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tU WIULeL) wiuwex tEWI. NEBERR R, S. C.,THURSDAY PRICE $1.50_A YEAR %%T A RT,Tf N1 ) TN 186.5. - __R_ ..188.... CAPTAIN T[LL3IAN'S FAREWELL The Farmers' Movement not Dead-It will have a Powerful Influence in the Next state Canvass-It has Forced a Compromise a and will Win a Victory. To the Editor of the News and Courier. With no intention to provoke or inaugerate another "newspaper war" on the questions involved in. the farmers' movement, I yet feel that continued silence on my part may be misconstrued, and I ask space to make some brief comments on the present status of affairs and explain why I must "retire to the shades of private life." Some of the "Ring" newspapers which have persistently vilified and misrepresented me, and displayed both their fear and hate in more ways than one since the recent F~arm ers' Convention and the adjournment of the General Assembly, have taken up the rule of the jackals, who, in Esop's fable, "spurned the dead hen," claiming that-' Capt. Tillman is a dead duck;" that he has been "de posed" by the farmers: that ",the farmers' movement is dead," &c, &c These valiant quill-drivers are trying by sneers and bold assertions to bring about a result which they hope now exists. The farmers' movement has had its epitaph written several times before, but somehow it revives when called for, and unless I am greatly deceived, it will be on hand in the coming canvass and '"make Rome bowl," or rather it will adruin ister on the political estates of some of those who have opposed it. These conventions of farmers-all respec table in numbers and personnel have not paid their own expenses to Columbia to protest against certain wrongs and ask redress without there being a strong impelling cause : and just as the demand for reform has been persistent and only partly granted, so will the opportunity for punishing traitors and obstructionists be seized upon next summer by the men who have been treated with such undisguised contempt by the political bosses. That is, I hope so, just as Col. Thomas, of the Regitter, and other editors say I am -dead," because they hope so. THE FARMERS HAVE THE NUMBERS. We have the numbers-and where. ever I have spoken my sentiments and the measures I have advocated have been endorsed-is the reason why I say this. We only lack or ganization, and an active, aggressive canvass. If the farmers in all the counties could hear the truth and learn the reasons why we cannot hope to receive gny material benefit from the "College of Agriculture and Me chanic Arts," recently established, or from the department of agricul ture as now constituted and conduct ed, they would send men to Coumbia who would make short work with these abortive compromises. I call them thus, because time will show that they are such. But right here I desire to say that we can never hope for reform or a proper regard being paid to our wishes as long as we send political harlots and "how dye do statesmen" to make our laws, and until our people learn to hold their representatives to a strict accounta , bility for their votes, and retire them when they break their pledges, we shall strive in vain to carry out any policy which is antagonized by the Ring. If there were ever men imbued with ideas of reform and economy assembled in South Carolina, most of the new members of the House of Representatives which met in No vember, 'S6, were. But they were ..green and unacquainted with each other to a large degree, and the ap. -pointment of committees and shap ing legislation was thus left in the same old hands; still taxes were re duced $140,000 that first session and a larger surplus left at the end of the year than found in the treasury. However, at the first session influ ences were set to work which pro ~duced such a change that that same House, at its second session just ended, voted by a large majority to raise taxes $175,000 just because the bosses said they needed more money. THE WORK OF WINE AND WHsKEY. The Columbia Club with its free liquors and entertainments had so won upon these goodnatured farmers that they could not say them nay. They gave the city the precious Ca. nal which had cost the State some thing like $ 150,000 and convicts free of tax to finish it-but when Green ville asked for convicts at five dollars A per month, to grade a railroad which will benefit the whole State, she met a contemptuous refusal. I mention these things only as glaring instan ces of how malleable and complais ant is the material which we have been selecting to mpake our laws. As long as we vote for men, from merely personal preference and not fur * measures-as long as we consent to have the politicians meet every two years and choose our State officers, without having seen or heard candi dates discuss public questions, just so long will such things happen. The dissatisfaction, which is deep and Swidespread throughout the State, and is only kept under by the knowledge that submission is better than divi sion, festers and grows. The attempt which we have made to reform the Democrat c party from within is treated with contempt. "-Maboneism" . is howled in the ears of the people whenever I or any one else grumbles - or presumes to