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1tt anb ets. ESTABILISUED 1865. _____ ___NEWBERRY. S. C., FRIDAY, S PT EMBER 17,1897. THEI DISPENsA4Y. What Newberryis teprcteentatives Haye to "ay on the sUbjeO In At,swer to The News and Courier. The Charle r1owe atid'Courier pVa M dothe following ques t members of the General D0o yoithink the 'dispensary law < Ill stand as at present? If not, c hat is your solution of the mat- r Or?" Representative John F. Banks of I his county haa sent that.journal the e ollowing repl). With- regard to the dispensary, I E olieve that It has practically solved v he questini as to the best method I f controlling the whiskey business, r ut I am convinced that in its pres- a ent shape it cannot stand. The . trouble is not in the system, but in the de4ils of its management. The constAbulary force is objectionabl t both to Conservatives, and, I beli , a majority of Reformers. _The coun- t ty boards of contro) colta great deal ii ~ ratkatr--hoj are worth. They I re sinecure positions and should.be t abolished. The people are not able : to understand why every officer in the State and county, connected with e the dispensary, should not be elected a by the people. If this privilege had c been allowed the people it is quite c probable that such a cry of dishones- 'j ty and corruption would have never v been raised, or if raised would fix a the responsibility for bad selection a on the people, where all such re- t sponsibility justly belongs and should rest. I do not believe in county manage- 1 ment of the whiskey business, for if C there is dishonesty and corruption c now, there would be tenfold more 1 room for it in bounty management. t High license would be a serious e imistake. The characters for whose t benefit it is proposed, would have whiskey at any cost, and the poor E women and children who suffer more I or less under any whiskey law would a be left utterly without protection. t For if it took a week's wages of his family to buy a drink the toper t would have it. As it is he has a lit- i tle left. Take away the constables, abolish the county boards of control, let any one order whiskey who wishes to do so, without any restriction, take the expense entailed by the employment j of constables and county boards of control, and all other expenses possi ble from the price of other expenses possible fro mthe price of dispensa ty.qhiske7; koep for sae any kind of whiskef which people want, quality proportionate to demand, and no constables would be needed to sup press blind tigers. (They would die the death of starvation and no whiskey would be ordnred.) Let the people elect every officer connected with the dispensary and make the minimizing of the traffic the primary and profit the incidental object, and every class of people would, be brought to support the law, without which support no law can stand. If any constables - should be needed they would be bettdr employed to wiltch illicit dlistilleries and illicit distilling, (for there is doubtless much illicit distilling and dodging and evasion in distilleries recognized as legal,) and the Federal offieere, charged with their suppression, through whose connivance and bribery alone, blind tigers could live under the above management. HAS NOT MADE UP 1118 MIND. jNewberry, S. C.: I scarcely know how to answer your second question. There are very serious doubts in my mind as to whether or not the die penisary law will stand as at pres ent. Should the Supreme Court of the United States sustain the dec,ision of Judge Simonton material changes will follow. Should the decision be; reversed no important changes will! be0 made. Should there be no deci sion of the Court before the General Assembly meets in January next, and should the dispensfry prove un profitable in the meantime on ac * count of the sharp competition with which It will.have to contend, I be lieve that a high license law, in ac cordance with the restrictions of the RitO 0004itution, will be passed. I in It mean to say by this, however, hqf, I shall vote for such a law, as I lave not fully made up my mind a to what is best.to be done. ARTHUR KIBLER. A VISIONARY SOMME. Prosperity: As to the dispensary I lo not believe that the legal status I the question will remain perma ently, as stated by Judge Simonton. Juder this law-making decision we ave the ridiculous spectacle of a itizen from another State engaging 2 the retail liquor business in this tate without fee or license, a right, rhich is denied to citizens of this Itate. 'Yhis is absurd and cannot emain. the law of the land. The nalysis or inspection feature of the i6pensary law, in my judgment, is ot sufficiently appreciated by many. I know that some regard thi fea are. as. a farce and say that we have npure, adulterated whiskey, sold in [ie dispensaries. If this be true it i o fault of the law, but the fault ea'in the execution of the law. If rue, some officer and officers should e punished. 'The law should be as vigorously nforced against officers of the law s against other citizens. I think nly the purest and least harmful f alcoholic liquors should be sold. 