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SELLING OUT. The 10 Cent Store will o "OmmenW)ce 1o-day, oe 18th, and sell the-ir edire stock*at cost, vote r o04ng to make -change it n'OdSa ir bsns.Come at neanld secure burgains. C-t r a FoSHERARD & MINOR. -FOVS Old Stand. iw ESTABLISHED 186. NEWBERRY. S.C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER18,1891 AN OLD INVENTION. The Sub-Tteasury Idea Was Tried Tw4 Hundred Years Ago. LGreenville News.] The "principle of the sub-treasury' as its friends call it has not even th( merit of novelty. The fact that the same general plan, or idea, has beer tried before has been frequently stated but it is not generally known that E -scheme a good deal like it was oncE tried in this State. A gentleman ha, called our attentior to the followinl from the second volume of the Soutl1 Carolina statutes: "Att a Parliament begun and held at Charlestowne for the Province ol Carolina the one and twentieth day ol July, in the third yeare of the ReignE of our Sovereigne Lord King Jame the Second over England, &c., and ir the yeare of our Lord God one thous and, six hundred eighty and seven. 'An Act to ascertain the prices o1 7m-m oiyes o ecoudtfe grow "Whereas, for want of ascertaining the rates and prices of the goods of the growth and natural product of this country many tedious and chargeable lawsuits and quarrels have and doe dayly happen between and among the. inhabitants and merchants of this gov ernment, to the great losse and dam age of the plaintiff and the great losse and charge of the defendant, for the prevention whereof. Bee it enacted, by the Pallatine and the rest of the true and absolute Lords and Proprietors of this Province and by and with the ad vice and consent of the Nobility and of the Commons in Parliament assem bled, that all debts, accounts, contracts, bargains and judgments and execu tions thereupon h reafter to bee made, obteyned and done and which are not made expressly for silver or money or some other particular commodity att a certain price, shall and way bee paid and discharged by come att two shil lings the bushel, Indian Pease at two shillings sixpence the bushel, English Pease at three shillings sixpence the bushel. Porke at twenty shillings per cwt., Beef at twopence the pound, To bacco at tw*** pence the pound, Tarr at eight shillings the barrelt -And all tenders of payment in due tyme made all or any one or more of the before named commodityes att the prices he fore by this Act appoynted shall be in all courts, before all judges, justices and magistrates whatsoever be held and taken for good tender in law. Pro .V,W@&%Qayes that this act doth not continue t-~-ee in force longer than twenty-thrt_,mot hs from the ratify. cation of the same. "Read three tymes and ratified in open Parliament, the 23rd July, Anno Dom 167, Annoq. R. Bo. 3 "JANES COLLETON JOHX GODFREY JoS. MORTON PAULL GRIiBA LL W3f. DUNLOP -STEPHEN BULL." So far as we know there is no record of the result of tbis experiment. As will be seen by the substance of the Act, it was not intended to be a perma. nent arrangement. It is evident that then, as now, mao ney was very scarce and prices of farm products were unsatisfactory to the producers. Mferchants and traders wanted cash and farmers had none, We may imagine that the creditors had little use for "pease" or "corne." Yet the representatives of the ki rds proprie tors undertook to force commerce and to change the conditions by ex panding the volume of the currency. The pro woess-was a degree simpler and more di rect than that of the sub-treasury. Justead of depositing his products in a ware house and securing certiticates or receipts to pay his debts with, the farmer could tender the actual article. By the sub-treasury system as now proposed a farmer could haul cotton to a government ware house, g. t a re ceipt for it and with that receipt tendey payment to another farmer or mier chant or banker who might be loaded with cotton until be loathed the very sight of it. By this former south Carolina plan a fine old original settler of the time who was heavily in debt to the factor or importer favored with his custom could turn all hands loose in in the then abundant pine forests and go to work making "tarr;" and he could have that "tarr" hauled or rolled by the ton to the door of the unhappy creditor and unload it on him, literally "sticking" him with it. Even bLef and pork, both perishable, could be' used in the same way. The parlia raent of the province was not then a opular assemblage, but it manifested ~egard for the rights of creditors indicating that most of its members: were themselves somewhat short -"f cash or long of some of the "commodi tves" for which they fixed the prices Living descendants of these worthies, will take notice, however, that we have stated this only as a deduction from circumstances and not as a positive ac cusationl on wvhich we are p)repared to stand challenge. It is fair to presume that the old sub treasury scheme failed to operate pleasantly. It was promulgated from the city of Charleston, but we doubt if the traders there found it satisfactory. A few of them were probably forced into difficulties by it, finding them selves unable to pay what they owed in England with corn, peas, tar, tobacco, beef or pork and confronted withb the melancholy task of devouring great quantities of those things to re - 'la on tf' assets. No doubt thei