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The Laurens Advertiser $1.50 Per Year in Advance. BIH, ARP QUOTAS BBRCHK?. The Noted Minister Used C uhh Words and the Hot Weather Caused it. Atlanta Constitution. This horrid, torrid weather reminds me of what Henry Ward Jlcechcr said iu his church one sweltering day in July. He took no text, lie ?vipcdlhe perspiration from his brow and look ing solemnly at the large congregation, I Haid: " It is bot today. It is damned hot. It is as hot its hell!" Every body wan amazed aud shocked until he added, "That is the language I heard two young men use at the door of the church as J passed them. My young friends, it is uot as hot as hell." Then in a low, earnest tone he pictured the torments of hell and the certain fate of the wicked until the atmosphere ol the church seem d to he cool and pleasant in comparison. The ladies Ceased to move their fans and every body was still and solemn as a fuucial. It was something like Jonathan Ed Wards at Northampton when he got his hoarors so wrought up and alarmed that they groaned in fear and grasped the postH and braces to keep from Sinking into hell, aud another preacher in the pulpit begged Mr. Edwards to stop. " Slop, Mr. Edv-ardu; stop now ami tell them of the mcicy and love of God." What wonderful power is In tho I words of an eloquent, earnest man. I Mr. Beecher was all of that?a giltcd, eloquent man. I heard him preach 1 twice before the wai and was profound- I ly impressed. 1 looked upon him as I the impersonation of the man of God. ' Later on, when be began Iiis vindic tive war upon the South and said thai ' Sharp's rilles were belter than Bibles i for .lohn BrOWU m Kansas and it was aclinic to shoot at a slave-holder and I miss bim, 1 wendend at my in fat tin (ion with the man and exclaimed with Isaiah, ** How are the mighty lallen/' And still later when Tillen charged him with alienating, and seducing his wile and it took two months lo try the case and the jury two days to make up a verdict, which virtually said, ik He is not guilty, but he must not do so any more," L was mot*titled at my own weakness in becoming his idolater and resolved to worship no man while he lived. A great man's character can not be made up until after he is dead. But I was rumiuatiug how easy it is for a young man to say damn and damn it, I'll be damned, and even to take the name of God in vain. Damn is a more convenient and expressive word than dogon or diugnatiou or blamed, and it shows a defiance of the devil and a self-conceit in the man who uses it. But il is a very handy exple tive und when a young man gets in the habit of using it bo rarely nt< l ins. He know* that il is not good manners, lor be docs not use it in the presence of ladies or preachers or his parents. Nevertheless there are some, good peo ple who think damn il without saying it. 1 beard a good story the other day on Colonel Livingston, our member ot Congress from the Atlanta district. Last summer he wus sent over lu West Virginia to speak and help die Demo ciata in their canvass. He ventuied into a pretty hot ItepubllCap town and was haranguing and electrifying a large audience, and while scarifying tho Republicans and this lighting ad ministration u soft, half done Irish potato took him kerzip right b< tween the eyes, it knocked off his specta cles and flattened into mush all over his classic countenance. It surprised and shocked him, ol course. Recover ing his glasses he wiped the sticky Stuff from his face and said with ex cited tone, "My friends, I have been? J have been a consistent -a consistent member of the Presbyterian church - the Presbyterian church, 1 say for more than?more than lifly years?yes, fifty odd years, and have tried to live tried to live in harmony with all men with all men, but if the dirty, dogond, dadblamed puppy who throw that po tato will stand up or raise his right hand I'll be?I'll be dadhlasted if I don't slop speaking long enough to come down and lick the hair and hide, off of him in two minutes by the clock." As nobody rose or raised a hand the colonol resumed his broken remarks, but declares that he never came as near cursing since he joined the church. This thing of cursing is of very an cient origin. Sometimes it was done by proxy. Bulak, the king of Moab, hired Balaam to curse Israel, and some of u>j veterans remember when we, loo, wanted to hire a cussin man t j expend our wrath upon the Yankees. Peter cursed and swore when accused of being one of the disciples. It is pro- J bable that he said ?