'he dispensary should not be run as money-making institution, but it hould be conducted in such manner a will best subserve the interests of he people of the State. This analysis and inspection idea hould be carried further. We hould adopt a method of inspecting ur supplies of flour, baking pow ers, meals, etc. Medicines should e analyzed and if they are not what hey purport to be they should be xcluded from the State. As an in Dlligent friend of mine expresses it: It is passing strange that we are o careful about the analysis of the Drtilizers we put in the ground and o indifferent about the nature of the hings we put into our stomachs." I believe governmental control of he whiskey business is bettet than adividual license, but if a license Fw is established I will endeavor to ncorporate a rigid analysis provision a it. C. T. Wyont, Member, Newberry. VuHEAPEN WHIsKE Y. Board of Control Reduces the Grade of XX. A Big Order. [Special to Greenville News.] Columbia, S. C., Sept. 9.-The tate board of control today gave >rders for 1,200 barrels of liquor. They decided that hereafter they vould spIt a grade of liquor to be abelled 95 per cent., which would 'edu3e that proof fromn 100 per cent. o XX goods. They think that XX ~oods ,reduced to 95 per cent, and old at X prices would better suit he people. They will not interfere vith the regular 100 proof goods of C and XX goods. 'Beer privileges were granted to )illon. Judge'Simonton has indicated that te will hear the original package lases on the 16th. The (Game Proceeded. In the summer of 1840 Henry 3Iay went to Kentucky on his va sation. Three nights after his ar ival at a certain spring a sociable game began. In the game were Mr. Clay, Josiah Blackburn, John Hardin, and Sam 31ay, a cousin of the statesman. It egan on Friday night and ran along with varying luck. They wvere old lands and had the nerve to back heir cards. At 12 o'clock on Saturday night Blackburn quit, a little ahead. He iad been married only two months,. md was afraid his young wife would hlink he was (lead. Sunday morn. ng at 9 o'clock some one rappod on ~he door. It was opened, and a ne ~ro girl stood in the hail. She had i clean shirt in hem hand, and on the bosom was a note from Hardin's wife: "For Mr. John Hardin where aver he can be found." The door was closed and the play resumed. Hardin chapged his linen at the table. OVEHDOINO TIE BUOINKS. How the Christian Denoninations Fight One Another in Their struggle Against Satan. (J. H. Ecob in Independent.) Consider, for example, the waste fulnoss of the denominational sys tom in this State of Colorado. Let it be distinctly understood that this State is in no wise exceptional. Our State missionaries, I know them, are faithful, able, laborious, godly men. They are vitims of the system. The Methodists: Baptiste, Presbyterians, Congregationalists and Christians have separate systems of missions. The Catholics and Episcopalians have their own peculiar State work. The two latter deneninations are not considered in this article. Five State missionaries are buoy traveling over the State looking after denomi national interests. One good man with an assistant could do all the work; but it must be remembered that those men do not have separate parts of the State assigned them, but th'ey follow each other in the same track. Let us take a concrete case. Here is a little village of four hun dred inhabitants, It "has a future." Accordingly all the denominations are eager to get a foothold there. We find a Congregational church of fif toen members, a Methodist church of twelvo members, a Baptist church of twenty members, a Preibyterian church of six members, a Christian church of three members; and very likely the place is visited by an Epis copalian and a Catholic priest who hold services occasionally in private houses. This is no uncommon case. Five or six State missionaries are employed to look aftdr this little hamlet. They come in Indian file, treading upon one another's heels. One man could do the work as well. The salaries of these men with their expenses average two thousand dol lars a year. That is a very conserv ative estimate. Here on this one item is an expenditure of twelve oi fifteen thousand dollars where three or four would be ample. Then each of these forlorn little churches must have a pastor. Here again is a waste of men and money, five or six-fold above what is either necessary or be noficent. Then comes the question of housing these little churches. This is, if anything, the most exasperat ing part of the problem. Instead of one commodious, well-appointed house of worship which would meet the demands of so small a community and at the same time compel their admiration and respect, we have threo or four, possibly tive or six, wretched little structures, that are a travesty on the name of church. Here likewvise the waste is manifold. Nowv, if one wishes to see the con dition of the Weost he has but to multiply this typical case by thous ands and tens of thousands. It is my deliberate judgment that the West is as badly overchurched as the East. The work of the next ton years ought to be that of thinning ont churches rather than planting more. To ap)preciate that statement we ne(d only recall the,experience of