The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, August 12, 1909, Image 2
| p Hat Xemedies ^
\ By JR. Holt Lomax ^
ATS, it is known, are responsible for maty of the diseases
which affect mankind. In Denmark, not so long ago, an
act was passed empowering rewards for the destruction of
these animals and the creation of an organized fund for
8*~ their extermination. Some idea of the danger of permitting
rats to breed unmolested may be gathered from the
fact that the fema'e can produce fourteen, sixteen and even
-? eighteen at a litter. Many couples have as many as thlr
teen utters in three years. But In that time, allowing only
un average of eight to the litter, it is possible for a pair to become the promentors
of no fewer than 65G.S08 rats of all ages.
Of the rat tribe the brown is the most pugnacious and prolific. In England
he conquered the black rat that in turn had invaded Britain with William
the Conqueror and had ousted the original water-rat. In his Universal
Directory on the taking Alive and Destruction of Four-footed and Winged
Vermin, Robert Smith, who, in 1768. described himself a rat-catcher to Princess
Amelle, says: "I was once exercising my employment In a gentleman's
house, and when the night came that I appointed to catch I set all my traps
going as usual; and in the lowerpart of the house in the cellars I caught the
Norway rats, but In the upper parts of the house I took nothing but black
vats. I then mit thum incmiKo- 1 ? - ?? * '
..? iu U Bleu cage 10 Keep mem anve till me
morning, that the gentleman might see them, but the Norway rats killed the
black rats immediately and devoured them in my presence."
The mongoose is reputed an expert rat-catcher. Says Mr. Jamrach, the
well-known naturalist. " kept a mongoose in a cage, and one day put him
In my stables to catch rats. He caught forcy-tive the first night; the second
night he caught an Indian pheasant and another rare bird valued at thirtylive
dollars. He also caught the canaries in my shop window, enough parrots
to stock a parrot-house, and a macaw that had hitherto evaded all attempts
to catch it. I use traps now."
In olden days the rat-catcher relied for success mainly on the sense of
smell in rats, which dearly love a sniff of aniseed or oil of rhodium_ He
. worked with a wooden trap some three or fcur feet in length. Into this receptacle
h.e secnted and tempted the rats, feeding them for a week on savory
food. At length one fine night, when the banquet was in progress, snap went
the trigger and the feasters were entrapped. The operator then despatched
his "take" to the rat-pits and reset the trap. In Paris sewers food is placed
on electric wire laid an inch or two too high for the reach of a rat on allCours,
which, on rising to get the bait, is instantly electrocuted.
Most rats are cannibals. Aboard ship it was customary to keep hungry
the trapped rat and then turn them loose to feed on their kind.
Another method of extermination was that by pans of milk containing a
solution of plaster of Paris that solidified on consumption.?Harper's Weekly.
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What Every Man Owes \
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\ Should Prepay to the World the Equivalent \
< ' of His Living ' j
Ey Daniel Jlrthur ' ;
T is too often said that "the world owes every man a liv
<. ing." Rot, buncombe, etc. Any one who makes such a
1+ statement and believes it lays himself open to the charge
+ of being a cheat and a defaulter. Every man owes the
+ world the equivalent of his living, and the world's average
tftftfftt* price for said living is cheap, too. When a man prepays
tlilltTnt lhls dcbt to th,e world he 8ets a tremendous discount?a
discount so great that he. is frequently tempted to sit down
too early in life, and his sons often do worse than sit down.
On the other hand the man who is tardy and unwilling in paying this
debt to the world has to pay an awful price for his delay. In other words
the man who spends his salary before he earns it has to pay a rate of interest
which lends him in the tramp line If carried to its logical conclusion. In
'76 percent of the cases this living beyond one's means and selling salaries
before they are earned there is absolutely no excuse for, and in 90 percent
of the cases the victims do not realize the danger of this greased incline.
It would therefore seem to the writer that it would be a good plan to
make this subject a separate branch o* study in our public schools and colleges.
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11 The Ex'Sultari"* 9
His Good Side i
i; By Sydney Brooks J
? O far from being in himself a cruel man. the testimony of all
S observers agrees lu depicting Abdul Hamid as absolutely
I the reverse. "There is in Abdul Hamid," wrote a former
Serviau minister who knew him intimately, "a peculiar
? ? ???? modesty, timidity and tenderness which are quite wouianly.
