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Till? NI-;W PENSION I,AW OF THE STATlv. T CONDITIONS lO It 10 F1L1.HD. TIlB Ac' Is Itnseil on iti-cooi nii'iulu Hoiih of lliu Ciiiiui Confederate Veterans- Interesting to 11 *?- old Soldiers ol thib state. The following is tho new pension law, based upon recommendations of the Confederate Veterans' association of the state. The bill was Introduced by Mr. 1'aiton, of Lilohland, at tholr request, Tim act was approved Feb ruary lUth by Uovornor McSweeney : Section 1. lie it enacted by ttie gen eral assembly of the state of South Carolina : The sum of at leust ono hundred thousand dollars shall be an anually appropriated to pay the p fu sions provided for by this uct, and in ease the same, or euch amount as shall be appropriated, Bhall he iusuilieieot, then the amount *o appropriated ->haW ho distributed proportionately amTwrg those legally entitled to receive Uli same : Provided, That those pensujp era described in subdivision i,nttAWc tlon l herein, shall have beon'tlrst paid in full. Sec. 2. The applicant must have boon a resident of the State for two years prior to the time of the applica tion. Sec. ?! In order to obtain the bene fits of this chapter the applicant un qualified by residence must also show : (A) If a tnan. 1st. That he was a b"na lido soldier or sailor in the service in the State or in the Confederate Stales in tin.- war between the States : and 2J. Iv.thor (a) That while In such service he lost a leg or arm, or re ceived other bodily Injury whereby no has become disabled : anil further, that neither himself nor his wife has an income exceeding one hundred and lifty dollars per annum, nor property sulliclent to produce such an income : or (b) that he has reached the age of sixty years, and that neither he nor his wife Is receiving annually an an nual income of soventy-tive dollars from anv source nor possessed of pro perty si III.dent to produce such an in come. (U) If a woman. 1st. That she is the widow of a man who was a bona tide soldier or sailor in the service of the State or of the. Con federate Stat.'s in the war between the State: and 2d. That she has never remarried ; and .'! 1. That either (a) she is sixty years of age : or (b) that her husband lost his life in the service of the State or of tho Confederate States in ttie war between the States : and 4th. Tnat she has not an income of ono hundred dollars per annum nor property sullicicnt to produce the same. Sec. 4. The persons described in Lbo preceding sections shall be entitled to a pension upon complying with the other provisions of this act, and shall bo paid the amounts hereinafter set forth, to wit : (h) All soidiert and sailors who lost both arms or both legs, or sight, or who are physically helpless, the sum of eight dollars per month. (b) All soldiers or sailors who lost one arm or leg in the said service, the sum of four dollars per mouth. (a) All other persons entitled to pen sions under the provisions of this act, the sum of three dollars per month : Provided, That all soldiers and sailors, now citizens of this State, who were 'n the service of the State or of the Con federate Status in the war between tho States, and who are totally disabled by paralysis, and who have no income, and who is unable to make a living, shall receive pensions as provided by this act the same as those under class " A " of this section. Sec. ?. Before any soldier or sailor shall receive any payment provided In this act, he shall make an application, in writing, through the to.vn.ship re presentative! addressed to the county pension board, to be appointed as here inafter directed for each county of the State, setting forth in detail no na turo of the disabling wound, if any, the company and regiment or battalion in which ho served, and the time and place of receiving the wound, and showing that neither he nor his wife Is in receipt of tho income as herein after specified, and showing further, thu time and place of residence within tho State by the applicant. Such ap plication shall be verified by the oath of the applicant, made before any of ficer in tho Stale authorized to ad minister oaths, and shall be accom panied by the affidavit of ono or more erediblo witnesses, stating that they know the applicant wus a soldier or sailor or tho wife of such, as tho case may be, and bclicvo the allegations made in the application to bo true : Provided, That said application shall show that tho applicant is not drawing a pension in any other State. Sec. b. Such application shall be veritled also by a cortilicato of the au ditor of tho county in whicli the. ap plicant resides, showing amount of tax return, and that his Income does not exceed the amount stated, and that he is uot possessed of sullicicnt property to produce such income; and it shall be the duty of tho auditor to furnish such certificates, If ho shall so lind the facts, without fee or charge. Sec. ". In each county of the State tho said application shall be submitted to a board composed of four ex-Con fedorato soldiers or sailors (to be chosen as hereinafter provided), who shall not bo holders of or applicants'for a pension, and a regular practicing physician to bo selected by them, which said live persons shall constitute tho county pension hoard. They shall meet on the third Monday in January of each year, and shall examine each applicant under rules and regulations prescribed by the State board of pen sioners. After first being duly sworn, fairly and impartially to discharge tho duties of their olllce, und after said oaths are duly tiled in tho cilice of the clork of court, the said county pension board shall proceed With the discharge of tho duties imposed upon them, and shall cortify their approvul to the Stato board of pensions, giving in de tail tho reasons which hilhienced them to grant or oppose each application, accompanied by all the evldences-upon which they mado their decisions. Sec. 8. Four members of said board shall conBtltuto the quorum. A major ity of tho mem bora of the hoard present may determine any matter prcsentod to them, subject, however, to a rigot of review of the State board. As soon as such county boar i completes its list as above, giving the names of tho pen sioners, their residences and amounts per month to which they are entitled, they ?hall certify tho same to the Stato board of pensioners, to bo rovlewod by them. Tho compensation of tho mem bers of said board shall bo $2 per day for each day's service, not exceeding, however, five day's .service in any ono year. Bee. H. The Stato board of pensioners shall thoreupon pass upon the namos I contained in .