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ARP AND THE ARDENT till Says It is Hard to Keep People From Drinking. LUDES TO THE ROW AT ROME. itJs Over the Question of the Liquor Traffic- Scripture Quoted By Arp, Ja His Letter. I was ruminating about this little Inpleasantness that Is going on amongst our neighbors at Rome. My momfort is that it is not as big a thing as they think it is and will soon pass away. After the election is over the Aeaders will apologize all round and make friends and the dear people have Zime to reflect and wonder what fools 'he leaders made of them. A friend writes me that there is nothing in it but iiug politics-who shall run the -Machine, who shall have the offices. Whiskey is in the background, bu. the -main thing is office. As Leonard Mor -ow onee said at a public speaking, "Boys. don't let 'em fool you. They are iast side wipin' round huntin' the arthography of a little office." Carlisle said, "England has a population of 30, -100,000-mostly fools," and just so ihere are enough fools in every c-untry ,r community to elect a man if he can get them all. He is pretty safe if he car get a majority of them. "Dispensary or ao dispensary," that is the questicn Ihat Is now stirring Rome and Floyd zounty. Well, we know all about it heme in Cartersville, for we tried the saloons for years and they did so much harm we abolished them and they will never come back here again-never. Wow we are trying the dispensar'y; in -Tact, wehave two of them, one in Rome und the other in Atlanta. We woildn't kave one in our town 'or county for anything. The father off the better. rhe easier whiskey is to get the rore will be drank. Dawson, in Terrell coun ::y, has had a dispensary for nearly four rears. The sales for the first year were .26,000. The second year we-re $:;9.000, ihe third year $56,000 and the present year will probably run to $75,000. You gee, it takes the boys some time to find *at how easy it is to get, but the con iumption goes on and on, increas:ng and the people take comfort in that the proflts inerease their school funil and lessen their taxes. No matter if :t im 4roies the poor and makes drunkard3 of their young men. That is of no :on equence. Now, our dispensaries are mo'st too tear. I wish that the consumers had to get their supplies from Cincinnati or Baltimore. That would cut the jug business down one-half at least. The aommon people couldn't wait so long sad so nobody but uncommon people would get any hardly. It would be a .ong time between drinks, as the gov . 'aar -of North Carolina said to the M tey knew that thet - e burned up tomorr ;,.7U So." said a good man tome - *Is to make it hard to get and regular 1ts sale and consumption." This ma: 'iad had experience with young me -who drank on the sly. He used to drin habitually himself, but found the hab. "was growing on him. He wanted it o tender and more of it, and so he qu: ahort off two years ago. He said "tha Ihere was but little difference betwee spen bar rooms and the dispensary, r .'far as the better class of young me -were concerned. A dollar bottle in room with three or four friends wa about as bad as the dollar spent fo Iri-nks in a bar room." But the bar rooms are a nuisance2 any town and a disgrace to its refint -sent. If they are allowed at all the should be on some side street where la dies do not frequent or have to pas: Keep them out of sight and outc amell. Of course, the drinking hab: cannot be stopped by law, nor can th~ sale of whiskey be stopped as long -4he government allows its manu:eitur Our people can drive over to CherokC 'and buy what they want from the gos ernment d stillery. There is no sue thing as prohibition and neve'r will 1 eintll the dawn of the millenium. Ti thingt began with old Noah and had it aups and decwns all through the Bib! history. I-: never was sanctioned. never was prohibited except to th priests in the tabernacle. "Drink nc In the tabtrnacle lest ye die," saill Moses. All of those old-time peopi -kept some on the sideboard. Joseph an .his brethren drank together and wers serry. David speaks of wine that maki eth glad the heart of man. Salomoi says, "Give strong drink to him that i teady to perish and wine to those th3 be heavy of heart." But when he wr. sobering up from a spree he sal.1 -"Wine is a mocker, strong drink is rag lng, for at the last it biteth like a ser Sant and stingeth like an adder." Jbeard a judge of our circuit say tha the wind utp of a spree was the nmos wretched fcrlorn mental condition thai 'could befall a man. Said he "Away it the dead of night I have gotten u' anc .gone to the well in my night short and .dranlk and drank of the cooling watei until I couli hold no more. I wanted t< )lte a branch in two and swallow the 'qpper end." Nabal got drunk and be eame as a stone, and Benhanad anc ~thirty-two .itngs all got drunk togethel after a battle. Jeremiah, the prophet tied to make the Rechabites driri wine with him, but they would not, for astheir father had enjoined them, and .Jeremiah blessed them for obeying their father, and said, "'Thus saith tne I1ord the house of Jonadab, the son of 'techab, shall not want for a man tc atand before me forever." Zachariah ..