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PROflIBiTLON POINTS ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW IN MAINE. Drinking Diminished-v-ry Strong Test! mony to This Eft-ct Cited by a Scuth Carolina Prohibitionist. To the Editor of The Regis'r: My attention has been cash d to -0'u! editorial of October 29 criticiing the enforcement of the prohiitorn law of Maine, basing your commen s on the case of the saiall town of Cal s. on the St. Croix river, which is the boun dary line between Mine and New Brunswick. and would naturally s eer to be a very suitable p!ce for the whiskey dealers to select from whci to conduct their lawless assaults upon the laws of Maine. It is alleged that there ase places of illicit ;rdific io 'his small town, which the efforts of the leaguers (prohibitionists) are being put forth to suppress, and this is your text from which to proclaitn that "Prohibition doesn't prohibit.' Admitting, for the time, the truth of the statement resoecting this town of Calais, let us see how it affects the real question at issue, whica is: D.-.s the prohibition of the i gaor trali -in Maine diminish drinknz, ai in crease the prosperity and happiness 0 the people who live under its cpera tion ? No intelligent adv:ccite of prohibi tion would contend that it ever did or ever can annihilate the traili: and the results fbiwing from it, for as loar a-' there are men bent on the ind rgence of their appetites. there will be ound men who will assume the risc o; violating any law w icai prohibi.s these indulgences All that should be reasonably claimed for such laws is that they diminish crime and wronz, improve the morals and promote the prosperity and fappinesi of the ceo pie to a degree which proves that they are desirable as a part of the system L of laws of every community which seeks to make progress in civi:iz tion That prohibition really eff cts this result is beyond qatiion it the testi mony of those wno are in the best, position to know, is to be received and it is to some printed testimony of this character that I wish t" ref: r you and your readers. Toe ditlicuty Iex perience is in condensin tro-n tle vast volume of testimony on this sub ject, without tranrending the limits of an article like this. SOME STRONG TESTDIONY. First, the governors of laine. for more than a quarter of a century have, without exception, borne wit ness to the decrease in t: e consu-np tion of liquor and- the diminution of crime and other evils fl etng from drink, as well as to the material im provement of the people of that state under prohibition. Governor Chamberlain (1872) says: "The (prohibition) laiv is as well executed in the state as any other criminal law." Governor Perham (1872) says: "I think it safe to say that the volume of the liquor trade is very much less than before the enactment of the law, probably not more than one tenth as Governor Dingley (1874) say s: "In more than three fourtos of the state, particularly in the rural sections, open dram shops are almost unknown and secret sales are comparatively Governor Conner (1876) says: "Maine has a fixed conclusion on this subject. Governor Robie (1885) says: "Crimi nal statistics show that the law has been beneficial in restraining crime." Governor Bodweli (1887) says: "In from three fotfrths to four fifths of the towns of the state the law is well en forced and has practically abolished the sale of spirituous and malt liquors as beverages." Governor Marble (1888) says: "Pro hibition has closed every distillery and brewery in Maine. The law has great ly diminished the sale and use of in toxicating liquors." Hon. Jas. G. Blaine, whose testi mony as that of an astute politician, abould have great weight. said in (1882: "Intemperance has steadily de creased in Maine since the first enact ment of the prohibitory law, until now it can be said withi truth, that there is no equal number of people in the anglo saxon world, among whom so small an amount of intoxicating liquor is consumed as among the in haoitants of Maine." Senator Win. P. Fry (1890) says: "Today the country portions of the state are absolutely free from the sales of liquor. Poverty is comparatively unknown, and in some of the counties the jails have been without occupants for years at a time. The law is not a failure, it has been on the other hand a wonderful success." Senator Hale (1890) says: "The Maine pole believe in prohibition be cause thyare every day witnesses to its good effects " President William W. Hy de of Bowdoin college says: "We believe in it (prohibition), for curselves, and we wish that wherever conditions similar to those inour own state exists, those states may experience its bene fits." Hannibal Hamlin ex-vice president of the United States, says: "In the great good produced by the prohibi tory liquor law of Maine, no man can doubt who has seen the results. It has been or immense value " And the late Gen. Neal Dow, father of the prohibition movement and au thor of the Maine law, in a repcrt made to the royal commission on toe liquor traffic in Montreal, bore this testimony to the conditions past and existing in Maine: "I suppose there was no state in the Union where more liquor was com samed in proportion to the population than in Maine. That arosse very iarge ly from the fact of two great industries being carried on therc-one bemng toe lumber trade, and the other the fish eries. The lumbermen were em pio; ed in the woods during winter cutting down the trees, and drink formed a egular part of their rations, a::d fish ermen bad it as a regular part c~ their rations. The results were thit poverty and pauperism were wito toe people of Maine. There were a great many distilleries in the state, seven ot them were in Portland, and twoi breweries. * * *Now there is not a distillery or brewery in Maine, andi there has not been one for a good many years. * ' * The result of the change has been this, that while Maine was undoubted; one of the poorest states in the Union in the olden time, it is now one of the ni os: prosperous. The volume of toe liquor trafficis greatly reduced. Thu s-avaugs of the people from that trailio are such that the .state has becom-e vet flourishing. * * It is quite safe to say that the quantity of iquor sola in Maine now is not one t wenttn a much as it was before the wa passed. * * Portland iS the larges city in the state, and it is willu th truth to say that the quantity of iquor sold there now is not one Lu',dred-a of what it was before.