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-:-? -. .mmmm-m*-M-? - ? TBE TK?E SO?THKON, Established ?TCHW, 1S?# New Series-Toi. ?. No. 51. N- ?, OSTBEN, SUMTER, 3. C. fitts* Two Dollar* pgr annam-io ad nnes. ADTftETIIIMlITS. ?>oe Sonar?,firstitiaertkn..........^....Sl 00 Evsry snbseqoen t insertion.................. 50 Contracts for three months, or longer irtll be ?ad? at red wed rates. AS eosuaaaieUtons which subserve private intel sits will becharged fer ae advertisements. Obituaries ani tribotss ?f respect wai be charged for. BEMOVALT5 '---AND NEW GOODS. To accommodate my largely increased and increasing busi? ness, I have removed to the handsome and commodious new Brick Store next to John Reid's, oppsfeite my old stand, where 1 can now be found with a stock of | DIAMONDS, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silver aid Plated Ware, SPECTACLES, &a, surpassing in brilliancy, extent and variety any stock of the kind ever shown in this city, with daily additions of new at? tractions. Thinking my friends tod the public generally for the very liberal patronage bestowed 00 sae aft say old stand, I hope to ?sift a eoo*in?aooe of the same, and I hereby extend to all a cordial invita? tion to pay sae a visit at my new stand, where, with a larger stock and increased facilities ki every way I am better pre* pared than ever to eater to their wants. 'Don't forget the place, REID'S BLOCK, MAIN ST., SUMTER, S. C. Yours, anxious to please, L W. FOLSOM. Everything in the tine of repairing done as heretofore._Oct 8 H. A. HOYT, Successor to > C. I. BOTT k BRO. Gold aid Silver Watches, FINK DIAMONDS. Clocks, Jewelry, Spectacles, MIRIQKK BRITANIA SILT KR WARS, Ac. . mw Airare A SPECIALTY. Fehl This is the way with the Ball corset: if you waist ease and shapeliness, you T>uy it-but you don't keep it unless you like it. After two or three weeks' 5 wear, you can return it and have your money Comfort isn't all of it though. Soft Eyelets, and '"bones" that can't break or kink-Ball's corsets have ' both of these. J.RYTTJBJf BERG * SONS. _ WUMN * LEMASTER. CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS. SUMTER, S. C. TTT?LL MAKE BIDS ON ANY WORK fy in City or County, and will do &II -wane wim despatch and in best of work by mail or otherwise responded to jr. Gan be fooir* it present at build West ead of Ge??iooo Strest. E. H. HOLMAN, G. F. Ls.Ni ASTER. HONKY FOB SALE. I have on hand a fine lot of CHOIC? EXTRACTE D HOWEY, aale hy; Uae gallon or km onantity. HONEY IN THE COMB. at r?sidence, on Republican can be asea at Watdtrntn Jf. G. OSTEEN. a Headache Core H CHILD BIRTH . . . . . . MADE EASY ! " MOTHERS' FRIEND " is a scientific? ally prepared Liniment, every ingre? dient cf recognized value and in constant use by the medical pro? fession. These ingredients are com? bined in a manner hitherto unknown "MOTHERS' . FRIEND" . WILL DO all that is claimed for it AND MORE It Shortens Labor, Lessens Pain, Diminishes Danger to Life of Mother and Child. Book to " MOTHERS ? mailed FREI, con? taining valuable information and voluntary testimonials? Sent by expressen receipt of price SUSO per bottle ?MBFfCL? RECULATOR COL, Atlanta, fia, SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. For Infanta and Children. Castorf* preanotee Digestion, and overcomes Flatulency, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoen, and Feverishness. Tans the child is rendered healthy and its sleep nftt^TfJ, Castoria contains no Morphine or other narcotic property. "Castoria is so well adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription known to ne,1' H. A. ARCHKS, M. p.. Ul Sooth Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. MI nae Castoria in my practice, and find ft snedaBy adapted to affections of children." ALEX. ROBZBXSOH, M. D., IC37 3d Ave., New York. "From personal knowledge and observation I caa say that Castoria is an excellent medicine for enfloren, acting aa & laxative and relieving the pent np bowe? and general system very ranchi Many mothers have told me o? tts ex? osflsat effect upon their children." DE. G. C. OSGOOD, Lowell, Mass. Tn* CXKTADB GonPANT, 77 Murray Street, N. Y. Are You Interested? Are yon suffering with any of tbe following symptoms: Loss of, or irregular appetite, loss of flesh, a feeling or fulness or weight in the stomach, acidity, flatulence, a dull pain with a sensation of heaviness in the bead, giddiness, constipation, derangement of kid? neys, heart trouble, nervousness, sleepless? ness, etc. Dr. Holt's Dyspeptic Elixir will core you. W. A. Wright, the Comptroller General of Georgia, says, three bottles cured him after having tried almost everything else. Judge R. F, Islar, Macon, Ga., says, Holt's Elixir accomplished what all other remedies failed to do, a perfect cure. J. E. Paullin, Ft. Gaines, Ga., writes : "I have no hesitancy in recommending it, as it cured me of dyspepsia. For any further information inquire of yonr druggist. For saie by all druggists. THE SIH9NDS MTIONAL BANK, OF SUMTER. STATE, CITY AND CC CINTY DEPOSI? TORY, SUMTE!