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A big lot of Collar Pads at 35 each, at Ramsey ct Bland's. CORRESPONDENCE [For the ADVERTISER. LOOKING BACKWAKD. A Little Ancient History Com pared With the Doings Now. MR. EDITOR: Although the peo ple of South Carolina are making history every day and perhaps do not care to look back, I beg leave to give an incident that happened ages ago as apropos to the situa tion in South Carolina to-day. Many, many years ago, when the world was much younger than it is now, long before the inventiou of gunpowder and fire-arms, a great mechanician invented a military machine, or engine, to be used in battle, which he claimed would throw enormous stones at an enemy, and kill hundreds of them at one discbarge. This machine was operated-something like the trigger of a trap, and with a powerful spring, it was claimed that it would throw these huge stones for a half mile or more and with unerring precision into the ranks of a hostile army. Well, th)8 engine was adopted by one of the nations of antiquity, but its mechanism and uses were kept a profound secret for fear that other nations would catch on ; and such was the confidence in the invention and the skill and repute of the inventor that its poetical operation was never even tested. A ttrar'comTfig on, however made the opportunity. The op posing armies were drawl) tip iu line, and the engine brought out for use. A huge stoup, a ton's weight or more, was placed on the machine, and everything made ready for the trial, a trial which was to result in the complete dis comfiture rout and distruction of the opposition forces. At this juncture when everything was in readiness, the General who was in command of the array which had the machine stepped back from it a few paces and gave the word of command : "Damn it boys, let 'er roll, and let the man who made the 'Thing' pull the trigger." In obedience to thiB command, the man who made the ''Thing" pulled the trigger and the "Thing" went off. The stone rose in the air. Straight up it went, higher and higher, until it became a mere speck in the empyrean blue, and then it began to descend. Straight down it came, down, down it came with tremendous force, fell on the "Thing" that sent it up, broke it all to pieces and killed the man who made it. The General took in the situation at a glance, jumped on the stone which had done the mischief and made the army a speech. He said: "Fellowsoldiers, the war is over. That infernal 'Thing' has done us up, pointing at the smashed remains. We will have to 'fall back' like this damned rock did, but before we go, we muat give a name to this 'Thing' that broke our molasses jug for us. I move we name it 'Jackass.' " Everybody in the army seconded the motion. "Well," said the Gen eral, "as everybody has seconded the motion it is no use to put it. It is already carried. Besides, the woods in front of us are full of guyascutesses, whangdoodles, and Tillmauites. Grease your heels and light out." Right there, Mr. Editor, is where the Jackass started and he hasn't stopped yet. If anyone should seek to com pare the Supreme Court of South Carolina to the "Jackass," General and all, above named, be it so, for if every citizen of this State has an "inalienable right" to sell liquor certainly the right to think and talk is equally as "inalienable" if not more so. I'll tell you what it is, And what I've been a thinkin', I'm a mighty poor scholar. But 1 do my own drinkin' And so the Supreme Court; Can't tell the REASON wnv Big pifr, little pig, Root hog, or die. SANDRIGHAN. [For the ADVERTISER. A Correspondent Charges That Forty Dollars and a Gold Watch Were Taken from Pepper's Body After He Was Killed. MR. EDITOR: Please allow me i space to express my opinion, and | not mine alone, for it is lhe opinion of the majority of us Pleasant 1 Lane people, in regard to some of ' the lies of Gonzales, the editor of The State. I see in his editorials ? he says that in hie giving his de scription of the "Darlington mur der" he falls far short of the truth and indeed, he does when he does not and will not tell it at all. He charges the constables with murder when they had done noth ing more than their duty. Who are their murderers? When the constables had served their war rants and gone peacefully to the depots preparing to leave, and a crowd of lawless men followed for the purpose of raising a riot. Not only did they raise the riot, but killed Mr. Pepper outright, and after killing him actually robbed him of $40 and a gold watch. I have this from good authority, and I can give my author if called on. Such are the so-called "law abiding citizens" of Darlington. I hope the "law nbiding citizens" will reflect over this, and return the money to Mrs. Pepper, for in her destitute condition it will do h&r a great deal of good. Gonzales charges Gov. Tillman with being at the head of the crimes which were committed, when he (Gonzales) has been sow ing the seed of of discord through that infamous paper, The State, every since 1890. I fully believe had it not have been for that State and a few other papers, the politics of South Caro lina would have been on a sounder basis than ever before. He compares Gov. Tillman, the people's choice, to R. K. Scott, the negro carpet-bagger. Now, in the .name of the good people of South CaroTln?V'Tillli?anite or anti-Till manite, who has played IxPgro, Gov. Tillman, who has enforced the" law, or Gonzales, who just after the Denmark lynching intimated that the negro might take revenge in kind. But while these slander ous and vile epithets are doing harm by stirring up strife between a few they are