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I. I JL ' , .L..~g WHEN THE MAIIi GOES THROUGH. I ,Kuthin' in a country town 'Cepfc 'nout five o clock to go To tlic deepo?mail, nouth bound. Due at that time. There's, you know, Crowd o' lnnUv (.iimitiM. Loath*' as they alius <to; im \ dogs?hali'-breeils on* ycllcrs When I ho Mail? goes?through! Kever stops atSasserville; (.oniea with lithium' in her ove! JLioru.v: \Yhi7./in' down tlu- lull, JiVt n-scrccchiii' on the Hv! Engineer's head out n-lmtviu' Sinoke ?n' cinders fly?t\* blue! lAn' wc-miB with lints u-wavin' When the Mail?goes?through! enn feel the whirlpool com^, N ?\hen she clntte.ru past you?Geo! Teel 'er rock the deepo some, _An' the platform! Merev me! <iethcrin' at ev'rv minute. | With a Ion# an* screeehin' woo! An' us wishiu' we was in it. When the Mail?goes?through! Then as soon's she!s gone, you f?it Tired of old SaHserville; Them's tne time it is that it Never seems to fill the hill; Fer you think o bigger places. Where the train's a-goin' to. An' tromp home with lonelv t'neea .When tlic Mail's?gone--through! ?Edward Singer, in Indianapolis Sun. ^t'5H5ra5H5H5H5H59 =7951=555^ | STEPPING STONES. | CjEJa5H55HaSaSHSaST2 EraSHHHSHnj S <By Martha Prouty. jjj Victoria Moore was bora in Petersham with a predisposition to physical frailty and an inheritance of family penury. In due time she showed signs of a predisposition to all the Petersham prejudices, such as pride of family, shame of penury and suspicion of those who came to Petersham without publishing credentials from + u~ u * ? vnu iiuu?e tops, /vs victoria grew into a tall slip of a girl the family resources receded further and further into the shadows of Petersham's wonderful past, along with the fortunes of many other of Petersham's great families, and Victoria was forced at the ago of nineteen to go to work or starve. Over Petersham's valleys and hills there then arose a wave of protest, and the burden of it was not weighted with a single word of sympathy or kindliness to lighten the effect of Petersham's displeasure. Victoria was mado to feel it in many ways, especially when Mrs. Peats' hearts' party came off and that worthy ladv ev plained that the number was limited, and when Mrs. Truehani gave a little bianco and ignored Victoria, who was notoriously the best dancer in her set. It became apparent to Victoria that according to the lights of Petersham it were better to starve than to work, and with one bound she passed up a step higher, shedding certain prejudices as She WOllld her nl<1 clnlliM I" her heart she felt hitter and hurt and stormy. Outwardly she maintained a reserve and hauteur that refused the advances of her old friends, until she vet)%monK them as an outcast. Indeed, after the first few years of earning her livelihood had gone by and she found herself able to support herself comfortably, she awoke to find that among Petersham's great families she was no longer mcntionel save in whispers, being, so to speak, utterly condemned. When this became clear she shed a few more prejudices and the dust of Petersham at the ooanlllK 1UM HKlllS IllrlOUSly when she got in the outward-bound train, and thanking her lucky stars that she need never come back unless she wanted to. Occasionally thereafter Petersham folks saw Victoria Moore's name in print over a short story in one or another popular magazine, and PeterI'aham South sniffed and said the stories were poor stuff, and Petersham Mnrtli onr*?Ui%/l ~ * -1 ' ' * ' * r...wi n:?i <iuu sum mai sue would find out after all what an atom she was, and Petersham Centre simply smiled superciliously and waited its time. The time came when Mrs. Peats and Mrs. Trueham met Victoria on an afterfioon train bound for Petersham, they in the glory of matinee finery, Victoria in a suit much the worse for wear and a very weary look upon her race. Thoir time had come when Victoria bowed with a pleased little smile and they cut her dead. According to their lights^ hoy truthfully reported that they ban put her In her place. Victoria set up her few belongings In her old homo without much trumpeting. She came and went- as she had done years before, and Petersham decided she had failed, some ignoring her, while others treated her with pitying condescension. Hut Victoria, tramping over the hills in the early morning, visiting among the plain folks, spending a day with some sick person, playing with everybody's bibles wherever nh? fnumi ?>>.