survivors for sm. time thereafter did business on iron clad contracts binding their customers to pay in silver or imodity, thereby destroying tbe credit of all farmers who could not meet their demands. This is said to be an age of progress. The alliance leaders tell us that they are progressive people and leading a grand movement which is to bring about something like the millennium. Yet we find their leading scheme to be a fallacy tried by men who were ex perimenting with government making on our own soil morethan two hundred years ago when the greater part of this country was a wilderness. Governnent Paper Money. Mankind can never be liberated and be free from the manacles of the money kings and prosper, until the great na tions of the earth demonetize both gold and silver, and make government a per money a legal tender for all debts, both public and private. Let our gov ernmant of the people move promptly, and lead in the holy work by issuing it in ample volume for the transaction Of business based on property and the credit of fa'gtion. The financial issue as presented is not a question simply be and labor. It does not coun socialism, agrarianism or anarchy, our opponents would have the world believe. The aim and end of those who advocate a change of the financial sys tem is high and holy-the advance ment of humanity. The real forces arrayed against each other in the con test are the property holders and busi ness men on one side and the holders of metalic money on .the other side. The great decline in property of every kind and the failure of 170,000 business firms, with liabilities of $4,500,000,000, on the .ne side, and the enormous in crease in wealth of the holders of me talic money and its increased purchas ing power on the other side, attest the truth of the above statement. The admission that 96 per cent. of .ali busi ness is now done on paper is an acknow ledgment that the metals as money are wholly inadequate to meet the de mands of trade and commerce. No statesman will give ear to the twaddle of establishing State Banks of issue with the lights before us. The Constitution of the United States, Ar ticle 1, Section 10, says: "No State" *** "shall coin money" or "emit bills of credi:." Emit means to issue, to print and send into circulation. Is it not clear, a State that is denied the power to exercise this right cannot delegate it? No honest, intelligent and sane man will advetate the establish ment of such a system, knowing it is unconstitutional. The banking system of the world, since the first. tank waf established, in 1609, in Amsterdam, is and has been a licensed fraud, by empowering the crafty to shave and swindle the inno cent and helpless. It is a crime against humanity. It is claimed and prac tised that it is safe to issue three paper dollars-promises to pay-for every metallic dollar a bank has when it is established. To license corporation with a capital of $100,00 in metallic money to issue $300,000 of promises to pay is a fraud on the public, as two out of euery three are based on nothing but the credit of the corporation. Again, the stock holders get interest on three times the amount of their capital. In this State, before the war, the banks sometimes issued five and six dollars to one of their capital, and loaned it on cotton. (f the bank fails the public holding the promises to pay bears the loss. This is illegal and should not be tolerated, being in violation of Article 1, Section 10, of the United States Constitution. The people then were confiding. The money power controlled legislature and matters quietly drifted. The people now are roused and mean to have jus tice and Jaw. They are getting more and more light each day. Out of the chaos and confusion surrounding us our principles and demands will emerge and prevail, if we are loyal and brave in sustaIning them. Trust only the true, loyal and brave. Principles and measures for the common good are para mount. Party name, the mere suprema cy of party,and individual advancement should be brushed aside as naught. Let our principles and measures'be clearly understood, and in their firm establish ment let there be no faltering much less yielding. The Supreme Court of the United States has decided and decl::red that it is the duty of Congress, the legislature of our sovereign nation, "to provide a national currency for the whole peo ple.'' Let Congressmen realize their sworn duty and proceed and do it with out delay. The conditions surrounding us are urgent and imperative that a system of finance better than the one we have shall be instituted-a system that will provide the people with a national cur rency in ample volume for the easy transaction of business on a cash basis. This is af easy accomplishment in either of two ways. First, let Congress demonetize both gold and silver, except for fractional currency and fix the per capita circula t ion and the rate of interest. Then let Congress establish a sub treasury in each State, and order legal tender notes receivable fcr all debts, both public and private, printed, and loan them direct to the people, properly restricted and secured-or furnish them to the States according to population, and let each State loan them to her people on such security as each may elect. South Carolina may determine to loan them on real estate, cotton and rice; Louisi ana on real estate, cotton and sugar; the States of the northwest on on real estate and