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Marshall Field, A Popular Rich Man An Appreciation. B By the Editor of the New York Post. ' J R. N1ARSHALL FIEL) did not have to wait for dleath to ex Mnguish envy. For many years he had enjoyed the esteem o1 all sorts ;1nd4 coaitiiofls of men. in Chicago. and indeed throughout the great Northwest where his name and fame stood for so much. his repute was high and his popularity m arked. Though one of the richest men of his time, he was never held up as an embodiment of greed: his name was never the signal for hisses or opprobrious cries even in a meeting of Socialists. In a day .when so many men of great Veaztn are made the object of suspicio., dislike, hatred, wrath and malice, %1r. Field's immunity is well wor-'i inquiring i*.o. Doubtless his persona! -erin" and manner counted for something: though Mr. H. H. Rogers has just prov ed again that a millionaire cannot dis arm all prejudice by suddenly becoming affably jocose. The deeper reason lay behind. Mr. Field had accumulated his immense fortune by methods which the considerable judgment of his fellows pronounced legitimate. It was a regular and honorable business, long pursued. that brought hini wealth. No unscrupulous stock manipulation, no ruin-spreadinlug monopoly, could be point ed to as the source of his great riches. To his money none of the taint attached which comes of building up a fortune upon the deliberately planned wreck of the property of others-a wreck accomplished by methods repugnant at once to morals and the law of the land. Unlike some of the great accumulators who have heaped up hatred with their boards. Mr. Field's first instinet, on, seeing money in the hands of another, -.-as not to ask, "How can I get that away from him?" His impulse was, rather, that of the born merchant who believes that commerce is profit able for both buyer and seller, and who delights to open new channels of trade activity because he knows that all reached by them will be gainers. And we are convinced that it is the sort of business he conducted, as much as the na tare of the man himself. which accounts for the difference in the general es timate of Marshall Field and, say, the head of the Standard Oil Company. In public spirit and benevolence Mr. Field was not deficient, though he could not be called extiaordinary in either. Le gave perhaps as much as could be expected of his time to the civic interests of Chicago. His voice and influence were at any rate on the side of good government, and every munici pal advance. The fact that lie honestly paid his taxes on a just assessment is 1>ossibly the best example he set as a citizen. Some of our wealthy tax-dodg ers would do well to ponder it. And though Mr. Field's public gifts were not large in proportion to his means. he at least bestowed them in a way to carry no sting. He gave freely and outright, when he did give. Not for him was the ordious plan of -stiniulating benevolence in others." by giving grudgingly of his abundance on condition that as much be extracted froni the poverty of others. Thus his charities were, if not great relatively, at least not the offen sive acts of &-man who up - heart , !.ier. "Euthuthaasia Defended & By Dr. Adolph Rupp. d4*@g#@940 T seems to me that physicians who arrogate unto themselves the right of lust exactly knowing what all right minded Physicians may possibly think with reference to the wishes expressed by Professor Norton. and others concerning ei thanasia under hopeless conditions of useless suffering have misapprehended the question at issue and also assumed too imuch in their own favor as right thinking agents. This question has often been discussed before, both in this country and abroad. It is a grave an momentous one and is too big for any one class of men to settle. It is a social question and will be finally settled by public opinion, as so many questions are and have been, such as blood letting negatively and vaccination positively. The religious instincts and sentiment of tLe crowd stand in the way of hastening the end that brings relief. and that too, in cases where operative in ference to "save life" has added to the sufferings of the victim of fate. When physicians began