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* . TO THINK OWN SELF HE THUK AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS 'IVIE NI?1I1T THE DAY, THOU CANS'T NOT TUEN DE FALSE TO ANY MAN. HY J AYN KS, 8I1ELOR, SMITH & STECK. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, JANUARY 18, lOOO. NKW SERIES, NO. 84.-VOLUMB LI.-NO. il. IRK OF THE LAW MAKERS UOTH HOUSES AHE ?ETTING DOWN TO SOLID WORK. SEVERAL BIllS DISPOSED Of. Tho Resolution In Regard to Hie Disponsary Heloirod to Judiciary Committee. MUST KAY-.IAN'. Promptly at I "J o'clock both bouses of tho Legislature mot ami there wore oomparattvol) few absent?os tu either house. There wore no unu sual incidents, and tho opening of tho second session was just like tho many others which have precoded it. Hy reason of tho elevation of Mon. M. li. .McSweeney to the gubernato rial chair Senator Scarborough be came Lieutenant (Jovcrnor and ho presided over thc Senate to-day. Ile made a brief address referring to the circumstances whereby he became tho presiding o Iii cor and saying, that while Ito brought no learning or ex perience to tho place he did bring a full intention to discharge the duties ol' the position to the best of his ability and asked that Senators give liim their aid and co-operation. Senator Mel)ormotte, of lt MTV, who succeeds Mr. Scarborough, and Senator Crossen, who succeeds Capt. (?nihill, were sworn in. Senator Sheppard was elected president pro tem. lo succeed Mr. Scarborough and he took the oath of ollicc, thanking Senators for the courtesy. Ile was nominated hy Senator Mayfield and his election was unanimous. 'I iie presiding olllccr announced the appointment of W. lloyd Kvuns as journal clerk, to succeed ICIbert II. Aull, who is now the (iovernor's private secretary : Wm. (? od frey, of Morry, keeper of tho president's loom; .Milton Alexander, of Oconee, page. It is evidently the intention of the Legislature to fully investigate the affairs of the dispensary. Concur rent resolutions were introduced to thal effect, both in the Senate and the Mouse. They are both practi cally the same thing and provide for tho appoint ment ul' a committee, con sisting of two Senators and three representatives, to investigate the operations of the institution. They are to he appointed by thc presiding officers ol' each house, find shall be empowered lo take testimony ?ind call for persons mid papers which may throw light on tho subject. Tiley may employ an expert ac countant and stenographer and may sit within or without the State. Tin y are lo sit during the sessions of thc two houses and report, if practicable, before adjournment, but they may ask for further time and powers. lu the Senate the resolution went over for consideration to-morrow. I inmediate act ?on was demanded i;? the Mouse, the resolution being in troduced b) Mr. Winkler. Ten members not objecting, Mr. Klird, ol' Lexington, proceeded to speak against the resolution, holding that it would bea rHicetion on thc stand ing dispensai y committee. In thc midst of his remarks the (iovernor's message caine in ami its reading began. Mr. Klird said, ns rt mem ber nf the committee, ho knew there was noth ing wrong willi the financial part of thc institution and thc people cared nothing for the petty jealousies be tween members of the board. .Messrs. Willkler ami Magill de fended thc resolution, but, as.stated, thc reading nf the message prevented furl her d?bale. in opening the I louse Speaker (?ary made a brief address, welcom ing members an! congrnltilating them that since they last mel the grim reaper had not invaded their ranks. Mr. L'iehards, of Marlboro, was appointed assisi ant (derk. The reading <>l thc message in both houses was closely followed hy a great majority of the members. The Appell bill was introduced in tile Senate to-day. Senator Marshall introduced a resolution for the (tnvernor to ap point a commissioner to collect ami perpetuate the testimony in the claims of thc State against the Knited Slates tm account of aband oned property. Tlie dispensary investigation reso lution passed thc Mouse overwhelm ingly. Tin Mouse appointed Thursday ?is the dav to elect a successor t<? Asso ciate Just ice Mary, Mc will have no opposition. Lev. .1. ('. .Abney lesioned as i haplani nf thc I louse and liev. ( '. I >. Mann was elected to succeed him. KKCONII HAY-.IAN. IO. lioth houses got down to solid work to-day nilli varions hills oil the calendar were disposed of. The concurrent resolution, looking to an investigation of the dispensary, came up in the Senate, hut it was referred lo the committee oil judi ciary. The Senate agreed to thc resolu tion of the House to elect a succes sor of Associate .lust JO