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ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY., S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCOE00184 RIE$.0AY A BRITISHER ON THE r.NCV JUDGE BENET'S QUEER IDEA OF CON STITUTIONAL LAW, He Does not Realize the Diffr.rence Between his Native Country, where there Is no Written ConstittutIoD. and his Adopt ed Country, where Written Con stitationts are the surce and Limit of all Authority. LSpecial to News and Courier.] COLUMBIA, October 1.-Judge W. C. Benet delivered from the Bench in the Richland County Court House this morning a remarkable charge to the grand jury, which has created some what of a sensation. He took up the dispensary law and delivered quite an argument upon it. * * * * Mr. Foreman and gentlemen, there is another matter which behoves you and me to take into consideration, and which it ls my duty to charge you. I refer to the dispensary law. Since last we sat here, at the June term, Gover nor Tillman has issued a proclamation informing the people of the State that the dispensary Act of 1893 is of force and to be enforced as the law of the -land. No 'doubt you are aware that the dispensary act of 1892 was decided to be unconstitutional by a majority of tbe Supreme Court, one Associate Ju tice dissenting. That adverse decision was made after the act of 1892 had been in effect repealed and superseded by the act of 1893, but the court did not consider nor pass upon the act of 1893. That act stands upon the statute book to-day unrepealed and unaffected by the decision of the Supreme Court. it is the law of the land. You asgrand jurors and I as circuit judge are equally nound as officers of the law to do all in our power to enforce it, and I charge K. you that it is your sworn duty to pre sent any violations of that law which may come under your notice or which may be reported to you or submitted to Nou. Itisjustas much your duty as it is for good cause shown to present Suicide, burglaries, larcenies or other vvplations of law. Unfortunately much opposition' has been industriously stirred up and kept alive in some parts of the State agairst the the dispensary law and violations of it have been openly counselled and commended as a patriotic duty. This opposition has been directed chiefly to that provision of the law which author izes constables to make searc h and seiz ures. To encourage and intensify this opposition the cry has been raised that the liberty of the citizen is in danger. and that the sanctity of the home is being aesecrated. It is well to be on our guard against any measure that threatens our individual rights as citi zens or unlawful invasion of the pri vacy and ianctity of our homes. It is well to be on our guard also against the specious cry of liberty and home when raised, as in this case, without just - cause. Notbing is more potent and beneficent in a righteous cause, nothing is more mischievous and misleading in an unrighteous cause, than such a popular cry. If it be the cry of the pa triot, jealous of our rigbts, we should give it good heed. If it come from the liquor dealer, the liquor drinker or the disappointed politician, or even from the misguided patriot, we must disre gard it. As I understand the dispen sary act I can assure you, gentlemen, that the liberty of the citizen is nct in peril, nor is the sanctity of the home in danger of desecration. The provisions relating to search and seizure authorize nothing new. Simi lar powers have always been exercised by the revenue officers and other offi cers of the law. It is true that a man's bouse is his castle, across the threehold of which, be it ever so lowly, rneither king, nor president, nor'govex nor dare go without his permission. Such is the law of South Carolina, and such may it ever be. But when a man makes use of his house to harbor a criminal, or as a depository for stolen or smuggled goods, then be that home high or humble the officer of the law, armed with the warrant of the law, has the rigbt to enter it in the name of the law and make search and seizure. Such is the law in every civilized country. Similarly, under the dispen sary law, if a marn uses his house for a bar room for the sale of liquor, or as a club room for the dispensing of liquor ior a price, or as a storehouse for con traband liquors, the dispensary consta ble, armed with a warrant, may law fully enter that house and make search and seizure. The householder cannot invoke the law's protection of his home while he makes use of it as a means of concealing his violation of law, or of pursuing an unlawful business. It is not the purpose of the law, nor the in tention of its framers, that a house should be searched becatse there may be liquor in it. Liquor lawfull- there is sate, and the'law will protect its .owner in the lawful use of it. But liquor unlawfully there is not safe, and ~should not be safe there or anywhere else, and search for and seizure of such is. not the coreasonable search and seizure whbich the Constitution forbids. That is a pernicious doctrine which ~has sometimes been taught, that the citizen does not owe obedience to the dispensary law until the .Supreme Court shall have passed upon it and decided its constitutionality or uncon stitutionality. I charge you that it is the duty of every citizen to obey the law as long as it stands upon the stat ute books unrepealed or unannulled by a decision of that court of last resort. it is a matter of common knowledge that the Supreme Court is now consid ering .tbe