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*w NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBZ12, 1889. PRICE $15__El CHE AUSE OF THE FARMERS. What the Alliance Seeks to Accomplish fron Dependence to Independence. [From a Speech by 'aon. Pen. Terrell.] The physician wil! ascertain what is wrong with his patient before he will prescribe a remedy. If a merchant does not make money he will go to work to learn why. If a factory does not show the gain expected the management will be looked into. In all pursuits when results are not satisfactory, the first action taken by those in charge will be to find out what is wrong. Now, there is something wrong with the producers of this country. What is it? It is not that they do not work enough, for they have produced enough wealth in the last thirty years to enrich other r ::classes until America is able to almost buy the world. No country has ever known so rapid an accumulation of wealth. not tha for it is'well-known fact that no other clasis so poorly clothed and fed. It is . :;that they are profligate, idle, eriminal, for statistics show them to bein a high degree sober, industrious, and:law-abiding. Now, then, what is thematter with the producers? They are simply producing at a loss. 1s evident, for in the same length tme (thirty years) in which other .ae have gained so enormously in wealth.they have not held tlieirown. "t he beginning of this period thry nued one-half of the wealth, now own only one-fourth. While they ve fallen behind, other classes have gained 100 to 1,000 per cent. Now suppose producers could double pro ductions, would that help them? Not atall Is it not shown that, labor as - they may, others get the profit and ljoiy the experience? Well, then, if 4 i eased production will not help, let producers go to work like men and yfiid out what will. In discussing this matter we must take producers as a elass and not as individuals, because here are exceptions to all rules. Now let us examine the conditions. We are buying onr credit at a great loss, beease for this credit we pay from 78 o:100 per cent. extra. We are selling everything in the lowest market and -buying everything in the highest. We pay from 1 to 2 per cent. for money to ,andle ou crops. We pay double the dansportation rate we should to get fir produce to market and our supplies iaick. In addition to this we pay 80 cent, of the taxes, while owning 22 .. e wealtn ofThe country. rfo with such conditions, can we hope to accomplish athing? Will we not become poorer~each year until hildren become the bondmen and women of the speculative classes? & Heica the imperative necessity of changing these conditions. What shall we do to be saved? In ~-te:first place, we must organize nnify ourselves-for, remember, we -"mst stand or fall as a whole.-Let the 'Wucounsel be had in order that we hay'decide intelligently upon a line of '~action. In the next place let us attack , the credit system. Let us take the -power of credit from the merchants 'and control it ourselves. We can do -thathby each Alliance looking after its Smembers and helping them to get cash > with which to buy enough supplies to make a crop without mortgaging to the merchants. Be sure to require good security from each member for the amount he wants, these amounts to be - upon and approved by t-he Alli *Then let a note for the sum of amounts, signed by every memi of the Alliance, be made to a who will effect a loan~on the -possible terms. Now, the advant to be gained by this can scarcely imated. The merchant is forced ozpete in prices with others who * - Ito get your cash trade, You can Iido this while you buy on credit, K ~ henyou mortgage to a merchant hiaprey for that year, if not all - .Youggggpt hb will is instant'tbe Md which had been remo ' hinges, w0s kic arm don,0it want to be~ n"Let me ~O b ?that as it now is ~ '~i,arof anl the merchant's -consider well this step, tas one of the most impor to;be made in our condi f ou have no Alliance Ex golto work with might and -.o estabiish one, and use your ing power to make it the larg yer in the market. Each member Alliance who has taken stock in change can buy as cheaply as if ned the w~ hole capital stock and e purchasing power of all the rs. F'or instance, if y ou want a ,you order through the Ex e, all the members wanting wag ving done the same. The agent g for all can buy ats cheaply as ne buying like amiounts, anid you r one wagon at the same rate as ad brought thym; I ''rile~ 'e is -- fled in buying a barrel ~~your order goes with eup a ear-load. Now, an agent; whose duty it is to Your interest, hunting the ~&to sell in, and the best to 4 Can reverse the present and4 buy in the cheapest and highest market the country by paying he spot cash the best prices. If you action, bend your whole * e pr-sent conditions war on anybody or -. Y4own., If your mier -e ompete in prices he *tobhold his trade If he rig t-p troizehim, You have the option and he must meel the competition. Bnlk your cotton, and otfer direct to tLe factory on as gooc ternis as the speculator. As it is, yot do not sell your own cotton but onl take what tha buyer will give you foi it.