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THB HOUSE KXI,X#3D CllIJvD UBOR Blhl, The Majority Against the Measure Was Exceedingly Narrow. Tho following gives tho prcccedingo in the Ilouao when the bill lo prohibit child labor in the cotton mills was de feated: Tho child labor bill did not conio up until a quarter lo twelve. Tho ques tion was " Sha'.l the bill pass second readiug, and bo ordered to a thud?" Mr. Ashley made tho first speech on the question. Is it right, he asked, to say lhat men aro uot competent or should not control heir own families? Thero is auothcr question. The rent era in Iho country, a lot of them, . couldn't making a living on tho farm and thoy moved to a town to work in the factories and make a living nud pay their debts. Ia it right to say lo them that their children shall not work in tho mills? There are in the mills in Anderson people who aro as good as any member of this House. The prin ciple of this hill is wrong. Thero tiro people from Massachu setts who are urging this bill. Tho labor unions aro urging it. There aro no labor unions in his section and they have no strikes up there. Hero, in Columbia, whore they have unions, they havo strikes and strife. Thero L not a man iu tho cottou mills who would not send his children to school if he could afford it. Bad crops bad run people into tho mills. Families had gono lo tho mills barefooted. Tho mill president had actually put shoos on their feet ami given them woik to do. Ho has a hundred cousins in the mills in this State. lie has eight cous ins on the Kichland mill hill. He had questioned thorn ami he had seen but one niau there wir; lavored this bill, and he had been in the strike nnd hud moved over to tho distillery and Id at work there now. He told of ono of his tenants who had moved from tho farm, where ho couldn't make ends meet, cud with the aid of tho work of his children In the factory he had been able to buy him a hom ? in <nwn ami a little farm; and all ot this man's children can read and write. Mr. Ashley said ho had started lifo as a hireling, draining ditches in tho swamp. What would havo become of him if ho had not been ablo to havo worked his children? And thero is as much right to apply this principle to a farmor as to i factory operative. He loves the poor people of his country and would go down, if go down ho must pleading for them and lor their liberty. "Equal rights to nil," he con tended. He hoped this bill would be killed so dead it would never bo resur rected . Tho opposition to this bill has conic, principally, from (?rcer"ille and An derson. But now Spartanburg had a representative to oppose the measure. This waft Capt. Dean, who said he wanted to discuss the bill iu n practical way. As a census taker he had visited the homes of mill people?the Tucapau mill on Tiger river. He found some had mcc homo? while others were slovenly. The officer of that mill arc humane and kind. The opeinlivcs of the mills of South Carolina cannot be compared with tho operatives of the North and tho managers of mills in tho South cannot ho compared with tho mill ollicials North. The operatives of the North are for eigners who havo no rospect for law and order. In tho South some of the beet blood of the Stato has worked in mills. Somo of his own grandchildren had worked in mills, and ho had always considered himself a thoroughbred. (Laughter.) The people who can't make onds meet on the farms aro frequently forc ed to go to tho mills. Some of them aro shiftless whllo others save and lay up money. Tho danger of this legis lation is that it cannot be enforced, not even by the strong arm of the mili tary law. Is this country drifting to imperialism? That is what this bill means. Ho stated in reply to a suggestion from Mr. McGowan that (ho children working in tho mills aro far from being oppressed He had visited the Tucapau mill in company with the superinten dent. They had seon a little boy sweeping around in one of the depart ments. The superintendent told the little boy he bad better go home as he was not on tho pay roll, but tho child said that tho mother had sont the little one thore to play and stay with his brother as she had to bo away from ho ne at work. That insUaco didn't indicate cruelty or harshness. He would not assume the garb of a preacher, but he declared that Sabbath desecration in the rural districts Is evon more notlceablo than in factory vil lages. Thero aro churches and Sun day schools in mill communities. The Influences and restraints aro for Ihcir betterment. Ho was followed by Mr. W ingo who stated that ho represents in part oue of the largest manufacturing sections of the country. For six year* as a member of the General Assembly he had examined this question. He bud been told by factory people that they thiuk the Legislature could find some thing bettor to do lhau to bo interior, ing with the factory people. These Eeople havo gone to the factories to etter thoir conditions. There is tal ent there which would do credit on the ficor of tho Homo. The factory people resent the intim tiion that they haven't sense enough to manage their own children. They know whothor ihoy want legislation or not, and they will show their resentment when tho time comes. Hr. Wtago continued that (ho mill people have good Sunday schools. He had visited one in which 500 children were assembled, lie had