I Bay I am Domoorat and an honest man. Evans?Yea, thoro are Democrats and Democrats. Earlo?And thoro are Reformers and Roformors. Govornor Evans said Judge Earle was swinging on Tillman's cnuttails. Judgo Earlo arose quickly and ad vanced to tho stand, addressing Gov. Evans, who kept on talking, turning his back to Earle. "I can't lot that pass," said tho judge, in a low tone. Ilo again called to tho Governor, who asked tho judgo not to interrupt him so often, he could speak afterwards. (Cries of '"Earle.") Judge Earlo?You know, sir, I never ewuuj to Governor Tillman or any other man. When you say otherwise you do yourself an Injustice. Governor Evans went on to say the peoplo were not going to turn out the old votoran and the woundod solaler at this stage of the fighting. "You are not going to repudiate the men who have been fighting for you." He was going to beat both these men, he said, as badly as Tillman had boat Earle in 1800. (Cheers.) AN EARNEST APPEAL*. Tho View of a Christian as to tho Pentling Campaign. Maj. Johu C. Whitnor, president of the Fulton County Bimetallic League, made a speech at tho Bryau ratifica tion mooting in Atlanta, and took an unusually serious view of tho cam paign. His remarks were uniquo and interesting, and merit a perusal from all. Maj. Whitner declared that he was perfectly happy, as the platform suited him and the candidate is su perb, and thon ho said : In that great convention in Chicago it would scorn that the Lord Himself had, by deep impressions upon the hearts of His servants of Georgia, in structed them to arise and appoint tho youngest and the best of all, even the brave, the eloquent and true-hearted William .1. Bryan to bo President of those United States. Behold tho man. Young, vigorous In intellect, honest, truthful, brave, olo quent and, above all, these consecrated in heart and in lifo to tho service >of the living and tho true God. What u wonderful gift to the hopes and the longing hearts of the long op pressed poor of tho country ? Tho next thing to tho honor of being tho parent of a child is tho honor to namo it and to stand as Its godfather. Auothcr State claims Wm. J. Bryan as its idolized son, and we will grant It that great Messing ; but Georgia was tho prophetess who stepped forward and anointed his head with tho oil of patriotism and named him President of the United States. Thus ho is a Georgian, or so near one thut I will guarunteo ho will never deny our elulms of tho honor which Georgiu should justly wear. Will no bo elected? In humility and in confidence I reply that he will he as suro as time rolls on. When this campaign was started in Atlanta a gentleman, who was a stranger, asked me : " Why do you bo positively feel that Fulton County will voto for silver, that tho City of Atlantu will, thut Georgia will go overwhelmingly so, thut the noxt Democratic convention will bo for silver, tho platform a silver platform, the nominee for President a silver man ? " My reply was : " I can look into your fueo und see that you cun bristle up arguments for month's dis cussion, but let mo tell you ono thing you cannot answer. 1 beliuve all this because this Is a matter I can pray over as sincoroly as I can pray for home, food and raiment for my wlfo and children. Why every prayer of every Christian in the United States, on every occasion, that God will have mercy on the poor and the needy, and thoso who are cast ing about with anguish of soul for work and bread and home?every time a child says tho Lord's prayer, givo us this 'day our dally bread?all are prayers in behalf of tho succoss of free coinage because it will relieve tho op prebsed, give employment to tho un employed and food and raiment to thoso who aro now crying for work and for broad." When I began ho laughed, but was serious before I finished, and Bald us ho started off, " May bo thoro ia some thing in that." " Yos?thoro is cortain succoss in it," I roplied. Every step taken In tho Chicago con vention?tho bravo stand against tho throats and the influence of the money power, the wondorful aohlevoment as to the platform and the, seleotion of a candidate for the Presidency?to my mind gives assurance that He who treaauros up the tears of the afflicted and hoars and responds to tho cries of the needy, was there and will carry this mattor on to success. Fellow Democrats, whothoryou havo heretofore boon honestly a goldbug or a silver man. come forward and re-en lint under tho old banner that your father used to carry. Oar party yot remains. The God of our fathers and of our country bids us to go forward. And as In old time. Ho will cause that whloh scorns to bo a groat soa of diffi culty ahead to rise on each side and let us march through unharmed with our banners of