The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, February 02, 1898, Image 4
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REV. DR. TALMAGE :-XY- .HEv ARE
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Hone3bee ard t:B We T -ve op-a'on that
is Deicou.ts ar' A:me:In. S,t
Damagirng and L-e:ueuve:-mbrcel
Nectcr for wor.
Rev. Dr. Taimgei searts with
an criental sc.Le, ro ich he
drags practic.1i les^:as as o the ai
lurement. w:.. a. : r r: r
and the disuarse ,. . = rk c
their g ard. Tie- x : xiV,
43, "I did bu;a : o e un
the ena of tue r -
hand, ad, , T : .
The hou: :s at: ingenious
architect, atCr : r Wrei amrong
insects, "eomatt Lr . Y,; t xa-cns
and penta ors a free. ote- r,)ob g
the delds of po:n au a ar1ma, won
drous creature of God xie bicgra
phy, written by :i:. and Ssam
merdan, is an ercem:: ent .ur asy
lover of nature. \ rti cel*orated the
bee in his fable of Aril :,nd Moses
and S muel at d Dav u and Solomon
and Jereinan a E mici and St
John used the delcac::s 0 bee manu
facture ss a Bib. s . b::i. A abiracl
of formauo is tot z e. F; t - es.
two tongues,the oLa r :ving a sheath
of proecion, h:r , a a.i _des o? its
tiny body to uAof
lowers, 1si 9: taeaia l
the world riaw. s ,f 1e :ee ii e. Te
honeycomo is a p-c- ': a::s co ene
but Gud could poln a:d e . oceybe
construct ; its ce.s soxuetime s a cor
mitory and sometimes a s:orehouse
and sometiames a cemetery. These
winged toilers drst make eight strips
of wax and by their anteni which
are to them nammer and csel and
square and plumo line, fashion them
for use. T wo and t ,-o these workers
shape the wall. If an accident rap
pens, they put up buttresses of extra
beams to res':tay the damage.
When about tae year 1776 an insect
before unknown in tie .ig-ttime at
tacked the beeives all over Eirope
and the men who owned them were
in vain trying to plan something to
keep out tut, invader tinat wms the ter
ror of the beehives of the continent,
it was found that every where the bees
had arranged for their c sa protection
and built before their honey combs an
especial wa.l of wax, with portholes
through which the bees mig iht go to
and fro, but not 2arge enough to ad
mit the winged combatn:, called the
Sphinx atropes.
Do you know that the swarming of
the bees is divinely directed . The
mother bee starts for a r ex home.and
because of this the other bees of the
hive get into an excitement which
raises the heat of the hive some four
degrees,and they must die unless they
leave their heated apartments, ana
they folios the mother bee and alight
on the branch of a tree, and cling to
each other and hold on until a com
mittee of two or three bees has ex
plored the region and found the hol
low of a tree or rock not far cif from
a stream of water, and they here set
up a new colony and ply their aro
matic industries and dive themselves
to the manufacture of the saccharine
edible. But wno can tell the chemis
try of that mixture of sweetness, part
of it the very- ife of the bee and part
of it the life 'of the nields?
Plenty of this luscious product was
hanging in the woods ot B:thaveu
during the time of Sauil and Jonathan.
Their army was in pursuit of an ene
my that by God's conmand must be
exterminated. The soldiery were pos
itively foroidden to stcp to eat anyv
thing, until the work was done. If
they disobey ed, they were accursed.
Coming through the woods they found
a place where the bees had been busy,
a great honey manu factory. Houey
gathered in tne hllow of the trees
uzntil it had overib~wed upon the
ground in great profusion of sweet
ness. All the army obey ed orders and
touched it not save Jonjathac, and he,
not knowing the military order about
abstinence, dippiei the end of a stick
he had in his hand into tiie candid li
quid, and as yellow and tempting it
glowed on the end of the st~ick he put
is to his mouth and ate the honey
Judgment tell upon himt and but for
special intervention he would have
been slain. In my text Jonathan an
nounces his awful mistak e, "I did but
taste a little honey with the end of the
rod that was in my hand, and, lo, I
must ate." Ala s, what multarudes of
people in all ages have been damaged
by forbidden honey, bsy which I mean
temptation, delictou s and attractive,
but damaging and destructive.
Corrupt literature, fascinating but
deatblul, comes in this category.
Whejre one good, honest, healthful
book is read now there is a hundred
made up ot rhetorical trash consumed
with avidity. When the boys on the
cars come through with a pile of pub
lications, look over the tities and no
tice that nine out of ten of the books
are injurious. All the way from here5
to Chicago or Ne w Orleans notice that
objectionable books dominate. Taste
for pure literature is poisoned by this
scum of the publishing house. Every
book in which sin triumphs over vir
tue, or in which a glamour is thrown
over dissipation, or which leaves you
at its last line with less respect for the
marriage institution and less abhor
ence for the paramour is a depression
of your own moral character. The
bookbindery may be attractive, and
the plot dramatic and startling, and
the style of writinig s weet as the honey
that Jonathan took up wit'a his rod,
but your best interests forbid it, your
moral safety forbids it, your Gcd f or
- bids it, and one taste of it may lead to
suctt bad results that y ou may have to
say at the close of the experiment or
at the clcse o a misimpi -i lifetime,
"I did but taste a little i y with the
rod that was in my hand, and, lo, I
:nust di."
Corrupt literature is doing more to
day for the disruption of domestic life
than any other cause. Ebopeznents,
marital intrigat s. six coriesnondence,
fictitious names' givea a: 'postetlics
windows, clandesuine meetings in
parks, and at ferry gates, arid in hotel
parlors, and conjagal perjairies are
among the rumocus rusuits. When a
woman young or old gets her nead
thoroughly stuf::d witn the modern
novel, she is in appalling peril. But
some one wvill say, "-The heroes are so
adroitly knavisb, and the heroines so
bewitchingly untrue. and the turn of
the story so exq uisite, and all the
characters so enrapituring, I cannot
quit them" Myv brother, my sister,
you can tind styl:es ci liarature just
as charmicg' tat wi elevate and pai
rify and enntoble and Christiari:ze
while they p ease.T e devil does not
own althe no-'er.' Tae- is a wealth!
of', god to-sk ~cczdne lott fro-mi
our publishing hous~s : atsave no,
excuse for- the choic ofiat which si'
debauchin to "ody m:dndu .
