The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, June 14, 1894, Image 4
THE DISPENSARY LAW.
A 8THOXCJ DGI'hAi K lt\ \N Alil.K
l,t\ \V Y Kit.
The State Hn? tliel'owor to I'rolillili
i In* Liquor Tea tlte hikI Suhjrrt ?In*
'I'ratlp to ItpstriclioiiN and I'oluc
Supervision.
I'nivvrsity Law Iteview.
[Tho ant hat- of tlie following art iritis
i'rof. C. C. Tiedcnutn. of the 1'diversity
of Now York, who is ti recognized
authority upon tho police powers <>f a
State, and a lawyer of eminent ability. |
The South Carolina Dispensary Law
is. for America at least, an untried
and novel experiment, not only in the
restraint and control of the consumption
of intoxicating liquors, but likewise
in governmental interference with
the freedom of trade. Heretofore, the
control of the liquor Irudo has Wen
routined to total prohibition of the
sale and manufacture of intoxicating
liquors, except for medicinal, mechanical,
and sacramental purposes, and
in,, .,v?...? .. is - >
uv UAOVklUU ?>1 Jl I1UOUVU iruiu IdlOBU
who encase in its sale and manufacture.
And the chief constitutional
objection to such legislation is the
charge that the personal liberty of the
private consumer has been unduly interfered
with by the rigid removal ol
his opportunities of procuring the
liquor he desires to consume, and the
indirect prohibition of his use of intoxicating
liquors by confining its sale
for other uses than as a beverage.
Notwithstanding this serious objection
to the constitutionality of the prohibition
law, total prohibition has been
sustained by every court of last resort,
before which the question has been
raised. As a practical question ol
constitutional law, it must be considered
as settled that the state government
has the power, unless exuresslv
restrained hv enlist it at iomi I
provisions, to prohibit altogether tho
huIo unci manufacture of intoxicutiug
liquors, or to subject tho trndo to
wtiatovor restrictions and police
supervision, short of total prohibition,
may bo suggested to tho discretion ol
the Legislature. And in tho majority
opinion of the South Carolina Supreme
Court, it is conceded that a law, which
prohibited the sale and manufacture
of intoxicating liquor, would be constitutional.
The South Carolina Dispensary law
does not undertake to prevent the
consumption of liquor by those who
desire it, but aims to diminish or
removc altogether the evils of the
liquor trade, by prohibiting all private
trade in intoxicating liquors, and providing
for the future prosecution ol
the trade as a government monopoly.
If therefore, the constitutionality of
this dispensary law can be successfully
attacked, it must l>o on some other
ground thau that it is in the nature of
a sumptuary law, and that it unduly
restricts the personal liberty of the
citizen. The only practical restraint,
to which lu,' is subjected, is the
necessity of purchasing his liquor from
the State, and of drinking it in some
other pluco than where he purchases
it.
If the Dispensary Law had provided
for the establishment of a private
monopoly, granting to one or more
parties, or to a private corporation, the
exclusive privilege of the manufacture
and saleof intoxicating liquors, it would
bo impossible to successfully contend
against its constitutionality, as long
as you concede the constitutionality
of prohibition laws. If it bo within
the power of a State government to
prohibit an objectionable .trade altogether,
it is within its discretion to
avoid the evil of a promiscuous pro-1
socution of the trade, either bv exacting
it tiiiri. r....... II i...
.. Q ? ( 1IW1IOV II V/III HIUOU >1 II" |
cnguge ill it," which operates ais u
partial prohibition, or by grunting to
0110 or moro parties, the monopoly of
the trade. If there was at any titno
any doubt as to the power of a Slate
government, as a police regulation, to
convert into a monopoly, a trade whose
unrestricted prosecution threatens the
public with disastrous evils, that doubt
was solved by the decision of the
Supreme Court of the United States in
the celebrated Slaughterhouse Cases
(Id Wall. .'10], The Legislature of
Ivouisiunu had granted to a private
corporation the exclusive right of
maintaining a slaughterhouse, for the
slaughter of all the cattle for the New
Orleans market, and compelled all the
butchers of New Orleans to bring their
cattle to the promises of this corporation
for slaughter, upon payment of a
reasonable lee to the corporation.
The reason for the establishment of
this monopoly, was the inability, in a
inn en inure iiKu nun 01 Louisiana, ol
throwing arouiul the slaughter anil
salt; of fresh moat, the police supervision
which is needed there, for the
preservation of the public health of
the city of New Orleans. The Supreme
Court of the United States
declared that, in order to preserve the
public health, the State may make
such a monopoly of the business of
slaughtering cattle, without unduly
interfering with the personal liberty
of the butchers of New Orleans. The
same conclusion is reached in other
eases, in respect to the construction of
gus and water companies and railroad
companies. No one has any so called
natural right to construct a railroad
or gas oi' water-works, and lay pipes
through the highway [See Tiedomans
Limitations of Police Power i luf>].
The public welfare requires that these
devices for human comfort shall be
established as monopolies to be enjoyed
by the public at large, upon payment
of a reasonable compensation.
In many of the States, a very high
license, in many cases, *2,000 is ex ]
acted of the liquor dealer. Such a
license, which is plainly imposed as a |
ponce regulation, maiccs oi me trade
u monopoly, aw to those who are thereby
prohibited from prosecuting it,
because they areunabloor unwilling to
pay the lice use, for the exuetion of
such a license makes it impossible for
more than a limited number to make
a profit out of the business. [See
Tiedeman's Lim. of Police Power \\
101, 105.] All these monopolies have
been sustained by the American
courts.
