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LOUIS APPELT, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. sUTBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year......... ..............$1.50 SixMonths.................... 75 Four Months..................... 50 ADVERTISING RATES: One square, one time, $1; each subse quent insertion, 50 cents. Obituaries and Tributes of Respect charged for as regular advertisements. Liberal contracts made for three, six and twelve months. Communications must be accompanied by the real name and address of the writer in order to receive.attention. No communication of a personal char acter will be published except as an adver tisement. Entered at the Post Office at Manning as Second-Class Matter. IXNNING, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, MAR. 25, 1896. The Observer is in receipt of many pub lie docnments through the kindlncss of Congressman John L. McLaurin, for which we feel grateful. Our own representative having withheld the courtesies they are very much appreciated from Mr. - -Newberrv 0 P .now why Mr. Latimer has withheld public documents from the Ob server, but it occurs to us that it is "cheeky" business for Mr. MeLaurint to be under taking to supply Mr. Latimer's constituents, or any of them, with public documents. We do not think he has any business med dlir.g in the 3d district. and it must be that he has some .me to grind. Probably his own constituents would like to have those documents. It seems to us that the Obser ver and all other Ne*berrians ought to have the kindest feelings towards Mr. Lati mer for he ha., we think, labored harder to get the claim of Newberry college through the committee and congress than any other representative this district has had, and we believe, if we are correctly in formed, he is the only one who has ever suceecded in getting a favorable report from the committee. This is but simple. j-istice to Mr. Latimer, who has labored constantly for the public good, and has now pending before congress two bills that have more merit in themn than any two other bills that have been before congress for many years so far as the people of this State are concerned, and they are the bill to collect the State taxes from railroads in the hands of federal receivers an d the bill to make the original thirteen States equal with the newer States which bill will add so:nething like SI,250,000 to the public school fund of the State. He may not get these biils passed as he is only one of the 400 miembers but it is greatly to his credit that he has gone into altield of legislation untouchied hitherto by any other member -Peoples Advocate. There is such a thing as decency in this world, but it has not reached the office of the Auderson People's Advocate, if the above is at sample of its appreciation. Hon. John L. Mc Laurin sent to the Newberry Ob server some public documents at the request of its editor and no doubt the request was made because the represent~e of the district in which the Newberry Observer is located, on account of factional differences did not send the documents as he should have done, and because Mr. McLau riu did send the documents, the Ad vocate a supporter of Mr. Latimer pitches in to slur and insult Mr. Mc .Laurin, but in doing so it displays its long ears and leaves the friends of Mcbaurin room to question the credit the Advocate is giving Lati mer. Why it is, we can not say, but the tact is that McLaurin is called upon from all over the State to at tend to matters in Washington; this we know and only recently have we seen a letter from a very promineut firm in Charleston calling on Mc Laurin for aid in a matter of great importance to a certain busi ness interests of that city; we are glad and very proud of the tact that the Sixth Congress ional District has sent a man to Con gress whose mind is broad enough to see beyond the confines of factional limits. It is a matter of pride with us that McLaurin's ability is so recognized and appreciated that whenever a matter of importance is up in Congress in which South Caro lizua or a section of it is interested he is called upon for his aid and that he gives the aid asked for. The Advo cate should not ever-reach itself in its praise for Mr. Latimer's services in obtaining a favorable report for the Newberry college matter, because if it will make a search of the records it will be seen that Mr. McLaurin was largely instrumental in engineer ing the favorable report safely through the committee. WYe do not wish to detract from Latimer, but we must protest againist the jealous spirit exhibited by the Advocate. If its friend Latimer was so narrow minded and so filled with factional prejudice that he withheld public documents from the Observer. It should have made no comments on McLaurin for treating the Observer with the com mon courtesy of complying with its requests for documents. When a Congressman fails to supply his con stituents with matter at his diposal he fails to do his duty and when that failure auises from factional pi ejudice his cor-dtct is small and petty. It is a common thing for us to receive public documents from representa tives of Western and other States, but we do not think it is "cheeky," nor