-Change these conditions. Step uI from dependence to independence You can do it; you should do it; you must do it. In the name of your country, foi the sake of your wives and children, dc your duty in this matter. You compose 14 per cent. of the voters of this country. Unite to elect men to represent you who will defend your interests. Read, educate yourselves in finance, trans portation, taxation, and everything that concerns your welfare. Subscribe for the National Economist, and in form yourselves upon the subjects of which it treats. You must come to the front. You can not longer evade your public duties without crininality; your responsibility is to great. Exercise you 4" = -,ad'erstandingly, unhampered by prejudice. Do not consider indivi duals, but select the best men; those who can stand the application of Jeffer son's rule: "Is he honest? Is he com petent? Will he stand by the people?' Apply this rule and make your choice from the people: not necessarily from your Alliance, but from among good men of all occupations. Know whal you want. Make your demands with reason and intelligence and you will be heard. You can thus alter every condi tion that surrounds you, and it will be your fault if you do not win. Subscribe for and read your papers; help eact other; have confidence in each othei and in yourselves. Deserve success anc you will attain it.-Dare to be right fear to be wrong, and God will bles. you and your effort. A CITY THAT HAS NO COUNTERPART 30,000 Happy and Luxurious People witi Neither Shop, Artisan, Nor Trade. [London Times.1 Lying between Assam and Burmah is the remote little Hill State of Mani. pur, lately visited by Indian officers one of whom, writing on the forces o; the State in Indian Forests, gives at extraordinary account of Imphial, th< Capital. It is situated in what appear a dense forest. Neither spires nor chim neys cut the bluesky, nor is smoke ob served to ascend from the sylvan scene of the capital. Nothing, in fact, be. speaks the busy home of 30,000 to 40,. 000 people, and.yet hidden away amon; these trees is the palace. of the Rajah and hard by are the houses of the favorites, each family having a largi enclosure around the homestead Im phail may thus be described as a city o villages, or rather suburban residences around the palace. Straight, wide road: lined with trees, frequently intprsectin each other at right angles, afford th< means of communication, but neithe: shop, artisan, nor wheeled conveyanc exists in the city. Industry and skil occur only in the distant rural homes.' The people of the capital are the pro moted favorites of the ruler, who havy had assigned to them plots of groun< near the palace and live by pressin upon the persecuted agriculturalist o the State. The capital of Manipur is a roya residence dedicated to luxury an< amusement. All are happy. The street: are crowded with smiling, health: faces, of which few bear the marks o toil or labor. There are no schools i] the State, and court favor and promo tion are secured by success in polo Coinage is unknown, and the men ari not allowed to trade. Imports and ex ports, except in certain artieles tha yield a royal revenue, are practicall: prohibited. The women from the distant village: repair on a certain day to the capital o to other recognized centres. Eacl carries on her head a neatly-mad< square basket, in which has been place< the surplus stock of the homestead, th< labors of her industrial skill or of he husband's agricultural knowledge. Om .r aching the market place the content - M ~ skets are exposed and bar o clh returns again to he tered , - oft the proceeds. Onmarket da e lon, straigh road from Bishenpur to imphail crowded by groups of women hurrying to and fro, Each' wears an elegantl. striped dress in bright colors, made o silk and cotton. The stripes run alonj the length, and the top anid bottom ar< neatly embroidered. A long piece o cloth is cleverly carried across the breas and just under the armpits, instead o round the waist, and is firmly tucke< up, so that the top embroidered edg falls forward, adding an additional fol< to the garment, while the bottom edg reaches a little below the knees. Th legs land arms are left exposed. Tb women are the only traders in tb whole State. GreenvIie's First New Bale. The first bale of new cotton for thi section was brought into the city yestel day by E. P. Griffin, who lives nea Siinpsonville. It was wrapped in o1 iute bagging and was weighed by C. I Yates, pulling the scales to 430 pound The-grade was low middling and th -bale was bought by John Slatterly fc 101, a good price considering fhe quahi of the cotton, Inventions6 of the 19th Century. The steamboat, the reaper, the sewin machine, ('ars runnino' by night and by day, Houses lightn by gas and heated b steam, And bright electricity's ray. The telegraph's click speeds like ligh ning released, Then the telephone comes to excel i And to put on the tinish, the last be not least Is the famed!'little Purgative Pelle pLast but not least is Dr. Pierce Plasant Purgative~ Pellet, because re leves~ human suffering, adds to ti sumNi of human comfort, and enables th ing relevd luxuerer to enjoy all the bles ing an luuris o te age we live iu DYNAMITE'S AWFUL WORK. Two Men Blown to Atoms-Only Fragments I of the Victims Found JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. .5.