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htm neon um DECREASE OF SEVEN AND A H\LF MILLION DRINKS IN TWO YEARS. National i'tinlrnian Jones, <?f prohl hRlon Psrty, Compile* Statistic* Concerning the IV of Whiskey? Aram era Texas Brewer*. - ? Chicago Record-Herald. Drinkers In the United States, from the chronic "souse" to thoee who oc? casionally and lightly dally with the foaming stein or tiro sparkling win" glass, have "gone shy" seven and a half bllllor drinks In the last two years, according to statistics issued yesterday from prohibition national headquarters. In the same period 1.408.098 men who were wont to take an average of four portions of grog each day have become total abstain? ers. II the seven, and a half billion drinks that were missed had gone across the bar for consumption they wosld have cost 9464.449.997.15 ol the regular grogshop prices, while If, they had bee a poured Into a tank ? sufficient capacity would hate float* i a fleet of battleships. The statistics were compiled by Na? tional Chairman Charles R. Jone from an advance report of the Unit id States Internal revenue bureau for th. fiscal year 1909, and they wer put forth as a counter to the asser? tion of tho Texas Brewers' AssOOl tlon that prohibition never prohibits and that more liquor is sold In "dry' than In "wet* territory. . The assertions are contained in I statement wb ch In part r*ads as fol? lows: "On the bads of the officltil rag iydg Issued by tho Internal revenue ? de? partment f a the tour tlscal year Jnne SO. 1905. to June 30, 1909. th astonishing fact develops that Um liquor traffic during that time has oome short of Its expected sales to an estimated aggregate total of 389, 087.838.97 gallons of spirits' and fer? mented liquors. "The liquor traffic has been In? creasing its output by leaps and bounds for the years up to 1907. 'On a bnaU of growth, conserva? tively estimated at figures only equal to the increase during the year 11>06 an4 1908, there would have been a total expansion of liquor production during the two years'from 1907 to 1V*9 of 800.(HQ.702.66 gallons of llq u?<r. Did It happen? Well, hardly so you weuid notice it As an actu ?! fact, during those two years. InstcuA of the gain above mentioned, which might naturally have been expected, there was an actual decrease of 80, 066.621 31 gallons, "Of this enormoul shrinkage from expected figures of increase of liquor production, the whiskey total Is 37. t!3.607' gallons, while the beer pro? duction In the same time shows a net shrinkage of not less than 351.204. 726.97 gallons from expected devel? opments. This thirty-seven odd million gal? lons of whiskey means a l.otat of 1.894.ISO.?50 drinks of flre-wat r. reckoning fifty to the gallon, a con servative estimate, and 5.619,267.631 drinks of beer, reckonl c, every schooner at half a pint. The cost of these seven and a half billion drmks of 'bapse.' reckoned at the current market value, would have b>'en not less than $164 449.997.15. "This Is the sum the liquor trndle two years ago might have expected would i'i thmugh their tills In th. twenf> four months which clos. & June 3?. 1969. but of which, sad (?) L to relate, they have never seen .> penny. ' Isn't It about time for the brew? ers' press agent and the whisk. > scribe to take a vacation till further orders. "Putting aside for the moment the startling totals of expected i icrea-e In liquor production, which did nol materialIze In the last two years, we find an actual drop in liquor produc? tion of 1908 and 190!? from the fig? ures of 1907. of 14.657,329 gallons of whiskey and 2.142.614 barrels of beer. That Is, there was an aggre Kttte drop in liquor production for these two years of 2.045.9S7.H.N drinks of distilled and fermented liq? uor?* from the total for 1907. "Beckoning that the average mod? erate drinker buys four drinks a dey. the agureg shea that th.ralvalenl of 1,408,0^ nun no lonn'-r patronize the saloons they did In the year e.idlng June 3<?. Uj07." I 'ui In? to" ? w ith the h-;tl t? < ; gas stoves he g, inoceesfully tried OOt by S tobacco company in D iyton. Ohio, according to Popular Met batt? les. Two stoves were pi teed in tight |y ClOSSd sweating rooms with |,0I i pounds of lehaccQi piled og km plat< form?. F??r one week temp -ralur" of 90 degrees was maintained steadi? ly, the spf?llng '?f the tobacco keep Ing it at a temp- ratui >t III de? grees He?Marry?No! 1 propose to re? main single. She?Isn't that a funny reason fer proposing?Boston Tran? script WOMAN'S VANITY HI PERILS