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EMPSON MILUS. ?Htcr Hipp Lo YOL. ?. LAI KENS C. LIM S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1886. big job of Clothing _Baltimore Fir?. TIMIDLY TOriCS FOR FARMERS. How io DO PAYING WOKK AT Tills SK (ISON. Suggoatloits of Intorout, from nu Aulhorl I ?tl i v?u Sou roo. (W. L. Jones in Southern cultivator) Thia in tho beginning ot thc busy work of preparing bur tho noxt crop, Tho farm now demands nil thc onoigios (o' tho funner who would lay a broad foun dalion for A PUCCCSS?ul your's work. lt is impossiblo to forosoo what will bo tho character of tho seasons in tho future. We know that it. will be either "wet" or "dry," or "seasonable." it is well to provide against either extremo as far us practicable. Only ordinary ?kill and judgment OU the part of tho farmer arc required to make a reasonably fair crop in a fairly seasonable year. Hut it docs require a high degree of skill, and a judgment that is based on experience and study to discount, in advance, tho drawbacks and casualties tl mt arc possi bilities and probabilities of tho future Jt is often said that "a crop well planted is half made;" but the land must bo properly prepared, securely protected against stook, judiciously fertilized, . te., and tho need properly selected ami planted Indore it may bo truly said that the crop hus boon "well planted." Hom have said that o larmer ought tu plant hindi an area in corn as will yield, nuder tho most adverse circumstances, a BUillflionoy for home USO. 'Phis ia put ting it rather loo strong, livery farmer of a dozen years experience knows thal seasons occur when it would have laen heller to have planted no com at all; and probably ho would uot il ho could have foreseen tho result. The suter rule is to adjust relative arcas (in provision crops especially) with reference to exported tua rage seasons, M> that au abundance will bc produced with i snell seasons, ll is well enough to pi? - paro tho laud and spaco tho plants as if oxpooting a dry good year. Then ii good hcieona"proved nothing will have boon lost, and if a drouth occur al tho critical poriod tho extra labor of pr? p ration and tho wide spacing will tull wonderfully in tho linal result. Lot every farmer oou&idi i what lie wishes <,? expects to secure by tho labors of the year. What aro tho rn?.st pressing and indispensable wants among thosu timi may he on the tarin? Obviously, food comes lll'sl ; clothing UOXt, and MI CM, The essential business ( f a farmer ia to make a living (meat and bread, lodging and clothing) for himself end lamiiy. j lu our judgment the man who makes the production of cotton thu main objcol of i Hort, and who looks upon the grow ing of food crops and other departments of ?ann industry, as nu re inc.denis or unavoidable drawbacks, makes n vory (serious, radical mistake. Huoh mit Ink? H Aro frequent, and aro frequently ii not generally the cans.- of failure. Snell ; mistakes are tho cause of thu pn ? ni de-, pression in Heathorn agriculture. We should lin t produce what w.ed most what we nu's! ii.v, -wind \.?' consume, not what > not need (or med but little ol i in vhat wo cunno) consume. Tho mi.m r v.h<> plans, I pitches, prepares, plants and oultivutcn with dircot regard to supplyiug bis laud- ? ly willi food in such variety and of such Wholesome quality as may only be pro duced under his own eye, will uot bo likely to sailer for want of any reason-! Able comfort, necessary, or oven modest luxury that may lie outside tho limits ot I AOtll ll homo production. Tho pru dot t provision for "plenty of everything"I that such a furnier will nud e will genet' ally result in such a turpins of ono or more products of his labor as w ill pro oure snob other objeota of de ere, lo nay nothing Of tho returns from tho cotton Or other Ku called "molli y crop." Wuolaim no originality in the fore going "Thoughts, oxoi pt possibly in the mannor ol prc6< ming some <>f thom. In the main they ere substantially tho "old btory." Wo would that by any nu ans wc might impress upon Southern farmers that the essential idea ami aim in farming-an object that in attainable in no other pursuit on carib - should be to supply tho ohh i n eec ssa ri os and many of tho luxuries of hie directly from tho farm. The m?chame, thc miner, the mere laborer, the professional mun, thc follower of every Othor craft must ox? chtiugo tho products of his labor for money, and with thc money purehaso ii: the market the real objects of desire and necessity. Not so with thu trim fanner, in such u climate and with such a teem ing soil tm ours. SPRING OATS. Tho acreage sown in fall oats If mindi his than usual. The freezing out of a large portion of thoorop of 188(1 by (ho h.nd freezes in January, 1887, na i a most dis com aging cllcct, w hich was augmented by tho unfavorably dry weather which prevailed in some parts of the (sundry during the honing season. Tho oat crop, how.M r, i.. too valu Ode and in the long run too reliable to bc given up. Spring sowing costa little more than the aced, even ll the crop fads from drouth; ami a good breadth eight or ten AC] ."H at least to inch plow run should he put in. In our judgment founded upon experi ence and observation-oats how.? in February are much less liable to Inj iry by freezing than if sown in January. Sowing in thu "old twelve days" smacks moro of superstition ami sentiment than hound reason. Our hardest weather i. usually from December 26 lo February 1, and it is not often that