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ESTA BLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1891. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR THE TRUTH ABOUT TEX4,S. Not Much of a Paradise in the Big State It Takes Hard Work There as Else where to Dig a Living Out of the Grounel, Yet Some People Do Live in "Dug Outs" in Seem ing Content. [Correspondence Herald and News.] PROSPERITY, S. C., February 1:!.-I am now back in old South Caro lina. I have seen much in the forv weeks out West, as the railroad porters say, the wild and wooly West. My first experience was at Shreveport, where the agent sent me nine hours oui. of the way to reach my destination, and from my experience with all of the railroad people of Texas, I have learned that they go on the principle that "the fartherest way round is the easiest way found," for they certainly -do send you around a good deal before .you can get to your destination. I saw the great city of Dallas, but was :not tickled to death by the sight. My impression of the "great and only" Fort Worth was that it was a city of a ;great deal of boom about it and not so :much a reality as it was on paper. 'Both Dallas and Forth Worth are :somewhat of railroad centres, and bid fair to be cities of no mean importance 'They are only forty miles apart, and the one may have to give way to the other. There is room for botb. The distance from Fort Worth to Henrietta is about 100 miles, and is through one of the most lonesome sections that I have ever traveled over, sparsely settled for nearly the entire distance, and where it is settled it don't appear that it is making much progress. The prairie stretches as far as the eye can see, and not a tree to break the view beyond the .rolling hills, and not a houie for miles .and miles. There is nothing in this -section to invite or tempt the sturdy -pioneer to tickle nature to see if she .will smile. One can see thousands of ,cattle grazing and running wild appa rently. "NO USE FOR NIGGERS. 3My first stop was at Bowie in Mon tague county. This section seems to be much better as a farming section. This is a new town, being only six or seven years old. There are several nice busi ness houses there, and they seem to be doing a fair business. At this place I struck the best hotel I stopped at in the entire State of Texas. In this town they permit no colored people to stay. As they put it: "We've got no use for the niggers." And they don't have any either. It is not a congenial cli mate for them, i suppose, and they move on "instantei." This is the case in a majority of the towns in western Texas and the Pan Handle, they told me. The white people do all of their own work. There are a num*er of white servants to be seen. M3UCH BONES AND BEER. My next stop was at Henrietta in Clay county. This county is now experien eing a boom, or they are trying to boom it, but the boom is fiat. Henrietta, the county seat, has been boomed to death. I walked all over the town. Saw some fine buildings in it, and a number of them are empty. There were heavy stocks in all the stores, and no business doing of any kind that I could see. At this .place I saw a pile of bones as large as Mr. Ruffs shop that had been gathered on the prairie and were being loaded on the cars to be shipped North, or East as they say. The parties that were loading them told me they were to go to New York to refine sugar with. I supposed they were going to a ferti lizer factory. Which ? I also saw on the platform for shipment to Fort Sill, Indian Territory, over 100 barrels of bottled lager beer. It is against the law to sell liquor of any kind in the terri tory, but they give beer "fits," judging by the quantity at this place. ENTERTAINMENT BY HOME FoLKS. Leaving Henrietta at 5 p. mn., I ar rived at Belcher, wvhere MIr. W. 5 SBirge lives, with but one mishap. The train was stopped by a Texas steer being on the track and no)t getting off. On investigating it wvas found that he was fastened in a "cattle guard." Train hands and passengers by a strong and a united pull and a pull altogether succeeded in pulling him out, and thus -el were permitted to go on our way. - d say that they don't seem to tteout there. I counted fifty Ia wor'' a run oi about fifty miles carces iof the road. H undreds acsine i'n.t aear by the trains. on asinle s" a in all conditions are killed everyt(h beci You could se totebhahn from the freshly killed IN skeleton. k 1 GREAT COTTON SE Billy's,' We had a royal time at "Bro. - him. ad right glad I wvas, too, to ss Ienjoyed his hospitality for twvo dayg. He seems to be doing well and making moe.He has maae some very fine in .stments in real estate. His bd.ter half is a true helpmeet, and little M1ary and Willie are two as fine girls as can be found anywhere. Oui Friday, seated behind a fine pair of bays, I was driven to the Indian Territory by Bro. WVil ham, and shown the far-famed country, but "nary Injun" did we see; so we felt secure as to our scalps. In this great cottonl section MIr. Birge is fencing 1500 acres of land. He gets the mosi of it for tenl years for fencing it. Fo: some he pay 253 cents per acre eaci year for ten years. This is a good i vestment, and such chances are grow ing