The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, January 11, 1893, Image 1

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.X M 1- -v -'No A IT ED1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1893. PRICE $1.50 JS 15 L rf AI snows ua -4WD. ?" aZ o Law Xst ba gseeated. - W:Trzesws Nay Lose theie -29al Be ,?' ea = to ew and Courier.] January = 4.--Last year time the Xcmiistratirn agreat hue and cry About not paying:the taxea as -heboard of 'riimnad equali SAt that time the State officials i it was saeonspraey against and all that kind of rubbish. something new thea. This etally the same-thing has oc ne good thing about the nY pent of taxes thisyear is that iaa prospect of an early. settle 3tof the question in-the Courts. -A' Qorney General -Townsend will = va"e bere about the end- of the .week to-ipresentthe State in tbeeelebrated RAdai d tax. cases. It is hoped that at hat~earing a decision will be ren ed tbat~wiftb satisfactcry for the settlement ofthe outstanding indebt ednesa. Last year there was a balance f-bN $35,000 reported as upaid,. ad this year the amount'in dispute Willbe about the same. The railroad -ements for 1891-92- is $2,783,607, -bnere is relatively about as-much difference between the amount as re turned by the-railroads and-that fixed by the State board of equaization. Th xailroads this year tendered the county treasurers taxes on a basis of the returns as made by tbem. The 'amounts were accepted on the same canditions as last year. The tax situ ation, so far as the railroads are con ed, is growing to be quite interest- . S TILLXA T passage y bilk Governor - eessed an opinion asto anon to see it enforced-or f T akeits own course. To-night }ee himselfin the most vig .nguge in his vocabulary, that Siald seethat the law was enforced. .tie~Od after the tirst of July, no mat __ Wbt iuBnences migbt be brought : HAT MEAT DOTH THrs OUB S AR FEED? "V even the courts, he said. cohld - ein the enforcement of a law batl been passed. Hewkuldsee ~ . he IaaGovernor that every of thelaw would be punished,. n sar sent to the Penites tThe lwIl' at that time be-as teas_ ny upon the statute books - rpoes to make it such. - reor Tllman seems to have an the Issuing of licenses for a "Pparatory to his leaving the Safter-a consultation with Attor -"eeeral Townsend, he had him a -."%sall county treasurers as to their upon the tender of money for ~D5e5.. The iawF'," he said, "were eed by the proper authorities ~~1~ilioy is, or can be, a part of the -erment who would not uphold >-T TREASUEES IN TROUBLE. ~ SWis vry probable that Governor 'I~~lUaf wil emove Treasurers Camp <iad Walter for having issued ii csarone:year; although he -says hewill hear; what defence any eartinight have to make. *,L CHAN ON TE LIQUOr Assistant Attorney General 0. W. ~7uhnan, in a talk todaty about the corse of the county treasurers in issu lu icenses for a year, remarked that ~ b county treasurers bad no right 6 whtever to grant licenses; that was a function of the municipalities. The ~ rauera are-simply depositories, and itslfto the cities and towns whether e~Iense be granted or not, even after M4eounty has received the money. ofar as the law was' concerned the '~ ~ece1tofthe county made no djfter S-ece whatever as to this responsibilhty. ~'In~sethe matter wjs taken to the omnrts be did note see how the counties woun have to bear any part' of the - HF NEEDS THE BOODLE. [ The State, 5th.] - In no public ina+ter has Governor Tiliman ever displayed such unswerv lag determination as in the matter -of tbe Evans Dispensary law. The oppo , stlon to the law, that -comes from al --.most-every'quarter of the State, only seemes to make him more determined, Satd-hh who thinks that there is any ~ hing else but very lively times ahead, as a very much mistaken man. Niever before or since the passage of the act did Governor Tillman have a word to say in-regard to the dispensary sceme till last night, and then he displayed his feeling in regard to the matter~ in language and manner that does not permit of misconstruction. -When Governor Tillman was asked ~ bout the future of the law, and the opposition that it was likely to incur in the courts,:he suddenly became calm, a look of unflinching determination verspread his countenance, and he re plied: "You may just say for me that ~ hat bill will go into effect on July 1 next,as certain ait is an act, and it will be enforced too." "Even if the courts should inter vene?" "Yes, despite the courts or anything -else." ' K~' The remark was made to the Gov ernor that it was very likely that the en forcement of the law in the larger cities would amonnt to about as much as the ~ eeorceent of the Sunday liquor law. Hsaid that that would be left to him, aMbe guaranteed that the law would -~eefre to the letter even in Char leston, or those who violated it would either pay dear for the violation or go to the penitentiary. The Governor further went on to say that be was very much surprised to see that one