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THE OPENING OF THE SESSION, SALIENT EVENTS CONNECTED WITH OR. GANIZATION OF BOTH HOUSESCOMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS. (Received too late (or last week's issue.) The Capitol, Columbia, Janu arj* 15:? In The Record of last week announcement was made of the opening- of the annual session of the general assembly and a 11 rira. rnrf r>f tVl^> WPplf's WOrk ^/Ui W V* V ?f w. ? was given. Little was done and some of that little has already been told. Hence this, our first letter of the session, must necessarily be brief, even though what has been given be repeated in different form. It is so usual as to become a kind of unwritten law that the work of both houses shall proceed only in the most leisurely manner during the first eight to fifteen days of the session. This body sets out on a voyage not like a little naphtha launch that is unfull cnpud within a cable ucl ~? length, but like a ponderous liner. It takes time to get up steam but when under full headway there is no dalliance, but rather reckless haste that ofttimes sends many a good ship to Davy Jones' locker. In connection with the organization of the senate there was an occurrence which may not be of general interest and may be regarded of rather minor importance, but whose import is really great and reveals a state of affairs of which most common people were no doubt entirely ignorant. According to what is claimed to be an immemorial custom the old senators held a caucus Monday night to select the president pro tem and the members of the various committees. Seventeen holdover senators were present, of ?u: : t*-oc * Vi maioritv. Willtu U1UC nuQ vuv J t , Here is the spectacle! Nine men naming all the committees and also Jtlie officer who presides in the absence of the lieutenant governor. They named Senator Cole L Blease, who ran for governor last summer on the flat State dispensary platform and ?10 defeated?thev nam n ao uv^v4?j <ed him as president pro tern, gave the best committee appointments to the old senators and their favorites and the "bum" places to the others. It was expected that the senate would, without question, accept their dictation. And the senate did affirm their action, but not without a ripple of protest. There were a few who could not swallow such an unfair, dictatorial and undemocratic morsel. When the second name on the roll was called Senator Bass asked to be excused from voting, as he could not and would not ratify such proceedings or accept such nominations. Three others did likewise and one other stayed out ol the chamber. This action of the four caused much comment and will very probaoly cause in the end the breaking up ot the nefarious custom. * " l.oo hnrl th?j Senator xuiysui 1IUO UUV4 v.. V old Raysor-Manning* bill en grossed again and will probably introduce it at an early day. Several bills to abolish buckel shops have been introduced The two and a half cent rail road fare has already come uy again and the death of the lier law is aimed at by many mem bers of many minds. The rail roads and express, as well as the telegraph companies, art receiving attention in bills look ing to the improvement of rates the prevention of accidents anc ? the delays in transportation This writer will from time tc time make mention of such as are of special importance anc such as will likely become law At this stage all the matters art in such a jumble that an intel ligent grasp of them can not b< I f ??????*?* Most people kn< been sick they neei sion to bring back $ But the strongest i Emulsion is that j J sick to get results froi It keeps up the athl on thin people, makes X brings color to a pale g * nanft />/Mfntit rnlfit And U TVIIM VVU^AMVp wawv ? Food in concentrate ?i well, young and old, ric egj And it contains no < jf ALL DRUGGISTS J given. Yesterday Commissioner Ta, turn informed the Senate that : there was in the State dispen-1 sary $700,000 worth of liquor and thirty-six car loads on the , side tracks and that much of it was of unsalable brands, with i which the county dispensaries; are already overstocked. This j exists too in face of the law ( , limiting the total amount in-1 j ' vested in liquor to ?400,000. The Senate Tuesday passed a reso- i lution to appoint a committee |j to investigate mis at once ami . report. Some sa}' that somebody, believing that the miser-j able State dispensary is going to be knocked in the head, is ! trying to rake in a pile before it i is to? late. j' j In the house, bills along the same general lines of those , mentioned above as being in the j Senate have been presented. Mr Ayer's resolution declaring the assembly in favor of the ! State whiskey mill was com- , pletely snowed under. There is 1 no doubt that the house is dead ' set against this business, but ; there is doubt at the other end of the capitol, both sides claim- l ing the majority and there hav- ; ing been no test vote yet. However, the people should not be surprised at any antics that may be performed by a body of forty-one whose committees and 1 temporary head are dictated by 1 nine. 1 Governor Ansel and all the | other State officers were inaugu- j rated Tuesday and the address 1 | of our new head was as clean, ' I clear-cut and emphatic as any ! similar address we have heard. The members from Williamsburg received the following committee appointments: Senator Bass?