to protest against the utility of blood letting in the treatment of aneumonia, the more "conservaitive" professors and practi tioners called them "niot right minded" and something worse. So, too, with this question of euthanasia, ultra-conservative pr-actitioner's deny right minded ness to those who have reason to differ fromi thenm. But the world moves, and as Pr-ofessor Norton and many others of all professions, the medical included, have advanced fronm the platonic idea of conserving life under all circumistanic es, in time the crowd will follow, conscious all the while of right thinking, - some ultra-conservative medical 1)ractitioners to the contr-ary. .aThe Eyes of Children', 5 By Dr. Andrew Wilson. HIE carelessners with which we tr-eat our eyes dloes not end here. W~hen the child is grown up, and sent to school, its eyesighit should still form the subject of attentidti ofi the ~3j partt of par-ents. Many a child ruins its eyes at school in the ~33 endleavor to keep pace with its better-eouipped neighbors. Some weakness of th. eye exists, and the poor child has to strain its vision in order to prioperly exercise its sight in seeing objects placed before it, and in following out the in structions of the teacher'. I need hardly remark that, placed in this position, the child goes from bad to worse. It is often tr-oubled with headaches, for which no ordinary explan ation can account, yet there is no more constant cause of childish headaches than eye troubles. An examination of the eyes b' a competent eye surgeon shows that by the use of proper glasses this srain can be avoided, the head aches eured and what is very much mor-e to the point, the eyesight preserved. The amount of gross apathy and carelessness which parents exhibit mn respect of this particular subject is almost beyond belief. I know of a case ini which a school board (as is the case in many peues), on the advice of its med ical officer, issued some 200 circulars to parents. informing them that their children exhibited eye defects, for the correction of which proper glasses wer-e necessary. Only five or six of the pairents thus notified paid any attention to the matter at all. We can little wonder.. therefore, at the growimg increase of dlefects of eyesight in our midst. The number of young peCople who are comp~elledl at one age or other to use spectacles is tundoubtedly growing. and many such cases would be prevented in respect of defects of sight if only a moderate amount of care and attention were pa-4ed upon them by thmse responsible for their welfare at an early stage of dhe deve~lopment of their tr-oubles. Money is NotSucs By the Rev. M. C. Peters. uf M.++><+ AM a huge admirer of success itself. At a recent funeral in + + New York city of a multi-millionaire the body was followed I i to the grave by only six cariages, including the detectives Sand all the moturners, beneficiaries of the will, with hardly E.atear oif genuin~e oro shed-not even by the family. + +Who we tidl call such a life a suiccess? Who would ++++++++ euote- that. career as aii example to young men? A long life vihno generosity hieliving, a life of no love of God, no love to man while living, a life- with no goodness-twenty millions for heirs to fight about: twenty millions rich. yet not one moment af ter the man has gone, how poor inwardly. The man who has nothing but money, or, rather. the- man whom money has, is the poorest thing in all the wor-ld. Who would stand foir all their money in the shoes of the insur-ance men who have r-obbedl widows and orphans'' Thiese rmen have gathered together that which makes fools env'y them. but who does them honor? Would they not gladly begin life over- again andl live fo:' a good nanie rathier than great riches? Money-mai ing is not sucCess. Characte'r is success. and there is no other-. ___ ______________ Not Mistaken.PlnsTaThoOfHet The s-.ory is ohi of a college pr tapeo-ha ay lns ho fesor VI( W~ noted for his concen- f et eakal ntnei riationi o flmind. ft yteApn odnla t The pr-otssor was re-tutrning homcflwra-ttlyo-eor tirml, oe tnigiiu from ii sctific' metetinl e. t a -tghtehr nw p-1 onderingi o\r t he sultject. HC ei:iw.idetefoe pn had reached his room' mt sai(-y. whi ef ei ece hesrae ota he beard a io'..'