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B??B?? THE BATTLE OF LIFE. WORDS OF CHEER FOR WOMEN WHO HAVE TO WORK. An Honest Indepsndsccs Better Than Uncongenial Matrimonial Bonds?".Every Wise Woman BaUdeth Her Own Homt'' Was His Tex\ Thi3 sermon of Dr. Taimage is a great encouragement to women who .have to earn their own living, as well as to all toilers with hand or brain; text, .trover cs xzy, j., & v crj woman buildeth her house." Woman a mere adjmet to man, an appendix to the masculine volume, an appendage, a sort of afterthought, something thrown in to make things even?that is the heresy entertained and implied by some men. This is evident to them because Adam was first created and then Eve. They don't read the whole story, or they would find that the porpoise and the boar and the hawk were created before Adam, so that his argument, drawn from priority of creation, might prove that the sheep and the_dog were great er than man. No. Woman was an i independent creation ana was intended, if she chose, to live alone, to work alone, act alone, think alone and fight her battles alone. The Bible says it is not good for man to be alone, but never says it is not good for woman to be alone, and the simple fact is that ' many women who are harnessed for life in the marriage relation would be a thousandfold better off if tney were alone Who are these men who year after year hang around hotels ana engine houses and theater doors, and come io and out to bother busy clerks and " ' * ' ^ - x t_ Eercnanis ana meenamcs, uoxng numing, when there is plenty to do? They are men supported by their wives and mothers. If the statistics of any of our cities could be taken on this subject, you would find that a vast multitude of women not only support themselves, but masculines. A great legion of men amount to nothing, and a woman by marriage manacled to one of these nonenities needs condolence. A woman standing outside the momiam ' olo+inn ic cottamI thousand times better off than a woman badly married. Many a bride instwad of a wreath of orange blossoms might more properly wear a bunch of nettles and nightshade, and instead of the wedding march a more appropriate tune would be the dead march in "Saul," and instead of a banquet of confectionery and ices there might be more appropriately spread a table covered with apples of Sodom. Many an attractive woman of good sound sense in other things has married one of these men to reform him. What was the result? Like when a dove, noticing that a vulture was rapacious and cruel, set about to reform it, and said, 4'I have a mild disposition and I like peace and was brought up in the quiet of a dovecot, and I will bring the vulture to the same liking by marrying him." So one day after the vulture declared he would give up his carnivorous habits and cease longing for blocd of flock and herd, at an altar of rock covered with moss and lichen, the twain were married, a bald headed eagle officiating, the vulture saying, "With ail my dominion of earth and sky I thee endow and promise to love and cherisii till death do us part" But one day the dove in her fright saw the vulture busy at a carcass and cried: "Stop that I Did you not promise me that you would quit your carnivorous and filthy habits if lmaeried youV "Yes," said the vulture, "but & you don't juus.8 my way you can leave* auu with, one angry stroke of the beak and another fierce clutch, of the claw _ the vulture left the dove eyeless and wingless and lifeless. And a flock of robbins flying past cried to each other and said: "See there! That comes from a dove marrying a culture to reform him!" Many a woman who has had the hand of a young inebriate offered, but declined it, or who was asked to chain her life to a man selfish or of bad temper and refused the shackles, will bless God throughout all eternity that she escaped that earthly pandemonium. . Besides all this, in our country about 1,000,000 men were sacrificed in our civil war, and that decreed 1,000,000 women to celibacy. Besides that, since the war several armies of men as large as the Federal and Confederate armies put together have fallen under malt liquors and distilled spirits. so full of poisoned .ingredients that the work was done more rapidly, and the victims' fell while yet young. And if 50,000 men are destroyed every year by strong drink before marriage that makes inthe 33 years since the war 1,650,00(5^men slain and decrees 1,650,000 women to celibacy. Take, then, the fact that so many women are unhappy in their marriage, and the fact that the slaughter of 2,550,000 men by war and rum combined decides that at least that number of women shall be unaffianced for life, my text comes in with a cheer and a potency and appropriateness that you may never have seen in it before when it says, "Every wise woman buildeth her house"?that is, let woman be her own architect, lfcy out her AWT) r*7QY?C Ka Vir\rrrn cnnn*T7i"A? VTTM VT7U V WVi) achieve her own destiny. In addressing those women who have to fight the battle alone, I congratulate you on your happy escape. Rejoice forever that you will not have to navigate the faults of the other sex when you have faults enough of your own. Think of the bereavements you avoid, of the risks of unassimilated temper which you will not have to run, of the cares you will never have to carry and of the opportunity of outside usefulness from which marital life would have partially debarred you, and th?t you are free to go and come as one who has the responsibilities of a household can seldom be. God has not given jou a hard lot as compared with your sisters. When