The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, March 19, 1891, Image 1

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'tro Q A RT,T( D 1865A . R , .HRDY MARCH19 1891.PRC $1.5 A YEA JL .JL-ALf SHAMING THE DEVIL. The Mjority Do Not Always Tell the Truth --It is not Fashionable to Do SO-May the 01 Fashion of Speaking the Truth Return. [Sunday News.1 The number of persons who under take to tell the truth invariably is small. "It does not by any means come up to a majority of any grade of society," says one of our contempora ries, and although the statement at first sounds rather startling, upon re flection we are forced to admit that it is true. Good breeding, and some other considerations, forbid us to call any man a liar, but if we consider how many there are among our acquaintan ces upon whose word we can confi dently rely, we will find, to our sur prise, that their number by no means comes up to a majority. Mo.s of these, however, are men who would rather die than swear to an untruth, and who would resent any doubt of their veraci ty in such a way as to silence, if not convince, the doubter. They are sun ply unconscious of how many untruths they tell, because they allow them selves to speak without due considera tion, thinking that a little exaggeration is allowable if it heighten the effect of a good story or piece of news, and have fallen into the error of believing that they need not be careful of their utter ances in ordinary conversation as if they were upon the witness stand. The old fableof the three black crows is a trite example of the inability of people to repeat anything exactly as it is told to them; and every lawyer is aware how difficult it is for two wit nesses to agree in describing an event they have seen, although they may both be anxious to be very accurate and impartial in their testiimoiny. Nc mind is perfectly impartial, and, just as a ray of sunlight will assume the various hues in shining through a stained glass window, so each mind will impart its peculiar tint to what ever truth passes through it. These variations cannot rightly be called falsehoods, since they are involuntary and unavoidable even when we endeav. or to be most candid, and a lie is al ways an intentional effort to deceive. Then any number of people prevari. cate about their local affairs, famil. matters, businees concerns and thing. of like personal nature, reconciling i1 to their conscience by thinking that n( one has a right to question theni upor such matters. This is quite true, anc hence there is a soc al law, observed b all well-bred people, that forbids thi asking of any questions that it may bi embarassing to answer, but if we ar so unfortunate as to know any of thos< social pests, whv, under color of friend ly interest, are always pryi- into thei neighbors' business, it is better eithe to ignore their impenitent questions or to quietly decline to answer them than to allow ourselves to be tormente' into telling an untruth to avoid reveal ing some secret we do not wish to dis close. We are afraid, however, tha this mode of procedure would not avai us much in dealing with that most erm barrassing person, the tax assessor.- I is really distressing to reflect upon th number of prevarications, to use n stronger term, which he evokes by hi impertinent curiosity about person property and the like. Another fruitful source of fa'sehoo< is the present custom of extravagai advertisements of every descriptior deliberately framed with the intentio of attracting attention at no matte what sacrifice of truth. The ver worst of these are those offering situt tions or employment at home to peol in needy circumstances, many of whot can ill spare the small sum demande for further information, which is gent rally wo~-rtbless when obtained. The there are patent medicines that wi cure every disease that flesh is heir I as by magic; or town lots in sonme 1< cality that is just about to become ti metropolis of tbe State in which it situated; or the announcements< merchants and dealers who decli that they are selling off at cost or f: below it "a magnificent line" of this< tat to make room for newv stoc-k. A5 everybody, particularly every womnai l-ves a bargain, this is sure to draw cu tomers, who find to their disappoin ment that the "line" is comnposed f< the most part of shop worn articl that would be dear at any price, wvit h few of a better description "to make go," while the employees of the sht are expected to tell you that they a just out of the especial article you nit desire. The object of this is not much the sale of those special goods: to attract customers, who, d isappoiniit< in getting at a low price what they d sire, may purchase it at the regul: price, or else see somxethtng in ot her d partments of the shop that they w fancy. And yet a good many of the advertisers are men~who in their pl vate life would not tell an untrut but who have somehowv become pc sessed of the idea that such things a allowable in business. The falseness of obituaries has 1 ome so proverbial.it would scarce be worth enumerating them among t: examples of "how this world is giv< to lying" were it not for the impressi< that exists generally that the