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. WATCI?5??N, KrtabHahed April, IS^?". . 2. 1S81.1 Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends'thon Aims't at. be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's " SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1888v T?E TK?E SOUTHKON* Series?Vol. Til. 111 " jOfr^?oat?rjg m? ?be. H?saL ;psssages and "Jr ^^n^ojr3xn?>|r ?tsrs^OBg?ml?ia the head. From ^^flfflr^p???t' rt: sen?% forth a; poisonous Tiros --^-^>macn".aad through the digeste . o^g^^-corr^?ing: the blood and pro3o.ci.og !:^^??j&ee^^ J>rnjzgist3 j bj. "iaiU.-'-reg^reo%y /ceots." v??.Y B203.^ ?nd i&r?y^ we> sell them ir than they can be or fl, HARB? & CG. JuneS .TkcZargertandvtozt 'compter, ^'Miskvunt South -fib' o i- w m .SB IS; Hi 53 "ST jJaaofectarers ot i, Iii, 'Mil -JUS? BtTitLDXSra 2?A2ZSIAL. -'V . - o?v?ce and waberoojis, King, opposite Cannon Street, - CHA?I*ESTO?r, S# * . ?--^3 fi?t a o. brown & m \' COLUMBIA, 3. a 3DOOHL-.S, i MSI 1 BLINDS, LATHS; LIMB, : CEMENT, PLASTER, AND HAIR. llS?MlffiS?Sll IM?f ? V'PAINTS,1 OILS AND TARNISHES. CARTER WHITE LEAD, The Best the Market. i^xcicd Attention Given to Orders d <X BROWN & BRO., Opposite Poet Office, . COLUMBIA, S. C> The dewy spring? time lingers, - The birdsising oor$etree; : Thereis bersttng blooni, and blossom, . _ BuLnp; h^pioess for.ra^. ?or thoa wert ^H to-'rae, love^ ~ ForHho?; wert al 1 to- me ; ^-^^b?t^hiaven earn {here be, Iove^ . -^Whto';?fb> -wert all to me.-? .' ?^t'^t?efoideia., mellow Light "shine onlandor-se?, - For -the ; hearts that come-hereafter ?t shines no more for me. ?or tboh-wert all fo me, love, - - For thon wert all to me. '"What heaven can there be, ?ov?V When thou wert all to me? As in some chord of mcsTe A. pain top deep for tears, So now the very beauf^;^ ; Of thesaddeaedspring appears. For ic doth.tell what heaven ~ Hereoa this earth might be, . If you- were he_re with me, love, " If yciu were here with ine. Stullet new hearts awaken . . ^Neatb'summer sunsaglow; Some hearts will miss their heaven, Some heaven may not know, And where for me afar, love, On earth, can heayea be, - - When thou wert all to me, love, When the a wert all to me. ? Still let the dewy dawning" Arise for hearts that wake, And the twilight shadows deepen O7er the hamac hearts that break. Stilt let them tell hereafter Of the joys that are to be, Be t thou wert all to me, love, Oh, thoa -wert all to me. - By E53SGGA KATOSKy DAVIS. S - PCopyrigiited.J piicr i. Tire- managing editor's patience was al ?mostr exhausted. ^Tositively; Maj. Stand ^shv I donVsee that we can find-aay room '?pzazij^?x?^ of yours in The, Camera, this ^week. .?r any week." he added with anin ; ward oath ta bim"s?lf, glancing impatiently ;^theheap>pf }*revises" waiting upon his desk. He did not take them up, however, 'but stood outwardly respectful, for he was" a v young f ellow, and Standish, though a notori ous bore, was old and white headed. The major patted him patronizingly on -the shoulder. "My dear f ?How," in his most ^luscious, grandiloquent tone, "let me give yon a hint. I've been twenty years in the - ve^thiek and heat of American journalism, ^andLyou are but a neophyte. You want to ^nr?ta?The Xamera weighty? I call it dull, :-sir,*dril? #Tod rxrSch. respectability'kills a paper.- ?tnee?^?dnTerent class of articles ^"^-scmeimng at" once forcible .and light. Philosophic and vif, sparkling and?well, do ; you take my meaning?? ^Something like- 4foat in youriiand, ehr i laughed Stinger. "Precisely-.. You've hi* it* complacently twitching bis white whiskers. ~ "No. Not today, major." - "Suppose we try a short thing on fish culture? " I've got myself up on fishes thoroughly." fc^^Fb&Ihnes?idit? on Friday." - The major stood a moment-, anxious and - s?emV "This new asteroid; now? When ? was <m The London News, Grif&irused al ways tcrsayr" 'For 'anything taking in the scientific line, Dan Standish, is our man.' ; Dont want it, eh ? Who's doing that inwg ' ing down in Delaware for you? Til make you a two column job of it for $5, and pay myown expenses. That road always dead heads me." . ,*3tmger/tooE up his proof*. trWe sent .a stenograpner reporter this morning. We rea?y^have no use for you, Maj. Standish." ': \"You never were more, mistaken in your Hfe. Where you need me, my dear boy, is to take charg? of your r?pertoriai corps. Fd make those lazy fellows toe the mark." fr^VS?? Stinger P It was the proprietor Jde Marray's voice, which rasped through the ^room like.the filing of a saw. He came to the door of his office. A sandy, flat built ; Scotchman, tovwhose making up nature had ;-grudged every atom of flesh save in the one matter of a keen, red,- tomahawk shaped nose. "Have not those proofs gone up yet? You encourage too many idlers in the office-, sir. You here again, Standish?" Tb? hereagctin, Standish f "Ah, Mr. McMurray! A de-lightful morning, sir!" The major beamed on him efftSgent. Stinger and Withrow, the news editor, both driving their pens furiously at McMurray's appearance, winked at each other. The seedy major, with his grand brawny build, his imperturbable suavity and his dauntless lying, always came off first best in these encounters. McMurray, in his fault less black clothes, with all bis backing of wealth and conscientious religion, seemed to feel himself thin and sour, and cowed before him. "I wonder," he said, with a sneer, "that with your higher literary occupations, you can spare time to besiege this office as you do." "'Boa my soul, I wonder, too. Now that H- precisely what my publishers say to me. 'Write a book, Standish,' they say. Take the public between the eyes with a knock down blow.' Then those magazine fellows in New York and Boston are crying out every month for me to come to their help. But I like to see the old Camera suc ceed, that's the truth." - "The Camera is under obligation to you." "Not at all. I'm glad to help build it up. .Fve a pride?Philadelphia enterprise, sir?a pride in it," backing to ??