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?lets and Flashes.
Hope enables a man to accomplish
?wonders-in his mind.
People would have more faith in a
reformer if he would furnish proof of
his sincerity by beginning with, him
self.
"When a man stands at the marriage
altar he gets as nervous as he does
when watching the bulletins of a base
ball game.
Walking is said to be the best ex
ercise a mah can indulge in. Perhaps
that is why so many men walk home
from the races.
Molasses in Tank Wagons.
A New York concern has embarked
upon the enterprise of distributing mo
lasses by tank wagons, fitted to carry
1,000 gallons and prepared to deliver
in quantities as small as one quart. It
is proposed to make the price as lew
as 20 cents per gallon at retail. The
same concern will ship goods by rail
hy means of tank cars similar to those
in which kerosene is transported.
Raising Minks for Their Fur.
Charles Elliot of East Barnet, Vt.,
has a scheme to raise mink for the
'fur. He believes in his idea and has
placed an old hen house on the banks
of the river as a start in the business.
Woven wire will keep the animals
where he can find them and a part of
the strc-am thus fenced off will give
them the water required.
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Four Facts For
Sick Women
To Considet
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? ?{t.r^Jfas anUnequalled Recozd of Cures
:lfrs. Pinkham's Advice Is Confidcn
?Ss ?&iia%-$Frec, .and always Helpful
FrasT.-That almost every operation
in our hospitals performed upon women
becomes necessary through neglect of
such sj'mptoms as backache, irregular
and painful menstruation, leucorrhcea,"
displacements of the uterus, pain in
the side, burning sensation in the stom
ach, bearing-down pains, nervousness,
dizziness and sleeplessness.
'^SECOND.-The medicine that holds
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It regulates, strengthens and cures
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ness and displacements, regulating
menstruation perfectly and overcom
ingyts pains, lt has also proved itself
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atffl^tlie. change of life.
. TSTRD;-The great volume of unso
i^i2^:l?cite<r?nd grateful testimonials on file
at the Pinkham Laboratory at Lynn,
- ? Massl, many of which are from time to
time published by permission, give ab
solute evidence of the value of Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and
Mrs. Pinkham's advice.
. FOURTH. -Every ailing woman in the
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life. '
Mrs. Pinkham's Standing Invitation
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; promptly communicate with Mrs. Pink
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received, opened, read and answered
by women onlj'. From symptoms given,
your trouble may be located ancLthe.
quickest a*rd surest way of recovery
advigt??/,"Oufc of the vast volume of ex
lence in treating female ills Mrs.
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so. as. *~
PAPA'S JUDGMENT WAS OFF.
His Boy Very Much Like Other Boys,
* After All.
On the day The .Boy was eleven
years old he visited an artist iriend
who likes boys. The artist enter
tained him royally. He gave him a
gun and cigarette coupons worth;
$2.50. The Boy was proud of the gun,
but he thought still more of the cou
pons.
"What are you going to get with
them, son?" asked Thc ?oy"s mother.
"I don't know," said The Boy.
His mother was about to offer a
few suggestions but The Boy's father
interfered. *
"Just you let Bob alone, he said.
"Let him pick out his own r^e. He.
knows what he wants." .. "
"But he'll get j=rjmething foolish,"
argued the practical mother.
rgued. the practice
!^Njfc??s^?f?n't,"
said the father.
"That boy's got the best judgment of
any boy I ever saw. He won't thro^v
his money away. He'll come heme
with something useful-something
that he needs right on the spot. 1
wouldn't be afraid to bet on that."
So the mother finally gave inf On
Saturday- The Boy went down town
to -exchange his coupons for a prize
When he came home the family wa:
gathered at the dinner table talking
about him.
"Come, dear," said his mothar,
"show mama what her little boy got."
They sat expectant while the boy
..s^unwj?apped ?is prize. After a little
they spoke. The mother said, "Oh!
oh! oh!" and the father said, "Well,
Til be blessed!"*
The boy had bought a razor.
. WANTED TO SLEEP.
Carious That a Tired Preacher Should
Have Such Desire.
A minister speaks of the curious ef
fect of Grape-Nuts food on him and
how it has relieved him.
"You will doubtless understand how
the suffering,, with indigestion with
which I used to be troubled made my
^wp.rk^an almost unendurable burden.
i?A Jiiaad why it was that after icy Sabbath
duties had been performed, sleep was,
a stranger to my pillow till nearly day
light.
"I had to be very careful as to what
* I ate, and even with ali my care I ex
perienced poignant physical distress
after* meals, and my food never satis
fied me.