-aid lists, and shall certify ho tbo clerks of courts of tbe various counties the lists of tbe names and amounts approved i>y then, anil said clerks of courts shall record the same in a hook, mil said roll so made up shall ;>e designated "approved pension rolls (or 11)?," and BUCh pursues shall constitute tin." pensioners entltlod to j reooive the aid herein provided.for (be current year. See. 10. Every application approved l>y tbe county hoard, with all papers upon whieh they a-:t shall bo Med in I the comptroller gonoral's ollloo hy the first day of February of each year, to he by him submitted to tbe State board of pensions for their review. In the examination of the applications of each parson for a pony-ion, the said board shall ioqulro particularly into all the facts set forth In the application, and shall have, the right t.? oxamtue such witnesses and to take such ovldonco as to determine tho right of tuoh appli cant to pension, and for tho purpose of this chapter the chairman 01 euch county pension b >ard shall havo the right to administer oa'dis. In making their report to the State bmrd of pon .-ions, they shall sv;t forth, in concise and plain language, ivin?; in detail (and separately) their iii.ilini;s upon each material allegation contained in the application. Sec. ii. Kach of the county boards shall koep a Look in which they shall make a list of the applicants .'or pen sions, setting forth tbe approval and disapproval, which nook shall he tiled in the office of tho clerk of court of common pleas for each county; and tho clerk shall from said book certify to the comptroller general, on or b? fore the liest day of February of each year, the number of pensioner.-, wl j aro Btfll alive and entitled to the pens ion. Sec. \- The State hoard of pensions shad have the authority, und it shall he their duty, to revise ihe list of pun sion claims allowed hy each bounty board, and to uonUrm or reject any penslou claim allowed by s...'ti hoard, as they may deem proper and rlghl upon the laets presented by tho said hoard, or upon such additional facts connected therewith as they may pro cure ; but they havo no right in any oase to tyrant a pension unless the same has been regularly approved by the county board of pensions. Sec. 111. Tho county boardof ponslons shall be constituted as follow.-, : On the first Saturday In August of each year the surviving soldiers and sailors of tho State or the Confederate. States, in the late war between tho State?, in eaeli township, shall meet at a time and place therein designated by the chairman of the county board, by two weeks' public notice, and having or ganized by elcotlng a chairman and secretary, shall elect by ballot un e.\ Confcdorate soldier or sailor, ros a holder of nor applicant for a ponsion, as the representative of the veterans of said township. The representatives so elected shall meet at the county court house on the lirst Monday In Sop tern bor followlug, and bavin-.' organized by electing a presiding officer and secretary, shull elejt from their own number four, who. having selected a competent physician, and elected one of thomselvea at chair men, shall constitute, together with such physician, the county pension board for the year or until tho It suc cessors are elected and qualillod. In thoso townships where iho veterans failed to select a ropresontatlevo as herein provided, the ohalrmau of the county pension board shall appoint some person otherwise qualified as representative, until Buch election shall be had : and in these counties where the survivors failed to oryimi/. i u coun ty hoard as herein provided, the State board of pensions may appoint four e.\ Confederate soldiers or sailors other wise qualified to organi/.o and consti tute Bald county board. S^e. 11. in cast; there shuii he in any township no person qualified to act as representative, then the veterans may elect, or io case of their failure so tu do, tbj chairman of tho county pension board may appoint, some properly qualified veteran residing olsewhore in said county. See. I-), Tho comptroller general shall be chairman of the State board of pen sions, and he with three ex Confeder ate soldiers, not holders of nor appll* cants for pensions, to be selected by the United Confederate Veterans Associa tion at their annual meetings,together with a competent physician to ho se lected hy them, shall constitute the said State board of pensions That the comptroller general shall appoint a suitable person to serve as clerk of State board of pensions ; said clerk to receive a salary of $000 per annum for his services. Incusoof failure to se lect by the said veteran* association, tho three members properly qualified shall be appointed by the governor. Tho term of olllooof the selected mem bers of said board shall bo for one year and until their successors are elected or appointed and have quali fied. See. it). Thj compensation of the members of the county ponsion boards shall bo $1 pur day, not to exceed live days, and tho compensation of the Stato board shall hu *ll per day, not to exceed live days, and the latter shall he allowed mileage at the rate of ? cents per mile. Sec. IT. In counties where the sur vivors fail or refuse to comply with the provisions hereof, tho Stato board shall make such regulations for tho distribu tion of tho fund for such counties as they deem best. Sec. 18, It shall ho tho duty of the comptroller general to issue on the 1st Monday In Anrll of each year to the party entitled to receive a ponsion horeundor Ids warrant for such sum as may be herein prescribed, so long as such numu shall remain on tho pension roll as above prescribed, cr until in formed of the death or removal from tho State of such pensioner: Provided, That tho comptroller general shall forward the amount duo tho pension ers of each county to the clork of court of the several countiesnf tho State, to bo paid out hy said clork of court with out additional compensation. Sec. 10. It shall hotho duty of the comptroller gunoral to prepare and cause io hu printed form? in blank on which such applications, cert'floatet and alliJavlts may bo conveniently made, and ho shall causo tho samo to be distributed in the several counties of tho Stato in such number and such manner as In his judgment may bo ncccbsary. Soc. 20, Whenever tho name of any person who has been declared entitled to recoivo a pension ttndor tho laws of thlj Stato shall have beon omltteJ, by any accidont. from tho proper lists, it shall bo tho duty of tho Stato board of pensions to allow, and tho duly of the comptroller gonoral to issuo his war rant for, tho amount of tho pension to which such nor -on would have boon ontitled ; said amount to bo puld out of the. next regular appropriation for pen sions, aftor tho fact of ?Job accident shall have been dotorminod by said State board of pensions, and suld amounts shall be paid out of said np 1 proprlatlon boforo the same shall bo ap / f portioned among tho per.