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AC. JONES, Pub. and Proprietor. UFamily Paper Decoted to Literature.Jiiscellany, News, Agriculture, VO. XXI.N.EWBERRY, S- C., WEDNrpitESDArY, MDARvI-I 3, 1886. No. 9 THE HERALD AND NEWS, PUBLISHED -'EERY WEDNESDAY AT Xe'berr . S. C. TERxz.-0iic year, $2; six months I; three nonthA, 50 cents; two months, 85 cents ; one month, 20 cents ; single eopy, 5 cents, payable in advance. Expirations.-Look at the printeti label on the paper; the date thereon shows when the subscription expires. Forward the monev for renewal at least one week in advance. Subscribers desiring the address of their paper changed must give both the old and the new address. TERmS OF ADVERTISING.-S1.00 per square the first insertion, aid . 50 ets. per square for each subsequent insertion !l' A square is the space of nine lines of solid brevier type. Notices in local column 124c. per line for each insertion for one month, longer at inch rates, w:th 25 percent added. S-Areasonable rednction made for ad rcrtisements by the three, six, or twelve months. "Count in forSimon-Pure Far mers' Convention." "COUNT OUT FOR MOSEs TILLMAN POLI TICS-" February 12th, 1886. Hon. J. N. Lipscom. DEAr Sin: Pardon the liberty I take in writing to jou on a personal matter, yet when looked at from all sides it is hardly personal. Your open, manly, courageous advocacy of farmers' rights has commanded the admiration of our farmers over here, and made us feel a public interest in you and a desire to see you continued in high place. A good many over here have ex pressed the hope that you would throw the weight of your influence toward the Farmers' Convention, though Tillman did scratch you a little over here. He wrote me he re gretted having to do it, but could not help it, to keep from being per sonal towards others. lie said you alone spoke for his resolutions. The wave, I believe, will sweep the State and we want you to go with- us, and unless you do I fear you will get eft Please, now, don't think me presnmptuous or inclined even to dictate or advise, where you alone have a right to choose. My simple interest in you as our old leader prompts me to thus write you. You may, for all I know, have already - crossed the rubicon, but have not seu it. I feared the pressure around you among the ofBee-holders might keel) you from acting till some would say you were driven into it, though I know your independent spirit don't run in that line. A good many prominent grangers over iere urged me to drop you a line, so do please don't misconstrue my motive and take offence, where we wish to help you and show our regard. Our county is going solid ~> for the Farmers' Convention. Yours very truly, COLUMBIA, S. C., Feb., 18, 1886. Mr.-. Mr DE-Ant Sra: There was no lib erty taken in your writing to me as you did in yours of the 12th, and no apology is needed. I am glad to re * ceive a letter expressing such consid eration for me, and reognizing my honest efforts in the past in behalf' -. of the agriculture and farmers of' the * State. It was and is a labor of los e to me. and after some thirty years spenRt in that way I feel no inclination or reason to change. I am just as deeply interested in and as lovally devoted to the agricultural interests and classes of the State and county now * as I ever have been, and I am ready and anxious to work zealously and independently in promo:ing their wel fare. None know better thtan von and your fellow farmers of how for years I have urged the vital need of organizati<p] of' the farmers of the State and nation. This I still deem most essential to any' scheme. policy or plian that will suiccessfully advanice their true interest,,and consequently thec true and best interests of the en tire country and whole people. To secure this I should say that as an important auxiliary, co-operativeC machinery or strengthening adjunct, a convention composed of farmers representing farmers, knowing what is due to farmers, and at t,he same timne due to others, ready to demand what is due themselves and deter mined to ae:ept no less, ready to recognize and respect the rights of others. ready to assume a policy true, honest, just and fair'. ready to reform and improve the laws, customs