young women snail ma!ie up their minds at the start that masculine companionship is not a necessity in order to happiness, and that there"is a strong probaoility that they will have to fight the bat'de of life alone, they will be getting' the timber ready for their own fortune and their saw and ax and plane sharpened for its construction, since "every wise woman buildeth her house." As no boy ought to be brought up without learning some business at which he could earn a livelihood, so no girl ought to be brought up without learning the science of self support. The difficulty is that many a family goes sailing on the high tides of success and the husband ana father depends on his own health and acu men ior me wenare 01 ins souse nolo. But one day he gets his feet wet, and in three days pneumonia has closed his life, and the daughters are turned on a cold world to earn bread, and there is nothing practical that they can do. The friends come in and hold consultation- "Give music lessons," says an outsider. Yes, that is a useful calling, and if you have great genius for it go on in that direction. But there are enougn music teachers now starving to death in ail our towns and cities to occupy all the piano stools jmd sofas and chairs and front door - - steps of the city. Besides that, the daughter has been playing only for amusement and is only at the foot of the ladder, to the top of which a great multitude of masters on piano and harn and flute and organ have climb ed. " "Put the bereft daughters as saleswomen in the stores," says another adyiser. But there they must compete with salesmen of long experience or with men who have served and apprenticeship in commerce and who began as shopboys at 10 years of age. Some kind hearted dry goods man, having known the fatfier, now gone, says, "We are not in need of any more help just now, but send your daught| ers to my store and I will do sis well by j them as possible." Very soon the ! question comes up. Why do not the female employees of that establishment get as much wages as the male employees ? For the simple reason in ! many cases the females were suddenly flunjj by misfortune behind that counter, while the males have from the day-they left the public school been learning the business. How is this evil to be cured? Start clear back in the homestead and teach vmir daughters that life is an earnest thing, and that there is a possibility, if not a strong probability, that they will have to fight the battle of life alone. Let every father and mother say to their daughters, "Now, what would you do for a livelihood if what I now own were swept away by financial disaster or old age or death should end my career?" "Well, I could paint on pottery and do such decorative work." Yes, that is beautiful, and if you have genius for it go on in that direction. But there are enough busy at that now to make ai'neof hardware as loDg as yon Pennsylvania avenue. "Well, l couia maxe recusuuiis m public and earn my living as a drama tist; I could render 'King Lear' or 'Macbeth' till your hair would rise on end. or give you 'Sheridan's Bide' or Dickens' 'Pickwick.'" Yes, that is a beautiful art, but ever and anon, as now, there is an epidemic of dramatization that makes hundreds of households nervous with the cries and shrieks and groans of young tragedinnes dying in the fifth act, and the trouble is that while your friends would like to hear you and really think that you could surpass Ristori and Charlotte Cushman and Fanny Kemble of the past, to say nothing of the present, you could not, in the way of living, in ten years earn 10 cents. My advice to all girls and all unmarried women, whether in affluent homes or in homes where most streng[ ont A/?rmr.mif?c arft crindinj*. is to learn to do some kind of work that the world ! must have while the world stands. I ! am glad to see a marvelous change for the better and that women have | found out that there are hundreds of practical things that a woman can do for a living if she begins soon enough and that men have beeu compelled to admit it. You and I can remember | when the majority of occupations were I thought inappropriate for women, but our civil war came, and the hosts of men went forth from north and south, I and io conduct the business of cur cities during the patriotic absence women were demanded by the tens of thousand to take the vacmt places, and multitudes of women, who had been hitherto supported by fathers and brothers and sons, were compelled from that time to take care of themselves. From that time a mighty changa took place favorable to female employment. Among the occupations appropriate for woman I place the following, into many of which she has already entered and all the others she will enter; Stenography, and you may find her at nearly all the reportorial stands in our educational, political and religious meetings. Savings banks, the work clean and honorable, and who so great a right to toil there,''for a woman founded the first savings bankMrs. Priscilla "Wakefield? Copyists, and there is hardly a professional man that does not need the service of ! AVI/1 A? AWlAnil ATtOie hul ?TCLiujau.aiii^, .auu ao amauuduoiQ many of the greatest books of our day have been dictated for her writing. There they are as florists and confectioners and music teachers and bookkeepers, for which they are specially qualified by patience and accuracy, and wocd engraving, in which the Cooper institute has turned out so many qualified, and telegraphy, for which, sue is specially prepared, as thousands of the telegraphic offices will testify. Photography, and