-??? v- - i ? - IlCllilliK old ladies to clean house and sew and bake during tho day, and In the evening taking up her allotted tank, went up one more step, shedding hor predisposition to physical frailty and family penury. For her magazine work, in spite of Petersham'# forebodings, yielded her a goodly income, and outdoor exercise and work gavo her now vigor. When she had been back among them for two years and Petersham had let her alono so long that their' interest in her was almost dead, a prepossessing stranger, arriving on a morning train, asked a loiterer near the station to direct him to Miss Moore's home. As they walked along this man* QsrtjO'Bham born and bred, felt his ciltTosIty getting th<> better of him "I Bupposo you know Miss Moore when you see her, don't you?" he . asked, "because I haven't set eyes on her for so long that I don't know myselt as I'd be able to point her out to you." It was pretty weak for a startor, but the stranger did his part nobly. "Oh, yes, I know her well," he anewered, smilingly; "I'm hor publisher j and It gives me groat pleasure to come hero and visit tho scenes where her book is laid. It's going to make *ir famous, and I suppose you'll all be proud of her hero, won't you?" I "Of course, oh, yes, very proud," stammered the Petersham citizen, adding With a tremendous gulp of surprise and chagrin, "Well, if that isn't the greatest thing in creation!" The stranger, viewing the scenery with delight, spoke absently, but with ! ;i certain force. "Yes," ho said, "the greatest thing in creation is creation !" The hook was good because VictoI rid had made one more step, shedding all the bitterness that bad been in her heart, leaving out all signs of her knowledge of their weaknesses and pettiness, making all of the strength and simple greatness that abides with plain poop'j everywhere. It was great, hoi book, because it reached their hearts and showed them the way up, stone by stone, to a better Petersham than they had known. And when it had reached its second edition Victoria packed her trunk for a trip aiiroad, set about closing up the house and planning her glorious future. Her income had reached a satisfactory stage so that she ould do as she pleased without counting the cost. "They owed it to me," she kept saying to herself as she went about the house, "and they've paid in full, for what I've got I took away from them, right out Of their very lives, under their very noses, and they never knew what they were civinir mo They deserve nothing more from mo than I've given them." But she stopped, for she knew that her reasoning was somewhat weak, and there remained another stepping stone to cliin b. After a little she went up stairs and unpacked the trunk, and as one hit of new finery slid to the floor after another she sighed a little and laughed a little and cried a little, as is a woman's way when she Is very happy. "I owe it to them," she whispered. "I owe it all to them, for every step of the wav 1'vn tnkon been by their help, building on a past which never could have been without them. Mow much I do owe them, after all. I'm KoinR to stay awhile and tell them so." And she did.?Boston Post. WHEN RUKKDIXG WAS IX VOGUE. Tattle Instrument of Torture Wan Used on Martyred President. "Farmer" Lawton, of the Western Union, uses a grewsome-lookintr na perweight in the shape of an old-time physician's bleeding instrument that was generally in use up to sixty years ago, and which once was used on Abraham Lincoln. The little instrument of torture is a brass bor, one and one-half inches square. On the lower side are hidden sixteen steel lances. Before the instrument is used the lances are forced out of their brass sockets about oneeighth of an inch. Then the instrument is gently pressed against a portion of the body, usually the arm. a spring is touched and as the little lances disappear they leave sixteen small wounds that penetrate through the skin, each about a ! quarter of an inch long and deep enough to cause the patient's blood to flow freely. Medical men hfive not used these crude instruments for bleeding people for over fifty years. The instrument wns tho property of Dr. George Hewitt, a distinguished physician of Quincy, 111., during tho r>0's, and an uncle of tho "old farmer." Shortly before becoming President of the United States, and while practicing law at Springfield, 111., Abe Inncoin had one of his sick spoils, and Dr. Hewitt was called over to Sangamon County for consultation. He pronounced Lincoln's case the usual spring malaria, but the local physician was sure it was bordering on typhoid fever and nothing but a good hlppdini* wnnl/1 />.-?? ?-*s?w?- i President's life. Dr. Hewitt, performed tho operation unwillingly, then watched the effect for a few days, after which ho declared he would never use this instrument upon another patient, and lie never did, although he practised medicine until his death, twenty years later. It was not. long until the leading physicians of this country followed Dr. Hewitt's example and began to give their patients tonics to make blood imtead of draining their systems of blood that nature had provided them with. In consequence these little instruments of torture are almost as much of a curio now as the dollar of our dad's, whose coinage was stopped about (lie same tim?? that bleeding went out of vogue.?Denver News. A Better Keoord. When Poter Jenkins returned to Laneshoro for a short visit aftor having lived ten years in Colorado ho apparently could not say enough in praiso of his now home and in disparagement of his birthplace. His sentiments were, as a general thing, received with the utmost good nature by his old friends, but occasionally he met what the Laneshoro people called "a come-uppance." "Now, there's the climate," said Mr. Jenkins one day to a group of listeners in the postoflflce. "Why, the climate here isn't anything that's worth talking about, but out th?r?! It's fattening just to he out there and take in tho flimntu "Why. when I went out there 1 only weighed 130 pounds, and now 1 turn the scales at 19."