criticise. Deception, misrepresentation. slander are thle chosen weapons to disarm any man who dares to show up their extrava gance or incompetence. But. while I pray God that I may never witness were enacted in Atlanta at the last - prohibition election, common sense 1 teaches me that, unless more regard t is paid to the rights and wishes of s the common people, a split in the i Democratic party is inevitable at no distant day. TUE NEGRO SUFFIRAGE .oNSTER. The remembrance of our sufferings C under Radical domination grows dimmer year by year, and contests e over railroad taxes, prohibition and municipal politics are familiarizing our people with the use of the negro vote to carry elections. We toy with this monster which is now leth argic and torpid, but if we do not get b a constitutional convention to draw e his fangs while he is yet asleep by a property or educational qualification S for suffrsge. he will one day be "en ergized" by a division among the n whites and devour us. And yet, with h Chandler's bill providing for Federal f control of Federal elections in South a Carolina, and three other Southern e States, pointing like a sign-board the road we are to travel if ever the Re publicans secnre full power at Wash ington again, our "imbecile" states- a men persistently refuse to call a c- g vention, which we need besides to s reduce taxes, because, for sooth, b Charleston, which suffered most on- t der negro rule, don't want it! "Lay s not the flattering unction to your 0 soul." Oh, City by the Sea! that you 8 will always scotch the "Independent" a snake as easily as you did awhile tl since. Enough of the serpent's eggs R haven't batched yet. You had better a lose the extra Senator and the extra a members to which you are not enti v tled : you had better lose them all fc and trust entirely to the white men h of Laurens, Greenville and Edgefield, r who now suffer wrong because of the fi greed of the political power among I your politicians. Edgefield, Laurens C and Greenville made your redemp C tion possible in 1876. and they have u had poor requital at your bands, to c be robbed of their just representation e in the House of Representatives and q in the nominating conventions of the tl Democracy. "Gerrymandering" is a b common political crime, practiced ti alike by both Democrats and Repub licans, but I have never read of an n instance where men of the same pc.. d litical faith perpetrate a crime like tl this. o a DEBA CIIEItY IN POLITICS. Then make the debauchery in our politics, of which this is only a sam- ti ple. Some of the very same men who tj ignored their oaths to support the i Constitution and voted against a census in 1884-5 on the plea of econ omy, voted against a new apportion ri ment in 1SS7, because the amended Constitution-amended to save the I expense of a census-did not allow c it. Technically, this was not perjury, c but what is it? Said Madame Roland V on the scaffold: '-Oh! liberty, what t< rimes are committed in thy name !" ti And so of our beloved Constitution. f rhis Radical rag, "which fits our supple Charleston friends and their ountry harlots like a glove," and is off or on at . their convenience, will yet be the death of Democratic unity f, and white supremacy in South Caro- ti lina. But let it always be remenm ered that the counties of this State sl which arc most deeply wronged in n his census matter can always take i care of themselves if our "imbecili- f y shall cause us to relapse under egro control. SOME DISAPPOINTMENTS I have strayed far away from what I purposed writing when I set out, but as this is a sort of valedic tory or a "message from the grave," o which the Register and other jour- ~ nals have consigned me, it may pass for the "-mutterings" of a ghost, or the howlings of a "disappointed of" fice-seeker." I have not been made trustee of the agricultural college. e you know; or become a member of n he new board of agriculture, to a which I was nominated by the Farm- v s' Associa:ion. Unlike the officer I, which Col. Thomas is ever ready to w seek, (but don't get.) these responsi- is ble positions pay no salary, and c; while he "caa't get in" to the I 'cheese," I may congratulate my six n disappointed brethren, who were e: ominated, like myself, and "got s8 left," that we escaped the disagreea- o ble and well-nigh hopeless task of Ii enforcing either economy. or obtain- si ing etficient work in a bureau whose o executive officer and assistants were ii beyond our control. elected by poli- c icIans in the Legislature for political si reasons, and not because he is the f< best man for the place, or possesses n the confidence of the farmers. a A(GRICULTrURAL ABsURDITIEs. t s I termed the recent so called re- r >rgaiization of the board of agricul ture an "-abortive compromise."n lhere has been an enlargement, of the board and they are all to be 'agriculturists." but there has' been o -reorganization." And now look at some of its absurdities. All of e them are to be "agriculturists," and C c vet they are to have full control ofn the State's phosphate interest. These phosphates lie in the navigable streams and tide-waters along $ ur coast. T hey are water-mines, in o wise connected with or supposed to be understood by "'agriculturists." int the Bee-man from