But the South Carolina Dispensary
Law does not create a private monopoly.
but a government monopoly,
and this is the ground, upon which the
Supreme Court of South Carolina pronounces
the law to be unconstitutional.
They hold that it is beyond the power
of government, without a special grant
of author ty in the Stute constitution,
to engage in a business or trade, a* a
government monopoly even though
the purpose of such a monopoly In; the
promotion of temperance and the
reduction or removal of the evils of the
liquor trade.
Whatever may bo one's own
opinion of the wisdom or expedience1
of legislation for the promotion of
tornperanee, or of the correctness of
the opinion of the South Carolina
Court, as a question of constitvtional
law, one must admire the courage and
professional hraver.v of the majority of
the court, in pronouncing a law to be
unconstitutional on so fundamental a
proposition of political science, when
the whole trend of public and judicial l
opinion, under the socialistic influences
of the day -which are nowhere
stronger than tiiey arc to-day in the
State of South Carolina is tiriuly
and pcrinancntly set in the direction
of recognizing the power of tlie government
to assume tlie prosecution of
what has hitherto been a private business,
whenever such a policy serves
to promote tlie public welfare. It has
now become a matter of common experience.
for municipal governments
to encase in the business of supplying
private consumers with water, gas,
and electric light ; and nowhere, in
this country, except in South Carolina,
has anv court pronounced against the
constitutionality of laws, which vest
such powers in municipal governments,
liy way of justification or explication
of this radical departure, the theory
is advanced that the municipal corporation
has a dual character, a public
and a quasi-private character, and
that it owns and conducts its gas,
electric light, and wator plants, in
the latter character. [Ticdcinan on
Municipal Corporations III \ llla.j
This might be urged as a ground of
distinction between State and municipal
monopolies, but it is not an important
distinction : and it must give
way to any permanent popular demand
to tho countrury.
Judged by tho trend of judicial
opinion in this country, tho South
Carolina Dispensary Daw, in so far as
it creates a government monopoly of
the li<|itor trade, must he held to he
constitutional whatever opinion wo
may entertain of its wisdom or expediency.
CllUISTOIMIKK <;. "1*11.DKMAN.
Univorsity of the City of New York,
May,
fOI'Mi IN A IIIBIjI*:.
Strang' ltoiiiuncc Connect <*<1 With
it liosl Mai riaj;*' Cert illealc.
New York Recorder.
John farroll, a saloon keeper at 1(5
Clinton place, has unearthed a romance
that he modestly declares beats anything
he ever heard of. Its chief
actors belong to prominent families in
Virginia, and tho scene of some of its
most interesting episodes was the old
New York hotel, where Mr. far roll
presided over a cafe for twenty odd
years.
When that favorite resort for
Southern visitors to thofgroat metropolis
was torn down a few months ago
' many parting ceremonies were
observed by those who had made it
! their homo for so many years. One of
tho most interesting was a peculiar
service in the cafe. Many^years previllllSilv
till* Will' V.ll'L' ^n/.i.du
hud put u Bible in each of the hotel's
rooms. When tho clearing out time
came Mr. Farrell had gone through
all of tho rooms and collected the
Bibles. On the last, night of his stay
in the house, drinks?cocktails, li/./.os,
Hips, Blinds?wore free in his cafe, and
with every one went one of the Bibles.
As the party waxed hilarious some
startling jokes were perpetrated, hut
the revelers were brought to their
senses by the discovery of a marriage
certificate between the leaves of one
of the IJihles. It was dated in this
I city in lhSU, and was to the elTect that
[ Anna CJarinan, of Danville, Va., had
I been married to Ralph l'reston, of
Richmond, by the Rev. Dr. Deems.
Mr. Farrell took tho cortillcato. He
I concluded to write to Ralph l'reston.
lie did so, hut he never got any reply,
lie put the certificate away in his safe,
with the comment that the world is
very small, and that it might come
into use some day.
He had forgotten all about it, when,
a day or two ago, a middle-aged woman
with an exceedingly pretty face,
her attire black, as if for mourning,
her manner refined and retiring,
timidly sought him in his new cafe
in Clinton place. He was dumfounded
when he learned she was the Anna
Gorman whose name and identity he
mid pondered over so often. She told
him she hud eloped with Ralph 1'reston.
whose father owns a 1 arge estate
near Richmond, in 1 Si> 1, after a civil
marriage, unci they had come to New
York and had a minister unite them.
Then they had gone to the New York
hotel and taken the bridal chamber.
She had put the marriage eortilioate
between the leaves1 of a 13ibio in the
room. Shu intended to take it with
her when they loft, but had forgotten
even that she had put it there. When
Ralph l'reston learned she had lost it
he began to try to get rid of her, she
said. They had gone buck to their
home, but he bad refused to recognize
her. She could not remember what
she had done with her certificate. In
the meantime she had a little boy
baby, but her husband's proud family
had not allowed her take their name.
About a month ago she read in an
old copy of a Now York nowsnaner
how tho liiblcs in tho Now York hotel
hud been made the subject of a
saeriligious servico in tho cafo of Mr.
Furroll. Like a flash it oocurrod to
her that she hud put the cortiliouto in
the Hiblo. Slie hastened to this city.
The woman biP'st into tears as she
finished her story, ami waited in
trembling expectation. Without a
word Mr. Far re 11 went to his safe and
unfolded the certiiicato before her
delighted eyes. She seized it and
kissed it, and said she was going back
to establish her claim as Kalp Preston's
wife at once and t he legitimacy of her
child.