-eems to have winked at the induigensc Sor he said. "Corn shall make the young men cheerful and new wine the snaids." I wonder if that was sure enough corn liquor. The aged women were enjoined not to drink much wine, wherein is excess. King Ashashaerne got drunk and ordered Queen Vashti to come before him and she refused. and did right and the old rascal de away the heart. Isaiah was hard 'against it, and says, "Their tables are full of vomit and filthiness and th're is no place clean upon them." Haba kuk says, "Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink and putteth the bot tie to him." But this is enough of scripture. From that day to this the excessive use of spirituous liquors has gone on in all nations, carrying ruin in its train de grading kings and disgracing presidents and neither law nor precept nor preachers nor the pleading of women has been able to stop it. The dispen sary is more respectable in its sur roindings than the saloon. There is no gathering of roughs and toughs at its door and women can walk by without being insulted or disgusted as they pass. I do not believe that it lessens the use or abuse of whiskey. Nothing wil do that but home influence and relig ious training and public opinion. It takes everything to combat it and keep it in check. I have before me the last official statement of the dispensary business in South Carolina and it is amazing to see how It is growing. It is now the largest and most important business in the State-its aggregate sales for the past fiscal year being a little over $2,000,000, and over $500.000 net profits, and of these profits and the stock on hand the school fund is en titled to $611,354 and the State has on hand $640,000 of stock. The profits pay hundreds of officials good salaries. he sides accumulating an enormous schooDl fund. I have traveled a good deal ov.ur the State and found public opinion much divided upon the question3ble morality of the system. But it pays ii nancially and the question of educat in: the negro with taxes from white pe:>pl does not raise such a protest as long as the sale of whiskey pays it ,especiai ly when the negro is the dispensary's very liberal customer. What about the part that woman is taking in this liquor business? What does all this mean that Bishop Cole man, of Deleware, has recently asserteil in a public sermon preached in New Jersey. He says that the whiskey habit is actually decreasing among the mn of the North. but it is rapidly increas ing among the women, not only the fashionable women, but among the middle classes. His assertion causcd a committee to be appointed who quietly frequented the hotels and eating houses and ladies' restaurants and a large ma jority of the women took wine or bacr or whiskey or cocktails with their meals, and very many took no meals and ordered drinks only. The commit tee unanimously reported that the bishop's assertion was the truth. If 'his be so, God help the country. Our south ern women will be all that will save When I was a student in co ege at Athens in 1845 the wonderful discovery of Dr. Long and his use of anaesthesia was the talk of the town, and our pro fessor of chemistry, Dr. LeConte, madie it the subject of a lecture to his class. In 1846 a dentist by the name of Lom bard came there and proposed to ex tract teeth without pain by the use of what he called mortous lethean. He ex whispered aroi i sle pr. Long's dis ,, ' ri'ess and as he was-a e fee the friends of Dr. Lon Sedry indignant. Enough of this rthe present. I only wished to say a how gratified I was that the commit tee k appointed to select our two greatest t Georgians have given Dr. Long the first Splace. The medical world has done him it honor in all countries and Morton and t Jackson have been relegated* - o the a rear, where they belonged. They were 0 pirates. & But about the second place the comn a mittee had better go slow and consider Scarefully when they meet again. They r had better consult the old men and es pecially the veterans of the civil war. n Some things are forgiven, but not for -gotten. The voters would not presume F to say who should be selected, but eniy who should not.-Bill Arp in Atlanta t Cigar Strike is Off. e Tampa, Fla.. Special.-At a ecn?'a enee hetween a committee ofa thtia ing cigar makers and the ofiA at -the American Cigar Compan:. hereC, iP h whose factories the recent 'va;r ::UL e kers' strike i:; eifective. hlvi ::r~ 3 an agrceement was reache:leW s the strike was called ofT and~ all ofjh men will re-turn to work S-~ar h t strikers did not get tnei '~ de'mands, it is said, but a compro"( e efrthe present was recice.l. To texact conditions of the arten~ nt however, has rnot been given 0-it 20 C ublication. Prince hienry Leaves. Berlin. By Cable.