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The Laurens Advertiser. $i.^o Per Year in Advance. THE BORDER LINE 1 BY M0BTI3IER 0. WILCOX. Copyright, 1901. by Mortimer O. WUcox URING the South African nisis of 1808 au Ameri can named Phillips tooli tho night train foi Klerksburg, near th* Transvaal frontler. A week before Phil lips hud Been tho "' SoM Reef City" shivering In tbo panic of an expected war. m* thoughts as h? Bland out of th* car window may bnv? gone back' bitterly to JohaunesburK. ,,; the- rldgC Which lias mado BO many sc.r rows, and i?is own failure theru. Clutch ed iu the hand, however, he bold a tele? gram from his partner, tturton, ami this be rend: "Com? up t?> Klerksburfl next train. Big tiling possible here/' Around him men wen- arguing heated ly in various dialects as to where Jou bert would strike llrst, what would happen to tho ultlnndors and when it would begin to happen. The train ran on hour after hour, it came t<> u st<>;i at last and discharged Its passenger.-) into the excited, (piestloulng crowds which Ullod tho streets of Klerktd)iirg. It was almost midnight, but liiere wa ne qtilol in the towns of the border. A largo young Ungllshmnii slopped out of lliu shadows and touched Phil lips on the elbow. "Here yon arc." he drawled. ?"It's late, but you mustn't Bleep yet, Jack. You're expected." "What Is It anyway?" asked Phillip-;. "I don't know." replied the other, "and I know ;it the same time that it Is something worth our while." lie was Blower In hin mental processes than the American, and he now fell into deep re flection. "It was Atherton who told mo to get you le-rr. Appears that there is something being plauued. Com? along." They turned Into quieter streets, walked for BOine distance and came to a house. The front of this was dark ened, but there were lights at the rear ami as they approached nioro than one man came out and hurried away. Pon ton held n low conversation with some one at the door and then returned tti find his friend. "They want to sec you alone In there." he explained, "and I'm to wait." Phillips went forward. A servant ushered him through tho house ami bowed him into a lighted room. Three men were seated around a table there upon which lay spread a man of South Africa. In a smaller room behind Phil lips could hear telegraph Instrument!) clicking feverishly, and now and then n message would be brought out and placed upon the table. "London seems to be getting excited." one of the three remarked. They did not embarrass Phillips by too close a scrutiny, but they were tak ing note of him. "Sit down, won't you?" said one of them, a big man. Tho speaker leaned back almost shyly In his chair and turned his drowsy gray eyes upon another who looked like an ex-army officer, "You state the case Atherton," he said. "Hem!" observed the latter. "Well. Mr. Phillips, I suppose you wotdd not be unwilling to accept of a good oppor tunlty." Phillips smiled grimly. "I rather need to," he replied. "Ah, yes. Well, no offense, you know, but we have been led to believe that you are a?hem?rather a wild young thing." The American's square Jaw tightened, and be arose. "You might have tele graphed that Information." he observ ed. "No. Sit down, please," said the big man, "and hear us through." There was a kind of fascination In his man ner difficult to explain. "You know." continued Atherton. his eyes upon tho table and speaking as If by rote, "whether this country is in a healthy condition now. You are from Johannenburg and also know how the Ultlanders are being treated. Here In KlerkBburg we bellet? that war is In evitable and that tho sooner It comes the better for us all. There are, how ever, peoplo who cannot understand this situation, and they advise delay." He nodded, perhaps unconsciously, to ward the room where the telegraph In struments were clicking. "Not so very many miles from hero, at a point which your friend Burton knows, there la a camp of the border police. It lies about two miles from tho frontier line of the Transvaal, and ten miles on the other sldo the Boers hove also a camp. Very good. Now 1 need not i>o!nt out to you that Africa Is like a bin of gunpowder and that It needs only a spark to set It aQre. Here Is where that spark can be struck." Ho put his linger upon the map. "Just as this point, over the line, is the farm of a Boer named Zwager. He Is an old Dutch rhinoceros, ready enough for trouble. It wotdd be very easy for any one who went there?any one who was rather wild and Irresponsible?to pre clpltato n quarrel. II would not need extreme measures?