-.oi:s entitled theroto. See. 21. That section* !?:'.!?, WO, 1)11, 042 043,1)44,045, 040,017,048,040 050 051,052,05:1 054, ?-55, of the Revised Statutes Ol 1803, aud all acts amenda tory thereof, be, and the tamo are hereby, repealed. ?See. 32. Until the election of the coun ty pension board und tho Slate board (d pensions shall be had, as provided for heroin, the several pension boards as now constituted shall continue to exercise their respective functions. PltOGKKSS OK A OBNTUItY. The Wonderful CIlAli^os in tlto Con dition ol the I'ooici- C lasses in tin; United States. The following article is taken from tVloMaster's History of the United States : There can be no doubt of a wonder ful amelioration having taken place since the beginning of the last century iu the condition d > poor. Their houses wore meat - . their food was coarser, their clothli a .. >f common* er stuff, their wag"- ere, despite the depreciation that has gone on in the value of money, lower by one-half than at present. A man who performed what would now be called unskilled labor, who sawed wood, who dug ditches, who mended roads, who mixet mortar, who carried boards to the carpenter and bricks to the mason or helped to cut hay in the harvest time, usually re ceived as the fruit of his daily toil two shillings (about 40 cents.) Sometimes whe'ii the laborers were few ho was paid more, and became the envy of his fellows if at the end of a wcok he took to his family 10 shillings, a sum now greatly exceeded by if I. On such a pittance it was only by tho strictest economy that a mechanic kept, his children from starvation and him self from jail. Iu tho low and dingy rooms which he called Ids home were wanting many articles of adornment ami of use now to bo found in the dwellings of the poorest of his class. Sand sprinkled on the lloor did duty as a carpet. There wa-j no gla*s on his table, there was no china In his cupboard, there were no prints on his wall. What a stove was he did not know, coal be had never seen, matches he hail never heard of. < >ver a tire of fragments of boxes and barrels, which he lit from the sparks struck from a Hint or wltbthe livecoals brought from a neighbor's hearth, his wife cooked up a rude oeal, and served it In pewter dishes. Ilj rarely Listed fresh meat r.s often as once in it week, and paid for it at a much higher price than his posterity. K/orything, indeed, which ranked as a staple of life was very costly. Corn stood at three, shillings t ihout lid cents,' the bushel, wheat at ei^ht and sixpence (about $1.70) an nssf/.a of bread svas fourpence : a pound of salt pork was tenpouCO. Many other commodities now to be seen on the tables of the poor were either quite unknown or far beyond the reuon of his scanty means. I'm n viable is tho lot of that .nan who can not in the height of the season, when tho wharves and markets are heaped With baskets and crates of fruit, spare ?'! cents for a pound of grapes or ?"> cents for as many peaches, or when Sunday comes round indulge his family with water melons or oanteloupes. one hun dred years ago the wretched fox-grape was the only kind that found its way to market, and was the luxury of the rich. Among the fruits and vegetables of which no one had then even heard are oanteloupes, many varieties of peaches and pears, tomatoes and rhu barb, sweet oorn, the cauliflower, the egg-plant, head lettUC and okra. If the wood of an artisan wouid now be thought coarse, his olothes would be thought abominable. A pair of yellow buckskin or leathen breeches, a checked shirt, a rod Hanno! j vekct, a rusty felt hal cocked up at die corners, shoes of neat's skin set oil with huge buckles of brass and a leathern apron comprised his scanty wardrobe Ttie leather he smeared with grease to keep it solt and llexl blo. His sons followed In his footsteps or were apprentices to neighboring tradc tnon. His daughter went out to ser vice. She performed, indeed, all tho duties at present exacted from women of her eluss, hut with them were coupl ed many others rendered useless by the great improvement that has since taken place in the conveniences of life. She mended tho clothes, she did up tho mil's, she ran on errands from one end of tho town to the other, she milked the cows, made the butter, walked ten blocks for a pail of water, spun Max for the family linen, and when the year was up received J-lU (about $lu) for her wages. Hut there is ono other change which has, it must bo admitted, done far moro to increase the comforts of the poorest class than better food, higher wages, liner clothes. Men are no longer im prisoned for dobt. No crime known to tho law brought so many to the jails aud prisons as the crime of debt, and the class tno.-t likely to get into debt was the most defense less and dependent, the great body of servants, of artisans and of laborers? those, in short, who depended on their daily wages for their daily bread. One hundred years ago the laborer who fell from a scaiTold or lay sick of a fever was s\re to bo soi/.ed by tho sherilT the moment tie recovered and be curriod to jail for tho bill of a few dollars which had run up during his illness at the huckster's or tho tavern. The entire system of punishment was such as cannot be contemplated with out mingled feelings of pity and dis gust. Offenses to which a more merci ful generation has attached no higher penally than imprisonment and tine stood upon the statute books as capital crimes. Modes of punishment long since driven from the prisons with exe- J orations as worthy of an African kraal j were looked upon by society with a I profound Indifference. Tho tread-mill wus alwuys going. Tho pillory and stocks were novor empty. Tho shears, the branding-room ,snd tho lash were nevor idle for a day. The misery of the unfortunate crea tures cooped up in th 3 cells ever of tho most humanely kept prison-j surpasses in horror anything ever recorded "in (lotion. ?The value of tho egg crop of the Stato of Missouri exceeds in amount tho value of tho cereal crop of that State sold on the market. CASTOR! A For Infanta and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bough! Bears tho Signature ot BILL ARP VS. DR. IIOL?L<;RBY. MORAL