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. Tes. 'tis thj beauteous face',
So calmly pare ?nd trae,
With thought's majestic grace
Upon the queenly brow.
*Tts well the solar light
Should touch, enfold and kiss ;
Scarce Phoebus' pencil bright
Equals a.task like this.
Ab, where the varying play,
^ 'Lon^fancies'Jtar-Ht sky^, -
^0t (jeni os5 Iwngray,^ '< g
^T&nec?ed in the .fimf?d eyeY~*
fWhose^feel i ogs softened iBame
' *-?ly heart lias leaped'to see,
As frony the soul it ernie,
" Token of immortality ?
Artist, to-the task once more, .,.
Thy work is not complete
Go search the heavenly shore,
?> - - And walk the golden street ;
Gather the beams of light
Glancing on crystal sea;
Weare them, a garland bright
Foy brow of troth and purity.
- Go catch an ao?ePs-smi!e,
And halo, it ah unstained.
. ^ To rest without touch -or guile,
' On'lips thy skill restrained.
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Thy work, but half-way done.
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Pan:. Play for the P?rmers.
Eeply of BBpresentative Tindal
to Senator Youmans.
j^y y fc. ? - ?? -? - p K -. .
To^^??^or^^tj^News^?n^ Cen,
rier :-Tue- comaum i cati on of Senator
?iiimao8'io^ t6V xNeics; and ij??r?er of
February? 16th,' (Week iy) opens up
very candidly to. the people of th ?State
the; f eel i ugs and motives which prompt
ed tits action ia, the Senate on toe ag?
ricultural bills. . I Sud that ? might,
peri* a ps, bave secured a h cari u g fr o tn
the Senator bad I not been accidentally
tttade president, of the . Farnier?
ventioo, and ruigbt even bave secured
bunas ah ally ia a cause, the progress
of ag rica! tu re to the State, wbicb I
have tunca . at heart, if it were not au
un pardonable offence to preside over
such a body. But though ? neeed not
hope to get a fair heariog from tbe
Senator, 1 desire to refer to some of
bis s tate m eu ts concerning myself, for
the information of others who may not
have conceived so ill an opinion of the
three "hundred farmers who composed
the convention.
Referring to tue bili to re-organize
the board of agriculture the Senator
says : ' ~I app: oacbed Mr. Tindal to
ascertain what waa sought to be accom?
plished. . When , informed to increase
the board and bri o g it closer to the peo*
pie, \ proposed if be would modify it
so as to increase by the election, at the
then session;, of one /each from the five
un represented" Congressional ^Districts,
&c.. 1-w.ould-amtej wub him to. secare
the :passVgc of rfre bill, but he positive?
ly declined.' The fact is. I had made
earnest efforts to get an agreement with
tbe Senator before this bill was intro?
duced. lt was too late to change it
again' without danger of getting it too
low on the already long calendar of the
House. It was agreed ap ?n, and the
Senator, if at ail sincere, could amend
tn the Senate. There was unibing to
hinder birnie-. They were alt assured
that no reflection ou anybody need be
inferred, nor could they lose anything,
for the members of the board are uoc
salaried officers iSo reflection was
made on them because thc object of the
measure ?as to change in part the work
of athe board, and the commissioner
who is a salaried officer, was retained
by the bill until his term expired.
Senator You mans says again : 41
further proposed to Mr. Tindal if it was
the real interest of the farmer* he was
seeking, to introduce a joint resolution
requiring the State Treasurer to refund
to the department of agriculture all |
moneys arising from the line?se tax,
which bad been expended for general
State purposes, to be applied by the
board of agriculture for the benefit
of the farmers npon experimental sta?
tions. I ?eoD;found, however, that in?
stead of advancing the real interest of
the (?r?a>^&c. po3 i? : ti 'C
I had already asked and received an
appropriation from the State Treasurer
of $1.000 4to be applied by the board
of agriculture for the'benefit of farmers
upon experimental stations/ If Seua
tor.Youmaos wanted more why did be
not introduce tbe r?solution himself. I
did not prevent him. And if be con'
eluded that I was not seeking the inter?
est of the farmer? because I did not, at
hi? Migges?oo, introduce a resolution to
have refunded *a liceoec tax' about
which I was not pouted, what munt the
Senator have thought of himself for
not introducing it
The Senator conjures up ghostly
evils from wbnt I said about the agri?
cultural bill, viz : that it was intended
t?> bring together once a year under
their board of agriculture representa?
tives, not only of the Grange and
State Agricultural Society, but of all
county societies, indeed, from the whole
State, to draw inspiration from their
board and to discuss the problems of
our agriculture. This bas been doue
fur forty years in Ohio, with acknowi
edged benefit to that State. If we in
South Carolina would improve our agri
cu!?ur-, what mater ai must we work
with if not farmers? Who must be. or
are intended to be, enlightened by
boards of agriculture stations, agricul- |
toral journals, or colleges, if not far- j
mers ? For whose instruction have the
most advanced States and nations es?
