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_t _ 12e3ewbtttv ettL11u Jtews.J_ nsAnTITSHET) 185 NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1890. PIE8.0AYA AN APPEAL TO PATRIOTS. Democrats Call on Their Fellow Demo crats for Fair Play. In accordance with the instructions of the Democratic Conference which met in Columbia on July 10th, the fol lowing address has been issued by the Advisory Committee: To the Democracy of South Carolina. All white Carolinians worthy of the race from which they sprang and of the name they bear, and entitled to share in the traditions of the past, the prosperity of the present and the hope of the future, are Democrats. To such, and only such, we earnest ly and confidently appeal. All that we have and are, all that we hope for and desire to transmit to our children, depends upon the continu ance of white supremacy in this State; and this supremacy upon our united devotion and loyalty to Democratic principles, unity, harmony and organ ization within party lines, obedience to the rules and faith in the justice and success of Democratic aims, purposes and methods. . To each succeeding generation of our race is entrusted the ark of civilization, and upon each devolves the sacred duty of defending, preserving and transmitting our racial heritage of civil and religious liberty, the fruits of labor and of thought, the garnered stores of material and-intellectual wealth-all that is good of what our race has won and held by hand or brain, by valor, industry or wisdom, throughout the ages. Is this generation of Carolina Demo crats equal to the trust? Judging the future by the past, we unhesitatingly answer, yes. It is, however, true that "eternal vigilance is the price of liber ty," and the least vigilant must now perceive that grave danger is impend ing over us. At a time when our State is prosperous beyond precedent, wax ing each day stronger in material wealth, leading in the race for mechan ical and industrial supremacy, our people living and thriving under laws made by legislators, interpreted by Judges and executed by officials of our own race and choice, with peace and security .at home, respect and credit abroad, we are suddenly confronted with such danger as has never before threatened the Democracy of this State: the danger of division in our own ranks. Infallibility and perfection are divine attributes, and have never yet been granted to human wisdom or human institutions. If injustice has been done, errors have been committed, or mistakes have been made, remember that to err is human; and remember also that the great party to which we belong is broad enough, strong enough, wide enough and just enough to right all wrongs, correct all errors, rectify all mistakes and mete out equal and im partial justice to all men. Remember that all true Carolinians are Democrats, and as such entitled to a full, free and equal share in the man agement, control and policy 'of the party, and that it requires the comn wined and earnest efforts of all Demo crats int the State to keep the Republi can wolf from our door. As Democrats, we know no class. Brothers in blood and race, destin~ed to stand or fa}l to gether, we deprecate all efferts, from whatever souree, to destroy the unity and integrity upon which the strength and life of our party depend;~ In order to better understand the position, we now occupy, let us recall the history of the movement which has resulted in the condition now con fronting us, and take counsel together on this extraordinary emergency in our party affairs. A A convention composed of farmel s representing not less than twenty-six counties in the State, held in the city of Columbia on December 1st, 1887, unanimously adopted the following resolutions: "Resotved, That it is not the purpose of the farmers of the State to make their organization a political body hos tile to other classes, nor is it their in tention to attack the integrity of the State officers, nor their policy to ar raign or dictate to the Legislature. * "That wve believe in the thorough organization of the farmers of the State with the object and firm purposa of developing its agricultural resources.'' These resolutions, reported by B. R. Till man as chairman of the committee on resolutions, were adopted without debate at his request, and expressed the purpose andscope of the movement inaugurated by him, (and the will of the people. represented in that move ment.) In November, 1888, another conven tion of the association was held at Co lumbia with small attendance, which elected a new Executive Committee, having G. W. Shell as president and chairman ex-offejo. No meeting of the association was called or held in 1889 and the Shell committee held over, their successors not having been ap pointed. In November, 1889, this com mittee met in secret without instruc tions from or notice to the association, and authorized G. WV. Shell, as chair man ex-offcio, to issue a call for a cou vention to meet in Columbia on the 27th day of March, 1890. Perverting the authority thus given and in willful disobedience of the expressed will and purpose of the association as set forth in the resolutions of 1887, G. WV. Shell, over his signature in his official capa city as president