< I'll he damned if I am," or perhaps worse. Soldiers and Bailors have in all ages been profane? tho very class that are in greatest peril and should have the greatest reverence for their Maker. Uncle Toby savs ??Our army swee terribly in Flanders." And Uncle Toby himself swore an oath when he found the sick soldier lying and dying at his gate. ?? He shall not die, by (iod," he said, and the accusing spirit llew up to heaven with t'10 oath and blushed as he gave it in. The recording angel as ho wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever." That is beautiful, isent it? Verily, chut it} hideth a multitude of sins. Hut Una is enough on Ibis subject. It is too hot to work in the garden and so I get in (he shado of the vines on my verandah and ruminate. Judge Griggs, eur honoicd member bf Con* grc.su, tells thai story on Colon? I Livingston and ho told another thai will make the old men forget that it is hot, for thoy never get too old to enjoy any story that lias a ptetly wo * man in it. One of the last cases brought before the judge was a young unsophisticated country boy who was charged with an assault upon a bounic country girl in that he had caught her at the spring and bugged and kissed her against her will. Her mother saw it from her pia/./.a and" heard her scream and saw him run away to the flelld where he was plowing, she was very indignant, and prosecuted him. She- was tho witness- and so was the gul, but the girl dident seem very vin dictive. She said lie dident hurt her !>ut took her by surprise. She bad filed hor bucket and was about to go back when bo caught her and hugged her ?trid kissed her right on her mouth. Tho solicitor closed ins case The i young man was put up to m ? his J statement, and all he said was that she looked so sweet and pretty he could nt help it, and he dident believo thai Miss Molly was very mad about it nohow, for she wont off singing of a byme. " What hymo was she sing ing?" asked the judge. " I don't know," he said. " What hymo wer? you singing, Miss Molly v" asked the judie. She smiled and said it was ^^gjjotd Will Provide." Tho judge charged U>o jury very mildly, and told them that au assault Implied malice, etc., but as tho jury eouldenl BOO Whore the malice camo in, they came back with this verdict: 41 >4'c, the jury,' lind the defendant not guilty, as thoru was no malice or hate in it, ami we. recommond him to the mercy of the i court.'' This story reminds mo of Johu : Kiloy's verdict in the Puss caso. Uood old .lohn Kiley, the lineman of The ! 1! nil' Courier's pressroom for yea s' and years, and the foreman of the juty j in UlO case of the State against UoiUUhtS Pass for hog Blonliug. Pass had betn suspected ol* killing Wallis Warren's shoals as lhoy ran in the wund-?, and 80 Wallis 1 lid for him and one OVOtlillg about dusk, when he heard a rille sin t, he slipped up and caught Pass in the very act of pulling lite sh' at in a Back. Wallisdideitt go to the war and manag ed to save his -n <k. PrtSS WOllt, and loft his wile and thrco little children to the mercy "> (lod and the com munity. When he returned ho found there was nothing left to live OU, nh(l one of the children had died, ludgo Wright voluntocred to defend him, and lutroduced uo evidence, bul luul the last speech. I will ucvor forget the lender pathos of that speech his pic ture of a poor soldier returning home, to lind desolation and despair, lie never alluded to the evidence, hut had the jury and the court in tears, The judge charged them as fairly in he could, and they retired. In a brief time they came in with this verdict: " Whereas, Ihe lute, unhappy war re duced many of our Lr,i\e sohiicrs and their families t<> want und poverty by reason of which ihoy were forced at limes to wander in ihe woods for such game as they could Und in order t<> keep the wolf fiom llio door and Iheir little once from starvation; thoroforo, we, tin- jury, lind the dctcndani n il guilty. John lliley, roremau. By gracious!" said Wallis, "they found Pass suilly ami then pardoned him." Judge Wright never lost a caso where he had the last speech and a woman or a poor man uns his cllcut, But it is got lieg a little cooler now as the sun neais the bori/.otl, 1 must slop and turn tin- water loOSO on my garden. The city has no water meters ! yet, and I can steal water with IIU ! putllly, but as the lllggor preacher said to his Hock, ?? You inu-cnt bo coichcd stcahu' chicki n?c iched, I saw" I IBhhAiu?. FOLKS ACROSS BLUlv RIDGIS. Their Politics Based on Liberty and Religion on Actual Perdi tion Mr. William K. Curtis the well known Washington correspondent of I lite Chicago llccord-Herald, bus been on a visit to Western North Cn'o'.iun, ami writes as follows in regard to the people who live there. Tho picture is somewhat overdrawn, but Mr. Cuitis is a very Vivid writer and some al lowance must be made lor Ins i cjlur csquo styie, which would naturally be drawn out by the mngr.iliccnl scenery where these mountaineers are to bo found. The sketch i< as follow.