tablished such institutions, if not for
the instruction of their farmers? But
Senator Yeomans bas divided the far?
mers into two classes, the respectable j
and the non-respectable! He claims
that be 'voices tbe sentiment of the
respectable farmers '
Wben we look to see whose sentiments
he did voice, we are forced to conclude
that the six Senators who voted against '
the agricultural bills are the respectable J
farmers ; while the other six Senators, I
the members of the house and the :
thousands whose sentiments are voiced '
io that memorial are not respectable, ;
and should on no account be trusted to '
assemble annually with a board of agri?
culture, though that board should be
compoaed of men like Johnson Hagood.
D. P. Duncan, D?. K. Norris, Bivers,
Jotaitoo, Ti Hmso tod others' Wei
have DO primogeniture laws, or a
privileged political classes io this coo
try, and hence ? shall not discuss t
question of 'respectability ' We son
times meet with people ?bo are mc
respectable in their own estimation th
io the estimation of their ueighboi
bat Whelher they or their neighbors a
right, oar laws, so far as I know,
not determine*
The Sefiator is severe on Mr. Ti!
man fot Venturing to say anythii
against the Government, and is sns{
cious of anyone, who may agree wi
any of his .views of public measure
though be never said aught against t!
Government. Has the Senator sa
anything against the Government ?
quote from his article for his consid
ration : 4The fact is, the Governmen
so far from being mindful of the publ
-weai.,-b*ev proceas-of-wet narsio]
undermined the t self-reliance ai
dwarfed the manhood and independent
of the people.' Again : !The peop
bave been debauched io their finaoci
integrity and beguiled into extrav:
ganee; tbriftlessnesa and dependence
What a graphic picture I Wicked ai
imbecile rolers I wretched and degrade
people! How could the Senator," wii
such convictions, tolerate such a G01
^erjim'ent.',^ " _. .
Senator Yoemans -attributes ?tJre,*ui
sa^srrorory T?suitrcVf farming' to rodi
lenee, extravagance and thriftlessness
? have never been in bis county, an
cannot speak for his people, but so fa;
as my observation extends, no peoph
either at the North or in Europe, hai
performed more beroio labor for te
years than the majority of oar farmers
The reward has not been satisfactorj
They appeal to the intelligence of th
State to solve the problem. The mo;
hopeful signs of these times, in m
humble opinion, is the uutnistakabl
evidence of a conclusion reached b
the majority bf our farmers, that ski
in fanni og is as necessary as skill ?
any otheF (business, ihit'-sc?ence is
fact, uol a" ITum'Bug. that \i~ has upse
and revolutionized old methods io ever
other business, and mast inevitabt
upset and revolutionize old methods ii
agriculture Henee they say to tb
Government 'just lighten our weight
the taxes--a TH bold out the lamp
Give us light and we will enter a rac
for eoergy with any people in th
world.'
Any fair-minded man who has watch
ed the 'Farmers' move me ot, as it i
called, will admit that 'agricultura
education and reform' is all that ha
ever been demanded by the farmers
None bas ever asked to be fed, and nt
one bas ever thought of such a thing
except those who have the public teat
and were afraid that a reduction of offi
ces and .generaj., reform,, would -?bak<
them loose. ? -W&eneeca menthe genera
awakening" 'of" ?K?tight lu "the State!
What caused us to realise that, with i
less population than the city of Nea
York. Si-ith Carolina, torn by lh<
winds, washed by'the floods and shaket
by earthquakes, exacted over $1,700.
000 taxes from an impoverished people '
How came it about that from Senatoi
Butler aud Governors Hagood anti
Sheppard? down to the humblest citizen,
one could hear suggest ona as to ho?
reforms could and oogbt to be effected"
What began to teach us that the county
governments.are more expensive that
necessary.. that rich n?en should paj
their tuition in the college, that rich
lunatics Bhonfd pay their '"keep' in the
asylum, that the ineome of the peniten?
tiary might be increased, that the trial
justice system was imperfect? What
awakened the people from a hopeless
dead lethargy to realize their public
dunes and responsibilities? Those who
hold, or hope to hold, the public offices,
clouded by their fears, could not see
that reform meant anght save the re?
daction of salaries in Columbia. Ac?
customed to regard the people as mere
ignorant voting machines, they conjured
up ail kinds of evil and feared the
dynamiters would blow up the State !
Aud so those who plant themselves in
the way of "the people who seek agrfeul
tural light and advancement cannot
realize that earnestness, sincerity and
truth exists outside of themselves.
