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a AA - Sft 4LO U5aT C.B}ESilxnd--- - ___ ap; eo/d o~ 1.O~SXNO7H A. Ilka~,2ew,cid'C t e ar 1,~.RTS{ 2O,PRA1 A.No 13.ONE PU BLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AT .ell)err . S. C. TERNi-.-Oe year. $2; six mont $1 three months, 50 cents; two m1onti cents ; one month, 20 cents ;ino -.py, 5 cents, payable in advance. Expirations.-Look at the print label on the p:iper; the date there< shows when the subscription expir( Forward the money for renewal at le. one week in advance. Sabscribers desiring the address thenir paper changed must give both t] old and the new address. TERMS OF ADVERTIING.--4l.00 p square the first insertion, and 50 ets. ) square for each subsequent insertio GoZW EP' A iquare is the space of nine Uln of solid brevier type. Notices in local column 121c. per Ii for each insertion for one month, long at inch rates, w:th 25 percent added. A reasonable reduction made for a vertisernents by the three, six, or twel, months. Some Suggestions to the Farm ers. A number of farmers publish th week a call for a mass meeting of tl farmers of Anderson County in tL court house on saleday in April, an we hope that as many of the farmei of the county will attend as possibl, and that they will select five of ti wisest and most discreet represent: tives that they can secure to atten the State convention in Columbia i April. If properly directed this cot vention may. we think, accomplis great good for the prosperity of th State. Such direction, in our jud ment, will confine the meeting to th consideration of agricultural subject: and the direction of the attention c Congress and our State Legislatur to the changes in the law which th farmers of the State by represent. tives may. after mature deliberatiot conclude will be conducive to th prosperity of agriculture over th State. Such recommendations wouli go before the Legislature with ever, prospect of adoption, and would a -least receive a respectful hearing il Congress. The object of the con vention should be to build up th -prosperity of the farmers, and throug them of the State; and in order to d< this, it will be necessary to examin, the condition of our zwgriculture, an< trace, if possible its causes. To be gin with, our farmers must kno that legislation cannot make agricul ture a profitable business. All tha it can do is to provide such rules o goverbment as will give those er gaged in agriculture the opportunit: to conduct their business with a: little interference, and as light tax atiou as possible. The Legislaturi cannot make its people rich, buti may give the protection of law, with out imposing onerous burdens upoi the people. Bearing this in mind eus see what laws are now bjearin, tecountry. In Federal legislatioi temaintenance of a tariff upon: tecost of living in this country. I s,however, the least noticed of a] orburdens, because it is not seer adour people bear it without think ing of the fact that one dollar out o every six whichI they spend is re quired of them in conseq-ence of a unreasonable tariff. In our Statt government we do not think legisla tion has been unfriendly to the farmr ers of our State, but our governmen is cumbrous and expensive becaust of our Constittution, which is a reli< of radicalism. It has given us: most expensive system of courts anc of county government which can be reduced without injury to the publi< service, in our judgment, if we couk have a constitutional convention We have too much legislation, an< we think the expenses for this de nartment of our government migh wi~e reduced by having only bienman *meetings of the Legislature. Thb worst feature about our legislation i the failure to equalize taxation, an< 'the result is that some counties, liki Anderson, for instance, are pay.mn more than their part of the Stat< taxes. Of course this bears heavill upon the sections of the State whicl are thus over-taxed. Now, we woul< ~call attention of our farmers to th< fact that the evils specified in the address which was published relati only to two things-the South Caro lina University and the agricultura department. We (do not approve th details of the management of eithe tr, of these institutions, but we unbesi a sa or no tatingly express the opinion tha erfet Prie they cannot be. and ought not ta b< -abolished. Their management shouk' pe changed so as to increase their ef 'ciency, and make