Spartanburg' b e Sheep-man from Chester, the ersy men from Anderson, and their brethren, must get on their water toggery -aud prepare to go to a sea, or at least, to take a sail on n Coosaws diamond-bottom riv-er. That ( annual '-junketing tour." for which b we farmers pay about five hundred a dollars a year. is an event to be re- s memnbered', I am told. And no won- t der.a -I siRli when I think of the joys I a Exave missed." s' ut suppose these "agriculturists" a -gone to sea to develop South Caro. na's farming interests-find any hing crooked : that the official as istant is inattentive to his duties, or s conniving at smuggling away the tate's rock without paying the roy. lty, what then? Can they remove im? No, he is appointed by the ommissioner. Or suppose the com 2issioner-the great "State officer' -is neglectful of his many and on rous duties (many and onerous if roperly performed, but a sinecure bus far.) what can our "agricultur ;ts" do? Put him out and get an ther? Oh no. "I am a State officer, onded and responsible; I am elected y my political friends in the Gen ral Assembly, .and I defy you." Vhat would the directors of the outh Carolina Railway think or ex ect in the way of efficient manage, ient if their general superintendent ad to be chosen by his political iends in Charleston? It is enough, nd bad enough, to have the board lected by politicians. OW TIIE BOARD SHOULD BE ChOSEN. It is simply preposterous to expect board thus chosen to effect any ood if they cannot control their ubordinates. We either need no oard at all or should look solely to ae commissioner, or the board ould have power to choose their wn executive officer. But the boar i ould be chosen by the farmers lone and not by the Legislature, for iey alone pay the privilege tax. and -e will never have any lasting, live gricultural societies in the counties s they do at the North, till this ork is given to;them. In Ohio, for rty years, the board of agriculture as been elected by a "farmers con ention," composed of delegates om the county societies. In Illinois, ndiaua and Iowa it is the same. In Zassachusetts, Main, New Jersy and onneticut, &c, the societies elect a iember of the State Board of Agri ulture. In all of the State theseboards lect their own secretaries; conse uently there is life and vigor in ieir work. The best men are chosen y those most interested and compe ;nt to judge. I have no quarrel with any of the ew board. Though they were evi ently selected rather as friends of 2e commissioner of agriculture and f the South Carolina College, and s opponents of the farmers' move ient than because of any special tness, we shall hope they will stop e waste that has been going on if ey can, and see that the farmers' istitutes are held in all the counties f the State. As trustees of the new University," with its "college of ag culture and mechanic arts," they lay make that college, so-called, ss ot a humbug and farce. That it an ever be more than a weak and ntemtible tail to the literary kite -e do not hope, for all of the attempts > combine industrial and technical aining with literary colleges have iled, and if this one does not it 'il be the first. TIIE UNIVERsITY'S wEALTII. The taxpayers who have been ightened with the false plea that ie separate agricultural college ould cost immense sums, will be urprised when told that this mag ificent "University" will have an icome of $97,000 per annum, as llows: State appropriation........34,300 Land Scrip fund............1,50 Hatch fund................15,000 Special for Claftin.......... 5,000 Citadel....................20,000 Insurance and repairs.......2,000 Tuition fees, (estimated)...10,000 otal each year................$97,800 And yet we are too poor to build a farmers' college !" Our opponents, who have done verything we didn't ask for and othing we did, are crowing lustily, ed are very happy over their "great ictory." It modesty did not forbid. even I, "Mloses" Tillman, might ell claim that I "did it." The glory mine, if there be any, for no one n deny that I have got everything asked for at Bennettsville, and iore too. But when the poor farm s who are not able to send their >ns to the "dude Factory" at a cost f$300 a year, or tolthe South Caro. na College-I beg pardon, Univer tv-even with free tuition at a cost f $150, they begin to inquire where their share of all this "higher edu ation;" when they ask why there bould be a "duplication of teaching rce," of which we have heard so inch between the College nd the Citadel; when they ask why ere should be $25,000 additional ent by tihe board of agriculture, or ther by the commissioner of agri ulture, making $125,000 in round ubers per annum, over half of hich is '-farmers' money," and they et none of the benefits, the politi Lang who are responsible for this ctravagance will have hard work to nvince them that there is any'ne essity for all of this waste of public oney. Can anybody give a reason hy the State should make pets of vo boys in each county, and only 'o, and educate them at a cost oif 1,200 each, while that sum, if paid r student labor, in an industrial :hool, would assist at least twelve oys to obtain an education? ARIsTOCRATIC PAUPERs. The scheme of "higher education." now fixed in South