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rera ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1892. PRICE 1.50 A YEAR THE $AGE OF ENOREE Writes of Tillman and the Credit of the State. To the Editor of The Herald and News: Tillman, the first year of his administration, has seriously impaired the credit of the State, as the following facts show: The bonded debt of the State due July, 1893, according to the report of the Comptroller-General, submitted to the last General Assembly, amounts to $5, 952,916.20. These bonds must be paid or refunded on or before July, 1893. The time for doing it is near at band. When Tillman was inaugurated the bonds of the State commanded a prem ium of about 5 per cent. What is the condition now? W. T. C. Bates, State Treasurer, in his last report to the Gieu eral Assembly, says: From the State ments or exhibits given in this report, an idea can be found of the condition of the financial affairs of the State. No one can say that they are in an "eminently satisfactory condition." An investigation clearly shows that they are in an eminently unsatisfactory condition. The State Treasurer, speak ing of the act of the General Assembly authorizing the refunding of the bonds, says: "I complied with instructions given me in the act, and had proper notices inserted in newspapers, I also had circulars and copies of the act printed, and notices given that they could be had upon application by par ties desiring information, and have sent out a large number of copies. Copies of the circulars and notis are furnished with this report. I also had prepared with much care the necessary books in which to record all transactions under the refunding act, and duplicates of these books for the offices of the Gov ei-ror and Secretary of Statr. An agreement was entered into with the American Banknote Company to fur nish the necessary plates and to en grave the bond and stock certificates as needed." The Treasurer goes on and tells us he ordered and paid for hun dreds of thousands of bonds and stock certificates. He says he has been able to exchange only $29,369.70 of new four per cents. for an equal amount of Brown Consols. He.acknowledges he has failed to refund the debt at 4 per .cent. Georgia refunded her debt at 3 per cent. It is clear a Tillman admin a i istration cannot refund it at all. The above facts are taken from the report of the Comptroller-General, a book Tillman promised us two years ago be -Seiee List Leatme pisit-toi thousand copies, and would distribute them among the people that they might know what is being done. This, like all his other promises, he failed to keep. People who have money to invest have no confidence in such an administration-one that promises, but p never performs. We are in the hands of a gang of trading politicians, lead by Tillman, who have parceled out the offices. They promised any and every thing to be elected, and fulfilled none. They will promise any and everything to stay in. They have no care for us. All they want is to feather their nests and have a good time. They have ruined the credit of the State. They have threatened us with the~ breaking up of the framework and general disin te gration of society. Citizens of-the State, what shall we do to,ayert the calamity? We must get -.-rifdof Tillman, or siuk to the bottom and live in the dregs, while he and his gang feast on the fat of the land at our expense. Tillmnan, by his acts, has clearly shown he has no knowledge of our pop ular form of government and laws. He is domineering, dictatorial and tyranni cal. His conduct hias shown he is dangerous, aad utterly unfit to hold any official position. He has involved the State in lawsuit after lawsuit, in .every one of which he is wrong, except that of Coosaw. It was based on the opinion of Attorney-General Connor, given in 1877, and concurred in by every Attorney-General since that time. Tillmnan's administration is entitled to no credit for gaining it; but deserve censure for its bad management, whereby the State has and is losing~ large sums of money. Farmers of the State, we elected Till man, we did not know him two years ago as we know him now. Then hei was suggested by a convention of the farmer's movement men, the champior of retrenchment and reform. Now, he thinks he is the movement, and de clares himself a candidate for re-elec tion, and after denouncing as "rotter drift wood", our farmer members of the Legislature calls for a Legislature o1 men who will obey his orders. The Legislature acted wisely in taking his free pass from him, and refusing to en act into law his absurd propositions, all looking to concentration of power intc his hands, for his own benefit. Tillman and Elierbe have well nigi ruined the State financially. Anothe: term will finish us. Think well on i and vote them down and out when the time comes. Government is business of the higbest order. No man's personality is wort! anything. Common sense and honest' are badly needed, particularly among our officials. We want principles sus tained, and our measures carried t< .success. To do this, lay aside prejudice and personal preference. Look ove1 and scan closely each conmmunity and select for the offices capable, hones and successful business men. We havy them in every community. Elect then and