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'rK TRAPS FOR Tflfi UNWARY \\ } REV. DR. TALMAQE SAYS THEY ARE t ; ALLURING A3 HONEY. * L Honejbse and its VTork Xcxnp^ation that J Is Deliclcua and At;raciiv^, Eat 2!o3t ! i Damagics and Destructive?Ambroal* ^ < Sector for Soul. ] Rev. Dr. Talmage here starts -with 1 an oriental scene, from which he ( draws practical lessons as to the al 1 lurements which entrap the unwary, j and the disccurse will pat many on their guard, Tde text is I Samuel xiv, j 43, "I d:d but taste a little nonev -^ith { the end of the rod that was ia my ' hand, and, io, I must die." The honeybee is a mcst ingenious 1 architect, a Coristopher Wren among ! insects, gtometer drawing hexagons ana pentagons, a freebooter robbing ' the fields of pollen an'i aroma, won drous creature of God whose biogra r\V>tr Ktt TT:ihf?r and Swam 1 -v - I inerdam, is an enchantment for any lover of nature. Virti; celebrated the 1 bee in his fable of Aria re and Moses and Samuel and Dav d sxid Solomon and Jercmian. aid Ez^aiel and St. John used the delicacies of bee manufacture ss a Bible sjmboL A miracle of formation is the cte. Five eyes, two tongues,the outer having a sheath of protection, hairs on ail sides of its tiny bedy to Drusii up the particles of flowers, us flight io straight that ail the world knows of the bee line. The honeycomb is a palace such as no cne but God could plan and tee honeybte construct; its ceils scmeiimts a dormitory and sometimes a storehouse and sometimes a cemetery. These winged toilers firs!. mal?e eight strips of wax and by their antenx ce. which are to them iammer and cmsel and square and plumb line, fashion them for use. Two and two these worker* shape the wali. If an accident nap pens, they put up buttresses of extra beams to remedy the damage. When about the year 1776 an insect before unknown in the nighttime at tacked the beehives all over Europe and the men who owned them were in vain trying to plan something to keep out the invader that was the terror of the beehives of th? continent, it was found thai everywhere the bees had arranged for their own protection and buiit belore their honeycombs an especial wall of wax, with portnoles through which the bees might go to ana fro, but not Jarge enough to ad mil the winged combatant, called the Sphinx azropes* Do you know that the swarming of the bees is divinely directed? The mother bee starts for a new homeland because of tnis the other bees of the hive get into an excitement which raises the heat of the hive some four degrees,and they must die unless they leave their heated apartments, ana they follow tne mother bee and alight on ine orancn 01 a tree, ana cling to each other and hold oil until a committee of two or three bees has ex plored the region and found the hoi low of a tree or rock not far cff from a stream of water, and tbev here set up a new colony and ply their aromatic industries and eive themselves to the manufacture of th.9 saccharine edible. But wno can tell the chemistry of that mixture of sweetness, part of it the very life of the bee and part of it the life of the fields ? Plenty of this luscious product was hanging in the wocds of Bttbavec during the time of Saul and Jonathan. Their army was in pursuit of an enemy that by God's command must be exterminated. The soldiery were pos itively foroidden to stop to eat anything, until the work was done. If they disooejed, they were accursed. Coming through the woods they found a place where tne bees had been busy, a great honey manufactory. Honey gathered in the hollow of the trees untii it had, overflowed upon the ground in great profusion of sweet iiess. All the army.obejed orders and touched it not save JonathaD, and he, not knowing the military order about abstinence, dipped the end of a slick he had in his Hand into the candid liquid, and as yellow and templing it glowed on the end of the stick he put it to his mouth and ate the honey. Judgment feli upon him and but for special intervention he would have been slain. In my text Jonathan ati nounces his awful mistake, "I did but _._v?- taste a little honey with the end of the red that was in my hand, and, lo, I must die." AL s, what multitudes of people in all ages have bsen damaged by forbidden honey, oy which I mean temptation, delicious "and attractive, but damaging and destructive. Corrupt literature, fascinating but deathiul. comes in this category. Where one good, honest, healthful bock is read now there is a hundred made up o: rhetorical trash consumed with avidity. When the boys on the /kO WC AA?V>A + "4-1? ?. ?-1- ?' ?