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VOL. XI. LAURENS. S. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1896. NO. 33 THE NEW DISPENSARY LAW, The DlHoronce Between the Old and the N#w.~The Board of Control Has Charge of the Finances. Much speculation is being indulged in as to what the now board of oontrol is going to do. Under the law they will have entire charge of the finan eies, buying of liquors and in faot absolute- control of everything except the constables, who will continue to be appointed by the Governor. The pres ent ooinmlssionor's term does not ex pire until next January, and his suc cessor will not assume charge until April 1. There is very litter dlffer ouoo between the new law and tho old except in two particulars which aro contained in the First, Second and Third sections, which road as follows : Sootlon 1. That the manufacture, Halo, barter or exchange, receipt or acceptance, for unlawful use, delivery, storing, and keeping in possession, within this State, of any spirituous, malt, vinous, fermented, brewed (whether larger or rice beer), or other liquors, any compound or mixture thereof, by whatever name oalled or known, which oontalns alcohol and is used as a beverage by any person, firm or corporation ; the transporta tion, removal, the taking from the depot or othor plaoe by conslgneo or other person, or the payment of freight or express or other charges by any person, firm, association or corporation upon any spirituous, malt, vinous, fer mented, brewod (whether lager, rice or other beer) or other liquor, or any compound or mixture thereof, by what ever name called or known, which con-; tains alcohol and is used as a bever age, except as is horelnbofore pro vided, is hereby prohibited under a penalty of not less than three (3) nor moro than twelve (12) months at hard labor in the State Penitentiary or pay a lino of not loss than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundrod dollars, or both fino and imprisonment, in tho discrotlon of the court, for each offense. AU such liquors, except when bought of a Stato officer authorized to sell the same, or In possession of ono and having been duty tested by tho Chemist of tho South Carolina College and found to bo chemically pure, are declared to be contraband and against tho morals, good health and safety of tho State, and all alcoholio liquors in thin State and not having been tested by tho Chemist of the South Carolina College and found to be ohemlcally pure, aro hereby declared to be of a poisonous1 and detrimental character, and their use and consumption as a bovorage aro agalnct the morals, good i health and safety of the State, and all such liquors may be seized wherever found, without a warrant, and turned over to tho Stato Commissioner. Section 2. A board consisting of Qvo members, to bo known as the State Board of Control, shall bo elected by 1 tho General Assombly at this session i to carry out the provision* of this Act. Tho terms of 0I&G6 of the board so i elected shall ho for one, two, three, four and flvo years respectively, and thoso elected shall determine by lot which shall take tho respective terms. At the expiration of the term of office ? of oach member his successor shall i be oleoted for a term of five years. ! They shall receive for their services | tho same per diem and mileage as members of the General Assembly, i The Btftte Board of Control shall do- 1 vise and Inaugurate suoh a system of bookkeeping and accounting as they < may deem advisable, and shall elect i a clerk or bookkooper, who shall hold i biB office during tho ploasure of tho board and shall receive at> compensa tion for his services a salary of fifteen hundreu'dollaru per annum. Tho per diom and mileage of the members of tho State BoardOf Control under such < rules and regulations as may be adopt ed by said board, shall purchaso all . liquors for lawful uso in this Stato, arid shall have tho same tested and declared to bo puro as hereinbefore and hereinafter provided. I Section 3. That tho Stato Board of Control shall, at the expiration of tho term of tho present Commissioner, and at tho expiration of every two years 1 'thereafter, appoint a Commissioner, whloh appointment shall be submitted to the Senate at its next session for its approval ; said Commissioner shall be believed by tbo State Board of Control to bo abstainer from Intoxi cants, and shall, under such rules and regulations as may oe made by tbo Stttte Board of Control, furnish all Intoxicating liquors for lawful ubo In this State, to such persons as may be designated as Dispensers thereof, to be sold as hereafter prescribed in this . .jt. Said Commissioner shall reside, and htwe his piace of business, in the city of Columbia, in this State, and hold hia offico two yt ?*8 from his ap pointment and until .mother bo ap pointed in his stead. He shall be subject to removal for cause by the State Board of Control. He shall qualify and bo commissioned the same as other State ofiice.ru, and shall receive an annual salary of twenty-five hun dred dollars, payablo from tho Dispen sary fund upon the warrant of the State Board of Control. He shall be allowed a bookkeeper, who shall be paid in tho tamo manner a salary of twelve hun drod dollars, and suoh other assistants as In tho opinion of the Board of Con trol may be deemed necessary. He shall not furnish to tho county Dispen sers any intoxicating or fermented liquors except Buohas nave been tested by the Chemist of tho South Carolina Collegoand declared to be pure: Pro vided, That nald Board of Control shall have authority to appoint such assistants as thoy may find necessary to assist tho Chemist of the South Caro lina College in making the analyses required by this Aot; and the said Board of Control may fix reasonable compensation, If any, as they may deem propor for tho services rendered by such Chemist or suoh assistants. Each ] county Dispenser shall remit to the Stato Treasurer all monies accruing to tho State from the sale of liquors under suoh rules as may be presorlbed by tbo State Board of Control, and the State Treasurer shall keep a separate ac count with said fund, from which tbo Stato Board of Control shall draw from time to time upon warrants, or in such manner as thoy may provido, tho amount necessary to pay tho ex Senses lnou.'red in conducting the U8ines8. All rulos and regulations governing the Commissioner or county Dieponsors in the performance of any of the duties of bis offioo, where the same are not provided for by law, shall be presorlbed by the State Board of Control. The Stato Commissioner shall