tell them the country demands thei time and success. Those who declar -their candidacy, as a rule, are dead fail -ures and un worthy of conifidence an< ways been a failure in the ni:wgemient of his own aflairs. Farmers of the State, let me ask you a question. Suppose one of you had a patch of beautiful cotton, and it was. the last of July, ready to'be laid by. A fiue season comes, you need a plowman. An able bodied man conies along and offers his services, telling you he is an expert with the plow in giving the fin ishing touches to a cotton crop. You employ him andt give him a good horse and plow, and send him to lay by the patch of cotton as with a smoothing iron. Having business elsewhere you depart. Returning in the afternoon and going to the cotton patch, you find he has plowed up every stalk of cotton, what are your feelings and what will you do with him? When election day comes give Till man the treatment the ploughman de serv-d and got at your hands, for Till man has injured the State financially more than the ploughman injured you by ploughing up your cotton. The in jury the ploughman did you was small and temporary. The injury Till:aan ha.s done the State is great and lasting Citizens of the State, one and all, Tiil man is the cause of our greatest trouble. He has destroyed our peace and har mony. Let us come together and get rid of him and his gang of trading poli ticians and work for the common good. There can be no peace and prosperity in the State as long as Tillman is in power. He is all the time stirring up strife. Farmers, Tillman knows he has destroyed the peace and harmony of the people. He knows his adminis tration has been a disastrous failure. If he is as anxious for the success of the principles and measures of the farmers movement as he is to fill his pockets with gold and silver rocks and have a good time, he will quietly retire and advise the farmers to look for an other leader. But no, he thinks we be long to him and he can do what he pleases with us. He does not wait to know our wishes. He has declared his candidacy for re-election. He as denounced our farmer members K the Legislature as "rtten drift wok" be cause -they took his free railroad pass from him, and refused to enact into law his absurd propositions giving him aimost absolute power. He in tends to be elected whether we say so or not. He has the count. He calls for a Legislature of slaves to obey his orders. I have heard all my life, you can lead a horse to water but you can't m=.ke him drink. Farrpers. relying on Tillman's prom ises, and anxious for the success of our cause, we took him up from nothing and elected him Governor of the State. He now laughs at us, and tells the coun try he was "blowing." Let us brush him aside, and move on, and never pause until we get. a man who does what he promises, and carries our measures of relief to success, or does his best to do it. Without capable, honest and loyal leaders our cause is doomed to defeat. If we fail it is our own fault. Alliancemien, we all know Till man last year fought the chief de mands of our order. He did all he could to divide us and ruin the Alliance. Ne,ver trust him again. We cannot afford to be again deceived. Our con dition demands immediate relief. If we are to get it we must put men clean, able and loyal to all our demands in all the offices you can from the Presi dent to coroner-require all to speak out, that we may know what we are doing. In China there has not been a bank failur e in 900 years. Why? F.ecause, if a bank fails, ever' officer of the bank loses his head. If a public man, to gel office, makes promises and fails to re deem them, he ought to lose his head. If this was the law, and enforced, w( would have a government righ t. Let us all speak plain. The writer intend: to do his full duty. He stands for the rights of the people where Wash ington stood. He knows no party or man it this great contest. He is fighting foJ principle, and measures, and the comn mon good, and will do so to the end Carolinians, if you would be free met and have the country prosperous, yot must be true men and tight like.brav< men. If your sires had not been heroe. you would nowv be slaves. Shiow tha1 you are worthy of their best eftorts. Respectfully, EtursoN S. Ku-:rT. Enoree Plantation. S. C., MIarch Stb The MiiUs of the Gods Get There. | From the Hartford Courant.] "G;enial Mfike' Nolan, the bright eyed and red-haired author of "Anni< Roonev," was a prisoner in the rolici Court to-day. The charge against bin was theft. He wvas convic-ted,'.fined iU and sent to jail for thirty days. Happy Home. Thousands of sad and desolate home have been made happy by use of "Ros Buds," which have proven an absolut cure for the following diseases am their distressing symptoms. Ulceration Congestion and Falling of the Wond Ovarian tumors, Dropsy of the WVoml. Suppressed MIenstruation. Ru pturea Childbirth, or anry conmpl-nint original ing in diseases of the reproductive or gans: whether from contagious disease: heredity, tight-lacing, overwork, ex cesses or miscarriages. One l:ady wvrite. u that after sufTeringi for ten vear with Leuchorrhea or WVhites, thart onl application entirely cured her, and' fur thermore,,she sutlers no more pali during tb menstrual period. It is w.nderful regulator. "Rose