." "I ran tell you a story of Laneaboro cliinato that'll go ahead o* that, Peter," remarked Ohed Strong quietly. "Well, I should like to hear it,': said Mr. Jenkins with a somewhat scoptical smi'e. "It's veracious, an' relates to myself," returned Mr. Strong calmly "When 1 come to I,anesboro I weigh"d ?it's in the fam'ly Bible?Jest pounds, an' now I settle the scale* down at an even 200." Mr. Jenkins gave a sniff, but th? citizens of l,anesboro felt that, the reputation or tho village climate had heen established.?Youth's Companion. A chimney of concrete block waf decently built in Germany without tho *iso of scaffolding, which reprosents a great economy in tho cojii. SHOWS HOW EARTH GAINS Mons. Flammarion Tells on Eastern Coast of Itah Adria, a Famous Seapc is Now Sixteen Miles Iril Bv CAMILLE ] -k (From the European Edition of the New York Herald.) The Herald recently published an ti^vunm. ui inu curious aiscovery ui Antiurn of a beautiful Greek statue, which was brought to light by the upsetting of a wall of Nero's villa under the furious battering of the waves of the sea. This important discovery has a double interest, artistic and geologic. Not only does it put before our eyes a masterpiece of antique art, but it also shows us tlio work of time. Gradually the sea is taking possession of this beach of Antinni, where, nineteen centuries ago. the Imperial luxury of a sumptuous Roman palace was displayed. Century by century, year by year it rushes to attack this coast, on which it is encroaching little by little. It is destined to reign over the place where the cruel and tyrannical emperor, believing himself master of the world, thought he alone had the right to rule. But the waves themselves offer strange paradoxes. While the Tyrrhenian Sea is eating away in this vicinity the cliffs and the strand of ancient Latlum, on the other hand on the opposite or eastern roast of Italy the Adriatic is constantly moving away from the ancient Etruscan town which gave it its name. Adrla, which three thousand years ago was a famous and flourishing seaport, lies to-day desolate and forgotten in the midst of fields of corn, of vlnnvnwlc. or.,1 ,*t -r. I -!. - ? . wi i'uiu icn, mciuyflvo kilometres distant from the sea, which has moved away this entire distance since the beginning of our era. There is nothing there from which one might guess Its former power?gono to-day. It is a dead city. Agriculture and trade have there replaced intense maratime activity and are very much inferior to it Here the land is gaining rapidly ?before one's eyes, so to speak? at the rate of ten metres or so every year, on account of the alluvium of the Po and the Adige. Alluvial Deposits. l^Iko the Rhone, in France, and the Nile, in Egypt, the Po and the Adige are constantly bringing down soil from the higher ground and carrying it to their months. The floods to which this region was subject from the beginning of the thirteenth century necessitated recourse to dykes, and they have since caused the adoption of a general system of embankment, with the result that the Po and the Adige and almost .ill their trihn It therefore becomes necessary to ""strength of How It Kills Human Other A Of alt the existing man apes the gorilla is beyond question the most formidable, a large male standing not infrequently over five foot six inchea in height, and bones bo Ins; known of one which apparently mea?<ired in lifo no less than six feet two inches. It is not, wo now know from experience in the gardens and elsewhere, always when young so "utterly untamable a beast" and ho "entirely and constantly an enemy of man" as Du Chaillu represented, but it is savage and morose enough. Tt is still uncertain whether in a wild Htato, except in the immediate moment of attack, it ever actually walks oreet without either resting its knuckles on the ground or supporting itself by a branch overhead, but that It does beat its lists upon its breast when enraged (Du Chaillu says that he heard the noise "like a great boss drum" at a distance of a mile) is established, and when the male gorilla 111 r f?y !i c.'nomifni'l 1/ 1 '><? > front innn fearlessly when attacked, with Us huge size, its great hairy limbs, and hideous head set almost down into its shoulders, we enn believe that "no description can exceed the horror of its appearance." Add that the gorilla visually lives in the depth of forests where the light is so dim that it is difficult to seo any object clearly at a distance of mora than a few yards, and it is not to bo wondered at that the natives havn invested it with attributes even more horrific than those which It po?