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legislative Proceedings.
Condensed from the Golnmbia S ate.
HOUSE-WEDNESDAY.
The House of Representees passed
rather an uneventful day. There
was another dispensary bill introduced?a
substitute for that of the
Winkler bill. Mr. Hjdrick's insur-^.
anee bill passed and the bill to reduce
rate of interest killed.
The fertilizer bill passed the third
reading and sent to the Senate, as
was also the bill relating to the granting
of bail by Magistrates.
The first second reading bill to
be discussed was the bill providing
salaries instead of fees for county
officers. The bill was referred to a
committee consisting of one member
from each county, and Mr. Sharpe
was placed on this committee to represent
Lexington.
The bill relating to life insurance
passed to a third reading after a
fight.
The subsitute bili relating to funds
with which to fr^ife school books
at cost to the public schools, passed.
The bill provides that the amount so
set aside by the county board of education
shall be and remain a perma
cent fund in the hands of the county
education. and I
fchy.ll be by him used in purchasing
and keeping on hand school text
bocks for sale to pupils attending the
free public schools of his county, for
cash, at actual cost or exchange
prices, and shall be used for no other
purpose and in no other manner;
and places where said text books
are kept for such sale shall be deemed
depositories under the control
of the State, as provided in the 7ih
article, or provision, in the contract
made in 1893 with the publishers of
school text books.
The bill also requires the county
superintendent to keep his office
open each day for a week before and
succeeding the opening of the public
schools for the sale of such books.
Th6 House passed the bill requir- .
ing a disinterested party who can
read and writo to witness bills of sale
and chattel mortgages,
The petition of students of the
South Carolina college for a new
steward's hall was referred to the
ways and means committee.
The comptroller general sent a
bi*ch of claims which were properly
)eferred.
SENATE?WEDNESDAY.
The Senate took up the Graydon
dispensary bill, generally considered
to be the administration measure, and
proceeded to knock a large spacious
hole in it.
The provision constituting the secretary
of state, the comptroller general
and the superintendent of education
the state board of control was
stricken out of the bill, and it is to
be who shall be members of the
board if the bill passes. It was
shown in the debate that it was
doubtful whether these officers could
fill the position under the constitutional
provision forbidding the holdng
of two offices by one person.
In addition the senators seemed
to think that these officers already
have plenty of work to do.
Wiih this out of the bill the measure
lose3 much of its importance,
and its supporters will have to form- !
ulate some other plan that will
stand the test.
A substitute for the Graydon bill
was introduced by Mr. May field, an
anti dispensaryite. The Graydon
dispensary bill occupied the atten
ticn of senate most of the time, the
other special orders being continued.
Amoug the most important measures
intioduced were the following:
To authorize the erection of a monument
to the women of the confederacy
on the State house grounds.
To amend the law in reference to
the violation of laborers' contracts.
To authorize Ciemson college to
build a railroad from the college to
/"t 11 . x _ i!
Udiooun siauon.
To amend the concealed weapon
act.
The House bill granting to the
United States the title of this State I
and jurisdiction over certain lands
on Sullivan island for millitary purposes
was passed.
HOUSE?THURSDAY
The House disposed of the bill to
provide two additional judicial cir
Copper Colored
Splotches.
There is only one cure for Contagious
Blood Poison?the disease which has I
completely baflled the doctors. They
are totally unable to cure it, and direct
their efforts toward bottling the poison
op in the blood and concealing it from
view. S. S. S. cures the disease positively
and permanently by forcing out
every trace or the taint.
I was afflicted with a terrible blood disease.
Which was in spots at first, but afterwards
t spread all oTer my body.
Those soon broke out into
sores, and it is easy to
imagine the suffering I
endured. Before I became
convinced that the
doc tors could do no good,
I had spent a hundred
dollars, which was really
thrown away. I then
tried various patent
medicines, but they did
not reach the disease.
When I had finished inv
first bottle of S. S. S. *1
was greatly improved
and was delighted with
the result. The large red splotches on my
chest began to grow paler and smaller, and
before long disaDpeared entirely. I regained
my lost weight, became stronger, and my appetite
greatly improved. I was 30on entirely
well, and my skin as clear as a piece of gLass.