-a mere quarrel, with perhaps a little mlsusage, and the Boers there In camp would do the rest, for they would attack the border police as certainly as we sit her<?. After that some history would probably be made." Yoio-.g Phillips whistled thoughtfully, "'?.'s rather too rich for us," ho said, "and not the nicest Job, especially see lug that I'm an American. No; 1 guess not." Tho big man raised himself up from his chair. The lamplight fell upon him redly as he stood, tall as a giant, above the table where lay tho map of South Africa. "An American," he said. "That Is all the better. -Americans aro men of our own blood, and this movement Is for every man who knows what progress means. It Is war which must C? IUO, hihi la IhiH world we must look ug'y facts in tho faco People who aro ftfraid to do this say to me: 'But it will be tOO clangorous,' they say to mo 'It is wrong' But I say to bem- 'Wo must '.(.ok facts in tho faco. Th ; Boers are iiow arming with Mausccr rillos.' I say to tl.om : My dear good people, I ad miro your scruples, but rem? mhor the ugly fact of those Mausor rills ' Ho membor that, and then if you sg^ec that war must como at last tell me win thor dolay will not mean 10 times as many livos and 100 times tho troas ure ' A united Africa; that is my idea, an Afric? free for thu Anglo H^xou from Capo Town to tho Zambezi." Tho dreamy gray eyoe hid lighted up ; tho words came faster and faster in tho glow of tho great I lea and as ho spoko there breathed Out of thb ma" something mysterious and won derf>il, as out of untithoincd dop'hs, a epii t which could ??? iff< n tho hearts of oiin r m?n anu dilvv tkoin foiward reckless of barriers. Youug Pbllllpt gazed tit Illlli, ami the cold BUSplclOI lnelled out of Ills face. "1 gUCSS, inaylie," said lie slowly "that, after all, I am a wild young thing." Tho leader smiled. "1 thought so," said In-, "and a man we are glad t< know, a man with a mind of Ids own Well. It Is good to meet them OIIOO In awhllo and to know that, after all, they do generally got the dantrer glory and the prollt." He dropped on the belgllt8 to BOber matter of fact. "Such men," lie remarked, "don't do things for nothing. What shall we make tin' figure?" "on, I guess," replied Phillips, "that if Burton and I can put this through we can trust you lor the rest of it." The hlg man glunced at the other men, and a little laugh all around showed their appreciation of how Phil? lips had risen to his chance. "Always did like the way you Americans could gl'USp a point," the leader said and shook hands. A moment later Ather tou brought in another telegram and remarked. "People up home display In creasing ugltutlou." "Hah!" said the hlg man. with an other laugh and crumpled up the tele gram. The day alter Burton and Phillips rode out of Klcrkshurg and turned their horses eastward. They left the railroad line upon their left, and as they struck Into the open veldt and Saw around them the wide circle of earth and sky their spirits gtiyly rose to this adventure. Darkness found them still six miles from the camp oi the border police, but Burton knew the ground, and they pushed forward. Fi nally, when It was grown so dark that they hardly could see the ears of their horses, both pulled up suddenly, for from the veldt upou their right they heard a voice as of one In distress. "Who arc you?" Phillips called. There was no reply, hut a llglirc arose from the darkened plain and stood tottering before them. They swuug themselves out of the saddle, and a match llared in Burton's hand. "Ap pears to he a kind of a mail," he drawl ed, alter cynical inspection. "Cein'n," came from the figure, "senge me If I am not quite m'self." His words, like his high silk hat. ap peared to have been crumpled up bj the catastrophe. "Medelons all smash ed, h?rst- gone oft; 'bnndoncd, you see, on the lonely plain." He lurched upon Burton's neck. "ScilgO me." he wailed Cheerfully, "but 1 am so drunk!" "You are. Indeed." assented the oth er, "ami that's your horse about 20 feet from hero." It was so, indeed. Al though the patent medicines hud all boon smashed, the faithful steed re mained. Hi" seemed to ghllice at them witli a look of resignation and BUU iu I tied without comment whde they hoisted the rider up again. "Might as well take 111 in along," said Burton In disgust. "Appears to he pickled well, hut ought not. you know, to remain out here." The rescued man tumbled off now and then like the White Knight In "Alice." hut by rid ing one on each side of him they gen erally caught him In midair. Proceed ing thus, they r.eached tlie camp of the border police and wen.