%e<MK>H. Many believe the gorilla to be human; others hold that, though itself a beast, it is often Informed with the transmigrated spirits of the human dead. It is said to llo in wait crouched on tho lower branches of trees overhanging a path, and when a human being passes to drop one of Its long hind limbs and, clutching the victim by the throat so suddenly and in so terrible a grip that hardly a sob is heard, to drag it?man or woman ? up to its lurking place. It is credited with capturing and stealing women and carrying them off to keep them In the forests, and, armed with <*lubs, is said to attack and beat off elephants. Tho formldableness of the < ktuiil iip<;.s as compared wiin othor beasts, however, is not an easy matter to pass upon. In Africa it Is noteworthy that tho lion and tho gorilla do not occur together, and it has been conjectured both that the lion has exterminated tho gorilla wi'.^in its t?r M fflifflfSH of the Encroachments ol Land /?Due to the Po and Adige? ?r1" rhrPf Thnncanrl Vmrf A ? V?uvw*vi J. V.CU O X I land. FLA M M" AII ION. * | dl- out certain quantity of this dej posit aiHl carry it back to tlto banks. | I i Mi? muuuiii raising 01 tnese rivers has the result that in our day they cross the valley on a greatly elevated hcd lik<> water that runs in an aqueduct. It follows that the surface of the Po. for example, Is higher than the roofs of the houses of Ferrara. I'iiH'roacliments of the Wind. The increase of the land is considerable in all tills region. The town I of Ravenna, which was formerly sur roiimicu ny lagoons and was a sea- ' l>ort like Venice, and under Augustus ] was a naval station for the Adiatic I fleet, is to-();iy ten kilometres from the sea and its only communication with its present port, I'orto Corsini, founded in is by the canal of that name. Besides-*, all along this eoast, so celebrated in history, may he seen the works of man in constant struggle with nature and only dominating her on condition of subjecting himself to her laws. Rut. on the whole, thn victory remains with nature. The j works of man are nevertheless last- | ing. All the marvels of ancient art which have escaped the carnage of wars, of invasions and of revolutions and which have been preserved for us, often by the earth iself, and handed down from century to century, bear testimony to this. Vestiges of "Former Glory. The ancient lighthouse of Adria, washed by the waters of the sea three thousand years ago, is still standing, but for a long time it has not looked out upon the Adriatic, which is constantly moving away. It has become the belfry of a church. This lightj house, which antedates the found a uon or Rome, could tell vis of many human depravities if only aH the witness of its neighbor, Ferrarn, the famous city over which still hangs the tragic memory of Lucretia Borgia. For example among other deeds, it might remind us of the following: Marquis Obizzon d'Este, detested for his cruelty, strangled by one of his sons; Alberto, who cut ofT his nephew's head and burned his wife alive; Marquis Giovanni d'Este and his wife torn to pieces with red hot pincers; Nicolas llf.. legitimatized sou of Al Dcrto, cutting off the head of his second wife anil aiding in the bloody quarrels of his twenty-two natural children; Hen-tiles I., causing his nephew to be hacked to pieces, cutting oiT the ri;!>t hand and putting out an eye of USO conspirators; his son, 1-Iippolyt" d'FJste, causing the eyes of his 1 :*<>t.lier .Itilius to be torn out on account ?>f his rivalry in love, etc. In this order of things man sometimes s< er.is to surpass nature. To return to her from these scones, the secular transformation of coasts constitutes one of the most interesting chapters in the history of our planet. Everything is rapidly changing on our mobile globe. Alone the progress of mind trlnmnha r..? */ ? < i i. nr; slow and inoxoraHo work of Time, whoso Scythe gathers in its harvest everything about it and this progress irt perpetually upward toward the conquest of truth. THE GORILLA. " Beings?Its Attacks on Lnimals. ritory and that ll: gorilla has driven out the lion. In Borneo the rnnr.t serious neighbors of the oralis are the python and p ami mo natives say that the ape overcomes them both, the python by seizing and 1?iti 11 k it, and the crocodile by leaping on its back, clutching it by the upper jaw and by sheer main strength tearing it open. The name "orang" is in itself a title of honor,meaningroiighly "wise one," the Malays giving it alike to their chiefs, to elephants and to the "wild men." Perhaps, however, no native myth or story eclipses in wonder the statement of Kmin Pasha, nmdo seriously, that In the Mliongwe forest the chimpanzees used to come to rob the I 1 banana plantation- in irnops, bearing; torches to IItrlit them on tho way! "Had I not witnessed this exiraordlnary sp^rtaelo personally," lio in reportod as saying, "I should not. have believed that .'tny of th<> simians understood tho art. of making fire." Tlnhapplly wo personally did not witnesii it ?London Times. Not l''or floodnrxH Sake. She was a blonde, very light of j hair. almost silvery yellow, very beani tlfni >> < 1 - " ' ji.wi whs turn, eiceed| inffly thin. "Yoii don't seem to he prudish," they said, "or too noody-goody to wear false hair. Why in the goodness* don't you? If you would only puff your hair out with curia you'd ho beautiful." "If you want to know the real truth of the matter,'" said she, "I don't wear false hair because I can't match the shade. I've looked till I'm black in the face, and it's not to be I found. That's all there is to It."