-: The mountaineers of the Blue Itidgo are a race of themselves, in many re spects unlike nil the other communities that make un this&rcat commonwealth, They partake of [ho ruggoil and som bre eharaetor of the mountains in which thoy live, an?l have inherited tlnj habit* and customs, as weM a8 the cablu8,of their grandfather* and great- . grandfathers, who got ibat far in the westward inarch of ?mpire, but could go do farlhei because their teams were tired and the moun tain roads wen: impassable. There these pioneers -ettl< I down, chared little, spots of land in the forest and began an mending struggle With nature, which has been only partially : [successful, ami, continued from gen-1 ?ration to geueralion, has produced a hardy people who live comfortless lives rjf labor and ptivalion, ami yet are not 1 unhappy. Tin ir politics, teligion, morals and superstitions are unchange able and of the severest kind. Thoir politics is based on liberty, as their re ligion is based on brimstone. Hence they are. Moonshiners, hard-sholl Baptists and shouting Methodists. They resist the revenue ollicOl'S because ; they beltCVO the government is de priving tin tn of their liberties. Theh preachers picture the torments of the damned in lurid colors, because it re quires something strong lo arouse their emotions, ami thcil mortal lives arc so ; full of misery that a mild form of per dition would not seem an adequate ! punishment for sin. j They are dull in hook learning, hut tenacious of memory. This is due to their empty minds, ami Iheir lack of knowledge ami experience. They have lived in stagnation. They have few events to remember and the im pressions left by the trilling incidents of their lives and the little inlorinalion tiicy gather arc never effaced. The mountaineers are illiterate in secular teaming, hut you seldom lind a household that is not well posted iu Scripture history. While they may not he. able to read the text, they can I quote pus.-ages fr m the Old and New j Testaments without number, arc. t ngur I for theological contioversy, arc power ful oxhoi'tcrs mi l fervent in prayer. I Some of the most effective preachers | can scarcely read or write. Their language is rude, but inspired by deep! emotion. Northern people have loht i me that the n*.OSteloquent prayers they ever listened i?? wore offered by uu? couth, uneducated mountaineers. Tins ISA matter ol pride with them. Mon Wlio can pray eloquently and carry "ii theological controversies with credit nro quite as highly esteemed as those who excel in the use of the nllc or in ath letic snorts. There arc few words in their vocab ulary because they do not have many ?' leas or much information to com nainiculc. It is said that Ii" civil /.cd people have so barren a laugtingo, but their dialed is unique and philologists lind in'it a C ose relation totlio Scotch, which was the tongue of their ances tors. Perhaps their limilod vocabu lary is part of their poverty. Tin y may practice economy in Intlgtingc as in the other necessities of life, but their virtues are equally COnspleil >us ami they are. famous for their l)0S| la lity. No mountaineer ever turned n stranger from his door unless ho sus pected him of being a revenue agent, and then ho followed him down the I rond with u shotgun. They never look up anything. They have nothing to steal, tin<l honesty ami a recognition of the rights of others are the fundamental principles of their morality, Charles Egbert Craddock has given us graphic pictures of Iba ir customs and habits, and those who know them host say that her sketches aro accurately drawn. They care very little what is going on in the outside world, and while they ' do not resist civilisation that is pressing ! closer and closer around them, they arc Indifferent to it. Tfuy refuse to 1 adopt labor saving machinery, although the industrial schools established by the benevolent pooplo of the North for th(! hands und minds mid l08l08 of the , imoui 11: generation nrogradudly break? ing through lho crust of their con ser\ ntlstn. Not ion"; ago i visited ouo <?f these schools near the Hot Springs ol North Curoliua, which wa rounded i>y a Dartmouth Col'ego man named Luke i DorlanU, who went dowu tbore many years ago lor ins health. As ho wan dered over tbe mountains, nudyiug the lives ami habits of the people, be was most impressed by their abomin able cooking ami started a school in his kilcheu. He could accommodate but few pupils, whom he selected from among the brightOSt girls in the neigh borhood, but the Held was wide and the school kopt growiug until it now consists of several departments, which arc under tbe supervision of the Wo men's Home Missionary Society of the Prcsbytoriau Church. At Ashovhh there is a similar industrial school, j Wliuro ICO girls Irom 12 to IS years old, are being taught housework, cook-: big, sewing, gardening and other prat ? tied knowledge It cost only s7,-, a year t<> educate one of these girls and I do not know w here nmnev can be bet ter illV08fed. There is also a normal school whore the brighter minds are trained to leach others what they IhotU? selves have learned of the household arts, ami I.'10 young missionaries are being lilted to go into the mountains to preach Hie gospel Of order, neatiiesjs and comfort among the primitive bonus of the mountaineers. At the little village of Denmark is a farm school of 400 acres win re 1 10 boys are being luughl the iwo of modern um- I chincry und ucouomicul methods and j the tuduncntary principles of agricul-1 luro. Tho Dorinud Institut?