"Six months have elapsed since I be
gan'to' use Grape-Nuts food, and the
benefits I have derived from it are very
definite^ I-no. longer suffer from indi
gest?on/and ? began to improve from
th* time Grape-Nuts appeared on our
table. I find that by eating a dish of
???It after my Sabbath work is done (and
I always do so now) my nerves are
quieted and rest and refreshing sleep
are insured mc. I feel that I could not
possibly do without Grup.e-rCuls food,
now that I know its value. It is inva
v^vrriably on our table-we feel that we
, need it to complete the meal-and our
childreff^'ill cat Grape-Nuts when
they cannot be'persuaded to touch any
thing ^Tstit" Name given by Tostum
Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
. There's a reason.
.Read the famous little book, "The
.Eo?ii to Wellvjjle," in each pkg.
S y..-'- ? ?:. '. ?
TILLMAN'S VIEWS
ON DISPENRARY
The Senator Answers Some Questions
Propounded to Aim
MUST BEA GENERAL OVERHAULING
Father of Law Shows His Position and
Tells of Sins Which Make People.
Oppose and Fight lt.
In an open letter to Francis W. Hig
gins, of Newberry, Senator Tillman
comes out squarely against the move
ment against the dispensary and de
clares" that the several counties should
not accept prohibition until the Legis
lature has been given a chance to re
form the institution. It is as follows:
Trenton, S. C., July 1, 1905.
Mr. Francis W. Higgins, Newberry,
S. C.
Dear Sir: I have your letter of June
27, propounding certain inquiries in re
gard to the anti-dispensary movement
in Newberry, and to the dispeD -ary
and liquor question in general, and to
my own attitude towards it.
The question you ask relate to the
most important subject now agitating
the minds of the people of the State,
and in order to cover the ground at all
satisfactorily it will require me to an
swer at some length and to discuss the
subject in its various phases, and this
becomes the more necessary as you no
tify me in advance that you desire my
answer for publication.
I shall preface what I write by lay
ing down certain general principles
.which will be disputed only ?y those
who are fanatical and unwilling to
consider any subject from any other
standpoint than that of bigotry and
prejudice. Most men will agree to the
following:
1. All men love stimulants and are
usually slaves to some one kind, as
witness the strong appetite which pre
vails for coffee, tea, tobacco, beer,
wine, brandy, whiskey, morphine, qui
nine, cocaine, etc. With the exception
of some of the drugs mentioned there
are no injurious effects immediately
perceptible and none of them intoxi
cate except those containing alcohol.
Alcoholic beverages in moderation are
no more harmful than tea or coffee,
probably less so. ,
2. The abuse of liquor by men drink- '
ing to excess has caused as much or
more crime and misery than any other
one thing.
3. The proper policing and control
of tbe liquor traffic so as to minimize
its abuses is one of the most perplex
ing and troublesome questions with
which any government has to deal.
Men have never agreed as to any ono
method being best and never will, and
there is a constant agitation of the
subject in scrv.e form going on all the
while in almost every State in the
Union.
? 4. Experience shows that some men
will have liquor as a beverage and
that no law has ever yet been devised
which will prevent them obtaining it.
Wise men are therefore content to re
duce the evils of liquor selling and
liquor drinking to the minimum, and
the question at issue in South Caro
lina now as it has been these fifteen
or twenty years past, is how to do
this.
There is no need for any heat or pas
sion in discussing the subject and we
should divest ourselves of all preju
dices in its consideration. Three poli-"
cies have at one time or another been
adopted in dealing with the question.
License, high or iow, prohibition and
the dispensary system. Since 1S93 the
last named has beeu the method fol
lowed in this State, but all along there
have been staunch advocates of the
other two systems embracing within
their ranks many of the most intelli
gent and best people we have. It is,
therefore, eminently proper that we
recognize these earnest, honest advo
cates as having just what, we claim for
ourselves, no other purpose than that
of the public welfare. And those of us
who have been the supporters of the
dispensary system must meet them in
argument and show from the experi
ence through which the people of the
State have passed as well as with force
and logic that the advocates of both
prohibition and high license are in er
ror.
You ask, "Have you lost faith in the
dispensary system and do you consider
it so inherently defective that it cannot
be purged of corruption and made to
serve its original purpose?" I answer
most emphatically, no. I believe the
principle of the State control and thp
sale of liquor through bondedo^rtfrs
to be the best that was^??r*revised ;
that it comes nenr&yjo the ideal idea
of teaching rnj^ro use liquor instead
o f-abws+ng It.an d throwing around it
safeguards which will be the best for
the cause of temperance. There is no
inherent defect in .the scheme, and if
there be corruption and mal-adminis
tration in the enforcing of the dispen
sary law it is directly traceable to the
Legislature and to those who have been
placed in charge of its sxecution. In the
absence of any positive proof of corrup
tion we must await with deep interest
the investigation which is now under
way and urge those in charge of that
important work to earnest, thorough,
and speedy action. The people believe
there is corruption and a great deal of
it. Very many tftings go to show that
this belief"has good foundation in fact.