H. L. Mtebs, 100 Mulberry St., Newark, N. J.
Don't deatroy all possible chance of a
cure by taking the doctor's treatment
of mercury ana potash. These minerals
cause the hair to fall out, and will j
wreck the entire system.
SS.S.% Blood
is purely vegetable, and is the only
blood remedy guaranteed to contain no
potash, mercury, or other mineral.
Books on the disease and its treatment
mailed free by Swift Specific Company,
Atlanta, Georgia.
c lite, killing it by a v^te of 60 to 39
SpeakiDg to this bill, Mr. Sbarpe said
be wa9 not "tooting bis own born.11
Personal interests have crept into
this discussion, and time had been
fritted away; but he would discuss
it from on impersonal standpoint.
The condition in South Carolina for
the past 10 or 20 years has been that
the people have been promised reduction
in taxation. But there ha9
been an increase in the expenditure.
This bill proposes added exper.se, !
and the law now affords relief through
the medium of special courts.
There was toward the close of the
day a ratber dramatic picture in
which "Citiz?n Josh" Ashley and the
colored legislator, Representative
Bolts, played a conspicious part.
There were several new bills, of more
or less importance introduced and
referred to appropriate committees.
The next bill on the calendar was
seemingly one of little moment. It
was the bill to prevent the shipping
of shad to points beyond the State
It was during the discussion of this
bill that the dramatic incident referred
to above took place. At a time
when things looked squally for the
opponents of the bill, Representative
Bolts from Georgetown took the
fl)or. There is no mistaking the
member's identity. He is fh.st a Republican.
Second, a black Republi
can. Amusement was depicted oi
the faces of 123 white Democratic
Representatives when he got up to
speak. But all listened?through
curiosity. The colored member left
his seat in the far corner of the hall
and proceeded to the middle aisle.
Josh Ashley's sunbeam face was all
agrin. Josh had been telling those
around him that this was a good
bill and he "would vote for it, fellers."
He anticipated a picnic when the
brother in black began to speak. All
the hubbub was hushed and the
House listened.
^ U n/\l rv% r\ 1 > Q v Kncron f A COT7
JL UC V-UiU'CU lUtUiUti w iv wt?j
that this bill would work a hardship j
upon the fishermen of Georgetown.
Mr. Giuse interrupting?Do the j
poor people get any benefit of this !
industrj?
Representative Bolts?They get
work. It is their private business if j
they make anything out of it.
This rt joinder showed that the
colored member < o dd handle the
sword of repartee, and the Hou9e j
laughed. !
Mr. Ashley?Don't you know we |
can't get no shad in none of the rivers
in the up eountrj?
Rcpresf ntative Bolt? Just send
_ J? J i _ a 1 ? ,q
your urufia uuwu iu ^cui^rtuw li uuu
you kin git plenty. (Laughter )
Representative Bjlts then proceeded
to tell that the shad fishiDg j
was conducted piincipally in "Winyak's
bay," five miles wide, and the
nets being one iui!e wide did not
prevent the shad from running up
the t-t earn on either side of the net.
There was ti-hing in the channel of
the Santte, but none ( n the Pee D<e.
Mr Game?Don't you know that
fish run up the channel?
Representative Bolts, get ting warm
?I ain't no fisherman.
This neat evasion created more
laughter.
Continuing, he said, that the hubits
of shad were te; "run" in the marshes
on the side of the river. He described
how the "boss of the net"' and his
little Ijoy or striker," plied the ntt
from their boat. The bill, he said,
was directed solely at Georgetown,
and there was no occasion for it as
fish were sold at Florence at 12-J
cent apiece.
Mr. Ashley, sitting in his seat, remarked
sarcastically, "Why, this bill
don't keep_jou from selling fith inside
the State."
QUQfl.
X ue uuiuicu uiciiiUvi uuwibij
ed this thrust by saying that he
would Dot pay any attention to Mr.
Ashley unless that gentleman arose
from his chair before speaking.