triumph flying and our hosannas of thankfulness arising as tho sound of many waters to our Great Dollveror. Laxol in not a mixture of drugs. It la nothing but Castor Oil mado palata Earl? in the Campaign. IIIS ENTERED TUE RACE AT SUMTER. The Discussion of Public Questions Pitched, on t% Higher Plane?His Sentiments Openly Avowed and Strongly Put. Judge Joseph H. Earlo formally en tered the race for United States Sena tor at his old home, Sumter, and his speech thoro is reported as follows : "I stand here today," he said, "whore I havostood many times before, facing a people I have known since childhood. I see horo men who I know as boys ovor thoro in tho academy. I seo hero friends of tho past: frionds who were with ino in '70, in '78; frionds who stood at my back in 1890. I can say that I am standing among friends. Somo of you differ with mo today. Hero and there somo political friends of tho pasture perhaps now my eno raies. But this I say : Friend or foe, you havo always known whore to lind me; you always know whore I stood. No man can say that I ovor throw a rock and hid my hand. No man need ever say he had to hit mo in the back ; ho had only to stand to tho front. "Some years ago I had tho honor to t run for Governor of South Carolina. I ' knew I could not bo elected ; 1 knew l was doomed to defeat, but I had been honored by tho peoplo who elocted mo to a responsible office. There wero whisperings, charges that thoro was something wrong in tho ollices of the administration of which I formed a part. I could not meet those charges except by being a candidate. I hud a right to stand as a candidate for Governor and speak to my peo plo. What I said on the stump v ou appluuso from my opponents. I conducted the campaign on a high plane, and my opponent, who was elected, so statod. "On his election my position was that tho people hud spoken; that tho Democrats hud rendered their verdict; that I would accept it, and not oppose him. Whoti ouo of tho most promi nent newspapers in South Carolina wrote to mo as well as others, asking what I was going to do or advise loing in the face of tho result, I answered, "Stop abuse, cease vituperation, troat all men with iairness and do what can be done to bring tho people together. I have no apologies to mukoto anyone for anything I said then. I said what I folt, what I believed in my heart. We are one people; we are the Demo cratic party. Tho constitutional con vention hurled the hatchet, and now, fellow citizens, I bring a mossago from the Piedmont. Stop strife ; stop dis cord ; be united." General Earlo alluded to an anony mous card which had appeared in a Sumter paper, asking why he withdrew from a race for a county office in 1870. "You all know tho author," ho said, "but I am ready to answer it. If any man in the crowd will stand sponsor for those questions let him appear und 1 will unswor. Let him stund up." There wus no sponsor. "You all know where I stand on Stuto politics. 1 am a Democrat; I havo not joined in vi tuperation; I have given credit for what was done. "There have been rumors and charges of dishonest transactions in this State. Now, I say here to frieudb and opponents that I do not believe B. R. Tillman is a dishonest man. I op posed him and havo no apologies to make for it. I havo not agreed with him in all things. I do not agree with him in ull things: but 1 boliovo ho is honest und I don't believe thut Tillman over stole a dollar of dispensary money or bond deal money. If there has been any stolen, let thoso who got it answer for themselves." "It bus been Bald thut a judge should not go upon the stump. That was an aristocratic ideu which does not now hold good. If going upon the stump inteferred with Iiis duties he should not do so, und for thut reason I huvo been provented from appearing before tho peoplo of the State us soon us I wished. But when it does not conflict with his duty ho should huve tho privilege of doing so in these duys when United States Senators, Governors and other men holding high offices go on tho stump. No ofllco Is too high to allow the man who tills It to meet tho peoplo face to face." Judge Karle then boldly sailed out upon tho glittering financial sea, speaking In an interesting manner upon a subject that Is ulmost too threadburo to bo handled in public by any but masters of it. The people knew there was some thing wrong, and they could expeet little or no rellof from uny Stuto ad ministration. Candidates for Congress who had spoken hud declured for 16 to 1, but hud neglected to state why free coinage at that ratio was right and would bo beneficial. Tho speaker pro ceeded to give a historical sketch of tho use of silver and gold us money or purchasing medium from the time Abraham purchased