or two county treasurers had given the liquor men certified receipts for the $100 for the year, specifying for what the amount bad been paid, when they had been specially instructed to merely give a receipt for the- amount. He said: "You may be sure that I am going to look into this violation of in structions as soon as I find out what treasurers have disobeyed orders in re gard to the issuing of these receipts, I will relieve them of their,duties, and their care for the treasur; . f the State, by removal, and appoint, despite pri maries or anything else, men who are capable of taking instructions." He says he instructed the Attorney General, after a consultation, to send telegram to the treasurers before he went away,. informing them what course to pursue in regard to thegiving of receipts. It may be, he says, that some of the treasurers did not get these iotices,;but he will giveeach a hearing before he chops their heads off. Said he, "Nobody is, or can be, a part of the government, who won't uphold the laws, as iaterpreted to him by the pro per authorities." What will be the outcome of all this ofcourse remains to be seen, but the Governor was never more determined tahave his way in his life. An administration man of legal repu tation was asked about the effect of the issuing of thecountylicenses yesterday. He said that everybody seemed to be laboring undera misapprehension. The country treasurers had no right what ever to-issue a license. They merely re ceived-the money upon which a muni cipality could issue a license for a year. Their receipt made no difference at all. f it came to a legal right the municipa lity would have to do the fighting and not the county. This seems to be the key mote of that threat the other day that'the municipalities would lose their charters if they persisted in issuing yearly licenses. TILLMANITES REBEL AGAINST THE STATE BARROOM LAW. (Special to The State.] CHELESTON, Jan. 4.-It really begins to look as if the John- Gary Evans State barroom bill is going to smash the Reform machine into infinites imaly small smithereens. The Admin istration may rave about Charleston's audacity anf Columbia's rebellion in. rushing to issue liquor licenses to get ahead of the.wild-cat legislation of the last Legislature. To-tlay, however, a bombshell was exploded over in Berke ley, which puts an' entirely new phase on the matter. Berkeley, it must be remembered, is the very hot-bed of the kind of reform ofwhich Tillma'nism is the outcome in this State. The Dentnisses and Muir heads and Harveys and Morrisons and Stanlands were soreheads, brimful of grievances, iong before the movement ever emerged from Its Shell up in Laurens County. There are not enough Conservative Democrats-ln Berkeley to shake aReform stieg at. To be in the swim over in Berkeley .you must bow down to the shrine of Tillmanism and fear Haskellism inalt,Its forms. What will the Governor think, there fore, .when he reads the following advertisement, which appeared in the News and Courier to-day: Office County Commissioners Berke ley County-Mount Pleasant, 8. C., De cember 81, 1892.-On and after January 2, 1893, thIs officee will be prepared to issue bonds for licenses to retail spirit uous liquors in Berkeley County. W. H. WAGNER, J. P. HARVEY, J. M. HARMON. County Commissione Berkeley Co, Office of Treasurser of Berkeley Coun ty-On and after January 2, 1893,1 will issue permits to take out licenses in in corporated towns, and will also issue lic~enses to retail spirituous liquors in this county. J. M. MUIRHEAD, County Treasurer. Here it will be seen that "the faith ful" in this shrine of Tillmanism are ust as fond of their toddy as are the rebels of Columbia and Charleston, and have no idea of patronizing the Tillman barrooms. Everybody in this locality is waiting now to bear what the administration is going to do about it. Will it repeal the charter of Berkeley County? ('har leston pauses for a reply. NO DISPENSARY IN SPARTANBURG COUNTY. [Special to The State.) SPARTANBUG, Jan. 4.-Thd Herald this morning publishes interviews with t. nuinber of prominent citizens in re ard to the liquor law, and a large majority are opposed to the act. Somne of them are ardent prohibitionists, but they regard the present law, as a pro ibitory measure, little better than nothing, and will not give it their ap proval even by signing a petition for a dispenser. The Herald says,;editorially: "It may be set down as tolerably rertain that Spartanburg will never ave a dispensary. A majority of the freeholders of this city, whose signatures are necessary, will never consent for the State to do that which they conscientiously believe to be wrong in the individual. The prospect of sharing in the spoils is tempting, so much so as to catch the legislators, but there are thousands of good men scattered throughout this county who do not hold to the doctrine that pecuniary benefit changes a vice into a virtue; and knowing that their signa tures are necessary to -put the State in actual possession of the barrooms, they will never give it." THE-SAME STORY FROM KEBSHAW. CAMDEM, Jan. 4.