oats sown in Fohruary are killed by freezing, Thc soil for spring oats, if not already fertile, should bo well mummil und deeply and closely plowed -the latter to guard against drouth as much as possible, if the laud bo eros.., plowed so as to leave tho furrows partly open, thorned may bo sown broadcast ami harrowed in wit li good roan lt?. Cotton seed, O? tho neal alone, or in compost witli acid phosphate and potash, makes an excellent fertilizer for oat?. Tho crop requires \ her more ailinn.ois and potuhli than the peroontngc usually found ill comme, cud uminoniat Cd phonphatc;. Undoubtedly the Hurt oat ia tim safest for spring sowing, as it will maturo in 100 to 12(1 days when sown in Foin nary or March, according to latitude. How plenty of seed; tho later tho sowing the I ?ea uer ( h ou hi be Hm ?Oeding. Allow for yield of twenty fold in n pretty wife general rule, unless tho unexpected yield or capacity of the land is small, lu which carns tho seeding should ho somewhat heavier limn this rulo would indicate, and vico verna. INTENSIVE I'AUMINU. in last month's "Thoughts" we prom ised more on tho subject of inteusivo farming "after awhile." It was then suggested "that as a principle it does nol pay tho best to manuro a few acres very heavily and h ave tim main expense of tho farm with little or no manure." To state the proposition affirmatively we mean to say that as a general practice it pays better lo distribute manures some what uniformly and impartially over f'O cinn?! area to ho cultivated than to l?r tilize a few acres very highly and the remainder very lightly. A ton of any good fertilizer will yiold a better per cont, on the cost if distributed equally over a Held ?>f twenty aoros than it one hall' Hie ion be concentrated on two aeroS and tim remaining half distributed among thu remaining eighteen acres. These hints are more particularly appli cable w here concentrated fertilizers are ii .cd, which cost comparatively little to dist libido. < loud fertilizers, judiciously applied, should bo considered as an investment ral'.er than an expense. An increase of tin; una in cultivation ?U vol VOS increased expouse of labor, supplies, implements, etc, but nu iucrenso m tim quantity of fertilizers med not involve any materiel additional expenso, and while we have premised that a uuiform distributiou give.-? belter results ou the whole, the corn et conclusion is to reduce area ? and fertilize both liberally and uniformly tho entire crop cultivated. Tiler?: aro thousands, yea hundreds of thousands of aoros annually Oultivatcd in Ibo South thal do not yield one cent of profit, but on tho contrary, entail a positive and real loss. Tho remedy is either lo throw snub acres out of culti vation, or cultivate thom in a difloront way. Tho mus? available and immediate reen dy i-; to throw Blioh lund out of (nil li val ion and con line our efforts to Smaller ar? as, with le88 expense of labor, .tock, ( tc, and increase the investment in fertilizers. Tlieii- are many farms yielding a scanty living for all concerned, where it would be wiso to sell one-half the mules one hali tho plows and other imple ments, ono-half the laud (or let it rest), dispense with hali the labor, and invest tho money saved in f or tili z ?rs, improved stock and improved implements, and snob appliances as may lie needed lo re duce loss and waste. The farmer who eunlluos Ids best, cilorts aud skill lo a mall portion of his farm and still con tinues ti:c whole area in cultivation luis practically only reduced area without reducing' expenses. MOCK ANO Cl ll ABM. Wo have often touched upon the ini poi tance ?d' stock-breeding and fattening and grass culturo. Now is tho time t?> sow grass s?cela ?>i most kind?, if nut sown last fall, or if tho fall sowing failed from lilly cause. It is Useless to attempt gn - culture ou poorly stricken and poorly prepared soils. Bermuda may bo i x . ot.-.! in this remark, as it will grow on almost anj soil. March, however, is a butter limo to tot a liermuda pasture. There is absolutely no reason why .Southern tanners- cotton farmers Should led I.ilse ail tin- h uses lind mules needed for any and all purposes, WY receutly attended a .rolf show in ,le He ruo ii county, which demonstrated, if proof wcro neoded, that Georgia cnn produce not only mules, but horses ol the fl neal type and quality. Sunder ami llandolph and other counties in south west (leorgia aro stirred up <m tho ?pies t?on of stock-raising. Ilabit is all (hat is against us and habit cnn bo change? a.ul reformed. Wc ought at least t< produce .di ?mr horses and mules, onougl butter to supply ev? ry ?lining table II the country titree times a day, beef au? mud ui to Piily supplement the home Mute bacon supply and furnish th, markets of all tho oitien and towns. I Hie farmers ol tho South will only sup ply the home doinaud for all. these uni mal products they will have solved tin problem, how to make Um farm pay. Wlial il I.literal Education Means. Ii. J. Lowell iii the January Atlanti s.iys: A liberal odiioation, which tenn i eilten vaguely used, can he oom ploted a Hie ago of 2'J years, and should im Iud training mid positive knowledge. Th authur says: If either elemont bo neglected in th uiidcigraduato course it is unlikely Um the defloionoy will ever bo made good i lie years immediately following gradi] ution aro elovotod, in tim vast majorit of instances, to learning a profession ti a business, and these interesta should h hluircd with no others except by way ( recreation. If, UK refore, a young rv. I cginfl tho work of his life while ntl delicien! in mental training his min w ill be trained by that work only i those parts which are actively used i he business or profession which he lu t iken up. If bc l ogins active lifo i provided with positive knowh-d e i I iota he is likely to learn only tho! facts willoh are useful in Iiis branch ( activo life, lu tliis way ho becomes om sided and narrow-minded; elli .dent, po Imps, and useful, but not liberally edi caled, and probably ICM, useful an t Diluent than if he were so. For il I n prOVinOO O? a liberal education I widen tho mind, to make it turn mt? readily to new subjects of interest, I make il understand tho Ideas of other Tho man who ia liberally educated sholl possess more varied pleasures, a sound j idgment, more sympathy with his fe low beings, a higher ideal of lifo and i its duties, than aro held by other me No education which is simply intellect!! can give all Huv.o, but a proper inti h etna! education may assist a youl man In acquiring them. Truly this is nu ago of progress, \V< made panta from all woolen gooda f , dy 98 to your own measure! Seien?i blanks, 25 samples of olOth und a bm tape measure are sent to any address f 0 cents in stamps by the N. V. Stauda I'.mts Co., of hil University Place. N. City. Hoods sent by mail. This Hi in doing an enormous business frc Maine tn California, Yon will actual lie surprised at tho result, if you w write them. * ??"- ' ---- - A dead J ?cat--Tho mu tiled drum's. JACKSON'S DEATH WOUND. How Old Stonewall Biet III? Death on tho Ifield or Ghniioolloravllle. (Hy .lolm Eaton Cooke.) On Uro willi bis great design, .lockson then rode forward in front of tho troops toward Cbancollorsvillc, and hero and then tho bullet struck him which was to tormiuato his career. Jackson bad ridden forward on tho turnpike lo reconnoitre and ascertain, if possible, in Spite ol the darkness of (ho night, thc position of tho Federal lines. The moon shono, but it was struggling with a bank of clouds, and afforded but a ?lim light. From the gloomy thickets on each sido of tho turnpike, looking moro weird and ..ombre in tho half light, came thc melancholy notes of the whip poorwill. *1 think t here must have been ton thousand,' said (?encrai Stuart after wards. Such was tho scene and aid which thc events which now are about to bo narrated took place. Jackson had advanced with SOmo mem bers of his staff, about a milo from Chancellorsville, and had roached a point nearly opposite an old dismantled house in thc woods near thc road, whou ho reined in his horse, aud remaining perfectly quiet and niotionlesn, listonen intently for any indications of a move ment in the Federal lines. They wt re scarcely two hundred yards iu front ol' him, and seeing the ?langer to which ho expose.! himself one of his stall' oilicci'S enid, 'General, don't you think this iti tho wrong place for you'.'' Ho replii I quickly, almost impatiently, 'the danger is all over! thc enemy is routed go back and tell A. F. Hill to press on!' The olllcer oboyed, but had scarcely disap peared when a sudden volley waa fired from the Confederate Infantry in bu l: son's rear, and on the right ol' tho road -evidently directed upon him and his OSCOrt. Tin1 origin of this lire has U0V( > been discovered, ami after Jackson's deatii there was little disposition to in vestigate an occurrence which occasioned bitter distress to all who by any possi bility could have taken part in it. lt is probable, however, that some movement of the Federal skirmishers had provoked the liri'; if this is an error, the troop tired deliberately upon Jackson and bis party, under tho impression that they were a body of Federal cavalry rccou noiterieg. Whatever may have been the origin ol' this volloy, it came, and many of tho stall and escort were shot, and fell from their horses. Jackson wheeled to thc loft and galloped into thc woods to gol out. of range of the bullets; but h.: had not gone twenty steps beyond the edge of the turnpike, in the thicket, wllOUOUC of brigades drawn up within thirty yards of him tired a volley in thoirtum, kneel' ingon the right knee, as the Mash of Ila guns showed, as though prepared b 'guard against cavalry.' fly this Un Jack ?m was wounded in three places, Ile received one ball in his left arni, twe inches below the shoulelcr-jnint, shatter ing tho bone and severing the cbiol arte ry; a second passed through the satin arni bctWCOU the elbow aud the wrist making its exit through tim palm of th? hand; and a third ball entered the pain ol' his right hand, about the middle, am pas.-ing through, broke two of tho bones llore, Captain Wilbouru, of his stall' succeeded ill catching the rems am checking -the animal, who was ulmus frantic from terror, nt tho moment wheu from loss of blood and exhuusiou, Jack sou was about to fall from the saddle. Ho was thon borne to thc liold hos pital at Wilderness, some live miles dil taut. Here, he lay throughout tho next day Sunday, listening to tho thunder of th artillery and thu long roll of the mn kel ry from Chancellorsville, wher Stuart, who hail succeeded him ill com mund, was pressing (louerai Hooke back toward (bo Rappahnnnock. Iii soul must have thrilled ut that sound lon;; so familiar, but lu; could take u part in thc conflict. Lying faint an pale, in a tent in rear of the 'WiidorUCt Tavern,' lu seemed to bc perfectly rt signed, and submitted to tim pundi probing of his wound with soldierly pi tunce, lt was obviously necessary t amp?tate the arm. and. one of his sit; goons asked, 'if wo lind the amput?t m necessary, llenera!, shall it bo done i oncoV to which hu replied with idacnP 'Yea, certainly, Dr. McGuire, do furn whatever you think right.' Tho arm wi then taken off, and ho slept souudl after Ibo operation, and on waking, b gan to converse about thc battle, lt WI about thiw time that wo received tho fe lowing htter from (Joncral Leo: '1 lue just received your note informing n that you were Wounded. 