--1 VMS WWUiW bUX*?U??lA V* 1 til & UliC Ui pUU* | lications, look over the titles and do i tice that nine out of tea of the books I are injurious. Ail the way-from here to Chicago or New Orleans notice that objectionable books dominate. Taste for pure literature is poisoned by this scum of the publishing house. Every book in which sin triumphs over virtue, or in which a glamour is thrown over dissipation, or which leaves you at iis l&st iiz-e with less respect for the marriage institution and less abhor ence for the paramour is a depression of jour own moral character. The bookbmdery may be attractive, and v- the plot dramatic and startling, and the style of writing sweet as the honey that Jonathan took up with his rod, but your best interests i'orbid it, your moral safety forbids it-, your God forbids it, and one taste of it may lead to such bad results thai you may have to say at the close of the experiment or at me cicse o a m:-s:inprcvea iiietime, ikI did but taste a little honey wi> the rod that was in my hand, and io, I must die." Corrupt literature is doing more to day for the disruption of domestic iife than any other cause. Elopements, marital intriguts, sly correspondence, fictitious names given at postcfSci windows, eiaudestine meetings in parks, ana at ferr7 gates, ai;d in hotel parlors, and conjugal perjuries are among the ruinous rusults. "When a woman young or old gets her nead thoroughly siuifsd *ith the modem novel, she is in appalling peril. But j some one will sav. "The heroes are so adroitly knavish, ar.d the heroines so 1 bewitchingly untrue, and tne turn of < the story so exquisite, and ail the ! characiers so enrapturing, I cann^i i quit them." My brother, my sister, i you can find stx les cf litrratur^ jusi i as charming thai will elevate arid pu- i rify and ennoble and Cbristiaxiiz? < while they ple^e. The devil does not < own all the hoiiey. There is a wealth ( of; gcod books ccmiuc: forth from 1 our publishing houses that leave no excuse for the choice of that which si 1 dftbanrthrrc in hodv rmnrf surf cr.nl * Go to seme intelligent man cr worn i / an and ask for a list cf books that wiJl ] be strengthening to > cur mental ana ! moral condition. \ Life is so short and your time for 1 improvement so abbreviated that you \ cannot afford to fill up with Irasks and cinders and debris. In tie inter ! stices of business that young*man is : reading that which wili prepare him i to be a merchant prince, and that : young woman is filling her mind with : an intelligence that will j?t either \ ner xn? caier suracuvzi ui a. gwu 3 j fe: .. ;;- .- > ------ nan's home or give her an ind?p?-ii- j ience cf characler that vrill qualify ier to build her own home and mainain it in a happiness that requires no iugmentation frcm any of cur rough rsex. That young man or young: f^cman can, by the right literary 2nd noral improvement of the spare ten minutes here or there every day, rise aeac ana snouiaers m pruspsntj character ard influence above tne loungers who read nothing:, or read :hat which b^dwarfs. See all the for?sts of good American literature drippine "^ith honey. Why pick up the conejcombs that have in them the 5cry be>-s which will sting: you with sn eterral poison while ycu taste it? Doe book may for you or me decide rverythicg for this world and the oext It was a turning point with aae when in a bcokbtore in Syracuse Dne dav I picked up a book called "The Beauties of Ruskin." It was Dnly a book of extracts, but it was all pure honey, and I was rot satisfied until I purchased all his works, at Lhat time expensive beyond an easy capacity to own them, and with what delight I went through reading his "Seven Lamps of Architecture" and his ''Stones of Venice" it is impossible for me ic describe except by saying that it gave me a raoture for good books and an everlasting difgust for decrepit or immoral books tnat will last me while my life lasts. All aroui'd the cburch and the world todav there are busv hives of intelli gence occuDied by authors and authoresses from whose pea drip a distil ldtio:a whicti is the very nectar of heaven, atd why will you thrustyour rod of ibquisitiveness into the death ful saccharine of perdition? Stimulating liquids also come into the category of temptation delicious, but deathful. You say, "I cannot bear the taste of intoxicating liquor, ard how any man can like it is to me an amazement" Well, then, it is no j credit that you do not take it. Do not I brag about your total abstinence, be j cause it is not from aDy principle that you reject alcoholism, but for the rea- i son that you reject certain styles of food?you simply don't like the taste of them. But multitudes of people have a natural fondness for ail Jtinas of intoxicants. They like so n;uch that it makes them smack their lips to look at it. They are dyspeptic, and '.hey like to aid digestion; or they are annoyed by insomnia, and they take to produce sleep; or they are troubled, and they take itjto make them obliv ious; or* they feel happy, and they mus: celebrate their hilarity. Thev begin with mint julep sucked through two straws on the Long Branch piazza and end in the ditch, taking from a jag a liquid half kerosene and half whikey * They not only like it, but it is an all consuming passion of body, mind and soul, and after awhile have it they will, though one wineglass of it should cost the temporal and eternal destruction of themselves and all their families and the whole human race. They would say, "I am sorry it is going to cost me and my family and all the worl's population so very much, but here it goes to my lip?, ana now let it roll over my parched tongue and down my heated throat, the sweetest and m^t inspiring the most delicious draft that