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LOUIS APPELT. EDITOR. MANNING, S. C.: W EDNESDAY, NOV. 22, 1899. PUB3LISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. SUBSCRIPTJON R:ATES: 0-)(. Year ....................... .0 "ix Montis ...... ............... 7 Four Months.....................50 ADVERTISING RATES: One square, one time, $1; each subse quent insertion, 50 cents. Obituaries and Tributes of Resper 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. Entsred at the Post Office at Manning as Second-Class Matter. The Evils of Intemperance and Its Consequences. By special request, that the follow ing sermon by Rev. J. J. Meyers, de jivered before a large audience at Fellowship Baptist church, Clarendon county, on the 1st Sunday of Nov., be furnished the THE MANNING TIMvs for publication: I appear before you today to advo cate the cause of Temperance, and to plead with all my soul for a dying world and fallen humanity. My only object and purpose at this time is, to enforce the claims of fearful numbers of perishing men, by some plain and simple, yet practical arguments which have affected my own mind, and stirred my heart to its very depth. Standing before you, I desire to lift the voice of warning against the most damning evil of the age, the all body and soul distroying plague, "The evil of intemperance." And in doing so, I have chosen a few verses of scrip ture for a basis of my remarks, and as a leading standpoint of a living argument that will support and bear me out in this discussion, in both, the defence of temperance, and qaainst intemperance, and just here, let L4 say, that I do not propose to treat tha subject before us as a more matter for argument sake-as many do and make harm of it-neither do I propose to discuss the question sim ply from conjecture or supposition to accomplish the purpose and end of this cluestion; no! for there can be no real profit whatever, or satisfac tion derived from guess work, with out proof and sound matter of facts. I tell you, that there is no pay or profit, to stand before men, and con sume time by telling them, it is wrong and a curse to drink whiskey; or that it is right to abstain from its use, without practical proof, neither does it pay to attempt to discuss grave questions, on sacred thing~s, or unfold truths and realities as they may seemingly appear or exist from a human standpoint of thinking with out absolute proof from the word of God. Conjecture upon conjecture, and supposition upon supposition, how ever plausable, respecting this great question that is now agitating men's minds, can avail very little, if any thing, in the accomplishment of its end, that God has designed apart from his own prescribed way and teaching, and as revealed in his own inspired word. Favor or approba tion fails; superficial pleasing or not pleasing fails; no display at oratory, or anything else that human ingenui ty can devise; can possibly avail or accomplish that good, without proof. Genuine lasting impressions are never made upon men's minds, or questions properly unfolded; unless they have proof to back them, and simple argu ment based on simple fact. There fore we propose now in this address, to prove what is said by this "word of truth;" and by practical reasoning, sober thought, and simple common sense argument; we trust that good may come; and thus settle the ques tion, that so intensely concerns you and me and all,both for time and eter ni'y. Our text may be found; Prov. 23: 20 21, 29--32. I remark that the gcspel of Jesus Christ, is a huge tem p)erance sermon from first to last, his veiy life is the center, around which the entire gospel sheds forth its life healing and life-giving power; a blaz ing epistle of example, warning and admonition to mankind, so here let us heed it. No question perpaps, has so agi tated and stirred the hearts of the peo in all the centuries past as the cause of temperance now pending in this great 19th century. All good peo ple, lovers of God and humanity, without distinction name or order, throughout the land, are actively en gaged in the prosecution of this great work upon which human happiness, to a very large extent rests. And -. '-~' 'od-who once loved d fought bravely in irse, and to overthrow bat was brought to * destroy it; are now as friends to tem andtalntusing their means, time an aetto build up that, they once sought so hard to destroy, much has been said and writen on the sub ject of this great destroyer of mind, body and soul: the evil itself, and its consequences. Yes my friends, it is an evil, the very king of evil, and