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CTi A'- 1 E R 1 A Y Th T A REDP 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., THU[IRSDAY, FEBRURI9 81 RIE$.0AYA THE TRUTH ABOUT TEXS. If Not Much of a Paradise in the Big State It Takes Hard Work There as Else- C where to Dig a Living Out of the a Ground, Yet Some People Do Live in "Dug Outs" in Seem ing Content. [Correspondence Herald and News.] PROSPERITY, S. C., February 12.-I am now back in old South Caro lina. I have seen much in the four weeks out West, as the railroad porters say, the wild and wooly West. My b first experience was at Shreveport, where the agent sent me nine hours out of the way to reach my destination, and from my experience with all of the railroad people of Texas, I have learned that they go on the principle that "the fartherest way round is the -easiest way found," for they certainly s .do send you around a good deal before you can get to your destination. I saw the great city of Dallas, but was not tickled to death by the sight. My t impression of the "great and only" s Fort Worth was that it was a city of a great deal of boom about it and not so much a reality as it was on paper. Both Dallas and Forth Worth are somewhat of railroad centres, and bid fair to be cities of no mean importance They are only forty miles apart, and v the one may have to give way to the 'l other. There is room for both. The t distance from Fort Worth to Henrietta r is about 100 miles, and is through one t of the most lonesome sections that I v have ever traveled over, sparsely settled for nearly the entire distance, and i where it is settled it don't appear that s it is making much progress. The prairie g stretches as far as the eye can see, and not a tree to break the view beyond the g rolling hills, and not a hou-e for miles I and miles. There is nothing in this i .section to invite or tempt the sturdy t -pioneer to tickle nature to see if she c ,will smile. One can see thousands of 'cattle grazing and running wild appa- e .rently. "\O USE FOR NIGGERS." . My first stop was at Bowie in Mon tague county. This section seems to be much better as a farming section. This v is a new town, being only six or seven years old. There are several nice busi- f ness houses there, and they seem to be y doing a fair business. At this place I i struck the best hotel I stopped at in the d entire State of Texas. In this town t they permit no colored people to stay. As they put it: "We've got no use for a the niggers." And. they don't have n any either. It is not a congenial cli mate for them, I suppose, and they s move on "instanter." This is the case t in a majority of the towns in western Texas and the Pan Handle, they told s; me. The white people do all of their v own work. There are a number of a white servants to be seen. MUCH BONEs AND REE. My next stop was at H enrietta in Clay .county. This- county is now experien eing a boom, or they are trying to boom it, but the boom is flat. Henrietta, the C .county seat, has been boomed to death. I walked all over the town. Saw some fine buildings in it, and a number of E them are empty. There were heavy stocks in all the stores, and no business doing of any kind that I could see. At this place I saw a pile of bones as large as Mr. Ruff s shop that had been gathered on the prairie and were being loaded on the cars to be shipped North, ~ or East as they say. The parties that ~ were loading themi told me they were to go to New York to refine sugar with. I supposed they were going to a ferti lizer factory. Which ? I also saw on1 the platform for shipment to Fort Sill, Indian Territory, over 100 barrels of bottled lager beer. It is against the law to sell liquor of any kind in the terri tory, but they give beer "fits," judging by the quantity at this place. ENTERTAIN3IENT BY HOM1E FOLKS. Leaving Henrietta at 53 p. in., I ar- t rived at Belcher, wvhere Mr. W. S Birge lives, with but one mishap. Thee train was stopped by a Texas steert being on the track and not getting off. On investigating it was found that he was fastened in a "cattle guard."i Train hands and passengers by a strong and a united pull and a pull altogetherc succeeded in pulling him out, and thus we were permitted to go on our way. I I would say that they don't seem toe care for cattle out there. I counted fifty carcasses in a run of about fifty miles on a single side of the road. Hundredst are killed every year by the trains.3 You could see them in all conditionsa from the freshly killed to tihe bleachingv skeleton.t GREAT COTTON SECTION. I We had a royal time at "Bro. Billy's," and right glad I was, too, to see him. I enjoyed his hospitality for two daiys. He seems to be doing wvell and making ' money. He has made some very linet investments in real estate. His be tters half is a true helpmeet, and little Mar and Willie are two as fine girls as can il be found anywhere. On Friday, seateda behind a fine pair of bays, I was drive'n to the Indian Territory .by Bro. Wil- f, liam, and shown the far-famed country, b but "nary Inj un" did we see: so we a1 felt secure as to our scalps. In this f; great cotton section Mr. Birge is feneing 1500 acres of land. He gets the most fi of it for ten years for fencing it. For