in nearly all our establishments they may be found there at cheerful work. As workers in ivory and gutta percha and gum elastic and tortoise shell and gilding, and in chemicals, in procelain, in terra cotta. As postmistresses, aad presidents have given them appointments all over the land. As proofreaders, as translators, as modelers, as designers, as- draftswomen, as lithographers, as teachers in schools ana seminaries, for which they are .espscially endowed, the first teacher of every child by divine arrangement being a woman. As physicians, having graduated after a regular course of study from the female colleges of our large cities, where they get as scientific and thorough prepara tion as any doctors ever had and go forth to a work which no one but wo men could so appropriately and delicately do. On the lecturing platform, for you know the brilliant success of Mrs. Livermore and Mrs. Hallowell and Miss Willard and Mrs. Lathrop. As physiological lecturers to their own sex, for which service J tnere is a demand appalling and terrific. As preachers of the gospel, and all the protests of ecclesiastical courts cannot hinder there, for they have a pathos and a power in their religious utterances that men can never reach. Witness all those who have heard their mother pray. Ob, young women of America, as many of you will have to fight your own battles alone, do not wait until you are fl.ung of disaster and your father is dead and all the resources of your family have been scattered, but now, while in a good house and en vironed by all prosperities, learn how to do some kind of work that the world must have as long as the world stands. Turn your attention from the embroidery of fine slippers, of which there is a surplus, and make a useful shoe. Expend the time in which you adorn a c:gar case in learning how to make a good, honest loaf of bread. Turn your attention from the making of iiimsy nothings to the manufacturing of important somethings. Much of the time spent in young ladies' seminaries in studying what are called the "higher branches" might better be expended in teaching there, something by which they could support themselves. If you are going to be teachers, or if you have so much afsured wealth that you can always dwell in those high regions, trigonometry of course, metaphysics of course, "T* ^Lnonlr O r"? / } An rtnX JuaLLLL anu l coa axxu. ujlall auu French and Italian of course, and a hundred other things of course, but Li you are not expecting to teach, anci your wealth is not established beyond misfortune, after you have learned the ordinary branches take hold of that kind of study that will pay in dollars and cents in case you ar4 thrown on your own resources. Learn to do something better than anybody else. "No, no I" says some yocmg woman. J "I will not undertake anything so unromantic and commonplace as that." An excellent author writes that after he had, in a book, argued for efficiency in womanly work in order to success, and positive apprenticeship by way of preparation, a prominent chemist advertised that he would teach a class of women to become druggists and apothecaries if they would through an apprenticeship as men do, and a printer advertised that he would : take a class of women to learn the printer's trade if they would go through an apprenticeship as men do, and how many, according to the account of the author, do ycu suppose applied to become skilled in the druggist business and piinting business? VAI Ana ! i.1 Uk Vuv * "Bat," you ask, "what would my father and mother say if they saw I was doing such unfashionable work V Throw the whole responsibility upon us, the pastors, who are constantly t earing of young women in all these cities who, unqualified by their previous luxurious surroundings for the awful struggle of life into which they have been suddenly hurled, seemed to have nothing left them but a choice l>etween starvation and damnation, "here they go along the street 7 o'clock in the wintry mornings through the slush and storm to the place where they shall earn only half enough for subsistance, the daughters of once prosperous merchants, lawyers, clergymen, artists, bankers and capital ists, who brought up their children under the infernal delusion that it was not high tone for women to learn a profitable calling. Young women, take this affair in your own hand and let there be an insurrection in all prosperous families on the part of the daughters of this day, demanding knowledge in occupations and styles of business by which they may be their own defense and their own support if all fatherly and husbandly and brotherly hands forever fail them. I have seen two sad sights, the one a woman in all the glory of her young life, stricken by disease, and in a week lifeless in a home of which she had been the pride. As her hands were folded over the still heart and her eyes closed for the last slumber and she was laken out amid the lamenta? - J?J -_j ? j.T lions 01 Kinureu auu lneum j. muugun that was a sadness immeasurable. But I have seen something compared with which that scene was bright and songful. It was a young woman who had been all her days amid wealthy surroundings by the visit of death and bankruptcy to the household turned out on a cold world without one less an about how to get food or shelter and into the awful whirlpool of city life, where strong ships have gone down, and for 20 years not one word has been heard from her. Vessels went out on the Atlantic ocean looking for a shipwrecked craft that was left alone and forsaken on the sea a few weeks before with the idea of bringing it j _a 4. t">.?i. t ?un11 i inio port. .Dm wuu siitm ever vuug again into the harbor of peace and hope and heaven that lost womanly immortal, driven in what tempest, aflame in what conflagration, sinking into what abyss? 