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Only an Adventurer, Testimony is all the time accumulat in to show that Henry M. Stanley is not a great explorer but only an ad? venturer. Dr. Carl Peters, who has spent many years in the interior of Africa, scores Stanley for his treatment of his Euro? pean companions. It seems that Stan? ley lived high on his expeditions, but his white comrades were forced to eat the common food that was given to the negroes. While Stanley sat at a sepa? rate table eating the good things import? ed from Europe and drinking claret. Emin Pasha and Mr. McKay had to eat rice and drink water with the Africans. The white men in the party had to give up their tents and sleep in the open air because their boss wanted a shelter for his boxes of wine. Dr. Peters says that if Stanley had done his duty none of his men would have starved. As the inside facts come out, the impression grows that Stanley is simply a brutal, selfish fellow who made several robber raids into Africa and built up his wealth an? reputation by his cruel and unscrupulous methods No man can fool all the people all the time, and this adventurer is no excep? tion . He is already in the background. His Eoglish neighbors declined to send him to parliament, and there is no longer any great demand for his writings and lectures* People have no confi? dence in him, and they are beginning to regard his narratives of explorations as so many fairy tales. Bill Arp Ruminates. Now is the time a man wants an of fSce-a salary that comes in every month. Now is the time that these office-holders ought to come to a divide. If every man had an office, what a glorious world it. would b.-great piles of money to come pouring in to every family. That's the way up North every man you meet in the road has got an office or a pension. Illinois gets $12. 000,000 for pensions this year, then there are the office holders besides, and the grab at the World's Fair, and we poor miserable sinners down South not only get nothing, but have to help pay it all. I see that the Boston Herald has fig ured it up and says that the South has paid to the North ?350,000,000 on the pension account, and that it is likely to run for a half a century longer. Doesn't it make your blood boil this I hot weather to think about it ? Here I am without a dollar and can't buy a chicken and company is coming next week. I owe the butcher and the baker and the preacher and my taxes are coming on, and yet in the face of all these I hear the same old call for more pension money. Nearly every mao and woman North of the linc stands around thc public treasury with their mouths open like" young birds iu the nest and say to the paternal government; "Daddy, drop another bug in here." They greedily swallow all the millions that come from pensions and the government contracts for the army and the navy and nine tenths of all the offices, and these pious hypocrites will go to church on Sunday with a gold bound hymn book under their arms and thank God that they are not as those publicans down South. But the weather is too hot to rum? inate upon such things and we will try to be calm and serene. The Patent-Medicine Busi? ness. Light has been let into the patent medicine business ly a recent, lawsuit in the English courts, wherein one Ala boue, the proprietor of a specific, sued one Morton, his former manager, for stealing his ideas and testimonials and se^'ng up an opposition trade Alabone is an M. D. from Pennsylvania; Morton made no pretence of being a doctor. As has happened before in such cases, the ingredients of the Alabone consump? tion cure and its bogus nature came out in the trial, as did the qualities of some of the affidavits of cure. Alabone won his suit, but the judge in giving judg? ment in his favor suggested the proprie? ty of having both the parties prosecut? ed for infringement of the Appihccaries' Act. The London Times suggests that, the real victory in the "ase is with the public, which may profit, by the disclo? sures made in the course of the trial as to the worthlessness of nostrums. But the mainstay of the patent-medicine gentlemen is people who do not concern themselves very much about the law reports. What they want is something to take, and they take that which is offered with the most persistence and recommended in the large type How? ever worthless any particular patent medicine may be. it is nobody's busi? ness to make that -sorthlessne-s public, whereas it is thc particular busiuess of the proprietor that, the medicine shall be systematically cracked up and put upon the market. The true way to kill off a patent medicine is not to ! demonstrate that it is of no value, but to invent a new one and advertise it in big? ger letters -Harper's Weekly. Gov Tillman let his tongue and bad temper get ahead of his judgment again in his utterance about, arming the State's constables, and ordering them to shoot down citizens and imprudent boys who attempt to make a little sport of such offieers. There is a proper way fo enforce all law, and if Governor Till? man will get competent men, who will do their duty in a prudent way, he will have no trouble in enforcing thc law, and will he backed by all law-abiding citizen? nf the State-Anderson Intel? ligencer. Murray Takes the Floor What the Bloch Congressman Kwoics About Wliite Metal. WASHINGTON, August 24.