.i culybom naltl oei -1s sonic one there?"Y he asked. thsnw ual.owv.-irecs '-No. prt'fessor." anlsweredu the inttesraeadhnsotispet truder under the bt:. who( knew voie )15aoethfnw okn the prot-essor's p~euhiarmtes. a fsukit t rwn hog --That's strange: I was positiv(thsnwidutoheeadelpd som oe asunermy ed" or b eeg tAie pross la..t floer acualy or, o rthe mlt A YOUNG MAN SHOT M. J. B. Gaylor Shot and Instantly Killed by M. Grove Mathis. li hpill. Speelal. --Friday night : themett( oll r. W. F. nt1law of thef llenin T e Nto. Lee comy.1 31r. killed Mr. .J. H. (tiylr. hoethi young unnofMatl section ri.: il 1'ern a eE- Veol it h th:1 ther w1:.. I a yi X :0t i lie h use '1 \Ir. ( )It law. NI r. J. 11. Ga lorl eso rt 1d Miss Alrma inn a ' nitzij ut tti hrw ull v. While I lie p-eawiuries 4Af the evenin. w.ere in progc!.ess and everyVbodV w)as aprIellI ly I IpIv, ir. (Irover Niatihis was iakiig a promlinladet with 31ius Cougyman. WAi-n "nt o.f doeAr Mathi- :ate-pt eel Ita: e liberiies witi the ioung hidy. She resisted this attemnti :t141 (uietly rebked him. I perslsted andl ain'2i :uII.y!e)p-4d ler. She hen fIt lihn an id went back ilte ihe Iouse tryin*g. MIr. Uav.uerd. her eScoirt. and to whi'i it is said she wa. is engagzed toe be mirried. beged the youin idy to Iteli limit tle eall(e of lher ieuhle. At firsi she declined to, tell imr. but fina lIv inlfedltfh her sweetheart t lat .iathiis hal persi'4teiitly tried t-) take hberties wiih her. A Ili :mopotun tim l'ylor J*,- L ok-r 3mbilis ouit intoe thin hiall for :lit iter ivciw. After asking \latiis why he hade treated thie vong ady se un gIelntlemanlyuv. hotwrd brought in an alterentioi. There are several reports as it, how the tnigit started and how the h ing was done. none of which are positive. as this correponIdntI l 1" t been ahle to intervie:w any eVt-witliesses. From reporIiIs. it Seems that. t arle'od had a knijfte and Mati had at pisto!. Wheni tle tight w as Iver TI hyloor(I was mrctally wemledl an llIivl but a few miniites. aud Mathis had one e. twe s:,s in his shouIler. Mathis elaimed too have aied in self defeise. Thi reports are cinfietimng on this po ilt. Itowever. sina. liaiming that there was li, ne ee!sC5 Iy Ir excnse foi the killinig. the:se ocpinijeons 1inig bascl oni what t hey Ilave gat I hered friom tlle reports. Sheriff uhilre w wa iititiel about 1 clock w:nil tk Deputyv Sheriff Merhclam 1 and went t1e the scene of the hie . He was iiifoermed that Mathi h:l qqme to BiPeville to sur rendler. Wj\hen tle sheriff returned lie founid latihis here andie1 tIlie prisoner .- now in D. G. Zeigler Shot. StIrer. Sp'eial.-Euge' inv Hi.eI. lr.. shit I . ( . Seigler Friday atier neot n at .4 e'clocik. The weaiponi used wasi a :b2?labcre pistol. Hie fired live imie', the Ii rst h~aI enteredP~ direct ly under thle hleft shou~tlder bladie andl toock a diownwaVrd ceciurse toward the riht side. The second ball entered in'st abo~iut t wo inchecs . ove the first onei anid tooek an oppoisite curse. The third ball went betwveen the boayv antd the- elbow. grazing the flesh on the arm. JTe fourth a::d fifth shots went wild. The tragedy w as enacted oen the stairway oft the Winn building. 13 North Main street. Mr. Zeigler was cinlig down the stairway. When abut half wvay down Mr. Hlogar. be ait tiring fromi the to~p oif the stair wy. Wheni the first. ball struck Zeigler lie turned. he says, half way around and begged Hongan tee stop. This accunits for' the twio halls cross inug each (other in thle body, presum ably. Zeigler ran on down the stair wart lito the street. then turned and Wenit iito D>uranit 'i pharmaucy where he was made comnfortabe unt iilihe t-oldI be tatgen to the Sumter hosp1itall. The physicians have madee ani exami iation with theii Roein:gien X-ray. but have failed toe discover the bullets. New Enterprises. Te can~k of humnit has as.k eel teo br' iincorporatedi. (Capfitali r~to obe $10.000. (Coirporat ors ae .1. 11. Balic'nger. J1. H. Goesnelh. J. R. ibsn. .. A. Brocik, .J. I. Iitlumphies an .