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PROHIBITION IN TENNESSEE Liquor Interests Fighting Law to Last IHtch. Prohibition victories are never easily won. Triumph at the polls is not always followed by legislative enactment in accord with the expressed will of the majority of the voters. Who doubts this statement has only to re-read the history of the special election on this subject in South r<?i so-) whon a majority / ? . V'Cli UXiJlCi 1U _ of the Democrats declared for prohibition and the legislature, at Tillman's instance, gave them the dispensary. In the language of Scripture. they asked for a fish and were given a serpent. And even where a legislature gives a statute in accord with the will and wish of a majority of the voters, victory is still not secured until that statute has run the , ' gauntlet of the courts. And even when it has done that, the people > are often robbed of the fruits of victory by officials who will not make the statute enecxive. a majum. the Tennessee voters favor prohibition, but its enemies are fighting hard to keep prohibition from being really effective in that State. The fight has been waged fiercely, but on Saturday the Tennessee supreme court took the last prop from under the saloons and liquor in Tennessee when it declared the "nuisance law" passed by the last general assembly constitutional. The law not only gives the courts power to close sa* loons, but to confiscate property within the State used for the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors for interstate trade. A petition signed by ten citizens of a county will invoke the nuisance law and where a violation of the prohibition law is prpven, the courts can seize the property used for the illegal traffic and advertise it for sale in a manner similar to the sale of property for delin' , quent taxes. The effect of the law is to make owners of property jointly liable for / violations of the prohibition laws by thpir tenants or sub-tenants. Pro ceedings under the nuisance law have / already be^en instituted in Memphis and Knoxville and are threatened in Nashville and Chattanooga. It is probable a test case will be carried to the United States courts on constitutional grounds. Liquor interests never give up until the last ditch has been crossed, always hoping that while a law inimichl to them is being fought in the courts, they imay jcarrv an election which will give them power to repeal or nullify the laws they are fighting. The Tennessee law will win out in the Federal courts, for it invofces the same police power which is exercised in the Iowa and District of Columbia Plaws against property used for social vice purposes.?Greenville Piedmont. A Royal Mexican Ghost. , 1 The hot springs of Las Siervas near Valle de Canisos, in a remote part of the State of Guerrero, Mexico, have been visited from the outside world, says the Boston Transcript, but they are famous in the legends and history of the Indian tribes of that part of the republic. According tathe natives, the waters of the springs possess great medicinal Tirnn??rtieR. In ancient times the springs were the favorite bathing resort of the noble families of the Tepaneca, Alcolhua and other tribes that lived in that region. On both sides of the chief spring there are huge rocks with hieroglyphics and the figures of women beautifully carved. 1 Judging from the robes worn by the women, their stately appearance and the jewels around their necks, the figures must represent princesses or ladies of very high rank. The spring is at the entrance to a grotto that has never been explored. From the grotto a rumbling sound resembling distant thunder is to be heard all the time. According to natives, the rumble is caused by the ghost of King Excamina, who ruled over that part of the country three or four centuries before the Spaniards discovered America. King Excamina. the tradition says, was as bad as man could be. He murdered people merely for the (pleasure of seeing them die and committed every crime. He had his palace constructed in another cave, which communicated with that of the spring by a tunnel. There Excamina, in company with some of his favorites, had orgies that lasted weeks and months. Commercialism. "Here is a poem that will rank with the masterpieces of literature." "You will insist on writing masterpieces!" protested the publisher. *1 suppose you would expect real money for this." "Its value could not be estimated in dollars and cents." "Why, Milton only got $25 for 'Paradise Lost.' " "Oh, well, if you feel that way about it, have your own way. Take it along for $24.98." A nice spotted pony for sale at Jones Bros*, stables *v v , ' HOJRSES THE SIZE OF IKXiS. 