dispensary act of 1893 in the light of the Constitution. The decision has not yet been filed. It is ours to act in compliance with the law as it now stands. Before leaving thbis subject I shall brieflv advert to this power which is exercised by our courts, circuit and superior, in common with thbe United States Courts-the power, I mean, of rendering laws null and void by declar ing them to be unco>stitutional. Tbis power has been exercised since the rev olution, and strange to say, it is neither inherent in the courts them selves nor w.as it conferred upon them t-y the constitutions which created them. Strictly speaking it is itself au unconstitutional exercise of power. By long co;ntinued and unopposed cus tom it may be said to have become the common law of thbe courts. In the early days of t he Republic the Supreme Court at Washington and other courtsi in natural imitation began to assume this extraordinary but un authorized power, no doubt from the best motives and perhaps because of the necessities of the situation3. It may be that it was simply the perpetuation and expansion of thbe power exercised by the State courts and the privy coun - c:1 in colonial days. for it is a matter of history that the colonial courts would sometimes decide a local Act of Assem bly to be invalid if it was shown to have exceeded the power conferred by in Lor don, acting as Supreme Court of Appeals for all the colonies, decided conflicts between laws and charters. Indeed the learned Judge Coo!ey ob served that it is "worthy of note that the first case in which a legislative en actment was declared unconstitutional and void on the ground of incompati bility with the Constitution of the State, was decided under one of these royal charters," referring to a Rhode Island case. Certain it is no power like this has ever been exercised by the English courts or the courts of any other country. There the legislative body that enacts laws is the only 'body that repeals or annuls them. The ut most that an Euglish court can do when the Acts of Parliament conflict is to declare that the earlier act is set aside as superseded by the latter one. Another rule is thatwhen there is a conflict between an Act of Parliament and a judicial decision the English courts set aside the decision and sustain the acts of Parliament as the higher authority. But whatever be the source of this extraordinary power it certainly is not found in the Constitution. Yet it is exercised by gircuit Judges and Su preme Courts and the work of the leg islative department is rendered of none effect by the judicial department. And it may also be said that the veto power lodged by the Constitution exclusively in the executive is thus assumed by the judiciary. And this in face of the fundamental doctrine that the three departments, the executive, judicial and legislative, must be kept separate and distinct. Thus we have two departments with the power of veto, the Governor and the judiciary, and two departments with the power. to repeal-the legisla tive and the judiciary. This encroach ment by the judicial department upon the powers and prerogatives of the ex exutive and the legislative, utterly without warrant in the constitutions, State and Federal, has gone to greater length than could have been foreseen both here and elsewhere. It seldom attracts the attention of the general public. It is only when, as in the case of the dispensary la.w, a measure which has come home to the people and af fected them closely has been declared null and void, that the peoplefind to their surprise that the writing, "I con cur," by a majoiity of one in a court of three operates as a repeal of the meas ure. In contrast to this simple and sum mary process the formalities attending the passage of the Act: The Introduc tion,;placing on the Calendar, the print ing, referring to a committee, report of committee, first reading, second read ing, third reading, the debate and amendments, the passage by a branch of the General Assembly, the sending to the other branch; there to go through the same formalities, the final passage, the enrolment, ti e approval and signa ture of the Governor. It may be well, it may be wise, to in vest the court with these powers, Lut it is unsatisfactory to consider that it is an usurped and not a conferred power. -If there is to be a Constitutional Cen vention it will be worthy of considera tion whether to confer this power or not. If this great power is to be exer cised by the courts then surely it should be in terms conferred on them by the Constitution. If is to be exercised then should it be in terms denied them. Certainly if it is to be exercised it should bespecifically conferred. Thus would much unpleasant friction be tween the different departments be removed. Then no longer would the anomalous cndition of affairs exist wherein laws stand unrepealed by the only power that can lawfully repeal them-the L.egislature-and yet are cancelled and annulled and rendered inoperative by the judicial department of the government, which constitu tionally has no more power to repeal than it has to enact laws. Memorized speeche. LFrom the Boston Herald.1 Thomas B. Reed has never shown that he possessed the remarkable power of verbal memory that some of our public men have had. Consequently it is not surprising to hear that the speech he delivered at Old Orchard a week ago was quite different from the speech which he had caused to be printed in advance for the use of the .newspapers. Probably Mr. Reed could not deliver a