been aston ished to learn that 41 of them had1 never beca in a Sunday school before they wont to, the mill district. Mr. Wiogo's speech was in his character istic style, aud was received with at tention. After Mr. Wlngo's measured, spon daic sentences, there was quite a con trast with the rapid-lire utterances When Mr. Spears, of Jlarlb ton, got the ll-ior. lie spoke rapidly, earnestly aud with effect. He declared that he had opposed this hill labt year, hut sinco that time he had gone home and found tho conditions to he quite differ ent from what he had suspected. I lo declared that around every null com munity are drunken, idle fathers who buy drink with the money earned in the mills by their little ones. Talk about liberty ! God Almighty never intended that a child should be con lined in a cotton mill. That is not ' liberty. He declared that if 500 chil-1 drcn should bo brought before hiru he j could pick out tho ones who'work in! factories. Mr. Williams, of Lancaster, opposed tlie bill. He bp \ given ii mure study than any olhe measure which had come up within the last six years. He had visited many mills. He fjund thai people who have ski' -uid compe tency never work their < neu. Il is the ** ne'er-do-well" who caunot eke out a miserable existence on tho faun who works his children :*.! the mil's. They have gouo there ragged and hun gry, they have gone there and 1 avo gotten woik and comfortable quarters. 1 It is pitiable indeed that childft n must work, but if they be driven out where in God's name can thoy go? If yo'l drive thorn "Hit of the mill where they mnko a miserable living, how can they get education when they cannot get existence? lie would vote for no bill which would givo neither education, nor clothes nor food. It is I rue that tho mill children are wan, butil is also true of the children of tho leuant cl-iss in tho back country. The bill will not drivo the brute out of a man. It will not make him work. The man who is brute enough to make his children work in the mills while ho stays drtlUK is brute enough to let them starve. Mr. ! Williams ppoko with an earnestness very mm kod. Mr; Ma,)son, of Hdg Ii>. 1? 1, doclnrcd that lie had opposed iho tiill last year because lie had beeil misguided. Since then he had informell himself and he is now heartily iu lavor of the bill, for good citizenship, for the menial and moral conditions an?, ''or humanity. Mr. C. 12. Bobinson at this point made the milion t> IndeQnitoly post pone the liill. This was not a debata ble motion, yet several advocates of the bill have not been beard. The motion Was put and the House went on re cord as follows: Ayes?(opposed to tho bill)?Messrs. Ashley, A 1, Austin, Hanks, Brown, Bryan, Butler, Campbell, Carter, Coggeshall, Colcock, Dautzler, l)?!:in, Jlenuis, Dodd, Dorroh, Durant, F*t ridge, Fox, Fraser, Qalluchat, HjIIis, Humphrey, James, (). L. Johnson, Keels, Kinard, Lillllo, Lock wood, Lomax, Lvlos, Mauldin, MCOall, Mo Uowan, Moffeit, Morgan, Moses, Nes bet, Nichols, \V. H. Parker, Prince, Pyalt, Kaukin, C. E. llobinson, H. B. A. Uobinson, Ruckor, Stack house, Seabrook,Thompson, W?lling, Weih, Whaloy, Williams, Wingo?04. Xays ? Speaker Stevenson and Me ers. Bacot, Boamguard, Blvons, Bleue, Bolls, Brooks, I? stick, Croft, Crum, DeBruhl, Dunbar, Elder, (ias ton, (iourdin, Ilailc, Hill, Hough, 1/ltir, Jarnigao, Kinsey, Lide. Logan, May son, McCtaw, McLaughlin, McLood, F. U.MoMaster, John MoMaster, Mis hoo, Morrison, Moss, Murcluson, W. L, Parker, Patterson, Rainsfotd, lllchards, Richardson, Robertson, Sanders, Seig ler, Sinkler, M. L. Smith, Stromau, Tatum, J. 1'. Thomas, Jr., W. J. Thomas, Towill, Webb, West. Weston, Woods?52. An Indianapolis correspond! nl says thai Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, in whose interest tlio matter of a $3,000 pension has been agitated at Washington on the ground that she in the widow of an ex-President, ha3 notified her friends that she doos not caro to have the mat ter pressed, and no further effort will be made in that direction. There is a suit before tho courts of Virginia which was begun as long ago as 171)7, but the llichmond Times says there is now prospect of it speedy set tlement. It is tho case of tho Dismtl Swamp Land Company vs. Anderson and others, und the stun originally in volved was about ?50,000. A Chicago woihan is suing her bus band fordivoico because ho compels her to livo in Chicago. now strong Arc YOU? The dial of the punch ing machine won't answer that question. Strength depends oh nutrition, when the stomach and other organs ?f 'digestion and nutrition are diseased, the liody fails to receive its full supply of nourishment and hence grows weak. That is why no man is stronger than his stomach. Dr. Pierced Golden Medical Discovery cures diseases of the stomach and the allied organs of digestion and nutrition. The foodeaten is then perfectly digested and assimilated and tue body is mc.de strong in the only possible way?by nu trition. *Iwm troubled with Indigestion for about two yearn," writes Win. Bowker, Kftq., of Jullnetta. I,atah Co., Idaho. ?I tried different doctor* and remedies but lo no avail, until 1 wrote to you mid you told nie whnt to do. I suffered with a pain in my stomach mid left side mid thought that It would kill me. Now I am glad to write this .Mid let you know that I am nil right. I Can do my work now without pniu and I don't have that tired feeling that I used to have. I'ive tw>t tlcM of Dr. rlercc's Golden Medical Discovery ?ml two vials of his * Pleasant rellets* cured me." Dr. Pierce'* Pleasant Pellets stimulate the liver. BIW, ARP AND THE ARDENT, It is Difficult to Keep People From Drinking ?He Quotes Scripture. Atlanta Constitution. 