Gary. Senator Hay wanlen to elect three directors of the penitentiary at the same time, hut this was not agreed to until it is definitely settled whose terms hive expired and what tho length of the terms of their succes sors shall he. The Senate tackled thc calendar ami rapidly went through, most of the measures being passed over or recommitted. There was little or no debate and what there was of it was not of a particularly interesting char acter. The proceedings were of a routine character throughout. Thc Governor transmitted a me morial from T. H. McGahan und others relative to draining swamp lands on the coast. The Governor suggested that a commission be ap pointed to look into the matter, as thousands of acres ot* land could ho reclaimed. Thc whole matter was referred to the committee on agri culture. Thc House passed over a large part of its calendar and as usual lhere was considerable debate. ! Senator .Marshall's bil!, relative to j damages colton mill operatives may .obtain against owners in eases of in j jury, was recommitted after mindi ! d?bale. The purpose was to give the cotton mill owners a hearing be fore the committee. The hearing will probably bc held some time litis : week. The bill requiring State institu tions, in the city, which use city waler to adopt thc metre system was J made a special order for to-morrow. .Mr. Wharton, of Laurens, had a chicken lighting bill, prohibiting that sport from being held within three miles of a church or school house. It | was argued that there was already a law against such sport and the bill was killed. Mr. Mauhlin's succession tax bill was killed, ll provided generally lhat when a man died and il was j found that taxes were due the State that thc amount be taken out ot" the estate. j Thc I louse made a big inroad on J ils calendar and the Senate disposed one way or another of all on its cal endar. Holli houses show a disposi tion to work, but so far no bills of great import?t, ii have conic up to create debato. A bill lo repeal the act allowing the opening ol* dispensaries in I'iek ens and Oeoneo counties, and to pro vide for the distribution of the I prolits, so far as Ocouec is con cerned, was intlelinitely postponed on motion of Senator Alexander. The Cosgrove bill to exempt cities ol'over 10,0011 inhabitants from tho provisions of the dispensary law, I was made tlit* special order, at hi* request, for January -'?'>, lo be con tinued, unless disposed of. Thc House bill lo repeal the pri mary election act was killed, on mo tion, without debate. Thc House bill to amend thc .Hui i Crow car bill was, on motion, recotn I milted lo thc committee, as tlx committee had tailed to make an) recommeudat ion. Mr. Vernor's House bill, relativ? to amending tho law ns t * ? road: and highways, was recommitted. I'll I Ul I OA Y -JA N . II. Senator Graydon has introduced :i ; resolution looking tu au inquiry ami thc prosecution of the Virginia-Caro Ima Chemical Company by thc At torney ( leneral. Associate Justice Kugene I!. (Jar*, ! was re-elected without Opposition. j Mr. Hlcasc's resolution looking ti biennial sessions, by providing foi the election ol' members for lum years, was ki!.cd by a vote of (il foi lu.">l against, lacking a two-third: vote i>! all members. I In thc I louse several malters wen ia ported b.'K'k from the Senate. j The joint resolut ion providing foi ? I he pr?par?t iou and completion u the history t" accompany the Con federate rolls was referred to tin ? ci numil iii <>n military. ? ll is understood thal the Soull ( "a ml i ii.i College will ask fur an np propriation of something over -^'.'7, nuil ihis year for general purpose : ami an extra appropriation of $0,001 fur a new stewards' hall, which i badly m e.le,I. Somebody gol ii wrong, and I'M newspapers enema', it I hat I hi session of the General Assembly wa limited lu forty days by the St.il constitution. Not su. Nut mili i aller this session will this limilalioi j bc of turee. 11 is not likely thal thi Legislature will keep itself her longer than thirty ihits, (hough un limited by lan - iH OF WISDOM FOR OUR FARMERS-ADDRESS OF PRESI DENT STEVENS TO CONVENTION OF iitiwinucnG ar nam Make Small Bills and Buy for Cash-Plant Food Crops-Roduco Cotton Acrcago. Tho lirst annual convention of tho Cotton States Association of the Commissioners of Agriculture con vened in New Orleans, La., Ja ... N,,y lOih, 11)00. Commissioner Jastremski, in tho absence of tJov. Foster, delivered tho address of welcome, which was responded to by Commissioner Cul ver, of Alabama. President Stevens then delivered his annual address. "For years," said Col. Stevens, "the farmers of tho South have boon drifting into a condition of bank* ruptcy and demoralization. This