J. E. TINDAL.
Packsville. S. C , February 26. 87
Col. Youmaos' Reply to Capt
Tillman ~
To the Editor of the the News anti
Courier: lu my article of the 8th,
1 pictured in their own paint several
ol the fault Buders with the conserv?
ative course of the Senate during it?
last session, who, when held up to
their own and the observation of the
public, were so shocked to see them?
selves as other peonle saw them that
they Nought sheltei by attempting to
convince the public that their short?
comings WMte nothing but my abuse.
Strange mode of abu*** this, merely to
cull from one'? own words and ex?
pressions! Save through the goner
??us exercise of the advantage of a
few gallant and impartial head lines,
Capt. Tillman has thus far been the
(?illy one to reply lie says that 'there
is au old saying that it is the d??g win?
is hit that howls,' and 'only the truth
hurts.' If Capt. Tillman is correct,
then must not this be the reason wh\'
'his dislike to trespass any more on
the patience of your readers is over?
come by the necessity ?if replying to
the letter of Col L W. Youmans?"
He evidences the vitality of his move?
ment by calling attention to the 'com?
munications which have from time to
time appeared in your columns 1 This
citation only proves, perhaps, that
Tillman dictation and the sweet as?
surances of getting in on the home
st re tch may be more potent in certain
quarters than, it is believed by one
of your correspondents, will be his
letters to prominent followers in Ches?
ter, urging them to criticise and con?
demn Senator Patterson for not
voting to turn out the present board
of agriculture merely to allow . apt.
Tillman and his crew a chance to get
into the public cheese and become
tax-eaters. Capt. Tillman raised the
cry of catch thief against the present
board and then nominated himself for
one of their successors ; but the post?
ponement by the Senate of the bill to
reorganize the board, to use his own
expression, will compel him to cater?
waul on the outside for at least one
year more before bs become* a tax
eater, however severe and distaste
ful it may be to a poor farmer wli
has to stint. Ile will not like lb
starling cry, 'I can't get out! I can
get out!' But, like tbe disappoiute
office-seeker, 41 can't get in ! I can
get in J* Capt. Tillman became 8
frantic on the warpath that, in hi
desire to take my scalp, he first said
had poured perth a regular broadsid
of misstatements, and afterwards d(
fended himself by admitting near!
all of them. At least he only pus
tivelr denied the truth of one, an
afterwards, admitted in substance th
correctness of that statement, 'that h
was self-confessedJy a miserable fal
ure in the management of his ow
farm.' He intimates that I had
great deal of brass, and that my hea'i
was addled by the commissioner*
good liquor, because I considered'hi
charges against the commissioner am
board of agriculture 'reckless and fal
lacious.* And supposing that lie wa
as large in the eyes of every one'els
as he is in his own, he intimates tba
in speaking of the disciples of Henr
George I could not possibly have rel
ereuce to any one else but.himself
One who is so modest as to assunr
the championship of the rights am
interests of three-fourths of our citi
zens, and to caution our United State
Senators th:?t they must study in tin
'Tillman catechism* if they desire ti
ho'd their seats, should not be si
ignorant. Had Capt. Tillman beei
at all posted on the current topics o
the day, he would have known that h<
was not the man who said he agree?
with Henry George as far as he cooli
in his defence of the masses agains
the classes As to my ?tatemen
(which he positively denies) 'that In
is self-confessed ly a miserable failuri
in the management of bis own farm,
I shall draw tbe recordoti.b'm
Capt. Tillman's letter, February 2
1887 : 'But there is nothing bu
cheek, brazen and unblushing, in hit
further-assertion that I am self con
fessedly a misera^leTailure iu UM
management of my-owu farm. I hav<
never made any such confession, anc
have only said I did not feel cornpe
tent to teach others, and that aftei
seventeen years' hard study I did no
know how to farm.*
Capt. Tillman's speech, April 29
1886: 4These farmeis cry in pitifu
churns, 'We can't get out! we can't
get outl' I have been in that Basti h
myself. I have felt the waters rising
higher and higher, and looked for
ward without hope as failure aftei
failure in -the cotton crop left nothing
willi which to even pay interest. J
had to sell some land. 1 claim no in
spiratiou but common sense, and that
has been burnt into me by getting ir
debt, reuting to negroes, and making
cotton on bought food for horses anc
hands. I strll do not 'kcow how tc
farm.'
'Oh, what a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive.'
Will the Captain still deny his co?
fessiou of failure ? If so, then wht
or what was it that did fail ? Was il
the Government ot the board of agri
culture, or thc Senate'/ Or was il
the extravagant, imbecile and incom?
petent cotton crop, that clouded ilseli
in cuttle fish dye and would not grow,
regardless of the fact that the pooi
farmer had to stint and could uol
even pay interest? I appeal to the
reason of the public if a mai: whose
cotton crop failed year after year so
that he could not even pay interest
and does not yet know how to farm
should be placed wu the State board
of agriculture ?