and sy stems that govecrn and afTect agri~ riculture and farmers instead of' des troying them, wcuid be extremely desirable and eminently heneficial. This, I, von and others have for years been trying to do through the grange A othe,. agricultural nonizationsr with. I contend. signal though partial success. Such a convention I shall hail with joy, and to such I will give my most cordial support and zealous aid. But to a convention to be call ed and controlle(l. appointed and or -anized by Mr. B. R. Tillman. who has outraged all the courtesies -ind decencies of life. who has shown an utter recklesness in his assertions an( insinuations as to men and things. who wants to do nothing good but what you and I and nany other farmers have been for years workin for; 'but, I fear. de-ires to pull down, destroy and obliterate everythint and everybo(dy', from iIampton and 1De. mocracv down to himself and chaos; who is an avowed destructionist in stead of constructionist, who asserts that no ina in the State. farner or other, has ever been put in office that did not at once and then become dis loyal, corrupt and veual; who pro poses to dlestroy all the institutions established for the benefit of the farmers by others, and has lothingy to replace them with except a college with him as trustee; who, from self deficiency, cannot realize in any other, purity of motive or honesty of purpose. To such a convention call ed and manipulatad by such a man for such purposes, I and you and the farmers of the State cannot look for help or good. You say, --Mr. Tillman wrote mc lhe regretied having to attack vou, but could not help it to keep from being personal towards others. "Ile said vou alone spoke for his resolutions." Still he denies my honesty of purpose, purity of motive, loyalty to my class, and insinuatcs that I am a corrupt politician, work ing in the harness of a ring, and for it betraying the trusts placed in my hands by both the farmers and the Democrats of South Carolina. Such a man can be no "Moses" for me, nor can he safely be for any portion of the farmers of this State. So, for a real simon-)ure farmers' conven tion, just count me in for all I am or ever expect to be, but for "M1oses" TilHman and what he "bosses" count me out. I have written you plainly, tcr it is my way, and due, under the circum stances. As soon as the proceedings of the recent session of the State Grange are printed, I will send you a copy, and ask you to read my ad dress, which is a part of' my public oficial record. As to myv being con tiniued in~ ofilee it is for the peCople to say'. A~s incumbent I make no claim over any other good D)emocrat. M1x only plea is honesty, rndelity, loyalty and duty do:ie. Whenever dismisse' I am ready' to retire to the ranks of the farmers and D)emocrats without question or mnurme'r. But I have toc much faith in the people of' Sonti Carolina to think I am to be punished for not admitting -or accepting MIr B. R. Tillman as the -"Moses" and leader of th1e farmers or peCople o this State. TLie importance I attach to the in tere ns of our class is my' only apology for the lengthm of this le'tter. As] feel hound to freely and fully givC my views on questions of' publi policy when asked to do so. us in this case. and have nothing to conlceal vou are at liberty to mnake this letter as public as y'ou chotose. With the kindest wishes an'i the higheilst regaris for von andt myV man' friends in your section. I am. cery re spectfully and f'rater'nallxy Crack YourWhp Som of the fecrtilizer' compni are mad beeause we puished the' wares in the fraud-s list a wee'k ', two ago). and onie agent wvent So in as to say we ought to he jurosecuite: for libel. All rigrht. G o taea such talk doi't frightenQt us worth 1 cent. Radical ras'::ds here in iur aneburgz hare li on us and threat en ed' us ti i' a nd again . because w.' have expiosedl their rascalities. but i did not have a feather's weicit wit: us. We went righit on. calling spade a spade, and a thief a thief and we expect to do it to the end 01 Ithe chapter. This paper is published in the intc.rest of Lthe best peopl~e oe Ithis cou;ntx'. and it makes to dier ene to us wvhat the conseQuene('ni may be. we exuect to discharge- on duty' f'aithfully andt aearlessly to thn pu!e Al we have to say~ is. thai if' any of ti'' fer lzer comnIa:.