s some he pays 25' cents per acre each i year for ten years. This is a good in-iv 3 vestment, and such chances are grow- v ing beautifully less. You must have v some good friend who is high up with the natives, as no one but a native can hold land in the territory. At this place I heard the first wolf howl or bark. It sounds like forty dog~s I yelping, barking and howling. I cdr not make the acquaintance of any of!t as satisfactory. I saw also the beauti .l little prairie dog, and did wish I uuld catch one. We passed through dog town, but I did not call on the iayor or make the acquaintance of ny of the grandees of the town. There in this section some fine farming inds, they tell me. BEATS NEWBERRY FOR MUD. After spending two days pleasantly, bad adieu to "William and Mamie" nd their interesting l:ttle family and oarded the train for. Overton; but las! I was thirty-six hours in going bout two rundred and twenty-five uiles. It was a stop here and a lie ver there, and I only got to Greenville, exas, Saturday morning. This town in the "black lands," as they are alled, and the mud sticks to your hoe soles and wagon wheels like wax. saw a wagon with two step-ladders a it stop in the street, and it took our horses to pull a load of ten sides of aeon. The miI will fill up the entire pace between the spokes and hub, naking a solid wheel. Started again ,t 5 p. in., got fifty miles, and had to tay all night at 'Mineola. TH E FIRST SMAL LPOX SCARE. Got to Overton next day at 11. There was quite a stir there about smallpox. This was the town where we expected o locate, but one day was enough for ne. Messrs. Wyse and Brown had been here several days. After consulting ve leftand went to Mineola and located. Ve got down to work there, and were naking excellent progress when the mallpox scare came on, and the uarantine got so strict that business vas almost suspended, and we had to ,et out. The town we left (Overton) iad thirteen new cases of small-pox in t a week after we left,'aud we learned hat the adjoining county to us was >fering ten dollars a day for nurses. Ve consider that we made a narrow scape, and "we are glad we are here at tome to-night." >ISADVANTAGES OF LIVING IN TEXAS. There are some sections of Texas in vhich the farmers seem to be doing cry well, but on the whole they are iot in my opinion as well off as are the armers in South Carolina. My ad -ice to every one who is making a liv ug here is to stay here, for you can't ,o any more there, and the hardships here as three to one here. Stick to -our forty acres of land and a mule in outh Carolina, and don't swap. I ever in my life saw as many poor eople as I saw in Texas, and I would ay to the women in general, don't go > Texas unless you want to shorten our days. A lady with whom I talked aid : "Texas is a woman killer." Be arned in time. Let "do well" alone ud stay where you are. There are so any disadvantages there as a rule ver against the fe'v advantages. I aw plenty of families living in a tent lx10 feet, and some living in wagons, nd others living in "dug outs." Dug uts are holes dug in the ground and a ent stretched over the hole. Others re dug in the side of a hill and a door ut in, and that is how they live, move ud have their being. The negroes ere in most instances are better' oused than the white people there I a great many instances. Th!e disad rantages arc many-the advan ages few. They claimn as one of reatest advantages the fertility of the oil, requiring no fertilizing, &c., but ey pay from $1 to S1.:.5 per day for vork, and $1 per 100 pounds for pick ng cotton, and other things eqjually as igh, so wvhen it is all sununed up the armer in South Carolina with a haif a ale of cotton to the acre makes about .s much as the average farmer in :exas, and then there are not near so nany disadvantages here. They have ood schools in most places ; in fact, his is the only advantage that I could e Texas had over South Carolina. As o reiigion and religious training and sunday observance, there is very littie f it as far as I could see. Freight rains run on Sunday the same as any ther day. Hunting and fishing on unday is what a great many engage n. The first invitation I had was to o0 quail hunting on Sunday. I de lined with thanks. I attended church in Mineola and eard the pastor say that when 1e ae to church that morning he found ifty children there waiting for some en to conme teach thenm, and not a eacher nor an adult in the house. hat a sad state. Hie asked, "what re wve coming to '." and echo answers rhat ? How long wvill it be before hese children will quit coming if their arents don't go ? FLEE;CING; THLE FARMERS. I would rather have half a loaf in outh Carolina than a whole loaf in exas in sonme or nmost of the setionis hat I was in. Of course, there are nine good sections, and it is a great ate, and a good place to niake money you have money, but to go there and ig it out of the ground is an up hill usiness. What I have said above re ers to the farming interests only, for I elieve all others arc making money tthe expense of the farmer. One rmer told mec that 100 per cent. was othing for them to pay, and that they equently paid:!u0 per cent ;and(I 1do1 ay that the farmers in this State and this section