^e door. "What I havo herei sir," touching his forehead, "was meant for mankind, not to barter for fame or money. By the. way, have you seen that last little thing cf mine in the Wrestmin ster?" "No, nor nobody else," savagely. "Ah," you don't take the quarterlies? TU send it to you. I'll send it to you. Good morning, Mr. McMurray, good morning." "Keep that liar and braggart out of the office, Mr. Stinger," said McMurray in his coldest, ci vilest tones; for when other men would have raged, his sense of duty kept him quietest. He smoothed his face before going back into office. "Yonog John Proc tor was there, the clergyman to whom Mc Murray's church, through his influence, had just given a call. He hau just come from the depot after two years' absence in the west, and McMurray was striving to do him honor in his hard, ungenial way. Proctor bad been a sort of ward of his, and it was whispered about in the office that McMurray would be glad to have him now for a son-in Jaw. This church was his idol, and to see bis only child the wife of one of its ministers was, in his opinion, to inclose her in tho pearly gates of salvation while yet alive. "The office" felt as if the delicate, bright .haired little heiress would be thrown away on Proctor. 'These penniless preachers know how to feather their nests," Stiuger had said but a few minutes before. Mr. McMurray could not forget Standish when he went back to his office. "Lazy old Bohemian!" he growled. "If you want the most disreputable vices, Mr. Proctor, always look for thein in an old man who iives oy nis wits." "Who-was itf "Standish?the major. Ton know"him.1' "What! There?' Proctor dashed out into the office without his hat, and down tho stairs, < shouting, "Hillo, major!" leaving McMnrray astonished behind him. He took up his pen and began to write severely. 'The oarnal flesh was stronger in the young man ^haahehad thoughts Withrow, out of cu riosity, lounged down the stairs and found Johnat the door looking anxiously up and down the street. "Ah, Mr. Withrow! do you remember me? -John Proctor," wringing his hand in a hearty fashion which he used to hare -when a boy. 'Tm looking for a friend of mine, Maj. Standish." . "Yes? Maj. Munchausen, we call him in the office." "He is a friend of mine," coolly. "The ofBco docs not know him as well as I do, probably." * Withrow - felt himself rebuffed, but only for a minute. "The old fellow has a cockloft over a ware house somewhere, where he cooks for himself.How he lives, God knows. He has nothing now but the odd jobs we give Mm here in the office. He's had nothing from us for two weeks." "Is he alone? There was a little girl, or woman, rather?" Proctor hesitated. The story of the old major and -Madeline was something which he could not drag out be fore this fellow. "Niece or something? Sie lives, in some "country town now, I believe, and colors pho tographs. . A great artist, the major says. She's a dull girl, I fancy. Women without brains have to scratch hard'for a living now adays.^ ' Mr. Proctor dad not car? to. enter into th? woman question. He stood whistling under his; breathy with some queer ideas in his cler ical head, which Mr. Withrow would have :=ear??ythoughtluefifcfced it "They grew out of the remembrance of those Saturday after -Steens when, for year after year, he used to escape from b??rrlmg'-schoor and repair to that same cockloft over the warehouse, there to feel himself a Gypsy or a Crusoe for a few -delicious hours. What a" Vagabond, uncer tain life it- wasT the poverty, the shifts;-the frn^ the inextinguishable jollity and tender love under ita*li! What a prince the major and. Madeline made of him?saving all week to compass the Saturday's roast chicken and cranberry*tart! Proctor had never known ?afcher er mother ; his ideas of love or ahome were all* drawn from poor Standfsh and his crazy menage, strong was this boyish in stinct in him just now that he actually stood breathless when anybody resembling tho major came in sigh*. If the bid man should not recognize him, or should meet him with the formal deference of other" respectable people, why, then, gobd-by to "that old boy hood, so horribly dear and disreputable! . Now the major was in a restaurant a few doors down the street^ "Try an advertise" ment in The Camera, Sam," he faid to the bookkeeper- "I swear it will pay you like ?like"? "His talk halted; the ideas seemed to stagger through his brain. "I believe you've had a drop too much, Standish," said Sam. ' - ... "No; Pre . had to stop drinking. You 'carft-get agiass of champagne f?t for a gen tjeman in' this accursed town. But about tire advertisement?" (The Camera paid him a small ^percentage on this sort of business, .and a few.cents now would buy him his din ner.} ' The major leaned on the glass counter for' a moment. It was two days since he had tasted food. The steam of savory dishes be low was too much for him. A collapsed stomach in a powerful frame like his is a deadly drag upon a man's pluck. He looked at Sam. The fellow would give him his din ner if he asked it, he-knew. ^ He gathered himself up with an effort. "Pd steal, but I can't beg," he said; silently. He nodded affably to Sam, and filliped to the parrot as- be went out. .His high featured, usually florid face, had turned cold and blue nnder the mustache and whiskers, but he (?amedliimse?f jauntily. John Proctor saw Mm as soon as he stepped on the street. There was the identical broad cloth suit-cut twenty years ago, and the vast expanse of shirt bosom, frayed in the plaits, but immaculately white. The major was a -property of the town, well E?own as the city clock. With his bushy white mane, his im posing shoulders, bis lofty bow, he radiated and filled the pavement from wall to curb. Proctor thought the old man would