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Spk','*' m - fj&iiiuumm mm.iffr wi i,?ifS. FRIGHTFUL FLOODS. ! < ft ; . * . SoYaral Mississippi and Aiabarr/. Towers Cut Entirely Off. THE RIVERS RISE FAST J : Three Fatalities are Reported, the Victims Being Negroes Who Lost Their Lives Trying > '.y . v . . ? to 3a\e Cattle. The rains that visited this State last week seems to have been general over the Sonth and Southwest. A great deal of damage was done. A dispatch from Birmingham, Ala., says: "Northern Alabama has experienced a flood exoeeding any ever known before. Five miles of the Southern's track near York is under water, and two miles of the Alabama Great Southern road in 'A the same vicinity is washed away. All trains have been abandoned. 'j'ne ju. &N. is under water near Bangor, north of here. The K. C , M. & B. suffered considerable damage. Nearly all trains oominginto Birmingham are delayed and many trains hare been annulled. The mines are flooded and at seme work cannot be resumed for a week. A number of industries will be crip pled." A dispaieh from Meridian, Miss., says: The flood situation has reaehed frightful proportions. This city is cut off from the outside world except by three telegraph communications on the Western Union wires. All trains are marked annulled for an indefinite period. The Atlanta & Vioksburg passenger, due here at 12 o'olock Wednesday has been water bound twelve miles from the city twenty-four hours. The passengers are without food, the train being unable to come forward or go back. The damage to the Atlanta and Yieksburg, Alabama Great Southern, i Mobile and Ohio and New Orleans & North Eastern railroads reach $50,000 in tracks and trestles swept away by the food. Twenty-Ave per cent of all londa fchwraehout iWHIIWi ?u w ? ? ? the State is atotal loss and the truck plantations in a radius of ten miles are submerged. Three fatalities are reported, the victims being JN'egroes who lost their lives trying to save cattle. Their bodies have not been recovered. The rain has oeased and the waters are receding." A dispatch from Memphis, Teen., says: Heports from Northern and Central Mississippi are meagre. Tele-1 graphic and telephone communication are seriously interrupted. The heaviest rains those sections have known in years fell on Monday and Tuesday of last week. Travel and traffic are suspended. Reports from Jackson state no trains have passed through there flinoe the southbound passenger train on the Illinois Central Tuesday morning of last week. Washouts are reported in all directions. The "Little J." road and Illinois Central tracks are under water at several points. Reports from Crystal Springs and Madison say the cianberry and strawberry j beds are under water and the early; crop entirely lost. Both cotton and i corn crops will have to be replanted in ; many places. j A dian&toh from New Orleans, La., | says: '"The rain storms here are almost unpreoedaated and railroad traffic is seriously affected. Much damage has been done to property. Sight inches of rain fell at Amite City, Iowa, in twenty four hours and over nine at Yicksburg. The Illinois Central road is unable to move along the main line. Muoh damage has been done to the crops. Heavy winds accompanied the rain storm and telegraph and telephone wires are down all over the State, while bridges are washed out and mails delayed. In New Orleans the streets in many places were flooded six inches deep. A dispatch from Mobile, Ala., says - all trains on the Mobile and Ohio railroad between that place and Meridian, Miss., are abandoned and no train there for three daye. GBOW8 MOSX SKBIOUS. A dispatch from Jackson, Miss,, datdd April 20, says the situation is rapidly growing worse, and a good size section of the southern portion of the oily is submerged with the backwater from Pearl river. Surrounded on three sides by water and with the numerous small streams swollen beyond their banks, the city is at the same time con fronted with the danger of a water famine, as the overflow of the river has put out the fires in the pump house of the waterworks company and compelled the plant to close down. No lives have been lost. Many people have been ' driven from their homes by the inundation and are searching for lodging. It is reported that 27 miles oLtrack of the new Gulf and Ship Island road between Jackson and Hattiesburg has been washed away, that Leaf river has broken from its banks and is spreading out over the surrounding country, sweeping away fenoes and houses, inundating crops and drowning much live stock and poultry. Viewed from the wagon bridge at this point, Pearl river is now one vast lake stretching six or eight miles to the east and south. The Alabama and Vicksburg railroad bridge is tottering on its foundations and will doubtless be swept away before morning. 