We ought to know aa soon as possible
just what and how fnr men have been
guilty of unlawful behavior. ,
The suspicion which now hangs over
the dispensary like a pall will cause
many to hastily vote for itse destruc
tion, who are still or have been strong
believers in the dispensary system as
a means of controlling the sale of whis
key. So I would say to the gentlemen
who arc in charge of the investigation
that they can do the people of the State
a great service by le tting in the light
and probing to the bottom. We want
to know what is wrong and we can
then determine how to provide a rem
edy, while the criminal courts will, or
ought to provide punishment for the
wrongdoers.
The dispensary law has been under
fire in the courts arid on the hustings
ever since the system was inaugurated.
There has been only on r general elec
tion in the State, the las': in which it
was not an issue. It won rlctory after
victory for it was .he main issue in the
election of 1894, in the election for the
constitutional ^convention in 1885, and
in the State elections of 1396," 1898, 1900
and 1902. Those candidates for public
office who carried its banners were al
ways victorious. .
What then has caused the present
upheaval? Why are petitions circulat
ing in a dozen or more counties ask
ing for an election to vote it out under
the "Brice law, and that too in coun
ties which, in the past its known ad
vocates have always had large major
ities? Have the people any greater
faith in prohibition than they have had
I all these past years? I do not think
so. Are the advocates of high license
any stronger than they have been? I
do not hink so. I am bound to believe
that the existing dissatisfaction and
desire to destroy the dispensary comes
from the well-night- universal belief
of the people that there is corruption
in its administration and because the
last Legislature failed to take any ac
tion other than that to appoint a com
mittee to Investigate. There were
charges, with how much truth they
were made . I dont know, that the dis
pensary influence in the Legislature
Tvas paramount. Anyhow, the friends
of the dispensary and its ei
joined forces at the last session t
vent any action, and nothing was
and unless public opinion shall
the Legislature at its next sess:
some reform action which will
the atmosphere there is no p(
doubt that all elements of oppc
to the dispensary, aided by ma
its old friends, will combine i
next,election and kill the syste
do not hesitate to tell you franki;
if it has become, and is to rem
corrupt political machine as is ch;
I cannot defend it and will not i
but will join the ranks of those
seek to kill it. I believe it can 1
organized and purged of corni
with safegurads thrown around
prevent the recurrence of the pi
unfortunate and disgraceful com
of affairs. I cannot now go at 1
into the details and give reason;
I will state briefly the causes as
them which have produced the pi
situation.
The purchase of liquor by any
ex-officio or otherwise, should be
ped. The original scheme which
hastily gotten up made the Gove
attorney general and the compt
general ex-officio the State Boa
Control. This was changed very
after I left the Governor's office
the Legislature assumed control b
election of the- board; and in n
stance since has my advice and op
had any weight in shaping its mai
ment though I have tried to jiri
some things being clone and have i
others without success. It stanc
! reason that men who have to *de
upon the suffrage of the whole p<
to get high office are or ought to b
higher type with better characters
in every- way better fitted for reas
sible positions involving the ham
of public money than those who
petty salaries are elected by the L
lature. Politics always enters in
legislative election. People who
for Governor vote for him bec
of other qualifications chan that
would make a. good dispensary d
tor, and for this very reason the i
ernor is the best possible man to i
in such a responsible position,
the law is fatally defective in re
to the purchase of whiskey in
specifically defining in the most mi
and binding manner just what k
of liquor shall be bought and ho
shall be bought without leaving i
the discretion of any board. E
detail should be worked out and 1
the law would execute itself as fa
that feature is concerned. The bi
would then need only to supervise
conduct of State and county dis]
saries, the same as the asylum
penitentiary are run.