Carolina, leans that sixty-eight p)aupers, ouce lordly planters' " sons) shall e trained at a cost of $20,000 annu [ly, and all the rest be spent for the us of rich men. The middle class, 1e common people, are shut off, and though they pay taxes, (more than l other classes,) they are too rich to nd to the Citadel as beneficiaries. Citadel or University as pay Stu-'(; dents, simply because their sons can not enter or remain four yesrs at a A cost of $800 or $1,200. If they sub. mit to such injustice; if they allow the "military dude factory" to live after this, and the grand "University" with its $65,000 income, too, then I am sadly mistaken. co The Citadel has served its uses tle and "must go." And we poor farm- R< ers who want a cheap college to give thi our s,ns a practical education have th got the votes. Will we work together in and for once show that we can force res these "lordly planters" and loungers tr to give us what we ask? Will we vote thl only for men of character-who will as carry out their pledges? Will we vote po for measures and not men, and then po for such men as will not be bribed, ca-' trf joled or bamboozled? Will we de- an mand lower taxes and a new Consti- an tution suited to our condition, and as wE a safeguard against nego domination? rai We shall see ! tih The Register has called me "Cuesar T1 Tillman," done to death by "Brutus re! Iredell Jones" and 'Casco Tindal," by while "Cassius" (the New:s and Corr- Ca ier-at all events not a "lean and ha hungry" one) lent efBcient aid and "gave the finishing touches" at the de closing scene. co Well, be it so. I am willing to lie 01 "cold obstruction and to rot" if histo- Cc ry shall repeat itself and my friends C1 will but avenge my "untimely taking so off" by meeting these gentlemen and, W their new allies "at Philippi." My ry death, if I be "dead," was so painless tt that I have not yet realized it. And so with my being "deposed," I have sp had no intimation of it. But neces- thi sity leaves me no choice. I must re- fot tire and attend to my own affairs. I tui have no big salary and the spending { pa of $25,000 a year to manipulate and thl "tickle" Senators and Representa- an tivcs. I am no politician trained to Ja "Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee. te. That thrift may follow fawninT." ph SO3IE SERVICE RENDERED. da at "I have done the State some ser vice"-even my enemies admit it- te and my ambition has been to elevate, tet and educate, and protect the oppress- 1 ed class to which I belong-now sunk so low that none are concerned when we ask for our indubitable rights. In the last Farmers' Conven tion one. of our more "humble" mem- at bers advocated accepting the bone offered to as by the bosses. He call ed it a "bone," and was willing to accept it on bended knees. We called it a "bone," and scorned it, but they h have forced it down our throats. or The Senator from Barnwell was the medium who introduced the bill for the college, and he had it all his tt own way in "reorganizing" the agri- nu cultwal department. He may be a repre.sentative "planter," but he is of not likely to risk a re-election on these issues. He knows better than th to try it. But whatever may be the la: outcome-we farmers ought to topple i the Citadel about the ears of' this ar. rogant clique, who have criedl out "useless expense," and with the pro ceeds of its sale either found a real agricultural school or else, saving that money to reduce taxes, take charge of the South Carolina College and make it as nearly as we can a "college whose leading object shall in be agriculture and the mechanic arts" w as the law directs. The State can't St afford two colleges so nearlyidentical pr in curriculum. r THIANiKS AND A KICIK. This is probably my last letter to th the iVews awdc Courier. I have an en abiding faith that the seed I have se sown by mea ns of its columns will cai yet hear fruit. It has been both the de best friend an d the greatest enemy to dr the farmers' movement, and I thank its its editor for his many courtesi: s. an There was~ nerver any "alliance" be- Cil tween us, but those who have been so restrained froa' attacking the "Dude pi Factory" on my account can now re- th new the war till the taxpayers shlall arise in their might and destroy it. I se will help all I can. la In retiring from the unequal con- al test, I desire to so.y that t do not eli feel any mortification at having fail- tit ed to accomplished a11 I hoped. It was Iis a stupendous underti.king for an un- te, known and untried man, and the th wonder is that I have .done so much. wi I am not whipped or cowed, and am an proud to know that I have many be friends among the best people in wi South Carolina. I have never penned arj a line or spoken a word that was not de honest, or that I regret. I have made co many mistakes, but selt -interest or fe personal motive has neve r prompt ed me in a single act during this agita ag tion. On the contrary I have neg- Cl leted and sacrificed the 1 nterests ot' eqj my wife and children to f ght for a 1)1 cause I believe holy and ju .st. I stop go because I can't afford the c ostly lux- of ury of "reform" any longer -and so. at "With a sigh for those wh, > love me, he ad a smile for those who1 mte mie- sh I bid your readers "adieu !"'w B. R. TrrT24uN, vi Roper's, S. C.. January 17. 