* greeted with Ironical applause. Burton knew most oi the men; a letter which he brought made theill KtlH more welcome. They ate and afterward among their hosts lay hack at ease uround the enmpOrc. Invisible horses champed and shuttled upon the plain around them, the troop ers smoked and looked up at the Watching stars, and presently fur lack of something better they began to have inn with the patent medicine man. He stood up in the firelight, which dickered upon his silly face, well pleas ed to have such an audience. "Oein'n," said lie, "don't mock a fellow man. These friends of mine, who Brought me out of danger, who knows where they thenihhelves may be tomorrow Who knows what peril lies befon them? Then. I shay, don't muck i victim of circumstances, It's wrony geln'n." " That's right," somebody si id. "W.sl that the victim had left us seine of Id olrcuinstanees, though. I'm thirsty." But the orator, now III the in >rnli/.ill lino, soared to still loftier heights am touched affairs of state. "Thisli war,' be cried; "oh, my, what nn lnh|ult> You young men pant after fame fortune, but Its-lit to my riper wisdom For again I shay It's wrong, gcni'ii." "Wrong. Is It?" said the captain o the police, lie thoughtfully blew sum tobacco smoke at the stars, and Iben In . , deliberately, as one w ho not- n often air his views. There wtis a Hill, uneasy stir among the men around Ii I i for It Was to these he spoke. "The Iii;: ger who has had a Boer over him bin eat In hell, but he isn't In much woi ease than the lilt landers down yondi r Englishmen (rented like dogs and oi land which ought to hi* Knglnlid's Wrong, is It? Have (he Boors kepi their word with usV Wrong! Well my good friend, I won In! merely polui out to you that a war which wotilc change dial government, such n win would give liberty and security to ev cry man, w hite and black, ill South Af rlea; would give another solid country to the race that can point n> Its recon and say, I leave things better than I found them.' I would just merely point out to you these trilling facts and ask you, 'Why is n war like that wrong?' ' The patent medicine man had Blood appalled, with Ilia mouth wide open during this speech. He staggered back wnrd m.w. tripped over a saddle and went down with .'ill on hoard. Rollllig helpless upon the plain, he hurled up at the sky, like the proud mother In tin Joke, "Because It Is. Ho there." In the morning the two adventurers had a last word with tho caplaln and then mounted their horses. I'he med Clno man, who wns now sober II not sensible, wished to go with them, but this offer was rejected. They rode to a llttlo eminence and stopped. They were on the border line, the danger line which needed only to be crossed i>v fighting parties to mean a war. A soi Itary falcon hovered high III the untar Dlsbod blue, and befon* them stretched Ike Transvaal, Its veldt as yellow as a sea of gold, old Zwngor's farm lay like n dot In this, and over everything ii Sabbath quiet brooded, but here the spark could be struck which should - I South Africa n/lre. They felt the do light of power, a sense of danger ami daring leaped In their blo.nl. and they rode straight forward resolutely. Zwagor's place was built up In n way usual to that region. A stone wall en circled tho squatty Dutch buildings and served to keep the calves In the front doorynrd. A fence might have been easier, but Zwngcr's great grand fathers had managed It this way, and whnt had been good enough for them Was good enough for Zwager. They Were admitted through tho gate by n lazy Knfllr boy and, riding up to the 1 house, beheld the owner. Before the door In the sunshlno sat an old and grizzled Boer?a Boer of tho great trok. He stared nt them fotA. moment silently and then again turrtfdk his dull blue eyes upon tho view. But after soiuo rollcetion he removed Ids pipe uud asked them brief* ly. "What do \ < ??i want:" "We want some forage for our horses first tiling." Burton replied, and tin two demounted. Kwngcr reflected some more ami thou announced, "Von can't have it. "<>ii, we eou't, ob?" remarked Phil lips. "Mnybo that isn't for you to say.' The correction appeared to be lost upon old Zwager. 