Go tosomie intei.:n nu r c 1
an and ask' for- a ls: C. bocas it will'
morai cnditioj
improvement so a-'saed that you]
cannotaffor to f:iup with' sa
and ciniders ar'- de-rs In- ie amer
stices of businers that ~ yo n anis
reading that wh:ch wi: rreparehm1
to bea merchact pei-re, and tht
young vwcman is~ lg her -ne wt
an intelligence that wi yet either
man's home or give her an indepen
de::ce of charsc'er that will qualify
her to build her own Lome and main
tati it in a happiness that requires no
aumn;~anenfl from any of our rough
er :ex. T ':at vcurg man or young
wo:an can, by : ' -ight literary and
eral improvement of the spare ten
ninu:tes Lere or there every day, rise
head and shoulders in prosperity and
charscaer ard ir:luence above tne
u erswho read nothing, or read
that which bed warfs. See all the for
ests of ,ood American literature drip
pig with horey. Why pick up the
ioneycombs that have in them the
trv be-s which will sting 3 ou with
an eternal poison while you taste it?
a::e bock n:av for you or me decide
eery-hig for this world and the
.x It Ras a turning point with
inc when in a bcokstore ia Syracuse
one day I picked un a bcok called
"The D suties of Ruskin." It was
only a bock of extracts. but it was all
pure honey, and I was rot satisfied
until I purchased all his works, at
that time exp'nsive beyond an easy
capacity to own them. and with what
delight I went through reading his
"Sev -n Lamps of Architecture" and
his -Stones of Venice" it is impossible
for me 'o decribe except by saying
triat it gave me g ranture for good
books and an everlasting disgust for
decrepit or irnmorai books that will
last me while my life lasts. All
around the church and the world to
day there s-re busy hives of intelli
gence occunied by authors and au
:.oresss from whose pen drip a distil
ieion whicu is the very nectar of
heaven, at d why will you thrust your
rod of is quisitiv-ness into the death
ful sactharine of perdition?
Stimulating liquids also come into
the category of temptation delicious.
but deathful. You say, "I cannot
bear the taste of intoxicating liquor,
and how any man can like it is to me
an amazement." Well, then, it is no
credit that you do not take it. Do not
brag about your total abstinence, be
cause it is not fromt any principle that
you reject alcoholism, but for the rea
son that you reject ceitain styles of
food-you simply don't like the taste
of them. But multitudes of people
have a natural fondngss for all kinds
of intoxicants. They like so n-uch
that it makes them smack their lips to
look at it. They are dyspeptic, and
they like to aid digestion; or they are
annoyed by insomnia, and they take
to produce sleep; or they are troubled,
and they take it to make them obliv
ious; or they feel happy, and they
must celebrate their hilarity. They
begin with mint julep sucked through
two straws on the L ong Branch piazz.
and end in the ditch, taking from a
jui a liquid half kerosene and hale
whikey. They not only like it, but it
is an all consuming passion of body,
mind and soul, ana after awhile have
it they will, though one wineglass of
it should cost the temporal and eternal
destruction of themselves and all their
families and the whole human race
They would say, "I am sorry it is go
ing to cost me and my family and all
the worl's population so very much,
but here it goes to my lips, and now
let it roll over my parched tongue and
down my heated throat, the sweetest
and most inspiring the most delicious
draft that ever thrilled a human
frame." To cure the habit before it
comes to its last stages various plans
were tried in olden times. This plan
was recommended in the books.
When a man wanted to reform, he
put shot or bullets into the cup or
glass of strong drink-one additional
shot or bullet each day that displaced
so much liquor. Bullet after bullet
added day by day, of course the liquor
became less until the bullets would
entirely fill up the glass, and there
was no room for the liquid, and by
that time it was said the inebriate
would be cured. Whether any one
ever was cured in that way I know
not, but by long experiment it is
found that the only way is to stop
short off. ar d when a man does that|
he needs God to help him, and thereI
have been more cases than you canI
count when God has so helped the
man that he left off the drink forever,
and I could count a score of them,
some of them pillars in the house of
One would suppose that men would
take warning from some of the omin-i
ous names give-a to the intoxicants!
and stand cff from the devastating in-|
fluence. You have noticed, for in
stance, that some of the restaurants
are called The Shades, typical of the
fact that it puts a man's reputation in.
the shade, and his morals in the shade,
and his prosperity in the shade, anct
his wife and children in the shade, and
his immortal destiny in the shade.
Now, I find on some or the liquor
signs in all our cities the words
"'Old Crow," mightily suggestive of
the carcass and the filthy raven that
swoops upon it "Old Crow:!' Men
and women without number slain of
rumn, but unburied, and this evil is
pezking at their glazed eyes, and
pecking at their destroyed manhood
and womsanhcod, thrusting beak and
claw into the mortal remains of what
was once gloriously alive, but now
morally dead. "Old Crow!I" But,
alas, how many take no warning!
They make me think of Caesar on his
way to assassination, fearing nothing,
though his statue in the hall crashed
into fragrents at his feet and a scroll
containing the names of the conspira
tors was thrust into his hands, yet
walking right on to meet the dagger
that was to take his life. This infatu
ation of strong drink is so mighty in
many a man that. though his fortunes
are crashing, and his health is crash
inig. and his domestic interests are
crashing, and we hand him a long
scroll containing the names of perils
that await him, he goes straight on to
physical and mental and moral assas
sination. In proportion as any style
of alcoholism is pleasan t to your taste
and stimulating to your nerves and
for a time delightful to all your phys
ical and mental constitution is the
peril awful Remember Jonathan
and the for biddden honey in the woods
at Bethaven.
Furthermore, the gamester's indul
gence must be put in the list of temp
tatioa s delicious but destructive You
who have crossei the o::ean many
times have rnoticed that always one of
the best rooms has, from morning un
til late at night, been given up to
gambling practices. I heard of men
who went on board with enough for a
European excursion who landed with
out money to get their baggage up to
the hotel o:- railroad station. To
many there is a complete fascination
in games of hazard or the risking of
money en possibilities. It seems as
natural for them to bet as to eat. In
eed the hunger for food is often
>verpowered by the hunger for wag
ers. It is absurd for those of us who
have never felt the fascination of the
esger to speak slightingly of the
~emtaimn. It has slain a multitude
f iteilectual and moral riants, men
udwomen stronger than you or I.
