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BLIND TIGERS OF CHARLESTOR A PROSIBTION FIED AGENT LISTS AND CLAOSIFIES THEM Fruits of Disponsary-Strong Presen tation of Conditions in S. 0. Con eQuent upon State's Under taking Monopoly of Sales. A staff correspondent of the asso ciated prohibition press, who has made an investigation of the liquor traffic conditions in this state and a special study of the blind tiger situa tion in Charleston, makes an inter esting report on "the fruitage of law lessness and corruption in the wake of the state saloon system.'' He says: "There are 469 Federal tax receipts of 'retail liquor dealers' and 'retail dealers in malt liquors' now in force in South Carolina. "Including those that have been voted out during the past year, there are 107 regular and thrity-six beer dispensaries in the state. This leaves a total'of 326 'blind tigers' in the state that hold a Federal tax receipt for selling liquor. There are, there fore, nearly two and a half times as many 'blind tigers' in the state as le gal selling establishments. "These 143 dispensaries in the state reprement but ninety-one towns and citios whore liquor has been legal ly sold during the past year. In twenty of these places the people have voted out the grogshops, so that there are now but seventy-one towns and cities where intoxicantW are legally sold. " A most striking fact comes to the surface of this blind tiger situation: Of the :126 blind tigers of the state only twenty-nine are to be found in prohibition districts. Thte balance of 297 are all located in dispensary towns and cities. The Blind Tigers ''In this connection, it is interest ing to compare with the above, the dispensary cities of the 'State and 1heir condition as to blind tigers. ''elow is givoln a list. of the *owns and cities of' Sith Carolina where there are more Federal tax receipti in force than there are dis piensarios, or have been dispensaries during the past year. The nuNAber moted as 'blind tigers' represents the excess of tax receipts over dispen. Dispenwai-y Cities: Blind Tigers. Andersoi ..2............2 Aiken .. ..5.......... 5 Beaufort........... 4 Camden .. ............2 Charleston and environs.. 213 Columbia .......... 22 Darlington ..............3 Edgefleld ..2............2 Fiorence............ 3 Georgetown............1 Greenivillo...........(I Laurens .. ........ ...1. ,Tohn's [sland .... ........18 Mtoultrieville .. .... ......3. Mount Pleasant ..........5 Orangeburg ....... .......2 Port Rloyal.............5 Newberry ...............3 bepartaniburg .............6 Mumnter .... .... .... ..... Siummerville ..............1 nion ..................2 Total.. .... .......297 'The official records of the col leetor of internal revenue and of the Qtate dispensary show, therefore, that there w4re, durhig 1904, more t,han ta times as mnai%y blind tigers in the ninety-onle disp4nsary towns and cities as in all the rest of the Statc ..,mbined. ''One of the olhief reasons urged by tSonator Tilman for the establish mnt of the dispensary was that pro. bibition territory was a breeding ground for 'joints,' 'speakeasles, blind pigs,' 'blind tigers,' and othei oennin of like character. After twelv< years of trial the dlispenarry provei to have enormously distanced prohi. bition as a breeder of illicit liquoi selling.' "The habitat of ihue tax receipi Wind tiger is chiefly in the largel eities. The rural moonshinor fights i eut with the deputy marshals as bos he can without giving up to tile gov ernment the price of the tax receipt in Columbia, the capital city, the tige: Asilesuarogant than he was a fey yrs ago. Thre are now twenty-twi bind tIgers in Columbia, which pa: ~( the tax roceip)ty tost,of them boinj ~osated withipi pistol shot of the capi &C4lbuilding Ain lying ini the territor: ~ ~jbqwon it and the main State 'dispen b ~tin i - harloston, he~ poin awi'e.s,tflo correspond business with but little striods inter ference. "In 1902, ia gathering vi dence for'the Department pt JU)tep for use in the case of South,CifoHna vs. the United States, ivolving the right of the 'govqrnment to tar dis pensries, whibg as affirmatively decided in the UOi Otates Supe06e ,Court last month, I had occasion to prepare a blind tiger map, of Charles,. 