11<- sat still ami gazed across the plain toward the blue north word as though hw expected something favorable to come f BO in that directlou. I'or years oud years tho older Boers bud bceu wont to think ol that free up country, the untrueked wilderness which could always be their refuge when the nuuoylug uproar of n rapid civilization came too near. But iioihiiig could come out of it now ex cept danger, and they were cut off from it forever as surely as from the him- Ben across which their forefathers had wandered two centuries before for a place in which to stagnate comforta bly. Old Zwager may have known this much of history from the home spun traditions passed down from sire to son -stories of old treks and hat lies for one's own idea of things, dared by men of a stubborn, fanatic breed, like the Itoundhcnds of old Hnglnud or the Puritans of the new. But lOngland and America had gone forward somewhat, ami two of their representatives, well up to date, stood now before this old man of the people who had stopped for two centuries, and the)' hardly knew how to take him. "We want some forage 1" Burton roared, with ferocious emphasis. Old ZWttger considered 'his demand once more as though It bad been a new one. "Von can't have It," he then re plied, with undiplomatic clearness, "be cause you are lOngllsh schelms" (ras cals). Phillips clinched his list and walked lip to hltU. "Yes; HOW'S your chance." neournged Burton. Tho liailir, safe upon the wall, was apparently the only wVtncss, and he, being only a nigger and untaught, seemed to wonder that men of those races should fall to light ing. Phillips put his list close m> to the stolid face, then look it away again. Always did understand that you Americans wero nn uncertain set." complained the Englishman, lie strode up to the Boer btmsolf and delivered nn ultimatum. "You old. dense, beast ly, uncivil mule," ho thundered, "tell the boy there to get that forage! D'j'OU henr?" The ancient man novor noticed them They both perceived with ease that he thought they were afraid of him. "Oh, before I'd stand that!" Phillips taunted his companion Presently Zwngi r ai ose to his fret. "You must now go aw a; from here." he proclaimed calmly "Your language la not hive the Scrip tures." lie went and picked up . heavy stick ami stlflly advanced up a l-iiom. They stood ami watched him eomi the two strapping Saxons, ami i .? changed a furtive ghrtice, Then of . suddeii they broke in Hill retreat. Movei by the same impulse, ihej slunk bnol to their horses and mounted without i word. Willem! a word ihey left belli . them /.wafer's place, ami for half milw across tic veldt they rod.' a louj way apart and would not took at ea? I other. finally they pulled up, am something had to he said. "Er ah most disgusting failure: the Englishman r< mm In d. "I couldn't do It," the Amerte.'in re plied, "because" he stole a glance a bis companion i ml read hi Ids < yes ai answering horror; it was the awftl horror and hatred of their race i n "goody g.ly talk" "tU'CUIO'e," Ilk cried triumphal.i ly. "I Ihollglil Iber might he some more Boers hidden i: the barn." "Just SO," assented the Pollen in re lief ami camen little nearer. "My u.wi idea exactly." They rode along I gcili or in dejection, knowing more ubou themselves than previously Ihey luu known. Around I hem the very veld seemed to be laughing over something ami as they approached the camp ngali suddenly they both laughed too. "Couldn't he done," Burton explain ed brlclty to the captain, "App *. yoi know, that then- was a eoueeilli -'. fore In the neighborhood." The ex vendei of medicines was listening and prompt |y expressed his triumph. "Yah," cried be. "I told you so! Men from Kugln ml and America can't go to Johanncsl nr? that way." Hours afterward they left the eiimi and took the road toward Klerksburg They Stopped (Slice III the plllill ttlll looked behind them at the border line and all was quiet along it. Then tin Englishman, doubtless with his thought!! upon old /.wager, said. " That war wll come, though, as sure as the sun Is uy there." "Or as sure as there Is gold in Jolian nesburg," the other agreed, "but II won't he us that will start It. We IWi weren't made, I guess, to do dil'tj work." lie flicked Ids horse again, and, grin nlng cheerfully, the unsuccessful ones rode westward In the sunshine. Mrs. .lames Mills, of Woodham, (>nt., who recently celebrated her one hundred ami thirteenth birthday, will \isit the Buffalo exposition with hci son, a sprightly youth of 7?;. The |K)pular idea expressed iIt ti c phrase, "the art of self-defense," shows the opinion I'int the c.