The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, January 29, 1890, Image 1

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IHE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Established April, IS 50. 'Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at. be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's THE TI?CE 80CTHRON, Established Jone, t$B# Consolidated Au?. 2, ISSI.] New Series-Vol. IX. M. tS. . * * _ i . Pt?Uslied tvery Wednesday, TZ <3r. O STEEN, SUMTER, S. O. TO RMS : Two Dollars per &e??m-w ?dvance. A.? V CRT I? CV? ?TS. Oe? -Square, first insertion.$1 00 Every aufesequent insertion. 50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. AU communications which subserve private interests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries -and tributes of respect will he charged for. POWDER Absolutely Pure. Tins powder never varies. A marvel of parity, strength and wholesomeness. More .economical than the ordinary & od*, ?nd cao> not be sold in comprit ion wrfn the multitude *f low test, short weight, alum or phosphate ?powders. Sold only in cam. ROYAL BAK? ING POWDER CO., 106 Wali-st., Bi. Y. CATARRH na Illida Try the Cure! ?ly% Cream Bas ni j CSfiensQS the Kasai Passages. Al- \ 3sys Infi?-mms-tioa. Heals iii e Sor 93. i Bestores the Senses cf ?aste, Smell j and Ee^ nug. ? A partif!? is applied into eccb nostril and ls stirr?H**tJie. Prier;50<*. Rt 2>rw;r:;:x!s or hy til. ELY BROTKERS,5? Warr?-:i S?~Sew Tort, TIE SBfOXDS SATIOML BASK, j OF SUMTER. ?STATE, CITY AND COUNTY DEP03I- j TORY, SUMTER, S. C. .Paid up Capital.?75,000 0 I .Surplus Fund. 7.500 00 j Transacts a General Bankin? Business. ?Careful attention given to collections. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. Deposits of $1 and upward; received. In? terest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent per anana. Payable quarterly, #n first days ot January, April, July and October. R. H. WALLACK, Vice Prtsideut. W. Auroi PSI.VGLK JR., Aug. 7 Cashier. Tue BIMI o? ram t SUMTER, S C. CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSITORY. Transacts a general Banking business. Also bes ASavinp Bank Department Deposits of fdxOO and upwards received. Interest calculated at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum, payable quarterly. W. F. &. HAYNS WORTH, A. Warra, JR., President. Cashier. Aug 21._ TAX HET??NS FOR 18S9-90. RETURNS of Per*?**! Property, Polls and Real Estate w?l be received at the following tim?-s and pintee; Oo Tuesday, January 7tb, at Tin? dales Store. Go Wednesday, January Sib, at E. I. Manning's. On Thursday, January 9th, Wedge ield. On Friday, January 10th, at Gor- ! ?oo's Mill. On Monday, Jaa?ary 13:h, at Joho- j s ton's Store. On Tuesday, January 14th, at Shi- j loh. j. On Wednesday, Jauuary 15th, at j Lynchburg. On Thursday, January 16th, at Mag- j , eolia. Oo Friday, Jaauary 17th, at Mayes ville. On Monday, January 20th, at Cor? bett's Store. On Taesday and Wednesday Janu- j ?ry 21st and 22?d, at bishop vi ile. j ' On Thursday, Jaouary 23rd, at Man? ville, j ? Oo Friday, January 24:b, at Sj-ring j , Hui. I On Saturday, January 25th ;it Me- 1 chaoicsviile. ? ' Oa Monday, January 27th, at State burg. . On Tuesday, January 2Srb, at j Oagood. On Wednesday, January 29tb, al ? Rembergs. On Thursday, January SC tb, at ? Scarborough's Store And a At the Auditor's Oifce? in Sumter on all I Other days from January 1st t<> Feb 20tb, t inclusive. As this is the year foi returning ( Real Estate, Tax-payers are requested to unk.- 1 full returns of ali Real Estate owned on 1st ? January, 1890, sod notices o? any transfers. ? i W. R. DELGA R, | fi Dec. 4-Feb 20. Auditor Sumter Co. j ? TES PI2ST CAMPAIGN QUIT. The State Farmers' Association To the Democracy of South Carolina. For four years the Democratic party lu the State has been deeply agitated, and efforts have been made at the pri? maries aod conventions to secure re? trenchment and reform, and a recogni? tion of the needs and rights of the masses. The first Farmers' Conveotioo met in April. 1886 Another in No? vember of the pattie year, perfected a permanent organisation -under the name of the ' Farmers' Association of South Carolina v This association represent? ing the reform element in the party bas held two anneal sesgeos since, and at each of these four conventions, largely attended by representative farmers from neariy ail the couuties, the demands of the people for greater economy in the government, greater efficiency ts it? of? ficials, aud a fuller recognition of the necessity for cheaper and more practical education have been pressed upea tke attention of oar legislators. Io each of the two last Democratic State Conventions the 4'Farmers' Move? ment"' has had a large following, and we only failed of controlling the Con? vention of 1888 by a sma-M vote-less than twenty-five-and that, io the face of the active opposirnro ?f ?early every trained politician io the State. We claim that we have always had a majority of the people on our side, and have only failed by reason of the supe? rior political tactics of our opponents and our lack of organization. In proof of this we poiut to Abbeville and Chest? er, the only counties except Charleston which had uot already appointed dele? gates to the Srate Convention before the campaign meetings two years ago, at which Governor Richardson spoke. Both of those counties, after hearing the Governor defend his policy and thar of bis faction, repudiated him and it, and be received only two votes from them. The Executive Committee of the Farmers' Association did ?ot deem it worth while to hold any convention last November, but we have watched closely every move of