RACE. Says Father J. J. Sullivan, of St. Fouls?Slave** of Foolish Fashion. "it's a farce, this highly educated, screeching, childless and husband less sisterhood. It might be a laughable show were It not for the effect such antics may have upon the young of the present generation. Women don't want higher educ ition or culture, if we are to judge from the energy and ambition of that body of them who have wealth and leisure to enable them to get It If they cared for It. They do not exert them:-elves other than to acquire a few charming superlatives varied by an appropriate giggle or two which equipment is sufficient to get them along In polite society. The finality of this conviction was uttered with fervor by Father J. J. Sullivan, S. J.. for nineteen years a member of the faculty of St. Louh; University, says a St. Louis dispatch to the New York World. He has held *he chair of philosophy and for many years was dean of tbcolopy. <5n ac? count of ill health he has been trans? ferred i? Omaha. Father Sullivan does not believe* In higher education for women because I hey have not shown themselves sufn tentrjr desirous of acquiring it. "The inordinate trivialities of femininity do BOl point to a desire '.or mental de elopement," he said, "and in losing their reverence for older responsi? bilities, In an attempt to overstep their limitations these women have been thrown upon a seat of vapidity and discontent "They like to be and are admired, not for what is In them, but rather for what is on them. As a woman Is neither the mental nor physical equal of man she will be compelled to suffer when she shall have "taken from her her only prop?masculine chivalry. "What hinders women from attain? ment of any intellectual desire? They have every opportunity for becoming cultivated. X' body has placed any re? straint upon women exercising their mental faculties to the fullest. "If they wasted less time in frip? pery and tinsel and gossip of modern social functions they would have time >n their hands to study all the 'ologlCS and 'isms' in the university curricu? lum. I "Why has women permitted man to place her in a position whicji obliges her to consult external appearance In a manner not demanded of man, thus making her to be admired tor what is on her and not what is in her? They *lalk about the masculine tyranny. Is It as galling and as uncomplimentary as in their ready obedience to any mandate that emanates from the Paris m'lliner, who sends them forth with an artistic collection of shrubbery forming the headgear of modern women. "They follow this Implacable despot whh unseating doedty, whether ?he ? Uders a miniature waft?b or a pr >? k*e milk pail. , "Love of admiration is no* ot itself wr i g. but when th1'* nisll I fot prtilsc is bnlscd u?.on a He ar.d becomes the p?* hflj cause of count'e-j other lie* wh< a It actually accompanies the sac rillce of self-respect and principle, then It becomes a vice, as In the case ?f current extravagance of the fein tnim. *"Ihe growing discontent over what women regard as their neglect, haa pre?duced many asperities and such bitterness on the part at the screech? ing rtnd screaming sisterhood, who display by their assert I venose a ?dr?nge lack of confidence in their ?than anil husbands. "The moral condition of the race dtpanda far more upon woman than RBan Fy keeping up the standard shei has everything to naln and by lowering it everything to lose." Aid Gl van Weak Schools. Sbice the first of the month State superintendent of Education Swear. Ingen has paid out over $?,000 to the ?rani schools Of the State making ap pl cation of the fund appropriated by th ? Uegftllatnrc for that purpose. Ap? proximately $7,000 was paid during the spring. The Legislature appro? priated $20.000 for aid to the weak SCholll of the State, and there is only about ll.ttO of this left for distribu? tion There ate applications for over Ig.ll l In the ofilci of Mr. Bwearlngen t ? be acted upon. The amounts paid out range from $10 to $100 to each school, The counties in which the ni'.d money has been distributed are: Rorry, Baluda, Laureni and Plokens. n e amount appropriated by ? he Legltdatnre annually for the weak .