He always looks earnest, almost sad, as if he were suhdued
by the consciousness of his great responsibilities. He
" " smiles quietly, almost sadly, very often, but he hardly ever
laughs loudly. He is distinctly a mar. of aesthetic taste.
He is fond cf flowers, of beautiful women, of Cne horses, of lovely views of
sea and land, cf everything that is beautiful, lie is an affectionate father.
He can be, and is. a devoted friend to his friends. He is able to contract deep
and faithful friendships Ho ic fnncwiaMto -i.?"' ?"
? ..v ... , uiuUI:3\p lutuie, ana patient.
His consciousness of his responsibility toward God makes him hesitate to
punish any one severely. Certainly he was never carried away by impulBlveness.
He even exaggerates in his desire to consider every question from
all points. He is slow; often much too slow for the nervous and impatient
sons of the West. Terribly earnest as he is and so sensitive to everjthing
touching his personal dignity, he has much of quiet humor in him. He quickly
perceives the comic feature in things and men, and in a peculiar quiet way
enjoys it. His skies are generally and almost permanently < bv clouds
of state anxieties and personal melancholy. But from t
most unexpectedly these clouds are pierced by the 6unny r
mor. Peisonally 1 could never detect in his character ev
cruelty."?Harper's Weekly.
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| Psychology of 'Baseball j
J Hugh S. Fullerton /
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EARL.Y every baseball came Is won and lost on one play, a
i ? ? play that comes at the psychological Instant. Among the
! M players who do not study psychology, the crucial moment Is
1 known an "thfi hreaU " a nh?n?m?nm wfclak "? ? I
|ln? 11 j| alyxed, and which the players themselves do not under|
^ _ U stand. Twenty men on the bench are watching closely and
|! ^ ^ | intently every move of the pitcher, every swing of his arm.
loeBHOBaBcaU The tide of battle rises, ebbs?and then suddenly at the
start of some inning something happens. What It is no
one outside the psychic sphere of influence ever will understand, but the silent,
tight-lipped, watchful, alert fellows on the bench see something or feel
p, something, and the mysterious "break" has come.
Baseball Is almost as much psychological as athletic. Why one team
can heat a stronger one regularly, and lose to a weaker one with the same
t regularity; why one batter can hit one pitcher and Is helpless before another; i
t why ore pitcher is effective against a strong team and at the mercy of an,
ether that cannot bat half as hard, are psychological problems.?American
SNAPPY AND BRIEF
Items Gathered and Told While
You Hold Your Breath.
SOME EYERY DAY HAPPENINGS
Lively and Crisp as They Are Garnerad
From the Fields of Action
at Home and Abroad.
On the theory that nature has
made an enemy and a destroyer for
every enemy and destroyer of man's
interests, it is now believed that hair
worm introduced into the mosquito
breeding: places will be effectual for
their eradication.
At Manitowoc, Wis., Fred Dicke,
a lawyer, saved seven women by
jumping overboard and taking: hold
of the launch with his teeth and
swimming: to shallow water with it
nfl nr nil ii"nlnoii?n .fnculmn
v.. VI 1115 5T..gine.
The women were severely but
not fatally burned.
Dr. J. C. Kjtfore, of Trinity College,
will public reply, through
the Christian Herald, of New York,
to Dr. Eliot on the latter's new religion
pronuneianiento.
Extensive military maneuvers, including
an attack on Boston, will be
held in Massachusetts from August
14 to 21.
Several graduates of Johns Hopkins
University have been elected
members of the faculty of Trinity
College, Durham, N. C.
Governor Brown, of Georgia, has
signed the bill prohibiting the use
of trading stamps.
South Can una's 21 dispensary
counties will hold an election on the
17th tc* determine whether or not the
sale of intoxicating liquors shall continue.
By legal enactment all the
dispensaries closed on last Monday
evening so as to run the campaign
on cooler headed deliberation, uninfluenced
by intoxicants.
Six persons were drowned last Sunday
in Massachusetts, all but oue
were brothers.
Grace and Alphonso Vivinno, children
of a wealthy Italian, were lured
away from their home in St. Louis,
Mo., on Tuesday and search for the
kidnapped children has thus far been
fruitless.