***Th liquor traffic is not entirely excluded from Maine but it is safe to say v-st in more that three-fourths of the terri tory, containing more toaa three fourths of the population, toe itquer traffic is uracticalis ext;e u." THlE OFFIcIhL RECoRiDS. T1se fna and conclugt~ons. s:.d me se rm.X?.i dy me rras, so far Toe U nited N akts initer rl regenw re *rte tor M 1L' f:xlrm 186t3 to 1887, o' t.!; tt re .as r 1cryas' from 514 t 6 28 to $ 0.2S6 45 reverue oil uars a d t b)5atCO. S1fic that tiame tte re ver~u' distric:t o7 pait;- has beenr Co: iated wth \-w Hamrpshire n'd seaarzte statements of revenue for 3aine have ben drooped from the reports B: rfer nce to the s;me statemen'tit It il b' e se that tie ttal r p 1 of interuo evenue from he r.'- L it d e for the -:ne t' ri, :! cesid ico1- St iv3 63 to $118 S37 t6 T s sho s thtt th:e ,u; ti' i am. te was da to crobi bition and that the enormus i ncre:-se in ail other pat's of the c ntr =as cause there was no g-n'rad prchioi tion ooertUir t) c tf-c. tca dt'ae. If we E xamiiue t'ne ii -cts o prohi bitio n on the material "tereSts of the permle, we ind :te folow ig facts re corded. H1". James - Biie siys: In re viewing the sita ti" for twerty-ive years that, "in 1857 Mitne had eievea sSAings barks Ait 5000 vd-to itor ad an ag'greate of over 09 0 000 is deo's'a In nS2 t u- h 1d crem'd :o 55 savin oa k-, na .-Iv 90 too de aon ad t 'tout $3o,UU0000 d-pas :ts. The t'c'ut1-.i n o' the state for ia ) erio d a ad inc raseda at the rati e f 3 1 2 * r cent 'h Hethe avinas de I p _ its : 'in reasei at -te of rr eau 2 7i 0 : xr c ,nt , a:.d thie uo bar t a: p sitors at ore tdan 1, 70. p-rc" t '.-: pare this 't.ate moa, cf fisria: pras perirt :ifh the e :.di >.s of Ow o, ont of the m,? st pr res:,ive of the li ce .se s'a cs, .d Xt h1 ig it tLaits ia favor of prohibiti . T'b- p' ulati :o o \ij L it 1896 b 66L056 t ot 0 0 iio was 3.672, 316, or 5 .s !any as lh'. of Mai'e, wail- r- s rvi')es de, sits of " tire ar" $53 397,590 a!;d of 0 .o 34 66 213. sno-i g that though its: 15 in number, the people of Maiej have more than half as much more laid up in savings banks than the ooc.le of Oi' . 1l this con"cc tio. t:k." On'.. more fact into consider atin: that while t' e 'y r:ie s'ates hive mTore populanion than M'ir, onvly sevar-p.ss hr c the agre ate ovins b iks depa. d thia sa w weether zign:-- seleg': is the't frien:, or te.e o te iiarcia pr aperi tv Cf t ase who wcrg fo'r a living. S, much for the effects of prohibi tion on the gneral prosperity :f the, neple. h\Vat as t i's effects on crim'. EFFECTS ON CiEtM . Fr :cm re orts of wardens of state prisors. it.-ppears tuat durirZ the vears 1S55-56, utadrr prohiion i. Maine there was a total of 65 crn mitments for crim; during 1857 5S two years of license, there wer 121 commitments, and during, 1859 60, when prohibition was restored, thte number fell to S9. sho ring the posi tive and direct influence of prohioition in the d~mnioutioa of crimne. As to crime- in Maine, compared with other states, in 1SS2 Governor Dingley made the following state ment: *Of high crime, California has one criminial to every 10(00 of oopulation, Conneecticut. 1 to 3,501); N v Jersey, 1 to 3 200; No York, 1 to 2 S00, and Maine, 1 to 7,540." He also showed that Maine had a less number of convicts, proportionalliy, of all classes, and a less number of high criminals than any state in the U nion. Take the more recent facts rele.ting to criane, and it is shown by the oili cial report of the attorney general to the legislature of South Carolina in 1896, that during 1894, ten homicid-s occurred in the whole state of Maine, while in South L arolina, with about the same white population, the report shows that 207 homici'tes in fourteen months was the dreadful record. What constitutes the reason for this wide differen ce ? E very rt flecting man must be convinc- d that it is in the fact that in Mraine the prohibition of the great produicit g source or crime has reduced the resuits to a miinimum. while in South Carolina the absence of prohibition has failed to check the stream of crime, for the cumulative testimony gathered from all sources has established beyond successful con troversy that three fourths of all crime among us has its source in strong drink, and the result is reached irre spective of the system by which it is disensed... Are the oeocle of Mtaine satisiFd that prohibition prohibits i Tnis can only be answere-d by the people as ex pressed in their vote on the question The first vote on the question was taked in 1854 when the people by a vote of 2S 564 t.o 5,912, adopted prohi bition. Thirty years after, in 1595. on the question of making prohibition~ an amendment to the constitution of Maine, the people again declar-d in its favor by a vote of 70 7S3 to 23,801, a maj rity of nearly 47 000. Le: these facts be the suilicient an swr to all that clms of o.;jectors to prohibition, who, in the absenm cf reasons, proclaim so lAibly that -Pro hiition don't probjit" and that "more Equor is drunk sod is eatsier to get ina Maimue then in license stat s." If prohibition does not iojure thie liqer trsfili., why is it tiat the hiquor -n iht it so bitterly? ? Toe couclusion of th whole m'attr ten, ith thes'e who ar"e sicrl "eing tra:.h, is this: if prohi:biti *ering and ince ases the prri: ad ' happine'~s of the- peopr- toU strable than anty system whtc a to do iL, and i therefore more aud of accep ar e. tion does not :uc'eed drat kardJ ma breaaa-us d. y andc vi "n~e the :. ,-. then to. prevenrt the~ vioA tior., the lav~ shou:> be et s.ieadth crm e.alz d, then te a-nouunt of viou.. ti is to deternaJus the life o-f the law. A ore i.m :s thu set for a greater dere 1t 1ea L. D. CmmDs. Epipxnem .f a B3 sn act of c-~'y e a the rr4': Tds i the c- un2Tryd areAI ,e- to eq.'') al ,fri h: and p sser g.,-I o'Yw'r trakes- so that t'oe e**g"..rer ea' .eu'-ir' thse services~ ' a br.k .an ae alo rng -teli to . tip allte lai4 areix. to go irnto) tem- J 'nuary cauury haave asedfoa tr-emliOn Dof ti 1t rh ~msnlss sg Petitions for th e u:-artn' musi b- tiled ona