before entering upon the duties of his office- execute a bond to the State Treusuror, with suffiolent sureties, *to be approved in the same manner as the bonds of other State officers, In the penal sum of ten thousand dollars, for the faithful performance of the duties of his office. In all purchases or sales of intoxicating liquors made as con , tempi atod in this Aot, the State Board of Control shall cause a certificate to be attached to each and etory package ooqulrdug >aid liquors when the same the county Dispensaries certified by their official signatures and seal, which certltcate shall state that li quors contained in said package* have been purchased by the Stato Board of Control for use within the State of South Carolina, under the laws of said State, and shall also cause to be at tached to all such liquors the certificate of the Chemist of the South Carolina College that tbo same have been tested as roquirod by this Aot; and without suoh certificates any pookoge contain ing liquors which shall bo shipped from place to place within the Stato, or delivered to the consignee by any railroad, express company or other common carriers, or be found in the possession of any common carrier, shalll be regarded as contraband and may be seized without warrant for con fiscation, and such common carrier shall be liable to a penalty of five hun dred dollars for each ofTonso, to be re covered against said common carrier in any court of competent jurisdiction by summons and complaint, proceed ings to be instituted by the solicitor of any circuit whlth whom evidence may bo lodged by any officer or oltizon bavlug knowledge or information of the violation ; and any person attaching or using suoh-certificates without the authority of the State Board of Control, or any counterfeit certificate for the purpose of securing the transportation of any intoxicating liquors within this State In violation of law, shall, upon conviction thoreof, be punished by a fine of not less than fivo hundred dol lars and imprisonment in the Ponl tcntiary for not loss than one year for each offenso. THE NEW PENSION LAW. The Distribution of tho Pension Money to Needy Confoderato Soldier*. Comptroller General Norton has made too following statement ia re* card,,to the distribution of the money for the Confederate pensioners under tho new law : " The new law creates and necessi tates a new board composed of county auditor and treasurer and two old soldiers, both of whom shall be elected by the survivors of tbo county, and a physician elected by the same body, although he nead not be an ex-soldier. Soldiers who are absolutely in need of funds and more seriously disabled tnan others shall receive Id per month and be paid first, and it rests with the board who shall be named under this head of pensioners. This also ap plies to widows of veterans who do not receivo an Income of $100 a year and aro GO years of age or above. The balance of veterans in tho respective countloB will receive between (6 and B4, as in tho opinion of the county board thoy deservo, out of the appro priation. " Last year there were about 2,200 pensioners in this State, but the list i ll in year will be increased fully 800. The appropriation to bo distributed i imong them is $100,000. Blanks will i be sont out in a few days to the various ?ounty auditors in the State and the appropriation will bo used before June Under the new law there will have to be an entirely new roster of those , entitled to receive the small pension < allowed by the State. Tho following is a synopsis of the new provisions as Zlven by tho Yorkville Enquirer ?. The appropriation calls for $100,000 i annually, and this sum is to be dis tributed through Stato and county boards. Tho county board, is to be composed of the treasurer and auditor &nd two voternns olected at a county ^invention of all tho surviving Con- i federate soldiers and sailors of tho sounty. These four members olect s>n c xamlnlng physiolan, who may or may not bo a Confederate veteran ; but who, when olected, Is also a membor :>f tho county board. The State board Is composed of tho secrotary of State, the attornoy-general and comptroller gonoral, nnd In cases where tho votorana fall to olect county boards, such boards, shall bo appointed by the Stato board. Tho conditions necessary entitle tho ?pplloant to a pension are as follows : Be must have been a bona fide soldier or Bailor in the service of the State or Confederacy during tho late war. While in service he must have lost a leg or arm or been disabled by other bodily, Injury and must show that neither himself or wife receive an in come of $250 a year ; or he must havo passed the age of 60 yearn, and show that ho does not receive an income of H00 a year. Widows who havo reached the age of GO years, and who do not re ceive an income of $100 a yoar, or who como under too provisions of the old act, are entitled to pensions. Pensioners are divided into throe classes, and their monthly allowance Is regulated as follows: 1. Those who have lost two limbs, Bight, or aro physically helpless, $8. 2. Those who have lost one limb, $6. 3. All others, $4. The amounts named, however, are not absolute. In tho event the $100, 000 appropriated, is not sufficient to pay the amounts stipulated, the $8 class is first to bo paid in full, and the balance of tbo appropriation is to be pro rated among the other oiass. MUST STICK TO ORDERS. The Indiscriminate Sale of Liquor to Step Governor Evans Sends Written Instruct tlon to the County Dispensers. A great many complaints have been made all over tho State recently to the effect that some of the oounty dispen sers were violating their oaths in sell ing liquor indiscriminately. These re ports have reached the ears of Gover nor Evans and be at once took steps to have the evil remedied. Each dis penser has written instructions as to the manner of conducting sales, and put themselves in a fair way of re moval whon going contrary to orders. I Governor Evans has senfout circulars ! to the various county dispensers in the State warning them not to violate certain sections of the dispensary law and advising them to enforco certain sections in particular. The following is an exact copy of the circular : Office State Board of Control, Columbia, S. 0., Maroh 9, 188G. To County Dispenser?7: You are hereby notified that you are required to compl> strictly with all the provisions of the dispensary law relating to your duties, etc. Your oath forbids you to sell, give or furnish to any person any intoxicating liquors, otherwise than is provided by law. 2d. To sell or furnish to any minor, Intoxicated person or persons in the habit of becoming intoxicated. 