>' w'nt to sue. et 'he crack the: wan he to sIll :n honetst art:c th y'ear. or th:ey' mi.:,bat 'Jot get mai foitext falli. Thae eyes ofth r. - a.e -o re n nou-. and d*on't vol Defieient but not nece-arily Fraudu-I lent. Farmers Paying for what they di(d not get. A FULLLI'T oFTIHE BIL\NDS T11ATFELL 1ELoW THE 3I. F.TI'-Wl: ( UA 1,ANTEE LAST YEAn. In his report to the Comnissioner of Agricultur October 31. 1F5. the State Chemist in speaking of the an alvsis of fertilizers says: "Ihe nu1m ber of sai)me-s (efi'10iet, that is. fall ing be!ow the manuifacturers guar antee. in one or more constituents, is so large that I feel it to be my duty c to call your especial attention to the iuatter. Of the ninety-three amm11onia ted fertilizers anavzed, thirty-seven. or 397 per cent. of the whole number 1 were deficlent. Of the forty acid phos- n phates. eight, or 2) per cent, were de- n ficient. Lis proportion is so large as to merit vour serious considera- I tion. In these estimates are inclu- i ded all samples deficient in any re- i: spect, whether the deficiency be great V or small." The following is a full list of the different brands that are u referred to in the above extract from I the State Chemist's report. Alkaline G uano.-Deficient in phosphoric acid .14 per cent., but .4 e per cent. above guarantee in potash, and .38 per cent. above in equivalent [ to ammonia. Ashley Cotton and Corn Co. pound.-.110 per cent. below guaran- 1) I tee in potash. but .74 per cent. above e in phosphoric acid. Ammonia up to Iminimuln. A-1hley Solubl,e Guano.-.21 per I cent. below -n ainnonia, but 1.12 per 1 cent. above in phosphoric acid. and r 1.42 per cent. above in potash. Brown Bro's Standard Ammoni ated Fertilizers.-.16 per cent. below in phosphoric acid, but .21 per cent. above in ammonia. and .39 per cent. i I above in potash. Colgate Manure. (Canton's).-03 per cent. below in ammouia. but .0 per cent. above .in phosphoric acid, and !.30 per cent. above in potash. Crescent Bone L1ertilizer.-1 > c per cent. below in phosphoric acid, .14 per cent. below in ammonia. .47 C per cent. below in potash. Domestic Ammoniated Fertilizer. .25 per cent. below in ammonia. .86 per cent. below the potash. but 2.15 1 above in phosphoric acid. Ed(tvstone Soluble Gu ano.-.02 : per cent. below in potashi. 1.12 per cent. above in ammonia, and .78 per cen. aor in phshoi acid.c F-alisto Ammnon iated Fertilizer. 1.29 per cent. below in ammnon ia, but 4.26 per cent. above in phosphoric acid andV .1:3 per cent. above in p)otash. E.Frank Coe's Ammconiated Pone Sup)erph!osphiate.-.a per cent. be-. low in phosphorie acid, .50 per cent. above inl ammonia. E-verctt's liigh Grade Fertilizer. t .0:0 per cent. below in ammionia, 1.82 per cent. ini phosphoric ac:id, .:30 per cent. in potash. Ezell's A mmioniated Bone Super plhosphate.-.05 per cent. below inl potash. .04 per1 cent. above in ph:os( phreacid. and .sO per cen it. aibove( inl aimnonia. GTeoriIa A mnlia ted 110ne Super. phosphate.-.!' per cent. below in ash. ar.d 1 41 per cent. above ii phos nhoric acid. Gjoriant.r's Bone Fertilizer.-.30 -per cent. below in ammniai. .24 per cent. abo(ve ini 1j. 4ash. n Iu 1.30pe cent ab,ove ini phosphorie acid. 1 io;'len. Spencer Co's. AmmnIom atedl'hsphae.-1.0 per cent. be low in potashi. .40) per cent. nbovr-i ph oshorie acid. ani .41 per cent. iluc t' SAmm~on;ated Dissolie - -one.-27 p,er ce-nt. helow in phosc phri Wi. 1.10 per cent. above in po0 h :md1 07 pe cent above in -Inman'-,s Mion arch Gu 1n.-.40 pe cent. below in phlosphorie nel .7 per' cent above in amnm;oniam. and .30 per- ceni. ablove in p'tnsh. JoneIs & il.obertson's A mmniated Cmpond.-.57 per- cent. hlow in~ ammnon!ia. .01 ner cent. above in pot-I ash, and .RS pr cent. above in phs phoric acid. W. '. Ligzon & Cos D)issolved BOne.-01 per cent. hc-low in phos phiori acid. .1i per cent. in otsh and~ .- me cen.t. above in a?mimona. '. S. I(n o.'s Standard-' cet helow in ammont:'ia. .71 percet he.- in 'p1ooi.c ac:*2, and .43 pa cent. h-cuo' inp" ah sol: -lne.-1.l icpr cent. beow in pp:oric ei . .04 e cr{ aior inammoia.:ad 57 er cent. abv in potsh. Owl Brn Guno.