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NOW "A CLERICA IS A SOLE The Profession that "in 1< Bible Under Head a Shall Not Now S To the Editor of The State: j c Please allow me space to address a i * final call to the voters of the State * before our ship crosses the bar on c the 27th of this month. If things go a contrary to what we expect, we have 1 the promise of a rough voyage under * our present captain: The passengers, s sailors, stokers, oilers, engineers and * the captain himself will be so sick * that to many it would matter little! a whether she swims or sinks. But, * personally, we entertain no such r thought; for when the ship of State E is loosed from her moorings on that * day, Capt. Jones will be at the s helm, the flag of freedom flying, the; 0 QV1 prow parting the waters of a placid a sea, the band playing "America," passengers saying in earnest?what a was said in jest?"Praise God from s whom all blessings flow." My optimf,' . > T" ism is based upon accumulative evi- v dence, history, statistical reports and the belief that our State, in a normal condition, is not even as bad as some t: in the Union. We are voting now with our eyes open, and are going to r convince "the world, the flesh and A the devil," by at least a majority of a 9,500 votes, that we want good gov- S1 ernment and are going to have it. But should it not be so, I, for one. ^ will not place an interrogation mark P ' after our prayers and laborious ef- a forts; but interpret this providence 0 as a merciful act on God's part in keeping the lash on our backs (all? ? not some) until we come to our senses; for sometimes God raises up a man like Pharaoh, and employs I him as you would a lash" with which t to chastise a > disobedient people (Rom. 9.) He has some vessels to honor and some to dishonor. There is not waste in providence. And there b is more providence in this situation 0 than some seem to realize. They {t] "had ears and hear not, eyes have t( they and see not." tl Got is neither dead nor indiffer- i ent! He forges out his decrees on n the anvil of man's wrath, but I want; w . some one else to be the striker! a: fV I Keep cool and act your part well!;cl Still water runs deep; empty wagons! ci make much noise; the truth has nevv ci er been conquered; The design of n this article is to ENCOURAGE "We fi FREE" and to urge the advocates of a righteousness to cheerfully make any j v; reasonable sacrifice to vote for civic : a rights and SELF-PRESERVATION, j n Let us not be guilty of the black w crime of CRIMINAL INDIFFER-;ei ENCE! Can we not beat it into the ii EXCUSE MAKERS' heads that it is U not Jones, nor Irby, nor Hampton, | w nor any other creature that we are j s! after? But it is the destruction of lz bad government and the EN- j THRONEMENT Or CIVIC RIGHT-! o: EOUSNESS! It is pitiable to hear w grown men talking like babies; piti-jw able to observe the lack of manly al individuality. To be indifferent at w such a time is to be backboneless, to | ft be nerveless, senseless, pitiable, mer- b< ciless to one's home and country, and ti cowardly. Such a man is a perfect e; "It." He is a leech sucking tt ":fe j si blood out of the State and givmg el nothing in return, tv; Man! you ought to be ashamed to j wear trousers, to look a dependent I woman in the face, ashamed to bear j jy: A1 + Af TPo V* ore ? ] ^, xne sweet ayi/ciiacivu vi x- uiuw^e When a man will not vote, he is j e: guilty of criminal neglect, his heart j d is wrong or he has a defective brain, n Quite a multitude of us are going to! b lay aside pleasure and leave the j jj mountains in order to be on duty the i o 27th. We want to help the WEAK- t] KNEED and SOFT SHELLS, whose t] stomach, as Job says, are filled with c< "East winds." We want to get such a victory this time that this part of c South Carolina's history will never t] ?V v ' ' be repeated. si To the women, let me say the Bible v (Tim. 2:9-15) forbids you entering p into civic affairs?keep your God- ti given crown on?home, sweet home n ?but urge the men of your home to s act the part assigned them as citizens t; and redeem the reputation of this o State by snatching her from the n hands of demagogism; for the other t side will have a full representation "V at the polls. li The wing's of Seneca's wax bird! 8 are melting under the sunlight of | truth. I believe everything I see in! the papers for the simple reason that | any man with a little horse sense I b knows that to publish slander against! t _ aU : One IS tO run cue nsi\ ui uciug yi use- 0 cuted for libel. God bless the brave j p editors of our papers. We ought to v give them and the engineers a badge v of honor for heroism. What are the! j. newspapers for, if not to publish the j j, whole truth, which if they did not do, we would be in darkness. i ' d In conclusion, I wish to thank my , p many appreciative friends