?? , Now York Press. His 1 'leverneftK. Tho consul in London of n continental kingdom was informed by his | Government that one of his countrywomen, supposed to h?> living In Great Britain, had been left a million of money. After advertising without result, he applied to the police, and a smart, young detective was set to work. - * ' ' ?* ii.-ii a 11*w wi'i'Ks nan gono by Jiis chief asked him how ho was going on. "I'vo found the lady, sir." "Good! Where la she?" " \t my place. I got married (o hor yesterday!"?New York Journal. GOV. ANSEL Columbia, S. O.?Governor Ansel's inessago to the legislature was, in part, as follows: State's Finances. During the present iiscal year it was necessary lo borrow live hundred thousand dollars. in order to tli" stale on a cash basis 1 rucoinmend that yon levy an extra one-halt mill Tor tln> n??xt t; years, placing the samo in the hands <>. the .sinking land commission to bi* loaned to *he state, until a suillcient amount lias been thus raised to do away will: Out nnnnoolti. ?# I.l..? Assessment of Property. One of the most dillioult questions that you will nave to deal with is the proper assessment and equaliza tlon of property for taxation. The following Is the plan hereto fore recommended hy me as to persona! property: "All property should bear its just iion oi nil' luxes. 1 ho quention arises, How in the auditor to lind out what personal property the taxpayer has? l suggest the inquisitorial plan. Require tlie comity and I itor to publicly administer to tin; tax I payer an oath requiring him to truly [ answer concerning all his property oi I whatsover kind, and record it on his ! tax return with the valuation ho [ places on the siune, which is to he I afterward.? equalized by the townsrtip 1 and county hoards of eauallzsnioii ! By tliis means the value of all th< i visible property, as well as s:ll stocks, i notes, bonds and money, can he arrived at, and much personal property which now escapes assessment won. be brought to light. More car* should be used by the county auditors in re| ceiving the returns ol the taxpayer. The oath should he administered and the party fully Interrogated as to his or her property and tae property tin! dcr his or her control with the valuation thereof. When this is done , uubliclv the neiehhors who tiiav he , present will know whether the valuation la correct, and 'tax dodger' wilbe required to answer correctly or tako the consequences." Sinking Fund. I wish to call your attention to the report of the sinking fund eoimnis1 Blon, whicli will lie placed on your deskw during the session. The assets, as shown by said report, are as follows: Cumulative sinking fund (for rediiitt t\t W\tt ?? twl iki v nuint #?t" vJ/tnf li /'???< ollna Hrowti 4 1-2 per cent bonds?, $700,8o3.58. Ordinary sinking fund $7it,'208.4<. Sinking fund lor Insurance in pnl>iic buildings, $51,!)2i<.'Jl). Several tiro losses have been paid druing the past year from this las' named fund. Education. Marked progress have been made during the present, year in the educational institutions of the state. The 1 Increase in attendance in tho coin! mun schools, as well as in iae high i schools and colleges, is greater than ' in any year in our past history. N^-\? I ami better school houses are being | built, and many ot the school districts arc taxing themselves, in addition to tho ordinary three mills tax, to run their schools ironi eight to nine molnhs in the year. We now have 1151 high scnools 111 the state, and tho good work they are doing will, in my judgment, tull.v coinp<n sate tor the appropriations jou havi made lor them. i he restrictions you ! have made ol an expediture 01 not . more than per cent oi the appro ! printion to any one county, i recoaiI mend be changed, so that the stat< i board ol education may use mor< i than thai amount 111 a county whore i it is needed, n sonic otuer count.-. ! dot?;* not quality tor the lull amount ! it would otherwise lie entitled to. j 'lhe appropriation made lor the ru ! rai schools last year lias been ol great i benellt to many communities in tin J state, and I respecitully recotnmemi i another and larg- r appropriation tor i the next scholastic year. It is recommended tmil two normal , scholarships in the South Carolina I University from each county 111 tin utate he provided. | The Military College has made a | request tor Ipti.tluo to huild additional | dormitory room, it is rueommt nued ! that ttiin bo granted. A bill will bo introduced at tins session looking toward a change in | tho present law as to the cxamina , tions for scholarships in state ilist 1 | tutions. it is recommended (hat tin i bill be enacted into law Adequate appropriations (o the Doaf, Dumb and Hliiid in tithte and Industrial School for White lioys ;ii re<pi('steit. The Colored Normal College :;t Or raugeburg is doing a good work Recently on*f of the dormitories, the kitchen and dining room were destroyed by lire. An appropriation suillcient (o erect another building adej quale to the needs ot the school is asked for. Dispensary Law. In obedience to the ia^i act oi this general assembly, an election was held on tho third Tuesday m August lust in the tuetitj one coimtK s that l....i -.1 il... . 