" 1 knew? 1 felt?that she was the
one whom I had been looking and
waiting for all this time," said Mr.
Far roll to a Recorder reporter last
night. " Yes, 1 gave the certificate
to her without any hesitation. From
what she said I judged she was as
much anxious over establishing her
claim to the Preston property as anything
else. She said she had been
unable to establish her civil marriage
to Ralph Preston satisfactorily, and
the family had always insisted ihat no
jyoromony had been hold."
j Tho woman said she was going to
leave for* her Southern home at once.
Dr. Deems is dead, and it was too late
last night when the reporter got to
the rectory of his old church for any
examination of tho records. The
woman promised to write to Mr. Farrcll
as soon us she got homo and hud
begun proceedings to establish her
claims as Ralph Preston's wife but he
hasn't heard from her yet.
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It appear that Thomas .Jefferson
invented the modern plow. There
wero plows, of course, thousands of
years before the time of the sago of
Monticello, hut he first laid down the
mathematical principles that underlie
the construction of the plow, and so
enabled a blacksmith to make one.
A plow consists of two wedges, a cutting
and a lifting wedge, and JofTorson
discovered and enunciated tho proportions
of each, and there lntion each
bore to the other. Lie fore his day no
two smiths made plows alike : now they
are all made in accordance with a
mathomatical formula.
Ma^n tic Nervine, the great restoraivj,
will cause you to sleep like a
child. Try it. Sold by Carpenter
liros., GreeLvillo, S. C.
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Till-; SI 1,1,NT 1IKHOK8.
Men anil Women I'nkiiowii to Kamo? 'I
i The siiiivriiiKH ami Privations of
the I'licoiiiplaiiiK Murtyr*.
Ami (iod said, hot uh tuuku man in our
{ imago a: d our likeness ?(Jene*is 1:2t>. <
Thorn is something exceedingly en- '
eouraging in tiiis statement, with which
1 tho IJiblo opens, l>eeauso it places man 1
j on a high level.
The work of creation was well nigh t
llnishod : the myriads of stars had 1
j wheeled Into linn, ready for their 1
i inuvch through ages ; the earth teemed 1
with frnitfnlness, every manner of N
creation rejoiced in life, and tho whole '
machinery of the universe had been sot v
in motion.
Yet a sense of incompleteness pro- 1
1 vailed, something wus wanting which
) would give significances to the whole.
Without that something all that had
boon done would fall short of perfeo'
tion. Then euino the imperative sug|
gewtion : "Let us make man." Hut
j what kind of a being should lie be?
j The inumerablu host of angels and
! arehangels must huve been (Uled with '
curiosity as they looked on the wondrous
spectacle of revolving worlds, |
conscious that the purpose of creation
was to be revealed. The house had
been built, but it was without an
occupant. "What shall be the shape '
land what the characteristics of this
I new beingV" they asked, and the
answer oamo back : " Let us make man (
, in our image, after our likeness."
Then he must bo a creature with
aspirations, with a thousand possibilities,
with a royal nature, with the !
capacity for exercising sovereignty ,
over physical forces and over himself, '
! a very Cod in miniature, whose inani|
fest destiny is the companionship
I which IJeaven provides. *]
j It may be true that we are prone to
evil, that wo succumb to temptat ion,
| that we have accumulated an uppull!
ing amount of depravity, but the liko'
noss to God is still in the soul and has
j not been educed. Theologians may ]
| toll us that this depravity is total : but
no man can sit in impartial judgment I
on himself without seeing that tnu
elements of true l/roatness remain and
; i.'un bo so dovelopod that ho .-shall become
wholly good instead of partly
! bad. Tho dignity of human nature is ]
a persistent fact which no amount of
I tho theological controversy can elimi- .
unto, and no man in all the multitudo
| but .feels at times the pulsing of higher 1
j hopes and the consciousness that lie
I may yet fulfill his mission.
Mon and women are nobler than we *"
I think. In the great fabric of tho com- '
I munity are golden threads of personal heroism,
of self-sacrifice, of calm and
quiet endurance, that lias never been
told by orator and never sung by poet, i
The heroes and heroines of ordinary Jl
life are too numerous for counting. (
Men and women are daily facing einor- '
gencies which require a loftier cour- 1
ago than was over displayed on the 1
hold of battle. The physical daring t
which under excitement and the im- u
pulse of a love of glory stands amid *
shot and shell and bears the flag aloft 1
through a shower of bullets may be 1
altogether admirable, and is certainly '
worthy of the rewards of honor which J
it receives ; but there is a nobler daring,
and it deserves a far higher meed '
of praise, as when the young man *
catches a glimpse, by a Hash of light n- (
ing thiough the darkness, of the in- H
evitablo results of his evil life, and ^
with a mighty efforts breaks from the (
entanglement of vicious habits and in N
spite of cajoleries and gibes and ieers 1
} claims possession of himself ami main- J
i tains the elaim with a will that no *
. cii'oumstaneos can break.