long discourse trom memory if he tried to do it. Few men have this power in the superlative degree which Roscoe Conkling had it. No one equaled him in feats of verbal recitation among our modern public men. When he pre pared a speech of 12,000 words with which to open a campaign it was his habit 'to have it put in type in advance, to memorize it, and then to repeat It word for w..rd before a groat audience. Once he bad a "campaign-opener" in advance in the office, put in type, on the New York "Times" The "Times" reporter took slips of the speech to the Brooklyn Ace.demy of Music, where the speech was delivered, and followed the great orator. He discovered that Mr. Conkling was letter-perfect in the recitation, but that he transposed one passage of considerable length, uttering it at a later time than he had intended, yet not altering a word, and the speech was so divided by topics that this was possible without affecting the force of the argument with the audience. Mr. Blaine had no special power of this kind, and whenever he spoke at much length on any formal occasion he gl ways wrote out what he had to say and read it from manuscript or from the type proof. Among the men now pro muinent there is no one who excels Mr. Cleveland in this power of verbal me mory. Mr. Cleveland can prepare a long address in writing read it over once and then stand up before an audi ence and read it without changing a word. Since Mr. Conkling's time there has been hardly any one prominent in public life who has sought to excel in this woiderful mnentatl secomplish ment. Probably Mr. Wilson, of West Virginia, ca.u do better at it than any other man in Congress. Very Near It. [Harper's Bazar.] "Whby do you call old man Johnson a pirate.?" "He kicked me off the place the other nmght." "That doesn't make a pirate of~him." "Doesn't eh? WVell, what is a pirate but a free-hooter, then?" A 61ood A ppetite. Always - accompanies good health, and an absence of appetite is an indica tion of something wrong. The universal testimony given by those who have used Hood's Sarsaparilla, as to its merits in restoring the appetite, and as a purifier of the blood, constitutes the strongest recommendation that can be urged for any medicine. HOOD'S PILLS cure all liver ills, i illiousness, jaundice, indigestion, sick JAS. D. NANCY CAMP. Tribute.to the Memory or the Late Thos. J. Maffett. The James D. Nance Camp, No. 336, 'U. C. V., met in the courtbouse on Mou day, October 1st. at 11 a. m. Commander J. W. Gary called the Camp to order. The minutes of the last meeting were read and sustained. New members enrolled: A. W. T. Simmons and J. W. M. Simmons. In the absenceof Dr. Holland, ehair man of the committee appointed to raise funds to reimburse the Adjutant for money paid out by him, the Adju tant reported that the money had been raised and turned over to him. The committee was discharged. Rev. E. P. McClintock, chairman of committee to draft resolutions on tbe death of T. J. Maffett, made the fol lowing report: Your committee would report: Ser geant Thomas J. Maffett was born in this county April 25th, 1840, and died at his home at Silver Street, July 30th, 1894. The secession of South Carolina oc corred just as he reached his majority a,nd he was called to consider the claims of the State for his service as a soldier as the first exercise of his you ng manhood. The decision was promptly made and he enlisted in Company C, which soon constituted a part of the Third Regiment of South Caro!inaVol unteers. At the expiration of twelve months he re-enlisted for the war with his regiment. Of robust build and buoyant health he was always ready for the march or the picket post or any other duty or any other hardsbin that came into the experience of the sol dier in the army of Northern Virginia. With the exception of one furlough of thirty days, to bring home for burial the body of his brother, D. S. Maffett, he was not absent a single day from his place in the ranks and rarely if ever missed even a roll call. He stood in his place in all the numerous and hard fought battles in which the Third Reg iment reflected so much honor on South Carolina, and contributed to the world-wide renown for valor and hero ism of the Confederate soldier-valor and heroism that has not been excelled in the,history of any cause or of any soldiery. We append a partial list of the more important battles in which he participated: First Battle of Manas sas. Willia(msburg, the battles around Richmond, Marliand Heights, Sharps burg, Fredericksiurg, Chancel lorsvi Ile, Chickamauga, Knoxville, Spottsylva nia, Petersburg, Cold Harbor and Ben tonville. Some of your committee sustained to Sergeant Mafiett the close relation of messmate throughout the war and recall with great pleasure to-day the uniformly cheerful disposition and genial spirit and many sterling traits of his character as we learned them about the camp fire and on the march a!hd on the field of battle in those four l9ng, long years. When the wa' closed he selected farming as his pursuit and was happily married in 186 to Miss Frances Werts, of Silver Street. In their Drosperous home he spent the rest of h'is days in the enjoyment of the esteem of his neighbors and of a large circle of friends. He always took active inter est. in the affairs of his county and State. We find his name on the roll of this Camp at its organization and you re member that he very generally attend ed your regular meetings, arid took a hearty interest in all your affairs. He was a delegate from this Camp to the meeting of the United Confederate Veterans at Birmingham, Ala., April 25th and 26th of this year, and was present and greatly enjoyed the annual meeting of the survivors of this county the week before his death. In view of these facts we recommend the adoption of the following resolu tions: Resolved, 1. That in the death of Thomas J. Maflett the James D. Nance Camp is called to mourn the loss of a gallant comrade whose record will be cherished as a matter of just and hon est pride. His genial disposition and sol dierly qualities of character greatly en deared him to us his comrades and we we will not allow ourselves to forget his name or to neglect his memory. 