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I The Abbeville Press and Banner. I BY HUGII WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 18887 VOLUME XXXII. NO. 41, LAND TAXES ! Office ok Coi'xtv ArmToit, abbeville C. H., S. C., Jan. lit, lsvx. In compliance with instkit- , tions from tho Comptroller (ioneral, ;:<nl in obcdionce to requirements of tlio Act the following is published for the in- l formation of tlio people. A. W. JONES, Auditor. < An -A-ot, ( to allow dximpuoved lands which have not been on the tax books since 1875 to be listed without penalty. ? Section 1. Be it enactcd by the Sen- J ate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now inet and sitting in General Assembly, and by authority of the same, That in all cescs | whero unimproved land which has not been on the tax books since the fiscal year commencing November 1st, 1875, ' and which are not on the forfeited list-, , Bhall at any time before the 1st day of October, 1888, be returned to the County t Auditor for taxation, the said Auditor be, J and he is hereby, instructed to assess the same and to enter it upon tho duplicate of the fiscal year commencing November i 1st, 1887, with tho simple taxes of that I year. Sec. 2. That all such lands as may bo ^ rrturned to the Auditor for taxation be- * tween the first day of October, 18S8, and the first chjv of October, 1SS9, shall be as sessed and charged with the simple taxes of the two fiscal years commencing re- | spectively on tho first da}' of November, 1887, and the first day of November. 1SSS. Sec. 3. That a3 soon as practicable after the passage of this Act the Cotnptrol- i ler General is directed to furnish a copjr ( of the same to each Auditor in tlie .Stale, and the Auditors are required to publish the 8ame in each of their county papers once a week fcr three months during the year 1888, and for the same period of time t during the year 1S80; and tlie cost of < such publication shall bo paid by tho County Treasurer, upon -the order of tho County Commissioners, out of the ordinary county tax last collected. Approved Decomber 19, 1887. Jan. 18, 188S, 3m HEW TO THE MARK LET TI-IE CHIPS HIT WHO THEY MAY! FOIt wo have just received another car load of STOVES, and we are jjolnn to sell regardless of what our competitors way. IlOW IS THIS FOR LOW. Cook Stovos at Jf.oO complete with so pieces. . Cook Stoves at S10.00 complete with 30 pieces. Cook Stoves at S12.0H completo with 30 pieces. Cook Stoves at ?13.00 complete with NO pieces, i Cook Stoves at SH.00 complete with 30 ploces. \ r'?v?lr Sr??urta nt finmnlcfe with 30 piCC-2S. Cook Stoves at $16.60 complete with 30 piece*. Cook Stoves at SIS.00 complete with 30 pieces. Cook Stoves at 322.00 complete with 30 pieces. 1 Cook Stoves at 345.00 complete with ?) pieces. Cook Stoves at S27.00 complote with ;?J pieces. . The largOBt assortment of COOK STOVES I that have ever been oflcrcd to the people of 1 Abbeville county. Come now and buy a Stove while you can get it CHEAP and have a large assortment to select from. We aiuvrantce every Stow wc sell. We offer every inducement to CHURCHES and SCHOOL HOUSES on Heating Stoves. We carry a full line of STOVEWA RE, such as POTS. TEA KETTLES, SPIDERS, WAF- I FLE IRONS, SHEET IRON PANS, 3tc. 1 Potware! Potware! If we can't sell you a Cook Stove come let us sell you some old fashioned POTWARE. OVENS and LIDS. EXTRA LIDS, WASH POTS, TEA KETTLES. UD account ui B(iugo nu uniinub cuuuicmiv i all we do keep in store for you. But come and eee for yourselves and be convinced that ' we carry the largest stock ot STOVES, TIN. CROCKERY, GLASS, CHINA and WOODEN WARE ever offered to the trade of Abbeville county. We will furnish CHURCHES with LAMPS and CHANDELIERS at a small per cent, above cost and carriage. We are agent* for the largest and most rc-| ] Jiablo JEWELRY HOUSE In t'.io United'] States, and will tako pleasure in ordering you any thing in this line you want. Call and examine our Illustrated catalogue. r J. ft. DONNALD, Manager. jj LOWNDES VILLE STOVE AND TIN HOUSE, | Nov. 9,1887. tf * \ a N. T. Sassard,! 7 d STAPLE \ And Fancy Groceries,! U X <j i-c ss, ; Tobacco, Confectionery' ABBEVILLE, S. C. ! Cash Tells the Story. Cull and See. August 31,1887, Cm ! Seeds ! Seeds ! Seeds !' ANDItETH'S" CfAKDKN SKKDrt :itt?-r Ij many years trial haw provod tit'-mselvea to be not only pure and k"0d, i;ui adapted to this climate. We have laid in ? eooa stock of these well known and reliable SEK1X and are now* prepared jnrnisli itntrade with any and all kinds. A !;:<>, "i.AlU.Y RED" and "WHITE siJA'Klt SKIN" Oniou Hot*. \V. JUKI) .SMITH A SON. , Jan. 18,1888. tf A CAR LOAD OF New Orleans Molasses ! WE liavc just received SIXTY IVWMtlXK of different grades of NVw Orleans Mo- i lasses in liarrcls. Half liarrel* aril K?j:s. PitvkaKCK of convenient t.izc- and Flmpe for a!l. [ Wo boufcht these t;ooils at tl>e very low|, prices and propose to give this advantage to our customers. Thoso In need of a trood and cheap article in Molasses and Syrups will do well to give us a call. W. JOEL SMITH i SUN. Jan. IS, 1888, tf Coffins at Mt. Carmel. J\V. SIGN ling cofllns at Mt. Carmel ?n tho caro of W. It. POWELL. Tho IIEAUSE will bo sent from Abbeville when desired. Jan. d, 1887. it BENTON W. JONES, House Painter and Grainer, ABBEVILLE, S. C. IS A SUPERIOR \V?U:KMAN Jn his? lino. J and will do nil PAINTING entrusted to ^1- c.'