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A SI RONG LETTER Secretary Rice Makes Appeal for Audutnn Society. 4 DOING GOOD WORK. He Points Out the Valuable Results That Have Been Accomplished in ? South Carolina in Spite of a Lack of Funds and Under Great Dilficul- ? " ? ties. The following letter written by! Mr. James Henry Rice, secretary of the South Carolina Audubon Society! was published in The News and Courier one day last week: Spartanburg, S. C, July 12. 1908. To the Editor of The News and Courier: Sir?Saturday's copy of The News and Courier was delayed, reaching Spartanburg Saturday night. Honce I did not see your editorial on the Alabama game law until to-day. You have been Imposed op by the facturing reputations out of nothing, common an cheap method of manu-' Alabama has a good law?it ought to be a gcod law, for it was written by the Audubon Society, and passed principally through the efforts of Mr. T. Gilbert Pearson, national sec retary, whose home is at Greensboro,1 N. C. SouthCa rolina contributed! generously ^with suggestion and; otherwise. Mr. Jobn?H. Wallace possibly also contributed, and he may have writ-i ten, that is to say, copied, the law; from, the original -Audubon draft, j and may have had it presented toj the Legislature. Just prior to the passage of the' Act I received a leter from a promin ent member of the Alabama Legisla ture ridiculing the game law, espe cially the effort of the Audubon* So ciety to secure better laws. 'The Audubon Society made certain reveJatioDs before the Legislature of of the Slate to action a? d caused v, widespread comment throughout the Union. It was shwn among other things that sixty thousand (60,000) ? live parrldges had been shipped the previous season from three small towns in Alabama, and that the paii'idge was about to become ex tinct in many portions of the State . ?a fact not known at all in the State of Alabama. To credit Mr. Wallacei or anybody ? else in the State of 'Alabama with having written a good game law is simply to misstate the facts of re cord. The Alabama law is simply a copy of the same law in South Caro lina, and the South Corallna law was passed first. Alabama has a meagre fish law, just as South Caro -l Una has. - When Mr. Taylor and my self write a good fish law they will probaMy have a good fish law in Alabama shortly afterward, and somebody else will credit Mr. Wallace with previsions and all the other qualities. There is a difference in Alabama's ..favor, for which they deserve credit. They began by electing a State game and fish commissioner, with a salary of $2,500, who Is elected by the peo ple and holds office for four years, the Act being passed at the session of 1907. The State pays all the ex penses of his office, except the com missioner's travelling expenses. Printing and all other expenses are paid by the State. ? The same Act makes all sheriffs, constables, deputy sheriffs, marshals and other peace officers ex-officio game wardens, and provides for the appointment of county game wardens on commission. This placed, ready-made, in the hands of the State fish and game commissioner, a machinery for en forcing the laws, and money with which to make the machine go. Alabama has a non-resident licen se law, the fee being $15, and they make a hunter's license for citizens of one dollar, good only for the county in which they live; outside, their own county they must pay an other license of $.. It is from these sources that $20,000 was realized, and the sum is only one-fifth what it ought to be. Before leaving his branch of the subject do not forget that the power that forced action and that gives stability to the whole scheme is the Audubon society, which has accom plished a great deal more in South Carolina than it has in any other Southern State, in fact, in the same length of time. Let us pass now to the conditions confronting us in South Carolina and co ifine discussion to a statement of the facts to date. The Audubon Act, granting a charter to lae Audubon Society of South Carolina, and makng certain regulations as to the sale. tr":::p no tation and killing of game, and pro l viding for a non-resident license of ten dollars, was entitled into law at the session of 1907. No provision was made for the pay . of wardens, except that they were to be paid by the Audubon Society. A gamo pro tection fund was created. j;:st as in Alabama. 'Under this chrver the Audubon Society of South Carolina was organized and began work in April. 1907, when I went on the road to appeal to the people of the Slate to provide funds for carrying on the work of preserving the birds, game and fish of the Stale. The So.