oldi junction, "Say nothing but good of t dead," should be interpreted inito ommand to praise the dead regardhi of the truth, if you mention them all. They speak as though there we some magic power in the touch death that it can transform the m< hardened sinner into the grea test saii and teach the condemned criminal look calmly upon the gallows as t gteway of heaven. Sentimentali S ike thstnds to cheapen virtue al to encourage vice, sine the evil and the good are to receive equal measure of praise and glory. We de not knox why it is that wo men are held less strictly accountable for what they say than are men, unless it be that they are more in subjection to social eustoins that require a certain amount of insincerity from them. There are a certain number of polite phrases current in the social world that all use, whether they mean them or not, unless they are willing to be thought ridiculously prudish for ob jecting to speak what is untrue. Now, most women are desperately afraid of committing a solecism, or of being laughed at, and so they go on repeat ing, parrot-like, the remarks that po liteness requires them to make about being delighted, charmed, glad or sorry, even though their feeligs are just to the reverse of their words. If they think at all of the untruths they are telling, they console themselves by the reflection that no onp attaches any real value to these phrases. They will bid a servant say they are not at home to an unwelcome visitor, and yet be un welcome visitor, and yet he unreason ably angry if that same servant tells them a falsehood about household af fairs. It is sometimes argued that "Not at h:)me" is a conventional way of saying it is inconvenient to see one; but proba9ly the donestic is not capa ble of making these fine distinctions, and he thinks that since you have or dered him to tell a lie on his own ac count if occasion serve. Each of us has in his mind, unless Le has been very unfortunate in life, the memory of some women he has known from whose lips he never heard the slightest prevarication, and we are sure it is to this type his ideal woman belongs. They might be thought old fashioned in these tiwes for not telling social untruths; but it was a very sweet old fashioL, that of always speaking the truth, and we hope that in "the circle of eternal change" the Lime will soon colue when it wiU again be "the style." NO FINE FEATHERS FOR THEM. Alliance Congressmen will Shun Frshion able Society. WAs11NOTON, March 8.-The Farm er ' Alliance Congressmen are not going into society. Representative Jerry Simpson, being asked to-day bow the AlLiance men will act towards the fashionable society of Washington, replied: "This is a matter on Nt hich there is a decided opinion. The Farmers' Alli ance members are simple, honest folk, and their Representatives in Cong is, I can assure you, are not going to put on any fine feathers and ape the man ners of the rich. We shall return, as far as possible, to the primitive order of things. You must not get the impres sion, however, that we are an uncouth lot of people, who delight to parade poverty, as has been so often been rep resented by our opponents. We shall 1dress respectably and decently, but will not run to the extreme of dress stuits, dianmonds, etc. Neither, on the other hand, are we likely to appear at a President's reception in a flannel shirt and hob.2ail shoes. "You can publish the fact as widely :as you wish that tbe representatives of the Farmers' Alliance in Congress do not propose to be led away into any social dissipation. We expect to live r comfortably but unostentatiously, and will not allow any frivolous society claims to interfere with our duty to the country and to our constituents. We (do not take much stock in public din ners, receptions, etc. Those of an oflicial character we shall probably at tend, and it would not be surprising if Iwe should attend in ordinary dress, as very few if any of us possess what society seems to reqluire-a dress suit. torthern Manufacturers Will Mfove their s 3U111 to Beaufort. e [Spe::ial to News and Courier.] r Bi-:.x'FonT, MIarch 12.-A very' im r portant transfer of real estate w'as madle s here yesterday, and, if it turns (outas , has been predicted, it will add much to -the pbrosperity of this section. A tract - of land containing three hundred and r fifty acres, owned by S. W. Howland, ,fronting upon Battery Creek, was sold a through MIr. Jarnes 31. Crofut for $10, t c.00 to Mlessrs F-ayden & Hunt, of Bos 'P ton, 51ass. The purchasers are largely e interestedl in extensive cotton manu y facturinig plants in the New England ~O States. anld they pr~opoe to remove the 15 machinery of one of their mills down d here and( erect a large and suitable h-louse to receive it on the property pur r chased. e- The total amount of capital to be .1 invested by these gentlemen will be :0.0. Th wor ofeonstructing the iner:essary plant wvill be commielnced I hiortly. In reply to a question from thie News and Courier reporter, the re.presenitative of the firm stated that thev in:tendled to) utilize local labor, L which would be much cheaper than~ 'impIorted labor. e It is rumored that other real estate n transfers eqjually as important as the )l aaove will be shortly consumated. w- ~hieh will open the eyes of those in IC terested .n the prosperity of thi- see a1ti,n. tSpea~ker E:.der's Free,dom of Expression of 'From the Atchison Globe.] st Mae Elder of the Kansas Legisla tture was ini a bad humxor the othe to miorning, andI, loo.king around for tbt e cbaplain, w'ho usually opens the ses tysions with prayer, he said: "' Where i id that-preacher?" PALMER ELECTED SENATOR Cost, Fifty Daya, Time. One Hundred and Fifty-four Ballots and Some S150,000. SPINGFIEI.D, Ill., March 1.