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: 7"*- _ anw n.-? >ii> * ** "" THE INSANE HOSPITAL A CHARITABLE INSTITUTION THAT IS A CREDIT TO THE STATE, Good Work Doss by SupsriDitrdent U *b ccck-H.'s Annual BspsrSto Tie legisla ture?Ovar El?fc? Thousand Patients Treated. The State Hospital for the Insane is one of the best managed institutions in the State, and in the South, and every citizen of the State ought to feel proud of *he institution. If there ever was a rn^n. who worked hard for the insane it is Dr. J. W. Babcoc's, the superintendent of the Hospital. Hs has sacrificed his own interests to re main in the State and try to build up the Hospital for the Insane. The State has cause for congratulaJ.; xl-.i. U nt lioii mat Willie me average m i inmates of the Hcspitsd has bsen con- j staiiUy en the iscreaso the cost to the j State has not increased a cent. Dr.! Babcock, the superintendent of the j Hospital, has collate a series of inter-! esiing statistics and the report he hss I made contains in a condensed form j much that is valuable to the financial history of the institution. The following is a summary of the financial history of the Asylum, now . Hospital for the Insane: Date of opening, 1828; estimated -rrr> Mol G<+aiiq irtrTiirfin <? VQIUO VI vvwm.V, ^ . ings, $250,0C0; total acreage 350; acres j of land under cultivation, 300; daily j average number under treatmeist, 875. RECEIPTS DUELS"G THE YEAR. From State treasury, fcr maintenance* $100,000 CO From pay patients.. 5,010 S9 Balance of laundry insurance fund............... 149 24 From all otber sources...... 906 26 Total'recepts during theyeai$lC6,CS6 39 DISBURSEMENTS DURING THE YEAR. Supplies...........57,849 71 Sallies and wages 40,190 47 Other ordinary expenses... 4,250 31 Tr?ral fiishnrepmp'nfs ilari p rr tin? year?-?? *, $102,290 49 Balance remainiEg oil hand December 31, 1897, $3,775 39. Annual per capita, cost on current expenses, $112 31; daily .per capita, $30 77; maximum rate of wages paid attendants, men, $24; women, $21; minimum wages paid attendants, men, $15; women, $10; percentage of d2iiy population engaged in some kind of useful occupation, 50 per cent, estimated value of farm and garden products during the year, $21,793 99; estimated value of articles made by patients during the year, $2,5C0. MOVEMENT OF POPULATION, By reference to the tables it will be seen that the year opened with a population of 842, of whom 225 were white men and 291 white worries, 177 colored men and 149 colored women. Admissions during the year were 401, divided respectfully among white, men 119, white women 111, colored men 94, and colored women 77. The total number under treatment during the year was 1,257. The daily average was 875, the highest number being 935 and the lowest 821. The following table summarizes the more important statistics for the past seventeen years. Admissions: Year. - White. Colored. Total. 1881 .. ? 210 188 2 149 116 265 188 3 125 115 240 188 4 *...147 151 298 188 5 ...12S 88 216 188 6 130 107 237 1887. 113 115 228 1888 130 122 252 * 1889..........140 162 302 1890 157 165 322 1891.. 155 155 311 1892.. 167 151 318 189 3 160 155 315 189 4 160 149 309 iqqk i rrc\ 174 244 1896. (14 mos)219 163 337 1897 230 271 401 The total number of admissions since the opening of the hospital is 8,316, of whom 4,898 have been recaived since 1880. ADiHSSIOXS ASD DISCHARGES. With the exception of January,each month shewed an increase in the population, The daily census of 823, January 24, rcse to S23 October 18, and the year closed with 923 patients in the Hospital. It must be remembered that this largely increased population has been received in almost the same quarters we had ten years ago. Without the Dix cottage, however, we would have been unable to provide accommodations for white women after April 1, except as a vacancy occurred. either through death or a dis charge. One of the most striking lessons of our statistical tables for the j)ast few years has been the increasing number of admissions of persons over 60 years of age, and that the larger proportion or these have been white men and women. The table also indicates that of the acute forms of insanity, mania prevails among the men of both races and meiaxchoiia among the women. The total number of 46 epileptics were admitted, the larger proportion, being among men. The total discharges during the year were OCIA Af Q7 rwa-M/i ^Arwa ac? Uicog, Ul kCUb XXKJJULA\* oo recovered; 10 as much improved; 22, as improved; 28, as unimproved. The mortality was 142. There are two leading factors which tend to swell our mertality lists. One of these is the fact that for many years this Hospital practically received all patients for whose admission application had been made. In other words, there has been nc selection of patients. This custom brings to our wards patients in all degrees of physical exhaustion?many beis? moribund on admission. The other factor is the' great foe of the insane in all lands?tuberculosis. This subject has besn dwelt upon at length in former reports, so that it need be only briefly touched upon here. No less than 58 patients?10 per cent, of the whole number who died? died 'f some form of tuberculosis. rPV*4#>? r*?c4- nvowolAMf n rr r.n I JL1XXO V4AOVv>U3V AO Ui O > aiCiib the colored patients. * These facts and observations are not exceptional in this hospital, but the same conditions exist in other asylums, at home and abroad. Until the disease is mora generally recognized and treated as sre other communicable disease?, that is, by isolation and disinfection, we are not likely to succeed in greatly reducing the mortality from the scourge of iristitiitirmal lifA The annual occurrence of a few cases of typhoid fever still serves to indicate defects in cur water supply or plumbing system. During the year our male wards were visited by epidemic? of mumps and erysipelas. As the year closes all employees and recently admitted patients are being vaccinated as a safe guard against smallpox, which has appeared in the State. ISIXS-SlXITY increasing? In view of the unusually large num ber of admissions last year, the paramount question "Is insanity increasing?" demands careful consideration at this time. In 1853 Dr. D. H. Trt z > vant, one of the best informed asylum officers this State has had, gave it as his opinion that "eventually the State must provide for at least 400 patients. We now admit that number annually. Whether insanity is increasing or not. and about that authorites difFer, it is an indisputable fact that the State is called upon to provide yearly for a ! much larger number cf patients than formerly." This is c'.early shown in the above table, but even mci-e instructive is a table shoeing: the date on whica each thousandth patient was admitted. mi.