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If fbr the btbei'ty of the World we can do Anything. VOL. That Siiteei-to Wait “ClflS” DRIVES IT THROTCH THE SPEECHES AT PROS PERITY. «Tfc«c Mr. SUkes Sk««W bt Wrm was t# ke Expeeled,” k«l SfiaUr Bailrr Oafjht tt kare Kaawa Bct- ter—Batler DeBtllskfA thf Stk- Trrasary, k*t R#l Stack ia (hr Fref Sllcfr Sw«Mp-SI*kfs 414 tkr Best ke CaaU—TWr Per Capita Cirralatiaa Lamer ■•« than Ever Before In Tke History •f Tke Coantry—Calhonn on Tke Danger of WlWeat State Banks. T„ the 1’ditor »f The News ami Courier. Before ilisniissing the I’rosjx'rity meeting fiom <>ur thoughts C non hi like to call special attention to a few iM)ints and arguments in the speeches of both Dr. Stokes and Sen ator Butler. I will not refer to Mr. Talbert’s speech, as 1 did not hear it, not having understood that he was to sja ak until I had left the ground. I had looked forward with much interest to this debate, because I am a great advocate of sides of important public <|i In my opinion a chief objection to the Alliance, and to such secret or ganizations generally, is that it tends to can » its members to SEE ONLY ONE 8II»K of questions in which it is specially interested. How many of our Alli ance men ever read any other paper than the “Cotton I’lant" or “Nation al Economist,” in which not only but one side of All lance quest ions is given unv hearing, hut the other side is most grossly misrepresented, and our farmers are taught to regard those of their fellow-citizens who do not accept Alliance doctrine as their bit ter enemies! Here, then, was an op portunity for our farmers in a very strong Alliance section to hear the other side presented by a very able and popular debater. Besides I was anxious to bear the discussion on m\ own account. I have sought in vain for what seemed to me any se dous zw4 valid arguments in favor of the .sub-treasury scheme of the Alliance, .and I thoughi surely Dr. Stokes, when pitted against so expert a dy- liater us Senator Butler, would pro duce valid arguments, if any such existed. But in this I was wofnlly disappointed,for his argument struck me as nuustjglh^veak byth I conclusions—either that it has al ways been too small, and that we have had our extraordinary prosper ity as a people for over a hundred years with too little currency or that we need more currency per capita now than heretofore, (and if so, why?) or that both Mr. Stokes DAHLIXOTON, 8. C„ WKI)NE.SDAY AUGUST 2(i, 1801. lor i wile World. NO. Now Mr. Stokes is mi advocate, I lA-’iioneyhii^ab least to the ’ ettent oft li cve) 0 f ■ j 25 per cent; that is, that lie believes THE EKKK COIWAOE OE SILVER at the present ratio, and is of .opin ion that the Government stamp is all that is necesear^i^inake 75 cents worth of silver tnuMlollar. ff this be true, f suhiflUPe diiliculty id and Senator Butler are mistaken Lyeiy «*sih overcome. If the Govern thinking that we need more cur- 1 ,„ eIlt eun n ,ake 75 cents worth renev. MR. STOKESS H )K8E StokesVj . ar tali we need * gre; struck nm its use. no rei ■qHp*amount! jmU ^^pririli-!^% of silver a full dollar, there can be MEon.why it .cannot make pO worth, or 2o cents wortll, a full Ixt then all our mints he work at once, dividing our tivc and amusing, not to say puerile, j p rwen f s j| ver dollars into two equal He supjAised a ease: That he had a p ar ^ :l iid coining each into silver horsy admitted to bo worth $250. dollars. This would give us over Circumstances forced him to part j $so0,000,000. If after a year or two with him, but no one in reach has | wt , f oun d still did nui havtjs available more than $150 to invest in e „ 0 , 1K l,, jvW.nld’ inevitahfy be the . ... . ,i ss his horse, so he is forced to sell this ^ ^ Zd repeat the proce^! ’“f‘‘T ^ ! " 12 fine $250 horse fer $15(1. This vvpul4 f ^ v ing ns over $1,000,00<),000. I ^ . ' ,q f l)K , ri . l)L . lie unfortunate certainly,hut it seems „ m mvare thi8< aniads exceedingly '- 1 • V r ti * UilM 1 l<v .i.i i e .i...... ... . anyone iioint fnllv cstablishea In to me the natural conclusion to draw g) ] T to ^.|. ril |,i 0 meu. But, 11 is not • . 