Who can tell how many experiences '
' of this kind occur ever year in a city '
j like this ? Few hear of them, for they "
are wrought in silence or solitude. 11
| Such a Hercules does not become x
! famous by his acheveinent, hut lie is ^
I nobler than any Olympic god that 1
ever found a place in history or '
mythology. 11
There are wives who hear the brunt 1
of ill fortune without a murmur, bus- 1
hands who struggle with povorty, or ^
impending poverty, with a calm 11
fortitude which excites the pity of the 1
"cloud id witnesses" in the upper air ; '
i both men and women who have secret (
I sufferings so great that their hearts *
are healing a dead march to the grave,
hut from whoso lips no word of complaint
escapes, and girls by the score
who keep themselves unspotted in
spite of fate, preferring the loneliness
of a dingy room with honesty for company
to the gaudy surroundings which
j are bought with impurity of life. 1
These are not rare instances by any
means. If you could peer into the
I souls of the passers by you would find
| them at overv corner. These !?? .> i.tw>
silent gods and goddesses of out*
modern day, whoso statues are not to
bo found in any t'unthcon, but will
certainly bo found in tho temple of
eternity. They belong to tho unrecognized
nobility?to that peerage of
tied who are doomed to suffering today,
but will rejoice with great gladness
to-morrow.
One illustration will sulllee. It is a
pathetic story, but it is also a true one.
The aged father needed constant care,
and the daughter, thinking her first
duty was to him, bade her suitors good
night. While watching at bis side
she developed, a frightful and perhaps
fatal malady. Though she might be
saved by an operation sho refused to
submit lest anxiety should hasten the
parent's death. " I am nothing," she
said ; " lie is everything," and so the
malady reinforced itself week by week.
She deliberately and knowingly spent
herself for him, and he fell into his
last sleep unconscious of the sacrifices
which that noble soul was making.
Total depravity ? It is blasphemy
to utter the words in such a connection.
Hotter far the language of
Gonesis: "Let us make man in our
image, after our likeness."
Human nature is like an armful of
hickory in the fireplace, with an armful
of pine underneath. Tho hickory
needs only to bo kindled, and it will
fill the room with genial heat. Men
and women can do anything under the
proper inllueuco. The capacity is
there ; supply the motive, and there is
no degree of heroism which may not
be attained.?Now York Herald.
? Bamberg has a prodigy in a young
n jgro named John Salley, who is about
1*.) years old. lie attended a local
school and afterwards wont to ClaMin.
Ills ir<>nill>J i? nut 1 :
n ^ . .-.y tiW V/UVy OlVUytl 1UI 111^ ^
knowledge of mathematics is as won- ?
dorful as his memory. Ho can answer
any question in Assyrian, Kgyptian, i
Roman, Grecian and United States v
History. Ho knows arithmetic by
heart, lie was givon the following ox ,.
ample which ho worked in live minutes
: A cube contains .'{,000 cubit inches
The edges ai'O to each other as c
:2, .'1 and -1. Find the length of each ,]
edge? It requires somo originulity to s
work that example and ho worked it. j
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R. C. Taylor, Murfrot sboro. Tenn.,
writes: "I have used the .Inpaneso ti
Rile Cure with great satisfaction and J
success." Sold by Carpenter Rros., y
iGroonville, S. C. v
AMlCltr SYDNKY JOHNS I ON.
lie ltoiuni'kalih' Inscription on the t
Tomb ol' t Ik* Grcm Confederate!
Ltcadcr.
It is stated tliat during tho Federal <
leeupatlon of Now Orleans under Gen. j ]
$. F. Butler tho gravo of Goti. Albert i
iydney Johnston who eame so near
naking a Confederate vletory out of 1
he Shitoli tight, and who was slain in
hat engagement?was subjected to d is- <
espectful treatment. This may or >
nay not have boon true, but it is fur- |
.hot* stated that one morning there
vas discovered, written on a sheet of j
lotepaper, fastened to the rude board, |
vhieh was then its only headstone, \
,li is epitaph: I
behind thi < stone .is I dd. for a season,
All ert Sydney Johnston,
(Jeneral in the ariny of the Confederate i
States, I
Who fell at Shiloh, Tennessee,
On the sixth day of April, A l>.,
Eighteen liundred and sixty-two.
A man tried in many high oilices
And critical enterprises, 1
And found faithful in all. i
lis life was one long sacrifice of interest <
to conscience, I
Anil even that life on a woful Snhtmth ?
IS,I 1... Yflnl.l no Iw.l I !
.'?? ?iv Iiuxvwilim I'l lll? nniiltrv's
need.
Not wholly understood was lie while
lie lived ;
tot in liis death his greatness stands confessed
in a people's tears,
desolate, modest, clear of envy, yet not
wnnting
n thai lirni ninhition which makes men
great and pure,
In his honor impregnable,
In his simplicity sublime,
So country e'er had a truer . on. no < utse a 1
nobler champion,
No people a holder defender, 110 principle i
a purer victim
Than the dead soldier
Who sleeps here!
the causo for wliieh no perished is lost?
Tiie people for whom he fotight are
crushed?
The hopes in which he trusted are
shattered?
The Hag he loves guides no more the
charging line:
[tut his fan e. consigned to the keeping of
that time, which
Happily is not so much the tomh of Virtue
as its shrine,
diall, it) years to come, lire modest worth
to nohlc deeds,
i n honor, now. our great Captain rests, ,
A bereaved people mourn him,
Throe commonwealths oroudlv claim him,
And history shall cherish him
Among the e chosen spirits who holding
their conscience unmixed with hlame
Have been, in all conjunctures, true to
t hem selves,! heir country ami their (lod.
