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FIGUItES FOR THlE CAMPAIGN.
Comptroller Verner's Co,tribution to th
Fight.
[Special to News and Courier.]
COLUMB!A, May 13.-This must be
veritable "campaign of education.
The reckless attacks which have beer
made upon the administration of th,
State Government by Capt. Tillnal
and his supporters compel resort to b
made to statistics. Charges must b
met by facts. Statistics may not H
very interesting to those who maintair
the fraction of a mill of taxation to b<
a great burden, but they will have t<
be listened.to in this campaign.
Here is ammunition for a great man,
speeches in a tabulation made by Comp
troller General Verner of the appropri
ations by the Legislature at its last ses
sion. - The classification is his an<
must be considered authoritative
These tables will present in a forn
adapted to easy reference the severa
items of State expenditure. They wil
be used by both sides in the contro
versy, and possibly diverse morals wil
be drawn from them.
But, without entering upon a minut
analysis of the figures, it may be re
marked that the burden of State taxa
tion is less than $1 per capita of popu
lation, that the total expenditures prop
erly attributable to the executive, ju
dicial and legislative department:
could be more than paid by the phos
phate royalty received by the State, and
that almost half of the expenditure it
for the payment of interest on the Statl
debt and the support of the charitabl<
institutions of the State.
Appropriatious, 1889-90.
EXECUTiVE.
Governor's salary..............$ 3,500 0(
Private secretary............... 1,500 0(
Governor's messenger........ 400 01
Contingent fund............... 5,00) 0(
Civil contingeut fund......... 1,000 0(
Repairs Executive Mansion
and insurance.............. 750 0(
Stationery and stamps........ 250 0U
Total........................$ 12,400 04
Secretary of State's salary..$ 2,100 0(
Clerk, secretary................. 1,500 0(
Contingent fund.............. 250 0(
Stationery and stamps....... 20 0(
Total........................$ 4,100 0(
Comptroller Gen'ssalary.....$ 2,100 o(
Chief clerk........................ 1,50() 0(
Bookkeeper ..............1,500 0(
Contingent fund............... 300 0(
Stationery and stamps...... 250 0(
Printing........................ 2(0 0C
Examining book Auditor's 300 UC
Total........... $ 0,150 0C
W State Treasurer's salary......$ 2,100 0C
Chief clerk................... 1,500 00
General bookkeeper........... 1,500 00
Bookkeeper, loan departui't 1,500 0C
Contingent fund............... 250 0
Stationery and stamps........ 250 00
Total............... 7,100 0*.
Salary Sup't Education..$ 2,100 0(
Clerk ......................... 1,200 of
Contingent fund.............. 200 0*.
Stationery and stamps... 150) 04
Printing for public schools 600 0*.
TraAeling expenses......... 300 O(
. Total.................$ 4,550 0(
Ady't and Inspector Ger.
eral, salary............$ 1,500) 0(
Clerk.................. 1,2000%t
State armorer, etc........... 700 0(
Contingent fund............ 150 0(
Stationery and stamps... 100 0(
Travelling,.nspections, etc 750 0(
Repairs on armory......... 100 0(
Maintenance military or
gainzation............ 14,000 0(
Total.................$ 18,5*,0 0(
Attorney General, salary.. .S 2,100 0(
Assis't Att'y Gen's salary 1,50)0 0*
Contingent fund............ 150 0(
Stationery and stamps... 60 0(
Expenses litigation......... 1,500 0(
Total........... ...... 5,310 0*
State librarian, salary...$ 625 04
Contingent fund............. 12 0(
-Stationery and stamps.... 200) 0(
Total.:...........$ 950 0
Salary State House keeperS 500 0*
Contingent fund............ 10 0*
Watchman State House.. 8004 0(
Janitor State House......... 240 0t
Engineer heating appa
ratus, ete................. 1,00*) 0(
Lighting State House and
grounds.................. 1,2() 0t
Fuel State House and re
pairs of furniture.... 1,500 0(
Total.................$ 5,340 6(*
Grand total exec've dep'nm'tS 64,40 0*O
JUDICIAL DEPARTM ENT.
Salary Chief Justice....... 4,0440 (x*
Two Associate .Justices... 7,000 (*4
Eight Circuit Judges...... 2,o00 (H
Eight solicitors............ 12,5(0 (*4
Eight stenograp)hers.......... 10,20 0*1
Clerk Supreme Court........1,0(1* of
State reporter..............1,4*00' (0
Salary librarian and others 1,300) (*4
Conting't fund Sup'e Court 650 (M4
Purchasing books ........... 1,10 0*o
Total...............$ 66,750 (H4
LEG ISLATIVE 1DEP'ARTMENT.
Senate.
Senators' per diem and
mileage ................5 6,500 04
Clerk, Senate.............. 1,00 (*4
* Assistant clerk............. 28) Go
Journal clerk................ 225 01I
B eading clerk............... 20 (H
. Sergeant at-arms ............ 250 (*4
Bill clerk..................... 145 (*4
Clerk judiciary committee 145 0*4
('lerk finanee commlnittee. 145 4s
Railroad committee..... 145 o
Doorkeepers......-............ 201 a;
Laborers ...................... 174 01
Porter, offlee clerk Senate 5.5 4
Pages.......................... 11w; u
Maii-carrier;................... 7 o
Contingent fund............ 1,300 0
.,vorse of Represemtatives.