- .c ? i ?i- ? ^ "He iuc iirsi. v.l.<X +S?cember 10, 1S23. 1, COO th patient vras admitted June 13, 1857, 29 years later. 2.000th patient was admitted April IS. 1S72, 14 years later. 3 000th patient was admitted April 20,1S78, 6 years Liter. 4,0C0ih patient was admitted Jane 14, 1883, 5 years later. 5,000th patient was admitted July 15, 1887, 4 years later. 6,000th paticst was admitted February 14.1891, 4 years later. 7,000th patient was admitted April 1, 1894, 3 years later. S,000ih patien: was admitted April o, o jsars laier. It thus appears that we now admit in three years the same number that it formerly required thirty years to bring to our doers. In a discussion of the alleged increase in insanity in the last report just published by the Nsw York lunacy commission, it is stated that: "The causes and considerations which enter into the question in its full scope are not at all discernible on the surface; reflection and reasoning are sure to reveal cthe:s which it will be seen deserve a share of attention." As bearing upc-n the subject the same report quotes freely from the English commission, and eivss. among other reasons for the alleged increase of insanity, the following, which may be applied to South Carolina: L More extended views as to what constitutes insanity requiring confinement. 2. The gradually increasing popularity o? ssylums. 3 Tfce increasing proportion of old and broken-dowr. cases. 4. The increased number of inebriates under treatment. 5. A decrease in the death rate. 6. Diminution in the discharges of unrecovered cases. 7. Because of reasons stated in No. 14?a decrease in the rate of recoveries. Ail these causes have been in opera! tion here. The final conclusion of the i English commission is true aJso, in my opinion, for South Carolina. As we have already stated, we are well aware thai that there has been a very large and seriously progressive increase in the number of officially known persons of unsound mind, but, as we have tried to demonstrate, this has been chiefly due to accumulation, the rsult of several causes, which with their modes of operation, we have enceavored to describe. INEBRIATES. From its foundation the hospital has admitted violent inebriates. To prevent an abuse of this privilege a law -i_ J 10oa was ei!ilUi.CU ill JLOCrt, ICI^UUUIC wail persons suffering from tiie abuse of alcohol, opium or chloral be received only as patients, being supported by I their friends or, when they were not able, from the county treasuries; in other words, it was clearly the intent of the law that these eases should not be beneficiaries of the State in the same sense ss the insane. In its purpose this is a wise and just law. It is not specific enough, however, in its requirement of county support, nor dees it specify the minimum length of time such patients may be kept here. It is of little use for inebriates to be sent here for a week or ten days, till they recover from the effects of a debauch, and then discharge them to return to their evil habits. This policy has in the p3st, as your board knows too well, reflected little credit upon the inebriate of the management of the hcspitaL As a rule, county officers ignore the requirements of pay for this class of patients. I would, therefore, suggest that your board recommend to the General Assembly the enactment of a law requiring the detention of an inebriate for not less than sixty days, and exacting from the family of the patient or the county supervisor the payment of the full rates required of pay patient?, that is $20 85 per month. CRIMINALS. During the year several criminals were sent here" as insane. It appears that the number of this class is increasing. The commitment of such cases to the hospital serves more frequently 10 evade the just penalty of crime than it fulfills ;he humane purposes of an asylum for the unfortunate. Without here discussing at length the serious question, I would suggest that a law be enacted providing for the confinement in a separate department of the Penitenitentiary of insane criminals, as has been done within the past year by the State cf North Carolina. I would also r?ise the question of jurisdiction of Probate Judges over persons owito/l t-.f Tho ri(W>?fiinTl of such cases would seem to me to be outside the pale of the Probate Courts and to belong rather to one of the higher Courts. THE PARKER BUILDING. At its last session the General Assembly appropriated $7,500 for a new building for colored men. Your board had most properly decided to call this building the Parker buildisg, not only because of the fact that its erection had been proposed by Dr. Parker in 1869, but also because of Dr. Parker's long and eminent service to the State as an officer of this Hospital. immediately after tie adjournment of the Legislature the ylans for the building were prepared. Owing to the small appropriation it was under stood that we should so far as possible do this work within ourselves. We, therefore, found ourselves debarred the services of both architect and contractor. The excavation having been completed by negro patients, the foundations were laid Juds 1, and owing to favorable weather the erection of the building has since been carried on rnntiirnnTJCfl-y. Tr.P IvjilrHno1 fr/ints the South, and consists of three stories above, an ample basement, except that the central portion is carried one story high. With the view of pos sibie future extension of the Hospital the middle line of the first cross section of the southern wing of the main building was continued through the new building. The length of the building is 