1 , i i ii • hi i .u . i ■ ; i. r: , exiienunncand reason, l hold it lo would he, either that his neighbors a w hit more silly than rl'e pretence 1 1 the Government can, by its stamp, add 25 jier cent to the value of sil ver. Ijfet ns hope, however, tliat he did not explain his position fully on 8 point,-mid that 4i^j|ill soon put self clearly and JB^uivocally on side of full vuluWdwTars, whether of gohl, silvqr or paper. nrri.Eii ov state hanks. The other point of Senator But ler’s speech, to which the friends of sound nionev may, well take excep- it:.-- 1 . 1 . ? . 1 * C O i-akf-.. 1 ..a 1— 1, lion, is his advocacy of State banks instead of onr present United States hanking system. Your space will not allow me to more than touch on this point at present. I may return to it on another occasion. To refer again to Mr. Dulhoun, l Inni Inii ex pres.:- did not value the hnrae as hi^ h as he did, or that they had made bad cot ton crops the year previous. Such a case hardly affords ground for the bough hearing Hjtrth 1 wtfcluaomXhift then*Is not blic dliestioiis. currency in the conn try. 'J’h of our free silverites that the Govern ment stamp can make 75 or 80 cents worth of si^MLa DJI dollai nrTiTupro »' But 1 nTOtHfav^blii - . as j lie the utter incompetency-of the State banks to furnish, of themselve i, a sound and stable currency.” Gen. \vr0H^n reply^to MRWlke hb argu- | ^ to p mc ,|, briefly on two jioints ment somewhat resembles tlmt of a )f ( ; el| Bl|tl ,, r - ii r e p |y. ] may say farmer neighbor, who insists t&cre is ^ on(wt t)mt j regrtrd his speech not currency enough in the coiuitry! of f , m .„ slc strategy and because he has not money to build ^ qq^^ was an Alliance meeting, him a calf pasture. he it remembered, called by and TiNKfcHtNO with the finances. presided over by the Alliancepresi- I have no kind of difficulty in nd-j 0 f t | u . co ,inty. It was in the mittiug as a general principle that j verv hotbed of Alliance principles, we ought to have currency enough u|1( , (| f the strongest Alliance to transact the ordinary business of com ,ti t .s {n the State. I’he Alliance the country. But who is to decide li(lc Wllrt r ,presented by both* Mr. THE GOLDEN HARVESTS OF THE GREAT NORTHWEST. SOMETHING WORTH READING. Ad Exekaage Gives sSome Good Ad vice to tke Farmers. eedented Crops of Wkeat— ier Cereals—Lark of Lakor— TransportatioH Facilities Taxed to Tkeir Utmost. St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 17.—Har vesting is well under way all over the Northwest, and the promise of a big crop is being more than fulfilled. Instead of averaging fifteen to twen ty bushels to the acre, wheat is turn ing out from twenty-five to thirty bushels, and the increased yield from an increased acreage makes 150,000-j hup,., O00 bushels the minimum product | fat Ihe Dakotas and Minnesota. Other grains are close to wheat, oats especially turning out well. There | With the preseiit" prices of "bc.it, Farmers are doing considerable amount of thinking these days. If they would only conform their ac tion to their best thoughts, they would soon see signs of improvement everywhere. They should not only think for themselves, but get the benefits of the best plans ami thoughts of others. A few days silent in visiting neighboring farms awl talking over their methods of work, eiaming the tools used, com paring different kinds of seeds and fertilizers, would be most beneficial to those who are anxious to learn ove. . A few good object lessons are worth a dozen page- of A ritt m information. * and cotton, it is very reasonable how much is necessary? Is this im portant decision, on which the pros perity of all classes depends, to be made by Tom, Dick and Harry, who base their opinions on (inch ridicu lous arguments as the above? Dr should it not rather be decided on the experience of the leading and most civilized nations, including our own, and on the teachings of lirst- Stokes, the State president,, ami Mr. Talbert, the State lecturer. The other side by Senator Butler \lone. Y|t, in spite of all these odds against him, to which J may add the contin uous attempts to break the force of his (argument by irrelevant questions, there can hardly he any question to any unbiased mind that he came off decidedly