Is such a man a proper personage
to commission to travel in other
States without limit as to the expen?
diture of public funds to investigate
the practical operations of agricultu?
ral colleges? The Bible tells us that
he who ivas faithful over a few things
was made Toter over many ; but
neither Holy Writ nor even reason
or common sense tells us that a man
who has failed in the management of
his own planting and does not know
how' to farm, should be placed over
the agricultural interest of the State.
Confessing the beam in his own eye,
he attacks the mote in the eye of the
Government, and playing 'leap frog'
over his own admissions of extrava?
gance and incompetence repeatedly
pr?f?re the same charges against the
board of agriculture. Lei us investi?
gate the operations of tins board and
ascertain whether my brass and the
commissioner's good liquor have most
disqualified me, or his signal success
as a farmer has best qualified him to
sit in judgment on the merits of the
board. (Just here, as au act of sim?
ple justice to Col. Butler, let me 6ay
that 1 neither drank any of his liquor
nor did 1 lake a drink with him dur
i i.g my stay in Columbia.)
The board ol agriculture comprises
a membership ol five. One of these
positions was filled for two years by
G? ? vernor Hago? ?d, and four years by
Governor Thompson. Charges of the
nature preferred by (/apt. Tillman will
not hold good against this ii Uh of the
board in the eyes of the public. Col.
J. N Lipscomb, for four years secre?
tary of stale and master of the State
Grange, is another member of the
hoard. Who are the b?-st judges of
Col. Lipscomb's fitness for office, the
people of South Carolina, who luve
twice endorsed him for thc responsi?
ble position of Secretary of State, and
the farmers who have un i n te ri iipt
edly chosen him for the chief of their
Order, or those who are miserable
fail tl'es in their own avocation ? A
third membership bas been filled by
Col D. P. Duncan I can point to
no more conclusive evidence of his
fitness and capacity foi the position
than the fact that he bas been repeat?
edly chosen by the most progressive
and intelligent fanners and mechanics
for president of the Agricultural and
Mechanical Society of the State. W.
D. Johnson, a large and successful
planter, who was a chancellor under
the old regime, is a fourth member,
and Mr. A S. J. Perry, a merchant,
is the fifth and last member of the
board.
To Mr. Perry's enetg}' and enter?
prise the Slate is indebted to a la>ge
extent for baaing the estimate of tl?
royalty paid by the Coosaw Company
on crude rock iu-tead of dried rock,
a measure winch resulted* FD fbi
covery of $4,983.46 for the State
ari annual increase in its revenu
$5,000. The operations^ the bc
of agi ic ult ure was mad?TJU objec
scrutiny by the economic caucu
the Legislature in December, 1*
which was so microscopic in its id
of retrenchment as to be dub
'three for a quarter/ .This invest
lion was conducted by Represe
live Pope, the recognized leadei
the economic wing of the House, ;
for the information of the public, i
that a certain party may be stn
with another 'realization of his o
I errors and the errors of those arm
I him/ I will quote a synopsis of
I report as.given by the News and C
rier December 3, 1885 :
'Mr. Pope presented an elaboT
statistical report, folly endorsing
bureau of agriculture and stating t
any interference with tlie bureau
this time would be unwise and ii
dicious. ? long discussion follow
Everybody endorsed the burea
Stimulated, no doubt, by tlie cr
cisms of Capt Tillman, to the efl
that the board of agriculture v
spending lots of money in lawye
fees, when we had an attorney g
eral with a big salary to attend
such matters, Mr. G W. Shell,
Laurens, introduced a resolution
the April Convention, which the Ne
and Courier considered 'Capt. T
man's Convention all the w
through/ appointing a committee
three to investigate the charges.
Messrs. Shell, Dargan and Da1
were appointed on the committee
obtain tlie desired information. T
committee, by way of a report,
troduced Col. L A. Ransom, w
would explain the matter fully to t
Convention. At tlie close of Cj
Ransom's statement, which the (
tumb?a correspondent of the Ne'
and Courier said was very clear a
explicit, 'Senator Talbert moved th
the report of the agricultural bure
be received as entirely satisfactc
to this Convention. Mr. Darg
moved to amend by returning ti
thanks of the Convention to Mr. RH
som for his plain and explicit stat
meut. He was glad to see that t
bureau had the judgment to reta
in its service so level-headed an ol
cer. Adopted amidst applause.'
lu view of charges of extravagan
and maladministration against . tl
State Government, specifically mai
by Capt. Tillman^ Mr. Prince
Anderson ?utroduq?fed in the san
Convention a resolution providii
for a committee of ten to examine ll
books and offices of the several Sta
departments. This resolution wt
referred to the committee on resol
tiona, and was; reported back wil
tiie following comment bj the * ea
committee : VThe committee'on ruh
and resolutions beg leave to repo
that they have carefully consider?:
the resolution submitted by M
Prince in reference to the appoin
ment of a committee to investiga!
and report in reference to State of
cers, and reflections on said officer,
for extravagance and raal-adruinistr;
tion, and we are satisfied that sai
report or reports are unfounded an
un warranted, and we respectful)
recommend the said committee b
not appointed. The report of th
committee was adopted without d?
sent, thus tabliug the resolution
We thus see my brass endorsed an
Capt Tillman's charges refuted ami
applause and by the unanimous voie
of his owu Convention.