u burying plueo for Sarah with silver to the present time. Silver wus tho metal until both gold and silver wero used by tho Romans 400 years boforo Christ. For 500 years boforo 1873, ho said, the ratio of silver and gold had ranged from 11 to 1 to 16 to 1. The history of the domonitization of silver by tho Latin union was gone ovor stop by stop ?and it had been done in each caso at tho demand of tho wealthy, tho monoy power. Judge Earlo declared that tho de monetization of silvor In 1873 was rightly termed tho crlmoof'73, because stiver was a money of the constitution. Mr. Webster, tho groatost constitu tional lawyer, had no power to demon etize oithor silvor or gold. But while tho peoplo wero working in tho shops or Molds, thoir representatives in Con gress had, criminally or ignorantly, or both, demonetized silver. In England tho history of domonoti zatlon of silver had been that after a Iiorlod of twenty yoars tho land owners lad bcon reduced to only 8 por cent, of tho froe holdors in 1810. Silvor bullion, said Judgo Earle, would buy as much now as it over would ; It falls in valuo as other com modities fall, and will continue to do so so long as it Is a commodity. Tho spoakor prcdictod that if the gold policy was successful in ton yoars tho farmors of this section would not own thoir lands, whoso valuo had al ready deteriorated one-half. There fore no had skid, and he said it again, that ho approved of what Till man was trying to do In Congress, because ho was fighting for tho masses." Many peoplo said thore would ho a panlo If tho policy of the silvor men was carriod out. Ho believed there would bo a devil of a timo for a while, but was it not hotter to tighten the cord about their neoks by a sudden jerk, snap it and set thorn froo with but a bruised skin, than to allow It bo slowly tightened until thoy woro choked to doathl Thijy must stand for silvor and gold; stand \ for Bryan, of Nebraska, and, SewaU, of Maine. Thoy wore not do-, rnand^ "g anything new. They slmpl^ asked to bo put back whore they woro from 1837 to 1873?a period of prosper ity. Dethrone the money kinps; take their hands from the throats of tho people and enact laws, not that (ho rich man may become richer, not that the poor man may get what does not belong to him, but that brain and brawn may get that which it honestly earns. Goneial Earle advocated the incomo tax. Of the 70,000,000 people in the United States 30,000 own more than one-half of the property in the country. This was gotten by unjust laws; laws fostering trusts and monopolies. Let these 30,000 pay a tax in proportion to the protection they receive. It is a menace when a half dozen men in New York can make cotton go up and down. Laws should be passed to givo tho greatest good to tho greatost number. That was tho design of the founders of tho govorument. Tho speaker said he did not charge dishonesty of purpose ugainst Presi dent Cleveland, and bo he groat as he may bo, his administration had boon worst of any President, so far as tho effects of his policies on South Carolina wiis coneorued. Undor his adminis tration proporty valno* had boon steadily decreasing. At the conclusion of General Earlo's speech there was a llboral amount of cheering, considering tho undemon strative oharactor of tho crowd. GOOD ROADS NEEDED. Burning Question or the Hour?An Ago of Road Building. Charlotte Democrat. Hoad building is a burning question today. Every community is crying aloud for good roads. The demands for tho best of roads are greater and moro pressing. For 20 miles truck of all kinds is hauled to the towns to supply the increasing population with fresh country eatables. In this county aro men who bring butter, eggs, chickons and vegotablo as far as 10 miles by private convoyance. You want good roads in order to mako quick time, to travol on before daylight in order to escape tho hot rays of tho sun, and so thut trips can bo made moro frequent. Mecklenburg has tho best county system known in tho South. Hut her township system is to a cer tain extent a failure. Every man be tween 18 and 45 years old in tho county has to work 4 days on tho public road during tho year. This is a good deal of work if it could bo carried out'thor ously. But thoro are many things against the system. A man who has to attend to his farm has not tho time to look after the public roads. There fore it is hard to got men to servo as over-seers. ? If you get good over-seors and good tools the rub comes in train ing the hands for goods service. Four days hardly gives a man a start on the road. His sole aim is to pass away the time. He mainly boats it away regard less of tho oftlcioncy of tho ovo,-seer as a boss. Most of tho timo put on the roads out in tho tosvuships is wasted, so