\i~ rehl B. Calvert. Thhe Iteker-Th'Iomas-Bishg null pany of partnburg 'isks for :1 cem missioni. This is a retail dlrtu' comn pay to lbe caphitalized at .99.OO00. A chiartieri was issr~ed to t he Bnk of 3t. (Carmiel. c'apitmlization .2ri.000 '. F. N laulini. eef Andedrson is p resi leit and .J. W. Hueyi is cashier. I i retors atrt: B. F". Mlultdine. l. A. Hove. Jhni WV. Mbrrah :1nd4 T. M. Kox. Th'le li Idy River Poewe r n Comany. v.iih was chartereed by aet of the legislature, has paid i le see' tarv ccr state th legular amnteit Iof cariitr (ees-.95.000 beingu lie capji il izat ion. 'The chartetr couel d noe t be erated by thle secretary oef state as certan riahts were askedh wvhich the leisuure alone can graint. Chairlesteon is to have.Y a bJZ i Ptrili zer phm t. It is bheleived that t he putr Poesi e" tis orit~izationi is tee hucik of statte issued a comision5c tie the Plat ers' Fert ilizir antd Phoisphlate ecoleny ior that eito b c e c-a itali-' iQ ; 1 -35( .0Ii- fT eeerportorsl~ ate le W. Wui'.ner. W. ii. Welshi. Otto T i dwianni. Johni i A. Hert z. J1. !! Han naant i. R{. P. Hauve rl . .. ( . Ti hnas antI I.. 11. Januz. Court Frees the Packers. Chicagoi~e. Specil.-Ah thle meat pakers whlo were iindic-tedi by a Fed eral grandt jury last siummier- i ni ebarie-i COflonspracy mH restramtiit ofI it er-SI t1e trade and connnere ne wer< -rated imunity from crimuinal pireis i tdduls are toc go~i free. the jube ments founiid against the corporacutweio of which some of thle 1idicted pack-e ers arc members aijd others are cm nlo-ca are to stand. PALMEHO AFFAIRS Occurrences of Interest from All Over South Carolina MANY ITEMS OF STATE NEWS A Batch of Live Paragraphn Cover ing a Wide Range-What fs Going On in Our State. General Cotton Market. (alveston firim.. .. .. .. -.11-' New Orleans steady .. .. ..10 15-16 MAlobile firn.. .. .. .. ....]17-8 Savannah steadv.. .. .....10 13-1 V Charleston firm.. ... .. ....7 Wilmington steady.. ......10 5-S Norfolk firmi.. .. .. .. .....in 11-16 Baltimore ilolil.al.. .. .. ..11 :;-s New York quiet .... .. .. ....11 .5) Bostoi quiet.. .. .. .. ....11.55 lhiladelphia stea(Iy.. .. .. ..H.So Houston steadv.. .. .. .. ....11 1-9 Augusta. lirir.. .. .. .. ....111 Memphis steady......... . I-S St. Louis firm ...... ....111-S L4o4uisville firm .. .. .. .. ....11 5-" Charlotte Cotton Market. These figurlie:- re1present pritces pa1id to wa'ons: (ood middling-.......... ....11 Strict m iddlin .... .. .. .. .. 1 Middlin.. .... .. ..... .....I) 7 (ood middling tinged .. .. .. 11 7-S Stains.. .. .. ...........9 t9 1 1-4 Board of Assessors. Comptroller (Teneral Jones li - No reiiber issued inst ructiois to (ou11y auditors .giving directions as I(, the( mianner in which property shou1ld b retirnied for.lI taxation. In only one cuti y. reIville. have his in nw tion4s been diregarded. Hele tihe township boarIds raised tihe points as to whether ilr not t hey shlituld be requested to sizi the(- oath of (Ilice. (ov. Ieyward ha.Is beenl ap pealed to by IMr. Jones 1o withhod his signature from tlie conhinissioners of these townishlip boards.. unlesCs thley bscribeto Ile oatl. Last wee4k Mr. .Jones .ave out tie 11. wllowin. siate Ieit: Periit ie to sav tlha.t the co4unt1ry 1vernmentwt at was amended in 189. abolishiintg Io 1(1s of commissioners as assessors aid (evolved the diles ilp ('1n township and special boards of as e(So1s a-nd required the govei!or to appoilit oil th recommenldation of the legislative deegaton. Certain eoui - is namel therein were exelIt. The act (of 1899 fixed tihe term of. ficee of the township boards of1 asses SOs as5 contermflinal with tha of:1 the governor. Thle cons1t itutionl. article 4. sect in 1. re quires the governior to conn1ins1i 51i11 all 4)fisters of this State. An apointee of the governo~r ennl not assumali or dischara.e the 111 duies of. an'i oflice e'xcept byV virtue of a commis11 sioni issued hr the go4vernor~I. conf1 err ing such authority. It. is not my duty nor have 1 not i lied anyone ir Gri~enville or anyuwher cist relative to appointments of town ship assessoIrs. His excelleney, the o~(vrnfor, was). appraised of the fact that only (one assessor had baee)com missioned in Gr.eenvillec county sine the act of 1899. Code (If laws 1902. See&. 3;70 -md 2. requires the comnptrollecr gene(ral fromt time to time to transmit to tfTe ('oty auditoIrs such forms anid in trc ttis as lie may (em nieesary 4) carryT into eff ect the pro(visions5 4f the tax hows. Thie instructions thus triven shall be o4beyed by and14 shiall be ).mg upon all county, townl atnd Hurt by a Train. Greenville. Specia1.