outgrowth of so many others that carries every thing to ruin, poverty and shame; Catarrhi Cannot be Cured with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the desease. Ca tarrh is~ a blood or constitutional desease, and in order to care it you must take inter nal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hairs Catarrh Cure is oot a quack medicine. It was prescribed by one or the best physicians in this coon try for years, and is a regular prescription. It is comuposed of the best tonics known, combined with the best purifieis, acting directly on the mncous surfaces. The per fect combination of the two ingredients is what pruces such wonderful results in enring Catairrb. Send for testimonials, free. F. J.CHxEEY & Co., Props.. Toledo, 0. Sold by druggists, price 75c. and ends in contempt finaly and eternally, alarming to contemplate, that the king of pleasure, is the pleas ure seeking in the bowl. Men de light to quaff the liquor cup to their full, and disipate the hours in mid night revelry; they drink, and are now satisfied without the burning, craving thirst that calls for more still, their chief joy is to resort where the accursed stuff and firery liquid is bar tered away in fearful quantity and measure, that craves and destroys every sensibility and being itself. Listen to this: the man who loves his bowl, his egg-nog, his toddy, his dram, his puneb, his bitters or what not; needs no better proof and argu ment, picture or story to illustrate the fearful fact of its sad and painful consequences, than that of his own individual experience. The experi ence of all wine lovers, amounts to this, and this only: "Wine is a mock er, strong drink is raging; he that loveth such pleasure, shall not be rich, he shall be a poor man." Again, verses, 29-32. Every wickedness brings mischief with it, especially strong drink, which leads to so many evils. But who is the man that es pecially draws on himself all manner of sorrows and inconveniences, both in soul, body and estate? Who is the man that raiseth quarels, and contentions upon every trifle? Who is he that is full of idle, absence and unsavory words? Who is he that in distempered frays gets stripes and wounds? Who is he that afflicts his eyes with defluctions and inflama tions? Who is he that when he is drunk, say and do, what he would not even dare, when he is scber? Ah! it is he "who geeth to seek mixed wine and tarry long at the bowl," Sad truths. "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging; and whosoever is de ceived thereby, is not wise." Here comes the warning, the sad illustra tion of the trusts: that strong drink of any and every kind, when improp erly used, throws down the fences of reflection, fear, and shame; excites men to profane mockery of things holy and sacred; to revile the most peaceable and respectable characters; to ridicule or reproach their best friends; to commit the greatest out rages; to embroil themselves in riots and quarels; to gratify the basest lusts, or to commit the most rash and ruinous crimes; and the satisfaction expected from it mocks and deludes the poor drunkard. Be assured, drunkenness or wine drinking is an enemy to wisdom, even in common things; much more in those of everlasting consequence. But Again, read verses 29-32. Alas! who has more misery and sorrow than his neighbors? Who is always en gaged in riots, fightings, duels or law-suits? Who is frequently cover ed with bruises, or laid up with dan gerous wounds, when neither called to defend himself, his friends, nor his country? Who carries the marks of his distempered body, in the red ness of his eyes, and in his bloated countenance? Do you not see at once my fellow creatures, the force of this truth; that these are t-be wretched distinctions of those "that tarry long at the wine, that go to seek mixed wine." Should there be one or more who sit under my voice, addict ed to the evil habit of strong drink, 0! let me entreat you beware of the serpent that lurks at the bottom of the cup; beware of contracting the habit of wine drinking beyond the bounds of strict temperance, it is extremely, fearfully dangerous +o tamper with anything that goes through the mouth into the body under the name of wine, whiskey, bitters or what not, that has the slightest tendency to intoxicate. The wine may sparkle in the glass, and appear beautiful to the eye; and drunken poets may write very ingen ious things in praise of it, and say there is no harm etc. It may please the palate, and exhilerate the mind for a moment; but "at last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder:" It