1 was ruminating about this littlo unpleasantness that is going on amongst our neighbors at Homo. My comfort is that it is not as big a thing as they think it is and will suon pass away. After the election is over tho leaders will apologize all round and make friends and the dear people have time to t(-fleet and wonder what fools the leaders m?de of them. A friend writes me that there is nothing in it but ling politics?who shall run the machine, who shall have the oflloes. Whisky is the background, hut the main thing is ofllce. As Leonard Mor row once said at a public epuaklng, ?? Hoys, don't let 'em fool you. They are just side wiplu' round hum iu'. the oi thography of a lilt le otllce.'' Carllt lo said, ? England has a population of .?10,000,01)0? tostly fools," ami ju?t fO liiere are enough foold in ev< rv ooumy or community t > elect a man it lie can get lliem all. He is pretty safe if be ciui get u majority* of them. I 4i Dispensary or no disponsaiy," i that is the question that is now stirring Homo and Floyd County. Well, we know all about it hero in Carlcrsvil'o, for we tried saloous for years and they ! did so raueh harm we abolished them '< aud they will never come hack here ! again?never. Now wo are trying the dispensary; in fact, we h ve two of them, ?nein Home and 1..0 other in Atlanta. We wouldn't have one in our town or county for anything. The farther off the bolter. The easier whisky is to get tueiuoro will ho drank. Diwson, in Terrell County, has bud a dispensary for nearly four years. The sales for tho first year were $'20,0110. The second year were #'10,(JU0, tho third year $50,000 and the present year wi'l ptohuhly run to $75,000 You see, it takes the boys some time lo lind out how easy it is to get it, but the con sumption goes on aud on, increasing and the people take comfoit in that the profits increase their school fund PI id lessen their taxes. No matter if It im provorisbos the, poor and makes drunk ards of their young men. That is of no consequence. Now, our dispensaries aro most loo near. I wish that the consumers had to get their supplies from Cincin nati or Baltimore. That would cut the jug business down one-half at least. The common people couldn't wait so long and so nobody but uncommon people ws uld get any hardly. It would be a long time between drinks, as the Governor of North Carolina said to tho Governor of South Carolina. Thero is bound to be some drinking going on if they knew that the world was floing to be burned up tomorrow. "Ali wo can do," said a good man to me yesterday, "is to make it hard to get and rogulate its sale and consumption." This man had had experience with young men who drank on tho sly. Ho used to drink habitually himself, but found the habit was growing on him. lie wanted it oftener and more of it and so he quit short olf two years ago. He said "that there was but 1 ill lo difference between open bar rooms and tho dispensary, so far as the better class of young men were concerned. A dollar bottle in a room with three or four friends was about as bad as tho dollar spent for driuks in a bar room." Jim lue bar rooms uro a nuisance in any town and a disgrnco to its refine ment. If tlicy art allowed at nil they should he on some side street where ladies do not frequont or jiavo to pass. Keep them out of sight and out of smell. Of course, tho drinking habit cannot be stopped by law, nor can tho solo of whisky bj stopped as long as the government allows its manufacture. Our peoplo can drive over to Cherokee and buy what they want from the gov ernment distillery. There is no such thing as prohibition nud never will be until tho dawn of the millennium. This tiling begun with old Noah and hud its ups and downs all through tho Bible history. It never was sanction ed. It never was prohibited except to the priests in tho tabernaclo. " Drink not in the tabernacle lest ye die," baith Moses. All of those old time people kept some on the sideboard. Joseph aud Iiis brethren drank together and wcio merry. David speaks of wiuo that makclh glad the henrt of man. Sokmon says, " Oivo strong drink to him that is ready to perish and wine to those that bo heavy of heart." Hut 'when ho was sobering up from a spree ho said, ?* VVino is a mocker, strong drink is rnging, for at tho last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an ad der." 1 hoard u judgo of our circuit say that tho wind up of n sprco was tho mos', wretched and forlorn mental condition that could befall a man. Said be, "Away in tho dead of night I havo gotten up anil gono to tho well in my night shirt and drank and drank ol tho cooling water until I could hold no moro. I wanted lo bito a branch in two and t wallow the upper end." Nnbal got drunk and became as a stone, and liouhadnd and thirty-two hi": ?11 got drunk together after n baltlo. Jeremiah, the prophol, tried 10 mako tho Kcchabites drink tvino with him, but they would n>i, for so their father had enjoined them, and Jere miah blessed them for oboying Ibcir father, and said, "Thus saith tho Lord tho