lHud&" ar a simple. harmless pre-paration, hu wonderful in effect. The patient. e: apply it herself. No doctors examiir ation necessary, to which ai! mode: women, especially youner unmnarrie. Sladies seriously obtjec-t. Frm the tir aplication you will feel like a ire' w 'oman. Price $1.0n b.v mail. pos-t-pai< The Leverette Specitle Co., :m Wa:, UAMPTON FOR HARMONY. The Old Chief Talks to the People-A State Primary the Thing. A week ago the editor of the State ree.ived from ex-Senator Hampton, then at his Miississippi plantation, a personal letter on the political situa ti,n, which compelled the belief that if the views of this most honored of South Carolinians could be given to the public they would do much to re move the barriers which had been un '. isely placed between the Straightouts and other-Demoe-ats opposed to the present State Administration. Gen. Hampton was therefore urged to make a statement for publication, covering the points touched upon in his letter. Before receiving the. request, however, ne had anticipated it by writing the following letter for publication. It is submitted with great pleasure as a con tribution to the harmony and union of patriotic Democrats of South Carolina. -The State. HAMPTON, Miss., MIarch 3.-To the Editor of The State: I was glad to see the pku of a primary suggested by you, and as you are aware it is the one ad vocated by myself as the only fair meaus of ascertaining the wishes of the people. If the "dominant party," as as those members of the Ring like to call themselves, refuse that demand of those opposed to them, my opinion is that the convention which is to meet this mouth should have a primary, and if the result shows, as I have no doubt it will, that the opponents of the present Administration are in a ma jority, they, as the true Democratic party, should assume control, not only of the policy to be pursued in the ap proacbing canvass, but of the State itself. But in order to be successful every element of opposition to"the present Ad ministration, which has brought such shame upon theState, should be united; and I regret deeply that, among those who are honestly work!rg towards a common end, some misunderstanding a- to the policy to be pursued has al ready risen, which, if not corrected, will surely lead to dissension and ulti mate defeat. All divisions in our ranks must be closed if we hope for succ ss, but this can never be accorn plishA if the advocates of any one policy express doubts as to the honesty or the sincerity of those who, while working for a common end, differ as to the node of attaining it. Mutual con cessions must be made,and all differ ences must be left for settlement after the battle. \Vise strategy, as well as common s,-se, dictates this course, for many a fight has been won under a bad order of battle, but none ever where there was dissatisfaction among the leaders or in the ranks. I see no conceivable reason why there should not be harmony and con cert of action amongst all who may de sireachange in the government of the Stt,ad my understanding of the ac' - ss, which I with other gentlemen signed, was that it was an earnest ap peal to all patriotic citizens who felt pride in their State to join in an honest effort to keep its fame and honor un tarnished and the interests of its citi zens protected. It did not occur to me for a moment that any Democrat who desired to see a good government estab lished in the State was to be excluded from participation in the effort to secure this consummation, and I can not see why all such should not take part in .he convention soon to be held. Thbe call for that convention certainly does not exclude those who are called Straigzhto'mts, for without the active co operation of those citizens, who comi pose so large and influential a portion of the Democratic party, it is hopeless to look for success. Whatever opin ion mai:y be entertained as to to their action ini the last election no one can doubt the sincerity of their convictions, nor the honesty of their motives. The predictions, made by them at that time, of the evils which wotuld follow the inauguration of the present Admin istration have been fully verified, and and they are now doubtless as anxious to lprevenlt a recurrence of those evils as they then were to avert them. The recent address issued by their former committee is a calm, conserva tive and dligntified paper, but J hope that it will not induce them to refrain froml participating in the counsels, whilch haLve for their object the welfare of the State. If the coming conven tion nominates a ticket, they should certainly have a voice in its selection, as their votes wvill be essential to its sucess. All shades of op)inioIn should be fully represented in our convention, an hudthat body take any action reugat to any of its members their wihdrawval wvill relieve them from all ob iiationi to be bound by it. I appre hend no danger of this kind, for the men who will form that convention wil bILe actuated solely by patriotic moies and they will be governed by wse counsels, I am sure. No hasty or inconiderate action need be feared if coservative, honest and true Dleme crats mecet to consult how the best in teet of the State can be promnoted; and this should be the sole motive prm pting them. CLet, then, representatives