Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A MONEY MAKER. COUNTY DISPENSARIES ARE MON EY GETTING INSTITUTIONS. Have Done About Same Business as Former State Dispensary With Much More Profit. During the'quarter ending March 31 the county dispensaries sold $790,564.01 worth of whiskey in 24 counties, of which one has sin-e gone dry. On this business an aver age profit,of 39 per cent, was made, the'total profit being $268,941.98. This is at the rate of over a million dollars a year profit. ?' According to the statement recent ly prepared by Comptroller General Jones the state dispensary during its thirteen years of business paid into the state treasury for all purposes the sum of $1,515,107.57. The proportion of profit paid to the counties and towns varied at dif ferent time, but the total profit of the State dispensary, even when there were dispensaries in forty-one coun ties did hot reach one million dollars per year, or thirteen million dollars in the years that it was in operation. Recording to the report made |>y Dispensary Auditor West to Governor Ansel at the close of the fiscal year the total amount of sales by the county dispensaries during the nine and a fraction months they were operated in 1907 was $2,691,663 4n, on which the net profit declared was $695,056.61. The busiuess for a full year, or 12 months, runs easily in excess of three million dollars, which was the high water mark for the state, dispensary, while the profit of the county dispen sary system for twelve months runs in excess of one million dollars, which the state dispensary never did attain, though its founder predicted it would. Though there are now dispensaries . in only twenty-four counties the pro fit from the county dispensary system Is proportionately co much- greater that from the state dispensary, and it js distributed between the county and towns, that as a revenue producer the county dispensary is going to prove more popular than the old Sys tem, and for that reason," if for no other, it is more difficult to vote it out than it was to close the county 'dispensaries under the so-called Brice Act under the state dispensary regime, when prejudices and antag onism to the state dispensary had something to do with the large pro hibition vote cast in several counties of the state. >, - GIRL WITH FLEET. She Made the Trip on the Supply Ship Brutus. As a result of a story circulated in Pittsburg by Elmer E. Day, who was a civilian p?ssenger on the supply ship Brutus, attached to the Pacific fleet, that a girl stowaway made the passage through the straights of Magellan with the ueet, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Newberry has taken steps to ascertain if a man named Dey was aboard the Brutus. "It does not seem possible that a girl could secrete herself aboard one of the vessels," said Mr. Newberry. "I believe it would be almost possible to hide a ham, or even a cigarette. The person who circulated the story kept the girl aboard too long. He should have had her discovered soon er.s According to Dey's story, the girl boarded the Brutus at Trinidad and made the trip around the point of the .^southern continent 'and 'landed in Peru , USED HER GUN FREELY'. White Woman in Tennessee Goes oh ' . the War Path. At Memphis, Tenn., following a quarrel because she had stopped her children from playing with some ne groes, Mrs. James Wright' shot and instantly killed Leila Gordon, a ne gro woman. Mrs. Wright used a sin gle barreled shot gun and her one shot tore an arm completely from the negro woman's body. Rushing into her home, Mrs. Wright re-loaded the shot-gun and started in pursuit of Mary Davis, another negro woman. She shot at her once after a chase of nearly a block, but the shot went wild. Po lice officers from the Webster avenue station arrested Mrs. Wright a few minutes later and she was locked up on a charge of murder. A quarrel over the children of the white woman being stopped from playing with some negroes living in the vicinity was the cause of the tragedy. KILLED IN WRECK. Over Fifty Are Dead and About Nine ty Injured. Forty-two bodies have been taken out of the wreckage caused by the collision which happened on April 19 of two trains at Braybrook Junction, about eight miles from Melbourne, Australia. It is believed that several others are still buried under the de bris. The number of injured is plac ed at eighty-eight. Little Boy Killed. Martin, the little son of Mrs. John E. Fletcher of the Pine Grove section of Marlboro county, died at 1:45 p. m., as che result of injuries received in a runaway accident Sunday. Mrs. Fletcher was returning from church with her son and daughter. A break in the harness frightened the horse and caused it to run away. Martin was first thrown out, his head striking a log. The little girl was next hrr>vT. from the vehicle, but he ? ijuri^s are not serious. FARMERS' WIVES TELL WHAT THEY KNOW ABOUT PE 1st Indigestion and Nervousness. Mrs. .Xjonora Bodeuhamer, K. F. D. 1, Box 99, Kernersville, North 'Carolina, ?writes the following letter to The Peruna Drag Manufacturing Com pany: "I Buffered with stomach trouble and Indigestion