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f 1 ===== DOINGS OF THE SOLONS IN COLUMblA.' The Bills Telore the Legislature lor Several Days Past Weie Only of Local Interest. There have been by the dispensary advocates quite a numl)cr of amendments offered and projxtsed to the present dispensary law. all of which have been fought olT by the opponents of the present disjx'nsary law and at the same t'm urging the passage of the bill known as the Morgan local option bill, which in effect repeals the present dispensary law, and places a new law on the statute iKjoks, leaving the question of having a dispensary or dispensaries in any town or city in the fc?tate to the people who by vote say what they want as to the sale of liquor. Mr. Browning's bill was very tlllll'll tl? till. SI'l nil. ?lil!llt Mr. Otts introduced a bill to allow county and township to vote IhukIs to build roads. Some surprise was manifested by an order issued to Commissioner Tatuin to withhold the payment of all claims against the dispensary. It is said the dispensary owes 8loo,(MX); the reason for this is not yet known or understood. Wednesday night was the livliest tilt the anti and the dispensarites have had, over the Morgan hill. The dispensarites sticking to their amendments of the present dispensary law. The queerest argument used by the dispensary when reference is made to the voting out of the dispensary in the several counties, is that a full vote was not polled, that the prohibitionists had it all their way, therefore it was not a full and fair expression of the people. We ask whose fait is it? They claim that at the coming primary when a full vote will be east when no registration tickets will be required to entitle you to vote, the dispensary will win. Tlio reformatory bill has l>oon favorably reported. The 10-days holiday at Christinas for W'inshrop and other State colleges hill has passed its third reading and will become a law. The compulsory education and biennial session bills hung tire without effort to pass. Since defeated in the House by two votes. A bill to increase the pay of the court stenographers was reported favorably. A bank inspector for State books ceived a favorable report. WKPNKsPAY Mo i it's SKSSION or tiik norsK. When the House met tonight the galleries were crowded, in anticipation of the discussion on the dispensary question. The first speaker on the dispensary was Mr. W. C. Irby, of Laurens. He felt it a duty to speak on this issue. He had friends come to him and tell him how he ought to vote and speak. There has been every kind of influence brought to bear on members to take the views of others. He had seen a great deal about "blood money," and tbis came largely from the ministry. He was an olliecr of the church, but when ministry put themselves in the position to be criticised they ought to be. The social clubs are gambling hells and rum shops, and yet lie never heard a word from the ministry against these social clubs. He said a minister defended these clubs because gentlemen drank their liquor there, lie heard of no ministers denouncing gambling by corporations. They do not call that blood money. lie could not understand why the ministers talked about the dispensary profits being blood money. He said the trusts were robbing all about them. When men are talking about blood money why don't they go down and see where the injustices are going on? He did not accuse anybody of being dishonest because they differed with him. There is something in the bill to perfect the dispensary system, or it would not be attacked. For thirteen years the dispensary has been approved by the pc6plc, and it was the duty of members to purify the system and not kill it. It ought to be safe to buy direct from the lionded ware houses. The State will never be able to get an alsdutoly perfect system, blithe thought it could be improved, and the idea was to do greatest good to the greatest number, lie spoke of the strength of the Whiskey Trust and how they controlled the National (Jovermnent and the Legislature. Ik* wanted the State to have it* own distillery, I'mler county government every dispensary will have to do its own buying. 1'nder co-operation and with State purchases the liquor could be bought cheaper. There is no demand for local option. What the people want is a clean and pure dispensary. Why destroy the system without attempting to clear it out? The people of the State want the dispensary, and i there is no doubt of 4liis. llcar-i guciI that the people do not want the system destroyed if it can he cleaned out, and ho t>elicved this dispensary bill will protect things as much as a thing can be. Then the bond will offer further protection. He went on to say that he did not favor an unclean dispensary. He wanted the people to say what they wanted and if they did not want the dispensary it suited him. He Sit id he had heard that so much liquor was being shipped by express that the express ears had to hi taken off so as not to delay tin mails. Mr. I). 