and ex-offcio chair man, and with the connivance of B. R. Tillmnan,as Tillman himiselves declares, issued the call now know:i as the Shell Manifesto, in which he says: "We will damw up the indictment against those who have been and and are still govern ing this," thus seeking to array the farmers in a position of hostility to other classes of Democratic citizens and to poison their minds against the offi cials to whom that party had entrusted the administration of the State govern ment since 1876. For his own selfish purposes, the farmers have been taught that to criticise Tillman is to abuse the Farmers' Movement, that to oppose his methods or nomination is to cppose the farmers themselves, and that to declare him unworthy of support is to say that the farmers have no right to meddle in politics or to suggest either men or measures to the party. We beg our bfother Democrats to disabuse their minds of all such ideas and to listen to us as friends who are equally interested with them in the true wel fare of the State. Not one farmer in ten believes the charges made in this campaign against the Democratic party or its officials. Every fair-minded advo cate of the Farmers' Movement sin cerely regrets that such charges have been made and rejoices that they have not been sustained. A majority of the Democrats who are embraced in this movement have just begun to realize the strength of organization and to re cognize the fact that in their hands rests the political power of the State under Democratic control. We believe that they endorse neither Tillman nor his statements or methods as such, but that their sole desire is to promote the success of their own movement. This brings us to common ground. A majority of the farmers in the move ment care not so much for Tillman as for the success of the movement; the great majority of other Democrats do not object to the movement, but do ob ject to Tillman. We all agree that within Democratic lines the farmers of the State have a decided and available majdrity, and can, with the assistance of their Democratic brethren of other avocations, so control the policy of the party as to secure to all classes their proper share of influence in the admin istration of the government. The attain ment of this result requires the free and cordial co-operation of all elements of the Democratic party. To secure such co-operation it is essential that the nominee of the party for the high office of Governor of this proud old commonwealth should not be a man who has besmirched her fair fame, slandered her officials, distorted her history, outraged her dignity, betrayed the confidence of his -own-supporters ,nd endangered the integrity of the Democratic party by sowing the seeds of dissension among its members; and there are grounds for apprehension that in the event of a refusal by the August Convention to order a primary election, and of the nomination of B. R. Tillman by the September Conven tion, a large number of his oj>ponents, while acquiescing in such a result on grounds of party fealty and political necessity, cannot be induced to give to him that active support -which alone will insure the election of the Demo eratic nominees in case the Republican party puts a ticket in the field. In the eyes of all true Democrats the maintenance of white supremacy in the State and the preservation of the blessings of which that supremacy is the only guarantee, are paramount considerations, superior to th'e aspira tions of any individual. Thbe free and untrammeled expressim of the popu [ar will within the lines of the party organization will constitute an author itative declaration which must com mnand ready and willing obedience. But such an expression can only be btained by the adoption of the pri mary plan. This plan has been de mnanded by the March Convention; the iemand has been reiterated by the Democratic Conference which assem bled in Columbia on July 10th, and we express the confident hope that it will be further reinforced by the voice f a united Democracy. From a ver lict thust rendered there can be no ap peal. Theecrisis confronting us is the gravest that has arisen in this State since [87G. The highest patriotism can alone prove equal to its exigencies. It is time for 'demagogues to be sent to the rear and loyal and unselfish citizens brought to the front. It is with this 3onviction and in this spirit that this address is issued to our Democratic brethren. That men who belong to bhe same household of political faith should be alienated from each other by the artifices of ambitious politicians is is dangerous as it is unnatural, and must redound to the lasting injury of bhe party and the State, unless the breach is healed. J. D. KENNEDY, IREDEL L JON ES, EDw'D MCCRADY, JR., L. WX. Yo1.tANs, J. S. FOWLER, T. WV. WOODWARD, W. R. DAVIE, WV. D. Jo)NSsoN, WALTER HAZARD. The State Campaign. Charleston, Thursday, July 24. Mount Pleasant, July 25. Manning, Saturday, July 26. Orangeburg, Tuesday, July 29. Barnwell, Wednesday, July 30. Hampton, Friday, August 1. Beaufort, Saturday. August 2. Walterboro, Tuesday,. August 5. The most popular liniment, is the old reliable, Dr. J. H. McLean's Volcanic Oil Liniment. If you feel unable to do your work and have that tired feeling, take D)r J. H. McLean's Sarsaparilla: it wil m ike you bright, active and vigorous The Recent Democratic Conference-Tne Demand of the Hour. To the Editor of The Columbia Reg ister.