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TO THIN? OWN 8MJT Bl TBUB AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS TH? NIGHT THB DAY, THOU OANS'T NOT THJ?N BT ?JAYNES, BdBLOB, SMITH & STECK. BB FAL?B TO ANY MAN. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, AUG. 1?. 1908. NKW SH KI RS, KO. 981-VOLUME LUI.-NO. 88, Rememb* Mr. J. O. Gasque, : will be with tts Augus lng of Tailor-made Cl and Cassimerei, both We can build you the sl&ape will stay in Globe Tailoring Co. tc measuring and fitting, ter advantage to buy t Suits from $15 to il c. w. <a A Rural Police System. Tho Georgia Agricultural Society, in session in Athena last week, raised the question of the advisability of establishing a thorough and effioient rural police system in Georgia. The matter was suggested in tho annual address of the President, Mr. White head, who gave as a reason for the abandonment of the farms by many intelligent and progressive men, the inadequate protection to their women, under the present condition of rural affairs. Judge Emory Speer, who was present as a visitor, was called up to speak, and protest ing his incompetency to discuss agricultural topics, proceeded to develop tho rural police idea. Among other things, ho said that the greatest danger to the rural dis tricts was the presence of scattering negroes of a peculiarly brutal char acter, descendants of the lowest and most beastly of African tribes. These negroes, bo said, were bcarcoly more responsible than wild animals, and needed to be held un der the strictest survoilanco. The idea of holding them in check by means of one sheriff for each county, and an occasional deputy is absurd, and what tho county needs is an efficient patrol, patented after the Texas ranger Bystem. He thought there should .JG two or more of these rang ers, or rural police for each township in a county and the system should he so developed that criminals could be followed from tho moment of the commission of their crime until their arrest. Ile suggested that such a system would go far to doing away with all apparent necessity for mob law, and the rural districts could be made as safe as tho town*. The judge'B remarks produced a profound impression upon tho society and there is a probability that tho rural police idea will soon become an issue in Georgia as it should in all other Southern States. Quick Relief for Asthma Sufferers. Foley's Honey and Tar affords imme diate relief to asthma sufferers in tho worst Btagos and if taken in time will effect a cure. For salo by J. VV. Hell. Dr. G. G. Probst, DENTIST, Walhalla, S. C. Office Over C. W. Pitchford Co.'s ; : : Store, : : : Houns : 8.30 A. M. TO 1 p. M. AND 2 TO f. p. M. March 24. 1898. r. W. F. Austin SENECA,.S. C. OFFICE DATS : MONDAYS, THURS DAYS, FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS. January 15, 1901. H. T. JAYNE?. I J. V,*. SHBIJOBI J AY N ES & SH ELOR, ATTORNKYb-AT-LAW, WALHALLA, 8. C. PROMPT attontion givon to all busi ness oommitted to their care. WM. J. STUIIJLINO. \ \ K. L. HKJINDON. & Attomeys-At-Law, WALHALLA, S. C. Pao M PT ArrKNTioN UIVK.N TO AM. IJUHI NKHS KNTJUJSTKI) TO Til KM. January 6, 1898. (SUMMER OM THE SOUTHERN ILWAY THE LI THE LL THE LD vSUMM Compl Mallee W. A. TURK. Pass. Trafile M yr. WASHINGTON. D.C. sr the Da August 2 representing &/>e Glob< t 21st to give tis our F othing-with all the n< imported and dornest! a sis it with the snap it as long as it lasts. ? do the tailoring, and a nt is assured, and n heir fall clothing thar. 135 ; Pants, $3.50 to $ J. E,. BAU1 The First Wife of Moses. Tho News and Courier publishes tho following : To the Editor of Tho News and Courier : According to a recent dispatch published in your paper Senator Burton announced in one of his spoeches that the Egyptians wore negroes and that Moses married a negro, and I notice in your issue of to-day an artiolo from the Chicago Tribuno, which questious the cor rectness of either of these state ments. As to tho first, any one who I has read anything at all knows that it is not true. But SB to the statement that Moses married a negro, thoro is at least some ground for argument. The Tribune seems to think that Mr. Burton refers to Zippora, (tho daugh ter of Jethro or Iteubel, the Mid ianitish priest,) whom Moses mar ried while ho was a refugeo in "the land of Midian," and is no doubt correct in saying that she was not a negress. Midianites were descendants of Abraham, and consequently wore of the same blood as Moses. But another wife is mentioned in the Bible. Was this other wife a negress? Josephus, tho Jewish historian, tells us that, while Moses was living at the Egyptian court as ono of the royal family, tho Ethiopians made an attack upon Southern Egypt, and overran a largo portion of ibo coun try. Moses was thereupon put in command