-At 12.21, the one hundred and fifty fourth ballot, John M. Palmer was -lected United States Senator. Cocki-All voted for him. Evans was the only Re publican who voted. Taubeneck, F. M. 11. A., a!so refused to answer to his name. At 12.30 the Republican absentees an swered to their call, and proceeded to vote for Lindley. Great excitement prevailed. A inem ber on the Republican side wanted to "do up" some of his colleagues. The one hundred and fifty-fourth bailot re sulted as follows: Palmer 103, Lindley 100, Streeter 1. Taubeneck voted for Streeter. At 12.40 Palmer was declared elected, amid intense excitement. The fight over the senatorship lasted fifty days, and has cost the State $150, 00. GEN. PALMER WAS THE BEST CANDI DATE IN THE CONTEST. WASHING rON, March 12.-President Polk of the National Alliance, declined this morning to express his views on the election in Illinois of Gen. Palmer to the Senate, and the position of the three Alliancemen in the recent contest in Illinois, further than to say that it appeared to him to have a fight be tween the Republican and Democratic parties, rather than a contest between those two parties and the Alliance. The' All'ance, he thought, had fought manft!y for principles, and though they had not been victorious in send ing a Farmers' Alliance man to the Senate, he believed that Gen. Palmer's election would generally be regarded with more favor than that of any other candidate. President Polk said further that he knew of no promises being made by Gen. Palmer as to his policy in the Senate on any questions whatever. Judge Peffer's Career. Peffer, Ingalls successor in the Sen ate, is man of education and ability, with no irreproachable personal char acter, though not as much of a scbolar as a man of affairs. He was born in Pennsylvania sixty years ago, and the foundation of his education was laid in t.t country school houses of that State. In 1852 he was married and moved to Indiana, settling on a farm in St. Joseph county. In 1869 he again moved to Morgan county, Missouri, and there distin guished himself by his utterances in favor of the maintenance of the union. In 1862 he was once more compelled by circumstances to make a change of base, and moved to Warren county, Illinois, fro n whence he enlisted in the Federal army, in August of that year entering as a private, and dis charged in 18653 as a second lieutenant. After the war he settled down in Clarksville, Tennessee, and engaged in the practice of law, acquiring some local reputation by his opposition to move Brewlem's radicalism. After four years of unsuccessful struggle to help the differences occasioned by the war, he was compelled to leave Ten nessee; and in,1870 moved to Kansas, locating on a go rnm.ent land claim in Wilson county, engaging in farming and the praciice of law. In 18741 he was elected to the State Senate as a Republican. In 1875 he removed to Coffeyville, an adjoining county, but in the same congressional district, where he estab lished the Journal, conducting it as a republican newspaper. in 1880 he was a presidential elector on the republican ticket, and in 1881 was appointed editor of the Kansas Farmer and moved to Topeka. He then abandoned party and politics and devoted himnself to the study of econ mic questions, but when the new Imovement first showed signs of life he immediately stepped to the front as a leader, and by hisspeeches and writing lid more than any one man in the State to bring about the political revo lution of last November. During the campaign he was a de clared candidate for the position to which he has been nominated by his party and he has always taken a great interest in agricultural matters, and is thoroughly educated in bucolic science and politics. He ihas been a republican from Fre mont to Harrison. Is member of the Prostestant Episcopal church. I s master Mason and belongs to the Knights of Labor. He unreservedly endorses the St. Louis platform and the Ocala platform of the Nationa] Farmers' Alliance Industrial Unioc the platform of the people's party it Kansas. believes the governmenl should aid in improving harbors anc rivers in the South, and building Nortl: and South railroads, in the West it irrigating lands wherever and as fasl as settlement demands, and first of al the issuance of money 'enough to see the people on their feet again. Ieffer Draws His Salary Early. - [Atlanta Journal.] Peffer did not approach the Ser geant-at-Arms of the Senate himself but sent a friend to see how the lant layvand tonfnd outif any of the annua $,000. was available for immediat4 n- eds. The friend investigated, and t< the ir finite delight of Peffer 'ae was in formed that the shekels w.ould begii -to flow at once, and when Peffer slip ped up and signed fori his first month' salary of $41j9.66 ir( avance, an agricul tral aureola settled down upon an< and skulked in the meshes of his en TIlE MONEY MUST V. GO^TTEN! Comptroller Ellerbe' Apipeal to the Audltors. [Special to News and Courier.] COLUMBIA, Thursday, March 12. Coniptrollur General Ellerbe has issued a circular which will doubtless be read by all property owners witi. general interest and special interest by county auditors. It is as follows: EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, ()FFICE CoMPTROLEi GEN ERA L, Mr.