\re, 1>~. the liot ai:ii ft 1 till.' Most rruioi.iili'v piia<v. Hpoclmousol his GRAINING mny bo found in tlie oiliees of Clerk, Auditor nud Probate ludue, and at the new Methodist church. KALSOMINING will be done In tho most weep table manner. PAPER HANGING and GLAZING, a epcMalty. I Dec. 11,1ST, Sm * -mtmr i\ir <d ti r\ f\ mm i, m NEW YEAR GREETING I ft, lit. HADDON & GO, rAKE THIS METHOD OF EXTENDING to their patron* and the public their best .vishes for a prosperous and happy NEW k'EAIt. Thanking you for the liberal patronage bcitowed upon us lu the- past, we promise to ;pare no pains to niorlta liberal share of your jatronage during the Y E A E 1 8 8 8. Very Respectfully, Et. M. HADDON & CO. Jun. 4,1888, tf clothing! >reai Retelioo, Great Redsctios. DRICE3 REDUCED IN CLOTHING, SO I as to put a good SUIT within the roach >i every one. MEN'S, YOUTH'S, HOYS and CHILDREN'S .'LOTH I NO in SUITS and OVERCOATS, at lie following io>v prices : Monk's Suits reduced from S22.00 to ?I>.00. Men a suits reduced from rl^.CO io *'15.00. Men's Suits rrduced from ?16.00 to .SIS.*)!). Merrs Suits reduced from ?I3.W to $10.50. Men's Suits reduced from $10.00 to 37.50. Men'S Suits reduced from 87.50 to W.00. Men's Suite reduced from 26.50 to 55.00. Youth's Suits reduced from ?r4.0i' to ?12.00. Youth's Suits reduced from 813.00 to ?10.50. C!..;>U en m ?. > Ms Youth's Suits vcduced from sio.66 to 87.75. Boy's Suits rod need from is.'") to Sfl.iio. ISoy V Suits reduced fr<?in v7.<*> to $3.23. ChiMron's Suits reduced from S<?.00 to SI.30. Children's Suits reduced from Sfo.-Vt toS2.7f>. Children'* Suits reduced from 8<.<i0 to?>2.Jo. ( hildrtu'H Suits reduced from S2.7.; to S2.00. Oven-oats reduced from 818.<K) to 5J-'3.<Xi. Overcoats reduced from S15.00 to $12.G0. overcoats reduced from ?i:i.00 to ?10.00. Overcoats reduecd from t'a.00 to $7.00 And a great many others too numerous to ncntion. The abovo prices tiro offered for COURT WEEK ONLY! Convince yourself of the above facts by callng on P. ROSENBERG & CO, Jan. 24, liiSS, tf II Uffll, COISJ" GAREE Coumbia. S. C. Agent for CHAPMAN'S PERPETUAL EVAPORATOR IUIESK WOIiKS WERE EBTABLLSAKD in 1647 by Messrs. Goo. Sinclair and James Anerson ami "purchased by ino in the year lb06, and rum that time till now carried on successfully by v, st lf. My friend* and customers will bear witness l'the largo ami stupendous jobs executed by :no. It I'd: at my works whore the largest and almost only i.b of its class ever executed in this city was done iz.: the making of the pipes for the City Water Vorks in the yoai l^iS. My stock of patterns for ARCHITECTURAL VwiiK, COLTMNS for Store fronts, is large and arious, and in RAILINGS for Ralconies, Gardens, nd ('eim.-terieh I have the mrceft variety and triobt iiodertl patterns; many of thewe are patented and I iavc purchased the right for this State. In the machine line I can furnish my patrons with 'TEAM KNUlJiES awl liUILRKS 01 anv Hire ur.u lesciiidion. My CIliCULAK SAW MltLS have arried utf the prize at every Sttte Fair held in tliib it}*, and in their construction I have taken pains to on i bine simplicity with the most useful modern ImTovcinents,and may llattvr myselftbut my CIUCU*AU SAW MILLS findfavor withevery biwyer who tnder.nund* his busineoo. Thi* inanv orders I am utoa lily receiving for Sl.*!AK l.'AJffc MILL?! prove th'il the public appreciate i.fiuiile of inv maUi', and *o it ir> with my ItKAlJNO for HOUSE l'OWEUS. (JIN WHEELS, Gill ST JILLS niid other MACHINERY. I h.ivo tlio manufacturing rk'hUnf many PATENTS such ns cabtinss for t'OTTOS AN1? HAY I'KKSSES, HAWLEY CORN SHELLER and three >rf.,.ur KEKI> <! UTTERS nnd other implements. I will be pleased to send my circulars to any appli ant. ii.^other with price lie.1 i>r estimate. My price# ire moderate, and I ansinc the public that tiiey arc owcr even than those of Northern manufacturers, and ilmt in v Wf.rlc u 'll <><i:ni>iir<> fftvorahle with that of *11V >tu*r uiiifcor. Address John Alexander, f *<?>'<; AJ.hr. W i'.jk.s, ("oiuiulda, fs. C. Do You Ride Horseback? t F km vi- nrc ;>ivj>:mi! to show yon tl:o in*-?*1 e-t ?i(? k and hi*; vari.vy ol SS.\ l)l>I.HK i<vor opened In Abbeville. We menu thisund will convince you that It is true, if you will >!vo us a look. We have, every grade, it lml und price from the eiivajii-st wagon to tiio celebrated Kentucky Spring Seat Ask to sou i>ur ffceial! K'?.'''I KX AS KKJv: and "OFNCINL-; KENTFi.'KY sl'KINC SKAT.' Also, a fine hit of S \111)I<F. HI.ANKF.TS, KIDINC and ilLIN'H BUI bl.FS. MAHTINUAI.KS. RKINS. I.INKS. STIKKFl' LhATlli:iis. plain Mini covered sTIUfilTS, IIAUNKsS, and any and i-vi?rything in this line. <inr stock ol COI.l.AHS is oonmlrte. I Sent wol-siiU'ii. good, medium and clunip leafhor; Liiurk.iVi'' W. .1010, S3IITU i .->U.\. Jun. .J. 3SSS, tf "\V. C. .Moore, House Painter, Paper Hanger & Glazer, ABBEVILLE, S. C. ALL work promptly find sfttinfuctoilly done. Leave onliTH with Dr.Penney, Mr.Speed or 31r. Chalmers. [Jan. 24, 1888, tf Bridge Notice! fJiHK contract for bulldlnga bridge over LltI i le Itivcr nt WAHDLAw'B. will be let to the lowest Indoor on SATURDAY, the 25th of FKHlll'AHY next ill 11 o'clock A. M. nt bridge. Specifications made known at the time of 1.. tt! :m. A! the same time and place the contract for constructing a CAUSKWAY on public road near the bridpe will bo awarded to the lowest bidder. >V. D. MANN, Jan. :$<?, 1SS\ 3t Commissioner. Hamburg Edgings At VA, 2, 2\i, 5, c, 7, 8,10 and 15 cents. 21 6heets ot paper and 2-1 euvelopes for 5 cents. Five load pencils for 5 cents. 12 Blatc pencils for 5 cents. 1 q u 1 re good pnper 5 cents. 