of every class o,f our citizens be well represented in the convention. andit especially do I hop that our farmers who have learned by betr experitece how grievousiy they hatve bceen deceived by fah-e prom iss w ill join their fellow-sufferers in ideiring measures of reliefand redress The Press of the State can exert a po tent andl obeneficial influence in har muiinen all discordant elements and to be hoped that all papers favorable t the movemenf of a true reform in tih State will lena their aid to bring aboul united, vigorous and determined effort to secure this result. "E"nited wt stand, divided we fall." I should' not venture to obtrude mn opinion on the public, but for the facl that as a signer to the address pub lished, I do not wish my position to bt misunderstood. One other mattel prompts me to do this. My deep so licitude for that State, which, in other days it was my pride to serve, and though my services have been pro" nouneed n ) longer necessary, I cannol forget the past, as readily and as comi pletely as many others have done. Every pulsation of :uy heart is true t( the State, and my dearest wi_h is t< see its people happy and prosperous. I am very respectfully yours, WADE HAM'rox RAISE WIIEAT AND IUILD MII.. Facts Which Show that South Carolio Can Make Her Own Sread. [From News and Courier ] A dispatch published in The Sunda. News last Sunday, States that Mr. .J H. Johnson, of Blakely, Minnesota who is described as being an arden1 advocate of Farmers' Alliance doe trines, has published a letter to the far mers, urging them to organize Far niers' All.ance milling associations which has excite1 a great deal of in terest and comment in his neighbor hood. Mr. Johnson, who is himself th< owner of a fifty barrel flour mill maintains, as reported, that the far mers of the Dakotas and Minnesota alone, "have lost $2S,000,000 on whea sold up to December S, 1891, of thi: year's crops," and proceeds to sho% the farmers "their folly in not buildin, their own iills and thereby securinl $1 a bushel for their wheat, with a tor of feed per hundred bushels, togethe: with some minor advantages. An community that can produce 75,00 bushel, of wheat," he says, "can there by keep a fifty-barrel mill running fo a year, and such a mill can be built fo $7, (100. This is the testimony of a practica miller, whose experience has been ac quired in the heart of the chief whea raising and flour making district of th< country, and there appears to be matte in it which is worthy of the considera tion of some of the farmers in Souti Carolina. The main points are as fol lows: "Any community, district or coun ty," says Mr. Johnson, that can pro duce 75,000 bushels of wheat can keel a fifty-barrel mill running." Soutl Carolina produced 992,000 bushels o wheat last year, as that number is re ported by the United States agricultu ral departient-and probably pro duced over a million bushels, if all wer reported. On this basis the State, or the up per counties, where most of the wvhea is raised, would support a dozen fifty barrel flour mills, which would be; notable addition to the industrial equip ment of those counties, and of th State. No particular attention was paid t wheat raising in this State last yeal we believe. It is probable, then, tha the one-million bushel crop) of las could easily be doubled and if so the: the wh'eat growing section could easil: support twenty or more fifty-barre mills. There is not a county in th section probably that could not readil grow 1.50,1000 or 200,000 bushels, at leas1 and this would give prosperous millst each county. The cost of constructing a mill of thi indicated capacity, as stated by an es pert, is 3700 This is much less tha the cost of a cotton factory or even cotton seed oil mill. There is not "community" in the up country tht can not afford to build such a mill, an that would not be glad to build one with or without pecuniary aid from tb farmers. The presence of a mill in any count would be an inducement and a help 1 the wheat farmers to raise more whea more farmers would go into the bus ness; and a deversification of croj would be effected in that region. Ti "minor advantages" to the farmers< having for use or sale all the by-pr< ducts of their wheat-bran, seconds an shorts-we take it are too fully unde stood to require more than mere mer tion. The mills need not be confined1 four making. It was stated a few dag ago by a business man of Charleste that (;0,000O barrels of "grits," are in norted inlto the State from the we every year-our people paying thol sands of dollars annually for this or article which could as well be producE at home, and getting a product that inferior in every quality except whit ness to the home-made article. much may be said of corn meal, whit is imported at a cost of many thousan< more-the atggt'gate for corn and col products alone running up into ti millions annually. The local flour mil co' supplement their w'..eat produc with corn produacts equally to their ou advantage and that of the farrme who would thus have a new and val able outlet f"r their corn crop)s. Any community that can produc 75,000 bushels of wheat, says Mr. Joh son, can keep a fifty barrel flour mi running for a year and the mill can built for $7,'000. Any agricultural other community in South Carolit therefore, that thinks such a mill a its atiendants advantage worth t having would do well to look intot subject, consult Mr. Johnson, and ta steps to have a mill built by the tii "HELP FOR THlE P'ERISHING." 