Dawn under its power went gl-orious
Jiv-er Goldsmi'h, and Gibbon, the
~mous historian, and Charles Fox
lrenowzsd s-.atesman, and in olden
.mes senators of the United States,
w iso usedi to te as regularly at the gamn
bli-g house all night as they were in
te :ails of iegisltion by day. On, the
tragedies of the faro table: I know
persors3 who begau with a slight stake
in a ladies' parior ad ended with the
suicide's pistol at Monte Carlo. They
with black marks on them, not know
ing that -satan was playing for their
bones at the same time, and was sure
to sweep all the stakes off on his side
of the table. State legislatures have
again and again sanctioned the migh
t yevil bypassing laws in defense of
race tracks, and many young men
have lost all their wages at such so
called "meetings " Everf man who
voted for such infamous bill has on his
hands and forehead the blood of these
souls.
But in this connection some young
converts say to me: " it right to
play cards? Is there any harm in a
game of whist or euchre?" Well. I
know gcod men who play whist ar d
euchre and other styles of games wi'h
out any wagers I had a friend who
played cards with his wife and chil
dren and then at the close said, "Come,
now. let us have prayers." I will not
judge other men's ccosciences, but I
tell you that cards are in my mind so
associated with the temporal and spiri
tual ruin of splendid young men that
I would as soon say to my 'amily,
"Come, let us have a game of cards,"
as I would go into a menagerie and
say, "Come, let us havea game of rat
tlesnakes," rr into a cemetery and
sitting down by a marble slab say to
the gravediggers. "Come, let us have
a game at skulls." Conscientiois
young ladies are silently saying, "Do
ycu think card playing will do us any
harmi" Perhaps not, but how will
you feel if in the great day of eternity,
when we are asked to give an account
of our influence, some man should
say: "I was intreducpd to games of
chance in the year 1898 at your hcuse,
and I went on from that spoit to some
thing more exciting, and went on
down until I lost my business, and
lost my morals, and lost my soul, and
these chains that you see on my wrists
and feet are the chains of a gamester's
doom, and I am on my way to a gam
bler's hlt." H ney at the start, eter
nal catastrophe at last.
Stock gambling comes into the
same catalogue. It must be very ex
hilaraing to go into the stock market
and depositing a small sum of money
run the chance of taking out a fortune.
Many men are doing an honest and
safe business in the stock market and
you are an ignoramus if you do no:
know that it is just as legitimate to
deal in stocks as it is to deal in coffee
or sugar or flour. But nearly ali the
outsiders who go there on a financial
excursion lose all. The old spiders
eat up the unsuspecting flies. I had a
friend who put his hand on his hip
pocket and said in subtance, "I have
there the value of $250,000." His home
is today penniless. What was the
matter : Stock gambling Of the vast
majority who are victimized ycu hear
not one word. One great stock firm
goes down and whole columns of
newspapers discuss their fraud or their
disaster, and we are presented with
their features and their biography.
But where one such famous firm sinks
500 unknown men sink with them.
The great steamer goes down and all
the little boats are swallowed in the
same engulfment.
Gambling is gambling, whether in
stocks or breadstuffs or dice or race
horse betting. Exhilaration at the
start, but a raving brain and shattered
nervous system and a sacrificed pro
perty and a destroyed soul at the last.
Young men, buy no lottery tickets,
purchase no prize packages, bet on no
baseball gamnes or yacht racing, have
no faith in luck, answer no mysteri
ous circulars proposing great income
for small investment, drive away the
buzzards that hover around our hotels
trying to entrap strangers.. Ga out
and make an honest living. Have
God on your side and be a candidate
I or heaven. Remember all the paths
of sin are banked with flowers at the
start, and there are plenty of helpful
hands to fetch the gay charger to your
door and hold the stirrup while you
mount. But farther on the horse
plunges to the bit in a slough inextrica
ble.
The best honey is not like that
which Jonathan took on the end of
the rod and brought to his lips, but
that which God puts on the banquet.
ing table of mercy, at which we are
all invited to sit. I was reading of a
boy among the mountains of Switzer
land ascending a dangerous place with
his father and the guides. Tue boy
stopped on the edge of the cliff and
said, "There is a fiowerlImean to get
"Come away from there," said the
father. "You will fall off." "N3,"
said he. "I must get that beautiful
flower." And the guides rushed to
ward him to putlt him back when, just
as they heard him say, "I almost have
it," he fell 2,000 feet. Birds of prey
were seen a few days after circling
through the air and lowering gradual
ly to the place where the corpse lay
Why seek flowers off the edge of a pre
cipice when you can walk knee deep
amid the full blooms of the very para
dise of Gcd? When a man may sit
at the king's batnquet, why will he go
down the steps and contend for the re
fuse and bones of a hound's kennel?
"S weeter than honey and the honey
comb," says David, is the truth of God.
"With honey out of the rock would I
have satisfied thee," says God to the
recraant. Here is honey grathered
from the blossoms of trees of life, and
with a rod ma'e out of the wood of
the cross I dip it up for all your souls
The poet Hesiod tells of an nmbrcsia
and a nectar the drinking of which
would make men live forever, and one
sip of the honey from the eternal rock
will give you eternal life with Gad
Come off the malarial levels of a sinuful
life. Come and live on the uplands of
grace, where the vineyards sun them
selves. "Oh, taste and see that the
Lord is gracious:" Be happy noa
and happy forever. For those who
take a different course the honey will
turn to gall. For many things I have
admired Percy Shelley, the great
English poet, but I aepiore the fact
that it seemed a great sweetness to him
to dishonor God. The poem "Q 2een
Mab" has in it the malignmng of tbe
deity. Shelley was impious enough
to ask for Rowland Hill's Surre'y
chapel that he might denounce the
Christian religion. He was in great
glee against God and the truth. But
ne visited Italy, and one day on the
Mediterranean with two friends in a
boat which was 21 feet long he was
coming toward shore when an hour's
squall struck the water. A gentle
man standing on shore thirough a
glass saw many boats tossed in this
squall, but all outrode the storm ex
cept one, in which Shelley and his
two friends werie sailing. Th at never
came ashore, but the bodies of t wo of
the occupants were washed up on the
beach, one of them the poet. A fu
neral pyre was built on the seashore
by some classic friends, and the two
bodies were consumed. P'oor Sheile' :
He would have no God while he lived,
and I fear had no God when b'e dit d.
