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GOOD FOR EVIL THE STATE DELIVERS A STRONG LAY SERMON TO AN Intolerant Subscriber Who Thinks That Every One Must Agree With lHim or be Crucified. Under the caption ot "Punished for Our Sins," The State publishes an admirable editorial in reply to Mr. W. L. Cave, who seems to be so purltonlcal that he would crucify every one that does not agree with him. Here is the State's article, which you can read for yourself: Punished for Our Sins. Te the Editor of The State: I see in your editorial on yester day you are siding with Jones in the conflict that is fronting the people of the State. Which is your privi lege; you are a free man; your paper ( is free, and you are at liberty to do as you like. ! But to support a man that is not. in sympathy with me and the cause I advocate is just a little too much for me. You will stop my paper, .and oblige, W. T. Cave. Olar. S. C, Aug. 13. 1909. The offense of The State for which this summary punishment is impos ed, lies in assuming that the Rev. Moward Lee Jones, D. D.. pastor of ?the Citadel Square Baptist church of XJharleston, a prohibitionist, is con scientious in preferring the legal sale of whiskey in Charleston to the aggravated debauchery of five hun dred blind tigers; and in contending that Dr. Jones, knowing his course would be condemned by those for whose opinions he has regard, exhib ited moral courage in declaring him self. "Your paper is free." says Mr. Cave, "and you are at liberty to do as you like." Evidently the views of our lost subscriber touching jour nalism are somewhat circumscribed. The State is not a plaything, and it has a serious part to periforra. "Likes" and "dislikes" must harmo nize with convictions if they are to have expression. When The State 'commented upon the attitude of Dr. Jones it was not considering its "likes" or "dislikes." Its position is that matter appeared to he square, and honest, and broad, but The State knew quite well it.'would /have been politic to take auother position. We could have easily .pleased Mr. Cave, and thousands '''like him. But The State is not pub lished to be politic. . ' Speaking about freedom, how free is Mr. Cave? There is no freedom ?In Slavery*, and ?Mr. Cave is enslaved. He knows not the exhilaration of un chained thought; he can - not go abroad into fields of tolerance;' 'a fanaticism that shrivels the -'so?l' i? his unrelenting and insistant task master. Mr. Cave parts, corapr.ny with The State because he can not endure that we should Regard as sin care a preacher who says that, be tween the county dispensaries 'and the blind tigers in Charleston he re gards the dispensaries as- the lesser evil! Assuming to take a moral stand, in Christ's name, the spirit exhibited of arrogance and intoler ance is that of Christ's crucifiers. We sympathize with ' Mr. Cave. He needs The State. He will miss us from his midst, it would have been our pleasure, and South Caro lina's profit, to have led him, step by step out of the shadows of injus tice, and bigotry, into that state of citizenship where it is observed that all questions have at least two sides, and where it is conceded that the fellow on the other side is not neces sary deserving of hanging, without trial. And j'et we. of this place and time, are disposded to sling stones at Massachusetts ruritans. who, sever al centuries ago, were inclined to believe in witches, and to burn them. Here fs that self same spirit exuding from South Carolina's cavernous depths. It is the spirit of the In quisition, too. It denies freedom of speech, freedom of thought, free do. mof conscience. In tho Dark Ages one frequently had to embrace, at least in word form, the religion of the man at the wheel or be brok en upon the wheel. And in these al leged enlightened time-*, and in an alleged Christian State, we have a Rev. B. Lacy H?ge likening the Rev. Dr. Jones to Benedict Arnold, himself a prohibitionist, considered it would be harmful to the cause of prohibition, and an encouragement to lawlessness, to vote for prohibit ion in Charleston; and we have Mr. Cave of Olar cutting himseff off from an exponent of truth, temperance, liberty, justice, and Democracy, be cause The State dare conceive Dr. Jones the right of conscience. If Cave, H?ge & Co. possessed the power and the wheel, how the. .liv ing human bones would crack! Fanners Are Best Defences. Deprecating the growing expen ditures which the United States is incurrfng in connection with the maintenance of the army and navy, and declaring that grain and cotton fields are stronger military defenc es than war ships, B. F. Qoakum, chairman of the executive commit tee of the Rock Island Company, de livered an address a few days ago before the Farmers' Union of Okla homa at Shawnee. Prisoners Burned. At Carlesown, W. Va.. John R. Johnson, 18 years old, and Charles IWurlow, 15 years old, prisoners In