-Admiral Prien i Henry of Prussia, left hero Sunday t morning for Kiel. Andrew D. WVhiv. the United States ambassadJor, came Sto the railroad station to bid farewell to the Prince, who will probably not return to Berlin be-fore sailing for thc United States. Mr. White told Prince t Henry that the city of Chattanooga desired to present him an albuma ot, views. The Prince said he would be delighted to accept the albu;m. Peace In South Africa. London, By Cable.-The British re ply to the note in regard to bringing about peace in South Africa, was dis patched Friday to The Hague. The con tents of the note are kept stiretly se cret, as the first publication of the text is intended to be made in Parliament, Monday, February 3. Great Britain's reply Is not in the nature of direct neg ative, though it is not unlikely that it will have that effect While Lord Lans downe probably will leave a loophole for further suggestions, he doubts the ability of the Boer delegates to control their fellow countrymen. Since a St. Louis surgeon has suc cessfully sewed up a wound In a man's heart there may yet be hope for the broken-hearted jilted young men of the land who are going about in a listless manner waiting for death or some other girl to relieve them of THE JURY BILL A Measure That Vitally Interests All Sections of the State. Below is given the text of the new jury bill, as passed by the house after being amenaed by the judiciary com mittee of that bodg. It is a measure that is of special interest to every county in the State: Section 1. That the county auditor, the county treasurer and the clerk u the court oi common pleas of each county in this State shall perform the duties hereinafter set forth. Sec. 2. That the said county auditor, county treasurer and clerk of the court of common pleas of each county shall immediately after the passage of this act, and thereafter in the month of December of this and each succeed ing year, prepare a list of such quali fied electors, under the provisions of the coastitution, between the ages of 21 and 65 years and of good moral character, of their respective counties. as they may deem otherwise well qualified to serve as jurors, being per sons of sound judgment and free fromn all legal exceptions, which list shall include not less than one from every three of such qualified elections un der the provisions'of the constitution. between the ages of 21 and 65 years, and of good moral character, to be selected without regard to whiether such persons live within five miles or more than five miles from the court house. Sec. 3. That of the list so prepared the county auditor, county treasurer and clerk of the court of common pleas, shall cause the names to be written, each one on a seperate paper or ballot, so as to resemble each other as much as possible and so folded that the name written thereon shall not be visible on the outside, and shall-place them, with the said list, in a strong and substantial box, without apper tures or openings when closed (to be known as the "jury box") to be furr ished to them by the county super visor of their county for that purpose and of such size ad shape, as that. when such separate papers or ballots shall have been folded and placed therein as above required, they may be easily shaken up and about and well mixed therein, and it shall be the duty of the clerk of the court to keel said jury box in his custody. The said jury box shall be kept securely locked with three separate and strong -locks, each loc'k being different and distinct from the other two and requiring one key peculiar to itself in order to be unlocked, and the key to one of said three locks shall be kept by the coun ty auditor himself, the key to another of said three locks by the county treasurer himself, and the key to the third of said locks by the clerk of the court of common pleas himself, to that no two of them shall keep a similar key or keys to the same lock, and so that all three of them must be present together at the same time and place in order to lock or unlock and open the said jury box. At the same time they shall place In a special apartment in 'he said jury box (which special apar -'ent shall be known as "the tales box") thg names o not less than 100 nor v of mie7owg .eo ic tales box ' he drawn jurors to supply deficiencies arisin gfrom. any cause or emergency during the sitting of the court. The names of persons placed in said tales box shall be also pldced in the said jury box. Sec. 4. That not less than ten nor more than twenty days before any regular or special term of the court of general sessions for the present year the county auditor, the county treas urer and the clerk of the court of com mon pleas of each of the counties in this State shall draw from said jury box 1 ballots containing the natnes 3f 18 persons, who shall constitute the grand jury for the present year. If there shall be drawn from said jury box a ballot containing the name of any person not between the ages ofI 21 and 65 years. or not of good moral character, or who has died, or who has removed from the county or is otherwise disqunlified to serve as a juror, such ballot shall be destroyerd and such name struck from the said list and another ballot drawn: andc so