'ton. This map shows the location of 208 'blind tigers' in the principal part of the city. "I have just completed a new.ai of the city, which shows. 201 lind tigers in the same territory as 'they exist today. As the previous map was made during the Charleston ex position, there were naturally a lar ger number of blind tigers than there are now. ''A comparison of the two maps shows that the greater portion of the blind tigers of 1902 are still in oxistence after a peiod of four years. ' The drug stores of Charleston are drug stores. Scarcely any of them take out Federal tax receipts. Here the grocery stores are the principal Offenders. A large number of the I cheap corner groceries and some of the more pretentious affairs have blind tiger dttachments and pay the Federal tax." What purports to be a full list of blind tigers in Charleston, with their locations, is given and the following remarks made: "The following tabulation of the Iniumbor of blind tigers within two blocks of various Charlpstom .institu tion is suggestive of local dispensary (onditions: City Hall .........:......15 liblic Library ............14 Y. M. C. A. ................4 Dispensary No. 4.. ..........24 l)ispensary No. 3 ..........21 Dispensary No. 17 ..0......... Dispensary No. 25 ..1........ (J. S. Custom House ........14 Aeademy of Music ..7.........7 Postofice ................17 Union 'passenger station ......22 Dispensary No. 7.............7 Charleston High School..... .1.3 St. Michael's Church ........14 Orave of Johm C. Calhoun .. .. 10 William Pitt statue ..........12 Melnorial tablet Gen. Beauregard 12 Statue of John C. Calhoun . . . . 10 The St'te and the Tgers. The article continues. "The history of the attitude of thestate and the ditipensary toward the blind tiger in dustry has been one of change. In the early years of the institution, the state constibulary did stirring work and some shooting scrapes followed. These stirred up the people against the institution for a time. "in 1898 the dispensary adoptedl the policy of fighting the 'blind tiger' ,vompetition by putting on the mar keti what they calld 'cighty proot whiskey,' an article composed of 80h per* eeit whiskey and 20 per cent wa ter. A distilling p)lant was put in and distilled water was used for watering whiskhiskey. In this way a brand of whiskey wais put on the market at a ceprrate than the 'blind tiger' could supply it. The dispensaries would sell a whole half pint of whis key for flfteeh cett the.price of a simle drink in a license statet. The result was that the stte wasq floodedI with cheap whiskey by the dispensa r*ies. The colored population partie uilarly beciame accustomed to chipping five cents each into a pool and buy in hiky by" the bottle and ;drink in to the atreet corners. I have stood on -the st'mteet corners of Charles-, tont frequeuitly j.d' seen' three and touri parties of c*oldred men sucking at a bottle that they had bought front a dispenisary for the p)rice of a J.rink in a licenefls3tate.. ''Th dipenaryfollowed upl this a t t ack on ' lind tiger' comp)etition b)y lending its influence in the diree tion of prosecuting liquor sellers who were in competition; that is, those Iwho did not purchase thoiu supplies from the dispensaries. This they -wore able to do becatise the dispensary practically controlled the machinery of the dominant p)olitical p)arty of the state. The result was that the 'blind tigers' found it to their interest to l)pnrchaso their supplies from the dis pensaries. Since tho cloAe "of the -year 1898 until within) the last, two e yeairs, the policy of purchasing their supplies of liquors: from the dispense rice lhas -been closely followed by the b hllnd tigers. I The agitatom i rowing out of the Southm Carolina dispensary case In the~ Scot;rt of cIaints hos: reetited "In some' miodifieation of is attIttee of the dispensary' management towards the tigeir Hiautsy, Sinceo. then, '. now sche line been puopular4 1PeriodIoRl ly the p)olieO Oi' dIIisariift onuQmiables nisako. tho annmicl 6% t5m&bhd ~Iorh altd ceine 'hit Biors 3't41e foW#dc Tie lour ~tmtaq et 't te6ttt p4wt.