ever thriiled a human frame." To cure the habit before it comes tcTits last stages various plans were tried in olden tiaaes. This plan was recommended in the books. When a man wauted to reform, he put shot or bullets into the cup or glass of strong drink?one additional shot or bullet each day that displaced so much iiquor. Bullet after bullet added day by day, of course the liquor became less until the bullets would entirely fill up the glas3,, and there was no roor^ for the liquid, and by that time it was said tne inebriate would be cured. Whether any one ever was cured in that way I know not, but by long experiment it is found that the only way is to stop short off, ard when a man does that he needs God to help him, and there have been more cases than you can count when God has so helped the man that he left off the drink forever, and I could count a score of them, seme of them pillars in the house of God. u ..1J vjzie wuuiu suppuaw tuai. men wuuiu teke warning from some of the ominous names given to the intoxicants and stand off from the devastating influence. You have noticed, for in stance, that some of the restaurants are called The Shades, typical of the fact that it pats a man's reputation in the shade, and his morals in tbe shade, and his prosperity in the shade, and his wife and children in the shade, and his immortal destiny in the shade. Now, I find on some of the liquor signs in all our cities the words "Old Crow," mightily suggestive of the carcass and the filthy raven that swoops upon it. '"Old Crow!" Men and women without numDer slain of rum, but unburied, and this evil is pecking at thmr glazed eyes, and pecking at their destroyed manhood and womanhood, thrusting beak and claw into the mortal remains of what was once gloriously alive, out now morally dead. "Old Crow!" But, alas, how many take no warning! They make me think of Caesar on his way to assassination, fearing nothine, though his statue in the hall crashed into fragtients at his feet and a scroll containing the names of the conspirators was thrust into his hands, yet walking right on to meet the dagger that waste take his life. This infatuation of strong drink is so mighty in mjiny a man that, though his fortunes sire crashing, and his health is crashing. and his domestic interests are crashing, and we hand him a long scroll containing the names of perils that await him, he goes straight" on to physical and mental and moral assassination. In Drooortion as anv stvJe of alcoholism is pleasan fc to your taste and stimulating to your nerves and for a time delightful to all your physical and mental constitution is the peril awful Remember Jonathan and the forbiddden hcnev in the woods at Bethaven. Furthermore, the gamester's indulgence must be put in the list of temptations delicious but destructive. You who have crosjei the osean many times have noticed that always one of the best rooms has, from morning until late at night, been given up to gambling practices. I heard of me a who weat on board with enough for a European excursion who landed witfcDUt money to get their baggage up to the hotel or railroad itation. To JJ.CLLA* l^CiC xO Ck 1 ACUlJLla kAl/11 in games of hazard or the risking of sionev on possibilities. I: seems as natural for them to bet as to eat, Indeed the hunger for focd is ofien overpowered by the hunger for wagjrs. It is absurd for those of us who ^ave never felt the fascination of the *zger to speak slightingly of the ;emptation. It has skin a multitude d! intellectual and moral giants, men md women stronger than you or I. Down under its power went glorious Oliver Goldsmith, and Gibbon, the ramous historian, and Charles For :he renowned statesman, and in olden inns senators of the United States, ? . . .1 A _ i_ 1 l i. Li who usea i0 oe as reguiariy at sue gamaling house ail night as they were in Lke halls of legislation by day. Ob, the tragedies of the faro table! I know persons who began with a slight stake in a ladies' parlor and ended with the suicide's pistol at Moste Carlo. They played with the square pieees of bone with black marks oil tbem, not know- j iag that satan was playing for tbeir j bones at the same time, and was sure j to sweep all the stakes off on his side t of the table. State legislatures have i again and again sanctioned the mighty evil bypassing laws in defense of race tracks, and many young men have lost all their wage3 at such so called "meetings." Ever? man who voted for such infamous bill has on his hands and forehead the blood of these souls. But in this connection some young converts say tome: "Is it right to play cards? Is there any-harm in a game of whist or euchre?" Wfll, I know good men who play whist ard euchre and other styles of games with out any wagers I had a friend who played cards with his wife and chil dren and then at the close said, "Come, now. let us have prayers." I will not j'jdge other men's consciences, but I tell you that cards are in my mind so associated with the temporal and spiritual ruin of splendid young men that I would as soon say to my family. "Come, let us have a game of cards," as I would go into a menagerie and say, "Come, let us have a