the Kanawha county jail, were prob ably fatally burned in a fire started from a' lighted cigaretts dropped on their bed as they fell asleep. CONQUERED THE MOSQUIO. By Destroying the Places Where They Lay Their Eggs The people of Staten Island, New York have discovered a great bene factor in Dr. Doty, who has rid them , entirely of the striped legged mos quito, that, besides driving away many potential residents, has hith erto made life a burden during the summer months to those residents who remained, and he has all but annihiliated the anopaeles, its mala ria-carrying relative. The conquets of the mosquito has increased the value of real estate on the island by hundreds of thousands of dol lars; new houses are going up throughout its length and breadth, and residences that have long been nhabited only by care takers are being rented. Dr. Doty's researches show that the water in which mosquitoes breed must be continually present for about two weeks in order to allow of the full propagation of the insect, and that they are not produced in water that may accumulate for two or three days or a week. They will breed, however, wherever there is standing water. The anopheies lar vae are frequently found in the most unexpected places, such as old glass and, tinware, wooden receptlcals, de fective roof-leaders, and the crotch es of trees. As, with the execption of the sol licitans variety, mosquitoes do not go far from their breeding places, if any other are found about the house it is almost certain that a breeding-place exists in the immedi ate vicinity. Filthy water or that which contains an excess of organic matter is generally preferred by the anopheles mosquito for this purpose, so that obstructed cesspools, street gutters, and similar places are found to be the favorite breeding spots. The mosquito deposits dts eggs on the surface of the water, usually at night, and from fifteen to twen ty hours afterward the larvae are released. Although the larvae can live only in water, they are entirely dependent on air for existance, and must rise every minute or so to the surface and project above it their respiratory apparatus. Pretroleum dose not poison the larvae, but kills them by suffocation, as the oil on the surface of the water plugs up the respiratory apparatus and pre vents the intake of air. The campaign against the mos quito does not stop with Staten Is land. The genus culex s doomed throughout the rest of the city. At Flushing, in the Borought of Queens, which has suffered almost as much as Richmond from the ravages of the sollicitans, the work of .drain ing the great swamp comprising 2,200 acres that stretches from Flushing Bay to College Point Is all but completed, and the marshes at Dougleston Creek are being ditch ed. Similar work is going on in the five thousand acres of swamp land along the Bronx river, and in the Borough of Brooklyn ditching has begun in the marshes that stretch from Spring Creek and Jamaica Bay to Remson's Landing and from Gravesend Bay to Bergen Beach. With the completion of this work the mosquito will have been" deprived of living-in-accommodations in the five boroughs and New York city will be entirely rid of the pest. * HAVE NO FUNDS. Plan to Send Cotton Expert Abroad Falls Through. According to a letter received at Commissioner Watson's office in Co lumbia from the chief of the bureau of manufactures of the department of commerce and labor, It will be impossible to send an expert to foreign countries to gather data and information for *he benefit of the cotton producers of the South. The reason given is that there is no ap propriation for the sending of an agent at this time for the special service. The request was made on the National Government as a result of a resolution adopted at a recent meeting of the State Farmers' Union held In Columbia. A similar resolu tion was also passed at a meeting of the National Union held at Atlan ta some time ago. * Denies the Charge. The young man, Alex. Jennings, who was arrested, charged with sell ing whiskey in violation of lav/, de nies that he was guilty of any such thing. He says he is a member of the Edisto Social Club, and that the party for whom he got the whiskey asked him to get it for him, and having some whiskey in his club locker, he did not think it was any harm to let him have a little whis key to quench his thirst. Mr. Jen nings is a young man of good fami ly and we hope he will be able to make it clear that he did not violate any law. Kept Husband Home. At Scianton, Pa., William Davis is dead and his wife dying from the effects of inhailing illuminating gas. The couple were found lying un conscious in bed and the husband died a few minues later. Davis and his wife were married about three months ago, and according to neigh bors their quarrels were frequent. Sunday night the husband threaten ed to leave her and It is supposed that the woman turned