*., S. C. Paid up Capital.$75,000 00 Surplus Fund. 9,250 00 Transacts a General Banking Business. Careful attention given to collections. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT.! Deposits of $i and upwards received. In? terest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum. Payable quarterly, on first days ef January, April, July and October. R. M. WALLACE, Vice President. L. S. CABSOV, Aug. 7 Cashier. me Bil if ni, SUMTER, S 0. CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSITORY. Transacts a general Banking business. Also has A Savings Bank Department Deposits of $1.00 and upwards received. Interest calculated at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum, payable quarterly. W. F. B. HAYNSWORTH, A. Warn, JB., President. Cashier. Aug 21. _ E I Wk SOLOMONS, DENTIST. Office OVER BROWNS A PURDY'S STORE. Entrance on Main Street, Between Browns A Purdy and Durant A Son. OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 1.30; 2 to 5 o'clock. Sumter, S. C , April 29._ Qt. W. DIGS, D. ?. S. Office over Bogin's New Store, UTRAJtCS OS MAIR ST ??BET SUMTER, S. C. Office Honrs.-9 to 1:30 ; 2:30 to 5. Sept 8_ Dr. T. W. BOOKHART, DENTAL SURGEON. Office over Bnltman & Bro.'s Shoe Store. BNTBANCK ON MAIN STREET. SUMTER, S. C. Office Honrs-9 to 1:30 ; 2:30 to 5. April 17-o_ AGENTS WANTED F>R SUMTER COUNTY for the NATION? AL CAPITAL LIFE ASSOCIATION. The right man will earn $75 00 per week. This Association is receiving the support of Farmers Alliances. W. S. MONTEITH, Manager So. Division, Columbia, S. C. June 10. 2 Sample Copies Free ! The Sunny South, our great Southern Family Weekly, sboo(d be taken in every household. The price is only $2 a year, and a present which is worth that amount or more is sent for every yearly subscription. A sample copy will be sent free to any address. Write at once to J. H. SEALS A CO., Atlanta, Ga. Dr. Morelai's Calisaya Mc. The Great Southern Remedy, Will Cure Chills and Fever, Dyspepsia, and all Liver and Blood Disease*. Rev. W. H. Hunt, of Atlanta, Ga., writes : -From the benefits I have received from a single bottle of Dr. Westmoreland's Calisaja Tonic, I hare no hesitation in saying that I consider it an excellent remedy for indiges? tion, and General Debility. Col. H. P. Hammett, Prest. Camperdown and Piedmont Hills, Greenville, S. C., says I had contracted Malaria, and suffered greatly tn i ts various forms for near two years ; tried two or three Mineral Springs-The most skill fal Physicians, hat was not relieved. Was cared with five or six bottles of Dr. West morelaod'g Calisaya Tonk. m IN wu m. By J. H. COMELL Y, [Copyright, 1891, by American Preta Associa? tion.] CHAPTER L **Ofc^cctio7w.f Sb. Fccsh all you girt a mind to. Fceshcs vas made tobe catched." "Objections! Mel I baet you ne. Feesh all you got a mind to. Feeshes vas made to be catched. Offen im Deutsch? land, ven I vas a leedle boy, I vant to go feeshin' so bad I gan feel it yet, unt mein vater zay, 'Heinrich Kropff! yon bleib I by your vork.' I vas not zo gruel. Ven I haf my vay, I vish efferybody feesh zo I much he got desire for alietty. Jacob viii put year horse in the barn. Jacob, ' my boy! Gome here," A stout, sullen looking young man, j chewing a straw and with his hands in his pantaloons pockets, lounged out of the barn and toward the porch upon which his fattier and two visitors were stand? ing. "Take the zhentlemen's horse, Jacob, unt bring him by the barn, und feed him." While Jacob was stolidly obeying or? ders one of the strangers replied: ! "Pm sure we are infinitely obliged to you. sir, for your courtesy. The fact is I that so many landowners play dog-in the-manger now it is not easy to find places where one can take a few trout without liability of arrest for trespass. What flies are most killing al; present up bereT "Veil, mister"- He hesitated, looked at a card in his hand and continued "Mister Cute, or Mister Sharp, vor mine Gelluf I think the vorst been them mos? quitoes, but ve dont got many here. There vas a leedle vly mit a green head vat bite like a schmall Satan, but maybe you don't see one. of him in a veek." "I do not mean the most annoying in? sects," replied Mr. Cute, smilingly, "but those mest tempting to the trout; those they bite best at" "Ah? Zo! Veil, for that. Mr. Cute, or Mr. Sharp, I should al va vs say the vorms." Mr. Cute and Mr. Sharp laughed, and tackle in hand strolled away toward the trout brook among the hills. Herr Kropff looked after them, and as he re? took his place in the big rocking chair on the porch soliloquized sympathet? ically: "Pore young vellers! How thin unt dried up they look. They got a hard time vorkin' in some office in New York, j I suppose; by the gaslights all the time, maybe. Ach! Lieber Himmel! That vas not a place that a man he shall live, in the city; vere is v?d birds, unt flow? ers, unt trees not ever to be seen, nor even a leedle bumblebee that shall make a man think how the free nature is lovely. Zo I did feel ven I was gome I journeyman forty years ago, unt I say, 'No, I