-The county com missioners of Kershaw have issued liquor licenses for the year 1893. The town will only collect for six months. If an attempt is made to carry out the Evans bill in this county itis doubtful if an applicant for the position of dis penser can get enough freebolders to sign his application. THE GOVERNOR AS PACIFICATOR OF TOWN AND COUNTRY. [Special to News and Courier.] COLUMBIA, January 5.-Governor Tillman is usually in good spirits when a fight is at its height. To-day he seemed to be in an unusually good hu mor, and talked pleasantly, but with determination, concerning the enforce ment of the Di:pensary Act. He does not appear to have any doubt that the bar rooms will all beclosed on the 1st of July, and if they are not he proposes to see that they are unopened on the morning of the 3d of July, A. D. 1893. He says that he has no doubt what ever as to the constitutionality of the law, and that all of the talk about its not standing the test of the Courts is as idle as it is wprthless. Laws have fre quently been passed in the same man ner. If the liquor dealers proposed testing the law they would have to submit to the existing laws until they are repealed or held to be unconstitu tional by the Supreme Court. The laws were passed to be enforced, and he would do all in his power to see that they were enforced. Governor Tillman incidentally re marked that he was not pursuing his presen.t course for any political pur pose. He did not need any bolstering. He was simply taking a stand to do what he considered right, and what the people expected of him. The dis cussion he thouglt would only tend to aggravate the feeling between the cities and country, and he thought that it would be best not to excite the people about the matter. He, of course, would say nothing to me about his plan of procedure in case the bar rooms ~persisted in keep ing open, but remarked that "he would not begin to cross bridges until the 1st of July." He was shown one of the licenses granted by the county treasurer of Riehiand, and after read ing it said that it would amount to nothing except perhaps to give the holders some excuse for going into the courts. As to the county treasurers issuing licenses for a year contrary to instruc tions, he said that the law was per fectly plain and that wherever he found the instructions had been vio lated he would inquire into the mat ter. TILLMA-TIENCKEN CORRESPONDENCE Here is a bit ofcorrespondence which sbows which way the wind is blow ing: CHARLESTON, S.- C., Jan. 3, 189. Governor Tillman.-Dear Sir : As a law-abiding citizen of this city will the city licenses be effective after the 1st of July, 1893? Answer -and oblige. Respectfully, J. A. TIENCKEN, Corner America and Amherst streets. The reply reads : "Replying t6 yoursletter of the 3d instant Governor TilTman directs me to say that.after the 1st day of July next all bar.rooms in the State will be elosed at all hazards. Very respectfully, D. H. TOHPEINS, "Private Secretary." This reply will answer a number of others of the same description. In other words Governor Tillman is going to do everything in his power to en 'orce the State bar room idea. wIGGLING IN AND WRIGGLING OUT. The Attorney-General to-day gave the statement to the press concerning the instructions to county treasurers which Governor Tillman mentioned inthe talk published in The News and Courier to-day. He said that he gave no general instructions to-the county treasurers and only answered by tele gpam such as applied to him for in structions, and there was considerable number of such. Concerning the con sultation between himself anid Gover nor Tillmnan, at which Governor Till man- said it was decided to send out instructions, he said : "The G.overnor, no doubt, had ref erence to -a conference .between him self and the Attorney-G*eneral, which occurred on Saturday, the 31st ult., fter his return from Laurens and be fore his departure for Clemson Col lege, in which he approved of what the Attorney-General had done. It is true that all the telegrams had been sent except two or three, but the Gov ernor -could not know but that the different county treasur"rs would con tinue to apply for advice and that it would be necessary to instruct them further, and he, no doubt, when inter viewed after his return from Clemson had reference to this conversation as Le conference and instructions al lded to in the published interview." The county treasurers of Bichland and Charleston did not apply for in structions, he said. The Attorney General says that he instructed the county treasurers in substance as fol laws : "You have nothing to do with grant ing licenses. If any one offers youl$100, in accordance with Section 1,732, Gen eral1Statutes, take it and give a receipt for it and say nothing about license, and let the party do with his receipt as he may be advised." TEEASUEE