-.u f m it has to defend hitusell from are visible and external. But the real danger of every man is from minute and oft! n in visible foes. In the ail we breathe and the water we drink are countless minute organisms leagued ngiiiist the health ol til's bod). The one defense against these enemies is to keep the blood pure. Dr. Plerce's Golden Medical Discovery thoroughly purifies the blood, removing poisonous substances and accretions. When the blood is pure there In no harborage for the germs of disease which find a lodg ing only when the blood Is Impure and corrupt. "i consider your' Golden Medical Discovery' one of the l>c*t medicines on tii? face <>f iIr earth," writes Mr.'Wm, t'toeter, of Redonk, Kontgomciy Co., Iowa. "While In the *.tuth weit, ihr?-?- venrt ngo, i got poisoned with pol son Ivy. TnS poison settled pi my blood and the horrors I suffered cannot be told In word* I thought I would go cru/v. I tried different kin.I i of inedlcint, fried dllTestnt den lors, bill ?II the relief they coufd give me wm to make my pocketl>ook lighter. I then began taking Dr. Plerce's Golden Medical OUoovfry. Took fonr bottle* without rHlcf. Kept taking It. I took JblsII ten liottle* and Rot entirely cured." flttk Piercc's Pleasant Pellets cure con CUARI,i;STON AND THE TIGIvRS. Mayor Smyth's Statement as to Difficulties oi" Enforcing the Dis pensary Law. The State hoard of control In hi a sptciol ? ?slon on the 10th in-t in re gard to tho blind tigers in Charlodou. al which Mayor Smyth and Chief JJoyle I were present by invitation to show raise why tho dispensary profits for Uharlcsloii should not Ik- withhold on ? acc< uni ol tin- non-enforcement of Iho dispensary law. Nothing startling was brought out and tho intimations I oi int> resliug dovelopmcul8 <li?l not , matei iali/.o. 1 In- proci oding was opened with the ! reading of the hoard's resolution. Ch; iunan Williams staled that olllcild- ; |y in it um nit tally it bad boon reported { to the loud that things wore running wide opou in Charleston. 'The tuoiii b< I'm knew of the violations in Charles ton and they wished to hear about the failure of the municipal authorities to enforce the law. Mayor Smyth Iben rend a statement he had prepared, lie roforrcd to the P? ciliar dillleullies surrounding the ou I'orcemcul of tin-law in Charleston. Its geographical position made it hu ll ssible lor an army of constables aud polici lo strictly enlorco tin; law there. The same conditions had boon ap parent under the inctl'OpolitillU police system. I!" had Oil To rood the law with his police to the liest of his ability. Uo related the dillleullies encountered by uniloinnd men in endeavoring to locale llgers, The police, he. said, wore specially directed by oidiuuucu p. enforce the dispensary law. The Oil) had tried detectives, I.til their names sn< n became known. This was iho Win Iho niltlKS Ol the same men iisually appeared U8 witnesses in dis pensary cases. M.iyoi Smyth said that a uniformed policeman couldn't act ti|i positive cvi il< ncc against a blind tiger denier, be cause In- was no! allowed lo diitik; il 1)0 did drink and ko Uslilicd ilO would be discharged. Ilet.ee bis testimony i all ng thai lim; could not In' obtained. The very appearance oi a uniformed policeman was a warning to Illicit dealers, so thai they would he pro pal v d lor their coming. Another reason why the policemen, of Choi lesion cannot obsoluUly en force the law i- from the fact that in tin city there ar< sixty-nine miles of street. These are patrolled by ouly cighty-llvo men. Hall of them ate on at night and hall in day, and ttlklug the sick list, there i> gcuornlly only about thirty or tllilly-liVO policemen on the