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The "Famoius." $ 10 CENlTEl", in lPII'ES GODlCUS WILL MAKE YOU SMILE i t hulU LISTEN TO THEIR LOW PR~ICES-A L Ci glass and Tinwale. I ry thein and see. Foot's 01dStaud. W. M. Sherard z -z:. ESTBLSHE 7165 NEWBERRY S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBR2,19..1______ ESTALSE185 WHYl THlE FARMIERS ARE POOR$ TUE VERY PRACTICAL VIEWS OF A PRACrICAL MAN. Some Interesting Facts and Figures ..The Sub-Treasury Pian-Nothing to be Said for er Against It. To the Editor of the _News and Cou rier: A great many people follow new ideas as they follov tie Jashions blindly and without reason. It is hard to get men to think. It is constantly repeated, "The people are beginning to think." We have all heard that for years and years-and it always comes from the men who are leading the people for the time being. Whoever has watched the move .ments of the people for any length of time must have been impressed with the fact that they are often led uway by caprice and prejudice, mnore than by reason. Notwithstanding this fact, the mass of the people are honcst in their opinions and in the End they come out right. The people of this State are ciuserva tive-especially the farming class. The history of the paqt eighteen months and the Tresent conditiou of unrest and agitation would seem to contra dict this, but there are causes that fully explain these seeming contradic tions. We have been told time and again by such publications as the Manufac turer's Record that the South is emi nently prosprous. I do not believe it, and I am not a pessimist either. Thrc, are prosperous sections in the SoL . wherever mining or manufacturingi has been developed. And there is some prosperity, more apparent than real. however, in towns and cities-caused not so much by business successes as by the addition of so many citizens of the country, who moved to towns .o get better schools and church advan tages for their children. This increase in population creates an increased de aand for lots and residences and sends up the price of real estate. And since :many of those moving from country to -town are men who have prospered at farming, their change reduces the pro -portion of prosperous farmers-never very large-and contributes to the -opinion that farming does not pay. Then there is opportunity for co-opera tion in towns. The cit!zens can unite together in establishing manufacturing enterprises and other industries, which add to the prosperity of the community at large, although they may not prove profitable to those who put their money in them. These things are stated to offset the impression that individual citizens of the town are more prosperous than in dividual farmers; for such is not the case. Appearances are often deceitful. There is very little money in merchan dising or in other business. Large dealers who have ample capital can make money at merchandizing, by close attention to business; so can a large planter at planting. But the small farmer and the small merchant have about an equally hard time to get along; and, capital for capital, the latter would often be very willing to exchange places and get into a business where there is much less worry and much more independence. Times are hard with all classes. All classes feel it. More complaint is heard from the farmers, not because they are the worst off, but because on account *or their numbers they can make them selves heard and felt. Who cares if a few small merchants oi' town doctors or mechanics complain of hard times? 'There is not enough of them taken altogether to organize a corporal's guard at a primary. So no one heeds the cry. But let the farmers complain, and at once hosts of "friends'' spring up on every hand, who are ready to get the farmers out of trouble if the farmers will only put them into office. The farmers, feeling that something is wrong but not knowing what it is, are not disposed to question too closely their self-appointed champions, not to scrutinize too carefully their motives. It is natural to feel kindly towards one who gffers relief, though we may be perfectly aware he cannot extend it, a od it is ungracious to reject sympathy, no matter from what source it comes. And it is mean to be suspieious. Hence the farmers, in their vague sense of wrong and their perplexity about the cause and the remedy, become an easy prey to the oily-tongued demagogue and plausible politicians. In what I say I do not charge those who side with the farmers in their grievances-real or imaginary-with being politicians or demagogues; but I have no hesitation in saying that men who niake political capital for them selves by trying to prejudice the farm ers ags.iust other classes of citizens are lookin g after their own selfish purposes, and will prove it in the end by asking for the loaves and the fishes. No true t,atriot wants to set the citizens of one class against those of another, espe cially ini a State menaced as this is with an ever present danger to civilization and progress. But it is the duty of ev'ery man who loves his State to dis cover as far as he can the causes of the dlepression among the farmers and to help in the solution of their dimlculties. With this purpose in view I propose to offer some