*odan4 the MAtW i6k(4a l tffge.oe whkoi s daily so their loss fr m small. Suh a coqrse enab lice to kqep up a shw of thO orop4f he JiquQr sdw into 1he dispensary stock atY goodly sum. The. Charle 4 now turn over to the disg sale frNm 8,000 to 10,000 beer each year, and a prop amount of whiskies. Gobb supplies of liquor in thi cheaper for the dispesary buy it in the market. "The 'eighty proof whiskey of 1898 has been somewhat'A wo ed upon in~recdnt years. T h saries now sell at retail a. coi key at $1.60 a gallon. This N hji is billed to the county dipi at $1.44 a gallon. As the gov9r ment tax on this stuff is $1 p gallon for proof whiW1ey., it U seem that. there would be but thiit four cents per gallon to go to tk"p di tiller and the wholesaler. As a ter of fact, this liquor is only 'sevel ty proof,' that is, 70 per cent Vbhiki and 30 per. cent water. '84veni proof' whiskey at $1.44 per g loi approximately the same as 'ofihui dred proof' or pure whiskey,.4t, per gallon. The wholesaleri %ther fore, gets about ninety cents p4rga Ion for this liquor after the tWx paid, instead of thirty-four cnt The dispensary doctors the wisko with 30 per cent water as a mon( making proposition. This Ii46r' sold to the consumer at ten cent6 pi half pint. The purchaser, therefor gets a whole half pint off corn.whi key for two-thirds the price paid license states for a single drink." "In the same way, the diis'Onsai 'doctors' some of its rye whiskeywil 25 per cent watei so as to mike 'seventy-flve proof.' This whiskey billed to the dispensaries at '$1.0 gallon. The consumer pays 'fifte cents for a half-pint, the saine as paid for a single drink in a licen saloon. "This plaini of 'doctoring' or adi terating the whiskey was first ina gurated for the purpose of fightii the blind tigers from which purpo it has been diverted by the trend events. It is now purchased by,t] blind tigers who sell it by ,the dria A ten cent half-pint of whiskey w yield foikr drinks at, 10 cents eac This ten cent whiskey is very popil with the .egroes, two of -whop.:A 'chip in' five cents each and get .h drinks each. The effect Of this is t: -retailing of whiskey at two And on half cents per drink. From a scher to fight blind tigers this adulterat whiskey has become a bQnd of frien ship between the tigers and the di pensaries. A Plantifor The Plassa, W. N. Craig in Garden Magazine. F~ew plants are more useful for y azz.a decoration than hieliot ropi when grown in standard or tr, forms. The rich deep mauve color, the flowers, and their delicious fr gance make the heliotrope a favori with everyone. As ordinarily grow it ia not a very conspicuous ob.ject. given a light situation, where th cani got a reasonable amnounit of iu shini, and he watered carefully, thi will flower neaLrly all summn"r. r.n under a hea,vily-shaded piazza or in htallwa', I ley will keep we'll for Iwo, three weeks, after which they shoui be latcd oihtdoors in a sunny por tioni, pruned back a little, syring, t'wo or three times daily, and garfuhl watered. Within a month they) w iagi he a mass of bloom. Four go, crops oIf flowers can thus easily be cured betwen May and October. There is nothing specially dtidthe in the growing or~ training of ti type of heliotrope. Ini March April secure a -few small, vigorc plants from 'a local florist, whi~ should be potted along as requir taking care never to 'al1ow the pia to become matted with -roots or pl bound. The top inustWdt be'>iiich from the mein At)n fratjl the tieAir height is reached,,pt all the flowi and' side shoots shouild. -be careful removed, anwd tlie st6indled th 'a stil sufflciently stott Ioipilt flijn T stem edl the run A1pIMo iny 'desir length beforee bingstopped; the urn bieight is bot fot& e'. nliti of side shIoot8siWebbW stppeagihi< when they bRgy 4a.A grpth ,of fl pin9bing Is ho~4j~tU U ll oartlen a hetcad ~ AsI size, AeuI ' d 1spring i prodned i the art edi if te t'lllw1 w.Inga Ina ndoitI'v .huse ae b~ ha4 ~ oloig Jg a 9 ardstb In sixteen ini & 6tp nos a of thO Z 6 legewill d carry a pa ea I liberal is top drees a I tiulants o- are given a raise ad a few.standards ea r yearjtb older d plants. lf0vp a set, beas a Ior bordet', e eyate -very ef cc fective. Dr Heliotope, ,re best grown out Df doors om 4jtie lit tIl th*0 rtt te frost, Teg e e 4nIej ove r in ' Ir temper(ture 'of .ftyi degrees in 'a Is greenhouse