them worth to thi '- 'state what they ought to be worth to ret anv consi.erabie sunm i w:c they can economize the x n of our State government. The eMtn ted Cecus of tIe economlical me:n bers of the last Legislature hn-1 to give it up as a ba job. and aljun without finding a single refori ; they could unite upon. Tie Site government requires a consieraH1e sum of money, it is true. buw eve-.v other institution does t!at also. z:r A farms themselves require imon- Y run them. It is easy vn stand off and claim that there t travagance, but wh-en cue come, ) of put the finger upon particular of extravagance. the task is not er lv accomnolished.as was demonst er bi the caucus to whichi werer es Now. hfavin noticed So of, the troubles growing out of existin w Ie er -Federal and state-it may no. he amiss to enquire what -re the dirs e tions in which there is pre-ssing for new legislation. In our opinion. at the very threshold of this inquiry. we meet the greatest need again in the department of Federnl legisla tion. There is now asstemn of deal Ls ing in all staple agricultural and e farm products by a class of capital e ists who treat them as so many paper d chips with which to gamble, as con -s pletely and as absolutely as men ' would bet on a game of cards or e other event of chance. and the pro ducts of the labor of this country are d yearly bought and sold in ad 'vance of the very planting of such crops. with an utter disregard for t1he cust h of production, or of the principles of e supply and demand, which undri, I every sound and legitimate busin!z e transact:' i. In our opinion t system oi dealing in futures is more injury to the producing class e of our country than all other caiise e combined. For instance, the ee lators last year bought and sold over ' 29,000.000 bales of cotton. while t:Ie e production of the cotton States was e less than 7,000,000 bales. TiM; it will be seen at once that the real pro duction is nade a plaything in tle t hands of these speculators. and the toiling millions of men who have their small means and labor invested in the cultivation of this stnple. arC helpless before the caprices of these Wall Street aamblers. The same condition of things exists to some ex tent in reference to corn. wheat and meat. It calls for government inter ference, and cannot be reached by other than congressional legislation. tand we nope our farmer friends will give it their attention, ad mnemnorial ize Congress to p)rohiibit all spe culation: in co,tton or provision futures. and take measures to secure th~ co-oner ation of the farm:ers aml1 producers of the other Southearn and Western t States in s:curing this legislation. We think also that thi eetin.r should consider and memorialize C n gress to aid our commerce. bysu1 'stantial improvement of Charleston harbor and the rivers of this State. which can be made navigable for the purpose of affording cheap rates of transportation for our prodluction!s after they are madle. As the education of all classes of iour peop)le is a matter or tm flrst consequence, and as the State is an nually expending larg~e sums of mo ney on our common school sysem which is far from efficient on account of the lack of sufficient funds to prop- 1 erly conduct them, we think it would be well for this couvention to urge upon our rep)resentatives inmogrs to vote for the Blair 1Bi1l now p)end inst in the llouse. In addition to its educational features the passae of this bill would give about S00.0 1a year to the people of Southm Carolina' for several years. andl it would - 1 greatly to the p)rosp)erity of our Stte and help to relieve us of a portinf our present troubles.-Ar'4f n: I Stelligtencer - The system of cou.nity g overmen t we have is awkwii-d and complliicted. I besides being expensive. It forces e on us an army of! (fliceblders at ssalaries varying from small to hIe Iand makes us pay hundreds of thou 3 sands of dollars more than there is I need for. It should have been the a first creation of radicalism attneked by D)emocrats; bunt instead of attck ing it we :aye made it worse m I stronger, adding to the lost of oilices Sand increased the cost. A leg:sla-t Stive comnmission composedi of eiar Sheaded and p)ractic:d: men coud con - sgruct a cheaper and simpler system~' Iof local governmen.t thn we ha-:e a now if its immbers wvoumld disrea r all personal and diretly local inter ests and cut loose from precednt t accepting the fact that ou:'r e Sdent. We have problems presene I. to us which no people have a:, and -must finn the solution in our ow- wy Sand by our own methods. Necsst . should be with us the motiher of in svention.