house of Jonadab, the son oi | llcchab, shall not want for a man to stand bciore me forever.'' Zachariah seems to havo winked at tho indul gence, for ho said, "Corn shall mako the young men cheerful and now wine tho maids." I wonder if that was sure enough corn liquor. Tho aged women were enjoined not to drink much wine, wherein is excess. King Ahasuerus got drunk and ordered Queen Vashtt to como before him and she refused, and did right and tho old rascal de posed her. Hosea saith that wino takes away tho heart. Isaiah was hard against it, and Bays, " Their tables are full of vomit and lihhiuuss and ih re. is no placo cleau upon them." Habak OABTORXA. Boars ih* jf '"0 Kind You Haw Always Bontft SALT RHEUM CUR^D BY Johnston's Sarsaparilla QUART BOTTLES. JUST SEEN IN TTRIB. Slight Skin Krnptlon? are a Warning of Something ITIore Scrlona to Tome* 'l'lio Only Sur?! Way In tu Heed tho Wurulnc. Johnvton'* Saraaparlllu. la tho Most Powerful Olood Purifier Known. Nature, In her efforts to correct mistakes, which mistakes have come from careless living, or it may bo from ancestors, shoots out pimples, blotches and other imperfections on the skin, as a warning1 that more serious troubles (per* haps tumors, cancers, erysipolas or pulmonary diseases) are certain to follow if you neglect to heed the warning and correot the mistakes. Many a lingering, painful dlsoase and many an early death has been avoided simply because these notes of warning have uccu heeded and the blood kept pure by a right use of JOHNSTOITS SARSAPARILLA. Miss A bole J. Rando, of Marshall, Mich., writes: " I was cured of a bad humor after suffering with it for five years. T' * doctors and my friends said it was salt rheum. It came out on my head, neck and cars, and then on my whole body. I wo? perfectly raw with it. What 1 suffered during those fivo years, Is no use tolling. Nobody would believe me If I did. I tried every medicluo that was advertised to euro it. I spent money enough to buy a house. I heard JOHNSTON'S SARSAPARILLA highly praised. I tried u bottle of lt. I began to Improve right away, and when 1 had finished tho third bottlo I was completely cured. I have never had a touch of it since. I never got any thing to do me tho least good till I tried JOHNSTON'S SARSAPARILLA. I would heartily advise all who are suffering from humors or skin disease of any kind to try it at once. I had also a good deal of stomach trouble, and wus run down and miserable, but JOHNSTON'S SARSAPARILLA mado mo all right." The blood is your lifo and If you keep it pure and strong you can positively re sist disease or face contagion fearlessly. JOHNSTON'S SARSAPARILLA never fails. It is for snlo by all druggists, in full quart bottles at only one dollar each. asxozxzGk-iixr jjjvuo ooma'awy, dwthoit, miui? For Salo by the Laun ns Drug Comj any, Lnur-ns, S. C. knk says, u Woo unto huu that giveth Ins neighbor ritink an I puttolti tho bottle to him." But this is enough Scripturo. From that <Viy to this the excessivo use of spinluotH liquors hasgono on in all na tions, carrying ruin in its train, de grading kings and disgracing presidents and neither law nor precept uor preach ers nor tho plcadiug ot women lias been able to stop it. The dispensary ia more respectable in its surroundings than tho saloon. Thcro is no gather ing of roughs and toughs at its door and women cart walk by without being insu bed or disgusted as they pass. 1 do not believe that it lossens the use or abuse of whisky. Nothing will do that but home inllucncc and religi us training and public opinion. It takes everything to combat it and keep it in check. 1 have before me the last of ficial statement of tho dispensary busi ness iu South C irolina and it is amaz ing to see how it is growing. It is now the largest ami most important busi ness in the Slate?its aggregalo i-ales for tho i?a8t fiscal year being a little over $2,000,000, anil over 8500,000 net profits, and of tbeso profits aud the stock on hand tho school fund is en titled to $611,854 aud the Stato has on hand $(540,000 of stock. Tho profits pay hundreds of officials good salaries, besides accumulating an onormou sthool fund. 1 have traveled a good deal over tho State and found public opinion much divided upon the ques tionable morality of tho system. But it pays financially and the quesiion ol educating tho negro with taxes from white people does not raise such a pro test as long as the salo of whisky pays it, especially when tho negro is the dispensary's very liberal customer. What about the part that woman ia taking in this liquor business? What docs all ibis mean that Bishop Cole man, of Delaware, has rccontly assert ed in a public sermon preached in Now .Jersey. He says that the whiskey habit is actually decreasing among the men of the North, but it is rapidly in creasing among the women, not only the fashionnblo women, but among the middle classes. His assertion caused a committee to bo appointed who quiet ly frequented tho bolols and enting houses nud ladies' restaurants nnd a large majority of women took wine or beer or whisky or cocktails with their' meals, and very many took no menls and ordered drinks only. The com mittee unuuimoii8ly reported thai, tho bishop's assertion was the truth. If this bo so, God help tho couutry. Our Southern women will lie all that will save it. When I waa a sludcut in college- al A