A come pendent of tho Charleston
3umlay N ws gives tho following in 1
egurd to the author of this famous in- >
icriptlon, which was clipped from tho
iutmy South several years ago :
Soon after tho fall of (ion. Albert
Sydney Johnston at the battle ofShiloh <
mil tho tn.nsfer of his remains to Now
Hrloans a iady visiting tho cemetery
ound pin ted to a rough hoard that 1
osted on t io temporary tomli the fol- I
owing bountiful epitaph. It was writen
in a t olicalo hand with a pencil I
md t he rain had nearly obliterated tho
hnraoters hut she made a verbatim , 1
opy of th i manuscript and sent it to 1
mo of the New Orleans papers, with '
lie request that, if possible, the iiutiio
if tho author should lie published. '
1'11 its was g uully done, and the exquisite I
ines went the rounds of the press of ( 1
his country and I'inglaml as a model < '
if Knglish composition. Lord 1'aimer- 1
ton pronounced it "a modern classic, ! 1
'iceronian in its language." l'ublie '
iiiriosity being aroused tho authorshin
vas trueeii to John Dimitry, a young > 1
mtivo ??f Now Orleans and a son of
\loxundor Dimitry, who boforo the ?
var occupi *d a distinguished position I
u the Stale department at Washing '
on. Young Dimitry, though only a 1
ioy, sorvtd in Johnston's army at '
ihiloh, ami, on visiting Now Orleans M
mil the gi avo of his dead chieftain, i
vrote the lines on the inspiration of
he moment and modestly pinned them 1
m the head hoard as the only tribute i
io could olTcr. When the question j
iroso concerning tho form of epitaph i
o he placed on tho monument erected I
o the memory of the dead Confederate j
general tho committee of citizens in I
barge, with one voice, decided upon j
his. and it is now inscribed upon tho i
iroail panel at the base of the statute, i
itc. In my copy the linos begin with <
he word beyond and not "behind."
A Tale of Two Capitals. ,
A friend of mine, recently deceased, |
old mo, if my memory serves mo cor- \
ectly, that he had the following facts |
rem Duron ilaussmunn himself: Or- ,
lered by Napoleon 111. to submit plans ,
or tho renovation of Paris, the Uaron ,
vas for some time at a loss to moot the
wofold requirements, of tho contem- j
dated in provements for the now
ireeis nail 10 Dii lit Olico beautiful and
o laid out is to be readily commanded
>y artillei y. Suddenly he bothought
lim of in< dcrn Washington, lie semred
a p an T>f that city, and this
coined on examination so exactly to
neet the necessities of the ease that
ic tinally s ihmilted it to the lCinporor.
Hie result was that the plan in the
nain was accepted, and modern Paris
viis built upon the lines of modern
A'ashingtou. Thus is explained a eerain
similarity which strikes every
>110 who is familiar with the two capials.
although one might naturally sup>ose
the American city, heing the
,'ounger, to he the daughter, instead
>f the mother. Put General Wash11
gton more than half a century oarlier
lad ordered L'Kufant to design him a
dun for his seat of government in
nueh the maimer as Napoleon III. had
!ommundc< Huron llaussmann. Now,
i'Knfant was not only a Frenchman,
nit a roi>jd< nt of Versailles, and he unloubtedly
oorived his inspiration from
lis earlier in round in gs : eonse(|uently
.Vashingtou was an enlargement of the
loyal Park, with its alleys extended
a to avcnu'8 and its numerous tlower>eds
and pi rterros enlarged into eirdes
and qi ail rants. Thus by a transiceanic
lea p liaron llaussmann took
rom the New World what he could
iavo seem d at his own gate. So
nueh for a merely curious artistic
loineidence. Hut in light of recent
levelopniei ts in our capital, asingular
nqulry sug rests itself - namely, wnoth
>r General Washington, in laying out (
ho city, ?1 i i nothuvo in mind tho samo ,
ivofold object that Napoleon the Third
md when laying out Paris. To be
uro, tho present industrial army
novomont now bills fair to end in ridi- '
!ulo. Hut at some later date a more t
losperato one may require to bo eon- (
rolled by artillery, and then the broad '
ivenueH and straight streets of the 1
apital may be appreciated for other '
ban tncro s 'thotio considerations, and, 1
it the eont ary, serve as an additional *
iroof of fur-dghtedm ss North Aineri- s
an ltoviow for .1 one. I
?Adjutant Gcnoral Karloy has ro- '
oived and accepted an invitation to 1
elivor the annual address before tho
Indents of Waterloo high school in
..anions county on Thursday of this ! I
/oek. I <
If you h: vo sour stomach and foel )
i.lions, and your head aches, take a '
apunose I vr Pellet, it will relievo
on. Sold 1 y Carpenter liros., Green- 1
,11c, S.C. If
FACTS ABOUT MAUR1AGK.
L'iii-Ioum and IntcrcMing; Statistics in
Iti'KanI lo the Conjugal Kclittion.
Carroll I). Wright, buporiontendont
?f the census of 18JKJ, reviews in Tho
Forum for Juno tho statistics of sox,
niarria . o and divorce.
It will surprise many persons to
know that tnoro aro more males than
females in the total population of this
country. The exact ligures in 181H)
were : .'i2,<M?7,sNn males and I..'{"()
females.
Contrary to another popu'ur improsdon,
it appears, too, that married
persons form a larger percentage of
Lhe total population of this country
lhan they do of Kuropeun eountrics.
rhere arc more married people, too,
in our large cities tliun in our farming
listriets, relatively to the whole number
of the inhabitants.