-GenciUEiVern 24t. Hard Facts about Fighting. T: OBSERVATIONS OF A PRACTICAL SOLDJElDVS. TIE PQETITY OF w.-U -.ENERAL OFFICEiS WHO GET GLORY WHILE PRIVATEs DO TH E WORK. As we, year by year. grow away from the war, and the number of imen who carried a rifle or swung a s.onge stafl among the guns grows smaller, the country is flooded with mythical accounts of this or that ocficer's won derful display of coura-ge on such and such fields, and the rising gene ;ation is called upon to admire the gallantry of the warlike commanders of their ancestors. I protest against the further manufacture of sham mil itary reputation. I know, and all soldiers know, that the greater por tion of the stories now current must be false. An officer dies and at once the newspapers and magazines are filled with accounts of his bravery and of the valorous deeds lie performed, and how he saved the Union on such a battlefield. We are solemnly told that his presence inspired his troops, just ready to break, or already in flight, and they, nerved by a glance of his blazing eye, reformed and rushed madly on the foe and snatched victory from defeat. This is rot, un mitigated rot. The distinguishing characteristics of the American volunteer were his independence of thought, his want of reverence for those ia authority, and his ability to take care of himself in battle and to correctly judge of its tide. IIe had no respect for any general whom he did not believe to possess the qualifications essential to a great commander. Theref'ore none of our general officers inspired him at all. When the volunteer fouglit on the offensive he fought well and steadily as long as he thought there was a prospect of success. On the defensive he would fight to the death if he knew that it was essential to the safety of the army to hold the position he occupied. He would as sault earthworks, it mattered not how strong they were, savagely, and carry them if it was possible. But, having once seen the work at close range, and having thoroughly felt of its de fenders and realized that the line could not be carried, he would not again make a determined assault. In one instance at Cold Spring Harbor, in 1864, the army of the Po tomac op)enly refused to make a sec 01n( assault on the works they had been up to in thle morning. The pri vates had seen the Confederate works; their general officers, of whom we hear so much in these days. had not. and the privates considered thcem selves just as well qualified to judge of their capacity to carry earthworks by assault as any general officer, it mattered not how high his rank, who had not seen the works, and who evinced r.o burning desire to inspect their strength at close range. It is true that the troop)s who refused to renew the assault at Cold Harbor cheerfully sprang to the assault at Petersburg a few days later, but they had not seen the latter works and they had a sufficient confidence in General Grant's ability as a comn mandler to believe that he would not have ordered an itssault unless there had been some prospect of success and that is where they fooled them selves. None of our generals could have forced their troops to make an other determined assault on the Con federate lines at Petersburg. At present we hear of how such and such generals led their men to desperate charges. These heroes are pictured to the youth of our land as go(fing into action on horseback. war ing swordl in hand, and fair in aid vance of the charging line. I have seen many charges delivered by both IUnion and Confederate troops. I have seen our men with blanched faces and set jaws, and their eyes blazing with battle light, stream past the guns I served on, and run full speed at earthiworks, behind which Lee's veteran infantry lurked, and most always get whipped. Then I have seen the lines in gray charge Union earthiworks or battle lines, and I have seen them melt away before the heat of our fire; but I never saw the recklessly brave generaf officers we hear so much about at present lead any troops into action. I have seen tihem closely followed by their brerade officers, but I never saw them lead. In truth. what business would an officer have in front of his men when