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-r . E S ~TA 1~T.TSHET) 1~..NEWTBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARL 0 81 RG 15 GENERAL GORDON INITIATED. He Was Shown the Mysteries of the Order The Order Through Which He Passed. [Athens Banner.] General Gordon is now a full fledged Allianceman, and will hereafter be made to toe the mark, and address Liv ingston, Macune and Harry Biown as 'brother.' The initiation of this dis tinguished gentleman went through without a jostle, and was witnessed by a large and enthusiastic audience of Alliancemen. At the risk of being shot for exposing the secrets of our order, I will give the Banner a full report of the impressive ceremony that sntched General Gor don from the clutches of the politicians and made him an humble disciple of the plow. The candidate was escorted into the ante room of the Alliancemen by a body guard of farmers. He manifested some .nervousness whei his conductors de manded that he partially disrobe and submit to the ordeal of being curried off with a corn cob and rubbed down with a bundle of todder; the reason for this phantbm agricultural bath being that it was necessary to cleanse his person from the contaminating effects of too close a contact with Atlanta poli ticians, Jeffersonian Democrats, Inde pendents and other unclean elements, and that he might enter the realms of agricultural bliss. He was then arrayed in a pair of copperas pants, upheld by one suspender, and a hickory shirt, wool hat and brogan shoes. The Alli ance (his guide explained) was no re specter of persons and every member must be on an equal footing. Three raps were given on the lodge room door, and a sepulchral voice with in demanded: "Who comes there?" "A poor penitent who is groveling in darkness, and asks that the light of the Alliance be turned upon him," was the reply. "Is the candidate a tiller of the soil?" was the next query from within. "He says he has always been the best friend the farmers of Georgia ever had," was the evasive response. "See if there are any corns in his hands, or cockle burns in his hair" was the command. "The seeker of light says he is only a farmer by proxy, and the corns are in the bands of those who work his land," was the response. "Does the candidate ask admittance into our order in his own volition, and is he prepared to pass through the or deal of initiation?" "He does and he is," was the reply from without. "Let the candidate then remain in darkness until his eyes are prepared to receive the great light that the Alliance will turn upon him and he can enter into our sacred precincts," was the next order. The eyes of the applicant for Alliance knowledge were bandaged with a sec ond hand guano sack, the door of the lodge-room thrown open, and Georgia's ex-Governior and United States Sena tor, for the first time in his life, found himself in the inner sanctuary of the farmers' lair. He was marched three times around the room, while the mem bers welcome him with "While the lamp holds out to b urn The vilest sinner may return.~ With a "gee" and "haw" the candi nate was escorted to the Grand Tycoon, who used as a chair of state the small end of a bale of cotton. - "Our would-be brother, your humili ating entry into this room teaches you a useful lesson. A few minutes ago you came to us reeking with the odor of the politician, and arrayed in the paraphernalia of a great man. You were stripped of your fine apparel, which. means that you must also leave behind you in your future commulnica tions with farmers your worldly dig nity, or the Alliance will strip you of your honors as easily as it did of your tailor-made garments. All men (ex cept the nigger) are free and equal. -"The odious bandage that obscured your vision is a necessary attachment to the farm; and whbile it teaches an Allianceman that he must not expect his pathway through life to be sprin kled with the ottar of roses, will be a special reminder to you of the oflensive manner that you spoke of our leaders and friends during your recent cam paign. The conductor will now con vey the candidate before the high and mighty hister for further instructions, while the brethren will please sing ~"On Jordan's stormy bank I stand." The H. and M. hister was squatting betweet the handles of a plow stock. Without further ado the candidate had an iron hook fastened in the seat of his -pants, to which a rope was attached and thrown.over a beam above. With a steady pull by two sinewy Alliance men, the distinguished gentleman was soon dangling in the air, with b~ands and feet vainly clutching at the fioor. "Now hold the candidate in that po stion, where he can better appreciate the beatiful lessons inculeated by the Alliance," remarked the G. and M. H. "It is needless for the practically initi ated brother to longer clutch at the floor. He has already had some expe rience at resigning and the wises.. thing he can do is to put into practice that virtue and be resigned to the po sition we have placed him in, and not postpone this matter until he gets to Washinlgtoni agaim." ''The hooli," the High Hister ex plainled, "illustrates the firm hold the Farmers' Alliance has on mankind. Your struiggles in the air shows the folly of a candidate trying to gain his equilibrium while in the mighty grasp