on the gas while Davis slept. Robbers Surprised. Two robbers surprised while loot ing the State Bank at Kiefer. Ohio, shot and killed City Marshal Ford and probably fatally wounded Cash ier Calma Webling. They then es caped. A posse quickly organized and hurried in pursuit. COCAINE SELLERS MUST BE MADE QUIT THE AW FUL BUSINESS OR IT WILL Bring Untold Trouble on the People of the South by Bebauching the Colored People. The cocaine habit bids fair, if al lowed to continue, to solve the race problem in the South by eventually killing off the negroes. We agree with The State that "while the alarming prevalence of the cocaine habit among the negroes has been widely advertised, it is doubtful if Southerners yet .realize its terrible significance. Every day the menace grows larger." The State says: "A case in point has just been demonstrated in Savannah, where nineteen people, two of them white physicians, members of the Georgia Medical society and one an ex-coro ner, have been arrested charged With selling the drug. As is well known, probably the majority of those who sell 'noses' of cocaine to the ne groes for sums varying from 10 to 50 cents are themselves brothers-in black, but there is little question that throughout the South there are plenty of drug stores where cocaine can be easily bought, and numbers of men with licenses to practice med icine who will sell prescriptions for cocaine and other drugs. One of the physicians arrested in Savannah, Dr. W. W. Lee, made this statement to a reporter: "I have done nothing but what I thought I ought to do. I have writ ten these prescriptions in the inter est of humanity, when these suffer ing people would come to me and beg to give them relief. I have nev er written a prescription for any pa tient except those already addicted to the habit and have lost money on the transactions. I have consulted an attorney and have looked up the law on the question and do not think I have violated it.' "The witnesses against these phy sicians testified that prescriptions could be bought from them for 25 cents each, and the drug store's charge for filling them were 50 cents. The detective who investigated the cases found that in a period of five weeks Dr. Lee had issued no less than three hundred and eighteen prescriptions for cocaine, most of which read for thirty, forty, and sixty grains. The city health officer of Savannah testified that he con sidered one-eighth of a grain suffic ient for a dose, but the witness against the physicians testified if a dope user was 'on strong,' as much as 45 grains could be used in two or three days, and sometimes in one day. "As every one who has made any study of the negro cocaine fiend knows, the confirmed "dope" will go to any extreme to obtain the drug?its hold is fully as strong as morphine or any other of the nar cotics. One negro in Savannah sent her shoes to the pawn shop, another stole a neighbor's bedquilt,' a third stole $1.00 from the family she washed for, etc. One woman, asked as to the effect of the drug, said: " 'It makes you feel so good?like you wanted to fly. And it takes away the tired feeling that comes from hard work, and wakes a per son up. The effect of a 'nose' of it lasts me over an hour. When I take it I always go home. Then I dcn't mind my work. The effect ot it is not Mke wn.?key ' "Par.'^ue is ^-mrorarily bitiished by stimulation of the nerve centers, but the after-effect is depressing and this of course calls for use of the drug again and again. "Excepting the two white men ar rested in Savannah, all the defend ants are negroes, including one phy sican. Of these the police justice before whom the cases were tried, bound over to the City Court, a high er tribunal, only the physicians, claiming that it was chiefly through them that the drug was circulated. The drug stores, he held were not to blame as they did nothing more than fill the prescriptions. This point is well taken. It is at these physicians, who unfortunately are located in many other communities than iu Savananh, that the blow must be aimed. "Of coure in some cases proof is very difficult to obtain, but it can got through determined effort, and with the material once in hand, the courts seem to be the next step. Surely the medical associations in which such suspected men hold membership would do something to ward depriving them of their licenses J to practice." * [ Guessed About Right. On last Saturday we pubUshed the following: "The Times and Democrat predicts that fifteen coun ties of the twenty-one that will vote on the liquor question next Tuesday will banish the dispensaries, and that when the legislature meets next January it will pass a state-wido prohibition bill." The returns of the election as published proves the pre diction made by t^is paper, that fifteen counties out of the twenty one that voted on the liquor ques tion Tuesday would banish the dis pensary to