'terrible condition. A dispatch from New Orleans, dated April 20, says: The flood which commenced the early part of the week had already caused, at a conservative estimate, fully $2,000,000 loss in central and southern Mississippi, to say nothing of the damages by the railroads. The extent of * * ? - ? i <_n_ tne losses nave not yet eeeu inuy realized and it may be some days yet before an accurate total can be reached for mail communication has been totally cut off between these localities which have suffered most and the outside world and telegraph lines suffered greatly so that the news is just now beginning to arrive by wire. In Louisiana, too, the damage done by the unprecedented rains was general but in this State they are more inferential than positive. A special from Columbia, Miss., whieh was received late tonight fixed the loss in that little town and its immediate vicinity at $500,000. HOUSES CABBIED AWAY. Many farm houses were carried away by the mad waters, the occupants bare? :? ?uv i;?? j ly BUM lliCli U1C9 AUU UUO number of cattle drowned was great. A great many gins aifcl mill houses were washed away and many sawmills saw their lumber piles molted away as if by magic. Nearly every bridge around Colmbia was swept down stream. Pearl river is now higher than it has been known for many years. Miles and miles of the New Orleans and Northeastern track are still under water. Honey island, the rendezvous of the noted train robber. Burch, is gi 1 m wder twenty feet of water and tire island, which frfcs for years been one of the natural game preserves of the south is dow devoid of wild animals. Hundreds of deer were drowned and -1? T.J11 +Va kanVa nf f }\o pAArl U1V3 UlllD UQOi UU vt >-v ? river are now the temporary abiding places of all manner of four footed life. LOSS OF LIFE REPORTED. Distressing news comes from Hickory, Miss., a small town which is now completely surrounded by water and innndated in many localities. Hundreds of hogs and oattle near this point were drowned and miles of fenoing have been washed away. The latest advioes from the town of Bnterprise state that the losses there have been great and much destitution prevails. Half a score of towns are completely cut off from the outside world as they have been since the early part of the week.From Cnunkey river swamps, near Enterprise, comes the news of a heavy loss of life. GREAT DISTRESS. A special from Enterprise, Miss., says: The total less of the merchants of this plaoe by the recent overflow amounted to about $40,000. Quite ai large number of suburban residences with live stock are a total loss. No one can conceive of the distress that hovers over this section. Thousands of dollars' worth of fertilizers sold by the merchants to the farmers of this country have been swept away and in many fields all the soil was washed off, leaving only the clay. Twins Marry Twiiis April 17th will hereafter be a notable day under the roof of a little double house ia Westerville, Ohio. It was the wedding anniversary of two oouples i and tho birthday anniversary of all four | members of those oouples. On that day Guy Omer Cr&bbe and his twin brother, Roy Homer Crabbe, are 27 years old. On the same day 18 years ago Adrian B. Dotson and Edna A. Dotson, twins, were born. The boys were born in Westerville, 0., and the girls in Harrisville, W. Va. A year ago Guy Orabbe made a tour of the West Virginia oilfields and met Edna Dotson. He found her a pleasing girl and she rather liked him. A friend told him of the girl's twin sister, who always wore identical clothas and whose resemblance is remarkable, t7?n for twins. Crabbe was interested and wrote a letter asking permission to visit Miss Dotson and ^to bring his twin brother along. The novelty of it all pleased the elder Dotsons and the twin brothers went to Harrisville. The visit was pleasing to everyone interested, and the double wedding is the outcome of a double courtship started at that time. Three months ago the Crabbes had a double house bnilfc at Wesfcerville, both both sides exactly alike, where they took their brides. The brides selected their furniture and household effects together and every article as mutually agreed upon was ordered in duplicate, se that there is a most delightful sameness on the two sides of the double home. Geo- Gordon an Evangelist, A special from Wao;>, Texas, says: " T.i_ T> n j "tfenerai wonn x?. uroruou, ouuutuuiuoxin-ohief of the United Confederate Veterans, who is on a lecture tour in Texio, attended the revival meeting in G-atesville, Coryell county, conducted by Abe Mulkey, and at the conclusion of the sermon the evangelist called on him for remarks. General Gordon responded from his place on the platform near the preaelier in one of the most powerful ezhorations, it is said, that has ever been heard in this state. His remarks were addressed principally to the Confederate veterans present. In most eloquent periods he