be glad to see him, but he e?rtainiy had not expected the strange effect which the sight of him pro^ duced Standish stopped as though he had been struck a blow, holding him off at arm's length. His pomposity seemed to suddenly drop from him. "Why, Jack! Jack!" he stammered-, WI did not look tose? you? I beg your pardon, Mr.' Proctor. ? forget"? drawing back, yet still j holding the young mans coat sleeve with what would have b*?cn very like a caress in i a woman. "Forgot? You forget ?ldfriends, ? think-." I "Prince Hal has changed his state," said I the major, smiling, with an effort to be him ! self; "It is time he shook off old Falstaff. j How ill white hairs become a fool and jester! i So surfeit swelled, so old and so profane!' touching his Big breast with a bitter laughs "You did not use to affect the cynic." "No. It is the sight of you that reminds me of what I had better forget." Proctor was ashamed, as one man always is of emotion in another. "You had always j an unreasonable liking for me, vicious young j dog that I was-!" he said, lightly. "You're at the old place, I suppose? Ill come round j at dusk. We'll broil a steak togethei*, hey, major? My hand has not lost its cunning." The old man looked down at him steadily with an inexplicable brightness in his keen eyes. "I did not think you wouWi go so far as thatj my boy," he said quietly. Mr. McMurray's carriage drew up at the floor at that moment. It was plain but rich-, the horses thoroughbred. An innocent look ing, delicate littio blonde, dressed with Quaker like plai?mess-, looked out and blushed crimson at the sight of John. At that the blood mounted also into the fellow's tell talo face, and he went down to the carriage, lean ing on the door to speak to her. "A handsome pair, major," whispered Withrow, who was still loitering near. Standish nodded '"She looks like a good religious woman. McMurray would raise his daughter cleaner than other girls." "She's worth a cool half million; that's tho way in which I'd tliink you would loolc at her." "So I do. Mr. Withrow: Proctor is lucky, very lucky. Talents and education find re ligion, and now a good wife with money. The boy could not ask for more." There was something in the old man's un i usual quiet, and the look which he fastened j on Proctor, that roused Withrow *s curiosity. "There used to bo some connection be i tween you and the young man, wasn't there? He was under j'our guardianship when he was a boy, I think I've heard?" "Not at all, Kir." eagerly, "not at all. It was a mere business transaction. I held cer tain moneys for the lad's use from his fattier, end paid Iiis bills: that was all. I placed I hi:n under Mr. McMurray's care when he I was entered here first at school. McMurray J has the entrance to the best society:, and is j religious; those were the two tilings I looked ! at. Why, the l>oy's blood is of iho best;. His j father w:is one of the old blue bloods of Vir ! ginia. lie would never have trusted his son ! to the guardianship of an old scallawaglikc : Dan Standish." The major was himself j again, Iiis rolling voice and theat rical gesfr I ures keeping time and apparently enjoying j each other thoroughly. "Oh, that's it? You were not one of tho j blue bloods then?" "My father was a butcher, sir. I've lived ? by my wits, and an infernally poor capital j they are for any man. I'll say that. Fyo : dined with dukes and ragpickers in my day, I Mr. Withrow. But-the smell of the slaughter i house followed me. A man is nothing with j out family here in Philadelphia." And again j his eyes rested on Proctor, with the anxious j thoughtfulness so strangely at variance with I his ordinary stagey manner, j Withrow clapped his hand to one pocket, j then txrtbe other. "By the way! Where the j deuce? Oh, here it is. Come this way, major," drawing him into the doorway, and opening a ^ew York paper. "Here in the Personals. 'Richard Standish.' You see? No relation of jours, eh?" The major had the paper up before his face. He took out his cracked eyeglasses and adjusted them on his nose; took them down and wiped them leisurely; read the card once, a second time. "No; I don't know the man." "From Virginia-, you see," said Withrbw, putting the paper in his pocket again; "and came here about the same time you say you did. But your name's Dan. CJeita-inly. It looks like a trick of the police to get hold of a criminal to me." "So it does to me." "Going, eh? Proctor's busy," with a sig nificant wink. "He has no need of old fel lows like us, now." "No." The major stood a moment watch ing John's eager gestures, and the bright, blusl?hg face bent over him. "No; he has co more need of me," he said quietly, and turned away with a bow as he passed the carriage, though neither of them saw him, Mr. McMurray, with the young clergyman again in his ofSce, safely trapped, could not let him go without a word or two of rebuke. "Should you "accept it" (they were talking of the call), "3rou must be careful, my dear' sir, to avoid even the appearance of evil. You ire young and impulsive, fond of your friends. The dignity of your position would render improper many associates whom you knew as a boy, unless, indeed, you approach them officially, administering the "Word as the hope of salvatiom This Maj. Standish now, for example"?? "I am yery uncertain about accepting this church at all," broke out Jack. "There is a place in the west that suits my ways better. But I could not many on their salary. It's the merest pittance. I could barely live on it" Mr. McMurray paused, and answered with deliberation:, "In the matter of marriage, must .you consult that point of 'salary at all, Mr. Proctor? The wife you may select may ?will, in all probability?be independent. A woman ought to feel herself honored in being called to share the spiritual work of a Christian minister, and should rejoice if she can bear her part in his temporal burdens.