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BY CLTNKSC A LES & LAN GSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 13, 1896._VOLUME XXX.?NO. 46. Ho 1er Goods! STRAW HATS, SUMMER UNDERWEAR, Light Weight COATS and VESTS. Should you need anything: in the above lines you will find the correct Goods?piices right?at Mr. A. G. Means, Jr., Anderson's popular Clothier, is now with us. Grand Opening i POB. the entire month of May, and those with the ready Cash will have a rare opportunity to take advantage of it. This means that we intend to sacrifice a large line of DBY GOODS and SHOES Prices that are as attractive as the Goods. A beautiful line of Percales, Dimities, Scotch Lawns and Duck, all new and fresh, villi be sold at a price that is bound to make them go ; and prospective purchasers will benefit themselves by look ing through our Stock. juttart s Shoe Department is complete in every detail, and some splen did values are offered in Ladies' Pine Custom-made Shoes and Oxford Ties. All grades of Men's Shoes are constantly in stock, and any one can be suited in style and price. A prac tical demonstration of the fact that we are selling Gcods cheap will be given free of charge to every one, as we take pleasure in showing our Goods and qu' ting prices. OUR IDEAL BICYCLE Is a High Grade Wheel at a Low Grade Price. There is nothing Cheap about them hut the Price ! - THE IDEAL is thoroughly up to date in every respect, Narrow Tread, etc. Fitted with the Great G. & J. Tire. . The Best Wheel on the Market for the Money. Don't take our word for it?come and see for yourself. Yours truly, r BROOK BROS. P. S.?"We have on hand a few Second-hand Wheels at a Bargain. FRESH AND PURE GARDEN SEEP ! OUR New Stock of Seed have arrived, and we are selling: them at ex tremely low prices. White Ooion Setts... 15c. quart?2 for 25c. Yellow or Red Onion Setts. 10c. quart?3 for 25c. ill Paper Seed. 3 for 5c. The largest papers?twice as many Seed as you buy for that money any where in the State. WATERMELON, PEAS, BEANS, &c, At correspondingly low prices. Our Seed are grown by The Cleveland Seed Co., of New York, and we have been selling them for ten years with perfect satisfaction to ourselves and customers. When ready to plant your garden come and see us and we Will Bave you money. ORR & SLOAN, BENNON HOUSE CORNER. Bed Bug Destroyer, For Spring House Cleaning. Get a Bottle. GARDEN AND FIELD SEEDS, ALL KINDS, AT EVANS' PHARMACY. NEW JEWELRY STORE ! .IN HOTEL BLOCK. IN HIS NEW STORE. LOTS OF NEW GOODS. NOVELTIES IN PROFUSION. JUST WHAT YOU WANT. ONE CENT TO $100.00. ??&*yo charge for Engraving. ^**The Prettiest Goods in the Town, and it'* a pleaaurp to show them. P. S.?If /on have Accounts with J, M, SUBBARD.& BRO. make settlement with mo at above place. r .JOHN M. H?BBABD. A PERFECT BENEDICTION. Dr. Grier's Sermon ta the Old Soldiers. Newa and Courier, April 27. As the setting sun gilds the clouds upon the horizon and marks the pass ing of a bright day so ihe services at the First Presbyterian: Church last night cast in retrospect a soft glow over the day of the reunion, softening the clouds that had been brought to mind and promising a glorious morn ing to follow the night. This gather ing of veterans in that beautiful, sa cred edifice to praise God in song and hear His "Word, fittingly closed the Confederate Reunion of 1896. Not often has the capacity of the First Presbyterian Church been so taxed. And seldom has such a splen did congregation listened to such elo quence. The church was comfortably full before the veterans came, a few minutes before 8 o'clock, but after this body of old soldiers had entered and taken the seats reserved, the crowd came on. Every seat in the church and galleries was soon taken and all the chairs from the Sunday School were brought in?and yet many stood through the sevice. The veterans came in twos, with Gen. C. Irvine Walker and Col. As bury Coward, at the head of the col umn. They divided at the aisles and in two columns proceeded up to the front of the church. On the right of the veterans sat the young ladies of the Confederate Home School. Many representatives of the Sons of Veter ans and Daughters of the Confederacy were present. At 8 o'clock the ministers came in and took seats on the platform as fol lows : The Rev. W. M. Grier,D. D., the Rev. W. T. Thompson D. D.,the Rev. C. S. Vedder, D. D'., the Rev. John Johnson, D. D., the Rev. R. C. Holland, D. D. The organiot, Prof. Dauer, and the special choir, Miss Nathan and Miss Carew, Mr. Tren holm and Mr. Blumner, also came in, and, after a short organ prelude, the service was opened by the choir sing ing an exquisite arrangement of "When I Can Read My Title Clear." After this hymn, No. 13, was sung the Rev. Dr. Holland read a por tion of the sixth chapter of Ephes ians. The Rev. Dr. Johnson then offered the following beautiful petition for grace and strength: "Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, who sittest on the throne, judging right, who orderest all things for the coming of the kingdom of Thy Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, we invoke through His mediation, the majesty of Thy favor and the grace of Thy bless ing on these services this evening. May they revive in us naught but chastened memoria; may they awaken in us hopes of better things; may they confirm in us new resolutions to guard more sacredly than ever the principles of truth with the practices of truth-telling and law-abiding, which once was contended forby some of us, even unto death! Thy faithfulness, oh, God, is unto all generations. We praise Thee for the witnesses Thou hast granted us in our Confederate history to the honor of humanity, to the heroism of self-sacrifice, to the influ ence of Christian character, and we beseech Thee to impress all minds and hearts in this congregation with such deep sense of religious duty as will appear in the lives and conduct of us all, both in private and public station. We beseech Thee to be our ruler and guide, that passing through things temporal we finally loose not the things eternal. Grant this, oh, Hea venly Father, for Jesus Christ's sake, our Lord. Amen." Another huinn, No. 101, was sung, and then Dr. Grier came forward. His voice was low and earnest at the opening. It swelled as the speaker