viii not 8htay im Germany unt j been gabraet maker; I viii go by Amer j ica unt been farmer.' I vouldnot live ! today, maybe,, if I did shtay in the city j unt vork at the bench, unt 1 know I should not vant ta Here 1 been strong unt gontent unt happy-unt mein Lieschen! Sure she vould not so pretty be in the city." That final supposition was probably erroneous, for the old man's daughter was really so good looking that her pret? tiness would most likely have resisted the adverse influences of urban sur? roundings quite as well as the charms of many more girls who somehow suc? ceed in being very lovely even in the cities. But such a delicious picture as she presented just now she certainly never would have made as a town dwell? er. Just lier head and bust were shown above and beyond a clump of snowdrop bushes, in which the waxen fruit lay among the foliage like pearls set in green enamel. Over her spread an apple tree's boughs, thickly studded with blossoms, ?aid through a rift among the branches s" ray of sunshine seemed refracted into an anreole about her golden curb. Her red lips were parted in a smile and the light of happiness sparkled in her bright blue eyes. One plump white hand was raised to a level with her face, its palm turned outward, in the gesture of waft? ing a kiss. George Stirling, driving by through tho lane, was quite right in thanking, as he responded to that gestare, that Lieschen, his betrothed wife, was one of the prettiest girls in the country-or per? haps anywhere, . 'That is a fine young chap, that Gt*rge Stirling," the old man reflected, "nut 1 guess he think pretty much of Liebchen like Lieschen think of him. Veil, that is aU right. I vish that fool unlucky boy Jacob was shpry like him."* "Vater! Vater! That dominic hen vas settin' again,M broke in a shrill female voice upon his meditations, and an elderly woman, his wife Anna, appeared coming around a corner of the house, carrying the recalcitrant and vociferous hen by the legs. "I yoost catch herstt tin* on an old door knob and a schmall bottle. You got to fix her nose." "That door knob vas hopeless, but n bolitical party haf been hatched out from a bottle by ed riot attention to business. Gif me that hen." Pulling a long feather from one of the fowl's wings he thrust it through her nostrils, so that it protruded on each side at right angles with the line of her beak, an arrangement which seemed to inflict no pain, but to fascinate her be? wildered mind and engross her attention. Her eyes came out and stood on her cheeks in an effort to see both ends of the feather, and she went of? toward the barnyard slowly, stopping occasion? ally to utter a whoop of surpri:*? and to claw vainly at the strange thing. "That breaks her all np on that settin* notion," commented the farmer. "It beats all how much a hen vas like a vornan. Either of them only gan of one thing at a time think. It vas a vise dis bensation of Brovidence that schmall minds shall not be sgattered. Jacob vas eggseption. He gannet gonceutrate on anything but eatin* unt shleepin'." One of the farm hands came in to if Mz. Krejfi had made up his mind whether he would have the old field broken np for corn or left fallow to seed down for wheat in the falL That question entailed some discussion. Jacob languidly drifted over from the barn, and stood leaning against a pillar of the porch listening with an air of weary in? difference until the matter was settled, and then lounged on into the house to learn if dinner was not nearly ready. After dinner the old man retook his accustomed seat on the porch, lighted his long pipe and fancied he was think? ing, while his thoughts entangled them? selves into a kaleidoscopic jumble of good-for-nothing Jacob, obstinate henn shrewish wife, old field-all in strange and fantastic relations to each other and to mm But gradually all sense of care and annoyance floated away, and only the humming of the bees at their hives, the bluebird's musical carol from the hollow stump, the melodious call of the robin jumping in the orchard, the faint, sweet scent of the apple blossoms and the warmth of the glad sunshine remained, in a blended impression of delight that made Herr Kropff young again in a happy dream About the middle of the afternoon the anglers returned, with but one meager little troutlet as the result of their day's endeavors, but quite cheerful neverthe? less. The water, they said, was too high and roiled from recent rains to favor sport. Another time, they did not doubt, they would do better. "Yes," assented Farmer Kropff oracu? larly, "ven you use worms. Feathers unt bristles gannot be depended upon to seduce the abbetite of a feesh." He would not consent that they should take their leave without partaking of "at least a gnp of goffee," which developed into an excellent meal by the time that the willing but habitually grumbling good wife Anna had it placed upon the table. Then Jacob was awakened from bis nap in the haymow to get out their horse. Mr. Sharp wished to pay the farmer for their dinner and the care of