1 composition book. IS pages, for 5 cents. Handkerchiefs 2'*, 5 and 10 cents. Beautiful lace pins ;> and ^ Feb. 1,1SS3, tf For Sale ! TWENTY PAIRS OF CHOICE BRED PIGS 1 sired by tho magnificent P. C. Boar, "GLADSTONE." 10 pairs at 85.00 por pair. 10 n.iirK nt. ?10.00 Der nair. W. P. WIDEMAN, W. P. ADDISON. Troy, S. C., Feb. 1,1838, lm W. J. SMITH. J. ALLEX SMITH. AUG. W. SMITH. AUG. W, SMITH & CO DEALERS IN MULES AND HORSES! ABBEVILLE, S. C. WILL HELL STOCK CHEAP FOR THE cash, or will make low terms ou credit. Will guurantce all stock to bo as represented, and mean to do a square and fair business. Call and see uh at an early date. Have a large stock of MULES on hand. Feb. 1, 1888, tf " APPORTIONMENT ' OF THE PURLIC SCHOOL FUND FOR 1888. T^HE following is the amount of money of the Public School Fund to bo distributed by the* Boards of Trustees of the School Districts ot Abbeville county for the year 1888. T? if onrl rnnnlrnd t.hflL t.hft Trustees will give cftcli school Its share of tho Hcliool Fund regardless of the time of the opening of tho school. District No. 1 81,150 00 District No. 2. 1,500 00 District No. 8 1.200 00 District No. 4 9SO 00 District No. H 1,150 00 District No. 0 S50 00 District No. T 1,000 00 District No. 8 000 00 District No. I) 1,050 00 District No. 10 740 00 District No. II 1,450 00 District No. 12. 800 00 District No. 13 825 00 District No. M 810 00 District No. 15 1,100 00 District No. 10 1,250 00 The Trustees will bo carel'ul not to overdraw on the amounts apportioned. Respect/iilly, E. COWAN, School C'om'r A. C. Inn "1 ISSft. If ftnlium CODV. Of Kentnoky University,LEXIISTOM, It TjjBjIeSf O JCV J WORLD Cheapest^ ^|mi* Illghent Ha?or *nd Cold Mf^<u"oTaTiiiIoStf ColUgw. ?t th? World'* Exposition, for Sj?um of B*ok4??|llf ?o<l General Uuptluen* KducaUon. 6000 OrmdaatM la H??i?nu- 10 Tnmcbert emoloTtd. Oott of Fall BulieM Coonc. Including Tuitlofi. fiullonenr and Board, about (M. Sbort-IIund, TyM-WrfUn* ul Telegraphy, apMlalUe*. So Vttealion. Enter Now. Graduate* Goaraatctf sncoeaa. Ifor olroulu* addrui W. K. SMITH, Pro. !, LcximyUa, Sf 25 Sets Harness ? UST RECEIVED. I tl J. S. HAMMOND 4 CO. Jan. 21,1888, tf We are Sole Agents i:?OH Till? "ELECTRIC" CUTLERY. Scls.1 .Mors, Shvt.rs, Razors .and KnivcB; abeolutfly tl'O best goods ever offered to customers. Jt tin- ladies will give the "Electric" Shears and Scissors and the gentlemen the "Electric" Razors a trial they will not have any thins else. Lookout for our handsome "Kloctrlc''show ease on the right, aa you en tor our store. W. JOEL SMITH & SON. Jail. 5. 18S7, tf Get the Best. WARRANTED for 5 years. The New High Arm Davis. Vertical Feed Sewing Machine. No one else allowed to ?ell them In Abbeville county. Wrlto to me for prices. I sell the New Domestic, the New American. The U.-st Snorm Sewing Machine Oil, Needles. Arc., for all Machines. I offer the best and etieapest stock of Furniture, Cofllns, &e., in the county. HENRY J. KINARD, Agt, March 30, 1X87,12m Ninety-Si*, a. 0. DR. G. A, NEUFFEE, Physician and Surgeon, abbeville, 8. c. Medicine and surgery practiced in nil their branches. Calls from the country promptly answered. Office at Speed's L)rug store. IU)om at Central Hotel. Jan. 11, lS&s 12m To Teachers. TIIE PRIMER OF PHYSIOLOGY and HY(.11 EXE can be had of the School Commissioner at Abbeville. Price 40 cents. Teaohers will be exumlned on this branch of study at the next examination, and It will bo well lor them to take notice of the fact at once. E. COWAN, School Commissioner. Dec. 21,1887, tf Medium copy. L, WARDLAW SMITH, I . . . . T _A.ttorn.ey at Law, ABHEVILLE, S. C. \V,LL practice In LT. S. Ktate Courts. Jan. 4, lS^S. For Five Cents Apiece. l Thirty lootclotlios lino. 1 Ijujjo box blacking. 1 Quart cup. 1 liuart tll|)p??r 1 Uottle shoe polish. 1 I.iujroslato. 1 Tea bell. I I'ackau*' smoking tobacco. < 1 To.1 ct.iliw.i 1 l oircc pot stand. 1 Cake pan. 2 Pic plates. 1 Hammered mug. 1 Tin pan. 1 Egg wliip, ('? Lamp wicks. 1 Large spoon. 1 Lamp chimney. 1 Mutch safe. 2 Bars laundry soap. 1 Dust pan. 1 Large cake toilet soap 1 Bcruo brush. 1 Lb starch, large luran 1 Lamp burner, 10 Different pieces of glaiswara. 1 Yard olfuuic. 2 Large boxes blueing. 12 Sal'oty piiiH, 2 I'apcra pins, 1 Paper plus. 2 Papers needles. At E. A. TEMPLETGUT8. The Driwknr<rn Child, or. Out in the C Snow. " Father, please dou't drive me out in the i street, t There, among strangers, no pity to meet; a Mee how poor mother is weeping; O. pray, t Father, for her fake, don't drive mc away. You never speak kindly, vour looks arc so ( wild: O, smiio as you used to upon your poor t child. , Dear father, have pity; don 't tell mo to go ' Out In the streets to-night out In the snowRagged and hungry, alone In the street, F Walklug about in the cold and the sleet. 1 Wild !h the tempest, I've no where to go, c What will bccomo of me, out in the snow 1 j Drink no more, father, when I go in the t street. c I am treated with scorn by those whom I ^ moot. t Why are you always bo cruel and wild t Have you no Jove ror your poor wire ana child? 1 Our home 1r so dreary ; O, father, Just think. You took our last penny for something to drli k, And now In my hunger you force roe to go Begging again to-nlglit out In the snow. ? Cease to abuse mo, I'll do as you say. j But first let me kneel by my mother and pray? t Don't strike me; I'll go, but my heart's full a of pain d For I feel that I never shall seo you again. 