Farrill, Ga., narrowly escaped a
race war last week.
The Great Northern Railroad has
agreed to haul all material for good
roads in Louisiana free of charge.
The House bill passed the Senate
Tuesday, granting the right to dam
the Savannah river between Edgefield
counts*, S. C., a:id Columbus counts-,
Ga.
A women shot a lawyer in the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel in New York,
Wednesday, the bullet being deflected
bs* A fountain pen. She accuses
him of discarding her.
Chicago opened the first school in
the United States for tuberculos
children Wednesday.
The drought in Maryland was
broken Thursday evening b.v a copious
rain. Baltimore streets ran two
feet deep in water at places and at
Cumberland there was a cloud burst
and hail that broke .plate glass windows.
Twenty thousand coat tailors struck
in New York Tuesday for the restoration
of prices before the great panic.
Washington News.
The battleship Maine was in danger
from her boilers and the fleet
sailed for Hampton Roads without
her.
The increased tax on tobacco will
not jro into eltect until .July 1, 1SJ10.
President Tat't appealed to the insurgent
Republican Senators to vote
for the tariff report so that the party
mi<;ht present united front.
The West Virginia Paper Company
of Luke, Md., is bidding for the
Government contract for 3,000,000
postal cards.
Out of 01 men who took the examination
for lieutenancies in the
Marine Corps last week only 32 passed.
The Treasury Dejiartment decided
T'rmJay not to call in the Lincoln
3.
i-rress after making some
s ill flie leather schedule, passa
"Payne" Tariff Bill Tliursnd
adjourned sine die. The
President signed the bill very
promptly.
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Foreign Affairs.
The Czar of Kussin and the King
of England met at ('owes, England,
on Monday. The meeting was on
hoard a ship and together they reviewed
the British navy. The Czar
ha?l just completed a visit and interview
with the President of France.
Tlu> Pma - -
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Cowes while his daughter went shoppins
>" the town Wednesday.
Ten thousand dollars in cash and
$10,000 in provisions, tents and supplies
are to he sent at once to Acapuleo
by the Mexican Government,
acting under the direc t order of President
Diaz, to relieve the sufferings
of the victims of the recent earthquakes
in Guerrero.
The news from Spain is somewhat
more reassuring and showed that progress
was made in the restoration of
order.
The flood in Manchuria has tied np
raft n<* for V* dny*.'
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OFFICER SHOOTS ! WO MEN
One Died Sunday Morning?Other
May Recover?Officer's Story Justifies
Shooting?Negro Employes
Implicate Officer.
Asheville, N. C., Special.?Mr. John i
Bunting of Wilmington, a traveling
salesman of the Chattanooga Medicine
Company, died in the Mission
Hospital here Sunday morning, soon
after midnight as a result of a shooting
scrape at the Gladstone Hotel,
Black Mountain, Sat unlay morning
at 1:30 o'clock, while Mr. P. C. Collins,
a prominent banker of Hillsboro,
is also at the hospital in an adjoining
ward with a had wound in the right
side. The two men received their
hurts at the hands of F. C. Watkins,
town constable of Black Mountuiu, in
a room at the Gladstone Hotel Saturday
morning about 1:30 o'clock. The
men were brought to Asheville Saturday
morning several hours after Ihe
shooting occurred and taken to the
hospital for treatment. It was found i
that Mr. Bunting was suffering from |
internal hemorrhage. Mr. Collins,
while dangerously hurt, will probably
recover.
The officer tells the following story:
"I went up to the room,'' said the
constable, ''where the men were and
cmereu. i ne room was ill darkness
and as I entered I struck a match to
see my way and lighted a lamp. One
of the men, 1 don't know which one,
asked who I was and I said a police
officer?the town constable. One of
the men with an oath said in effect,
'Well, we take care of all police
here.' At about that time one of them
kicked the door shut and then the
light was snuffed out. One of the
men jumped at me and grabbed me
about the neck, the other at the time
also closing in and clinching. The
men were both of strong build; one
of them had something in his hand
hut I don't know what it was. When
they closed in on me and grabbed me,
one reached for my pistol pocket. I
I *1 rou* mv - n
ic,?ivu, u o^-caunre oniuii
& Wesson and in the darkness tired
two shots and the men staggered
hack; one of them fell. When I went
! in there was a third person in the
j room, but whether lie got out before
the shooting 1 don't knew. I called
for the door to he opened and it was
opened. I don't know whether from
I the inside or outside. A light was
secured and the manager came in. I
assisted one of the men to a bed: the
other one went out into the hall. A
physician was summoned and in company
with the physician the men were
brought to Asheville for medical
treatment."
