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T,'iOR FOR T1HE LEGISLATURE. Indications That Session of General Assembly, Beginning Today Will be Devoid of Excitement. Columbia, Jaa. 8.-The general as sembly of South Carolina will meet here Tues<lay at noon. The promise is that it will be a good-natured, con servative, progressive law-making body of the best men in the State. There is no reason whatever to expect any fireworks or excitement. Peace and porsperity have blessed the State and there is universal good. feeling and friendliness prevalent. The prom ise is that there will be but little leg islation enacted. The press generally has been suggesting that this would be an excellent time for a brief session and for he u;ia-ment ot few and gen eral laws. Just at present the most absorbing feature of the approaching session is the matter of elections. There are a number of elections schedulekfor the session; some will be interesting and others will be merely formal. Ratification First. When the general assembly meets the various constitutional amendments that were favorably receiveo by the voters will be reported. It will then take legislation to ratify the constitu tional amendmepts. After this'is done the necessary statutes will come. One of the amendments that was ap proved by the voters was one provid ing for an additional member of the supreme court. It will first be neces sary to ratify this action and pass a law providing for the salary, duties, etc., of this new judicial officer. it will be at least a week before this ean be done and the election of the new associate justice can hardly be scheduled for any time before the 20th ofitie month. In the meanwhile this olection Is likely to absorb most at Wntion. There Is no imme'diate promise of a big fight on any issue. The liquor question may or may not come up. For the past twenty 'years there has always been a State-wide prohibition bill offered. It may be done again this session and likely will.be, but it stands no more chance of going on the statute books than does a law increasing the tax levy tenfold. The Tax Question. There is a likelihood of some tax *legislation. There ought to be. The prteent laws are ample, ,if they could be enforced, but every one knows that they have .not been and'will not be and, while insisting that the present laws are ample, it ought to bEe with full knowledge that the constant ef fort is to keep down assessmente and that as long as the system is local in its handling this will con.tinue. Comp troller General Jones and .other dis interested parties have suggested that a high pr-iced, high class central board, with proper" authority,, was the only hope of a satisfactory revision of the assessments of the State. The contract-labor law will likely come up for consideration, but the general impression is that this statute is in a,bout as good shape as it can very well be. The lien law has bein repealed, but the general impression is that it is largely a matter of changing the sys tern of evidencing indebtedness. The defect in the situation that is notorious is that the right to issue,.a chattel mortgage stands, and with the decisions that are extant'and the right to contract as it stands, the repeal of the lien law has not accomplished that which was originally intended. Experienced .Legislators. There are very 'many h~mers in the general assembly wihave served there in previous bodies. This does not apply so much to men who have been re-elected, but to such able men as Mr. George S. Mower, Mr. Frank B. Gary. Mr. Stevenson and others, who are, perhaps, sacrificing their time to Are-enter- legislative halls. As a ruale, the men who have had most exper ience are the best iegislators; they offer few bills, talk little, do what is to be- done and go 1m'me and attend to ther duties. Undei- the rule adopted by the house t its last session the ways and means nd the judiciary committees will be much smaller in size, and those who serve on these important committees will not be expected to have place on any other of the committees. The house will be, indeed, fortunate in tving such an able presiding~ offl er as Mr. Mendel L. Smith, of the Kershaw delegation. There is an~ old saying that "poets are born and not made," and it is very much the same with parliamertarian-~ and presiding officers. Mr. Smith has the knack of handling parliamentary snarls andc sit uations as few men have, and all the while is an affable and fair presiding officer, which is not always easy. Much work has been done since the last session of the general assembly towards codifying and revising the school laws of the State. A summary of the suggestions of the special com mission has been made public, but the entire series of suggestions have not e~n isued, n 1-d it is not known how far these suggestions go. Railroad Mileage Question. The mileage book question is likely to come up again. The bill relative to the "pulling" of mileage on trains has come up year after year, and has always been defeatel. The railroads have insisted that it is a reasonable regulation, and those who have argued for the privilege of presenting mileage on trains have argued that it is un reasonable. One of the real questions involved is whether it is really a subject of leg islative regulation and if the general assembly can force the sale of mileage at all, and if legislation removing the regulations will not lead to the aban donment entirely of the sale of mil eage books. Last year the general assembly was favored with a number of invitations to visit various places and accepted the vari6us invitations. It gave the law-makers the opportunity of seeing various parts of the State and inquir ing into conditions first handed. As a matter of fact, it would be a good thing if,every member of the general assembly had a full month in which to travel from one part of 'the,.State to the other and see what is going on in other than his home county. The sug gestion that the people of South Car olina know but little of their own State does not apply entirely to the members of the general assembly, but the mem bers from Horry might ask other members how many members from Oconee or Pickens have been in their county for a day or two, or, on the other hand, the Oconee and Pickens members might inquire how often the Horry men hiave been in their terri tory to actually study conditions. I There will, of course, be the usual number of local bills. This was in tended to be largely avoided by the constitutional convention of 1895, but apparently it can not be done. There are now* every year more than half the bills of a purely local character, but, nevertheless, necessary. August Kohn. LASSONG A LION. One of the most nota'ble hunting expeditions of the past year was that of "Buffalo" Jones. Disdaining to use guns, he and his little band of cow boys lassoed and tied specimens of the largest and most ferocious beasts of the African wilderness. Their last captre 'was a lioness. The final thri-ll ing incident of her conquest, as told by Guy H. Scull in Everybody's Magazine, is typical of many others. Her gext and last position was in the bed of a small gully .about three feet deep in the bottom of the donga and thickly grown with grasses. Here the ropers held a brief consultation, and planned a final attempt. Loveless made a throvw,' and the noose landed fairly above the beast's head, but the thick grasses held it up. Loveless passed the othei- end of his rope over the branch of a near-by1 tree and down to the horn of his sad The rest of us, with cameras train ed on the scene, had no knowledge of the plan. We had not the slightest idea what the colonel it ended to do.. still wondering, -we watched him pro cure a long pole and ride quietly along theedge of the ditch toward the place where the lioness crouched. For a moment there was intense silence. The colon'el stopped, his horse. Then, leaning over from his saddle, he poked the noose down through thie grass. With a roar the beast sprang at him-sprang throigh Lt' loop:-and at the other den of the rolpe LoveliessI yanked quickly and canght her by the last hind leg going through. Put ting spurs to his horse, Loveless, gal loped away, hauling the lioness back across the gully and up into the tree, where she swung to and fro, dangling by the one hind foot, and snapping upward at the rope she could not reach. The beast was f uiion. She was still swinging, head down like a pendulum, from the limb of the tree, and was tossing her. body about in a frantic endeavor to get loose.' Means ap proached close, and deftly slipped a noose over one of the wildly gyrating fore legs. Leading his rope over the' branch of another tree, he stretched her out in a helpless position parallel with the ground. "Now lower away on both lines," said the colonel. H.e dismounted, and stood. beneath her, directing affairs as methodically as the forema. of a construction gang. "Steady, Means-a little more, Loveless--nc.w together-easy." She came within his reach, and with a quick grab he caught and held her two hind legs with both hands, while Kearton bound them together with a piece of light line. The rest was easy. In less than five minutes she was bound securely, and lowered all the way to the.ground to rest in the shade. 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