victorious; or, as he ex- HT.I) tltjn ov GRAVE ‘d-tjCjktt could know, (lie interpretation inputting on some of his language. Would he not at least become somewhat nervous in his grave if he could know that his im mediate successors in the United States Senate were advocating the re-establishment of State hanks, which he held resjwjnsihle for the great' financial crisis of 18:37? I would not object to State blinks, as such, if any means could be found for keeping them muter proper con trol, and on a safe, and sonml basis, We might possibly here in the South class political economists and finan-1 p rcH ^i j t to Mr. Talbert, “That he eiers, whose opinions are "'"Dl 1 , drove a sixteen-horse wagon through something? I hold that the subject, a p. irt o{ th(1 Alliance platform.” of the currency and-of national linan- j |jj g ( |i- so ,.ti,,n 0 f the sub-treasury ciering in general is a most impor-, exposure of its uncon- .)ECe v i and suhstumas, ; It hac^noi the l»old and a|gresav^|lioul*ft^|i« 1 had expected; In fact he seemed quite ready to throw up the plan, siceept another, and ‘-thank the bird for it” He started out with the proposition that there is an insuffi ciency of cireulatingwiedium .(ciir- rcucy) for the tninsaction of the or dinary business of the country and in this Senator Butler, wrongly, as I think, concurred with him. THE PER CAPITA CIRCULATION. 1 have hitherto shown by unques tionable official figures that the per capita circulation in the county is aliout $21, and considerably more than usual. But here is the latest official statement from the treasury department up to July 1 of this year. According to this statement our circulatin'* in 1850 was $1135,- 000,000. Amount per capita $13.85. In 1805 the circulation was $723,- 000,000; amount jier capita $20.82. This was just at the close of the war when there was so much paper infla-' tion, and both gold and silver at a high premium and thus driven out of circulation, twenty years later, in 1881, after we had resumed specie payments, and our finances had re turned to a normal condition, the peculation w as $1,272,000,000; /HWWWf pc 1 " capita $23.02. On the (st of January, 1891, the circulation was about $1,528,000,000; amount per capita $24.10, lhat is thiehij^ per capita cirdul^on^-as is officially stated, hi ttaeliistory of tke ftmawri Since then the circulation had de clined on account of the heavy ship ments of gold to Europe during the spring and early summer, so tliat on July 1 last the actual circulation was about $1,500,000,000, and the amount per capita $23.37. In vew of such official information at 1 is disposal, was it not somewhat singu lar that Senator Butler should be so far wro» g as to estimate the per cap ita circulation at only $10? That Mr. Stokes should lie wrong was to be expected, for he accepts blindly the figures of the National Econo mist, and it fabricates them to suit its purpose. Seeing then that onr per capita circulation is larger than ever in o r 000,000 per auii’tnL And history, we must iwit«3o one of three are avsur&i there i» no. taut science, on which the welfare of; gtitutiomility, and many other objec nations depend?, and tinkering 1 tionuble features, especially for us it by inexperienced demagogues is i | R . R . in tlK , South, could hardly have exceedingly dangerous. M e have hail | | )tvn improviil on. His diagnosis of some quotations of late from Joh’D the ■liseasi.-that afflicts our farmers C. Calhonn on this subject and the | a)u . i a t )or ii)^ classes, and is in a Niilioual Ejainoinist. b!^bceu pleased ] |irgt . im.