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A6A9N THE DISPENSARY QUESTION.
Hen. 8. F. Crayten, Ol Anderson, Discime?
it from Various Standpoints.
[Auderson Mail, June 21.]
The dispensera in Anderson couuty
are not carrying out the law. They
make no pretense of observing the
requirements as to signing the re
quest bianks for liquor, and a man
can buy JW often in one day as ho
feels like it. The local dispensers,
instead of trying to restrict the sale
of liquor, are always glad to sell to
anybody who wants to buy. The
failure of the dispensers to carry out
either the present Utter or the
original spirit of the dispensary law
is known to all men, either of direct
knowledge or by heresay, and yet no
effort is ever made to have them
carry out the law. There is expl'oit
provision in the law by which they
may be punished for violating the
law, yet nobody has ever expressed a
desire to have them punished.
Now, why do not the dispensers
carry out the law ? Simply because
the peopie do not want them to
carry it out-because the public is
content with conditions as :hey are.
And if the publio is not demanding
the enforcement of the present law,
which is easy enough even when car
ried out to the letter, will the publio
make an effort to enforce another
law ten times more rigid ?
The present anti-dispensary agita
tion, as we understand it, is not so
much against the dispensary law as
it was originally given us, and as it
stands on the statute books to-day,
as against the State dispensary in
Columbia and its management and
the odor that surrounds it. The
public is satisfied that there is some
thing wrong down there-that there
is mismanagement if nothing worse
and the repeated failure of the Leg
islature to straighten matters out
has convinced a great many people
that the only way to purify it is to
get rid of it.
The people believe that if the lo
cal dispensers run their establish
ments solely with a view of increas
ing sales they are acting under in
structions from headquarters, and
that somebody, somewhere, must be
interested in increasing the sales of
whiskey through the dispensaries.
When the dispensary law was en
acted we were told that it was a po
lice regulation, that it would decrease
the use of whiskey among the peo
ple, and would be a step toward pro
hibition, lt bas not proven to be
anything of the kind. The dispen
sary has, if anything, increased,
rather than decreased the sales of
whiskey, and we will give the figures
to prove it.
The three dispensaries in this
county now sell in a year whiskey of
various kinds to the amount of about
$200,000.
The last year of the old bar room
system in Anderson there were seven
bar rooms. Last week we asked S.
T. Craig, who was in the business
then, and who is a man in whom
everybody has confidence, what
would be his estimate of the average
sales of each of the saloons in An
derson the last year of their exist
ence. Mr. Craig, after some thought,
said ho thought an average of $25
a day all the year round for each of
the saloons would be a very liberal
estimate. This estimate may not be
absolutely correct, but we believe it
is uot very far from wrong. And if
each bar room sold on an average of
$25 worth of goods a day, that would
amount to $64,600 for the seven in a
year.
Our population has greatly in
creased since the old bar room days,
but even allowing for the increase in
population it appears that the dispen
saries are selling as much whiskey
per capita as the bar rooms sold, lt
may even appear that they are sell
ing more. Certainly no man can de
fend the dispensary as a "temporalice
measure," or as a "step toward pro
hibition."
But we do not believe anybody
wants to go back to the old bar room
system. The dispensary, even with
its mismanagement, is preferable to
the bar rooms. And, under the pres
ent State constitution, we cannot
have bar rooms. If wc vote out tho
dispensaries we can only have prohi
bition until the constitution is
changed.
And this brings UH right back to
the proposition that we have laid
down before : Are we ready for
prohibition? Will we enforce it if
we get it ?
If the people of the county are
spending $200,000 a year now for
whiskey, if they have not made any
progress toward temperance during
thirteen years of the dispensary sys
tem, are they ready to stop the use
of whiskey so suddenly and so abso
lutely as is contempl?t. ] by the en
actment of a prohibition taw ? Will .
we nov have the illegal sale of whis-1
key, anil will not the illegal sde of
whiskey be as bad or worse than the
"legal" sale of it through the dispen
saries ?
