University of South Carolina Libraries
m - * : ' rr.OHlBITIOK LAW CKSBS LIQUOR SHOPS OF STATl I . 1 FIFTEEN (OlYUES SWINji INT', DKV (OLOIN. \ ! Legislative Action Required to I>ipose of Surplus Stocks?Ac >ow ; Allows Gallon a Monti. ? The State. Whes the sun went down ^esterdy afternoon at 5:25 o'clock, tin officii closing time, South Carolini into tne dr.v column. At midnight ix otner states, Iowa, Colorado Oregu, v.Vashington, Idaho and Arkansas wre added to the list. It Under the prohibition law indored .at an election held last September is- ! pensaries in the following Connies were officially closed: Aikjen, Baufort, Bamberg, Barnwell, Gharleion, Calhoun, Dorchester, Georgetown,Jasper, Florence, Orangeburg, .Lexington, Richland, Union and Williamsbug. The sales in all these countiesduring the past ten days have b-en mpre-j cedented in anticipation of the finaljj closing. The Bamberg county .>parc J reported to L. L. Bultman, the stajt j dispensary auditor, several days ag< j that the entire stock had ^een disT posed of. 11 The disposition of the surplus stocl? iheld by practically all of the coun; ties, it is believed, will require iegis l lative action. Governor Manning fTj*. refused to take action, declaring tha ; it was a problem to be decided by tl? i general assembly. Wiiile no figures have be p prepard by the office of the state dispensay auditor, an unofficial esti: iate placs j the total sales by the disi msaries 1 i 15 counties at more than 13,000,000. | ttfannin? Will Act. ^ 'Governor Mam.* ig in a statement i- j sued ^yesterday promised to use te j power of his office to enfc'rce the lafr*. j "He called upon the people of the stle j "to aid in the enforcement of the n#v i ft measure, I j ? The prohibition referendum electjn j was held last September when the cfe-! * pensaries received their "walking ja-1 pers" at the hands of about 55,000 v>t- j ers. The election affected only 12 of j the 44 counties in the state, but iie question was submitted to the entre i electorate. Day in Columbia. * In 'Columbia yesterday was marled "by a constant stream of liquor parchasers. From early morning until ihe eight dispensaries were cicsed: about 5:25 o'clock yesterday af er-| noon the clerks were busy, too bisy ! Jr to wrap up the bottles, which mjnv Oi ine cusiumei's carried a\\<t,y kuijp ashamed in their packets. All kipds and conditions of people, the ma;orF ity in most of the dispensaries being negroes, got some brand of whiskey I in exchange for their money. Gbod *>rder was maintaine-d, members of the & police force being stationed in dach H dispensary in the afternoon. W*r ?very bill incurred by the coijnty B dispensaries, all running expenses|and | maaemais nave oeeu paia uy|<-"^ county board, which consists of Jl W. f Duncan, chairman; James S. verj ner, secretary, and Sam T. Wesbrry. I Mr. Verner said yesterday he w>uld L / have about $50,000 in cash and a>out LI $27v0iD0 worth of stock !j>n hand a its Wf cost price. The sales y jsterday a gregated more t'nan $12. ?0, which was double the receipts c | the pr?c4llng day. (The receipts fo IDecember'will amount to about $125?M)0 in Richland ?county. I The liquor left over lonsisting jrinI cipally of cheap rye a "corn whiskey, will be stored in the cAhouse, wiiere Iit win De sepi unL:yBt"Je legislature provides some lawf^Bnfeans of disposing of it. A deta.^d report o trie amount on hand and tie receipts will "be submitted. Mr. "Verner thinks that there will not be mo~e liquor 'held over than could be disposed of in two weeks of ordinary sales. All beer, all Scotch whiskey and practically all wines have been sold, and the pick between the brands of rye and corn was j i exceedingly limited. In the early part | of December certain j reductions in prices were made on biplk goods. Under the prohibition law no vhiskev. wines, beer < slAth#>r alor>Tiolic drinks can be lawfi Bsold or bought j in South Carolina. ^ B^ever, the last legislature, in provi HI for prohibition, was not altoge"^Bunmindful of the thirst of a larg^^Smber of citizens of the state. jflj Interstate s'nipme..BRave been heft^ yond the control of flke legislatures I and citizens of dry sWis have always had the privilege of tW*ing their Whiskey in other section The ^rnWins prohibition sentimentBof the country] recently 'led congress!to change law of interstate shl] )|ent of whiskey. Tne Webb-Kenyon < , provides that the liquors entering dry state ?shall B be subject to the la ; of that state. in effect abdici, s the fee Leral Bfontrol over interst* shipments so Mrar as "whiskey is ctfri erned an^ subBmits: to the states t I right t Jh nact I if legislation controlling the matter. One ( cl lion a Month. The South Carolina legislature at! its last session