beautifully less. You must ha~ some good friend who is high up wit the natives, as no one but a native ca hold land in the territory. At this place I heard the first w< - howl or bark. It sounds like forty do v.elping, barking and howling. I d not make the acquaintance of any the tribe. The hearing they gaveu1 was sastory. saw also the heUti ful little prairie dog, and did wish I could catch one. We passed through a dog twn, but I did not call on the mayor or make the acquaintance of any of the grandecs of the town. There is in this section soie lie farming lands, they tell me. BEATS NEWBERRY I"OR MU*' After spending two days pleasantly, I bad adieu to "William and Mamie" and their interesting :ttle family and boarded the train for. Overton; but alas! I was thirty-six hours in going about two hundred and twenty-five miles. It was a stop here and a lie over there, and I only got to Greenville, Texas, Saturday morning. This town is in the "black lands," as they are called, and the mud sticks to your shoe soles and wagon wheels like wax. I saw a wagon with two step-ladders on it stop in the street, and it took four horses to pull a load of ten sides of bacon. The mud will 1111 up the entire space between the spokes and hub, making a solid wheel. Started again at 5 p. m., got fifty miles, and bad to stay all night at "Mineola. T1HE FIRST SMALLPOX SCARE. Got to Overton next day at 11. There was quite a stir there about smallpox. This was the town where we expected to locate, but one day was enough for me. Messrs. Wyse and Brown had been there several days. After consulting we leftand went to Mineolaand located. We got down to work there, and were making excellent progress when the smallpox scare came on, and the quarantine got so strict that business was almost suspended, and we had to get out. The town we left (Overton) had thirteen new cases of small-pox in it a week after we left, and we learned that the adjoining county to us was offering ten dollars a day for nurses. We consider that we made a narrow escape, and "w e are glad we are here at home to-night." DISADVANTAGES OF LIVING IN TEXAS. There are some sections of Texas in which the farmers seem to be doing very well, but on the whole they are not in my opinion as well off as are the farmers in South Carolina. My ad vice to every one who is making a liv ing here is to stay here, for you can't do any more there, and the hardships there as three to one here. Stick to your forty acres of laud and a mule in South Carolina, and don't swap. I never in my life saw as many poor people as I saw in Texas, and I would say to the women in general, don't go to Texas unless you want to shorten your days. A lady with whom I talked said : "Texas is a woman killer." Be warned in time. Let "do well" alone and stay where you are. There are so many disadvantages there as a rule over against the few advantages. I saw plenty of families living in a tent 11x16 feet, and some living in wagons, and others living in "dug outs." .Dug outs are holes dug in the ground and a tent stretched over the hol.x Others are dug in the side of a hill and a door put in, and that is how they live, move and have their being. The negroes here in ruiost instauces are better. housed than the white people there in a great many instances. The disadl vantages are many-the advan tages few. They claim as one of greatest advantages t;he fertility of the soil, requiring no fertilizing, &c., but they pay from $I to S1.:3 per day for work, and $1 per 100 pounds for pick ing cotton, and other things equally as hih, so when it is all sunmmed up the farmer in South Carolina with a half a bale of cotton to the acre makes about as much as the average farmer in Texas, and then there are not near so many disadvantages here. They have good schools in miost places; in fact, this is the only advantage that I could Isee 'Texas had over South Carolina. As to religion and~ religious training and Sunday observance, there is very little of it as far as I could see. Freight trains run on Sunday the same as any other day. Hunting and fishing on Sunday is what a great many engage in. The first invitation I had was to go qjuail hunting on Sunday. I deC cined with thanks. I attendled chturch in Mlineola and heard the pastor say that when lhe came to church that morning he found fifty children there waiting for some one to come teach themi, and nmot a teacher nor an adult ini the house. What a sad state. He asked, "what are wve coming to ?" and echo answers what ? How long will it be before these children will quit coming if their arents don't go? FLEECING THlE FARM ERS. I would rather have half a loaf in South Carolina thiy -fole loaf in 'exas in someo' most of the sections . I was..in. Of course, there are thi . sections, and it is a great some 4a good place to make money State, anu- oney, but to go there and if you have 1iulgje ground is an up hill dig it out of tuZZ.have said above re business. W\hat ' rests only, for I fers to the farming int'' kin]g money believe nil others are m er. One t the expense of the far - . - farmer told me that 100 per e - nothing for them to pay, and that tlifa frequently paid 200 per cent ; and I & say that the farmers in this State and iin this section