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APPEUP- ditoir. MANNING. S. C., APRIL 15. 1908. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year-.-..-.............. i 50 Six months...........--.-.-.-- -- - .-.-..- . Foul months...................... 50 ADVERTISING RATES: One square. one time. 51: each subsequent in sertion. 50 cents. Obituaries and Tributes of Respect charged for as reguln-r advertisements. Liberal contracts made for three. six and twelve Communications must be accompanied by the real name and address of the writer in order to reeeive attention. No communication o a personal character will be published except as an advertisement. Entered at the Postoffice at Manning as Sec ond Class matter. CONDITIONS DIFFER. Elsewhere there appears a let ter from Mr. W. A. Burgess, a former Summertonian, now a citizen of West Virginia. and as we believe in a "square deal" the use of these columns are al ways open to those who disagree with our views upon publi ques tions, but by this we do not mean to license men to use these columns free of charge to exploit their candidacy for office. Any one desiring to defend the cause of prohibition or any public question is welcome to this paper. Mr. Burgess is a close reader of THE TIMES, as all must be who appreciate the effort for a good paper; his article no doubt will be pleasing to many of our readers. According to our cor respondent "two years is too ridiculously short a time in which to expect a prohibitory law to break up an evil which is so deep-rooted." The probibi tionists do not seem to think so. because they cite prohibition to be practical, because of the con-4 dition which existed during the interum between the closing of the State dispensary and the -opening of the county dispen sary-about three weeks. We cannot cite a county in the State where prohibition has been satisfactory, the dissatis faction may not, on account of certain influences: be able to change conditions, but never theless, we do not believe there is a county in this State that has practical prohibition. We never have said those who vote prohibition should be "spe cially charged with the enforce ment of the law" if we did, it was not so intended, the idea intended ' be conveyed was to direct attention to the duty of citizens. In liquor cases espec ially, it is hard to secure prose cutions, and harder still to se cure convictions. The editor of this paper has never sworn out a warrant for the arrest of any body, not having any occasion to do so, but would not hesitate to do so did he have knowledge of the violation of law which affected the public welfare, and he certainly would not be a party to return "No Bill" if on a grand jury, or "Not Guilty" if on a petit jury, if the evidence justified an opposite verdict. No, the questions are not fair, because they are misleading, they appear as if we have been in position to testify against the violation of these laws, when the fact is, we do not visit places where liquor is sold illicitly, and rarely when it is sold lawfully, we have no occasion to, but- did we buy liquor from a person who was selling it unlawfully, we certainly would not betray him, and regardless of what those voting for prohibition might say to the contrary we believe nine ty nine per cent of those who buy whiskey from illicit dealers regard it a despicable piece of business to betray the man they aided to violate the law-hence the difficulty in securing convic tions. Yes, we give it as our judg ment ' 'that Clarendon will never be' "dry" while surrounded by "wet" counties." We believe this because of the county's situation; there is a strong tendency for the trade of this county to go to Sumter, and it is only the strenuous efforts of our mer chants that keeps a part <~ - at home. One reason is that the railroad facilities to Sumter are better and more convenient than -our public roads, it is a larger city and the competition is sup posed to be sharper and more attractive. and now to take the liquor traffic, and leave it in Sumter, the people who buy li quor in this county, will either order from abroad or go to the nearby town of Sumter. We do not believe the abolishing of the dispensary here, and leaving it in the neighborhood will de crease the drink habit five per