on until the 18 are soeure'd. Not less than 10 nor more than 20 davs before the first term of the court of general sessions for each year after the s ent year, the cunty auiditor, the -un ty treasurer and the clerk of the "Ma:rt of common pleas of each of said ':mnm ties shall in like manlier draw fiim the said jury box' twelve ballots-en taiing the namues of twelve persons, who, with the six persons drawn by~ lot (as provided by law) fromx the grand jury of the next preceding yea~r. shall constitute the grand jury for that year. When said grandl jurors are drawn the clerk of the court of co-a court of common pleas shall isu his writ of venire facias for them. - quirng .teir attendaure on th- <rst day ofh a ensuing term of the ur-t of general sessions, and said writ of venire facias shall be forthwith de ivered to the sheriff of the coulity: Provided, That in ease any term ol' the court of genernl sessions is to be held within less than 24) days after the approval of this act, such list may, nevertheless, be prepared and the grand jurors drawn. See. 5. That not less than 10 nor more than 20 days before the first day of each week of any regular or spe cial term of the circuit courts the Bald county auditor, the county treasurer and the clerk of the court of common pleas shiall proceed in like manner to draw 36 petit jurors. to serve for such week only: Provided. That whenever a jury shall be charged with a case. such jury sha~ll not be discharged by reason of anything in this section con tained until a verdict shall he found or a mistrial ordered in such case. Im mediatelv after such petit jurors are drawn the cler kof the court of cerm mon pleas shall Issue his writ of Ye nire facias for such petit jurors, re quiring their attendance on the first day of the week for which they have been drawn; and the said writ of ye nire facias shall be forthwith delivere.] to the sheriff of the county: Provided, That in case any term of court is to be held within less than 20 days after the approval of this act, such petit jurors may, nevertheless, be drawn for such term of court. Sec. 6. That the said drawing shall be made openly and publicly in the offie of the clerk of the court of com mon pleas, and the county auditor. the county treasurer and the clerk of th. coure t oncmmnn pla shall live ten days' notice of each of said draw ings by posting in a conspicuous place on the court house door, or by adver tisement in a county newspaper, a no tice of the place, day and hour of such drawing: Provided. That in case any term of court is to be held within le.ss than 20 days after the approval of this act. such jurors may. nevertheless, bE drawn without such notice. Sec. 7. That all jurors shall be se- n lected by drawing ballots from the said I jury box, and, subject to the excep s tions Lereinbefore contained, the per s sons whose names are on the ballots d so drawn shall be returned to serve as n jurors. r Sec. 8. That the names of those who are drawn and actually serve as jurors shall be llaced in an envelope, and shall not be put back into the 0 said jury box until the first revision 0 of the jury list herein provided for af ter they have been so drawn, to the end that no person shall serve as a u juror more than once in one year. The dl same rule shall be observed as to h1 drawing jurors from the said tales 3 box: Provided. That nothing herein contained shall be construed to be in , conflict with the provisions of the law s as to selecting by lot from the grand a jury six members thereof to serve for h the ensuing year. Sec. 9. That nothing contained in tLu "ct zi!ai pwVe-nL tne clerk of tin court of cenuon pleas froim issuing vialres for additional jurors In tni !!me upon the order of the court.,t wlenever it is necessary for the con- P veni-nt dispatch of its business. In b which case venires shall be seried and 0 returned, and- jurors required to at- I. tend on such days as the court shall a direct. h Sec. 10. That in drawing jurors from h the said tales box the samc rules shall t: be observed as in drawir.g from said b jury box, except that a notice of such drawing shali be ncer:ssary,. Sec. 11. That no more than IG per sons, to serve as petit jurors, shall be drawn and summoned to attr.d at one and the? same tirae at any court, un- Y less the court shall so order. p Sec. 12. That the grand and petit a jurors drawn as hereiabefore pre- f, scribed, from the said jury box, shali t' be summoned by tie sheriff, as now p provided by law, at least four days be- v fore the time fixed in the venire for s them to attend the ,i-ting cf the court, p except when such term of court is to a he held within four days from the ap- a proval of this act, and the grand and petit jurors drawn, as hereinbefore r prescribed, from the said tales box, shall be summoned by him and shall - attend and serve according to the ex igency of the summons. Sec. 1.. That the juries drawn and i summoned under the nrovisions of this s act shall be organized and empaneliel S In the circuit court as now or here- a after may be provided by