went deeper into the subject, and as each thought and truth was illustra ted the immense congregation follow ed and listened with all attention. It was a rounded argu:ncnt, unanswera ble, invulnerable und full of hope. The few short wordu at the close, di rectly spoken to the veterans were ex quisite in their tenderness, love and promise. Following the sermon Dr. Thomp ' son led the congregation in the Lord's ! Prayer. The choir sweetly sang "Protect us Through the Coming Night," and the services closed with hymn 1,342 and the benediction which was pronounced by Dr. Grier. THE SERMON. Dr. Grier announced his text and spoke as follows : Second Timothy, iv, 7: "1 have fought a good fight." The combative element in man is strong and universal. It is among the earliest manifestations of our na ture. Our-children fight before they arc out of their swaddling clothes. Civilization has done something to wards mitigating the horrors of war; Christianity has done a great deal more, but neither the one nor the oth er, nor both combined, have put an end to the evil. Indeed, paradoxical as it may sound, it is to Christendom that we look for the largest standing armies, the strongest navies, and the most complete military equipment. The great fighting forces of the world to-day are marshalled behind princi palities and powers which profess alle giance to the Prince of Peace. Com pare, if you please, Germany with Turkey, and England with Egypt. As things arc now in this world this com bative clement enters largely into hu man progress. True it is that might never makes right, it never did and never can, but Yorktown and Wufcr loo have taught us new the les^.?n of Old Testament history, that physical forces are sometimes tha harnessed agencies of moral forces, and that the thunder of artillery is sometimes the voice of God. There was a grain of truth in the stern reply of the wild vandal king, who said to his pilot, when asked : "Whither shall I sail, my master ?" "Wherever there is a people with whom the Lord is angry." It was the Lord of Hosts himself who said to Saul, King of Israel : "Now go and smite Aiuclek and utterly destroy all that he hath." It is a blessed truth that there is a significant change iu the letter and spirit of the New Testa ment. The song of the advent was, "Glory to God in the highestj on earth peace and good will to men.' In so many words Christ said, "My Kingdom is not of this world, if My Kingdom were of this world there would My servants fight that I might not be delivered to the Jews." But we cannot forget that he said also: "I came not to bring peace, buta sword." Read that declaration in the light of all history, civil and ecclesiastical; read it in the light of recent butcher ies in Bulgaria and Armenia, and we will see bow the propagation of Chris tianity has provoked every form of op position, and the end is not yet. As the prophetic vision opened up before the exile of Patmos he saw in the tri umphant consummation a tremendous struggle in which the kings of the earth and the whole world gather themselves to the battle of the great day of God Almighty. This combative element in man needs to be sanctified; it needs to be consecrated to the cause of truth and righteousness, but without it there is no heroic endurance; no unconquer able resolution and no grand achieve ment. What Joab said to Abishai, his brother, on the eve of a great pitched battle, with the combined armies of Amnion and Syria, is not only the fervid utterance of a lofty and courageous spirit, but is the key note of all high endeavor: '"Be strong and of good courage, and let us play the man for our people and for the cities of our God." The words of the martyred Apostle here are saturated with this spirit of conflict. Its very .terms smell of the dust and the car nage of the battle. In full view of the tragic end of his wonderful life, in a calm review of all the past, he de clares he had fought a "good fight." What is there that makes it a good fight ? What is there here which not only relieves conflict of its horrors, but which even sanctifies it ? We answer it was a fight of faith, and, therefore, recognized and insist ed on the supremacy of the spiritual over the material, of the unseen over the seen, and of the eternal over the temporal. How much of the activity and energy of this world has its su preme end in those things that perish with the using? The things sought may be good and desirable as means to something better, but they are worthless, utterly worthless, and de grading when they are chosen as the chief goods. It is cheerfully conceded thatin this activity there may be much that is noble and commendable. There is courage, zeal, stern business, fidelity, fertility of resource and a deep sagac ity in compassing the subject sought. But these high qualities do not shield from disastrous failure lives that are bounded in their aspirations by three score years and ten. Millions may be accumulated and the highest earthly dignities, may be reached, but upon it all is written, "the glory is departed." Such human endeavor can never bring into play the highest activity of the soul. Conscience is stripped of its crown, life is robbed of its imperisha ble glory and death is reckoned an eternal sleep. But let it be said and said with em phasis, that by the very constitution of a nation the moral and the spiritual will sometimes assert their justclaims. In spite of all efforts at suppression and disbelief man recognizes and bows to the unseen. Even those who stout ly deny its reality and parade their doubts, the very Srdducee, who says that there is neither angel nor spirit, even he sometimes surrenders to the power of that which is lost to sight. The memory of his dead lives with him, and all the past beckons to him with a vanished hand. It only re quires some supreme perils, some pres ent calamity to extort even from the atheist the cry : "0 God, if there is a God, have mercy on my soul, if I have a soul." This is the instant and ir repressible revolt of nature against the artificial belief of ease and securi ty. In one dread moment all the cobwebs of sophistry are torn away. In the "good fight" of the Apostle he ever yielded himself, body and soul, to Him whom having not seen lie loved. The distinctive feature of this