cent. Mr. Burgess' apple illus tration may do as an illustration to a Sunday school class buti when it comes to every day prac tical life it is vapor, the same may be said about his young man who never drank up to a certain day, and all at ofice de cided to become a drunkard and went straightway and bought a barrel. Drunkards are not made that way except on the lecture platform. We admit liquor to be a great evil, and should be restricted in a sane, reasonable manner. Liquor however is accused of many crimes that should not be laid at its doors, no more so, than should the church be blamed and condemn ed, because its pastor, or its Sunday school superintendent has violated the sanctity of a home, or robbed a bank, and sont widows and orphans into the street and to starvationI neither should it be charged all to Clarendon county. How much ol your time has ever been given to the enforcement of these laws? How many warrants have you sworn out against vio lators of these lawsy How many times have you appeared as a witness against violators of these laws* Do you not think these questions fair? Then you say that Clarendon will never be "dry" while sur rounded by "wet" counties, and that the abolishment of the dis pensary at Manning will be more of an evil than a good. Nobody dreams that if surround ed by "wet" counties. Claren don will become as dry as a boneyard the moment the win ning vote for prohibition is counted out. But everybody knows that more whiskey will be drank by residents of Man ning and by visitors to Manning, if it is publicly sold there, than if it were not. Have you ever been tempted to stop and buy a pocketful of nice apples as you happened to be passing a tempt ing display at some fruit stand? Does it tax your imagination too much to think that some man with an appetite for whiskey and not for apples might be tempted to buy and drink, as you were to buy apples? Did you ever hear of any young man who up to a certain day was not a lover of whiskey, but who then decided to become a drunkard and straightway sought an agent and had shipped to his home a gallon or a barrel? Did you ever hear of any young man, who up to a certain day was not a lover of whiskey, but who on that day was attracted into a place of public sale of whiskey, took his first drink there, or bought his first half-tirst, and straightway went out and drank it, and so began his downward course? What the Prohibitionists are trying to do, Mr. Editor, and no man knows this better than you do, is to put whiskey as far from the sight of men, and as far from the reach of men, as can be done. There was never any areat achievement won at one stroke. A state-wide prohibi tion sentiment to enforce the law, will be mightily helped along by a county-by -county movement, and this no one can deny. But you say that if Clarendon declares for prohibition, the county, county-seat and county schools will lose the $12000. rev enue, and that it is necessary for us to have it to run our town, county and schools. Is it a fact, Mr. Editor, that to take the piti ful sum of $12000. from Claren don's treasury means that a re ceiver must be appointed for the town of Manning, that the pub lic schools must be ';losed, and that the county oi Clarendon must go out of business? Pity such a town, pity such schools, pity such a county! Way back in the 80's Manning was already quite a town. Man ning had a school. Manning had a saloon, or more than one. (Since the advent of the dispen sarv Manning has had one of these improvements.) About 15 miles from Manning was a little place called Summnerton. (They call it 12 miles now. since the new road was opened, but it de pends a good deal on the weath er.) At the time of which I speak, this place called Sum merton was not even incorporat ed. There was a school there, but no saloon (Thanks to a dry charter, Summerton will forever be without the curse of a saloon or dispensary.) Brit there was a schol, and it was such a good school, Mr. Editor, that students were at tracted from great distances. There were boys there from all over Clarendon, and there were boys there from as far away as Spartanburg. There were boys there from the county-seat of Clrendon. One of the boys who attended that school is now Clarendon's county auditor. I am not quite sure, but