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BILL ARP’S LETTER Question of Liquor Traffic Is a Hard Problem to Solve. * SCRIPTIRE IS LIBERALLY QUOTED From the Beginning of the Ages the Brink Proposition Hss Faced Mankind—Dispensaries are Discussed. > I was ruminating about this little unpleasantness that is going on amongst our neighbors at Rome. My comfort is that it is not as big a thing as they think it is and will soon pass away. After the electou is over the leaders will apologize all round and make friends and the dear people will have time to reflect and wonder what fools the leaders made of them. A friend writes me that there is nothing ir it but ring politics—who shall run the machine, who shall have the of¬ fices. Whisky is in the background, but the main thing is office. As Leon¬ ard Morrow once said at a public speaking: “Boys, don’t let ’em fool you. They are just side wipin’ round huntin’ the orthography of a little of¬ fice.” Carlisle said, “England has a population of 30,000,000—mof/.ly > fools.” and just so there are enough fools in every county or community to elect a man if he can get them all. He is pretty safe if he can get a ma¬ jority of them. “Dispensary or no dis¬ pensary,” that is the question that is now stirring Rome and Floyd county. Well, we know all about it here in Car tersville, for we tried the saloons for years and they did so much harm we abolished them and they will never come back here again—never. Now we are trying the dispensary; in fact, we have two of them, one in Rome and the other in Atlanta. We wouldn’t have one 19 our town or county for anything. The farther off the better. The easier whisky is to get the more will be drank. Dawson, in Terrell county, ly.four has had a dispensary for near¬ first years. The sales for the yc-ac were $2G,000. The second year and wei^ the $39,000, present the third it will year probably $56,000, year run to $75,000. You see it takes the boys some time to find out how easy it is to get it, but the consumption gods on, increasing and the take comfort in that the profits in crease their school fund and lessen their taxes. No matter if it impover Isb'es the poor and makes drunkards of their young men, that is of no con¬ sequence. Now, our dispensaries are most too near. I wish that the consumers had to get their supnlies from Cincinnati •or Baltimore, That would cut the jug ° business down one-half at least. The oommon people -couldn’t wait so long and nobody but common people would get.any hardly. It would be a long time between drinks-, as the gov.crnoi o( Forth Carolina said to the sbrernor ot South Carolina. There Is bound to be some drinking going, on if they knew.that the world was going to be buhiieff'' up tomorrow. “Ail we can do,” said a good man to me yesterday, “is to-make it hard to get and regulate its sale and consumption.” This man had had experience with young men who drank on the sly. He used to drink habitually himself, hut found the habit was growing on him. He wanted it oftener and more of it, so he,,quit short off two years ago. He said “that there was.but little differ ea.ee between open bar rooms and the «f4oung 44ST>fmsai , yV t 'SO far as the better class men were concerned. A del la.r^bottle in a room with three or four friends was about as bad the the dol lar for drinks in a bar room.” But the barrooms are a nuisance in any town and a disgrace to its refine¬ ment. If they are allowed at all they should be on some side street where le/lies do not frequent or have to pass. Keep them out "of sight and out of smell. Cf course, the drinking habit cannot he stopped by law, nor can t'hp sale cf whiskey be stopped as lokg as the government allows its m’anufacture. Our people can drive o&m to Cherokee and buy what they want from the government distillery, There is no such thing as prohibition and never will be until the dawn ot the millennium. This thing began with old Noah and had its ups and downs ail through the Bible history. It never was sanctioned. It never was prohib Red except to the priests in the tab ernncle. “Drink not in the tabernacle lest ye die,” saith Moses. All of those old-time peopli* kept some on the sideboard. Joseph and his brethren drank'together and were merry. vid speaks of wine that maketh glad the heart of man. Solomon says, “Give strong drink to him that is ready tc perish and wine to those that be heavy of heart.” But when he was sobering up from a spree he said: “Winp is a mocker, strong drink is raging for at the last it biteth like a serpent and atingeth like afl ad der.” i heard a judge of our circuit say that the wind up of a spreo was the most'wretched and forlorn menta condition that could befall a man Said he, “Away in the dead of night I have gotten up and gone to the well in my night shirt and drank and drank the cooling water until I could hold nc more. I wanted to bite a branch to two and swallow the upper end.’ Nabal got drunk and became as a stone-; Benhadad and thirty-two kings all got drunk together after a battle Jeremiah the prophet, tried to malu the Rechabiles drink wine with him but they would not, for their fathers had enjoined them, and Jeremiah blessed them for obeying their father and said, “Thus saith the Loixi the house of Jonadab, the sou of Reelin' shall not. want for a man to stand ho fore me forever.” Zachariah seems tc have winked at the ’ indulgence, foi he said, “Corn shall make the young men cheerful and new wine th« maids.” ] wonder if that was surf enough corn liquor. The aged womer were enjoined not to drink much wine wherein is excess. King Ahas uerus & wt drunk and ordered Queen Vashti to come before him and she refused, and did right and the old raa cal deposed her. Ilosea saith that wine takes away the heart. Isaiah was , hard against , , it, , L and . says. ■' Their ta bles ,, are full , „ of vomit . and , ...... filthiness and there is no place clean upon upon them.” Habakkuk *says, “Woe un to him that giveth his neighbor drink and putteth the bottle to him.” But this is enough of scripture ~ r rom mat tv, t uay to tins • 'tne i, txce.siva , use of spirituous liquors lias gone on in all Soorariin’o- nations carrying ruin its its train ira a „raau v-ino-- Kin.,,-, ana a'n,v uugiaung , o presidents and neither law nor pro ccpt, nor preachers nor the pleading it’ o*’ women has been able to step x ne disnenkarv aispensarv is is more more resnertuble rebpcctaoiv in its surroundings than the saloon, There is no eathprin^ of ronahs ■mil toughs iu-uku^ at at its ne, door uuui and otu women wrouieu,. can can walk by without being insuTted or ais gusted as they pass. I do not believe that it lessens the use or abuse of whiskey. Nothing will -do that but home influence and religious training and public opinion. It takes every¬ thing to combat it and keep it in check, 1 have before rae the last of¬ ficial statement cf the dispensary bus¬ iness in South Carolina, and it is amazing to see how it is growing. It is now the largest and most important business in the state its aggregate saies for tlie P ast fiscal year being a llttle oy er $ 2 ,000,444 and over $o°q,000 ^ et P rof | ts . aa(1 of these profits and the stock on hand the school fund is entitled to $611,354 and the state has on hand $640,000 cf stock. The prof its pay hundreds of officials good sala ries, besides accumulating an enor mous school fund. I have traveled a good deal over the state and found P ubbc opinion much divided upon the questionable morality of the system, But it pays financially and the ques tion of ^ucating the negro with taxes ^ lom ''kite people does not raise such a pretest as long as the sale of whis¬ key pays it, especially when the negro [ 8 “ ,e d!spM , ' ary ' s vcr? ! ll,eA1 cus ' m ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ „ in tllis 1lic i |1Cl ' business? »'»aat does all this mean that Bishop Cole man, of Delaware, has recently assert ed in a public sermon preached in New Jersey. He says that the whis¬ key habit is actually decreasing among the men of the north, but it is rapidly increasing among the- women, not only the fashionable women, but among the middle classes-. His assertion caused a committee to bo appointed who euietly frequented the hotels'and ing houses and ladies’ restaurants and a * ar S& majority ci the women -took *** ™ beer or whiskey or cocktails with their meals, and very many took ne rn,?als and ordered drinks only, The committee unanimously reported that the bishop’s assertion waa the truth. If this be so, God help the country. Our southern women will be ail that will save it. When I was a student in college at Athens in 1845, the wonderful discov ei Y of nr - Long and his use of anaes thesia was the talk of the town, and our professor of chemistry, Dr. Le Conte, made it the subject of a lecture to his class. In 1846 a dentist by the name of Lombard came there and pro posed to 'extract teeth without pain by the use of what he called mortous lethean. He extracted a jaw tooth for me and it was a success. But it was whispered around that Morton had stole Dr. Long’s discovery and pro cess, and as he was a Boston yankee. the friends cf Dr. Long were very in dignar.t. Enough cf this for the pres ent. I only wished to say how grati flea I was that the committee appoint e dto select our two greatest Geor gians have given Dr. Long the place. The medical world has done him honor in all'countries and Morton and Jackson have been relegated to the rear, where they belonged. They were pirates. But about the second place the com mittee had better go slow and consul er carefully when they meet again. They had better consult tne om men and especially the veterans of the civ¬ il war. Some things are forgiven, but not forgotten, The veterans would not presume to say who should be so lected, but ouly who should not.