passed a measure per-1 mitting any citizen to order from an-, other stu e ami receive unmolested one J gallon of whiskey a month or as much; less as he wishes. This law went into j ( neci se*> i i cii muui:ifi aim ;t? \isions superseded the terms of thej dispensary law in the matter of trans- j jjortation and storage. i"l he penalties! fre such tnat the express companies, equire the addressee to personally re-: ;?eipt for his jug; that no one may re-j eive whiskey under a false name and J [thus possibly evade the law. Twelve | gallons of whiskey a year is the limit, iow that prohibition is in effect. ! The gallon-a-month law was introduced in the house bv Jesse W. Bovd of, i . I Snapfonhiiro' rlolp?nfirm and W2? . fathered in the senate by Howard B. j Carlisle. This law is now in the su- j preme court awaiting a decision. I mm TIPPERARY. |Some Facts About the Irish Town and Country Famous in Song. And where is Tipperary? "It's a long way to go,"' says the music hall balad that :half the world Whi>v> tho liimnst that lO OA ^ HI5. V* XO.AV.XA - the majority of the singers know! about t'ne real Tipperary, says the Philadelphia Record. It is related that Cromwell once j stood on a hill top in Erin and sur-i veyed the smiling expanse of fertile plain that unfolded before his eyes. "That is the land worth fighting for!" he exclaimed. He was gazing at the golden vale?the neart of Tipperary. j Tipperary today is a region a.s beautiful as its people are hospitable and naonoful rocirtn nnipfl>v nros- ! iviuuij' , a x ^ ? ^ ^ _ ( perous, a people proud of their history; and their relics of the golden age of | Cashel of the kings. It is a region whose story is interwoven with the, most glorious and the most distressing events of Irish history. It is a region j brig'nt with color and vivid with ro- j mance. A word about the Tipperary of today.' There is Tipperary the county and Tipperary the garrison town. No mat-! ter which of the two the rimester had i in mind when he made his song. Tipperary town is described as a "slow"; sort of a place, which never recovered from tne "knick up" in tne lrisn party ( after Parnell's death?but more of tins later. (Tipperary county is in the Irish i province of Munster, and is the sixth1 largest county in Ireland, having 1,-' : 062,963 acres of peat bog, meadow, field and mountain. It is a varied and pic-: ! turesque land. Most of it is a great j , plain. On its southern border are the j Knoc-kmealdown mountains, and north : of them the wild Kaltees?Galtymore, i the hig'nest of them, lifts its ancient; head over 3,000 feet in air. On the j east are the Silieve-Ardagh hills, and j near the town of Templemore the Son j is Tipperary's biggest river. It tal^es, its rise in the Devil's Bit, and flows southward and eastward by the historic town of Templemore Thurles, Cashel and Clonmel. The river .Shannon, the poet's own river, washes the border of the county. Tipperary of this modern day is one1 i of the best agricultural districts in Ireland. Froni Cashel to Limrick, right in the midst of Tipperary, stretches the golden rVale, the most fertile valley in all j?;nn. npperary is given mostly to agriculture and dairying. There are some ancient lead | mines, whose ores nold a trace of silver, but they engage only a small; portion of the populace. Large meal j and flour mills are scattered o\er the country, and the town of iTipperaryl comes second only to the city of C6rk j as a butter market. | The town of Tipperary is verj^an-1 cient. King John built a castle there ' as far back as the lath century and : one of the landmarks of the place is; |an old gate house which belonged to; [an Augustinian monastery founded by; j Henry III. One of the show places of j the town is the barracks built by the J English government, about which, by j : the way, a humorous story is told. It1 seems that the government architects' were simultaneously planning a barracks for Tipperary and a barracks for Hong Kong, China. Both sets of plans! were drawn up and forwarded to their \ destinations. By some blunder thej ? % ? *-~ "LT/-Vor XTrvn cr i Tipperary pians wtjui lu nuug uvuo , and the Hong Kong plans to Tipperary. j Xo one was any the wiser 'until the j work of the builders was complete. So it happens that a fine piece of AngloChinese architecture can be seen any^ day at the base of the Slieve-na-Muck nil Is of Tipperary. Tip-rar-ry," as the townspeople call it, hasn't a very large population? 6,000, according to the last available census figures. And one reason for this, they say, is that the lads and j lasses of Tipperary these many years have been turning their faces toward the United States. Subscribe to The Herald and News, $1.98 a year with three magazines and The Progressive Farmer. CARE OF PRISONERS IN PENITENTIARY *n;<;ESriOX$ 31 APE I> KEPOKT TO LE(ilSLATl*HE. !