suggestions. These, I fear, may not touch the popular chord; they are oot in the line of the stump speeches of the day, and may, there fore, seem insipid to palates accustomed to rich and spicy discussions. Per haps some will stop right here and read no further when I say that I put very little confidence in any scheme that are several political reforms I would like to see brought about, which would prove of decided and lasting benefit to the farmers. These will appear in the further progress of this article; but I must be candid and say that I have little hope of their realization during this gener...ion. The people of the State, including the farmers, are not prosperous. To keep within the scope and purpose of this article I speak more specifically and say the farmers of this State are not prosperous. Why? The answer is, because they have not enough money. That is vague, but true. "Money answereth all things." Why is there not money enough? The United States Treasurer says there is more in circulation per capita now than ever before in the h;story of the Government-$23.45. Others say there is only $5. I do not know how much there is and have to take somebody's word for it. And as I know nothing, and have heard nothing, against the honesty and truthfulness of the Treas urer, I am compelled to believe his statement. I say this without impugn ing the credibility of those who say otherwise, because the Treasurer must know, while they may be mistaken. No matter what the circulation per capita may be the country over, the circulation in this section of the coun try is very limited. It is from this sec tion that comes the most urgent de mand for more money-not from the Northern or Eastern States; they seem to realize no great scarcity. is money scarcer in this section Af t- country? Here are some reasons: 1. Tie annual pensions to Federal iurxors of the late war amount to i3U,ir,0.00. All this, practically ,peaking, goes into Northern States, while every Southern State has to pay ts proportion. The average of each State is nearly three millions. South Darolina pays it least two millions more than she gets back. 2. Then comes the import tariff, of which $230,000,000 a year goes to the 3overnment, and about $600,000,000 to protected industries, and of which South Carolina pays its share, esti mated at eight millions, and gets back >nly a small portion, the greater por ion going to manufacturing States in ;he North. South Carolina pays out or tariff duties seven millions more .han she gets back. This is a moderate md safe estimate. The usual estimate s from eight to ten millions; but I pre er to put the figures too low rather ;han risk putting them too high. 3. Again, our railroads are all owned :y Northern capitalists. Whatever ,he roads earn over actual running ex penses goes North to pay the interest )n their bonds. The gross earning of the railroads in South Carolina for the month of July last was $570,000. July is one of the poorest months. But sup pose that to be the average for the year, there would be grcss annual sarnings of $6,840,000. Sixty per cent f this amount goes to running ex penses and remains in South Carolina; the other forty per cent or two and three-quarter millions goes North to pay interest on the bonds. The first item is a burden imposed uipon us as the conquered section by the National Government. It is the penalty of defeat, and we will have to endure it with whatever patience and rortitude we have. It cannot be avoided. The second item is a burden conse quent upon our being an agricultural people. There is good ground for hope of relief from much of that burden by reform of the tariff, which is the heavi est burden of all. This reform can only come through the triumph of the Na tional Democratic party, for that is the only party in the country pledged to that reform and working for its ac complishment, and if the party re mains united this hope will soon be re alized. Our railroads after the war were worn out and run down and we did not have money enough to reorganize them; hence they fell into the hands of Northern capitalists, and those since built have been built by Northern capi tal-many of them with our aid, that aid consisting in gifts of county and township bonds, the interest on which, as well as the net earnings of the roads, going to the Northern bondholders. I see no hope of relief from this railroad burden. All we can ex pect is that these giant monopolies shall not oppress us by exorbitant charges for freight or travel, and that is provided against in our National and State railroad com missions. Those are fearful drains upon our re sources and take immjense sums of mo ney out of circulation in this section of the country. But they are not all. 4. We send somewhere about two millions every year into Tennessee and Kentucky and other States for mules. Newberry County alone-one of the smallest counties in the State-sends about $50,000; the State about $l.SoO, 000. Immense quantities of corn are shipped to South Carolina from the Northwest. I can only approximate the amount. One merchant at New berry has received and sold since the first of January seventeen (17) carloads -,500 bushels. Not less than 30,000 bushels are sold annually in New berry, and about 10,000 at other points in the county, at an average price of aboust 90 cents, making $36,000 for corn. That would make the amount for the State, at a moderate calculation, $1,250,000. 