I beliesve that was the last schooling he had. Twenty or more years nave passed since the time of which I speak, and in place of the big frame building which succeeded the old one room school house it Summerton, we see nearing completion now, a concrete build ing which is far and away ahead of any such building in the county. This building is being paid for by taxation in the dis trict. Not one cent is to be dis pensary money, I have referred to the Sum merton school just to show that a towvn can grow, and that a town and community together can develop and maintain a good school without the infernal as sistace. Up here in West Virginia my work has led me around through several counties. T wo of these are "drv." In each "dry" county there is a good deal of whiskey illegally sold. But I have never heard any man say that the towns and schools in these coun ties were on the v-erge of ruin because of no revenue from whiskey. The town of St. Alban's, where I now am, is "'dry." There are about 2000 yeople here. We are 12 miles from Charleston where there are dozens of saloons. Yet the town of St. Albans has just recently laid a good system of concrete pavements, and con structed a sanitary sewer sys tem- No dispensary money will hel1, pay for the-se improvements. o let Clarendon try prohibi bion. Let her do without the whiskey money. It is too costly \lr. Editor, this money which >uhit to go for- bread. And then to help foster the :nent for prohibition. let 'neo pick up the mantle of. act badly. The percentage of drunkenness is small when the population is taken into consid eration, but little as it is it ought to be checked, so ought many I other evils, Lhe greatest of which is hypocrasy, and we regard it hypocrisy for a man to urge pro hibition, in the name of religion, and then buy and drink whiskey as a beverage, this is done, and these men will not aid in the en forcement of a prohibition law they helped to bring about. What Mr. Burgess says about the revenue feature cannot be appreciated by him as well as those who must bear the tax, and we contend the elimination of the revenue will force a raise in the tax without giving the relief the sincere prohibitionists seek. He cites Summerton, a town that has grown well and its business men deserve much credit, but Summerton is a ben eficiary of the whiskey revenue as well as the rest of the county, and if there is a place burdened with heavy taxes it is Summer ton, this burden must necessa rily be heavier if the county's revenue is cut off. That Sum merton is dry through its char ter is one of the official acts of the writer, although himself not a prohibitionist, but be com plied with the request of his constituents who petition him to make Summerton dry. Efforts have since been made to have this charter changed so that li quor can legally be sold at that olace. West Virginia is a republican State and St. Alban's is a short distance from Charleston. The principal business at St. Alban's is coal mining, and any obser vant reader knows the miserable conditions about coal mines, sla very, worse than the alleged peonage of the lumber tcamps. Laborers go beneath the ground Monday morning and do not emerge until the end of the week, they are forced to trade at company stores, pay tremen deous prices for what they get, and the little cash given to them they take to the nearby city of Charleston and spend some of it for drink. -He says there are two dry counties, and "in each dry county there is whiskey il legally sold" exactly. He says the town of St. Alban's is dry and has just laid a good system of concrete pavements and so on, but Mr. Burgess does not say how much property valuaticn that town has to raise this tax from. It must be remembered that where large corporations own railroads, o a l m i n e s, and manuf actu. ng estab lishments there is something to raise a large revenue from, per haps there is more taxable prop erty in one of these mining sec tionis than there is in two or a half dozen counties like Claren don, and of course, if the prop erty tax is sufficient for the gov ernment it can get along without liquor revenue If Clarendon county could have put into the treasury as much taxes .as is paid in the factory connties in this State the liquor revenue could be dispensed