2. That we devote a page of our min ute book to his memory. 3. That we assure his wife and daughter of our hearty sympathy in their great loss and sore bereavement. 4. That we direct our secretary- to transmit this paper to his family and a copy to the papers of this county for publication. E. P. MCLNToCK, N. H. YOUNG, -W. G. PETERzSON, M. J. bcoTT', Committee. The report was unanimously adopt ed. The report of WV. W. Riser, chairman of barbecue committee, showed t bat there was still due him for expenses, $21.80. On motion of George Johnstone,Esq., a :ommittee was appointed consisting of 0. L. Schumpert, as chairman, W. Y. Fair and John M. Kinard to solicit subscriptions to reimburse Mr. Riser. On motion the Camp adjourned to meet on the first Monday in January, regular meeting. J. W. GARY, Commander. C. F. BOYD, Adjutant. Best Novels. The Chicogo Inter Ocean offers the fol lowing as an excellent, though limited, list of the best books for one to read: The best historical novel-':"Ivanhoe." The best dramatic novel-"The Count of Monte Cristo." The best domestic novel-"~The Vicar of Wakefield." The best marine novel-"Mr. Midship man Easy." 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An Increase of More than Seven Million in Population and More than Two Billion Dollars in the Assured Value of Property-The Richest and Most Flourishing Part of the Union. [J. K. Upton in Harper's Weekly]. In A pril, 1865, the so-called Sou thern Confederacy yielded to the Union forces, its surviving officers and men returning to peaceful avocations. For four years it had maintained an un equal struggle, sometimes fierce and at all times unremitting. To keep its armies reinforced it had, as was aptly said, robbed the cradle and the grave. Not less exhaustive had been its drain upon the material resources of the eleven States of which it was composed. Failing to obtain official recognition by foreign coun tries, it could not anticipate future revenues by loans, and thus, without credit abroad, it necessarily depended mainly upon its own resources to main tain its armies and to support the wo men and children, the aged and the helpless, within its borders. The sup ply afforded was frequently shared with the invading Union armies, which were constantly going up and down throughout the Confederacy, seeking what they might devour or destroy. Consequently at the close of the contest little of personal estate re mained in this devastated couutry, and of tbe realty, alt bough the soil was left, houses had >een demolished or burned, fences appropriated for camp fires by both armies, and timber used for bridges and fortifications; everywbere there were marks of the ravages which the terrible cyclone of civil war had left upon the land. During the storm the political fabrics of the several States had also toppled over, and they must needs be rebuilt. 'I be entire system of labor had been uprooted, and the colored man, the former laborer, half dazed, was watader ing idly about, not knowing what to do with his newly found freedom. Such were the conditions which con fronted the ex-soldiers of the Con federacy as they reached their homes in that pleasant spring mouth of 186.5, and which presented obstacles hardly less formidable than had been the armies of Grant and Sherman. The ex-soldiers, however, and evidently all concerned, went to work with a will, and of the results of their labor and enterprise the publications of the eleventh census will help to tell. There is perhaps no surer indication of the prosperity of a country than the increase of its population. The follow ing table shows the population of each of the States of the late Confederacy in 1860 and 1890, and the increase therein: POPULATION. State. 1890. 1se0. Increase. Virginla*................ 2.418,774 1,.",318 S22,456 North Carolina...... 1,617,917 $92,622 6:)5,:r25 South Carolina...... 1,s51,149 703,7S 4417.3 t Georgia.................. 1,838.53 1,0567281 780,(Rr, Florida................... 391,422 140'425 27013 Alabama....... .. 1,513,017 W4.211 548,816 Mississippi ............. 1,29,600 1,35 49, 5 Louisiaua .............. 1,118,587 7, 8,012 410,F85 Texa...... ....... 2,235,523 604,212 1.631,311 Tennes;(ee . 1,7ri.51S 1,16U]. 