340 feet, the main portion forty feet wide, and the extremities sixty-seven feet wide. The cellar, as well as each story, is twelve feet high. That portion of the basement nearest to and upon the 53me level as the main kitchen is planned for the dining rcom, having dimensions of sixtyseven by ihirty seven feet. The front extension si the eastern end is to be a bath room, t quipped with appliances for rain bath. The first story will be used as the kfirmary ward. The three large rooms over the dining room will ssrve as associate dormitories, each accomodating forty patients. Three similiar dormitories over the bath room will hold twenty beds each. and the fourth stcry thirty beds. [ These, vrith eighty-six single rooms, will bring up the total capacity of the building to about three hundred beds. The ward water closets and bath rooms are built in a separate tower extending midway from the building on the northern exposure. The walls are built on what is termed sra-fi i i ,iiv.n.iff iri?ar .Tit'r TT.-iraTSTOesKi.1.. g aa-tss the cavity or hollow ptec. Laving a threeinch sdr ep?.cs bes^e^n the inner and utter wall, thus preventing as mo ness from reaching the inner wall, and promoting warmth in winter and coolness in summer. At the bass the foundations are four feet wide and iaid in cement, with a damp-proof layer of tarred papei on level of next wall, tku3 preventing the entrance of ground air into the superstructure by means of the cavity which extends to the roof. The outer walls are finished plain, with common brick laid # with red mortar. This outer wall is tied to the inner wall hy every five courses and eighteen inches apart, and is furf+win^t'nore/1 at. 1 with liivl V*.V I ... iron anchors. The inside walls are struck smooth and are ready for pairiting, thus rendering plastering unnecessary. Ail the brick work about the doors and windows above tbe basement is made with "ball nosed" brick, which pro vides rounded corners to prevent clipping and injury to patients by cutting with sharp angles. Chimneys and fire plscre have been built at the ends and central portion, but for the purpose of eventually heating the building by indirect radiation flues run in the corridor walls from the basement to each story. Ample provision i3 made for light and natural ventilation by large windows, doors, alcoves and stairway n- TTI J.1 ?.v,? weus. jd or iiio esuaue 01 iuux an uw or more flues lead from each rocm and concentrate beneath the roof where exit is provided for by ventilating turrets on each corner of that j structure as well as by "star" ventilators along the ridge of the roof. The building is divided into three sections by two fire walls, one of which forming the inner cross will of the dining room and associate dormitories rises three feet above i:he roof. The other, or middle fire waL, serves ss an outside w*U and extends without window or other openings a story above the eastern ^iag. A wide stairway leads from the basement to the top story in each of j-\? iU-? -C /Nvt a o4 n Ax I Lit) IX1TCO iiro CFniUVUO v.uo at WM1W1 end on the rear and central one in front. The windows are finished on the inside with a sloping or beveled still, thus preventing patients from standing upon them. The plans include on the southern or front exposure a piazz* on each wing and a central porch, all having brick substructure. Provision has also been m2de for erecting at the ea3 tern extremity v? rand as similar to the ones now on the other buildingsThe appropriation for the building was exhausted about November 1, when the brick work was about twothirds finished. After consulation with Governor Ellerbe, it was decided that.in view of the fact that a force of experienced workmen was upon the ground, and since the brick could be obtained from the directors of the Penitentiary and from Capt. Giugcard on I credit, the better course would be to i push the building to such a state of completion as would prevent injury to the work already done by exposure to tho weather. This course having i been determined upon, the work has bsen continued upon borrowed money and b.T the time for the session of the Gener.il Assembly the building will ba nearly under cover. The dining room was so far completed that Christmas dinner was served and a Christmas dijice held therein. A fL-e occurred about 1P.M., June 2, desiiroying the laundry, electric plant carpenter shop and mill and injuring the boilers and engine. The fire originated in the southern end of the laundry building from a defect in theSffoe of the stove for heat Satirons. So much headway had been made by tie firs between the celling and the tin roof before its discovery that the efforts of the city fire department which came to our relief was of little avail other than to save adjoining buildings. rm < i .j -LiLO prupcrty was iuauiou uuuu tui 80 per cent, company insurance policy for $6,400. The adjuster offered to pay $5,949.97 and this was accepted in view of the fact that the walls of tha building could be used again. With this amount of insurance money the laundry has been rebuilt, the whole building being now devoted to the purposes of the laundry, boilers and engine, and a very complete iaundrpplant installed. Tiie mm is again m operation, out we are without an independent electric plant and carpenter shop. It nas been thought best to take a somewhat comprehensive review of the financial history o! the Hospital, so that the members of the General Assembly may inform themselves of past achievements as well as of futurs needs. The following table is based upon "he one published in the last report of the censu3: Total treated. Maintenance. Building 1882.... 643 $ 69,726 $43,184 1883.... 775 73.810 3,026 1884.... 789 86,078 16,560 1885?.?. 914 92,585 44,392 1886.... 859 88,772 25,889 1887.... 857 91,262 4,110 1888..894 94,143 j 1889.... 