with very well. bnt such is not our fortu nate condition. Rev. Henry M. Mood, a better man never lived, a man we loved, honored, and tried to obey. He was a temper ance worker. We have heard him often, but never heard him advocating prohibition, our recollection is, he supported the dispensary as a temperance measure. He of course was op posed to the sale and use of in toxicants in any way shape or form, but he was a practical man, and he appreciated the liquor problem. He was not, of the kind to advocate impractical theories, but practical results under existing conditions is what h fayored. We believe prohibition will be adopted, every indication points that way, the influences for it are strong, and it requires moral courage to oppose it, neverthe less, we would be a cowardlj recreant to our judgment and to our readers did we not give them our sincere views upon this im portant question. Believing as we do, that prohibition will be victorious, there will be none more rejoiced than ourself to find after its trial that we have been mistaken in our views, and should we be so convinced we shall lift our hat to the prohibi tionists and say to you: "Here's luck to you, may you live long and prosper."~ An Ideal Theory. Editor The Manning Times: While I have been away from South Carolina for the greater part of the last six years, I have not lost interest in my State or county. I have been reading your edi torials in regard to prohibition in Clarendon county, but I can not agree with all that you have to say in that regard.- You cite Darlington county as an exam ple where prohibition bas failed to do what was hoped for it. Two years is too ridiculously short a time in which to expect a prohibitory law to break up an evil which is so deep-rooted. Why not cite some one of the many other counties where pro hibition has been more satisfac I do not think that it is fair for you to say that those who vote for prohibition in Claren don should be specially charged with the enforcement of the law. any more than that all good cit izens should help t,> enforce all laws. Let us suppose that dui ing your services as S liar I from Clarendon. you ha'. .. troduced, advocate2d and voted for some bills makingr law fow. that good man of God, Rev. Henry M. Mood, who used to organize "Cold Water Armies" wherever he went. Let the young people grow up in a total abstinence atmosphere, and in a -few years the ''blind tigers" which haunt your dreams will die a natural death. WILLIAM A. Bual-Ess. St. Alban's, W. Va,,4, 9, 0,. Deafness Cannot be Cured by local:ipplications. as .they cannot reach the diseased portion of the car. There is only one way to cure deafness. and that i-- by constitu tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in flamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustaehian Tube. When this tube gets inflam ed you have a rumblingsound or imperfect hear in. and when it is entirely closed deafness is the reult.I, and unless the intlainmation cant he taken out and this tube restored to its noirinal condit ion.hearing will be destroyed forever: nine cases out of ten aLre cauzse-d by catarrh. which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mu cous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deaf riess (caused by catarrh) that can not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars. free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. 0. Sold by druggists. 75 hall's Family Pills are the best. Paxville Dots Editor The Manninz Times The Sunbeam Aid Society will give an "Egg Hunt" next Friday afternoon at the Sawdust Pile. Mr. Weinberg's L.-ick store is com plete!d and he is opening ill) quite a nice line of goods. Mr. Jim Bell and family of Sumter has moved here. MIrs. Frank Way and son, of Holly Hill, passed through here last Friday on her way to Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Ma honey's. Mrs. M. E. Mahoney of Silver spent a few days here last week, visiting friends and relatives. Mrs. J. W. Mims left a few days ago for Elloree, where she goes to visit her brother-in-law, Mr. Ivicon Mims. Miss Madge Craig, of Summerton, spent the week end with the Misses Curtis. The ladies of the Methodist church are preparing an interesting program for Easter, wbich will be at the church next