-The fea? ture of the silver debate at the night session of the House was the speech of George Washington Murray, Repre? sentative from the "Black" (Seventh) District of South Carolina, and the only representative of the colored race in Congress. Judging by his face, there is not a drop of white blood running in his veins ; but his voice did not show his African origin. On the settlement of this pending question.he said,there were three dis? tinct and somewhat antagonistic- ele? ments. The first class was composed of bankers and commercial men who controlled the currency. The second class was composed of owners of silver mines and all the coined bullion not in the possession of the govern? ment. The third class was composed of toiling and producing millions, who were neither gold bugs nor silver bugs. [Applause] To the last class nearly all of his constituents and his whole race belonged. [Applause.] In many respects he represented a constituency of 278,000, and he rep? resented a race of 8,000,000. [Ap? plause ] Ile did not believe that the great troubles now existing were attributable to the Sherman law. His race had felt thc mailed hand long before 1890. He attributed the dis? tress to the contraction of the circu? lating medium, and in his opinion ii could be relieved only by the enlarge? ment of the volume of money. His constituency combined patriotism with self interest. [Applause ] His race believed that there was not enough money in the world to act as currency. It was in favor of making up the deficiency with silver, and to that extent he was in favor of free coinage and bimetallism. [Applause.] Never in history had a black hand been raised to strike down the flag of his country. [Applause.] Not? withstanding ill treatment, the black men of this country had been always found voting and shooting for Ameri? ca. [Applause.] A Western Napoleon of Finance. Speculator Donaldson, of Mart o, Kas , now supposed to be traveling un? der cover in Mexico, is a very sharp financier. Donaldson was a school teacher at Marion, but between 1885 and i888 he made some money in a real estate boom, and sought a wider field. He organ? ized a chain of banks in Kansas,but with the exception of the Marion institution, they lasted only a few months. He went to Sioux City and organized the Union Trust Company, composed of eastern capitalists who were persuaded that there was a big profit in loaning money to cattle men. He establiphed eleven banks in Iowa, and was the president of each and the sole head of the trust company. Donaldson went to work and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in the east. He secured the lenders by giv? ing them mortgages on herds of cattle that never existed anywhere outside of bis expansive imagination. After pocketing $600,000 of the money thus obtained Donaldson skipped to Mexico, leaving his creditors to make the discovery that his banks and trust company are without a dollar's worth of assets. For a green country school teacher of thirty-eight, this is pretty slick finan? ciering. Under happier auspices, and with an expert training, this man might have rivaled Eno and Ward. Hts boldness and ingenuity are cf the high? est order, and with more favorable opportunities he may putih his way into the front rank of the financial exploitets who oscillate between a palace and a prison. A bachelor tradesman who has jost' died in Hamburg adopted a novel meth? od of revenging himself on the woman who once jilted him. In his will he left her a legacy of 12,000 marks but also indited the following letter which he ordered to he handed to the lady, who is now a widow, with the money : "Madam : Some thirty yesrs ago I was a suitor for your hand in marriage. You refosed my offer, and as a conse? quence my days have been passed in peace and quietness. Now I requite vonr goodness. - ? i ? i mm* I-a Grippe. During the prevalence of the Grippe the past seasons it was a noticeable fact that those who depende-.! upon Dr. King's New Discovery, not only had a ?.-peedy recovery, but escaped all of tho troublesome after effects of the malady* This remedy seems to have a peculiar power in effecting rapid cures not only in oases of La Grippe, tait in all Diseases of Throat, Cheat an.i Lungs, and has cured cases of Asthma and Hay Fever of long standing. Try it and be convinced lr won't disappoint. Free Trial Dottles at J. F. W. DeLorme's Drug Store. Strength and Health. If you are not feeling strong and healthy, try Klcctrc Hitters. If "La Grippe" has left you weak and weary, use Electric Bitters. Tb.s remedy acts directly on Liver, Stomach and Kidneys, gently aiding those organs to pei form their functions, if you are afflicted with Sick Headache, you will find speedy and permanent relief by taking Electric Ritters. One trial will convince you that this is the remedy you nee.I. Large bottles only 50c. at J. F. Vi. De Lonna's Dru;; Store 6 For Over Fifty Years. MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP has been used for children teething. It soothes th? child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for Diar? rhoea. Twenty-five cents a bottle. IF YOUR BACK AVSt^ft, Ot you arc nil worn out, really good tor noth? ing, it is general debility. Try uno ty y s mos a JIVE tc s. It will cure you, cleanse your liver, and giva a gv>od appetite. hest of all in Leavening Power.-Latest U. S. Gov't Report Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE to Take And prompt to cure, Ayer's Pills act on the intestines, not by stimula? ting, but by strengthening them. Tney promote the natural peristaltic motion of the bowels, without which there can be no regular, healthy operations. For the cure of consti? pation; biliousness, jaundice, ver? tigo, sick headache, indigestion, sour stomach, and drowsiness, Ayer's Pills are unsurpassed. They are equally beneficial in rheumatism, neuralgia, colds, chills, and fevers. Being purely vegetable, delicately sugar? coated, and quickly dissolved, they are admirably adapted" for household use, as well as for travelers by lar,d or sea. Ayer's Pills are in greatei demand, the world over, than any other pill, and are recommended by the most eminent physicians. Every Dose Effective Prepared by Dr. J. C. AyerS: Co., Lowell, Masa. Sold by Druggists Everywhere. Ripnris Tabuies ai e of ?roat value. /MX 1% Contractor and Builder, M flK JI^^^^^WTIJ?KK I Lime. G-lass and Genera! Building Supplies. Office and Mills at Junction ot W. C. k. A.. and C. S. & N. R. R's. THE SIMONOS NATIONAL BANK OP SUMTER. STATE, CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSI? TORY, SUMTER s.