75,000 Persons Gathered to Wish God- P speed to the Steamship Indiana which Sailed from Philadelphia with 5100,000 Worth of Provisions for the Famine Suf'erers. [From "The Living Church."] r On the morning of the 5th Sunday 1 after Epiphany, the Rev. Dr. Mcron- e nell, rector of St. Stephen's church, Philadelphia, after the sermon, made a J short address to the congregation con- c cerning the famine in Russia, and stated that the offertory would be de voted to a fund about to be collected in the city for the relief of the distressed 0 inhabitants of that country. The good- c ly sum of $600 was placed upon the c altar in response to the appeal, and this e amount was the nucleus of the inag- ! nificent fund of $100,00, which was e collected and expended in provisions, 1l and dispatched in the steamship "In diana," which sailed on the afternoon f of Washington's Birthday. To bid thea great steamship a "Godspeed on her i voyage, fully 75,000 persons were gath ered together, and fitting services were e held in the warehouse on the pier, where short addresses were made by prominent clergymen. On this occa sion,were seen our own Bishop Whita- L ker, a Baptist divine, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia, a distinguished Presbyterian minister, 1 the resident Methodist bishop, and a Jewish rabbi, all seated on an im- - provised platform, and who in. the i order named addressed the audience. t Bishop Whitaker said: "The scene is I unique, expressive of the precept, e 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy- b self,' while the higher law governing our actions finds its most practical ex- t pression in 'whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them.' " Archbishop Ryan, quoting Bishop Whitaker, said th-at s the scene was not only unique, but t touching. He spoke of the flags under t which the great ship sailed, our own t starry banner, and the "red cross, red e with the blood of the Great Deliverer," t and he invoked the benediction of God a upon the craft, her officers and men. c Rabbi Jastrow based his remarks on a the words of the Preacher, "Cast thy c bread upon the waters, for thou shalt I find it after many days." t Everything connected with this "re- E r lief" was donated. The Pennsylvania C Railroad brought her 200 cars from the i West gratis; the International Naviga- t tion Company donated the ship; the t cargo was placed on board free of charge; the ship stores for the long voyage of 4,200 miles, t'"e coal to make ( steam for the engines, the new set of flags, the pilot's fees, were all free-will t offerings of the people; nay, even the I premiums to insure the cargo for,100,- i 000 were donated by the several compa- i fnies of underwriters. The whole busi ness exemplified the motto on the great seal of the city,"PhiRaddlphia Macneto." .HIeb. xiii: 1.) THE PARTY CANNOT FAIL. What Ex-President Cleveland has to say - of 13emocratic Prospects. BALTIMORE, March 11 .--Ex-Presi dent Grover Cleveland expressed some of his views about national politics to tday to a reporter of the Baltimore Sun, tat Spesdtia Island, MId., where Cleve Sland had come to shoot ducks. ~"What, in your opinion," he was 1asked, "should be the main issue of the eDemocratic party in appealing to the 'voters of the country?" "All the evidence," replied the Ex oPresident, "of what the people want and what they expect of the party ewould seem clearly to indicate that -tariff refor'm must be the issue if we are to go into a winning fig~ht." a"What do you consider the best plan of attacking the tariff in Congress?" ."My idea has been that a general bill dwould be the best method, but I am ~willing to defer to those who are on the eground and who have the battle in Congress to fight. I hope the Springer free wvool bill will pass, and am also in favor of any other measure which will ;lighten the burden of taxation now resting upon the people. In fact, I favor sany measure in the direction of genuine tariff reform." If"What are the prospectsof the Demo -cratic party's ultimate success?" d"I have but one opinion on that sub ject. If the party is true to itself, true -to its principles and fulfills its pledges to the people it cannot fail." Col. Polk Has Joined the Third P'arty. [Raleigh State Chroiele.] C:ol. Polk, president of the National SAlliance, visited Oak Ridge Alliance, of w ~hich he is a member. on Saturday; sspent Sunday with his fanmily, and yes terday held a kind of reception at his office, qu ite a n-imiber of parties calling to see him. There is no longer any doubt as to his political status. He is an enthusiastic advocate of the Third party, and believes it will sweep the tWest and have a very large following sin the S.outh. nFali1ng oira Log. ~"As easy as falling off a log," is an - old sayi ug. When it was uttered, no body knows. Nothing is easier, unless eit is'the taking of a dose of D)r. Pierce's Pleasant PeXets. These act like magic. No griping or drenching follows, as is ll the case with the old-fashioned pills. be The relief thot follows resem'cle the r action of Nature in her happiest ruoods'- the impulse given to the dor 'a nmant liver is of tihe most salutary 1 kind, and is speedily manifested by e the disappearance of all bilious symp etoms. Sick headache, wind on the e stomach, pain through thbe right side Sand shoulder-blade, and. y ellowness of e the skin and eyeballs are speedily remerdied by the Pellet=L STAVING ON THE VOLGA. itiable Condition of German Colonists in Ruiia-Worse Otr than the Native 'eaEants-Neglected in the Distribution of Keilef. Lo_ 0oN, March 7.