-??hods of the State is very small, and ;i is the hope of many thai the ap? propriation will be Increaaed to at le 1 t $10,000 at the next mi sslon of Hi legislature, This WOUld mean a Impromenf In the schools. A ?I itlon favoring the Increase of the appi ?prlatlon was passed at the con? venes of the county superintendents ol e< ucatlon held in Bpartanburg sev* si ?! weeks ago, and also at a meet I Ing "f the school truateea of spartan burg county. Band us your Job work. NEGRO DOCTOR CONVICTED. C. C. Johnson of Aikcu Sold ?'Dande? lion, " an Intoxicating Medicine. Aiken, Aug. 26.?C. C. Johnson, a colored physician, was found guilty of selling a medicine called "dandelion," which was alleged to contain suffi? cient alcohol to produce intoxication. Two white men testified that they bought the medicine from Johnson and that a small bottle of it, diluted with a like amount of water, made them drunk. In sentencing, Mayor Salley said Ik would take into consideration the matter of reducing the fine or sus? pending sentence entirely. Johnson is one of Aiken's best citizens, and a law-abiding man. He says he was not aware of the fact that he was violating any law. No defense was made at all. Mr. B. F. Yoakum, chairman of the executive committee of the Rock Island-Frisco lines of railroads, made an address Tuesday to the Oklahoma Farmers' Union at Shawnee, In which many interesting facts and some great truths were presented. While the purpose of the addn ss WEI to cultivate a closer feeling of friend? ship for the railroads by the farm? ers, and the various points were chosen with that purpose In view, some matters of political economy were presented which are otherwise worthy of the must careful considera? te. Referring to the fast increasing expenses of our government, and the large share of these growing exp -S which must be charged to the military Olkd naval establishments, Mr. x*OH kum said: "Our advocates of greater military expenses tell us we are too great, too rieh und too strong to fear any trou? ble over government expenses, but we are now running behind and not ?nly devisig new methods of taxa? tion but are selling government bonds to take care of the deficit. The question Is not one of the future, tut of the present. We are making the initial mistake of older coun? tries across the sea. The ex:ension Of the grain and cotton fields of the Mississippi Valley and of the West are stronger military defenses than; are the warships. "Secretary of Agrlcultur-i Wilson recently said that the most preening. needs of the United States ar? a, greater proportion of farmers and more farming land in cultivation. We would better spend more money we burn up m p?wder in making new farms. A 40-acre farm of irrigated land will comfortably support a fam? ily of five. It costs $55,000 to, make a 12-lne/h gun. The money that goes to pay f<or this gun would reclaim 1,571 acres of land, providing homes fo> 196 people. When all #he gun.* on all the battleships are shot one time, the government blows off in noise and smoke $150,000. This would reclaim mot"i than 4,000 acres of land, giving bounce to more than 500 farmers and their families. The money consumed in powder is lost to all future. The farmer who buys the reclaimed land must pay the government back in 10 yoars, so it does ^iot cost the govern? ment anything to build up the coun? try by helping the farmer. We should make more homes and not so many lighting machines.'" The world seems to have gone war mad. Not that there are more wars now than formerly, but in the prepa? ration! that are made for war 'l'liis is an enormously expensive DUS' Iness, just how expensive can be ap? preciated by the fact that It costs $5 5,000 to make one gun for one of the big battleships, and \o fire each of these guns only once in target prac? tice necessitates the collection of $150,000 in taxes from the people. From the other so-called great poweri this craze of preparing for. war has communicated itself to our government, and like the rest we are fearfully Increasing the tax burdens of lhe people to get money to \va4.' in such preparations. One of the great guns that costs $55,000 can only be fired about 100 times bet?re it becomes useless, and one of the great battleships that costs six or eight million dollars to build and equip, will be useless in junk In ten years, Then there will be nothing to show for the money except the pover? ty caused by the wasted expense. Wealth is a stronger defense than battleships and fortifications that, prodigiously expensive to provide, become obsolete in a few years. The money expended by our government for great battleships and strong for \ ideations would, if expended for in? ternal Improvement, Irrigation, drain? age and the reclamation of otherwise unproductive hinds, make our coun? try much stronger, "More homes and less lighting ma chines," would