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jU D. “IP FOR THE LIBERTY OF THE WORLD WE CAN DO ANYTHING.” v •• ' ■ \ I * VOL. II. DAItLINGTOX, SOUTH C AIIOLINA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1HD2. NO. 2i THE FARMERS ARE HOT FOOLS. THE! HAVE GAUGED THE TARIFF AND WILL GAUGE SILVER. Plain Talk to the People—The Wisest Course for the Democratic Party to Pursue—A Cheating Game Never Thrives—Low Taxes and Sound Money are Democratic Principles, and the Party in Or der Principles Washinotok, D.C., January IS — The following speech was delivered by the Hon. M. D. Harter on Satur day night last at a meeting of the Young Men’s Democratic Club of Cincinnati: Jdr. Chairman and Gentlemen: It seems to me that apolitical party up on all vital questions of policy should lie very like the Church, and its views should be as decided upon so import ant a question as the currency as are those of the Church upon original sin, regenera'ion or baptism. If so, those who speak for the Democratic party should la: as certain and as positive in their declaration of what is truth as are the sons of the Church. For one, I have little patience with, and no admiration for, the party rep resentative, whether he be a leader or only a spokesman for it, who hesi tates to put into the plainest form and most unmistakable shape hi?con victions upon so vital an issue as the coinage question. It may be politics to leave your hearers in great uncer tainty, in a kind of tantalizing doubt US to what you really favor, but it is bad morals, time wasted, and, if poli tics, certainly not the kind the coun try to-day has uses for. To appear to lean first in one direction, and then to incline in another, is much like the preacher, who, while denouncing stealing, should recommend an occa sional lapse into adultery and indul gence in moderate lying upon occa sion- The great strides forward on the tariff were made only after the party was prepared to denou^je all forms of taxation the sole object of which was not the public treasury, and it was only after the’party in Ohio got enough backbone to pro nounce in favor of free wool and woollens that if made real headway with our people. We might have made campaigns from January until ptunity demanding justice feral 1 and incidental protection for a few, without making a convert whose po iitjcai soul was worth saving. Our course upon the silver question must be equally distinct, exactly us open. able to draw as we need it from the world’s great stock, just as the thirs ty people of a city arc supplied with water from the everlasting sources of supply up in the mountains and among the hills. THE PER CAPITA THKOKY. No man will find it hard to ex plode the per capita currency supply theory, for he will discover that most npies, »..« tor r anj .« , ((f ,, is mid(>1 , staml tliat ,| K , to Win Must Stand by lit i . „ , . ” _ I quantity of iiioncy a people requires depends, first, upon the volume of its business and, second, upon its meth ods. They see that England does the largest per capita business in the world with less than 81 <> of money per head, while France requires over $40 to transact less than one-half as much. A self-respecting American, when he finds that we already have, when volume and method are con sidered, more than twice as much money as England, will not he hard to convince that he is the equal of his English cousin, and you will find him loath to have the silver ring plead the baliy act in his behalf. Wll.L CONTRACT A NO DEIS ASK. Our opponents insist that free coin age of silver will enlarge the volume of money in circulation. It is not difficult to show that the unlimited coinage of silver will contract the currency while it at the same time debases it. Our own history gives the lie to the other theory, and the written records of mankilTd in idl ages and among all peoples confirm us and blast the claims of our oppo nents. Jefferson’s free coinage Act of 1792 drove out gold, while our sec ond attempt at free coinage in 1834, through a change In the ratio of fifteen of silver to sixteen of silver to one of gold, drove silver out of circu lation, and up to the passage of the Demonetization Act on February 12, 1873, gold and