game of rattlesnakes," or into a cemetery ard sitting down by a marble slab say to the gravediggers "Come, let us have a game at skulls." Conscientious youDg ladies are silently saying, "Do you think card playing will do us any harm?" Perhaps not, but how will you feel if in the great day of eternity, when we are asked to give an account of our influence, some man should say: "I was introduced to games of chance in the year 1898 at your house, and I went on from that sport to some thing more exciting, and went on down until I lost my business, and lost my morals, and lost my soul, and these chains that you see on my wrists and feet are the chains of a gamester's doom, and I am on my way to a gambler's hell." Honey at the start, eternal catastrophe at last. D'ftmhlino' comes into the same catalogue. It must be very ex hilar aing to go into the stock market and depositing a small sum of money run the chance of taking out a fortune. Many men are doing an honest and safe business in the stock market and you are an ignoramus if you do not know that it is just as legitimate to deal in stocks as it is to deal in coffee or sugar or flour. But nearly al1 the outsiders who go there on a financial excursion lose all. The old spideis eat up the unsuspecting flies. -I had a friend who put his hand on bis hip pocket and said in subtance, "I have there the value of $250,000.His home is today penniless. What was the matter? Stock gambling. Of the vast majority who are victimized you hear not one word. One great stock firm goes down and whole columns of newspapers discuss their fraud or their disaster, and we are presented with their features and their biography. But where one such famous firm sinks 500 unknown men sink with them. The great steamer goes down and all i n j iu* ine lime ooais are swaiioweu m iuc same engulfment. / Gambling is gambling, whether in stocks or breadstuffs or dice or race horse betting. Exhilaration at the start, but a raving brain and shattered nervous system and a sacrificed property and a destroyed soul at the lastYouog men, buy no lottery tickets, purchase no prize packages, bet on no baseball gam^s or yacht racing, have no faith in luck, answer no mysteri ous circulars proposing great income for small investment, drive away the buzzards that hover around our hotels trying to entrap strangers. Go out and make an honest living. Have God on your side and be a candidate for heaven. Remember all the paths of sin are banked with flowers at tne start, ana there are plenty of helpful hands to fetch the gay caarger to your door and hold the stirrup while yon mount. But farther on the horse plunges to the bit in a slough inextrica ble. The bast honey is not like that which Jonathan took on the end of the rod and brought to his lips, but that which G-od puts on the banqueting table of mercy, at which we are all invited to sit. I was reading of a boy among the mountains of Switzerland ascending a dangerous place with his father and the guides, Tbe boy stopped on the edge of the cliff and said, "There is a flower I mean to get " "Come away from there," said the father. "You will fall off." "No," said he. "I must get that beautiful flower." And the guides rushed toward him to pull him back when, just as thav heard him sav. "I almost have it," he fell 2,000 feet. Birds of prey were seen a few days after circling through the airaDd lowering gradually to the place where the corpse lay. Why seek flowers off the edge of a precipice when you cin walk knee deep amid the full blooms of the very paradise of God? When a man may sit at the king's banquet, why will he go down the steps and contend for the refuse and bones of a hound's kennel? "Sweeterthan honey and the honey comb," says David, is the truth of G >d. "With honey out of the rock would I have satisfied thee," says God to the recreant Here is honey grathered from the blossoms of trees of life, and with a rod mi' e out of the wood of the cross I dip it up for all your souls. The poet Hesiod tells of an ambrosia and a nectar the drinking of which would make men live forever, and one sip of the honey from the eternal rock will give you eternal life with God Come off the malarial levfls of a sinful life. Come and live on the uplands of grace, where the vineyards sun them selves. "Oh, taste and see that the Lord is gracious!" Be happy now and happy forever. For those who take a different course the honey will j turn to gall. For many things I have j admired Percj Shelley, the great English poet, but I aeplore the fact that it seemed a great sweetness to him to dishonor God. The poem "Q Jieen Mab" has in it the maligning of the deity. Shelley was impious enough to ask for Rowland Hill's Surrey chapel that he might denounce the Christian religion. He was in great glee against God and the truth. But he visited Italy, and one day on the Mediterranean with two friends in a boat which was 21 feet long he was coming toward shore when an hour's squall struck the water. A gentleman standing on shore through a glass saw many boats tossed in this squali, but all outrode the storm except one, in which Shelley and his two friends were sailing. Teat never came ashore, bat the bodies of two of the occupants wtre washed up on the beach, one of them the poet. A fu neral pyre was built on the seashore by some classic friends, and the two bodies were consumed. Poor Sheilev ! He would have no God wnilehe lived, and I fear had no God when he ditd. 