-W~estley Umn iney, *a 34-year-old boy empt1loyed byV the Poe Mills. fell fr~om a piassing freight train which he was trying t4o swing at the Bunicomabe street eross ing late Thursday afternooni and as result lies serimnsly in~iured. Tlhe ov's left foot wasi htorrilly mlantgled >yv beinz (erushe'd unider the trucks. Pharmaclutical Board. Coumbia. Special - The Stat; otrd oc pl~tihamacutical (ex:nnliierS etd here to) examitne seve.ral apl di -ans for pe'rmissionl to become licens -d1 em1bthnils. There were foulr ap 1)icantts and two p)asse'd su1cc~esfully The members of the hoard pre~tsett were' Dr. E. S. Butrnham of1 Chales n. IDr. .\yrotn H. Sandifer oft R~ock ill. l)r. Matthews of Bennett..ville. l)r. DeLormne o1 Sutetr. 1Dri. Frnk .Smithi~ (f Charlestonl and D r. 0. Y. Found Dead in Field. Colmibia. Special. - leury RI. Thomas. 1)foer rail roadl comituIsiolt e. was found1( deadl in a field on his farm near Wedgetield Thutrsday ev cing. He had been absent from the house since morning and a searching att founttd his body. He had been a several ho'urs. Them cause oIf dath wats hieart disease. from whieb4~ Ii; suffered for some41W timte. No imin 11st was held. Attorney General Asked to Investi gate. board oft dispenisary di rectors ha:s de (ideI to~ ask J. E. Mel 4ohabl uf W insoro to) aet as its a1t1 torney in lo 7kig ittol lie legrality of the pur ('ases made by\ th l ld Sta:te' board14. Mr. McDonald will be notit ied hy the eiek of the board andl will lhe atskedh to in to CThai rman Rawlinson, reqjuires eveali weeks work. BIG DISPTNSARY STOCK Law Limits Assets to $400,000, But Stock on Hand Exceeds This by Over $600,000. Columbia State. A recent visit to the State di-pen sary showed barrels piled ou top of each oIIer in such a manier that the speculatioii was indulged in at the time that this must be the binest Ntoek that the dispensary has ever carried. The floor space was iade quate to hold the barrels and they were piled upon each other. On the first tour the case goods were stacked to the ceiling every where, leaving narrow passage ways through the tiers or cases of nines, eorktails and bottled whiskies. Now comes the surprising state ient that the dispensary has on hand about 3.000 barrels of -whiskey where as it usually carries but 1.500. The comimittee appointed by the legisla ture to check up the invoices at the dispensary every quarter has found the assets of the State dispensary to be $730,421.50, although a law was passed three years ago requiring the assets of the dispensary to be redue ed to $400,000. In addition to this -$*7:..000 ihiere isi in the hands of local dispensers whiskev which increases the value of all assets to $1,057,149.93". iotvith standing the fact that the dispensary has been voted out of over a. third of the counties which had dispen;ar ies at this time last year. The stock on hand at the State dis pensary is $60:1362.S: contraband. $1.026.20: supplies (labels. etc..) $62. 520.50. The value of the real estate is $:6.30.56 .ad inachinery and of tice fixtures. $6,491.50. Will Meet at Winthrop. Columbia, Special.-A meeting of the executive comniittce of the State Teachers' Association was held on Fri(lay evening at the Hotel .Jerome. The following nemlbers wAere preent: L. T. Uaker, of Winnsboro, chair man: Prof. A. 14. Reinbert of Wof ford College. Supt. F. S. Dreher, su perintenident of Columbia city schools; A. U1. Gsque. siperiltenl dent of education of Florence couin tv: Superiitendent of Education 0. . Martin sat with the commit tee and assisted in arrangiu the programme and place of meeting for the ainual session of the State Teachers' Asso ciat ion. An interesting programme which will be published in a few days was agreed upon for the comimg meeting which w-ill probably be the most important in the history of the association. It was dlecided to hold the meeting at Winthrop College. July 4thl-6th. Some of the most prominent educators of this and oth er States will take part and several of the most vital educational quies ions will be discussed. The State Summer school will be ini session at Winthrop dturing the meeting of tihe State Teachers' assiciation. This school will begin .June 20th and close July JSth. An unusually strong fa culty with several new departments is now b)eing organized and full an rounements will be issued from the department of education about April Tax Payers to Meet. Spartanburg. Special.