Capt. Tillman says I have faile
to point out in what way the farm
era are benefitted by the board o
agriculture, and do not show wher
the $170,000 they have spent ha
gene, and cannot show any ad?quat
results of its expenditure. 1 ha
just replied to Capt. Tillman in tin
language of his own Convention,
will now reply to him in his owj
language. In section *8' of a setiet
of resolutions introduced into tin
April Convention and known as tin
Tillman resolutions, he styles tnt
doubling of the license tax on ferti
lizers, which would make the taj
fifty cents instead of twenty five, a.
it is now, a small, indirect tax ot
guanos, which farmers will willingly
pay to be guaranteed against fraud.
The board of agriculture is giving
that very guaranty to the farmers
to-day, at twenty five cents per ton.
It would require a very advanced
logician, 1 think, to put any other
construction on this language ol
Capt. Tillman than that the board is
rendering a service to the fanners
for half the price Capt Tillman says
they are willing to pay. The servi?
ces of the board, however, are nut
conGned to this particular, but among
the ,benefits which the farmers
share in common as citizens, result?
ing from the expenditure of this
S 170,000, may be enumerated the
following: First. The purchase, on
behalf of the State, of Agricultural
Hall, the Int upon which it is situa?
ted, and its equipments, including
ils chemical laboratory, &e,, valued
at $35.000. Second. The change in
the manner of assesing the royally
I paid by the Coosaw Company, re?
sulting, as I have previously men
i tinned in the recovering of $4.9s3.
46 and an annual increase of the
public income of $5,000 Th? esl??
mate of lire amount to date derived
?B the results of lin's enterprise on
the part of thc board would he in
round numbers about ?20,000.
Third. The inauguration and con- !
i duct of litigation which has resulted j
I in lire recovery in our Courts ol" j
5,000 acres of land in the heart of ?
th? phosphate territory, valued at j
i $50,000, and the recovery of a jndg- j
! ment against the Pacific Guano Corn- >
! pany for past due royally of $53,'
I 570 48. Fourth Under the auspices ?
of the present board the royally paid !
the State during the seven years oi l
its supervision has been increased j
ff om $340,746 the aggregate paid j
for the seven years just previous to
the establishment of the department
of agriculture, to $080,5(59, an in-j
crease of ?639,829 in favor nf the j
present board, and collected without ?
; any expense whatever to the public .
treasury. Fifth. I will merely allude
: to its conduct of the public interest1
in fish and fisheries : to its a tte rap
to encourage immigration; to ti
magnificent handbook which it hi
compiled, printed arid distribute*
setting forth the advantages, r
sources, &c, of the'State ; to its se
vices at the different expositions ; 1
its experiments, its correspondent
publication and distribution of sect
The work'of this department h*
been fully commensurate whir whs
might liave been expected from tit
distinguished men who have condtxc
ed it. Capt. Tillman and his allie
have proposed Governor Ilagood an
Col. Duncan for members of the nei
board, and Chancellor Johnston wa
selected by them as a member c
the travelling committee to invest
gate agricultural colleges in otfre
States. Thus we see them endorsin,
three of the members of this v?r
board which (hey charge with extra*
agance and incompetence ^ They di
nounce Prof..TSfciDrya*e*s experimer
tal farm fir Columbia as a farce, an
with their usual consistency, some c
them are urging him for director c
those provided for by the Legislator
at its last session. Capt. Tillman think
the Legislature should have been gov
erned on ail agricultural question
by his Convections. During bi
November Convention there wer
several thousand farmers in Coluir
bia, notwithstanding which fact, th
attendance on Ins. Couyeution wa
very slim. Capt. Tillman acknow,
edging himself to be the only repr*
sehlative from his Congressional dis
trict, who represented the farmers
the few who were in his Convention
or the several thousand who wer
present and took no notice of it.
As to the sins of the Senate, tha
body passed the experimental statioi
bill, the bill to tax cotton seed mea
and the bill'to repeal (fie lien law
three measures recommended by Capt
T?HmauV Convention and merell
postponed action on the bill lo re
organize the department ofagricul
ture until the next session. Thus w<
see the Senate really rejected lion*
of their proposed measures^ wbil
tlie House passed two of their bills
the exp?rimental station bill aud tin
bill to reorganize the department o
agriculture. lt rejected three o
their measures outright-the joni
resolution calling a Constitutions
Convention, the bill to lax cottoi
seed meal, and the bill to repeal thi
lien law Under these circumstance
the question might be asked witl
propriety .which Of these two bodiei
conformed most to the requirement
of Capt. Tillman and his followers
the 'Farmer House' or the 'Sinfu
Senate.'.
