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The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1892-09-07

1t may be safe 20 hurl the lie at
man from a high stump, or through
some anonymous communication, but
it does not always do to c. st it into
mans teeth. Last week, George W.
Allison and Ira Jones, both Of Lancas-
ter, had little scrimmage because
Jones stated that Allison had reported
a lie. This. caused Allison to strike
him. A son of Jones then took up the
matter aud Allison was about to tan
him out when they were separated. A
few old fashioned fights would do no
harm, if it woulk stop people from tell
ing lies and giving the lie. We nave
certainly sunk to low level In politics
and our friends, the enemy are to
blame for it.
The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1892-09-07
Better SchOo s Needed.

In these days of railroads, telegraph
telephones and daily mails it is expected
that the schools should keep pace with
all other educational facilities. But
they are not up with the times. What is
the matter with the people?
In manv neighborhoods the children
have no better opportunity for receiv-
ing an education than they had lS40 TO
1860. For this state of affairs no one is
to blame except the parents. They are
too lazy and indifferent, in some neigh
borhoods, to build comfortable school
houses. They are too mean to furnish
them when built If they have a COM
Portable house they will not employ a
teacher for eight or ten months. Or II
they get one, the pay is so small that
the teacher could make as much in
cotton mill.
A house 22x3O will accommodate 40
pupils. There will be room for 20 dou
BILE desks. The house well built and
ceileI o. l|-srs."d. wit&'& good hest!n%
stove would cost about $50. The &c
desks would cost $50 to $75 This is a
small Investment when one considers
the many benefits to he derived.
A good school house with a good
teacher means great uplift in the
neighborhood. Ignorance and preju
dice will gradually give way to intelli-
gence and liberal opinions. The ten
dency of the boys and girls will be up,
ward and not downward. Homes will
be made more attractive. Slouchy, dirty
housekeeping and dressing will disap-
pear in families where bright children
are studying and learning something.
1t is an easy matter to secure and
keep a good school to 10 months. a
fair teacher can be secured for 5000 and
board. The public school fund will
pay first grade teacher about 800.
Then the patrons will have to furnish
board and another 500 in order TO
keep up the school 1t is cheaper to
employ a $500 teacher, however, for the
advantages will more than compensate
for the increased pay.
The neighborhood, that can furnish
90 to 30 children of school age should
certainly have a good school. If they
fail they vote for ignorance instead Of
knowledge, vice instead of virtue, de-
graduation of their children instead oi
their respectability and usefulness,
There is a poor maj in this county
who started as q renter several yes rs
ago and struggled, on, year after year,
but with his head up and bis hear
filed with manly aspirations. He Is
poor to-day but he is preparing a SOD
and daughter for college and if he can
possibly secure the money by digging
it out OF the ground, or borrowing, he
will give his children a collegiate edu-
cation. He does not whine and COM
plain and say that the State ought to
build school house for him, nor buy
books, or pay his teachers Like a
true, good parent he has risen above
the State and devoted his life to the
training OF his children. There are
hundreds of parents in the county
~ IA t.1soe 's.nses, o. ossf Ssl-l>'s as'ia
property as this man who are doing
nothing for the education OF their chill
dren. As they sow they will reap.
The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1892-09-07

The spread OF cholera in the Rus
sian districts is fearful. Last Wednes-
day 4,679 new cases and 2,743 deaths
were reported. The Hamburg authorl-
ties admit that cholera has been in thai
city since the 18th instant. There
seems to be no doubt as to its reaching
this country before the 10th day of Sep
tember.
The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1892-09-07

The switchmen on roads traversin g
New York State have been enjoying a
grand strike recently. For a while
traffic was hindered. Troops were sert
in and order will be restored with the
bayonet. 1t will require the slaught. r
of about 5000 men one of these days to
teach the people, that while any COM
bination of workmen has a perfect right
to strike, they have no right to prevent
other persons froII taking their places.
The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1892-09-07

There are few people who do not at
some time shy when they run suddenly
upon the truth.
The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1892-09-07