in particular don't knowv -, what a good thing they havce. if they - were to try it once out there they e ould see it as I do. b The happiest man I saw, I think, in n my trip, was a man and his fanily who boarded the train at Henrietta for 'If Arkansas or Alabama for his old home. gs He just smiled all over his counte id nance. They even had their dog with of them, and I verily believe a majority noney and didn't have too much pride. Where a number of families go and make their own settlement and have their own store, &c., they, of rourse, cau do better; but enough of Texas until we go back and see other iections that are better. They say there are many such, and I hope so. On our homeward tsip we had as trav eling companions Mr. and Mrs. Brown, of Virginia. who came as far as Montgomery, A.a., with us. We passed through New Orleans at night and made close connection and did not get to see the fanious French market, but got some fine oysters-ask Mr. Wyse about them. Our homeward trip was without incident until we reached Montgomery where Mr. - -but I guess I had better keep silent and not tell any tales out of school. We had the pleasure of a couple of hours of stop in Atlanta, and took in the "burg," visitirg the Young Men's Christian Association building, &c., and not forgetting to pay our respects t,) the fruit stands and also the restau rants, where we "took in"-well, I won't tell how many oyster stews my fellow traveler and I did take-suffice it to say we did justice to the occasion. We had some fun out of a scary drummer and the conductor. In tell ing about the small-pox epidemic and scare generally on the train one man (a drummer) left the train at the first stop, and the conductor looked as though he would as soon not have our tickets. Mr. Wyse had to show his health certificate. It was fun to us, but not to them. W i, it is about time to stop writing, and as we stopped when the conductor shouted "Prosperity," and it is time to stop again. Good-night, A. H. Kojx. H ELP FOR CLEMSON FROM HAMPTON. Valuable Books With Which to Start the Library, and Seeds for the Farmers. [From the Greenville News.] PENDLETON, February 9.-The Clem son College received a few days ago from Senator Hampton some three hundred books. We have not seen them, but we are told they are very valuable, being mostly books of refer ence. We are also informed these books, being the the first donation to the Clemson college library, will be numbered and the honored donor's name will be duly enrolled on the library register. There is something peculiar about these books. Sometime in September last Senator 'lampton wrote to Colonel Simpson, president of the board of trus toes, informing him of his desire to do nate these books to the Clemson CollegE and requested him to designate tc whom and where they should be sent But for unaccountable reasons this let ter was not received by Colonel Simp. son until about two or three weeks ago. Where it was all this time no one car conjecture, but from the number o0 postoffice stamps on the envelope il has had many ups and dowvns before il reached its destination. Colonel Simp son immediately answered the lettem so long delayed, and the books weri promptly received. Senator Hampton has also in th< last few days sent to Dr. P. H. E Sloan, secretary and treasurer of th4 Clemson College, eleven hundred pack ages of seed, each package containing four papers of different varieties an< requested hinm to distribute then among the farmers as far as they woult go, and in such way as would do th most good possible. Gorman's Methodical Ways. [Fronm the Chicago Herald.] Gormlan is an interesting and ami able man. His hobby is method. H is the most methodical man in Con gress, and the most persistent in hi pursuit of certain customs. For in stance, Mr. G;orman wvill not sit uj after 11 o'clock at night, except in case of great emergency, like a night sessio: of the Senate. lie rises at 6 ever: morning regularly as a day laborer He sits at dinner precisely sixty min utes every (lay of his life, and will no e interrupted at meals under any pre tcxt whatever. Intimate friends, Sena tors, even the President of the Unite< States himself, might call while Mi (orman was at his dinner, and the: would have to wait in the pam-or or gi a ay with out seeing the man fromu Maryland. Senator Gorman takes: walk of a certain length every day bathes always at a fixed hour, neve uses tobacco or liquors, and never doe anything that could endanger hi health. The result of all this cautio: and method is that he is growin, stronger and stronger, physically an' mentally, and though .52 has reached the zenith of his powers. Piling it Hi ( lpecial to theCore. ews~ andCore. Ferary 9.