0 O, let me klt<s mother, heartbrokeu aud y lone? Who, who will care for her after I've gone? 9 If I freeze In the streets nobody will know v Who the poor wanderer Is, dead In the snow. 0, drink no more father, just look at my I feet, t All frost bit and bleeding I can't go In the h sireet. ? ODE DANGER AND 01 DUTY.'l H t: WORDS OF SOBERNESS, AND JLRQU1IENTS ? WHICH MUST CARRY. CONVICTION. . t r A Strong: and Able Appeal to the Con* v N^lencen of Good Men and Women t In Every Part of the Country?The ? Legality of Prohibition In Proved c The Dnty of the Citizen ia Made C Perfectly Clear. | N(ishville Christian Advocate. s At the recent session of tho North ^ Georgia Conference the Committee on [ m A n UO.^aa/I T\ TV 1 AUIIliJUraiiUUf iwy? VJ, i>. x/.} j; Chairman, submitted, and tho Confer- t ence adopted, the strong report printod ^ below. It may well be accepted by the g Church as her answer to tho pleadings of s the saloon power. Our readers will not * begrudge the space we give to this pow- * erful paper, but will find it exceedingly a interesting reading: 1 PROHIBITION VIOLATES NO NATURAL ? LAW OR LEGAL RIOHT. jj The country is to be congratulated upon c tho recent decision of the Supreme Court 8 of the United States touching tho right of , the Stnto Governments to prohibit tho sale ot intoxicating liquors. Ilerotofore, a as all informed people know, the 8u- ? preme Court has asserted the principle un- jderlying its recent deliverence upon tho ^ subject, but tho recont decision, affirming c the right of the state to aooiisn cue nquor-traffic without liability for damages, just as it may abate any other nuisance or J hurtful trade, takes away the last vestige 1 of defense to the traffic, 011 the ground of ? so-called inalienablo or constitutional rights. This last decision makes tho po- 1 sition of tho prohibitionists as strong as F; tho supremo law, interpreted by our high- Jj est court, can make it. Hereafter, those J who know tho law, unless they Intend to J1 deceive tho people, will not assert that * prohibition violates any sort of natural v or other rights recognized by the Consti- c tution and in harmony with the genius of a our institution. Certainly no lawyer who ? respects himself or his profession will, in v tho faco of tho decision of tho Supreme F Court, horoafter argue the national and 11 constitutional rights of the liquor-trafllc. F MEN DO NOT NEED LICENSE TO FOLLOW t ORDINARY AVOCATIONS. E 2 The Supreme Court needs no backing t from prohibitionists, yet it is a happy 1 circumstance that its late decision com-|t mends itself to the common sense or lay- e raon as well as to the judicial opin- A ions of men learned in the law. Men do fc not need the permission of Govomment i to pursue the ordinary avocations of life, p The carpenter, the blacksmith, the farm- 6 er?these do not need "license" to work; 1, it is not a legal, it is a natural right; it is v inalienable because God gave it. But, in \ our own, as in every civilizod country, ? the dealer in intoxicants must first secure fc permission of the Government before he r can sell; the license of the Jaw dilFer- s ences this from natural rights; itisartifi- g cial; it is the gift not of natural but of r human law. The decision of the Su- \ preme Court amounts to this: society has r a divine right to protect itself, and what- c ever it may givo that it may withhold or j witnoraw. PROHIBITIONISTS IN GOOD COMPANYEVILS WHICH MAKK PROHIBI# TION NECESSARY. In a report on temperance and prohibition, it is relevant to allude to the evils of drunkenness and the perils of the drink habit, f?r these evils and these porils make prohibition necessary. The liquor people and their defenders are wont to sneer at the argument of prohibitionists as the ravings of fanaticism, and, unfortunately, some who favor prohibition shrink under the accusation. Let them take courage ; they aro in good company, and, as to the opinions they hold as to the evils of drunkenness, they aro in a very lopora mainrif.v. "--J?J . TESTIMONY AGAINST THE DRINK HABIT. ' I At this place it is well enough to intro- < duce the verdicts of some who can not bo i put aside as fanatics. Such quotations t might easily fill a large volume; atton- I tion is now asked to only a few. i The London Time..v says : "The use of j strong drink produces more idloness, crime, want, and misery than all other I can sea nut together." Governor Dix, of 1 New York, vetoing a local option bill, I takes occasion to say : "Intemperance is ] the undoubted cause of four-fifths of the i pauperism, crime, and domestic misery f of the Stat?." With Gov. Dix agree all judges, magis- trates, keepers of prisons, directors of ] hospitals, superintendents of asylums < for the insane, and all others who have to I do with the crimes and the miseries of : men. Charles Buxton, member of the British Parliament, and a noted English | brewor, says: "If wo add together all i the miseries pone rated by war, famine, i and pestilence?the threo great scourges I of mankind?they do not exceed those ] fmm this calnmitv." Mr. i MI(U> r?