TRAINING AM) COH POltAb PUNISHMENT. Arp Akitcs Thai Thoro Should Be Moral Instruction In The Schools? lit- Also Approves Whipping Bad Children, While the Preacher Dotm Not I thought that the school system was settled ami the in oplo had all UCqulosc I ed. Some of US antiquated men and wo men rebelled for a while, for wo were wedded to tbe ways of our fathers, but we had to lall into line and be recon ciled to what we could not help. Tho world was against us: Prussia, l-Vanee, Germany and New England, where all the development comes from. Still some of us fdt that it was hard and unjust to be tuxed for the education of other people'- children win.a wo had already paid for our own under the old plan. In tho old country tbe young men have to puy it bacl; in military service. But every now and then somebody raises a rumpus, and abuses the whole thing?the mode of teaching?the ex clusion of tho Bible ami morning pray* er?, and the Inlllction of corporal pun ishment. If 1 bad my way I would reform some things, but. 1 am only one man, and there are many men of many minds. 1 would give the Bible a place if it drove out the. children of every Ulssetitur in tho land : not a place to bo taught as a | Study, or for sectarian doctrines, but a j place to be read at the opening of the exercises and to be respected us tbe oracle of Clod. This is a Christ tan coun try and we base all law and legislation upon the Bible: every oilicor of the law is sworn upon it from the I'resilient down to a petty constable, including the judges of the Supreme Court, and all the other courts, the members of Congress ami all of the legislators. Congress has its chaplain anil all bow In reverence to the morning prayer. So has the House and Senate of Ceor gia, and yet there are always one or more members who are .lews or Infidels or agnostics. Judah, Benjamin and! David Yulee were United Stales Sena tors and they were great and gooil men ] of the Hebrew faith, and always bowed their heads reverently to the blind Chaplain's prayer. Major It .1. Moses, ! a distinguished .lew of Columbus, was I the speaker of our Ceorgia tJou80 in I IStiU, and with his gavel solemnly called tho members lo their feet when the Chaplain stretched forth his hands lo (leaven, our Covernor is not a mem ber of any church, but iiad lo confess his faith in tbe Bible when lie was sworn into olllco. Then, if all these great and learned men who represent this uoverntnont. both S'.ate und national, do not hesi tate to honor the sacred hook what is the matter with the children of the public schools V Are they to have r.o moral training v No reverence for the word of Cod r Is there a college in Georgia that does not open every day's exercises with morning prayer '.-' Thon why this Immunity to children ? this locking out the 13iiilo and its code of morals that the a^es have sanctioned ? What means the Observance Of the Sab bath and t he sound of the church going bells '- What means all the mighty ul forta of our petiole to send the Bible to the heathen, and through our mission aries to Christianize the world 't What is there peculiar to our children that they shall not be taught anything sa orod 'i Tho very seclusion of tue Bible easts a shadow of doubt and uncertain ty upon its truth : and added lo this comes ever and anon the attacks of Blich men as ingcraoll and Abbott and Mitchell, who seek lo knock out one by one the pillars of the saorcd volume. But the reply is that these disseuters are taxed to support the schools, and their religious convictions must be re spected. Their convlot ions are not re spected in any other department of pUbllo policy. They cant work on the. Sabbath nor can their children play hall or hunt or frolic, livery letter thai is written in their business or their families havo a date of 11)00, Whloh means luDO Anno Domini, But I forbear. I am only one man, and have no backers save perhaps Dr. llol derby. With him I agree that far, but I never was more surprised than to read his vehement phlllplo against cor- ; p')ral punishment. Either he or I is a crank upon that subjeot. And he is a minister, ami I supposed would have been guided by the wisdom of Mosos and Solomon. His indignation at tho thought of somebody elsu whipping his child is very great. He is very em phatic and almost belligerent. If the teacher was a man and should, as he says, "lay tho weightof his linger upon his child,' 1 believe ho wouid light, If tho teacher was a woman i don't know what he would do. But 1 will say that if I was the teacher Iiis childi on should ent como to my school at all. I would reject them at the start for the. lirst thing a child should be taught is obe dience, and if the child has already been taught at home that no punish ment is to follow disobedience, but de tiauce, rather, then tho child should not como to me. But tho good doctor need not ho alarmed, for his children will never be my pupils?thank the Lord. I believe in corporal punishment in schools, that is, for bad b.iys. I never saw but One girl whipped and sho de served it She was no spring chicken, either. I was raised on corporal pun* Ighmont, both at home and at school. I did not got it often, but at long inter- | vais, but I got it when forbearance had j Ceased to bo a virtue, and it was ml- i ministered liko medicine and was al* ' ways a good cathartic. If this was all wrong and inado mo ' worse instead of better and humiliated my pride, as tho doctor says, then I must consider myself an injured person, and biro a lawyer to sue somebody for damages j for Blackstono says there is no wrong Without a remedy. But my teachers are all tlead : anil they were all dead broke before they died, as all toachurs aro. So, I havo no remedy. Now, of course, there are children who nover need punishment either at home or at school?preaohers' children and some mild-eyed Jerseys who are good constitutionally. Most ull girls are that way, bless their hearts, but original sin is developed early in most boys, and if not restrained grows into moral turpitude and ends in total depravity an.