thm;: in 1845 Iho wonderful' dis covory of Dr. Long and his uso of an aesthesia was the tulkof tho town, and our professor of cheinWtry, Dr. Le Conte, made it tho subject of a lecluro to his class. In 1810 a dentist by tho name of Lombard camo thoro and pro posed to extract toeth without pain by the use of what he called mortous let h ean. Ho extracted a jaw tooth for mo and it was a success. Hut it was whispered around that Morton had slolo Dr. Loug's discovery and pro cess, aad as he wa9 a lioston Yankee' tho frionds of Dr. Long wore very in dignant. Enough of this for the pres ent. I on'y wished to say how gratill ed 1 was that the commilteo appointed to select our two greatest Georgians have givon Dr. Long tho iirst place. Tho medical world has done him honor in all countries, and Morion and Jack son have boon relegated to tho roar whero thoy bolongcd. They wero piratos. But about tho second placo tho com mittee had bettor go slow aud consider carefully when they meet again. They had better consult tho old men and especially the veterans of tho cUll war. Somo things are forgiven, but not for gotten. The veterans v-ouldnot pre sume to say who should bo solectcd, but only who should not. Bill a hp. Among certain pcoplo thcro is a strong idea that nothing is worse for dogs than salt, but as a matter of fact, when administered in sma'l quantities, it materially assists tho procoss of oi gestion. There is no doubt, however, that lo givo dogs or other animals broth of pot-liquor in which salt poik or ba cou has boon boiled would be ulraost equivalent to giving them a email dose of poison The uso of suit among horses, cattle and sheep is advocated by the highest veterinaiy authorities. Pigs, on the contrary, aro extremely sueceptiblo to the poisonous Inlluonce of the agent, and experiments have been made which bad, after small doses regularly administered, fatal results. Habitually, as a matter of course, all animals consumo a certain portion of salt, as it exists in certain propoilions in moat articles of food. TOIII A. i The Kifltl You Haw Alwiy SOUTH CAROLINA EXPOSITION The State Officials and the Legis lature Give it a New Name. Mr. A. M. Carpenter, special cor re8poudeut of Tho State, wr.tes as fol lows iu regard to tho visit of tho Legis lature to Charleston lastjjweck: Proclaim it to all the world. It shall bo do longer known iu the prints of any newspaper, or upon tho lips of any man, as tho Charleston imposition. From tonight until it closes it shall be known as the South Carolina Fxposi lion. For today tho peoplefof South Carolina, through their representatives in the General Assembly, camo lo Charleston, inspected the Exposition, and claimed it as their own. Claimed it as their own with pride aud love, lor this is really aud truly a magnificent Exposition?an exposition of the re 80UICC8 of South Carolina and her chief city, old Charleston. This afternoon aud to-night I havo talked with scores of members of the legislature, and with uuity they have suid: ,( This is a bis? aer, grander, more benulifui Exposi tion than I bad dreamed of. Why haven't wc been told beforehand what to expect?" This is tho unanimous verdict of every member of the Legis lature who came hero today. It was a happy thought on the part of I he Exposition company aud the people of Charleston to invite the Legislature to visit the Exposition in a body, aud an equally happy inspi:a(iou on the part of tho Legislature to ac cept tho invitation. For tho people, or their represonfcuivcR at least, have seen tho splendid Exposition hero open to the public; have seen how wisely expended was tho appropriation of 850,000 to aid tho Exposition, nud having seen this the gtcatest good to all the State will follow. Every member of tho Legislature who has been here today, whether Iiis home is in Oconce, or Spartauburg, or Hicbland, or Orangcburg, or Marion, or Georgetown, or Beaufort, or Char leston, or any other county, has been filled with enthusiasm and Stato pride at the beauty and splendor and excel lence of the Exposition. Tho grounds are magmiicenl, tho buildings are beautiful?and above all, and best of all, the exhibits arc numerous, varied, complete, comprehensive, splendid. A report has spread over tho Stato that tho exhibits have not all been placed in position, but this is no longer the case. Tho exhibits uro nil here, the Exposition is all complete, and as stated at the outset, it is no longer the Charleston lOxposition, but iho South Carolina Bxpositson. Practically all the momlicrs of the Legislature camo toChailcston today. There were 27 out of the '10 Senators and 07 out of the 120 Representatives. Besides there was tl.o Governor, most of tho Stale oftlecrs, practically all tho employes and attaches of tho General Assembly, and a number of distinguish ed citizens of tho Stato. There were a number of ladies in the party,'and in all there wcro between 1300 and 000 persons on the legislative special. The trip down from Columbia was a pleasant ono, and thero was nothing to mm the ploasuro of tho occasion, al though (he train was more than on hour behind tho scheduled lime. It was 1 o'clock when Charleston was reached. Tho train was carried direct lo the Exposition grounds, whore tho welcom ing exorcises wore hold. President P, W. Wagencr, of the Exposition com pany, called tho assemblage to ordor and inlr duccd the