-itey bad only $200. all old. with which to police South Carolina, provide1 for printing and legal expenses and for the pay of wardens, as well as to pay the salary and travelling ex pen of 'he : K-retary. The report of ;':e treasurer to t'-e Governor in December showed that the secretary of the Audubo i Society hod received altogether but S--"' 1^ for bis ser vices. <Compare with this the $2,."0# paid by Alabama for the same service.) When the Legislature met in Jana ary Mr. B. F. Taylor and myself ! gave our entire time to getting the, matter ~5efore both branches of the j j General Assembly. The facts were i 'clearly presented and met with gen eral favor. Such amendments to the game and fish laws as were ob viously necessary were embodied In' \>iii*t oiui of \'":? ci!is. .iue ah.tiug ito game and cue relating u fish. Both were as thorough and well j drawn as any two bills ever presented j on the subject to any legislative bodyj in America. .These two bills were' simultaneously introduced into the I House and into the Senate. In the Senate they had action first, since they were in the charge of Senator Christensen, of Beaufort, who made business of them and pushed them j through. The, House bills lagged through lack of proper attention and were delayed s6 long that it was only possible for them to get their third reading on the last day of the session, and the announcement of Senator Latimer's death prevented i that. Hence no action was taken by the Legislature and things reverted to the status quo ante bellum. The Audubon Society bas created a healthy public sentiment through out the State on the subject, had suc ceeded in convicting a number of violators of the laws and lacked only funds to make the work thorough and effective in every part ?of the btate. j The legislature having failed to take action there were only 'two courses open. One was to take the usual course and express regret that nothing could be done further, the Audubon Society having dischargea its full duty to the State and to the cause. The responsibility would rest on the legislature; they could face the people and explain thein non-action. . The course actually adopted was the alternative of keeping up the. work in the field by might an main. Conviction has followed conviction. The game laws of South Carolina are better enforced today than are the laws of Alabama or of North Carolina. This enforcement has not only been self-sustaining, but it has not cost the State of South Carolina a red cent. Please remember that this work has now been going on for nearly a year and a half. The only income the Audubon Society has had have been membership dues and the frac tion of non-resident license that was collected. There is nothing wonder ful about collecting a non-resident and resident hunters' license with the whole machinery of a State back of you and plenty of money to set it in motion. The work ol the Audubon Society of South Carolina has been a latter day miracle, and any thinking man is bonnd to admit it. If there is any lingering doubt in any man's mind let him go out Into the field and try to enforce law, collecting money as he goes from individuals for publishing laws and other no tices, paying lawyers' fees and ex penses incident to trials, paying travelling expenses, paying wardens and so on. Such a man will get ex perience very fast and be wiser in his generation. ^, The fact cannot be disputed that the Audubon Society of South Caro lina has handled every case reported to it, and justice has never miscar ried through lack of proper effort being made by the Society. The Society had a bill introduced at the latt session providing for a one dollar gun tax, and this would place all necessary revenue in its hands. The po'nt to emphasize is that Mr. B. F Taylor has given freely fully half of his time to the cause of protecting the birds, game and fish of South Carolina. He is a large business man, as is well known, and he has never received any kind of compensation for his services. More than that, he has given-a stenogra pher to the cause. Mr. Taylor s efforts, which are in line with the most advanced patriotism known, to civilization, should be appreciated, and they will be. This fact of his assiduous care, coupled with the further fact that I know more peo ple personally than any man in South Carolna. and have the arood will of most of them, has made possible the work-of the Audubbon Society. But all my work would have failed at the start and a dozen times since without Mr. Taylor's assistance and friendly confidence in me. The News and Courier has been a valued friends to the cause, and would be among the first to hail such an achievement as has actually been accomplished by the Society against the heavy odds described. From three different kinds of license the State of Alabama collected $20, 000, and. of course, the most of this came from resident hunters. We can rake a similar license law with our present organization and collect five times as much. The only sufferers have been of ficrs of the Audubon Society, of South Carolina, who have been work ing with almost no compensation, for my own salary is so small .that I am almost ashamed to mention what it s. I have to make that. Now to show a comparative state ment of the work done by member ship, which is the pith and marrow of any game enforcement, whether done by the State or otherwise. I shall cite the figures from the North Carolina report, r.s Mr. Pearson is justly esteemed as the head of his Class'in the United States. As the result of five years' work, backed by the National Audubon So ciety and paid a salary by them. Mr. Pearson shows in his report.pages 80-.1" made to the Governor and people, of North Carolina, a life mem bership o? 1-iS, who paid ?lft each une time; he shows sustaining membership of 1<i'2, ho paid $5 for the i ' ml ? h-'p and >i annual dues of $1, as members c , he Sou; . Carolina Vudibon Society pa". I This makes a iotal of 310 members, a little over half of wheh keep in active touch with the Society by pay ing annual dues. In its last report to the Gov< . uor the Audubon Society, of South ;Carolina, showed a regular member-j ship of 113 paid. Since thaj. time the membership has increased over 200 per cent, and is still growing at a rapid rate, last month being one of the best months in thehistoiyof the Society. Mr. Pearson reports total cases with convictions as 24 ">. and "ith '?on.'essi:a ? -vf g.'iit c.