thie were in action ? IIe would be in the line of their fire, and would hgrely be killed. SAll privates have seen division corp andarmyheadquarters, "none ever saw them pitched ,mng the troops in a place of dan No one ever heard of a gene. ofcr being- killed in camp. We are tolc that these gal'am1 men ha unv rode the battle line or line trencels. Ind that they smile(d humin butillets and aughed so shot antd hursting shells t:, scoi It is true that bri,ade commuandt were on the battle line. Divii commanders were con>picuous their absence. and tic presence ol division coinmandier among his troo W.As so unusual t111 t it attracted t attcntion of the soldiers. and was ways renarked upon. What bu: iess has an oflicer comnini r: ten to forty thousand men to be the heat and smoke of a battle? I cannot direct the troops il' lie is the battle line. iIe could not s how the fight was going. Brigar coMnmanders could not find him. course. i His troops were chargin or if they were advancin,g lie con he with them. We are told of generzl oflicer grievously wounded. waving asi( their aids and lightly dismissir their medical attendants. and sayir in effeet: "Let the battle prolee, I cannot abandon my troops. IN must save the Union." Palh Muc they. under these circumstance thought of the Union or of the tror.ps. The truth is. that they, or and all, got themselves lugged off ti field as quickly as possible, and the were exceedingly glad to get to ti: rear and into an ambulance an driven to a place of safety and a su ceon. To have a rifle ball weighin an ounce driven home in the groii >r shatter the thigh hone, or nias the knee joint to spiinters. or smas dhe bones of the arm. or to have olid shot or ragged chunk of a she o) off an arm or a leg. knocks th 5iht out of a man. lie wants to g ome at once. It was possible fc eneral officers to go home a(I t:e venL. At least I never saw, nor di mly of my comrades see, general ofl :ers swathed in bloody clothes fighi ng their (livisions or corps. Ceneral offlicers. corps and arm :ormnanders. these are pictured a ;peaking words of encouragement t ,heir wavering troops, which. clear jeard above the awful roar of >)itched battle. caused the men t ierve themselves for supreme effort: tnd they won the fight. These chil. sh tales are probably a rehash of th nythical military legends of the N. )oleonic era. The great Corsica tatesman) and military genius w ver represented as talking to a rmy of from 30,000 to 300,000 mem [hen. too, Wellington is said to hay lated :"14) guards. andI at them" t ts troops on the field at Waterlot he noise of battle is terrific, an me human voice could not makei 3elf heard for any great distanc< ~uppose a battle is in progress. Th nfatry is firing. The artilleryi nu action. Solid shot andl three inc olts fly screaming through the ai: shells are bursting. The humc >ullets is loud and steady. The me re cheering. The wounded shrie s they fall. The dying groan. An e are asked to believe that a gen al officer spoke to his men in ti idst of this deafening, uproar. an nspired them. iIe could speak. au speak, and if his voice did not hav he compass of fifty foghorns b: ight as well whistle into his bot or all the inspiration his troops coul Iraw from him.-Frank Wilkin.r, Ar the .Aew Yrk' Sun. A bout Borrowing and Borrow ers. -'Ir. Editor: D)id vou ever livei nigblorhood or' community of ho owers? 'Well. buddie. what do yo ~vanty' 'Maw sent me to ax youn le could gi t a teacup of g'ranulaite ugar'; says sh:e will p)ay von bac vlbn pap goes to town.' You ar retty lucky if you get back a ha rticle of the -brown sandy.' and shlo: neasure at that. Coffee. tea. haem: or, turp)entine. castor oil and pm Zative p)ills are all commodities ~xchange. Smoothing irons an ~couring mops are also scarce as we s many other necessaries, too ted us to mention. I hear of one Inch Less fellow who made applicationt a nighbor to loan him a couple ~hoats until next Christmas. promim ug to rep)lace them if he had to got jeorgia for them. Well. the avera2 eorgia shoat is a -b)ad one,' with hi Long snout, flop ears and cussed ai earance generally. The ordinar ea would det.ert him for a v'eloe >d,. provided th~e engineer woul )ut on brakes 'en passant.' Sufl 2ient to say. the fellow didnt get ti. ~hoats.' The above communication aippeare ecently in t he Anderson Journal, an while it is not remarkable f'r poeti iishi it contains several germs c solid truth. Who has not lived in zommnity of bor;'o'wers? Wher -a-acmnmunitv free from horrower .s the NTegro a Failure ? w;~;\r .