have been correct. The other prediction will also come to pass in January. Neeses vs. Livingston. Neeses, Aug. 14.?Special: The Xeeses second nine defeated the f,iv ington first nine today in an inter esting game. The feature was the pitching of Neese, who was especially effective. With men on bases, twice was their chances to score cut down by double plays. Final score 5 to 0. Batteries, Livingston, Harley and Hoover; Neeses, Neese and Neese. Umpire, Williams. SMI GOING UP PRICES OF COTTON ADVANCED SOMT3 ON TUESDAY. The Fact That the Growing Crop is Going to be Short is Now Realized. There was a further advance in the price of cotton on the New York market on Tuesday, chiefly as a re sult it seemed of bullish crop crop news from the Southwest and the market closed strong at a net gain of 13 to 18 points. The opening was Arm at an advance of 7 to 12 points and during the morning active months sold 15 to 16 points net high er in response to firm cables, reports of very high temperatures in the Southwest, expectations of bullish national pinners' report, scattered covering, a renewal of foreign de mand, and moderate support from some of the local bulls. On the New Orleans market fu tures opened steady at an advance of 12 points on very favorable ca bles and the worst weather report of the season in the western section of the belt. Many Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas points reported maxi mum temperatures yesterday of from 100 to 110. Accompanying these were complaints of grave crop de terioration. The market held steady on this news nearly all day, but around noon some weakness was dis played on the rumor that a promi nent New York bull had sold the bear leader 50,000 bales of OctOi ber. During the last half hour of trading the market strengthened again on fear of more bad weather reports 'tomorrow mornling. Pric es rose to the highest of the day? 22 points over yesterday's last quo tations. The closing was very steady at a net advance of 20 to 21 points. COTTON QUOTATIONS. Good middling was bringing 12 cents on the local market yesterday New York Futures. Open Close. January.12.33 12.22-23 March.12.34 12.24-25 October.12.38 12.24-25 December ... ..12.34 12.23-25 NEW POST CARDS. Uncle Sam WU1 Furnish a Better Grade Next Year. Those who have the postal card writing habit should rejoice. Be ginning with January 1, 1910, Uncle Sam is going to have better postal cards. They will not be so close kin to blotting paper and the de sign on the address side Is to be more artistic than at present. Mr. Hitchcock, postmaster gener al, is convinced that the United States post cards do not compare favforably with the po3t cards of other countries and has given sanc tion to a plan for improvement In design, color and printing. One of the innovations of (the new card will be a card much smal ler than the present size which can be conveniently used for index pur poses. Business men who send out post cards for collection of statis tics and similar purposes have made it known that it would be very con venient if there could be a size of cards just large enough to be used for index purposes. The postoffice department has adopted the sug gestion. With the exception of the index cards the other cards will be the present size, but the design, color and finish of the paper will be im proved. * Heat Wave Broken. The weather bureau issued the following bulletin Tuesday night: "The severe warm wave in the Middle Western States will be brok en In the plains States and Missouri valley tonight and in the State of Middle and Upper Mississippi and lower Ohio valleys on Wednesday and the fall in temperature In these States will be attended by showers. The next disturbance from the Wets will appear in the extreme North west on Thursday, advance over the plains States, central valleys and Great Lakes on Friday and Saturday and reach the Atlantic coast about Sunday." Will Kill Flies. The London Lancet, the leading medical journal of the world, says that the best and simplest fly killer is a weak solution of formaldehyde in water (two teaspoonfuls to the pint.) Place In plates or saucers throughout the house. Ten cents worth of formldehyde will ast an ordinary family all summer. It has no offensive smell, is fatal to disease organisms, and is practically non poisonous except to insects. Pyre thrum powder, which may be bought at any drug store, burned in the house will also kill the flies. Natural Gas Explodes. At Cleveland. Ohio, seven men and throe women, two of whom may die. were injured early Monday when an explosion of natural gas wrecked the four-story building occupied by the Wirick Moving and Storage Compa ny. The debris caught fire and prac tically all was consumed. * Vanished at Night. I Beautiful Lake Como. at Hokah, Minn., a suburb of LaCross. disap peared during the night, and when 1 the residents of the village arose ' Tuesday morning