0 God, help! 0 Christ, rescue! My sisters, give not your time to learning fancy work which the world may dispense with in hard times, but connect your skill with the indispensables of life. The world will always want something to wear and something to eat, and shelter and fuel for the body, and knowledge for the mind and religion for the soul. And all these things will continue to be the necessaries,and if you fasten your energies upon occupations and professions thus related, the world will be unable to do without you. Remember, that in proportion as you are skillful in anything your rivalries become less. For unskilled toil there are women by the millions. But you may rise to where there are only thousands, and still higher till there are only 100, and still higher till ihere are only 10, and still higher, in some particular department till there is only a unit, and that yourcoif "P/m" arxrtiila -rrmi mar Itpat* wqotas and a place through the kindly sympathy of an employer, but you will eventually get no more compensation than you can make yourself worth. Let me say to all women who have already entered upon the battle of life that the time is coming when woman shall not only get as much salary and wages as men get, bat for certain styles of employment women will hav6 higher salary and more wages, for the reason that for some styles of work they have more adaption. But this justice will c:me to woman not through any sentiment of gallantry, not because woman is physically weaker J nan man, ana tnereiore ougnt to have more consideration shown her, but because through her finer natural taste and more grace of manner and quicker perception and more delicate touch and more educated adroitness she wil], in certain callings, be to her employer worth 10 per cent more or 20 per csnt more than the other sex. She will not get it by asking for it, but by earning it, and it shall be hers by lawful conquest. Now, men of America, be fair and give the women a chance. Are you afraid that they will do some of your work and hence harm your prosperities? Remember that there are scores nf thousands nf mpn f^ninc wompn's work. Do not be afraid. God knows the end from the beginning, and he knows how many p 30 pie this world can feed and shelter, and when it gets too full he will end the world, and if need be start another. Gad will ha t the inventive faculty, which by pro ducing a machine that will do the work of 10 or 20 or 100 men and women, will leave that number of people without work. I hope that there will not be invented another sewing machine, or reaping machine, or corn thrasher, or any other new machine for the next 500 years. We want no more wooden hands and iron hands and steel hands and electric hands substituted for men and women who would work and get the pay and earn the livelihood. But God will arrange all, and all we have to do is to do our best and trust 1 him for the rest. L^t me cheer all women fighting the battle of life alone with the fact of thousands of women who have won the day. Mary Lyon, founder of Mount Holyoke Female seminary, fought the battle; Adelaide Newton, the tract distributor, alone; Fidelia Fisk, the consecrated missionary, alone; Dorothea Dix, the anf.el of the insane asylums, alone; Caroline Herschel, the indispensable reenforcement of her brother, alone; Ma ria Takerzwska, the heroine of the Berlin hosDital. alone: Helen Chal mers, patron of the sewing school for i the poor of Edinburgh, alone. And : thousands and tens of thousands of i women, of whose bravery and self : sacrifice and glory of charatcer the world has made no record, but whose deeds are in the heavenly archieves of martyrs who fou?ht the battle alone, and though unrecognized for the short 30 or 50 or 80 years of their earthly existence shall tlrraghthequintillion ages of the higher world be pointed out with the admiring cry, "These are they who came out of great tribulation and had their robes washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb." T af rr> a ft r<* r? //%? +U a av* amiwa ma j-jjt* luv aiou z>ckj , in/a. iiuc c jllv^u li t ct ^ c ' ment of all women fighting the battle of life alone, that their coiifiict will soon end. There is one word written over the faces of many of them., and , that word is despair. My sister, you neid appeal to Christ, who comforted the sisters of Bethany in their domestic trouble, and who in his last hours forgot all the pangs of his own hands and feet and bear: ss he looked into the face of maternal anguish and call fd a friend's attention to it. in sub stance saying: "John, i cannot ta&e care of her any locger. Do for her as I would have doc 3 if I had lived. Behold thy mother 1" If, under the pres sure of unrewarded work, ycur hair is whitening and the wrinkles c^me, rejlice that you are nearing the hour of escape from ycur very last fatigue, and may your departure be as pleasant as that of Isabella Graham, who closed her lifp with a smile and the word "peace." The daughter of a regiment in any army is all surrounded by bayonets of defense, and in the battle, whce?er falls, she is kept safe. And you are the daughter oF tho regiment commanded by the Lord of Hosts. After all ? " **A v?