- - , Auditor.--County: Where county boards of equalization have reduced the valuation of the pro perty of any individual, company or corporation, and did not apportion the amount so reduced to the valuation of the property of other individuals, com panies or corporations of their respective counties, auditors are instructed the ac tion of such boards and to enter the property of such individual, company or corporation upon their duplicate at its "true value in money." Section 254, Rule 3, General Statutes, prohibits county boards from reduciil "the aggregate value of real and perso nal property of the county between the aggregate value thereof as returned by the county auditor." The provisions of Section 229 prohibiting county audi tors from increasing the return as made by taxpayers, his or her agent, excep1 by authority of the board of assessors, is meant to prevent the arbitrary exercise of power without notice to the tax yer through spite, spleen or prejudice, thus cutting off appeal. Section 239 o this chapter makes it the duty of the county auditor, if he shall suspect o be informed that any person or persons corporation or company, has evaded making a return or made a false return of his, her or their personal property for taxation, or have not made a ful return or if the valuation returned iE less than it should have been, to notify such parties and such witnesses as h< may deem proper to appear at hi office. Auditors will notice that the law specifies four causes, viz: No return false returns, pl.rtial return and valua tion returned less than it should hav< been. Auditors will follow these require ments, adhering to the further provi sions of Sections 240, 241, etc. As befor< stated, auditors are not limited in tim( as to the performance of their duties except by the settlement with treasure that is, the auditor has until the settle ment with the treasurer in 1892 to ge upon his tax duplicates at its true valu4 in money all the personal property iE his county for the fiscal year 1890-91. The Comptroller General, under tb law, will insist upon this being done and as far as possible every dollar o taxable property in the State made t bear its just and equitable portion c the burden of taxation, and if auditor now in office will not or cannot dis charge their duties fully and fearlessl; others will be from the very exigencie of the public interests substituted il their places who can and will do thei duty. No idle thought or boast c superior position induces this demiauc but the interests of the State, the pec pie of South Carolina demand it, an it must be done. There are reasons fa belheving that a very large percentag of cash deposited ia banks, etc, escape taxation. To obviate this particular deficienc in the return of personal property th attention of auditors is called to Se< ion 200, General Statutes, which at thorizes them "during business houw to enter the office of such bank c banking association and obtain a list all persons, parties, companies, coI poration or agents, who may at an time have any deposit, either person: or general, in such bank." No ind vidual, corporation or company liab] to taxation in his or their count should escape the vigilance of the at aitor. Any person or persons wb have commenced business since t1 first of January should be required I return and pay pro rata, whether b the individual, joint stock comnpan: etc. Life, fire, marine and other ix surance companies are taxable, an should be looked after where returm have not been made. Respectfully, WV. H. ELLERIIE, Comptrol.er General South Carol in. A P'residential Possibility Welcomed Florida. [Florida Times-Union.1 General Alger drove up to one of ti railroad offices this morning, alighte and went in. He wanted to find o1 something about transportation, at the agent said: "What is your nami sir?" "General Alger," was the repl "Well," said the agent, "I'm gh: you're a General, 'cause these Floric woods are just full of Colonels." Blair Not Likely to Venture It. [Chicago Herald.] It is pretty well understood that e Senator blair will not go to China the Minister of the United Stat' While it perhaps is true, as Secreta Ho of the Chinese Embassy to this ci declared, that no protest against Y Blair has been cabled hence to Peki it is known that members of the les tion have privately expressed the opi ion that if Mr. Blair does go to Chi his recall will be asked by the Imper Govern.ment. Not until his arris there will any steps be taken to expr< the displeasure of that governmrei Under the circumstances Mr. Blair