Per diem and mileage ........$ 21,500
Clerk ................................ 1,000
Assistant clerk................. 250
Journal clerk .......5
Reading clerk.................... 350
Sergean t-at-arms 25)
il cl r ........................ 4
Bill clerk.............. 14.5
t Clerk Judiciary committee.. 1-15
Clerk ways and means con
nttee ................. -4
Doorkeepers, three at $87
each ....................... .21
1 Pages, four at $58 each......
Laborers, four at $58 each... 22
Porters committee rooms,
three at $58 each......... 174
Porter to Speaker and clerk 116
1 Mail-carrier ..................... 11f;
Contingent fund............... 2,500
Total........................$ 27,741
Engrossing department......$ 3,400
Extra clerical services........ 250
Indexing statutes.............. 250
Stenographic report memo
rial services ................ 25
$ 3;)25
Senate ............................. 11,081
Total Gen'l Assemubly$ 42,747
Public printing................. 18,000
Grand total..............$ 60,747
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
Salary quarantine officer at
Charleston ..................$ 1,800
Station at Charleston 1,000
Officer at St. Helena........... 800
Station at St. Helena......... 150
Officer at Port Royal......... 800
Station at Port Royal......... 300
Keeper hospital................ 200
Officer at Georgetown........ 500
Station at Georgetown...... 150
Keeper Lazaretto............. 400
State board health............. 2,000
Publishing tracts on dis
eases .......................... 500
Erecting quarantine build
ings ................. 200
And fumigating an-I quar
antining ag'st disease 3,000
Total........................$ 13,600
TAX DEPARTMENT.
Salaries auditors...............$ 22,900
Printing, audit'rs and treas
urers ........................... 2,500
- -
Total.................$ 25,400)
South Carolina University
insurance and repairs..$ 2,5(K)
Librarian University........ 500
Books University library... 1,000
Schools in University........ 34,000
Mechanical department..... 4,000
i Claflin College.................... 5,000
Citadel Academy............... 20,000
Insurance Citadel buildings 400
Winthrop Training School' 5,400
Total ........................8 72,800
CLEMSON COLLEGE.
From State Treas'r, 18S9-90$ 3,000
From State Trersurer........ 1.5,000
From privilege tax=1888-89 10,000
From privilege tax, 1889-90 15,000
Total........................$ 43,000
PENAL AND CHARITABLE INSTIT
TIONS.
Salary Sup't PenitentiaryS 2,100
Captain guard Penitentiary 1,200
Physician Penitentiary... 1,200
Chaplain Penitentiary... 600
Clerk Penitentiary......... 1,200
Total...............$ 6,300
-LUNATIC ASYLUM.
Salary superintendent... 3,000
Per diem and mileage re
gents................... 2,000
Current expenses......... 100,000
Patients' library............3,00
Temporary building, color
ed insane ............... 3,000
Experts teaching children.. 500
Total...............$ 111,600
DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND) ASYLUM.
Support of Asylum.......$ 13,000
Insurance................... 425
Repairs ...................... ;500
Water works.... .......... 600
Total............... 14,525
Catawba Indians.........$ 800
MISCELLANEOUS.
Aid State Agricultural and
Mechanical Society..$ 2,500
Water public buildings... 2,000
Examiuimg StateTreasur
er's books................ 159
Consolidation oebt...... 1,000
Claims..................... 15,000
Railroad commissioners... 6,300
Clerk railroad commission
ers..................... 1,200
Contingent fund Railroad
Commissioners.......... 350
Supervisors registration... '7,200
Transportation convicts. 5,000
Pensions..................... 51,200
Work on State House... 60,000
Commssioersof election.. 15,000
D)eficiency printing...... 2,959
Messengers of election.... 1,204)
Books, blanks general elec
tion.................. 30
Registration certificates... 500
Note to American Book
Note Company......... 1,018
C'om't. examining book
keeping.................. 121
State board of equalizationi 84$
Salary Iu't. Governor... 8'8
Cases Confederate flag.... 2(0
Winrig State House for
electricity...............I 1,00
F'ouchet & Blanton......... .l t00
Jack Field............ ..... T
M. L~. Honhama, Jr r........ 1
Strom & Lyon............... 0
$ l77,iW,0
Interest public dlebt....... :*8 ,000
)Executive de.partmen:t.... :r4,400
)Judicial dlepartmlent..... 00, 1:AJ
)Legislative departm<.nt..... 00747
)Health departument..... ... J,0
) Tax department......... I0
) University.................I 'A.,80
) Penitentiary.............. 4J0
SLunatic Asylum.........II 1,000
) D)eaf, D)umnb arnd Ilil
.) Asylum ............ 14,5>
4 Catawba Indians............ 8(44
) Miscellaneous........... 17,5I
Intere.4 public debt.... ~ 3 3,006
-Tot al...............$1,040,278
TIlE BIlLL SNORT LETTIS
(4(--~~
00 Col. Snort Returns frnm Ilis Trip-Ge
(4) Huston's Nose Out of Joint-How 114
00 Paid IIis Trave-ling Expenses-What
00 a Colored Man Thinks of Brer
() Ilarrison.