-The special auspices-heated though honest-under whieh the recent conference was summoned were not in the judgment of many citizens pronii sing of good to a divided Democracy and a discordant people. However, cool heads and conciliatory tempers con trolled the assemblage and turned it to sagacious conclusions. The conference has acted with a moderation born of a patriotic spirit and a keen appreciation of the political situation. It is a grievous error to assume that the Democrats-called Tillmanites by some. but claiming to be reformers are to be dealt with like the banded robbers of the State, against whom in 1876 Hampton and his followers led their memorable fight and gained their glorious victory. These citizens of South Carolina who have chosen to follow the standard of B. R. Tillman, but who do not neces sarily endorse his unfounded charges against the State administration and the past of the Democratic party of the State, are by a large majority good men and true-white men-Democrats to the core-men with -their honorable re cords-men, in fine, entitled to their opinions, and responsible therefor only to their conscience and their State. To abuse them is an outrage upon political fair-dealing. To style them, even in metaphor, "the enemy," is the acme of political indiscretion, and to proceed against them as such is worse is political madness. The State is in the throes of a politi cal revolution. Caused or causeless, the revolution exists. It is a fact. Not to see it, is to close one's eyes. Not to recognize. the popular swell, is genuine Bourbonism. We are involved in a family quarrel. It is Greek meeting Greek. As has been said, "to be wroth with one we love doth work like madness in the brain." It is brother vs. brother. For one, the writer-not in political life but alive to the demands of citizen ship-stands for conciliatory methods, as regards the opposing political forces -is for treating the great issue dispas sionately and considerately. The good of the good. old State is in volved and hangs trembling in the popular scales. This is the-vast question that confronts us. To cultivate and to restore white fraternity and Democra tic unity-this is what the crisis de mands. We do not need now the sons of thunder so much as the sons of peace. We need Nestors more than Hectors or Achilleses or Ajaxes. We want men divine in speech as well as divine in judgment. The writer is for Bratton or Earle, as the choice may be of the regular De mocratic convention. But wve ree'.:nize the patriotism and we respect the motives of the Dermo crats on the other side of our divided house. May we come together for the honor and prosperity of South Carolina, our common mother and the parent of our grand inheritance of State glory in arms and in arts-in the triumphs of war and in the better triumphs of peace! In the meantime, while dissensions rule and bitter feuds prevail, let us, after the fashion of Camillus, who lived 400 years B. C., erect a temple to Concord-that is. use all our efforts to harmonize the warring factions of a grand old party. In 1876 we had men to confront who were enemies to commonwealth and a menace to our civilization. It was right to fight them with all the wea pons of political warfare and to employ every device, justified by honor, in order to defeat their nefarious purposes. It is wholly diff'erent now .Th is is the time for the fraternal clasp and the fraternal appeal, and no other method will meet the State's great need in this crisis. Let us treat our opposing fellow Democrats as our peers and our friends, and thus, mitigating the rage of pas sions5 evoked, add to the po ser and dignity and unity of South Carolina.W J. P. T. Co. u, S. C.. July 12, 1890J. Confusion as to Divine Guidance. [From the San Francisco Argonaut.] In the early days of Maine Metho dlism it was the custom for young ministers to consult their presiding elders before taking a wife. Once, during a camp meeting in eastern Maine, a young minister approached the presiding elder and said he wished to be married. "Whom do you propose to marry ?" asked the elder. "Well," said the young man, "the Lord has made known to me very clearly that I sh:>uld marry Sister Mary Turner." "I know her well," said the elder : "she is a fine girl. I will see you again before the meeting closes." During the week four other young ministers consulted the presiding elder On the subject of marriage. Each of them gave the name of the young woman to whom he proposed to offer himself. They had all prayed over the matter a great deal, and each was cer tain that it was the Lord's desire that he should marry the person named. Neither of the five young men knew that any one else had consulted the elder on that subject, On the last day of the camp meeting, at noon, the elder called the five young ministers to his tent to r eceive his opinion. He said : "Nowv brethren, it may be the will of God for you to marry, but it is not His will that five Methodist xministers shoi,1 marry little Mary Turner." BILL ARt' On Hixtory and the History