for some-time, and nothing that I ate agreed wfth me. "I was very nervous and experienced a continual feeling of uneasiness and fear. "I took medicine from the doctor, but It did me no good. I found in one of your Peruna books a description of my symptoms. I then wrote to Dr. Hart man for advice. He said I had catarrh of the stomach. "I took Peruna and Manalin and fol lowed his directions and can now say that 1 feel as well as I ever did. "I hope that all who are afflicted with the same symptoms will take Peruna, as it has certainly cured me," j Now Perfectly Healthy. Mrs. Magdalena Winkler, Route 5, Westminster, Md., writes: ' "I thank yon very much for your ad vice. I can safely say that Peruna and Manalin have saved my life. "When I wrote to yon the first time, asking your advice, my condition was so poor that I did not expect to live through the winter, but now I am perfectly healthy. "I cannot praise your medicine enough, and I recommend it to others."' Catarrh of Stomach. Mrs. Mary Allen, Route 6, Franklin, Tenn., writes: "I am glad to be able to tell you that I am well of catarrh of the 6tomach, for which I am sincerely thankful .to you for your advice. If it had not been for Peruna I would never have been well. "I had three physicians. One of them told my husband that - he could not cure me. "I had been sick about nine months when a friend asked me to,try Peruna to gratify her; so I commenced taking it. . - "X can eat and walk and work. Every body says I look as well ss I ever did. "Oh, you don't know how thankful I do feel to you. "I have got several other people to take Peruna. I praise .it to every body." i time with sore eyes I wsb advised by a friend to try Peruna, which I did at once. "The first bottle relieved me, and after using four bottles I was entirely cured. "I do recommend Peruna to all who are afflicted with catarrh. 1 have found it to be a great remedy also for coughs and colds of children; a dose at bedtime will relieve them from coughing all night. I always keep it on hand, and recommend it." Catarrh for Seven Years. Mrs. T. Frech, R. R. No. 1, Hickory Point, Tenn., writes: "I am happy to tell you that I am cured of catarrh. I have followed your good and kind ad vice faithfully. I bless the day when I wrote you of my condition, and I will always praise Peruna. 1 think it is one of the grandest medicines on earth. "Having been afflicted with catarrh and stornceh trouble for seven years, and after having tried four different doctors they only relieved me for a little while. I gave up all hope of being cured. I only v> eighed one hundred and thirty pounds, and was so weak I could hardly get around the room. "I was induced to try Peruna, and to my great surprise lam now entirely well. My weight is' now one hundred and eighty-eight ponnds, my health never was better in my life, I shall always praise Dr. Hartman and his remedies." 1! The Farmer's Wife. Who is in a better position to know than the farmer's wife herself what is required in the farmer's home? She must meet its troubles, solve its prob lems, ward off disease, nurse tho sick, sho must do all these things herself, and she learns by valuable experience what is bent and what is not best. In numberless farm homes Peruna is relied upon as the family medicine. Peruna books are consul ted in heal th and disease. Peruna is used as a preven tive as well as a corrective in di?ease. . The wives of the farmers of the United States constitute a solid phalanx in favor of Peruna. Against this testimony the slanders of a few critics will not prevail. One sensible mistress of a farm home who has used Peruna knows more about Peruna than all the magazine critics in the world. Peruna In Her Home. Mrs. Anna Linder, R. F. D. No. f>, Das sel, Meeker Co., Minn., writes: "For two years I suffered with that terrible dis ease, chronic catarrh. "Fortunately I saw your advertise ment in my paper and I spoke to my sis ter about your medicine. She wrote to you and I got your advice free of charged I took Peruna and am well and a mother of two children. "J owe it all to Peruna. I would not be without that great tonic for ten times its cost, fori am well and strong now, and cannot speak in too high terms of its vaiue as a medicine." In a letter dated June 12,1906, Mrs. Lin der writes: "I cannot express my thanks enough to yon for all the pood your medi cine has done for me and my family. This spring 1 ? Jk cold and it settled in my kidneys. At first I thought it wac kidney trouble. "I took Per ana as directed on the bottle and in a few days I was all right, so I owe my health to Dr. Hartman and his remedy." Miserable With Catarrh. Mrs. Hettie Green, R. R. 6, Inks, HI., writes: "Last November I had catarrh, and felt so miserable, I thought that I would go into consumption. "I tried so many doctors and medi cines, but nothing did me any good, only - Peruna. '\ "After I began the use of Peruna X began to improve in every way. j "My ? head doee not hurt so much, my stomacht Is all right, my bowels are regular, my appetite good, my . complexion clear, my oyes are bright, and I am gaining ia flesh and strength. j, ? "I