do. we think they "have some axe to grind." The truth of the matter is, we knowv that our representative has done his full duty in Congress and that lhe reeds no factional flag waved to encourage his constituency to rally to his support. Right now, every step McLaurin takes is watchedt and commented on. He seems to be a hornet in the breeches of certain politicians and they not knowing I when and where he wiil sting, puts them all on the anxious bench. Aspirants for gubernatorial honors i stand ready to sand bag him should he ,tempt to 121ay in their yard, and andidates for the United States lenate are walking about stiff legged ;ith a machete in each leg of their ants ready to pull them out and ,ive him a swipe should he be found liding down their cellar door, but IcLaurin turns neither to the right ior left, he goes right on attending ;o his work and often the work of )thers. He refuses to be dragged nto the controversies now going on imong candidates, but when the proper time comes he will be heard rom with no uncertain sound, and the little fice who have been snap ping at his heels had better have the big dogs along to keep them from crushing each other in the rush to get out of the way of McLaurin's rocks. We can assure the Advocate if McLaurin has an axe to grind it is not Latimer, for he is not a good size hatchet. RECORD APPEALED TO. Laurensville Herald Quotes Some of Senator Irby's Utterances. It Seeks to Show He is Bound to Stand With Tillman in the Fight for silver. Claim for Political Prescience. Who says that we are not a politi cal prophet? In our issue of Sep tember 27, 1895, we said this: "We want to be in time in warn ing the Reformers against all politi cal pitfalls. There will be many schemes, traps and new alliances planned and formed between now and 1896. Under the pretence of fighting p2jpiofirtendencies of Till rnoE ers, there will be one more expiring, superhuman effort to turn the Reform movement over in to the hands of a lot of political Hes sians. For the present we simply make this timely warning. In 1896 Tillman will, more than ever, be the target for the shafts of the political schemers and the hired tool of the Shylocks. Then it is that your po litical principles and professions are to be tested-whether you have been political hypocrits and your profes sions been as a tinkling cymbal and sounding brass." Ever since the delivery of Senator Tillman's speech in the Senate and his more recent opinion as to what the South Carolina delegation to the National Democratic convention ought to do rather than submit to a gold plank in the Democrtic plat form and a gold-bug candidate for president, the Independent newspa pers in this State are holding up their bands in holy horror at the very thought of such a thing; and we may expect to see still further evidences of opposition cr political antagonism to Tillman by every little political fice who is scenting around for some office or other. There is no doubt whatever that the leading political is sue this year will serve to test the sincerity of every loyal Reformer and silverite in the State. The sheep must be separated from the goats who, under the hypocritical pretense, of loyalty to the "name" Democracy, will seek to defeat the cause of the people and- to stab our brave leaders in the back; and if the Reform voters will only take the time to ferret it out they will discover that there is some big, fat office that the fellow wants and dosen't believe he can get it with the silv'erite or Reform vote, so he tunes his harp to suit the ear of the goldb ugs. The Greenville News is again call ing on State Chairman Irby to either balk the action of the silver Democrats or read them out of the party. It says: "Will the Hon. John L. M. Irby, chairman of the State Democratic Executive Committee, anti the Hon. M. L. Donaldson, member for South Carolina of the Democratic national executive committee, prove recreant to their respective trusts? When the State convention is called to elect del egates to the national convention it should be distinctly informed that no delegates who are instructed to bolt or suspected with good reason of pur pose to bolt, will be admitted to the national convention. "If the State convention takes any such action as Senator Tilhnan sug gests, we will advocate the calling of another Democratic convention, the independent reorganization of the party and the election of a set of del egates instructed and pledged to abide the action of the national con vention whatever it may be." We don't see how Senator Irby, as :bairman of the State Democracy, :an consistently take any such action s that suggested by so politically bybrid a sheet as the Daily News. It will be remembered that Senator [rby, in his silver speech before the United States Senate in October, 893, said: "It is the love and fealty I bear to :he cause of Democracy that has prompted me to keep silent and strain every nerve in an effort to 'con rorm, if possible, to the wishes and policy of the powers that be in the Democratic party; but sir, when I ee the mantle of Democracy used to over Republican monopolists while hey rob the great common people, bis sr~me sentiment that has prompt ~d me to silence and obedience bids