Sunday evening. D. Here comes the Spring Winds to chap. tan and freckle. Use Pinesalve Carbolized. (Acts like a poultice) for cuts, sores, burns, chapped skin. Sold by The Manning Pharmacy. New Zion Dots. Editor The Manning Times: Miss Bessie Corbett of Paxville. who has been teaching the Coker school, has accepted a school near Mr. Sam Johnson's Dr. William Hicks has returned to Charleston, after a visit to his sister, who has been ill, but is now better. Mrs. L. P. Hardy hrs been very ill. B. Notice of Election. We, the County Board of Education of Clarendon Couuty, having been peti tioned by more than forty per cent of the freeholders of Manning School Dis trict, No. 9, to grant an election for the purpose of establishing a High School in the Tcwn of Manning under the pro visions of "An Act to Provide High Schools for the State," approved Feb ruary 27, 1908, do hereby order an -elec.. tion to be held at the Court House on April 30, 1908, for the purpose of esthb lishing st~id High School. Polls open from 8 a. m. to 4 p. m. S. P. HOLLADAY, Co. Supt. of Education. Per Bo vvMAN. E. J. BROW.J. Jxo. C. DANIEL. For Rent. The comparitively new residence op posite the Presbyterian church, form erly occupied by Mr. W. H. Trescott. ALSO A new residence on the street back of Judge 'Wilson's residence. This house has recently been built. Terms reasonable. Apply at once to I. M BRADHAM. APPAREL SHOP FOR MEN - AND LADLES Everything of the best for the personal wear and adorn - ment of both sexes. We fill mail orders carefully and promptly. DAVID OUTFITTING, COMPANY, Charleston, S. C. RHEUMATIC FOLKS A re You Sure Y our Kidneys are Well? Al any rheumatic attacks are due to uric acid in the blood. But the duty of the kidneys is to remove all uric acid from the' blood. Its presence there shows the kidneys are inactive. Don't daly with "uric acid solvents." You might go on till doomsday with them, but until you cure the kidneys you will never get' well. Doan's Kidney Pills not only remove uric acid, but cure the kidneys and then all daniger from pirie acid is ended. Rupert B. Calvo, bookbinder, err ployed at The State Publishiag Co., of ticial printers for the State of Souta Carolina, living at 1010 Lumber St., Columbia, S. C., says: I thought I hadl rheumatism and treated for it on tha t belief. I used all kinds of liniments. The pain was in my back and in my hips clear to the shoulders. The lini ments did no good and I took to blood medicines but they did not help me. I took a long trip in hopes that the change of climate might help me. I was away for three months but could see no change for the better, I heard cf Doans Kidney Pills and determined to~ try them, and got a box at a drug store they completely removed the pains out of my- back and I have not felt a touch of the old trouble since I used them." For sale by all dealers. Price 50cent Foster-Milburn Co., Buf falo, Ne w York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name-Doan's-and take no other. Makes Kidneys and Bladder Bight Pines alve ACTs uKE APOULTICE~ The effect of Scoffs Emulsion on thin, I pale children is magical. V It makes them plump, rosy, active, happy. It contains Cod Liver Oil, Hypophosphites 3 and Glycerine, to make fat, blood and bone, and so put together that it is easily digested. by little folk. - ALL DRUGGISTS; 50c. AND $1.00L. MAGNIFICINT ARRAY of Spring Goods. Our offerings for the season is unsur passed. We have never had a larger, more complete or better selected stock ta show our friends and customers than we have tor the present season. q We are showing all the New and Wanted Goods. Our showing ,vill com pare favorably with the stocks of all the larger city stores All the new things in Silks, in Taffetas, Rough Shautings, Tusshs, Strips, Plaids, Checks, Plains, Etc. Largest and rost complete Line of Wash Goods in the city. Prettiest and most things in colored Organdies, Lawns, Dimities. Imported Cottons. Swisses. Voiles, etc., to be had in Manning or elsevhere. All the newest White Goods in the Cottage Plaids, Stripes, Checks, Plain Lawns, Lingerie, Organdies. Nainsooks, Dimities. Mercerized Goods, Etc. Fact is everything in a complete line of White Goods is here. Quality right and prices right. Complete Line Laces. Embroideries, Trimmings, Ladies' Furnishings, Etc. Ladies' Heatherbloom Drop Skirts, Blacks, and Blues and Browns. For all the wanted Goods call or 'phone. G. M. SMITH, Mgr. - Dry Goods Department. THE YOUNG RELIABLE, . H. ORB!. Quality right, prices right. LITHIA SPRING, W. G. TAYLOR, Prop., Michmond, Va., U. S. A. What Leading Physicians Say. Dr. Froebling. the wvell-known Consulting and Analytical Chemist: "F~onticello Lithia Water is absolutely free from a;1 organic impuri ties and perfectly pure, and as an unquestionablo p-.oof of my faith in the w'ster, I use it altogether."