00 [ly Alex E. Sweet.]
IN) W i: H os:, My 2 189).
( lajo r Ila~ Mc( ary, Editor and Pr
(N prietor Houston Age, Houston, Tea
(if ) v Dl:A M.uu-Having "sI'wu
around the circle," and finished n
00 tour of inspection, I have returne
00 like Noah's dove,.to the White Hou
04 ark. The President greeted me hca
- tily, and from the sneering way
(O which he alluded to General Huston
O0 suspect that reaction has set in-I ev(
00 hope that Bill Snort will once mo
00 become the pow%"er behind the tlrol
00 and the bumptious Huston be retir
- from circulation. . I only wish I
00 could have heard what the Repub
10 cans along the route had to say ahoi
- Harrison getting a second term.
00) My trip has been a success financia
- ly, and I have strengthened thL-parl
00 in various places where it needed i
My expenses in actual cash were ver
light. I had a wad of blank applic
00 tions for oflice with ne, and when
00 sleeping car porter or a landlord sougl
04) to rob mue I made out his applicatir
00 for some position and he was satisfie,
00
04) I have collected considlerab)le mom
0bi from ofliceholdels along the route I
00 intimating to them that the Preside
00 proposed to civil service reform the
00 out of their positions, and that I alol
00 could restrain his reckless arm. WheI
ever I made this statement voluntai
00 contributions were forced on me.
(40 can't tell yet how much I'll make oi
- of this trip, as I will have to "divy
00 with Huston and several other corni
rants.
00 The appointments all over the coui
try have been wretchedly nismai
00 aged. In certain localities, where tl
00 respectable element of the Republica
- party is in the majority, the oflic,
have been bestowed on short-hair(
0 toughs, or creatures who should be i
00 the Asylum for the Feeble Miinde
0) but who are either distantly related 1
00 the President or some of his friends.
04) I wrote my last letter to you frol
04)
0 Chicago. Quite a number of prow
00 nent Republicans called on me to pa
- their respects. I could hardly belici
00 my ears when I listened to their lur
remarks about our President.
course, leGary, you understand th,
0 I am writing to you confidentially.
00 would not do to publish the priva
00 opinions of these statesmen.
00 John M. Clark, of Chicago, is su
00 posed to be friendly to Harrison, bi
- the last thing he said to me was:
"Col. Snort, our friend, Gen. Hu
toi, may be able to build a worni fen
around a winter supply of sunnm
0 weather, or he may hive all the stars i
00 a nail keg, but he will never be able1
00 ram Harrison down our throat again.
00 Ike Clements, another big bugi
the Republican camp, said:
__"Col. Snort, I honor and respect yo
and if you want to get tile nominatic
for tile Presidency we will attend to
D0 for you; but Harrison will not go dow:
He reminds me of these early Florih
00strawberries. He tastes as if he h:
DO been pickeled and too enuch vinegl
00 had been used."
NOTE.-I hope, MIajor, if you het
00any rumors in Texas that I am goir
-before tile Rtepublican convention
00 opposition to Harrison, just state
your paper that thley are premiature.
Col. James A. Sexton, of Chicago,
00so red hot about the way the Presidei
00 has treated Foraker arnd the soldi.
00 element, that if you touch him lhe si
00 zes. Jim says if the President evs
- comes near him he will get a hiospit
00 instead of a hospitable reception.
00 Jimi is also very bitter against Ge:
Huston, and requested me to tell Hu
ton to shut his mouth anld lock itc
the inside.
"O I visited St. Paul, MIinnesota, ar
00made the acquaintance of Joe BobI
o0 ter, who is State treasurer. He sai
(40 "Snort, there is no0 disguising the fa
30 that Harrison's trying to wvear Rlutl
erford B. H-ayes's mantle reminds n
00 of a small boy groping under a circi
tellt.'"
00This, I think, is tile most seve:
04)
00 thing I ever hleard said about anybod;
00~ Like calling a man a liar in Kenituels
00 -it covers the whole ease. Bobleti
Sis in favor of Alger.
92 State Auditor, WV. Q. Braden, 1
444 marked, with a sigh: "I notice
change of sentiment against Harriso:
(I don't expect anything good fron
0)Harrison. Like our German fellos
97 citizens, I am prepared for the wurst.
I talked withl F.. W. Hoyt, of lb
W \ing, Minnecsota. Whlen he tall
:y4 about the way H arrison hlas distri
(NJ uted t be loaves anrd fishes he gros
re.d at tile roots of his hair, anid his ml
tions are siriuilar to those of a mlan wil
ena bug in his earf, only thecy are<'1uickt
410 EKx-ltailroadl Cornmlissionler Mu:
40do' la uhughled at the idea of 11 arris<
4jbeing ill thle raee ill 1592. Hie alsor
- arked synical ly: ''If the ohlice hur
'si edl the moan in Iliarrisoni's casec it 1inu
hlave uised a rouierlscp5PPle'"
A t ('obimus .lr. W. 0. Talford 51a
that th Ii'uo1(st unlworthby ltepublic:i
44( have been appoinlted to ollicie. TI'
(40 respecte4ab le lI epubliican w ho tried
(4( get an1 (aflice r'einuindued himu (of a b
puttinlg ill eight hiours a da:y flatteri.