- Tne Lord knoweth the way of the
righteous. but the way of the unged
ly shall perish.' Ba ware of the for
biddJen honey:
An Editor Commits suicide.
Captain George R. Guss. editor and
proprietor of the Chester County
Demcocrat, committed suicide at nis
home in West Chester, Pd. -late Tues
day by inhaling iliuminatmng gas.
Bfore killing himself he wrote the
following note: "Standing on the
brink of eternity, I ask the forglve
ness of all, aslI forgive all. Noai w
ers: no funeral. Good-bye, God Oless
WHERE THE MONEY GOES.
AN ESTIMATE O= THE MONEY NEED
[ D THISYEAR.
The A ppropriation Bill as Submitted by
the Ways and Means 0( =mittee of the
H !nee to That Body.
In the House on Thursday the Wa' s
and Means Committee presented 1he
annual appropriation bill. It cuts
down materially some of the estimates
pres. nted for the several departments
of the govern-rent. Tae principal
items of the bill are as follows:
GOVERNOR-S OFFICE.
Siar7 of G,verncr...... $ 3,(00 00
Salary of Private Stc.... 1 350 00
Salary of Messenger..... 400 CO
Contingent fund rewards,
etc..................... 5,000 00
S:ationery and stampz.... 300 00
OFFICE SECRETARY OF STATE
Salary of Secy. of State.. $ 1.900 00
Salary of Chief Clerk.... 1,350 CO
Contingent fund......... 150 00
Statiorery and stamps.... 400 00
OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER GENERAL.
Salary Comptroller Gen. $ 1,900 CO
Salary Chief Clerk....... 1,400 00
Salary Bookkeeper....... 1,500 00
Contingent fund......... .200 00
Statiorery and stam p3.... 300 C
Priating................. 300 00
Travelling expenses of the
Comptroler and assistants 500 00
OFFICE OF STATE TREASURER
Salary of State Treasurer $ 1 900 00
S .iary of Chief Clerk.... 1,5)0 00
Salary of Bookkeeper.... 1,350 00
Salary of Bookkeeper loan
department............. 1,350 00
Contingent fund......... 200 00
Printing of bonds........ 1,400 00
SLationery and stamps.... 200 00
OFFICE SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCA
TION
Salary Superintendent E l
cation ...........,..... $ 1.900 00
Salary of Clerk.......... '900 00
Contingent fund......... 50 00
Stationery and stamps.... 125 00
Books Qnd blanks for pub
lic schools............. 400 00
Expenses State B.ard Edu
cation ................. 250 00
Travelling expenses Super
intendent Eucation.... 200 00
OFFICE ADJCTANT AND INSPECTOR GEN
ERAL.
Salary Adjutant and In
spetor General......... $ 1,200 00
Salary of clerk........... 900 00
Salary of State Armorer.. 350 00
Contingent fund......... 75 00
Stationery and stamps.... 100 00
Collecting arms. etc...... 150 00
OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL
Salary Attorney General $ 1 900 00
Salary of Assistant....... 1,350 00
Contingent fund.....,... 150 00
Stationery and stamps.... 75 00
Expenses litigation....... 2,000 00
OFFICE OF STATE LIBRARIAN
Salary of State Librarian $ 800 00
Contingent fund........ 125 00
Stationery and stamps.... 250 00
For purchasing books for
State Library.......... :100 00
PENSION DEPARTMENT
For pensioners.......... $100,000 00
Salary of clerk........... 600 00
Stationery and stamps.... 123 00
INDEXING AND CODIFYING ACTS
Salary Coue Com msaioner $ 400 00
CONFEDERATE HISTORIAN.
Compensation.... ......... $ 500 00
Expenses for Wtober, No
vember and December,
189................. 500 00
Relhef of certain soldiers.. 100,000 00
Salary clerk pension board 600 00
Stationery and postage... 120 00
KEEPER STATE HOUSE AND GROUNDS.
Salary two watchmen.... $ 800 00
Salary Jantor............ 160 00
Salary Engineer ($75 per
mo. for 7 months, and
$25 a mo. for the rest of
the year... ...... 650 Co
Salary two Firemen ($25
month each)..,.... 600 00
Contingent fund........ 100 00
Fuel for S~ate House..... 900 00
K-.eping grounds in repair 200 00
(and convic:s.)
K1 DICIAL DEPARTMENT.
S alary of cuief justice for six months
and t senty nine days at $4,000 per
year, and for five months and one
day at $2,850 per year.
Salary of three associate
justices..............$ 9,200 CO
Salary eight circuit judges 26,000 00
Salary of eigtt circuit sc
licitors............. 11,050 00
Salary of iight circuit ste
nographers ........ 10,000 00
Salary of State reporter. 900 00
Salary of clerk of supreme
co~r....,....,..... 800 00
Sa1l'y of liorarian of su
preme court.......... 800 00
Salary of messenger of su
premre court ......, 200 00
Salary of attendant of su
premne cou...... 200 00
Contingent fund....... 200 00
Purchase of books for su
preme court........... 500 00
Purchase repor:s for su
preme court........... 350 Co
H EALTH DEPARTMENT.
Salary of quarantine offi
cers, Charleston... $ 1,650 00
Salary of quarantine offi
cerr, Port Royal.. 700 00
Salary of quarantine offi
cers, St. Helena....... 700 00
Salary of g iarantinte offi
cers, Georgetown.. 450 00
Expenses State board of
health ...............1,000 00
Salary of keeper lazaretto 300 00
Salary keeper of hospital
buiidings Port Royal 175 00
Maintaininag quarantine 2.500 00
Expenses quarantine sta
tion, Pori. Royal....... 300 00
Expenses quarantine sta
tion, Georgetown.. 150 00
Expenses quarantine sta
tion, Charleston... 1,000 00
Expenses quarantine sta
tion, St. H elena..... 150 00
TAX DEPARTMENT.
Salary County audators... 25,500 00
Printing books, blanks,
etc., auditors and treas
urers...................2 500 00
RAiLROAD COMMISSION.
Salary e mmissioners.... 5 700 00
Salary secretary........ 1,200 00
Contingent...............750 00
!OUTHt CAROLINA COLLEGE.