be the best defensive preparations our government could make, Why should we yield to tin erase which has seised the eountrlei of the old world and ll driving them I to bankruptcy? The Strong Defenses. -5 Send us your job work. HE HAD THREE KIDNEYS. ()p> ration in Boston Hospital Re? veals Singular fact, From a Howell (Me.) Dispatch. George F. Randall, who drives one of the public carriages, has just un? dergone an operation in one of the Poston hospitals which revealed a singular malady. He was in poor b .alth for more than a year, and the trouble seemed to baffle the skill of every physijian to whom he went,' until at lift he was advisod to go to Boston. The operation revealed the fact that Mr. Randall had three kidneys, to one of which was attached a large tumor. The diseased kidney was re? moved, the operation was successful, and the patient expects to reach home next week. A singular condi? tion is that Mr. Randall was one of twin brothers, and the brother, who died when young, had but one kid? ney. Sleep Enough and Riches. i John Jacob Astor. The man who makes it the habit of his life to go to bed at 9 o'clock | usually gets rich and is always relia? ble. Of course, going to bed does not make him rich?I merely mean that such a man will in all probability be up early in the morning and do a bit; day's work, so his weary bones put him* to bed early. Rogues do their work at night. Honest men work by day. It's all a matter of habit, and good habits in America make any man rich. Wealth is a result of habit. Turning Land. This is the seas >n for early fall plowing. There are many acres of land not occupied with crops of any sort That land Vnight be plowed with advantage in the next two weeks. Some of it might not be ben efitted. The object of plowing land in the fall is to deepen the soil, turn under vegetable matter and prepare it either for small grain* or to take the winter freezes preparatory to next crop. There are fields with weeds growing on them four to six feet high. If they are dragged down and the land turned and harrowed it will be in good condition for oats or wheat. Or it might be benefitted by being turned and then let it lie all winter. Th^re is some doubt about that In this climate, where we have the land rarely covered with snow for a week. Where the snow lies on the ground two to three months, fall plowing is very helpful to land. There is also land with very light stubble on it. There is no use turn ing such land. It should be broken so that two or three inches oT the clay would he touched up, but the top soil and the light stubble should not be turned to the bottom. It rr uuir^a, best judgment to use turn plows wisely. There is no use- turn? ing land unless theie Is vegetable matter to turn under and incorporate with the freshly broken clay. When the land is clean it needs no turning. Plows that will break it about two inches deeper than it was broken be? fore and will pulverize and mix the soil are needed. Occasionally farmers have but two or three horses to a turn plow and turned a thin soil six to einht inches deep, hiding the top s?>ii "beneath a coat of clay. Such a ppeeevs renders the land less produc? tive than it was before, unless it is Very highly fertilized. Turn plows may be used so that they will break the subsoil but not bring it to the top. That is edging up the furrows. If that is done in the* early fall the land may be benefitted. All clay lands wilt remain in bett< r condition dur? ing the winter if they are allowed to stand till spring without plowing, un? less there is a very heavy sod to turn under. Turning up clay and exposing it to the winter rains only hardens it and does no good. Put in this turn? ing of land the farmer needs brains. What may suit his fields will not suit his neighbor's. Every farmer should also make experiments with his turn plow. He might turn a part of a field he expects to plant next spring and leave another portion to be plowed just before planting time and see which was the better plan. Mr. William M. Chandler ?>f South Carolina, editor of the Panama Press, met with a tragic death in Panama Wednesday. He way killed by Gen. H. (). Jeffries, w ho figured prominent? ly in the Panamanian revolution. Mr ? 