faith is confidence in a person? rather than belief in a doctrine or sys tem of doctrines. How striking the declarations, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shaltbe saved;" "Come unto Me, all ye that are labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." What a wide gulf inter venes between a belief of this sort and belief of a system, however ortho dox ? "Must it be Athanasian creeds Or boly water, books and brads; Must struggling souls remnin content With Synods aud decrees of Trent." It is this belief in an unseen Pres ence, ah Almighty Father, a tender and sympathizing Saviour, which saves this world from despair. It takes the canker out of our cares, the drudgery out of our toils and the bit terness out of our sorrow. With one like unto the Son of man we can walk through the fiery furnace of ev ery affliction. Thus sustained they of old subdued kingdoms, wrought right eousness; * * * waxed valiant in the fight and turned to flight the arm ies of the aliens. How the thought, the assurance of this abiding Presence cheered the heart of the Apostle in his great fight of affliction. Christ aras to him a glorious reality. Wheth er at Corinth or Ephesus, or upon the high seas, tempest tossed in some fierceEuroclydon, there was always the voice of this invisible friend, saying : "Fear not, Paul!" 2. Then, too, it was a good fight be cause the weapons used were spiritual and not carnal. We have said, and we shall not withdraw the statement or modify it, that spiritual victories are sometimes won with shot and shell. "While ambitious men are seek ing only conquest aud revenge, God is advancing the Kingdom of right eousness. But this is not the Divine method of building up this Kingdom. P/avid said to the giant of Gath: "Thou comest to me with a sword and with a spear, aud with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied." Moral evil cannot be dealt with on the prin ciple of physical force. It may be checked and restrained by pains and penalties, but it cannot be eradicated by such means; no more than a plague can be stopped by a cannonade. The simple means which tho Apostle used aud which God has ordained for curing the curse of sin arc the word, sacra ments and prayer. These are the revolutionary agencies of the world. The Church has found it so. Every time she has been tempted to substi tute a worldly policy for the spiritual instrumentalities which God has ap pointed, the Master has said, said it in the very failure of the effort: "Put up thy sword into his place." It is the glory of God to make the foolish things of the world confound the wise. Take as a familiar illustration the ministry of prayer. What a po'" cr it is in this good fight ! It has se cured deliverances and won victories which no other agency could have ac complished, while statesmen were con gratulating themselves over some master stroke of diplomacy. While generals were rejoicing over the valor of their troops perhaps the triumphant issue is the result of prayer. .Some lone, solitary, invalid woman has be sieged Heaven with her petitions and they havu couio up for a memorial be fore God, and ho has sent legions of angels to smite the host of the enemy. The faint-hearted is ready to say, with the servant of Elisha, as he rose early in the moi..ing and saw the city of Dothan encompassed with a host, "Alas, my master, what shall we do?'' The prophet seized the weapon of prayer and at once the man's eyes were opened, and behold the moun tain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. 3. This is a good fight because of the character of those who participate in it. A good cause may have bad men in it, and a bad cause may have good men in it, but as a rule we can safely infer the character of any cause from the character of those who fight for it. What dignity, what imperish able glory gathers about our late strug gle from the virtue, the piety and in telligence of the Southern soldier. No disaster ever clouded his faith in the righteousness of the struggle or the justice of Heaven. But when the Apostle with the eye of a seer looked upon the goodly host that fight this good fight of faith, he sees no where in all the world any vir tue to match theirs. They are those of whom this world was not worthy. They "dared to the utmost and endured to the death," and outof their crushed lives there comes a bruised sweetness that perfumes the whole moral atmos pbcrc. Surely there is some inspi ration even to the most sluggish in taking a place in the ranks of such a host. The thought of it moved the heart of the great Apostle and with a holy fervor he says : "Wherefore see ing we also are compassed with so great a cloud of witnesses let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that -is set be fore us." The Christian of to-day in making this fight has around him the General Assembly and the Church of the first-born, and the sacramental host of God's elect. There pours down upon him the benediction of consecra ted and heroic lives from all the ages of the past. But we need not gather our company from the past. The Chris tian host of to-day counts its hun dreds of millions and belts the globe. Its camp-fires light up every continent. The noblest and best are in its ranks. Verily, it is a good fight. Now, let us say that this spirit of conflict is inseparable from the Church in its present state. The imagery, the exhortations, the promises of the Word of God are full of it. The very close of its revelations repeats with significant emphasis the battle-cry : "To him that overcometh!" "To him that overcometh!" Such a view in vests the life of the Christian with the utmost seriousness. There are not terms in our language which ex press with more force the idea of blood earnestness than those of deadly con flict. It is an idea which needs con stant emphasis. One of the manifest tendencies of our time is to regard life as a huge joke. Thing the most sacred, services the most solemn and events the most affecting are consid ered fit subjects .for the humorist. There is a great deal in our popular literature which fosters this spirit. Believe me, the noblest qualities of our nature cannot thrive in such an atmosphere. Cromwell's Ironsides may have been solemn and severe to an extreme. They may have robed everything too