Now as regards the proposed ?
tion to vote out the dispensary. If
dispensary is to be voted out it she
and must be voled out of the State,
out by individual counties. Of coun
recognize the deep seated love of
people for local self government ar
would not compel any county to rel
the dispensary or have one establis
therein if a majority of the citiz
want prohibition with its acknowle
failure to prohibit. But judging sim
by the facts in the numerous electi
that have been held on the subjee
believe that a large majority of
people of the State are- as strong
lievers in the dispensary system a
am; and that they are only cast
"about now for a method of rel ie v
themselves of the corrupt mach
which is said to be in charge in Coll
bia. Many States in the Union h;
had corruption in their State gove
ments and their State treasurers hi
defaulted-have sometimes stolen hi
dreds of thousands of dollars-but
man has ever thought of abolish
! the machinery of taxation because
this. We have got to deal with liqi
in some form and provide for its
gitimate sale or we know it will f
illegitimate sale.
Shall we have high license? I ?
No. That gives the monopoly to 1
wealthy man as against the poor m
and we know from experience w
bar-rooms that it will.be impossible
1 give any man the right to fill his ste
with liquor, to sell and then have h
comply with the constitutional requi
ments and not sell it at night and i
have it drunk on the premises. If t
dispensary is abolished I will stui
the State for prohibition rather th
see high license. I have said this a
it is the reason probably that the sto
is going the rounds about my stumpi
for prohibition. But before wt ha
prohibition or high license either I e
peet if my health continues good,
give a very earnest discussion to t
subject of how to reform tho dispe
sary instead of destroying it and
showing the true inwardness of tl
present movement.
Let us suppose that the present car
paign against the dispensary by conn
elections, shall progress victoriously ?
it has thus far and that the majori!
of thc counties in thc State vote it on
Will the question bc settled? By r
means^Thc alliance of prohibitionist
^?^^n^?nsejr^?pi^e and-:-blind- -tige;
which is now w?grr.g successful wc
will have to continue the war betwee
themselves after the dispensary is di
funct. Sensible men will not lend the:
aid to any crusade which only gives i
"confusion worse confounded" and prc
duces a chaotic condition with no corr
Densation. >
Under the decision of the Unite
j States Supreme Court, prohibition an
no other State regulation can preven
1 liquor from being shipped in by es
press for personal use of individual!
and thc jug country traffic from Wi)
alington to Charlotte, Atlanta. Angus
to and Savannah will be immense un
der prohibition, and the money whic
now goes into the dispensary for th
use of the towns and counties of th
State and thc school fund will be sen
out of the State to enrich the dealer
and distillers bf other States. Still
will be run in every swamp and wag
ons will peddle liquor all over th
country. The only fight worth enlist
ing in South Carolina is between pro
hibition as rigidly enforced as it cai
be and the dispensary as honest]} ea
forced- as ,it ought to be. High licensi
is not to bo thought of for a moment
Yet the prohibitionists say they prefe;
the dispensary to license and tin
license people say they prefer prohi
bition to the dispensary while th<
blind tigers want prohibition because
they know it means free liquor.
The elections now being held in thc
counties to vote the dispensary oi:l
are very different to the Democratic
primary elections which will settle the
question finally. In the first place the
vote in these counties where elections
have been held against the dispensary
liar, been very small as compared wit*
the regular vote. It requires a certifi
cate of registration to vote at such an
election while in the primary the club
rolls of the Democratic clubs govern.
Then men are indifferent as they were
in the prohibition election in 1892 when
only^sixty thousand out of ninety-two
thousand voted in that box. There
are probably thirty thousand or more
good Democrats in the State who from
one cause or another are not able to
vote in the elections held under the
Brice act. That law was shrewdly
drawn and for the express purpose of
killing the dispensary I have been told.
These thirty thousand will determine
the question in the future as they have
in the past because they will elect the
Legislature and the State officers in
the State Democratic primary in spite
of any combination such as is now giv
ing us prohibition by a negative pro
cess. Voting out the dispensary not
because the people want prohibition
but giving us prohibition because some
people want free liquor, some people
prefer to buy illicit liquor and a return
to the old barroom system, while many
people will do anything to kill the dis
pensary with the hope of profiting by
its destruction.
I would advise every advocate of
j the dispensary who is in doubt to vote
j against putting the dispensary out of
! his county until we see what the report
of the investigating committee is and
then whether or not the Legislature at
213 South Prior Street,
ATLAXTA, GA., March 21,1903.
T suffered for four months with
extreme nervousness and lassitude,
? had a sinking feeling in my
stomach which no medicine seemed
to relieve, and losing my appetite
I became weak arid lost my vital
ity. In three week* I lost fourteen
pounds of flesh and felt that I must
find speedy relief to regain my
health. Having heard Wine cf
Cardui praised by several of my
friends, ? sent for a bottle and was
certainly very pleased with the
result.-. Within thrco days my
appetite returned and my stomach
troubled me no more. I could
digest my food without difficulty
and ibo nervousness gradually
diminished. "Nature performed
her functions without difficulty
and I am onco more a happy and
well woman. t
OLIVE JOSEPH,
Treas. Atlanta. Friday Klent CWb.