of the Egyptian army, and after a brilliant campaign, in which he drove the enemy out of Egypt, marched into Ethiopia and laid seige to their capital city. It was while conducting this seige (according to Josephus) that Moses made tho ac quaintance of the daughter of the Ethiopian king and married her on condition that the city should be surrendered to him. Somo writers contend that this story is a mere myth, appearing only in the "Antiquities" of Josephus. But we lind corroboration of it in the Bible, in Numbers, 12-1, where it is said : "And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had mar ried ; for ho had married an Ethio pian woman." Evidently this passage does not refer to Zippora, for she was not an Ethiopian, and Josephus says, too, that the name of the Ethiopian wo man was Tharbis. What became of her nowhere appears. That her marriage to Moses was considered disgraceful to him is shown by the fact that his brother and sister both "spake against" him, reproached him for it, even when he was at the height of power. The question then is : What was this Ethiopian woman, whom Moses ought not to havo married, but did marry? Was she a negress or not? My own opinion is that she was not a negress, for the reason that the ruling class in Ethiopia, in tho time of Moses, according to all accounts, were not negroes, but a race rather of the same general type as the Moors-brown in color, but not black -and of a far higher type than the negro, who was always a slave when brought in contact with other races. I should like, however, to hear from the Tribune as to this first wife of Moses. Julius II. I ley ward. Greenville, August 14. NE FOR BUSINESS, NE FOR PLEASURE, NE FOR ALL THE BEST ER RESORTS i ' ". i 1 11 11. ete Summer Resort Folder I Free to Any Address. S. H. HARDWICK, W. H. TATU>?, Can't P?i?. Agont, Asst. Gon'l PMS. Aft. WASHINOTON, D.C. ATLANTA, OA. ." G Tailoring Company, 'all and Winter Open? Bw things in Worsteds c. and shape to it? and With people liKe UAe Mr. Gaset tie to do the 0 one will Have a bet? 1 we offer August 21? IO. flNIGHT. A LETT?R FROM ALABAMA. C. B. Vornor, Esq., ol Tuscaloosa, Writes interestingly of Conditions There. Tasknloosa, Ala., August 10.-Editors Keowoo Courior: Some wooks since my sistor, Mrs. J. P. McCarey, ordorod your paper Bent to me for a year as a birthday rom o rub rance. When I re coived the first copy and read it from be ginning to end it brought many pleasant as well as sad recolleotionB of the old days of boyhood among the hills of Riobland and ConneroBS, and I had a hnnkoring feeling for the old stamping groundB, which I was not able to gratify at thiu time, but whioh I determined to relieve to a limited extent by writing this letter and romiuding some of the many old friondB that I used to have of the fact that I am still a going concern. It lins been nearly fifteen yearn ni?ee I came to this place and fourteen years of that time has boon put into the practico of tho law. For a goodly portion of that timo I managed to keep it pretty woll concealed from the publio that I was so engaged, but gradually it has gotten out on mo that I bolong to that clans which the common pooplo say has no moro chanco for heaven than the rich man of the Hihle. I haven't dabbled much in poli tics, but tho pooplo of this county scorned to think that I needed some kind of punishment for tho way I had boon conducting myself and decided to sentence mo to a torm of four yearn in tho Legislature. I havo sorvod nearly a year of my time and think that on account of good behavior I may havo my timo ooin muted. By tho way, speaking of tho Legislature, Alabama is tho only State in the Union whose Legislature meets only ouo timo in ovory four years, and then eau ouly hold tho session for fifty days. I suppose, however, that your readers and my friends will bo moro interested in tho things of my homo town, so if you and they will bear with mo for a littio whilo I will tell a little something of the "City of Oaks." Wo havo now about seven thousand pooplo aud aro growing, but to bo honest with you, when strangers get to town we tell thom "tho city has about ten thousand pooplo." This is the way with all towns that havo tho growing disease. We aro blossod boro with tho Warrior river, which has beon tho causo of some thing moro than two million dollars of public money boing distributed hero in the building of locks and dams in the in terest of freight li.allic. Six of these have boen flnishod aud one is about completo and three more have beon commoncod. Altogether about five millions will bo expondod on tho river and whilo the rail roads may still continuo to haul tho coal, the UBO of tho river will koop down tho freight rates and a portion of tho South will ho getting a pittanco to offset tho great pension grabbers of