-^ure, if not nminly, instru- ogizehf n very as ant Hi: nion t a i in keeping them i>oor, he at- ^ ji.Hw’ibuted to the ri; ht source, that is fully concnr with tb*' l0 unjust and burdensome tariff. Economist and strongly commend toj Thig it i^afte wAer ,ha; ,all tJiil «gtld give us? \X conskleratitRi the following utterance | t i lue tW ikip^tWlA.ibiyltc, timst THE KKITTa AND STOKEREri AND TAL- UEHTS with their wild and vague financial theories, to establish for us a State derive one advantage therefrom over the national banks, that is a more equal distribnlion of the currency. I say might possibly. But in the present state of the country, with so many visionary financial schemes floating in the air, it could hardly lx- regarded other wise than the extreme of folly to give up a sound and safe financial system, such as Don. Butler admits the national banking system to be, to return to the old system of Stitte hanks, which has Ix-en tried and found wanting, ami which our great est statesman has pronounced “ut terly incompetent to furnish a sound and stable currency.” What kind of hanking system does Gen. Butler suppose the present, “dominant element” in our State mild he lx- willing is great trouble being experienced for labor to handle the immense crop! (lJ , SU p |X)a . (liat t()t i ou r ;in ;ier.- and the railroads are hard at work | W()ul(1 rcllutv their acreage of cotton preparing to handle thegiaiu. ^ 1"' t and increase the production of corn ack of storage facilities will compel j a|1( | gIlla |j g ra i Ui But the farmer great majority of the farmers to| who p| :l „ts, year after year, accord- rse of their grain soon, and trails-, j llg ru ]ing prices will always lx- a ition facilities will lx- taxed to their utmost. "’he weather for harvesting is all f hat could be de sired. CHOI’S SOU) IN ADVANCE. Fort Doihie, Ja., Aug. 17.—'i’he farmers of Northwestern Iowa are x‘uixeu 1,1 1 p;irti;il, if not a complete failure. This plan necessitates a lack of sys tem and this leads to slouchy work, improvident habits and a deteriora tion of the soil. The man who runs everything in corn and small grain when cotton is low, will live from besieged by an army of agents of j hand to mouth and never be iude- Eastern elevators, commission houses, | p wn j 01l h etc., who wish to contract for all 1 threshold and unlhresthoid crops of N.'pt'Mnber and Octolwr delivery. Lower prices than thoie of last year are offered on the strength of the bountiful harvest. Many of the * sk * Fa mu rs, alxne all meu, need set tled, established principles. These should be the result of their own ex perience, united with the best sug- thev can get from their gestions fanners have thus sold their crops in He who settles down of Mr. Calhoun on the subject °f: drains the purses of the iijasscs of the currency:. “Nothing,” he tl*jpeople and empties their con- ~ ^ ^ ““In iheikurt ‘can be uwiro de|iciit6 tha rency. Nothin/* cuk nxpii^e to U nioic delicately handled. It ought never to he tampcretl with nor touched until it becomes absolutely necessary. Untried experiments jnstly deserve ccnshre.” These are wordj of wisdom spkoken by South Carolina’s greatest statesman, with which 1 fully concur. \Vhy sayeth the Economist, and Dr. Stokes, of whom I was speaking? Docs it not ‘•squelch o t” the sub-treasury and all such visionary schemes of finan ciering? THE WILDCAT .STATE BANKS. One other jxiiiit of Mr. Stokes’s argument I wish to notice. He in sists that there is not enough gold Mid silveFiu the etfi(Alry 5 « U J flj a Inisis for currency, and therefore somcthingelse must lie found to serve the purpose. Well, the Alliance of our day cannot lay claim to having originated this idea. I find Mr. Cal houn very emphatically answering this same prenteucc way buck in 1837, during the great financial W 1 not into the national treasury but into the pockets of the favored few. This it is that makes a few advance, hut the majority have heard of I he shortage in European coun tries, and will hold their grain for higher prices. It is tl ought that the hulk of the crops in this vicinity will not be marketed until a month lat^i - than usual this year. AN IMMENSE OAT CHOI’. Cedar Hai-ids, la., Aug. 17.