1 cannot 0 press my regret at the occurrence. Cou I have directed oven ta 1 should ha chosen for tim good of thc country have been disabled in your stead, congratulate you upon tho victory xviii? is duo to your skill mid energy.' Tho remaining details of Jackson's i noss and doath are known. Ile was i moved to tunney's Depot, on tim Rio mond and Frcderieksburg Itailmu where ho gradually sank, pmumou having attacked him. When told th his nu n on Sunday hud advanced up? the enemy shouting '('barge, and i member Joodsout* boexolaimcd, 'lt w just like them! it was just like Hu i They are a noble body of mell. T men who live through tins war,' added, 'will be proud to say 'I was o of tho Stonewall Brigade' to their ob dren.' Looking soon afterwards at t stump of Iiis arm, ho said, 'Many poo] would regard this as a gn at misfortui I regard it as ono of tho great blessic of my lifo.' Ho subsequently said, consider these Wound.-, a blessing; tb wero given nie for some good and w purpose, and 1 would not part with tlx if 1 could.' His wife was now with bim, and wi she niinouncod to him weeping, his . proaohing death, ho roplicd with pert' calmness, 'Very good; very good; it all right.' These were nearly his 1 words. He soon after war.1." became i lirions, and was heard to mutter, 'On A.P. Ilill to proparo for action! F tho infantry! - Tell Major Hawks tose forwarel provisions for tho men!' Tl his martial ardor disappeared, a sm diiluMcd itself over his palo features, ti ho murmured: 'Lot us cross over river and rest under tho shado of trees!' It waa tho river of death ho \ about to pass over; and soon after uti mg these words ho expired. The oharaotor and carool of tho n who thus passed from tho arena of glory, are tho property of history. HAISK VU Vit OWN HOGS. Capt. I'otorkln Bays Hint tho Mont ni?nt in i in- wm M IH Hulaed lu South Carolina. (From thc Nows and Courier.) Capt. .J. A. I'eterkin, tho well-known planter from Orangoburg county, wus in tho city yesterday, ile can always nay something that is interesting and in structive in regard to agricultural niat t ors. In conversation with a representative of the News and Courier yesterday, Capt. I'eterkin said that thoro waa no doubt in his mind that as fino tobacco can be raised in South Carolina as in any other Slate in tho Union. Tho soil and climate and conditions of temperature are all clements in favor of tho crop in tiiis State, when it is cultivated with the care that would ordinarily ho bestowed upon other cr<>] .. (.'apt. i'eterkin also .said that there is only ono other place in thc world, and that is ono of the fanning districts of langland, where as linc meat can bo pro duced ns in South Carolina. The hogs that we raise hero aro i lops, aro just like slop lilias that arc grown anywhere else, and thoro is no difleronco in the davor of tho moat ol corn-fed hogs in South Carolina and of corn-fed hogs elsewhere. 1 ?iiL the ordinary farm-raised meat in this State is superior to anything (d' tho kind produced any wboro else. Our hogs here fatten on crabgrass; they are grazers, ami tho tomi that they get maka their meat very .sweet and of a neel captivating davor. Our borne rai: ed side meat always has a streak of h an and a streak of fat, while the North western hioat is nothing but a maws of fat. Tin: pity of it is that greater attention is not paid lo neat raisin;: by tho farm ers of this State. In tun - of his costaoies of souse Henry Grady recently exclaim ed: '-'Why is it wo cannot buy now tho sweet, old-fashioned country ham? J migo Sambei Lumpkiu lately sent to tho writer a half do/.cn from his private ' smoke house of the vintage of 1881, that 1 are simply poems in ashes. Any self respecting pig WOtlld have .'bcd gladly to ' have laen KO idealized. lu these hams ' you eateii tin llavor of the smoke of the hiilf-covorcd oak chips above which they 1 drifted with the. seasons into perfection. 1 'nd tho rod gravy, clear, consistent, lliworous; it is tho gravy you used to lind Oil your mother's fable when you caine ' home from a long day's hunt in the De cember wm I. I would rutlier have a 1 Buaoke-houso willi its loamy door, its 1 darkened ratters, its rodpeppor pods, its ? festoous of sausage odorous of sago und ! ii hundred such hams suspended between i earth and roof, like Mindi Mahomets, ' than a cellar of dllst-begriincd bottles of ' M adi ira of '"Jd." Capt. I'eterkin raises his own meat. . Ho thinks that smoko rather spoils ita ' lluvor, and believes in curing it after another fashion, which makes it sweet and tender tho wholo veut rouud. W hat Capt Poterkill succeeds in doing on his mo u l farm in Orangeburg can likewise j lio done on overy othor well-oouduotcd farm in this Stale. When the time conics that every farmer misos his own meat: lind provisions, then will South Carolina ind?cil bo independent of Western snioko-IlOUSOS and Chicago tock pens. WAH ON lui. I Kl s l s. (Joiigrcssitinii Hayner"? l'l?rc?