streets. This gives each man over two miles to look aller. As is well known Charleston's population i largely made up of in iroes ami there is a constant gtowth of that population through negroes coming to the city who arc of a lawless character. The -mall police force have these people to attend lo and if they did not it would he greatly lo iho deleriiueiil of Iho I once and lie' good older of the city. Nevertheless strict orders have been given bj the mayor and the chief that policeman must r< port all illicit sales of whiskey and to co-opornlo with the constables in every instance. Kcco mixing the f iel that uniformed men could not properly cany out I tie law, the administration of Mayor Picken appointed three ipecial police men who weit- to he in cili/.cus' clothes. This number was later in creased io ten, Their special duty was to look nftt r violations of the dis pensary laws. This was under the niclropoh'aii pohco system, and they ens' tin taspayi rs of Charleston ?0, (.100. Notwithstanding tho ret:, ids -how that Illicit sale of whiskey wellt tiuhi along. Alter 1 went 111 as mayor and as -timed churge of the police, tin. ' r the law I Could ollly appoint til 100 such detectives. This 1 did, Hut they -? on became known to tho dealers and their work didn't aim nut to much. Then the appointment of these de tectives was U || to iho Chief of police, and tin- ntnyoi I'.imseif did not km.w their uatuoH, nor did they appear on the pay r< Iis. Thej were appointed even befon tho terms of the othei do lectives bad expire d, so that no one should know Ihom. Yet of nil Iho CI130S made cut !)\ lie in none were considered by the gtnud jOry. Cliiel Uoylo and myself have honestly tried to enforce tho law, and l.'.."> cases have been sent up to the circuit court. At tin- point, Mr. I lakes wanted to kuoiV whether any eases had come up In loir Hit city court, and whether any ordinance had hi on passed by the city against ||ie illicit sah- of whiskey. Mayoi - mvlh replied that the juris diction of ihe recorder's court was quite limited. Il could not hear eases iif burglary, for instance. Mr. Dtlkes insisted that all cities had been instructed, under Governor Tillmnn's administration, lo pass or (lilinilCOS against the illicit sale id whiskey, and ho insisted that Charles ton had .-neb an ordinance. Mayor .Smyth rcplhd pleasantly thai ho had -unlit d the ordinances of Char* lesion quite thoroughly ami ho knew (hero w as no special ordinance on the subject, a- the State law fully covered the matter. Mr. Dukes insisted that all cities had passed such laws. Wiicroupt n Mayor Smyth asked i wht liier there was nu b an ordinance . in Columbia ami whclhoi the police ? Ulmet d the law in this oil v. < bnirmnn Williams stated Ihnl \w had In urd thai Columbia had a special ordinam.I) I ho Bllbjccl, ami ho bail inen informed Hint lliu law was en forced hero, in pail nt least. [As a mailer of fact, Columbia has mi speoiul ordinance <>n liquor Belling bcyon.l the one which existed beforu i,hc dispensary law wont into effeci j Mr, Williams asked whether the mayor could i?ivo any instnnco where .1 State law was not enforce <l by special ordinance. Mayor Smyth replied thai ihe Stale l.iw absolutely prohibited Hi I sail- ni ILlylbltlg Oil lIlO Si'.hath, ycl l>V or ?nuance in ? hnrlcsinu milk and lo.e ami lud! and sods, wnlci could he |i golly si.i<l Mlihoul pohjc interference, Mr. hukis indeed whether I ho city ? ? 11w'i? ? noi lo i>:iss a law against tho mile <-l liquor nnd liavu the violators u i''i ii the rccordor'8 court If tho ciiy ? Mends wnnli ' io uuforce the law? May01 Smyih said he doubled the legality of suc h o law. The rccordci can't fry n man lor burglary and sonic, ni her clinics. Mis jurisdiction is ex Ircmcly limned, ami an effort was made to enlarge il at the lust session, hut it didn't go through. Mr. William-', ami later on Mr. Dukes, asked the minor whether or no! ti c city of Charleston did not ih initiate the po Hies ol the county, the Idea bolng that II tho people want 0(1 to enforce the law they c ould secure juries who would do their duly. Mayor Smyth ropliod that tho city government cd Charleston had ab solutely nothing to do witli the county or the State courts held in the city. Mr. Dukes asked whether Charles ton city could not do something polili cully to force the appointment of a jury whlcli would lo its duly. Mayor Smyth said that so far us politics is coucoruod the people oi UliurlesloD ruled the county, but that jury commissioners were nppoiulod from Columbia, aud with that the city ;ov? rnuicnl hau nothing whutovor to do, nor did any man in il attempt lo ? xorciso any intlucucc. Mayor Smyth then proceeded to lead Ins blUtOtUOUl furlher, in whi.h lie blamed the non-enforcement of the law on the county. Who may be I'O .