— Never before has Iowa har- vesteed such a crop of cereals as it will this year. The oat ’crop especi ally is immyhpc. It will easily aver age sixty to senveuty bushe's and in (nany places will go lot) bushels to theatre. In addition to this, oats will weigh, from thirty-four to forty pounds -to the bushel. This great crop is causing railroad officials no little trouble. All the railroads are building a large number of grain cars, in order to be prepared for the business when the movement of grain sets in. Frankness. that plan as a fixed principle ami pursues it ten years, will certainly find that he has a Ix-tter dwelling house, better stock, better barns and stables, improved land, a happier (family, and if he has anything to do with land mortgages he will be- at the right end of them. M e call fm- volunteers to enlist in this plan for life. Who will he the first' to send in their name? — -*t»~ - Books in Use in Ihe Public Schools. In answer to many inquiries con cerning Ixxtks to he used in public schools—the County Boards adopted the following in 1888 for live years: Appleton’s Headers, I'upplunentary Reader . “ Reading Chart, David ion’s History of : • C, Barnes’ I 'rimary U. C. “ Brief •• General History. Maury's Series of Geography. Heath’s IVogressive Outline Maps. Robinson’s Rudiments of Arillinie- tic*. Robinson's i’raetical Arithme tics. Reed and Kellogg’s Scries of Grammar. M oreester 1 lictionary. Harper’s Copy Books. , Swinton’s Word I’rinie-r, “ “ Book, “ “Analysis. SOUND SENSE OX THE SUB-THE1S- URY. A Uaterhlsni for the Advocates of the Scheme-( an thi'j Answer! I’ickens county has been gettinv u pret ry good dose of suh-treiiSTirv tore. Now we Woiltd tiki-''!|y8 fi, pie of I’ickens to honestlv ask them selves and answer a few qiiestions: First, is it true tliat they haw been growing poorer every since ihe wa^. Do they not know men w hose eo, vV dition lias been steadily improving ever since tile war? ifavo the\ n-T in every neighborhood farmers •.vfn’ hi'-' e made and k< pi money hv f.v' im e tho war? e ui.\ till- ovik ra! eoo.li . a- e L < -f. •' III \l Hi 1 •!; i H • IKl: !i( * Iv :t. !rs. JM 'VI! . IV !; " coloivd h-ii.r. j> ; Jc of a Ui\ nil ’tan*, oil ivoni criptions? ilow manv of ; ‘r- i.ivy not - ,1 ‘'oi!”. imp njuied li\ t lalior. anil 1 nigln st of ilr ■Ml. :ui ii w i n Ii Krusi’s Series of drawing Wa hanking system ? To do so would millionaires on the one side and mil- he. ( 0 bring on our State something lions of paupers on the other. And | worse than the wildest cat schemes yet when Senator Butler referred to. 0 f Arkansas in the ante-bellum day.:, that most outrageous hit of sectional I Wc would have worse than an Ar- Be frank with the world. Frank ness is the child of honesty and cour age. Say just what you mean (o do and partisan malignity, the imposi tion of over 100 per cent duty on cotton ties, there was one man in the audignev so ineyprgsyi h 1 tujud as to e4y out, “Dh, wc* don’t Lid that?” gentin crisis just as sinm as wild financial theories had had time to bring it alxmt. No, Senator Butler, you are a con servative man, and as such you must surely see, on re licet ion, that it would A bad break on THE money qi'ES-1 | w exceedingly dangerous to attempt , tion. , i so imjxn tant a change in our fiuan- But excellent as Cen. Ikutler’s i (iffil system, for the present at least, speech was in the main and well-i When the prevailing popular frenzy smk as it was to ncoomplish Up ] has run its course, and its leaders purpose, there were two important on every occasion, and take it for grunted that yon dietm to do what is right. If a friend asks of you a favor, you should grant it if it is reasonable. If it is not, tell him plainly why you cannot. You will wrong him and yourself by equivoca tion of any kind. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one; the man who requires you to do so is dearly purchased, and at a sacrifice. Deal kindly and firmly with all men amt von will find it the on this bed rock: “I will raise ill I the home supplies possible, and make cotton the surplus, or money crop” will succeed, and high prices will not disturb him greatly. The man who starts out on a journey to a far distant ‘own and takes the advice of I every man he meets, or lakes no -mic’s [advice, and changes his mind every morning, will have a hard road to travel. So with the farmer, who changes his crops to suit some whim or because the price of this or that is low, will not accomplish much. * * * Our farmers are not going to he governed by Alliance resolutions, or lx- dictated to by cotton growers’ con ventions. Some of them may adopt the plan of cutting down their cotton acreage next spring in accordance with resolutions passed by a conven-| lion of farmers; but if about the first of