in particular don't know hat a good thing they have. If they were to try it ('lce out there ther mdsee it as 1 do. Thie happrest man I saw, I think. in uy trip, was a man and his family rho boarded the traini at Heinrietta for t rkansas or A labaima for his old home. ie just smled all over his counite uance. They even had their (log withl hemi, and I verily believe a majority imoney and didu't have too much pride. Where a number of families go and make their own settlement and have their own store, &c., they, of course, can do better ; but enough of Texas until we go back and see other sections that are better. They say there are many such, and I hope so. On our homeward tsip we had as trav eling companions Mr. and Irs. Brown, of Virginia, who came as far as Montgomery, Ala., with us. We passed through New Orleans at night and made close connection and did not get to see the famous French market, but got some fine oysters-ask Mr. Wyse about them. Our homeward trip was without incident until we reached Montgomery where Mr. - -but I 3 guess I had better keep silent and not tell any tales out of school. We had the pleasure of a couplp of hours of stop in Atlanta, and took in the "burg," visiting the Young Men's Christian Association building, &c., and not forgetting to pay our respects to the fruit stands and also the restau rants, where we "took in"-well, I won't tell how many oyster stews my fellow traveler and I did take-suffice it a to say we did justice to the occasion. We had some fun out of a scary drummer and the conductor. In tell ing about the small-pox epidemic and scare generally on the train one man (a drummer) left the train at the first stop, and the conductor looked as though he would as soon not have our tickets. Mr. Wyse had to show his health certificate. It was fun to us, but not to them. Well, it is about time to stop writing, and as we stopped when the conductor shouted "Prosperity," and it is time to stop again. Good-night, A. H. KoH\. HELP FOR CLEMSON FROM HAMPTON. Valuable Books With Which to Start the e Library, and Seeds for the Farmers. [From the Greenville News.] PEN DLETON, February 9.-The Clem- 3 son College received a few days ago g from Senator Hampton some three i hundred books. We have not seen c them, but we are told they are very e valuable, being mostly books of refer- : ence. We are also informed these C books, being the the first donation to the Clemson college library, will f be numbered and the honored donor's a name will be duly enrolled on the library register. C There is something peculiar about t these books. Sometime in September r last Senator Hampton wrote to Colonel I Simpson, president of the board of trus tees, informing him of his desire to do nate these books to the Clemson College e and requested him to designate to r whom and where they should be sent. c But for unaccountable reasons this let ter~ was not received by Colonel Simp son until about two or three weeks ago. Where it was all this time no one can a conjecture, but from tbe number oft pcstoffice stamps on the envelope it has had many ups and downs before it reached its destination. Colonel Sinmp son immediately answered the letter so long delayed, and the books were promptly received. Senator Hampton has also in the last few days sent to Dr. P. H. E. Sloan, secretary and treasurer of the Clemson College, eleven hundred pack ages of seed, each package containing four papers of different varieties and requested hini to distribute them among the farmers as far as they wouldt go, and in such way as would do the most goodl possible. Gormian's Methodical Ways. [Fronm the Chicago Herald.] Gorman is an interesting and ami able man. His hobby is method. HeI is tihe most methodical man in Con gress, and the most persistent in his p)ursuit of certain customs. For in stance, MIr. Gorman will not sit up after 11 o'clock at night, except in cases of great emergency, like a night session of the Senate. He rises at 6 every morning regularly as a day ]aborer. He sits at dinner p)recisely sixty min utes every day of his life, and will not be interrupted at meals under any pre text whatever. Intimate friends, Sena tors, even the President of the United States imiself, might call while Mr. Gorman was at his dinner, and they would have to wait in the parlor or go away with out seeing the man from f Maryland. Senator Gorman takes a walk of a certain length every day, I bathes always at a fixed hour, never uses tobacco or liquors, and never does anything that could endanger his health. The resuit of all this caution I and method is that he is growing stronlger and stronger, physically and I mlentally, and though .52 has scarcely , reached the zenith of his manly Filing it High. [.Special to the News and Courier.] W isssnoro, February 9.