Secure a Dollar Bottle of
Wine of Cardui Today.
its nex't session will purge the corrup
tion out of the'dispensary system, and
put safeguards around it for the future.
I say unhesitatingly it can be done
successfully. The dispensary system has
shown its strength hi past elections
because people thought it was honestly
administer?*! All that is necessary is to
have then' understand as they will un
derstand by 190G that they must kill
the law in order to get rid of the cor
ruption and they will make short work
of it. It must be made clean or it must
go. At present the campaign to vote
it ?out county by county only brings
about confusion, encourages blind ti
gers and causes the counties and State
to lose money, and settles nothing, and
it is impossible to settle the question
in this way. I repeat it can only be
settled at the general Democratic pri
mary when all the people have heard
all sides u.i? have made up their minds
intelligently.
I desire to add in conclusion that
practically I am a prohibitionist be
cause I very rarely drink any liquor
of any kind. If I believed that prohibi
tion could bc enforced, understanding
as I do most thoroughly the great evil
attending tho abuse of liquor I would
be a prohibitionist but knowing from
the most searching investigation and
from the official record of the United
States government that in Mahu and
Kansas where prohibition prevails that
there has been a most dismal failure to
enforce the lar I prefer to the dispen
sary as the lesser evil, and as I have
often said in the past I believe that
State control comes nearer to the ideal
management of this troublesome ques
tion than any other.
I have no personal interest in view
and am only actuated by a sense of
public duty in taking the position I
have occupied in the past and which
I shall continue to occupy. . /
I have always believed in the -rule
of the majority. But I want it to be*
the majority of all the Democrats-in
the State.. B. R. TILLMAN.
Wholesale Killing in South Carolina
Columbia, S. C., Special.-At a* big
barbecue at Gaston, 16 miles south
cf here, in Lexington county, Mack
Jcrrett, Rembert More, Elliott Pound,
T. E. Reese and Joe Reese, all of
whom were drinking, undertook to
settle some old quarrels, of several
years' standing, with the result that
T. E. Reese was shot in the abdomen
and will die. Mack Jerrett was fatally
cut in the back and side, and Joe
Reese-was dangerously m shot in the
hip. The fight is said to have com
menced by Pound knocking Jerrett
down, the latter drawing a revolver
and beginning to shoot as he arose.
Others had pistols and knives in play,
and for a time excitement ran high.
Hulk In Way of^avigktioir.--~
Jacksonville, Fia., Special.-E. L.
"Montgomery, master of the schooner
Robert McFarland, reports that on
June 29, about 12 miles off Hatteras,
he passed a three masted schooner
on beam .ends, hull awash, with top
masts about 15 feet above the water,
pointing north-northeast. The hulk
was right in the course of steamers:
north-northeast of Diamond Shoal
lightship, 20 miles distapt by log.
More Mutiny.
Vienna, By Cable.-A telegram from
Kustendki, Roumania, states that the
Roumanian steamer, King Carle, re
ports that all Russian merchant steam
ers from Alexandria to Constantinople
are arriving with crews in mutiny. The
Russian torpedo boat, Strelitelny, has
left fdr the southward. Two iron-clarls,
awaiting orders, are lying twenty miles
off shore. They are awaiting the ap
pearance of the Knaiz Potemkin.
Bee Keepers Hold Convention.
Savannah, Special.-The Southern
Bee Keepers' Association met here
Wednesday and discussed methods of
bee culture. The convention was but
lightly attended, by ing to crop condi
tions, which demanded the attention
of many members. S. Cheatham, of
Edgefield, S. C., was elected vice pres
ident, to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of a former incumbent.
President J. J. Milder, of Cordele, Ga.,
presided; The next meeting of the
convention will be held in Atlanta
next November.
200 Dead at Guanjuato.
Guanajuato, Mexico, Special.- -Gov
ernor O'Bregon estimates the loss of
life something over 200. Bodies of
the victims of the cloudburst "which
flooded this city are being recovered.
The hospital -was flooded so quickly
tnat the patients were drowned. The
magnificent Juarez Theatre was flood
ed to the floor of the first balcony
and soldiers who had taken refuge
there had to climb to the upper bal
cony to save themselves. The power
plant is damaged and the city is in
darkness. The property loss is now
estimated at $2,000,000.
Senator Mitchell Guilty.