of our order. It also illustrates our po litical power to elevate or lower a man at will. Your futile clutches in the air is to show the folly of a candidate try ing to reach for office through politi cians. The candidate can now be re leased and carried before the Supreme Spanker for further enlightenment; and while he is making the circuit of the room the brothers will sing, 'On Green land's Icy Mountains,' as I notice that the candidate is beginning to shivir in the cold air of the room." The Supreme Spanker sat upon a bale of hay. He ordered the bandage re moved from the candidate's eyes, re marking that he had perhaps pro gressed far enough to stand the light of the Alliance; and, besides, he was to go through another ordeal that required all of a man's faculties to endure. The seeker of light was then led up to a barrel, and in a twinkling stretched over it. "Bring forth the sub-treasury plank," commanded the Supreme Spanker, "and convince the new brother that it is not a rotten one, but made of good, sound timber. Let the high Examiner do his duty like a good and true Alli ance man, while we will all sing: "Once I was blind, but now I see." Forty times that plank rose in the air and came down with a mighty thump, before the writhing victim was released and carried before the Supreme Spanker again, to have the lesson he had just received explained. "You have passed through one, of the most beautiful and edifying chap ters in the Alliance mode of initiation. You have publicly asserted that we had only one plank in our platform, and that a rotten one. I feel assured that you are now prepared to correct this statement, and ascert that our sub treasury plank is one of the soundest that you have ever felt. We have sev eral other planks, as we can prove to your entire satisfaction, if so desired. Oh! you say you are satisfied! Well, be careful in the future how you speak slurringly of something you know nothing about. Now carry the candi date, brother conductor, for other use ful lessons, and while he is on the move let the members sing": "This is the way I long have sought." The Great Drencher had on a table before him three black feathers and a goblet half filled with what appeared to be old Bourbon. "After his, long fatiguing pilgrimage our brother is doubtless in need of rest and refreshments. Place a chair that he may be aeated." This was done, but by some sleight-of hand the candidate made a miss, and landed on the floor. "My unfortunate brother, you have now learned the uncertaiuty of political campaigns. Just as a man thinks he has found a nice, comfortable seat, the Alliance s.ips it from beneath him, and painfully indeed is his disappointment. 1 spoke just now of refreshments, and had prepared a nice mess of corn for you; but I now discover in your recent anxiety to explain that famous speech you made before the Alliance conven tion, that you have already eaten all of the sub-treasury crow except a few tail feathers. But here is a glass of Jeffer sonian Democracy, according to the Epistle of the Romans, that you were so partial to a short time since. This is the last of the cask and please swallow the same. Well, if you hesitate, I have to order the grand executioner to show you another one of the planks in our platform. Ah, you find the liquid is encased in glass, so that it will not wet your parched lips. That, my brother, is modern Jeffersonian Democracy. It is very nice to look upon, but like Dead Sea fruit, is tasteless. This shows you that to depend on other classes than the Alliance and the organized Demo cracy for office and honor is to partake of a phantom political lunch. "This, my liewly-nmade brother ends the first degree in the Farmers' Alli ance. I trust the great and beautiful truths you have seen illustrated to-day will make a lasting impression on your mind. The brethren will now join hands, and while they marched around the new member sing: 'Once I was lost, but now I am found.'" Thus ended one of the most enter taining ceremonies ever performed in our State. It is to be regretted that every Alli anceman in Georgia could not have witnessed the snatching of this distin guished brand from the tire built around it by the politicians. Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly for March, 1891. Richard B. Kimball's interesting historical paper on "The Early Days of the Republic," which leads the March number .of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, is illustrated with a series of beautiful engraved portraits, including the new head of Washington, from Henri Lefort's celebrated etching. Coyne Fletcher, author of that success-, ful New South story, "Mie and Chum my," contributes a descriptive article on "The Lowlands of South Carolina," with sketches of many historic planta tions of the Palmetto State. 