3d. To sell liquors only between the hours fixed by tho State board of con trol. 4th. You aro forbidden to allow li quors to be opened or drank in the dis pensary. 5th You shall require all persons I purchasing liquors to sign a request j for tho same as required by law, ex ': cept in oases whore liquors are ordor i cd from counties In whloh thero is nc ' dispensary, aud in suoh oases the 11 ! quors may be shipped under propot > UtbeU or certificates, if tho dispousoi is satisfied they are not ordered by minors or persons who are in the. habit of becoming intoxicated. LI 3uors must not be sold on written or ers from persons residing in counties where a dispensary is located, unless tho handwriting is known to the die spenser and is attested by him, or the rerson presenting the order will sub sorlbe .the name of the party making tho order to the request as agent. All other provisions of the law must also be complied with. Any failure to observe your oath or the provisions of the dispensary law will work the for feiture Of your permit. Respeotfully, John Gary Evans, Chairman State Board of Control. THE CHURCH AND THE STATE. Bishop Duncan Is Asked to Specify What Dispensaries are 'Open to the Charges Meoe by Him?Important Suggestions to tho New Dispensary Board. Some time ago there was referenco in The News and Courier to complaints that had been made by Bishop Duncan as to the dispensary. The matter was taken up by the county beard of con trol and is now taken up by Governor Evans. It is stated that this oourse was taken to find out where the real trouble, if any, eziated, and to have the blame placed where it ought. As the date of the letter will indicate, it was written some time ago, and as there has h -on no reply to it Governor Evans has given it out " in justice to the State authorities ln Columdia, February 10, 1896. Bishop W. W. Duncan, Spartanbnrg, S. C, Bishop : I have just read ln the Charleston Sun the correspondence between you and Chairman Whaley relative to tho Charleston dispensaries, and tho statement made by you from the pulpit of the Spring Street Meth odist Cburcli " that the State dispen saries >?ere the lounging places for debauched women and drunkards." In your letter to Mr. Whaley you ex onerate the Charleston dispaasarles, and we are forced to the conclusion that your information was in reference to dispensaries in other parts of the State. As Governor it is my duty to" see that this law as well as others ara properly enforced. As you are doubt less aware there is an express previs ion in the dispensary law that prohi bits loafing in or about tho dispensa ries of any and all persons, and no drunkard can purchase anything from them. Dispensaries are not allowed, except ln incorporated towns, and these towns invariably have ordi nances, prohibiting debauched women and drunkards upon their streots, and I I know of no town or city in tho State so loosely governed as to permit such practices. Tou, as the official head of the church, are interested in seeing law and order provail, and a perfeot state of morals among the citizens of the State. I, as the official head of the government, will assist you with all the power placed within my bands. I cannot do so, however, if you rofuso to inform me whore this Indecent stato of affairs, mentioned in your sermon, exists. I trust yon will inform mo at onco to what dispensary in the State you had reference, and I assure you, if neces sary to stop it, I will abolish at onco the dispensary, and take such steps, as may be necessary to put an end to suoh praotlces. With tho assurances of my highest osteom and regards, I am yours re spectfully, John Gary Evans, Governor. Governor Evans says that there is no use for people to talk about non-en forcement of the dispensary law, as there is a way to stop violations of the law by those charged with enforolng it. Instructions, it is announced, have boen issued to all dispensers that they must sco that the law is enforced. Constables, it appears, have beonglvon additional jurisdiction?looking after the dispensers. No one is authorized to say what will be the policy of the new board of con trol that will have charge of the dis pensary. The members have never met and some of them are entirely un known to those who now have charge of the dispensary business. The board may or it may not, just as it sees fit, make radioal ohanges in the man agement and operations of the law. Tho conditions may be kept as they now are or they may be changed. For instance, tho now board may decide to do away with the bottling establish ment here and the reshlpment of goods and havo all orders filled directly by the wholesale house from which tho liquor Is purchased. This, It is said, will avoid! any loss in refilling ana save freights. There may be other reasons, however, why the present plan bad better be continued, chief among them is that labor is cheaper here than in Cincinnati. There is already some talk of the new board being likely to dispense with certain of the dispensaries where they do not pay and for other reasons. The State board may also make radi cal changes in tho prices of the liquor and some such thing is spoken of. It so happens that the quarter of dispen sary business closes with this month and that the new board of control goes into office at the same time. The Rain Problem.?-The New Orleans Ploayune says : " The rain making experiments conducted by the government were only partially sue cessful. SotntimeB it rained, and spmetimes it did not, and, even when modest shower was produced, it was at such a enormous expenditure of ex plosive that it would have boon cheaper to have kept the drought. Inventors are still working On the artlfloal rain problem, however, and a Kansas man qas patented a device by wp'ch he ox poets to produce rain at will at the Insignificant price of $6 per shower. His apparatus is a special ly constructed gun, fourteen feet long, weighs 400 pounds, which, whon loaded with the requisite material, discharges amois ture-produoing substance to a height of eighteen miles. -This .invention renders a man independent of provi dence, ln the matter of- rains. It has often been noticed that it always rains on ladies' day at the races, and that a Sunday school picnio can generally be relied on to break up a drought. Now, when men get to running the rain, thoy will arrange to only have it rain at nights, or to break up the opposition parade. In dry times, Johnny will only have to got his gun, and take aim at the clouds, to bring on as much