^ TU never be supported by a rich wife," said John, bluntly. '"I'll be frank with you, Mr. McMurray.. There is a woman whom I have loved iong and faithfully. I will marry lier, if I can. If she has money, welL and good; but I must be the provider in my own household." r'It is a natural feeling, and a manly one," said McMurray, not ili pleased, "We differ, too, in this matter of associ ates," obstinately resumed Jack. "I have never felt that my 'cloth,' as the vulgar phrase has it, placed me one whit apart from other men. When I measure myself with a prince or ruffian in the dock by his courage or good sense or faithfulness to his friend, I touch a* brotherhood between us "stronger than any church bond. We get our naked hands together. You understand? And of teuer then it is he who gives the Word to me than I to him," he added, under his breath. . , Mr. McMurray checked the angry rebuke on his hps. Ail young men were flighty now adays, and given to this visionary talk. He remembered John Proctor's brilliant reputa tion in the church, the crowds that pressed to hear him as he went from city to city. If Clara were his wife, no woman in the church would hold higher rank. "I cannot under stand," he said, gently, "what bearing this has on your intimacy with Maj. Standish, particularly"?raising his voice when Proc tor would have spoken-^"when I have every reason to believe the police are on his track as a long escaped criminal." John's face burned as though he himself had been accused. "What proof have you of this?" he said, rising. "There is a New York detective here to identity him now," in a mysterious whisper. "I could learn no more from him than that Standish is living under an assumed name. Bu. I fear the worst, Mr. Proctor, the. very worst." "Bah !" muttered John to himself. "Whert is this fellow? I'll go to him at once," put ting on his cap. McMurray rose and put Out his hand. It was high time that ho became the mouth piece of the church and Clara "Mr. Proc tor, I beg that you will not espouse this dis reputable old man's cause so vehemently. Eis name is a public by-word of infamy among newspaper men. A vaporing boaster and liar." *'Newspaper men know but one side of the fellow," retorted John, hotly. "I could tell you tales of him, of his unselfishness and hi3 noble charity, that would put the lives of many of our professors to shame Besides, he was kind to me when I was a boy. I'll not turn by back on him now." McMurray's sallow cheek began to burn, j fcTben I regret to say, Mr: Proctor, that you I must make your choice between the church [ and your very boyish impulse. A clergy t man who makes an associate of so doubtful ! a character is -hardly suited to our society, j As for his good traits, I know nothing. ? do I not know that the righteousness of the carnal ?esh is filthy rags." "And I know that courage a*hd self-sacri fice are proofs of as good mettle in poor old Standish as in a church member^ and come as direct from the Master of both. I must judge for myself in these matters." "Assuredly. But if your judgment in points so essential differs so widely from oars, I must beg leave-, as- chairman of the committee, to- wiiiklraw the calk Do hot be rash, my dear sir," changing his voice and laying his hand on John's shoulder; "There! don't answer me now. Think it over, and by evening you'll see that I was right. You are young and?pard?n. lne^-a little hot headed." A friendly word disarmed Jack. Ha laughed. "You're right there, anyhow. Let the matter go till evening. But I will not change my mind." And, nodding a hasty good-by, he ran down the office stairs. Now the quality of loyalty to his friends was exaggerated in John Proctor. But yet he was a young man, with all the ambition, ? tastes and shrewd knowledge of the world be * longing to young men of the present day. ! When he reached the pavement he saw the ! stately towers of the church in which he was ! called to minister, and beyond, the exquisite ; parsonage, its picturesque walls draped with : ivy. Mr-. McMurray's carriage roiled by j again, and soft, tender little Clara beckoned i smiling to him with her whito jeweled hand. ! It was a high path and a flowery one that ; opsned itself before him; No wor.de? that the doubt suggested itself to him, ! as he stood hesitating, whether it was '' worth giving it up for a bit of quixotism?a I romantic fealty to a boyish fancy. part n. I Later in the afternoon the major stood ! leaning against a pile of bales in front of the ware house, loftrly tapping his chin with his ; pinchbeck headed ea::c and listening to Mr. McMuriay. That genik-mnn, in hisnnxioty ! lest the church should actually lose Proctor, j had resorted to the doperato remedy of an I appe:d to Standish. Tho old man kept his main oas eyesJlxedupon him, a.nd grinning with enjoyment of bis embarrassaient, but I under the grin he looked haggard ami j anxious. I "So the boy has a mind to take the part of ; his old friend? Ko d stick by the hulk be ! cause it's gosug ?Iowa? Tut! tut! Thorens j stupidity for you;" *'*t ilo not talk hi metaphor about bulks. ! I only thought it likely, from my knowledge ! of you, yo:i might presume on vouracquaiat j nnce with the Jnd and his generous nature to I draw him into trouble, ami 1 ivaru you what i the re-suit wiM !