-The special cor espondent of Reuter's Telegram Con any who is visiting the famine-strick n portions of Russia sends the fol ow :g letter from Saratoff, under da:e of 'ebruary 2_, descriptive of the Gorman olonists on the Volga. "The German colonists on the Volga umber about :30,0U,. They may be oughly classified as i'rotestauts, Cath- 1 lies and Mennonites. With the ex eption of the last mentioned, they all i ame over during the latter part of the 1 ighteenth century in response to a ianifesto issued by the Empress Cath rine. In that proclamation Catherine ] .romised thet certain privileges, the uost notable of which were immunity ro military service, self-government nd religious freedom. These privi ?ges were granted 'na vek,' w lich aans forever, but the phrase has re ently been construed to signify a cen ury only. There is just enough am iguity about the expression to admit f this interpretation, but it is a cuib les. "When universal military service on he German system was introduced uto Russia, the German colonists were ld that they must either serve o: go. lany of them, especially the Men non Les, who are a kind of Quakers, chose he latter alternative and departed. 'he next thing to go was the self-gov rnment. The colonists used to be overned by a sort of elective council, vhich met at Saratoff, and was called he 'Ottice.' This body controlled the "agaries of the village commune. The Dflice' has been abolished, and the emski Natchalnik now reigns ii its tead. The German colonists have thus een gradually brought under the con rolling influence of Russian institu ions. Even their religion is threaten d now. Fresh encroachments upon heir civil and religious liberty are of Imost daily occurrence, and their in lepenlence may already be described s a thing of the past. Tne steady de line in the fertility of the soil, which as culminated in chronic famine, and he inhospitable attitude of the Gov rnment have brought home to the olonists the conviction that they :ave n Russia no abiding place. They are, herefore, emigrating in large numbers o the United States. "The advent of the Russian Zemski S-atchalnik among these sturdy, honest ?ermans was quite uncalled for. The Gemski Natchalnik is a sort of substi .ute for feudalism. The Russian peo le are sadly in want of guidance and ;uardianship. As serfs they had their naster who looked after them, but >ince they have been emancipated the illage commune has led them a sorry lance. It is no part of the Czar's poli y to make the peasaus su educated mnd indlependeni member of society, aence it wvas found necessary, after wenty-five years of bad management Lnd thriftlessness, to protect the per.sant gainst himself and put him under the utelage of a Zemski Natchalnik. Whenever possible the people selected 'or this office were gentry resident in .he~ neighborhood and already known md respected. In the case of the German colonies here was, in the first place, no neces ity toappoint such officers, and ini the eond place there was no gentry to se ect them from ; consequently Govern nent officials wvere appointed. The tthori ties might have compromised :e matter by selecting prominent col mists. There are not wanting armong :he German colonists men of er ergy' md ability who have, by dint of per severance and ind ustry, risen to we-alth md influence. Thus the village of Messr. together with the whole sur counding neighborhood, is practically Sependent upon Herr Schmidt, orig ually a weaver by trade, who has be ome a miller and a timber merchant as well, and is gradually monopolizing All the trade of the district. "But it did not suit the Government to appoint such men. The colonies were 1o be Russianized. Hence R ussiani offi cials had to be appointed. The result wvas fludicrous~ in the extreme. Trhese officials, with salaries raniging from ?200 to CNA a year, arrived, armed~ wvith full powers, and commenced to give themselves airs. The infhantial colonists, however, passed the word among themselves, and the Zemski Natchanik were boycotted. They could get neither lodging nor food nor any of the necessaries of life, so they had to| capitulate andl pay homage to the local magnate, who then, in nine cases out of ten, gave themi free quarters. an'1 thus was enabled to keep them in a proper state of humility aind depen dence. "The German colonists can only be described as so many nineteenthi cen tury Rip Van Winkles. Imagine a body of men taken out of the eighteenth century, carefully preserved and kept apart from the influences of modern progress, latter-day customs and ideas, and you have the German colon ists of the Volga. They all look like f.gures out of old G;ernmn wvoo:cuts, with their solemn, sallow, obstinate. elean-shjaven faces, their hair dIressed like a periwvig, their gaunt forms and their