Portland, Oregon, Special.-U. S. Sen
ator John H. Mitchell was convicted
after a long and tedious trial. Amidst
a din and clatter of fire works exploded
in honor of the national day of the
country he had served as United States
Senator during twenty-two years of his
life, he listened to the words pronounc
ing him guilty of having violated the
-law which precluded him as a United
States Senator from accepting pay for
practicing before the departments of
th? federal government.
I SENATOR TILLMAN SPEAKS
The Senator Declares That If Corrup?
tion is Not Extradicated He Will
Stump the State to Kill the System.
Greenville, S. C., Special.-Thc South
Carolina Legislature has got to reor
ganize the dispensai'}' and make it de
cent, declares Senator B. R. Tillman,
or, says he, "I'll stump the State to
kill it." Outside of that, which remark
he had made in effect before, there
were no startling revelations or sen
sational ulteianccs in the senator's
speech at Greenville, Many of the
crowd who had come from afar were
somewhat disappointed that the sen
ator refused to "cuss" for publication,
and that his pitchfork lay so placidly
and peacefully up against the door of
the crib of mildewed forage which he
might have turned over. However, the
crowd had already got wind of a let
ter he had written on the dispensary
and that was pronounced sufficiently
warm for a fourth of July speech, so
.they were in a sense appeased.
Thc speech itself was a calm, dispas
sionate, impersonal, wholly good hu
mored and most un-Tillmanic perform
ance, supposedly dealing with the cot
ton situation, but really dealing with
nothing. The crowd laughed with him
and enjoyed his fascinating presence,
but very few seemed to think he was
making a speech. Occasionally some
fellow in the crowd would try to get
up a little enthusiasm by yelling,
"That's right, Ben; give 'em hell," at
which everybody, including Tillman,
would laugh.
THE OCCASION.
Upon the advice of President Harvio
Jordan, of the Southern Cotton Asso
ciation, the Fourth of July was cele
brated in Greenville by a grand rally of
farmers. A telegram was read by Mr.
G. H. Mahon, mayor of Greenville,
from Theodore H. Price, giving it as his
belief that in view of an expected crop
of not much over 10,000,000 bales, cot
ton "will immediately go to 12 cents
a pound and stay there." This, together
with the rise in the past few days, was
sufficient to insure the good humor of
the crowd and an enthusiastic atten
tion to anything which was meant to
"whoop them up" or "pat them on
the back."
About 2,000 people heard the speeches
out in a grove, down in a hollow, away
off in the woods, where you could get
only by walking a mile from the fur
thest end of the car line or paying
the traditional quarter for hack fare.
Yet people went, even a, goodly number
besides those who heard the speeches,
for barbecues, picnics, horse races, base
ball, were among the festivities of the
Fourth. The Piedmont fair grounds
was the place. The speaking began at
about 1 o'clock and lasted till 3: 30.
At thc close Mr. R. Mays Cleveland
presided over the meeting. After a
brief speech stating the object of the
meeting he introduced Senator Tillman,
Next followed Mr. E. D. Smith, after
these two regular speeches, Mr. G. H.
Mahon, mayor of the city, addressed
the crowd a few mnutes. Then fol
lowed Mr. J. T. Johnston, Member of
Congress from that district. Then, af
ter a little impromptu collection for the
association from which about a hat full
of nickles was realized, the meeting
broke up.
. SENATOR TILLMAN'S SPEECH.
Senator Tillman, after a few pleas
antries about the crowd, the occasion
and the weather, and after declaring
that this was not the time or the place
for him to make political utterances,
starter in to talk to the farmers as
farmers. "We are not here as citizens
of the United States, but as farmers,"
he said. He spoke first of the Southern
Cotton Association and said that while
he was willing to concede that it had
done some good in helping on an agita
tion, he did not think it could rightfully
claim all the credit for the present rise
in the price of cotton. He said: "Tom
Smith, Bill Johnston, John Williams,
and the others saw something was
wremg, so they joined the cotton asso
ciation and went to resolving and re
solving, and resoluting and resoluting,
but Old King Grass was the man who
came along and choked the cotton out.
That's what raised the price." Then
he added, amidst the hilarity, "So Prov
idence takes care of its own."
Senator Tillman ambled on, appar
ently somewhat at a loss what to talk
about. Some one suggested corn, "I've
got the best corn crop in South Caro
lina; I don't care who he is."
"You ain't seed mine, ls you?" cried
a tall, hearty-looking man in broad
brimmed straw hat. Thc Senator
laughed,' so did the crowd. "No, I
haven't seen yours," he said.
--".Well, you come up to Chick Springs
and lemme show you some sho nuff
corn as is corn," said the man.