'The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodlv shall Derish." Beware of the for bidden honey 1 An Editor C "umiti Suicide. Captain Gaorge R. Guss, editor and proprietor of the Chester County bemocrat, committed suicide at his home in West Chester, Pa, late Tuesday by inhaling illuminating gas. Before killing himself he wrote the following note: "3sanding cn the DnnJt or eternity, i aik tne forgiveness of all, as I forgive all. No flowers: no funeral. Good-bye, God bless you." aa tag ag j r i gggjg j gg WHERE THE MONEY GOES, j AN ESTIMATE O" 7 HE MONEY NEEDED THIS YEAR. Th? Appropriation Bill ts Submitted by tic Ways and K<r?ns Ccmmlttee o 1 the H ju8e to That Bcdy. In the House on Thursday the Ways and Means Committee presented 'he annual appropriation bill. It cuts down materially some of the estimates presented for the several departments of the government. Tae principal items of the bill are as follows: governor's office. Salary of Governor $ 3.000 00 Salary of Private Sec}.... 1 350 00 Salary of Messenger..... 400 00 Contingent fund rewards, etc 5.000 CO S:atione^y ar,d stamps.... 300 00 office secretary of state Salary of Secy, of State.. $ 1 900 00 Salary of Chief Clerk.... 1,350 CO Contingent fund... 150 00 Stationery and stamos.... 400 00 office of comptroller general. Salary Comptroller G^n $ 1,900 00 Salary Chief Clerk.....,, 1,400 00 Salary Bookkeeper....,,. 1,500 00 Contingent fund 200 00 Stationery and stamp3.... 300 00 Printing. 300 00 Travelling expenses of the ny>/^ a*' ?If AA f\ A vuuiyi'' <'ICI ai'u u\j\j uu OFFICE OF STATE TREASURER Salary of State Treasurer $ 1 900 00 Salary of Chief Clerk.... 1,500 00 Salary of Bookkeeper..., 1,350 00 Salary of Bookkeeper loan department 1,350 00 Contingent fund-....*,.. 200 00 Printing of bonds........ 1,400 00 Stationery and stamps.... 200 00 OFFICE SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCA TION Salary Superintendent Eication $ 1,900 00 Salary of Clerk ,.... 900 00 Contingent fund 50 00 Stationery and stamps.... 125 00 Books ?nd blanks for public schools 400 00 Expenses State Board Education 250 00 Travelling exoenses SuperintendentEducation.... 200 00 OFFICE ADJQTANT AND INSPECTOR GEN "CT> K T ikiwau* Salary Adjutant and Inspetor General.... $ 1,200 00 Salary of clerk........... 900 00 Salary of State Armorer.. 350 00 Contingent fund......... 75 00 Stationery and stamps.... 100 00 Collecting arms. etc...... 150 00 OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL Salary Attorney General $ 1 900 00 Salary of Assistant....... 1,350 00 Contingent fund 150 00 Stationery and stamps.... 75 00 Expensas litigation.....-., 2,000 00 OFFICE OP STATE LIBRARIAN. Salary of State Librarian $ 800 00 Contingent fund......... 125 00 Stationery and stamps.... 250 00 For purchasing books for State Library.....,..,. 100 00 PENSION DEPARTMENT. For pensioners.......... $100,000 00 Salary of clerk........... 600 00 Stationery and stamps.... 120 00 INDEXING AND CODIFYING ACTS Salary Coue Commissioner $ 400 00 CONFEDERATE HISTORIAN. Compensation............ $ 500 00 Expenses for O^ober, November and December, -i on?y f An AA ouu uw Relief of certain soldiers.* 100,000 00 Salary clerk pension board 600 00 Stationery and postage... 120 00 KEEPER STATE HOUSE AND GROUNDS Salary two watchmen.... $ 800 00 Salary Janitor.* ?**. . 160 00 Salary Engineer ($75 per mo. for 7 months, and $25 a mo. for the rest of the y6*ar.?. 650 00 Salary two Firemen ($25 month each)..600 00 Contingent fund100 00 Fuel for State Housa..*., 900 00 Keeping grounds in repair 200 00 (and convicts.) JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT. Silary of cnief justice for six months and twenty nine days at $4,000 per year, and for five months and one day at $2 850 per year. Salarv of thrpfl justices................ $ 9,200 00 Salary eight circuit judges 26,000 00 Salary of eiglt circuit solicitors.*. .. 11,050 00 Salary of - ight circuit stenographers 10,000 00 Salary of State reporter... 900 00 Salary of clerk of supreme couri????M??t*?iB?t??? 800 00 Salary of librarian of supreme court 800 00 Salary of messenger of supreme court 200 00 Salary of attendant of supreme court. *... 200 00 Contingent fund 200 00 Purchase of books for supreme court... 500 00 PlirflhftSfl TflniTto fr\y en. prerae court........... 350 CO HEALTH DEPARTMEIfT. Salary of quarantine offi cers, Charleston....... $ 1,650 00 3alary of quarantine officers, Port Royal 700 00 Salary of quarantine officers, St. Helena. . *.. 700 00 Salary of quarantine officers, Georgetown 450 00 Expenses State board of health 1,000 00 Salary of keeper lazaretto 300 00 Salary keeper of hospital buildings Port Royal.. 175 00 Maintaining quarantine.. 2,500 00 Expenses quarantine sta tion, Port Royal....... 300 00 Expenses quarantine station, Georgetown...... 150 00 Expenses quarantine station, Charleston....... 