-17 per cent. beo in ammna..70i per cent.1 - e.above in pohorca.,an 0 e Peruvian GUano.-2A.0 per cent. elow in phosphoric acid, and .0S er cent. below in ammonia. Plow Brand 1 Raw Bone Superphos hate.-.201 per cent. below in phos. horie acid. .42 per cent. above in innionia. and .05 per cent. above in otaSS. Reliance Ammoniated Superphos. hat.-.:3 per cent. below in phos 1,orie acid. .16 per cent. above in 1mMonI. aid .:19 per cent. above in ota Sh. ichland's Prid.-.21 per cent. e1ow in phosphoric acid, .33 per ent. in ammonia, and .15 per cent. bove in potash. iussel' C,e's A nmoniated "Bone uperphosphate.-1.89 per cent. be. >w in phosphoric acid, .80 pe:- cent. bove in ammonla. and .87 per cent. bOve- in potash. Sea Gull Ammoniated Dissolved one Phosphate.-.4 7 per cent. below a Phosphric acid, .10 per cent. above a ammonia, and .69 per cent. above a potash. Seal. Lawson Kessler & Co.'s Am Inoiated B)one Superphosphate. .9 3 per cent. below in phosphoric cid, .48 per cent. above in ammonia. Stono Soluble Guan'o.-1.49 per ent. below in phosphoric acid, .24 er cent. above in ammonia, and 2.42 er cent. above in potash. Stackhouse & lolliday's Iligh rlale Ammnonlated Phosphate.-.1-2 er cent. below in potash, 1.25 per ent. in pliosphoric acid. and .24 per ent. above in ammonia. Wagener's Amnmoniated Dissolved one.-.0:3 rer cent. below in ammo in. 1.02 per cent. above in phospho ie acid, and .:31 per cent. above in ot.ash. Wilcox, Gibbes & Co.'s Manipu ated Guano.-.45 per cent. below in hosphoric acid, .6:3 per cent. above n ammonia, and .56 per cent. above n potash. Brown Bros. Standard Acid Phos bate.-.17 per cent, below in phos horic ac(. Diamond Soluble Bonc-1.3G per ent. below in phosphoric acid. )unI can's Acid Phosphate-.27 per ent. below in potash. Farr & Thompson's Acid Phos hate-.46 per cent. below in potash. Georgia Chemical Works Acid hosphate-.02 below in potash. Russell Coe's blone Superphos hate-.'-2 per cent. below in phos. >horic acid. Stono DJissolved Bone-.75~ per ent. below in phosphoric acid. Wilcox. (Gibbs & Co.'s Superph~os >hate-.:10 per caut. below in phos horie acid. We have given the analysis of. the hove fertilizers to show in what con-~ ttuents they fall short of their guar ntee. Yiou will see that there are mi a few that fall ibelow in all of he constituents. at the same time the malsis is based upon the claim and ~uarantee that no portion of their ertilizers will fail below a certain >r cent. To Illustrate: The Ash ey Pho.-phate Co.. of Char!eston. S. uano co>n:anins not less than 8.00 )er cent. of avail able phosph:orie acid. .50 per cent. of ammnonia and 1.50 er cent. of potash. (K 2 0)- The apjle analyzedi was taken] from a t at.'-um'ter. S. C., in Feb1ruary. $5. and contained 9.12 per cent. oi hosperic acid. 2.29 pe cent. of un Ioni a. and 2.92 per cent. of potalsh K 20(). Ift is therefore .21 per cent. elow in anunlon]ia and 1.12 per cent. md 1. per cent. above in potash, While~ wet: d not recomm'.end .v h crti I e;rs inlludedI in th e - e'oin li-,t at th s:n timie we 'ee it i e *la, t a th\ ier s ouldi myeth hedi of wha~tever advan '1 ther may .e insown their iefi!enie as compared1 with others. t wonai I e well for the farmiers to eramad bythe State chemt he-) abld slee- the hi:et ra s ro hlr2ge numbIer of brands 'iCre on'ij te markect. T here arc a rrcat many of the fertilizers whinch re but little abo(ve the minimum rarantee in one or more constitu ?ts. but enough above. to keep ofi >f th lack list. We have a limited umb:'er of the pamnphlets. giving tie iersis and conm:nercial values of :)ommercial fel tilizers and ci:eicals .I b anufIact urer's inuniunum guar E. M., ChemIiSt o; the Agricultural Department, which will be furnished 'rec to farmers upon application at Dii yon ever notice that the hiu-. 2st intimaev with the Divine secrets. he clCsest feilowship with Jeovh is marked with intense lowliness of T E AGRICULTURAL'MOSES His Leadership Repudiated by a Dar lington Farmer. 