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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
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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.