At the inquest over Bunting however.
two negro men. employes in the
hotel, give a story to the effect that
the officer was not justified in the
shooting, that the men showed no disposition
to resist. The officer gave
bond in the sum of $.">,000.
He said that when he reached the
hotel women were running around in
their night clothing, barefooted and
frightened.
\ a nous guests of t he hotel, men
and women, testified as to tlie disturhance
created bv Hunting and t'olline
in their room nhont midnight.
Several of them stated that the two
men were shouting and using profane
language. and that on complaint to
the proprietor of the hotel the latter
sent for the village constable to quiet
the disturbers.
Sunday Merrymakers Drown.
Toledo, <)., Special.?Two men and
one woman were drowned and seven
men were rescued with difficulty
when a launch containing a gay party
of merrymakers capsized in Maumce
bay "?00 feet off of the Casino, a
summer theatre, at 4 o'clock Sunday
morning. All were residents of Toledo.
Dill, one of the drowned, was
the owner of the boat and took out
the party of ten men and one woman
over the earnest protests of his wife.
Congressman in Fight.
Washington, Special.?Representative
J. Thomas Heflin. of Alabama.
Knnnmn inrnloo/l '% > ? 1
?V^WM4V Iiiiunvu ill it |RTMIIIill cilcounter
with nn automobolist, whose
name is said to be Johnson, on the
streets of Washington Tuesday afternoon.
As no arrests were made the
identity of Mr. Heflin's antagonist
could not be clearly established.
The Sutton Investigation.
Annapolis, Md., Special. ? Mrs.
James N. Sutton, of Portland, Ore.,
and her daughter, Mrs. Rosa Sutton
Parker, of St. Paul, Minn., with
Henry E. Davis, their counsel, arrived
here Wednesday night from Washington,
determined, they snid, to fight
to the hitter end to remove the stigma
of suicide from the nnmc of Lieutenant
James Sutton, of the marine
j corps, Mrs. Sutton's son, when the
naval hoard of inquiry res.unes the
investigation of young Sutton's
death.
State Rests Thaw Case.
White Plains, N. Y., Special.?The
State rested in the Thaw case Wednesday
and from now on it devolves
upon xiarry k. Thaw and his attorney,
Charles Morchauser, to offset the
testimony of the State's alienists,
who have sworn without exception
under cross-examination of District
Attorney Jerome that Thaw is still
ihsane and would be a menace to the
ejpuntry if released from the asylum
ft Mflfle.vran. ' '
PALMETTONI
Things Doing And Happeni
Told In Condensed A
Unloaded Gnn Was the Cause.
Columbia, Special.?Gov. Ansel 1
Monday granted a pardon to Ursa s,n
t Alman, a white boy, who last fall in
Spartanburg county was given a sen- *?
tence of two years on the charge of ^>0
taking the life of a playmate, Tom !1?'
Burgess. ust
Gov. Ansel has not been liberal in me
the use of the pardoning power, and tin
his action in this case was taken de- ^
hberately. He wrote upon the application
for pardon, "Under the cir- K
cumstances of this ease and the stale- 0P'
ment from the solicitor and the judge, bij;
the pardon is granted." iv,j
The two boys, Ursa Alman and Torn
Burgess, were playmates at the Appala
">e mills, near Greer. The boys
often hunted together. On tlie day l'u
of the tragedy. Alman, who had two pr<
single-barrel guns, loaned one to a utM
| friend and taking the other himself ul;,
| started out huntinu-. A fin*. !.?.. i?->
....vl UIC) lllltl I |(
pone a short distance they met Bur- tilt
pess in the road. A1 num. believoinp, ter
; lie says, that the pun was not loaded. tin
I pointed it at Burpess and the pun wh
I went oil. Tlie Burpess boy was e,j
killed.