April cottoi should jump to ten c-nts all the resolution! would he knocked in the head and the cotton seed would go in the ground as usual. Unless the farmer settles down on some general plan of planting and sticks to that year after year, unless he can change to a better, he will just drift with the tide and do as he has been doing in the past. points in jt to which I am sure (be friends of sound |ti)4 honest money, Democrats as (veil as _ J, will generally take- exception, The first of these was his acceptance have I een relegated to welDmerited obscurity, it may lx- well 1 either to modify our national hankiug.systein, so as to make it better meet the ’popular wants, as 1 have little doubt could he done, or lo replace it by crash of that year. This crash, he | f or i had all the time presumed that it remembered, was brought on by |j e ra nfced among sound money without qualification as to ratio of | something Mter. But for the pre- the Alliance jdaulk .Tree comiigy i^unt it is Ix-tter to let well enough of silver. Ifis >lt#alil^is^ *one. At^astsuck isJhc-oj.in^n to me, as I know it was to others, j <‘f j Gen. Greely to Vbh the Soitth' iianc e wil uks of thS pen ry scbeHtgiSf on a short time bring on us a still worse one, if put in execution. There was more reason, however, for such a pre tence then than in our day. From policy which wears (he Ix-st. Allow all, do not appear to others what you are not. If you have any fault to find with any diic, tell him,,, not others, of what yon complain, '■’here is no more dangerous cxix-riim-nt than that of undertaking to be one thing to a man’s face and another l>e- hind his buck. Me should live, act and speak out of door as the phrase iA s$y and do what we are willing * * Legislation is in vain when it conies to taking charge of a man’s crop and stating what he shall plant | and how much. Major Harry llnm- ; nioud, of Beech Island, who thinks | much, suggests that the- remedy is I for each cotton runner to take out a : license in February of each year and 1 ;t. Lupton’a F.leiiients of Sciviitifiv Agriculture. Smith’s Primer of Physiology and Hygeine. Smith’s—The Huimiu body and its Health. And the following was adopted by the State Board of Examiners: — “Any teacher who, while receiving public school funds, uses lext-books in the course of study prescribed for public schools that are not on (In state list, shall forfeit his pav from public school fund for the time he uses them. Any teacher may refuse to te.ich any pupil who is not sup plied with the text-books prescribed for said school. Pupils passing from one school to anolh -r m-.isl conform to the list adopted forthe latter. The Trustees, or, in theit default, the County Board of Examiners shall enforce these provisions. Tin- County 'School Commissioner shal! withhold approval of pay certificate of any teacher not conforming there to; and the teacher persisting in violat’iig the same shall lu- deprived of his certificate of qualification.” CONVERTING THE HEATHEN. A Class of Celestials at Trinity Sun day School. Who would ever think of seeing “heathen” Chinamen in a Sunday school class, praying and singing the sacred songs of onr own prayer books? This very spectacle can lx- seen on Sundays by a visit to the Sunday school room of Trinity Methodist church on (lusclt slri-et, where a Chinese class lias been form ed and is in good condition. Mrs. M. D. M’ightnian first con ceived the idea and set to work in ■September, 1881), to orgmize a eki. o. She secured six pupils at first and to ! cetn r-. r d- iTri-.- Itii i ( linn* •1 Kvh' enn tig-,; -f oat imv. ; Ii* •ami a id suo- treasurv would he H: ^ (•ill’' in ti, • Full ey *1\ 1; ai-. who Inis cotton <• m get mo Uc V uit her hv sel 1- ing or 1 y bon-o" i* 1 © on thc Maple. Tic jiiii -h. Hi- ii: ‘A ID.) j!<»( r men need to x helped, i- i : til imme-r. Tie- ad i-tr. as ar-, voi; 1(1 !;<** lend on liens or cim:!"l mi n-tir: liV.*- i >i* 1 ersona! i redit. It would ;us ont «>: bu;i- ness th ■ men U> (1 >. ■U tin alliauee stores ant fV( ■ ha up’s would deal onl v for cash. Woul 1 anybnuv w iivlpnl by the land loa Ii scheme >11 i. hose who have land air -ady imirt •jatn -d or 'v lio own land ai d desire o ]> rr.iwg) i ;; 111 lend at higher ra It*' o i iieir neigh- hors? Woul I liol the a!»i lity to money > u land at two per eei i make m-n wb a have la k1 : ''Id it tig!) hr. Would I no! mak * i L, iiarder •>!' i I;-.