is not due to sterility of soil, nor to un favorable climatic conditions. It is not altogether fair to lay the fault of failure to our people, for as a class they have worked industriously, in and out nf season, but they have not worked with any fixed purpose of permanent benefit in the end. I have for years boon urging the farm ers of Georgia to reverse their methods if they would escapo tho conditions which have resulted from a lack of diversification in planting their crops. The salvation of the people depends upon rural independ ence, ami I urge upon each of you, the Commissioners of the Colton States, to call upon your people to change their methods of farming. The farming interest has been tho subject of much discussion by tho press and tho people of thc South for tin1 past twelve months; so much so, that the people of tho rural districts tire socking information by reading the daily and weekly papers .uni agricultural journals. This is one of tho important channels through which this association must roly in roaching the fanning class, by writing monthly letters upon ag ricultural subjects and (jtiestions, to be published once a month in your newspapers." Mr. Stevens said there was no doubt tho South is more prosperous to-day than at any other time within the last thirty years ; prices have advanced and tho people are more hopeful. "Tell your farmers," ho said, "to make small bills ; to buy for cash if possible ; to plant largely for food crops and reduce the acreage in cot ton even below that of last year. The cotton crop of 1 SOO-1 OOO will barely reach 0,000,000 bales and the average price paid thus far has been seven cents. I Jut if our farmers go wild again, as they did in 1808-buy everything they can on time, plant the whole earth \:\ cotton, and make a crop of cloven and one-half mil lion bales--the country will he ruined, almost beyond hope." STA TI: or ( ?mo, ("ITV or 'foi. KOO, ; I.I I AS Cul XI V, J >> frank ,1, ('heney makes catii that he is the senior partner of the linn of I*'. ,1. (.'heney ?v Co., doing business in tho City of Toledo, County am?stale aforesaid, and that said (?rm will pay the sum of Ono Hundred Dollars for each and every ease of Catarrh that cannot he cured by the use of Mall's Catarrh Cure. KUAN i< ,1. (Ju KN KV. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this lilli day of December, A. I), issi;. , ^ ^ A. W. Cl.KAKON, s Y. Af . > Notary Public. Mall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and aids directly on the blood ami mu cous surfaces ol' Hie system. Send for test i menials, free. I?\ .1. ClIKXKY A Co., Toledo, (). I Soid by Druggists, 7.">c. 1 Hall's Family Tills arc the. best. Two Points of View. A fanner drifted into a hardware 1 store at Fit kens and was asked by thc malinger : "Don't you want, to buy a bicycle ito ride around your tann on ? They are cheap now. Can give you one \ i'm- *:;;'>." "IM sooner put &?;"> into a cow," I said the fanner. "Hut think," said thc manager, I "bow foolish you would look riding ? around town on a cow." I "Ob, I don't know," said thc tar mer ; "no more foolish, perhaps, than I would milking a bicycle." CONSUMPTION I The Hoer war is costing Fngland ! $'2,000,000 a day, lo say nothing of the priceless blood of heroes shed. [This is eoatU boer hunting. CONDEMNED MEN RESIST. Uso Dirks When Auoul to Moot Death on (lie Gallows. Geronimo Tarra ami Antonio Morea, who wore executed at Kl Paso, Texas, last week for murder, made a desperate efl'??rt to Lill some of the officers or spectators when their cull door was unlocked. It had hoon decided to hang Flores first, for fear that ho would break down. When tho officers unlocked the cell door to convey bim to tho j gallows, both prisoners ?lashed out and stabbed right and left among tho crowd with dirks made of eoarso steed wiro. A desperate struggle fol lowe?!, and lite most intense ex citement was precipitated. A constable shoved Tarra into tho coll ami bolled Ibo door, and live rangers ami a deputy sheriff sprang Upon Flores, disarming him and bearing him to the floor. Ile was handcuffed ami his feet wore bound, after which he was conveyed to tho scaffold, where death by hanging was instantaneous. Ranger I'M. liryant was wounded in tho stomach by a dagger thrust. The sheriff thou declared thal no cit:/.en or officer should bc injured by Tarra, and called on tho prisoner to throw up his hands. "J have decided to shoot him down if ho resists," said ho as he opened the cell door. c'ive officers drew their pistols and covered the prisoner, lie was re moved without difficulty, bul a dirk was found at his feet. Ho kissed a crueilix ami declaro?l his innocence on tho scaffold. The trap doors sprung