CAMPBELL PLEADS NOT .GUILTY. County Treasurer Campbell, who threatened by the Gubernatorial broad axe, says that he had no idea of vio lating any laws. He says he received no instructions as to naking oct re ceipts from the Attorney-General or anyone else. He had no time to even read the newspaper accounts of the law and that he cnried cut the law as he construed it all along. He said that he waited until the very last moment to see if he would get any instructions before he accepted any money for licenses. He was too busy to go and inquire about any new construction. of the law, and that he acted on the law as laid down to him. He disclaimed any intention of vio lating the law, and whenver anyone in authority construes a law for him he expects to follow instructions. The fact that Treasurer Campbell received no instructions may change the dispo sition towards him. WHAT "ME AND BEN" WILL DO. Governor Tillman to-day received the following remarkable letter : PIEDMoNT BELT, January 3, 1893. Commander-in-Chief over Military and Civil Services of the State of South Carolina (Charleston not excepted:) Incorporated . cities and towns of the State are now granting licenses in direct violation of the State laws; why should not these char ters be revoked by the Secretary of State, or by the powers that be. If you should in your judgment deem it expedient to place any city or town in the State under marshall law, and require military force to protect the laws of the State, call on the One Gallus and Wool Hat boys of the Pied mont belt, make the city by the sea know that our motto is Equal rightsto all, special priviled'ge to none that the laws of the State must be respected even by Charleston itself. To violate a law is bad. To conspire with others to violate the law is worse. Has the city council by the sea been guilty of these charges? Yours to command, AN OLD SOLDIER. A GROwING OPPOSITION TO THE LAW [Special to The State.] LANCASTER, Jan. 6.-The Enter prise, one of the county papers, which has been looked upon as one of the many minor organs of the administra tion, and which generally approves of everything the Reformers do, seems to be in open rebellion against the law. In a recent issue it was unstinted in its praise of Speaker Jones for voting against the measure, and delivered a broadside against Senator Strait and Representative Estridge, who sup ported it. ANOTHER VIEW OF THE QUESTION. [Special to The State.] CHARLESTON, Jan. .-Fordham, the deputy revenue collector, figures.out that if the Evans fiquor bill goes into operation all that Uncle Sam will col lect from the State will' be about $5,000, and that it will cost over $15,000 to col lect that. He says the consequence will be a heavy reduction in the force of the interrtalrevenge de'partment in this State and' consequently so many the less offices for Cleveland to fill. "CAROLINA NEEDS MEN." [From the Baptist Courier.] I have not read the full text of the dispensary law recently passed by the Legislature. Even if I had read it carefully I would not venture an opin ion as to the constitutionality of any contested point. Some of its main features have been tried in other lands with good results. If any questionable or Illegal provisions 'have been em bodied in itlet the proper tribunals set them aside. Let all good-eitizens unite to see it enforced until pronounced ille gal or repealed. This is the best way to test it, Any fair anid just measures which will lessen the amount of useless and dangerous drinking will be wel comed by the best classes 'of our peo pIe. WVe need all tha't law, education, school, church, appeals, all restraining influences can do to help us now. A week has not passed since a newspaper in our State rebuked the drinking usages of the young ladies at a public gathering, where young .men went to shameful excesses. Their conduct, un der the circumstances,was natural and inevitable, but pot therefgre excusable. "Luxuries should be taxed and re strained, while vice should be prohib ited." There are parts of our country where leading men and leading news papers bring no other contribution to this great problem than opposition to any mneasures taken to lessen the frightful ravage of social drinking, and its necessary result-drunkenness. There are neighborhoods in which the "liquor interest", needs no special or gan to fight its battles, the ordinary newspaper attending to this in a very satisfactory style. For several years the friends of temperance~have been negligent. A generation of young peo pe have grown up who have seldom heard an~earnest appeal or warning on this subject~ The war years were not favorable to the growth of a high pub lic sentiment da. this question. The sons of the soldi3rs are now coming forward, many of them with hereditary thirst in their veins as'a family inher itance!' At a critical time in England's his tory, when clouds were darkening the social and political sky, Wordsworth, in alarm, broke forth in his startling