the enemies of economy -the enemies of agricultural education, tb e eoe mies of true Jeffrrsouian Democ? racy-and we think the time has come to shew the people what it is they need and how to accomplish their desires i We will draw up the indictment against those who have been and are still gov- i eraing our State, because it is at once the cause and justification of the course ; we intend to purdue. Sou'h Carol 11.a has never h:td a rea! ! Republican Government. Since th . days of i be "Lords Proprietors' ir han bu . n an aristocracy under the forros oi a Democracy, and whenever a champion : of the people has attempted to s-lww : them their rights and advocated those j rights an aristocrauo oligarchy bas ? bought bim wish an ?fffioe, or failing in ! that, turned loose the flood gates of mis representation aud slander ta order to \ de>tiov his infiueuce. The peculiar situation now existing in the State, requiring the united efforts of every true white utau to preserve white supremacy and our very civiliza? tion even, has intensified and tended to make permanent the conditions which existed before the war. Fear of a divi? sion among us and consequent return of negro rule has kept the people quiet, and they have submitted to many griev? ances imposed by the ruling faction be? cause they dreaded to rt?k such a divi? sion. The "Farmers' Movement'* has been hampered and retarded iu tts W'.>rk bv this condition of the public mind, but we have shown our fealty to race by submitting to the edicts of the party. and we intend as heretofore to make our fight inside the party lines, feeling assured that truth and justice must fioally prevail. The results of the agi? tation thus far are altogether encourag? ing, loch by inch, and step by step true Democracy-the rule of the people -has woo its way. We have carried ail the outposts. Only two*6trongbolds remain to be taken, and with the issues fairly made up and plainly put to the peopie we have no fear of the result. The House of Representatives bas been carried twice, and at iast held after a desperate struggle. The advocates of reform and economy are no longer rneered at as "Three for a quarter Statesmen " They pass mea;-urea of economy which four year* ago would have excited only derision, and with the "Farmer*' Movement" to j strengthen tLcir backbone have with-! stood the cajole-y. threats and impotent I rage of the old "Ring Bosses." The j Seuate is now the main reliance of the ' enemies of retrenchment and reform, who oppose giving the people their rights 1 he Senate i* the stronghold of "existing institutions,**and the main dep?'odt'Hce of those who are antago? nistic to ali progress As we captured j the House we can capture the Renate ; : nut wo^must control the Democratic State Convention before we can hope to j make economy popular in Columbia, or i bo assured of no more pocket vcUtes. The General Assembly is largely io 3uenced by the ideas and policy of the State officers, and we must elect those before we eau say the .'Farmers' Move aient" has accomplished its mission. It j is true that we have wrenched from the ! aristocratic coterie who were educated ii and sought to monopolize everything :or thc South Carolina College, the j right to control ?he land scrip and Hatch ' und and a patt ?>f the privilege tax on ; fertilizers for one yar, and wo have J ?40,000 with which to commence build- 1 r . j ng a separate agricultural college, where 'I:-; sons of poor farmers can g? I | i practical education at small exp;t:?.- . Su: we dare not relax our effort or rely i pon tte loudprofessions of our opponents ts to th"-.r willingness now to build arri ruuip tiri- agricultural school. Senator UcMaster"; a Trustee of the South Caro? ma < ?otlege, gave voice to the sentiments md wishes which are prevalent at the iuiversity and Military Academy when :e "hoped to see the infernal Clemson :oil?'ge sink out of sight next year." they all want to >it>k the "infernar' Vgrieultural College out of sight, and if ts friends t'o not rally once more to its .apport, it will either be destroyed or ! tar ved, so that it cannot do the great j j work it is expected to accomplish, J j th* cry about "existing iostitutioc ? which must remain inviolate shows tl : the Ring-the South Carolina Univ< j sity. Citadel, Agricultural Bureau. C lambia Club. Greenfield building Ri intend in the future as in the past, to ? all they can, and keep nil they g I These pets of the aristocracy sud I nurseries are only hoping that the pi ! pie will again siuk iuto their acct towed apathy. The Mechanical Depa ment of the University was given an i creased appropriation, ?ad there is ! thought of transferring it to Fort Hi although the land scrip fund which j seut there was expressly donated for ti purpose of machaoical as well as agi cultural education, and so with the E p?riment Stations. The Hatch fund given to the Clemson College, but tl stations are left at Colombia and Sp? tanburg, under the cootrol of the Sou Carolina College Is it not plain th these people intend to yield obed eoce to the law only wheo they a made to do it? The Farmers' Associ j tion demands tiiat the land scrip ar \ Hatch funds and the fertiliser tax sha ! be consolidated and ueed for the buih I ing and maintenance of a first class ii Idustiial school, with experiment statiot < attached, for farmers and mechanic I We hold that the experimental worl the educational work and the iospectic and analysis of fertilizers eau all i more efficiently and economically cat ried on under one board, mostly at os ! place, aod much of it by the same coq of men who teach. We have never, an do not BOW want any increase of tax< to accomplish these ends. But our 04 