ne imperatively to call a halt and evoiL against such an imposition un er Democracy and justice as is now >roposed. I cannot keep my seat oud see the banner of Democracy sub nerged in thc cesspool of Wall street 7eed1, nor can I remuain-silea't and see t polluted to the basest uses by the rotected hand of monopolistic avar ce from New England." Again he says: "Call it what you will, I propose to tand for true Democracy, so true, in act, that I will denounce those who >ropose and follow Republican meth ~ds while masquerading in Demo ratic clothes, no matter who they nav be." In another portion of his speech he avs: "If this great crime against the >eople is perpetrated by them in re ~ard to this, the most important of .11 the legislative questions now be ore the people, I dare to not follow hem, and miy people will sustain me,; ipon the other questions of lessor im >ortance." And a little further on he says: "I make it with reluctance and leep regret, and would gladly avoid he responsibility of taking this posi ion, but I believe it a solemn dutyj wvery State and especially to the 2oble, patriotic, and liberty-loving people of South Carolina, to raise the hand of warning and place those who seem intoxicated with power, upon positive notice that if they ruthlessly and by the aid of Republican votes over-ride our wishes in this, the most important of all the questions of pub lic policy, I for one will not follow their lead another step." And still again: "From the very moment you vote to perpetrate this proposed act which I believe to be a crime against the productive interests of the nation, neither my people nor I will longer follow your lead." And then again, in addition to to what Senator Irby said in his sil ver speech, nobody censured Mr. Donaldson and Mr. Harris, members of the last national Democratic con vention from this State, for their al leged "selling out" to the goldbug influences more than did Senator Irby. And now for the News to ask Senator Irby to repudiate and swal low his own words is not only a big piece of gall on the part of the News, but a reflection on the political hon est and sincerity of Senator Irby. The position Tillman takes in his letter to Mr. Reed, $ud to which the Greenville News takes exception is, in our opinion, both tenable and log ical. It is our first duty to make every possible effort. to prevent the political prostitution of the princi ples of true Democracy, and in the language of Senator Irby himself, to foil the efforts of those goldbug Shy locks who "propose and follow Re publican methods while masquerad ing in Democratic clothes." It is plain to everybody that if the May State convention should fail or refuse to send delegates to the na. tional Democratic convention such action would only be playing into the hands of the goldbugs. We must send regularly accredited delegates to the national convention, and then if their protests against that, conven tion being controlled and dominated by goldbug delegates representing always hopelessly Republican States, are ignored as they have been in the past and through their induence a goldbug tool of the East is foisted upon us, why then as Senator Till man says, it will be time enough to join their forces with the silver men. The goldbug delegates no doubt al ready have an understanding with the Republicans that they will sup port a goldbug Republicen rather than a silver Democrat-at least the Greenville News says that 25,000 or 30,000 white men in South Carolina will vote the Republican ticket rather than vote for a silver Democrat. -Laurensville Hera!d. SANDY GROVE SIFTINGS. Sandy Grove, March 24.-News is still scarce over here. The farmers are two busy with their work to clear new lands. Generally, they seem to be prospering, judging from their homes and surroundings. We hear of several who have planted eorn. Hauling fertilizers and building to bacco barns seems to be the order of the day in this section. Mr. Joseph Gowdy and Miss Emma Coker were married on the 19th inst., at Hebron church, by Pastor Bethea. Death visited the home of Mr. J. M. Mims yesterday and bore away on its icy wings the soul of his little in fant child. We have just read Senator Till man's speech and are now idevoting our spare moments to reading the new constitution. The Manning Times is never - slighted when it gets in. I ask leave to modify my opinion as expressed some time ago in regard to the next President. We believe now, and have good reasons for be lieving, that our noble Senator will be the next President. If not Till man, a free silver Republican. We also believe that the free and unlimited coinage of silver will come in the near future. We hope so, at least. SAM TATTLEa. CONFEDERATE VETERANS, AT. TENTION! Mr. Editor:-We, the committee ap pointedbythe surviving soldiers of the Confederate States army at their last meeting on salesday in March, beg space in your paper for a short re port. The late law on the subject of pen sions requires a meeting of the sur vivors on salesday in April (Monday, 6th day) for the purpose of electing two of their number by ballot as pen sion commissioners, to act with the county auditor and treasurer, who, with a physician to be elected by them, shall compose