*? lt tack on. Hie MonopollcH. ( l oan llio fill's lolpbla rimes i Representative Hay nor, of Maryland, in au argument recently before the com mittee on manufactures ou his anti-trust monopoly bill, gave a very interesting mal incisive presentation of this sys? h imdio robbery ot the people. After showing that tho bill is constitutional tindci tho power t<; regulate oomniorco, "will you delay," said be, "a report upon Hus lui! one moment loilgor, in view of everything that you know upon tin se intuitions coeibinationr. to bankrupt private enterprise, lo dopredale upon tho i itsinoss mic lest and to plunder tho peoplo of this country ? Thoro is nota day that some iniquitous trust of this sort is not springing to existen a;. What do you want to investigate? Von might as well investigate as to whether iaroouv, pr highway robbery, or bribery ii a bcUClit or a detriment to tho people Tin y have never hesitated to buy Legis? lailirOS ind courts whenever tho occa sion required it and the opportunity presonted itself. I point to tho history of tho Standard Oil Company and all tho other trusts that are now following in its track and emulating its example. The wealth of this monopoly to-day is ono hundred and lilt y millions and still growing. Thc profit last year was twen ty-live million!) of dollars, ft started with less than a million dollars. How did it acquire tho one hundred and for ty-nine millions? By a system of high way robbery and crime such as no civilized country ought to tolerate. Iu divi mal enterprise, honest competition, transportation lines, refineries ami pipe lines were ali trampled to death under its meroiloSS march to aggrandizement. "Look at tho sugar tr Uh t to-day. Do you want to iuvoBtigato that? ?Summon the Iluvemoyors with their books. Ask Hiern t wo questions; tirst, what was the value. Of their plant when they went into the trust; second, what are the profits they are receiving out of it? Why, tho total plant of all the refineries only amounted to sixteen millions. To-day it is sixty millions. And then when you are done with thc Stnndard Company and the cotton seed oil trust and tho sugar trust, take up tho rubber trust, with a capital (d fitly millions of dollars, and then bike np the lend trust und the linseed oil trust and tho slate trust, the oil cloth, salt, steel alni scores of other trusts ami combines organizing daily with ull the speed they can in order to anticipate any action of Congress in thc promis* s. Tho country is looking to Con gress for relief. Heall ZO tho magnitude of the subject and listen to the voice of a suffering people resounding through tho houn s and business centres of this coun try and through tho medium of an en lightened press appealing to their repre sentatives to rescue thom from thu clutches of the mott dangerous monopo lies that have over raised their forms upon our soil. A majority of both houses of Congress aro favorable to action and re impatient to got tho aub jed in sb >o to givo it prompt and elle.-) ive co, menee." ii ls said that wasps remember their netti ninety six hours. When a troy gets near a wasp's nest, ho ls apt to rcmcmlwr it for a longer limo Hum that. MK. BLAINE MKCI.1NKS. Ho lin? -, Mol Want to bc I'reHldent, but Thinks HIH Party Will Win. FLOHKNCK, ITAIIY, January '25.-To li. P, .Iones, ( ii.iii nuin of tho Republican National Committee-Hir: 1 wish through you to state to tho members ol' tho ito publican party that my uumo will uot bo presented to tho National Convention, called to uswomblo in Chicago in June next for tho nominatiou of candidates for President nnd Vico President of the United States. I am constrained to this decision by considerations entirely personal to my self, of which you were advised more than a year ago. lint i can't make thc announcement without giving expres sion to my deep sense of gratitude to many thousands of my countrymen who have sustained uio KO loug and HO cor dially that their feeling has seemed to go beyond ordinary political adherence of fellow partisans, and to partake) KOIHO what of tho nature of personal attach ment. For this moat genorous loyalty of friendship 1 can make no ad?quate re turn, hut 1 shall carry the memory e>f it whilo lifo lasts. Norean 1 refrain from congratulating the Republican party upon the cheering prospects wuich distinguish the opening e>f tin' national contest of 1888 as com pared witli that of 1884. in 1882 the Republicen party throughout tho Union uiet with disastrous defeat. Ten States that had supported Garfield and Arthur in tlie election of ISSI) were carried by Democrats, either by majorities or plu ralities. Tko Republican loss in North ern elections, com parcel with the pre ceding national election, exceeded half a million votes, and the electoral votos of Hie Union, divided on the basis of the result of 1882, gave to tho Democrats over .'hill electoral voten out td a total of lui. Tia re was a partial reaction in favor of tho llepublioaus in the elections of 1883, but the Democrat? still liad pos session of seven Northern States, and on the basis ol' the year's co?tent could show more limn IUD majority in tho .lectorul colleges of tho whole country. Hut against tho discouragement natur ally following tho adverse elections of these two y ears tho spirit t>f tin? Repub lican party in tho national contest of issi rose high, and the Republican masses entered into tho campaign with such energy that tho limd result de pended on tho voto of a single State-, and that State was carried by the Democratic party by a plurality