6. Our Western meat costs more than our Westes n corn. Large numbers of live hogs are shipped into the State and sold and butchered here, but I take no account of these and speak of bacon I have already mentioned-sels s5,600u pounds of baeon annually. He thinks he sells about one-fourth of what is sold in this county. The total then would be 1,400m,000 pounds, which at 7 cents would be $90,000. On the same basis of calculation there would be about $3,000,000 sent out of the State for bacon. To recapitulate: Sent out of the State for pen sions.............................. $ 2 00 ,000 Sent out of the State for tariff 7,000,000 Sent out of the State for rail road bonds.................... 2,750,000 Sent out of the State for M ules.......................... 1,500,000 Sent out of the State for corn 1,250,000 Sent out of the State for ba con ................................. 3,000,000 Total....................... $17,500,000 Nearly all our flour, hay and agricul tural implements come from other States. And what do we produce that we can sell? Cotton-nothing but cotton. Seven hundred thousand bales at $40 per bale, brings in only $27,000,000, which is nearly all taken out again for purposes mentioned, and for other purposes too numerous to mention, leaving very little to pay debts or to lay up "for a rainy day." No wonder we are poor. What is the remedy? Some say the "sub-treasury plan." A great deal is said on the hustings and in the newspapers about this "plan." It was conceived and worked out by Dr. C. W. Macune, and presented to the National Farmers' Alliance Con venti>n at St. Louis in 1889. It was adopted, among other planks in their platform, by that convention; was sent down to the Sub-Alliances for their endorsement, 'and was reaffirmed at Ocala, Fla, in December, 1890. I have seen no real argument in its favor. Senator St-kes and Senator Butler "debated i at Prosperity, the 29th of July. They said a great deal about a great many things, but scarcely any thing about the subject under debate. The only apparent result of the debate was that Senator Stokes, several days afterwards, charged Senator Butler with grossly insulting "40,100 Alliance men," and the latter retorted by calling his accuser a "sneak and a liar." Congressman Watson, of Georgia, and Senator Butler met at Batesburg on the 9th inst. to discuss it. There was a great flow of wit and eloquence and repartee. A great deal of criticism of the existing order of things; but each accused the other at the close of the debate of having failed to discuss the subject-and the accusa tion was well founded on both sides. The truth is, there is not much to be said either for or against the plan. It is like debating the question whether the planet Jupiter is inhabited; there are no facts as a basis to reason from. There is no argument by analogy. Nothing like it has ever been tried. It would require an actual experiment to settle the matter, and an experiment would cost a good many millions. The plan is to have the National Government fend money directly to the people at 2 per cent., taking as se curity therefor either land or one of the five products, cotton, corn, tobaceo, wheat and oats. Government ware houses are to be built mn every county raising products to the value of half a million dollars a year. There is to be a Government officer in charge of each ware house, whose business it shall be to classify the products stored in the ware house and'set a value upon them, and to issue to the owner of such pro ducts 80 per cent. of their value in Gov ernment certificates, which shall pass as money. The object of this is to enable the 'wner to hold his products for a rise in the market. When he gets ready to redeem his cotton, or whatever product he may have stored in the ware house, he can do so by repaying the agent the 80 per cent. advanced upon it and a proper sum for storage, insurance, etc. If the product be not redeemed by the end of the year the Governmient is to sell it and pay itself the 80 per cent, "returning the overplus, if any there be," to the owner. Whatever money the Government issues for the sub-trea sury storage goes back to the Govern ment by the end of the year and is all destroyed; and the next year the same process is repeated. It is readily seen that this plan gives a "flexible currency," and that is re garded by its advocates as its hiohest reco'imendation. Whether a flexible currency is desirable is a matter about which people differ; but I cannot enter on the discussion here. In the case of land, the plan provides that the interest and a portion of the loan shall be paid back to the Govern ment every year until the whole is paid -the object aimed at being long credit and a low rate of interest. Suppose this plan should benefit any body, who would it be? Not the man who owns no land; for if he has no land he has no products, and therefore can offer no security. T he security must be gilt-edged. Anyone can see that it would not do to take risks along this line, or the whole Government would go to financial smash in a short time. Whatever favors or