open *is the sheri IT pulled the lover, and Tarra's hoad was almost sevore?l from his body by the rope. Three Men Killed in Duel. VicKsui'it?;, Miss., January 0. Oak liidge, a little hamlet eighteen miles northeast of this city, was th?' scene this morning of a desperate pistol duel in which three of thc best residents of the county were killed. Th?: dead aro: A. I). Tolland, K. S. Stephenson and Dr. Otto Austin. Dr. .lames Austin, his sou, Otto Austin, and his son-in-law, li. S. Stephenson, had been arrested on an affidavit sworn oin hy Tolland, charging them with whipping one ol' Toland's negro tenants. The trial was set for tins morning, bul had hardly opened when llie shooting began, but who lirocl the 'hst rliot is not known. When the smoke nf battle had cleared away Tolland, Stephenson and Ott?) Austin were streatehe?l on tlii' Moor dead, and Tr. .lames Austin atula young son (d' Tolland wire seriously wounded. Free of Charge. Any adult suffering from a rob! settle?! on the breast, bronchitis, throat or lung troubles of any oat ure who will call at .1. II. Darby's will be presented with a sample hollie, ol' l?ese I ice'.s (?crinan I Syrup, free of charge. Only ?>ne bottle j given to one person, aihl none lo ch i hi roll wit bout order from parents. No throat oi ?ung remedy ever hail such a sale as I'.oschco's (?crinan Syrup in all ??alts ol' the civilized world. Twenty years ago millions ol bottles were given away, and yum- druggist will tell you its success was marvelous. It. is really the only Throat and laing liemedy generally endorsed by physicians. One i*? cent bot I le will eui eur prove its value. Sold hy dealers in all civilized countries. Not Much of a Discriminator. A small son, aged throe, turned up the oilier afternoon mn] was ery ? ing piteously, I "What is the matter?" asked papa. "Somebody !iii mc," answer little Johnny. "Dui you hit back?" asked the stern parent. j "No," sobbed Johnny. Toon ioiiowcii mis ice, which ended impressively willi thc words: "lie I member, Johnny, you arc a big boy, and when any ?mc hits you, yon hit I back and as hard ,u yon can." Two days later, in carno sonny, with bis head high in (lie air ami a blatant swagger. "Well, how goes it ?" "Some one Inf me," said thc proud boy, "but I hit back harder any way." "( ?nod," said I he |i Ipa ; '? was i ho little boy bigger than yon were?" "ll wasn't a boy," calmly answered Johnny ; "ii was a girl." Four Hundred Lives Lost. Y K I oin \, T. ( '., January. ll A?lviees by i bc steamship Kmpress ol Japan (ells of a liefen storm sweeping th?* Japanese eua si on |)c co m be r Jilli, by whieli thirty-li ve junks were lost while hi ing towed from Osako lo Kobe, anil 171 per sons perished. A tidal wave accom panied ibo slorm, by which ll I lives in all were lost. Ii IGlo LYNCHED. TWO OFFICERS OF THE LAW SHOT TO DEATH AT RIPLEY, TENN. BOTH ?HES SHOT ll HEAD Negro Rclusod to Bk Vaccinated Hail tho Nogro on tho Way to Jail. M irvin Durham ami W. 1). Tur ner, ofliccrs of the peace, were last Tuesday morning ?hot to death, while in tlte discharge of their duty, hy two negroes, near Ripley, Tenn. Turner was constable in the dis trict in which the killing took phi'-e, ami hud deputized Durham lo assist liiiu in uaking the arrest of a negro named Gingerly, who was wanted for failure to obey the vaccination laws, which have been enforced with considerable rigor thereabout of late on account ol' the prevalence of sporadic eases of smallpox in that vicinity. A special from Ki ploy, Tenn., uiulcr dato of January 9, says : Thc ofliccrs h nd tho negro under! way, bringing him to this city, when lliey were overtaken by two negroes, brothers of the prisoner, who, with out warning, bred from the rear, shooting both the ollieers in thc back of tho head, and producing instant death in both cases. Gingerly then escaped with his brothers. As soon as thc m w? of the tragedy reached this town intense excitement mose and many business people closed nj) their shops in order to join ?ti the chase of the murderers. Hounds were brought forth and all the people who had left for the scene of the killing carried arius nnd were evidently bent on laking summary vengeance on the slayers if they should bu caught. run i.v.Ni UKI?. Itim.Kv, TKNN., January IO.