1 Legend of the American Desert Opei Secret to Geologists. Horses, some no larger than shepherd clogs, and others so old in hisjtorv that until this year it had not been believed thev had existed on I the Western Continent, once cavortled and frisked on the .Mojave Desert and, after cavorting and frisking, left i traces that have rewritten much in the science of historical geology. Fos sils picked up within a twelve-montli ion the wastes of the desert in Nevaida tell a story of a cpieer old world when animals could gallon, unstopped jby water, the whole measure of the World's circumference, j In the face of- rocks all the waj | from France to China have been i found fossilized remains of the famous Hipparton horse of the Plio cene Age. but until the .Mojave told iits story to Prof. John Campbell Mer riam, of the University of California this country was thought to have (been one of the newer lands where j pliocene animals never roamed. The i discovery gave proof to the theorj tnat tne continents were cuuuetieu and brought a tinge of authenticit} to the cherished legend of the "vanished bridge of land." The Mojavt went further. A world-wide search for the particular species of Dobbin that ran wile before the Hipparion had never filled the gap in knowledge until the California professor started digging again in the .Mojave, the Thousand Creeks, Virgin Valley and Mina fossil fields of Nevada. Then was discovered the horse of the middle 01 late Miocene Age, the great-grandaddy of the Hipparion. and proof positive that, so far as present research can show, horses inhabited what is now tfce Pacific coast before the} trotted over the slopes of the "older' continent. The storv of the horse, as writter in fossils today, means that they orig inated not many miles from San Fran cisco, and have roamed over a world This continent is no longer to be de spised as the "new" one, because ii was discovered by men at a latei date.?San Francisco Chronicle. The Governor Throws a Fit. The subterfuge of throwing a fil is as old as Aesoph's Fables, we be lieve, and the story of the goat thai got upon a high rock to taunt anc challenge his enemy, we know, is in< corporated in that storehouse of human incentives. If Governor Blease overheard a man say in a drug store at Bamberg yesterday that he was "going to heai Blease speak today, as it would be the last speech Blease would evei make," why did he not confront the "coward." as he afterward called hin from the platform, and ask him thei and there what he meant by his remark, and hold him to personal account for it? Why wait until he got on the platform, surrounded by police officers and constables, and protected by the crowd, to call the unknown man z "coward," and challenge him to appear. It is possible some person of sound political judgment in Bamberg made the remark that he was going to heai Governor Blease speak, as it would probably be the last speech of his political career that the governor would make, but if such a very likely speech had been made, it was, no doubt, perfectly innocent and entirely justified by the probabilities presented by tht present political outlook. Of course, if the speaker had meanl anything else, Governor Blease would have called him down on the spot, il he was anything like the valiani swash-buckler he pretends, but it it likely that it did not occur to him tc make political capital out of it, in his present desperate need, to divert attention from his official record, until he reached the stand, or until after the incident occurred, at -all events if it occurred at all. We are all "tough and devilisn sly." like Joey Bagstock, when it comes to inventing things we could have said, and deeds we could have done after the event.?Columbia Record. Money for Fish Station. Washington, June* 29.?Senator Tillman today offered an amendmenl to the sundry civil bill appropriating $2ff,000 for an addition to the fisli cultural station at Orangeburg, explaining that it was identical with the amendment which Representative Lever endeavored to have adopted b> the House last week. If the Senate adopts the amendment there is a good chance of retaining it in conference "Happy," a big mastiff, smelling smoke, unlatched the back door oi Robert Graham's home, in Southington. Conn., rushed to Graham's bedroom and aroused him. Graham ther aroused ten other members of the family, who barely escaped deatl; from suffocation. The flames destroyed the house. . HOW NATURE YIELDS ROWER. 1 Sun's Rays, Waterfalls, Tides, Wine and Unmined Coal as Source. In several ingenious ways the fore es of nature are now exploited in or: der to provide power for machinery i .necessary for various human activi jties. Such apparatus is especially fa. Ivored by engineers, for not only can : enormous power be obtained but the i running expenses are extremely low. -1 One of the most ingenious of these i inventions is that which obtains pow ler from the rays of the sun. The ap [ paratus is at worn in tvgypi, wnere n I pumps up water on to high levels in thousands of gallons. This novel device consists of a numr ber of reflecting mirrors which coni centrate the rays of the sun on to a glass covered trough containing wat er. In a short space of time this [ water becomes sufficiently heated by - the reflection from the mirrors to give , off steam, which passes into a pipe tc > an engine of the usual steam variety. > When some 30 or 40 of these heat> ing boxes are boiling i-ater by means ' of the sun's heat sufficient steam is , obtained to keep a powerful pumping