(There was a laugh at Citizen Josh's
expense.) He continued ironically
that the author and friends of this bill
would soon be taking sfeps to stop
the lumber industry at Georgetown
because the logs fljatiDg down the
river prevented fish from coming up
Had it not been for her fisheries
thousands from Georgetown county
might have been calling on the State
for help.
Citizen Josh had been somewhat
nettled because his effjrts to discoD
cert the colored member had acted !
as a boomarang. He was embarrassed
when he was forced to ask "if the
genti'man, er-er the member from
Georgetown, would permit an interruption?'
He was chagrined when the
black man showed a quickness at repartee
in his mongrel gullah and
parliamentary phrases which were
too much for the vernacular of the
Representative from Anderson. The
negro had started to speak with little
sympathy, but concluded with laurels
for his dusky brow.
Mr. Ashley obtained the floor when
his dusky colleague sat down, grinning.
He began to speak rather excitedly
about the gcod purposes of
bill. There was no fish in his county
at all.
Representative Bolts?Well, you
cen get enough in a day's fishing
in Georgetown to supply your county
three months.
Mr. Ashley?There is just as much
right to stop the shipping of fish as
there is in the shipping of birds, like
we done the other day.
Representative Bolts?Shad is the
fisherman's crop, why don't you stop
shipping your crop?cotton?
Mr. Asfcley was neara to say, angrny.
above the laughter which greet(d
this sally, "You done made your
speech, sit down, you niggar, you."
When Mr. Ashley concluded, the
vote was taken and it was found that
over four-fifths of the membtrs
agreed with Representative Bolts
and the bill was killed,
Then the worm turned again on
Mr. Ashley, for he has a fashion of
"clinching" the vote whenever his
side wins. To "clinch" a vote means
that the matter cannot again be taken
up. When Speaker Gary put Representative
Bolts' motion to clinch
the vote, there was a howl of laughter
at Mr. Ashley's expense.
Thus concluded one of the most
remarkable and the most amusing
innidenf. whiph has pvpr occurred on
the floor of the House.
After the transaction of other business
the House adjourned,
SENATE?THURSDAY.
The Senate's session last night
was lively and interesting. The dispensary
was discussed and a certain
caucus was mentioned and snowed
under.
The Graydon dispensary bill, which
it seem?, according to the author, is
not after all the administration measure,
was the pending question together
with the amendments proposed
on Wednesday, but in the scramble
the bill was lost sight cf and Senator
Mayfield's substitute occupied
: the Senates attention, It was developed
that the Majfield substitute
*
was the bona fide administration
scheme, having been approved at a
caucus held in the Governor's office
and presided over by the Governor.
Senator Manning stated this fact in
the form of a question to Senator
May field, who did not make a direct
reply and in the course of his re
marks succeeded in avoiding the mention
of the Governor in that connection.
The Senate, by a vote of 30 to 8,
j struck out the provision creating the
! boaid of coutrul of the governor,
the ehaiiinau of the senate finance
committee, and the chairman of the
house ways and means committee.
When the senate had taken this ac|
tion it adjourned and the whole mati
te; is tj Cjine up again.
| Superintendent Griffith's Report.
The report of Supt. Griffith of the
I board reads as follows:
j To the Honorable Board of Directors
South Carolina Penitentiary.
Gentlemer: I herewith submit foyou
my first annual report for the
year 1899.
CONVICT STATEMENT.
We had confined in the penitentiary
and convict camps, one year
a?o. 784: received from the courts,
C7 '
272: escaped convits recaptured, 17;
total iD prison during the year, 1,073;
discharged by pardon, 16; escaped
15; accidentally killed, 1; died, 41.
Total loss of 272.
Having in confinement, January
1st, 1000, 801, which is an increase
of 17 for the past year. For a more
detailed statement as to the prisoners,
I respectfully refer you to the full
| and complete report of Capt. W. D.
Black in his report to me for the
year just ended.
moilal ;,nd religious statement.
We have regular services each
SabbatV .ruing in the chapel, conducted
by our worthy chaplain, Rev.
