The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-12
A Lesson to the Heather.

A Lesson to the Heather.
The ladies who constitute the board of
lady managers of the worlds fair are all
more or less ardent reformers. Being
such they, of course, seize upon every OPP
portunity that presents itself to instruct
their less fortunate sisters, by precept
and example, in the ethics of a higher
civilization. A few days ago some mem
Der of the board suggested that it would
be a brilliant idea to invite the heather
women in the Midway Plaisance TO visit
the board and see how civilized women
manage great affairs, the like of which
no number of oriental beauties would UNI
dertake. The other members of the
board saw the point, so the omnibus In
vitation was sent.
To drop that part of the story for an
instant, it appears that the board of lady
and jealousies. There are, it is
alleged, a "Ball faction" and
Meredith faction, " which factions have,
on recent occasions, reached that state of
contention that brings tears and denun-
Citations and borders on to hair pulling
Whenever the subject of Ball and Mere
dith comes up the attendants know that
something sgoing to happen, and each
member of the board runs over her stock
of invective, straightens her hat and goes
into the melee in the spirit 'of Macbeths
invitation to Macduff to begin the mill
The matter of Ball and Meredith had
just got fairly under way on Wednesday
the voices of the several speakers dis
cussing the matter in discord had about
reached G below high C-when the
heather from the Plaisance arrived to be
instructed. There were the Persian Ara
bian and Greek beauties, the Cingalese
and probablya few Amazons from Da-
honey. They were astonished: they
stopped in open-mouthed wonder at the
door and gazed on the board of lady man
ayers, their host, in amazement. Momen-
tarily there was the hush incident to mu-
tual surprise; then in their most suave
and seductive manner the American la
dies welcomed the foreign ladies, invited
them to seats on the stage and pctted
them for about two minutes. Then the
visitors were turned over to guides, WHO
were given Instructions to take them
through the building, and the board be
gan on Ball and Meredith where il had
been left off, taking the pitch at G and
carrying it to high c before the end.
The heatheus, it is sand, were much edi-
fed
It appears that under the Evans law
there will soon be as many grogGeries in
South Carolina as there ever were under
the license system. The dispensary act,
if we understand it, permits the
establishing of dispensaries upon the APP
plication of a majority of the freehold
voters, as follows; Ten in Charleston
county, three in Richland county and one
in each of the other thirty-fom counties
in the state. Yet four dispeusarios have
been established in Berkeley county, two
in Lancaster, two or three in Orangeburg,
and so on The number Of dispensarics,
it seems, is to be limited only by the stock
of liquor the governor has on hand to get
rid Of. As to the prohibition" feature
of the bill, there is no prohibition in it.
Lancaster county has been dry for some
time, yet two dispensaries have been
forced on the people There has been no
liquor sold in Horny county for eighteen
years, yet the governor will establish one
or more dispensaries there.
In various quarters recently the wish
has been expressed that Speaker Crisp
would find it convenient to shelve
Uncle" Holman and put less ardent
economist in charge of the appropriations
committee. But the possibility of any
such change has been destroyed by the
Woman's Rescue League of Boston. At
a recent meeting of the roscuers they
passed resolution clubbing the Judge
the grand old man" of the House How
ever, they say, among other things, that
he may have made mistakes in his
choice of men and names for speaker of
the House Of Representatives during his
thirty years continuous service in con
gress." Now, if Speaker Crisp were to
turn him down after that, he would risk
being set down by. the ladies as one of
Holman's mistakes. And Judge Crisp is
nObody's mistake.