I can only account for the silence
with which they haye treated th<
slaughter of their pet measures ii
the [louse, and the 'hu? and cry
they have raised over the mere post
portement 'ofone of their measures bj
the Senate, upon the ground that tin
measure postponed was the only om
which opened up an avenue lo tin
position of 'tax-eater.'
. Mr. Tillman asks if I have forgot
ten that some years . ago both the
Agricultural Society and the Stat?
Grange passed resolutions urging the
Legislature to abolish, the lien law
which, according to Capt. Tillman,
is my 'pet aversion' and his 'damnable
lien law,' aud explained the. non
conformity of the Legislature to thi?
requirement of the two organizations
in the following language : 'Had
either or both of these organizations
represented any considerable con?
tingent of. our agricultural popula?
tion ; had there been . fewer politi?
cians among them aud more real
honest farmers, there would have
been more heed paid to their wishes.
Between the caprice of fortune, the
'Farmer House' and the 'Sinful Sen?
ate.' the recommendations of Capt.
Tillman's Conventions were shown
very little quarter. Perhaps by strik?
ing .out the word 'organizations'and
inserting in lieu thereof the word
'Convention' the Captain can find a
solution of his trouble very nearly in
his own language.
The Scriptures tell us that when
the blind lead the blind both fall in
the ditch. How, then, can a man
who does not know how to farm lead
the farmers of the State ? Should
some of Capt. Tillman's propositions
be adopted, the farmers would soon
pray to be delivered from their
friends. I allude to the doubling of the
royalty on river rock and the license
tax-measures-which would ultimate?
ly result in "tlie increase of ibe tax
exclusively paid by farmers from
$25,000 to $150,000, which, as. an
indirect tax, Capt. Tillman says, the
farmers would have to pay. So far
as it alludes to the license tax, though,
they would not feel it, as they would
a direct tax. Quite a compliment
that, to the fraternity, which com
pares us to foolish children, who
would riot feel the wounds unless
they saw the b'.ood. In conclusion,!
the farmers have but two grounds? of
complaint against the Legislature :
The application of the license tax ex?
clusively paid by fanners to general
Slate pin poses, and that on cotton
and provisions in the hands of farm?
ers. These two grievances. 1 have
no doubt the Legislature will correct
at its next session.
L W. VOUMAKS.
Sanders, S. G , March 1, 1SS7.
Sacrificing the Urchin for the
Collegian.
There is great, if not excessive in?
terest iii higher education by the
State. And this, 1 have thought, is
al the expense of the common schools.
There are large appropriations to the
college or university tor the support
of expensive Faculties and to provide
the largest facilities, while the ele?
mentary schools are few in number,
ure opened for only four months in
the year, and often taught by incom?
petent and poorly paid teachers.
There tho 'three R's' are being neg?
lected for the 'ologies'-the urchin
sacrificed RVr the collegian. It might
be profitable for local statesmen to in?
quire how long the college can live
without the common school-where
tlie university will find recruits when
the academy closes its doors?-Biak
.Galloway in New Orleans Advocate:
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Our State Contemporaries.
Old New* io Abbettle,
Abbeville Jffedium,
The newspapers of this State seem to
be greatly astonished at "the recent der
cisi?n bf the Supreme Court confining
the trial of petit larceny c?sea io the
court of general sessions. It is an old
piece of knowledge ?n ihiscoontv. Not
only the lawyers but the deport told
this view far back' as 1882. Io that
year Dr. F. F. Gary, who was a mem?
ber pf the .House of Representatives,
introduceo* a bill fixing the penalty for
petit larceny s??sMO bring it within
the jurisdiction- of trial ! justices. Hoo
\V. H. Parker of this county was the
only member cf the Judiciary Com?
mittee who took the ?ame view and
consequently tbe majority of toe com*
m it fee made au adverse report and the
bill was lost.
.Why not-I wheo the citizens of Ab?
beville bave such a controlling power
in the State government. One Asso?
ciate Justice' of Sopreme Court, ?ne
Judge, now a Congressman, two mem?
bers of the present State Government?
and how many other positions of trust
and responsibility, citizens from that
county bold, we know not. That coun?
ty ought to be well posted on matters
judicial and- executive.
Greenville Nevi. r . * -v!