engine at work with a minimum oi - expense. > Some idea of the enormous powei which the sun machine conveys to th< - engine can be guaged by the fact thai I 3,000 gallons of water can be lifted - 40 feet in one minute. In many in> genious ways water is now trapped ; by means of dams, gigantic reservoirs [ and great stretches of piping and con. verted into power for various pur. poses. Many great waterfalls are now har. nessed in such a fashion, two of the . most noted being the falls of the i Rhine and those of Niagara. The ; machinery used to obtain power fron: : these great products of nature is somewhat complicated, but roughh speaking huge pipes divert tons ol i water from the rapids just above the . fall. The trapped water is then al. lowed to fall some hundreds of feel and the force of the fall produces . enormous power. The falls of Niagare t are made to produce little short o: - 1,000,000 horsepower. Still more ingenious is anothei method of producing power from set water by the rise and fall of the tides portions of the coast where higl t tides are the rule are chosen and i ' number of clefts in the cliffs an t constructed or those of nature espeI cially adapted. The water runs fai * into the openings at nign uae ana di means of pipes is trapped into huge reservoir. When the tide falls hun 1 dreds of gallons of water are thus > left behind. Being on a high leve it is then a comparatively simple mat J tei^to drop this water by means o: pipes to a level many feet below and 1 utilize the power thu6 obtained by the 1 usual water jets acting on speciallj 1 constructed wheels. Wind is still trapped and converted into power by windmills, but these machines are very different from th( Id types of mill with its four big sails * The modern windmill is a scientifical - Iv constructed apparatus, the driving i constructed apparatus, the driving force consisting of a wheel containing a number of steel blades, placed ai 1 such an angle that they respond tc 5 every puff of wind. So delicate is the construction of these instruments thai 1 even a moderate breeze will whirl the * large wheel around at many hundred I revolutions a minute. This motioi 1 acts on a shaft which provides powei for electric -dynamos below. These 1 machines are used mostly in coast J towns or those situated on high levels where wind blows more or less conctnnt 1 j One of the most ingenious projects f for harnessing the forces of nature : is that conceived by Sir William Ram[ say, and despite its daring nature il ? h$s been well received in high scien> tific circles. His plan is to take the heat of the earth's interior by means I of huge bore holes. These shafts " would be sunk deep into the earth, sc . that they penetrated into large coal seams. By means of electricity this ' coal would be fired until it burned ' like some powerful internal furnace I By means of pipes the gas given ofl ! by this burning coal would be con veyed to the surface and in various ways utilized for power purposes The advantage of this scheme is thai power could be derived from coal as it lay in its natural element and the cost of mining it and bringing it uf : would be avoided.?Washington Dis> patch to New York Sun. Torrid Locality. One hundred and nine degrees at . I Madeline,' was me neaaune inai , greeted .Mr. Fallguy's eye. "Great Cae[ sar's ghost," he exclaimed, "how car people live in a town like that?"? Buffalo Express. Not Qualified. - "Will you he one of the Whistlei i group i At our artists' fete?" they wrote, t "I'd like to very much," she replied "But I can not whistle a note." ?Boston Transcript. 178,-> 1914 COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ' South Carolina's Oldest College 1:19th Year I logins Sept. 25. Entrance examinations at all the county seats on Friday, July 3rd, at 9 a. m. Full four year courses lead to the B. A. and B. S. degrees. A twoyear pre-medical course is given. A free tuition scholarship is assigned to each county of the State. Spacious buildings and athletic .grounds, well equipped laboratories, unexcelled library facilities. Expenses reasonable. For terms and catalogue, address HARRISON RANDOLPH. Pres. , Real Estate Bargains 200 acre farm with dwelling worth $2,500 and other out buildings, all for $5,009. Situate near the Kearse npiflihnrlmnd This is a bargain. i Several good farms in Buford's Bridge township for ? 1 -".00 per acre. , Good bargains and terms to suit purchasers. I A good piece of Main street property for sale. Rents for .$.32..10 per month or $390 per annum. Will sell ; for cash for $4,000. : 650 acre tract of land lying on . Southern Railway near large lumber j plant for sale $13,000. Well timbered. with excellent improvements. Land suited for trucking or tobacco. Timber worth the money. I H.M. GRAHAM l BAMBERG, S. C. Men Who Hoonnn/l. L/VO^V/llV?~ H Wf ' -JB5 ! Discourt aged You who are suffering from Xerv1 ous Debility, Rheumatism, Kidney, f Bladder, Rectal Troubles, Constipation. Organic Weakness, Blood Poison, Piles, Etc., Consult me and I will Tell You Promptly if You Can be i Cured. 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