Fuels of interest to young peoplo
ontomplating matrimony are that
Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Cleveland
ire the Amcriuau cities where most
nurrying is done; piesuinabiy, the
conditions there are moro favorablo
n> iin* muniKJiiuiiL'i; 01 nomes man in
San Francisco and Boh ton, wliioli aro
peopled by finvc"- married folkrt and
more single ones than any other cities
in the Union.
Ireland and Scotland show the
largest number of bachelors and spintors
and the smallest number of husbands
and wives of alt countries
furnishing statics. Who would have
thought t hat to be the ease ?
It will shatter another generally accepted
opinion to be told by Mr.
Wright, that the total number of
divorced persons in this country is
very small amounting to only about
one-third of I per cent, of the total
udult population. Another analysis
shows that tiiero was hut one divorced
nersu/i to every 18o married persons
living in the United States in 18'JO.
Mr. Wright's article allords a great
variety of other interesting information,
and, as a study of the conjugal
conditions of the republic, it is reassuring
on many vital points. Marriage
is evidently not a failure in America.
The Atlanta Journal says that Mr.
Wright has been called on to explain
some puzzling figures in his recent
report. Mr. Wright is a famous
statistician, and his reports based on
ioe census rui/iirns arc read and siuuietl
with great interest. Still, his statement
that there are 1177,000 more
married men than married women in
the United States is provoking considerable
discussion. It is generally
supposed that there is a married woman
to correspond with every married
man. Mr. Wright's ligures are all the
more surprising because widowers and
ilivoreod men are accounted for in
another table.
In referring to his statement that
Diir married men outnumber our
married women by .'177,(><M), Mr. Wright
admits that "at first glance it seems
paradoxical," but assures us that it
"can bo readily accounted for." His
explanation is that many of the men
who immigrate to us from other
countries leave their wives behind.
The force of this explanation is somea
but impaired by Mr. Wright's ligures
for other countries, which show that
there are more husbands than wives
in Kngland, Scotland, Ireland, tiermany,
Astriu, Hungary, Norway,
Sweden, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Where, then, do our surplus married
men cotno from? Where have the
l77,tM)<? extra married men in this
ountry left their wives? it is suggested
that this is a proper subject
for international investigation. As
die New Yorld World remarks, "The
Id-metallic sinks into secondary signilicanee
compared with the bi-marriago
issue. We must maintain the double
standard in the world's connubial cur eney."
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SWNTIOll 1HAN Til 10 WIND.
Passengers (o lie Taken from New
York to Chicago in Six Hours.
i uo r.ievateu suspension Hievatcd
Uailwuy Company has boon organized
to build a railwuy on an air lino between
Chicago and Now York. The
listanee is 7f>0 miles, and Invontor
lohnstou says it can bo covered in six
liours. A double track road is propos3d.
The rails will bo in the upper
part of an elevated steel structure, and
the ears will be suspended from the
trucks and have no support beneath
them. The Manges on the outside instead
of the inside of the rails as on
ordinary railways. Invontor Johnston
says:
"The speed to bo obtained with light
trains on tho system is practically unlimited,
and depends altogether on tho
ji/.o of the wheel used. Sixty miles
per hour could easily ho obtained with
safety on a liftoon inch wheel, and 120
Lo b*it) miles per hour with a thirty to
thirty-three inch wheel on long runs of
straight track.
" Tho cars are about six foot in width
by twenty feet, in length, with a seutillf
1'll.lllie.it V llf tllit'tv luov/ili a 'I'l...
o v w> v" " VJ J/VI OUI'Oi -1 1 1 ^
weight of tho ear proper is 1,800
pounds, of tho trucks and motor, which
uro above and upon tho rails, 4,200
pounds, ami of tho passengers 5,000
pounds, making the strains upon a 150
foot spun, with a loaded train of two
:ars upon it, nineteen and one-half
tons when the train is at rest.
"Tho cost of construction for this1
system does not exceed 20 per cent, of
die cost of steam elevated roads under
u'dinary c iron instances, whilo the
trussing of streams and the overeomng
of obstacles to buildings can be
lecomplished by the use of longer
ipans without a material increase in
txpense. About $ St), 000 per mile fully
lovers tho cost of construction of a
bur-track road and $10,000per mile its
iquipinent, while a two-traek road can
>e built and equipped under$00,000 per
nile.
" There being no solid structure to
let us a sounding board, tho noise is
ess than that of any other system, j
The flexibility of this system gives an
W#?n.w.hhs AS s ? * *
inicuuun) iiioi/iuu iu rutins, and roieves
of all jolting and noise of the
Mgic structuro. There is perfect freeloni
from dust, smoke, steam and clnlers,
and in matter of speed, it is beyond
comparison."
Senators Hutlor and John Gary
[ Ivans have been invited to deliver
ipucehos at Little Mountain, Newberry
Jounty, July 1th, and have accepted
tho invitation. Governor Tillman has
ilso been invited. If our Little Mountain
friends can induce Governor Tillliiui
and Senator IJutler to meet on the
ilump in their town, tho crowd will bo
i) largo that it will tax the barbecue
[>r ividora to feed tho multitude. Dr.
Sampson Dope, has also been invited
to attond and will do so if business does
lot conlliet. -Voice of tho Deople.
Ladles, if want a pure, delicate soap
for tho complexion. Carpenter Bros.,
Jrecnville, S. C., Druggists, will a
y.tys recommend Johnson's Orii ntal
Slodicin il Toilet Soap.
?Hart's Battery will hold their anmal
meeting at liambtrg, S. C., on
tho 27th of June.
M i:\ A NI> WOMISN.