or "efore tie 15: :s'aut. I' q iirv amon" railroad mn' electts see iriformation that a! the lre lia 'es cetinyring intomi a:n lawc. Sen or gohernor or ro.s he U F'" a e ser, <c ase sot. a th~.e eicion was over. A SiE.F MURDiERE CoLf sees ia lvit Qai Two w.'e men :a ".4 1':* Y C. .: r' . o ;')a ia t' lr a in tcolur (: 'o T ore visiin e of the rst famous dettct ives ('f the country. B que couii'y wais the sce or the ending of hl eventati ca.rL'r. Bu develtoaments c' vihe U .stW ew ys b-st'i t e": a vm ta i cree .' a wch he 0 s- 1' C..fe ced than \C ,l } urd; afiit'~ Mrs Lidneldfor w h h s n ted Whive B1nl:.er was incarcerated in the Meridian j il thew was also a -el low-prisoner ta1 ntd I't. wi0 h..:s arr:ed o:1 some manor charge and o'C- u ied t}: ce!! adj -irin? trar 0' Blauther. Pits is ii farmer, wh:o row livt s :ear Iredell, in this c'unty. an is kuo-, to hove conversed with D;antber during his two or three da . cni tti.em--nt. In a leoter to Ward, Dillard & Word, a'tornes re Me'ri "in uc der da'e of N. 22 tr P t-s ere:oses a leier from B.anther and s s: "I have b'n looking though sor1e papers th "t I i ad on ti! in j il at Me riunan ard I ned the enclosed shee : ;c s' seeks !~r i:s : '-Te p:-prsaliud'd to h: r? ha:e worked tirOu a o in my e:.)t p !Ck&-, nl jce the de i t rin)' them s o-Er. I no re::C ih- Foro- s or B1 ther, asked me it v i ting he took tna p .is7.. Nt :i h; ,v ich c:at . tinn o' s rVi ti wee hinrgrri in the c-l he .u: _m d I :a v -r t 'aLr furt-er of i q- s ;ion he asked uuti! I furid th- ut-r net~ wr:T'ts. I s"nl it :O .ntu f r r: sun t'ta ou b st kiov ho to no ti'y in Ci oria. I hope t!at rija: O w: rti sometiing1 toyoa in the wriy of saving Darranit of CaliforL, wat. I u'derst-and. is sentrnced to death for aihu '~ Lvuou. Fs1ll'in is the B awher letter: M-rid:an J:il. TMr. Pits- As this is my ist -. on er-rth I wish to s.. teat I caiu dile lt'hu telling a truth. I mur L :n ad tinnie Wh- la:ns. I :u, ais i c your cat ck t and noflue . Ou vii Lad it in time to sav' the life of Dirra t Ii may also be c~ serv' -" \Mr W\ omnck i a get:. hisn r d on. I aivnt 3.u to have rny wtch or your ki0r ss :o e Ya. h v, mv 'es' w-ishes, brd I Lr e your trou bs will e'?d, but no: ai Biath: r Focb:s. Tae letter written ty Bianthe-r Ts compared wit.h altter writen byI (Bla:he-) ral tea aing scno :l -.t KiIopperel, this county, and :he iden i acation is pronou cad to be "eanaud doubt. Casnier Ru lasi of the Ficot Na.tional Bank of Mer dian, says it compares favorably with Blanther's hand riting, while others have hesi t ncv in pronouncing the last written by Blanther. The original written confession is now in tae posses-ioO of Word, Di .on & Word of Meridian, who .ril at once notify the San Francisco Off~liid cf the startling co: f-ssion. N~oT CREDITED IN CALIFORNA. In sa Fran?cisco no credence is placed by the au horities in th'e alleg ed confession of Blanther or F.>rbes, made in the Meridian, Te'xas, jail that e murdered Blanche Lamnont and Minnie Wiliamns, in addition to Mrs. Lar.feldt It is recalled, however, tat at the time of the killing of Mrs. L .zgfeldt, about 18 moiths azo, the sug- stion was advanced that Blanth er bad murdered all three, it being clamed there were certain points of similarity in the three murders. At the time of the Langeldt murder Drranat bad already been in jaii for a year and the police scouted the idea of any one but the prisoner having com mitted the crimes The police are confident that tne E nanuel church murderer is still alive and in San Q ientenl Drison2. While recogizing e possibility of error, the authoritia s are nevertheless convinced that they have the right man in the person of Diarrant. 'The alleged concession of Blanther will probably prove a powe r of the weapon of defense in the hands of Durrant's attorneys, who are utiliz ing every avaiale pretex for delay ing the execution of their client. Brave Engineer Foili R -tbers. A special from Dublin, Texas, says: the regular west boud pasaenger trama ol the Rio Grande camne into that place at 3 10 o'clock today with more passengers than usual. When about three miles west, when rounding a curve into a deep cut, the engineer discovered the track to be oostracted by a pile of rock about three feet high Te engineer reversed his engine an~d suddenly stopped his train, and in anf instant started to back~ to this city. As the trainislowaed up, four robb:-rs sur rounded :he train nun ordered all hands up bout seeing the traia maving backward, they opined fire on the eu gi~er, wnmo croac~ed be'ig the b.211 er to avoid tteir o.'le's M. 's yshotb 'ere fired, b it no one w' h' r . [. Wess~cr, a tryi .a m r froan Waco who was a pas::nger, sax' that considera'cie exeneite ail ed anong the pas cogers.m Ali ud abes. Most omf the pa'-seaers e - ssted o' deea.es reiue'i "g r r->n tain Miethodist couvestion at V.:ea:hmerfoi d Tha men wore no mk A ptoss: ws organ'z d and c uv-xe i toj tue c-e at- oce. The cro vd shoe d uer app.rc i n ofC tei "ater b~~ rv i a subtat-.1 er.I neid u i- roumn tn 'u: :-m* r vo q ouc :' .:c T .s C 'um r' to er si: ' iIndo wp ti is lII c rie a p II: imi :10mel re dj w io ric i. a cfm~ 'a u Noen be .if ed a 25c t . 3cr. Eg be 1are t: i's re t" r0rd i inte pri?'m ofrthe b he rade lf N irh" bV >ld* -"k '-ntp ts:.eV'Sy N~e-)-e:2e 'id cs e nras tCu --ben to S 1atan $purt e sdayurg .ri Dean- f *it caty T'v -tr u f tat -ad whi'-n henti:d to i itser :-co o de .hicue & 3 wiown f (omieer.T hous.:.tir.s, -. a~ invard he ame :rie. The wcineofs arl ca Gofi by for G:.oriao 'p'iu Geor. hasJ020 t~is yea1r oni tatUC and ioen arentie dI ,to0 asy it pr vitets. of $5 iclue 0600wio. eetly Newv Ur Ieai s htte Enh;g atement, is uid b re the C^s? of I usiess to d i, sowsa::irc: -r.i the move iri olsl : m it h east i'ver theC s(Ia e re.v n C mor: st c:f 2.37 0:0 a-1d over the z rme timre n 84r 8 0Frte2 days of Novemr.ber the mt : au lwerea"" *ver !as year of 511 tO, an ircrease me t ih' -eme pari:: before las; - f 8 i6 a e- "1f 110,(ON ~<1 ti- 87' d _ : the. a s..l tom a; s 7 o . r i ,a dof "ee dy. ' r sa rus1 3,0 . ' r4 T rs; i ude S ('14 by rn otern s ioners, gn 67725 St cks at the sea board a, d thne '9 lea4iin: southern in :e rior c o' fr. /%v. ; er:-,sed durist "-he 9- ) 14792) ls, ag'airr-t an in eressa durmy t"., cnrrespoLdirg period het season of 8822 and are now 150, 727 'ss thae at his'da'e last year. I. dudinr stocs left c cr at por.s and interior t -wrs from the last crop and the number of bal s rught into siht hus har fur il rev ero , ti. supply e date is 5 C62 94 .ane st 4,000.2S3 ror ths ptri d 1i.:_ year Secr tai Har's .t-te-n of the World's sib '- supply f C.o:1 shows an rcr as- doring the .ei just closed of 23,160 bis. iost rni c ease the s :.e ti n. !