931 94,265 1890....1,014 100,744 1891....1,081 105.950 7,591 1892.. ..1,132 92,317 9,323 1893....UC9 - 101,593 2,852 1894....1,107 92,474 9,S41 1895... ..1,157 96,563 15,902 1896....1,247* 107,282 27,601 1897....1,257 98,273 23,000 ^Fourteen months. All of the building fund from 1891 inclusive is for permanent improve ments. The deficit of last year, 1896, $L,058.23, had to bed made good from this year's appropriation. Oar total income was $103,066.39, the total expenses $102,291.49, which gives a balance of $3,775.90. This balance has been used to reduce the amount of money borrowed from the banks to meet the expenses of the Parker building. The total cost of maintenance proper was $98,273.40. This amount, divided by 875, the daily number of average patients, gives the actual annual per capita of $112.31, or daily per capita of $30.77 cents. For comparison with former years the following tables ars presented: 1886..*.$140.27 1892....$132.11 1887.... 137.37 1893.... 132.80 1888.... 140.59 1894.... 123.37 1889.... 137.47 1895.... 116.76 1890.... 13L05 1896.... 107.80 1891.... 133.42 1897. 112 31 estimates for the tear 1898. Your board, after careful consideration, has decided to ask for special appropriations as follows: For maintenance.... .?? .$100,000 For Parker building... 13,500 For Wallace property, debt and interests..., . 4.840 For insurance (three years) . 1,200 For mileage and per diem regents.... *>200 The prohibition candidate in New York is found by the corrccted returns to have polled 650 votes, and in the present city of Brooklyn, long regarded as strongly inclined to temperance, 607 votes, a total in the two cities of 1,257. As his contribution to the camr\oirm tttqp AAA if 4-V>/x-ipf Uim pai^U *TAO 111 bUClClUAC Wi3b Llli-UL about $4 a vote. Governor Powers of Maine, recently told how, when he was a young justice of the peace, he married a couple, later secured them a divorce, married the man to another woman, secured them a divorca, and later remarried the original couple. Tli'in^a ?grets wi-h E!:Hb?, St?nstor Tillci ar: agr^'s ? ilb G-c-7?r ror EUerba as to the 'o5i:; oT dlsposi-ipc of the liquor ques'.ion. To the Washington correspocdest of the j News and Coiner. jic, on. we-Jr.ecdry, cave the fo)Jo --ins? slatvment for pubh'catioa: '1th v.eii understood'thai the dispensary, ss no tt conducted, with such saffguatdi as would prevent abuses or speculation, would be the bast system Ths only question is what the legislature had best do pending a dfeisien by the supreme court of the United Slates or the action of the house of representatives on the bill already passed by the senate. If Simcnton's d: cTs:on is sustained by the supreme court, it des'roys the license system throughout tco country, and gives liquor, in original packages free "entry inio every State in the Union under the Inter Stale Commerce. The legislature cannot afford to leave the origins! package ttora pursuing i rnejr pernicious irarnc, wmcn nas resulted in a large increase of drunkenness and crime already. I agree with Governor Ellerbe that we hid bttt c destroy the profit feature of the dispensary than undertake any form cf license, and prohibition would, in my judgment, be a practical continuance of the existing condition., which is free whiskey througout the State.]A great many people have alw&js opposed the dispensary because of the profit feature, and, while I could never understand the difference between accepting money for license and cbtaiaisg it by profit from liquor sold in the dispensary, I believe it is-the best for the peace snd good order of the Staie to forego the profit entirely rather I tin-n n?u profit or license, we -win gain time, and can determine -what is best to do next winter, after the court I has decided the question, and after the house has passed or refused to pass the bill which I got tho senate to. ecact." Kil<l Form Dr. E. M. Stuart, of Beaufort, arrived here on last Wednesday to ex amine into the t mall-pox situation here and report to the State Board of Health. Ha was taken first out to the State Colored College in a carriage, accompanied by Mayor J. W. H. Dukes, Drs. J. W. Lowman and T. A. .To-ffnrHa r<f thft Irn&l hoard nf health and Drs. A. S. Hydrick and T. C. Doyle, cf the city council. The eight inmates of the house out on the /arm known as the "pest house" were first examined, and then the case of Jim Banks, who has been sick at Sunnyside, in the city, was looked into. After thcS9 examinations Dr. Stuart expressed it as his opinion that they were cases of smallpox. But he considers this is smallpox of an especially ! mild form. He stated that it appeared I that the authorities cf Orangeburg | had done all that cculd be done to ' prevent the spread of the disease and recommended the same strict quarantine against the colored colleges and the house of Banks, on Sunnyside. It seems that whatever might be the opinions of our local physicians, the cases here are to be considered as smallpox, as this opinion has been expressed by the representative of the State board of health. Every precausion will be taken by our authorities to prevent the spread* of the disease, and rigid quarantine will bs enforced against all suspects. Those at the State3 College are all at the pest house and will be kept there uctii it is considered safe for them to be released. iheEdlto* Won. Some months ago the Sacramento Bee asserted that a local judge had been guilty of falsehood. The editor of The Bee was fined for contempt by the judge whom he had attacked. The editor's counsel appealed to the supreme court and contended that ss there was a question of veracity between the judge and the editor, tie latter could not be denied the riejht to prove that the judge was guil:y cf falsehood. The case was a?gued;elab orately by both side3, and the supreme court, by a vote of four to three, decided in favor of the editor. Ihe ma jorityor tne court aeciarea cnas wane the power to punish for contempt ia proper and necessary, it should be used with great discretion, ana that the judge in the case under considera t on had made an unwarranted assertion of his authority. Th9 decision has caused much comment in the California press. Too Lmte David, David B. H 11 has come forth from his iong oyster-like retirement with the assertion that he voted for Wm. J. Brj an for president, aDd that ne stands on the Chicago platform. He claims that he is a Democrat still. He goes on iurtner to say mat j&icnara (Jroker fled to Earope to avoid committing himself; but, all the same, Richard