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the bar in the Capital City. The brass rail is a dead letter. The Blind Tiger Also Cures. Without having any positive evi dence of my own, there is no use to say that blind tigers are unknown quantities in Raleigh. They are here somewhere and they sell stuff that would make a man choke his grand mother and fight a horse. A friend of mine happened in here from a dry i town and the condition of his health required a stimulant. He does not remember where he got it; the fact is he didn't remember anything for forty-eight hours and he will not drink any more corn. That is what he got, and if it wasn't hog it was a lower grade. The tigers, however, are not as bold or as numerous as they used to be in Charleston. Like the ground hog they are frightened at their shadow, but the wise ones know where to drop the money. In Greenville the other day a man whose good breeding and political faith made him despise the dispen sary, told me that he had been con verted, that he was a dispensary man now. "I can't keep my d- niggers at work," he said. "They fill up on the rottenest stuff on earth, which con:es from the blind tigers and they are not worth killing. It was not so bad as that when the state's institu tions were in the field." Happiness on Wheels. And it is that way here, in Greens boro and Charlotte and Raleigh, in dry towns and in towns where dispen saries thrive. Outside of Asheville or Wilmington or Salisbury, the only place where a man can buy a decent, drink in North Carolina is on a Pull man train. It comes high, but it's worth it. As I said at the beginning, the local dispensary is not so bad as that ini quity in South Carolina, and by this I do not mean to say that J have join ed the enemy. Every man hates a trust until he becomes a part of it. 'If I were a tax dodger (and I am not, because I have nothing to dodge) I might write my arm off in defence of the system. That is human nature the world over. A fair verdict, however, must give the greater share of praise to the local grog shop, because it only comes when a majority of the people of any one community vote for it. They vote it in and they can vote it .out. Just why it should have the mor al support of the God-fearing is be yond human understanding. It is worse in any shape than the high license saloon, and we have sa loons here and they pay no license.1 They sell nothing, of course, but they ] reap a harvest on the corkage and the city does not object. They beat the devil around the stump just as the dis pensary beats him, for it is likewise beyond human understanding pyhy the sale of liquor is moral when the bar is operated by the city or the state and not by a foreigner whose great ness depends upon his ability to mix a gin fizz. And then the children are I educated here as in South Carolina, 3 on the fund which comes from the 2 wrecks in the Potter's Field, and a part of it goes to the roads which are e improved, all of them leading to the. place of sale.f Sincere Shouter for Water Wagon p Brigade. ,t Governor Glenn is the shouting i~ prohibitionist of the Old North State. f I believe he is sincere. He is much in demand, and he makes temperance s lectures and when a town is preparing t for an election the water wagon bri- C gade sends for him. As a general rule 1 everybody gets on and the bars blink and stagger out. But he will nevers change Wilmington and Salisbury i and Asheville, and a dispensary law doesn't hurt there, because the peo ple turn it down. Recently, when ( talking to the far'mers of Wake coun ty, he switched on to prohibition and t closed by urging the salt of the earth t to keep away from the dispensary. r There was a big crowd in town that i (lay and liquor sales were heavy, c which was a good indication that the 1 farmers didn't reduce the high ball e acreage. If the Whiskey Trust should ask ~ an intelligent citizen of this town ~ how saloons could be brought back E there would be but one answer-pro- I hibition. That would take away the ~ revenue and increase the number of ' tigers. A change of sentiment would C come over the people, they would hold ' off for the required time and then I petition for an election. The bars 1 would win without drawing cards. C Charlotte and Greensboro and a few C others are itching for a chance like a that, but in Raleigh the dispensary is here for a good, long time. Raleigh ~ qunenehes the thirst of Wake county t and the tigers drive the monkeys away e after sunset. Graduates From Greensboro. a Meanwhile at Greensboro the Kee- r ly Institute is doing a world of good P and the prohibition movement hasn't e vnt down its big roll of upils. They i n have commencement exercises up tlhere every four or five weeks and ood men go out to pick up the threads that were lost. Keelv. how ever. will keep on sending its 'bus to the trains, even if every one of these one hundred and odd counties should vote out the liquor demon. So long as liquor is made the people of North Carolina will drink. it regardless of