their horse, but the offer was firmly and almost in? dignantly repelled. "I do not geep a hotel," the old man replied, "unt for him who gan afford it, as I gan. there is yoost as much pleasure in eggstending hospitality as in receiv? ing it." But Jacob gladly pocketed the two dollar bill that Mr. Cute slipped into his hand, and mumbled "Thank ya." CHAPTER IL " Vy you did not yoomp on a hroposiUon like dott Ten thousand doUant!" Three days later Messrs. Cute and Sharp reappeared at Herr Kropff s on an? other fishing excursion, and were heart? ily welcomed. When they went off to the brook they took with them a big and clumsy, but apparently light package, the contents of which they did not ex? pose, and a spade. The farmer inferred that they had come prepared to dig bait, and that the package contained a bait box, the size of which, however, sur? prised him Neither of those things did they bring back in the afternoon, but they had a fine string of trout, which they insisted upon presenting to Herr Kropff. "No, no," he protested, "you shall take your fishes along with yon, or yonr friends will not believe that you catch some." But they declared that they would not be bothered with them: that all they wanted was the sport of catching the gamy little fellows, and that the health and pleasant memory of their day's out? ing was all they cared to take back to the city. So Mrs, Kropff added the trout to the elaborate dinner she was prepar? ing for them. While it was being made ready the anglers sat upon the porch chatting with the old man. "You have a handsome farm here. Mr. Kropff," remarked Mr. Cute. "Veil, pooty goot," responded the farmer deliberately. "It might have more meadow land; but it might be vorse." "How many acres have you?" "One hundred and twenty, goot unt strong." "What is land worth about here?" in? terpolated Mr. Sharp. "Veil, that depends on how much one man shall vant to sell or anather man to buy. Maybe about fifty dollars an acre ven there vas no fiuctnative influences." "Do you know of any farm in this neighborhood for sale?" "No, sir, I don't." "My friend," interposed Mr. Cute, again taking up the thread of conversa? tion, "has a notion that he wonld^et well if he could come up and live in this pure air." *Zo! You been seek?" asked the old fanner, turning with compassionate in? terest to Mr. Sharp. .Yes. The doctors say that 1 cannot last more than six or eight months, prob? ably, if I do not give np Wall street and get out to some healthy place in the country. I suppose i shall have todo so if 1 can find the place." "Veil, vot is the matter that you shall not come up here unt live vile you get veli?" "You aro very kind, but that would ! hardly be practicable. I must have a home of my own. 1 have a family and require a place. You don't think you ! would care to sell, do youT* ' "Na Of snch a thing I would not think. My children here were born and here I shall die. 1 did knock around the world enough ven I a young man vas. Now I viii take my rest. Every place in the vorld vonld be strange to me ven I should go from here out." "You are right. It is a great thing to be settled down. I would willingly give forty thousand dollars f'jr a place like this." The sound of a plate fairing and smashing upon the dining room floor reached their ears. "My graciousr exclaimed Mr. Kropff, starting, "Lieschen is at it again! Ven her young man gomes her mind into she imbulsively opens her hands, and if she got a dish in them, down it goes. By chimini ! ve got to'eat out of troughs ven she don't got married pooty kvick." But be wronged Lieschen that time. It was ber mother who dropped the plate. When Messrs. Cote and Sharp were seated at the table, with iLkneben watt rag u pon them, and dinner enough for a loasen men set ont before them. Herr Kropff settled himself to resume his in? terrupted siesta, and was already drowsy when his reluctant attention was com? pelled by a suppressed but still sharp voice calling, "Henrich! Heinrichf Away out ra the orchard stood Mrs. Kropff, making vigorous signs with her arms, summoning htm. Unwillingly and slowly be arose from his choir. "An afferage of a dozen garter snakes every summer for twenty-five years," he grumbled, **unt yet she viii not by her? self either kill one or let it alone. She mott gall me to smash ita head. The three hundred nat first has no doubt ap* peared to her.1* But when he reached her he found that a harmless but offending garter snake was not the vital qacstioa. "Um guttes willear she fairly panted is ber combined eagerness and anxiety to repress her voice. "Vy you did not yootnp on a broposrtion like dot? Ten thousand dol?an? r -1 vas not thinking that I vould sell my farm.