much in a sombre aus terity, but who does not know that they made sho.t work of the gay, dashing, frivolous Prince Rupert? Let us get back to the apostolic idea that sin is a dreadful evil and that this world is under its awful curse. Even now the groans and cries of the oppressed, the persecuted and the perishing ones come up into our ears. Shall those who answered ev ery call of patriotism and braved the peril and death of the battlefield de cline this highest and noblest s?rvice? Shall they shrink now from the fierce onset? Oh, in this day when the fight between good and evil begins to thick en so visibly, and when the opposing lines of truth and error stand in such sharp antagonism what a complete victory would be won for truth and righteousness if we would follow Christas they followed Lee and Jack son! No, the war is not over. Wher ever we stand wc are'on battle ground. Let us hold fast our profession. Let us put on the whole armor of God, and the Great Captain of our salvation will lead us to victory. And now, as a final word to the he roic remnant who linger with us still, may the God of all grace abide with you, and may that Presence sustain you amid all the remaining trials ap pointed to you, and when the last en emy is met may you be able to say in the triumphant faith of the Goppel: "0, grave, where is thy victory?" Table Manners For Children. Drink from the cup?never from the saucer. Teaspoons arc left in the saucer, not in the cup. Little children only ha\e the nap kin arranged as a bib. Making a noise either in eating and drinking, is vulgar. Always cheerfully defer to older people and to guests. Eat slowly and do not fill the mouth with large quantities. Eat the food served, or quietly leave it on the plate without remarks. Avoid drumming with the fingers or the feet; it is the heights of im politeness. If in doubt at any time as to what is proper, follow example of others of more experience. Never unnecessarily handle the dishes, or in any other manner exhibit nervousness or impatience. Do not feel obliged to "clean up the plate," especially do not make a laborious display of doing so. Do not ask for any particular part of a fowl, or similar dish, unless asked your preference ; in that case always indicate something, and if there be really no choice, designate the portion which the host can most conveniently render service.?Good housekeeping. ? Why is a prosy preacher like the middle of a wheel ? Because the fel lows round him are tired. How to Treat a Wife. From the Pacific Health Journal. First, get a wife ; second, be pa tient. You may have great trials and perplexities in your business, but do not, therefore, carry to your home a cloudy or contracted brow. Your wife nay have trials, which, though of less magnitude, may bo hard for her to bear. A kind word, a tender look, will do wonders in chasing from her brow all clouds of gloom.?To this wc would add always keep a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in the house. It is the best, and is sure to be needed sooner or later. Your wife will then know that you really caio for her and wish to protect her health; For sale by Hill Bron. Dispensary School Humbug. Columbia, S. C, A pril 29.?The Super intendent of Education has advanced a new plan of solving the liquor problem. Coming as it does from one of the leading Reformers of the State i';will be of special interest. In a recent address at the Alli ance picnic at Cane Creek, in this county, Mr. Mayfield discussed the progross of education in the State for the past few years, and showed what had been done by citing Clemson College, Winthrop College, South Carolina Collie, the Citadel, Fur man, WofTord, jSowberry, Erskine, Charleston and all of tbe female colleges of the State and the condition of tbe pub lic schools. lie then discussed tbe future prospects oftho schools. While discuss ing this he was interrupted by some one in the audience, who wished to know if | it wore true that the public schools would run Bix months. Mr. Mayfield said it was not true, and showed why it could not be true by calling attention to the fact that the school funds could not possibly bo in creased more than one-third over what they are now. He stated that tbe amount from the poll tax would not likely exceed the amount now raised from that source, and that tbe poll tax at present was about one-third of the whole school tax, and that the three mills would only increase the total tax by about one-third. Another person then asked how a suffi cient fund could be raised to run the schools as long a? was necessary. Mr. Mayfield stated that there we-re out two ways to do this. One way was for the country districts to do like" the cities and towns of the State are doing, and that is for ;be people of a district to vote an extra tax on themselves, which the new Con stitution and the new law permitted them to do, provided they do not exceed four mills extra tax. Mr. Mayfield said the other way was to make use of the net in come from the dispensary a3 far as it went. This brought up the question as to what the schools would receive from the dispensary fund this year. Mr. May field said that under the recent Act of the Legislature the schools would get nothing from this source this year as the Strife's net profits were to be credited to the schools, but the schools were to be charged with an equal amount from tbe general dispensary account and that tbe money would go into the State treasury for general State purposes, and that the schools would not get one cent this year from that source. Mr. Mayfield respond ed to a further question by saying that the schools need not look for any revenue from the dispensary for at least two years, as the profits for th's year would not equal the general dispensary accoun with which ic is being charged; that the net dispensary income was such an un certain quantity that it would not be safe to count on it for any purpose, until it was already in hand, and therefore it would never do to run the schoola and expect to pay the school claims from the dispensary net proceeds, Owing to thif uncertainty and delay, Mr. Mayfield said, be could give the people no assurance as to when they would receive any part ot the dispensary profits. .Mr. Mayfield ex pressed great regret thai, the people