& st .e a of 11? 01S and an rea; ' ear b f" l. - of 6 713 . '-ii eisinle i, 3,445 526 list sta.k S 3t.75,889 ;at year U thts. t , 0'i A, -tca. cotton is 3245526 :aist :3.05 526 last week aind 3 372 - t5:8 = b.rar a 'd ,-f all oftaer hied-, 21 *00. n: :inst 206 0100 last week ann ;u3 20,) 4,t ye.r l' e ;oral world': v:.b:e .-upu' of cottoi sbuo:s an in -. e. p c''are-A i-h last week o 234 i60 'al-s 41: a .;-ease craparen ,-:u Lst year of 230 363 D-c nmb r Weath-r. T"e following data, cove:ing a :-rit d of t :. ev six ' ears, for the mn;hl ' D-ceiuner, .:hue been: com ,il:i d'rom? lh ] eather bureau records at Ciasrleston, S. C.: Temp'rature- ean or normal. 52 de:.:s Tne waros. smMonti wa, .Mof 188, si na. ar-rage o' 60. TVe Gd C. mnith ,as th't of 1676 c iith naes0 41 Tae hlie: '-eaa- .e '.7-re s,onD c:m rer 11 1689. Tiesi loezt temeira-ture tis t3 d g--s, on D: c m er 30, 1580 r" ;. occurred in a.:umn, N vemuc: 27. vrage diate n which last "kiil ; ' frost cca.-red in :priag, March 2 Pr cpi:. tioa (-iu and mnree.1 snox) -ivers e for t'.e momth, 3 33iuch-s. ,;mage rnumber of dais with .01 of :. . or mor . 9. T, greatest .-: ,% v precipiiatin as 7 91 inches, 1 17~ Tje tot en:hly preciupita Lion was 0 03 inches, in 1889. Toe grrat st amnuat of p'ec;citation re cord -d in an- tw' :tyfour consecutive ;,ours was 3 46 inets, on Dece-ubFr 9 and 10. 1865. The greatest amount of snowvfali recorded in any twenty four consecutive Trues (record extend in to win.-r o' 1884 5 -nly) was 0.01 inch on December 6, 1886 (Ciu-s a d Weatte.--Average num br of clear days, 13; partly cloudy as s, 10; cloudy d&ys. S. Wind-The prevsuiiag winds have been from the norts.east, 15 per c-en tu~n. The highest velocity of the wiad was 50 miles, from the soutn~east, On Dacemaber 17, 188S Terdie Explomsion. Cheste:neld, Isd , was almost wiped oif the map at an early hour this morning by the explosion of S0 quarts of aitroglyceriue which had been brought overland from 'Jontpeller and placrd in an open field half a mile from town. Marion Mansey and Sam M[aguire were working gas wrells near by woen the explosion occurred. Mansey was thrown fifty feet but not fatally ipjured, Maguire was throvn a hundred feet in the air and badly lacerated, but sill recover. Mr. James Cold's house, 300 rods distance, was blown to pieces. The exp osion tore a hole in the gound down to the wa ter line, and s:> far as it is learned, it was spontaneous. A three ton engine was torn to fragments and every liv ing animal in toe vicinity was killed instantly. The- little town of Chester is a mass of ruins. every house being moved frem its found ation, windows shattered, doors smashed in, every light pat out and the plastering shaken rom the wvalls. Several people were sh aken out of bed. A't Dalesville, two miles away, and at Yorkton, five miles distant, the damAge was alimost as great. Many p-ople were irijired, ana it is a miticlc that noae was killed outrinht. The j ar of the explosion was felt in all dir--ctions for fifteeni miles distnt. Ine gas in the well was blown out azd a workman named Cooper lit it andi caused another ex plusiou in which he was fatally burn ed. Toe damage cannot be estimated. oorn 13rmad of the Olden Time. In discussi'ug the~ po-sibilities of a vast corn trade with En-ope in the future it mighnt b- well to notice that caraas abreas ,uff is rapidly losiaie its.goulait at home Many Amer icans Forty years of ae ad older re m--rmber oit wen con bread was a pero ofr th'-ir diet six dae o t- - ak E .pecialy wae thi's true in th, S. uh- r' Stas Te art of codiahee c-k-, o doder a-d S re I :tl- i ig st i-- d o 'or oe only o c - cr t wic-- ai veek All ''is h as h-n -s d E en te -d cor' br ad '- r la br 0ad a' d h n-. e cdt.e, e su -o -'r ad e enau i'-ar N -t "--co i to a a 1 k-u hw to nk- cor> inccetn 19 ed r -K d c.-rn ,be toa e trill, -o~ es r (i r a a d i:s ofe-r-. it -' Am --e e - ~MN FuR ijAENa -A cemrnent exera f' dio 1nst a y bhog is re-i-by in t' iterag - atnd glyc e is o a minsev f thics cream Sce~~ .-; hensare.stoopiog Yaks la va :2 o :. can or wash boil rs, eso er iseslO roe ti's; it may --e'u- to fasten ou *lamph tops or tight en *-c~e .ut', to s'cire bans wnote rIu's are lo.s: to tighten loose joints of wood or ru, or iu many otmuer ways r o - varinos kitchen ut-nslsjl, the rg, t a:.d in t'.e p:an:ry iptings In all cases the artie raended should not be used until the ce-nent is set, wh'ich wil proba-uiy be from three to six days, according to the quality u:d Tis ca Cnont resist-: the action of otor ol .er. acide, and almost an ereof Leat. IThe Sabbath is a day of rest. Fuarth or, it is a d my set apart by H'msrlf for the worship of the Lord most high. Some obser re the'- ay rigidly, otners have more liberal ideas about the ob Iservance thereof, and still others do Inot obscrve the day at all. Verily. tnough, the Sabbath is a day of rest and worsi. Tha: Cnb-.n 21e'riots Fired rno iahe Ha On S aT niere.:g, for ,:ee i-t t nor in tre Th;isory of tre Cu':-n -'ar. rree ull-a s s..ug ht the pauce':t 'in a I .ara sarsaysa satch to the H-raMc! from Ter -a Ti sYcts carne from O:ssa Bier, six bardral , ards across t' e e ce t e harbor. arri while Swas hura, the palac& with ligh's nie a inrir-g mark and mus' have been bit. The Spanish au'hcr: ties attempt to nmake jight of the : fair. but at the same time a reporter fr La Lich:, vino wrote up and attemrted Xw publish fac:s in the c-se, was arresa d and is still "irc'mtnu :icdc." ',e attack orn Casa B'anca .vas made b; Brigadier General Rdfai de Carder.as and 50 rebels Th'-y en tered the tos n shortly bef :re midnight on horseback, ard at the end of four hours, each maa led out of town a horse with one extra he had appro priated, laden with clothing, provi sons, silver plate and considerable money. Before they left they fired two vol