443 his nIose againlst (lie window Pf a uo
444 fectioniery.
I). ( . Waxirrig, lead i n;;colored pc
(p4 ticianl, and oneI of the purest (lark mn
442 hogany-colored darkeys I ever saw,1
40) marked bitterly: "Dlon't talk ter
about dat Harrison. I has had x.
eye on him for yeahs and yeahs, anl'
'i no fren,1 oh de n11n,d race. X
kain't do nutflin d '-at sort of a inan,
Yer kain't take de tWi t outen de rgral"
n. vine by culter:atinh' hit."'
It made my blood run cobl to h-i.
heard a colorcd Voter u.e s-u0h 1::!
guage about a I;eplubiliean Presidenit.
But. my dear M:yr. I expect yu
have had enough. The lI;tpubli;e:11
find Harrison too lo. At Albany
somhhebody hit mhe on, ihe tire oft the ear,
-with an egg that wa- n', longer yonn-i.
The man who wafted the testim ,ni;l!
at me was a Ie;<publicant bro: hr.
That's the way I was treated lecause I
Srepresented the Adliiiistrat ion. That',
'e how Harrison is popular. Kiuwlel_e
r- like mine. drawn fr++a experience, is
t quite another kind from that drawn
from Harrison himself.
At some of the stations there were del
e egations of Republicans waiting for ill(
with rails, ropes, tar, feathers, etc., but
I bribed the conductor to run p:st
without stopping.
I forgot to mention that I siired
it
violence at the hands of a -tronn
minded woman in Mlinnesota. The
President is opposed to women holdl
Sing oflice, atd has told ime to snub all
t. women delegations that call at t,e
y White House. When the ladies com
posing the Womwan's Club called at
a the White House to see Harrison he
it told mhe to get rid of t het any w:ay I
hliked. So I oflered to bet them $ In
that there was not a woman in the
y crowd that didn't wear stockings with
y holes in them. It was one of t h s:
it women that identified me at once. I
11 happened to be in the oflice of a law
0
e yer in Chicago when she came in. I
never again will doubt the ability of a
woman to fill an office. She filled that
Office very completely for the time be
l ing. She could have filled an oflice
twice the size. When, on my return
to Washington, I informed the Presi
dent of what I had undergone, he
laughed in a hoarse, brutal manner.
Yours, for reform,
1eBILL -_'N0,Tr.
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!s CLEVELAND ENDORSES THE ALLI
d ANCE.
I
The Ex-President Believes that its Plat
form of Principles Spring from the
People.
1 ST'ENvILLE, Ohio, May 12.--. A.
1 Hill, corresponding secretary of Oak
Y Grove Lodge, No. 2", Farmers' Alli
e ance, near this city, wrote to ex-Pres
d ident Cleveland a few weeks ago, en
)f closing a copy of the declaration of
it purposes of the Alliance, and asking
[t for Mr. Cleveland's views thereon.
re Anong the declaration of purposes are
the following:
- To labor for the education of the ag
It ricultural classes in the science of econ
oniical government in a strictly non
- partisan spirit.
:e To secure purity of the elective fran
r chise and to induce all voters to intelli
n grently exercise it for the enactnent and
o execution of laws which will express
the most adva~nced pnblic senltimenti
Iupon all questions involving the inl
terests of laborers and farmers.
1, To suppress pecrsonlal, local, sectional
Sand national prejudices, all unheialth
Sful rivalry and all selfish amibition.
S Mr. Cleveland replied as follows :
a J. A. Hill, correspondinlg secretary, &e:
d IDear Sir-I have received your letter
tr accompainied by a cop)y of thbe declara
tion of principles of the Farmers' Alli
rance.
I see nothling in this declaration
n that cannot be fully indorsed by any
nmani who loves his coun try, who be
.lieves thlat the object of our govern
is ment should be the freedomt, p)rosperity
it and happiness of all our people, and
er .ho believes that justice and fairness
St.o all are necessary conlditionIs to its
er useful administration.
ii It has always seemed to mue that the
farmers of the country wvere especially
Linterested in ani equitable adjustment
s- of our tariff systemn.
'The indifference thley have shown to
that questionl and the ease with whlich
d they have been led away from a sober
consideration of thleir needs and their
1
rights, as related to thlis subject, have
aexcited my surprise.
- Struggle as they miay, our farmlers
eC Inust continue to be purchasers and con
ssunmers of numberless things enhlancedI
in cost by tariff regulations. Surely
e0 they have t.he. right to say that this
' cost shall not be increased for the pur
pose of collecting unnecessary revenue
ror to give undue advantage to domestic
mnanufacturers. The plea thlat our in.