Some men can convert the brass"
u their systems to gold in their
pockets.
The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1892-09-07

thirty-nlne years AFTER the aooiisuuehl
of the law there were thirty four COLI
victions of murder in the first degree
in the State. 1t is stated that the pop
ulation of Rhode Island increased rs
per cent from 1860 to 1870, yet there
was falling off of nearly 20 per cent
IA convictions for murder. From 1870
to 1880 the population increased q per
cent and the convictions IA per cent.
From 1880 to 1890 the population in
creased 25 per cent and the record OF
convictions increased in the same ratio.
In 1853 Wisconsin substituted life i'm
prisonment for death as a punishment
for murder. From 1858 to 1870 the
number of convictions in the State for
murder was 81. Iowa abolished capital
punishment in 1872, and restored it IN
1878 by giving to juries the power to
decide whether the punishment for
willful murder should be dealth or i'm
prisonment. The plea for this restora.
tion was that muir lers had become
more frequent, statement which has
been denied Maine abolished the
death penalty for a number OF years
and then restored it, and later, in 1887,
finally abolished it. Minnesota also
abolished the death penalty and again
reinstated it. Illinois and Minnesota
have lessened capital conviction by
giving to the jury power to adJudge
death or imprisonment for life as pun
ishment for murder in the first degree.
In Kansas man guilty of a capital OF
fense must be sent to the penitentiary
| for one year. At the end of that time
il is ortional with the government to
| order the sentence of death to be car
ried out, or having the criminal impris-
| ON d for life, and the latter course is In
yariably adopted. AS we have stated,
it is impossible to give full statistics
upon this point. The general govern
ment has never made any attempt to
gather the criminal statistics OF the
| States, nor Nds oil Ioeo OASoPe NA's0
chusetts made any comparison OF Grim
ipal records for sufficient length OF
time to render them of any value. Even
in those States where abolition of capl'
tai punishment has been tried there Is
Wide difference of opinion as to lts
effect. Mr.. Andrew ]. Palm who has
written book upon this question
strongly condemning the death penalty
wrote, before he prepared his book, tc
all the State executives and prominent
lawyers for their opinions on the sub
iect. also to other persons OF note. Ii
reply from those who had opportunlt!
to frame opinions on the subject, th'
State Governors and lawyers, there
were quite as many who advocated tht
death penalty as necessity for th'
preservation of social order as OF those
who condemned it.
The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1892-09-07

A safe was blown open at William
ston, 8. c., one night last week and
s6O. 90 and some valuable papers stolne
The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1892-09-07

We make our to-days of yesterdays
our to-morrows of to-days.
The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1892-09-07

The graduates Of the Keeley lnstl-
tute, at Columbia, met in convention
at the Institute last Friday afternoon
and formed 1.-The South Carolina Kee-
ley Association" The Messrs. Court
land gave them banquet at the Hotel
Jerome. The following resolutions
were adopted:
Resolved, l. That we, the patients
and graduates of Kelley Institute 'of
Columbia, would tender our sincere
thanks to the manager, Mr.. J. w,
Courtland, and physician, DR.. +. NJ.
Bennett, for their very gentlemanly
and kindly treatment while with them
. That we note with pleasure and
great pride the very high moral plane
OF, and grand principles underlying
and making the groundwork OF thls
Institution.
8. That it is the sense OF patients
and graduates that under the manage
mept of these gentlemen, MIR. Court
land and DI. Bennett, that patlents
not only receive permanent and lastlDg
beneh 8, but are sent forth Impressed
that sobriety and gentility go hano lp
hand.
4, That we would give expression 70
our higu appreciation of the attention
paid us by MIR Courtland in providing
this festive board for our entertain
ment.
What is useful is intrinsically orna'
mental
The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1892-09-07

Amau's friends do him more injury
than his enemies.
When a mans word is not as good as
his bond, keep watch on bis bond.
The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1892-09-07
The New England Magazine indi

The New England Magazine indi-
Gates that its provincial name is too
narrow for the scope of its articles. 1t
reaches out as far as the North Pole"
in a readable paper by Charles ID.
Skinner and then scoops in 'Ruzzard's
Bayn which has been the centre Of at
traction for one half of the American
people for several months. "The Need
of Good Roads" receives due consid-
Grafton and is made a leading feature
of the number. Horatio Perry tells
about An Old New Hampshire Muster" "
While the Yankees could never equal
the Georgia Cracker" in these dis
plays of the "melish," yet it will be in
teresting to learn how our yankee breth-
rem conducted themselves on parade
day. W. L. Sheldon makes "A Plea
for the German Element Ill America" !"
and Nicholas Paine Gilman discusses
"Proft Shearing in the United States"
This is a very important subject and is
a side issue Of the great Labor question
that is agitating the whole country.
The New England Magazine is well
worth the price $500 a year. The ad-
dress is Boston. So Federal Street.
The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1892-09-07