silver never circula ted as they have since—side by side. Show them the fact that more silver dollars hic e gone into circulation in a single month since it was demonetiz ed than in over thirty years before, and that in two months since 1873 we have added more silver dollars in coin and by certificate to the coinage than were turned out from all our mints between 1792 and 1802. Again, gold bus absolutely disap peared from circulation in free-coin- age Mexico, while in England, Franco, Germany end the United States both gold and silver circulate alongside ^, st m4 which'would suffer' by each other, because the coinage of | frec col How sillv this when the cheaper is limited. Ourpeople we remeniberthat the 'g., of v/all will soon take up and understand the, strwt are m . ulc bv the fluctuations of and fully ns outspoken and courage-: Gresham law as they now compre- i th( . market) an(1 tbat the change from ous. I •■end the law of gravitation, hut not | gtable gtalldaI . (] of vahie t0 a flnc _ The greatest good to the greatest | by cowardly party tactics or by the| tuat - 1!g al , d uncertain one, such as number and equal rights for every j dodging of individual political lead-, thc proposeg) W(m]d f| „ wv citizen must be the ground upon j ers. The plain pcojile can sec-, if; (1k . entiro bngiueS8 of the conutrv in . arts, every ounce of silver bullion produced in the United States is added to the money of the nation, but tlutt under the present system the 12 to 15 million dollars of an nual profit go into the public treasury, and that, therefore, free coinage of silver is simply a trick of the silver producer by which he hopes to trans fer this huge annual sum from the vaults of the United States treasury into his own coffers. When silver was worth 103 cents on the dollar (in 1872-73) there was no law compell ing him to have it minted for the use of the people, but now, when through increased production it is worth, let us say, 7-"> cents, he demands a law compelling his neighbors to give him a dollar’s worth of their earnings, savings, property or labor for it. The time will come, too, when the United States will have to make its 74-cent dollars worth 100 cents, and when that time does come the apparent profit now made through the mint will all be needed for tiiis specific purpose. Does any one contend that after we have taken 300 millions of the silver miners’and speculators’ bullion and given them 400 millions of legal tender dollars for it and the hour conics to make this money worth 400 millions that these gentle men will send in their checks for 100 millions to protect the treasury (the people) from loss? THE CLASSES KHEE COIN AO E WOULD DEFRAUD. Do we not see, that the real credi tor classes are the mechanics, the farmers, the working people, the de positors in savings hanks, (of whom there are 110,000 in a single hank,) the holders of life insurance policies, the pensioners, those in receipt of fixed incomes—m short, the rank and tile of the countr;, the most worthy and at the same time the most In Ip- less in the land? It is propos 1 1 to the Democratic party to turn these people over to the tender mercies of the silver kings. Was ever propo sition more monstrous? It will be safe for every Representative in Con gress to think a thousand times of these worthy men, women and child ren, and of their rights where he wastes a t hought upon the lucky sil ver miners or plans how he can give them great privileges which can only be done by robbing the millions of their rights. We hear th" foolish erv that it is which we build, and the education j their eyes are properly directed, im- which we aim to impart must be as limited coinage of silver would not fundamental as it should he thorough. Most of the voters in the hard strug gle for existence under a piotective tariff have no lime to study this class of question: others have little incliim lion, and it remains for those whose to a kind of gamble out of which Wall street would make its millions, only not increase the supply; of .non-; iu tens of mjllion8> VCS; iuhnmlrc , U ey, but that from a gross rou.»l sup-j The farnit . r8j the lmaineg8 lnell( tb , ply of 1,800 millions we should fall; workil)g )k . lbe th( , to 1,200 millions, and that with this! wkl()WH U|ld hliIlsill onr r „ n . decline in volume would come depre ciation in what remained; in other privilege it is ti) write and speak to words, they would easily understand cry aloud and spare not. , that only would each man have but quality, not quantity. !