-, at lint' spring-, like,the other |schools*I have named, is under the care ol' the wo men's homo mission board ol' the . Presbyterian Church, hut is Bupportul directly by nulivluual churches, BOCic lUjH ami bouevolout people, "Who pay cci^dn sums every year to .sustain scholarships. There are now llfty-two girls in the institute, who can be educated in the ait of housekeeping lor $50 a'Vear, which is the cost of a scholar-hip. This is possible boctlUSO the teachers try to make ftle school as neat ly self-supporting as possible. The pupils in this seh< o! arc selected from the most intelligent girls in a I0T04 list ol applicants, for it can ac commodale but a small proportion of thos,. who wish t<> attend. They all come from the eabtus in the moun tains, ami the brightest ones are chosen on the theory lhat the gr?ntest good can lie accomplished by using the lies', material, 'l iny ate taught to sew, to cook, to make gardens ami a sullicient amount < I hook learning to enable (hum t > rend, write and keep accounts. If a girl proves too dull of intellect 10 coiupreh' ml the simple purposes of tho institution she is scut home and her place is filled by another of greater promise, Tho course is three years, nl the end of which giudualing exorcises arc held wi'.h considerable coremouy to impress the fathers and mothers ami the neighbors with the Importance of education. Most of the girls many at once after leaving the school, because the youug men appreciate the advan tage of having a wile who is Uaincd to make n good housekeeper.4 Strangers always wonder where ilie mountaineers get their clothing. Much oi it is home*tunde, like the furnish ings of iheir houses, which show the lark of what Harriet Bccchor Slowo culls 11 faculty." Thoy cannot adapt things like the Vanl ecs. They ran make n tomato can serve the purpose of a teapot, but their ingenuity goes very little farther. The most sinpris. ing and mysterious problem is the origin of their hats, and. although I have asked the question of everybody who ought to know, I have beou unable t ? gel the slightest satisfac ion as to the SOUl'CC of supply. I'l e women wear sunbounets made of calico with wide frills, but the men hove the most remarkable variety and pattoru of headgear worn anywhen else. You cannot lind their like in any other part of the civilised world, ant! they not only last a lifetime, but arc banded down from generation to generation. They t II a story of an old man whose bat blew off as he was crossing a Im i Ige and lloalcd down lite Stream. Tin: neighbors rallied to the cry of distress ami sought tor days with as much zeal as they would have shown in recover ing a human body. But it was a failure, ami from that date the old man went about bareheaded. He was too old lo buy a new hat, he said. A merciful Providence could not be expected lo spare him many years longer. [f anyone is curious to know what becomes of the old clothes that we send lo the home missionaries he might spend an interestin / hour in the siore room of tho Borland Institute. There is a collection of nondescript garments of all si/.as and fashions and materials which would suggest another essay by the author of "Sartor llcsartus." These garments have been received from time to time in missionary boxes from be nevolent people in diffoienl parts of the country, and arc spread out aceor.l inh to size mid quality, as in a second hand clothing store, and supplied to the families of the mountaineers in ex change for vegetables, eggs, butler, fowls, fuel and whatever else the pur chasers arc able lo offer. Nothing is given away. 'I he price of a pair of shoes may ho only 10 cents; an over coat may he exi hanged for a days' labor, a warm woollen dress for a pair ol chickens or a basket of eggs, or a full suit of clothes for a load of wood, an I by such barter the school is I Supplied with the necessities of life. i The science of agriculture is pre i gr< s ing steadily and keeping paee with ; the times. New discoveries in (hat 1 Hold are being made daily which are , constantly adding to tho worldls wealth I aim man's comtort. lleCOUt experi men Is prove that tho date palm, an cs ftotitially tropical fruit, can ho produced 10 perfection in the Colorado desert, which occupies an area of some thou sand or more square miles in the south western corner of California, a rogiou hitherto regarded as not only absolute ly woithkss, but ono that had earned tho sobriquet of "Dead man's land," from the fact that no animal or plant life was supposed to ho able to exist upon It, The supreme court of California has decided in a contest between BOXt of kin on ihcouc hand and claimants nn. j (lor a will on the other for tho pot>*08 ( sinn of a corpso, thai a man cannot hy I will (hspOSO of hit corpse, says (he Chi* : cago Chronicle. The custody of the corpse In l.aigs to the next of kin in proloronco lo the administrator. This I view is based on lh,o fact that the gen et al English ami American legal au thorities establish the rule that, in (he absence of statutory provisions, there is no properly in a (load body. OAaTOlClIA. Benthe ^The Kind You Have Always Bought j fifgnitore TUK SOUTH CAROLINAJUDGK Dr. Carlisle Talks About the Judi ciary in This State in Other Days The Spartauburg corrospoudeut of the News and Courier tunke? the follow ing report of an address of l>r. .In*. II. Carlisle boforo the teachers of the State : Dr. Carlisle math' a mo.