c; hardly aff rd to go to China. Unless more care is given to the hn the coming man is liable to be a ha -less animal; hence, to prevent the h: from failing, use HalFs Hair Renew' THE MONEY REFUNDED. The Gold Brick Swindler Goes Free-The Attorney -General's Decl%ion. [Aiken Recorder.] By the consent of the Attorney General, upon the payment of all costs and expenses to the State and county incurred in the extradition and in prisonment of the defendant, William Harper, alias H. S. Hall, and also the payment to Messrs. Weathersbee, Ken nedy & Easterling of the 25,000 obtain ed from themi under false pretenses, lie was discharged, it being agreed that he was never again to enter the State of South Carolina, upon the coudition if he did he would be rearrested upon the same charge. The matter being simply a misdemeanor, the State being saved from loss, and the money being repaid, it is very clear that the consent of the Attorney-General is the proper thing. We congratulate Messrs. Weathersbee, Kennedy & Easterling on their success and the success of their attorneys in getting their money, and we are satis fled that if a man ever goes about Wil liston again and says "gold brick," he will be shot outright. It is a settled fact that the money has been paid over and that Harper is gone, and so endeth the chapter. We have it second handed that the money paid over by the friends of Harper amounted to $5200. Harper was taken in irons on the 4.45 train to Augusta Monday after noon, and the money was paid over there and is now in the Bank of Aiken. IS THE COLORED BROTHER GOING? Indications that he may Dispose of his Problem by Disappearing. [Richmond Times.] The census figures have just destroy ed an old and tenacious notion regard ing the numerical status of the negro in the aggregate population of the country. All the States have not yet been heard from, but the record is suffi ciently comprehensive to allow a fair estimate to be made of the increase of the white and black races, stated sepa rately, for the last ten years. When the second national census was made, In the year 1800, it revealed a growth of 35 per cent. in the white population of the country and of 32 per cent. in the black, in the preceding ten years. In two or three decades since then the in crease in each race touched somewhat higher figures, but the tendency in the last thirty years has been downward, Between 1-80 and 1890 the growth of the whites has been, approximately, 26 per cent., and that of the negroes 13 per cent. Stated difIerently, the negro f constituted 19 per cent. of the aggre ) gate population of the country one f hundred years ago, and held that ratio until 1810, when be dropped back to 18 - per cent. He reached to 17 per cent. in 1840, to 16 per cent., in 1850, to 14 per scent. in 1860, to 13 per cent. in 1870, and to 12 per cent. in 1590. A hundred years ago the black man, broadly fspeaking, numbered about one in five of the inhabitants of the country, while to-day he does not reach one in eight. IThe social philosophers who have rbeen looking 'N a great negro wave of epopulation to ov.erwhelm ultimately the white race in this country, will see that no encouragement for this idea can be obtained in the census reports eAlready some of them are beginning tc take the opposite view, and to predici the negro's speedy extinction. He will sdisappear, they say, as the Indian ih rdisappearing, and wvill leave behind fhim no trace of his existence. This judgment finds as little warrant in tht facts of the case as the other. While the negro is decreasing in proportior to the aggregate population, lie is in creasing numerically. There are mone black men in the country now that there were ten years ago, and ther< owill be more ten years hence than ther< are now. Still the question as t< owhether he will eventually disappea: yaltogether holds a subordinate place it ~practical politics. The mia.n considera tion with statesmen and economists i: that in the general expansion ini popu lationfhe is not holding his own. He is steadily and rapidly falling behiu< in the race with his white neighbors As a force in legislation hiisinfluence i: Lwaning. The black bogy which a fev fanciful persons in the South anm North had conjured up is destroye< eflectually and permanently. Practi cally speaking, the negro problem is: thing of yesterday. What senator Stewart Saw in~ the Forc Biln. d"I have simiply labored to dischiarg e,y, duties as I understand them, an -. it is gratifying to kniow that good pee dpIe approve of my course. In miy est~ Ia mation the country has escaped a grea danger by the defeat of the electioi bill. Its p)assage would have been th comm ~encement of the end of local sell governiment. If the State cannot con: duct its own elections honestly, th - the United States cannot accomplisl Sthat desirable result. On the contrary whenever the central government take Scontrol of the local elections a mnon ty archy will be established." n,"Ayer's Medicinies have been satit - which has beeni used by many of m a patients, one of whomi says he know al it saved his life"-F. L. Morris. M. ID aBrooklyn, N. Y s Most UnpWeasantly. LULadv Bartholomew (as she finmds th: butler taking a surreptitious nip of th itwenty-five-year-old sherry)-Bulger, r The Butler-so he I, me leddy! Judge. ' JERRY'S WAYS AND WORDS. Mr. Simpgon Wear Soclks, and He Doe6u Care Who Knows It. ANNAPOLIS, March 11.