'Ameri eau' Ivory-carving," by Wilf. P. Pond, gives an elaborate illustrated account of an ancient and exquisite art, which is as yet new in this country. A. L. Rawson writes personal rcminiscencet of "The Armenian Patriarch of Jerusa 1em"; Gordon Cumming on "Wolves and Were-wolves"; MIildred Lovejoy on "The Dead-letter Office"; Edward Spring on "A Sea \oyage froin New York to San Francisco": David Ker on "A Cossack Giautess"; and Nelly Hart Woodwvorth gossips about her charm ing "Winter Neighibors," the birds of1 Vermont. There are also good short, stories of Lucy Hooper, Virna Woods, Ynra M-irble,-mrd others. THE FREE COINAGE CRAZE. Farmers the Last Men in the World to Want Cheap Money-An E::amnination of the Probable Results of Reducing the Value of the American Dollar to Eighty Cents. NO. III. To the Editor of The News and Cou rier: The bill which hasjust passed the United States Senate for the free coin age of silver, at present rates of silver bullion, will have the effect of cutting down the dollar as a standard or mea sure of value about one-fifth, for silver is now worth about eighty cents on the dollar. This is exactly the same in principle as cutting down the bushel measure one-fifth, or the yardstick one-fifth, or the pound weight one-fifth. We are told that this is in the interest of the masses of the people, especially the poor laboring classes. Not to speak of the inherent dis honesty of:uch a measure, there is just as much sense in this pretence as to contend that it is to the interest of these laboring classes to get a short yard of cloth instead of a full yard, a short bushel of corn instead of a full bushel, or a short pound of meat instead of a full pound. The fact is they will be paid for their labor in these short measure dollars while the prices for what they have to buy will go up to correspond with the depreciation of the currency, so that these very labor ing classes will be the chief sufferers by the change. No class of people stands in greater need of a fixed and stable currency as a standard of value than the toiling masses, and none suffer so grievously from an unstable and rapidly fluctuating currency, such as silver has been for years past. This is a lesson clearly taught by the history of all financial crises, and of all countries where such a currency exists, and our farmers and laboring classes would do well to heed the lesson if they would avoid a like experience. They should not lend a too willing ear, either to ignoramuses and blatherskites on the one side, or to shrewd, self-seeking politicians on the other. I may here mention another class that would suffer very grbat hardship from this change, that is the depositors in the savings banks of the country. These we may take it for granted are for the most part persons of limited means, who have put their little sav ings in these banks to serve them in sickness and old age. These savings amount, according to the report of the comptroller of the Currency to $1,438, )00,000. The change would depreciate the value of these deposits at least 20 per cent or $287,000,000. WHO WILL BE BENEFITED. And who, pray, would be the parties to profit by such a change? First. we may count the silver millionaires of the Rocky Mountains, the Stewarts ,d Jones of that rottenborough, Nevada; Wolcott and Teller, of Colora 3; Stanford, of California, and others like them. They expect by this mea sure to get a premium or bounty of 20 per cent and upwards on the market value of their silver. Their demand ias just about as much reason or com mon sense in it as would be the de mand of our Southern cotton planters fr the Government to guarantee them ten cents a pound for their cotton, when the market price is eight cents, r for the Western grain growers to insist on the Government guaranteeing them 20 per cent more than the market alue of their grain. And it would be more reasonable for the Government to rant such a demand of the cotton planters and grain growers, because it w.culd benefit a so much larger and more deserving class of people. Next to these silver barons to profit b such a change would come the peculators and gamblers in Wall street, whose chief business is to watch the. ups and downs in the money market, to bull it or bear it, according to their interest, and to take advantage of every bange. Give them an unstable and Bunctuating currency and they are in their glory. But with a sound and stable currency their field of operation is at least greatly curtailed. A third class to profit by this change would bs those in control of powerful monopolies, such as Jay Gould and the Vanderbilts. It seems a well-established fact that "The little Wizard of Wall street," as the Herald always calls Jay old, made millions out of the recent nrancial stringency, himself doing his ullshare to bring it on. He foresaw the 3risis approaching from afar, and by means of his enormous railroad mono poly, was able to hoard millions of ollars-700,000 a month, it is said, for several months. This in itself added ;reatly to the stringency. But what is much worse, it enabled Gould to step .n at the opportune moment with :hese millions and extend his slimy suttle fish tenacles over thousands of mniles more of our railroad system. The 3ontrol of such men as Jay Gould over ur railroads can hardly be regarded >therwise than one ot our most serious langers in the immediate future. They ire t bus enabled to tax the entire peo pIe to any extent they may desire to procure the money necessary to bribe legislators and judges, to produce finan 3ia crises, and to accomplish whatever >ter nefarious purposes they may de sire. Thus, too, our railroads, instead >f being managed for the public welfare, is they should be, are too often man iged rather for public oppression. To