-t lulcrostiug and suggestive talk to the, teacllOIS I Saturday evening, his BUbjccI being the Sotuii Careliua Judge, n did not seem a very attractive subject for ' teachers, three-fourths of them being women ami no path blazed out from the teacher's desk to the bench. Mut he was especially interesting in holding up and illustrating the dignity, the In tegrity ami the lucorruptibility of the South Carolina Judge. He Ba'd that in May, 1842, n body of students might have been seen walk- ! i11!_' Main street in Columbia, anil turn ing lit at the CotU't House, where lb. Court of Appeals was silling. It must be remembered that the I Court jf Appeals was made up of the j Circuit .Indies Bitting togelhor twice a i year. In 1842 those student* saw tho ! following .lud.es with their gowns on j sitiiug in the Court or Appeals: Kicli urdson, O'Neal I, Evans, Katie, Duller I and Wardlaw. The Chancellors at that lime were i David Johnson, John .lohnsou, I htnkiu : and Harper. These names ami the i memories f this distinguished body id men ate preserved only in ?' O'Ncall's Bench no I liar," ihe Sketchen hy CJovernor l'orry," und in a I'ew memo, rial pamphlets. Hut il is nut the men that are to bo considered, but lite ?Iii*, nity, the induction, the conservative power of the olllco that i ises above tin individual. These, are some of the characteristics of the old judicial sjs tctn. ThO Judges were chose'i by Ibo gen eral assembly ami l heu* ofllco was for life or good behavior. This made Llictii independent. While Iben* salaries were tiol large, ihoy ufforded a competency for ordinary wants. The law w as that salaries could not he changed during the ten uro of olllco. So it, perhaps, happened that one of the Judges would receive $2,000 and some of the others ?.'1,000. If a law was passed rinsing salaries it did not apply to those in olllco. The only way Olli of that was for a low salary Judge lo send in his resig nation, which would bo promptly lie copied, and then he would bo rc-olocfc od at once and draw the salary then in force. '1'h ere. is onlv one instance of a Judge resigning in order that ho might draw a larger Biliary. That was JudgO lin ger. In no ease .where a Judge sen! in his resignation did he fail of re election. In a few instances there was considerable opposition. When Daniel linger, after be had settled down, considered his outlook., in lifo, he came to tlie. conclusion that only two roads were open to him. 11 * - must either h ad the life of a planter or ' study law. He chose the latter course, ; was elected Judgo and United Stales Sennloi. 11 m??y ho remarked lhal ln> was a I bettor u rcsigner" (ban Tillman ami McCain in, lor lu- resigned the Judge. ship ami then, being uu ardoul Union . man, ho resigned his seal m Iho United Slates Sonnte to permit Calhoun's election. Tbc Judges borrowed ibe gown from England, for South Carolina was closer to the mother country than any of the Slates. Ittel) men would send then sons hack 1 onto to be educated. IJy ! that association the gown and the sheriff, with cocked hat and sword es coiling the Judge to and from the Court House, became customs hen:. One hundred years ag.i lawyers wore gowns, inthe old days Iho - rente t deference was paid Judges. The fra I lernal feeling, the spirit of the body, was marked. The Judges met in Co , lumhia twice a year. They boarded at the same house, not at a hotel, but a | private bouse, and tbat brought about a close relationship. Judge O'Xeall never ?,poke in private conversation of Judge Richardson, or any other Judge, hut it was "my brolhoi Butler, or VVnrdlaw," In 184C, after an earnest delate, a, law was passod limiting tin term of a I JltdgO, so that When he leached lifj years the cilice would he. vacated. While that law was signed by the speaker of iho House ami president ol the Senate, it neyer became operative. Hut after that an effort was made to get Judge Hichardsou out of oilice on account of weakening and lading men tal powers. The only way to accom plish that was by impeachment, so he was impeached ami defended his own case. When the Senate had assembled to try him the president, W. 1\ Colcock, rose and said lhat they would hear what Judge Richardson had to say. The Judge had a table and some bo >Ks on it in the aisle of the Senate cham ber. He hl'080 and made such a clear, logical, forceful ai'gunmcnt that the Senate was convinced that his mental powers were all right and the impeach ment failed. In the colonial days an unworthy Judge was sent out from England. Judge Qrimko was impeached in 1811, not for want of integrity oi ability, but because of his rude and over-bearing spirit. There was an impeachment in 1830. Judge Win. Dohciu James had been on the bench thirty yoars, and had yielded to a subtle, ovcrpowei ing, de. j basing appetite for strong drink. He | had ri/.iehed a point where he could not resist the temptation. While the oilice was vacated resolut inns wntn i I passed endorsing tho iutogrily of Iho j unfortunate. Judge. Since thai day ? several Judges havo approached close j to tho danger line. No JudgO has ever been imp' ached j for corruption