- A mass meeting of the city taxpayers is call ed to be held in lhe court hotuse to Idopt measures looking towards a fair and equal assessment of taxable values in the Spartanburg (city) dis trict. This call is the outcome of. a~ gathering of btusiiness men held at the thlee of Mr. .R. K. Carson. The call1 was prepared and is being generally signed throughout the city. The fol lowing is a copy: "Whereas, it has been called to ourm attention that the pr;-sent board of township assessors for Spa rt anburg sclool district is assessing the prop crtv therein at an excessive valuation grossly unreasonable and out of all fair proportion. and that gross dis erimination has been exercised byv sail board within the to" nship.l)n that by such assessment. not only will the bturden of taxal on in 1 hs school dlistrict be greatly inwcased, ut this school district will be (com pelled to pay umpon a grosly .ujust -Now, therefore. we ulrgenuty re qest all taxpayers of Sp)artanburg school district to assemble in mass meeting in :he court house on Mon day. next. at S o'clhock. p. in.. for the p)urpose of taking such steps as ilny lie necessary to sedhre a fair. .just and tinifornm assessment o1 the prop erty in said school list rit.' Georgia Fruit Little Hurt. Atlanta. Special.--ProinenW~t fruit men in this immediate section say~ hat while the pr~oised fotcame they do not believe the fruit erop Wtas njured materially, the weather bemig dry. Reports from sount herni Georgia say no damage was done the er1op) ini that section. No danger is appre hended. as rain is falling over a large )ortionI of the peach belt. For the Tri-County Fair. Batsburg. Special.--A fairly large mass meeting was held in Kainer hall oil Friday aft ern:oon in the ini terest of the Tri-Counity fair. The only thing of importunic. dhole wai he' appointment of a committee (it citizens of the counties to ca1nas heir respective sect ions for subscrip tions to the capital stock and to 1.o' let funds necessary to go ahead with thebuldngs necessars to the enter HIS OPEN lITER -Mr. Ansel's , Position on Dispensary Issue. Greenville, Special.-The followin: letter has been given out. for publi. cation by 1r. 'M. F. Ansel. candidate for the office of governor of South Ca>roliija: Havir already ainounced )Ylv candidacy for the office of govCrnot of the State of South Car-olina, mans of ray friends throughout the state desire that I give my Views upon tiLC dispensar-y :ue?:-tion1. "I. therefore. take this opportunity of :ag:ain st 31-1m position and sb:illIhlipe to :sati-.fy a majori'.y of the voter of th' state thi' my, so.l Ais:n of that -hicet is c?rrec. "In a let ter publ:hed by tme ir August. 19CJ5, I -tated my po~~thion in substance. as follows: " 'In the first place I anm opposed to the system of a 1ii dispeiisary. I once tholllght it the best solution of the liquor quction. because I thought it would minimize and decrease the sale of liquor in this state. but when we consider the treat amount of li quor that ha-4 been sold by the various dispensaries the past year, my hopes hav-' been disappointed and it ap pears to me that some other method shouhi be adopted. - - In the' :-econd place. 1. am in fa V-r of local county option, as be tween prohibition and county dispen saries-that is. I am in favor of anly cinty in the state voting upon the question as to whether they wish pro hibition for that couuty or whethet they wish countv dispensaries. If a majority of the (ualified voters o1 the couity desire prolibition for That particular county. then J am olie who believes that they should have it. and I further believe that the good )C.Ple of such county will see to it that the prohibitionl law is enforced. "I also stated in that lertter 2.s follows: 'Personally I wouid like to see n1o liquor sold in this state a: a beverage, but it is a ondition which coufronts us. and the question is how