The evidence in the case, says the
petitioner, shows that they were (|u
close friends. Xo malice was shown su.
and the killinp was alleped to be ac- wa
cidental. evt
There was an apreement between wa
the solicitor and the defendant's at- j,e.
i torney's that Alman should plead jai,
I guilty, receive a sentence of two snj
years, and, alter six months' im-|ret
nvicnn??A??* 4'? " '
n. iue solicitor would ask prtJ
J for the boy's pardon. ket
j A contra petittion, presented in (o
this case by relatives of Burgess, islated
that tlie sentence was regard- ^
ed as very light in the Greer com- .HM
munity and that "in a moment of j>0
trying to be big Alman did to death !(S|
an innocent little fellow." But Mrs. j(|
Burgess, it was stated by those who (j)C
presented the original petition, did j
not have any feeling toward Alman J"
and although Gov. Ansel set July 19 ^
as the date for hearing this case none
of those who opposed the granting of
the pardon appeared before him.
The prosecuting attorney. Judge T. ^
S. Sease. wrote the Governor:
"This is a correct statement of an
agreement whereby Alman was to ,p|(
plead guilty on condition that I
would recommend his pardon at the
end of six mon and I now urge
that he he pardon I according to tie ^
State's agreement." nsj
Judge Memminger wrote:
i i 'PI- *
me airreemcnt neintr certified to|"'v
bv the solicitor we think it should be I ro.'.
carried out and the boy pardoned. N\..
1 have no reason to urj;e against w
this course." s*u
Gov. Ansel had another unusual *'acase
for consideration. A commuta- **1!
tion of sentence was the result. This !
is the case of David Hutson. convict- .'
cd of assault and hatterv with intent 1111
to kill. He was tried at the October ^0I
term of court for Kershaw county 1
and sentenced to five years on the Sl>1
chainiratiir. Pei
In ar.uitiii'j: a commutation from 1'u
five vears to two years Gov. Ansel <'?l
says: "in
"ruder the peculiar circumstances
of this case and the report of the nia
jud?e and solicitor, I commute this (,(l
sentence to two years. no'
Mr. M. (\ West, the county supervisor.
slates that the prisoner is >'?<
(|uiei and has had an exemplary re- >'?<
corl since lie has been on the chainirnntr
in Kershaw ma
The special judge presiding at the P?i
term of court writes that inasmuch as
as there was prevalent in Kershaw at uni
the time crime such as assault an 1 i'ai
hatterv, he wished to impress th? roj
(onununitv with the fact that this wil
tendency should l>e stopped and he poi
imposed heavy sentences. sp<
Night Watchman Scalded.
Columbia, Special.?W. W. Hill, 1
night watchman for a bridge com- mil
pany here, met with a peculiar aeei- hni
dent lost week. He was walking *'ri
around an engine in the Seaboard S{?t
yards and somebody turned on steam but
from one of the engine valves. Hill (db
was painfully burned about the neck jpc
and shoulder. His injury is not Soi
serious, but tlie scalds are painful. als
Calhoun Falls Swept by Fire. (
Anderson, Special.?Fire Sunday pt>'
night came near wiping the town of ja<l
Calhoun Fnlls off the map. A store
room, belonging to the Calhoun Falls am
Investment Company, a small build- big
ing adjoining is used as the postotlice, sm
and two store rooms occupied by .J. rar
B. Q. and F. W. Campbell with con- eXf
tents, were destroyed. Heroic work
on the part of citizens saved the ns'
hotel and other nearby buildings. The an?
losses aggregate about $5,000, with get
small insurance. The origin of the dri
tire is unknown. bri
Taft Coming to Charleston. , C!
Wtifllnntrtnn T\ r (
irieht Taft Monday definitely decided of
that he would visit Charleston this Mo
fall. He will arrive there on the af- lest
ternoon of November 5, leaving early lut
on the morning of November 6 for ing
Augusta. He will remain in the iat- poi
ter city until the 8th at 7:30 o'clock, reg
going then to Columbia, where he will Au
stay four or five hours, leaving some biti
tuoe during the day for TTilniiiigton. od
EWS ITEMS
ing In Sunny Cat onna,
nd Pithy Phrase.