- poor in: 1 n to Imv V Sapp. I’i.-ki ns County grows 10,00(1 lilies of <••. 1 ton id $40 a/bale. When t hat is ko1( Ol n rigid 1 1U1" sloo.ooo in thi- hands of j’iekeiis people. Supp-i-e till ; all u Sed illr su’l >-trea sury, dr: win g univ eighty per cent . ot the Vi !uc. Tha t would pat oni - ;>S-20,0'!0 in Hie Li uto.s of ! ’ick'-ns \V'*H Idn’; ii ? And interest mu! insur inn. would have to be take-, from tha Siiii-; run.-:nrv ; i! vo •are.- t -II you their s •hfim* wf mill make money more a mmlimt. Ho do hey g« r over these figure J oi make eight-. per een . ns miuMi as : ■inmli' •d? Ask them. If your cotton rose in price von would lx- winner. If it went down you would be loser. Did you ever try holding cotton for a rise? IIov. did you come out? by the past. if every gaged now Julige the future man whose land is niort- !w lommeu money iron; tr.e government on it, who would get that money? The holder of the mortgage, the innn to whom the money is due. Would von get a dollar of it? How? Does the niort- gagi- holder owe you anything? Have you any tiling lie wants to buv? Do von reckon jn- is going to be so flush with it that he’ll give you a few hats fiill'? The lain, holiter who is under inoiugoge wiii have his -deli! transf'-nvii troi:! Hu- ;er;.. .. l.-nder to the govt-t-mm-ni. Ins lunv . xi-nded d Ids iut-.-n- 'X Gen. Greely, the Chief of the United States Weather Bureau, and (hi- Coiunmmjilr o^ f)ie fatnoiig North Pole exploring expedition, has con sented to visit the Southerp Exposi tion at 'Raleigh, N. C., and deliver an pad^QrfH$J04xf|is$$un \0o open October letauiii doses I teeein- imocrats alongside of sueji meu as lond, Bayard, Caflirie and pton. i know, of eourse, that he hail voted with the frek eilveHteS in the United States Senate last ses sion, as did all the Democrats, I lx-- lieve, except Mcl’hersou of New J* r- the passage of the first Coinage Act 1 ^.y a)ll \ (j rav 0 f Dek-ware. But this ^^ ^ ^ ^ ^ in 1792 up to 1812, a ixriod of fifty was miderstoiKl to lx- for the purpose ''|^ pitR. ^^Gem years, only 1,859,440 silver dollars 0 f dyfeating tho obnoxious force bill, |j w had Ix-en coined, fraction il currency HU( i nu ( iW n test of the views of the wi) , not incliidixl, this too, lx- it remem- individual Senators on the free cum bered, with entire free coinage. And ago question. Senator Carbu yet we are assured the silver dollar vokxl, though he is a pronmwaM ^i was Hie “dollar of our daddies,” ami ponent of the paying our sUier kings j The August* report of the cot- that we should reverence it as such, of the Rockies 20 to 25 jmw cent ton makes the average 88.9. That is Now we have over 400,000,000,000 above fhe marketSflfle of i flu-ir sil- aLmt the same it was July 1st. In of these dollars outstanding—or rath- ver., nutor Hampton iM the same, some States the crop has improved, er stored away in the vaults of tin- though he is tit'opposition while iu others (f it lias fallen back, treasury—and this cuortnoin anio-mt to 75 cents silver dollars. But it North • f’aroMn*' reports 75, which h increasing .tt the rate of ov-r $‘>0.- would see-n from Senator BnHer’s: the Ifixveat. Mississippi leads with ” ” « « « t oiild be known and read by all men. It is not only best as a matter of principle, hut as a matter of policy. Thf Acmr Reached. y pay $1.50 to the county treasury for each acre planted in cotton that year. A fine of $50.00 per acre is to be paid for each acre in excess of the number he pays a license for. If such a plan was practical or con stitutional, it .smacks too much of paternalism and takes away all op portunity for the assertion of one’s independence. If the government is to do the thinking and planning for the farmer, it will not bo long until he is sunk to a servile and helpless couditi m. ** has now ten in the classjseveru! other, j .,j| j-p-lii ivuue i iiat t!) eur renev Alabama Insists of her “Kor.i Gem,” Georgia of her “RattH'nake,” into Marlboro can Inuist of her “.VHi- ittii-e Jumbo,” the acme of all water melons. Mr. D. C. Odom, one of tie 1891. Gen. tireto^ fill (la-, farnim ou thc Diver, had on an interesting address, and it| q i;lii x-a great treat for those who 1 ;> fortunate as to lx- present at exposition at that time. still eno if .