** "Ko! You vould sit there like an old fool vea a man offer you more as two times so much as the place been vorth." "How you know vat it is vorthT "It gannet be so much vorth. Hern rich, it vas no astonishment by me ven you die mit the boorhouse, you got for bramess so lettie head. Don't yon ever think vat viii begome of our boor poy, Jacob, ven ve are goner* -Yes; I think be viii go in jaiL" "Ach, nimmel 1 How you, his ratter, gan abuse dot boor poy. You got no lofe vor dot poy-you yoost look on him like he vas your soon by anodtber ratter nut mutter." "Herr Gott! Yeoman, how you make that outr 'Yell, like he vas adoptioned." '1 did not think you, any more than me, von ld like that ve should go vay from this old place. Anna, ve vere young yet ven ve came here together. Lieschen ant Jacob have been bom here. Unt the leedle one that has slept so many years under the dm tree-all she knew of earth vas here. Habit makes the old place dear to me, nut love nut death make it sacred. I feel as if my gate to another vorid vas right here." "Narrigkeit! Ven ve got to die ve die yoost so veil one place as some other places. You talk sen timen talisch, like you vas yet in Deutschland. You forget here in America everybody he got to speculate unt be sharp if he vant that he shall get along." ! "Thea yon vin that I shall sell the rarmT ~l gtf you no peace of your rife ven ; you dont" I "You viii not anyway." "Ve can buy another place yoost so ! goot for five thousand, nut put five thou? sand in the bank for Jacob." "Jacobi Zo! Unt Lieschen? EhT "Ven she marry George Starting she got enough for ber." "Is dot zo? Veli now, look ?-here. You gan make your old jaw greak so much als you like, but I got something to say about that my sel Inf." "Veil, viii you sell the fans, yon old fooir "I viii Maybe Lieschen got more chance that vay ven I been gone," Turning his back upon her, heedless of ber coo tinned clack, he slowly returned j to the porch. He heard her cry after him that she bad more to say. Of course she bad, she always had. But he had beard enough. Too well he understood that the Angel of Peace had her gripsack packed, metaphorically speaking, and - was only waiting to beor his final refusal to sell the farm as her signal for instant I flight It was quite true, as he admitted to himself, that his opposition waa purely sentimental, that the sum offered was more than the value of the farm; still, j the thought of selling made ms heart ! sore. When the visitors came out from din? ner Mr. Sharp stood for several minutes m silence gazing upon the pleasing pros? pect of orchard, meadow, fields and for? est outspread before him. Then he sighed and murmured abstractedly: "Yes, I like the place. I think I could get well here. I would willingly give ten thousand dollars." Bates any phrase of acceptance could be forced ap to Farmer Krop?Ts reluc? tant hps Mr. Sharp stepped from flss porch and strolled into the orchard, where he drew down an apple tree bough and buried bis nose in ita clus? tered wealth of fragrant blossoms. "See borer exclaimed Mr. Cute hur? riedly, as if taking advantage of the mo? mentary opportunity afforded, "rvs got just the idea to satisfy both you and him. He is, like all chronic invalids, whimsi? cal, changeful, doesn't know bis own mind a week ahead, or perhaps a day. Just now he thinks he wants to buy this place. Tomorrow he is not likely to want it at any price. You don't want to i sell, as I understood you to say, but you ! can make something by humoring his whim and still keep your farm. Let him have an option on the place for thirty days, and by the end of that time he will have changed his mind; you will be so much ahead, and no harm will have been done to any one." "I do not gomprebend. Vat is that option? How shall I be aheadT "Why, he pays you, say, two hundred dollars for a contract giving him the right to buy the place within thirty days for ten thousand dollars. That is called an option.". The old man's heart leaped with de? lighted hope. Here was the way out of his dilemma Anna would not be able to blame him if the gentleman did not complete the purchase. "But," he suggested doubtfully, "it vould not be right that I should take money from him for nothing." "You don't Yon give the privilege of purchase, which is a valuable consid? eration, and you needn't mind taking a little amount like two hundred dollars from him. He is a millionaire." "Zor "Como, let us fix it up that way. You have no idea how it will please him and how much real good it will do him." "Aber-you do not think he viii truly vant that he shall buy the farm?" "No, I'm sure be will not He always holds options on half a dozen places, and never buys any except city property." "All right Go ahead." Mr. Cote went down to the orchard and brought back his friend, who was unfeignedly delighted with the arrange? ments that had been made. Within half an hour the option had been care? fully written out and signed in legal form, the two hundred dollars in good crisp five dollar notes had been paid over, and the New Yorkers took their departure. [TO BK CONTINUED ] For Over Fifty Years. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup bas been used for children teething. It soothes lt?f child. eoftene tbe gums, i Hr i ri i ll ||tasTr~' J wind colic, sod ia tbe bjSfesfl^ptt a bo Diarrhoea. Tweoty-?v? ceafM Sub-Treasury Argument. A correspondent of the Newberry News and Herald makes the following report to that paper of tbe speech of President Stokes at the recent Alliance meeting at Greenwood, bearing apon the Sob Treasury : President Stokes then took np the Ooala platform and read its demands, commenting on each briefly, until he reached the sub-treasury. He dwelt at some length on it. He said it was not true tbat tbe Alliance laid undue stress apon this demand, bat it had been most vigorously attacked and a good general always met the enemy where he made his attack. The idea and aim of this demand was to increase the circulating medium. How to get this increase was the question. Tho gold and silver men say take oar metal and coin it into money. Good, bat if it were possible to utilize every ounce of gold and silver it would not increase the circolaticg medium over one dollar per capita per annum and at this rate j it weald take forty years to get it ap to what was needed. The farmer says to the go ver ment take our staple, store i it in ware-booses aod issue to us 80 per cent, of the value. "As far as I can see," said President Stokes, "there is no difference in principle in storing bonds io the treasury aod issuing notes on them aod my storing my oottoa io a warehouse aod having notes issued on it ? President Stokes theo took op the objections ta the sub-treasury, and an? swered them. The 6rst objection, that it is unconstitutional, is without merit. If the government has the right to ac? cept gold aod silver as a basis, why not cotton ? It is no more paternalism to accept cotton as a basis than to accept bonds. The idea that the govermeot can't loan money at two per cent, when it pays 4 per cent., is ridiculous. The government does not borrow money, it prints it. The objection urged that this scheme may cause a loss to the government if there is a decline in price was considered. Preeicent Stokes said there was no pos? sibility of loss under any circumstances, This plan would eliminate the specula? tor and reduce it to the law of supply aod demaod. Suppose a farmer deposits in the warehouse $100 worth of cotton and draws ?80 and at the end of the year when pay day comes this cotton is only worth $40, and the farmer fails to redeem bis cotton. You say at ooce that the government bas lost $10. It bas done no such thing. What is to hinder the government from buying that cotton in and holding it, until the i price advances, and that is what it will j do? Bat suppose the government wants to sell oat, aod only realizes (40. The government has lost noth? ing io that case, because the other ?40 was io circulation aod it stands apon the same basis as your silver certificate issued since last July. This io brief is the answer of Presi? dent Stokes to the objections to the sub treasury plan. I woold like for Presi? dent Stokes to explaio what becomes of the other (20 that the farmer could have gotteo for his cotton at the time be placed it io the warehouse in the illustration used above. It is not in circulation, and it looks as if it might be a clear loss to the farmer. Somehow I am not convinced that President Stokes himself believes in the soundness of his own reasoning I have endeavored to give his argument es fully as possible so that the people could see it for themselves. If accord? ing to his logic the government would lose nothing when it only received (40 for (80 it had advanced because it wa? in circulation, it would lose nothing if it had just given the farmer full value for bis cotton aod theo returned his cotton to him also, for the money woold bc io circulation. Augusta Exposition. The Augusta Exposition will open with impressive ceremonies November 2, aod continue until November 28. Each day will be made attractive and interesting with special programs. The Military prize drill and sham battle together with a thorough por? trayal of skill acquired in the school of the soldier will be features of the Exposition never before in Georgia conducted on so grand a scale. Augusta, it will be noticed, is offer? ing very large individual premiums The planter does not have to constitute himself a county to reap a satisfactory return for his efforts, should he carry off the honors. With a single exhibit the amounts repays the trouble. The thoughtful visitor will be inter? ested in the displays of electrical machinery and appliances, and in the world's mechanism of to-day, as ex? emplified at Augusta's Exposition Those bent on diversion will be amused by the special attraction, the races, the fire-works, the village of Nomads and the performances of musicians, and feats of legerdemain and illusion. The best in their lines have already been engaged. Tbe Agricultural displays, the Chry? santhemum show, the Art Department, the Cattle and horse show, and the other features afford material for an earnest study by Tisitors. The railroads have granted as cheap rates as have ever beea offered to those who will visit Augusta next November. Tho Exposition Buildings are only fifteen minutes' walk from Broad street. Two electric-car lines and a branch of the