special privileges the Government gives to one it is ob liged to take or withhold from another. If a father has six sons and six thou sand dollars and gives four thousand to one and two thousand to another, there is nothing for the other four. So that the very people that most need help do not get it, while those who are able to help themselves are helped by the Government at their expense. It is not the landowners that need help, but the men without land-and they form a very large percentage of the producers. The cry s, the r4c are growing richer and tile poor poorer. That is a fact, and it is nowhere more strikingly exemplified than in the ownership of land. The census shows that the proportion of landowners is steadily decreasing. Suppose, however, the "plan" were put in operation, there must be some limit to the loans. To flood the country with paper money would be to depre ciate its value and run up the price of' everything. Theadvocates of the "plan" say the limit should be $50 per capita. They say the per cap ta circulation now is only $5. There would, t herefore, be a sudden expansion of the currency ten-fold and a like increase in prices of every article the people have to buy which might not make much differ ence, if everybody owned laud and non perishable products, but would prove ruinous to wage-earners and others having neither. And no time is given to prepare for this great flood of "mo ney." The Alliance "platform of de mands," adopted at Ocala, says: "We demand that the amount of circulating medium be speedily increased to not less than $50 per capita." It would take $10 then to buy what $1 buys now, and a thousand doliar note could be paid <.ff with money worth only a hundred dollars. Herein is the popu larity of the "plan." It appeals Lo the debtor class, to which most of us belong. Were we out of debt the amount of circulation per capita would be of small consequence, because the more abun dant money is the higher prices are, and vice versa. Fifty dollars per capita would amount to $3,000,000,000. Two per cent. is very, very cheap for money. Everybody would want all he could get at that rate. Three billions would not last long. The land in New.York State alone is worth more than $3,000,000,000 and the annual products of the State are enormous in quantity and value. There certainly would not be near enough to go around. The scheme is impracticable. I be lieve it would involve the Government and the people in financial panic and disaster and bring upon us evils that the present evils could not be compared to. If ther. is more money needed for the purposes of trade and business, and I believe there is, there are other snd safer means of getting it into cireula tion. Two hundred million dollars could be paid in Government bills to Government employees and pensioners every year, until the volume of curren cy was sufficient, the credit of the Gov ernment being pledged to the redemp tion of the bills. A gradual expansion of that sort would hardly depreciate the currency, and would not be so hard on the debtor class:and on wage earners as would the rapid expansion contem plated in the sub-treasury plan. But, after all issaid, the remedy must come from the people themselves more than from the Government. Ireland is productive and her people indus trious, but they are not prosperous, be cause the great bulk of the money made in Ireland is spent by alien landlords in London and on the Continent. Tbe South suffers a like misfortu 'e, though in a milder form. A large proportion of the money made in the South goes to pay Northern pensioners, Northern manufacturers and Northern bondholders. This cannot he helped now. But another large proportion goes to pay for Western mules. Western ba con and Western corn. That can be helped. If the farmers will raise these things and make cotton their surplus crop they will yet be prosperous and happy, notwithstanding the national burdens they are compelled to bear. To compensate in some measure for those burdens we have the best soil and the best climate in the world, and with a united people there is every reason to hope for a brighter day in the near future. WV. H. WA LLACE. New berry, S. C. Things Worth Remembering. [From Music and Drama.] It is well to remember That every promise is a debt. That the average man about town is a huge bore. That it's no disgrace to be poor, but mighty inconvenient. That children hear more than grown folks gi.ve them credit for. That the man who smokes cigarettes is not necessarily brainless. That the poetry of a girl's feet usu ally do not mate with the prosaic hoofs of her father. That the girl of the period knows more than her grandmother-for her grandmother-is dead. Hannah. There was a young woman named Hannah, Who put on a great many airs. She stepped on a peel of banana. And nowv she's laid up for repairs. O0! woman, lovely woman, whby will you suffer so, Why bear such pain and anguish, and agony of woe? Why don't you seek the remiedy-the one that's all the go ? "All- the go," because it makes the pains go. As an invigorating, restora tive tonic, soothing cordial and brac ing nervine, for debilitated and feeble women generally, Dr. Pierce's Favo rite Prescription has no equal. It im proves digestion, invigorates the