> to him." "It will non h::a to be known as even my j fricu-'l. 1 understand." McMurray hesitated. After all, why not gj Standish a hint of the detective on his ] track? If ho won M escape, all difficulty j would be over. "Inquiries of a significant kind have been madoforyou this week, Maj; Standish," he said. "So I bave been told'" "I do not know to what part of your past jareer they refer." "And vouM better not ask too closely, Mar. Dan Standish has led a hot life, 1 tell you," with a vicious wink that made the deacon shudder from hat to boots, _ _ "Well, I have ;discharged my duty," he said, after au irresolute pause. "It is most probable that young Proctor will come *to seek you this afternoon." "And if be comes, I am not to see himf* with an attempt at a jocular tone that had more terrible force in it even to the cold blooded hearer than any painful outcry. '"Why, man, lam pushed nearer to the wall today than anybody knows. As for this boy ?well, no matter what he is to me. I gave up something for him once. It seems as if I had the right to ask his help now, when? when death has me by the throat." -He looked vacantly-,-quickly about him, at the boxes, the-cars rattling by, at the head of his cane. McMurray thought he had been drink ing. "Iam sorry I troubled myself about it," he said, with dignity. "Good day; -Ma}. Standish" "Good day," effecting a flourishing bow with his unsteady hand; "Take old Dan to point your next sermon, will you? Pve lived by my wits. I've mad? myself the Compan ion of poets?of nobles, sir! And now when the end comes, damn it, man, I haven't a friend!" Mr. McMurray hurried nervously away, picking his steps among the boxes and bales. Standish stood a moment looking at the ground, and then turned and stumped up the narrow rickety stairs that led to the top of the building. He did not know what especial sin of old times was coming back to give him the last blow, nor did he care. That was all fair enough It seemed to him sometimes, comparing his life with that of other men, that he had lived just like a beast from hour to houTj out of whatever impulse was in him. He was ready to meet any old abomination of his past life and take the punishment: "Pve had the dance, and Til pay the piper," he said, kicking cpea the door of his room and going in. "But?the boy ?" [TO BE CONTTZrUED-l The Farmers' Allianeev A State Organization Effected at Florence. ' Florence, July 11.?The delegates from the varioss sub-alliances of the, Farmer's Alliance met in secret ses sion this morning at 10 o'clock for the purpose of perfecting an organization of a State Alliance. The attendance was large, so large that BaritsngerV' Hall was filled to suffocation. The enthusiasm of the delegates was un-; bounded. The counties of Chester, York, Chesterfield, Darlington, Lan caster, Spartanburg, Union, Horry, Fairfield, Marlboro, Marion and Wil liamsburg were represented. The State Alliance was permanent ly organized by the election of the following officers : President, Gen. E. T. Stackhouse, Marion; vice-presi dent, J. D. Breeden, Marlboro ; sec retary, J. W. Reed, Spartanburg ; treasurer, F. P. Taylor, Chesterfield ; chaplain, James Douglas, Fairfield ; lecturer, J. E Fettigrew, Darlington.; assistant lecturer, Hector McRae, Marion ; doorkeeper. ?. L. Brown, Williamsburg, assisrant doorkeeper, A. R. Whaller, Ilorry ; sergeant-at arms, J. E. Jarnigan, Marion. The State executive committee is composed o? the following: F. P. Mitchell ; S. T. D. Lancaster, Spar tanburg, and Lucas Mc?ntosh, Dar lington. The Order has evidently obtained a strong hold on many of the best farm ers of the State. The delegates are fiim specimens of the best .class of farmers. They are generally men whose capital consists more in land,, labor and character than in bonds and moneys. They dress well and have a general air of hard work and thrift about them. They.seem to have the utmost faith in the Alliance, and -look to it as the only solution of many questions that have worried the tillers of the soil for many years past. They all wear faces that show full, confi dence that they are on the eve of a new and better era in the agricultural development of the State The Farmers' Alliance ie-; compara tively speaking, a iiew-comer in South Carolina, but since its arrival it has spread and increased with a ra pidity unparalleled in the history of any organization of like character in this State. It va well established^ in the West, Southwest and Northwest, where it has a membership that em braces nearly the entire agricultural population. The Order is also being rapidly introduced into the Southern States. In fact, every State in the South lias a State organization. North Carolina is well organized and its farmers are enthusiastic over the practical benefits they arc daily re ceiving from their connection with the Order. It was from the old North State that the Alliance came into South Carolina. It first made its appearance in the counties along the border. The first sub-alliance was formed in Marion County laRt fall by an organizer from Ansou County, N. C. The plan of the National Alliance is to have an organizer employed in each Congressional district of the State, but the friends of i he move ment here seem to think that they .have work for an organizer in every county. The Order is attracting at tention all over the State, and the de mand ior information is so great that it :s said that a discreet organizer can be used to advantage in every county. Already there have been received a long list of places that are anxious to have an organizer visit them. Just as soon as the State organization is perfected wotk will be pushed in all the counties At present the great est Btrenfifth of the Alliance is in Chesterfield, Marion, Darlington, Marlboro, Spartanburg, York, Union, Chester, Lancaster, Hurry and sever j al other counties.; ! The purposes of the Order are ex piai ?cd in the following declaration of the national constitution : 1. To labor for the education of the agricultural classes in the science of economical government in a strictly non-partisan spirit. 2. To endorse the motto. 'In things j essential unity, and in al! things char ily.' 8. To develop a better stale, men tally, morally, socially and financially. -I. To create a better der s land ing for sustaining civil officers in maintaining law and.order. 5 To constantly strive to secure) entire harmony and good will among till mankind and brotherly love among ourselves. 