“ ,lU wbere he 11:1,1 11 tlo,la1 ' l,( - ■ fore, hut that his 07 cents would We niujit show the people that j baVe au ;icblu ] value, let ns say, of vplipne is the least important fimtor, go ceutiJ The ^1,.^ n „t fools, ill fffiy currency, that the stability,; nop w jn [jjpy consent' tq this kind of l!u‘ Utaasqring ijita!i{) of it, eiifci a; f ndld jf retake pains to make it Into every transaction, while its loco- i . !( , |r _ lf u ,iHions of money motive quality, its sei . ice» as a e nu -i-,. ueeilisl to carry on the business mon dirrler or agent in the actual ( ] K . country (and the free-silver making of exchanges, is involved in p,. 0 p k . | )aV( . bm j educating tlieui to only eight transactions on., of eu-ry , | luik f bH t more is required,) they hundred. 1 hey v.ill tiien see t.hal lV ii| gre f ba t; 1,20(' millions woul.l not to them it is eleven times as impor.. |„. enough, and that, one-third of the ant to keep the money o. . he con.: Imsiness < f the land would stop and try stable us it is to spend time upon bul two-thinL of the piKiplenowenp its volume. The people learn these |lloml uol ,] d i, livc . work, fm.d,ekrth- kinds of truth much faster, often, i U g j or comfort. ’I'lie jieople are as than some of their wohl-be teacher?. abk k) 80( > alld niulerstaiid the fear- It is not hard to persuade an aierage ^p (l j import of such conditions as are listener that there is u > advantage in vm)( )11V f rk , ndg acurreucy too redundant; that its very ^ ^ redundancy is an inconvenience and n.\fidly .ncreasincl are a just, sensible, ;.iid, after proper time is giveii them for reflection, a conservative class, and if the Demo cratic party will appeal to their in telligence instead of aiming at their prejudices we will find that the farm ers everywhere will second us in every effort we make to prevent thc degrada tion of the currency, realizing as dear ly as the farmers of Michigan do tbat free coinage is only a scheme for skin ning the agriculturist out of any loose and portable property which protectioh has left him. a fraud which a blind man can see. ’The average cost, of producing an ounce of silver in the United States is a little less than 53 cents, and, as there are 480 grains in it and only 3711 grains are required to make a standard dollar, free coinage would give a dollar of your property or labor to the silver producer in exchange for 41 cents of his. Was ever such a proposition made outside of a mad house? But will anyone question the method which leavens the mad ness of our free silver friends in tin- far West? If so, let him read the laws and study the customs of those district.-;. Take, for instance, Cali fornia, where ihe two most eminent, distinguished, and able free coinage advocates live; or Nevada, the .'••tatc which they represent in the t'enale at Washington. - Ity law and by cus tom they have so provided that only gold coin shall be a cont ract pay- n cut, California requires its taxes to be paid in gold, while a note payable in gold will fail to draw a dollar oul of a hank. These silver people me quite determined that you shall take their 11 cents for your dollar, hut they have decided that they will Ih eternally damned before they wili • *■ take or use it themselves. Was then ever such an eMiibition of impudent, barefaced fraud in an Anglo-Saxon nation or among an intelligent peo ple in any land governed ’ by the Caucasian race? i grcssional districts would simply lose what Wall sfre-f would make. For my part ! would rather go back into private life than lend un voice or cast my vote against the peo ple whom I represent and whose in terests I should guard; and, gentle men, there are dozens and ,-cores, in deed hundreds, of iiHfii exactly like meat Washington, so tlmt perhaps the danger of free and unlimited sil ver coinage is more imaginary than real. TitK REAL INTERESTS OF THE WEST AND SOUTH. What the West and South both need