sys tem, enriches the blood, dispel aches and pains, produces refreshing sleep, dispels melancholy and nervousness, and builds up both the fiesh and strength of those reduced below a healthy standard. Don't be put off with some worthless compound, easily, but dishonestly, recommended to be "just as good," that the dealer may make more profit. "Favorite Prescrip tion" is incomparable. WANTED TO LYNCH LEONIDAS. Kansas Veterans Propose to Tar and Feather President Polk. WIcHITA, Kans. Sept. 17-Col. L. L. Polk, president of the NationA Far Mers' Alliance, makes a point in his address of denying the stories of his in humanity to Union soldiers, and den ies that he ever held a rank above a thir'i lieutenancy and claims that he could therefore never have been in authority at any post. Mr. McAllister, a veteran of this city, who was in Salisbury prison, North Carolina, when Polk was governor, holds a sick parole signed by L. L. Polk, brigadier general commanding the post, and gives the alliance leader the blackest reputation for his conduct to Union prisoners. A score or so of old Union soldiers got together and perfected a plan for applying tar and feathers to Polk be fore he left town, but intelligence of their intettion leaked out, and the police took steps to prevent the pro jected assault. POLK DENIES THE STORY. KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Mr. Polk, presi dent of the National Farmers' Alliance, who arrived in this city this morning en route to Iowa, was interviewed by a representative of the Associated Press in regard to the report that he narrow ly escaped a coat of tar and feathers yesterday afternoon in Wichita, Kan sas, at the hands of a crowd of Union soldiers. He said: "There is no truth whatever in that report. It is simply one of the many inventions of my political enemies. During the past fifteen days I have been in all the principal cities of Kan sas and my reception has been a conti nuous ovation and from hundreds of old soldiers whom I have met every day I have heard nothing but words of good cheer and sympathy." WHICH IS Wtzo? [News and Courier.] The story from Wichita, Kansas, aboit President Polk, of the National Farmers' Alliance, is a very curious one. A few days ago Mr. Polk was re ported as saying in his speeches in Kansas that he was "forced" to join the Confederate army, and only ac cepted the office he held in it "because by so doing he could indirectly aid those who were fighting for the pre ;ervation of the Union." We have been waiting :ith more or less confideree for Col. Polk's prompt denial of having said anything so dis graceful to himself, but instead we have this morning the report that he is making a point in his st,eecbes of de nying stories of his "inhumanity to Union soldiers" in 'he prison at Salis bury, N. C., and that some of these prisoners gave him the blackest repu tation for his conduct to them and were only prevented by the police of Wi chita from applying a coat of tar and feathers to him. One of the ex-prisoners at Salisbury, it is added, holds a sick-parole signed by "L. L. Polk, Brigadier General, Commanding Post," and claims that President L. L. Polk and Brig. Gen. L. L. Polk are the same man. Col. Polk, however, as is further stated in the same dispatch, "denies that he ever held ran.< above Third Lieutenant, and, therefore, could never have been in authority at any post.'' It is all excetedingly confusing to the public miLd, and as in the present state of affairs the head of the National" Alliance is fast getting into a position where he will be regarded with con tempt by all Confederates and with dislike by all Unionists. we suggest that President L. L. Polk, and Brig. Gen. L. L. Polk, and C2ol. L. L. Polk, and Third Lieuten.t L. L. Polk, and plairi Mr. L. L. Polk, if there is one, should all get together somewhere and separate himnself somohow, so that his fellow-citizens may clearly understand which of him is who, and which side he really sympathizes with in the great unpleasantness. Alliancemnen Opposed to the sub-Treasury. At a recent meeting of Merriwether Alliance, in Edgefield Cdunty, the fol lowing resolutions were adopted : 1st. We owe our first allegiance to the Democratic or white man's party of South Carolina. 2d. That we condemn G;overnment control or ownership of railroads. 4th. That we condema the Third party movement, because we believe all these measures to be unwise, un democratic, and tend to divide the white people and Democratic party.' 5th. It smacks of socialism and is downright paternalism; we opposed the Haskell movement last year be cause it appealed to the negro and alien, and perforce we mus;t oppose these new ideas. lth. That this being Governo;r Till man's own township, we, the Merri wether Alliance, wish to emphasize our continued coufidence i:: his ability, integvrity and democracy. Neighbor, sees you not the signal In that loved one's cheek ? Heed you not that constant hacking, Whbile the form grows weak ? 