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SOCIAL CLUBS IX THE STATE.
Many of Them Simply Places for
Keeping Liquor.
A Since the first of the year twentyfive
"social clubs" have been chartered
by the secretary of state. Taking
\ the "social club" in its generally accepted
term, it means that although
South Carolina will be dry in name,
nevertheless in reality it will be very
wet and it is very improbable that
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i any 01 tne rnirsiy \>m suuci.
"social <^ubs" are located in all sections
of the State, especially in Columbia
and Charleston. The "social
clubs" are supposed to have a num*
ber of members and a few lockers on
< the wall; however, it is not very
much trouble for a man to gain admittance
and buy any kind of a drink
that he desires.
A well known South Carolinian
said to-day in speaking of the "so^
cial clubs": "South Carolina will
herald to the world to-morrow that
it is dry, yet it is possible for anybody
to buy a drink in many of the
towns of the State, and Columbia and
Charleston are wide open, as the common
expression goes. Now, it seems
to me that it is up to the officers to
get in behind these men in charge of
the 'social clubs,' and if we are to
? have prohibition, let's have it
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Mr. J. T. Gantt, when secretary of
8tate, in his report of 19^5 to the
legislature, says: "I would suggest
that you would adopt some measure
that would correct the abuse of the
privilege of incorporation by certain
clubs or social organizations which
notoriously use their charters to
cloak the illegal sale of liquor. I am
advised that this office acts in a ministerial
capacity in granting charters,
t and that, except in the case of railroad
corporations, no authority is attempted
by law to be given to reject
any application for a charter for any
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quirements of the law are complied
with. I would suggest that you con1
. fer the power upon this office to refuse
to grant a charter to a club or
> social organization, in the event that
the chief State constable files an affidavit
that he has reason to believe
the applicants intend to violate the
dispensary law."
The legislature took no action upon
the above suggestion.
The "Social Club*' Act.
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The following is the act passed by
the legislature under which the "social
clubs" are chartered:
"Section 1. Be it enacted by the
general assembly of the State of
South Carolina, the secretary of state
is hereby authorized and empowered
to issue certificates of incorporation
^ to any church, college, school, lodge,
ociety, company or other association,
having no capital stock divided
into shares, but holding or desiring
to hold property in common for religious,
educational, social, fraternal,
charitable or eleemosynary purposes
other than for the insurance of life,
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neaitn, accident, or piuyciL.v.
4,Sec. 2. Any lodge, church, college,
school, society, association or company
organized for the purpose aforesaid,
may after giving at least three
/ days public notice in one or more
newspapers published in the county
in which the organization is perfected,
file in the office of secretary of
" state, a written declaration signed
by two or more of the officers or
agents elected or appointed to super
v vise or manage its affairs, setting
* . forth, first: The names and resi4'
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, dences of the petitioners; second, the
name of the proposed corporation;
third, the place at which it proposes
to have its headquarters or be located;
fourth, the purpose of the proposed
corporation; fifth, the names
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sua resiueuucs Ul CLll I,iie uwvv.u,
> managers, trustees, directors or other
officers or agents of the proposed corporation
at the time the application
is made; such other information as it
may desire or the secretary of state
j may require."?Columbia special to
> Augusta Chronicle.
Forty-five Millions Spent Annually
for Fertilizers.
The editorial statement that four
Southern States spend annually $45,
000,000 for fertilizers is well worth
the thoughtful attention of every
? farmer, for fully one third of this is
spent for nitrogen. Fifteen millions
of dollars for what every farmer!
can get without money and with- i
t out price, and can make a profit in!
the getting! It is a sad 1 commen
tary on the farming of the South that
% this vast amount of money is absolutely
wasted every year by farmers
in but four States.
If the Government levied a tax of
that amount on the four States, what
a howl would go up. And yet the
farmers alone pay this needless tax
simply because they depend on the
? fertilizer man and fail to farm right.
The cost of the crops in the four
States is increased by this amount,
all of which might be saved, and is
saved Dy rarmers in omer states vuo
have learned how to get their nitrogen
free of cost.?Progressive Farmer.
SOUTH UNJUSTLY TREATED.
Senator Smith Says Conferees Have
Behaved Very Badly.