1888. to ~ to in Another Century. t in Baltimore' American. co The London Spectator ingen.iously Wi speculates concerning the great Engr- wi lish metropolis in 19S8. A h3ut dred lo years hence. by geometrical pro zres- in sion, based on present statis tics, ta London will contain 11,000,000 in- th habitants. These millions, by mot ern fel inventions and facilities, to say na >th. eb ing of discovery that always k-u' 'ps s0 pace with human needs, will find no a insurmountable diffBculty in bei.og th fed, supplied with water. transpot a g tion or manns of livelihood. LL TT ING IfiEAD! F OR BUSINE: Briaht;Outlook for an Early Co: pletion of the Three C's Road to Ashland, Ky. Sp,ecial u tliee Xetes and Courier. CAMIEN, January 24.-The coun nmissioners and several other gi men interested in the Three ( gad went up yesterday, by ri rteen miles, and the balance a way in private conveyance, pect the ten miles of the road ti Lehes to Hanging Rock Creek. T p was very pleasant. except >se who went up to Hanging Ro< it rained cn them, and they we r>rly protected. The large cut site Young's is finished, and t tck has been surfaced. Major A is has about completed his wo: cJ Contractor Amory will finish ti ek, so the bed is ready for t Is as fast as they can be laid, a road is surfaced on to Lancast .ere now seems to be no reason w ular trains should not be runni the middle of next month fr< mden to Lancaster, even if we ve the usual amount of bad weath Col. R. A. Johnson reached Ca n last night, and meets with t nmissioners to-day, with the vi getting $50,000 more of the bonw 1. Johnson leayes at 4 p. m. arleston accompanied by Col. N 3, attorney for the road. Trust( Drkman and Hay, after the neces certificate had been served m, delivered $50,000 of the bon Col. Johnson seems to be in go rits about the road. He says tt re may be a great surprise in st< the people along the line, as o es have been made by a rich co ny of contractors to take charge unfinished portions of the ro c to have trains running over it nuary 1, 1889, from the south( minus to Ashland, Kentuci ese contractors, he says, own Lt worth $750,00, and they wc y and night, using electric ligl night. They say that they c ish the road substantially, guar: ng the same, notwithstanding I inelling necessary, by January S9. No bargain has been made y t it is possible that it will be. ol. .Johnson further said that mter would come down with si ntial aid, the road would be bu once to Sumter by July at the o le. As it is, the road will be co ated to Black's by July, and mter comes in with the necesst lp the road will be running fr mter to Rutherfordton by July l soon thereafter. On being ash out shops, depot, &c, he said tl are was time enough to talk 1m, but he intimated that st estions would be settled in I mmner. le gives the business it Camden hope, saying that railrc ney would be spent in Camc s summer almost as much ;t summer, and more so if tihe I continued to Sumter at once,wh hopes will take place. PewhIoldIer or Christian. undl ryq Xeu-s~ and Counier. One of the most serious obstac the way of effective Christi irk is that religion is so muchi c nday habit, and in many cases actically inoperative duringi naning six days of the week.] with the broadcloth coat on S y morning, it is laid aside wt Sreligious services of the day ded. The Boston Herald mal ~ious complaint against what 1s "the social lie in religion," a lares that "if there is anyc awback to the Christian faith practical ministration in this e long what may be called the ty churches, it is that there isc rt of religion set forth from the p ,and quite another practiced people on the plane of the pew Sunday after Sunday in the rep rtative churches as our New E d contemporary says, you hear 1 ties of social brotherhood and1 ation of man to man set forth w the eloquence which individi ~rgymen possess, and would thi av and the people whom they m e'r to were angels of light, too p :t for the mean things of life wh rest of mankind come in coat th; but when you sit in the pe d watch the habitual attitude a havior of the congregation, y 1 be wiser than you were befc d will realize how scarcely si ep is the religious character of1 ngrreation as a comipany of p sedly Christian people. May not this sweeping indictmn' ainst the -I am holier than th( ristians of Bosten be applied w a truth and force to our own p Smany of whom have a form dliness, but deny the power the ? It is not one's duty to pay m<' :entionl to his neighbors in1 use of' God than to the holy a ip which he is there to render;1 men persons attend a religious i e habitually from one year'se another, without ever having1 rhtest recognition from either p or people, which is sometin a case in some congregations, th heed. may he know that he I me upon~the "perilous times" mich St. Paul wrote to Timol men he spoke of men who "shall gers of their own selves"-wh stead of Chrstian charity, wh es care for the good of othc V mind themselves only, and p their own gratification before I urches, there has grown up sucd -- inditTference, on the ground certain distinction and reser it it is regarded as a breach od manners to behave with es ; is;.L couresy toward th< iS. who