-A terrible explosion occurred at the t mouth of the St. Johns river, by which o two men were killed and several more g injured. I Captain R. G. Ross, in charge of the p Government Jetty work at St. Johns i bar, has been engaged for several days s] in blowing up the submerged wreck of a the old Dutch brig "Neva," which has for years obstructed the channel off n Mayport. He had in command t Captain A. C. Moore, with a crew of 'i twelve men. Two of the men, R. T. Moore, a son p of the captain, and a grandson of -ii Powell, colored, were soldering a twen- I ty-five pound can of dynamite, when I it exploded with terrific report and blew s both men to atoms, only one toe of Moore being found after the explosion. a Engineer Dunn, of the lighter, was badly wounded in the side and arm. t Capt. Moore was blackened by the ex- f plosion and badly shaken up, but is d not seriously- injured. He is, however, s in a state .of mind almost bordering n upon insanity by reason of the terrible fate of his son. c The explosian was heard for miles o around, and caused an upheaval of o water and a tremor of the earth which n created considerable alarm. c The steam tug Robert Turner went d hurriedly to the scene of the disaster f< and then blew whistles of distress, ti which brought the government steam- t< er and others to the rescue and carried Dunn to Mayport, where he could re- S ceive medical treatment. c The lighter was boarded immediately r after the explosion to ascertain what r other damage was done, and every- a thing was found one mass of wreck t] and ruin. The machinery of the jetty lighter u and engine wascompletely demolished. ti A big hold was found on the deck of the lighter, and the crew badly demor- p alized. ti A search was at once instituted for ti the remains of the men, but without further success. Moore's vest and pants were subsequently found among the floating wreckage, torn completely in shreds. The accident attracted great crowds of people to the shore, and the greatest excitement prevailed. Captain Ross, the contractor, had gone to St. Augustine to spend the day, b where Capt. W. -M. Black, United f States engineer in charge of the jetties,_ a had his headquarters. He was at once f communicated with and will do every- a thing possible under the circumstanees for the relief of the wounded. He is expected in Mayport to-night. t Moore, the white man killed, was t twenty-two years old and unmarried. This is the first serious accident to oc- + cur at these jetties since the work be- ~ gan several years ago. TSANG'S HEAD IN DANGER. The Chinese Consul General at San Fran cisco Probably Doomed. SAN FRANCIsco, Cal., Sept. . j Chinese Consul General Leong Hong STsang has not yet been sued by Bock rHing to recover the money due to the f victims of the Chinese riots, which he Sis alleged to have illegally retained. -The reason, as stated by a prominent .Mongolian merchant, is that the mo Sney is being paid over to the claimants - as rapidly as possible, and when this Sis done Tsang will be recalled. r"And what then?" was asked. "Off goes his head. He can make no A Satonement for his act if the government r finds him guilty. t "Then he would be foolish to go Sback at all, would he not?" S"Oh, they have a way of bringing a people back. Tsang has a father and, I e think, a mother living, together with ibrothers and sisters. If he should re 3 fuse the order to go back do you know - what would be done. Why, the last. r one of them would be put in prison. If the held off for a year one of his closest Srelatives would die; then another would Sfollow until the entire race of Tsangs had been swept from China. Any man of feeling would prefer to deliver him Sself up rather than have his old parents ~ f tortured and his relatives butchered. i t No,-sir. He will not lose a moment when instructed to go home, though he t will know that it may mean certain i death." SMionnire Shaw's Will. i PITrsBURG, Septemlber 2.