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l 1u. 1Lmu1 ". un "1 1 ".. . PI' OHIBITION LAW UNLIKELY. (Continued from paZg two.) the following represent counties in which the county dispensary system is now apparently giving satisfaction: Appelt, of Clarendon; Bates, of Barnweli: Bivens, of Dorchester; Graydon, of Abbeville; Hardin, of Chester; Haynes, (deceased), of Berkeley; McGowan, of Laurens; .Sinkler, of Charleston; Smith, of Hampton; Christensen, of Beau fort-10. (iSenator Toole, of Aiken, could be included here, but for the dissatisfaction recently caused in Aiken by opening a dispensary at North Augusta.) Is there any rea son why any of these 10 should now favor state prohibition in preference to the existing system? Senators McGowan, of Laurens, and Bass, of Williamsburg, both of whom favored the iocal option law, represent counties in which th? dis pensary lost in Brice law elections, which elections were declared ille gal, and the dispensaries remain open. Of those who opposed the Carey Cothran bill, the following represent counties in which the people had se cured prohibition by local option: Blease, of Newberry; Earle, of Oconee; Stackhouse, of Marion, and Townsend, of Union. Of the 17 who opposed the passage of th3 Carey-Cothran bill the fol lowing represent counties in which the county dispensaries are now be ing operated, to all appearances, with satisfaeition: Black, of Bamberg; Clifton, of Sumter; Efird, of Lexington; John son, df Fairfield; Kelley, of Lee; Raysor, of Orangeburg; Walker, of Georgetown; Wells, (resigned,) of Florence; Weston, of Richland, afld Griffin, of Colleton-10. Is there any reason why any of these 10 should now favor state pro hibition in preference to the existing system? Senator Wells's successor, Mr. Gibson, is understood to be a prohibitionist, but not necessarily oposed to local option. . TherP are two original prohibition counties. never having had a dispen sary - Marlboro and Greenwood. Senator Rogers, of Marlboro, voted against the Carey-Cotihran bil], and Senator Brooks, of Greenwood, for it. Senator Hough, of Kershaw, op posed the Carey-Cothran bill, but since its enactment he has squarely opposed prohibition in his county Sand favored retention of the present systemi. The election in Kershaw went against the .dispensary, but has been declared illegal. Senator Laney, of Ch:esterfield, opposedl the Carey-Cothran bill, but his county has since voted out the dispensary, and the election is being contested. Let us more definitely analfze the vote against the Carey-CDothranl bill: (a) Counties in which the new sys .tem is popular........ .---10 (b) Counties in which prohibition is secured already .......---4 Mariboro .... ..----.---.------1 Kershaw and Chesterfield .......2 The vote for the Carey-Cothran bill: (ef) Counties in which~ prohibition is in effect..........---.--11 (d) Counties in which the new sys tem is popular ..... ...-.-..10 Williamsburg .....-----.---.---1 Aiken .... .....-..----------.1 Greenwood .... .....-----.-----1 24 Of the counties marked (e) the ~following senators, if~ no others, are inclined to state prohibition: Spartanbr-g, Ch\erokee, Anderson and Edgdfield--4. The reader is at liberty to draw his own inferences from the record. The writer cannot s-ee much round to expect a state prohibition bill to pass either the house or the senate; the record is against it. Why Thirteen Is Unlucky. It is usually stated that the super sti-tious obpection to sitting thirteen at a table in Christian counries was based on tihe fact of the last supper. when Christ and His twelve disciples sat dov'n to eat together, immediate ly before the Savious was seized by His enemies. But in the Norse mythology, which is supposed to antedate the introduc tion of Christianity among the north men, we find the superstition refer red to the faet that at a banquet of the gods, Loki the spirit of mischief, intruded himself, making thirteen at the table. wherefore there was a ight, and Balbour. a young hero es eelally loved by all the gods, was iiled. -For the fact i.3 the objetion this number seems to have existed eu~ before Christianityv. Among e Turks the number is so dislik cd ;1;d A are lilat it 1 fl(Cr eVel llanled1 with the Aztees. tile abori g0ine ut Mexico. it was believed to have magic power. and like a fancy has been found in other Indian trib es. Among the ignorant blacks of the south the fear of this number in any connection is actually absurd, but whether they have borrowed this idea from their imperfect knowledge of the Christianity, or whether it is a survival of the Voodoo worship of Jthe ancestors, it is impossible to say, for the superstition has a strong hold everywhere, even among those who should know better than to be swayed by it. In Italy it is never used in making up the :Lumbers of the favorite lotteries, and in Paris it is omitted in numbering the houses on the streets.-The Housekeepsr. A Pudding In a Museum. A British volunteer has had the hardihood to make the following con fession. He says: "'Some time ago I spent a week with a. garrison battery in a south coast fort. On the last day tire ser geants sat down to an exceptionally fine dinner, the crowning glory of which was a large plum pudding.. -I had. the pudding two days before, had it boiled, and now, reheated, it made its appearance amid the wel come s',ats of my brothgr warriors; and I naturally felt .a bit proud of it, for I hadn't been a ship's cook for nothing. "'Seems mighty hard,' remark ed the sergeant major, as he violent ly tried to stick his fork into it. 'Have you boiled us a cannon ball, Browney?' 'Or the regimental football?' asked another. "'Where did you get the flour from?' questioned Sergt. Smith. " 'Where from?' I retorted. 'From store No. 5. of course.' "'You did!' roared the quarter master sergent. 'Then you've made the pudding with Portland cement." And' so it proved. The pudding is now preserved in the battery museum. Cleaning Windows. John S. Cox speaker of the Ten nessee senate. had an old negro .ser vant who liked his drink just as weil as the best Kentucky colonel in the Blue Grass state. One moi-ning, just after the cold spell broke, the darky came to Senator Cox. "Marse John," said he, "I'll jes' up an' clean dese windows dis morn-' in'.'' "All right. Caesar." replied the senator. "I's got ter hab a half a tumbler of whisky, Marse John. D 're ain t nuffin' like whiskey for cleanin' win ders.'' The half -tumbler was promptly given Caesar, who armed himself with some rags and eerried the whis ky to another room to begin work. A few minutes afterward Senator Cox had occasion to enter his room. Caes ar was busy. polishing the wihdowvs. The tumbler was on t11e table, but no whiskey in it. "Whv. Caesar. what's become of the whiskey ?"2 asked the senator. "'I thouzht you used it in this work.'' "Se I does. Marse John: so I does.'' was the answer. "Ye see. sah. I drinks de whiskey an' blows myvbref a<rin de winiders!"'-Jud<re'is Thought He Was Up in the Air. Surrounded by a mob of curious but delig'htedl people, says the Phila delphia Press, a man walked up Market Street late Saturday night balneing himself on -the car rail like a tight-rope walker. Ignoring wag ons and street cars. whose drivers were demanding a clear track, the equilibbris slowly and carefully pick ing his way up the s.treet, never veer ing an inch from the rail. "'Ts he crz or simply payi,g a bet ?" queried th:e crowd. At Tenth and Market Streh the rail -walker was halted by a policeman. who ask ed him what he wa doing. At first Ithe man refused to answer. but when the policeman threatened to arrest him he said: 'I'm a structural iron~ worker. andt'I thouaht I was on a girder twenty stories above ground.I When I get jagged the only place I an walk is on the car rail." The Best Dad Gets. ",My daughter is to be married soon." "Then the young man has 'spoken to yo(u?' 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