Sfant industries need the protection
a wvhich thus impoverishes the farmier
1and consumer is, in view of our- natu
ral advantages and the skill and in
,genuity of our people, a hollow p)retext
Struggle as they may, our fatrmiera
dcanlnot, escape) tihe conditions whieb:
i-fix the price of what they produce andt
sell, according to tile rates which pre
's vail in foreign markets, flooded with
rj~ tihe competition of countries enjoying
Ifreer exchlange of trade than we. The
"plausible presentation of the ble.ssing:
r- of a home miarket should not deceivt
iour depressed and( imIpoverished agri
e- cultuirists. Thiere is no, hIomei markel
tfor themI which does not take its in
sstructionis from tIhe seaboard, and th<4
seaboard transniits tile word of the
id foreigni miarkets.
as Becautse miy conviction thlat thter<
1e should be a miodificationl of our tarit
to laws arose pr:iipally from anl appre
ay eiatian (of the wanlts of the vast arm:'
g of consumers, comprising our farmers
I- our artisanis and our wvorkinigmlen, an<(
because their coniditioni has led meI t<
i- p)rotest algainIst tile present imipositionl
a- I ami especially glad to see these see
e- tions of my fellow-countrymen arous
ae ing themselves to the impo)trtanie o]
ty of tariff reforni.
be Yours very truly,
BILL .1t"S PHILOSOPHY.
The Charaet:"r of a Live Town-A Notable
Example of Push and Pluck.
"What constitutes a State?" We all
know that and can answer the poet,
but what constitutes a~town or city? I
was rumninating over this while cruis
ing around Aneri:us in the electric
car. Three years ago I was in Anieri
(1ns and it was a nice little town of
three thousand people, and now it has
daily papers and electric street cars,
and waterworks. and gasworks, and an
ice factory, and oil mills, and com
presses, and a cotton factory, and fur
niture factory, and a plauing mills,and
a brick plant that makes fifty thousand
a (lay, and has many other industries,
and the population has increased to
9,000 people, and there is a splendid
new court house that is paid for, and
an opera house, and they are building
a hundred thousand dollar hotel. Beau
tiful dwellings have been erected all
along the electric line, and everywhere
you go here are signs of thrift and pros
perity. There are fifty men in Ameri
eus who are worth fifty thousand dol
lars and over, and they range as high
as half a million. There are four banks
and an investment company, with half
a rhillioln capita!, and the stock is worth
-tt0 a share.
What did all this? Who did it, and
how was it done? Every aspiring town
in the State would like t.) know. It is
said that agriculture is the basis of all
p>rosperity, but the landF of Sumter
('ouuty are no richer than they used to
he. nor do they produce any more cot
ton, or corn or oats to the acre. What
has given such a stimulus to Amerl
cus?
There is a good old maxim that
"heaven helps those who help them
selves." Colonel Evan Howell caine to
our town two years ago, and told our
people that same old thing, and recited
one of old Esop's fables, about the par
t ridge and her young ones in the wheat
field, and how the young birds were
alarmed when they heard the farmer
say he was going to invite the neigh
bors to come and cut his wheat the
next day, but the old bird wasn't at all
alarmed, for she knew that the neigh
bors were not coming.
Our Cartersville people are still wait
ing for the neighbors, but these Ameri
cus people have acted on that good old
maxim, and they had a leader who
opened a school and took up the whole
community as scholars. I verily be
lieve that if Colonel Hawkins had not
lived in Americus the town would
have been what it was three years
ago.
A progressive leader is a great boon
to a town. Colonel Hawkins built a
little railroad about fifty miles long and
wouldn't let it connect with anything,
but stopped it in the woods, and he
built it without capital, or bonds or
syndicates or state aid, but he built it
and it brought trade to the town that
it had never had before and gave it a
start, and then he organized various
imlprovemnent companies and built an
other railroad, and everything that he
touched prospered, and the people got
to believing that he couldn't make a
mlistake and they followed his lead,
andl very soo~n his spirit of enterprise
infused thle whole community, and
now when anything new is started the
tirst inquiry is, "What does Colonel
Hawkins think about it?" or, "Is Col.
Hawkins in it?" and that is all they
want to know. Hillucky star is still in
the ascendlant. He has made no blun
dlers. He has built over three hundred
miles of railroad, and they all point to
Amerieus. He is now worth half a mil
lion of dollars, and nobody has suffered.
Nobody is worth any less because he is
worth more. He has added to values.
He has increased the taxable property
of Sumter County not less than three
million dollars in the last five years.
Trowns have characters just lke indi
viduls. The young men of Americus
have mnore life anld more business en
terp)rise than any I know of. They
don't loaf around in the day nor go to
the billiard saloon at night. They are
all doing something, and have a good
bJank account. It is not popular to be
doing nothing ini that town. The fa
thlers andl mothers are happy because
their chlildren are doing well. My wife
says the ladies don't put on any style,
but are home-like and kind and social,
and can walk a quarter of a mile to
church or to pay a visit. That is just
splendid. All I want to know about a
wvoman is that she has to have the car
riage andI horses and driver brought out
to take her to the church that is only
two or three hundred yards away.
Southwestern Georgia is looking up.