\ ;-P1 :0r. .\T 1E'L S iNH I soT wv-r:xTElON l-:;AI. .-sTOSAY <oN TH!:: sPLTi'T. ba:::Im. .\. -.reh 2. litor; C1hronicle :-Yours of th( - h uilt.. receive<t. askiw, nI nv olill 'on on the abo;r question and Pro 'ssir WHiOts's aIGNess at Columbus: 1 *'e thrrnughly with Professoi Wht in his views. andl ain glad that the qson is becingi brougit sc p r1itly before our pe,-ople. witli the hVp that sone satisfactory solu ti:n,ay be0 f'ound. in t a tw: utv years every branch o ind iutry has advanced, an some braneics very great fi. amements have been mate, except SSothern ariculture. where the nro is the principal laborer. This is not confined to any partie. ular Section of t: e South. but the sane renort comes from the Potomnac to th; jik) Grande. The men who are engaged in the management and con'rol of this labor covering this area are, as a class, as intelligent and attentive to thei business as in .the branches of industry, and have been faithful in studying the charac ter of their labor, and .:e as anxious to make it efficient and profitable. Yet the universal report is that the konger they watch and study tie Ch-racter of the negro the less they N now of hin. New traits and char aeteristics appear in hii constantly \hv is this? Wh71en the negroes were our slaves, ror t e purpose or discipline and con rol. ther were Walwas under the eve m cntrl of white men. prcached to by white non, ndwere thrown constantly nme the control and in the associ Actio f white men: being -ery ini -ivc d easily imwpre,ss,d this as somintion was i*,I,,;ioVI1n- to hIm. Cow ther are un-er the control of e man oni-, when actually it- work under his directions. They are taught Iy negro teach rs. pr-eac1hed to by negro preachers. nd the white man, being a restraint m him, is rarely seen at his gather ng:s. Their preachers and teachers, he best informed among them, for he purpose of keeping up their in W:ence. instead of trying to elevate md enlihten them. are constantly Pealing to their prejudices and 1upwrstitions. and as a result the ne :ro, as a class, has been going hack ards fur the past twenty years. We have beenI st;uovi n: his charac er as hie was twenty years ago, and re still working on that line, while ehas becen rapidly moving away r"m it. We h ave done our duty faithfully .nd have s.aent millions in the effort a imptrove amnd make an efficient free ho:rer of the necgro. but have failed, cenuse he has been drifting away r-om us. and is fast goi ng back into be oriainal state in which we found im We cannot follow him. T1here are. we must look elsewhere for that bitetu we have failted to make of him. I mproved modes of agriculture and utetnsive faring are im possile with he ngro as the laborer. and as ten nt or indtependent farmers they are orse failures. A s an evidence, see he hund reds of p)lanltations in Geor la thati av.' gone to ruin that have eenf turned over to them as tenants. o tihoroughlly satisfied are the peo ec of t':is sectin of tihe State on his gne1stionl that we raised moin na had a p)ampleit printed, setting rthi the adlvanltasZes of Southwestern ~etrgia, and sent Maj. G lessner, of he A merieus Recorder. with thlem to c inlmany of i)r-. Eaisterb)rook, rO 1 iae'd a large part of both of e::cursiotns ao, conie to Amierieus, n wah we were lib,erallv aided by he tYntral ratthoad, giving reduced ate@tio the exeursionists. We are on\; organzing an association, and( ill raise a fund to use her-eafter for .te purptose of advertising this see on of the St ate an-l eneouiraging mi:gLrtionl to it. A ssociations should e formed alli over the State, thie rail o:ois should :id liberally, and last. ,t nut least, the Legislature should ake a liberal appropriation to main ain a reguilar emig~ration bureau, and at leave this work entirely to indi iuals and corporations. With an nerense of our p)opl)iation by intelli r-.it andi industrious emigration from he North. the West and Europe, ou: arge pliantationis cut up into small arims, then Ge~orgira will retain that tchi she will otheCrwise lose-the roud appellation of the -Empire 5at e of the South. Yours truly, Joux A. Conn. elcery vman who preached fe'de I thou ~end surprise~a the audiened I ' Mak masel f by readingz at the cud" i ~sua, notices; "I insist on VO ngt at myr house, no muatter v; -itc un ''-.Th iBRno~n. it. be roun! tins sie or on the other OF sde (i the Arctic regions? We have at no01o'u that cven in IIdes some of (I the culprits try to Uorrow cooler I. ipots from ti&ir more favored neigh rs ,or. l;rirwers have no particular I clime or (*(untrv. Lev are to be yrfound ,vw!hre and arywhere, and a will 'orrow from a pin to a thousand ps dollars and down again to a chew of Ce tolacco. The --chew tobacco" bor rower is general a first class dead -heat, frnd. sponger and nuisance. m l nevr s-es vou unless he wants a in e lie is always .