is the early anil thorough development of their resources, which ! that Mr. Blaine, Mr. Har- follows the rattle and dust of the I and .'i' . McKinley should favor railroad train, and vet if we have free ^ lv< ‘ coinage of silver, for it gives TRUST THE FEOI'LE A ND Til E1R KEF- lUviKNl ATI VEH. Not only are the people open to the truth, but a very large propor tion, probably nearly all, of their representatives at Washington are sincerely determined upon doing what is right and just in this matter, and the ultimate outcome mflst he favor able to the sound, conservative, Demo cratic view which you hold. The best and ablest men in the United States were called cranks, and our greatest, newspapers were discredited for years because they denoune.-J the fraud of special legislation then so popular under the name of protec tion; and those who to-day fight pre cisely the snipe tiling underthe name of free and unlimtied coinage of -di ver must be content t.> share a like fate; but, gentlemen, the time will come when you who stand firmly lor the safety of the business of the coun try, you who truly and righteously represent the interests of the entire people against the selfish, grasping and temporarily popnl.ir devices of lln .small but rich and powerful ring now urging the free coinage of silver, will have, to a degree almost un known, the affection a id confidence of the country. The men who are true at this juncture ipid who remain steadfast hi the end will stand as David A. Wells and Grover Cleve land stand in America, and their members will be hallowed as are those of liicliurd Cobden and John Bright in England. “FREE C IINACIE” AND “PROTECTION” SYNONYMOUS. It is perfectly consistent and high- and unlimited coinage of silver it. will stop railroad building outside of to ;: small class of manufacturers, the silver-bullion producers, 100 an exciting cause to wild speculation • ^ , i“' and final financial convulsion. , I' M e < light to pom* out to the wit ers | ( .„ lll p. ui j ( . r . v ,, m | d fan* to go in debt can be no more desirable to have t.vo 1 * u< _ the volume of money is in- up,,,, t ba t basis, and yet capital for j the older Suites and greatly curtail j C( ‘ nts ’ "orth of the people’s money it there. Existing companies havc| ^ or a unich smaller value; hut this is too many gold obligations now out- precisely what they have always ad* i standing to eiue to incur more, new vocated, and is only another phage dollars where one is enough than fo]^ 8 ^ i, ‘ thi ' s cou,,tr * v ' vil11 ' V011 lire.ikfasr instead , „f two. No mm. will bo at a loss to »« a g° ld - of u ' t *'**> a , , _ such n.ies could alone be secured have four eggs for breakfast instead rapidity, and at a rate, 1 U j. 0J , bo ;„ k) thd principal and inter- '• - *•••- • • - « Wato * * i,ver uml 20ld - of j es of wl pdi would be payable ex- mt ei)ly eivilizecj show from the hist-try of his own and ‘"l d |00 nnlhons a year, a sun j . j, ff , ld> the actual ! a Otlfurs\Mi tliat th- r F ri(vlsof great- very much greater fl* 0< Vii , up a)1!l):1? , tuit panic add distress wore often of ! ceoj-V panic those in which money uhnudant, of the class legislation of thc tariff, i kind of legislation wliigh (hoy httve always believed in; but bow shall wc Demofrals, wbo have fof years, yes, for g -Herat io::s, c.lj g away back to the adoption of the C'oustitiUiou, fought e\ory form of class legislation, justify onrsi'l'ys in supporting it in free an! unlimited coii,;,.^. oe of its worst Lims, and certainly J siLer wo.ild |,e a urn; !.i,u i- 111 one which threatens to do more nil to the public good in twelve ut! s than even si eh a monstrous and present ihmuclal condition of the wnw " orl “ ” l ’"‘"e-owuer s sn-, Bh ;,, , e ,!icm, and that j i'' l l''i l .v as the McKinley bill can Argentine Republic are object lessons V( * r , "> 11 ' 0 " “ ,ul " t u,,d 1, 'g“ 1 u ‘" ,k ‘ r to enrich a hainlfui of silver pro- ( possibly do in twelve years? this very night Ills no task to Tdun j dtice:v, ami si liemeiv. tin* entire .'•toiith j "HK sheet anphok of free coin- show that if we ke-p our standard of TlfU kernel of free coinaoe ta-ain! '.Vest i- to !.e set back a genera- a oil money where it should be and enforce public plunder. | tion or two fro’ii lli.