/\^ flAVfiw/* f UA r\4 life j u CLL C i*UL IUU uAbbxc \yx mv. alone. All heaven is on your side. You will be wise to appropriate to yourself the words of sacred rhythm: One who has known in storms to sail I have on board. Above the roaring of the gale I hear my Lord. He holds me. When the billows smite I shall not fall. If short, 'tis sharp; if long, 'tis light. He tempers all. T&ey Evidently 2Xean Business. At a recent meeting of the cotton growers of Marlboro County an organization was formed for the purpose of fighting the cotton seed oil trust. /A11 ANVIMM Vk-T* lftmn WAfl AilAW^A/1 JLLie luiiuwiu^ uj mrya vym auuptcu for the government of the association: 1. That this organization shall b9 known as Marlboro Cotton Growers' Protective Association. 2. The membership shall consist of ten or more delegates from Township Associations, which are to be organized by such committees as shall be appointed by the President of this Ass ?ciation. 3. That the officers of this Associa tion shall be a President, Vice President and a Secretary, to be elected annually on the 3d Tuesday in December in each year. 4. Its purpose is to devise means of reducing the acreage and increasing the price of cottoD, and the correction of the evils of speculation and others that oppress the producer. 5. That this Association shall be a part of and shall act in concert with the National Cotton Grower's Association. 6. That meetings shall be held on the 31 Tuesdays in January, February, March, August and September, in addition to the regular annual meeting on 3d Tuesday in December, and at such other times as may be called by the President. The following preamble and resolution was adopted: Whereas, the late Cotton Growers' Convention declared againstrall trusts and combines, and whereas the cotton oil companies have organized a Trust on cotton seed and meal, fixing prices on both withcui regard to our inter- | ests, and whereas these articles came at once into the legitimate domain of our revenue from cotton growing, and the control of their prices is undemoA An AMMAftA J A i V\ DMA crauc as uppu^cu tu x rco lrauc, merefore be it Resolved, That as the bulk of seed has already pased from our hands at ruinous prices, we deem it advisable not to pay more than $15 per ton for meal delivered. Says !: is Chicken Pox. Oa the invitation of the local board of health of Orangeburg Dr. Jas. L Beckett, of Summerville, S. C., examined the cases of eruptive fever at the Colored Normal College, and pronounces them chicken pox. Here is what hfl savs: Orangeburg, S. C., Jan. 14, 1898. I certify that the cases of eruptive fever examined by me at the Colored Mechanical College are typical cases of varicella or chicken pox. My conclusions are ba'.ed on the following symptoms: The eruptions in the eight cases examined ara of successive stages of development; in those pus tules where desquamation has taken place the scars left in the skin, are destitute of that peculiar hardness, kernel like, or tubercular elevation which is a distinctive characteristic of smallpox. In smallpox the scab falls off in one solid piece; ihcsa scabs examined are coming off in jciiesor flakes, the eruption in these cases be ing superficial, in the cellular tissue, olengated, or globate in spots; whereas, smallpox pustules are deep seated with hard unyielding bases, which nodular or tubercular feeling remains a considerable time after the patient is up and attending to his duties. The papulae of smallpox are hard, resisting and movable; in the cases referred to eruptions are soft, jiald under the touch and entirely destitute of the tubercular hardness. In the negro after desquamation the eruption, without a single exception, always leaves a circumscribed white spot on the surface. In the case of Student Hicks, who is entirely recovered the marks of the eruption are a shade darker; therefore, in my judgment, these cases examin- ' ed are chickenpox of an aggravated type. James L Beckett, M. D. " It is said that Dr. Beckett is autbori- j ty in such matters, and that he has at j tended hundreds of cases at various < iiiviAn 1 AmQM vf rif ViQfofa LIUJCa 1XX lug XKJ n Ui, ^aii< vi kjua} and is therefore competent to pass an : opinion. i A FJOi'd L">glc. la the same column a certain organ : tells the workiogman that if he votes for Bryan he will vote 47 per cent- of his wages into the pockets of mine ( owners, and that he will vote to de- 1 predate not only the silver dollar but , all the currency to 53 cents on the dol- ' lar. How can free silver coinage put 47 per cent, of each dollar coint d into ] the pccket of the silver miner and at the same time reduce the value of the ] silver dollar and all the currency de- j nun/-?onf nrinr> if tn tho TTfllnp rf * - ? ? ~ ? cents? Any schoolboy can figure out that if the value of the silver dollar depre- I cia.tes to 53 cents or anything less than 1 its faca value the miner cannot make ^ 47 cents by its free coinage at the mints. Or, to put it the other way, if the miner makes 47 cents, the value , of the silver dollar will have to be t raised to the value of the present gold * dollar, in which cas9 there will be no depreciatiDn of the currency. The ] gold standard advocate can take his i choice of alternatives, but not both. This is a fair sample of the kind of ] logic with which the goldite agents ] are flooding the country. It proceeds ] on the assumption that the workiDg- 1 men are fcols. < ] jduixoii'a Iodoform Liniment is the "nee plu } ultra" of all such preparations in re- v moving soreness, and quickly healing i fresh cuts and wounds, no matter how < bad. It will promptly heal old sores of long standing. Will kill the pois- j on from "'Poison Ivy" or "Poison Oak" and cure "Dew Poison." 