0, delay not, or this dear one Soon death's own will be, You can save her by the use of Pierce's LU. M. D). In other words, get the "Golden Medical Discovery," and rescue this member of your family from consunmp tion, which threatens her. It has saved thousands. According to the doctors it has wrought miracles, for it has cured those whom they piro nou need incurable, except by a nmiracle. It is a truly wonderful remedy. For all bronchial, throat atnd lung diseases, weak lungs, spitting of blood atnd kin dred aihnents, it is a sovereign reme BILL BRP'S LETTER. He Sends Hip Girl Away to School and He i6 Sad Because She Is Gone. [Atlanta Constitution.] These are solemn times now-there is nobody dead or dying, but there is a lost child, and that is nearly as sad. We know where she is, for we sent her there; but it is hard on the old folks to send their youngest child away, es pecially when she is a girl and the last of the litter. It took us a few days to realize that she I:ad gone. Sometimes she goes to spend a night with a school mate, and it seemed like she was there and would soon come back, but she doesn't. Her piano is closed, and its dark rosewood case looks darker now. There is a feeling of sadness around the house. The sewing machine is having a rest, for she made her own clothes, and she cleans up the house and sets the table and lights the lamps and ielps her mother, and when the cook quits she can make as good a biscuit as I can. She loves her home and loves me, and when I am grunty or sad she knows it and rubs my head with co logne and combs my back hair and cheers me up, and I get well, but I am sick right now and she is not here. I was in hopes we could finish her 3chooling right here, but we can't. We have no college and the high school is l.ited by poverty. We are taxed anough in all good conscience to have inything we want. I am paying now )bout one hundred dollars a year for )ther people's children, and have to send off my own. There are many parents here doing the same fhing and to my miad it is all wrong in principle. Dur county pays $17,000 to the school und of the State and we-get back only 7,000 of it. The other $10,000 is scat 'ered all over the State to educate white ind black. Our town pays out $1,000 i year to educate the negroes in the 3orporation, and we get no thanks for 'hat. All this tax is based upoa the idea that we get it all back in making ;ood citizens out of the children as they grow up. If that is really so, we will :ry and be content, but the whole sys em is a strain upon our philanthropy. Every community would like to keep ,heir money at home, and if it is not ipent right we can make a fuss about t. Our town pays $6,000 for school tax ind our county pays $17,000 more, and we can't help thinking that if we could keep $10,000 that is sent away, what a ome college we could build in our >wn community. Ten thousaad dol ars a year for an income would give us i first-class institution, and it would ;ave us a big lot of money, besides 2,000 a year that is going away right 3ow from the town to other female col eges. That makes $12,000 a year that we are out of pocket, and our people ire not happy. But all's well that mds well. Our Jessie has gone to the Agnes Scott, at Decatur, to finish up. We bad to send her somewhere, for she :ouldn't climb any higher at home. And besides, it was thought to send her away for rest and repose. A number >f our best girls have been sent away recently for repose. The boys of the :own dont seem to have very much to lo, and so they indulge in the delight ul employment of visiting the school ;irls and this disturbs their tranquility tnd distracts their susceptible minds rom study and wholesome reading and meditation. By day and by night they are coming and going and getting up parties and playing tennis and base ball and other bilarities, and as it coudn't be stopped without bad man ners it was thought best to send the girls away and let them stay until their minds come back to them. I heard one afflicted parent say that he was afraid bis daughter's mind was clean gone. We are not troubled about Jessie on that account, but she does need some time that she can call her own. Some time to read and study and devote to her music. She is gone now-and the boys will frequent these parts no more, I reckon. No more will we be enter tained with the thrilling narratives of baseball, and tennis, and the heroic achievements of the Cedartown nine, and the Acworth nine, and thbe Carters ville lawn tennis club that cost *40 for its equipment. I heard Sanm Jones preach a sermon to parents once about these same troubles, and he stretched forth his hand and said: "Now, boys, I see you here, and I want you to hear me. I want you to keep away from my house until I tell you to come. My daugh ters are at school. and I don't want their minds distracted. from their studies. I like you and I like your fathers and mothers, but there is a time for all things, and you must keep away from my house. Well, of course, if you come I will treat you politely and invitiyou into the partor, and I'll send for Bob and Paul to come in and entertain you, and if you can make anything off of Bob and Paul you are welcome to it, but you shan't see my daughters." Well, it's right bard to drivethe boys away, for they come with good intent, and I never saw a mother who was not pleased with attention to her daughter, and I never saw a daughter who was offended at it, and so we just bad to send the girls away. Of course, it costs money, but what is money compared with