The problem, as we understand it,
is a big one. A man who honestly
wants to do the right thing, and tries
to be free from prejudice, may find
it very hard to reach a satisfactory
conclusion as to his duty in the
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Union Meeting.
The Beaverdam Union, Lower Di
vision, will convene at Kant's Grove
Joly 29-30, 1905. The moderator,
Kev. W. K. Wilson, will open the
meeting at 10 o'clock and after de
votional exercises at discretion the
following queries will be discussed
by those appointed and others who
will join in the discussions :
1. Is it practicable to enlist every
Christian in the work of soul-win
niug? If so, how? W. N. Bruce.
Hov. 1). L. Hatcher, S. M. Vandiver.
2. Is there need for more strict
discipline in our churches? J. D.
Stonecypher, W. N. Mitchell, J. W.
Hearden.
8. What duties to the older Chris
tians owe to new converts? M. C.
Barton, A. B. Langston, J. B. Har
ris.
This being the season when the
pastors will likely be in revival meet
ings, laymen are mostly on the pro
gram. Discussions open to all. The
program for Sunday will be arranged
at the union.
J. H. Moore, J. B. Harris,
J. F. Foster, Committee.
The Buddhist Hades.
The place of torment to which all
wicked Buddhists are to be assigned
on the day of final reckoning is a
terrible placejof p-.nishrnent. This
Buddhistic hell is divided into eight
"easy stages." In the first the poor
victim is compelled to walk for un
told ages in his bare feet over hills
thickly set with redhot needles,
points upward. In the second stage
the skin is all carefully fied or
rasped from the body and irritating
mixtures applied. In the third stage
the nails, hair and eyes are plucked I
out and the denuded Lody sawed and
planed into all sorts of fantastic
shapes. Thc fourth stage is that of
"sorrowful lamantations." In the
fifth the left side of the body and the
denuded head are carefully roasted,
Verna, the Buddhistic Satan, super
intending the work. In the sixth
stage thc arma are torn from the
body and thrown into an immense
vat among the eyes, nails and hair
previously removed. Then in plain
hearing of the sorefooted, blind,
maimed, roasted and bleeding victim
the whole horrid mass is pounded
into a jolly. In the seventh stage
the other side of tho victim and his
feet are roasted brown, and then
comes the eighth and last stage, in
which the candidate is thrown into
the bottomless pit of perdition.
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God'! Peer, td? Devil'? Poor, UM Poer Devil.
I Rev. Alex Beater, in the Atlanta Sunday
Journal.]
"I don't know whether or not you
have ever thought about it," said the
philosopher, but I have reaohed the
conclusion that there are three kinds
of poor in this world. There's God's
poor, the devil's poor and the poor
devil. By God's poor ? mean the
man who works all the time, who is
honest and God fearing, who is a
Christan, who is respected by every
body and yet he is poor and is never
able to accumulate anything.
"By the devil's poor I mean the
man who is wicked and poor at the
same time. He docs nothing for the
upbuilding of the community and
bas little respect for God or man.
Vie ?B naturally mean along with his
poverty and the world would be bet
Ur off without him
"By the poor devil I mean the fel
low 'he negroes used to call the poor
buckra, or the poor white trash. He
is tbo fellow who has nothing but
children and does not lead a strenu
ous life in caring for them, who wants
nothing, and who spends bis time in
trying to beat somebody out of a liv
ing. I have bad many of them to
deal with and I often wonder what
place they fill in the economy of God
uni?'?* it is to keep working men
worrying rdl the time. They are like
David Harum'8 fleas, I re kon, those
that kept his dog from brooding over
the fact that he was a dog. Those
poor devils keep a man from brood
ing over bigger troubles. I recall a
specimen with whom I had to deal.
It was at a time when cotton was
down to nothing, when lumber bad
struck bottom and when there was
next to no demand for labor. He
oame to me and asked me if I bad
any work I could give bim to do.