6r,,717 Arkansase... ...........1, 71 5 Total ...........169,009 469,103,32917, 7,303.740 "Included Weest' \irgina. Yrom the above it will be seen that notwiLhstunlding the intervening war, ill less than one generation the popu lation) of the States in question has in creased in the aggregate . per cent, Florida and rkansas.mor than ,4ub ling an Texas9ore6tha tripling their resective ppulation withi ,tha period Excep i ,0th 2newl settled Territoies ofthe 1Wst.thi incre,99i unparllele. It ven4eceed that8of Ttalusy... oth... sections69 the1337 Un,364 ancde prvke cargesofsecaa.g tio h e aboe itnl fro 10een4.2at notwithstadir nly the pnervcentng rate 16penn less than tegenerae inp crasiono the States inoquestin theslate craediThe vlationgae 80o prerety Florid taatin irsasia gerean wayb fig indcatio ore thantrilnig thin ofspecotive pouatiohe wtieo that heollwcpin te showy thettale Terrtuoniso taxbe reestte in ei elnralleederteeventexcs th70ando and 10,the wEgaountas r1th ben arducerity per mcent tobinshm otaos a conealouin.hrscinfteUin slatn in tsavo. Ye 1is 7opla tionh haroinrased4only8from 10,,096 ir860.t..7,01,545.in.180,,7 an increase Alaba80a;277,.or.on.y4,709,r;cent 8-a at 16sisper..cent ..ess 17than,the average,in Trease..in.the.States2composing the7-1late Tese valuation foracedi upo pobetaiy fable buitio the fiursreoteria shondi from 186 tountry0, fie yiear afe the war clod, tasseshowet valuera estevene h ConfederateScyo 180and ahnk 1,16he,amounThs aoru87 eng resuet manl pere assessed vale tofa fore vanyuation. to a eu hr uatnorlstaes te 90 187e0tte f h lat Caoneacyn... 4wo....ob SotheCaont........ge.n..h perio ia s n.......... soesly..raie. Louist hna remembere..............ac gThere... of... xa.le...ope.ty.in.th Cnfedsere States.ee.c..dte..... 3,521,510,6al, of,who evidenly,wer CArk ray fr SOansa........... t,47 1 8 50-the84 Tmoutl............... having061 been 4d,746,s0d Unfrtuente o reethe tof sc val sesda auaintoi1on: owotan AbleSS butLtheIOures rpoedCN shoEta frome 180 o 87,iv yersafer0h binorh fero ces...and91other4 improve Sout deroyed . 7by 19the war,andnot resord 31vyar ate its 9lose. ?t wouldidubtlei 49 safbt saytha e oesiana reueaind beguno tere fullnn80,00,0008a 9 t be asese al-42 laeCnfdrc n1 1830644 w4odpob aby av be (n oi)-but$105, The lotal loss of personal property as sessed for taxation from 1860 to 1870, as as shown by the table, is $1,988,784,213. In this is included the value of slave proyerty, the amount of which 's un known, and can be only approximated. It is noticed that the value of live stock upon farms, and of farm im plements and machinery averages for the years 1870, 1880 and 1890 about one half of the total assessed value of all taxable personal property. The value of such stock, implements and ma chinery in 1860 was $463,750,037, and if this relation held good, then the value of personal property (slives omitted) would have been double the amount, or $927,500,074, which amount taken from the total assessmeut, $2,478,844, 459, leaves as the assessed value of slave property $1,551,344,385, or about $440 per capita. If this result is cor rect, there must then have been a shrinkage of value in the Confederate States betweer 1860 and 1870, of per sonal property taxed, (slaves omitted,) from $927,500,074 to 490,080,240, er$437, 439,82S. This shrinkage, as in the case of real estate, is to the year 1870, not 1805, when the war closed. Considerable of the loss must have been meanwhile re stored, and in this case it is safe to an sume that, exclusive of slaves, there was a loss in the Confederate States of 1iersonal property taxed during the war of $100,000,030 waking the value of assessed personal property in 1865 only $327,500,074. This loss, taken with that of real estate and impr3ve ments, $800,000,000, indicates a total loss to the Confederacy of actual tangi ble assessable property from 1860 to 1865 of $1,400,000,000, and this includes no "consequential damages," arising from the diversion of wealth producing laborers to a consuming and destroy ing soldiery. A comparison of the assessed wealth of the Confederacy in 1865 (at the close of the war) and in 1890 may therelore be thus stated: CLASS OF PROPERTY. Real estate..................S2,278,790,61J $1,054,913,783 Personal Property...... 1,243,046,448 -327,500,047 Total .................... $3.511,37,(61 S1,382.413,757 It will be seen that the loss of $1,400, 000,000 in assessed values accruing from the war has been not only fully re stored but that the assessed value of property taxed in 1800 was $729, 423,304 in excess of that of like property in 1860. The gain of $2,129,423, 394 in the as sessed value of taxed property between 1865 and 1890 is the result of the efforts of ex-Confederate soldiers and tneir associates, and is, indeed, a victory of more renown than war could possibly have given. Except in recently settled portions no such increase is recorded elsewhere in the country. It repre sents a gain of 153 per cent. while that of the North Atlantic division of the census has meanwhile been but 134 per cent. It will be noticed that the values stated are generally those given to tax able property for purposes of taxation. The rapidly increasing value of in dustries in the Confederate States is well shown in the followirg table. CHARACTLR OF INDUSTRY, Live stock, value of $415,007,709 "L7,8,601 Farm lands, fences and buildings, value of............... 2,009,305,0 I,0,7S,493 Manufacturing p rod u e ts, total value of. ................. 579,9,155 150,46! P I Manufacture of cot, ton, va 1 ue of............ 40,161,,074 7,850,142 I r iih potatoes, bushels of................ 12417:369 6,617,662 Indian corn. bu.,hels of........ ..................... 319,4.51802 282,6.j-8 Oats, busuls of........ 50,W129 1c,! ,02 Butter. pounds ..... - Hay, ions 0?............ 0.47 168,7 M ule.s and asses, number of........... ,5 2 1,3 Cotton bales, numi ber.................. 7,2..0 635,0 Horss, nmbe 01. 