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A correspondent in the Monroe Tele.
graph-Bulletin makes some sensible
suggestions concerning an evil that ia
quires %remedying /; among other things,
he says:
jury room, where men are pent up like So
many bedless aud cOmfortless cattle, cannot
render a reliable verdict, no matter how i'm
portant or interesting the case may be. A
few seats, u fireplace and a table, or such
things as may happen to find their way into
the jury room, are what constitute its furni-
ture. The writer takes the o~ccasioH to say
that q WORKOUT, jaunted jury is more treach-
erous than one admitted to rest, and we be-
lieve it to be a fact. If such a change would
be made here as would render the condition
of the juror a more comfortable one, we think
that it would greatly improve the times. in
both the selection of a jury and the decision
after they have been selected. Most men
cultivate an adherence to serving on a jury,
especially ono that they imagine will involve
more than a day and nothing has done more
for this condition of affairs than the in.
efficiency Of the quarters into which they are
invited.
Times Democrat: The liquor law just now
in favor among the eIperimentalists is what
IS known as the dlspensary system. This is
of recent invention. having just been put into
operation III severa. Georgia towns aud couu-
Ties. Under the dispenAary system the gov.
itself runs tha liuuor business, and
runs and CONTROLS the barrOoms. The county
or town officers purchase the liquor and re-
tail it. the bar-keepsrs beltg as much officials
as The judges, police ar otHpe government EN-
ployes. Ii is claimed that this plan works
well, because it gives the authorities absolute
control of the business, as well as provides a
handsome sum for the government. AS we
have said, the new law hasdbeen experiment.
ed with In Georgia, where II has proved sue
cesstui. Clark county, for Instance, retupss
a clear profit on the years business of $l4 600,
which will pay most of the county expenses,
and there was less drunkenness and fewer
rows than ever before. So avpar-
emily successful has the system proved that
South Carolina has just adopted it for the
whole State, and made the office of dispenser
OF liquors a State instead of county one.
Electricians in the employ of the EXPOSE
ton are hanging arc lamps throughout the
buildings and grounds, and in some of the
this work is nearly completed. All
the walks and promenades will be brilliantly
as the lamps will be placed
avery seventy.fve feet or so. The shores of
The lagoon will be almost as light as in day-
time, so that evening sessions of the fair
riding in the electric launches and other
boats in the lagoons will be one of the most
features of the Exposition. The
buildings will be correspondingIy brilliantly
Illuminated. In the main building there will
20 probably 1900 arc lamps, in addition to a
great many incandescent lamps. In the
Electricity Building there will be special
in artistic effects in electric lighting
With colored and miniature incandescent
amps, In addition to about 400 arc lamps.
The basin will be particularly highly illnmin-
ted on open evenings, and for this purpose
here will not only be several hundred arc
but also several thousand incandes.
eut lamps, the two electric fountains, and
earch lights. +