-pon-iblc for it he did UOt stale, lie showed clearly that the grand jury would not bring in true hills, though indisputable evidence was given the jury bj police ollicurs in uniform ami oy detectives. He suid the city gov ernment could nol justly be held ac. countable lor such a condition ol allau-; thai Chiefs Seilcis and Howie, w ho Dad been in ( harlestoii, Would bear him out in the Statement that the' police force always co-operated with the constables. Chief Howie, stationed in Charles ton, was in the building at the '.line, and at Mayor Smyth's request he was , culled in. The mayor read over the : ttlteilieut he had made about the po lice co-operating with the constables and Mr. llowio positively substantiated the statement. Tue mayor concluded by calling upon the board to consider the fucti presented to it, and adding that both himself and Chief Boyle would be ??lad to receive any suggestions from the hoard as to how they could do better. There was much discussion a- to the udvi ability and the effect of p.ssiug a dispensary ordinance and having the police bring cases before the recorder lor trial. Mayor Smyth made iho statement that the pro tils to the city had never exceeded $14,000. Chief Doyle "culled a spado a spado" j and lold the board tbal no power could absolutely on force tho dispensary law in Charleston, lie passed over with contempt the charge thai ibe police had l" on ''lamed." He said that the dispensaries and beer privileges sup plied hair the blind ligcra in Charles ton. Tho directors of the Stale dispen sary passed the resolution which lakes away from the city of Charleston what ever protil8 may acci uc I rom Ihe opera tion of the local dispensaries. 'This resolution will continue of effect until the city authorities indicate that tin illicit sale of liquor is suppressed?if not eradicated. Mr Williams olVcicd the following as the reply of the board to the municipal authorities of Char leston : ??The Slate hoard of directors having carefully considered the defense of the eil) government of Charleston, pre sented through the honorable mayor, Mr. Smyth, and Chief of I'olicu lloyle, ?to show causo why tin dispensary ! proiils accruing to said city should not in: withheld under section ol the dis peusnry law, to be used tor Um butter cniorcemeiit of said law," liuda as |'ol ; iows: "First, That defendniils laded to show, and in fact lid milted, that the dispensary law was not properly en forced in ihe city of Charleston. "Second, That defendants succeeded apparently in establishing the faci tit it the county government of Charleston 18 largely rorpoustblo lor ihe non-en forconieni of the dispensary law in the city <>l Clint lesion. " Thud, rtial ihe city government ? (through its representatives) admits its primary responsibility for such failure in that council has failed lo enact an ordinance forbidding the il licit sale of liquors, providing adequate penally lor the violation of such ordi nance, lo he imposed by the recoidcr, in case of coaviclions; therefore bo it "Resolved, That the dispensary profits accruing to the said city >i Cbuilesion are hereby withheld tobe used for the pay <d' Stale constables for ilie bellei enforcement ol the dispen sary 1 iw in the city of Charleston, un til such limo as the Slate hoard in i\ be convinced that the city authorities havo discharged every obligation rest ing upon llioin, "Resolved, Thai tho < Iharlost >n county board oi control is hereby in structed io remit to the Slate treasurei tin- portion of the proIiis that would go to the city of Cnarleston, but loi the passage of the above resolution, ami that a ci p\ her? of bo sent i?