is a pronounced goldbug. and shall not have control of the Democratic machine. Mr. Hill's declarations have created quite a sensation in New York State, and many Democrats think teat tbe time for another Democratic landslide is getting fully ripe. A Washington Dlunar Party I "John," enquired the wife of a senator from Nevada, on his return from his first Washington dinner party. "What did the ladies have on at dinner to day." With much confusion ha replied. "Liza Jane, they did not have on much of anything above the table, and you know, dear, I was too mcdest to go under it." A Good Size Fellow. James Mclndoo. of Madelia, is 18 years old, is six ftet ten inches tall, and weighs 303 pounds. He wears a twenty-four shoe and a No. 8 hat, and drinks a gallon of water at a time to quench his thirst. He is well proportioned, is very powerful, and is still growing very fast. The State Income Ta JLstt. The New York Daily Dry Goods Record prints a revised estimate of the cotton crop of 1897-8, placing the estimate of the crop at 10,257,030 bales. The Washington Post makes clever use of baseball parlance in tne follow iag paragraph: 'The New York World calls on Mr. Bryan to drop the silver issue and become the undisput ed Democratic leader. As the game is very close and there are two men out, Mr. Bryan can be depended upon to decline this invitation to get reckless and get caught between gesond and third basa^ The suicide record for 1SS7 is a startling one. Tnere were, accordicg to the record of the Chicago Tribune, 6,600 suicides in this country, of which 5,186 were men and 1,414 women. liOCKisg ax me causes assigned ior these crime?, the Tribune gives despondency as the most- prolific reason for suicide, and poison as the most common agency employed. Hilton's Life for the Liver and Kidneys is the most complete regulating mdeicice. It is mild in its operation. Is agreeable and pleasant to the stomach. It will certainly build up a weakened and broken down ctige3tion. Eas none o? the harsh action of pills "and other drastic purgatives. Is the best of all appetizers. Qaick in its beneficial effect on the kidneys. Is purely vegetable. Can be taken at any time. 25c, 50c and $1.00 bottles. ' aggga am g x a.t- aig?aMgg ! mr?77. nATTinnxrAn'L! iff~noe* = r< n i inth uu v ii-nixua o moo ana. | [CONTINUED FSOil PAGE ONE. \ ?.2d to the Sta^e. The appropriation cf $2,000 /or the salary and especs^s the phosphate inspector is too much to pr?," considei' lug the small return to the State from this source. I recommend that the office of phosphate inspector be abolished and that the Comptroller General fce charged with the collection of the revenue from. phosphate raining. The Governor rfcarsmmds that the act creating the office of public printer be repealed and thai the work be let r,!!f. *r> trip. tawsvst Ha ?]sn rto. ccmjuend that the number of special statutes should te reduced by the enactment of general laws, embodying Ample provisions ana remedies for the relief of persons, corporations and communities, relative to subjects of a general character and to put an end to the present flood Gf special legislation. As it is easier and in some cases cheaper to apply to the general Assembly for relief rather than to the Courts cr cthc-r tribunals provided by general law, the Legislature is being, upon various excuses, subjected to constant pressure to enact special laws for th3 relief of individuals. Indeed, even constitutional provisions intended to limit such special legislation have often beer, evaded under the gui?o cf so-called general law. THE SINKING FUND C03DIISSI0N. The total value of tbe assets cf the cumulative phosphate royalty sinking fund is $263,007.56. 0? this amount $37,532 was loaned toccuntiesat a rate cf 5 per cent interest per annum. The sinking fund has permanently invested in State stocks $35,728 56. There is ! invested in temporary leans, under ! the Act of February 25, 1896, and February 25,18S7, $53,484.22. This leaves a balance of $131,262 78, which has been deposited in bank, bearing 4 per cent, payable monthly. ?cu can see from ihs above statement that under the Act cf 1897 only a small amount was lent to counties; while the greater pari of the fund cas been deposited in banks and is unsecured, except by the credit of these banks. It will also be seen that on the 31st; of December, 1896, there was then loaned to the banks at 4 ? per cent, interest, and secured by a depcsit with the State Treasurer ss collateral seeuritv of State Brown 4 i per cent, stock, $173,984.22, leaving only $2,816.03 cash deposited in bank.CONFEDERATE RECORDS. It has been particulary unfortunate that the office of State historian has been made vacant by the death o? two worthy incumbents. Since the adjournment of the General Assembly, the grand old Confederate soldier, Q-en. Hugh JL. Farley, has passed away, before he had completed the work to which be had been assigned. I appointed Col. John P. Thomas, Confederate historian, to carry on the task, "iou will find in the report of Col. Thomas a detailed statement of the work already done, together with to Ka nicVipr} P?nPf?ial. ly as to the completion of the Confederate rolls. It is the duty of the State to prepare an historical account of the part taken by the commands from this State in the great civil war and to complete the rolls. I therefore urge that provision be made for carrying cn this work. To insure completion I recomDnend that a sum be appropriated sufficient for carrying out ihis undertaking ; and I suggest as an inducement to its early completion that while sufficient money be allowed monthly for current expenses, the major portion be paid only upon the completion and ac ceptance of the work as now mapped out. HOTTNTY GOVERNMENT. The General Assembly should give careful consideration to the matter of expenditures by county governments. The system now in force is very cumbersome, and in many counties leads to extravagance. From the representation by townships arises a tendency to reciprocate favors, and this leads to useless expenditures which, if there were no opportunity for these mutally beneficial'" exchanger, wcuid be avoided. Many counties have remedied this