the laws and'the efforts to suppress its sale. But some bat-eared teachers up here think that prohibition pro hibits and acts like the gold cure. Like the court house lawyer I have saved the evidence that this dispen sary has reduced crime for the last. Up here there are newspaper edi tors who tell their readers from day to day that Raleigh is infested with hell holes, whatever they are, but this is strictly and absolutely a moral community. There can be no doubt about that. To some it is painfully evident. Chief of Police Mullins fur nished a list of arrests directly at tributable to liquor drinking and it shows that there was less activity in police circles during 1905 than in 1903, when tie saloons were running. For instance, in 1903, the last bar room year, there 633 arrests for drunkenness and disorderly conduct, while in 1905, under the dispensary regime there were 588. This is all the testimony, it would seem, that the ad vocates of that system require to shout. While the record for the 12 months is in favor of the official li quor shop, there were more arrests in September, October, November and. December of 1905 than for the cor responding period of 1903, the figures being, 1903, 159; 1905, 262. The state fair is held in October, and last fall the arrests for drunkenness were double the number for October, 1903. Still, the figures for the year as' a whole apparently indicate that a good many have reformed. Again; in January and February, 1904, the first year of the dispensary, there were 57 arrests; in 1905, the second year, there were 64 in those two months, and in January and Feb ruary of the present year there were )5. Figures can be juggled to prove mything, and it is more likely that his increased business for the police s due to the fact that new people are ~oming here to live. A Puzzle About Chasers. But it must be remembered that the lispensary is merely a liquor saloon mnder another name. The question, ~herefore, is how the God-fearing can ake it without a chaser. It is a nighty poor compromise for prohi-~ ition, but then at heart they doubt ess admit that prohibition is a joke. REUNION AT NEW ORLEANS. t 'he Veterans Requested to Notify the Committee How'Many Will At tend From Each Camp. C The veterans all over the south are eginning to look forward to the A reat reunion in New Orleans, April T 5th, 26th and 27th. The camps of the U. C. V. have re ived the following: G "It is very import ant that you in rm this committee at the earliestg ssible date, the number of comrades a: at your camp will send to our reun- r< n that expect to be provided with ee lodging and feeding. / p "Please answer as promptly as pos- le ble. Address your communication > Maj. J.~ W. Gaines, Chairman A ommittee No. 2, U. C. V. Reunion of ri )06.'' T The following orders- have also een issued: [eadquarters United Confederatei - Veterans. New Orleans, March 12, 1906. eneral Orders No. 41. 1. The general commanding has e sincerest pleasure in announcing s at the measure so long before the ational legislature to make provis-|1' n for the proper care of the graves f the .soldiers of the Confederate ar ies who are buried near hospitals ~ nd prisons in Northern states has assed both houses of congress and|g een approved by the president. He esires to express the thanks of ev- 1 ry member of our grand federation or this most generous and patriotic ~ etion on the part of all connected ith the enactment of this law, espe ially to Senator Joseph B. Foraker, ho has worked so zealously in be alf of the measure; and to the pres-! lent of the United States, who rec- ii mnmended the action on the part of ngress, and who was so eager to ~ pprove the bill. ti 2. Among our own people, Col. amuel E. Lewis, M. D., of Washing- t n has given his time and best en ries to the furtherance of the move ent from its inception, has favor ly worked under discouraging sur undings and has overcome all op >sition by the determination of his ?ithusiasm; Mrs. W. J. Behan, pres- ~ leto h ofdrtdSuhr Memorial assoeiation. an( the nem ber-S of her order Ihave from1 the first trown their po werft a oi t accoi pish t lie end in view. inl which tley were most heartil. seedi(l( by Mrs. Lizzie George Henderson. the presi dent (f the United Daughters of the Confederacy and her able assistants everywhere: and thanks are due them. 3. It is indeed a source of pride to every survivor of the glorious ar mies of the Confederacy to feel that the government of the United States realizes that it is its duty to proper ly care for the graves of our beloved dead buried in Northern states. By command of Stephen D. Lee, General Commanding. Official: Wm. E. Mickle, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff. Headquarters United Confederate Veterans. Columbus, Miss., February 23, 1906. General Orders No. 40. Inasmuch as it is the sense of the reunion executive committee in New Orleans that it is impracticable to make any change in dates for the re union at this late date, the days first named, April 25th, 26th and 