-Thera ro~d el-ebr rai onresulted in voting su1-1-tmon of $200,000 to the two pr hete roads through the county, a Mr. ;. Hf. MSiater1, president of or. bf themi, re.ceive.d a telegram to-da from the vice presient of the Cal: Fear and Carolina Railro'ad company MIr. MIorton, saying that bis me would be in the field in thirty days. To strentgthen the hair, thicken t u,andi where it is g;a- to restor Re y outhful color, useHals arRe For weak back, .estpis use a iar (norous.)5WneflHli HONESTY THE BEST POLICY. Nations,No More than Men, Can E"ape Financial Law--The Question of the Free Coinage of Silver Conrid ered from the Stand point of Monetary Science. [From the News and Courier.] With your leave I propose to give some further accouA of the currency of the country, as sh, k a by the recent official reports of the treasurer and comptroller of the currency, and the lesson to be deduced therefrom. Some of these figures I did not have before me in writing last week, consequently I had to refer to those of the year pre vious. For instance, I gave the out standing currency of the country-gold, silver and notes-for June 30, 1889, at $1,666,095,400, whereas, it should have been for June 30, 1890, at $1,698,614,406 -that is, an increase during the year of :32,518,986. Counting our population at 62,000,000, according to the recent census, this would give a circulation of over $27 per capita, instead of less than $~, as some of our Alliance friends would have us believe. It is true a considerable amount of this currency is held in the treasury for various purposes ->f law. On June ).0, 1889, $278,543,000 was so held, ard on June 30, 1890, $2~5,510,000. But even deducting these amounts, it left in actual circulation on the former date $1,387,551,835, and on the latter $1,443, 0S3,618, that is an increase in the ac tual circulation of the country of over $55,500,000 during the year. And yet we are assured by those who take their figures from the National Economist that the stringency in the money market and the consequent low price of cotton is on account of the contrac tion of the currency. As showing that this increase in the currency has been continuous, and somewhat regular for a number of years, I give the amount in circulation at the close of each fiscal year-June 30, for the last five years. In 1886, $1,260,211,673; in 1887, $1,325,129,376; in 1888, $1,379,633,133; in 1889, $387,551, 835, and in 1890, $1,443,083,618. Of the entire currency outstanding on June 30, 1890, $695,563,000 was gold; $463,211, 000 was silver and $539,&39,000,000 was notes. I call special attention to thi. for the purpose of showing how large a proportion of our currency consists of gold, and consequently how danger ous would be any action of Congress that would tend to drive it to a pre mium, and consequently out of circu lation. EFFECT OF FREE COINAGE. Such action would at one fell blowv contract our currency to the extent of nearly $700,000,000; would disturb all our intercourse with foreign nations, and would change the standard of value at home at least 20 to 2.5 per cent the difference in value between gold and silver. It would not raise silver tc the value of gold, as our "silverites,' seem to imagine, but would drive gold to a premium and out of circulation. Silver would become our standard oj value instead of gold, and wve woucd sink financially to the level of the Spanish-A merican States, China, Japar and India instead of remaining on plane with the leading commercial na tions of Europe. How any class of oui people-and least of all our farmi:M and laboring classes-could profit by Isuch a condition of affairs, except th< few silver barons of the Rocky Moun Itains, it is impossible to conceive. While we are able to bolster up silvei by artificial means, and thus maintair the gold standard, that is the ful length yard-stick, we may avoid thi catastrophe. But with the free coin age of silver it would seem inevitablE sooer or later, if the teachings of al history, as well as of coinmon sens< and common honesty, be worth a~y. thing as a guide. That there has beer -great stringency in the money market approaching very nearly, at one time to a great financial crash, there can be no denying. The causes f or this were doubtless various. But as we havy clearly shown by official figures the -contraction of the currency was no one of these causes; for there has beer -no contraction, just the contrary. No: -do I believe in Mr. Calhoun's idea tha the hoarding of money by our 1)00 Southern cotton planters has had an: material influence. EFFECT OF THE ARGENTINE CRIsIS. Were the writer called upon to ex press his views as to the ' causes of the trou 4.. ti first placeex p iothth eecofW' nnanciering in Sout] Ame ' .*J5f~ money market has no - .y appreciated, and would es a as follows: The Baring Brot hers f London, had taken a large loan c Argentine Republic-$200,000000 I be lieve. Then followcd the reckless issu by that Government of the famous ced ulas, or land certificates, as a paper cur rency, to the extenit of over 3250,000,00 more. This reckless action, of course drove gold to a p,remium, at one tin of nearly 300 per cent, depreciating th Cbonds taken by the Barings correspond dingly. 