trouble as far as possible and have made a further saving by placing their officers on fixed salaries and turning the surplus left over after paying the salaries into the general county fund. CONCLUSION. I dcsira to impress upon the mem1 _ J n 1 A oers ui me wsuerai ixbiciuui/ iuc necessity for tbe strictest economy in the appropriation of public monejs. While unnecessary and excessive appropriations of public money should be avoided at all times, and the sirictest economy consistent with good administration in every branch of the public sevvice should be at all times enforced, there is at tiiis time a special reason why this principle should be carefully applied. The people have endured a long period of businesj de- i pression, but the present low price of cotton, our principal money crop, has i caused still greater depression, and the j mercantile and industrial inactivity is : keenly felt by all classes. As guar- : dians of tbe public interests and custodians of the public funds the p&ra- ' mount question at this juncture, when i considering the appropriation of the ; people's moaey, should be. Can this expenditure be deferred without injury to the public interests, until business shall have resumed its normal activi- 1 ty? On scsount of low prices and the : scarcity of money the burden of taxation presses with more than usual ; severity upon the people, and in no : way can ycu more richly merit their ; approval and gratitude or justify their 1 confidence in you than by judiciously j striving to lighten this burden. j I have endeavored, after a study of < the State's affairs, to maka such reeom- j mendations to you as seeurproyer and i jast Tne Governor cannot" make ] laws?to jou alone is entrusted, as it : should be, the power to pass bills and to change existing laws for bettering the conditions of our institutions and for reducing taxes. My recommendations are msrelv advisory; the re 1 sponsibility fcr the passage cr defeat of bills, introduced or recommended, iifs with you. It is my desire to cooperate during the coming session, as during the past, with your respective bodies and members in the interest of the taxpayers and of our people generally ; in that behalf I will at all times be pleased to consult with committees or with individual members. The responsibility fcr the defeat of any good measure for whatever reason shall not rest on the Executive ncr snail x aiiow myssu to oe muuenced in any of my actions by intimations that my measures may be de- , feated. Personal prefference or de- ' sire shall not be indulged by me in the proposal of any measure. If they be found not subservient to the public interests, my suggestions should be ignored; if in that interest their defeat will harm not the Executive but only the people. I call your attention to the repDrts of the various State departments, 1 which will give you a morj intimate ] insight into State affairs. In the va < rious departments of the State Govern i ment I find in the officers a general disposition to follow the law and dis- : charge properly the duties of their of- 1 fices. W. H. Ellerbe, j Governor, ; ' . * *- -J"' '.J.'77. ' - >* Ths Oas?? at t?$, Colored Cciiege. Thi /ollowirg statement is made by President Thcs E. filler, o? the State Colored College at Or*Bgeb?rg: To the E -itop of Tr.e State. On the 17ih of December Student Montague of Spartanburg showed symptoms of tha present disease in so si;?*h(, a rorm (ae was neve? vaccinated) that the most sceptical would iLave pronounesd it chickenpox, aid it was so pronounced on that day by Dr. Lcwmsn. Onthe5ihof January three new cases were developed. Montagu?, the ntw eases aid ether persons who had rcosed with the sick numbering 12, were immediately taken away c'ovrn in the woods in a house teat had been used for farm hands, and there isolated. And the rooms occupied by them, after haviDg removed all the furniture and clothing down to the farm house, were thoroughly funigi-ed, by or je.* of D% Ljwmin. That same night student Hicks returned from home broken out. He wts immediately sent to jjin the colony. His has been the worse case, intensified from hiving taken cold while driving across the country wiih the disease upon him. With the ex cepucn or mess, wno contracted we cold, tha other patients have suffered little inconvenience, being up the second day. Not one of the students who has been attacked save student Johnson has ever been vaccinated, All who bave been sick, are up and doing well. The entire school were vaccinated on Monday tho 10ih. The students ^hose arms show sign of having been icccculated will be revaccinated on Monday, the 17th. The boys and the girls occupy the same building. Tfce J isolation h*s been so perfect that up to i date not a single girl has taken the | disease. We bave been quarantined, j The disease has been pronounced] smaDpos by Dr. Stewart, but, as in j the be?inn:'n* of the sickaess, medical j opinion here is still divided as to the i nature of the disease, it is cur duty to j keep the students here. I ask the railroad officials and officers of the las? to look out for my students, for some j of them may escape, being anxious to: get to their parents, and should they see any of my students isolate them or return them to me. The parents and guardians of student'j need not be alarmed, for the maltidy is of a very mild form and the students are being well cared for and attended. I call upon the parents of students wno ara in arrears for board to come to my assistance in this my time of need. One dollar now will b>3 worth 10 after the qtiaramiae has been removed. Very respectfully, Thos. E- Miller, "President. Complexion of the Senate. Tho political complexion of the United States senate will not be changed Miich 4 next, as it often is on that day. Wlien the senate membershin is full, it consists of 90. or t.TO from each of the 45 states. But now there is a vacancy from Oregon, Mr. Corbett not having been seated. The ro3ter of the senate at the present time, therefore, shows 89 names. The political division is as follows: Republicans, 43; Democrats, 34; Silverites, 7; Populisls, 5.?Total, 89. The silver senators are: JCannoc, Utath; Mantle, Montana; Stewart