-The will of William Shaw, the dead millionaire railroad king, has just been probated. s It occupies thirty-six pages of foolscap, -type-written, and was made on July 5 r of the present year. His estate, except his coal lands, is divided into sixteen parts. The coal land are to be held e until all his minor children become of r age, when they are expected to be worth ~$13,000,000. His wife gets three-six-t teenths of the estate, his ten children one-sixteenth each, and from the re gmaining three-sixteenths are to be paid a large number of private and public 1 bequests.. Y Among the larger public legacies are the following: WVestern University, Pennsylvania, - $100,000. rsb rian Board of Home Mis t Presbyterian Board of Foreign Mis siOns5, $20,000. ~*Presbyterian College Board, $000 'Other Presbyteriall4, - sAmerican Board omissions, $5,000. t Pittsburg hospitals an aggregate of e $100,000, both Pr$s.nt and Catholic e institutions being remembered. .All' debts of epndent friends are - ca@elled HOLD THE COTTON. armers Urged to Make No Sales in Sep tember. ATLANTA, GA., Aug. 26.-The na ional cotton committee, consisting of ne delegate.from each of the cotton rowing States, held a meeting- in the Zimball house to-day. The routine roceedings were secret, but enough iformation was given to the public to :ow that business of vital importance ,as transacted. The personnel of the committee is iade up of the National Wheel, Na ional Union and National Alliance. 'he object of the meeting was to devise rays and means foi increasing the rice of cotton. The committee was i sesslon all day. Mr. R. J. Sledge, of .yle, Texas, presided, and Mr. B. M. fard, of Nashville, Tenn., acted as acretary. The following resolutions were dopted . Resolved, first, That the national cot n committee recommend that the Lrmers of the South sell no cotton uring the month of September, except rhat may be absolutely necessary to ieet obligations which are past due. Resolved, second, That the national >tton committee instruct the president reach sub-Alliance, Wheel or Union, r some person appointed by him, to ieet the president and secretary of his unty Alliance on Satnrday, the 28th ay of September, at the county seat, r the purpose of receiving instruc ons from the national cotton commit .e. "Resolved, third, That each State ecretary of ever cotton State be barged with the duty of placing these .solutions immediately before their spective county presidentsand charge 1 expense of printing and postage to ie National Alliance. "Resolved, fourth, That farmers be rged to take special care in sheltering .eir cotton from damaging weather. . "Rescced, fifth, That every news aper in the South in sympathy with Je farmers is requested to publish iese resolutions." R. J. SLEDGE, Chm'n, Kyle, Texas. A. T. HATCHER, Grand Cane, La. S. B. ALEXANDER, Charlotte, N. C. L.P. FEATHERSTON,Forest City,Ark. M. L. DONALDSON, Greenville, S. C. W. J. NOTHERN, Sparta, Ga. R. F. KoBB, Montgomery, Ala. B. M. HORD, Sec., Nashville, Tenn. It is whispered that the farmers will e able to carry out their plans, Ad rce the result desired. They will be ble to hold their cotton for any length f time they may choose. The move ient is organized, with not only a solid halanx of co-operating membership, ut ample capital. The measures of he Alliance, however, are conserva ive and fair. While enforcing a de land for a better price for their cotton hey will not be at the expense of their onest obligations. The cotton com 3ittee will meet again in September. Preaching? A keen observer writes in the Chii ago Tribune as follows, without comn lent: Able sermons were preached Inst unday in the large cities by some o1 be most widely known clergymen in be country on such subjects as "The 'erils of Immigration," "Rum's Ever. isting Curse," "The Dolan Double 'ragedy," "From Turkey to Japan," The Gambler's TJrap,"~ "The Male ossip," "Oriental Despotism," "Un onvicted Felons," "Infiuence of Hered by on Religious Training," and "What Saw in Mexico." There may have 'een a few sermons on Biblical topics, ut they did not find their way intc he Monday morning papers. Apropos to the above is the following rom the New York Observer: "Vinegar should be vinegar" is the omewhat striking headline in an ad. 'ertisement which recently caught om ye. We canuot help thinking that he same thing might be said of preach. og. Preaching should be preaching. Success in Farrning. Says the New England Farmer: "'1 elieve that a young man with busi. tess ability, industry and a capital of 2,000 will be much surer of success in~ > any one of several branches of farm ag, if he has a liking for the business, han in a venture in any other busi iess.' This is the opinion of Hon. W. ~. Sessions, Secretary of the Massachu= etis Board of Agriculture, a man wht a practical farmer, who has a wide perience and who has excellent judg oent. Such testimony is very valu ble." Restrain the Appetite. It is not necestary to make ourselves laves to any manner of living, nor i~ t desirable to devote too much though1 o the subject; but the general maxiti o live moderately and to restrain thi ~ppetite rather than gratify it wouk ~e found conducive to health an appiness in the majority of instances he harm likely to be done by under ~eling being as nothing compares :iith the mischief those work in thei: ,onstitution who feed too often and ea oo much. An Ofrensive Breath s most distressing, nogonly to the per ~on afflicted if he have any pride, bu 6 those with whom he comes in con act. It is a delicate matter to speal ~f, but it has parted not only friend but lovers. Bad breath and catarrh ar inseparable. Dr. Sage's Catarrh Reme ~y cures the worst cases as thousand ~an testify. - RELICS OF THE AZTECS. The Remarkable Excavations Being Made in Mexico. CITY OF MEXICO, September 3.