-The latest reports from the large posse which went in pursuit of tho Gin gerly negroes arc that two of the miscreants have been caught and lynched. The two negroes were swung to trees on the roadside tit 0.510 o'clock last night. One of the dead men is the prisoner who was being escorted to jail when the olli eers were shot, by his brothers. The searching parties are still out hunt ing for other participants in the erinn;. lt is reported that many negroes in the neighborhood aru anning themselves and excitement runs high. Negroes are being run off the streets to-night and are warned to remain quiet. A negro was assaulted nt S o'clock by a white man, and is perhaps fatally injured, livery in coming train has brought huge num bers of tuen, who have joined ill pur suit of other negroes. tte port ol Attorney General. Thc report of the Attorney Gene ral shows that 'J'JI homicide casca were tried in the State during tho past year, with the result cf 'J7 con victions ami SJ acquittals. The total number of dispensary eases was .'!7'J. There were KUI convic tions and -17 acquittals. livery cough makes your throat "jj B moro raw mu? irritadlo. livery cough ? / congosto thu lining mcmbrano of ?j j your lungs. Cease tearing ymir I I throat ami lunga in this way. Tako ? Ayer's Olionj Poctorsl ? From tho finit iluso tho quiot ami ?* " rest begin; tho tickling in tho throat J CT ceases; tho cough disappears. Two sizes : $1.00 ; fiOc. Vj ? Dr. Ayer'a Cher ry Pectoral Plaster 1 j Mimili! lu' over the linn;s of every I I person troubled with a cough. L ,1 c. AY Kit co.. Lowell, Mass. A HIDO,ly Game of Cards. NYIIITKSIH in;, Kv., January IO. I lul im; a quarrel over a game of canis in :i "blind tiger" at Pound Gap Inst Thursday, in which John and Taze Kail and Arch ami Henry Leap opposed Henry Sutherland, Korry laing and Henry Campbell, revolvers were drawn and two li ti ii - clred shots exchanged. Tazo Hall lind Henry Leap were killed ami Dave Sutherland anti Henry ('amp bell mortally wounded. Arch Leap ?url Henry Sullivan were slightly wounded. MISTRIAL IN MEARES CASE. Judge Buchanan Indulgos in a Tirado Against tho Jury. After remaining in the room from Wednesday afternoon at f> o'clock until Friday morning at ll, the jury charged with the bastardy case against Professor Meares, reported a mistrial. A correspondent, giving an account of thc trial, says that Judge Buchanan called the jury out of their rooms at 11 o'clock Friday morning, and when they announced that there was no possibility of reach ing a verdict, he began to speak to the jurymen in a very novel and plain-spoken manner in regard to the case. Their inability to agree, lie stated, was a maller of much regret, and nothing brought so much re proach upon thc administration of justice as a mistrial. The jury had spent throe or four days in hanging out, and had cost tho county about $4f>0, whereas even a verdict against the defendant would have put upon him a bond for only $300; that thc jury had spent moro money by hang ing on and fooling around than the amount that would have been ex acted by a conviction. "You, gentlemen," said the.judge, "probably will bo the first to speak lightly of courts and to say that jus tice cannot bo golton ; that tho law yers fool around in the courts and delay justice, wdiilo the truth of the matter is the lawyers, tho solicitor and tho court do their duty, ami you men have not tho manhood to do yours. Von have no ono but your selves to blame for tho miscarriage of justice. Tho State ami the de fendant are entitled to a verdict and you have acted like a set of school boys "locked up three or four days, when you should have agreed upon a verdict. Il" the public would culti vate a higher standard of obligation and men were to understand thal when they take an oath to do their duty, they should do it honestly in stead of frittering their time away and vascilatingby reason of a feeling of kindness for a neighbor, or some fancied thing in the evidence, more exact justice would bo done, and there would be no moro reproach upon tho admiuistr. lion of justice through the neglect of thc jurors to do their duty. They seem to think it is a slight of baud thing when they should go on a jury. A man taking an oath to perform a duty on the jury should meet his obligations as ho would his promise to pay a note. Jurors don't do it, and because of the fact, that we have to have jurors to try this sort of cases, justice is not done. "1 want to burn that idea into you, gentlemen, that justice has miscar ried in this case, because you did not have tile manhood to carry out tho law and tho obligation you look. And I want you to know I know it, and I want every juror to under stand when he comes into tilt! court whore I am to preside, and takes an obligation tn decide a case and does not do it, that I intend to tell him about it and make it hot for him. "Another jury may have to go over this same thing because of your lack of manhood and nothing else. It is because you all did not under stand your own oath and did not keep it to decide this case accord ing to the evidence. I want you to understand that I know it and everybody