wheat; the New England States on real estate and merchandise. In 1S48, when Irance declared the notes of thbe bank of France a legal ten 3er they were loaned on Colonial pro :luts and merchandise. By the adop Sion of such a system all will have a rair chance. Such a system will be the riory of finance and be a long stride in :he advancement of humanity. There is not an instance on record when specie payments were suspended and a 3pious supply of Government paper aioney wa issued properly restricted and secured that the people failed to >rosper. Uncertain'y and disaster il ways follows, sooner or later, the issue >f paper money based on metallic :noney. The products of mines should no m.ore be coined into money than theI >roducets of the fields. All are com modities. A mong all nations and tribes mnd in all ages money has been made >y convention or law. It is not prop arty, all property being a product of abor. It is simply an instrument cre ter for the easy transfer of titles to iroperty from one person to another, mnd should have small intrinsic value. Let us have government pae non.ey issued in ample volume for al >siness properly restricted and se 'ured, based on property mnd the credit of the nation. All will be interested in its stability, as every one will handle it more or less. When a person holds it be knows be has what be can con. vert at any time into such property as he desires. Let there be no rest until this is done. It will lift the depression that now holds us do.. ., and projects the country upon a career of wonderful prosperity. We will hear uo more of over-production. New enterprises will be started, and improvements will be visible on all sides. There will be money enough to give all work who desire it. Tbey will be in a coudition to buy, not only the necessaries, but some of thp comforts of life, which, under e..cnt conditious, they cannot get. Respectfully, ELLISON S. KEiTT. Enoree Plantation, S. C., Nov. 5,1891. Wade Hampton. [Darhngton Herald.] In their inordinate and insane desire to court popular favor, some of the sub treasury papers have so far forgotten every sentiment of gratitudeas to speak in disparaging terms of SouthCarolina's most distinguished son-Wade Hamp ton. We very much mistake the tem the people if any number of ' timents of these Arlnot repudiate with indignation any words, save those of respect and affection, used in connection with his name. The very men who are speaking in this way of him, would, a few years ago, have considered it a distinguished honor to have shaken his hand; and simply because, in the exercise of his judgment, he differed from them on some public questions, must needs speaks of him in the same terms they might use in speaking of a professional politician. They should never have aught else than the scorn and contempt of every true son of South Carolina, and this alone should forever debar them from securing any office of honor or profit in the State. Have they for gotten the dark days of'76, when Wade Hampton held the destinies of the whole State in his hands, and when it was only by his courage, his unselfish ness and his great influence that we were saved from the political robbers that had brought us to- the verge of ruin? Great as he was in war, he was greater still in peace, and his proudest record is that of the political savior of his people. The knightly soul of Wade Hampton soars far above the foul and murky atmosphere in which his de tractors grovel; and when the present generation shall have passed away, and the record of Carolina's illustrious dead is written up, the name of Wade Hampton, the knightliest of a knightly race, and peer of Sydney or Bayard, will embazon one of the brigh test pages of her history, while the names of his defamers will sink into well merited oblivion. A TRANSACTION IN MAKING RAIN. sale of a Rain Company's Secret Process for $50,000. TEMPLE, TEX., Nov. 9.--Rain makers have been at work here. They came from Kansas, are called the Inter-State Artificial Rain Company, and have their headquarters at Goodland, Kan. This company, of which E. H. Mur phy is President, was negotiating a sale of their secret to a stock company, and the experiment here was the last of a series that resulted favorably. The stock company, through its agent ac companying the party, signified its sat isfaction with thc experiments. The party, consisting of President Murphy, Messrs. Smith, Bush, and Morris, arrived in the city on Sunday,' Nov. 1, and commenced operation on Monday evening rn a small outhouse at the edge of town. The conditions were extremely unfavorable for rain. No results could be seen at first, but on Friday the sky became overcast with clouds. On Saturday a high south wind prevailed, and on Saturday night some rain came from the southwest. On Sunday rain fell all day and at night another arose. Reports from 100 to 150) milesaround,'this town show that rain fell on Sunday in most localities in considerable quantities. The rain makers are jubilant and claim the rain~ fell on account of their efforts. They closed the bargain for the purchase of their secret upon the results here and yesterday left for home. It is understood that $.50,000 was the price. The process is claimed to be ' 'it used by Melbourne. Ihe Democracy of Tammany, [From the Atlanta Constitution ] The worst that can be said of Tam many now is that it represents the un changeable forces of genuine