6. To suppress personal, local, sec tional and national prejudices; all unhealthy rivalry and selfish ambi tion. I "t;- The brightest jewels which il garners are the tears of widows and orphans, and its imperative com mands are to visit the homes where lacerated hearts are Weeding ; to as suage the sufferings o? a brother or^ sister ; bury* the dead; care for the widows and educate the orphans ; to exercise chanty towards' offenders ; to construe words and deeds in their most favorable light, granting honesty of purpose and good intentions to others ; and to protect the principles of the Alliance unto death- Its Jaws are reason and equity, -its cardinal doctrirres inspire purity of thought and life, ils intention is .'peace on earth and good will towards men*.' The article of the constitution re lating to membership says 1. 'No person shall be admitted as -a member unless he has been a citizen of the State for six months past, and not then unless he be a farmer, a farm laborer, mechanic, country school teacher, country physician or (.mjuisler of tfie Gospel, be of good moral character, believe in the exist ence of Supreme Being, be of indus trious habits, is ? white person, and over the age of 16 years/ Another section of the constitution gives a Mack eye to the lawyers. It says : 'It is deemed contrary to the spirit of the Order for brothers to go to law with each other. Therefore it is earnestly recommended, when pecu niary differences arise between mem bers, that they settle them amicably among themselves $ failing to do so, that they leave the matter to arbitra tion by two or m?re members of the Alliance. Each contending party shall have the eight to select one ar bitrator, and the arbitrators-s?a?l Be lect the third.7 Mr. G. J. Redfearn-, 5 well educated and progressive farmer of Chesterfield County, says that the Alliance is very popular in that county. It has grown almost like magic. Not a year old, it has already over 2,000 members, and.is growing every day both in in fluence and numbers. All classes of farmers are joining it, and taking an . active interest in the Order without any clashing of feeling. Some mem bers have their cash surplus of thou sands, white otherB bave Only their ?anor and their sturdy character. Mr. Redfearn says that the Order has en countcd opposition from some mer chants, but that it was due to busi ness matters and jjot to the principles of the Order* The Alliance is strong in its membership, and it commands the respect of all who are informed as to its objects. Mr. Redfearn gave me an account of their business methods, whereby they are enabled to get reasonable rates and accoraedating; terms, for their members. In every county the Alliance has a trade agent and every sub-alliance in the, c6?utry has a trade committee, the chairman of which is the sub-trade agent. The various sub-agents together with the county trade agent constitute the county trade board, and thev have the man agement and control of the financial ^affairs of the organization. Then plan is to give every merchant in the couty a change to bid for the trade of the Alliance. The merchants who make the best responsible bids are appointed as trade stores for the Al liance. In Chesterfield County there are five trade stores that are furnish ing members of the Alliance with certain classes of goods at rates far belo^y those hitherto paid by the aver age farmer. Some farmers, who have always been shrewd buyers Have had no reason to complain ol tho prices they have- paid for their supplies i but many farmers, who have been prac tically at the mercy x>f their merchants; have been compelled to pay prices that have been simrjly outrageous. These farmers are helped by the Alli ance and are er?bled to procure their supplies on reasonoble terms. Mr. | Redfearn sees a decided improvement.I in dealings of credit. He says that j as long as the members can get what they want from the trade stores they will buy there ; but that they go elsewhere for what they do not keep. In Chesterfield the Sub-Alliances, meet twice a mouth, but the constitu tion only requires a monthly meeting. The County Ailiar.ce> Composed of delegates from all the various Sub Al?iances, m-eets every quarter. The greatest interest is manifested in these meetings. The attendance is very large and all the proceedings are characterized by great enthusiasm One object Mever lost ??g?it of in any of the meetings of the Alliance is to stir up the members to a determina tion to improve their condition. AU meetings are social in their character. Every ' Sub-Alliance lias a lecturer, whose duty it is to deliver a carefully prepared lecture on some selected subject or to read some instructive article at every meeting. These fea tures will bo developed when the State organization is perfected. Mr. Redfearn says that the Alliance has nothing to do with politics. It is not in any sense a political organiza tion. It will take no part in any poli tical movements. Its members as good ci?3eus will take a lively per sonal interest in all matters that per tain to the interest of the Slate, but tiie Alliance will not be entangled in any political combinations. No doubt the influence of the Alliance will be feit, but it will be only as tho influ ence of the Masons, the various churches, &c, is now felt. In any contest, where office is sought by an Alliance man and a Non-Alliance man , other things being equal, there is not much doubt that the members of the Alliance will vole for the Aiii aisoe roan. The Alliance will take no action in the matter:, and every member will be left free to vote just as he sees Hi ; but a fraternal spirit will prompt many to vote for their j brother, whom, they recognize as the j eqnel of his competitor in every ! respect. j Dr. D. C. Tilman, who is one 0} ; lite most prominent organizers In the j Older, is here prepared lor