else knows it, and when it becomes a matter of opprobrium for juries to make a mistrial every body w ill reproach thom for it, be cause they dill tint keep their obliga tions the) took lo agree on a ver dict and further the administration of just ice." Judge ?md Jury. The Vorkville Kwpiircr, comment ing on thc foregoing, wisely says : The very remarkable tongue-lash ing which His IlonorO. W.l bichan nu administered to thc Spartanbiirg jury, which made a mistrial in tho .Meares case the other day, will no doubt receive moro or less considera tion tit the hands of the people id' the State. It ought to. According to tho. Spartanbiirg Herald, which made tho report of .lodge Buchanan's remarks, repro duced elsewhere, the jury is under stood to have been fight for convic tion ami four for acquittal ; bul this fact has no legitimate connection with Judge Ituclianan's remarks, which are only to be considered as a tirado of abuse against 1*2 men for failure to agree upon a verdict. On their fare, at first glance, the re mark, of Judge lluehanaii appear to have been generally 'he well-directed outburst of a righteous indignation against mon whom ho had reason to believe wen; wilfully conspiring to detent the of justice , bul upon ABSOLUTELY ? Makes the food more del 6?, ROYAL OAKINO POW( tl moro onreful investigation, from tho viewpoint that should have boen occupied by his honor, wo observe wdiat appears to bo a total miscon ception of the functions of a judge, and thc unwarranted abuso of a little brief authority in incompetent hands. There aro strong arguments in favor of Judge Hudson's proposition to allow niuo members of a jury to render a verdict. Ono of these is that while il maj' not bo impossible to lind ono man on any jury wdio is willing to make n mistrial, it is more difficult lo lind two and still moro difficult to lind throe. Hut this is not tho present law. Kaub juror arrives at an individual opinion, and thc agreement of twelve individual opinions makes tho verdict. It is admissible for a juror, who is not absolutely satisfied as to tho facts, to yield his lack of conviction to the conviction of the majority ; but it is not right for a minority juror lo sur render well-grounded conscientious convictions to tho, majority opinion merely for tho sake of arriving at a verdict. Tho minute ho would do such a thing he would perjure him self. Therefore, under the present system, mistrials niusl necessarily occur, and if they occur honestly and this must bo assumed in the absence of almost impossible proof to tho contrary-they aro as legiti mate as a verdict. This is in accord ance with statute laws. Wc shall not undertake to say whether it ?1 probable that those four "not guilty" jurors wore hold ing out because of a desire to protect Professor Meares, for notwithstand ing oaths or any earthly considera tions, such things aro nut only possi ble ; but they aro often done. And In-re truly is tho weakness of not only the jury system; but of all human justice--tho weakness of humanity. I>ut what right-con crete or abstract-has Judge l?u chnnnn to assume that those jurors are perjurers ? If he actually know them to be perjurers, then il would have been his duty to have said so and told how and why he knew. In deed ho should have instructed the solicitor to lay the matter before tin'grand jury. Under thc circum stances, although protected by his office from being held to account for his humiliating language, he had no legal or moral right to indulge in its use. We are not speaking hero with undue feeling ; hut are trying to look nt the case in all of its bearings. Then do not let us lose sight of the fact that it was not at the minority jurors that the judge's remarks were alone directed. The whole jury was accused of lack of manhood. Those who wanted to convict and those who wanted to acquit wore put into the same category. According to Judge buchanan's peculiar ideas, if the minority was not willing to surrender to the majority than tho majority should have surrendered| io the minority, for after all the issue was not justice, the character and reputation of plaintiff or defendant bul merely a verdict. His state ineiits leave no escape from this con clusion. And we are given a plain intima tion that the idea of tho verdict was to save expense. Wc are told that the cost ol' the trial was ?100, and thti fact is cited lo us that even if the defendant had been convicted, he would have only been placed under a &I00 bond. According to the judge, then, after all, the princi pal issue was one of dollars and cents -not that the county should st and ready to banki Dpt itself in order to insure justice to its citizens ; hut that jurors should only look lo the cheapest way out. In its application to our judiciary machinery thc idea is certainly new and novel ; but per haps, after all, it, is not allogcthci inapplicable to thc especial ease of Judge buchanan. Fron thc record he has made as a presiding Judge on the hench and under the review of the supremo court, hundreds ol' law yers all over the Stale 'having lone since como to the conclusion thal, hi." place could ho heller lilied by some one ol' the best x.'