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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