ovor-seers toll mo. It is no body's fault, eithor. uTho 'law just does not moot tho demand. Too many obstacles span tho way. Anderson County, South Carolina, has adopted a plan that seems to be working well. Instead of tho 4 or 0 days work every man is required to pay one dollar as commutation tux. They tried tho work, but it did not work well for too many worked instead of paying it. But when one dollar is re quired instead of tho 4 days work the money comes. Thoso who have tried it say that it beats working tho timo out all to pieces. Tho dollur tux rate will do much moro work und more ef fective work than tho 4-days work. Now in Anderson County an over-seer is employed by the county superinten dent and placed in tho township with u. squad of hired hands. Tho Champion Roud machine is made to do most of tho work. It is found that tho mu ehino tukes the place of about 40 hands. The machine shapes, grades and ditches. The shape of aroad is ugrout point to consider. You want a smooth track sloping from the centre to the side-ditch. This makes a kind of a wator-shed. No water is allowed to stund on tho roud. Of courso tho county cannot place a sufllcient squad of hands in euch town ship to make Macadan roads?that is not tho idea. But each township can have excellent work dono by a number of hands and machines employed for that purpose. They can prepare tho roud for the coming of tho rock crusher und tho chain gung. They cun mako good roads till the final work comes. Then it would not take long to go to the county's limits with the. Macadam roads. Anderson county now has a nuinbor of hands in each township with sevoral machines doing some lino and lasting work, so men suy who huvo seen the work. A NARROW ESOAPE. A IiOg Rolls Down the Mountuin and Under a Passenger Train. Tho A8hovlllo Citizen tolls of a very narrow escape a passenger train hud a fow days ago while coming down tho Suludu mountuin. The story is as fol lows : "Down on tho Ashevilo & Spartan burg railroad thoro is, for a few miles, a stretch of mountain road as steep, as wild und us grand as anything thut tho Switzerland of America holds out to the tourist. Tho particular part of tho lino referred to is that commonly torm ed tho Saluda mountain, whero tho do scont from tho hills of North Carolina toward thou plains of South Carolina is so rapid as to mako tho timid passcn gor hopo for a quick, and yet not too speedy, trip. The trusty engineer, no mattor how many times this run has boon made by him, koops closer watch upon the hugo much i no undor him and grasps with firmer hand tho levor that controls tho air brakes. For in de scending this unusual grado tho slight est mistake might bring disastrous re sults to crow and pussongors ; onco be yond control of tho hand of tho en glneman thero would bo a wild raco down tho mountain, to ond at tho bot tom Of some. gorgO or when the train reached tho level, If it should be so lucky as to stick to tho rails. " It was on thin short section of road an incident ocourrod recently that would havo made i h passengers catch thoir breath hod they known It. A passongor train was descending tho mountain at ordinary speed. At u point whore tho mountuin's sido makes an almost sheer descent for hundreds of feet before tho track 's reached, a hugo log, being cut for tho mill, be came dislodged and began a Hying, bounding, era ah in:' trip down the mountain. Tho slow moving passon gor train was In Its path and it soomod cortain that it would bo struok. Dut when near the track tho logjran against an obstruction, turnod ondwlso and dartod under tho baggage car botwoon the rear and forward truoks, and tear ing off and taking with it the box un dor tho oar (called "the 'possum bolly" by railroad mon) kopt on its way down the mountain. " Tho train was not lnterferred with. Thoro was no peroeptiblo shook as,'yet thoro aro only a fow who aw?ro of the ooouronco of tho inold Arthur Sewall of Maine Til 13 DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR VICE-PHEH1DI<'NT. Never H?? Been ? Polit ician or Sought Public Mfe-HiH Family Engaged in Ship Building l'or UouciutloiiH. Arthur Sewall, of Maine, is a man known?to the extent that he is known in tho nation?aa a man of business ruthur than as a man of politic". But whilo ho ia not aud never has been a politician, and whilo ho has never sought nor hold any public office, he has boon nono tho less for many years a power in Democratic national councils ?a man whoso word and advico stood for Now England to a greater extent, possibly, than tho word and advico of any other Democrat, of that section of tho country. His utterances a ear ugo in favor of silver have discrc d him in his own country to an exl .t, howevor, and this Is shown by .Im