sonnet beginning: "MillOn, thon Should'st be liviDg atthls hour; England hata need of thee!" More than once lately the thought has instinctively formed itself into words in my lips, "O'Neall, thou should'st be living at this hour!" Carolina sorely needs men IikeJohn runs strong, and, therefore, patriotism is weak or In danger of becoming so. Twenty years ago we were saved, as Tb we then thought, from grave dangers threatening us. Were liberty, order, social quiet, confidence between man and. man, public self-respect, brought safely through the "fire then, only to m perish in the smoke now?" b en JAS. H. CARnLISLE. e. cit DR. GRIER THINKS THAT HALF A LOAF IS BETTER THAN NONE. ERSKINI COLLEGE, th DUE WEST, S. C., pr December 30, 1892. H Rev. A. J. S. Thomas, Editor of ye Baptist Courier-Dear Brother: In sti answer to your request for my opinion y of the Evans dispensary bill I would hi say: fo, (1.) It is not prahibition. It does lit not, therefore, meet the wishes of those of who voted last August for prohibitory. es legislation. in (2.) But it is rigid re;pilation, and, si2 therefore, restriction and suppression DC in measure. The outspoken unani- C< mous opposition of the liquor element ea in the State is greatly in its favor. It is well in this matter to learn from an re enemy. The friends of temperance pr may wisely recognize as a worthy ally an and helper every lawful agency which lal tends to the suppression of the liquor tb -traffic. In the tremendous struggle ur against the saloon the best thing to be Cc done in many cases is not that which 69 may be abstraetly best, but that which- is is practicable. Partial restriction is 2 better than no restriction. In this view of the case I hope for good results from the Evans bill. Cer tainly the law ought to have a fair trial. The abolition of the saloon, th which this bill will accomplish, isa en great advance towards sobriety and en good morals. Let us accept the half du loaf as a promise of better things. Yours truly, W. M. GRIER. FIRE AT LAURENs. fu co Traynham & Dial's Brick Building Burned W gu [Special to The State.] of LAURENS, January 4.-Traynham & M Dial's two.story brick building, on the go south side of the public square, was no totally destroyed by fire at 4 o'clock w< this morning. The buildizng contained po two large store rooms-one vacant, the other occupied by J.M. Visanska, who "I carried a handsome stock of jewelry. ga The fire had made great progress when wl discovered, and nothing could be done nc to save either the house or its contents. Visanska loses about $5,000 and is in- lie sured for about $3,922. Traynbam & zij Dial were insured for $3,000, their loss he is estimated at from $4,500 to $5,000. R. ge C. Watt's law office was on the upper lei floor; nothing was saved, but-the lossis inconsiderable as his library is in an- th other building. k J. W. Ferguson's brick building ad- ke joining the burned house was slightly e injured, as was also Simmons Bros.' wi stock of dry goods in it. The latter's. losses are covered by insurance. tb The origin of the fire is a mystery. n3 ti] THE ROD AND THE CHILD. s No: Whipping Children i Diing a Great Deal of Harm in the World. I "Spare the rod and spoil the child, h~ is the best idea, I tell you," said Judge ol Thomas to a New York Sun man.h Don't talk to me about persuading and reasoning with children. The only sP thing is implicit obedience, and the te sooner you exact it, the better for you and the child too. Punish without temper, though. Never show your at anger to your child. That's the trouble at with miost parents. They get into a T passion themselves when they whip, and the child is quick to notice it, and soon begins to resent it, and cherish it f as a wrong. T o your whipping more in sorrow than anger. Unless you can ui do it in this way you had better not try I] it at all. The worst whippings I ever ye got in my life were by my mother, th who did it with tears in her eyes at my pr suffering, and a prayer after it, which co took all the resentment out of my en heart and made me feel that she was sti the greater suffer. Oh! this latter-day PF idea of not whipping children is the K supremest rot, and is doing great harm. 1s( If whipping can be avoided, all right; m' but if nothing else will do, lay it on by with slipper or switch. The thing is to pC make themn mind. Begin the business A~ early in life too, for the longer it is put th off the harder the task will become. L< What does a child know about the ey reason of things? Why attempt to pC reason with a little thing which is sp simply a bundle of notions, appetites is and impulses, which must, for its own th good, be restrained and directed? ea Obedience is the prime education. I aT tell you more than three-fourths of all TI the ugly lawlessness and crime which w~ now afflicts this country comes from c1< the lack of control in the family circle. ki The disobedient, self-willed, indulged Si child is sure to give unhappiness and M trouble