the board for the present year. Quite a number of our people are entitled to be put on the pension list under the recent act, and we hope there will be a large turn out of old soldiers on that day. Respectfunlly submitted, DANIEL 3. BRADHAM, THOMAs H. HAavIN, Committee. BEWARE OF OINTMENTS FOR CA. TARRtH THAT CONTAIN MERCURY. As mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the in-n. cons surfaces. Such articles abould never be used except on prescriptions from rep utable physicians, as tho damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure,1 manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0.. contains no mercury. and is, taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you] et the genuine. It is taken internally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Che ney & Co. Testimonials free. Min'old by Daggists, price 75 cents per] bottle. -1 HOME AGAIN. "No place like home!" the poet sung, With grateful heart and tuneful tongue. "No place like home!" my tongue repeats, Whilst heart responsive quickly beats "At home, sweet homer' A~t home again! Here quiet reigns Rot that which at Warsaw obtains, But quiet born of peace and love; And chants my heart as cooing dove At home, sweet home! es, "home, sweet home!" Though hum ble, sweet! Fro noise and strife I'd fain retreat, 1 and pass my days in calm content, 3n words of purest love intent, At home, sweet home! Sod bless our home, our land and friends, I So long's the sky above us bends!1 ~less friends near by! Bless those we've left! With all we're blest, of none bereft! At home, sweat home!1 From some we part, with some we meet; fo those farewell, whilst these we greet. . We'll love them all, on land or sea, But most of all while we shall be1 At home, sweet home! f home on earth can be so blest, What joy must be when we shall rest z round God's throne, and with that throng sound forth His praise with harp and song In Heaven, sweet home! PYTIAN COLUM I 0. E. wEBBEn. TE LoRD's PRAYS. "If any be distressedand fain would gather Some comfort, let him haste'unto Our Father, For we of hope and help are quite be reave*, Except Thou succour us Who art in heaven. Thou ahewest, mercy, therefore for the same We praise Thee, singing Hallowed be Thy name. Of all our miseries cast up the sum; Show as Thy joys, and let Thy kindgom come. We mortal are, and alter from our birth; Thou constant art, Thy will be done on earth. Thou mid'st the earth, as well as planets seven, Thy name be blessed here As 'tis in heaven. Nothing we have to use or debts to pay. Except Thou give it us. Give us this day Wherewith to clothe us.wherewith to be fed, For without Thee we want Our daily bread. We want, but want no faults, for no day passes, But we do sin Forgive us our Trespasses. No man from sinning ever free did live, Forgive us, Lord, our sins, As we forgive. If we repent our faults, Thou ne'er dia dainest us; We pardon them That trespass against us. Forgive us that is past. a new path tread us, Direct as always in Thy faith, And lead us We, Thine own people, and thy chosen nation Into all truth, but Not into temptation. 'Ihou that of all good graces art the giver, Suffer us.not to wander. But aenver Us from the fiarce assaults of world and dev.l And Rush, so shalt Thou free us From a11 evil. To these petitions let both Church and layimen, With one consent of heart and voice, say Amen." Damon Lodge, No. 13, convened last Thursday night. The first and second ranks was conferred on two candidates. There was a good at tendance and the meeting proved pleasant and profitable to all present. Bro. D. J. Bradham was present and did much towards making the time pass pleasantly to most of us. D. D. G. 0. Bro. F. ILSpann, came down from Sumter and installed Bro. Jos. Sprott as M. of F. Now let every member drop in at the bank end pay Bro. Sprott his indebtedness to the Lodge. We were sorry Bro. Spann did not feel able to stay with us through the exercises of the evening, and hope he will soon enjoy his usual good health. We are sorry to hear the word "Absent" in calling the roll of officers, and do hope that those who have been absenting themselves will resolve to do better. The fraternity editor of the Albany Argus "talks from the shoulder," hear him: " Here is a little good advice to all offcers who were installed in the twenty-sixth district. If you are elected to any office in your lodge get the blue book, learn every line that is required of you, and make it your ambition to do the .work better than any other offier of the lodge. If you cannot commit the work to mem ory, for goodness sake have the man liness to resign and give the offie to a man who can." This is good advice to officers all over the land. If you can't do your. work properly, get out of the way and let somebody else have an oppor tunity to try. The day for submit ting to the ignorance of blundering and incompetent offiers is past. Do or get. The prosperity of an organization depends to a considerable degree upon the msuner in which the exe cutive officers discharge their duties. Orders do not attain any marked success, or prosper materially, where the officers have become lukewarm and do not evince the proper amount of interest. In no organization