-just out." le No natter m what way vou are en )n gaaed. von must d your hands in le your pocket. pull out. your favorite le plug and hand it over to his tender ) inercies. Sometines he is delicate about the matter. and will call for d our knife. This requires another digZ in your pockets. and you may be s. certain that the knife will make a e slip in the borrower's favor-about three chews will gro for one. Some times the sponger is more sociable, . and presuming that you are equally e so. will just tear off what he wants i with his teeth. A rich joke is told s. on one of thcse frauds. He was a ir guner of gun No. 3 of one of the ar e tillery companies of this State during e the war. Ile was never known to y have any tobacco, and made it a e habit to beg "chews" -from the mem d bers of his company generally. Fi r- nally the company gave a collation. g Regular toasts were prepared and the m gunner of No. 3 was informed that Slie would be called on. Not know h ing what .o say, lie begged the cap a tain to prepare a little speech. The I captain did so. and on the night in e question delivered the following, o which was received with shouts of r applause '" Tliiz i; the gunner 0 No. 3, Who rai well and :ponges free." Strange to say. he did not see the Joke until it was afterwarlds explained to him and received the applause with grea t appreciation. ' The newspaper borrower is another snuisance. Ile (or she) just thinks 0 that a newspaper is common prop Y erty. and will get as mad as thunder a whienever the paper is refused. The 0 newspaper borrower does not know, perhaps, that whenever he (or she) sends for the paper, somebody is put e to the trouble of hunting it up. The 'family are all at dinner,1erhaps, the t bell rings and the servant announces s that i-Mr. Newshunter or Miss Gos sipmonger wants to borrow the pa per." Some one must leave the ta c ble to irunt for it, and don't you know SMr. Newshunter or Mi1ss Gossipmou - er gets a blessing in the meantime? hei~ aorowing of groceries is gene rlyapolite way of begging, and it frequently happens that a mean ar e tiele is returned for a good one. sSome people use the best of every h thing in the line of cooking, and - others 90 for cheapness, In the country this habit is excusable, but in cities and towns, where there are kgrocery stores at all the corners, the p ractice is deserving of censure. While on this subject we are me e minded of some humorous lines which C appearedt in print some years ago, d and while we cannot quote them cor e rectly from memory. the following e snopismay be read to advantage >by some people. A gentleman ap d plied to his next djoor neighbor for -some hooks to read. The reply came as follows: "For- miy book- 1 always hav need, - But von~ may sit by my lire and read.' O f course, this was only a polite way 0f dec-lining, but sotyafter n wards the other centleman wanted to borrow a bellows to blow his fire. SiIe applied to tile book borrower and received this answe-r: d "I don't lendh om myl bellows. vou know. k Um vou may .-it by my- iire and blow.' Cob&>ba Record. Is He An Office Seeker? .I 4 Several of our exchanges have Ichairged that Capt. Tillman's aigita tion for a farmers' convention Iwas dlue to the fact that he 1watedt oflice himself. If this be true then the people of his own county hiave never found it -out. Although 0o we h: ye frequently heard the ques tion aisked why lie did not run for of!ice, and had he chosen to become o a cand(idate we do not think we e would be far wrong in saying that stie people of Edeil ounty would have given him any office Swithin their gift. Is it not a sadl commentary upon public morals in South Carolina when the mer'e fet that an individual raises his voice e for whait lie conceives to be an im oroveen t in matters of State should Seo Kn':li imi of dlesire for oflice-greed