law. h Sec. 14. That the jurors drawn and summone:d mnder the qualificationg ti that are now or may hereafter be pre- e scribed by law. Sec. 15. That whenever it shall be necessary to supply any deficiencies in the number of grand or petit ju- v rors duly drawn, whether caused by d challenge or otherwise, it shall be the t< duty Pf the county auditor, the coun ty trasurer' and the clerk of the e e of common pleas, under the a h aid tales oi ~ W D - ~cmpeten 'persons to serve as1 jurors, as the eourt shall deem neces sary to fill such- deficiency. Sec. 16. That whenever the jury list of any county shall be destroyed by fire or other casualty, or whenever it shall be held by any court of competent jurisdiction that the jury list of any county has been unlawfully prepared, nr Is irregular or illegal, so as to ren der void the drawing of jurors there from, it shall be the duty of the coun ty author, the county treasurer and the clerk of the court of common pliea3 of each county, to prepare a special jury list for the said county forthwith In the manner herein prescribed, frojm which special list grand and petit ju: rors shall he cu-awn for the courts of general sessions and common pleas for suzh county until the annual jury list shall have been prepared for such county as herein provided. Sec. 17. That when at any time it shall be determined by the resident circuit jurge of any circuit upon cour lant miade tn him, that an irregular: ty br-s oc'r-urredi in the drawing of the jtri for ::ny circit within his circuit. cr C:at any art has been done1 .h:-:rby' te validity of any iur'ics I dra<~n mcy be cEcestionedl. it shall be< awfal fo- such circuit judge to issue his orde-r to the county auditor, the : couty treasurer and the clerk of theli a'rt of commo.n pleas for each county f~r which said cir-cuit court shall be hld. at least 5 days ibefore the sitting1 herco:', to proceed to draw juros for zuch t-r:m, or te take such measures as miay be nce'mry to correct such error.' I S'-. 1'. That in ense there shall he a vaary: in th odic of clerk of the i coU ;0o cormmon pflaas, county auditor.< or . anty tisaurer ,at the time hxerein fxcd Lc:- prepacring CaidI jury list, or ist I dawing a jury, or any one of said offi- i cers shall be disqualified or unable to a serve for any cause, the county super intendent of education shall act in his I place and st'sd, and in case there shall ; be a vacancy in two of said offices or any other cause, two of said officers shall 'be unable to ,arve, the county 1 superintendent of education and the ~ sheriff of such county shall act in their place and stead. s Sec. 19. 'Tnat all acts and parts of t~ acts inconsistent with the provisions oft this act be, and the same are hereby, ~ repealed. t Sec. 20. That this act shall go into I effect immediately upon its approval by ~ the governor. And it shall be the duty of the secretary of state to have print ed at once a sufficient number of ecpies ~ of this act to supply one to each clerlj f of the court, county auditor, county I treasurer, circuit judge and solicitor in 1 this State, and forthwith send a copy C to each of said officers., The late Robert Paterson, of Caer- t laveroci:, Scotland, was the first man v to ride a bicycle in Scotland. He eri- < dently thought more of his bicycle t and his pony than of anything else, I for he requested that their sculptured I figures be placed beside his grave as a monument. This wish has been car FOR A SOLIER'S HOME. ecommendations That Will Deeply Interest the Veterans. The annual report of Dr. J. W. Bab >ck, the efficient superintendent of the Late hospital for the Insane, has been ade public. The report is not only in resting from the facts about the in :itution that it contains, but it gives a iggestion as to the Confederate :ol ers' home, which will doubtless coin and the careful attention of legi sa >rs and old soldiers alike. Here is the !pert: 3 the Board of Regents: In accordance with law and custom I ereby present the 78th annual report r the hospital for the year ending ecember 31, 1901. An examination of the statistical ta les accor.panying this report shows e sttAy increase in population which as characterized the history of the in itution for several years.* The in-. ease in the daily average number has een twenty-five 125), the total admis ons four hundred and fifty-nine (45), ad the total under treatment fourteen undred and ninety-three (1,493). The most serious obstacle to the op ation of the institution has been the -cqient occurrence of snallpox in our ards. Since its first introduction here irty-two (32) cases in all have ap eared, and while most of them have en mild, the usually serious nature f the disease has added much to the ixiety of those intrusted with the care d protection of the patients. So little as the seriousness of the situation ere been appreciated outside the iasti tion, and so little cooperation has en given in the way of vaccination r new patients before admission, that t times absolute quarantine has emed necessary. Fortunately, how -er, this step