so small that it rep resented less than one-eleventh of one per cent, of the entire vote. The change ! C>f a single vote in every two thousand of tho total poll would have given tho State Lo the Republicans, though only two ' y oars before tho Democratic plurality i exceeded ouo hundred aud nine-two i thousand. The elections of 188(1 and 1887 have demonstrated the growing strength in thc Republican ranks. Seldom in oiir: political history linn a party defca ed in a national ?lection rallied immediately with such vigor as have tho Reptil li ians since 1884, No comparison is possible between the spirit of the party in 1882 Hil mid its spirit in 188G 87. The two periods present simply a contrast-tko ono of general depression, tho other ol enthusiastic revival. Should the party guin in tho results of 1888 over those of 1880-87 in anything like the proportions of gain of 1KSI over 188*2 Sd it would! secure one of the most remarkable victo ries of its entire existence. Rut victory doesn't depend on so large a ratio of in crease. The party lias only to maintain relatively its prestigo of 188? S7 to give to its national candidate every Northern State but one, with far better prospects of carrying that one than it has bad for tho patt six years. Another feature of thopolitieal situa tion should inspire thc Republicans with irresistible strength. The present Na tional Administration was elected with, if not upon, repeated assertions of it? leading supporters in every protection State that no issue on tho tarin was in-1 volved. However earnestly tho Repub licans urged that question as ono of con trolling importance in the campaign, j they were met hy Demoerutic leaders and journals with persistent evasion, con cealment and denial. That resource tho Presider4, baa fortunately removed. The issue which Republicans maintained anti Democrats avoided in 188-1 has been prominently and specifically brought forward by tho Democratic President and cannot ho hidden otit of sight in I sss. The country is neiw in the enjoy ment td un industrial system which in a quarter of a century hus assured a larger national growth, more rapid accumula tion and broader distribution cf wealth than wen- over before known to history. Tho American people will now be openly anti formally asked to decide whether this system shall bo recklessly abandon ed and a new trial bo made made of au nhl experiment, which has uniformly led to national einbarrusmient and wide spread individual distress. On tho re sult of such un issue fairly presented to iho p.-puiar judgment there is no room for doubt. (JUD thing only is necessary to assure success, complete harmony ami oordial co-operation OD thc part of all Republicans; on tho part both of those who aspire to load and of those who ure cager to follow. Tho duty is not one merely of honorable devotion to tho party whose record and whoso aims are alike gnat, but it ia ono deina .(ltd hy the instinct of self-interest, ami by the still higher promptings of patriotism. A closer observation of tho conditions ol lifo among elder nations givis ono a more intel so desire that the American people shall make no mistake in choosing a policy which inspires labor with hope and crowns it with dignity, which gives sufoty to capital and protects its increase, which secures political power to ovory citizen, comfort and culture to overy home. To this ond, not less earnestly and moro directly as private citizen than as public oautlidate, i shall devote my solf with the oonfltlont belief that the administration of tho Government will bo restored to that party which has tlomon strated tho purpose and power to W ield it for tho unity and honor of the Repub lic and for tho prosperity and progress of tho people I am, vory sinceroly yours, .1 AM I'M G. RliAINTC. "Waa," said young Mr. Sissy, sucking tho head of bis cane; "I'm an Angloma nlac, but only In a mild form, y' knaw." 'Yes," she responded, by way of keeping up tho convornation; "sort of an Anglo lunatic, aa it were." I>K. TAUIKii: UM VOTING. Ho Til In ks lt WouMn'l ii? Much U?? for Women to Vote-Tlio Question ol TIIXIIIK I ? Woman's Property. ..I would like to .see nil women vete, and watoli tho ref ult," said thu Kev. Dr. Talmage Sunday, in bia sixth sermon to the women of America. His subject was "Wifely Ambition, flood and Bad," and a great crowd of people listened atten tively to thc discourse. "1 do not know that it would change anything for the better," coutium el tho j preacher. "Most wives and daughters and Misters would voto as their husbands and fathers and brothers voted. Nearly all the families that 1 know aro solidly | Ropublioan or D?mocratie or Prohibi tion. Thoso families all voting would ! mako moro votes but uo difforonoo in V.u.' result. Besides that, as now at tho polin men are bought up by tho thousands, women would be bought up by the thou- ; sands. The more voters: the more op portunity for corruption. Wo have i several million more voters UOW than aro , for the public good. "We aro told that female suffrage would correct two evils-tho rum busi ness ami tho iubtifJloioucy of woman's I wages. About tho rum business i have to say that multitudes of women drink, and it is no unusual Hiing to see thom in ' tho restaurants so overpowered with : wine and boor that they ctn hardly .