-The rail road election resulted in voting the subscription of $200,000 to the two pro jected roads through the county, and MIr. G. HI. Mec3aster, president of one of thleml, received a telegram to-day1 from the vice president of the C:.pe Fear and Carolina Railroad Company, MIr. Morton, saying that his men would be in the field in thirty days. To strengthen the bair, thicken the row th. stop its blanching and falling out, and where it is gray to restore the C youthful color, use Ball's Hair Rene- e wer. For wveak back, chest pains, use Dr. HONESTY THE BEST POLICY. Cations, No More than Men, Can Escape Financial Law-The Question of the Free Coinage of Silver Consid ered from the Stand point of Monetary Science. II. [From the News and Courier.] With your leave I propose to give ome further account of the currency >f the country, as shown by the recent >fficial reports of the treasurer and omptroller of the currency, and the esson to be deduced therefrom. Some >f these figures I did not have before ne in writing last week, consequently : had to refer to those of the year pre rious. For instance, I gave the out tanding currency of the country-gold, ilver and notes-for June 30, 1889, at 1,666,095,400, whereas, it should have een for June 30, 1800, at $1,698,614,406 -that is, an increase during the year of 32,518,986. Counting our population ,t62,000,000, according to the recent ensus, this would give a circulation of ver $27 per capita, instead of less than 5, as some of our Alliance friends vould have us believe. It is true a considerable amount of his currency is held in the treasury or various purposes of law. On June 0, 1889, $278,543,000 was so held, arid n June 30, 1890, $255,530,000. But ven deducting these amounts, it left n actual circulation on the former date 1,387,551,835, and on the latter 81,443, 83,618, that is an increase in the ac ual circulation of the country of over 55,500,000 during the year. And yet ve are assured by those who take their igures from the National Economist hat the stringency in the money narket and the consequent low price f cotton is on account of the contrac ion of the currency. As showing that this increase in the urrency has been continuous, and omewhat regular for a number of ,ears, I give the amount in circulation .t the close of each fiscal year-June 0, for the last five years. In 1880, 1,260,211,673; in 1887, $1,325,129,376; a 1888, $1,379,633,133; in 1889, $387,551, 35, and in 1890, $1,443,083,618. Of the ntire currency outstanding on June 0, 1890, $695,563,000 was gold; $463,211, 00 was silver and $539,839,000,000 was iotes. I call special attention to this )r the purpose of showing how large proportion of our currency consists of old, and consequently how danger us would be any action of Congress hat would tend to drive it to a pre ium, and consequently out of circu tion. EFFECT OF FREE COINAGE. Such action would at one fell blow ontract our currency to the extent of early $700,000,000; would disturb all *ur intercourse with forign nations, nd would change the standard of alue at home at least 20 to 2.5 per cent he difference in value between gold ,nd silver, it would not raise silver to he value of gold, as our "silverites," eem to imagine, but would drive gold o a premium and out of circulation. ilver would become our standard of alue instead of gold, and wve would ink financially to the level of the panish-American States, China, Japan ,d India instead of remaining on a lane with the leading commercial na ions of Europe. How any class of our >eople-and least of all our farming nd laboring classes-could profit by uch a condition of affairs, except the ew silver barons of the Rocky Moun ains, it is impossible to conceive. While we are able to bolster up silver >y artificial means, and thus maintain he gold standard, that is the full ength yard-.stick, we may avoid the atastrophe. But with the free coin ge of silver it would seem inevitable ooner or later, if the teachings of all istory, as well as of comnmon sense nd common honesty, be worth any hing as a guide. That there has been ~reat stringency in the money market, pproaching very nearly, at one time, o a great financial crash, there can be o denying. The causes f or this were oubtless various. But as we have learly shown by official figures the ontraction of the currency was not ne of these causes; for there has been o contraction, just the contrary. Nor lo I believe in Mr. Calhoun's idea that he hoarding of money by our poor louthern cotton planters has had any naterial influence. EFFECT OF THE ARGENTINE CRISIS. Were the writer called upon to ex ress his views as to the principal uses of the trouble, he would in the irst place express the opinion that the fleet of wild-cat financiering in South merica on our money market has not een duly appreciated, and would ex lain as follows: The Baring Brothers, f London, had taken a large loan of rgentine Republic--200,000,000, I be ieve. Then followed the reckless issue ry that Government of the famous ced ilas, or land certificates, as a paper cur ency, to the extent of over 8250,000,000 nore. This reckless action, of course, rove gold to a premium, at one time f nearly 300 per cent, depreciating the onds taken by the Barings correspond ngly. The firm of Baring Brothers have ang been perhaps the largest holders nd dealers in the United States sec ities of various kinds of any house in Europe. Finding themselves so hard ressed by the action of the Argentine lovernment, they were forced to throw heir American iecurities on the mar et as their most available assets. This, f course, absorbed a lar'ge amount of urrency. Comning at a different season t might not have