Makers-TL:e Lodge Bill and the Pension Iniquity. [Frorn the Atlanta Constitution.] I said that Richard Henry Lee de livered the eulogy on Washington, and used the famous expression, "First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrynien." That was a mistake, and I rise to a pnlo gize for it. I trusted too much to memory. Richard Henry, the states man, died before Washington. It was the soldier, "Light Horse Harry," who delivered the eulogy. I wish that I lived next door to .Judge Richard H. Clark, so that when I got tangled up in history, I could hail him and say. "Judge, how is this, and who is who, and what is what." It would save me the troutle of hunting over the books. In fact, he is more reliable than some of the books. He never makes a mistake. He is the best his torian in the South, and yet lie is not an old man. He is not decayed or fos siliferous, but seenis to grow brighter with advancing years. I would like to live by him, and day by day listen to his lucid reminiscenecs of notable men and notable events, and I would take notes and be his Boswell, and together we would write a book that would be a treasure to the Southern people. It would be an authority and would re vive and perpetuate much of history and biography that will soon pass away forever. In a few years there will not t be a man left to recall and relate the unrecorded history of our noble nien. The Crawfords, and Forsythe, ai:d Dawson, and Troup, and Clark-the Branhams, and Walter Colquitt, and Cooper, and McDonald, and Dooly. and Underwood-the Lamars and Cobbs, and Stephens, and Lunpkins, and 1Doughertys, and a host of others, many of whom migrated to the West and there illustrated their Georgia blood and breeding upon the virgin soil of Alabama and Mississippi and Texas. Just see how tenderly sarcastic is the judge in the note that he wrote me: My Dear Friend-I hasten to thank you for correcting my impression that it was "Light Horse Harry" who de- c livered the eulogy on Washington. I N re dly supposed that Richard Henry Lee died before Washington. I have so long regarded you as authority on such matters that I must surrender my own t convictions. A man can believe an an error so long that his belief is almost as good as the truth. I learn also from another writer in to-day's Constitution l that Mrs. Dr. Felton was before mar- a riage a Miss Swift. For many years I y have supposed that her maiden name was Rebecca Latimer. I stand cor rected. Your friend, R. H. CLARK. But I'll trump him yet. I'll pay him L off. I'll try him on the authorship of Junius, and who wrote the book of v Job, and was William Tell a fact or a I fiction, and who was the father ofi Zebedee's children. I wish that liet would wiite a book so that I could get at him. I'd cure him of his sweet aiida tender sarcasm. A habit of study and a good memory r to preserve wvhat is learned is a combi- f nation that makes the most interestingl class of men. We were talking about I General Lee's memory, and one of his a pupils assured us that lie knew every I one of his 400 students in his college by C sight and by name and where he lived and wbat was his standing in his class. a A graduate of Princeton remarked that t Dr. McCosh had a similar gift, aiid het never knew him to forget any thing but I once. He forgot to give notice before I he began the chapel prayers that he t desired the senior class to mieet him in I the class room that morning. He never r thought of it until he was actually en gaged in the prayer and he knew that he could not give notice at its close for I the whole mob of 400 always bounced I out with a racket before the "Amen" was said--so he concluded his prayer l with "And oh Lord let thy daily bless ing rest upon all who are here assem bled and incline the second division of r the senior class to meet me in the class room immediately after prayers for a Christ'ssake Amen." These old Scotch- I men have wonderful resources, ands where there is ino way open they chop out one. Our preacher was teiling of I his grandfather-a stern old Scotcht- I man, who had ways and eccentricities peculiar. His grace at the table was a more important affair than the meal.t In fact the best dinner was not a fit I thitng to eat until it had been blessed in John Knox fashiont. One day the old gentlenian was late in coming to dinner, and did not respond to the call. Tom was awful hungry and had to go back to his work, and said he couldn't wait any longer, and so he pitched in and was in a good way, when the old gentleman camie forward, and, after I the family were all seated, and Tom had paused, he raised his pIous hands, I and said: Oh, Lord, wilt Thou let Thy blessing rest upon us all, and upon the food that we are about to partake of, and especially upon that portion of which Thomas has already partakeni in an ungodly manner, for ('hrist's sake. Amen. But it looks now like htistory 'will f soon be all that is left us to boast of.i We thought that thte reform of the J' tariff was a big thing, but that is now a a dead issue. That pension bill ands that force bill has killed all prospects( of tariff reform. Mr. Cleveland's sur plus has gone glimmering; never to re- t turn. We thought that maybe the 1 alliance might do some big thing