<c I’ro.peft h after ! exhibition here Monday afternrxm one of these favorites that weighed just tjO I In. It was grown Xm his farm live miles M'est of town, where he has some of the finest melons ever made in the county. All who saw this melon say it was really and truthfully a “Jumbo” melon. Who has any Ix-tter? Talk out.—Marlboro Democrat. of evl-ry million jx'ople hi (he n-1 T>xas follows with 92. S^iith ; world, 800 arc blind, aito the olh'.r iliuiv^con;^ tl^t. ! ytii^oo conhut see their own faults, i mieal farmer, who settles down The countiyisiu greitneed of intolligeut, iudejx-ndent fanners, who will not be driven about by every wind of strange doctrine, and who will not blindly follow resolu tions of conventions and leading edi torials, unless they are hacked up by common senee. If Ihe fanners of upper Carolina will hangup Ibis motto amt ;;i i up to it they will soon triumph; “Home supplies first; cot ton as a surplus crop.” That means that the farmer # will raise his own wheat, oats, corn, sorghum, hay, cat tle, cotlts, garden truck, fruit, and, in fact, everything that this climate will produce. M'hen he plans for that he will find that he has about k-n to tiittc-'-n acres for cotton to| each horse. The. industrious, ecQno- ou also were in attendance, but a lew have left the city who were pupils. There are ten teachers iu the school atpresent, one for each pupil. They seem really interested and anxious to learn, and the teachers are greatly encouraged at their progress. They are taught principally the Bible, but arc likewise instructed in ,a primer having the English words and i a »j 01 . ( i p, r i.sk bavin Chinese hieroglyphics in parallel columns. They are also instructed in sing ing. They usually sing their verses in their native tongue, sometimes in English. Tho liberality of the pupils is very conimemlable, and during the existence of the class to this date they have contributed $95.85 between them for various benevolent causes. In the language of one of the teachers, “M e believe that if we are faithful in teaching tn-.-se men the way of salvation, with God’s blessing they will teach their own people and bring them from darkness to light.”—News and Courier. lilt ■bn ; ot ; rain all !o- gether, but how w ill it help Hie free land owner or non land owner? And you man who work occasion ally or regularly for wages: Is it not to your interest to have the dollar put in your hand a sure, olid, full dollar, worth one huitoted cents at the store or anywhere else, uoiv and twenty years hence, if von enu lav by a dollar now am! then? <'an von your dollar you have worked for discounted ten or twenty or thirty cents, or to find when the rainy day von have provi ded for comes that your dollar is good only for half a dollar, although you have done a dollar’s worth of work, put a dollar’s worth of your time and muscle in it? Don’t you know that wages are always ;he last thing to rise? I >on’t you ' know you and your family will suffer if you are earning, only the same dollar you now cam while’prices are kiting'up and your dollar will pay for only half the food and eiothes it buys now? These questions limy he' taken, an swered and thought over in other places In-sides Fickc’is. For every man who knows more than he tells, there are fifty who tell more than they know. Truthfulness is a corner-stoue ,in |character, and it'nut lirmly laid in youth there will ever after tv a weak "pot ia the found*(ten. J. 0. Wynn, business agent of the (State Alliance of Georgia, is said to lx- about $30,000 behind in his accounts. He gave a lalij Unto for $50/(OU, so liiai his creditors will Ins.- nothing. He said he used the money to pay lus privai.- debts, hut Hie general niqiivs.-ioii ; Hint he got on tin wrung ■id' .-I’ -ire-ton tion i- futures, U; m>wRia#**m#mmm m., I'wilstulfltt r- . *i a .re THIS PAGE CONTAINS FLAWS AND OTHER DEFECTS WHICH MAY APPEAR ON THE FILM. mr