bcst to deal with that condition. There i: no law that can be passed that will keep some people from drinking li (u(r. still I believe it to be the duty of the state to pass such laws as will mii-irnize the use of liquor as mnch as -I stat-d also in that letter. as follows: '1 an opposed to the high license system. as it is too near the arroom svtem. vUld would not (e c reaise thle sale of l iquor. whatever the restrictions minght be.' * I have no cause to change my opinion since the publicaition of. said letter. lbut the more I consider it, the strogter is myi conlviction that this posit is core~et "C(ounty proahibitioA has been a success in iu counties in the states of (Georgria and North Carolina. and in those counties in tha~ two i-tates named where countyv dispensaries have heard of no complaints. 'Why should we not adopt the same system in our state that has been tested in those states! We should at least be willing to give in a trial. "The 'Morganth bill as it passed the house of represettives at the last session o1f the legislature had many good features in it, was on the line aof the laws of The states named. and had it paissed. I believe it would have given more satisfaction to the people of the state than 1 he presenlt law. -In the several counties in this state where elections have been held under the -Brice law' antd prohibition has bceen adopted. so far as niy infor matt:1ion noes. in has preved ai suicces and the longer tihe law is in force. thle . rogeri wvill be its favear in the mtinds of the peo0ple. -In shoart. I am o (ppoased to the sys em of a state dispensary. 1. am in favor of local county opt iotn as be t wen prohiibition and count ry dispen saries. I am o1pposed to high~ license anl am in favor of suc-h laws as will dec'rese the sale of li anors in this state. A Horrible Death. aolumibia. Special.-Silvert *hai pea an. ai11gedI colored woanfl. mel(t a most horrible dheathI at her i nme on dio streect Thursday afIternooni by fall ine in a lit almost into the lire. Ste lay 'here senseless and htelpless while she roasted to death. Th'le wo man was about 75 rears of age andl was alone in the houise whein she is suposed to have swooned away. fall h with her heaid so near the lire that at cloth throwvn over her head be me ignited and burned slowly tun til her clothing caught and was bturn awiay fromt tihe bodyl. Bought By The Bells. La. (awnerC aof the local telephonate ex hange, has just elos.da dal~l with the Bell Telephonme coany w r~ hereb~y the hattecr secures (control oaf his ex liage. The Bell pe-ople have been triil to, ..et into anmdeta for someC tthne and ntow proi~'fe~ ani up-to-daite exhalne. They will take aover thIe busie5. aout M1ar .1st next. Newberry College's Semi-Centennial. cllege will be held int a few weeks and (Go v. H-layward has been inviteal to he presetnt on thtat occasiont. Dr. J1. A. B. Scherer. thle president oft the col :.a writeS thatt lie kones that Gov Hierward is averse to mnakitng speceches bu that Govy. Hleyward is inv-ited as p ,resident of the hoalrd ot t rustees of the South (Carolina l'niversity as well as in his capacity as governor, and the trustees of~ Newberry college are .ariculry nxious to have him. CHRISTINE NOEYORNOTES APRIL FIRST. Lives That Endure.-Matt. 7: 24, 23' 1 Cor. 3: 10-15; E-ph. 2; 19-22; 1 Tim. 6: 17-19; 2 Tim. 2: 14-19. Every one of us may found some thing that will outlast the earlh -a Christian iffe. A foundation half Christ and half worldiiness is as unsound as a foun dation half stone and half turf. Earthly buildings are formed once for all, and are enlarged only with difficulty: but a Christ-founded life is a growing organism. Whatever good we build on earth has its counterpart in our "house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens." Suggestions. All lives endure,-but where? That is the question. The best way to gain a lasting memory among men ts to live, not for the future, but wisely for to-day. Lives soon become gigantic if they are steadily built upward, with no tearing down. We spend many years in ''gel1ing a start in life," and too many of us never get to the living. Illustrations. The most permanent work of mien is a grass-cov-':'ed heap of earth. It is life that