lets across the harbor entrance at the palace, and then coolly retired to a friend's house inide the Spanish lines and took supper, previously or dered. Ali this was under the guns of the Cab.as and the Morro. It is l-arned fro m an inside source that the object of th-, reobls eras to + ffect the release of General R is R vera and nang a ci z:an namea Funero who is knows as a spy. They failed in the first only encause of some misconcep lin regarding the appointed time on the part of confederates within toe prison with whom arrank eents had 1een made to admit the raiders into the fortress. Famiero managed to escape across the haruor. The x hole affair was well planned. I General Caidenas came in early in he evening, with two colouels, along tne seashore. and at 10 o'clock .th -Len followed Tne first visit was to Uab.n-as. When they saw that the ar ranements had faired, the rebels went a:ter Famiero. He 11:d acro-s the harbor and the rebels dit. not dare to follow. Then the rebels went to Casa de Jos Frails, to the priests' nouse, where tney to.?k blankets, sil ver plate ana money. This house is lokse to Moro castle. Te priests made a great outcry, but no soidiers catne. 2ne rebels then sacked the store of Famiero, securing some gold. Tney .so loated three other stores witaout Lan station. ! he au.riorities made every effort to suppress the details of the raid, thouga an u lic~a1 report admitted inat six re bcis entered tae to.vn. Tne repels ap proached and fired upon Marino last night. There was great excitement. 'ne volunteers were called out and, along with the troops, returned the re oel tire. The rebels did not succeed in entering the town. The lines have oeen strengtht-ned all about Havana. Waylaid and Murdered. A special dicpatch to twe Columbia Re ister from Coaway says a most atro.iotts murder was conmiuedl in Hurry county, near Star Bluff, on Novemoer 15. Mr. Charles -tevens anid sun left their home near Hams mood in that county on the 14th, to go on the tisntery at the beach, and on Monday, the 15th, the boy started baca home with trie cx and cart, and Mir. Stevens was left at the ishery, Ithinking his son was at home. But on the r ollo wing Monday, November 22, another son of Mr. Stevenls went to the fishery to ir~qaire of his father abOUt his broth~r wno left home with nm and was to return. The father said he left on the day mentioned above; but tie other brother who was looking for him, said he had not re turnea noine. A party was soon formed to nmake a searen, ar d about 12 o'clock tue cody of S. J. Stevens was found near the publtc road, covered up in leaves, he had oteil shot in the back of the need It was thea learned that a negro man had uffered an ox and a cart for sale on that day, and a war rant was taken out before trial jastice Moseley for NKtian Willis and placed in the nands of G J. Watts ana J. B. Morse, special constables ,to make the arrest. Tne constacles trailed Wiltis and found him at his old home on town Creek, near Wilmington, N. C. When founo, he still had the ox anid cart, also the shoes and hat and a small amount of change belonging to young Stevens Tne iegro acku-nvl edged the kiling, biad is nc wv is j ail A Freak of Nature. In nearly every country newspape-r omlie th'e negro p.ressman is a local "cbaracter", bat Tne Herald will bat all of its uncollected sub~criotions that our own Dol Massey cannct be eclips ed. Inl one respect, at least, he is a genuine freak of nature. He has no gccz'e, or Adam's apple, or what ever you may choose to call it, and cannot ba cooked to death from ex ternal pressure. Some fellow has sxid that one may get accustcomed to anyting except hanging, but Dol c-uld essily get used to hangicg. No rop? could chioke him to death. Oir potssman also has a wonderful s:Jpply o' strength in his teeth anid jaw-bonec. W-e have seen him pich- up a chair be t~vece his teeth and hold it out hori z w tally without have onca touched it with his bar ds He can pick up a 210 pound-sack of salt and carry it wa-ih his teeth, anid can bite a vire nail nearly in two. Be sides b-ing an attache of our of iies, Dol hJas about ten or a dczen * tber tradeis, amaung them pu'.tieg dowa cargets, dec:oring cows, work in- gairdens andL otaer things too nuns -rou to -rntion. He has never Set u certa-ken to run for iie, bat, i es-u- -, wei ha'- no doubt that i'- wo-i:d at ILast give the people a an elo' "j ov& at the hustings. A l3mon Mn Mw-,g. The C-la-ubia Register says the Sa apoice authorities are on a ip *oukouit for John N Hugo a -.inhv and irnfluential citi::en of Bas on,. Mass. Higo left his home in B ;ston 02 Oerober 7th and ca'ra di rect to Charleston, with a view of purchasina a large tract of land a feav miies on the outskirts of the~ eity, at a sm all village called Marsyuile. He arrived here on October 11th. and after dra-wing about one thousand dollars in caso out of the Exchange oa: k left for Maryville a fen days ater. Since that time nothing has been heard from him. His family in 1B ston are almost distracted with aoxiety .Thy have sent teiEgram) afe teleeran bu. with no avail, 1t i- th'e nrevaiin opinion that Hugo was murdered s xne vhere near Mary ville anid robbed of !is cash. Af er January L. next, w11ch is now Very close at hand,. the registration la ws of South Caruina will be og vel vet. That was the way a lawyer ex pressed it yesterday.- The reason forI this statement is that on and after that day tine simnole educational and prop erty and qunalifications for the fran chise will be all to remain of the suf f rage scheme devised in the late con stitutional convention. The "under standing clause" will on that date be came a thing of the past, and in the! future no legal pitfall will stAnd in tinv --- of rnN stabhility of the suffr-arre The record of bhlodsh-d in S hu'1 LOsrona forthe y.