^a * Paid op Capital . . . . . $75,000 00 Surplus Fund. 11,500 00 Transacts a General Banking: Bnsiness. Careful attention given to collections. I SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. Deposits of Si and upwards received. In- ! terest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent, per j annum. Payable quarterly, on first days of i January. April, July and October. R M. WALLACE, L. S. CARSON, President. AugrJ?. Cashier. THE BM OF SUM, SUMTER, S. C. 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. HAYNS WORTH, |. W. F. RHAKE, President. Cashier*. ~H. A. HOYT, MAIN STREET, SUMTER, S;-C. GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES, FINE DIAMONDS, Clocks, Jroelry, Spectacles, MERIDEN BRITANIA SILVERWARE, ftc. REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. Feb. 1 ?7WHITE & m, 7 Fire Insurance Agency, ESTABLISHED I860. R"present, among other Companies : LIVERPOOL ft LONDON ft GLOBE, NORTH BRITISH ft MERCANTILE, HOME, ol New York. UNDERWRITERS' AGENCY, N. V., LANCASTER INSURANCE CO. Capital represented $75,000,000. Feb. 12 NOTICE. rpjIK SUPERVISOR OF REGISTRATION J_ will be in his office on Salesday of each mouth, for th** purpose of issuing certificates of Registration to ali persozis who have be? come twenty-one years ol age sine?' the last General election. Also transfers to those who have changed place of residence. W. S. JAMES, Supervisor of Registration. Dec. 7. NOTICE To My Friends and Customers. IFEEL UNDER MANY OBLIGATIONS for your past favors, and hope hereafter I to buy all the Cattle, Sheep and Hogs thu nov of ynn may have for Salp, as I will here after attend only to BUYING AND WHOLE? SALING OF MEATS MR. D M. CAMPBELL wiil continue m run i the Retail part of the Market, as I have done, which will he supplied with the very i>e-t \ Meats I can get. I will now have more time io buying and selecting ine-kt, and customers : will get the best to rn? ' ad. Any one with csflU to sell, will do well to see rue before (dosing. W. B. BOYLE. Aug. 16. Ripiins Tal mles cure nausea. GINS! INSURE YOUR GINS -IN THE Assurance Company, OF LONDON,THE LARGEST COMPANY IN THE WORLD That takes fire risks on Gins. For particulars, etc, apply to ALTAMONT MOSES, AGENT. P. S.-We do also a Gene? ral Fire Insurance Business, and represent the MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE of New York, the largest in the world. Aug. n. . Liberty Street Next to P. 0. SPECIAL ATTENTION Given to Compounding Prescriptions VALUABLE PREMIUMS -GIVEN AWAY. Repp's Calculator, A valuable t?ook for a Farmer and Business Man. ? A HE A II TI FT L COLUMBIAN SOUVENIR SPOON. The Weekly News-' awl Courier. THE G li E AT SOUTHE RN FA MI LY - N E W S P A P E R, Offers to ever}' yearly subscriber EITHER of the above Premiums -ABSOLUTELY FREE I Tho Weekly News and Courier, 1 year (with Premium.) fl 00 The Weekly News arid Courier, C months ( without Premium.) 50 -SK.NI> Knit SAMPLE COPI ES AMD CIRCULARS, Address . Tie Weekly News and Courier, CHARLESTON, S, C. OTTO F WEITE RS. WHOLESALE GROCER, AND LIQUOR DEALER, OFFICE AND SALESROOM : 1S3 East Bay, Charleston, S. C. Nov. T-o G. W. DICK, D. D. S. Oflir-e over Levi Bros.' Store, ENTRANCE ON MAIN STKKKT. SUMTER, S C. Office Hours-9 to 1 : 2.30 to 5 30. As to the Negro. To the Editor of The News Courier : There is no question of day more misunderstood outside the South titan the "negro qnestioi in fact, only, a Southernor un< stands the character of the ne' A great deal of namby-pamby se ment is wasted on him by some of Northern breMiren. I propose to speak of the ncgrc citizen and laborer, and in both i pects I expect to show that he is a desirable possession. As a citizen the negro's sphere very circumscribed. Ile exerci no influence on the social or ind trial life of the State, and since enactment of the registration law j the eight-box law no influence politics. He is, therefore, a nonei ty except io so far as his moral cl acter is concerned, and in that lij I will consider him. For twenty-eight years he 1 borne thc responsibilities and dut of citizenship. All those years has had schools supported by ! State for his education ; he has 1 his own ministers and churches, a has had the example of the best cl of whites to help him to a higher li Ile has learned to read and write"; a great many instances he has learn to live without work ; he has learn a certain kind of shrewdness, a has imitated the faults more than t virtn.es of the white people. I moral character is best exemplified reference io-some notable events tl have recently transpired in the Sta j to which the attention of the wh( country has been directed, and whi serve as comparisons between 1 character now and heretofore. Within the past decade, and creasing in frequency as the yee have gone by, rapes have been frequent occurrence. The crime h reached an alarming state of prev lenee. Within the past two mont three negroes have been lynched South Carolina for outraging whi women, and otic offender has so f escaped capture : and within tl same time four or five negro gil have suffered like fate from men their own race. It has come to be a very serioi matter with people who live in tl country and have to send their ch dren by long and lonely roads school. Where the children are s small they run a fearful risk. Mar of the cases have happened this wa; The lynching at Denmark, the 24! of April, and that at Laurens, tl 10th of May, were for outrages con milted on young girls on their way I and from school in the country. From 1861 to 1?65, while ever able-bodied white man was in the wi and the women were at the mercy ( the negroes, there was not even a insult offered by one of them to white woman. This is often recalle to their credit. True they were the slaves, but slaves as they were the had no more reason to fear