ity, does not reform criminal. II me
same man is placed in life department
of the penitentiary he has an opportu-
nifty for repentance and reformation.
A man may lead an upright Christian
life in a prison.
Hanging criminals does not deter
O hers from committing crime. 1t is
noticeable fact that some Of our most
shocking homicides in Spartanburg
county are committed near the sitting
of the courts. When man is enraged
enough to kill tis fellow man he does
not stop to consider the probabilities OF
an acquittal by the courts. The terrors
OF the law do not frighten him. A
hanging once month at every court
house in the State swoulas not prevent
homicides. A dummy swung up per-
petually in front of the Jail yard would
do about as much good as a real hang
ing
The following statement from the
Chicago Inter Ocean will throw con
siderable light on the subject. 1t Will
bear careful reading.
cit is impossible to compile statistics
at all reliable on the question of capl-
tai punishment since the facts upon
which such statistics can be based have
not been collected. There are five
States in the Union which have finally
abolished the death penalty, but even
from their experience which has been
short and which concerns perhaps dlf-
ferent social states from those in other
States where the death penalty has
been retained, no positive assertion
concerning the advisability or inadvls-
ability of the retention of that mode OF
punishment can be made. Michigan
WAS the first State to abolish the death
d ,ualty for murder. This was in the
year 1876 A number of attempts have
been made to revive it in that State on
the plea that without it there has been
an increase of crime, but thus far these
have not succeeded. This State usually
IS an orderly one, and was settled from
the first with an industrious, law abid-
ing people, and has beeh peculiarly
successful in getting on without capital
punishment. It has, been therefore,
referred TO frequently by the advocates
Of the total abolition of the death pen
alties as very strong argument on
their side 1t is asserted that in eight
ears Michigan has not had anv more
murders thai occur in the city of New
York in a single year. Manifestly this
is not e fair comparison. The State of
Michigan has not more than one and
half times as much population as the
city of New York and of the brutal ele-
ment among which almost all of the
murders of New York City occur,
Michigan has very slight representa-
ton. The Michigan State prison re-
port of 1874 asserted that in the first
thirteen years and half under the
new law there were thirty-seven per-
SONS convicted of murder iu the first
degree, and the next thirteen years and
q half the number was but thirty-one,
though the population had more than
doubled. The next State to abolish
the death penalty was Rhode l?l2s@6
The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1892-09-07

The September Century comes Ia
den with good things. The Illustrations
are studday in themselves. From the
frontispiece, Between Two Fires. "
to the last advertisement the <pictures s
talk. "The Grand Fails OF Labrador"
are well described by Henry &. Bry-
ant. Edmund Clarence Steadman con-
tinues his admirable papers on Ihe
Nature and Elements of Poetry" This
number takes up the imagination"
The Christopher Columbus series is con-
tinued. This is especially interesting
as the Worlds Fair is approaching.
Theodore Roosevelt tells about an Elk
Hunt at Two. Ocean Pass. Henry Van
Brunt keeps up an interest in the Arch,
itecture at the Worlds Colu milan Ex-
position. The illustrations show what
the statuary will be. The continued
stories keep up a lively interest. The
poetry is fair. The topics Of the Time,
Open Letters and In Lighter Vein are
very entertaining. You will find the
Century always interesting.
The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1892-09-07

What is useful is intrinsically orna-
mental
, 1892-07-02
9 August
Flower

II inherit some tendency to Dys-
pepsia from my mother. 1 suffered
two years in this way; consulted a
number of doctors. They did me
no good. 1 then used
Relieved in your August Flower
and it was just two
days when I felt great relief. I soon
got so that could sleep and eat, and
felt that 1 was well. That was
three years ago, and I am still first
class. I am never
Two Days. without a bottle, and
if feel constipated
the least particle a dose or two Of
August Flower does the work. The
beauty of the medicine is, that you
can stop the use ofitwithout any bad
effects on the system.
Constipation While was sick I
felt everything 1t
seemed to me man could feel. I
was of all men most miserable. lean
say, in conclusion, that I believe
August Flower will cure anyone of
indigestion, if taken
Life ofMiserywith judgment. A.
M. Weed, 22o Belle
fontaine ST., Indianapolis, Ind" 9
, 1892-07-02
AN ARTESTAN WELL.