depicted their grand and glorious achievements as soldiers in the service of their country, moving his hearers to the highest pitoh of patriotism; then in tenderest tones ! he made an appeal to them to take up I the armor of Christ that was sublime ( and absolutely resistleus, At the close of this appeal about forty Confederate veterans came forward. No such scene ? . anoAtdil WriTA Thft old gray-haired veterans <srowded arc and j their chieftain, one after another, embracing him, and then they would fall | apon one another's necks shouting, the tears streaming down their faces. It was some time before the ebullition of religious fervor became sufficiently controlled for others to reach the platform, but about one hundred others finally came forward for prayers." Tillman's Ridicule. Senator Tillm?n in discussing a resolution providing for the temparary government of Porto Rico said: "We are to have a grand bageant on May 1 when the new governor is to be inaugurated. This inauguration is to to take place with the greatest ccremony ever seen in any part of the United States. I imagine that the purpose of this display is to impress the islanders with the grandeur and greatness of the United States as well as to impress the people J of the United States with the new polioy of imperialism by which an Ameri-1 can pro-consul is to take possession of - ? % 4 A 0 _ _ | tiie island. After a wmie, or course,; we will have another governor sent to the Philippines and he will be of so much greater importance than the governor of the little island of Puerto Rico that I suppose he must have the navy escort him across the Pacific and must have umbrellas held over him like the Bey of Algiers and the Sultan of Morocco. VTe will have him attended by our subject princes in the Salu archipelago with Mohammedan bodyguards and all that sort of thing. If that is the purpose of keeping those army officers in Puerto Rico I will interpose no obstacle to the tht passage of the reolution." Care of Horses.?Don't feed hay in the middle of the day. Give the heaviest feed at night. Some horses require more hay than others. Study your horse, and never give him so much hay that he looks stuffed. If your has been standing in the stable for some time, be very carefully when you take him out, as a hard drive under these circumstances is very apt to bring on spinal menigitis, or some other serious trouble. Rogular exeroise is one of the most important things in keeping a horse in good condition. The New Railroad Law.?The new railroad law went in to effect. The act does away with the old rates of j 1 j j a - j j travel auu on aau aiter tcuajr uu secouu class tickets will be sold, the rate being strictly three cents a mile for all passenger service. The law also does away with the "excess" charges which conductors have heretofore been al-Icrsred to collect on trains from those failing to have tickets from one reason or another. So far as known the railroads met*the requirements of the new separate coach act promptly. A. kingdom for a cure. You need not pay so much. A. twenty-five cent bottle of L. L. & S. Will drive all ills away. See ad. and try it?never fails. ' A ^SsIkY^feOHlSITIOH. Col. A: Howard Patterson of Barnwell, Contrasts tie Two. Yorir issue of January 4th, last, contains a letter from the Hon. Joel E. Branson, criticising, from the standpoint of a Prohibitionist, an article of mine upon the Dispensary, winch first appeared in The News and Courier, and then in your issue ef the 28th of December. As will be seen from a reference to my said article, its purpose was not so much to expose the weak points of Prohibition, as to show the fallacy of the argument then being used that the dispensary law should be abolished on account of the recent scandals in the State Board of Control, and to present to the pnblic some strong reasons why the law should not be repealed by the (then) approaching session the Legislature and the license system substituted in its place. The only allusion to Prohibition that said article contained was the following: "While Prohibition may be de * ' t T * U _ -3 sirabie, ana 1 lor one woiua auvocaie it if I deemed it practicable, yet experience has taught us that it cannot be enforced and that it virtually means free liquor." The above paragraph contains, in a nut -shell, my views on Prohibition, but as my position in regard to the Dispensary has been attacked by one of the champions of Prohibition, I desire to state, more fully, my reasons for preferring the Dispensary to Prohibition. I entertain the highest respect for those who are Prohibitionists from principle, and as will be seen from the above quotation, and from this article, t v 1 - i?:? i flaYe UWajTB KttU a !C??iiiiJg vuniku: the theory of Prohibition myself, for theoretically it looks well, but experience and observation have taught me that praotically it is a