>/. > t'/I <>? 11 !? ? *:?< Would lllfTPilSP uvic: u "x V itu^i M - UMI Enitienecy oi Uie .StaU's Chief Penal Institution. Xev.s and Couriei. Columbia, Dcc. 30.?Constructive; suggestions for improving the condi- j tion of prisoners in the state peniten- j tiary and increasing the efficiency of the institution by placing it more i ^ early on a parity with prisons run i on humanitarian lines are contained in' the report of the state beard of chari-J ties and corrections to the general assembly. The section of the report devo-e'd to the state penitentiary con i < - -? i.- + V. tains a great <ieai 01 iin.oriiia.iiuu garnered by the board and its agents since the first visit of the board to the instition on iV'ay 25, 191"). The facts in regard to the administration, the treatment of the prisoners, and the prisoners and their quarters are both (valuable and informing, throwing light as they do on the methods in vogue in the state's chief penal institution. The board in its report does not comment directly on these fact, contenting it self with printing them with its recommendations. Chief among the recommendations of the board in regard to the state penitentiary is that "the aim of the state penitentiary be made reformatory." The board declares that the adoption of this policy by the authorities in charge of the institution will remove most, if not all, of the present objectionable features about the institution suggested in its report. Productive Labor. "We recommend strongiy that the penitentiary authorities work out plans Dy wmcn me yxisuueis s"a.n ? = kept steadily employed in productive labor," the report continues. "For instance, we suggest that the old cellhouse, not now used and indeed unworthy of use, be torn down and rebuilt into adequate quarters for women." Repairing the present quarters for women, the erection of a rew kitchen, dining room and chapel are suggested as other means of utilizing the energies of the idle prisoners. "While we think that life out in the open on the farm is better in most cases," the board asserts in its report,"still state-directed and state-controlled manufacturing for state use would probably give some of the prisoners a training they could better realize upon after their discharge. To this end, we suggest that the board of directors of the penitentiary look carefully into the needs of their own institutions and of others, both state, county and municipal, for things that the prisoners themselves might manufacture, such as convicts' clothing, ! brooms, brushes, furniture, shoes, etc. ! These industries would probably re! quire, in some cases, the employment j of workmen competent to tram ana direct the prisoners, and would entail more or less outlay in equipment. But if the articles to be manufactured are i properly selected, production can be j attained on a basis profitable to the j state. Idleness Oppressive. The board declares that the idleness of the women prisoners at the penitentiary is "just as oppressive as that | of the men." It says that the women should be given a larger area outside j of their quarters and "be required to I keep same clean and attractive with | flowers, grass, etc." ; (The report of the board says that at ' the time the bod'y inspected the penitentiary in May there were only 97 convicted prisoners in it and at the time of its inspection in 'November the number of prisoners was only 119; "so that one leaves the penitentiary feeling that so far from its being overcrowded, it is really a great shell of an institution with comparatively nobody in it." The report says that the board appreciates full well the problem of discipline, complicated as it is by so few prisoners in such a large place without sufficiently developed work for them." Consequently, the report continues, "because there is so little tending to tneir reformation or penitence in their present treatment, and because we believe that they should be trained along educational lines and prevented from continuing in unproductive and harmful idleness, we would suggest, not recommend, but suggest, for consideration by the board of directors the feasibility of removing most, if not all, of their prisoners to the state farm, providing hospital and dormitories as may be needed. If this idea is thought wise, certain of the suggestions under the recommendation above would necessarily be modified." Safe Keeping Prisoners. 