roeont selection of a Dom'jorat favor ing the gold standard as his successor in the Democratic national committee, of which ho had boon a member since 1888. But ho Is uevortholoss recog nized by all who know him?and they include scores of business men of San Francisco as well as scores in Now York ?as an extremely able, well-rounded man. Mr. Sowall was born in Bath about sixty years ago, of a stock long promi nent and honored in his Stato and idon tiliod with tho Democratic party from its birth. Ho inherited a capacity for large, business interests, as did also his brother Edward, and whilo yet a very young man, with his brother ho assumed tho management of tho largo ship building plant which had been developed by his father and his grand father. Through tho combined ener gies and abilities of the two brothers tho business grow and tho ships multi plied until, when American shipping had reached its heyday, there were few ports In tho world in which there could not bo seen at any timo at the top of a lofty mainmast the navy hluo Biiuaro supporting the white " S." His brother met his death in this city sev eral years ago by a fall over a balus trade in a hotel to tho corridor below. Mr. Sowall continued tho business, the son of his brother, Samuel, becom ing associated with him. No family in America lias done more for the " merchant marine " than the Sowall family has. Its list of ships shows a steady and almost unchecked line of progress covering a period of sovouty-fivo years. Ship after ship has slid from tho Sowall " ways " into tho Konnobcc river, and tho Sewal) collection of models, ancient und mod ern, is superior to anything of tho kind in this country. Tho Sewall family has always been Democratic, although as a family it has seldom or never sought to control in any way party action in either mu nicipal or State affairs. Twenty years ago thes fall, when Indiana swung into tho Democratic column for Tilden, the Sowall satisfaction found expression in tho bestowal of tho name "Indiana" upon one of the largest and finostships ever built in tho yard, and which was about ready for the launch. Arthur Sowall is about the only man in tho country who has persisted in building ships in the face of what other builders havo considered disas ter. During the first administration of Cleveland grass grew in every woodon ship building yard on both coasts. But during the last fow years of tho eighties Mr. Sowall, believing that a turn for the better had or soon would como, resumed building, and with greater earuostness than ever before. Thoro followed in quick suc cession four monsters, each represent ing a sum beyond $125,000. These were tho Rappahannock, Shonandoah, Susquehanna and Koanoke, all wooden vessels, averaging about three thou sand tons net each, capable of carrying easily a tonage in cargo of half as much more. Of these vessels tho Rap pabannook was destroyed by fire, from spontaneous combustion, in tho South Pad Mo ocean some years ugo. Tho other three are still afloat, muking the long voyages, und oue or unother is frequently seen in the Fust Ilivor. Tho Koanoke ia tho largest. This ship, built in 1?j:*, und with Now York as her hailing port, meusures 3,400 tons. Tho Shonandoah meusures 3,2?8 und tho Susiiuehnnnn 2,020. All uro inugnificent vessels, und us u fleet uro classod superior to any other simi lar licet, in one control, in tho world. Tho lust ship constructed by Mr. Sow all is the Dirlgo. This vessel was launched two years ago und uiousures 2,850 tons. She is built of stool, und is the first stool suiling ship in America. To show in what proportion the busi ness of tho Sowall family bus grown in compurison with the growth of other largo businesses of tho country, it may be stutcd thut tho tonago of tho" Indianu, lunnched In 1870, is 1,488, whilo that of tho Rounoke, luunched sixteen yeurs later, is 3,400, nearly two and a half times as greut. In uddition to his lurge fleet or square riggod "deep wuter" ships, Mr. Sewnll bus constructed und munages a lurge fleet of three and four masted schoon ers, which uro enguged in tho coal, ice and lumber trude on the Atlantic coust. Ono of these vessels, the Cur rio A. Lane, a three-masted schooner of less than 800 tons, was sent some years ago around Capo Horn from Now Yoi k to San Francisco. Sho wus tho first vessel of anything like her kind or size to mako this voyage. Besides his extensive interests in shipping, Mr. Sowall is interested in railroads, tho Bath Iron Works, which built tho United States gunboats Cas tinc and Mach las and the ram h" at ah din, and other intorprises. A few years ago ho was tho president of tho Maino Central Railroad. Ho is now president of a bank in Bath. He is roputod to havo mado a largo