Democra cy, id this is its crime in the eyes of the mnugwnmpes and sham reformers. It represents the Democracy dear to the heart of Jefferson and Jackson; it believes that when the people vote a party into power that that party should take complete charge and hold itself re sponsible to the people for the results of its administration. Long live Tam many! May its strength increase and its victories multiply! A Kicker. Mrs. Slimdiet-It there anything'l can put in your room to add to your comfort? New Boarder-I notice there is no thermometer on the s.ove; how do you tell when it is going? Boils, carbuncles, and other skin eruptions indicate that the system is endeavoring to reject poisonous acids, izd that Ayer's Sarsaparilla is im -vely needed. It is the most re ball blood medicines. Ask tonr *'t, and take no other. STATE AGRICULTURAL SOSIETY. Annual Meeting-Mr. It. A. Love Eiected President-Other Officers Chosen. [Register, 13th.1 The annual meeting of the State Ag ricultural and Mechauical Society of: s South Carolina was held last night at c the Court House at 8 o'clock, -President r McIver in the chair with Col. Thos. W. t Holloway acting as Secretary. ' The meeting was largely attended ni and actively participated in by a great p number of those present. s The special business of the meeting a was the election of officers tose:ve dur- ih ing the coming year. t President McIver having declined n re-election, M. R. A. Love of Chester, 1; was nominated and unanbnously p elected. A committee of seven was s then appointed to make nominations C for the office of Vice-Presidents. Presi- i( dent McIver asked Col. S. A. Gregg, a who was the delegate from this State a to the Cotton Growers' Convention a which met in Atlanta to make averbal n report for the information of t he meet- g ing. . ri Col. Gregg said that the attendance t at ths convnntionwas rather small, but g this was rather on accc.unt of the many s postponements of the day of meeting rather than any of interest in the mat- e ter. South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, e Mississippi and Florida were repre- e sented at the meeting and Hon. D. P. p Duncan was elected president. The y question of reducing the cotton acreage W was generally discussed by those pres- e ent and it was agreed that where in- I tensive system of farming was practiced a that the acreage be reduced to about ti twelve acres to the plow. It was also P recommended that the size of the cot- a ton bale be reduced and that a "sample I pocket" be added to the bale in order to st stop stealage. This step is rec:m- t< mended on the statement made on the te floor of the New York exchange that fL no less than $30,000 or $40,000 stealage h is made in New York annually in the ni handling of cotton. h In conclusion Colonel Gregg offered su the following: gl Resolved, That this society endorses c< the action of the Cotton Growers' Con vention held in Atlanta and pledges lc its support if the other States will co- su operate. Mr. J. Frost Walker moved to table si this resolution, but the motion to table te was unanimously defeated. ic Colonel Humbert,of Abbeville, chair- u man of the comrnittee appointed. -to i draft a set of resolutions of respect on sr the death of Colonel James N. Lip- tl scomb, offered resolutions in which a Lt high tribute to the service and worthof w, Colonel Lipscomb was paid. gi These resolutions were seconded in gj most beautiful and touching language fo by Colonel B. F. Creighton, who briefly g, reviewed the life of Colonel Limpscomb p and recounted his great influence in < society. g The following committee was ap- ol pointed to draft resolutions of respect on the death of Colonel J. C. F. Sims: sc Colonel Thomas Taylor, Colonel James a, Magby and Mr- T. 0. Sanders. w An election was then gone into to fill di the offices of Secretary and Treasurer, di which resulted in the unanimous re- le election of the present incumbents, Sec- w retary Thomas.W. Holloway and Tress- nr urer J. L. Berg. s Colonel Holloway was very vocifer- w ously called on for a speech. He didn't ai make any, but he brought down the p1 house by saying that he was "actually .la too tired and hungry to say anything." C This was taked~ as a go~od and sufficient n< excuse, for every one knows perfectly it well that no man in the State has w worked harder, especially during the aa last week than Colonel Holloway-.s President McIver then appointed di Colonels Duncan and Crayton a corn- F mittee to escort the newly elected 01 President, Mr. R. A. Love, to the chair. di Of course thbe meeting wanted a speech Ic but were disappointed again. President w Love said he was no speaker, but felt ti very deeply the high honor -conferred. bi upon him, an honor he said which was fr the highest that could possibly be con- at ferred upon any farmer in the State, o and he highly appreciated the distinc- ki tion paid himn. The committee then reported the p following nominations, which were t unanimously confirmed by the meet- b< ing: F~or Vice President from First tt Congressional District, A. T. Snmythe; G Second Congressional District, A. P. Butler; Third Congressional District, s B. F. Cray ton;- Fourth Congressional bl District, J. Wash Watts; Fifth Con- hi gressional District, T. J. Cunningham; i Sixth Congressional District, S. A. Gregg; Seventh Congressional District, WV. G. Hinson. w The following is the execu tive com mittee: E. K. McIver, T. 