orlight-eellr, and should to be kept moderately dry during the ,severe winteimonthso e Care -must' always be taken to see that the planti are securely.. staked, n- as otherwise strong ivinds would break or seriousl '-injure them. A )y compost of two-thirds tur loam,One es third well dried cow mapure, in which r there is a good dash of sand is ex r cellont. Id The one cultural fact that mAkes for success with heliotrope, is to keep e growing. It suffers more t than most plants if it once gets dried . out, and must be kept fairly moist at OYall -times. y There are several varieties offered by the florista.and seedsmen, but the best is'probably Queen of Violets. Gardens and VegetAbles. I- Southern'Farm Magazine. is Irish potatoes should be planted- inl 5. all the border states in March. The Y best early 'varieties' or at- least those' V which have gieti the best satisfac- t is tion, are the Triumph, Early Hebionl 3r and Early Rose, preference being 0, generally given to the first named. No R- stable manure should be put in the n rows when -the potatoes are planted, as if induces scab and makes the 'po tatoes waxy. With land well pre h pared. and 'enriched in the preceding it fall or winter two good Workings will is usually m'*ke a -large yield of pota a toes. They are 'usuAlly cut and drop m pod in rows three and one-half feet is apart at intervals of 10 inches in the , rows. They are then covered by I throwing the dirt with 'a single horse i- plow over,,them, making a flat ridge .1ust 'as the potato sprouts begin to break through the oVerlying iidge, a se barrow should be run over the land breaking' down the ridges and destroy le ing all the , weeds and gra,s. Two k. weeks after this' harrowing the potd: ill toes should be "sided ut" .with a. . one-hbrse plow, and two weeks later, r if the weather has been seasonable, the dirt should be thrown to them. Vo- This completes the culti'vation. Level le: culture is preferred by-many growers, e- and the cultivdtion in that case is ae' done with double-shovel plows. )A, Nearly all garden vegetables should a. be planted in March, and especially j the hardier kinds, such As peas, on 4ions, Salsify, parsnips, ehbbage, car rots, lettnce and spinbeh. - Tomato plants shouldl he raised in a hotbed, but not transplanted until the warm moist days in April. Snap beans cannot stand cold weather, and the< ~'planting of these should be deferred'< se until the danger from- frosts is over, t nless protected by a canivas-coveri~ng. a' In the extreme south 'all'- kinds of I to. garden vegetables shiould be, in good 'headway in 'March, aind will' need nte 'tive and frequent eniltivation. - -~ From An Address By Susan B. An - - thony,. At 'this timne When the-whole wvorld 1 Si muonrning 'the less of Susan B. An-' I Sthony some of her.teasons for advoca-t (1ting the isolitical rights of women may I be of'-intefest to niany. In an address ndimny :years .ago she Isaid: 'Y We recogniz,e 'that the ballot is a. 'two-edged,. nay, a moily-edged sword, ) which may be made to cut in every di reetion. If wily politicians 'and sor didl eppitalists ipisy wi#ld it for mere dlt paity and personal' greed; if oppiess 'is ed wage-earners may irivoke 'it toJ or' 'wring justice- from legislators and 'ex us tort material advantages froin em-, oh ploye; if the 'lowest and most de @ graded olatsses of .men may use it to nt Den the sluice-ways of vice .and >me f It may be the' instrumental-I e,by which the narrow, selfish, cor ;*tt and corrupting men and mesa Kr 4~ rUle-it is quite as true thant no W~e-mInnded sttatesmen, philanthropists f&Jrfdinois may make It the *da- 1 ho iN ith Which to reverse the above ob der of things, as soon as they can ~ tyv9 dded to their now sinll num i'a ttshe immensely larger 'iatio of biaynets lOve;to call 'the better 'half 4 .pteayple~ When Women 'vote, 4wilt ywl make a new balance of pow. ii lgtmust be eighed and' m'easnred 1 d entcuated ft t effect 'ipon ev- ' ~bial and m641 queitloli which1 the aWhitrapient of the ballot rWoeani doubt that when 'the 4tlualv6 wome 69 thought and< ~ t'49Kw)9'are -today ,the moral oI~ ~o~t,fOtnation, sit in counsel fI tuthbest' men of the country,. ten' l be the result?'] ~ ~b~'ea~ rav questiens of muot 44 A