'We recognize," the board declares in its report, "that it would probably not be wise to send desperate Criminals to the farm with its'preserit quarters'," and also that there must be a place . f for the safekeping of prisoners against j whom theie is a great deal of popular indignation.'' The board asks, though, whether in i.iew of the nation-wide tendency to; take prisoners oat into tne open and! also cf .h. abmidance of land at the j jitate laim ir would not be wise grad-j i ually 10 develop the penitentiary out there rather than to expend any considerable amount of money on the present Columbia property. In favor of its suggestion r.hat the directors of the penitentiary consider, the removal of the prisoners to the state farm, the state board of c'narities and corrections argues that "the assembling of all ihe prisoners at one | plant properly classified and provided for would centralize the management,' I making the occupation, discipline, su-j pervision and reformation of the pris- j oners more varied, simpler to main-! | tain, more effective." The report points out that industries! r.z-di'M of cfsito farm Tt V U i U UC T UV CV.MrVV ? W ! says, too, that the removal of the pris- : l oners to state farm would be less ex-j | pensive than keeping them at Colum-j j bia, for the reason that the present i 'o.erhead expense at ihe penitentiary; ! "can apparently not be reduced, no j matter how small the number of pris- I ' oners, while at the same time the pres-1 ! ent force of guards could handle 600 i | prisoners as easily as the 119 present' | at the time of our November inspec1 tion." | "\fftllifv Pon^itioiisj. ' If these recommendations are put! ! into effect they will mollify consider* J ably the conditions of the prisoners, as the board says in its report "we were told that the prisoner i? confined: in his cell from about sunset to about j 'sunrise during the week, and from 3 o'clock in the afternon on Sunday until about sunrise Monday morning." The board is also recommending the j nfmn n-n f nf O r?OntlCt + A V1 S 1 f t }l P ' ; emyiv/.? HIcut. ui a ?.vr ~ I penitentiary at regular intervals, and ' the employment of a matron to have charge of the female prisoners. The board is printing in its report 1 some'interesting figures furnished to | it by Superintendent Griffith, of the j 'state penitentiary, on the finances of! I ihe institution. These figures show j ; that since he became superintendent in | j January, 1S99, Col. Griffith has paid a1 | $10,000 debt he found charged against ; the -institution, purchased for the j state cut of the earnings of the pen! itentiary 1,836 acres of land at a total | cost of $31,443.25, erected buildings at , the penitentiary, state farm, the negro | reformatory at a cost of $96,304.88, ! made additions and repairs to ouiiaI ings costing $32,881.38 and purchased | machinery an'd equipment to the amount of $9,938.79. Besides buying land, erecting buildings and purchasing equipment, Col. Griffith has from time to time, put back into the state treasury a total of $120,000 of the earnings of the state penitentiary. ThP state board of charities and corrections says in its report that from data furnished to it by Col. Griffith "it will be seen that during the seventeen years he has served the state as superintendent of the state penitentiary he has produced over and above what it cost to maintain the institution the enormous total of $254,930," The report of t'ae board points out that all this has been produced without a cent of appropriation from the ~i-l- Li Siaie lor tut; feline pcuncuuai;. Wanted?Subscriptions to the Xeedlecraft. the Ladies Home Journal tbe Saturday Evening Post, the Country Gentleman, the Southern Cultivator,the Progressive Farmer, Farm and Fireside, McCall's Magazine, Woman's World and other papers and magazines. Please give your H6W nr ronpu-nl cnhsrrintions to me. Cur tis I. Epting, 1704 Nance street, Newberry, S. C. ANNUAL MEETING. The regular annual meeting of the shareholders of the People's National Bank of Prosperity, S. C., will be held at the bank on January 11th, 1916, at 10 o'clock a. m, for the election of directors and for the transaction of other business that may come up. R. T. PUGH, Cashier. ANNUAL MEETING. The regular annual meeting of the shareholders of The National Bank of Newberry, S. C., is called to meet at * - _ I the president's office on January lun, | 1936; at 12 o'clock M., for the election of directors and for the transaction of any other business that may come up. R. D. SMITH, December 13, 1915. Cashier. 4t How It Happened. One New Year's morning a Kentucky colonel, who i& a regular guest of a Louisville hotel, came down to breakfast with a bandaged head. 'ttVhat's the matter with the head?"; I asked several friends. 'Ton found it all!" exclaimed the i colonel. "We had a little party Jast night, and one of the young, men got intoxicated ' and trod on my head as' i^he was walking across the room." HOW OLD IS MAMMOTH CAVE J Scientists &iy It Has Been Only a Million Years in Forming. Doubtless everyone, in this country j who can read knows something of the! Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. On the1 Vt-in r? fUrvrrk ni O r M d fill i . Ck O n 11 m _ ULliCi IIa 11U, lliCi U 11AC4 J Vj C4. uiJiu I her who know very little about how i this and other similar caves were j formed, how old the Mammoth Cave1 probably is, what service it performed for the young government of the United States during the war of 1812 and various other interesting features connected with the greatest of all known caverns of the world, brought out in an article in the September number of the bulletin of the Pan-American Union, Washington, D. C. "From time immemorial"?to quote from the bulletin's article?"caves have been objects of interest to mankind. Around them have clustered legend and superstition, in them men; shave found habitations for the living, refuges for the pursued, secret temples for the practice of their religious rites, and mausoleums for their dead. In ancient days they were the abodes of sybils and numphs of Roman mythology; in (Greece they became the temples for the worship of Zeus, Pan, Dionysius and Pluto, as well as the homes of the oracles of Delphi, Corinth and Mount Citheron; in Persia they were connected with the worship of Mithras, and in more modern times popular fancy in Europe people the mystery-enshrouded caves with elves, fairies and evil spirits galore." But, after all, caves are but the rei suits of perfectly natural forces working beneath the surface of the earth j just as they do on its face, and for; the sake of convenience may be decided into three classes: (1) Those formed by the action of currents, theforce of waves, and the grinding of shingle against a cliff on a rock seacoast, which forces gradually hollow out caves in the weaker places, of which those found near Bar Harbor, Maine, may serve as examples; (2) those' found in volcanic regions, formed "by j the subterranean flow of lava, or by I ;.he expansion of steam and gases such' as. those in the Klamath Lake region in Oregon, which are so large that they | often served as effectual hiding places 1 for the Indians in the early days of the conquest of the West; and (3) those which have been cut out of calcareous rocks by . the chemical action of carbonic acid in rain water, combined with the mechanical friction of I sand and stones set in forcible motion ! by t'ne streams of water which have fiown through them for ages. These last are the most numerous and most I important in size, and it is to this class that iM'ammoth Cave belongs. As most people know, the cave is in Edmonson county, Kentucky, about 85 miles southwest of Louisville, and not far from Green river, into which the cave's subterranean waters empty. This section of Kentucky, Where may be found limestone beds frequently reaching a thickness of 50Q feet, is noted for its rocky grottoes, sink holes and caverns, Tfce in the vicinity i of Mammoth Cave give evidence of but | little disturbance by the dynamic ! forces of past ages. It is such areas of limestone deposits with comparar tively level strata and located somewhat above a drainage level with small crevices or joints, that furnish ! the conditions for the formation of un-j derground passageways and chambers j by the chemical and mechanical agency of underground waters. From a geological viewpoint, Mammoth Cave is of comparatively recent origin. Its formation having begun something 'less than 1,000,000 years ago in the Pliocene age. The cave action began after Green river had cut its channel down into the limestone stratum which underlies this section. The rain water, with its carbonic acid content, speeded through the overlying earth and passing into and through the crevices and joints of the stone at that time above the level of the river, began the work of solution and erosion. These underground waters gathered along the planes of least re-1 sistance, and as the crevices grew in size more and more of the surface! water was drained into them, and as Green river cut its bed deeper into the limestone underlay the cave waters kept pace with the process until what had once been mere subterranean rills i grew into that remarkable underground stream know as Echo river, which now flows through the lowest levels of the cave and empties intol Green river. JJunng tne ages it been at work dissolving the stone and cutting its way along where resistance was least, ever seeking lower levels, it has left behind it the twisted, tortuous passageways and large galleries and chambers which form this mightiest of all known caverns. According to geologists, it took Green river nearly 1,000,000 years to cut