wh. bad been depending on the dispensary profits to help out the poll tax and three mill tax to give them longer sessions and better schools would have to be dis appointed so far as tb" : ,spensary profits were concerned. He said the law and circumstances over whica he had no con trol made this the case. This brought up the question as to how this uncertainty and delay could be avoid ed. Mr. Mayfield was asked to explain this if he could, and be replied that under the present law and tbe present system under which the dispeasary had to be run there was no immediate relief that he could see. Mr. Mayfield strongly favored the enforcement of the present dispensary law as long as it remained the law. He earnestly declared himself in favor of the dispensary idea. This state ment indicated that he favored a different plan to the one now in force, and in re sponse to a question he reaffirmed 'hat be bad always favored tbe idea, but did not think the present system tbe best one that could be fouud. "lie said he had never thought that Iba best plan for carrying out the dispensary idea had been adopted and that bo bad always fa vored another plan, wbica was a very de ferent one from tbe ono now in operation. ?e said it was not bis purpose to criticise t-he present dispensary law, but he thought bis plan if it were given a trial would prove to be a very much more satisfactory and better one. He gave an outline of bis plan, saying that to go into details fully would take too long. Briefly stated, it was as follows : There should bo a separate and distinct State department created to look after tbis business, with a chief officer who Mbould bo called Slate inspector; four deputy inspectors, with the power vested in tbe State inspector to appoint as many additional deputy inspectors as occasion might demand, (looking to the opening up of tbe business and extra occasions,) all to be on salary and bonded officer* lie estimated tbat the total expense of this department net. not exceed ?10,000 per annum, which was* a very small amount compared with what is spent in running the present system. That no liquor should be sold in any county, or city, or town, or place that was dry by statute. That no liquor should be sold except within incorporated cities and towns which were not dry by law, and tbat none should be sold within such cities aud towns until tbe qualified electors of such cit'c-s and towns ,aad passed on the questiou by a direct vote. That in those cities and towns where the question had been settled in favor ol allowing it to be sold, the mayor and clerk should certify that fact to the State inspector. That no liquor should be sold in tbe cities and towns which permitted its sale except by auch persons an the mayor and county supervisor should appoint, and tbat the mayor and county supervisor should vouch for the good character and responsibility of each proposed vendor. EacU proposed vendor should give a good and sufficient bond for his faithful observance of tbe law, with heavy fines imposed for its violation and with the right of confiscation of the entire stock lor repeated violations. That the mayor and county supervisor should notify the State inspector of their action when an appointment had been made by them, and the State inspector should send a deputy inspector to view the premises, with power to approve or condemn. That the proposed vondor should sub rait to the deputy inspector three copies of tbe bill of liquors he proposed to pur chase, und if the liquors were of approved brands the deputy inspector should send one copy to the State inspector, keep omt hitiiHelt aud irivothe third to the proposed vendor and should give bim a shipping permit for each package hi proposed to ship into the State, ea<-.h shipping permit to bo dated, signed and numbered. When tbe liquors arrived and the ven dor was ready tbe deputy inspector should test the quality aud gauge the quantity, aud authorize the vendor to put the liquor into packages. That the liquor should measure no more nor less than it meas ures in bulk aud the quality should be the same. That for the privilego to soli the ven dor should pay to the State a graduated privilege tax according to tbo amount iu the package, aud that the payment of this tux should be shown by a label which should be signed by the State inspector, counters-gned by the deputy inspector, dated, numbered, have thD amount of the tax written on its face and should be se curely fastened over the mouth of the packxgp, that this tax should be some thing like two cents for each half pint, four cents a pint, eight cents a quart, six teen cents a half gallon and thirty-two cents a gallon. That lb:.- the privilege to sell the vendor should also pay to the city a graduated tax for each packago ho proposes to sell, ac cording to the amount in the package, and that tbo payment of this tax should bo shown by a iabel also placed over tbe mouth of each package and tbat the label should "how the amount of such tax, be signed by the mayor, countersigned by tbo clerk, dated aud numbered. Thattht! revenue to tbe cities and towns from such privilego tax should be ex pended for police purposes by the cities and towns in such manner as thoy may do cido. That tho income to the State from such privilege tax should go first to the pay ment of expenses of tbe Criminal Court?, jail lees, convict expans?s, and tho ex penses of supporting and protecting the poor in the county in which the tax is raised : Recond. tho remainder should go into the Stato treasury and tho expenses of the Insane Hospital should be paid out of it, Third, and tho residue should go to tbe support of the iree public schools of the State. No pool table?, billiard tables, no game of chance, no loaf] ne, no opening of pack ages or drinking on the premises, no Bell ing to minors or habitual drunkards, should be permitted, and no liquor to be sold except In the day time and none on Sunday. The vendor should be given the right to call on the city, town or State authori ties to protect him. in his business. Mr. May field said he believed in so briety and good order, and while he did not favor liquor drinking, be believed that this plan afforded the best restric tions that could be thrown around the traffic. He contended that this plan would throw