they saw only the. sandy bottom. A dam three hundred feet long at the foot of the lake had broken. ? THE HUUiE FLY SOME RULES FOR PROTECTING PUBLIC AGAINST ILLS. Precautions Needed to Guard the Public Health?Easy Enough to do If You Will do it. The following interesting and val uable circular is being sent out by the merchants association commit tee of New York. Flies are the most dangerous in sects we have. They are much more Idange^ous 4han bjees for horned; these may sting you, and the sting Is painful, but you soon get over the pain. Flies do much more harm than this. They walk over filthy places like sewers and garbage cans, and after eating which they find there, they come into your house and walk on the food and eat, car rying on their feet the tiny germs which live in filth just as you live in a house. These germs are not only filthy and disgusting, but many of them cause such diseases as ty phoid fever, cholera infantum and summer complaint. When the flies bring them from Borne dirty places to your food or leave some of them when they crawl on your face or hands, you may swallow the3e germs without knowing it, and be taken ill with one of these diseases. So the fly that seems so harmless may do you much more harm than a bea or a hornet. Your parents should place screens at their doors and windows during the warb weather, to keep the flies out of the house. If they cannot screen all the rooms they should screen those in which food is kept; and if anyone is sick in the house, flies should ge kept from the sick room, so that they may not carry germs from the sick person to the rest of the family. Children may help to keep flies from swarming In and around hous es and from carrying germs of sick ness from one person to another. In the first place, they should not buy candy, fruit or other food which oeirs left in front of stores or any where else where flies may* feed an I walk on it. Flies lay their eggs chiefly in stable manure and if thu is left without screens or other cov ers to keep the flies away great num bers will be hatched in every sta ble. If you know of stores where food is not covered from flies, or of stables that have swarms of them around, get your father or mother to write to the Board of Health about them and the Board will make the store-keepers or stable men obey its rules. But before you repbrt other people for being careless and dirty and so making it possible for flies to become a nuisance, be sure that your own house is clean, and that no garbage cans or boxes are left uncovered to attract fles. If you and all the people you know will follow this advice, there will not be nearly so many flies to plague you in hot weather, and there will not be nearly so much sickness and death, especially among chil dren, as now. ?Keep the flies away from the sick, especially those ill with contagious diseases. Kill every fly that strays, into the sick room. His body is covered with disease germs. Do not allow decaying material of any sort to accumulate on or near your premises. All refuse which tends in any way to fermentation, such as bedding, straw, paper, waste and vegetable matter, should be disposed of or covered with lime or kerosene oil. Screen all food. Keep all receptacles for garbage carefully covered and the cans clean ed or sprinkled with oil or lime. Keep all stable manure In vault or pit screened or sprinkled with lime, oil or other cheap preparation. Cover food after a meal; burn or bury all table refuse. Screen all food exposed for sale. Screen all windows and doors, es pecially the kitchen and dining room. Don't forget, if you see flies, their breeding place is in nearby filth. It may be behind the door, under the table or in the cupboard. If there is no dirt and filth there will be no flies. If there is a nuisance in the neighborhood write at once to the Health Department. * Notice to Cotton Growers. The Kershaw Oill Mill Company, of Kershaw, S. C, has established a warehouse in this city on spur of Southern Railway leading to county Dispensary for the purpose of buying ;and exchanging cotton seed mcai for cotton seed. They will keep con stantly on hand meal to exchange for seed and for sale, and will pay the highest cash price for seed. Will open September 1, 1909. R. N. OWEN, Mgr. Two Believed Lost. T. F. Callaghan. of West Seattle, and Jos. W. Stevens, of Trenton, N. .1., are believed to have lost their lives while endeavoring to ascend Mount Tacoma. A rescue party found the Alpien stacs and packs of the lost men ten feet from the cra for. The two men left camp at 2:,'5 0 Saturday morning without a guide. They had but little food and it is believed they perished from hunger, fold, or accident. Pretty Large C'lmir. One of the largest chairs ever built for anybody has been built recently for Mr. W. W. Graham, of Branch ville, who weighs 410 pounds. The chair is large enough for a whole family