ci-r pi e and position? Is it then m ripossible conception. that there -are- nen in South Carolina who, in maltters touching the good of the commonwealth,~ are actuated by high er raotiv'es than self-aggrandize Smerit9. Edar>feld .Adertiser The Agricultural Problem. The farr-_r. including his rights and wrongs, is now prominently be fore the public in this State. In fact it would seem that he is about to crowd out the lawyer in the amount of sympathy and consideration he is receiving. How to enable him to dig the most money and provisions out of the ground, is perplexing the minds of both him and his friends. Sug gestions are being made on all hands. and every one is ready to favor the public with an opinion as to how hands should be worked and farms cultivated. But talking and writing alone, are not the things to make corn and cotton grow. Industry and economy, guided and directed by a level head, a brave heart and a wil ling hand, is, after all, the philoso pher's stone, the grand secret of suc cess. We must look to. ourselves to correct the evils of which we com plain. Our laboring element will be a failure as long as the manage ment is wrong. The subordinate hand must be inspired, encouraged and controlled by a leading head that is master of the situation. We must set the example before we can ex pect it to be followed. "Come on" is the command that the laborer under stands, while "go on" is apt to pass anheeded. The question "is the ne gro a failure?" is now being pretty Jhoroughly discussed, and able ar 'icles are being written on both sides. rhe same inquiry might be made ibout some who employ and propose o direct him. If the negro fails is a farm hand, it may not always >e his own fault. He is an imitative )eing. and if the proper example is laced before him, in nine cases out )f ten he will make a pretty fair fol owing. We intended to have said omething about what we conceive to >e the impropriety of neglecting nore important and pressing duties ;o attend societies, public meetings ind conventions. They, perhaps iave their advantages and are good mough in their way, as far as the )rizingy is concerned, but it wont do o stop the plow or the hoe to at'end hem. It is like the Pharise',s who aid great stress on the tith.'s of mint iud anice, while they neglected the veightier matters of the law-Edge il0.1d Monitor. A Charieston Idea. The News and Courier, in its unday edition, is publishing sketches >f the rich men of that city. The first installment consists of biographies >f Andrew Simonds and George W. Williams. The sketches are illustra bed with cuts purporting to represent these two rich men. If the cuts are true to life they are bard looking ases. If they are cartoons the vic Lims should institute damage suits at once. The sketches claim to be 'short studies on great subjects" and it is said "the world knows nothing of its greatest men." This public exhibition must be very distasteful to the victims and must shock their modesty. The sketches are very well written, however, and quite readable. After the News and Courier gets through with the rich men of the city we would respectfully suggest that it furnish sketches of the good men of Charleston. This would not take too much valuable space. A fter this the intellectual men and schol ars might properly be taken up. Trhere is a growing.tendency to worship the golden calf. Money is put before piety and good works. Mammon is superseding God. When we come to die we would rather, like the Rev. A. Tfoomer Porter, have the Ioly Communion Institute as our ife-work than all the money gath artogether by :.11 thpluort >f Charleston. iIe has given. a Christian education to hundreds of boys and the influcences for good iven impulse by him will never die but broaden and extendi as the years roll on.