-Ex tensive excavations are being made at the suburban town of Coyoacan, at a place lying on the outskirts of the wil derness, known as the pedregal or stony ground, which in former years was noted as a haunt of brigands, and is even now considered as a resort for dangerous characters when pursued by officers of justice. The object of the excavations, which are being made by private associations, as, if possible, to recover treasures of gold and jewels supposed to be hidden there by the Em peror Montezuma at'the time of the Spanish conquest. Senor Mercado, one of the party en gaged in this work, is a lineal descend ant of the last Aztec Emperor, Cuante mae, whose statue adorns the principal promenade of this city. Senor Mercado says that he has in his possession hiero glyphic documents which convince him that it was in the pedregal that Monte zuma hid his treasures, among 'other things a huge golden sun. A few weeks ago a valuable black pearl was found and also an emerald near some skeletons discovered in a subterranean passage. The Time's correspondent has visited the excavations, and they are certainly remarkable, having already disclosed a subterranean staircase,' winding pass ages and vaults, jawbones and skeletons destitute of tusk or teeth, thus, accord ing to Senor Mercado, proving beyond question that the Indians there buried were pure Aztecs. He estimates the value of the buried treasure at no less than $20,000,000, but says that others engaged in the work of hunting the treasure put it at $80,000,000. The foremost archieologists here are of opinion that something may be found and they agree with Senor Mercado that the intrinsic value of the things buried by Montezuma are surpassed by their historical importance. It has been held by some that' Montezuma hid his treasures in Lake Texcoco, and much has been done there in the way of dredging, but nothing has been found. Senor Batres, the great native arcbologist, is interested in this search, and people high in authority are said to be lending their aid. BURNED AT THE STAKE. Kentuckians Roast to Death a Negro for ' Assaulting a Young Girl. SOMERSET, Ky , Septemler 3.-News has reached- here of a brutal outrage committed upon the twelve-year-old daughter of Willam Oates, a prominent and wealthy farmer, residing a' few miles from Monticello. The particu lars given the correspondent by a gen tleman just from Wayne County are as follows: Mr. Oates has two young daughters, aged respectfully twelve and fourteen years. Mr. and Mrs. Oates left home on business and left the two young girls in charge of the house. Mr Oates had in his employ a negro boy about grown. Knowing the older people were away, he entered, and after locking the door upon the two girls he assaulted the youngest. The other girl escaped from the room, and going to a neighbor's house gave the alarm. A posse was immediately organized and started in pursuit of the negro. He was caught in the woods and tied to a stake. A rail pen was then built around him. Coal oil was poured over him and upon the rails. A match wa applied and the negro burned to death. Lawful A batement of a Nuisance. A man was recently brought before a police justice of Chicago for thrashing a fellow passenger on a street car. The man who got battered was smoking. He wa requested to stop. He did not, and was thrashed. The verdict of the justice was:-"The public has rights. The prisoner did perfectly right, and is discharged." The editorial comment of one of the dailies was as follows: "It is therefore settled, so far as a police court decision can settle any thing, that a man who persists in smoking on a car where there is a woman may be thrashed by her escort, if he is strong enough, and can expect no redress. This kind of law may shock the Supreme Court, but there is considerable horse sense in it. N~o man has a right to make a nuisance of him self in a public conveyance, and a comn pany should not tolerate it." Anderson's Oldest Inhabitant Dead. [Anderson Intelligencer.] It is our duty this week to chronicle the death of perhaps the oldest person ini Anderson County, namely, Miss Rebecca Dalrymple, who died at her home near Midway Church, last Thurs day morning. She was ninety-nine years of age, and was born, reared and had always resided on the plantation where she died. About fifteen years ago she received a fall which crippled her for the balance of her life, and with that exception she had been a remark ably healthy, strong woman through out her life. She was never known to have any disease, and died simply from old age. Miss Dalrymple was a member of Midway Presbyterian Church. It is reported that a revivalist in Tama, Iowa, recently asked all the congregation who paid their debts to rise. All rose but an editor, who ex plained that lhe didn't pay- his 'debts jbecause the entire congregation owed CRAZED BY CIGARETTES. A Theological Student Smokes Eighty in One Evening. WATKINS, N. Y., Aug. 30.