tho North. We used to have an electric light and icc plant boro, but last Wednesday tho boiler-ono of ono hundred and fifty horso-powor-got on its bind logs and capered and cavorted over about two blocks of tho town and landed in the second story of a dry goods store This is no joke. This boiler exploded and was carried bj tho forco of the ex plosion six hundred feet, aud tho part that lodged up in the second story of tho store weighs about nine thousand pounds. Two negroes wero killod and many oitizons moro or loss injured, run ning and hugging trees after all the trouble and dangor was ovor. The do briB was scattered over four or five blocks, and as tho plant was right in the middle of tho business part of the town, it is miraculous that there was not a grcator loss of lifo and property. In I consequence of all of which wo aro in BIG REt CANE MILLS, EVAPORATORS AND FURNACES. Como and si tho prices right. Big Reduction in Sum Organdies, Muslins and Lawns yard, to close at 7? to 8 cents per yar Goods that arc worth 8 to 10 < cents per yard. A few light and medium we duned prices. Wc are putting a prici movo them. So como quick-before A job lot of Ladies' Nice Lace 4^ and 6), to close at 85 cents. A job lot of Ladies' Medium worth $1.25, to close at 85 oonts. Si: Mon's and Ladies' Kino Shoes country. Do not fail to inspoot our s We aro also headquarters for C Oils, Varnishes, eto. W. P. NI SENEC utter darkness,'but we are still cutting some iee, as the oold storage house was not destroyed and the neighboring towns are supplying us with that indispensable necessity. For several years sinoe coming here I was connected with the Tuekaloosa Ga zette, but I found out that I oould not practico law and ruu a newspaper at one and the same time, so I quit the latter; but I am no exception to the rule, that once a newspaper man you are always one, and sometimes now I confess that 1 like to road my own writing, and havo to go in print again. We used to have three daily papers aero, but these have i ll been merged into one that is not muoh better Or larger than any one of the three were when they were in competi tion with eaoh other. We also have the dispensary here, but nota la Tillman; and it ia a success from almost any standpoint. The sale of intoxicants bas been out down practically one-half, and the number of arrests have likewise dooreaaed. The people here would not think of returning to the opon saloon and its attendant ovils. Weduesday of this week the furnace of the Central Coal and Iron Company was "blown in." That is, in plain Eng lish, they began to make iron. This plant is just northeast of UB on the river --? 1 *? -. :.l .1.-. .....1 ...,.1 1,, ,.,..,( NU ti iv ? nu buv ..i.* livu, ......... . .... something like one million of dollars. ThiB has given our town an impetus and everything looks bright and prosperous. Coal mines aro being opened up and difforent kinds of manufacturing indus tries are being installed; all of which tend to good times and good foelin^j. Tho farmer also has good oauso for con gratulation, for while his cotton is a little late, it is good, and the oom orop is ex cellent. Thore will be moro corn made in this county this year than at any timo in its history. Thia is also a great place for water melons and fruits. This year I had pouches in ray yard that weighed close to one pound. They were of the Elberta varioty and of excellent flavor. Tho negro and tho watermelon, though, are centcrs of interest, especially on Satur days. I have seen as many as tl fly wagon loads sold here in ono day-retailed in the streets. I saw yesterday a tomato that was grown by a nogro that weighed two pounds and six ounces. In fact, we have a groat country hore, but no greator than yours. Tour water power and moderately "hot summers aro things that will forover place you to the front in tho manufacturo of cotton fabrics, and I am inclined to think that any young man oau do las woll there as elsewhere, as lt is energy that winB in tho end and not environment. When spoaking of the Legislature I forgot to toll you that while I was serv ing time in that honorable body I mot an old Ooonoe boy in tho person of John A. Lusk, now of Guntorsville, Marshall county, in this State. Mr. Lusk was boru on Smoltzer's creek, near Walhalla, and now has kindred near you. Iiis father came to this place just after the oivil war. Mr. Lusk is a tine character and a man of influence in the Legislature. If you think this will be of any inter est to any of your readers you can pub lish it with tho best wishes and thanks of yours truly, C. B. Venter. Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach tho diseased portion of tho oar. Thero is only one way to ouro deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed con dition of tho mucous lining of the eusta chian tube. When this tubo gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and whon it is ontirely closed doafnoss is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tubo restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine caaos out of ton aro caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condi tion of tho mucous surfaces. Wo will givo ono hundred dollars fo. any caso of doafnoss (caused by catarrh) that cannot bo cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars free. F. J. CHENEY A CO., .Proprietors, Toledo, Ohio. Sold by druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills aro tho best. In connection with the 250th an niversay of New York city tho relig ious statistics were published. In 1653 there was one house of wor ship which would seat 212 and tho yearly expenses was then $1,000. Now tho houses of worship in tho city aro worth $133,000,000, and last year the churches expenod in the city, and not including what they gave to missions, $28,000,000. <?? Many persons in this community aro sufforing from kidnoy oomplaint who could avoid fatal results by using Foley's Kidney Cure. For sale by J. W. Bell. )UCTION Sleet what you wnr?t. Wo will make mer Goods. that aro worth 12J to 15 cents por 3. ;onts per yard to close at 5 and 6 ?gilt Men's Suits to go at grently re i on these goods that must and will they aro all closed out. Shoos, worth $1.25, (sizos 3, 3?, 4, Woight Button Shoes, good stook, ;os 6, OJ, 7 and 8. -the greatest lino shown in the up took bofore buying. Jrocories, Hardware, Stoves, Paints, M MONS, A, S. C. GREAT GATHERING OF FARMERS. Significant Attendance at the Clemson Insti tute-Interesting Prooesding?. Over 600 at the very first meeting of the Farmers' Institute, at Clem son College, breaks all records. Be fore this not more than 100 have usually come on the first day. If the crowd should increase in tho same proportion as in former years there would be over 2,000 here before the ,01086. That cannot be expeoted, however; 700or 800 will probably be the limit. The most encouraging feature ia the faot that the most in I telligent and extensive farmers of the State are here, many of whom have been hore four or five times on similar occasions. Col. J. S. Newman seemed almost too full for utteranoe to-night when he said he had spent 30 years of bis life working for the upbuilding of the farming interests, and that it did bis heart good to soe thin great gath ering here. Somehow there is in tho v?rv fitmnonhoro a taa\\nn that J 1-1- - - "JJ ??...V South Carolina is about to enter a new era of progress and prosperity in things agricultural. Tho trains wore literally loaded down, and it was impossible to con vey the orowds over. In their eager ness to roach the place ladies even walked. At barracks it looked like a world's fair, or a Stato fair at least, to sec the groat crowd surging and hear the great concourse of voices. It did not tako long to givo rooms and meal tickets to all, however, and promptly at 8 o'olock Col. New man called tho instituto to order and after prayer by Prof. Morrison, in troduced Dr. P. II. Mell, who made tho welcome address. Dr. Mell spoke at length, giving much valua ble information as to agricultural colleges, experiment stations and thoir groat work. Ho gavo interest ing statistics showing the results of this work. As to Clemson college in particu lar he gave the following figures which are interesting : 2,845 students have outored Clemson ; 251 have graduated, of these 71 have taken tho agricultural oourso, and aro now workiug for tho bettormont of agri cultural conditions in various ways ; 180 have taken tho mechanical oourso, souio taking tho olootrioal, somo textile, civil engineering, otc Of the 1,442 students entering since 1897, 756 have boen farmers' sons. The South Carolina experiment station bas issuod 95 bulletins, con taining over 3,000 pages of scientific work. There are 10,000 names oi the mailing lists of tho station Un-at good has been accomplished in this way, but there ought to bo 40, 000 names on the lists. Dr. Moll's speeoh was well pro parod, well delivered and woll re oeivod. W. F. MoArthur, of Cherokee feelingly responded to tho wolcome address in a short but fitting speech While ho is a m ut of middle lifo h said he was only three years old n a farmer. Ho thought farmer could, by thinking more, work lee and yet make more. Col. Newman next introduce? Prof. J. II. M. Boaty, direotor < Clemson's Textile school, tho first i the South, as the lecturer of th evening. Prof. Beaty, though young man, has had much practice experience as woll as theoretics training along manufacturing Linet His speech was clearcut and convine ing, was dolivorod with forco an olosoly listened to. Tho subject of tho lecture wa "Correlation of Agriculture