will the indifference of the officers so surely affect the order as in a frater nity like ours. In all the business of the courts, and a~ll the ritualistic work, these execntives have so important a part that their failure to perform it properly affects seriously the work ing and detracts from the impressive ness of ceremonies. When therefore, an officer finds that by reason of business engagements, because of Lack of interest, or for any cause what soever, the proper amount of time, consideration and care cannot be given to the duties of his office, it be Eiooves him to resign his position and illow one who can properly discharge the duties to fill the office. Pursu ng any other course than this is wreating the order unfairly, is p lacing aimself in a false position and doing 2O one any good-Advocate. Don't cherish hate. It is not worth while to hate. Your life is not ong enough to make it pay to cherish 11 will or hard thoughts towards any mne. What if that man or woman ias played you false? What if this riend has forsaken you in your time1 >f need, sind treats you as a stranger? Uet it pass. What differ'ence will it nake to you in a few years, when you o hence to the "undisoovered, :ountry?" All who ill-treat you now gill be more sorry for it then, than ' rou, even in your deepest disappoint nent and grief, can be. A few more imiles, a few more tears,-some pleas ire, much pain, a little longer hurry ng and worrying through the world, tome hasty greetings and abrupt fare vells, and our play will be "played >ut," and the injured will be led sway md ore long forgotten. Is it worth i'hile to hate each other?-Our Sb :iety Journal. Charity, as organized in the frater aities, has none of the sting that goes vith the charity from a stranger. Each has done his portion toward :reating the fund, and is able to take t without feeling a pauper. Said old Ben Franklin: "He only s great of heart yho floods the world rith great affection. He only is great >f mind who stirs the world with1 ;reat thoughts. He only is great of rill who does something to shape the vorld to a great career. And he is greatest who does the most of gl hs things. and does th a b.1 RELIGIOUS THOUGHTS. BY REV. J. 0. GOUGH, MANNING, S. C. GArTING A HonnD sIN IN Tar sGNT Or GOD, AND A VIOLATION OF TZa LAW OF Tax STATE. A few weeks ago I bad a short article up on the tendency of this growing sin, with no intention of wounding any one's feel ings, but with a desire to do my duty to God and my fellow-man..;,What I said was from the purest motives. I desired to point out to those who were engaged there in the dangers that lay along this road, feeling that some did not know the crimes attached to it. I also felt that when a citi zen and friend was led into the light and shown the disgrace to which his conduct was leading him, he would prefer his char. acter and good name to the mere "chance" in gambling. Solomon said, "A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches." But I met with muck discourage ment and personal threats. I did not think that what I said then, or now, would stop the sin altogether, but thought that it might serve as a warning. But I see that like the man in his boat passing swiftly down the rushing current to the awfui abyss, fearing no danger and not heeding the warning voice of his friends, he passes over to an awful wreck, so men continue to gamble in our own midst, in more ways than one. The heathenish practice of cock-fighting still continues. To day I venture to say some things on this sin that I trust all who read the Times may see. Dr. Geo. F. Hall says that "gambling is the art of getting something for nothing. It is a sin that is corrupting thousands of men from nearly every wauc of life. The publi. conscience is not yet awakened to the awful sin. No man can long retain his personal purity ot life who gives him self over to gambling, to this subtle agent of hell." Henry Ward Beecher says, "Gambling is the staking or winning of property upon mere hazrrd. The husbandman renders produce for hir gains; the mechanic ren ders the product of labor and skill for his gain; the gambler readers for his gain the sleight of useless skill, or more often down right cheating. Betting is gambling and there is no honest equivolent to its gain." Dr. R. S. McArthur says, "I have no pa tience with a man who gambles. A man who will gamble will steal. Gambling is a.epecies of theft. A man who wants som4. thing for nothing is a dishonest man. The man who says -the world owes me a living and I propose to have it' is a reckless and dishonest man. The world does not owe him a living. The world owes a man just what he will earn, nothing moregnothing less." Some one gives us the history of, crime :uring 1890: "One hundred and twenty eight persons were either shot or stabbed over gambling. Four we're stabbed and 5 shot at 'poker'; twelve stabbed and twenty four shot over game of dice; -28 stabbed and 55 shot over gambling tables; six attempted suicide, twenty-four committed suicide, and sixty persons were mhurdered in cold blood; two driven insane; sixty-eight boys were ruined by pool gambling. This desire has grown so strongly that men of good report have committed crimes to get money to