worship side by side in the same tabernacle. n- You are a stranger, for instance, and wishing to go to a prominent church, and, if possible, to become a Christian, you rent a seat in the es tablishment; you pay your money ty and you have your preaching; but n. when you have been there for a year ys or more, and have never spoken with il, a single communicant, or even with of the pastor, you have a sense of lone to liness in the house of the Lord which at has a depressing effect upon your he religious enthusiasm. You supposed to that there was some brotherly sym k, pathy between the regular members re of the congregation, but you are com ,p. pelled to say to yeurself that the hu he manity of the pulpit is plainly con ,d. tradicted by the incivility of the -k, pews, and you find, to your disgust, is that phristianity consists in hearing he a preacher expound a mode of living d which his people openly and con er. stantly give the lie to under the very by roof where it is re ,omren1. One og who has experienccd toe hollowness ) of this sort of Christianity, and is do not a communicant himself, is not er. likely to troub le a Christian church m. with his presence a great while. he Common courtesy in the treatment aw of strangers is as much needed in is the house of God, and in promoting or the progress of church work, as it is el- 'n the ordinary walks of life. A real es church is not made up of a company 3a- of people who use Christianity for on social purposes which centre in their is. personal satisfaction. The church od should be, and. when it is conducted at as its Divine founder, designed that are it should be conducted, the church is, er- the spiritual centre of a common m- spiritual life. The finest soul in a of company of Christian worshippers ad may be clothed in rags. That church by is doing the best work for morality rn and religion which does not draw the line at the number of buttons on a a lady's glove, nor the texture of the rk cloth in a gentleman's coat. The re ts ligion that stops to consider whether an Mrs. Brown of Mrs. Jones belongs m- to this, that or the other society is he not worth having. People who are 1 in earnest in their Christian life do et, not stop to count up pedigrees, they simply give that Christian welcome if and sympathy to all who worship ib- with them, which conveys the sense ilt of brotherhood in a common cause. ut m- He Rode Free. if xry St. Louis Globe Democrat. >m During the war I was conductor on st, a railroad in Tennessee, and al ed though I did no fighting, I carried lat many passengers, mostly soldiers, to of and from the seat of war. It was my ch custom to give free transportation to he poor and wounded soldiers, and this en caused me a great deal of trouble ad with the superintendent. I remember en on one occasion I had gone all as through the train and went out on ne the platform to take a smoke. Look. Ich ing into the car window, I beheld a poor, forlorn soldier sitting on the nearest seat, who had escaped my at tention. I went into the car, which was tolerably full, and noticed some thing peculiar about the man's face. I said to him: "Sir, you've got the lsmallpox." "You've hit it," he laconi ns cally replied, and settled back in his fseat. After this remark every man is in bhat car vacated in a hurry. That sh man had full sway in that car until uhe reached his destination. He offer uted me his fare, but I refased to take 2n- it, telling him that if he would get en out on the outskirts of the town and es skip for home without shaking hands it with his old friends I'd call it all d right. He did so. About four months nafterwards a well dressed stranger maccosted me on the train and asked -t me if I knew him. I replied in the y negative. Then he related the cir ncumstances of our last meeting, and uI recognized in him my smallpox pa. by- tient. He thanked me very much band offered me twenty-five dollars, s. but I refused to take it. he A Pennsylvanla Yankee'. ith When I was in Asheville two years ial ago everybody there forgot that the nk great Robert Y. Hayne had died in in- the town. A Pennsylvania yankee er- was building the chief' hotel over ich Asheville to monumentalize the tri act umph of the tariff system in the Caro ws lina. nd '-The Pennsylvania Yankee," who ou married a North Carolina lady, is re, also building a railway with his own tin and northern capital to connect the he south Atlantic ocean with the west. ro- During the war he p)reserved his neutrality, as lie jokingly says him. nt self, by putting in substitutes on u"l both sides, and being killed by ith proxy. He lived for the good of the e south and the country. re- On the Dar and Bloody Gironud. or- Epoch. )ut First Kentucky citizen-"Did the er- proposed duel between Colonel Blood nd and Major Gore take placer' e Second Kentucky citizen-"lYes; s. and the result was most deplorable." es First Kentucky citizen-"You don't n, say so ! Both killed?" s Second Kentucky citizen-"No; of but on their way home a farmners dog by bit a large chunk out of the colonel's be leg." ch The Speed of Heat and cold rs, It has been asked which travels faster, re heat or cold, and answered heat. Be e cause any one can catch a cold. It therefore~follows that every one should ia