the famous Yale Band. Word went out that a nuniber of the choic est young mien of the graduating class of Yale Seminary had offered themselves to the b)oard of home mis sions with the express understand ing that they wore to be sent into the gestitute regions of the Weat. The religious press rang with praises for this devoted band. Glowing p)ro phecie's for the future of home <nis sions filled the air. The story wats rehearsed joyfully in the churches. What was the sequel ? Two of these young heroes weore sent to the Pacif ic slope. One of them was assigned to a forlorn little church which was struggling for the breath of life with four or five other forlorn little churches in the forloin little town. lie was no moro needed 'there than he was oIl t5th avenue in New York. In the bitterness of his soul he pub. lished his protest: "That letter cost us thirtj thousand dollars." There lies a logical genesis for your mis sionary debts. I have recently, in terviewed the other young man, He assured me that he had a precisely sinAilar fate. He was set to Aght a fruitless, worthless, denominational battle in a little place which was al ready churched to death. A State missionary recently assured me that he had known of several instances whero churches had been formed of two members. Four is considered a fair number, and eight or ten is thought to be a "most promising field." These State missionaries are placed in a false position. They must look after the interests of their denomination in the State. The home board expects it. The home board itself is in a false attitude, for it must make a good showing to the churches. The churches are in the same false relations to their sister churches; for must they not hold their own in the great denomination. al fight? So the wasteful, destruc tive, immoral warfare goes on. Take JOHNSON'S CHILL & FEVER TONIC.. aeQ HONS OF VETERANh. A Ueral Order Issued by (Ion. M. L. Don haln, Com,mander this DIvIsIon. Headquarters South Carolina Divi sion, United Sons of Confederate Veterans Anderson, S. C., Sept. 4, 1807. General Orders No. 5: The com manding officer desires to congratu late the division on the outcome of the meeting held at Greenville on the 25th of August, ultimo. Despite the fact that but a short notice had been given of this meeting, and in spite of the fact that several of the cainps had but just been organized, there were fourteen camps repre sented by delegates, and there were present from camps and unattached a large iumber of Sons of Veterans. The delegaes were apparently deep ly impressed with the honor and dignity of our cause; the personnel of the delegattes was admirable and the intelligent interest displayed, in all. the proceedings was marked. That the meeting has resulted in good to the Order has been made manifest by the fact that since it was held there have been organized two vigorous camps, at Pendleton and Seneca, and several more are in process of formation. Gen. Smyth, commander-in-chief, was present, and it goes without saying that his wise counsel and his experience went far to make the meeting successful and interesting. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Major Gennral of division, M. L. Bonham; briga dier general 1st brigade, F. H. Mc. Master; brigadier general 2d brigade, C. A. Durham; brigadier general 3d brigade, F. F. Capers. The next annual meeting will be held in Charleston at the time of the meeting of the Veterans. The ad vantage of thus meeting with these old heroes will be fully understood and appreciated by those of us who were at the meeting in Greenville. At this meeting the Sons of Vete rans were pledged to raise the sum of $150 to aid the old Veterans to rear a monument to the women of the Confederacy. This will neccessi tate a contribution from each camp of $10, but camps are not restricted to this amount. This sum can be raiped by camps in the way most convenient to them. When the amount has been contributed let it be sent to t1he adjutant general of 'this division,1who will'forward it to the persons having the matter in hand. It is felt that it is wholly necessary' to urge upon the chivalric Sons of the Veterans of South Caro lina the sacred nature of thme dluty of thus doing honor to the memory of the self-sacrificing women of the South. The division staff will remain as at, present constituted until further orders, By order M. L. Bonham, Com manding Division. Official: H. 1L. WatkIns, Adjutant General. HALE WRITES TO ARP EDUIAN OV LONO AUO NOW lIVINO IN TUNNENEK. lie Asks About the Cherokees-Reanmbers Houlfluot and When a Boy Played in tho Indiss' Printing OMe. I thought that almost everybody was dead but me, ei.eiially since Judge Clark died, the man of momo. rios, the historian, the jurist, the amiable and lovable citizen. I want his book as soon as Mrs. Wyly has it published. I know it will be a treasure to the old people, and should be to the young. I thought that all my contemporaries who were familiar with the public affairs of fifty and sixty years ago were dead, but I was mistaken. Quito a flood of historic letters have come to me of lato from venerable and schol arly men who have awakened from their long