Her fertile lands and delightful climate
aire at tracting visitors more than ever
before. Good farming lands are in de
nmandl all over the South. Shortly af.
ter the war the yankees gave us a
bureau for refugees and abandoned
lands, but that bureau has been trans.
ferred to V\ermont. Tihe truth is that
good farming is a paying ;business al
the South. Mr. McLendon's carefu]
examrination of tile tax returns proves
beyond all question that the farmers o;
Thomas County are p)rospering. I have
had little patience with all this bun
combe talk about the poor, down-trod
den, oppressed farmer. Industrioul
. farmers are doing as well as any trades.
men or profession that I know of. 0
course some of them are in debt and
h iave a hard time getting ont, but w4
>must remember that there are thre4
times as many farmers as all the othe:
occupations combined, and( there ari
- nlot three times af many failures.
f At least half the lawyers and doctor:
and dentists and school teachers anm
plreachers and editors are struggli ng fo
a meagre living, and so are the carpen
ters and masons and bla ksmiths. I
advertised for a superintendent of ot
public schools, and there were fort:
nine applicants. Look at the thousant
of the young men who are clerking f<
just enough to feed and clothe then
and there are thousands more wL
can't get any employment at all. The:
are the town boys and college boys
the very ones the farmer boys are ei
vious of. What good does all this fu!
about the tariff do the farmer? (
course the tariff needs reform, but ho
can the government go on without
tariff, and a pretty high one at tha
Two years ago there was urpa slus, bL
there is none now, and never will L
again while the pension business go(
on and increases from year to year.
I wonder if any sane man expect
the government to build a thousan
warehouses for the farmers to stor
their cotton and corn and produce ir
and appoint the officials, and then a<
vance money on their crops, so that th
farmer may hold for a higher price. ]
the like of that is to be done it seems t
me we ought to wait for the democral
to get in power again, so that all the:
new offices could be filled by them.
wonder if any farmer is banking hl
hopes on such a Utopian scheme. I se
that one of the high officials in the a
liance tells the farmers that this schem
would enable them to hold their cotto
until it got to fifteen cents a pound.
year or so ago they passed a resolutio
at Macon to hold for twelve and a ha
cents, but they didn't hold. Fiftee
cents would be right big trust,wouldn
it. There are less than a million peop]
engaged as landlords and tenants i
the production of cotton in the soutl
What will the other twenty millior
of our people say to an increase of fift
per cent. on their cotton goods? Whs
will the consumers and the poor of a
countries say to it? There is a mom
ment in London to Richard Cobder
and the epitaph is, "He gave the poc
cheap bread," but the epitaph of som
of these leaders would be, "He gave th
poor dear clothing."
I heard a good farmer say that rai!
ing cotton at ten cents per pound ws
a profitable business, and that any pri
dent, industrious man could get rich a
it. It has averaged ten cents for th
past ten years. Corn is bringing sixt
cents a bushel here in Cartersville, an
a good many farmers have it to sel
Their sweet potatoes have brougL
seventy-five cents all winter. Thei
chickens and eggs and pork and mu
ton are always in demand. Then whr
is the matter, and where are the of
pressed and distressed farmers? The
are not in this region, and the Amer
cus people told me they were not i
that region. That old song of
"Hark! Hark! the dogs do bark,
The beggars are coming to town,"
does not fit this blessed country.
thoughtful little girl, whose parent
have recently moved here from tb
North, asked a visitor where our poc
people lived. She was astonishedt
learn that we did not have any, neithe
white nor black-no suffering poor,
mean-nobody who has to live o
charity.
It seems to me that there is plent
of good work for the alliance to do thl
will avail more than all this talk abou
the tariffand the sub-treasury scheme
They can build up their co-operativ
stores in every country town and ge
their supplies cheaper, but their bij
State exchanges will not work. The
will take too much machinery an
capital and are too remote from ti
farmers. We see that one in Texas he
been sued for the misapplication of
million of dollars. These unpreten<
ing farmers' elubs in our country has
done more good to the members tha
all the alliance has done. They met
once a month and interchange viesi
and methods, and give in their e.xper
ence and experiments, and they farn
better every year and get their mi
chines and supplies from first hands.
The alliance of Wilkes County has ri
solved to vote for no man for the Legi:
lature who will not pledge himself t
support a bill that will limit a men
her's salary to two hundred dollars
year. That sounds like business an
reform too. If they will do that a
over the State maybe we can saa
something. The last session cost ti:
State one hundred and fifty thousan
dollars, and the general opinion is tha
there was less done than at any sessic
since the war. In fact, there w:
nothing done of any consequence e:
cept the lease bill of the State roa<
and that was only half done. Now 1i
the farmers give us a new set and b
gin the great work of reform. The
may do no better, but they can't vi
worse. BILL AlRP.
An Inhuman Colored Mother.
[Greenville News May 15.]
On Monday last -Lou Gaillard, cc
ored, gave birth to a child in a cottc
field about eleven miles from the cit
She was working in the field and w:
separated fromi the other hands. Aft
the child was born the mother dug
hole in the ground with a hoe she w
using and put the child in and covern
up the entire body. Another neg
woman who was working in the fie
suspected something wrong and open
accused the mother of giving birth
the child and secreting it. This ti
Gaillard woman deeied. The oth
told her if she did not tell where t:
child was she would brain her wi
the hoe she held in her hand. T
threat frightened the inhuman moth
and she conducted several to the pla
where the child was buried. The
found its feet protruding and took
out nearly dead. A physician wasse
for, but it was not thought the chi
.ould live.