sum in lea the i- in this City ; nine i nun I 1. agO. Mr. Sowall has always lived in Bath. His wifowas also born In Bath. Person ally ho is a rosorved man, not oasy of approach. His appearance Is im pros si vo. Ho has two sons?Harold M. and William D. Tho lattor, tho younger, is associated with his father in business Tho older son, now about 30 yours of ago, peculiarly enough of tho samo ago as the man with whom his father will go bofore the peoplo for votos as the tall end of the tlckot, has already had much moro of a nubile political caroor than his father has had. Ho was graduated with honors from Harvard in 1882, and two yoara later he was made vice consul at Liverpool by President Clevoland, as a compli ment to hia father, Charles T. Russell being consul. Shortly aftorward ho was promoted to the consul general ship at Apia Samoa. Here, though young and a novice In diplomacy, he became very prominent during the German-English-American controver sy, but Secretary of Stat Bayard re called him, at the request of President Clevoland, who eonsldorcd that^ his course in tho delicate matter wus moi*e aggresive than safe. ThM I call brought about a coolness between Arthur Sewall and President Cleve laud, and possibly was the germ from which the estrangement which recent ly culminated in Mr. Sowall's declar ing in favor of silver arose. Soon after Harrison became Presi dent he appointed his Samoan Com missioner to Borlin, and to show that ho held a view of young Sewall's course in Samoa different from that of Clove land, ho made the former consul sec retary of the commission. Whilo in Berlin Mr. Sewall was snubbed right and loft by tbo Germans. Herbert Bismarck made it a condition, on ac cepting an invitation to one banquet, that Mr. Sowall be not presented to him. On his return to Amorica Presi dent Harrison further upheld him by appointing him consul to Samoa again. He held this office during tho roinaln der of the Republican administration. Following this, Mr. S wall practiced law. Two years ago ho created a po litical sensation in Maino and much of Now England by leaving tho Demo cratic party and becoming a Republi can. In doing so ho scored President Cleveland for his policy in regard to all airs in tho Pacitic Ocean. Sinco that timo ho has 'us n one of the most active Republicans in Maine. Ho pro sided over tho rocent State convention, and even moro recently was a delegate from Representative Dlngley's district to tho Republican convention In St. Louis. Ho is certain to take active part in tho campaign this fall. Thus father and son will bo arrayed against each other politically, not only in Maine, but in several other Now England States. Tho son is a finished, persua sive orator, whilo tho father has prob ably never made a political speech In his life and there is little likelihood that his voico will bo heard in tho coming campaign. Tho State election in Maino i6 to occur in September. Its result Is certain to bo a forcrunnor of tho Presidential election in the State, two months later. The wealth of tho Vice Presidential candidate is esti mated at very nearly a milliou dollars. Mr. Sowall is a man whose pride will impel him to make a good fight. The campaign in Maine this fall will have much interest for the whole country. The Great Issue of the Campaign. A CLEAR OUTLINE BY BRYAN. An American System of Finance Demanded.?Parties are Made for the People Mr. Wm. J. Bryan, the Democratic nominee for President, was given a public reception at tho city park in Centralia, 111., and in response to calls upon him by tho large crowd he spoke as follows: "We aro entering upon a memorable campaign, und tho issues aro being drawn for tho contest. The two parties, described as the two great parties, the two leading parties, havo already adopted their platforms and havo al ready named their candidates for Pres ident and Vice President, and in a short timo tho campaign will bo opened fully, and you will be making up your minds us to whicli platform und us to which ticket you will support. I trust tho issues involved in this cumpuign will be clearly understood and carefully studied. Parties aro not made to be worshipped; they aro merely tho in struments by which wo servo our country. People aro not mado for parties, but the parties urc mudo for tho people, und the parties cun only cluim the support of tho people when these purties are otlicient instruments in the bunds of tho poople for accom plishing good. And those who uro culled upon to voto have tho right to consider tho platform utterances und tho policies advocated by the various purties us well us tho cuudidutcs who uro nominuted. In this cumpuign 1 believe there will be loss of personalities and moro of principle than in any