-ir natural and 'i’h - itock argument we hour is that PBIMA1Y BEGOUTIOliS. THE SUB COMMITTEE HAS COM PLETED THE RULES AND REGULATIONS. A Tall Issued for the Slate Conven tion—Rules Governing the Formation of flubs. age of the Bland bill by as able men iis Mr. Sherman, for instance, that therefore unlimited free coinage is safe. This is tia much as to say that because a man does not get drunk, as I predict, upon a quart of whiskey he will keep sober as a Judge after swallowing a gallon. It is like say ing the last straw will not break the atmel’s back because the commission er of labor statistics or superintend ent of the census fails to name the number of the straw that pushes the brute to the ground. A proper and simple answer to this kind of argu- njeid is to ask the advocate of finan cial chaos to name the nations of the world which, since banks have been used, letters carried by mail, the tele graph employed or express companies incorporated, have ever permanently and successfully maintained any two coins in large and general circu lation side by side, (as we have silver ami gold since, but never before, the Act. of demonetization,) ufider a sys tem permitting their free and un limited coinage. Yon will nit be overwhelmed with answers. You iflight as well fix the price of oats in this year of grace at 40 cents a bush el and of wheat at a dollar and ex pect a free and unrestricted trade in both year after year in entire disre gard of the comparative production and varying consuniptio'i of each. a smiDni but effectual bar to free coinaoe. If there are any among the rank and file of our people who cannot he reached by facts and influenced by arguments, illustration and tn^li, we can reach them as we may have to capture some few leaders, and tliat is uiion the low plane of party expedien cy. ’ Proclaim the fact with five silver in the nuiioua! Democratic platform, or a free silver bill in Congress, pass ed by Democratic votes in the House, we fininot hope to carry New Hamp shire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, or MAirylamV Democratic in 1892,and we k'*i*!I have in support of our efforts for a sound currency the powerful in fluence of "verv hesitating leader in the Democratic party of the United States. I say this localise you cannot imagine a politician of either high or low degree wbo will not realize what a had job of political matrimony it would be to divorceall the New Eng land and .Middle States in order to marry Nevada and Colorado, especial ly us it is a grave question whether either of th an wool 1 share our bed aul hoirlin 19.’. A SAFE DEMOCRATIC METHOD OF ENLARGING THE CIRCULATION. I .-'bon 11 Jiuve liked to refer at some '.•:igth to l by easy, safe and logitimuU way in which Ihe currency of the country can be increased, and ;s rapidly as it is uy.-ded for a century to con e, by sound, intelligent,.I)cn o- cratic legislatioa, m conn ".'Jiou with tire hanking sysi.ru qI! the country. 1 venture to say, huwe.ver, tlpit. tins- who predict that \yh|i q wise and safe course, a certain qnj effective one, through the extension of the banking system open before if, that the De.ioeratic pm'tv will (ravel thd sleep guwt witbi|1 thig road to ruin recommended by some who assume to speak f'oi*it (even if Unit road is made o f silver rails) will iind themselves woefuliv mistaken. With the memory of long years of on.; del ing in the g ohiier.l wildcrunt led by the ignis-fatnis of “incidental protection” and the awful blunder of our*fupsd into Greenhackisni just be hind us, the party is in no humor to drop the cause of the whole | eople in order to become the attorney of the silver ring. I cm cousc ous lhat I have already occupied too,much of your indulgent attention, and I am therefore done. The triumvirate—Irby, Pope and Jones—have concluded their lab ors at Laurens and have issued the instructions governing the primary election in the party. The instruc tions are not radically different from what was expected from the action taken at the recent meeting. The following are the chief points in the call and instructions: Thc State Democratic Executive Committee, through its chairman, J. Jj. M.Irby, calls