27th, will stand for the reunion. By command of Stephen D. Lee, Commanding General. Official: Wm. E. Mickle, Adjutant General and Chief Staff. Headquarters United Confederate Veterans. New Orleans, La., March 14, 1906. ,eneral Orders No. 42. In response to many letters ad Iressed to him as to the eligibility of ?ertain parties for the positions of ;ponsors and maids of honor, the gen ?ral commanding again publishes, for he information of all concerned, the iction taken at the convention held 1 New Orleans in 1903, which is as ollows: "Resolved, That no person shall be 4igible, nor admitted by this organi ation, to the position of sponsor or naid of honior from any organizaticn mnless she be ; he wife or lineal de cendant of a Confederate soldier or ;ailor wvho was honorably released roin the service, or a member in good tanding of some regularly organized hapter of the Daughters of ttNe Con ~ederacy." He is in thorough sympathy with his resolution; and as the time is at and when appointments of sponsors nd maids of honor are made, he de ires that all officers having the se ation of these ladies be guided by his action 'of the convention. By command of Stephen D. Lee, General Commanding.1 fficial:' Win. E. Mickle, .djutant General and Chief of Staff. [eadquarters United. Confederate Veterans. New Orleans, La., March 14, 1906. eneral Orders No. 43. The general commanding is much ratified to announce the following ppointmnents for the New Orleans tumon: Sponsor for the South-Miss Jose ine Hamilton Nicholls of New Or ans. Maids of Honor-Miss Mary Sharp( skew of &olumbus, Miss., Miss Sa th Ruth Frazier of Chattanooga, . ennessee. These young ladies can boast Con- I iEW STORE. I am now opening up a nice tock of goods in the stord oom formerly occupied by E. /4. Evans & Co., on Main St., pposite the court house. Am .sking now the pubic general f' come in and inspect my tock before making their pur hases. My stock consists of Dry oods, Groceries, etc. Call 1 to see. Will be delighted to ake you close prices on every 'ing-and satisfaction guaran ~ed. Yours for business, 1. W. R. REID.y Prepared to furnish every iingi n the way of supplies. feenne :::w.try e-inal tJ) anV ill the uth. I;riW. en. Fra-ncis T. Nich PIls. wb. m . 1 peiple (if Louisiana de .ilt tu i lI'r. itd tvice made ' v urnor -f' dile state. attested his loyal tv ("Ll nn~ a v- ztfild. Iand( enme cut f the (onfe-.erate army de prived (f one arm and one leg; Brip. Gen. Jacob H. Sharp. grandfather of Miss Askew. won his promotion by iallant condtuct on various occasions, being particularly conspicuous at the battle of Franklin. while her father, as a member of Forrest's escort, left a leg on (ione of the last battlefield's of the war: Capt. S. J. A. Frazier was in command of a company of the Nineteenth Tennessee. and came home at the close of hostilities with nu merous wounds, not to mention his fearful prison experience. The general commanding commends these ladies to the good graces of his beloved associates. and feels satisfied .that every honor and courtesy will be showered on them by the gallant rem nant of our armies. Stephen D. Lee, General Commanding. Official: Wn. E. Mickle. Adjutant General and Chief of Staff. Headquarters United Confederate Veterans. New Orleans. La.. March 15, 1906. General Orders No. 44. The general commanding has pleas ure in announcing that he has select ed as orator for the New Orleans re union Judge John B. Gantt, of Jeffer son City. Afo.. major general com manding the Missouri division of the 17. C. V. In order that there may be little in terruption. it has been decided to have his address: in ..he auditorium on the afternoon of the first day, Wednes day. April 25th, at 4:30 o'clock. Faithful as a Confederate soldier, as one of the great Stonewall's "boys;" able as a lawyer. eminent as a jurist, brilliant as a speaker-the forthcom ing oration will pi-ove a rich treat to Confederates gathered in New Or eans. By command of Stephen D. Lee, General Commanding. Official: Win. E. Miekle, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff. "The Funniest Thing That Ever Hap pened." The Old Maids' Convention and ts Results as Miss Dunkel will put ton at the opera house April 6, with t. large cast of Newberry 's best talent. d'iss Dunkel has had 200 conventions ~vith unfailing success and the one ~ere will be different from the one ield here in the past. A second part f the programme will be a series of eautiful statue poses under power ~ul colored lights. Sale of seats opens at Gilder & ~Veeks' Wednesday, April 4. Prices ~0 and 35 cents. Brick! Brick!! For Sale by C.H CANNON.' QUARAN. ~5OOOR.R.Fare Paid. Notes Taken 500 FRE ICOURSES Boardat Cost. Write Quick ORGIAALABAUA BUSIMESS COLLEGE Macon, Ga. IAVE YOUR WATCH Repairsd Right - E W.3.Rikard Jeweler Newberr.y. S.C. W. B. RIKARD s now in The Herald and ews Office where he will do a our work promptly and under .GUARANTEE. Give him a trial. Pr-icens R.ight. ~~T"MMABLJ 187 W. E. 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