campaign which we huve seen in recent years. The people havo before them two great public questions. We must not expect thut any platform will contain all you desire. No thinking person finds in any platform an expression of every thing which he believes, nor must you expect that any platform will be free from some objection. Wo select our party; we select our platform; not in tho hope of finding something which is absolutely in accord with our opinion, but we tuko thut platform which for the time being promises to us the best legislution on the most important ques tions. And in this cumpuign it is decided by ull sides thut tho most Important issue is the money question. It mutters not whether you believe in the restoration of silver or in the gold Standard, you must admit that the set tlement of the money question is of the Ii i st and greatest importance, one that when settled leaves nothing else to be considered. On tho money question, the two great purties huve taken posi tions directly opposite to euch other Four yours ugo the position taken by the Republican and Democratic partici were almost Identical. The Republi can party said tho American people are in favor of bi-iiictullism und the Democratic party were betiding to the use of both gold und silver as a standard money for the country and to the coin age of both for money. Thus you see thut both parties declared In favor of gold und silver us the money of our country. Four yours huve passed since that platform was written and these four years have been full of monontOUS happenings, but us this campaign ap proaches the groat parties lined them selves up for the fray. Upon this question the party at St. Louis deolared for the maintenance of tho gold Standard, but that plutform does not say that the gold standard is a good thing, because that plutform pledges tho party to get rid of the gold standard, butdcclurcd that this change cannot bo mado except by international agreement, until the leading nations of tho world should hoi p. Tho Demo cratic party mot at Chicago and it adopted the platform which Is In direct opposition to tho p'atforu? adopted at St. Louis. Tho St. Louis Convontion declared for tho gold standard until something else could bo dono In tho near future. But more than that tho Ko puhlicanjplatfortn does not promise any complete monetary system. The Dem ocratic party outlined what it desired to have dono, and declared that tho silver dollur should hoof legal tender for alt debts, public and private, and thut such legislution should bo onactod as Is necessary to tho restoration of tho unlimited ooinago of silver and gold at tho presont legal ratio of ?0 to 1, with out waiting for tho aid of any other nation. Wo also declared that the ?liver dollar bo legal tender for all debts, public and private, and that suoh legislation should be onaotod as is necessary to provont fur tho future the. demonetization of any legal money. The platform declared tmat tho gov ernment should oxeroise who right to redeem Its obligations inf oithor gold or silver. The Issue Is drawn In this xericau tint American people and an English finan cial system for the English aristoorley. If I mistake not the patriotism of the people who have nover been appealed to in vain, there can bo but one issue in this campaign and but one result. If they ask us what about other ques tions wo toll them that so long as the right of self-government is in danger thoro is no other question. But I want to impress upon your mind two things. I want u> ask two questions. They are questions that will bo asked over and over again in this campaign. They are questions that will be asked with ever increasing emphasis. The two questions are these : If the gold standard is a good thing, why should wo try to get rid of it; and if tho gold standard is a bad thing, why should wo wait until some other na tions are willing to help ub let go. We caro not upon what issue they force tho fight. We aro prepared tu meet thnm upon either issue, or both. I thank you, friends and fellow oitizons, for tho interest which you havo mani- j fested and for' the complimont which you havo paid to us by your assemblage hero today. I cau but bog of you that you will roin?raber your duty as citi zens. Wo who staud upon the platform adopted at Chicago, do not como to you as suppliants to bog for your votes. Your votes aro your own and no man is asked to do anything save as his conscience dictates. And we bog you to study all tho quostions presented, study all the issues involved, and thon lot your ballot register a free man's will. GALLANT PIERCE YOUNG. Ho Was the Idol of Men and Popular with Women. Mr. T. C. Do Loon, of Mobile, in wri ting to a friend about tho lato Oen. P. M. B. Young, whom