the restoration of a disordered mind'. I restored Mrs. Arp's mind by miarrying her when she was sweet six te-en, and some of these boys want to try the same medicine. It's most astonishing how close -the youngest child gets to a parent's heart --the boy to his mother's heart, and the girl to her father's. One by one the oldr.ne mary or leave us, and we get weaned after a time and take fres: hold and cling the~closer to the lasl The sweetest pathos in Lhe Bible is th pleading of Judah for his little brothe Benjamin. It made Joseph weep ano it makes me weep every tifne I read it Our "Benjamin" hasn't got a coat c many colors, but he has a spotted caj and a red surcingle that he wears, an< I'm afraid the Ishmaelities will get bin some of these days. The Agnes Scott is a new institutiot and has just gotten a fair :ttart. Th< loved and lamented Tom Cobb name( his college at Athens for his daughte Lucy, but Mr. Scott has named thi. one for his mother. He has alread3 spent $80,000 on it, and keeps on spend ing. I predict that he will not stop a. long as he lives. Just let a man get hi heart tied onto some great charity oi something for the good of humanit3 and it seems to expand and absorb him and becomes his life work. I believw that a wise providence designed this sc that great things might be done, and he raises up men to do it. Alfred Shorter begun his great work with $10. 000. That is all he thought he could spare. But after awhile he strained himself to $20,000, and then to $30,00( $50,000 and he never stopped until hN died, and he had given $125.000 tc found the Shorter college at Rome, and it is there to-day as his monument. The Agn(s Scott is most happily lo cated. It La just far enough from the capital to get all of its advantages and patronage and none of its hindrances. It is in the heart of the chinquepin re gion-a region too poor to be sickly, and where the timber grows only large enough to be storm proof, and the hills and the hollows are just high enough and low enough for drainage aud good roads. The institution is in abeautiful grove and elevated, the ground descend ing gently from every side, and it is less than five minutes' walk from the depot, where twelve passenger trains a day go and come from Atlanta, and a dummy line besides. The lighting, heating and ventilation seem to be as perfect as human ingennity can make it, and the protection aga-nst:fire absolutely secure. The rooms are all models of comfolt and are provided with the most sub stantial furniture. Nothing has been neglected that the pupils need for Lheir health and their pleasure. Bathrooms, with hot and cold water, are on every floor, and the entire outlook and inlook are cheerful and refining. I would like to take Mrs. Arp there and let us be come inmates and stay, at least as long as Jessie is there. With a corps of the best educators that could be found in the South, this institution has already taken a high stand among the female colleges of the land. The time has come when it was wanted, and it is there. Long may Mr. Scott live to enlarge it and erquip it for its great work in educating and refling our daughters until they shall become as the polished corners of a temple. May this institution loom up and be come a cynosure like the old granite mountain that is in full view from its turrets. That same old imperishable mountain that used to be our trysting place when Mrs. Arp and I wereyoung and lived near by. Sweet are its mem ories. Once there was a lofty tower upon its crest and I remember ascending its spiral stairs with my sweetheart by my side and wlen we reached the pinnacle we saw the fleecy clouds below us and as I looked into her hazel eyes it seemed to me that.I was a little nearer heaven than I had ever been before. Delight. ful memories! Amtbition was high then and so was hope and expectation. The world was very lovely and I was thankful that I lived. But now the mountain's top seems bleek and cold and cheerless, and my experience is that the safest retreat and the surest happiness is found amnong the humble flowers that blossom at its base. BILL ARP. Frank LesHle's I'opular Monthly for Oc tober. Rome, the Eternal City, which ii these progressive times is rapidly out growing the picturesqueness that for merly endeared it to travelers, is sym pathetically described and admirabi3 illustrated, in its modern aspects, in at article entitled "Roma-Amor," by Henry Tyrrell, opening the Octobei number of Frank Leslie's Populaa Monthly. "A Terrible Case," the new serial story by that favorite novelist Etta W. Pierce, begins propitiously Tbe Marquise Lanza writes charmiingl: of the historic Island of Mackinac; Isa bel McDougall, upon "Artists' Models' and George C. Hurlbut describes ai exciting subterranean river journey, it the marvelous abyss of the Padirac, i~ France. Othe:r interesting illustrate< articles in this number are: "A Lady' Ride up the Bolan Pass," by 'Mrs David Ker; "Decisive Battles as Fac tors of Progress," by WV. I. Culver; a Egyptian sketch, by Col. J. F. Mil liken; "Lawrence Alnma Tadema, E A"; "Recollections of James Russe Lowell"; and "The Ivory Gates" (HL man Teeth), by Charles Lotin Hildreth There are short stories by Lucy Hoope Dr. Parsons, and others, and a numbe of fine-art plates. In t