to his parents, and, after leav- lii ing themn,-fo violate the laws of his en country. No respect for authority in a m family circle means no respect for the th governing powers of the State. This th is all just as true as preaching.''"' ____ ___ral Ci The Advertising doo's Sar2,aparilla is always within les hThnds of reason because it is true;s it w3sappeals to the sober, corn m sense of thinking people because mi it~ always fullp substantiated by en- ja' do meats which, in the financial , w a -Mould be acoepted without a ent's hesitation. su eneral family cathartic we ac recmmend Hood's Pills. cli READS 242 LANGUAGES. .e Peculiar Woik of a Bible Proof Reader Who is Not a Linguist. [From the New York Sun.1 A. most interesting illustration of the arvellous capacity of the human ain is found in the person of an iploye of a publishing house in this y. His duties consist of proof read g in 242 languages and'dialects. Lt the Bible House on Fourth avenue e American Bible Society employs as oof reader Mr. J. Emery McLean. E. is a native of Canada, nearly 30 ars of age, quite 6 feet 2 inches in ture, and has been a resident of New )rk about four years. Aside from a trying task as proof reader, he has and considerable time to devote to erary work, which, during the life the late Count Norriakow, Russian ile, included the correct "English ;" of the Count's translations of Rus 6n works, and since the demise of the bleman, Mr. McLean has aided the untess Ella Norriakow to some tent in her labors. Mr- McLean's functions as a proof ader cover the final revision of the oofs of the Holy Scriptures as printed d circulated by the society, the guages and dialects (242 in ne:nber) at he handles being. designated der these heads: British Isles, 1 to 6: intinent of Europe, 7 to 68; Asia; to 162; the Islands, 163 to 185; Africa 3 to 217; American continent, 218 to i. For a fact, in many cases the ecimens of prooffs show the different phabets or characters which the peo a use. The Turkish version, for ample, is prepared for Moslems in e Arabic letter, but for Armenians an tirely different form is needed, and Greeks yet another; thus making e allowance for repetitions, the speci ms (242) actually represent about. I languages and dialects. kfter taking into account the wonder [ versatility of brain necessary to pe with almost endless number of ,rds and characters in these lan ages, perhaps the strangest feature his remarkable gift is the fact that r. McLean is not a libguist-does not averse in any language, but English, r does he understand any other, his rk being done purely through his wer of embracing form at sight. rake, for illustration, John III., 16: or God so loved the world, that He ve his only begotton Son, that iosoever believeth in Him should t perish, but have everlasting life." rhis in Dutchreads: "Want alzoo f heeft God de wereld ghab, dat hij nen eeniggeboren' Zoon .gegven eft, opdat een iegelijk,:die in hem Looft, niet verderve, naar het eeuwige ren hebbe." The Maori (New Zealand) verion is is; "Na, kola ano to aroha o te Atua te ao, homai ana e -ia tana Tamaiti tahi, .ida kahore ni e mate te tangata wakapono ana k.i a-ia, engari kia iiwhieai ki te oranga tonutanga." rhe Mandingo (West Africa) readis us: "Katuko Ala ye dunya kannu rinyma, an ading wunkilering di. ensating mo-amo men late ala, ate' iyala, barrn asi balu abadaring tto." This is Muskokee (North American dian); "Hasaketomnese ekouy vno ce mahet ameko, Eppuce homkuse chucote emotes, mon estimot oh osamat estemerkekot, momis kesa to yuksosekon oeoren." In addition there are scores of ecimens made up of characters of let r peculiar to the Burman, the Bghai ,re, the Pwo-karen, the Tibetan, the guese, the Chinese, the Gujerati, &c., d, most difficult of all to read by form sight, the Murathi (Modi) and the ilu (west of the Mysore). [n an interview relative to his labors r. McLean gave some very interesting I find," said he, "that the work tells 'on meseverely and seriously at times ive experienced spells that almost rge uRon nervous prostration from e efiect of continuous application to oof reading, and when I feel the spell aing on I am obliged to cease work tirely and rest. No, I do not under nd any language but the Englisb. r instance, it I am reading a proof in >ordish or Arabic, I read by comipar n-that is, I have the origindl before , and correct the errors in the proof form, and that entails the greatest sible exhaustion. I mention the abic for the reason that that is one of e most trying forms of proof to read. >ok at this page. Toan inexperienced e it resembles an intoxicated series of thooks, shorthand characters, and fly ecks. The Georgian, as you see here,' full of crabs' claws and corkscrews; e ancient and modern Armenian are eh a cross between the razzle-dazzle d the ta-ra-ra boom-de-ay dances. me Sanskrit resembles a Monday's shing hung on lines to dry-big thes, little clothes, pinafores, al ads of clothes; so does the Puajabi or th, the Gondi (Central India), the rathi, and several others, only each e appears to be burdened with differ t styles of garments. The Siamese kes my head swim until I can hear s rafters knocking one another, and Burman looks like row upon row of and c's coming in at 5 a. in., after a ,id night out with the boys. The inese, Japanese, and Calmue or Wes - Mongolian have become more or a familiar to us all in books, but the :ht of theChippewayan always makes feel as if I needed anew set of How did you get into the way of sh complicated works?"' 