for a convention of the party to meet in Columbia on Wednesday, May 18, to elect delegates to the National convention and also a member of the National Executive Coiiiinitfee. The representation shall be double that of the membership of the General Assembly from each county, the apportionment made by the last Legislature to be the basis. Among the instructions sent out to the county chairmen the following synopsis is made: The chairman shall call the .sub ordinate clubs to meet in their usual places on April 9 for the purpose of reorganizing and for the purpose of electing delegates to. county con ventions. These conventions will meet May 2 for the purpose of electing a new county executive committee, and to elect delegates to the State- Convention. Each club shall be entitled to one delegate for every, twenty-five members and one for each majority fraction thereof. It is pro vided, however, that two clubs shall be formed in each of thc wards of the cities of Columbia, Charleston, Greenville and Spartanburg. No club organized after the 13th day of August, 1890, formed by thedivision of an old club will be recognized. As to memliership in a club and qualification for voting, it is provided that every white man 21 years oldor who shall become so before (he elec tion and any negro who voted for General Hampton in 1870 may be come a member; and every voter shall ploilge himself to support t he nominee of the party. A negro must produce a written statement signed by ten reputable white men that he voted for Go;. lampion in 1876 and has done so continuously ever since. The other regulations provide for the opening of the polls from 8 until 4 and pro vide for the cQuhting of votes and other mutters incidental to every elec tion. A gentleman whose life had been stormy in its yesterday, and promised to he tumultuous In its tomorrow* visited a friend. Upon being shown to the guest chamber his eyes feil upon the following exquisite “Good Night,” si bountiful motto for such '^i apartment: The frog, owing to its peculiar con struction, cannot breathe with the mouth open, and would djo from suffocation if it were kept uju-n forci- W): .lack—Well, Jim, I proposed to Ml?s Summers^ last night. Jim— Did she give you her heart? No— piece of her mind. quiet room. O frieud, whoe’er thou art, Vnd let no mournful yesterdays Disturb thy peaceful heart; Nor let t miorrow scare thv rest With dreams of coming ill; I'hv Maker is thy changeless friend His love surrounds thee still. Foraet thyself with all thy woes, imt out each feverish light; The stars are watching overhead— Sleep sweet, good night. As he got into bed he felt that the angel of peace on earth and good will toward men had dropped a benedic tion upon him. Mr.Spurgeon dislikes committee*'. He says: '‘The best ‘committee in the world is a committee of three, of whom one does not attend, and ihe other is at homo sick.” Com mittees may often bo properly de scribed as institutions to make it certain that the thing proposed will not be done. bul I got was / most ^L'l iiiany combine'. 1 ., and that t He o TheF-nch Assignat iD " n . v " hl ^ « : '?i abundant. The F-nch Assignat h »• ... t hen. *lL f r wupld l.c a pm;i- «« « OOetOOfle in point, onr own Continen- j ucrwte ®^ P ri ‘ v, ' id '' v,l,a ^D fioji lo the people o’ iiiecoii.alry (li. t; tal money is another, and the rooent ' 8 ll . v rt ^ M ’ ,in 8 ,0 b r! ';‘ !t ' ‘ ^ l,v n.-.si.ihcnrlhat no mo-.v raiiiramls! and present linaniial condition ofthe wn,s '' ort 1 ld ,* ^ ^'‘uh:.!! be built ammig iheio, and that j In Britain in 1810 it took just one bushel of corn to buy one pound of nails, now one bushel of corn w ill buy One of the latest discoveries of the ' * l-n P^'ndsof nails* I ben it required ! scientists is that Ihe germs of yellow sixty-four ImMiel* ut barley to buy fever mav he conveVed from tropical ? ald td broadeloth, now the same conujries in the plumage of birds. amomit uf 1,ar,l ‘- v " i’ 1 l’ a y Evenly A Story on Senator Vaac?. IS ALL GET 'i'GGETHER. Senator Vance, of North Carolina. | Wanted, a Mail as Democratic {’au- dldate forGorernor wha was not Frominent iu the Factional Fight of ISJ10. iiiHjUestionahly thc champion story teller of the Senate, has a