-People driving into this village on the county line road Saturday observed a young man wandering along about three miles west of here. At 8 o'clock the same evening he was found lying in se:sible near the residence of Martin V. Balt. He was taken into Mr. Bait's house, Dr. Irvine was summoned, and succeeded in partially rousing him, when he again dropped into a stupor. Sunday he again recovered conscious ness and gave the following account of himself: His name is George Hennedy Newell and his home is in New York city. He is 24 years old, and has been a student in the Union theological college there. He wished his uncle and brother at Morristown, N. J., telegraphed to, which was done, The last he remem bered he had plenty of money and a bicycle and was in New York. When found he was dressed in a tennis suit and his shoes were nearly worn out. Sunday afternoon John W. Love and wife, of this village, recognized him as a young man who was at Clifton Springs under treatment at the sanitar ium. Miss Lamore, whose card was found in his pocket, is a young lady residing. in New York, to whom Newell was very attentive. He is much distressed at the mention of her name and has plaintively requested that nothing be said about her. It appears that he is a sufferer from cigarette poisoning. Be was sent to the sanitarium to- break himof the habit. Saturday he got away and came to this village. He laid in a stock of cigarettes and in one evening smoked eighty of them. Snake Stories. [Orangeburg Times and Democrat.] Mr. C. J. Seymour related a most wonderful snake story to us one day last week. Some time ago, while work ing the old Columbia rood near Beaver Creek in Caw Caw Township, he, with Mr. A. B. Zeigler, sa%v a large mocca sin run under a log at the side of the road. The log was turned over and the snake was killed by Mr. Seymour, who cut oft its head. Directly afterwards a little snake crawled out of the large one, which operation continued until twenty-seven little ones had crawled out. MONSTER RATTLESNAKES. [Wilmington Review.) We saw this morning two rattle snakes of Mr. J. H. Strauss' store in Brooklyn, that were killed by his son,. Mr. James Strauss, at White Oak. One was 64} inches long, 3} inches across the head and 10 inches around the body. The other was 75 inches long, 2 inches around the body and 21 inches across the head. They were killed by Ms. Strauss on Thursday with a stick. T wo large rattlesnake skins, tanned and dressed, were brought up to the city this morning for the purpose of having slippers made for seven mem bers of the engineer corps of the W., 0. & E. C. Railroad. The snakes were killed by members of the corps. One of them was of the diamond back variety, which is somewhat rare. Negroes Wanted In Mexico. CITY OF MEXICO VIA GALVESTON, August 23.-Messrs Ellis and Ferguson, commissioners of negro immigration, have had an offer of a large tract of land for negro colonists. Cotton goods manufacturers have formed a combina tion to purchase cotton in the United States. Missionary Enterprise. [Omaha World-Grower.) Heoffer-What are you engaged in now? Pfeiffer-I'm in Omaha manufac turing Indian relics to sell at church fares for the benefit of the heathen. The Eclectic. The September ECLECTRIC recom mends itself as usual to the readers and lovers of good literature. The distin guished artist and writer, WV. W. Story, under the title of "Recent Conversa tions in a Studio,d' gives us a racy and suggestive discussion of various to pics in art, politics, and social life. Karl Blind, the veteran socialist and refor mer, has a word of importance to say on the New Italy as in some measure the outgrowth of seeds planted by such men as Giordano Bruno, the philoso pher. who died for freedom of opinion in the year 1600. There is a most readable paper of a scientific turn, but amusing and racy, on "'The Potato's Place in History," which is a model for articles of popular science. A clever anecdotical paper on Goethe and Carlyle makes the reader wish it were longer. Professor Sayce's discussion of "The,Primitive Home of the Aryans" is of superior scholarly interest. A much wider clientele, however, will be found for Goldwin Smith's striking article on "Progress and War," one of the best of recent papers by this able writer. "Dr. Johnson on Modern Poetry"isan inter view in the Elysian Fields with that bluff old intellectual giant, and is cleverly done by Mr. Watson. Father Barry contributes a. seasonable word entitled "Wanted, A Gospel for the Century," indicating those needs which demand a revivication and