Washington. Aug. 5.?Senator
Smith, of South Carolina, speaks ol
the tariff bill as a sectional measure.
He calls attention to the fact that
binding twine, which is used by the
Western farmers, is on the free list,
while cotton bagging, used by the
Southern farmers, is on the dutiable
list.
Cotton bagging, he said, was
placed on the free list in the senate,
Senator Aldrich accepting the amendment
without protest. In fact, he
said, the senator from Rhode Island
gave the Southern senators to understand
that he would stand for the
amendment in conference. But it
seems, he added, that Senator Lodge
was strong enough to kill the amendment.
If the Southern senator had had
any idea that the conferees would be
any idea that, the-conteiees .would in
conference have treated the South
in such a fashion they would still be
debating the tariff bill.
The South Carolina senator said
such treatment of the South was a
rank discrimination against one section
of the country as in favor of another.
No Jobs for Democrats.
Washington, August 4.?Applicants
for positions as supervisors of
the census in South Carolina should
apply to L. W. C. Blalock and J. G.
Capers. For some time The News
and Courier correspondent has made
repeated efforts to ascertain what
line of policy Director Durand, of the
census bureau, would follow with regard
to the appointment of census
supervisors in the South, especially
in South Carolina. Mr. Durand has
apparently been as much in the dark
as any one else, but gradually little
by little his plans are unfolding.
To members of the South Carolina
delegation in congress, who have importuned
Mr. Durand for some indication
as to what he would do, the
latter has been exceedingly stingy
with his information. To-day, however,
it is learned through one of the
South Carolina members that Demo
crats are to fare very poorly when
the appointments are made, if, indeed,
any at all are recognized; that
all applications, must have the Blalock-Capers
"OK." before they will
be given consideration; and that
lastly, in counties like Beaufort and
Charleston, where there is a large
negro population, the latter are to be
rewarded with appointments as enumerators
in many of the sections
where the negroes outnumber the
whites.
Representative Patterson, who saw
Director Durand to-day about the
matter, informed the director that it
would not do to appoint negro enumerators,
and he further informed
him that so far as the white people
of Beaufort and other counties in
South Carolina are concerned, they
would not stand for it. It was then
practically aeciaea tnai negroes
should work only in negro sections
and white men in white sections. It
came out in the interview that Capers
and Blalock would probably advise
all applications before final action.
Mr. Capers has acted with considerable
courtesy to the members of
the delegation who have approached
him about the matter, taking into
consideration the fact that he
could hardly be supposed to fall in
with their plans for the appointment
of Democrats. There is no fault,!
therefore, with him.
From all over South Carolina applications
for these places are ponr-|
ing in, but no appointments would
be made, this correspondent was today
informed, before October 1.
PATRICIDE RELEASED ON BOND.
Mississippian who Killed His Father
Pleads Self-Defense.
Quitman, Miss., August 7.?Ollie
Williams, charged with the murder
of his father, J. C. Williams, several
weeks ago, was released on bond aftqr
preliminary hearing to-day. Williams
pleaded self-defense and testified
that his father had threatened
to kill him on several occasions.
Several of his sisters and brothers
said that the elder Williams required
them to sell whiskey and made their
home a resort for drunken negroes.
Signs Tariff Bill.
Washington. August 6.?President
Taft at 5:06 o'clock this afternoon
signed the tariff bill at the capitol
soon after the senate had finally
passed the measure and both houses
jhad adopted the concurrent resolu[tion
making shoes made partly of
calf skin, dutiable at 10 per cent.
|The house adjourned sine die at 5:38
p. m.
j President Taft issued a statement
j to-night subsequent to signing the
I new tariff bill, declaring that while
[the measure is not by any meaiis
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perfect it is a sincere ana nonest eifort
to carry out platform pledges
and embodies a real revision downward.
WOMAN" CUTS NEGRO'S THROAT.
Hotel Porter Enters Lady's Room and
Receives Wound at Her Hands.
Gainesville. Ga., August 6.?Edwin
Matthews, colored, night porter at a
iocal hotel, early this morning had
his throat cut by Mrs. Mamie Lawson
for entering her room through a window.