the coi sequences then than now. They wer then not only respectful, as becam their position, but they were kind i their disposition. And during the "Reconstruction' period-the days of social and pol tical upheaval-when the entire Stat was under his control with Unitei States bayonets to back him am courts and juries all in his hands such crimes as I have referred V were not known in this State. When the Northern people under stand the situation down here thei will assuredly case to condemn us fo taking summary vengeance on tin despoilers of women ; whether the} do or not, however, swift and certair death awaits the offender. We don' care to argue about it, but we an fully determined, and denunciation! against "mob law" are as the idh wind. Recent occurrences in somt of the Northern States show that in this respect the two scctiont aro of the same mind. I might show that in other parti culars than that mentioned the neg rc has deteriorated morally since he secured his freedom. Ile grows more lazy and thriftless everyday: he is more given to thieving, and the num ber of executions and the increasing number of negro convicts in the State penitentiary for homicides show that from having been harmless and tract? able he has become bloodthirsty and revengeful. They often kill each other for scarcely any provocation ail carry firearms and are quick to use them. In short it is a fact so uni? versally recognized down here that nobody will dispute it that the negro has deteriorated morally since he be? came a freeman. I speak of course, of the average negro. There are many negroes who have made good use of their freedom and the opportunities it has brought them, and who are an honor of their race. Hut what has been liberty lo these has been license to a great many more, who have grown up like wild animals, with no moral character and no restraint upon their, brutal passions but fear. It is not sur? prising, therefore, that where they think they can escape detection tiiey sometimes prove themselves beasts in human form. Enough on that brauch of the subject. As a laborer the negro is a curse to the State. He is to the South, especially lo South Carolina, what the "Heathen Chinee" threatened to become t<> the Pacific States, and would have been but fur tho Anti Chinese legislation by Congress. Thousands of poor white men in South Carolina are ruined by negro cheap labor. In this State the land is going into tho possession of a lew men, comparatively speaking These large landowners do not object to while labor ; they had as lief hire a white man on the plantation as a negro, and will pay him as much - and no more. A white man cannot live decently on negro wages any more that, he can on Chinee wages. Itmiffht seem that as heads of families, die, and their lauds are divided among their heirs, thc num? ber of land-owners would increase ; and that would bc thc case if small j farmers, who are more laborers than ! proprietors, did not have to compete with negroes. The number 01 land? owners in South Carolina was 3 per I cent, less in 1890 than in 1880. j Small farms, instead of being divided among heirs are put on the market and the proceeds of the sale are divided. The farms are usually bought by men who already have large holdings, and who let them ont to negro "tenants." The heirs of the small farmers take their little shares and go West. I can call over the names of hundreds of young white men between the ages 'of 18 and 30 who have left this small coun? ty of 30,000 inhabitants in the past fifteen years ; and what has happened here has happened over a large part of the State, the emigration being largest where the negroes are mo^t numerous. The census shows that despite the large increase in the town-caused chief? ly by the building of an imrnesc cotton mill and splendid graded schools-the population of the coun? ty, including the town, was sixty five less in 1890 than in 1880. A small colony of negroes left the county three years ago, and another two years ago, through the influence of a Western emigration agent ; but the State has put a stop to that sort of thing by enacting a law mak? ing it a crime punishable with $1, 000 fine to solicit "laborers" to leave the State. While this law builds a Chinese wail to keep the negroes in, the young white men are emigrating constantly-driven out by abundant and cheap negro labor. The negro is a cheap laborer, and that is why he is guarded so jeal? ously from the seductive tongue of of the emigration agent. Big planta? tions and hordes of cheap negro larborers to work them are robbing this State of its best blood. As purely laborers our young white men must turn to the mechanic arts ; and even there the negroes are beginning to crowd them. Cotton mills and railroads give employment to thousands of white men and pay them much better wages than they could get on the plantations, besides offering them protection against negro competition and, better still, against negro association. There are many white men in South Carolina who work on the farms, but they are usually small landed proprietors work? ing their own farms. As a rule the hired labor on the farms is negro labor, while labor on railroads and in the cotton mills is white. It would seem from this fact that the State onght to encourage manufacturing and railroad building To inquire whether she does or not, and if not why not, might lead me into a discussion of South Carolina politics, and I will therefore stop. W. II. WALLACE Newberry, June 5 Douschka Pickens Dugas. The news of the death of Mrs. Dousch? ka Pickens Dugas which occurred at Edgewood, the old Pickens homestead, near Edgefield, S. C., on Saturday last will carry sadness to many food hearts throughout the South. There is scarcely a city in the country where Douschka Pickeus, the famous Carolina belle, was not known and greatly admired. At White Sulphur Springs, Va., at Asheville and other fashionable resorts