Support S. C College.... 25.000 C0
Support negro colleg e.... 10,000 00
CITADEL ACADEMY.
Suppzr:. beneficiary cadets 20 000 00
Eq~iipment and repairs... 750 00
Tr'easurer............... 1 200 00
WINTHROP NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL
COLLEGE
Support of.............. 3'),000 00
For scholarships............,456 00
Sanitary improvement se w
erage and drainage of... 3,000 00
STA~TE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE
Salary 'uperimr.dent. 3,000 00
S3apport c/.,.............100,000 00
For payment on Wallace
p o perty ....4..... 5,000 00
C mpletion Parker build
ing.... ...........13.520 80
B ard o regents per diem
$1 and 5) cents mileage
DEAF AND D)UMD ASYLUMi
Suppcrt o!...............1,000 00
CATAWEA INDIANS,
Sappnort 0f.................800 00'
PCU LIC PRINTING.
Public prinume...........15000 00
PENITENTIARY.
S.Lary of :tiperinatendent
of penitentiary......... 1,900 00
Saar rapnin of guad... 1 050 00
Salary of physician....... 1,000 00
Salary of chaplain........ 600 00
Salary of clerk........... 1,200 00
.MISCELL: EOUSa.
Columbia Waterworks... 2,000 00
Completion funding old
bonds and stock........ 1 100 00
Salaries supervisors regis
tration ................ 8,000 00
Support militia........... 8.000 CO
Expenses phosphate com
mission............. 500 )
Repairs of governor's man
sicn, etc.............. 250 00
Claims passed.......... 2,00J 00
Lighting public buildings,
itcluding basement of
State House........... 2.900 CO
A wricultural and Mechani
cal society............. 2.400 00
Interest to accrue......... 283 744 03
THE L[EN LAW
COMES FOR CONSIDERATION IN THE
HOUSE.
In an Etabarate Debate the Subject Is
Fuly Discussed frcm Every standpoin*,
but no Action Taken on It.
One ef the warmest debates that has
yet occurred in the Hcuse of represen
tatives took place on TuEsday, 25th
instant, over the following bill to
amend the lien law:
Section 1. That section 2399 o' the
al gener statutes 18S2 being section
2512 of the revised statutes of 1893 be,
and the same is hereby amended by
adding the words "and supplies furn
isted during the year" after the word
"him" on line three, and by striking
out the last four lines of said section
when so ammended shall read as fol
lo ws.
Section 2512 (2399). Every landlord
leasing land for agricultural purposes
shall have a prior and preferred lien
for his rent to the extent of all crops
raised on the lands leased by him and
supplies furnished during the year,
whether the same be raised by the
tenant or other persons. No writing
or recording shall be necessary to cre
ate such lien, but it shall exist from
the date of contract, whether the same
be in writing or verbal, and the
landlord shall have the right to en
force such lien in the same manner,
upon the same conditions, and subject
to the same restrictions as are provided
in this article for persons making ad
vances for agricultural purposes."
This bill was argued from all points
of the compass, Members were
found who indorsed every provision
of it, and others arose to fight its en
tirety, while others objected to cer
tain sections and in the meantime the
debate was strung out at length and
no action taken.
The words which give the landlord
a claim prior to that of a merchant
'or supplies caused most of the talk.
This clause was constructed to mean
that after a merchant had carried a
farn-er for three quarters of the year
the landlord coula "furnish" him for
the ifs t quarter and then lay claim to
the entire crop.
When Mr. Glenna' bill was called
Mr. Walling moved that the bill be
recommitted.
Mr. Sullivan spoke in advocacy of
the bill. He said it was a serious
matter to the farmers and would meet
the obj ections to the lien law. He
explained that this bill would stop
outside interference with workers on
the farm.
Mr. Walling spoke in reply to Mr.
Sullivan and reiterated his objection
to the passage of the bill at present,
and urged its recommittal.
Mr. Robinson announced that it
was not his original intention not to
speak on this bill, but that he had
changed his mind and desired to add
his voice to the support of the bill.
Mr. Garris said he was a farmer and
not a merchant. He asked no par
ticular favors but his sympathies al
ways went out to the man who made
his bread by his muscle. He opposed
the bill on the grounds that it gave
the merchant more of a hold on the
farmer than he should have. The
following gentlemen also took part in
the discussion: Messrs. Bedon, Fai
rey, Ilderton, Efird, H. J. Kinard.
While Mr. Kinard was speaking on
the bill he was assailed by several
questions as to whether he was a mer
chant or a farmer. The questions
seemed to imply self interest as to the
gentleman's motives in the matter.
Mr. Kinard replied very hotly that he
was both a merchant and a farmer,
but did not merchandize articles that
usually came under the head of farm
"supplies."
Mr. Livingston objected to members
insinuating that other members were
acting from selfish motives. He stated
that it made no difference to him and
that he was going to speak plainly
on the subject. He regarded the
present bill a direc~t attack on the lien
law, more insiduous than a bill to re
peal the law and he moved an indefi
nite postponement.
By a vote 45 to 43 the house agreed
to an indefinite postponment of the
bill.
A number of bills came over from
the senate and e -e re fei rad to the
proper committees.
At this juncture Mr. FEdwards arose
and askea that the aye and nay vote
taken on the motion to indefinite post
pone the bill be verified. This being
done it was dircavered that the house
had refused to indefinitely nostpone
by a vote of 45 to 46 and this result
was announced.
At this juncture the house went into
the election of a senator, and argu
ment on Mr. Glen's bill was pastoned
until 1 o'clock.
When 1 o'clock came Mr. Magill
called the chair's attention to the fact.
Mr. Magill spoke in favor of the
motion to recommit. He pointed out
that the bill gave an absolute monop
oly to the landlord to the . xz~usion of
all others and was a great hardship on
the man who gives the lien.
Mr. Pollock spoke on the saire
lines. Thle gentleman pointed out
the merchants-if the proposed bill
was passed-would not give advances
and renters would be dependent on
their landlords.
During the course of Mr. Pollock's
remarks be made use of the word
swindle when Mr. Bedon arose and
inquiredI if the speaker had ever had
any experience in swindling. This
rather riled Mr. Pollock and he pro
tested against the use cf such words.
Mr. Bedon explained and after a little
Mr. Pollock cooled off.
