University of South Carolina Libraries
I Your JOB THE ADVERTISER Job IOfl3.ce solicits your orders for printing of all kinds. We are well equipped for doing J all classes of work. Satisfao I I tion guaranteed on every job. j I Place your order now for 1 I your ofl9.ce supplies, large sup- j I ply of the highest grade of jj printing material just re- j ceived. j I SI (Conducieu by the National Woman's ChrlPtlun Temperance Union.) PR0HI2ITI0N SPIRIT. (Excerpts from Addreee before the Fortieth Annual Convention of the Na tional Woman'? Christian Temperance Union.) (By MRS. L. M. N. STEVENS. Presi dent.) There is abroad an immense senti ment in favor of prohibition-a senti ment often unexpressed, unwritten, al most unknown even by the possessors. Today as never before the spirit of prohibition is in the air. The aim of today's civilization is to prohibit or destroy any thfog which ls danger ous to the life of the people. Thc hook worm, the mosquito, the fly, in fected food, unsanitary houses, fac tories or stores with unsafe founda tions, are included In thia list, and we might add war, pestilence, famine, hurricane and flood; yet the use of alcoholic drink causes greater loss of life than all these combined. Scientific research reveals that intoxicating liquore are not a necessity for medi cal, scientific or pharmaceutical pur poses. The sociologists compile stat istics plainly showing that strong drink causes povtrty, misery, degrada tion and death. The commercial and business corporations see ito damag ing, destructive effects and are estab lishing prohibitory laws of their own, forbidding the nee of intoxicating liquor by their employes. The finan ciers who have thought liquor revenue was necessary are learning how to reckon profit and loss as applied to the liquor trade. Millions of our people are awake to the magnitude of the liquor business, and believe it should be prohibited. There are other millions who are not educated in regard to the poisonous nature and the terrible effects of alco hol. With renewed enthusiasm the truth must be proclaimed from pulpit and platform, in the highway and by way, in Sunday school and public school, and in the home; not only by personal and public speech, but by abundant dissemination of the best temperance literature euch as the National W. C. T ?. publishing house is ready to supply. Total abstirence is the bed rock up on which the W. C. T. U. has ever been building. The tota! abstinence pledge always has been a test o' mem bership in the W. C. T. TJ. All of the forty departments have been created as as help in promoting total abstin ence. Witness the pretty scene of the young mother bringing to the W. C. T. U. meeting her little child; sacredly dedicating him or her to a life of pur itv_and of total abstinence, the child being received as a white ribbon re cruit. What an impressive, imposJns sight it would be, could there pass be fore us In joyous parade th?, hundreds of thousands of Loyal Temperance Le gioners. the still greater number who are being taught total abstinence in the Sunday schools, and the 20,000, 000 youth of the public schools, ent! tied by law to be taught thc nature of alcohol and the damaging results of Its use. The voice of business is loudly raised against strong drink. The mos: striking illustration of this is furnish cd by the railroad companies. Thc American railway companies, which employ upward of a million and a half of persons, have a rule to thc ef fect that the use of intoxicant.* by employes while on duty is prohibited. Their use and the frequenting ol places where they are sold is suffi cient cause for dismissal. Other lines of business are taking eimilar action, not always from philanthropic mo tives, but for the Bake of financial ad vantage, recognizing that the effi ciency of their employes is lessened by the use of strong drink, even though taken In moderation. Insur ance companies, athletic societies, and various fraternal organizations are al) testifying to the ruinous results of alcoholic beverages. Even the bar tenders' union in advertising for bar tenders calls for total abstainers, say ing that "booze hits the bartender just as strongly as it hits the man in from who pays for it. If any one wants tc drink let the man on the other side of the bar do lt" For years the W. C. T. U. through its "Do Everything policy hab been girdling the gigantic tree of the liquoi traffic. The tree that is girdled dies Tho liquor traffic is doomed. Pleas< note that lt is not alone the saloon, but the liquor traffic we seek to de stroy. The W. C. T. U. is anti-liquor making, anti-liquor importing, anti liquor selling in saloon, hotel, club, public house, private house, on rail road, on shipboard, In the Gothenburg dispensary or any other place by whatsoever n?*ne it may be called. Wo make no dis -Mon between distilled or fermente. i malt liquors. NATURAL RESULT. The market for "wet" goods lee eena the market for "dry" goods. ANOTHER DRY BANQUET. At the meeting recently of visiting governors at the Antlers' hoter in Colorado Springs, the order went out from the state house that no bever age stronger than grape juice, lem onade and Manitou water should bc served. Ono paper describes the ca terer as "almost paralyzed with as tonlshment." Evidently Governoi Ammona is of the same opinion as Sec retary of the Navy Daniels and oth era high in authority, that men wh' hold public offices should not Jndulg? ju a:;oholie liquors. Faith, Hope and Love Should Fill the Christian's Heart With the True Light Fr tbe fourth chapter of St. Paul's sec ond epistle to the CorinihianB, begin ning at the sixth verse, he says: "God, ?who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory in the face of Jesus Christ." "But we have this treasure in earth en vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. We are troubled on every Bide-the apostle in speaking out of the deptha of a heartfelt experience-yet not dis tressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about In the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be