Even if the speaker had had a set
speech .to make, he could not have
made it in that crowd, for some one
was constantly trying to side-track him
into politics or something in which he
might have occasion for his pitchfork.
He did finally touch just a little upon
the dispensary and his "former friend,
John L. McLaurin," though very little
about the latter, saying, with a laugh,
"De mortuis nil nisi bonum." He said
McLaurin was dead, even if he did
manage to get his many speeches these
days in the newspapers. |
But speaking of the present move
ment and politics, he compared it with !
the former farmers' movement in South
Carolina. "These newspaper men," he j
said, "think they smell fire whenever
the farmers begin to organize." The
crowd laughed boisterously when he
explained the difference between the
two movements, saying "that other
movements years ago was quiet differ
ent. We openly declared then that we
were going into the swim, and we went
in. They said we would get into deep
water. We did get into deep water,
end we drowned more politicians than
any fellows that ever went a-fishing."
THE DISPENSARY.
About the dispensary Senator Till
man said the time and place to settle
any issues on that score would be the
next Democratic primary. The Legis
lature, he said, had been tampering
with the dispensary, and he indicated
very clearly that he thought somebody
had got it into somewhat of a mess,
for, speaking of it, he said, "We've
got to clean this thing. If necessary put
it in a pot and scald it. If we can't
do that, I say kill it." He made it
very clear that when the next election
comes around and the people are elect
ing another Legislature to clean the
dispensary, he would be on hand. "I'll
be a candidate," he said, "unless my
health fails. I'll meet the men who
manage the dispensary face to face, as
I've always done." He said, too, that
he would do this in the same old way,
saying. "I have always called a spade
a spade and a thief a thief, and I
haven't got a forked tongue or been
lulled completely to sleep up there in
Washington." Then he declared again;
"The Legislature has to re-organize it
and make it decent or I'll stump the
State to kill it. They've got to TTl?lkC lt
clean or they've got to let it go. That's
my position."
$1,000,000 Relief Fund.
Louisville, Ky., Special.-It is the in
tention of the executive committee OE
ministerial education and relief of th(
Southern Presbyterian Church to raak?
the $1.00,000 gift of an Atlanta citizen
the neuclus of an endowment fund of ?
quarter of a million dollars for minis
terial relief. The committee has hat
for a long time $25.000 intended foi
this purpose, and siuce the donation o
$100.000 was received, several largi
contributions have been sent in. Thi
name of the donor is withheld.
SAVED BY A MIRACLE.
Bicyclist, Riding in the Dark, Misset.
Death by a Hair.
Some years ago I had an escape
that seems almost incredible. I had
been for a lon?: bicycle ride, and was
returning home very late at night. It
was pitch dark, and, to make matters
worse, my lamp had burnt out, and,
being of a reckless nature, I continued
to pedal along swiftly. All of a sud
den I felt myself bouncing about as
if I was on a spring board. The mo
tion stopped after a few seconds, and
[ alighted and struck a match. The
scene horrified me. I had crossed a
corner of a quarry on some planks
that were laid across for the men to
wheel over. Had I swerved a hair's
breadth I should have been dashed to
atoms. I dare net ride again that
night, but sat down on a stone and pa
tiently awaited daybreak, when I
found that, instead of keeping to the
highway, I had entered through a
gateway that led direct to the quarry.
I could not have accomplished the.
feat of riding over that bridge by day
light if offered a thousand pounds, and
the incident so unnerved me that I
have never ridden a "bihe" since.
C. R. F. in London Answers.
WATCH TWELVE YEARS EXPOSED
Found Among Some Brush-The
Hands Rusted Off.
Frederick Wolfinger of Oxford, War
ren county, found among the brush a
few days ago a gold watch and chain,
says a dispatch from Orange, N. J.
About twelve years ago Nicholas
Lompshire lived near the place, and
his daughter, who was then 14 years
of age, got as a birthday present from
him a gold watch and chain. One day
while in search of chestnuts she lost
the gift. A vain search for it fol
lowed. When Mr. Wolfinger found
the timepiece the other day he took it
to Mr. Lompshire, who lives on Bel
videre avenue, Oxford. Mr. Lomp
shire identified the watch. The hands
had been rusted off and the works
were in bad condition from dampness,
but the case was in excellent condi
tion. Mr. Lompshire has sent the
watch and chain to his daughter, who
is now Mrs. Eveline Buckland, the
wife of William S. Buckland, a manu
facturer of Reading, Pa.
A Nightingale School.