infiames the passions, fits them for every hateful crime; it ruins a man's constitution and character, and tends to beggar his family, it is an incentive to the basest lusts, and causes many to fall into that deep ditch and narrow pit, from which so few ever escape with their lives; making them an easy prey to those lower "hells" who lie in in wait for them to destroy, and wthose constant employment it is, to "increase the transgressors among men;" Ah! it leads a man, without precaution to run himself into unnumbered dan gers and unexpected death, and yet it facinates him in such a love for whiskey-his cruel oppressor and his galling claims-that he only sleeps to recruit himself, that when he awakes he may return to it, his distructive indulgence again, (35 v.) Who then with common sense, would contract such a habit, or sell himself to an in iquity, which tends to such accumu lated guilt and misery, and exposes a man every day to the danger of dying intoxicated, and waking up in depair? Thus the wisdom of God warns men against this common but 'fatal vice (31, 32, v.) Truly it is written: "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging." And again, "woe unto them, says God, "that rise up early in the morn ing, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!" "And the harp, and the viol, the tabset and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts; but, they re gard not the work of the Lord, neith er consider the operation of his hands, Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink," (Isa 5. 11. 12. 22.) Oh my people! let me declare it, God help me proclaim it, that intem perance means nothing more or less than degradation in the most con ceivable form. There is no sin which doth more deface God's image than drunkenness. It disguiseth a man and even unmans him. It is the very shame of nature itself, the destroyer A Lile And Death Fighit. Mr. WV. A. Hines of Manchester, Ia., writ ing of his almost miraculous escape from death, says: "Exposure after measles it: duced serions lung trouble, which ended in Consumption. I had frequent hemor rhages and conghed night and day. All my doctors said I must die. Then 1 began to use Dr. King's New Discovery for Con sumption, which completely cured me. I would not be witbont it even if it cost $5.00 a bottle. Hundreds have used it on my recommendation and all sayv it never fails to cure Throat, Chest and Lung troub les." Riegular size 50e. and $1 00. T1rial bottles free at the R. B. Loryea drug store. of reason, the very shipwreck of char ity and the murder of conscience. Christian people, what are we do ing in the way of heading off this awful currant of iniquity? We often speak out and cry aloud of the evils of the times that are hurrying souls to eternal death. We speak of this, that and the other evil, and say this is the greatest, that and the other the greater; but let me say and confess freely, calmly, soberly and conscientiously, that wine and strong drink, drunkenness, is the greatest curse of this country and blot on our civilization. The monster liquor traf fic is an institution, the very capitol, so to speak, of satan's empire on earth and hell. Liquor selling anl liquor drinking is the greatest iniq uity and shame of the country and of the age. Let us see: First-Liquor traffic produces sor row, suffering and starvation. That alone means a great deal. Second-Drinking results in dis ease, death and daniLation. That means more than a great deal. There is no possible way of evading this awful truth. Just here let us notice some plain figures, estimates and facts respecting the cost of intenper ance. It is estimated beyond a shadow of doubt, with no exagaeration, that more than four hundrad and ninety million gallons of spirituous liquors are drank in this country annually, which, if loaded upon thirty-foot teams holding ten barrels each, would reach quite or nearly seven thousand miles. The annual cost of over a million paupers made by intemper ance amounts to about fifty million dollars; of the insanity resulting from it, about fifteen million dollars; ex pense to the country of the crimes committed by it is over forty-five million dollars. Add to these amounts the cost of the liquor, about a billion or more of dollars; the value of the grain, sugar and property destroyed, the labor lost and the sickness in hos pitals and we have the estimated enormous amount of one billion six hundred and fifty million dollars an nually expended in this country for this body and soul-destroying curse. Ah! we raise our voices in denounc ing crime, and warn the