-i the chaining. Old Ell got Iiis neck broken for not restraining Iiis boys, and they camo to a had end. 1011 was a preacher. Solomon said, "With hold not correction from tho child, etc. Thoro wero children of Bjlial Iben and thero aro now. Dr. Holderby says thoro aro .no boys In Atlanta schools who nevor heard tho name of God save when it was used profanely, and ho might have added and who never got a licking at homo and their only chance is to bo restrained at school by rod and reproof. Teachers aro belter than fathers and molhors for many children. In faot, wo all know of parents who aro not tit to ruiso their own children, and who ought to die and lot tholr children bo sont to an orphan asylum. Why nil this racket about whipping bad boys Y The doctor throws down the ohah longo und says tho rod in tho Scrip tures merely means government, and that the very moment that you dele gate to a teacher the right to whip a ehild you Hing an insult in the faee of Cod. Well, if everybody who know? Dr. llolderby didi.nl love him they would smile at such ridiculous- asser tions, llo couid hardly und another Biblical scholar but who would say that tho rod in the Scripture means U good old-fashioned licking, and it is to bo remarked that whenever it is used it is in tho masculino gender. ' Correct thy son and he shall give theo rest." " Heat him with the rod anu save his soul." " He that spareth the rod hateth his sou," etc., etc. The girls dldeut need it then and they do not now. They are all mild-eyed Jer seys, except some. Or. llolderby declares that whipping a boy Injures his social standing and takes away his self respect. Maybe that is what's the matter with me. anil is the reason why 1 am so meek and subdued. Maybe I was whipped too much. I had a light one Sunday with a boy at camp meeting, and lie whipped me and muddied my Sunday clothes and gouged tho skin oil my face. Next morning my father whipped me for fighting and when I went to tchool tho teacher got ready to whip me, but i showed him my legs and tie let me off. Good gracious ! what a proud, self re specting man I would have been if it had not been for good old John Norton and Dr. Patterson. You see, I was not a preacher's son. Hut, seriously, 1 know parents who would rather tho teacher would pun ish their bad boys than to tackle them at home. The school is their reforma tory, and with some mothers it is the nursery. Thon, again, there are par ent* who think the teaoher ought to whip other people's children but never touch their own. 'There are. lots of these, especially mothers. The teach ers have a hard time steering botweon the breakers, and 1 am BOrry for them, but 1 have never known a single ease where the bad hoy get more thi n he deservi d. Leng experience bus proved thai corporal punishment is best for bad men as weil as for bad hoys. Crime has rapidly Increased all over the land iinder the new regime. The average of boy? are much worse than they were titty years ago. They grow up to 111) our prisons and chainga.igs, and till the daily papers with murders and suicides and crimes of every description. The Atlanta cry is now for a reformatory. Maryland lias never abolished the whipping pest and not a burglary or bank robbery is committed there for the punif hmont is the lush once a week for successive weeks as the Btripi B are healed. They cant stand that. Before the civil war the lush was the only punishment for the negroes, and there was not a heinous crime committed by them from the Potomac to the Itlo Crande. Hut now there are 24,000 in the oha ngangs of the Southern states. Whipping hurts, I tell you it does, ami is long remembered. I Jr. Jim Ah oxander and George Adair and I5van Powell und I used to talk about our whipping's and laugh and make merry. They hadent lost any self respect to speak of. BILL A HP. ? . ? ? Bin - --President Sehurman, of Cornell University, and formerly head of the Philippine commission, in a speech lately said ho had recommended to the President a government ami constitu tion for the Philippines identically the same as that trained by educated Fili pinos, which is practically tho govern mental policy outlined by Thomas Jef ferson for the government of the. vast territory acquired by the Louisiana purchase. President Sehurman said further ho was happy to state thai President McKinley hail accepted the recommendations aud was sending out a second commission to put this gov; ornment in operation. " To avoid any mistake on the subject,'' said the i pea ker, " thi! constitution drawn up by Pedro A. Paterno, Aguinaldo's prime minister in 1808, will bo published alongside with the conetl tutlon adopted by the commission, so it may bo seen the. two arc identical, with only slight elaboration in the American form. This constitution olso agrees with tho request that leading Filipinos have been making of us day after day. ?At San llafael, Gal., an ordinance was recently passed making it illegal to use repeaMng and magazine shot guns in Marion County. With the avowed intention of testing the law Mr. W. A. Marshall, an Oakland capi talist, went Into the county with a re peating shotgun and bagged a number of quail. He was arrested and taken before a justice who lined him 10 Mr. Marshall immediately carried the case to the Superior Court, which up held the r'ght Ol tho county to put restrictions upon tho kind of weapons to he used by sportsmen in killing game. "Doctors failed to reach my case and advised me to try a higher air." There is no greater irony than a rccom inciul.iti<hi of change of climate to those whose circumstances make change of climate Impossible. How many a suf ferer in such nense has wistfully watched tin- (light of the south-seeking birds, and cried with tho Psalmist, "Oh that I had wines." Hut suppose you e.ui (It the lungs to the climate instead of lilting the climate to the lungs. That is what has been found possible by those who have used Dr. Picrcc'S Golden Medical Dis covery. It so purifies the blood, remov ing the clogged and poisonous conditions favorable to disease, that the whole body is strengthened. With new strength conies new power, aud disease is resisted and thrown off. 1 There is no alcohol, whisky or other , intoxicant contained in j Dr. Pierces I Golden Medical Discovery. "i feel tii.it f owe a debt ot gratitude to4-011 for preparing mich grand remedies, for chronic diseases i-|u. i.illy. WlllCll the doctors failed to reach," writes 1. D, Staples, P.sq., of iiarclay. OsagC Co., Kalis. "Iain a railroad agent, and four yearn sro my work keeping me in n warm loom ami stepping out frequently Into the cold air gave me bronchitis, which liccame chronic and <i<-ep seated. Doctors failed to reach my 1 nsc and advised me to try a highei air, but, for tunately for me, a friend also advised me to try Dr. Pierce'* medicines, 1 commenced taking your 'Golden Medical Discovery,' and by the lime i had taken the fust bottle i was better, and after taking ainjiit four lwttlcs luv cough was entirely gone, This was n year ago last winter; nnd i.gain last winter I tOOK about three bottles to prevent a return of the trouble. I have found no necessity for peeking another climate." Dr. I'ierce'h Pleasant Pellet*are power ful aids to the cle.uising of the clogged system. By nil dealers iu mcdiciue. , I McKFNL?EY*ON .THE PHILiIl'IMNES II?' Declares There Can Ho No lmpo riallsin -Ills Aim ls.to Givilizo The NOW l'ossl Shimm. * President McKinley was the guest of honor at the annual meeting of the Ohio Society in New York. In re sponse to a toast, the President spoke a? follows : " Mr. Toastuiasler and Gentlouien . I appreciate your welcome und thank you for this renewed expression of good Will. " It has been some year.