work. : Fie has been at wore for some time ,: in onranizino; sub-alliances, and has IT* ' just succeeded in forming county alu ] auccs in Marion and Darlington, : ' where he has enlisted the support of the best farmers. lie was largely in: strumeutal in organizing North' Caro lina, and feels "sure thai the same suc cess "will attend his efforts here that did there. Dr. Til man says that the Alliance is net like the Grange in some important and material respects. The Alliance has no coercion of its members; but its combinations are for mutual benefit. The Alliance compels no member to go security for a brother member. It helps the weak without placing the "strong in danger. By standing together and trading at the same store, the rich help the poor. The merchant is glad to lake the trade of the poor small farmer in order to get the fine trade of the rich planter. The trade of a farmer who will need $100 worth of supplies is a smallTnatter, but when it* becomes a stepping stone to the trade of a dozen farmers who will want $5,000 in sup plies, it becomes a matter of "some cosequence. In that way the rich help the poor without running any risk; themselves.?j?ew?s and Courier. Our State Contemporaries. The Farmers' Encampment. Greenville News. The annual Farmers' Encampment at Spartanburg, which opens en the 6th day of August, promises an occasion of great interest to the farmers of the coun try, and to visitors of any and every class The attendance will doubtless be large, as the program is wide enough to interest and entertain people of all the principal industries of the five States which have organized it, and those who are merely sight-seers. Addresses will be delivered by a number of distinguish ed men, the Hon, Norman J.. Colman, United States Commissioner of Agri culture, to be t"he first speaker, his sub ject'the manufacture of sorghum into syrup and sogar/ Senators Hampton and Butler, Congressman Dibble and others are to- address the assembled multitude, and the show will doubtless be excellent in all respects. Farmers and all will be highly entertained at the encampment, and the four days of the; occasion will afford them profitable as well as enjoyable pastime. We suggest to the farmers of the country that the encampment is peculiarly ?Oe?r time for j a show of interest in the progress of the country in agricultural matters. They will be well repaid by attending its pro ceedings. We suggest to Greenville's Gala Week visitors that they will find that their trip will be made complete and well ro inded Out by the taking in of the Encampment before returning to their homes. Love. Abbeville Medium. Some prominent men of our town who think they know how to run a newspaper have found fault,- during the past few weeks, with our heavy edito rials, - and suggest that we write of something more acceptable to the ma jority of the people. After giving the subject due consideration, we have come to the conclusion that 'Love' would be something that most of our readers understand at least a little about. Although lore is altogether intangi ble aod undefiaable, throughout the' world in every country civilized or heathen, in every grade of life whether high or low, love rules, king" of all, swaying its millions of subjects.by an invisible but powerful scepter. In all of its different forma and phases, love is ever the same, the very sun of exist ences sending its radiant glow over all, ; rraking life one long sweet dream, ? soothing all"?ts ifl? and jSsins, &i lead ing upward and* onward to the very I threshold of heaven. Without it what is life ? a bard, barren and desolate waste, devoid of all brightness, filled with doubt and regrets for what might have, been. Love is the poetry of life; -and conquers all things, even death ; for death can last only an allotted time, love for eternity. When loving hearts are tern' asunder by the grim reaper Death;"tfe departed spirit comes back watching over and guarding with ten der care the weeping and sorrowful hearts on earth. Oceans may roil, mountains may sink, ages upon age?s pass away, and even when this world has ceased to be, in that bright Elyse um across the river, called Paradise, those that have loved on earth will meet and know each other, and hand in baud together will go onward through the joy ous forever. "Man's love is of man's life a part, 'Tis woman's whole existence." What could be more elevating, whafc treasure more priceless than the love of a pure and true woman ? Nothing. Every thing sinks into insigoiSeance beside this the greatest Messiug of all. It brings cut all that is high and noble in man, makes him aspire to positions heretofore untbougbt of and in fact make a new creature of hicj. There is as marked a difference as between the crysalis and the butterfly. Love is everywhere but the kingdom of love is Come. To such cf cur young readers as know nothing of this ccstacy we say fail ioV A Demagogue. Orohjcoura Times and Democrat. Mr. L. S. Bigham is a citizen of Marian County, and is anxious, yea. very ansious, to represent his county in the Stare Senate. Recently be ruade a speech in which, .he charged the judi ciary of the State with being corrupt, intimating that the records in the vari ous clerk'i offices in the State would l-Ikuv that our Circuit Judges took sides j in cases and that our Supreme Court I Judges decided against the Constitution ! lie ul^o said that the G-ovoruor of couth ' Carolina received mere money lhan his I salary, ;i::'J to prove it said chat during ' the session ?.?f the Logi>:ature in the winter of 1"SS6 an appropriation of ?*2;7iX) was made to improve the Gov ernor's Mansion ; that a former Legis lature had appropriated $700 to furnish the rnansiou, and that a committee, which was appointed to investigate and report as to bow the money bad been spent, made their report on the floor of the House darin?? the session of 1886 ; that they found in the Governor's Man sion nothing but an old table worth twentv five cents, aud that it was the presumption of the committee that the Governor, who at that time or juttLhe-S fore had" retired, bad ?arned off.