in olllco. There were i able lawyers in Ibis Slate who could not accept a Judgosbip, James L. Potigru belonged lo that class. He needed more money than the salary given to a Judge. Judge Long? street, of Georgia, when not a member of tho church, opened his court wilh a short prayer. There s no recorded instance of a South Carolina c >uri being thus opened. Dr. Carlislo nliudcd to the three Judges who have recently died and said that tho breed >f noble men and just Judges had not died out. When ling land's King dies immediately tho pro, einmal ion i* made in due form, " The King is dead, long live the King !" Let this bo the earnest wish ami prayer of every citizen when South Carolina Judges pass away. " Lot tins Judge or that one die, but long live, the South Carolina Judge I" GIOW-WOrDas, or as they ai?. oiled in many localities lightning hugs, BrO inucii more hrillinnt when a storm is coming than at other seasons. OABTOniA. GLUTTONY \ Is toon common than we may thins., if we dehne gluttony us eating beyond the body's need of sustenance a;i<f bjey'Olld the Btomach'9 capacity for digestion and assimilation of food. That is a fair definition! and it fastens the name glut* ton on many a person who would r< lit the term as an Insult, The fact of this gluttony is murkcd by it^ con lequcnccs. rhe overloaded stomach become:; dis eased. The popular term for the condi tion is "weak" stomach. The "wed;" stomach fails in furnishing adequate nu trition for the bods-, and BOOH the''weak ness " spread;! from the .stomach to Oilier org.. s. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cures diseases of the stomach and other Organa of digestion and nutrition. It enables the perfect assimilation of food, by which alone the health and strength of the body is maintained. "Your medicine helped me bo much thai i cannot i>t,iise ? t,"> highly," writes Mrs. C. I.. ! Droolcs,of I'oland, AndroscogKlu Co., Me. ?Thc ; Ii ist dote I took helped inr. i cannot leitet how I f<it when i took It; 1 wn?suffering every, tiling with Indigestion, and my stomach was so , bleute,) that It seemed as though it must burnt. My ItUntNIIld Kr.i'l he was ^oiiin lor the il btit 1 salil if he WOUld k<-t tue u bottle of th" 'Golden Medical Discovery' I would Iry that, I hud not luge it it ioiiK when 1 f?.-tt reite? a. and have not had a toueh,ol Indigestion, o' Btomnch trouble since. I had been bIcIc for Coin years, and less ihau four boHlca cured mo, Rome people that khew me before I beg'.n to take the 'Ooldeu Medical Discovery' tel. me that they uevei saw Hitch a change in any vue, and they niso say they don't Bee how i can do sw h large wuahhfgs us I <!<> now, when i I tad not done a washing for so Ioiik." Dr. Pierce's Pellets cure biliousness. DISPENSARY VS. UNCI.W SAM. Do the Internal Revenue Law;; Ap ply to the Dispensary System't The Slate of South Carolina, acting through the Covornor an.I Attorney (ieueial, has instituted proceedings I? - fore the commissioner of internal re\ enne to ti>>i the question wnelh. r th< Stale can he legally required intake 01 t special tax stamps as wholesale and retail liquor dealers under the .state dispensary laws, ami has made a de mand upon the commissioner for a re fund of all such taxes hitherto paid, amounting to ?4,1)1(1. NVIule tins sum ' is not largo,it is reali/.ed thai the prin- i ciple at Issue is ??l mea t and far-1 each ing importance. The one question in volved is whether the internal revenue I laws of the United Statt s apply ttJ the I dispousnry system of South Carolina, so as to entitle the collector to dum in i the payment of these ihm -, I he < n lire dispensary system of South Caro lina is managed by a hoard oi commis sioners, consisting of three persons se lected by the Legislature, with Colum bia as us hendquai ters. The Suite, dis pensary distributes the supplies to ti e county dispensaries, ami these in turn are managed by country dispensers, < r agent*, ali being UUdet' the hoard of State commissioiiers. Under tin law no liquor can bo sobi at night nur to bo drunk <>u tbo premises ol tin: dispen sary, rite liquors sold uro tbo property of the Stale, nnd the profits aceruu to Die state. Tin- salaries of all tin- otli oiulf of the dispensary an- llxcd by law and <n> not depend upon tbo amount of their sales. In the s rief IIled with tbo commis sioner <>l internal revenue on b< halt' ol the State, it is contended that, there is nothing in the laws ol tbo United States authorizing tbo collcclii u ol in ternal revenue, taxes which, i veil im pliedly, authorizes the imposition of a tax against a suite or it- instrumen talities of government, and that such an act containing any provision taxing Iho lustrumenfalilies of the Stale gov ernment would bo to that extent uu conslilulionnl. It is contended further that the prop erty of a stale and tlu! means and in strumentalities employed by ii to carry its laws into ope re l Ion cannot he taxed by the Federal government, and an opinion of the late Judge 1,'ooley on this quest ion is quoted. Ii any inter nal revenue law id' the United Stales requiro the ngents of the state ami county dispensaries