his country gentlemen are at pei fect liberty to bow first to their lad; friends it they choose. Gentlemel should always lift their hats to ladie whom they know and to those whor they do not know when accompanm by common friends. Boils, pimples, and skin diseasesc all kinds speedily disappear when th~ blood is purified by the use of Ayer' Sarsapari'la. It has no equal as a tomi alterative, thbe result being imm3ediat and satisfactory. Ask your druggis fre it, and take no other. b FRON THE WAGON TO THE PULPIT . e Sam Jones Became an Evangells Because 7 of and Old Gray Mare. [Atlanta Constitutsoa.1 Before Sam Jones went to preaching he ran a public dray in Cartprsville, his native town. He was a familiar figure around the depot, and heat that time hauled all the drummers trunks from the depot to the hotel. Many veteran drummers yet remember Sam as a drayman. His outfit was a small ricke- 1 ty, rattling, ramshackling wagon and an old sorrel horse, that was old and experienced enough to have come down from the revolutionary war. This horse was a ebaracter in his way, and some people say he was the cause of Sam's reformation, He was as humble a horse as one would wish to see. He submitted to all Sam'scuffsand rebuffs without any protest other than mildly backing his flea bitten ears. He"had an air of one who was always deeply en gaged in thoughts and looked upon the frivolities of this life with supreme dis dain. And then Sam's horse was ex tremely unsociable in Jis temperament. He never cared to nu.ke any new so quaintannees, and seemed desirous of treading the wine press of sorrow alone. For many days he went on in the same quiet way, drawing Sam's rickety old dray with the sublimest fortitude. It was never necessary for Sam to tie him when he left him, for he had such insurmountable constitutional objec tions to locomotion there was little danger of him taking his departure. So Sam thought, and so it went for many, many days. But things do not alAwaysr-main the same, alas! One day Sam's horse was seen, to the most extreme surprise of the Cartersvil lians tearing down Main street followed by the dray which was rolling about from one side to the other. Down the street be went like mad, and seems wonderful to those who knew him intimately that he could acquiresuch speed. Sam, who had left him forsome purpose, stood watching his mad career eagerly. "He's decided to emigrate," Sim re marked, as the horse continued his wild ilight. Presently the horse swerved to the right and the wagon struck against a tree and with a crash and came to a standstill. The spectators all went down to qur vey the wreck. It was a compite one indeed. Sam stood and Ioo~ksd i It s lently for some moments in deep refiee-1 tion. There was a pathos i.. his voice when he finally turned around 'and said: - "I guess I'll have to find some oter way to make a living." In a few weeks Sam left Cartersville and went down near Columbus. "The next I heard or saw of Sam," said the gentleman who told me the story, "he 1aine bakto -Cartersville . and preached a semon Iwe6nto hear him, and I never saw such a complete change in a man." WHERE THE WEALTH LIES. Strength of Financial InsdItudIons In New York City and State. The Financier has prepared a table showing the tremendous amount of wealth gathered into the leading bank ing institutions of the empire State. It . has made a list of all financial institu tions whether, national, State or banks of savings or trust companies, holding a million or upward of deposits. There are 193 institutions of the list. Of this number the city of New York has 103. The remaining 90 are distributed as follows: - Heaviest - No. deposit. Brooklyn........ ...24 $30,398,663 Buffalo.............12 14,326,084 - Albany............10 11,864,780 Rochester........... 9 11,475,742 Syracuse............ 6 8,525,033 Poughkeepsie....... 1 6,574,895 - Troy...............4 5,395,780 Newburg..........-. 1 5,166,708 Utica.................. 2 4,949,722 Yonkers............2 2,085,062 Kingbton.............. 2 2,082,428 Auburn................ 1 1,964,935 Peekskill........... l ,528,821 Riverhead........... 1 (493,394 Watertown.......... 1 1,420,467 Middletown.........1 1,411,960 SSing Sing......---. 1 1,408,748 Tarrytown..........1 1,391,681 Rome.............--1 1,388,296 Southhold...........1 1,384,3 1Schnectady..........I1 1,23.5,252 1Binghamton.........1 1,186,861 Fishkill...........-- 1 1,126,125 Cohoes........ ...--1 1,125,21 Ssaratoga..........--. 1 1,110,591 Plattsburg..........1 1,050,444 Fifty-four of the 193 on the list-are 2 savings banks, and the entire list of these leading official banking institu tions carry over $1,400,000,000. Rheumatism is caused by a poison ous acid in the blood and yields to 'Ayer's Pills. Many cases which r seemed chronic and hopeless, have been completely cured by this medicIne. It will cost but little to try what effect the Pill may have in your case. We - predict success. flow Fast Fules Go. L From the Indianapolis News.j It has been ascertained by a careful observer that a swarm of fies cannot if travel at any greater pace than eleven e miles an hour. So much the better for s cyclist, who has only to put on a spurt Sto get at any time clear away from ithis t intolersae pest of the highways in