even revolu tion in religious methods. Mr. John Rae tells us about the Russian peas antry in his article "An Empire of Crofters." Sir Morell Mackenzie con tributes the second part of his article on "Speech and Song." For most of our readers, however, the remarkable contribution entitled "The Papacy: A Revelation and a Prophc,' 'will be the most interesting paper in the num ber. The minor articles are well chosen. Published by E. R. PEON, 25 B3ond Street, NewVYork. Terms, $5 per year. KNOCKING OUT THE SURPLUS. Our National Debt Increasing Under the Republican Administration. f New York Herald.] There is good Democratic campaign thunder in the statement of the public debt issued to-day. The debt has in creased within the month $6,076,692, and within the fiscal two months of the fiscal year it has increased $7,094,003. The contrast between July and Au gust, 1888, the beginning of the last fiscal year, under the prudent adminis tration of Secretary Fairchild, is at least remarkable. The debt was de creased in August, 1888. $7,324,676, and during the two months of July and August it was decreased $11,401,974-a difference in the recerd of the two months of $18,555,977. This result has come about this year in spite of an in crease of over $500,000 in the receipts since July 1. A part of the difference is accounted for by the payment during August, 1889, of $9,786,390 as premiums on bond purchases, against $,302,932 in August, 1888. The figures for the two months were $40,36,546 in 1889 and $1,400,619 in 1888. The difference is not due to the fact that Secretary Fairchild's pur chases were so much smaller than Sec retary Windom's, but that he bought more largely of the four and a half per cent bonds at an average price of 108, While Mr. Windom has bought more largely of the four per cents at 128. This difference, however, accounts for but $2,600,000 of the increased ex penditures for the two months. THE SURPLUS BUSTER. Corporal Tanner, the chief of the Pension Bureau, has made even heavier inroads upon the surplus than he did in July. His record for the month is $20,243,969, and for the two months $35,492,214. The total for the same two months of 1888 was $25,947,888. The total appropriations for pensions for the present fiscal year.is $81,756,750, and at his present rate of progress the- Com missioner would exhaust the amount in less than five months and create a surplus of twice the magnitude of the original appropriation. It is expected, iowever, that having paid some big arrearages he will moderate his de inands a little; and perhaps ask an ad ditional appropriation of no more than thirty or forty millions. But the- dashing Commissioner of Pensions should not be made the scape goat of the increase. -in expenditure. For the last three mohths the ordinary expenditures of the government, which exclude pensions, interest and premium, have shown a steady advance over those of 1888. In June the figures were $10,932,403, against $9,615,615 in 1888; in July they were $18,277,376, against $12,650,899; in August they were $13,674,588 against $10,979,872. REVENUE RECE9IPTS. The receipts from customs show a slight failing off during the past month, being $20,618,935, against $21,968,506 in August, 1888, but there is a compensa ting increase in the internal revenue receipts, which are $11,956,233, against $10,631,908. The total receipts for the month just past were $34,470,905 and the expenditures $38,269.249. The total debt, less cash in the Treasury, is now $1,063,740,625. The interest bearing debt is made up of $131,695,600 of 4} per cent. bonds, due in 1891, and $663,141,000 of four per cent. bonds, due in 1907. The surplus in the Treasury is now $43,489,909, against $65,867,090 a month ago, and $107,673,310 on August 31, 1888. Notwithstanding the adherence of Secretary Windom to the conservative policy of Secretary Fairchild in buying bonds, the administration seems to have been eminently successful in get ting rid of the surplus. If matters go on at this rate it may be a question with Congress how to raise revenue to meet a deficit rather than how to re duce taxation upon the people. ALLIANCE COTTON. A Big sale Thursday at Barnwenl on Alliance Day. [Special to Augusta Chronicle.) BLACKVILLE, S. C., Sept. 5.