rain as his crops needs." ?The produotlon of aluminum in this country has increased from 83.00C pounds in 1883 to 850,000 pounds ln 180.' and tho estimate for 1896 is 3,600,00( pounds, the process for making it hav ing been greatly improved/ Tne prlo< at the reduction works raftges **Qrn 5( cents to 55 cents a pounds AppTiek electrloity explains, the d*80 witl f I whloh the light metal is aow turnoc BILL ARP'S WEEKLY BUDGET. The Tortures and Tormenta Invented by Man?The Desolations of Cruel and Heart less Wai?Six Thousand Pension Benefici aries In Georgia. A cruol iran is the meanest creature that God ever made. The story of the inquisition with its racks and wheels and tires and hooks is the most awful story that was ever written. When I was a boy 1 road Pox's "Book of Mar tyrs," and I haven't reoovered from it Jet. Tbe worst two words In the Eng ish language are torture and torment, and they both come from tho same Latin word, that means to twist, to turn, to screw down, to put in agony. Torture is a ten- porary expedient and has an occasional rest, but torment f:<)<:?:?; on and on until death comes to re leve the sufferer. I wasent ruminat ing about the torture of humankind, but have just road about how they mako "pats de fois gras" and pepsin, and it made- mo sick. It distressed my wife and daughters, and though those things concern only geese and pigs they shall not come into our house. Henry Bergh is dead, but where is tbe Sooiety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals? Where is the spirit of Uncle Toby, who wouldent kill a fly, but put him out of tbe window, and said : "Now go, you little pest; the world is big enough for you and me ?" ' Where is the spirit of Cowper, who says : "I would not entor upon my list of friends the man who needlessly sets foot upoc a worm ?" Thoro is no more beautiful trait in human character than meroy. Mercy to man and beast and bird and insect. Shakespeare says that "Mercy Is nobility's true ibadgo." I used to hunt squirrels and rabbits and birds and felt proud when I brought home a good lot of game, but I know now that it was all wrong. What right had I to kill tbe happy, innocent crea tures that God had made ? But just to read what Is going on at Strasburg in the production of pate de fois gras is enough to horrify anybody. A peasant there is wealthy, according to 1)1? number of geese and their liver/ are prepared for tbe appetites of the rieb, by torture and torment of the most exquisite kind. Before ever a young oose has laid an egg its feet are nailed y the legs to a plank and the plank set before a fire. Its eyes are burned out and there tho poor birds stays and steams for six months until its liver is distonded and the diseased fat enlarges from 40 to 50 per cent. Tho children of the peasants ram down food in its throat three times a day until it is full up to tho guzzle, and they seem to en* 1 oy the fun of listening to the cr?ak- i ngs of pain that the poor bird makes, i Not a drop of water is allowed to slake i its burning thirst and this treatment I foes on for weeks and months until the ] iver Is all right?fof tho epicures and , < gourmands, who fancy this food at $3 < and $4 a can. All that I want to know i about a man now is whether he eats 1 goose llvor or not. Those tortured, i tormenfted, harmless, suffering birds | are raised by the tens of thousands at j Strasburg. It is the great industry and < supports the major part of the popuia* > tlon. Their pate de fois gras is export- 1 ed to this country and ether civilized i countries that claim a Christian civil- ( lzatlon. Now although Henry Bergh 1 is dead, why can we not limit this bus- i IneBs to some extent by putting an em- i bargo upon its importation to this country? Are we a nation of brutts i and barbarians ? I reckon we are, for 1 it seems that the production of pepsin is nearly as cruel, and now pepsin 1b I tho most popular remody for indiges- | tion. Indigestion is the great national < malady and pepsin is supposed to be a remody for it. Its production comes i from Chicago. Young hoaltby pigs i aro plaoed in soparate stalls and fed liberally until they aro fat and rouud and tho gastric juices in full vigor. All of a sudden tho feeding Is stoppod and ! starvation Is the next stop in order. This goes on for a weok until tho pig Is not only ravenous, but desperately i rabid for something to oat. The gas trio juices from every part of tho ani mal flow to the stomach in search of something to feed upon. Then the last process comes, which Is to place just outside tho stall a pan of hot, steaming potato mash, just near enough for tbo pig to smell and get the aggravating odor, but not near enough to eat; and this stimulates the desire of tbo poor hungry animal and causes every vein and tissue to send its hungry juices to the stomach in anticipation of a feast. The pig gets tho odor and nothing more and just then tho knife is thrust into its heart and the stomach quiokly opened and the gastric juice taken out and put into cans and bottled for tho in valids who have boen gorging thorn selves, with 'pato do fois gras,'or for the sickly infants whose milk does not agree with them. What is tbe world coming to? Is suoh cruelty the price of human lifo ? It did not ubo to be. Geese are not of consequence, but a gander never has but one mate and will stand by bor nest and guard it while she sits on her ?f g*> <*nd when she leaves tbem for food he will orcort her to the grass and escort her book with a dignity thatTs impressive. I hove great respeot for geese. But just now wo are talking about war as though it were a sport, a frolio and tbe killing off of a few thousand people and leaving mothers and wives bereav ed and helpless was of little conse quence. We do not even express the Jdty that Stonewall, Jackson felt when ust before the battle he prayed and said, "Lord help their souls?now give them"?well, that was Stonewall's way. There are nearly a million pensioners now, and we don't want any more. There are vacant chairs enough in our houBeholds. There are three in ours, and nobody ever thinks of them save the kindred to whom they were dear. I thought we were to have arbitration about these national disturbances. There are but three classes of people who want war, and they are all a heart less set. These are tbe professional soldiers?the West Pointers and regu lars, whose profession is to fight, and who seek glory and promotion regard Iojs of who or what they are fighting for. Then there are tho manufacturers, who make army supplies and expect to get rich like they did in the last oivll war. And