An abundant supply of water brought to
the surface by an artesian well anywhere
in the basin of Puget Sound, would be of
so much benefit to Western Washington,
that the cost of boring and piping would be
a mere trife in comparison. The geolog-
ical formation justifes the hope of success.
High mountains on the east and the west
collect part of their drainage in concave
porous strata ready to force their waterup to
many places on the lower part of the valley.
So far as we are informed but one attempt
has been made to bore an artesian well in
our state West of the Cascade range, and
that attempt is now in progress at Everett.
Even in districts where artesian wells are
abundant, as in the low land of Kern county,
California, the boring sometimes fails to
strike water, and in other places, as hap
pened in Sacramento City, the auger en-
countered large loose boulders, which it
could not pass.
The expense of boring to depth of 1900
feet, and that depth would perhaps be
sufficient, would probably be not less than
$4,000; and we suggest that such a sum be
collected by subscription and entrusted to
a committee who shall expend it on the
land of some man who will refund the
money if the well will throw 1000 gallons
or more of good water to the surface daily.
Some of the California wells pour out
over 100000 gallons daily. The place
selected for the experiment should be near
the level Of the Sound and in case of sue
cess, the committee still having their $4,000
on hand, might then bore another well at
some other point at least fifty miles awav
and thus continue until they have proved
that artesian water can be obtained all the
way from Blaine to Vancouver on the
valleys and plains along the Western base
of the Cascade mountains.
Such proof would add many millions of
dollars to the value of land in our state.
Notwithstanding the abundance of rain in
our winters, our summers are often dry, as
anyone can see now by looking at the vel
low color of the grass on the prairies in
Thurston county. Several of the gardeners
south of Olympia have erected windmills
to pump water for their vegetables. 1t
will be observed that we do not advise that
this artesian experiment should be limited
to Olympia or Thurston county. We are
authorized to say that we have the promise
of contribution of twenty-five dollars to
the experimental artesian well fund, no
payment to be made until the whole sum
of $4,000 has been subscribed. Will not
some journalist of Everett give us good
account Of the artesian experiment in his
CITY?
, 1892-07-02

THE swell Manhattan Athletic club, of
New York, had the Hon. John L. Sullivan
address them last week. His speech is
appended in full as proof that Mr.. sulli-
van is spell-binder as well as a tragedian
and thumper Gentlemen, amt got
nothing to say but the same old chestnut
as I always says. I've got bad cold this
evening, but am proud to be in this as
semblage. do the best l can, and I re-
main yours truly"
, 1892-07-02

COMMANDMENT CHIEF JOHN PALMER, of
the Grand Army of the Republic, who is in
Washington City, says of the coming sol
diers' reunion in September: ''I will ven
ture the prediction that there will be 5OO,-
600 people in Washington, and that there
will be 75,oO0 old soldiers in that parade.
You may put that down as my forecast
and you will see when the time comes
that 1 will not be far wrong. The ap-
preaching encampment viii be the high
water mark in the gatherings of the old
soldiers of this country, and the like of it
will never be repeated in our day."
, 1892-07-02

of the Chicago Tribune, Grants majority
was 53,94s. In 1876 Hayes had majority
of only 1871 over all, but a plurality of
1881 over Tilden. In 1880 Garheld's ma
jority was but 14,O67, but his plurality was
40,667. Blaine's majority in 1884 was but
2,1Oo, while his plurality was 25Os1, and
Harrison's plurality in 1888 was D, ,1O4.
, 1892-07-02

IT IS hard to see how lyncbing for rape
can be avoided in Oregon. The governor
of the state affords its people no protec-
ton. Pennoyer has just pardon-d a man
out of the penitentiary who was convicted
and sentenced for that very crime. It
would be pretty tough if the mob marched
to Pennoyer's house and lynched him.
, 1892-07-02

Mr.. HARRISON has given the country the
best business administration it has ever
had. Markets hitherto firmly barred
against our merchants have been opened,
while the home market has been preserved.
A change would mean danger, and possi-
bly, disaster. No leaps in the dark.
, 1892-07-02