|/i nifc, I "... ? Bruce, Home Secretary tinder the Glad- 1 stone ministry, says; "Intemperance is ] not only a creat evil, but the prreatest of nil evils with which tho social reformer < has to contend." j HUT FEEBLE EXPRESSIONS. Every man who knows past history and i 1)18 own tunes unuursuuiun limb slatenionls are but feeble expressions of tlio truth of things as to this horrible 1 evil. Our danger is in our familiarity i with the appalling facts of the case: w*e 1 say theso things are all true, nnd go on as our fathers did, in a sort of dumb despair. Such statements do notstartle us, because we knew them before we heard them ; we havo all said theso things to ourselves. Of tho mental and moral habits that make it possible for some men to be stupidly j culm in tho knowledge of such thiugs, /oloridgo says in one place very aptly: 'Truths, of all others the most awful and nteresting, are too often considered so rue that they lose all tho power of truth, .ud lie bed-i-idden in tho dormitory of he soul, sido by side with the most lospised and exploded errors." In dealing with tho saloon?and in tins liBcussion the word is now used as ro>rescnting tho entire traffic in intoxi:ants?tho thing most to be feared is the >eoplc do not fear it. They are used to it. Is soldiers in wai; look on wounds, and leath till they grow hard of heart, so he people have become bo familiar with he plague of drunkenness that it has besome commonplace. They, do not feel vhat they see. or truly understand what liey know?that it ruins all it touches. :he drink habit cannot be prevented while the saloon exists. The evils of drunkenness furnish the irgument for the necessity of prohibition or two reasons that can not be gainsaid. ?irst, allowing that some drinking begins and goes on independently of the aloon. it is yet substantially true that the Irink habits that issue in drunkenness iriglnatein the saloon and are. fostered >y it Secondly, long experience demontrates that these evils can not be pre ented while the saloon exists. Tt. I<a an old stnrv. As f'Ar ha/^lc as lfWfi >ly mouth colony, recognizing the relation letween drinking places and drinking labits, from an instinct of self-preservaion, enacted a feeble sort of statute seekog to regulate and restrict the trade in ntoxicahts. For 251 years sooiety, in lesitating and irresolute sort of way, has one on enacting regulative and res trie-, ive statutes, every one of which 1b bot-. omed upon the recognized evils that flow orth from the liquor-traffic. It is enough -this 251 years of effort to protect sooielfry iy statutes that protect the liquor-traffic atber than the peonle. Such..efforts-are ain and worse, for license gives the sancion of Government to a traffic that Christian conscience condemns as esseninllv evil, and so. bv the force of custom.. aade possible by statute lawandgrowiug ut of it, educates the people tocall "evil ;ood and good evil." Few worse eafattnties can oorne upon a people than to use tatute law so as to forget or despise diine law. Yet it is just this calamity the teople have brought upoir themselves; hoy have, by giving, through license, aws, tho sanction of Government to what hey know to be evil, confounded their ense of right and wrong. But this they iave done with a sort of protest of concience; they have pleaded with theraelves, as condonement for deliberate vrong-doing, that their license-laws were egulative, restrictive, preventive, and in hemselves tended to protect society gainst an evil that society itself made egal. To such logic have we come! As hildren, half in play and balf in earnest, nd not afraid in their ignorance, might [ravely pile up little sand-heaps, imagind to be dykOH against a swelling and ,ngry sea!" It i3 doubtless the purpose of this corieronce, in ordering a report on teraperincoand prohibition, not simply to delare its own positions (that it has done >efore this time), but to do something toward fostering right opinion and sentiuent among the people. What, then, does the saloon cost us ? We begin on the lowest plane?that of noney values. The lowest reputahle esimate of the direct drink-bill of this ountry is ?600,000,000 per annum ; countng what goes for imported as well as Lmericrn intoxicants, the hignest estinato?anjl it is made with good reason? 9 8900,000,000. This is not all, or most, rho bill for "consequential damages" nust come in, and it more than doubles he figures already named. What is lost o drunkards ana drinkers in earning apacity; what society has to pay for indequate protection against crimes that riginato In drink and drnnkenness; k hat it costs to support the multitudes nade helploas through waste and disease, ssuing from the drink habits of the peoilo; what is lost to legitimate business? 11 this added together, as the highest auhorities show, costs the American peo>le nearly 32,000,000,000 gear by year. iucu ugures dqhko us uizzy?as uiubo bat toll the distances of the fixed stars. All this is wasted and worse. It is idle o answer that the makers and the dealrs get it and it remains in the country. Vho are theso men who reap so vast a laryest out of the homes of the people, impoverishing millions that they. may ;row rich T All told, there are Jess than 00,000 men engaged in the liquor traffic; ess than one to every one hundred of the rhole population. And to these the vhole people pay this tribute of nearly 2,000,000,000?a larger sum than any larbario conqueror ever wrested from avished and desolate Home. As well ay, because swindling lottery gamblers ;row rich the monoy of their victims is lot . wasted, what goee for naught is vasted, no matter where it goes. There is lo offset against this tremendous bill of :oits ; there is nothing to show for it; for ntoxicants neither create energy nor add o it; they do not increase skill; they are lot productive; iney are oui aoatrucive. This bankrupt tax is levied on the vhole people?not the drinking people ilone. For what goes to this hurtful and vasting traffic is so much taken from leeful business; the dollar spent for Irink is a dollar less for food, for clothes, or homes, for