last, but not least, are the thousands of restless, heartless, un* Krosperous people who say thaw can't o worsted but may be bettered by war. People talk about the canker of a calm world and a long peace, and one noted writer says that every country ought to have a war at least onoe in forty years so as to kill off its worthless pop ulation. This is cold, hard and heart less philosophy. If wo could piok out th* vagabonds and place them to the front it might do, but we oan't. In the i last war we lost the flower of our youth, , and it is always so. The vagabonds I and skulkers and dodgers escape. It is generally, a rioh man's war and a , poor man's fight. I But now it is about time that the G. I A. ?V" w4ro rescinding their action i doolintflg *><> pl&7 w*th the boys in gray I next Jtilx -n N?w York. When the I war withVld John BuU was imminent our Northern brethren wore Tore lor ing, and Invited us to oome over, anc so we fixed up for a loving reunion e patriots in New York next summer and the programme was all made oul by Editor Dana. But the clouds of wai dispersed and our brethren concluded they wouldent need us, and broke up the meeting. But now, there is an other war imminent and maybe they will call us again. It's mighty bard to keep friendly with such neighbors. Not long ago I was riding overland through the country and oounted three double fonoos in a trip of ten miles. The neighbors wouldont neighbor. They were at outs and eaoh built his own fence. One or the other was a mean man. One lino fence is enough between neighbors, and when you see two it's a bad sign. But I reckon we can stand it if they can. If war does come on our boys will havo to do right smart of the fighting and then tbe pen* sion money will drop down this way, and maybe that's what is tbe matter. We are glad to see that some of that money is circulating down here al ready. That Fitzgerald settlement Is an episode that is as unaccountable as It la sudden. Over 6,000 people?fami lies of pensioned soldiers?have drop ped down upon us without warning and are building a olty In our pine woods. Their pension money, it is said, amounts to nearly a million dollars a year, and their comrades keep coming. They are said to be good, industrious people and sound in wind and limb and nobody can see from the outside where the pension business comes in, but nev ertheless they are drawing the money and our folks are bound to got some of it. Six thousand more are on the way and before long they will own the coun ty and be voting the Democratic ticket. So let them oome. I repeat it, sir, let thum, as Patrick Henry said. They have eottled in the best portion of Georgia. Wo dldent know it until re cently. The pine woods have for half a century been under the ban. Tbe few people who settled there were con sidered half-fed, sallow-faced, long legged crackers who raised a few poor cattle and razor-back bogs, and lived on 'taters and hard-shell religion. But all that wide belt frem Lincoln through Putnam and Houston and Irwin and Sumterand Randolph and on wostward into Alabama is now known as the most fruitful and productive region, and the climate perfectly delightful. It is like a fairy tale to read what the last ten years have developed In that belt of country that is underlaid with a clay subsoil and overdressed with Eine forests. In recent years I have een watching tbe fruit industries of Marshallvlllo and Cyclenette and Tlf ton and Cutbbert with amazement end delight, and my Information is that the adjacent country is equally produotive and delightful. The Georgia Southern railroad splits this region right in the middle, and along its lino has been planted within ten years, by actual oount, 742,000 fruit trees, covering or ohards of 13,000 acres. The land devot ed to melons is muoh more, and besides this tbe growers raise corn and cotton and sugar cane and potatoes and ground peas enough to sustain all family ex penses?a thing of beauty and a joy for iver, and it Is a fascinating feast to tbe syo to travel over this lino of road ani take notes of tho beautiful improve ments that meet tho eye at every sta tion. Mr. Sparke bullded wiser than he knew when he was building this road through a region that everybody laid was desolate and always would be. Dame Nature is ever unlocking her treasures and she has only recently un locked tho pine woods to our Southern friends. But Georgia Is not tho only State that has been found by the refu gees from the long winters and snow olad fields of the Icy North. We see by tbe papers that tho heglra has bo gun from all over that frozen country, and that Alabama and Mississippi are rapidly filling up with prosperous im migrants. It is tho swelling tldo that has but just begun to overflow the South, and every letter that a settler writes back to his wintry homo will bring ten 'more, for these people are surprised to find that we are kind and hospitable, and that the barbarians of tho South have moved away. Bill Akp. CAN "SEE THROUGH YOU." Remarkable Experiments Made With the X Rays in Europe Reported by Consul Gen eral DoKay. United States Consul General De Kay at Berlin has submitted to tho stato department an interesting report upon later developments of the X rays, accompanied by a pamphlet in which Professor Roentgen, the discoverer, explains his researches. Tbe consul general's report gives many facts that nave been discovered by Europern ex periments in regard to the rays, which are unknown In this country. For instance, he reports that they have been used to detect false pearls after an exposure of 45 minutes and an Austrian professor has discovered that they oan also be nsed to detect false diamonds. A Berliner has made a special photographic paper for the dlreot reception ef the rays. In con sequence it is no* necessary to make a negative, and so the reversed im pression incident to the negative is ob viated. It has been found that many pictures may be taken at once in this manner by using a packet of tbe sensitive pa {?er, since tbe rays penetrate nil of the ayers. Rector Render, In Spies, has sucoeeded In passing the rays through a brass counter, the resulting photo graph showing the inscription on one side and a bird in relief on the other. New methods of work have boon brought to light. The length of expo sure has been reduced from one hour to a few minutes. The heavy ohargos of electriolty which destroyed so many Crook's tubes have been found to bo unnecessary. The tube Itself Is not required, and an ordinary Incandescent I lamp suffices if a metal plate Is placed I at a sufficient distance from It to catch the oathodes