these three classes to profit by such a measure I might add a fourth, that is those corrupt Congressmen who ire found to have been speculating in silver and, of course, casting their votes as old Oakes Ames, of Uredit Mobilie notoriety, would hr.l D'~ '-f.b.ove the side that "wou~ 5ldfashiOVe good" ~ 1d-fSbi' "We-see, then, that this free silver coinage measure is simply one more scheme to make the .iich richer and the poor poorer. It is itself one of the most gigantic monopolies in the country and is entirely in the interest of monopoly. What possible interest our farmers and laboring classes can have in such a corrupt and corrupting scheme it is impossible to conceive. ANALOGY OF SILVER AND THE TARIFF. The only way I can explain their advocacy of it is their utter incom prehension of what will almost certain ly be its effect. They are deceived in it, like the laborers in our factories were as to what would be the effect of prc tection. These were taught to believe that protection would enable then to get higher wages, whereas, it has sim ply given bigger profits to their em ployers, while increasing to them the cost of all the necessaries of life. They find when it is too late, that instead of being protection in any proper sense of the ternm, a high tariff is simply taxa tion of the masses in the interest of certain classes. So, our farmers and laborers will find, should the silver bill unfortunately become a law, that it is only a plan to tax the country-the masses-in order to pay these silver barons a bounty of 20 per cent on the market value of their product. Add to this the revolution it must necessarily create in our curreriy and in all com mercial transactions, and we can form some faint idea of the injustice, wrong and danger of such a measure. Our farmers are asa rule a conservative and honest class of people, and if they could be brought to see the inju tice, dis honesty and danger of this silver bill they would be the very last . class of our people to advocate it. But what shall we think of able party leaders, who, while knowing full well its in justice and dishonesty, and its danger to the best interests of the country, will still support it, because they think it to be the winning card? Can such men be regarded as patriots in any true sense of the term? Are they not rather simply time-serving, selfish politicians, incapable of any higher conception of patriotism and truestates manship? Our farmers and laboring classes have unquestionably much ground for complaint, and there is no wonder they are organized to redress their grievances. ROBBED OF BILLIONS BY THE TARIFF. And it is eminently right and proper that the fshould 'i' -o. They have been so mucfi'imposed upon because of their want of organization. Ever since the war the very life-blood has been taxed out of them to the extent of hundreds of millions annually in the interest of a comparatively few favored monopo lies. This system had its origin during the war as a war measure and ought to have been abandoned at its close. But unfortunately the monopolies had al ready grown too powerful, and have been able to control legislation ever since. The amount annually paid into our overflowing government treasury on account of our high tariff, wrong as this is, has been but a small proportion of the actual cost of the tariff to the people. A very 'much larger amount has gone into the coffers of these favor ed monopolies. It is not possible to know with any degree of exactness perhaps how much the tariff costs the people at large in this respect. But a careful estimate made by a prominent tariff reform Republican Congressman a few years ago was thbat the "increased costs of home products by reason of the tariff" amounted in a single year--1884 -to $556,938,637. Supposing this to be a fair average per annum since the war--twenty-five years-we would have the almost in conceivable sum of well on to $14,000, 300, as the amount paid by the people at large during this period into the cof' fers, not of the Government, but of the favored monopolies. If we add to this the revenue of the Government from the tariff of say $200,000,000 annually, we get somewhat approximately the annual tax on our people by means of the tariff alone, that is over $750,000,000 annually. Note, too, that much less than one-third of this goes into the overnment treasury, and the remain er to the favored few. No wonder the rich grow richer, and the poor poorer. No wonder our farmers have their lands mortgaged, and our laboring classes find it more and more difficult to live on their incomes. No wonder if our elections in many places have be come synonyms for fraud and corrup tion, and that so many of our legishk. tors have become purchasable. WHY WILL NOT TIHE FARMERS SEE? But the wonder is that our farmers, intelligent as they are, should not per eive the prime cause of their griev ances, and wage a war of extermination against it, instead of being mislead by ignorant or designing parties to wage bitter warfare against honest money. and against institutions, like our na tional banks, that have had nothing whatever to do with producing their grievances. If our farmners would suc ceed in permauently improving their condition they must give up the idea of revolutionizing our monetary system and of