aiding Gov. Till man. The State has in a great measure placed him at the head'of our State government. And if such old sore-headed politicians as But ler and Hampton ever expect an other office they had better insist that The State be no longer pub lished. A TlLLMANITE FROM TRICKHAM. Pleasant Lane, S. C. [For the ADVERTISER. A Tuck or Tv. o from Sautuck. MR. EDITOR : If you will allow me a little space in your paper I will give you a tuck or two. Most, of the farmers of this sec tion are through planting cotton, and. I am sorry to say, planted more to the plow than they did last year. We need moie hog and hominy and less cotton. Mr. Bill Harrelson is at the point of death. This is the second spell Mr. Harrelson has had this year. Mrs. Joe Lake paid Santuck a flying visit this week. Miss Carrie Brooks is visiting friends and relatives in New Market. The writer thinks if she don't soon return a young man in this neighborhood will ride his kicking mule to death. Mr. .Eugene Hackett, of Gaines, is going to locate at New Market now soon. SANTUCKIAN. Santuck, S. C. ? A Fighting Hen. LOU?KV?IC Courier-Journal. George Diefenback has a game hen from County Galway, Ireland, that is better than a rat terrier. The other morning a large rat tried to get at the hen's nest. Instantly the hen was all feathers. When the rat tried to run under her, she pecked at him viciously The rat jumped at her and tried to catch her by the neck. Every time the rat came at the hen she dropped her wings and met bim more than halfway. Once the rat pulled out a iittle bunch of feathers, but his jump was short, and failed to catch the hen's neck. This made the hen more angry. She went at the rat in earnest. The rat would snap its jaws and squeak in a great rage. The two fought for half an hour, and then the hen killed the rat. The rat weighed three pounds. What thc Cyclone Did. WEITPLAIXS, MO, April 23. Late reports from Summerville, thc scene of the recent cyclone, say the town was not much injured, but in the country the damage was jreat. MrsVankeel, three children, a hired girl and hired man were killed. Five dwellings and as many other buildings were blown away Mid a large number of people in jured. FKEE LIQTJOK. Governor Tillman Interviewed on the Subject. The Colombia State. The Governor was asked how long before the uncertainty about the. decision would be removed and the mystery resolved. He said : "I have already solved my part of it. It is now for the judges to let the people know what they have decided. I don't know whether the decision means prohi bition or free liquor, or what it means. Who can tell what they mean? I don't see what object they could have had in leaving the matter in doubt at all." "tWell , Governor, what about that ext^a session?" '^Vho has heard anything about an |xtra session? All I've heard of is some talk in the newspa pers, and of course the papers are in the wrong.'' "It is claimed by some that the decision leaves the law a prohibi tion Jaw, and that the police regu lation feature of the law stands. HoV about that? Gov. Tillman replied: "All I have to Bay is that the Legislature gayo: me authority to enforce the dispensary law. When the court declares the dispensary lav dead whyV.of course, my authority to enforce it, dies with it. I don't ^eejvhat right I have to attempt to ma^tain^l^c^tT^buJ.'uy to en fore^ a prohibition law i fix-ii suck. %',? NOT HIS BUSINESS. .j. . "Governor, whose business is it to find out what the court means?" "I don't know. It's not mint." Then laughingly the Governor said, 'Whafisit that Byron said about So?*fcfey? "Oh yes, 'I wish he'd explain his explanation.'" The Governor was asked what he intended to do about haviug the stocks of the various count;; dis pensaries shipped back hen and stored; if the rents and insurance would not amount to more than the expense of doing this? He said he had no authority whatever to go into the expense of moving the stock, and things would just go on just as they are. Continuing he said : "You see I am paralyzed. I can't do a thing. It seems to me that the Court in so many words expressly declared that 'the dispensary law is not a prohibitory law.' The Court denies emphatically that the municipali ties have the right to issue licenses. Now if it is not a prohibition law and the right to issue licenses does not stand, and there is no other law applying to the liquor traffic, it looks to me like free liquor. It looks like anybody and everybody can go -anywhere in the county, at every cross road and anywhere else and start up bar-rooms and sell liquor. All acts applying to the liquor traffic inconsistent with the dispensary act have been repealed and there are none on the statute books." Gov. Tillman then made tho fol lowing important statement : "The whole situation as I see it now is that I can only maintain the status quo; shut np shop, close up bupi ness, do absolutely nothing and obey the law. The State is forbid den to sell whiskey. As to who else can or may I can't and won't pretend to say. It is confusion worse confounded." IN A NUTSHELL. Gov. Tillmau in talking further in regard to the situation last night, when some one referred to the mat ter of licensing the liquor traffic under the decision of the Supreme Court called attention to the fact that in tho Chester liquor case, the Supreme Court had already em phatically stated in its decision that licenses of any kind could not be granted. Some one remarked too, that if tho dispensary law had been de clared unconstitutional, it was null and void all the way through, and the clause of the law which re pealed all other liquor laws, would of