311. TILLMANS PROPosED LINE NOT THE ROUTE BY WHICII SOUTH CAROLINA FARMERS CAN BE BROCGHT FRO31 TilE DESERT OF DISTRESS TO THlE PRoMISED LAND OF PLENTY. TA. Ih Editor of the Ke?cs wd Courier: I am a farmer, but am decidedly opposed tc, Mr. Tillman's movement toward organizing farmers, as a class, for carrving any public meas ure, and I know that so far as my section of South Carolina is con cerned it is not looking for an agri cultural Moses to lead us into the Promised Land. We know very well that the State is eminently an agricul tural community, and we know equally well that the Legislature of the State is composed very largely of farmers, and we are not aware that we have any just reason to complain either of the laws or their administration. There is some difference of opinion on the question of fr,e tuition in the University, but I know of no one who symnpathizes with the condemnation of the whole concern. The institu tion is popular with us and has just about as much agriculture attached to it as we think is necessary for a college class to take in. We want our sons educated in all that goes to enlarge and strengthen the mind with out any regard to what special busi ness they are to follow. I have asked several intelligent farmers if they want to send their sons to an agricultural college, and they all say -No; we think if you will educate a )oy as it is generally done in the schools and colleges, that we can very easily teach him the business of growing crops ifl he is disposed to learn. The fact that a majority of the ed .nated young men incline to other professions than agriculture, we think, is due to the fact that they suppose I fame is more easily attained in other professions and not to the fact that they lack capacity for agricultural pursuits. We know first-class farm ers who have been educated in the different colleges of the State, and they like their business. What farm ers want most is more general infor. Ination such as men acquire by read iig and study. If an agricultural college would inspire us all to read and think more it would certainly be a good thling, but we fail to see how it would do so any more than a gen eral education in all the sciences. IW hat we want in my country is un agricultural experiment station where imp)ortant problems shall be solved for the information of the whole community. We want all the money raised by the pris ilege tax on guano for the support of the agricul tural bureau to be expanded by thme bureau in conducting such ex periments as cannot be safely en. gaged in by the farmers themselves. For instance. if the State had an ex perimental farm, the question of to. 1 gnec.o-g,rowving could be settled once for alh. and save p)erhIaps large loss to farmers who are tempted to try the experiment for themselves. I regard with more interest the reports of agricultural experiments than all other ag.ricultural writings combined, and I regrard rep)orts of agricultu rail experiment stations, such as Ohio and New; York have, as more impor tatnt tn rep)orts of private experi menrts. because individual experi menters are more liable to jump at conusonS. If the State will pay the expense of collecting the phosphate royalty out o the royalty itself, and allow tie 'gricultural bureau to spend all te special fund raised by the privi leetax on guano entirely in the in. teres:t of the class which pays the tax, we canI have one of the fmnest and most useful experiment stations in the United States. We will be satisfied when this ar ranement is made. We think it can be made through our representatives areadly in the Legislature without any organization on our part and without a general remodelFng of the whole governmental machinery. J. W. BEAsLE, Lydi D)arlington; County, S. C., FebLruair 13. W hbat' the use of closing the sa ons on 'udy he police won't o to chu rch anyhow. If the saloons are op)en on Sunday the people know right where to go when they want a Anotherr year of progress, another year .