poneuts having seized the opportunit afforded by our agitation to double tb income of the South Carolina Colleg and call it a University, and iu additio ?blaioed the Hatch fund of ?15,00 donated for experiment statious, cr ; out : "Take your Clemson College VVewill give you ?98.000 or ?198, OOO, if you waut it raised by taxation but. don't touch existing institutions j They have built with our bricks but sa we must not take them, but that we ca build if we make others. Was ther ever such impudence? They seized ?rst the land scrip fund Theo they misappropriated the Hate fund, they^ocreased the taxes ?65.00' a year to equip aud maintain the differ ent departments of the grand Uuiver sity. They voted ?60,000 io one lum without even a division to rebuild, re pair and equip lite Citadel Academy I and then say to taxpaying farmers i "Loare our existing institutions" alone ! Let the Agricultural Bureau with it ' Board-who are our chosen sons, ever ::?an of them belonging to or aspiring t belong to cur aristocratic liing-le this Bureau waste ?30 000 a year more Leave our Experiment Stations at Dar ?iogton, Columbia and Spartanbur; aioue We ? speet to control votes will them and they mus* not be touched. Put your bands in your pockets an< pay for your Cleai>om College if yoi will have if, aud we ?lit vote thc taxes An analysis of the vote in ihe lieus? a;.d Senate which defeated the con*oli dari nj of all- our agricultural worl shows that the Board aud Departmea of Agriculture are sustained by th< Fertilizer Manufacturers, the Phos? phate Miners and the University and Citadel, if a farmer voted for its con? tinuance it is because he felt that th? So -tb Carolina Uoiversity would lose something by its abolition The sup? port of the Fertilizer Companies is easy to understand. This Bureau bas been their best friend. iTear after year wc have been told by Commissioner Butler that the guanos inspected were below the guarantees, but nobody bas been punished. In fact there is no adequate punishment for seiliug fraudulent guanos in this State. The bill pre? pared by the Committee of the Farm? ers' Association for the r?organisation of the Board of Agriculture would have secured our farmers against swindling fertilizer dealers, but. it was amended to death by lawyers in the Senate who are attorneys for the Phos? phate Miners and Fertilizer Companies ; and the men who were elected on the Board over the nominees of the Farm? ers* Convention were chosen not be? cause they are more loyal to the agri cultural interests, or better fitted for the positiou, hut because they are frieods of the University and belong or are subservient to our aristocracy-"so called"-aud the Phosphate Miners ar?; too well satisfied with the system of collecting the State Royalty to permit a change if they can help it. How wonderfully perfect or defective this system is, is shown by the fact that during ten years under the same offi? cials not a single indictment has been brought against any one for attempting to swiudle the State out of its dues No wonder Charleston is io love with thc Agricultural Bureau, and cannot, bear to see that "existing iustitutiou" dis' urbed The recent proposal to sell the State's interest in the Phosphate beds is for? tunate, beceause thereby the attention ?'f taxpayers is attracted to tins most important matter. The Farmer?' Association proposed io 1886 to in? crease the Royalty as a means of low? ering taxes, and we believe this can be safely done to the extent of ?100,000. A Legislative Committee was ap? pointed to "investigate" and report on the subject. This was ouly done tu give time-waiting teu months until ; the market had been manipulated, &c j This Committee proceeded to show how j well it had been chosen "not to do it." \ There was no honest effort made to get at the real facts an to the profils of the : business, and its ability to staud an in? crease ot royalty ; and aft-T it had been "wined at;<i dined.'' and brought iuto a suitable frame of tniud that commit? tee came to Columbia and actually pro? pose 1 ?, ve the six Urg.-st C ...ipanies i monopoly f . a Jess annual rental than :t. ? State was then ret: ivi.ng Only one Senator tu whom all honor is . Iii'1, dissented from lin- outrageous proposal What w is thc rcsuli ? Qi course the General Assembly did no? a<:t favorably upon it, but ?ll though! of an increase of [loyalty was also abandoned and this \v;?s what the cor? poration attorneys who w< re there in the interest of their clients and not of . their constituents had been wot king for "The goose that lays the golden egg'' was out killed-"existing institutions" 1 i were not disturbed. Phosphate Rock which had been manipulated down ti ?3.40 per ton, advanced in tw< months after the Legislature adjournei I to ?6.00, and has since ruled betweei ?5.50 and ?7.50 per ton. The golden eggs are still being laid, bist not in th< State's nest-whether some of then have not gone into pockets which they ought not is an opeu question. Now we want to warn the people that thc charter of >,be Coosaw Company obtained by bribery, it is said, of a Radical Legislature-expires in 1891. This Company which has grown fabu? lously rich claims to have a perpetual contract, with exclusive right to mine to Coosaw River and pay only one dol? lar a too for the privilege. The neil Legislature most act OD this question, and the next Attorney General may have to test these claims io Court. The whole question of Phosphate manage? ment or mismanagement mast be set? tied. Cao the tax payers Afford to allow any but true meo to go to the Senate, or elect a corporation lawyer as Attorney General? Shall the politi? cians choose him. or shall we, casting about