substituting in its stead a de based and f-luctuating currency. No nation or people has ever yet been pros perous with such a currency, and it may be safely said none ever will be. If we are so in love with silver that we must have free coinage, let us at least have the common honesty to put a full dollar's worth of silver in a dollar, as we do of gold, so there will be no fraud in the transaction. Then let them turn their weapons of war against the actual causes of their grievances, the tariff, monopolies, class legislation, the "spoils system" and other actual, not imagin ary evils, in such a warfare they would have the confidence and support of the good and true of both .political parties f the country. Their organization would then be looked upon as an agency fgood, and not of evil, of improve ent, and not of danger. Civis CLEVELAND IS OUT OF THE RACE. He Will Not Allow His Name to Go Before the Democratic National Convention of 1892--His Decision Irrevocable. [Special to The State.] WASHINGTO-, February 19.-The Post in the morning, speculating on the next Democratic candidate for the Presidency, will say: Mr. Cleveland is not a candidate for renomination for the Presidency, and will not allow his name to be presented to the Democrati.^. National Convention of 1892. The Post makes this statement on high author ity, and its truthfulness will, in due time, be well established. His decision in the matter was made known to close political friends some days ago, and the formal announcement of his intentions wili reach the country over his own name in proper season. Although the use of Mr. Cleveland's name in connection with the next Presidential nomination has been gene ral, and may have predicted that he would be the unanimous choice of his party, he had, until less than thirty days ago, maintained a silence on the subject, believing that the exigencies of the political situation were such as not to call for an expression from him. When he made known to his intimate friends in New York his determination in the matter, they used every argu ment to induce him to change his mind, but found his decision irrevoca ble. His determination was fixed and unalterable, and while he assured his friends that he felt as keen : interest in the success of the Democ. .ic party as ever before, and would respond to any reasonable call upon him in 'the future, he emphasized the fact that it must be as a private in the ranks, and not as a candidate. So resolute was Mr. Cleveland in this interview with his friends that they abandoned all hope of inducing him to again become a candidate, and have since had conference with prominent party men with a view to uniting upon some other Democrat in 1892. Whether that man will be Hill, or Gorman, or Abbot, or Whitney, or whether it will be a Democrat from a Western State, is, of course, problematic. How Suicides are Made. [fospital.] It. is commonly believed that the tendency to suicide, like the tendency to maddess, runs in families, and that is no doubt true. But the strongest minded and clearest-headed man in the world has the possibility of suicide in him. On the other hand, the dis position to madness and suicide, which is so decided a characteristic of some families, is, in many cases, easily to be kept at bay by resolution and intelli gence on the part of particular indi viduals. So that, in most cases, if the story of a suicide be read from the very beginning, the full responsibility must be placed upon the victim him self. Ip our own time the pressure of highly civilized environment urges men in the ,direction of brain weari ness and so of disgust with life. But it is to be borne in mind that no man is compelled to enter into the keenest competitions of his age. The brain is fairly mature before the age of twenty five ; and before that age few educated men are married, and fewer still are irrevocably committed to a particular calling or way of life. A young man of average intelligence is then quite able to judlge his own intellectual force and staying power, and he is also able to take into consideration the history of his family and his own inherited tendencies. It is incumbent upon him at that stage to take stock of his mental and physical resources exactly as he takes stock of his capital. If his availa money amount to no more than one or two thousand pounds, he would con sider himself a madman were he to embark in a business requiring a cap ital of half a million. But is he not just as much a madmian if, with a mind of merely average powers, he en ters upon a line of life requiring an in tellect of the strongest and clearest order and mental endurance of the most persistent kind ? A young man acting thus invites brain worry, in vites chronic dyspepsia, invites sleep lessness ; throws the door wide open for the entrance of all the physiological foes that destroy health and drive san Fity out of the home. Cease Firing ! [Fronm the Chicago Globe.] This country has had no war for a quarter of a century, and yet The people of the United States pay a war pension tax of $310 a minute. The people of the United States pay a war pensioni tax of $18,50l anl hour. The people of~ the United States pay a war pension tax of $446,429 a day. The people of the United States pay a war pension tax of $3,125,000 