manifest in our body"-that is, the life of him who i6 the life and the light of men. You know that light is used as the symbol of all excellence, of all good ness, of all truth, of all purity, of all power, in opposition to darkness, which is the emblem of their oppo sites. , We have been living too much in the darkness of fear. Take a man who is fall of tear, bring him before your mental gare; see how he is grop ing and trembling in that darkness; hands outstretched, knees shaking, heart beating wildly, nerves In a rack ing tension. No man can be himself in such a state. Afraid of God. We have been afraid of God, afraid of man, afraid of ourselves. We have been afraid of lite, afraid of death. Wc have been afraid of things we see and of things we do not see; afraid of things that are and of things that are not In that darkness we are jostling our dearest friends and mis taking them for enemies. There is the darkness of anger. See the angry man. Reason is blinded. Judgment is hooded, thought is dis tracted, language is disjointed, right is choked to blackness of vision and truth itself is bludgeoned into insen sibility. There is the darkness of doubt Ah, too often we ha\*a been wandering in that darkness which, like Egyptian darkness, could be felt; God cannot be seen: goodness is hidden from view; the stars have ceased to shine; the sun is in an eclipse; there ls no honor in man; there is no virtue in woman; there is nothing but hypocrisy in the church; nothing but rottenness in so ciety. There is the darkness of worry. The man perturbed cannot find the way to gain the thing desired. He says: "I can't do it, can't see the way." He wants to accomplish a purpose, but is like the blind man groping, because in that state of worry the faculties are all out of joint. Sees Men as Trees. l?e sees men as trees walking; his vision is opaque. If any of us have been in darkness, let us rejoice in the light which streams today from the fare of Jesus Christ, who came to dis pel all our darkness regarding the na ture of God, the love of God. the rola non o? man to God and the relation of man to his fellow men. God is our Father. God is love. We are all his children. Life is God's gift, le will help us meet all its duties, bear nil its burdens, endure all its sorrows. He has brought life and immortality to light and has abolished death, wiped Lt out, annihilated it. "Be ye angry and sin not," embodies his teaching. "Doubt not the ultimate reign of goodness, truth and love among men, is the very command giv en in his coming into the world, for "the tabernacle of God is among men." "Be not solicitous; do not worry,'* he says. So I plead, wait. God's good time to bring you out of your difficul ties and trials. He will bring you into "a wealthy place." Be patient. Let the light of his divine human face stream upon you. Be transformed Into his image. Let faith, hope and love rule your hearts. Then your life will be Ulled with light and you shall rejoice "with the joy that is unspeak able and full of glory."-Rt. Rev. Sam uel Follows. Beginning of Missions. The modem era of English missions began with Carey. When he wrote his investigation of the missionary problem, that wonderful epitome of the conditions and the needs of the non-Christian world of his day, it was true that discovery and investigation had vastly widened the horizon of missions, and the world was more Christian than in the days of Paul, but it was still largely unknown, only partly discovered and very sparsely occupied by missions. Africa was un explored, China unknown, Central Asia unvisited, and the principal mis sion fields of today closed by barriers and difficulties which seemed insur mountable. Protestants In Korea. In Korea the total roll of full com municant members of Protestant churches comes to 68,195; probation ers, 4(5,175; other adherents enrolled and regularly attending, 64,797, or a total of all classes of 179,167. There is an average attendance in Sunday school of 109,855. There are 774 pa rochial schools, with 18.2S7 scholar: attending. Last year there were ri:: ? students in attendance in the theolu> leal seminaries. Of this number lift} graduated. PK OPESSICXN AL. . J. H. Cantelou, Attorney-at-Law EDGEEIELD, S. C. Next door to Catholic church. A.'H. Corley, Surgeon Dentis! Appointments at Trenton On Wednesdays. DR. J. S. BYRD. Dental Surgeon OFFICE OVER POSTOFf ICE. Residence 'Phone 17-R. Office 3. NUlicE 10 MY FRILNDS. I desire to notify my friends throughout Kdgetieid county thal I have accepted a position with M.*, I J. E. Tai ver, one of the leading hardware merchants of Augusta and 1 shall he pleaded to have my friends call to see me when they are ir Augnsta. This popular ?lore, which i? centrally located on Broad Street, carries a large, well-selected I slock of hurd ware of all kinda and it will be a pleasure for me to sene my Edgetield friend?. When in need of builders hardware, tools, .'farming implements and machinery of all kinds call to see me or write. ;I will serve you to the best of my ability. J. H. P. Roper. FIRE INSURANCE Go to see H ar ling & Byrd Before insuringjelsewhere. We represent the best old Hne com pi nies* Marling & Byrd At the Farmers Bank, Edgefield ??????????Mi ' \ ijjht Sav\, Lathe :ind >hiii !<'. e Mills. E it gi ties. Boilers, i ? upplies and repairs, Porta , ^unni and Gasolint Kn ;oi.,eb. Saw Teeth, Files, Bells H nd Pipes. WOOD SAW S mci SPLITTERS Gins and Pre.-s Repairs. " try LOMBARD. AUGUST*. <?A ReaHEstate -FORSALE \-?b acres land rear Hibernia in Saluda county. 120 acres near Monetta, Sa luda county. 330 acres in Aiken eonnly, m ar Eureka. 100 acres near Ropers. 300 acres near Celestia or Davis' mills in (4 reen wood and Saluda counties. r>u acres near Edgetield C. H. y/)0 acres near Trenton,S.C. Several tract* near meeting Street, and cher tracts near Monetta and Hatesburg.? -Apply to-? A. 8. TOMPKINS, Edgefield, S. C. GEO. F. MIMS OPTOMETRIST EycB examined and classes fitted only when necessary. Optical work of all kinds. EDGEFIELD. S. C.