among the many honorable, patriotic lawyers of the State, make the selection ourselves ? The Legis? lature which baa just adjourned bae other sins to answer for, or rather the Senate must be held responsible. The people demanded that the Railroad Commissioners should have something to do besides draw their salaries and spend them. -Ve want protection against the greed of the gigantic cor? porations owned at the North, which regard South Carolina as a lemon to be squeezed, and care oothing for the welfare of our towns, our State or our people. The Railroad laws of 18- made the Commission a power to defend the peo? ple against imposition. The same Leg? islature which enacted it, having been bamboozled or debauched, at the very next session left it only as a sinecure, with fat salaries and no power. We have just seen thc same disgraceful farce repeated. The law was vastly improved at the Session of 1888, but after a year which bas shown the weak? ness and unfitness of the present incum? bents, for they have done very little, the Senate peremptorily refused to make any changes. The Railroad Commissioners now in office have been "tamed,M so to speak, by the railroads, and men who have not been so long under their wing might have done something in fbe interest of the people ; but that same Senate which has again and again thwarted thc people, which refuses to reduce salaries, which fought the Clemson College and yielded at last to necessity only, which is thc strong? hold of aristocracy with its old extrav? agant non-progressive, impracticable ideas, which io a word, is dominated by Charleston's rich politicians-that Sen? ate resolved to maintain lins "existing institution,'' too, statu quo. OT ail the taxes, we pay, the pensions to Confederate veterans are submitted to most willingly, and we regret that we cannot increase the pittance they, receive. Bu the continuance of men in office as political pensioners, after their ability or willingness to serve the people is goae-when the interests and even rights of the people are thereby sacrificed, this pandering to sentiment - this favoritism is a crime, nothing more and nothing less. Rotation in office is a cardinal Democratic principle, and the neglect to practice it is the cause of many of the ills we suffer. We cannot elaborate the other counts in this indictment. We can only point briefly to the mismanage? ment of the Penitentiary, which is a burden on the tax-payers, even while engaged in no public works which will beuefit the State. To the wrong com? mitted against the people of many Counties (strongholds of Democracy) by the failure to reapportion represen? tation according to popaiatioo. whereby Charleston has five votes io the House and ten votes in the State Convention, which choose our State officers, to which it is oot entitled. To the zeal and extravagance of this aristocratic oligar chy, whose sins we are pointing out, in promising higher education for every class except farmers, while it neglects the free schools which are the only chance for un education to thousands of poor children, whose fathers bore the brunt in the struggle for our redemption in 1876 To the continued recurrence of horrible lynchings-which we can but attribute to bad laws, aod their inefficient administration. To the im? potence of justice to punish crimnals who have money. To the failure to call a Constitutional Convention that we may have an organic law framed by South Carolinians for South Carolinian*, and suited to our wants, thereby lessen? ing the burdens of taxation and giving us better government. Fellow Democrat?, do not all these things cry out for a change ? Is it not opportune, when there is no national ! election, for the common people who j redeemed the State from Radical rule to take charge of it ? Can we afford to ; leave longer in the hands of those who. ; wedded to ante-bellum ideas but pos- ! sessiug little of ante-bellum patriotism j and honor, are running it in the inter? est of a few families and for the benefit of a selfish Ring of politicians ; as real Democrats and white men, those who here renew our pledge to make the fight inside thc Hemocratic party aod abide the result, we call upon every true Carolinian, of all classes and cullings, to help us purify and refont the Demo j eratic party, atol give us a government ! of the people, by the people, and for the j people. lt we control the State Ddino- j (?ratio Convention, a Legislature io ; sympathy will naturally follow ; failing ? } to do tlii- wo ri>k losing .'il vv.' have gained, and have no hope ol any change i for the b"tter. The logic of evi nts ?nd ! past exp?rience show thal we must { nomi nat i* candidate* and put them ?ti j , tlir li-l l early, so that the masses will j understand what th-y mu -1. d i to bring about lue change we so desire. Such j course will cause an active canvass, . wide discussion ol t;.e issues presented, , | ml tin lc thus learning ihe truth i eau show whether they are in favor of tlie Fumets* Movementor uot, by elect- ? ing or rejecting our nominees. i We therefore issue this call for a Convention of those Democrats who I sympathise with our views and pur- < pnees, as herein set forth, to meet in Columbia in the House of Representa? tives on Thursday the 27th day of March, proximo, at 12 o'clock M. to nominate a ticket for every State Office? from Governor down, to be put io the field for ratification or rejection by the next Democratic State Convention, and we pledge ourselves to abide the result, whether that is for or against us. Each County will send as many dele? gates as it sends to the State Conven? tion, and we suggest that a Mass Meet? ing or Convention be called in each