J. C. Abney. Also Sunday school
exercises ever Sunday afternoon, conducted
by Messrs. C. D. Stanley and
R. M. Adams. I respectfully refer
you to the chaplain's report, and
state that he has been very prompt
and dutiful in the discharge of his
duties as chapIaiD, vi3iting the sick
and administering to them spirtually, |
regularly.
HEALTH AND SANITARY STATEMENT.
The general health of the institution
has been comparatively good.
You will note by referring to Dr. ,
Sturky's report that 16 out 41 deaths j
during the year just closed were of j
tuberculosis and 8 of spinal meningitis,
which show that more than one- j
half of the deaths during the past
year were caused from the two dis- j
eases above named; and in my opinion
the principal cause of so maDy
deaths from these diseases is for the ;
want of better sanitary arrangements
in the hosiery mill and theprieon. In
1 the hosiery mill a much better sysj
tern of ventilation is very necessary
and in the prison proper kind of venj
t lation should be devised and also a
system of heating is necessary for
the comfort and health of the prisoners.
The prison, in my judgment,
is not at all a healthy and comfortable
one. The ventilation is poor?
too warm in summer and too cold in
winter, having no way or means by
which it can be heated in winter and
pleLty cf fresh air in the summer.
Therefore, I respectfully recom
mend that your honorable board aek
that the Legislature appropriate
810,000 to build a modern prison Lr
her convicts?one that is roomy, comfortable
and safe, and one, too, that
the jouDg and oftentimes harmless
and helpless convicts can he kept
separated from the old and hardened
criminals.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
We have had a fairly satisfactory
year agriculturally; have made no
very large crops; but, under all the
circumstance?, think we have done
fairly well.
To b?gin with, will state that when
I took charge of the penitentiary?
March 1-r h, last?I found the buildings
in d about the prison yard in
fairly . condition, except as to
the rootling on the greenhouse, woodshed
and tho prison buildings, which
were all badlv in need of repairp,
because of holes and leaks in roof.
These I have repaired. The roof on
the h js'erj mill was too far
! to repair, and a new roof should be
placed on it.
At DeSaussure farm, I found the
buildings poor and dilapidated. The
dwelling house, guards' quarters,
stockade and commissary house were
passable, but the barns, stables, gin
house, etc , are all old and almost
worthless.
At Raid farm, the buildings are all
! new onrt rrnn<^ anrl were in fine
i shape.
At "Lexington farm, the barns and
j stables were iQ pretty fair shape and
j passable, while the stockade, gin
| house, guard honse, cook house and
| dwelliog house were in very poor fix.
I have had a new guard house and
j cook house built aud the dwelling
| house repaired. ,
i In February last, before I took
I charge, the river had broken the
SB BB
tMk w mBi /yflj
aQW mBw Xt HD AH
wIV^ ^?pr
Knl w
^ absoluieeyi
Makes the food more de
RQYAL BAKINQ Per*
ditri3 on Ihe K-;id and DjSassure
j firm3 in several places, and the
1 breaks were bad ones. It to^k quite
| a long time and a great deal of work
I i v i* y !-_ __3 T 1.' 3 L
! to repair mese Dreaas, ana 1 aiu nut
! have a sufficiency of hands of the
right kind to do this work, many of
them being inferior; but the work
was done, and I have been fortunate
enough to make a large supply of
i corn to feed prisoners, stock, etc., on
all the farms and at the penitentiary
which will be a great help to U3 in
our next yeai\s business.
So the year has been fairly satisfactory,
considering the late start I
had and other disadvantages under
which I had to woik. Between
March 15 and the harvesting of the
new corn crop we were compelled to
purchase, for the penitentiary and
farms, 3,388 bushels of corn and
meal.
My predecessor?Col. Neal turned
over to me $11135 after I took
charge. "We have now on hand, deposited
in bank, $9,886.67, and in
sight and available about 85,400, and
I would recommend that your hon?
Li- i j ?ii :?
I urttmu UUU1U auiuunz,c IUD |jajuicLit
of about Si0,000 to the State treasurer.
Allow me to thank each oDe of the
board of directors for their kind and
courteous treatment and advice given
during the year, as well as all the
| other officers of the institution.