\eher yecar of proving His presence aill the days; An ther year of service, of witness for i' love; A other year of traininig, for holier worli Pertinent Questions. (Cor. Abbevife Press & Banner, Feb. 18 Sally Parks in a letter to the E itor of the Abbeville Press and Ba ner asks the editor who is Mr. B. Tillman and whether his piece in t News and Courier charging tl State officers with being robbers ai as conspiring to continue to rob meant for our own home folks th we have elected. EDITOR PRESS AND BANNER: Please let me ask you a few que tio-is, my dear Mister Editor, for n poor head is nearly turned fro reading the piece called -The Fv mers' Fight," in your paper, whi< you published on the 2rd of Februar and which has the name, B. R. Ti man, under it. My name is Sally Parks, who ns ried John Parks in the year th Sherman burnt Columbia, and, as n old man reads your paper, I gets tl chance to find out what's going on I reading the paper when he ge through with it, and thaL's how come to see that piece which I spol about. I read that piece, and I read it, at the more I read it, and read aboi "Moses" and "farmers won't stick t gether, they are such fools," ar "misrule and robbery," and "bandE with our enemies," and "cajolery ai misrepresentation," and "ridicule the more I got mixed up, and final] says I to John: John, says I, who B. R. Tillman ? Now, Mister Editor, my John what folks call a quiet, easy goir kind of a man, till he gets startei then lie's a whole team. IIe don talk much, so, when I asked him th: question, he just said, "Congres man." "Congressman, John," sal I, "where from ?" "Edgefield," sai he. "Why John," says 1, "if he's fro Edgefield, he must be a Democrat, "Well Sally," says he, sort of dr "he's a Democrat now, I reckon, but I wouldn't a been in 'the dark days '76,' as the politicians always say speaking, if he had. wrote that pie then." "But John," says I, "wh does he want to be a 'Moses' in t] bulrushes for ?" "A what ?" sa: John, a squinting at me, "A Moses says I. "Dunno," says he. "Ai then, John," says I, "who does I mean when he says, 'we can co tinue our misrule and robbery?' " dunno," says John. ",-Well," says "he must. be a talking about somi body else, for, if he is a Democr: lie would not talk that way about ti folks now in office. Have we ni elected our own best men to officef nearly ten years ? If there is 'mi rule and robbery,' why don't the pe ple turn 'em out ? Why don't show whiere the 'misrule and rc bery' comes in ? Let him show the up, if he can, and the judges are Democrats, and good men." While I was a talking John ju. set there a squinting at me, at when I sorter stopped to cat breath, "Sally," says he. "wiiat thunder are ye talking about "A bout 'The Farmers' Fight.' " sa I, "what's printed in thi3 here i per." "Let me see it," says he, a: there he sat and read and read. at the more hie read, the redder he g< till I thought he'd bust, and nev said a word, but only whistled like himself. "Well, John," says I, "what is it "Office, Sally, office. 'Moses,' 'w: out~ of the wilderness,' 'even I c: lead you out,' 'trustee,' 'I am a ca didate,' 'the ring which dominat our State.' All them things, Sali go to make up a stump speech. V know stump speeches are made1 candidates. lie says 'measures a: not men.' but I say men arc nect sary to c arry out 'measures,' and the 'fellows' cannot vote for 'old Ni, himself,' why the natural cons quence is, they will vote for the ne best man, not as 'trustee of a re farmers' college,' because there isi such office, but fo,r the man who 1 them out of the pretended 'wildc ness.' 'Agricultural Moses' 'proi ised land of office,' 'everything possible to the man who works at waits, even the farmer.' 'Governo 'United States Senate.' I tell ye Sally. that's a capital stump spec to be spoke, but I would not like write it down. That about 'the 60,01 white voters' who make a living farming, and 'who pay thiree-fourt of the taxes' won't bear scrutin Just wait a minute, Sally, and I show you." Then John lie goes to the she and takes down a book, which he g in Columbia. --Now you see, Sali this book shows that all the lan and houses in the State are r worth more than eighty-seven milli, dollars together. It shows thatt people who own property int towns and cities pay taxes on nea: thi+r millins of' that, anr1 it- sho that the railroad people alone pay I taxes on over forty-seven millions I :b) of property, nearly as much as the d d- farmers on their lands, so how can tl n- the farmers pay -three-fourths of the b R. taxes.' As to the '60,000 white vo- e; ,e ters who make a living at farming,' I p .e cant see where they come from. I a id wish we had them, but we haven't. n is There is scarcely one million of men, ti at women and