(l)contingent accounts, (2) privileges and elections, (3) roads, bridges and ferries, (4) charitable and penal institutions*(5) and the penitentiary. Representative Kellahan? commerce nd anufactures, and the penitentiary. j Representative Bryan? agri-: culture, offices and officers, and ; claims. Representative Gause?agri-1 culture and public buildings. Our house members secured ; favorable |seats and are con- j stantly in their places closely | j watching proceedings and are' rapidly grasping the modus j operandi of legislation. n f forn r?r>n n flplfira- ! I UVOUUJ U1WVI uv/vii v*. tion meeting was held to con sider sundry and various affairs ' connected with our county-and ) its government. The following | 1 county officers were present, by ' invitation. Messrs G J Graham, HO Britton, J W Cook, J J B: | Montgomery, SJ Singletary, 11 j ; K Wallace, J J Graham, A C I Eaddy and J G McCollough by ' ?jletter. 1 \VL B. } Bee's Laxative Honey and Tar, ' the original laxative cough syrup, I acts as a cathartic on the bowels. It . is made from the tar gathered from > the pine trees of our own country, therefore is the best for children. It is good for coughs, colds, croup, - whooping cough, etc. Try our offer 1 THE DEVILFISH. A Eattle With One of These Repuiaiv* Marine Monsters. Devilfish grow to great size in j the Pacific ocean, and most uncanny arc some of the stories told of them. The keeper of the Avalon zoological station says of an adventure he himself had: "I was fishing at the time with several partners out of San Francisco. It was our custom A A A . it. . L 1__ J Al. - < 4? >w that if they have # J Scott's Emul- j health and strength. >oint about Scott's Y rou don't have to be T n it S ete's strength, puts fat ? a fretful baby happy, X girl's cheeks, and pre- Q 1 consumption. A ed form for sick and Q h and poor. ? Irugs and no alcohoL A 60c. AND $1.00. T Genuine Repoio. It is good to be strenuous, but it is also good, as the poet tells us, to play the fool or, at any rate, to be idle at the right time and in the right way. This is just what the strenuous man forgets, and the consequence is too often premature breakdown, a common event in the storm and stress of modern life. The strenuous life is helping to overcrowd our asylums. The sensible idling consists not in a change of excitement or in hard work disguised as a game, but in that ''genuine repose of which Charles James Fox, strenuous as he was in politics and in play, was thinking when he said there was nothing so pleasant f*r, 4-/% li/\ 11 r\/Inr n cViorlx- frnn U'iflt ft U3 11/ UU UilViCl <4 CA I CfcV-* T 11VV IMM4 ? book except to do so without a book."?Practitioner. New York's Oddest Street. One of the strangest streets in New York is Patclien alley, situated about at the entrance of Greenwich village. The alley is conducted upon the principle of a building of flats. There are two rows of little three 6tory houses, the height of two story houses of ordinary size. There are small balconies outside each row of windows, and these are vine clad. If you ring the bell and ask for the janitor you will be told that he lives in the middle house on the north side, and in the meantime you will be having a glimpse into the narrowest hallway in New York out into about the smallest and greenest back yard. Patckeo alley is as it was soma hundred yean ago. There hare bean no changes-?New York Preaa. Na Waaaunt Far Aaldnasc. A easterner in a dawntown ban bar thop get inte a heated argw. ment with the boaa barber erar tht prioe of a hair cot. "See here/' ha said, "I'm baldbeaded. There certainly can't be nearly aa Much work in trimming this little fringe of hair ?? the back of My head aa in ontting a whole mop of hair. Cooaeqaantly it doean't seem fair to charge aa conch." "That is the contention of half the b&ldheeded men in town," sighid the barber wearily. "They don't take into consideration that h man who has but little hair is much more careful of it than one who bas a good deal. Therefore a barber has to take extra pains with (lim. It goes pretty hard with the man with the shears, I can tell you, if he happens to clip off an eitra bair. In view of the caution rejuired he certainly earna tho full price of a hair cut."?New York Prees. GET THE BEST rtF"1 _ jPfflflTSiBBIgProgS 4^**1 fJ1 v2* Recently Enlarged WITH 25,000 New Words New Gazetteer of the World with more than 25,000 titles, based on the latest census returns. New Biographical Dictionary containing the names of over 10,000 noted persons, date of birth, dea :h, etc. Edited by W. T. HAHRIS Ph.P.,LL.D., United StatesCommissiouerot' Education. 