in the way of purifying politics, but the alli-c ance seems to be concentrated on big warehouses and a subtreasury full of ( money, although there will be none to 4 lend. If the Senate passes that force bill that lha just passed the House, I then we may bid farewvell to States' 1 rihts and Southern rights. t will make no difference whether we elect a new set or re-elect the old, the South will be as helpless as a painted ship upon a painted ocean. This Republi *-an Congress under the cast iron rules of Ton Reed began early to unseat Democratic members so as to have a ;ood working majority. Judge Jack ion, of West Virginia was the first to all. Next Pendleton had to retire and ,hen in swift succession they turned )ut Cate of Arkansas, Wise of Virginia, Curpen of Alabama and Venable of virginia. Turpen had thirteen thou ;and majority but they said that four een thousand negroes were intimi lated and didn't go to the polls. In his way they have increased their vorking majority from eight to twenty mnd now seeni satisfied forawhile. Then they passed a bill requiring the )resident to appoint seventeen new ircuit judges, who, of course are to be LII partisan republicans and will hold heir offices for life. And next came he crowning infamy-the force bill hat clinches all the nails and makes ast and permanent our humiliation. [hese circuit judges are to be election upervisors, who will hold their offices or life. The chief supervisors are to ppoint three subalterns for every elec ion precinct, and two of them are re uired to be Republicans. The other nay be anything or nothing or a man f straw. They will hold the election nd count the votes and make returns o the chiefs in that district. The hiefs selects one of the circuit judges o appoint a returning board for each state in the circuit. This board holds fice for life. The chiefs appoint all he marshals and deputy marshals .nd the subalterns who hold the :ections are also made marshals vith power to arrest anct sum non the citizens to assist thtm. -ederal bayonets are to be on hand vhen wante-l. This is the substance f the Lodge bill. The force bill, as it s called. is intended solely for the outh and is to be enforced on the pe ition of a hundred men in any con ressional district. This bill means tepublican power without end, and outhern degradation to the extreme. 'nder this lay the most corrupt men an hold the House of Representatives vithout limit, though the people were gainst them, for they can conspire vith the supervisors and be always re urned, and of course their own body vould not impeach them. This bill of niquity that was conceived in sin and Lme was passed in the darkness of an wful night during a terrific storm, rhile the thunder was pealing and the ightning was flashing. It was passed mid the exulting shouts of the Repub cans and loud cheers of the negroes iho crowded the galleries. This bill vill cost the country millions and mil ions of dollars to enforce it, even if it enforced pecaceably and without dis urbance. If it becomes a law, as it till probably do, then Judge Stewart nd Colonel Livingston can shake ands across the bloody chasm and etire to the peaceful bosoms of their imilies, for the motto of the returning oard will be, "No democrat need ap ly." There will be a hundred negroes ent to Congress from the South, or a undred white men who will be more dious or revengeful. Bishop Potter saidl in his great speech t Harvard: "The resemblance be weeni ancient Rome and America are ragic and significant. It was a huge Lilitary organization that put Rome p at auction and knocked her down o the highest bidder, and to-day the party that bids the highest for votes is ewvarded with all the power. It has orue to pass that not alone the scarred eteran and maimed soldier draws a pension, but every skulking camp fol rwer andl deserter, every fraudulent uid tainted claimant who demands a ~ribe, can get it for his vote." A friend told me that he was domi iled for a month in a little village up Lorth, and the town talk was about a rifling fellow who had just drawn 1,600 of back pay, and was put on the pension rolls for a sore toe, which he wore become so during the war. The illage gossip declared that he was ever in the war; and if he was, he ever marched, and if he did, he had o sore toe; and if he did, it didn't dis ble him from work, nohow, toe or no oe; and it was nothing but a swindle romn beginning to end, and a lawyer vas at the bottom of it. But that don't matter, for Ingalls ays he w ill introduce a bill to pension .1i the well ones as well as the sick, dnd a member fronm Colorado has filed bill to pension all the negroes who vere in slavery at the beginning of the var. Trake it all in all, the outlook for >eace and justice and States' rights .nd the constitution of our fathers is >ad, very bad. But mzaybe the alli .nce can help us aznd save the country. hope so. Bnu. A RP. The Name W1 iliam.. TIhe name William was not first riven to children ; it was a name con erred upon a man as a reward of mer t. When the ancient Germans fought vith the Romans the Germans were ,rmed only with light weapons, words, spears, shields, etc., and if a fernman killed on the field a well .rmued Roman weanrig a gilded hemlet he hemniet