COMFORTABLE,' ROOMY -'Co"C' Handsomely upho!stdred, well made. iugs, Mattings, Linoleum, just the kind.: ,yo Vant. Art Squares -from $6.00 to 3crap Carpet, Sideboards $8.00 to $3.H -lall Rack $4.00 to - $25.00, Water Coolers; ce Cream Freezers that will freeze in .3 rin ites; big line Refrigerators, the finest .line of lammocks ever brought to Newberry, the ievest and most up-to-date line of Room Suits 'rom $15.00 to $100.00. Come and see our ine of Wardrobes and Sewing Machines. Goods have advanced 10 per cent, but we iave not advanced the price. Come and look ind get our prices. ShaiIey Sununer d, as well as of material interest in vhich women are mostly deeply con - erned. Depied the ballot, the legit mate means with which to exert their What i romona? nfluence, and, as a rule, being lovers Read the following carefully: >f peace, they have recourse to pray- If you have consum t' irs and tears, those -potent weapons some of the t fo of >f women and children, and when blood P ontagious fonrs of hey fail, must tamely submit, to dpoisoning we cannot- cure vrong or ri#e in rebellion against You. We don't Pretend to cure you. he powers that be. You need the individual treatment of some skiled specialist; bt If B. 0. Wihitney's "Isle of Spice, you are run dlown in general health ''To say, generall, that the Ameri- if you have dlyspepsia, are subject an stage differs in no way from that to fainting spells, a victim to in-. iany other country, would not be al- somana, biliousness, kidney or liver ogether true,'' says dainty Leslie trouble, catch cold easily, ifyur leigh prima donna of B. C. Whitney's system is in that condition that iquant musical mir4ure, the ''Isle of you may become an easy pryto pico " soon to be. seen . in this city. the diseae rmofPluonala 'luman jature is the same the world grp e gters pem i, iver, yet custom -and tradition must ippe and th waius epieiesa eotaken into account. .Our people, heyouaaes bofer y,t enitant. or example, have never taken kindly ach,osofm or,gnr o the so-called trained drama. We ly impaired i'ita'lity, we can htilp ave delighted'in that which was up- you, and, if you :oio.w ouir dfrec if ting and ennobling, and shunned tions, render you imzshune qtnt hat which was salacious and degrad- sickness. Most skt inea Ub ng. -It has been the rule that a play cured by the use of OO hat is unfit for the 'young person' lIlA." o see was unworthiy'for the elders to "BOM o ritend. Foreigners have poked the NIto w A the obig the h. lnger of derision at us on this ac- syseadtteseubn rs ~ount, but, we have stood our ground bond soap are to the dii-ty- wasti ud upheld our 'traditions.' Of oC It aids Nature to Tesume ~ourse, plays which were beyond de- i~norma action. ~ense and, beneath contempt have en- W. E. Pelham &- Son guarantee oyed some little p)rosperity on our that, if you will write to The Bro tago, but these have been like angel 's monia Co., New York, givingyu nisits, few and far between. full name ,ndrs on thgeou "As to refornming the American poni at thean addreom of th cou tage, I (10 not see wvhere any reform -ireev bota oful thi pack-n s necessary. Good plays succeed and aewilthrcev anfu stze wpatk ad 0ones fail; vicious plays are driv- ewtouenyrs.tgn ht m from the stage, and scant support Wiever.n adra .5-given to the trifling and inane. Wrt,aeadadegplain-. Fhese, then, mayAmor sad tone ohalcyonr Y Be careful to address Th Di. l1aywright and manager. What do- o. New OVerkg. !ects there may be will find speedy FEEBOO A 0 emedy, for that which is lacking in Namle ........ ~ruth, cannot long survive." City. ....* ,, . . Washington Stubbs, the principal..-..-.. -...-..- - , ,haracter* in ''The Maid and the Street Address .. ..~ Kunmmy"is pursued by Trixie Ever- My dise4.e L..... *',* treen, an actress. Finally Stubbs, in lesperation says: "I'll have.to marry ~ ~ ~ ~ it hat woman just to be in a position to YO 1e 4,m4 ret a legal separation from her." The cotipub ot vilhsX% I~ roubles of this queer pair are onlyc1 q d It ne of the bits that go to make "Th e cloW dra a1 l~j hfaid andl the Mummy'' such a per- ho.e.Se eet musical lay. This merry me- W. E. Pelam A ainge by Rlichard Carlo and Robert whin'pl Toed Bowers will appear at the opera, touse1