> the mayor ami chairman of the county board of control." The resolution under which die State hoard requested Ihe Charleston otlicials to appear hi fore llic hoard was adopti d July Hd. It reads; "Ke solved, That the nay or and chief of police of tin; city of Charleston are hereby neemded the privileges, and are mi requested to appear at the ollico <d He-state board of director* in Co lumbia, S. C, on the tOtll in-t., at 10 o'clock a. in., lo show cause ii any ihey have, why the dispensary proIiis accruing to said city should not lie withheld under section '.) of the dis pensary law. 'o he used foi the b?lter enfoicement ol kid law." The hoard get" authority for iis action Irom the loi owing section of dispensary law: --All proIiis, after paying ait expenses o the county dis O -A.? 1? O' . 'i~ I J\.. Ream tho _/} 1: " '<??'? 1 ' ,; ^w WjWg Bou?M pousary, shall bo paid one half lo the municipal corporation lo which it may i>?- located, such settlements lo ho nude quarterly: Provided, That if the authorilh a of any town or city in the judgment of the state hoard of coutrol do nipt enforce the law, Iho State bo nd inav withhold the part go lug to said town or City, and U80 it to pay State constables or el-e turn it into tin county treasury." It has boon known for BOIUO time that Joseph Cook, the founder of the " Boston Monday Lectureship," was in failing health, and his death on the 2?th u i. at Tbondoroga, N. Y., was not a surprise Twenty years ago he wa< read and quoted in every part of the country, and, for tin- matter of that. in every part of the Kllglish-speakiog woi d. ICtulowed with immense phy sieal vigor, and with an nggrossivo in tellectual euergy, he was a stout and I Stubborn defender of orthodox views: in religion. Ills loarniug was copious am! his oloquencQ had a commanding I'iug about it. On tlit' platform lie had la most COtnmauding manner. lie made a distinct and valuable c ntribu i lion to the religious lifo of his times. The highost telegraph poles hi the United States have just been put Up ill Beaumont Texas. So far as known they tue tho highost of any in the world, the top being l?O foot ab vc the ground. They were creeled on the opposite banks Ol the Nodus Kiver by the Western Union Telegraph com pany in order lo string its cable aeioss Iho it ream. The span is 1 M fool in |i llgtll. '1'bis height is necessary lo adinil the passage of slops through tho druW-bridgO, their masts being 1 - foot tall and more. Tho Society of Iho Daughters of Iho American liovolulion wan organized in Washington, l>. C, October 11, 181)0. An\ woman may bo eligible ror inoiii hi r hip who >s IS yearn old ami <1. - eccnded rrom an ancestor who, ** with unfailing loyalty, rendered material aid to iho cause of independence as a leeogi?/.ed patriot, as soldier or sailor, or as civil (din er in one of the several colonies or States, ol the United Col onies or Slates/' Since the Louisiana and Texas fann ers learned to raise nco by irrigation they have invested 85,000,000 in 1 ,oS0 miles ol e.uiids, capa'dc of tl >od? lug ?00,000 acres, and spcnl $1,700, 000 in building thirty modern rice nulls. Under the new syst? in tho rice lands pay a nel prolll of :f l? an acre. Summer tourist tickets are now on sale to Amoville and Western North Curo!in*i mountain resorts. - 11. ry Davenport and B/ell Harvey, two illdustrloils white*moil living throe miles from Williamston, took shelter u:t der a pi te treo during a thunder storm irid both wore instantly killed by light ning Tiio i> -dies wore carried lo J)r. Prank Laudor's residence, and every of foil was made to revive them. Daven port was forty one years old, and leaves i wife and eight children, Harvey was I we,illy eight, and leaves a wife aud three children, ?The big Ii;- tree, forty four feet in circumference, which grow one mile west of Ar it gton, Wash , has been cut ? 'own in.! iiinn foot of tho base, with a cut foi the Uoor and another for the roof, nas b'-en shipped lo Bverett to bo converted into an olllco for Com at is sioiior Job nel n ?t the Pan rluiorlcan Kx posit ion Tho floor part is fifteen foot in di unotcr and the roof lOj foot in diainoi?i Long Hi air " At out a year ago my hair wi coming out very fast, so 1 bought a bottle of Aycr's Hair Vigor. It stopped the fallint? and made my hair grow very rapidly, until now it is 4 5 inches in L*u -Mrs. A. Boydston, Aichig ii, Kans. There's another hunger than that of the stomach. Hair hunger, for instance. Hungry hair needs food, needs hair vigor?Aycr's. 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