created any serious tringency. But comi:-g just at the eason it did, when a vei., ,arge amount unusually large crops, and when there is nearly always more or less stringency in the money market on this account, it added to it very greatly, produced a a panic, and had it not been for the tirnly action of the banks of England and France we would almost unques tionably have had a financial crisis such as the world has seldom witnessed. Fud it would have been due primarily and chiefly to the reckless financiering of the remote and rather significant South American Republic that came so near ruining the great house of Baring Brothers. And yet how similar to this Argentine financiering is the so-called sub-treasury scheme advocated by our Farmers' Alliance. The chief difference is that the cedulas are based on real estate securities, whereas by theAlliance plan our currency would be based on such perishable articles as cotton, corn, wheat and tobacco-certainly in every way much less safe than real estate. IT WOULD BE UNIVERSAL RUIN. If, then, unsound financiering in so insignificent a country as the Argentine Republic ecane so near precipitating a financial crisis on the leading co-mer cial nations of the world, what would not even more unsound financiering on the part of a great nation like the Uni ted States be likely to bring about? And if our Southern cotton market has suffered from this threatened crisis, as it no doubt has to some extent, what would it not suffer from the real and universal crisis that. would inevitably be produced? Is it not then the patri otic duty of every friend of honest and sound principles of finance, from what ever section he may come, or to what ever political party he may belong, to forget, for once, at least, both party and section, and to unite in warding off the danger impending over the entire country from the interested and selfish action of a few silver millionaires, and the visionary schemes of the Farmers' Alliance? Let sound money Demo crats heed the patriotic appeal of Sena tor Sherman to join the Republicans in defeating the free coinage of silver, just as I would say let conservative Republicans heed the patriotic appeal of the venerable Senator Hampton to defeat the force bill. AN UNSOUND FINANCIAL TENDENCY. To the two causes of the stringency above described, coinciding as they did with each other, we may add a third, which many able financial authorities regard as the prime cause; that is a general feeling of uncertainty and want of confidence in our financial situation, growing out of the tendency of late years to unsound financial legis latiov. We have had more or less of this tendency ever since the war. First we had the "Greenbackers" as long as Government notes were depreciated in value. After the return to specie pay ments, so that Government notes were of full value in gold, but silver began to decline in the market, the "Green backers" merged into "Silverites." The termi "Cheap-mon eyites" would cover both. They were in favor of what they termi "cheap money," be lieving that with this they would be able to cheat their creditors out of a part at least of their just debts. This idea suited our silver barons of the Rocky Mountains exactly. They seem to have no higher idea of finance than to get as much as possible for their silver, regardless of the ruin it may bring upon the country at large. It can hardly be regarded otherwise than a public misfortune that these men get seats in Congress, by purchase or other wise, where such a miserable rotten borough as Nevada, a mere mining camp, so to speak, with only about 60,000 inhabitants, has an equal voice in the United States Senate with the great State of New York, with over 6,000,000 inhabitants. THLE DANGER OF PARTISANSHIP. Add to this that strong partisan feel ing that puts party before country and causes the minority in Congress to unite with such an incompetent and vicious faction of the majority for the purpose of gaining a point, and we have an explanation of the recent pas sage of the free silver coinage bill in the Senate. as well as most of the vicious financial legislation of late years. I entertain too high an opinion of the in telligence of such men as Scnator Car lisle, as well as of our own Senators, Hampton and Butler, to believe that they think the free coinage of silver, at present rates, is a sound financial measure, or that it will conduce to the public welfare. Why then do they lend their support to such a miserablc coterie of so-called Republicans to pass through the Senate a measure so fraught with danger to the prosperity and honor of the country? No wonder if in such a state of affairs there is want of con tidence in financial circles, and a panicky tendency whenever the least trouble arises in the money market. Fortunately the threatened danger of a financial crisis seems to have passedl away for the present. But if we wish.to avoid the periodic recurrence of such dangers we should hasten to return to a soundI tinancial basis. Th'at "honesty is the best policy" is just as true of nations as of individuals, as all history shows; and on this question there should be no division on party lines. We should then stop the coin age of eighty cents worth