--.Abcille Mediuo. Not long ago we asked a brother why he did not take part in the payer meetings of our church. To which he replied that he was so con stituted that he could not do it from sheer nervousness. We were sur prised at this, as we knew that he was a man of affairs, and one who had been in the habit of speaking in pub li. at least in small political gather ings. No doub.t the brother was sin ere in his statement, but he did not know that he was talking in his sleep at the time. Since then he has aroused out of sleep and now his voice is steady and his words are fitly spoken in the assembly of the saints. We have no doubt tbe same would be Lrue of hundreds of christian men if the were fully awake. Tne k'armers movement. This movement in this county seems to be gathering strength uo it goes. New clubs are being formed' in different parts of the county and the indications now are that there will be a general turn out to the con vention to be held here Monday week. If wisely managed, as we hope and believe it will be, it may-be productive of much good. If Mr. Tillman's ideas are to be swallowed as a whole, the con-rention will stir up a storm that it cannot control. We cannot, and, indeed, dare not, believe that the latter course will be pursued. The sober conservative thought of the farmers of South Caro lina will not be misled into an in discriminate war on all other citi zens of the State and adopt the boy cotting system he ad'ocates. Healthy agitation always does good. The old alchemists never dis covered the philosopher's stone, but in their search for it they made many useful discoveries. So, the farmers may not in the present movement dis cover a panacea for all their ills, yet, being practical men, they may be able to adopt some scheme which will bring them out of the wilderness into the promised land. Not. being a "simon pure" farmer it may be impertinent to suggest to the forthcoming convert'z, but we make the hazard anyway and ad vise that as farmers their surest way out of the wilderness is to make their 'farms self-sustaining by raising all the chickens, turkeys, pigs, lambs, beeves, corn, peas, potatoes, oats, and side crops necessary for the farm upon the farm itself. After these things are provided for. make cotton to their heart's content. And the farmer who can't do this has no business trying to run the State. lie can do this, he is a s and - should be listened .-''his is hard doctrine, but }f-. true. If the-forth-'. coming c!dvention will adopta res olutiop-embracing the above, and eacl one of its members take a Bible .1ath to stick to it, it would be worth - more to the agriculture of South Carolina than a half dozen agricul tural colleges. In the domain of politics we would advise that as soon as the conven tion assembles, it adopt a resolution and pledge the convention to sup. - port it, that no one of its members shall hold or accept public office This would show that the convention meant business and not politics.> Then pass a resolution to the ef fect ~ that the military ac'ademy should be abolished, and tuition fees be charged in the State college, th there should .only be biennial ses sions of the Legislature, that the of fice of .Adjutant and Inspector Gen- - - eral be abolished, condemning the appropriation for the military, re ducing the number of railroad com missioners to one, consolidating the . office of auditor and treasurer and - covering many other like reforms -- which would materially reduce-our taxes. Then let a solemn pledge be taken by the donvention that its in dividual members will use their in fluente to elect only such men to the Legislature as will carry this resolu--. into effect. This done let the con vention adjourn and it will have ac complished much-causing the dry bones of the valley to rattle.-Pee Dee Index. For Church, Family and Coun try. Col. William Lester died at his home in Newberry on the 11th inst. The Observer speaking of him, says: "Hie was one of Nature's noble As pure-minded and as gentle as a child, modest to bashfulness, he was as brave a man as ever lived, and as true as steel to every call of duty. Col. Lester was a native of this coun ty, and was sixty-five years of age. Hie lived a quiet, useful life, devoted to his church, his country and i family." The deceased was Lieutenant-Col onel of the 13th S. C. Volunteers in MlcGowan's Brigade, and bore him self as a true soldier and patriot. He' was not of the pushing, ambitious sort but was always whered called. H!e had a good name aiong' all the scldiers of the Brigade. The handsome tribute of the Observer puts him as an example before the '' youth of the country. A life devoted to the church, the country and the family is an enviable one. No one' could live to better purpose. Nio ~ one could go to the grave and leave . behind a better memory.-Abbeville - Medium. The man who is better to every. body else than he is to himself al ways has to look to the man he has - most neglected when he needs a litehelpnhimseif.-.MenkameTavlr