-, since 1 was your guest. Mu :h has happened in the meantime. We have had our blessings and our burdens and stil! have both. Wo will soon have legislative assur ance of the continuance of the gold standard with which we measure our exchanges and we have the open door in thd far east through which to market our products. We arc neither in ulli ai.ee, nor antagonism, uor entangle ment with any forolgu power, but on terms of amity and cordiality with all. We buy from a.l of them ami sell to all of them and our sales exceeded our p.! ich uses in the. past two years by over one million dollars. Markets have been increased and mortgages have been roduoed. tnterost has fallen and wages ha/e advanced. The public debt is decreasiii!.'. Tin- country is well to do. Its " do for the moat part, are happy a.. ..ntented. They have good times and are on good terms with the nations of the world. There are unfor tunately those among us. few in n-<m bor, I am sure, who seem to thrive 'est under hard times and who when good limes overtake them iu the United States, feel constrained to put US on bad terms with the rest of mankind. With them I can have no sympathy. I would rather give expression to what I believe to be the nobler und almost universal sentiment of my countrymen in the wish not only for our peace ami prosperity, but for the peace and pros* pority ofatl the nations and peoples of ttie earth. " After 113 years of unbroken peace came an unavoidable war. Happily the conclusion was quickly reached, without a suspicion of unworthy motive of practice or purpose on our part and with fadeless honor to our arras. I cannot, forget the quick response of the people to tnc country's need and the quarter of a million men who freely olTored tholr lives to their country's service. It was an impressive spectacle of national strength. It demonstrated our mighty reserve power and taught us thai large standing armies are un necessary when every citizen is a ' minute man,' ready to join the ranks for national defense. "Out of these recent events have come to the United Stales grave trials and responsibilities. As it was the nation's war so are the results the na tion's problem. Its solution rests upon us. It is too serious to .?title. It is too oaruest forrcpose. No phrase or catch word can cancel the sacred obligation ' it involves. No ufio of epithets, no us porslon of motives by those who differ, will contribute lo that Si her judgment so essential to right conclusions. No political outcry can abrogate our treaty of peace with Spain or absolve us from its solemn engagements. It is the peo ples question and will lie until Its de termination is written out in their en lightened verdict. Wc must choose betweeu manly doing and base deser tion. It will never be the latter. It must be soberly settled in justice and good conscience and it will bo. Kight eousncss, which oxaltoth a nation must control in its solution. Nogreat emer gency has arisen in this nation's history and progress which has not been met by the sovereign people with high ca pacity, with ample strength and un flinching fidelity to OVOry honorable ob ligation. Partisanship can hoid few of us agalnBtsolemn public nuty. Wo have seen this so often demonstrated in the past as to mark unerringly what it will be in the future. The national senti ment and the national conscience was never stronger or higher than now. There has been a re-union of the people around the holy altar consecrated to country newly sanctified by common sacrifices. The followers of Grant and Lee l ave fought under the same Hay anil fallen fertile same faith. Party linos have loosened and tho ties of union have been rooted In the hear Is of tho American peoplo. Political pas slop has altogether subsided and pa triotism glows with inextinguishable fervor in every home in the land. The Hag has been sustained on distant seas and island- by the men of all parties and sections and creeds and races and rationalities, and its stars are only those of radiant hope, to the remote peoples over whom it il.iats. "There can be no imperialism Those who fear it are against it. Those who have faith in the republic are against it. So that thoro Is universal abhorronce for it and unanimous oppo sition to it. Our only difference is that those who ilo not agree with us have no confidence in the virtue or capacity, or high purpose or good faith of tins froa people as a civilizing agency : while we believe that the century ol freo government which the American people have enjoyed has not rendered them faithless aim irresolute, but has titled them for the great task of lifting up and assisting to bolter conditions those distant people who have through the. issue of battle become our wards. L't us fear not. Tho,-c is no occasion for faint hearts, no excuse for regrets. Nations lie not grow in strength and the cause of lloorty and law is not ad vanced by the doing of easy things. The harder the task the greater will be the result, the benefit ami the honor. To doubt our power to accomplish it is to lose faith in the soundness and strength of our popular institutions. Tho liberators will never become the oppressors. A self-governed peoplo j will never permit despotism in any government which they foster and de fond. "Gentlcmeni we have the new care and cannot Shift it. And, breaking the camp of oflse, and isolation, lei us bravely and hopefully and soberly con tinue the march of faithful service and (alter not until the work is done. It is not possible that seventy-live million of American freemen are unable to es tablish liberty and justice and good government in our new possessions. The burden is our opportunity. Tho opportunity is greater than the burden. May Cod glvo us strength to bear the one, and wisdom so to embrace the other as to carry to our distant acquisi tions the guarantees of 'life, liburly and the pursuit of happiness.' " President McKinley read ills speech. It was greeted with applause through out. His reforonco lo tho maintain ance of tho gold standard, the open door, tho ahsoncc of entanglements, caused great applause. When he said 75,000,01)0 freo men could not fall to es tablish liberty und Jr. .ico and good govornmont in tho ? w possession* I there was tremendous l , '.ause. Beam tho /) ^c *l(u* ^m ^m AlvV'0s ^QUgh[ . 