or X rays. But one of tho most important applications of tho rays bos been mado surgically. By placing a subject to'be examined be fore a soreen faced with a mixture of barium, platinum and cyanum and al lowing the rays from a tube enclosed in a dark cloth to traverse tbe body, the impression can be seen by the eye on the surface of the screen whioh is rendered flouresoent where the ray falls uninterrupted upon it, and the surgeon is consequently enabled to move tho subject freely before the soreen and examine the interior of the body for foreign substances or hurtful growth and distorted bonos. A man went into a drug storo and asked for something to oure a heodaoho. The druggist held a bottle of hartshorn to his nose, and ho was nearly over Eowered by Its pungenoy. As soon at e recovered he began to rail at the druggist, "But did not it help youi headaol/o?" asked the apothecary "Help my headache?" asked tho man "I havonHany headache. It's my wife hat has the headache." ?Many a man who Is waiting for t i ohanoe has been standing on the wron, coraer. DOCKING THE INDIANA. Tne Great Naval Event Which Took Place at Port Royal?Some Facts In Regard to the Dry Dock. The docking of the battleship In diana, which took plaoe at Port Royal on the 14th instant, has attracted much attention throughout the coun try. It was superintended by Naval Constructor Hanscombe. who had a large force of employees from the Nor folk navy yard, who were sent express ly for that purpose to Port Royal. The News and Courier gives the fol lowing information about the dry dock at Port Royal, which will prove interesting: For over a year the Indiana has been in the water, waiting for the dock's completion, and her bottom is said to have been fouled to an extent that affeots her speed two or three knots. The experiment of taking a vessel of her size up a narrow stream and Into a dock whoso sill has barely one foot more water over it than the Indiana draws will be watohed with great interest by the department, the offi cials of which acknowledge, that until the big vessel Is safely out there must necessarily be some apprehension re garding its strength. The new dock was begun April, 1881. The design is that of an outsider, and the department, therefore, assumes no responsibility for lt? success or failure. The contract price was ?417,000, but recent changes and additions have brought the total cost of the big basin to over $450,000. Delays occurred from time to time in completing it through floods along the coast, and It was not delivered to the government until a few months ago. The length of the dock on tho floor is 420 feet, and the coping 496 feet, with a total length over all of 626? feet. 1 te width on the bottom is 54 feet at the en trance and 97 feet at the top. The mean depth of the water at the en trance is twenty-six feet, although at unusually high tides it is increased by at least twu additional feet. It is known as a timber dock, and, unlike most of those built by the government, has little ?tone about It. Foundations for the floor and sides were secured after driving piles into the soft ground, and the department believes they will stand any strain that they can be sub jected to. There is but one dock building on the Atlantic coast larger and that is the second dock at the Brooklyn yard, which will have a total length of 670 feet and a depth at the entrance of 28 feet. The Port Royal dock is enclosed at its entrance by a steol caisson of tho design in uso at Now York. To flood the dock requires about one and a half kours, and to pump the water out after a ship is taken in about one hour, This week < the department awarded contracts for the erection of a fine repair shop at ? the dock. In time it is proposed to make Port Royal ono of tho important naval stations of the country, and the most important next to New York and Norfolk on the Atlantic seaboard. Like that at Puget Sound, it is woll protected naturally and will require no expensive fortncatlons to make it safe from soa attaok. another statement. Tho Atlanta Constitution has tho following sketch of the event and its surroundings : The docking of this immenso vessel at Port Royal is a groat marine event. This dock is the only one in tho United < States into which the Indiana can be Elaced. Savannah, Brunswick, Mo ilo, New Orleans and other ports , woro bidders for this dry dock whon tho government board went around through the South a few yoars ogo looking for sites. Port Royal got tho prize because of her splendid harbor, wbich'admlts vessels drawing twenty- J seven foot or more. Sinco tho foundation of this dry dock , the United States government has ox ponded upwards of $4,500,000 in com pleting tno work6, draining the sur rounding county, building the formid able rampart and equipping the shops and ammunition repositories. The capacity of tho dock is sufficient to rocivo tho deepest draft vessels in the world. It ic 620 feet long, thirty four feot deep and has a moan breadth of sixty-four foet. Tho pumping cn ino is the most powerful in existence, aving a discharging of 35,000 gallons a minute and cost in connection with the buildings and machine shop $S8,000. In addition to tho $4,500,000 spent on the dry dook and accessories, a large sum has since beon oxpended on nec essary works in improving tho ohnn nol entrance. Tboro aro two officers and ono com fiany of marines and upwards of sixty our miscellaneous employes of the yards and buildings, the latter force being groatly augmented whon war ships are in the dock undergoing cleaning or repairs. Commander Charles It. Rockwell, in charge of the station, is a distinguished naval officer recently appointed to succeed Commo dore Bradsley, now in charge of the Pacific squadron. Paris Island has long been valued highly by the United Statos govern ment on account of Its strategic pon toon at. the mouth of Port Royal sound, and also on account of Its excellent physical conditions, admirable climate and pure wattr. It has boon tbo sub ject of frequent reports of tho navy department and in all cases the recom mendations have beon of the most fa vorable nature. A Close Shave.?A Now Yorker I tells this story of a close shave : "I. was lying back In tho chair of my fa vorite barber, enjoying bis skillful manipulations, when all of a suddon his eyes bulged out as If they intendod to pop from his head, and the razor d roped from his hand. The next min uto tho usually staid old German bogan doing a close imitation of an Apache war dance, all the while holding firmly to a square bit of paper woll covered with lather. Whon tho old follow had sobored down a little ho pointed to an advertisement on the bit of paper ask ing for information concerning the whereabouts of a certain man and stat-1 Ing that an Inheritance of $50,0001 awaited him in Germany. My barber was tho man. Tho piece of paper was the ono of many torn from an old newspaper to boused as shaving paper, and It had happened to fnll to ntm out of the half dozen barbers In tbo shop. He had finished using It and was about to throw it away, when his eye oeught his name printed on It. Another In stant and nis $50,000, or, rather, his ohance of getting It would have been gone, or, at least, Indefinitely postpon ed. If that wasn't a close call I don't know one whon I see it." ?At a meeting of the citieen of Newberry, a resolution was passed in structing the counoll to have surveys and estimates made for a system of water works, sewerage and electric lighto. 