County to elect delegates on Sale day in March. By order of the Excutive Committee of the Farmers' Association of Sooth Carolina. G. W.SHELL, PRESIDENT, And Ex-Offioio Chairman. South Carolina's Sunday Schools. A Call for a Sunday School Con? vention to be Held at Columbia. The following call for a State Sunday Scferjrjl Convention, to be held io Co? lumbia on the 4th of March next, has been issued by the officers of the State Association : SPAR?ANB?RG, ?. C , Jan. 19, 1890. To the Sunday School Workers of the State of South Carolina. DEAR BRETHREN : The Interdenomi? national Sunday School Convention of South Carolina is hereby called to meet in the city of Columbia ii 8 o'clock the evening of the 4th, day of March, 1890 An attractive programme, with speakers representing all sections and denominations of the State, is being prepared and will be announced through the press tn a few weeks. Arrangements for special excursion rates will be made with railroads and published in time for the information of all concerned. Chairmen of County Conventions are earnestly requested to forthwith confer with delegates elect to said annual State Convention and to urge upon them to make their arrangements at once 11 be in attendance. If any of them oannot or will not attend, let the alternates be urged to go in their places, or substi? tutes appointed by the chairmen of the County Conventions. In the several Counties where no in? terdenominational associations are or? ganized, unions or conferences are earn? estly solicited through their proper officers to authorize aod appoint suitable delegates to represent them in this In? terdenominational Sunday School Con? vention. Or, where no organization exist?, the pastors and superintendents of individual Churches and Schools are cordially invited to attend them? selves or appoint representatives Every person attending is assured of a warm reception and is promised a pro? fitable occasion. Every County organization, whether denominational or not, is urged to pre? pare and send up to this musting full statistics of the numbers, conditions aud prospects of the Sunday School work io their respective Counties or districts. Any facts regarding this great department of Christ's Church in this State will be gratefully received Mr. William Reynolds of Illinois, President of the International Sunday School (Convention, who has been in at? tendance upon the last two South Caro? lina Annual Conventions, and who, by his active participation added so much to the success and pleasure of said meet? ing", will be present, at Columbia and will probably bring other prominent workers of national and international prominence with him. Besides, as many as possible of thc leading and most prominent Sunday School workers 'io this State will be iu attendance; and altogether the most successful, the livest and most largely attended Sunday School Convention in this State for years, is promised. Nothing in the way of effort will be spared by the executifs committee and the local com? mittees to make this the best conten? tion ever held in the State. Let every friend ?t the Sunday School cause offer fervent and constant prayer to the Father above that His special blessings may he ?pon this meeting and that its deliberations may result in the upbuilding aud extending of Hie kingdom io this State and in the salvation of thousands of the preciods childreo of our land. Every pastor and superintendent in the State is requested to read this cali to his congregation and bis school at least once before the meeting of the convention at Columbia. Every paper in the State, both reli? gious and secular, is requested to copy this call and also a forthcoming pro? gramme. Fraternally, CHAS. H CARI.ISI.??. Chairman. Colored *GerJiu& Coit T. Chapman, a colored man ? ear Elliot, has invented a machine which He has named "The combinat ?on Planter and Cultivator." The machine will distribute fertilizers, ridge, make the bed and plant cotton at one and the *MT?Ie time. By removing the fertilizer I ind planting attachments two. four or ive plows can be attached and it forms i cultivator all complete. The machine was tested here last week in the pres? ence of Messrs. A. C. Durant. W. It. Dixon W. H. Dixon and others, on and that was rough and covered with jrass and very successfully dill all that s claimed for it. A patent has been ?pplied for and arrangements are bring nade to have the machine man unc? ured in quantities.-Bitkfpvffle Ka gie Tho Star of Bethlehem. To persons who put faith it) pr. lie- | ions of coining miracle**, th;* following ' lispateh froto Vicuna may bc of int?r? ?t Within :i short tim-"! Star ot 1 l?e th 1? beni wi ! be viable, making its seventh at.nf.ir.mce since th" birth of Christ, it comes once in 2?? years, i ind is of won di otis- brilliant;*' for the j . ?p.ice. nf three w?'