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS Core
spondents of THE TRIBUNE will please bear
IN mind that no communications will be
published excepting over the authors real
name. Brief letters upon current topics
will always receive attention, and, if found
available, will be used with the conditions
above named.
, 1892-07-02

The DAILY TRIBUNE Will be found on
sale every evening at the following named
places:
}. BENSON STARR, the Chilberg block, on
Main street.
Q. E. LEIGHTON, 113 Fourth street.
CITY BAKERY III Fourth street.
OLYMPIA HOTEL.
, 1892-07-02
FREE TO THE AFFLICTED

All who are suffering from the effects of
youthful ErTors, Loss of Manhood Fail
ing Powers, Gonorrhoea, Gleet. Structure
Syphilis, and the many troubles which are
the effects of these terrible disorders will
receive, FREE OF CHARGE, full directions
how to treat and cure themselves at home
by writing to the CALIFORNIA MEDICAL,
AND SURGICAL INFIRMARY, 1O29% Market
Street, San Francisco, California. febs-tf
, 1892-07-02

IF CONGRESS passes free silver coinage
bill of the American product only and the
president signs it, and the bi-metallic con
gress agrees on a standard dollar it will
simplify things greatly and it will not hurt
Harrison either.
, 1892-07-02

WHAT is all this talk about CLEVELAND d
and Stevenson carrying Illinois. Not
much. Here is how the state of Lincoln
has voted since 1864, when Linooln's ma
jority was 30,7 In 1868 Grants majority
was 81 ,16O, and in 1872 in spite of the bolt
, 1892-07-02
EXERCISES.

Morning Salute, A guns, Procession of Horri-
bles, The grand procession will form under the dec
ton of the Grand Marshal at am, and led by the
Capital City band will march through the principal
the Capitol grounds, where the usual exercises will be held
after which odfashioned clambake with delicious cond
ments, will be provided.
The afternoon sports will be held the public square
and other appropriate places to be selected by the
mittee, and will consist of all the Caedonan sports foot
races bicycle races sack races standing and running jump
and the high leap. Grand double hose contest.
The above contests will be free to all and liberal prizes
will be given to the winners.
feature of the day will be the Inauguration Of the
electric railway system of Olympia.
The usual reduction fare will be given by all the
transportation companies.
, 1892-07-02
A Rook on WnshInrton.

Barton's Hand Book of Washington for
1912, 382 pages, is the most useful book
in the state for politicians, Office holders,
nominees and Others. 1t contains the
state constitution, useful statistics, names
of all federal, state and county officers and
a mass of information not easily obtaina-
BILE. Send 81 to @. M. Barton, Olympia,
w ASH, and the book will be sent post paid.
Copies Of the edition of 188990, so cents. Il
, 1892-07-02

The recent hot spell lasted eleven days
IN the Atlantic seaboard states. Philadel-
phia caught it for all that time with the
thermometer In the nineties.
, 1892-07-02

THERE will be no issue of THE OLYMPIA
TRIBUNE on Monday.
, 1892-07-02

THE nominee of the Kansas republicans
for governor is familiarity known as Farmer
Smith
, 1892-07-02

Coz. JOHN A. CoEKERILL, of the New
York Morning Advertiser, thinks this
promises to be a campaign of babes and
adult idiots and prints the following to
show what dreadful rayages paresis can
make with the human intellect in the Office
of the Cincinnati Enquirer, where it first
aDOearad.
, 1892-07-02

The finest assortment of tennis shirts in
Olympia can be seen at Joseph Cheim's.
Go and get one for 81 80 at 321 Main street.
, 1892-07-02

Now 90 Dit Out, Bennie M'Tee,
My Papa's Tumin' Bat Adam am Tse
Tumin', Too.
700 Will Have to Div Me Dat Wattle-Box
and 'Spress Wagon,
An 'oo Gam Pa VIII HAY to Div His
WOom to My Papa.
100 Sink loose Smart TOz 90 Lives in De
White House.
But 90 Dis Never Mind; When My Papa
Tums Back,
And I Dit in Your Play House and Dit
All Dem Nice Sings,
700 Shan't Tum in and Play / DON'T Want
100 to Ever Speak to Me ANY More,
'Taus Pm Mad to You"