childen in the State, and a if you take the doctors, and preach- f: ers, and lawyers, and merchants, and al s- all the other pcople who don't make ai a living at farming, and who live in t m the cities and towns, and add to X r- them lie negro vote, where will the lc :h '60,000 white voters' who make a w V, living at farming be ? And all that T 1- stuff about the 'the ring that domi- f nates our State,' and 'misrule' and li r- 'robbery,' is just as thin as the'three It fourth of the taxes,' business, ~and si ly the farmers won't bite, even if bi ie "'they are such fools.'" fc T So John lit his pipe and went m ts about his business, but I was not sat I isfied in my own mind because I y e can't believe, Mister Editor, that what pi that piece says is meant for our own s d home folks that we have elected to d. 1O bold office. so I thought I would write c D- you this letter, and ask you if that .d piece means our own home folks, for d, (I I know that you know all about it, d and will let me know all about it and set my poor heart at 'rest, and c y by so doing you will do a great fa- s is vor to your friend who signs her- n self, t is "SALLY PARKS." d i, (Cor. AbbeviIle Press & B.nner, Feb. 2.5tb.) t IWATER'S REPLY TO 5ALLLY PARKS. it EITOR PRESs AND BANNER: s- As I was sitting quietly last Friday -s night at my house, thinking of our s farm and my old horse Jim who is got m the distemper, my old woman all of a sudden says to me in a loud voice, -Mr. Bigwater, who is this here Sal ie Parks a writin' to the Press a.nd f Banner about B. R. Tillman,?" n This sorter took me unbeknewin e like to myself. "Well, old woman," ti at I says, "I don't know." t. ie "You never knows anything what's ' s goin' on in the world, Mr. Bigwater," ," says my old woman, "because you id never read the papers." So she says, g e 43Nr. Bigwater, I am no scholar with C n- the pen, but I wants you to write to I this here paper for me and tell the I, editor that this here Sal Parks and g e- her old man is mighty smart and cor t, rect, but they don't know all about 0 ethis M1r. Tillman. 'Why,' says she, ~ ot 'who is this B. R. Tillman ?' Yes, C or thats what she asks. Her John scould have found more'n he did by s o-looking a little further." '- Now, Mr. Bigwater," says she, ~ b- "-don't you dispute me when I tells a m Iyou that this here Mr. Tillman has ~ il dyspepsy. You needn't look at me a and shake your head that way, 'cause S st I know what I knows." When my id old- woman talks like that she means li ih business and I dassent dispute her ' in word. So she goes on to say, "You s ?" knows he is got the dyspepsy as well vs as me. and if you would read what he ~ a- says about the farmer, you would say id as I says too. This dyspepsy makes id him sorter kinder nervous and keeps t >t, him restless like, you know, and mad c er with every body, and hisself too. lie e to has the political jim jams," says she, r "brought on by this dyspepsy and ?" diisap)pointment. I knows how these ry things is" says she. '-le keeps on V in working up himself till he thinks he ' n- knows more about farming than yoti,. es Mr. Bi gwater, andl that General Mc- 0 y, Gowan. Goy. Thompson, M. C. But- s Ic lr, Wade Hampton and the rest of >v our b)ig farmers is nowhere and don't 3d know as much about farmxing as you V sdo. WVhos been and imnposed on uss as farmers ? Who had this blamed t~ :priority- of lien law piassed ? e.uWhed my old woman said this she V Ltjupe )u and tore thle paper~ in two al and she was migh ty hot, I tell you. t toAfter she had cooled dlownl a little, ~ dshe says, "Ys I says, who's done r- it ? Nobody is imposing on the far. I n- mer but the farmer himself. The ' is farmers passed this law. Now this It isame Tillman. as I says, has tile po- ~ r,' litical jim jams and wants office and uyou know he does, Mr. Bigwater,V aand don't you deny it. He thinks' to he will fool the farmers by all this 3here b)ig blowing. but as long as I at lives, he shan't fool you. Mr. Big- n bs water. No," says she, "the women li y. farmers must not let their husbands ti 'l be made fools of, to put no man in b office. The men for political office lf. must be men who ain't got the dys. jt)epsy and they must be men who do y,not try to fool anybody with all this :ls writing about nothing and a agrcl ot tural college, and a whooping him aself up all the time. This is what he jSal Parks' old man should have told heC her." -ly "What does this here Tiilman ex- ( hat's what I want to know. Yes, can tell you what he wants to o then. Why he wants to do like ie rest of them, when they get a [g office. He wants to sit in an isv chair and live high, draw his iy and set up a agricultural college. 