1^"t?TAIj"*'1?CL1P8IC*'1N MAY.*** riio.Qovorumcni Will Have Obscrva lories in South Carolina. New York Tribune. Tbc naval observatory has ?skeil Congress for on appropriation oi $0,000 for the purpose of studying and observ ing the total solar eclipse of May *JS next, u phenomenon of speolal interest to America, as it is the first one that will bo visible generally id this coun try siuce 1878, the only exception being the eclipse of 1800, visible from the west coast of California up into Manitoba. The eclipse next spring is visible in a narrow line or belt extend ing from Norfolk, Ya., in a generally southwesterly direction through Texas and Mexico. The duration of totality at .Norfolk is about a minute and a half and the time diminishes until New Orleans, where it is only about a minute ami twelve seconds. Preparations for observing this eclipse were begun three years ago by the weather bureau, which gathered extensive duta concerning tho cloudi ness und general conditions of the weather on May Js In the regions over which the eclipse, will be total. Their j results, recently published, show that tho best positions for observing tho eclipse, where there will be the | greatest probability (>! clear weather. I are in South Carolina, Northern i Ceorgia and Alabama. Hut iu order to secure a certainly, stations will be | occupied all alor.g the line of totality. At the coining eclipse the obsorvu-j tory will utilize instruments of great value for the study of this peculiar phenomenon. First, the observation of the precise time at which the ton tacts of the moon take place, in order to lix precisely its position 1 i tho heavens relatively to the BUn, eh can he done with unusual accu aoy I orly at the time oi solar eclipse. 1 e second purpose will be to study w photographic Instruments and t spectroscope the struotureand CJm position of the sun's surroundings. This latter held is tho one which pos sesses such absorbing popular interest, and the in foot photographic lenses oi the observatory will give large photo graphs, which will show the linest de tail of tho corona. Smaller instru ments, however, with lenses of the finest workmanship, will be used to photograph the widest extensions of the corona. Stations will have to be chosen some time iu advance of the eclipse, and the telescopes: mounted and adjusted to he in readiness for the important moment. The task of mounting the telescopes forty feet long so a.- to point at a do- 1 Unite region of tue sky at the precise moment of time, und that the. moment i at which the sun will be in position to 1 tend its rays through the King canvas tube which will cut out the St!ay light < of the atmosphere, is no light tusk, aud yet it has been successfully ac- 1 compllshed on several expeditions by 1 the eclipse parties of the Lick ubserva- ' tory. The observatory has in time | 1 past sent out eclipse parties to distant parts of the world, the last extensive expedition icing in 1883, to the Caro line Islands, in the South i'aeilie, of which the present astronomical direc tor of the observatory. I'rof. S .). Brown, was a member. This eclipse, whoso duration was unusually long, was visible at only two small dots of land in the I'aeilie ocean, tho rest of its entire track passing over tho watery waste. Previous to that in lisT*, several government purties occupied positions * on the long line of totality extending from Iowa to the I'aeilie coast, especially in the high rocky mountains whore the atmosphere was light and transparent. Although the proposed appropria tion of $5,000 BOOtna ludicrously Inade quate and is much less than those given in former limes, the convenience , and accessibility of the stations and the fact tnat the observatory already | possesses many valuable instruments ! explain why such a relatively small amount will be productive id much good, provided the expedition is suc cessful. Till'. ILLICIT SALI'] ?>K LIQUOR. President (Jcoi'gC Washington Had to Dual With Moonshiners and li mil Timers. Maj. ThOd. W. Woodward, of I air field, has a valuable old document j which is a proclamation issued by Pres ident Ceorge Washington, calling on the olllcors of the law and good citi zens to aid in suppressing the illicit sale of liquor. Tho document is printed, and is in a remarkably good state of preservation. Following is the proclamation ? By the President of the United States. | A PROCLAMATION. WIll'.KKAS certain violent and un warrantable proceedings have lately taken paCO tending to obstruct the op eration of the laws of the United States for raising a revenue upon spir its distilled within the same, enacted pursuant to express authority dele gate in the constitutiou of tbe United States : which proceedings arc subver sive to good order, contrary to the i duty that every citizen owes to his j country and to tbe laws, and of a na- I lure dangerous to the very being of j the government \ And where.b such proceedings are t'ne more liuwarrantabl ?, by reason of the moderation which has heretofore been shown on the part of the govern ment, and of the disposition which has (been manifested by the Legislature (who alone have authority to suspend tho operation of laws) to obviate causes of objection, and to render the laws as acceptable as possible : And whereas it is the particular duty of the l-ixc u tivo "to take caro that the. laws be faithfully executed :" and not only that duty, but the permanent Interests and happiness of tho people require, that every legal and necessary stop should be pursued, as well as to pre vent such violent ami unwarrantable proceedings, as to bring to justice the Infractors of he laws and secure obe dience thereto: Now therefore I George Washing ton, President of the United States, do by these presents most earnestly admonish and exhort all persons whom It may concern to refrain and doslst from ull unlawful combinations and proceedings whatsoever having for ob ject Or tending to obstruct the opera tion of the laws aforesaid : inasmuch as all lawful ways am) means will he strictly put In execution for bringing to justice the infractors thereof and securing obedioncc thereto. And I do moreovor charge and re quire aH courts, magistrates and offi cers whom It may concern, according to the duties of their several ollices, to exert tho powers in thorn respectively