curious, old-fashioned garments. They ali wear stoeks and they are all very dignified and stately. They have still the same furniture which they brought with more than a hundred years ag), and sleep in funereal four-post bedsteads. Their women, when young, have the pure and beautiful faces of the Gretchen "Torcme amang the people in the nidst of the Semi-Oriental Russians is t 'great surprise to the traveller and fills nim with wonder. Their cottages are ;ubstantially built and contain large tnd lofty rooms, yet the family gener tily sleep in one room, the heavy cur :ain:d four-posters-of which I have ;een as many as four in one room secur ng almost as much privacy as so many ;eparate apartments. "The condition of the colonists is 'eally worse than of the Russian peas tnts in other districts, inasmuch as the :ormer have no natural protectors or ruardians. The estate owners, to whom he Russian peasants formally belonged, ;till take a sort of patriarchial interest n them, and help them in their dis ress. But the Germam colonists have ao one to whom they can look except few wealthy employers of labor. For .undreds of miles you can travel in the !teppes which bound the Volga with yut coming upon a country gentleman's ;eat. The colonists have a feeling that :hey are being left alone to die. No sand is stretched out to save them. Even the Government aid, scanty ough in all conscience, has been aieted out more grudgingly and in naller quantities to them than to oth rs. The Red Cross Society has passed hemn by altogether. This is how it 3omes about that, while the inhabitants )f the Rassian villages in Saratot are :ed, the Germans are starving. The noral the Russians point to is difer nit. They maintain that the existing tate of things is an argument in avor of the Russianization of the colo 2ists. "As you enter a German colonial village you become aware of an extra >rdinary odor, heavy and unpleasant, vhich seems to pervade the whole aeighborhood. This is the odor of aurned manure, which is the only fuel :he (German colonist is able to find. He .s consequently unable to manure his ields. It was touching on entering the ,ottages to see the industry of the in babitants. All were busy, working for :heir very lives. Most of the colonists on what is called the mountainous side of ,he Volga are weavers, and by dint of very great labor they are able to earn about 6s. a month. This is not paid to them in cash, but in kind. They are all hopelessly in debt to their employ ers or sweaters, and these, of course, take full advantage of the circum stance. The only educated people among them are the clergy and the schoolmasters, and these have not re ceived any salary for years. It is sad to see young children with pale faces and glistening eyes working at the looms like galley slaves. In one cottage that I entered the owner, a man of 65, was lying in a semi-conscious condition in his bed. He had not tasted food for several days, and his mind was wan dering. "In some villages I saw men, women and children sitting almost naked, un able to go out to seek work because they had no clothes, and excluded from the receipt of Government aid because they had a handicraft. This is, in deed, the worst feature in the admin istration of relief. The Government helps the absolutely'destitute, whom it is scarcely worth while to save, and. leaves those who are indufrious and able-bodied to starve. In the Russian villages tbis arbitrary arrangement is tempered by the dishonesty of the Mir, but ti. German colonists retain the sterling qualities which they brought with them from the Fatherland. They are sober, honest, virtuous and indus trious. Much of their present help lessness is due to the fact that they were originally handicraftsmen and tradesmen and knew nothing about agriculture. They consequently adopt ed the methods common in Russia and hence, instead of improving the Rus sians, they are gradually themselves sinking dowvn to the same level.'' A Big Loaf for Starving Russians. [New York Sun, 11th.] One needs to stand on the hurricane deck of thbe steamer Missouri and watch the forty or fifty burly stevedores pitch ing sacks of flour and meal into her lower holds to gain a notion of the magnitude and the mean'ing of the gift generous Americans are making to the starving peasants of far eastern Russia. Big bags of flour were packed in the tour lower holds, which are about half the ship's cargo capacity. Nearly two thousand tons of flour will be stowed away in them. Above these..lower holds there is room for as many more tons. The rest of the cargo, including 1,500,000 pounds of corn meal from Ne. braska, wvill be stowed away before noon to-morrow. When a deck load of cattle has been put on board the Missouri will be ready for her voyage. All this means that Americans are sending to the famine-stricken pr.v inces one big loaf of bread .3001 feet long, 40 feet wide, and :27 feet high. It will feed the starving peasants for perhaps two days. Around the Wor]d in Eighty Davy. Did Jules Verne ever think that his imaginary Phileas9 Fogg would b4 eclipsed by an American girl, wh< once made the circuit in less woat seventyihree days ? But Phileas had to take "second money." The fame of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discover3 has gone around the