-a lS~yissnmething. horiible to conternpla'e. The fi;ur s are not at hand fo- c mtarion, b::t Msistant ttor nev G:neral osend, who compil' such s:atistics in ~Ie te D rt of teat 'r .v cera ofic-. stirrats i an r ; had wO ,:ha Lur s and hermic s !er y wi:lVbe v:rr ' ;uch g:-eater th- n fo: t'-:? yea previc i osibly t xice a' mg ny. In the near county of Siuda there is a record of nye homicides duricg the 7-ar. This c'o nty prhcably heads he list, u.ss Su -nr t xe eds it by eason of h wholecale butcheilj 'or .be desperado Simon Cooper. That was an u-usual c'ndtion of affairs nad probably sbotld not be condc'ered n making comparisors. Judge Townsend. in conversation, speaking :n the subj -t, expressed the opinion 'rat the granting of bail on a low Dasis has much to ao with the increase n the number of homicides, "r at east that it may possibly have--R g. ster. Death at Winthrop Rack Hill correspondence of the Co urubia I aister: At 11 o'clock Wed aesday niebt, Miss Fannie R-qu's, rho had just entered college this fail, lied at Winthrop. She had b:e2 sick or about two weeks with fever, con racted at her home during the sum ner. She had the very best At ereLion rorn the resident physician, De Elizi -eth K Miller. assis:ed by train- d )urses, and for severi days nast her ather and mother, Mr. and Mrs R > rues. have been at her bedside. This s the second time that the happy anily circle at Winthrop has been sddea by death, the first having been hat of Miss Hutchinson, one of tMe ,ach-rs, list spring The remains of kis Rcque3 were t'ken to her homie Lt Scciety Hill, in Darlington county. fany hearts are wrung with grief at he death of one who left home j ist a ew weeks ago, in apparently good iealth, with her heart full of happi ness and her life full of hope and :romise. She Married for Love. Chicago society has been shocked by he marriage of Jessie Lincoln daugh er of Col. Robert Lincoln, and grand lauahter of Abe Lincoln, to a young xsrbail player named Warren Wal ace Beckwith. Clonel Lincolo, who s now pasident of the Pullman Car iompany, will not admit Beckwith to 2s house, and it is said tere is much sorrow in the Lincola family. In the neantime, the young bride is livin.' vith her husband at the home or her zrandfather, at Mount Pieasaat, Iowa, nd she will probably remain there ntil ner proud parei-ts reent and orgive. Colonel Bt Lrcoln retuse s :o rtcrgn:z his son in-lam Bezkwi;h, )ecause he was born of the common people and makes a living by plavig Dasebail. It will be remembered, aowever. that Colonel Bio's father was also born of the same sort of pro ple, and one time made a living by splitting fence rails. The Daed of a Find. A dispatch from Erie, Pa., says the sife of Antonio Milnago died Friday a most horrible death. Thanksgiving Day Antonio bocame drunk and wvent :o tbe celler to get more liquor. He ~eli, and his wife came to nis :lssis ance with a lamp, but he thre a a am7mer at her head and missed the! mark. He then came up stairs with a :an of oil ar-d tar, Which he threw in is wife's fae e, In an instant the mixture caught fire from the lamp and ,he was envelopel in ianes. Help arrived in time to prevent her from burning up where she stood. The woman was laid on her bed, and when hbe officers arrived the~y found Anto iio standing over his wife plucking hbe cooke-d fl-ash fromn her breast and rms in fiendish glee and cursing like t demon. When he was arre.,ted he raved anid had to be subjreted to rough :reaitment b-fore he could be taken to .h police station. Death ef a 'iier, C. C. Smitb, an age.1 miser, who ived alone near B-atrico, Neb., was ound dead in his house Friday night ~y neighbors. Tae condition of tne >dy indicated that he nmad been dead wo we-ks. Rats had mutilated the emains. Smith was well to do, but ~ccentriz and mriserly. His living ~xoensas were $2 50 a mionth, while iu us trunk were fou~nd demands certifi 1:esof deposit on loal barnks, city ,arrants and deeds to farm and city >roperty aggregating many thousand >f dollars. He was a lawyer and iighly educated. N.>t Anxions to Tackle Ir., Uf all the questions that will come p for discussion before congress, ,here is not one that the Republicans will tackle with greater reluctance han the treasury deiieit, or anyt'ting! ouching the financial policy of the dministration. They had made so nany promises and pledges to .the ountry during the last campaign, which have "not materialzed, very naterially," tha: they will shu ill: irund a lon2 time before they at empt an~y legislation on the subject. .ovington Star. Tellow Fever. More than 4 000 cases of yellow fe rer occurred in the South during the 'ecent cu'.break of that dissease, of -hich 4-16 proved fatal. With an ade ~ute system of national quarantine ne number of cases woula probably ~ave been less than half what it was, tnd with prompt and up to date sani *ary supervision the death rate, w hich xceeded 10 per eent., could perhaps g ave be neld down to less than 5 per i-uit. Tne history of every epidemic arres that there is nothing so eff~c .ive in fighting pestilernce as per:.ist mt, vigilant common sense. Brc kei[0e Ncck. A bold attemut was made Friday to ,ob thbe Standard Ba- k at Claremont, a suburb of Cape To wn, A frica. A na-ked man entered the counting room of the bank. icked the doors., rA by some unkniosa means, broke: .he neck of tbe cash ier, thougn no nark of violence couldl be founid 00 :he body. Wh'en toe manager of tom I mak appeared, thie robber shot and wunded him slightly. Th poium .hen rushedJ in, at d the robber, eeing hat all chance of escape was gon e shot himself dead. A dUapatch from Tarb-s, c-o'ita of. he . departme~nt of IHate-Pyre . rane. annouuces that a oalla tr a >Vertokt -a paneuzer train during a og at toe Tournay railroad station. Le shock was terridla. S.everal cars a-re grouad into splin tes, twelve -reos baeing' killed and nine severely na-ed. i'h bodies of several were adly mutilated. PAR-TRIDGEs Do EAT Cm.NTZrz Eis. ~here has own some disuteL as to sether or not n-artrid~es ea chit >ugs, but a number of fa-rmr to. homn we have put the quesuon say hat such is indeed the case. Then, oo, it is claiased that it is foolish to npose tho.t nartridaes wil! exterm1i 2te the pest whien has so devastated he grain fields in the Blackja'cas. P~artridges alone cannot accomplisn :his much desired end, but they can FouJs. eEt TO TH' N A r ; cay:j Far:-nr i-', k- + t cii "i ?att vOmoin.i Mr. E. D. Tnomo-., of Y rk coun ty experim " t'd 'LiiS war 'o se' ten +, nuch c'tion he c:-l raise o% one acre of larid. nd reports in1 the York ville Enquirer that he raised four bale4. The followirg account of hox he did it will be read with interest by our farmers: To begin with, the plot of land was str pyed (If 'y one of mry neignbors as : -s: First line. 86 yrd ; second iine, 65 sards: tird line. 60 yards; and f. urrh line. 65 ards, stclosir:g a total cf 4,910 iqiare yards of da'- .r:.y land with yelloiv susi l. Now, to co back a little. TvO years ago (in 1895) t .is plot was fertilized with 5t0 pounds of soluble guano and planted in corn. The yield was between 40 and 50 bushels. Lsst year (1S96) it was fertitized with 16 two horse loads of lot scrapinz, scattered broadcast. and 1.000 pounds of soluble guano, Charlotte acid and German kainit placed in drill. After this, it was planted with Kr cotton, ard the yiel:i was 816 nounds of lint. About the middle of March, of the present year, I made a compost heap, cm iting of 50 bus- els of cotton seed. six two horse loads of stable manure. 