speakers. Tho illst speaker introduced was State Senator Jos. W. Harnwoll, wh > welcomed tho visitors to tho city and to tho Exposition in a particularly earnest manner. Ho said ho felt that tho peoplo of tho Stato would :eel more prido and sympathy in Chail-ston and the Exposition after ihcy had seen tho Exposition, and said tho peoplo ol Charleston felt a gicat deal nfpiido in having tho members of tho General Assembly as their guests. Ho said ho folt that their coming marked a new era in affairs in tho Stato; that thore would bo no moro ostrangomcnts be tween tho peoplo of tho sections of the State. Lieut. Gov. Tillman was iulro luccd and made a brief bin gracoful response to the address of welcome. IIo snid >u behalf of the Genornl Assomhly hat it was a great ploasuro to visit Charleston and the Exposition at this timo aud under tho present auspices. It is a raatUr of sdrpriso to boo what a splendid Exposition that Charlestonhas wrought with such a small amount of money at her disposal. Hut tho whole State fools apiido in it, he said, and we feel that it is our Exposition as well as yours. Speaker W. F. Stovouson was thin introduced and responded on behalf of the members of the Houso of Repre sentatives. The maguiiude and beau ty of the Fx position* is not a surprise, ho said, to those of us who are fnnvl \ar with Gharleston and Charleston \ ? people and their liiulory and spirit. This old city has gone through (ire and Hood aud pestilence aud earthquake and has come through it all stronger and more courageom than ever. Iu the civil war she furnished more men and money than any city of equal size and wealth ever furnished in any war. Tho visit of tl o General Assembly to Charleston at Ihn lime is a happy ornen; it marks the wiping oul of many things unpleasant. Charleston is still a part of South Carolina im I is proud of tho balanco of the Stale, and the whole State ia proud of Charleston. Hesui.lhe believed tho wisest appro priation the General Assembly ever tuado was the $o0,000 to tho Charles ton Exposition, aud spoko of the pleas ure it gave htm, as Speaker of tho House, to sign tho appropriation. Chat lesion has no enemies iu the Leg islature now, he said, aud he said he belbved that from now on forever Charleston would feel inoto friendly and more in sympathy with the other sections ot the Stale. Gov. McSweeney was then intro duced and responded in a fooling man ner. He said: " Mr. rro8idcut, Ladies aud Gentle men: I ebteem it n pleasure and a privilege to be here on this occasion. It is right, il is proper, that the repre sentatives of the people of the gicat State of South Garoliua should take a day off and como and seo for them selves what you bavo and what you bavo done. Wo knew that tho wel como would be cordial and benrty. We appreciato it none the less because wo knew in advaucc what it would be. It is always so when you come to this graud old city. Even the stranger wilhin your gates finds a hearty hand shake and a warm greeting. *? Wo arc no strangers, Wo arc all part of ono commonwealth. This en terprise is ours as wi 11 as yours, though we appreciate the sacrifice and the la bor you have expended to make it the success which it is, but we arc all one poople with a common aim and a singlo purpose, and that is the progress and the development of our State and tho happiness and prosperity of our people. Whatever couirihules to the attainment of this pu-potc and this aim has tho endorsement nud the en couragement of every patriotic and de voted so l of the commonwealth. '* We aro hero to encourage you and show you not only with words but by our presence, of our sympathy and otir willingness to cooperate with you and aid you in making this Exposition what the patriotic sons of this ciiy who wore tho promoters of this enter prise intended it to bo. 44 The people of South Carolina look upon this as their Exposition, and feel n personal interest in it. They evi denced l' ir interest by an appropria tion through their representatives of ?"0,UUO for tho Stale building and the beautiful structure which forms part of tho court of palaces on yonder grounds stands as a testimonial to that interest. 44 1 never come to Charleston but my mind runs back to tho days of yoro and my heart always swells with love for the men and tho women who have made this city historic. Earthquakes and cyclones and high water and lire bavo never daunted the energy and in domitablo courage which huvo always characterized tho people of this city. What you have noeded has been to stretch out and get in closer touch with your brethren of the Piedmont an l the Poo l)co, and 1 am glad to know that this you are now doing, and 1 believe Ibis Exposition will bo hugely instru mental in bringing nil sections of our State and of the whole country in closer touch with one another, and if it accomplish notbiug more, that alone will bo a largo compensation for tho money and energy expended. ** When I was hero in December with tho Press Association there was one thing that impressed me possibly moro than any other. Tho first build ing completed was tho woman's build ing, and yet when you retlect tor a moment on the sacrifices made, and the i energy always displayed by our noble women that should not have been a matter of great surprise. They uro al ways foremost in all good works, hast at the cross and lirsl at tho sepulchre whero there was suffering to bo allevi ated and lloivers to bo strewn. " My mind goes back also to that adopted son of this city who bared his breast as a beardless boy to tho can non and shell of tho enemy in defenso cf tho Southern cnuso nud who after that cause was lost caet bis fortunes with the vanquished, and set about tho rebuilding of his adopted homo with an energy and a determination of purpose rarely equalled and never excelled,and 1 have often thought how the heart of P, W. Daw8on would bavo rej deed if ho could have lived to take part in con tributing of his great powers to the suc cess of this enterprise. 