'By years of -solid practice, I am so ustomed to the forms of letters and ara.term tha myeyesn intantly lead me to detect an error in a word or sen tence." "And yet, possessing all that knowl edge, you receive only the wages of the ordinary proof reader?" "Yes, the union fixes and controls that. After all, perhaps their way of looking at the matter is correet, because if I were to receive $21 per week for each language I would be in receipt of quite a modest little income-21 times 242 would be $5,082 per week. But, jesting aside, the public at large have not the faintest idea of the magnitude of the manufacture of Bibles. Take the American Bible Society alone. It was organized in New York in May, 1816, by a convention of delegates from the Bible societies in different parts of the country. It had been preceded by a large number of local and independ ent organizations, the oldest of which was that established in Philadelphia in 1868. Its work is benevolent and un sectarian. The only version in the En glish language which it can circulate is that which has been commonly re ceived since the year 1611. Up to date its total issues of Bibles, Testaments, and integral portions of the Scripture are over fifty million copies, and its ex penditures will reach nearly $25,000, 000. The Am'erican Society acts in conjunction with the British Bible So ciety so far as circulation- is concerned. The version of the English Bible now in common use was first printed in 1611, in a folio volume which contains 1,200 pages, each measuring 16 inches by 11. .If .two pages were printed at one time and 180 impressions were taken in one hour, each press, in-a day of ten hours, would yield the equiva lent of three Bibles, and ten presses would be required for a production of 9,000 Bibles a year. "The circulation of Bibles runs away up into the millions. In a single year, ending March 31, 1884, the society here issued 1,375,051 volumes, of which 474, 425 were Bibles, while the British So ciety circulated 3,118,304 volumes, of which 827,850 were Bibles, and since the year 1804, when the British Society was founded, more than 200,000,000 Bibles, Testaments, and integral' por tions of the Bible-have been circulated. Fancy, then, the vast number of Bibles that has been printed since 1455, when the earliest book known was printed with movable metal types at.Mentz-a folio Latin -Bible.- The number of copies was probably less than 300 in 1 that year. . Many of these were printed on vellum, a material made from skins . of very young kids and lambs and. as 1 each- Bible contained'6. leaves, the. skins of more than 300 animals were required for every copy. In that_ cen tury (145.5) two men working at one press could print 300 sheets a day. Few persons appreciate the difficulty of ren dering the Scriptures from the original Hebrew and Greek into languages which have not been previously per vaded. and rnoulded by Christian thought. Dr. Eli Smith and Dr. Van Dyck worked sixteen years in translats ing the Bible into Arabic. Dr. iebauff ler ot Constantinople labored from-1860 to 1874 to translate th. Bible into Tur kish. Dr. Schereebewsky was fifteen years translating the Old Testamept into the Mandarin Colloquial. It re quired Dr. Williamson and Dr. Biggs forty years to complete their Dakota version of the Bible, and one of them estimated that he spent on an average full thirty minutes on each verse he translated. In 1850 the Protestant mis sionaries were sent to Japan, and it took them twenty years before their translation of the entire New Testa ment was ready for circulation. I mention these facts merely to illustrate thie labo.r that is necessarily involved in my branch of the work. A single error upon my part, if allowed to pass, would render tisaless the complete edition, and that would involve a vast expense. Hence you will readily understand that a clear brain is a positive necessity. But I must-say that I am more than convinced that my time is worth some thing better than $21 per week. That slight cold, of which you think so little, may lead to serious trouble with the lungs. Avoid this result-by taking Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, the best known remedy for colds, coughs, catarrh, bronchitis, incipient consump tion, and all other throat and lung dis eses.- 1 A Big Cotton Fire in, Anderson. [Special to News and Courier.] AN'DERSON, January 5.