?ks. Thun it wanes . , md disappears after seventeen months. , lt will bd a sixth star ad.i t to thu live j | ixed stars in the constellation of ('as- ! ! iiopeia. while it remains io sight. ! ? Atlanta has a populatiou of b7 OOO- , iiearly 10.000 increase in a year. In 1880 it had but 37.000. The Constihi- i ion predicts it will have 200,000 by the i md of the cent u ry * 1 By H. RIDEE HAGGARD. Author of ^Colonel Quaritch, V. C.," "Mr. Meeson?? Will,* 4M tale of Three Lions? ""4 ?tm QuatermainJ' "She" ?Ve?," etc CHAPTER III. MAKE no apol? ogy to myself, ur to anybody who may happen to read this narra? tive in future, for having set out the manner of my meeting with In daba-jdmbi; first, because it was curious, and sec? ondly, because he takes some hand in the subsequent events. If that old man was a humbug, he was a very clever one. What a mount of truth there was in his pretensions of feupermturai powers it is not for me to determine, though I may have my own opinion on the subject. But there was no mistake as to the extraordinary in ?uence he exercised over his fellow natives. When I was at length ready to start upon my expedition I went to old Indaba zimhi to say good-by to him. and was rather surprised to find him engaged in rolling up medicine, assegais, and other sundries in his blankets. "Qood-by, Indaba-zimbi,** I said, "1 am going to trek north." "Yes, Maciimazahn," he answered, with his head on one Side; "and gon n I-I want to see that cot?ntry. We* wiii go to? gether." "Will we!" I said; "wait till you are asked, you old humbug." "You had better ask me, then, Macu mazalin, for if you don't you will never come back alive. Now that the old chief (my father) is gone to where the storms come from," and he nodded to the sky, j "I feel myself getting into bad habits j again. So last night I just threw up the ! bones and worked out about your jour? ney, and I can tell you this, that if you don't take me you will die, and, what is more, you will lose one who is dearer to you than life." "Now I was no more superstitious than other people, but somehow old Indaba ximbi impressed me. Also, I knew his extraordinary influence over every class of native, and bethought me that he might be useful in that way. "All right," I said; "I appoint you witchfinder to the expedition without pay." "First serve, then ask for wages," he answered. "I am glad to see that you have enough imagination not to be alto? gether a foo!, like most white men, Macu mazahn. Yes, yes, it is want of imag? ination that malees people fools; they won't believe what they can't under- i stand. You can't understand my prophe- j cies anv more than the fool at the kraal ? could understand that I was lib master j with the lightning. Well, it i? timo to j trek, but if I were you, Macumazahn, ] should take one wagon, not two." "Why?" I said. "Because you will lose your wagons, and it is better to lose one than two." "Oh. nonsense!" I said. "All right, Macumazahn, live anal learn." And without another word he walked to the foremost wagon, put his bundle into it, and climbed into the front seat. So, having bid an affectidnate adieu to ray white friends, at length I started, and traveled slo^ly northwards. For the'first three weeks nothing **ory particular be? fell nie. Such Kaiiirs as we came in con? tact with were friendly, and game liter? ally swarmed. The first real adventure that befell hie on this particular journey was with elephants, which I will relate because of its curious termination. Just before we crossed the Orange river we came to a stretch of forest land some twenty rriiles broad. The night we entered this' forest we camped in a lovely open glade. ? few yards ahead tambouki grass was growing to the height of a man, or rather it had been; now, with the ex? ception of a few stalks here arid there, it was crushed quite flat. It was already dusk when we camped: but after the moon got up I talked from the fire to see how this had happened. One glance was enough for me: a great herd bf ele? phants had evidently passed over tho tall grass ii'oft rr?auy hours before. The sight of their spoer rejoiced mo exceed? ingly, for though I liad seen wild ele? phants, at that time I had never shot ono. Moreover, the sight of elephant spoor to thc African hunter is what ''color in the pan" is to the prospector of gobi. It is bv ivory that he lives, and j tc shoot it or trado it is his chief aim in ! life. My resolution was soon taken. 1 would camp the wagons for a while in the forest, and start on horseback after thc elephants. I communicated my <:?eisiori to Inda? ba-zimbi and ti?e other Kaffirs. The lat? ter were not loth, for" your Kaffir loves j hunting, which means plenty of meat j and congenial occupation, but Indaba- j zimbi would express no opinion. I saw j him retire to a little fire that ho had lit for himself, and go through ?rome mys? terious performances with bones and clay mixed with ashes, which were j watched with the greatest, interest by the j other Kaffirs. At length he rose, and, j coming forward, informed ?ne that it j was ail right; and that I did well to go ; and hunt the elephants, as I should get plenty of ivory: but ho ?advised me to^o j on foot. I said I should do nothing of j the sort, but meant to ride. ? am wiser i now; that was the first and last time that j I ever attempted to hunt elephants on ? horse i'nek. Accordingly, we Started at dawn, I. I Indaba-zimbi ami three men; tho rest I i left with the wagons. I was on horse- ? bacK and so was my driver, a good rider j and a skillful shot for a Kaffir, but In- j daba-zimbi and the -others walked. From dawn lill midday we followed tho trail ; of the lieiil. which was as plain as n j hi.