Scarcely had he resumed composure
when Mr. Caugh man made a point of
order atd advanced the advice that
the gentleman's remarks were not
germaine to the subject. The chair
allowed the gentlemaa to proceed.
Mr. Pollock resumed his remarks
by expressing his sympathy for Mr.
Uauguman's lack of knowkdge of the
English language.
Mr. Caugnman. "T anks for your
sympatby." (Lautghter.)
Mr. Robinson n'ext to-ok the floor.
It was his opinion that the farmer
should be protected on the same
grounds that the old negro saved his
tishing companion, who had falleu
into tne ri'ver. "He has all de bait."
Previous question was called and
M~r. WValling s motion to recommit the
b:li was cariied by a vote of 52 to 48.
Mr. Magill had the usual clincher
THE STATE DISPENSARY.
THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THESTATE
BOARD OF CONTROL ISSUED.
Financlat Statement Cverirg the Perlcd
Since the State Board of Control Tock
charge of the Business-Fignrr K of Much
Interest.
The annual report of the State
bo-.rd of control was Friday made
public. The report is prefaced as fol
lows:
To His Excellency, Wm. H. Ellerbe,
Governor:
We herewith submit cur annual re
por' to be transmitted by y ou to the
general assembly of South Carolina.
Below will be found a concise state
ment of the business cf the dispen
sary for the past year, as well as a re
capitulation of its business for the
p1st year, as well rs a recapitulation
of its business for the past 21 months,
or the full time that the dispensary
has been under the management of
the board of control.
We find that the county boards cf
control are costing more than $10,000
per annum, and do not meet the re
quirements of the dispensaries, and
recommend that they be abolished and
some more suitable and Economical
plan be devised for local super v.sion
and control.
All of which is respectfully submit
ted.
D. M. Miles, Chairman.
L J. Williams,
J. B. Douthit,
M. R Cooper,
State Board of Control.
B. C. Webb, Clerk.
The comparative statement of assets
and liabilities for the fiscal year end
ing December 31, 1897, is as follows:
ASSETS.
Cash in State treasury Dec. 31,
1897.......................... .....$ 61,901 26
Merchandise in hands of county
and hotel dispensaries.......... 211,402 13
Supplies (inventory)............... 11,499 54
Machinery and office fixtures
(inventory)................. 2,50000
Teams and wagons (inventory)... :,000 00
Merchandise (inventory)......... 88,158 30
Personal accounts due State...... 2,811 50
Total assets........................$379,332 73
LIABILITIES.
School fund.......................$319,380 40
Personal accounts due by State... 59,952 33
Total liabilities.....................$379,332 73
Statement of profit and loss account
for the fiscal year ending December
31, 1897, is as follows:
PROFITS.
Merchandise........ ......$308,177 06
Contraband seizures.................. 4,634 52
Profits from beer and hotel dis
pensaries..................... ..26,1C8 20
Ilebates and discounts on whiskey
purchases........................... 42,510 36
Permit fees............................ 6 00
Sale of cart............................. 6 00
Unearned profits on goods in
hands of dispensers Sept 30,
less reduction in prices Decem
ber 1, 1897, since accrued...... 42,871 75
$424,371 49
Difference between net accrued
profits and net profits for the
first three-quarters, placed to
credit of the school fund from
time to time......................... 12,619 49
Total $430,990 9S
LOSSES.
Breakage and leakage.......... 1,888 SG
Constabulary................... 40,000 43
Freight and express............ 64,839 60
Labor......... ................ 14.919 97
Expense............... ...... 20,66:3 73
License........................ 143 75
Supplies.........................119.306 02
Insurance ...........,... 2,95891
Wear and tear of teams, wagons,
machinery, office fixtures, etc. 671 GG
Worthless accounts placed to
profit and loss............... 1,769 05
.Ex-dispensers' sbortages entered
to profit and loss............. iG,006; 33
Losses by fire at Darlington Man
ning and Kershaw dispensaries 6,478 9S
$290,547 89
Total amount placed to credit of
school fund during year...14G,443 09
Total..................... 5436,990 9S
Several hundred dollars of worth
less accounts, due the State for empty
barreIs, kegs, etc., most of which were
found on the books when this board
assumed charge of the State dispen
sary; and also several hundred dollars
due the State by an insolvent insur
anco ccompany for property lost by fire,
which occurred whiile property was in
sured in said company, have been
placed to profit and loss account.
We have also placed to profit and
loss account several thousand dollars
of ex-dispensers' shortages, about half
of which occurred prior to the or
ganization of this board. These short
ages are in the hands of the attorney
general, and some are now in process
of settlement.
The cash statement for the fiscal
year ending December 31, 1897, is as
follo ws:
RE CEIPTS
January receipts...........$ 115,257 47
February receipts............ 102,100 48
M1arch receipts............... 111,997 0.5
April receipts................ 69S .2 0
M1ay receipts.................. d' , . ')
June receipts................ 51,783 13
July receipts............... .67,170 94
August receipts................. 72,712 43
September receipts............. 86,355 90
October receipts............... l,599 73
November receipts.............. O,257 1)7
December receipts.............. 122,509 753
Total receipts for year...1,17,803 04
Balance in State treasury De
cember :3l, 1897.............. 78.263 41
Total......................-$1,196,068S 45
DISBURSE MEN TS.
January disbursements...$ 150.003 07
February 'disbursements........ 9,.61 90
M1arch disbursements.......... 9.320 S83
A pril disbursements........... 112,633 96
May disbursements........... 90369 25
June disbursements........... 54,559 47
July disbursements............-93,220 42
August disbursements.......... 47.9'34 21
September disbursements.......7,344 44
October disbursements......... 09,098 70
November disbursements.......97,765 93
December disbursements...... 12:3,S03 90
Total disbursements for the
year.....................31,1:;4,10~ 1:'
Balance in State treasury De
cember 31, 1997............ 61.901 2'3
Total...................... -1o'i. 4.;
Purchases for the tEscal year of 189,:
January................ ..-..... c 9505'I33
February...................... 1,5'>()
MIarch ... ..................... 67,60 46
April ................ ..............,7 98
Mayobe....................... .... -01) 74
neme...... ............... o40728
Decemb........................ ~2vP5 67
ATout.................-...... i 780,5 . 4
Net profit of the South Carolina
dispensof~ for 21 mnonths:
Net pronits of county, beer and
hotel dispensaries for nine
months in' 1596... ...........- I';
Profits of State dispensary for
nine mnonths in 16 passed to
the credit of school fund by
Net pronts of county, beer and ho
tel dispensaries for the year
Pronl: of State dispensary for the
year 1 497 passed to credit of
chool fund by Sta~t board. ..14,443 09
The amount i a by the state. _ unty,
beer and hotel dispensaries to the State.
counties and towns :. Apri, ist, I is
itemized as follows:
Amount paid to cuanties and
towns in 1 . . .... ....... ..--- i.. :; . ;
Amount paid into the State treas.
ury by the State hoard on ac
count of the general fund in I 1000lj UOl
Amount pail to ccunties and
tow ns in IS'7....................... i .