of South Carolina ? ach (o pay a lax lo the United States before being permitted lo exercise the duties of their ollicu, it i- contended that the. law is unconstitutional ami void in this particul ir, because Iho tax which it imposes i-> purely and simply a tax upon the insirumonudilics by Which the Stale, through Us laws, seeks to minimize the. evils of Ihe liquor Ira tile within its bo dcrs. Th Fodoral government, it is held, caunol constitutionally intct fere with the ad ministration of these laws b) requiring a Special lax stamp to be paid by U.i olllcinls as a coml'tion precedent to the exercise of their duties. Commissioner Verkcs has the claim lor the refund of the tax by Ihe Slat" of South Carolina under consideration, but has rendered no opinion yet. Whit i it is true that ibis dispensary system may be designated a Slate a-viiey, and its maintenance upheld as < institu tional under the police power resldt ;.i in all sovereignties, yet the commis sioner IS inclined to the. opinion that il is not such a necessary Slate agency or such a needful function of the Stale government ns will exempt it from Kedoral I ixation. There are certain agoncies abs iltib ly essential lo Iho I fc of a St ue, stadi ns the maintenance ol courts, executive olllcinls, collccii.i taxes for the payment ol nceessnrv Mate expenses, ami it may he admitted that tho tintionnl government can at no time and in n , way, directly or in Iirt t tIy, levy a ia\ upon these' neces sary Stale ng< ncies ; otherwise the na tional government might tax them ? m of existence, hut, ihe urovurifineni I contends, when Lhe Suite performs n work ami nsftUIUOS dil'COlio i of an agen cy which has been find can ho per? formed by il citizens in their Individ U d capaciiy, a new ii8|iCCt arises. If if is unconstitutional to require the In tal agents employed under the. dinpeu aary system of South Carolina to pay I lite government the sums required lor retail and wholesale liquor dcnlors1 i stumps, then this same Stnte ami all i other States, the commissioner points OUt, could lake c< lltrol not only of the 'sale hut of the manufacture of whis key, beer and tobacco ; and if so, th n the question would arise, could the government levy any tax upon the. products of plants under and operated by the State and used for these pur? pObOS? If so, while the Stales might thereby be able to pay all of their g0V? crnmcnlnl expenses, tbo natu nal gov ernment, it. 18 Said, would lose an in ternal rovenUO income of sonic tfiiOu, 000,000 per year. It is understood that if the commis Sinner's decision is against the State, as it seems probable, the 0.180 event ually will go to the supreme court of the United States, A linen bag for old cloths and rags which might answer i or window clean ing and dusting is a useful arliclo to have in convenient roach of tho house keeper. I . OP PRACTICAL EDUCATION. Experienced Men Urge the Neces Bity of Industrial Training Manufacturers' ? coord. In his address at the commencement! exorclso* ol a trade sell <?; in New York, Charles M. Sehw.il?, presldeut ui'the United >tut08 Stool C>?rporuUou,( said thai the hey who does his duty and a little more than his duty is the boy who Is g< iug to succeed in the world, ami that the hey in business? not one intended for the professions? who Starts with a manual school edu cation at seventeen or eighteen will got a start that the hoy who goes through college will never e?tch up ; with, otlu r things being equal. Here Mr. Schwab was talkiug id' practical education as an aid to boya seeking to be BolLnindo nu n, UOt the education duiived merely from text-books. That is demanded by the times, and espe cially at the Soulll. Tills was well illustrated b) Mr, 1). A. TollipkillS, of Charlotte, N. ('., in a speech in which, reci gui'/.ing the value of education in schools ami colleges if properly sup plemented with practical Iraiuiug, ho quoted Hie following as ? typical oou versntion between the mauufacturor ami the average youth who has Ihihdicd a school or college course: I culled in to see if you could give me a posit ion." "What cm \ou do?" asked the I ninnufuclurt r." \V< 11, 1 havt n't had any experience,' ami I can't exactly do anything, but I've l ad a lair education and I'm will ing to trj almost anything." o ( an -u play f. oil) ill?" asked the manufacturer. "Oh, yes; very well, indeed," an swered the young man. I o Did you play .so well the Ural lim? you tried .'" " No, . ii; l had to practice n lot bc roi? I could <lo any good." 11 ' be work in my mill requires pre vious training <<f prui tif**, jusi as fool? I ball does. It you waul a position,! education alone (in the sense ol school or college education) is not stilllcient. 11 1 had a position vacant now you couldn't lake it. You simply need a chance lo practice?10 work?rtO ae miiu skill and experience." Mr. Tompkins added Hint almost every manufacturer has almost always an opening lor a youth who combines in himself knowledge and skill, ami that this *wii.s true of machine ishops, woodworking slue,.,', cotlonsood-oil nu'.