for words j / L SUIT HER'S UNIFORM" S61 to 1865 Slept with .nd Gun in Arms" itand Cringing. ?f gratitude and letters of congratuation respecting the feeble contribuions I .have made, at the risk of soalled friendship. To those who made i feeble and unsuccessful attack on ny article of July 24 I would say hat I do not expect vice to undertand virtue; that politics never ener my pulpit in any form or shape; hat the church and State are sep.rate; that I would not desecrate rod's church with such filth. But I emind you of the following recogtized facts: That I am a citizen of his State; that a clerical suit is a oldier's uniform; that in '61 to '65 ur profession slept with Bible uner head and gun in arms; that in 76 our cloth was in the lead; that, ccording to history, Jno. Witherpoon, a Presbyterian minister, ,Those name is on a monument in Vashington, was the leader among bose who signed the Declaration of ndependence, which saved this counry for civic and religious liberty, and hat when truth is at stake I do not ecognize man?a handful of dust! .nd yet when these pious frauds relize the power of the church, they ay, "Keep the preachers out of it." If the "indictment" in the State, .ugust 15, First Part, page 8, will be ublished in every county paper and 11 of our party will go to the polls n the 27th scftne of those campaign owers will be put on political raves. E. C. BAILEY. Edgefield. THE MAELSTROM. ides and Wind Cause the Whirl and the Hole in the Sea. "What is the maelstrom that is etween two of the Loffoden islands, ff the coast of Norway? Where le water sinks there must be a subjrranean passage or an outlet farler north," writes a correspondent. In ?answer we reply that there is 0 opening in the ocean's floor. The 'hiding motion is caused by tides nd winds. The water rushes in tiannels between the islands, whose Dnfiguration aids in twisting. The nrrent runs during six hours from orth to south and then six hours om south to north. This reversal nd friction against rocks set up the hirling motion. "Suction through hole in the bottom of the sea" does ot exist. Winds in from the ocean hen in the right direction rncreasb the rotation of the water, which 1 the center of the whirl, is about venty fathoms in depth, but just ctroitc thp smin diners COl V L owiUiVk< ? ? 0 lows depths of from 100 to 200 ithoms. Many modern ships, in the absence f winds, have traversed the troubled astes, but they keep away when the ind is blowing against the changeble currents, especially at high tide, hen the danger is very great. Many tbles regarding the maelstrom have Ben handed down from ancient ; mes, from medieval also, and modrns still invent them. Of course lips have been wrecked there as isewhere.?N. Y. American. The Fastest Growing Bean. Through the instrumentality of ir. Field, of Boston, who has no othr known name, it is said, the forign plant introduction office of the epartment of agriculture has come lto the possession of a wonderful ean, which Mr. Field, as he dropped i upon David Fairchild, in charge f the office mentioned, likes to call tie bean of the plant celebrated as tie vine from which sprang Jack's elebrated beanstalk. The bean Mr. Field had with him ame from Jamaica and is known bere as the canaveleta. The natives ay it grows faster than a man can ralk and they attribute to it fairy roDerties. The department will try o grow some of the vines for ornalental purposes in Washington this ummer if it shall be able to endure he kind of temperature Washington ffers. If the plant does not come to laturity a good bit of it is expected o make its planting worth while. Vashington has lots of spots it would ike to cover with something that rows green in a hurry. Lightning Kills Rider and Mount. Pelham. Ga., Aug. 16.?During a .eavy rain and thunderstorm this afernoon, Calvin Racklev, a prosperous farmer, was instantly killed by ightning, as was also the mule he /as riding, near here. He leaves his /ife and several children. The storm s not known to have caused other oss of life or damage. Light weight rain proof automobile usters, also fine for traveling men, rice $6.00. Write F. G. MERTINS, Lugusta. Ga. Bob. One of the quaint characters of the Saltkeatchie was Bob. If all his queer sayings could be collected it would be a remarkable chapter. His quaint sayings and laughable demeanor brought him into prominence, for miles along the Saltkeatchie. On many grand occasions and in many elegant homes, Bob was a central figure, the one who received the most attention, simply for the fun there was in his ways and sayings. In the fall of the year he bought cows, which he drove to the Charleston market, and in this way added to his slender income, tor ne was not rich. Along the road to Charleston he had stopping places with the best people4, where he himself could rest at night, also his cattle could