-it up, while there aro many so-called re spectable restaurants wu. re thoy eau go and take their champagne and hot toddy all alone. .Mighty temperance votera those women would make! Bosid s that, I tho wives of the rum-'?h rs would havel to vote in the interest of their hu&ban ls' business, or have a time tie- inverse < i felicitous. Bosides that, millioi s of r< spcctable und refiued women in America would probably not vote at all, because tin y tio not want to go to the polis, aud, on tho other hand, womanly ron -! - Would all go to tho polls, anti that might mako woman's vote on the wrong side, i l here is not in my ininti much j ro.'jpeCt I of tho expulsi?n of drunkenness by I female SUtl'ragO. "As to woman's wages to ba corrected by woman's vot -, I lin ve not much ho; h iu that. Womon aro harder on women than men are. Masculino employers aro mean enough in their treatment of women, but it you want to hear boating down of prices and wages in perfection listen how ; some women treat washer women, and dressmakers, ami female servants. Mrs. Shylock is more merciless than .Mr. Shy lock. Women, I fear, will never git righteous wages through woman's vote, and ns to unfortunate womanhood, Wi - men are far more cruel ami unforgiving than men are. Aftei' a woman has made shipwreck of her character men geuern - ly drop her, tait women ?lo not so much drop her us burl her with tho force of a catapult olear out, and oil", and down, and umler. "1 cannot see what righi you hliVo lo niaken woman pay taxes on lier ?roper ty t.? help support city, Slut ami nation- j al government, and yet deny her tho oppo tunity of helping decide who M ail bo Mayor, (lovelnor or President. "ls the wife's ambition tho political proferment of her husband? Then that will probably direct him. What a Ciod forsaken realm ie Amcricnu politics those best know who have dabbled in thurn. Alter they have asscssi 1 a mau who i i a candidate for ellice which he does not get, or assessed hun for some oiliec at tained, and he has been whirled round mu? round und round ami round among tho drinking, smoking, swearing crowd who often get control of public all ai rs, all that is loft of his solf-respector moral stamina would find plenty of roon: ou a geometrical point which is said to have neither length, breadth or thickness. Many a wife, has not been satisfied til! her husband went into politics, but would afterward have ?oven all she pos. Bossed to get him out. "Homo of na could tell of what influ ence upon ns has Peen a wifely ambition consecrated to righteousness. As my j wife is om of town ami will not shake ' her head because 1 say it in publia, I I will statt thut ni my own professional! lifo I have often been calli d of dod, i S I thought, to run into tho very tooth ol public opinion, ami nil outsiders v it h ; whom I advised told me I hud better not; it would ruin me and my (dniren, ai.ii at tho same timo 1 was receiving nice little letters threatening mo with dirk and pistol and poison if I persisted in attacking cortaiu evils of tho day, until tho Commissioner ed Police con sidered it his duty to take his place in our Sabbath services w it li forty ollicers scattered through the llOUSO for the pre servation of order. But in my home there has always been one voice to tay : .(lo ahead ami diverge not an inch from tlie straight line. Who cares if only (loti is on our side?' And though some times it seemed as if 1 was going out against nine hundred iron chariots, 1 went ahead cheered by the domestic voice: 'Up, for this is the day in which tho Lord hath delivered Sisera into thine hands.' " Kemai Italily Inn lt. t rim . The World asserts that "for a great metropolitan city Now York is remark ably freo from crime. Winn it is con sidered that this city bas a floating pop ulation of fully '200,000 a day, who enter and leave by the different moans td travel, and that many an unknown thief may slip in and commit robberits ami getont, thc wonder is how Inspector Byrnes keeps tho erooked clement BO well in hand. But thieves will seek the society e>f crooked people as a rule and thiough his system no new or old tine f can move about town twenty four hours and fail to bc known. If the thief is n stranger ho in brought te> somo place by a fellow-thief, apparently, and ho is there looked over and photographed by a vest oamera. and described by one of tho Inspector's keen detectives ns 'Tom my Mugs.' Tho cll'ect of Inspect o ? ?y men's system ia socu and felt, but his n ict In ids aro fully known to no one but himself. Tho unseen bund of tho grout detect iv - ia U Stl'OUg factor ?U Hie life of ovary thiof." A meeting of Indiana Republican edi tors nt Indianapolis drew out a large Attend ance from nil points of thc State, (?encrai sentiment favored making the campaign in favor of protection, a free ballot and a fair count, tho latter features being given pre ocdencc. While no official exprtsslnn was given, it was plain that there was a strong i feeling In favor of pushing Kx-Scnator Harrison as Indiana's candidate for the Presidency. ?IONOU lill I A KM I UH. Show TllOUl tllO Keitpcet Tli?y HO 111 ; ; 11 f fully llcnorvo. (George li. Singout in tho Epoch.) lt luis beet) said thut thoro is nothing about which tho American will not joke, ana it muy bo all i rm eil with e<iuul truth that thoro is uothiug ill lifo too ueriouH to bo ridiculed by tho American nows pupcr. So when it is no; the sleepy policeman, or tho mother-in-law, or tho tipsy husband who comes homo late at night, it is tho American farmer who is mude thc butt of ridicule. Ono can count on tho fingers of ono's baud those journals which discriminate in their col umns between legitimate humor or