1,000 00 p. tioc, St H'-lena .. 150 00 TAX DEPARTMENT. Salarj county auditors... 25,500 00 Printing books, blanks, etc., auditors and treasurers 2 500 00 RAILROAD COMMISSION. Salary commissioners.... 5 700 00 Salary secretary ?.... 1,200 00 Continent..... . 750 00 SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE. SupportS- C. Goiiege.... 25,000 CO Support necro college.... 10.000 00 CITADEL ACADEMY. Supporb beneficiary cadets 20 000 00 Equipment and repairs... 750 00 Treasurer................ 1 200 00 vriNTHROP NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE Support of.. 30.000 00 For scholarships......... 5,456 00 Sanitary improvement sew er.iee and drainage of... 3,000 00 STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE Salary tuperimendenr,.... 3.000 00 Support of 100,000 00 For payment on Wallace property ....... 5,000 00 Cumplfction Parker building 13,520 80 B^ard of regents per diem $4 and 5 cents mileage DEAF AND DUMB ASYLUM 3upport of.. 18 000 00 CATAWBA INDIANS. Support of 800 00 PUBLIC PRINTING. Public print>ntr 15,000 00 PENITENTIARY. Salary of superintendent of penitentiary 1,900 00 Salary cap:ain oi guard... 1,050 001 Salary of physician 1,000 00 Salary of cbaplain........ 600 00 Salary of clerk 1.200 00 -MISCELLANEOUS. Columbia Waterworks... 2,000 00 Completion fundiDg old bonds and stock 1400 00 Salaries supervisors registration.... 8,000 00 o ?4- ?q nnn nn OUpjJUA C JJLUi.iU??. . .. ?. . ? U,UUU UU Expenses phosphate commission 500 00 Repairs of governor's mansion, etc...... 250 00 Claims passed 2,000 00 Lighi.me public buildings, including basement of State House.... 2.900 00 Agricultural and Mechani cal society 2 400 CO Intertst to accrue 283 744 03 THE L1KN LAW COMES FOR CONSIDERATION IN THE HOUSEIn an Elaborate Debate the Subject la rally Dlsciused 'rota ET?ry Standpoint*, but no Action Trtken on It. ^ - -'^1- 1 J.I i? i-U-4. v.. Une e* me warmest ueuaieo UM yet occurred in the House of represen latives tcok place on Tursfay. 25th instant, over 1.he following bill to amend the lien law: Section 1. That spction 2399 of the al gcner statutes 1882 being aec'ioa 2512 of the revised statutes of 1898 be, and the same is hereby amended bj adding the words "and supplies furnished during the year" after the word ' him" on iine three, and by striding out the last four lines of said section when so ammended shall read as follows. Section 2512 (2399). Every landlord leasing land fur agricultural purposes shall have a prior and preferred lien for his rent to the extent of all crops raised on the lands leased by him and supplies furnisned during the jear, whether the same be raised bv the tenant or other persons. No writing /%! 1 n /v rt 11 Ui% 4-/\ yi KVAiiuiug saan us ucucetaijr tu wo j ate such lien, but it shall exist from the date of contract, whether the same be in writiog or verbal, and the landlord shall have "the right to en force such lien in the same manner, upon the same conditions, and subject to the same restrictions as are provided in this article for persons making advances for agricultural purposes." This bill was argued from all points of the compass. Members were found who indorsed every provision ! of it, and others arose to fight its entirety, while others objected to certain sections and in the meantime the debate was strung out at length and no action taken. The words which give the landlord a claim prior to that of a merchant for supplies caused most of the talk. This clause was constructed to mean that after a merchant had carried a farmer for three quarters of the year the landlord could "furnish" him for the last quarter and then lay claim to the entire crop. ttti if . rv 1 1 1 i"? "? vv ueu jur. uienns Din was cauea Mr. Walling moved that the bill be recommitted. Mr. Sullivan ?poke in advocacy of the bill. He said it was a serious matter to the farmers and would meet the obj'Ctions to the lien law. He explaiued that this bill would stop outside interference with workers on the farm. Mr. Walling spoke in reply to Mr. Sullivan and reiterated his objection to the passage of the bill at present, and urcred its recommittal. Mr. Robinson announced that it was not his original intention not to speak on this bill, but that he had changed his mind and desired to add his voice to the support of the bill. Mr. Garris said he was a farmer and not a merchant. He asked no par ticular favors but his sympathies al ways went out to the man who made his bread by his muscle. He opposed the bill on the grounds that it gave the merchant more of a hold on the farmer than he should have. The following gentlemen also took part in the diiicusiioB: Messrs. Bedon, Fairey, IldertOD, Elird, H. J. Kinard. While Mr. Kinard was speaking on the bill he was assailed by several questions as to whether he was a merchant or a farmer. The questions seemed to implj self interest as to the gentleman's motivei in the matter. Mr. Kinard replied \ ery hotly that he was both a merchant and a farmer, but did not merchandiz9 articles that usually came under the head of farm "supplies." Mr. Lwingston objected to members insinuating that other members were acting from selfish motive*. He stated