has been avoided and the ear closes with the absence of small ox from our midst. In May and June a unusual number a.t cases of typhoid ver developed. So far as investiga on discloses Its origin the epidemic robably originated in the drinking of ater from old wells previously above ;spiclon and now abandoned. The ntinued prevalenre of tuberculosis mong our patients, and especially mong the negroes, srves to empha ze the opinion expressed In former ports that the only method of proper handling cases of this malady in vcrcrowded asylums is by as rigid oation as can be obtained. In build gs now available it has been impos ble properly to segregate our con imptives. This problem is a serious 1e and demands a better solution than as been given it here and elsewhere. If we may learn from the history of ils hospital during the 80 years of its Kistence. and more especially from the perience of the last 20 years here as 0l as elsewhere, we must expect an er increasing population to be pro ded for. It is therefore our duty to Irect our attention so '&r us possible the future growth of the Institution ; well as to the consideration 'of pres it, needs. When the purchase of the falace pr perty was under consdera led comprisin: 50 acres and known us the Bellevue place would at no- very istant date be needed to serve as the ite for the development of a series of ottages or wards constructed upon the >avillion plan, such as are required for his climate and are really better for he housing of the insane In all cli nates. Es a study of such a plan a late is annexed by permission from a ecent number of "Amnerican Medl While the time for the entering upon his solution of the problem of provid g for the insane of South Carolina as not arrived, > t it may not he as listant as we expect or hope. Since, iowever, there are rumors that at its et session the general assembly will ;ake up the question of providing a rome for Confederate veterans, I would espectfully suggest that your board 'ite the attentipn of the governor and -he members of the legislative bodies, is well as the committees of the 3:,uth arolina division of the United Con ederate Vrterans. to the possible ad entages of this site for the purpses f such a home. Taking as a nuecus ,he farm house now upon the Bellevue tlace a few wooden buildings couhi1 at mce be erected for the Veteran's home t small expense. In the next few ears, if the number of homeless voter ns provided sufficient to warrant it, ipon this sight could be developed a ries of permanent hospital buildings which would afford the veterans such Shome as they deserve, and when, in tue course of time. the veterans s'1all tave joined the great majority, the state will have need of these buildings, sade sacred and historic by their first meuants for other of her children vho shall claim her succor and pro~te ion. To give in more tangible form my dea of what such buildings should be, nd which will answer the needs of our ccessorS better than some of the uildings we now occupy. I append a ilate of the hospitl1 recently construct d by another State. It Is along lines uch as are here shown that the future ~rowth of this hospital should be die -eloped. The details of the plans for a eteran's home are not within the cope of this report and I only presume make suggestions regarding the mat er snce it seems possible to combine hat the general assembly may decide o be a present duty with what i be ieve the future requirements upon -.hIs ospital may demand. With the completion of the portion >f the Taylor bu~lding now beIng con tructed there w~ll be temporary relief >r overcrowding In the department for rhlte men. The wards for women, both rhite and colored, are now excessively vercrowed. The cnly method of relief can suggest lies in the erection of a ew building for white women some ;hat on the lines of any symmetricallY ocated with the Taylor building. Upon ie completion of such a structure the ite women now occupying two wards f the old asylum could be moved to e new building, thus providing two aore wards for negro women and giv rag up to them the entire old asylum, a would have properly been done long go but for the greater necessities of ur white female patients. e aestration of many etrue enw back of the main building has heretofore been necessary, but further development upon the same lines will not be advisable. The eretlon of a much needed workshop for patients.. the removal of the wooden buildingw now occupied by the mechanical de partment and the location of new sta bles at a distance from the dormito ries require that we'should at this'time consider the proper sites for their loca tion. The best sitps would appear to lt: along the railroiL track in'the rear of the institution.TPhrt of this land only is owned by the institution. A portion of the other land has from time to time been tendered by its owners to the board, and last fall you passed a set of resolutions regarding its purchase by the general assembly. Soon after this the land was put up at auction and bit in for $3,905.00 by a friend