||B^% bim nothing but what belonged torn Mr. Bigh?m was asked who was the Governor be alluded to^ and after * good deal of/fesitation be- said it was Governor Thompson, and that i?jf??^. not know whether tSe charge waa: fafie: or not, bat that. the. committee ?a~d ported as he Bad detailed it.- / '. ^> We Hope the people of Itferton *M - repudiate Mr. Bigbam at tnc'jkfls, he ia nothing short of a d?magogue and1 is cnfit to represent any one bat dema gogues like himself. As tb? ColambU Kecord says 'the making' of such a speech by an aspirant to public office shows how Tar some people baye b?ent carried away by their *ea? foi *r?fon?V** - Th? rignt to criticise, being^co^'ceawfr - the ahsse of the right seems to have followed its two frequent exercise. Ad mitting that some complaints' H?ve been well founded, yet the const? re'^?rl^ , tion of these has made then, ?tale", mwk* the stump speaker must needa Bouf^* some others as texts -for bis harangues. ' General charges of i?iB??^^??ei?^v have beeD exhausted- Then came par ticular complaints. Bat there has been no suggestion "of dishonesty. Even Mrv B. E. Tilhnan bas disclaimed,any j>tir> pose to charge corruption. Bat now7 comes an office seeker in Marion Conn- - ty, who accuses the judges of conrnn tion ,v and very broadly bints "that J? J Governor of the State appropriated Ixj? himself property belonging to the Stately Fortnpately, these charges are so oat-" rageous, so absurd', that they realJjA make no impression except one unfa** vorable to JVIr. Bigbam. Bat the fact that any au can undertake to utterj -, such accusation shows how far, tb? rights". 'of free speech may be atmsed in South Carolina. There oa^ht to be-Some^wajr* of protecting private character from *fl&e* attacks of sach" fellows as Bigharn.' Prosperity Press and Reporter. The Christian people of this State should make heir influence felt in the coining elections. When a South Caro lina Jud^e dares to" hold' Court on thf -holy Sabbath day "because it suits-the" coovenienceof a somewhat prominent' lawyer and his own convenience, it -is* time for the best element in the State' vto becothe alarmed; "Tbe^ranoing:nf railroad trains on the Lord's day isa*n^'~ other matter that needs Ioolnug: after." Christian men in our L?gislative balls would soon find a way to stop violationi, and tbey. can be. put there if ?" prop?f^ effort is made." The Farmers' EncamSmeat^ A Programme that Will Afford Profitable Instnict??? t^nU* ' . -* Farmers The following oifnciid programme of the Farmers' Encampment at Spartan burg, on Aug. 6:11, is annotftoCed"")^-: the directors i" MONDAY, AUGUST 6,' General preparation day, placing^ ma chinery, arranging exhibits, &c. TUESDAY, AUGUST 7'* Morning session 10 o'clock. AdaVess of welcome, Hon S. T. McCravy, chair man local board of directors, and^by Hon. W. E. Burnett in behalf of thf city of Sparcaoburg. Responses : Hon. W. K. Thompson, master of State Grange of Sooth Carolioa ; Hon. John son HagoooT, president of Farmers' stitute ; Hoo^J. B. Humbert, president; of State Agricultural and Mechanical Society. Address : 'The manufacture' of sorghum into syrup and sugar/ Honf Norman J. Coleman, United' States* commissioner of agriculture* Afternoon session, 3 o'clock. Ad dresses: 'The cocdidon of affairs now as compared with ?876,* the Hon.' Wade Hampton. 'The tariff,' the Hon. M. a Butler. \ - ...?. Evening session, 8 30 o'clock. Ad dresses and discussion on terracing. WEDNESDAY AUGUST Morning session, 10 o'clock. Meet* ing of State Agricultural and. Mechan ical Society. Essay. 'Test of tfce {rori ty and vitality of seejT," by Prof.. H. H." Loughridge. . Essay, 'Diversified in-, dustries as promottve. of agricultural prosperity," by the Hon. Samuel Dils" bie, M. 0., Essay : 'The nature and treatment of contagious diseases among" stock,7 by Dr. B- Mclooes, V. S.. . Afternoon session, 3 o'clock." ?sasy," 'The ideal farm,* by the Hon- John S." Verncr. Essay? 'Viticulture.' (To be assigned.) Essay, 'The Southern' dairy ' (To be assigned.) . _ Evening session. 8.30. o'clock... Ad dress, 'Drainage,' by W. G. HinscnV THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1888. Morning session, 10 o'clock. Steefc* of Farmer*' Institute. E^ay," 'Agri cultural experimentation," by Dr. J.SiV Mcliryde, Soa?h Carolina University Afternoon session, 3 o'clock Essay; , t 'Part played by bacteria in agriculture,' 'by Prof. 13. 31. JiaUou, South Carolin?1 University. Eventa? sc.^ioa, 8.30 o'clock. Ad dress, 'Agricultural education in Soulh Carolina,' by the lion. D. K. Norrifc"" FM?AY, AUGUST ?Q1 Morning session, 10 o'clock. Essay, " 'Lines along which lie the development of Southern agriculture,' by Dr. Dan iel Leo, of Nashville, Tenn. Essay,1 'Kosv to make forage pay in South ' Carolina,' by E. S. Rivers, of JameT Island, S. C. . ^ Afternoon session, 2" o'clock. 'Frnit^.. I growing for market ic South Carolina,' j by R. 1>. Watson, Rn'?e 8?nS"g$,-S. C. I- Evening session. 8 30 o'clock. Ad\ j dress, ' Agricultural cr^str'sarion in the j South* (To be a*s*g?ed.) Cl?siDgadr" t: dress bv the Hon. Job a W. Wofford, ". I president of board of commissioners of* I luter-SMte Farmers' lyjcaujpmesiT "What tho Corpse Kings ?rfcr Doing. A correspondent of the Charlesbn/1 World, who visited the penitentiary at Columbia for the purpose of taking a look at the Charleston r?brpiso ' Kings," says : : I found" John II. Bond .washing shoe lining in Dibcrl's factory; sjn?* his sons were cutting leather, while. L. M. Shafer was 'f^nndmg^?^?^ R. E. L. Shafer was in the hospital, where he is nursing Matthews.has' not yet been assigned. Each of th?v gang.occupies a separate cett?V