Georgia railroad run to the lovely grounds at Druid Park. And idea of the immensity of this structure can be had wheo it is known to contatu 200, 000 square feet, and is 960 feet long. A restaurant, parcel room, ladies" room, post office, telephone exchange and express offico insure every conven? ience to visitors. A committee ou Public oomfort is diligently at work to afford ever) uoovenience to visitors. Augusta docs not have an Exposition every year. She husbands her re? sources for these occasions at intervals I that permit of entirely new features arranged on now lines. She bas the benefit of past experience, aod backed by the reputation of always keeping good faith with ber guests. She bids in j i advance all her friends welcome to the Exposition, How Long Will They Obey? A. C. Latimer, of Anderson county, was an enthusiastic Tillman man in the last campaign and is a red hot alliance man now. A8 he baa not, so far as we know, tried to get anything in the way of au office or salary in re? turn for his zeal, it is only fair to count him as one of the unselfish alli? ance men who really believe in the order and its work. Regarding him so, we are moved to some wonder by his utterances regarding Editor Ma cune, of the National Economist, the alliance organ of the whole country. Charges were brought against Dr. M acnne at the Ocaia convention and they were referred to a committee of thirty-six for investigation. It was proved before that committee that Dr. Macune had accepted and used a free pass over the Richmond & Danville system, that he had borrowed $2,000 from Pat Calhoun, a hired attorney for that system, and had afterward worked hard to have the same Mr. Calhoun elected United States senator for Georgia by alliance votes. That much is practically admitted by Mr. Latimer, who says his oath for? bids him from saying what was before the committee, but proceeds to argue that if Dr. Macune did do those things he did no wrong. If there is a monopoly in this coun? try the Richmond & Danville system is one. lt is a monopoly and a huge corporation and is in a great measure owned and controlled by Jay Gould, the leading monopolist and represen? tative of the money power in this country and the head and front of all that is worst and most dangerous in Wall street and in the country's com? mercial system. Yet Dr. Macune, the trusted leader and mouthpiece of the alliance, accepted unusual and unexplained favors from this corpora? tion, borrowed a large sum of cash from its hired representative and tried to have that representative chos? en to represent the alliance in the United States senate. These facts surely gave cause for suspicion. They should have been put before the public or at least be? fore the alliance rank and file with Dr. Macune's answers and explana? tions, so thai; the whole matter could be understood and each man might judge for himself whether the leader of the great organization was worthy to be trusted willi the immense power and responsibility given into his keeping. Nothing of the kind was done. Tho cry was raisad that har? mony must be secured at any cost, that the enemies and friends of the order must both be kept in ignorance of thc scandal. The committee of thirty-six was sworn to secrecy and in its behalf a report finding Macune guiltless was submitted to the con? vention. President Hall, of the Missouri al? liance kicked, lie repudiated the re? port on the floor of the convention and has since given the charges and evidence against Macune to the pub? lic. Mr. Latimer and others make much of Hall's violation of his oath, but that is not the question. Hali is j not on trial. Al acune is. No defend j ant eau escape conviction before ! and fair jury by piovingthat the char? acter or motives of the prosecutor are bad while failing to contradict evidence indicating the defendant's guilt. Now President Magrath, of the Kansas alliance, is out in a card backing Hall. He also was a mem? ber of the committee of thirty six He says he believing, and yet believes, Macune to havebeen a scoundrel work? ing to break up the alliance for his per? sonal advantage. Ile further says half the committee stood out against the whitewashing report, but yielded at the last moment in the interests of the ! organization, Hall being the one man ! with sand enough to stand his ground. ; Now we believe Mr. Latimer to be a type of a large class of alliance men-good honest, well meaning men who intend to d o what is right, but who allow themselves to ba bulldozed or persuaded into obeying orders on the pretext that the ii?erests of the organization demand that they do so. We see our friend the People's Advocate of Anderson, thc editor of which we take to be a well meaning man usually having the courage of his convictions, is in just that position I regarding the sub treasury discussion j between Tillman and Terrell at Spar tanburg. He believed the discussion ! ought to be public. Ile yet believes so. Yet he will raise no standard of revolt against the decision that it i shall be private. His