I For a full and complete statement
! of the receipts and disbursements of
the institution, allow me to refer you
to the complete report of Mr. John
| Taylor, our competent and courteous
| bookkeeper. All of which I most
j respectfully submit.
D. J. Griffith,
Superintendent.
*
Story of a Slave.
I
To be bound hand and foot foi
[ years by the chains of disease is the
' worst form of slavery. George D.
| Williams, of Manchester, Mich , tells
| how such a slave was made free. He
says: "My wife has been so helpless
for five years that she coald not
turn over in bed alone. After using
two bottles of Electric Bitterp, she is
j wonderfully improved and able to do
j her own work." This supreme rem
edy for female diseases quickly cures
j nervousness, sleeplessness, melan,
choly, headache, fainting and dizzy
j spells. This miracle working inedii
cine is a God send to weak, sickly,
! run down people. Every bottle guar|
anteed. Only 50 cents. Sold by J.
i E. Ivaufmann, Druggist.
Fatal Procrastination.
"He asked me to marry him."
"And you accepted him!"
1 "Nj. Idiot that I was, I asked
for time."
"He said he'd give me a year."
i "Ah! And what did you saj?"
I "I saw my mistake. I said two
days would be plenty. But he
wouldn't hear to it. He said no woman
could make up her mind in so
short a time. He really insisted
upon my taVng six months. We
finally compromised on 30 days.''
"And then?-'
"He married that putty faced
i Bimberling girl the very next week."
| Having a Groat Bun on Chamborlain's
Cough Bsmsdy.
I Manager Martin, of the Picrson
| drug store, informs us that he is
having a great run on Chamberlain's
j Cough Remedy. He sells five bot:
ties of that medicine to one of any !
i other kind, and it gives great satis
. faction, la these days ot la grippe
i there is nothing like Chamberlain's
j Cough Remedy to stop the cough,
I heal up the sere throat and lungs
i and givo relief within a very short
time. The sales are growing, and
all who try it are pleased with its
j prompt action.?South Chicago Daily
I Calumet. For sale by J. K. Kauf|
rnann.
+
1 Come to see us when i? town
j bakino
itJ Powder
>URE
ilicious and wholesome
'DER CO., NEW YORK.
Pig Iron and Hog Iron.
Negroes are very original ia their
dealings with white men/1 said the
foreman of a North Memphis iroD
foundry. "A couple of negroes were
unloading pig iron for me the other
day, and it comes in pretty goodsiezed
chunks. Ooe chunk is a heavy
load. One of the negroes came to a
lump twice the usual size, beiDg two
chunks run together. He stopped
work the minute he caught sight of
it.
"'What are you stopping for?' I
yelled. 'Pick it up !'"
"'Boss, I dostn mine ooloadin' pig
iron,' said he, but when it comes to
hog iron, I quits.' "
R:markable Rescue.
Mrs. Michael CurtaiD, Plainfield,
111., makes the statement, that she |
caught cold, which settled on her
lunge; she was treated for a month
by her family physician, but grew
worse. He told her she was a hope
less victim of consumption and that
no medicine could cure her. Her
druggist suggested Dr. King s New
Discovery for Consumption; she .
bought a bottle and to her delight
found hersel" benefited from first
dose. She continued its use and
after taking six bottles, found herself
sound and well; nov does her
own housework, and is as well as
she ever was. Free trial bottles at
J. E. Kaufmann's Drug Store.
Only 50 cents and SI.00, every bottle
guaranteed.
*
Medicinal.
I think that the majority of the
church choirs in Brookland are helps
to churches. But some of them
have got a bad habit of late?the
quarttelle habit. They sing without
the accompaniment of an organ, and
thus exhibit all the blemishes of
their voices: Only well trained and
highly cultivated singers may safely
venture to sing without a musical accompaniment.
When the amatures
try the experiment they inflict needless
pain upon their hearers. And
the modern anthem! I recall an occasion
on which the anthem ran in
this waj:
Soprano: 4'0b, take this pill?"
Tenoi: "Ob; t-a ake this pill?"
Contralto: ' O-o h, take this pill?"