The Coln m bia Register of the 9th
gives its editorials,J^oiUJ^JiO^a com?
munication on the cooditiou of the lar?
mer and the cause.. It says that cotton
planting is doomed and the chief cause
is the vast credit system now used to
make a crop. -Tim w riter farther says
that the farmers should. plant a half
crop of cotton and thereby strengthen,
the market. The arguments are very
good but experience has shown and
will show again tb-at the reducing of the
cotton crop, is ? impossible. Suppose
that every farmer, this year, was to
only plant half the Und usually pot in
cotton and next fall the price was to go
to 15 or 16 cents Vpr?und. The fol
lowing year every acre that could be plso
ted would be put in cotton, and the condi?
tion of the country would be equally as
bad if not worse. It is very easy to draw
pictures on paper,, and art is sometimes
acknowledged prettier than nature, bot
with-the farmers the only way to get
them out of the financial sea of cr?dit
and bankruptcy Ls the way of exp?rience
and education.. Cotton will always be
the money crop of this State and every?
body knows it, bot where the farmers
lack education is learning to live at
home.
It bas often been demonstrated that
cotton eau be raised at a profit at 9
cents a pound, but to do this-the farmer
must raise bis own supplies and provis?
ions. It is the vast porch ases of bacon,
corn and forage that is gradually bot
surely eating away the farmer's all-his
land Cotton st eight and nine cents
a pound cannot make profit enough to
buy everything that is needed on
farm 'When the farmers"' study their
business and calculate the same as other
professions they will be independent
and prosper?os.
Wc agree with the paragraph in the
communication that 'the tariff tod
State taxation have, in a sense, nothing
to do with the desperate condition of
things.' In a sense this, is a fact, bot
wc believe if .the tariff was removed'
that regaining the groa od lost would be
easier sod more rapid Let the farmer
live at home and proeperity will dawn.
A Good Fellow to Bounce.
. Orangtburg Times and Democrat.
We have noticed, time and again,
complaints made through the Netcs end
Couritr against Sandy Keitt, formerly
of this place, and now a deputy .under
United States Marshal Boy kin. Keitt,
during the days of Radicalism, waa'
pliant tool of the worst' oren in that
party, and during tbe memorable cam'
paigns of 1876 aud 1878 was a fire ba sd
among the ignorant , negroes> of this
county, and came near precipitating a
riot on our streets between the ' whites
and blacks during the election of one
of those years. Marshal Boykin is
well aware of all these facts, and yet,
strati ge to say, keeps Keitt io position,
is ibis his idea of civil service reform r
If so, he had better look op the law on
the subject.
The fact that this blatant Radical
bully of 1876 is holding an office under
a Democratic official in South Carolina
is a standing reproach to that official
and he should lose no time in cleansing
bis skirts by dismissing this objection?
able partisao. if Mr. Boykin wants the
full facts io Keitt's case they will be
cheerfully furnished by our people,
who koow him and his past record well,
and. after getting them. Boykin should
either turn the rascal ont or get oat
himself, as the retention in office of
such a notorious character as Keitt is
conclusive proof that Mr Boykin.is not
the proper man to fill so important ad
office as he holds under a Democratic
Administration.
Diligence in Business
Abbeville Medium..
We have made some observations j
upon what kind of plows and hoes to j
use in making a Crop Selecting the
proper kind of implements however is
no: the only thing of importance in
farming. As in a battle the excellence
of a musket depends to a great extent
upon what kind of a man is behind it,
so in farming the plow and hoe couots.
according to who handles them. El?
bow grease cuts a great figure and sac
cess depends to a great extent upon
how soon work begins in the day and
how long one stays to dinner and when
he knocks off. lt is folly to expect a
crop if you wait until the dew is off
the grass and the sun is high in the
heavens before you get to work.
Neither will it do to loonge around the
bouse for two or three boura at dinner
time when work is pressing. And it
is equally foolish to knock off an hour
before sunset. Farming is one thing ?
that must be done with all your might.
Coming to town on.; pleasure, attending
big meetings and . picnics in all direc?
tions, is the basy:. seasons- will be as
dinugiog ta waut of work. All socb
thing* cause s loss of time, and Hi m o
is money' if properly used.
The waot of success which attends
the, Jatafl_jo.iL many., of ..oar farmer
may be attributed to these very things.
It ra trre- looking? baot after ta king: tb?
plowhandle** that brings to naught so
much labor and roil. Bot ft seems of
no avail to speak of these thing*. Ad?
vice is easy to give and /goes io at one
ear to come, ont at the other/ The
same old ruts are followed and at the
end of the year the average farmer
fiod? himself to ss bad condition as at
the beginoing. Dil ige nee io business
is tbe remedy.
A Pint of Pindersv
Barnwell ? People.