1 to be paid for out of our tax oney. Yes, sir," zays she, "put is man i office, Mr. Bigwater, id as long as he remains there the .rmer will hear nothing from him )out organizing and imposing ot4 id we will have to pay the same ,xes as we pay now. This is a fact, :r. Bigwater, and you sit there and ok just like you did not believe a ord I say. Ill bet a dollar this here illman don't make a living on his .rm and this stirs up his liver ke and sets his pen agoing." Says she again, "Mr. Bigwater, I .ys our farmers are no Moses in the ill rushes and they ain't no such ols as some people like Mr. Till an thinks they is." --Mr. Bigwater," says she, "I want )u to answer me some questions and it them down on paper too." I es my old woman is got her Lnder up, so I says "I will.if I "ThQn answer me this. Where )es Mr. Tillman want to live ?" Says I, "At home old woman." Says she, "Mr. Bigwater are you azy ? After all I have said can't you e he wants to lire in Columbiain the w State House or some where near ere ? .Now, Mr. Bigwater, what >es he want to do there ?" ",Well," says I sorter timid like, ie wants to farm there." "Office! office!! office !' ice!!!!" she says, luuder'n a iuch bell with her mouth up agin y ear, and she says on, "Mr.. Big ater, you are the biggest old fool I rer see."1 This sorter upset me as it come-on 1 unbeknowin like to me, so I says )ld woman how is he going to get' iere ?" "How ?" says she, "why by all at writing he is doing about tAe rmer and .a agricultural college. an't you see that?" Well you see, I thought he would there and get his office on ti rs and not in the newspapers, but. y old woman knows. "Mr. Bigwater," says she, "when he Ats office what will he do ?" "Have nobody but farmers in lce," says I, "and have no taxes ollected and have a agricultural ollege free for us farmers." Says .she, "Did anybody ever see ch a old fool as you, Mr. Big ater ? As I says to you before, he..Z ill forget all about the farmer, the ~ricultural college and taxes. He ill draw his pay, have a good time . nd put lawyers and doctors and ach like folks in office." Then she goes on talking quiet ke and not noticing me. "This ian is sure to fool these here ,hick kull men farmers if it wasn't for the -omen folks. He wont do anyhow, nd I intend to raise my voice from the ullrushes against him. Vanity will ill him yet. He thinks he ought > be president of this whole ountry and the only way he sees to et there or anywhere else, is to lay upon the credulity of the xrmers. That's it, and I knows it." Thinks I to myself, well my old oman is right and I will drop this an. After sorter ruminating like > herself for a while and a working f her lips like, she goes on in the ame way, "The reason the men far' iers don't know any more'n they do, ,because they don't read the ~ er. Sal Parks is a smart o.ne and be had to read to her old man about lis here Tillman afore he got roused p like. The Lord knows what ould become of Mr. Bigwater if it asn't for me to warn him against mese conniving politicians and such ke men. No, sir, they shan't fool Ir. Bigwater. No, sir, Samanthy ~igwater is no fool if she is aw ian and the wife of a farmer. Yes, ere are a good many B. R. Till ians right here at home and," says he, "I hope Sal and- her old man 'ill ask what they are and what they ' -ant.' "Mr. iiwater," says she aloud, now you write this down, don't iake a fool of yourself for any man ving and especially for one who inks everything 'rotten and wrong ut himself." With this she goes on into the itchen like she had got rid of a reat load, anxd I went out to see how ld Jinm and his distemper was get ug on. R. BIG WATER. Miss. Lula Hurst, the wonderful ~eorgia- girl, .has entered Shorter ~ollege, at Rome, Ga., to take a hamn<rh colle<riate. course.