people against sin; we speak out freely against murder and viIated law, against Sabbath-breakint,, extortion and deception, bad government, po litical trickery and fraud and so on; are we not apprised of the alarming truth that liquor traffic and drinking are mainly the outgrowth of these evils that is setting this fair earth on fre of hell-the withering, blighting curse of alcohol? Behold the evil itself and the consequences that fol low. Shall I attempt to describe it? No! Perhaps no one can better an swer the question more truly than a learned and prominent lawyer at the bar in one of the courts of New York, pleading for "temperance," setting forth its evils and consequences. I shall here quote a few of his striking words. He said: "Intemperance cuts down youth in its vigor, manhood in its strength and age in its weakness. It breaks the father's heart, bereaves the dot ing mother, extinguishes natural af fection, crazes conjugal love, blots out filial attachments, blights parental hope and brings down mourning age in sorrow to the grave. It produces weakness, not strength; sickness, not health; death, not life. It makes wives widows, children orphans and fathers fiends, and all of these panI pers and beggars. It feeds rheuma tism, nurses gout, welcomes epidemic, invites cholera, imports pestilence and embraces consumption. It cov ers the land, this fair and beautiful world with idleness, mnisery and crime. It fills our jails, supplies our almshouses and crowds our asylums. It is the life-blood of the; gambler, the stronghold of the burglar, the prop of the highwayman and the support of the midnight incendiary. It countenances the liar, respects the thief, esteems the bold plasphemer. It violates obligations, loves frauds and honors infamy. It incites the father to butcher his helpless off spring, the husband to slay his wife, the child to grind the suicidal axe to take the innocent blood. It burns up men, consumes women, detests life, curses God and despises heaven. "Again, it nurses perjury, defiles the jury box and stains the judiciary. It degrades the citizen, debases the legislator, dishonors the statesman, disarms the patriot. It brings shame, not honor; misery, not happiness; terror, not safety; despair, not hope. It poisons the sweetness of home, kills peace, ruins morals, blights con fidence, slays reputation, wipes out all honor, then curses the world and laughs at its ruin." It does all that, my fiiends, and more. Let me say, it murders the soul, it is the sum of all villainies, the father of all crimes, the mother of abominations, the devil's best friend and God's worst enemy. Tell mue then, is not the liquor traf fic and drinking the very king or evil that is making fearful h'ivoc and a sure death shot to peace, society, vir tue, morals and to human happiness in general? Our country's best in terests are in jeopardy and hang over the vortex of destruction. Yea, the blighting, withering curse of alco hol now threatens to engulf our loved State, Carolina. Her once fair and proud name is now not so well loved1 and honored by her own sons wvho are loyal to God and truth. Her State "dispensary has already proven itself an iniquitous institution, a shame and blot on her civilization. Whiskey in all shapes and forms and disguises is being sold all over the country, filling the land with sorrow and crime. Bleeding hearts and wr etched homes and blasted lives and pauperized children stand in fearful numbers as an evidence of the curse, and are calling and pleading in their most desperate necessity for relief and salvation from the evil. The voices of wives, mothers and sisters throughout the land rend the skies for the outpouring of heaven's curse upon this monster whiskey bus iness, under which may be found the wreck of husband, father, brot~her, The Appetite of a Goat Is envied by all poor 'lyspeptics whose stomach and liver are ont of order. All such sh'ould know tbat Dr. King's New Life Pills, the wonderful stomach and liver remedy, gives a splendid appetite, sound digestion and a regular bodily habit that insures perfect health and great energy. son. The world is full of weeping and heavy hearted Rachels, crying for their children who have perished by this worse "massacre" than that of Bethlehem. Homes far and wide may be found presenting the sad and painful picture of broken-hearted mother, sister, pouring out their heartaches in bitter wailings and lamentations over the fallen husband, father, son and brother-fallen under this blighting curse. Many a father has gone and stood before the grated bars of the prison