gamble- with. Among these were two burglaries, eighteen forger ies, eighty-five embezzlements, thirty-two persons holding positions of trust in banks, etc., absconded the enormousgsumigof $2,898,37'. To which part of this list can we add the' crimeg of our own State ? Dr. Nott says, "The inishqd gambler has no heart. He could play and bet at his brother's funeral; he would gamble on his mother's coma." Since we are attempting but little as, to originality I wish to quote a few sentences from one of the greatest preachers our age has ever produced. He says: "L. Gambling unfits the mind for the duties of life. Gamblers are seldom indus trious men in any vocation of life. Gam bling vitiates the imagination, corrupts the tastes and destroys industry, for no man will drudge for cents who-gambles for dol lars. II. It destroys all domestie affections. Home is a prison to an inveterate gambler; for a moment he may spoit with his chil dren and smile upon his wife, but his heart, its strong passions are not there. A little rippling stream may flow shrough the family, but the deep river of his affections flows away from home. III. Gambling polutes the life and in ,jures society. Gamblers herd with gam blers. They tempt and provoke each other to all evil. IV. It produces a desire for strong drink. The bottle is as needful as the ma terial upon which to bet. And when they stand in the sight of financial les, they cannot bear the death-like gloom, and by drugs or liquor they wind up their system to the glowing point again, and when the double tires oi gambling and strong drink blaze under a man he wfll soon be con Awmed. -- V. It is almost the inevitable cause of dishonesty. Bobbers have robbers' honor, tnieves have thieves' law, And pirates con form to pirates' regulations. But whete is there a gamblers' code ? One law there is and it is not universal, 'Pay your gam bling detbts,' or in a milder sense, thus: "'Pay what you lose, get what you can and in any way you can.'" But I am told that there are honest gain. blers, gentlemanly gambler.. Certainly ! There are always nype apples before there are rotten.- Men always begin before they end. Players will play truly until they play untruly; they will be honest until they oneat. But men who gamnble cheat, and hie who cheats is dishonest, thererore, a gam bler is a dishonest man let him bet upon what he will. If I walk the dark streets and a perish ing wretch meets and bears off my purse with but a single dollar, -te whole toe-n awakes, the officers are ia'ert, they huct and bring in the trembling culprit and place him in jail. But a worse thief may meet me, decoy my footsteps, and by a greater dishonesty filch ten thousand dol lars, and what then ? The story spreads, the sharpers move abroad unharmed, not ane olicer stirs. It is the topic of all con rersation, and like a sound it rolls to the liatance and dies in an echo. Shall men gamble and continue to vo'mit mut upon a religious community all their iellisn deeds? shall we pretend to virtue tad parity and religion and yet mingle in social life with men whose hearts has con :eived such damnable deeds and whose , -da have performed them ? Shall there se even in the eye of Silyi no difference be ~ween the corruptor of youth and their tuardian ? In almost every form of iniquity there is mome shade or trace of good. We have in gambling a crime standing alone, dark. nalignant, ucompounded wickedneas I When a man begins to gamble, he is a no >le tree full of sap, green wii~h leaves, a shade to beasts and a cbnvent to birds. When he has practiced awrhile he is like hat tree smitten with the 'lighitning, rotten a root, dry in. branch and sapless, sea oaed hard and tough, nothing line be ieath it, nothing on its branches unless hawk or vulture perches for at moment to whet its beak and flies screaming away for tsPrey. But some one says In defense of this hor -id sin, that it is "harmless." Hell is pop. ilated with the victims of harmless sins. !he devil does not often eoiie like a grim lend from the pit, but as an angel of light adient with nneocence. i words fall ike dew drops upon the perishing flower. 3y his arts he leads you to the enchanted grounds, glowing with every refulgent of ieaven. Afar off he marks the dismal i grief of viee and crime, and he warns you >f its dread disaster for the very purpose of linding and leading you hither. Startled or a moment the victim pauses, gases round on the flowery scenes and whis asrs. "Is it not harmless ?" "Harmless,"< esponded a .serpent from the grass !1 'Harmless' echo the sighing winds ! Harm ems re-echo a hundred airy tongaes. If row a gale from heaven might only sweep he clouds away through which the victim iazes I Oh ! if God would break that po ent power which chains the blasts of hell ad let the sulphur-stench roll up the vale, iow would the vision change! The road accome a track of dead mnen's bones; the reavens a lowering storm; the balmy reezes, distant wailings; and all those alsam-shrubs that lie to his senses, sweat Irops of blood upon their poison boughs I You who are meddling with the edges of rice, yon who have begun tn gamble. yon I MONS EGULATOR THE BEST SPRING MEDICINE is SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR. Don't