ho knew very in timatoly, pays a handsome tribute to tho valiant warrior and courtly gentle man. In the course of tho letter, he says : ' 'The news of Young's death will carry a shock to many a good fellow still left. His personal friends throughout the South were legion, for ho was not only a dashing and fearless fighter, but one of the most lovablo fellows personally in all that brilliant array. I reeaH him now most vividly as ho appealed when the heterogeneous clans began to gather at Montgomery. About the timo when Miss Lctitia Tyler unfurled that Hug which was to become immor tal, before Abrain J. By an sang its deathless requiem when 'furled for ever,' Young was there. Although a stripling cadet, who had loft West Point on the eve of graduation to offer his sword to his section, he was even thon one of the most picturesque and conspicuous figures about 'the cradle of tho Confederacy.' Tall, lltho and active ; a great horseman and a sol dier by instinct, his impetuous nature chafed under red-tape dolays that wore out many a moro patient man, asking and deserving a commission for active service. How he accepted eagerly the proffered adjutancy of Cobb's famous log ion, fought his way ovor interven ing grades, and became a major gen eral of cavalry while still a mere youth, is well known history. "In Virginia, ho was tho idol of mon and no less popular with the koen judging women of those days. But young, handsome, and popular as ho was?and he was ever a great 'indies' man'at the proper seasons?ho never lot social blandishments hold him back for one instant from volunteering for most arduous and disagrceablo duty, through August sun or winter's snow and slush. Any allusion to his known courage and dash were a 'twice-told t'ile.' He was tho Murat of the Vir ginia lines. "When I began to write my novel, 'Creole and Puritan,' Young largely furnished the best traits in the South ern twin of its heroes, as Charles King did for the Puritan. Of course, as I huve told you, the pair were not mount for portruits; for King wus no more u Puritan in the generic sense, than tho Georgia boy was a real Creole. Yet these two best typed those essential points of divergence, to crystallize which the novel was written. Whilo tho critics were saying ? ^ry pleasant things about that story, many of them objected to my making tho Creolo 'a major general on his twenty-fourth birthday ;' advising me to stick to probabilities. I wrote King tho fucts at the timo ; und later when I publish ed 'Tho lJuritun's Daughter' as Its se quel, I noted that the statement was well within tho facts. After Young returned from St. Petersburg ho visit ed us at Mobile. Then ho told me? with all absence of vanity in his blunt, simple way?that he commanded his division when ho was only twenty three. If I am not In error, that makes him tho youngest major gen eral In either army. "An odd joko on Young during that visit recurs to mo now. Four of us drove down tho shell road for a dinner at South End. A gulf storm had torn away a soction of the long wharf, only narrow planks loosely lying across tho gaps. Louis Chaudron, Shelton Sims und I passed tho first plunk ; looked buck und suw Young besituto und with uncertuin foot upon tho thither end. Sims culled buck : 'Well, here's an an omaly. A man wh? bus ridden gaily into hail of load and iron?whoso front is tattooed with wounds?fears to chargo a plank to capture his dinner !' Young mado a wry face, sworo It was a very different thing: then marched across the plank that bent underMhis weight to threatening of leaving uJlt eraliv with no bridges behind us. But. that dinner with its reminisconcos, v stories and jolly chaff comes to mo with clear echo to-day across the valley of the shadow of death. As those echoes die away from memory, rcsiBtlossly como to replace them the living words of Margaret Preston, in h?r dir go for another boau Babruer, earlier borne to tho Avalon of Southern valor : 'Hoar-d ye tho veterans?hearts that had known Novor a throb of fear ; novor a groan? Sob, 'mid tho fight they win, Tears their stern eyes within? Ashby, our Paladin ! Ashby is doad !' "So wroto tho Southern Barrett Browning, threo decados ago. Timo has filled our livos with now duties and avocations sinco then ; nowor momo ries havo dulled somewhat tho sound of onco familiar voices. But when we of tho old sot hear tho toll of tho fune ral bell, oven now th.. mists of circum stance and surrounding clear away. Timo itself rolls back, and wo stand on the edge of ouch new gravo, onco moro undor tho star-barred flag and with the fresh of our youth?again In tho young Confederacy !" ?It was left for a New York young stor to describe the foolish virgins as tho ones that didn't g4fc married.