course be dead, and those laws would consequently be of force now. The Governor showed how i deeply he had studied the mattel in all its phases when he laughed and called attention to the fact that, whenever a General Assembly passed a section of any act repeal ing other acts, those acts were dead, no matter what became of the new act, .until they w,ere placed back upon the statute books by special act of a State Legislature. When some one else talked about having a test case made to get the matter back before the Supreme Court, the Governor called atten tion to the fact that there would be no more sessions of the Circuit Courts till June. It ia thus seen that all the bars are down ; that Governor Tillman realizes the fact and does not hesi tate to say so. He seems, too, to be rather jubilant over the situa tion. He says that if the Prohibition ists think that the decision leaves the law a prohibition law, he will watch with interest to see them ar rest some one for selling liquor and attempt a prosecution. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. Attorney General Buchanan was yesterday asked point blank about the future course of the State. He said: "Honestly, I don't know. That is the gospel. The court has evaded touching on any federal question and we cannot go any where with an appeal. Judge Hud son did decide a federal question but the Supreme Court did not , leave us that opening." It said that it is possible that some kind of a motion will bc made to get the court to define >.whether its decision means abso lu te^r??r&ition or free liquor to everybody. ' Snakes in the Human^Slood. St. Louis Republic. What would you think if the family physician should call and after carefully examining your ton gue and feeling your pulse, calmly inform you that "you have" snakes in your blood?" You may laugh at the absurdity of such a notion and of the improbability of ever having ?uch startling words whis pered in your ear by your medical I adviser, yet it is not at'all unlikely that even at this moment you have thousands O? wigglers chasing each other up and down your veins. The most important discoveries concerning snakes in the blood have been made during the last nine months, principally in Eu rope. Dr. C. W. Stiles, of the Bu reau o? Animal Industry, Wash ington, D. C., is also studying these minute creatures. The blood snake is a small white parasite, which effects an entrance into the veins of man, as well as animals, through the medium of drinking water. The male snake is only about four fif tha of an inch in length and he constantly keeps himself in the shape of a bow or a new moon, the female occupying a miniature groove on the male's body. The male is not larger in diame ter than a section of No. 40 spool cotton ; the female much smaller, of course, but the damage a few hundied pairs of such paraeiteB may work in an animal's system is truly astonishing. These blood reptiles have been known for cen turies, but down to 1893, when Prof. Sonsino, of Pisa, Italy, began to make their life history and va rious transformations a scientific study, but little was known regard ing them. Our learned Italian pro fessor says that the eggs of the blood snake, or the larvrc them selves, are found in all kinds of water, especially in' Africa and in the Orient. After the eggs hatch the snake attaches itself to a mi croscopic and harmles animalcule. This latter, snake and all, is taken into the stomach in the water. The sudden transformation kills the little animalcule, but fattens the blood snake, which now leaves the ston.ach or intestines and begins its search for blood vessels. Once in the veins they breed with amaz ing rapidity and soon devour the life-giving elements of the san guine fluid. At first the- patient is said to have "poor blood," next he has rheumatism or some other dis ease, accompanied with excruciat ing pains. This goes on from bad to worse until the poor victim suc cumbs to a real case of snakes. The scientists bslieve that the "fiery serpent" of the Exodus was , nothing more nor less than a ma lignant form of snakes in thc blood. You will no go blind if you look at Ramsey & Bland's splendid ' stock of blind bridles, just received, j Refused the Money? New York Herald. The following odd incident is related of Conductor McKinney, wno was employed many years ago upon a Southern railroad : One night in leaving Washing ton the conductor went as usual through the train to collect the fares. In one of the rear cars a passenger without a ticket handed him a bill. The conductor took it, glanced at it hastily and, seeing that it was of a large denomina tion, put it in his pocket, as con ductors are apt to do, and inform ed the passenger that he would re turn with the change. The purpose of the delay was, of course, to afford the conductor an opportunity to examine the bill at his leisure in the baggage car to see if it was all right. When Mr. McKinney reached the baggage car and inspected the note he found to his astonishment that what he had taken for a $100 bill was a note for $1,000. Of course the changing of a bill of such a denomination was out of the question. The conductc. there fore passed-back through the train to refund the money and obtain a smaller bill. When he reached the car the passenger had shifted his seat. Going up to him, the con ductor said that there waB probably a mistake, as the note given him was for $1,000. To his utter amazement the pas senger disclaimed all knowledge of the bill. He had given a ticket, ho said, and his seat mate con firmed the statement. The con ductor expostulated, but the man was firm and could not be prevail