the responsibility as to whether liquor should be sold or not di rectly upon the people of cities and towns, and if thev permitted it and granted the privilege they would be bound in all law and morals to protect the man in his business to whom tbey grant ed tbe privilege, that the county receiv ing tbe privilege tax would be bound to protect him in his business, and that the State, having granted him the privi lege to Bell, would be also bound to pro tect him in his business. Mr. May field declared that under this plan each vendor wonld purchase his li quors from whomsoever he pleased, pro vided tbey were oi.? approved brands and quality, become bis own freight payer, his own drayage payer, his own leakage and breakage loser? his own rent paver, his own insurance payor, his own clerk hire payer, his own bottle buyer and hottler, and make his own salary if be cot any. In fact, the vendor wonld bear all expenses and the income to tbe cities, towns, counties and State would be al most entirely net and tbe amount of this income would antonish any one who would take tbe pains to make the calcu lation. The profit laid in dollars, he said, would reach from tbe picnic grounds to the public road many times over. He regretted that since the matter was up that he did not have tbe number of gal lons that had been sold by tbe dispensa ry since it opened so he could show what the income to tbe counties, cities, towns and State would have been based on this plan. He said that under the present plan tbe exDeniies of operating the dis pensary were necessarily enormous, and here was no way to keep them down, and therefore the profits from the dis pensary must necessarily be small as compared with the profit under tbe other plan. If it were tbe purpose of the State to make liquor bear the burden of tbe evil it brought u pon the country as far as such a thing was possible, he favored such a change as would make tbe revenue sufficient for the purpose, and favored applying that revenue strictly to police purposes and thereby relieve the people from tbe expenses of supporting the jails, poor houses, insane asylums and crimi nal prosecutions, and he favored apply ing any remainder there might be to the education of tbe young against tbe use of liquor aud prepare them for manhood and womanhood. Mr. May field said he thought this plan would overcome most of the objections be had ever heard against the dispensary law and would bring to its support tbe religious elements of tbe country. As far as revenue purposes were concerned he declared that there were no comparisons between this plan and the one now in op eration. Mr Alayfield said a great deal more, but this is enough to give a fair idea of tbe plan he outlined.?Special to News and Courier. The Snake Caught Him. "I come in on my way to the train to tell you of a queer snake story up our way," said the farmer. "Isn't it a little early for snake stories?" suggested the snake editor. "Yes, for this year's crop, but this one is a last year's one that I just found out about yesterday. You see, last year I ht.d a hired hand on the farm that I never seen till the day he asked for work. I needed a hand purty bad and I took him right in without a word, except to tell him that if he got drunk I'd turn him off. He said he wasn't a drinkin' man, and he went right to work in the hajfield. Ile wasn't the best worker I 6Ver hired, but he was steady, and we got along all right till the fourth day he was with me. That day I was in the barn and I heard a yell, and I run to the door and seen my hired man flyin' around the field as if the old serpent himself was af tar him. When he seen me he headed my way, and as he went past me I could see a f;hort, stumpy, mottled snake bangin' to his leg at the ankle. He fiew around the barn, yellin' at every jump, and I took after him and caught him in a clump of woods about 200 yards from the barn, where he had dropped, plumb tuckered out. When I got to him the snake was gone, but the marks of teeth were on his leg, and I hustled to the house and got a quart bottle of liquor, I keep for snake bites and other household purposes, and soon had him loaded down to the gucrds. He was sober by next moxnin' and all right, and the day after he went to work again. He staid with me a month after that ard left after I had no work for him, and I tell you that in the four or five weeks I had him that snake caught him the same way six times, and to save our necks we could never find the snake. Sometimes it would nab him by the hand when he was workin' in the weeds, and some times it would catch him in one place and sometimes in another, but it would always hang on, and he would run and yell, and me after him. "Now for the queer part," said the visitor, takir~ a final spurt. "The other day I was grubbin' out that clump of bushes and, by hokey, I seen a snake, and before it c6uld move I stuck my grubbin' hoe through it and dragged it out,, and, dum my but tons, come to look at it, it wasn't nothin' but a rag snake, painted. I carried it up to the house, and as soon as my boy seen it he whooped and said it was the same snake that had been feedin' on my hired man all last harvest, a^d I reckon the boy was right.''? li ashington *Star. ? After the people dropped the old-fashioned idea that the earth was as "flat as a pabcak-" they did not immediately grasp the globe of spher ical idea as it is applied to worlds. The people of the time of Columbus believed that the earth was a body shaped like a lop or cone, the surface rising from tie north to the south. There are scverals letters written by Columbus aud still in existence which go to prove i.hat such was his con ception of the shape of the earth. The top-shaped idea of the earth seems to have originated with one John Blauvis about liTJj and to have immediately become very popular. ? It is currently whispered that Mrs,?, while cleaning house, asked her husband to nail up some []. He refused. She looked ft at him, told him his conduc t was without ||!