1:11 of Mllcl) election. The elections all passed oil v? ry quietly and the people voted in a< conlaueo with their views upon Me question presented. Kil'tcen out of tli(! twi'iity-ono counties relumed to vote t lie. sale of liquors into said counties. Six of the counties voting voted in lavoi of the Hale ot liquor. Ah to tlio dispensaries in the sis counties which voted in the si'Ie of llnnoiv I desire to renew iu\ r ? >111 mendation made in 1115 annual message to the general ass? nihly in 1 i? s. to-wit: "That not more than out* county dispensary be allowed 1:1 an? county where liquor is allowed to ....Aroused by tho action of the Ch. engo (J. A. It. posts in denouni ing the proposed erection of a statue of Uoh ert K. l>*o in the Hall of l ame at Washington, camp Hampton, r c \ of Columbia, adopted a resolution strongly condemning the public stand taken by the Chicago posts. The resolution declares such opposition and tho feeling expressed b.v il are "untimely and harmful, lending to do no good whatever, but on tin con trary tends to dostroy the good win and harmony now existing anionic the vfiuilo no/wiln t\f mm r lllit.< !) ...."Not guilty" was the verdict ot the jury in the Richland couniy rourl of general sessions, In the ease ol George W. Medlin. charged with (lie murder of Mrs. Victoria (.Jrihiii on Juno 12 of last year. This closed the second trial of one of the most sensational murder mysteries that ever shocked Columbia. This makes Richland county's list of unsolved my> torlos, involving atrocious murders, total live in number. The others are the Stephen Howell, (Ireen and Mar shall, Wescott and Maude Allen cases. So far as can be learned, the <1(11 JIIM II l?fn 11 ?? V "3 IIWV* * AllllUOU U V\ ery clue to tho Uriltln mystery. fW i $jr 'S MESSAGE. In sold, except in tlioi-e count ICR where there arc cities with a populu tion exceeding twenty-live thousand. Winding Up Commission. The winding-up commission have, up to this time, turned over to the slate treasurer for tho use or the permanent school luml the sum ot two hundred and seventy-live thousand dollars, and more v.ill he turned over when present litigation is ended. ! he commission is commended and thanked for Its work. Supreme Court Building. I recommend that a supreme court building he erected on the state house grounds at a eoet not to exceed thirty thousand dollars. Statue of John C. Calhoun, it gives me pleasure to state that in aeordance with your direction and in obedience to your request, tlie commission appointed by you to have.' erected a statue to that great statesn an and citizen, John C. Calhoun, and to have the same placed in statuary hall in tin- capitol at Y\ashington, has perlonned that duty, and that a Intuituul white Italian marble statue of thiB great son of South Carolina now stands in said hall. 1 desire to extend the thanks of the statu to tlie members of the commission lor their untiring labor in this work. It whs a labor of love. The work is an ornament to the state . 111,1 f.Mtioll I In, tlnliin ic to I... nil veiled and some exercises Held on behalf of tin: state on the 19th of January, A. 1). lliln, iu statuary hall, Washington, J>. t\ State Hospital for the Insane. At the last .session ot your honorable bodies, you appointed a committee to investigate and report to you the conditions and needs ot this institution, ami, as said committee's report will he on your desks very soon, I feel assured that the superintendent has done all that he could with the appropriations given him, and t earnestly recommend that you con shier its needs and provide adequately for them. Penitentiary. This institution, under the care and direction of t lw> snnerintendent and directors, lias kept up its good reputation and lias had a year ot good work and good results. The lease made in l.vyi tor a certain number of convicts to work in tln? penitentiary hosiery mills win expire in January, 11)1 1. It is necessary that another lease be made and a special message on this subject will be submitted. Rai Iroada. I am of the opinion that more authority should be given the railroad commission of the state to require the railroads to comply with all reasonable rules and regulations made uy ISillU rOIllllllHHlOIl. State Board of Health. It irt the duty of tin; state to prevent tho spread of all epidemics and contagious diseases A reasonable expenditure ot money lor tho purposes above mentioned paves a great deai of suffering and may result in tlie saving of many lives. 