she was the toast. Mrs. Dugas was the youngest child of the late ex Governor Francis W. Pickens, of South Carolina, and the only child by his last wife, who was M188 Lucy Holcombe. Prior to the war Governor Pickens was United States minister to Russia, and Mrs. Dugas was born *-n thc palace of the Czar at St Petersburg. She was christened Francesca, but thc name ''Douschka," which is the Russian for darling, always clung to her. As a young lady she was devotedly fond of the chase and was a superb equestrienne. While at White Sulphur one summer her daring feats of horse? manship attracted wide-spread attention and graphic accounts appeared in the leading journals North and South. In 187G thc Red-shirt movement, which redeemed South Carolina from carpet bag domination was started in Edgefield county. Xhe State was completely under Republican control, but Wade Hampton had sworn thar, he would be Governor "or know the rea? son why." The Republicans, mostly negroes, were rioting throughout the State, aod collisions with the whites were of almost daily occurrence. In fact, there was an incipient war of races in South Carolina, the Republieans and negros having greatly the advant? age Just at this juncture a band of 1.500 Red-shirts rode into Edgefield village with Douschka Picken? at the head. The sight was inspiring as Joan of Arc leading her victorious soldiers to battle. The wildest enthusiasm was kindled throughout the State, and thc Red-shirts were triumphant. Though reared in thc greatest luxury and accustomed as she was to meet persons of wealth and station of this and foreign countries, her noble, generous and gentle nature was entirely free from affectation and an unkind word was never known to escape her lips With such charming attributes of mind and disposition it is not strange that she was a universal favorite - Macon Kveninu News. Tho Atlantic Coast Linc. At a meeting of the Board of Trade : of Augusta, Ga., on August 23, Mr. P. (?. Hunitn called the attention of) the meeting to live fact that the At- ! Iantic Coast Line had a surveying* i corps out in the field mapping a route i from Denmark, S. C., to Millen, Ga , which would sidetrack Augusta. J le j i suggested thc appointment of an in- j i flucutial committee to communicate : with the owners of Hie ('oast Line i and endeavor to induce them to como j i to Augusta, instead of leaving i)s behind at Denmark. Thc suinrestion i was adopted and Colonel () H. ? Phinizy, James Tobin, P. G Ru ru ni ' < and A ?bu ry Hull were appointed a I committee to communicate with j? General Manager Walters and try to ? < secure the Coast Line for Augusta. 1 s Local Currency. For many years wo have advocated the repeal of tho 10 per cent, tax on State bank notes for the reason that it is simply impossible in this vast country to distribute our currency in a manner that will meet the require? ments of business under our prcsejit system. During the past few months the ne? cessity for a local currency lias be? come plainly apparent. Bankers and business men have been compelled to resort to makeshift^. Certified checks and mill and factory scrip have been issued in many cities and towns. These substitutes for currency are only temporary, but they constitute an overwhelming argument in favor of State banks. If it relieves the situation to use certified checks and private scrip, what an infinitely greater relief it would be to have a well organized system of State banks, with judicious safeguards thrown around them These banks would issue notes that would circu? late freely for hundreds of miles around them, while the national currency would occupy a wider field. We need a dual system of curren? cy in this country just as much as we need a dual system of government national and State. When the national government strikes down the local currency issued under the au? thority of a State government it is guilty of an act of unconstitutional oppression, and that such financial legislation is clearly in the interests of the money monopoly has been clearly demonstrated by our experi? ence since the war We have had object lessons enough to convince ns that it is lo our interest to return lo thc system of State banks under which our peo pie enjoyed such prosperity for nine? ty years. It is admitted even by their opponents that they can be made as safe as the national banks. The opposition is mainly confined to the Eastern capitalists who make the absurd claim that there is now too much money in circulation, and yet adjeocate a new issue of government bonds in order to perpetuate the war system of national banks. Unless the recommendation of the democratic platform is carried out in regard to Slate banks, the chances are that the country will be flooded with private and corporation shinplas ters If the people cannot get cur? rency they will find a substitute for it. -Atlanta Constitution. John Doe and Richard Roe. Some time ago John Doe had $100 in a saving fund. Becoming alarmed at thc financial depression he withdrew his money and now has it in his stock? ing. Some time ago Richad Roe had ?15,000 in bank. Becoming alarmed he withdrew the currency and hired a vault in tho rear of the bank and the money lies there to-day. John Doe and Richard Roe congratu? late themselves that they are pretty smart-that they know a thing or two more than their fellows-and they are not slow to insinuate the same by sun? dry sly looks and mysterious expressions. At least they are safe from the storm. John Doe and Richard Roe are fools Money is not made to be hoarded. There is only $23 50 per head of the popula? tion and every person who hoards more than that robs the public of that much of its share. Take care of your pro? perty and get all you can honestly, but don't hoard money. There is barely enough now. Suppose there was a bread famine be? cause a certain number of John Does and Richard Roes had bought up more than they could eat and