failure. In 1883, when I was about twentythree years old, we had an act passed by the Legislature prohibiting the sale of liquor in Barnwell county. We did not leave the enforcement of the law solely to the county officers, but organized an exeeutive committee, of which I was chairman. We brought case after oase for the violation of the law, bui with the exoeption of two or three, the indictments were thrown, out by the grand jury as fast as they were presented. The "blind tigers" became so numerous in my own town that I took it upon myself, personally, to enforce the law. Upon one occasion, the sheriff of Barnwell county and myself caught a mar in the aot of selling liquor, we saw botb money and whiskey pass, yet when this case went before the grand jury upoi our evidence, the indictment waf thrown out. In our endeavor to enforce I the law -we found it utterly impossible to induce the better olaas of citizens, i. e., those who had advocated Prohibi\ tion from a moral standpoint and whe were the mopt clamorous for it, to assist in enforcing the law, although thei knew that it was violated with impunity. In nearly every instanoe the cases whioh were brought before the court* were worked up by detectives employed for that purpose. We also found thai many of those who had veted for Prohibition patronized the "blind tigers/' and would denounce our executive committee for trying to enforce the law. * , . ' To this day I have the ill-will of the old barkeepers of my county for the zealous manner in which. I endeavored to have che law enforced. The law wa? violated in every section of the county with impunity, and became such a farce that the people becoming utterly disgusted, petitioned the Legislature to repeal it, which was done in 1886, after s trial of three years. Although my faith, in the enforcement of & prohibitory law against the sale of liquor, was shaken to its foun3 - i.-? i? a: 1 U&llOU uy liUB ^reuutti ca^kiiicuuo, jtclj owing to my hatred of the old barroom system, I voted, while a member of the House of Representatives in 1890, foi what is known as the Child's Bill. And when the question- was .submitted to the Democratic voters of the State, at the primary eleotionin 1892,1 voted for Prohibition. In 1884. when the Dispensary law was passed, I was at first a little skeptical as to its workings, yet I was surprised and pleased with the uniqueness of the idea, and as it totally revolutionized the old barroom system, and did away with many of its attendant evils, I was willing to give it a fair trial. And although it has never had a fair trial, as every obstacle that the ingenuity of man could invent has been thrown in the way of its enforcement, yet I am convinced, even with its imperfections and short-comings, that it comes nearer solving the liquor problem than any law that I have ever heard of. Epitomized, the Dispensary law recognises the personal right of man to drink, yet regulates and controls the sale of liquor in suoh a manner as to act as ? check upon his appetite. As I have already, in former articles, shown the good features of the Dispensary, I will now show a few weak points of Prohibition. Since the whole tenor of Mr. Branson's argument isv that it is wrong to drink or sell whiskey under any circumstance or in any way, 1 wish to say, that while I admit that it is best not to drink intoxicating liquors us a beverage, and have since arriving at my majority tried to live up to this belief and to inculcate the same upon the minds af others, and would be willing (if it were possible) to have absolute Prohibition, yet it is idle for ODe to assert dogmatically that it is sinful to take a i ?:? ? I glSBB Ui ueetj W1UC, Ui niua&Cjr ?3 a i beverage. It is the abuse of it, and not the use ef it, that is sinful. The Bible teaches temperance, not Prohibition. Christ himself recognized the use of wine, which was intoxicating, and it is folly for ua to deny it. In all ages of the world, among all nations, there seems to have been, and is, a craving for stimulants. The fact that the last report of the State Board of Control showed that over a million and a half dollars was spent in South Carolina last year for liquors, proves that the vast m ajontv of the people do not j regard it as sinful to drink, and that it ! is utterly absured to think that you could suddenly stop them from doing so- by law. You had a' well try to ' make a river flew up stream as to at attempt to prevent the people of South Carolina from drinking liquor absolute ly. The following answer of a tramp to a lady, is the standpoint from which nine-tenths of the people look at this question. She., said "Don't you know that rum is a destroyer?" Weary TTT.