forget to take it. Now is the time you need it most to wake up your Liver. A sluggish Liver brings on Malaria, Fever and Ague, Rheumatism, and many other ills which shatter the constitution and wreck health. Don't forget the word REGULATOR. It is SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR you want. The word REG ULATOR distinguishes it from all other remedies. And, besides this, SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR is a Regulator of the Liver, keeps it properly at work, that your system may be kept in good condition. FOR TE BLOOD take SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR. It is the best blood purifier and corrector. Try it and note the difference. Look for the RED Z on every package. You wont find it on any other medicine, and there is no other Liver remedv like SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR-the Kingof Liver Remedies. Be sure you get it. J. H. Zellin & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. whose passion is infilenced, beware Your eye has already lost its hoiest glance, your taste has lost its purity, your heart throbs with poison, your feet stand on slippery places, whence in due time they shall slide. They shall slide from heaven never to be visited by a gambler; slide down to that fiery abyss below you. out of which none ever come. Then when the last fight has been pitched, the battle over and your soul lont; when the echo of your soul strikes the dark shades of bell; in malignant triumph shall the rich gambler, who cunningly played for your soul, have his prey. Too late you shall look back upon life as a mighty game in which you were the Rake and satan the winner. What shall a man give in exchance for his so)Ul?' Not only is gambling a sin in the sight of God, but an open defiance to the law of the State in which we live. Shall we allow men to gamble at our own doors and boast and brag of their gree ty gains, and .the honeat citizens say nothing of it? Shall the officers of the law, who are sworn to ex ecute the law, close their eyes and refuse to look upon a gambling scene ? Shall the Christian people allow their boys led astray by those corruptors of youth and still be innocent? I have seen boys from the ages of nine to fifteen tramping through the streets and fields with a couple of game cocks going to the place to fight, following iu the footsteps of the gamblers. In the name of Gad, honest citizens of the town of Manning, Is this crime nothing to you? Then do away with your officers of the law and courts of jastice and let sin and crime do their work. Only last week within three miles of our court house, men whose names are known and can be proven, fought their game cocks and gambled thereon. and sfter the fight proudly walked our streets and talked and boasted of their gain, in open defiance of the law. and in the teeth of honest Chris. tian citizens. Where are the offcers of the law? Every one who is guilty of betting. which is gambling, should be arrested at once, and not allowed to carry on their hellish work in our midst. PANOLA PENCILINGS. Panola, March 23.-It has been two or three weeks since this section was heard from, as the Silver correspon dent "H" stray into our territory and with a few strokes of his pen- spoils our only little news items. We hope "H" will confine himself to Silver in the future as we would hate to have to twitch his nose for him. Mr. H. Eugene.Richburg returned to Augusta this morning to take up his old position as salesman in J. B. White Company's dry goods store on Broadway. He will be missed through this section and also in "Coon's" section. They gave him such short notice that he did not have time to go and see his various girls and say the good-bye, but we hope he will be back again soon to spend his summer vacation with us. The farmers generally through this section are preparing to plant corn this week. Some few planted last week and I think after so much rain they have wished many times that they had the seed back in their barns. Our tobacco hot beds are doing well and the plants seem to be in a fourishing condition. Two weeks ago Messrs. D. F. Lide and sons and L. N. Richbourg and sons went on a fishing trip down on Santee to a place called "The Old Field" to try the shad. The trip was njoyed by every one and fish were plentiful. In the pile of fish was a white shad caught by Mr. L. N. Rich bourg which would have weighed about seven pounds as it was taken ut of the water. That was a fine ne for Santee. Quarterly conference convenes at Andrews Chapel on next Saturday and Sunday, the 28th and 29th. The oats through here are doing well now but are small for the time f year, I think, though we hope to see a good crop. SIDCLAIR. PACKSVILLE POINTERS. Packsville, March 24.