1). McC'oll, of Henriettaville, made quite an elaborate an<3 well prepared address and approached the entire situation u itl care. All realized that whiskey was tin; greatest of evils, and ye! , whiskey in itself is not an evil, am! | its use must ho restricted. II* j spoke of the prohibition record o I Marlboro and stated that for nn?n than seventy years it has been i prohibition county. Patriotism i; not bounded by county lines, hu' I iif was lnieresieu 111 me wnoicnuiie The first (question ought to he tin legitimate function of the govern niont in eontrolling liquor. Tin I duty ought to he to hring abou temperance and sobriety. Todaj the State legalizes the sale of whis key with the option of prohibition and he stood on this, lie stood a an advocate of local prohibition A state with prohibition is a dream I'ntil public opinion can be change* State prohibition will not do, bu under county action the local senti nient may be tutored in favor o prohibition. Any county that du not want the sale of liquor ought t he free. Yet as a right, no systen should be suddenly changed withou authority to do so. The dispensar law, having gone through the fire is a erystalized institution. It i not right to wipe out a law o which the people have not spoken He felt that there should be reli< and changes, but because the peopl are convinced that there is frau and corruption in the dispensary whether true or not, that is no re;i son to destroy the system. It i undoubtedly true that the peopl believe there is graft in the clis P'-nsary, and tire duty should be t remedy this and not to destroy lit; did not subscribe to the sweep ing indictment against the dispell sary. lb; then took up the argu ment of the dispensary in favor c sobriety. He thought the fallin oft- in liuuor making was due to th jt.ivn. (uuiii tie n doubt that the State owed to th dispensary its restrictions on th . sale of liquor. He did not favc the sale of liquor at any time. II favored prohibition, but he eoul< not sec; how local prohibition could form a coalition with thos who favor high license. High li cense is not a Democratic principle Mr. MeC'oll made a speech whiel was really in advocacy of the dis pensary system, although lie callei it local prohibition. Mr. Joshua Ashley was here whei the dispensary law was passed. I was sent out as a prohibition bil in 1 Liquor was forced 01 twelve dry counties and would havi been forced in Marlboro had the; dared to after the treaty of Mr Livingston. He was a prohibl tionist. but all legislation was; compromise. The .state dispensary was corrupting the politics of tin State. He told the members whei the bill was passed that the law wa making a bar room of the State am a barkeeper of the governor. Hi could not see how the dispensary I iconic eollld torn thi-ir (. money. He thought it had to ex pert men to refuse the gifts thai were forced on them. He was sur prised that people thought then was 110 graft, when men resign r I tig job to take a 8 KX) a ycai job. lie wanted to give Charlesston what they wanted, at the dispensary enforcement then now was a farce. No law can Ik ' enforced where the people are not in sympathy. He did not think I Anderson would vote for county dispensaries. Anderson has alwaysvoted against liquor. Knock out the devilish thing and start over, All the dispensary people are hit friends, hut he has always fought the dispensary and would do so for ever. He could not see how anyone could object to letting every county regulate its own affairs. I: he had his choice he would vote foi State prohibition, hut it would nol J>e wise to do so now, because tin people are not yet ready. Anderson is delighted with prohibiten land everyone is pleased. He sai< the Pendleton dispensary was stil running. Mr. Ashley made one of the best speeches ever made on the situation, The House then adjourned without taking a vote of any kind. The Metropolitan magazine rank* among the beat published and Tin-. Tim ed among the bent weekly papers in the state. PERT PARAGRAPHS. Please yourself and you get the approval of n competent person. Sometimes u man Is a failure and doesn't know it, but there Isn't any man who Is a success and doesn't know It When a thing goes up, that Is the SOUTH CAROLINA LIVE .. I STOCK ASSOCIATION. I 1 Program of the Fourth Annual Meeting. February 8 and 9. 1906. Y. M. C. j A. Hall. Columbia. South Carolina. First Session, 10 a.m., Thursday, Fe bruary 8. LIVE STOCK. Report of the President?Mr. B. . Harris, Pendleton, S. C. Practical Stock Feeding in South Carolina?Dr. Tait Butler, Raleigh, I N. C. The Dual Purpose Cattle ?The , Cattle for the South?Hon. Samuel . B. Woods, Charlottesville, Va. t (Jeneral Discussion. I Second Session, *3: ^ >? > p. in., * Thursday, February f Business Session, to include Re15 ports of all Committees and Yice1 Presidents. 