'Will ] counteract the poison from" bites of ] snakes and stings of insects. It is a 1 guru uurc lur sure luxvau vv in curc a ay case of sore mouth, and is a supe- I rior remedy for all pains and aches. Sold by druggists and dealers 25 cents 1 a bottle. 1 ^gagai aaai WHAT THE DEFICIT IS. A STUDY ON RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES. Tfce Figures In the Problem of Howj South Carolina Sands Willi the World and Herself-An Interesting Statement-. There are few things more interesting to the citizens of this State during these times than their income. One of these few things is their outgo. A constant quantity entering into the calculations of the outgo is the taxes. What the State has collected fron? her citiz ins is studied clcsely by the payers. They may have value received for their money, but they seek for cheaper protection and care as they seek cheaper shoes and cheaper plows. The total receipts of the State has been $2,253,076.06; the total expendi<J9 io*? izc Arr LUl^O ?%J>J "34 , These amounts contain items that do not belone to funds available for use of the State Government, and therefore cannot really be called receipts and expenditures as we are discussing th^m. These are: RECEIPTS. State dispensary ?1.117,000 34 State dispensary school 50,000 00 Sinking fund commission 2'J,064 68 Sinking fund for reduction.... 120,778 50 Morrill fund 23,000 00 Downer fund 245 57 Privilege tax on fertilizers 59,352 23 Direct tax fund 4,431 30 Permanent State school fund.. 703 31 Phosphate royalty 40:700 25 Clemson college bequest 0 44 Total receipts $1,451,285 72 EXPENDITURES. flomcrtn orn* for PiO Pi DO OO * I y vvj^v- ? ? Sinking fund commission 3,648 GO Sinking fund for reduction 39,032 09 Morrill fund 23,010 G1 Permanent State school fund.... 9G7 28 State dispensary -1,132,070 24 Direct tax fund 1,393 G9 Direct tax funl interest and penalty 529 47 Downer fund..-. , 41 41 Total expenditures ?1,201,893 39 The receipts available for u?es of the state government for 1897 are as follows: General taxes $G77,'G34 25 General fund, dispensary 88,500 40 Sale of Con titution S. C 15 72 Sale of acts 382 85 Sale o:f general stitutes 100 35 Fees secretary of state 3.831 30 Fees incorporation of towns 200 00 Fees annual insurance license... 11,200 00 Fees additional 5,040 82 Fees governor's office ... 5 00 Refunds?Olemson college 10,000 00 Refunds?Stationery 05 75 Refunds?Pensions 1,953 90 Refund?State A. & I. soc., - 2,400 00 Docket fees attorney general GO 00 Total receipts .. 801,790 34 EXPENDITURES. Governor's office. Salary f!3,0C0 00 Private secretary 1,350 00Messenger 400 00 Conting't fund 4,051 71 Stationer/, etc 300 00 ?9,101 71 Secretary of State. Salarv SI.900 00 Clerk"!..... 71 i 3 50 00 Costing't fund 200 00 Stationery, etc 350 00 $3,800 00 Comptroller General. Salary $1,900 00 Chief clerk... 1,400 00 Bookkeeper .. 1,500 00 Pension clerk 586 09 Contingent fund 300 00 Stationery, etc 300 00 Priuting 279 77 $0,265 77 J State Treasurer. Salary ?1,900 00 Clerk 1,350 00 Bookkeeper .. 1,36000 Bookkeeper .. 1,350 00 Contingent fund 171 33 Stationery and itampa 177 15 ?G,418 48 Superintendent Education. Salary $1,900 00 Clerk 900 00 Contingent fund 74 71 Stationery, etc 142 79 Printing * 495 75 Traveling expenses... 300 00 Board examiners 265 80 ?4,079 05 Attorney General. Salary ?1,900 00 Assistant 1,35000 Contingent fund 150 00 Stationary, etc 75 00 Expenses 87G 87 ?1,351 87 Adjutant and Inspector General. Salary $1,200 00 Clerk 900 00 Armorer 400 00 Contingent fund 150 00 Stationery 200 00 Inspection 500 00 53,350 00 Slate Librarian. Salary $ SOO 00 Contingent fund 125 00 Stationery, etc 225 00 Books 63 00 $1,203 00 State House Commission, 2 Watchmen $ 80000 Janitor 116 IT Engineer 650 CO 2 Firemen 350 00 Contingent 100 00 Lighting ground 2,877 30 Lighting basement 147 54 Fuel 900 00 Repairs, house 710 G4 Repairs, basement 49 86 $0,732 01 Judicial Department. Chief justice 5 4,000 00 3 associate justices 9,?00 00 8 circuit judges 20,703 82 5 circuit solicitors 11,387 50 B circuit stenographers 10,000 CO State reporter 900 00 Clerk supreme court..-?-. SOOOO Librarian 80000 Messenger 200 00 Attendant 200 00 Contingent 500 CO Purchase books 500 00 Purchase reports 1,800 00 ?06,991 32 Health Department. Salary health officers Charleston, Georgetown and Lazaretta $ 2,900 00 Salary health officers Port Royal, St. Helena, keeper hospital Port Royal 1,575 00 Repairs on building St. Helena and Port Royal 050 00 Maintaining quarantine 1,000 00 Board health 2,500 00 ?8,725 00 Tax Department. salary county auditors 24,120 09 Printing books 1,575 58 Expenses settlements 500 00 $2(5,195 G7 Educational Institutions South Carolina college ? 25,000 00 Military academy 21,500 00 colored normal ana industrial college 7,996 59 institute deaf, dumb and blind... 21,450 00 (Vinthrop 35,520 00 JMiscellaneous, Penitentiary salaries 5,800 00 Sospital for the insane 110,500 00 Phosphate commission 1,939 26 Etaiiroid commission 7,400 00 Catawba Indians 800 00 [legislative expenses 51,085 18 Public printing 13,113 54 Boards registration 14,718 75 r. E. Breazale, codifier 400 00 i-dvertising notices election 77 38 Messengers of elections 1,084 20 Commissioners and managers election 43 95 Loans State Soutn Carolina, including interest 51,47917 ^ension claims 102,507 (55 tension stationary and stamps? 150 00 'ntereit on public debt including agricultural college 3tock 283,274 11 lepairs and improvements on governor's mansion S5G G4 Sxpenses paying interest, N. Y.... 77 67 Refund taxes manufacturers 043 GO Refund tasC3 treasurers 1,409 20 j "rVater for public buildiDgs in Columbia 2.000 00 j -Maintaining militia ? t>,009 UU Examining books, State treasurer's office and comptroller general's office 1396 360 00 Claims passed *. 