Ie THE COTTON BAGGING QUESTION
Lr SOLVED.
Itamie, Pine Straw, ICotton Stalks or
Other Vegetahle Stuffs Reduced to
Fibre and Then Woven Into
1, Cloth, ad
o - ca
e [Atlanta Journal, May 10.] W4
- JCNIPER, May 9.-An invention wi
- which will forever solve the cotton gr
ss bagging question, a process by which fei
if ramie, cotton stalks, okra stalks, pine tei
v straw or any other vegetable texture in:
a can be reduced to fibre and than woven th
irito cloth, has assumed shape. is
t Mr. J. D. Stanley of Eastover, S. C., si
e is the inventor of the process and Mr. er.
s Franklin H. Lummus of cotton gin ar<
fame and of the quiet town of Juniper, th:
s Georgia, is general manager of the
d whole business. ho
e Bagging factories will be erected all is
, over the - cotton growing States, pine be
l- straw will be the material used, a new an
e indust- y will be started, the cost of a re<
f covering for cotton will greatly be sc)
o ( lessened, and the whole country will be So
s i.nmensely benefited. an
e Mr. Stanley's process has been thor- pa
I oughly tested. A glance over the cor- no
s respondence of Mr. Lummus reveals foi
e the perfect faith of experts in the busi- su:
1- ness, and numerous offers of sites, etc., ho
e which he has received, show that the mi
a people are willing to give their faith a oft
. substantial backing. in,
a Mr. Stanley sold his patent to the pa
ff Wilmington Fibre Company. This com- wi
a pany has offered it, at an immense St
t profit, to an English syndicate. This du
e syndicate holds an option which ex- tee
a pires the first of August. Should they sti
1 fail to trade, an Eastern company th
s stand ready to purchase the patent at m<
y an increased price. The trade is being
t made through Mr. Lummus, who will th;
1L incorporate his gin works into the busi- ful
ness. .Big money has already changed .A
, hands, and that bagging factories will in
r be set up all over the country is an sh
e assured fact. Some of the factories will
e turn out covering for this year's crop. Cc
The company will invest, to start on, yo
$ $375,000, and will be capitalized at a
s million dollars. The papers are all crn
drawn, and it only remains for the sce
,t money to be paid. Propositions offer- ria
e ing factory sites and an abundance of an
y pine straw land have come in from yo
many quarters. The South Carolina pe
. railroad, which runs from Charleston TI
t to Columbia, offers the use of all its to
r land, with additional inducements for Sc
the location of factories.
,t Messrs. Travers & Co., the largest mi
- carriage company in New York, pro- ha
y nounce the okra fibre made by the th
Stanley proces the best fibre for rope, no
a bagging, etc., ever seen. The okra fibre tr
is, in color, a beautiful white, and in m,
strength superior to hemp or flax. Okra th,
will grow on any soil with little cultiva- Cs
tion, and on rich land can be grown as sc]
high as fifteen feet. It is cheaper than hi
e jute, and the present tests indicate that th
r it will make better rope than any fibre
o known. Okra and pine straw are both ob
r difficult to burn. A lighted match th
hardly make an impression on the sit
afibre of either. sp
The value of the pine straw bagging gr<
made last season of green straw was
t greatly reduced by its dying the cotton in
t which it covered. The Stanley process kr
uses dry straw, requires no chemicals w<
e and produces a bagging that will not mal
stain at all. t
- I as.
PAISTEUR'S SUCCESS. ra'
Staisle o FveYears' Treatment of Hy- is
e drophobla. th
s --
a [From the New York Herald.] be
ph
The Pasteur Institute has just pub
e lished its comp)lete statistics regardingm
hydrophobia and the results of the de
Pasteur treatment during the five
s years which have elapsed since the in
method was first applied to human j
subjects. fo:
It was on the 6th of July. 1885, that ye
little Joseph Meister was brought to of
Paris by his heartbroken mother from ev
his home in Alsace. The boy had been th
0 so cruelly bitten the day before by a
mad dog that he could scarcely walk,
a and his life was despaired of. Up to
that time M. Pasteur had never dared
to experiment upon a man or woman ro
e with the terribls virus which, in an at
e tenuated form, had time and again.
d succeeded with animals. The boy gi
Lt lived, and went back to Alsace strong ye
n and well, and is to-day as sturdy a la sb
s5 as one could wish to see. Since -then ti'
~ the Pasteur method has gone round the
'world, and is every year saving thou- ti
t sand of lives in both hemispheres-- tr
HIYDROPHOBIA STATISTICS.
o Between January 1, 1886, and De- tb
cemiber 21, 1889, not less than 7,893 per- n
sons had been bitten by mad dogs and s
treated at the Pasteur Institute. Of
these, fifty-three died. In striking con- It
trast to this small fraction is the per- yn
- centage of deaths among persons bitten
*n ny mad dogs and not treated by thest
E- Pasteur method. Physicians are unan- fil
a5 imous in placing this percentage at ~
ar 15.90. In otber words, of 7,893 persons I
a actually treated, 1,26.5 would, but for c
a the great discovery, have died. M. fe
dPasteur can therefore have the satis-B
-faction of knowing that more than 1,2C0 *r
ro lives have been saved by his institute
Ld alone during the past five years.