|, then beat him with her JK^*-until he saw **. Ile now lies in a ,tose state and may soon be a fit subject for dis?. A man must be an * his life in that way, and put a . to his existence. rhvf'?i This. Wo offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any caso f Catarrh thit cannot be cured by Hall's CaHrrh Cure We, the undersigned have Vnown F. J. Cheney for the ast 15 yenrs, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and finan elally able to carrj oui; any obligations made by their firm West ?t Truax, Wholesale Drupdsts, Toledo, o. Wai.mno. Kinsan & Marvin, Wholesale Drug gists, Toledo. O. HaM's Catarrh Cure is taken Infernally, acting directly upon the M'mxI and mucous ?".rfiicts w the ?vstom. Testimonials sent free. BILL ARP'S LETTER. Arp Thinks Father Time Is a Horrible Looking Creature. Atlanta Constitution. Old Father Time is a horrible look ing creature, with his scythe in his hand and nothing on but his bones, but he is a good doctor. Long before he cuts us down he begins to soften and soothe the passions and asperities of life and to prepare our better nature for the only solution of life's problem, which is love to God and to our fellow men, but very few old men carry bit terness to the grave. One day I ob served an old man for whose talents the community had great respect talk ing to a friend. His eyes flashed and every liniament of his face betokened anger. As he struck the end of his cane to the pavement he said: "I 'ought to have killed the scoundrel." Cautiously I approached and inquired: "Had a difficulty with somebody, colo nel?" "Oh," said he, "I was just telling Brown about a little affair that happened?let me see?yes, just forty five years ago." But even he mel lowed down some years before he died. Now, if we lived as long as Noah or Methusalch, or even as long as Abra ham, we might feed and cherish bit terness for a hundred years, but three score years and ten is too brief a time to be wasted in passions. Thirty-one years have passed since the war, and I was ruminating over the difference between now and then. "We veterans remember when we were all accused of treason and many of our leaders had to flee the country for fear of arrest and trial and condemnation and death. When to possess or ex hibit a Confederate flag provoked im prisonment; when we had to defend the lost cause or lament its failure in whispers, and when every man who was worth $20,000 had his property confiscated unless he petitioned for pardon and paid well for it. The par don brokers at Washington made mil lions out of our wealthy citizens. But time has diluted the bitterness of those who were our most malignant enemies. Reflection has tempered the prejudices of our northerif brethren and now we see General Gordon and General Longstreet given glad and willing welcome as they discourse temperately and truthfully of the war, its causes and its results. Nowhere is the carpet-bagger who figured in re construction times more denounced and despised than at the north. More than all this, a monument has been built on northern ground in memory of the Confederate dead. Brotherly unions of the blue and the gray have been held at various times and places, and thousands of the grand army are moving southward and fraternizing with our people. There is only one sore that does not heal, and that is the hard fact that while we pay our own pensions we have to help to pay their's and get nothiDgback. The es timate is that it takes half a million annually for Georgia to pension her Confederate widows and disabled sol diers, and ten times as much to pay her part of the union pensions. This five millions goes into their hopper and we get no toll. But even this will pass away. Old Father Time is slow up there, but he is sure. Un pensioned soldiers don't live as long as those who feed on government pap, and there are not near as many of them. We see it stated that there are now les; than one hundred thous and Confederate survivors. I told that to a Federal general in Flori da not long ago and he ruminated over it some time and said: "You rebels fought so hard and endured so much you broke down your constitutions. Stonewall Jackson's fool cavalry, I know, must have worn their legs off up to their knees, like Munchausen's famous hunting dog." But after so long a time the heroism of the South is looming up and the lost cause shines before the world in a clearer and more lustrous light. No sane man speaks of us as traitors now and we are permitted with a kindly grace to honor our dead and build monuments to our heroes. Patriot ism and courage are honored every where. There are, of course, a few heartless souls in every commuuity who care nothing for the sacred mem ories of the war, and with pious unc tion exclaim: "Ob, let the dead past bury its dead. Look* not back, but forward. We have no time for senti ment." Such men will never defend their country nor help to save a State. A people without sentiment will Dever have any heroes. Dr. Johnson, the greatest philosopher that ever lived, said: "That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon. Even religion, which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigor ated by calls to worship and the salu tary iufluence of example." Never was anything more truthfully said. The good citizen must keep his patri otism alive by cherishing the memor ies of the war in which they or their fathers were engaged. Over two thousand years have passed since the Athenians defeated the great army of Darius, but Marathon ?3 still memora ble in song and story. Itis the watch word of patriotism. A generation has past since the battle of Gettysburg, but the valor of the American soldiers of both armies, as displayed in that bloody fight, will shine in history as long as there are people to write, or people to read. We are glad that Colonel Garnett has come South to work for the memories of the lost cause, and to tell us about Gettys burg. Did not our heart burn within us as he described the thrilling scenes that absorbed his vision and magnet ized every fiber of his being? Who can ever forget the exalted emotions that a great battle inspires? Then, let every veteran go to hear this elo quent Virginian, and fora time quiver with unsurpassed emotions. JLet every young man, yes, every lad and lassie go to hear him and have their patriot- j ism quickened and made stronger. Henry Grady won the applause of New England and the mighty North when he dared to say in his great speech, "The South has nothing for which to appologize. The late strug- ' gle betwteen the States was war