—BM Arp, In Atlanta Constitution. . —r OA3TOrtIA. he ms the Thu Kind You Have Always Bought Signature F. of THE LOST ARE FOUND. Missing: Tlarincs in Samar U»s cued in Delirious and Fain¬ ished Condition. According to a Manila special Cap lain Porter’s marines, who became lost while on an expedition in the is¬ land of Samar, and were thought to have been murdered by tiie rebels, have been rescued by a relief expedi¬ tion in the face of torrential rain storms which Hooded the rivers. The condition of the men is much worse than previously .-.escribed. They suffered fearful hardships and were without food for several days. The natives who accompanied the marines claimed they were unable to distinguish ,. ,. . ... the edible .... roots, . which . . , the . did ....... not believe. The anger „„„ marines of the marines against the natives is intense. None of the latter return e 1 e marines. . maunes suireiea so a t > from starvation that they ate the raw ’ “ . ^ w0 ^ 0 „ s ” When Captain ( . I orter tne nrst ana three of his men staggered into camp ‘ v wmo rteHrions. ummout. auu anU diffirnltv uiuiluh) was VVtt - experienced in ascertaining the where abouts of their companions. The relief party succeeded in reach . . wno wouiu ln ” remaining men, ( otherwise certainly have perished. All of them were delirious. Two of the - were discovered in the branches , trees harking like dogs. Some of the marines are so ill that they are not likely to recover. General Chaffee has endeavored to obtain full details of the trip of the marines, but Captain Porter is not yet able to lucidly explain matters. ON TRACK OF KOiiBfkS. Safe Taken In Hold-Up Is Found at bottom of Liver, a Columbia, S. C., special says: At (]aylig ^ t Tuesday morning McSweeney telegraphed the sheriffs of Dorchester, Orangeburg, Colleton and Charleston gounties to organize posses and begin search for the rob bers who held up the Charleston-Cp lumbia Southern railway train near Branchville Monday night. At the same time express officials left Colum¬ bia with two noted man-running bloodhounds kept at the Orangeburg and Dorchester jails. Sheriff Dukes, of Orangeburg, was on the scene af ter the robber with a posse and the chase began. The d'ogs picked up the trail of the robbers a ml went 0 It rapidly. Mm ral dday tho potto believed they were pressing the outlaws. The .dogs came to the Edisto river and it was evident * be wagon had been bar ked up to the bank. Search ifnder the water re vealed the safe stolen from the cx press' * A rope was attached to it car. an( l R had not been opened. The governor will publish-a prqcla mation offering $400 for the capture of each of the men. The seven men are staying together, and struck into the Edisto river swamp. All are armed with winchesters. Among the passengers on the train held up were several members cf tne state legislature who had been some to spend Sunday. Mr. SeabrOOk, of Charleston, had a considerable sum of money in his pocket, and he took re fuge under a seat in the car. Captain J. W. Hill, of Colleton, a venerable legislator, is the hero of the hold-up. He drew his pocket knife and went out among the robbers, but they drove him hack at the poiut of a winchester. Later Captain Hill went through the car seeking a pistol. The only weapon he could find was a 22 calibre pistol, which he borrowed from a news butcher. With this Cap tain Hill stood guard at tho door. SEW ARMY Y. EASE RE, (arries Approximately the hum of Ninety-One Million Dollars. The military appropriation bill has been practically completed by the house committee on military affairs, and Chairman Hull will report it a3 goon as he returns from a trip to Iowa which he is about to take. The bill carries approximately .which is about $f0,000,000 below the estimates and about $21,000 000 below tile appropriation last year. O J\. S> YT jt. ,Z5L . 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