1,775 83 Premiums for excellence state fair 2.400 00 Joint resolutions 615 55 Joint resolutions 10 657 4S Joint resolutions 11 382 03 Binding revised statues 134 09 Printing bonds and stock 1.000 00 Redemption brown consuls 281 26 Supervisor of registration salary, Nov. and Dec. 1S*j5 449 82 Confederate historian 500 00 Confederate Rolls 313 20 Confederate Rolls 1896 202 S4 $331,263 OS The grand total of all receipts of the - avs4- * * oro afe r\c i toiaic Aujuuui LU ^joyiv uu, anu IUC cash balance all funds Janury 1,1897, $377,39" 50; total $2,630,468 56 The total amount of expenditures 12,193,156 47; cash instate treasury, according to comptroller general's books, $407,312 03; total, $2,630,468 56 The comptroller's warrants outstanding?not yet received by the treasurer's office for payment?amount 10 $2 10630. This amount added to the cash on hand given above, is the cash in the treasurer's hards 439 418 39. Now to strip down the mattei to an intelligible basis. The cash on hand, availlable fcr uss for the expenditures of 1897 was not $377,392 50; that in eludes other funds not available lor use such as sinking fund money, etc. We have the following funds, available for use in 1897. Cash on hand $261,101 77. , Receipts available...... 801,790 34 ' Total $1,062 89211 . Expenditures from this. 931,263 08 Apparent balance...;.... 131,620 03 Thi3 apparent balance is still not correct. The item of collected tsxss general fund in the receipts include $285,33121 of taxes of 1897. This amount forms part of the funds to be appropriated by the present general assem bly. It was taken from the in conjii.g year to fill up a deficit in the outgoing. I Subtracting the apparent balance $131,629-03 from the unauthorized expenditure of $285,13131, you ascertain that the State's deficit has been $153,50218. . TAXES OF COUNTIES. % WHAT THE FEOPLE MUST PAY THIS YEAR. | EgUmatfd Expenses Of the Co mmli a loner* of the Various Counties of tJi* State ( for the Present fiscal Yew. It' will be a matter of great interest to taxpayers to know what they may be expected to pay into the general : coffer. The following are the esti mates of county expenses as furnished the comptroller general by the boards i of commissioners of the various coun ties of tlie state for the ensuing fiscal year: Abbeville, ordinary county purposes three mills; for past indebtedness, i. -T 'tal, three and one half mills. Aiken county, ordinary county purposes, three mills; for past indebtedness, one half. Total, three and a half mills. Anderson county, ordinary county purpDses, three mills; for past indebtedness, one mill. Total, four mills. Bamburg county, ordinary county purposes, three mills. Charleston county, total expenditures: estimated at $52 660,000. No estimate is given as to the rate. Cherokee county, ordinary county purposes, three mills; road tax, one mill;; indebtedness, Draytonsville and G-owdeysville, one mill; indebtedness, Limestone, White Plains, Cherokee, Nos. 1 and 2, one-half mill; interest on railroad bonds, for Draytonsville and Gowdeysville, two mills; sinking fund railroad bonds one and three-quarter ' mills; interest on railroad bonds, one ' and a quart r mills; sinking fund rail road bonds for Limestone, White Plains and Cherokee, one mill; interest on railroad bonds. Cherokee No. 1, two mills; for Spartanburg jaiJ, etc., : rtrro bd!f mill < Chester county, ordinary county pur- ; poses, five mills; interest railroad j bonds, five-sixths of a mill; indebted- , ness, one and ODe sixth mills. Chesterfield county, ordinary coun- 1 ty purposes, seven miils; interest rail- ] road bonds, one-fourth mill; indebtedness, one and three quarter mills. , Total, nine mills. * Clarendon county, for ordinary J county purposes, four and a half mills. ? DarliDgton county, for ordinary j county purposes three mills; special i road tax, one half mill; for robuilding j court house (if we are allowed to re- < build); one mill. ; Dorchester county, for ordinary ] county Dumoses, three mills; for inter- ] est on bonds, one half mill; indebted j ness, two and a half mills. Total, six < mills. 1 Edgefield county, for county purposes, five mills; past indebtedness, one and a quarter mills. Total, six and a quarter mills. Fairfield county, for ordinary coun ty four mills; indebtedness, one mill. Total, five mills. Florence county, for county pur poses, four and a quarter mills; indebtedness, one-half mill. Total, four and three quarter mills. Georgetown county, ordinary county, six mills; indebtedness two mills. Total, eight mills. Greenwood county, ordinary county, two and three quarter mills; indebtedness, one mill. Total, three and tbree quarter mills Hampton county, ordinary county, J five mills. Horry county, ordinary county, five and a quarter mills; ia the xownships of Conway, Bajb^ro, Green Sea, Simpson Creek, four mills to pay interest on railroad bonds and balance to found a-sinking fund for the re^ 1: / 1 aempnuu ui uuuua. Kershaw county, ordinary county, four mills; interest on railroad bonds, two aid a half mills. Lancaster county, ordinary county, five and three quarter mills; interest on railroad bonds, L. and C. railroad, three mills; Pleasant Hill townshio, * for interest on railroad bonds (0 R. and C. R R), three mills; Grill's Creek township, interest on railroad bonds, \ (0. R. and C. R. R), four and threefourth mills. Lexington county, fcr ordinary pur ( poses, three mills; for past indebted * ness, half a mill. Total, three and a ' 1?It ?