He said he bad been offered eight
dollars a month to be paid at the end
of the year, but be had no rations
and he could not afford to live on
that. I told him I would try him for
I a month and I would pay him nine
I dollars and give him a house to live
in and furnish him a team to use in
moving. He accepted the place and
brought his family over that after
noon. I bad to start him out with
something to eat. At the end of the
year he bad fed his family and I owed
him about thirty dollars. I raised
his wages to twelve dollars a month
and gave him two cows to use and
furnished him with a lot of chickens.
He came out - with nothing to bis
credit. The next year I raised his
wages again, and gave him some syrup
and a lot of meat. He grew so trifling
that I could not stand him, he came
out in debt to me, a debt he never
paid. He left me and went over to
a neighbor. There he deserted his
wife and children, a whole house full,
and I bad to help in feeding them to
keep them from starving to death.
I respect and love God's poor, 1
have little use for the devil's poor,
but in the language of the prayer
book, from the poor devil, "Good
Lord deliver me !"
"The Prodigal Son."
"It's funny how things will cling
to a man," continued the philosopher,
after he had filled and lighted bis
pipe, "but they do and it looks at
times as if he cannot got rid of them.
Now last year my wife concluded
that I was wandering off from my
religious duty, and I guess I was.
She called me the prodigal son and
she guyed mc a good deal about it.
Finally 1 agreed to go to church, and
much to my discomfort the preacher
took for his theme tho parable of the
prodigal son. I said little, but you
may be sure that it did not lessen the
amount of guying that fell to my lot.
I reckon it was a month before I went
again. I slipped into the night ser
vice and to my chagrin the preacher
talked upon the prodigal's brother.
There was a long interregnum with
me between services and then I went
again with my wife. You may be
sure that my peace of mind was not
; increased when I heard a discourse
on the prodigal's father. I concluded
that the Lord must be looking upon
me as a prodigal sure enough and a
reformed. Since then I have been
going regularly and the guying has
ceased and I have been happier than
at any time during my wanderings
I into that far country of no church
j service."
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White Man Sit? Down to Walk.
The Western Indians, although
not fond of work, do not approve of
indolent white men. The "heap good
white man," in their estimation, is
the whie man who works hard ; and
to sit by and watch him as he toils
seems to afford them never failing
pleasure.
Some young "warriors" of the
Blackfoot tribe sat in the shade one
day, watching a group of labor?is
constructing a grade for a branch
railroad in Montana. They were
commenting upon the workmen and
their work, when a bicyclist, the first
that they had ever seen, oame riding
along the newly completed grade.
He had got off the train at the last
station, and was going to the fort a
little father on.
The Indians watched the wheel
man without a word until he passed
beyond a knoll, which hid him view.
Then they expressed their sentiments
concerning him.
uNo good white man ?" one re
marked.
"No," answered another, with
great scorn ; "heap lazy white man
sits down to walk !"
Daniel Was "Helping Zeke."
The anecdote, "Webster and his
Brother," in a recent Sunday Herald,
suggests another on the same subject
that I heard many years ago, related
by a relative of Mr. Webster, who
had spent her youth in Concord, N. H.
The father of Ezekiel and Daniel,
dissatisfied with the performance of
some task assigned to the boys, called
them to account. With much diffi
culty he elicited from Ezekiel the
admission that be had been idle and
lazy, and chiefly employed in "hold
ing down chairs."
"And what, sir," said the stern
parent, turning to Daniel, "have you
been doing ? "
"Helpin Zeke," was the prompt
reply.-Boston Herald.
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Knights of Honor Raises Rates.
Atlanta, June 22.-The biennial
convention of the Supreme Lodge
of the Knights of Honor, which bas
been in session at the convention
hall of the Piedmont Hotel eight
days, adjourned yesterday afternoon
at 1 o'clock after one of the liveliest
meetings of the session.
The entire schedule of rates gov
erning the iusurance part of the
order was changed and a double sys
tem of assessments, the step and
level, was substituted for the step
system, whioh had been in use pre
viously. In addition to this the
rates were raised. The new system
will go into effect in September, and
the supreme dictator will issue an
official circular, giving the new rates
and the reasons therefor, a copy of
which circular will be mailed to every
member of tho order.