8,0 pounds of Charh tte acid and 2C0 pou. ds of kainit. After a thorough mixing, these materials were covered with rich eattn and le't in a low fut heap until the 15th of April, when, after having turned out the old stalks and smorthly harrowed my acre, I spread over it the contents of the com post heap, as evenly as possible, and thea turned it under to a depth of from six to eight inches, after which I again used the harro.w to level and paiveriz' the land. With the manure in and the land thoroughly pulverized, I next took a terrace level, ran a line directly through the center of the plot and from this line, each way, laid off the rows 4 feet apart from centre to e:-ntre. Tnan, in the furrows, I drill td 700 pounds of equal parts of soluble uano, Charlotte acid and kainit, and after that, with a 6 inch steel shovel. I prepared the land in low fist beds for planting. The seeds used were what might very prnmerly be called Farther I n proved King. Tney com.isted of 100 pounds carefully selected from the nest bolls off the best stalks that grew on the same ia d the year before. On the 20.h of May, I side-harrowed the acre, and tvo days afterward went over it again, and, by hand, pulled it up to one stalk to every 6 or 8 inches. This work I did myself, in order to be sure that it was done right, and also tiat I might be assured that there was nothing left but healthy, vigorcus stalks On the 27th of May I side oarrowed again, and on the Is: of June thinned to 18 inches in the drill. Next, on the 10 .h of June, I sided with a short straight shovel and 12 iuch bow, and on the 221 I sided again with larger shovel and 16 inch bow. Then, on the 15th of July, I hoed and run three furrows with shovel and 18 inch heel scrape. List, on the 28Sh of July, I went through the middles as deeply as I could with a bill ton gue, or scooter, and then. ont same day, 'laid by" by leveling off with shovel atd heel scrape. The work of picking, ginning and packn.e has just been completed, with a total yield of four bales, weikhing re spe ctive'N 430, 441 453 and 398 pounds, in all 1,722 pounds of lhnt on the acre'. Now, I knoar that this is a phenome nal yield of cotton to be gathered from one acre, and many of your readers will doubt this report. I nave not got anything to say to Thomas; but to others who believe in the possi bility o' things that they themselves have never seen, I beg to say thiat what I have done is nottirg more than they can do if they will use the means. Let them select the right kind of seed, fertilize their land well. work it properly. and my word for it they wi~l be gratifiad at the result. As for myself, I have been using the King variety for sometime past. I am not prepared to say that the King is sup -ror to all other varieties for all other varieties for all kinds of of soil; but in this climate, on highly fertilized lands, I think the King beats any other variety. While my success tbis year has been in a large mcasure due to the seed-probably I owe more to the seed than anything else; still I think that the deep fuirow at the last working had much to do viith the 3ield My opinion h re is batsd on past ext~erie ce. I have several times before gathered two bales from one acie, and each time there was a considerable quontity of fruit which fahd to mature Some of it rot..ed and some of it dried up. Any how, it did not open. I beg-an to think it was impossible to cultivate or fertifza so as Lo att mf)e than~ tno oales. The trouble seem~ed to ha that after a certain paint, the sts would become so lar;4e and the foliage so dens-e as to csory cau e theC moulding and rotting of the loivr balls. Bda in thec in mity this troublie is in a large meano, overne. O w ing to the na~tral cabiu or te p'lant, dwarf 0rotha and early mraturity the stalk does not ;grov as large~ under same cond- ons. It p "s en more fruit to the s ze than any other ariety of whbich I ha~ve knowlvedge, an.d while the foaiageis all sutic nt to give the stalk a healtny gro.-th, yet tnis foli age .is not so aense, even under the stimul.us of high cultivation, and this y ear I noi~iced out very little trouble on accou::t of the rotting of the early oolls. Inis year the cotton on the acce referred to above b!co-n'a at least tso weeks earlier than cr inarv va rieties. It has been earlier ever y year. It has also matured earlier. Heretcofore I have neglected the d-ep furrow already described. Tn: eifect of that furrow .has certai.-l been most noticeable. The cotia n kept on matriig alnost as late is otaer varieties, anid I think the deep furrow was largely the cause ofi. The fuero y dep es the feed.ag roots and gives greater vitality. Then another tbing. Although I have referred to this cotton as a d warf variety, I w.ish to be uoderstood only that it has d warf tendencies and char ?eteristic; und. r ordiorr cicceatan c .s During the pres: t i.di I have p:yked vh'te cattons . n&ove my heaid. or 0 i ': i rom t:;e sr und. In c*.ncluio, kat me my also ihat I have wrj.:ten this a-1 u. u ly bee yo an- asor ial.d tha. m, '. -:is :ht samie as vmr 'odseio n foration. .I h- va. t oao s ed hand except t e King variety, and am selling them :o my nigub:n s at 15 cents a basael. I do not V~s to sell the seed from my pet acre a- all. If, boweger, any individual should be especially antxous for a ewof these seeds, and wi. fora the s:ampa to cover postage (12 ente) I will be pleas ed to send hun a pauau by mail; butlI have only a llrilind quantity to dis pose o f on this