-Represent: tive Jerry Sinipson, bstter known a the "sockless statesman" from Kansa created a sensation this afternoo among the Maryland farmers now i convention at the State House whe he interrupted the proceedings to den the statement that he did not wea half hose. The explanation was pr( cipitated by a reporter, who, durin the recess, called at the Maryland H< tel, where Mr. Simpson was stoppin and sent him a note in which he r< quested the farmer Congressman 1 affirm or deny the report regarding h footwear. The note wound up: "I you wear socks ?" After waiting some time for the an wer, the reporter went back to the Cor vention which had just been called t order, and soon Mr. Simpson, hatle and with his overcoat over his ar rushed into the hall and demanded in mediate recognition. He then hande to the secretary the note left for hima the hotel. There was a quiet smile o every farmer's face when the secretar finished reading it, and all eyes wel turned expectantly on Mr. Simpsor Tossing his coat to one side, he face the convention and spoke as follows: "Mr. President:-This letter refers t myself, and I wished it read to th auaience, and then to make a persom explanation. It has been alleged tha at a certain time in Kansas I had sai that the poverty of the farmers was s great that they could not afford to wet socks, and that I was a living exampl So far as I am concerned,*there is n truth in the story. The statemer originated from the brain of a Republ can editor in Kansas. My constituen know all about me, and I took no occm sion to deny the yarn. 'Tis true th4 owing to the high tariff some of ti farmers could not afford to wear sock and we were in.the same position v was Napoleon during the time he a tempted to cross the frontier to attac the Austrian army. He was withot arms, and when asked where 1 thought he could get them nsaid: "Tal them from the Austrians.' The ma who was against me was a represent tive of the silk-stocking aristocrac, better known as Prince Eal. At tL time of the election I told my peop that I expected to get the other feljovi socks,_and not only did I get them, bi I got his shoes as well. "I want to say that I do now we socks, and I put them on aft the defeat ot IngalLe, which I belie, was the beginning of an era that mar ed the time when the humblest peof can wear socks and the peopls who su tain the Government, some of who are my constiuents, should wear ti best. I deem it necessary to -xplain the people of Maryland the much ye ed question of socks. Just now I a unable to determine which has giv< me a greater reputation, my feet or n This speech was greeted with t multuous applause, after which t business of the convention went on before. In his formal address to the farm< Mr. Simpson said: "We farmers find ourselves with fi lands at the end of years poorer a poorer, and we wanted to do somethi to better ourselves, and we have und taken to elect men to carry out our vie on money and transportation." .1 then read from Senator Ingalls' spee in the Senate to prove the increase wealth, and asserted that -this weal goes out of the hands of~ those w created it.: ("Much of this comes," added, "as John J. Ingalls says, fr( vicious legislation. W- have soi proDositions. to cure it. Reforms transportation we want. Tllere : 150,000Omiles of rails. It cost $3,000,0( 000 to buy them, and the stock is vahi at $6,000,000,000. So the people have pay 4 per cent. on watered stock. V: derbilt, by the railroad system, mt .$120,000,000 in :27 years. Adam, had lived to this day, and received one d lat a day for his life, would only ht received $:1,000,0. We want the (4 ernment to own enough railroads make competition to prevent this. In conversation with Mr. Wani maker yesterday, I understood thav. telegraph and railroad companies formiing a combination against Government. They want to force Government to its knees. The railro must become part of the system as' postal and the school systems. Eve body now wvants an ogice. Everyb< flocks to the city, but under a chl of conditions things will be differt This is the work for the statesmen the future. This struggle of the j: ple has been going on for ages-fi the army, then they took they took church; now they use the law to - p)etuate the wrong. e"The tarifflaws are one of the Sments of slavery. I am encouraged this one artie. -wool: and discoura; Sby a number of others; and p)rotect -gives no benefit. Protection is as gi a fraud as was A frican slavery. Gm syndicates own the iron, coal and 1' -ber of the country, and they con the:prices, and work it to make th< selves rich. "'Now, when I raise corn I wan exchange where I can get the a coats, overeo)ats, u derclothes, d r goods and socks. [Laughter and I you from getting goods where they the cheapest. Tihese tariff laws are -same system that forced Irishmen fi Ireand e ause it was cheaper to rn cattle than men. There is now even a syndicate on the tomb of Washington -it costs $1 to go to Mt. Vernon and 25 cents to a beer garden just opposite. "Luther reformed the Church f-om the outside; the Republican party re s formed the Whig and the Democratic parties from the outside, and the time n has come when we must reform the n Democratic and Republican parties n from the outside. We took in the la y dies in the Alliance because they are r the best moral force in the country, and we won by them in Kansas. The g way to get these reforms is to send men to Congres who represent your views." THE EVER-READY SELF-COCKER. 