broad! stripe of Calvinism down his back, I though he is not a (onimiinicaut of the Cburch. It is told of him t hat. | riding along in Buncombe County one day he overtook a venerable dar-j ^ 0lm< l: -' l0 " tbat we have had key, with whom he thought he would J Ul01l ‘ <,m ' . Vt ' a1 ' °f Governor'I'ill- haie “a little fun.” “Uncle,” said the Governor, To the Editor of . j Courier: Now I he News and absolute stability in it we can never have tco little money, for theu we are We cun go a step farther mid show; certain fortune*. hecmise gold is not at a premium to- thut, deducting what is used iu the I The farmers of the United States, nigt. though predicted on the pass- In some sections of this country a yards of broadcloth. It then re quired the price of one bushel of .... . . wheat to pay for one yard of calico, (superstition exist* that when u death; 7 . , , *. , .... . . now on., ins ii- of wlii-iit wi linv “are you going to church?” “No, sab, not edzactly—Uin gwine back from church.” “You’re a Baptist, I reckon—now ain't you?” “No, sah; I ain’t no Baptist, do most of thc bmleicn and sisters about here has been under de water.” “Methodist, then?” “No, sub, 1 ain’t no Mefodis,’ nud- der.” “Camphellite?” “No, sah, I can’t errogate to myself dc Camelite way of thiukinV’ “Well, what in the mime of good ness are your” rejoined the Governor remembering the narrow range of choice in religions among North < 'nrolinai egros. “Well, de fac’ is, sah, my old marster was a llerruld of de Cross in de Pres byterian Clinch, and I was fot.ch up in der faith.” “What! You don’t mean it? Why, that is my church.” The negro making no comment on this announcement. Governor Vance went at him again: “And do you believe in all of the Pres! ivterian creed?” “Yes, sah, dat 1 does.” “Do you lielive in the doctrine of predestination?” “1 dunno dat ! recognize de name, sah.” “Why, do you believe that if a man is elected lo be saved he will be laved, and Unit if he is elecled to bt damned he will be damned?” “Oh, yes, boss, I’believe dat. It's Gospel bilk, dat is'.” “Well, now, take my ease. Do von belive that 1 am elected to be saved?” The old man struggled for a mo ment with- his desire to lie respectful and polite and then shook his head dubiously. “Come, now, answer my question,” pressed the Governor. “What do you say?” “Well, 1 tell you what 'ti:', Marse Zeli; Ise ben libin’ in dis liyaii world nigh on sixty years and 1 nehlier yit hyard of any man bein’ ’leeted doubt he was a candidate,” Prof. iSweibeer, of the Universitv of Bonn, is a very absent-minded man. He was busily engaged in solving some scientific pro'.l an. The servant hastily opened the door of his study and announced a great family event, “A little stranger has arrived.” “Eh;” “It is a little boy.” “liitle l.oy; will, ask bin, whet hovrai'ls.” I he I'Vbruary i'eter. o:i is one of Ihe handsouiest aiul best of the month's magazines. It opens with a sliow y faslijon plate end fine full page engravings, one of which “The Be lated Valentine” illustrates a very beautiful poem by Minim Irving. “Up and Down East Anglia” bv Bo lyn K. Brooke is an interesting, account of English Norfolk and •'Suffolk with a series of excellent il lustrations. “An liivoluiitary Elope ment” by Carrie B. Morgan is a dramatic story of western life effec tively illustrated. Another capital ly illustrated paper is “The Children's Fancy 1 tress Party” which gives clear directions for making the costumes at a small cost. “His M'istake” by Kate Wallace Clements is a charm ing story. “The confusion of Philo sophy” will add to Alice Maude Ewell’s rapidly growing reputation. “Folk Lore of Colored People” by Mrs. E. A. Matthews is a very charm ing paper. The remainder of the cintents are in keeping with the arti cles we have mentioned, and the whole get up of the number would do credit to a periodical double the price. Terms two dollars a year. Ad- | dress, Peterson’s Magazine, 306 Chest nut Street, Philadelphia. Forty five thousand dollars in cash, secret *d by Thomas H iggs, a farmer, v bo died near Decatur, HI, last week, has been found iu the house. man and his administration, and the most of us who took a very prominent part in electing him are satisfied that