(l'.t:l the A\iJil i)on Society, of South Carolina; can make a favorable comparison with J this also. Mr. Pearson is backed by the Na tional Society; he receives a salary from it; he is backed by the State of North Carolina, and receives com pensation for his work there. He is one of the most valuable men in the whole field in the United States. Now how does that comparison strike you, Mr. Editor, and you. fel low citizens of South Carolina? Do we need any Alabama citizens to write our laws? There remains scarcely six months until the Legislature convenes, and the election of a United States Sena tor cannot take all of its time. In this interval )the citizens of South Carolina can bridge the gap. Every six dollars sent in the the Audubon Society has a power now it can never have again. Every South Carolinian, especially every name honored by being on the rolls of the Audubon Society, ought to feel pride In the work accomplished. South Carolina has always led. Before Alabama was settled by her young sparks she had a clvilzation that commanded respect throughout Christendom She is now leading in thir, great cause and leading because her citizens' have responded /In a way no Bther Southern State has ever responded to such anappeal. It has been with every member of the working force, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Heyward and myself, a labor of love and pride, to save the heritage of our fathers. The Legislature will act, we feel sure, and act in no un certain *vay, beth because they have the \vl<-li u> do .o, ;:.v. becar-5. trie p..?.|'li- i f S.Mith Ca- Jina are sq .are y behind the movement. The enforcement of the laws, which has characterized the Audu bon Society's work throughout, has been edifying and uplifting. No man has been above the law, for some of the wealthist and ? st prominent citizens of the State have been con victed. Toleration and clemency have been extended to the poor, and l'giioraut. No reflection is intended, of cour se, on Mr. Wallace, who may be do ing good work. \ It is on the record we appeal to our fellow citizens, and we have absolute confidence in the issue. James Henry Rice, Jr. Secretary South Carolina Audubon Society. * PLEASURE LAUNCH LOST. Twenty-Five of it Seventy-Five Pas sengers arc Drowned. A pleasure launch, bound from Manila to Correligdor Island, carry ing about seventy-five passengers, was caught in a typhoon Thursday and foundered. - It is believed that twenty- five of the passengers, including three Americans, were drowned. The oth ers, numbering about fifty, were picked up by, the British steamer Suveric, which was passing close to the launch when it foundered. The Suveric lowered its boats im mediately and those, together with the boats from other craft that came to the rescue, picked up the fifty passengers with much difficulty. It is reported that an army of surgeons is among the lost. De tails of the disaster have not yet re ached Manila. v Corregidor Island is at the entran ce of Manila Bay, thirty miles from the city. ? SUICIDE AT SAVANNAH. German Returns Home From Work to Find His Wife Dead. At Savannah, Ga., on returning from his work late Tuesday Max Reden. German, found his wife, Marie, dead on her bed with a bid let hole in her temple and a bloody pistol beneath her. Coroner Stanley finds suicide the only explanation for the death, and assigns continued troubled as the cause. She is said to have believed she was being con stantly followed, and Tuesday de clared "some one will die." * $100,000,000 Telephone Merger. Independent telephone companies from the Mississippi river to the Atlantic coast are again reported to be contemplating a $1 no.nOO.ooo merger. * l l ?^???? mmm.?^ Rheumatism I have found a tried and tested cure for Rheu matism I Not a remedy that will straighten the distorted limbs of chronic cripples, nor tum bony growths back to flesh again. That is Impossiblo. But I can now surely kill the pains and pangs of this deplorablo disease. In Germany?with a Chemist In the City of Darmstadt?I found '.ho lust Ingredient with which Dr. Snoop's Rheumatic Remedy was mado a perfected, dependable prescription. Without that last ingredient. I successfully treated many, many case? ol Rheumatism; but now, at last, it uni. formly cures ah curable cases of this heretofore much dreaded disease. Those Band-like granular wastes, found in Rheumatic Mood, seem todlssolv? and pass away under the fiction of this remedy as freely as does sugar when added to pure water. And then, when dissolved, theso poisonous wastes freely pass from the system, and the cause of Rheumati-m is roik- forever. There is now no real need?no actual p-scuse to suffer longer with out help. We soil, a:. J in coafidence recommend DR. J. G. WANNMAKER. COLLEO? rar CHARLESTON Charleston, S. C. 124th Year begins September 2.*> Entrance examination will be Held at the county Coin.' House on Friday, July 'a, at a. m. All candi dates for admission c;:n cr npete in September for vacant Boyce Scholar ships which pay .$100 a year. One free tuition scholarshin to each coun ty of South Carolina. Board and fur nished room in dormitory $11. Tuition $40. For catalogue, address Harris? .i Randolph, Pi sident. W SUNDAY SCHOOL Lesson IV.?Third Quarter, For July 26. 