wit, and that ill-timed levity which makes "fun" at tlio expenso of nigher und bet ter tilings in our natures. I am glad to sc? that Hie Fpooh isoneof tho carefully edited papers. This subject may seem trivial, but it is moro important than appears ut first sight,. Not that Hie ridicule of tho press will injure the farmers of tho country, Iud the constant harping upon tho mythical ignorance ami lollies of this eia.ss has a tendency to place more rigid barriers between thc city and tho coun try and create caste. Ami if unyouo considers this result desirable, let him tell us bow much caste hus helped India m ber progress. So long ie. tho country villages and tho rural districts furnish the boys to make the mi reliants and bankers and ruilrond i.i tgi d? s 01 thc city, every true Ameri can should scorn to speak derisively of our agricultural population. One thing is needed in this country u'nl Hud is, an increased appreciation of thc real value ol patient, ploddiug toil. Thu average man has somehow formed the idea thai there is something very ludicrous in tho elVorts of men content with tilling Ibo soil, tuul workiug quietly and humbly in the lowly bolds of useful ness. Wo, as individuals, und ns u nation, ne? ?I a be'ter appreciation of the Ameri can farm? r's lifo and labors. The time was, perhaps, when it was thought that anyone hud braius enough to be a farm er; but that time, in this country ut least, is past. Any usofnl class of citi zens winking for the udvanccmcut of our uatioual wolfare is not a proper sub* jo? I for ridicule; and the low humor which lintis for its object our agricultur al ia';., .r. rs is not the l> .st matter with which to oxpand our literature. lt is thc duty of tho press to do all in n- power t?i elevato anti aid the lurmers, and lo spread righi ideas concerning their social ami intellectual position, und aol to belittle them. Thoro uro many w ho do not care w hat they write. They aim to construid .'readable" articles re gardless ol principle, But surely wo ought to expect better things of our great metropolitan papers, which, from their circulation of and their occasional recognition ?d' higher things, are styled "representativo Amerioan journals." A NO 111) I! INUIT Iv I 1.1.ll) I'.rui K Cornell, Iii" Notorious Train Knb licr. sin.I Down hy it Deputy Sheriff. ST. LOUIS, February 14.-Brack Cor in it, hotter known as Or ptain Dick, the desperado and leader of tho notorious tra i : robbors, waa shot and killed yester day afternoou while resisting arrest by Sherill' Ailee, of Trio county, Texas, eighteen nuit s wi st of Pearsall Station, on tho International and Great Northern Itailroad, Cornett was a noted outlaw and a year or ?wo ago organized u band til horse thu ve.s or "rustlers," us tiley aro oui led in thu Southwest, for the pur pose of robbing express and mail trains in Texas. Their first exploit occurred ou tho Southern Pacifie Load at Flatonia, Tex., in tho spring of JNK7, in which they span i ueither express, mail nor passen gt rs. Tiiey realized about $(15,000 in cash and other property, one item being mid worth of diamond jewelry be longing to uri Faed ern brm. Two weeks later they captured a train at McNeil, on tho International and Great Northern (load, and Recured about $18,000 from tho express, thu mail ami the passengers. After this robbery large rewards wore offered for tho arrest of the gang by Wells, Fargo and tho Pacific F.xpross Companies and the Southern Cacilie and International and Great Northern Kail road, and also by thc State of Texas, and great off or ts wer? made to capture tho gang, but without success. Governor Loss, of Texas, took a very active inter est in tho matter. The gang next st ruck a train on tho Texas and Cue lio, wost of Cori Worth, and secured valuable booty from tho express ear. The desperadoes thou split up for a while, but soon after reorganized and commenced operations again under their old lender, Captain Dick, and pounced down on n Southern Cacillo irani a second tune. Sine* then they have been scudding under buro poles and running from place to place to Ki ep ont of tho clutches of tho oilicers, who have recently been closing in around them. Cornett had been at Alice's ranch tho evening before, had cuten supper ibero and thon disappeared, Next morning he showetl up for breakfast and was given a meal. Alter eating he took a chair in the yard hy a camp-lire. Alleo ap proached him and demanded that bo throw up his hands. Cornett ropliod, "Thc you say," und fired ut Alice with Iiis left hand, the bull passing through Alice's hut. Alleo then fired und continued Tiring for four successive tunes,putting three shots into vital parts of Ooruott'a body. All four shots took 6(Toot. Cornett. managed to Uro a second shot, but missed his mark. Alleo is a Dopnty Sherill' of Trio county and has been engaged in several scrimmages of tins kind, but ho bas novor beforo re ccceived thc plaudits of tho peoplo to tho extent ho is now receiving them. IMAKOS AMI OltOAKM. Wo aro prepared to st ll Pianos and Organs of tho best make at factory prices for Cash or easy Instalment*. Pianos from $'210 up; Organs from $21 up. The verdiot of tho poople is that Micy can save the freight and twenty-five per cent, by buying of us. Instrumente dchvorcd to auy depot on fifteen days' trial. Wo pay freight both ways if not satisfactory. Order and test in yonr own homes, llcspectfully, N. W. TRUMP, * Columbi*, S. O. There is not so much failure to be charged < to "poor luck ' os lo