retirement and write me some most interesting recollections of men and events of bygone days. What careful, artistic ponianship illumines most of these letters, ro minding me of my father's, and John McPherson Barrion's, and Henry U. Jackson's and others who were trained to write by the school. masters of the olden time. Hero ie a long and scholarly lot ter from Mr. S. P. Halo, of Madison ville, Tenn., who is now in his soventy-fourth year, and whose father was an officer in the army that moved the Cherokoos beyond the Mississippi river. It took many months for the soldiers to gather these Indians togother, for they kept in hiding as long as 1possible, and while this was going on Mr. Hale's father and his family wore lo cated at New Echota, in what is now Gordon county. "We lived," says Mr. Halo "in a house that my father rented from Boudinot and he pur chased from him many articles of handsome furniture, among which was a heayy folding leaf dining table made of cherry wood and fin ished in artistic style. This table has been in the family over since and is now in my house, and on it we eat our humble meals three timos a day. Iprizo it highly as a souvo nir of my childhood, for I was then only twelve years old. I remember well seeing Mr. Boudmnot and John Ridge and other notable Indians in conference there. Ridge was tall, erect and copper-colored; nose equil ine, eyes black and piercing and hair straight, black and coarse. He dressed like a white man and spoke broken English fluently. His father was an Indian and his mother a half breed and he was educated at a Mo ravian mission school. "B3oudinot was rnot so tall, but was a heavier, broader man wvith at tractive features and polished man nors. He dressed stylishly, wore a tall silk hat and spoke English in its purity. He published a w paper at New Echota mn the Indian dialect and we boys did often play with the type. lBoudinot, whose In dian name wvas Charles Vann, was of mixed blood, and while at the mission school attracted the atten tion of Elias Bloudinot, a wvealthy gentleman of Phildelphia, who adopted him and gave him hie Hum guenot name. This is the samo philanthropist who was the founder and first president of the American Bible Society and gave it $10,000 to start on. His will contained many bequests to charity and among them one of $2,000 to provide spectacles for poor old women. "But can you tell mue anything of Paschal- Lieutenant Paschali. I think he was a Georgian. He was there at New Echota on Gieneral Wood'f staff as aide do camp and came there with Captain Derrick's company from Daniholega. Hoe fell 4esperately in love withI John Itidg'E only daughter, Sarah, a beautiful andi lovely girl, and the best horso-wo man I ever saw. He courted hei and married her there. Thliey spent some time at our house and thoiu marriage was quite a romantic epi sode in our monotonous life. D)ur ing their courtship she one day ox press'ed a desire to ride my father'i horse, "Muckle John," a steed o blood and nattle. My father relnn tantly consontod and for her safety had a bridle with a very severe bit put on him. Paschal was mounted on a fast Indian pony and they wore soon away and out of sight. They rode five or six miles to the big spring, and when about to return the happy, laughing girl proposed to swap bridles and lot Muckle John go as fast as ho plosod. Paschal tried to oxchango without her dis. mounting, but the moment Muckle John found his mouth free ho gave a snort aud started home on a wild canter. In vain did Paschal try to override his sweetheart. It was a John Glpbn race and Mucklo John never slackened his speed until he reached the horso block whore his .ider had mounted. Sho was wild with laughter and excitement and declared it was the finost rido of her life and that when the horso got tired she lashed him on. But poor Pas chal did not for a long time recovor from the shock for ho feared lie would never soo his darling alivo any moro. "Paschal and his brido went west, and many years ago I road some. thing about a Judge Paschal out in Texas. Is he the same man ?"' I suppose that lie was, for lPaschal did live in Toxas several yoars and pIblished a papor in Austin, and in 1859 contributed largoly to the oloc tion of his friend, Sam Hlouston, an Governor. IIe settled first in Ar. kansas and practiced law and sooni won distinction and was elected judge of the supromo court in 1841. In 1809 lie removed to Washington city and founded the law department of Georgetown University and bo came its prosident and thore recoivoI the degroo of LL.D. Ho publishot and compiled many law books anI also wrote a biography of Gon. oral Sam Houston. It is with pridc that we give this sketch of this not able and gifted man, for lie was i Georgian born in Groono County educated at fercer and admitted t< the bar in 1832 at Washington, it Wilkes County. Hoe died in 1878 I wonier if there woro any Iiquadroo children born to his Indian wife. Nt doubt lie has rolatives living in Ueor gia who can tell. In perusing these ancient record I find that Governor Troup, th noblest Roman of them all, was full-blood cousin to that famous In dian chieftain, General William Mc Intosh, and that