and still have room for com HE FEEDETH ALL. What the Farmer Is Doing for This Country. The tariff is behind us. In many respects it is imperrect, but the agi tation is out of the way and the Am erican people will now adjust them ? selves to conditions, as they exist, says the Manufacturers' Record, which goes on to point this glowing picture: That we are entering upon a pe riod of vast business expansion seems to be beyond question. Con sider for a moment the fundamental conditions in the fundamental bus iness?that of agriculture. Unless present crop conditions ma terially change it Is quite probable that the total value of agricultural products for 1909 will aggregate $8,300,000,000 or in the neighbor hood of $500,000,000 more than the total of 1908, which was nearly $400,000,000 greater than the pre ceding year. The most remarkable fact in our business history is this amazing pro-i gress In agriculture. The farmers of this country are enjoying great er prosperity than was ever known before by the agricultural interests of this or any other land. The value of farm products in 1880, 1890 and 1900, and for each year since 1905 have been as fol lows: 1880 .$2,212,000,000 1890 . 2,466,000,000 1900 . 4,717,000,000 1905,. 6,415,000,000 N 1906 . 6,794,000,000 1907 . 7,412,000,000 1908 . 7,800,000,000 1909 (estimated) 8,300,000,000 In the ten years from 1880 to 1890 the increase in the value of farm products was so triflingly small that it averaged only one per cent a year, or $250,000,000 for ten years, hardly one-half of what the Increase In the present year will be over last year. In other words, the Increase in the value of farm products In one year Is now tice as great as the in crease In ten years between 1880 and 1990. Between 1890 and 1896 there was very little progress, but then began a marvelous advance which has con tinued without abatement ever since; by 1900 the total value was 54,717,000,000. Since \trien the momentum has ! continued until in the last three years, estimating 1909, the aggre gate value of farm products Is about $23,500,000,000. This is more than twenty times as much as the com bined capital of all the national banks In the United States. To this wonderful advance, this amazing growth in wealth, is largly due the quick revival of business from the panic of 1907. It was this condition that saved us from a long period of great Industrial depres sion, and it Is this fundamental con dition for maverous development which assures an expansion of busi ness much greater than our country has yet seen. Present Indications point to the possibility of a corn crop of over 3,000,000,000 bushels, possibly 500, 000,000 bushels more than last year. With the high prices ruing for wheat, corn and cotton, abounding prosperity seems to be assured. With the tariff out of the way; with mangniflcent crops, some har vested and some practically assured, the decks have been cleared for ac tion. The winner of the battle for to do business; who makes his success will be the one who is ready readiness known far and wide. The way to do this Is to advertise. ? Should be Stopped. There is a craze among some of the small boys of this town, which doubtless extends to many other towns, to secure the pictures of baseball stars which the American Tobacco ComDany incloses )in the packages of cigarettes it offers for sale. The Fort Mill Times says from a business standpoint, this was a happy thought o nthe rart of the cigarette makers, whose sales have largely increased through the de vice, but it has meant resultant de moralization of a great number of small boys who, in their eagerness to secure the baseball pictures, have become cigarette smokers. There Is a law on the statute books of this State against the sale of cigarettes to minors under 18 years of age, and it would be well for the officers of the law to keep an eye for viola tors of the law. * What We Breathe. Atmosphere is the name applied to the gaseous envelope that surrounds the globe. It consists of a mechani cal union of nitrogen and oxygen, In the ratio of four to one, together with a relative small amount of carbonic acid gas and a little water vapor. Its thickness Is about fl.fy miles, although it probably extends, in an attenuated form, as far as f.ve hundred miles. This is Inferred from the observation of luminous meteors. It exerts a pressure of fif teen pounds to the square inch at the earth's surface, and weighs over I eleven and a half trillions of pounds. I Each adult Inhales one gallon of air j per minute, and consumes thirty , ounces of oxygen daiiy. An ordina ry gas-jet consumes as much oxygen j as five persons. Be sure that you breathe your full share If you want : to enjoy good health. Crazed by Heat. Believed to have been driven in sane by the Intense heat, John Bus hy, a well to do farmer of north eastern McLane county, III., killed his wife Saturday Three of