In Russia, when a person happens
to possess a nightingale which is a
good singer, the bird is made a sort
of teacher of music to others of his
kind in the neighborhood. Many Rus
sians seem to be in the habit of keep
ing pet nightingales; and the neigh
bors bring their cakes to the owner
of the finest one, th.m thc inexperien
ced birds may listen to the singing of
their master. The birds are reported
as keeping quiet and listening intent
ly. Then after awhile they venture a
note or two, then another, and anoth
er, till they have caught the song and
can go through with it. It is said that
the nightingale sits in apparent medi
tation, as if inwardly rehearsing and
then bursts out into song.
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WASHING KNIVES RIGHT.
Never put the handle of knives in
to the water, for thus the handle
"would be discolored and the blade
loosened. Instead, dip each blade in
to hot water with soda and dry
it at once. Another method is
to have a large tin or basin
with a tin or wooden cover. In
the cover slits are cut, through which
the blades of the knives pass to the
water, while their handles rest on
the top.
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scales, pimples, running sores, carbuncles,
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To prove lt cures, sample of Blood Balm
sent free and prepaid by writing Blood Balm
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medical advice sent In .sealed letter.
The Oldest Kuruc lu Georgin.
Sirs. S. E. Kennedy, one of the oldest and
best known nurses in Georgia, states that
in all her experience with bowel troubles
and children teething, Dr. Biggera' Huckle
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Sold by all Druggists, 25 and 50c. bottle.
Lots of men who figure on schemes to
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find themselves in possission of $5 in
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FITSperm an cotty enrol. No fi ts o;r n ervous .
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Dr. B. H. KLINE, Ltd.,931 Arch St., Phila., Pa.
Alcohol is cominir into considerable use
for illumination in France.
Use Allen's Foot-TCase.
It is the only cure for Swollen, Smartint;,
Tired, Aching, Hot, Swoating Feet.Corns and
Bunions. Ask for Allon's Foot-Ease, apowdor
to be shaken into the shoe3. Cures whUo you
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Don't accept any substitute. Sam^'.e sent
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A librarian declares there are more than
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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, soften the gums.reduces inflamma
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Jn 1750 diamonds were sold in Europe at
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Piao's Curooannot be too highly spoken ot
asa cough cure.-J. W. O'BBIEN, 322 Third
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The German flag waa first unfurled in
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Now York Xarly Proves That Every Wo
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Cu tl cur ?i. Soap.
Mrs. R. Reichenberg, wife of the well
known jeweler, of 146 Fulton St., New
York, says: "1 had a friend who was just
ly proud of her complexion. When asked
what gave her such a brilliant and love
ly complexion, she replied, 'A healthy
woman can bc sure of a fine skin if she
will do as I do, use plenty of Cuticura
Soap and water.' She insisted that 1 fol
low her example, which I did with speedy
conviction. 1 lind that Cuticura Soap
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Odds and Ends.
Honeysuckles and the sweet girl
graduates bloom simultaneously.
More women would go in for vocal
culture if they could buy things for a
song.
After singing the boy to sleep a wc
mon proceeds to talk her husband to
sleep.
About the only fault the average wo
man has to find with her past is that
it's loo long.
Buring the courtship a young man is
never out of danger till the girl says
'"No" three times.
CONSTANT ACHING.
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Back aches all the time. Spoils yonr
appetite, wearies the body, worries the
mind. Kidneys cause it all and Doan'a
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H. B. McCarver,
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spector of freight
for thc Trans-Con
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ache and other
symptoms of kid
ney trouble which
liad annoyed me for
months. I think
cold was respo:
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trouble. It seemed to settle in my kid
neys. Doan's Kidney Pills rooted it
ont. lt is several monti s since I used
them, and up to date there has been no
recurrence of the trouble."
Doan's Kidney Pills are for salo by all
dealers price 50 cents per box. Foa
tcr-Milburn Co., Buffalo.. N. Y. . .
Midsummer Comfort.
Those who have found the summer
vacation problem a difficult one, from
thc standpoint of economy, will find
some practical suggestions in the
chapter on "Cooperative Housekeeping
at the Seashore," by Isabel Gordon
Curtis, in the August Delineator. The
matter is gone into in detail, and facts
and figures demonstrate the advan
tages of the scheme. Other features
of the magazine, which appeal partic
ularly during hot weather, are "Cold
Tit-Bits for Hot Days," pictured and
described, and a variety of seasona
ble recipes in cookery under the ti
tles, "A Dozen Fresh Fruit Pies."
"Tartlets," and "Iced Deliciousness."
Summer fashions and reading com
plete the numbtr, which is unusually
interesting and attractive.
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