of the hos pital and is now held subject to the lecision of the governor and the general assembly. The ownership of this prop erty would now be of great advantage to the hospital and In the near future it. will be an absolute necessity. In advo eating its purchase, I would recon mend the method pursued in regard t& the Wallace property-that is, the placing of a mortgage at six per cant.. on the property, and the annual pay ment of $500.00 or $1.000. with inter est, till the whole indebtedness is zov ered. So small a sum annually for sev eral years is insignificant in compari son with the benefit to the hopsital as a wholo. In these reports for several- yearse suggestions have been made regarding: the admission and discharge of criin inals, and the determination of "set tlement," or the basis upon, which per sons may claim rights of 'Jeneflclary' support in the hospital. These ques tions are exceedingly important and . trust that they may at length receive the attention they deserve from the: legislature. In the report of last year your at tention was especially directed to the difficulty of keeping the expenses of the hispital within the appropriation In that report I expressed the opinion that it was "doubtful in view of the present prices of food stuffs and sup plies, whether the maintenance or sup port of the patients can again be met for $100,000.00. For the next year it is probable that the sum total for this item wilt be above $105,000A.." The balance last year was $1,104.,. but it was explained that "as in the: previous year we have been again for-: tunate In securing from sales of hos pital supplies by the United States gov ernment many necessaries at low rates." In view of this small balance your board was unwilling to ask for aw increase in the appropriation for minat tenance for this year, although such a request was proposed and considered But the increase in our daily popula tion as well as the general increase im the market price of all food stuffs and hospital supplies, approximaely amounting to an increase of 35 1-3 per ent. has brought about a - shortage in our Income under our expenses. , about $1,000.0f' per month, an aggregat deficit of $11,520.11, of which sm $ should be a deficit, astis f!iMahle? that since 1890, with a daily/populatcfl of seven hundred and fiftyffour (754), through a decade frith adaily increaS ig census up to 1900 with an average of one thousand and forty-three (1,043)' inmates, a total increase of two hun dred and eighty-nine(289) patients, we should have been able to keep within the annual fixed appropriation of $100, 000.00. It was not to be expected that this appropriation of $100,000.00 for maintenance, which has been practic-s aly the same for nearly 20 years, could' ' indefinately meet the demands of an. over Increasing population. It certalnly could not have been done for the last. 10 years but for the economy and prm dence of Mr. J. W. Bunch, the treas urer, under the direction of your board.. and it would have proved inadequate two years ago, as was shofen in these reports but for the fortunate occur rence of the auction sales of govern- I mnt property In this vicinity. I !ee?' asred tha-. your bcard, as well as the special committee from the genraI~ asmbly. who have looked carefully into every item of our expenditures, must feel satlsfied that the usual rigid. economy h as during the past year been exercsedJ I y the resident officers In ad ministering the affairs of the hospital.. In view, however, of the experience o~f the past year It is not to be expected that the general expenses can be re duced unless some means can be devis ed of limiting the number of admis sions. The iteasurer's report shows that for but two months only .did the expenses. fall undier &10,000.00 pa'r -month. A brief abulation of the ilnanciak and numerical hostory of the instltn tion for the last 25 years makes in structive reading: Total Daily Total Per Year P'n'ts. No. Ex. Capita 1875 .. .. 428 312 $ 83,182.00 5210.40s 1S80 .. .. 541 397 84,000.00 214.0# 1885 .. .. 914 893 136,977.00 146.34k 1890 .. ..1,014 754 100,744.00 131.06 1.895 .. ..1,157 827 113,332.00 116.76% 1900 .. . .1,461 1,043 127,181.00 102.71. 1901 .. ..1,493 1,068 135,316.00 103.00 - So far as I am able to judge the ap propriaton required for the coming: year wi.-ll be: Maintenance .......... ...$120,000.00" improvements and repairs ... 15,00.00 Deficit........ ....---... 11,520.1?. Regents ........ ....-..1,200.0@' The itemns of insurance and the pur chase of the Jones land cannot be spec ified until passed upon by the general' assembly. n conclusion I beg to express my o. ligatons to your board and to the resident officers for cooperation andi a sistance during a very trying year la the history of the institution. J. W. BABCCCK, Physician and SuperIntendent.. An Embarrassinig Accident. In a selling steeplechase Irish Idaw came In first, and Starch scongd; but both were lucky to get their positions as, according to the account, "Pants while leading, came down six furlM from homne,"--Londo Globe. ---