education. This tax is said to death?not to life. Weak men who do not know, ah re wed sen who care only for their own gains, alk of "hurting business" if we close jaloons. The statement is false; liquor;rafflo is not business. What is "business?" It is the sum toal of a whole people'a useful industries -1 ovnKanaraa Thfl nilftli iLJU lO^iuiuaw amv tying words are introduced because real business does not include products that ire harmful or exchanges that are with>ut equivalents?else. dynamite bombmaking for Haymarket massacres and secret and associations would bo manufacturing, and gambling would be trade. As well class vampires with useful animals is to call the liquor-traffic business. The liquor-traffic Is a storm center in finance as well as in politics and morals. We seom to live in a period of contradictions. It is a period of productive enterprise in all directions; the world was never so busy, never worked so hard, or so efficiently, never earned as much. Labor never earned so good wages; wages never could buy so much or the raniiv imnrl thinora of life as now. Yet jufforing increases, and so do tho discontent and ang?r that follow suffering u;<1 procode titanic outbreaks of violence. Wo noed not go theorizing to find explanations when astim equal to one-third ->f the whole annual profits of all business and earnings of all labor is wasted Tor drink and lost by its issues. Nine liundred millions for drink and more for Jamages; these are not leaks in a dam? Lhey are crovasses. When the Mississippi is at high How inundations follow. Not every wrong that pinches labor is ilue to tho saloon ; labor naaajuat complaint against exacting and oppressive monopolies". But if labor were free from [lie death-tax paid to tho saloon, every nth or wronc could be remedied or borne. ri' what wago-earners waste in saloons wore used to buy useful things, hard times would cease, business would have in it such life, health, and equilibrium that not even tho desperate gamblers oi Wall Street could organize a panic. ANY BAK-ROOX A.BIOGBR HAN IN POLITICS THAN,ALL THE CHUXCHE8. What does tho naloon cost tho country in politics and govormont determined by politics? This ie a large theme; il can only be touched upon here. To state fully the power of the saloons in politics i requires a knowledge of the eyil thing i .and its ways that no honest man can have. The saloons know their power, and use it to the utmost that opportunity allows. Some years ago a bar-keoper in Richmond, Va., heard some talk of a reform movement in municipal politics. By instinct of self-preservation the saloon springs to arms at the mere thought : of reform, and the Richmond saloonist .laughed to soorn the fears of the moro timid, affirmed unshaken Caith in his god; "Any bar-room In Richmond is a bigger :man in politics than all the churches i put together.'" A leading Southern Senator, who is not a pronibitionist, and who vot?d against the insolent demand# or tne wnlskey rrag, saidto mo in tne Senate, gallery la Washington, three winters ago:. "Men talk or the. power of banks, of railroads, and of other corporations in Congressinoal lobbies; but I tell '.you the hardest thing to stand up against here is the liquor ring." . Seeing what the liquor power has accomplished in national, State, and municipal legislation and administration, how it challenges the respectftil -attention and inspires the complaisant fears of the great parties, audhasalways done it; how-it manipulates municipal government, whether in the great cities or small villages ; how it packs, legislature, town councils, and juries; bow it subsidizes twhat newspapers it wants (or when it can toot hire, sets up its own); how desperately hard it resists^ fighting for its own with satantc skill ana audacity tbat m a good cause would be magnificent; and how of* itea and completely it wins?there seem ito be reaaou in the senator's conclusion 5as well truth in the bar-keeper's assertion. TTo sum it up in a wor4?<the saloon eonr trols the marketable balance of power in politics. And therelwould rise op in the great, true hearts or the oppressed people w holy and quenchless fire of consuming indignation if only once they really knew the evil and pitiless power that presses its iron hand nard against their throats. 'Dealing with the beat liberties of the people, the saloon, is as remorseless as the ' East Indian thug. The- imfiuence of the liquor power in politics should not surprise us. It is riob, it fiehts for a great stake, and its vote is solid. Its gains are so enormous that it can afford to spend vast sums for the votes and favors it needs. Its vote-compelling gold is used by shrewd men, ripe in evil wisdom; they are unscrupulous, and hesitate at nothing they dare?proud in conscious power, and relying upon the depravity of human nature, they will dare most things. As long as men- are weak or wicked the liquor-traffio will buy or compel what it wants. Our tyrant has every opportunity! the universal diffusion of the saloon secures nn onllnn infaraafAsl nnH nntant allv in every preeinct. Elective affinities |bring to the saloon and vrithin the circle of its dpspotic power the very men it wants? the men who cast their ballots with the loast intelligence, the least conscience, and for the lowost price. A pauper drunkard who can stand up long enough to deposit his ballot counts as much as the Bishop or the Chief-justice. This statement does not revile our American Sriuciple of universal suffrage, but it oes snow how necessnry it is to :guard with ceaseless vigilance and unflinching courage ?o great a power from perversions so easily accomplished and from insults so utterly destructive of all thara good in our institutions. THE DANGER THAT THEATHN8. Tf to nnlwnnotAm fhttf-. m<fls t.tlA OTlst ence of the saloon possible in a free country. If from the beginning our nation had been free from the liquor-traffic's Sower in politics, and it should come own upon us in a day, it would convulse the people with indignant and expulsive tenergr. Every country neigborhood would rise in wrath against the mortal foe of good government. A million foreign soldiers, landing it Fortress Monroe and marching on the capital, would not shock or stir the people more profoundly. If done for the first time, no community, great or small, would recognize or submit to any election for any office, or upon any question, conducted Sunder the auspices and determined by the power of the saloon. But we do sub* mit to such things?submit without a word or consciousness of our bondage. 1 It cannot be necessary to dwell upon the relations of the liquor-traffic to the morale of the peoplo. As well repeat the tnultiplicalton table as to argue here that the saloon fosters every vice and ware upon every virtue of which human nature is capable. The vilest vender of intoxicants knowt this, and when be speaks the truth he does not deny it. The saloon recognizes its evil nature; it 'never pleads any good it does as a reason for its existence; it has absolutely but 'one motive? money-getting. It lives 'upon the vices and weaknesaof men, and makes mon weak.and bad thatitmayextend its track and increase its gains. < Its areoil is as insatiable as the grave, 'It adulterates the poison it Bella with 'drugs yet more deadly, and makes the thirst of its victims a more animal rage that overturns the^reason, sears the conscience, and paralyzes the will. | THE PERILS OF THE TIMKS. ! What is universally true of tho liquortarffice in its relations to publio and private virtue, becomes more alarming on 'account of certain peculiar conditions in our national Hfe at the present time. It la not too much to say that we live in a 4ime when opportunity is only equaled 'hv Hi a nnrila that come with it. The "country is growing rich and populous as no country ever grew before. Thousands upon thousands of foreigners come every year to our shores, among thorn some of 'the excellent of the eartb, and they are welcome; but there are many other thousands who bring to America only evil." They are re-enlorcementa to evils that alreadly curse us, and by instinct join .forces with the saloon as soon as they pass the doors of astle Garden. In the North and West the worst element in this foreign life gives to the saloon a large increment of evil influence. In this evil clemnnt nf fornicrn life are the cerma of anarohy and all the disorders that grow .out cf atheism. MILLIONS OF NEGROES THE STEADY CUSTOMERS OE THE SALOON. In the Southern State are more than six .millions of negroes; most of thorn are ; .very ignorant and very poor. From the time of their emancipation the saloon has sought to fostor in thorn drinking habit*, i Its success has been as groat as it has been easy, and to-day in the South the saloon finds steady customers in the ignorant of this unhappy race. In their deep poverty they buy the cheapest and therefore the worst liquors, and reap with short delay all the evils of drunkenness. liere me exception illustrates, n it noes jiot prove, the rule. In the reccnt election In Fulton county every precinct save one voted with the saloon. The press re. porter felt called upon to explain to the i country why South Bend District alone voted to close the bar-rooms. In this district, he said, "located Clark Univer sity, a college for colored people, and tliey i voted for prohibition." Asa rule every* i where the uneducated voto is anti-prohii bition. Judge tho power of tho saloon i in Southern politics, imperiled by so f great aud ignorant a colored voto, made stronger for ovil by the shameful illiteracy of tens of thousands of white men. TUB EN BUY 18 OLD ANDBTROMO. What are we to do ? There is but one ' answor; in all right ways we must light I tho liquor power wherover and whont over we liud it. Tho eud seek is deliver anco from thefem-se of tfranksnness. Aw not only helpful bat" hidtopeowMe^ " this end, we purpose' th* prohibition-of ; the sale of intoxicatinglkpnors, This can? not be done in a day, or < by the ahort-Hved enthusiasm of a hot campaign*. Oar enemy is old, and he is strong... It may ' 1 take a long timo. We moat use all the . resources we now command, and diligently gather more for future. contests.. ONLY THE GRAC? OF-GOD CAJt.&aWraa&' !' First; second, and last; "we- nrnst teach not only theTightof<pt&iibttltm- -*ad the iniquity-of the liq'uar-tralfteVwe ?o?t also teaob the.evils-/of draiitawiw? 'Siuc ? merely the infirmity and the disNMrraf j it, but the sin ol it. And -we oMMt Iraih them the peril of the. drink^-habit Hrrlf We must teach our.people .not--ooly-4bsiwaste of drunkenness, bat the spiritual a cam idottoiiows it, nor matt we forget- -J to show to those who are in the cott* or this deadly tin tbatonlvtbefcrwwof Odd igivea ?M(uance of denvweet*?md *irr m a ?t elKMr theei thafc*he gfoep*>et ^wer Christ can save unto the u tier moat nam i. wave even vicilma-oi dwmU?? >' * i' We must use all .(wportnuUiaa-aiiA. agencies that In themaalyaa *re^righjjr4?i Khd pulpit and on the platform* toxolam* aad pamphlet and newspaper, id.the dajf- .' . 