'handler's mother live- in Columbia and his body will he brought there lor burial. The dispatcher say that he wa< killed on account of a publi cation which is alleged to have re? flected upon a sister-in-law of Jeffries. He was knocked down and stunned by the use of the butt Ol a revoher, ami was then kicked violently. Spartanburg, Aug. Complete returns from the county show the de? feat of the $400,000 bond issue for good roads by a majority of '.is votes, This plan has been defeated, but the fight for ^ond roads has just be? gun. ALPS OF THE EQUATOR. The Duke <>r the Ahruzzi's Explora? tion Of (he "Mountain of the Moon." Mr. Edward Wymper's narrativ entitled "The Exploits of the Duke of the Abruzzi" is continued in the Sep? tember Wide World Magazine. In this installment, Mr. Wymper takes the reader from the Arctic regions to the Equator, the oT>ject of the Duko being to explore the "Mountains of the Moon." Schoolboys of the last generation, says he, used to hear a good deal about the "Mountains of the Moon." This appellation has disappeared from modern geographical text? books, and is replaced by Ruwenzorl. Ruwenzori was first seen in mod? ern times by Stanley on May 2 4th, 1888. He recognized it as a single snowy mountain rather than as a range, and estimated its distance from him to be seventy miles. On March 17th, 1889, when about eighty miles off, he considered that.it Whl eighteen to nineteen thousand feet high. He did not get to a considera? ble elevation* but he rightly guessed that the height of the highest peaks was about sixteen thousand six hun? dred feet. On June 15th Stanley saw Ruwenzori again, and said it was "one of the rarest sights in the world. a bright vision of mountain beauty and glory." The Duke always takes an ade? quate staff for the operations he pro poaei to carry out. He believes in his compatriots, and on this journey Italians alone wore employed. In all the party consisted of eleven persons. < >n starting from Entebbe the cara? van had grown to three hundred por? ters and assistants. The march was made in fifteen days. When about live-sixths of it had been accomplish ed they got their first view of Ruwen sorl, still a long way off. Bujongolo, twelve thousand fj>ur hundred and sixty feet, was made headquarters. Bujongolo was con? veniently situated, but yielded rather cold ouarters for the porters. This had been foreseen, and llannels and blankets were distributed among them. "They had great difficulty in putting them on, and their long and ludicrous attempts generally resulted in frantic efforts to squeeze their leg* into the sleeves of the woolen vest.-.' The temperatures experienced on the summits of the Equatorial snow? capped peaks were by no means se? vere. They were seldom much be? neath the freezing point. The lowest (23.4 degrees F.) seems to have oc? curred on June 18th. upon Peak Mar gherka. *At Bujongolo it generally fell to 33 or 34 degrees F. at night. The frequent mists were a much greater obstacle than the cold. The ascents made in the* Ruwen? zori range are not to be compared in difficulty with the ascent of Mount St. Elias. Bqth the peaks and their glaciers are comparatively small They presented few obstacles, and their ascents might have been made by less skillful mountaineers, but what there is to admire in this Afri? can campaign are the perfect man? agement, the adoption of the i Ighf means to attain the ends which wen in vkW, and the completeness of the manner in which the results were at? tained. His Royal Hi^hn- ss showec1 once again that he is an excellent mountaineer and organizer. It is now the Duke's Intention to scale th? Himalayas. He is still young, having been born at Madrid on January 25Uh. 1873, and s? ha* only just entered bis thirty-seventh \ear. On the "Roof of the World" there is space enough for him to i elipse his conquest of the ' Moun? tains of the Moon." Railroad Assessment-. Columbia, Aug. 25.?The compila? tion of railroad assessments lor the present year made recently by the State board of railroad assessor shows that the aggregate railroad property in South Carolina is $41,962, 520, as compared with $41.882,382 fo: the year 1908, an increase in valua? tion of $7<?,iss. it was not expected that there would be a larg< Increase in the assessments tins year because of the fact that railroads were very big losers by the August floods oi' 190S ami they have not fully recovered from the effects of the Hood yet. in this connection last year there was an ap? peal made to the hoard ami the gen? eral aasembly was informed of the reasons lor the deductions In tin. as? sessments of 1907 and 1908. The report just compiled shows lie' following facts as to the railroads oi this State. Total value 'of property, $4 1,925. r.2<>; total value of tracks, $40,620,838; miles of track, 8,200.8; value