of silver and calling it a dollar. It is a cheat and fraud to do so. If we must have free coinage of silver, at any rate let us put a full dollar's worth of silver in a dol lar as we do of gold, and then there will be no fraud in the transaction. Then let us find a means of getting our Su-I preme Court to reverse that most un fortunate decision of lS%4, which our| most eminent historian, just passedI away, has so clearly proved to be "in: flagrant aLtagonism to the Constitu tion," and which has opened the way to such visionary schemes as the sub- T treasury bill of the Farmers' Alliance. LET THE BANKS A LONE. Instead of waging war against our national banking system, which has done so much to sustain our credit.at n home and abroad, and which, I am convinced, is, all things considered, the t best, safest and most convenient of any banking system in existence, let us rather support it and endeavor to im prove it where found necessary to meet . the popular wants. It is only through rr a well organized banking system that li we can procure that elasticity in the w currency of which we hear so ntch, sl and which the business interests of the ti country require. A Government cur- h rency, issued by Act of Congress, even h supposing it otherwise unobjectionable, f can never have this element of el. . ticity. It will either be too much at one time or too little at another. Would it not, then, be wiser to seek to improve F a banking system which has served us so well, where it may be found defec tive, rather than to break it down and b to substitute for it we know not what? '_'Ivrs. p AN ADDRESS TO THE ALLIANCE. to h The Oracular Utterances of the President n of the South Carolina Alliance. A The following address of President dE Stokes "to the Alliance in South Caro- w lina" is printed in the Carolina Spar- gi tan: The past year has been one of unu- a sual crises. Every timber in the old Cl ship of State has been put to the sever- m est test. dc The struggle has been ostensibly be tween the old parties, but in reality it has been a struggle between organized fo: monopoly, which has laid unholy hands w; upon the old party organizations on the one hand and the people on the in other. as The most potent factor in the revolu- in tion wrought was beyond doubt the kt Farmers' Alliance. All unsuspected A. by the party bosses, unconsciously to lit itself, this young giant left an inefface able mark wherever it laid its hand, bi; and its hand seems to have been well th nigh omnipresent. ge Not that the organization entered th actively and distinctly into the poiti- m cal arena; for this is not true. Its va potency became actual and expressed co itself in the main through th old br party organizations; but it w.s none in the less the work of the Alliance as a a I great educator. The leaven stimulated ur by the work of the Order, like all true ar, leaven, worked up and worke' out- th ward. Even the lordly Senate, the co least sensitive branch of the Govern- ne nent, has passed one.of the most radi cal measures demanded by the Alli- th ance, and those members who stood du out moat stoutly against certain other k' measures demanded by the Alliance, wI upon grounds thtt involved fundamen- ha tal and radical principles, are much rai less clear as to their duty since the peo- tle pIe have spoken. pe Does any Allianceman falter in his w< faith in view of these .facts? Does any~ go Allianceman in South Carolina permit th his zeal to grow cold at the very mo- mi ment when the conflict is coming to a su crisis with all the odds in favor of our p1. side if we are a unit? Perish the tic though t. Th~e past is full of inspiration, th and the future is inviting. Let ~us fid rouse ourselves, and gird our loin? for ca the crises that are surely coming,.d As one of the first and most neces- ch sary steps in this direction let us co'rrect isf and purge our rolls. Those who are sti not eligible to membership should be dropped from the rolls and notified by ci< the secretary. Read over carefully the toi eligibility clause and apply it faith- th fully. By tLe action of the recent Sn- tai preme Council, the word "counitry" sai when it occurs in this connection th means those who live in rural districts he at:. unincorporated villages. This ex- rei cludes workers in factories and all edi- m: tors of papers that are not agricultural nc strictly, and that do not support all the th demands of the Alliance. w All who~ have been received hereto- , fore who are ineligible should be su dropped from the roll and notified by foi the secretary of the fact. Let us get in our forces together in compact and to homogeneous mass, and then be ready to to press our demands effectually. Put th lecturers to work in every county. Let tri the county Alliances provide foi- the th payment of lecturers, and let each Sub- sli Ailiance put its lecturer to studying to and working. As a necessary step to be his equipment for his work he should twi have thbe Cotton Plant and thbe National w<i Economist. Let the Alliance supply bo these papers to him if need be, and : then require of bum some work. of Let all hands then subscribe for tihe Cl Cotton Plant at least, so tbat they may H{ know whether he is talking the right hi