ari Manufacturing." Following is brief outline of what the speak said : There aro good plaoos waiting fi tboso who preparo for them. Indu try cannot stand still. A count may not stay in tho load in man faoturing a certain lino of goods. In 1810 the manufactured artiol in Virginia, North and South Cai lina and Georgia exceeded those all tho rest of the country. This I futes tho idea that the South had II tho energy for manufacture Slavery and tho rioh soil drew t South away from manufacture Somo aro afraid wo aro building t many cotton mills. Has tho Soi built enough cotton mills ? Engla has 40,000,000 cotton spindles, 4 000,000 woolen spindles and abo 40,000,000 population. Tho Son raises four-fifths of tho cotton or< having 12 to 15 million populatic has only 6,000,000 spindles. Thia sufiioiont answer. It ia an error to try to increase t value of cotton by roduoing tho pi duotion. During tho war other c ton fields supplied the milln. Th can do so again. Tho true reined] to make more cotton at less cc and instead of selling raw mater sell tho finished produot to tho wor A bale of cotton worth $25 may sold in tho form of cloth for $100 moro. A cord of oak wood is woi $2, m ado into furniture is worth * We raise fivo pounds of cotton ono pound of oloth and expoot to rioh at it. A pound of cotton a cents goes to Massachusetts, is m into oloth, comes back to us at cents a pound. The 82 cents dif once all goes into tho pocket* of Massachusetts. If the cotton is manufactured here the 82 oents ?B left in the ?South to bo divided among our people. The speaker gave an impressive illustration of the beneficial effeots of the establishment of a cotton mill, by showing the condition of a town before and after the erect ion of a cotton mill. Dilapidated stores and dwellings were improved, broken down fenoes repaired, banks estab lished, new homes built, ?to. While the town was greatly improved the country around was likewise greatly benefited in that produce sold at better prices. Instead of $60,000 to he distribu ted in this oommunity from the cot ton crop grown in that section at 8 couts, if the cotton is made into cloth at 25 oents per pound there will bo $200,000 to bo distributed. The taxable property bas been in creased by $175,000. In time this will bring about better roads, and better school facilities. bettor ohurohes. All commoroial interests of a sec tion are built up by cotton mills. The longer a community persists in selling its products in raw mate rials and payiug somebody else a haudsome profit for ^Manufacturing, tho poorer will it become, while the manufacturer becomes wealthier. Since the Piedmont section of Vir ginia, tho Carolinas and Georgia bo gan manufaoturing one product alone the Southern Kailway has been forced to double its tracks part of | tho way between Washington and Atlanta, and will soon have to doublo tho entire lino Tho manufacturing establishments create a strong homo market for eggs, butter and truck of all kinds. Thus life o???? annual income of the farmer is increased by 25 to 50 per cent. Every one should encourage in dustries that Utilizo his raw material. The country needs a diversity of in dustries-diversified agriculture, di versified manufactures. Small in dustries often do as much for a sec tion of country as a few big plants. New England ?B supported largely by small industries. Leaving out tho cotton industry New England still makes more money than the South. Col. Newman made announce ments and tho public meeting closed, but thoro was many a farmer who did not seok sloop till after midnight. They had a good time, judging from tho merry laughtor that rang out at intervals. Many a good rich joke was told. Some wrote to tho loved ones at home ; others talked farm ing. This is a great experience for many of the farmers. Sonic fathen sleep where their boys have slept and they aro irawn into close touch with the boys, in fact, some of thom live over their boyhood days. The prominent men from all over the State aro too numerous to men tion. Fine Hogs in Chesterfield. Chesterfield letter to Columbia State : "Chesterfield county can boast of as fine hogs as any county in tho State. T. J. Davis, who lives one milo south of town, two winters ago killed a monster hog (hat weighed 888 pounds af ter it was cut up ; one of the hams weighed 74 pounds, many people belioving it was not tho ham of a hog. Davis now has some fine porkers which ho showed your correspondent recently. One of thom is an exceptionally fine one, being at present 7? feet in . lenght and weighs 600 pounds, Ho is not very fat at present and Davis is con fident that he can make him go over j a thousand pounds by tho middle of winter, when ho will bo slaughtered. Davis has other fine hogs. Every year ho has plonty of moat for his own use, and sells a good