the Gonoral's fatho was, as is usual, a Scotchman wh took an Indian wife Governor Troup' mother and McIntosh's father woer brother and sister. McIntosh wa chief of the Crooks and like Rtidg and B3oudinot was assassinated1 fo signing the treaty that ceded thm Creek lands to Georgia. I tell yor those Scotchmen, or Scotch-irish, am George Adair calls them, wore o the wild hunt for Indian wives an they had the pick and took the bon of them. Even Osceola was the so of a Scotchmnan. Maybe my frion George Adair has a streak of inju blood( in himi, who knows. If Eva Howell hasn't, then all signs faili the face. It is sad to realize that in a fo' years mhro not a man or woman wi be left who mingled-with the aborig nal owners of Georgia soil--thos Creeks and Cherokees and Meminoloi who gave kind welcome to our ar costors, only to bo desoI)ilO(d of thei homes-not a muan left to tell of thoi trials and tribulations. Big John Underwood, the Rtoma runagee, who fled from the foul ir vador and for lack of any botth transportation drove a steer in tli shafts of a one-horse wvagon, arid f< lack of harness bored a hole throug the dlashboard and dlrow the bteor tail through and tied the 01nd in knot, used to tell me many storii abont the Indians, for he livc among thonm away back in the :30 lie, too, tried to marry an Indin maiden, but he was niot a Scotchmr and couldont shoot the crossbow n< the long bow and1( so sheo wouldri have him. Thheo Indians had gwe admiration for the archer's skill. remember visiting the wigwam of old Indian on Sawny's mountai near Cumming, GIa. I, too, was thi .. n lad of twntv vnnrs and got il old man's grandsons to shoot for mr.e and my young cousins. Splitting the upper end of a small stick that was about three foot long, I inserted a silver quarter in the split and stuck the other end in the ground. At thirty yards the boys would hit the quarter with an arrow almost every time, and, of course, I gave it to them. How did they ever learn to do this? I asked of the old man. They begin, he said. almost as soon as they can walk. First they shoot at a big troo, and then a smaller one, and thou a still smallor one, and keep on from year to year until they can knock out a squirrol's eye. In 1846 I visited an uncle in Smith County, Mississippi, and found a romnant of the Chickasaws there. They were friendly and ktnd and very export in killing deer by shin. ing their eyes at night. My cousins and I went with them one night., but unhappily they shined the eyes of a yearling calf that belonged to one of the neighbors and shot him. It mortified and troubled them very much, but as they wont hunting on our account, we quioted their fears by paying for the calf the next day. I forgot to mention that Elias Bloudilnot, the philanthropistt, wrote a very learned troatiso to provo that the Indians of North Ameriva all de sconded from the lost tribos of Israel, and his book mado many converts to that beliof. And now the sad news comes that Gonoral Avory is dead-mny genial, loving friend of forty years-a man Whiom1 I always lov1d to mot whether I was in the ofilco or the counting room or on the sidowalk. llow full of good, ploasant choor he was. Wlhaft kind greetings he always gave. What thoughtful comments on men and the ovents of the day. Georgia can ill afrore to lose such men as General Avery and Judge Clark, but still the world movos on. "Close up, close up!" is the word from the Great Coinnandor, and tho gaps that doath makes in our ranks are closed and soon forgotton. BILL Anp. Johnson's Chill and Fever Tonic Cures Fever In One Day. r [PIhildelphia Call.n S They do think Sometimes harder than men And very often to more purpose. tNot all of them get of! a car baick wards. 1 Never lose internst ini a man wlo has once made love to them. Are more sympathetic than nmn And somietimes far moure sensi.. ble. Know the value of a dollar. I Cani keop a secret. Are always hard on their own sex. W ill forgive a imale sinner read. ily. Can be taken in by a tramp). But wilsadout fra bargain rat the store. Yet we couldn't very well get along without them. r Ini a recent letter to the aiantufaci ur ers Mr. WV. F. J3enjain, editor of lhe Spectator, Rtushford, N. Y. Hays: -'It r may be0 a pleasure to1 you to know t he hi high esteem ini which Chiomberlain's medicine105 are behIl by thes people of H your ownt etate, where they must 1 e a &iest knoewn. A n aunt of mine, who resde a Dxtr.Iowa, was about to 1s visit mne a few years since, and beforo d leaving hoei wrote mue, asking if the y were sold hereastat lng if they were riot s. -she would bruIg a quantlity with hetr, es she did( t ilke to be without t hemn.' lhe medIcines referred to are CIham n berlai's C'oughi Remtedy, famuous for rits cures of' cod anmd crou p: C&amn. r lain's P'ain Jilim for rhoumatilsm, lame 't back, pal i In the side' anid chest, anid Chamberlai's Colic, Cholera, and Di. arrhoea Remedy for bowel compheinte. I 'hese medietmets have been 'n conista,t use ini Iowa for almost a quarter of a century. The people1 have learned that n, they are artieces of great worth and m~ mueuit and unmeqjualed biy any other. They are for sale hiere by WV. E, Pe.. 1o ham, nmug.,1s1