1 ?It will surprise many people to know that the per capita value of ng k rloulture products of the South Is r greater than that of any other part of the eowntrf, CHA1RMAN_IRBY CALLS. Desires Discipline end Organization?Pleads for Harmony and Loyalty. Senator Irby, as chairman of the State Executive committee- of the State Democracy, has issued the follow ing call for a meeting of that commit too on the 7th of April: Washington, D. C, March 13. To the Members of the State Demo cratic Exeoutive Committee: Pursuant to the call of the Demo cratic National Executive Committee requiring the selection of delegates from eaon of the several States to as semble in Cbioago on July 7th next for the purpose of nominating candi dates for president and vice president of the United states, the Democratic State executive committee is hereby requested to meet in the oity of Col umbia on Tuesday, the 7th day of April, 1890, at the hour of 8 o'clock p. m. for the purpose of taking the neces sary steps looking to the organization of the Democratic party and to the as sembling of the State convention to elect delegates tr 4ho national Conven tion, as provided by artiole IV of the constitution of the party. Recognizing as we must the wide difference of opinion as to the details of party politics and party manage ment, yet fully alive to the present emergency upon tho Democracy, we can not but realize that the party's purpose and success can only be at tained by discipline and organization. As understood by us the political hope of the country is centered in tho Democratic party. Its principles, which havo been handed down from Jefferson and Jackson, are absolutely necessary to maintain the equal rights of all the States and to seoure the wise and economical government of the country. Whatever differences there may bo as to the application of the principles for which the party stands, all must agree that only by harmony, concession and loyalty to the party can its great ends be accomplished. The representatives of this State should, therefore, go to the Nationol Convention with a fixedtdetermlnatlon to meet their brother Democrats in a spirit of amity and with a view to harmony. United and in perfect ac cord we ought to be able to oontinue In control of the government. With a determination to produco harmony we can gain much in the direction of our desires as to the application of De mocratic principles. We can gain nothing oxcopt the defeat of the Demo cratic party by open declaration of our determination to disorganize if weoan not have our particular views carried out. Howevor we may differ as to de tails with our brother Democrats from other seotlons of the Union, we all know that tho Democratic creed and a Democratic control of the govern ment are far bettor for us than any thing we may expect from our oppo nents. (Signed,) J. L. M. Irbt, Stato Chairman. RANDALL'S CAPITOL VIEWS. The Rloh and Prosperoue Have Their Mle fertunes?The South In the War and the Yankee at the Seeth. One of the most charming and inter esting correspondents in this country la Col. James R. Randall, author of "Maryland, my Maryland,", who writes regularly for tbo Augusta Chronicle. Hero are some extracts from a recent letter : the FLY in the ointment. I eeo that Mr. Charles Broadway Roust, who Is rapidly growing blind, offers 81,??xi.OOO to any man who will restore his sight. It is r? pretty safe offer, I suppose, as nothing short of a mlraole could help this rich man, who also admits that he would rather re turn to his original poverty than bo deprived of Bight, if be could ohango the conditions. Mr. Routs considers Mr. Cleveland the great man of tho time, and he also admires Col. Inger tell. It would take many more mil lions than Mr. Rouss possesses to alle viate the suffering presumably brought about by the money views of this great man, and the injury done by Colonel Ingersoll is supposed to be considera ble in another diroction. But here we have, by his own confession, a man whose money has brought little or no happiness, and who has become blind in persistent accumulation. I was told, not long ago, that a man of middle age in Baltimore, the inheritor of millions of money, declared that if ho had good beaith or could obtain it by exchange of his fortune, ho would prefor poverty along with youth. Along with other afflictions the Garrott family, of Balti more, may lote the bulk of their estate by the Baltimore and Ohio collapse. How the property could have been op erated as it has been for ton years Is amazing, and it is strange that tho Garretts did not know enough of tho real condition of affairs to unload tbelr holdings gradually. Perhaps they had family pride In the matter, but whore is It all now f Not even preBtlge re mains, and tbo son of a poor Pennsyl vania blacksmith holds in solution, as co-receiver of the operation, tbo for tunes of tho mighty. pro-british oratory. If some congressmen were no good at boiling down ideas and thoughts as newspaper men frequently show thom solves to bo, not a little of the pro British boastful eloquence of a few of I our orators might have been punotured by " tending to the desk," and having road, right in the ttomacb of such an oration, tbo following points made by Tho Chicago Herald which tells us what were English institutions when Washington smashed the ohain that bound this land to England : 1. A crown (Importe?, German on a Dutch stock.) 2. An aristocracy. 3. A chamber of horedltary loglsla tors. 4. A union of church and State. I. A religious test for suffrage, office and university privilege, o. Taxation without representation. 7. No education oxoept for the rieb. 8. Primogeniture and entail. 