vested by law for the purposes afore said, hereby also enjoined and requir 'ng all persons whomsoever, as thoy tender tho welfare of thoir country, tho just and duo authority of govern ment and tho preservation of the pub lie peace, to be abiding and assldtiug therein, according to law. In testimony whereof, 1 have eaused the Seal of the laitol States to bo atlixeil to these presents, and signed the same will? my hand. Done tins fifteenth day of September, In the year of our Lord one thousand seven hun dred and ninety*two, and of the hide ; pendenee of the United States the seventeenth. Co. WASHINGTON. Til. .) KIlKKSi >N. i KOKHSTS to PltKVKNT FLOODS.?The famous Johnstown Hood of May 31, 1880, will probabiy soon be recalled to the public by an attempt to reforest a largo portion of the GonOUiaUgh water shed to prevent further damage from Ireshets. The Johnstown Water Com pany, which controls ">,?KiO acres of mountain land, has asked the division of forestry to devise a plan by which the area can he recovered with timber and the too rapid ruu-oll' of the rain fail prevented. The region is peculiarly liable to freshets, owing to its geological char acter and the removal of its timber. The now historic catastrophe, which Bwept away $10,000,000 In property and half as many lives us the battle of Get tysburg, was but an exaggerated in stance of many similar Hoods. This tendency has been increased by loir ging off the timber anil clearing num erous farm.-, so that the rainfall Hows quickly from the surface, causing high water at one time and the drying up of springs lator. The Johnstown Water Company has bought up many of theso far-.is and torn down their buildings, und now wi-l.es to expedite their return to the forest. The tract is in a Baads tone re gion, much broken, with valleys averag ing ::.">n ft et In depth. The timber con.-i.-ts of hemlock, oak. locust and with some beech and poplar. The openings are from twenty to fifty acres. Tin: Ki.i.i.i.v Cum: INVENTOR.?Dr. Leslie E. Kooloy, the inventor of the Keoloy cure for drunkenne.s, who died in California t he.other day, was a na tive of New York State. His youth was spent in Michigan, whence he came to Chicago to attend Uush Medi cal College. He graduated In 1801 and then enlisted in the United States rrmy as surgeon during the civil war. Late in 180(5 he moved to Dwight, III., where for thirteen years ho pursued a lucrative medical practice. Marly in his career as physician ho conceived the idea that inebriety was a disease of nervous origin and was curable, Eor several years lie worked on this the ory, and eventually began a system of Iroatmont 0U patients at Dwight with the ''double chloride of gold and so dium." At his institute ho treated people suffering from the drink, on oaino, cigarette and other hablt8. ' If his patients some 17.000 wore physici ans. It is estimated that . bout I per Lent, rottirn to drink. The system con sists of four weeks' treatment of hypo dermic injections of the gol 1 cure given four times daily, together with a tonic which is taken from time to time. A Keoley League was formed of the "graduates" of the cure, of which there were more than 30,000 members, Candy i ok THE Sol.nil'.us. ?Fifty tons ol candy have been sent to the soldiers in the. Philippine Islands by the commissary department of the army during the hist three months, and large amounts to the soldiers in Cuba and Porto i.ilco, according to W. E. Curtis. This is done upon the ad vice of the medical as well iis line of licors Of the army, because it is a phys iological fact that in the tropics a moderate consumption of confectionery promotes health and satisfies a natural and not unhealthy craving of the stomach. Candy was never furnished to the United States army before, al though it is commonly used as a ration by the British and French troops in the tropics. The larger part of the shipment are chocolate creams and lemon and other acidulated drop-, which are hermeti cally sealed in one-pound tins of oval shape to lit the pocket of a soldier's uniform. The candy is manufactured in New York especially for tho com missary department and i? little more than sugar and lemon or lime juice. Tlie mixture of sweets and acids in that form is not only more grateful to the palate, but healthful to the stom ach. ?Charcoal is almost the only fuel u.-ed in Havana, which is a city of 280,? 000 inhabitants, and as the masses live from hand to mouth and buy only tho smallest possible amounts at a time there are hundreds of great, unwieldy charcoal carts constantly traversing the streets, says the. Chicago Kecord. Charcoal has an advantage as fuel, which shows in Havana's cleanliness or freedom from coal soot or ashe?. Pew homes have chimneys. Over the large stono and tilo rangOS of the kitchens there is an expanded canopy terminating above in a square or oblong funnel leading to a Hue which ends Hush with the roof. ? People who livo on tho New Eng land coast like to use ocean driftwood aa fuel in open Ilreplaces. It is impreg nated with copper and ocean salts, an-.r when burned gives out the most bril liant colored Harnes, it Is assorted that a Now Bedford dealer has orders for tin: wooil from all parts of the country, and even from Europe, ami ships hun dreds of barrels of it yearly. Various attempts have been made to imitate this wood by artilical process, but with out succ ;ss. Long submersion in the sea water is necessary to produce the brilliant ilames. ? in tho war of 1812 200,010 soldiers served sixty days or more. Of that number 30,000 drew pensions, but of their widows 30,000drow pensions. At the present timo tho one survivor ol the war of PI2 i- drasving $103 a year, while the widows are receiving $203,007. The widows of Moxlcau ve terans arc receiving 1818,007 a year ' and the surviving veterans $1,107,501, ? it is shown by the record that in 1 all the lighting before Santiago, the \ only real battle of the war witli Spain. there were only twenty-nine amputa tions. Of those cases six terminated fatally. Of the twenty-three remain i ing fourteen of the amputations were I Of the lingers. Only twelve soldiers \ camo out of the battles with the loss of more than a linger. ? Reuben Daily, editor of tho News j and Democrat at Jeffersonvllle, Ind., and a candidate for county treasuror, has Introduced a novolty in his cam paign in the shape of a stump spooch by phonograph. It Is only a thro? minute speech, but has proved vory popular. It is followed by a number of musical selections on the. phonograph I and a series of popular songs. Boart lbs jO ',Ui ^1IU' YJ" Hggg Mjgg BO'JjjM