1 bespeak your careful consideration of the ! work and recommendations of this board. National Guard. I desire to reiterate here what. I said in my last annual message, towit, that: "The citizen soldiery is a very important arm ot the state government, uml should bo sustained and encouraged by all lovers of peace and order.'' Whenever called upon to render any service for the slate, they have responded with promptness and discharged tie ir duties with fidelity. I I recommend n liberal appropriation fur its maintenance. Salaries. In my annual message to the general assembly in inns, | used these word.;; "Some years ago, when tho purchasing value of a dollar was more than it is at this time, tin salaries of our .state otliccrs and judges or tli - supreme court and < irctilt courts j were reduced. 1 d>sire to ask it tnc time has not come when these salaries should be raised again and your olli< ers paid a salary commensurate with the work they are required to do?" 1 desire to again bring this matter to your attention and to ask. its serious consideration. Department of Agriculture, Etc. Much good work lias been done by j liiis department in stimulating the farmers of the state to improve their | methods of fa lining and by giving 'them information that Mill bo helpful. Monument to the Women of South Carolina. I'he commission appointed by me j iv< < ived contributions In < ash amoun|tinu to about $11,000 for the erection of a monument lo the heroism, jtidelit;. ami fortitude of the women of South Carolina during the war between the conlederato slates am. the i I I'niied States I'he monument has | b< en ordered and ir is rcc.omim nded \ i that some provision be mad< to pay ! the actual expenses of the gentlemen : who served on the commission. Income Tax Amendment to tne Constitution of the United States, i A copy <>f the proposed amendment J to the constitution of the I nited 1 Slates known as the "income tax j ui t inliiK ni" is laid beion ii>e legis- I iil t ill''' l?) Hav Wlli'llKT 1 III- Si lite <>l Sontii Carolina is in l.ivoi ot or <>i> posed i<> said amendment. Conclusion. licillltllion, tile people of Sonth Carolina look to yon as tin* lawnsak i ers of tin; state, and the* guardians j of her welfare and 1'nture prosperity, i to enact such laws as shall redound to tin- best interests of all the people. May the God of nations and ot states guide you in all your deliberations. M. K. ANSK.U Governor. I ....Tho turned over to the stale treasurer hy Dr \V J. Murray, chairman or the dispensary rominie fllon, will go to tlir? schools or tho state unless ordered by the legislature. The turning of the money into ! iho school fund moans that ?f>,()UO will i be used of a state summer school i during the present year, this being proscribed by law. The fund will be j equally divided among all of the court . ties of the state, and each child In ' the schools will receive about NO cents worth ol education out of the , amount. .... lull Mil sune << r><mm i Aiuniin is maintaining convicts for the use of a private corporation for a sum that. barely pays actual expenses will 1 bo shown in a report by Commission i er Watson, which will be transmitted to the legislature. The report wlV contain verbatim testimony from tho oiiicials of the penitentiary and was prepared as required by the lahor act enacted at the last session of the legislature. A hosiery mill is situated on the inside grounds of the state penitentiary and the pay for several hundred convicts is hardly enough to pay for maintaining the labar. in one to 1 LEGISLATURE CONVENES South Carolina Solons Are Now in Session. MANY IMPORTANT ISSUES \\r- i * m .... ? uwic vt iae measure Likely to Ue Most Important Ouestion Discussed This Session. Columbia, S. C.?Tho liqvior question promises to he the most Interesting matter which will come before the legislature of South Carolina at tlx present session which began on Tuesday. 1'he hill passed last year, lar from settling the question, seems only to have made both sides more determined in their belief. 'I'll.. o< ... .. ; > j.. gioicniuu pi uii i umuiuKiH argue that they added fifteen counties to the dry column In the election held last August and that their gains show that South Carolina is overwhelmingly for prohibition. Thore am now hut six wet counties in the state, and in two of those the election was very close, while there are Mi> counties in which no liquor may be legally sold. The local optionists combat this question, asserting U?at the matter should be loft in statu quo for the present, as there is a sutficifiiir tmriv of anti-prohibitionists to warrant the state's division on county lines, They c laim that the passage in lii'J'J of tlie local option law which made , the whole state dry, but permitted the counties to vote the dispensaries in again, constituted an implied agreement that the wishes of the wet counties would be respected. There is a largo and determined representation of avowed state-wide