!(IO magistrates, ami in our opinion it. would he a capita iden if the next (?eneral Assembly, would institute some kind ol' ; change. We do not suggest, ol course, the promotion of a fcoOl magistrate; hut wo would like ti seo ihe substitution of a well equipped lawyer who is capable o properly Idling the place. BAKING ?URE licioiis and wholesome )ER CO., HEW YORK. Swiss and American Roads. S wit /.erl and (says Otto Dorner) is reported ns possessing the very best highways in tho world. She is hy no means a wealthy country, hut her people are thrifty and economi cal. lier form of govorment is con sidered by many to he farther in ad vance in matters of public economy than any other country on the globe, and tho administration of her public affairs is conducted with the same thrift, the same intelligence, tho same care and the same economy which distinguishes her citizens. It is generally supposed that the Swiss people have had hundreds of years in which to build their high ways, hut the fact is that, up to the present century, no serious effort nt road building was made in that country. The I Tn i ted Slates Consul nt Morgen, Mr. Lyle T. Adams, in his official report, explains that the first, great construction of highways was begun in the linn' of Napoleon, originating with a system of moiin ' lain roads, and gradually developing, by IS'.lii, into n net-work of stone \ roads which covered all the count!' . Thc lesson taught by tho roads oi j Switzerland is that thc best of pul lie highways may bo built without great expense, without overloading the country with debt, and without burdening thc citizens with excessive j taxes. Country highways in Switz. j orland have not been left to petty local authorities distributed tiver the land, but have largely been placed in thc hands of a central authority ! Hoad building is conducted by men ' wdio have made a scientific study of I civil engineering, and its economical ' and financial side is looked after by men who are experts in that field. Mr. Geo. L. Catlin, the United States Consul at Zurich has said: I "It may with safety bo stated that ; m no country in the world is tho construction of roadways carried out with more scientific skill and thor oughness than in Switzerland. Tho i public highways of the canton of Zurich are models in every respect." Let us make a comparison between i Swiss highways and those of our : own republic. There wc lind tho i construction and maintenance! of roads in the hands of the Cantons, and the work in charge of profes sional engineers. In our own coun try, roads are built almost entirely by the local town authorities. This ' system has become so firmly rooted in our country that most farmers have no conception of a road tax I other than a local town tax which they must pay. In most of thc Stales in this country one-half or more of the State taxes ure paid by I the large cities, and just so soon as the farmer realizes that one-half or j more of a Stale road tax would be I paid by the cities, he will bo enthu siastically in favor of State road taxes. People in the cities want good country roads, for the sake of 1 their indirect benefits to them, and ! will gladly aid in their construction. Thc aims of the National League for I Good I ?cads, and of thc League of I American Wheelmen, in their efforts ? for better highways, is lo relieve the ! farmer of the responsibility an'1 ex pense of looking after country roads, to place their construction j upon a scientific and economical j basis, and to charge their cost to the j ent ire population, under a system of I linancc which will not bo a burden and will be fair to nil concerned. .Much progress has been made in this direction in thc Lastern States, ; through the combined efforts of far mers and wheelmen, aided hy the good roads O'.ei.ni/ations. The De I t ! pnrlmcnt ol Agriculture at Wash i iugtou has done much to encourage the change, and has published nu merous bulletins upon thc subject. O A. B T O Xl X . Rpftrfl tho Ina Kind You llavo Always Boup.lil Bignaturo /jf> \ -* . > A Northern preacher recently said : "There arc no newspapers in heaven." Yep and he won't lind 'em "to burn" in 'tether place, cither. <TJ ./V ? 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