and not rebellion-revolution, and not con spiracy. Not for all the glories of New England would I exchange the heritage my father left me in his sol dier death." But who is this Charles Broadway Rouss, who has so recently electrified the South with his munificent and patriotic proposition? Colonel Gar nett has told us. We have seen his earnest, genial face in the papers, but that is not enough. He must come South and mingle with our people. Colonel G. W. Scott gave $100,000 to found a college for girls atDecatur, Ga., and Dr. Candler,when delivering his beautiful oration at its dedication, said: "Where is he? Where is the man who in this selfish age has done this thing? Has his modesty hidden him from the public gaze? Colonel Scol.t, stand up and let the people look upon you and see what manner of man you are." Just so we would .say to Mr. Rouss: "Come down here md let the South see you face to face. Stand up before us and let us see what manner of man you are." Thousands of, waiting hearts will echo tho sentiment that has prompted him to do this thing/ At last the South will have a Mecca to which her pilgrims can go and feel that the ca.use, though lost, is recog nized, and its memory lives without a taint of treason. Bill Aep. All Sorts of Faragraphj. ? A boy baby is u thing that never comes amiss. ? Cuba has a coast line of 2,200 miles, and 200 ports. ? It took Spain 10 years to suppress the last Cuban rebellion. ? It is easy to stumble over the smallest sids of people we dislike. ? When the planet Mars is nearest the earth it is 36,000,000 miles away. ? The astronomers say that a "per fect full moon" is of rare occurrence. ? One pound of learning requires 10 pounds of common sense to apply it. ? During the reign of Henry VJJJU 71,400 persons were put to death in England. ? People seldom improve "when they have no model but themselves to copy after. ?? ? A Frenchman has patented an apparatus to take off and put on a I man's coat. ? When you talk to a man or a child about his faults don't stand over him with a club. ? If a woman is rich and has coarse features, they are referred to as being "strongly marked." ? What a language we have 1 A man "sits down" during the daytime, but "sits up" at night. . ? A living skel?ton, born at Hockett. Nev., is 22 years old, 6 feet tall and weighs but 1 pounds. ? Saturn has eight moons?Mimas, Enculadus, Tethys, Dione, Khea, Titan, Hyperion and Japetus. ? In England it is thought to he an unlucky ome a to meet a red-headed ;: girl on January 1 before 9 o'clook. ? The hot word that yon are about to speak may cac.se you years of sorrowj *' and ought to be choked back into your throat. ? It takes the moon exactly 42,524 minuter (29 days, 12 hours and 44 minutes) to make its revolution around the earth. ? A dealer says there is more steel used in the manufacture of pens than in all the sword and gun factories in the world. ? Tbe smaller the drink, the clearer the head and the cooler the blood ; which are great benefits in temper and business. ? A mar. who can hold his t orgue when angered always comes out ahead of him who lets his tongue run with his temper. / ? Base all your actions on a princi ple of right, preserve integrity of character; and in doing this never reckon on the cost. ? England has had three "blood rains, one blue snow, three falls Of black snow and one shower of unknown - beetles" since 1428. ? Russian scientists report that the white poplar tree acta as a natural lightning-rod, a* the discharge seeks it in preference ito other trees. ? There is eaid to he a "Hell's Half Acre" in Southern California. 40 miles square, in which every, rod has a boiling spring or a spouting gyeser. ? "Hit am er great pity," said Uncle Eben, "dat some menLt'inka dey is too goad ter jine in politics,. but nobody eher t'inks he ain't good enough." ? "Jorkins, have you everything now that you will need for your fishing trip?" asked Mrs J., solioituously. "Not by a jugfull," said Jorkins, to the good woman's astonishment.' ? "No," said the Gotham mother regretfully, "Ethel has not married yet, and I can'i; say when she will. The fact is that :my husband does not feel that he is quite able to support a son-in-law." ' ? The longest night in Norway lasts three months, and when a young man goes to see his girl, her mother, before retiring, tells her not to inin her health by sitting up more than ;' two months. ? A little more than a million veterans of the Union, and consider ably less than half a million veterans of the Confederate armies, were found living in the United States by the* census taker of 1890. _ _ - ? Teacher?"James, what made"you late?" James--"I was pursuing knowledge." Teacher ? "Pursuing knowledge? What do you mean? James?"Why, the dog ran off with ' ' my spelling book, and I ran after him." ? For every quarter in a man's pocket there are a dozen uses ; aud to use each one in such a way as to de rive the greatest benefit is a question I every one must solve for himself. W$~~ believe, however, that no better uso could be made of one of these quar ters than to exchange it for a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea .Remedy, a medicine that every family should he provided with. % For sale by Hill Bros. ? One of the most profitable occu pations of the United States govern^H ment is founded in the coinage of : five-cent nickel pieces and one-cent j?fijj bronze pieces. The cost of the bronze | disks from which the cents are stamp- " ed is about twenty cents per pound, and a pound of them produces $1.47. - Nickel ready for coinage costPthirty two cents per pound, and a pound pro? duces $4.42 in five-cent pieces. The . ; average profit of seigniorage on the j coinage of these minor coins for the .,- ' past few years ha;} been about $650,O?O.^H ? Mr. D. P. Davis, a prominet eryman and merchant of Goshen, Va.j-~r< has this to say on the subject of rheu-f? matism : "I take pleasure.in recom mending Chamberlain's Pain Balm for rheumatism, as I know from per sonal experience that it will do all that is claimed for it. A year ago this spring iny brother was laid up vx || bed with inflammatory rhcumatisi and suffered intensely. The first at plication of Chamberlain's Pain Be eased the pain and the use of one bot tle completely cured him. For sale by Hill Bros. - - ' ''Cr'