mat it made no difference to him and that he was going to speak plainly on the subject. He regarded the present bill a direct attack 011 the lien law, more insiduous than a bill to re peal the law and he moved an indefi nite postponement. By a vote 45 to 43 the house agreed to an indefinite postponment of trie bill. A number of bills came over from the nsuafcs and *e:e referred to the propsr committees. At thia juaciure Mr. Edwards arose and aslcea tnat the aye and nay vote taken on tbe motion to indefinite postpone the bill be -verified. This beingdone it was discovered that the house had refused to indefinitely postpone by a vote of 45 to 46 and this result was announced. At t&is juncture the house went into the election of a senator, and argu ment on Mr. Glen's bill was postoned until 1 o'clock. When 1 o'clock came Mr. Magill called the chair's attention to the fact. jar. Magui 8poKe in iavor or trie motion to recommit. He pointed out that the Dill gave an absolute monopoly to the landlord to the t xslusion of all others and was a great hardship on the man who gives the lien. Mr. Pollock spoke on the same lines. Tne gentleman pointed out the merchants?if the proposed bill was passed?would not give advances and renters would be dependent on their landlords. During the course of Mr. Pollock's remarks lie made use of the . word swinaie wnen ja.r. J3eaon aros3 ana inquired if the speaker had ever had any experience in swindling. This rather riled Mr. Pollock and he pro tested against the use of such words. Mr. Bedon explained and after a little Mr. Poliock cooled off. Scarcely had he resumed composure when Mr. Caughman made a point of , order aLd advanced the advice that i the gentleman's remarks were not ; germaine to the subject. The chair allowed the gentleman to proceed. Mr. Pollock resumed his remarks by expressing his sympathy for Mr. Oaugnman's Jack of knowledge of the < Eaglish language. Mr. Caug'iman; ''Thanks for your tympatby." (Laughter.) Air. Robinson next took the floor. It was his opinion that the farmer should be protected on the same grounds that the old ne^ro saved his , hshicg companion, who had fallen into tne river. **He has all de bait." Previous question was called and ] Mr. Walling s motion to recommit the bill was earned by a vote of 52 to 48. ? Mr. Magill .had the usual clincher attached. ?mwmii ?a?giaa?^^M THE STATE DISPENSARY. THE ANNUAL REPORT CF THESTATE BOARD OF CONTROL ISSUED. Flsacclal Sta'.em-.nt Ccvedrg the Period Since the State Foard of Control Took ch?rg? of ihe Bntiness? Flgurts of Much lntei ear. The annual report of the State board of control was Friday made public. The report is prefaced as fol JOTFS: To His Excellency, Wm. E. Eilerbe, Governor: We herewith submit cur annual report to be transmitted by jou to the general assem bly of South Carolina Below will be found a concise statement of the business of the dispen aary lur liic jrcoj, oe wen arccapitulation of its business for the past jear. as well as a recapitulation of its business for the past 21 months, or the full time that the dispensary has been under the management of the board of control. We find that the county boards r.f control are costing more than $10,000 per annum, and do not meet the requirements of the dispensaries, and recommend that they ba abolished and some more suitable and economical plan be devised for local supervision and control All of which is respectfully submitted. D. M. Miles. Chairman. L J. Williams, J. B Douthit, M. R Cooper, State Board of Control. B C- Webb, ClerJr. The comparative statement of assets and liabilities for t^e fiscal year ending December31,1897, is as follows: AC3JVJ.D. Cash in State treasury Dec. 31, ^2 1897 $ 61,90126 Merchandise in hands of count/ and hotel dispensaries 211,462 13 Supplies (iaventory) 11,499 54 Machinery and office fixtures (inventory) 2,500 00 Teams and wagons (inventory)... 1,000 UO. Merchandise (inventory) - 88,15830 Personal accounts due State 2,811 50 Total assets $379,332 73 LIABILITIES. School fund $319,380 40 Personal accounts due by State... 59,952 33 Total liabilities $379,332 73 Statement of profit and loss account for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1897, is as follows: % PROFITS. Merchandise $308,177 66 Contraband seizures 4,634 52 Profits from beer and hotel dispensaries - 26,108 20 Rebates and discounts on whiskey purchases 42,510 36 Permit fees 63 00 Sale of cart .. 6 00 Unearned profits on goods in hands of dispensers Sept 30, less reduction in prices December 1, 1897, since accrued 42,871 75 $424,371 49 Difference between net accrued profits and net profits for the first three-quarters, placed to credit of the school fund from time to time 12,619 49 Total $436,990 98 L038E3. Breakage and leakage 1,888 86 Constabulary 40,000 48 Freight and express 64,839 60 Labor .. 14.919 97 Exnense - 20,663 73 License 143 75 Supplies .. 119.306 02 Insurance .. 