The Knights of Honor.
Atlanta, June 15.-The election of the
officers of tho Supreme Lodge, Knights
of Honor, for the ensuing bi ennial
term to-day resulted as follows: Su
preme dictator, J. C. Sheppard, Kdgo
iield, S. C., re-elected; supreme vice
dictator, L. E. Bentley, Donaldsonville,
La.; supreme assistant dictator, Edwin
C. Hood, New York; supreme reporter,
Noah M. Givan, St Louis, re-elected; su
preme treasurer, Frank B. Silger, Helena,
Ark., re-elected; supreme chaplain, Dr.
Thomas N. Boyle, Pittsburg, Pa.; su
preme guide, John H. Hancock, Louis
ville, Ky., re-elected; supreme sentinel,
H. S. Fletcher, Jackson, Tenn. ; supreme
trustees, Ii. S. Ledbetter, Cedartown,
Ga., re-elected, George E. Tooker, De
morest, N. J., re-elected; J. O. Carpen
ter, Woonsocket, R. I. Atlantic City,
N. J., second Tuesday in June, 1907,
were chosen as the place and time for
the next meeting. By a vote of 69 to ll,
it was decided that women should bo
admitted to membership in the Supreme
Lodge.
150 Persons Cut lo Pieces by Pirates.
San Francisco, June 20.-NewB of a
terrible massacre of 150 natives on che
Siberian coast has been received here in
a letter from Petropaulovski, on the
coast of Kamchatka.
A. Moorogravlenof bas written to his
brother, a resident of this city, that in
the early part of tho year the natives in
one of the small settlements down the
coast, which he does not name, observed
a yacht or schooner drop anchor in the
harbor and ber coming was hailed with
cries of rejoicing. Cff the vessel came a
number of small boats. Tho natives
could see the crew piling what they
thought were supplies into the smaller
craft. Then the men pulled for tho
shore. During that night or the next
day there was heard the firing of arms
and later on smoke and fire were ob
served. This led to investigation from
Petropaulovski and other towns on the
coast and a horrible tale of pillago and
massacre was brought to light.
About the streets of the settlement,
writes Moorogravlenof, were strown the
bodies of 150 of the inhabitants, shot and
cut to pieceB by the pirates, who, under
tho pretense of fr midship, had gained a
landing on the coast. Robbery was their
only motive, for every hut had been
ransacked and anything of marketable
value was taken. Who the marauders
aro cannot be learned, excepting that
some Japanese were in the party. When
Moorogravenof wrote, the people feared
an attack on Petropaulovski.
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Japan's Reply to the President.
Washington, June 10.-The following
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United States, embodied in the note
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Negro Thought He Was Free.
Decatur, Ala., June 10.-Harvey Smith,
John Collier and Will Jackson, colored,
were hanged in the jail yard here this
afternoon. Troops were present as a
precautionary measure, but there was no
disorder. Two thousand people sur
rounded the jail during the execution.
Smith and Collier murdered Miss Belle
Blood worth, a young woman of Decatur.
Jackson killed a policeman who was try
ing to arrest him.
The three men were hanged together,
but when the drop fell the knot Blipped
off Smith's neck and he dropped to the
ground crying out, "Thank Uod, I am
free; yes, I am free." He was picked up
in a semi-conscious condition and hanged
a second time, the rope drawing so tight
that it cut deep into his flesh. Smith
was practically unconscious when the
drop fell tho second time and had to be
helped up on tho scaffold as the drop
was adjusted. Both Smith aud Collier
protested their innocense to the last,
while Jackson olairoed that he killed
Officor Steele in self-defonse.
Riot in a Russian Prison.
Reval, Russia, June 18.-A rior of two
huudred prisoners, owing to alleged mal
treatment, broke out in the prison here
last night, and was only quelled at JJ
o'clock this morning with tho aid of
troops from the garrison. The rioters,
who included women, smashed t' e fur
niture and the windows and ?it imptod
to escape, but the police and the . 4 tors
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