doctrine. Brethren, let us get together th and get to work. Tfhe prospect before eo us is limitless. It really begins to look p,i like the farmer is going to have "his mn: ininrg" now after all these years. Let an us use wisely our opportunities. B11t go to use them wisely we must educate ful ourselves, and there is no better school Axi than the Alliance for farmers. m Brethren, take courage and lend a t hani! J. WM. STOKES, President S. C. S. F. A. The world-wvide reputation of Ayer's su Sarsaparilla is the natural result of its fo] surpassing value as a blood medicine, an Nothing, in the whole pharmacopoia' th effects more astonishing results, in scro fula, rheu matism, general debility, and pr all forms of blood disease, than this remedy._____ -- i ge If you have a pain fulsense or tatmgue, ye find your duties irksome, take Dr. J1. tel H. McLean's Sarsaparila. It will brace you up, make you strong andh vinorous ALL NOT GOLD THAT GLITTERS. bree Prominent Merchants Swindled by a Bunco Man to the Tane of $5,000. [Special to News and Courier.] AIKEN, February 12.-Tbrec promi ent merchants were buncoed in the oods near Aiken yesrerday and fleeced the extent of $10,000 or more. 'Two ne looking men, one at the Buck ouse, and the other at the Highland ark Hotel, had been here for nearly so weeks, and they took in the prom ent merchants and a planter at Wil >ton, to the above stated amount, ith a so-called gold brick (in the iape of gold) filled with lead. One of e party came here yesterday with s draft : on a Charleston factor and id it cashed through a bank here for re thousand dollars. "One on the Wing." IT WAS A BAR OF-COPPER. AUGUSTA, February 13.-Mr. J. R. asterling, of Williston, S. C., who, ith Messrs. Kennedy and Weathers e, of the same town, was swindled t of five thousand dollars by being rsuaded to buy a bar of gilded copper r pure gold from a fakir, is in town -night on his way to Atlanta, where goes in hopes of identifying a man med Mace, who was arrested in tlanta this morning, according to the scription furnished of the party who as an accomplice in the gold bug me. The man in Atlanta was arrested in Richmond and Danville train by ief Connelly, and if he is the right an the officers will get five hundred lIars reward for the arrest. DETAILS OF THE SWIxDLE. The Chronicle this morning gives the lowing details of the manner .in aich the swindle was worked: A few days, possibly a week ago, a ysterious personage, giving his name Bill Parker, or more formally speak g, Mr. William Parker, made himself own to Mr. W. H. Kennedy, Mr. R. Weathersbee, and Mr. J. R. Easter g, of Williston, S. C. He spoke in a mysterious way of a thing which he had if he only had e money to work it. He got these ntlemen interested, and disclosed to em that he had somewhere in the ining regions of the West a most luable gold mine. It had been dis vered by the Indians or some half ?ed bunters, and there was millions it. Indeed, he had along with him nythical Indian, who never showed , but was supposed to be hovering und somewhere in the bushes or on e outskirts of town and available for nsultation with Mr. Parker when cessary. the best evidence, however, that are was gold in the mine was to pro ce the gold itself and this Mr. Par r did in a secret interview. And iat a glittering prize it was ! A solid r two feet long and as big as a bar of Iroad iron. But if these clever gen men had attended the recent Shakes arean Samposium in Augusta they >uld have learned that "All is not Id that glitters." But they knew at anyhow, and even suggested as ich to Mr. Bill Parker. He was not prised nor embarrassed by this im ed distrust, but courted investiga a. Taking a gimlet he bored into e heavy yellow bar, and smiled con ently on the shinnig dust which :ne from the hole. "Take this gold st now and send it to any jeweller or emist and ascertain to your own sat action whether or not it is the pure Fbis was fair enough, and the pre us dust was either sent to Charles 3 or submitted to a Williston expert, e reporter's informant was not cer n whieb. But the test was entirely isfactory, and the answer came back at'it was 22-arat gold. Mr. Bill Par r was vindicated, and now nothing amaied but to weigh the bar and ike the calculation. The weight was t known to the gentleman who gave e reporter the story, but the bar was >rth $6,000 or $7,000. Just exactly why they were given eh a bargain is not made clear, but -$00 cash Mr. 'Parker and his taginary Indian partner were willing turn over the glittering bar of gold Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Weathersbee, e two gentlemen with whom he was Lding. The prize was too glittering; e profit too certain and easy to let p. All that was necessary would be send it to the Government mint to coined and a clean profit of one or a thousand brand new gold dollars >uld be realized. Who wouldn't have ught it?. Sir. W. H. Kennedy, who is a man means, drew a draft on his factor in arlestou for $5,000, and Mr. Dan mnderson, of A iken, took it and gave n a check on the Bank of Aiken for a money. Armed with the $53,000 in d cash, Mr. Kennedy sought Mr. Il Parker and the trade was consum ited. They got the precious bullion d1 Mr. Parker got, the cash. Having tten the