1The firm of Baring Brothers hav long been perhaps the largest holder Sand dealers in the United States secu rities of various kinds of any house ii Europe. Finding themselves so hart pressed by the action of the Argen tin Government, they were forced to thros their American ,.ecurities on the mai e.et as their most available assets. Th e of course, absorbed a large amount c Scurrency. Coming at a different seaso: it might not have created any seriou stigny Bu coming just at th - sasn i dd,when avery largemoun ofa crrncy was required to move th unusually large crops, and when there is nearly always more or less stringency in the inony market oi. this account, it added to it very greatly, produced a a panic, and had it not 1een for the timrly attion of the banks of England :nd France we would almost unques tionably have had a financial crisis such as the world has seldom witnessed. Fnd it would have been due primarily and chielly to the reckless financiering of the remote and rather significant South American Republic that came so near ruining the great house of Baring Br31oLhers. And yet how similar to this Argentine financiering is the so-called sub-treasury scheme advocated by our Farners' Alliance. The chief difference is that the cedulas are based on real estate securities, whereas by theAlliance plan our currency would be based on such perishable articles as cotton, corn, wheat and tobacco-certainly in every way much less safe than real estate. IT WOULD BF UNIVERUSAL RUIN. If, then, unsound financiering in SO insignificent a country as the Argentine Republic came so ne.i precipitating a financial crisis on the leading comimer cial nations of the world, what would not even more uusound financiering on th. part of a great nation like the Uni ted States be likely to bring about? And if our Southern cotton market has suffered from this threatened crisis, as it no doubt has to some extent, what would it not suffer from the real and universal crisis that. would inevitably be produced? Is it not then the patri otic duty of every friend of honest and sound principles of finance, from what ever section he may come, or to what ever political party he may belong, to forget, for once, at least, both party and section, and to unite in warding off the danger impending over the entire country from the interested and selfish action of a few silver millionaires, and the visionary schemes of the Farmers' Alliance? Let sound money Demo crats heed the patriotic appeal of Sena tor Sherman to join the Republicans in defeating the free coinage of silver, just as I would say let conservative Republicans heed the patriotic appeal of the venerable Senator Hampton to defeat the force bill. AN UNSOUND FINANCIAL TENDENCY. To the two causes of the stringency above described, coinciding as they did with each other, we may add a-third, which many able financial authorities regard as the prime cause; that is a general feeling of uncertainty and want of confidence in our tinancial situation, growing out of the tendency of late years to unsound financial legis lation. We have had more or less of this tendency ever since the war. First we had the "Greenbackers" as long as Government notes were depreciated in value. After the return to specie pay ments, so that Government notes were of full value in gold, but silver began to decline in the market, the "Green backers" merged in to "Silverites." T he termi "Cheap-money ites" would cover both. They were in favor of what they term "cheap money,"' be lieving that with this they would be able to cheat their creditors out of a part at least of their just debts. Trhis idea suited our silver barons of the Rocky Mountains exactly. They seem to have no high-:r idea of finance than to get as much as possible for their silver, regardless .. f the ruin it may bring upon the country at large. It can hardly be regarded otherwise than a public misfortune that these meni get seats in Congress, by purchase or other wvise, where such a miserable rotten borough as Nevada, a mere mining camip, so to speak, with only about 60,000 inhabitants, has an equal voice in the United States Senate with the great State of New York, with over 6i,000,000 inhabitants. THE D)ANGER OF PARITIsANSIIIP'. Addto this that strong partisan feel ing that puts party before country and causes the minority in Congress to unite with such an ineompetent and vicious faction of the majority for the purpose of gaining a point, and we have ati explanation of the recent pas sage of the free silver coinage bill in the Senate, as wvell as most of the vicious financial legislation of late years. II entertain too high an opinion of the in ttelligence of such men as Senator Car lisle, as wvell as of our own Senators, Hampton and Butler, to believe that they think the free coinage of silver, at present rates, is a sound( financial -measure, or that it wl 'iduce to the ___en_dothey lend iftLeir support to such a miserable coterie Sof so-callecd Republicans to pass through the Senate a measure so fraught with tdanger to the prosperity and honor of -the country? No wonder if in such a state of affaiirs there is want of con ftidenice iz. financial circles, and a -panicky tendency whenever the least trouble arises in the money market. -Fortunately tihe threatened danger -of a financial crisis seems to have p;assedl away for the present. But if we w~ish to avoid the periodic recurrence of such dangers we should hasten to return to a sound financial basis. That -"honesty is the best policy" is just as true of n:2ions as of individuals, as all history shows; and on this question there should be no division on party' lines. We should thenx stop the coin age of eighty cents worth of silver and calling it a dollar. It is a cheat and fraud to do so. If we must have free coinage of silver. at any rate let us put a full dollar's worth of silvi- in a dol lar as we do of gold, and theii there will tbe no fraud in the transaction. Then let us find a means of getting our Sn preme Court to reverse that most un .fortunate decision of 1S54, which our tmost eminent historian, just passed ew a,has so clearly pro.ved to be "in flagrant altagonism to the Constitu tion," and which has opened the way to such visionary schemes as the sub treasury bill of the Farmers' Alliance. 