^h road. Theo wo oil saddled tc lot tin? horses rest ate! feed, and tibou't ?? o'clock star--! on again. Another hour or so passed, and sri!' th; re was nd sign of elephants. F.vidently the fiord lind traveled f.i<t and f r. and I began to think that we should II ive to give ii un, winn suddenly 1 caught si.ejit f,f a brown mass moving through thc thorn trees <MI the sitio of a slope about a ?.Har? ter < f a milo away. My heart seemed to jump into my month. Where is the ! limiter who has not felt like luis at the j sight of In's lirst elephant? I called a : halt, and then, the wind being right, we set to work to stalk the bull. Very quietly i rode down the hither ?ideot the slope till we came to the bot? tom, which was densely covered with bush. Here I saw the elephants had kee? feeding, for broke? branches and upturned trees tay all about. I did not . ?aka mut li Cotice; however, fer all' my thoughts were fixed upon the bull I was ?talking, when suddenly my horse made j a violent start that nearly threw me j from the saddle, and there came a ' mighty nish and upheaval of something in front of me. I looked: there was the hinder part of a second bul! elephant not tour yards off. ? could just catch sight of its outstretched ears projecting on either side. I had disturbed it sleeping, an 1 it was running away. Obviously the bett thing to do would have been to let lt rtln, but t was young i? those days and foolish, and in the excitement of the mo? ment I lifted my "roer" or elephant gun and fired at the great brute over my horse's head, l^ie recoil of the heavy gun nearly knocked me ?ff Ih? horse, I recovered myself, however, and as 1 did so, saw the boll lurch forward, fdr the Impact of a three ounce bullea in th? flanks will quicken the movements even of an elephant. By this time I had real? ized the folly of the shot, and devoutly hoped that the bull would take no fur? ther notice of it But he had a different view of the matter. Pulling himself up in a series of plunges, lie spun around and came for me with outstretched ears and uplifted trunk, screaming terribly. I was quite defenseless, for my gun was empty, and my first thought was of es? cape. I dug my heels into the sides of my horse, but he would not move an inch. The poor animal was paralyzed with terror, and he simply stood still, his forelegs outstretched, and quivering all over like a leaf. On rushed the elephant, awful to see; I made one more vain effort to stir the horse. Now the trunk of the great bull j swung aloft above my head. A thought ! flashed through my brain. Quick as ! light I rolled from the saddle. By th? ! side of the horse lay ? falieii tree*.ss! thick through as a rii?tf's body. The j tree was lifted a little off the gro?n? fey j the broken boughs which took its weight, and with a single movement, so active is j One in such necessities, 1 flung myself ! beneath it. As I did so, I heard the trunk of tho elephant descend with a mighty thud o't? tlie back of my poor horse, and the next instant ? was almost in dark? ness, for the horse, whose back was j broken, fell over across fcKe tree under i which I lay ensconced. But he' did not j stop there long. In ten seconds more the j bull had got Iiis trunk round my dead ? nag's neck, and, with a mighty effort, j hurled him clear of the tree. I wriggled backwards as far as I could towards the roots of the tree, for I knew what he was after. Presently I saw the red tip of the bull's think stretching itself towards me. Ii he could manage to hook it round any part of me I was lost. But in the posi? tion I Occupied, that was just what he could not do,- although he knelt down to facilitate his Operations. On came the snapping tip like a great open-mouthed snake; it closed upon my hat, which vanished. Again it was thrust down, and a scream of rage was bellowed through it within four inches of my hoad. Now it seemed to elongate itself. Oh, heavens! now it had me by the ; hair, which, luckily for myself, was not j very long. Then it was my turn to j scream, for next instant half a square ; mch of hair was dragged from my sea!}) by tho roots. I was being plucked alive, as I have seen cruel Kaffir kitchen boy?: pluck a fowl. The elephant, however, disappointed with the m(>derate restrlts. changed his tactics. He wound his trunk found the fallen tree arid lifted it. It stirred, but fortunately the broken branches* inibeVided in the spongy soil? and some roots; which still held; pre-' vented it, froni being turned ove?; though he lifted it so much that, had it occurred to? him. lie Could now have easily fished me but with his trunk. Again he hoisted with all his mighty strength, and I saw that tho tree W3s coming, and roared aloud for help*. Some shots were fired close by in answer, but if they hit the bull; their only effect was to stir his energies' to more active fife. In another few seconds my shelter would be torn away, and I should be done for. A cold perspiration burst over me i? 1 realized that I was lost. Then of ? sui' den I remembered that I had a pistol in my belt, which I of ted used for dispatch-; lng wounded game. It was loaded; and capped. By this time' ibo tree Was lifted so* much' that 1 could easily get my haiid down tri my middle aud draw the pistol fr?'m' its case. I drew and cocked, it See tlie tree' watfco't??rig; and ?Here; wftti-' in three reet bf my head, was the great brown trunk of the elephant I placed the muzzle of the pistol within an inch* of it and fired. The result was instants neous. Down sunk the tree again, giv? ing ono bf T?if legs a considerable squeeze, and tho next instant ? heard ? crashing sound. The ?l?phant hac? bolted. , By thisf time; what between' fright and struggling, t was pretty well done. 1 cannot remember how ? got from under the fallen tree, or indeed anything, until I found myself sitting on the ground drinking some poach brandy from a flask, and old Indaba-zimbi opposite me nodding his white lock sagely, while he fire^ otf moral reflections on the narrow? ness of my Escape, and my unwisdom in not having taken his advice to go on foot That reminded me of my horse I got up und went td IcOb at ft. ?t was quite ?lead: the blow of the elephant's trunk had fallon on the saddle, breaking the framework and rendering it useless. I reflected that in another two seconds it would have fallen on mo. I called to Indaba-zimbi and asked which way the elephants had ?One. "There!" ho said, pointing down the gully, "and we had bet ter grafter them, Macumazahn. We have had the bad luck, trow S6r the good."' There Was' philosophy iii .his, though, to toll the truth', 1 did not feel particu? larly keen on elephants at the moment. I seemed tc have had enough of them. However, it would hover do to show the white feather before the boys, so I as? sented with much outward readiness, and we started, I on the second horse, and the others on foot. When we had traveled for the best part Of an hour down the valley, all of a Sudden we came upon the whole herd, which num? bered a little moro than eighty. Justin I front Of them the bush was so thick that | they seemed f-> hesitate about entering it, and the sides of the valley were so rocky end steep At this point that they could ??ot climb ? hem. j They ?aw us u the same moment as we ; ?