-n_ UT7-._ 1-V-J. TT111/j JLtJS, LtHiy j UUb.SU XO oars and bicycles, and dum-dum ballets, and corsets; but still folks will use 'em." _ Let us now look at this question: from a common-sense standpoint. In tie event that yeu succeeded in Hrikg a law passed prohibiting -the sale' liquor, the first question that would arise would be. How are-you going to enforce it? Would you have a con Jif~in?wn.nwyg-** stsbilafy force? Surely not* for you claim now that o?a of the worst features of the Dispensary law is its "brutal constabulary," who invade the sanctity of the citizen's home?which in ninety-nine cases out of every hundred prove to be the lairs of "blind tigers." But suppose you swallowed your soruples and did have a constabulary, how would you pay them when you derive no revenue from the sale or . .1 *.i o 11.1 1 liquor to pay mem witnr iucnouga, liquor can now be obtained lawfully in South Carolina, yet it required last year the sum of $42,862.76 with which to pay the constables. Therefore, if you were to prohibit the sale of liquor absolutely, does it not follow as a natural conclusion that the temptations to violate the law would be increased a hundred-fold, and, consequently, a larger constabulary force and more money to pay them with would be necessary? Only a few days ago the Legislature refused to appropriate one hundred thousand dollars for the oommon sohools, although they are sadly in need of more money, therefore,* you could hardly expect it to raise by direct taxation fifty or a hundred thousand dollars with which to enforce a law against the sale of an article that ninetenths of the people now use. Don't l xt.i ij. xO T)_x yon know mat u woiuu uui: dui yuu say that you would not have a constabulary foroe, that "Public Sentiment" would enforce the law. As T stated before, I have had a little experience with "Public Sentiment" enforcing Prohibition. In the first place, you will find that just as soon as you attempt to prevent the "Public" from getting liquor, the "Sentiment" will be against the law and that "everybody's business will be nobody's business." We now have a law against carrying eonoealed weapons, ffhioh. habit "Pubi lie Sentiment," condemns but how many . cases have you ever seen brought into court by citizens who were prompted by , "Public Sentiment" to prosecute the offenders? Ah, but you say, that it . will be the duty of the county officers to enforce the law, just as they would any other upon the statute books. I agree with you fully that it would be r their-duty to do so; but would they do . it? Experience has taught us that they L will not enforce a law against the sale of liquor. Why? Because to enforce ; it they would be preventing mne, tenths of the voters from drinking, and , the drinkers and the men who sell liquor are generally very potent factors . m county politics. [ Even now, under the Dispensary law, you can count ths indictments for the . violation of the same brought by county t officers, upon the fingers of your hands, L and it is found neoessary to have a i separate and distinot constabulary to t enforce the law with. 5 The following from Marlboro county, , one of the strongest and oldest Prohi. tion counties in the State, sustains the above views: "Cliff Dorn, State Bis. pensary constable stationed here, cap> cured last night one dozen bottles of 'Old Pepper' rye whiskey in the ex.r press office. There are beyond doubt . three or four blind tiger establishments i in town running at full blast; everybody j knows it and many of the best citizens [ are anxious to break them up, yet they - continue to do business in apparent de. fiance of law and public protest Ben1 nettsville is becoming notorious for , whiskey drinking and the majority of i it 'is blind tiger liquor,' and thia state of affairs will be the means of estabk lishing a Dispensary in the town. [ This correspondent has always main' tain that Bennettsvilie was practi' cally a Prohibition town, which was ' true, but within the last few months - * ? a . l the facts ana preponderance ot evidence ' are in the other direction. It can be broken np and the violators punished I if the officers do their duty. The above is from the report of the . local correspondent of the News and , Courier February 27. Men do not look . upon the violation of a law against the sale of liquor as they do upon one that [ is against a crime malum in se, for they , regard it as a personal right to drink, and that the man who sells to them,is but catering to their appetites and that they are (morally) particeps criminis. Consequently it is a very difficult matter to get evidence against those who sell liquor illegally, as there is a eer tain degree of odium attached to it that men of character do not wish to voluntarily assume. Would you play the "role of informer or attempt the duties of the sleuth-hound?" Another objection to rroniDiuon ; would be that drug-stores woold be allowed to handle alcoholic liquors for the purpose of compounding drugs. This would be swapping 4'the devil for the witoh," fer they would soon be