ly It appears, furthermore, that of all h
tothe departments of France it is that of h
to the Seine which is the subject to hy- m
ie drophobia. This is accounted for by
er the immense number of dogs which t
roam about Paris and its environs. As
Lh a remedy for this state of things rig- St
torous measures are urged and enforced S
e by the police regarding stray dogs and S
er dogs known to have been bitten by hi
es mad dogs. at
THlE SEASON OF HYDROPHOBIA.
i nother fact demonstrated with the be
statistics is that it is not in snimmer, as n
ais generally supposed, that hydropho-' St
ld bia is most to be feared, but in the hel
spring, from February to May.
We Waa a State NormaL.
Within the past twenty-five years
ere has been great progress made in
ery branch of human industry. This
vance is natural and right. There
n be no such thing as standing still,
must either go forward or back
Lrd. In our country there has been
eater progress made in no one pro
sion, if I may so term it, than in
tching. The schools of to-day are
initely better in every respect than
ey were two decades ago. This fact
not due so much to a greater interest
wn in education by the people gen
LlIy, as it is to the fact that teaches
now better prepared for their work
an ever before.
[n our own State, I am sorry to say,
wever, that the training of teachers
3adly neglected. Indeed it has only
an within the past -few years that
y steps have been taken in that di
:tion. Simply because training
1ools have not been organized in
uth Carolina, numbers of teachers
nually go to other States for that
rticular instruction which they can
t get here. This is wrong, not wrong
the teachers to go, -but wrong that
icient facilities are not afforded at
me-in our own State. The young
n and ladies who leave the State
en fail to come back, because, hav
; been trained they can get better -
y for their work elsewhere. We
mnt first-class educators in our own .
ate and there must be some in
cement to have them here. Our
mchers need training, and county in
tutes and teachers' associations, al
Dugh doing a good work, do not fully
,et the demand.
What I wish to say in this article is
at some steps be taken in the near
:ure towards establishing a State
>mal School. Nearly every State
the Union has one or more, and we
Duld have one also.
[n 1886 a school was established in
lumbia for the purpose of training
ung ladies for school work.
[n 1887 the State legislature, to its
dit, created 34 schoolarships in the.
iool, yielding $150 each. This was
ht and expedient. Now these schol
hips are eagerly sought for by
ung ladies who appear at the com
titive examination held yearly.
mey are not only willing but anxious
attend the Winthrop Training
hool.
there is it is true, a Normal Depart
mt at the State Iniversity, and per
ps is doing good work for the few :s
at attend it. This department does - "
t meet the demand for normal '
duning in the State. Why does it not
,et the demand? Simply because
people do not regard the South
rolina University as a normal
ooL The University is considered a
gh grade classical institution-some
ing which every State should have,
From the catalogue of 1889-90, we
serve that there are three students in
e normal department of the Univer
y-only three young men receiving
eelal training in South Carolina for a
aat and highly important work.
T'here is an agricultural department
the University also. So far as I
.0W this may be doing very good
>rk. But whether it has met the de
mud or not is shown by the fact that
o years ago the people of the State
red for an agricultural college sepa
e and distinct from the University.
[t was felt that a classical institution
not a place to learn how to cultivate
e lands so that the best results may
obtained. The demand of the peo
was granted.
A.s the agricultura,l college does not
set the demand, certainly the normal
partment falls far short of it.
['here are seventy free scholarships
the Citadel Academy. Nobody ob,
:ts to this. But if the State .can at
d to train, every four years, seventy
ung men in the arts of war in times
peace, certainly it can afford to train
ery two years half th#t number in.
3 arts of peace.
Now what we want is a normal
1oo1 in some portion of the State
aich has for its only purpose the A
bining of young men for the school
om.
['his school should have scholarships
een by the State to one or more
ung men from each county who
all make the best grade at a competi
re examination.
Such a school would not cost the
ate a great deal. No large appropria
>n would be necessary, as afew well ,
ained instructors would be sufficient.
The students having finished the
urse should be required to teach in
e free common schools of the State a
imber of years'-two or more.
WVhat would be the effect of such a
hool?
It would make teaching a profession.
would make young men as well as
ung ladies feel that their work is a
ble one. The young man would not~
> into the school room expecting to
ay there only a year or so or until he
ads some more profitable employ
ent.
It would cause our people to take
ore interest in common school edu
tion. There is not as much interest
t in this matter as there should be.
ait if the teachers were thoroughly
ained they would show that there is
ally some:hing in education.
It would raise the teachers' standard
aher.
?ncomipetency or unfitness would
>t be tolerated.
The best positions would be filled by
e best teachers.
It would cause the best talent of the
ate to stay here and not go to other
ates for employment.
It would 1i11 the positions in our *
gh schools and colleges with .nen
iwomen from our own State. e
This short article has been written
cause I feel that trained teachers are
eded in our schools, and because the
ate has failed to provide properly for
r teachers.