-aw tiiem. ??nd inwardly I was lilied with fears lest they should take it into their heads to charge eack up thegu?y. ISM they di.l not: trumpeting aloud, they j rushed at the thick bush which went down before them like corn before a sickle. I ?Io not think that in all my ex- ! perienecs ? ever heard anything to equal the sound they made as they crashed ; through and over the shrubs and trees. | Before them was a dense forest belt from' j a hundred to a hundred and fifty feet in : width. As they rushed on it fell, so that be-. hind them was nothing bat a leve? road- ? way 6trewn with fallen trunks., crushed . . - - - ' branches, and here and there a treei too* strong even for them, left sten?ingamid1 the wreck. On they went, and", notwith? standing the nature of th? ground ovef~ which' they had to* travel, they kept their distance ahead of us; This sort of tiling; continued for a mile or more, and then't saw that in front of the elephants the bai? ley opened into a space covered' with* feeds and grass-it might have been five or six acres in extent-beyond which the* valley ran on again! The herd reached the ?dgV of fltfi ex? pans?, and for & moment pulled op,'hes1' i tating-evidently they mistrusted' it My men yelled aloud, as only Kaffirs' can, and that settled them. Headed.by the wounded bull, whose rnartiaf efrdpr; like my cfwf? was somewhat tooled; they* spread out and ?ashed inter the treacher? ous swamp, for such it was, though1 just then there was no water to be seen. Foi a few yards all went well with them; though they clearly found it heavy go-' ing? then ffiddyjH!y the great butt sunk up to his belly ta the stiff peaty soS, an<f remained fixed. The others, mad with* fear, took no heed of his struggles and! trumpetings; but plunged on* to'.rhee? the same fate. In five minutes the whole' herd of them were hopelessly bogged, the more they struggled to* escape; tfctf deeper they sunk. There was one ex? ception, indeed, a cow with a calf mad aged to win back to firm slror?; ?iiaV lifting her trunk, prepared to charge us" as we came up. But at that moment, she heard the scream of her calf, an(f rushed back to its assistance, only tor be bogged with the others. Such a scene I never saw before of since. Thc swamp was spotted all ovei with the large forms of the elephants; and the air rang with their screams' of rage and terror as they waved? their trunks wildly to and fro. Now ancf again a monster weald make a great effort and drag his mass, from its peaty bed, only to slick fast a^ain at the next stroke; lt "was a; most pitiable sight; though one that gladdened the" fiearrjf of my men. Even the best natives have little compassion for the sufferings of animals. Well, the rest was" t>asy. fie* t?&slt that would not bear the elephants" carriecf our weight well eucgh. Before mid: night all were dead, for vic shot theuf by moonlight. I would gladly have' spared the young ones and some of the cows, but to do so wouW only have meant leaving them to perish of huhgerr it was kinder to kill thenr at once". The wounded bull I slew with my own han<^r and I cannot say that I felt much com? punction fri doing so'. He kh?%v me again, and made a desperate effort tc* get at me, but I am glad to say that the peat held him fast., - The pan presented a cuf???ss?gnt when5 the sun rose next morning. Owing to" the support given by tho soil, none of the dead elephants had fallen; there they all stood as though they were asleep. I sent back for the wagons, and when they arrived on the morrow, formed ? canip, about ? mile away from the pan; Then began the work of cutting out the elephants' tusks; it took ?ver a week; and for obvious reasons was a disgtfetitig' task. Indeed, had it not been for the help of some wandering bushmen, who took their pay in elephant meat, I do" not think we could ever have managed it. At last it was done. Hie ivory was far too cumbersome for us to .carry,, eb* we buried it, having first got rid of our bushmen allies. ' My boys wanted me td go back to the cape with it and ?ell it; but I was too" much bent on my journey to do this. The tusks lay buried for five" years. Tberi I came and dug tf?hi ??* th?y.we?? but little harnled. ^timateiy I sold the ivory for rsoffietltmg over" twelve hundred pounds-not bad jpajr for one day's shooting. This is how I began my career as* ad elephant hunter. I have shot many hundreds of them since, but have never' again attempted to do so bu horseback; [fo BE CONTINUED J Henry W. Grady's "Soutt?er? Farm.** The janu- ry nun h r of this excellent fafnl magazine is jost out, and surpasses any issue' yet printed. It is eighty pages Snd contains" tbe last works of the great editor who was ix? founder, and ??as ? correct report cf bis last great speech .in rfbtcfr h?' cMm,'rfito!*a tfiS rights of tbe South before a Boston a?^f?nrti ?od elicited tb? sympathy of the whole Norttf io (he cause for which he plead so nobly. 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