away its present bed, so the cave is estimated to be; almost as old. It first came into prominence during the war of 1812, when the United States government needed nitrate to make powder. Some of ;he large entrance chambers of the cave had formed the winter habi<ations of bats for many ages, and as a consequence the soil had become convert- i ed into guano beds with a large nitrate content. As a result the cave became a nitrate mine whence much of the powder supply for the young nation was obtained. Head, and Then Put Your Knowledge to Work. m speaking of the indifference to progress cn the. part of many folks, Mr. Wni. A. Lawton of Souch Carolina says: "Our country sections are full of just such folks?men who could be worth so much more to their communities, their families, their churches and to themselves if they would only 'let the light come in.'." And he is right. -Splendid as has been the South's progress in recent years and hopeful as the future is for greater things, there still remain in every community those who refuse to "let the .light come in,"?those Whose mental laziness and indifference lead them to deride as worthless "theory" the priceless knowledge gathered by the wisest men of all ages and all , lands. Don't let us ever forget that one of the greatest blessings that can come to any one is the desire for accurate knowledge?for truth?and the parent or the teacher that can cultivate in the child habits of thought that will demand the fullest measure of knowledge about any problem affecting our daily lives will be imparting the truest kind of education and culture. But we mustn't stop with merely knowing things; for in doing them, In wise thought backed by aggressive, positive action, lie progress and success. We may know that typhoid and malaria are carried by flies and mosquitoes; but, knowing these truth, are they of any values to us if we allow flies and mostquitoes to continue to breed on our premises, leave our houses unscreened, and from their infection contract diseases that mean doctors' bills, suffering and death ? Give us more light, everywhere; and | then give us the vigorous action that | will take facts and incorporate them . ; into our daily lives, that we may live | better and be better?The Progressive Farmer. Mrs. Hattie W. Davenport. rt'A'm'M-on 1w RftOUGSt.) V " - ~ J On Christmas morning the home of j Mr. J. L. C. Davenport of Gary, S. C., ! was saddened by the deatn of his wife, i ; Mrs. Davenport, who had been ill with pneumonia for about ten d^y', and i;om wnich disease she passed away j at the early hour of 4 o'clock on ! Christmas morning. The funeral services were conducted by the pastor of : Smyrna Presbyterian church on Sun- ' | day at 11 a. m. Mrs. Davenport was a member of t'nis church from her giri[ hood days. It was under the waving ! branches of these majestic oaks that i her body was laid to rest in the presence of her sorrow stricken husband and a large gathering of more distant | relatives, neighbors and friends. How j singular it was that her body should lie cold in death. on earth wnue ner spirit was wafted to the endless joys of heaven. In her last hours her deepest sentiments were expressed in fee? faverUe hymn: ^ "Must Jesus bear the cross alone ind all the world go free? 41 Xo; there's a cross for every one, And there's a cross for me,". T. C. C. j W. M. Presley & Son of Coldwater, Miss., crowded a whole sermon into a little space week before last when "We have found that it pays betlB to improve the land we already hal than to buy more." { ,' It's a pity that more farmers do n : see the wisdom of this policy. AH j both stump-pulling and drainage, tfl | forms of improvement then discuss? offer excellent opportunities for prsfl | tical co-operation with your neighbcH ?boi.h in buyin the necessary machiH ery and in doing the work. Why nfl speak to them about the matter??TlB Prnoroecivft Pflrmpr Death of Little Johnnie Hart Johnnie Everett Hart, son of T. A. and iMi. J. Hart, was bora September 29th, 1912, and died December 23rd, 1915. Funeral services were held at the home by Rev. Mr. Babb and he ^ was buried at West End cemetery. Ago 1 3 years, 2 months and 22 days. Budded on earth To bloom in heaven. The QuiniM That Doss Not Affect Th? Hud Because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE is better than ordinary Quinine and does not cause nervousness nor ringing in head. Remember the full name and I.-ok 'or the "*isrnature E. W. GP C VE. 25cWbeaever You Need a General Tools Take Grove's i *? ' ?"? 1-3 o _ J ine uid bumuara Lrium a chill Tonic is equally valuable as Jj General Tonic because it contains thfi welli^wn tonic propertiK^|figttjaiM an3 IRON. It actsont|a Cut Malaria, Enriched Builds up the WhdM