prohibitionists in the legislature, as was proved last year when the drys kept the body in session a week overtin. e. to kill a lilibuster by the local opiiouists. This majority probably has lost no strcncth. and it la unite possible that it has gained considerably. On the other hand, it is probable that some of those who voted for the local option measure will not support a state-wide prohibition law. That is the situation, as it appears now. Whatever the ultimate outcome South Carolina now seems likely to witness one of the most interesting legislative battles seen in many a day. In the meantime the situation in Charleston, the seat of anti-dispensary and anti-prohtbition sentiment, continues much the game, injunctions are still in force and the lispensary ot Ihpior are seized every week, and still the work of the officers does not get lighter, in other counties there is less liquor sold, inougn iiiere are numerous eonviclions for violation of tho dispensary law. STATE INSANE ASYLUM SAID TO BE A DISGRACE. Greenwood, S. C.?In speaking of tho work done by the committee of > investigation of the affairs existing at the State Insane Asylum, Hon. Wade ('. Harrison, a member of the committee, said: In preparation of tiie work intrusted to them the committee have endeavored to familiarize themselves with the subject, and have for this iMupuM; vikiu'u many Hospitals. "A thorough investigation of the hospital has also heon made hy members of the committee ami about io photographs taken whieh snow actual conditions, these will also be published As to the actual conditions in the hospital I can only say that tiiey are bad beyond belief. I he present ,care of the insane in South Carolina 1/ nothing short, of a crime against hvmanitv. \\e have arrived at a point whore we must act or be classed as nothing short of inhuman 1 he legislature will have to appropriate tit least $1(00,000 to relievo the situation and within the next decade the expenditure of as much more will be necessary. "It is earnestly hoped that no attempt. to minimize conditions will be made by any one and certainly not by the press, as this would do an irreparable injury to the 1,500 helplens inmates of our hospital and the thousands of others who will be inmates in the future." GOVERNMENT WILL ASSIST IN EXTERMINATING RED SPITER. Washington, L). c. ? For several years an insert known as the red spider has been doing considerable damage to cotton in South Carolina; espci i illy in the sections around I'.ates burn and I.,008V i lie. The insect Is very destructive, and where it has tak^n firm hold tho crop is usually almost a total failtnv Fanners around Balcsburg ha\ had this mntt? r under con.-idera: in with Representative Lever during the past year, with tho result that through his eilorts th^ department of agriculture Ik is become interested in the situation and h;ui formulated detinue plans i,t beginning work nt Batesiurg on 1 hruiiry 1 Both the experiment station and the department will concentrate their efforts to meet the destructive ravages of this insect. So tar no remedy has boon tonnd Mir ii, <i i u m ' 1111 iiiiivj* ut u?iv? boon tried. STATE CAPITAL NOTES. ..Tho battleship South Carolina will bo placed in cOMmission at Philadelphia, March 1st, according to the present plans ot tho navy department, i'aptain Kochtlcr nn i!I be in command of tho Bhlp. ..The first pardon of the new year was granted by (iovernor Ansel to Robert Kilgore, convicted in Leo county, <?n the charge or iimn?liiuBhtei and sentenced to serve a term ol seven years on the county chain gang. Kilgore was convicted in 1 'J05 and wus only 17 years of age at the time . ..James S. Karntmi, agent in this state for a number or brewery and liquor firms who did business with the state dispensary, pleaded guilty to a charge or conspiracy to defraud tie- state, and paid a line of The sudden ending of the case caino without any previous intimation^ ....The Abbeville county dispensary a Nairn have been wound up by the dispensary auditor, The sum of %2'i,XX 1.7-i has been placed on deposit to the credit of that county, and the. county dispensary hoard Went out of office so far aa salary is concerned on January 1. ... The finances ot the state are lit line condition according to a atatcmade at the stato treasurer's office. Notes aggregating $100,000 have been paid on the state debt and there is plenty of money to meet ali obligations. The total amount of taxes received lo date from the county treas urors amounts to $'^7 ,771.3k. taries are now kept within artificial borders, which are very much raised up. The increased velocity which currents thus restrained acquire gives them the power to transport to the sea a very much larger quantity of sediment than formerly. Thus the deltas of the Po and the Adige have constantly encroached upon the Adriatic. Moreover, a part of the sand and slime, which in a natural condition of things would have been spread over the plain by annual Hoods, is deposited on the bottom of the beds of the streams, whose capacity thus becomes diminished.