basis, and would not care to send more than a single pound to any one individual. E D. THOMPsos. Polu. 8. C., Nov. 22, 1897. Coiumbia inl Darknee. All the electric lights went cut in* Columbia Friday night and the city was in tota.1 darkness after twelve o'clocir. .it is said the darkness was so intense that it could almost be cut wit h a kn ife, Rvyal makes the rood pure, wholesome and delicius. OVA POWDER Absolutely Pure R YAL SAKI' POWDER CO., NEW YORtC. Gold Bag Nonaenqe Answered. A son of W C P. Breckenridge, who edits the Lexington, Ky. Herald, crawls cut from the debris of the late election in his State and makes this waii in his paper: Thnere is ro possibility of any free c'irace act being enacted in our day; but the continual sgitation of it and the dangerous contest made for it by a party so numerous and so respectable, create uncertainty, uncertainty creates hesitation. relectance, refusal to en gage in new enterprises, and to in cresse capital in old enterprises, and this prevents the active use of capital, and reduces both the amount of labor required and the amount of wages paid. And therefore it is extremely important that it be demonstated that the battle of the standards is really over. It was a wise and patriotic ac tion recently taken by the Sound Money League and by the Sound Money committee of the Reform club to resume active opperations and the frequent publications of articles on the imnortant topic The Columbia State in commenting on the above says "as logicians these gold standard editors continue to ex cite our special wonder. There is no possibility of the passage of a free coinage act-in the opinion of the wise men who adhears to gold monometalism. But the continual agitation for its passage alarms these s im wise men so much that they won't let their money pet out of their i rht. They are deeply moved by the danger that something will happen which they know cannot possibly happen. Profoundly wise men, these; and they invite us to share in their wisdom The battle of the standards is over, and gold, in the opinion of those sapient folks, has won the final victory. But it is 'extremely impor tant' to assure them that the battle is really over and the victory really won. Somethiag ought to be done to calm tneir apprehensions; but what more can be done we do not know-another 'decisive triumph' for gold monomet allism would do no good whatever, judging from the effect of the last one. ~The 'continual agitation' of the sub ject is doing harm-it 'creates uncer tainty, hesitation, reluctance, refusal to engage in new enterprises and to increase capital in old enterprices.' Bat it is 'a wise and patriotic action' of the gold monometallists to 'resume active operations and the frequent publication of articles on this impor tant topic,' thus continuing and inten-. sifying the agitation The curious mental condition indicated by these declarations is, of course, peculiar to to the gold men. T ae silver men are neither ssaured that there is no possi bility of the passage of a free coinage act nor reluctant to invest their money -if they have any-because of the fear of free coinage. We are accus tomed to hear the siltver men describ ed as fools and idiots, hut thsir idiocy dces not tak a this particular line. It is reserved to men who know so much more than their fellows that they look down upon them as a golden eagle looks down upon a silver fish 2lshing in its little brook- We are glad we are not a triumphant goldite. If we were we might feel the tortures of starvation after eating a hearty meal and shiver with cold under a heavy overcoat because Adam wore nothing warmer than fig leaves." some solid Truths. The Attlanta Journal is still agitat ing the questions of Democratic har - m~ny, and, like all gold-bug organs, it wants the silver issue re'.oved from politics. The Washington ihst, itself a gold-bug organ. quotes some of the Journal's recent utterarnces arnd says it is doin~g an idle thing. The Post then makes the iolio ing comment: "-All this is very touching, to be sure, out it is unLkey to have any af 'ct Onl the r.autars. They manage :o ickd encoursgem::nt in the results of this rear's el-etioni and t.eat view is coo irmed b7 Repuictn leaders atd or ans. Tne regular Democrats cou iently expect to carry the next na tonal niouse of representatives and they appear to be nlrm in the determiaation to ma~ke free coinage the dominant is sue in 1900. The Post does not desire the triumpjh of that issue, but it recog n- z es the great fact that the Democratic party has long been thoroughly comi mitted to it. Had the Chicago conven tion been so mnanipulated as to have brought about a straddle, or an evasion of the silver question, the minority would have defeated the msj )rity. it ' ould have been an exaoition of moral cowvardice thiat would have de servcd and received a crushing de eat. The gold stan lard D4.mocrats will be coinpelled in the congressionaL eeztious of next year and in the pesidential campaign of two years later, to choose bet-veen supporting the regular organwzdiion, llxking by tnefselves, or voting the Reptulican ticket. The tail, ho sever respectable it may be, will not wag the dog.' These are words of soberness and truth, and we commend them to the ittle handfull of' gold bugs in this :ate. The Democratic party will wske nocompromise on the financial sue. A lot of politicians of the Whtney-H3ill stripe would like to see this done so as they could secure .iee, but the masses of the Democrat iparty are contending for a principle, e rid the-y do not intend to sidetrack it to secure spoils So far as we are concerned we would just as soon see the R'-publicans in power a-s the Assis tant Rep'uolicaz:s, wno mnasqueraded i: he '.ast elerction as Dem:~crats. The Democrats may again be defeated in their fight for the masses against the classts, but they will have the satis faction of kno wing that they battled for principles and not the spoils of of fice. Note what Charles Austin Bates, the great American expert on advertising. sas: -'Each year's e ffart should be mde to exceed last year's sales. The only sure way to do it is to advertise. Advertise in busy times because the iron must be struck while it is hot, and advertise in dull times to heat the iron. Ti can e done." -