was set on the head of the >rave German who had slain its owner, who ever after was known as Gildhelm, r, as we would say, Golden Helmet. toong the Franks the name was Juild-helnme, and with the French luil1heaume, afterwa.id Guillame, and vithi the Latin-speaking nations Gu ielnmus. Finally the Frenuch Guillame ecome Wuillanme and soon1 evoluted nto William. THE ABUSE OF PHOTOGRAPHS. Suits Against Cigarette and Tobacco Firng for Exhibiting the Likeness of Society Women. [New York Sun.] Few things have been of more in terest to the beautiful women of Amer ica than the decision of the Supreme Court of Minnesota concerning the ownership of photographs. It is the decision handed down after nearly a year's litigation, and it makes photo graphs the property of the original of whom they are taken. Several suits against tobacco and cigarette firms for exhibiting the pictures of well-known actresses, and in three instances of prominent society women, in more or less objectionable positions of attire. have all been decided against the to bacco firms. It is not unlikely, now that photographers will be restricted from using the negatives of their cus toniers, that there will be more of an opportunity for the much-photograph ed fraternity of beautiful women in this country to protect themselves. There have been some very painful in stances of the abuse of their photo eraphs by photographers. The case of Miss Rehan is very well known. A photograph of that distinguished actress has been long exhibited in shop windows and was finally reproduced in lithographic form by the owners of a prominent cigar factory for advertis ing purposes. The picture from the waist up is undoubtedly that of Miss Rehan, but the arrangement of the skirts, and it is a particularly objec tionable one even from the cigarette manufacturers' standpoint, is taken from some other source. The photo :rapher took one of Miss Rehan's pic tures, cut it off at the waist, and at .ached it to the lower half of a partially :isreputable photograph in his own possession. A number of copies were made, and the market was flooded with he insulting pictures. There was a ood deal of talk of a legal fight, but he case involved so many difficulties md Miss Rehan became so nervous ver the matter that litigation was inally abandoned. Another instance is that of Mrs. Fitz ierbert, who is a very well known so iety woman in London. A photog apher took a picture of her in classical ttire. When Mrs. Herbert's husband aw the picture he condemned it, and t note was sent to the photographer the ollowing morning to destroy the plate. Within three weeks over 6,000 of the )hotographs had been distributed in London, and it has been impossible to top the sales, as the incident was a eculiarly unfortunate one. Mrs. Fitzherbert, a woman of entire nodesty of manner, and extremely iear-sighted, left the arrangement of :he Greek drapery entirely to the pho ographer. lHe placed her in a reclin ng polition, and after nearly an hour's wvork, took the objectionable photo ;raph. She did not see a copy of it intil he sent it to her house some days ater for approval. The protest,of course, ~ame too late. The next move of the ~ourts will probably be toward the ap ~rehension of some of the snap-shot rivate photographers. These Paul P~rys have made it a business to look tround bathing houses and beaches to scure pho,tographs of women wherever ossible. Some of these photographs, ~vhen they had the element of pru ~iency in them were copied extensively mud publicly sold. One photographer n Nassau street had a huge stock of such photographs, and they were sold mt 50 cents apiece. They represent roung women at Narragansett, Long Branch, and other beaches, and three >f the faces were recognized as the laughters of well-known New York ers. It is a species of outrage that must nevitably be put into court. A WOMAN IN TROUsERs. Fhe Farm Hands Struck When She Mount ed the Reaper. A LLENOWN, PA., July 15.-Yester lay, on a farm near Emans, this county, a corps of harvest hands threw down their rakes, scythes, and forks and quit work, all because a buxom woman had undertaken to drive a reaping machine n the attire of a man. In this part of Pennsylvania it is common to see farm ers' wives and daughters in the hay and rain fields participating in the lighter portion of the harvest work. Driving a mower or reaper is generally considered easy wvork, but it is done exclusively by men on account of the dlanger a woman would incur in getting her skirts caught in the wheels or knives of the machine while intent in hand ling the reins. This particular fai mer's wife, how ever, is plucky and original as well as buxom, and yesterdamy she determined to show "the boys" that she couldnmas ter the problem of woman's proper work. So she rigged herself up in a snug-fitting blazer and a pair of her husband's trousers, with a broad brimmed harvest hat shading her brown ringlets, and lightly mounted the reaping machine. Having mapped out her course she proceeded to drive across the field and mow a broad swath of grain. At first the harvesters, farm hands, men, boys, and girls, were astonished at the sight, and then they thought it was funny. The male contingent of the harvest bands, however, began to