doal." AT THE TOP. It is a laudable ambition to reach the top of tile ladder of success But many a man who reaches the topmost rung finds his position a torment Instead of a triumph. He has sacrificed his health to success. A niau eau suc ceed and be strong if he heedr Nature's warnings. When there is indiges tion, loss of ap petite, ringing in the ears, dl7.r.i ness, spots be fore the eyes or palpitation of the heart ; any or all of these Symptoms point to weakness and' loss of nutrition. Dr. Pierce's Goldeu Med ical Discovery cures dis eases of the stomach and other organs of di ?estion and nutrition.. ly perfect and obund- ' sut nourishment dis tributed to each vital organ it enables the co-opera-: tion of all the organs to pre serve the perfect health of the body. "For about two years I suffered from s very obstinate case of dyspepsia," wrltea R. K. Secora. Kmi-, of 13 Eastern Ave., Toronto, Ontario. "I tried a great number of rtmtdlen without ?uc ees*. I finally lost fnitli in them Alt. I waa so far frone tJint I could not bear any sottd food In ray stomach for a long time, felt melancholy and ri cpr caned. Could not slop nor follow my occupation. Some four months ago a friend recommended your'Ooldeu Medical niscovery.' After a week'a treatment I had derived sc much benefit that I continued the medicine. I have taken three bottles and atn convinced lt has tn my case accomplished a permanent cure. I can conscientiously recommend lt to the thott aanris of dyspeptioe throughout the land.* The " Common Sense Medical Adviser," ioo8 large pages in paper covers, is sent free on receipt of ai one-cent stamps to Biy expense of mailing only. Address r. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. ft, C. JONES ATTACKS DISPENSARY. Startling Charges Against State State Board. Weakness of the System. To the Editor of The State : I understand that my letter to you of a reoeut date iu regard to gambling and the violation of the dispensary law haw had something to do with an effort that is now being made by the oity authorities of Columbia to sur press these evils. This encourages me to ask that Charleston and other cities and towns in the State take decided steps to do the same I be lieve that the Governor deBires to en force all the la wu of the State and that ho is ambitious to make his ad ministration creditable to the State, to the people who have honored him and to himself, but in order to ena ble him to accomplish this he must have the hearty co-operation of his friends and of all the law-abiding people of South Carolina. If the people fail to give him their support it will be too late to regret it after he has failed io accomplish i the results necessary to improve the tho conditions existing when he was iuduoted into office. When you think of it, there is not more than ten per cent of the white people of any community who are violators of the law. These left to do as they please run roughshod over laws and have no regard for deoency or mor als The politicians fear this class because they geuerally take an active part in politics and combine against men who they know who are for law and order. And good men who are candidates for office often mako con cessions to this class because they aro afraid to antagonize them. There is an impression am' jg some of tho Governor's friends that he has not oarried out his promises to en force the dispensary law or things would not be run "wide open" as thoy have been, especially in Colum bia and Charleston, because he is looking forward to his re-election in 1004, and does not want to make enemies. I do not believe this, nor will not, unless I have botter evi dence along this line. It takes time to accomplish these things, and ho has only been in office about seven months, and it is well known how difficult it is to en force the dispensary law. I doubt if there is one of them that is con ducted in accordance with the law, and this being the case, you oan under stand the difficult task before the Governor. To secure for him your support in this matter, and a higher regard for all of our laws, is my ap ology for writing this and my former letter. Now a word to the Prohibition Dcmoorats, temperance workers and Christian men and women of our State, and I will close : You huve doubtlcs noticed tho workings of the dispensary law for the past three or four years ; the open violation of the law ; tho power it exercises as a po litical machine in politics ; the charges that havo been made that men prefer a position on the board of control and work harder for it than they do for any office in the State, and yet they can only draw $100 a year sal ary and actual traveling expenses. You have also heard of the money that some of the men who are con nected with it have accumulated out of $400 a year, and have