2,958 91 Wear and tear of teams, wagons, machinery, office fixtures, etc. 671 66 Worthless accounts placed to profit and loss 1,769 65 Ex-dispensers' shortages'entered to profit and loss 16,006 33 Losses by fire at Darlington Manning and Kerehaw dispensaries 6,478 98 $290,547- 89 Total amount placed to credit of school fund during year 146,443 09 Total $436,990 98 Several hundred doUare of worthless accounts, due the State for empty barr-ls, kegs, etc-, most of which were found on the books when this board assumed charge of the State dispensary; and also several hundred dollars due the State by an insolvent insur - i - < i r* ance company lor property iosx dy nre, which, occurred while property was insured in said company, have been placed to profit and loss account. We have also placed to profit and loss account several thousand dollars of ex-dispensers' shortages, about half of which occurred prior to the organization of this board. These short ages are in the hands of the attorney general, and some are now in process of settlement The cash statement for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1897, is as follows: RECEIPTSJanuary receipts $ 118,257 47 February receipts 102,100 48 March receipts 111,997 05 April receipts 86,989 20 May receipts .. 77,733 77 June receipts 81,783 13 j July receipts 67,176 i<4 j August receipts .. 72,71243 < September receipts 86,355 90 October receipts 91,899 73 November receipts - . 98,287 07 December receipts .. 122,509 75 Total receipts for year $1,117,803 04 Balance in State treasury December 31, 1897 78.265 41 Total -$1,196,068 45 DISBURSEMENTS. January disbursements $ 150,003 07 February disbursements 89,061 96 March disbursements 98,320 85 April disbursements 112,633 96 May disbursements 90,369 25 June disbursements .. 54,580 47 July disbursements 93,220 42 1 August disbursements n .w* al i September disbursements 77,344'<4', October disbursements 99,098 70 \ November disbursements 97,"<65 93 December disbursements......... 123,803 90 Total disbursements for the year $1,134,167 19 Balance in State treasury December 31, 1897 - 61,901 26 m ?1 IOC f>CQ AZ. lOUii. (fl,i?U,VVV iV Purchases for the fiscal year of 1897: January .. $ 95,059 33 February .. 91,552 60 March 67.607 46 April 55,787 98 May 08,790 74 June 47,573 72 July .. 31,50223 August .. 4S.384 5 September 101,333 18 October 50,038 62 j November .. 44,087 84 j December 72,785 67 ] Total $ 780,503 42 Net pre fit of the South Carolina dispens^y for 21 months: Set profits of county, beer and hotel dispensaries for nine months in 1896 $119,703 16 Profits of State dispensary for nine months in 1896 passed to the credit of school fund by State board 178,bS7 99 Set profita.of county, beer and hotel dispensaries for the year 1897 107,890 98 Profi's of State dispensary for the year 1897 passed to credit of school fund by State board 146,443 09 matmmtmmmmme?b?mb^?tmaam s The amount paid by the State, county, j beer and hotel dispensaries to the State, I counties and towns sines April 1st, 189G. is j itemized as follows: Amount paid to counties and towns in 1806 5119,703 1G Amount paid into the State treas" urj by the State board on account of the general fund in 1890 100,000 00 Amount paid to counties and towns in 189T 107,89098 Balance jue on account of the geiA&fond paid into the State treflB by the State board in. ^189T?~ - 88,500 40 Amount paid into the State treasury by-the State board on account of the school fund in " HSOJ?.,....r ~ 50,000 00 Total amount Dec. 31, 1S97 $406,0945-1 Having since paid into the State treasury on account of the school fund 20,000 CO Total amount $480,094 54 The report of the legislative examinirg committee reads as follows. ' According to the books of the State dispensary, the balance of c&sh on hand in Stat* treasury, on Dec. 31, 1897, was $61 901 26. According to the statemeu'c furnished by the State treasurer, the balance on that day in the State treasury to tbe cr* dit of the State dispt nsary was $66,423 64 The j: ?r u ? l. ? i i ulucrcu^ urL^rcu lutrso LWU uau anws is $4,522.38. Tlie dispensary warrants drawu upon the State treasurer and unpaid on Dec. 3L 1897. ac cording to the list furnished us by the bookkeeper o* the State dispensary, amount to $4 516 34 which leaves the discrepancy at 6.04, which was the same difference we found at the time of our last examination. We called attention in our report for the quarter ending 30th June, 1897, to the amounts due by various ex dispensers and recommended at that time that the same be turned over to the law department of the State for collection or settlement We also recommended that reports be made showing the disposition and final settlement of these balances We repeat this recommendation, the necessity of whicn is apparent from the large amount of ex dispensers' shortages, which on Dec. 31, 1897, *was carried to the profit and loss account, t A 4 /% /\/\/% OO TTT_ _ A. _ / 10 wii; $io.uuo oo. we repeat a iormer recommendation that a separate account be kept of expenses of litigation. These expenses haye heretofore been charged to the constabulary account. The stock of liquors and supplies was taken on 30th and 31st, Dec. 1897, by Messrs. Douthit and Williams, representing the board of control, and Mr. Moses, representing this committee. Altamont Moses, Jno P Thomas, Jr., C. B. D. Burns, Committee. 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