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Show SOUTH C.UtOI.I.Vt'.S KXl'l.ltniL.Nr. In a Itvr weeks more thu stato of Houllt Carolina will cease to Issue license s to sell liquor and will dlspenie that article Itself under the moat rigid safeguards. This, llko nio-t such da-per da-per aires from long established customs, partakes largely of tho experimental, but It la Justified Jus-tified If not demanded by the awful spread and Increase of the Indulgence In aloohollo stimulants. The Gothenburg Gothen-burg -yetom now unlergtlng trial In Hweden has similar features aud a similar sim-ilar object In view, and up to date, S3 far aa wo have been advised, tbo results have proven quite sallifsstory. Tbo now prohlbltiry law or the Palmetto stale Is pronounced a Ita). watt enactment. Afler July 1st saloons aud club houses will be regsrded as disorderly liouaea. Druggists who sell alcoholic liquors, except when compounded com-pounded as medicine, will lio liable) lo severe punishment. There will be but forty-elx laces In the statu at which liquor can be legally sold, and Iheie will ba In charge of slate agents, who must ho total abstainers. They will be -ermltted to dispense th-lr commodities only to those wbo make written applies tlon staling their necessities. neces-sities. Drunkards, strangers and re-puled re-puled dealers In liquor will not be permitted lo buy. This seems as stringent as possible without resorting to a prohibitory law, which has been shown In nearly every coso to be utterly Ineffectual. If the drinking clan could only realise how much of tho time, attention atten-tion end means of the other data they have caused aud are still causing to be expended In their behalf, such labor of love and Christianity would not be quite so dlicouruglug as It sometimes !; but dlicoursKlugorotherw.se, there must ba no halting or heiltallng In the work ao long as there Is una erring soul left who may by tatlence and persistence per-sistence be brought forth from tho fiery furnace. |