0. Sanders, E.li L. Roche, F. WV. Vance, J. B. Hum- f be.it, T. J. Moore, 0. P. Mils, Dr. J. S. cc Dunn, J. G.Mobley, A. B. White, L.ti D. Childs, John Dunnovant, Frank cr Sims. Dr. Walter C. Fisher. t Got the Mitten Every Time. "I can marry any girl I please," was at his exclamation, but unfortunately In then he did not please any; and there be was was a plain reason for it. He gr had contracted catarrh of the worst w form, and, although a wealthy, tb educated, attractive person every other way, he was positively repulsive to his sa lady friends, a number of whom re.. at jeeted his offers of marriage. A friend be advised him to use Dr. Sage's Catarrh ca Remedy. He took his advice, and now is the most popular beau in town, and he really can "marry any he fri pleases" to ask. It made his breath w pure and sweet, he has no headache, er no offensive discharges from the nosedc in short, is in perfect health, and alC from using a few bot tles of Dr. Sage's er Catarrh Remedy. wi BILL AtP. enrgia Veterack in Virginia Graves Kept in Mind. LAtlanta Coustitution.1 There are one thousand and ninety 3veu Con federate soldiers buried in the :metery at the University of Virginia, ear Charlottesville. Two hundred and wenty-five of these are Georgians. 'he good geople who live there have ot neglected their graves and have ex en-ed $1,500 on the enclosure and the arubbery. But the Old Dominion is [most a universal graveyard, and it not for the other States to throw all ie burden upon them. The appeal ow comes to us for help. There hard a eorgia regiment that is not rep resented in that cemetery, and every >ldier's name and company has been )refully preserved and every grave lentified. Two years ago a similar ppeal was made from Fredericksburg, nd our people responded as patriots nd Christians, and every grave is iarked with a marble headstone. That uod work is done-well done-per ianently done, and those who gave ie dollar for one soldier will have a :od credential when they meet these >liers "across the river." Many years ago James Berry was nvicted of robbery in our court. The iidence was strong but altogether cir imstantial, and he was sent to the enitentiary. He had served three ears of his time when another man, ho was in jail in a distant county iarged with robbery, sent for Judge ndrwood, and said: "I am guilty A cannot escape. I am also guilty of ie crime for which Berry is now in rision. He knew Lothing about it 2d is innocent. It has made me Lserable all these years that he is iffering for my crime. I don't want meet him and face him in the peni ntiary. I have now written my con ssion and made plain my guilt and ,s innocence, so please see the Gover >r and have him pardoned and sent m away before I get there. His poor, ffering face will haunt me like a iost.'' Berry was reieased and Roberts nvicted, but they never met. When I ruminate upon the hard, ug service of these soldiers and their fferings and death afar from home id kindred, their hurried burial in a tallow graves, with no one to weep a ar or send a last message to those who ved them, and when I ponder >on their neglected graves and the difference of our people it makes me tudder at the thought of meeting em on the other side. I believe in tat. We will all meet. I believe that e will have to face every neglected ave. There is no excuse for this be ect of our soldier dead. One dollar r,each grave will mark it and keep it een, and there are thousands of our ,ople who can spare that much and no poorer. Until this is done it will >t do for us to boast of our patriotism our gratitude. The Exposition is a big thing, and is King Solomon and the cyclorama, id Atlanta is a wonderful city, and e see thousands and thousands of >llars pouring into her hoppers every iy and from every train, and as I oked upon the hurrying crowds I ished that every man and every wo an would leave a dime somewhere to end on our dead soldiers' graves. I onder if there are not two hundred id twenty-five good, big-Ijearted peo e in Georgia who will send me a dol r, or send it to Mrs. WV. B. Harris, at barlottesville. I wonder if there are >t a few who will send $5. I wonder there are not eighty-t wo in Alabama ho can spare a dollar for her soldiers, id eighty-four in Louisiana, and rty-nine in Mississippi, and two hun 'ed in North Carolina, and thirteen in terida, and one hundred and sixty ie in South Carolina, and one hun 'ed and ninety-two in Virginia. I oked over the list of our Georgia boys ho are sleeping there and wondered if eir kindred knew where they were iried. I saw some familiar names >m the old Eighth, to which I was tached, and I wondered if the friends Funderburk and Huckaby and Dunn iew of their burial place, and that aman's loving hands did every year ace flowers on their graves. I knew ose boys and it pleased mue that their ines are thus honored. Thley went at e first call and did what they could. eneral Lee did no more. Friends, countrymen, good people, nd in your mites as the Lord hath essed you and let us preserve the imes of our dead. I believe in cherish g and cultivating our emotions, our iritual nature, love, pity, gratit ude; ose virtues that refine us here andl 11 be a passport over there. I be ye in happy homes and cheerful fire les and obedient children, and in the :es tbat bring sunshine when they me. This is my creed. Of course ere are ups and downs and losses and :>sses, and big troubles and little