40 ,65,074 170423 Theearelyinresedvaue 417n9168970 abovethoseof 51 ,802 only,6n7.ar8 hiches faile to.. estab,ish thei 42,6pend eegovrgent havcreaseed uinder9 thoe old of quite asow asnly ofnthert the pacpty inreaseeliventhheensr, bu hich they thay nwlhstanod.n h cbaneduetod of itsabop, heestu tnand copriasofar the tatesrc wad bcomfaiedsablgis.hiidpn e goeduanmntatisticspereviounder the8ol fauie wery sasatoy for anyi pistes of the Union, but he elevcord cefu prospeit exniteletss ofon ofwuicco h othey mayrwthebeSproed ofts orsn the late Confederacy aebe made,commendable 180gainst664,0 Ten indthatio decasicsalon oue. Th8 ae lltvero1yascoyfo aey0 ovr of the States butae aldereasth 051 notithstamnsholso the etrates of populatioe Thneercetae ofber sons,over810 yers 890 agabeto6,69,80 for write0i 188 ai 43, inr 1ha90 ut32 centdi th imrdeen asle. enac compliheratout the yaid of puelir landerants otherae haritis. erae innm ewrinate Elshecd. 15 051 notitsed ingr the -lane ncras stitoution. Thpecnaeopr Sonhoer fainter uonfi ageatouread She sated 1880swas upo n 1890 btr32, She hipprehmeunt hs reun.a opise about the aid wofwa ul tingdowrantmr tera harmiest. He kissed her pasionAtlant upone tunel.faente n Mhica eprtr. She feelcpled heslfuo hisetering.th -Aia.Democat.ord This queione his otn bi etrn nearlyantn akeed. showl abe,utat eocaswion was hurt foni n tefrac s?-Ralwa codiine. h pen kiced the tm iso this useto tring on.-armoeria amancis is tough heuatiown upowher He expede tasoneaelab apndhe areabe?an-ackonireduveti be expecdgo beootpatj wandshotinayh tuneay-Wstearnn Medica? Teponlyr atChcaue. Dsesa huai iWue beloo anpeld toeer tbe yie toWHody SIsaparilo Irristabwhyet" efTive tquilnie a eafu nds temper and aireveniltise ofte doei qouarrels phsca oniio f h A TALK WITH MRS. PEARY. She Expects to go Back to Greenland for Her Husband Next Summer. WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.-Mrs. Peary, the plucky wife of the Arctic explorer, who arrived in Washington yesterday and is now at her mother's home, cor rected some impressions about the Peary expedition to-day. "I am at a loss to understand the stories that are printed about the scar city of food," she said. "There was plenty of provisions, and only once, in last May, when the weather was too bad for the hunters to go out after deer for two or three days, did the supply of deer meat run out. Then we had seal meat. No, it is not so bad when pro perly cooked, but I shouldn't like it as a steady diet. The sealers consider it excellent, however. We had an abuu dance of vegetable and farinaceous food and plenty of tea and coffee, and really I cannot overcome my surprise at the ridiculous stories about the shortage. "I left Lieut. Peary witb a plentiful supply of everything. Together we went over the food and made an in ventory of everything, and if anything had been needed it would have been furnished from the ship's stores before the Falcon left. I did not want to come back. I regretted leaving very much." "What kind of a winter did you have?" "It was terrific. The storms were indescribable. The loss of a portion of our oil supply made our experience harder than it would otherwise have been. We lost half our oil supply, and were compelled to put up with short rations of fuel. This made every one more or less miserable, and in such a state of nervousness, you know, a per son is liable to make mountains out of little things that would not be noticed if good spirits prevailed. "It is a mistake," Mrs. Peary went on, "to allude to my husband as a seeker for the North Pole. His object has been, and still is, to delineate the north coast of Greenland. "Will you return to your husband next year?" "That depends upon tie American people," responded the energetic wo man with a cherry smile. "My hus band and I have about reached the end of our resources in outtitting expedi tions, and have expended something over $50,000. I have made no plans yet. If it is possible I shall fit out a ship nextsummer and ret urn to Greenland." "The baby," she added with a bright, motberly glance in her eyes when the reporter inquired about Miss Marie, "was never sick a day in her life until we reached St. John's, and some of the party jokingly said that civilization did not agree with her. I am inclined to think it was stale condensed milk and the change of water and the warm weather. Shv is getting along very nicely now." Mr. Herbert L. Bridgman of Brook lyn, who was a member of Peary Auxi liary Expedition, has a leading article in the the Standard-Union on anony mous statements purporting to be made by some members of the Peary party. These statements are to the eflect that the party suffered considerably from the insufficiency of food and fuel. Mr. Bridgman says: . The story about the short supply qf food is materially affected by the fact that six months' provisions for the in land ice party of eight men were cached at the end of the march, 125 miles, and could have been recovered at any time, had there been any real necessity togo after them, and by the further fact that in another cache near the headquarters, 2,600 pounds of untouched provisions were stored. Many men in Brooklyn, whbo get fresh meat at one meal a day, do not feel called upon to complain of. hardship or of short rations. The glass roof of Anniversary Lodge and the coal oil did not prove the success which was expected. But the results scarcely rise above the importance of minor annoyances. The truth of the matter seems to be that until the return of the party, baffled and disapp'ointed, from t,he in land ice, everything went well, and enthusiasm and courage were at high (ide. Subsequent to that event, when it became tabvious that the hopes of the