3 Election of Oflicers. Third Session, S p. in., Thurs. day, February 8. DAIRV. ? Southern Dairy Markets?Prof, t John Miehels, Clemson College, S. C. / Dairying in South Carolina? - Prof. Ed. II. Webster, Chief Dairy , Division, I*. S. Department of Ags riculture. General Discussion. \ Fourth Session, 10 a. in., Friday t February 1). LIVE STOCK, tf Beef Cattle in the South?Prof. I ueo. m. Koniniei, Animal nviso band ma 11, U. S. Deparmcnt of Agn rieulture. t Sheep Raising in South Carolina y ?Mr. T. I,, fin low, Uidgeway, S. C. General Discussion. s Fifth Session, 2:30 p. in., FriII day, February h. l| STiM'K .ll'lMilNu. c A Demonstration at l>r. J. 10. (] Heiso's Stable. Beef Cattle and Hogs?l'rof. Geo. M. Rommel, Animal Husbandman, 1S I*. S. Department of Agriculture. v Dairy Cattle?Prof. John Michels, .. Cleinson College, S. C. 0 Mules?Hon. James Stack house, , Marion, S. C. ,1 Sheep?Mr. T. L. Bulow, Kidgeway, S. C. i- Sixth Session, S p. m..\ Friday, ?f February 'J. K - IY. ! ^ ? i oultry Raising *th arolina?Hon. Theo. K. F. Holzhouscr, e Columbia, S. C. lV TKXAS FKVKll TICKS. 0 The Intluenee of Fever Ticks on 1 the Cattle Industry?Prof, faiuis A. s Klein, Clenison College, S. C. e General Discussion. 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The Peoples ' Supply Co. : WANTED?To buy five thousand round cedar posts, one-half 8 feet long, the . other naif 0 feet. Call on Jno. A. Fant, Monarch Cotton Mills. 1 3-3t * FERTILIZERS: If you want good re, salts use the best, whieh is Swifts. Sold by The Peoples Supply Co. - O v if I>K.v?w ..f - ? f, ?. U|? .I e.nubag1' plants ready for transplanting, f heartier than Southern grown; will stand freezes. Fresh garden seeds of all kinds. S. M. Rice, Jr., E. U. t 5- It . HORSES and mules. Our buyer, Mr. R. B. Gilliam, is now in Atlanta and ' will be in Friday or Saturday with a ' fresh car of nice horses and mules 1 We invite you to come and inspect them. The Feoples Supply Co. 1 I.OST?A fine black setter dog with white breast, about a year old. t Reward will be given for return of dog to Geo. C. May. 5-2t p WEAVERS WANTED?The Darlington Mfg. Co., Darlington, 8. C., offers i the best inducements to weavers. Good wages, pay once a week ; Ilcaltby location. Artesian water. Good free school. Cheap market. For further information address F. Hamilton, Supt., Darlington, S. C. d-lt i asi or u unless n is nu mrsuip, uuu with that it may be tlie beginning of the end. No man. 110 mutter bow colorless bo may be, Is improved by a streak of yellow. The man who wins gets the stamp of approvul on hts methods. A state examining board that licences incompetent dentists should be made to have one tooth a day tilled by them. When a man lias dollars he is naturally rated as a man of sense also. December doesn't waste his time falling In love with May if December ij busted. The atmosphere of a picture is tho sister to tho motif of a story. It is better to he bald and rich thau it is to be bald without being rich. Just as much skill with the needle inay be attained by darning stockings or patching trousers as by doing point lare stitches. Some people are so homely that they have to weab a mask when they look at their watch. Dignity is what remains when all is lost save honor. There are men who spend more energy financiering to make $10 than it wonkl take to earn a hundred. The price mark is worn so conspicuously by some people that you feel guilty to be caught looking ip their direction. A17 men are inventors?of excuses. If it ever started to rain money peopl;? would carry umbrellas, but they would be turned the other way. Making History. ltussia is certainly coming to the front these days. No Russian, whether count, viscount, no account or counted out, feels that he has started the day right unless he lias made several pages of history before brenkfust. With that meal over be hurries through his chores and starts out to ...?nc some inorc. | Not all of it is the kind that an outsider could pronounce without working his toes, waving his au-ms and acquiring n case of lockjaw, but It is history all right, as the magazine publishers will shortly assure us in a few thousand well chosen words. It might look like a difficult thing to one who had never tried to make history, but when you know liow, it Is simplicity itself. It is only necessary to get a bottle of vodka and a bale of the largest words in the dictionary and start out. Then If no enemy is in sight the experienced operator can make u fairly good grade of history with the innocent nystnimer as nis subject. Reckless With His Freedom. "I understand he la a free lance In literature." "lie is, which doesn't prove that he doesn't deserve to be pinched." Advertised Letters Remaining in the Post Office at Union, S. C., for the week ending Feb. 2, 1900. B?Junie Brown, Hoyt BiggerttofT, Ernest Reeknell, Tinkor Biggerstoff. C?Sol Clarke, J B Curley. I)?J B Dickerson, Perry Duncan. F?Rev W A Foster, Geo B FowlerG?Jim Gibson, S G Gnult, I.uther Garner, 11?Francis Hill, Jim Hyatt. J?Mrs Kmma Jeter, Glenn Jeter. K?J W King. 1.?Jno Wesley l.ittlejolm, Rev J Long, Arthur Lvlcs. 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