Pink. Stokes, .colored? was carried be*
fore Justice Patterson last week charged
with stealing? pint of pradera -of the
valuei of fi*e eeots. . After prei rm "mary
examination be was bound over foe
trial at the Court .of Sessions. Tba
cost of the Justice and constable amount?
ed to six dollar* ?nd forty cents. His
trial in tba nigh court ? will cost about
fifteen dollars an boor. Sb tbe county
will have to pay thirty or more dollars
for PiokY punters. If bond bsd not
been grren rt wonld bare bad to foot
his board bill until the trial also at 30
cents a day. Under the recent decis?
ion of the Supreme Court,. published
elsewhere, Trial Justices have no joris
dietioo rn cases of petit larceny and tho
rr . ut-ru-1 i-i fwr-wnn ? "?y "" -'j 'i in Tm - m ?
tax payers must suffer until the legis?
lature1 patches the I a arin another place.
A Northern View.
'Tlie news from Columbia, S. C.
of tbe. mobbing of five itinerant
preachers from the >?orth-three men
and two women-by a crowd of one
hundred young men? composed prin?
cipally of students belonging to the"
State University, is alBad exhibition
of the state of civilization in tbe lo?
cality where the outrage occurred.
The poor cranks-two of them weak;
shivering, crying women-weredrajg
ged at night, with ropes around their
necks, through the streets during a
heavy rainstorm, and pelted with
filth and bricks. This waa kept up
for two hours, until the women gave,
out from exhaustion. Think of this,,
you Christian men and. Christian
women of this glorious republic,
and bow your baads in sadness and
shame P
The above extract is from th? Chi?
cago Graphic News andI sliow? what
outsiders think of the recent eject?
ment of the Holiness Evangelist*;
from Colombia. The story ia highly
colored and exaggerated having, only
the slightest foundation. The Cpr.
I um bia papers state that the ejectment
waa. not -accompanied by violence -
but was effected in as quiet and civil
a manner as such a thing could hare,
been done.
The course of the young men waa.
contrary to the lettier and spirit of
the law. AU such things have an
evil tendency, diminishing tlie rea?'
peet of the masses for the law and
subjecting whole communities to ad?
verse comment. The law provides^
remedies for all wrong arid the x>u\?
safe way is to resort to thc courts m
auch cases.
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The Baltimore American says : 'Tba*
Preside ot is anxious to dear up bis
desk of' business, so that when the'
sprftag opens he can taie Mrs Cleve?
land and make a little tour of the coan
try. Tbe coming summer is the last
one leit bim to work up the boom for
renomination. He, therefore, wants to
make hay while tbe san shines. Mrs.
Cleveland wants to- travel. She hat
been to Europe and seen tbe cities of
tbs Continent, bot she bas not travelled
through this coootry. Cleveland, too.
bas developed a strong desire to see
'the dear people of the Sooth.' Visi?
tors who have called on bim have been
strack by his desire to koow 'the va?
rious routes through the Sooth,' 'the
best places to visit to April and-May/
He bas as much as told the people from.,
the great West, as well as from the.
Southwest, that he might see them,
again before they returned to the Na-\
tional Capital. But from Mrs. Cleve?
land comes tbe most direct intimation
of an intention of the President to
'swing around the circle/ In her.
pleasant little chats with ber lady visi?
tors she bas spoken of the anticipated
pleasures of such a trip and the hope
that it might be accomplished.
There are comparatively few people
who know the origin or meaning of the
term 'Yankee/ by which we are accus?
tomed, mere or less affectionately, to
designate our American cousins born
io the United States. Tn view of the
approaching American Exhibition nf the
Arts, Inventions, Manufactures and
Products of the United States, to be held
U2Xt year at Earl's Court, Kensington,
and which has already been nicknamed
in some quarters 'The Yankeries/ it
may be of interest to our readers to
know what the word means. When
the Pilgrim .Fathers landed on Ply?
mouth Kock the friendly Indians asked
of what people they were, to which
query they replied, 'English/ But the ,
red man coule; not twist his tongue
around that word, and 'Yengeese' vra
as n jar as be could get to it. It was
but a very short time, and by a natu
ral and easy transition, before *Yan
geesV became transformed into 'Yan?
kees/ The use of this word is peen- ,
liar. The people of the Southern
States call all Northerners, both East .
and West. 'Yankees/as will be remem?
bered by those familiar with the great
civil war. The people of the Western
States call only those living in the East?
ern States, or east of the Hudson river,
'Yankees/ and these are the only people
who acknowledge the name, and, alao
describe themselves On the other
hand, all the English cobnists ?od tbs
people of Great Brit ian invariably rall
all citizens of the United States 'Yan?
kees/ and wheo abroad they cheerfully
accent and are generally p' oud of the
title, which, as we have seen, means
and i* only a c?rrop'too of the word
'English/
--*???>-.??.-<???"
? striking likeness of Theodor*
Tilton is published in newspaper* aU
over the country as the po? trait of
Henry Ward Beecher.