stored away. Suppose there was avilable only an j average of twenty-four loaves apiece, which was just enough if each got his quota, and that John Doe had secreted 400 loaves in his cellar and Richard Roe had locked 15,000 in his warehouse, would not public indignation be kindled against them ? Neither money nor broad is of any value until used and no man has a moral right to place either beyond the reach of those who need them and are wil?Dg to give compensation for them. Of course a man should be cautions and husband his resources. But the man who thinks the proper way is to put his currency in a stocking or a vault, isa fool and a public enemy. If there were a few more thousand John Does and Richard Roes, the nation would quickly go on the rocks Currency is the lifo blood of trade Thc man who hoards ir is a business vampire. Don't be fools Don't wreck this eountry. Take your money and put it in hank, for if our banks, ail fail every other business will fail also and we will be in a maelstrom of bankruptcy Don't be seared. Daylight is at li ami.-Philadelphia Inquirer. Bill Nye on the Dispensary. SPOTTWOOD C KN KER, S C . August. I am ?ion' in South in South Carolina for a time to sec how tin; new liquor law is carried out. Where 1 a tn it is carried out. most every day, together with from six or eight grownup men wh:i erin no longer think past a given point A New York man who makes property watermelons with waterproof lining* has supplied 250,(MM) lo this section. These watermelons, I ibid, are like a great roek in a weary land. 1 have written four times to (?evernor Tillman to inquire if he would be open on Sunday, hut so far have received no reply. At the same rime I sent him a receipt for spoopju and the option on nine acres nf mint growing on my place, lt? the valley in my North ?.Ja ml ?na home there are nine acres of mint waving in the wind; Tomorrow I will go home To bink that^South Carolina, thc home of j i proud people, a people whose governor j mee said to thc governor of North j Carolina thar time was dragging between | Iriuk?, should now bc forced to drink j mt of the governor's jug or not all, is I sad". I Only an Adventurer, Testimony is all the time accumulat in to show that Henry M. Stanley is not a great explorer but only an ad? venturer. Dr. Carl Peters, who has spent many years in the interior of Africa, scores Stanley for his treatment of his Euro? pean companions. It seems that Stan? ley lived high on his expeditions, but his white comrades were forced to eat the common food that was given to the negroes. While Stanley sat at a sepa? rate table eating the good things import? ed from Europe and drinking claret. Emin Pasha and Mr. McKay had to eat rice and drink water with the Africans. The white men in the party had to give up their tents and sleep in the open air because their boss wanted a shelter for his boxes of wine. Dr. Peters says that if Stanley had done his duty none of his men would have starved. As the inside facts come out, the impression grows that Stanley is simply a brutal, selfish fellow who made several robber raids into Africa and built up his wealth an? reputation by his cruel and unscrupulous methods No man can fool all the people all the time, and this adventurer is no excep? tion . He is already in the background. His Eoglish neighbors declined to send him to parliament, and there is no longer any great demand for his writings and lectures* People have no confi? dence in him, and they are beginning to regard his narratives of explorations as so many fairy tales. Bill Arp Ruminates. Now is the time a man wants an of fSce-a salary that comes in every month. Now is the time that these office-holders ought to come to a divide. If every man had an office, what a glorious world it. would b.-great piles of money to come pouring in to every family. That's the way up North every man you meet in the road has got an office or a pension. Illinois gets $12. 000,000 for pensions this year, then there are the office holders besides, and the grab at the World's Fair, and we poor miserable sinners down South not only get nothing, but have to help pay it all. I see that the Boston Herald has fig ured it up and says that the South has paid to the North ?350,000,000 on the pension account, and that it is likely to run for a half a century longer. Doesn't it make your blood boil this I hot weather to think about it ? Here I am without a dollar and can't buy a chicken and company is coming next week. I owe the butcher and the baker and the preacher and my taxes are coming on, and yet in the face of all these I hear the same old call for more pension money. Nearly every mao and woman North of the linc stands around thc public treasury with their mouths open like" young birds iu the nest and say to the paternal government; "Daddy, drop another bug in here." They greedily swallow all the millions that come from pensions and the government contracts for the army and the navy and nine tenths of all the offices, and these pious hypocrites will go to church on Sunday with a gold bound hymn book under their arms and thank God that they are not as those publicans down South. But the weather is too hot to rum? inate upon such things and we will try to be calm and serene. The Patent-Medicine Busi? ness. Light has been let into the patent medicine business ly a recent, lawsuit in the English courts, wherein one Ala boue, the proprietor of a specific, sued one Morton, his former manager, for stealing his ideas and testimonials and se^'ng up an opposition trade Alabone is an M. D. from Pennsylvania; Morton made no pretence of being a doctor. As has happened before in such cases, the ingredients of the Alabone consump? tion cure and its bogus nature came out in the trial, as did the qualities of some of the affidavits of cure. Alabone won his suit, but the judge in giving judg? ment in his favor suggested the proprie? ty of having both the