11r1 Tm IAK.4 A LoT E. Initead of wagiig war against our national banking systen, which has done so much to sustain our credit at home and abroad, and which, I am convinced, is, all things considered, the best, safest and most convenient of any banking system in existence, let us rather support it and endeavor to im prove it where found necessary to meet the popular wants. It is only through a well organized banking system that we can procure that elasticity in the currency of which we hear so much, and which the business interests of the country require. A Government cur rency, issued by Act of Congress, even supposing it otherwise unobjectionable, can never have this element of elas ticity. It will either be too much at one time or too ,:ttle at another. Would it not, then, be wiser to seek to improve a banking system which has served us so well, where it may be found defec tive, rather than to break it down and to substitute for it we know not what? AN ADDRESS TO THE ALLIANCE. rhe Oracular Utterancee of the President of the South Carolina Alliance. The following address of President tokes "to the Alliance in South Caro lina" is printed in the Carolina Spar tan: The past year has been one of unu sual crises. Every timber in the old ship of State has been put to the sever est test. The struggle has been ostensibly be tween the old parties, but in reality it has been a struggle between organized monopoly, which has laid unholy hands upon the old party organizations on the one hand and the people on the Dther. The most potent factor in the revolu tion wrought - was beyond doubt the Farmers' Alliance. All unsuspected by the party bosses, unconsciously to itself, this young giant left an inefface able mark wherever it laid its hand, and its hand seems to have been well nigh omnipresent. Not that the organization entered actively and distinctly into the politi cal arena; for this is not true. Its potency became actual and expressed itself in the main through the old party organizations; but it was none the lcaa th- w-k of the Alanc- -- - re:it educator. The leaven stimulated by the work of the Order, like all true leaven, worked up and worked out ward. Even the lordly Senate, the least sensitive branch of the Govern ment, has passed one of the most radi cal measures demanded by the Alli ance, and those members who stood out most stoutly against certain other measures demanded by the Alliance, upon grounds that involved fundamen tal and radical principles, are much less clear as to their duty since the peo ple have spoken. Does any Allianceman falter in his faith in view of these facts? Does any Allianceman in South Carolina permit his zeal to grow cold at the very mo ment when the conflict is coming to a crisis with all the odds in favor of our side if we are a unit? Perish the thought. The p)ast is full of inspiration, and the future is inviting. Let us rouse ourselves, and gird our loins for the crises that are surely coining. As one of the first and most neces sary steps in th is direction let us correct and purge our rolls. Those who are not eligible to membership should be dopped from the rolls and noti-fied by the secretary. Read over carefully the eligibility clause and apply it faith fully. By the action of the recent Sua preme Council, the word "country" when it occurs in this connection means those who Jive in rural districts and unincorporated villages. This ex ludes workers in factories andl all edi tors of papers that are not agricultural strictly, and that do not support all the demands of the Alliance. All wvho have been received hereto fore who are ineligible should be dropped from the roll and notified by the secretary of the. fact. Let us get our forces together in compact and homogeneous mass, and then be ready to press our demands effectually. Put lecturers to work in every couiity. Let the county Alliances provide for the payment of lecturers, and let each Sub Ailiance put its lecturer to studying and working. As a necessary step to his equipment for his work lhe should have the Cotton Plant and the National F.conomist. Let the Alliance supply these papers to him if need be, and then require of him some work. Let al! hands then subscribe for the Cotton Plant at least, so that they may know whether he is talking the right doctrine. Brethren, let us got together and get to wvork. The p)rospect before us is limitless. It really begins to look like the farmer is going to have "his inning" now after all these years. Let us use wisely our opportunities. But to use them wisely we must educate ourselves, and there is no better school than the Alliance for farmers. Brethren, take courage and lend a haniJ! J1. W-M. STOK ES, President S. C. S. F. A. The world-wvide reDutation of Ayer's Sarsaparilla is the natu:al result of its surpassing value as a bloodl medicine. Nothing, in the whole phiarmacopana, effects more astonishing results, in scro fula, rheumatism, general debility, and all forrns of blood disease, than this remedy. If you have a paini ul sense or Iatigue, find your duties irksome, take Dr. . H. McLean's Sarsaparilla. It will brace you up,- make you strong and vigorousl. ALL .NOT GOLLU THAT GL1TWZ. Thrce Proninent Merchants Swindled by a Bunco Man to the Tune of $5,000. [Spcial to News and Courier.] AIK.:N, February 12.