and Jones, Nevada; Pettigrew and Kyle, South Dakota; Teller, Colorado. To those Mr. Wolcott of California should be added in certain contingencies and possibly the two senators from Wyoming and IA'm I?J r?Vl rtf "MAwfli lr aI o llir. XlAUdUlUUgU \JL XYUXkli JL/OAS/W>, j The Populist senators are: Allan, Nebraska; Butler, North Carolina; Harris, Kansas;Heitfield, Idaho; Turner, Washington, The term of none of the senators expires in March. Under the law senators are divided into three classes, and the terms of all in one of these classes expire 6very ether year, always in an odd numbered year. A year from next March, therefore, 30 senator*, i f not re elected, will come to the end of their service. The senators who have but a j ear of their terms remaining are: Republicans ?Aldrich, Rhode Island; Burrows, Michigan; Clark, Wyoming; Davis, Minnesota; HAle, Maine;?,Ohio; Hawley, Connecticut; Lodge, Massfcchuietts; Prcctor, Vermont; Quay, Pennsylvania; Wilson. Washington; total, 1L Democrats.?Bate, Tennessee;Cockr~ll, Missouri; Daniel, Virginia; Money, Mississippi, appointed ad in terim; worman, raarjisna; urav, Delaware; Mills, Texas; Mitchell, Wisconsin; Murphy, New York; Pasco, Florida:Roach, North Dikot3;Smith, Ne57 Jersey; Turpie, Indiana; White, California; Faulkner, iTTcstVirginia; total, 15. Silverites.?Cannon, Utah; MantleJ Monlaas; Stewart, Nevada; total, 3. Populist.?Allen,^Nebraska; total, 1. At least two-thirds of these are likely to be re-elected by their states. How Ic Is Done. To be or not to be vaccinated is a question that is now agitating tiie minds el many good people all over tne state. rney ao not aesire to go through the sore arm ordeal unnecessarily, nor do thej wi?h to ran risk of smallpox, if vaccination will prevent having it. The New York Times publishes a statement about the the dilution of vaccine lymph with glycerine, in Europe, which relieves tbe experience of being vaccinated of much of its unpleasantness, and enables the same amount of vaccine matter to serve from 20 to 50 times as many patients. The Times says: "Vaccine lymph that has been sterilized by mixture .with glycerine is rapidly coming into use all over Europe, and with it the last arguments of the anti-vaccinationists. are disappear* La?. The rare accidents that have hitherto given them an escise for calling theJennerian operation dangerous no longer take place, and even the 'sore arm ' which some people fciave found so objectionable, has been reduced to a hardly appreciable annoy id ce."?Augusta Chronicle. Hllton'a Iodoform Liniment is the "nee plu ultra" of all such preparations in remoTing soreness, and quickly healing fresh cuts and wounds, no matter how trad. It will promptly heal old sores 3? long standing, "will kill the poisDn from *'Poison Ivy" or "Poison Dak" and cure "Dew Poison." "Will counteract the poison from bites of snakes and stings of injects. It is a sure cure for sore throat. Will cure my case of sore mouth, and is a superior remedy for all pains and aches. Sold by druggists and dealers 25 cents a, bottle. The unusual spectacle of a mother md daughter both appearing in ccurt the same day a--king 'or divorces was presented in the superior court at Anderson, Inda few days ago. Both were granted the decrees. The mother was Mrs. Ella Barton,and she charged intoxication. The daughter was Mrs. Minnie SUn)ey, and her charge was cruelty. A young college athlete at Richmond Hill, Long Island, saved two lives the other day by making a leap Df six feet through the air and striking with his shoulders a man and woman who stood on the edge of a railroad track with & train almost on them. The thock threw them to the ground just over the edge of the track and barely in time. i jggegggggg .mi. Tixosc Uaffjicjj Parties. : A Charleston paper, several y ear j ago, published thn following: '"As j exchange xsys that Luggirg parties for ; the benefit of churches are a rccent importation into the South, but they ! are becoming very pony la? ia some I sections, especially in Virginia. The j prices are as folio *s: For girls under 15, 3o cents 'or & nug of 2 minutes; from 15 to 2u >cars of age, from 35 to 75, another man's wife, $i; widows, according to looks, from 10 cents to $2; old maids, 2 cents apiec?, or two for a nickel, and no limit of to time." To which a lady very properly objected and replied as follows: "In your last issue there appeared a paragraph entitled 'A Hugging Match,' which was intended to be funny, but which proved to be mean. It embodied the old fossilized slur on old maids, and averred that in the hug ging matches now in vogue in divers place?, while young girls and widows were hugged at a dollar or two each, and a very few seconds allowed at that for the thrilling performance, old maids were huntjgel at 3 cents each or two for a nickel, with no limit as to time. I'll vouch that the author of that paragraph is a bachelor who keeps his blacking brush on the mantiepiece, and his ckan shirts in the | coal box. and who is a good enough 1 J?J ? 1*^1 X i juugc ui yinum.if iaj puu ine stoppers cut of a bottle of corn whisky and smell tha negro that hoed the corn. And if the truth were only known, he has been rejected by a dczan girls, perhaps some old maids, any one of whom would had to have supported him had she been fool enough to have had him, and all of whom render thanks night and morning now that they had sense enough to kick him. I am an old maid, and I am happy. I don't know ho<7 it feels to uncork a bottle of paregoric at 2 a. m. to quiet a squall that was caused by a colic in stead of a cloud; and I am ignorant of the process of pulling off a pair o! muddy boots a midnight and swathing with we} towels the burning, ach | ing forehead of at "lord of creation," who promised with a lie upon his lips at the holy altar, to love, honor and I protect me as long as he lived. I reI peat it, I don't know anything about ' these delights of matrimonv. I sun pose I ought to be pitied. But I had rather be laughed at because I am not | married, than not to be able to laugh be cause I am married. If you will excuse me for being confidential, M say ! ia closing, that duriDg a career' of 30 ! years I've only been hugged one time. On that occasion, strange to say, I got three scents. I didn't wans any 'more. The three scants I got were scents of disgusting hair oil, rum and tobacco. ! An Indiana genius has beaten perpetual motion and the Keeley motor "out of sight" He has invented, so he says, a perpetual light. Once set to burning it burns forever, or until the glass globe, which contain* it, is broken. The substance, which is a profound secret, is hermetically sealed in a glass globe, where the inventor says it will glow brightly and constantly for all time, barring accidents. rt><> nomwttv, -IZ/eSphinx3II38|^ - hood is full of deep unanswerable enigmas. 