parties prosecut? ed for infringement of the Appihccaries' Act. The London Times suggests that, the real victory in the "ase is with the public, which may profit, by the disclo? sures made in the course of the trial as to the worthlessness of nostrums. But the mainstay of the patent-medicine gentlemen is people who do not concern themselves very much about the law reports. What they want is something to take, and they take that which is offered with the most persistence and recommended in the large type How? ever worthless any particular patent medicine may be. it is nobody's busi? ness to make that -sorthlessne-s public, whereas it is thc particular busiuess of the proprietor that, the medicine shall be systematically cracked up and put upon the market. The true way to kill off a patent medicine is not to ! demonstrate that it is of no value, but to invent a new one and advertise it in big? ger letters -Harper's Weekly. Gov Tillman let his tongue and bad temper get ahead of his judgment again in his utterance about, arming the State's constables, and ordering them to shoot down citizens and imprudent boys who attempt to make a little sport of such offieers. There is a proper way fo enforce all law, and if Governor Till? man will get competent men, who will do their duty in a prudent way, he will have no trouble in enforcing thc law, and will he backed by all law-abiding citizen? nf the State-Anderson Intel? ligencer. Only an Adventurer, Testimony is all the time accumulat in to show that Henry M. Stanley is not a great explorer but only an ad? venturer. Dr. Carl Peters, who has spent many years in the interior of Africa, scores Stanley for his treatment of his Euro? pean companions. It seems that Stan? ley lived high on his expeditions, but his white comrades were forced to eat the common food that was given to the negroes. While Stanley sat at a sepa? rate table eating the good things import? ed from Europe and drinking claret. Emin Pasha and Mr. McKay had to eat rice and drink water with the Africans. The white men in the party had to give up their tents and sleep in the open air because their boss wanted a shelter for his boxes of wine. Dr. Peters says that if Stanley had done his duty none of his men would have starved. As the inside facts come out, the impression grows that Stanley is simply a brutal, selfish fellow who made several robber raids into Africa and built up his wealth an? reputation by his cruel and unscrupulous methods No man can fool all the people all the time, and this adventurer is no excep? tion . He is already in the background. His Eoglish neighbors declined to send him to parliament, and there is no longer any great demand for his writings and lectures* People have no confi? dence in him, and they are beginning to regard his narratives of explorations as so many fairy tales. Bill Arp Ruminates. Now is the time a man wants an of fSce-a salary that comes in every month. Now is the time that these office-holders ought to come to a divide. If every man had an office, what a glorious world it. would b.-great piles of money to come pouring in to every family. That's the way up North every man you meet in the road has got an office or a pension. Illinois gets $12. 000,000 for pensions this year, then there are the office holders besides, and the grab at the World's Fair, and we poor miserable sinners down South not only get nothing, but have to help pay it all. I see that the Boston Herald has fig ured it up and says that the South has paid to the North ?350,000,000 on the pension account, and that it is likely to run for a half a century longer. Doesn't it make your blood boil this I hot weather to think about it ? Here I am without a dollar and can't buy a chicken and company is coming next week. I owe the butcher and the baker and the preacher and my taxes are coming on, and yet in the face of all these I hear the same old call for more pension money. Nearly every mao and woman North of the linc stands around thc public treasury with their mouths open like" young birds iu the nest and say to the paternal government; "Daddy, drop another bug in here." They greedily swallow all the millions that come from pensions and the government contracts for the army and the navy and nine tenths of all the offices, and these pious hypocrites will go to church on Sunday with a gold bound hymn book under their arms and thank God that they are not as those publicans down South. But the weather is too hot to rum? inate upon such things and we will try to be calm and serene. The Patent-Medicine Busi? ness. Light has been let into the patent medicine business ly a recent, lawsuit in the English courts, wherein one Ala boue, the proprietor of a specific, sued one Morton, his former manager, for stealing his ideas and testimonials and se^'ng up an opposition trade Alabone is an M. D. from Pennsylvania; Morton made no pretence of being a doctor. As has happened before in such cases, the ingredients of the Alabone consump? tion cure and its bogus nature came out in the trial, as did the qualities of some of the affidavits of cure. Alabone won his suit, but the judge in giving judg? ment in his favor suggested the proprie? ty of having both the parties prosecut? ed for infringement of the Appihccaries' Act. The London Times suggests that, the real victory in the "ase is with the public, which may profit, by the disclo? sures made in the course of the trial as to the worthlessness of nostrums. But the mainstay of the patent-medicine gentlemen is people who do not concern themselves very much about the law reports. What they want is something to take, and they take that which is offered with the most persistence and recommended in the large type How? ever worthless any particular patent medicine may be. it is nobody's busi? ness to make that -sorthlessne-s public, whereas it is thc particular busiuess of the proprietor that, the medicine shall be systematically