-Three pronii nent merchants were buncoed in the woods near A iken yesrerday and fleeced to the extent of $1,000 or more. Two line locking men, one at the Buck House, and the other at the Highland Park Hotel, had been here for nearly two weeks, and they took in the prom inent merchants and a planter at Wil liston, to the above stated amount, with a so-called gold brick (in the shape of gold) filled with lead One of the party came here yesterday with his draft on a Charleston factor and had it cashed through a bank here for five thousand dollar. "One on the Wing." IT wAS A BAR OF-COPPER. AvolSTA, February 13.-Mr. J. R. E:sterling, of Williston, S. C., who, with Messrs. Kennedy and Weathers bee, of the same town, was swindled out of five thousand dollars by being persuaded to buy a bar of gilded copper for pure gold from a fakir, is in town to-night on his way to Atlanta, where he goes in hopes of identifying a man named Mace, who was arrested in Atlanta this morning, according to the description furnished of the party who was an accomplice in the gold bug game. The man in Atlanta was arrested in a Richmond and Danville train by Cl.ef Connelly, and if he is the right man the officers will get five hundred dollars reward for the arrest. DETAILS OF THE SWINDLE. The Chronicle this morning gives the following details of the manner in which the swindle was worked: A few days, possibly a week age, a mysterious personage, giving his name as Bill Parker, or more formally speak ing, Mr. William Parker, made himself known to Mr. W. H. Kennedy, Mr. R. A. Weathersbee, and Mr. J. R. Easter ling, of Williston, S. C. He spoke in a mysterious way of a big thing which he had if he only had the money to work it. He got these gentlemen interestcd, and disclosed to them that he had somewhere in the mining regions of the West a most valuable gold mine. It had been dis covered by the Indians or some half breed hunters, and there was millions in it. Indeed, he had along with him up, but was supposed to be hovering around somewhere in the bushes or on the outskirts of town and available for consultation with Mr. Parker when necessary. The best evidence, however, that there was gold in the mine was to pro duce the gold itself and this Mr. Par ker did in a secret interview. And what a glittering prize it was! A solid bar two feet long and as big as a bar of railroad iron. But if these clever gen tlemen had attended the recent Shakes peareanl Samposium in. Augusta they would have learned that "All is not gold that glitters." But they knew that anyhow, and even suggested as much to Mr. Bill Parker. He was not suprised nor embarrassed by this im plied distrust, but courted investiga tion. Taking a gimlet he bored into the heavy yellow bar, and smiled con fidently on the shinnig dust wh'ch came from the hole. "Take this gold dust now and send it to any jeweller or chemist and ascertain to your own sat isfaction whether or not it is the pure stuff." This was fair enough, and the pre cious dust wvas either sent to Charles ton or submitted to a Williston expert, the reporter's informant was not cer tain which. But the test was entirely satisfactory, and the answer came back that it was 22-carat gold. Mr. Bill Par ker was vindicated, and now nothing remained but to weigh the bar and rmake tile calculation. The weight was not known to the gentleman who gave the reporter the story, but the bar was worth $G,000 or $7,000. Just exactly why they were given such a bargain is not made clear, but for $-3,000 cash Mr. Parker and his imaginary Indian p)artner were willing to turn over the glittering bar of gold to Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Weathersbee, the two gentlemen with whom he was trading. The prize was too glittering; the p)rofit too certain and easy to let slip. All that was necessary would be to send it to the Government mint to be coined and a clean profit of one or two thousand brand newv gold dollars would be realized. Who wouldn't have bought it? Mr. W. H. Kennedy, who is a man of means, drew a draft on his factor in Charleston for %5,000, and Mr. Dan Henderson, of Aiken, took it and gave bin a check on the Bank of Aiken for the money. Armed with the $5,000 in cold cash, Mr. Kennedy sought Mr. Bill Parker and the trade was consum mated. They got the precious bullion and Mr. Parker got the cash. Having gotten the mnoney, Mr. Parker had no further business in Williston or Aiken, or even in Carolina, and his mythical indian chief vanished from the Palmetto State. The owners of the gold bar either were suspicious or else wanted to reas sure