Light and llitght Hnylnp* Ahout lVol>l<>
(loncrally.
\ tcllIM)!! (il )bi'
No matt can cat cocouuut pie often
ami bo happy.
Nil mail unit his wife ever a ircod on
the money quest iou.
Diu any one over know a man to j
apologize to his wife 'i
Kverytbiug a girl bus on the walls
of Iter room is pinned on.
When some people adopt a new
style it is time for every one else to l
drop it.
Talk about sensational trials: wait
until you hear the recording angel's
testimony.
For some reason, girls who tiro i ngaged
complain most about their vaccination
marks hurting them.
The great hardship is not in doing
your best, but in convincing othets
that you are not doing your worst.
The difference between theory and
fact is the ditTereneo betw < u ti e
work vou actually do ami intend to
do.
Tho Lord no doubt lias often notict d
the vast difference in the prayers ot
an engaged girl and of a married woman
Wo havo always had an idoa that
tho phillsopher \v ho takes everything
as it comes, without swearing, has a
hard time of it.
A girl who, sixteen years ago, refused
to marry a certain young man
until ho hud 4*mado a name for himself
" is still waiting.
A widower who had one hud in the
grave lias taken u out and |>ut it in a
yellow shoo and is having his house refurnished
in bridal stylo.
An old girl who has been noticing a
great many years, says t hat no bride '
has tho bridesmaids at her wedding 1
she originally intended.
Every woman is looking for a prince
for a husband, and it novci' occurs to |
her that princes arc extremely scarce j
and very ditlicult to please when found. j
Every 0110 thinks that others around
him might make om ?\oik easier fori
him. Tho thought that lie might make
the work easier for others never enters
his head. I
It is a great and unpleasant shook,
hut when a good man goes wrongevoiy j |
one say? that he is not surnrised. that I
ho suspected something was wrong all <
the time. ?
It is worthy t?f note in these times of '
abusing the men that thoro are more ]
men able to earn potatoes and beef- '
steak than there are women who know <
how to cook them. i
This is the season of the year when :
the loafer tolls of how many cords of
wood ho split in the winter. In tho '
winter ho tells how many tons of hay
he raked in the summer.
A man roso up in one of the churches (
to signify a willingness to be one of a (
number to contribute *10 to the church ,
debt, and his wife pulled him down by
the coat tails before tho minister saw ,
him. j
The men and women find so much :
fault with each other. Why don't i
they build a wall from San Francisco '
to Now York, and let the men live ?
on one side and the women on the
other V i
A strong, mi tided woman who sup- i
ports her husband remarked recently
that she wouldn't ia.ve the conditions ]
reversed. " You've no idea,'' she said, <
" how swoot and atYectionato a man is '
who is dependent upon you for his '
spending money."
mmM' jw
VOTK AS YOU I'LCASH. \
Chairman Mitchell Says no one is ltcHired
to Surrender His Keligious ,
j or i'olit ical Opinions \V lien lie Joins \
the Alliance. j
OFFICE OP CHA1UMAN i >
Ex. Com. State Alliance. ?
WnnmvAwu s; t' in.,.. 1 twin \ 1 1
To tlu; Kditor of tho News and ILernld: '
I notice a, communication in your paper
of May 30, from Mr. K. G. Palmer
of Uidgoway, in which ho calls upon j
me to state " yes " or " no " as to whoth- 1
er tho Alliance, as a body, is bound by
tho demands about which I questioned '
tho Governor. In reply I would say no ,
one is required to surrender his indivi-1 '
j duality when he joins the Alliance. ,
I The obligation taken when becoming
| a member of the Alliance says that it '
j will not conflict with tho freedom of
i your political or religious views, henco
,1 would say a man may boa member \
, of the Alliance and > > in support ]
i a i
bill) lIUIMUIlUSi
(Signed.) T. r. MrrcuisLi,. ]
?Hardy (Jill, a colorod man, was 1
taken by force from the jail in Lan- <
caster Sunday morning botwoon 1 and i
2 o'clock, by a party of twenty-live i
men and carried about three miles and | (
lynched. He assaulted and wounded a <
Mrs. Clark who resides near Lancaster. 1
. i
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| %TilK 7M CK IS WON i
?over to good health and rendered 1
impervious to disease when the blood
is pure and the liver active. For >
the liver is tho sentinel which per- i
mits or forbids the germs of disease I
to enter the circulation of tho bipod. '
You ought to bo germ-proof .
against Grip, Malaria, or Consump- \
tion; you will be?if you take Dr. I
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. 1
When your ilesh is reduced below J
a healthy standard, when you are
troubled with pimples and boils, or <
ii j"" ui?v*.3 ui/,/,y, weaK JUKI sleep- j t
less spells ? it's best to heed the 1
warning. 1
Build up your strength, purify tho '
blood, ami set all tho organs of tho ,
body into activity, by taking tho "Discovery"
It's guaranteed to
benefit or euro all tho diseases resulting
from impuro blood or inactive
liver, or tho money paid is
refunded.
For a perfect and perma- ;j
nent cure of Catarrh, take Dr.
Sage's Catarrh Remedy. Its
proprietors offer $500 reward ,
for an incurable case of Ca- {
tarrh in the Head.
Costs only 50 cents. i
k cTi)\ vnr r\QP ^
t\ OllUViUtLi VilvJUi
How an Enemy was Foiled.