have needed attention. It so happened that the night of the great meteoric shower, about 1840, he was spending the night with Aunt Betsey, and in her spacious lot was a large drove of cows resting and ruminating, the property of Bob. The family had retired. There was midnight gloom and stillness. The slumbering world was resting in the arms of Morpheus, and the clarion chanticleer was crowing the midnight watch. By chance, one of Aunt Betsey's slaves was up, and saw the stars begin to fall, or rather the meteors begin to shoot, and he lost no time in giving the alarm, and soon every slave on the plantation had congregated in Aunt Betsey's front yard, calling upon her and- her sons to arise at once, that the stars were all falling; that the general judgment was near at hand; that in the morning the trump of Gabriel would sound; that there would be a mighty marshalling of the quick and the These slaves were awakened suddenly, and when they saw this aweinspiring phenomenon, they took no time to dress, but came out of their cabins as they had retired for the night, and to say they found a quaint group, puts it mildly. More than half present had on nothing except a white night dress, and their black heads and faces made quite a contrast with the snowy garments upon them. Coming as they did, wailing and screaming upon the sleeping household of Aunt Betsey, they, too, came out upon the long, broad piazza in their night clothes. Thousands of meteors were flashing on every hand, zip, zip; and the wail of the sorely affrighted and half naked slaves, on one hand made a picture pathetic and picturesque, while the shooting meteors on the other was fearfully grand, "and aweinspiring. It looked as if all the stars in the bending .skies had left their mooring^, and were dashing through space as a thousand lightning flashes. It was almost as light as day. The frantic slaves were wailing, screaming, singing, praying, and calling upon the "precious Master ter sabe us sinful niggers." Somehow Aunt Betsey got someming iiKe urder among the frantic slaves, and she called upon Bob to explain the awful, yet grand phenomenon. He was standing at the time upon the piazza , arrayed only in a long, white night gown, looking very ghostly in his now quainter appearance. Drawing himself to his full * height, he said: "Why, Aunt Betsey, can't you.see it's the beginning of the awful day of judgment. Don't you see it is the coming of the mighty Master in all His glory, in His flaming chariot of fire, and this you see is but the sparks from His powerful and wonderful chariot wheels, that will roll up in fearful thunders by daylight or before. And oh! Aunt Betsey ain't I in a most deplorable and wretched condition to meet my Master, for T ain't got a dollar?nary cent in my pocket. For the love of the Lord, Aunt Betsey, lend me five dollars!" This little speech even among the affrighted slaves created a ripple of laughter, and it began to dawn upon some of the older negro women how ridiculous the crowd appeared. One of them approached ^ her husband, who wore only a shirt, none too long and said: "Jim, fer run back home en draw on dem britches." "Britches be danged! Whatter nigger want wid britches en de judgment?shirt-tail good er nuff fer Bob ter be tried een!" Bob now made another characteristic address, and by this time the meteoric shower had passed, the slaves returned to their cabins and the family retired again. Lower down the country Bob would always stop with Honorable Bill. On one occasion at Jtuu s-, jduu said: * "Yes, sir, when I gets to town, (Charleston) I mean to sell my ducks, chickens, guinea fowls, turkeys, geese and poultry, and buy me some powder, shots, caps and ammunition, also a twenty-flve-dollar broadcloth coat, let her cost what she may!" Some time later, Bill met Bob at campmeeting. A Bishop was there, (Continued on page 7, column 3.) Sold ly lest (Srpee . di^sryw/iepe^fk m THE CARRIAGE YOUR WIFE DRIVES OUT-IN should be good as well as good lookivi/v TKof'o irhtr ttAii cfiAlll/lll 'f Till XT A Iiat ?T IIJ J V?u Olivuiuu v MUJ it from a concern which shows you only a catalogue, but from an establishment where you can see and thoroughly examine the carriage itself before you buy it. You can do that here. HORSES AND MULES. G. FRANK BAMBERG, Bamberg, S. C. S. G. MAYFIELD. W. E. FREE. MAYFIELD & FREE Attorneys-at-Law BAMBERG, S. C. Practice in all the Courts, both State and Federal. . Corporation practice and the winding up of estates a specialty. Business entrustted to us will be promptly attended to. H. M. GRAHAM Attorney-at-Law Will practice in the United States and \ State Courts in any County in the State. I BAMBERG, S. C. J. Aldrich Wyman E. H. Henderson Wyman & Henderson Attorneys-at-Law BAMBERG, S. C. General Practice.. Loans Negotiated. 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