44 But wo aro not here to deal in tem iniscenco, and spenking for the State It gives mo great pleasure to say to you how much wo appreciate tho hearty welcome you have extended us, and 10 assuro you that wo will mako ourselves at home while in your midst." At tho conclusion of Gov. McSwce noy's address tho legislators and their friends woro invited to the Crescent Inn, whero an olegant luncheon was served to tho entito patty. This wns a surprise to the visitors, but was one of tho most delightful fo:tluros of the day. After this tho members scattered through the grounds and spent tho re mainder of tho afternoon and evening visiting tho different buildings a id nd m'.ring tho diffcront foituiv? of the Exposition. Jefferson M. hovor, owner of Thomas Jefferson's 44 Monticeilo," pro poses to celebrate the third President's birthday there on April I", with speechos and festivities. Ex-Prosi dont Cleveland, ox-Senator Hilt and other prominent Democrats will bo i invited. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Ktod You Have Alwcys Bought Bears tha ??aaturotJl The Finest Cake Is made with Royal Bak ing Powder. Always light, sweet, pure <^ wholesome IN A HUMOROUS "VEIN He: u 1 hear that you have been talking about me." islu: "No, indeed; I make il a point never to speak of my frieuds un less I can pay something good of them." Mrs. Winks: "1 wonder why il is thai people always call a locomotive she?' " Mr. lliuks: " I don't know, V'oi sure, unless it is because she Isn't good for much without a man to run her." I" I was neatly overcome by gas again," remarked Ihc man who had come from the suburbs. " When did it occui?" "At tho usual time. When the com pany rendered its bill." Congressman Lacey, of Iowa, re cently received from a constituent a rcquej-t for sjine vo'umes conlniuiug meiUOlial addtesses on dead Congress men. "There it" nothing 1 read," said the writer, "that 1 like so well as those o'oiluanes." " Doctor," said the inveterate smo ker, " don't, for goodness sake, tell me thai the use of tobacco shortens a man's days, because?*' " Hut it does," interrupted the doctor. " 1 tried to stop smoking once and the days seemed interminable." 44 1 never pretend," sind Col. Still well, " that I take alcoholic beverage for medicinal purposes." 44 The subterfuge is sometimes in dulged iu." 41 Jt would not do for me. It would create the impression that 1 am a chronic Invalid." Wife: 44 Do you think Tommy dis turbs our neighbor with his drum?" Husband: 44 I'm afraid so-, the man next door made him a present of a nice new knife to-day and suggested that Tommy should cut open the drum and spend 'the money that is inside.' " ?Tit-Hits. 441 told you," said the teacher, apolo getically, to Tommy. 44 that I should whip you if you did not tell your father you had run away from echool, didn't ? ?" 44 Thai's all right," responded Thomas. 4,l didn't tell him. One of your lickins is a picnic by the side of one of dad's." 44 Charley, dear," said young Mrs. Torkins, 11 there is one favor 1 want to ask you. i hope you will realize it is for youi own good aud uot get angry." 44 What is it?" 44 1 want you to solemnly promise me that you will never bet on a horse that isn't going to win."?Washington Star. New Clerk?You don't look like a man who smokes cigaiettes. Employer?Why, I never smoked a cigarette in my life. New Clerk?You have just said you were a victim of the cigarette habit. Employer ?I am. My clerks smoke them. An Irishman, who was charged with stealing a watch from a fellow-citizen, Btoutly denied the impeachment in court, and brought a counter accusa tion agamst his accuser for assault and battery committed with a frying pan. 44 Why did you allow the pro secutor, who is a smaller man than yourself, to assault >ou without re sistance? ' asked the judge; 44 had you nothing in your hand to defend your self with ? ' 44 Hedad, your honor," said Pat. 441 had lm watch, but what was that against a frying-pan?" " If you're hungry," said the chart table housewife, 44 come in aud 1 will give you something lo cat." 44 Ma'am," replied Weary Willy, the diplomat, 44 there al.i't notion' I'd like better, hut I'm nfecrd." 4' Afraid of what ?" 44 W'y, ma'am, if I was to cat ycr lino Cookin' an' victuals I'd cddycate me stummiek up so's it would't stand fer wot 1 have to give it rcg'lar, an' I'd starve to death. Thank yo kindly, ma'am, but if you'll jest give a quarter instead it won't bo geltiu' me stum miek into bad habits."