ed upon to accept the money. Finally the conductor gave up in despair, not knowing whether he or the passenger was crazy, but inclined to the latter belief. At a s^atiovi>-^-.two from Washington tho passenger~l?n?v&S "companion left the train and hastily disaJP" peared. The next day Mr.,McKin ney handed in the bill to the com pany office with an explanation. The money was deposited on a special account and the railroad officials awaited the coming of a claimant. Year after year passed, however, and no one ever turned up for the money, which in the meanwhile was steadily adding in terest. Finally when Mr. McKin ney retired from the service of the company the officials give him the proceeds of the bill, which at in terest then amounted to nearly $2,000. No explanation was ever vouch safed of the odd occurrence. The theory generally credited by the conductor and the railroad officials, however, was that the bill was given by mistake by some burglar, who upon discovering his error de cided that it was safer to repudiate the transaction than to acknowl edge the ownership of the money, the large amount of which he thought might render the conduc tor suspicious and lsad to his ar rest. Editor MedilFs Discovery. Editor Joseph Medill, of the Chicago Tribune, is confident that he has made an important discov ery which will enable a prudent man to live one hundred and fifty years. Mr. Medill has found that diet is not the principal thing to be con sidered. His studies have con vinced him that lime is the main obstructionist of life. The water we drink fills the system with lime. Get the right sort of water, free from this element, and the problem of longevity is solved. Last year Mr. Medill began drink ing distilled water and snow water, His rheumatism is cured, his di gestion is improved and he has practically renewed his youth. He says: The virtue of this water is not in its mineral properties, but in their absence, its absolute purity, in particular its freedom from lime. That is the substance, says he, that gets into the capillaries of tho joints and stops the lubricating process that keep the joints limber. Et obstructs the capillary cells of the hair, so that the pigments can tio longer find their way throughj [md it becomes colorless-white. Little particles of lime get into the cells of the stomach, of the bladder and kidneys and caust ?very form of indigestion and Bright's disease ; they get into the iieart and weaken its action. In fact, the whole process of growing )ld and wearing out is due to a su perabundance of this white mineral ubstance-a liming up, till finally man lies down a brittle mummy hundred years before his time. The old journalist is in his sev nty-first year, but he feels that he as secured a new lease of life. He pent years travelling over Europe, isiting all the celebrated water urea. In this country he trifd he hot springs, of Arkansas. In act, he tried every known remedy ar rheumatism, indigestion, gen ral debility, and heart disease, ut he found no relief until he ommenced using water entirely ree from lime. There is one good thing about [r. Medill's theory. It will hurt obody to test it. The man who rinks pure water with no lime in ; will not be running any risk, nd while he may not reach the ne-hundred-and-fifty-year limit, e will prolong his life. A Wail of Embarrassment. he Colombia State. We are more than ev?r satisfied hat Gov. Tillman's "free liquor" pinion was designed to create em barrassment for the opponents of he dispensary law, both prohibi ionistB and advocates of high ?cense. We are more than ever satisfied hat it will be a great mistake for ny municipality in the State to 3sue licenses for the sale of liquor n the theory that the old license ystem is re-established. We are more than ever satisfied bat the prohibitionists ought to lake a case at once and get the udgment of the Supreme Court as 3 the law now of force. The indiscriminate sale of liquor hould be discouraged by the op ionents of the dispensary law. An verwhelming majority of them do tot want and never did want ''free iquor." They should frown down he multiplication of bar-rooms, f there be no law to close them, lublic opinion can do it. We must l?TceTfr^gl&i?that our opposition D 'the dispensary^&^vas^ based rx principle,. BOL.mra-o?Jiepo^---w In view of the decision of tho lupreme Court that the prohibi ten of the issue of licenses re gains in force, no city or town hould attempt to issue them. It rould be contempt of court. Hands ff until the way is clear, and then ligh license and strict regulations ! If the prohibitionists will press or a decision they will find, we hink, that absolute prohibition is rhat they are entitled to under ex sting circumstances. We have ood reason for believing this. The .rohibitionists should have the act settled and see if there is law o enforce their policy. Compara ively few people will grudge them he opportunity of experimenting rith prohibition until the Legisla ure shall meet. They Want Names. 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This is the season of the year rhen the farmers' mind stubbornly ontemplates the purchase of irming imptements, and othe ecessities in the hardware line. ,6 usual Ramsey & Bland have repared to meet pvery demand long that line. Visit their store efore laying in your supply. It would delight you to view and ?view the beautiful lines of arness which Ramsey & Bland, ?ceived this week. Magnificent i the word. Don't forget that Ramsey & land deal in hard ware and farm aplements. They defy competi-i, on. Their store is calculated to lease all tastes. Farm bells for sale by Ramsey Bland.