of de pots, $582,044; value of wood and a ? ter stations, $108,912; machine shops, $30,200; value of station?r) engines, $900; value <d tools and machinery, $62,169; value of buildings, $262,501: value of lots, $150,530; value of lands. $124,826; total value all (terns save trackage, $1,321,682. _I_ Howard?He's eras) on the subject of aerial navigation. Hattle A hal loonatlc. New Milfod Gazette. WILSON UNDER FIRE. Secretary of Agriculture Intend* Roosevelt Denver, Col., Aug. 24.?That the adulteration of food will soon cease in this country and that the Remse? reform board, appointed at the in? stance of President Roosevelt to in? vestigate the use of benzoate as pre-* servative would be sustained by his department were assertions of Secre? tary Wilson at the opening of the an? nual convention of the Association of State and National Food and Dairy Departments today. Secretary Wilson's remarks follow? ed a bitter attack by J. Q. Emery of Madison. Wis., president of the as? sociation. Pointing his finger at Secretary Wilson. Mr. Emery disputed the re? port of the Remsen referee board that benzoate had been found harmless and then accused Secretary Wilson of having urged President Roosevelt to block a re-investigation of the sub? ject. "Let me say," declared Secretary Wilson, jumping to his feet, "that fc we had money enough in Washington to employ Dr. Ira Remsen and the other four chemists on his hoard, we should try to get them into the de? partment of agriculture. I have told th-- president that we want the big gesl men in the country in the de partment. or the department will cease to grow, and when it ceases to* grow, I do not want anything more^to do with it. "I am glad to see you have invjte? f Dr. Remsen and other members of the board to appear before you. I trust you will give them a fair hear ing." I . "Why shouldn't we give them a fair hearing?" shouted Mr. Emery: "This insinuation comes with poor graeer from the secretary, when we recalF that it was he who blocked our ic quesl to have benzoate ?f soda re-i.i vestigatto " Secretary Wilson, who described' himself as "an interested spectator" ami not a delegate, was invited to speak by A. H. Jones, food comrais-' doner of Illinois. We in Illinois believe there is no more faithful and useful servant of the people than Mr. Wilson," declared] Mr. Jones. "His efforts to drive poisoned food out of the country havo been a help to every State commis? sioner in the Union." In his address Secretary Wilson* said: "From President Er.ery's report you might infer we have done nothing", down in Washington. We are endeav? oring to operate the law with as lit? tle friction as possible, showing leni? ency where honest mistakes are made We have instituted many criminal* piosecutions and seized a great quan? tity of impure stuffs. We h?*pe to have our department cooperate with "the various state departments. I am con? vinced that it will be only a short time before ' the adulteration 'of foo ls in this country nUI cease alto? gether." The delegates from many states' promised cooperation. it is expect? ed the benzoate of soda question 'Ail' come up again on Wednesday v. fu r' Tour members of the Remsen board will speak. A committee of 11. composed of ag? ricultural college professors and State food experts, will then submit a re? port embodying the results of ?n in? vestigation of the referee hoc . It is expected that an ag cement will be reached between the two factions, one of which favors the Idoptl >n of the federal law i.y the Stated and the other of the frammg a "model" state law, independent MS the federal law. Secretary Wilson defends the Kief ^ral law. Tit for Tat. - An Irishman was'sitting in a depot smoking When a woman came and. sitting down beside him, remarked: "Sir. if you were a gentleman yon would not smoke here." "Mum," he said: "If ye wuz a lad> ye'd sit farther away." Pretty soon the woman burst again: "If you were my husband I'd give you poison." "Well, mum." returned thi Irish? man, as he puffed away at his pipe, "if you will my wife I'd take it."? Kansas City Independent, It is stated that in the coifing UTS? njnkml election in the city of Orange* burg, a full prohibition ticket will h*.' in the ti? Id. A. W. Summer. Esq - who was county chairman ot the pne?? hibiuonhts ami managed the rvreirt. successful campaign in that countv against the dispensary, i<- being saoa> en of for mayor. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children, The Kind You Have Always bought Hears the Signature