yubles in every household, but they n't last long and wve antiripate a ;ht of trouble that never comes. I 2 a little domestic trouble right now,, it it won't last long, I reckon. I've en letting the Jersey calf run in the ove in front of the house and my fe told me that ca' would come up e steps and eat up the flowers, but I id no; that cows had less sense than y other animal, and calves dident ,ve any, and nobody ever heard of a If climbing up five steps to get into a wer garden. She had bordered the at yard with chrysanthemums that ~re just beginning to bloom, and sure ough when I looked out the front or this morning there wasent a flow left on one side of the yard. They weal eHaten down, and the plaued calf had begun on the roses. The sight made me sick away down. The front yard looked like a man with one side of his whiskers shaved off. My fist impulse was to rush frantically fortli and kill the calf. My ne-. was to drive her gently over to the other side and Irt her eat that down, so as to restore the equilibrium. Then I wondered if they were not thick enough for me to take some of them up and replant the side that was desolate, but the ground was too bard and dry, and so I drove the aggravating beast to the lot and shut her up. My comfort is that I b>ught that calf to please Mrs. Arp, and Captain Peacock never told me that she was fond of chrysanthemums. I called my wife to the door and pointed to the pitiful spectacle. She never said a word. She never said "I told you S3," but she looked sad, like somebody was dead. For a little while she posed as a martyr, and then resumed her household duties. The trouble is that every time we go to the front piazza we see it and it mars the pleasant pros pect. It keeps us from feeling calm and serene. But by and by the flowers will fade aud leaves will fall, and then we will forget it. Old Father time is a good doctor. Well, I havent been to see King Solomon, and I am not going until the controversey is settled. The Baptisti say it is a good ting and the Methodists say it is a very bad thing, and so I will wait uQl the Presbyterians have their say. O&.preacher basent said a word, Heard a Ekan say that the Baptists were increasing more rapidly than he ever knew them, for there were 12,000 new ones in the show every night. Maybe they were the same old ones who keep on going. But it is well for us that the preachers stand like senti nels on the watch towers and warn the people. They may sometimes cry danger when there is no danger, but they are nevertheless, the best sentinels I we have got. There may be extremists a and fanatics among them, but I had rather risk them for good advice and good example than any other profes sion. They are the leaven that leavens E t society. They are the salt that pre serves morality. They are our comfort in trouble and sickness and at the open 1 grave. Good people honor them every where. There is not a college in our State, male or female, but has a preach er at its head, their moral and high c tone and Christian influence over the youth of the land inspires them to noble. conduct and goes down from d generation to generation. Blessings on the preachers. BILL ARP. _t A Word for the Orphans. t f Times are tight aad there are a hun- i dred childred to feed. That is the state d of affairs at ihe Thoruwell Orphanage. I Think of it, there are children gath- 0 ered together at Clinton, from, nearly b every Southern State. They are father- f less and motherless and would be I homeless but for the good hand of God c who has gathered them under these protecting roofs and raised up friends t to help them. You, reader, are one or b those friends, if you will quickly sit I down and write out a check or enclose a gift to Dr. Jacobs, Clinton, S. C., and I help him to feed those orphans. Or I send a barrel or flour or a sack of corn 11 or a barrel of peas, or rice, or molasses. 11 The children are from seven diffe'rent e denominations. There are as many of fi Baptist origin as Presbyterian and as c many of Methodist as Baptist among U them, so don't stand back on account s1 of a word of doctrine. They don't si send off a child there because the - parents did not happen to be of their c faith.h Thanksgiving is close at hand. The o very time to give a thauk-offering to 1 the helpless. Christmas is close by. How could you forget to make the orphans happy L at such a time. And mark you, if you h: and people like you do not pity and it help these orphans they will have V nothing to eat or wear.V d THE FARMERs' CONGRESS. b ---- a somie of the Resolutiont Adopted and Re jected. SEDALIA, Mo., November 12.