cell and looked upon the boy of his pride and there wrung his hands in agony as the sad picture of disgrace was being presented to his eye. Ah, the world is full of mourning Davids, bending over drunkards' graves, pouring out the soul-bleeding cry, "Would God I had died for thee; oh, Absolom, my son, my son!" The voice of many mothers may be heard in homes desolate and sad, exclaim ing as the heart would break, in lan guage too tender and full "Where is my wandlering boy tonight? The boy of my tenderest care, The boy that was once my joy and light, The child of my love and care." In conclusion, let me add this much, my closing words, to all: Avoid as you would a plague this fearful destroyer of peace, health, life, body and soul. And as you value character, happiness and the approval of God or man, "Look not upon the wine when it is red," for be assured, as you "tarry long at the wine and go to seek mixed wine, so sure will be seen the handwriting upon the wall." Oh, shall the record be, "Found want ing," or shall it be, found trusting? while that hand is writing-writing on the wall. Shakespeare, on the spirit of wine, said: "0 thou invincible wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee 'devil."' Shakespeare is right, and it is alarming to know the lamentable truth that this "devil" may be seen in the Christian church. So here I would sound out another kneynote of warning to church mem bers--be it ashamed to such who drink whiskey; that it is the reputa ble Christian wine drinkers who are the men who send forth from the high places of society, and sometimes even fromn the portals of the sanctu ary an unsuspected, unrebuked, but powerful influence which is secretly and silently doing on every side among the young, the aged, among the females, its work of death. In God's name, my brother, let the deadly serpent alone. Hear your Saviour speaking to you: "Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of this life and so that day come upon you unawares." "For as a snare shall it come on them that dwell on the face of the whole earth." Remember, brother man, that the church of Jesus Christ is the great bulwark that shields our Christian civilization against anarchy and intemperance, with its train of lawlessness and barbe rism. And, aside from all per'sonal considerations, it would seem to be evident that the public morals and the public weal would be best pro moted by a great temperance reform. When whiskey men and dispensa ries are made to see their error in dealing out the accursed stuff to their fellowmen; that it is wrong to deal in an article so damnable and de grading to society; made to see that it is unjust, contrary to law, reason and conscience to sell it; made to see that he is a traitor and enemy to peace and good will; enemy to vir tue, morals and human happiness, and is an abuser of all that is holy, sacred and divine, then the day of joy, peace, good will and prosperity will sureiy come to our now distracted land. No man or institution can be rec ognized by a people loyal to God and truth; to be a friend, citizen, neigh bor and well-wisher to the country's welfare-who deals in whiskey and sells it to sons and fathers and h::us bands and neighbors. "Sawmills don't pay without logs to saw, neither can bar-rooms or dis pensaries pay without our sons and fathers and husbands to run them." The great need of the hour for pub lic morals and public weal, lies in a great temperance reform, a complete turning over, and away with the in famous and iniquitous business. The duty of the church and the nation's people in regard to all forms of in temperance is set forth in no uncer tain sound, as recorded in Rev. 18:4, 5. It is high time to awake, oh, ye Christian people, and heed tbe living voice that speaks to us all today. Now a parting word and 1 have done. Let us have the grit and courage to say No! to wr-ong, and Yee! to right, every time as long as life lasts. "When sinners entice thee, consent thou not." "Enter not into the paths of the wicked and go not into the way of evil men; avoid it, pass ntot by it, turn from it and pass away." "For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence." "Ponder well the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be es tablished." And above all, from first to last, under any and all circum stances. "Dare to say 'No' w~hen you1 are tempted to drink, Panse for a moment, my boy and think Think of the wrecks upon lbre's ocean tossed, For answering -yes' without counting the cost; Think of the mother who bore you in pain. Think of the tears that will fall like