Balance due on account of the
general fund paid into the State
treasury by the State board in
Amount paid into the State treas
ury by the State board on ac
count of the school fund in
1 ............................ I?1,O) 00
Total amount Dec. :1. 19.....9 .0' 1 .3
IIavinr since paid into the State
treasury on acc~ount of the
school fund ........................... 20,1X ( 0
Total amount .............4 ;.'' 51
The report of the legislative examinirg
committee reads as follows.
' According to the books of the
State dispensary, the balance o! cash
on hand in State treasury, on Dec. 31,
1897, was $61 901 26. According to
the statement furnished by the State
treasurer, the balance on that day in
the State treasury to the cr dtt of the
State dispe nsary was $66,423 64 The
difference between these two bal
ancs is $4,522.38. The dispensary
warrants drawn upon the State treas
urer and unpaid on Dec. 31. 1897, ac
cording to the list furnished us by the I
bookkeeper of the State dispensary,
amount to $4 516 34. which leaves the 1
discrepancy at 6.04, which was the
same difference we found at the time
of our last Examination. We called
attention in our report for the quarter
en ding 30th June, 1897, to the amounts I
due by various ex-dispensers and re- I
commended at that time that the same
be turned over to the law department
of the State for collection or settle
ment. We also recommended that re
ports te made showing the disposition
and final settlement of these balances
We repeat this recommendation, the
necessity of whicn is apparent from
the large amount of ex dispensers'
shortages, which on Dec. 31, 1897, was
carried to the p-ofit and loss account,
to wit; $16.006 33. We repeat a for
mer recommendation that a separate
account be kept cf F xpenses of litiga
tion. These expenses have heretofore
been charged to the constabulary ac
count.
'he stock of liquors and supplies
was taken on 30th and 31st. Dec. 1897,
by Messrs Douthit and Williams, rep
resenting the board of control, and
Mr. Moses, representing this commit
tee.
Altimont Mcses.
Jno P Thomas, Jr ,
C. R. D. Burns,
Committee.
GOOD ACVICE TO FARMERS
Price of Cotton Ncxt Fall WiLL be D c'dcd
in a Few We eks.
The following circular from Lathan,
Alexander & C., of New York, is in
teresting reaaing and we commend the
advice therein contained to the cotton
farmers:
It seems to us that the most vitally
important lesson for the South to learn
is that over prcduction of cotton is se
ricusly harmfu' to the material p-o:
perity of that section.
We have repeatedly written on this
subject anid feel that we have ex
hausted the argument; nevertheless,
with the result of the current crop, we
are constrained to write again, even at
the risk of reiterating what we have
said before.
Whatever share the merchants and
planters of the South are to have in
the revi -al of budiness and gerneral
prosperity of the country, now ap-1
parently well started, will depend
upon the p:-ofit that is made in the
prdution of ctton, a crop worth
$30,000,C00.
The tot al crop of 1895-96 WESs 7,157,
346 bales, and it sold at the averase
price of 8 09 cents per pout d. or $40.82
per bale according to the record of ex
ports and tie ofE cial figures of the bu
reau of statistics at Washington. The
planters that year made larger food
crops, and when the planting season
the next year began, they were forti
fed with every requisite to produce
c~ttcn cheaply.
Last year the total crop was 8.757,
964 bales, and the averge 'trice was
7 42 cents per pound, or $37 40 pe r
ble, the crop yielding, perhaps, a
larger pr fit than for many years, oe
cause planters had few supplies to buy.
The success resulting f rim the con
servative policy which was pursued
thse two years did not induce plsnt
es to adhere to that line of action ; on
the contrary, they increased their pur -
chases ot fertilizers this year, and
many of them drifted back almost to
the all-cotton principle, and p lanted
the largest cotton acreag e ever knowu.,
hoping that the world would p.ay re-i
munerative prices for the staple, no
The disastrius resalt of over-plan-i
ing this year is already clearly shown
by comparison with last year, when
the acreage devoted to cotton was d. --
cidedly loss.
Las. year the amoun; of cotton mar
keted to January lst was 6,398,192
bales. the average price realr zrd was
7 53 cents por pound. $37 97 per bale,
r $242, 939 350.
This year 7,260,033 bales were mar
keted to January 1st, the averege
price realized was 6 05 cents ner
pound, $30 49 per bale, or $221,358 406.
The planters shipped to market 861,
841 bales of cotton more by January
1st this year than last, and re:eived
fr them $21, 580.944 less money. In
other words, o wing to the biwer price,
induced by over-production, the peo
pe of the South have lost on cotton
sbippd to market by January 1st this
year, the total value of 611,84L bal s,
namely $32,724,102 and 08S 5Sf0 941 be
sides, usakrng a grand total lkss of
$54,305046
To further lijustrate the rtinous ei
fetof over-plan ting, wetmake the fol
lowing summary o'ecrops and pric s:
Crop. Average Po~
B~;.9. a-. Prce. Poeds,
It wisi De stea 'uat mn 1S93 94 a e ou
of 7549,817 bales sold fr $4 014 395
more ttl the large crop of 9 9A1151
bal s the next yer; ink195 96ia crop
of oly~ 7,157,346 bales br oagnt $3 3i5 -
933 more than the 9.901i crop, and
tnat the crop of 8,7a7,954 oales brotig b!
$38.62,350) more than was received for
9 901 151 ba'es market~d in1894- 95.
~ucn inconate.naLe? facts shoWw vhat
enormous losis toe S aiah Las tus
taed by over-prduction, and are
suliient to cause~ a radicai enaa ce im
patig operationts.