expedition for a brilliant success were, to a degree, frustrated, repining and dissatisfaction took the not unnatural form of com plaint and critIcism towards the leader. Lieut. Peary's own record is the best answer to all objections. He has asked none of his men to go where he has not led; has shared their rations from first to last; has returned every man who wished to come in good health and good order to his home, and has remained at his post to make another, and doubtless successful, attempt upon the inland ice. What Every Lover Thinks. That the maid that he woods is the fairest Of all that the solemn stars see; That her voice is the richest and rarest Of all that have been or will be; That her step when she walks is the lightest That her movements are made with more ease Than the flag's when it nods to the zephyr, Or fern's whben it bends to the breeze. Thbat her tresses by far are sleekest E'er seen since the launch of the ark; And her eyes when she sighs are the meekest Thbat ever made mankind their mark; Thbat her brow is the noblest and purest That Time, the gray scribe, e'er wrote on, And her lips when she smiles just the sweetest A lover's e'er feasted upon. IThat the tenetsshe holdsare thesound est Of which this old world ever heard. And her logical lore the profoundest Though others may deem it absurd; That the songs that she sings are the dearest Of gems ever strewed upon earth; And she of all treasures the grandest Since treasures and pleasures had birth. -ALFRED E. HOSTELLEY. No License Won in Ai kansas by 1,933. LrrrLE ROeK, Ark., September 27. The cowr.plete returns on the liquor license question in the recent State elec tion have been certified tc the Secretary of State. The vote stands: For license, 47.622; against license, 49,595, a majority against the continuation of our liquor traffic of L.933. Con fusion as to the choice of a blood purifier is unnecessary. Thbere is but one best Sarsaparilla, and that is Ayer's. This important fact was recognized at thbe World's Fair, Chicago, 1894. being the only blood-puritier admitted to be plceoasn exh ibition. GEORGIA'S MAJORITY REDUCED. Atkinson, Democrat, EWected Governor by About 20,000 X*Jority. ATLANTA, Oct. 3.-W. Y. Atkinson, Democrat, was elected Governor of Georgia to-day by a majority largely reduced from that given to Governor Northen two years ago. The best returns At midnight-Indicate a full vote, but a fallingoff of certainly fifty per cent. of the Demoeratie ma jority. Gov. Northen received in 1890, 140.492 votes, against 68,990 for Peek, Populist. If Atkinson has 30,000 ma jority to-day it is more than his most sanguine friends hope for. It is more likely to fall to 20,000. In the campaign which led up to the Democratic nomination the young De mocracy ran the Confederate veterans out of the party by the. personal war which they conducted against their favorite, Gen. Clement A. Evans. He was lampooned by .the Atkinson men, who said it was time for crutches to be relegated to the rear. The nomiuation of Atkinson was so distasteful to the veterans that fully 15,000 of them bolted the Democratic ticket to-day and voted for James K. Hines, the Populist nominee. In addition to this the speeches of Secretary Hoke Smith in advocacy of Mr. Cleveland's financial-policy had the effect of driving away many free silver men. An instance of Confede rate discontent was exhibited to-day in one of the city wards of Atlanta, when the Rev. Dr. T. H. Cleveland, the well-known Presbyterian preacher and the Chaplain ef the Fulton County Veterans' Association, approached the polls. He picked up a Democratie ticket, and folding Mr. Atkinson's name, was about to tear it off. Major Bob Guinn approached and asked him to vote the straight ticket. Dr. Cleve land fisally said: "I can't swallow Atkinson without some help. ie's a bitter pill for me. Get me a glass of water." The water was brought, and as the doctor shoved his ballot in he shut his eyes and took a big swallow of water. "There now," he exclaimed, "I've swallowed Atkinson bodily, but I had to wash him down with a glass of water." One of the surprises of the campaign was the heavy Populist vote given in Fulton County, in which Atlanta is situated. The normal Democratic ma jority is 4,000. It looks at midnight as if Atkinson would do well! if he gets 500 majority. To show the drift of counties, Dougherty, which gave Nor then 900 majority, gives Atkinson only 400. Floyd reduces her Democratic ma jority from 1,000 to 600. Pike torns over and gives a Populist majority. vconee increases her Populist majori ty 250. Grantville, in Atkinson's ham county, gives Hines 91, against 105 for Atkicson. The Populist campaign in Georga was not run upon the wild Western plan, but upon thoroughly conserva Uve lines. The negro counties of South Georgia vote Demoeratic,-4Atg4be biggest majorities. Col. Hines to-night thiuks the-returns so close that he de clines to give up the race. The discomfiture of the Democratic majority, however, may-truthfully-be laid to the disaffection of the Confede rate veterans. Mr. Atkinson led the movement in the Legislature which rejected the acceptance of the Confede rate Veteran's Home, for which the late Henry W. Grady had collected the sum of $50,000. The building is now going to ruin, while ex-Attorney-General Ely, a Con federate veteran, is an inmate of the county poorhouse, within sight of the building which the people had erected for such men as he. INFORMATION. -China has at last one radway, the short line conecting