-Just before 7 o'clock this evening, while the wind was very high, fire was discoved in the cotton on the city platform, where there were about three or four thousand bales. The alarm was given promptly and the firemen rushed to the scene, but before they could possibly reach the place and get to work, the flames, fanned by the high winds, had spread far and wide, and soon between one thousand and fifteen hundred bales were burning fiercely. The firemen worked like Spartans and in two hours' time had succeeded in subduing the fire to a large extent and confining it to the. burning, area. The loss is heavy, but will fall upon the4 insurance companies principally. There I is much fire there yet and 'the wind is I still blowing hard, hence it is impossi-i ble to give the amount of damage ex cept at a guessi. The origin of the fire is supposed to be accidental. Notwith- i standing the bitter cold and danger the-1 firemen and citizens worked beroically a and saved many bales. Some estimate the bales burned at 2,000 and the loss $0,000 to $I00;000. As the name indicates, Hall's Veg etable Sicilian Hair Benewer is a re newer of the hair, juciuding its growth, health, youthful color, andi beauty. It4 rill pleas you. PENiETETIAY.DIRECTORs '. the New Board Takes charse-ThsUe.K of Conic ts. [The State, 5th.] The regular meeting of the boa irectors of the Penitentiary wasaiie resterday and the ne -~ bo44-:), barge, the three - new Iessrs. R. T. Riggin, of Yor . Uyles, of Fairfield ; and W. H.A e nan of Aiken, qualifying.and heir seats. The board: was or the ensuing term foithe f Mr. T.4J. Ccnningham aas. rhere is one vae$ney.n' aused by the resignation of Mr nd it-wil be flled by the Governo Lppointment. Mostly -routine matters w:ke ended toat yesterdaym'saeetin . Several applications forleaacf :' iets were presented but refmaed s z upply of convicts is we a austed. The following statement nany of the 910 crimialse ence in the. enitentiaryer ited under leases nowin; force': 41 DeSaussure a 901 ,0; Wolfe's farm, 40; - 4; Spigner's farmn20 iearly 100; Colemaris 4a r l ract calls for 75; Anderso arms, 70: Sherwood'sf 0; Clemson College, 100 erg 25; Batting factory, 20;' Seege', .5; and number In the hoplt : Clem College ha r-: 5 more convicts by March 1, e ii be'furnished: T " The following resolution w3 t d )y the board Resolved,: That the- tkankq'4 oard of directors of theloutli, >enitentiary are due and are endered to our retiring ;crk, 1. Talbert,. of .Edgelied nd -efcient maner In l or the past -two yea a y lucted the ness ofil is clerk to e prison and he board.. We -also askhim to >ur many and hearty tbaniks=%i inbounded courfesies extend d b )y him. We take pleasure nending him to the. )ookkeeper. ME -NEW SUPEI-NDEN The transfer of theYelte : he new.superinten Mr veal, - was effeeE&d ste fa ranser was ra~bj ert,- for his father, [albert, who has been ed for sevr days The retiring supez edei' = ver to his successor:a.est: 5,00; 200 bales of t ween 8,000 and 10000, Mr. Talbert wimove. 3ack to his old home:4t Edgefield County, to-a. ' Provide yourself' with Ayer's Cherry Pectoral,an le means at handlor otdlg ssfully .with a sudden old. ~mergency medicine, it hasno md leading physicians vrwer' ~ommend it. ro e epn~~n r July, commo f or GoB [The State, tl Governor Tilman last night - rom C!emson Cllege,~we~Ih been for the last few d neetings of the board tdhoE rh Legislature having grt ed"l ippropriation of $50,000 ~kd~. ;he trustees for the completion #Ja milege, this meeting was-to mk rangements for the resumptione Ie rork, and its rapid conclusion --- Governor Tillmnan says the -~r ut all the machinery-in motiounee sary to secure all the laborersneed&I md the material, and the. work iiill o forward immediately with arush.- > He says the bioard could not definite. y settle upon the exact time forthe >pening of the college. They hope,I >osible, to have the college open a he first of May. This, however wil e decided at the next meetidnfa oard, which will be held on Feb~i 1. It will depend in great mim~~ ;he condition of the weatherorl ext mouth. The Governor says that .no- tt wht may occur the collegeI!.j pened not later than July 1, azs'e hinks - that with the energy w~, ;hey will employ, the college wi opn n June 1. The buildings will all :ompleted according. to the org~n lans,'affording aecommodationso 00 students. . inrgr t te Nothing was doneinrgd lection of ,A. presIdent to fill tea~ ancy caused by the rsg~iqO residen,Strode. Professor t iUs. ins the chair of mathematics i. - llege, however. Thes board >rotiably elect a president. at its neeting. A well-known agricultura 1 stimates in the Chicago Sun: iN ood roads would save the farmers he United State $500,000,000 per n the co'st of getting their pous~ narket, or nearly $8 toeasenk Sft- ~ f the country, whichis fa t~ ~ hate than to suppose the whol nn~2 nil be divided among the frss one. Comun&, S. C., Jan. 4 3isa Ian Williams, of tbis city 1. J. Sligh, cashier of the -ak& )eala, Fia., were mnariled iieit4 d left for Ocala shotyf& ?