0 s Theodore Allen Wounden by a ttray Shot 0 Fired in a Hampton Row. . [Special to News and Courier.] . HAMPTOX, S. C., March 14.--After o the inspection by Gen. Farley yester s day a ball was held in the graded school building. About 9 o'clock p. m. a diffi . culty arose on the street near the school d house between Charley Harrison,a lad, t and a young man named Abe Ruth, son of Ex-Sheriff A. M. Ruth. Harri son's brother took Charley's place, and e in the fight that ensued punished Ruth 1. severely, at least so say eye-witnesses. d Friends of both parties interfered and separated them. A few minutes after the fight ended the parties left in different directions. Three, some say four, shots were fired in quick succession, evidently from a d self-acting pistol, all shot by the same 0 party. A young man named Theodore r Allen, who had just left the ball room and had no connection with the diffi culty, was shot, unintentionally, of course. The ball entered the right breast about one or one and a half inches to the right of the nipple. The physicians have been unable to locate the ball or e to form any idea of its direction. Young Allen was carried to Dr. S. F. Ray's office, where he was attended by Drs. Ray and J. B. Harvey. This k morning Dr. Folk, of Brunson, was t called in. The physicians think the wound is an exceedingly dangerous : one, but not necessarily fatal. Young Allen is now at Mauldin's Hotel. His mother and stepfather are with him. Allen is perfectly conscious and, though suffering instensely, talks calmly about le the unfortunate affair. He says that 's Abe Ruth shotpim. it Jrresting Facts About the Phosphate Lr Premiums. re Recently the Columbia Phosphate company made a very liberal offer ol le several premiums to be competed for b3 s the farmers of the State at the nexi 3 State fair. The following communica ie tion received by Col. Thos. W. Hollo to way, secretary of the State Agricultural _. and Mechanical Society, with his repl n thereto, was given for publication, as in the information, as the informatiot gy contained in the letter will be of inter est to all the farming class: u- FoRT MOTTE, S. C., March 7, 1891. le DEAR SIR:-In competing for the as prize offered by the Columbia Phos phate company, are competitors allow rs ed to use any other grade of fertilize: than those regularly manufactured b3 ne the company? I would like to have id special fertilizer prepared by the com ag pany if such is allowablde. 3r. Let me hear from you at once. -sRespectfully, ehREPLY. of PoMA RIA, Newberry county, S. C., th March 9, 1891. 110 DEARt SIR-I am in receipt of you he postal as to the requirements of th im committee of this society in the use c ne the Columbia Phosphate company in fertilizer to be used in competition fo Lre the premiums offered by that company Q, I quote the rule bearing on the case ed "For the largest yield of cotton upoi to one acre of land manured with a ferti Ln- lizer manufactured and sold by th de Columbia Phosphate company, $200.( he Same requirement as to second larges ol- yields, I beg to call your attention t .ve section 5 of the rules: >v- "Each competitor shall make to th to secretary of the society a written state ment under oath, setting forth in deta ia- the character and the quality of th he land cultivated; the name or variety< ire seed planted; the brand of fertilizer; tb~ he amount applied and mode of appliel he tion; the system of cultivation an dsmanner of harvest; the gross yield < e seed cotton and the total cost of tli ry- crop. "This statement shall be file dy with the secretary of the society o01< ige before a d1a:e to be hereafter fixe< ut notice of which will be given to eac of competitor by the secretary." eo- N%o specified grade of the goods ~St, given, but I take it that either one.< Lhe the brands made by the compan: i should be used in competition, as a cumpetit.ions should be on tihe sauI dle- footing in the use of the published gr.e by of the goods manufactured by thae C ;ed lumbia Phosphate company. "A~ert ion lizer manufactured and sold by ti eat Columbia Phosphate Co.," might'i e.t construed as to the use of any fertiliz i- manufactured by that company, but rol the same time the rule says "man m- factured and sold by tihe company." appears that "and sold" would refer to tihe brands of goods advertised for sa ost by that company, showing a certa - analysis of the fertilizers nmnufactur< ap- by the Columbia Phosphate c(omp'a 1(on Yours very truly, mid Tiros. WN. HottOWAY, Sec. er:t The phosphate company announ( are that the premiums are offered for t1 the best yield made with any of their fert om izers whatever, entirely .vithout refi Ls ence to the brand. A BLESSING AND A CURiSE. Anodynes