Tlio following grnplilc statement will bo
read with Intenso Interest: "I cannot describe
the numb, creepy sensation tliatexlsted In iny
arms, hands and logs. 1 had to rub uml beat
those parts until they were sore, tooverconie
In a measure the dead fouling that had taken
possession of them. In addition, I had a
Mrange weakness In my back and around my
waist, together with nn indescribable 'gone'
feeling in my stomach. Physicians said it
was creeping paralysis, from which, accord*
Ing to tholr universal conclusion, there Is no
relief. Oneo It fastens upon a person, they
say, it continues its insidious progress until
it reaches a vital point and the sufferer dies.
Such was my prospect, l had been doctoring
a year and a half steadily, but with' no particular
benefit, when I saw an advertisement
of l?r Miles' Restorative Nervine, procured a
hottlo and began using it. Marvelous as it
may seem, hut a few days had passed beforo
every hit of that creepy feeling had left mo,
and there has not been oven tho slightest
Indication of its return. I now fool as
well as 1 ever did, and have gained ten
pounds in weight, though 1 had run down
from 170to 137, Four others have used i>r.
Miles' Resloratlvo Nurvinoon my rccomondution.und
it has been ns satisfactory In their
cases as in initio."?James Kane, La Uuo. U.
I>r. Miles' Restorative Nervine issoldbyall
druggists on u positive guarantee, or sent
direct by the Dr. Milos Medical Co., Elkliurt,
Did., on receipt of price, ft per bottle, six
hot 11cs for 15, express prepaid. It Is frco from,
opiutva or duugorous drugs.
So <1 by Curpontor liros.. Den tist.
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msTKIIU TlXi; 'I'll 10 ol KICKS.
How I It** Otlicial 1*?Hcollage is I>?hpt'iiNcd?liic
Incqii ilitj ol* the Dint
r.biitinn.
II .rper's Weekly.
The Civil Service Commission has
prepared from the oflicial regisVV^^>r
" lllue Hook " a statement, which jl
Appear in the annual report of the
mm mission, soon to be issued, showing t
the appointment of otliees at tie: departments
at Washington among tiio
states and Territories. Under the
^ ivil service law the otliees, without
regard to their value, are apportioned
According to population as shown by
the last census. This principle lias
Always been recognized. Uven under
the spoils system it was known; and
to-day the I nitcd States Senate, which
Is governe d by no law in distributing
dlices, makes an apportionment among
the Senators, allowing to each Senator
appointments drawing salaries to a
tixed aggregate. In the ease of the
Senate places, though, the fact that
tie Senator, representing a sovereign
State, is as good as another Senator is
recognized, and tlio Senator from
Texas and the Senator from Virginia
share alike.
There are still twice as many ollicos
under the patronage system as there
uro under the civil service laws in
Washington. 'The exact number of
the former is 7S(m, and of the later
1881. Now the law which applies to
the distribution of the civil service
Appointees does not apply to the
patronoge appointees; and although
Lho appointment clerks in the departinnnls
clnim Mint, tli.nr >,>>/.? . l...
v.'??v V.IV'J nj'J'UI UMMI till*
jIHcos as nearly as possible according
to the population of the States, the
table prepuivd by the Civil Service
Commission shows that the distribution
is far from etjuitablo. It does not
iippcur either that the States of the
South, which arc unquestionably Democratic,
fare any better under this* administration,
or that the Republican
States of the North were any hotter
treated under the Republican administration
; in fact, no political line can
bo drawn. Tho offices scorn to have
ueen custriouiod chielly according to
the "inlluonco" or prcssuro which
ould be brought to bear, and naturally
the greatest inllueneo came from the
States which wore near Washington.
But most singular of all the facts shown
i?y this statomont is the enormous
imount drawn from tho public treasury
by the people in ollieo who claim
Washington as their residence. According
to ?ho statement of the Civil
Service Commission tho District of
Columbia now has 21147 of the 11,740
places in the departments, and draws
p2,106,001 of tho $18,591,328 compensation.
New York has places which pay
better ; but though New York has far
exceeded her quota of public ollices,
the Umpire State has only 1 !!.">:? people
in place, and they draw only $1,706-,
?82 compensation. I "^JftWylvania
Iruws $1,174,081, Ohio $6o,d78, and
1 llionis $604,285. These four States
ind the* District of Columbia together
haw $6,251,167 annually from the
Treasury?nearly one-half of all that
s drawn in sulurios in the Washington
lepartments. And yet three of these
four States have less than their quota
>f places. Now York is entitled to
1114. and has 1258; but Pennsylvania
ias 85 less than her quota (685), Ohio
172 less than her quota (680), and
illioriis 241) loss than her quota (718).
Tin District of Columbia is entitled to
I I places, and has 2647.
The States which gain by ihis ir?
ogularity of distribution are Muryand,
which is entitled to 165 appointtionts,
and which has 552 ollices, aggregating
$6,000,026 in value: Virginia,
which is entitled to .'11J ollices, and
which has 55)0 places, with salaries aggregating
1,566,818; Maine, ujfcch 7s
entitled to 10 t -?1 ?1 *
.... w...? v-i?, mm Wliliin Mils
|C>:{, with compensation ag<: relating
^:i2,r>50: West Virgiuu, which is entitled
to 1 HI oilioos and lias ITS. and a
'ow other of the States which have
been able to bring stronger pressure
to boar than have the States in the far
South or the Wost. lint the great
valance to which the majority of tho
Utato-J contribute belongs t ? the District
of Columbia. It is represented
oy men and women who were in many
janes appointed to places many years
tgo, and who have heroine so identified
with the D strict that t uy are now
jrodlted to it.
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