It is concededl en every band that
the price thus far received for this
3eara c:. p nas yielded no proLi to) :e
plaer, and even thougzh more tean
two tirds of the crcop nas been sold to
this date, prices are even yet oeio yj
the c o~ f produ.~L. -
(L aecan~tt of the. large crop andI
lov DrictS resuhinig tuerefrom, it iu of
viii imaportance, no'. only to the
Sojth, tut tue whole couatry, that
th cotton acre age for the next 5ear be
m aieialy reduced, in order to ad-!i
atce the price of tne greatest producnt
of the Uuited States to a paying basis.1
If the planters of she South iudfer
loss te peonl of the whole country6.
Royal makes the food pure,
w holesomc and delici:us.
JOYA
POWDER
Absolutely Pure
ROYAL BAM C CO"ER CC., %EW YORK.
nust share in it.
Tne South cannot s and another cot
n crop. of .he same dimensions as
his year's, without bringing about
lisaster and bankrupty to planters
wad handlers of cotton, and relative
farm to the zeneral mercantile inter
;t of that seotion.
The price of cotton is more readily
flaenced by the in, x rable law of
upply and demard than any other
rticle of c~mmerc-. for no commodi:
y is so sersitve to ii ictuaticns, and
when a superabundance is hanging
)ver the market, cotton trade in all its
)ranches is adversely affected.
Cotton raising in this country is
virtually a tonopoly-two thirds of
be entire producti.,n each year is
eadily taken by buyers in forei2n
>untries, and the ihntirs n the
3 )uth are justly entitled to a fair re
nueration for their labor. An over
upply is the only reason why they
Save to sell 6,000,000 to 7,000,000 bales
f cotton to fcr.ign spinners, withet
arc fit.
The cotton crop can and should be
nade the most profitable in this coun-.
y. it is wholly the planter's fault
hat such is not the case, as the figures
in this letter clearly show.
Tne cotton int# rest of every kind,
very where, woul prefer an advanc
ing market to a declining one, good
prices t- poor ener, because trade in
all of its ramifications is quickened
thereby. Even the cor su-r'-rs of cot
ton goods are so slightly affected by
an advance of even two or three cents
per pound in the raw mattrial that
they are nit unwilling that the nlant
er be well paid for his labcr. But, if
the planting interests of the South con
tinue to increase cotton acreage year
after year, continual loss is inevita
ble.
The mere fact that a large crop has
been planted affects the price adversely
at once, and ccntinues to affect it un
til the crop has been marketed, and if
the planters of the south would deter.
mine to largely reduce the acreage a
favorable irnfluence upon prices and
the cotton trade of t) e world would at
nce become apparent.
By the s: s ematic and cc-operative
ction between the merchants and
lanters the cotton crop must be kept
nthin xeasonable trade demar da or
else destroy the most valuable source
f profit to the mercanti'eat d agricul
tul interest cf the South. For the
'cod of all concerned it would be in
fitely better any year to make a mil
ion bales less cotton than half a mil
ion ba'es more than necessary.
The ma'erial welfare of the South
i more dependent upon her cotton
crop than upon all ode- sources of ic
me combin~ed, and it. is entirely with
he planters and cotton commission
erchants to determine whether the
value of this crop shall from year to
year be a source of annually increas
ng profit or a so~rce of disappoint
unt and loss. ____
An Im portant Decision.
The Eupreme Court of the United
states has recently rendered one of
he most imprtant decisions that his
2me from that tribunal in some time.
The case was one int enich the heirs of
man who h ad commi~ted suicide sue d
o recover a large amount of itnsurance
n his life. The plaintiffs won the
c.se in the lower court, but the su
preme r.urt held that no insurance
ould be recovered on an irsurance
policy held by a man wnbo was sane
when he committed suicide. Tne de
cision implies that the court dons not
accept the ccmmonly held theory that
no suicide is in his rizat mind. The
ourt argued that to compel the pay
1nt of polices such as those in ques
ton would be to put a premium upon
sel destruction by cfferirg incentives
ich might overcome those whose
only hesitancy about~ committing sui
cide is the fear of leavioe destitu e
persons who are di p -r den t u pon them
I, by insuring their lives il-avily and
aing a tithe of the premium requir
ed by the cempanies they c >uid make
sre of the supprt of these sum-vvors
this bar to suicide, wbit h maiy be faie
ly consicered as influer cng marny
e to prevent their self-destruction,
oula Dc ,Aifnar1nf. inle Atliata
Journal thinks the ab~ve pretty
sound reasoning. out says insuran'-e
is often paid wt era all the evidenie
aces to snow that the holce? of toe
policy was sane and ishnited his self
dstruction with the utmost delite-a
lin. Some insu-ance comdpA es co -
ider it good policy to psy al such
caims without ga'-tion Tn~e elf et
o~the supreme court's decion~ wisl
eran'y be, however, to ircrea e
itigation over the psyrneat of ins.uA
ance policies where the ou'--ton cf
auicide is raised.
GOT HIx Ar iA-S - I' e Al
~onution tells of an old darky weh
i 'r day with anotlher 'ar y "Y
b. he said wiib epr ts ' I gune
pow, for shc : Y o~ a'- ar m.,2AJ
Le linglfl don c yte i 'e " e'
ib " the old man contiu2d by way c!
Soaiition, "'0 bI o .e ~ers(o d n' xt
arest; I co .e see lo'- (- bl.e m
t daou by de~ -'ae' er Ga m m-s
ultors, b"t no, m. i a ole g,
leae Gjo de wani as a t a a
a U ut erolb .
te Yited States was as oes in i- Y
thywere is 1S96. the .er ' f en e
on and great depressi.-re we
i~e. the mo.:ury qu.e - 'a-t e
id stau-Ja:d :-nine, th ges
eiaiI dish'onor e miln - : -
1 ove bado is u - he a. ng. em
reth a dcuole 1e.r of chickers.
ih a dusk or tso tero-n at a
et the faiures are -e.:er than eyt
.d the i utin-ssa L. seCs more iu
b, yes, busn is r envig--dc wn
An exchne ay t-e- r o , E
e feest Ie/c o s tV en tc
ftbe postc!U~e the :na. who coit
)aids of -i. psc er pig she preach
the L ast , -t 'u woo coipilns
be most cof 2 s neighbo~r, is the meau
t nihbor, and th~e man who nas
latsense. is the mon con el'ed.