felt ashamed that South Carolina would have an institution whoso officers and their reputation, and the good name of the State suffer by it. Yet this is true ; and more than this is heard in the streets. I was talking with a former mem ber of the board in 1898, who at that time was off of it, but who has since returned, at the request of our.pres ent Governor, and as noar as I can recollect, and my memory is good, ho said that it was a bad thing to have anything to do with whiskey ; that ho was persuaded to go on the dispensary board beoause they wanted mon of high character on it who would oarry out tho law ; that he hesitated to accopt the position, hut did accept, and that he had not been on the board more than 30 days be fore ho was accused of all kinds of rascality, and he had not boen thore 60 days before ho was ready to get off, and that if God would forgivo him ho would never have anything to do with the liquor business again. Still he has gono back, and is ru mored, I don't know whether it is true or not, but I have mot some people who do, that ono of tho liquor firms who sell tho dispensary, a Bal timore firm, I believe, has deposited in his bank $50,000 with tho under standing that the bank oan uso the money without interest until called for. They know whether these things aro true or not, they are just as com mon talk as the talk about every thing boing run "wide open" in Col umbia and Charleston some time ago. Now what aro you going to do about it ? Sit still and lot this ma obine and the lawless class of the State continue this business as it is now conducted ? I hope you will appreciate the responsibility that is yours and organize all over the State and be prepared to demand of the candidates for the Stat? offices and i the General Assembly when they enter the Deraoeratio primary next year (ltH)4) that they will vote for a bill that will refer the question of dispensary or no dispensary back to the people, and give them the right to say whether these oonditions shall continue. At present the people have no voice. They oan put a dis pensary or grant a beer privilege wherever they please and you are powerless to prevent it. This ia not Detnocraoy, and further than the Republican party would go when they have any opposition. Now who will lead? Organize and the leader will develop. The only persons who seem to be giving the matter any speoial attontion at present are Mr. T. J. LaMotte, Col umbia, and Mrs. E. S. Herbert, Orangeburg. They are sound on all questions conneoted with it and have already performed valuable service for temperance and prohibition. There are many others, and as a rule you oan rely on all of the Christian ministers of the State, thc college presidents and professors and teach ers in the schools. Don't imagine that the teachers are not with you because their schools got a small pittanoe from the profits of the dis pensary. I believe that nine-tenths of them as well as the county superin tendents and schools trustees are hamed to receive and use this blood money for the education o. the chil dren. Don't delay now, but organize at onco. Tho politicians have an idea that "good roads" is now tho horse to ride for the next campaign. This is well enough, but not near so important as to check the whiskey evil. Go to the good roads meetings and enliBt your friends in your or ganization and as soon as you begin to make your- influence felt tho politicians will be asking to got into the anti-disponsary wagon. You will remember how some good men who were bitterly opposed to the \ Reform movement in 1890, when the Reform movement captured the Democratic machinery of tho State, these men bogan to drop in one by one and some of thom booame loud mouthed Reformers (commonly speaking.) This class will come to you, too, if you bestir yoursolvos and their votes and influence all counts. I would ask tho individual prohibi tion Democrats to co-operate with the Governor, the State officials, tho city and town officials in the enforce ment of all tho laws of the State, especially the dispensary law and the anti-gambling law and the law against carrying concoalcd weapons, because it is tho duty of every good citizen to do this, and then 1 believe the Governor, if ho finds that a majority of tho people of the State desire lo have tho dispensary quest ion referred back to them after they have tried it under four administrations, that he will use his influence to have it done. I have been hero for a few days tak ing a rest. I leave for New York to-day to remain for several weeks. I wish I was in tho Stato now as much as I was in 1808, so that I could join with you in all that you do, but I will try and keep in touch with you. A. C. Jones. Hot Springs, N. C. tStcl (J Gut.. In tlino. 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