-On last Sat rday a message was received by dessrs. J. S. and WV. J. Troublefield tating' the illness of their mother, irs. Julia Mosley, of Wedgefield. Lhese young men left at once for heir mother's home and found her inking rapidly. She died at four ~'clock Sunday morning. She leaves en children. While we did not now Mrs. Mosley, we have for some ime been acquainted with these oung men, and the family has our incere sympathy in this deep orrow. Last Friday evening about forty ersons visited the Baptist parsonage at this place giving Rev. C. M. Bil ings a pretty fair pounding in the ay of hams, butter, eggs, sugar, ~offee. rice, and all articles pertain *ng to the grocery line. Rev. Billings preached his first ser non here last Sunday mornIng, and ,1 present were highly pleased with L1n. Dr. E. A. Wyman has been called o preach at Home Branch church ear this place and preached his rt sermon last Sunday. Our Bap ;ist churches are now in a prospering ondition. For some time the Meth dists have had us considerably in he rear, but we hope to accompany hem to the home base yet. Mrs. Julia Corbett returned last aturday to Packsville, after a three nonths' visit to Spring Hill with her ~elatives. Mrs. Corbett is now about tixty years of age and has always es aped measles. We are glad to say :hat they took advantage of her ab ence when they visited their house i.nd all connected families. W. 0. Parnell, the famous tobacco an, who canvasses this State in overed wagon, was taken extremely ick with Ia grippe at this place bout ten days ago, but we are glad o know he is about able to travel ice more. - CooN. UBSCRIBE TO THE MANNING' TIMES, $1tM PER YEAR. The Ducker & Bultman Co. The above company having bought the entire stock of Ducker & Bultman, an- * * nounce to the trade: In addition to all kinds of ...................* * * * FANCY GROCERIES, we are making a specialty of PLANTATION -:- SUPPLIES At Wholesale Prices. Two cars of FLOUR, bought before the advance, offered at less than mill prices. SMOKED BACON, DRY SALT * * * and BUTT MEATS, MEAL, GRITS, RICE, SUGAR, COF * ,* FEE and TOBACCO at Charles ton Prices. First-Class CHEESE at 10 Cents a Pound. A large and complete line of DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, HATS, SHOES and CLOTHING at wholesale and retail. Get our prices befere buying................... The Ducker & Bultan Company, Sumter S. C. Opening Up New Goods! ODRE If you want Goods cheap FAT come to H1D.RIFF'S TASTELESS Bargain . C H ILLonsusu trl In buying out the L Riff stock T O N I Isecured a big bargain and I IS JUST AS COOD FOR ADULTS. WARRANTED. PRICE S0 cts. will give my customers a chance GA.A T, ILL&, Nov.36,183. Pwismadwne C, sLLouws, Mo. It u hae rmm hni paGeien-W sol s" than inboGO GBoVE TAsTL S TONIC and have 1 mos aled t y I any other store. I have a A &, MILUNERY ::- DEPARTMENT --FOR SALE BY R. B. Loryea, the Druggist, under the supervision of expe Manning, S. C. _______________________ renced ladies, and I can guar U. C. LESLIE, atepretstsato st WHOLESALE AND) RETAIL ~ adpie COMMISsION DEALER INCoetseme....... Fish Paclied for Country Orders a Specialty No charges for packing. Send for prices H ui - list. Consignments of country produce areW U - respectfully solicited. Poultr', eggs, etc. Offices Nos.18 and 20Fs Market. Stalls Nos. 18 and 20 Farke COURT east of Bay. .H.U.E. thewilargind my Decembers3a 1hancC STAERT-:- EPRTEN Asses.................lunder3 W thefuleroation of L~ab~lt~es . . 94,34,157 styrops and pier. etlztos Surplus ~ ~ ~ Cmet se=0......................sc8663acotnldswlimrv .Th Insursac andourstl&c., foce -$59,7445 btwe D. p Roial croF.n i~e glaLa185 6164,65 3 ilre Ue erilze OPPOSiE Noys-lst~race meely urCOURT..dicarde frm hs tteet swhly iledng nd ag o ls t .... OU to .4 Fom the ySrs andivnd wecembeartion1 agint9Rut Ourrpmpnst-are ot -dertis6,8c66,la63boom TOta ce of Th -uua Li - $48,uran 43 copn51eutso aeteprmet nti ie of95aed Poi Yo rk n-n $rmr23,ud1aveaopy 8he4ar Insu ee an Annuties n $e9,asking.7 Atu a n ae uang yof sue ar d oruseso tisn3Nsa t. e u Cmnany, h6e sn the correayf Decgmber Stat. Fmthe Sursig w iedde apporne Cmitioeed H HIP~PUTYVD Decembr of ,ad ovrf the Exmsigaomiteeb ceofrio Thhe astsa fe uaceompanyIavonh dacreul slctdy d Tophe d mtee thae carefuly rorecmer lateo, h ev ih BamBf oii dthe undesigned totem, aond heeb Certifytt at ri ohnad as ht ea nethe ats speidtaeen rte esono eng orsting$10 pe13 Decembergh 3 er, ti5, andtoer the mmite bay.D.Guz costmaion t the hcae of the ineompany.Mnnn,.C ofThe Companye aeareful theiaprovarmed the ssod r, asi nd tea n r by ert ich thaot . ~ L EN thcsatuntis n lrtcuhe rs hav orrnet and theat buinessinger t hnstacatedteCmmte b er of theHavompann enperxercesofhthirtypseven oears, systema offesrbiandrofessonal serticestochhehpeopl couftslandndouchounthaveatisnaction gnarahe b e R gen ra NS ransacted. ~oed cH~s. R..OENDENaos WM.EP.SDix. Waruran R. Grr.ra General Manager ______________ saac F. LL~OYD ad Vice-President Famoxarc CaOxwELLr TreasureeTR.3FRNGEE, Exsoar McCrmroc Actuary L Pure DrugsOFIEIMNNNHOE. and Medicines ALWAYS ON BAND AT JONSWIS, he Well-Known and Reliable A~a~walr~Lw DRUG STORE OF Dk.W. M.Brockinton TeTryFs onal In addition to a full and completeWHESLSIPRSO stock of drugs, Medicines andal Chemicals, we keep a complete Chihcf Kd, assortment of .w. Patent Mecdicines, Toilet Articles,Oureurseonfrhietsf Eye-Glasses,weaeperetospyoandsid Spectacles,qaniyChretnitholymkt And the thousand and one things anbigstteonhecawer usually found in every first-class te r agt utb rs.W oii and well-regulated drug store.yorptnge lcitdtounales ill chroek maie applicatEi~ ayof ofaaroerfet. 22ze onDMtning sufficeSTn Pot