keep Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of of Sweet Gum and Mullein, which willecure ve, coughs, colds and croup. en Call at Wright & J. WV. Coppock's and eget a better shoe than you can buy else hee fo.r the same amount PLANTING N THE MUUA. A Few Strange Stories Showing How It Results Up in Dakota. Dakota Cor. Modern Miller. In the east thousands of people plant and sow "in the moon" to in sure rapid growth, but in Dakota it is dangerous to plant in the prolific phase of the moon, so they are care ful to plant at such a time that the moon will exert its influence in hold ing the crop back. I have known several disasters to result from neg lect of this precaution. One day last January I got lost out in the country, and while I was toiling through the tall new grass I saw a man with nothing on but his suspenders tearing along like mad. He stopped just long enough to tell me what was up, and off he went again for the Iowa side of the Sioux river, which he cleared at a bound, and fell on all fours into a snow-drift four feet deep. He said he and his wife had looked up the moon business, and had planted their garden the evening be fore, but happend to get hold of last year's almanac, and missed it about four days. The result was that when he woke up that morning, the beets that he planted forty feet from the house had crushed in his cellar walls, and a squash vine had taken the door off its hinges, and was just mopping the floor with all there was left of his hired man, whom it had snatched out of bed in the attic. He didn't know where his wife was, but he saw some shreds of nightgown and a several agate but tons in the front yard as he fled. He said there were pea vines after him, with pods on 'em large enough for phantom boats; and one could see by the way he was dressed that if he was a liar at all Le was not a regu lar Dakota thoroughbred sample. If I really thought I would ever become an average Dakota liar, I would want to die. This territory must be divided sometime before the day of judg ment, for how could the Almighty ever audit its accounts with only one set of clerical angels at work at a time? About two weeks ago I saw a far mer out behind a straw stack gather ing into a heap a lot of old bones and pieces of hides and sprinkling salt on them. Yesterday I saw this same man selling a fine pair of steers to a butcher uptown. They were so tat and had filled up so fast that he had pieced out their hides with an old buffalo robe. The granger was a Sunday school superintendent before he came to Dakota, but he swore that these were the same cattle that I had seen him kicking together behind the straw-stack. He said all that they had eaten was some wild grass that had sprung up in his door yard, where the women had thrown out a few tubs of warm soap-suds on wash days. He said that he had learned that the best way to winter stock in Dakota was to knock them all to pieces in the fall, and set them up again as wanted, otherwise, unless we get a blizzard every week, they are liable to get too fat and round on the native grass. Last fall I stopped at a house to borrow a match to light my pipe. The man told me to go right in the gar den and pick all I wanted. I did not know what he meant at first, but he went out with me, and-I'm al most afraid yon'll think me a liar for telling it-there was about half an acre growing the finest parlor matches I ever saw. They were as thick as hairs on a blind mQle. He said he had a poor crop the year be fore, because the seed was too good for such soil. This year he had mixed his seed matches with about one-fourth toothpicks, and got a splendid yield. I went out after breakfast and saw the man blowing up hubbard squashes with gunpowder. They were too large to be moved, and the farmner wanted the ground. I noticed that one of his wife's legs was about eight inches longer than the other, and the man explained it thus: He said when tkey first came to Dakota they lived in a -'dug-out," with nothing but the ground for a floor, from which they had to mow the grass once a day to find the baby. He said his wife had a habit of sitting with one leg over the other knee, and the leg that remained in contact with the soil got such a start that the other could never catch up. One day I was very thirsty. I asked a man if the water in that neighborhood was good. He said : "You see that mule standing over there ?" I replying in the affirmative. he said: "Why, three months age that mule was a jack rabbit. I should may the water was good." lHe must also have a copious sup. ply of the alkail grass, which grows in this country in abundance. SomeThin:r' Which May be A ttendIed to Now. Getting the wood for summer. Stgudyin ta . new seed cata Planting ahead next seasons crops. Providing, if there is none, a co-venient poultry house and vaid. Studying how to improve farm stock by both feeding and breed ing. Improving and making neces sary repairs on fences , gates and buildings. A Little Child Dying. The moat painful sight that can be presented to father and mother is to see their little darling sufferirg so from the effect of te-ething. The wise patient gives Dr. Biggers' Huckleberry Cordial 11r %1.&zaZaL MR, II LZJVwZn. A Darin; Connecticnt Girl the First or Her Sex toVenture Across. BUFFALO, January 19.