3 school and In the SiratFay-sohoote above all Id the family, wemnstteaoh thetrflttr" tin all thai belGitg?to the aabjert. i Your committae. in behalf' ference, desire at thifrplMBM (W Tight and doty -of every ??ut! Christian maty womsiy aaA ?bUd?^by tight methods, to, seek-the auppm?ion bf the liquor-traffic.. woen^wpww' been done In th? -work' of' prohibition. through their instrumentality. We bid' 3 Ihem-Qodspaed; --writtftif to-lriartr thdr good sense sod modesty to -gMffl'thtfte*' against methods unl>ecoming to theerimd' liarmful to the oaaaey^nd agmwt tha t?-, , "policy of enUpgtoawol .wlth-iothwft?* extraneous issuea. - ' . . *? 'US THE PREACHER'S DUTY TO TAKB'SSPftb*' TIVK*A.Wr. ! Your committee muataempbasiaa right of Christian miniatacs' to -take an. active part in the prohibition movement of onr times. Webelieve that they, yr ill. j doGod's work in the* saving of BOuig.' We have heardthe imprecation*' of kindly men; they^SonotU may trust onr pro totems -to -kaw w 4ha>r own business better than the saloonstM^I and-to be quiteas-mrmh ioo?<i?aiiknipia serving, their.. mlttisteraV hoojty*Oqy ~ -y preachers are not. lnte??edfllar?.whi?r .they seek to accomplish,,. prohibition They are not poiiteians in any iMnae that' carries odium with the'term when they seek to persnadothe" people?i? vote for prohibition. We can make-uo-peaoe wilk-the jwlaonji nay, we can make no tecma with iL -Itia; evil, only evil, aud that oontinsalkL^.It . is the natural (tnnmv ftf thu <*r?nf rnnui and principles that liave evolved andtthftt sustain our civilization^ It . litter, Sabbath because-good .Christian- ooa?; 1 science and go6d<>puhii?. polky HmataMi < $& Sunday liquor-wiling ttiegal*ndj>??*?fc?* able. It is the enemy of the bommfStr when boys are contented /at- bome-'tbqp will not spend their time nnd eaon*y>iQ-tka saloon. J t is the enemy ot od a cauon riox education abridges.its powet to delude. r.hn nflnnlft. Tf. in tho anomw nt '#!*?' Church, for religion does not patronize It . *v or make peace with it. It far the etremjrof the Bible, for it is the i aspiration "of-atrf-V movement that enlightens, ligtifct,ap?m&<t makes free its viotims. THE WAR MUST GO ON ..TO VXOCOAgf*. ) WK WILL HA9D DOW* *0 OCB OHtt- , DREW1 A -CAUSB -WHICH OAKMMKK) On no good ground can we make pewe with the liquor-traffic. This warmiut go on till the end. Great progress-- has been made?there is greater befars ?. To our brethren who have saetee** In closing the drink-shops w? tstuter congratulations; to those.W?4Wledw? say, Be of good choer; organic dar-mU. v other and better planned- battle. WtUfl them.: make no compromiseacr-prMa 4he battle to the^jatos. Tma other atord we#aj to all onr Deople in this holr.waecfi* ? calm as ycu are earne?t. UWMr -mmm* only; you can not figbt tb?-de*J?w1tte' firo?he is master in bis native elembftt^ Oar cause needs not the;'langtisg96f passion ; maledictions are not argatnenta^Of all men we oan not afiferd to be bfetorHn spirit, nn fair in argnRMO^ or oor rapt-tat tbe use of means- Wa- mast ?gbt -*pm9> battle?onethat wa may pray oreiVMadh that our Lord will-bless. Tbe war will oatiaafor Aifa^Uraa^hi' i t so. We will fight to tbe and* anffinjA? uown lo oar cimarea a cause lat* wo not die. And always and er erywljSrato this holy war let as remember Wbo*;!* the Captain of oar boat, mad seek ttfrtfo. the things -that..are always ,plewUa<>M him. With bim leading our boelm*- cannot fail. RESOLUTIONS JRECOMMMTMP.. w Your committee submit 4ht resolutions, i Resolved, 1. That the JSTorttavQiargli Annual Conference smew pladgseilaelti to the doctrine of ihe^robiumoiL by law of the traffic in intoxieatinglliiaoza. + ~ 2. That.we pledge ourselvaa $o do what we can to secure effl&entprobttff-' tlon within oar borders. 3. That, in order to sec we this* insult, we wtH continue to teachroar peep)* be the Bible doctrines ooneorMB# ' ponia 01 aram-arin*mg nans ns ww ruin of drunkenness. ib i mi - ::* An old farmer employed? a~aao*??af Erin to work for hlro-oa irfto4uafc* Pat was constantly <*ispiaote?rilM ?tfd boards on the ea rt-+-thefroat board ^HR hind and the tate'boanh fa 'lroniw which made-the oWge?lf!eina?Ts*3r. irritable. To prevent blonder, >h solved to distinguish.' each" bo?r#-br some sign or notioe thereon. AeoowK ingly he painted on bothfeoaidawiaif* "B;" then calletfPat te bim audabeww inchim th# board*, he sahH^N?*v you blockhead, you mdsi vo mistake, as theyars-both -marked. This"?pointing teone fcoard?"is 'B' for before, and that"?indicating the tailboard?"is 'B' forbehind.'' Whereupon the old gentleman match*; ed off with greatdigotty* The following is too gooda.ei?<to'-b*loBt. The traiu from Louisville stop* ?ed at Auburn recently, when ? gbod? looking gentleman, apparently rot ter* ical proclivities, stepped off upoa-jtas* platform, and addressed41 waggishly* disposed youth as follows: '"Good morning, sir. Is there a Christian, church In this town ?" The yoath<re? plied: "Yes, 8rr; three of them, *o4 a Campbelltte churchy too.'*-". "All aboard," said (he concfactor,'wheii'4he; gentleman stepped aboard, and ^Hhe> subsequent proceeding* interested hiui< no more." Christ comes with a blessing in each hand, forgiveness in on* and hoifawh in the other, and never givwefcimMo any who will not take both*- ; Truth and goodness subsist forever more. It ie true mere arwtvn aniJ' good, night and day; but thMw are not equal. The day Th great and, final. The night Is for the day, but the dayis not for the nighf. ... . . " ?- i.v?F^ * ' - v T. i