lie as a < lovcrnor is a failure and we should have a change, it, is get ting time to be easting about for a leader. All good Democrats should be anxious (and doall in their power) to once more unite our party; and to that end we should bury all differ- eimes, forgetting the past and look ing only to the future and the best welfare of our Stale. It would l)c best if we leave out the leaders of both elements Unit caused so much bitter feeling in the laid campaign—Tillman, Shell & Co. on the one side, and Haskell, Barn well, Lurie ft Co. on the other—and take such men as Judge Wallace, J. C. Maxwell, James L. On-, Gen. Kennedy, (i-iy old colonel and briga dier general during the war,) J. C. Sheppard, J. .1. Hemphill and Gen. McCnulv. Thy State is vet full of g‘-)°‘i men that wo can all uniti- upon. Let us iK-gin in time lo pa-.e die way lor a heller feeling among our I’arly, and let the conservative ele ment of both factions determine that they will unite and not allow them selves to Ir! torn asunder by rash uicu. ! o this end let good men all over the Stale speak out with no un certain sound tlml tlii-ye.-icshall not sec us arrayed hioiher. against broth er, father again-*! ..on, !e’< 1>!in - each others hloou. i bat a few givedv politi cians may get into ullke. I for on'- can forgive and for get all Unit wan- said or done on (he other side except A. C. Haskell voting for Ihai Radi cal, Lnsor jor Congress. I hope the good Lord will forgive him, 'mt I cannot. We look for sm-h papers as The New s and Courier, Green- vide News and others to h:-ip in this good work. 'I’he'Sraff is yet to> hitter, but hope it willvoo] off and do good work in !Le cause. L. M. .Moore. Gieeiiwood, Jamiarv IS, 1,s*i-4. . A H erd to ( roakors. Tite Cornueoj.ia. of Norfolk, Va., read the following forcible lecture to the croakers which arc found in Virginia, and ns tin- si.nie bilious ■ inmi-is are found re now one bushel of wheat will buy ' twenty yards of calico. cceurs in *. house the mirrows in the different rooms must Ik 1 carefully eovereu until after Ihe funeral, lest When a man .-peaks the truth you the face uf the corpse be photograph-' may count pretty surely that he pos ed iu the glass. tosses most other virtues We should always extend a helping hand to the man who is trying to The Knight’s of La.an of come up from the gutter, provided Worlji, Texas, report that in he doesn’t bring thc gutter up with city over 5t) per cent, of the wori him. people are out of employment. every w here v, rodueo ii for their benefit. •SjK-ak well of your own sectio of com.try. If you can’t do so, bel t<i- sell out am! go somowhre el si i’here is no law compelling a man I stay in Virginia if he wants to . elsewhere. M'e have a few pc-opi who eonnot ojii-n their mouth hut and fault with everything wifhi reiic h of their tongues. Thev spen tin -'g much time in croaking 'Ji.‘ >--liiiul hand will) their woi rhev are behind hand wilh th inai'Keiiug, and behind ‘hey get t end prince and then run dow n evei hody and evei-ything. Let, astran' |>a.-.s along our streets and approa- man for iuform.itioii. The :n appro:v--lu-il is aliont as apt, p* -•own t lie cut ire .-‘eel ion, ;):.••,)))!•.* a. til. as he i- to speak well, it is easy to lay one's sins, fa.-d'.s, a ones failures off on to the count! seeing that the country can’t ta! hack If one could only go “belli the croaker’s returns’’and see In he managed his work, then tin would he uo had results from t eroaker’s feelings. A short time since visitors in o office stated that i;* one shor: m through the city they calk'd up three or four men for informal: and that each one of the Ihreega the country a “black eye” and t .strangers were about rcadv to ivt-- home again thoronghly di-gu-ied. The fact is, the croaker, the arm bier and the growler is n I vans in t way, like a sore thmiih. The si cossful man is at home attending his work, hut the croaker alwn holis uj) in time to say a bail woi to convey-a wrong influence; or cast, a sort of eclipse over ilfing sucli people would only w;:-l* Ih • -R-ives (K-casionally, (ak; a d -se [)ills, and lake exereise enough that their Mood would circulute ai fiHid digest, they would feel both act better and talk better, *