themselves of their splendid prize, for they had another analysis made, and they were horrified to find that the second analysis showed that their prize was not gold at all. Itis understood that Mr. Schwei gert's analysis of it showed it to be a very fair grade of copper, but even af ter the reporter had gotton the story Mr. Schweigert persistently refused to ave anyting to s1y except that it was a private matter which he was not at liberty to talk about. Well, there is little more to tell. The interviews with Chief Hood were, of course, for the purpose of capturing Mr. Bill Parker, and it is understood that Mr. J. R. Easterling was busy yester day sending off telegrams in every di rection, with a description of Parker, and an offer of $50W for his arrest. THE GREENVILLE MURDERE. J. B. Williams Arrested in the Hountains ot North Carolina, LGreenville News, 12th.] The following brief telegram to Sher iff Gilreath from Deputy Sheriff J. D. Gilreath, received at 6.40 o'clock last night, announces that J. B. Williams, the slayer of Major W. A. Williams, is in the the hands of the law: "WAYNESVILLE, N. C., Feb. 11. "Williams arrested. Will be home Friday on railroad. "J. D. GILREATH." The telegram gives no idea who made the arrest, but it is supposed that Deputy Sheriff Gilreath is the man. Mr. Gilreath left here Monday morning by himself, going to Traveller's Rest on the Carolina, Knoxville & Western train. He got a horse and buggy from Dr. B. F. Goodlett, telling him he did Lot know when he would be home. From reports received here Tuesday and yesterday, it was learned ,that J. B. Williams spent Saturday night, Sunday and Sunday night near Green River church, in North Carolina, just at the further end of the Gap Creek gap in the Blue Ridge. He attended church there on Sunday, and Monday morning left in a one-horse wagon for tue Tennessee line. It is supposed that the deputy sheriff learned these facts and kept on in hot pursuit. It is known that after he crossed the mountains the deputy sheriff took with him a man named Freeman, one whom he could depend on in an emergency, and fol lowed the trail. Close behind the deputy sheriff were two other persons from this city and beyond the officer, on the Western North Carolina road, waiting to see if the fugitive came that way, was another man. There were also several others out from Asheville, N. C., and Gainesville, Ga., whose names are not known. All day yesterday it was known here that all means of escape were cut off except the recesses of the mountains, and it was confidently predicted that the capture would be effected by some of the_men who were out. Thepursuit was eagerly and intense~ly disussed wherever a number of men happened together and the wildest rumors floated around all day. Sheriff Gilreath's office was eagerly besieged by people anxious to hear if there was any news, and the sheriff told everything he knew or had heard. Excitement ran high last night when it was known that Williams had been captured and it is safe to predict that a,. piece of information never -went over the city faster. The people who did. not know of it some time during the nighs were few. It was almost the single topic of conversation everywhere and the subject of general congratula tion. - Chief Kennedy yesterday afternoon finished the work of sending out the description of WVilliams with the amount of the reward offered for him. Pasted on the circulars was a small photograph, taken from a photograph made of Williams four or five years ago. It was a good picture and would have enabled the officers in any place to capture the man. As soon as the telegram from the deputy sheriff had arrived, a telegram was sent Governor Tillman asking him if he had offered a reward in behalf of the State, as it was thought the persons who captured Williams should have the benefit of it. The following tele gram was received last night: "The proclamation of $l150 reward will be sent to you to-morrow. "B. R. TILLMAN." His Light Put Out. [Clothier and F"urnisher.j He had worn a colored blazer on the Nile; He had sported spats in Persia, just for style; With a necktie quite too utter, in the rtreets of old Calcutta, he had stirred up quite a flutter for a while. The maids of Java thronged before his door; A ttracted by the trousers that he wore: And his vest, a bosom-venter, shook Formosa to its centre; and they hail ed him as a nmentor by t he score. On his own ground, as a masher in the street, He outdid a Turkish pasha, who sto< d treat: He gave Shanghi girls the jumps, at.d their cheeks stuck out like mumps, at the patent leather pumps, on his feet. But he cailled upon a Boston girl one night; With a necktie ready made, which wasn't right: And she looked at him, this maid did, and he faded and he faded, and hre faded and he faded, out of sight. TOM MAssoN. Eczema, scalp covered with eruptions doctors proven valueless. P. P. P. was, tried and th6 hair began to grow agamn, not a pimple can be seen, and P. P. P. again proved itself a wonderful skin eure. For rheumatic and neuraigic pains bring Dr. J. H. McLean's Volcanic Oil Liniment, and take Dr. J. H. Mce Leati's Sarsaparilla. You will not suffer long, will be gained with a speedy and effective cure.