-The a Farmers' National Congress unani- c mously adopted the following resolu- d tions to-day: Recommending State con trol of live stock exchanges; recoin mending the passage of a national law n requiring the stamping of artifical hog products; demanding the passage of as Federal law prohibibiting gambling in t farm products; endorsing the principle r~ of reciprocity. sI The following resolutions, previously a reported upon adversely by the corn- F mittee, were rejected by the Congress: c Demanding the coinage of silver dol lars of the value of 100 cents each; de- t4 manding Government ownership of t railroads and telegraphs; demanding c national revenues derived from taxes a from imports which come into co:.mpe- d tition with home manufacturers; de- c manding Federal prohibition of the sale 0 of intosi-ants, and demanding the ces- P sion of arnd lands to the various States ~ in which the arid lands are situated. tI Mr. Mayfleld's Assistant. [Register, 13th.] .. Prof. John G. Clinkscales, who has been doing institute work during the n summner and fall, after a rest of two y weeks, has assumed the duties of clerk, j to which position he has been ap pointed by Mr. Mayfield. Grayness, baldness, dandruff, and all diseases of the scalp, and falling of the hair can be cured by using Hall's Veg-' etable Sinilan Hair Renewer. t1 CURED DRUNKARD'S TALK. telleve they are Really Cured by Keeley's Treatment-But don't Expect a New Set of Brains. [New York Sun.] The death of Col. John F. Mines has een followed by the disappearance of rohn Otrgie. Both bad tried the Keeley bichloride of gold treatment ,ol. Mines went to Dwight, Ill., stayed here six or seven weeks, and returned o New York in the firm belief that iis taste for alcohol had been killed. L couple ot weeks ago he surrendered o his old enemy, went on a prolonged pree, and died in the hospital on 3lack well's Island. Forgie was treated ,t Keeley's brauch establishmebt at Vhite Plains, but was not discharged s cured, as was the case with Col. dines. He insisted, however, on going )ack to his business, did so, made one uccessful trip through the West, re urned to New York on Nov. 1, prepa atory to leaving here a few days later, ,nd he has not been seen since. It has een thought that perhaps Col. Mines's lownfall caused Forgie to despair, but hat is only conjecture. A reporter went to White Plains yes erday and talked with several men rho said they bad been cured by the leeley treatment, as well as with some rho were undergoing the treatment. Charles Walker keeps a hotel, and very one in the town knows him. He a ruddy-faced man, 50 years old, and eems to be the picture of health. This ; what be said when asked if he had )st faith in the cure by the death of lines and the disappearance of Forgie: "No, no, no! I will tell you my ex erience. I used morphine for fifteen 'ears. My legs and arms, in fac't early my whole body, were covered rith punctures caused by the needles. used to take seventy grains a day, nough to kill twenty-five men. I ;ould never leave the house to be gor-, couple of hours without taking ery yringe and three or four needles with 2e. Until June 15 of this year I be eved there was no cure for me. I bought that my time was very short. was then using hypodermic injections )rty times a day with the double so ition of morphine. I went to the astitute four times a day for nine reeks. At the end.tzf that time I was ured. If a mang-fi get out of such a ell hole as I was in through the cure, say, God bless Keeley. The recent eath and disappearance you speak of ave not shaken my belipf at all. leeley says: 'I don't give you a new -t of brains, but if you are not a luna c I'll cure you.' They give me six ,en ounces of whiskey every day for ur weeks, and I drink still if I want , but I have never had the slightest esire to return to the morphine habit. 'he inebriate asylum men say that the nly way to cure a drunkard is to turn is toes up. Keeley says,;'You lie.' A illow went away Saturday and gave a atient a bottle of whiskey that he had3 arried for a month." A wealthy man, a resident of a town ear White Plains, was next seen. At] is request his name is not printed. [e said:' "I have not lost faith in the cure. I ave drunk more liquor than any man ving of my age. I have been in ay ims. I have been around the world 2 a salling ship t wice: I have done rerything a man could do to get away -om rum, but I could not do it until I ame here. For four months I have ot touched a drt>, and have not the ightest craving for it. My faith is ;jkperfect." 'Another patient was seen playing rds in one of the hotels. He said be ad been on a spree for a month. Out r sheer desperation he came to White 'Jainis. He began the treatment, and thiskey was given for two days. "Since then," he said "although I ave had a bottle in my room, I have ave never touched it. I don't want .The doctor told me to drink all I !an ted at the institute; then, he said,4 *e will know w hat you drink, but on't drink outside. When I came ere I could not hold a pen. Now II n as steady as you are. This is the -ork of three weeks. Lost faith? No."~ A half a dozen other men were seen, nd they all told the same story. "Be xuse one or two men have given way I oes not discourage us. We believe in1 de cure and believe that any one who not really a lunatic can be cured per ianently." Dr. Vanderburg, the head of the in. ,itute was seen next. The Doctor said sat in the case of patients newly ar ved and under a terrible nervous ~ rain the n ms of the death of Mines 2d the mysterious disappearance of orgie might cause harm. It would ruse despair and take away all hope. "Why," he said, "two cases out of ~n thousand have been reported in ie newspapers. We do not even aim such a percentage. We will low that periiaps five out of a hun-( red are incurable, owing to some bronic disease or to natural weakness I mind. What we do is this. We ut a man back where be was when he as born. He had no desire for liquor en. After treatment here the desire gone, and if he resumes the habit ith his knowledge of the past, an ln- I ne asylum is the place for him. We ill the taste and desire for liquor. he man who leaves here cured has no ore desire for it than the child not