lasts. Most of Dore's paintings. brilliant at first. have faded away because he used poor colors. The materials of our lives are as important as the use we make of them. Already it has become necessary to rebuild the Brooklyn Bridge. because it was not intended for such tremen dous traffic. Let us build our lives for the greatest possible destiny. Raiium is constantly giving off energy, and no one has been able to see that it loses substance by it, though it must. A we'a-ordered life. however. act ually gi ows by giving out. Questio's. Ts my life fixed on the one Foun dation? Am I making plans for the hour or for eternity? Would my plans gI. on grandly, If my life were transifrred to heav en? There is only one way ta get ready for immortality. and that is to love Lhis life. and live it as bravely and cheeifully as we can.--Hcsry van Dyke. EIWORTH [ao[ LESSONS &UNDAY, APRIL 1. Serving With Christ.-Acts 15. 4; '1 Pet. 2. 21-25. The commercial world has learned that there is power in cooperation far beyond any power which can be exert ed by competition. This is t'he age of combination. Men are working together, knowing that in their united and mutually helpfui work there is more profit than there used to be when each worked for him self. Competition a~s a working force is no longer strong enough to do the work of the world. So cooperation is at the front and foremost in men's thought. We are more than familiar with the'names it bears; combine, trust, merger, -union, association, federation. Even the'Ep worth League is a product of the mod ern passion for cooperation; it is a merger of five societies, and some of them: were unions of other and less extensive organizations. But business cooperation, though it seems to be something better; is* just as selfish as co:nnetition, and c'an b" just as unscrupulous. The unpop ularity of the the "trusts" is largely due to the fact that people consider them devices to enrich the few at the expense of the many. Cooperation is not a new force, and its new use is not the best use that could be made of it. It is the oldest force in the vworld, for it antedates sin and selfishness, which were the par ents of competition. It is the force with which God meant the vworld to be run. Hius pur' pose was that men should dwell to gether. be members one of another, workers to-gether with God, and each one a helper of all the rest to the limit of his powers. Competition, which ignores the rights of everybody but one's self, is un christian. Any cooperation which is for the benefit of a few, and whose profits come from the unwilling or un conscious contributions of the many. is also unchristian. The only Chris tian forcae, and, therefore, the enly force that can reaixy build the strue ture of the final civilization, which is the kingdom of God, is a.ristian co operation, that is to say, the forc:e of "helping one another.". An Albany Hen. Nor'th Albany has the most accom modatiug hen on record. A certain barding hxouse proprietress5 in that en~terprising se'ction of the city has introduced a novelty into the fresh egg market. She has a hen which is so well .trained that it lays an egg "while you wa!!." This is the mo dus oper'andi, vouched for by a man of undoumbted veracity. "The hen comes to the back door of the houser every m~onfing and cackles unmil the dor is openedi for it. The house wife invariably gives the hen a bit of green stuff, such as ca'ohage or lettuce, as a tidbit. Then she shows the fowl an egg, after which she puts it into :he wood box. The hen goes over to the box, looks in and makes a great fuss before jumping in. In the equrse of a sho't time she adds to the stock of eggs by leaving a duplicate of the one placed in the box by the hotusewife. Biddy then goes to the door and cackles to have the door opened. With a nice little bow the accommodating fowl sedately walks away, apparently satis fed that she has accomplished her mission. This little scene is enacted regularly ever'y morning, and up to date has lasted for three wecks." Albany Journal. Twelve of the fifteen menhers of the graduating class of Annapolis who did not receive diplomas failed in their examinations. Mathematics is worse than hazing, concludes Boston Transcript.