the rain, Think of the heart and cruel thbe blow, Think of her love and at once answer No! "Tink of the hopes that are down in the bowl, Think of the danger to body and son!, Think of the sad lives, once as pure as the snow, Look at them now and at once answer nor Think of a manhood with rum-tainted breath, Think of its end and the terrible death, Think of the homes that, now shadowed with woe, Might have been heaven had the answer been no. "Think 6f the lone graves, both unswept and unknown, Hiding from hopes that were fair as your own, Think of proud forms now forever laid low, That still might be here had they learncd to say no; Think of the demon that lurks in the towlI Driving to ruin both body and soul, Think of all this as life's journey you go, And when you are tempted, by the graic o God, say no!" The TLord be with you all. Amen. AT CUT PRICES -AT THE W..IDE AWAKE RifBnY BARGAIN STORE GENTLEME'S LIST. Good stock Men's Plow Shoes at - 99c. Real fine Calf Shoes, Lace and Congress, $1.24 Men's Heavy Oil Grain Congress Shoes for farm use, the $1.50 kind, - 1.24 Good home manufactured Men's Work Shirts, - - - 44c and 49c Men's broad solid back Suspenders - 25c Good long men's Suspenders - - 10C Big line of Youth's Suspenders at CUt Prices. Table List for Thanksgiving and Xmas Dinners, all Fresh, New Stock, just received: London Layer Raisins, Seeded Raisins, i lb. pkgs, Currants, i lb. pkgs, Citron, Maple Leaf Preserves, Preserves in 5 lb. pails, Atmore's Mince Meat, Powdered Sugar for Icing, Fancy Candy for Cake Dressing, Always a pleasure to show you goods and quote you prices. THE OLD RELIABLE 4s. A. RIGBY. I rmx Goods Are Cheap. I Will Sell and Do Not Propose to Carry Over Any Fall Goods. With such a condition of affairs, the business man is put to his trumps to study out the most effectual way of meeting the people and sharing their burdens, to remedy the bad effects caused by any turn in affairs which op erate adversely to the people. It is unnecessary to in troduce myself to the readers of The Times, they know me, and they know full well that my many years of ex perience, both as a farmer and a merchant, give me a de cided advantage over many others. I have used my ex perience that it may count for the best interests of my business. In doing this I had to study the needs and and wants of my patrons, studying their condition as wvell as their welfare, because upon their welfare de pends my success. Every business man, to keep up with the progressive spirit nowv pervading this country must study the markets just as a lawyer or doctor must study his books. This must be done or he cannot buy his goods to meet competition. I have made deals by which I can sell goods at prices that cannot be duplicated anywhere, and I am going to do it. A visit to my store will convince any buyer that my immense stock has been selected with the greatest care, and contains everything that can be used in the family, or on the plantation. There is no store in this section of the State that has a more varied assortment of Foreign and Domestic Dress Goods, Notions, Fancy, Goods, Trimmings, Oiothing, ilats, Gents, Furnishing Goods, Shoes, Hardware and Cutlery. Sadlery, Harness, Crockery, Glassware, Wood and Willoware. Dress Making Department Up-Stairs. My Grocery Department is thorough and complete; I buy direct by the car load from the best mills and packers. Sugars, Coffees, Teas, and everything in the Grocery line in such quantities purchased to give my patrons the advantage of wholesale figures and can save my pa trons money. I am paying all the market will permit for cotton and in a position this year to make it advantageous for the people to bring their cotton to Manning. I solicit a continuence of past favors. YOURS TRULY, J. W. fcLeod. New Goods. Millinery Store. Miss Mollie Avant has opened in the store next to the postoffice, in TE MANNING TmEs block, where she will be glad to see any of her friends. She has been in this business for about eight years and thoroughly understands it. She has been very careful in selecting the stock and she has noth ing but new, first class goods-goods that will suit the people of Manning and Clarendon county. We have just opened up and are kept very busy, and we say that we can save you from f Oc to $1.50 on every hat you buy, and then, too, you get some thing new and up-to-date. Watch this space next week. Yours for business, MISS MOLLIE AVANT. i7mitm m rnmitimm 9 immmmmlitilit D.,. C AN LE owrhaheeoo e In. Me' Sis r me. . 3 o 2 DobeetmadK es fro . 1 o 6 D. J. CANDLE Wilso yusm of h betvle-ee fee lina.! -