nothing more nor lesi than bar-rooms. We all know how hard it is now, under the Dispensary law, to prevent them from selling "Soft Drinks" and "Malt Extracts/' that contain a greater per cent, of alcohol than the law allows. I can best illustrate the condition of affairs that would prevail, if we had Prohibition, by the following anecdoto; Two women were talking about their husbands who were addicted to the habit of drinking too much. One said to the other, "I am so glad to inform you that my husband has sobered up, and has stopped drinking whiskey." Her companion exclaimed, "Pray tell me, what did he taper off on?" To which the other replied, "Spiritus fru?t-i-i ?IJ 4L. J menu, wmcn tuey bbh at me uiug store." Having heard a great de&l about Prohibition in Maine, and being anxious to know from an official source if the law was ever violated there, I recently sent for, and now have before me, a copy of the Attorney General's report for the years 1897-8. How many indiotments do you think were brought during the year 1897 for violations of her Prohibition law? Over sixteen hundred; and yet she has a population of only about seven hundred thousand, and whioh if almost exclusively white. Now, if there were sixteen hundred indictments you can imagine how many violations there were that never came to light. South Carolina has nearly twice as many inhabitants as Maine, and over half of them are Negroes. I think I have shown very plainly why I do not believe that Prohibition could be enforced. Let us now look at XX * xl _X_ _ J _ _ toe matter iroiu anotuer s&aaapoint. There are some so called Prohibitionists who are advocating a coalition between the Prohibitionists and those who are in favor of the license system for the purpose of downing the Dispensary, and agreeing to divide the spoils in that event. That is, that some coanties may have Prohibition and some the license system. As I remarked upon a former ocoassion, such a combination is calculated to make Neal Bow and Gough turn over in their graves in disgust. It is the lion and the lamb over again, except that in this case the lamb , is to get the offices and the lion the liquor. .Every unbiased man in South Carolina knows that the Dispensary law with all of" the orimeSj fraud, scandals, etc., ' laid at its door, is far superior to the 1 old bar-room system for the manage- I merit and control of tie sale of liquer* Once listen to the siren voice of the advocates of license and destroy the Dispensary, and as certain as the sun shines today you will have the old barroom system with all its attendant evils fastened around your necks as tight as the old man of the sea was around that of Sinbad. Remember the familiar fable of the dog that Uad abone in his mouthy and while orossing a stream looked down and saw his image reflected in the water which he mistook for another dog with a bone and made a grab for it, and low and behold, he lost his own bone. Moral: Don't give up that which you have by attempting to get all. As a writer by the name of Finoh stated in Tha Baptist Courier some time back, you now have, under tbe Dispensary law, the right to vote out the Dispensaries?citing the case of York county. While I do not believe that tbe illicit tariffio in liquor can be prevented in counties that have Prohibition, yet the bill introduced by Mr. Winkler in the recent session of the Legislature in which it was provided that upon the petition of one-fourth of the citizens of a county, the Governor should order an election giving the people the right to vote as to whether they should have, or retain, dispensaries in their counties was agreed upon in a caucus of which Senator Tillman, myself and others were members. This provision was substituted as an amendment to the "Archer Bill" and passed'the House by a large majority, but was killed in the Senate. I urged the delegation from my county to vote for this amendment, believing that the people should have this right, but was most assuredly opposed to tbe question of license being submitted. \ I have always contended that the Dispensary was created, not for the purpose of making money, bat to control and regulate the sale of liquor and to act as a check upon one's appetite, furnishing it only to those who will have it, and not encourage and induce men to drink. The following good points of the law sustain this view: Selling only in the day time; not selling to minors or drunkards; or selling on election days or on Sundays; not selling less than a half pint; not allowing liquors to be drunk on the premises; and selling for cash. The sooial features of the old barroom system is best desoribed by the following quotation from a letter which I received a short time back from a prominent gentleman in the upper part of the State: "The writer has drank whiskey excessively, but God forbid that I ever take another drop as a beverage. The