7* WW" io<^\ Why should women be \8 compelled to suffer sim- I X^&gSgfr ply because they are women? Why is it that the source of their highest joys is at the same time the cause of their greatest wretchedness? The very attributes which make it possible for women to be happy wives and mothers also render them liable to the utmost physical misery and pain. The sufferings of body and mind caused by some weakness of the distinctly feminine organs are so almost universal among women that the question might well be asfeed: " Is this Nature's punishment for the crime of being a woman?" I The true answer is JNo! "inese sunenngs are neither natural nor necessary. They would not exist if the organism was healthy. No woman ought to endure such troubles. There is no need of it. Dr. Pierce's Favorite description is a perfect and positive cure for feminine weakness and disease. It gives health and strength to the special organs and nerve-centres; heals inflammation; stops weakening drains; promotes functional regularity, and restores the' normal, vigorous and painless condition which Nature intended. It is the only medicine of its kind invented by an educated and experienced physician. It is the only medicine which qjakes baby's coming safe and comparatively painless. Any woman who would like to know more about this medicine and about .her own physicial make-up should send Zi onecent stamps to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Bufialo, N. Y., to pay the cost of mailing only on an absolutely free copy of his thousand-page illustrated book, The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser;" or,*3i stamps for cloth covered. A sure and permanent cure for constipation is Dr. Pierce's Pellets. One "Pellet" is a gentle laxative, two a mild cathartic. T.TOTTOR. OPIUM AND TOBACCO HABIT ^THOROUGHLY CUKE9. HEMOTED FROM COLUMBIA 0 THE EEELEY INSTITUTE &BEEJmLT,]3, S. C.: MCMILLAN'S GKBIPPii COTjG-K CUBE. WILL BELIEVE THAT COUGH AND GIVE rOU HEALTHFUL BEST. GOOD FOR Sffi"nnnn tttit? U V/W X' VJLK WJiA.NUJM.1 Waltebeoeo. S, C. Feby. 27,1897. Deae Sib:?Having suffered several days with ''La Grippe" and getting no relief from many otner cougb medicine, I tried McMillan's Grippe Cough Core, I can truthfully say I found it the best remedy I have ever tried, before finishing the bottle was cured. Respectfully. COL. B. STOKES. 25 cents for large bottle. For sale by al Druggists. If year druggist doesn't keep It, send us 25 cents and we will send it bj return express. W. C. MCMILLAN, Druggist, Oct.29 Columbia, S. C. M j Bargains TN PIAjNTOS. % SPECIAL Jj Announcement. Piano . |g and | Organ Exhibit at / 1 1509 Main st: Jf Columbia, S. C. BEST GOODS 4H At Fair Prices. Remember T A XUAlUUlt at My store, J see my bargains. J M. A. MALONE, 1509 MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, 8. C., PIANO8 AND OS3 A.KS . |jj I HILTON'S B f 1H ^^^m I LIFE FOB THE LIVER AXD^H* | H KIDNEYS, as its nam8imparts, I JH is a stlmilator and regulator .to^B ^ th?se organs. Is the best after! meals medicine to aid digestion Prevents Headaches. CaresMl.' I Billioasness* Acts en tbeKld-^E I n^within Thirty minutes,after Hf 1j I taking, relieving aches in tfceH I back from disorder cf thes.eor-^B - ' M I gans. Believes all stomach H I troables. Is entirely vegetable, mm 250, ?0: and fl 03 a bottle. Sold I ?>1,tT and bv The cSteton,* I C. o V g.c< .z?S3? ' Sold by dealers generally and by THE MQRRAY DRUG CO. ;-;ra COLUMBIA -Q. X). Miles to Mothers. ., d$ ?f8 it&s In atiiicg year aBes ton to * remedy k long needed to carry. lag ciilldrea safely tttrcrogli lbs critic*! J> itaga cf See&Infi. ts !m as incalculable blessing to SZOSkC *U<Z Child. II JOU STS^ ? iSstarbed *i nigfci wlSii & sick, fretfuls ijj teething child, C3* Flttf CsrxalnsGve, it ??*ii relief, and reg&tei* ?hs <r>?;!S, and nxsle teething rafs and ttsj. ti -srtii core Dysentery and DisrxlMia, Kit* CarmlraiLva la as instant "elicf tsi * ;;Jj -oXc of infante. It srlll promsie digsrasn, ?<?e icce and energy So fee swmfcch snl r?^e>s. tc? SICK, yvujv, sraiajriaj? cjkis \ . ? - * ^j.U caco bacome ihe tzi ?? trolIcS:# Icy m fce ?jo5?iboia. It 22 Tsry pLsmnt so / % >?k taste *nd ec3y aoct ?5 nssfei par ^on!j Via by (3runlets sefi "o? THE MUERAY DBUG CO., *2? Columbia, S. C. 1&^S&$8iS&^3&&e^SgESffiaB^SI Us /to.tj iifafer 0/>ecf ft> Purchaser. Si IA Good | 1 $8 n 1 Piano 1 4 tj* fSSSSSSBH ^ iast * ffi ffilBMPl^M lifetime ? JHgBlRSlaeggBM and give 293 i Mattasiek S S la always Good, alTrays Reliable, "jltv always Satisfactory, always Lastlner. You take no chances la buy- ?B '?? in? It. >?3 ??' it costs somewhat more than a 2E5 jgf cheap, jxyyr piano, but is much the S*2 3ga cheapest in the end- saw 'igtf No other H lgh Grade Piano sold so ;gS reasonable, factory prices to retail ssis .v. t-uyers. Easy payments. Write u*. S|S * < fg UJDSEM & BATES, fg Savsna&h, 6a., and Xtw York City. j?g mmmmmmssmm Address: D. A PBE3SLEY, Agent COLUMBIA, S. C. hi mm | ii the most complete intern of abating J5 handling cleaning and pacXla^ cotto.iImproves staple, saves labor, makes yen money. Write for catalogues, no otlrr equala it -*r|3 I handle the most improved COTTON GINS, s FSB3SBSt ELSYA.TOSS, SSGQfES AND BOILSES to be found on the market My Sergeant Log Beam Saw Hiii is, in iJmpiteity and efficiency, a wonder. COKS MILLS, fLAXBBS, QAJSG 2DQKSS . Jg and all wood working .nacliinery, OIDDSLl. AND TALBOTT ?K<*i>'SS are the beet. Write to m ) before Saying, jj ?? a Badham, IQeneral Agent. COLTJj&BIA. S, C. wLuibAiii^ Sii^iSr jjjf .