a week. The people of the United States pay a war pension tax of $12,500,000 a month. The people of the United Slates pay a war pension tax of $15~0,00,000 a y ear. Cease firing! Let quality, not quantity, be the test of a medicine. Ayer's Sarsaparilla is the concentrated extract of the best and ~purest iugredients. M1edical men every where recommend it as the surest and most economical blood medicine in the market. If you suffer from any affection caused by imipure blood, such as scrof ula, salt rheum, sores, boils, nimples. tetter, ringworm, take Dr. J. ~ H. Mc Lean's Sarsaparilla. You cannot accomplish any work or business unless you feel well. If you feel used up-tired out-take Dr. J. H. McLean's 'asprlla.. It will give you hath, strengthand1 vitality THE PENITENTIARY SHORTAGE. R. E. Hill Completes the Examination of Bateman.'s Books-His Report-The Matter to be Submitted to the Penitentiary Board. [Special to Charleston World.] COLUMBIA, February 19.-Mr. R. E. Hill of Abbeville, who was appointed by the board of directors of the peni tentiary to examine the books of book keeper Bateman and ascertain the mis takes that caused the shortage of some $1,-504, has submitted his report to Gov. Tillman, as follows: CAMNEN, S. C., February 18.-To His Excellency, B. B. Tillman, Gov ernor of South Carolina: Sir-Having been appointed by your excellency to investigate the books and accounls of the state penitentiary, and having performed that work to the best of my ability, I beg to make the following report: I began the work of the investiga tion thinking that it would not be a very difficult undertaking, being under the impression that the chief work would consist in an examination of the cash account of the bookkeeper; but I found upon examination that this ac count had not been kept up-at least the credit side of it-and that there had been no balance struck since the beginning of 188.5. I had, therefore, to take the several annual reports of receipts and expend itures and verify them, which required an immense amount of labor and the utmost care and scrutiny, having to go over and examine almost every entry made in the books within the last twelve years. Ss the result of the examination, I find that Mr. Bateman, the bookkeeper and treasurer, omitted to charge him self with Amount received from A. C. Dibert for hire of convicts for 1886, $4,388.07. As against this, I find that he is en titled to the following credits: By paid Central National Bank...........$1.(0 0 Paid interest to " " ..... 199 5t Paid Sheritr ltowan costs in Chap pell suit.......................... 10 75 Paid Recording contracts............... 6 0W Paid interest on note for fertiliz ers........................................ 12 00 Paid Columbia Retining company 1u 2 Paid Freight on brick to Elkin..... 9 09 Paid D. Jones' ac.ts. 167 and 1856 omitted................................. 49 95 Paid W. J. Talbert (included in am't turned over)............ 1,563 87 Paid Ditiereice in errors discover ed kpro and con).................. 5 9" *3,-157 27 Balance to be accounted for, $930.80 From the foregoing statement it would seem that he still-owes the sum of $930.80.-. This, however, he coutends is not the case, as he claims to have paid Messrs. Lorick & Lowrance$936.72, for which, in the above statement,I have not given him credit. As to this, I would say that it ap pears from the account of Messrs. Lorick & Lowrance, as the same stands on the books of the penitentiary, that said firm has been paid the sum of $936.72 in excess of the amount o1 goods furnished thre penitentiary, either as appears from their bills on file, 01 from the entries made in the books o; than institution. Mr. Bateman insists that while he has failed to enter the bills for thit amount, and while he is unable to pro duce them, he issatisfied that thegoods were furnished; that the Stats has re ceived the benefit of them, and that therefore he is entitled to a credit for that amount. This may all be true, and I am satis fled that Mr. Bateman verily believes such to be the case; but, so far as the books and accounts go, there is nothing to show it. In conclusion, Ilam pleased to be able to say that while I found a good many errors and omissions in the entries it the books, the same, in my opinion was rather the result of that careless ness which generally comes of a long continuance in the same position, that from any disposition or intention to dc wrong, as I believe that Mr. Batemar has been actuated by the purest mo tives and utmost integrity of purpose Respectfully submitted, R. E. h ILL. wHAT THLE GOVFRNOR THINKS. The Governor was seen by the World Budget representative, and, in speak' ing of the report, he said: "When th< report was handed to my yesterday,J asked Mr. Hill to go 'to Lorick & Low rance and ask permission to examine their books, or get from them a state ment that would straighten out the trouble; and they declined to give it al this- time, stating they were afraid i would be impossible to get from thei, books the desired information; but al soon as the present rush of busines was over they would enldeavor to gel up the statement." TIS ENDS IT. Mr. Hill left for his home in Abbe ville to-day. The Governor states thal nothing further will be done in th< matter at present. The report