-This was Alliance day at Barnweil, Court House. It was decided at a previous meeting to make this saleday for alliance cot ton, and by 12 o'clock the streets of the town were crowded with wagons loaded with bales covered with cotton bagging. Eight of the sub-alliances had a joint meeting, and at 1 o'clock a crier an nounced from the court house steps that all alliance cotton would be taken to the depot, weighed and offered for sale. Immediately thirty-four wagons with fifty-nine bales formed into line and were taken to the place designated. As the sale had not been announced out of the county enly two buyers were present. The entire lot was bought by Col. Mike Brown, consequently the sales were increased to sixty-five or seventy bales and only about five or six bales were covered with jute. In future all alliance cotton will be sold at Barnwell on Thursday of each week. Mary's Little Lamb. [From the Detroit Journal.] "Yes, ma'am," -said the butcher, "there's as nice and tender a roast of lamb as you'll find in the market. I wouldn't sell it to anybody blit an old customer, like you. It was my eldest daughter's little pet lamb. -It broke my heart to let it go. You see, she had played with it ever she was a little girL I--I mean to say-oh, you prefer some vealcutlets.Shallsend 'em up, ma'am?'r Two Edgefield Youths. [Edgefield Advertiser.] Twenty-five years ago, an Edgefieldfi.;e routh left our town to make his for ;une in the West, poor in purse, but': ich in everything else. He went to 4 Louisville, Ky., became a civil en ineer and prospered. Last week this elf same youth came back to Edgefield )m a visit to his relations whom he had eft behind. But how did he come, as ie went off, with a grip sack in his - aand? No. He came back in his own ialace car as the general superintendent )f one of Georgia's magnificent rail oads, and his name is -William Henry SicClintock. About five years after Sir. McClintock's departure,. another Edgefield youth, filled with the same imbition, went to the Rensselae: Polytechnic Institute of Troy, N. Y4 where he graduated in civil engineer ng, and soon thereafter took service ,with the Westinghouse company of hat State, a company whose name is r mnown wherever practical, mechanical : cience is known. He soon becamea? rusted employe of the firm, then a artner, and to-day his name is known' ill over the Southland everywhere as he most practical level-headed, best. nformed and gifted engineer of the. period. This name is Daniel Augustus. I'hompkins. Had did these two youngt men achieve such a remarkablesu6ess . Why, just in this way. When the left Edgefield each one carried in Left hand a 'grip sack, but in his rig band He bore a banner, with this strange device-Excelsior! That little banner did the work., Buried Alive. I have always had more or less ave sion to being buried alive, and w. Y ever I meet with an undertaker under- ; favorable circumstances, I never faito question him concerning the 'pro bability that I may breathe my last in. my coffin six feet under the sod, says a: orrespondent of the Chicago Jonrnal'. [had an earnest conversation with onie Df that guild yesterday, and this is the) mun of what h-9 said: "This ho i= .bout the danger of being buried alive. is the merest bosh in the world. -F don't believe there ever was anybo. i buried alive unless it was done on-por pose. Dr. Tanner is keeping.a eount of all the premature. barii porteche4 newspe h3 e that all those reporta_re They are doing a more sensiblethingr in France. In that country a-l , man who took a great interestin t subject not only clipped these reo from the newspapers, but ran.eve one of them down to their sources. He investigated hundreds of them, and- ,.. conclus;= br tnob was ever buried alive by mistas is exactly what I believe about it, though I reach my conclusion in a. different way. Every dead body hasa peculiar and unmistakable odor long before decomposition sets in. Let me bury yoif. I will guarantee that you will not be buried alive, and if jou ' should be you needn't pay me a cent.? Died Under Faith Treatmnent. FINDLAY, Ohio, Sept. 1.-In the lit tIe town of Bluffton, just west of this city, is a band of faith cure people, -' who, it is said, have permitted four or five persons to die lately while await- i ing cure from prayer. Their latest sup posed victim was Bert Williams, a young man seventeen years old, who ran against a stake in the yard of'a neighbor while playing ball and bruised his leg just below,- the knee, but not in what was considered at the - time a serious way. In a few days, however, the limb gave him consider able pain, and Dr. Clarke was called. He examined the limb, and finding the bone slightly bruised scraped the in jured part, sewed up the leg and left tile boy in good shape, expecting to call daily and give the wound the. necessary treatment to make it heaL. That day, unfortunately for the boy, the faith cure people got hold of him, and made him believe that if he had , faith the Lord would perform a mira ce by healing him at once by prayer. The stitches were removed from the leg and the prayers begun, but no one ever made better time. on the way to the grave than did young Williams af ter putting himself under the influence of these people. He was taken to the sanctuary of the "Faith Cure"? in Bluffton, where no attention whatever was given him be yond prayer, and he was soon in a horrible condition. Gangrene set in and the limb nearly rotted off, the smell from the decomposing member'. becoming so offensive to the neighbor hood that on Friday he was again re moved to his home, where he died yesterday. 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