cracked up and put upon the market. The true way to kill off a patent medicine is not to ! demonstrate that it is of no value, but to invent a new one and advertise it in big? ger letters -Harper's Weekly. Gov Tillman let his tongue and bad temper get ahead of his judgment again in his utterance about, arming the State's constables, and ordering them to shoot down citizens and imprudent boys who attempt to make a little sport of such offieers. There is a proper way fo enforce all law, and if Governor Till? man will get competent men, who will do their duty in a prudent way, he will have no trouble in enforcing thc law, and will he backed by all law-abiding citizen? nf the State-Anderson Intel? ligencer. Only an Adventurer, Testimony is all the time accumulat in to show that Henry M. Stanley is not a great explorer but only an ad? venturer. Dr. Carl Peters, who has spent many years in the interior of Africa, scores Stanley for his treatment of his Euro? pean companions. It seems that Stan? ley lived high on his expeditions, but his white comrades were forced to eat the common food that was given to the negroes. While Stanley sat at a sepa? rate table eating the good things import? ed from Europe and drinking claret. Emin Pasha and Mr. McKay had to eat rice and drink water with the Africans. The white men in the party had to give up their tents and sleep in the open air because their boss wanted a shelter for his boxes of wine. Dr. Peters says that if Stanley had done his duty none of his men would have starved. As the inside facts come out, the impression grows that Stanley is simply a brutal, selfish fellow who made several robber raids into Africa and built up his wealth an? reputation by his cruel and unscrupulous methods No man can fool all the people all the time, and this adventurer is no excep? tion . He is already in the background. His Eoglish neighbors declined to send him to parliament, and there is no longer any great demand for his writings and lectures* People have no confi? dence in him, and they are beginning to regard his narratives of explorations as so many fairy tales. Bill Arp Ruminates. Now is the time a man wants an of fSce-a salary that comes in every month. Now is the time that these office-holders ought to come to a divide. If every man had an office, what a glorious world it. would b.-great piles of money to come pouring in to every family. That's the way up North every man you meet in the road has got an office or a pension. Illinois gets $12. 000,000 for pensions this year, then there are the office holders besides, and the grab at the World's Fair, and we poor miserable sinners down South not only get nothing, but have to help pay it all. I see that the Boston Herald has fig ured it up and says that the South has paid to the North ?350,000,000 on the pension account, and that it is likely to run for a half a century longer. Doesn't it make your blood boil this I hot weather to think about it ? Here I am without a dollar and can't buy a chicken and company is coming next week. I owe the butcher and the baker and the preacher and my taxes are coming on, and yet in the face of all these I hear the same old call for more pension money. Nearly every mao and woman North of the linc stands around thc public treasury with their mouths open like" young birds iu the nest and say to the paternal government; "Daddy, drop another bug in here." They greedily swallow all the millions that come from pensions and the government contracts for the army and the navy and nine tenths of all the offices, and these pious hypocrites will go to church on Sunday with a gold bound hymn book under their arms and thank God that they are not as those publicans down South. But the weather is too hot to rum? inate upon such things and we will try to be calm and serene. The Patent-Medicine Busi? ness. Light has been let into the patent medicine business ly a recent, lawsuit in the English courts, wherein one Ala boue, the proprietor of a specific, sued one Morton, his former manager, for stealing his ideas and testimonials and se^'ng up an opposition trade Alabone is an M. D. from Pennsylvania; Morton made no pretence of being a doctor. As has happened before in such cases, the ingredients of the Alabone consump? tion cure and its bogus nature came out in the trial, as did the qualities of some of the affidavits of cure. Alabone won his suit, but the judge in giving judg? ment in his favor suggested the proprie? ty of having both the parties prosecut? ed for infringement of the Appihccaries' Act. The London Times suggests that, the real victory in the "ase is with the public, which may profit, by the disclo? sures made in the course of the trial as to the worthlessness of nostrums. But the mainstay of the patent-medicine gentlemen is people who do not concern themselves very much about the law reports. What they want is something to take, and they take that which is offered with the most persistence and recommended in the large type How? ever worthless any particular patent medicine may be. it is nobody's busi? ness to make that -sorthlessne-s public, whereas it is thc particular busiuess of the proprietor that, the medicine shall be systematically cracked up and put upon the market. The true way to kill off a patent medicine is not to ! demonstrate that it is of no value, but to invent a new one and advertise it in big? ger letters -Harper's Weekly. Gov Tillman let his tongue and bad temper get ahead of his judgment again in his utterance about, arming the State's constables, and ordering them to shoot down citizens and imprudent boys who attempt to make a little sport of such offieers. There is a proper way fo enforce all law, and if Governor Till? man will get competent men, who will do their duty in a prudent way, he will have no trouble in enforcing thc law, and will he backed by all law-abiding citizen? nf the State-Anderson Intel? ligencer.