will bf submitted to the board at its nex mneetinig. The Two Sides to the Alliance. [Anderson People's Advocate] The truth is the Alliance has.a busi ness and a political side to it for th simple reason that the evils of whichi complains had their origin in unjus anId inequitable business methods and in ring politics. It is in no sense a po litical and in a very much iess sense partisan organization, but . to correc the evil complained of it is compelle from the very nature of the case to en ter into business in some shape and ii some form to give a color to politics favorable to its just demands, not as class in a hostile arra * st aH othe classes, but as a ci when pros perous wiil necessarily make all other so, or in other words for the genea I MARRIED WOMEN CAN DO BUSINESS. Decision of Judge Simonton in the Dick son Case, from Greenville. [Greenville News.] Judge Simonton has filed his decision in the casegrgued in the United States circuit court ere on Tuesday, the ques tion being whether a married woman has the right in this State to engage in trade. The case was that of Keuster & Co. against E. B. and M. R. Dickson, and the piaintiffs attempted to show that a married woman has no right to engage in trade, and that a receiver should be appointed for the business of the Dickson Shoe and Hat Company, of this city; that after the payment of creditors the balance should go to the judgment which Keuster & Co. had obtained several years ago against E. B. and M. R. Dickson, who did business in Augusta. Judge Simonton dismisses the rule to show cause why a receiver should not be appointed and says: "Can a married woman in South Carolina engage in trade? The question has never been made in this State. The learned and able, as well as exhaustive, arguments of counsel deserves careful consideration. Until the adoption of the constitution of 1868 the relations of husband and wife were governed in this State by the common law. Articie 14, Section 8, of the constitution de clares: "The real and personal property of a married woman held at the time of her marriage, or that which she may hereafter acquire, either by gift, grant, etc., shall not be subject to levy and sale for her husband's debts, but shall be held as her separate property and may be bequeathed, devised or alien ated by her the same as if she were unmarried: Provided, that no gift or grant from the husband to the wife shall be detrimental to the just claims of his creditors.' "In 1887 the legislatn+e of SouthCaro lina decla red that all the earnings and income of a married woman shall be the own separate estate and shall be governed by the same provisions of law as apply to her separate estate. "In 1870 the legislature gave to mar ried women unlimited power to con tract, but in 1882 this was amended so as to read: 'A married woman shall have the right to purchase any species of property in her own name and to take proper legal conveyances therefor and to contract and be contracted with as to her separate property; provided, that the -husband shall not be liable for the debts of the wife contracted prior to or after their marriage except for their necessary support." Judge Simonton says that if a mar ried woman has power to buy she has power to sell, and she can buy and sell in such quantity as she chooses. She cannot directly or indirectly make her self or her separate estate liable for the debts, contracts or engagements of her husband or any one else. She may constitute her husband or any one else her agent in the transaction of busi ness. Decisions are quoted from in which a married woman is given the right to buy, sell, mortgage and bind herself legally, and her contracts can be en forced against her. If she does not de sire to engage directly in trade she can act through an agent, and in this case E. B.~Dlickson is the agent of his wife. A married woman, however, can not become a member of a firm. Royalty on Phosphates to be Increased. [Record, 18th.] The Phosphate Commission met to djay with all the members piesent ex cept Mr. Walter, who was detained by sickness. The commission decided to consider the rules and regulations for the gov ernent of mining at a meeting next Monday evening, and the Attorney General was requested to prepare a cir cular letter for the companies, calling their attention to the provisions of law governing these matter:s. The board also decided to open Coo saw river to ge.neral rights to mine therein on and after March 1, 1891, and a meeting will be held next Tuesday morning to formulate rules governing the same, at which time persons desir ing licenses will be heard. The commission gave notice that at the end of six months from this date the royality on phosphate will be in creased above e1 per ton. The Jaffa and Jerusalem Railroad. A tortuous, double iron track; a station here, a station there; A locomotive, tender, tanks; a coach with stilT'reelining chair: some postal cars, and baggage, too; a vesti bule of patent make; With butlers, duffers, switches, and the sough ing automatic brake; This is the Orient's novel pride, and Syria's gaudiest modern gem; The railroad scheme that is to ply 'twixt .J 1ra and Jerusalem! Beware, 0 sacred muley cow !the engine when you hear its bell! Beware. 