feel jealous as they watched the smart little womam drive around the grain field so neatly, and thought she was infringing upon their own particular prerogatives. Be sides this, the sun beat down upon them oppressively, engaged as they were at hard labor, and finally they d1eided to strike. Fifteen men accord ingly threw down their implements where the' stood and walked off the field, shaking their fists ungallantly at the fair driver of the reaping machine. They have not yet been prevailed upon to return to work, and the grain in the field remains uncut. SOUTH CAROLINA POLITICS. The Present Campaign as Viewed in ?ios ton. [From the Boston Post.] Massachusetts people used to think they were having some pretty lively political campaigns about the time that Gen. Butler was working towards the State House, but beside the internecine struggle now going on in South Caro lina, our Bay State political storms are tame indeed. Captain Tillman, who is trying to capture the Democratic Gubernatoriai nomination via the Farmer's Alliance, hasa perfect genius for the bushwhack ing style of polities, and lie promises to become the best hated politician in the South, not excepting Mahoue of Vir ginia. For five years he has been pos ing as the Moses of the farmers of South Carolina, and has in a marked degree gained their confidence and sup port, at the same time incurring the bitter animosity of all the other politi cal leaaers by the venom of his attacks and a propensity to make all sorts of charges against all sorts of people who happen to oppose him. From accounts of his campaign efforts in Southern papers, Captain Tillman appears to spend his days in charging political opponents with "political leprosy," and to pass his evenings in avoiding personal encounters- with those de nounced, or in taking it all back when cornered by individuals accused or by. their friends. Up to date he has managed to steer clear of personal encounters, although he has but a single eye to do it with. A sample of his power on the stump is gleaned from his remarks at a recent joint discussion at Columbia. To one auditor who jeered at him he shouted: "Be quiet, and I'll poke some sense into you." To another who disputed an assertion, he advanced the unanswer able argument: "I expect I'll pardon you cut of the Penitentiary next year." This is the man who defies, ridicules and mocks all who have had any part in directing South Carolina politics past and present, who aspires to con trol her destiny in the future, and who the conservative people of the State greatly fear will succeed in his under taking. The political situation in this troubled State just now is vastly enter taining to those who don't happen to dwell therein. Salient and Significant Signs of the Times. [Edgefield Chronicle.] Brayton is a candidate for Governor of South Carolina. Paris Simkins is a candidate for Congress from the Second Congressional District. And on Mionday last, five hundred negroes, wild with registration designs, and with hope and excitement, swvarmed and blackened our public square shouting, yelling and swaggering as in the darkest days of our persecution and degradation. There are salient and significant, but salubrious signs of the times. What has brought out Brayton? What has brought out Paris Simkins? What has brought out all these howling black devils? Tilhuania. And yet men hug their pitiful blind ness, and seem to think it a noble thing. Brayton, Paris Simpkins, and a howling black mob, watching keenly and filled with hope! A Great Man Rtemnembered by his Sins. [Walter C. Hamim in the July Forum.] When, in 1S12, Governor Elbridge Gerry, of Mfassachusetts, signed the bill dividing that State into fantastically shaped teiatorial districts, so as to ena ble the Democratic Party to retain con trol of the Legislature, he by accident per formed one of those acts which some times gives a man more fame than a life-time of well directed efiort usually brings. MIr. Gerry sat in the Conti nental Congress, his nmame can be read on the D)eclaration of Independence, and he was a me8mber of the convention that framed the Constitution of the I'nited States. The oices he filled were conspicuous and honorable. He was minister to France, Governor of M[assachusetts, and he died wvhile hold ing the office of vie-president of the I'nited States; but notwithstanding all these honors andl his undoubted ability as a statesman, he would be almost un known to the present generation were it not f>r the least creditable act of his career. A Georgia Trout Captures a Sparrow. [From the Albany News.] "I was sitting on my front porch Sunday morning," said M1r. Tilt to a reporter," wben I was startled by a noise and fluttering sound that came from the side yard. I jumped and ran to the end of the porch just in time to see what was the matter, and I wit nessed one of the miracles of my life. "I have in the pool surrounding my fount-ain several fish, trout taken from the creek, and on the edges of the pool the grass grows thick. An English sparrow had alighted on this grasib get some water, and one of jle fis seeing thie bird, swe:u~ Uernim, made a snap, and i .ughit hir. The~ bird serem! . : ttere J ta. Ir .e I res . .. of the pX jiih e bird and we s wmni ...,;f" .,i.the most sat:s-6 '.ay.'BreaCo. 