money, Mr. Parker had no ther business in WVilliston or ken, or even in Carolina, and his rthical Indian chief vanished from a Palmetto State. rhe owners .of the gold bar either re suspicious or else wanted to reas e themselves of their splendid prize, 'they had another analysis made, d they were horrified to find that e second analysis showed that their ze was not g6ld at all. It is understood that Mr. Schwei rt's analysis of it showied it to be a ry fair grade of copper, but even af the reporter had'- gotton the story r. Sch weigert persistently refused to e anythineg to ay excet that it was a private matter which he was not at liberty to talk about. Well, there is little more to tell. The interviews with Chief Hood were, of course, for the purpose of capturing Mr. Bill Parker, and it is understood that Mr. J. R. Easterling was busy yester day sending off telegrams in every di rection, with a description of Parker, and an offer of $500 for his arrest. THE GREENVILLE MURDERE. J. B. Williams Arrested in the Mountains of North Carolina, LGreenville News, 12th.] The following brief telegram toSber iff Gilreath from Deputy Sherifl' J. D. Gilreath, received at 6.40 o'clock last. night, announces that J. B. Williams, the slayer of Major W. A. Williams, i in the the hans of the law: "WAYNESVILLE, N. C., Feb. 11. "Williams arrested. Will be home: Friday on railroad. "J. D. GILREATH." The telegram gives no idea who made the arrest, but it is sup Deputy Sheriff Gilreath is e man. Mr. Gilreath left here Monday morning by himself, going to Traveller's Rest of the Carolina, Knoxville & Westerz:'. train. He got a horse and buggy from;':. Dr. B. F. Goodlett, telling him he did not know when he would be home.7 From reports received here Tuesday.:' and yesterday, it was learned that a.:_ B. Williams spent- Saturday night, Sunday and Sunday night near Greer River church, in North Carolina, just at the further end of the Gap Creek gap in the Blue Ridge. He attended ehurch there on Sunday, and Monday = morming left in a one-horse wagon for"; the Tennessee line. It is supposed tha the deputy sheriff learned these facts and kept on in hot pursuit. Itis known: that after he crossed the mountains the; leputy sheriff took with him a man named Freeman, one whom he could lepend on in an emergency, and'tol-. Lowed the trail. Close behind thedeputy ;heriff were two other persons from ,his city and beyond the officer, on the Western North Carolina road, waiting. ;o see if the fugitive came that way, was another man. There were also everal others out from Asheville, N. 3., and Gainesville, Ga., whose names re not known. All day yesterday it was known here . ;hat all means of escape were cut of xcept the recesses of the mountains, nd it was confidently pr-dieted that ,he capture would be effected by some )>the. men who were out. The-pursuit was eagerly and intensely di?essed_r wherever a number of men happened ogether and the wildest rumors floated tround all day. Sheriff Gilreath's >ffice was eagerly besieged by people inxious to hear if there was any news, ind the sheriff told everything he knew' )r bad heard. Excitement ran high last night when;, t was known that Williams had been ~aptured and it is safe to predict that a ~iece of information never went over he city faster. The people who did 20t know of it some time during the aigh,. were few. It was almost the ~ingle topic of conversation everywhere 7 md the subject of general congratuia ~ion. Chief Kennedy yesterday afternoon inished the work of sending out the lescription of Williams with the Lrmount of the reward offered for him. Pasted on the circulars was a small hotograph, taken from a photograph nade of Williams four or five years igo. It was a good picture and wouldA 2ave enabled the officers in any place ;o capture the man. As soon as the telegram from the leputy sheriff had arrived, a telegrams was sent-Governor Tillman asking him f he had offered a reward in behalf of - ,he State, as it was thought the persons who captured Williams should have .he benefit of it. The following tele ~ram was received last night: "The proclamation of $150 reward will be sent to you to-morrow. "B. R. TILLMAN." Eis Light Put Out. [Clotnier and Furnisher.] Re had worn a colored blazer on the Nile; Re had sported spats in Persia, just for style; With a necktie quite too utter, in the rtreets of old Calcutta, he had stirred up quite a flutter for a while. Fhe maids of Java thronged before his - door; Attracted by the trousers that he wore: A.nd his vest, a bosom-venter, shook Formosa to its centre; and they hail ed him as a mentor by the score. )n his own ground, as a masher in the street, lie outdid a Turkish pasha, who sto<d treat: lie gave Shanghi girls the jumps, and their cheeks stuck out like mumps, at the patent leather pumps, on his feet. But he called upon a Boston girl one night; WVith a necktie ready made, which wvasn't right: and she looked at him, this maid did, and he faded and he faded, and he faded and he faded, out of sight. Tomr MAssoN. Eezema, scalp covered with eruptions loctors proven valueless. P. P. P. was, . ;ed and the hair began to grow again, 2ot a pimple can be seen, and P. P. 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