0 ca mnel,when resounds the whistle's shrill, unholy swell! An,nat ive of that guileiess land, unlused to modern travel's snare, Beware the tiendl that peddles books, the aw ful peanut boy beware! Else, trusting in their specious arts, you may have reason to condemnn The traffic which the knavish ply 'twixt .Ja ira and Jerusalem! And when, ah! when the bonds fall due. how passing wroth will wax the State, From Nebo's mount to Nazareth will spread the cry "Rcpudiate!" From Hebron to Tiberias, from Jordan's banks unto the sea. will rise profane anathemas5 against "that damned monopoly." -And F. M1. B. A. shepherd folk, with spekless Jerry lead Ing them, Wtit swamp thrt corporation lint. twixt CONVICTS IN PENITENTIARES. The Native White Population Fn Less than One-third. WASHINGTON, February 16.-Supei intendent Porter of the Census Eu to-day issued a bulletin upon the. ject of convicts in penitentiaries shows the number of convicts in prisons and penitentiaries in United States on June 1, 1890. to hav. 45,233. The number reported in 181 was 30,659, an increase in ten yearso 9,695, or 27.28 per cent. The indrers in the total populatlon was 24.86 pe' cent. It thus appears that the peni tentiary population is growing some what more rapidly than the population at large, but the difference is not veryv appreciable. The number of lease prisoneis in the South has aIM doubled in ten years. In respect 'tao color, the bulletin shows 30,546 white and 14,687 colored ; of the latter, 14,27 were negroes. 237 Chinese, 3 Japaiese' and 180 Indians. In respect of nativity not includ the colored convicts, who may all. supposed to be natives except the nese and Japanese, of the 30,548 w _ convicts, 23,094 are native born 7 foreign born, and the place of bir 185 is unknown ; 12,842 had both p rents native ; 1,747 had one parent na tive and one parent foreign bo;. 6,584 had both parents foreign bora and in 1,921 cases the birthplace of of both parents is unknown. If to 12,842 native convicts born of nati parents is added one-half of the n her with one parent foreign born, the sum is 13,715.6. If- to the native convicts born of foreign parel is added an equal amount the'svm18 7,457.5. But to this latter figure also be added 7,267 foreign-born, victs, which gives a result 14,724 In other words, of 43,127 peniten convicts whose birth-place and paren tage are known, the foreign-born. e ment of the population furbished 14, 725, the colored population 14,687, and the native white population, whi probably out numbers them both, only 13,715. In respect of sex, 43,442 penitentiary convicts are men and 1,791 are womev The percentage of women is somewhat. less than it was ten years ago.. It ti slightly exceeded 4.5 per cent..ofgie total number, but now it falls a tri below 4 per cent. Where the Watch Face Got Its Fous L From the St. Louis Republic.] Do you know why four "I's" a used to mark the hours on clocks watches instead of the usual combin. tion of Roman numerals, whichb, rightly arranged, would be IV, instea; of IIII? There is a tradition among watch and clock makers to the effect that prior to the year 1370 all clock and watches were made with IV, thes proper characters to mark the hour oC four. In the above-named year a c1del was made on an elaborate plnft Charles V of France, surnamed Thor Wise, who had the reputation of being% not only a crank, but of being the great. est faultfinder in the world. The clock was a beauty and a fine timekeepr~ but Charles had to find fault in order to keep up his reputation. He exam ined it critically and finally broke outd in a storm of rage because the hourof 4 had been marked "IV" insisting that four IIII's should be put on in stead. This was done, and, in order to perpetuate a king's mistake, has been kept up through all succeeding years. The Right WafoSucceed. - [From the Darlington Herald. Mr. C. S. Nettles, the energetic gen eral manager of the Champion Car ning Factory, has made arrangements to plant one hundred acres in vege tables for the use of the factory. a. The mere working and gathering ~ of such quantities of vegetables wil d cost a good deal of money, and, ' besides this, about forty hands will be employed in the factory during the canning season. A great many thousand dollars are sent North every year to pay for canned goods, andif the business is done in our midst there is just that much more money to cir culate at home. Mr. G. W. Lucnas, experienced farmer, will manage tg farm for Mr. Nettles. The Death of Lancaster's Biggest Man. (From the Lancaster Ledger.] Mr. Barnes Plyler died on Tuesday of last week after a short illness of grip. He was the oldest son of the Rev. C. A. Plyler, and leaves a wife and seven children. Mr. Plyler was about 42 years of age, and was the largest m n in the county. A few days prior to hia death he visited Monroe, N. C.,:nd while there was weighed. He tipi cd the beam at 440 pounds. Not Too Late Yet. [From the .Post-Express.1 It is said that Jerry Simpson, when a boy, had the ambition to become a - pirate when he grew to manhood. Alas ! how far short of our ideals dowv strike. The Gay Season In Florida. [Jacksonville Timnes-Union.] A chewing gum party is to bse given the last of this week~ by a prominent society belle. Quite an active time is ~ expected. The great majority of cures do little more digestive fonetiilis