whiskey habit of mine was contracted in old-fashioned barrooms. The beautiful attractions and sooial features of bar-rooms carried me there; the cenvenienoe of getting mint julips and cooktails carried me there; the niee place to loaf at sights in the billiard room carried mo there. Now there is nothing in a Dispensary to attract or entrioe, and if the ordinary person goes to a Dispensary and buys WJaisfcey, ne commits a cold-blooded act on Ms part and no one is to blame but himself. The Dispensary has no street strikers to drum up trade like the old bar-room had." Prohibition will not prohibit, and this is why those who are in favor of the license system are advocating a coalition. Not because they hate prohibition less, but Kate the Dispensary more. One zt the strongest argame n ts (while it does seem paradoxical) in favor of the Dispensary being a -tiore potential factor in the advancement oi temperance than prohibition, is the fact that not only the advocates of the license system, but the old barkeepers and the keepers of "blind tigers" always vote for the Prohibition candidate in preferenoe to the candidate that is in favor of the Dispensary. How do you account for this anomaly? Because the liquor men know that Prohibition means free liquor for a short while and ultimately a return to the old bar room system. Tie very influence that is now advocating a coalition a few years baok, before the Dispensary was heard of, waa bitterly opposed to prohibition. I say let us retain the Dispensary law. Lop off such excresences as hotel and beer privileges, which I have always contended are contrary to the letter and spirit of the law. Throw as many safeguards around the sale of liquor as possible. Appoint cood men as disoensers. who will not enoourage men to drink; de not treat them as yon would saloon keepers, but as officials, and require them them to perform their duties properly and punish those who do wrong. Enforce the law in all parts of the State without regard to the locality in which it is violated. These good results can be accomplished under the Dispensary system, but it is utterly impossible to do so with Prohibition. And common sense tells us so. A. Howard Patterson. Barnwell, S. 0., March 6, 1900. Wasting Its Time. The Washington Post, though nominally an independent newspaper, is generally in line with the Republican party. It was an ardent advocate of McKinley's election in 1896 and will undoubtedly support him against Bryan this year. As The Post desires to aid the Republican oarliY in the comine camoaiem it makes bold to counsel it as to the course it should pursue. In its earnest efiorts to save from defeat the party which it prefers to any other now organized, The Post says: "When the elections of 1898 had assured Republican ascendancy in both houses of the fittysixth congress, The Post mentioned as one of the important duties that would devolve upon thai body the accomplishment of some practical anti-trust legislation. It was evident then, and. it has become more apparent every day since that time, that the trusts would be one of the leading issues of the presidential campaign. The Post suggested then, has ever since persistently urged the necessity of depriving monopolistic combinations of any chance for shelter behind tariff schedules. As a consistent advocate of the doctrine of protection, The Post has protested and will continue to protest against its abuse. Attention has been called in these columns to trade'combinations in protected industries that were and are stifling com petition while paying large dividends on enormous over-capitalization. Testimony given before the industrial commission by managers of such combines convicts them of exploiting almost fabulous amounts of ficititious stocks. Similar testimony sl^owtf that \ siicn combines sell their pfjr ducts all over Europe at lowt prices than are charged fortheS to domestic consumers. These! facts have from time to time pointed out, and in the interest of the great principle of protection to which our marvelous: development and splendid pros- \ perity are largely due, The Post* has advocated the reduction, not ? in all cases the destruction, of: j scneauies xnus yubrageuusij >> abused." c The Post then asks what con-6 gress is c 'going to do in order toj put the Republican party in-j good form for the campaign?", It goes on to show that it is incumbent upon the Republican majority in congress to make an honest effort to restrain the. trusts, and adds: "It is admitted by all fair-1 minded men that there are some trade combines which have by legitimate means reduced the cost of prodxiction'while increasing wages and not increasing prices. No indiscriminate'warfare on trusts is called for. But against the sort of combines that are taking advantage of protec-1 tive duties to prey on the public there is a remedy at hand, and every congressman