think Peruna has no equal as A catarrh remedy." , ?J j SOLID FOR BRYANT. The Alabama Delegation Instructed / to Vote for Him. A dispatch from Birmingham, Ala., says in compliance with the primary plan that two hundred or more qual ified Democratic voters may place the name of any Democratic on the ticket for nominee for President on the United States, to be voted direct, John TA Tom't'ison. president of the Bryan Democratic State club has fil ed wih the chairman of the State Democratic committee a petition signed by the Governor and every Staet official and over two thousand other Democrats for the name of William J. Bryau to be placed on\(he ticket, delegates to the Democratic national convention being instructed, under the plan, to vote as a unit for the man receiving the largest vote, which gives Alabama's twenty-two votes to'William J. Bryan. We Wanted to Know. Edward, had just returned from for eign service, and his brow was trou bled. "I gave you that parrot as a birthday present, did I not Amelia?" he asked. "Yes. but surely, Teddy, you are not going to speak of your tokens as if"? "It was young and speechless at the time." "Yes," with increasing wonder, "and It has never been out of this parlor." "There are no other young ladies In this house?" "No. there are not." "Then why?why when I k-kissed your photograph in yonder album while waiting for you did that wretch ed bird imitate your voice and say, 'Don't do that, Herbert; please don't'" ?Ladies' Home Journal. How to tighten Nursery Cares. Baby baskets are expensive and not so convenient in caring for baby as the following: Buy a bamboo music rack, the kind that retails for 75 cents. This rack has four shelves and four knobs on top, joined by little bars. Every thing required for baby's complete wardrobe can be placed on this, with in easy reach. Use the top shelf for the various articles most needed for baby's toilet, such as powder, soap, pin cushion, tiny brush and comb, little scissors, toilet water, etc. On the sec ond shelf put bib, bands, stockings and pinning blankets. On the third shelf place some soft towels and baby's nap kins. On the bottom shelf put little quilts, etc. The knobs are useful to hold little dresses, skirts, wrappers and sacks, while the bars are for wash cloths. An eiderdown flannel pocket may be hung on one corner for keeping bottle warm while mam.ua is bathing baby. This arrangement takes up little room, is light In weight and may be easily carried about. How to Clean Walls. Painted walls are healthy and sani tary, especially in the rooms which are used a great deal, such as the kit hen and sewing room. If they have L?eeu carefully treated the painted walls may be kept as fresh and pretty as! when new by cleaning as follows- Add one-half a cupful of washing soda, thoroughly dissolved, to two-thirds of a pail of warm water. Wash the walls with a soft woolen cloth or a sponge. Wash a small space at a time andj wipe dry immediately with a soft cloth.....-* ?? ~ How to Mond Worn Shoe Linings. Take a piece of velvet skirt binding just long enough to fit Inside the heel section, cover the wrong side with a strong glue and paste It smoothly In side the heel, covering the worn places. This keeps a shoe from slipping up and down and saves the stockings from wearing out ? Ergotisms. Father, son, grandson, your broker begs you to buy or sell this or that stock; ergo?he makes \his eights and. quarters whether you win or lose. Without trying to make enemies you are universally hated; ergo?you must have some merit. You have a very devoted friend in Blank: ergo?you have borrowed noth ing of each other and asked each other no favors. . There are two kinds of silent men? those who have nothing to say and say it and those who, having much to say, say.it not; ergo?if you would appear flangerous, be dumb. Men show their greatest weaknesses in their letters; ergo?have your corre spoudence edited by a secretary. When a man speaks of you behind your back as a fool, it means that you have disagreed with him on some point at; issue; ergo?if you want his good opinion agree with his, but stick to your own. When you give a man advice, let it be an encouragement of his own incli nation; ergo?when your advice is sought 'first find out what the seeker wants to do, then agree with him; If he succeeds, you get no credit; if he fails, he must bear at least a part of the blame. . A man isolated may be an arrant knave, but in the crowd he appears honorable; ergo?if you don't want your sins to be found out keep in the procession. Men deliberately do things they are ashamed of and then are ashamed to mention them; ergo?never do what you want to do, but the opposite.? New York Press. A Sickly Lot. "I see by the paper," observed a young woman to a. companion on an elevated train in New York one morn ing, "that Mr. Blauk. the octogenarian, is dead. What on earth Is an octogena rian anyhow?" "I don't know, I'm sure," was the reoly, "but there's one thing certain, they're a sickly lot of people. You never hear of one unless he is dying."