Tien-tsin with Shan hai-kwan. -The area of theUnited States is sligt ly over 3,000,000 square miles, excludn -A French electrician has invented a fish-catching net with an electric light to attract them. -It is the boast of Germany that she psessthe greatest number of political parties, there beingnoless than thirty-two. -The aerial space within the limit of our vision is calculated to have a diameter of 420,000,000 miles, and a circumference 1,329,742,000,000 miles. -It has been computed that the death rate of the globe is 68 per minute 97,790 per day, or 35,7t7,790 per year. The birth~ rateis 70 per minute -It is computed by a Scotch paper that there are now enog paupers in Great Britain to form four areast, a pro cession considerably over 100 miles in length. -It is said that an elephant has been taught to take up the "collection"in some of the Hindu temples. It goes around with a basket extended from the trunk, -One of the greatest natural curiosities in Central America is a water volcano, in Guatemala. Its apex is 14,450 feel above the level of the sea, and cultivated fields and forest trees extend almost to to its summit. It occasionally vents forth~ torrents of pure, cold water. -The substituton of camels as working animals for horses and oxen is going on rapidly in many parts of Bussia. In some provinces the only horses in use are for riding or driving to light vehicles. The camel is clumsy, but for heavy hauling he is admirable. -The latest invention of the watch making industry is the application of phonography. A 6eneva wahmakei has replaced the ringing machinery of watches and alarms by plaques in vul-. canized rubber, upon wich are engraved a series of words, which are spoken as by a phonograph when the vibrating point passed over the plaques. -A French statistician says that the nm.naber of men and women in France is more nearly*equal than in any other couan try of the world, there being only 1,007 woman to 1,000 men. In Switzerland there are 1,064 men to 1,000 women, and in Greece only 933. In Hong Kong, ac cording to this authority, there are 36 women to 1,000 men. -The total number of newspapers pub lished in the world at present is estimated at about 50,000. United States and Can ada, 20.933; Germany,6,000; Great Britian, 8,000; France, 4,300, Japan, 2,000; Italy, 1,500; Austria-Hungary, 1,200; Asia, ex. elusive of Japan, 1,000; Spain, 850; Bussia, 800; Australia 800; Greece, 600; Switzer land, 450; Holland, 300; Belgium, 300 ; all others, 1,000. Of these more that half are printed in the English language. Identified. Toots-Is Miss Florence at home? Maid-Let me seered hair, turn-up nose, no moustache to speak of-yes, sir; come right in. _ To remove the constipated habit, the only safe treatment is a course of Ayer's Pills, followed by a laxative diet. Most other cathartics do more harm than good, therefore leading physicians recommend Ayer's Pills,escalysa family physic,ee.ill s NlEWiflOilS! EW gOODS! ]Uf.?Ft Gook a .RA AM NOW RECEIVING MY NEW line of Fall and Winter Under wear, Hosiery, Gloves, Handker chiefs, 8uspenders, -Collars and Cuffs, Overshirts, Night Shirts, Unlaundried Shirts, Laundried Shirts, Cotton Flan nel Drawers, Teck Scarfs, Four in Hands- and Windsor Scarfs, Also stylish Hats for young men and old men which- will offer to the trade at a-Ittlein advance-of whol EverytMiag 1New, No old stoek of shelf-worn goods at ao price A great-many express sur prise that I am able to se- goods so chep. But beginning on the eve of the Democratic reduction of the Tariff, and having the advantage of being on the inside where I could get the bene fit of these reductions for my custom ers, and having my expenses figured down to the very lowest notch, I have been-able,to make extraordinary low prkes:on my goods, and am figuring on closer profits than even now to meet the expectations of the trade this Fall. Remember.that I sell strictly for eash, bat that you pay no fancy prices for anything at my store. Come -and see me-in my new store room in the Post office building "Ginco and Luxus." 9 We like for our customers to have the best things that money will buy and to give them a good cigar when they-want a smoke. We have placed on sale The Celebrated "Cinco" Cigar at -e, six for 25e; and "Luxus" at 10c or three for25e. These are manufactured' by Otto Elsenlohr & Bros., Philad phia,. and are regarded the best made, and retailed at 5e and 10c. Stop In and trY them while waiting for your mall. A. . JONES, New Postoffle Building, - Newberry, S. . These are stubborn facts that touch us all. We are doing all in our .power to lighten the burden. Now notice This we will to sell all classes of Dry Goods, Shoes, Millnery, Notions, and Furnishing Goods at from 10 to25 Per Cent Less Tia Old cos. Don't take this statement for it but come in and let us show you to prove It. Come whether you buy or not. See and be convinced. If the above statement is not in all particulars entirely true, don't buy a cent's worth from us. New Jewelerse W7E HAVE CAST OUR LOT IN VTwith the people of Newberry, and respectfully solicit a share of your patronage. We shball keep a nice lot of We have the la igest stock of Specta ee this side of Atlanta, and we ate prepared to fit the most difficnlt caass of eragedvision that Spectacles will' benefit. With an experience of twenty-five years at the bench, we are comrnt, to do all kinds of Watch, Cokand Jewelry repairing, and especially so licit hard job that other jewelers have failed on. DANIELS &CO., LAt Dr. Hale's Drug Store.