common sense, loyalty and patriotism tell him one thing; President Stokes says another. President Stokes must be obeyed. Ile says: "But President Stokes has directed otherwise and we suppose it will be a private discussion inside the alliance. Nevertheless our opinion remains the ?ame that it would have been wise to j have held the discussion in public.v j What we and the public are inter? ested in is knowing how far this kind of thing is going and how long it will continue. How long are good, God "fearing, honest, patriotic men to allow themselves to be muzz!led, b ind fold ed and driven with bits and bridles in their mouths, yielding their con? victions and opinions in obedience to | hidden terrorism, acting as the pupets of concealed powers with un? known purposes ? We do not think it will be very long. This country is full of active, restless, aggressive people unused to bei us: ruled or governed or dictated to, who think for themselves, say what they think and act as they talk. A good many men of this kind have come lo thc front already-Northen in Georgia, the Tillmans in this State. J McGrath in Kansas. In Texas Halli has led a big convention of men of the kind-alliance ?nen who refuse to ! swallow the sub-treasury or to ?-.bey the orders of Macune. All thean men are beipg subjected to a hot fire. Against most of them the alliance pres? has turned ail i?s batteries and j all the power of the alliance leaders is being osed to crush them Gover nor Tillman is being roasted because he rides, on a free- pass, while Macune ( accepted*lue sanie thing in far m?re" suspicious circumstances and was found gaiitles8 by a secret committee of leading alliance men. Rail roads, we are tald, do not grant favors except for valuejreceived orin expec? tation of return. If it is so with Tillman, it is so with Macune. What favor could a rail road corporation ex? pect from Macune excepl something; injurious to thc alliance? Tillman fight* the sub-treasury. Therefore his acceptance of passes ii? a crime. Macune supports the sub-treasury. He can carry as many passes as he likes. If it could be proved that Tillman accepted a large loan from Senator Irby on the ere of the senato? rial election and then worked hard to elect him that would, we suppose, be proclaimed corruption of tho most corrupt kind. Yet Macune borrowed money from Calhoun and there was nothing wrong in it. That kind of thing will not do in this cou ntl y. We have too many free men If it is continued Mr. Latimcr and Editor Russell, of the Advocate, and a good many others will be in revolt presently. They will begin to ask themselves, as we ask now, how far this thing is going. If men can be bulldozed into swallow* ing the sub-treasury they can be bull? dozed into swallowing the people's parly or some other abominable and destructive heresy. If persecution and abuse and binding oaths and concealed power can drive people to one thing they will be ali the strong? er to drive to another. When this feeling comes on and men begin to realize that they are being made slaves of there will be an uprising and wreck sure enough. Many months ago we told the alliance men that if their order was carried into politics it would surely be split. That has come to pass. We tell them now that if the present system and management are continued the order will be destroyed as surely and completely as the grange was destroyed. The alliance is a big thing, but it is being guided and hurried straight to destruction. If it is lo be used as a political machine, if it is but the power of a secret and oath bound organization led bj men like Macune into our politics the sooner it is destroyed the better for the country and the people -Greenville News. President Stokes has De* creed. Dr. Stokes, the president of the Alliance, has decreed that the dis* cusion on the sub-treasury between the two Bens shall be in secret meet? ing of the Alliance. Ben Tllraan had expected that it would be in the open air where every one could hear, but the Alliance president knows that his pet scheme is not strong enough yet to stand going ont of doors. The nursing which Ben Till* man give it in the open air would hardly add to its strength. But the Alliance people are closing in upon the Moses of the farmers, and, unless he has retained all of his old time strength, he will never live to see tbe promised land. If that discussion comes off in secret meeting they are going to drive yottr uncle Ben until he is no more account than a sore back mule. But we imagine that he will refuse to talk in secret meeting or cat his words as he was so much in the habit of doing last summer when shoved to the wall. Tiie Price of Cotton. In considering the present and prob? able prices of cotton it should bc re? membered that dealers changed the classification of grades last fall. What is now called "good middling*7 was formerly "middling." and the greatest "middling" used to be "low middling." Since December there bas been DO "good middling" on the market. 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