Mrs. Lawson arrived last night j
from Jefferson, Ga., and was assigned
to her room, Matthews being dirantcd
V>v tho rnVht Hprk tn nerform
this duty. Later, Matthews knocked j
on the door and asked to enter to see i
about a key, which he did.
Mrs. Lawson became uneasy after;
the negro left, and fastened her door j
securely, the negro having acted
queerly.
Between 1 and 2 o'clock this morning
she was awakened by some one
sitting on the side of her bed. She
instantly grabbed a knife, which she
had placed under her pillow,, and cut
the negro's throat, inflicting a serious
wound.
Matthews was then carried to the
county jail, where he was kept until
3 o'clock this afternoon, when Sheriff
Crow carried him to Atlanta for
safe keeping, intense feeling having
been engendered by the negro's action.
All 111C value VI vw? AWW?
Rude dentistry wa% practiced at
least two centuries before the opening
of the Christian era. Scientific
dentistry is a development of the last
century. Proper appreciation of the
teeth is a quality yet to be thoroughly
cultivated among the masses, even of
civilized nations. There is fresh and
startling proofs of its lack in the report
following the recent examination
of nearly 500 school children
from the tenements of New York.
Only 14 of these young pupils were
found with sound teeth. There were
2,808 unsound teeth among the 486
children. But 25 of the lot had received
dental attention in other form
than by extraction. The boys and
girls examined were of the number
who have applied for permits to leave
school and go to work. Assuming
that they fairly represent in their
dental conditions the larger part of
the humbler school army, a tremendous
field is revealed for the work of
the philanthropic clinic and for a
campaign of education among parents
Bad teeth are not bad for themselves
alone. They influence the general
health and affect depressingly
the vitality of their possessors. In
Germany insurance companies find it
well to look after the mouths of their
clients. Among the best physicians
everywhere the importance is now
understood of tafeingv the teeth into
consideration in the work of diagnosis
and prescription.
The truth cannot be too urgently
and persistently spread that care of
the teeth is even more important to
the physical welfare than it is essential
to personal cleanliness.?New
York World.
McLendon's Suspension Approved.
Atlanta. Ga.t Aug. 5.?S. G. Mc
Lendon, chairman of the State railroad
commission, who was removed
by Former Gov. Hoke Smith, stands
suspended, the house late this afternoon
adopting the resolution of suspension
by a vote of 129 to 40. The
senate had previously taken similar
action.
While Gov. Smith removed McLendon
for the latter's alleged favorit- i
ism to the railroads, a legislative investigation
committee developed the
fact that McLendon had been dealing
in street railway bonds. This is declared
to be in violation of the law.
McLendon, it is stated, will appeal
to the courts in an effort to retain i
his position on the commission. i
Post-Hole Digger Used for Killing.
Butler, Ga., Aug. 5.?As a result
of a dispute over a small business 1
transaction between renter and land I
owner Tuesday afternoon near But- |
ler, M. C. Daniel, aged 60, was slain
by A. J. Peacock, a young farmer,
about 25 years old, who interceded
for his father, T. J. Peacock. '
TVia imnlpmont nsprl was a nost-1 I
hole digger, with which A. J. Peacock
struck McDaniel one blow over
the left eye, causing death in about
two hours.
t/j. Peacock and McDaniel were
brothers-in-law and neighbors, and
their families have been the best of
friends for many years until Tuesday.
At the time of the trouble McDaniel
was engaged in helping the older,
Peacock put up a wire fence with the
assistance of the latter's son and other
members of both families, including
the wife of the man killed, all of
whom witnessed the unfortunate occurrence.
At the inquest held conflicting
statements were made by the witnesses.
The coroner's jury, in ar- {
riving at a verdict, placed the blame |
upon young Peacock, who surrender- ,
ed to the sheriff of Taylor county ]
and is now in jail awaiting commit- '
ment trial. (
All parties are prominent farmers. (
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present. We have on display
Cut Gla-i
!and Hand Painted China, and
it is the price. We have mosl
lines. The Silver was made
factory at Hartsville, S. C. '
line over just to see what can
at our doors. We are always
you wish to make a purchase <
Come V
shine when it comes to Founl
Fountain Pen manufactured,?
guaranteed to give perfect sat
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we have never had one returm
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