-One of the finest and largest ice bridges that Niaga ra has had in many years formed in the gorge in front of prospect Park yester day morning about 1 o'clock. It extends from in front of the Canadian Falls to a point far down the river in front of what is commonly known as the pleasure ground. It has all the appearance of being firmly locked, and looks as if it had "come to stay." The greater body of ice is most firmly locked in the widest part of the river, and those who have seen many bridge formations say this is favorable to it staying for some weeks. In places it is tossed many feet high. and the mountainous ridges run in all direc tions. One ridge far out in the centre has a pole stuck up on which waves a handkerchief placed there by that nervy fellow, McCloy. Standing on the cliff it is a beautiful sight, but to be fully appreciated it must be viewed from below, when all its roughness and beauty can be better seen. The first one to cross it was Thomas Conray, who passed over from this side to the Canadian about 8 o'clock yesterday morning and returned accom panied by Jack LeBlond. The first lady who possessed suflicient nerve to un dertake the journey across was Miss Mamie L. Edwards, of Bridgeport, Conn., who crossed from the Canadian shore to this side about 3 o'clock this af ternoon, in company with William Ed wards, of Niagara Falls, Ont., whose guest she is. After cros,)ng Miss Ed wards visited Goat Island so as to get a river view from all points <, the bridge, of which she has the honor of being the first lady to cross. It is surprising when one looks back to see how near the same time in the year these formations have occurred. In 1883 the first formation was on January 15, and the second on the 22d, both on Sun day night. The second formation re mained thirteen weeks; when it came it carried away over 100 feet of the inclined railway building. The Park-Company, who were then in possession, cleared away the debris and cut a tunnel through the ice 8 by 15 feet and about 25 feet long, so as to reach the bridge proper. When this great jam came Jack McUoy was living ol the Canadian side. His house was carried quite away and tipped over. A clock that fell off the shelf had stopped at 12:25 a. m. The reason so much damage was done was that the water was very high and a strong ice bridge already blocked the gorge. The last bridge previous to the present formation was in the winter of 1884-85, and remained eight or ten weeks. This is the first bridge since the State has been in possession of the reservation property. The ice mountain has attained a good size, and a trip to the Falls is sure to be one of pleasure. Story of a Carrier Pigeon. A remarkable instance of intel ligence in a homing pigeon occur red recently in Shelby, N. C. The bird was of A. Perry Baldwin's sirain of Newark. He is a mag nificent pigeon, and known to the National Federation by the name of "General Kearney." Like all of Mr. Baldwin's long-distance flyers, he was marked in big red letters, "A pilgrim from Newark, New Jersey; feed and liberate," on the feathers of one wing, and "An honest man is the noblest work of God" on the other wing. The bird was returning from an 886-mile fly to Newark, when he became exhiausted and alighted on the little postoffice at Shelby, N. C. Mr. B. F. Logan, the post master, caught him, fed and wat ered him, and the bird again perched on the roof. That after noon he took a two hours' fly, but returned. The next morning, af ter being again fed, he took a three heurs' fly, but again return ed. In the afternoon he made his third fly, but, after being gone four hours, camelback. The fol owing day he made two more at tempta to come north, but each time, not feeling strong enough, he returned to hospitable Shelby. The next day, however, after receiving his food, he circled over Postmaster Logan's head and then darted northward. Mr. Logan sent a postal card to Newark de scribing the bird and its marks, but before the card was received by Mr. Baldwin the General was back safe and sound in his loft Mr. Baldwin says he made the lit tle flies at Shelby to guage his strength; that the bird knew he would be cared for while he stayed there, and would not at tem'pt to leave there for Newark until he was positive he was strong enough to make the journey. 2New York Sun. Wnat is Alfalfa ? One of the best forage plants known. Especially profitable for hay and pasture south and west of the Mississippi, beyond the re gion of red clover. It resists the worst droughts, sending its roots deep into the soil, often ten, fif teen and twenty feet, to the line of perpetual moisture. As hay it is fully equal to red clover; for horses even better. Sow in the early spriiig, on the land in fine, smooth condition, from fifteen to twenty-five pounds per acre, cov ering one-fourth to one-third of an inch. Alfalfa is better not pas tured till the second or third year, but may be freely cut as soon as it attains a fair swath. An EsseatialProvision. Father, it is as essential for you to pro vide a safeguard against that night-fiend to your children, croup, as to their hun~ger. Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein will cure croup, cnoghs and colds.