0. Denial of telf government. Whon the fathers had succeeded in driving the English troops out of the country, with the help of French, Irish, Polet, and others, and tat down to make a constitution for the United States, these were and continue to be its essential features: 1. No crown. 2. No arittocraoy. 3. Ne horidltary legislators. 4. Separation of ohurch and State. 6. No religious test for political rights or education. 6. No taxation without representa tion. 7. Eduoatlon for all the people. 8. Neither primogeniture nor entail. '0. Local self-government. * chance of situation. Senator Hawley, of Connecticut, was born in North Carolina, and reotnly revisited bit birthplace after an ab sence of fifty-eight yean. He 'ound litt*? or ?o veotige ?f tho family a well lor. but ? fftmllar walnut troa was still flourishing. Of his numerous youthful contemporaries he discovered four peraonf surviving. Senator Haw* ley was an eminent Union soldier dur ing the war of 1861-66, and he has sub sequently distinguished himself as a congressmnn. It was very amusing, the other day. to bear this veteran soldier rebuking an orator who wanted Cuban independence made cortaln even ? by Intervention and war. This rampant gentleman did not fight when he had a chance thirty odd years ago, and maj not do 60 In case of hostilities with Spain, unless, like Artemas Ward, he would saorifioe his wife's relations. As if to match Genernl Hawley, who illustrated Conneotlout in war for the Union, I remember what a gallant soldier of the South was Colonel Sey mour, of Louslana, who had been born in Cenneotlout. Indeed some of the " Yankees " in Southern history were more Southern than Southerners, like Quittnan, ProutlsB, Huggles and other gallant spirits. The North, on the other hand, helped conquer the South with Lincoln, Stanton, Farragut, Thomas and Andrew Johnson, who eame originally from Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. THE REPUAUCAN CANDIDATES. McKinley Leads?Others Follow?The Race a Close Ono. Tbo ringing news from the Ohio State convention, followed by that from Kansas, has thrown a damper over the booms of all the Presidential candidates except McKinley. The en thusiasm with which the Ohio Re publicans openod their campaign baa made the Reed mon especially glum, for it was expected that there would be some disagreement at Columbus, which would prevent a unanimous in dorsement of the ex-Governor. But the words of Forakor and the en thusiasm with which McKlnley's name was greeted dissipated these hopes, and the boomors of tho other candi dates have boon brought face to face with the fact that McKinley is now in the lead and is there to stay. The break in Illinois and the stand taken by Mr. Magee at Pitteburg for McKinley havo added to the alarm. Up to now tho "Presidential trust" have denied that McKinley would go Into the convention at St. Louis with a substantial load, but they now not only concede that he will load on the first ballot, but confess fear that he will grow to strength after that. They have not, howovor, given up all faith In tbo favorite son scheme, and from now on will try to strengthen their combination. Within the last three or four days thore have boon several serious conforenoes among the trus tees of the " Presidential Trust" as to some new move to block the MoKlnley boom. Fresh missionaries are to be Bent out over the country. Their latest attempt, trying to force John C. New, of Indianapolis, into the com bine, and to mako him tho favorite son of Indiana, does' not seem to have worked well. Another plan is to quicken the pace In tho House of Representatives so-, that it can adjourn early in May, at least a month before the convention meets in St. Louis. The Reed men think that with Congress out of the way, and tho mombors at home, the old feeling for Rood may be awakened and he will go to the convention muoh stronger than ho is now. The meeting of tbo Iowa State con vention to-day Is expected to put fresh spirit into the Allison boom, which has been languishing for some time. Mr. Allison Is chairman of tho Appro priations Committee in the Senate, and ho will co-oporato with Mr. Reed in lighting for an early adjournment. The friends of both claim that so long as Congress is in session, neither is free to pay strict attention to his chances for nomination. Both tho Allison and Rood managers have dis tributed campaign buttons all' over the Capital. The Allison button has a picture on it, and over tho head is the question : "I am for Allison. .Who aroyoufor?" The Reed button re sents a torn cat standing Qpf*r*~ bracket, beneath which Is a la marsh roed, which, deciphered, meal "Thomas Brackott Reed."?New Yor) Mail and Express. BOARD OF REGISTRATION. Official List of tho Men Who Will Supervise] the New Election Law. The following appointments have been mado by Governor Evans and con tinued by tho Senate, constituting the boards of registration in this State : Abbeville?J. D. Carwlle, S. S. Bolle? J. T. EMS. Alken-^-H. M. Sawyer, S. A. W< ward, B. F. Turner. Anderson?J. L. Glonn, John Hays, J. N. Vandiver. Barnwell?L. A. Thompson, C. Clayton, I. G. Jennings. Beaufort?G. W. S. Jenkins, J. Harrison, J. S. Berg. Berkeley?H. W. Harvey, A," Dennis, John R. Spires. Charleston?W. J. Mott, L. B. Wl Hams, H. M. Lofton, jr. Chester?R. B. Mills, Jos S. Hardly A. W. Lovo. Chesterfield?C. W. Teal, James Cralg, E. F. Malloy. Clarendon-G. W. Worsham, E.j Hodge, S. E. Grlflln. Colleton?C. C. Tracy, T. 8. Aoj man, H. A. Jamison. Darlington?R. Leo Dubose, Caraway, J. S. White. Edgoflold?W. A. Cheatham, Dobey, H, H. Townos. Falrflold?W. W. Crosby, Jol Nelll, R. W. Hollls. Florence?John T. Wright, McWhite, H. S. Rose. Georgetown?B. Huger Ward, F. Pauls, J. C. Lowrimore. Greenville?J. A. Davenport, Nesblt, C. O. Goodwin. Hampton?B. H. Thous, Amt Harrison, Preston Phillips. Horry?Samuel J. Wilson, Wi Howell, E. V Dusenberry. Kershaw?W. R. Hough, Mat Rnbon. Lancaster?W. L. JH * tarter, Rol J. Flynn, Robert M. Klrk/%. LaurouB?W. L. Cunningham^ Thompson, J. D. Sullivan. Lexington?W. H. Meetae, Jat Addy, Goe. W. Pound. Marion?J. L. Mclnnis, I. P. house, W. Boyd Evans. Marlboro?Alex. E. Pearson^ Manning, D. L. Mclntyre. Oconoe?W. A. Barron, J. L. lln, W. N. Bruce. Orangeburg?Bragg D. B^ James U. Fanning, Julius A. Bickens?J. H. Konnemur, J] Loopor, H. W. Farr. Rlohland?W. Briggs Croon.! May, P. B. McCoy. Sumtor?W. S. James, J. D. J. M. Knight. Spartanburg?F. C. West, Farrow, B. B. Bishop. Union?J. B.Lancaster, A. H. R. S. Spencer. Williamsborg?D. G. Cant LeAesne, W. 8. Eddy? York-I. B. Gordon, J. R. spooro, Thomas C. Bockhorn. SaUjada?L. M. Wert* F? lee M. Fojwneet. *eu^^n<