-Richmond Times. Geo. Ben. Johnston, M. D , Prof. Surgery Medical College of Vir Iginia: "I have never used any mineral water so extensively, as the Fenticello, and it has given uniformly good resnlts. I prescribe it in kidney and bladdcr troubles very largely, and also in stomach and nervous disorders, with splendid effects." Carried in stock by DR. W. E. BROWN a Co., Agents. Stp! Listen! Be sure to inspect our Line of Perfumery before buying elsewhere. Also a com plete of Camphor Ices, Cream, Massages, Shampoos, Etc. Don't forget us when want your Pre scriptions filled, or need anything in the way of medicines. Yours for Business THE MANNING PHARMACY : BANK OF CLARENDON, Manning, S. C. ~ We solicit votir banking business. It is to your intercst to patronize tihis:safe and strong bank. Four years of con tinued growth and operation without the loss of as much as a dollar, speaks for itself, does it not? We want to be your bankers, if you are not already a customer, come and see us about it and tell us why. -If .you are, come and see us anyhow. It is never too late to -do a good thing for yourself. Interest Paid on Savings Deposits. SBANK OF CLARENDON, Manning, S. C. BRING YOUR TO THE TINES OFFICE. SPRINGTIME APPETIZERS SOUPS. FISH. Tomato, Chicken, Codfish Balls, ready for use,, Van Camps Vegetable, per Can IOc per can......25c Heinz, Tomato with Cream, Shredded Codfish; per can 12 poc Codfish Bricks, per lb.c. . . 12 Vegetables for Soup, 12 Deviled Crabs, (Shells Free) Varieties in can........15C per can........ 40c Lobsters, per can ........ 30c Shrimp, er can......... 15c VEGETABLES. Salmon, per can, c., 12c, 15c,2ca............... 45c Corn, Finest Maine. per can 15c Fish.Roe, per can, 15c and 20c Corn, Finest Maryland. per , Fancy Smoked Cromarty can................. Oc Bloaters, each .'....... 02c Peas, Finest Early June, Fancy Mackerel; each....15c per can...... ........1c Aples, per 3 lbean.......15c Peas, Choice - Early June. per can. .............07C Lima Beans, Finest Quality per can........... 15c... Lhn Bens Chic Qul- Prunes,- Best Quality, per Lima Beans, Choice Qual ity, per can........... o Baked Beans, with Tomatoe Sauce, 3 lb, can........15c Okra and Tomatoes, 3 lb can P- c perlb 20c, Beets, 3 lb can...... . ...per 1525c Saber Kraut2 3 lb can. 1..a MISCELLANEOUS. -CANNED FRUITS. Cherries in Creme De Men- Apples 'per 1 P ound, pkg.. :c the, per bottle.........50c - Api-ots per.3 lb can... .0c 15 ecs Evpr2epr 6. Cherries in Maraschino, per bottle .......... 50c Long's Asstd. California. can, 0 Preserves, per bottle... 50 Pineapple, Grated, iest Wagner's Asstd Maryland Qpality,2lb 2Do Preserves, per bottle.... 30c Pineapple, Sliced Finest Sunbeam Apple Butter, per Quality, 2 lb can... 25 d>i 3 lb Crock,... ......... Pineapple Waferf G Apple Butter, per 2 lb can Ic atine Wagner's Asstd Pure Jel. Cranberry Sauce (stined) lies, per glass.......... 15c 3 lcan Shelled Almonds, perl1b. 50c Pie Peaches, lb can. 124c Preserves, Asstd., per -3 lb. Paches ic CrockA.ppp75c er-2 1pca nd p. 15c. S p is p 3 l c. 20c Milinry 25Open,35in...0 You recrdilly nvie toinape ouraed Linefstrn and ummr Has, odelwhch wiehavpe.nwo spl, ind n Qualtyk.b cn .. 2 fro, adas sua wll tan1te tinte .-... crtia buer.20 We ar heaquartrsf r an brry aclt ined) Ml nery.f youare no read Pie buyoPehes, but it lb can. 121 Clever stlsw. r showing... 5cpyca.. .....15 D. HIRSCHMANNT8 MilainerpS!n coplee oaln td canspre ou New yieofuSrin best Summereats, Woe nwhw have thw largestly and i stostcmpeek.ck vrada sown wiltnd th es tt.haen os uticlbyr heail beadqurte forancrr a-omplyerteing fMli ney Iour n w reaobled o feed o thes'os bst oods oryo the loeast pree.htagoiuscleto cleerstyesweall showing.Us a lwelawrerS~uy