44Lies, 36ESS Ii READ EDISES La I r'eers LIsiiL TUBSULAk C5S9I03S. whispers heard. te CUT THIS OCT. An Act to Protect Primary Elections and Conventions of Political Parties, a,,d to Punish Frauds Comnitted Thereat. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Sen ate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same. That every political party, organization, or association for the purpose of choosing candidates for office, or the election of delegates to conventions, shall be pre sided over and conducted in the man ner prescribed by the rules of the po litical party, organization, or associa tion holding such primary election by managers selected in the manner pre scribed by such rules. Such managers shall, before entering upon the dis charge of their duties, each take and subscribe an oath that he will fairly, impartially, and honestly conduct the same according to the provisions of this Act and the rules of such party, organization, or association. Should one or more of the managers appointed to hold such election, fail to appear on the day of election, the remaining man ager or managers shall appoint others in their stead and administer to them the oath herein prescribed. The man agers shall take the oath herein pre scribed before a notary public or other officer authorized to administer oaths ; but if no such officer can be convenient ly had, the managers may administer the oath to each other. Such oaths shall, after being subscribed by the managers, be filed in the office of Clerk of Court for the County in which such election shall be held within five days after such election. Sec. 2. Before any ballots are re ceived at such election, and immedi ately before opening the polls, such managers shall open each ballot box to be used in such election, and exhibit the same publicly, to show that there are no ballots in such box. They shall then close and lock or seal up such box, except the opening to receive the bal lots, and shall not again open the same until the close of the election. They shall keep a poll list with the name of each voter voting in such elections, and shall before receiving any ballot administer to the voter an oath that he is duly qualified to vote according to the rules of the party, aid that he has not voted before in such election ; and at the close of the election they shall proceed publicly to count the votes and declare the result ; they shall certify the result of such election, and trans mit such certificate, with the poll list, ballots, and all other papers relating to such election, within the time pre scribed and to the person or' persons. designated by the rules of the party, organization, or association holding such election. Sec. 3. Every such primary election shall be held at the time and place, and under the regulations prescribed by the rules 6f the p)arty, organization, or association holding the same, and the returns shall be made and the result declared as prescribed by such rules, but the returns of the managers, with the poll lists, shall be filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court for the county in which such election is held, within four days after the final declaration of the result thereof, and shall remain there for public inspection. Sec. 4. Any manager who shall be guilty of wilfully violating any of the duties devolved upon such position hereunder, shall be guilty of a miisde meanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine not to exceed one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed six months ; and any manager who shall be guilty of fraud or corruption in the management of such election, shall be guilty of a mis demeanor, and upon conviction there< f shall be fined in a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars or imprisonment for a term not to exceed twelve months, or both in the discretion of the Court. See. 5. Any voter who shall swear falsely in taking the p)rescribed oath, or shall personate another person and take the oath in his name, in order to vote, shall be guilty of perjury, and be punished upon conviction as for per jury. Approved December :2nd, A. D)., The Place Where we Meet. [New York Sun.] Trhe late Horatio Seymour, the great Demnocrat, always used to walk down from his residience to the Utica Post Office each mioring, and take a good deal of time in the operation. Such Mr. Seymours fondness for this morning wvalk that when Utica came to be a big city and the letter carrier system was about to be introduced Mr. Seyniour opp)osed thle innovation stren ously. He declared that it was one of the most beneficial customs that could be imagined for the citizens of a town or city to meet each other daily, jin some such place as the Post Office,' and there discuss and debate questions of a p)ublic and social nature. Of course Mr. Seymour was defeated in his efl'orts to keep the letter carrier system out of Utica. But ho regretted his defeat bitterly an~d de'btred& democratic iratiru'i- s:.re-cf. vere blow thiereY:. *. c. ey -u pairt tjat** gave' hi:: ;. .,ter and more idolaro1s perso!-.i iollowing, perhaps, * other resident of this State Senjoyed. 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