1903. THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES. Text of the Lesson, I Sam. xv. 13-28. Memory Verse, 22?Golden Text, Josh, xxiv, 24?Commentary Prepared by Rev. D. M. Stearns. [Copyright, 1M8. by American Press Association.] In many ways the Lord is ever prov ing us to see if we are willing to be whole heartedly His and to walk In His ways, and He is also asking us to prove Him and see if He will not do just as He says (Gen. xxii. 1: Deut. viii. 2. 1G: John vi. rt; Mal. Iii. 10?. that we may know Him and glorify Him in the eyes of others. In Jesus of Nazareth God found one who Was perfectly His own In thought, word aud deed, one wb<> could say. "I delight to do Tby will. O my God: yea. Tby law is with in my heart" (Ps. xl. 8). All others have failed in greater or less degree, but some have desired to live thus, and where (Jod sees that desire He ac cepts it' and makes much of it. for "if there be first a willing mind it Is ac cepted according to tbat a man hath and not according to thaLhe hath uot" (II Cor. viii. 12i. Saul soou proved him self willful and disobedient, and Sam uel had to say to him: "Thy kingdom shall riot continue. The Lord hath sought Him a man after His own heart who shall fulfill all Ills will" (chapter xiii. 14: Acts xlii. 22?. The Lord tried Saul repeatedly, for He is long suffering, but again and again he failed. After the night at Samuel's house Samuel sent him to Gi'ual. saying "Seven days shalt tho'i tarry till I come to thee and shew thee what thou shalt do" (chapter x, 8). We read in chapter xiii. 8-14. that he tarried seven days, but evidently not quite the full time, and himself of fered the offerings, and as soon as he had made an end of offering Samuel came and reproved him and said the words quoted above. Thus we see* Saul taking upon himself to do what he had no right to and so Impatient tbat he could not wa^t the full time. By little things God tests us. as when He tested Gideon's ten thousand. In the lesson chapter today God again tries Saul by -sending him to smite and utterly destroy the Amale kites, who were the first to fight with Israel after they left Egypt and con cerning whom God said that He would put out the remembrance of them from under heaven (Ex. xvii, 8-16). Saul went forth and smote them as he had been commanded, but not fully, for it is written. "But Saul and the people spared Agag and the/best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fatlhrrs and the lambs." etc. iversp Oi. Vet Saul met Samuel with this greeting: "Blessed be thou of the Lord. I have performed the commandment of the Lord" (verse 13?. This, however, ^was not the Lord's view of it. for He said to Samuel. ,"lt repenteth Mo that 1 have set up Saul to be king, for he is turned back from following Me and hath not performed My command ments" (verse 11). A word Is in order V here about this repenting of the Lord spoken of in this verse and in verse .T> and the seeming contradiction in verse 29. with which compare Num. xxiil. 19. It is impossible that God should change His mind or be sorry for any thing He had dor*1, as if things had turned out differently from what He had expected: but. foreseeing all events and knowing that nt a certain point He would have to change His mode of procedure, when these turning points In the unfolding of His purpose come these are called His repenting*. We change our mind and do otherwise: but. while God does otherwise than He had bepn doing. He never changes His mind. See in verses 20. 21. how Saul persists in saying that he had obeyed the voice of the Lord, hut ad mitting that he bad saved the best of the sheep and oxen to sacrifice "unto the Lord. Then follows Samuel's sting ing rebuke: "Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice. ? * '* Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord He hath also rejected thee from helng king" (verses 22. 23). See also in verse 20 the emphasis upon the fact that his partial obedience was a rejection of the word of the Lord. There is even in1 these days much partial belief of the Lord's mes'-. 'ires. but few consider that a sin. Ilo'i- is something to consider serious ly ":at a partial belief or obedience Is a virtual rejection of His word. It is to 1 ?> feared that many a pre.ncher who i ,'ailing to declare the whole truth no better excuse than that of Saul. "I feared the people and obeyed their voice" (verse 24). That man has sure lv missed his calling who while pos Ins as a minister of Jesus Christ gives i iore thought to bis congregation aud bow to please tbem than tc pleasing Him whose messenger he professes to be. Such a one had better give heed to Gal. i. 10. "If I yet pleased men I should not be the servant of Christ:" also I Thess. ii. 4. "Not as pleasing men, but God. who trieth our hearts." . It is sadly true that there are preach ers who. knowing tbat if they preach ed the whole counsel of God they could not keei) their situation, prefer to be faise to God for the sake of their liv- j Ing. There are also many in the pulpit ' and out of it who. while professing hearty obedience to God, allow their hearts to carry them away and their eyes to wink at certain things (Job xv. 11. 12) lest by being wholly conformed to God they should incur the displeas ure of their friends. The whole heart ed life for God means a whole hearted opposition to the world, the tlesh and the devil. 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