knows what it it." The remedy suggested by The Post may be easily applied and would undoubtedly prbve effective. John Sherman proposed it in the senate nearly ten years ago, but the friends and attorneys of the trusts were strong enough in that body to cause its rejection. They did so because they knew that it would bring the trusts to time. For exactly the same reason the present ReDublican congress will refuse to adopt the method, of dealing with the trusts which The Post recommends. ' There is a partnership between the Republican party and the trusts which the former has no idea of breaking. The president may inveigh in words of seeming indignation against the agfressions of trust power, and epublicans in both houses of congress will probably give forth similar stage thunder before the opening of the campaign but there can be no safer prediction than that congress will take no action that will be disagreeable to the truts. The Post is wasting its time. Sapp?nls2? on Friday. ~ Moscow burned on Friday. BaetUo destroyed on Friday. Shakespeare bora on Friday. Lincoln assassinated on Friday. America was.discovered on Friday. King Charles beheaded on Friday. Washington was married on Friday. Julius Caesar assassinated on Friday. Queen Victoria was married on Friday. Napoleon Bonaparte was horn on Friday. Battle vt New Orleans fought on Friday. Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on Friday. Battle of Waterloo was fought on Friday. Joan of Arc was burned at the stales on Friday. Swimming HaneuTT?* In Gtorman Army. In the Dutch army a man must ha able to swim as well as to fight Moreover, if he is In the cavalry, he must have a horse which will take a river as easily as a hunter takes a fence. Swimming maneuvres are part of tha regular drill there. Collapsible canvas Boats, manned by a few oarsmen. lead the horses, so that they do nof attempt to land on stone quays and other difficult points. The men swim across with their horses and on them. They do it in swimming coetume and in all the accoutrements of war. There are few nautical emergencies for which the Dutch army is not prepared. Some of the officer* have not only, their horses and kit cross the river wit hthem, hut even their dogs gft, upon their shoulders and are borne over, almost without getting wet Killed bt a Train.?A dispatch from Swansea says Thursday night W. K. Bell, a fiagman on the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad, was knocked down on the track and a car passed*over both legs above the knees, and right arm and shoulder, also crushed the right hip bone. He lived two hours and fifty minutes; death resulting fiom internal hemorrhages and sfcocfc. dir. Bell was 31 years old. jWOOM Farm Seeds. T Our business in Farm Seeds is f 7 to-day one of the largest in this r i Country. A result due to the fact ^ m that quality has always been our i A first consideration. We supply i A all Seeds required for the fcann. i \ GRASS & CLOVER SEEDS, \ # Cow Peas, Cotton Seed, r f Seed Oats, Seed Corn, f i Soja, Navy & Velvet # i Beans, Sorghums, # 0 Broom Corn, Kaffir # 4 Corn, Peanuts, f 9 Millet Seed, r # Rape, etc. r f Wood's Descriptive Catalogue f A gives the fullest information about A \ these and all other Seeds; best methods \ A of culture, soil best adapted for differ- A \ erent crops and practical hints as to \ A what are likely to prove most profitable A \ to grow. Catalogue mailed free upon \ A- request. A J T. W. WOOD & SONS, I $ SEEDSMEN. j Richmond, Va^ ^ PITTS' I ANTISEPTIC IMITORI I Cures La Grippe, dyspepsia, iudiges tion 1 and all stomach and bowel troubles colic or cholera morbus, teething troubles with children, kidney tronbles, bad blood and all sorts of sores, risings or felons, cuts and burns. It is as good antiseptic!, when locally applied, as anything on the market. 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This year vb.o art? none. v/ne concern j absolute control of all the * on bagging in the country, *t< .another has absolute iconic of the cotton ties. \ Thirteen Were Drowned. - boat en board of' which were 20 * bers of the Catholic Students' asteition, while crossing the river ivie Wednesday from Bingen to Hue ; njeim, was capsized and 13 of its leibants were drowned. |S LEIDER INOEED. "} New Ball Bearing ' Domestic ' >Viiig Machine lads in Workmanship, Beauty, letfecity, Strength, LightBunning. ^nEvery Weman Wants One, ! i ? ^lnnents, Needles and retHs for Sewing Machines of all makes. i ordering needles send era' e. Price 27c per dozen, J thi lid. "e * : . xri: Wanted in Unoccupied Terri-jott tory. re 1 rHULL, ' * 4 Sr( L219 Taylor Street, J nfiLTTMRTA _S f! 8 gjmanPays I ^ EXpress f i ? f s^team Dyeing of every | ~ d< [cription. Steam, Nap- *T] Frencli Dry and ? ; I iJir (jatf cal cleansing. Send J? our new price list and :lem^nlar. 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