2380 Quarto iPages NVtr rittsj, 6000 Illaitr.tioni Rich Bindings Needed in Every Home Also Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 1110 laOO Illustrations. Regular Edition 7x10inches. SlinJlc^i. Dc Luxe Edition 5?ix8%xl?? in. Printed from aame pl.it+a, cn bible paper, t beintiful bindings. KRLE, "Dictionary Wrinklst." Ill: *trate<i pam^Llot*. G. 6 C. MERRIAM CO., Publishers. Spring! lcld, Mass. 10 go out to me nanus arouna me Farallones and try for deep sea fish. I It was a rough place, nearly always blowing half a gale, foggy and danj gerou3, and often we had to let our j | linea go and run in to lie in the lee of the rocks. One morning I was hauling in the trawl when it stopped coming. I thought I was foul of a rock, so I palled hard, and after awhile I felt it give and begin to come up, but very heavy. It's slow work hauling in a trawl, taking off a fish and killing sharks that get hooked, and it was some time before I got what I supposed was a rock. I had just taken a turn about a rowlock with the line to rest when it sagged, and, looking over, I saw a jrreat mottled ball, out of which shot a long arm that took hold of the gunwale and held on. ? "We often caught devilfish, and i there was a demand for them in the j' market, so I tried to pull it up. But another arm came up, as big as my s' ' own, while another crept over the n side near my partner, who started up, shouting that it was coining ^ aboard. I looked over and saw a ^ great red, mottled mass hanging to J the bottom of the boat. Then 1 P reached for a knife?a kind of cleaver?my partner doing the i | same. The devilfish was caught by 1 several of the trawl hooks and tried to fasten to the boat to get rid of them. Its arms shot out of the wa- t_ ter like fingers, and when I saw one the size of my arm and growing bigger near the base I didn't wait, but slashed at them right and left, cutting them on the rail. "Some of the tentacles near the j body looked as big around as my leg, | and the whole arm, or feeler, was nearly twice as long aa a man. The arms were probably twelve feet long and the body two or three *imes the | 6ize of a man's head. The whole i mass was so big that we were glad to chop it to pieces as it came aboard and then to punch it away from the boat with oars to get rid of it. It was too heavy to take aboard, especially in a aeaway." Is It Your Own Hair? Do you pit your hat to your wa hair? Can't do it? Haven't enough hair? It must be you do aot kaow Aycr's Hair Vigor! Here's an introduction! May the acquaintance result ia a heavy growth ofrich,thick,giossybair! And we kaow you'll aeverbegray. " I thlak thai A yac'a lair Ylgar la tha oa?at wandarfal tulrgrawar that waa arar Had*. 1 hart ?a*4 It far a*ma Vaaa aatf I *aa truthfully aar that I am graatly plaasaA with it. I chaarfnlly rfwomiaaaad It aa a aptanAM praparaUoB." ? Miao . BKOCK, Waylaod, Xkb. J Uada br t.Q. Ayar O*.. Lawall, Kasa. _ it Ata? uiAatum of ? AA ? . . y SAaSAFAULU. l\lfCTS Sam pectoral / MstaaBakaoBMaKaHaaaJ S Did tK* Dog Raannf The late Duke of Beaufort, who waa an excellent observer, note* in J i his diary how (he was hunting the H | hounds himself) the pock drove < I down to a wall and flashed over? J I all but Bachelor. This hound mise- j | ed the scent as he reached the top j of the wall and, standing there, J ! waved his stern as if in thought, q Then it seemed to flash across him, ^ "If the fox lias not crossed he must J have turned short under the wall." q So Bachelor dropped back into the j I road and, racing along, picked up j ! the line.?T. F. Dale in Outing 1 i Magazine. 3 Not Too Cold For Him. J The unconscious humor of the q English peasantry m shown in a j story told by the London Tribune, j A Lady Bountiful wm ea-lling on a j devoted old couple with such croa- j ture comforts as the doctor said J were suitable for tho old man, who 1 j was dying and being tenderly nursed j by his consort. Entering "the cot- ^ ; tage, she saw the old dame leaning 1 I over the fire. "Ah, Susan," she i | said, "and how's John?" * "He be goan, mum; he be goan," j ? ? 11 i i i _ j #rr i. J mutterec tne oia iaay. \ueoaiway? ^ I can't say that for sartain sure, but < he did Beem a-gwine ju?t now. But, ^ there, it's that mortal oold up there H that I had to oome down to warm < my hand?/' \ LAKE CITY, S C. TO OTTIR DwftiiJri nuri Pnnfnmnnft mm 9i brawn Te have just closed our third year's business, and take this oportunity to thank our triends for their generous patronage, ur stock is larger and more varied, and we teel sure we can lve you money. Don't forgot we have a nice assortment of diable "FAVORITE" Ranges and ''0 Iv" stoves. When in need of Sash, Doors, Blinds, Turned ^7ork, etc., we ould appreciate the privilege of giving you prices; from our inreased sales of this material our prices Must be Right. Rememer where you buy "Anchor" Lime you get the best. If it is good aint you want, buy "Benj. Moore & Co.'s"?pure house colors. i Yours for Business, ^eike City Hardware Co., LAKE CITY, S. C | 4 <4 1 V . ll I Ten PerCent above cost CASH will buy any of my BUGGIES OR WAGONS. all standard makes. I have a large lot on hand that must be sold. This tfer is bona fide and will save you money. J. L. 5tuckey, Lake City, S. C. ( FURNITURE! FURNITURE!! FURNITURE!!! % MAKING HOME COSY j Is easy and costs but little if you get in the ^ right store with good reliable furniture 5 - -I At Prices 1 which will surprise you, if you have never ? called on us before. ^ Bed room Suits $17.50 to $45.00. 1 Oak Beds 2.50 to 15.00. ? Iron Beds 2.50 to 14.00. f Foding Spring $1.75. % Above we give 3'ou a few of the many things we ^ ? have at the right prices. C MATTINGS, RUGS, WINDOW SHADES, % t LAMPS, CLOCKS, CHAIRS and ROCKERS. I AT THE =~ I I Lake City Furniture Co's ? JM TRULUCK, L 0 HOLLOW AY, L M BELK, 5 ? President. Vice-President. Manager. 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