?Chicago l'ost. A little (rormantown, Pa., boy, who goeito Sunday school every Sunday, always receives a nickel from his fath er to place in the collection plate. Last Sunday Ins father g ivc him two nickels, saying: 44 One is for tho Lord and the other is for yourself." As it was too oarly to start for Sun Iday school, tho littlo boy sat on the porch steps in tho warm sunshine, playing ivuh the Lwo Dickies. After a whil i tie dropped one of thorn, aud it di8appcur< d down a crack. Without a moment's hesitation, and still clutch ing the remaining coin in his clinched list, ho looked up at his father, ex claiming: 44 Oh, pep I thero goes tho Lord's nicklo." Hector's Daughter?My father fceln it vory much, Mrs. Barker, that you should leavo the church every Sunday just boforo the sermon. Don't you think you might try and stay in future? Mrs. Barker?I dursn't do it, Miss. I do snore that drcadfnl When I'm asleep. OA0TO1RXA. HIE BLIND ARE MA I) Ii TO SEE Interesting Experiments With the Deaf, Dumb and Blind. A wonderful account comes from Vienna of the methods of Dr. Holler, who is teaching the blind to sec, tho deaf to hear and the dumb to speak. We give tho account of Dr. Heller's wonderful results in tho words of tho London telegraph: An interesting case was brought tho other day before a meeting of tho Society of Physicians at Vicuna. Di rector Heller, of the Vienna Blind In stitution, introduced a boy of scveu yearn, bliud from hit birth, whom by bis system be had taught iu fourteen mombs to read, to distinguish colors, forms aud objects, to loculi/.o and to distinguish them without previous touch cither by day or artificial light and at continually increasing distances. The Professor, who lias had thirty years' experience with the deaf, dumb and blind, came long ago to the con clusion that when the former have per fectly-formed cars they can bear, but the connection with the brain failP. Dr. Heller therefore enelcavor' to arouso thought in connection wK i a subject, and has made seventy-two such children hear and speak. Tho success with the deaf ami dumb en couraged him to do something for the blind whose eyes are perfectly formed and who suffer from physical blind ness. Throe years ago two bovs. broth I ers, aged four and five, born blind, wore brought to him from Hungary for preparation for the Blind School. Professor Fuchs, one of the leading oculists of Vienna, to whom the boys were taken for examination, pro nounced botli lo be blind with perfect ly-formed eyes?a case, the 'ore, of physical blindness. The method adopted ~?r. Holler is to place the patient in a perfectly dm k room, in which a movoable Mu minalcd transparent disc is plat. '"he child thus learns, after long . .1 tedious labor, the difference botwoen light and dark. The youngest was 8oou able to localize the disc, and a large house-key was placed iu bis baud that he might feel it. This was laU fastened behind the canvas. The b said:" What you ! avo placed in the 1 is your house-key." The next o that he recognized was a ball. The and ball were often exchanged, bui bo never failed to distinguish them cor rectly. The director then hung a piece of red glass between the piano lamp and the disc, when Mio boy said: "To-night there is another light." It was explained to him that this was red, and gradually he learnt to distinguish colors with great precision. O '^'de the dr.rkeued room he was ? er feclly blind. Geometric* lilies, lines, cuclc8, triangles v. . drawn upon the sheet, after whiv..i Heller triumphantly proceeded to letters and figures. The blind boy now reads I wilh his C}cs. Gradually the instruc I tion was extended lo daylight. After I eight months Hel'cr brought his pupil back to Professor Fuchs, who thought that thero must be some mistake, that the hoy followed the movements of the chalk upon tho board with his cars, or listened to the signals of his teacher. Director Heller begged Profossor Fuchs to take the child into another room, whore, out of sixty-four experiments, he only tailed three times. A Lawyer's Bi.undku.?In re counting some of his personal experi ences Ex .Governor Shaw, of Iowa, lately chosen to be Secretary ({age's successor as the bead of tho treasury department, tells how he once heard a sundl boy get the better of a, lawyer who was cross-examining him. Part of the questioning and replies thereto were as follows : " Have you any occupation ?" " No." u Don't you do any work of any kind ?" ? No." ?? .Just loaf around home ?" ??That's about all." u What docs your father do ?" " Nothin' much." " Doesn't bo do anything to support tho family ?" Ho does odd jobs once in awhilo when lie can get them." " As a matter of fact, isn't your father a pretty worthless fellow, a dead beat and a loafer V" ?? I don't know, sir; you'd hotter ask bin?, lie 8 sittin' over there on the jury." Mary Todd, who clair ? iho is a daughter of Abraham T'r j, desirn to prove her identity or to gain possession of a farm in Alcnurd Com ' Illinois. For many years the won. iu says she had faith in promisi 3 tb. t bo would always bo well cared for. She was reared by ltobert and Jane Todd on a farm near Chamberehurg, 111., and resided with them until she was 18. Sho left, them becauso they woull not tell her who hor paronts were, \ neighbors told her that Abraham coin was her father. Her statom in writing and covers 60 pages. Lndy (socking a cook:) " You havo go.Ml rolorcnces, I suppose?" Applicant: " No, ma'am. I haven't any at all, ma'am." Lady: "But I really elo not like tho Idea of engaging a cook without re ference." Applicant: 44 Oh, that'll ba alt >, ight, ma'am. You can pav no 'o ad vance."