a Heasureleoo Boon to Mankind, But Often Leading to Phyical Decay and Moral Degeneration. [From the New York Sun.] One of the interesting features of the present day is the part played by ano dynes. It would seem as if mankind were always bent upon searching for new means for the relief of pain, whether it be from purely physical pro cesses going on in the sensory nerves, or the more exquisite tort ure which has its seat and origin in disordered intelo lectual and emotional life. Not content with the mere assuage ment of bodily suffering and the pallia tion of spiritual afflictions, the modern world demands also pleasurable stimu lation of the senses and exaltation of the agreeable emotions. We do not nowadays follow the slave of Epaphro ditus, who taught men to accept stoi cally, by the exercise of the highest mental faculty, the will, whatever wounds of body or pangs of soul the Fates might bring to try them. It is not enough to have found a balm for lacerated nerves, or to have discovered means of alleviating sore distress of the heart and bringing order into intel 'ectual chaos; but the healthy and strong man would fain escape the 9 trivial aches and anxieties of the day. The petty cares, the little worries, the tedium of existence, the "Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized," these, too, raust be drowned and annul led. The dreams of hasheesh, the forget fulness of chloral, and the nepenthe of opium or morphia are courted, and at. what a cost! Too often such pleasurable indulgence leads the victim down the path of physical decay and mental and moral degeneration. Anodynes, and especially opium and its alkabcids, have been a measureless boon to mankind; but how easily do they become a scourge. Intended only to allay suffering, to combat wretched ness, to mitigate anguish which some times threatens to overwhelm the brain, t is becoming far too common to em ploy them as exhilarants against the lesser ills of existence. - It is not only the worn-out slaves of labor, the victims of disease and de spair, and the fatuous frequenters of opium joints who resort to the use of such drugs; but instances are not want ing of men of supreme intelligence who have allowed themselves to sink into the lowest depths of narcotic-inebriety. When De Quincey portrayed with magic pcn his *wn terrible experience with opium, he had as comrades the first Lord Erskine, the Dean of Carlisle, William Wilberforce, and Samuel Tay lor Coleridge! De Quincey looked with horror upon the spreading of this pernicious habit in England, but that was more than a half century ago, before the advent of the hypodermic syringe, and tefiV morphia had become similar as the active principle of opium. Then the narcotic was far from obtaining theI appalling circulation that it has to-day. Even in China, the land of the opium habit, the 'increase in this form of inebriety has been enormous, due to the removal of a local tax upon the :drug; and it has been recently stated -by an English autho"r that the number of opium consumers in the United States, as compareda with England, is as thirty to one; but this is an unveri fled assumption. Medical men have much to answer for in connection with the continual spread of narcotic habits. They have made the world too familiar with drugs which should be used sparingly and r. rarely; and too many chloral and mor phine inebriates have to thank their Sphysicians, or rather curse them, for the*bitter knowledge that came of their Sfirst acquaintance with anodynes. - r lt is only a short time since we re corded the death of a young school girl from an overdose of morphine, pre pribed for her by a medical student named Harris; and for what purpose? Headache and sleeplessness ! These are conditions for which, except under tthe most remarkable circumstances, no experienced physician would ever order this drug. Trhere are other and better, e less dangerous, less seductive, remedies 1at the command of the intelligent pracy titioner for the alleviation of sym;ptoms e ofthis character; and we mention the act of this student only as an indication e of the general laxity and reckless indif ference with which many professional men are wvont to prescribe a medica ment wvhich, administered with judg e nient, is one of the greatest of bl essings but given carelessly or injudi cionsly, rmay result in irreparable ruin. The 'student merely retiects the thoughtless h ness of his seniors. Beware, then, of the physician who uses morphine is ligh tly. A rmed with a loaded. revol vver, he would be a safer visitant to the sikroom than with a loaded hypoder mic syringe. eIt is interestin'g to know that De le Quincey made his first acquaintance Oith opium through the friendly ad vice of a student to take it for headache eAn Undeviating Man. t,t Collector -Can you let me have the Li- amount of this little bill to-day, Mr. It Jaysmith? to Jaysnmith-I'll pay you on the first of le the month. in "But you told mue that six months ed ago.' Y. "Quite likely. I am not a man who tells one tale to-daty and at different one Compliments to the Fitty-first Cong 'ess. Il r rom the Pontand Oregonion.] r-j This is irrowing to be a grea.t and ex pensive country.