Rock Hill Water Supply.
i?oek Hill, Special.?Several- weeks
ce an analysis of the new well,
. 3, which had just been coupled on
the supply of the Water, Light and
wer Company of this city, was prounced
contaminated and unfit for
. The out How " '' < V v\: diately
cut off # ued.
At the sa
ra precaution a *! ?
; consumers, the
?ned, emptied a
; reservoir of 185.000 gallons emptthe
cement walls and bottom
mred and Hushed, repairs made ou
s brick work and ventilators, ami
; latter thoroughly screened and
itected. Since then an entirely
v top has been put on the reservoir,
1 it is in belter condition now than
has ever been. In the meantime,
i water supply?which was only inrupted
lor two days?lias been
nvn frcrai wells 1 and 2. both of
ich have been repeatedly pronouncpure
and healthful. Mr. 11. T. Fell.
the local member of the Water,
flit and Power Company, is more
111 interested in the purity of the
lnlv nc l>? = - ? 1
.... .o .. i>vi?uiku user or the
ter. But his company wishes to do
?rything to guard the purity of the
ter and their policy is to go the
litli authorities .who are most vigiit,
one better in their methods of
'eguarding it. Mr. Fewell received
urns from three samples drawn
nn Well Xo. d, the well which lias
'ii closed. These samples were sent
the State chemists of South Caroa,
Maryland and I'enm-.lvania.
I of them pronounced the water as
fectly pure and wholesome. The
wer Company will now. probably,
; the board of health for permission
reopen the well. In the meantime
1 company is continuing the sink:
of additional eight inch wells
rthwest of Wiuthrop College,
ere they hope to find an unlimited
iply of pure water.
Education Day at State Fair.
?olumbia, Special.?The fair socieis
now at work on plans for an
icational day during fair week,
is was decided 011 at the February
eting of the executive committee
I Tuesday w.v? fixed as the day for 1
s work. Secretary Love has sent
t notices to schools and colleges
ting that all co-operate in making
i day a success. The city, the railids
and all public organizations
II lend their aid in the work. There
II be no charge for any pupil or
ulent of a school or college 011 that
v and any adult accompanying a
ulent or pupil will be admitted 011 a
If rate. It is required that the studs
or pupils secure their free adssion
cards from the proper olTi s
of tlie institution the week be e
tlie fair opens. Mr. Love lias
it the following letter to State Surintendent
.T. E. Swearingen: 44At
February meeting of the executive
limit tee of t he State Agricultural
1 Mechanical society of South Car- i
11a it was unanimously decided .to
ike Tuesday of next fair week 4
liege and school day,' as you will
te from the inclosed notices. I 110e
that in August you will begin
nr educational campaign and at
ur convenience I would like to con
with you relative to handling this
Iter in connection with your car.iign
and getting out such literature
will he necessary for the proper
rlerstanding of the matter. All the .
1 roads entering this city and other
ids in the State have expressed a
llingness to furnish every transrtation
facility possible and to have
;cial agents to superintend same."
Lanford Oil Mill is Sold.
Laurens. Special.?The Lanford oil
il property was sold Monday under
akrupt proceedings to Mr. J. S.
;iig of Clinton for $8,000. The upprice
had been fixed at $12,000,
t receiving no bids the attorneys
ered it to the highest bidder subt
to confirmation by the courts,
me machinery and supplies were
0 sold, bringing $885.
In Camp at Fort Moultrie
Charleston, Special.?Tie
lies from Aiken and Lane:
bed companies of the ' > ;
ard of South Carolina, are ' pr ?
encamped on Sullivan's i.-'v.
1 the men will be driller
guns and mortars, and a
all arms. The situation
np is near Katlerv Capror
ellently located for the
1 convenience of the men
/ was really the first day i ..u.p,
the companies arrived on Sunday,
1 the first day was taken up in
ting settled, and the schedule of
lis and exercises were started
ght and early.
barleston Men Favor Dispensary,
'harleston, Special.?At a meeting
a number of husiness men held ^
nday at the rooms of the Charton
chamber of commerce, n resoion
was unanimously passed urg
the voters of Charleston to snp t
the dispensary system for the
dilation of the liquor trattic on 4
gust 17, in |>reference to prohiion
and a committee was appointto
use it? efforts t0Tcc.-^o that end.
"