-', '. oil ,!! mills,fertilizer worns and almosl every kind <d* industry, and ihn! oin oi the imp irlant duties of the I manufacturer was to gd rid id* un : necessary applicants for positions wb > , can ?:?> nothing, and to lind in tn who have ihe knowledge utid skill licccs* ary u< keep factories going. A little Inter ('resident George T. Winston, of the Agricultural ami Me chanical College, in ins annual report lo the Sla'e hoard of agriculture, said that North Carolina had enough pro* ' fesston i ami literary men and enough institutions lo ko'< p up the supply; that (here were at least ttOOO vounu men ; Doing stimulated ivntl indued t" en tor i some or the piofcssions, while there were Us- than odd being stimulated mi 1 tra noil by education lor industrial I die, although the people wore begin oiii.' to realize tin necessity of Indus I dial education, and more ihm 100 of the atlUh ins of the college were sh >w ing thcii sincerity and their d< sin- by applyiug i'? their college cxpei ses an ncy oarned in farin labor, *t< ck l'? i .in g, induing, gardening, carpen try, machine work, bell-ringing, jani tor's work and dining-room services. Am ill the same time President lb II ry s. Hort/.og, of Clniusou College in so nil Caroliun, was speaking at Edge Held ol tin" openings iu the Soulb of ines tor the employinenl of skilled I and technical training, lie said that he had told his graduating class not lo expect too much of education, by I with h be mount education without skill; that some people imagine that ?"tm out eould lake the pill of educa te ii at night und wake up in the morn ing a^ President of the United States. These words of nu n who know the trend of affairs were supplemented strongly in the letter of President Stuyvesaul Fish, of the Illinois Con trol l tail road, lo^Chanecllor Fulton, of I the University of Mississippi, in which I he wrote: ? I nsli ad td overstocking the h at nod professions, turn your well-trained I minds to the devolopmonl of the vast luter.t resouiccs of you own favored ! land. Ill ing lo benr upon commercial, manufacturing ami what nro now called business pillfllilS 'he wealth of inherited ami acquired intellectual capacity with which il has plotised Cod lo endow you. Do nut w rap your talent in a napkin ami bury il in the ground of sloth ami idle eon ten tun ui." Such advice is horn ol th" wish to see the Smith measure mi to its capa bilities, and lo soo the young men of I the. South share in the great benefits i Mowing therefrom. There has been too much attention given lo the mere |i ofobsional schools. The professions an overstocked. Without the material wealth resulting from a development of natural resources and the expansion of manufacturing industries and trade consequent I hereupon, progressive ? verstocking of the professions can re suh only in progressive poverty for tin it followers. The Industrial and agricultural schools should therefore receive stronger support. There is a piomisc that this will he given. May it he quickly fulfilled. 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Superintendent MeMnl.an has r ccivcd ii request from the general su perintendent of education i>> appoint the teachers from this Slate l<> work in the Philippines. Tho appointments are to bo mode it" possible on <?r be Ion the l?th instant. Transports are t" lonvo San Francisco on the 2'hl with many teachers Irom nil over tin- coun try who are to be sen! to all lite Phil ippine provinces by the government lo manage tho schools. Superintendent McMaha i dcsb'es those who wish the position to apply lo him al once. The requirement is thai teachers so -< nl out shall be either normal or college graduates, and it is also required that they shall he ill good health to stand the tropical climate Experienced teachers are wanted. The salary is $1200 per year. The record was broken tho past week in the s;de of unoccupied am s in Ne braska, Wyoming and K o . . . Over 50,000 acres wore disposed of, the largest amount in any OUC week ill the history <>i' llio land department. OASTOniA. 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Louis, i hh aim ail?I all points West. i lose ronnoction ai l'otorehurg, Hieb rewind, Washington, 1'orismouth-Nnrfolk, < luuiliin, Savrnnnh, .lacksonvlllo ami Allan a with d! i oiging lines. Magnillconl vestibule irhlna carrying im ? inh i .olmaii sleeping cars botwoeu all pun' ipal points. l-'of rcduoi il rales, I'ulbnan reiervalions, Otc, api.lv to Wm Iii ri.r.ii, .in. I). I*. A.,8avannah,(lA, <. Mi I'. it \ 11 Ki T. I'. A., Columbia, s. c. .1 M. IIa an. Ist. V. I*. am? (i M., It K b Iti n< u,<l r A, Portsmouth, \'a. BUSING .?niift-iu^t.? ^, tw; ?v .SCHOOL' SHORTHAND ?S?iSLSV/!^^>\<*AUGVSTM Go. ! ^ciici}) Board >/" situations sicured. MONEY TO LOAN On fnrmh'g lfincb. ra?v n&ymontt. No cominietloni charged, borrower pays ac tual < i'Pl of perfecting loan. Iuferest 7 i>er oont. up, according io tiecuritv. jNO. It. I'Al.MKK A BON ( filiin bid, H C, POSITIONS! positions!! NO OBJ ROT, Morooalis tintii wo can i?>.\ an. Quer* Hill? col i . .:?,:: , i..I.-k, .1 l.> t .'? ?I. OuirHOH unoxcollcd? Rillet any tlmo putal?ftuo f roo Address, COLUMBIA tiuaiNfcSS OULLBUB coi.omuia. 8, O