et born. As for the psychological in- I aence or the influence of hypnotism, hichi Dr. Shrady and others of his ass think we exert on patients, that mere bosh. I have had physicians ring men and women here and say: ion can do ten times as much for mmen a wecn. We don't know how you do it, but takeAre.'i Now. that brings n'e to the secret of the cure. Dr. Keeley said to me the other day in this room that if tae medical fraternity would acknowledge the efficacy of is treatment he would publish every fact in connection with it. Forgie's case was'not a test case by any means. He was a brandy drunkard, and o worst I ever saw. e could hardly walk when he came here. He was.not discharged as cured, but went away against my advice. His case was not a failure. He took the bit between his teeth and went away before he should have gone. "Now, here is a letter from a doctor. in Troy. It came three days ago. He..: drank liquor for ten years, and is only 31 years old. He has been -at Fort Hamilton and in the Christian Home. Before he came to White Plains, ~on JOly ?2 of this year. he was drinking daily anything oyer and above a quart Df whiskey he could get. He left here August 12, and, as you see. he says in bis letter he has not tasted a drop qr bad any desire to do so." After the talk with the doctor tbif reporter walked into the main hall of the Institute. It was 5 o'clock .in the ifternoon. Thirty or forty.men, young ind old, all well dressed, all bright ooking, were lounging around a good many had their coats off with the shirt dleeve of one arm rolled up. They talked freely, and not a man expressed i disbelief in the cere. Pretty soon the loctor came in and went to a table, Ld, taking a hypodermic syringe, B1ed it with a red fluid taken from a hell-shaped saucer In front of him. he first man stepped forward, held ip his arm, the doctor inserted the )oiut of the syringe, ar4 withdrew it n a second. The whole operation did 2ot take ten seconds. On the way to the station groups of nen were going to be "speared," as hey call it, and in the hotel there were ard parties and men playing billiards ind pool. There was temptation mougb, but no one seemed to heed it. he hotel saloon keepers were unani mous in saying that they had seen but me or two backsliders. THE RICHNOND TEEMINAL. rohn H. Inman and the Cahonas have For fecteO their Financial Arrangeents [Special to News and Courier.] NEW YoRK, November 12.-The Richmond Terminal affairsye rapidly straightening out and-Wall streets c-day less doubtful of the company'p -- uture weal. There has been so many rresponsible stories about the concern irculated, both in print and prattle, hat facts are worth a premium. Whati-, ver else may or may not yet remain insettled, one -thing is absolutely cer ain, that the floating debt of theGeor ;ia Central Railroad is entirely -pro rided for. All the papers pertaining o the matter are signed and the money s up. It is never safe to report a nan- - - ~ial undertaking in Wall street a sue ~ess until every detail has been accom lished. Conseqtiently while the Cen. ;raPs negotiation-has lookedverypromr sing for several weeks past, it has ever been cock sure until to-day. The arrangement is entirely satis'aao ;ory to all concerned. It puts the Ceir ;ral beyond the possibility of any nonetary stringency, and makes new riends for the property eminently orth having. The strong banking ouse of Speyer & Co., together with >ther prominent firms with influential breign connections, constitute the syn icate which has taken the loan. -- Great credit is due John C. Calhoun ni this matter. Through his personal fforts the arrangement was effected. (he success of the negotiation silences 11I talk against the Calhoun brothers nd makes their position in the Termi ral management enviable and -secure. (hey are stronger to-day than they rave ever been. John H. Inman will remain the head >f the whole Terminal system as long t it suits his pleasure to retain the lace, and he and the Calhouns are in horough accord. .3J. V. Three Unsuccessful yenturem The inventors of t.he various flying na'ebines or devices for travelling brough the upper air, that have been reard of this yea:, especially in t#he West, have all failed to get their ma hines in working order. But they all leclare that they will yet win success. The Chautauqua dress reformers now dmit that they have'been unablefto ntroduce their new style of feminine rb beyond the geographical limits of hautauqua. Bct they still maintain hat they will yet introduce it every vbere. The artificial rain producers, who rave been operating for the past four nonths in Texas and Colorado, and vhose boasting has resounded over the ountry, have given all the necessary vidence of the failure of their experi nents. But they still boast that they iill yet bring rain when it is wanted. Baid Without and Withiq, IFrom the Philadelphia Record.) A queer advertisement appcared mn a - nal paper yesterday, which began; 'Lost-Set of teeth and wig." A Romance in a NatshlL. She went to a balI;-wore too thtin :lothing.; caught ol.asvery Ill for nany days ; a"devote*mirer brought Sremedy, whefrhe life seemed to1 ang by a threa d-; she took it.; re- - overed ; and, finally, married theznan iho had saved her life. And the rem dy he brcught her'was Dr.Piece olden Medical Discovery which is a rtn cure for all throat and lung die ises and .scrofalous complaints, of ihich consumptkin is one.