thslr children wro w.tmssed the crime lied in time to save their lives. Bus ry took refuge In a barn w?ere h<* was found dead, having cut his throat. ? LOCAL MEWS ITEMS. PICKED UP ALL ABOUT BY OUR REPORTERS. What Is Happening in the Country as Well as in the Cities and Towns. What dfd you think of our elec tion report? A very enjoyable dance was given last evening in the Elks Hall. Some of the worst drinkers in town voted against the dispensary. Swear off, old man; swear off, be cause liquor is going to be hard to get?after awhile. Them fellows over In Calhouu county hated to give the dispensary / up, but it had to go. Now that the whiskey election Is out of the way, we must turn our attention to the municipal election. Had it not been for the sturdy prohibitionists of Cameron and Ad vance, Calhoun county would still 'be a booze seller. If we are in order, we would move that we now take a vote on the so cial club question. They will have to follow the dispensary . We held back Tuesday's irsue of The Times and Democrat in order to get the election returns, which we are sure our readers appreciated. I Orangeburg county gave the larg est majority against the dispensary of any county that voted on Tues day. She never does things by half. If the advice given by a doctor that people should eat the skins of fruit, keeps the sidewalks clear of banana peals it will not have been given in vain. The Times and Democrat was not an original prohibitionist, but it is in the fight now to the finish. It will use all of its influence to make prohibition a success. The Times and Democrat is not a dally yet, but the way it "rehashed" the election news for the benefit of its thousand'; of subscribers on Tues day night put it in the big city daily class. After the last day of October, Orangeburg county will know the dispensary no more forever. It will have served its day and will have to take its place among the has beens. That cool week in August was bad ly needed a few days ago, but as old Sol has let up a little, it can be held in reserve a little wile longer. But we hope the weather man will keep it handy. The people of Orangeburg county has declared for prohibition by a de cisive vote, and it is the duty of every patriotic man In the county, regardless of how he voted on Tues day, to help enforce the law. There is some talk of bringing out a prohibition municipal ticket in the approaching election. Whether the talk will ever materialize in action, remains to be seen. If it does there will be a hot time in the old town, sure. When it comes to predicting the results of whiskey elections The Times and Democrat is Johnny on the spot. If you don't believe it, compare the prediction we made last Saturday with the reseult of the election. As the people of the county was so overwhelmingly for prohibition, we are glad that this city voted that way, too. The vote shows that this city is in accord with the people of the country districts. This is aB it should be. The Alabama Legislature has made made it unlawful to even print the picture of a whiskey bottle, and the Augusta Herald says the man who should dream of a little brown jug will keep It a secret if he doesn't court trouble. Bishop Williams, of Michigan, says "nothing so saps human will power, hypnotizes and enslaves a man, wrecks and ruins personality, as gam bling." Remember this, young man, and shun the gaming table as you would a pestilence. The Times and Democrat is Indebt ed to Dr. H. N. Fair, of St. Matthews, for the Calhoun county returns. He phoned them to us about ten o'clock Tuesday night, which enabled us to give a complete record of the vote. We appreciate your kindness, Doc tor. Capt. W. W. Ball, of the Columbia State, kindly phoned us the result of the election in the State about eleven o'clock Tuesday night, for which we hereby return our thanks, and hold ourselves ready to respond any time the Colonel or The State commands us. The Times and Democrat's elec ; tlon report compares favorably with I the reports published by the dally papers. If you don't believe it make the comparison. All of which goes to prove that if you waat the news in this section you must read The Times and Democrat. Mr. James Izlar Sims, of The Times and Democrat, appreciates the mention of his name In connection with aldermanic honors by our local contemporary, The Sun, but he begs to say that he Is only eighteen years of age, which disqualifies him, and, besides, he is too much engaged in his business ventures to ever think of standing Tor a political office. In simple justice to the gentlemen who have managed the dispensary in this county we take pleasure in say ing that It was managed in a thor oughly business way, with a due re gard to the strict enforcement of the law under which it was oper ated. Orangeburg county has never had more conscientious officials than these gentlemen have proved them selves to be.