? Lippincott's. Easy Enough. A noted mathematician stopped at a hotel in a small town. There were a number of drummers on baud. There was also a meeting of some medical men at the place, who used the hotel as headquarters. One of the doctors told the mathematician that some of the M. D.'s had concluded to kidnap him and take out his brains to learn how it was I e was so good in mathe matics. He was asked by them what he was going to do about it. He re plied, "Why, I shall simply go on with out brains ji'st as you doctors are do ing." Lincoln and the Bald Head. In 1804 Lincoln was greatly bothered by the well meant efforts of certain good northern men to bring about a termination of the war. An old gentle man from Massachusetts, very bland and entireiv bald, was especially per sisteht. One day when this angel or mercy bad been boring Mr. Lincoln for half an hour, to the interruption of im portant business, the president sudden ly, rose, went to a closet and took out of it a large bottle. "Did you ever try this remedy for baldness?" he asked, -holding up the bottle before his aston ished visitor. The man wns obliged to confess that he never had tried it. Mr. Lincoln called a servant, had the bot tle wrapped up and handed it to the bald philanthropist "There," said he, "go and rub some of that on your bead. Persevere. They say it will make the hair grow. Come back in about three months and report" And almost be fore he knewi it the good man was out side of the door with the package un der his arm. Required No Eulogy. Being twitted by comrades for his failure to win a laudatory sendoff in his retirement papers, General Miles tells the following story: In the early days of the west an itin erant preacher, stopping for refresh ment one day at the pioneer home of one of his parishioners, was served, among other things, with apple pie. It was- not a good pie. The crust was heavy and sour, but the encomium*, which that clergyman heaped upon It' were great. The good wife knew that she had had bad luck with the baking, and as she was in. reality an excellent cook she determined that the next time thai preacher came her way hi should have a pie that was faultless. He told her when he was to return, and on that day she set before him an apple pie that was the real thing. He ate it: but, to her istonlshment. vouch safed Dot a word of commendation. This was more than the housewife would stand. "Brother," she exclaimed, "when you were here last you ate an apple pie thai wasn't more than half baked, and yet you praised it to the skies. Now you have eaten a pie that nobody needs to be ashamed of, but you haven't a word to say in its favor. 1 can't understand it." "My good sister." replied the preach er, "that pie you served me a few days ago was sadly In need of praise, and L did my full duty In that direction, but this fine pie, bless your heart, does not require any eulogy." How to Clean White Gloves. There is no excuse for not wearing white gloves In the morning, because to keep them clean is so little trouble aud absolutely no expense. In the aft ernoon or evening the gloves should be put to soak overnight In water that Is only warm, but very soapy. Any good white laundry soap serves the purpose. In cases where the gloves are extremely dirty soap may be rubbed on them directly, but this sometimes stiffens the leather. After lying in the water until the uext day the gloves s': :ld he put Into a fresh soapy bath squeezed, not rubbed, under wa ter. The soaking will have loosened the dirt and this one hath should he sufficiently cleansing. Tf It Is not, put the gloves through another soapy wa ter and then rinse in warm, not hot, water, always squeezing and never rub bing. When the last vestige of grime is removed, spread out the gloves on a soft towel, pulling them into shape. Every hour or so afterward they should be taken down and rubbed between the hands. In this lies the secret of their drying soft._ A little fore thought is a splendid thing. A little fore action is better still. If you intend to wear Oxford Shoes this Summer buy them now. We are selling the smartest, newest and most up-to-date Shoes made in Ameri ca at reduced prices. ATTEND THE "MOVE ON" SHOE SALE STARTS FRIDAY APRIL 24TH. Shoes for all the family except men. Lots of them, all styles widths and sizes. {There are only a few of our "Shoe Convincers." No. 234. Ladies fancy top, pat 'ent leather, ribbon Sandal, soft pli able sole; extremely dressy and com fortable value $2.50. "Move On" price $2.08. No. 242. Ladies one strap, silk ribbon sandal tie, very dressy? value $2.50. jTxceptnnally cheap at "Move on" price $1.88 Lot 721. Children's high grade Oxfords especially desirable slip pers, bargains at move on price. Childrens $1.05 Girls 1.22 Misses 1.48 HAVE YOU A LITTLE FAIRY AT HOME? You need a baby cap for her. How do these prices suit you? Lot 1. Handsome lawn caps very prettily trimmed?40c to 50c. "Move On" special 25c I/>t !. Richly trimmed mull caps ivilb fine lace and embroidery Value 75c to 1.00. "Move On" special 48c Lot 3. Exquisite lawn caps and bonnet3 elaborately trimmed. 1.25 to 1.50. "Move On" special 88c. SHOE HEAD QUARTERS EXPERT MILLINERS KOIiN'S EMPORIUM, OEAITG-EBTJEG-, S. C.