world long ago and left its record everywhere as precious boon to every nation. In the whole world of medicine, nothing equals it for the cure of scrofula of th< lungs (which is Consum ption.). Cough. and bronchial troubles succumb to thia remedy, and the blood is purified by it until all unsightly skin blotches ar< driven away. Don't be skeptical, a this medicine is guaranteed to ever: purchaser. You only pay for the gooi you get THEY LIVE IN TOWNS. A Curious Way of Manlfesting Polit ica Antagonism. [News and Courier.] The present State Auministration was elected two years ago, as the choice of the "country people," represented by the Farmers' Movement. Where is the evidence of any deep-seated preju dice even, to say nothing of animosity, on the part of the country people against the town people in the compo sition of that Administration? Gov ernor Tillman lives in the country when he is at home, although he has always spent a great deal of his time in Augusta, we believe. Lieutenant-Gov ernor Gary lives in the town of Abbe ville. Adjutant-General Farley lives in the town of Spartanburg. Ex-Attor ney-General Pope lives in the town of Bennettsville. Comptroller - General Ellerbe lives in the town of Marion. Secretary of State Tindal lives in the country. Superintendent of Education Mayfield lives in the town of Green ville. Speaker Jones lives in the town of Lancaster. Only two out of the nine highest officers in the State, elected as we are informed by the polit ical power of the country people, are themselves country people. All the rest live in town. Is not this a very curious way of manifesting a deep seated political antagonism or preju dice? We might go farther and investigate the place of residence of the members of the General Assembly and the va rious appointees of the Governor, but this would require too much space. It is enough to say, simply, that the great majority of Governor Tillman's appointments, we believe, haye been given to men who live in town ; that the Congresional delegation elected at the same time with the State Admin. istration is very fairly divided between residents of the town and of the coun try ; and that all of these officers, from first to last, so far as we know, were voted for by the people of town and country alike, without a thought as to where they lived, the only question being as to what political policies and sentiments they represented. ALLIANCE PLANS. A Congressional Campaign Committee to be Established. WASHINGTON, March 11.-The Alli ancemen In Congress have under con sideration a program design to advance the interest of the Alliance. They pro pose to establish an Alliance Congres sional campaign committee on about the same bases as the committees which look after the interests of the Republi can and Democratic parties.~ The pro gram contemplates the establishment of a bureau to supply documents and to have charge of the assignmentof speak ers, also the establishment of a national newspaper in Washington. These and other projects were discussed at a meet ing of the Alliancemen held at at the house of Representative Watson of Georgia. But before decisive action is taken, a conference will be held with Mr. Taubeneck of St. Louis, who is -the. national representative of this ANDERSON GET ETHE GIRL___ Her Bid the Best of Two-Trustees to M[eet There in ApriL. [Special to Greenville News.] CoLmmIA, March 9.-The trustees of the South Carolina Industrial and Winthrop Normal College met to-day. Two bids for the location of the school were considered-Anderson, -$75,000 and a site; Columbia $12,000 and a site. The former was accepted and the board will meet in Anderson, A pril 14th, to decide upon the exact loca tion. Perpetual Xotion. [Progressive Farmer.] During the discussion of the United States Banking bill in Congress some time in 183& or 1836, John Randolph, of Roanoke, who was opposed to the passage of the bill which was intended to establish a United States bank, said that he had discovered perpetual mo tion, and it was very simple, being that "Paper makes money, Money makes banks, Banks makes poverty, Poverty makes rags, Rags makes paper, Paper makes money, Money makes bands, and so on forever and forever. How she Became Xissionary. "I'm doing missionary work a good deal of the time," was the reply of one of the most charming women of New York, to a friend, who asked how she busied herself. "I see by your looks you wonder what I mean by that. I'll tell you. A few years ago life was a burdien to me. I had been a victim to female weakness of the most aggrar vated character for a long time, and the doctors failed to help me. Exis tence was a long, steady, terrible tor ture-a lingering, living death. One day I '.aw Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre scription advertised in the newspaper. Something in the advertisement um pressed mec favorably. I caught at the glimmer of hope it held out as the drowning man is said to catch at a straw. Still, I did not dare to hope. But I got the medicine, and behold the result.! I feel so well, so strong, and oh, so thankful, that I go about telling other women what saved me. In no other way can I so well show my grati 3 tude to Glod, and to the man who has rproved suich a benefactor of women, i and my love for my suffering sister