-1"Ditto* onH Sa 1T1 ft unit uiiua, uiuau Uiiii -vl township interest on railroad bor.d3, two and one quarter mills; retiring railroads bonds, one mill; attorneys' v fees, ,one and a quarter miils. Total, t four and one-half mills- Fork town- J ship, interest on railroad bond?, two miils; retiring railroad bonds, one ? mill; attcnsys' fees, ore and one fourth mills. Total, four and onefourth mills. Marion county, ordinary county pur- ], poses, three and three fourth miils; ti nflst indebtedness, one mill. Total, four and threa fourth mill?. Newberry county, ordinary county, three mills; interest on railroad bond?, three-eighths of a mill; past indebtecness, five eighths of a mill. d Orangeburg county, total $17,000. It is also said by the county supervisor i y that the courts can be run cm coLiair-j gent fusds if disoecsary is not too ? badly crippled- The board asks for a i levy of two and one half mills for oi- j dinary expenses ard one hair mill for J past indebtedness. Ocoiifes county, ordinary, three and j toree fourth mills; ToriQtertst on railroad bonds, o*e mill; for sic king fund, | one mill; new jail, one half mill; for past indebtedness one half mill. Total. seven a"ad one half mills. Union county, ordinary, four mills; interest on railroad bonds, two and a quarter mills; sinsing fund, two mills; roads, one mill; past indebtedness*, onefourth miU. Total, nice and one half mills. Williamsburg .county, ordinary, four and three-fourth mills. York county, ordinary, three and one half mills; interest on retiring railrcd bonds, one mill; for past in debteudess, one half mill. Total, five mills. Tee county commissioners of York county also recommend that a special levy be made in the following townships in said county to pay the interest on the bonds issued by the said townships in aid of the C. C. and C. R. R. to wit: In Catawba township, a special levy of three mills on the dollar. T . TV A _ i ^ xn jiioentzsr lownsirp, a . special levy of two mili3 on the dollar. In York township, a special levy of five mills on the dollar to pay the interest on the York township bonds, and the balance of the B. P. Dickinson judgment against said township. >*twbo!d Goes Free. Thursday at Spartanburg ex-Constable W. H. Newbold was acquitted of the murder ol Mr. J, H. Turner. This casa has created state interest on account of the many complications that have arisen in it from time to time and several sensational incidents that have been connected with it. Foard Dead In a Bath Tab. A bill boy at the Hurford House Canton, 0., found the dead bsdy of a man ia a bath tub filled with water, Thursday night. The remains were recognized as baicg those of Luther Hough, a traveling salesman for a gentleman's furnishing goods bouse. He registered from Jamestown, N. J. A woman never really knows the meaning of happiness and content until she is the mother of a healthy, happy child. The health of the child depends on the health of the mother, both before and after birth. Most all of woman's weakness and particularly i the weakness that most strongly infla ences the health of children, comes from some derangement or disease of the distinctly feminine organs. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription will cure troubles of this nature. It should hft taken Tfipularlv bv e-rerv waman during the entire period of gestation. It gives strength to all the organs involved, lessens the pain of childbirth and insures the health of both mother and child. Send 21 one cent stamps to ccvcr cost of mailing only, and receive free a copy of Dr. Pierces Medical Adviser. Address, World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. Many a man r who would be * 7Mh^l& starticdatthe >5? v iv IJJ ! bare thought ?71? %Mo{ sitting | I?frjg?d o wn and systematic IffiSgy" " tsiS ally poisoned = dav after day ^ accumu*-a" we^PlfSl \m& When the liver fails to SpiSaS &? 5o its regular work of filterw ir.g this bilious poison out of the circulation, it goes on ' poisoning the entire constitu- , / tion just as surely as if a man ' was drinking prussic acid. I Every part of the body is polluted. The digestive juices are suppressed and weak- I ened. The kidneys and skin are clogged with impurities and the lungs and bronchial tubes overloaded with morbid secretion | which eat away the delicate tissue, and bring about bronchitis and consumption. 1 All the diseases caused by this subtle pro- | cess of bilious poisoning are cured by the. marvelous alterative action of Dr. Pierce's I Golden Medical Discovery. 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I wrote him and received an answer stating that my suffering was from indigestion ind torpid liver, and advising me to take Dr. I Pierce's* Golden Medical Discovery. The first j mottle gave pleasing results. I have taken four J sottles of the 'Golden Medical Discovery' and , !hree small vials of the ' Pleasant Pellets.' I am j ible to do my work and eat what I could not ' ' before I took'these medicines." /HILTON'S mm, I I*E FOB THS LtVS? AND HI / I KIDNEYS, as its nam3imparts, I j is a stlmilator and regulator .to Bfl I > these organs. Is t be best after I j maals medicine to aid digestion HI I' Prevents Headaches. CaresWl jj Bdlioasne^s' Acts on tbe Kid-HEfj ' n?ys.within Thirty minutei after I j taking, relieving acbes in themElj back from disorder cf tbes eor-III j gans. Relieves alJ stomazhBglj T? entirely vegetable, U| 2M, :o; a?t??0?aUr^iiVi>7 T4" If a4"S^SScoT????'8' I | "'^ E wi, Ctaileton. I Sold by dealers generally and by i TBE MORRAY DRUG CO., . COLUMBIA, 3. C. 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