Basse: "O-o oh, take this pill?"
All togethei: "Oh, take this pilgrim
home."
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An Eabirrassin* Question.
They are telling a story in Washington
about Congressman Clayton,
of Alabama, who used to be district
attorney in his State. It became his
duty at one time to prosecute an old
man for making illicit whisky. It
was not a very seriou3 infraction of
the law; but the old backwoodsman
had been reckless in his violation
I and it was necessary to mak? an example
of him. He was brought into
court, and after the government had
stated its case the old man, who had
no lawyer, asked to be allowed to go |
on the stand. He wa9 told that this
would render him liable to answer
any question, but he insisted.
' Well, uncle John," said Cayton,
''did you really make any whisky in
your still?"
"Henry," replied the old man, with
pathetic tone, "I know'd your pa; I
voted for you pa every time he ran
for Jedge. And, Henry, your pa
would never have axed me no question
like that"
The j jrors laughed, the court
smiled and Clayton relented. The old
man drove home that night.
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The Dispensary Profits.
Tin L truest Nat E trainee List Year
Than Ever Be-fore.
Columbia Evening Record.
The state board of control has
completed its report and the members
present have signed it and
turned it over to the state printer.
The figures show that'the net profits
for 1899 were $114,181.84. Of this
sum the counties and towns received
$220,492 35 and the S ate $193,689.49.
In connection with last years
business, the fact is stated that
$100,000 has been paid to the state'
superintendent of education on ac
count ot tbe school fund. lnis is
all that is asked for the year. Tbe
dispensary has resources upon which
to operate during the year on a cash
basis. The pa&t year was the largest
in the history of the business.
The financial progress of the institution,
as shown in the report, is
as follows, the net earnings of various
administrations being given:
Tillman-Traxler regime
of 19 months 8 125,328 40
Evans-Mixson administration
313,974 08
Board of Control for
33 months 853,219 95
Board of Control for
1899 414,181 84
Quaker Humor.
The unexpected humor which often
tints the grave speech of the
Quaker is wall illustrated in a little
fttnrv told of an eminent voun? nhv
sician of Pennsylvania at the time of
the civil war. He had determined
to serve his country and leave his
practice at home; but met with grieved
remonstrance from his mother,
a sweet Quakeress.
"I beseech of thee not to go to
this war, my son!*' she pleaded,
her soft eyes full of tears.
"But I do not go to fight, mother,"
said the doctor, cheerfully. "I am
going as a medical man. Surely
there is no harm in that."
"Well, well," said the little mother
doubtfully, "go then if it must be
so." Then suddenly a gleam of loyalty
shone through her tears, and
she straightened herself and looked
bravely into her tall son's face."
"If thee finds thee kills more then
thee cures,she said demurely, "I
advi3e thee to go straightway over
to the other side, my son."
State of Ohio, City of Toledo, )
Lucas County f
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that
he is the senior partner of the firm
of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business
in the C.ty of Toledo, CjUDty
and S'.ate aforesaid and that said
firm will pay the sum of One Hundred
Djllars for each and every ca*e
? . 1.1 . 4 L. - Krr
oi Uiianu toai chuuui u? vmcu vj
the use of Hill's Citarrb Cire.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
S vorn to before me and subscribed
io my presenc?, tbis 6tb day of
December, A D 1886.
{ SE . ) A. W. Gleason,
{ ' ' [ Notary Public.
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Sand for testimonials, free.
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It was at a department store bar-*
gain counter for odds and ends. Tbe
crush wa9 terrific. Women squeezed
and elbowed to get alongside the
counter. Frequently two of them
happened to pick up the same bar- * ?
gain at one and the same time, and
then they both retained their clutch
on it and looked daggars at each
other until the stronger of the two
u?rm the victnrv or the bargain was
rent into riboons.
A Laughtv matron with an electric
seal co?.t picked up a box containing
three cakes of imported soap for 8
cents at the same moment that an
humble looking little woman in a
faded t ncoat had fastened her grasp
on the b)X.
"I believe I was the first to take
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The humble looking little woman
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then she slowly relaxed her
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